This car chase couldn't happen today in London. The Renault would get stuck in traffic at the first junction or a temporary traffic lights in the over running roadworks or behind a bus or wreck the car on potholes or speed bumps.
Look at that right rear wheel on the Renault, how graciously it lifts, like a cat on a parade, unlike the Ford which is penduling like a dogs bottom after a squeaky ball.
This episode - "money ,money, money" from season 4 was on last night (Monday 20th April 2020) on itv4 - I had watched this very video about a week before hand and so instantly recognized this chase. The sweeney and the professionals have been keeping me entertained during lockdown and reminds me of watching them with my dad when I was younger.
The end music from The Sweeney always gives me a cold feeling across my neck. A memory of my Dad coming back from work/pub and sending a blast of air through the house.
I love a good car chase… Think of The French Connection with Gene Hackman chasing down a hit man on a train under an elevated underpass and barely missing a mother and child, or Steve McQueen tearing up the streets of San Francisco in his Mustang GT…. And then you’ve got this masterpiece… a Ford Granada labouring through what appears to be the local dogging hotspot after a pensioner in a hairdryer.
As an American, I remember when Top Gear would reference these shows, and when they did their own versions of car chases and title sequences. The 70's vibe to those shows, was very amusing to see. We of course we had our own on this side of the pond from the same era, The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch etc. However I grew up with the 80's version's, like Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, The A Team etc. However CHiPs was a 70's holdover into the 80's that certainly was from that era that The Sweeny's occupied. Here is a title sequence from Top Gear playing homage to these British detective series. ruclips.net/video/qLp4FhDAfQk/видео.html
0:42 ... Attention - your hood isn´t locked ! At 0:58 its locked ... In the early 2000s, a friend of mine had a ´70 Opel Diplomat B 5.4 and a ´75 Granada 2.8 i (it was later modified with injection), it made a lot of fun to drive these cars ! I like the Granada Mk I, the V6 has a great sound. Best wishes from south Germany
No, the Rekord & Commodore - series were always independent cars of the middle class, a number lower than the Diplomat and his sister model, the Admiral; which were upper class. As far as i know the Diplomat & Admiral were not sold in the UK, not even as Vauxhall. Thats right, they were reliable and stylish. Since the mid 60s to the 70s in Germany they had a sticker on the rear window "Opel - der Zuverlässige" (Opel - the reliable one)
@@stefankassbohrer2765 thanks for that Stefan. At the time I recall models available, Kadette, Manta, Ascona, Rekord and Commodore. I had a Senator 3.0 around the 80s.
Your welcome. I didn´t know that, were these models RHD ? I thought only Vauxhall´s were available in the UK. Senator A and Monza are great cars, especially with the big engine. I own a ´78 Senator A CD with green interior, a nice, thirsty car ;-) The old Ford And Opel were amazing, a friend had 2 Capris, Mk 3 and Mk 1, both 2.3 litres.
@@stefankassbohrer2765 yes, all available RHD. I recall the "Berlinetta" being top specification on some models, certainly the Manta A which was a beautiful, graceful car. My Senator was an A series in metallic red with red velour upholstery. 3.0 injected. The Vauxhall equivalent available in UK at that time was the Royale but had a 2.8 carburetor engine.
My dad had a Renault 16. The bench seat in the front was very innovative at the time. There were sometimes six of us in the car. And French cars give such a smooth ride.
Dud e they were built to handle french cobblestones and shitty backroads. Why woukd they take it down when its doing exactly what it was built to do? Ride like a magic carpet oh shit roads and still go round corners with hussle. It just LOOKS bad. They love some lean angle.
Nothing up with the handling of the old Granadas if you can drive. Still got my 74 3.0 Ghia 59k from new. Can still show up a few modern cars. They do have power steering by the way. Series one & Two used the consul GT of which they had two of. Series three they used a silver Granada 3.0S & also in the first Sweeney film. Series four they used this Granada 3.0Ghia and a Silver Mk2 Granada 2.8is which were also both used in the Sweeney 2 film. Plus various other Granadas for background shots during all series. Regan drove a MK1 Granada 3.0GXL in the pilot episode “Regan”.
