Budget Supercars Part 2 | Top Gear | BBC
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2011
- Part 2 of 4: Jeremy, Richard and James are challenged to each buy an Italian supercar for less than £10,000. At Castle Combe racetrack near Bristol, they put a Lamborghini Urraco, a Maserati Marek, a 1979 Ferrari and also a Vauxhall Astra Diesel to the test.
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It must be painful to drive such a beautiful Maserati and know that it only has about the same hp as a small hatchback.
When he said 80, I died. Even Nissan Micra got more horsepower!
@@mariandabrowski2473 The thing would get taken to gapplebees by a Prius with a half-empty battery!
Less power than a TOYOTA TERCEL FFS
"I'm thinking of swapping a VW Polo engine into my Maserati".
lowest end period-appropriate (for the show, now the cars) small hatchback. because the 1 liter turbos of today with their 120hp run rings around it.
80 horsepower and no brakes and he still beat James! XD
How else do you think he was promoted to Captain.
How about watching the video you're commenting, mate
I think James exaggerates or he just doesn't like to drive fast. There were several occasions to see that James May is actually the hell of a driver. No rally or racing champion of course, but still he could humiliate well over 95% of other drivers.
Captain Slow’s the name
@@SparrowNoblePoland he did drive the bugatti veyron super sport to its top speed, after all, so i can understand your point.
0:57 "The stig was really on it."
_comes around, clipping the curb, on two wheels_
I remember as a kid watching this being shocked at stig for fucking going ham on the corners
@@militantchris7106 same I grew up watching the best trio ever probably one of the main reasons I'm into cars
Ethan keenan same here. Nothing beats Hammond, Jezza and May
i was already all grown up when i found out about this show in about 2007 i think. but it still became my favorite show.
what made me love cars from an early age was video games. outrun left a mark in my life that never really washed away.
The same happened to Tom Cruise on the test track on the final turn.
“Did you break down again?”
“No no I just had to stop and fill it up with electricity”
😂😂😂
That would now be a valid excuse!
that joke aged well in the last 14 years
Can't wait for people to say that in 10 years time with very used Teslas with degraded batteries.
Does he have a Tesla Roadster drivechain under a Lambo shell?
@@MrWolfSnack
Lol filling with electricity will be the norm in the future 😂
10 grand spent on rebuilding the Maserati's engine? The mechanic must've been laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.
Take you a day and some to just get the engine out and that's if you know what you are doing! And it's not like you can go to Halford's to pick up the replacement parts.
Although it's likely "10k on engine rebuild" was just a lie, as that engine was far from OK.
10k rebuild? did it all go to paying for labor?
@@todorkolev7565 Maybe the engine was blown to pieces and was weld back together?
Wouldn't it need some properly controlling running in though? Before thrashing it, I mean? Maybe that's why it wouldn't rev out - it was still factory-tight... I remember those days...😄
£9,999 to strip it. £1 spent on putting it back together again.
😂
The stig could be in a Peel p50 and go faster than a Bugatti Veyron
+geek freak63 nope the bugatti is faster just without kicking the gas pedal
John M.
and i will be faster by bike than the stig with the p50
+TheVideogucker333 yea you missed the joke.
DreamTheory
i know it was meant as a joke but its simply not a good joke
DriveByGuy556 no use for language like that man
"And then it developed a misfire..."
"AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
mays laugh is so funny there
Just brilliant. Three blokes who are friends in real life having a laugh as if the cameras weren't even there.The magic of Top Gear in the mid 2000s.
Do i hear a donkey laughing
Century22 they actually aren’t friends in real life.
yammmit They are.
"A Volkswagen Lupo just came out of your car"
I read it as Volkswagen Loophole just came out of your car. It still makes sense.
*escaped from your engine
A base VW Polo is what's left of Jeremy's car
that's how cars are born
@@Firemarioflower Thats what i have looool, hard times with my 60bhp beast
Holy shit they look so young and not fired
too soon man, too soon!
I miss them.
Well they weren't fired tho... xD There contract stopped
+Jermaine Smit their
Holy Beautiful
Actually none of them were fired from Top Gear. In fact, only James May and Richard Hammond have ever been fired, and that was in the past working for someone else. Jeremy Clarkson has never been fired from anywhere.
