There was a brief period when these beautiful cars went out of fashion, and I really should have bought one, or three.
@lewis72
Жыл бұрын
The non-supercharged Virage did get quite cheap but I don't think that these Vantages every dropped below £90k or so. XJ220s were down at around £100k too.
@dkkatwa
Жыл бұрын
I bought a 2009 db9 for £56k in 2023. A V550 was around £80k Lesson learned
@tompettersson3814
11 ай бұрын
My brother swapped his carlton gsi for one of these back in 2003. It was almost a straight swap.
@G58
11 ай бұрын
@@tompettersson3814 Oh, that’s crazy.
@39PSIOnTheDaily
Жыл бұрын
That 1993 Ford Taurus steering wheel is a sight to behold.
@Mk1Male
Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Imagine if at the time you had realised that and had kept a brand new one.
@LittleBearBBQ_Food_Original
2 жыл бұрын
Still, one of if not the best looking "proper" car, ever made. Living in MK and seeing these SuperCars being wheeled across the road from one shed to another was always a special "thing" to see, esp. as a Kid!
@evo5dave
2 жыл бұрын
Loved the previous generation Vantage so much (and still do) that this one just never floated my boat. I'd still have it if someone gave me it mind you.
@idreeskhan8885
Жыл бұрын
No it looks like a cheap American muscle car. Astons really came into their zenith looks wise in the 2000s.
@byteme9718
Жыл бұрын
@@idreeskhan8885 No, they were pussy cars for Luton's drug dealers and money launderers. Your mates.
@user-sf7kl9uh7k
Жыл бұрын
@@idreeskhan8885You've got no idea, honestly.
@johnsharkey1980
Жыл бұрын
It’s one of the most beautiful Aston Martin’s of modern times without doubt…
@G58
2 жыл бұрын
Have been looking for Clarkson’s “poetic violence” and “… get on their knees and thank god…” quotes for years. I knew he said those words, and that they had to exist in some form or another somewhere on the net. But years of googling failed to locate them. Now at last, here they are, together in the same feature that begins with the green shutters - just as I remembered. Excellent. Thank you for sharing.
@frankmurray9172
Жыл бұрын
.......in the world......Clarkson at his best 😂
@chamade166
Жыл бұрын
Rather vulgar and toxic by today’s standards.
@G58
11 ай бұрын
@@chamade166 Only if you’re a soy boy that’s naive enough to believe in the obvious fake ‘climate change emergency’ myth psyop. In which case, Darwin has a plan for you.
@Thabosshoss
Жыл бұрын
How can Clarkson not put a smile on your face? Total legend. Oh, and the car is a dream too!
@PACKYCSONE80
Жыл бұрын
This is the car that should have been in Goldeneye. Bond in a BWM? To the Tower!!!
@markfox1545
Жыл бұрын
'BWM'? It's only three letters, man - and you still couldn't get it right?!
@paulelverstone8677
Жыл бұрын
A couple of weeks shy of 30yrs ago now. Still, probably, my favourite Aston. Few cars are as memorable as this in the flesh...
@darrelsimon4029
Жыл бұрын
This car will never go out of fashion. Looks good then, still looks good today. This is a sports car.
@kb9072
2 жыл бұрын
My favourite Aston Martin still to this day. When they were new a friend was about to buy a 993 but i convinced him to take a look at a DB7 first. They had a V8 Vantage in a London showroom and I just melted in it's presence.
@huzcer
Жыл бұрын
Your mate should have bought a 993 turbo and kept it and profited!
@lobsterwhisperer7932
Жыл бұрын
@@huzcer exactly, as soon as you drive the Aston out of the showroom the cost is halved.
@huzcer
Жыл бұрын
@@lobsterwhisperer7932 a 993 turbo s in top condition is worth nearly $500,000
@Jorrie86
Жыл бұрын
Imagine telling Jeremy back then he would some day become a farmer 😁
@QuigzDrifts
Жыл бұрын
He really said "opulent interior" while holding the same steering wheel that came in the Ford Taurus', crown Victoria's, and fox body mustangs 😂
@paulthomson9014
Жыл бұрын
Every supercar had parts.borrowed from other cars . Jag xj220 had rover back.lights , mclaren f1 rear lights from a coach ,.later diablos had headlights from Nissan 300 zx .
