Only Clarkson can recommend a XJ220 as a second hand bargain.

@SiVlog1989

7 жыл бұрын

to be fair though, for the time, for a car that was originally £415,000 to get one for £150,000 is extraordinary

@lewis72

7 жыл бұрын

...and they are above £300k now.

@JimboRustles

7 жыл бұрын

Eh, that's not much more than general inflation.

@lewis72

7 жыл бұрын

JimboRustles My point was that from £415k to £150k they've held their values. You'd probably do well to get one for £300k now.

@FAT8893

6 жыл бұрын

During those days? Why not. For a supercar that originally cost way over £400k, I would definitely had bought one back then.

That is some good advice on bargain-buying right there. Clarkson's savvy like that: he's the sort of person who would buy tickets to a film at the cinema, cross the street to buy his sweets and cola, and then cross back over to the cinema to watch the film. Try it next time your watching a film, saves you a small fortune.

if the stereo falls off you can always "borrow" one from your fellow's Aston Martin, because you're driving a Jaaaag

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, and as Aston's only ever built one car that's capable of 220mph+, it's not like he can catch you in the Jaag either XD.

I always laugh when the stereo fly's out hahaha

Clarkson drove an XJ220 in The Grand Tour, and the stereo fell out again!!! But seriously, that gorgeous RX-7....... I want it so badly!!!

My right ear got very lonely watching this....

@TheStwat

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@lewis72

7 жыл бұрын

I've set set my laptop to mono !

@AaroMesa

5 жыл бұрын

good to know my surround is working as it should

@darthravo

5 жыл бұрын

Considering I'm watching with a earphone with only left earphone working, can't believe I see this comment 😂

@theelectrichobo829

5 жыл бұрын

OK it's not just me then lol.

'This one can go sideways' Proceeds to drive straight

That honestly seemed like that was the first time that the stereo popped out and he improvised that line, brilliant

thank you for uploading these old top gear videos!!!! Old Top Gear = The BEST Top Gear

RX-7 "These things last" ... Oops.

@rampage3337

5 жыл бұрын

xD.... well atleast the price of it lasted

@RallyLancer95

5 жыл бұрын

Last it was on the road. June 2012

@Tiffany.1970

5 жыл бұрын

Wankel rotary engine as long as the wankel engine is in good order ☻🤪

@23gatesy

5 жыл бұрын

I literally laughed out loud, which never usually happens

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

A good RX-7 is easier to find these days than many Jap' motors of the time, and much better looking.

If I had spent 55k on a V12 BMW I wouldn't be selling it at all even now, I'd be keeping it. I generally prefer that shape of BMW anyway to anything they've made since but that's just me.

@ANYTHING-AND-EVERYTHING.

3 жыл бұрын

You would need a 2nd income just to fuel it.

@ANYTHING-AND-EVERYTHING.

3 жыл бұрын

Surely if the jaguar did not have the engine and specification promised the customers should have had no problem getting deposit refunded.

Too bad the Mazda RX7 has gotten very popular in the recent years and many of the available cars have nasty bodykits and spoilers. Why ruin a beautiful car?

@cumnmrmptaaa4234

2 жыл бұрын

It's especially bad now

@Robdutton91

Жыл бұрын

Because people enjoy these things? Let them enjoy them

I love that 750i E32 with sport leather seats. The Calypsorot colour looks brilliant too. Simply beautiful.

@nutsackmania

8 жыл бұрын

+E34Benzin we get it you wack your minidong to bmws

@E34Benzin

8 жыл бұрын

I will, go and get you, some nice, crayons...

@sbomorse

8 жыл бұрын

+nutsackmania knobhead

Clarkson wasn't kidding. Last November, I bought a 2006 BMW 750i with 115,000 miles on it for $10,200. After taxes, it was around $85,000 new.

@MKRM27

6 жыл бұрын

ridcom You know why so cheap... because no one else wanted to pay more for it. You didn’t get a bargain, you paid the most it was worth.

Jag still looks very sexy for a car designed in 1988!

The XJ220 is genuinely my favourite supercar of all time.

this is priceless 8:20

@edgarbeat275

7 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha wow

What a steal that xj was.

XJ220...was my childhood poster supercar...

