opel/vauxhall - no ugly car

topgear segment from 11 series

[@mattovna3a728]

James really missed an oportunity to say Dacia

[@seb959]

@@DegenerateWeeb69 this isn't reddit you virgin

[@andrei0554]

They werent that bad

[@seb959]

@@andrei0554 but they weren't exactly good either

[@jacobwhite9961]

@@DegenerateWeeb69 r/wooosh your fucking self.

[@F1zzler]

Oh no! Anyway...

[@alistairwalker2850]

That should be Vauxhall’s new motto: “Not a minger in the whole range”

[@suckurmum5680]

But theres probably a minger in the pasenge seat

[@Minto107]

Since they're owned by the PSA group there aren't good looking Vauxhall cars anymore

[@oluskloc]

At that tyme I agree, not valid anymore

[@rosen0662]

@@Minto107 are you blind or something?

[@lucasbarton1773]

No longer the only company with no ugly cars, they have the new Astra and Mokka ruining it.

[@amandataebby]

I would have yelled out Porsche just to piss off Clarkson haha

[@saggyhuggies123]

Porsche Boxter

[@Exarhadsgfds]

@@visionemu2458 They're talking about cars that are(were then) in production. Not cars that were in production(way before then).

[@bogar30]

2003 porsche cayane

[@abovethelaw4417]

Old Porsche’s were definitely ugly and outdated and thats a fact. newer ones look the best and looks are objective not subjective fools

[@Adam-cj2jg]

Ferrari

[@rafidwiriz]

0:55 "IIIIIIIIIIIII" -Hammond

[@danoham10]

Rafi Dwi Rizqullah if I ever make a video game that’s the noise it will make when you die

[@FinnishGuy47]

Press 5 to IIIIIIIIIIIII.

[@Crusher29]

More like YYYYYY

[@hexoslaya3696]

0 0 it’s close to it actually

[@jdiprose7538]

IIIIIII 😂

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

"Who said Hummer? No. They are consistently uglier across their range of ONE car!!" Oh Richard... You always make me laugh.

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

H1 is not that bad. H2 and H3 oooofff

[@lukasnovikas2838]

James: C4's good, C5's good- Jeremy: *PLURIEL!* James: *C*ck, I forgot about that*

[@ACWilderness]

It was Hammond who shouted Pluriel

[@lukasnovikas2838]

Oh my bad

[@paddyh8023]

Lancia: They didn't work but they still looked cool.

[@chopun3862]

My eyes just ran away

[@mrjdmtunerboy.1463]

Old car yes new car shit

[@josephhardwicke6344]

@pAtRiCk StAr how was it ugly?

[@TheAstronomyFloyd]

Every Lancia built today is ugly, I’m sorry Mr President, but it is

[@8.4_litre_V10]

I'd rather drive a Prius than a new Ypsilon

[@Mauritsvdspek]

Love it how somebody in the audience yells 'Alfa' and somehow suddenly there's an Alfa picture on the screen, lol.

[@chrystales6169]

It's possible that they had 'reactions' for answers the audience gives. If nobody had mentioned Alfa, then one of them would bring it up. If someone had mentioned Vauxhall, then Jeremy wouldn't have brought it up, and they go on from the person who did, etc.

[@Mauritsvdspek]

@@chrystales6169 Fair point. Sadly I guess we'll never know.

[@keirbourne4589]

A lot of editing goes into these shows to make it seem natural, even though they do multiple takes etc. My guess here is that the wide shot at 0:43 is used to hide the cut.

[@JYMAHJAMES]

@@keirbourne4589 there is no cut, they have people ready to put up any picture almost instantly as they search up the keywords of whatever the person is talking about. happens on Graham Norton all the time

[@BaldMancTwat]

@@JYMAHJAMES That's not true.

[@CynicalBastard511]

The new Astra and the Insignia are indeed very handsome cars.

[@soawn29]

JELH have astra from 2012 so good looking I think... at least looks better than golf 6 from same era

[@midnoob1650]

Saw an insignia last year while coming back from school at night. It looked really good and i still remember the back of it

[@nopers2223322]

Aura and Regal

[@roderickmoose7756]

I disagree

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

New new insignia looks sleek and sexy.. easily the best looking sub 30k car in my opinion

[@michaldvorak2501]

The thumbnail is me trying to explain something while shitfaced 😀

[@TwentyEightySeven]

He has a point, at that time pretty much the entire Vauxhall / Opel range had decent looking cars.

