The One Gallon Fuel Crisis Race | Top Gear
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- With petrol prices rising, the Top Gear team give alternative advice on fuel economy and saving money by racing 5 supercars. The Ferrari 599, Lamborghini Murcielago, Mercedes McLaren, Aston Martin DBS and Audi R8 are all given one gallon of fuel; how far will they get around the track? And what about the Toyota Prius vs. BMW M3?
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"Change your driving style" He's absolutely correct. This is the best way to change the MPG of your car. Here's an example: I used to get around 31 MPG in my Acura RSX type S, and now I get about 23 MPG after watching Top Gear.
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doesnt really work that good with 70s automatic cars
Speed and poweeeeeer!
A big engine hardly working can be more economical then a small engine working hard. - Jay Leno
Esp if you start looking at mile•tons/gallon rather than miles/gallon; at the extreme my 20 year old Geo Metro gets an easy 40 mpg, whereas a freight train gets less than 1 mpg. But with a maximum load in my car I'd only be getting 20 mile•tons/gallon, and with typical loads it is only 5 mile•tons/gallon while the freight train is doing upwards of 400 mile•tons/gallon.
edit: note: mile•tons/gallon is being calculated based only on the loads weight and not including the vehicles weight.
ZL1Gimpelson The advantage really only shows at autobahn speeds and track days though. Put a Rolls-Royce Ghost with it's 6.6L Twin-turbo V12 against a VW Up, I bet at all speeds below 130kph the VW would burn less fuel. A big petrol engine doing low revs in the city will use horrendous amounts of fuel no matter what you do.
Fishfingers232 and now put an Up motor into the more 2 ton Rolls :D
+ProfDrMau i would not fear that as i would fear a 1l ecoboost in a focus.
Epotheros To be fair, the STi isn't exactly built with fuel economy in mind.
The ending of that clip was absolutely horrifying. It left me dumbfounded. Jeremy Clarkson made a sensible comment. Who would have thought it!
He must have been in trouble not long before.
Maz Amd Jeremy always does this. Usually there is a video or an interview in which he states his opinion about something in sensible comments. It's usually well thought out. What happens is that a lot of people keep hammering against his comments with dumb arguments, like "to save the world, buy a Prius". He then mocks his detractors in pure Jeremy style. But you probably already knew that.
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@@yanava He was wrong about electric cars though. Although that's quite forgivable 30 years ago the only people who really thought they could make electric cars viable where GM. Unfortunately they had a change of heart, recalled every test car and crushed almost every single EV-1. That car might not be a looker but it could have done what Tesla did 30 years earlier.
He is correct it is how you drive affects your fuel economy. Even a mustang GT could get good fuel economy long as you drive calm. Me in my miata with a 1.6 flooring it and driving it hard could definitely use more gas. Driving faster causes more fuel usage.
A gallon of fuel now is roughly the same price as these supercars
Well for the hot wheel ones yeah
true
Mf russia ;(
Let me know where I can find a $5 Ferrari
Give it around half a century and that will both be a commentary on the price of fuel and the cars' ability to hold value
"Unfortunately that letter was opened by him." The way he says it paired with his hand gesture kills me everytime!
exactly. It makes me laugh so hard
The producers probably put “Do Not Show To Clarkson” on the envelope and he just ignored it
Audi R8 is the best choice? Great! Now all I need is $115,900!
+WornoutTrends more like $60,000. Would you rather have an r8, or an m4
+Lajcsi Vagyok C63 AMG
+Lajcsi Vagyok charger hellcat
Bailey O. nice choice. actually i instantly thought fo the charger too. Right after i pressed post comment :D
+Lajcsi Vagyok
Tesla Model S P85D with Ludicrous Speed Upgrade. It loses out on the epic sound of a big V8, but when all is said and done and oil becomes a thing of the past, guess which of the cars mentioned so far will still be driving?
Of course, the SLS AMG Electric Drive is another option, though I suspect that the E-Drive SLS is as much a Tesla as it is a Mercedes. Tesla Motors is in a partnership with Mercedes's parent company, Daimler AG, after all.