It was a Granada 2.5 XL automatic Regan drove in the pilot, so I believe :) loved the Granadas, I have a mk4 Zodiac with the same 3 litre essex V6, pulls like a train (although tops out at 100mph mainly because the aerodynamics are terrible)
@@trainman86trainstramsandmore really i owned a renault 16,you obviously missed out,totally reliable way ahead of any competition of the time in fact the original hatchback {ok maybe renault 4 was first} rust was the problem with the renault 16
@@jamesfrench7299 These cars rusted everywhere, car manufacturers hadn't heard of zinc phosphate paint in the 1970s and 1980. The Fords got the nickname of 'Dagenham Dustbins' because they used to rust to pieces within 5 years, that's why there are so few of them left.
I had a 1972 K Reg Mk 3 Cortina 1600L in Monza Blue (a mid blue colour), with dark blue vinyl seats (but no vinyl roof) from October 1975 to June 1980, when I traded it for a green MK 4 1600L. In the hot summer of 1976, I had to buy a set of seat covers, as otherwise it was to hot to sit in the car without getting second degree burns.
@@paulforster2684 According to the DVLA, RHJ 997R is no longer a registered number plate, they might have swopped the Reg No for a personalised one though
La Renault 16 : j en ai conduit plusieurs lors de mon service militaire en 1983. Merveilleuse voiture, souple, rapide, spacieuse, confortable, parfaite tenue de route. Seul défaut : toutes les Renault 16 avaient un levier de vitesses au volant. L avantage c est que cela dégageait les sièges avant que l on pouvait utiliser comme une banquette. Bien pratique lorsqu l on emmenait ses petites amies 😂
The thing is that even the Granadas were, at the time, big cars, in comparison to others then, and comparatively heavier, they would still be lighter than many car models on the road nowadays. The older ones had the old V4 and V6 Essex engines, not exactly renowned for fuel efficiency, and neither were the old OHV Kent and newer OHC Pinto engines used in the Cortinas of the time. I seem to remember my K Reg Mark 3 1600L Cortina only weighed in at around 1 Tonne, that's less than any modern Ford Fiesta, believe it or not. The Mark 3 Cortina's fuel efficiency was only around 26 - 27 mpg around town. That's changed a lot because, over the last 50 years, engines and their operating systems are far more fuel efficient. I seem to remember the Cortinas and Granadas had big fuel tanks, my MK 3 1600L Cortina had a 14 gallon tank, giving me a range of around 300 - 350 miles between fill ups. At the time of this filming of the Sweeney (1977/78), petrol had reached the dizzy heights of around 80p a gallon.
Apparently this car is still owned (by its original owner since 1988) and maintained but it isn’t a Granada. It’s a Ford Consul GT3000. Renault 16. 0-60 eventually 😂
Bwahahahaha. Stunt driver in the Renault slows down on dirt,... 16TS owners be like "WTF Is Wrong With You!" 80mph on dirt in a 16,.... Grenade-a would never catch it off road.
I had the identical Granada MK1 3.0 Ghia in the early '80s. Great car. The 'fit-and-finish' was far better than this one at around 43 seconds...Or maybe they just forgot to close the bonnet properly...!
Knowing the reality of the quality of both these cars, this chase would probably have terminated a lot sooner. The Ford with it's wildly notorious understeering would have crashed into the parked car after its first right turn (not having the capability of tightening its turning radius without flipping over) and the Renault once it left the pavement for a dusty road would have stalled out because its air filter would have been so choked with dust it would have been enough to starve the tiny carburetor from its air supply.
My favorite part is the Granada hood being held down by the safety catch. They must have had to put something back in place mid-scene to help it keep going. LOL. A few frames later, it's fully latched. Ah, @ Ford (in the 70's) quality was job 8.
Same here. The R16 was built until 1980 but was getting rarer on the roads from the early seventies because the earlier ones died in much larger numbers than Renault could sell new ones. It was a huge discrepancy between a forward thinking design and shoddy manufacturing.