3:29, I love Clarkson's little "yeah" when Hammond started talking about making up time on the straights. He could barely contain himself waiting for him to say "misfire".
LMAO, James totally set him up for it by saying "Well the engine sounded pretty good" lmao!!
@@The11thSon.the more I watch that part the more set up it seems… 😔
@@DonFelixGallardo Top Gear has been fully scripted since beginning
@@dustojnikhummer I know but I at least hoped SOME of the dialogue was off the cuff and genuine. Same with some of the earlier funny road trip moments…
£10k on an engine to produce 80bhp? Was it rebuilt by a green grocer?
I am guessing the engine was damaged and he spent that money (old parts are hard to come by) on actually getting the engine going
+PlittHD I doubt he spent any money on the engine...
I think he was fluffing that up and lying a bit. He probably spent like 2,500 quid and just said that.
I call bullshit on the rebuilt engine.
More like a huge scam
*when I heard him say 80 hp*
YES! FINALLY, SOMETHING MY CAR WILL BEAT IN A DRAG RACE!
What car u got ?
1985 BMW 635CSi. However, you can tell it's been beaten every single day of it's life, I don't know how many miles are on it (odo's broken), and it's currently about a mile above sea level.
From my rough estimations, it probably makes about 130 to the ground, while still carrying around 3,100 pounds.
+Bavarian Banshee Damn you, I absolutely love those cars!! Manual or auto?
natebot321 Manual. I personally wouldn't have touched it if it were an auto. I love it, and I just finished getting it back to working order, but there's a lot of work still to do.
+Bavarian Banshee I have 1992 525i and I feel your pain. A blast to drive but not fast xD
Watching this again (it's one of my favorite Top Gear races), I went back and paused it at 6:49 to closely read the parts list for Clarkson's Maserati. Now I'm not an expert on Mazaratis by any means. However, the parts list suggests to me that, far from the previous owner just adding an SS badge (for whatever reason) to the back, the car was actually involved in a minor rear-end collision (one clue - BOTH the SS and Marek badges were replaced, as were other parts that suggest damage). If this is correct, the car was really a SS.
True, and the engine rebuild also suggests to some extent a collision
sct913 add the fact that the front grille between the pop up headlights on Jeremy's car is a SS only feature...
So it really did drop from 220 hp to 80
Despite what Clarkson said, the Merak was indeed an SS-version. I found the car on a UK dealer's website a few years after this first aired and they basically said that he was talking rubbish.
So the engine wasn't exactly rebuilt correctly lol. It could handle low revs but when he revved it on the track it nearly broke. 🤣 Poor Merak SS...
1:28 "I just needed to fill up my car with electricity." - Well, that is in 2019 a good excuse to come in late.
RodoNet muss that being an excuse. Now people don’t show up at work because of a virus
In the hybrid cars this happens alot. Do not leave your car while it is charging. Some jealous people unplug it.
it won't rev because the rebuild was an oil change and engine washdown
So you have a lemon that has the wrong badge on it and you make up a story about a rebuilt engine and try to sell it, then Jeremy clarkson shows up with BBC money and give you £7000 for it. It's like winning the lottery
@@nicolasjones2929 They never went and bought the car themselves, it was always some random employee to prevent their identities affecting the price.
Doesn't really matter in the end. Jeremy Clarkson was made to look like a fool and nothing of value was lost.
@@transformersguy234 Still BBC money, fuckwit.
@@jeffcarroll1990shock Ever...
These three had such chemistry. It was reason alone to watch it, not only because it's educational but because it's watching three great friends having fun.
Yes!
Yes!!!
The new Top Gear is so much better and more entertaining, and more modern of course. I like the more American feeling. Don't really like the classic British humor.
@@ralfzacherl9942 guessing you’re american then
@@arrow4749 Guessing he’s joking then
Clackson:"So there's a lamborghini, a maseratti, and a george car"
Clarkson*
lafreak291 thanks
BigSmoke I thought I killed you in San Andreas
lafreak291 you did!... or did you?
BigSmoke I did, this is some witch craft shit
James car is like a reverse hybrid car, which needs patrol and also to charge its batteries every 10 miles.
All because the alternator failed continuously.
