Celebrating a century of speed with -30m+ of Britain's fastest cars
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Date: 2022-04-17
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roadie3124
Good video, but how many of the modern cars are suitable for daily use? One of these new generation Bugattis can get to very high speeds, but you can only drive them for short distances and you can't drive back home. What's the point, other than for very rich wankers to say that mine's faster than yours? Don't get me wrong, I like fast cars and I like driving for long distances at high speed without getting arrested. I'm not interested in doing the fastest to 100 or 200. I did a lifetime's worth of drifting around corners 40 or 50 years ago. I want what used to be called a GT car. Something that can get me from A to B, where A and B are 2, 000 km apart, in comfort at high speed and still be relaxed at B. I tried a C63 AMG 15 years ago. It was fast, but the suspension was too rough and hard for long trips. Perfect for showing off to fashionable people who make their choice of car based on price and colour. I'll stick with my slightly modified 2007 9-3 Aero Saab that's limited to 260 kmh.
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Good video, but how many of the modern cars are suitable for daily use? One of these new generation Bugattis can get to very high speeds, but you can only drive them for short distances and you can't drive back home. What's the point, other than for very rich wankers to say that mine's faster than yours? Don't get me wrong, I like fast cars and I like driving for long distances at high speed without getting arrested. I'm not interested in doing the fastest to 100 or 200. I did a lifetime's worth of drifting around corners 40 or 50 years ago. I want what used to be called a GT car. Something that can get me from A to B, where A and B are 2, 000 km apart, in comfort at high speed and still be relaxed at B. I tried a C63 AMG 15 years ago. It was fast, but the suspension was too rough and hard for long trips. Perfect for showing off to fashionable people who make their choice of car based on price and colour. I'll stick with my slightly modified 2007 9-3 Aero Saab that's limited to 260 kmh.
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Kulumuli
I remember I took my fathers 1975 1. 2l Opel Kadett estate on a long downhill stretch of highway. I floored it all the way for more than 5km. I couldn't reach beyond 130km/h or 81mph on the speedometer. And the car seemed like it was disintegrating at this speed. Later I took my mom's 1994'ish 1. 4l Opel Astra to the Autobahn. I maxed out the speedometer at 215km/h or 134mph. But the specs said it would only do 195km/h or 121mph. So maybe that is what the real speed was. The fastest ever I've driven despite I've purchased faster cars after that.
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I remember I took my fathers 1975 1. 2l Opel Kadett estate on a long downhill stretch of highway. I floored it all the way for more than 5km. I couldn't reach beyond 130km/h or 81mph on the speedometer. And the car seemed like it was disintegrating at this speed. Later I took my mom's 1994'ish 1. 4l Opel Astra to the Autobahn. I maxed out the speedometer at 215km/h or 134mph. But the specs said it would only do 195km/h or 121mph. So maybe that is what the real speed was. The fastest ever I've driven despite I've purchased faster cars after that.
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roadie3124
I worked with a car enthusiast from 1988 to 1990. He had several cars including a BB, which he'd occasionally drive to work. Wonderful sound. He actually preferred driving his 924 Turbo. One of his complaints was that if you had the driver's side quarter light open and you turned the steering wheel, you skinned your knuckles. He moaned a fair bit about what was wrong with it compared to his Honda Accord. Personally, if he'd given me the chance to drive the thing, skinned knuckles and heavy steering would not have bothered me.
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I worked with a car enthusiast from 1988 to 1990. He had several cars including a BB, which he'd occasionally drive to work. Wonderful sound. He actually preferred driving his 924 Turbo. One of his complaints was that if you had the driver's side quarter light open and you turned the steering wheel, you skinned your knuckles. He moaned a fair bit about what was wrong with it compared to his Honda Accord. Personally, if he'd given me the chance to drive the thing, skinned knuckles and heavy steering would not have bothered me.