As a weekend car, yes, second-hand luxury barges are serious bang for buck... but only as weekend car, not daily

That Citroën is now worth ten quid....

@egykilenckilenchet

6 жыл бұрын

It's worth ten quid cause it's a citroen, not cause it's a bad car. Citroens have always been ridiculous value for the price because people think they're all money traps because of the few ones with problematic hydro suspension. Source: driving a 98 xsara for years with next to no problems which i bought for about a bag of crisps worth.

@PresidentCamacho2024

6 жыл бұрын

a bag of crisps?, that much?, you've been scammed

@egykilenckilenchet

6 жыл бұрын

says who? cars been running fine under me, clocked 50k kms on it 250k-300k, no major problems, 10 times the space in the Break than comparably priced germans, really comfortable ride... besides the rear torsion suspension this car has 0 issues. the 8v engine is impossible to kill and the headgasket can be replaced for like 100gbp inc labor on the TU3 engine. This car costs nothing to run and has much more space and ride quality than anything else in the price range.

@dankatz5224

6 жыл бұрын

egykilenckilenchet yeah agreed, I have a 1993 2.1 diesel XM and a 2000 3.0 V6 (ES9 24 valve) with all the bodywork and interior converted to series 1 (pre-'94) spec. The diesel's done a quarter million miles, the V6 half that. The diesel gets me 55mpg on the motorway and actually has low end torque, unlike a modern diesel. Sounds like a tractor though. The V6 is wonderful. They are such stylish cars, certain to be future classics in my opinion.

@mendozerosu3041

5 жыл бұрын

10p for parts 😂

Those car prices, I don't know what people were thinking

As I write there are 5 for sale online in 2019 for £500,000. Incredible all these years later.

got a 405 grdt with 251000 miles on the clock and stil going strong

XJ220 tearing around the Brecon roads in South Wales... they are lots of fun :D

The gas pedal isn't used to make the car go. It's actually the radio eject lever.

My left ear really enjoyed this

...That 605 looks excellent, I wonder if it's still on the road though. Here in my country, Perú, you still can see many 605's. I have a 1995 SRi 2.0 with the engine rebuilt and runs like a champ. Most of the 605's here are in regular shape, though there are some great examples without any cracks in the dashboard, which is almost imposible in this car.

my left ear enjoyed this

ha ha, good luck finding an XJ220 'cheap' now!

Many people who had the chance to buy the XJ220 cheap and just stick it in a garage under a sheet for a few decades must be kicking themselves now with how much they're now worth.

@garyzhang5099

5 жыл бұрын

Chalky instead, they use the money to buy a house, and it now worth 2*XJ220.

Say what you will, but my dream car is a Savana RX-7 with the engine replaced by a finished twin-rotar engine, unlike the one that's actually in it.

the second hand price for this mazda rx-7 remains that one in 98' LOL :)) now they are expensive as shit can't touch a good one !

@TheRealEmile

9 жыл бұрын

Plus aswell the fact that they all have hideous bodykits on them...

@Paul_Zernick

5 жыл бұрын

Sad but true. Just checked. Only 53 rx7s of all genes on sale. Prices went up fast after scrolling past the shit boxes. Up to $75kAU in fact. Avg maybe $35-45k for a decent one. $50k+ for a minter.

@wizardrhyme9597

5 жыл бұрын

We had one here in good shape almost stock a few years ago for 25k usd

0:36 AKA the reason why most modern convertibles have powered tops :)

@MichaelD8393

8 жыл бұрын

nutsackmania Hey I just meant it as a joke.

@MichaelD8393

8 жыл бұрын

nutsackmania No.

XJ220 is the most beautiful Jaguar road car ever made...

@stephenboulton1347

3 жыл бұрын

100 percent agree

@eepyautumn

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, the E Type, XK120 and XK 4.2 all look better. The 220 looks cool, not beautiful though.

Flying radio! The quality mark of a true Jaguar! lol

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

More like the G Force count thereof :P .

Clarkson talking about money saving tips in a jumper and jacket - quite tickled, remember this from my early teens!

Amazingly the same thing that happened to that Jag happened to the Bugatti Veyron, it went on sale a few years before the worst financial crisis since the great depression

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of, though the Credit Crunch was far worse than the '90's rescession.

