Thanks for the views everyone! Just uploaded more clips of James May from the same episode of Driven: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXajrM2KddzIp9o.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/foV8pMimc6Sciag.html

@igorabasjidze1194

3 жыл бұрын

And the music than. Was it Beethoven??

It all makes sense now: He is Doug's father!

@tr1ppy86

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Jay Leno was Doug's father?

@p1xlb522

3 жыл бұрын

so he's lying to us about not having kids?

@Karrguy1973

3 жыл бұрын

Lol dang I was like this was an early Doug video thumbnail..... then click 🤦🏽‍♂️ Captan Slow!!!

@TheRazvy1990

3 жыл бұрын

And klarkson the papa

@jamp12008

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely thought it was a young Doug as well. I’m sending this to someone to get YTP treatment 😂

May's signature long haircut was once voted the worst in Britain. But then you watch an old clip like this, and you realize he picked the right look for himself.

@nr1pimme

3 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding me? :P He looks waaaay better with this haircut! Though 22 years of age shaved off probably helps aswell^^

@nbn292

3 жыл бұрын

@@nr1pimme I disagree but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. So neither of us are wrong or right.

@soundseeker63

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, both James and Jeremy have publicly acknowledged that they have very dubious "hair styles" (while also taking the piss out of Hammond for being over-styled). In this clip he sports a typical 90's lads cut but more recently his hair (and clothes) is stuck in the 1970s.

@nvery5497

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah like Doing Demuro

@trevakemistri

3 жыл бұрын

And his voice. I now can't imagine the voice without the hair.

He looks like Doug DeMuro in the thumbnail

@_zigzak

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao I thought it was doug

@cryo2156

3 жыл бұрын

Same lol. Was expecting "THIIIIISSS is a 1998 Mercedes Benz S class".

@rtteettr5382

3 жыл бұрын

@@cryo2156 he was born in 1998 :)

@ccllvn

3 жыл бұрын

@@rtteettr5382 no he wasn't lmao

@chrish.7965

3 жыл бұрын

Clickbait.

In 1998 James May was 35....but he still dressed like he was in his 60's even then! :-D

@Fanboy1222

3 жыл бұрын

I must utterly disagree he looks quite good

@zinthos99

3 жыл бұрын

thats just britain

@soundseeker63

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fanboy1222 I didn't say he looks bad. Just that he has always dressed way older than he is (I can even imagine him having dressed that was as a teenager! lol)

@juzoli

3 жыл бұрын

No, he dressed like people at that time did. Old people clothes are not a specific style. Old people clothes are young people clothes from a few decades ago, people just stop changing their style above a certain age.

@bignateliving4056

3 жыл бұрын

nullkomma 9 ya no, that sweater is gastly.

“this is an enormous car” 2020 mini is almost the size of that s class

@Patrick-tf1ri

3 жыл бұрын

Cars of 2020 is that of 1970s

@Adamucha123

9 ай бұрын

i get your point but please tell me which mini is over 5 meters long

1:59 I see voice commands haven't changed in 22 years

@D0wNhiLL

3 жыл бұрын

Really sad tbh, imagine voice commands evolved like the smartphones for the same period.

@stonkr

3 жыл бұрын

I can hold a button on the steering wheel, wait for a beep & say a command IF I can remember it. Or I can just press a button. I always just press a button.

@UltimateSpanky73

3 жыл бұрын

So sad, in my bmw f30 2016 voice is shit as well

@RaytheonNublinski

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry I don’t know how to respond to that

@naftyloescher

3 жыл бұрын

The new "Linguatronic" in the MBUX in really, I mean really good.

Legendary person.. James May is very relaxing to listen too... James, Richard and Jeremy are such awesome presenters.

Well, 22y later, this car still looks contemporary.

@jacobfleming565

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they aged great its crazy

Love my old w220 S class . Puts a smile on my face everytime I drive it .

The city is Zurich, Switzerland and the lake is the nearby Wägitalersee!