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Alex
Sry Guys we've been cheated because the Chiron 300+ will never go 300 as the production car, so skip that part and watch the Koenigsegg Agera speed record as THAT is the fastest production car of the 2010s in terms of topspeed AND 0-400-0.
For the 2020s one can argue that the current speed king could be the SSC Tuatara but SSC have proven themselves to be cheaters, so GTFO and wait until the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut will make its way to Nevada then.
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Sry Guys we've been cheated because the Chiron 300+ will never go 300 as the production car, so skip that part and watch the Koenigsegg Agera speed record as THAT is the fastest production car of the 2010s in terms of topspeed AND 0-400-0.
For the 2020s one can argue that the current speed king could be the SSC Tuatara but SSC have proven themselves to be cheaters, so GTFO and wait until the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut will make its way to Nevada then.
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Si
That was a brilliant video. On some of the normal reviews you can come across as trying a bit hard to be a journalist but here you're just being a petrol head and its great to see. This really suits you and you just jumped from good journalist to great journalist and presnter in one vid in my book.
Really impressed with that. Thanks for taking the time and effort to put it together for us.
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That was a brilliant video. On some of the normal reviews you can come across as trying a bit hard to be a journalist but here you're just being a petrol head and its great to see. This really suits you and you just jumped from good journalist to great journalist and presnter in one vid in my book.
Really impressed with that. Thanks for taking the time and effort to put it together for us.
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Dark
Several of these aren-t the fastest cars sold in the UK in that decade. Late 20s Bentleys for example had higher top speeds than the Vauxhall 30/98 and similarly with the Bentley 8 Litre, there were faster cars sold in the late 30s in the UK. Alvis 4. 3s for example could in some cases hit 120 miles per hour and supercharged Bugatti-s capable of 130 were sold in the UK.
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Several of these aren-t the fastest cars sold in the UK in that decade. Late 20s Bentleys for example had higher top speeds than the Vauxhall 30/98 and similarly with the Bentley 8 Litre, there were faster cars sold in the late 30s in the UK. Alvis 4. 3s for example could in some cases hit 120 miles per hour and supercharged Bugatti-s capable of 130 were sold in the UK.
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PSk
So Alfa Romeos were not sold in England in the 1930s.
8c2300 (top speed 139mph which is 14mph faster than the 8 litre Bentley. Hence they won Le Mans 4 years in a row in the early 1930s) and finally the 8c2900 (the first supercar but it actually won races)
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So Alfa Romeos were not sold in England in the 1930s.
8c2300 (top speed 139mph which is 14mph faster than the 8 litre Bentley. Hence they won Le Mans 4 years in a row in the early 1930s) and finally the 8c2900 (the first supercar but it actually won races)
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James
Great doco, but some of these shots made be motion sick with the wonky, shakiness - all the warp stabiliser in the world can't smooth that out. No doubt you guys were under the pump filming all these amazing cars, but those closeup shots were hard to watch!
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Great doco, but some of these shots made be motion sick with the wonky, shakiness - all the warp stabiliser in the world can't smooth that out. No doubt you guys were under the pump filming all these amazing cars, but those closeup shots were hard to watch!
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colin5577
Almost nothing the F1 did couldn't be replicated or improved upon. Gordon Murray has shown us that. He could just as easily have produced and sold 500 T50s. It's a sad fate for a car that it becomes so valuable it has to live as a static legend.
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Almost nothing the F1 did couldn't be replicated or improved upon. Gordon Murray has shown us that. He could just as easily have produced and sold 500 T50s. It's a sad fate for a car that it becomes so valuable it has to live as a static legend.
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Adam
The Chiron needs to leave some air for humans to breathe. Personally as beautiful as the Miura is, I think the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is possibly the most beautiful looking car produced. (Hopefully I've recalled the correct model)
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The Chiron needs to leave some air for humans to breathe. Personally as beautiful as the Miura is, I think the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is possibly the most beautiful looking car produced. (Hopefully I've recalled the correct model)
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