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Top Gear guide to Buying a Banger

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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2009

Top Gear's Quentin Willson takes a look at buying a quality banger, from 1997. The advice is still as valid today as it was then, all that's changed is the cars.

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  • "Well Dash My Buttons!"

  • You can keep your hybrid Prius' and the like - banger motoring is green motoring. I've had my old Cavalier for nearly 4 years, it cost me a couple of hundred quid with full service history low mileage, 2 owners from new... Not had any troubles or expensive bills in 4 years - just normal servicing costs, which I can do myself because its easy to work on.

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  • @kappucinokid Exactly. Even 5th Gear doesnt provide good stuff like this!

  • @BobM925 Spot on mate. Why cant we get advice like this nowadays? Im fed up with all the supercar bullshit we get nowadays!

  • @latmens define bad quality fuel short of putting in diesel rather than petrol or vice versa or filling the tank with random fluids

  • Its good advice like this which I miss on 'new' Top Gear.

  • "Mileage is everything" its as wrong as you can get. Service and driving style is everything.

    You can kill the engine in 50k if you use bad quality fuel and dont change oil, filters and belts,

  • Love the music because it reminds me of the Sin City movie, :D

  • I started watching these old Top Gear episodes because I was interested in cars. Now I watch the episodes with Quentin Willson in order to get a better education of the English language! ;)

  • That VW Polo looks very cool! Such a typical oldschool German design!

  • That VW Polo he said would last forever only lasted until 2000... Oh well, I've still got my VW Polo Ranger with 23k miles ;D

  • Cars this good this cheap dont hang around, im 22 about to buy a car today and i think yours is a piece of shit xD

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