This is the last episode of Motorworld (BBC WORLDWIDE), the extremely rare UK Special. All copyrights go to their respective owners. Don't delete it until you release it!
Clarkson's style has stayed roughly the same over the year undergoing only minor refinements and improvements. But one thing he has become much better at is understanding his audience, and one thing he has come to understand is how much British nationalism annoys the rest of the world. He used to be a prime offender, but he pokes fun at it on more than one occasion in The Grand Tour.
LAFOLLETTER It‘s absolutely no good to buy a car that looks good, but stays in the garage 80% of the time. If I would buy an American car, I would be driving a wheely bin.... Nice exterior, but rubbish in every other aspect. GM burned 2 billion USD, trying to get us Europeans to buy rubbish Chevys, instead of investing the money in the existing European brand, owned by gm for nearly 100 years. End result: no Chevy in Europe and they sold the brand, including the development, which did a lot of stuff for GM USA
Nothing wrong with British nationalism. All other nations are allowed to be proud of themselves, and given we are the greatest country on planet earth that exported civilisation to all corners of the globe, we have much reason to be proud.
The unions: it was everyone's fault The bosses: it was everyone's fault Journalist: it was everyone's fault Tony Benn : it was entirely management's fault, not ours or our friends in the unions What a twat
I worked in a Japanese company once and none of the Japanese leave work after office hour until well into the night. I guess they just never grew complacent, which somewhat reflect to their car industry. I haven't got the chance to work in a German company though, will be interesting to find out.
The Delorean Motor Company in Humble, Texas near Houston is the "successor in interest for all purposes" of DMC in Dunmurry UK, Best to call them first.
Just out of interest - the music heard at 3:30 is the Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings (1936) - also used in the the 1986 Oliver Stone film 'Platoon'. So there. How many petrolhead musicologists are out there, anyway?! Apart from me, obviously. Cheers!
A country size of Britain should not have more than 6-8 companies building cars ! They had a case of too much competition ! And when you have so many companies doing the same thing in such a little country that is a limited market , you will never have enough good management ! And hence strikes !
It's easy to say Britain doesn't have any industry but the biggest companies are owned by millions of people all over the world including the British. People discount Jaguar for it's ties to TATA but it's so largely autonomous that I think we can call it "British" as much as Volvo is Swedish and maybe more than Chrysler is American these days.
Always thought before the old man hangs up his driving gloves he should go back to all these places for a new "Motorworld" - but sad to think now a lot of these people have passed away, Richard Burns being one of them sadly.
O dear, needs an update. Rover gone, Longbridge now a shopping centre with tattoo parlours and nail bars, the tiny rump of Rover owned by Chinese, TVR dead, Bentley and Rolls owned by the Germans, Marcos dead. Have I missed any?
You forgot that Land Rover and Jaguar are owned by Tata and doing well, and Morgan keeps going. McLaren is a rising star challenging Ferrari and Porsche. TVR is about to have a revival, with design by Gordon Murray.. It's not quite as desperate as you suggest
There's a Motorworld episode that used to be on RUclips, it was the American episode, not the Detroit one. I remember he chases down a Corvette in an armed helicopter. Does anybody know how to watch it?
That was not a motorworld episode. It was a 1997 straight to video special called Apocalypse Clarkson. I am not sure of where to find it on youtube but it may be somewhere else online. But what I suggest you do is buy the DVD release of the video like I did on amazon or ebay etc.
Why are so many of the great British nameplates gone (or sold to foreigners) , and all the great German nameplates (Audi, BMW, Opel, Mercedes, Porsche, Volkswagen) still around? Apparently the Germans are superior managers, engineers and workers....what else could it be?
Erik Hertzer. The lack of Unions determined to bring the company to its knees. It's no wonder Ford has pulled out of manufacturing vehicles in Britain. The Unions weren't totally at fault, but they set out to bring production to a halt so many times, that Ford got pissed off with being blamed for the troubles.
