American Reacts Best of Top Gear - Series 18 (2012) (PART 1)

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[@nothinghere7391]

When it comes to collecting watches, it's not all about the looks. It's about the craftsmanship, the inner mechanics, the gearing, historical significance ect. Watches are much more than bracelets

[@dannjp75]

Horology.

[@davepb5798]

Connor, mechanical watches are a marvel of micro engineering, and some are just beautiful, I love them. Maybe you should look into the technology involved in their manufacture, I'm sure you would be impressed.

[@timothymartin5538]

I'm not even a watch guy, but mechanically theyre absolutely gorgeous

[@martinmar555]

That grille is used to feed, cool, the small engine which makes electricity for the electric motors

[@AndyRobby]

Grill Vents on the electric car are for cooling your testicles.

[@evolad2463]

wake up? im off to bed

[@10thdoctor15]

You need the clutch and throttle at the same time. To set off, you lift the clutch to the biting point, add gas, and then lift the clutch fully. To change gear, you press the clutch and lift the throttle at the same time, and vice versa once you've changed gear. It is possible in a sleeping bag.

[@Payne2view]

I don't own a smartphone which needs to be charged and kept somewhere which won't get lost or stolen from. I do however wear a simple wrist-watch, which doesn't need its battery changed for about 2 years and is fastened to my wrist to look-at whenever I need to.

[@VXGaming]

The weight part was showing the time and distance of how fast a car can go vs how weight affects the speed.

[@ZondaFRoadster]

The fat thing wasn't to illustrate that you're killing more people with overweight passengers. It's that if you have an under-powered car, that much weight will kill it's performance.

[@stevepage5813]

And more weight affects the cornering stability as well as the stopping distance.

[@TheRedPeril]

@@stevepage5813 finally someone got to the nub of it. It was about stopping distance and performance as you said. A lot of comments can’t grasp that

[@aut0maniak]

Fisker was American... Epic fail 😂😂

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

Well Henrik Fisker was a Dane, who used to design cars for BWM and Aston Martin, so there is plenty of European DNA in the Fisker Karma. It's just a pity that they decided to sell the car under the cost that it took to produce them. That was a fast track to bankruptcy right there.

[@streaky81]

Heh, Fisker is a US car brand - a very famous one at that.. Also if you don't think electric motors, power management systems and batteries don't need cooling and thus an air intake on the front - Tesla just do the Apple thing of pretending heat isn't a problem when it absolutely is, which is what happens when you let Americans try to do engineering :)

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

Henrik Fisker is a Dane.

[@streaky81]

@@YouHaventSeenMeRight who founded an American carmaker based in California :)

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

@@streaky81 Yes, but if the designer is a Dane (from Europe) there is plenty of European DNA in the car. BTW Fisker Automotive, the company that launched the Karma, no longer exists as they went bankrupt. The Karma IP, tooling components and factory were bought by a Chinese company called the Wanxiang Group. They restarted production of the Karma as Karma Automotive, but under the name Revero. Henrik Fisker started a new company under the name Fisker Inc and is producing a new range of electric vehicles.

[@TheRedPeril]

Lay off him lad. It’s just a video

[@streaky81]

@@TheRedPeril Wat.

[@lukestark3]

Love the channel Bro 😁 keep it up ✌❤

[@wolfen210959]

Petrol engines are cooled mainly by water, which needs a reservoir to ensure the water does not boil. This reservoir is called a radiator, which is located behing the grill, so receives cooling from the air passing through it. On an electric only vehicle, the air passing through the grill is mainly used to cool the battery, as hot batteries lose their charge faster than cool batteries.

[@Kyzerii]

electric cars still have grilles because even if they dont need air for combustion they still need air for many things like AC, Heating, Cooling the batteries and electric motors since they get very hot and can cause a fire if the batteries arent cooled.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Batteries can require cooling (and heating in cold conditions). There are some electric cars that can open or close the grill intakes depending on what is needed.

[@markpaweena781]

Fisker is an American car Most american cars are the size and shape they are so they can fit Americans in them. And most Americans don't recognise the world past the shores of America so anything foreign is weird and not as good as american

[@martinarscott3524]

Totally agree with your point on watches, expensive PCs play games more smoothly, expensive hifi sounds better, but expensive watches don't tell the time any better, just a status symbol....