Someone told me about 10 years ago that there's no point in driving fast on the road because all you're doing is rushing to be at the back of a queue. And that really changed the way I think about driving. If you drive carefully you should be able to avoid stopping completely, which means you save fuel getting back up to speed again, and you also reduce wear on the brakes which saves more money.
depends on your situation. time vs money saved is the compromise. if you in a hurry, you need to read the road really well to keep your speed up and time overtakes and the value of an overtake. stuck behind a truck and your car number 8 in queue at 40mph, then yeah not worth overtaking. but if you know your coming up to a roundabout, another 6 to 8 cars could then be in front of you behind the truck too so overtaking to be ahead can save you time at the roundabout for example.
but just keeping the car moving is a good way to save fuel. or going by engineering exlained, if you think your car will be sat still for more than 10seconds, turn your engine off, as thats the point where the cost of fuel to start it vs running it at idle comes into play.
@@douglasreid699 You could just leave in a timely manner instead of driving like a div. You drive a BM with fake M badges and a private plate right?
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No, i own a mk7 transit van and a motorbike. Most if my time in van just go with the flow. The motorbike, usually overtake to get a clear road but dont make stupid overtakes.
But i have had situations where i not left in a timely manner, battery failed on van and a puncture ( different days) so they took time to repair so i was running late for work using the van. So i made overtakes where safe which got me 4 cars ahead, but at that time in morning by time i got to first roundabout on my commute, that was 15 cars ahead as a lot if traffic comes from right, if i had stayed behind the 4 cars doing 45mph, that would be another 7 to 10 mins longer for my commute that day as id need to wait on the cars getting into roundabout before i get chance to do so.
In a building project, you can have 2 of the 3, speed, quality, cost.
Same for driving, if you go fast, it will get you there quicker, but cost you fuel. If you and advanced driver, you could prob save some fuel and still be quick as timing your overtakes.
You have to know the roads and traffic changes behaviour depending on time but most of the time I’d go for a longer route if it means I’m not stopping. Highway driving is a best case scenario for wear and tear on your car
Thats really only true if you're not touring with it and just driving around your city. If you love being out in the country totally different story. Same with a manual trans, having one in a traffic heavy city is dumb BUT out in the sticks its perfect
true, how you drive can save a lot of gas
You mean petrol, gas is not liquid
420 likes you have, i shallnt make it 421
Omg no way
For instance I don't have a car so I spend $0 on gas/petrol annually
Hmmm if you walk slow you cover less distance, really makes u think
"Don't change your car, change your driving style." Probably the best and most serious Top Gear top-tip ever. And no the BMW did not have the advantage of drafting. Most of the time the BMW was not close enough or not exactly behind the Prius. The Prius engine has to work a lot harder to achieve the same speed.
"Don't change your car, change your driving style." - Absolutely. I consistently get 50-60mpg from a 12 year old 406 HDi estate, generally full of tools. I can do that because I drive it sensibly and avoid, as far as possible, town centres and other heavy traffic areas. which is, granted, a lot easier in rural North Wales than in, say, the South East of England. Empty, I was getting over 70mpg from the Yaris diesel I used to have but it wasn't big enough to use as a 'works van' and the fuel economy suffered more when the back was full of tools and materials.
Iain Williams Couldn't agree more. I tried some full on James May style driving for a tank of fuel in our 2010 Fiesta Titanium 1.4TDCi on my commutes to work last summer (this was all suburban/urban traffic). Got 74mpg. Not bad considering Ford claim it's average is 68mpg. Regularly get around the 65mpg mark anyway. Similarly, also driven a mk2 Prius like this one and have achieved between 55-60mpg (not bad also for a almost Ford Mondeo sized PETROL engined car).
Sebastian Shaw Exactly. I have a Fiat 500 right. If I do 70mph (or more) I can do about 45 mpg. If I drive at 55mph with slower acceleration and gentler driving style I can do 75 mpg. Nearly half of your petrol consumption can be influenced by your style of driving. So if I spend about £1700 on petrol a year I could save £700 just by driving more sensible.
If everyone did that, demand would drop, prices would drop even further, environmentally it's better, everyone is happy (apart from the oil industry and Republicans of course).
Sebastian Shaw "there is no car better than diesels" - But what about the amount of particulate matter (especially PM10 as they're known) that comes out?
Technology is advancing, with minimal funding for whatever reasons. There's a project where a road made out of solar cells can charge up a car whilst driving on a highway or on a street. Developments such as this could eliminate the problem of fossil fuels and pollution via renewable energy, but not entirely due to constraints like materials for making solar cells, but can be overcome with investment in new technologies.
