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This week, Alex, Ethan and Jack race a car (with a twist) against public transport to one of the best driving roads in the country!
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This is like 2009 top gear, please smother me with more of this content
Yes that golden age 2006ish to 2009/10. Before then was a little cringe and after too samey and stale.
It’s like exciting even tho idea been double done it’s still addictive.
Happy you're not smothered! The mask thing is over!
@@minxlabrada what
Yes!
You should buy some cheap sports cars and take them from London to the Nurburgring and race them on track
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Tonight: Alex finds an undulating B-road Ethan doesn't understand Google and Jack runs on camera.
impossible not to read this in Clarksons voice.
This is fantastic lmao
@@dc2blair I literally did! 😂
@@dc2blair TOO-NIGHT!
Intro like this would be godlike!
19:43 “Ethan is quite good at the public transport thing though” - “This isn’t looking good Ethan” 😂
I was laughing at that too xDD
Technically a taxi in the UK is "private hire" so I'm giving it Alex
Technically Uber is not a taxi service.
Thing is even if it is private hire a taxi is transport for the public to use
@@Booka3141 i would say uber is more of a private hire, a proper taxi is more like public transport
Uber is 100% a loss. It's private hire, not public transport. Public Transport unreliability and missed connections means a loss in my book.
Is it available to the public? Yes. That counts.
Alex is the winner 100%. If an Uber is allowed then they could have just got in an Uber at the start. Plus it's a battle against the car, not car vs car.
100% uber / taxi is NOT public transport
@@5harp3y uber should be banned ,why should taxi drivers pay for a taxi licence and insurance and uber scum get away scot free ?
@@girlsdrinkfeck erm u liturally need a license to be an uber
@@pistongaming826 ddi that change since few yrs ago after that debate ?
@@girlsdrinkfeck i assume so, i checked and they do need a licnese
What's to stop Ethan and Jack getting an uber all the way? I'd give this one to Alex. Nice drone work at the snake pass.
oh shit yhhhh they took an uber
Money
They totally lost it. Uber/Taxi is not public transport
I do have to say i technically would give it to Alex as taxis are classed as "Private hire". fair play to all 3 of them though! love this content!
and alex drove straight past the final destination, meaning he WOULD have beat ethan and jack with their public transport, had it not been for his forgetting ofc
Totally agree once you hire the vehicle no other member of the public can just jump in so not public transport. Alex win 100%
@@Sheddymiata But in Uber there is the thing where people can join in on the journeys
@@VictorDude98 true but the thing is...an uber is still a car. And it's a " car Vs...." Not a "car Vs car". Alex wins. Definitely.
@@cptfrecell and a bus is just a big car
Is an Uber public transport? No Is this video very entertaining? Yes
Well technically it is but it doesn't count for a race against car vs public transport
@@MattAutoMotive Fair point!
@@MattAutoMotive how is it public transport? The moment you step in the car it stops being public.
@@TheSuperBoyProject well your not the one that’s driving your being chauffeured and there's one thing all public transport has in common your not driving you're been chauffeured yes it is private hire but the car isn't yours and you still have to wait for it
Tonight - Ethan misses a train, Jack says "Go get a bus" and I drive north
Amazing and perfect!!
I read that in Clarkson voice on my head 😅
It would be funny to hear the odd homage to TG within these challenge’s, everyone agrees that these three are the spiritual successor to the Grandads of the car show. 👍
Brilliant!
I heard Clarkson's voice
Uber definitely doesn't count as public transport - it's private transport because only you or your friends are in the car, it isn't shared with the public for your journey. Great video, memories of old Top Gear!
Alex for the win. If you miss the train and bus. You have to get the next one not get an Uber boys! But hey great episode as always!
Can I just say that in a world of KZheadrs buying exotics, this is so so so refreshing. I love buying a cheap car and seeing how far you can go or how long till it dies.
I agree. The only downside was seeing how bad Alex' lane discipline was on the motorway. Virtually every shot showed him lane-hogging with nothing to the left of him!
Definite win for the car. To be honest I think the lads missed a trick by sitting on a train for 2 hours and not researching a backup plan
The bus *was* the backup plan, but it turns out their research differed from what they found when they arrived at the actual bus stop.
Would love to see Alex, Jack and Ethan take an official uk driving test. With all the changes and standards now it would be Interesting to see who is actually the 'best' driver.
This would actually be hilarious
they have already done this
@@MrAbaeterno have they? Link please
@@MrAbaeterno no they haven’t. they’ve done videos _about_ driving tests but not legitimately done a test on camera.
