This engine, with a few extra tweaks and valves, was used in the McLaren F1. Crazy

@kpr1

8 жыл бұрын

wow, didnt know that!

@JUNAID187

7 жыл бұрын

PantsofVance The F1 used the engine from the M8 which never made it into production so BMW sold the engines they had sourced for the project.

@PantsofVance

7 жыл бұрын

Nope. "A common misconception is that this engine powered the McLaren F1. When this was suggested to McLaren's designer Gordon Murray, however, the idea was rejected because the engine was too heavy and long for the McLaren F1. Rather, variations on the original S70 used on the 850csi, the S70/2 and S70/3 were used for the McLaren F1. (The variation used on the M8 prototype was the S70/1 engine.)" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_8_Series#M8

@YUSKHAN

7 жыл бұрын

PantsofVance no this is a single cam v12 with two valves, that v12 that when into the McLaren F1 was built by M power, it's the twin cam M8 V12 engine, what M power did, was to build that v12 on two twin cam inline m3 engines that produced 320bhp each, but then again, if you have a v12 with a single cam cylinder head, you can swap it with a twin cam head, if it fits

@YUSKHAN

7 жыл бұрын

PantsofVance thats not true, the m8 engine was designed, by putting two twin cam inline m3 engines two getter that was the foundations of the m8 design

How is the 8 NOT a GT car??? That’s exactly what it is. Way more than today’s GT cars because it is comfortable and not harsh with oversized wheels and tiny side walled tires. This is a perfect car for long distance tours. The smooth V12 and great looks makes it a poster car for what a GT should aim to be like IMO. An expensive car that does not look outdated before someone is done paying for the car.

@yorkoxmaul66

Жыл бұрын

it's obsolete but it's classy

@mikaeljonsson4686

11 ай бұрын

The E31 is def one of BMW:s most beautiful cars!

90s had the best car designs IMO.

@Aikaramba12

6 жыл бұрын

TheAce86 hahHahahahahahahahahaaha

@livelyosprey

2 жыл бұрын

Good but the 60s win

@alexmartinez280

2 жыл бұрын

@@livelyosprey definitely the 60 and then the 90s. Every 30 years so the 2020s will have many beautiful cars as well.

@miljororforsprakpartiet290

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly, although refined until 2005ish. I'd say 1994-2004 was the peak of car design (then BMW released the E60 and yeah...)

V12 Manual... Where are those cars now...?

@jessedean1983

9 жыл бұрын

Storage.... Lol

@TheIvangallo

9 жыл бұрын

My dad has one, it will be mine as soon as I turn eighteen. Two more years to go, I can tell you one thing this car is beautiful.

@WagonDrifter

8 жыл бұрын

+BMW Alpina My driveway ^_^

@billdexhart5179

8 жыл бұрын

+BMW Alpina Aston still makes one that I know, but that might be it.

@pavlospilakoutas

8 жыл бұрын

in my garage

I wish more of the VERY early seasons of Top Gear were available on Netflix

when jeremy dressed like james

god that old version of Jessica brings back memories!

i love the starter sound! absolutely amazing 0:54

the best BMW ever for me!

I've got one and it crushes American muscle cars all day!

3:58 I would take 850csi over any of all those cars that he mentioned, specially over the DB7, which at the time this was filmed, only had a supercharged straight six 3.2 engine with a lot less power than the 850csi.

Utterly gorgeous, I've always loved the 8 series

When Clarkson says regular 850 was not a GT car, nor sports car, he is wrong, of course. We all know Clarkson does not like BMW. 850i is VERY much a GT car, and 850CSI is considered pretty much a super car now, 1500 ever made, prices of CSI are insane in Germany, if you can catch one at Mobile.de I have 850i for 13 years now, yes its heavy, but not more than 750, sluggish front due to heavy engine, but I dont go to race rings, 99.9% of the time roads are straight here. People turn heads to 850i more than to current SL, and some younger guys ask what model it is lol

@kouroshtashvishi5031

9 жыл бұрын

The ALPINA 1 is much better

@MarquisRex

9 жыл бұрын

valgehiir Very nice, the 8ers appeal is growing on me but i'll stick to my M635CSi

@WagonDrifter

8 жыл бұрын

+MarquisRex Do what I did then. Get both.

Great GT car.

But even better, this one has a manual transmission. This car is AMAZING.

still watching this beast in 2018

Just bought a 6 speed black on black 1995 CSI in the US. I´ll let you know soon enough what it is like. Buy one if you can. No one is selling a CSI. Tons of CI, or I, or 840´s...

JC would still look young if he didn't smoke like a chimney.

