Yes I can confirm this was how the 1990s was, a brilliant era I think. During the week we would drive around the local towns cruising under the illusion ladies would see our old bangers (MK2 Escort / MK1 Fiesta and find us irresistible😆. On Friday nights we would sometimes park up somewhere and listen to the Radio 1 Essential mix, smoke a few joints, talk and have a laugh. Nobody was responding to notifications, just totally in the moment and it's a feeling I miss.
Its funny, if I think back to the 90's when I was a teenager, I don't feel like the country has changed that much. But when you can actually look back via a film like this you realise just how deluded that is. Everywhere looks so clean, the road surfaces all look so smooth and unblemished, side streets with acres of parking.
I was 20 when this was on TV at first. I didn't think it felt like a long time ago but watching this makes it look like a million years ago. I'm wondering how the hell things changed so much.
Lol that's how they film it. They don't go to poor areas. The 90s had proper shithole areas. Just like before and just like now. You can't be this naive.
Thank you RUclips algorithm for this, it’s almost a comedy!! such characters all of them!! The 2cv girl was so sweet and innocent. My first car was a 1978 Mini , I passed my test in 87 aged 17 and I’ll never forget that first solo drive! My mini was a knacker but I loved it, I remember lifting the carpet and watching the road go by😂😂😂 I made the mistake of trying to keep up with traffic on the M1 once, it got very grumpy and hot, I pulled onto the hard shoulder and the engine just stopped, I let it cool, started it and drove home slowly 😂 and never thrashed it again! Never left me stranded though unlike some much newer cars I’ve had in the last 10 yrs!! character building stuff!!
I think I was one of the last generation to have had a first car that was very old and interesting to drive. Kids today they start off with cars which even at 10 years old plus (unless buying a classic) have all the modern touches - PAS, ABS, Traction control, A/C, Bluetooth, electric everything. There is something quite charming about basic motoring
What was your first car? My first Car was a 2002 Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 Club that I bought in 2005, it only had PAS, it had a Cassette Player, to which I found a Phil Collins Cassette under the Seat, wasn't mine I swear lol...
Mine was a 1985 Austin metro Vanden plas, quite similar to one of the cars in these videos but 4 doors and 1275cc a series engine. It was a top spec one but nothing like abs or pas - only had tape player radio with no FM just long wave( with speakers that only worked in mono). It did have electric front windows though and a leaky sunroof. Even in these videos the lad was saying it was terrible and this was filmed 10 years before I had mine! Official the least cool car in the school car park but it was fun, 5 up thrashing it about
I've got a 2020 car with all the bells and whistles but recently acquired a 1994 Ford Escort 1.6 LX - the year I turned 21. It's actually refreshing driving something with no alarms, no engine management lights, EGR valves, sensors. Being an LX model you get a tilt and slide sunroof, electric front windows, boot release switch and a cassette player.
@@johnpill5513 mine was a 1979 T reg Vauxhall Chevette 1.1 litre in white with added orange bits and a hole in the floor under my feet. I bought it in May 1991 at 18 years old. It cost £80 and was soon replaced by a 1978 T reg MK2 Ford Escort Popular Plus.
I enjoy watching older documentaries like this. Its great to see that past generations of younger people came across as quite natural and genuine. Today, they are incredibly self aware, know how to perform in front of a camera and have nurtured a rather false personality generally built on narcissism and image. Very fake.
Such a simplistic point of view, almost to the point of being completely vacuous. Yes people are more familiar with things they spend a lot of time with! Shock horror!
@@visorcover I think you've missed my point. Its your conflation of 'comfortable in front of a camera' with those nasty adjectives that I consider vacuous. Maybe you should accept that times, and people, change - get away from the internet, and view people a bit more kindly. If you accept difference without a value judgement, you might enjoy things a bit more.
@@visorcover I have no idea what you're trying to say, but it sounds like a stock phrase you wheel out whenever someone disagrees with you about anything
You could drive many of the cars in the film in the ULEZ zone today, those that were registered or manufactured before 1984 anyway, as they would now be exempt! Most won't have survived of course, and the Clio the chap is driving won't qualify for about 8 years.
Great video, i would have been 19 when this aired. Was driving a black mini cooper, loved that car until the rust took hold. Happy days, put 5 quid in the tank and off to Blackpool!!!All i can say is enjoy your youth, its a special time, make the most of it.❤
I really feel for the kid with the Beetle. His parents were obviously disappointed in him yet he seems to be doing alright for himself. I just hope he's kept up with his DJing and his Beetle served him well.
