Gotta admit, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.

@anubiasab

Жыл бұрын

you aren't wrong

@steakandkidney3142

Жыл бұрын

Rolly cornering, skinny squealing tyres and a torquey diesel engine. Fiat Panda is very underrated.

@nightrain4500

Жыл бұрын

as a lifelong fiats' pasenger and driver I agree with this very much

@trooperdgb9722

Жыл бұрын

Well said. I rented a tiny little car from an Off brand car rental place in New Zealand (there are many of them..the cars are 6-10 years old... but in general, well maintained..IME anyway) Can't remember the make...but it had a tiny engine..with a SIX speed manual gearbox. Good lord it was fun! You never went particularly fast... but you FELT like you were...it was a hoot! Especially on NZ's winding roads...

@acciid

Жыл бұрын

I had a Panda 750 back in the day and had a lot of fun in it. You really had to work out to make progress and it was all about momentum and taking bends properly. For the last eight years I've owned a Mk7 golf R. Love it, but it's just so easy to go quickly.

I love the slow camera zoom on Mays face when Hammond and Clarkson were discussing who's fiat panda was that

Pandas are just brilliant little things. Giugiaro, who styled the original, said he wanted it to be 'a pair of denim jeans in car form'. So it was focused, timeless, simple, and dependable. One of the icons of simple motoring.

@Jack-tx2ve

Жыл бұрын

Probably the best all around vehicle ever.

@davidelliott5843

Жыл бұрын

I love the later 169 model. It’s just a great little car. Perfect for British cities and the small lanes anywhere west of Bristol. The 4x4 Cross diesel is surprisingly quick and behaves like a mountain goat.

@Jack-tx2ve

Жыл бұрын

@@davidelliott5843 Also great cars but lack the simplicity of the original design. Original panda simplicity is impossible to achieve in the modern world.

@miaugato93

Жыл бұрын

The original did have the option of jeans interior too

@davidelliott5843

2 ай бұрын

The interior trim colours do suffer (pale colours). Get it trimmed in denim.

The entire segment where Jeremy is trash talking the Panda just because James has one with James spinning out of control in the background in the SLS then the Marina falling onto it is simply gold.

@danielefabbro822

Жыл бұрын

I wont treat cars in that way, but yeah, I also know british have their own sense of humor so... But in general we italians have a sort of convinction about cars, we think that everyone of them have a soul. Well, not all, I want to say that all the italians knows about cars, but thats not the reality. Thats why our young guys wants to buy Volkswagen... Das Auto. 🤣🤣🤣

@XxXBattleStarXxX

3 ай бұрын

But Jeremy likes the panda, he did a review on it

Two of the best shows ever. You can have a compilation of almost anything from TG and GT and every single one would be entertaining

@ProjectEurobeat

Жыл бұрын

Completely unrelated to this comment, but that username actually made me laugh

@nothajzl

Жыл бұрын

GT will never be as good as TG 🤷🏻‍♂️

@harisjj8867

Жыл бұрын

@@nothajzl it came very close tho imo

@johnlemon9021

Жыл бұрын

@@nothajzl you can't deny that GT was way better than post 2016 Top Gear though

@iXlnte

Жыл бұрын

@@johnlemon9021 I think he was talking about Top Gear JRJ.

one of the most sympathetic moments in top gear were all of the james may reviews of normal and cheap cars

The original fiat panda is one of my favourite looking cars ever.

@ProjectEurobeat

Жыл бұрын

No surprise, it was designed by one of the best car designers ever

@Zoro-fl2mn

Жыл бұрын

The panda just has a nice charm to it

@Mantulisme

Жыл бұрын

Poor man's Delta Integrale

@CARLIN4737

Жыл бұрын

My father had one, A red one.

@gzuz8629

Жыл бұрын

@@Mantulisme surprisingly, both Panda and Delta have been designed by Giuggiaro

As a fiat panda owner can safely say its been the most reliable, easy to drive, cheap to run and fun car to weave around the roads of Britain 🇮🇹🇬🇧

@silvanbeppigno4050

Жыл бұрын

a very honest car !!!