Elton John's Sacrifice towards the end was a perfect song for a perfect car review. It's a real pity Clarkson went mental and got kicked out of BBc2.

do they have these cars in USA? I've never seen one

Who would have a DB7 over one of these?... Only car really any better in that league was the 911 Turbo really

@miljororforsprakpartiet290

10 жыл бұрын

I'd love to. The DB7 looks better, I bet it handles better and it's an Aston Martin. More than enough for me :D

@CJM44.41

10 жыл бұрын

Ahrle Bengtsdotter Personally I just can't love the interior of the Aston despite it looking great on the outside. If we're talking about the Zagato though, that's a different story! :)

@miljororforsprakpartiet290

10 жыл бұрын

That's true and a good point, I really like how BMW designed the interior of the 8 series. Still, for me a sports car is most about fun, and a bit less about quality, like the Ferrari 348/355 which wasn't even comparable to any of those from that aspect.

@karuzo4116

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

90's best german car is this car , the best is not a mercedes or not a porsche. 850 CSi my dream car...

i drive this car is now collection car !! just 10 in france i have 1 on the south of french

@dmitriyt2701

7 жыл бұрын

You are a lucky man! Thinking about getting one to.

@peterhunt1939

7 жыл бұрын

really? Only? There are at least 6 pieces 850 csi in Poland.

JC+THIS CAR+ ELTON JOHN, SACRIFY = cool review

2020 m850i driver dropping in to say HI from the future!

Whats the orange BMW at start of the video?

O.o! young jeremy had some moves back then

from his description sounds like a German muscle car. id love to have it for a few days!

if I had the money, I'd most certainly buy this over anything else mentioned by clarkson :D

Wow this is vintage!

Drove a few of them in my last employment. Wasn't sporty in any way (far too fat and heavy) but it would have been on my list of cars to drive 2000kms in one go.

which season could it be?

Also one additonal system by the dealer when delivered was a gee ie tee. Standard equipment on most Bmw bacl then, nowdays unfortunately Audis have it fitted standard

@roberts.. its a 3.0csl model e9. Grtz

Someone watching in 2016?

@Ab-bu3xy

8 жыл бұрын

Om waching this in 2017

@Ab-bu3xy

8 жыл бұрын

Im*

@RealOrbit-Australia

8 жыл бұрын

2016 mate

@xamanto

8 жыл бұрын

+julio valladares well duh

@daverunner3397

8 жыл бұрын

Yup.

love this car just couldn't find a csi here. the noise the ci made was brilliant so i bet the csi is at least the same or better. but didn't the csi had 4. wheel steering

@frankymata1

8 жыл бұрын

+romeomuradin only in Europe

@RFRM89

8 жыл бұрын

+raidernation ok thnx for the info.

@mosmos2740

3 жыл бұрын

Only the right hand drives came with 4 wheel steering as standard... it makes a huge difference with the weight through the corners...

I need to find myself one of these!

@mikejohnson1228

9 жыл бұрын

James Lee look on bimmerforums.com under the 8 series sub-forum. there are lots for sale and good talks about restoring/keeping them on the road. I LOVE mine and reallly appreciate the forums.

@1994clue

6 жыл бұрын

James Lee: I've looked for some years to find the right one. Now I've got it (or she ;o) since 2012, a 850Ci and I hold it for the rest of my days (I hope so).

Hes so handsome and young

Unfortunately, there IS a reason you can get these for dirt cheap (not a Csi)...but I'm still gonna buy one and I'm still gonna spend too much money fixing it.

pretty car

I don't know why this is not a GT just like the Jaguar XJS I have loved this car, just beautiful

Jeremy looks great....

"It weighs 2 tones, 4 with a German business man on-board" 😂

@1994clue

6 жыл бұрын

It's true the weight without all liquids are 1955 kg, with oil, water, brake fluid and so on you come easily on 2 tons. That's the reason why it is a GranTourismo not a sports car!

@Clausfarre Which 7000-pounds-car-challenge ?? I never saw it, can you send me a link of it (e.g. on streetfire).

@MartigenLT You realize how much work it would take to convert a country over to LHD? The main reason England does it like that dates back to road systems in the middle ages. Believing you stayed on the left side so you could hold your sword with the right hand.

what year is this video from?

@nobbynobbynoob

6 жыл бұрын

GiveMeThatMango Probably 1992 or 1993.

And for a sensible answer, yes they did sell them in the USA but only around 7000 in 7 years. So basically it's not surprising you never saw one.

Well, I agree it's strange, but perhaps the name "Imperial" might suggest it was started in the UK? Thus it makes sense that we have been slow to adopt more logical standards. However, the majority of our measurements are metric... unlike the US which still sees metric and decimals as an oddity...

all of those camera angles

There were only made 1510 of the 850 csi :/ Have found one but damn its still expensive :D

what year is this car?

@nobbynobbynoob

6 жыл бұрын

John Dube 1992

Just think if you'd held on to them all these years how much more the Porsche Turbo would be worth today than one of these.

She'd appreciate that. It is getting rather a bit dry down there.

