this guy's innocence in regards to cars is adorable 😂

Welshman here, living in South East Asia: erm...yes, ALL petrol stations IN THE WORLD...you Fill up first, THEN PAY!! lol.

@ICanSeeYou247

Жыл бұрын

That's not true, in a lot of countries you can pay first Edit...if you want an example...in South Auckland, New Zealand, stealing fuel is a problem, so you have to pay for your fuel before you pump, the only issue with that is if you want to fill up you don't know exactly how much fuel you need to pay for🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@pontinrob

Жыл бұрын

​@@ICanSeeYou247 If argue more countries you fill then pay having traveled a lot it's most you fill first

@almostyummymummy

Жыл бұрын

​@@ICanSeeYou247 Is South Auckland really that bad with stealing fuel? Here in various Wellington suburbs (even in Masterton where I live), I've always paid after filling. Thankfully.

@steverouse2655

Жыл бұрын

I think Spain you pay first, well the ones I visited.

@samuelpinder1215

Жыл бұрын

​@@ICanSeeYou247 what if you pay for too much fuel if your tank wasnt as empty as you thought. Price per litre then pay makes more sense

I hate to break it to you, but literally every country in the world (including poor African ones) you fill your car first and then you pay. “What if you run away” people simply dont. If you do that you will get caught anyway. Petrol stations are full of CCTV cameras and your car has a license plate in both the front and back. My friend once in the middle of the night forgot to pay after stopping at a station and going to the bathroom and he simply got a email by the Police that he got reported and needs to go back to pay the station or charges will be pressed by the order and he will be under arrest. He called the station and ended up paying online with a bank transfer. Job done and nothing came from it.

@darranbeal5947

Жыл бұрын

Nearly all drive offs at petrol stations are by people, mainly kids, in stolen cars, so the fact that there are many CCTV cameras recording the number plate doesn't matter to them at all.

@bzilla1090

Жыл бұрын

I'm South African, I've never been to the US, but I live in Europe half of the year and I can confirm I've never been to a petrol station where you would pay before you fill up.

@darranbeal5947

Жыл бұрын

@@Thisandthat8908 I was a black cab driver for over 30 years, and on the night shift have seen this many times at petrol stations, and in answer to your supermarket comment, on one occasion when sat at traffic lights in a bad area of town and very dodgy kid jumped into the back of my cab, and immediately I smelled a rat, the kid took me to 3 co-op supermarkets where he filled up a basket with steak at the first one and casually got back into my cab with the basket, the 2nd one he came out with a basket full of laundry capsules and conditioner, and the 3rd one the basket was full of cheese, and other Simply Irresistible items of grocery, on the way back he got me to stop at a Shell petrol station only a couple of minutes from where he jumped into my cab and casually walked out with 2x4 pack of Stella. When we got back to his home I was paid with £7 in coins, a few packs of fillet steak, and enough laundry tabs to last a few months, I turned down the cheese because it was Cathedral City. I do not need statistics to prove what I have seen with my own eyes.

@cristalmewtwo4160

11 ай бұрын

I have a funny story I live in the UK and my dad is not a morning person and so typically he gets petrol in the evening but this time he gets it on his way to work and when he gets in he can't remember if he payed for the petrol or not and I stressed the entire day gets home walks down and talks to them turns out the stupid bastard payed anyway and forgot

@volundrfrey896

5 ай бұрын

The fact that they went that route suggest that it's fairly rare. If it's a daily occurrence they just press charges and let the legal system handle it.

The Stig was Top Gear's tame racing driver, he never spoke, and never took off his helmet, even if they made him travel by public transport. have a look at some compilations of him. Or the way Jeremy used to introduce him every week, starting with the phrase "some people say" and then listing the most outrageous facts about him that he could think of.

@bobbysinger2689

Жыл бұрын

still is

@nicksykes4575

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbysinger2689 Still is what?

