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  • THAT IS JUST A WASTED LIGHTNING THAT INTERIOR IS SO WASTED PLUS I HAVE A TONNEAU COVER ON MINE THEY WONT ROB MY STUFF LIKE HIM JAJA HE/S JUST A TYPICAL EUROPEAN THAT DISLIKES ALL AMERICAN THINGS!

  • I own a lightning, i don't know where he got this one from. Mine runs great the steering wheel is not loose. there are no gaps in my interior, he must have found one that was already screwed up.

  • My favorite part is when hes, saying that britian is more sophisticated and way more ahead..and some dude comes and fucks him over. Lol

  • fuck you

  • so is the ford lightning basically just a regular 5.4 v8 engine with a supercharger?

  • @94319interpol not really its a built engine too. if you took the blower off it would make more power than a regular 330 anyway.

  • can't bring it off road because its meant to roast the tires on the road whats its meant for what a cock smoke get a svt raptor for off road

  • He can't stand the fact the lightning doesn't have teacup holders like his gay little fiat.

  • I'm english and I'd love a lightning, saying that I pretty much hate everything england is supposed to be, conservative and all that shit. I really think he missed the point of what this truck is supposed to be, its a racing truck.

  • FUCK YOU AND YOUR EXPRESSO COFFEE!

  • These guys just hate American cars, Especially Ford for some reason.

  • why does jeremy always dress like an albanian pimp? that lighting is perfect for him. he loves it.

  • I want this video on my N97 unit.

  • He talks all this shit about "what a piece of shit it is" but OBVIOUSLY it didnt come that way! This truck clearly has been driven hard and poorly maintained. The dash is all busted up for Christ's sake...Ford doesnt design it that way...lol

  • He's driving a right hand drive model, which was probably put together in Britain for their market. The way those gaps appear absolutely do not occur in the north American version. I'm on my second lightning and it's fantastic. I also have a new XKR which is great, the build quality on it is fabulous, likely because ford took it over from who ever owned it when they built the 91 XJS I have that falls apart when you breath on it lol

  • its a fucking pickup truck you idiot

  • Jeremy's right about the Lightning being rubbish. That's why I got me a Dakota R/T. Doesn't have the power of the Ford, but the 5.9L Magnum has enough torque to disassemble the Titanic, and in a comparison test the R/T was said to be quicker in a slalom and more enjoyable on mountain roads. The Dakota also has the advantage of NOT appearing in a Fast & Furious movie!

    The reason for the play in the steering, by the way, is for stability while towing. Touchy steering can upset your trailer.

  • @JETZcorp my ram ss/t would rape your dakota

  • @donnybra1230 I don't know what you've done to your Ram, so I really can't say either way. My Dakota is relatively stock, so there's a good chance. But if your Ram is also mostly stock, then it's over. They have the same engine and one weighs a grand less. I've never driven a Ram SS/T, or even seen one "in the wild" for that matter, but they're cool trucks and I wouldn't mine having one. But for the love of Chrysler, don't leave it stock!

  • im american and i have to say most american cars are very crappy...although now the quality is starting to improve (probably because engineers are foreigners with h-b1 visas)

  • I think its quite ironic that the shit build quality Clarkson talks about in this film is the same reason why the British auto industry went down the toilet.

  • I know why nothing fits! Because they purposely assembled your RHD conversion in a shitty manner because you guys cannot appreciate these kind of cars and the reliability that UK cars frankly don't have whatsoever.

  • Instead of arguing wich is best Europe or USA, can someone just tell me the name of the f*cking song?

  • @superikke69 bad to the bone - george thorogood

  • @vrny1975 thx man

  • You shouldn't call America's toughest truck rubbish they are what formed our country they help people every day when their are hurricane we use pickups to haul the wood away if this happened in you country you would be in trouble

  • what ever happened to the guy who stole his fire lighters? D=

  • I love jeremy, but he is extremely misinformed and judgeful. I understand that its "dry humor", but how come I never see James, Hammond, or any other british celebrity use it.... and speaking of celebrities, if jeremy wants to see some all he has to do is come to southern california or new york, maybe he can go boating with paul mccartney on the hudson.

  • best looking truck in my opinion its all you need in america, This truck looks good at every "BAILE"

  • Americans are funny, stupid, but funny. :)

  • @afish135 not half as stupid as brits though, if brits were so smart they would still have some industries owned by them and not by outsiders. after owning the world, they've been reduced to a useless island off the coast of Europe. calling americans incest is like calling all brits gay just because they all wear tight pants...

