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  • I thought he'd buy a Maurauder.

  • "I keep bumping my head"........."I know but its the fastest way to school" hahahahah

  • NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

  • press 8 for something beefy.

  • Press 3 for an epileptic attack

  • " I just keep bumping my head" haha.. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! :D

  • pffftt buy a diesel s class crush anyone in its path and gets great millage oh and its a benz

  • 4:07 - I think she meant to say "I just prefer having something MORE BEEFY INSIDE of me!!!".... "My husband is not satisfying enough....". :D

  • LOL

    Jeremy owns a land rover today anyway hahaha what a fool ^^

  • 20 litres for 16 quid, those were the days....

  • "people with SUVs are stupid and mad.....this is mine" lol

  • I had one of those

  • i keep bumping my head lmao!

  • niiiiine!!!

  • Holy shit. Pause at 0:29 an it then cost 84.9p per litre. Now it's like £1.40 a litre. Madness!!!!

  • see it is the perfect vehicle for soccer moms, or other people who just put ZERO effort into driving. if they had a car that could exploit emergency maneuvering better, it wouldn't matter, as they are AWFUL drivers.

  • I know but this is the fastest way to school!!!

  • His kids ar cute!

    love that he just bitches about people that has a SUV and then he got one him self :)

    i would like one... just more safe.

  • 2:58 Talking Heads...Hell yes!

  • Ever try driving a pothole infested michigan road in a tiny sedan?

    It's not very fun.

  • @TotallyXavier Your car probably wants to rip your head off and spit down your neck for even thinking of driving there, right?

  • Um...pretty sure there's less than 4 liters in a gallon, liters are bigger than quarts...

    I also find it very very ironic that the majority of SUV buyers are women...that's some weird twisted extension of the "bigger" concept. I had a measly Ford Escort that kept me PLENTY safe when I totaled it. If we can get the women in America to see the light about SUVs, we'd be on the road to efficiency...

    Or maybe we should just make THEM pay for gas, instead of bowing down to the vagina.

  • @yellowmusicfreak he is talking about uk gallons, which are roughly 4.5 litres, whereas a US gallon is 3.8 litres about ( corrrect me if im wrong)

  • Do you know a truck with 4 wheel drive, smells like a steak & seats 35

    CANYONARO!

    Keep your 600cc commie cars, give me a V8 4 wheel drive anyday.

    Stuff the political watermelons - (green on the outside deep red on the inside) - I am an English rural libertarian & despise the metropolitan eco fascists who dictate & pontificate.

    Get a life - & stay out of mine.

  • is that his kids,or did BBC buy them to use in this segment?

  • How cheap is petrol there! :(

  • I only have an 4x4 suv because you need one to go anywhere in minnesota. I dont know how many sedans ive pushed/towed out of snowbanks. My explorer never gets stuck.

  • @burninrock24 hmmmmmmmmmmm subaru.

  • @divine101 Subaru's still get stuck when their undercarriage/bumpers start dragging on the snow. then they bottom out and just spin their wheels.

  • @burninrock24 I've driven a Subaru through snow a whole lot deeper than bumper-height. Unless you're into rock-crawling offroad, a Subaru will do almost anything an SUV will, while using far less fuel.

  • @trainiax cant tow a boat.

  • you hardly noticed a SIDE IMPACT? What are you, daft?

  • My dad's got a 24/7 4X4 Dodge Power Wagon from 1977, with a 5.2L V8 and 38.5" mud tires that make it physically difficult to climb into. It's not used for moving kids about, because his only kid has a driving license. It's not used to impress people around town, because he lives in Oregon and the people here are more impressed by a Prius and a cup of coffee from Starbuck's. No. It's used for fun, for adventure, and for the pure eventfulness that any drive in it will immediately create.

  • Can someone please ID the music at the beginning of the clip. Iv'e been looking for it for years !

  • @smooth922 hear you go "rodney yates david holmes" and you owe me 100$ :D

  • @mrmare90 This is weired. I have been looking for name of this tune for about 10 years. I first heard it on an old NAT West add. Then yesterday it pops up on the spotify play list at work and I found out what it was, then you tell me what it is at virtually the same time. After ten years I find out twice in one day !! The world is not as it seems :-)

  • @smooth922 10 years? Man you need to bay soni ericson with track ID function, I found it in 5 sec.

