Fifth Gear: The Experiment With Old Banger Cars (Proton Sport)

this is my car it costs 440 pounds a year to tax 200 pounds a month in petrol and last week set me back two hundred and seventy pounds for just one tire but you know what I'm more than happy to pay for it I like the finer things in life yes I may be a distinctly shallow man but the way I see it is this the nicer my car the more friends I'll have but for one week only god save me I've been given that oh my if you believe the badges it's a proton Sport Automatic 1.5 se triple valve LeMond sport and you work that out it costs the fifth gear coffers just 210 pounds less than my BMWs tire is that concerned just like my car it's got a full MOT four wheels and it's white number plate issues Oh somebody's snotty tissue what else have you got spare cupboards you are joking now at the end of my week with this piece of art I will be able to tell you whether it's worth swapping your motor for a bang like this is it in fact a really good way of saving a whole lot of cash or on the other hand is it like tripping up and landing face-first in the world's biggest dog Todd Oh wish me luck here we go so here we go this is trip one in the proton on the way to see my main snap this will let me test what life with a banger does to your image 200 quid this reveals the first downside of running a banger mates just don't understand you're trying to save cash they just think you're a bit of a prat female friends well they're even more scathing or is it whose car is it I said my new this is my new ride did you find it yeah whatever what is Kate loll on her radioactive tam no anyway this made me feel very protective of the old proton to a point today I opened the door of the proton onto a bollard by mistake by my first reaction was oh my god if I damage the ball ah how brilliant is that it's actually very liberating being freed from the stresses of car park dings and worrying about car thieves this is a big plus point of bangor motoring although you need to be careful not to take it too far if I don't think about this car is it's completely changed the way that I'm driving because usually when I Drive my Beemer I'm very aware of the curbs very aware of road positioning the dangerous thing about drunk driving a 200 pound bag of nails is that it just really case you should not care about that stuff at all so I know the day that I get a Beemer back I'm just gonna go write it off as time went on another benefit of the bag of became apparent 40 miles per gallon made it twice as economical as my m3 I wanted to use it as much as possible even tackling motorways let's be fair is actually quite the steering wheels on pretty straight no airbags obviously but frankly if I was to have a crash in a car like this I wouldn't want to live it through it I think I'd rather just be over and done with let's fly that side I think I need to be so humiliating to be Paula out of the wreck of one of these via a nice-looking paramedic the other aspect My Week with a car costing 210 pounds revealed is what I call reliability roulette you never quite know what tinsy winsy little niggle is gonna crop up next say for example on the school run [Music] Sammis is broken sure the door just swung open by itself [Music] well this is it baby you and I are parting way that's it we've had a week together now we've been quite good to me though you haven't let me down which I've lined up with retreat for you not tell you what it is yet though half mile up the road just wait and see look after mate she's a beautiful in pure economics this experiment has been a total success we bought a car with MOT and tax for the price of a peak time rail ticket you drive everywhere feeling like you're constantly in profits she looks mint I might actually hang on to this I really might you

Channel: Fifth Gear

Views: 771,227

Rating: 4.6219902 out of 5

Keywords: Fifth Gear, car, review, fast, crash, fifth, gear, Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Jonny Smith, car review, proton sport, bmw m3, 3 series bmw, top gear, fifth gear crash test, fifth gear 2017, fifth gear team test, fifth gear season 27, fifth gear luffy, carpool karaoke, tiff needell top gear, tiff needell mclaren f1, tiff needell crashes that changed racing, tiff needell f1, tiff needell jeremy clarkson, crash test, top gear usa, top gear full episode

Id: GXZuyUs4Bi4

Length: 5min 36sec (336 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 25 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/joeisnotsure]

Disappointed they didn't highlight the car's strong point... the AC.

[u/rmp20002000]

"Driving a 200 pound bag of nails"

[u/frozen_neko]

Bring memories of my abah. This is his 1st car.

[u/TheOneThatReddits]

Eh, it didn't do as bad as I thought it would do. I am actually really attracted to the Proton Saga. I have a dream of getting on and working on it till it is damn nice

[u/areza75]

“I might hang on to this, i really might”

[u/wawan_]

So basically:

Proton Saga is like t34 and kv2 tanks, made cheaply with low but usable quality. good for rough driving and frugal budget.

the beemers is like panther and tiger tanks, built precisely for high quality to excute. but its not economical and you have to watch out for anything that might scratch it.

[u/fraidycatx]

this car lasted me 32 years from it's purchase, the only reason it has not moving the past 2 years is because battery conk out.

[u/[deleted]]

and this car was later crushed 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUyp56y6IB0 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns57z_sHBb8&feature=youtu.be&t=5m30s