Back in ‘97 I had a Renault 5 GT Turbo, 118hp and 830Kg, that was an absolute rocket ship, a mini with 160 and around 680kg is fantastic, properly quick car.

@muckle8

Жыл бұрын

Quick until the head gasket blew maybe!

@bobroberts7029

10 ай бұрын

They weren't as quick as people make out.

I wonder how nostalgic Clarkson feels when he see these old reviews.

Jeremy Clarksons like what 6"5" and he fits in a mini

@ronaldharris6569

4 жыл бұрын

Every mini includes a spatial displacement teseract.

@yagooatthegoat

4 жыл бұрын

Peel P45

@theleader1150

4 жыл бұрын

John DAWSON he was 6’5 at his max, now he’s 6’4

@martinleonardosantacruzmol1493

4 жыл бұрын

@@theleader1150 6'3

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinleonardosantacruzmol1493 6'5" at 30 , 6'4" at 59

This is when they started letting Jeremy be Jeremy and the beginning of a beautiful thing!

@stankfanger1366

8 жыл бұрын

Skodaman2 Oh, _he_ most definitely isn't, but what he does from here most certainly _is_.

@oddities-whatnot

7 жыл бұрын

Skodaman2 whats hair colour got to do with it? Grow up.

@abcbcde9985

6 жыл бұрын

'New' Top Gear was the Clarkson years surely? Evan et al were 'Neo New Top Gear'? Old Top Gear was the golden years.

@davidtuttle7556

4 жыл бұрын

@@abcbcde9985 Incorrect. Its Old Top Gear, Top Gear, then Grand Tour. We do not speaketh of Chris Evans or Matt LeBlank unless we have to.

@ddjlilbro

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidtuttle7556 but what about this new new top gear ?? with a comedian, a cricket star, and a driver!

I miss Earl’s Court Motor Show. After seeing all the cars downstairs, used to love going upstairs buying stuff like model cars. Before the days of online shopping. Loved it. A good day out.

The shift gate on that Mini is fucking brilliant.

I love how the BBC were dishing out content that literally anybody can do now - 50 min coverage of the motor show? Mad how times change.

@markfox1545

3 жыл бұрын

'Literally anybody'. So...anybody, you mean. Idiot.

I'm glad they didn't bring that shouty man over to new Top Gear.

@aimandaniel133

4 жыл бұрын

Wdym?

@RoadCone411

4 жыл бұрын

I agree...Quentin is annoying, but Steve Berry is downright nauseating. Hopefully he has been gainfully employed since TG, doing things like announcing for wrestling matches or as a train announcer.

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

@@RoadCone411 Aye. He was once described as "a turd in a suit". A bit harsh perhaps, but being familiar with an individual that looks & sounds just like him; perhaps also accurate.

@READYTEDDYBEAR

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! 2020 and the Astra still looks the same. 😂

@jimtaylor294

3 жыл бұрын

^ As in still looks naff... aye that's true XD.

Some people may scoff but this incarnation of the programme was a definite improvement on the William Woollard/Chris Goffey days. I remember one episode they talked for a full 10 minutes about the legroom in the back of a VW Passat.....

@johnmacdonald2441

7 жыл бұрын

haha. The good old days.

That mini was fab!!

In one of Clarkson books, he recalled the fun he had with Quentin, and laughing about what Steve Berry would crash that week. Remind you of the beloved TG?

@user-xk4eq7rf5y

3 жыл бұрын

🧒❤

Watching this in 2020 is like waking up the morning after the night before....

It is quite funny looking at those pristine, newly presented 90's cars considering how they look like now...and what they cost

160 hp go cart... im in!

@robertebob3596

4 жыл бұрын

Me too i bed that would show a Golf R how its done

That guy reviewing the Astra... is that Richard Hammond's dad? LOL

@afrog2666

5 жыл бұрын

They look and sound, nothing alike

@davekp6773

4 жыл бұрын

@@afrog2666 Its the high pitched excitement which is similar.

@keithe8449

4 жыл бұрын

He is Steve Berry. He was their resident motorcycle expert. He also anchored Top Gear on the Radio on Saturday mornings.

