20 years later The Phantom is a thing of beauty.

I would love to see this test repeated with two Tesla Model Ys hitting each other!

@vonsauerkraut

6 ай бұрын

Big fire ball 😁 🔥

@mikadavies660

6 ай бұрын

@vonsauerkraut Clearly you have been smart enough to write what you think is a clever reply.... Without actually looking at the battery chemistry OR the batteries used in the Tesla Model Y.... Same as your smart reply is OK for two Nissan Leafs or two E-Mustangs.... But since 2022 all major battery manufacturers have been changing to batteries that can be massively impacted with no effect. Try looking up the newest Gold 800v System, that goes from ICE to Furnace to impact & still works... You are out of date and eventually everyone will also learn of the new chemistries. Which of course had to happen as safety with the old batteries wasn't anywhere near good enough.

@AlienLivesMatter

6 ай бұрын

I'll believe it when they stop spontaneous combusting​@@mikadavies660 At the moment minor fender benders are writing them off. Wasteful and unsustainable.

@YusufGinnah

6 ай бұрын

@@vonsauerkraut +💯!!!

@mvcharisma2968

6 ай бұрын

@@mikadavies660and clearly you are too brainwashed to be objective about battery fires with teslas 😂

I survived a crash in my Volvo and another one in my SAAB. Both of them were tanks.

@lukasramza9298

2 ай бұрын

And a second big bang was formed😂

@runepedersenDK

Ай бұрын

Real life safety. Euroncap only test one type of frontal collision, like they do here: Direct frontal 180 deg. with overlap. Volvo and Saab were known to analyze real life accidents, and use that knolege to make safer cars. Most other brands, including Renault, are only interested in the stars from tests like Euroncap. I miss Saab - good Volvo is still arround, most of the design and development are still done in sweden, despite some chineese ownership.

@user-sf7kl9uh7k

Ай бұрын

​@@runepedersenDKThe first genuinely safe Volvo was the 850, everything previously was tin. Sorry to burst your bubble

Would love to see modern cars at this

Love this old episode of Fifth Gear too bad there is no new ones

21:21 when crash starts

@denizuysal9188

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thank you for sharing these old episodes. This is the first Fifth Gear episode I watched all those years ago when I was 10 or 11. Haven't seen it since, I remember the XJ road test well and I've since owned an 4.2 XJ, only a dream back then to a 10 year old. Thank you again!

Ok im never over taking again

Why did they cut the crash part?

Please Maserati 5000GT vs Lamborghini Espada

Please Lexus LS400 VS Mercedes 500SE W126

I’d happily crash in that phantom which is older than the bmw was when this was filmed

Please BMW E9 3,0 CSi Vs Fiat Dino 2.4 Coupé

Please Jaguar XJS V12 vs Mercedes 560 SEC

Both drove 60mph in opposite direction, so it actually an 120mph collision

@TheCarLovingSwede

6 ай бұрын

In a collision between two cars at 60 mph, the relative velocity is 120 mph. However, the kinetic energy in this scenario is not equivalent to a single car colliding with a stationary object at 120 mph. The dynamics of the collision, the distribution of forces, and other factors come into play.

@adrienadrien5940

6 ай бұрын

Hitting a miror at 60mph doesn't double the collision speed. If you hit a car with the same mass and the same velocity it equivalent to hit a wall.

@maus3454

6 ай бұрын

@@adrienadrien5940 It is not a mirror, but another object with opposite momentum (m times v) which can be expressed with a vector (direction). It definitely has more impact

@adrienadrien5940

6 ай бұрын

@@maus3454 nop, from a stand point, let say the point of contact between the two vehicles there is twice the cinetic energy but twice the crumple zone, in terms of acceleration that completely symmetrical therefore in term of force as well. You won't be able to differcenciate a crash between 2 identical vehicles from a crash with 1 vehicle in a mirror

@jygssd11

6 ай бұрын

​@@maus3454relearn your physics

How wrong the old men of yesterday were ..

The best car in the world because its German rubbish when british

This older cars are never safe

Fifth gear were grown up acting as grown ups. TogGear were men who looked like they are grown up but the are just grade 8 boys and they acted as grade 8 boys. Because inside every man there is a grade 8 boy fascinated with cars and enjoys childish humour Tog Gear is still going on even when the name has just flipped from TG to GT it is still the same.

@user-sf7kl9uh7k

2 ай бұрын

Hammond turned Top Gear into Twat Guy!!!!😊