There was a time when British engineering and fabrication was superior to Germany's, who usually would do industrial espionage. So the British invented the term "Made in Germany" to brand all inferior German products. That way the people would know better and buy the better British products. Up until the Germans got better, and German production and engineering became the industry standard. That is an own goal on the British side lmao. The Japanese did the same and now the Chinese do it.
@@emin86 I believe "Gerry build" was the colloquialism back in the day. These things go around. I think the British like to laugh at themselves quite a lot which is turned on them to their detriment.
He should get a couple of mates in and make the exact same program as this in the same locations on the same topics,cow herding in oz but with cars,maybe race around the mine or get all British made cars to a meet in london,i think it could work 🤔🤣 Money for old rope
How much money does clarkson use to license music? Every production of his I see has big name music going constantly. It's cool, but man it must cost a penny.
BBC has blanket agreements to use most major commercial music without paying royalties. This creates a problem when it's time to syndicate worldwide, which is why BBC America often uses public domain tracks.
Like him, like the program, but don't like the anti-patriotic patriotism, and I am not even an American. Watching this in 2017 there is a certain level of sarcasm here.
It's called not taking yourself too seriously. And it's one of the greatest forms of humor, misunderstood only by those who take themselves too seriously..
Not sure it's fair to say a company is now American, Malaysian or German just because they're invested in it.. if I bought out Toyota, that wouldn't make it British would it.
Clarkson, of course, is a very jingoistic Brit, but his claim that Britain gave the world the jet engine is a bit of an exaggeration. FRank Whittle's jet engine used a centrifugal compressor with multiple combustion chambers. It was very sturdy, but it was a dead-end technology incapable of producing the ever-increasing thrust the world needed. Simultaneously with Frank Whittle, Hans Von Ohain in Germany was developing and producing the first jet engines to enter into service and the first to see combat in WW!!. These were of a very different design from Whittle's. Von Ohain's engines used multiple stage axial-flow compressors and a single combustion chamber. This is the design that is used by all current jet engines, except for such oddities as scramjets and ramjets. Frank Whittle produced a usable jet engine, but as far as giving the world the jet engine that became ubiquitous, it was really Hans Von Ohain.
Whittle was pioneering a completely new engine, with meagre resources. It was expedient to design his engine that way. He did think of axial flow, but it involved much more calculation, and centrifugal compressors were more evolved. Did you know that before beginning his design and development process, Ohain made a very careful review of Whittle's work? Ohain had massive financial backing and lots of engineers working for him, and managed to get a flyable engine ready before Whittle. But it was Whittle who was the true pioneer of this field
Frank Whittle did the pioneering conceptual work. With almost no backing, he created Power Jets Limited. He chose a centrifugal compressor because less design work would be needed to develop it for jet use. Ohain examined Whittle's work before beginning his own jet units - with very heavy financial backing and a huge design team. Whittle really does deserve the credit for the jet engine, even though the centrifugal compressor got dropped
they were both working on designs without the other's knowledge. Whittle, although patented first, couldn't get financial backing due to typical British short sightedness. Ohain's was the first to fly. That said, modern, current commercially produced jet engines are based on Frank Whittle's turbo jet designs. That is an actual fact.
politicians should stay out of motoring, even now they're imposing stupid emission restrictions without meeting with the car firms to sort out a compromise, this leads to many great cars and engines dying or opting out of markets and we having to pay more for less capacity and not much more fuel efficiency. this is why Japan is so successful, politicians set out a list of car requirements and the industry simply said impossible, they met and compromised. instead of screaming no petrol here from this year and if you don't like it fuck off. we should be looking to help the industry grow and create feasible harmony with government, industry and consumers. most countries pushing their citizens to electric cant even support the power needs required if a quarter of them actually bought them, its going to happen but shocking a system that's been relatively stable for over a century to change within a tenth of that when other systems it relies upon or effects aren't changing at the same rate is going to cause a few serious problems
fish must walk politicians love to regulate things they know absolutely nothing about. Listen to some of the rubbish spewed on CNN or MSNBC. Just to pander to stupid soccer moms or eco-nuts or what ever group is popular at the time with false information to terrify the public. Look at the US currently. People don't kill people guns kill people so we need to ban them and make responsible citizens felons overnight because they want to think they are doing something. Instead of looking at what the real problem is.