  • america runs brits out of boston pour all of your crappy tea in the ocean brits have lovely sissy teatime

  • He says that America is full of incest. Take a look at your fucking queen you stupid twat.

  • f u yankie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • im sorry but , dont take our american sports trucks (2wd) and start putting them through mud and water because in america thats only one of the many reasons we buy pick ups and not euro cars

  • they dont get what its like to have a pick up......fuckers

  • Really other than Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar*. and some specialty builders does Britian really have any automotive companies that really do their own engineering. Mini-BMW, Rolls-BMW, Bently-VW. The Few must be doing barrel rolls in the graves. The exception would probably be European Fords but I suspect the Germans have more to do with them than the UK does

    *And I doubt if Jag and Aston would of survived without Ford

  • The vast number of F-150s, Chevy and Dodge pick-ups are bought by people who really don't need a truck. But if purchased based on their true function, being a work truck, then let's face it other than perhaps Toyota most import trucks really don't get it.

  • Peculiar remarks for this video again.

    

  • american brand for AMERICANS not europeans lol

  • Does he hate every american car?

  • @chyanrad he doesnt hate every american car, he bought a ford gt lol.

  • the lightning has a iron block, SOHC 5.4, with a eaton supercharger. The ford GT has a aluminum block, DOHC with a whipple supercharger. WAY different motors

  • @sloURrol89 True except for the Whipple part of your statement. The Ford Gt's OEM supercharger is a Lysholm 2300. Lysholm supplied Eaton the superchargers, then Eaton supplied Ford.

  • @sloURrol89 oh, i knew it was a 2.3, just automatically thought whipple 2.3.

  • ha i love clarksons sterotyping

  • bunch of english pansies.....

  • 31 people got called inbreeds. u mad bros?

  • Ummm yeah, pick up trucks are used in the US for Construction WORKKKK!!!!!!! It doesnt hurt to got to work in your lightning or raptor. Just saying, US roads are not tiny quaint European town roads. Oy Vey!

  • His interpretation of the United States is actually pretty funny.

  • who the hell are you calling inbreed? you should know that the royal family is the byproduct of incest.. and after several years of family incest orgy's, you wankers got smart and appointed a house liaison so you would stop producing retards. besides you're on a tiny little island so your choices are slim, bang your 2nd cousin or a sheep.

  • sometimes clarkson has no idea what the hell he is talking about

  • damm, the american truck sticks out alot, in a good way, those others seem dim and just odd, like old and dead. that ford is so bright and full of life, while those others are dead.

  • they need to do the Ford SVT Raptor

  • clarkson is a complete arsehole

  • come to canada and try to work with your truck and see if its to big for the roads

    lol

  • Even though he says everything about this was rubbish, he didnt remember to say that it is a TRUCK. not a luxury car. They are meant to be rough around the edges. A lot of people today are forgetting what trucks were made for

  • jeremy clarkson is the man, even after every blind jab at america. anymore i dont like the lightning just because what ive seen of it its been dropped, fitted with some shiny rims the size of the moon, and covered in chrome.

  • I love Top Gear and despise Ford.

    That said, I think Clarkson is too hard on it. Ford has only ever made two pickups I ever wanted: the Lightning and the Raptor.

  • i like how jeremy claims every american car breaks after a few days of driving it, they did the same thing with the zr1 corvette vs the audi r8, interior pieces falling apart and even saying on the 3rd day it would start. so baised...

  • @somethingtough The ZR1 DID fall apart. It also would not start on the third day. . . .  Would it be less biased to lie about those events or never mention them?

  • @tg72211 i seriously doubt the car fell apart and did not start after 3 days. i GUARANTEE YOU if you message some people on here that posted videos of their ZR1, they will tell you they did not fall apart, and are still running perfectly. it would be less baised if they didnt lie and sabotage the american cars they test. Its a well known fact that Jeremy is extremely baised of american-made vehicles which clearly shows in every review he does

  • @somethingtough It did not start on the 3rd day. After some time, they managed to get it going. They were actually being biased towards it in that film. They never mentioned that happening. Not every ZR1 will break down. Not ever old MG will break down. They got one that did.