  • Clarkson gets his 5 grand fuel bill paid for by the BBC taxing old grannies who can't buy enough food for themselves!

  • "People who have off-road cars are stupid and mad. They should be driving from the roads and birched within an inch of their lives. Off road cars are daft, anti-social and idiotic, and the people who drive them are FOOLS".

    *sitting on a S.U.V*

    "... this is mine".

    Bwwaahaha! P.S. his kids are ADORABLE.

  • "People who have off-road cars are stupid and mad. They should be driving from the roads and birched within an inch of their lives. Off road cars are daft, anti-social and idiotic, and the people who drive them are FOOLS".

    *sitting on a S.U.V*

    "... this is mine".

    Bwwaahaha!

  • Since when does England speak metric? :))

  • heres my opinion. dont buy a suv for hauling your children around. if you are going to buy a four wheel drive, then it should be for serious off-roading, and more of a hobby than for practicality. now im from the states(start making fun now) but when people buy a jeep, its for going off road, not hauling people around, although its an added bonus. but its just the feeling that only true offroaders get, that make people buy these cars. its hard for me to explain, but you just have to feel it

  • @motorfreak12 "now im from the states(start making fun now) but when people buy a jeep, its for going off road, not hauling people around"

    Um...care to check your facts? 90% of American 4WD SUVs never go off road, that's the point of all this...people buy these expensive Hummers and Excursions and Cadillacs so they can feel bigger better than the next person, they SURE AS SHIT don't buy them for off road.

    It's become a psychological thing, instead of a capability thing...

  • @yellowmusicfreak same story in england except its pointless four wheel drives such as bmw x3 and porsche cayenne, they are all being driven by people who never go off road.

    in the uk we call them chelsea tractors (chelsea a rich area of london) becuase the closer you get to city centres the more shiny pointless off roaders you see

  • this is mine! hahaha

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  • diesel was 76.9 then!!!!good times!!!now it s about 1.52 :S

  • God petrol was cheap when this was made its 84.9p per litre. now its 115.9 p per litre

  • hahahahahahaha lololololol

  • lol last part dealing with the accident xD btw i know that most of the girls owns and 4x4 in my country

  • fucking accident!

  • I don't know if you guyz noticed, but all the SUV drivers there were women. They all said they'd like to be in a big phat SUV than a normal car during an accident, one of them actually had an accident. What should I get from that? Hmmmm???..... WOMEN driving...... SUVs...... ACCIDENTS......

  • I love clarkson and I also drive a Landcruiser !

    And i hate environmentalists, speed camera's, electric cars and americans

  • Clarkson is a TV mastermind!

  • he doesnt use sig figs. attack of high school science!

  • all those women who say size dont matter lol.

  • not all 4x4 rigs are bad on gas, as demonstrated by suzuki in the 80's and 90's, i run a 1995 sidekick and i get better gas mileage then my friends ford focus.

  • I wish my dad took me off-roading on the way to school! lol

    Here where I live, we use SUVs for the same reasons but also because our roads are shit and if it rains, it floods easily (tropical climate).

  • I see SUVs flip over in simple low speed accidents where a normal sedan would stay up right; You think being flipped over is actually safer ?

  • @swedishiron just about.

  • @swedishiron some say that in roll over situations... you disipate energy. lol. All we know is........ its more dangerous lol.

  • Get Yourself a Hummer H1 and you will be safe!

  • @drMINDdamage Hummer H1 couldnt even past Side Impact laws without having the doors reinforced for street use - SUVs aren't safe as people assume.

  • @swedishiron Aaaa im not talking about SUVs! Im talkin about Military vehicles like the H1! The H2 and H3 sucks but Hummer 1 is real shit!

  • @swedishiron Other vehicles are too intimidated to hit an H1 though, haha

  • Big cars aren't new. An SUV is just the current equivalent of a van or a station wagon.

    I drive a small car myself, but I get really sick of the authoritarian attitude people have adopted in telling everyone else what to drive. Most families (in the US anyway) need 1 vehicle that comfortably seats everyone and can haul occasional cargo or trailers. It's not practical to keep that as an extra - so it gets used every day by somebody. In a free country they shouldn't have to explain themselves.