The look on May's face when something broke was priceless
If the former owner of the Merak added the "SS"-badge he also changed the bonnet in the front, because
AFAIK only the Merak SS had that black grille betwenn the pop-up headlights.
I think Jeremy knew his engine was rubbish, saw the badge in the service documents and quickly took
his chance to "reduce" the original horsepower of his engine for the upcoming test.
Most likely there was an accident in the past as the other items on that service history point mostly to the engine. Seems like the engine hoses and such were replaced, but the pistons and main engine components were left untouched. Which probably explains the lack of power on the test platform.
Looks like the accident occurred on the side of which the badge was located.
And still lost
I mean it didn't really change anything is it? He still come dead last.
He also "added" a Merac badge. So it actually does suggest some damage to the rear.
I know this is a 5y comment, but come on, you gotta know by now that TG is/was (at least) so far off from the truth that it could’ve been classified as fiction. All they cared was the supercars, everything else was just filler.
i totaly love the looks of those cars to be honest
To be honest, they all look like Toyota MR2
@@MJ-uk6lu which is a good thing.
I like that the Ferrari (COUGH Dino) looks like a Lotus Esprit, S1, which is a car I've always loved. It's essentially one of those with a Ferrari badge on it, which is totally cool in my opinion.
I wonder which of today's supercars we'll be calling junk in 35 years time. I can already imagine all the fancy computer mumbo jumbo falling apart and being a nightmare to fix.
There's a petrol head. I agree 100%. Those young punks (im 22, but im just refering to know-it-all geeks who say newer is better) better say nothing, in the old day it was care of detail that mattered, not perfectionism and obsessively controlling everything. not to mention the last good looking cars came in 2008, the 90's were best.
Now its all laptops on wheels , with 5000 suspension, tractioncontrol and gear settings you dont need. And then, they downsize, put start/stop, systems that shut down half of cyilinders and hybrids on it. And ugly windtunnel obsessed bodies and vulgar big headlamps and curves are no where to be seen, only folds so that pedestrians who are hit wont be hurt too much.
IDIOTS! In the 70's they had REAL cars, which you could LOVE, instead of mere machines with no soul and passion.
Cars are fun, but governments, greenists, socialists and data autists destroy our glorious dream with their global inhuman shallow, and business like attitude.
***** Its no problem, ally, we can still feast on the 90's cars, That way you avoid the safety features issue. Those cars still have a lot of character in them. And modern enough.
***** Hence why i said it
Bezzegh Adam My 15 year old sat nav on my daily is useless, and cant be replaced. However getting two new carbs for my volvo engine from 1969 was easy.
Pagani hyura
255 hp was from the flywheel for the Ferrari. You can figure a 15% loss on the dyno which means it would make 217hp from the factory. so that Ferrari only lost like 20ish hp in 30 years. That’s pretty incredible.
The Dyno calculated the flywheel horsepower, not wheel. As James said in the video. The machine can calculate the drivetrain drag by letting the car coast after doing a dyno pull. So the HP figure for all the cars was the HP at the flywheel.
More like 180
It isn't. By youtube standards, yes it is. In reality, it's a machine that won't lose big if nothing's seriously wrong with it. Like, serious lucas issues or a blown engine
@@shantygaming694 "Good!"
Not only did May run on camera, he did an bonus spin
What a classic episode. Must have watched it about 50 times, never gets old.
Jeremy says hammond has fake ferrari, while he has fake merak ss 😂😂😂.
It's most likely that this is an actual SS
@@todorkolev7565 yeah I heard it was an actual ss
@ 2:46 - "The first rule of Italian driving- What's behind you is not important!"
Raul Julia from The Gumball Rally (1974).
Because nothing is behind them
1976.......
@@timpriddy349 1977.........................
The 80hp clip alone is better than a whole season in 2019
Ben collins was actually such an underrated driver
4:57 the most iconic RH dance
I can't get over 4:57.
+Nexa Laughed my ass off!!
same
Then here’s a time stamp for 4:58 if you can’t get past 4:57
Hammond's little victory dance had me in tears
*_foot-shuffling intensifies_*
2:25 Holy shit, Top Gear moment where any of the trio swears and it’s actually not bleeped out on national TV
Either that or this scene is only available in select media that’s not aired on TV
4:57 that dance lmao
"So far the most reliable car of the day"
Hḿmm when I think of seventies era Italian made cars "Reliable" is the very LAST word that would come to mind...
