Top Gear 1989 (Jeremy Clarkson/Tiff Needell)

[theylied1776]

Wow, this show was too British! I know how this will read, but Top Gear didn't get good until they got rid of the old stuffy hosts, for more free spirited ones, and started using an American style of quick editing and production.

Was this show supposed to look like a boring car news magazine?

[MupNaz]

@theylied1776 Yes

[mrflanker11]

my god. listen to his accent

[MrDOWNARD]

HE STILL GOT THE SAME DRESS SENSE AS THEN AND NOW THE BIG OAF

[pali311]

Auto part buying pre-internet

[0riginalVidz]

Wheres HD???? :D

[christinage30]

oh wow. look at his hair. hahahah

[spiritbuu]

5:03, he looks like Seb Vettle there, ahahaha

[nerglemeister]

3:09 It's Hammonds old man!!!

[355vk1]

i was 3 in 1989 ive came a long way now im 25

[multimaxstudios]

Clarkson sounds too formal in this. Glad the BBC let him be himself.

[xjohnnyxriverra]

jeremy look guffy as hell when he was young. he still is guffy.

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra guffy? learn unglish dumb fuck! its goofy

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba u made u my teacher fucking dick sucking bitch.

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra u made u? learn english before you speak to me!

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba what kinda grammar is?....... "u made u"...u learn how to speak English before u talk to me. u are the one who started I'm gonna ended...lil fool

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra im american i know english you dont stuid foolish pile of no good shitty peasant

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba I'm American u dip shit.i know English and u don't u foolish pile of no good shit.

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra american enough to speak good english dip shit...

i jut reported you... i gave them your ip adress

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra i think you meant who dip shit read the comment you wrote first..... yea it wasnt english

u made u my teacher? yea not english dumb fuck

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba see where u putting u self. let me rephrase it.u shit fuck."who dip shit read the comment you wrote first" .if u dont understand what i wrote then why the fuck u reply to my comment first place. u are one fucked up idiot. and u really need to go back to school before u reply to peoples comment u lil 13 years old dip shit first grader...keep repeating first grade cuz.............u dumb ass fuck...

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra wow you are one dumb fucker its spelled you not u and you forgot the r in the sencon u you wrote

im 27... i make 3 million a year if i was dumb then that wouldnt be true im reporting you to the police for harrsament if you reply to this you foreigner

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba fuck you dumb bitch...you are the one who is foreigner...kiss my ass and go report to police. u bitch ass..

[joe23ba]

@xjohnnyxriverra im a american you arent... johnny is a dumb name hahaha poor ass im rich you aint

[xjohnnyxriverra]

@joe23ba I'm happy and you ain't. and u said u are 27 years old, I'm saying to you act like one and be a good mature adult...just give up.

[marshalllucky]

william woolard was the daddy then, clarkson was his gopher ;-)

[Desmodromic916]

Damn, this ambient on junk yard sale made me think Del Boy and Rodney will appear! 

[FiatGuy23]

If he only knew how much those old speedos are worth now that he picked up at 5:27!!!

[xKurogashi]

3:15 holy, i thought that was richard hammod for a second

[williwonti]

Clarkson's voice sounds bizarro.

[Jaimefumer13]

Jeremy Clarkson looks so ... young :p

[sodadew]

A Marina keeping up with a MGB... please I would whup him in my B

[gdsmckrls]

tiff is faster in a family car than clarkson in any car.

[AlannTH]

@gdsmckrls Clarkson is a terrible driver, hes one that thinks hes a great driver, they are the worst.

[TenStoryLoveSong]

I would have hated him back then, but in retrospect...I love you Jeremy! lol

[bodochecker]

The intro music is cool!

[y512516]

kids

thats what smoking do to your voice

[1994Topgear]

Little did Clarkson know, that in 20 years or so he'd be dropping a piano on that Marina.

[chevyboyz808]

wow i love uk's topgear even more then the american. but i didnt know it ran back then! that crazy

[murryage1]

at that age, he reminds me (looks wise of course, he could never pull off the accent) of Sebastien Vettel

[Battlestation123]

1:42 James Bond xD Quantum of Solace

[Stoobmaster1]

Wtf, Jeremy Voice Is Completely Different

[Trekkie626]

@Stoobmaster1 Chain smoking will do that to you.

