Old Top Gear 1998 - MPG Challenge

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  • Опубликовано: 30 янв 2025

Комментарии • 107

  • @Wasmachineman
    @Wasmachineman 8 лет назад +66

    That Securitas part was fucking golden lol

    • @ewaf88
      @ewaf88 7 лет назад +3

      Hollywood calls - he's mumbling was better than Arnie's

    • @michaelkennedy8573
      @michaelkennedy8573 2 года назад +4

      more relevant than ever today

  • @AndrewStrydomBRP
    @AndrewStrydomBRP 2 года назад +20

    Watching this with today's petrol pricing is a dejavu like feeling, it's almost 3x as much as it was back then now.

    • @norcatch
      @norcatch 6 месяцев назад +1

      The pound did have 2,2 times the purchasing power in 1998 as it does today, though.

    • @AndrewStrydomBRP
      @AndrewStrydomBRP 6 месяцев назад

      @@norcatch but most stuff is definitely far more than 2.2x the price now as it was back then. Fuel prices are just the tip of the peak, look at housing.

  • @DoubleDeckerAnton
    @DoubleDeckerAnton 5 лет назад +14

    I love these old topgear episodes from the late 90s...!!! 😆🔝👍

  • @ewaf88
    @ewaf88 8 лет назад +76

    Petrol s cheaper than milk - well it was in 1998. Now it's (at Sainsburys) 75p a litre for semi-skimmed.

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 7 лет назад +17

      Semi skimmed, are you some kind of Labour voter?

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 6 лет назад +2

      ewaf88 Not for my country though.

    • @rarevhsuploads4995
      @rarevhsuploads4995 6 лет назад +5

      MrcabooseVG no, it's Skimmed milk for Corbyn's Labour. He'd be New Labour with semi skimmed.

    • @EinkOLED
      @EinkOLED 6 лет назад +1

      That's why my car now runs on milk instead of petrol. mmmmoooooooo

    • @kishanjadeja6894
      @kishanjadeja6894 6 лет назад +2

      Idiot... Petrol is £1.20 a litre. Fuel is fucking expensive.

  • @jackcurtis9002
    @jackcurtis9002 7 лет назад +28

    "Size doesn't matter."
    Jeremy Clarkson, 1998
    05:34

  • @michaelrawson6261
    @michaelrawson6261 5 лет назад +10

    Tiff Needell... Wat a legend!!!

  • @chryneon6638
    @chryneon6638 3 года назад +7

    QW, TN and JC are all legends, as for VBH.

  • @FAT8893
    @FAT8893 6 лет назад +17

    1:01 Suzuki Wendy House. That sounded much better than Wagon R. 😂🤣

  • @David_Crayford
    @David_Crayford 11 дней назад

    I loved this episode. Great dynamics having all three of them.

  • @benchiaase
    @benchiaase 7 лет назад +4

    I remember watching this episode when it was on TV! That Wagon R is so memorable hahaha.

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 7 лет назад +16

    Pretty close to the "new" TG already.

  • @farishanafiah8461
    @farishanafiah8461 2 года назад +1

    6:15 Yup, still true in 2022. Even with my country's government decided not to subsidize RON 97 petrol, it's still cheaper than a litre of milk even at the cheapest supermarket you can find.

  • @mikeb6385
    @mikeb6385 5 лет назад +5

    Ah, a car park in Milton Keynes, been there done that...

  • @Ammageddon89
    @Ammageddon89 8 лет назад +27

    Cheaper then Milk haha XD not anymore i guess xD

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 6 лет назад

      Ammageddon89 It still is in my country.

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад

      Fuel Duty is the primary reason why though. The Oil Companies produce the stuff quite cheaply.

  • @soggybaguette8457
    @soggybaguette8457 6 лет назад +5

    Ah yes, the old Clarkson...

  • @owenglenn4298
    @owenglenn4298 4 года назад +2

    Price of petrol in 1998 = 60.9p/litre

  • @KarinoChan182
    @KarinoChan182 7 лет назад +19

    lol Tiff,Quentin and Jeremy in the same page??? are there any more moments of them together

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 6 лет назад +3

      Yasin Ador Check out the Top Gear Car of the Year 1997 video.

    • @yt_consistency
      @yt_consistency 4 года назад

      Looking great Yasin

  • @m.b9133
    @m.b9133 8 лет назад +6

    OMG fifth gear and top gear amazing!

  • @RoobehTunes
    @RoobehTunes 8 лет назад +9

    What do we have here? A 911!

