…and how unashamedly Clarkson lied. "What Germans call 'Quality'!" The first thing I thought when I got into a Lupo was that the steering wheel felt like the handle of a bottle of liquid detergent.
@@servissop151 We talk about neither here, we talk about VW. The second priciest of the group's brands and and not exactly the best made one. Me, I worked for a towing service that had its main income from a contract with a VW dealer from our region when the Lupo hit the streets. My colleagues and I agreed in the judgement that Skoda was the best value for money between Audi, VW, Skoda and Seat. We also agreed in thinking that the Lupo felt pretty unpleasant to drive, the only car of the lot I disliked more was the Audi A2. That being said, we had very few broken down Lupos to pick up, from what I observed the Golf IV with its electrics issues was a way more common patient.
@@servissop151 Well, I don't remember the prices in detail, of course, but Skoda and Seat both had their versions of the Lupo. As is strategy with the VW-group, they were cheaper by default. Renault Twingos probably were cheaper and according to my experience with the brands, I would expect the Twingo to have been a better buy. The small 4 cylinder Renault engines were great, great engines. Fiat Cinquecento probably were cheaper as well, I bet Kia and Hyundai had cars in that size as well, Toyota launched their Aygo around that time, there were several other offers. Then there were the Smarts, of course. I would consider each of these cars better, to be honest. Especially if you remember the trouble customers that only drove short distances with their Lupos and Polos of those days had with their engines due to condensation from the air filter housing running down through the crank case ventilation hose into the sump, This could get so bad in winter, especially in regions where there was fog very often, that the oil could party be replaced with water in the lowest bits of the sump, so that the oil pump mainly sucked in water after starting. Especially with the TDIs, that was a worry as they took ages to really get warm. One of the customers I picked up with broken down cars was from Bonn. He had 6000Km on the clock of his Polo and the third(!) engine destroyed from water in the oil. That was in late 2001, if I remember right. It was quite a fight for several affected by this ridiculous issue to make VW pay for building the air filter housing like a fog distillery.
@@ShadX222 drive on the motorway enough and it’s fine, never experienced a diesel with a clogged DPF or EGR valve, the only one was some person who knew less about cars then my own grandmother and drove it in the complete wrong way.
Clarkson looked so much happier and less stressed here in the golden 03-09 Top Gear days , it hadn't blown out of all proportion, at the BBC, things were better too back then early mid 2000's were a golden time looking back
Totally agree, 2005/2006 was like the peak of a record run of sheer economic growth, and just before the woke era and recession took full hold in the 2010's.
The funniest thing is even 2 years ago thanks to the pandemic fuel was touching late 2000s prices again but thanks to inflation prices are absolutely crazy
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Really? I passed my test at the start of the year so these days expensive prices are just normal to me. Usually around £20 for 10 litres
Yeah, that's 82p a litre - and that's motorway service station prices too - was more likely 70-75p a litre off the motorway back then. Seems crazy now.
When I first started driving it was hovering around £1 per litre, just over if anything. Cost me £116 to fill up the other day and at 24mpg it doesn't last that long either ha.
...which is exactly why I love my diesel car! I got it when I had to switch jobs and drove 100 km/day to commute. Diesel rather than petrol saved me a LOT
“It’ll make the sound of the farmyard and accelerate like a dog on a rug”. This is the kind of writing that elevated the old Top Gear. Clarkson & May are writers first, TV hosts second. The fact the producers replaced them with Chris Evans and Joey from friends tells me they didn’t understand what they had.
@@audionut9974 Lots of torque, low fuel consumption and (at least were I live) slightly cheaper fuel. How is that rubbish? Obviously if you're looking for best performance a diesel is not the best choice but that's not how most people use their cars
"144 torques live under its bonnet" and "there should be 68 lanes in either direction". Oh how I miss those mid 2000s golden years of Top Gear 😍 Epic film this 👏
i drove my 1.4 diesel lupo for 2 years. It was amazing experience. so easy to park and you don't feel small on highway, can easily go 130km/h without problems. Also in winter you can start your car easily and after riding 500 meters it already blows hot air.
We bought a diesel Lupo 3L brand new in 2003. Factory fresh, it out-performed the specs; we could easily do 100km on 2.8 liters instead of the touted 3.0 liters (from whence the car's name: 3L). Nineteen years later, it now averages 3.4 liters per 100km - which is still amazingly economical! It's down to 73mpg instead of 83mpg - oh darn. About 5 years ago, we bought a 2nd Lupo 3L (due to changes in our job locations), also a 2003 model - it averages (and I do mean average: combined city, motorway and rural road usage) an astonishing 3.1 liters per 100km. I could not be a happier car owner.
I love the Lupo, but my feet are too wide. The times I've driven one (I worked as a VW technician, so quite often) I always stepped on the brake while trying to find the accelerator.
@@REPOMAN24722 They calculate the fuel consumption with a simulation of a drive cycle with inner city driving, country roads, highways and autobahn in mind. I could do 5l/100k in my 2000 petrol Bora driving on country roads, but once I hit the motorways it bumps up to 6.5l/100k. City driving? Oh, boy... that's close to 10l...
@@panzerveps I do a combination of city and suburbs and get 5, that's half a litre less than advertised, though the diesel golf doesn't do so well in cities for some reason, and I disabled stop start on the Octavia thru ODB reprogramming.
35 years ago I was discussing cars with my friend who was a recently qualified chemist. He told me that he would never consider a diesel engine because of the fine particles (below 5 microns?) emitted by the exhaust which can seriously effect respiration ie asthmatics ect. You guessed it, 32 years later he had a diesel & explained that the tax system made the choice a no brainer. Clearly if he was aware of this issue 35 years ago the government & their scientists must also have been aware when they pushed us into diesels through taxation in order to reduce CO2
These guys really have a passion for cars and they know how to present that passion to people who know nearly nothing about cars or the love of driving. I was never into cars till I stumbled on to Top Gear but now I am fascinated by them and the entire industry. Any show these guys do solo or as a trio is always masterful, from the camera work to the banter and presentation. I honestly think is one of the best shows ever made
“No one knows what torque is, but -“ What Jeremy means is out of them 3, only James May understands what torque is, but he hasn’t yet been able to dumb it down to Jeremy’s learning level.
To bastardise an explanation, think of power (HP or KW) as top speed capable and torque (ft lbs or Nm) as your ability to achieve your top speed, like leverage. If you make a ton of power but only small torque at low RPM then your car will be slow off the mark. If you make a ton of torque low in the RPM but small power, you will accelerate fast but not have a high top speed. Ideally you want both power and torque and importantly all the way through the rev range so you don't need extra gears to achieve optimal RPM all the time.