@@jd404245 it was a joke one on 2guys1car
The car won that fair and square! Time is the currency here on this challenge and almost everytime the car would win!!!!! Well done Alex
Alex: uses nav to get to the car Also alex going to the lake: I dont know which way to go
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The fact he didnt use the google maps annoyed me :)
I would definitely be interested in seeing this same challenge, but with the roles reversed. Watching Alex try to do public transit could be pretty funny.
It would be like when they made The Stig take the train 😂
I would love to see this Passat get a full interior and extrerior detail, these B5.5 are really nice to drive especially with that 1.9TDi engine. Maybe try to sell it for a profit to someone who will himself take care of it.
Its on 265,000 miles. Realistically its not even worth what they paid for it even in better condition.
Inky blue is a lovely colour
@@ceirwan depends how complete the service history is, some cars wear miles like that fairly well.
@@justkomodo I'm sure they do, or it can. But its a hard figure to look past as a buyer. I don't see it ever being worth much more than what it is now. Once they get to this age, everything is starting to wear out, suspension parts, rusty brake & fuel lines, the engine itself, steering components, power steering hoses, interior parts etc.
@@ceirwan true, second hand prices are fairly crazy atm for medium sized cars though. I’d say anything with decent service history and a new MOT should be going for £1000 minimum, otherwise I want to know what’s seriously wrong with the car. The shock absorber on this one explains the price: you couldn’t say it’s in reasonable drivable condition until that’s replaced, but £1000-1500 is what you have to pay for a “reliable” cheap car these days rather than £500-1000
Great episode! Nice to see my neck of the woods on such a good channel, too. The whole drive from Sheffield through Snake Pass and down into Glossop (fun stops right there) is a great experience every time.
Alex is the winner in my eye's 👀 And Ethan needs to replace the rear shock and give it a full service
Ethan with a spring compresser ?? 😲
The maths at the end perfectly demonstrates why public transport in Britain is a joke. That a family of 4 can buy a car to travel from London to the Peak District and it cost the same as a train is absurd. And those Passats are great.
Also could sell the car when they got back. Probably for more.
Just a shame the insurance would be 3x the value of the car Public transport is still too expensive though
@@-_NAN_- Insurance for my 2009 Volvo V70 D5 is about £300 per year with business useage. That's with a no claims and no points record.
"The train is gone and there's no bus" Welcome to public transport. (And Uber is public transport in the same way that a turnip is public transport)
Sorry not native... whats a turnip?
@@ricogol It's a root vegetable.
Percy should be a trade up car now, keep flipping them and see what you can get up to by the end of the year
Love that you guys keep the Top Gear formula going. Keep it up!
look up car trek.
"it's a surprise that Ethan doesn't cheat on his wife" I busted out laughing 😂
Awesome episode!! Really looking forward to seeing the cleaning and mechanical repair episodes 🙌🏼
Jack went into his full James May mode. "I'm not going to run"
Alex was the winner this time. Missing the train or getting false info about bus is one downside of public transportation.you can't use that to get a cab to your location in this race
uber was not excluded before race
@@vampirwrr yeah but it wasnt included either.
@@vampirwrr it's public transport. UBER is a private car hire service
100% agree Uber is cheating. Otherwise a guaranteed win would have been taking an Uber from the start. And where do you draw the line between taking an uber the entire way vs an Uber for part of the way?
@@clintebbesen120 Agreed
Uber doesn't count, and seeing as Alex technically reached the reservoir first (albeit driving past the finish and heading towards derwent/on to snake pass) Alex has the win this time
Mate, he didn’t even reach the car park before Ethan and Jack did.
@@martijnkosters9024 they cheated they used pvt transport
@Martijn Kösters he was there before them just wasn't in the car park. Plus an Uber isn't public transit
Alex once sang 'top gear time top gear time' now we sing 'ct time ct time' please keep up the ol' top gear style content i love it!
Great video and glad you came up to my neck of the woods. Hope you do some more up here one day!
family owned one of those Passats, slightly better trim but those TDI engines were absolutely bomb proof, same engine I believe as the Octavia you guys had on.
Octavia had non-PD afaik.. Both this and the A4 are PD
The one I had in an Audi wasnt. It blew a turbo and then decided the oil should be on the road instead of the engine.