  • @ChaplainDMK
    @ChaplainDMK 8 лет назад +24

    Wait 53 mpg is what, 5,5 l/100 km. Pretty impressive what you get today that can do 5,5 l/100 km compared to back then.

    • @AsekiBekovy
      @AsekiBekovy 8 лет назад +1

      10% more. Except for Daihatsu, they kept the game up.

    • @ChaplainDMK
      @ChaplainDMK 8 лет назад +1

      My moms Giulietta with 140 bhp does 5,6 l/100 km, so I'd say that's a pretty big differance.

    • @AsekiBekovy
      @AsekiBekovy 8 лет назад +3

      5,6 l Diesel converts to 6,94 l Petrol... And is nothing special because a) the Diesel is a bit more efficient and b) the bigger combustion chambers (bigger per cylinder) make for a smoother combustion, so additional efficiency. Plus you have longer gearing, better aerodynamics...

    • @cheesyeurotrance95
      @cheesyeurotrance95 7 лет назад +3

      my 70 hp Punto 1.3 diesel does 4,9 l/100 km (57 mpg) and that's actually around town, best I ever got from the car is 2.7 l/100 km (104 mpg, according to the trip computer) by driving 10 kilometers at constant 80 km/h in 5th gear (1900 rpm) on a dual carriageway

    • @AsekiBekovy
      @AsekiBekovy 7 лет назад +1

      Yep, the 1.3 diesel punto scores quite well at 51 mpg (US)

  • @ECEAaronXavierLobo
    @ECEAaronXavierLobo 4 года назад +1

    Wait a minute, Tiff Needell used to be on Top Gear too!? Sick B)

  • @footvantage06
    @footvantage06 2 месяца назад

    Top gear would repeat this theme a dozen times.

  • @doctorjones300
    @doctorjones300 4 года назад +3

    Would this be considered as a prototype challenge segment from the well-known Top Gear?

  • @chrisg7011
    @chrisg7011 5 лет назад +3

    £1.22 per litre...guess it's cheaper that Coke..at the same petrol station.

  • @Finallybianca
    @Finallybianca 7 лет назад +5

    Powwwweeeeerrrrr

  • @ryonakimura56
    @ryonakimura56 8 лет назад +8

    The WagonR Is still in production in India. The best selling car in India.

    • @viruagrawal
      @viruagrawal 8 лет назад +5

      Yes, but it's definitely not the same car anymore - Chassis, Drivetrain, Interior and Exterior are all new. It's not the best selling car in India either - that's the Maruti Suzuki Alto.

    • @ryonakimura56
      @ryonakimura56 8 лет назад +4

      Engineer IRL Yeah True. but when people here upgrade. they go in for a Wagon R. its well.. the second best seller In India.

    • @viruagrawal
      @viruagrawal 8 лет назад +5

      Some do, I'm sure. 3rd best seller though, after the Swift.

  • @koolyman
    @koolyman 4 года назад

    Lol clarkson started his news bulletin from that time ago!

  • @AbuMshMsh
    @AbuMshMsh 8 лет назад +9

    Tiff is now in fifth gear isnt he?

    • @martijnbruggers8694
      @martijnbruggers8694 8 лет назад +8

      was, fifth gear is cancelled. they ran out of money.

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 6 лет назад

      Martijn Bruggers Tiff tweeted on his Twitter account that Fifth Gear will be back.

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад +3

      Tiff and Henderson (+ others) were let go from the BBC in the 1st place, because after Clarkson left TopGear to do his own stuff, ratings fell through the floor.
      Only two other presenters that'd been on TG before 2002 would be carried over, of which James May was the lasting one.
      Whilst Clarkson didn't create TopGear (Angela Rippen did in 1979), the series was only revived at all, because of him.
      (the BBC initially having no plan to relaunch the series, rather like Tomorrow's World after Peter Snow & co leaving caused it's ratings to tank)

  • @gabrielv.4358
    @gabrielv.4358 11 месяцев назад

    Very cool

  • @scottirvine121
    @scottirvine121 3 года назад +2

    Petrol cheaper than milk haha, the good old days

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 3 года назад

      In my country, it still is.

  • @norcatch
    @norcatch 6 месяцев назад

    My Golf will do 60 mpg doing 70 on the motorway. And that's a proper car.

  • @kidzulavolpe8676
    @kidzulavolpe8676 4 года назад +2

    Tiff always look the same lol

  • @Tad1945
    @Tad1945 4 года назад +1

    I came here to look at Jeremy hair

  • @kylewaddington1983
    @kylewaddington1983 4 года назад

    Who more famous out of Tiff Neddle bloke and Jememy Clarkson ?