@cristalmewtwo4160

11 ай бұрын

Their race driver if I were to guess but no-one would know as no intelligent person watches today top gear in sure they're lovely blokes but they're a corporate friendship to try and copy what the original trio had

@tbrooke3016

Ай бұрын

Some say he was created by the CIA and that he only eats cheese

So that on the mustand is an air scoop/ intake for the supercharger I believe. You'll see the three holes open up when he pust his foot down, this is so that the air is forced in to cool the supercharger as its working. I hope I've got that right lol, it's been a while since I've worked with cars

@Ryan-jz4fe

Жыл бұрын

@@bmofano yeah haha, that was the point I was trying to make, I struggle to articulate sometimes lol

@sjeses

Жыл бұрын

Not just to cool the supercharger, an engine needs fuel and oxygen to burn that fuel. The more oxygen you can get into the engine, the more fuel you can add to it to make a more powerful explosion. A supercharger forces extra air into the engine, and having the "nostrils" (not the actual term) up there helps because if you go faster, you are "scooping" up more air.

@Cobalt-Jester

Жыл бұрын

@@sjeses It doesn't doesnt cool a supercharger at all. the other parts you say are correct. The more air, Oxygen, in the carburetor the more violent the explosion and the more power you will have. Carburetor. The name is the clue bit is a carbon and air eator. It mixes carbon based hydrocarbons with oxygen from the air.

@TheOystei

10 ай бұрын

Well, while ram air scoops are commonly used on supercharged cars, on this one it's mostly for looks. you can see in to a regular air filter, and the scoop itself has no throttle valves, just 3 open holes. This just sits on top of a regular carburetted engine, no supercharger.

14:45 that is the air intake, the exhaust goes out the back like any other car, it’s known as the ‘blower’ motor configuration. Some cars like the Holden Torana have a reversed bonnet scoop (air intake) so the engine uses the low pressure air near the windshield.

@TheOystei

10 ай бұрын

It's known as a ram air intake. Blower motors (on old american cars especially that tends to use roots style blowers) tend to often use this style of air intake on top, but that is not a blown motor. it is technically closer to what's called a "shaker" (hood skoop/air intake attached to the engine and not the hood, so it would vibrate, or shake, with the engine), although that was a factory mopar thing and this is 100% aftermarket.

17:26 yes in some countries like where i am (Australia) 99% of the petrol stations are fuel before you pay, (pay inside) the 1% are stations such as Costco that are pay before you fuel and some other companies that allow you to use a phone app to pay for fuel. Few years ago we did have servos that had pay at pumps, but were shortly taken away due to the companies not liking the apparent fact that due to people being able to pay at the pump, they were getting less customers inside the store buying products, and there is a dilemma currently thats been going on for years that, because in Australia you can fuel before you pay, there is a common occurrence of people stealing fuel, (petrol drive offs) if we had pay at the pump before you fuel, it would pretty much stop petrol stealing, but every time the discussion pops up the big companies always argue that they dont want to implement pay at pumps, because they will loose instore customers which is a load of shit imo.

@no-oneinparticular7264

Жыл бұрын

And yet our signs say don't use a mobile phone near a pump 😂 🇬🇧

@nightowlnzab

Жыл бұрын

Really? Pay at pump (and by app, or often by number plate recognition) is pretty much a standard option here in NZ, although you can still go into the store. The pump pre-authorises a charge on your card so it knows if you can pay, before it'll start pumping and then afterwards charges you for the actual amount pumped.

@ayethein7681

Жыл бұрын

We would never drive off without paying.😋

@samuelpinder1215

Жыл бұрын

Also top gear complained about petrol station shops, people would park at the pumps then go in and do a weekly shop before coming back out again in the time that about 10 people couldve filled up

@thomashanson6603

Жыл бұрын

@@nightowlnzab That's exactly how it works in the US, or at least most of it. I've never had to pay inside, though it is generally an option. Just swipe your card and then pump and it'll charge you appropriately.

The mask he had in Japan was of Bill Oddie, who apparently is good at spotting beavers.

@no-oneinparticular7264

Жыл бұрын

In the 90s, I walked into a shop in Switzerland and a stuffed beaver made a whistling noise at me. True story, and made me go into hysterics laughing😂

@jamesh1208

Жыл бұрын

very small and hairless beavers...

"Why are my pants vibrating" that's what happens when some people see Vettel

I've never been in a petrol station where you pay first.

@VXGaming

Жыл бұрын

If you use the pay at the pumps part of fuel stations you pay first.

@QueeferSutherland1

Жыл бұрын

@@VXGaming Right but there's never been a station where you have to pay first, at least I've never seen one.

