Well this video come out in October 2008 and gta 4 came out in April 2008! I know I got wooshed could it be that the original clip came out in the late 90s?
Had the "pleasure" of driving one of these a few years ago. Absolutely enormous, especially on english roads. To say that it handles like an 17th century frigate would be an understatement.
I wouldn't want to drive one of those on English roads. Based on videos I've seen, there are country roads where both sides of that car would scrape the walls or hedges.
Enjoy driving your Morris Minor all the way across Nebraska. If you didn't know better, you might think they never even considered England when they were designing it!
Agreed, they stank. My dad, a WWII veteran, hated the Japanese and refused to buy anything made by them when we began looking for a new car in Fall 1977. After a long search, he was finally persuaded to enter a Honda dealership, where he inspected the then-new '78 Honda Accord hatchback. Dad, who was an engineer, was so impressed by the car's design, fit-and-and-finish (esp. as compared to the US competition he'd just surveyed) that he ordered one on the spot. We waited 3 months for delivery, but it was indeed an excellent car that lasted us for many years. The Japanese forgot nothing -- even the Owner's Manual was beautiful.
@@jeromeglick to be fair mate, I live in the UK and I have been to the US, Germany and Japan. Germany is certainly a more organised efficient country, but not without it's problems. Japan on the other hand, those guys are on another level, and when I got home I realised we are never going to catch up!! 😂 I suppose it helps when you haven't spent the last 80 years fighting proxy wars!
@@jeromeglick that's probably true, but they are certainly light years ahead of the UK/US, and the place runs like clockwork! I can't think of anywhere else in the world who exports more renowned high quality technology, although imagine S Korea aren't far off. But if you ever get a chance to go there, once you have been on their trains, and used their toilets, you will agree with me 😂😂
These were the cars I learned to drive on. Big heavy boats that were always "tacking" to the left or right. My dad spent his life swearing to never buy a Japanese car, but then the 70s came along and Detroit lost a third of their customers... permanently.
Seems to be a thing. Detroit ignored the Japanese until they couldn’t. Then it was too late so they asked the us Government to have a tariff. Next thing ya know Honda and Toyota have American plants and still ate GM’s lunch. American car makers went back to resting on their Laurels and along came a little startup called tesla. Now they are all promising 30 new cars in the next five year and swearing they’ll best tesla. Go back to sleep GM… it’s what you’re good at. Keep dreaming you are the leader.
@@ai4px GM quit electric cars business back in the 1990s when they sold the Nickel-metal Hydride Battery patents to chevron other wise we would all ready have electric cars more main stream
@@punker4Real It’s funny… The 18 650 sell that used in Tesla model S today was developed in the mid-1990s. GM refused to try it and scrapped the ev1. Some out of work engineers from gm created ac propulsion which became tesla…. Using batteries that were available during ev1. Gm got an exemption from California air resource board and called in ev1’s that were leased to be crushed. They began to sell hummers instead.
1980 model year, not the 1981. The car Jeremy is driving was a 1985-1987. In 1985 Lincoln had a mild face lift. The only difference between the 3 model years, was the 1985 had difference dash color and it didn't have the center brake light. I can't tell from the video which if the 3 model years it was.
1994 was also the year where Nine Inch Nails reached its peak. It marked the release of "The Downward Spiral" and their work on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers.
@@kaystephan2610 They were also really into the industrial rock band (like Nine Inch Nails) KMFDM, who heavily distanced themselves from those two for obvious reasons.
The only muscle in the 70s were the T/A 6.6 and the HD T/A. Because Pontiac didn’t give a rip about emissions.. they may have been “down” on power through underrated numbers. They could pull a home off its foundation.
You know the irony is, well besides that British cars of the 70's were also complete crap, was that Britain actually did make a car with a square wheel.
Kevin Beh Kok Chong I imagine this is because these were the last of true muscle cars of the era, plus it's the the power and straight line performance, they insist upon, not handling.
I can a test that's not exactly true, it depended on the company and the time, I have a 53 Hudson and it runs like a charm, and I wouldn't call them ugly, that's my personal preference, plus the regular cars of Europe at the time were rather austere looking, yet again preference.
When I was a very young boy, I remember my Grandfather buying these type of cars and remember this one is much smaller than the ones built in the 70's. The people that bought these new at the time were born from 1900 to maybe 1920 so they were far from driving enthusiasts. Now on to this generation chassis, my Dad had a LTD Ford Crown Victoria unmarked police package car in the late 80's that was actually a boatload of fun with the 5.0 small block and stuff cop suspension. It was grey with red vinyl interior. Very cool car.
@@pedrosilvaproductions I'm from Slovenia and I knew a 1978 black Cadillac Eldorado which I once saw parked outside an apartment complex and then a gas station. I also saw another one in the capital and I was surprised when the car did a sharp turn without crashing on the road, near an intersection.
@@pedrosilvaproductions correct they are quintessentially American. Indicitave of excess and comfort and being BIG. If you have driven in the U.S.A in one of these you would fall in love with it.
@@AaroMesa tbh, the only open world game with better driving physics for me would be mafia 2. People bash gta4 physics, but every other open world game has such bland driving, i almost fall asleep. imo Gta 4 has some of the best driving in an open world game, people are just too used to their cars having infinite grip and reaching top speed in 2 seconds
@@luckyduckydrivingschool3615 YEEES!! That's exactly why I liked it so much, the suspension specially felt quite real... and man... oohh the memories from Driver 2... those physics... those cars, Havana... hahaha still have the game and the PS1 hehe
To be fair, there's a lot of legitimate reasons why the era from about 1974-1983 was called the Malaise era for American cars. Between emissions requirements, the pressure to build cars "cheaper" (like paint that you could buff through with a wet rag without much effort) and the horrific quality control, it's amazing that any US automaker survived.
If Americans didn’t buy American cars out of national pride then the auto industry would have died here. Chrysler would have been the only one to survive, and that’s because they were smart enough to build the K car
The boxy look is also because you needed to do the welding by hand and welding flat surfaces is easier than angled surfaces. Modern robots have have thin arms that can have over 7 joints so they can reach any part you need.
What’s funny is these cars were actually pretty exceptional when it came to longevity. They are very simple to work on and tend to rust less than earlier 70s and 60s cars. The problem is they have the aerodynamic qualities of a brick and get 20mpg max lol though modern pickups aren’t much better…
Stick a 6.5 Turbo Diesel in, and you're good for 40 MPG HWY. Of course, the Diesel costs more these days. I said 6.5, which is a different version of the 6.2 Diesel. I did not say the darn 5.7 that G.M. cheaped out on in the early years.
@@101Volts Hell yeah, I've thought about doing that. When I have the money, I'd like to find a chasis of one of these boats and put in a fuel-efficient turbo diesel
@@pot6577 Imagine stepping onto a boat from a dock… It would kind of roll side to side and kind of slide out from underneath you...That is about how the American cars up until recently felt like when you were driving them. They were also very large. My first car was 18 feet long, or about 5.5 m!
I moved from England in tge eighties. Initially I bought small shit cars that reminded me of home. But after getting acclimated I bought an Olds Cutlass . Fantastic. The hood ornament was 400 miles away and felt like a bomb sight as you cruised down the road. You literally melted into the bench seat. I couldn't afford the 442 with bucket seats. But I loved that car. Came with the V6. So underpowered it would start rolling backwards on a steep hill. Good by Oldsmobile. Those were the days!
Yes, I would pick a Lincoln, Chrysler or Cadillac over a 70's mainstream British car any day. They were badly built (when the workers weren't on strike) and under powered. No wonder Datsun and Toyota had a field day cleaning up. None of these comments apply to the Jaguar XJ6 though. That has to be the most gorgeous car ever produced by anybody anywhere.
I love your stuff, but that is an eighties model Lincoln. 70's were much larger. Keep in mind, those big cars were designed for long highway cruising in the USA, bringing you the comfort of your living room, on the highway.
I'd drive one of those land yachts in a heartbeat. I grew up around car's like that. In the 70's & 80's if a family had money they had a large American car in the driveway. If not they had a Japanese or Korean car. Back in the 80's my Dad had a Ford LTD with a 351 that was built. That car could tow & lay rubber like nobody's business. Good childhood memories.
They were all just as badly engineered. Doesn't really matter. No power but still guzzled gas like mad, squeaked, rattled, leaked when it rained and grew mildew. What an utter embarrassment that we built these and had the nerve to call them luxury cars. Sure you got one every now and then that by chance was reliable, but that was far from normal.
Most cars are designed to work for a specific area. In the 70s, alot of America was nothing but long roads with big cities hundreds of miles apart. So a nice comfortable car to sit in for those long rides was ideal.
Traversing these long roads in huge moving trampoline with ridiculous v8 getting, what maybe an eye watering 10mpg?! US vehicles have wasted so much fuel during the last 6 or so decades, even to this day making huge SUV's with ludicrously huge engines!!
@@johnlightbody9942 What is so ludicrously large about the 6.8l v10 in my Ford Excursion SUV? It gets good gas mileage too: a whole 5 miles to the gallon in the city.
I have had one of these (a 1987 model) as my daily driver for almost 7 years now and it has absolutely been the most amazing car I've ever owned. Slow, but reliable, comfortable, and a pleasure to drive
This. When you are just doodling around the town, there isn't much that's more comfortable. It's useless to pinpoint the sway when turning or pitching during braking. You don't drive this like M5 on the 'ring. And then when you get this to the highway blast through continent, you realize how supernaturally comfortable the seats are, and how effortlessly it runs. Between the fuel stops. Jeremy and other journos are a big reason why we got the fidgety, overtly sporty cars after maybe late '90's and onwards. There is a place for sporty cars, but there sure should be place for comfortable average guys family cars, too.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s so I have a fondness for cars of that era. What I really miss are the full size personal luxury cars: Thunderbird, Cougar, Continental, Cordoba, Coupe de Ville. By the late 70’s they were underpowered though.
If you were driving them as race cars, yeah, they'd feel pretty slow. ~150 HP doesn't make for sporty acceleration. But for normal driving, they'd still be adequate; their torque is still close to today's engines, which makes them reasonably responsive under mundane conditions.