As a kid watching these shows (very liberal parents!) I loved NHK 295M and was disappointed they changed to this new Granny. Liked the paint job though, very nice metallic bronze.
In hindsight, if he'd just walked out the building and up the road the Sweeney would of been none the wiser.
No car chase then...
Please don't become a script writer 😅
"That thing corners on rails"
Yeah...but gotta open up the Granny now and again
@@RobertRedford77😂
funny how the open Granada bonnet closed itself between shots.......classic 70's tv quality
Yeah, the Ford manages to catch the Renault om the rough Terra despite being heavier, less manoeuvrable, slower, and even behind on plain road 😂.
The 3 litre was so fast, they had time to stop and close it, then catch up ...
SHUT IT!
Those days there were real car chases in films, even TV series. Remember The Professionals? ☺️
RIP Bodie and Cowley...
All to well, I do. As a fair few of them were filmed where I used to live, I enjoyed recognising the locations, too!
I used to change the channel as soon as The Professionals came on.
Years later when they rescreened it I finally gave it a go and loved it.
Wouldn't be possible to have these car chases nowadays with all the speed bumps, chicanes, Cycle only lanes and "green" streets!
Pathetic weak control hungry councils.
Had a 3.0 ghia in blue SCK 845P, at 20 years old felt like the king of the road...I miss that car.
But don't miss visiting petrol stations.
That's a Preston registration
@@Austin40424 Bought it from southport.
@Raymond Liderth my dad bought a Cortina from Bradshaws in Preston
This car chase couldn't happen today in London. The Renault would get stuck in traffic at the first junction or a temporary traffic lights in the over running roadworks or behind a bus or wreck the car on potholes or speed bumps.
They wouldn't even attempt it without flashing lights and sirens.
And there'd be machete attacks on every corner.
I like how the Renault puts out his indicator/flicker when turning. Can't book him on that one.
Dennis nearly lost his leg.
Loved the Renault body roll even at moderate speed
turn a corner and lift a wheel !
Something that's missing from modern cars. Soft suspension but great handling.
bloody comfy though, we had lots of Renaults as a kid as my Dad worked for them
The French were masters at ride handling compromise. Boy did the Renault body roll yet tracked better than the Grenade!
@@jamesfrench7299 Nothing more fun than s Renault 4 hitting a roundabout at a fair old lick and frightening the shenanigans out of other Motorists! 😄
Look at that right rear wheel on the Renault, how graciously it lifts, like a cat on a parade, unlike the Ford which is penduling like a dogs bottom after a squeaky ball.
This episode - "money ,money, money" from season 4 was on last night (Monday 20th April 2020) on itv4 - I had watched this very video about a week before hand and so instantly recognized this chase. The sweeney and the professionals have been keeping me entertained during lockdown and reminds me of watching them with my dad when I was younger.
The end music from The Sweeney always gives me a cold feeling across my neck. A memory of my Dad coming back from work/pub and sending a blast of air through the house.
The power of 1970s television.
The Sweeney: love it. No match for a 3.0 Granada though.
'High speed chase'... Everyone's doing 40mph and almost falling off the road 😂
Guv, the bonnet's open. What should I do? SHUT IT!
Sadly the scene where George climbed out of the car to secure the hood was deleted.
Everyone over 40 is now repeating the words "SHUT IT!"
I love a good car chase… Think of The French Connection with Gene Hackman chasing down a hit man on a train under an elevated underpass and barely missing a mother and child, or Steve McQueen tearing up the streets of San Francisco in his Mustang GT….
And then you’ve got this masterpiece… a Ford Granada labouring through what appears to be the local dogging hotspot after a pensioner in a hairdryer.
Mc Queen's chase in Bullitt was one of the best ever
That made me laugh
Renault 16 up on three wheels! The Sweeney was the seventies and The Professionals was the eighties.
TV at its best.
The professionals were also the 70's they started in 1977
@@Pfirtzer Apologies on that one. I thought the Professionals started in 1980.