[@blooaloo7820]

I need a watch, it monitors my heart rate.

[@necessaryevil3428]

Left foot for the clutch pedal on the far left.... right foot for the brake (middle) and accelerator (far right). Professional racing drivers use left foot braking which is tricky but fractionally quicker

[@yusufabdoolla5919]

The car as an onboard charging system which is an engine which means it needs air to go through the radiator to keep the engine cool

[@albaelf8481]

i wonder if Kev is having a five knuckle shuffle with Janice in the back of that car

[@Cobalt-Jester]

I agree watches are now more jewelry than a time piece. But even as far back as when watches were invented people always wanted a nice watch. Even today I have a nice watch. It wasn't super expensive, but it wasn't cheap. About £1000. And I really like it and I like wearing it. It's really heavy and robust and it just feels good to wear it. I bought my 14 year old son a cheaper version of it. Mine is a limited edition automatic and there's only 500 of them ever made. His is the battery powered standerd model, but still cost £500. He also loves it. In fact he likes it so much that he doesn't wear it too much incase he scratches or damages it. lol. A nice watch is a very desirable item.

[@stephenmarkland8316]

Wake up. Your the last video I'm going to watch before I go to bed. Its 9pm here in the UK. Take care mate. Steve

[@Wobbleton]

"You robbed the bank."

[@henrygrootenify]

The watch thing is simple, it isnt for seeing the time, its an accessory, to style your outfit

[@michaelmay5453]

Sorry for taking up the entire comment section here but yeah, we use our left foot for the clutch but that isn't the problem, how the fuck would you reach the gear stick in a sleeping bag is the problem. I've learned to do both left and right on brake in an automatic and double footing brake and gas on a manual but that's mainly because I was a bodyguard for a while and that required some training.

[@tfrowlett8752]

14:24 actually blood is yellow, it appears red thanks to the red blood cells, when you separate blood out in a centrifuge it’s mostly yellow from the blood plasma.

[@baylessnow]

I learnt this in school, 1st or 2nd year seniors, so around 11 to 13 years old. We put some blood on a glass slide, put another slide on top of it. Pressed them together before putting it all under a microscope and hey presto, yellow blood!

[@10thdoctor15]

Most people seem to have those watches that show them the weather and messages, so they don't really need a phone, rather than a phone telling them the time. Still can't beat a fob watch for me.

[@michaelmay5453]

It's fair play my man, your cars are made for hauling nothing while being big as sheds and ours are just smaller. So you are right. Just don't fucking whine about the price of gas those sheds require, it's unbecoming.

[@2opler]

The`onboard power station` is a petrol engine. So it needs cooling.

[@pontinrob]

When driving automatic I use left foot to brake when manual use right and left does clutch

[@Samson1]

Watches are about quality, the pure pleasure of it and the features they might come with. Personally, using my phone for the time and not as a phone is no different from having a carriage clock buckled to my waist. I don't want a time piece that bugs me with virtual chatter and lures me to tinternet random stupid things because I'm 'bored' instead of immersing myself in the real world. :)

[@EvieDoesYouTube]

If you donate blood it's purple-ish in the bag. Maybe because only a tiny bit of oxygen gets in, I'm not sure. As I understand it, it depends on where the blood is in the body, and whether it's loaded with oxygen from your lungs or not.

[@10thdoctor15]

Cars in Europe are not as small as they used to be, especially with so many people buying SUVs these days.

[@Bill-2203]

watches aren't bracelets, they're moving bracelets!

[@hordegaming4771]

Your veins carry de oxygenated blood aka black blood as I'd call it so your veins are darker in colour. Your arteries carry fully oxygenated blood and blend in with your muscle tissue hence you can't really see them. If you've ever bled like I sometimes do and the blood is very dark? It's got a lack of oxygen hence the very dark red almost purple colour to it. Fully oxygen rich blood honestly looks like tomato soup if you've ever had that come outta you. Also love your reactions Connor and look forward to the next 😊

[@mral8145]

Presumably the grill could also exist for aesthetic reasons.