@@S4KCx sorry but that's a completely unrealistic statement. I drive a Ford Transit 350 for work. It's powered by a standard V6 and is often loaded up to 4,000 kg. It's obviously no speed demon but the typical acceleration ramps are almost always enough to reach the local 60 MPH highway limits before I merge on. Those highway cruisers are not only much lighter than the truck, they have larger displacement engines. I'm very confident in their ability to accelerate as needed.
I remember watching this as a kid in the 90s and believing the suspension really was this bad and it wasn't just him wiggling the steering wheel as he drove and people off camera pushing the car up and down at 1:05.
@@gmann6269 used to have an old Lincoln, the suspension is so wobbly that you can just sit there in drive with your foot on the brake, and pump it, you can build a rhythm getting to to bounce dramatically with zero help. I’m not saying you’re wrong as we will never know if people were punching or not, but I’m stating that it’s entirely possible to do what he did with pumping the brakes alone. Also, it’s hard to notice, but he’s advancing forward an inch or less with each pump
My father had a thing for big 70's boats, I took my drivers test in a 77 Malibu Wagon, the great thing was you weren't all sitting on top of each other, and you didn't need a truck for everything, between that Malibu and 78 Mercury Marquis we hauled a lot of stuff and towed an 18 foot boat no problem.
70s American cars actually pretty cool, not every car needs to be tuned to go around a race track. Driving a nice, floaty cruiser is a very relaxing experience for long journeys. Also, he's reviewing a 1986 Lincoln Town Car when talking about 70s cars, lol.
@Fred Jansen I can't really agree with that, my dad has a 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a 229ci V6 and belive it or not but it's actually the most reliable car in our family, and even beats his 1996 Volvo 940 because of a fuel gage that refuses to do it's job, and i'm talking from experience, we've had a 2012 Chevy Spark and the door handles kept breking on the rear doors so you can't open them from the inside, a 2015 Kia Rio where the radio would continue to break and fix itself and would somtimes refuse to lock when you tried to, a 2011 Alfa Romeo Mito with power steering issues that comes and goes frequently, a 2006 Ford Mondeo TDCI where piston no. 2 broke in half, another Mondeo TDCI from 2004 where the turbo comitted suicide, i myself have a 1967 Chevy El Camino with electrical issues but thats expected after 53 years. Point is my dads been driving his Monte Carlo for a long time and has never had any issues with it and we even use it for road trips, last time was from Denmark to Amsterdam, and back witch i belive is about 1800 km. Funny thing is that its also more comfortable and economical than his Volvo
@Fred Jansen American cars of the 80s were overall not the best, but there are definitely outliers. I think the entire Ford panther platform lineup were really solid cars, and did what they needed to exceptionally well. Not every vehicle needs to have sports car handling. Sometimes it can be very relaxing to drive a land yacht that just floats you along.
@@0tispunkm3y3r The W126 Mercedes S-class was designed and developed in the early 70s and produced into the early 90s. If the car being built that serves its purpose well- why not? Heck, the Beetle, which was designed in the mid-30s was still being produced into the start of the new millennium!
@nickys34 Rolls Royce a cheap one is 25000 used. And $3,000 a year maintenance cost. He can Bang on American cars all he wants. We make great mass production cars!
re: "If I'm honest, I actually like those cars." 1. Are you honest ?!? 2. Liking an 80's Vintage Lincoln Town Car is nothing to be ashamed of. 3. Are you the type that ends/starts sentences with, "To Be Honest ..." (??)
I drove a land yacht like this in the late 90s. You could fit like 8 bodies in the trunk and run over anything in the road and not feel it. Such a comfortable ride.
Even though it ended badly for his company, the build quality concerns Jeremy mentioned were among the many reasons John DeLorean left General Motors to found his own. He felt the two biggest investments in your life are your house and your car. The house should last your entire life and so should your car...but back then in the 70s domestically produced cars were barely lasting four years and that's when he felt like he didn't want to be a part of it anymore.
Eeesh, that would suck. I guess that explains why the Vista Cruiser on that 70s show was considered old on the show despite being less than 10 years old.
No, many lasted way more than 4 years. I had a 72 Caddy Coupe Deville in 1991 and it ran great. It was the small cars (Vega, Pinto etc) that American car companies whipped up quickly due to high gas prices that were junk.
@@hartfordsignpost589 Lee Iacocca saw what Ford Europe was doing with the Ford Escort and how it was consistently the best selling car in the UK and wanted to bring it over during the energy crisis. Henry Ford the Second was too proud to admit that the European arm of the company had come up better than what they had on the drawing board and shot down any plans to do that while he was still with the company. What we got stateside to fill the void the Escort was planning to fill, was the Pinto, and we all know how well that turned out. We wouldn’t get the Escort until the 80s and by then it was nothing like the ones they had in Europe.
A car should last your entire life? That philosophy was thrown out by Alfred P Sloan, who brought in the idea of changing your car every year like your hats and dresses, by making them subject to fashion. That was enforced by built-in obsolescence, which can't always be distinguished from low build quality. British Fords of that era started to rust within a year, as did all other popular cars. The engineers were aware of that, and carried on designing throw-away vehicles to keep the turnover high. Competition from Eastern Europe and later Japan and Korea got in the way of that.
@@faithlesshound5621 I’m well aware of Sloan’s “planned obsolescence” which came out of a direct result of fearing at how well the Ford Model T was selling that it would stagnate the car market with everyone buying and driving the same thing. Also yes I know that the Ford Cortina in particular had boughts with rust in the early 1970s but those issues were resolved by the 1972 model year. As best I know the Escort did not have the same issues.
I have owned a 1972 Pontiac Grandville, a 1974 Ford LTD, and a 1976 Buick Electra; all of them monstrous and gigantic cars, and I loved it. There's nothing like gliding by someone in a smaller car while they nervously eye the sheer mass of your vehicle passing them. You can't beat the feeling of invincibility driving one of these cars as you glide along the expressway, feeling and hearing nothing. Never mind that maneuvering one of these is like steering the titanic, or that filling the tank could bankrupt you; these cars were made for one purpose, to provide status to the owner.
Motor city executives were snorting cocaine, too. They blew it. Japan stole half their market share with better made cars. My parents bought a Toyota in something like 1974 and sold it 5 years later for more than they paid for it new....not allowing for inflation. I bought a used 1978 T-Bird and it was a boat, but it got me to the job site for a year. I sold it to somebody extra cheap, as he was going to give it to his daughter to go to college with. I felt sorry for the daughter.
@@HighlandLaddie - The quality was bad in the 70's and 80's, and that is one of the reasons Japan gained market share. Also, the bigness of cars was out of tune with the times. They had gas lines in the 70's, and people wanted fuel efficient cars. Inside the corporate world, you don't buck the corporate culture, which is determined by old guys. The culture in Detroit was behind the times and refused to require close tolerances for their parts. Also, the unions were too powerful, which affects the corporate culture even today, with the move to eliminate the American worker. Thus, corporations support the extreme leftists, to sweep the American worker under the bus, in favor of illegal aliens and building factories in Asia.
@@mu99ins yeah but those Toyota’s and datsuns from the 70’s didn’t last at all, but you’ll still see American cars from the 70’s because they had quality parts, unlike their Japanese counterparts which rusted like hell after 5 years
I worked as a car mechanic in the late 1960's and 1970's and I have to say he is correct about 1970's cars. Especially General Motors products. I don't know what went on with GM but the 60's cars were cool and 70's GM cars were junk and ugly.
I was a Chevrolet dealership technician from 1971-77 (of course we were called mechanics back then) and couldn't agree more about the quality (or lack thereof) in 70s GM cars. i never ceased being stunned at the things I found wrong with brand new cars. It was glaringly obvious that the assembly line workers didn't give a rat's ass about doing their job properly. I even found some of those beer cans inside doors and screws run through wire harnesses and half-eaten sandwiches under the carpets that I'd heard about but had always thought that stuff was just a myth.
@@jackwarren3080 : don't be stupid. Completely different cars. By 86 most were front wheel drive , smaller and lighter., although still pretty big. I had a 77 Olds and an 85 Olds. Very different cars. Build quality was much better in 85 as well.
I own a 1988 Lincoln Town Car and these are one of the best cars ever produced in America/Canada. The Panther platform was produced for over 30 years. They can run for 300k miles easily.
I'd love to drive my old 1975 Chevy Impala again. It was massive - a "boat" as many would call it - and seemed to just float on the highway. So comfortable. But so thirsty for gasoline.😌
dude i got a 1984 Caprice wagon, it's literally a heavy titanic tank and everything He mentioned was true, i love everything about my caprice, everything
I had a '77 Dodge Aspen wagon with the 360ci V8. It wasn't huge (at least for the era), but the suspension was definitely soft. The American cars of the era really didn't have much to compete with the European and Japanese imports, so they made the suspensions soft and used lots of plushy seat material to fool people into thinking they were buying "luxury".
I was born in '75, and my dad's first car was a Chevy Impala. Awesome car used to haul me and two great danes in the back seat. And it was brown. Great times.
I’ve got a 76 caprice and it’s probably the most comfortable to drive in terms of interior and the suspension isn’t terrible as well especially for 70s tech.
I just had to look that up: 12 mpg mixed roads (i.e. average). Compare that to my 2007 Pontiac G6 GT (following the Grand Am tradition) with a V6 VVT 3.5L (224 hp) gets 21mpg. Much better but damn...were we improving fuel economy very little in that time, considering the cars were manufactured 30+ years apart (and the Impala was no doubt heavier)
@@Luna_AlmondSF I wrote it, noticed the now obvious difference, and decided, aw fuck it. My “sleeping” in the late 70’s was in the back of a late 60’s Nova coupe. No luxury allowed. Then I a got a 79 Pontiac Parisienne/Bonnyville and it was like driving the sofa. By then I had a bed for “sleeping.”
