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  • the idea is to thrash it around and be as agressive as possible with these cars. You just cant drive them like a car built for corners.

  • this is propably the first person to not drift through corners in these cars

  • Lots of Americans on here who comment before they know anything about the driver. She may be a woman but Vicki Butler-Henderson is a damn good driver who would most likely beat the lot of you. The laps did seem rather docile though with a lack of steering correction that makes me think those cars were rented from private owners that wanted them well looked after.

  • I woman shouldnt be driving a charger like that. the newer, rounder, more family appropriate turds that they make today would better suite a dummy like that. You need to be a man to throw a car like that around.

  • The Charger has got to be one of the most beautiful cars ever manufactured... Ok, they return less than 10mpg, but who cares... Iconic.

    Gran Torino is great as well, I love the weight stats, the bigger, the better in my opinion.

  • Where did they find a 69 Dodge Charger? I thought they had destroyed just about all of them making the "Dukes of Hazard"

  • Where's mad max :)

  • people says that its a slow hot lap because it is a women thats drive, but they don´t know that she´s a real racing driver.

  • WOMEN DRIVER LOOK OUT!!!

  • 5.8Litre V8 and only getting 200hp???????

    AMG Merc with same size engine is getting 700 HP!

  • @smasila you realize that this is about 40 years ago... as in the car.

  • i am british and just to set the record straight american cars are loved over here as most of us grew up with them on tv,i would like nothing more to own shelby gt 500 ,however cars american cars are just not that good anymore ,europe has by far the best makes models and build quality

  • @olympian2011 to be precise, Germany has the best cars.

  • Better driver please........I watched both those shows to see all the side ways action but she can't even get a single drift?

  • Can we get a better driver

  • Did she ever watch the dukes drive??? Who used brakes or steered the way they were turning??? Everyone knows you steer a charger right to go left and mat the go pedal... Stupid women drivers.

  • @The1Virge . i hear that man, the general was made for backwoods driving not a dam track with some little brittish woman driving it. bo was alot taller than her so his foot went alot harder on the gas petal.

  • Two and a quarter, LIES, THE DODGE CHARGER WEIGHED 1.9 TONS, NOT ANY MORE.

  • This is british carshow and they hate all that is american. Lets see their prides from the same era and see who wins then. Nothing beats american muscle

  • @blackmetalofnorway1 well thats easy us brits do. jag xke,lotus elan, aston martin db6 ,tvr giffin , austin healy and many more us brits love old yank tanks but they are exactly that tanks nice cars but poorly made and poor handling and not that quick considering you use at least 5 liters and get next to no power from them this brit girl is quite competent in the field she is a pro rally driver and knows her stuff the problem is the cars dont take offence its just an honest review...........

  • @blackmetalofnorway1 , no shit. even a camaro thats all beat to shit from that era would destroy anything british bult.

  • @77trashman haha yup

  • anyone whose ever been in an american car will know that "road holding" is an alien concept. To say that they wallow and weave as their huge mass takes the edge off any performance the engines can muster, is an objective appraisal. That said, werent hollywood producers famed for transplanting/ souping up cars on screen to look better? I know Bond films did...

  • First of all, American V8s weren't designed for the track. Put them on the drag strip that's where they shine. stupid fifth gear!

  • Boss hogg was riding in a caddy and Roscoe was an idiot and a shitty driver like you, and there is no way zebra 3 could out run the general. No cop car can catch the general lee

  • God that video was rubbish! Her silliness was typified by her ignorance regarding Boss Hogg. It was the Sherrif Roscoe P Coltraaaaaaaaane that did the chasin' I guess she's just the Cleeterus in the 5th Gear team? they should have put Sherrif Tiff P Needellllll in for the hot pursuit q q q

  • A women in a muscle car??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

  • Jessica simpson + Ole School rides= Boats N Hoes!!

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  • It's not her fault she doesn't know how to drive these bohemoths. No serious performance car in her lifetime has been built like this.

    Those who want to see drivers wringing the most out of these roly-poly kinds of cars should check out the excellent C&T reviews posted here on YT. I'm amazed how the cars don't flip.

  • mopar ftw, period.

