Old Top Gear 1998 - MPG Challenge

Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell & Quentin Wilson drive 3 small city cars with 1 gallon of petrol in the tanks to see which goes the longest distance.
Taken from an early 1998 episode of the old format Top Gear

[@AndrewStrydomBRP]

Watching this with today's petrol pricing is a dejavu like feeling, it's almost 3x as much as it was back then now.

[@Wasmachineman]

That Securitas part was fucking golden lol

[@ewaf88]

Hollywood calls - he's mumbling was better than Arnie's

[@michaelkennedy8573]

more relevant than ever today

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

I love these old topgear episodes from the late 90s...!!! 😆🔝👍

[@chryneon6638]

QW, TN and JC are all legends, as for VBH.

[@FAT8893]

1:01 Suzuki Wendy House. That sounded much better than Wagon R. 😂🤣

[@jackcurtis9002]

"Size doesn't matter." Jeremy Clarkson, 1998 05:34

[@ewaf88]

Petrol s cheaper than milk - well it was in 1998. Now it's (at Sainsburys) 75p a litre for semi-skimmed.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

Semi skimmed, are you some kind of Labour voter?

[@FAT8893]

ewaf88 Not for my country though.

[@rarevhsuploads4995]

MrcabooseVG no, it's Skimmed milk for Corbyn's Labour. He'd be New Labour with semi skimmed.

[@EinkOLED]

That's why my car now runs on milk instead of petrol. mmmmoooooooo

[@kishanjadeja6894]

Idiot... Petrol is £1.20 a litre. Fuel is fucking expensive.

[@michaelrawson6261]

Tiff Needell... Wat a legend!!!

[@benchiaase]

I remember watching this episode when it was on TV! That Wagon R is so memorable hahaha.

[@marguskiis7711]

Pretty close to the "new" TG already.

[@mikeb6385]

Ah, a car park in Milton Keynes, been there done that...

[@soggybaguette8457]

Ah yes, the old Clarkson...

[@owenglenn4298]

Price of petrol in 1998 = 60.9p/litre

[@boisegameshowguy]

If only that Daihatsu was available stateside, but they had already gone home to Japan about six years prior to this! Drat...

[@m.b9133]

OMG fifth gear and top gear amazing!

[@chrisg7011]

£1.22 per litre...guess it's cheaper that Coke..at the same petrol station.

[@farishanafiah8461]

6:15 Yup, still true in 2022. Even with my country's government decided not to subsidize RON 97 petrol, it's still cheaper than a litre of milk even at the cheapest supermarket you can find.

[@YasinAdorCB5]

lol Tiff,Quentin and Jeremy in the same page??? are there any more moments of them together

[@FAT8893]

Yasin Ador Check out the Top Gear Car of the Year 1997 video.

[@yt_consistency]

Looking great Yasin

[@joshdevdoss9041]

The WagonR Is still in production in India. The best selling car in India.

[@viruagrawal]

Yes, but it's definitely not the same car anymore - Chassis, Drivetrain, Interior and Exterior are all new. It's not the best selling car in India either - that's the Maruti Suzuki Alto.

[@joshdevdoss9041]

Engineer IRL Yeah True. but when people here upgrade. they go in for a Wagon R. its well.. the second best seller In India.

[@viruagrawal]

Some do, I'm sure. 3rd best seller though, after the Swift.

[@Ammageddon89]

Cheaper then Milk haha XD not anymore i guess xD

[@FAT8893]

Ammageddon89 It still is in my country.

[@jimtaylor294]

Fuel Duty is the primary reason why though. The Oil Companies produce the stuff quite cheaply.

[@RoobehTunes]

What do we have here? A 911!

[@vinkata]

Jeremy is class 🤣

[@ChaplainDMK]

Wait 53 mpg is what, 5,5 l/100 km. Pretty impressive what you get today that can do 5,5 l/100 km compared to back then.

[@AsekiBekovy]

10% more. Except for Daihatsu, they kept the game up.

[@ChaplainDMK]

My moms Giulietta with 140 bhp does 5,6 l/100 km, so I'd say that's a pretty big differance.

[@AsekiBekovy]

5,6 l Diesel converts to 6,94 l Petrol... And is nothing special because a) the Diesel is a bit more efficient and b) the bigger combustion chambers (bigger per cylinder) make for a smoother combustion, so additional efficiency. Plus you have longer gearing, better aerodynamics...

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

my 70 hp Punto 1.3 diesel does 4,9 l/100 km (57 mpg) and that's actually around town, best I ever got from the car is 2.7 l/100 km (104 mpg, according to the trip computer) by driving 10 kilometers at constant 80 km/h in 5th gear (1900 rpm) on a dual carriageway

[@AsekiBekovy]

Yep, the 1.3 diesel punto scores quite well at 51 mpg (US)

[@doctorjones300]

Would this be considered as a prototype challenge segment from the well-known Top Gear?