@@MrSnakekaplan and that is absolutely wrong in every way. That's the misconception most people have, that more torque from the engine will accelerate you faster. No it doesn't, what makes you accelerate is the torque pushed to the wheel but that more defined by the transmission and gearbox than the engine. The thing that actually makes diesel cars feel faster is that they get their power a much lower rpm and people usually don't let their engines rev that high to get the benefit of a petrol engine.
@@MrSnakekaplan "If you make a ton of power but only small torque at low RPM then your car will be slow off the mark." No it won't, it has nothing to do with torque, its all about power
@@SchwertKruemel It absolutely has to do with torque, you know power is actually calculated from torque right? Please do not feel the need to expand your sphere of ignorance any further, stop trying to find a way to win an argument when you are wrong and move on.
We bought a diesel Lupo 3L brand new in 2003. Factory fresh, it out-performed the specs; we could easily do 100km on 2.8 liters instead of the touted 3.0 liters (from whence the car's name: 3L). Nineteen years later, it now averages 3.4 liters per 100km - which is still amazingly economical! It's down to 73mpg instead of 83mpg - oh darn. About 5 years ago, we bought a 2nd Lupo 3L (due to changes in our job locations), also a 2003 model - it averages (and I do mean average: combined city, motorway and rural road usage) an astonishing 3.1 liters per 100km. I could not be a happier car owner.
@@Sjalabais yeah because Americans actually use diesel trucks for a real use. Of course 3 cylinder diesel cars are gonna have stupid good mileage. Your roads wouldn't support a basic American truck anyhow lol. We have livestock to haul and things to do. It's hard to care to drive on 20 mpg when you're hauling a dozen bales of 5x5 hay with a 7,000 lb truck lol. Everything's suppressed by communism overseas, including the UK, whom claim to not have communism as their governance. Car enthusiasts in the UK would die for a big block v8 car that gets less than 12 mpg.
Been driving a 1.0 (~50hp) petrol one of these for the last week. 200,000 km on the clock. They're actually quite nice to drive. I've never driven an original Mini, but imagine it to be like this: you're low to the ground, corners quite well. It's not zippy but it drove a lot better than the 37kw/50PS promised. And the seats are comfortable...
The brief Boohbah cameo at 1:57 made me laugh way too hard. No clue why, beyond the fact that I just wasn't expecting it. Also, just for the hell of it, I decided to see how much Clarkson's tape is available for on eBay... 17 years later, it's been discounted even further. Now you can have it for a mere £1.99 - what a deal!
@mayte "Lebensraum" means "habitat", "biosphere", or just simply "living space". It doesn't have a negative connotation for Germans because it's always been just a normal word. And avoiding it would be almost impossible anyway, or at least very awkward, especially when talking about climate change and other environmental issues that use "Lebensraum" as part of an established term (like "natürlicher Lebensraum" for "natural habitat"). I don't know why especially the Brits, but also Americans, always try to make a big deal out of using WW2 references in the context of modern Germany. Like, we don't really care if you joke about German cars being able to go from Berlin to Warsaw in one tank but it's always presented as vaguely scandalous to say something like that, often with people in the audience going "ooooohh". You could make the same jokes on German TV and nobody would give a fuck - in fact, people have done that for decades now.
I have A black lupo TDI. does 3.3L /100km after 198838 miles. Its all about cruising and saving money. Its pretty comfy and the space in the front seat is better than a modern polo I think.
The older VW TDI engines are ridiculously economical if you know how to drive them. Managed a consistent 3.5-3.7 L/100 km the past few weeks in a 2008 Polo 1.9 TDI. 150 000-odd miles on the clock.
Excellent. I got a new Polo 1.2 TDI in 2012. I was getting 70mpg plus on the motorway even on a brand new engine. Three cylinder diesels are so economical. I had the Smart CDI, got near on 90mpg to Scotland and back ! Crazy
It's very strange to think there have been countries which disliked diesel in such recent times. By 2007 almost 70% of all Cars sold in Belgium were Diesels.
@@michael2636 Certainly for newer Mk6 models but never my beloved MK3/MK4 ALH/AHU TDI operated by the Bosch V.E. injection pumps. Those are KING!!! I've got 5 hoarded so far and always searching for more... Hahaha
I had an old Peugeot 106 XND. I paid 1000 quid for it and it did me well for two years. A basic little diesel car. Happy days of motoring they were. Now its too much tech with them.
I still make 3.9l/100km with my Dacia duster 4x4 on the highway. That's 72 imperial mpg! I drove 500k km on a 1.5 dci Twingo for the past decade only on oil and Tyre changes. I ain't changing diesel for any other fuel or propulsion method in the foreseeable future.
Used to be given a Citroen AX when the company car was in for a service, in the days of high travel this was quite frequently. The diesel was a far easier car to drive for all the reasons stated, less gear changes etc. But the pick up was the best bit, once rolling it just dug in and went. Changed my view of small diesel engines.
1:51 "I mean who's going round the M25 and thinks I've suddenly decided I need a pair of trousers?" Someone who just almost got crushed by a lorry, and thought they were going to die but narrowly avoided it.
Here's my experience for the pile. iLoad van, converted to run on LPG and petrol. When it came time to sell I worked out the cost to run on LPG, petrol and for completions sake: the diesel variant from the 5 year newer model. LPG worked out 35% cheaper than petrol per km and 20% cheaper than diesel. Now nobody makes LPG cars any more and servos are starting to not stock it, which sucks because I hate diesel so very much and every 2nd person seems to have one.
Note, Clarkson is using British gallons. That's nearly 4.7 quarts in US measurements so the fuel economy isn't as steep as you might think. So 75 mpg is really about 60-61 mpg on the other side of the pond called the Atlantic.
Ah yes, when you lot are the of the few who use imperial units and you can't even decide what imperial units to use. Yet you take the piss out of metric users, well, at least we all use THE SAME UNITS.
Nobody cares about the US Units when even your military partly uses the metric system. i´d rather understand the british than the one cheeseburger land uses
As a Frenchman, James' conclusion is so accurate. I still prefer petrol though, my 165hp MPV is almost as torquey as the diesel in the real world, three times less economical but it's a bomb when you put your foot down. And on E85 fuel economy isn't a concern.
Lupo 3L and Audi A2 3L were an amazing concept. Quite weird no cars today can achieve their fuel economy. The better the fuel economy, the better the car is for the environment. Diesel is the perfect solution.
