Jeremy Clarkson's Lancia has been found in Botswana! Ft. James May
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The trio's trip across the Okavango Delta is one of the greatest pieces of television ever, and it's scary to think that it has been 14 years since that crazy special. You'd think that Jeremy Clarkson's Lancia Beta Coupe would have been lost forever after the crew left Botswana, but a KZreadr currently living in the country has found the car, and has since completed the trio as well...
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@EyesOfByes
3 жыл бұрын
0:51 Fun fact: The nosehair is a filter and is there to protect you from inhaling viruses. Like the..what was it... Oh right. *COVID-19*🤦🏽 I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if the nosehair would make any difference. But I sure hope Manscaped have thought of that, otherwise they may unintentionally have helped the spreading 🥺
@matewis1
3 жыл бұрын
Got one for Christmas, I highly recommend.
@carlbox5130
3 жыл бұрын
Nevermind the manscape kit, how about some laundry detergent to clean the marks off your hoddie
@harshithsadhana7475
3 жыл бұрын
there is huge lanica fans in uk you should reach to them. surely they can fix the car
@trishennaidoo1309
3 жыл бұрын
Hey dude from South Africa I would be interested in buy clarkson car and restoring it could I have info of the guy who found it.
James could buy a few of the old challenge cars and put them outside by his pub as an open-air museum.
@vermis8344
3 жыл бұрын
You mean he hasn't gotten bored of it and sold it on yet?
@doomturtle1216
3 жыл бұрын
@@vermis8344 or because it's not fully electric and therefore is old and obsolete
@schurgy16
3 жыл бұрын
*his 1/2 a pub
@VXGaming
3 жыл бұрын
The Lancia would melt from the rain.
@aaronm1246
3 жыл бұрын
Beaulieu motor museum has a top gear section
Drivetribe: "Jezza, someone found your Lancia from the Botswana special!" Clarkson: "Great!...so anyway..."
@joshumone3301
3 жыл бұрын
😂
@TheDemocrab
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly with how that Lancia was on the special I imagine that he just got some PTSD from working on canted engines.
@jeremyfong5684
3 жыл бұрын
More like James: “ Gr8 News!!!” Jeremy: “What?” James: “We’ve found the Beta you used in Botswana!” Jeremy: “Gr8, now anyways...”
@DefinitelyNotEmma
3 жыл бұрын
I mean unlike Oliver the Lancia was a pile of trash
@jodyknight
3 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyfong5684 Jeremy is an Englishman he wouldn't say "anyways" there shouldn't be an 's' on the end because only Americans do that.
Insane to think it was just sitting there for 14 years
@TheMijman
3 жыл бұрын
It probably wasn't there for 14 years
@bigsmoke6482
3 жыл бұрын
It must be very insane.
@HighExplosiveSerenade
3 жыл бұрын
Well.. In those places, people dont just throw away a car and buy a new one. As May said, people there have a fix it, DIY mentality. That car will serve someone until it can't be fixed anymore and then it will be a donor of pieces for other vehicles to continue working.
@AirplaneMart
3 жыл бұрын
What, is it already 14 years.
@freebirdh604
3 жыл бұрын
For a few heartbeats I thought you said you had been sitting there for 14 years, 🤣☮️👍
They should've kept all the challenge cars (that they bought) and opened a museum. Edit: and what was left of the Vietnam bikes and gifts too.
@shaydevlin5557
3 жыл бұрын
Museum of ambitioness and failure
@MSTBNDT
3 жыл бұрын
There is a museum that holds some of the cars from top gear challenges called Beaulieu motor museum
@ghostpepper3099
3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree! They should still try to find or recover all those cars and do it. Big mistake not keeping all that
@raytaylor6412
3 жыл бұрын
After Argentina, why would anybody want to try that?
@davidbarnsley8486
3 жыл бұрын
@@MSTBNDT yep been there a couple of years ago and sore a heap of the top gear cars
Me: He will never find James’s Mercedes, there are far too many Five seconds later: finds it
@shnilauzdicka
3 жыл бұрын
LITERALLY
The Botswana special is one of the best top gear specials ever
@1baby12bear
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed, but for me, my favorites are finding the headwaters of the Nile and Burma.
@starwarsfan9022
3 жыл бұрын
@@1baby12bear They are all special in there own way.
@sixstarhorizon295
3 жыл бұрын
Not just the best Top Gear special, one of the best bits of television ever.