@@THEE4DARKESTCORNERZ23 Not suprised he didn't listen to his Dad, giving him words of advice like how great Austin Maestro is even that its one of the worst cars ever made, all whilst sitting next to women who dresses like a pensioner.
The XR2 really demonstrated Ford's marketing genius in the 80s. The Fiesta was a dull, humdrum shopping car but put a stripe on it and hey presto it's cool.
James (the posh fella with the Clio) actually went on to marry Stacey Dash, have two children with her and produce a Netflix miniseries about an Indian cricket club.
We all done our own thing once we got a vehicle of our own I think I did really well because I came across a lovely Toyota hiace van belonging to a carpet shop only carried few rolls of carpet and Lino Only nothing heavy and was the carpet fitters van and it was a very lucky van and I started to take notice of older dudes out working everyday in their vans getting a weekly wage So I started to do the market’s with all secondhand stuff like bikes and brass ornaments second hand stuff I used to get for next to nothing I remember a skip out side A factory one day and the fella knew the person I purchased the van from and he started to give me block and tackles big towing chanes with hooks every thing got to do with engineering a very decent fella and I remember offering him money about 10 or more times and he just wouldn’t take it from me decent man God bless him!! When I went to the market’s back then I got to know a lot of people who used to buy from me certain stuff they got me to hold the stuff in the van so they got it from me and I got to a lot of people who gave me a lot of stuff every sorta bikes- old working tools etc etc Etc They were very good decent people back then most of them have passed away god bless less them all!!!!! I used to do very well and about 10 months later I was able to buy a beautiful car which was a Diesel 405 Peugeot top of the Range with every extra possible also bought that car from a company who did all motorway miles never had a passenger or anything because they weren’t allowed to have people in the company cars???????? But I couldn’t believe the car I got for £3, thousand - worth about £5 grand at that time!!!! Happy motoring to all you people out there and safe journey to all of ya’s
My mum.had a D reg White XR2 which she also bought of a neighbour at only 2 years old , she cared for it so well for 4 or 5 years my best mate bought it off her , she replaced it with a 3 years old H reg XR3i .
XR2, great car in the day, every 17 lad wanted one, but not many could get insurance, a friend back in the day at college, bought one, and paid £1800 on insurance, this was in 1993. I'd love one now, but most rotted away, or were written off.
At 20 I paid £3600 for a 4 years old F reg Astra GTE 16V with 1 years no claims from the slowest car in the World a Mk4 Escort 1.6DGL it was so slow their was no red in the rev counter that car was all most £1000 3rd party only.
The protracted pauses where the subject/s hold frame; you don't really see that now. There's something quite earnest and humble about this documentary.
My first car in 1990 was a 1977 Ford Escort estate , I fitted a 1600 engine in it and a Mexico front spoiler and quarter bumpers , loved it and it went like stink , used to go down Romford town centre in the evenings to race about and we all used to go to Southend seafront at the weekends to “cruise” lol Great memories
Thanks for putting these up! Lol at the numpty in the Red Austin Metro not expecting to pay back the loan of his fiesta after he wrapped it round the back of a truck.
That was quite common at the time. People just didn’t know any better. I actually met that lad about a year later in Vidal Sasoon in Leeds. By this time he was an apprentice hairdresser. Nice lad!
@@MrSupercar55 It's true, Maestro's definitely rarer, and you can find some awful Beetles out there. Still, there's a decent price gap between them, good condition Beetles can go for upwards of 10k, I've seen good examples go for 15k! A bit more than what I'd pay if you ask me. If it was my own money I might actually go for the Maestro as a run around as it's cheaper and different too. My Nan had one before trading in for the bigger Montego estate. Fond memories of riding in the boot of both 😂
@MrSupercar55 Beetles are strong I owned a 56 Oval as my first beetle sold it and now they are 20k plus. Even 70s beetles are 9k to 10k. The older late 40s to 53 are very expensive. Even the unloved Type 4 412 and 411 are strong. To get back into VWs I Bought a 1973 412 estate original paint etc for 5k. I hated them but it's all I can afford to get back into VWs. I'm a mechanic and know but the average person can get stung Beetle do need care and maintenance and they rust especially 68 to 70s era. Thet beetle I'd buy and break it gearboxes are unstressed the engine probs a twin port. Beetles have been good to me selling parts. I bought a scrapper 1303 100pounds but had the engine running when it was dropped off. Sold the engine for 450 and the gearbox for another 400, 5 x wheels had brand new tyres wheel trims and beauty rings for 150. They guy bought the shell for repair sections 250 front struts etc.