There's a lot more to come.
Jonny Kyle solar road feasibility has been debunkt multiple times by different people and I can easily do so aswell, as a civil engineer.
Ferrari is made by italians, Italians love to drink, so do their cars.
This.
+imicca so an Irish car would drink everyone else's fuel too?
Dylan Seymour ahahah :D
+imicca i think your confusing italy with russia
***** no big difference
0:55 "The sound of the 20th century"
2:21 "The sound of money exploding"
Yap, that's the 20th century alright.
indeed...
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0:16 I love it how May and Hammond both straightened their arms together
Dunno how you’d notice that 🤣
“That Mclaren is so quick, you forget how quick it is” 😂
Yes 😎
for the rest of the world: 1.7 MPG is 138 l/100km!!! That's crazy!
Actually, no. Remember that the show is from the UK, so they use imperial gallons which are bigger than US gallons. So 1.7 MPG imperial is 166.17 l/100 km.
+Tuppoo94 you're right. Sorry about that. These imperial/US measurement units confuse me all the time.... At least the miles are the same. Right? :D
Wow i thought my WRX's 13 l/100 was too much -_-
whatt??? thats insane you cant drive with that car you must be to gas station all the time...
Tuppoo94
Still Main Battle Tank level haha
That has to be the smartest thing Jeremy has said on Top Gear. “It’s not what you drive, it’s how you drive it”
my car's fuel use is exactly proportional to how heavy I apply my boot
Jeremy really has a point here. If you drive normal speed, normal rpm the prius would have won. But the prius lost. This is because the prius was contstantly running at the top of its RPM limit. That is not a good way to save feul. The M3 only had to go to about 2500 RPM max i think...
correct. Of course in real life most people who have a Prius (or another hybrid) do drive it like that, or roughly like that, because they want to do 130kmh on the motorway and they can't do that any other way.
Shuna adushana i have a HCH but the consumption is only slightly better as similar cars, and this is driving normally on 50/80/100 kmh roads. best i can do is 1:18 but then i stall other traffic :P. but then i again, i struggle to call it a proper hybrid. it barely ever runs 100% electric because every bump in the road means the petrol engine kicks in.
My dad has a prius and he is in the 1:25-28 range on the same roads (and yeah, i got the same results when i drove it). this proves for me that it does make a difference if properly engineered.
Shuna adushana the Prius, should not be that underpowered for normal driving. It's probably similar to my 1.4 Peugeot 206 and likely faster than my Nissan Micra 1.0. I can tell my Peugeot has quite a bit left even at 90mph although the Micra was getting nearer the limits at that speed due to air resistance to power. Also uphill motorways in a full car would make the Micra huff and puff.
As for town driving, both were complete overkill in power - but then so is a Reliant Robin.
Shuna adushana Actually you only need around 3000RPM on a 2nd gen Prius to reach 130KPH, even less RPM on a 3rd gen.
Lol 1.7MPG that is unheard of terrible
though I wish I did
I had to sell my Enzo. It was too economical. So I bought a Prius.
The hummer h2 does 1 mpg
Robert Armstrong hahah. Thats the funniest thing i've heard today!! Hahah
That's 1.7mpg driving full throttle racing around a track. I hope you're not taking from this that the 599 gets that kind of economy all the time.
Jeremy actually making sense ?, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD
i wonder if his wife check the bedroom for a giant pod on his side of the bed?
i now right!!!! :o
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Well, he's making sense, but he was wrong about most of his claims. Still awesome though.
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"It is atleast economical."
"Or is it?"
*VSauce music plays
HEY GUYS
I bet the people at Toyota hated this.
It's Top Gear, no one takes it seriously. If anything, it's free publicity for Toyota.
@@michaelramsey82 Well, they hate the Prius. But yeah.
FarmYard Gaming But, they like the Hilux.
just need to try the reverse m3 going slowly and prius in the slipstream :P
No, we didn't. We also know that a bigger and powerful engines uses less fuel under high loads. Remember 2JZ, just the most tunable and legendary engine ever... 😁
3:11 damn Jeremy's mouth is quicker than the Mercedes
Adeeb Miller that was funny 😂
@@osvaldo8393 what?
The whole point is, that if you are driving on a highway for example, you will not feel the difference between a Prius and a car with a massive engine. And this is rather true. The real point of the Prius is driving it in a dense city environment, where you are forced to stop and go very often.