[@gabrielv.4358]

Very cool

[@scottirvine121]

Petrol cheaper than milk haha, the good old days

[@FAT8893]

In my country, it still is.

[@Finallybianca]

Powwwweeeeerrrrr

[@koolyman]

Lol clarkson started his news bulletin from that time ago!

[@ECEAaronXavierLobo]

Wait a minute, Tiff Needell used to be on Top Gear too!? Sick B)

[@ronaldderooij1774]

I drove the last generation Daihatsu Cuore (2009). It used on average 59 mpg. I now drive a Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2 CVT and that does 63 mpg. I drive economically for fun (as a hobby). It is also a kind of perfomance driving. So, I don't think the gentlemen in this video know how to drive an economy run properly.

[@Moltenbramley]

Find a new hobby.

[@kylewaddington1983]

Who more famous out of Tiff Neddle bloke and Jememy Clarkson ?

[@matthewarlotte1974]

wtf is going on with tiffs hair oh dear

[@GamingLaptop2126]

Tiff is now in fifth gear isnt he?

[@martijnbruggers8694]

was, fifth gear is cancelled. they ran out of money.

[@FAT8893]

Martijn Bruggers Tiff tweeted on his Twitter account that Fifth Gear will be back.

[@jimtaylor294]

Tiff and Henderson (+ others) were let go from the BBC in the 1st place, because after Clarkson left TopGear to do his own stuff, ratings fell through the floor. Only two other presenters that'd been on TG before 2002 would be carried over, of which James May was the lasting one. Whilst Clarkson didn't create TopGear (Angela Rippen did in 1979), the series was only revived at all, because of him. (the BBC initially having no plan to relaunch the series, rather like Tomorrow's World after Peter Snow & co leaving caused it's ratings to tank)

[@kidzulavolpe8676]

Tiff always look the same lol

[@Tad1945]

I came here to look at Jeremy hair

[@Eridu]

2003

[@adampetryszyn1487]

is that the guy from 5th gear

[@jimtaylor294]

Aye, before this era of TopGear ended in 2002.

[@michaelloach9461]

46.2 mpg from a wardrobe? Im averaging 42.5 from my old 3.0 V6 9-5 TiD. Sommink wrong there.......

[@louism.4495]

46 from low pollution petrol vs 42 from the highest polluting diesel ever built . Why dont you use coal then youll get infinity to the gallon.

[@jimtaylor294]

Still lousy fuel economy for a horrid little cramped ecobox made of bacofoil.

[@Alexander_l322]

They tax freedom when they tax petrol ,it is a joke how expensive it is now.

[@Zerobalt]

Is that Bruce Lee on the thumbnail ?

[@kylewaddington1983]

Where a V8 wen you want one

[@hassankhan384]

and now government wants us to drive crap electric cars that are useless and just pain to even see one on road, second issue road tax is high and gets higher year by year, third so many other charges such as insurance is one of the pain for young drivers and also parking is hard, conjunction charges are higher plus the diesel cars to be charged in London and all the ulez crap. Life is just a shit whole in uk, and mayor of London just making it harder so many charges but where can an average person afford this from ita jsut pain because wages are low its going to be 2021 and avarege wages are £10.50 an hour some played are even below that for student its 6 to 7.50 an hour, how can a young person afford 2k to 4k insurance plus tax, plus fuel plus parking, plus other charges its just too hard. Its been like that back then as well but life was still better then, then today.

[@Dazzletoad]

Why do presenters walk and talk like they have end stage Parkinsons disease?

[@jimtaylor294]

1990's BBC camera crews were weird. At one point they had a thing for sweeping angles (thaaasunds of 'em), which made the viewer feel sick. Top Gear post-2002 seemed to have snaffled up some wildlife cameramen, as the quality of camerawork shot up.

[@paulillingworth1242]

Shopping trolleys 🛒 and not all that efficient either for light weight tin cans! Blair and cronies made petrol ⛽️ went through the roof in no time too! And caused congestion of which they will plan to charge us for 20 years later!!

[@harrypreece6680]

This aged poorly!!!

[@FAT8893]

You mean petrol is cheaper than milk? Not in my country.

[@nixxxon18]

Indeed, today we have oversized, inefficient SUVs even though fuel prices are even higher. We've gone crazy

[@dclore]

Lord, the other two (other than Clarkson) are awful...

[@jimtaylor294]

Pretty much. Tiff is a better racing driver than a presenter, and Quentin... well the less that's said of him, the better.

[@SuperiorNo1]

@@jimtaylor294 Quentin Wilson is Brilliant very informative presenter 😈

[@jimtaylor294]

^ Depends upon what. He did a handful of genuinely competant peices, but most of the time was an almost comically biased, smarmy and condesending wazzock. Still preferable to Steve Berry though... (a turd in a suit, as he's been described as)

[@robaustin245]

If they only have 4.54 litres in the tank then the fuel pump will over heat and end up FUBAR. It needs fuel to keep cool.