@andy-james-
Жыл бұрын
Dangling people from upstairs windows by their eyebrows, saying, "give me the keys" is a compelling argument.
@elvis0960presley
2 жыл бұрын
And the icing on the cake was the sound! No stereo required.
@martinspannring5711
Жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰🥰 Wonderful handmade and cultural and STYLE! Not like todays garbage… These handcraft-workers are real artists! Eternal thank for there Cars!🥰👏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰
@exorcist1998
2 жыл бұрын
Been looking for this review with the Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine background soundtrack as its uncut and the original broadcast version Later versions remove the Floyd track and the other great songs like Cher's Just Like Jesse James, Alice Cooper's Poison and also it remove the price quote. The cut version is found on the VHS video Top Gear : Super Cars.
@jemimallah2591
Жыл бұрын
me too. i was only 8 when i saw this and welcome to the machine sounded like the coolest thing id ever heard (my dad loved pink floyd and as a result i was already familiar with them but i had never heard him play this track, presumably because he didnt have wish you were here on cd yet)
@jamesbrett6518
2 жыл бұрын
Welome to the machine (and what a machine!)
@oldsoulboy6483
14 күн бұрын
I remember seeing this back in 1993. It was one of my favourite Clarkson reviews and somewhere I still have the VCR!
@PlanetoftheDeaf
Жыл бұрын
Clarkson's "in the world" at 4:25 wasn't slow enough 😁
@MC-nb6jx
Жыл бұрын
He perfected it in the following years😉😉
@tobihaifisch7558
Жыл бұрын
Someone, somewhere has the guts to put Scirocco-II tail lights on a 365.000 GBP car. Not even the tinted ones...
@MrTrick.
Жыл бұрын
Kaleb was still swimming around in his dad's ballbag when this was made...
@chanlou6090
Жыл бұрын
😂
@silverliteway
2 жыл бұрын
Clarky had an escort cosworth at this point in his life.
@duncans4186
Жыл бұрын
Tapped this off the telly when first aired, my God how time has flown, 90s best decade it was my youth where anything seemed possible, thanks for uploading x
@ryiin
Жыл бұрын
It's one of my favourite cars ever. Not even bond had one of these.
@turboslag
Жыл бұрын
That, is a proper Aston Martin, and one of my all time favourite cars, specifically the LM 600 version. At one time, not that long ago, the basic Vantage version could be had for as little as £25K!!! I knew I should have bought one then, doh!!
@lewis72
Жыл бұрын
That was the basic Virage version. Yes, they were down at around £25k. As were the wedgy Lagondas.
@turboslag
Жыл бұрын
@@lewis72 Ooooop's, brain f4rt! I meant Virage. Anyway, superb cars, I just love the brutality of them!
@MeTube3
Жыл бұрын
Yes, true Aston Martin. Gaydon will never have that.
@GM-fh5jp
Ай бұрын
That 25K was actually referring to the annual fuel and maintenance costs :/ They get about 15MPG on a good day LOL
@yutehube4468
10 ай бұрын
One of my favourite cars of all time. I remember seeing one (in an Aldi car park of all places) in the 1990's and was just amazed at it. British muscle car, but a very luxurious one!
@VF1Skullangel
2 жыл бұрын
The best front engined car period!
@fendergibs
2 жыл бұрын
Last of the Old School NP WASP hand made Aston Martins....The Vantage was never imported to USA 2/2 to EPA standards, only got the Virage for a few yrs & later the DB 7 which was not a pure Aston Martin, jaguar mass produced as the NP factory closed in 2000
@MC-nb6jx
Жыл бұрын
I noticed how Jeremy said “craftsman or even craftswoman” These days there’d be uproar with that😉🤣
@vlenhoff
Жыл бұрын
Oh the days of the manual.