Agreed, 1.9 TDI is unbreakable
My tdi a4 b5 did 450k km and still going solid , that's 280k miles
@@tougeking9226 My parents have the same exact car model and its done almost 500k KM too! Everything is fine except a little few scratches and dents
Using an uber for the last stretch would be not much different from Alex just renting a car for the day to do the trip. I would definitely say this was a victory for Alex.
renting is not buying, uber is a public transport just like taxi, uber was not excluded before race
You can just rent a helicopter, becasue anyone can, so is that also a public transport?
The difference being you have to have a driving license to rent a car but you don't need one to get an uber
@@vampirwrr What is the main benefit and point of using a public transport? I'd say it is a price, because it comes much cheaply than a car. But Uber is not cheap, it is basically a taxi.. Thus I would definitely say the win goes to Alex.
@@vampirwrr So they could also hire a limo to just take them the whole way there. The whole argument is silly, this is meant to be public transport vs car, if you start including the car in the public transport, then the challenge completely falls apart. The public transport literally failed those two, so they had to resort to using a car.
More of these!! I’ve been so bored waiting for another vid, keep it up 👍🏼
The Ethan pain supercut is glorious and I can't wait to see it expand as you make more videos
Getting some real top gear vibes, keep up the good work guys!
Because they copy top gear.
@@Jon-rh2qc So does car trek but i dont give a damn.
@@Jon-rh2qc Well Top Gear don't do it that well now so why not? It is good entertainment
@@Jon-rh2qc If top gear kept being top gear that it used to be, then copying them would b an issue. However the crew is basically filling the gap top gear left behind. These are the kind of videos the car crowd that used to watch top gear in the past wants to see.
This is hilarious 😂 think Alex won tho. Uber doesn’t count
I’d count it. It’s available to the public, that’s public transport.
@@sparky4878 it’s private hire so sorry mate not public transport
You keep doing great content guys, much appreciated!
Absolutely brilliant 👏 Well done boys. Can we have more of these challenges, it's just like the old Top Gear but better.
If the Uber counts as public transport you might as well use it for the whole journey, which makes the entire concept of public transport vs car superfluous. Alex won 100%.
It doesn't count as it. It's a private hire vehicle. They lost, and the uber probably cost them £60
Technically Alex won. He was already in the place when the other two were just approaching the location from the other direction. It just his stupidity which cost him the victory.
If on the last lap lewis pits and approaches the line but max overtakes him just before the line and crosses it first who wins?
That's no different to when a cyclist or marathon runner celebrates too soon before the line and gets overtaken right at the end they still lost
And the uber doesn't count
@@MrTap05 to finish first, you first have to finish
Agreed! Not sure why he didn't use Google Maps.
I used to own a Passat B5.5 for 4 years, lovely car. That B5.5 deserves a full restoration from you guys!
Start at Langsett reservoir on the A616 head over to ladybower along the strines, join the A57 along snake pass, down to Glossop, turn right and head to woodhead pass, left up over Holme Moss, drop into Holmfirth then pick up your route back home, class little drive out 🤙🏻
Uber is not public transport. It's a private transportation service.
THIS!
Agreed. Shorty wins.
However public uses Uber so personally I think Jack and Ethan won, again it's what I think personally
@@Charlie-zb5oh But it's not "Public" transit, as it payed for through taxes, which is how all transit should be. Nationalize the railroads!
@@coastaku1954 like I said its personal opinion people don't have to agree and I'm not expecting them to
Love a B5.5 Passat, nearly 20 years on from being discontinued and they're still one of the best cars you can buy bang for buck. Comfortable, loads of room, handle "well enough", plenty of cars came equipped with multifunction steering wheels and cruise control, loads of torque from the PD which run for miles and can run on cooking oil... Edit: an Uber isn't public transport, being available to the public and being transport does not public transport make. Public transport follows designated routes for set fees.
The B5/.5 handles like an Audi since it has multilink - not like a quattro but an Audi nonetheless! (Unless your bushings are done which they often are with older cars)
Not sure the PD engineers can handle cooking oil...
Hey boyss, love your challenges. Here is one idea of challenge: Some money to buy a car and transform it into a "camper" where you three need to spend one night inside. Alex had already done it inside a french Kinder überraschung (that little peugeot).
You need to be on tv cause you’re amazing. I absolutely love watching your videos and it genuinely feels like im watching top gear again, You make my day every single time I watch an video and it’s 100% sure it’s not only my day getting better We love you from the bottom of our heart’s
I'm from Chesterfield and I can assure you we don't speak Yorkshire 😅. Living in the edge of the peak district is stunning, so easy to enjoy it for even just a few hours
An uber is not "public transport", as you're not sharing your transport with "the public". So that's a win for Alex in my books.
uber was not excluded before race
You can share taxis with other people... seen it before at bus stops when they're late and in Town when people are off home (that don't know eachother)...