[@aleksandaraleksic4067]

Agila was much uglier than MiTo!

[@TechHeadHD2]

The omega was good though

[@Xiphactinus]

VX220 was excellent as well!

[@scottwhitley3392]

The new Corsa and Astra are nice to be fair

[@oluskloc]

At that tyme I agree, not valid anymore.

[@alangreig4261]

1:39 sweeeet

[@InsaneDrumer18]

Aldo ! No no, by sweeeet you mean 1:35

[@egesevindi]

1:40

[@Auzzie015]

Not being Attenborough, I couldn’t think of anything else to say.

[@danoham10]

If I ever make a video game the noise Hammond made at 0:55 will be the noise it makes when you die

[@Speedstar235]

People seems to forget or ignore it completely that in the context of the video, they were talking about good looking cars in their current range. If the range includes cars manufacturers don't make anymore, Vauxhall definitely isn't a candidate and I'm very certain every car maker has made an ugly car at one point of another.

[@GameCyborgCh]

i was thinking lamborghini but then i remembered that they made tractors

[@Nushi1098]

*ahem* the LM002 as well

[@Zak-ob5ze]

Lm002

[@jamesfisher5233]

@@Nushi1098 LM002 is irrelevant in this conversation as they were only talking about cars currently being made. Why are so many people thick in the comment section of youtube videos?

[@proelitjump1355]

Those were the best

[@adammietelski7711]

I'd say that too but to me the veneno looks hideous imo although i don't really mind its design that much anymore

[@grdprojekt]

10 years this footage was uploaded, 10 years

[@TraustiGeir]

Please, don't remind me how old I am.

[@gavla3550]

12 years

[@MicraHakkinen]

That must have been the slowest internet connection in the world then.

[@ahmetbakr1011]

@@gavla3550 13 years dude

[@Szarko32c]

I agree. All Opels from back then looked very nice. Especially 2012 range: Agila, Adam, face lift Corsa D, facelift Astra J, facelift Insignia A, Cascada, Meriva B, Zafira B, Mokka.

[@DJvileman]

Yea yea yea... look at the right of Hammond

[@lowes48impala]

nice...

[@woundedsoldier1766]

can't see anything else ( . ) ( . )

[@cwpm3790]

Waited for that comment, not disappointed

[@stuartkseels]

I just rewatched it to see what you were talking about... It's been on pause for 36 minutes.........

[@johndevjames]

now thats sweeeeeeet.......

[@GrimOakheart]

At this point in time the Meriva was still in production...

[@mkbcarcare]

where it should of stayed lol absolutely horrible looking car, gotta look at one each day as I look out on my road

[@mogmason6920]

I gotta say I kinda like the Meriva. At least it’s distinctive somewhat, with it’s pseudo Rolls-Royce-esque S******e doors. Then again, there are some fugly cars that are distinctive (I’m looking at you, Fiat Multipla and Nissan Juke). The 1.4l naturally-aspirated lump they stuff in them is bloody awful though!

[@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948]

@@mogmason6920 the suicide Doors are from citroën

[@KartsAgainstHumanity]

@@mogmason6920 My mother has a Meriva. A month or two ago, the coolant pissed out of it, it overheated and warped the head, had to have it resurfaced to fix it. Funny electrical issues like the locks not working and locking and unlocking randomly whilst driving. Boot release button breaks, I fixed that back in December. Its not all that bad but it does break a fair bit for a car made less than 10 years ago. The doors and sunroof are nifty though.

[@XD69XDXD69XD]

As an owner of a Meriva I agree

[@stefanb5266]

1:40 swEEET

[@sgt61]

yea swEEEEET

[@TheSuperSpongy]

"they have the aesthetic ability of gyraffes!" lol

[@spacegremlin9972]

1:16 as an American this utterly slayed me

[@benphone7430]

Opel... East German design, west German price

[@teakay3684]

Ben Phone it's 30 years now.

[@hypnotised-clover]

Tea Kay 30 year what?

[@PaulHojda]

Since when is Rüsselsheim in East Germany?

[@PeterAlfonsLoch]

he didn't get the joke

[@johnnyboy3949]

PeterAlfonsLoch since when does any german get any joke?

[@kennorcott7074]

Surprised they didn’t mention saab or Volvo. Both had great looking cars

[@kasimirdenhertog3516]

MiTo is not ugly if you look at it today, I remember back then it looked too much like they had stuck the nose of the 8C on a Fiat Punto, but afterwards came the Giulietta and all the styling cues started to make sense

[@deividasnavickas]

Absolutely not, lord. Mito looks like 8c because they both were design by the same ONE man, while the others like Giuletta they had whole studio working on them.

