Jeremy Clarkson takes a look at the Nissan Skyline R33 GTR before they were officially imported into the U.K. Taken from a mid 1996 edition of Top Gear.
Idc what anyone says, Clarkson had the most envious career of all time. Decades and decades of playtime. Must be nice. Old school Top Gear was the best car show ever. Nothing will ever come close.
He worked himself into being paid to go on permanent vacation and drive the best cars on earth in the process. . .he deserves every bit of it. The smartest men among us know - no one likes a smart guy. Play the dumb guy. Everyone is charmed by the dumb guy.
Clarkson was ahead of his time thinking Nissan should have brought the GT-R over. Considering the huge success the R35 was when they finally brought it over you can't help wondering how many other cars that boring accountant types like Mr Ward here prevented Nissan or other JDM manufacturers from bringing over.
It was more about the MILLIONS Japanese manufacturers would have spent make them within safety and emissions regulation. After it was all said and done, the Acura version of the NSX was less powerful, heavier, and about 15-25% more expensive.
They did! Nissan (or one of the large dealerships) did import some late R33's and converted them to UK spec and then they brought over the R34's and did the same. There are (or were) a few rare UK spec ones knocking about with MPH speedo, 155mph limiter etc
@@davidmurren4644 You're right of course, there was often a grey import scheme for enthusiast models. I just think Nissan/Honda /Subaru etc all missed an opportunity to really push their sports cars and have them considered in the same sphere as their German rivals. A few interior materials aside there's no reason a new GT-R shouldn't command the same price as a Turbo 911 but the brand image still isn't quite there. The R35 really boosted Nissan's rep in the eyes of the average consumer though so an R36 could well be priced a little closer to its rivals this time around
@@toddthezondalover645 All true but they're still talked about today and have become modern classics. If only Honda had thrown away the shackles of the 276bhp "gentleman's agreement" sooner and really opened that V6 up. The S2000 proved they could easily have made 380hp+ from a more highly tuned 3.2 V6 which would have kept it competitive with 911s of the era. Shame also they threw away the V10 replacement after spending no doubt millions and millions on its development
I did like the chemistry of the old trio(Clarkson, Quentin and Tiff), then followed by Vicki and Steve Berry doing the bike stuff, plus the rally section and Michelle doing the consumer stuff. It seemed like a rich mixture - as much I appreciate the laddishness of the new style Top Gear and Grand Tour and the stunts on that.
@@toddthezondalover645 when did he say that? I literally 2 minutes ago rewatched the clip of him with the Jun R33 and he said "it is astonishing" .. the only bad thing he said is "that locking rear diff doesn't really seem to be doing its job"
@@THE-xp3hphaha…from 91-94 I was still in high school I bought about 4-5 Aiwa Walkman’s..I basically worked part time just to buy Jordan’s,walkmans,football membership…had I bought Microsoft stocks I’d now have over $10,000,000😂
@@rossteebadge snobs is a good term indeed. Most people who have that much time to fight online about cars they dislike are usually brand slaves who cant even afford those cars they adore so much in the first place.
@@rosstee The GT-R's have never offered a great driving experience, sorry to say so. The whole reason for it's mythical status is mostly down to the engine and how easy it is to tune. Which were good qualities in the 1990s and early 2000s, but became irrelevant when all car makers switched to turbo engined cars.
@@Orcawhale1They don't all do 800 on stock internals though, the reason this and the 2JZ are so good is the block is built like a brick shithouse and you don't need to build the whole engine to get reliable power above 500
@@-BuddyGuy Yeah, some of the earlier blocks crack at 500 or even earlier. Was fixed in later versions of the engine, but i can't recall the exact one. The 2JZ can however do it all day, cause it's a better designed engine. Sadly however the Supra isn't a especially fun car to drive, due to it being more of a GT than a sports car.
I think this was before that guy spent a month in prison for forging prescriptions. Pretty sure it was well before he did six months for dangerous driving and road rage and got banned for 42 months. And it's certainly well before Porsche UK sued him for the outstanding payments on his Cayenne. Model citizen.
people always said ive got bad taste when i say i prefer the r33 gtr than the r32 and the r34. r33 nowadays is so underrated especially compared to its successors and predecessors
@@leviathan5207 I'm sorry you appear to have got lost on RUclips. If you use the search at the top of the page and type "attention" you may find what you're looking for.