@craigrees6361

Жыл бұрын

​@True Scotsman then don't go to France because if you fill up there they generally don't have any cashiers on the motorway stations and the machine will take th3 maximum ie 150euros everytime you use that type of pump and you won't get the unspent money back for around 4 to 6 weeks outrageous

@samuelpinder1215

Жыл бұрын

​@@VXGaming pay at pump you fill up then pay

I love how your head started hurting just thinking about people in other countries not driving off without paying after fueling up. 🤣🤣

In the Netherlands it depends with regards to paying for fuel. In unmanned pump stations, you put your bank card in the payment terminal first, the terminal checks with the bank if you have enough money and unlocks one of the pumps (typically you select the number of the pump you want to use and select the type of fuel). When you put the hose back on the machine, the amount is withdrawn from your bank account. In manned fuel stations, you either fill up yourself first or someone does it for you (rare these days) and then pay inside the shop. If you want to see more about the inner workings of a car, I can recommend the channel Mighty Car Mods or AutoAlex Cars for a closer look at repairing and modifying very different kinds of cars. They have done some pretty cool projects over the years and made documentary style roadtrip/modifying films as well. It is quite an interesting rabbit hole, being curious about how cars work, you could spend YEARS going into more and more detail and finding more and more strange types of engines that take very different approaches to generating movement.

Every liquid loses volume when it it cooled with the exception of wataer, which expands.

@JFeaser187

3 ай бұрын

Water does to a point. If I’m remember correctly water is densest around 4 degrees Celsius.

oliver is a 1963 Opel Kadett A, a legendary car in top gear history

In a previous lifetime I used to work at shipping chemicals from the USA to Europe. The standard steel drums are all the same size but the volume they contain is 55 US gallons or 45 Imperial gallons. 😊

It's the exact oposite of an exhasust actualy, it's an air intake, a supercharger to be precise that forces more air into the engine for more horsepower. And the cars power depends on the engine size, not all Corola's come with the same engine. Here in the Netherlands you always fuel before you pay as well, but fuel stations do have camera's so if you leave without paying they have you and your license plate on camera. What you do need to realise when driving in Europe, of for Europeans visiting the US: the fuel filler colors are reversed: in Europe green is petrol and black is diesel, in the US black is petrol and green diesel

14:30 1. What is an exhaust tank? 2. This thing is actually to let the air into the engine. It doesn't have anything to do with the exhaust

the cold day filling up is true, most in the uk are standardised to 24c with a few having a winter toggle to 12c (based off my propane doing the same) Either way 24c is the international calibration point for anything expected at room/outdoor temps

You might like "The Young Ones" -- an iconic '80s BBC comedy series about '4 college roommates..." I'll leave it at that :)

Here in Sweden most fuel stations are card only, so you swipe first ("blip" these days) then fuel up. But the cash ones you fill your car up first and then go inside to pay. How are you gonna know exactly how much you need? You car, face and licence plate is caught on cameras anyway, so if you drive off they know who you are.

@14:36 that is not the exhaust, rather the Air intake for a possible Supercharger. I'd recommend "Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles", the episodes on 2-stroke, diesel, the Supercharger and V8 in particular. The other two episodes dealt with Steam and the Jet engine.

The bit sticking out the hood is air intake directly to the carburettors, which is where the air mixes with the fuel.

Nearly all petrol stations in the UK you fuel up first and then go to the counter inside and pay, at the one round the corner from me the outtermost pumps are pay at pump only because of people driving off without paying.

26:00 Steve mould has done a video on how petrol pumps know when to stop the flow of the petrol. Also in the uk at least, we can’t lock our pumps on and so we have to hold the trigger the whole time we are filling up, that stops us from ever leaving the pump in the car. That clicking sound is the pump shutting off the flow.

It doesn't matter where the car was made the fuel filler will always be on the side it was designed to be on. But if you are in a strange car and do not know what side it's on then there is a top tip for you. It always shows you what side it is on when the petrol light comes on. It's usually hidden in the design of that warning light but it will either show a within the light or on the dashboard telling you what side the filler cap is on.

Don't know what you mean by a light socket. You'd have to be a pretty inventive toddler to get shocked in Britain.