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 6 лет назад +4

    I drove the last generation Daihatsu Cuore (2009). It used on average 59 mpg. I now drive a Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2 CVT and that does 63 mpg. I drive economically for fun (as a hobby). It is also a kind of perfomance driving. So, I don't think the gentlemen in this video know how to drive an economy run properly.

  • @adampetryszyn1487
    @adampetryszyn1487 5 лет назад +1

    is that the guy from 5th gear

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад +1

      Aye, before this era of TopGear ended in 2002.

  • @vinkata
    @vinkata 4 года назад +2

    Jeremy is class 🤣

  • @boisegameshowguy
    @boisegameshowguy 2 года назад +1

    If only that Daihatsu was available stateside, but they had already gone home to Japan about six years prior to this! Drat...

  • @michaelloach9461
    @michaelloach9461 6 лет назад +2

    46.2 mpg from a wardrobe? Im averaging 42.5 from my old 3.0 V6 9-5 TiD. Sommink wrong there.......

    • @louism.4495
      @louism.4495 5 лет назад +1

      46 from low pollution petrol vs 42 from the highest polluting diesel ever built . Why dont you use coal then youll get infinity to the gallon.

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад +3

      Still lousy fuel economy for a horrid little cramped ecobox made of bacofoil.

  • @Zerobalt
    @Zerobalt 4 года назад

    Is that Bruce Lee on the thumbnail ?

  • @matthewarlotte1974
    @matthewarlotte1974 7 лет назад +2

    wtf is going on with tiffs hair oh dear

  • @kylewaddington1983
    @kylewaddington1983 4 года назад

    Where a V8 wen you want one

  • @Eridu
    @Eridu 7 лет назад +1

    2003

  • @paulillingworth1242
    @paulillingworth1242 5 лет назад +1

    Shopping trolleys 🛒 and not all that efficient either for light weight tin cans! Blair and cronies made petrol ⛽️ went through the roof in no time too! And caused congestion of which they will plan to charge us for 20 years later!!

  • @hassankhan384
    @hassankhan384 4 года назад +2

    and now government wants us to drive crap electric cars that are useless and just pain to even see one on road, second issue road tax is high and gets higher year by year, third so many other charges such as insurance is one of the pain for young drivers and also parking is hard, conjunction charges are higher plus the diesel cars to be charged in London and all the ulez crap. Life is just a shit whole in uk, and mayor of London just making it harder so many charges but where can an average person afford this from ita jsut pain because wages are low its going to be 2021 and avarege wages are £10.50 an hour some played are even below that for student its 6 to 7.50 an hour, how can a young person afford 2k to 4k insurance plus tax, plus fuel plus parking, plus other charges its just too hard. Its been like that back then as well but life was still better then, then today.

  • @Alexander_l322
    @Alexander_l322 4 года назад

    They tax freedom when they tax petrol ,it is a joke how expensive it is now.

  • @Dazzletoad
    @Dazzletoad 5 лет назад +1

    Why do presenters walk and talk like they have end stage Parkinsons disease?

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад +2

      1990's BBC camera crews were weird. At one point they had a thing for sweeping angles (thaaasunds of 'em), which made the viewer feel sick.
      Top Gear post-2002 seemed to have snaffled up some wildlife cameramen, as the quality of camerawork shot up.

  • @harrypreece6680
    @harrypreece6680 3 года назад

    This aged poorly!!!

    • @FAT8893
      @FAT8893 3 года назад

      You mean petrol is cheaper than milk? Not in my country.

    • @nixxxon18
      @nixxxon18 2 года назад

      Indeed, today we have oversized, inefficient SUVs even though fuel prices are even higher. We've gone crazy

  • @dclore
    @dclore 5 лет назад

    Lord, the other two (other than Clarkson) are awful...

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад +1

      Pretty much. Tiff is a better racing driver than a presenter, and Quentin... well the less that's said of him, the better.

    • @SuperiorNo1
      @SuperiorNo1 4 года назад +1

      @@jimtaylor294 Quentin Wilson is Brilliant very informative presenter 😈

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 4 года назад

      ^ Depends upon what. He did a handful of genuinely competant peices, but most of the time was an almost comically biased, smarmy and condesending wazzock.
      Still preferable to Steve Berry though...
      (a turd in a suit, as he's been described as)

  • @robaustin245
    @robaustin245 10 месяцев назад

    If they only have 4.54 litres in the tank then the fuel pump will over heat and end up FUBAR. It needs fuel to keep cool.