Jeremy Clarkson Really Likes Italy’s Speed Limits | The Jonathan Ross Show

There's a ton of things Jeremy Clarkson loves about Europe, and Italy's speed limits are certainly one of them.
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Season 7, Episode 8
Original Broadcast Date: 6 December 2014
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[@elninotm]

This is so true. I was in Italy and not just that there was no speed limit signs but neither police or Italians knew what was the limit when I asked. I was driving 4000km around Italy and some 100km before I reached Slovenia I realised what are actually speed cameras. I was pretty sure it's going to become a lot more expensive trip but no, I actually got no fines or tickets

[@Gentleman...Driver]

There are a lot of signs. Everrywhere, and a lot of speed cameras as well (and fake ones for some reason). But nobody cares actually. There are rarely pedestrians on the main streets of a village or little town or something. They all know to avoid it. Even some cyclist like it when you have a nice car and you overtake them. Autostrada has become a little more strict, tho. And I wouldnt recommend to go too fast as a tourist. Just stick to the locals, drive behind one. They are flashing all the time to the left to signal that they want to go faster but somebody is blocking him. So there is no need to be on their bumper. Italians always go as fast as their car allows it. If you have a nice, sporty car you may get away with speeding. Happened to me a few times that the cops just wanted to see the car, and then told me to go faster, or at one time they wanted to see if they can catch me on a mountain road with their Punto police car (which had a rear spoiler).

[@Gentleman...Driver]

@@mattiathegenie Last summer (2020).

[@elninotm]

@@mattiathegenie 2 years ago

[@alessiocataldi2434]

4000 km ? Omg did u circumnavigate italy ?

[@Gentleman...Driver]

@@alessiocataldi2434 I did this with the whole of Europe in one trip. :) Over 12,500 km in 5 weeks, 12 countries.

[@reececollison5101]

“Don’t you think Paella is just rice with a bin bag emptied in it?” - the legend that is Jeremy Clarkson

[@willgibson8970]

Paul mccartney and Miranda's reaction ahhahahah

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

They are either shocked,or want to laugh but are suppressing it, because it comes of as rude XD

[@Stormyweld05]

I could listen to these two all day. Love them!

[@nothajzl]

Such a legend!

[@keepgoing1973]

Both of them

[@Vylkeer]

Well, to be fair, there isn’t a speed limit in Germany either. So we’re following their lead. Only difference is that it was legally approved there while here we just formally removed it ourselves. 🇮🇹

[@federicovallati]

it wasnt legally approved in Italy, that's pure bs, speed limits exists and are observed

[@Vylkeer]

@@federicovallati r/woosh

[@federicovallati]

@@Vylkeer oops

[@valentin0000]

@@Vylkeer well many years ago there actually weren't any speed limits for Germans (and I guess other people on their vacation) in Italy, at least when driving 10 to 20 km/h too fast. The police would just let you go to not ruin your holiday. :) Not the case anymore :p

[@beelot1511]

the last time italy and germany got together.... lots of people died, just saying.

[@warrenb9343]

I'm in Italy now. I have asked numerous locals the speed limit on some roads, they don't know. There are orange speed camera huts all over. I've walked by several and there is NOTHING in them. I've gone 80km in a 50km zone and still get passed by cars even with solid white lines and some have passed me in left-turn lanes. At 145km on the Auto Strata, they are still passing me. Tailgating is the norm too. Fun times!

[@MadnessIncVP]

2:16 Jeremy’s _”Oh Fuuuuuu”_ face.

[@marcomorana]

Jeremy un vero Italiano e Alfista and the best of English humor

[@pedrodavid9079]

3:20 Martin Freeman looks like a kid having fun listening to his two cool uncles

[@Rickenbacker325]

Two top blokes!

[@Mr182airwaves]

paella is an arabic word "bakaya" that means leftovers back in islamic spain kings or rich people used live some of their food to their servants to take home mosltly chiken and rice they mix that later with vegetable for tourists is a fancy dish but its just like any leftovers

[@90skid97]

The Spanish word paella means the round frying an in which it is made. It may have it's roots in middle eastern cuisine but everywhere it says it's a very traditional Valencian dish. I'm not Spanish but I know they grow a lot of rice in that region. Either way the Spanish islamic period started over a millennia ago, most of their traditions and culture today are very much rooted in Spain, with a twist of Arabic here and there.

[@Toby_Bartlett]

@@90skid97 It’s the Catalan word for pan I believe (Valencian is a dialect of Catalan)

[@uhforja]

@@Toby_Bartlett You just angered the whole Valencian community. They consider it the other way around.