[@intorsusvolo7834]

Mito looks like a depressed blob fish.

[@mrs772]

​@@intorsusvolo7834😂😂😂

[@Maj-SHIPWRECKED]

mito looks like a zit

[@enso3140]

Tbh in the 90's and 2000's vauxhall/opel had great looking cars they might not be the boldest of designs but always good looking

[@lightning4497]

Tbf the recent range of Vauxhall/opels are really good looking especially the insignia and the mokka

[@teaajay]

agreed, especially the carlson, beautiful car

[@vert3432]

Late thousands Vauxhall had a full suite of good looking cars. Best they ever made IMO.

[@Quix0tic707]

Shame Vauxhall don't make the VX220 anymore.

[@thearousedeunuch]

To be fair, that car was pretty much a Lotus.

[@CrusardModding]

@@thearousedeunuch Yeah, just buy a new Lotus Elise but Opel could bring out a new Opel GT in cooperation with Lotus.

[@Piotrek4500]

@@thearousedeunuch Youre wrong, they didnt put 100% lotus into Opel speedster(vxh vx220)

[@thearousedeunuch]

@@Piotrek4500 I said "pretty much", not "fully".

[@aaroncable4739]

Tho why did that get killed off if it's not because they were doing a saloon or something that would sell more

[@tomstrawbridge6319]

Wow...they actually had something good to say about Vauxhall

[@aaroncable4739]

For once it's kind of rare to hear that apart from them being cheap to run that's it I think tho you never hear people speaking about them alot tho now or is that just something I've come to but no one else has

[@surrealtom1437]

@@aaroncable4739 Jeremy was slammed by the media for saying that, but I do believe that Vauxhalls are/were simply too dull and boring to even talk about. Reliable, practical, lacking any personality/charisma, so nobody even notices them.

[@garygrandy9443]

That chick behind Hammond: *swEEEEEEEt!*

[@realspeedghxst]

Yees Iam glad someone else noticed her 😏

[@carldavies9080]

who ever said hummer ...lollllllll

[@donaldtrump4826]

that is the last brand I would of had in mind lol

[@thearousedeunuch]

Hummers look good.

[@marcosescobar9330]

Just the H1 from AM General not General motors obviously

[@Mzee1084]

Lol, i think it was a joke answer.

[@soberek]

Agila is not sweeeeeeeet, it's actually shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

[@blainy-o93]

Just like every other Vauxhall in existence. Loathsome, horrible things.

[@danielpimenta4788]

90´s corsa is the only car you still see around from that time, so they made one good car

[@tomforrest7814]

sorry explain yourself?

[@fabianmarcoschau]

soberek but it doesn't look ugly

[@Chalky.]

I've never driven one and maybe its shit to drive and live with, but this ou'd purely about looks.

[@lukamilic]

0:55 Own one, 1.4 Turbo What a beauty ❤

[@nichiniker]

Volvo’s lineup is sharp looking across the range.

[@Wingcrawler]

I think that in terms of most of their cars.

[@marcclarence2260]

Just saw this video and I'm going with SAAB

[@luchadorito]

They made the 9-4X sooooo

[@yaroukh]

i'm a Ford guy myself but i think this still stands true... unlike Ford who screwed the new Focus a big time :(

[@rogehmarbi]

They screwed it even more these days

[@gmark555]

I have a 2001 Astra Coupè and it still looks good today

[@BlackAce-zr2ms]

1:40! Brilliant!

[@chriswatson7488]

I watched this video last week, and this must have stuck with me on a subconscious level as I've just bought an Agila. lol

[@bbz.119]

1:40 SWEEEEEEEEETTTT

[@sunny9895]

I like how there is always a pretty/sexy girl in the camera angle and they pulled this off for over a decade.

[@lawnhawke4843]

Not a minger in the range

[@paianis]

0:55 Hammond: "Ewww"

[@hughthompson4846]

"And they're designed by Americans who have the aesthetic abilities of a giraffe" *ICONIC*

[@mojitokiri]

Vectra owner here, this made my day.

[@akihiko4036]

I couldn't even make it past the thumbnail without laughing my ass off

[@connorpope9981]

1:16 you're welcome

[@thearousedeunuch]

Thanks.

[@Surya-vj4yn]

"Random" guy says alfa, magically an ugly alfa appears on screen.

