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  • Great looking car, wouldn't want to drive it

  • @marylovecast You obviously haven't watched much Top Gear. All of the presenters, particularly Jeremy, have talked about how brilliant many BMWs are. However, no carmaker has gone their entire existence without making something the Top Gear guys don't care for.

  • that guy is a bmw hater ! piece of shit british cars don't get close jerem !

  • WTF Top Gear guys, your pissing me off the Z8 is an awesome car

  • 240p, we meet again.

  • I don't care how it drives, that car is so pretty

  • same time as the lamborghini murcielago and the stig only drove the slower 4.8 alpina version and not the 5.0 400hp car.

  • 5 seconds of advertize to keep you tube free? I can live with that!

  • can anybody i.d the song @ 4:15 ?

  • lol @ 7:28 middle finger to the stig.

  • Thank you, KlipschornMan! I was wondering what the song was at 3:02 as well. Thank you again!

  • Song at 3:02 on...thanks, sounds great, horrid car. 

  • That stig is amazing.... Fucking Clarckson!!!

  • fuck this guy bmw's are the best!

  • @tranceboyification > thanks for oppinion dude. i don't need youtube, and you don't need it too. there are lot of funny things ... but they can't make me or you blind for all the bad stuff here (shooting, crimes, war agressivity, executions, etc, etc). wake up! through advertising they let you pay for theyr negligence sorting videos for 12 years old kids! wonderfull! think, then post ... and at all: wake up!

  • Its sad this ended up being a bad car. The Z8 is one of the best looking cars ever made.

  • I remember driving a Z8 a while back and it was truely aweful I'm sure German roads are perfect but on our Canadian Roads it could actually break a bone in your back!

  • first they fuck about the z8, afterwords it has the same time like the mucielago :p

    -> in your face

    i prefer german cars to english cars, in topgear they always seem to talk bad about german cars..... wierd.

  • i bet keichi tsuchiya could drive it better

  • Z* is a fantastic car. the end.

  • Has Jeremy EVER said something nice about BMWs ?? How can you even THINK something bad about them!?

  • @BankzZ89 yes he says something in almost any bmw review.

  • @BankzZ89 OFC he did

  • @BankzZ89 Yes, He loves the 1M

  • they make it american

  • ugly*

  • this car is good and fast but not one of the fastest cars in the world and its top speed is limited to 155 mph

  • ¿cuánto os pagó la competencia de BMW por hacerle semejante crítica injusta?

    Es malo... pero hace el tiempo de un Murciélago. No es deportivo, y el Mercedes Sl-blablabla de Jeremy ¿si?. No hay quien lo controle en un derrape...pero ¿sabías lo que era derrapar?. Jeremy, no tenías y sigues sin tener NPI

  • @Talieri please type in english if u can

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  • Beautiful BMW

    /watch?v=nVI4VUNJEgk

  • Does Anyone Know The Opening Whistling Song??

  • @YahtzeeG8 fleetwood mac - albatross

  • can't agree with you Jeremy, whatever Z8 feels like it is fantastic looking BMW one of the best ever made

  • i think clarkson was enjoying driving that skip lorry

  • Didn't know bbc was filming with potatoes in 2007

  • LOOOL "getting it round a corner is like getting a wardrobe up a fire escape" that made me spit my drink out hahahaha thats freakin hilarious.

    "and to drive it stil feels like....a coffee table" LOL

  • who the fuck is going to drive this car or any other 70,000 plus car?

    interesting, yet stupid review

  • 240 p...

  • Actually this car drives great !!! :-)

  • Clarkson gave us the finger at the end...

  • my god its an alpina! it is one of the best car manufacturers!

  • doesn't the lap time kind of bust clarkson's arguement that it's not a sports car? yeah it has horrible oversteer, but all the more drifting fun right?

  • jeremy is full of shit. Nearly every other automotive journalist praised this car to heaven, only he is the one who complains about how it handles. Badly handeling BMW doesn't exist (unless someone has tuned it so).

  • german cars baught every single british company and that is the end of story

  • @blazej1 No...they didn't buy Land Rover or Jaguar, they were bought by an Indian company. Get your facts right

  • 0:30 song???

  • Anyone know the song going on around :35? i likes it lol

  • FUCK YOUTUBE because of ADVERTISE!

  • @HomoEconomicusX Just download firefox browser if you don't have it, then download adblock pro, that will block youtube ads and more!!

  • @HomoEconomicusX 'advertise' keeps youtube free....dumbass

  • @HomoEconomicusX then get firefox addblock plus

  • It's BMW Power ////

  • really youtube.... a Prius commercial ..... before top gear.

  • @jimboazcama Install Add Block Plus and all comercials are gone...