  • 0:30. Thats a story for my Grandkids right there ! "Ooohhh that takes me back. I remember those heady days when petrol was 76p a litre"

  • that offroad school run was pure bull. you can drive tru that in any car

    i witnessed an accident where a fiat 128 hit a mitsubishi pajero side on and sent it on it's roof. nobody in 128 was injured but all 4 people in pajero were. that much about safety

  • i would be so emberrased arriving in that mud of a car

  • @MrBazpoker sorry to hear that ma'am

  • LOL "Just perfer somthing beefy" I bet you would ;)

  • @carnageRWL18 oh that just made my night!

  • lol clarkson would take his kids to school by some ridiculous off-road...road lol...now that they'd be older he prly takes them in a ferrari or astin martin at 140 n gets there in a cpl mins LOL!

  • Clarkson sported an 80 Series Land Cruiser? Sweetness!

  • £16 for a full tank on a v8 rangy. those wer the good sdays when petrol was cheap. now for £20 i dont even get a half tank on my 2.o ltr audi tt 8-(

  • My 1989 Jeep weighed just over 3100 lbs and had stopping distance comparable to most midsize sedans, along with suspension that held tight and true where many full size sedans wandered and leaned.

    Not all 4x4s are built the same.

  • 76.9p/litre. I wish... :(

  • I owned an '85 GMC Jimmy (the bigger one) while in college. It had horrible mileage, but it held a lot people, and it was the only vehicle that could handle the downtown streets without losing a hub cab or blowing a tire. Now that I live in the suburbs, where the streets don't resemble tank traps, I own a car.

    Drive something that fits your needs, not some monster that you think you "need".

  • Hajajaja, he'd have a damn conniption if he came to the southeast U.S. where i live. So many big stupid trucks everywhere!

  • Also, I fucking hate the new Youtube posting system...

  • Also, I fucking hate the new Youtube posting system...

  • I've never understood people who don't work on farms or live in the woods owning these things. To me, someone owning one of these in a town or city is AS retarded as a farmer deciding that the best choice for pulling his horsebox across a muddy field is a SmartCar.

  • I've never understood people who don't work on farms or live in the woods owning these things. To me, someone owning one of these in a town or city is AS retarded as a farmer deciding that the best choice for pulling his horsebox across a muddy field is a SmartCar.

  • not good at avoiding accidents, great at causing them :(

  • Jeremy is so freaking funny. He always makes his point with a metaphorical punch in the face!!!

  • SUVs are for people who can't drive to protect themselves

  • @matandote

    no, they're so the owner can waft above the peasantry

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  • You know if they learned to drive properly in the first place they would already feel confident and safe even in a little car.

    I have been in 3 accidents none of which were my fault... All 3 were cause by women in SUV's not paying attention AT ALL! Pisses me off because WHY DO THEY PAY LESS FOR INSURANCE? THEY CAUSE MORE ACCIDENTS!!!!

  • SUVs were ok 20+ years ago when only people who needed an enclosed off road vehicle were the only ones that bought them. Now they haver become a status symbol pushing them beyond the reach of most people who actually need them for work. The people who can and do buy them usually never take them over anything more challenging than a kerb.

    Very daft indeed.

  • I feel so much better about the U.S. now, knowing that our soccer moms aren't the only dumb ones. Honestly, that mentality is so screwed up. Why be reactive when you can be proactive?

    Instead of a monster SUV that for post accident "safety", get a small, swift vehicle that can avoid an accident to begin with.

    That and learn to fucking drive instead of the whole cell phone, eating, applying makeup, beating the kids while speeding along routine.

  • @inudude15 I couldn't agree more !

  • We're on a road to nowhere so we don't need no education.

  • That just aint right to said that.

  • Jeremy's kids are lucky they have a dad like him. Everyday to school is an adventure.

  • That was a good point he made at the end...they're more likely to be in an accident.

    People buy suv's to be safe in an accident?

    2 sedans crash = both familys injuried

    2 suv's crash = both familys injuried

    1 of each = 1 family uninjured, other family dead

    Maybe those soccer mums should drive big monster trucks reinfored with steel girders....then they'll be 100% safe

    Fuck everyone else

  • @itsdamo1993 yes! I have a ford f-250 super cab with 8 foot bed, big block engine and 4x4 with 4 inch lift! I feel safe in any accident!!!! and the truck has a long ass wheel base!!!!