What went wrong???? Lmao it was British owned and British labor. All they did was strike and bitch and dropped the ball on the quality. That's why Ford and Chevy owns all your cars worth while so they didnt end up like the rest.. be happy
14:40 - In Germany talented engineers can work for...etc. This is utter rubbish. Talented engineers do not work in the motor industry! All that any car is is a collection of second-hand technology. There is nothing on any car that has ever been invented for a car, everything has been adopted and adapted from other industries. If you wanted to be involved in cutting-edge technology you would be best to work in the food industry, pharmacy, machine tool manufacture, or a whole host of other industries. A big problem that the British motor industry has is that a lot of the people working in it don't realize that the are at the blunt end of technology. I am an Engineering Consultant, with experience in many industries such as power, oil and gas, aerospace, agro-chemical, mining, etc.. For years I had tried to get into the motor industry without any success, then one day I fell into it without trying. After four years in the industry I was relieved to leave, the industry is full of second-rate engineers who think that they are the best in the world. Most of these fools have very fragile egos. My downfall came when I was invited to a seminar about 'Technology in the Modern Car'. The head of engineering research for a car manufacturer started off by telling us how many lines of computer code were in the average car from one manufacturer (about 50,000 lines), and compared this to the A308 Airbus, which has just 20,000 lines of code. I pointed out that this is because the programming of the A308 is so much better than the programming used in cars, and that I was quite shocked at just how big the difference in the calibre of the computer programmers is between the two industries. Having more lines of code does not mean that an object is more technologically advanced than something that requires fewer lines of code. Cheap memory has resulted in a world of cut-and-paste programming, which means that you can get things to work without actually understanding how they do. Rant over, I am off to help an oil company to look for some gas now. This is to fuel all the gas-fired power stations that are being built in preparation for lots of electric cars being built. To avoid burning fossil fuels in cars we are going burn them in power stations instead. Bloody ludicrous! I feel another rant coming on!
Reverend George: Spot on comment and I totally agree with your assessment of auto engineers. I worked as a mechanic on cars, trucks, heavy equipment and everything in between, and we had a saying : "a mechanic making $12 an hour corrects the mistakes on a car that an engineer was paid $100 an hour to design." Cars are not engineered as a system, they are indeed a collection of parts, and you can build one the same way I build computers: I buy a case, fill it with parts and install the software. And yes, the computers on cars are well built, but their software is just plain amateurish. I do agree that electric cars are not fuel efficient, YET! But as soon as they install the 110 volt charger into the car and put some solar panels on the roof, they will become very energy efficient. As for the factories, you have to factor in that as more and more non-fossil fuel burning power plants come online, the cost of energy will fall. Germany for instance, has already reached 60% and their factories that make electric motors are already run on solar and very efficiently run. America , once the world leader in innovation and invention, while our government sleeps, is still ahead of many countries. MIT has made solar cells by "growing" them like crystals, and Cornell University came out with a new solar cell AGAIN, that doubles the output of the one they unveiled in 2008. Of course, China decided they wanted to become the top producer of solar cells, and wind turbines, and while America slept, they achieved their goal in ten years. So now I spend my retirement reading about what others are doing, and wondering when we'll get those flying cars we were promised.
My, how things have changed since this was filmed. You can count the number of British-owned major car companies on the fingers of one hand nowadays. And no, Vauxhall and Ford don't count---they've been owned by American GM and Ford for decades. At least McLaren is still British.....probably.....