@steddie4514

Жыл бұрын

Especially the 4x4.....which I drive 🙂

@Jo_Wardy

Ай бұрын

I had one I. Australia and the driving I did to work and home and grocery shopping it was so cheap on fuel. I miss it badly it had an engine knock so I’m so depressed. I replaced the broken radiator and it ati overheated the coolant :(

@Jo_Wardy

Ай бұрын

So reliable I drove mine over 300kms in one go and only stopped for fuel and it even had an issue where it would big down and when I turn the key off and on again mid highway speeds it would return to normal power. This thing was a beast. People usually shit on fiats but they some really reliable vehicles

"My father takes me to school in a white 1992 Fiat Panda. God has not answered my requests for help. I am so desperate, I even tried sacrificing a small goat." Brilliant lmao

James talking about how much fun the Panda is to drive because of the size and tires reminds me of the 1981 (I think that's its year) Toyota Tercel I learned to drive a manual on. Tiny thing that weighed nothing, but was the most fun ever on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere. My parents still have it. It's up on blocks and while the engine was still good at the time, the interior was falling apart (lining coming down, bits coming off the dash, trunk had to be wired shut because the latch had broken (would fly up going over railroad tracks), etc). Not sure it'd be worth fixing up, but it was such a fun little car.

@709mash

Жыл бұрын

It's always more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow imo. That's why I feel the MX5 is one the best sports cars you can buy.

@AlejjSi

Жыл бұрын

@@709mash Well, you don't even try to go fast in it. Even if you compare the Panda to for example a Skoda Fabia, you drive them in the same way, Panda will feel much more fun than the Fabia. But what you say is true aswell, obviously that's why James bought it. He wouldn't have so much fun going to Tesco's in a 430 or a 458 and maybe he wouldn't even make it there at all.

@ethansmith9065

Жыл бұрын

Beating the hell out of honda civic is loads more fun than driving a beemer smoothly, to accidentally belabor the point.

@bigcazza5260

Жыл бұрын

blow it up in the paddock, brick on the throttle and hold on

"It's as much a car as it needs to be and not no more." My favourite types of cars!

This show so makes me want a Panda. We don't even sell cars like this in the US. I totally agree with May on cars. And I loved his little 4wd Panda, it sounded so good with the open exhaust.

"Ingenious solution to a problem that didnt need to exist in the 1st place"

the Fiat Panda is shaped like a friend :)

@liannebenn2097

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

"There's only two knobs in it! Well, 3 if you count the one who bought it" is so fucking good lmao

You're doing the Lord's work with these compilations

@incTG

Жыл бұрын

must suck being the lord then

@maXXer00

Жыл бұрын

@@incTG lmao thanks man 😁🔥

I own a first gen Panda and have driven all 3 generations delivering pizzas. Absolutely love these cars and I completely agree with May on the twin air engine of the last generations. It's such a fun engine to play with. Given that it has just 875cc to get 85hp out of it Fiat set up the turbo to come late and strong, which means that you have like 50hp and minute consuption till 2500 rpm and then all of the sudden you have 85 and the game is on. I would love to swap the twinair into the older, lighter, first gen car

Now, as a railway buff, here's My Take on the Panda: It's Like a Narrow Gauge engine. Not very fast, not very strong. But it has a charm Like few other vehicles do. It's a friend. Requires some patience, but will get you there.

@NSHorseheadSD70

Жыл бұрын

As a railway buff, I understand where you're coming from

@nothanksguy

Жыл бұрын

Rather fitting. Narrow gauge brought transport to small, poor, remote hillside communities that wouldn't be served by full gauge service

@mobyhuge4346

Жыл бұрын

We Indonesians take this to heart, there's something really charming about seeing a narrow gauge locomotive/train trundling along at 40-70 mph

@trooperdgb9722

Жыл бұрын

Outstanding analogy!

@justforever96

Жыл бұрын

Not really a good comparison. Narrow gauge engines are still rare and special, built for their specific little railways. The Panda is cheap, good, ubiquitous transportation for the masses. If it had a real analog it would be a street car or two, but I don't really see any good rail connection. They are just widely different animals. Me broadly you might say the Panda is the 4-4-0 American type if the car world, or the GP40. Or maybe the 0-4-4 Forney if you want to stick with narrow gauge and cheap, utilitarian, small and functional.