  • I own a SVT Lightning and two Japanese cars (G35 and Acura TL) and I always look forward to driving the Lightning most of all. It's hard to hear Jeremy mention the word rubbish in the same sentence with Lightning. If only the British would take care of there teeth as much as they did their cars.

  • I can see the reason why Jeremy is pretty harsh on this truck. The reson being is that England just doesn't need Pickup Trucks. So to them a fast pickup truck is pointless. I've driven a Lightning before and there is nothing bad about this truck really. It's fast as hell and it handles execllently in the corners (for a truck). The interior is the same as any normal F-150, so yeah nothing special there. SVT did wonders with this truck, they really did!

  • Damn listen to that pulley!!!

  • people in America don't use the lightning "off road" or for working. I think he is a little harsh on trucks... jus sayin

  • lightning>this guy and his lame ass country...nuff said

  • The reason those in the UK don't drive pick-ups....there is NO truly untouched countryside.......the entire island of arable land has been plowed up, burned down or otherwise modifyed by man-kind. First off it was all cut down for firewood, 1800s'. Then, later, turn of the century it was all decimated...searching for coal. There is no "nature" in jolly old England....so it doesn't deserve the likes of a pick-up truck.

  • I hate this show and this guy...he focuses too much on American stereotypes and not on the beast truck!!

  • Trucks are popular in America because we have small states that are larger than your country, and Americans work for a living.

  • f u

  • Haha, that dick deserved that. Every where I go, i get nothing but compliments on my Lightning. Also my interior has no gaps like that one. Funny how other countries are always trying to buy things like Lightnings, Mustangs and so on.

  • @saleens330 Its because an aftermarket company made it right hand drive. Tons of people that I know love lightnings.

  • the end is the best part

  • lol top of the morning

  • i love my lightning

  • impressive

  • If he was driving the Ford SVT Raptor, it would be another story. Take the beast off road and then tell me it's crap!

    If you did not have to pay so much in taxes for your big engine, you would drive a F150 in Europe!!!

  • ide love to take my truck over there and run over all your wimp ass cars. cheap wind up british shit...

  • I dont go to the Shops to buy wood XD i live in a forest lolz in Scotland :D

  • To be fair I'm actually a Toyota man myself, I know poop on me...

    Sorry about my spelling guys, I'm Dyslectic as hell & typing fast...

  • You live in a world of Espresso Coffee, & Pity Crime... Oh Man that was funny...

    If you live in a town, a truck is not needed, but oh man do they drive them anyway.

    I don't know why? I love kicking the shit out of mine, scratch it up & dent it in. I wouldn't of got one if I wasn't going to really use it. All it needs to do it start & stay relativly in one piece whilst I go down the road...

  • I saw one "real" truck in Germany when I was there it was parked in back of some ones house. No sure if it ever moved... But damn the roads are so very small in towns & even in the coutry side. Smart cars even have to pull aside to let others og by. It's insane I would lose my mind stopping every 10 second to let someone og by. I'm sure it also sucks your gas down even quicker doingd this. My Ford does well on gas for long hauls, but not so good in town...

  • American = Men , England = Layboys...

    Just Joking, But I do romp out with my chainsaws quite a bit into the vast forests...

    I'm sure shops are nice to...

  • @blazing303dj There's never been a Manual Ford Lightning. 

  • Thats cuz America is tough. :)

  • He's right on the incest part!

  • getting offended at a joke is a sign of stupidity

  • "He's nicked my fi-ah light-ahs." Lickity funny ol' chap. We drive trucks in America 'cuz we can, bitch.

  • @Purplestorm8

    I'm American and I don't take offense because you couldn't be more right if Clarkson drives an American car he makes fun of Americans if he drives a German car he makes fun of them and so and so on.

  • VITTU JENKKIEN AUTOT ON PASKOJA!

  • God this comment board is FULL of idiots!

    Firstly Top Gear is for entertainment, It's supose to be funny which is why he keeps making jokes, you know what jokes are American's? because from the comments I don't think you do...

    and NO Jeremy doesn't have anything against you American's or your country, he makes fun of Germany, Australia, France ALL country's.

    So suck it up and grow a spine!

  • Man fuck this guy and u chevy faggots lol FORD all the way baby...man wat I would do to have one of these badass trucks I barely see them now and when I do their all messed up....i feel like getting off my 5.4 F-150 and beatin the crap out of them for mistreating a badass truck....

  • all these trucks are horrible compared to now

  • That guy has such a stiffy for the USA. Can anyone understand a word he said?