  • Oh come on! Its not fair to test them like this, the designers didn't have turning in mind! :D

  • Two things here: 1st: My 1976 Ford Gran Torino weighs 3597 lbs (that's 1632 Kgs not 2,5 tons!). Fully equipped, not stripped, not modified in any way. And 2nd: You are using the totally wrong tires. Lose those stupid low profiles and get the correct SR10 series for the front and 9 inch SR's for the back. And, there was a version, like mine, with a "385 series" engine (7 litre) that delivered 378 bhp. Why are you using the whimpy Torino?

  • i would shag her :)

  • Cummon guys, who are we kidding? We all knew these cars were lumps in the corners. Not to mention drum brakes aren't exactly carbon ceramic, if you know what I mean. These cars were built for the old 1320 footer ;) and damn did they have soul.

  • Holy crap, I want your job!!!!

  • they could do it way faster

  • Dixie forever !!

  • the origional general lee was destroyed in the first episode of Dukes of Hazzard

  • nothing can bet the general

  • its a 69 you can see by the gril its split in two

  • i can not listen to that bitch any longer

  • She should have worn her Daisy Dukes!

  • She's right about the weight and handling, but yeah, neither car was stock on their respective shows. Trivia: in the pilot episode of Dukes Of Hazzard, the Starsky and Hutch (Zebra 3) Torino makes a cameo in the background.

  • I guess they new that the Bandit would bar-be-que their asses in molasses!!!!

  • The Bandit vs. the General Lee would have worked so much better.

  • i can drive better than you and i dont even have my licence

  • dodge charger 1968 bitch not 69

  • don't even need to start the charger and it has already blown your doors off. if darth vader drove a car, it would be a 69 charger

  • LOL these cars may have been something in there day (In America!!). But 375bhp in a car thats weighing in a 2.25 tonnes. The stock power to weight figure is sh*te. Thats why its so damn slow. Handling, something american cars still are yet to acheive.

  • It's not the driver's fault, american cars are like bricks, huge and heavy, and only go fast in a straight. It would have been easier to build less heavy cars with much smaller engines or with the same engine but it would take off like a jet, and you could also handle it in the corners. These cars are made for long straights and lazy americans who are lazy to shift.

  • General Lee FTW.

  • i cant take her seriously in that shirt :)

  • Pfft, fifth gear has great cars to review. But atleast i cba to listen a woman to talk about 1000bhp mustangs or old dodge chargers..

  • this dumb twat is why top gear>>> fifth gear

  • DUKES DUKES DUKES DUKES FUCK STARSKY AND HUTCH

  • whats wrong with butlers mouth when she is talking

  • che schifo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! una donna non puo

  • Wanna know why the hot laps are slow?

    Women drivers..

  • @SmartyHDv1 no, it's because they are American cars, they haven't been made with corners in mind...

  • @thaurgurth took the words out of my mouth

  • how can you compare anything against the lee?

  • Fifth gear you are one of the most rediculous shows on telly first you copy top gear then you bag buggery out of the general go back to driving school.

  • rrrrrr nor look at ur shoes

  • call me sexist, but i dont want a vagina reviewing my cars....

  • She did a great job driving those cars WAY under their safety envelope. Those cars would have to be heavily drifting through a corner to have any hope of a high speed lap time. PLUS, that's not what they were made for. Point them, fire, hold on. And, really, compared with today's drag car, it won't be all that great.

  • who let her out of the kitchen ?

  • american muscle only can be ride for real man :)

  • 1:50 "what was boss hog drivin?" It wasn't him chasing them!!

  • bitch can't drive:P

  • there u have it ford boys  DODGE RULZ

  • there u go ford boys Dodge wins lol

  • does anyone know the name of the song playing in the backround?

  • ROFL, she looks perfectly correct in the dukes of hazard el general lee.

  • @OfficialKRAGE ROFL!! Look at those boats take those corners!!!

  • They're just old cars, you can't bang on them for not matching todays standards and technology.

  • Odd looking kitchen, isn't it?

  • I have a feeling she never saw the dukes of hazzard haha

  • 74 feet? What the fuck

  • thereis a reasn they slid around all the corners in the show back then, the fastest way around was to slide, not grip as you could go 100+ and stil come out at around 80.

    oh and btw im aussie so therefore neutral to this argument.