@bjsr126
3 жыл бұрын
The original American US road trip was the best for me
@muhammadshofwan5309
3 жыл бұрын
I much prefer the africa series
James: it would be wrong to deny Botswana of that car! The car: sitting in a junkyard for 14 years.
@marmitaa8619
2 жыл бұрын
The Lancia was, the Merc was in service. Which is logical since old Merc's have parts in abundance in Africa. James is 100% right.
@dsdy1205
Жыл бұрын
Even sitting in a junkyard a car is useful, especially to any junkyard raiders on the hunt for spare parts
James: "Oliver is a shitbox, always has been" Richard: "And I took that personally"
@adnitesean5005
2 жыл бұрын
Next GT episode "In tonight's show: Richard kills james..."
@HighSockDavid
2 жыл бұрын
@@adnitesean5005 I punch a producer in the face and may gets cremated
@Brandon-sd7lq
11 ай бұрын
oh no anyway....
Pretty sure the Mercedes was given to a man that helped the TG team in filming in Botswana
@timscotford7837
3 жыл бұрын
Ye it was
@dre5973
3 жыл бұрын
yeah thats no way the same car, just look how well the floor rugs are fitted.. like it was never taken out
@Lewis_Treff97
3 жыл бұрын
I thought that was the beetle that was given to one of the crew there or might of been both
@petrolweeb
3 жыл бұрын
It was the Beetle that was given to the Mechanic that helped the crew during the shoot. And according to the Uploader of the Source Video, The Beetle is in somewhere around Zimbabwe.
@mylifeasmanta
3 жыл бұрын
according to richard porter's book (he's the script editor of TG/TGT), the mercedes was given to one of the fixers, the beetle was given to a mechanic and the lancia was scrapped - so i'm surprised it's still there
Avengers Endgame is the greatest gathering of heroes of all time. Botswana Trio: Hold my mopane wood Propshaft.
@adamfoxton6341
3 жыл бұрын
They don't have that anymore, it was eaten by a very guilty looking elephant :P
@paulcarmi8130
3 жыл бұрын
Man I love this. You guys are awesome
"Oliver is a shtbox, always has been" - James May 2021 (and pretty sure he's stuck with that statement for years before)
@grahamariss2111
3 жыл бұрын
He is not wrong
@SiPakRubah
3 жыл бұрын
Lol, I just saw your comment when he say that
@captin3149
3 жыл бұрын
@@grahamariss2111 No, he's not wrong, but it's still funny that it made the challenges where the Lancia and Mercedes practically tore themselves apart during the same conditions.
@giantmagicalduck3604
3 жыл бұрын
@@captin3149 The merc was fine. At least I dont remember it malfunctioning in the show. It just needed a lot of weight-cutting.
@armandorodrigues144
3 жыл бұрын
yeah, but now he wants to customize it to stop being a "sh*tbox"
14 years! I feel really old right now.
@arturseversons3444
3 жыл бұрын
right then, let's watch Botswana special once more 😁
@brainthesizeofplanet
3 жыл бұрын
Yeahe, same here
I'm not surprised James doesn't want his car back. He's been updating his garage for awhile now.
@RomnysGonzalez
3 жыл бұрын
James is mem of thr future now
@Juberdingus
3 жыл бұрын
He’s said many times over how he’s not a fan of classic cars lol. And I can’t blame him. When you’ve driven everything under the sun, and are getting older, I can imagine you just want something that’s comfortable without ever thinking about reliability.
"lions, lepards, hienas, wild dogs, hipos, black rhinos and crocodile, bird snakes, shield nosed snakes, puff adders, boomslangs, cape cobras, bandit cobras, black mambas, black widows and thick tailed scorpions" "What about a honey badger?"
Mike is rocking the old school Johnny smith beard in that manscaped ad
@kamikazekaos
3 жыл бұрын
Only reciding bald men have beard to make up the loss
@Allangulon
3 жыл бұрын
@@kamikazekaos I'm 54 and have my hair and a rockin' Jeff Bridges RIPD beard, so you're wrong!