There's still a host of small marques. Ariel is still going strong, TVR is coming back again, Mclaren is pretty british still, Morgan is still around somehow.. and the big cats like RR, Jaguar or Aston Martin get a lot of creative freedom from their marques, BMW aren't allowed to use the platforms RR come up with for example.
7:21 Well thats probably the reason why the industry collapsed. Shitty quality and lousy reliability. American cars have that reputation and still do. Its just that too many people rush to defend them because they got lucky they didn't get a lemon owing to dumb engineers. I think thats also a reason why Godawful Motors was bailed out. No one wanted to buy the oversized rust buckets.
5:14 Blaming the unions is the most stupid excuse ever. Start designing, constructing and selling very very good cars only. Then you won't even NEED the unions, because every employee can be paid far better and treated like a true human being! Do not confuse cause and result! You are a stupid company owner, and the result is problems everywhere. Take a close look at yourself! Do not blame this mean world. Butt off course you have that attitude burnt into your soul. Employees are subhumans, we are supermen. Recognise this? WW2?
RIP Richard burns. 😢 one hell of a driver and he was good friends with mcrea. Two legends gone
Yeah see, His old show didn't have the budget to flip that Reliant Robin multiple times or strap one to a rocket.
ElectricalNovice19 ya I was waiting for that reliant to slide into the scene...
Jeremy is rock hard in that picnic scene
Wouldn’t mind if they did flip a few cars.
Those Williams cars sound glorious. Can't say that about the new batch of f1 cars.
Yeah, another "the current F1 sounds aweful comment"!
I like the new sounds, not nearly as much but it's better than formula E
Nice to see some footage of this shoot also featured in Clarkson's Car Years.
Clarkson's style has stayed roughly the same over the year undergoing only minor refinements and improvements. But one thing he has become much better at is understanding his audience, and one thing he has come to understand is how much British nationalism annoys the rest of the world. He used to be a prime offender, but he pokes fun at it on more than one occasion in The Grand Tour.
LAFOLLETTER
It‘s absolutely no good to buy a car that looks good, but stays in the garage 80% of the time.
If I would buy an American car, I would be driving a wheely bin.... Nice exterior, but rubbish in every other aspect.
GM burned 2 billion USD, trying to get us Europeans to buy rubbish Chevys, instead of investing the money in the existing European brand, owned by gm for nearly 100 years. End result: no Chevy in Europe and they sold the brand, including the development, which did a lot of stuff for GM USA
well this was a British programme for a British audience
makes sense that it's full of Anglocisms
Nothing wrong with British nationalism. All other nations are allowed to be proud of themselves, and given we are the greatest country on planet earth that exported civilisation to all corners of the globe, we have much reason to be proud.
The unions: it was everyone's fault
The bosses: it was everyone's fault
Journalist: it was everyone's fault
Tony Benn : it was entirely management's fault, not ours or our friends in the unions
What a twat
About what you'd expect from a richboy turned socialist who gave up his title but none of his money.
Bad sound quality
Thanks for this!
Bob Ross and Jeremy Clarkson had an Afro in common.
I worked in a Japanese company once and none of the Japanese leave work after office hour until well into the night. I guess they just never grew complacent, which somewhat reflect to their car industry. I haven't got the chance to work in a German company though, will be interesting to find out.
More likely the shame on their family for not working as hard as they can.
you can still obtain a NEW DeLorean from a company in Kentucky, USA.
or fix your og busted version.
they will help you.
for a fee
The Delorean Motor Company in Humble, Texas near Houston is the "successor in interest for all purposes" of DMC in Dunmurry UK, Best to call them first.
Great Scott!
357 stoppages in one factory over 183 days? How is that even possible?
Just out of interest - the music heard at 3:30 is the Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings (1936) - also used in the the 1986 Oliver Stone film 'Platoon'. So there.
How many petrolhead musicologists are out there, anyway?! Apart from me, obviously. Cheers!
The DeLorean Part made me lol
We Americans didn't take everything. You Brits still have most of racing companies like Williams, Prodrive, Carterham, and Cosworth.
