What an amazing car, more of a wild experiment than a road car. Each cylinder is 27/12L, or 2.25L!!!
@enrfad Жыл бұрын
If Ace Ventura was a motor journalist
@djmadmax9486 Жыл бұрын
Alrighty then!
@jasonmeehan12692 жыл бұрын
It's a tank engine not a spitfire engine as it does not have a supercharger. I've seen this car in Spain (Marbella) in the mid 90s. You could hear it coming from a few streets away.
@energymc222 жыл бұрын
He actually admitted at the end that technically its not a Spitfire engine - in case you didn't watch it all 😉
@EnglishLawyer2 жыл бұрын
Yep. It's a Centurion
@snegik2 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLawyer I think it's called the Meteor and has been indeed used on tanks
@EnglishLawyer2 жыл бұрын
@@snegik Yes it is called the Meteor. It is the same basic engine as the Merlin but without the supercharger. The Meteors were also recovered and unservicable (for aircraft use) Merlins less the supercharger.
@XantheFIN Жыл бұрын
They removed superchargers in building process so...
@SteelasophicalSteelBand Жыл бұрын
RIP John Dodd 💎
@TallerMan.1520 Жыл бұрын
Only #JeremyClarkson would have done justice to this anomaly!
@tomska68 Жыл бұрын
Used to watch him work on this car down links road in Epsom back in the early 70’s. The noise!
@perodenero2 жыл бұрын
I just saw this car in a garage here in Malaga city. What a beast
@DangermuffinVideos2 жыл бұрын
No way! That's amazing! Did it look any good? As in, is it still being driven?
@perodenero2 жыл бұрын
@@DangermuffinVideos it was just standing inside the workshop. The owner told me that the owner of the car needs to find someone else because hes not able to fix whatever is broken. He said the guy came there last week to take it to get cleaned and he started the car and they had to evacuate the workshop for about 30min because of all the exhaust fumes😂😂😂
@perodenero2 жыл бұрын
@@DangermuffinVideos I took a couple of pictures btw.
@DangermuffinVideos2 жыл бұрын
@@perodenero Oh my hahah, understandable with that engine lol!
@DangermuffinVideos2 жыл бұрын
@@perodenero Nice! Always good for the memories. Did you post them somewhere? Would love to see them!
@davidb6576 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for bringing this bit of history to YT - old, old TG is quite a trip...
@ptk4476 Жыл бұрын
How many nose beers did the presenter have before the shoot that day?
@fraser5754 Жыл бұрын
It's a Merlin without the turbo as it was taken off, also had a wet sump conversion. So that's it it's a friggin Merlin shut faces
@oliversolheim4026 Жыл бұрын
supercharger not turbo
@Mors_Inimicis Жыл бұрын
The current engine is a Rolls Royce Merlin 35 from a Boulton Paul Balliol aircraft .
@NoTaboos Жыл бұрын
It's a Boulton Paul Balliol engine. A unique mark of Merlin.
@Ninjaturtlemadness Жыл бұрын
As glorious as this is, I think Rod Hadfield did it best with Final Objective here in Australia... Although I guess you could call this its spiritual father lol
@MobyTheMerpup1852 Жыл бұрын
Cruella’s 60L V24 Engine is more powerful at 1.6K HP & 4.6K NM basically 2 engines in one.
@BMWiE-lz3nu Жыл бұрын
I thought my car took a lot of oil at 7 quarts...25 GALLONS OF OIL?!?
@IamBATMAN2024 Жыл бұрын
It’s 10 gallon of oil.
@lillygordon6259 Жыл бұрын
Now for sale at auction Mar 2023
@captainryusugi1128 Жыл бұрын
If only I had that sort of money.
@IamBATMAN2024 Жыл бұрын
I don’t remember this guy from topgear?! Where’s Jeremy lol?
@RWL20123 ай бұрын
Steve Berry. Jeremy Clarkson was just one of many presenters on this old version of Top Gear.
@gina118 Жыл бұрын
Als deutsche Piloten im WK2 gefragt wurden, welches Flugzeug sie am liebsten fliegen würden, gaben die meisten an eine Spitfire, die hatte den 1600 PS starken Merlin Motor. Ein englischer Schrauber hat ihn nun in ein Auto eingebaut. Doch den Bugattis, Lambos, Ferraris, Koenigeggs u.a. kann er nicht das Wasser reichen.
@rockodlak Жыл бұрын
Fuel consumption 1 gallons every 2 minutes! So, roughly 114 l/hr!!!😮😮😮😮
@kennethdrewary1094 Жыл бұрын
It should have been In a Bond movie, lol
@Timjacks018 ай бұрын
It a wonder how the presenter never made it 😂
@peteraddison8323 Жыл бұрын
great episode 100%
@MichaTheLight Жыл бұрын
Would make a great Pink Floyd cover.
@rvrffdd64162 жыл бұрын
I do like the car, but I hate that guy. 😒😒😒
@Grandremone7 күн бұрын
Wtf?
@rvrffdd64167 күн бұрын
@@Grandremone do i have to like the presenter? 🤷♂️
@eleithias2 күн бұрын
Yes.
@goldhawkroad Жыл бұрын
Is this report all about a car or the extremely annoying presenter?
@josiajones9774 Жыл бұрын
1,600+ cubic inches...
@StephenH-ms9og5 ай бұрын
Good old Steve Berry. Much better than that bore May and Hammond.
@simp22342 жыл бұрын
🤔🤔🤔ask this car tex2k
@paulwisdom53832 жыл бұрын
850bhp, or as I call it, less BHP/L than my 1.2 Fiat 500 😂 heck, less than my 1.1 Fiat Cinquecento Sporting!
@nikk351 Жыл бұрын
low horsepower because it doesnt rev above 2500rpm and horsepower is torque times revs my man. and torque accelerates. and the v12 meteor has roughly 2000Nm of torque at 2500rpm. so tell me, how much torque does your fiat 1.1 have? about 20nm probably yhea cool
@WestleyBates Жыл бұрын
Thing is probably a gutless dog at low rpm’s
@apodski Жыл бұрын
Yes, while it makes like 200hp at idle and goes 80 mph.