"A very sophisticated sound system that incorperates a CD player" lol

@chrisredfield3240

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Freeman £1500 in 1989 would probably buy you a small flat.

@TmanT321

4 жыл бұрын

Laughing even harder in 2020.

@svenlabots1869

3 жыл бұрын

...and what about this "sophisticated" gps ....peep..peep..peep...😃🤡🐼✌

@PeaveyPV20

3 жыл бұрын

Cd players in cars in 1989 sure were cutting edge

@christopherhulse8385

Жыл бұрын

in 1989, CD players in cars were rare, most had radio cassettes as standard and FM radios were relatively new as well!

A program by "normal people" for "normal people". And speaking English, which these days is a rare commodity. Particularly in England. JC alas, is already showing signs of what was in the pipeline. WW a "class act" as usual, and what a joy to watch and hear TN mastering a real beast. Thank you very much.

Although I love TopGear (modern version), I think this is more down to earth.

@DoubleDeckerAnton

4 жыл бұрын

It is, I like the old topgear. The cars did the talking!

@TranceHistorian

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's not just blokes cocking about and falling over.

@PeaveyPV20

3 жыл бұрын

Loved the original top gear, a car show unlike the comedy show its become now

@popindosin228

3 жыл бұрын

This top gear is boring

@kevinroberts5653

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoubleDeckerAnton True PoInt Shame we have moanIn ChrIs harrIs who Present ToP Gear In hIs Own Style he IS busyIn CoPyIn Jeremy's Style

On this week's Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson visits an auto jumble talks to a German, a Marina owner and a load of classic car geeks and manages not to offend anyone!

clarksons voice was posher then

Love how the opening two cars featured here are the Alfa 164 and Saab 9000, the very two models that James May would cut in half and join both front halves together to make a limo, nearly 20 years later. I think they were the same colour too!

I had a Saab 900 turbo in the late 80s and early nineties and it was built like a tank and used to fly like a Concorde.What a car !!

@lukecowell7516

3 жыл бұрын

But handle like the titanic

@jonboy9912

Ай бұрын

All about straight line speed - I had two a coupe and hatch and they both flew! The coupe especially was great!

Both Tiff and Jeremy are so young! Oh time hurts...

6:24 i love the self-closing door...!!! 🤣👍

@Dreamcee

2 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it hahaha

I've got this on VHS taped off the telly :-)

@betaman7988

6 жыл бұрын

I have quite a considerable selection of this series on VHS and a few from 1995 on Beta

@kallesirvio2695

6 жыл бұрын

Could you upload them? If you have any others?

@Lilbizkit

Жыл бұрын

Congrats 🎉

Thanks for the upload

bloody hell 40p per litre! those were the days

@williamadams2348

7 жыл бұрын

thats about 1.38 today lol

@dommidavros2211

7 жыл бұрын

@triangulated Hmmm dunno how you worked that one out! 40p a litre would always be cheap no matter when!

@jamesmiller3142

6 жыл бұрын

triangulated it is around 98p as of 2017

@mediocrefunkybeat

6 жыл бұрын

Not in 1971 it wouldn't have been...

@theaccidentalcaravanner5404

5 жыл бұрын

But when cars consumed fuel at quite literally twice the rate of today (or more!) suddenly the advantage is very small. Factor in inflation and I'll keep modern costs thanks.

thankyou for upload ,,this is what youtube is all about people sharing great stuff with others ,,im thinkng that all tv stations should have a system like catch up but where you can go back right from the start of tv shows and watch all of them ,,,

11:22 2 star was 92 octane, 3 star 95 octane, 4 star 98 octane and 5 star 101 octane. Im old enough to remember 5 star being sold :-/ and when I started driving 2 star was 22p a litre

"Onto less controversial matters, Jeremy Clarkson" that's about the last time anyone used that line without being ironic.

When you watch these old shows and see how informative they are, it makes you realise how good the bbc are at wasting money today with the hideous show. RIP TopGear.

@PeaveyPV20

3 жыл бұрын

Bbc were worth paying your licence for when this was made, waste of money these days

@elobiretv

2 жыл бұрын

More informative but far more boring. There is a reason they binned this for the more modern style top gear.

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

​@@elobiretv Clarkson retired from the show in 1999. With that, the show's ratings suffered. So they reformatted Top Gear in 2002 with Clarkson returning. Informative Top Gear became Fifth Gear.

Alfas interior is awesome!

I swear in the late 80s every episode of top gear was about unleaded petrol

£29000 for a Saab in 1989. Wow

Octane rating = numerical expression of petrol's resistance to detonation. Unleaded=95, 4star=97 and super unleaded=98. LRP replaced 4star and now LRP is obsolete. I love watching these programs as they give so much nostalgia. Amoca and Mobil don't exist now. Also, Gulf and Elf don't exist. In the mid nineties, my home town of Portsmouth had quite a few filling stations, some of which were franchised and had a bit of nostalgia about them, but now there is only a handful. Shame how times change!

The actual fuel still only costs around 55p.