"Hoped he would buy a maestro as it would keep its value "....😂 . Look at Beetle prices vs Maestros now ! (if you can find a Maestro that is !) That beetle kid is being unfairly treated by his parents . His brother is a table tennis player and they think the sun shines out of his arse so he gets £££££ spent on him yet the kid with the beetle gets Jack Schitt off them ! I hope that kid did really well for himself .
The lass in the yellow metro speaks so comfortably with the camera, it's almost as if she's somehow from a more recent time than the others. She's sweet, I really like her. As others have said, would be very intriguing to see updated clips with the subjects
Amazing seeing the road traffic and love hearing the stories. I bought a 1988 Volvo 480ES a couple years ago as my first car and I am glad to have older cars as my transport as I prefer them, also didn't expect to see a Corolla AE86 33:30, unmodified dreams!
I got a 1993 480ES in 2002, it was my third car. It was awesome, wish I had kept it. I also wish I kept my Fiat Coupe. These older cars (left field coupes) have character
😂@ 35:16 mum; “considering he was brought up without a dad....” @36:08 son; “even from being in my DAD’s car, he used to let me steer the car into the garage”
Great stuff. You just don't see young people driving these days. When I passed my test, and it was only fourteen years ago, we used to go out and drive all night...these days they have to have black boxes that record their speed. Fucking mental.
Black boxes are shit. The number of friends I still have alive compared to my parents generation who got to have loads of them die in car crashes, people just don't realise how much better it was back then.
lol omg! i was just randomly ended up on this from searching for a certain song! im skipping threw saw the guy in clio sport reconised the carriage way! and he says the mad mile! otherwise known as sidcup by pass haha! :D im from sidcup!
XR3i oh yes!!!. 90mph up a small incline hill thumped it up there hard. So any rear passengers would of certainly of felt it. Late 1990's. The best!!!!!
Cars are freedom. Cars are independence and choice. Cars are having work and money. Cars are style. Cars are access to opportunity. Learn to drive, love cars and get out there. Sod the bike, sod the bus, sod the train, sod walking too.
19:52 LOL... he pulled away from just outside St.John's centre in Leeds centre then instantly appeared on Kirkstall Road going under the viaduct towards Bradford. Then when he talking he going the other way towards Leeds centre. Brilliant driving ^^
The girl in the green Citreon CV6 is so cool in her own way. She's a daddys girl and she's witty, knows what she wants and maybe slightly ironic and sarcastic underneath. 🤣😅😂 I hope she is doing well now. 😊
Yes, very funny, but... I can imagine I might've thought the same. I can imagine it being explained to him, "yes, THIS is why a bad thing has happened to you".
Friend of mine in the mid 90s had a 2CV. Id just come back from a Holiday for mt brother to tell me he had seen it upside down at the bottom of a very steep hill with a bend near our house.
The lad with the 5 GT Turbo is right about the 1 up i was the same late 80s & 90s . Myself & a friend wanted mk2 Astra GTE's he got a C reg 3 or 4 months before me but i got an F reg 16V GTE.. 2 or 3 years later we both wanted Cavalier GSi's , he later got a G reg SRi saying its because he wanted a hatchback within weeks i bought a 2 years old J reg Cavalier GSi 2000 with alot less miles in the same colour. Since we never say but his cars are a lot newer but boring SUV's.
gone are the good days 😁I remember I was stopped on double yellows seen the traffic warden walking up whipped my AtoZ out and asked for directions saved me a ticket 😉
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
23.20. Crashed his motor with 3rd Party F&T and didn't think he'd have to pay his bank loan back. Bank must have laughed to macho flute out of the door.
These people are all good, and I hope that they are all being DJs now and still waiting in the car parks and not being saies reps from the past. I feel so sorry for anyone who lived in or through the past who was filmed being cute and likeable by the telly makers, but I don't like anyone else from the past who was not in this excellent documentary. If only they had realised how pointless and backwards and slow they were back then, things would be so much faster and bigger now, and everyone could have one. Thanks a lot, you lot (I don't mean all of the cute exceptions in this documentary, obviously. I still hope you're all still DJs now)!