@Badbhoys
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@VanDiESEL619
3 жыл бұрын
@@kamikazekaos only someone who can't grow a beard would say that🤣🤣
@Account1746
3 жыл бұрын
Johnny Johnny telling lies
It's so cool to hear James. He can talk about the most boring things in life, but that would still be soothing to hear. Gold bless you with great health and many decades ahead, James. ❤️
Hey thanks for sharing my video :D
Oliver and the lancia will live forever don't diss Jezzas eyebrows
@NthnLikeCodeine
3 жыл бұрын
they bad though, my dawg need a trim
Top Gear is my most favorite tv show of all time and that special made me real proud of my country, Botswana 🇧🇼🇧🇼❤️❤️
I absolutely love James' answer. I agree 100%. The only thing I think would be cool to do is have a fundraiser put together so people can send money to repair the cars but not restore them.
stop saying "i've been mike" if you are going to continue being mike bro
@craigsampson3386
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that part always confuses me
@alxwlsh
3 жыл бұрын
'Next week i'm going to become my neighbour Steven from over the road, he'll do.'
@bigdillan9612
3 жыл бұрын
Of the video he must be a bob or something
Exactly the response I expected from James. And I think it's the right decision too. That car absolutely should continue to be making itself useful to the people of Botswana. If it came back to the UK it would spend most of its time just sitting in a garage not doing anything
@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002
2 жыл бұрын
I mean it sat in a junkyard in Botswana, and was in stripped of parts, so…
This video is sponsored by........ *skip by 60 seconds*
@AirplaneMart
3 жыл бұрын
Haha, yes
@statementleaver8095
3 жыл бұрын
A semi bold man in a pink hoodie! Wo-manskaped!!
@richardwintle1020
3 жыл бұрын
....things I don't need to hear about today #1: Mike's testicles.
@carper1220
3 жыл бұрын
Use sponsorblock, works like a charm
@rengab137
3 жыл бұрын
@@statementleaver8095 Bro color doesn't associate with genders
I like the sentiment that James May had on keeping the car where it is.
@possibly8180
2 жыл бұрын
Sensible choices call for sensible people
Fun Fact: We are quite often in Maun and saw the Beta sitting there over the years. So when we broke the left window of our own Beta 2000 in a classic car rally, we asked our friends in Maun to send us the window to Germany. It worked and we fitted it to our car (also already sold some years ago now..)
James sold his Ferrari, why would he want an old rusted Merc? He is all about efficiency and having just the right amount of cars on his garage, not a collector or anything. Also he doesn't like the idea of being an old bloke! ahah
@derlangsame4471
3 жыл бұрын
Not many have noticed that he has seamlessly changed from the original James May in the earlier Top Gear.
@VeyronBD
3 жыл бұрын
Selling his Ferrari and buying a big automatic cruiser (model s) is peak old man lol
@JaySilva88
3 жыл бұрын
@@VeyronBD you can't argue that the old Ferrari was more a museum piece than practical. The new car is both more comfortable, practical and has less maintenance.
@VeyronBD
3 жыл бұрын
@@JaySilva88 yeah for sure it just reminds me of what loads of people do when they hit their 60s, sell the sports car and buy a merc or something
@JaySilva88
3 жыл бұрын
@@VeyronBD sadly you can't do that no more, most Mercs are Renaults now.
I’d like to see them try to find their other cars, such as the ones from the original US Special (James’ Caddy, Jeremy’s Camaro, Hammonds Ram), or the ones from the Bolivia special (The reliable Range Rover, the Plucky Suzuki, & Donkey The Toyota Land Cruiser).
@lewisburt3176
3 жыл бұрын
I think the land cruiser was left on that dune where it met it's sad demise the range rover would have gone to scrap it was mechanically totalled the Suzuki was sold to a bollivien guy probably
@jaredreeves2612
3 жыл бұрын
@@lewisburt3176 The Lancia was practically worthless yet they repaired it and sold it off. Granted yes it needed less work, but still...
@SaulGoodman76
3 жыл бұрын
Where are the cars from the Indian special
@jaredreeves2612
3 жыл бұрын
@@SaulGoodman76 Those we know where they are, as it was covered in the news of Season 18 first episode. It turns out, while they had left the cars on plinths on a hill in India, because there were issues regarding the placement of said cars, the BBC had to reclaim them and ship them back to England, where presumably they were restored and sold at private auction. This means they’re somewhere in the UK, not like the other cars from places like Africa & the ones from the 2 South America specials.
@SaulGoodman76
3 жыл бұрын
Ok thank you
The Botswana special was the best Top Gear/Grand Tour episode of all time.
What's really sad is that the cars from the Patagonia special (when they went to Argentina) have all been crushed after the police hid then in warehouses they ruled they were too much of a target so the had them crushed.
@DefinitelyNotEmma
3 жыл бұрын
And all of this just because Britain needed to hold on to a rock in the ocean hundred of kilometers away :/
@kevinseven6633
3 жыл бұрын
@@DefinitelyNotEmma That wasn’t the cause of the problem.