  • @hotmercedes

    Do you have a good car as well or do you chug around in that....4wd's are so bad on the road.

    A big v8's power is just wasted because of the weight, they end up as slow as a suzuki swift...they also handle like crap.

    But if you own a farm or something, they are useful

  • @itsdamo1993 My daily driver is a Ford Taurus. the truck is used to pull and haul stuff, and play in the mud for the most part, oh and plow snow! plus it will drive through 4 feet of standing water!

  • @hotmercedes

    Sounds like a beast, big 4wd's are good if you use them for what they're intended to do like you do.

    But i'm so sick of people driving around fuel guzzling 2 ton 4wd's that have never been offroad...it's just unnecessary.

  • @itsdamo1993 in english its spelt families not familys

  • @dahorn100011

    In the English language people also use capital letters and fullstops.

    Secondly when contracting 'it is' an apostrophe is always used.

    Fix your own spelling and grammar before complaining about mine.

  • @dahorn100011 boo!

  • @itsdamo1993 they should just buy a bus or a hummer h1 then your about about 9 feet from any acerdent or a scanai t bar truck

  • look at his finger at 1:12 i think theres a hidden message

  • @liamc98 looks like someone is jealous

  • @liamc98 hah true :D

  • @liamc98 eh? Didn't see anything significant. Now if he had used the two fingers instead...

  • @liamc98

    Oh my God, JC is a freemason! :\

  • Are those his kids? ^^

  • @panksuzmuzhu yes, that's his older daughter and his son.

  • @weakahasfur

    Ahh ok, thanks. :)

  • dumb ass bitches are scared for their life

  • suv's are for football moms, and trucks are for men......and women with men who drive trucks. hooray for 4wd, manual locking hubs, third gear, and weed and beer.

  • thank you SUVs have always seemed completely useless to me and you cant see around them when trying to turn on a red light.

  • 0:47 holy shit! 16l04 for 21 liters?! i want those gas prices!!!

  • omg

    women and cars...

  • women nd suvs...I'm gonna get myself a JCB 3dx to survive them on the roads

  • "lesser mortals" i loled^^

  • Womens cars!

  • Bowler Wildcat?

    And I do hope your talking just about offroad 4X4's only.

  • Thats not a car... Thats a boys toy :D

  • Haha true that!

  • best thing to get if you're going off-road alot is either a jeep or a beat up toyota imo. they go well and it isn't such a dilema if you happen to accidently bump into a rock or tree and as you seen from top gear toyotas are almost indrestructible

  • have you personally used a toyota or jeep offroad

  • Yeah, I own a 91 Jeep Cherokee took it down trails every chance i got. also took a ride in my freinds 4 runner, and a classic 80's model tacoma.

  • mmk have you ever used a american made truck

    ford, chevy, gmc offroad.

  • If the Range Rover had been a diesel he would have gotten at least 20mpg for that stop-start driving. High revving petrol engines in heavy 4x4s is just plain daft.

  • Actually most SUV shouldn't be taken off road, not with those terrible road tires and stupid suspensions.

    Only the rare few such as Land Rovers can be, but with care. Not because you can't but it'll make a larger dent on your wallet when you bump into a rock (well it's off road right) ^_^

  • Hmmm.... Safety in a crash but not as safe in avoiding accidents. All I can think of that can be safe in a crash and avoid it is the Range Rover Sport ;P plus you wouldn't have to worry about your kid bumping his head when doing the off stuff ;P

    And at least he has one reason of owning an off road car. You'd see most hogging the roads and used in school runs and never even taken off road. Which is like forbidding a doctor to do and operation. They should do more research in buying a car.

  • i have 2 of those land cruisers they are very good

  • I rescued a Land Cruiser 100 from the beach once when he drove it in a puddle and it messed with the electrics (despite being a diesel!) My 1993 Discovery tdi towed him and his boat 40km along gravel roads to safety.

  • fuck I hate stupid people. They clearly did absolutely no research on cars before buying one. If they did, they'd have realized that many large sedans are just as safe, if not safer than these off roaders. The funny thing is tho, they bought their car solely for the safety of their family - yet they did absolutely no research on what would be safer. When it's your families safety in question - wouldn't you do as much research as possible?

  • I did have an accident a few months ago, and I hardly noticed. Course, the other driver was pancaked.

