Regular Car Reviews - Red Letter Media - Car Edition

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CFC-12 said:
For basically every other dead brand (Oldsmobile, Geo, Saturn, Plymouth, DeSoto, Mercury, AMC, etc) there really isn't a lot of arguments to bring them back that aren't just based on nostalgia alone.
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I think the only thing lost from Ford finally killing Mercury was the the "electric razor" grill.

My family owed a Mercury Mystique, and all it really was a slightly nicer Ford Contour (Mondeo for you Europeans).

And Geo was nothing more than a means for GM to engage in import badge engineering under a separate brand.
 
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In the beginning, I found RCR funny, but quit watching before the furfag and political arc. The "I'm bitter, sad, and live in Pennsylvania" joke just got played out.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
I had no idea anyone disliked Doug Demuro. he seems like the nicest guy in the world.
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Some people think he's a smug richfag.

Which, I mean, he may be.

However, I find his content is largely inoffensive. Unlike Brian here. Doug at least keeps it constrained to the damn car, instead of going on 20 minute side rants about some gay shit.
 
There's no point in reviving any old car brand if it's gonna be the same modern hyper computerized, cost cut at any expense, plastic interior, turbocharged high-revving unreliable engine with a rubber oil pump belt, VVT, EGR, electric thermostat and water pump, more wiring harness than engine, impossible to repair, oil burning low tension ring, cylinder deactivation camshaft-eating, electric emergency brake, electric power steering and brakes, cloud-connected microtransaction location-tracking cell internet gps, no buttons, giant touchscreen BULLSHIT that they make every new car like, be it a SUV, crossover, sports car, pickup, whatever.

To REALLY revive the SPIRIT of what the old brands were, you'd have to make them COMPUTERLESS (or at least use 80s computer technology that is simple to repair), MINIMAL plastic use, most of the interior made from real metal or wood, engine from real steel and aluminum, reuse old time-proven and aftermarket supported engine designs that have ALL parts available aftermarket (DON'T invent some new part only for this model that will be unobtainable after 10 years and will total the entire car)

Basically remake old car designs, like faithful clones or reissues, don't shit them up with modern garbage. It should have the bones of a simple, reliable vintage car, not just lipstick on a pig (a modern unreliable shitbox made to look like a vintage design just to lure customers)

Since modern road safety and industry overregulation laws make manufacturing stuff like this ILLEGAL, (stuff like active driving assists, ADAS, emissions...) you would first have to REPEAL all NONSENSIAL government regulations that prevent such a car from being manufactured. Only then could you make a SIMPLE, RELIABLE, ROBUST, GOOD LOOKING, MAINTAINABLE CAR again.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
I had no idea anyone disliked Doug Demuro. he seems like the nicest guy in the world.
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I wouldn't say I hate him. As a guy, he seems pretty alright. Down to earth, chill, stays out of drama.

He's sort of like the Doug Walker of cartube. His content is milquetoast, inoffensive, and generally bland, and essentially hasn't evolved whatsoever in like a decade. He just does exactly what he wants to do, it works for him and his viewers, and that's basically it. A lot of people don't like him much, just because there's basically nothing to his videos, but at the same time, how do you passionately hate a guy like that, y'know? He just sorta does his thing and that's it. It's hard to be anything worse than neutral about him.
 
monk said:
There's no point in reviving any old car brand if it's gonna be the same modern hyper computerized, cost cut at any expense, plastic interior, turbocharged high-revving unreliable engine with a rubber oil pump belt, VVT, EGR, electric thermostat and water pump, more wiring harness than engine, impossible to repair, oil burning low tension ring, cylinder deactivation camshaft-eating, electric emergency brake, electric power steering and brakes, cloud-connected microtransaction location-tracking cell internet gps, no buttons, giant touchscreen BULLSHIT that they make every new car like, be it a SUV, crossover, sports car, pickup, whatever.

To REALLY revive the SPIRIT of what the old brands were, you'd have to make them COMPUTERLESS (or at least use 80s computer technology that is simple to repair), MINIMAL plastic use, most of the interior made from real metal or wood, engine from real steel and aluminum, reuse old time-proven and aftermarket supported engine designs that have ALL parts available aftermarket (DON'T invent some new part only for this model that will be unobtainable after 10 years and will total the entire car)

Basically remake old car designs, like faithful clones or reissues, don't shit them up with modern garbage. It should have the bones of a simple, reliable vintage car, not just lipstick on a pig (a modern unreliable shitbox made to look like a vintage design just to lure customers)

Since modern road safety and industry overregulation laws make manufacturing stuff like this ILLEGAL, (stuff like active driving assists, ADAS, emissions...) you would first have to REPEAL all NONSENSIAL government regulations that prevent such a car from being manufactured. Only then could you make a SIMPLE, RELIABLE, ROBUST, GOOD LOOKING, MAINTAINABLE CAR again.
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That's all very nice, but have you considered spitting on a CyberTruck will solve all our problems?
 
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I... Alright? I guess?
 
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