Steve Rira If you paid any attention to the car, which you clearly did not, you would notice the exposed headlights which all Lincoln models (except the Continental) had from 1980 onward. You would've also noticed the rear end which is a post-1985 Lincoln Town Car design. But since you didn't pay any attention, you missed those obvious clues to the year of this car. Why don't you try watching a video before you try to prove somebody wrong about it's contents.
coolsdon Which modern American cars were designed in the 1970's? Last time I checked 1970's American cars had almost no safety features, got gas mileage under 10mpg, and were boxes on wheels.
No safety features? It was Chrysler, not Mercedes Benz, to offer the first car with ABS brakes, in the 1970's. General Motors, not European cars, was first to offer air bags, in the 1970's. Not to mention, American cars had better exterior lighting (front, rear, & side) they were the first cars to offer seat belts, first to have steering wheel locks, etc.
That particular model was built between 1985 and 1989. It was also available as a stretch limousine. I dare you to find a more elegant looking car today.
For me this Lincoln Town Car is just beautiful and it looks so comfortable. It doesn't beat the Continentals of that age and some US cars of the late 60th but it is ways more prettier than almost every car since the 80th. I understand why the design has changed (aerodynamic etc.) but it has made cars uglier.
Perhaps I am biased, but the hairstyles of the 70s & 80s were a lot cooler than the side-scalped, military styles of today. Today's haircuts look a lot like those of the late 1800s. Awful. That & the generic beards.
I worked on a few cars like this now and again in Australia in the late 60's and the 70's. They were absolutely unbelievable, massive. We could hardly get them into the workshop. Drove like crap, stopped like crap, handled like crap. Having said that, I would love to get hold of one today, make a great project car to restore, a time machine.
one of my best friends (malice-risu) had a 1970 Lincoln Continental. I actually found a Faygo can from 1969 under the trunk, duct tape on the fuel line, and a notecard inside the rearview mirror.
It makes a difference because the oil crisis was in 1973 and by 1986 gasoline was at an almost all time low in America when adjusted for inflation. God bless Ronald Reagan.
When Volvo launched the 750 series in Sweden, it was deemed to soft and swayy for Europe and almost undrivable, and the most sold uppgrade was a stiffer suspension. When it was sold in the US, they deemed the suspension too stiff and almost undriveable and the most sold uppgrade was softer suspension
Buddy of mine purchased a 1988, or 89 (I cant remember tbh) a Crown Vic LTD, basically a dummied down version of this car in a way. It has the 5.0 liter motor out of the mustang, but its not geared the same way which would be expected. And it has the interior you'd expect; red maroon color fabric seating, and plastic wood grain interior paneling. It looks and feels cheap. But you know what? It was one of the most fun vehicles Ive ever been a passenger in, and I dont know why. He let me drive it for a few minutes, and the brakes of all things surprised me, it was as soft as pillows. As many sports and luxury cars Ive been in, this was the most fun ride Ive ever had, playing the song Stylo, in the Baltimore Beltway at 2am in the morning, seeing the city in the background
This era is fascinating. I find it haunting, especially as I was a little kid seeing all these weird vehicles and terrible clothes and slicked down perfectly parted hair often with sideburns. My grandparents drove these big American made cars as proud Americans. They were hot in summer and you got sticky sitting on the big flat vinyl seats. The back seat was a room. No seat belts on us.
@@philthcollins3046 😆🤣 now it's illegal to part your hair. Okay, right, I get what you're saying. It's hard to describe in text what I was trying to say. I mean, especially my grandparents generation, you'd see these super combed slicked sculpted greased haircuts with sideburns and all that. Though that's really probably because they'd had the same haircut since the '50s.
Had a 69’ 4 door Chevy Bel Aire. My dad bought brand new in 69’ for 4K. Aftermarket ac unit installed under the dash where normally an 8track cassette player would go. Drove it many times once I got my license 76’. I absolutely loved it. Had a 327 v8. Bullet proof engine. I loved the boat feel of 70s cars. However gas back then was .36 cents a gallon so big V8s weren’t an issue.
I've driven a 1990 Mercury Grand Marquis. For being so soft, that's the point. It cured a back problem I had, and that's no joke. I slept funny, and I was walking funny. After I drove it for an hour or more, my muscle tension was all gone.
I'm from the APAC region so we pretty much exclusively drive Japanese imports and a few European brands. These older American cars are really fascinating because I've only ever experienced them through film; they have a "Hollywood Mystique" to them and seeing anyone in a left-side drive vehicle is always a head-turner on the streets over here.
As much as Top Gear complained about that car though, it was more comfortable than anything the hosts owned, including their 20,000 Euro couches. Unfortunately American sedans from the 70s-80s handled like beached yachts instead of cars. And as much as I love 70's trucks, modern dump trucks turn tighter than a late 70's Ram.
@@LegendStormcrow We're there good 70s malaise american cars that handled well? and what about the 80s 90s, were they any better? I'm trying to get one of these boxes just for their style, but handling is a concern.
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Might want to go for a sports, muscle, or pony car. They handled far better than anything else of the 70's. Almost anything from the 80's handled okay, and the 90's is mostly on par with the rest of the world. The 97-03 F150 handled like a car and was almost as smooth as modern Toyota Tundras. Still, you might wanna go for a Crown Vic. They have a history of being bullet proof. They don't handle great, but well enough for police chases and I've driven one with over a million KM on it. Over 800,000 miles to be more precise. If you were to drop a 70's body on a 90's Crown Victoria, I doubt many would fault you, especially if the 70's car wasn't savable.
@@LegendStormcrow Thanks for the infos, i do want a 70s "box yacht" car the most but i wouldn't mind 80s/90s, would you say the handling for a 70 malaise is manageable/get used to? Crown Vic especially police package was always a consideration tho they're pretty hard to find in good shape as well.
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Your more likely to find more modern Vics. I know they're hard to find in great shape, but they are gaining popularity beyond taxis and cruisers and are friggen TANKS! Many are actually still in service, though you sound like you'd want a prior generation of them. As for the giant 70's boxes, I don't have much experience, but probably hero cars from action movies. If a model was a hero car, it aught to be manageable. Everything else is unwieldy and slow.
"I bet the part in his hair was something to behold as well." Probably the best description of Ford's Vehicle Division President and Secretary of Defense under Kennedy Robert McNamara ever.
Wow congratulations, you watched Mr. Regular's review of his Falcon where he explains this joke. So you came here eight years after this was uploaded, one day after the joke was explained, to make this comment.
I automatically assumed he was talking about a Ford designer in the late 70s, when the 1st Generation Town Car he was standing by was being developed, and not describing Robert McNamara.
digitalrailroader Nope, he was describing McNamara. As head of the vehicle division, he was in charge of crunching numbers basically, this joke was towards him, especially the part in the hair section.
@@melvinharris7859 that’s interesting. ive been trying to compare this to a w126 s class and every review ive watched and read have mentioned the opposite in terms of build quality especially in the cabin
My parents owned Town Cars, Fully loaded ones from Signature, Presidential and Executive Series. They had one even with a factory option cell phone in the center console.All the way back to the older body style then this. Were awesome cars. L earned to drive in one. They handled like a dream,and plenty of power. Wish I could come across one in that kind of shape again
Those were the great ones I had a 96 town car edition of a golf player, several mercs grand marquis , and they were indestructible , the suspension take all the rough thingd without even feel it
Please look up the 1928 Chrysler Imperial. There is nothing to hate about a well rounded car. Did you ever drive a '68 Nova, and then drive a 1988 Nova? The very notion that general motors corporation would EVER introduce the idea of that turd-like engineering should be dis-embowelled!!!!!!, hung and un-petered!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kingy88 sure, but in that case you'd have to compare them to the hatchbacks of their time. Unfortunately there really isn't a modern equivalent of this type of car to compete with the hatchbacks. The closest you can get is a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Mercedes S Class, but they're really not the same thing at all.
@Kingy88 by the late 80s they weren't remarkable when compared to their European counterparts. In the 70s though (certainly the early 70s and 60s) they had more horsepower than the majority of modern cars, including V8s. Tons of room inside, unparalleled comfort and ride smoothness, excellent build quality and reliability, and useful features that that are still not offered on modern cars. Their looks are subjective of course, but I've always absolutely adored their styling, and at the time it was almost universally well received.
And it’s exactly how I wanted it.. all 70s cars handle just like you see in 70s car chase films.. Shame gta5 made all cars feel like plastic toys that turn on a dime, have no weight and re rotate in the air like a gymnast. Even the 70s cars know for being land yachts now handle like sports cars.
@@davidconde1521 It's related to the 1970s Town Car in as much as it's RWD, and it was built by Ford.🤔 So Was the Model "A". So, by that standard it's a 1920s car 😛
@@johnennis4586 The point isn't wether a newer or older car is better or worse, The point is not to criticize "jazz" by using "polka" as your example of "bad jazz".
@@trevor_mounts_music Well, they produce some of the fastest and most luxurious cars in the World. I wouldn't call Rolls Royce, McLaren, Lotus, Bentley, Range Rovers, Aston Martin, most of F1 cars "shit cars".
The Brits making fun of American cars is rich, especially when everyone knows what unreliable junk cars the Brits made in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s (I’m beginning to see a theme here), etc.
The Town Car was a dream to drive , very comfortable on long trip and you could put a keg in the trunk(boot). The cars of the mid 80s and 90s weren't good as the government really started to get involved in the auto industry
These Lincoln and Ford V-8s will get 400,000 miles or 644,000 km if you treat them right. They are the FAVOURITE choice of NYC Livery Drivers for just that reason! So, big yes, but luxurious to ride in.
@@bubblegumgun3292 It's not even the same platform if I remember correctly. Panther platform vs the full size ford platform. Not even the same model, town car didn't exist as a model in the 70's. So it seems pretty far off.
I dont know about cars, but I love the looks of that car. All angles and straight lines, free from all these curves that make cars look like eggs on wheels.
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Jeremy talking shit about the style of this car while wearing double denim and a permed mullet is hilarious
out of jealousy & envy
Clarkson is a professional shit talker.
both you and him are right though
@@ChiefofGeneralSfaff pretty much.
😂😂😂💀
Fun Fact: This was the inspiration behind GTA IV's driving physics.