  • Jeremy actually drives a range rover

  • FAIL, the car he said was his is a landcruiser, which is kinda like a range rover but doesnt break down and can drive up a hill

  • This video was made in like 1995

    now he has a range rover

  • Oh yeah and the car he has is in the video is an isuzu trooper

  • Nope, that's an HDJ 80 Toyota Land Cruiser with the 24 valve 1HD-FT engine (4,2 liter if I'm not mistaken).

  • Still a piece of shit!

  • all they use them for is the school run.

  • fuel was wikid then 79p .. now its fookin 1.00+ :-@

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  • lets see you go offroading in a tractor

  • cars are made to go from a point A to a point B, not "going offroad" like an asshole, leave it to rally championship

  • some people like me need a 4x4 for transporting my big off road motorbike to tracks so i can race on muddy terrain a normal car would get wrecked

  • Ha!!i had that Toyota Land Cruiser at my home,right now!!it's big and sweet to drive...love it!just.....the 2.8L diesel engine is thirst for fuel.

  • 1:29

  • rusty kids.

  • lol he thinks that little suv is big..

  • SUV's are nothing more than a big big big big big big waste!!!! Using an SUV in the city like London Takes a hell lot of space compared to a normal car and often they are only used by one or two people at a time! Their fuel iconnemy is hell!

    Buy smaller cars unless you live far from proper roads! (sorry for spelling)

  • I love big SUV's always have and always will. You just get a feeling from driving them that you don't get from any other car. And frankly, i couldn't care less if my vehicles mpg was 4 or 40.

  • You get a lack of feeling, is what you mean, it's like driving in a bubble of horrible isolation from what's going on.

  • i agree but when u live in egypt small cars arnt much use in a crash or in the desert

  • he could have taken that road in 2 wheel drive. and auto lock hubs suck.

  • the HDJ 80n land cruiser has permanent 4wd. No locking hubs of any kind

  • It reminds me of my brother. Every time we all get a new hobby he has to 1up everyone by going out and buying something that is so much better than everyone else's stuff that he raises the status quo. He did it with airsoft for example. If a few people buy hugeass SUV's to be safer, everyone will get them and it will be the same as if everyone drove normal cars but with higher roll centers. If you get hit by a semi you are still fucked and the other cars hitting you are the same size as yours.

  • i have got 5 offroaders. i hve got 2 little suzuki 4x4's and a Bowler wildcat, a toyota lancruiser V8 and a normal landcruiser. i am using those vehicles for 95% of the time off-road. so i dont care if it tips over when i have to make an accident avoiding move, or that their bad at braking. i just don't care. for the road i've got other vehicles and yes i want those vehicles to perform better at those 2 points beacaus the road cars are 95% of the time on the road.

  • Only 4.5864 gallons in that tank? Well that's a rip off and a half. : |

  • n. he drove a little and filled the rest up.

  • funny in the breaking test they show the only SUV i have seen without ABS my excursion stops like the cars did in the test so every test i have seen from clarkson is bullshit and no comparison to modern SUV's lol

  • H2 got 1mpg

  • sorry there is no way an SUV stops like a tiny car. just because it feels like it's stopping fast doesn't mean it's stopping fast.

  • exactly it is a matter of physics, not some random guy saying it felt like i stopped fast

    those 4wd drivers can have their stupid cars, while they can pay more fuel, higher taxes and deep down know that they are not as safe as everybody thinks.

  • Not all SUVs stop slowly. An audi Q7 can stop from 60-0 in 116 feet. That can definitely compare with smaller cars.

  • Ya but you don't see people driving all Q7s do you? In fact, what would be the first comment out of a typical SUV driver if you wanted to trade his H2 for a Q7?

  • but an audi cost ten time more than a little city car. So, 4x4 and SUVs are made only for stealing money and use diesel like hell

  • If the Range Rover got 9MPG in stop in go traffic, he would find the Hummer H2 in that category.

    I wonder what Jeremy would think about the Hummer H2 if he drove it.

  • he DID drive the H2. he did the h1 and the h2 in the same ep.

  • thanks for liters to gallons convert. i am from south east texas

  • That archaic system is deceiving. UK gallons (4.5 liters) are not the same as the ones used in Texas (3.8 liters) . Liters are the same everywhere.

  • What sort of vehicle is it that Jeremy owns? Ford? Toyota?