Unleaded 171.9 a gallon back in 1989, that's the same price today but instead for just a litre!

My traffic information device (Traffic Master) marvellous system - only stopped using it when they switched the system off ! Saved my life on the M5 with it's voice announcement "AVOID" which made me leave at the next junction- before the pile up in the fog with a tanker on fire. Needless to say that Traffic Master unit is in my house still............

Having said that, our effective earning is over 2x that of 1989. So compensating for available spending, the price then is around +90p.

I had a 1991 Lancia Thema SE. Loved it. Was sad to see it go....

I agree that the fuel duty is out of hand but I must point out which government started the whole problem, New Labour. back in 1996 I could get a litre of petrol for 51p, in 1998 it jumped up to 75p and it grew like a cancer. Now since 2010 the tory chancellor has stop a further increase on fuel duty several times, in fact there is a closed Petrol station since {2009} down the road from me that still had a litre of diesel advertised at 1.41, when the reopened this year it was 1.35.

@B_Bass__

Жыл бұрын

Well, this aged well...

Every car tested is now known as a complete shot box

That's funny nick here "but now to less controversial matters Jeremy Clarkson". I haven't heard that before right now

always loved your presenting and driving style tiff

@kamrankhan-lj1ng

3 жыл бұрын

It is Goffey, not Tiff

@walterwilson7859

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, Jeff. Indeed.

Top Gear. R. I. P. 2015.

That Jag looks just like the Sterling we used to have. I never felt comfortable relying on it but it always ran.

Can't remember the last time I saw one of the Italian cars on the road, still see plenty of Saab's though

@adorabasilwinterpock6035

3 жыл бұрын

Swedish quality

@seoulkidd1

3 жыл бұрын

Italian cars need more upkeep

That was before Clarkson when top gear was educational and informative about cars.

@emergencybanana8429

5 жыл бұрын

Clarkson was there since 1988

@Jon-zj2nj

4 жыл бұрын

But very dull and nerdy though and far from being entertaining.

@TmanT321

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jon-zj2nj An old kind of TV for an older generation.

@Jon-zj2nj

4 жыл бұрын

Tmant321 I’m not sure it’s even that. Very few people used to watch Top Gear when it was “education and informative”, not even old people! Original Top Gear was pretty grim: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGGtj6igf8zRfrQ.html

@TA_Plus_Hemi

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean the three guys we're very informative? I mean now we know that a Toyota Hilux literally will keep running no matter what you do to it. We also know that somehow Richard Hammond is indestructible, or has become the Six Million Dollar Man

Can we just go back to £28,921 for a SAAB in 1989, I ran that through an inflation calculator, it came back at £72,429...to put that in perspective a new 5 Series starts at £39,270...

Nice red XR4x4 Mr Woollard is driving. Nice engine noise as he drives off from South Mimms at the end.

I always liked Uncle Chris's reviews

Feel sorry for the shareholders of that naff navigation system thing

I love the early traffic jam warning system in the Sierra... Unleaded really took off quickly in the late 80s....in 1985 no one uses it, by 1990 loads used unleaded....by about 2002 four star leaded was discontinued!

It's good to see that those two black cosworths are still about.

OMG I was at that race :-) jeez feel old now lol

Is the Sierra the same thing as a Merkur XR4Ti ?

6:23 no mention of the automatic closing doors.

Think it was the six year corrosion warranty that finished them. Six months was pushing it.

Finally, middle gear.

Cars looked so much better then :(

@dumdum7786

5 жыл бұрын

I agree

@theaccidentalcaravanner5404

5 жыл бұрын

All three of those luxury saloons were fantastic and understated looking cars.

@JoaoPaulo-xk4su

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@vvoodee

3 жыл бұрын

So did Clarkson

@PeaveyPV20

3 жыл бұрын

Sure did better than these ugly dumpy crossover vehicles we see now

Jeremy Clarkson with his hair still intact.

was that a subtle door sign joke in there? (bout 24:15)

The Saab is my favourite.

Thanks. :-)

William Woollard the most beautifully crafted boring character to ever present a motor show I wondered why I wasn’t able to watch top gear before the Clarkson years And looking back I’ve now found my answer

No ash tray or lighter? ;-) My '05 has both, tray works to hold change and the lighter sits in the glove box

19:11 was that Richard Hammonds first TG apparence??

This is 1989 Episode 1

anyone know which episode this is

15.21 I want his jumper.....ooooo

The car tester always go on about confusing button on the move but if its your car you quickly become accustomed to where things are . I find thus sort of comment comes abiut because tgey cannot find anything substantial to criticise and they need a negatives comment.

and to think, the Lancia Thema is now based on the 2nd Generation Chrysler 300C, and it looks GOOD!

Which better roads UK or Australia ?