@pleximan2008

4 жыл бұрын

deovision was wondering too😂😂

@Chrissurfs

4 жыл бұрын

lololol

Clarkson getting excited over 160hp. Unheard of 😂

@Russell970

3 жыл бұрын

Actually he would even appreciate nowadays as well, Because this mini is so light thus higher power to ratio ^^

THANK YOU for this!!!!!!!

Love the old minis and love the old top gear

Loved it with Quinton Clarkson and Tiff, good old fashioned car reviewing , Jeremy was a bit posher in those days lol not the big hooligan he is now, still love the big guy, straight talker, that will do for me

Great episode. More real-world than the modern episodes, but with plenty of humour from JC.

The format is old but I used to like TG when it was like this.

@theginjaninja132

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer the older format, they actually inform you without looking like a massive advert

@ianmangham4570

4 жыл бұрын

YES

@jackbaxter-williams8059

3 жыл бұрын

@@theginjaninja132 HAHAHAHAH most people don't actually want to be informed anymore. If you are reading this, you are an exception to "most people"

@arrangrant6037

3 жыл бұрын

The BBC should have gone back to this format of the show when Clarkson got sacked

@mrcaboosevg6089

3 жыл бұрын

@@theginjaninja132 Basically what Fifth Gear is/was

thanks for uploading these videos .

5:26 Awwww I miss my old Xsara. It was such a good car :'(

@randomtransportguyx4397

2 жыл бұрын

My mum had one in 13 and it sounded like a bus but we drove it until 2015 and no service was required

That mini is so cool

@tammyforbes2101

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Ellis if your a midget

@markellis4229

5 жыл бұрын

I'm tall and I still fit in my mini lol

This is like where I used to work. We had a fellow that weighed extensively. He drove a Geo Metro. I told him if he had an accident, they would have to peel the car like a banana to get him out of it. It was amazing to see him get into the thing. That dude filled it up on the inside. We all told him to please get a bigger car.

I have a 1969 restored Mini Cooper S in Perth Australia... done about 50,000 miles from new.

@sunsetvlogs5500

4 жыл бұрын

BigJulie how is the mini viewed in OZ I expect it looks very small vs holdens and pickups

@bigjulie3714

4 жыл бұрын

@@sunsetvlogs5500 send me an email aardent@iinet.au

@bigjulie3714

4 жыл бұрын

aardent@iinet.net.au..... sorry

This car is awesome. I am blinded by love.

Nice to see more folk uploading these old clips, far more informative than the newer show, not that the new programmes bad, but I personally prefer the older format, call me old fashioned, all it really needed was some of the new shows wit and funny events.

LOVE THE GREEN MINI........ PERFECT SET UP

The Golf still holds up

RIP TOP GEAR.

I really wanna go back to the time where you could buy a new rover

@nudisco300

3 жыл бұрын

Well Land Rover still exists and they were actually the real original Rover company. The Rover that went broke was basically a renamed Austin.

@jamsstar2010

3 жыл бұрын

New mgs?

At the Ford Ka, the steering wheel, the bumpers and the tires didn't rust.

Thanks!

I didn't know aby car was capable of nav in 1997!

@GTFour

6 жыл бұрын

Minidisk player too :'D

@noka1979

5 жыл бұрын

Pingman still have a player, love minidiscs

@jeff4362

5 жыл бұрын

Luxury cars have had sat navs long before, at least by 1990.

@Bialy_1

4 жыл бұрын

"In 1989, Magellan Navigation Inc. unveiled its Magellan NAV 1000, the world's first commercial handheld GPS receiver. These units initially sold for approximately US$2,900 each."

@PeteS_1994

4 жыл бұрын

You should watch tomorrows world. Electronic Navigation was being experimented with in the 70's but it wasn't like how it is today.

Steve Berry, the most irritating presenter in Top Gear history...

@drcheekyisback

6 жыл бұрын

AR1G3 get that man some decaf.. seriously

@davidtuttle7556

4 жыл бұрын

More so than Matt LeBlanc?. Btw as an American, I'm sorry for that on.

@shivek1987

4 жыл бұрын

Poor man was trying to do his job as professionally as possible. Dont be jealous

@flamixin

4 жыл бұрын

I think he just being normal. It's pretty much like some youtube car reviewers.