  • @jimboazcama no its a focus commercial

  • the best caaaaar

  • A note for all who believe that Top Gear is blinkered towards British cars. When you're in Germany next, get a copy of Auto Bild and see which 4 German manufacturers dominate the magazines tests and articles...... and then have a wild guess which nationalities cars almost always win?

    Top Gear have lavished praise on a very large amount of Germany's output, but they also tell it the way it is and if the Germans, or the British, have created a pointless and bady packaged car they'll say so.

  • WTF AS FAST AS A MURCIELAGO

    BMW OWN FUCK TO GEAR !! 

  • jeremy, sit in a Jaguar and admire it...why? cuz ur english and ur biased towards german cars..you always do it..I really love top gear, but its turned out to be an advertisement show for British automobiles.

  • @Tehr0oni sorry dude but jag is no longer british, it's indian,owned by Ratan Tata! :p

  • 240p?

  • 240p? oh dear

  • 240p?

  • STTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGG­!!!!!!

    

  • its also ugly, u forgot.

  • its ugly

  • how fast would the regular z8 go around the track if the 'soft' version did it so quick?

  • He's such a bad driver :P

  • @Super69Hotstuff Really? have you seen any other top gear  episodes?

  • @Athoutz Yeah it is by far my favorite t.v programme but the way Jeremy drives is pretty awful! Lots of the fancy powersliding you see is done by other drivers such as ben collins.

  • @Athoutz Like the bmw m3 vs c63 amg vs audi rs4 review

  • lol what! how can it b the same as a murchialago!

  • @Bankster76

    They have liked plenty of BMWs on the show, just not the Z8.

  • Horrible Video Quality

  • I wonder what happened to the BMW Z8?

  • @AHMADF93 were you not listening its went out of production

  • @ErnieCosmo

    you're a completely moronic imbecile

  • The Z8 is one of the very few BMWs I like. BMWs current design is one of the ugliest (if not THE ugliest) out there.

  • @Stealthgato not so much ugly as boring

  • I don't care what these guys have to say about BMW's... Both of my kids and I are alive today because of the handling of a BMW...I'll never buy another car but a BMW.

  • @Bankster76 too right

  • stupid BMW!

  • @ErnieCosmo do some research, the germans are one of the leaders in producing great cars!

  • WTF AS FAST AS A MURCIELAGO :D WTF

  • chick car.

  • I had a feeling a real driver could coax that BMW around a track quickly. Richard is so ham handed, it seems like all he wants to do is hang it out and let the smoke fly, then loose it a couple three times per drive. All the guys seem to be geezer drifters, smooth is fast, but they ain't trying to be fast they're putting on a show. These guys are a hoot to watch, but I wish they'd get into the tech of the cars more.

  • @505197 If you want them to do more about the techs of things, you should watch Fifth Gear. They often discuss the same cars (except for the super cars) and they look at it more serious.

  • @505197 btu that's why they have the stig drive it around a track, so that you can actually see what the car can do. My dad has one of these and was kinda pissed throughout this bit until they took it around and it put up a crazy time, lol

  • BMW cars than we can talk for others with all the respect!

  • This must be the first ever Tuned Car thats... Slower than the original lmao

  • I wonder how fast the original Z8 would have been.....

  • i wont the old stig back

  • you dont know how to drive when steering wheel is on left clarkson !

  • Car drives like american classic cobra

  • That jeremy is obviously a jerk kind guy id punch in mouth. Why is he driving the BMW so hard lol, drive like a grandma and car is no problem or hell park it in garage sure looks pretty.

  • Audi borrowed some bmw and mercedes guy's to build Veyron or there would be no BMWrveyroncedes.

  • I thought that car looked like a handler and Richard couldn't drift it, so what, driftin adn handling don't have shit to do with each other. That car had damn good side bite and was hooked the fuck up, you just got to know how to use it. It no doubt has a lot of camber, and when ya counter steer it it "wedges" the car, had he tried it on a slicker surface he'd have liked the better for driftin. Those guys toss cars around tooo much, smooth is fast, seamless application of G forces sets fast time

  • Audi is rubbish

  • @kiasoul10 Yea right, they are rubbish. In fact they are such rubbish that they could make the Bugatti Veyron's Engine.

  • Lamborghini? I don't think so...

  • The car really is rubbish for the money BMW’s intent. The best thing BMW could do was to drop it. It looks like a Z3, it has cheap plastic bits all over it. The fitment of the interior was on par with a Chrysler 300.

    They even tried putting the enormous M5 motor in there which just made the car drive like an over-motorized skateboard.

    An M5 or RS6 is a much better car.

    If you need top-down, then a Ferrari California would be oh so much better.

  • click F5 for the commercial to go away !