They were both brilliant.
The Bonnet Job - another open and shut case for The Sweeney
So, anyone know why it popped open as they pull up at the garage?
@@lotusgroup123 It was thirsty
Have just watched Minder, The Professionals, The Sweeney.
On every morning. Can't beat an old granny
They repeat them at 5pm, so I get home to catch the end of The Professionals, then all of The Sweeney 👍
Three great classics.
I dunno; Doyle's Escort RS2000 was a bit eye-catching...
@@mikethecabbie8476 Was a good looking motor. If I could I'd buy back my 2.3 Ghia Cortina I would.
Can't beat an old granny explain?
As an American, I remember when Top Gear would reference these shows, and when they did their own versions of car chases and title sequences. The 70's vibe to those shows, was very amusing to see. We of course we had our own on this side of the pond from the same era, The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch etc. However I grew up with the 80's version's, like Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, The A Team etc. However CHiPs was a 70's holdover into the 80's that certainly was from that era that The Sweeny's occupied. Here is a title sequence from Top Gear playing homage to these British detective series. ruclips.net/video/qLp4FhDAfQk/видео.html
We we didn't have is the British Ford Grenada, which is a shame. I couldn't imagine a car chase with the American car of the same name....Lame-O!
I had a poster of Starsky's Gran Torino on my bedroom wall back in the 70s.
wasnt the ford crown victoria a comparable vehicle ?@@rpm773
I loved my MK1 Granada.
0:42 ... Attention - your hood isn´t locked ! At 0:58 its locked ... In the early 2000s, a friend of mine had a ´70 Opel Diplomat B 5.4 and a ´75 Granada 2.8 i (it was later modified with injection), it made a lot of fun to drive these cars ! I like the Granada Mk I, the V6 has a great sound. Best wishes from south Germany
Opel Diplomat, was that known as the Rekord or Commodore in the UK? Parents had two Opels in the 70s, good cars very stylish.
No, the Rekord & Commodore - series were always independent cars of the middle class, a number lower than the Diplomat and his sister model, the Admiral; which were upper class. As far as i know the Diplomat & Admiral were not sold in the UK, not even as Vauxhall. Thats right, they were reliable and stylish. Since the mid 60s to the 70s in Germany they had a sticker on the rear window "Opel - der Zuverlässige" (Opel - the reliable one)
@@stefankassbohrer2765 thanks for that Stefan. At the time I recall models available, Kadette, Manta, Ascona, Rekord and Commodore. I had a Senator 3.0 around the 80s.
Your welcome. I didn´t know that, were these models RHD ? I thought only Vauxhall´s were available in the UK. Senator A and Monza are great cars, especially with the big engine. I own a ´78 Senator A CD with green interior, a nice, thirsty car ;-) The old Ford And Opel were amazing, a friend had 2 Capris, Mk 3 and Mk 1, both 2.3 litres.
@@stefankassbohrer2765 yes, all available RHD. I recall the "Berlinetta" being top specification on some models, certainly the Manta A which was a beautiful, graceful car.
My Senator was an A series in metallic red with red velour upholstery. 3.0 injected. The Vauxhall equivalent available in UK at that time was the Royale but had a 2.8 carburetor engine.
My dad had a Renault 16. The bench seat in the front was very innovative at the time. There were sometimes six of us in the car. And French cars give such a smooth ride.
Funny thing is he'd probably have got away if he'd just quietly walked away from the shop instead of getting in his car 😂
That would have been much better viewing wouldn't it!
My Grandad had an E reg Renault 16...don't remember him driving like this through the streets of Southampton though!
Looking at the handling of the 16 I am amazed Renault haven’t tried to have this taken down!
Dud e they were built to handle french cobblestones and shitty backroads.
Why woukd they take it down when its doing exactly what it was built to do? Ride like a magic carpet oh shit roads and still go round corners with hussle.
It just LOOKS bad. They love some lean angle.