It wasn't "law" that limited Japanese sports cars' power, it was a gentleman's agreement between the Japanese automakers. It was never anything official.
the law kinda influenced it though because back then Japanese government thought power equaled road deaths (even limiting cars to 180kmh top speed) so to keep their reputations good but also ensure that the competition would not pass them, car companies came up with that agreement
Wdym fuck you,the supra was failing to sell and the gtr wss thriving becuz one of the Skyline GTRs,the r32,nissan was supposed to make 10000 examples,but ended up making 40000 examples probably not including the special editions likd the nismo r32,still as jeremy calls an advanced car for its time,the moving playstation
Goosebumps watching old top gear, and the music kicking in at the end… nothing beat watching top gear as a kid back home in England. Clarkson is a legend, despite the Tina Turner look he was rocking back then.
@@benwu7980 I would've struggled with that choice in the past since I grew up with both cars but now I know what kind of car I prefer and I'd choose F40. Its more geared towards simplistic weight savings, and racing. Which would you prefer at launch.
@@KaDuWin I'd be going with the 959, but is difficult to explain why. I think that it would beat a f40 on most of my favorite tracks. At launch they were almost half the price of a f40. Ferrari is not exactly a nice company to deal with, but having said that, i would rather have a f40 in garage now than a 959, even though I still think think the 959 is a better car.
RB's are well known to blow up. They have a number of weaknesses and aren't very beefy. Go through the pits at any drift event and you will barely see any Nissans running a Nissan motor. Most run JZ's and LS stuff.
He wasn't wrong. It's a pretty "normal" 80's/90's tech engine. Like the 2j (2j being a little better since it's stronger) but that doesn't mean old tech is bad.
It isn’t. These cars are famously disappointing stock, quiet and not all too fast. In the straights at least. There’s a reason they’re most famous as ‘tuner’ and race cars.
@@placeholdername3206 Man what, here in New Zealand, where the vast majority of RB powered cars in the world have ended up, still all have the RB, street, track, drift, drag etc. Never had any issues with my RB25 Cefiro, none of my mates have ever had any problems with their ones either. An RB20DET will take limiter bashing longer than a JZ, sound better too.
Management meeting for this piece - "I've got an idea, let's shoot the film on a dirt track, not only will that ruin the paint, and put it on a loose surface it's not designed for, but it'll also kick up loads of dust, so the viewers won't actually be able to see the car", "brilliant, go do it!" 🤔
One of my favourite cars uve ever owned and one of my biggest mistakes at the time of owning it I had a 850 T5r manual and a fiat coupe 20v turbo so 3 amazing cars. Unfortunately the skyline was my vehicle of choice when i was off my face on ketamine and god knows what else. Obviously resulting in me writing it off. It wasn't that bad and was easily fixed but I just parked it on the drive of my ex partners mums. Eventually selling it for £150 yep. One hundred and fifty frigging pounds.
@sailor81 probably not lol however the way I look at it someone else will have been over the moon 😅 I did see it come up for sale around 3 years ago and it had been repaired but rear end still had the marks and broken back light and it had beeb stood in a garage for years. It was fairly cheap so I got the funds together but someone beat me to it. Around a week after that it was back up for sale for much more and the new owner looked to have only washed it.
The bit on it costing a mil not being worth it, jeremy is yotally right. In 2024 we can see how much most if not all big names drop on advertisement budgets. Imagine how much they could move to development if they stopped doing adverts vying for people attention and just surprise people with something new
Seriously if these car brands back then didn't have the restriction of the so called Gentleman's agreement and they still went about making the GTR's and Supras
I miss my R33 GTR VSpec RB30/26 deeply. Having 850bhp and 600 lb/ft of torque under right food was intoxicating. But, it had to go, otherwise I would have killed myself.
In the 2000's the R33 was the ugly ducking no one wanted. The r32's were much more desirable. The r34 was king but was out of reach for most people price wise and they didn't depreciate much. (In Australia at least) I ended up buying a JZA supra. You could get TT automatic models for as little as $5000 as everyone wanted a manual. Even the NA manuals cost more than the TT auto's. I kid you not
lol who told you its a big car? Ive seen and been really upclose, and also have driven a couple R34s and those cars are compact... an R33 is similarly sized to an early 00s Impreza, its somewhat similar to a 4 door civic EK, but a bit longer and thats it. Now the R35 IS a big car, yet still handles really well.