  • I knew who would win by looking at the title. YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

  • Yeah! A british bitch tells me in her annoying accent sth. about american legends... Fuck Off! She shall go to kitchen!

  • @Jijajafa We invented the goddamn language so you can shut the fuck up with your shitty accent.

  • @Sammyy46 Well, actually the germans invented your language, just with the time you change up some words, so screw you!

  • @Jijajafa Oh, so the English didn't invent the English language? Fuck you, you're blocked. You know you're going into too much detail about bits of language that came from around the world. All the languages did.

  • That bitch doesn't know a gas cap from a hub cap.

  • haha Silly British people!

    

  • Woman, you can't dirve.

  • i dont think we should have a brittish WOMAN drive two AMERICAN CLASSICS!!!!!!!!!

  • only pussies and brits get scared driving a muscle car.

  • Crazy Chick wasn't even riding them out like either show!!! Wasn't sideways....wasn't wide open.... i thing she was scared!!!

  • This daft cow should never be let loose with a shopping trolley, let alone 2 classic muscle cars. VBH is one of the main reasons I never watch fifth gear, she`s such an annoying bitch.

  • @dowahdiddyman absolutely. She is unbearable. Fifth Gear , if your'e reading this and want your viewer rating up get rid of VBH, Tiff 'I talk in a irritating camp voice' Needell and that fat goon with the long hair and beard. There are alot of negative comments about these three, especially VBH so please take note...

  • by the way ,.. the general lee from the dukes tv series has been fixed to lose a lot of weight,.. so the took out big parts of the interior, the grill and additional things to reduce the ammount of punds per hp ... should have won on a quarter mile though

  • dude every one knows the general is the fastest beacause the charger chassis was an mess wile the proto type was tested :D to mutch horses

  • General lee Never let you down:)

  • I grew up on this...You have NO SAY....

    MORONS

  • Wohoo General Lee rocks .. and actually looks nicer for me. Always wanted a car like that. BUt i have Chevy Avalanche LTZ 2009 black version. Awesome.

  • The Bandit Trans Am would smoke both of these cars.

  • Well, euh, she's my age, so she's born inbetween those cars. 1972, is right between 1969 and 1974.

  • the charger weighs 1897kg and it produces(with the hemi motor)about 450-470bhp and the fifth gear sucz tooooo much.

  • This woman is a natural car person. NOT!!

    Must come from driving on the wrong side of

    the road.

  • this is retarded shes driving at like 50 mph. im pretty damn sure the general will go a hell of a lot faster if you give it to someone other than some dumb british girl!

  • they need to get bo and luke duke and starsky and hutch behind the wheel and do a circuit race

  • We call it a hood, not a "bonnet".

    Goddamn UK-ians.

  • 2:18 - 2:22 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!! HaaAAaaAaaAyYYYoOOoooOO!!!!! lol

  • god bless the confederate states of america

  • stupid cunt, like driving a mule, thats a v8 hemi shes driving, typical woman driver, cant drive for shit. I can ream that car thru those corners, and 100, I can take it far past that, I took my buddies at about 145 and that had the stock hemi, dumb bitch, shut up and get back in the kitchen.

  • fucktards they didn't have the stock motors in them either. They fuckin worked the motor over. Both owners of their cars worked on the thus the work done to them. It wasn't just fuckin paint. This is why shits fucked up from folks like ya'll

  • The General Lee is the Bad Ass Mofo of Cars

  • What a moron. She doesn't even have a helmet on! Muscle cars are about going straight not driving around a track.

  • Deciding factor: Which car has a better chance of laying this Broad? General Lee by a mile. Starsky and Hutch? My grandmother drove that POS.

  • I will not listen to any criticism about the General

  • @MrBurtley 2 rites 

  • @MrBurtley

    fuck you cooch country western is rubbish! 

  • She has to power slide those turns. These old rear wheel drive cars cannot handle the same type of fast grip based driving as modern cars. I drifted my 89 Firebird Formula a few times messing around on corners.