Clarkson was spot on about the Lupo. I used to have one and I absolutely loved that thing. Yes, it was a GTI, so that helped, but horsepower aside the underlying car itself was great and - apart from the truly rubbish boot - it never made me feel like I was on the bottom-rung of the model-range. Up front it didn't feel much different from something larger, like a Polo, and even the rear seats had enough space for adults. The VW Up exclamation point by contrast feels a bit less "up-market" IMO, even though it still is a great little car and it does have more practicality WRT boot-space.
I remember that Seat made their own version, the Seat Arosa - it was essentially the same car with a different nose. Surprisingly it didn't sell as well as the Lupo, despite being a bit cheaper. I always liked the Lupo's styling. It was cute but not irritatingly cute.
I like diesels but not sure if I need one at the moment. Thing is, I would like a Land Cruiser at some point and that is a 2.8 diesel, good for 32mpg average but the car would last for decades. If it lasts that long then it would be worth paying a bit more for the diesel compared to petrol.
@@howtosurviveearth Fragile doesn't mean they are all going to fall apart. I mean modern diesels have much higher performance / high levels of torque and everything is under higher pressure than in old slow diesels which were low tech but bulletproof. Modern diesel engines are very complex and have lots of things that can/will go wrong sooner or later and cost thousands to sort out. I read that diesels nowadays are three times more likely to break down than petrol cars and more expensive to repair.
@@jamie3499 it’s true though, factories producing batteries for electric cars make more pollution than the car will ever make up for before it needs a new battery. The real issue is also the fact that electricity is dirty, being produced primarily by coal and oil burning plants, not to mention that new diesel cars are so clean it’s not even funny, just get a new diesel if you care about the environment, run it on Biodiesel.
Only way I was explained it was: imagine hanging off a spanner with a adjustable handle, longer it goes, the more torque you’re adding to that rotation. And I still don’t really get it 😆
What is wrong with Polluting Diesels these days (2021) summarized within the 1st minute of this segment : Clarkson shows a E320d, a car designed for high mileage drivers, and a VW Lupo, a City-drive car... Which car shouldn't have been sold with diesel engines ? Let that sink in...
Bloody hell, it really shows you how things have changed, Practically most cars in that film now are very rare sights to see, like the mk3 fiesta. Also how things changed later on, when after the government said buy diesel and pushed it, only a few years later after this, they bumped up the tax brackets and the price of fuel. Also these were the day before electric cars were even thought about practically, let a lone hybrids. Also during this time we still had manual choke cars kicking about with non PAS etc.
I was going to say "and cars still had wind-up windows for the back-seat passengers" but apparently the base model Micra had them until 2015. It struck me a while back that it's been ages since I last saw a Ford Ka. They seem to have just... rusted away, I suppose.
Ooh that's sharp humour to cut to those sad looking fluffy things after Clarkson says "who's going around the M25 and suddenly thinks I need a new pair of _trousers_"
02:00 "Who is going to be going around the M25 and decide 'I need some trousers'". Me, actually. I was driving along eating a McDonalds (a Mc DLT. Remember them ?), and the mayonnaise spilled all over the crutch of my black trousers. I tried cleaning it off, but it made things worse. You can imagine what the stain looked like, and I was on my way to Crawley to give a presentation. The only trousers they had were far too big, and were beige. I looked and felt like a complete twerp, but I can tell you they were a life-saver. (And I've no idea what they made the mayo out of, but I never got the stain out)
Never happened to me but I was thinking the same when Jeremy was complaining about it, although I thought to myself "Hey someone could shart themselves, it happens"
Repairs are needed much less frequently though, and doing the work yourself makes it cheaper than a gasoline car, mainly due to the fact that diesels have no spark plugs to replace, glow plugs can last decades if you live in a warm environment, and the injectors don’t need to be replaced unless foreign particulate matter goes through them. The real place where diesels look more expensive is when it’s time to rebuild the engine, but since this is done half as often as in a gasoline engine, it’s still cheaper.
VW Lupo, a VW Polo with the back cut off. The Diesel and GTI even have a plastic trunk lid to save even more weight. This made the vehicle so light that the battery was moved to the trunk. And then there was the Audi A2, a Polo made of aluminum in an Audi fur. Diesel of course.
I write this here in the U.S. in April 2021 so I don't know who else is here watching,but now here in the U.S. we have full size pickup trucka than can get up to 30 miles per gallon with a small (for the application) diesel engine and midsize pickups that get 30+ mpg. I'm guessing that's about 7.6 liters per 100 Kilometers? I don't know proper measurements, on the weird shit the U.S. uses Also, here in the U.S. we focus more on emissions rather than miles per gallon, so with all the emissions equipment diesel engines get, I suppose it can be argued that tailpipe emissions in our diesel engines come up cleaner than gasoline counterparts, especially if factored in for the size of the vehicle and power produced.
yes but how long do the def motors last and how much does it cost to maintain them? this all relates to total energy consumed. a 12 valve will literally run forever and get 22mpg. a 4bt is the same and you can get 30 in a half ton.
The great irony of this video excerpt in August 2023 in the UK, is that the only road near London that you can drive this Diesel car on without having to pay an astronomical daily pollution charge is none other than the M25... If only we had a time machine
Which one? And no probably he didn’t have one because you are clearly a child because your profile picture has your school tie on do you really think everybody is stupid?
My best friend Mikey inherited a diesel Chevette, ugly as sin, slow as sea snail and damn comfy. Great on long journeys and road trips. AND you could pull a small trailer...
@Your nans hamsters dead Uncles dads brothers cat I don't know what your problem is but i surely think mercedes s350d is a luxury car. No normal human wants to race an s class so a lazy torquey diesel is just right
As soon as vw introduced the rabbit diesel in the US around 1980 they openly fought a more efficient automobile. The Bunny got 53 miles to the gallon and went 75 miles an hour. It was a band-aid they pulled off
Yeh Hybrids are only good at saving money in cities with start stop slow traffic, and then giving you extra power when you need to go somewhere on the open road.
If there was no construction site at the near end of the M25, Jeremy may have save quite a bit more than £4.29, and he could buy 2 of his classic show video cassette tapes also (If the savings in that situation was doubled up)
The fact that these guys keep you interested while talking about a diesel Lupo says a lot about their on-camera skills
…and how unashamedly Clarkson lied. "What Germans call 'Quality'!" The first thing I thought when I got into a Lupo was that the steering wheel felt like the handle of a bottle of liquid detergent.
@@zweispurmopped Quality is definitely relative to price. Quality in a RR and quality in a Dacia mean totally different things
@@servissop151 We talk about neither here, we talk about VW. The second priciest of the group's brands and and not exactly the best made one.