Did you all know that first gen Prius was available as a plug in hybrid in Japan.
You didn’t have to burn any fuel ever.
@@fastinradfordable ..it's 8 years ago
thumbs up for the ///M3 and the R8. that's what you call German Engineering.
Oh you mean the BMW and the Volkswagen? :D
Ryan B Lamborghini is owned by Volkswagen too. I say leave the designing and passion to the Italians and the engineering to the Germans. :)
Matthew Rooney Porsche is owned my Volkswagen too. :P
Ferrari is owned by Fiat as well!
Matthew Rooney nutella is owned by ferrero as well!
Just may be the wisest thing I've ever heard Jeremy say.
I disagree, I mean if I drive 10 kms to work in a Prius or any small car and stay within the speed limit(And drive like you're supposed to) I will burn dramatically less fuel than if I do it in the same circumstances in say a Hummer or a Phantom
It depends though, if you're driving along a highway then you're better off with a more powerful car but in stop start traffic you're better with a small car.
Maybe, but that's pretty much the point that he makes: how you drive has a much greater impact on fuel burn that what car you drive.
@@ZorawarSohi if you had listen good jeremy final anwser is dont change your car, change your driving style
THIS HAS AGED VERY VERY WELL.
Your mom said the same thing.
@@fastinradfordable so did yours after she got spit roasted
@@ac2244 my mom has 6 kids and 4 husbands and was born in the 50s
Have fun with that.
for having 6.5L V12, that murcielago is impressively fuel-efficient
i'm gonna miss these kinds of races as we are approaching closer to 2030. And then.....everything will be history
The RUclips algorithm has a wicked sense of humour to be recommending this now
This aged well
The starting looks like every racing game ever
Oh god i hate the Toyota Prius..
hahaha why??
kysike666 Because it's the ugliest car ever.
Daviid Lol ur right but it's cheap on gas
Daviid I think the guy who designed is a misanthrope who hates us all
Hahaha! +100 for you my bro mredyhcapamab
3:48 is Clarkson speaking straight facts
£5.50 a gallon, remember when fuel was that cheap in Britain?
Well this aged well
6:11 the most sensible thing Jeremy Clarkson has ever said a ever will say
Watching this in September 2021 when petrol has surged to €1.70 from €1.30 per litre.
Driving a small engine at the top of its capacity against driving a big engine at not even half its capacity. Of course the smaller one is going to use more fuel.
n my country the speed limite on the highway is 120kmh in my clio rs i put in last gear and chill it uses less then a normal clio so in a city yes the prius is better but on the highway or road where you need to overtake it not the same story
Yes that is the point. But because you normaly drive more to the limit of a small engine the fuel numbers are legal lies.
Floris Klaver its interesting because theyre doing the same thing/going the same speed.
That was kinda the point
Yes but I have small shitty car and it is at about full speed on the highway going the speed limit. So I use more fuel than a more powerful car.
"That Mclaren is so quick that you forget how quick it is"
2022 called and asked : 'you call that an fuel crisis?'
I know it's a super car but damn 5mpg I guess with that kind of money gas money is just pocket change😂
It's 5 miles per imperial gallon, which is equal to 4.1634 miles per US gallon. And that's the most economical of them all. Remember that the Ferrari only got 1.7 MPG imperial, which is 1.4155 MPG US.
@@Tuppoo94
This is why we need metric. Well, this is reason number 76 we need metric.
Girl on right 03:26 LMAO shes gonna eat him
Who's watching this in march 2022 with gas at 2.30€/Liter?
Funny how all the people who bought a Prius when it was "trendy" now all own big SUV's 10 years later...
R8 and the lambo are more efficent not suprised ;)
***** Not all Audi's are efficent i know i know :D xDD
My A5 is actually pretty good with it. It gets roughly 25 mpg all while weighing 3700 lbs, AWD and a good bit of torque.
+Θανασης Κριεμπαρδης The false data has nothing to do with the fuel efficiency.
but they are built by Audi
The Lambo doesn't have an Audi engine (back then). The Audi is by far the slowest with the smallest engine so it should be the most efficient.
That said, I was most amazed by the Lambo since the engine is like 50 years old.
is there a reason they make pruises as ugly as possible? they wouldnt be half as bad if they looked better
To save money
They look a lot better now... and everyone hates them even more!
