Top Gear - How to spot a future classic car starting with Volkswagen - BBC

Top Gear's Richard Hammond offers some advice on how to pick a classic car of the future. VW Golf, Renault Megane and Vauxhall Vectra, free videos from BBC Worldwide.

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[santoshjs]

Been watching Top Gear clips for an hour, and I've been getting random car-related ads. The first Richard Hammond-centric video I watch, and I get a thirty-second toothpaste commercial :D

[hermanalleman]

True, but for what I paid for it (1/3 the price of a new Nissan Sentra) I'd rather drive a Mercedes. Not for show, not for looks hell it's an old car, looks like any old Benz that people think "Oh that guy wanted a Mercedes but couldn't afford a new one." I could afford a new one, but instead of pissing away money on image and prestige, I'd rather drive a car that was hand-built, only the driver can appreciate the engineering, screw what anyone else thinks. Best German cars were made in 80s-90s.

[BeFree994]

4:20 Martin Brundle said that the Mercy has the best chassis in the world, James was right!

[TheOfficialDJT]

im actually starting to see quite a few Corrados around nowadays

[hod05]

iv heard stories of original Vauxhall novas appreciating slightly and selling for more than say a 10 year old corsa

[emporeojo]

which pixel is hammond?

[Sebastian Binder]

from which the series is the episod ??

[3hpbiggsy]

Preach it! Manual all the way. '-!-!-'

[Jonathan Karlsson]

no haha, If you buy a RWD, You want manual. If you buy one in good condition, Well ok automatic. But RWD+Manual =Drift... And if its cosworth...DRIFTDRIFTDRIFT

[BarryLlewellynperson]

Doubt it. There are actually more of them around than you think! Maybe not in England, but in other countries there are. Give it like 50 years+, then you'll be able to get some decent cash for it.

[BarryLlewellynperson]

And expensive.

[Thanasis Papadimitriou]

When James said that story about Brundle a few years later the other two where laughing and even Brundle was not quite sure of having said it;however here Hammond appears to believe in the story too.