I really enjoyed this (and the reps episode previously). However, I can't help but think these are possibly actors, and the whole thing was funded by the assoc of auto manufacturers (if that was even a thing). However, I really enjoyed the journey back in time, and the stories of these individuals. Thanks for uploading and sharing these gems.
I am the XR2 girl...ok I'm an old woman now. Still love cars!
When did you part company with the xr2i? Must be strange watching this back!
How old?
Never ask a Woman her age, it's rude...
I wish I'd known girls like you when I was 20. None of the girls I liked were into cruising 😀
Guessing about 45
Yes I can confirm this was how the 1990s was, a brilliant era I think. During the week we would drive around the local towns cruising under the illusion ladies would see our old bangers (MK2 Escort / MK1 Fiesta and find us irresistible😆. On Friday nights we would sometimes park up somewhere and listen to the Radio 1 Essential mix, smoke a few joints, talk and have a laugh. Nobody was responding to notifications, just totally in the moment and it's a feeling I miss.
Its funny, if I think back to the 90's when I was a teenager, I don't feel like the country has changed that much. But when you can actually look back via a film like this you realise just how deluded that is.
Everywhere looks so clean, the road surfaces all look so smooth and unblemished, side streets with acres of parking.
I was 20 when this was on TV at first. I didn't think it felt like a long time ago but watching this makes it look like a million years ago. I'm wondering how the hell things changed so much.
It looks as big a difference now as looking back to the 1960s from the 1990s
And a sea of white faces
this was before i was born, very different world to today yet it looks more like home than the cities of today
Lol that's how they film it. They don't go to poor areas. The 90s had proper shithole areas. Just like before and just like now. You can't be this naive.
This is great to watch. I grewup in the Max Power generation and my first car was a modified Nova with an Alpine stereo. I miss those days so much.
Lol my mate had a red nova Sri, he wrapped it around a lamp post somewhere in Accrington in 1993!!!Happy days😂.
Thank you RUclips algorithm for this, it’s almost a comedy!! such characters all of them!! The 2cv girl was so sweet and innocent. My first car was a 1978 Mini , I passed my test in 87 aged 17 and I’ll never forget that first solo drive! My mini was a knacker but I loved it, I remember lifting the carpet and watching the road go by😂😂😂 I made the mistake of trying to keep up with traffic on the M1 once, it got very grumpy and hot, I pulled onto the hard shoulder and the engine just stopped, I let it cool, started it and drove home slowly 😂 and never thrashed it again! Never left me stranded though unlike some much newer cars I’ve had in the last 10 yrs!! character building stuff!!
RUclips recommended this and I love it, these were the days
The 2CV girl was so sweet. Hope she's having a great life.
I also hope that the man furthest from the camera pushing the VW banger backwards is having a great life.
A perfect representation of a 2CV driver lol!
I think I was one of the last generation to have had a first car that was very old and interesting to drive. Kids today they start off with cars which even at 10 years old plus (unless buying a classic) have all the modern touches - PAS, ABS, Traction control, A/C, Bluetooth, electric everything. There is something quite charming about basic motoring
What was your first car?
My first Car was a 2002 Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 Club that I bought in 2005, it only had PAS, it had a Cassette Player, to which I found a Phil Collins Cassette under the Seat, wasn't mine I swear lol...
Mine was a 1985 Austin metro Vanden plas, quite similar to one of the cars in these videos but 4 doors and 1275cc a series engine. It was a top spec one but nothing like abs or pas - only had tape player radio with no FM just long wave( with speakers that only worked in mono). It did have electric front windows though and a leaky sunroof. Even in these videos the lad was saying it was terrible and this was filmed 10 years before I had mine! Official the least cool car in the school car park but it was fun, 5 up thrashing it about
I've got a 2020 car with all the bells and whistles but recently acquired a 1994 Ford Escort 1.6 LX - the year I turned 21. It's actually refreshing driving something with no alarms, no engine management lights, EGR valves, sensors. Being an LX model you get a tilt and slide sunroof, electric front windows, boot release switch and a cassette player.
@@johnpill5513 mine was a 1979 T reg Vauxhall Chevette 1.1 litre in white with added orange bits and a hole in the floor under my feet. I bought it in May 1991 at 18 years old. It cost £80 and was soon replaced by a 1978 T reg MK2 Ford Escort Popular Plus.
My first car was a MK2 Escort which I wrote off in spectacular fashion, Easter Monday 1991. It would be worth a fortune now!