@tobyey9134

3 жыл бұрын

I just realized that this isn't how trams look like in all other cities but I just was so accustomed to it that I wouldnt have noticed, hadn't it been a video in English

@eaubert1

3 жыл бұрын

@@tobyey9134 .... I live in Switzerland and regularly meet my friends in Zurich. So, I happen to know that every Swiss city has a different color of trams: Zurich is blue, Basel is green and Berne is red. As to the lake: it's not even the most spectacular lake in Switzerland. That prize has to go to the Klöntalersee!

20+ years later and that S class doesn't look outdated

@curtisjackson40

3 жыл бұрын

@@arthurpownceby5115 but not outdated

@pb6198

3 жыл бұрын

It looks terrible

@CL9k24a3

3 жыл бұрын

@@curtisjackson40 now they just look rusted and flat on the ground. Epic garbage

@curtisjackson40

3 жыл бұрын

@@CL9k24a3and maintenance is way too expensive for this car

@pb7870

3 жыл бұрын

@@pb6198 couldn’t agree more😂 the worst S Class by far. The 7 series from this era was much more timeless

I have the 2006 S430 base w220... 248k miles on her now... If the Energizer Bunny was a car... Just bought a 2006 S600 with 43k on the clock.. I love these big cruisers... And they're shockingly cheap and easy to repair and maintain.

KZread: “You’ve been watching old Doug DeMuro videos, here’s an old James May video where he *looks* like Doug.”

I liked how he showed all the quirks and features of the car

Clicked on it for James may, stayed for the car. The car that all modern cars base their tech on

James is proof that you can look better in your 40's and 50's than in your 30's

@blarkdexture8899

3 жыл бұрын

nah

He looks so weird without his long hair

@walerhisenberg7991

3 жыл бұрын

That almost reminds everyone of a British father of Doug DeMuro in the 90s

@CARPB147

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. He almost looks human here!

@ph8077

3 жыл бұрын

I take it you meant "with"?

He looks like Doug DeMuro’s British cousin.

Even back then they were calling him the Captain

He went from mid 30s to mid 70s over night.

His so young I felt like James came into the world at 45.

I thought he was doug demuro for a sec when i saw thumbnail

@cryo2156

3 жыл бұрын

Same lol

@curtisjackson40

3 жыл бұрын

me too LOL

@marcpale7481

3 жыл бұрын

Now we know how Doug is gonna look like when he is 50 something 😂

@InanMusharut

3 жыл бұрын

He is Doug’s dad

@luckassmith1391

3 жыл бұрын

Who is dug

Adaptive cruise control in 1998!!! Holy shit they are ahead of the game

If you look at both presenters you would never guess James would be the one that has the better career

This car now costs about $3,000 and is very great value for the money.

I've still got one , a W220. Drives like a dream, engine & gearbox still like new. Bit of a rust bucket though!

“Thisssss” - Doug

His voice did’t change

his voice hasn't changed that's for sure!

'this is an enormous car!' oh how the times have changed...

@aboodmki3

3 жыл бұрын

It is almost the same dimensions as a 2020 S-Class or 7 Series what have changed?! 😅

@gwendolinkirkegaard1812

3 жыл бұрын

@@aboodmki3 the massive GLE/X7 next to it.

@gwendolinkirkegaard1812

3 жыл бұрын

@@aboodmki3 i just realized, that my comment heavily depends on where you live. Where I live, huge cars were the absolute exception, until SUVs became a huge fashion about 7 years ago. My comment prob. Doesn't work for some US Americans f. E., them beeing used to pickup trucks etc

@aboodmki3

3 жыл бұрын

@@gwendolinkirkegaard1812 Oh So, the GLE and X7 entered the chat, I think the word fit for those two is gargantuan 😅

@guguigugu

3 жыл бұрын

this car is large even by modern standards. it is five meters long.