I got my girl in 2007. $7599 AUD 🇦🇺Only 78k on the clock and immaculate. Sold in 2017. 142k on the clock. Still immaculate + I sold her for $2900 AUD. Yep.... I'm an idiot.
he is completely right about Nissan's money spending and its still applicable today, just give us a car Nissan we don't want to see stupid advertising on your ugly juke or boring x-trail
0:24 Nearly XD...nothing tops OG top gear and their ability to praise Flagship products/brands while pumping in their love for import excellence or how they define/compare what they designate as an IMPORT 1:37 idk not since the cayman do i think an-other vehicle/platform has been made to offer intrinsically something more/beyond what could be found elsewhere a true 911 type of approach to driving characteristics maximizing speed/desire out of the road. 911 will always be a benchmark or in its own echelon. But since then the GT-R and Cayman have come about and now the would be "affordable" c8 vette. To me though for something like the GTR to come out from a manufacturer like nissan to me it stands the test of time offering a driving style/characteristic and approach to driving that numbers/figures aside...is just something to YEARN for pure driving/character wise. For it to climb into an echelon is why it has the respect/regard globally. It had the same fate in the UK that the states had...import/emmission/rep and "WRECK" to check aspects that nissan would never abide by respectfully. As now they can be had second hand to each buyers regard to which NISSAN envisioned anyways.
They missed a trick not bringing these in until the GTR. Would have spanked all hot hatches here and been cheap to boot. Big mistake. Nissan needed someone to have a word.
My flatmate had one of these. He regrets selling it, but just a few weeks after he did, the new owner T-boned another car at high speed and killed both the skyline and the other driver. My flatmate's probably better off with his Escort.
I'll bet my right nut Jeremy regrets this now, seeing how popular these are. Goes like the clappers, unhinged tuneability, and yet all Top Gear ever says about the superior Japanese cars is sh*t like this. Who cares about plastic when the vehicle is superior to anything it might face for almost 30- years INTO the future? That's just nuts :S These have been collectible forever, and now even just individual OEM parts off them cost more than what Nissan sold them for. Presently that Ferrari is a forgotten piece of junk that everyone goes -.- while the GTR still has everyone literally gushing 🌈 outta their mouths like in that meme. Dgmw he's giving it high praise, but, not high enough, and I suspect Jeremy knows it, he could have collected 30 of these in 2008 and stored them on his farm, and sold them now for 5-10 times more than he bought them for and kept his farm alive for generations with the proceeds put in a trust lol
"the seats are velveteen and horrid..." Jeremy must not have spent any time in an American sedan of the 80s or 90s. Complete garbage by comparison. Cloth seats of reasonable shape and size all day long. I dont want your leather or faux leather. Too hot/cold depending on weather. Cloth seats are the best seats. Change my mind
Really couldn’t import to uk? Steering wheel is already on the right! Also uk is where you can by a TVR which is way less compliant safety regulation wise
Might drive great, might be very fast, might grip like nothing else, but for me a car also has to look good. And that goes for the EXterior AND INterior for me. I’ll have the 355 please
It would cost too much...why when you put brilliance in front of people so they meh, then when the penny finally drops they'll sell all they have to get one
AS MAGNIFICENT as the R33 and R34, and even the R35 is.... My choice would be the R32, I just LOVE that shape, especially in the graphite-ish grey looking colour... Each to their own I guess... But yeah... The Skylines... They're damn fine cars! 😎🇬🇧
two things that havent aged well on the F355, the steerings over assisted and the magnesium valves need to be redone and changed for something more stable, and have the recall with the fuel line done, which was a result of people cheapening out on the proper way to do engine outs and apparently people say its slow, the R33, just get it reupholstered in good new leather and foam and your fine
It's slow because the engine delivers 50hp less to the ground than what Ferrari claims even when new. And the whole interior looks dated. Still the 40v engine sounds absolutely heavenly.
@@Dimension2010 well that fits with tyler hoovers car, he had a 348 and it was only putting out about 275 horses, one of the early TS models so if you think about that, that explains why in period they were like, OH ITS SO MUCH BETTER, a 75 horsepower increase, that's marketed up to be 115 and his car mechanic had a 308 with a dicky cam in it, an early pre QV car and its putting out 177 horses about the same as my old 5 cylinder from 12 years ago, and that was a 2.5 and it rev'd to about 6 or 7 grand too, like my old 5 banger basically offered me 12 years of reliable service, with the same performance and figures as a ferrari 308 just in a much larger package although if the weight figures are true, it might have been a 1 to 1 lol and my car had metal bumpers lol
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Considering how much Clarkson adored the 355, for the GT-R to compare so favourably is pretty high praise.
Clarkson has always been impressed with the GT-R's engineering. It's the styling that he really don't like.
@@farishanafiah8461 He even demolished is neck when presenting the R35 directly in Japan.