A 85 Lincoln Town car was the inspiration for GTA IVs driving physics...
It's an weird and awesome fact
Well this video come out in October 2008 and gta 4 came out in April 2008! I know I got wooshed could it be that the original clip came out in the late 90s?
@@dernerdderkluge9079 Yes, the original clip was filmed in the 90s
@@WarCrimeGaming Oh than the joke is great!
@@WarCrimeGaming thanks
Had the "pleasure" of driving one of these a few years ago. Absolutely enormous, especially on english roads. To say that it handles like an 17th century frigate would be an understatement.
Did you have to tack? 🤣
I wouldn't want to drive one of those on English roads. Based on videos I've seen, there are country roads where both sides of that car would scrape the walls or hedges.
@@bradlemmond No it's awful. The car itself is more or less the same width as the lanes on most roads. And dont even bother going to a drive thru 😂😂😂
that´s why they were made for american roads
Enjoy driving your Morris Minor all the way across Nebraska. If you didn't know better, you might think they never even considered England when they were designing it!
Agreed, they stank. My dad, a WWII veteran, hated the Japanese and refused to buy anything made by them when we began looking for a new car in Fall 1977. After a long search, he was finally persuaded to enter a Honda dealership, where he inspected the then-new '78 Honda Accord hatchback. Dad, who was an engineer, was so impressed by the car's design, fit-and-and-finish (esp. as compared to the US competition he'd just surveyed) that he ordered one on the spot. We waited 3 months for delivery, but it was indeed an excellent car that lasted us for many years. The Japanese forgot nothing -- even the Owner's Manual was beautiful.
Yes, strange how it's now the Germans and Japanese who make the best cars 🤔
@@Calmdown1354 Good at one thing, not good at another.
@@jeromeglick to be fair mate, I live in the UK and I have been to the US, Germany and Japan. Germany is certainly a more organised efficient country, but not without it's problems. Japan on the other hand, those guys are on another level, and when I got home I realised we are never going to catch up!! 😂 I suppose it helps when you haven't spent the last 80 years fighting proxy wars!
@@Calmdown1354 From what I've heard, Japan has dropped a lot economically since their tech boom times of the '80s.
@@jeromeglick that's probably true, but they are certainly light years ahead of the UK/US, and the place runs like clockwork! I can't think of anywhere else in the world who exports more renowned high quality technology, although imagine S Korea aren't far off. But if you ever get a chance to go there, once you have been on their trains, and used their toilets, you will agree with me 😂😂
These were the cars I learned to drive on. Big heavy boats that were always "tacking" to the left or right. My dad spent his life swearing to never buy a Japanese car, but then the 70s came along and Detroit lost a third of their customers... permanently.
Seems to be a thing. Detroit ignored the Japanese until they couldn’t. Then it was too late so they asked the us Government to have a tariff. Next thing ya know Honda and Toyota have American plants and still ate GM’s lunch. American car makers went back to resting on their Laurels and along came a little startup called tesla. Now they are all promising 30 new cars in the next five year and swearing they’ll best tesla. Go back to sleep GM… it’s what you’re good at. Keep dreaming you are the leader.
@@ai4px GM quit electric cars business back in the 1990s when they sold the Nickel-metal Hydride Battery patents to chevron other wise we would all ready have electric cars more main stream
@@punker4Real It’s funny… The 18 650 sell that used in Tesla model S today was developed in the mid-1990s. GM refused to try it and scrapped the ev1. Some out of work engineers from gm created ac propulsion which became tesla…. Using batteries that were available during ev1. Gm got an exemption from California air resource board and called in ev1’s that were leased to be crushed. They began to sell hummers instead.
Are you from any country
well gmc is chinese now. true.
I find it funny he is making fun of that car with a haircut like that.
😂
He looks like a 1970s car reviewer actually 🤣
with a haircut like that he fits right in with the usa
Was thinking the same thing lol
Times change mate. You might have a fresh fade now but back then this was looked at in the same way.
The irony of using this Town Car as an example of a 70s barge, is that it first came out in 1981
Right????
Well then the question should be why did 1980s American cars look so old and outdated
Even worse then
@@c.d.c9425 because the 80s were generally the dark ages for the American automotive industry 👎 but in the 70s we still produced some decent cars
1980 model year, not the 1981. The car Jeremy is driving was a 1985-1987. In 1985 Lincoln had a mild face lift. The only difference between the 3 model years, was the 1985 had difference dash color and it didn't have the center brake light. I can't tell from the video which if the 3 model years it was.
This was filmed in 1994. You can see a billboard for the movie Natural Born Killers in the background at 1:21. That movie came out in August of '94
Exactly 30 years ago
Oh wow NBK? Isn't that the movie that Dylan Klebold and Harric Harris celebrated as some kind of prophecy for themselves?
1994 was also the year where Nine Inch Nails reached its peak. It marked the release of "The Downward Spiral" and their work on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers.
@@kaystephan2610 They were also really into the industrial rock band (like Nine Inch Nails) KMFDM, who heavily distanced themselves from those two for obvious reasons.
@@MachFiveFalconit was also the year kurt kobain turned kurt gobang
70's muscle cars:
1. Sexy to look at.
2. 1.5 miles to the gallon.
If it was a car made after emissions regulations neutered engines in 1972: All of the above and 150ish horsepower from a 500 cubic inch engine.
The only muscle in the 70s were the T/A 6.6 and the HD T/A. Because Pontiac didn’t give a rip about emissions.. they may have been “down” on power through underrated numbers. They could pull a home off its foundation.
3. V 8 M O D U R
Those weren't muscle cars lol.
@@cefb8923 These kids think a big engine it must go. Nah 70s “muscle” was making non turbo non performance 4 cyl hp.
Jeremy actually does a pretty good hillbilly impression lol
He does...
It's all hillbilly except ny and la for the rest of the world.
DoughRayMe sounded like a totally different person haha
@ggg, wouldn't call it Midwestern; take it from a Midwesterner.
Sounds like jay leno
You know the irony is, well besides that British cars of the 70's were also complete crap, was that Britain actually did make a car with a square wheel.
+Joel Schembri Neither am I, I fully acknowledge that 1970's American cars are crap.
Kevin Beh Kok Chong I imagine this is because these were the last of true muscle cars of the era, plus it's the the power and straight line performance, they insist upon, not handling.
Yes indeed, but Germany and Japan were making some pretty sweet shit in the 70s. At least somewhere in the world the car was thriving in that era.
No they haven''t, just because they were made for a different environment for different customers doesn't make them bad.
I can a test that's not exactly true, it depended on the company and the time, I have a 53 Hudson and it runs like a charm, and I wouldn't call them ugly, that's my personal preference, plus the regular cars of Europe at the time were rather austere looking, yet again preference.
When I was a very young boy, I remember my Grandfather buying these type of cars and remember this one is much smaller than the ones built in the 70's. The people that bought these new at the time were born from 1900 to maybe 1920 so they were far from driving enthusiasts. Now on to this generation chassis, my Dad had a LTD Ford Crown Victoria unmarked police package car in the late 80's that was actually a boatload of fun with the 5.0 small block and stuff cop suspension. It was grey with red vinyl interior. Very cool car.
Lincoln Mark 7 LSC was about the best car of its generation and type.
Oddly enough, I bet James May would love that car.
Good point. Now if we can only keep him from getting lost....
I would love that car.
Not really, he'd think it's vulgar and preposterous.
appelpower1 nah nah, ghopping
I agree. He loved his Cadillac on that road trip they did despite all its faults! Jeremy loved his Camaro and Hammond loved his pick up truck too!
I love these big old cars, it's like a living room on wheels 😂
Amen
Thats because you never drove a car like that in anywhere but american roads lmao you would hate this car in EU roads 😂
@@pedrosilvaproductions I'm from Slovenia and I knew a 1978 black Cadillac Eldorado which I once saw parked outside an apartment complex and then a gas station. I also saw another one in the capital and I was surprised when the car did a sharp turn without crashing on the road, near an intersection.
@@pedrosilvaproductions correct they are quintessentially American. Indicitave of excess and comfort and being BIG. If you have driven in the U.S.A in one of these you would fall in love with it.
@@scottdodge6979 oh yeah ofc
Im just saying its not suited to EU roads not that it wouldnt be a good car
Cut to Richard Hammond:
This car is brilliant! Whoever designed this knew what they were doing!
Well he is a secret American.
Dang! a Detroit road without potholes?? What a time to be alive
They found the only stretch of road in all of south eastern Michigan that looked like that and filmed it.
In most Villages in England that would block the whole road
Might actually take down small buildings if taken a corner.
Ian Townsend hahahahahahahahahaha
'MERICA
it would be a house. its designed like one, it's the size of one, it moves like one...
That's why you live in Kansas, Nebraska, or Wyoming.
1:17 GTA IV's driving physics in a nutshell
Yep, and still for some reason I loved it...
It is quite bouncy but the best physics in a GTA game to date
In my opinion at least
@@AaroMesa tbh, the only open world game with better driving physics for me would be mafia 2. People bash gta4 physics, but every other open world game has such bland driving, i almost fall asleep. imo Gta 4 has some of the best driving in an open world game, people are just too used to their cars having infinite grip and reaching top speed in 2 seconds
@@meninao5916 Me too... it felt more... realistic?
Or maybe I should just pop in Driver 1 to get my fix of 70's shitboxes sliding around...
@@luckyduckydrivingschool3615 YEEES!! That's exactly why I liked it so much, the suspension specially felt quite real...
and man... oohh the memories from Driver 2... those physics... those cars, Havana... hahaha still have the game and the PS1 hehe
To be fair, there's a lot of legitimate reasons why the era from about 1974-1983 was called the Malaise era for American cars. Between emissions requirements, the pressure to build cars "cheaper" (like paint that you could buff through with a wet rag without much effort) and the horrific quality control, it's amazing that any US automaker survived.
