British Leyland Challenge Highlights | Top Gear | BBC

The first car in the word to obscure its wiper spindels under the bonnet ?
It wasn't. GM was doing that in 67- 68 with its full sized chevies, Cadillacs etc.

They should had used flex tape

'The car was hidden from view'
:Clearly reversing
Absolutely lovely

I got up somthing like that in the ice in my cheap car

It took a few attempts

I got up the Hill but then was slamming it into the snow drifts at high revs that ripped my exhaust off and after digging it out and raming my way though deep snow in a bog standard Peugeot 206 i eventually blew the head gasket from making it scream on the same road

snow drifting is too much fun

Giant steep hill climbs

Feel like ramping it to space

They do in the snow anyway

Great fun

James’ number plate spelling, dad, sums him up perfectly

“He’s brought a piece of cheese”

And thus James May’s cheese-filled saga begins.

I love how Richard gets cars as small as him 😂

Is it only me or someone else also noticed that numberplate of May is ''DAD'😂😂

You don't even have to write the joke when the car's a 'Dolomite'

My 1976 Chevy Malibu had the windscreen wipers obscured under the hood or bonnet, 2 years before that Austin

Mr jog dry

Complétement débile....

i will prob watch this video 1000 times in my life

1 of my favourite challenges 😂

Car.

There were towbar at Jeremy

Kids in Africa would drink that wateh

this sequence always struck me as a fever dream, but watching it again I realise that it was made and actually happened.

One of my top skills is knowing this video word by word as a result of watching it so many times

Remember my Dad got a Princess as a courtesy car. Damn, it was horrible ...felt like sitting in a tank.

One of the best challenges.

what hammond did there when he jumped out of the car was very dangerous

fond memories of my rover SD1 V8 alloys and sunroof bought for £700 1st day took it to car wash , no probs , first braking about 5 gallons of water had hidden in the roof -cold shower

Ugh…too much Ken.

it got a electric sun roof........that dose not work

The Austin Colander? wedge

I was cheering for the piece of cheese :(

One of best cheap car challenges! Also when they set fire to a car wash with converted Renault.

Lapped by captain slow

How lucky they were filming Jeremy's car at the perfect angle when the door came off! That has got to be one of the funniest unscripted moments in television history. Jeremy is just driving along and the door completely falls off! The water must have loosened all the bolts and unhooked all the cables somehow. Then Jeremy yells "the damn doors come off!" because he had no idea that was going to happen! When it comes to spontaneous unscripted events on television this has to be in top 10 of all time!

wonderful

In india this car was named as standard 2000❤

complètement singler

Only missing the cobbled road test with the eggs and clarkson opening his rovers door and the trim staying put😂

Damn can you imagine if they’d had Flex Seal back then??

James piece of cheese was the best one

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I remember someone saying something about our cars to the effect of: "fantastic cars, and brilliant designs when they work. The trouble is they always get built with the cheapest most dodgy parts they can find." The only reliable domestic UK manufacturer was Ford Europe. And that says a lot since it's a subdivision of an American Company lol. TVRs were all hand built and yet were horribly unreliable. MG and Rover used 20 year old car parts in their 80s cars. (Metro Turbo had a 1965 Mini Cooper S 4-speed Manual for instance) Austins all broke down because of terrible engines and fell apart at the seams, etc. Etc. Is it any wonder our domestic car industry is on its face when businesses always put cost cutting before quality control and reliability?

As always Top gear doing important research , doing the lords work