Me, I worked for a towing service that had its main income from a contract with a VW dealer from our region when the Lupo hit the streets. My colleagues and I agreed in the judgement that Skoda was the best value for money between Audi, VW, Skoda and Seat. We also agreed in thinking that the Lupo felt pretty unpleasant to drive, the only car of the lot I disliked more was the Audi A2. That being said, we had very few broken down Lupos to pick up, from what I observed the Golf IV with its electrics issues was a way more common patient.
@@zweispurmopped What could you buy for Lupo money back then? I'm actually curious
@@servissop151 Well, I don't remember the prices in detail, of course, but Skoda and Seat both had their versions of the Lupo. As is strategy with the VW-group, they were cheaper by default. Renault Twingos probably were cheaper and according to my experience with the brands, I would expect the Twingo to have been a better buy. The small 4 cylinder Renault engines were great, great engines. Fiat Cinquecento probably were cheaper as well, I bet Kia and Hyundai had cars in that size as well, Toyota launched their Aygo around that time, there were several other offers. Then there were the Smarts, of course. I would consider each of these cars better, to be honest.
Especially if you remember the trouble customers that only drove short distances with their Lupos and Polos of those days had with their engines due to condensation from the air filter housing running down through the crank case ventilation hose into the sump, This could get so bad in winter, especially in regions where there was fog very often, that the oil could party be replaced with water in the lowest bits of the sump, so that the oil pump mainly sucked in water after starting. Especially with the TDIs, that was a worry as they took ages to really get warm. One of the customers I picked up with broken down cars was from Bonn. He had 6000Km on the clock of his Polo and the third(!) engine destroyed from water in the oil. That was in late 2001, if I remember right. It was quite a fight for several affected by this ridiculous issue to make VW pay for building the air filter housing like a fog distillery.
You don’t consider how old these cars are until you notice that clarksons video in the shop is a VHS
You just made me fell a bit old born in 06 but still had some VHS in the house
@@gabrielcaramet3238 You’re super young!
@@gabrielcaramet3238 Oh, finally one my age.
@@gabrielcaramet3238 I'm 2005, funny how many of us watch these shows legally unable to drive lmao
@@camro Yes seeing the Top gear 1500 quid Porsche challenge when I was 9 on RUclips got me hocked on Top gear and cars
When MPG figures were actually nearly accurate.
Carbon build up in EGR Valve and Manifold makes poor MPG on time.
@@ShadX222 yes. It the brings the oxygen level right down in the chamber
True (as long as you remember that Imperial gallons are larger than American gallons).
@@ShadX222 solution: take 30 minutes and clean the EGR and intake
@@ShadX222 drive on the motorway enough and it’s fine, never experienced a diesel with a clogged DPF or EGR valve, the only one was some person who knew less about cars then my own grandmother and drove it in the complete wrong way.
I miss segments like this. It was never about the cars, it was about the presenters.
The first three seasons of 2002- top gear were amazing. Many never watched them but they should
@Green Mills As early as late 60s but i refer to the series when Richard Hammond first appeared around 2002.
It was a little abt the cars too man these guys knew their cars
@@greathey1234 you never see anything before series 6 on tv or Netflix ,and Netflix are the American edits so a lot is missing
The first series was OK, but it really got into its groove when James joined in series 2.
Clarkson looked so much happier and less stressed here in the golden 03-09 Top Gear days , it hadn't blown out of all proportion, at the BBC, things were better too back then early mid 2000's were a golden time looking back
What year is this episode?
@@keenansmith6163 Probably 2003 or 2004 (the petrol Lupo is on an 03 plate).
Everything was better till 2005
Totally agree, 2005/2006 was like the peak of a record run of sheer economic growth, and just before the woke era and recession took full hold in the 2010's.
He had reason to be, his videos where still selling, albeit discounted 😂.
Top gear always seems to make me happy when I feel down and depressed
Same
Same
Same here guys. Merry Christmas by the way. :) 🎄
Me too! Hope you’re doing better
Same, then the BBC stepped in.
6:15 £5 for 7 litres. Wow. As a 22 year old that is genuinely shocking to me. Fuel is so expensive now.
The funniest thing is even 2 years ago thanks to the pandemic fuel was touching late 2000s prices again but thanks to inflation prices are absolutely crazy
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Really? I passed my test at the start of the year so these days expensive prices are just normal to me. Usually around £20 for 10 litres
Yeah, that's 82p a litre - and that's motorway service station prices too - was more likely 70-75p a litre off the motorway back then. Seems crazy now.
When I first started driving it was hovering around £1 per litre, just over if anything.
Cost me £116 to fill up the other day and at 24mpg it doesn't last that long either ha.
...which is exactly why I love my diesel car! I got it when I had to switch jobs and drove 100 km/day to commute. Diesel rather than petrol saved me a LOT
“It’ll make the sound of the farmyard and accelerate like a dog on a rug”.
This is the kind of writing that elevated the old Top Gear. Clarkson & May are writers first, TV hosts second. The fact the producers replaced them with Chris Evans and Joey from friends tells me they didn’t understand what they had.
I would have said, "Accelerates like a dog on Lino".
@@mesckowow, I was just about to say the same. I think he once said ‘as much grip as a dog on lino’.
@@MS-Patriot2a dog on a rug is funnier,
its putting in so much effort and making the right noises, but not really moving.
@@couldntmixapotnoodle for us old gits who remember watching our granny’s dog in the 1960s, trust me, Lino is funnier.
2021:
Not the Diesel is Satan, but the Software.
2022: Not the software is satan, but the car companies
still diesel is rubbish
@@audionut9974 You're rubbish.
@@audionut9974 Lots of torque, low fuel consumption and (at least were I live) slightly cheaper fuel. How is that rubbish? Obviously if you're looking for best performance a diesel is not the best choice but that's not how most people use their cars
You using too much sports car pretty boi
1:09 imagine you filling up the gas then Jeremy comes out from that small car like that quickly starting talking with the camera
I stood next to 9 time WRC champion S. Loeb and next to President of Poland. Loeb was cool. President ..not so much.
Are you possibly calling a liquid "gas", sir?
Imagine being in the shop and seeing clarkson seeing his own vhs in tge discount bin
I think the camera crew and the shout of action may come first!
@@ari-santeritalja386
Oh, stop being so posh!
"144 torques live under its bonnet" and "there should be 68 lanes in either direction". Oh how I miss those mid 2000s golden years of Top Gear 😍 Epic film this 👏
I prefer 350 or more...
