Making The World’s Worst Electric Car | Top Gear Classic

[@TopGearClassic]

what other car deserves a moustache?

[@JimiJohn-c3k]

BMW X3

[@cheften2mk]

John

[@peterrow1129]

Any EV

[@sebastiantschatordai]

BMW 7 series

[@GTI1dasOriginal]

A white Lamborghini Countach. About 15 years ago I put one on in photoshop and named it "the Coustache". Try it. You'll see I'm right.

[@lego501stTrigger]

>"Aluminum is a wonderful material to work with because it bends" >Car is entirely flat another classic Clarkson build

[@nyChannel09]

The edges are bent 90 degrees in many places.... To bend doesnt mean it has to have curves. You can bend something to have nice sharp angles too... Think before you comment pls xD

[@theexchipmunk]

@@nyChannel09 No they aren`t. Those are steel angle pieces he bolted the unbend sheets too.

[@nyChannel09]

@@theexchipmunk I sais some

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

best part is aluminum doesn't bend, it cracks, although sheets of it are way more pliable.

[@comethiburs2326]

@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 oh so classic birdcage ferraris are made of italian hopes and prayers? 😅 hand shaping aluminium and rivetting it on was the way racecars were built for decades.

[@Chanannagins]

"Don't put your finger on it" "I wasn't going to" Clarkson was absolutely going to

[@revelare_xvii6269]

They literally predicted the Cybertruck.

[@dmitri2046]

musk 100% watched this

[@Gordanovich02]

Clarkson: Crudely cuts out pieces of bodywork from sheets of metal Musk: Write that down! Write that down!

[@Artofficial1986]

It's alarming how similar they look - like for real no joke they look alike!

[@loneliberation3483]

Elon clearly saw this episode at one point, and decided to steal the idea.

[@lucaswilson1701]

this is better

[@JeffOfTheMountains]

I do love their creativity regarding the safety tests.

[@Kiyoone]

Just... like... Tesla...

[@hyperixz]

@@Kiyoone but better!

[@bod-7268]

Tua KOOL!

[@Djolerized]

I remember watching this episode when it was originally aired. In my country, it was aired at about 2 p.m. on Saturday and then reprised in the evening at 2 a.m. So, I remember returning from night out, and watching this at 2 a.m. I was laughing so hard that I woke my mom and sister. All three of us were sitting, laughing and watching this marvelous technical achievement. Thank you Top Gear!

[@space_monkey99]

sweet memory...i would've gotten an ass whooping instead

[@thekraken1173]

I remember watching it and laughing with my dad

[@Mart77]

This whole episode is pure gold

[@southafricancarlover8666]

Everyone had the wrong jobs, Richard in charge of safety, James in charge of speed and power, and Jeramy in charge of design.

[@luka-cc9lz]

that's the point

[@TomoG4ch4_Alan94]

Actual right jobs: Jeremy: Speed and Power James: Safety Richard: Design Sorry about this

[@Vaginaninja]

Almost as if the entire thing is scripted 😮

[@strangelee4400]

@@TomoG4ch4_Alan94 So...we would end up with a Saturn 5 rocket engine strapped to a wooden Morgan completely smothered in bubble wrap.

[@MrJedroi258]

Chasis did good

[@rifkyfahrana1141]

Geoff, a masterpiece of machinery that inspire what we call now a "Cybertruck"

[@valerius39]

cyberdump a little bit more polished :)

[@soundseeker63]

​@@valerius39 Yes, but only a little. And for it's asking price, it really should be better.

[@kayagorzan]

If only the Cybertruck had three-abreast seating and a roof box

[@wisam111]

Nay the cyber truck is a cheap copy of Geoff

[@sirbachelorboredmen1314]

In British fashion, it's Cybertruck Mark 1

[@Sharion.Inuyatt]

One of my favorite episodes ever, I love the crash test part.

[@jtlampsu2]

Mine too, especially the weight test, "!!tou kool" 😂😆😂

[@tommarino69]

"ow my chest" 😂

[@n.widiastomo5124]

@@jtlampsu2 loo kout!