@@jingorooroad2559 the R35 is pretty ugly if you ask me
@@G59METH Nobody was asking you btw.
@@jingorooroad2559 I was
I love how the old bland plastic interior in this car now costs more than a new born baby.
Why I bought 1 before pandemic
Plandemic
@@davencherry845same
How much are you paying for babies?
@@CraigMocello-nn3rjit's not the up front cost, but the ongoing costs that get you...
Idc what anyone says, Clarkson had the most envious career of all time. Decades and decades of playtime. Must be nice. Old school Top Gear was the best car show ever. Nothing will ever come close.
Sadly super true
He worked himself into being paid to go on permanent vacation and drive the best cars on earth in the process. . .he deserves every bit of it. The smartest men among us know - no one likes a smart guy. Play the dumb guy. Everyone is charmed by the dumb guy.
Nah, that's just you being envious of another man.
You mean enviable. The envious party is you.
Clarkson was ahead of his time thinking Nissan should have brought the GT-R over. Considering the huge success the R35 was when they finally brought it over you can't help wondering how many other cars that boring accountant types like Mr Ward here prevented Nissan or other JDM manufacturers from bringing over.
It was more about the MILLIONS Japanese manufacturers would have spent make them within safety and emissions regulation. After it was all said and done, the Acura version of the NSX was less powerful, heavier, and about 15-25% more expensive.
@toddthezondalover645 Yeah and they lost money with every unit sold because of it as well, hard to justify that to your boss
They did! Nissan (or one of the large dealerships) did import some late R33's and converted them to UK spec and then they brought over the R34's and did the same. There are (or were) a few rare UK spec ones knocking about with MPH speedo, 155mph limiter etc
@@davidmurren4644 You're right of course, there was often a grey import scheme for enthusiast models. I just think Nissan/Honda /Subaru etc all missed an opportunity to really push their sports cars and have them considered in the same sphere as their German rivals. A few interior materials aside there's no reason a new GT-R shouldn't command the same price as a Turbo 911 but the brand image still isn't quite there. The R35 really boosted Nissan's rep in the eyes of the average consumer though so an R36 could well be priced a little closer to its rivals this time around
@@toddthezondalover645 All true but they're still talked about today and have become modern classics. If only Honda had thrown away the shackles of the 276bhp "gentleman's agreement" sooner and really opened that V6 up. The S2000 proved they could easily have made 380hp+ from a more highly tuned 3.2 V6 which would have kept it competitive with 911s of the era. Shame also they threw away the V10 replacement after spending no doubt millions and millions on its development
The fact he drove a convertible and his hair didn't move is amazing.
Now *that's* a perm!
Because he got the best hair
in the world.
No I mean that's definitely not hair, just whole bird nest holding on by all the baby chick poo.
Ever see sheep in a breeze?
I’m still fond of this Top Gear era before the major revamp.
100% it was so much more on point!
I never got to see the "old" Top Gear, I wish it were available somewhere.
I did like the chemistry of the old trio(Clarkson, Quentin and Tiff), then followed by Vicki and Steve Berry doing the bike stuff, plus the rally section and Michelle doing the consumer stuff. It seemed like a rich mixture - as much I appreciate the laddishness of the new style Top Gear and Grand Tour and the stunts on that.
@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat I miss these old motoring shows. Now everything's on RUclips.
1996..when cars were cars and not computers on wheels
Imagine what Clarkson would have said, if he had the opportunity to test drive one of the R33 400R or the R34 Nismo Z-Tune.
He got to drive the JUN car and hated it.
@@toddthezondalover645 when did he say that? I literally 2 minutes ago rewatched the clip of him with the Jun R33 and he said "it is astonishing" .. the only bad thing he said is "that locking rear diff doesn't really seem to be doing its job"
@@toddthezondalover645L comment
@@toddthezondalover645 When did he say that??
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I’ve owned 2 of these first had 380hp the 2nd 600….not one squeak or rattle and reliability 10/10! An e46 m3 after 60,000 is a complete rattle box
Made in Japan. I have walkmans from the same ERA they all work
@@THE-xp3hphaha…from 91-94 I was still in high school I bought about 4-5 Aiwa Walkman’s..I basically worked part time just to buy Jordan’s,walkmans,football membership…had I bought Microsoft stocks I’d now have over $10,000,000😂
@@joeezra5460 Wow good for you. Thats alot of money
@@THE-xp3hpyou didn’t get it…if doesn’t mean did
@@joeezra5460 i just got it
Even Clarkson liked it, ppl that hate it have no taste.