In the days when owning a gallon of petrol actually meant something. That Saab would have been crap at £22,000 let alone £28,000. The Lancia was the one to have

NOTE the video at 13:57mins, the price of petrol at 39.7p a litre for super plus

The Alpha test car already having problems is no surprise. lol

We in the US had required catalytic converters and could only use unleaded gas (petrol) since 1975. We had no choice in the matter but it also caused less confusion. There is standard 87 octane, midrange 91, and 93-94 octane super, all unleaded. US refineries added lead substitutes at the refineries. I don't know why it took the British so long to just get it over with.

@daviddenham2971

Жыл бұрын

Australia got Unleaded petrol in 1986 and we got Unleaded 91 and Premium for such tuned cars. E10 or 94 Octane came in the last 15 years.

This is so English it's funny. Always this thing about Italian reliability like if British cars were any good in the the 70s and 80s. Built so much crap.

06:22 - also fitted with the top of the range, self closing passenger door !

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

6:22

The Saab looks like a design from the next era over the really boxy styling of the 166 and Thema. Im with Chris if the budget would allow.

The music :)

Here the laughter at 18:33 when he said same performance as an MG

I think it went up to about 55p when I began driving in the summer of 1993.

lol where's the bit from 1977?

OMG Tony Blair with his Polo at 11:53! Talking about petrol, I remember when you had a choice of the three different stars and selected whatever one needed as soon as you picked the pump nozzle up. I remember when unleaded came on the scene in the very late eighties and many people were eager to convert their cars to run on it. My parents had a Volvo 340 that they converted to run on unleaded, but it damaged one of the valve seats so my dad ran it on 4star again and it was much better. Good days

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

11:53

Back then when Top Gear was about cars and not making presenters into stars.

I gave to question what you said about tgr jaguar yiu show an xj40 now i hadva D reg xj40 3.6 and mum 2.9 Both cars ran on unleaded from the factory it said unleaded only on the car.

Good old topgear not the crap that they shoe today and cars that we aren't even bothered about, look at these old top gear so informative and useful stuff also cars were great back then yes some were not as relible but some were it was just that people didn't take care as much back then, but cars never been relible even today you can buy a new merc or bmw and its not gonna be as relible as old bmws that goes for any other car as well, now days cars are made to have issues so you keep taking em to dealers to be rip off.

That motorway was busy than I remember, then I remembered I wasn't alive in 77 😅

@martytdd1606

Жыл бұрын

1989 bud.

@11.20. Yes, that's how much a GALLON! of petrol was back then. £1.71!

Yes. The XR4Ti is the American version.

£171.4 per gallon. Those were the days.

So, what about my 2015 VW Diesel? Who decided that outcome? EPA, US Government, Big business? I vote on the latter.

Can pretty much bet that Tiff's Group A Sierra had substantially less power than Dick Johnson's Shell backed cars at the time!

Hmph. 0.54 Ski yoghurt and 40p/litre for fuel ... and Clarkson, looking awkward sounds like he's just out of finishing school.

If we had only listened to the revolution types

Good old William Woolard.

@chiefrocka8604

2 жыл бұрын

Our man WW 👍

16:44 those were the days at 40p a litre for fuel...!!!

Did they have a stig?

@SuperTomsee

8 жыл бұрын

+skinny3715 no, this was before clarkson bought Topgear from the BBC. Clarkson and Wilman (executive producer) invented The Stig :)

I wanted to watch old top gear.. but not this old lol

Look at the price of the petrol at the pumps during the episode; 40p a litre.

@daviddenham2971

Жыл бұрын

In my part of Australia at the moment driver's are starting out paying $1.69 per litre.

I like Tom Boswells pullover

It's 1989. And the M25 did (I think).

40p a litre. Happy Days!

"...and with the advent of the European spirit, and the less obvious need to buy British, Christophe has been looking at three European offerings..." Perhaps in an episode now we would hear "...and with the advent of Brexit, and the less obvious need to have a choice, we have been looking at three British offerings..."

@brainkill7034

Жыл бұрын

Or they just start importing communist cars again.

And that was considerd alot back then! There where stations a good 6p cheaper then that easly back then.

Christ that Cossie could fly even by today’s standards

Fifth Gear has some of the Classic TopGear hosts and they are essentially the same show as Classic TopGear... I love TopGear too, but sometimes, you do need to get more serious car advice by clicking into Fifth Gear.

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

How is it today though? How does it compare to 90's Top Gear?

Fuel is still relatively cheap in the U.S and there is big money to be had. What do you do for your job? thats some mega money you're making, you can probably afford a nice fast car and the price of fuel wont matter to you. I'm assuming that price is per gallon?

Who's this Tiffany bloke?

That Jeffery dude reminds me of James may

He sounds so posh. What went wrong? ;)

@simonjames3990

3 жыл бұрын

He met james

1977? I think someone got the year wrong the Sierra wasn't even launched in the UK untill 1982!!

@pictureframe1

Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed at how many people get confused by the title. This episode is from 1989, and it's the 1977 version of the show as opposed to the 2002 version of the show with Clarkson and friends.

Seats already failing in the alfa. Saab all day long image was high back in the 90s.

i wonder how much cheaper the deisel was.??