What a great film, really took me back to my youth! Bloody excellent!
I enjoy watching older documentaries like this. Its great to see that past generations of younger people came across as quite natural and genuine.
Today, they are incredibly self aware, know how to perform in front of a camera and have nurtured a rather false personality generally built on narcissism and image. Very fake.
Such a simplistic point of view, almost to the point of being completely vacuous. Yes people are more familiar with things they spend a lot of time with! Shock horror!
@@Namerson So totally image conscious, narcissistic and vacuous? Would you be one of those per chance?
@@visorcover I think you've missed my point. Its your conflation of 'comfortable in front of a camera' with those nasty adjectives that I consider vacuous. Maybe you should accept that times, and people, change - get away from the internet, and view people a bit more kindly. If you accept difference without a value judgement, you might enjoy things a bit more.
@@Namerson Ah I apologise, I didn't realise you were a modern progressive liberal...
@@visorcover I have no idea what you're trying to say, but it sounds like a stock phrase you wheel out whenever someone disagrees with you about anything
The chap living and driving in London, they were the days, long before congestion zones and Ulez.
You could drive many of the cars in the film in the ULEZ zone today, those that were registered or manufactured before 1984 anyway, as they would now be exempt! Most won't have survived of course, and the Clio the chap is driving won't qualify for about 8 years.
Great video, i would have been 19 when this aired. Was driving a black mini cooper, loved that car until the rust took hold. Happy days, put 5 quid in the tank and off to Blackpool!!!All i can say is enjoy your youth, its a special time, make the most of it.❤
I really feel for the kid with the Beetle. His parents were obviously disappointed in him yet he seems to be doing alright for himself. I just hope he's kept up with his DJing and his Beetle served him well.
His dad was talking car-car 😂
@@THEE4DARKESTCORNERZ23 Not suprised he didn't listen to his Dad, giving him words of advice like how great Austin Maestro is even that its one of the worst cars ever made, all whilst sitting next to women who dresses like a pensioner.
I had a cilo 16v in green loved it . Found out its still on the road . All these years later .
The XR2 really demonstrated Ford's marketing genius in the 80s. The Fiesta was a dull, humdrum shopping car but put a stripe on it and hey presto it's cool.
It's funny I hated humanity after seeing the episode about sales reps, but these young enthusiasts warm my heart
This is actually brilliant to watch . Thanks for this!!!
Now I see where Caroline Aherne got all her characters from 🤣
Legend is ,,,, the clocks still ticking 😂
James (the posh fella with the Clio) actually went on to marry Stacey Dash, have two children with her and produce a Netflix miniseries about an Indian cricket club.
We all done our own thing once we got a vehicle of our own
I think I did really well because I came across a lovely Toyota hiace van belonging to a carpet shop only carried few rolls of carpet and Lino
Only nothing heavy and was the carpet fitters van and it was a very lucky van and I started to take notice of older dudes out working everyday in their vans getting a weekly wage
So I started to do the market’s with all secondhand stuff like bikes and brass ornaments second hand stuff I used to get for next to nothing
I remember a skip out side A factory one day and the fella knew the person I purchased the van from and he started to give me block and tackles big towing chanes with hooks every thing got to do with engineering a very decent fella and I remember offering him money about 10 or more times and he just wouldn’t take it from me decent man
God bless him!!
When I went to the market’s back then I got to know a lot of people who used to buy from me
certain stuff they got me to hold the stuff in the van so they got it from me and I got to a lot of people who gave me a lot of stuff every sorta bikes- old working tools etc etc Etc
They were very good decent people back then most of them have passed away god bless less them all!!!!!
I used to do very well and about 10 months later I was able to buy a beautiful car which was a
Diesel 405 Peugeot top of the Range with every extra possible also bought that car from a company who did all motorway miles never had a passenger or anything because they weren’t allowed to have people in the company cars????????
But I couldn’t believe the car I got for £3, thousand - worth about £5 grand at that time!!!!
Happy motoring to all you people out there and safe journey to all of ya’s
The posh bird was cute. It's funny seeing the alienated parents!
My mum.had a D reg White XR2 which she also bought of a neighbour at only 2 years old , she cared for it so well for 4 or 5 years my best mate bought it off her , she replaced it with a 3 years old H reg XR3i .