“could be shot in the back of the head by a marksman”
i drove my 1.4 diesel lupo for 2 years. It was amazing experience. so easy to park and you don't feel small on highway, can easily go 130km/h without problems. Also in winter you can start your car easily and after riding 500 meters it already blows hot air.
We bought a diesel Lupo 3L brand new in 2003. Factory fresh, it out-performed the specs; we could easily do 100km on 2.8 liters instead of the touted 3.0 liters (from whence the car's name: 3L). Nineteen years later, it now averages 3.4 liters per 100km - which is still amazingly economical! It's down to 73mpg instead of 83mpg - oh darn. About 5 years ago, we bought a 2nd Lupo 3L (due to changes in our job locations), also a 2003 model - it averages (and I do mean average: combined city, motorway and rural road usage) an astonishing 3.1 liters per 100km. I could not be a happier car owner.
@@graafisk That's a VW thing, my 2.0 TDI mk v gets 5l per 100 (6.1 advertised) and my Octavia 4.8 (5.5 Advertised)
I love the Lupo, but my feet are too wide.
The times I've driven one (I worked as a VW technician, so quite often) I always stepped on the brake while trying to find the accelerator.
@@REPOMAN24722 They calculate the fuel consumption with a simulation of a drive cycle with inner city driving, country roads, highways and autobahn in mind.
I could do 5l/100k in my 2000 petrol Bora driving on country roads, but once I hit the motorways it bumps up to 6.5l/100k. City driving? Oh, boy... that's close to 10l...
@@panzerveps I do a combination of city and suburbs and get 5, that's half a litre less than advertised, though the diesel golf doesn't do so well in cities for some reason, and I disabled stop start on the Octavia thru ODB reprogramming.
35 years ago I was discussing cars with my friend who was a recently qualified chemist. He told me that he would never consider a diesel engine because of the fine particles (below 5 microns?) emitted by the exhaust which can seriously effect respiration ie asthmatics ect. You guessed it, 32 years later he had a diesel & explained that the tax system made the choice a no brainer. Clearly if he was aware of this issue 35 years ago the government & their scientists must also have been aware when they pushed us into diesels through taxation in order to reduce CO2
It's all about the money.
Truth
That's what DPFs are for.
@@iainmacrae6982 I'd rather drive my pre 2008 diesel with no dpf and egr removed, and my old petrol with no cat and no opf..
Ummmm there are literally zero emission diesels...
These guys really have a passion for cars and they know how to present that passion to people who know nearly nothing about cars or the love of driving. I was never into cars till I stumbled on to Top Gear but now I am fascinated by them and the entire industry. Any show these guys do solo or as a trio is always masterful, from the camera work to the banter and presentation. I honestly think is one of the best shows ever made
new top gear isn't the same as old top gear
I love to see James May on his solo shows, "Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure" it's a great watch. Clarkson is very good too on his solo shows.
Can you just stop existing please?
“No one knows what torque is, but -“
What Jeremy means is out of them 3, only James May understands what torque is, but he hasn’t yet been able to dumb it down to Jeremy’s learning level.
To bastardise an explanation, think of power (HP or KW) as top speed capable and torque (ft lbs or Nm) as your ability to achieve your top speed, like leverage.
If you make a ton of power but only small torque at low RPM then your car will be slow off the mark.
If you make a ton of torque low in the RPM but small power, you will accelerate fast but not have a high top speed.
Ideally you want both power and torque and importantly all the way through the rev range so you don't need extra gears to achieve optimal RPM all the time.
@@MrSnakekaplan and that is absolutely wrong in every way. That's the misconception most people have, that more torque from the engine will accelerate you faster. No it doesn't, what makes you accelerate is the torque pushed to the wheel but that more defined by the transmission and gearbox than the engine. The thing that actually makes diesel cars feel faster is that they get their power a much lower rpm and people usually don't let their engines rev that high to get the benefit of a petrol engine.
@@SchwertKruemel read comment again dummy, you just repeated the more in depth part
@@MrSnakekaplan "If you make a ton of power but only small torque at low RPM then your car will be slow off the mark."
No it won't, it has nothing to do with torque, its all about power
@@SchwertKruemel It absolutely has to do with torque, you know power is actually calculated from torque right? Please do not feel the need to expand your sphere of ignorance any further, stop trying to find a way to win an argument when you are wrong and move on.
Got from Perth to Melbourne for $210 in 2009 Fiesta diesel, that's 3500km. It's 3.8-4.2 litre per 100km. Can't beet a diesel
Still owning that car??
@@RohanSanjith yep, still got the Fiesta. Very reliable. Diesel in Australia with hot weather and long distances goes well.
What speeds you were going? My 2.2L diesel honda does 4.5L/100km going ~115kmh
@@ocd2222 are you from Lithuania ?
I'd rather pay extra to never smell diesel.
We bought a diesel Lupo 3L brand new in 2003. Factory fresh, it out-performed the specs; we could easily do 100km on 2.8 liters instead of the touted 3.0 liters (from whence the car's name: 3L). Nineteen years later, it now averages 3.4 liters per 100km - which is still amazingly economical! It's down to 73mpg instead of 83mpg - oh darn. About 5 years ago, we bought a 2nd Lupo 3L (due to changes in our job locations), also a 2003 model - it averages (and I do mean average: combined city, motorway and rural road usage) an astonishing 3.1 liters per 100km. I could not be a happier car owner.
Unbelievable fuel mileage!
Get the EGR cleaned or replaced, maybe change the piston rings if the compressions out of spec, should get your economy back where it used to be.
they dont build em like they use too!
And this is where Americans chime in with their 8 mpg trucks.
@@Sjalabais yeah because Americans actually use diesel trucks for a real use. Of course 3 cylinder diesel cars are gonna have stupid good mileage. Your roads wouldn't support a basic American truck anyhow lol. We have livestock to haul and things to do. It's hard to care to drive on 20 mpg when you're hauling a dozen bales of 5x5 hay with a 7,000 lb truck lol. Everything's suppressed by communism overseas, including the UK, whom claim to not have communism as their governance. Car enthusiasts in the UK would die for a big block v8 car that gets less than 12 mpg.
Been driving a 1.0 (~50hp) petrol one of these for the last week. 200,000 km on the clock. They're actually quite nice to drive. I've never driven an original Mini, but imagine it to be like this: you're low to the ground, corners quite well. It's not zippy but it drove a lot better than the 37kw/50PS promised. And the seats are comfortable...
I bite my dog's whiskers off and eat the roots
You can put pedal to metal all the time without gettin tickets...
It eats petrol like muscle car.
The brief Boohbah cameo at 1:57 made me laugh way too hard. No clue why, beyond the fact that I just wasn't expecting it.