[@JDforlife09]

Nope it comes from the Latin word 'Patella', which means a small flat pan

[@90skid97]

@@JDforlife09 sure but so does most European language words, the spanish Paella means that specific pan, therefore from spanish language, every word has an origin somewhere else

[@valentin0000]

"Please welcome Jewemy Clahksn"

[@andersongames0237]

Jonathan woss

[@christianbigdawg2481]

Jeremy looks well considering all the health complications, big up

[@koopa1231]

Hi, unfortunately this video is from 2014, (although Jeremy was also on the show recently)

[@ladderman2255]

Yeah this was a while ago

[@JJJackson777]

still though, he looks good for a million cigarettes

[@christianbigdawg2481]

Pneumonia and covid too😂😂

[@idreeskhan8885]

He's 54 here yet looks 74.

[@_MD_D]

Ahhh there's nothing like British humor

[@onlyme9254]

0:48 "nigel fawage!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-sk7wt9dv3d]

He did say germany 😂

[@c_holding8564]

He called it top gear lol

[@studentgamer1232]

This was filmed in 2014, back then Clarkson used to be on a show called Top Gear.

[@c_holding8564]

@@studentgamer1232 Yeah I know that he was on top gear, I assumed he meant the grand tour and that this was recent

[@1Chasg]

It's on old clip silly billy.

[@Xenuos]

why was it re-uploaded so recently? I thought they were referring to the top gear split with the news story thingy, but then again that was also ages ago so idk looked new which is weird

[@lucadepa.]

se fosse vero quello che ha detto, mio padre con tutti i soldi che ha speso in multe sarebbe ricco😂

[@lordomiotek]

I was so confused when he said top gear but then i clocked this is from like 2015

[@muhammadharisrehman6239]

Waiting guests are just British cream 🔥

[@1799JG]

In Italy there are speed limits, ask to all the drivers that get tons of fines everyday :)

[@jesperPLZ]

Bc no one does them hahahah. It’s almost more dangerous to do the speed limit than to just go 40 over and follow the flow of traffic

[@MauroNigro]

it would be nice but that story isn't true. speed limit is 130 km/h and all speed traps on highway works perfectly since 2002.

[@msbarsi]

Yeah unfortunately :(

[@mo-hammadabunaser1367]

That spanish dish is named after an arabic word "Baqaya" which literally means "Left-overs"

[@christobalev3246]

bollocks

[@mo-hammadabunaser1367]

@@christobalev3246 bollocks is based on an Arabic word too

[@christobalev3246]

@@mo-hammadabunaser1367 loool

[@pouyamohammadi6996]

Did I just see sir Paul Mccartney in the back without being the main subject of the show?????? Wtf?

[@beejeepacha]

This is the format for the show. Other guests wait in the back

[@thestig7603]

+

[@550mads]

“We were filming Down there this year” Might be a Hint for the next GT special

[@theiceman211]

They were referring to the brand new the perfect road trip (which is an old top gear special, the description says it was filmed in 2014) so unfortunately it’s not a GT Special, although it would be nice

[@RobbinVenema]

Lol. Paul McCartney has brown hair in video. It was filmed a long time ago.

[@Owen_157]

They have already filmed one it’s in editing rn

[@alexandermavrogiannis356]

He should also consider the speed limits and parking in Greece! Pretty much the same and even more comfortable xD

[@wozz91]

What are you on about ?

[@joshfontanella]

Una faccia una razza 🇮🇹🇬🇷

[@reececollison5101]

Anything goes in Greece 😂😂 my other half is from Athens so we go a lot. We all went in a car and squeezed 4 people in the back seat, even drove past a policeman and didn’t bat an eyelid 😂

[@FloppyTain]

I heard germany aswell

[@nafisrahman5791]

Why Is this being recommended to me now. Just after we lost against Italy in the finals. KZbin trying to rub it in 😔

[@mirkoferrari8008]

In italy we love this man

[@dinointhetube]

Jonathan and Jeremy could have a brilliant chat show with With will smith jeremys lover lol

[@whitedog303]

Think you mean will young 😄🤦🏻‍♂️

[@mauroprendushi5629]

Is funny because is true

[@lorisperfetto6021]

Paul mccartney surprised me

[@bootitup6927]

Paul McCartney trying to hide a laugh.

[@youcannotseeme]

Loool jonathan!

[@alessandroconti343]

Guess what. In italy there are speed limits. It amazes me how the world see us.

