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user-inactivated  ·  3166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your favorite youtube channels?

My favorite youtube channels are all car related (shocker, I know).

That Dude in Blue (AKA David Paterson) - This channel by far is my absolute favorite. He's just a decent guy driving other people's custom rides and giving his thoughts on them, doing a decent job of going in depth to talk about what makes them special.

Regular Car Reviews - RCR is another fun channel. He reviews cars of all types and years, talking about what makes them special in engineering, historical, and social contexts. A fair warning though, sometimes he goes a bit overboard with being weird.

Motor Trend - I love their magazines and I love their channel even more. There's a bit of everything in there.





tacocat  ·  3166 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Since you posted that review of the Pontiac Vibe I've been watching Motor Trend reviews of shitty cars. They aren't very harsh. They had a lot of positive things to say about the Cavalier and the Aztek

user-inactivated  ·  3165 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. When you're reviewing major products like cars, you kind of have to handle their flaws with kid gloves. If a car company feels like the reviews are too negative, they'll stop giving you test cars. That's why I really like comparison reviews, because car magazines are more open to what individual cars in a segment excel at, giving you a better idea of which cars are actually better.

Also, don't always trust the reviews of cars that just come out, especially performance cars. They're almost always overwhelmingly glowing at first and it won't be until months later until car journalists are more open to talking about the flaws of certain models.