23:22 that’s an air intake to help the engine breathe and increase power, most supercharged cars especially American muscle cars have them. That and they look cool to

in the uk, it is standard that you take the fuel and then pay for it. there are pumps where you insert your card, enter the pin and take the fuel. it then charges your card for the fuel taken. most people fill up and go to the kiosk to pay tho.

In England, we don’t really pay first, we cab sometimes, but a lot of us wont run before paying lol

For the lower end range of the horsepower scale, the classic mini's only have about 33hp, but because they were so light they were pretty nippy, though the top speed was only 75mph. The good weight balance and nimble steering and suspension meant it could take corners like a go cart though, so you make up what you lack in raw straight line speed and acceleration in the corners.

They are converting to imperial gallons, which is 4.5 litres. A US gallon is 3.8 litres. So when Jeremy says he got 6.75mpg, the US equivalent is 5.7mpg.

17:26 Yes as someone who has worked in a garage/fuel station for several years in England. We pay for fuel after we've filled up. But fuel station at least in England have to be authorised by an employee to use. So you can't just pull up, hop out, out fuel in and drive off. The employee has to authorise the pump and what pump number you are. And 99.9% of the time people are very honest and pay, it's extremely rare to get drive offs despite what you may think.

The UK gallons are a bit larger than the US gallons, which are only 3.85 liters ( from memory), so you will have to adjust for that as well 😉

Patiently waits for you to do a whole episode.

Crying watching this looking at the old fuel prices. It’s about double now.

Yes we have fuel stations you can pay after getting fuel. Pumps that have card machines on them are pay first but if they don't which is more traditional you pay after. You'll be thinking people will just drive off however camera's record your vehicle and the number plate is a form of identification for the police to find the owners name and address, the plate can also be relayed to Police cars in the area and found fairly quickly. Petrol and Diesel also doesn't go on fire as easy as people think.

Btw cuz its always fun to make things more confusing An american gallon is 3.785 liters while a British gallon (imperial gallon) is 4.55 liters, so an inperial gallon is 1.2 american gallons

17:26 , as a french i can tell you : Yes. Yu fill up your car AND THEN you go pay. that's normal. If you run off , there is camera recording your car and the plate , so ....

I'm in Africa and we fill first, if you run you get arrested there are cameras.

The one where Jeremy had his tall white camping car was filmed down the road from where I lived.

If you're skint in Britain, go to a Sainsbury's petrol station, fill up, 'oops I've forgotten my card' and you fill a form in and they give you 2 weeks to pay. Handy. (It may be a week. I've not had to use this form of 'credit' for a while 😜)

at 14:40 its an intake for the air

Litres to US Gallons: 1L = 0.264 gal / 1 gal = 3.785 L. So 50L comes out as about 13.2 gal. However, when the Top Gear guys talk about miles per gallon, they're using Imperial gallons, not US gallons. 1 Imp gal = 1.201 US gal / 1 US gal = 0.833 Imp gal.

Ha, originally the made up word "spunk" came from the Swedish Pippi Longstockings TV series way back in the 70s, and soon after we got these liquorice pastilles with that name, which have been quite popular here in Denmark since then, where we of course had no idea of the meaning of this weird word in (some types of) English 😂

14:42 that is a supercharger. 17:50 that is true!

@nothinghere7391

Жыл бұрын

It's not a supercharger. It's just a bugcatcher style intake. This Mach 1 didn't have a supercharger

@ctra1ns

Жыл бұрын

@@nothinghere7391 ah sorry

The Hummers... the H2 was 20" Longer and 3" narrower than the H1... the H2 is a GM Tahoe under the skin, the H3 is 10" narrower and 10" shorter than an H1, make of it what you will, also is a GM Canyon under the skin.

In England you put your card details in first , then pump as much as you need. and then it takes the money out.