Well... I get you can save a fair amount of money by buying a 3-5 year old car instead of a brand new one. But tbh, I rather save a lot and buy a 20~ year old car. As sad as it is, I don't think car industry really did not much for the average people in the last 20 years. Between 85 and 95, Anti-Lock Brakes, Airbags, Injection and protection against corrosion (sorry for my english) became standard. Now from 95 on, what did we get? Engines got smaller, cars got heavier, fuel consumption claims became totally unrealistic, lots of "omg it's going to save your life" things like traction control, xenon lights etc. I doubt anybody thinks back at his e36, Audi 80 etc. and is glad to have survived it. You can get a "premium brand", well-runing, save car from the early-mid 90s with a decently powerful engine for less than 1000€. And this car will also save you (assuming insurance in your country works the same way it does in germany) a fortune on insurance. I got a '92 Audi 80 2.8E V6 with 220k km for less than 500€, the car is quite a save bet to reach 300k km, well maintained ones even reach more than 500k km, it doesn't rust and parts are (in germany, if the car is rare in your country, parts will be more expensive - quattros are also fairly expensive if something happens to the transmission or exhaust system) really cheap. Without driving slow, it uses between 10 and 12 L fuel on 100km. By comparsion, a new Golf VII with the 140PS 1.4L TSI (Turbo), which weights just slightly less (50kg or so), which accelerates slightly (~half a second) slower and has a slightly (about 10 km/h) lower topspeed, needs about 8 Liters (despite the very optimistic claims of 5.4L, which it reached with special oil, tires you would't even put on a 50ps car... on a dyno without wind or idiots that cut you off and force you to brake) - and it has 6 or 7 (depending on transmission) Gears rather than the Audi's 5, which leads to another minus on the golf's 1.4L firecracker: The Elasticity from 80-120 takes 5.6 seconds in the Audi, Golf with 6 Gears takes 7 seconds, Golf with 7 Gears 8.5. I'm not saying the Audi is better than the Golf because it's faster, accelerates better etc. as it's somewhat doubtable that a 20year+ car still has all it's horses alive and reaches the times within tens of a second. I'm also not a Driver who has to to go all-out to impress anybody. - But I also think IF I have to pay a decent amount of money for tax/insurance, the car I pay this for shouldn't be just something like a 65PS 1-ton Kia Picanto which has to fear ambitioned truck drivers. Note: PS differs just very slightly from HP, but I don't have the HP-Numbers in my Head, so I wrote the right PS ones rather than just translating PS into HP and use Numbers that would seem odd for those used to HP.

Showing my age....I remember watching this on the telly on the beeb.

Wow the Jaguar XJ220 is so nice :)

The xj220 is still beautiful, can't deny that

150 thousand for an xj220 you'll never see that again also the fact it depreciated that much is odd also even tho it had a v6 and not much of what was promised still a great buy tho I would love to modify one to what jaguar promised like awd the v12 and the doors and i think the top speed but you'd need a good understanding of what you were doing and alot of money and not a tonne of feeling for keeping rare cars stock but that would be an interesting project car and some achievement

They didn't look too bad, just like a bigger 405, the early ones had electrical issues, like the early xm's but i think later ones had that all solved. Id love to get a v6 605, the 607 just looks so awkward.

The Rover 800 was not and is not a dreadful car. Even the 2.0 is fast for the weight of the car and the ride and comfort is fantastic.

@chrisredfield3240

4 жыл бұрын

The 2.0 engine was a real performer but mine did tend to overheat rather a lot 820 sli

@Glenn1967ful

2 жыл бұрын

Clarkson hated Rovers, even when cars like the 200 and 600 were actually very good. I had a Honda engined 200 that was completely faultless and only rust killed it at 11 years old. Sister had a diesel 400 that went forever and was only scrapped after a crash rendered it worthless. I think he equated everything they made with the Allegro.

That xj220 is in the millions now

It's so they can say "hey poor person......look what I can afford when I feel like it!". I agree with you though that buying new is just throwing hard earned money away.

That Jag though....

I think this was my dad's inspiration for buying his used bmw 735i in about 1998. It was a lot of car for the money

@paulanderson79

5 жыл бұрын

735i is also much cheaper to run than the V12. Even a 728i straight six model isn't frightfully under-powered. It's not meant to be a racing car after all.