A country size of Britain should not have more than 6-8 companies building cars !
They had a case of too much competition !
And when you have so many companies doing the same thing in such a little country that is a limited market , you will never have enough good management ! And hence strikes !
Can't be that rare. This recording was lifted from off of Dave!!
2007 Dave changed it's name 14 years ago now a pint of lager and a Packet of Crisps nostalgia the past was s***
Jeremy is such a baby in that rally car lol hes not even having to read pace notes
It's easy to say Britain doesn't have any industry but the biggest companies are owned by millions of people all over the world including the British. People discount Jaguar for it's ties to TATA but it's so largely autonomous that I think we can call it "British" as much as Volvo is Swedish and maybe more than Chrysler is American these days.
20:20
Look at Richard Burns just talking at airline pilot level calm while throwing a tonne of metal through a rally stage at break neck speed
Ya know, DeLorean was acquitted of any wrong doing in the obvious sting he was a victim of.
Big, Not Good and Delorean was started in 1975 not 1980.
13:01. For the first time, Jeremy meets his real dad.
Hahahaha, lol
Thought the same 😃
Both with the double denim
That Spectre R42 is my dream car. I'll never be able to find one though.
Only 23 ever built, the last one sold went for £26 000.
awesome, brutha!
It’s sad that most of them companies have gone as well
The Raging Ancap they were regulated and unioned out of existence.
@@roberttucker1527 nonsense.
Always thought before the old man hangs up his driving gloves he should go back to all these places for a new "Motorworld" - but sad to think now a lot of these people have passed away, Richard Burns being one of them sadly.
Special, i say.
Special, man, i mean, you know man, i mean RARE
O dear, needs an update. Rover gone, Longbridge now a shopping centre with tattoo parlours and nail bars, the tiny rump of Rover owned by Chinese, TVR dead, Bentley and Rolls owned by the Germans, Marcos dead. Have I missed any?
You forgot that Land Rover and Jaguar are owned by Tata and doing well, and Morgan keeps going. McLaren is a rising star challenging Ferrari and Porsche. TVR is about to have a revival, with design by Gordon Murray.. It's not quite as desperate as you suggest
@@psk1w1 A little update, Defender now built in Slovakia.
Holy crap he is so young... like looking at baby pictures.
There's a Motorworld episode that used to be on RUclips, it was the American episode, not the Detroit one. I remember he chases down a Corvette in an armed helicopter. Does anybody know how to watch it?
That was not a motorworld episode. It was a 1997 straight to video special called Apocalypse Clarkson. I am not sure of where to find it on youtube but it may be somewhere else online. But what I suggest you do is buy the DVD release of the video like I did on amazon or ebay etc.
There was another Motorworld in America, he did one about Texas but I don't think it's what you mean.
Queen Anne that's the series speed he did 😊
The helicopter chasing the corvette is in this "Apocalypse clarkson" 1997 video m.ok.ru/video/92459698826
Why are so many of the great British nameplates gone (or sold to foreigners) , and all the great German nameplates (Audi, BMW, Opel, Mercedes, Porsche, Volkswagen) still around? Apparently the Germans are superior managers, engineers and workers....what else could it be?
Erik Hertzer. The lack of Unions determined to bring the company to its knees. It's no wonder Ford has pulled out of manufacturing vehicles in Britain. The Unions weren't totally at fault, but they set out to bring production to a halt so many times, that Ford got pissed off with being blamed for the troubles.
@@nickandrew1089 If only Harry Bennet had come to ford UK and shot us!
There was a time when British engineering and fabrication was superior to Germany's, who usually would do industrial espionage. So the British invented the term "Made in Germany" to brand all inferior German products. That way the people would know better and buy the better British products. Up until the Germans got better, and German production and engineering became the industry standard. That is an own goal on the British side lmao. The Japanese did the same and now the Chinese do it.