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

As someone whom knows a man that looks & sounds like him... I think irritating, is an understatement.

I want that mini. I want it now.

Awesome!

It's funny to think 20 years ago they have the opposite problem as we do now

Wish I were born in the 80s

That Astra was probably a better car than the current one. Nobody aspires to driving a Vauxhall these days, and thats where the company is failing. Too much competition with more desirable brands. Everyone seems to be worried about their own image these days, and obsessed with being seen in the right labels, or having the right badge on the car. An obsession with trying to live up to a certain lifestyle they see on TV, in magazines and on the internet, instead of being happy in themselves. Sheep, following everyone else. In the old days, British car buyers would, in the main, traditionally buy Ford, Vauxhall, Rover etc, with a few buying imported French, German and Japanese cars. Saloons and hatchbacks, only the wealthy bought 4x4s. The SUV/crossover segment didn't exist, so it was easy for the likes of Vauxhall to get the bulk of the sales. No its all about trends, fashion and lifestyle. For a lot of people, a car is more than just a means of getting from A to B. Its an extension of their own personality, and convincing themselves they are living a better lifestyle by driving a certain brand, where in reality, nobody else gives a shit.

@n136h

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on Ern

@Nombredeusuario1030

5 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. Carmakers these days should work on their image as well as in their product. To me, Vauxhall makes great cars nowadays, truly nice designs with fine driving dynamics and very good value for money but some of their past products were dismal and some peoble seem unable to forget. I mean, Vauxhall lost its place as the second best selling car brand to Volkswagen, and this is while VW's image took a huge hit with the Dieselgate thing. Vauxhall should improve a lot its street cred and not sell cars just based on discounts, that's just short sighted.

@Thanos.m

5 жыл бұрын

And that's why I'll hang on my rover

agreed. a REAL mini. what started it all. ( well for minis anyways. and a FAST mini to boot. these things are FUN to drive. ive always disliked tiny cars, but got my hands on a smart car and what appeared to be a mini, pickup. weird looking thing but fast , fun, and handled great.

1997,when Clarkson could fit in a mini...

so cool! mini

"What the customer wants is their old Golf, but a little bit better". Truer words have rarely been spoken. Well, what I really want is an Audi S5 GC, but I can't afford to pay twice as much.

I miss my Mini, and if I had had that Mini then I would have been missing it even longer because I would have totalled it a lot sooner than I did.

@JETJOOBOY

3 жыл бұрын

I miss my Astra MK.2 GTE

@JETJOOBOY

3 жыл бұрын

Better to have Crashed and Lost than never to have had a decent and amusing car....

his voice never changed

Top gear when it was a car program for real people with real world budgets

Old Top Gear, back when Clarkson's head wasn't so big that he couldn't fit it inside The Albert Hall.

Always thought he looked like Dougal from Father Ted... That would have been sooooo funny having him as presenter.

The plate on that old mini now sits on a 2020 John Cooper Works mini!

a friend of mine has one of those Golf s there and he kinda brags with in 2020. Mindblowing

I want that Mini!

8:02 Couldn't have agreed more, especially with modern cars of today have way too much electronic sensors. Here in Malaysia, it's a common sight seeing 1990's and 2000's car still being driven on the road.

Still the cutest little car on earth Is the original mini despite its age

I.. I honestly don't know. 160 is a lot for a go kart. I think I just found the way he says it, like it's a Bugatti, that cracked me up. You know how you sometimes can't sleep at night because you can't stop thinking about that embarrassing thing you said to that girl at the dance like ten years ago.. this is one of those moments.

I actually thought that Mini was a micro Mini, even smaller than the original, until I realised it's just that Jezza is huge!

2:32 Air filter goals : D.... 1 air filter per cylinder!

Liking the little Mini

the Isuzu Vehicross honestly looks great today, it's like the world got weird enough to suit it.

"There's also a triple-denim disaster of a Clarkson"

@MatiPryjomko

3 жыл бұрын

My first thought at seeing this.

Old TG great.

Cars have certainly changed since this video. so has Clarkson.

2.49 jeremy clarkson face XD

Did he just say Vauxhall Ashtray?

@984francis

8 жыл бұрын

+Byteblock Definitely.

