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[viggoM35]

??? Why are they comparing a truck to a supercharged go cart??? Also why the 30 year old police car vs the Atom??? Why not a Hemi Charger or GT Mustang they are using now. I like Top Gear, but sometime their comparisons are lame.

[phlooshafide]

lol.. isn't that sort of like comparing a speed boat to a barge or something?.. just wondering =P

[jtgtheog]

You Americans take things to seriously, but then again I'm an American as well. These guys are awesome. (:

[rapace101]

What an idiot. It's not America's fault if the UK doesn't have forests, good fishing lakes, good hunting grounds or big farms. I'd love to see the Atom towing some weight...oh wait, it can't. You can play all day long with the Atom, but at the end of the day, the pick up truck will get the job done.

[BEXEBEX]

@rapace101 OMG, start thinking before you write something down...

no one say something again pickup-trucks. He only shows that a pick up tuck with so much power is totaly crazy and no one need such one.

Pickups are okay, but than with the right engine!

[rapace101]

@BEXEBEX And what do you need a street go cart with so much speed for? To go around a track like that one. Why didn't they make a towing/carrying test on lousy dirt roads instead?

[chrisvda88]

these aren't even in the same league..bad episode, just stick to cars then

[falchard]

He was driving the wrong dodge. Dodge makes a truck specifically for off-road racing.

[weetabixharry]

Or you could do it the British way and design a car that actually stays on the track...

[falchard]

Yea, but in America most roads are still unpaved.

[bikersrule07]

wow a sports car beat a pick up truck,,, im so proud of the brits for making a car that can beat a pick up truck,...

[powdah12]

personally i'd far rather have an atom with a trailer than a dodge pickup, that way you can haul things around just as well as the truck (if not better, as the engine is more powerful in the atom) ;p

[MG42pillbox]

brits are such stupid cunts

[Nat5622]

@MG42pillbox yup, so stupid for creating a good car

[zepedrofd]

No indeed! The american thinks so highly of himself he does not feel the need to compare himself to another... Always has been that way...

[routhoula]

the worlds shortest muahahahaha

[mrmmikeman]

Stupid british the miss the point of everything.

[MOTARDkamikaze]

Wow, you really proved Clarkson wrong with that comment.

[ktotheway]

stop at 00:30 you can see his skin

[geleta518]

thats not his skin its just another driving suit : )

[LoydGDBonafide]

Some say Jeremy Clarkson isn't a fat old man,those people are wrong.

[jargy16]

where is this video from its not from top gear so where is it from? can someone tell me please

[Hjerpe90]

From a dvd called The good the bad and the ugly

[xmoddriver16]

Well no shit the atom will win

But who do you think would win in a crash im guessing the truck

[Lambo6fo]

Im pretty sure the Atom would be able to stop in time. The truck would just lock up and slide head on into whatever your trying to avoid. OR, the atom would drive around the object, and the truck would understeer and roll.

[BMan100]

he loves to knock the amiercans....

[izid08]

damn that atom sounds amazing

[LuigiStl]

stupid americans.... oh shit im american D:

[baker2niner]

Clarkson bashes everything. "Modern Britain...is really about Wetherspoons (TGIF-type pub chain) and Heat magazine and... clamydia."

Just when everyone thought Britain lost its balls, Clarkson shows up. Bully! He's over the top, but great entertainment.

The US version will be a tough to pull off with the kid gloves on car reports - too much advertiser money involved to go uncontrolled, but that will kill the core appeal...

[entropic68]

I guess i don't fully understand clarkson's humor...is this comparison supposed to be ridiculous?

[q69p]

what episode this is ?, I don't think i've seen it

[f1fan65]

its not an episode it is from his dvd good bad and ugly.

[procircut]

Honda is japanese =\

[alistairisthebest]

japaneese engine british car

[miesko123]

of course european vehicle with hondas engine, mhh honda is from italy, isnt it?

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[greenpowercr]

hahahahaha emmmmmmmm NO!

[and2222rew]

The Americans won't believe what they are hearing? I guess no one told Jeremy that atoms are sold in the US only difference is ours get ecotech engines.

[MickPsyphon]

I love watching Top Gear, but I do wish Jeremy would stop taking the piss out of NA vehicles. His bias is truly sickening.

Comparing a Dodge RAM pickup truck to the Ariel Atom? Stupid git! That's not even apples and oranges. More like apples and blue Stilton cheese.

Built for entirely different purposes!

[bobolimasterflex]

thats because every american car is a piece of shit. the only american car that can actually go around a corner is the C6 Z06, everything else sucks. american cars are absolute rubbish

[MickPsyphon]

bobolimasterflex, if that's so, then why do North American cars last longer than any other in Canadian winters? I like BMW's; and I even had some fun in a Citroen and a Vauxhall, but with the extreme between hot in the summer and cold in the winter that we get, give me a Dodge Quad Cab 4x4 any day! Even the Charger SRT8 would do.

It all depends on what the market requires.

[bobolimasterflex]

Mick, my father is a mechanic and i go to work with him every day, i see all of the things that go wrong on american cars that never do on japanese. the other day we had a 2005 Hummer H3 and we were lookin at the history of the car and at 10000 miles the Cylinder head was replaced. Why should a 2 year old car need a cylinder head. btw im not sayin bmw is a reliable car.

[MickPsyphon]

bobolimasterflex, notwithstanding your annecdotal evidence, take a trip to Canada in the winter; and just see which cars are the ones that have difficulty starting in extreme cold temps. See which cars break down on the side of the road. See which cars rust away quickly.

I'm just saying that North American cars are built for a different purpose. Foreign cars generally can't cut it.

The exception: VW & Toyota seem to make a good product.