  • @xSabres26x You surely understood nothing he said.

  • My turbo RSX could out run this truck and a Boxster

  • This guy is stupid! First of all, its the Ford F-150 Lightning made by SVT (Special Vehicles Team) and of course it can't go off road because its a STREET TRUCK! If he refers to the REAL F-150, that, can do all of the above but with a non-supercharged 300HBP engine.

  • @dude991575 Don't worry.... He's always this way towards anything American..... I know we have some issues with cars buts everything isn't bad over here and things aren't always good over there. 

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  • @ZzoldpeopleburningzZ Yea, and the north is where all the homosexuals live. Glad I live in the Midwest.

  • the ford Lightning is a good truck one of the best in the world

    

  • I love UK Topgear, but their ignorance toward the US pisses me off.

  • thats not the regular F-

    150. please consult the ford of North America to see a proper F-150

  • 25 people have obviously never driven a lightning

  • you never see chevy make special edition trucks

  • @Nickk97tml Really the Silverado SS and Intimidator SS with a 6.0 liter V8 engine the 1990 Chevrolet C/K 454 SS with a 7.4 V8 engine and if we are talking GM altogether GMC made the Sierra Denali also with a 6.0 and the GMC Syclone with a 4.3 V6 Turbocharged engine that is still known as the second fastest production truck behind the Dodge Ram SRT-10. Do your math before your start shit about Chevy and by the way ford Sucks only good cars are the lightning, Cobra, and Ford GT.

  • @nyunn2 Raptor, Harley Davidson, Platinum, Lariat, Lightning, Eddie Bauer. You drive by a GM dealership all you see is what? 1500's?

  • @Nickk97tml Well your only making the point that Ford has no creativity you just named 6 different versions of the same old piece of shit truck. In the end their all just a shitty F150 with some rim or chrome upgrade. Just like there is about 1000 different mustangs and their all the same slow over produced turds unlike the camaro from chevy for example.

  • oh and to answer your question SS silverado and SSR which both come with corvette engines would constantly devour a lightning anyday of the week.

  • @nyunn2 Neither of those trucks had Corvette engines, sorry.

  • @tfran1994 sorry I was thinking of the camaro ss with the ls1 engine, but the SSR does have an ls2 corvette engine, but the silverado ss does not so you were half right.

  • @nyunn2 A stock silverado ss will not beat a lightning

  • @97bluenuts I was not arguing that but the SS just an overall better truck also the SS does not have a supercharger and is much heavier than the lightning if u want to play it that way the GMC Syclone/Typhoon will beat the lightning and it only has a 4.3 V6 turbocharged engine and came out in the early 90's. Also GM has way nicer trucks what would you rather own a new Ford or A Silverado/Sierra.

  • The u.k. dosent but fords because they can't afford them

  • The lightning is a classic now, for a damn truck it can haul some ass... had mine sice 2002 and still drive it on the weekends too this day

  • The U.K. dosent buy f150's cause they don't fit on the roads

  • @1234567891braden Exactly. Everyone has small cars in Europe

  • It's disappointing that it isn't four wheel drive

  • The Lightning was a fast truck, very impressive for a truck at the drag strip. The Boxter isn't the only car this truck could outrun at a race track.

  • shitty truck

  • gweneth partrol(or however u spell her name) and modona are american. Modona's english accent is 100% fake and many brits believe or believed gweneth is a brit because she won an oscar playing one and sounded quit convincing.

  • we should all send him emails to force him to drive one of fords trucks now. we must! the trucks reputation depends on it!

  • I used to think that it was a stereotype for british poeple to be a bunch of pompous retards but know I realize its actualy true.

  • Everyone should google "Ford Raptor Bent Frame" to see how weak these things are. This isnt a race truck, its a standard F150 frame that cant handle any punishment

  • @Avalanche2 well i guess the if we didn't put the raptor on the strongest frame in the business then we would have seen the whole truck split in half. By the way the, crap you are trying to prove is nonsense. If people drive their trucks like they are a trophy truck then they will break.

  • @TheMratom23

    Its a weak F150 frame, much weaker and not fully boxed like other truck manufacturers. The frame is weak and not worthy of a lawn tractor.