Allow me to edit your comment: Hḿmm when I think of -seventies era- Italian made cars "Reliable" is the very LAST word that would come to mind...
Next thing you realise that the car would come over all Italian
Seventies cars in general. Majority of them sucked
@@michaelusswisconsin6002 But what the Seventies Cars DID have going for them was looks, they simply looked GOOD!
Must have been very interesting being the Stig, driving junkers one day, super cars the next and regular consumer cars the next day.
He did jot it all down in a tell-all book.
That Lambo is a beauty :)
THE ENGINE ISINT REALLY THO
Dylan Coburn bad revision is all I have to say to that -_-
SO WHY SHOULD I CARE
Dylan Coburn You don't have to care. You do, however, need to turn off Caps Lock.
appelpower1 NO I DONT
I don't know why, but i laughed so much when Richard broke the mirror XD
"The first rule of Italian driving," *breaks off rear view mirror and throws it over his shoulder* What is behind me is not important." - Raul Julia, Gumball Rally
1:57 i got my self so exited i wet my self hahahaha
His car did
I'll bet the Ferrari was in km/h
I'll agree with you there
Ricer_Corolla your wird
loved the little dance by Hammond at the end
It’s crazy how much more powerful cars have gotten over the years. The masarati when it was new had as much power as my 03 Astro van.
The way Clark whispered his results to Hammond was wayyyyy too funny lmao
I've driven one of those Astra diesels, the 1.9 CTDi. It was pretty fast and great fun to chuck around corners, especially if you press the Sport button!
0:48 that tire screeching was clever in the music
0⃣:4⃣8⃣ 👈 ☸ 😱 🙃 🎼
Think about it. 1970's tires, 1970's suspension, 1970's intake/exhaust. There have been too many improvements in components over that time period. Even if the car is maintained exceptionally well, its not performing to the modern standard unless modern things are done to it (ie., new street tires that can pull 1G in a turn)
I'm looking into a merak and doing just that. modern exsaust, tires, intake, air cleaner. sticking to carbs but putting in 45. webers(the noise those make is amazing). maybe ill even dick around with the gear box ratios
*The Stig can make any car look fast just by standing next to it.*
I'm literally binge watching Top Gear now
6:24 love that The Roots are playing in the background!
Which song is it?
@@nottimhortons The Seed
I miss the older Top Gear seasons where they actually kept track of the points and found a winner.
Nice deep purple song they used when James was attempting to do his lap!
Which song was that?
80horse?! thats like my 1984 pontiac fiero!
I think I know why the V6 wasn’t revving to the redline. It’s because the butterfly valves on the carburetor weren’t opening all the way, impeding fuel and air flow because of a faulty spring or a faulty carburetor (one of the 6)
"This is a piece of cake! ... oh, hang on-"
The motto of House May.
this is real fun to watch over and over again
“A VW Lupo has escaped from your engine” 😂
that lambo is secretly powered by a Japanese engine with the name of Honda lol.
I can proudly say I've raced round that track :)
Do you remember what you drove?
james almost got it right till he said that it converts it into engine HP and thats not how it works to get engine HP you need to dyno straight off the gearbox or flywheel. the HP that it puts to the wheel is IMO the real number to look for since going with engine HP you have to assume that the system is 100% effective and thats simply never gonna happen :D
seeing this video for the 3rd time.. it still makes me laugh so hard to the point i cant breathe....... i really love miss those 3 legends..
7:18 I like how the dyno guy in the back is also cracking up 😂
3:51 if you look closely his car shoots a small flame if u don’t believe look at it at 0.25 speed
This is the type of top gear I love!
2:41 "most reliable car of the day"
I laughed so hard
The song that plays when Stig sets his lap in the diesel is the same song that plays in The Animatrix when the humans get slaughtered by the machines.
What song is it
@@LucaFujiwara Overseer - Supermoves
3:59-4:20 Nobody bellows in disbelief/frustration like Clarkson. The desperate roar of an imposing man slowly and dimly realizing that he's purchased a large bag of rocks.