  • @yerevan114  wow thx it work

  • how many Z's are there? I know there is a Z1, Z3, Z4, and Z8... anymore?

  • Hahaha ! Less horsepower, mushy suspension/too hard suspension, heavy steering, wrong exhaust note. Clarkson whines and whines and the car that was supposed to be a piece of shit produces a stunning lap time.

    BMW FTFW !

  • @sweetnothing1977 You don't buy a roadcar because it can go round a track fast. Unless you're an idiot.

  • @aymthebest The real idiot is the one testing a road car on a track, by your own 'logic.' If this were a British car, Dickson would wax eloquent about how it is the next best thing after sliced bread. Isn't this the same guy who keeps extolling the virtues of a Lotus as a marvelous piece of 'British Engineering' when it runs using a TOYOTA 1.8 liter engine? This is the umpteenth time I am watching this blithering idiot dissing another German car. It's getting old, really.

  • @sweetnothing1977

    Whenever they say a car is british, they always mention with a trifle of comedy that its engine or/and bodywork etc aren't... We all know there aren't many 100% british cars, if any at all. No need to stress that.

    And no, that wasn't my "logic" you interpreted in your own perverted way, a road car can be tested on a track, if it's a "sportscar" or a supercar or a hypercar....

    Just gtfo, hate him? then don't watch him. We won't really miss you.

  • @aymthebest u really like answering everyone back don't you, even though they're not talking to you?

  • z8 its a legend

    this guy is a moron

    BMW 4LIFE

  • @Malibu71 If you don't share his opinion doesn't mean he's a moron. Plus he knows a million times more than you so I'd rather listen to his opinion than your unfounded and pointless love for a brand.

  • didn't they call that the z8 or z9?

  • if hes so good how come they fired him :(

  • ...Whats so funny about a Scania??? Swedish truck power!

  • @VolvoEP Normally, BMWs aren't supposed to drive like Scania.

  • @AdrianC12345 Oh, they taking shit about BMWs? BMWs are GOOD cars :D...

    Volvos too... ;P

  • @VolvoEP I know they are. I have 2 Volvos, and I also really like BMWs. Just that I guess ever car maker messes up 1 car. Was it the Volvo 480 that was the really bad one???

  • @AdrianC12345 Actually it's two cars, I can't really say that Volvo 480 and 440 are "messes up cars". It was just not so good as the others. In other words: 480 and 440 is "The Bad Volvo Cars"

  • it's a legend

  • @volker87 And you are insane

  • Wait... only 11 in Britain? HOLY CRAP!!! I saw one of these in a supermarket car park in red!! And I didn't even give it a second glance! Although then again, the owner could just of easily imported one from another country.

  • @DigitalLuke64DD Maybe if you gave it a second glance you could have checked if it was an Alpina or not?

  • @mipmipmipmipmip What I meant by that was that I thought Alpina Z8's are fairly common. After all, where I live there are tons of Alpina M5's and a couple of normal Z8's.

  • I know they say it sucks and all....but DAMN that is a good-looking car. Sexxyy...

  • He thinks, it s a peace of shit. I´d still take it.

  • press-f5-to-skip-the-advertism­ent

  • oh yes u are stupid damm these top gear guys

  • yes the M5 was definitely one of TG's low points as far as reviews go. Clarkson made himself look a right twat in not understanding that the M button is a macro control and basing the entire review around it

  • Watch M5 history, he actually compliments the looks of the older M5's, and I've heard Clarkson say many times that the Germans know how to make "good cars." Also, this M button, that's a memory button that remembers your personal settings, and is probably set default to everything max. If you really want, you can set the car to start up regularly to whatever the default is on the M button. Clarkson is indeed to old for this technology, since he can't even change the radio or turn the sat nav off

  • fucking ads man this was ad free and now they star this shit on here, the reason i hate tv is the ads and i was watching here adfree videos i wanted now here to can they fuck off for good ??? fuckerssss

  • very in nice in blue colour

  • the windscreen, a pillars and steering wheel etc look similar to the mini

  • i dont understand why they still test german cars...i mean its obvious that they dont like german cars. why test them and show them? just to say they are bad??

    i really like the humourous way of the presenting of top gear, but im really dissappointed tho...its more like a show of british nationalism...whatever they are proud of :P

  • jeremy blames about the z8 all the time and in the end it comes with the same track time as the supercar of those days the murcielago!!!! I dont call this an amazing stig I call this an amazing bmw, if the stig was so good and the car was so bad than the lap times would have come up with a big difference

  • can any i.d. the song at 1:23?

  • why do they say zed8 instead of z8

  • @adioskate62 because in england the letter z is pronounced zed

  • @adioskate62 Because in almost all the countries in the world it's zed...