My GF had a 2005 one, guacamole green with black roof. It's the sort of car that you don't particularly like when you have it, but you miss when you don't. It's a friend.

When James almost sank in the ocean got me dying

@shitlordflytrap1078

Жыл бұрын

It got him dying too.

I had a Fiat Panda Lounge with the 0.9l two cylinder Twin Air engine for 5 years. Most fun car I ever had. Slow as hell but just so fun. Loved sliding it on roundabouts and tight bends and the engine made it sound like you were doing 200mph in a V8 supercar all the time. Lovely little thing. Now I have an electric Corsa, which actually is proper fast and has amazing grip due to the low center of gravity. It's a car that you can take corners really fast with. Which actually makes me miss my Panda a bit since the Corsa drives safely. I can take corners twice as fast as I could with the Panda and the Corsa will just grip effortlessly. Wheras with the Panda I always had to fight it a bit to keep it from over or understeering. Panda simply is life. It's love..

@elnyoutube123

Жыл бұрын

That's what makes the pandas so fun. You're always on the limit even if you're going slow

@hsh.rlph.leblanc.131

11 ай бұрын

Avio Panda's fun teach....and electric cars as washing machines.

I have had a Panda 1.2 diesel SkyDome since 2005. After 240,000 miles it returns over 70 mpg and is still on its original exhaust. Numerous other parts have been replaced due to normal wear and tear but it must be the cheapest car I have ever owned in over 50 years of motoring.

@silvanbeppigno4050

Жыл бұрын

i think a very honest car .

The Fiat Panda is truly one of the cars ever made.

@bilalstyler98

Жыл бұрын

When James said "It's Pandain' time" and Panda'd all over the place, I couldn't stop crying. Definitely one of the moments that ever happened.

You missed when Jeremy was comparing car to cocks and James fired back that it doesnt apply to him cause he’s got a panda, while Jeremy had his AMG and Hammond had his mustang 😂

Just what I was looking for today. Seventeen whole minutes of unfiltered fiat panda talk from three of the best car show hosts.

I love the Panda From Italy with all you need nothing else, a tiny icon

I had two pandas first series in the past, and now I own a panda 2012 (third series). The latter is maybe the best car I ve ever had. Not a single issue in 10 years, roomy, cheap… spectacular. I ve had BMWs, Alfas, Autobianchi, other Fiats previously. But this is absolutely the best for the money, robust and reliable, easy and fun to drive

8:05 damn bro had the whole squad laughing

"well , three knobs if you count the driver in it"

Pandas are the best cars ever: as tools, they're absolutely brilliant, whatever gen you pick! 🐼

im amazed how you can find these compilation of things we didnt expect to be compiled you can probably find a compilation of Clarkson Hammond May doing absolutely nothing, and still be worth watching

10:26 my 2007 Panda works also very good, except for one small thing. When I turn on the lights and try to change the direction of the fan air flow from passengers to the window or the other way, half of the middle panel above the gear stick goes dark and after a few minutes, it comes back and works until you switch it off. I could have fixed it, but for me, this is so Italian and not really obstructing the ride at all so I left it like this just to feel right like in a Italian car (though it was made in Poland this 169 generation🙃).

@civiere

Жыл бұрын

If you don't want your dear panda to burn down i'd check it out if i was u. Its probably a short. Might even be in the plug, airgrate moves cable but it bounces back while moving. Real Italian would be if it just fails completely or falls off. Unexplainable on and off electrics are dangerous!

I would have never heard of a Fiat Panda if it weren't for these guys, and now I want to buy the one I saw for sale 50 miles away from me.

My first car was a mark 2 Panda and I loved it to death. At first it was just something to get me on the road but then I started to realise how downright fun they were

7:47 That whole bit is so funny, I can't stop watching it 😄

Top Gear and Grand Tour are so good that we can have a compilation on a random word and it still will be 30 minutes long.