What a classic give it to me in red "chars custom version " only a gundam fan would understand lol

Well, for a start there are only 194 countries on earth. According to the article on Wikipedia on the subject, around 1/3 of the world's population live in countries that drive on the left. And the word is adopt, not adapt. And sure, it does make it more expensive, but with RHD as such a big market, all cars these days are designed for either RHD or LHD from the start: presumably the geometry is just switched, and the number of different parts is probably fairly minimal...

Holy mother does he look young.....

yer da

omg! teenage Clarkson!

"a V12 gameboy" Classic Clarkson :)

bmw e39 m5 v8 is a quick one!

1:14 his northern accent briefly and subtly comes through!

top speed ??

@nobbynobbynoob

6 жыл бұрын

JONY GABANATA 250 km/h, or the moon if you chip the limiter. :)

0:56 I'm glad he didn't say American businessman

best bmw ever and forever! i can not listen a person who critish a car before he touch it.he is an lucky man because it has no talent to his job is only has bad comments,really all of them which he say as worse is too bad ?

I'd say that Jeremy ?Clarkson id a refined rocket scientist undercover as a bloody good pommie bastard. O ya J, go 4 it! : )

@MrTitmus

9 жыл бұрын

brrm brrm brrrrrrrrrrrm

RIP Claus Luthe

s17e03 I guess

"V12 Gameboy" :)

@musaedalfadhly9661

6 жыл бұрын

Hi What is the deference between850csi and 850i Thanks

fuck what everyone says, if you have the cash you can make it look, drive, or go the way you want

hahahahahahahaha jeremy how he looked :D

finally. NO TROLLLS!

At least he wouldn't have to take the bus.

2:39 MASSEY FERGUSON 3000

UMAD bro?

But it looks 1 000 000 dollars

@EncrypticMethods

9 жыл бұрын

It does :') not many people would agree with us though...I saw one of these driving down the interstate 5 in California about a year ago, Gorgeous car...

Bmw CSL 3.0

Ever heard of decimeters, centimeters, millimeters? thought so.

good troll!

FFS….Elton John? I need to shift my E31

you should sell material like that. Though tidy up the grammar first.

Yeah UMAD. Trololo

Not all the world being on the same side makes cars more expensive, because carmakers have to make two versions for each side. How many countries drive on the right? Lets say fucking 200 or so, and only about... 15 or 20 drive on the left. Enough said. They should adapt period

why does he hate BMW ??

It is a gorgeous car, but they depreciate mightily, specially compared with Japanese cars of that age. Even a Toyota Supra will be harder and more expensive to get that this BMW (forget about an Acura NSX).

@donkgated8074

9 жыл бұрын

anorvak Huh? Here in Australia there are only 5 BMW 8-series on sale, and none of them are the csi model. Cheapest one, an 840Ci with 270k kms is asking $18,000. I can almost buy 2 RZ Supras for that money! A silly comparison in any case.

@anorvak

9 жыл бұрын

donkgated I was talking about the USA; seriously, who cares how much Australians pay for anything?

@donkgated8074

9 жыл бұрын

anorvak Oh, the grand USA, the nation that owed trillions to the Chinese, can't pay it back and keep adding to it. Anyway, I can only find 1 BMW 850csi in your classifieds, asking $40,000. Meanwhile there are a couple more Toyota Supras, asking around $30,000. So the 850csi as reviewed here is the rarer car.

@buca9696

9 жыл бұрын

anorvak Manual 850CSi are still mightily expensive.

@gerardodelgadoramirez458

9 жыл бұрын

donkgated Thanks for validating my point. What was the asking price of a new 850? How much the Supra? Which got depreciated more? And still, it is easier to get a decent 850 (which were mostly owned by old guys) than a decent Supra.

I wish I knew! this is from the original top gear so it's even harder to find!

@FuckTheLawNiggas I don't drive a 320d.. lol

@PS2Gameplays your argument is invalid.

jeremy used to be entertaining

Is a racs ca silly !!!! 😂🎉

fuck i own a 77k pound car :))

"Heart and soul of Ted Nugent"? The guy who literally crapped himself and walked around in shit caked breeches for days to squirm his way out of the Vietnam War draft? That comparison didn't age well 🤣

машина великолепна, мода говно...

Ahh, you're wonderfully ignorant. South Africa, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Japan are all right-hand drive, to name a few. There are no real disadvantages to being RHD vs LHD... so why change? Do you have any idea how much it would cost to switch side of the road and change all the cars over a few years?

@FuckTheLawNiggas I think you need to go back to school. You obviously never listened in it.

'90s were so bad for clothes and hair.

so bmw copied the mk3 supra?

Gorgeous, but who wants to drive a car that sips 25l/100km?

@jamal.alabri

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Van Buggenhaut I do of it is this Monster

@mosmos2740

3 жыл бұрын

25L / 100kms ... lol... mine is about 34L / 100kms...

who the fuck is Ted Nugent?

Epic fail.

cork?! leave Ireland alone you immense fool