"Guess what... Families have small children" You don't say

@MzeeWeeed

3 жыл бұрын

He has a point

@2112starman54

3 жыл бұрын

"Bim! Guess what? Families have small children!"

@martf8014

3 жыл бұрын

that's kind of the point you clown

seeing James without his signature mop bristle hair is....frightening

He looks like a roman with that hair

@soundseeker63

3 жыл бұрын

Thats a class 90's lads cut, very popular back then.

@nathanclark2424

3 жыл бұрын

He kinda looks like the concept version of Vulpes Inculta

He was a STUD !

Still one of the best looking s class

That ABC suspension that today totals these cars, back then was cutting edge and even today still handles great, as long as its working properly. Its basically a Citroen Hydropneumatic but in steroids and with more german and less french.

@omostim2385

3 жыл бұрын

The ABC can be a problem. I think it’s worth keeping if the car is in good enough shape. I have an 03 S430 with airmatic and there’s no excuse for not keeping it in order. It’s only an air pump, valve block and lines going to struts

@MeDicen_Rocha

3 жыл бұрын

@@omostim2385 Indeed. The biggest problem those have usually has to do with the system getting neglected, it developing a leak that usually leads to the pump failing.

@omostim2385

3 жыл бұрын

@@MeDicen_Rocha Exactly. A neglected system could pretty much total out the car cost wise. But when it’s working it’s brilliant. Makes me wonder what’s going to happen to all of the current Mercedes vehicles with trick suspension

@nassimnassim6019

3 жыл бұрын

What is trick suspension?

@MeDicen_Rocha

3 жыл бұрын

@@nassimnassim6019 All the modern air suspension systems that have "trick features" like predictive bump dampening and stuff like that

The previous S class was not the first one to be equipped with an AIRBAG - the car featured in this clip is a W220, so the previous one should have been the the W140. Prior to the W140 was the W126 which was first equipped with an airbag in 1981.

This is from a Channel 4 programme called Driven. It was a short lived rival to the BBC’s Top Gear. They are completely different shows made by two completely different organisations. The show ran from 1998 - 2002

He sounded so shy when he recorded the voiceover...!

THISSSSS IS THE OLDSCHOOL JAMES MAY and it looks like me.

Mike Brewer in the background. He ate a few burgers since then.

@SherwinR89

3 жыл бұрын

Hold out yer 'and 😂

@omostim2385

3 жыл бұрын

Oh snap. All the heavy hitters were there.lol

@minorearthmajorsky1476

3 жыл бұрын

@@SherwinR89 ooooold our yerrrrr andddd

@jon81crowe

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking who’s the gangsta that can’t hold his head straight

@Banglish123

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't recognise him without his voice.

So he went from Captain of Industry to Captain Slow

Oh god even abck then he looked old.

22 years later with a bottle of wine a day he looks the same

This!.... is a 1998 Mercedes Benz S-Class. And it’s *chuckles* absolutely huge and has many quirks and features

He's a baby who's mom dressed him like an old man.

If you told me James was 70 in here I would believe it

Can we put aside his similarities with Doug to admire the true beauty of the W220?

I feel so old 😞

They called james may the captain even back then

Here he is 3 years younger than me, now he looks 10 years older.

@avi8r944

3 жыл бұрын

Smoking and alcohol will do that to ya.

The pronunciation is lovely👍🏻

What a lad!

Holy moly he looks young

Why this video popped up in my suggestion?and i happened to watch this in 2021..

I'm not a failed bus driver, but I do drive a Volvo estate.

He was the captain...

That SIEBEN SIEBEN SIEBEN had me in stitches

Now introducing 'James Stephen Fry May'

Legend!

What a guy

Wunderbarge. I'm going to write that one down....

He looked so much better then

Thought it was Doug DeMuro in the thumbnail lol

He is the product of a crazy science experiment where Doug and Clarkson get in a timemachine and have behbehs.

Obligatory 'hands in pockets' except when you are driving naturally.