People that hate it simply aren't fans of driving, just badge snobs and other poseurs.
@@rossteebadge snobs is a good term indeed. Most people who have that much time to fight online about cars they dislike are usually brand slaves who cant even afford those cars they adore so much in the first place.
@@rosstee The GT-R's have never offered a great driving experience, sorry to say so.
The whole reason for it's mythical status is mostly down to the engine and how easy it is to tune.
Which were good qualities in the 1990s and early 2000s, but became irrelevant when all car makers switched to turbo engined cars.
@@Orcawhale1They don't all do 800 on stock internals though, the reason this and the 2JZ are so good is the block is built like a brick shithouse and you don't need to build the whole engine to get reliable power above 500
@@-BuddyGuy Yeah, some of the earlier blocks crack at 500 or even earlier.
Was fixed in later versions of the engine, but i can't recall the exact one.
The 2JZ can however do it all day, cause it's a better designed engine.
Sadly however the Supra isn't a especially fun car to drive, due to it being more of a GT than a sports car.
I love how they keep interviewing a wealthy dude from 1986.
I think this was before that guy spent a month in prison for forging prescriptions. Pretty sure it was well before he did six months for dangerous driving and road rage and got banned for 42 months. And it's certainly well before Porsche UK sued him for the outstanding payments on his Cayenne. Model citizen.
people always said ive got bad taste when i say i prefer the r33 gtr than the r32 and the r34. r33 nowadays is so underrated especially compared to its successors and predecessors
It's all the same shitbox with the same engine.
What are you even talking about.
@@leviathan5207 I'm sorry you appear to have got lost on RUclips. If you use the search at the top of the page and type "attention" you may find what you're looking for.
The R33 is more affordable (relatively speaking).
But I just love the R34.
@@leviathan5207 Shitboxes don't beat nurburgring records and compete at le mans. Show some respect.
Yeah. I think it´s the best looking of the three.
That song... Gran Turismo 3 throwback
Those who have played GT3 would recognize the BGM...
Yes, it's Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way" before Daiki Kasho remixed it.
Those who haven't played GT3 also recognise this song.
Proud owner of BCNR33-023561 right here
Omg! That's awesome. Never sell it
Midnight purple series 2 July 1996?
@@TheCommentator353 of course man it’s very underrated. You’d swear you’re in a ‘32 or ‘34 with the amount of attention it gets. Truly heartwarming
@@cherryred6804 yes sir you looked at the GT-R Registry didn’t you? Kudos to you❤️
I had a R33 everyone thinks they are huge until you park them next to a small car , try it park next to a new Mini or equivalent
Clarkson looks daft in that 355, his mop is higher than the roofline.
Haha looks like Bowser in Mario Kart (his size compared to the car...not his actual looks!!)
Nobody interview a car like clarkson. Nobody. 💯💯💯
It wasn't "law" that limited Japanese sports cars' power, it was a gentleman's agreement between the Japanese automakers. It was never anything official.
the law kinda influenced it though because back then Japanese government thought power equaled road deaths (even limiting cars to 180kmh top speed) so to keep their reputations good but also ensure that the competition would not pass them, car companies came up with that agreement
And then Toyota said F-you and built the Supra with 320hp.
Wdym fuck you,the supra was failing to sell and the gtr wss thriving becuz one of the Skyline GTRs,the r32,nissan was supposed to make 10000 examples,but ended up making 40000 examples probably not including the special editions likd the nismo r32,still as jeremy calls an advanced car for its time,the moving playstation
@@Angry_Squirrel555if you check online it will say 280 on paper tho
Goosebumps watching old top gear, and the music kicking in at the end… nothing beat watching top gear as a kid back home in England. Clarkson is a legend, despite the Tina Turner look he was rocking back then.
Do you know the name of the song that they’re playing the background is
@@lucaslacasse935 I wish I did brother. I’ll try to figure it out. If you get there before me please let me know!
Only love here. Let us know if your figure out the track 🎧
Lenny kravitz-are you gonna come my way …your welcome
At last, I've been looking for the R33 review when I see the 'Car of the Year 1997' video.
The 90s did it best. With exception of the 288GTO, F40, and 959 the 90s was the best era for cars.
At time of launch, which would you choose...the 959 or the F40?
@@benwu7980 I would've struggled with that choice in the past since I grew up with both cars but now I know what kind of car I prefer and I'd choose F40. Its more geared towards simplistic weight savings, and racing.
Which would you prefer at launch.
@@KaDuWin I'd be going with the 959, but is difficult to explain why.