'woops, a daisy' *pulls a drift in a murcielago* I LOVE TOP GEAR
"Don't change your car, change your driving style."
Someone : Laughs in Volkswagen XL1
Great final statement by Clarkson.
I can achieve 41,5mpg or 16,4mpg with my Audi TT 2.0TFSI. One is Autobahn at 120kph with Cruise Control, the other one is 230km in 1:45h (legal in Germany)
"that is the sound of money exploding" quite possibly one of the greatest metaphors... IN THE WORLD!!
I know these bits were designed for humor and entertainment value but they've actually got a very good point here.
this. this was the first top gear segment that I watched as a kid. This episode made me fall in love with cars and top gear/the grand tour. I distinctly remember the white lambo. thank you for posting this specific clip.
Love how relevant this is today in america
this just got recommended to me........
when fuel is stupid expensive....
RUclips and he's recommendations related to contingencies
Fuel is now £2 a litre. I wish I was in their fuel crisis.
4:16 Vsauce
I was going to say this
Good timing, RUclips.
The Prius MPG excels in city "stop and start" driving, not racing. You will notice non-hybrid vehicles have better highway mileage than city mileage. Hybrids such as the Prius are the exact opposite having better city mileage. Reason being the electric motor is mostly used under 40 MPH and freeway speeds are greater than 40MPH.
0:21 the resulting race is quite similar to forza Motorsport 6, I believe. Supercars racing around the top gear test track until they forget they are on simulation fuel.
Again, not exact, but similar.
Let's welcome this to 2022 England...
I know I know, Top Gear doesn't do serious tests, but I wanna show this (but I like Jezzas words at the end)
DBS: 6l V12
599: 6l V12
Murcie: 6l V12
SLR: 5.5l V8 Supercharged
R8: 4.2l V8 and 100 hp less
If you'd take a V8 Vantage, F430, Gallardo and SLK55 OR you'd take a V10 R8 which was released earlier that year the video was uploaded.
id say overall the winner is the lambo...still 6l but much more economical than the others
The Lambo is a 6.5, so it was the biggest engine out of the lot.
The Audi Driver is doing a typical Audi Endurance racing style.
You see, majority of the Audi endurance car lacks the pace to be the fastest. But they're really economical, that's why they won.
R8 won't win, even if it has the V10. It lacks the pace to do that, and it's the heaviest. But it'll run when everybody is out.
Ceisar Yudhistira actually the audi would, maybe not against the mclaren because it has 600hp.
the audi R8 v10 plus actually beats all of those in a drag race, because of the impeccable lmp1 derived quattro and the body is actually light.
King Zak 3.8*, and it's twin turbo, only the SLR in this race is boosted. The SLR would stomp on it in a straight line, definitely and wouldn't be far behind at all in a corner.
It is weird, but Clarkson really has a point here. Any car can be efficient if it isn’t driven with a lead foot on the gas pedal.
Driving style does indeed a lot, as well as the route you take and how far you can anticipate the traffic ahead. My 2.0L petrol 406 coupe from 2001 was rated for 9,8l/100km but I can get 7,0l/100km out of it on my daily commute to work in summertime, maybe 7,6 in winter. Yes I can save by starting work early at 6:00 and leave early too so the worst of the rush hours I avoid. But I've seen diesel rental with a worse consumption in the computer than my 2.0L petrol car. And I'm sure many lease drivers in Holland who get a hybrid petrol with all the tax benefits don't get it either, because they drive it so inefficiently. Driving a cold engine hard is a no-go of course, give it time to heat up first does so much already.
You're surprised about petrol hitting £5.50 a gallon? Our local ASDA is charging £1.787 per liter, or £8.12 per imperial gallon!
Let’s talk about fuel economy
Jeremy: *were doing a race*
they don't use liters for fuel measurement in the UK?
We do. But for some reason fuel economy is still measured in mpg. However it's sold in litres.
***** hes saying that gallons is much less used than litres, gallons are an imperial unit and we are metric.
***** you're not to bright are you... in the US its spelled "liters", we also spell some other words different such as "color" instead of "colour".
