The edges are bent 90 degrees in many places.... To bend doesnt mean it has to have curves. You can bend something to have nice sharp angles too... Think before you comment pls xD
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 oh so classic birdcage ferraris are made of italian hopes and prayers? 😅 hand shaping aluminium and rivetting it on was the way racecars were built for decades.
I remember watching this episode when it was originally aired. In my country, it was aired at about 2 p.m. on Saturday and then reprised in the evening at 2 a.m. So, I remember returning from night out, and watching this at 2 a.m. I was laughing so hard that I woke my mom and sister. All three of us were sitting, laughing and watching this marvelous technical achievement. Thank you Top Gear!
1:14 "The Tesla uses 6831 batteries. But, that seems a bit excessive to me. So, to save weight and money I'm going to use 2 batteries." Reminds me of Zambia's space program 😂😂
BBC hates *checks notes* their own channel. God I love you conspiracy theorists, you still live in Clarkson vs. BBC era that you forgot to notice the verified mark. If they actually still hated the original trio they wouldn't have made this channel this year and if Top Gear Classic was a fan channel, they would just DMCA all these clips.
BBC allowed Grand tour (obviously for money) to use their Top Gear clips, so Im pretty sure they are on okayish terms now. Probably uploaded all of these to cash in on people feeling nostalgic
@@FortzonThese people probably watch the god awful grand tour episode that didn’t feature a single car and just had James may fake exploding over and over and force themselves to smile and laugh. Their entire personality is based around being mad at the BBC.
Hilariously, you can check this car's status on UK's gov website - it's SORN, but shows up as a white TVR with 'electricity' as its fuel type and last registration is from 2020
The MOT history states it's a Green TVR Chimaera, which was last MOT'd in April 2009 with "Offside Inner Seal Slightly Corroaded" - it appears to now be MOT Exempt. This could be because it now falls under "goods vehicles powered by electricity and registered before 1 March 2015".
May: Is assigned to power Clarkson: Is assigned to the body and interior Hammond: Is assigned to safety Seems about right. Edit: HOLY SHIT, that's a lot of likes on my comment! Thanks, guys.
Clarkson = POWWWWER Hammond = Styling James = Safety That would’ve made sense! They would’ve produced an electric Range Rover about 15 years ahead of scheduled
@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOffbut it is a good episode idea to completely give them roles that are the exact opposite lol. But it would be cool to see them do this again but in what they do best.
It's an old Milk float motor. They weren't fast and only had to carry a fibreglass body and some milk! Powered by a bank of lead-acid batteries and likely a DC motor rather than the AC motors found in cars now. Hence why its quite big for its meagre power.
A Motors size doesn't always correlate with output. Its shape and size more often then not has to do with its intended purpose and the kind of motor it is.
Electric motors don't have as much a correlation between size and power as petrol engines do. In this case, the motors are so large because they're optimized for efficiency and longevity. But motors of the likes in Tesla were available. Electric motors are pretty boring when you look at their development throughout the last couple of decades. The batteries are still the much bigger area of research.
Watching him work with tin shears on aluminum without gloves and made my toes curl. A wonderful way to get sliced up and get metal burs stuck in your hands.
Honestly, it's hard going back to rewatch these old episodes without the licensed music. The opening riff from Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" playing as they first set off in Geoff was absolute perfection.
Inspiration room: Big Cats, Peter Bowles, Jet Fighters, and yes, the AK, Lava lamp, One Shoe(Not a pair but one), a kettle (British show, they can't miss the tea can they?), an RC plane... Man that's a lot to get inspired from. Inspiration : 1:46
The slowest man in the world is in charge of power, the man with no forward thinking is in charge of the body and the human test dummy is in charge of brakes. What could possibly go wrong
what other car deserves a moustache?
BMW X3
John
Any EV
BMW 7 series
A white Lamborghini Countach.
About 15 years ago I put one on in photoshop and named it "the Coustache". Try it. You'll see I'm right.
>"Aluminum is a wonderful material to work with because it bends"
>Car is entirely flat
another classic Clarkson build
The edges are bent 90 degrees in many places....
To bend doesnt mean it has to have curves.
You can bend something to have nice sharp angles too...
Think before you comment pls xD
@@nyChannel09 No they aren`t. Those are steel angle pieces he bolted the unbend sheets too.
@@theexchipmunk I sais some
best part is aluminum doesn't bend, it cracks, although sheets of it are way more pliable.
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 oh so classic birdcage ferraris are made of italian hopes and prayers? 😅 hand shaping aluminium and rivetting it on was the way racecars were built for decades.
