Go to gtchannel.com for more car videos and content. The “EVO Meister” Takayuki Kinoshita goes out to test the Lancer EVO IX on the famous Nurburgring old track (Nordshleife) Watch the Un-cut on board cam!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Jeremy Clarkson tests some unusual modified cars on an episode of Top Gear from 94/95. Jaguar XJR Stealth Tornado, Dodge Viper and Jaguar XJ220S.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
what the F!! how did you even catch that?? Snake Eyes.
Dream car
Evo 9 the best !!!
Nurburgring is all about BALLS.
i just watched a video of a ctsv wagon and it made it in the same time. damn that evo is fast
yeah he would have gotten under 8 minutes if it wasnt for all those things.
just try break that time if you already visit nurburgring..i bet you will end with crash
yeah and you are a pro commenter.. now gtfo
well spotted
spec C still doing better. ahhh
Because it is very hard to spot, none of those Evo hard core enthusiasts had seen it
wow cool evo 9 GSR
Ok? How the hell did this comment get so many likes?…
Oh ok! Thank you for your replies!
Because as soon as you put the car into neutral the revs start to drop. When you move to a lower gear you need the revs to increase. When you let the clutch back out in a lower gear after you just neutral it, the car will buck strongly as the synchronizers do their work and if you let the revs drop too much, maybe even lock up the driving wheels.
Why can’t he just put it in neutral?
Because when you go down a gear the engine has to rev faster to accommodate it. You need to press the gas to increase the speed of the engine to match the new gear. If you don’t, in most racing cars you wouldn’t be able to move the stick into the lower gear, and in a regular car like this, the synchronizers would have to work hard to bring the engine up to speed, possibly locking the driving wheels in the process if you let the engine speed fall too much.
To keep revs high (In the turbo zone). It`s called foot-toe techinic and many drivers (Like Senna) did that.
Why does he put his foot on the brake and gas at the same time when he changes gear? (I’m a noob)
TOTALLY agree. How the heck did you see that?? Hade to watch it again 3 times to see it.LoL
4 sec faster than older evo in a wet track is amazing!
Nice video – great driving!
Nissan takes GT-R to Nurburgring. They also have test tracks in Japan. The man did not mean the car unable to do fast, but it is unstable, that means you can’t drink coffee at 230km/h
Curiouser
“He took a bloat of a car” …. a car that was built by him for Jaguar in the first place. every single XJ220 was built by JaguarSport, a joint venture by TWR and Jaguar. The XJ220 worked as standard, it just didn’t sell well because of the recession, although TWR also managed to built and sell 50 of the obscenely expensive (£500k) XJR-15s which of course had the V12 which the XJ220 so badly missed … the XJ220S, was just a road version of the XJ220C… like 911RS’s
top gear has changed alot since then i can remember watching it as a young teen but i forgot how serious it was in them days now they give you facts and just mess about its great
“tuned” vs “untuned” terminology is all wrong.
all cars running sweet are tuned.
“ow what’s that mr mechanic, you charged me $80 for a untune-up?”
not all tuned cars running sweet are modified.
that xj220 looks like it was modified by max power
im paying $310/m, australia is a bitch aint it
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I said considered on a road car at the time, I know shelby made a twin supercharged monster (2 of them) which famously were ludicrous to drive and used the cobra roadster chasis and this was in the 60s and 70s, one crashed, the other is in the shelby museum
They “only” had 750hp during races because of restrictors. During qualifying both Offenhauser (Aftermarket) and Porsche were WAY past 1000 horsepower during the early 70′s Can Am turbo craze until they changed the rules to get those engines out of the races in the late 70′s.
So yes, I am telling you that the aftermarket could take you there. I am even telling you that they the serious Can Am racers were WAY past that point and that they DID have limits to what they were allowed to race with.
Nonsense.
They only reached 750hp at the absolute peak of development of Can-Am (a no displacement limit endurance racing formula) in 1972 and that was with the purpose built 9,2 litre V8 from Chevrolet which was designed for Can-Am (not roadcars) in mind, which at the time was the most extreme form of motorracing.
You’re trying to convince me there were aftermarket parts passing 1000hp in the 60′s when they couldn’t reach 800hp in CanAm in 1972 with no-limit purpose built racing engines? bs.
Not practically.
Koenig Specials (not to be confused with Koenigsegg) is a German tuner of Ferrari’s and Porsches, and he presented a 1000hp Koenig Competition “Evolution” in 1988. It was twin turbo modified Ferrari Testarossa. Did it really produce 1000hp? Who knows. But contemporary tests said it was basically undrivable on public roads and the clutch was so heavy you had to be a body builder to operate in.
Most of these are rarely driven today and just a bit obscure collectables.
Buttons on the steering wheel to change gears haha we have come along way since the mid 90′s
“A mixed Jetaphor, if you will.”
I won’t, Jeremy.
So Tom Walkinshaw was a retard? You know nothing about motor racing. You sir, are the essence of fail. He took a bloat of a car and made it work… more of a savior than anything.
So the Viper in the video won at lemans?
This is absolutely true, which is why modified Dodge Vipers have multiple class wins at Le Mans.
Wait, what?
Soon we will be forced to drive a prius that drives itself and us gearheads will be forced to the race track til that too is taken from us.
the xj220s is beautiful i have it on gran turismo 5 and got it the same colour gunna start getting xj220s on gt5 and just tuning and colouring.
Sad to see little Hondas can do that nowadays
Indeed, I also think that the modified Dodge is not in the same league as a McLaren F1, around a circuit it would be destroyed..
3:37 WOW HOT!!
Love when Jeremy said “The Dodge, £80,000″ when comparing its price to others lol. As though he thinks thats affordable, that is bloody well not affordable to alot of people. And who’s gonna be able to test a car on the road at 170mph? less so today with speed cameras round every corner. There’s no enjoyment in motoring anymore.
635Bhp is in this case a V10 naturally aspirated not turbo’ed
everytime u hear clarkson say S. you know some good shits about to happen
Yes, and remarkably he seems to have a brain.