Also "they" (if your referring to the people in the video) are using gallons (not liters), the american standard for measurement. this is part of what is called the Imperial System, which apparently is also what is used in your country under certain circumstances.
ericiscoolllll The UK uses an Imperial gallon, the US uses its own US gallon.
ericiscoolllll Brits arbitrarily mix metric and imperial because they still have quite a significant population of old farts who insists on clinging on to the asinie system of measuring with feet and stones.
“That is the sound of money exploding” 👍😀❤️
JC is right. Its not the car its the driver
its hard to drive slow when you have a big exhaust screaming "speed up!" installed on your car :(
...driving behind reduces drag. That R8 drafted its way to the victory...:)
Krunoslav Šokić haha but also its not v12 but v10 ^^
Nano LP no its the v8 r8
Top Gear is mostly for entertainment only
But this one, this is really teaching you stuff
how he leaves LOL 2:54
My 1.2 Liter 4 cylinder clio need roughly the same as the 3.0 v6 audi from my uncle. Small engines have to work harder. If it's a modern engine it comes down to how you drive.
That was genius
I swear 70% of the commenters here are missing the point.
It's almost comical.
5 MPG is 47 l/100km, that is very, very bad.
The test isn't 100% accurate since the M3 was slipstreaming off the Prius.
The Prius is so small that the slipstream would be minuscule. And that wouldn't apply anyway because clarkson maintained a distance of at least 20ft (rough estimate) at all times during the Laps.
That Ferrari though, 1.7 miles to the gallon. How glorious.
1:16 the first time I saw a Lambo drift
1:51 that Mclaren is so quick. That Mclaren was a Mercedes not a Mclaren
The Notorious Mercedes McLaren SLR bro
A V10 beats a bunch of V12s on fuel economy, what a surprise!
5.50 pounds per gallon?
That's like $8 bucks for a gallon of gas!! It's THAT expensive in the UK?
JH it’s £1.40 per litre right now
Yeah, most countries dont have fuel on their land and fuel stolen from other countries, so its kinda expensive
Sure is. That’s why most Europeans drive diesels or gas engines of less than 2000cc. Nothing to do with where the oil comes from, governments have always used high taxation on gas as a handy cash cow. 80% of what we pay for a gallon is tax.
The flaw with the prius test is that a prius can with good driving get 50mpg, the M3 tops out at 19 mpg.
+Slimecrazy234 i'd still rather have the m3
+Andy Dwarika good for the first 4 years when all maintenance is free. Downhill after that
+Jay Tee I do my own maintenance so....
+Angel Ortiz do you get free parts too?
+Slimecrazy234 Clarkson didn't say the M3 was more economical. The point is that if you buy a brand new Prius and drives like Ayrton Senna (much like our taxi drivers here in Vancouver, btw), you will not save any fuel or money.
Yes, Prius is hybrid. It will run on gas OR batery. He can run almost 4 miles(~5km) with a fully charged battery at top speed of 35mph(45km/h) it can be less, depending on weight and if you're going uphill. They say it's 60km/h top speed, but that's a lie. That little battery also takes forever to recharge. And how do they recharge? Mostly by hitting the brakes. Can you see the fail logic? And that small engine with a short lifespan costs 1/4 of the original price, so you can choose to buy the cheapest prius for $24k or buy a $18k car and drive for "free" for about 75 thousand kilometers or 62 thousand miles.
So true. the hybrid power trains they put in the hypercars makes more sense than the one in the prius. Better batteries, better motors, and better use of all the torque an electric can produce.
Even the Chevy Volt can slap the smug off of a Prius owner, cause Chevy went about it in a more logical fashion. But I will take a diesel sipping TDI any day, because I can tune the crap out of it and do some respectable hooning; all the while getting the same mpgs as the poncie in the prius!
Um.....where do I start? Facts about the Prius - by someone who actually drives one. The 1.5l Atkinson Cycle engine charges the HV Traction battery whenever it is running. It also generates electricity that sometimes goes directly to the traction motors delivering 110bhp combined. Regeneration braking is a small contributor to recharging the battery. Keeping up with the early morning traffic on my commute, I get 63mpg and 550 miles out of 43 litres of fuel. That definitely ain't shabby!! Oh, and there are Prius taxis that have done 400,000 miles on their original drivetrain.
look at the cars man... the golden era
When you own a ferrari fuel costs are the last thing on your mind when driving it lol
Can't believe a big lamborghini v12 was more economical than the aston or the ferrari.
ferrari 599 is also a big v12.