I’m 28 and it was Corsa bs and Saxos instead of gt turbos n metros… really enjoyed watching this
XR2, great car in the day, every 17 lad wanted one, but not many could get insurance, a friend back in the day at college, bought one, and paid £1800 on insurance, this was in 1993. I'd love one now, but most rotted away, or were written off.
At 20 I paid £3600 for a 4 years old F reg Astra GTE 16V with 1 years no claims from the slowest car in the World a Mk4 Escort 1.6DGL it was so slow their was no red in the rev counter that car was all most £1000 3rd party only.
The protracted pauses where the subject/s hold frame; you don't really see that now. There's something quite earnest and humble about this documentary.
My first car in 1990 was a 1977 Ford Escort estate , I fitted a 1600 engine in it and a Mexico front spoiler and quarter bumpers , loved it and it went like stink , used to go down Romford town centre in the evenings to race about and we all used to go to Southend seafront at the weekends to “cruise” lol
Great memories
Thanks for putting these up! Lol at the numpty in the Red Austin Metro not expecting to pay back the loan of his fiesta after he wrapped it round the back of a truck.
That was quite common at the time. People just didn’t know any better. I actually met that lad about a year later in Vidal Sasoon in Leeds. By this time he was an apprentice hairdresser. Nice lad!
@@Cornish909 He was on telly for something, i'm sure it was him...he was dragged up.
The guy who thought a Maestro would hold it's value better than the Beetle
I wouldn’t be quite so snarky. Of the few remaining Maestros on the roads, they’re worth quite a fair bit of money nowadays.
@@MrSupercar55 It's true, Maestro's definitely rarer, and you can find some awful Beetles out there.
Still, there's a decent price gap between them, good condition Beetles can go for upwards of 10k, I've seen good examples go for 15k! A bit more than what I'd pay if you ask me. If it was my own money I might actually go for the Maestro as a run around as it's cheaper and different too. My Nan had one before trading in for the bigger Montego estate. Fond memories of riding in the boot of both 😂
@@shig.bitz.3205 , a Beetle should be worth a bit more, but that one has no MOT history recorded so likely scraped a long time ago
@MrSupercar55 Beetles are strong I owned a 56 Oval as my first beetle sold it and now they are 20k plus. Even 70s beetles are 9k to 10k. The older late 40s to 53 are very expensive. Even the unloved Type 4 412 and 411 are strong. To get back into VWs I Bought a 1973 412 estate original paint etc for 5k. I hated them but it's all I can afford to get back into VWs. I'm a mechanic and know but the average person can get stung Beetle do need care and maintenance and they rust especially 68 to 70s era.
Thet beetle I'd buy and break it gearboxes are unstressed the engine probs a twin port. Beetles have been good to me selling parts. I bought a scrapper 1303 100pounds but had the engine running when it was dropped off. Sold the engine for 450 and the gearbox for another 400, 5 x wheels had brand new tyres wheel trims and beauty rings for 150. They guy bought the shell for repair sections 250 front struts etc.
I would love a MG maestro. Proper unicorn car, in WHITE!!!😂.
"Hoped he would buy a maestro as it would keep its value "....😂 . Look at Beetle prices vs Maestros now ! (if you can find a Maestro that is !)
That beetle kid is being unfairly treated by his parents . His brother is a table tennis player and they think the sun shines out of his arse so he gets £££££ spent on him yet the kid with the beetle gets Jack Schitt off them !
I hope that kid did really well for himself .
The lass in the yellow metro speaks so comfortably with the camera, it's almost as if she's somehow from a more recent time than the others. She's sweet, I really like her. As others have said, would be very intriguing to see updated clips with the subjects
I’m the XR2 girl. Still love cars. Thankfully I’ve never owned a beat-up old estate car, even though I am married with children.
@@victoriacullen3792 I feel seen by this.. I have owned a beaten up old estate car and I'm neither married nor with children, haha.
@victoriacullen3792 hmm somebody else was claiming to be you in the comments!🤔the fat slags mask was funny!😁
She’s a Labour councillor. Victoria Quinn.
Blimey great knowledge @@tortozza- just gone up further in my estimations.
Its great getting your 1st car. It gave me wings. I could fly.
I wish I could climb into that video and do all those years over again I would do ALOT different
I actually like the sound of the Beetle guy’s dad more than him
My mrs drives a 2CV, I'm a ford man myself but I secretly love it. Great fun!
I scuncled up a few engines in my time .
Comedy gold so well done 👏🏻
A car loan almost as large as a mortgage? Either Ford Fiestas were stupidly expensive or houses were ridiculously cheap.