Hi, I would love to get the chance to save and restore the Lancia! We have a small racing team where we race classics here in South Africa, and if I get the chance to save that car it will be seen again in all of its glory on a race track!
@haribo_42
2 жыл бұрын
That would be noice
Amazing always used to watch the program Top Gear thank you showing this special clip
There's still one car unaccounted for: What happened to the VW Beetle that they would have to drive if their car failed?
@Grulaz
3 жыл бұрын
What happened to that Lancia that that was thrown into the River
@wilfbm9067
3 жыл бұрын
Blown up hopefully
@justarandomguy3071
3 жыл бұрын
It is still driving. Read the comments on the Alaska to Africa channel.
@Grulaz
3 жыл бұрын
@@justarandomguy3071 also what about bmw Volvo and Subaru
@ajemajh
3 жыл бұрын
how about the 2cv on patagonia?
Lancias are so rare nowadays ~ we should rescue as many as we can ❤️
@300DBenz
3 жыл бұрын
No, leave it in Africa! If they bring it to the UK, it will be a pile of rust within a month, just like all the other Lancia Betas.
@DefinitelyNotEmma
3 жыл бұрын
Lancia is a dead brand, it's not a Delta, no Stratos or 037, just let it rust in peace.
@indiekiddrugpatrol3117
3 жыл бұрын
@@DefinitelyNotEmma why let it rust in peace if it can be easily saved? I've seen betas much worse than that be restored and it's rhd which is fairly rare these days
@kevinseven6633
3 жыл бұрын
If I could I would buy it and bring it back. Would be a fantastic project.
@Anonymous-sb9rr
3 жыл бұрын
@@kevinseven6633 Bring it back to where? Italy?
What about the only car that made it without requiring any modifications or repairs? The producers’ backup Beetle.
To be honest I’m slightly disappointed to see the Merc and Lancia refitted with the doors, boot, bonnet etc, they looked really cool when given the May and Clarkson special treatment.
@ShanesAutos
3 жыл бұрын
Yeh, which is what James was talking about.
@MrFozzie52
3 жыл бұрын
It's just the next chapter in the cars life. If the cars new owner wants to change bits and pieces I think that's up to them.
Thanks for the ball-shaving ad. Classy
would be amazing to see them do something with these cars in the grand tour, maybe rebuild them to be proper safari motors and do it again
@MrSterling314
3 жыл бұрын
That would actually be really cool! I would love to see that
No joke, I had one of those Mercedes zip past me whilst I was doing 80kph on a dirt road in South Africa. Nevermind the speed it looked like it was packed for a trip around the world. Those things are truly robust and they're still very popular down here because they last longer than some modern cars.
Great video, I love when special cars like this are hunted and found
Mr May is such a lovely person and I love how he knows that this old Merc is finally in its ideal habitat !
"It would be like putting an animal in a zoo. It's wrong." Well, the Mercedes has the advantage that nobody's running around, trying to shoot it just to nick it's horn.
@alxwlsh
3 жыл бұрын
You haven't been to Slough mate.
@vermis8344
3 жыл бұрын
@@alxwlsh I'm picturing rhinos up on bricks. Burnt-out wildebeeste at the side of the road. Tune into Channel 5 for police interceptors chasing after the twoccers. "Charlie Tango Zebra." "Do you mean Charlie Tango Zulu?" "No, I mean that's what they're on, what they shoplifted, and what they're joyriding down the M4."
@alxwlsh
3 жыл бұрын
@@vermis8344 I'm picturing the Rhinos in court testifying against their attacker ' So they just came up, jacked me up, took an angle grinder to me and nicked me catalytic converter, and took it down to the scrappie, tossers...' - said car-animal hybrid roger the rhino today in court'
clarkson can buy back the lancia himself is he is so inclined, 900 dollars is pocket change for him
@khamsinshamal7988
3 жыл бұрын
Pocket change?!? It is not even pocket lint to him. 😁
@vangledosh
3 жыл бұрын
@@khamsinshamal7988 woldn’t even be worth the time checking for 900
@mk2escortvan
3 жыл бұрын
To be honest, the shipping is going to be a lot more expensive than the actual car. There's a lot of work in restoring that too. I don't think I'd take it on, even if I were a millionaire.