Also, just for the hell of it, I decided to see how much Clarkson's tape is available for on eBay... 17 years later, it's been discounted even further. Now you can have it for a mere £1.99 - what a deal!
I always say, just wait a few years, and you'll have a better opportunity to buy it.
Diesel is for longer trips, gas is for city driving. Simple as.
2:53 thought Clarkson was about to say "Lebensraum"
@mayte "Lebensraum" means "habitat", "biosphere", or just simply "living space". It doesn't have a negative connotation for Germans because it's always been just a normal word. And avoiding it would be almost impossible anyway, or at least very awkward, especially when talking about climate change and other environmental issues that use "Lebensraum" as part of an established term (like "natürlicher Lebensraum" for "natural habitat").
I don't know why especially the Brits, but also Americans, always try to make a big deal out of using WW2 references in the context of modern Germany. Like, we don't really care if you joke about German cars being able to go from Berlin to Warsaw in one tank but it's always presented as vaguely scandalous to say something like that, often with people in the audience going "ooooohh". You could make the same jokes on German TV and nobody would give a fuck - in fact, people have done that for decades now.
@@DowncastParadox shut up nerd
I have A black lupo TDI. does 3.3L /100km after 198838 miles.
Its all about cruising and saving money.
Its pretty comfy and the space in the front seat is better than a modern polo I think.
@Cheeseburger It ain’t bad
The older VW TDI engines are ridiculously economical if you know how to drive them. Managed a consistent 3.5-3.7 L/100 km the past few weeks in a 2008 Polo 1.9 TDI. 150 000-odd miles on the clock.
How much would it consume while cruising at 140kmh
Excellent. I got a new Polo 1.2 TDI in 2012. I was getting 70mpg plus on the motorway even on a brand new engine. Three cylinder diesels are so economical. I had the Smart CDI, got near on 90mpg to Scotland and back ! Crazy
The banter on this is epic. This is when we fell in love with the trio. 'I'm going to talk to my best friend. The little one" cracks me up.
2:01 the vcr tape .. the good old days 😢
right! :(
Good old days? Have you seen the quality of Blu-ray
@@MrJimheeren RIght, in the current woke times? Id take the VHS in 2006 over the Blue-Ray in 2022 😂
@@ToTheGAMES oh please. Tell me when was the last time someone ‘woke’ bothered you.
@@MrJimheeren Ok groomer
It's very strange to think there have been countries which disliked diesel in such recent times. By 2007 almost 70% of all Cars sold in Belgium were Diesels.
I bought a 3.0 TDI Q7. Best decision I made. Always bought diesels and will keep buying.
Diesels have gotten so good they should be promoted more BUT some are noisy and crappy that needs to be said
@@LovepreetSinghGhuman Q7. Best city car made.
@@Blast-Forward High af
Still hate diesels. Smell like trash for both drivers and pedestrians behind them
5:10 ...Bruce from Family Guy.
What a remarkable show this was. I absolutely love and adore TDI fuel efficiency and am quite surprised he can fit into that tiny tin can.
It was so efficient because it was cheating on emissions standards.
@@michael2636 Certainly for newer Mk6 models but never my beloved MK3/MK4 ALH/AHU TDI operated by the Bosch V.E. injection pumps. Those are KING!!! I've got 5 hoarded so far and always searching for more... Hahaha
I had an old Peugeot 106 XND. I paid 1000 quid for it and it did me well for two years. A basic little diesel car. Happy days of motoring they were. Now its too much tech with them.
I still make 3.9l/100km with my Dacia duster 4x4 on the highway. That's 72 imperial mpg! I drove 500k km on a 1.5 dci Twingo for the past decade only on oil and Tyre changes. I ain't changing diesel for any other fuel or propulsion method in the foreseeable future.
Did anyone notice the Bananas in Pyjamas ride? Lots of memories for me
Some of the best tv ever produced!
Used to be given a Citroen AX when the company car was in for a service, in the days of high travel this was quite frequently. The diesel was a far easier car to drive for all the reasons stated, less gear changes etc. But the pick up was the best bit, once rolling it just dug in and went. Changed my view of small diesel engines.
The good old days, when the pounds number was smaller than the litres number
4:02 Oh I can’t tell it’s a diesel under the bonnet; sounds just like a petrol.
"It doesn't; it sounds like it's fueled with sand paper."
The only time you realise it's a diesel when you're stopped, and the engine's idling.
@@kowalski4198 I know. My dad has owned diesel vehicles for quite some time.
0:11 I have the exact same spec e320 cdi, same color and everything. still running strong.
Very good car and engine indeed.
How many miles have you put on it?
That car looked stunning
A merc from that time that hasnt rusted away? Its really rare
@@andreasstrauss5194
That Generation was Fine, the prior one rusted like crazy
1:51 "I mean who's going round the M25 and thinks I've suddenly decided I need a pair of trousers?"
Someone who just almost got crushed by a lorry, and thought they were going to die but narrowly avoided it.
Here's my experience for the pile. iLoad van, converted to run on LPG and petrol. When it came time to sell I worked out the cost to run on LPG, petrol and for completions sake: the diesel variant from the 5 year newer model.
LPG worked out 35% cheaper than petrol per km and 20% cheaper than diesel.
Now nobody makes LPG cars any more and servos are starting to not stock it, which sucks because I hate diesel so very much and every 2nd person seems to have one.
Note, Clarkson is using British gallons. That's nearly 4.7 quarts in US measurements so the fuel economy isn't as steep as you might think. So 75 mpg is really about 60-61 mpg on the other side of the pond called the Atlantic.
Ah yes, when you lot are the of the few who use imperial units and you can't even decide what imperial units to use. Yet you take the piss out of metric users, well, at least we all use THE SAME UNITS.
That's a big pond...
Nobody cares about the US Units when even your military partly uses the metric system. i´d rather understand the british than the one cheeseburger land uses
Which is that's why metric system came to be. So we can say the same thing...
And it's absolutely crazy that the UK still uses miles and imperial gallons!@@kornaros96
As a Frenchman, James' conclusion is so accurate.
I still prefer petrol though, my 165hp MPV is almost as torquey as the diesel in the real world, three times less economical but it's a bomb when you put your foot down. And on E85 fuel economy isn't a concern.
They should’ve had an episode looking back at all the “eco friendly” diesels that actually created more emissions
Never buy sugar free travel sweets or you will find first hand why someone would need to buy replacement trousers at a service station.
Lupo 3L and Audi A2 3L were an amazing concept. Quite weird no cars today can achieve their fuel economy. The better the fuel economy, the better the car is for the environment. Diesel is the perfect solution.