@gavinsverdloff4291
Жыл бұрын
Clarkson at his best for me. 🙏😎
@ErikDB6
Жыл бұрын
The last real Aston Martin. At least they went out with a bang and a roar.
@dtrux8713
Жыл бұрын
I liked the previous model Aston that looked like a proper muscle car
@paulevans3827
Жыл бұрын
The best car in the world the best presenter in the world and the best program in the world👏🇬🇧
@killerdinamo08
Жыл бұрын
I was expecting May in the beginning with some piano concerto, till Pink Floyd came 😄.
@stephanlazarz1921
Жыл бұрын
Love that shape.
@GM-fh5jp
Жыл бұрын
Love it. Vantage 550 pls. (bows to Lotto Gods)
@invisiblekid99
Жыл бұрын
3:12 Well it took them longer than we expected.
@kristianspencer1978
Жыл бұрын
The best that Aston Martin ever made, but for 10% of the price you could have it’s sister, the monaro vxr500, that’s what I would buy.👍
@DeSjeft
Жыл бұрын
That Holden/Pontiac has the spec but not the looks and refinement. Don't get me wrong, though. I would enjoy that vxr500 every day for any amount of time, but it's no comparison to the v550 or v600. It barely gets to 10% of the refinement that went into the Aston Martin.
@geraint8989
Жыл бұрын
Strange - the older Clarkson got, the less he cared about proper journalism and actually making his content about cars. First the cars were relegated to a role secondary to some game, then his content became about juvenile playtime with imbeciles where sometimes a car was used without being deliberately destroyed.
@johnstannard8366
2 ай бұрын
Now in an time that Hot hatches are faster to 100! Crazy.
@Starfield-Guy
Жыл бұрын
I miss these days and TV like this so much. I’d sit as a kid and watch my dad watching top gear. Back when the world made sense, before they invented climate change and all this other nonsense.
@QuigzDrifts
Жыл бұрын
You mean back when corporations and oil companies were still destroying our only planet for profit but the billions of dollars they spent convincing us it wasn't happening was successful? Ah yes, the good old days. Ignorance is bliss
@TheFatAndTheFurious
11 ай бұрын
"Before they invented" - man-made climate change has been accelerating since the Second World War and was being talked about plenty in the 90s
@michaelbonade4667
Жыл бұрын
That FORD Steering wheel…😖
@PlanetoftheDeaf
Жыл бұрын
£185k nearly 30 years ago, wow!
@soriaguerrero5799
11 ай бұрын
Increible divino adorables los Aston gran video hermoso paisaje gracias Sonia G Nielsen👏👏👏
@oliverprice7039
Жыл бұрын
My dream car. This is the one
@IronMountainx
Жыл бұрын
Yes it was during the period I owned a couple of Renault 5GT Turbos, and these used were cheaper than a new 5GT turbo, I also seriously considered one, whish I had taken the plunge.
@paulthomson9014
Жыл бұрын
Virage was cheap , not the vantage
@manofweed1
Жыл бұрын
Trouble is modern machinery can do things better nowadays.
@spanishjohn420
Жыл бұрын
look how high the arch is on the rear wheel lmao
@lobsterwhisperer7932
Жыл бұрын
Looks like a more refined 2005 Mustang.
@stephenhill1716
Жыл бұрын
I’m not a British car fan. At all. But if I were to EVER own an exotic…or an import in general…it would be an Aston.
@joea2484
Жыл бұрын
I miss exciting car times like these instead of the stupid all electric dictatorship they want to push.
@kylewaddington1983
Жыл бұрын
Top Gear was a great show
@theworldaccordingtochris4370
Жыл бұрын
Was that an automatic Vantage in The US at tte beginning? Oh dear lord no 😞
@justwondering1967
Жыл бұрын
Nice castle of OCTOGON you have there, Jeremy. The Pharaonic archway is a nice touch too.