@@emin86 I believe "Gerry build" was the colloquialism back in the day.
These things go around. I think the British like to laugh at themselves quite a lot which is turned on them to their detriment.
i noticed Clarkson still has his beer gut going on back in the day
simon lloyd when you have money you eat very well and don't really care about how you look cuz money makes you better looking lol
In the world!
POWWERRRR
I am going back to getting in my car and looking for a place to have a picnic!
Try Clarkson's luxurious front garden! He's in Chipping Norton...
He should get a couple of mates in and make the exact same program as this in the same locations on the same topics,cow herding in oz but with cars,maybe race around the mine or get all British made cars to a meet in london,i think it could work 🤔🤣
Money for old rope
British cars today: basically a bmw or Mercedes
Good Lord! Clarkson has hair, and is thin!
"The Annikar"
🤣
JC is the only one that can keep us all from hell get on the Winning team
Love his hair.
R.i.p Richard Burns
no one pointing out the star wars music?
(by the by: the USA invited both the telephone and the television)
Except for Morgans! They are simply badass...
How much money does clarkson use to license music? Every production of his I see has big name music going constantly. It's cool, but man it must cost a penny.
Hmm... could explain some things! I somehow still doubt how many contemporary rock songs they own...
BBC has blanket agreements to use most major commercial music without paying royalties. This creates a problem when it's time to syndicate worldwide, which is why BBC America often uses public domain tracks.
They just randomly threw in the Star Wars intro like why not... I'm cringing
8:30 StarWars???
Ratel.H Badger yes
Is that Jay Leno's U.K. cousin?
nothing on youtube is rare
Pretty stupid having a video available if you can't watch the thing any minute to book locks and spares
interesting that they used Star Wars music
why were they playing Star Wars in the backround lol
it's not rare if it's on youtube
Like him, like the program, but don't like the anti-patriotic patriotism, and I am not even an American. Watching this in 2017 there is a certain level of sarcasm here.
It's called not taking yourself too seriously. And it's one of the greatest forms of humor, misunderstood only by those who take themselves too seriously..
why am i hearing the star wars opening theme ?
March 80s Champ cars made in England
Not sure it's fair to say a company is now American, Malaysian or German just because they're invested in it.. if I bought out Toyota, that wouldn't make it British would it.
2:04 Just grab your Mates and drive a Lambo to the nearest car park!
240p we meet again
Straining the capabilities of my S8 screen....
Clarkson, of course, is a very jingoistic Brit, but his claim that Britain gave the world the jet engine is a bit of an exaggeration. FRank Whittle's jet engine used a centrifugal compressor with multiple combustion chambers. It was very sturdy, but it was a dead-end technology incapable of producing the ever-increasing thrust the world needed. Simultaneously with Frank Whittle, Hans Von Ohain in Germany was developing and producing the first jet engines to enter into service and the first to see combat in WW!!. These were of a very different design from Whittle's. Von Ohain's engines used multiple stage axial-flow compressors and a single combustion chamber. This is the design that is used by all current jet engines, except for such oddities as scramjets and ramjets. Frank Whittle produced a usable jet engine, but as far as giving the world the jet engine that became ubiquitous, it was really Hans Von Ohain.
Whittle was pioneering a completely new engine, with meagre resources. It was expedient to design his engine that way. He did think of axial flow, but it involved much more calculation, and centrifugal compressors were more evolved.
Did you know that before beginning his design and development process, Ohain made a very careful review of Whittle's work? Ohain had massive financial backing and lots of engineers working for him, and managed to get a flyable engine ready before Whittle. But it was Whittle who was the true pioneer of this field
Frank Whittle did the pioneering conceptual work. With almost no backing, he created Power Jets Limited. He chose a centrifugal compressor because less design work would be needed to develop it for jet use.
Ohain examined Whittle's work before beginning his own jet units - with very heavy financial backing and a huge design team.