Bought my £31k new mondeo titainium-x 163ps powershift estate with many extra's 2 years old for £10k. Just coming up to 7 years old now and nothing has gone wrong. Just had to do the rear pads cost me £53 for OEM still on the same tyres as when i got it

@rarevhsuploads4995

5 жыл бұрын

Bought my 18yr old MkII Mondeo Ghia X for £380 a year ago. Everything still works on it including all the Ghia X extras & it's passed its MoT for another year. It's in pristine condition & looks like a new car. Luxury motoring on a budget, it's also reasonable on fuel economy because it's only a 2L. Insurance is cheap too. I think getting a car on HP or lease is madness.

@chrisredfield3240

5 жыл бұрын

Rare VHS uploads hp just means you pay even more because buying the car and buying the money. Lease would only work if you can offset it against a company or part of work. If you do 3-4k a month you may as well lease

😅🔫 When Jeremy said the RX-7 was reliable….

2:05 my feelings exactly for the RX-7

The XJ220 has Rover R8 rear lights.

@KarlHamilton

5 жыл бұрын

It has a metro engine.

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

A Metro 6R4 engine*. The latter detail is key, rather like a Peugeot 205 Diesel vs a 205 Turbo. TWR turned a fairly everyday 3.5L Austin-Rover V6 engine, into a twin-turbocharged 550HP & 330+ lb/ft of torque producing firespitting powerhouse. (that was actually more powerful in practice than contemporary engines with twice the cylinders & liters)

tnx man one of my fav

And just look how much XJ220's are worth now !!

You could have bought 3 XJ220s for just a little more than the price of one back then. What an investment that would have been...

Try getting a high milage XJ220 now close to that £150k price or even the original asking price!

The 405 is a very pretty car 👌

The XM is going up in value, the later ones are fetching £5k in the UK.

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

Still really boring though (even the name was boring), a poor relation to the delightfully bonkers CX.

150,000 pennies?! Wow, well worth it.

"it doesnt have a racing pedigree"...apart from the engine deriving from a Cosworth DFV and was developed by TWR. Nice though and love the 605!

Hearing in the left hear is nice...

The wheels on that Bmw don't look new at all

@steu.k.6114

7 жыл бұрын

lee nevin. It was set up

@23gatesy

5 жыл бұрын

They never did, especially with OEM brake pads

“this one can go sideways” cue shot of car not going sideways.

Andy Wilman posing as the BMW owner!

150 grand...and a no scraws holding in the radio...yeah Jeremy always gives good advice...lol...

@fasthracing

5 жыл бұрын

Scraw what the fuck is a scraw?

The funniest thing is that Rx7s are still going for around 20k. Hell some are way upwards of that!

1 XJ220 for sale today on Autotrader for £455k

I want a XJ220!!!

For looks alone I would buy the xj 220 over an f1 and for value with performance xj220 still would win only thing I would change a xj220 is the rims

@nutsackmania

8 жыл бұрын

+kieran simpson you are an idiot

@k1er4n544

8 жыл бұрын

Your mum's a what

@k1er4n544

7 жыл бұрын

nutsackmania​​ and you sir looked like you was born in the toilet damn you Look like shit am I not allowed a opinion kid or loser whatever you are just go home you're drunk 

Er, sounds like a looked after example? Probably wants the front wishbones and bushes replaced all round, most likely they would pass an MOT as is but it'll tighten the handling up a bit. Pay attention to cleaning the arches too, they love a bit of bubbling there. Think I'll be selling my one soon, running a bike was way cheaper.

Jeremy Clarkson with another Top Gear Top Tip with the Jaguar XJ220 there.

I saw a V12 BMW or Mercedes at a police auction block sell for $7,000. Not bad.

What toaster model did you use to record this? :)

@tyraela115

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA The Cylon kind ... :)

Ahhh Clarkson, bless him. Never had a fucking clue about cars though.

@fpm1979

8 жыл бұрын

mark rainford I have always had the impression he only quoted what others had written or said about cars.

when Jeremy tested the Rover 800, he liked it, why is he now calling it dreadful?