I think that it would beat a f40 on most of my favorite tracks.
At launch they were almost half the price of a f40.
Ferrari is not exactly a nice company to deal with, but having said that, i would rather have a f40 in garage now than a 959, even though I still think think the 959 is a better car.
@@benwu7980 Fair enough, either is a fine choice in my book
Amazing. Been looking for this review for YEARS!
I thought this was a Bob Ross episode from the thumb nail
Lol
Happy little accidents
Imagine Bob Ross's calm voice while going over 150 mph. 😂
It took Gran Turismo to do for Nissan what they should have done.
"especially since it's 2.6 litre engine is nothing to write home about" - if only he knew...
RB's are well known to blow up. They have a number of weaknesses and aren't very beefy. Go through the pits at any drift event and you will barely see any Nissans running a Nissan motor. Most run JZ's and LS stuff.
He wasn't wrong. It's a pretty "normal" 80's/90's tech engine. Like the 2j (2j being a little better since it's stronger) but that doesn't mean old tech is bad.
It isn’t. These cars are famously disappointing stock, quiet and not all too fast. In the straights at least. There’s a reason they’re most famous as ‘tuner’ and race cars.
@@placeholdername3206 Man what, here in New Zealand, where the vast majority of RB powered cars in the world have ended up, still all have the RB, street, track, drift, drag etc. Never had any issues with my RB25 Cefiro, none of my mates have ever had any problems with their ones either. An RB20DET will take limiter bashing longer than a JZ, sound better too.
@@DavidBainGaming Either you're talking shit and completely clueless or trolling
The side profile of clarkson's giant head and afro sticking out of the ferrari @0:28 is hilarious
3000GT was my favourite.
A glorious vehicle driven and reviewed by a glorious man
Thing of beauty shame the 2nd hand market is up the wall now
15 years ago 30k got me one, now it's worth 130k.
25p for a packet of walkers crisps too back then.
I had an r33 with a big single turbo. 515hp at the wheels, the thing was nuts. Rust was always a battle though
And McClaren needed to make a 1 million dollar supercar to beat it on a track.
Clarkson saying European engineering is better than Japanese…😂🤣🤪
Luv my R33 GTR Godzilla. JDM ✌️ 🤘 🇦🇺
Management meeting for this piece - "I've got an idea, let's shoot the film on a dirt track, not only will that ruin the paint, and put it on a loose surface it's not designed for, but it'll also kick up loads of dust, so the viewers won't actually be able to see the car", "brilliant, go do it!" 🤔
I mean the suspension is kinda high and its awd,so its kinda fine
Outrun a Ferrari yes, but not a Porsche
If u wanted to beat a Porsche u buy a gtr look at Japan and wangan
One of my favourite cars uve ever owned and one of my biggest mistakes at the time of owning it I had a 850 T5r manual and a fiat coupe 20v turbo so 3 amazing cars. Unfortunately the skyline was my vehicle of choice when i was off my face on ketamine and god knows what else. Obviously resulting in me writing it off. It wasn't that bad and was easily fixed but I just parked it on the drive of my ex partners mums. Eventually selling it for £150 yep. One hundred and fifty frigging pounds.
hope you had a good night with the 150 quid at least
@sailor81 probably not lol however the way I look at it someone else will have been over the moon 😅 I did see it come up for sale around 3 years ago and it had been repaired but rear end still had the marks and broken back light and it had beeb stood in a garage for years. It was fairly cheap so I got the funds together but someone beat me to it. Around a week after that it was back up for sale for much more and the new owner looked to have only washed it.
That is a midnight purple 1 car
The bit on it costing a mil not being worth it, jeremy is yotally right. In 2024 we can see how much most if not all big names drop on advertisement budgets. Imagine how much they could move to development if they stopped doing adverts vying for people attention and just surprise people with something new
Please avoid the word "old" . Try Top gear 1996 .
It makes me feel less old 😢
Lmfao that 320 km hr no consumer car here in the west built by the big 3 even in 2024 can go 200 km hr without breaking apart lol😂
Seriously if these car brands back then didn't have the restriction of the so called Gentleman's agreement and they still went about making the GTR's and Supras
Love my 33 vspec 🇦🇺
I wish I could get one
Don’t sell it
"You can...in a Nissan"
Funny how much more that Nissan is worth now over that Ferrari 355.
Here Ferrari 355 is $250k skyline is $80k
a Million!!!!! thats what it took for Nissan not to bring the GTR to Europe?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
I miss my R33 GTR VSpec RB30/26 deeply. Having 850bhp and 600 lb/ft of torque under right food was intoxicating. But, it had to go, otherwise I would have killed myself.