I remember my cousins boyfriend had the same colour and model Granada about 40 years ago,I’m getting old😢
Nothing up with the handling of the old Granadas if you can drive. Still got my 74 3.0 Ghia 59k from new. Can still show up a few modern cars. They do have power steering by the way. Series one & Two used the consul GT of which they had two of. Series three they used a silver Granada 3.0S & also in the first Sweeney film. Series four they used this Granada 3.0Ghia and a Silver Mk2 Granada 2.8is which were also both used in the Sweeney 2 film. Plus various other Granadas for background shots during all series. Regan drove a MK1 Granada 3.0GXL in the pilot episode “Regan”.
It was a Granada 2.5 XL automatic Regan drove in the pilot, so I believe :) loved the Granadas, I have a mk4 Zodiac with the same 3 litre essex V6, pulls like a train (although tops out at 100mph mainly because the aerodynamics are terrible)
Wow!! such speed , such cornering, such braking. I had forgotten just how bad it was back then. But then that's all there was.
Nice clean streets nice people nice cars no w... no ...no ... wonderful
pre mass immigration
Dennis Waterman, 30. John Thaw, 36.
I seem to remember those Renaults were absolute rot-boxes even by 1970s standards
quiet smooth never went wrong,seats were fantastic ,you right about the rot tho
@@andrewmorris9586 All Renaults are pretty shit from technology to reliablility
@@trainman86trainstramsandmore really i owned a renault 16,you obviously missed out,totally reliable way ahead of any competition of the time in fact the original hatchback {ok maybe renault 4 was first} rust was the problem with the renault 16
@@andrewmorris9586 Alright fine but modern Renaults suck
R16 had lovely soft suspension, brilliant
My dad had the same Granada when I was young in the 70s ,
Wish he still had it , be worth a mint now
Filmed on Wimbledon Common grew up round there in the 1970s/80s
Brilliant stuff! I love location info!
Bring back vinyl roofs !😁😁😁
Rust harbourers.
Agreed.
@@jamesfrench7299 These cars rusted everywhere, car manufacturers hadn't heard of zinc phosphate paint in the 1970s and 1980. The Fords got the nickname of 'Dagenham Dustbins' because they used to rust to pieces within 5 years, that's why there are so few of them left.
@@paultaylor7082 Aussie Ford's in the 80s, 90s and 2000s are not much better. No car built in the 000s should have rust problems.
Handy that farmers field right in the middle of London :-)
Wimbledon Common.
Those Renault 16’s really handled.
The Granada is like a drunk camel on rollerskates around those corners :-O
But still quite good for it´s time
my dad used to have a ford console me & my mate would always play at being the Sweeney I was always Regen lol happy days though
Allways remember the smell in them 70s and 80s cars. Plastic seats and vinyl roof linings. Especially in the summer months.
I had a 1972 K Reg Mk 3 Cortina 1600L in Monza Blue (a mid blue colour), with dark blue vinyl seats (but no vinyl roof) from October 1975 to June 1980, when I traded it for a green MK 4 1600L. In the hot summer of 1976, I had to buy a set of seat covers, as otherwise it was to hot to sit in the car without getting second degree burns.
Love that old Granada wonder if it's still in one piece
It was at the classic show nec fully restored
RIP (rust in pieces)
@@paulforster2684 Great news.
@@paulforster2684 According to the DVLA, RHJ 997R is no longer a registered number plate, they might have swopped the Reg No for a personalised one though
Sweeny great show
Sweeney was better. 😊
Bloody excellent! I loved those boys, and Regan’s Car! (You can’t beat a bit of London “bova”) 👍🇬🇧
Helpful member of the public: “Oi mate - yer bonnets open!”
Jack Regan: “SHUT IT!”
My god what is that lovely gold car? It's beautiful.
Ford Granada
@@doabarrellroll69 Granada Ghia, no less
The Granny handled better on the grass than on the road lol
While in reality it should see no land against the Renault in the rough...