"Don't put your finger on it"
"I wasn't going to"
Clarkson was absolutely going to
They literally predicted the Cybertruck.
musk 100% watched this
Clarkson: Crudely cuts out pieces of bodywork from sheets of metal
Musk: Write that down! Write that down!
It's alarming how similar they look - like for real no joke they look alike!
Elon clearly saw this episode at one point, and decided to steal the idea.
this is better
Everyone had the wrong jobs, Richard in charge of safety, James in charge of speed and power, and Jeramy in charge of design.
that's the point
Actual right jobs:
Jeremy: Speed and Power
James: Safety
Richard: Design
Sorry about this
Almost as if the entire thing is scripted 😮
@@TomoG4ch4_Alan94
So...we would end up with a Saturn 5 rocket engine strapped to a wooden Morgan completely smothered in bubble wrap.
Chasis did good
I remember watching this episode when it was originally aired. In my country, it was aired at about 2 p.m. on Saturday and then reprised in the evening at 2 a.m. So, I remember returning from night out, and watching this at 2 a.m. I was laughing so hard that I woke my mom and sister. All three of us were sitting, laughing and watching this marvelous technical achievement. Thank you Top Gear!
sweet memory...i would've gotten an ass whooping instead
I remember watching it and laughing with my dad
This whole episode is pure gold
I do love their creativity regarding the safety tests.
Just... like... Tesla...
@@Kiyoone but better!
Tua KOOL!
Geoff, a masterpiece of machinery that inspire what we call now a "Cybertruck"
cyberdump a little bit more polished :)
@@valerius39 Yes, but only a little. And for it's asking price, it really should be better.
If only the Cybertruck had three-abreast seating and a roof box
Nay the cyber truck is a cheap copy of Geoff
In British fashion, it's Cybertruck Mark 1
0:26 Hammond clearly already suffered a few electric shocks judging by his hair
Rod Stewart wants his haircut back
Hammond's haircut is how you date a top gear episode
Or you look at how fat/bald Jeremy is
Is this actually the legendary f1 statistician, Sean Kelly?
@@hatmanf133 I can confirm, with absolute certainty, he IS the legendary F1 statistician Sean Kelly 👍🏻
@@hatmanf133 It’s an F1 statistician called Sean Kelly, that much is true :)
1:14 "The Tesla uses 6831 batteries. But, that seems a bit excessive to me. So, to save weight and money I'm going to use 2 batteries." Reminds me of Zambia's space program 😂😂
Hey, that was a space programme to put a man on the moon.
4:41 always found it funny how Jeremy tried to close the door like it was a normal car door, forgetting it's a wooden latch door
I never noticed that haha
One of my favorite episodes ever, I love the crash test part.
Mine too, especially the weight test, "!!tou kool" 😂😆😂
"ow my chest" 😂
@@jtlampsu2 loo kout!
I'm assuming it didn't do very well in the crash test
@@juliogonzo2718 They blatantly cheated at the crash tests in hilarious ways.
and this is just a normal episode in the old top gear, not special, just a "normal" entertaining masterpiece of the trio
You know the BBC hates the fact that Top Gear Classic gets more views than the new 'Top Gear'
I watched half of the first (new top gear), I think I've watched every episode of this Top Gear at least three times and will continue.
BBC hates *checks notes* their own channel. God I love you conspiracy theorists, you still live in Clarkson vs. BBC era that you forgot to notice the verified mark. If they actually still hated the original trio they wouldn't have made this channel this year and if Top Gear Classic was a fan channel, they would just DMCA all these clips.
BBC allowed Grand tour (obviously for money) to use their Top Gear clips, so Im pretty sure they are on okayish terms now. Probably uploaded all of these to cash in on people feeling nostalgic
They don’t care. You spend more time thinking about them than they do.
@@FortzonThese people probably watch the god awful grand tour episode that didn’t feature a single car and just had James may fake exploding over and over and force themselves to smile and laugh. Their entire personality is based around being mad at the BBC.
"Hippy, a Hippy! See the happy Hippy!!!" I forgot about that line and it slayed me. 🤣
5:44 After so many years, I'm only noticing now the mustache on Geoff right above the number plate 😂😂
Geoff had better panel alignment than a Tesla.
still better than the cybertruck
Cannot agree with you more 😂
Did you men also said "still better than the cybertruck" when you watched that episode during the 2000's?
@@automation7295 didn't have to, that pile of garbage hadn't been conceived in the early 2000s
@@automation7295 Are you going to comment some variation of this under every other comment? Quit riding Elon so hard.
@@jack_2000 We don't have to, now that Elon and Trump are riding each other...hard.
