Old Top Gear Ford Probe

Old Top Gear from 1994
Jeremy Clarkson roadtests the Ford Probe
Including the famous line "...and on top of all that, it's the first Ford that I can remember which looks good enough to snap knicker elastic at 50 paces"

This clip was extracted from the episode that was first broadcast sometime in 1994

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Probe
• Jeremy
• Clarkson
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• Prelude
• 2.2
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• 2.5
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• 1994
• BBC

[MsCrappants]

ford probe stupidest car name ever

[bronze942]

@ laiosto so when you get in an accident you can say " you just got PROBED!"

[Michu1194]

Who else was born in '94? Thumbs up! :D

[W0mpa]

HOW IN THE NAME OF FUC* CAN HE SAY THAT THE CALIBRA IS PRETTY?????

[sunsweetsuitable]

his conclusion left me alittlle confused. so he liked it but would rather the vw?

[pfleeger2010]

@nightpwner I've been able to find some things on rockauto, but to be perfectly honest it's my mom's car and I'm not looking very hard. She doesn't really need it since she has an '06 Charger that she drives and this has been sitting for the last 8 years and I've been trying to get her to scrap it. Also, I don't have much of faith in parts from ebay, amazon, and rockauto, etc. since the aftermarket has made lots of bad parts in recently and I don't have a lot of experience buying from them.

[nightpwner]

@pfleeger2010 To help you can always check partsgeek. com, rockautoparts. com, check Advanceautoparts. com, ebay, amazons okay too. There are parts everywhere.

[pfleeger2010]

@nightpwner It doesn't seem like the parts would be hard to find, but they are, it's more Mazda than Ford so I call it an "imported domestic." The flip up lights are kinda cool, but what's even cooler is when you start mashing the button as fast as you can and they start to alternate from each other. Maybe Advance has parts and maybe it would help to be in a city/more urban area instead of northwest Iowa. We've had this car for 8 years and it's been hard to find parts the whole time.

[nightpwner]

@pfleeger2010 Thanks for replying promptly, reminds me when I get to work to check the catalog for Probe parts. I work at Advance so maybe we'll have something. What I like about this car besides being 2 doors is the flip up lights, I think it's the coolest. I've seen some sick body mods to this car . I don't know why your comment would be true about part scarcity when this is a '90s American car with a '98-'01Mazda 626 engine. You did know that right? The 2.0L are Mazda.

[pfleeger2010]

@nightpwner Turn around and run away as fast as you can! Parts are scarce at best and will cost you an arm and a leg if you can find them.  You will quickly spend more fixing it than you paid for the car. At this point, the factory has quit making parts, the aftermarket is done as well, and salvage yards have been picked clean. I wouldn't even think about buying one. The one I'm working on wont idle while warm and loses oil pressure as it warms up among other problems. Just run away.

[nightpwner]

@pfleeger2010 Tell me about it (really). I'm thinking of picking one up for 950 to fix up and tinker with it. What am I looking at here?

[CropDuster33]

nice car dumb name. sounds like pure sex