Sandblast Challenge Part One | Top Gear | BBC

the 6:45 I coop a basically a two-door five spirits and usually for a modern BMW most of the styling is fairly uncontroversial you could even call it pretty I would what's not unusual though is the way it drives the engine is in the front where it should be the power goes to the rear wheels as it should and the whole thing feels like a piece of precision engineering the engine is a 4.4 liter 330 horsepower v8 but don't expect an uncouth American soundtrack you might get a bit of a v8 Rumble but for the most part it's just a smooth civilised hum this interior now it's not particularly flashy or flamboyant in fact you could say it's rather boring but everything works if you think the somehow exactly where you'd expect it to be it's spacious too for a coupe a and it has a large boot this is an ideal car then for the businessman who needs to get home after a hard day at Mill mind you the heir of this particular mill won't like the 6 Series one bit because this is port talbot where they make 4 million tons of steel every year none of which ends up in this car it looks like steel but it's actually a cocktail of weight saving materials this wing for example is made of plastic and the bonnet that's aluminium the idea is to make it lighter and sharper to drive more of an ultimate driving machine so far there's only one thing I can find fraud with because this is of coop a they've given it a firm sporty suspension then they fitted it with these rock-hard run-flat tires so you won't have to stop to change the wheels but you might want to stop at the osteopath so what we have here then is a typical BMW and coming up next is a typical Hammond repast you really can't think about spending fifty or so thousand pounds on a sports coupe a without at least considering one of these the Porsche 911 you you're not gonna get a top-end turbo and it's not gonna have four-wheel drive you have to settle for the entry-level simple plain Carrera 2 and that's good because it's the best of the bunch where the BMW is organized and sober this is raw and visceral and exciting the BMWs are seen in Malaysia where this feels like it is designed from day one to be a sports car there's a sense of well completeness to this bottom rung of the 911 ladder it's made like a girl accurate and precise and tough changing gear is like loading what a shell into and lee-enfield 303 rifle the suspension on an island is an up trying to describe everything at the steering wheel I can feel the texture of the road in my hands it's like waiting and running my hands along the road this then is a great car lovely but I think it's time now to reacquaint ourselves with something a little less German the jugular XK is eight years old now and in here it's starting to feel its age it's very very cramped it's made of all kinds of things from the far end of the periodic table and although they have tried to keep it up to date over the years with lots of new bits of equipment like Sat now and adaptive active cruise control there was nowhere to put any of the buttons so you can never find anything on the outside though all is well over the years they've lowered the suspension and fitted massive drug-dealer wheels there's been a bit of dental work at the front a bit of Botox here a bit of liposuction there and the old girl looks like she was born yesterday they've even given her a new heart like the BMW it has a big v8 a 4.2 but unlike the BMW it has a supercharger and that means you get 400 brake horsepower that's 70 more than you get from the Beemer and 80 more than you get from the Porsche this car is seriously quite this one has the optional handling pack so you get sharper steering spiky a suspension and bigger brakes but I wouldn't bother with that because really it's not a Jags are all about like playing five-a-side football in Blenheim Paris what you want is the standard bar because then you've got something that's very very very very fast and very comfortable at the same time I have to say I like this car more now than I ever have done but how does it stack up to some Germans

Channel: Top Gear

Views: 1,701,227

Rating: 4.8582397 out of 5

Keywords: BBC, BBC Worldwide, Top Gear, Top, Gear, Topgear, Cars, Car, Autos, Auto, Motoring, Jeremy Clarkson, Jeremy, Clarkson, Richard Hammond, Richard, Hammond, James May, James, May, The Stig, Pendine, Pendine Sands, BMW, BMW 6 Series, Porsche, Porsche 911, Jaguar, Jag, Jaguar XKR, Sand, Beach, Surf, Power slide, sports coupe

Id: ZukTKnvCaow

Length: 6min 18sec (378 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 15 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/NLocke64]

I hated how some of the older episodes looked, when they switched to brighter colours it was much better

[u/Zweiundzwansig]

Old Top Gear films look like one of the earliest pictures someone posted on their Instagram page with those cringeworthy filters.

[u/roboticuz]

I really enjoyed that, thanks. They need to go back to this a bit, not just cocking about, reviewing cars in an entertaining way.

[u/Ant_Sucks]

I could be wrong but it was probably a result of the older digital\video cameras and lack of dynamic range. They used these filters a lot in the older series when they wanted the sky in the shot. If you want a blue sky and a bright subject you pretty much had no choice in older cameras. Blown out skies always makes a shot look cheap. The new 4K cameras are amazing though so they probably don't need them.