@popindosin228

3 жыл бұрын

Cause he's Jeremy Clarkson

And now an XJ220 goes for ~600K €

lol rx7's last XD

@Bhong666

8 жыл бұрын

cartzar I did choke on my coffee when he said that... Rather have a Soarer with a 2J!! :P

@Bhong666

8 жыл бұрын

cartzar ...or a 1J ofcourse! Oops just checked your vids! :D Very, very nice!

@cheesyeurotrance95

7 жыл бұрын

that was funny lmao

@HamsterWheelGaming

4 жыл бұрын

They do if you replace the 4 million vacuum lines frequently lol

And if you bought the xj220 it would now be worth over a million. Food for thought

Having money and being intelligent are not necessarily synonymous. Plenty of stupid people have money, and vise versa, plenty of brilliant people are dirt poor.

Just for fun I tried to find examples of the cars Jeremy mentioned to see what they would be worth today: BMW 750: about 20k for a good one Mazda RX7: about 30k XM break: most of them have rotted away by now, but I found a few at around 1000 pounds Rover 800: 1000 or so, again if you can find one Peugeot 605: 1000 XJ 220: There are a few for sale but they don't list the prices for these. If you want to know you can't afford them...

@dimashevchenkoua

2 күн бұрын

The rot on the XMs wasn't that bad - dodgy electrics is what killed most.

Jaguar will be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds now in 2019

luv the bmw 7 series and the pug 605 the rover is smart too

''That won't happen in a Nissan micra'' That because the micra's radio is still wired in ;)

WOW is that what an RX-7 looks like ? wouldn't have known since everyone changes them...

Haha. 36% residual for a 4 year old 7 series would be a pipe dream these days.

Are they way more or way less?

Yeah, but without them, we'd have no used cars to buy.

nowadays you can get some of those cars for a few hundred pounds.

The XJ220 must give some idea of what it's like to manoeuvre an office block... From the view of filing cabinet. In reference to Clarkson referencing how the "220 is too big and the interior is too small,"

Mazda RX-7 best car here !!!!!! hard now though to buy a really good one for cheap. if it was back then I probably would have an RX-7 !!! my friend still has one, he has had since it was almost new. amazing cars. although he did tune his up quite a lot. lol

Top-tip : V12 vs straight six: double-trouble triple-cost

The failure of the XJ220 is why I think the new Ford GT will be crap. Turbo V6s aren't under the hood of very many cars that are selling for more than they cost new. The McLaren F1, last Ford GT, the BMW Z8, Porsche Carrara GT and on and on and on.

@jimtaylor294

4 жыл бұрын

The Ford GT had a rubbish engine from start to finish. It drinks fuel but has crap performance. At least the original GT40's vast engine paid off with plenty of power. The XJ220 by comparison remains a V12 slaying speed machine, being significantly faster than the quad-turbo v12 Bugatti EB110, and having repeatedly beaten the more expensive and ostensibly more powerful Pagani Zonda, in standing quarter mile races.

i have peugeot 605 2.5 tdi 96 year whit 650 000 km

im not sure if the rx7 it can goes 0-60 in 5 sec with the hand brake up : 2:57

@rock3tcat soooo true, i've never wanted to own a car older than 1995, not 100% bullet proof but i like working on it, the simple fact that i can work on it is a crucial factor. i finally bought a new car in 2009, it seems like the newest car i've ever owns is constantly at the dealer for dealer only repairs. Im so glad for the extended warranty. How am i suppose to do a TCM reflash, TPMS code program, VGRS initialization, or afford a network ECU. It seems like 2004 and up, all cars are sh*t

yeah...you are right. The power to weight of a Wankel is pretty good, and they seem to rev with the ease of a sewing machine...but every 1 I've know that has had an RX7 ends up selling it when the miles add up. No matter how many times you change the oil and put synthetic in it, does not seem to matter. Reminds me of Subaru and VW/Porsche flat 4 and 6 engines...can't stand the sound of piston slap they make when the miles get to a certain point..they sound like a lawn mower.

Surely if you put your foot down and the radio falls out it's a fault?

ALOT more. A good 220 these days is a cool half a mil (that's pounds sterling).

I always buy XKR jaguar for around 20k only from main dealer i warranty it for 3 years and then sell i always get 7k for the car maybe more so 13k to run a car that cost 65k why buy new its just not sence