Top Gear Classic videos.

[Schermerhorn]

Please share your favourites and non favourites alike.

Classics are anything up to 2000 when they introduced the new 'studio' format.

An old favourite of mine

The Ferrari 550 Maranello review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8PrUO0XypQ

Jaguar XJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVB66Pg1rz8

Top Gear Maserati Quattroporte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBuG7orq-XA

They don't have to be super car themed. I just put these up so people could get enthused about watching old classics and hopefully sharing anything interesting (or uninteresting) they come across.

These take me back to my child hood and back to an era when Top Gear 'properly' reviewed cars.

Please share yours.

PS: Mods can you make this a sticky thread please, if possible?

[rufusruffcutt]

A couple that spring to mind are:

JC Aston Martin Vantage V550
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-gAn3piaA
JC Bentley Continental R
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLnYFN5QH4
JC TVR Cerbera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1X9Tl_qe4
Tiff Mclaren F1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Azl-drqMk

[Cupramax]

Reliant Space shuttle

http://youtu.be/_b4WzWFKQ20

[DavePieman]

Schermerhorn said:

Classics are anything up to 2000 when they introduced the new 'studio' format.

[Schermerhorn]

Cupramax said:

Reliant Space shuttle

http://youtu.be/_b4WzWFKQ20

Too new.....the old vintage stuff is upto the year 2000.

[Zad]

1997 Top Gear car of the year, the Puma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QuH7z1Z1o

Mid 90s XJ220 with Tiff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Ed-rnPOY

[Moonhawk]

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[Moonhawk]

Aston Martin Vantage (1990s version) - pitted against a Lamborghini Diablo at the end of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-gAn3piaA

I think this is the first top gear episode I ever saw that sent a tingle up my spine when that garage door opened at the beginning.

[Morningside]

John Dodd's Beast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxFE37Sxw


And I know its NOT Top Gear but it does have Clarkson so its close! Is Clarkson's Car Years - Ford Escort RS Cosworth Buttertub's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLebmoXOukc
Cozza.

[Pwig]

Clarkson on living with his Cossie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LMsYQg8AR8

[Schermerhorn]

I sometimes watch these old Top Gear videos and cry at just how cheap petrol used to be back then.

[Mr_B]

TG Aston half hour special. The Vantage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kpTp3J5Kk

[Mr_B]

Not strictly TG, but The Car's The Star offshoot was great too. The McLaren and Jag mk2 episodes being particuarly good. Shame they don't repeat on BBC4 sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IB2i_SNHPM

[CharlesAL]

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[Schermerhorn]

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[Prawnboy]

mays first apperance? in the old format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roaq5YCMJsk


and the XJ40 XJ12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-f9ix0RvhM

[monthefish]

Old Top Gear - Tiff Needell reviews the 911 GT2 [996]