[@juliogonzo2718]

I'm assuming it didn't do very well in the crash test

[@matthewmuir8884]

@@juliogonzo2718 They blatantly cheated at the crash tests in hilarious ways.

[@virtualstatman]

0:26 Hammond clearly already suffered a few electric shocks judging by his hair

[@virtualstatman]

Rod Stewart wants his haircut back

[@jebdunkins6796]

Hammond's haircut is how you date a top gear episode Or you look at how fat/bald Jeremy is

[@hatmanf133]

Is this actually the legendary f1 statistician, Sean Kelly?

[@lesliesawyer674]

⁠@@hatmanf133 I can confirm, with absolute certainty, he IS the legendary F1 statistician Sean Kelly 👍🏻

[@virtualstatman]

@@hatmanf133 It’s an F1 statistician called Sean Kelly, that much is true :)

[@calvinthomas3543]

1:14 "The Tesla uses 6831 batteries. But, that seems a bit excessive to me. So, to save weight and money I'm going to use 2 batteries." Reminds me of Zambia's space program 😂😂

[@spacecadet35]

Hey, that was a space programme to put a man on the moon.

[@DeadlyLazer]

4:41 always found it funny how Jeremy tried to close the door like it was a normal car door, forgetting it's a wooden latch door

[@lucaswilson1701]

I never noticed that haha

[@charlie-j4o7u]

You know the BBC hates the fact that Top Gear Classic gets more views than the new 'Top Gear'

[@orwellboy1958]

I watched half of the first (new top gear), I think I've watched every episode of this Top Gear at least three times and will continue.

[@Fortzon]

BBC hates *checks notes* their own channel. God I love you conspiracy theorists, you still live in Clarkson vs. BBC era that you forgot to notice the verified mark. If they actually still hated the original trio they wouldn't have made this channel this year and if Top Gear Classic was a fan channel, they would just DMCA all these clips.

[@TheShattan]

BBC allowed Grand tour (obviously for money) to use their Top Gear clips, so Im pretty sure they are on okayish terms now. Probably uploaded all of these to cash in on people feeling nostalgic

[@conor7154]

They don’t care. You spend more time thinking about them than they do.

[@conor7154]

@@FortzonThese people probably watch the god awful grand tour episode that didn’t feature a single car and just had James may fake exploding over and over and force themselves to smile and laugh. Their entire personality is based around being mad at the BBC.

[@vipermax3790]

and this is just a normal episode in the old top gear, not special, just a "normal" entertaining masterpiece of the trio

[@FFLORO_45]

Hilariously, you can check this car's status on UK's gov website - it's SORN, but shows up as a white TVR with 'electricity' as its fuel type and last registration is from 2020

[@vaska00762]

The MOT history states it's a Green TVR Chimaera, which was last MOT'd in April 2009 with "Offside Inner Seal Slightly Corroaded" - it appears to now be MOT Exempt. This could be because it now falls under "goods vehicles powered by electricity and registered before 1 March 2015".

[@69mastermind69]

"Hippy, a Hippy! See the happy Hippy!!!" I forgot about that line and it slayed me. 🤣

[@8kgamingofficial]

still better than the cybertruck

[@Mrbutters03]

Cannot agree with you more 😂

[@automation7295]

Did you men also said "still better than the cybertruck" when you watched that episode during the 2000's?

[@sharkeatinpizza]

​@@automation7295 didn't have to, that pile of garbage hadn't been conceived in the early 2000s

[@jack_2000]

@@automation7295 Are you going to comment some variation of this under every other comment? Quit riding Elon so hard.

[@civlyzed]

@@jack_2000 We don't have to, now that Elon and Trump are riding each other...hard.

[@dpx6101]

James on power Hammond on the chassis Clarkson on the looks Truly the best departments for each of them

[@AlwaysOneMore]

hammond on the stopping lol what could possibly go wrong

[@SouryaDP]

Exactly, Jeremy should have gone for the power, and James should have done the bodywork

[@DLGaming2002]

May: Is assigned to power Clarkson: Is assigned to the body and interior Hammond: Is assigned to safety Seems about right. Edit: HOLY SHIT, that's a lot of likes on my comment! Thanks, guys.

