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strat61caster · 03-18-2014, 04:08 AM

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5FNjyaLfC8"]Mazda RX8 car review - Top Gear - BBC autos - YouTube[/ame]

Purdue FR-S · 03-18-2014, 09:15 AM

Jeremy Clarkson > Regular Car Review Douche

STV3 · 03-18-2014, 09:16 AM

Omg that has to be the best thing I've ever watched!

ZDan · 03-18-2014, 09:20 AM

OP video is utter and total CRAP! And the guy clearly doesn't know how to situate himself behind the wheel, WAY too far back. And he's wearing "Mechanix" gloves as drivers gloves? The way he doesn't even hold the steering wheel in the one hand he keeps on it, with the other forever hanging onto the shift knob for no apparent reason, it's just weird and "non-driverly" in the extreme.
He's wrong about number of doors and engine displacement affecting insurance. If a car generates a lot of $$$ in claims, the insurance rate is high whether it has no doors or 12.
"Clutch uses brake fluid", this is a surprise to him?! The clutch uses brake fluid in every one of the 11 cars I've ever owned.

Kee-ryste, what a TOOOOL!

Burrcold · 03-18-2014, 09:44 AM

That first video was extremely annoying.

dem00n · 03-18-2014, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZDan

OP video is utter and total CRAP! And the guy clearly doesn't know how to situate himself behind the wheel, WAY too far back. And he's wearing "Mechanix" gloves as drivers gloves? The way he doesn't even hold the steering wheel in the one hand he keeps on it, with the other forever hanging onto the shift knob for no apparent reason, it's just weird and "non-driverly" in the extreme.
He's wrong about number of doors and engine displacement affecting insurance. If a car generates a lot of $$$ in claims, the insurance rate is high whether it has no doors or 12.
"Clutch uses brake fluid", this is a surprise to him?! The clutch uses brake fluid in every one of the 11 cars I've ever owned.

Kee-ryste, what a TOOOOL!

Haha and those are the exact comments he lives for.

Nice to get Regular Reviews getting some attention, i remember finding them when they only had 5 videos and an average of 3K views.

OrbitalEllipses · 03-18-2014, 10:11 AM

Re: RX-8

Will still pull on a stock BRZ/FR-S all day

Re: Regular Car Reviews

Poorly put together, occasional cheap laughs, not really informative at all. More of ritalin induced rant of an internet car nerd meme-maker.

But yeah, don't need no mystical triangles!

Superhatch · 03-18-2014, 10:28 AM

^ His miata review is pretty funny.

Trashed675 · 03-18-2014, 01:03 PM

I've got nothing against the RX8. Buuuuut.....A coworker owns an early automatic. He's got 70k miles on it and it gets.....11mpg if hes being nice to it, and he had to install a fuel pump kill switch to kill the car before he actually turns the car off, or the pump will keep running and flood the engine, so the next time he tries to start it, it wont start.

Rotaries can be fantastic in the right circumstances, but they are not without problems.

strat61caster · 03-18-2014, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trashed675

and he had to install a fuel pump kill switch to kill the car before he actually turns the car off, or the pump will keep running and flood the engine, so the next time he tries to start it, it wont start

Huh, I've heard revving the motor up and throttle off as it spins down shuts off the fuel injectors (like most modern cars) which means the motor can be shut off safely with no worries for flooding. Literally a 3 second operation: rev to ~4k, throttle off, wait a moment, turn off car.

Not sure how healthy it is to regularly shut off the fuel to stall the car, but I'm sure he wasn't the first.

These things are interesting to say the least.

YukiHachiRoku · 03-18-2014, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trashed675

I've got nothing against the RX8. Buuuuut.....A coworker owns an early automatic. He's got 70k miles on it and it gets.....11mpg if hes being nice to it, and he had to install a fuel pump kill switch to kill the car before he actually turns the car off, or the pump will keep running and flood the engine, so the next time he tries to start it, it wont start.

Rotaries can be fantastic in the right circumstances, but they are not without problems.

I crashed my 1993 FD with 36K miles before it could give me any problems lol

husker741 · 03-18-2014, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZDan

OP video is utter and total CRAP! And the guy clearly doesn't know how to situate himself behind the wheel, WAY too far back. And he's wearing "Mechanix" gloves as drivers gloves? The way he doesn't even hold the steering wheel in the one hand he keeps on it, with the other forever hanging onto the shift knob for no apparent reason, it's just weird and "non-driverly" in the extreme.
He's wrong about number of doors and engine displacement affecting insurance. If a car generates a lot of $$$ in claims, the insurance rate is high whether it has no doors or 12.
"Clutch uses brake fluid", this is a surprise to him?! The clutch uses brake fluid in every one of the 11 cars I've ever owned.

Kee-ryste, what a TOOOOL!

Dude. Seriously, step back from the ledge. It's allllll in fun.

userjack6880 · 03-18-2014, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZDan

OP video is utter and total CRAP! And the guy clearly doesn't know how to situate himself behind the wheel, WAY too far back. And he's wearing "Mechanix" gloves as drivers gloves? The way he doesn't even hold the steering wheel in the one hand he keeps on it, with the other forever hanging onto the shift knob for no apparent reason, it's just weird and "non-driverly" in the extreme.
He's wrong about number of doors and engine displacement affecting insurance. If a car generates a lot of $$$ in claims, the insurance rate is high whether it has no doors or 12.
"Clutch uses brake fluid", this is a surprise to him?! The clutch uses brake fluid in every one of the 11 cars I've ever owned.

Kee-ryste, what a TOOOOL!

You will hate this video then.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHukut7XKw0"]Regular Car Reviews: 2013 Scion FRS and Subaru BRZ - YouTube[/ame]

Dimman · 03-19-2014, 12:00 AM

Saw this elsewhere, thought it's appropriate.

03-18-2014, 09:44 AM	#33
Burrcold Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Drives: Subaru BRZ Limited Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 2,624 Thanks: 763 Thanked 1,586 Times in 776 Posts Mentioned: 10 Post(s)	That first video was extremely annoying. __________________

03-18-2014, 10:28 AM	#36
Superhatch AIM4APX Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: 2013 WRB BRZ Limited Location: Milwaukee Posts: 1,206 Thanks: 642 Thanked 749 Times in 324 Posts Mentioned: 8 Post(s)	^ His miata review is pretty funny. __________________ "It's very difficult to present technology as an overtly positive sales device to people who want an emotional car" -Chris Harris

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ZDan Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Drives: '23 BRZ Location: Providence, RI Posts: 4,672 Thanks: 1,439 Thanked 4,012 Times in 2,098 Posts Mentioned: 85 Post(s)	OP video is utter and total CRAP! And the guy clearly doesn't know how to situate himself behind the wheel, WAY too far back. And he's wearing "Mechanix" gloves as drivers gloves? The way he doesn't even hold the steering wheel in the one hand he keeps on it, with the other forever hanging onto the shift knob for no apparent reason, it's just weird and "non-driverly" in the extreme. He's wrong about number of doors and engine displacement affecting insurance. If a car generates a lot of $$$ in claims, the insurance rate is high whether it has no doors or 12. "Clutch uses brake fluid", this is a surprise to him?! The clutch uses brake fluid in every one of the 11 cars I've ever owned. Kee-ryste, what a TOOOOL!

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