Whittle really does deserve the credit for the jet engine, even though the centrifugal compressor got dropped
Yes, but Frank Whittle produced a workable jet engine - long before Junkers and Bayerische Motorwerk managed to do the same, didn't he?
you are right, but nobody, wants the truth.
they were both working on designs without the other's knowledge. Whittle, although patented first, couldn't get financial backing due to typical British short sightedness. Ohain's was the first to fly. That said, modern, current commercially produced jet engines are based on Frank Whittle's turbo jet designs. That is an actual fact.
politicians should stay out of motoring, even now they're imposing stupid emission restrictions without meeting with the car firms to sort out a compromise, this leads to many great cars and engines dying or opting out of markets and we having to pay more for less capacity and not much more fuel efficiency. this is why Japan is so successful, politicians set out a list of car requirements and the industry simply said impossible, they met and compromised. instead of screaming no petrol here from this year and if you don't like it fuck off. we should be looking to help the industry grow and create feasible harmony with government, industry and consumers. most countries pushing their citizens to electric cant even support the power needs required if a quarter of them actually bought them, its going to happen but shocking a system that's been relatively stable for over a century to change within a tenth of that when other systems it relies upon or effects aren't changing at the same rate is going to cause a few serious problems
fish must walk politicians love to regulate things they know absolutely nothing about. Listen to some of the rubbish spewed on CNN or MSNBC. Just to pander to stupid soccer moms or eco-nuts or what ever group is popular at the time with false information to terrify the public. Look at the US currently. People don't kill people guns kill people so we need to ban them and make responsible citizens felons overnight because they want to think they are doing something. Instead of looking at what the real problem is.
Gotta love the whiny and stupid right.....
10:43 Nice car fam
WOW!! Clarkson had quite the poodle perm in 1996, didn't he ? : P
Haha look at Clarkson in the 80's. 😂😂
Austin Agro in Brown lmmfao
This is what happens when they take away Rally. 1:34
what year was this ??
97
@@LR_84 thanks
Fucking stars music FUCK WHAT
How can it be 'extreamly rare' you fool. It's a digital file.
It was rare before it was ripped!
whats up with starwars music lmaoo
edward rojas cringe.... It's quite dishonorizing it (the music)
What went wrong???? Lmao it was British owned and British labor. All they did was strike and bitch and dropped the ball on the quality. That's why Ford and Chevy owns all your cars worth while so they didnt end up like the rest.. be happy
Star Wars at 8:09
Kendrick .minchew I still don't understand why they put that in there it dishonorizes the Intro theme. Maybe it's because of the reliant Robin.
DAVE
14:40 - In Germany talented engineers can work for...etc. This is utter rubbish. Talented engineers do not work in the motor industry!
All that any car is is a collection of second-hand technology. There is nothing on any car that has ever been invented for a car, everything has been adopted and adapted from other industries. If you wanted to be involved in cutting-edge technology you would be best to work in the food industry, pharmacy, machine tool manufacture, or a whole host of other industries.
A big problem that the British motor industry has is that a lot of the people working in it don't realize that the are at the blunt end of technology. I am an Engineering Consultant, with experience in many industries such as power, oil and gas, aerospace, agro-chemical, mining, etc.. For years I had tried to get into the motor industry without any success, then one day I fell into it without trying. After four years in the industry I was relieved to leave, the industry is full of second-rate engineers who think that they are the best in the world. Most of these fools have very fragile egos.
My downfall came when I was invited to a seminar about 'Technology in the Modern Car'. The head of engineering research for a car manufacturer started off by telling us how many lines of computer code were in the average car from one manufacturer (about 50,000 lines), and compared this to the A308 Airbus, which has just 20,000 lines of code. I pointed out that this is because the programming of the A308 is so much better than the programming used in cars, and that I was quite shocked at just how big the difference in the calibre of the computer programmers is between the two industries. Having more lines of code does not mean that an object is more technologically advanced than something that requires fewer lines of code. Cheap memory has resulted in a world of cut-and-paste programming, which means that you can get things to work without actually understanding how they do.