[micglou]

At least Tiff sounds the same like he does today... man that Clarkson was a bit stuck up in those years.

[THEstriker333]

haha,the intro song is so matching as topgear now XD

[UaraKai]

chea jaguar from NZ

[SummerTheFuzzy]

I'm so glad i wasnt around in 80s england lol

[shizlnit]

He has had the same gut sense he was born

[wolftmfg]

When Jeremy Clarkson was a good chap.

[turboslag]

Star of this clip, the COSSA !! How young does Tiff look ?! William Woolard was a class presenter, probably the best non race driver presenter that TG ever had. Otherwise I really like Tiff, he properly knows what he's talking about ! As for Clarkson, all I can say is he never got any better and he looked and sounded and real dick here ! He must be VERY ashamed of that jacket !

[WiseGuy02]

Get rid of the sequential gears and bring back the old box. Plenty of room for mistakes with that, which would let people through.

[Anthal1010]

he sounds like a right twat in this video, lol

proper stuck up cunt

at least he's woken up lately, made himself a bit more exciting

[llpalm08]

lol, "And now on to something less controversial, here's Jeremy Clarkson..." You wouldnt hear that now, lol

[omid11]

old top gear was awesome 

[truekiwijoker]

Clarkson actually had a nice voice before he ruined it with smoking.

[JimJams2]

RS500 Touring car @ 6:00

[rayray123ray69]

"3 desirable executive saloons" - the word desirable was used loosely here

[SirKendalMintcake]

1989 was so good! People were thin and healthy!

[SirKendalMintcake]

The bloke at 3:15 looks and sound slightly like Hammond!

[Fedotdotdot]

What on earth is this? It's a Marina :)))). I am amazed that a piano did not fall over it.

[jarrra]

so ugly

[Edgars648]

Wasn't this the place where Jezza's hate against Marinas became public? :D

[gillytg]

funny how clarkson still has the same dry humour and needell still gets super excited when driving in the shows today

[waclosh]

VOTE ME UP, who wants to see Keichi Tsuchiya vs. Tiff Nidell in a GTR duel?

[BizzLeVrai]

Why clarkson Look exactly the same

all the time.

[British1500]

Jezza back then looks like he could be mistaken for a Kajagoogoo roadie.

[ABSjazz]

He's definitely new stig. The wheel handling is identical.

[JimJams2]

Funny, today's Top gear is faster and more exciting but today's Touring Cars are slower and not so exciting !

[tobjord]

@JimJams2

In Fact, the DTM for instance isnt with/for Touringcar anymore. They are Prototypes. They have not much in common with their counterparts for the Road.

[dem9286]

Does Mr. Needlle Hit his head at 8:31 (BING) or it that just me???

[enigmaPL]

@JimJams2 Today's Top Gear, is more of an entertainment show for all people, about cars, old Top Gear was for true car enthusiasts, with proper reviews and number crunching, which I prefer. New Top Gear may present wild exotics cars, but everything about the testing of the cars is dumbed down for the general public, with power slides and simple analogies, for people who only know that you put gas in a car and it works.

[ROCKSOLID19]

@JimJams2 They are boring as fuck. I loved seeing Vectras fighting it out with Laguna's andf Mondeo's but the BTCC now are shit.

[DafyddCymraeg]

And then the internet came along. Also, this is from the year I was born; scary stuff.

[MrRasterShift]

If this was modern Top Gear, that Marina would be under a piano right now.

[SmieshNorway]

Top Gear is like wine, getting better over years

[MegaTronn]

Clarkson's afro is more epic than mine. lol;

[cb7pwn]

everyone keeps complaining, but at least back in the day topgear actually REVIEWED THE CARS

[eugenew23]

Even back then, Clarkson hated the Morris Marina hahahaha 2:17

[Aerosmithrockr1]

Ah Tiff if only you knew you'd grow up to be a knock off of top gear...

[Aelexsch]

Who is the blond guy again??

I recognize his voice from Haunted Britain.