Good old times

3:45 “previous S class was the first car with an airbag” nope the W126 already had them

@DiscoFang

3 жыл бұрын

And neither he nor you are correct. The first production car was the 1973 Chevrolet Impala.

@DiscoFang

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamJDM1 The only thing experimental was seeing if the buyers wanted it. They were initially marketed as an option on the fleet trim of the normal production Impala, then available to regular consumers. In ‘74 it was alsomade available on Cadillac models, again as an option, but also with passenger airbag. All mass production cars. The W126 was available in 1981, and like the US cars in the previous decade it was available as an option.

@DiscoFang

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamJDM1 Here you go straight from the Wikipedia’s mouth.... “The GM cars from the 1970s equipped with ACRS had a driver-side airbag, a driver-side knee restraint,.[34] The passenger-side airbag protected both front passengers,[34] and unlike most modern systems, integrated a knee and torso cushion while also having a dual-stage deployment dictated by force of the impact. The cars equipped with ACRS had lap belts for all seating positions, but lacked shoulder belts. Shoulder belts were already mandatory in the United States on closed cars without airbags for the driver and outer front passenger, but GM chose to market its airbags as a substitute for shoulder belts. Prices for this option on Cadillac models were US$225 in 1974, $300 in 1975, and $340 in 1976 (US$1,528 in 2019 dollars.”

@DiscoFang

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamJDM1 Yep yep, keep refining and reframing your parameters until you become right. You said they were prototypes - they were not. You said only 1000, there was not. You said there were 10000 and somehow that defines why they weren’t available on a mass production car. Yeah, right right. Mercedes weren’t first, by almost a decade.

RE the actual car - great product; way ahead of its time

it's like he has yet to become James May.

Can you believe it, he had a haircut and actually looks quite respectable!

0:36 "That aspiring Captain of *Slow"

In another dimension James May is Doug Demuros mother and Jay Leno is his father.

If you know Shmee, look at the thumbnail and think again. Is it just me?

James never cut his hair ever !! It just grew and grew !

He managed not to mention the fate of an S class in a Parisian tunnel the year before.

I love my S Class

I'm not the only one who clicked this vid to leave the comment that the thumbnail of young James looks like Doug DeMuro.

That was awesome to watch! ...spoken from a german...

Apparently the 1998 series of Driven aired for 7 episodes from 13th Oct to the 24 Nov 98. The 1999 series aired for 15 episodes (20/04/99-27/07/99). Yet, oddly, the 2000 series ran for 10 episodes. I wonder why they never made the same number of eps per series?.

The shocking march of time...... May is a young man here.

The W220 came out in the states in 2000. I wonder if they came out in 98 in Germany? The W140 went all the way up until 99.

the most important and correct thing in this car is the steering wheel on the only right side

THIIIISSSSS is a Mercedes S class

Rare footage from the last day James had a haircut

Thanks to Tenet, it all makes sense now Doug DeMuro = inverted James May

I adore my W220 S55!

Oh the spaniel James wasnt born yet 😂

22 years ago James May looked normal. Like a nice young professional

Man Benz was 30 years ahead of every other car around

@amero3577

Жыл бұрын

Nah, bmw was one step ahead of Mercedes with the designs and plus the V12 situation

This was shortly before May's barber retired.

The range rover has taken the s class crown

The british version of Doug

@omostim2385

3 жыл бұрын

M.I.A💪🏾

@liana.chawngthu

3 жыл бұрын

Doug is the American version of James may

James went from being 22 to 68 in 20 years

@JYMAHJAMES

3 жыл бұрын

U think he looks 22 here? 💀

I can hear Clarkson saying “ Tonight...James has had an accident with a Flymo”

Sweet jesus, he had so much energy!

somehow, James May with a short haircut just looks like Michael Schumacher

The word is he once smoked a cigar with chopper read and punted a bowling with his grandmas slippers on

He looks about 25 in this - also very like my mate Nick (who is now 62) and cycles everywhere.