Rant over, I am off to help an oil company to look for some gas now. This is to fuel all the gas-fired power stations that are being built in preparation for lots of electric cars being built. To avoid burning fossil fuels in cars we are going burn them in power stations instead. Bloody ludicrous! I feel another rant coming on!
Reverend George you're right, it's ridiculous this electric car stuff when we gotta burn oil anyway to produce the electricity to run the cars...
Sorry Reverend, can you repeat that please?
Reverend George: Spot on comment and I totally agree with your assessment of auto engineers. I worked as a mechanic on cars, trucks, heavy equipment and everything in between, and we had a saying : "a mechanic making $12 an hour corrects the mistakes on a car that an engineer was paid $100 an hour to design." Cars are not engineered as a system, they are indeed a collection of parts, and you can build one the same way I build computers: I buy a case, fill it with parts and install the software. And yes, the computers on cars are well built, but their software is just plain amateurish.
I do agree that electric cars are not fuel efficient, YET! But as soon as they install the 110 volt charger into the car and put some solar panels on the roof, they will become very energy efficient. As for the factories, you have to factor in that as more and more non-fossil fuel burning power plants come online, the cost of energy will fall. Germany for instance, has already reached 60% and their factories that make electric motors are already run on solar and very efficiently run.
America , once the world leader in innovation and invention, while our government sleeps, is still ahead of many countries. MIT has made solar cells by "growing" them like crystals, and Cornell University came out with a new solar cell AGAIN, that doubles the output of the one they unveiled in 2008. Of course, China decided they wanted to become the top producer of solar cells, and wind turbines, and while America slept, they achieved their goal in ten years.
So now I spend my retirement reading about what others are doing, and wondering when we'll get those flying cars we were promised.
Yup, no car manucturer would pass a DO178, or any serious certification process.
My, how things have changed since this was filmed. You can count the number of British-owned major car companies on the fingers of one hand nowadays. And no, Vauxhall and Ford don't count---they've been owned by American GM and Ford for decades. At least McLaren is still British.....probably.....
There's still a host of small marques. Ariel is still going strong, TVR is coming back again, Mclaren is pretty british still, Morgan is still around somehow.. and the big cats like RR, Jaguar or Aston Martin get a lot of creative freedom from their marques, BMW aren't allowed to use the platforms RR come up with for example.
Once upon a time, Mclaren was a NEW ZEALAND company. Based in the UK, but all the staff were Kiwis.
Mini is german..
NOT acceptable
"An American drug dealer" Colin Chapman sent him the drugs!!
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Well thats probably the reason why the industry collapsed. Shitty quality and lousy reliability. American cars have that reputation and still do. Its just that too many people rush to defend them because they got lucky they didn't get a lemon owing to dumb engineers. I think thats also a reason why Godawful Motors was bailed out. No one wanted to buy the oversized rust buckets.
This is what Brexit would look like.
What an embarrassing automotive representation of Britain... This actually made me feel sad
SquillyMon if you'd actually been around for any of this in the mid 90s then you'd know how accurate this video is.
Oh I was around... Just not in Britain. Things were fairly "Dismal" over here too don't get me wrong...
look at the americans,,, general motors bought everyone out and now they are a joke... they also did some horrible crony capitalism
Lone Wolf you jelly that you don't have master race American car?
Taydrum bahahahahaha master race American cars, thx for the morning joke, it was hilarious.
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What a bunch of bum claps
5:14 Blaming the unions is the most stupid excuse ever. Start designing, constructing and selling very very good cars only. Then you won't even NEED the unions, because every employee can be paid far better and treated like a true human being! Do not confuse cause and result! You are a stupid company owner, and the result is problems everywhere. Take a close look at yourself! Do not blame this mean world. Butt off course you have that attitude burnt into your soul. Employees are subhumans, we are supermen. Recognise this? WW2?