  • how dare she diss the general

  • This video also assumes that the cars depicted came from the factory as they were...We know that the Duke boys and Starsky would take as much of that heavy stock stuff out, and replace it with better (and lighter) aftermarket equipment like headers and aluminum manifolds for a start...Safe bet Chargers coming off the assembly line back then had drum brakes on all four wheels..

  • SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!! the general lee can outrun any car!!!

  • Both cars are cool, but I incline more for the REP on the General Lee, it used for monshine smuglin and cop evader, how cool is that!!!, torino`s cokes bottle body is sexy but I hate cops !!!

  • wtf is fith gear!??

  • Women drivers, no wonder it was so slow.  Get back in the kitchen.

  • Torino was an old man's car even back in the day, and it's a tank, dog slow, during the energy crisis of 1974, it was SLOOOOOW. The Charger had at least a 383 or 440 in it and could run circles around any 70s car. 426 hemi was nice too!

  • Waht?! A woman drive that muscle cars? Is that the Twilight zone?

  • why is there a woman in this muscle cars ..

  • MOPAR!!!!!!!!

  • @guachii18

    Try telling that to Daisy Duke...

  • The General is not an R/T, who wrote her cue cards?

  • I bet she never heard of a Kickdown >_>

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  • Dodge Charger <3 ... but she cant drive that car xD is not for a lady

  • Top Gear is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY betterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

  • I think she didn't realize as a RW drive car your supposed to kick the rear end out and spin the tires a bit if you wanna round a corner fast lol.

  • @Crocketman1990 that's ridiculous, drifting never makes you go faster, it only makes your tires wear faster.

  • @darthvidu92 I never said drift, I said kick the back end out a bit on the corners and spin the wheels... meaning you have to floor the damn car to go fast, something she didn't do.

  • @Crocketman1990 only in dirt.

  • Something the good lady also forgot, is that General Lee in the condition he was portrayed *in the show*, would have been heavily modified with a great deal more suspension upgrades, performance equipment and racing know-how than the probably straight stock, merely-repainted model that she drove in this video. She's commenting on a pale copy, not the real character racecar the General was. Her mistake.

  • Why don't you Idiots realize that neither these cars were made for high speed cornering or braking?

    They were HI Performance straight line Muscle cars from the 60-70's era !

    How on earth do you believe any car from the 60's and 70' s would take a 100mph turn into the corners where was ????.The technology was great then ... for it's time .

    and to whoevers comment that said the driver is a world class Rally Driver ???? she wasn't even born when these cars were made !!!

  • @holleywood440 What you need to do is put on all disc brakes and fix the suspension, if you want to throw it into the corners.

  • @holleywood440

    Dude, Travis Pastrana wasn't born when these cars were made either. Does that disqualify him from being a world class Rally driver?

  • @Horhayj Why, and who gives a crap who Travis Pastrami is .... What I am saying is is if you are going to test a car , test it for what it was designed for and make sure you have someone who knows what the car was made for !!!!

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  • @Horhayj Dude are you screwed in the head ???? I'm saying who gives a rats ass if he's a rally driver !!! He could be the queen of England for all I care .... The point IS these cars were made in the late 60's and early 70's .... a Fricken Honda Civic could out corner either of these cars any day !!! The fact is ... the Civic will probably be crushed and recycled in 10 years and be worth nothing .... these 2 will only appreciate in value ..

  • @holleywood440 there are some musclecars that are capable of beating european cars but they are completely technical rebuilt

  • @holleywood440 The fact that she wasn't born when they are made means nothing, the fact that they are typical American cars that only go in a straight line well that does mean something. Americans are great at building high power drag race legends, and not much else. Sorry but its true just face the facts.

  • @adamslurch71 Agree. I like the American V8, but with a DOHC setup and a more modern drive train layout American cars could kick some serious azz out of some BMW's and Mercs.

  • @adamslurch71 corvette zr1 record nurburgring lap time

  • @hu0189743 Again wrong, ZR1 runs it in 7:26.4 and the Viper ACR runs it in 7:22.1, so it looks like the ZR1 isn't all that great after all.