[@kmkzixi]

I mean what could go wrong 😂

[@rinesleroux1016]

Never thought about it like that

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

Clarkson = POWWWWER Hammond = Styling James = Safety That would’ve made sense! They would’ve produced an electric Range Rover about 15 years ahead of scheduled

[@S-396-Shark]

​@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOffbut it is a good episode idea to completely give them roles that are the exact opposite lol. But it would be cool to see them do this again but in what they do best.

[@buster5661]

Jeremy - power Richard - body James - chassis/breaks That's what should have happened. They mixed it up

[@C4rb0neum]

Whoa electric motors have come a long way. Modern 200+ hp engines are smaller than that beast they put in Geoff

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

I don't think the milk float was optimised for power. They could have done better, but they optimised for long life, low maintenance, and low cost

[@0tispunkm3y3r]

It's an old Milk float motor. They weren't fast and only had to carry a fibreglass body and some milk! Powered by a bank of lead-acid batteries and likely a DC motor rather than the AC motors found in cars now. Hence why its quite big for its meagre power.

[@tomsixsix]

A 600hp Tesla motor is around the same size...

[@aidangattinger8975]

A Motors size doesn't always correlate with output. Its shape and size more often then not has to do with its intended purpose and the kind of motor it is.

[@TGX03]

Electric motors don't have as much a correlation between size and power as petrol engines do. In this case, the motors are so large because they're optimized for efficiency and longevity. But motors of the likes in Tesla were available. Electric motors are pretty boring when you look at their development throughout the last couple of decades. The batteries are still the much bigger area of research.

[@Nate00774]

5:44 After so many years, I'm only noticing now the mustache on Geoff right above the number plate 😂😂

[@tommarino69]

Geoff had better panel alignment than a Tesla.

[@mrwow1667]

“Hammond is in charge of the chassis and the brakes.” What could go wrong?

[@rifkyfahrana1141]

then we have capt. slow doing the power system, and James doing the styling. jobs properly assigned

[@dancurtin6848]

This is the first episode of Top Gear that I ever saw. Saw it in a hotel in London after a miserable day and nearly passed out laughing.

[@pogchamp2330]

the shot @10:16 is glorious

[@alexandervanslooten5016]

The Ride of the Rohirrim pales in comparison

[@atilaszlo8288]

@@alexandervanslooten5016😂😂

[@buster5661]

Imagine if they played the rocky theme

[@strawberry_boicake]

god every time i see clarkson handling that aluminum without gloves i recoil.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And holing the corner profile up to it by hand and drilling mid-air.

[@CJFerg81]

I will not hear a bad word said against the Hammerhead-Eagle-I-Thrust 😆

[@jamesparsons9022]

It is unlikely to win favour among those of us blessed with the gift of sight.

[@bod-7268]

It's actually safer than a G-Wiz after Autocar did safety test on it

[@pseudonymousgarbage8]

Watching him work with tin shears on aluminum without gloves and made my toes curl. A wonderful way to get sliced up and get metal burs stuck in your hands.

[@BlameThande]

Clarkson's Mood Room is one of the best bits they ever did. As are the creative subtitles.

[@bigguy4u989]

🥸🍆

[@Macistefx]

would much rather own Geoff than a cybertruck.

[@dantecontreras887]

Cybershit is just Geoff at home.

[@DeanMoxley87]

Some Say...... This Channel Brings Relief To Million's Of Fan's

[@antonedwards6984]

All we know is he’s called geòff!!!

[@albertstarfield]

That sounds familiar...

[@Hacksworth_Sidings]

“It looks like the cybertruck!!!” Comparing Geoff to the cybertruck is an insult to Geoff

[@Gordanovich02]

Why haven't more carmakers done cupola bodywork? It's clearly superior.

[@rompis.a]

Maybe it's difficult to design a door that not only works with a cupola, but is also safe in the event of a rollover.

