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I love Satire more than most but as has been shown here , sometimes I’m too dumb to get it…..
-Nate
Nice “old hot-rodder’s trick” – a neutral drop… say goodbye to your Chinese automatic transmission after a few of those, buddy.
“After the (NEUTRAL DROP) acceleration test the transmission didn’t feel too sharp…”
LOL
Genius!! Satire with so many levels of burn.
It had its moments, but I can’t figure out who the audience is for this, and what’s the point? Most of the satire would be lost on the average viewer, yet it’s not sharp enough for serious viewers of auto journalism.
The humor is a bit too ins1de baseball to appeal to most people.
Cars are not a subject that easily lend themselves to humor, particularly when it is of the geeky variety. In my opinion, Top Gear does it the best — it is possible to not know a thing about cars and still enjoy the show.
“In my opinion, Top Gear does it the best — it is possible to not know a thing about cars and still enjoy the show.”
The Don Rickles in me wants to ask if you’re speaking from personal experience.
Try the veal. Derek tells me that as for now I’ll be here all week.
Seriously, though, we may disagree politically but you’re a pretty well informed enthusiast.
Speaking of enthusiasts, though, it’s remarkable the kind of utter bovine fecal material one hears at a car show. It’s not just the folks who attend events. I’ve had owners of special interest cars tell me all sorts of things they believe about their rides that I know to be factually untrue.
No seriously, a guy who works at GM told me the next Corvette is going to be a mid engined hybrid.
You must be referring to the guy who swears his 69′ Chevelle 454 is numbers matching….
What’s amusing is that so many of the lines these guys are using are cribbed directly from real video reviews. Usually just applied to the wrong car in this video. Good find, Jack.
Nice. I can’t wait for that mid-engined Mustang.
I think the Scion guy was funnier than the Mustang guy, but overall I thought this was a pretty hilarious video.
What?! I can’t put two 100 oz drinks in the Mustang cup-holders at the same time. Pfff, useless car!
I had to share it , we’ll see how many Blue Collar Guys ‘ get ‘ it.
‘ when you have custody ‘ ~ brilliant .
-Nate
That and “this isn’t your mom’s boyfriend’s mustang…I LOLed…
I don’t think I was compatible with their satire…I thought the delivery was too dry, and the jokes a little bit too subtle and esoteric for me to enjoy.
This reminds me of… “I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a PC.”
I admit I LOLed at the description of Scion and Subaru as “a Chinese company and an Australian company”.
I think it was quite clever. Subtle, yes… Heck, I got halfway through the video before I thought… *Wait – that’s not even a 2015 Mustang (yes, I admitted that).
Lol, I bet that’s all 1000’s of Youtube commenters needed to start raging in the comment section. I thought the satire would be a little bit more subtle than using the old Mustang. But it does a good job of pointing out how similar the cars look.
Very Jalop… whatever that is
I chuckled through the whole thing. You have to know about the cars to appreciate the dry humor and the inside jokes, but so what?
From the cars, the car companies, the owners, other reviewing duos–this video didn’t miss a beat.
Two clever guys who could be funny but were too smart by half
You haven’t seen anything funny, satire or otherwise, until you have witnessed a 1962 Rambler neutral-dropped outside a high school after classes.
The car, a close relative to a spinsterish librarian, suddenly explosively leaps up on to tippytoes, turns left, turns right, and performs jackrabbit, nay, kangaroo hops exposing its torque-tube rear drive, slews from side-to-side and takes out a stop sign.
And the assembled multitude waiting for school buses simply fell about laughing. “That’s Darrel with his dad’s car again!”
The audience may be narrow, but it was funny for a certain subset of automotive enthusiasts. I though it was pretty funny, so I guess I’m the target audience.
If you like this, check out ThioJoe (ThioJoe is not car-related, but worth a look if this is your preferable type of humor).
“On weekends when you have custody.” Loved it.
“Flat-plane crank 4 cylinder” Very cheeky.
The Aussie’s know how to make a great engine, but it’s the chassis that can’t keep up. That’s certainly what the Toybarus are known for!
I felt it was worth the seven minutes I allotted and would be delighted if TTAC can dig more of this up every now and then.
Perhaps sometimes we take this too serious.
I thought it was very funny, and their respective demeanor, flat facial expressions & completely non-chalant style, turning into broadcasting full confidence while (clearly knowingly) butchering facts was the icing on the cake.
Their use of so many cliches, often inserted ate the most inappropriate times, was hilarious, also.
I love this sort of esoteric geek comedy. Stuff that constantly makes you go, “Wait…what?! Ahhhh, I see what you did there.”