14:46 No, it's not an exhaust, it's an air scoop (intake), google Subaru WRX for a good example of them, they're usually rectangular. An engine vents it "exhaust gas" through the "exhaust pipe" underneath the car which runs front to back.. of course you can get "side pipes" but they're usually just for looks. And yes, the USA IS the odd one out. Most countries (including the UK where I reside AND Spain where I regularly go on holiday) have a policy of "fill up, then pay". Why? How do I know how much I want? What if I want to fill up the tank but specify £40 worth of fuel and the car takes £45 to fill? What if I ask for £50 worth of fuel but the car is full after only £45? If you fill up first, you know exactly how much you are paying. Some fuel stations, including one near to me, when they close for the night, they have automated "pay at pump" systems, meaning you can still get fuel even after they close. During the day you can either use this method called "pay at pump" or use "pay at kiosk" where you dispense the fuel you want, then go inside to pay at the counter. Not all fuel stations have "pay at pump" and many don't, it's only the large mainly supermarkets that do, i.e Tesco, Sainsburys etc. You put your card in first, enter your pin, it pre-authorises your card with either £120 (if it's a credit card) or if it's a debit card it usually checks the balance on the card, and ONLY allows you to fill up to your maximum card balance. If you have £30 on your debit card in available funds, it will only allow you to fill up £30 worth. If you have a debit or credit card with says £300 available the maximum refuel amount allowed is £120.

On the subject of fuel, some people may be confused about octane ratings. They just refer to how much the fuel can be compressed in the cylinder before it auto ignites. If you have a high compression and a low octane fuel it causes knocking or pinging which damages the pistons and valves. That’s why lead used to be added to fuel, it increased the octane rating until we realised how much brain damage it caused.

that thing sticking out of the bonnet on the green car was a supercharger, makes the car go very much faster

This is the intake on the hood not the exhaust.

That race with the Aston Martin is to Monte Carlo

I believe that thing on the bonnet of the green mustang has something to do with air intake that's attached to the supercharger which is attached to the engine which gives the engine more power the exhaust is on the sides of the vehicle I thinkb

50 Ltr fuel tank? 1 UK gallon is around 4.5 (1 Gallon [UK] = 4.5461 Ltr) So Clarkson has a, just under, 11 gallon fuel tank! "Still, could be worse". As he says. Fuel expansion. The tank probably wouldn't explode because fuel tanks have a 'breather' pipe on them to let air in, to replace used fuel. Otherwise, a vacuum would form in the tank and fuel would not be pumped to the engine. Also the filler cap has a tiny hole in it for the same reason. "Is that a Ford Anglia?" No, it's an Opel Kadette, (Called 'Oliver' by Hammond, which he still owns )which was the German version of the British Vauxhall (HA) Viva. Hammonds green Mustang (in Argentina by the way) has a 'bug catcher' air intake sticking through the bonnet/hood. You can just see the air filter inside it. Basically it's just to make it look like a dragster.

17:50 - how reality hurts

It does have an exhaust tank. That’s a supercharger not a turbo charger. forced induction of oxygen directly into the engine to make the pistons explode faster to put it in simple terms I guess.

@britishbastard6561

Жыл бұрын

His car was naturally aspirated

In case you want to use conversions between litres and gallons, remember that US gallons are small than UK gallons, and the same with pints.

14:40 not an exhaust, in very simple terms it’s an intake to suck air into the engine

Exhaust tank lol the thing on the front suvks air in to the engine to cool it

The American Gallon is a good bit smaller than UK Gallons. So, they were getting even worse MPG But you also have to remember the bit where they were comparing MPG the first time . They had just been on the track doing almost 200 MPH

@InquisitiveBaldMan

Жыл бұрын

They cant even do imperial properly...

@GLH8

Жыл бұрын

@@InquisitiveBaldMan In fairness, their pints are based on 16floz, which is a fluid pound. That makes more sense.

@InquisitiveBaldMan

Жыл бұрын

@@GLH8 But metric....

21:30 The mileage was wrong anyway, those muppets worked on gallons being 4.45 litres, it's 4.55 litres (rounded up).

Also, I love how un-educated about cars you are, it's hilarious 😂

That's a translator, not a phone. Once upon a time it was a separate very, very expensive device.

14:30 that's the intake on top of the supercharger

Something to note, the U.K imperial gallon is 20% larger than the U.S gallon. America is the only country I know of where you have to pay first. The metal thing on the green and black Mustang's bonnet is an air intake for the carburetor. It's probably fake but it could be real.