1:20 when May jumps over the fence
Kind of depressing how far even these cars have gone up in value, I remember wanting a 308 as my first car so bad when I was young watching this and now it really would’ve been a good investment.
Well as the decades march on the 70s will be the new 50s time wise we are all ready in the bad new 20s so far.
James' Lamborghini reminds me of the DeTomaso Pantera
Oh shit I never noticed the song by The Roots there at the end before, I love that song
this was really a great series
The lap around the racetrack is what caused the Merak's engine failure later. It was knocking after that lap.
I would love to see a series were they buy & restore classic super cars;, killer show that would be :D
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“Hang on, have you come by bus or you’re in your car?” 😂😂😂
2:59 A Ferrari with a gangsta lean!!!! 😎
I seriously laughed when he said 80hp softly but tbh they all look great! They just need some work.
+MrBeerDear they need a lot of work which would be very expensive
James: "I just had to stop and fill it up with electricity."
That aged sooo well 😀. I was just watching a guy driving from Slovakia to Croatia in electric SUV and from 6-7hrs drive (with normal car), now is 9-10 hrs 😀
Watching this in 2018 you realize where the Ford GT got its flying buttresses from: The Marek.
Clarkson’s Maserati: has 80 hp
May: think about it, that 2 Olivers
I remember finding Jeremy's Merak on a UK used car site a little while after this segment aired. According to the company that was selling on the Maserati, he did *not* have a regular Merak with a slapped on SS-badge - that car *was* an SS. Most probably the original badge was missing/rusted/whatever and got replaced during the previous owner's ...err... "restoration".
I know, he's a complete imbecile.
4:00 I completely lost it like I've never lost it b4 when he said 'nicely balanced tho' Then the car just Fishhooked!!
Haha I missed that! Cheers
Even the guy in the van was laughing after learning Jeremy's maserati lost 80 Horsepower
It didn’t lose 80, it had 80hp left. It lost 110hp.
AND it really was an SS, which probably just needed a badge replacement after some collision in the past, which makes Jeremy's situation worse. The absolute worst possible example of quite a rare car.
My bright yellow 2001 Ford Escape is a v6 and I’m pretty sure it can give a little more power than Jeremy’s can 😂 although it also leaks coolant and the oil light only goes off when I accelerate. Old cars... gotta love ‘em
I'd LOVE to see the uncut versions of this ..... wow
Did anyone notice at 3:19 when Jeremy stopped the stopwatch he put his finger up?
May's laugh at 7:18 kills me every time I hear it! It's just hilarious!!!
LOVE that you are playing Bony M. Night Flight To Venus!! At 2:54
Took me this long to realize the song playing when Stig's driving the Astra is the same as the one playing in the Human-Machines War in The Animatrix
Supermoves by Overseer, also featured in NFS Underground
Also in the intro for TOCA: World Touring Cars
6:42 look how they are strapping the wheel down.
High voltage warning sign on James' Lamborghini at 1:35 :D
+Nerb That's the joke about it. A high voltage symbol on a car running low on electricity is pointless.
That’s not a high voltage sign you philistine. That’s an “S” indicating it’s a Urraco S.
1:23 that’s the most athletic move captain slow has ever performed I bet.
man I love these episodes
5:37
James: "It measures the wheel horse power and by that it convert to mechanical drag in to the actual horse power it apply with."
Jeremy: ".....good!"
HAHA love this show!!!
"Your car's done a wee..." lmao
RE the Merek: The engine was "rebuilt for 10,000 quid" as per Jeremy in part 1...it should have more HP than factory spec. When I rebuilt my 72 Lotus Europa engine I massaged it up from 105 HP to a dyno tested 116. They never do address this issue.
Castle Combe reminds me of Thruxton a little bit... cos it is very very fast. If an F1 car was on either its rear spoiler would be very shallow.
"...in...a Vauxhall Astra dieeezzeelll!"
haha, legends. So sad there is no more Top Gear. And eve if it comes back one day with different hosts that won't be it. JRJ or nothing.
Imagine wanting to build a clone of something and picking a Maserati Merak SS 😂😂
5:14-the horses escaping from the engine joke litt killed me 😂😂🤣