High interest rates in the 90s?
Houses were incredibly cheap, about 1/5 what they are now relative to income, so yeah, the numbers check out.
@@johnpill5513 depends when they took the mortgage out.
This is also in the North East of England so it probably adds up as house prices we’re cheap in the early nineties.
My mum was prone to exaggeration, bless her. But I was always broke when I had that loan. £2.5k was a lot of money to borrow back in the day!
Loved it.....Vauxhall nova for myself...
Amazing seeing the road traffic and love hearing the stories. I bought a 1988 Volvo 480ES a couple years ago as my first car and I am glad to have older cars as my transport as I prefer them, also didn't expect to see a Corolla AE86 33:30, unmodified dreams!
I got a 1993 480ES in 2002, it was my third car. It was awesome, wish I had kept it. I also wish I kept my Fiat Coupe. These older cars (left field coupes) have character
So, the car thief has the best car - Renault 5 GT turbo. That tells you something
My perfect man ❤ beetle, conservative, Yorkshire. How utterly fabulous ❤️🙌
2024 what a top program, live back then was so much more easier!
The guy at 29:00 with the Clio ‘James’ seems like a right arse. Probably got a job in government now.
Posh boy 😮
😂@ 35:16 mum; “considering he was brought up without a dad....”
@36:08 son; “even from being in my DAD’s car, he used to let me steer the car into the garage”
I can remember sitting on my dads lap steering the car.
I've seen him half a dozen times in 40 years, hardly know the bloke.
Great stuff. You just don't see young people driving these days. When I passed my test, and it was only fourteen years ago, we used to go out and drive all night...these days they have to have black boxes that record their speed. Fucking mental.
Depends where you are. The town I live in has a very active car scene, and it's mostly people in their early 20s.
Black boxes are shit. The number of friends I still have alive compared to my parents generation who got to have loads of them die in car crashes, people just don't realise how much better it was back then.
@@Jacam781absolute nonsense 😅
Tbf the dude with the beetle was right in a way a maestro was a grand dad's car 😅😅
I could listen to the Uhm metro kid all day long.
My first car was a xr2 the same color loved it I feel sorry for the lad who actually wanted a beetle
lol omg! i was just randomly ended up on this from searching for a certain song! im skipping threw saw the guy in clio sport reconised the carriage way! and he says the mad mile! otherwise known as sidcup by pass haha! :D im from sidcup!
Wheres Craig though?!
XR3i oh yes!!!. 90mph up a small incline hill thumped it up there hard. So any rear passengers would of certainly of felt it. Late 1990's. The best!!!!!
I hope the Citroen girl's still alive.
the dreams we had
7:47 that is literally the only time you will ever hear anyone EVER say anything nice about Maestros. Literally EVER.
my wife's first car was a red metro as well, when she was 21. It was a "ladies car" ....
I wonder if the guy with the Metro has come out yet.
He was never in.
@@jaggassHe reminds me of a young John Inman. Blimey repaying a loan 75 quid a month. He had hopes of management.
@@dandwyer8845 ''Im free''
@@dandwyer8845 ''Im free''
The car payment was almost as much as their mortgage!!!
Cars are freedom. Cars are independence and choice. Cars are having work and money. Cars are style. Cars are access to opportunity. Learn to drive, love cars and get out there. Sod the bike, sod the bus, sod the train, sod walking too.
Cars are a sofa on wheels for closet humans.
Get a bicycle and be one with the elements you fannies.
Best bit was the tune 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
Isn’t the car thief’s mum bricktop?! 😂
Im assuming beetle boy didn't go on to a life of DJ'n greatness.
Hahaha that XR2i would be worth a fortune these days.
After I sold it, the numpty who bought it wrote it off after two weeks. Talk about regrets!
@@victoriacullen3792 in the program your father seemed more keen than your mother for you to settle down get married and have children. 🇬🇧👍😁
@@andrewdaley5480 haha yes I suppose so!
I miss my Vauxhall Chevette with it’s cherry bomb exhaust.
The shockingly self entitled Chelsea boy made me lol
In no way will she look back and regret having that XR2
Love tune at start programme. Don't know name it. But is sort techno version of start song 'happy house' by souxie banshees. Cool tune
Cappella - U Got 2 Know
Damn I miss the country as it was
19:52 LOL... he pulled away from just outside St.John's centre in Leeds centre then instantly appeared on Kirkstall Road going under the viaduct towards Bradford. Then when he talking he going the other way towards Leeds centre. Brilliant driving ^^
Are you too stupid to understand they were filming for a TV programme, not to get somewhere?