Hilariously, you can check this car's status on UK's gov website - it's SORN, but shows up as a white TVR with 'electricity' as its fuel type and last registration is from 2020
The MOT history states it's a Green TVR Chimaera, which was last MOT'd in April 2009 with "Offside Inner Seal Slightly Corroaded" - it appears to now be MOT Exempt. This could be because it now falls under "goods vehicles powered by electricity and registered before 1 March 2015".
May: Is assigned to power
Clarkson: Is assigned to the body and interior
Hammond: Is assigned to safety
Seems about right.
Edit: HOLY SHIT, that's a lot of likes on my comment! Thanks, guys.
I mean what could go wrong 😂
Never thought about it like that
Clarkson = POWWWWER
Hammond = Styling
James = Safety
That would’ve made sense!
They would’ve produced an electric Range Rover about 15 years ahead of scheduled
@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOffbut it is a good episode idea to completely give them roles that are the exact opposite lol. But it would be cool to see them do this again but in what they do best.
Jeremy - power
Richard - body
James - chassis/breaks
That's what should have happened. They mixed it up
James on power
Hammond on the chassis
Clarkson on the looks
Truly the best departments for each of them
hammond on the stopping lol what could possibly go wrong
Exactly, Jeremy should have gone for the power, and James should have done the bodywork
Whoa electric motors have come a long way. Modern 200+ hp engines are smaller than that beast they put in Geoff
I don't think the milk float was optimised for power. They could have done better, but they optimised for long life, low maintenance, and low cost
It's an old Milk float motor. They weren't fast and only had to carry a fibreglass body and some milk! Powered by a bank of lead-acid batteries and likely a DC motor rather than the AC motors found in cars now. Hence why its quite big for its meagre power.
A 600hp Tesla motor is around the same size...
A Motors size doesn't always correlate with output. Its shape and size more often then not has to do with its intended purpose and the kind of motor it is.
Electric motors don't have as much a correlation between size and power as petrol engines do. In this case, the motors are so large because they're optimized for efficiency and longevity.
But motors of the likes in Tesla were available. Electric motors are pretty boring when you look at their development throughout the last couple of decades. The batteries are still the much bigger area of research.
“Hammond is in charge of the chassis and the brakes.” What could go wrong?
then we have capt. slow doing the power system, and James doing the styling. jobs properly assigned
the shot @10:16 is glorious
The Ride of the Rohirrim pales in comparison
@@alexandervanslooten5016😂😂
Imagine if they played the rocky theme
This is the first episode of Top Gear that I ever saw. Saw it in a hotel in London after a miserable day and nearly passed out laughing.
“It looks like the cybertruck!!!”
Comparing Geoff to the cybertruck is an insult to Geoff
I will not hear a bad word said against the Hammerhead-Eagle-I-Thrust 😆
It is unlikely to win favour among those of us blessed with the gift of sight.
would much rather own Geoff than a cybertruck.
Cybershit is just Geoff at home.
Looks suspiciously like a cybertruck 😂
That is an insult to Geoff
god every time i see clarkson handling that aluminum without gloves i recoil.
And holing the corner profile up to it by hand and drilling mid-air.
Clarkson's Mood Room is one of the best bits they ever did. As are the creative subtitles.
🥸🍆
We could have had the
Design by james
The power by jeremy
And still the chassis by hammond
And instead we got this
Hammond being the body because he's short would have been funnier
Some Say......
This Channel Brings Relief To Million's Of Fan's
All we know is he’s called geòff!!!
That sounds familiar...
It's actually safer than a G-Wiz after Autocar did safety test on it
Top Gear - The boys call their homemade Car Jeff
Grand Tour - The boys call their homemade car John
I’ll miss these guys….😢
Imagine just chilling at home and suddenly Jeremy Clarkson knocks on your door
I thought everyone was unemployed? 😮😞
“Terribly sorry, but Geoff has died in the street outside your home and I’d like some juice!” 😂 can just picture it
Watching him work with tin shears on aluminum without gloves and made my toes curl. A wonderful way to get sliced up and get metal burs stuck in your hands.
I haven't seen this in a few years until today and every time I saw Richard Hammond's hair I couldn't stop seeing Argentina's President Javier Milei.
😂 SI XD
Still gets me at 1:48 🍆🥸
I assumed you were one of those porn bots until I closed the timestamp XD
Jeff Bezos took that personally.
Geoff walked so the Cybertruck could run
Walking is generous. More like waddled
And then the cybertruck tripped over its own mismatched legs and fell on its face, right into a pile of unmentionable matter. xD
Honestly, it's hard going back to rewatch these old episodes without the licensed music. The opening riff from Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" playing as they first set off in Geoff was absolute perfection.
11:37 that is a sad man 😂
Why haven't more carmakers done cupola bodywork? It's clearly superior.