@ockertvanniekerk1885

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@VoVilliaCorp

3 жыл бұрын

He's not wrong

It’s like a very restrained Jeremy

@davidtuttle7556

4 жыл бұрын

As opposed to Jezza in a Viper.

Jeremy ‘oh wow’ Clarkson

Nice mini and TG was still good

Thanks dophtrains2.

2:51 this sounds like my grandmother .

@stellaa302

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

MINI!! :D

1997 looks like what I imagine 1977 looked like.

I want that fast mini

@ianmangham4570

4 жыл бұрын

I need a mini fast

That hair 😂

mini = GOAT.

I really don't see how that "new" Astra looks similar to the one before it,. I know Top Gear likes that sort of joke but it needs to make sense when used.

@READYTEDDYBEAR

3 жыл бұрын

The Astra still looks the same in 2020.

Mr.Bean is drooling when he saw that. But alas he can't buy one of these.

car salesman must of loved this

@harrygatto

6 жыл бұрын

of?

@ronwhite8503

5 жыл бұрын

In English it is "must have".....my good man.

2:35 1.4 liter engine, 160 horsepower engine... that’s exactly what my Fiat 500 Abarth has. Crazy how revolutionary this was back in the day, and now we have mass produced city cars with this power everywhere.

@adlerdefender8067

4 жыл бұрын

Is not the point... 160 in a car that light is what makes it wonderful... I bet that thing is like 1800 lb..

Whatever happened to Top Gear? It morphed into 3 blokey blokes having a laugh in daft vehicles all round the globe, at vast expense. Now it's worse than ever. Am I getting old? Clearly!

Clarkson in that Mini hits the nail on the head EXACTLY explaining what's wrong with these 'ricers'. Removing the interior and adding solid shocks might take off a tenth of a second to your 0-60 time or your laptime, but in the process you have now made a car that you can;t possibly live with.

@eclecticcollected8570

4 жыл бұрын

Ricers don't get gains...

the hamsta looks diferent

That MX-5 tho And my god they were still making the Mini. Imagine buying one in 2000

May 2022 still MOT'd and on the road.

Should kept the mini original interior like a sleeper.

Its crazy 30 years ago 0 to 60 in 6 seconds was mind blowing and now standard off the floor family sedans do that and the powerful cars do it in under 3.

@bobroberts7029

10 ай бұрын

Still mind blowing

Damn so strange seeing them so young and innocent

Luckily enough Morris marinas all came with a complimentary bus timetable,,

*POWERRRRRR*

Brings back memories to the shows earlier years and Jeremy Clarksons career

august the 1st is that time of the year when the next year of registration kicks in. for instance if this video is from 1997, ( after august 1st ) the new vehicle registration in the showrooms will be a P plate..... what the presenter was pointing out was that a surplus of cars that DOES NOT sell by august 1st the following year, can not be sold as brand new, but nearly new surplus

@Rover200Power

2 жыл бұрын

1997 was the change to an "R" plate.

It is nice seeing the Astra there in showroom condition, they are all rusty now, driving around... :(

Top gear should go back to making episodes like this because they're trying to be what they used to be with the trio but it just ain't happening. A show like this reviewing cars properly would be better

Jeremy looks huge standing outside the mini and then small when inside it wtf

5:46. VW was absolutely right - and everyone that didn't trade in their 1st gen Ford Focus on a 3rd gen (we never got the 2nd gen in the U.S. with a Ford badge on it) knows exactly what they meant. There were 15 or so of us in my high school in a Focus racer's club (none of them were more modified than having painted brake calipers), now of the 12 that I still talk to, 8 of us own Mazda3s and 3 have Chevy Sonics because they are exactly that, the same but better than our Focuses.

New vauxhall, my nipples tingle with excitement!! Only interesting part of Jezza's bit on the mini.

was that burgundy mini ever produced? looks so nice, that interior is so perfect

@laan1956

3 жыл бұрын

German Andres Moreno Rojas it’s a modified cilinder head from a bmw bike, you can buy it from a company called KAD for around 5k

@TopGearrules How come you liked it so much?

nice background choosing at 8:50

At the start of that bit I thought someone had hand-built a 2/3 scale mini.