A legend is born!
Well this aged like wine
Its not NISSEN but NISSAN...and MADE IN NIPPON
Brits pronounce the brand this way.
It's hard to see them grow old
In the 2000's the R33 was the ugly ducking no one wanted. The r32's were much more desirable. The r34 was king but was out of reach for most people price wise and they didn't depreciate much. (In Australia at least) I ended up buying a JZA supra. You could get TT automatic models for as little as $5000 as everyone wanted a manual. Even the NA manuals cost more than the TT auto's. I kid you not
Skyline was legendary. Even in Gran Turismo it was clearly one of the absolute best cars.
Was. No my friend, IS, is Legendary. Loved it in GT and GT 2, spent -hours- days fine tuning the gears, getting a 426 or 443KpH top speed
It was a great car and Jeremy Clarkson again was correct with the Nissan Skyline.
Nissan please just remake this car to the tee
The Skyline is also the reliable car here.
For such a big car, the r33 really does handle well.
lol who told you its a big car? Ive seen and been really upclose, and also have driven a couple R34s and those cars are compact... an R33 is similarly sized to an early 00s Impreza, its somewhat similar to a 4 door civic EK, but a bit longer and thats it.
Now the R35 IS a big car, yet still handles really well.
@@Hanschepu He meant compared to other generations
@@Only_Brd its just a bit longer, its not a big car, even in comparison to its immediate predecessor and successor 😅😅😅
@@Hanschepu my bad, that what I thought they ment😅
@@Hanschepu the R33 is definitely a big car. I learnt that the first time I tried parking one.
I got my girl in 2007. $7599 AUD 🇦🇺Only 78k on the clock and immaculate.
Sold in 2017. 142k on the clock.
Still immaculate +
I sold her for $2900 AUD.
Yep.... I'm an idiot.
yep
incredible
Why would you do that. This sounds fake because anyone owning one in 2017 knew its worth, so it would make no sense to sell it at a loss
That R33 will be priced around millions nowadays
Love them both. Will never have either 😢
Amazing how lame the u.k is for their policing of the cars you can have and can’t have. Awful awful people in power there
I've had mine for 22 years, thought about selling it but just can't find a reason why i should.
he is completely right about Nissan's money spending and its still applicable today, just give us a car Nissan we don't want to see stupid advertising on your ugly juke or boring x-trail
everything is where the keen driver needs it to be... the front wheel torque indicator is out of sight.
0:24 Nearly XD...nothing tops OG top gear and their ability to praise Flagship products/brands while pumping in their love for import excellence or how they define/compare what they designate as an IMPORT 1:37 idk not since the cayman do i think an-other vehicle/platform has been made to offer intrinsically something more/beyond what could be found elsewhere a true 911 type of approach to driving characteristics maximizing speed/desire out of the road. 911 will always be a benchmark or in its own echelon. But since then the GT-R and Cayman have come about and now the would be "affordable" c8 vette. To me though for something like the GTR to come out from a manufacturer like nissan to me it stands the test of time offering a driving style/characteristic and approach to driving that numbers/figures aside...is just something to YEARN for pure driving/character wise. For it to climb into an echelon is why it has the respect/regard globally. It had the same fate in the UK that the states had...import/emmission/rep and "WRECK" to check aspects that nissan would never abide by respectfully. As now they can be had second hand to each buyers regard to which NISSAN envisioned anyways.
It's pretty funny how he made the idea of a Ferrari getting overtaken by a Japanese competitor seem ludicrous in as late as 1996.
They missed a trick not bringing these in until the GTR. Would have spanked all hot hatches here and been cheap to boot. Big mistake. Nissan needed someone to have a word.
My flatmate had one of these. He regrets selling it, but just a few weeks after he did, the new owner T-boned another car at high speed and killed both the skyline and the other driver.
My flatmate's probably better off with his Escort.
Purchased and imported my R33 brand new out of the wrapper. Almost 30 years later, and many hard miles she's as tight as a nun's rump.
Right about this time i made my first child
I'll bet my right nut Jeremy regrets this now, seeing how popular these are.
Goes like the clappers, unhinged tuneability, and yet all Top Gear ever says about the superior Japanese cars is sh*t like this.
Who cares about plastic when the vehicle is superior to anything it might face for almost 30- years INTO the future? That's just nuts :S
These have been collectible forever, and now even just individual OEM parts off them cost more than what Nissan sold them for.