Are you from any country
@@وليدخالد-ص7ه2و ?Why, are you looking for a scam
@@وليدخالد-ص7ه2و Yes, we are from a country
If Americans didn’t buy American cars out of national pride then the auto industry would have died here. Chrysler would have been the only one to survive, and that’s because they were smart enough to build the K car
The boxy look is also because you needed to do the welding by hand and welding flat surfaces is easier than angled surfaces. Modern robots have have thin arms that can have over 7 joints so they can reach any part you need.
What’s funny is these cars were actually pretty exceptional when it came to longevity. They are very simple to work on and tend to rust less than earlier 70s and 60s cars. The problem is they have the aerodynamic qualities of a brick and get 20mpg max lol though modern pickups aren’t much better…
Stick a 6.5 Turbo Diesel in, and you're good for 40 MPG HWY. Of course, the Diesel costs more these days.
I said 6.5, which is a different version of the 6.2 Diesel. I did not say the darn 5.7 that G.M. cheaped out on in the early years.
@@101Volts Hell yeah, I've thought about doing that. When I have the money, I'd like to find a chasis of one of these boats and put in a fuel-efficient turbo diesel
@@101Volts Don't you need to change the transmission and/or rear end gear ratio to be able to drive at a halfway decent speed?
How would a turbocharged 6.5L GM Detroit Diesel get 40 mpg though? I thought it was 20 mpg max.
6.5 was junk
They were called “boats” for a reason...
@Dat Boii That would be because they still are undrivable boats
The early 70's were alot bigger
i dont get it explain the joke pls
@@pot6577
Imagine stepping onto a boat from a dock… It would kind of roll side to side and kind of slide out from underneath you...That is about how the American cars up until recently felt like when you were driving them.
They were also very large. My first car was 18 feet long, or about 5.5 m!
* Land yachts
If you ever absolutely need to drive a couch, the Lincoln Town Car was that couch.
And it was bliss.
The one used in the video wasn't bad, but had nothing on my 73 Chrysler Newport.
I remember my first car - it was a 1989 Ford LTD Crown Vic I bought in 2005 for 5000 dollars. I loved that thing.
My old Buick LeSaber was a wonderful couch with wheels
I moved from England in tge eighties. Initially I bought small shit cars that reminded me of home. But after getting acclimated I bought an Olds Cutlass . Fantastic. The hood ornament was 400 miles away and felt like a bomb sight as you cruised down the road. You literally melted into the bench seat. I couldn't afford the 442 with bucket seats. But I loved that car. Came with the V6. So underpowered it would start rolling backwards on a steep hill.
Good by Oldsmobile. Those were the days!
Yes, I would pick a Lincoln, Chrysler or Cadillac over a 70's mainstream British car any day. They were badly built (when the workers weren't on strike) and under powered. No wonder Datsun and Toyota had a field day cleaning up. None of these comments apply to the Jaguar XJ6 though. That has to be the most gorgeous car ever produced by anybody anywhere.
I love your stuff, but that is an eighties model Lincoln. 70's were much larger. Keep in mind, those big cars were designed for long highway cruising in the USA, bringing you the comfort of your living room, on the highway.
The 1970s ones have a cooler body style.
But why the hell is this monster called "town car"?
Because America isn't 5 square kilometres unlike 99.99% of European countries.
Yeah but 70s American boats used a lot of oil! It’s enough to get deaf by Greta Thunberg
top gear wrong ??? never haha
I'd drive one of those land yachts in a heartbeat. I grew up around car's like that. In the 70's & 80's if a family had money they had a large American car in the driveway. If not they had a Japanese or Korean car. Back in the 80's my Dad had a Ford LTD with a 351 that was built. That car could tow & lay rubber like nobody's business. Good childhood memories.
Yes, sit on one of those comfy couches with your girl next to you, air and stereo on cruising down the highway nothing better.
Your parents were rich, that is why.
@@gteixeira Another know nothing comments.
@@deezer-vj1ei I know very well, it is not the first time.
The Mullett really makes the Hillbilly impression sing.
It could also get his ass kicked.
LOL
@Bkzy _ well it’s certainly not hard to miss
Makes him look like one of those church singers
That's not a 70's Town Car though. More like a mid-80's model. A 79 Town Car was even bigger.
Late 80s actually. Appears to be a 1989. Yes, the same year as a first-year Mercedes-Benz R129. What a complete and utter joke.
They were all just as badly engineered. Doesn't really matter. No power but still guzzled gas like mad, squeaked, rattled, leaked when it rained and grew mildew. What an utter embarrassment that we built these and had the nerve to call them luxury cars. Sure you got one every now and then that by chance was reliable, but that was far from normal.
@@jblyon2 ... re: above rant. Do you ever have anything POSITIVE to say/write about anything in life ?!?
@@warriormanmaxx8991 Of course. I own a Toyota.
@@jblyon2 ahh, that's why you're pissed.
Most cars are designed to work for a specific area. In the 70s, alot of America was nothing but long roads with big cities hundreds of miles apart. So a nice comfortable car to sit in for those long rides was ideal.
Did not hear about him complaining about the suspension i mean c'mon how is being swayed up and down or side to side sound comfortable
Traversing these long roads in huge moving trampoline with ridiculous v8 getting, what maybe an eye watering 10mpg?! US vehicles have wasted so much fuel during the last 6 or so decades, even to this day making huge SUV's with ludicrously huge engines!!
Soar Alba! Actually it got 21MPG 24HWY it was a 5.0 Ford 302 emissions engine, ALSO, the suspensions aren’t that trampoliney
Soar Alba! I’d recommend you drive one of these before you actually comment
@@johnlightbody9942
What is so ludicrously large about the 6.8l v10 in my Ford Excursion SUV?
It gets good gas mileage too: a whole 5 miles to the gallon in the city.
I have had one of these (a 1987 model) as my daily driver for almost 7 years now and it has absolutely been the most amazing car I've ever owned. Slow, but reliable, comfortable, and a pleasure to drive
This. When you are just doodling around the town, there isn't much that's more comfortable. It's useless to pinpoint the sway when turning or pitching during braking. You don't drive this like M5 on the 'ring.
And then when you get this to the highway blast through continent, you realize how supernaturally comfortable the seats are, and how effortlessly it runs. Between the fuel stops.
Jeremy and other journos are a big reason why we got the fidgety, overtly sporty cars after maybe late '90's and onwards.
There is a place for sporty cars, but there sure should be place for comfortable average guys family cars, too.
"Got me a car an it's as big as a whale, and we're about to set sail"
No no, that was a Chrysler that seats about 30.
Tiiiiin rooof .......rusted.......
"got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20 so hurry up, and bring your jukebox money!"
@@B1Springfield 20*
that's from that song. Love Shack by the B52's.
Jeremy: American cars are overweight and undersprung.
Me: So am I.
@@janetmerner3731 I grew up in a 75 Plymouth - the ride was bad but clearly the dampers in that Lincoln were shot or removed from the car.
WEAK
@@cambellschunky704 Were you born in that Plymouth, too?
@@ReroutedYearAD Actually I was
@@janetmerner3731 My father had a 78 Mercury Marquis and a 79 Cadillac Factory Limo, neither rode like that.
1970s engineer: "Damnit Myrtle I can't figure out how to make the wheel square... Round wheel ruins the whole car"
Tesla engineer: "hold my beer"
You are a npc
BMC solved that problem with the "quartic" steering wheel of the 1973 Austin Allegro.
Tesla engineer: "THIS BLOWED UP REAL GOOD!"
*”We finally made the steering wheel square, but now the damn car is round! Are we not able to have both!?”*
I can't even identify what that accent was, other than the Australian State of Alabama.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s so I have a fondness for cars of that era. What I really miss are the full size personal luxury cars: Thunderbird, Cougar, Continental, Cordoba, Coupe de Ville. By the late 70’s they were underpowered though.
If you were driving them as race cars, yeah, they'd feel pretty slow. ~150 HP doesn't make for sporty acceleration.
But for normal driving, they'd still be adequate; their torque is still close to today's engines, which makes them reasonably responsive under mundane conditions.
@@dudejoYou can easily get rid of the emissions to make more power too. They might be gas guzzlers but their reliable and simple
@@dudejo you’d struggle to get up to modern day motorway speed limits in most of them.
@@S4KCx sorry but that's a completely unrealistic statement.
I drive a Ford Transit 350 for work. It's powered by a standard V6 and is often loaded up to 4,000 kg.
It's obviously no speed demon but the typical acceleration ramps are almost always enough to reach the local 60 MPH highway limits before I merge on.
Those highway cruisers are not only much lighter than the truck, they have larger displacement engines. I'm very confident in their ability to accelerate as needed.
@@S4KCxLet me guess: you’ve never owned one?
Fun fact: the square wheel ended up being made by the British for the austin allegro...
I love Clarkson’s video for that too.
You should see the hexagonal one on the latest Peugeot Partner
@@TheDeeplyCynical or rather you shouldn't.
@@zloychechen5150 shut up, he should.
@twinblade98 shut up, he should
It’s one of the cars Danny DeVito would try to sell in Matilda.
But not in Deck the Halls.
Damn, I always think of him when I see these 70’s, 80’s cars
Not epic. Legendary.
It makes me want to say
"Thank you, Mr Arkavano"
The shock absorbers in this video were removed for comical effect. 🙄
Me: Innocently watching a video.
Jeremy Clarkson: "sharing a waterbed with a baboon doused in itching powder." ☠
I saw this right as he said that
Oh my goodness Ahaha he has a hell of an imagination with those creative metaphors 🤣🤣🤣
So what his wife experiences then.
I’m eating a bowl of cereal right now and it’s safe to say that I spit it out upon hearing that
😂😂😂😂😂
I remember watching this as a kid in the 90s and believing the suspension really was this bad and it wasn't just him wiggling the steering wheel as he drove and people off camera pushing the car up and down at 1:05.
He’s just pumping the brakes to make it do that
@@bobsmithinson2050Yes, he pumps the brakes as he stops but when the car has stopped there must be men pushing it up and down.