@@vampirwrr doesn't matter we all know what was meant by public transport it's definitely a win for alex
So they could just do ride share or whatever it is and it'd be classed as public transport by that logic
@@Interknetz Fair enough, kinda depends on your definition of "the public" of course. If you consider 1 or 2 strangers as sharing with "the public" then yes by that logic a ride share would be classified as public transport. However if you see "the public" as a larger group of people to share your transport with then no... But still, in this case they didn't share their ride with anyone, so my logic still makes sense regardless in this particular case 😅
The road was lovely to drive down often used it on delivery's, but I wounder how congested it will be now 🤣 Great video guys
what you said was spot on dude it fits with other countries too, people be planning trips to other countries while they forgot what a paradise you can find on your own backyard. awesome entertainment keep it up guys.
When jack said he wasn’t running I had a flash back to all those times James may said he wouldn’t run on TV. Cracking vid lads👊🏽
A win for Alex this time, i love these challenges
Love these types of episodes keep them coming 👍
Love this challenge, love all the challenges thay have had. I just like ethan jack beating Alex, dont know why but I do.
Loving these budet challenges✌ you keep posting the best quality car content on youtube indeed👌
Having owned a few, the Passat would be my go to for a challenge like this every time!
@@jase6709 tbH anything with a VW engine would do the job, such as a skoda fabia etc
Passat for myself. I owned a 2005 2.0 TDi Sport for two years and it was a brilliant car. I bought it for £1,400 with 169,000 miles on the clock and sold it with 209,000 miles for £750. It also had a Nappa leather upgrade.
Still got one, 2001 pd130
any tdi :P
@@girlsdrinkfeck Not it it's got many of newer VW engines, granted the 1.9 PD is a legend though.
Weird to see them driving around my home, hope you guys enjoyed it ❤️ And yes, everyone does sound like that in Chesterfield
Well made video. The second half was very interesting. And looking forward to see more of the Passat.
Brilliant episode. That Passat deserves some love, it's a survivor that could last many more miles.
Yeah! It is a good episode. Really like these TDI engines
This car (which won via disqualification) sounds like an ideal basis for another trading up video.
It's clearly a quality car, just needs professionally cleaned and that damper issue sorted. It can be Miles's adopted cousin.
One of my favourite KZhead Channels. Love this sort of tasks. And it's 30 minutes long 🙃
Loving this Passat! What a find! I want to see more of this car and ones like it!
As a German, I would love to see the Passat get tidied up and given a bit of love🥺
I was just checking if I had missed a Friday Car Throttle and here it is. A cheeky late night treat. Or now timed for 5pm EST and the American viewer market? Edit: going to enjoy this. The roads around Ladybower, Snake Pass and the like, are fantastic. Great on an early Sunday morning blast before everyone else is up and on the road.
That tracking shot at the end was something else. Well done to the film crew 👍
Great video. Looking forward to seeing the next video. I'm a massive fan of the passat, especially with 1.9 tdi. 👍
I hope to see a series on the mighty b5 passat
We need another young person challenge where you try and get a car and get insured on a budget or try and get something that is slightly quick with insurance would be cool!!!
Suzuki Swift Sport comes to mind!
On next episode of Car Throttle: Can I Manufacture a Ford Focus in the Germany Assembly plant & Beat Public Transport?
@@WARXion that's stupid! Ofcourse you can
Good piece of advice for young drivers is diesel. You get a low tax cost. Good mileage insurance is always cheaper and pretty much every diesel has a turbo these days. Soo its a win win for everyone.
B5.5 for the win! I recently upgraded to a Touareg but I sure miss my Passat. Great car.
Another brilliant episode. Love these videos. Quality. Absolute quality.
Ethan: "I know this isnt public transport" - 20:10
Video idea - High mileage restoration. £500 to buy a 200k+ car £500 to restore it and drive 500 miles. Whoever sells it for the most wins.
5:39 Those "yeah's" inspire so much freaking confidence xD /E: Yeah, you should clean it and fix it up within reason, it deserves it
Amazing content as always lads. Good to see you up my neck of the woods for a change 😎 Bus station was a minute down the road lads 😅
"As we all know, everybody loves a DP" - Alex, 2022😂😂
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uber is essentially driving a car but you're paying someone else to do it lol. so i'd say alex won
How is that different from a bus? Big motor car, paying a driver.