Caelum Scalptorium Yeah, but no one does v12s like lamborghini.
the older enzo is still faster than the newer aventador. ferrari>lamborghini
+Randy Butternubs ur comparing a 13 year old car to a car that's quite new...
I'm neutral btw, I think Ferrari and Lamborghinis are both good in certain ways
Randy Butternubs chill mate there was no aventador back in 2003, only a v12 580bhp murcielago. remember the aventador has 40bhp more than the enzo.
random person: why did you get a Prius?
Prius owner: because I want to have a very fuel friendly car and I never want to lose my virginity.
Tesla is the only excrption of an electric car where you get laid
Lukas Breithofer why do you think I said Prius, not any electric car?
***** BMW? Hybrid. Has electric on the back wheels and an Engine on the front wheels. Teslas go 600km/Battery, BMW 110km
true
exactly why someone I know should get one...but she all mighty wants a cuv/suv that does the same mpg as the prius and is awd.
We are back now ~2021 fuel crisis
5 miles to the gallon is really incredible... how much do normal cars do, like 60?
+LattiMonstaaa I googled it and found this: theres no way to answer that cars very widely depending on engine weight and other factors best i can tell you would be between 19-24 city and 20-28 highway but some are alot better than that others worst.
Jack Flynn Well my car uses liters per 100 kms and when I converted the rough avg I do on highways (6) it says about 39 mpg
+LattiMonstaaa My 1991 MR2 does 30 mpg urban and 40-50 mpg highway. It used to be considered fairly good going to get 20 urban and 40 highway. An American car typically does much worse (partly due to the fact that they measure a gallon differently than the rest of the world.) A modern Toyota Corolla does about 38 mpg on a mixed urban/highway cycle. Of course racing, any car sucks gas.
+LattiMonstaaa That's under full throttle, high RPM. If the Prius dropped from like 60 MPG to 17 MPG you can see how bad the difference is when you accelerate hard.
+LattiMonstaaa When i was learning to drive, my instructors car told him the average MPG. After a 1 hour lesson, the average was 62!
Peugeot 208 1.2 Turbo
People, chill out... this test was done for entertaining reasons not for factious reasons. Relax and enjoy the show. Sigh... all these but hurt Prius drivers.
They might be false but the main point is on point, its the way you drive it, if you floor your car and treat your car like a sports car and drive that way, it's going to consume more gas. on the other hand, if you hit the gas pedal gently and drive your car gently and politely , its average will increase. In this case, the prius was being floored and was being driven out of its capabilities and the BMW was being driven gently compared to the prius, So thats why BMW came out to be more fuel efficient.
Yup, the last thing JC would ever be accused of is unbiased journalism.
3:28 the way the lady behind Hammond is staring at him ❤
Ah yes, the days when £5.50 a gallon was deemed expensive 💔
how much now in UK?
More than ten pounds
The amount of times I’ve watched this clip it’s a lot & 1
BBC: “What TopGear should be doing is giving advice on fuel economy and saving money.”
People who actually watch TopGear: “?”
Fuel starvation on any of those cars could easily be a $10000+ repair
running dry is only a problem for diesel engines.
TheEpic Triot Maybe you're right, and there is a chance you damage the fuel pump. But if you think running dry is fine with diesel engines you dont know very much about it.
Majority of vehicles (especially vag cars as they pioneered it) will now cut out before running dry.
No you can't damage your fuel pump just by running dry. If you consistently use your car with it's gas below 25% the fuel pump will start to suck in air, creating heat can lead to fuel pump failure in the long run. However once in a while won't murder the fuel pump
^what this guy said. It’s consistent, repeated overheating that kills the pump.
What they dont reveal about this clip is that they altered the ECU of the prius
Not to say the first gen models weren't horrible, but the newer ones are actually decent for an economy car. My father has a 2013 model that still does 50 mpg.
Those cargo ships are going with or without the nickel, and turning it into nickel-metal-hydride is a process that already takes place for other batteries.
The study he's talking about is from BRITITSH PETROLEUM
Whoa! Jeremy Clarkson giving a tipp which isn't rubbish o_O I must be dreaming.
OMG Jeremy actually given 2 real advice! His genius are terrifying.
Prius is not only the ugliest car in the world but also most un-sexy and seemingly not so economical after all.
+betterbeavailable The new Prius actually looks decent
You forget the G-Wiz