@@gmann6269 used to have an old Lincoln, the suspension is so wobbly that you can just sit there in drive with your foot on the brake, and pump it, you can build a rhythm getting to to bounce dramatically with zero help. I’m not saying you’re wrong as we will never know if people were punching or not, but I’m stating that it’s entirely possible to do what he did with pumping the brakes alone. Also, it’s hard to notice, but he’s advancing forward an inch or less with each pump
@@bobsmithinson2050 I mean, clearly this car has pretty wobbly suspension if it has that much body roll from some fairly gentle swerving.
@@gmann6269 The reason *why* is likely a case of *no shocks being installed.* They probably removed them for comedic effect, while not telling you.
My father had a thing for big 70's boats, I took my drivers test in a 77 Malibu Wagon, the great thing was you weren't all sitting on top of each other, and you didn't need a truck for everything, between that Malibu and 78 Mercury Marquis we hauled a lot of stuff and towed an 18 foot boat no problem.
And the Malibu was considered mid-sized!
Any pics??
@@Argiedan Sadly no.
I miss those Malibus.
70s American cars actually pretty cool, not every car needs to be tuned to go around a race track. Driving a nice, floaty cruiser is a very relaxing experience for long journeys. Also, he's reviewing a 1986 Lincoln Town Car when talking about 70s cars, lol.
Would it have been designed in the 70s though? And then they just kept making it because "that'll do"
Roads are very straight in america in comparison
@Fred Jansen I can't really agree with that, my dad has a 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a 229ci V6 and belive it or not but it's actually the most reliable car in our family, and even beats his 1996 Volvo 940 because of a fuel gage that refuses to do it's job, and i'm talking from experience, we've had a 2012 Chevy Spark and the door handles kept breking on the rear doors so you can't open them from the inside, a 2015 Kia Rio where the radio would continue to break and fix itself and would somtimes refuse to lock when you tried to, a 2011 Alfa Romeo Mito with power steering issues that comes and goes frequently, a 2006 Ford Mondeo TDCI where piston no. 2 broke in half, another Mondeo TDCI from 2004 where the turbo comitted suicide, i myself have a 1967 Chevy El Camino with electrical issues but thats expected after 53 years. Point is my dads been driving his Monte Carlo for a long time and has never had any issues with it and we even use it for road trips, last time was from Denmark to Amsterdam, and back witch i belive is about 1800 km. Funny thing is that its also more comfortable and economical than his Volvo
@Fred Jansen American cars of the 80s were overall not the best, but there are definitely outliers. I think the entire Ford panther platform lineup were really solid cars, and did what they needed to exceptionally well. Not every vehicle needs to have sports car handling. Sometimes it can be very relaxing to drive a land yacht that just floats you along.
@@0tispunkm3y3r The W126 Mercedes S-class was designed and developed in the early 70s and produced into the early 90s. If the car being built that serves its purpose well- why not? Heck, the Beetle, which was designed in the mid-30s was still being produced into the start of the new millennium!
If I’m honest, I actually like those cars.
@nickys34 Rolls Royce a cheap one is 25000 used. And $3,000 a year maintenance cost. He can Bang on American cars all he wants. We make great mass production cars!
@@williamsample2631 good joke
@@williamsample2631 Yea no
Same
re: "If I'm honest, I actually like those cars." 1. Are you honest ?!? 2. Liking an 80's Vintage Lincoln Town Car is nothing to be ashamed of. 3. Are you the type that ends/starts sentences with, "To Be Honest ..." (??)
I drove a land yacht like this in the late 90s. You could fit like 8 bodies in the trunk and run over anything in the road and not feel it. Such a comfortable ride.
I miss when cars dont all look like eggs with no sharp edges
Me too
Me too, I’m 18, but I wish those cars were around today
When I was a kid and I first starting seeing them I always called them egg cars. I grew up with minivans and sedans.
It’s like you didn’t watch this video
Well, yes but for sure I don't miss the time when cars looked like they were put in a hydraulic press before selling them
Even though it ended badly for his company, the build quality concerns Jeremy mentioned were among the many reasons John DeLorean left General Motors to found his own. He felt the two biggest investments in your life are your house and your car. The house should last your entire life and so should your car...but back then in the 70s domestically produced cars were barely lasting four years and that's when he felt like he didn't want to be a part of it anymore.
Eeesh, that would suck. I guess that explains why the Vista Cruiser on that 70s show was considered old on the show despite being less than 10 years old.
No, many lasted way more than 4 years.
I had a 72 Caddy Coupe Deville in 1991 and it ran great.
It was the small cars (Vega, Pinto etc) that American car companies whipped up quickly due to high gas prices that were junk.
@@hartfordsignpost589 Lee Iacocca saw what Ford Europe was doing with the Ford Escort and how it was consistently the best selling car in the UK and wanted to bring it over during the energy crisis. Henry Ford the Second was too proud to admit that the European arm of the company had come up better than what they had on the drawing board and shot down any plans to do that while he was still with the company. What we got stateside to fill the void the Escort was planning to fill, was the Pinto, and we all know how well that turned out. We wouldn’t get the Escort until the 80s and by then it was nothing like the ones they had in Europe.
A car should last your entire life? That philosophy was thrown out by Alfred P Sloan, who brought in the idea of changing your car every year like your hats and dresses, by making them subject to fashion. That was enforced by built-in obsolescence, which can't always be distinguished from low build quality.
British Fords of that era started to rust within a year, as did all other popular cars. The engineers were aware of that, and carried on designing throw-away vehicles to keep the turnover high. Competition from Eastern Europe and later Japan and Korea got in the way of that.
@@faithlesshound5621 I’m well aware of Sloan’s “planned obsolescence” which came out of a direct result of fearing at how well the Ford Model T was selling that it would stagnate the car market with everyone buying and driving the same thing. Also yes I know that the Ford Cortina in particular had boughts with rust in the early 1970s but those issues were resolved by the 1972 model year. As best I know the Escort did not have the same issues.
"Dammit myrtle" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have owned a 1972 Pontiac Grandville, a 1974 Ford LTD, and a 1976 Buick Electra; all of them monstrous and gigantic cars, and I loved it. There's nothing like gliding by someone in a smaller car while they nervously eye the sheer mass of your vehicle passing them. You can't beat the feeling of invincibility driving one of these cars as you glide along the expressway, feeling and hearing nothing. Never mind that maneuvering one of these is like steering the titanic, or that filling the tank could bankrupt you; these cars were made for one purpose, to provide status to the owner.
"the feeling of invincibility" - unfortunately, that's all it was: a feeling. Today's vehicles are much more survivable.
@@MrSunrise- made out of plastic? These old cars can hold up at 100mph in an accident and still be fine. Id do some research bud
@squipman2194 Yea the car will be fine, YOU will not.
The great American manufacturers had mafioso, hustlers, pimps and all other entrepreneurial endeavors in mind. Style and plenty of trunk space.
My brother had a friend in high school with a 69 Imperial. He had a "Mafia Hit Car" license plate on the front.
Motor city executives were snorting cocaine, too. They blew it. Japan stole half their market share with better made cars. My parents bought a Toyota
in something like 1974 and sold it 5 years later for more than they paid for it new....not allowing for inflation. I bought a used 1978 T-Bird and it was a boat,
but it got me to the job site for a year. I sold it to somebody extra cheap, as he was going to give it to his daughter to go to college with. I felt sorry for the
daughter.
@@HighlandLaddie - The quality was bad in the 70's and 80's, and that is one of the reasons Japan gained market share. Also, the bigness of cars was out of tune with the times. They had gas lines in the 70's, and people wanted fuel efficient cars. Inside the corporate world, you don't buck the corporate culture, which is determined by old guys. The culture in Detroit was behind the times and refused to require close tolerances for their parts. Also, the unions were too powerful, which affects the corporate culture even today, with the move to eliminate the American worker. Thus, corporations support the extreme leftists,
to sweep the American worker under the bus, in favor of illegal aliens and building factories in Asia.
**boot space**
@@mu99ins yeah but those Toyota’s and datsuns from the 70’s didn’t last at all, but you’ll still see American cars from the 70’s because they had quality parts, unlike their Japanese counterparts which rusted like hell after 5 years
I worked as a car mechanic in the late 1960's and 1970's and I have to say he is correct about 1970's cars. Especially General Motors products. I don't know what went on with GM but the 60's cars were cool and 70's GM cars were junk and ugly.
The "Colonnade" styling from '73 to '77 was a looker, though. Especially the Malibu.
I was a Chevrolet dealership technician from 1971-77 (of course we were called mechanics back then) and couldn't agree more about the quality (or lack thereof) in 70s GM cars. i never ceased being stunned at the things I found wrong with brand new cars. It was glaringly obvious that the assembly line workers didn't give a rat's ass about doing their job properly. I even found some of those beer cans inside doors and screws run through wire harnesses and half-eaten sandwiches under the carpets that I'd heard about but had always thought that stuff was just a myth.
1970 was the last good year because cars of that model year came out in 1969. Look at the 1970 deville convertible for example
* '70s, '80's, '90s and early 2000s GM cars were junk and ugly.... except for the Corvettes.
@@PistonAvatarGuy c4s were ugly
He should have a 78 Lincoln instead of an 86 if he's gonna be talking about 70s cars
Is the 86 different? Probably worse
They downsized for 1979. This is a fairly small car, somewhere around eighteen feet long, whereas a 1978 is closer to 20.
@@jackwarren3080 : don't be stupid. Completely different cars. By 86 most were front wheel drive , smaller and lighter., although still pretty big. I had a 77 Olds and an 85 Olds. Very different cars. Build quality was much better in 85 as well.
"most were front wheel drive" so I'm right then.
@@jackwarren3080 : completely useless statement.
I own a 1988 Lincoln Town Car and these are one of the best cars ever produced in America/Canada.
The Panther platform was produced for over 30 years. They can run for 300k miles easily.
I'd love to drive my old 1975 Chevy Impala again. It was massive - a "boat" as many would call it - and seemed to just float on the highway. So comfortable. But so thirsty for gasoline.😌
dude i got a 1984 Caprice wagon, it's literally a heavy titanic tank and everything He mentioned was true, i love everything about my caprice, everything
I had a '77 Dodge Aspen wagon with the 360ci V8. It wasn't huge (at least for the era), but the suspension was definitely soft. The American cars of the era really didn't have much to compete with the European and Japanese imports, so they made the suspensions soft and used lots of plushy seat material to fool people into thinking they were buying "luxury".