  • The engine has less horses, but way more torque and the gearbox is not Alpinas (since they dont make any at all), but the regular ZF-automatic used in normal BMWs (Switchtronic) which is excellent and obviously much easier to use than the incredibly sharp manual in the regular Z8. This car was born only for the American market, so its no wonder that Europeans dont like THE CHANGES, but the car itself is just magnificent, one of the all time greats.

  • @Ycondaman uhh this was never sold in america im pretty sure.

  • This guy annoys me to the core.

  • I love the Z8 design and style I hope they bring it back

    I would love an Alpina Z8 <3

  • from the look of it, jeremy clarkson cannot drive for shit! The stig made a car he babbled on about being poor, look amazing.

    The time was pretty good too!

    Is clarkson a cock for the sake of it?!

  • kkkkkkkk

  • thats cause you're a good openionator Jeremy, not always the best reviewer...

  • imma get one of those... Z8 RULES

  • To bring it on the Point:

    Alpina and Brabus aren't Tuners, they are Carmanufactors. AMG is the Housetuner of Mercedes, BMW has the M-Series to compare, and Audi just put a RS in front of the Carname. "Housetuners" of Audi's are ABT and MTM. And VW doesn't care how powerfull theyr cars are, the most are tuned by privates or ABT, Tec-Power and Sportec. And bevore you start biching why audi and vw got the same tuners, it's the same company.

  • I love this car ;) one of the 555 is in our familie :)

  • WATCH MY CHANNEL FOR INSTANT JOY

  • Jeremy trash talked the M3. And then when the M3 did a 1:38 lap and the other 2 did like a 1:42, he still didn't admit the M3 was great. I think some guy in a BMW stole his girlfriend, or maybe even his wife, because I have never seen anyone deny the facts about BMW like Jeremy does.

  • @yzfr1tony this episode isn;t even about the M3, its about the Alpina - THE worst car that BMW ever created. Jeremy Clarkson is a biased journalist when it comes to cars and this can be proven by his discrimination against most Porsche's. But he;s right about BMW's - their fucking shit - and i mean ALL of them - including the fucking M3. Nobody cares if its got a good lap time cuz it shows barely anything about a good car.

  • I was exaggerating what Jeremy said. I OWN A FUCKING BMW, and was defending how ANTI-BMW Jeremy is. So whoever emailed me the comment, fuck off. lol BMW could make the Veyron, and Jeremy wouldn't acknowledge it as "fast". His review of it would talk about how a BMW Veyron couldn't tow a horse trailer or something equally stupid.

  • first of all bmw is not alpina, they only build these in bmw factories.

    and this one is just a prestige luxury cruiser for rich housewifes, check out the alpina B5s or the D3, some amazing cars!

  • "Hi! I am Jeremy from Top Gear. BBC. I hate BMW. So I am going to drive a Truck in the intro to show it doesn't handle. And I am going to bash BMW for 8 minutes. And I am going to say Alpina did a terrible job. And then I am not going to change my story when the car laps the track as fast as a Lambo." Geee Jeremy, reminds me of the Audi RS4, Mercedes C63AMG, BMW M3 video on here. The BMW M3 won by 5 seconds (!!!) over the other 2 on the track and he still wouldn't say it was the best.

  • @yzfr1tony fuck yaaaaaa bmw is the best

  • @dobata111 This is not a BMW dude:)

  • @PijnigeR bmw alpina like mercedes amg ? like porshe's ruff. or.... tell me more

  • @dobata111 Yep. That's a good comparison.

  • @dobata111 No ...

    Bmw Alpina its like Mercedes Brabus...

    Bmw have M , and Mecedes have AMG

  • those wheels are fucking amazing

  • the a pillar, dash and door look like on the new mini

  • long live the stig....

  • Looks alright, but has no speed and the downgrades don't help.

  • All the bullshit on how crap it was and it achieved a good time on the track! Sometimes journalists spout their incessant nonsense, they should just leave the handling analysis to people who know what they're doing!

  • anyway 900000 is a way to pricey and this is not dollars. You can just buy a better car much better looking and better driving car for a half of this price. .

  • what is the first song they play??

  • Artist: Pilote

    Track: Turtle (Bonobo Mix)

    Album: One Off Remixes and B-Sides

  • If I'm not mistaken is that an AUTOMATIC Z8? Apparently only the Alpinas came in Auto. I remember seeing these here in the states all the time then just like that they all vanished, have not seen one since 2003.

  • Because they stopped making them then... lol :)

  • Hi Allan. While I respect you as a person you are very limited in mental capacity. Just because they stopped making them doesn't explain why I stopped seeing them. They stopped the DMC DeLorean in 1983 and I still see it every so often. Get it sweetheart?

  • @DJFG85 its automatic.

  • and you are a stupid asshole