    Side Note: Deal with the fact that the ZR1 is not as great as its made out to be, the fact that a car that cost half as much ( The GTR) only runs the 26 mile course 3 seconds slower even though its 250ish HP down. Yea really great American Tech and engineering there.

  • @adamslurch71 the zr1 ran a 7:19 I will send u the link

  • @hu0189743 Yea gutted and running on C16 race fuel, I hope it could pick up a few extra seconds. Deal with the fact that the corvette is an aging design and needs to be left in History, GM will get nowhere if they cant over come the fact that its dead and move on to something better.

  • @adamslurch71 i will send you the link because it ran a 7:19 on the nurburgring

  • @holleywood440 true and no car ever in the world can compare its sound to all american muscle cars

  • @holleywood440 the best the brit's can come up with is the MG the Jag and Bentley. no contest and no muscle

  • @TheHarbinger82 McLaren, Noble, TVR too. Our roads don't suit muscle. Cars over here are built to quick and nimble

  • @holleywood440 in 1969 those Dodge Chargers won 22 of the 54 major NASCAR races.

    

  • @dannyd1572 .. Yes they did ... in 1969 and 1970 ....

  • @holleywood440 I think it's mostly that the driver they have going here has no clue how to drive a heavy car. Watching her corner is driving me crazy from the oversteering and refusal to adapt to body roll.

  • @holleywood440 u r damn right these cars were top of the line back then and still are

  • @holleywood440 yeah but these damn brits will put down anything. i mean really first that general lee is done wrong its supposed to at least by the story to have a 440 six pack or magnum. she had 383 plus they made a naggy brit woman drive it come on get a 4spd car and a person who knows how to drive in there. i swear i about busted the fucking screen when she asked what the police were driving ''mules''? i mean really!

  • @gunny426plymouth maybe you shouldn't put all brits down. like me for example!

  • @gunny426plymouth shes got a full race license so im pretty damn sure she can drive faster than you.

  • @ScottiesVlog that i doubt. lets see her on the dirt ovals with 1000cc motorcycle engine in a mod-lite..... then i'll be impressed

  • @gunny426plymouth you can find vids on youtube of vicki sliding 700+awhp GTRs Im pretty sure she can handle ur mod lite.Im not saying shed be a pro on her first lap but she has enough serious time behing high hp rally machines and drifters to know how to drive and slide .Give her a few laps she'll definatly pass ya,when was the last time a car maunufacturer trusted your skill so much that they gave you the keys to a multi mil concept,and told you to drive it at its limits?

  • @gunny426plymouth she said it was a 7.2 liter thats a 440 bud,should have been a 4 speed though Ill give you that.As far as her insulting the LEE I think she was being a little harsh giving the age of the car it was definatly not sluggish compared to the cars of yesterday but I guess we have to understand here that this woman is used to driving highly sophisticated AWD monsters and other beast which of course are countless lenghts faster on any road BUT they should be technology goes forward.

  • @gunny426plymouth Well shes used to driving good fast, technological cars not some old tank with no brakes.

  • @MrNellie2200 Excuse me? have you ever driven a 68-70 charger? they're pretty good handling and lets consider old braking techniques, stupid ass.... I'll take my big v8 and y'all can keep the change. not to mention great companies like HKS can make any car handle like rails stop on a dime and other companies to help bring your old girl back to her glory, oh and I'll take my American made stuff and give you the bird....

  • topgear would jump it !

  • the charger is a v10 thick bitch

  • @scott90par Lol what? It definitely is not a V10. It is most assuredly a V8. Learn more about Mopar.

  • @scott90par Charger V8. Viper V10

  • the leader of the civil war?

    wtf

  • i wish some day could drive the famous orange car on the world the GENERALEE

  • Yep, there's a big difference between a small block and big block, yet bigger still is there were 2 option engines in the Torino, a 351 Windsor and a 351 Cleveland, same cubic inches, and it ends there, blocks were different and so was the power, the Cleveland preferred higher RPM's making it a true race engine. BTW I've seen her blow Jeremy's top record at the race road course in Germany, even pushed a Ford transit to insane speeds at that same track

  • GET.BACK.IN.THE.KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A SAMICH

  • thats a odd looking kitchen?