[@definty]

Batteries shouldn't heat up, the air intake on electric probably for cooling brakes and motors

[@thatguy4311]

I have my grandads manual watch, it’s not worth a lot, in fact more money has been spent on servicing it than it was ever worth, the little tool to wind it up has been remade a few times after being lost, and the watch itself pretty crap to be honest, if you keep it wound up it runs about 20 minutes fast over 2 weeks (ish, I’m not an expert 🤣) I never met my grandad, he died before I was born. But I know a lot about him, wearing his watch every day feels like keeping a tiny portion of him in the world. It’s not a bracelet, I don’t like jewellery, the only other thing I wear is a thin necklace with my Akitas ashes in it. I realised half way through typing that this wasn’t really even relevant to what he was saying 🤣

[@dangleecock6704]

11:05 aircon

[@juhokuusisto9339]

Yes you need a watch. You're not pulling out your phone in a construcion site or in the army. .

[@pontinrob]

You are correct deoxygenated blood is Dark Red oxygenated blood is a lighter red that's why when you have a deep cut the blood looks darker

[@10thdoctor15]

A heavier person will spend more on fuel, tyres and brakes than a healthy person.

[@Seagull6819]

When’s the next Fawlty Towers video?

[@koopalibrary]

Not everyone has their phone with them all the time.

[@philhallbrook7008]

Hey Connor, it's just occurred to me, when did you stop doing 'preemptive like'? You got me to like all the reaction channels I'm into....

[@carlh429]

Connor I have to ask you a question. Do you as an American put cheese on everything?😂

[@eno88]

And also deep fry it afterwards?

[@lukespooky]

scatterbrain

[@stevepage5813]

Never mind about not knowing the names of certain cars from Italy or other places in Europe, you should be more concerned about a lot of your country folk not knowing the names of - or the exact whereabouts - of the actual countries themselves, in Europe and the rest of the World for that matter.

[@koopalibrary]

So you can name all usa states and show their location on a map?

[@stevepage5813]

@@koopalibrary A lot of them , yes. When I reply to comments on You Tube and put where I live in England, I have to state - pun intented - that Halifax for me is in West Yorkshire, Northern England. This is because there are Halifax's in North Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The actual capital of Nova Scotia, Canada, is Halifax and there is also a Halifax in Australia. When I look at a map of North America to see where the Halifax's are, some of the states do stick in my memory. Some of our British television quiz shows feature questions about states etc... in The Good OLD? US of A. One You Tube clip that I watched recently showed that a lot of adults in US couldn't point out their own country on a map of the World. Some pointed at Africa thinking it was US. When they were asked to point at a country in the World other than their own, a lot of them pointed at a continent as in Africa, or Europe instead of an individual country. One ten year old US kid, did indeed identify every country correctly, even the obscure not very well known ones, as in Papua New Guinea. If a sport in US is called "World Series" when only North American teams are involved, I can see where the problems begin.

[@PeteBaldwin]

No-one else on KZbin does video intros quite like you.....

[@markpaweena781]

A watch is an acceptable form of man jewelry

[@richardbeaton7324]

There are pretty much full episodes on here react to a full episode, You need context with most of these.

[@matthewbowler6563]

Love the videos but your body is 70% water which shows your body is satured in oxygen

[@suspicioususer]

12:50 Ironically the car is American made. That's a Fisker which is an American made electric car

[@alexanderpedersen1432]

Nope his name is Henrik fisker and he is a danish man who lives In the us omg you dont know What your talking about 😂

[@suspicioususer]

but it was still founded and headquartered in the US @@alexanderpedersen1432

[@iKvetch558]

Connor's opinion on wristwatches is so very sadly predictable and unsurprising...but maybe someday he will understand. SMH

[@michaelmay5453]

The car needs a grill to cool the petrol driven generator that delivers the power to the electrical motors. Just like diesel trains (they use the same idea and yes, it's more effective to drive electric engines with a diesel generator than it is to directly drive it with a diesel engine). The power efficiency of an electric motor is that much higher.

[@iCrilleSwe]

Yeah, the small cars in Europe is the problem, not ppl being fat... Yeez

[@hadesdogs4366]

Racist monopoly 😂 Any minority playing the game goes immediately to jail😂

[@cmdstraker]

I do hope your blood is exposed to oxygen while it's in your body. I don't know about you, but I enjoy breathing every now and then.

[@stevepage5813]

I find breathing is so easy, I can even do it in my sleep.

[@Jjaaccoobb..]

You’re far too American…