@@martijnkosters9024 Not anyone can get into that Uber car, just the people who have arranged for the ride. So uber is basically a private hire and not a public transport.
@@martijnkosters9024 Bud is a certain route
Great video lads, keep up the good work 👍
I love Snake Pass. Drove it a couple of weeks ago in fine weather and it was a delight.
I love these old Top Gear style challenges they are my favourite content from the channel. Alex you may have lost but I'd say Percy claims a moral victory as on principal of car Vs public transport it would have won. Also public transport failed Jack and Ethan resulting in a "no option but Uber".
Really happy, you've decided to keep that beast of a Passat! Happy to see somebody really cared for it and you're giving it a second chance. Would be really interesting to see what kind of problems you would find with it.
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It's got to be Alex's win technically, tip for Ethan and Jack from a taxi driver, hail or get a taxi with a roof sign from a rank, they are Hackney Carriages (public hire / pblic transport). Using Uber or prebooked private hire cars is private hire so not public transport.
I moved to Nottingham so getting to the peak district is about 55 mins and ladybower 1hr 13. Such a great place to visit. Busy at weekends though. I agree the public transport is terrible in the peak district. Such nice roads to drive on.
This is cool, my first ever road trip on a motorcycle (125cc because I'm a fool) was from Southwark to Castleton in the Peak District so this is a bit nostalgic for me.
I love these challenges. Anyway who was waiting for "that wheel" to liberate itself on the motorway?
B5 passats are underrated, I have a 5.5 with a 1.8T that was remapped, it was super reliable and really comfortable the entire time I had it, loved that car wish I didn't have to sell it!
Absolutely love these
You know as they said, Alex could have easily won had he prepared properly and learned where the finish line is even if Ethan and Jack used Uber. I give it to them.
+1
Ethan did the research and prepared, then when they got to the bus stop, Jack did a search and saw no busses coming. Ethan and Jack /may have/ won the race, but public transport lost spectacularly.
@@somerandommug having a train pull off as one arrives is stupid planning from the train operator.
@@allothernamesbutthis you realise just how many trains arrive and depart from each station each with their own schedules to have all of the trains wait at every station for every other train to arrive is absurd. It's entirely up to the traveler to plan that shit properly
@@TheHobohobbit how many trains come from over 150 miles away? Probably not many.
Uber doesnt count imo. Either public transport failed you, or you failed at public transport. Whichever you prefer, Alex deserves the win.
uber was not excluded before race
@@vampirwrr Clearly a divisive result! I reckon play fair, don't try to win on technicalities. Technically they could have Ubered all the way there from the beginning, for an astronomical cost, but still would have won.
I walked Derwent Edge around the same time this would have been filmed, would highly highly recommend to anybody who hasn't done the route already. Also, snake pass is absolutely incredible.
This was class. Brilliant content.
As an owner of the estate variant, there are so many things to love about these cars, quite easy to work on as well for the most part.
Solid cars for sure. That front suspension setup thou 😣
@@danmoney9932 lol yeah, that bolt that secures the two upper arm ball joints has been the biggest pain in the arse for sure.
Definitely either do another "trade up" series with the Passat or keep it and just absolutely rice the shit out of it
Agree about the top gear comment this is genuinely more entertaining than most car stuff on TV! Good lads!
First of all, I think it's Alex's win. Using an Uber kind of defeats the object of trying to beat a car using public transport. Secondly, I absolutely love your content. Not only has it the Top Gear vibes we were all longing for - like so many others mentioned. Rather it is nice to see you guys buying and using cars basically any of us can buy as well. I totally get the excitement and emotions of super and hyper cars, but too few are actually able to buy them, so it always seemed somewhat pointless to me having well-earning presenters test cars I won't be able to afford, only to point out the pros, cons and differences I won't experience anyway. Please keep up the good work for 2022 and beyond!
Yeah think Alex gets his first win here! Can’t wait to see what you do with the vw. Please more content like this and all buying a cheap car and going for a road trip
Heck yeah, I would love to see Percy back to the roads. It looks awesome for it's age and miles on it. By the way, that car brings memories of my grandparents, I remember going to the dealer to buy one with them... Man... Do I miss them so much! It was the same color only a 1.8t model for the Brazilian market
We cycled past you filming.! We even got a nod from Alex! Great vid as always!
visited snake pass/that reservoir last year with a friend, came all the way up from Brighton on the train haha