  • @Avalanche2 the lead designer was interviewed regarding this issue.

    check the article on autoblog.net

  • o their still fast in 2011 its a racer not a worker he was wrong to say rubish

  • mind you the lightning was build as a performance truck. not a farmers ''haul ur shit everywhere u go truck'' also it was meant to be on road not off road. people who worry about safety aren't concerned with speed .. that's why they drive rovers and whatever the hell they call trucks over there in Brittain

  • Ford is better now.

  • svt > amg

    

  • 4:17 loool! notice how the camera changes almost instantly haha

  • Or your shitty rhd conversion shouldnt be used on a real truck

  • thats a pussy ass small truck compared to texas trucks

  • SVT....Severely Victimized Turd

    I own a 96 dodge 2500 with a 12V Cummins....It does anything i task it to do, its pretty damn comfy for long trips(used to pull 500 miles on it every weekend for 3 years), aaand now it has a banks turbo system.....So it is indeed, faster than a lightning.

    She's pretty damn nice for a Farm truck eh?

  • @xeronicus it wouldnt be faster , transmissions geared to low

  • @fordgt700hp

    Drag strip says otherwise, granted drag strips aren't everything.

    In the long run a lightning would overtake the cummins if it was geared stock(mine is, its a farm truck, nothing more).

    But if we talk about in the long run I wouldn't drive the dodge now would i?

    My old 04 GTI STOCK will out pace the lighting if given about a mile, you might get it off the line, but I'll eventually end up passing you.....gearing is better, lightning tops out at what,142ish?

  • I'm laughing at this guy saying "It is too large for small roads". It was fucking built in/for America.

  • 4:00 WHAT THE HELL IS SODA BREAD?

  • @iAmDeathSpank win :)

  • Ya here in america we have paved roads and our imbreeds live out in the woods they dont run our country like they do in the UK.

  • i live in the city of fort worth

    i have a truck but i use it for what it is intended for to haul loads of sheet rock, plywood, and tiles

    but i do take extra care of it unlike that used Lightning you used

    and also there are different types of F150's depending on what u want to do

    F-150 SVT Raptor- Designed for Extreme Off-Roading

    F-150 Harley Davidson/ King Ranch/ Lariat Limited- Luxury Truck that can work

    F-150 XL thru Fx4 Work/play trucks

    Pendejo este way no sabe como usar una troka

  • i want to see jeremy take the ford f-150 svt raptor. 

  • I was actually mad about this episode.... its not a normal pickup!

  • trucks are for european cars, its all about american cars

  • @Amigero815 what?

  • Mind you, out running a porsche boxter is hardly impressive at all

  • @chiccocruz It really isn't

  • @chiccocruz it is for a truck

  • @chiccocruz  it's a factory stock pick-up truck, you tool.

  • @sherpaderpa1 Tool is the shape of what you came out of, any average diesel car will keep up with a boxter, a good diesel car will make shitfuck out of the boxter. The boxter is absolute crap in straight line performance! A 5.4 supercharged V8 pick up truck (that is not even that large for a pick up truck) that outruns a naturally aspirated 2.5 litre boxter is not impressive by any standards. Only an american would think that's amazing.

  • @chiccocruz Mind you, A pickup truck out running a "Sports Car" is impressive

  • @ENZOtaki well the ford isn't really a pick up truck, in the same way that boxter isn't a sports car. I still don't understand why people are amazed by a big powerful engine being "fast".

  • @chiccocruz what would you consider the ford to be?

  • @chiccocruz for a truck, it kind of is dipshit lol

  • @chiccocruz its literally the shittiest porsche ever...

  • that was pretty racist when he said "incest probably" im not a southern boy but still.

  • @YourFantasyForLife Grow up, he's not serious. And Americans make fun of other countries all the time.

  • @TheVampyreCat not on national t.v.

  • @YourFantasyForLife Yeah they do... and in movies, etc. etc.

  • @TheVampyreCat they really dont on tv shows maybe movies.

  • @YourFantasyForLife If you actually take offense to that, then maybe you are inbred...

  • @TheVampyreCat and i dont take offense to it i just thought it was funny more than anything when he said it. so you grow up guy.

  • @YourFantasyForLife If you thought it was funny....??? oh my god forget it you're bipolar.

  • @TheVampyreCat im only cyber bipolar though, so its all good.

  • @chiccocruz Oh... How much horsepower does your car have? Yes in the world of jeremy clarkson the boxter is slow. but in real life, it isn't. And a pick up truck out running a boxter in real life? Man you watch to much supercars to say that isn't impressive.