I would love to get one seeing how cute these things look and how fun driving this thing could've been. Sadly Fiat don't sell their cars here

@justforever96

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they do. Just not this car and not as a Fiat. You can get a Chrysler. And there is the 500. If course that is assuming you are in the US.

@elnyoutube123

Жыл бұрын

They sold the 500 hatch in the US but that was really the only good car

You should make a compilation of Clarkson saying 'when I come to power'

Love my 2007 1.1 active. Great wee car especially with a roof cage fitted, it's the Swiss army knife of practical, cheap and reliable cars

My mom used to drive a Fiat Uno when I was a teenager, until one time, the exhaust pipe snapped as she was taking me and my friends to hockey practice. The downside was that we were left stranded on the side of the road. The upside was, I got my first car. Never fixed the exhaust either, so it was insanely loud, and we even painted some GT stripes on it to make it look like a racing car. Or that's what we thought anyway. That car taught me and at least three of my friends how to drive, cruising along the country roads. My mom on the other hand "upgraded" to a purple 127 I think it was, because my dad had like three of the damn things laying around. Wasn't a big fan back then, but now, in my mid 30's, I'd absolutely LOVE to have that purple little Fiat for myself, just because of funny it would be to drive around in it. Anyway, I'm usually a big block V8 type of a guy for the most part, but these little cars definitely have their own brand of charm to them.

As the owner of a 1987 suzuki carry, the fun is in having it run at all. Best thing ever made.

I love the fact that the ending's like: "Thank you! And Goodbye!" And the video just ends xD

16:17 The way the Stig looks across at the passenger cracks me up.

I've always had a soft spot for the Panda and I have no idea why

@liannebenn2097

Жыл бұрын

It is a work of art and mine is very dependable too.

"Top speed is 96 mph, but by the time you get there...Venice WILL have sunk."

I have a Panda mk 3 4 x 4. brilliant little car and fantastic in the snow

I like how they thought that Panda was dreadful. They simply hasn't discovered Multipla at that time.

Had an uno back in The day, a tin can of a car, four speed gear box, hilariously great fun to drive inner city

I remember my dad with the old panda bringing home the new washing machine. The seats could literally disappear in that car. I don't know if a modern car of the same dimentions can do the same

Panda: A little big car in the world. Simple, practic, economy and fun. All in One. Only the One.

I've had a Mk 2 Panda and an A35 van, both small and fun to drive.

this is the greatest youtube channel in the........WORLD

@justas525

Жыл бұрын

I've read it in Jezza's voice 😁

James May is an international treasure. Lonely Boy was a perfect choice for the last clip.

I rented one in Spain for a week. Takes longer than you think to get there! was my opinion. Two adults and Three teenagers held back ALL that power.

The greatest show ever. Laughter in every pocket

Panda.........ROCKS !!!!!

Is there a compilation of things happening in the background while they're talking? (eg. Ground Force, Hammond's digger falling over as Jeremy's talking)

Playing the Kraken theme from PotC with the Stig driving it is great.

it's an ingenious solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place

In recent James May Our Man in Italy -series May was using a dark blue Panda driving thru Italy.

While I'm not too keen on the newer pandas in the compilation...I'd LOVE to have one of those old school 4x4 versions up here in rural Michigan. The fun you could have with a set of winter tires, little bit of extra weight in the back.. I'd quite literally never be moving in a straight line at any point of any trip. And the beautiful thing. Is when you eventually drift out of control into a massive snowbank.. Even if you've got a relatively small woman with you. You'd be able to simply lift the car up and place it back on the road.

@pierpaoloscian5926

Жыл бұрын

As an Italian with an original fiat Panda 4x4.. and i can confirm, it's superfun to drift in the snow in winter. I managed to climb a 20 degrees slope (35%) with 10cm of snow on all season tires😳 and since I now to university far from my city, it has done 20000km in a year, mostly motorway at 130km/h. She can do everything you want, if you give her the opportunity! It's a pity you all can't enjoy it in the us.. albeit now almost all old school pandas are over 25, so free to import in the US 😁

5:56 - I didn't see that one coming :D

That first seconds you can see James already gave that "he's gonna talk about Fiat is he?"