The green one (prototype show car) is in my garage. 😁
@philmw
Жыл бұрын
The black one (DP2055/4) was crash tested.
@Sammasambuddha
Жыл бұрын
Hasselhoff would be so proud!
@augure2589
Жыл бұрын
0:33 Theresa May?
@Baron-Ortega
Жыл бұрын
Look folks we actually had a real country only 20 years ago
@SethDaughters
Жыл бұрын
Looks like a maintenance nightmare
@misterm4763
Жыл бұрын
At least the steering wheel is at the right place!
@mietekposepny
Жыл бұрын
Tadek's engine 😊
@johnniethepom7545
Жыл бұрын
Did they run out of money and paint it with the leftover factory paint ? Bloody looks like it !
@jonathanpardoe8722
Жыл бұрын
Just a shame the thing didnt have the Jensen Interceptors looks .
@byteme9718
Жыл бұрын
I have an Interceptor and you're a fool.
@Werdnasemajjamesandrew
Жыл бұрын
That guys good at reviewing cars i wonder what happened?
@agenturawubekistanie
Жыл бұрын
An excellent point. Bye bye, motor industry.
@Boris-xx7dw
Жыл бұрын
The only Aston worthy of the name .
@tivet4
Жыл бұрын
Only rich buy this because high insurance or smash windows cost 5,000 pound than house window
@jtreut
Жыл бұрын
Ford steering wheel 😁
@willemoosthuizen8830
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like Diablo 2 😂
@markpedder5241
Жыл бұрын
Vantage v600 le mans for me please
@pobinr
5 ай бұрын
Stupid music when we could be hearing the engine
@jaex9617
Жыл бұрын
That's some hair!
@sweeneytod1
Жыл бұрын
A homage to American muscle cars.❤
@user-qr7ex4rt1b
5 ай бұрын
думаю что джереми круче слр мак ларен не видел.
@bonesnharmony3422
Жыл бұрын
how much are these today? looool
@waakwaak
11 ай бұрын
150k to 250k right hand 150k to 300k left hand
@mrwideboy
Жыл бұрын
Notice you had to talk with a plum in your mouth of you were a presenter in 80 and 90s
@mickymac6571
Ай бұрын
It hasn't aged well..
@finbarrmcgrath1686
Жыл бұрын
A whopping 185,000 pounds…..
@keithbill310
Жыл бұрын
Did pink Floyd members buy it ..
@DT-of5qq
2 жыл бұрын
Please replace that ugly steering wheel.
@josteinholen1312
Жыл бұрын
It looks like a Mustang. It's cool, but not really worthy of Aston Martin.
@user-sf7kl9uh7k
Жыл бұрын
That music's LAME
@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
2 жыл бұрын
It looks like a mustang, what a shame
@Rapscallion2009
2 жыл бұрын
The car hasn't really aged well, though. Sounds good and the interior is classy as heck - but the exterior looks pretty odd by today's standards.
@killerdinamo08
Жыл бұрын
Standards today? It'd be polite to call them such 😂.
@richbiles230872
Жыл бұрын
@@killerdinamo08 the perfect reposte.
@callumhardy5098
2 жыл бұрын
Oh dear! That’s an ugly car! 🤣🤣
@fendergibs
2 жыл бұрын
??
@G58
2 жыл бұрын
Oh dear! I do hope your taste amputation didn’t hurt as much as that silly comment damaged your credibility.
@G58
2 жыл бұрын
There was a brief period when these beautiful cars went out of fashion, and I really should have bought one, or three.
@fendergibs
2 жыл бұрын
@@G58 You couldn’t afford it they were extremely expensive for the Mid90s $250,000 range back then. Also the maintenance was absurd.
@callumhardy5098
2 жыл бұрын
@@G58 For a car company such as Aston Martin, this is a very ugly car, it just looks plasticky and fake, I’m sure in 1993 this was the ‘modern fashion’ but no I just don’t like it.
@Daness74
5 ай бұрын
Welcome to the machine = very good choice !! ☝️🙏👍👏🤘🫂🤞🍀
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