What about the harm it does to us humans?
Ya. I bet you dont walk everywhere. See how your EV's work when the power grid fails due to (x), and then go buy your gas to power your generator.
Those cars produced an insane amount of nox and particulates To reduce them you basically need to burn more fuel
Diesels aren't good for local air quality though. Better fuel economy doesn't change that.
Fueled by sandpaper 🤣🤣🤣 God I miss this show so very much
Clarkson was spot on about the Lupo. I used to have one and I absolutely loved that thing. Yes, it was a GTI, so that helped, but horsepower aside the underlying car itself was great and - apart from the truly rubbish boot - it never made me feel like I was on the bottom-rung of the model-range. Up front it didn't feel much different from something larger, like a Polo, and even the rear seats had enough space for adults. The VW Up exclamation point by contrast feels a bit less "up-market" IMO, even though it still is a great little car and it does have more practicality WRT boot-space.
I remember that Seat made their own version, the Seat Arosa - it was essentially the same car with a different nose. Surprisingly it didn't sell as well as the Lupo, despite being a bit cheaper. I always liked the Lupo's styling. It was cute but not irritatingly cute.
I had a petrol MPI Arosa. It gave terrible fuel economy. I almost gave it away.
1:56
As someone who has spent 10 years working out of my car, on the road most of the time...
You'd be surprised.
That same lap around the M25 would cost about £473 nowadays
3 months later and it is twice as expensive 😂
Diesel used to be cheap but they are pumping up the price. Diesel cars tend to be very reliable and could work all day non-stop.
I like diesels but not sure if I need one at the moment. Thing is, I would like a Land Cruiser at some point and that is a 2.8 diesel, good for 32mpg average but the car would last for decades. If it lasts that long then it would be worth paying a bit more for the diesel compared to petrol.
Modern diesels are a lot more fragile than ones a few decades ago.
@@FullNietzsche i have a van that runs on a Toyota 1GD engine. Used as a taxi 16hrs a day.
@@howtosurviveearth Fragile doesn't mean they are all going to fall apart. I mean modern diesels have much higher performance / high levels of torque and everything is under higher pressure than in old slow diesels which were low tech but bulletproof. Modern diesel engines are very complex and have lots of things that can/will go wrong sooner or later and cost thousands to sort out. I read that diesels nowadays are three times more likely to break down than petrol cars and more expensive to repair.
Times we’re happier in 2003
1994
*1999
*1876
*1492
*1169
The petrol lupo, "drafting all the way", and still managing drastically less mpg.
I love old top gears I always imagine that it’s a new episode and I’m really proud looking at my brand new car in my driveway 🤩
8:05 It's funny because James drives an electric car and cares for the environment now lol
Electric cars are the opposite of caring for the environment
@@_zigger_ ok then you believe that 😂
@@jamie3499 it’s true though, factories producing batteries for electric cars make more pollution than the car will ever make up for before it needs a new battery. The real issue is also the fact that electricity is dirty, being produced primarily by coal and oil burning plants, not to mention that new diesel cars are so clean it’s not even funny, just get a new diesel if you care about the environment, run it on Biodiesel.
@@ryonbrand7885 electricity is crap right now i think but as technology improves electricity will probably go cheaper
@@ryonbrand7885 also they probably will reuse the batteries overall its probably an investment
0:39 Four Tet- Twenty Three. 1:25 Appliance EX4. 2:19 Four Tet-Parks
"No one knows what torque is..."
I couldn't agree more. It is difficult to explain and understand in practice.
What a great video.
Only way I was explained it was: imagine hanging off a spanner with a adjustable handle, longer it goes, the more torque you’re adding to that rotation.
And I still don’t really get it 😆
What is wrong with Polluting Diesels these days (2021) summarized within the 1st minute of this segment : Clarkson shows a E320d, a car designed for high mileage drivers, and a VW Lupo, a City-drive car... Which car shouldn't have been sold with diesel engines ? Let that sink in...
I had the SEAT Arosa 1.4 TDi equivalent, and it felt allot quicker to 60mph than 12 seconds
I bought a diesel Fiesta in 2017. Any savings that I made on fuel economy have now been wiped out by the diesel prices of today :(
Did him dirty in the discount section lol
And the third thing is, you are probably French! That one killed me!! Haha OH you guys
Bloody hell, it really shows you how things have changed, Practically most cars in that film now are very rare sights to see, like the mk3 fiesta. Also how things changed later on, when after the government said buy diesel and pushed it, only a few years later after this, they bumped up the tax brackets and the price of fuel. Also these were the day before electric cars were even thought about practically, let a lone hybrids. Also during this time we still had manual choke cars kicking about with non PAS etc.
I was going to say "and cars still had wind-up windows for the back-seat passengers" but apparently the base model Micra had them until 2015. It struck me a while back that it's been ages since I last saw a Ford Ka. They seem to have just... rusted away, I suppose.
@@AshleyPomeroy A lot of cars still have wind-up windows for the back windows, Fords up to 2020 at least, except the higher spec models.
Captain Slow here. Torque is just power divided by engine speed. It's how good an engine is when you ignore how many bangs per second it's making.
206 1.4 HDi: Why do I hear a tractor noise?
Lupo 1.4 TDI: Oh please, shut up.
Lupo 3L my friend had one, it does 2,5l/100km, it was amazing.
Pretty impressive for a 3 liter engine
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@@micksson99 The 3L means it consumes 3l per 100km. The engine had a displacement of 1.2l and was Turbocharged.
@@LiebeMeinesLebens05 I was about to say a 3 liter Lupo would be insane it's a shame it's not a real thing.
the only thing stopping me from buying one was that it had no electric steering support.
@@arunas3164 for me its safety
O.88 💷/l.
Awesome price...good old days.
4:02 "We can’t tell its a diesel under the bonnet, sounds just like a petrol"😆😂
Ooh that's sharp humour to cut to those sad looking fluffy things after Clarkson says "who's going around the M25 and suddenly thinks I need a new pair of _trousers_"
7:01 Golden cok award origins
02:00 "Who is going to be going around the M25 and decide 'I need some trousers'".
Me, actually.
I was driving along eating a McDonalds (a Mc DLT. Remember them ?), and the mayonnaise spilled all over the crutch of my black trousers. I tried cleaning it off, but it made things worse.
You can imagine what the stain looked like, and I was on my way to Crawley to give a presentation.
The only trousers they had were far too big, and were beige. I looked and felt like a complete twerp, but I can tell you they were a life-saver.