Great compilation, i think there’s some more panda content in the our man in italy

@Eliconean

Жыл бұрын

DOVEH EH LAH MIAH PANDAH

Man, now I want a panda for my next car.

I got one for winter use, love it.

Might have missed it, but what about a comp of every time one of them had a car removed from the wall cos they owned it

@TermlessHGW

Жыл бұрын

2 minutes long...?

Stig looking at the Fat Bloke eating the Crisps like Seriously

My school run is just a bus, or coach or double decker, it changes everyday

Fiat should have brought the Panda to the US. Fast more desirable than the 500 series.

@Jeff.78

Жыл бұрын

We build enough junk, no need to import more.

@automation7295

Жыл бұрын

Why do American suddenly want a Fiat Panda or any car that's not sold in the US?

@Jeff.78

Жыл бұрын

@@automation7295 Social engineering. That said, I'm ok with Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura, cuz they're not known for being monumental piles of 💩

@automation7295

Жыл бұрын

@@Jeff.78 I bet you hate people for driving cars you don't like, you probably even want to murder them. People can drive any car they want, everyone are different.

@jamesengland7461

Жыл бұрын

The Panda is simple, apparently well made, small and efficient with 4wd. It would be great for all- year driving. The other Fiat products sold in America weren't very successful and Fiat is essentially gone from the market.

I had to borrow my mum n dads Panda for about 2 months and for not a very big 5 foot 9 person the driving position was awful and massively uncomfortable (I couldn't wait to get out of it)and the lack of a simple thing like a cigarette light for charging my phone drove me nuts. Appreciated being mobile though :). Good video though :)

Perhaps somewhere there is a criterion ''This machine is approved by James May''

La Panda 4x4 va dappertutto!

I really, really like the 4x4 Sisley, It’s like the mini version of the 1998 jeep Cherokee limited

"And Britney Spears would do that, would she?" ....probably would now

In my country it was called the Fiat Uno. My dad had 1, a white 1. In all fairness, he also had a Ford Falcon XR6 4L straight 6... So it kinda balanced out

This video makes me want to own a fiat panda 4x4.

you forgot the clip from GT where richard and jeremy rotate james’ panda 180 degrees

My Grandad had a red one of those for a while, O the childhood memories

I never thought i'd feel this close to James May.

Next idea maybe: french cars compilation

I think there's one conversation from the news segment missing (if I have not missed it in the video myself) about the male drivers overcompensating with big cars for their wedding vegetables or something and what then switches on James who drives a Panda.

Total Pandamonium

The italian goverment joke was fantastic

3 knobs including the one bought it i died

I remember the first time i saw their limosines i was like wtf those aint no limosines 😂 those are LIMOSIIIINES

1:27-1:35 holy heck I've never realized the history why the Panda was cool and then they noticed it after several years. Good catch!

4:49 after all these years ive only just noticed this is a jeffrey dahmer remark 😂

Can someone tell me please if that is digswell viaduct or something else? 10:37

3:21 bad editing from TG. Who's driving The limo, its not Hammond

@kieranwhite6647

Жыл бұрын

It's Clarkson driving, whilst also sat in the back...

@kenalba5641

Жыл бұрын

@@kieranwhite6647 nah that's his genius driving it

Have you done the good news / bad news Dacia ? Should do one if you haven’t done one for James May and the Dacia

Just a thought, has there been a "well [one of the presenter] does/doesn't compilation?" I can think of 2 - 1 about James using TC on a race track, another in royal mail vs. Porsche race by Hammond. I'm sure there's more

@incTG

Жыл бұрын

good idea but will be hard to do

Im Also Like Gravity and Locomotive and i am Interesting man, Jeremy Said He is Dreary but james Actually interesting man also he Right Many times, Really like This video

If I could, I’d have a Panda. It’s cheap and you have everything

you can fit 8 ppl in it! its the perfect car

I wanted a panda as a kid....i want a Volvo 240 now...but hell why can't i have both?

Alternative tittle: Top gear hating on the fiat panda for 17 minutes and 14 seconds.

6:32 i love this scene so much and would love to know the music

I like this show

have you seen the M-Sport Panda? I'd love for James to have a go in it