[@finlaycox8026]

I think it probably was a member of the audience - they just will have cut out sections of audience members shouting out marques they hadn't prepared for.

[@hazridge]

Yeah it's also not ugly at all, don't know what James and Richard were going on about there...

[@seb959]

@@hazridge it's disgusting

[@aleksandaraleksic4067]

@@seb959 It's a beautiful little car!

[@torenessa6931]

They probably had pictutes of different cars for each brand someone would mention

[@adnitesean5005]

Hammond's "Eh!" is my new humor

[@awesomefrankrapid]

Rover. Classic understated British looks across the board.

[@policevauxhallastra6591]

Hey! That Blue Astra Is My Sister!

[@ukaszProstacki9]

That's the best comment on KZbin I've ever seen

[@TechHeadHD2]

Agreed

[@hamster639]

@yaroukh I think new Fords are designed by the accountants again, I don't like any of the new ones, what have they done? Focus MK1 still looks fresh today, and I am a Vauxhall guy.

[@damshek]

"That Agila is good looking!" - Show a picture of a rebadged Suzuki Splash

[@tegrenath]

every always goes on about Clarkson's "POWERRR!!" quotes but the discerning man knows it's all about the "SWEEEEET!!!"

[@Bassequalswin]

They missed the best line out, "so, that proves things, if you want style go to the Australians......"

[@aaroncable4739]

Oh yeah Holden there not bad looking are they I mean not bad for fun either I imagine

[@torod213]

HAH!!!! You are having me off??? Panamera???? CAYENNE???? You gave me a good laugh there mate.

[@KoolKy04schannel]

this pleased me, i love vauxhall's

[@squidgy2247]

Aesthetic ability of *gee-roughs*

[@01thebossman]

i love my omega vauxhall rules!!

[@nigglefiggle]

1:40

[@mitchellwood1014]

Clarkson saying sweet like it's got baby polar bears next to it 😂😂😂

[@Keltair13]

Every time I visit Scotland I rent a Vauxhall. Love them.

[@michel9757]

I like my Opel Adam 😍

[@SaucyBegger25]

CAVALIER!! is a BEAUTIFULL CAR i love mine and think shes stunning

[@4ndyr0g3r50n]

trololololololol

[@rebekahl840]

We have a corsa and an astra, andwe used to have a very old astra that was nice. I AGREE

[@darthmaul216]

I have one. Plymouth, you can’t make an ugly car if you don’t make cars anymore

[@markwright3161]

Vauxhall are really making up for it now with the Crossland X, and from what I've seen googling them to make sure I had the right model, they're really desperately trying to have a full range of them with the 2021 concepts. The more time passes, the more good looking the Pontiac Aztecs and Fiat Multiplas look. They're trying to make the Mokka look like the Nissan Puke.

[@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948]

The Opel Mokka is fine,

[@aryand7743]

1:27 No one ever hears James

[@hckd_2137]

Hummer one hurt 💀

[@Autian]

1:36 the Opel/Vauxhall Agila (2nd gen) was really a Suzuki Splash but just with some minor changes, but his point still stands.

[@Metal-Possum]

Sweeeeet!

[@RobRandomVids]

Saab maybe?

[@AdzSONLINE]

GAMERS UNITE I'm not a fan of that final one they made

[@RobRandomVids]

Actually I wish you hadn't mentioned that because I will admit that I'm not too keen on the facelifted 9-3s and 9-5s they did, especially the headlights. I wouldn't call the later cars ugly, just hideously bland.

[@somedonkus69420]

GAMERS UNITE well they're out of business lol

[@RobRandomVids]

Mmmm.... kinda? The brand and technically the company are owned by NEVS, who were planning to build a 'leccy version of the 9-3 but now they've decided against that and are going to badge it as a NEV. So although you're right as far as most people are concerned, SAAB aren't technically dead

[@kes_r]

@@RobRandomVids It isn't dead, but everything that made those cars great is.

[@dontcare3049]

Vauxhall also have the ability to make consistent good looking tanks.

[@WilliamCooper2005]

Duesenberg - that’s my answer!

[@jasonstefani8276]

Honestly, if I lived in the UK, I would probably drive a Vauxhall.

[@burns985]

OPEL

[@teaajay]

@Daniel Yyy408 opel is vauxhall

[@strategon7249]

@Daniel Yyy408 it‘s all Opel, i hope one day Vauxhall dont use Opel design more because a Opel is a Opel.