@alt7488
3 жыл бұрын
add transport and taxes and it's more like 5-7k just as it sits ... then you need to add the resto costs to that ... at 40-100k it's no longer 'pocket change'
@Schmorgus
3 жыл бұрын
@@alt7488 40-100k pounds to restore an old lancia?! What are you smoking? xD
This is Quality content. Plz continue
Seeing these cars and the remains of the things they did, like James' art work are like rediscovering something historic...which it is
Clarkson's got enough £££s to get this back and restore it himself. He also says he loves Lancias too.
@GloomGaiGar
3 жыл бұрын
yeah but not the beta, that car destroyed lancia
@cableg01
3 жыл бұрын
@@GloomGaiGar actually, Clarkson wrote a newspaper article years ago about his top 10 favourite cars that he has driven and the Beta VX was one of the top 10
Your telling me with all the money drivetribe has they can’t but these cars themselves
@elund408
3 жыл бұрын
restoring cars is like owning a boat, a hole you throw money into. If they wanted them they would have kept them like hammond did.
@trenttrevorrow5648
3 жыл бұрын
Drivetribe lost millions last year. It was in the news. No, they don't have the money.
@GloomGaiGar
3 жыл бұрын
what makes you think they have all the money in the world?
@nightstorm16
3 жыл бұрын
(Check the HM Revenue & Customs Government Website - GT had to lend money to DT and then convert in back into shares to stop it going under - the boys even stopped paying themselves salaries last year to compensate - they're not in it for the money though, if they were they wouldn't spend £36mil of their £40mil budget and only come out the other side with £400,000 profit [2016 GT])
May, as well as Clarkson and Hammond, are inspirations. Most will only pay attention to or clutch to the funny bits, and that’s fine but the thing is; you can’t not learn from either of the three. It doesn’t matter what task, project, room or chair,,, you can’t sit across from one of them and not learn from him. These 3 are legends and we are able to watch them live and make history.
Funny y'all bring this up .. I had a dream re watching this special ... So I been up since 4am watching clips of this very special , lol
$950 for the rotting Lancia, not a lot of money in the UK, must be a tidy sum in Botswana
@mk2escortvan
3 жыл бұрын
To me, it seems quite a lot for a car in that condition, but I guess it's a Lancia.
@shroomzed2947
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, money like that goes a long way in Southern Africa.
I still can't find my 911 I lost years ago.
@Spicy_Riker
3 жыл бұрын
Ur talking about a Porsche 911? Right...
@TheKnobCalledTone.
3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment. Why hasn't it blown up?
@981boxster
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheKnobCalledTone. I see what you did there
@sandwichbar8226
3 жыл бұрын
This comment is real
@phantomechelon3628
3 жыл бұрын
Have you tried asking the CIA about it? 😁
That bit of welding on the Merc is nothing I would trust...LOL!
its great that people found those cars from the botswana special! now im also curious what happened to the cars from the middel east special so the mx5 from clarkson the z3 from james and the fiat from hammond
That Manscaping promo 🤣.
@BrendonGreenNZL
3 жыл бұрын
🤢
trivetribe, which was started by the boys themselves, doesnt have 950$?
@butt_cheeks269
3 жыл бұрын
Of course they have the money. They don't want the car. Stop trying to make them want the car.
@schwig44
3 жыл бұрын
@@butt_cheeks269 Figured they would have overpaid it so some guy in botswana can talk smack to his wife about how he was right to buy it and have it on blocks out front for years
@phantomechelon3628
3 жыл бұрын
Its now essentially MikeTribe. In case you hadn't noticed Jezza, James and Richard have very little to do with the channel now.
@phantomechelon3628
3 жыл бұрын
@@lukebarnes8097 Or they just have better things to do. They've been on TV for decades and still have their Grand Tour project with Amazon going. They probably couldn't care less about a KZread channel.
@apurugganan
3 жыл бұрын
@@schwig44 or wives (in some cultures they collect cars, spouses, and so on)
That's amazing that these two cars have been found. Hopefully they can be saved.
I remember series 10 of Topgear so well. 10 episodes that were all brilliant. I can't say how many times i've watched them. - E92M3/C63/RS4 - Evo X/STI - Three supercars to Italy - GT3 RS/Gallardo Superlagerra and Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24 And so much more.
It could be the first lancia scarecrow for Clarkson's farm
The GP registration refers to Gauteng Province in johannesburg, probably where they purchased the car from in South Africa. The GP " gangster paradise" plate lol
@YoungCarWiz
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Cause another Africa special there was GP number plates and it is Gauteng province like you said
James talking about the Mercedes at the end there made me think of the ship of Theseus. If a Merc is patched up so many times at what point would it become a different car
I like that they're just plain and open about it being a ball-trimmer
Put it together just enough that it can actually drive safely !