[@charlie-j4o7u]

Imagine just chilling at home and suddenly Jeremy Clarkson knocks on your door

[@lucaswilson1701]

I thought everyone was unemployed? 😮😞

[@drewb427]

“Terribly sorry, but Geoff has died in the street outside your home and I’d like some juice!” 😂 can just picture it

[@imamario]

I haven't seen this in a few years until today and every time I saw Richard Hammond's hair I couldn't stop seeing Argentina's President Javier Milei.

[@christianperezlindo8628]

😂 SI XD

[@dnumaplagius]

Still gets me at 1:48 🍆🥸

[@TGX03]

I assumed you were one of those porn bots until I closed the timestamp XD

[@RNES-CC3]

Jeff Bezos took that personally.

[@TheGamingRift11]

Top Gear - The boys call their homemade Car Jeff Grand Tour - The boys call their homemade car John I’ll miss these guys….😢

[@Rom3_29]

Classic Top Gear excellence. Can’t make it any worse. One of the Best episodes.

[@InfinitusKnowledgeOfficial]

11:37 that is a sad man 😂

[@joachimhupe4018]

I like how the final product looked exactly like the bus where the motors were taken from

[@AtheistOrphan]

They weren’t taken from a bus, they were taken from a milk float. See 2:37 .

[@TheGrenadier97]

The sheer silliness, it's so wholesome

[@AARONSHEERN]

Honestly, it's hard going back to rewatch these old episodes without the licensed music. The opening riff from Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" playing as they first set off in Geoff was absolute perfection.

[@The_Blackshield]

I'd forgotten about this one! Great to see it again having done so. :D

[@davidstarsky6435]

Looks suspiciously like a cybertruck 😂

[@Mirda-bg3pi]

That is an insult to Geoff

[@Makkiebobo730]

Not surprised, im actually kind of impressed. The car is by no means good, but for something three British men built for 6 grand its not bad

[@RmsOlympic1913]

We could have had the Design by james The power by jeremy And still the chassis by hammond And instead we got this

[@buster5661]

Hammond being the body because he's short would have been funnier

[@lucaswilson1701]

"this will be an old peoples home - they won't have electricity" 😂😂😂

[@armandocasala6378]

I want to see the moment when the green Stig appears and is taken away by the ambulance. That part always made me laugh.

[@lucaswilson1701]

What's happened there is... Well the stigs died....yeah

[@catly7999]

Great video as usual, very entertaining. :D

[@fruitcakedog1997]

I don’t know why but the random picture of the Furby in the mood room always tickles me.

[@ElijahLuke-n2b]

Inspiration room: Big Cats, Peter Bowles, Jet Fighters, and yes, the AK, Lava lamp, One Shoe(Not a pair but one), a kettle (British show, they can't miss the tea can they?), an RC plane... Man that's a lot to get inspired from. Inspiration : 1:46

[@fatplanediaries]

*Making the World's Best Electric Car

[@polarisnorth4875]

I laughed so hard at this I bought it on iTunes when they were releasing them there back in the day

[@macbuff81]

Hammond really went wild in "hairstyle" for a while

[@LethallyReptarded]

Yeah after his hair transplant he went a bit hog wild

[@LethallyReptarded]

Yeah after his hair transplant he went a bit hog wild 😂

[@reiyua]

11:01 I LOVE how far the camera tracking is ahead of Geoff, had a good old chuckle

[@darkwatersband]

The slowest man in the world is in charge of power, the man with no forward thinking is in charge of the body and the human test dummy is in charge of brakes. What could possibly go wrong

[@pleappleappleap]

0:13 Is that a Black and Decker portable workbench?

[@RJSRdg]

I always felt that the Sierra estate and the Mark 2 Micra both had "moustaches" over the rear number plate.

[@LairdDeimos]

Ford's been making cars with mustaches for ages. It's called the Lincoln Town Car.

[@PollyTicallycorrect]

The Eagle I-Thrust!

[@dsmx85]

Hammerhead eagle iThrust

[@KandiKlover]

No. The Geoff.

[@MaartenvanHeek]

This is Geoff. The hammerhead eagle I trust is their next PHEV/range extender version.