[@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948]

@@teaajay vauxhalls are opels

[@teaajay]

​@@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948 yes im aware, i said that?

[@teaajay]

@@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948 also opel is vauxhall coz vauxhall originated in the uk :)

[@SepiaChild]

Opel also has good names for cars Example - Regent, Admiral, Diplomat, Senator, Commodore, Speedster, Insignia

[@devon896]

Vauxhall and Jaguar I would have said until Peugot took over Vauxhall and cocked it up.

[@sonyviva308]

Nobody mentions the mighty Lada.

[@andrismajors8171]

Originaly LADA is Fiat.

[@robholloway6829]

I know this is about 11 years behind, but the MiTo is an utterly gorgeous car - despite being a FIAT 500 with a fat-arse body.

[@Yeetusdeletus438]

Couldn’t agree more (a further year later) 🤣👍

[@lukamilic]

Still in 2023 absolutely gorgeous 😍 As an owner of a 1.4 Turbo, I approve

[@Kefmans]

Couldn't agree more with my 2014 Corsa. Not biased at all.

[@Exophite]

Koeningsegg: Guess I'll die

[@cobraxyam2048]

Volvo?

[@Minecraftrok999]

Cobra Xyam V40 isn't exactly eye candy, but that's a good suggestion.

[@local_hotpotato]

We talking about cars not tanks mate just kidding. In all seriousness they look after all this time. Still like 3 match boxes stackd

[@thesilentg3941]

Well the new one isnt and the new chinese style is also ugly!

[@thesilentg3941]

iHeart GT86 {KatyCat} No they aren't the old ones before 2014 were

[@MrSpeedy99]

Last gen Volvos look good, new range looks even better

[@criostoirocuinn]

The size of those!

[@sporkfindus4777]

Exactly!!

[@Vitance]

Pictured in this video: the psychology of people whose main purpose in life is to think they're better than everyone else, even at the cost of the truth

[@user-so8kx7uj2x]

I love Citroën 💘

[@willammillar8510]

U cant call a mito ugly

[@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948]

You can,it looks like a lollypop not a car

[@greatvalueblueberries]

Thats literally an oversized toy car

[@lukamilic]

​@@dominikfcbsousaoutnow5948It's gorgeous, wtf are you on about?

[@kubabratpl]

0:33

[@yudum8204]

0:33 when I go back to school

[@TakingTheFlick]

Nicely said jeremy :) he seems to be praising vauxhall more these days and too right he should be :)

[@arielatom03]

the DB9 convertible is beautiful

[@mrtom2854]

No, it was decapitated. Taking the roof off a car is almost always a bad idea, unless you use a removable hard-top. Canvas on a car looks awful.

[@AbrahamArthemius]

​@@mrtom2854It really depends on the car honestly. The Lexus LC500 for example is good looking both in coupe or convertible (soft top).

[@captainzoll3303]

I thought this was the one where someone yelled TVR.

[@mrtom2854]

TVRs are amazing

[@PastEons]

Alfa by a thousand mile, and today the MiTo actually looks great

[@sfyostranger2217]

I love m opel manta!

[@milky3494]

What about Lotus? Or Bentley, TVR, Pagani?

[@Sbarrett1]

Evora GT not that good looking. Bentayga is awful. Tvr Griffith is not great. Pagani is a good one, but they only make one car so does it really count?

[@thedandydandyyoutubechanny1847]

Lada!!!!

[@greatvalueblueberries]

Those are pieces of junks

[@boywithcrackers3871]

Car company with no bad car design? *Eagle i-Thrust*

[@theslavicimmigrant4795]

Tbf, Opel makes really good looking cars. I bought an insignia biturbo as my 1st car because of its looks and decent power

[@ollilehtonen6764]

Volvo hasn't made a single ugly car. Atleast i can't remember that they had. The early V40s were not pretty but some models were nice under the hood

[@wetlettuce4768]

I used to have a first gen S40 what a bag of shit that thing was, only car I've owned that I was relieved to have breakdown on me.... Other then that I've had nothing but joy owning Volvos' two 850s a 440 and an S80 :D

[@volundrfrey896]

The 480 was

[@Tommy-kn1gr]

C30?

[@TakingTheFlick]

Try driving all of them, VXR - Best interior, Best engine, Best Looking. Clio 197, Boring, Great Handling but lacks torque big time! Panda....um...no

[@mickdick1138]

*SWEET!!*

[@elcsabitodewid5376]

Fiat, Mercedes, Audi, Mazda .... at the time (2008) made no ugly cars.