(And I've no idea what they made the mayo out of, but I never got the stain out)
That’s just plain unfortunate
rip pair of trousers
Is it a UK thing to call your crotch your crutch?
@@visionist7 Nope just poor spelling i think :)
Never happened to me but I was thinking the same when Jeremy was complaining about it, although I thought to myself "Hey someone could shart themselves, it happens"
@@MonkeyHunch1 Poor spelling - by whom ?
Not me. I have spelled crutch in the correct way.
Do you think Mom is more correct than mum ?
“Doing outside lane speeds” lol
Jeremy's best friend?
Yeah
The little one.
Thank Ferdinand Piech for these levels of efficiency.
Such a classic! My granny had one of these. She was the fastest granny on the road!
Some say...
70mpg
and now remember how old this is and what kinds of mpg figures are common nowadays
yeah... great progress we have made...
Jeremy actually looked as if he was quite enjoying his drive round the M25 in his wee VW diesel car.
Talking about savings. Diesel is so much more expensive to repair
Repairs are needed much less frequently though, and doing the work yourself makes it cheaper than a gasoline car, mainly due to the fact that diesels have no spark plugs to replace, glow plugs can last decades if you live in a warm environment, and the injectors don’t need to be replaced unless foreign particulate matter goes through them. The real place where diesels look more expensive is when it’s time to rebuild the engine, but since this is done half as often as in a gasoline engine, it’s still cheaper.
Whoever chose the music for this must really like Four Tet.
What's the name of the track at 3:45?
About the pair of trousers on the M25...
You've never been discovering that you're lactose intolerant and had a milkshake.
VW Lupo, a VW Polo with the back cut off.
The Diesel and GTI even have a plastic trunk lid to save even more weight.
This made the vehicle so light that the battery was moved to the trunk.
And then there was the Audi A2, a Polo made of aluminum in an Audi fur.
Diesel of course.
I write this here in the U.S. in April 2021 so I don't know who else is here watching,but now here in the U.S. we have full size pickup trucka than can get up to 30 miles per gallon with a small (for the application) diesel engine and midsize pickups that get 30+ mpg.
I'm guessing that's about 7.6 liters per 100 Kilometers? I don't know proper measurements, on the weird shit the U.S. uses
Also, here in the U.S. we focus more on emissions rather than miles per gallon, so with all the emissions equipment diesel engines get, I suppose it can be argued that tailpipe emissions in our diesel engines come up cleaner than gasoline counterparts, especially if factored in for the size of the vehicle and power produced.
yes but how long do the def motors last and how much does it cost to maintain them? this all relates to total energy consumed. a 12 valve will literally run forever and get 22mpg. a 4bt is the same and you can get 30 in a half ton.
A diesel is cleaner than an modern gas engine.
Jeremy calling Hammond his best friend. Ahahhaha That's rare.
The great irony of this video excerpt in August 2023 in the UK, is that the only road near London that you can drive this Diesel car on without having to pay an astronomical daily pollution charge is none other than the M25... If only we had a time machine
Why can we never have cars like these in North America. I have a 92 golf 1.6 non turbo diesel and it was a terrific car
It is a cute car 🚗😍☺ loved The VW Lupo and Polo of The 2000s in design.
The lupo had its name on the licene plate
Me driving a 1.2 TDI Lupo...
Diesel is the least refined of the fuels but costs 30% more,especially here in the US.
My best friend the little one 😂😂😂
Which one? And no probably he didn’t have one because you are clearly a child because your profile picture has your school tie on do you really think everybody is stupid?
@@borisjohnson7553 bro how did this escalate so quickly, he just said a funny quote from the film
@@borisjohnson7553 he literally quoted from the film, and you´re trying to roast him for no reason at all. And obvioslly he meant Hammond
@@borisjohnson7553 stop drinking cooking oil
@@visionist7 stop being nasty and get a job!
If he thinks that's the most boring road in the world, he's obviously never been on I-70 in Kansas, or I-80 in Nebraska, or I-20 in Texas.
you’ve obviously never driven the uk’s biggest parking lot as it’s called on the on your side of the pond
My best friend Mikey inherited a diesel Chevette, ugly as sin, slow as sea snail and damn comfy. Great on long journeys and road trips. AND you could pull a small trailer...
dogs on rugs accelerate better than without the rug
Diesel is king when it comes to relaxed driving.
Nah.
V12 petrols are the kings of relaxed driving.
More power, more revs, wider power range.
And quieter.
@@cyclopgarage you don't need revs, you need loads of torque at low rpm
@@greathey1234 That's why you get a V12 and not a V6 and that's why top end luxury limousines don't have a diesel.
@Your nans hamsters dead Uncles dads brothers cat I don't know what your problem is but i surely think mercedes s350d is a luxury car. No normal human wants to race an s class so a lazy torquey diesel is just right
@@greathey1234 the King of relaxation is a Rolls Royce Phantom, it has a V12 petrol engine
The SEAT Arosa is exactly the same car.
The diesels excel at low-end torque and high mileage, petrols excel at accelerations at higher rpm, and smoother operation.
As soon as vw introduced the rabbit diesel in the US around 1980 they openly fought a more efficient automobile. The Bunny got 53 miles to the gallon and went 75 miles an hour. It was a band-aid they pulled off
They told us you can only drive 55 mph but know way are you gonna get better mileage. Tax the shit out of it
6:27 75 mpg… that’s more than a Prius….
And 42mpg is still really really good.
75 mpg UK is 62 MPG US fyi.
@@MegaDizz23 that’s still astonishingly good for a car that’s not a hybrid
@@JoeyLovesTrains agreed. I've had a couple Volkswagen diesels that I really enjoyed but they are expensive if something goes wrong.
Yeh Hybrids are only good at saving money in cities with start stop slow traffic, and then giving you extra power when you need to go somewhere on the open road.
3:25 😂😂😂
You don’t consider how old these cars are until you notice that clarksons face now resembles and old catcher's mit.
hahahaha
5.84£ for 7 liters of diesel, jesus christ those were the days
If there was no construction site at the near end of the M25, Jeremy may have save quite a bit more than £4.29, and he could buy 2 of his classic show video cassette tapes also (If the savings in that situation was doubled up)
anyone else remember in the grand tour when richard hammond said the porsche 918 does 90+ MPG, stupid volkswagen ruining everything.
"There's an enormous amount of space up here!" Meanwhile his knees are literally an inch from the steering wheel, lol
It's something you get used to when you're a tall lad.
It’s like Jezza and James have completely swapped pov’s. James is more concerned with laps of the track, and Jeremy is talking about 50-70mph pulls.