[GarethNIreland]

LOL thats absolutely diabolical

[bassplayer137]

and even back then, he hated the morris marina

[tonyt0ny]

I was -3 when this was aired... I was planned to get on earth. I should take my pills lol.

[Quagmirian]

It's not often that Jeremy Clarkson is being introduced as 'less controversial'.

[GalaticTG]

If that was today's Top Gear they'd have torched it by now.

[MrBuczacza]

3:12 OMG Richard Hammond is here!

[Stereolabdream]

1.16 its Saxondale in a Range Rover baseball cap!!!

[pianoshizzle]

lol didn't realised they still used ye olde shillings in '89

[LolEYEHasFun]

back then british people were even more awful

[karadan100]

Oh how times change.

[MrBigolnuts]

half the show was gippos looking through junk!!

[elizabeth112k7]

And 30+ years later wardrobe still cant get clothes his size!

[TheVisionaryGamer]

@elizabeth112k7 Not so good at math are you?... 1989 + 22 = 2011

[MrPEDROJOS]

somebody knows what the name of the first son?

[tachuyable]

i was 1 year old when this was aired.. now im 23.. its been a long time

[liamcrazyman]

lol at jeremy lol am surprised he never smashed that marina up lol and the hair lol

[chops1976]

I've just discovered the current version of Top Gear and have always been interested in what Old Top Gear was all about. This was a very interesting find!

[blackgib07]

Sounds like Jeremy is trying out his best BBC voice.

[RevengeofGothzilla]

8:51 He haz a boner.

[Izkzmach]

I heard it, there was a top gear, before 2002, but it was canceled due to low ratings

[TheMegitto]

You can see that he really's wants to enjoy this car so much that he's almost not able to give a review live :D pure race addict !!!

[Mikeado66]

2:17 - Nice to see that JC's always hated Morris Marinas!

[iluvblackshot]

i think hammond was still on the floor

[iluvblackshot]

there was top gear back then?

[alanthe2]

@MsClaireLouLou for the love of god, USE PUNCTUATION!

[ezhik78]

Jeremy looks like Sebastian Vettel!

[julianchiu]

young tiff looks like woody rofl

[Va4esS]

is that Brands Hatch at the end

[tominator23]

So this is where rednecks came from. It's like their long lost cousins.

[greydawg38]

noooo its not richard hammond he was only a lil boy when this was filmed ;)

[Carmaker1]

@greydawg38 WTF? A 20 year old isn't a little boy!

[MARooNSUPRaMK3]

00:02 Is that what I think it is?

[bcawthon2191]

Please Mr. Announcer, don't sound too enthusiastic. 

[Vaicurious]

lol clarksons voice.

[jazmyn594]

omgwtf.clarkson.with.brown.hai­r

[1980sSportsMan]

Richard hammond 3:16 !!!

[Seagulsflytoo]

snore!!



[bmarleyrulez]

tiff was born 40.

[TigerSupercatE1]

'now to less controversial... jeremey clarkson'

How times have changes ;-)

[supercarkid]

LOL Old Top Gear was the Motorweek of today!

[PyroDR]

@supercarkid Exactly. Well... Maybe a less entertaining version. If Top Gear were still like this I would not be watching.

[Invesigator]

Why hasn't prince charles been a guest on top gear?

[astronmr20]

@Invesigator Because he hates anything powered by petrol.

[zuss10r]

@astronmr20 Except his fuckin' Bentleys and Aston Martins;-/

[astronmr20]

@zuss10r Lol true.. but he's been converting them to run on old wine-- and telling the rest of the world that the best model for "sustainability" is to live like "Mumbai slums." He's truly lost his mind.

[Medifro]

LOL, a Marina

How could've ever guess that one day a piano would fall over it by the very young guy asking about it

[darrenjgraham]

As much as people critise Jeremy, it least he has dedicated himself to a sole role and not been like others in TV that change wherever the money is the highest. He's worked a long time to get where he is. I won't critisise him so much many more

[artoodiitoo]

Both ends of James May's limo at 0:20 -25

[morgman43]

@artoodiitoo Good spot!