[X3CuT1oNR]

i TOTALY agree...just like his Exige vs Mustang which he did not once but twice..one on the show and i think once again on this dvd. Atom/Exige = Adult sized go kart..RAM= work truck, Mustang = not the biggest fan of them but a GOOD base for a Road Car (the Roush stangs) or a Drag car (Shelby) Its like Jeremy saying watch this Dump truck halh ass around Laguna Seca while this Atom with do five laps before the dump truck does one. Damn...i just gave away Jeremys "new" experment. BTW i love TG too

[raven1234]

NO one say american car have no potientials. It is just known for not using the highest quality parts which makes a lot of people avoiding to buy one. FOr god's sake it is not competition it is entertainment... it's like racing a toyota truck with a Ford GT. It is not surprising that the Atom wins, it is just entertainment. Tell me, how will a top heavy, big car like a pickup truck be fast on a track? You are not arguing who is wrong, you are disagreeing with the Law of Physics.

[punksaboth]

WHATS THE POINT OF ARGUING!?

for goodness sake! This is Jeremy Clarkson were talkin about! i mean he doesnt give a damn what other people think! he just wants to give someone a good old laff and to piss about-hence why he put an Aerial on the track. What he COULD have done was put say a.. Land Rover Defender or something of that sort against it, but the Defender would have won anyways-so he wanted to make the point in the stupidest way possible-BIG DEAL

[antimainstream]

hmm, well the point is the Ram is manure

[Northax]

When it comes to heavy hauling, no it's not. Idiot. So, when they try hauling 3 tons of equipment in the Atom, shall we say it's manure, since it CAN'T do it? LOL! You kids are SO ignorant, and you can't even see it! Wow. Do you morons smoke 2 pounds of weed before coming on YouTube to comment? SERIOUSLY! lol

[antimainstream]

yeah, very lol indeed...the point is that the Dodge falls apart before you get to the hauling part, its shite, american build quality is shite. and their styling is horrid! making it big doesnt mean it pretty

[rallierf1]

ok lets put your corvettes VS Ferrari or Mclaren or any japanese supercar...hmmm let's say an EVO FQ400 and let's see what happens :P lol admit it you are still using freaking leaf spring suspensions for your muscle cars... not even everyday use cars dont have them!!! only charriots do... you know the one's that horses used to pull

[Northax]

Corvette C6 Z06 are already beating Ferrari (F430s), so it's done already. Funny, you're so desperate to try and compare a $68,000 American car to a McLaren (F1)? which costs, like, 8x as much? LOL! Let's bring in the AMERICAN SSC Ultimate Aero TT 1000 then, since it has 1183 hp, 1000 torque, and it'll own just about any Euro super car out there, including the Veyron. Ignorant fool. :)

[LETHARGICpirate]

well obviously anyone who watches that video will see absolutely no bias what so ever. What were they thinking? heres an idea! we'll compare a huge truck to a tiny little cart and see who goes around the track faster! let's see that atom tow 9000 pounds.

[huckebeinFW]

a 250cc kart made in the backyard blows away that overpriced toy. Ariel Atom has something to be proud of though, it won against a truck. What a bunch of idiots.

[sasajungic]

ariel atom is still faster then ZO6..

[Northax]

Compare the class of the car, dimwit. You can say the atom is faster than the Ferrari F430, Porsche 911, Lamborghini Murc and Gall... does that mean they're trash cars too? And they're MUCH more expensive compared to the C6 Z06. Gee... you feel stupid, now don't you? ;)

[barrett90]

why did you cut off the end faggot

[phrawgg2]

The man has way too much fun. He's like a great big kid.

[Blomqvist]

What a P.O.S. I'm embarrassed for my country.

[Northax]

Why? That truck wasn't meant for the track. lol! They're purposely twisting it to make it look bad. That truck is meant for heavy hauling, not freakin' track racing. You won't feel so embarrassed once you look up the Z06 Corvette on Top Gear, and the Ford GT, as well. $68,000 Z06 'vette is dominating 150,000+ Euro cars now. LOL! Amazing.

[AKlover]

Only took them 30 years. The Z06 is the exception not the rule.

[Northax]

Uh... yeah... know why? Because the U.S. hardly cared about making cars to compete with Europe. Know why? Because American roads are hardly as narrow and curvy as Europes roads. Ever think of this, genius? No, of course not. You're too blinded by your dimwitted anti-American bias, as are most Eurotrash out there. Grow a brain, maybe?

[antimainstream]

haha eurotrash, well you completely avoided writing about how AWFUL american cars are made, which was my point of my comment.

[Northax]

That's because they're not awful, since NO ONE would buy American cars AT ALL, if they were as bad as ignorant fools like you and Clarkson hype them up to be. They might not be top of the line, I'll obviously admit that, but they're not total garbage. I've seen plenty of foreigners buying American cars, and sure, Americans buy a lot of Japanese cars since they consume less fuel on the whole compared to American cars. This is why American car businesses are having trouble right now in the U.S.

[punksaboth]

you're too blinded by anti-British...(i'm Welsh not British by the way-but im just pointing out)...bias, as are most american-dumphoes out there!

[Northax]

Nope, I'm not anti-British. I'm anti-British-morons-that-blind­ly-listen-to-Jeremy-Clarksons-­opinions-as-if-they're-gospel-­then-come-on-the-internet-and-­spread-the-same-BS-blindly. I've had British friends (when I was younger) before, and have NOTHING against them. These idiots are comparing a pickup truck for hauling to a cart car specifically made for the track. If you don't think THAT is idiotic, then you've lost it as well. lol :)

[antimainstream]

Clarkson's Ford GT had so many issues he hardly used it

[fuhrercat]

hahaha weighs slightly more than jupiter

[kikoriaki]

It's obvious that the person behind the Stig's outfit in this video is not the same person that works on Top Gear.