@bobadam7021
3 жыл бұрын
So, better than new?
I haven’t even watched the video yet and I hope Clarkson restores it and brings it back to the UK where it belongs
@Allangulon
3 жыл бұрын
You don't belong in the UK Boris!
@nickturner2813
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't belong in the UK, it's got no connection, whatsoever, with the UK.
The Botswana special is arguably what made top gear the number 1 show
I recently bought the DVD collection with ALL TopGear Specials. It was totally woth the money... hours of excelent specials.
mike just violated jeremy’s eyebrows
@phantomechelon3628
3 жыл бұрын
Well they were asking for it. 😂
Family jewels look worse than Jeremy clarksons eyebrows 🤣 and the screaming 🤣🤣🤣. I'm dead
7:04 I can feel the “bog off” in his reply from here. Yeah he won’t be doing much about it, I can tell.
It would be so epic to these cars shipped back with Oliver and do a special with them again, unreal that they are still about over there!
James May looks like Father Jack in the photo accompanying this video.
Hammond should buy and restore all these cars after wasting hours of my only life on "the escapists"
Loved James' wrap up about leaving the car where it belongs
I'm a sucker for this special I heart it the vw bug was one of the best back up car don't tell Clarkson
Mike, just buy the Lancia as it is and drop it off across Jeremy's driveway as revenge for yelling at you for touching his GTV. 😁👍
Why has James got one really brown eyebrow and one grey one 😂
i agree wholeheartly with james
This Grand Tour special practically writes itself. The gang return to Botswana to recover the original cars Hammond gets to show off that he has taken care of Oliver and its in pristine condition, then Clarkson and May have to deal with what is essentially a bunch of garbage. you blow up a replica Oliver for the ending gag.
Botswana should have a "Top Gear Tour" where they go everywhere the 3 went, show the cars, etc.
Now they only need to find the Beetle.
@BNStudios1
3 жыл бұрын
It's still driving about in Zimbabwe!
@kevinseven6633
3 жыл бұрын
Nobody cares about the beetle.
Lancia Beta coupe 4Sale, careful adult owner, low miles, very minor paint fade, drain installed in floor pan, could use some minor interior work and wheels, ran when parked. $950 obo.
This makes me very happy.
Yes, but seeing the three cars together in a uk car museum....that’d be something James. That show meant a lot to many of us.
"The Lancia beta coupé super legeria" (forgive my spelling)
Every TG and TGT special vechicle belongs in a museum. They can do great things with that.
Wow I like James May explanation about restoring the merc. You desire a “Sir” before your first name.
I'd say Jeremy has the means to save the car.
@SharpAsABricc
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. A Hammer!
@itsmyyoutube
3 жыл бұрын
@@lukebarnes8097 you mean he couldn't be bothered.
If 10,000 of us donated 9p each we could buy it
A Botswana episode of Grand Tour with all the original cars repaired would be cool
love u James
Video starts at 1:10
It’s a shame that James doesn’t have the same love for the Mercedes that Hammond has for Oliver
@Harkeilla
3 жыл бұрын
Why. It was awful.
@setusername8275
3 жыл бұрын
@@Harkeilla Except that it wasn't.
@tams805
3 жыл бұрын
Or, as the man himself said, he doesn't care for that sentimental stuff.
That Lancia really was a strong machine , keeping up with a diesel ( i think it was) merc that cost the double price back then They should do a restomod with that Beta , put it a two litter delta turbo engine
@joaquinfranco9012
2 жыл бұрын
James' Merc was a 230E. A Gas-fed fuel injected one.
My mum had a metallic blue Lancia Beta coupe just like this one. It was a very cool car in the 80s.
Looks like Mike was testing out the ball trimmer on his face during the ad. 😂
Wait.... They're actually asking the public for financial assistance in rescuing the Lancia?.
Very interesting mate 👌
BEST MANSCAPED COMMERCIAL EVER
OLIVEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!
now we just need to find hammond's car that he used back in bots-- nevermind
@bobadam7021
3 жыл бұрын
How about moving on to Hammond's Bolivian car. It's the only Land cruiser in the entire world that doesn't work, and thus has value. Also, you'd have to gather up some of the parts from the side of that mountain.
@derox2778
3 жыл бұрын
@@bobadam7021 i think its still sitting on its hill
To let it roam free or to bring it with you as family. James and Richard has done it right