[MrMastercatfish]

Face facts, todays top gear is way more entertaining

[MrRedcelica]

@MrMastercatfish yes but today's top gear is far less factual and so less serious

[fortheloveoftunes]

@MrMastercatfish Well back then it was a real car series .-)

[plezurhounds]

@MrMastercatfish No "facts" are evident in your summary.

[bsting601]

@MrMastercatfish you got to be kiding! the challenges are a joke ,puting push bikes up against cars! what the???? its for the layman that doesnt know cars!All hail Tiff, 5 gear is so much better

[germandogs]

man there are some weird looking british people...

[nisb21]

ar 0:46.. "less controversial" and "Jeremy Clarkson" mentioned in the same sentence? Cant be the Jeremy we know!?

[KhmerKhat]

That Kiwi Mk2 Jag was stunning!

[mustachos1993]

It feels like jeremy constantly had to repress his wit and humour at the time^^

[KEEMinternational]

Great lap of the Brands Hatch. Sierra was one of the most fantastic cars of the decade.

[dustbowl19311939]

This is really boring, Clarkson. LOL.

[sanjayj1432]

no fallin piano on a marina!!!!??i am surprised!!!

[Law19157]

jeeeeeez...time flies, how old is Clarkson here 29?, its been 20 something years but it feels like yesterday

[polypolyman]

jeezus that money system if you're not used to it...

[Fin4L6are]

I have 54 episodes of old top gear from 89-93. three of them very rare, and some of them the tape is demaged... 

[DzaveD]

Tiff got the charm , Jeremy got the charisma

[brianjgtc90s]

and young Clarkson doesnt have beer belly...:D

[brianjgtc90s]

young Clarkson those days....and stronger 30s Tiff....now they are in TG and 5th Gear...as rival tv shows

[Pastechi1]

WILLIAM WOOLARD IS SO POSH !

[gtrTeamLeaderTurkey]

Tiff Needell is the BEST

[9teen8e5]

that is basicly ebay but all squashed into a field ha

[cb7pwn]

stupid fucking challenges and scripts.... THIS is when Topgear WAS Topgear

[Mikej2156]

Mr Clarkson in the days when he couldn't show all of his kick ass whit :)

[TheCandygod]

MUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA­AAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY

WAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLKEEEEEEEE­EEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

[corytan5]

it was a time, when clarkson spoke properly without too much trashtalk hahahhaaa

[09feb1992]

Shame, after doing research the Cosworth with the number plate "E666 ABM" doesn't exist on the DVLA database lol, But the other one does.

[briintel]

HAIR



[Alex87XD21]

9:30 First track NFS Shift! Very nice vid and driver old time

[craniumkazzo]

@Alex87XD21 Learn the name you child. It's called Brands Hatch. Not "first track from shitty videogame ____"

[chefblanc]

crickey , now we know where clarkson gets his jackets

[deanbrickland]

@trento728 lol. so true. to everybody out their that wonders why top gear changed to entertainment is because entertainment has streeked ahead of education on T.V. . thats why. now they have up to 800% more views on every new episode. its called technological evolution. so get used to it. its going to happen quite alot thruogh our lives

[kicksoffs]

Jeremy Clarkson lookedn like a tosser back then.

[deanbrickland]

3:11 i thought that was richard hammond

[deanbrickland]

2:34 any porsche fans here. what type is it. please

[TheBlazinAce]

@deanbrickland You mean the black car with yellow stripes right after the Morris? I think it's an MGB GT, haven't seen one in a while though, so I'm not sure. But I don't think it's a Porsche.

[deanbrickland]

@TheBlazinAce yeah that car. but it looks so much like a porsche

[Monad01]

@deanbrickland

Yeah, definately an MG BGT

[deanbrickland]

@Monad01 thanks for your help

[f1matt]

"Now to less controversial matter, Jeremy Clarkson..."

LOL. The show really has changed.

[beijingkoala4]

Haha.... was that how the Top Gear theme sounded? Clarkson loved Marina even back then!

[mrpunisher123451]

love the cheese ,, " ah thats better" magic !!!

[mohit1224]

3:19 past richard hammond?

[ignatzRat]

Hahahaha! Morris Marina!

Clarkson is going to have to give the owner piano lessons!

[milkdud676]

HAHA, Morris Marina a future classic