I was born in '75, and my dad's first car was a Chevy Impala. Awesome car used to haul me and two great danes in the back seat. And it was brown. Great times.
I’ve got a 76 caprice and it’s probably the most comfortable to drive in terms of interior and the suspension isn’t terrible as well especially for 70s tech.
I just had to look that up: 12 mpg mixed roads (i.e. average). Compare that to my 2007 Pontiac G6 GT (following the Grand Am tradition) with a V6 VVT 3.5L (224 hp) gets 21mpg. Much better but damn...were we improving fuel economy very little in that time, considering the cars were manufactured 30+ years apart (and the Impala was no doubt heavier)
Those huge cars were so much fun to drive and were great for "sleeping" in 😉
Lmao
Doing both at once was the key to better living back then. The suspension lean was there to wake you up when you nodded off.
@@markstevens1729 yeah, but I think that person meant something else lol
@@Luna_AlmondSF I wrote it, noticed the now obvious difference, and decided, aw fuck it. My “sleeping” in the late 70’s was in the back of a late 60’s Nova coupe. No luxury allowed. Then I a got a 79 Pontiac Parisienne/Bonnyville and it was like driving the sofa. By then I had a bed for “sleeping.”
@@markstevens1729 alright alright lol
"it's circular, it ruins the whole car" ahahahahahh
My 88 Town Car never swayed like that. The body on this one is just riding on the coils.
Titled "1970s American Cars"
Shows a review on a 1980s Lincoln
CaptainB52 Which would have been developed in the 70's...much like all 'murican cars still are today.
CaptainB52 this Lincoln was produced in 1978
Steve Rira If you paid any attention to the car, which you clearly did not, you would notice the exposed headlights which all Lincoln models (except the Continental) had from 1980 onward. You would've also noticed the rear end which is a post-1985 Lincoln Town Car design. But since you didn't pay any attention, you missed those obvious clues to the year of this car. Why don't you try watching a video before you try to prove somebody wrong about it's contents.
coolsdon Which modern American cars were designed in the 1970's? Last time I checked 1970's American cars had almost no safety features, got gas mileage under 10mpg, and were boxes on wheels.
No safety features? It was Chrysler, not Mercedes Benz, to offer the first car with ABS brakes, in the 1970's. General Motors, not European cars, was first to offer air bags, in the 1970's. Not to mention, American cars had better exterior lighting (front, rear, & side) they were the first cars to offer seat belts, first to have steering wheel locks, etc.
0:46 - I like that ‘American’ accent :)
Yeah, its so funny.
This car would look so much better with the square steering wheel from the allegro!
ever since I first saw this video I thought exactly the same thing
You read my mind!
SQUARE WHEELS TOO................LOL.
That particular model was built between 1985 and 1989. It was also available as a stretch limousine. I dare you to find a more elegant looking car today.
Peugeot 508
My dad had a '78 Town Car completely loaded. Not only was it beautiful, it rode like a magic carpet.
For me this Lincoln Town Car is just beautiful and it looks so comfortable. It doesn't beat the Continentals of that age and some US cars of the late 60th but it is ways more prettier than almost every car since the 80th. I understand why the design has changed (aerodynamic etc.) but it has made cars uglier.
I actually love cars that look like that. And Jeremy making fun of people's hair with that monstrosity. 😂
It's been said that Jeremy took the inspiration for his hair from the R&B group "Full Force" lol
Perhaps I am biased, but the hairstyles of the 70s & 80s were a lot cooler than the side-scalped, military styles of today. Today's haircuts look a lot like those of the late 1800s. Awful. That & the generic beards.
He looks like Bob ross
@@TacJam Yes! Lol!
Some say he took inspiration for his barnet from a 70s lady garden.
Its funny how the brits call our cars bad when yet their cars are 100 times worse for reliability and build quality
I think all countries are all eras have their good cars and bad cars.
I worked on a few cars like this now and again in Australia in the late 60's and the 70's. They were absolutely unbelievable, massive. We could hardly get them into the workshop. Drove like crap, stopped like crap, handled like crap. Having said that, I would love to get hold of one today, make a great project car to restore, a time machine.
If you restore it, why not turn it into an American style low rider?
@@LegendStormcrow nah turbo barra swap and mini tubs
You forgot a key detail - they RIDE awesome
@@mattc9875 Yes, that's true. They just floated along.
maybe take the time to put a modern day engine and other similar things in so it can last longer
"Damn it, Myrtle!" LOL
he does a good american accent impression, yes?
Ehhh. . .not particularly. However, he is a very funny man.
+Wei Wang No
+Wei Wang Actually yes...that is a solid Kentucky accent.
***** Most definitely not Tennessee.
+Nonya Damnbusiness Yeah people from Tennessee talk much more slowly.
one of my best friends (malice-risu) had a 1970 Lincoln Continental. I actually found a Faygo can from 1969 under the trunk, duct tape on the fuel line, and a notecard inside the rearview mirror.
I thought stuff like that didn’t start happening until 1973.
That is not a late 70's town car. It is '85 or later, look at the tail lamps.
Doesn't that make it even worse?
It doesnt matter. In fact, it even moreso demonstrates his point. The things 10 years newer than the cars his whinging about and its STILL as bad
It makes a difference because the oil crisis was in 1973 and by 1986 gasoline was at an almost all time low in America when adjusted for inflation. God bless Ronald Reagan.
My 1988 looks exactly the same
Even better, they didn't make the Town Car until 1981.
Ah yes, talk about American's hairs in the 70s when you yourself have an afro mullet.
Vaxtin needs a vaccine, hes spreading his toxic contagious virus around
@Gerson Guevara It's a joke you knobhead.
@Gerson Guevara "the Germans are in France! Egad, call the Americans." (x2)
@@Bluedevil82nd, yes! They might arrive by the time its over (x2)
@Gerson Guevara Since when did he say that? like at all?
Back when Jeremy's hair was all one color.....
@helicopter weewee bruh
It still is
Just a different color
1:23 “sir do you know why I pulled you over”
“I’m not drunk, it’s for RUclips”
I’m a valet driver and I absolutely love parking those cars with no suspension! It’s like being on a ride at Disneyland the way it bounces up and down
gonna be even more fun when driving on potholes and puddles
@@mohamedshahiderkara6758 It's bang and barf
When Volvo launched the 750 series in Sweden, it was deemed to soft and swayy for Europe and almost undrivable, and the most sold uppgrade was a stiffer suspension.
When it was sold in the US, they deemed the suspension too stiff and almost undriveable and the most sold uppgrade was softer suspension
740, but even then I think you mean 200 series, the 750 is a semi truck
@@lt.lasereyez8891 Yeah, typo, it was the 740 series, the 240 was kind of OK
@@someoneelse7629 the 740, did roll but so did the 940 years later
"we just filled it up, look what it did to this petrol station" 😂 it's gold
Buddy of mine purchased a 1988, or 89 (I cant remember tbh) a Crown Vic LTD, basically a dummied down version of this car in a way. It has the 5.0 liter motor out of the mustang, but its not geared the same way which would be expected. And it has the interior you'd expect; red maroon color fabric seating, and plastic wood grain interior paneling. It looks and feels cheap. But you know what? It was one of the most fun vehicles Ive ever been a passenger in, and I dont know why. He let me drive it for a few minutes, and the brakes of all things surprised me, it was as soft as pillows. As many sports and luxury cars Ive been in, this was the most fun ride Ive ever had, playing the song Stylo, in the Baltimore Beltway at 2am in the morning, seeing the city in the background
This era is fascinating. I find it haunting, especially as I was a little kid seeing all these weird vehicles and terrible clothes and slicked down perfectly parted hair often with sideburns. My grandparents drove these big American made cars as proud Americans. They were hot in summer and you got sticky sitting on the big flat vinyl seats. The back seat was a room. No seat belts on us.
yeah because people don't part their hair anymore apparently
@@philthcollins3046 😆🤣 now it's illegal to part your hair.
Okay, right, I get what you're saying. It's hard to describe in text what I was trying to say. I mean, especially my grandparents generation, you'd see these super combed slicked sculpted greased haircuts with sideburns and all that. Though that's really probably because they'd had the same haircut since the '50s.
I used to sit up front in the middle and still remember my grandpa using his arm as my seatbelt....
@@nextworldaction8828 i was gonna say since a lot of hairstyles for girls such as pigtails require you to part the hair lol
and fun to drive across america
Had a 69’ 4 door Chevy Bel Aire. My dad bought brand new in 69’ for 4K. Aftermarket ac unit installed under the dash where normally an 8track cassette player would go. Drove it many times once I got my license 76’. I absolutely loved it. Had a 327 v8. Bullet proof engine. I loved the boat feel of 70s cars. However gas back then was .36 cents a gallon so big V8s weren’t an issue.
Its called "petrol" not gas. A liquid cant be a gas.
In some countries gas is cheaper than USA back then
@@cowboytanaka6675 Gasoline is not a gas. It is a liquid.
@@cowboytanaka6675 gasoline is a old brand name based out of London England. So your the reason why call it gasoline
@@cowboytanaka6675 Everyone calls it gas(short for gasoline) in the US. We know that it is a liquid and not an actual gas.
You did not drive a Lincoln Town Car - you just pointed it. Drove like a tuna boat.
+Jeff Sartain You mean guided it... Like a large, complacent steer.
Try driving a tractor from the 1930s with worn steering. Hahaha. You don't steer it. You herd it.
Lmao! Tunaboat! Nickname for last ex.
I've driven a 1990 Mercury Grand Marquis. For being so soft, that's the point. It cured a back problem I had, and that's no joke. I slept funny, and I was walking funny. After I drove it for an hour or more, my muscle tension was all gone.
Probs smelled like one too
That car from 1976 is still on the road. While British cars from 1976 ended up in a junkyard in 1978
Good source of spares then!