9:10 Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS). It's a thing, and it usually means you use your phone too much, or at least recently you have been. I get it occasionally, phone can either be in my pocket or not, doesn't matter... 😂😂

The Item he bought after the petrol diesel lap of the M25 was a Golden Crystal Cock. which later became a prize in their award ceremonies for the presenter who had made the biggest fork up. (eg. Driving up a mountain and going back down in a helicopter with the keys to the car in your pocket)

any chance you can watch full specials with a serious amount of overlays? Similar to faulty towers

in most countries you use the fuel, with a running 'calculator' that measures how much youre puting in and the cost in the local currency so you dont overpay and its very precise with how much it charges you, otherwise idk how u would buy petrol in america by paying first, idk how that would work

14:28 Those are Air Intakes.

yes fuel before you pay in most countries apart from America

That thing on the bonnet is not the exhaust but air intack.

14.55 air inlet for a supercharger

Anybody told him that’s not a cell phone! 😂

Bearing in mind that when Clarkson says it's doing 19 miles to the gallon, that's English gallons, not US Gallons, which are smaller and will do less miles to the gallon.. one McJibbin mind blown...

No, fuel tank wouldn't explode. It's a minute change maybe just a couple of Pence/Cents. But fuel tanks are not sealed they have a pressure release system and they are made of really tough expandable materials that not only stretch but can be deformed under compression like in a crash.

14:30 carburator intake made to look like a supercharger intake.

Hello Conner Just to confuse you even more the mile used in Britain is known in the U.S.as the long mile as is the long gallon , and the long ton, which as you might guess are longer and heavier and what ever than the U.S equivalent . And just to make it fun metric is the official system, which leaves old dinosaurs like me well confused

17:32 you don't go into the supermarket, pay for your food, and then go shopping. The US is the only country where they do this with fuel. If you're trying to run off without paying the cars probably stolen or there's something not legal about it. The average person does not have a criminal mind, plus there's camera's literally everywhere nowadays, which helps to deter thieves. I bet the US had a fuel theft problem back in the day when there was no CCTV, so they created the "pay-first" thing. They just never changed their policy I guess, even though it's outdated.

Yeah the UK’s measurement preferences are this bizarre hybrid of imperial and metric that depend on what you’re talking about

27:28 in. Yes back then they (the british... when the video was filmed) still used the imperial system a lot (they still do but less and less so). So they are not using your system, but theirs... you fought against them to gain independance but are still one of the very few in the world using imperial system (you could have choosen the metric system like France who fought with you to defeit the english but your are still using the english system that they imposed to their colonies... quite funny/bizarre)

For the sake of knowledge basically anyone born past the year 1970 in commonwealth countries grew up learning metric and those born before learned imperial in school.

Every other country other than the US does 'pump first then pay'

👉 ... " Pants vibrating " ... 👈

ON bonnet on 1970s mustang intake to drag air into powerful engine

Good luck trying to decipher horsepower. Horsepower vs torque hurts my head. Generally the bigger the engine, the bigger the horsepower. But it also depends on the size of each cylinder, size of tires, gear ratio, fuel type etc

That sticky up things a super charger

Of course we can get fuel before paying. Oh and you mean an English accent 😉

Just to add to the confusion, UK gallons and US gallons are different 😂

Fuel before you pay... yes, so you know exactly how much you need to pay, your on CCTV anyway so driving off without paying and you'll get a letter sending you to court for theft :|

Looking at the prices of the fuel when these were filmed just makes me sad.

Producers tend to get punched in the face on Top Gear 😆

@robocop3961

Жыл бұрын

Where’s my hot meal ‘you bastard’ 😂

Interesting fact for you, Did you know the British gallon was 20% bigger than US gallon?

FUEL BEFORE PAY YOUR CAR HAS A REG PLATE CAMERAS WAIT CAMERAS EVERYWHERE. Anpr reads you plate cant run

I may be wrong - and can't be bother to fact-check - but I believe the British and US gallons are different.

2:28 83p per litre. Ah, those were the days!

Of course you fuel before you pay, how do you know how much it will cost before you put the fuel in? The only time you may have to pay first is late at night or at a place that has a history of drive offs.

If u do drive off without paying for fuel then they have ur licence plate on camera and will have the police at ur door tomorrow afternoon

Strangely enough I think a us gallon is different from a uk gallon for some reason

We fill up before we pay in Australia Conner.