Top Gear 1991 about Diesels

barura

Clarkson still has his charm back then. Or wit. Regardless it's a good lead up to why diesels picked up, and touches on how it didn't pick up til then.

Anan1

barura wrote: »

Clarkson still has his charm back then. Or wit.

That was actually quite a balanced and informative piece, IMO. Shame he sold out.

colm_mcm

Wow the BX was the top seller!

mike65

The BX was a very good diesel at the time - that and the Pug 405 were the cars to be in.

colm_mcm

Always seemed to be plenty 405s around Ireland, BX was never as popular here.

mike65

Hardly a surprise, this is the country which actually had space for the Opel Astra Belmont and where VW felt it could debut the Jetta Mk 3 so popular was the mark 2. Incredibly conservative.

colm_mcm

Is that not a Uk vaux Belmont in your pic mike?

Called the kaddett over here wasn't it?

mike65

It may have been back then, I can't remember when Vauxhall and Opel starting using the same model names.

colm_mcm

The 90s astra was the first astra one to share one name.
The nova, cavalier, and Carlton names were scrapped too.

lomb

Only 38.7pence a litre back then!!
I think in Die Hard the petrol price sign was something like 65 cent for an American gallon. Happy days...

Bodhan

That's the kind of stuff we need to to do on Irish TV, proper informative TV with a bit of fun.
There are times when I miss old Top Gear.

johnos1984

Bodhan wrote: »

That's the kind of stuff we need to to do on Irish TV, proper informative TV with a bit of fun.
There are times when I miss old Top Gear.

There was an old show on RTE callled DRIVEN which was ok apart from the fact the presenters were gobsh ites of the highest order. Most Irish motoring journalists either can't or won't tell the truth about a car.

I'd love to give it a proper go but I feel having to sell out would be rather annoying

colm_mcm

Irish car shows have always been rubbish, they probably always will be.

Entertainment is what people want, not some numptys gushing over boring cars they got to drive for the week

dingding

Also he forgot to mention the service interval. I had a petrol vectra in the 90's and it has a 12,000 mile service interval. The company changed to diesel and it went down to 5,000 miles which was almost monthly for me.

A big pain.

Not the case now.

ottostreet

Sorry, I can't listen to Phil Lynott talking about cars with an English accent!

shawnee

Certainly the bx diesel was a lively and comfortable motor. Had one for a few years and enjoyed it and got little trouble. Replaced a few spheres for the suspension but it was still running well when I sold it and had 250 k on the clock. I wonder is there any diesel one running in Ireland today ?

bgo1

dingding wrote: »

Also he forgot to mention the service interval. I had a petrol vectra in the 90's and it has a 12,000 mile service interval. The company changed to diesel and it went down to 5,000 miles which was almost monthly for me.

A big pain.

Not the case now.

Very true i had trouble explaining that fact to my father who was going to buy a new big petrol Avensis two years ago, i made the argument for diesel but he said no due to small service intervals, was still in his head from the 90`s diesels!

tossy

Thats Rory McIlroys auld lad is it?

Our man in Havana

The hair on Clarkson! Oh dear!

Good video and very informative.

_Conrad_

mike65 wrote: »

It may have been back then, I can't remember when Vauxhall and Opel starting using the same model names.

Well they were the same cars so why not?

colm_mcm

_Conrad_ wrote: »

Well they were the same cars so why not?

Because they didn't always do that, clever way to sell to patriotic Brits.

mike65

Well you have to remember the cars were made in Britain - Vauxhall has existed since the mid 19th century and has two plants - Elsemere Port and Luton that made all the main models which up until a point were distinct from Opel - cars like the Viva and Victor (until the 2nd last version).