Look at the quality of those leather seats.. They didn't take the abuse well. The saab 9 5 aero leather seats aged better.. Better L hide used

The Corsa B was probably one of the most influent and changing car on the 90's. Here it looks years ahead of the others. And thinking it dominated the sales until the 2000's.

The last Cossie featured has a current MOT! Records imply it was off the road from at least 2005 to 2018. The records may suggest the two F Reg ones were burnt out long ago.

I had an Lreg xr3i 105hp. It was a nice enough car and the pas was appreciated.

I used to tune in for Clarkson’s reviews but I stayed for Wilson’s.

The original top gear, always the best, pure enjoyment.

Never meet your heros, was always a dream of mine, finally drove one, slow (relatively) rubbish handling, awful gearbox and the drive tunnel putting your left leg into a stupid position

The most successful race car ever made rs500

Haha size of those phones 😂

This is shit.

We used to have a J r Reg Sierra in Burgundy

I learnt to drive in a Sapphire Cossie RWD .. 204bhp and 0-60mph in 5.8 seconds .. Diamond white .. beautiful .. xx ♥

Had a couple of V6s. I must say that they were 2 of the most reliable motors I've owned in 30+ years drivibg.

I parked next to one of these today just outside Peterborough.

The Suzuki swift and its variants were the best super minis

Quentin Wilson vs David Mitchell - plus how does inflation and car market change?

4:45 Absolutely Priceless. Absolutely every kid in the back of a Micra:

Starlet should have been in this

Love these, but one word... rust

Right at the bottom of the market I bought a white 3dr for £4250. With mot & tax.

I never did manage to come by one of these all those years ago, but I love to watch these old clips showcasing them. Thanks for the upload. :)

Horrobly uninformative amd pandering. Love it.

Back in the 1990's I used to really look forward to watching Top Gear on then BBC2 analogue television. Quentin Willson always gave good sound advice when buying second hand cars, not only from car auctions but privately & car dealers as well. He had a quick & sharp wit & always to the point if not rather dead pan & dry in his humour! Good old VHS quality but you got those fuzzy lines if you didn't clean your VCR's heads! Thank you for posting.

So out of touch now, he's an ev fan so completely irrelevant...

Back when Peugeot actually made a car that was a car and not the bulbous shapeless box on wheels they produce today.

What a brilliant presenter Quentin was.

Cheaper than a Rolex back in the day. Try and buy one today🤣you need £30-50k to even get near one. But Fast Fords have always been good IMHO!

where clarkon and hammock? and may?!!!1

And to think that all those Sierras ended up in the compactor less than 10 years later... Unworthy.

Ive got a c180 1997 pre facelift with electric windows in the rear and front, wood everywhere, sunroof, air-conditioning, and all of that with 116.300 km on it, has some problems like my righr suspension is squeaky and some other little shits but it's impressively nice car, not really fast but i don't step om the gas anyway so i dont really care 😂

A 1.8 DOING 30MOG IN THEM DAYS HAHAHA SHITE

So informative and interesting - tv really was better in the old days!

Ex Rentals often turn out to be oil burners, and are even known to offer up a spun bearing or two by their 5th birthdays.

Funny how Quentin completely missed out the 524 TD diesel here. Not sayin its the most desirable model n that but I'd have thought that even back then it coulda been worth looking for g8ven diesels were starting to become popular.

Oh, how far the automakers have fallen! 6000 pounds (12k GBP/15K USD in today money) for a car this fun! They charge you 4 times that (or more plus tip please) now!

Metro Dog Sxxt

The auction tips section is good

ahh the price of these nowadays...

When TV was for people with brains

What I used to like about Top Gear, informative, practical and relatable. Even Clarkson was sensible back them. Now, it’s just stupid mid-lifers jeering perfectly good cars, and thrashing unattainable super cars for cheap cheers and ratings. What a joke. Jog on Top Jeer.

Cossu Sierra

The Escort was garbage, look at the cars you'd have missed out on if your choose one.

This is a Sapphire, mine was 28,000 grand english, vecta, leather and in Burgandy. One car l lost money on amongst others.

The ford seirra rs cosworth was a nice car cause you could have a car that wasen,t deer and was as fast as cars like porshe,s.the only thing was they were easy tae hot wire so they were a joy riding car theive,s car of choice tae steel.a thought the ford escort rs cosworth were better looking and was ma dream car when a was in ma early teens when they came out back in the 90s.

In the US it was sold as the Ford Contour. It was a dreadful car. Unattractive by American standards and significantly more expensive than the Ford Tempo it replaced. The rental car interior and mediocre driving dynamics didn’t help matters. Long term reliability must have been poor because I haven’t seen one on the road in many years.

£8-9k, if only in 2024

My 21-year-old Toyota still has its original light bulbs 😅

I never check the oil 😂😂

My brother bought a Volvo XC90 from an auction. It had been a mobility car so it was 3 years old had a full service history and only had 13k miles on it and he only paid £8450 for it.

My first boss had a whale tail cossie silly bugger wrapped it around a lamppost trying to show off.