Oh please. Old Minis are still running and are a lot more desirable than these wallowy brickboxes
I'm from the APAC region so we pretty much exclusively drive Japanese imports and a few European brands. These older American cars are really fascinating because I've only ever experienced them through film; they have a "Hollywood Mystique" to them and seeing anyone in a left-side drive vehicle is always a head-turner on the streets over here.
As much as Top Gear complained about that car though, it was more comfortable than anything the hosts owned, including their 20,000 Euro couches.
Unfortunately American sedans from the 70s-80s handled like beached yachts instead of cars.
And as much as I love 70's trucks, modern dump trucks turn tighter than a late 70's Ram.
@@LegendStormcrow We're there good 70s malaise american cars that handled well? and what about the 80s 90s, were they any better? I'm trying to get one of these boxes just for their style, but handling is a concern.
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Might want to go for a sports, muscle, or pony car. They handled far better than anything else of the 70's. Almost anything from the 80's handled okay, and the 90's is mostly on par with the rest of the world. The 97-03 F150 handled like a car and was almost as smooth as modern Toyota Tundras.
Still, you might wanna go for a Crown Vic. They have a history of being bullet proof. They don't handle great, but well enough for police chases and I've driven one with over a million KM on it. Over 800,000 miles to be more precise.
If you were to drop a 70's body on a 90's Crown Victoria, I doubt many would fault you, especially if the 70's car wasn't savable.
@@LegendStormcrow Thanks for the infos, i do want a 70s "box yacht" car the most but i wouldn't mind 80s/90s, would you say the handling for a 70 malaise is manageable/get used to? Crown Vic especially police package was always a consideration tho they're pretty hard to find in good shape as well.
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Your more likely to find more modern Vics. I know they're hard to find in great shape, but they are gaining popularity beyond taxis and cruisers and are friggen TANKS! Many are actually still in service, though you sound like you'd want a prior generation of them.
As for the giant 70's boxes, I don't have much experience, but probably hero cars from action movies. If a model was a hero car, it aught to be manageable. Everything else is unwieldy and slow.
"I bet the part in his hair was something to behold as well."
Probably the best description of Ford's Vehicle Division President and Secretary of Defense under Kennedy Robert McNamara ever.
Wow congratulations, you watched Mr. Regular's review of his Falcon where he explains this joke. So you came here eight years after this was uploaded, one day after the joke was explained, to make this comment.
douchechillum Hahah I done did a roasting
I automatically assumed he was talking about a Ford designer in the late 70s, when the 1st Generation Town Car he was standing by was being developed, and not describing Robert McNamara.
digitalrailroader Nope, he was describing McNamara. As head of the vehicle division, he was in charge of crunching numbers basically, this joke was towards him, especially the part in the hair section.
Did you notice Clarkson's hair?
I'm fine with the styling. The quality is a different issue
were the late 70s Lincoln’s built badly ?
@@melvinharris7859 that’s interesting. ive been trying to compare this to a w126 s class and every review ive watched and read have mentioned the opposite in terms of build quality especially in the cabin
@@fardinhooo funnily enough, a panther body lincoln tc very much reminded me of a w124/210 merc in the way it drives.
@@1234hijs They are handsome but not for the young
@M. Sami yet the lincoln in the video is bad. The suspension is worse
My parents owned Town Cars, Fully loaded ones from Signature, Presidential and Executive Series. They had one even with a factory option cell phone in the center console.All the way back to the older body style then this. Were awesome cars. L earned to drive in one. They handled like a dream,and plenty of power. Wish I could come across one in that kind of shape again
Those were the great ones I had a 96 town car edition of a golf player, several mercs grand marquis , and they were indestructible , the suspension take all the rough thingd without even feel it
one day we all gonna miss jeremy clarkson so much
yea, you have to admire his sense of humor and charm..
humour
+Ranveer Singh (Mr Singh) Long live India and The Commonwealth.
voitdive - you too.
Random Guy - like all great people.
Apparently Clarkson hasn't driven a British car from this era.
He hates those too.
Yes, he's a huge fan of the Morris Marina 🙄
Good luck finding one that still drives
not only from that era - british cars bad
Dont be silly, we never made any cars in the 70s, the factories were all on strike.
I love those cars. They have style. Not like today's rounded hatchbacks.
Please look up the 1928 Chrysler Imperial. There is nothing to hate about a well rounded car. Did you ever drive a '68 Nova, and then drive a 1988 Nova? The very notion that general motors corporation would EVER introduce the idea of that turd-like engineering should be dis-embowelled!!!!!!, hung and un-petered!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tbh would prefer small hatchbacks any day over the pointless SUVs and crossovers car compaines make.
@@brettbrignac7591 a 1988 nova was actually a toyota tercel. a chevy spectrum was an isuzu as well as the s-10 blazers and pickups.
@Kingy88 sure, but in that case you'd have to compare them to the hatchbacks of their time. Unfortunately there really isn't a modern equivalent of this type of car to compete with the hatchbacks. The closest you can get is a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Mercedes S Class, but they're really not the same thing at all.
@Kingy88 by the late 80s they weren't remarkable when compared to their European counterparts. In the 70s though (certainly the early 70s and 60s) they had more horsepower than the majority of modern cars, including V8s. Tons of room inside, unparalleled comfort and ride smoothness, excellent build quality and reliability, and useful features that that are still not offered on modern cars. Their looks are subjective of course, but I've always absolutely adored their styling, and at the time it was almost universally well received.
Well now I know where Rockstar got their inspiration for vehicles handling from when developing GTA IV
And it’s exactly how I wanted it.. all 70s cars handle just like you see in 70s car chase films..
Shame gta5 made all cars feel like plastic toys that turn on a dime, have no weight and re rotate in the air like a gymnast. Even the 70s cars know for being land yachts now handle like sports cars.
Thumbnail for "Why '70s American cars were awful.." Shows an 80's car.
It’s an 80s car based directly from a late 70s model
@@davidconde1521 It's related to the 1970s Town Car in as much as it's RWD, and it was built by Ford.🤔 So Was the Model "A". So, by that standard it's a 1920s car 😛
They don't know shit from shinola
So a newer car is worse
@@johnennis4586 The point isn't wether a newer or older car is better or worse, The point is not to criticize "jazz" by using "polka" as your example of "bad jazz".
He’s saying that then, but today he was in love with his blue Lincoln coupe from the grand tour and he wanted to keep it too
I always find it hilarious when brits make fun of cars from other countries
They make fun of their own cars too. In fact, they make fun of everything.
Found the 50th triggered American
When for the most part they produce shit cars 😂
@@trevor_mounts_music Well, they produce some of the fastest and most luxurious cars in the World. I wouldn't call Rolls Royce, McLaren, Lotus, Bentley, Range Rovers, Aston Martin, most of F1 cars "shit cars".
Why when we make the best cars still?
His description of sharing a waterbed with a baboon doused in itching powder was absolutely hilarious
That's because it is the only thing that will get into bed with him
Obviously this car had no shock absorbers.
They had a Great ride. Super comfortable.
My town car had a surprisingly tight turning circle that made parking the beast a breeze.
You're right. Top Gear is a *comedy* show, and didn't they also modify the Robin Reliant so it would topple over more?
The Brits making fun of American cars is rich, especially when everyone knows what unreliable junk cars the Brits made in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s (I’m beginning to see a theme here), etc.
Hank's been triggered, nobody mention World Wars.
i'm pretty sure that there has been at least 1 top gear episode where they shit on british leyland
They made fun of British cars too, so much they made their own companies bankrupt.
You're not wrong. The Austin Princess defined just how terrible our cars were, closely followed by the Mini Metro.
@@Wally-H You're no Brit.
Owned a 68 Galaxie back in 82. What a Tank
80mph all day buzzing around Oz Cruise Ship style.
They're awesome
It also used fuel like a ship
Now that I'm old, I long for that marshmello ride.
And then, on the Grand Tour in 2021, Jeremy was asking why we didn't have these *incredible* cars here in the UK
The Town Car was a dream to drive , very comfortable on long trip and you could put a keg in the trunk(boot). The cars of the mid 80s and 90s weren't good as the government really started to get involved in the auto industry
Nice! A bank vault you can drive.
The difference is 1970s bank vaults were usually actually made well.
These Lincoln and Ford V-8s will get 400,000 miles or 644,000 km if you treat them right. They are the FAVOURITE choice of NYC Livery Drivers for just that reason! So, big yes, but luxurious to ride in.
Jeremy Clarkson is a complete twat about America and Americans, but he has a point about '70s cars.
saab story oh shut up it’s an opinion you pussy fart
@@tommaika9121 Ugly and underpowered too, but yes, very comfortable.
0:46 Best part
That’s not even a 70’s car. That Lincoln is from the mid to late 80’s based on the tail lights.
To be exact, likely a 1986 model of a Town Car.
@@DarkDragonRoselinde You've got quite the eye if you can pinpoint the year! Good job.
its based on the 70's model, i don't think they really car about that
@@bubblegumgun3292 It's not even the same platform if I remember correctly. Panther platform vs the full size ford platform. Not even the same model, town car didn't exist as a model in the 70's. So it seems pretty far off.
I dont know about cars, but I love the looks of that car.
All angles and straight lines, free from all these curves that make cars look like eggs on wheels.
Those curves are for aerodynamics, less air resistance means they're faster and more fuel efficient
aerodynamic wise
eggs on wheels > bricks on wheels
I'm glad you're not in charge of any of that 😂
The only car that looks like an egg to me is the Ford Fiesta or any car where the contour of the hood matches straight with the windshield
@@sgdadfgdfgadbdfbd both for aerodynamics and making the cars look ugly as shit
It's pretty obvious that the shock absorbers were removed for this video.
and they would minimize that earthquake-on-wheels???
I wish that was true. Monroe from the factory and they leaked out essentially as soon as it went on the truck. I remember working on them.
Actually, having driven one identical to that as well as the Cadillac competitor, this was normal.
James Clark I’m pretty sure when he braked in the gas station someone was pushing the car up and down
@@BayAreaMike99 It can't be any other way, maybe there were several people pushing it.
Strange because the just look so absolutely badass, I wish we made cars like this in the UK.