Maybe it's difficult to design a door that not only works with a cupola, but is also safe in the event of a rollover.
I like how the final product looked exactly like the bus where the motors were taken from
They weren’t taken from a bus, they were taken from a milk float. See 2:37 .
"this will be an old peoples home - they won't have electricity" 😂😂😂
Hammond really went wild in "hairstyle" for a while
Yeah after his hair transplant he went a bit hog wild
Yeah after his hair transplant he went a bit hog wild 😂
Classic Top Gear excellence. Can’t make it any worse. One of the Best episodes.
I'd forgotten that Clarkson had designed the cyber truck 20 years ago.... as a joke
Not surprised, im actually kind of impressed. The car is by no means good, but for something three British men built for 6 grand its not bad
I want to see the moment when the green Stig appears and is taken away by the ambulance. That part always made me laugh.
What's happened there is... Well the stigs died....yeah
The sheer silliness, it's so wholesome
I laughed so hard at this I bought it on iTunes when they were releasing them there back in the day
We fund it! The first Cybertuck prototype
Ford's been making cars with mustaches for ages. It's called the Lincoln Town Car.
Richard looks like he secretly listens to Oasis, but he's bad at hiding it 😂
*Making the World's Best Electric Car
Richard Hammond: The Kajagogo Years.
I'd forgotten about this one! Great to see it again having done so. :D
When I’m having a bullshit day, I like to watch old Top Gear back to back. Never fails to make me laugh and I can’t even drive or like cars😅
Great video as usual, very entertaining. :D
4:06 someone should edit cybertruck in. Lines are perfect for it
Sunday nights are so crap without having an episode of this to end your week
I don't even _care_ about cars, but I could watch classic Top Gear all day. 👌
The Eagle I-Thrust!
Hammerhead eagle iThrust
No. The Geoff.
This is Geoff. The hammerhead eagle I trust is their next PHEV/range extender version.
11:01 I LOVE how far the camera tracking is ahead of Geoff, had a good old chuckle
I don’t know why but the random picture of the Furby in the mood room always tickles me.
Funny enough, a couple years later, the Fisker Karma debuted with a mustache.
Still looks better than a Cybertruck
6:13 Love how the officer is giving it a glance like "ok what the hell?"
I always felt that the Sierra estate and the Mark 2 Micra both had "moustaches" over the rear number plate.
I remember first time watching this episode, I think in early 2010s, I was rolling on the ground laughing when they unveiled Geoff 😂😂😂
The cop at 6:14 : "Seems legit."
11:36 😒💭 "This is how cars will be in the future..."
He wasn't wrong, unless you have a fast-charger it takes 10 hours to go from empty to full.
Noooo, Hardy Boyz theme gone??
yes all music is made copyright free when not shown on a main bbc channel or iplayer, evem dave sees copyright free music
“James get off the dual-carriageway” Famous Last words from Jeremy 😂😂
"This is an appalling racket. We are useless at everything."
04:00 I swear, if Jeremy had painted it red. The theme to Postman Pat would play through my head,
10:13 Warms my heart every time I see this.
Inspiration room: Big Cats, Peter Bowles, Jet Fighters, and yes, the AK, Lava lamp, One Shoe(Not a pair but one), a kettle (British show, they can't miss the tea can they?), an RC plane... Man that's a lot to get inspired from.
Inspiration : 1:46
It look like a pregnant cybertruck 💀💀
This was a particularly great episode of a great series.
*SEE* the happy hippies
I have just learned how awesome Jeremy is... And that's awesome
Best TopGear segment ever. 😍
4:51 sounds like they sampled the gta garage door opening sound lmao
Robot Cantina just started his assembly of a "petroleum battery" golf cart. Good stuff
shame the music used like in 5:21 has changed from Original. I remember that part specifically being the song that hardy boys in WWE used
“Look at the traffic jam” 😂😂😂
Still better than Tesla
Nicolas?
Is nobody gonna mention Hammond's hair!? 😂
3:44 What car is that?
GTM Libra
TVR tuscan
Delightful. Not sure how l missed this when it originally aired.
17 hours and already so many views for such a old show. This tells you how much we already miss these three morons. 😢
"I rather look at one of yours dingle berries"😂😂😂😂😂😂
much safety
"Is that a section from a garage door?"
Clarckson: "Yes"
that could have been used in a frontal assault in war, it would just BLIND everyone in front of it it they polished it properly xD
It just needs cupholders that fit grenades perfectly.
*Still better than the CyberTrash.*
1:42 *the actor, Peter Bowles*
not the Furby?
The slowest man in the world is in charge of power, the man with no forward thinking is in charge of the body and the human test dummy is in charge of brakes. What could possibly go wrong