[@stevenotch7324]

The only people driving the speed limit on our highways are truckers and small hatchback drivers. We basically got a worse maintained discount autobahn that you have to pay to get in

[@marantamil459]

Jeremy isn't racist. He just takes the piss. Comparing him to Farage is just disrespectful.

[@Ironbuket]

Shocking how many people still cant make the distinction between Europe and the EU (1:10). Europe is a continent, made up of a collection of nations. The EU is a private members club.

[@Al-of3zp]

Oh Jonathan woss

[@khanage360]

Wait is it true, Italy has no speed limits?

[@stefanomarchi3542]

No, we have them, we just don't respect them a lot

[@ChaosZero.]

On highways (or motorways as they're called in some countries), the speed limit is 130km/h, but speed cameras are placed on big gantries that you can see from a mile away, so you know when you're about to get close to one and can just slow down, pass under it at the speed limit and then accelerate again. Another trick (I've never tried it myself, but I was told it does work sometimes) is to stay in the middle of the road right across the dotted white line. That's because the cameras are set up to only take photos if they detect you going too fast in your lane, but if you're sitting on top of the dotten line in between two lanes, you technically trigger both cameras at the same time, but the software used for this cannot do copy and paste stuff, so the police legally can't just have two photos of you with only half your car in them, crop them and merge them together to read your license plate, thus the speed ticket is considered void and can't be notified to you for a fine. This is not as easy to do as it sounds though, you have to be exactly in the middle, which you can't always do while you're driving on a highway, especially if it's busy with a lot of traffic. And then of course most cars nowadays have sat navs, so you can download 3rd party maps for free (to replace the ones that come from your manufacturer) which are updated quarterly with the location of speed cameras, speed limits, road works and the like.

[@cosminmihu9963]

Every latin country is the same. In Romania as well. It's 130. We just drive how we want. If you use Waze and watch for police you get away with much faster speed. I cross a 150 km section of highway at constant 220-250 kph when I'm in a hurry :)).

[@onlyme9254]

English low speed motorway cars go niooooow. Italian motorways cars go ciaooooooooooooow!

[@lukosterrio]

Fucking hero

[@thijskennis8757]

He said Top Gear 😂😂😂

[@jonnysupreme]

Old video nobhead

[@agastbody]

2014

[@francaperotti5934]

Italy has plenty speed limits.

[@davidlynch9049]

I think it was a joke about the unfettered corruption in Italy.

[@LehySnek]

@@davidlynch9049 Thanks, because an italian needs to be reminded of that.

[@francaperotti5934]

@@LehySnek italian drivers have less accidents the in the UK fact because they know how to drive fact.

[@francaperotti5934]

@@davidlynch9049 why doesnt the English look at there own Country for the curruption instead of looking at other Counties.

[@herewardthewake5433]

@@francaperotti5934 Why can't you take a joke?

[@niguel4438]

Jezza for PM

[@waynetowers5046]

Jeremy not being able to work out the difference between the EU and Europe... 🤦‍♂️ Still, love the guy.

[@lordmiraak8991]

He knows the difference yet he supports both. Being in the eu gives freedom of movement across a hole lot of europe and thats why people always say im pro europe. They want to visit the place easily and as seen by brexit getting out of the eu complicates travel.

[@Beniu19892]

What was the word Jeremy heard as wanker?

[@arthurdownes5198]

Writer I think mate

[@Beniu19892]

@@arthurdownes5198 Cheers

[@fifthof1795]

how old is this...we've left the EU .

[@shanehealy204]

Filmed in 2014

[@franciscojosedasilvapereir27]

British people mocking Spanish food "Paella looks like shit". Goes home to eat shit..

[@invernessfan3017]

Comedy.

[@yaskhan2443]

I don't like Jonathan woss

[@anangrycat86]

You're still a European Jeremy, that's what continent we are from. I love you Jezza but not being controlled by beuracrats in Brussels doesn't stop you being a European.

[@gayleralan]

Just by unelected Lords

[@philbarrett3739]

I was just about to comment something similar 👌🏼

[@jono3929]

By Europe they mean the EU.

[@harisadu8998]

It's almost as if no one was European until the EU came into being.

[@olamsoevik]

No you are just a thrid country now which means that you people can't move as freely within the EU. Also, the UK had a bunch of exemptions when they were in the EU. You've basically shot yourselves in the foot by leaving the EU.

[@AB-vi8zl]

Jeremy's mannerisms are irritating here, he seems so uncomfortable