Presently that Ferrari is a forgotten piece of junk that everyone goes -.- while the GTR still has everyone literally gushing 🌈 outta their mouths like in that meme.
Dgmw he's giving it high praise, but, not high enough, and I suspect Jeremy knows it, he could have collected 30 of these in 2008 and stored them on his farm, and sold them now for 5-10 times more than he bought them for and kept his farm alive for generations with the proceeds put in a trust lol
Back when Japan was king. The 80’s and 90’s is when Japan was on top. Cars, anime, hifi systems.
390HP Is Terminator category HP! And this was back in 93'?! 😮
"the seats are velveteen and horrid..." Jeremy must not have spent any time in an American sedan of the 80s or 90s. Complete garbage by comparison. Cloth seats of reasonable shape and size all day long. I dont want your leather or faux leather. Too hot/cold depending on weather. Cloth seats are the best seats. Change my mind
Really couldn’t import to uk? Steering wheel is already on the right! Also uk is where you can by a TVR which is way less compliant safety regulation wise
Yes you could import back in the days, It wasnt officically from nissan uk until sometime later.
now that car would be worth a quarter mil
Might drive great, might be very fast, might grip like nothing else, but for me a car also has to look good. And that goes for the EXterior AND INterior for me. I’ll have the 355 please
5:00 Nissan Australia said Yeah why not 🎉
So funny to see Clarkson's 'fro poking out from above the roofline of the Ferrari.
Sounds like the biggest problem with the R33, was UK bosses for Nissan… thats the problem sometimes. Nobody wants to take a gamble!
Wish I had paid more attention back in the day.GTR.🎉🎉🎉
£800 to tune it to 390bhp : )
cost you that just to fix a couple of rock chips today
It has air-conditioning and a ... 'wireless.
Wireless??
How old are you?
“They didn’t have the finesse to match European engineering”. Lol.
Nissan copied the 4wd system from the Porsche 959 and added the electronics
Who would imagine... today Nissan produces Mr. Nobody cars
It would cost too much...why when you put brilliance in front of people so they meh, then when the penny finally drops they'll sell all they have to get one
Funny how the Nissan is worth 100s while the Ferrari is worth 50-60 today in 2024.
Even for 1996, that hair is a crime.
Imagine saying the RB26 is "nothing to write home about".
Oh shit I thought that was Bob Ross
Godzilla , the king of JDMs
Nissan missed out on so much revenue by not importing the R32, 33, and 34 to the United States.
Why does the thumbnail look like Bob Ross 😂😂
That's Bob Ross's brother Ross Bob
Do you think he wore a durag to bad back then? Cos that's one funk perm.
lol…. Is this one of the first recorded instances of “some say….”?
We loved this presentation. Thanks for sharing.
Can anyone help with the intro opera music? Pretty please?
V Spec cars are now worth about the same as a mint 355 too!
4:51 Leave it to some pencil pushers to ruin our good time!
AS MAGNIFICENT as the R33 and R34, and even the R35 is.... My choice would be the R32, I just LOVE that shape, especially in the graphite-ish grey looking colour... Each to their own I guess... But yeah... The Skylines... They're damn fine cars!
😎🇬🇧
And me
The R32 in here in Australia was godzilla
two things that havent aged well on the F355, the steerings over assisted and the magnesium valves need to be redone and changed for something more stable, and have the recall with the fuel line done, which was a result of people cheapening out on the proper way to do engine outs
and apparently people say its slow,
the R33, just get it reupholstered in good new leather and foam and your fine
It's slow because the engine delivers 50hp less to the ground than what Ferrari claims even when new. And the whole interior looks dated. Still the 40v engine sounds absolutely heavenly.
@@Dimension2010 I thought that was the 360?
@@kavinskysmith4094 355 too. A Japanese car program tested it and it only produced 330hp. Also tested were 993 rs and 348, both almost managed 300.
@@Dimension2010 well that fits with tyler hoovers car, he had a 348 and it was only putting out about 275 horses, one of the early TS models
so if you think about that, that explains why in period they were like, OH ITS SO MUCH BETTER, a 75 horsepower increase, that's marketed up to be 115
and his car mechanic had a 308 with a dicky cam in it, an early pre QV car and its putting out 177 horses
about the same as my old 5 cylinder from 12 years ago, and that was a 2.5
and it rev'd to about 6 or 7 grand too, like my old 5 banger basically offered me 12 years of reliable service, with the same performance and figures as a ferrari 308 just in a much larger package
although if the weight figures are true, it might have been a 1 to 1 lol
and my car had metal bumpers lol