[@dnakatomiuk]

Sunday nights are so crap without having an episode of this to end your week

[@tylerplayzz8697]

Geoff walked so the Cybertruck could run

[@buster5661]

Walking is generous. More like waddled

[@alexisauld7781]

And then the cybertruck tripped over its own mismatched legs and fell on its face, right into a pile of unmentionable matter. xD

[@georgeowain]

04:00 I swear, if Jeremy had painted it red. The theme to Postman Pat would play through my head,

[@aloyzinsabdonpacia5774]

Noooo, Hardy Boyz theme gone??

[@topmandog1]

yes all music is made copyright free when not shown on a main bbc channel or iplayer, evem dave sees copyright free music

[@robwilton9539]

This was a particularly great episode of a great series.

[@richardgadberry8398]

"This is an appalling racket. We are useless at everything."

[@Bukki13]

6:13 Love how the officer is giving it a glance like "ok what the hell?"

[@alanngli]

10:13 Warms my heart every time I see this.

[@Crocs4cats]

When I’m having a bullshit day, I like to watch old Top Gear back to back. Never fails to make me laugh and I can’t even drive or like cars😅

[@bod-7268]

3:44 What car is that?

[@stronzo5000]

GTM Libra

[@Vis_Equorum]

TVR tuscan

[@dbdbdb1111111]

I have just learned how awesome Jeremy is... And that's awesome

[@FarmerEnvoyXtreme]

shame the music used like in 5:21 has changed from Original. I remember that part specifically being the song that hardy boys in WWE used

[@d-Danial-L]

I remember first time watching this episode, I think in early 2010s, I was rolling on the ground laughing when they unveiled Geoff 😂😂😂

[@petatrethewy2695]

Delightful. Not sure how l missed this when it originally aired.

[@tukkajumala]

The cop at 6:14 : "Seems legit."

[@duckie250]

Best TopGear segment ever. 😍

[@mikemarx9360]

4:06 someone should edit cybertruck in. Lines are perfect for it

[@artfx9]

Richard looks like he secretly listens to Oasis, but he's bad at hiding it 😂

[@Artofficial1986]

*SEE* the happy hippies

[@redmooshroom68]

“James get off the dual-carriageway” Famous Last words from Jeremy 😂😂

[@Gusararr]

17 hours and already so many views for such a old show. This tells you how much we already miss these three morons. 😢

[@AlternativeElvis]

Richard Hammond: The Kajagogo Years.

[@hm5y]

that could have been used in a frontal assault in war, it would just BLIND everyone in front of it it they polished it properly xD

[@dbclass4075]

It just needs cupholders that fit grenades perfectly.

[@PilotDamian]

“Look at the traffic jam” 😂😂😂

[@janihotpockets3143]

4:51 sounds like they sampled the gta garage door opening sound lmao

[@jamaljames2578]

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@stronzo5000]

I recognise you from OG Shadow xD

[@jebdunkins6796]

1:42 *the actor, Peter Bowles*

[@the.getaway.drifter]

not the Furby?

[@Burden-THE]

Robot Cantina just started his assembly of a "petroleum battery" golf cart. Good stuff

[@wiskers69]

I'd forgotten that Clarkson had designed the cyber truck 20 years ago.... as a joke

[@WeisswindDragon]

11:36 😒💭 "This is how cars will be in the future..."

[@CarpetHater]

He wasn't wrong, unless you have a fast-charger it takes 10 hours to go from empty to full.

[@johnsmith-jq1uc]

much safety

[@schxn]

Funny enough, a couple years later, the Fisker Karma debuted with a mustache.

[@Orpheusftw]

I don't even _care_ about cars, but I could watch classic Top Gear all day. 👌

[@mnfa8562]

2:40 James May OCD refference 😂

[@diabeticman2194]

This was one of my favourite challenges, Twah Cool broke me when I was younger (and still does today)

[@AtheistOrphan]

Twah Cool sounds great!

[@logiebogieboo_curr]

1:39 is that a fucking furby?

[@careful...Icarus]

Love these old episodes. I'd like to think this very episode led me to purchase my Ford Flex. Lol

[@macbuff81]

Still looks better than a Cybertruck

[@bryancoyle]

"Is that a section from a garage door?" Clarckson: "Yes"