Chassis dynamics have come a long way
La Renault 16 : j en ai conduit plusieurs lors de mon service militaire en 1983. Merveilleuse voiture, souple, rapide, spacieuse, confortable, parfaite tenue de route. Seul défaut : toutes les Renault 16 avaient un levier de vitesses au volant. L avantage c est que cela dégageait les sièges avant que l on pouvait utiliser comme une banquette. Bien pratique lorsqu l on emmenait ses petites amies 😂
Mais pas trop vite, comme la Granada
The Renault does a great impression of a dog a having a pee
Like the Chrysler Crossfire
Lol 🤣🤣
The Granada would have needed to stop for petrol at some point. You could physically watch the fuel gauge drop as you drove the MKI's.😄
yup, had two: loved them but were bastards for petrol. Literally watch the gauge go down!
The thing is that even the Granadas were, at the time, big cars, in comparison to others then, and comparatively heavier, they would still be lighter than many car models on the road nowadays. The older ones had the old V4 and V6 Essex engines, not exactly renowned for fuel efficiency, and neither were the old OHV Kent and newer OHC Pinto engines used in the Cortinas of the time. I seem to remember my K Reg Mark 3 1600L Cortina only weighed in at around 1 Tonne, that's less than any modern Ford Fiesta, believe it or not. The Mark 3 Cortina's fuel efficiency was only around 26 - 27 mpg around town. That's changed a lot because, over the last 50 years, engines and their operating systems are far more fuel efficient. I seem to remember the Cortinas and Granadas had big fuel tanks, my MK 3 1600L Cortina had a 14 gallon tank, giving me a range of around 300 - 350 miles between fill ups. At the time of this filming of the Sweeney (1977/78), petrol had reached the dizzy heights of around 80p a gallon.
Awesome driving.
The Renault 16TL used in this scene is underpowered compared to Ford Granada. A chase btw R16TX and Ford Granada would have been more spectacular...
Apparently this car is still owned (by its original owner since 1988) and maintained but it isn’t a Granada.
It’s a Ford Consul GT3000.
Renault 16. 0-60 eventually 😂
The car in this footage isn't the original and is a granada.
That's a Granada, the orginal Sweeney car was a consul Gt but this car was used end of the series
@@sallypowers1131 They actually used 2 Granadas in the series. Check the number plates. Obvious mistake.
That's a Granada 3 ltr Ghia.
The 1st car was a Ford consul gt in series 1 and 2 this is series 3 this is a 3.0 granada ghia
that was an early renaultsport with badge delete !
That's like Darth Vader chasing Mr. Bean.
McDoogle, the guy in the R16 is probably going to be thwarted and nicked.
Classic line at the end. I say this to myself every day!
Crazy to think that all the background music was library music. Picked off the shelf rather than made specifically for the programme.
Write the theme toon, sing the theme toon?
RIP Dennis.
@@alannock1358 haha yeah, the producers missed a trick there
Classic track used here like in other episodes - Maniac by Steve Gray.
Got to love the continuity errors with the Granada hood :D
0:47 Almost tipped that Renault there on that right turn! 😀
That Renault was less than 2 years old, the nick of it 😂
What a beautiful country! Where was it filmed? I don't recognise it.
Only time i ever cheered for the baddy.
Dad was a renault dealer here in aus. We had a renault 16ts at the time.
I'm sure my dad had a blue Renault 16 and a white Granada with tan roof very stylish 👌
Lovely Granada Ghia, 3 litres, nice colour, as well as obligatory vinyl roof, versus a Renault 16. Hardly a fair contest...
Renault 16 was actually a lot better handling car.
At some point between 1:07 and 1:15 the Sweeney stopped to close the bonnet on their Granada and still managed to catch the villain!!
Now I know where the Mario music came from for those little secret levels 😳
Had an uncle with a R16.
Drove it like a nutter, so much tyre squeal.
Sweeneys' driver was a bit melodramatic in that one I thought.
Bwahahahaha.
Stunt driver in the Renault slows down on dirt,...
16TS owners be like "WTF Is Wrong With You!"
80mph on dirt in a 16,.... Grenade-a would never catch it off road.
"Excuse me, was it you that said Jackie Wilson said....? Was it you?"