You've heard of film editing 🤔
The girl in the green Citreon CV6 is so cool in her own way.
She's a daddys girl and she's witty, knows what she wants and maybe slightly ironic and sarcastic underneath. 🤣😅😂
I hope she is doing well now. 😊
Growing up the XR2 was my dream car 🤣
The young man in the Metro learned a good life lesson crashing his car and then expecting he didn't have to pay it back.....
Yes, very funny, but... I can imagine I might've thought the same. I can imagine it being explained to him, "yes, THIS is why a bad thing has happened to you".
Friend of mine in the mid 90s had a 2CV. Id just come back from a Holiday for mt brother to tell me he had seen it upside down at the bottom of a very steep hill with a bend near our house.
33:27 UK spec ae86
fuckin dead on thanks for the highlight of the video :D
Also 2 mk1 mr2 in that segment!
The lad with the 5 GT Turbo is right about the 1 up i was the same late 80s & 90s . Myself & a friend wanted mk2 Astra GTE's he got a C reg 3 or 4 months before me but i got an F reg 16V GTE.. 2 or 3 years later we both wanted Cavalier GSi's , he later got a G reg SRi saying its because he wanted a hatchback within weeks i bought a 2 years old J reg Cavalier GSi 2000 with alot less miles in the same colour. Since we never say but his cars are a lot newer but boring SUV's.
gone are the good days 😁I remember I was stopped on double yellows seen the traffic warden walking up whipped my AtoZ out and asked for directions saved me a ticket 😉
I was in my mates mum's Metro down a country road smoking hash lol
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Lots of macho men in this video.
Twat bags!
Definitely actors,still a great watch
I remember watching this… and I especially remember guy with Clio… 16v lol
23.20. Crashed his motor with 3rd Party F&T and didn't think he'd have to pay his bank loan back. Bank must have laughed to macho flute out of the door.
I see beetle boy doesn't know shit about Volvos
He did the right thing not buying a maestro 😅
is there any of these kids (probably about 50 now) who have seen this since?????
Looks like it was filmed yesterday
When the BBC used to make programming for the British.
And I suddenly got to aged 48 and bought a Volvo estate
I used an xr2 for banger racing once, it didn't last long 😂 looked funny with a a nova hanging out of its back end though
The year I passed my test and had first car which was a mini.
My first car was Fiesta 1997 MK4 Zetec S Si! So was my second after garage broke my car trying to fix it
These people are all good, and I hope that they are all being DJs now and still waiting in the car parks and not being saies reps from the past. I feel so sorry for anyone who lived in or through the past who was filmed being cute and likeable by the telly makers, but I don't like anyone else from the past who was not in this excellent documentary.
If only they had realised how pointless and backwards and slow they were back then, things would be so much faster and bigger now, and everyone could have one.
Thanks a lot, you lot (I don't mean all of the cute exceptions in this documentary, obviously. I still hope you're all still DJs now)!
I really enjoyed this (and the reps episode previously). However, I can't help but think these are possibly actors, and the whole thing was funded by the assoc of auto manufacturers (if that was even a thing). However, I really enjoyed the journey back in time, and the stories of these individuals. Thanks for uploading and sharing these gems.
I was born in the 90s, to talk like those I'd have the life taken out of me.
26:20 - I wonder when 2004 came around this chap still wanted a Cavalier SRi? Lol
Nah he got a Vectra.
At the time I thought they were great, and the Vectra came out, I drove an SRI 130 for work, thought it was great, now it looks so dated.
what happend to craig? is he in his penthouse
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Skoda estelle for me £120 all in..previous owners Alsation had eaten the back seat.sold it after a year for £150.
Dads got his manufacturing / number plate years all wrong ...maestro on an 'N' plate
"Mum I Want to live in a penthaaas! at 40:04.
Craig! Where is he these days? I know he said he crashed a Montego, but surely he is still about?
Reminds me of college when a girl I knew had a Beetle, we were always bump stating it. And one had a 2cv dolly. I had a Morris Ital!
Indeed one of Harris Mann’s finest
Oh I always wanted a Morris Ital!
rare little cars now the 16v 1.8 clios
Daddy hothatch.. 💪🏻
The 2CV driver looks familiar, is it Thomasina Miers?