Love the back wheel lift at 0:46
Back when TV shows couldn't afford to film the actors during chase scenes
Love the sound of the Granada
I had the identical Granada MK1 3.0 Ghia in the early '80s. Great car. The 'fit-and-finish' was far better than this one at around 43 seconds...Or maybe they just forgot to close the bonnet properly...!
At least they didnt speed the video to make it appear faster like they did in knight rider
Ford Granada is stunning
Ford Cortina and Ford Granada - best looking British cars ever.
Umm haha...they were designed by Ford of Germany though.
Except for the Vauxhall Victor FD. I used to have a Ventora, 3.3 litres of truck engined madness.
Zwei absolute geile KULTCARS ever
At least this didn't call for a 10 second sequence of turning off the traction control.
me- where can i get a video of a Renault 16 - Ford Granada Chase 1978 ?
utube - here you go.....
Granada's bonnet is not fastened down 1:08
I know, then ,all of a sudden it was !!
Knowing the reality of the quality of both these cars, this chase would probably have terminated a lot sooner. The Ford with it's wildly notorious understeering would have crashed into the parked car after its first right turn (not having the capability of tightening its turning radius without flipping over) and the Renault once it left the pavement for a dusty road would have stalled out because its air filter would have been so choked with dust it would have been enough to starve the tiny carburetor from its air supply.
Granada - boot it into power oversteer, simple way to tighten the cornering line in any RWD car
0.44. A blue car on the left appears from nowhere.
If I turned the sound off, I would have thought this was done in slo mo.
dennis waterman droped his can of lager ...
George only just got in the car.
My favorite part is the Granada hood being held down by the safety catch. They must have had to put something back in place mid-scene to help it keep going. LOL. A few frames later, it's fully latched. Ah, @ Ford (in the 70's) quality was job 8.
Spent my early years in the back of my parents R16. Never see them on the roads now...
Same here.
The R16 was built until 1980 but was getting rarer on the roads from the early seventies because the earlier ones died in much larger numbers than Renault could sell new ones.
It was a huge discrepancy between a forward thinking design and shoddy manufacturing.
As a kid watching these shows (very liberal parents!) I loved NHK 295M and was disappointed they changed to this new Granny. Liked the paint job though, very nice metallic bronze.
ah, of course *Special Saab Tools* just so you know that Saab is so sophisticated it requires some special tools
I worked for Renault in the 70s As a Mechanic come paint sprayer an panel Beater
Lol
Bonnet open bonnet shut ? Never the same cool a Granada Ghia Automatic for the Sweeny? Wonder if it still exists?
Pity the perp wasn’t driving a R16 TX. They did not roll quite so much. They also went like stink if you wanted them too.
Even the TS was lively - 90bhp from 1565cc, long before many manufacturers.
00:32 That could have gone wrong 😉 I guess safety on the film-set wasn´t that big an issue back in the 1970s
Yea, poor Dennis nearly broke an ankle there 🙈
tougher men and women
London was far less crowded back then. Scooter riding youths can do just about anything because it's one constant traffic jam nowadays...
Including repairs, damage and car purchase this epic car chase cost almost 40 quid.
Renault 16, build in Romania more than 30 years as a Dacia 1310!
You're probably right about that. Wonder if James May knows....
@@markcf83 I think he should, he is a bit of commie.
The bonnet of the Granada is open in some shots and closed in others.
Remember my first car chase I stole a Ford Capri live in Dublin at the time brilliant 👏 kids 🙈🙈🙈🙈
old granadas lovely motor .
vive la Renault 16 !
One of the most brilliant cars ever. Spacious, confortable, refined and ahead of its time. In good hands that granada would not stand a chance :)
The problem is that people have to be brilliant to understand that! Absolutely not credible that the Granada could keep up on that dirt road!
The Granada was a powerful, luxury car, nimble it wasn't and this scene shows that perfectly, the Renault scored on the corners, hands down..
Passed my test in a gold one. - top motor
Showing just what an excellent design they were for what was then a twelve year old design. My first car was a 16 - I'd love to own one again.