"...and then halfway through, HERE COMES THE DUMPSTER OF POOP."
March 31, 2016 5:19 AM Subscribe
What do you get when you mix a good liberal arts education, surprisingly good automotive journalism, and toilet humour? Regular Car Reviews. Regular Car Reviews is a Youtube Channel run by two car guys from Pennsylvania.
Toilet humour, non sequiturs, modified acoustic covers of 90's classics, and surprisingly good automotive history and journalism about cars (the odd motorcycle, and one airplane).
Running the gamut from the 1996 Chevy Cavalier to the Smart FourTwo to the Mazda RX-8 to the Tesla Model S P85.
There's even a TV Tropes page.
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
Series 8
Series 9
Series 10
This is in no way safe for work and entirely a guilty pleasure.
Running the gamut from the 1996 Chevy Cavalier to the Smart FourTwo to the Mazda RX-8 to the Tesla Model S P85.
There's even a TV Tropes page.
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
Series 8
Series 9
Series 10
This is in no way safe for work and entirely a guilty pleasure.
Ok. This is awesome. I no longer need Top Gear. Seriously. Two in, and this guy needs his own show. Same cars. Own show.
Yes, I forgot to add the warning: you may not be able to do much work today.
posted by generichuman at 6:22 AM on March 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yes, I forgot to add the warning: you may not be able to do much work today.
posted by generichuman at 6:22 AM on March 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
surprisingly
I blame the car when I stall it, too.
posted by dirigibleman at 7:11 AM on March 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
I blame the car when I stall it, too.
posted by dirigibleman at 7:11 AM on March 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
Mr. Regular does freelance for Road & Track now, so hopefully that'll work into something big for him.
posted by hwyengr at 7:38 AM on March 31, 2016
posted by hwyengr at 7:38 AM on March 31, 2016
I've been subscribed to them for a while. I'd say stylistically, they owe a lot to RedLetterMedia (which Mr. Regular has acknowledged) - the juxtaposition of a psychologically unhinged maniac against pedantic technical analysis helps to offset the feeling of pretentiousness that comes from over analyzing anything to this degree. There is some very funny stuff in there - often born out of some very very dark humor. That said, it's definitely not for everyone - often it gets too gross for even me to stomach. They've gotten much tamer overt time though - the additional attention and writing gigs has forced him to soften up a little.
There's a lot of in jokes, some of the videos towards the end of their 'starting' out period read like an undergrad lit student stretching for filler... but there's really nothing quite like them in the automotive space. I think they definitely qualify as 'Best of the web'. If I had to pick a favorite video, I'd go with Which Corvett is Best Corvett. Synopsis: Mr. Regular, in character, is invited as a celebrity judge at a very large Corvette meetup in central PA. There are some inside jokes... but it's largely accessible and plays to their greatest strength: lampooning the absurdity of car culture.
posted by the_querulous_night at 7:43 AM on March 31, 2016 [3 favorites]
There's a lot of in jokes, some of the videos towards the end of their 'starting' out period read like an undergrad lit student stretching for filler... but there's really nothing quite like them in the automotive space. I think they definitely qualify as 'Best of the web'. If I had to pick a favorite video, I'd go with Which Corvett is Best Corvett. Synopsis: Mr. Regular, in character, is invited as a celebrity judge at a very large Corvette meetup in central PA. There are some inside jokes... but it's largely accessible and plays to their greatest strength: lampooning the absurdity of car culture.
posted by the_querulous_night at 7:43 AM on March 31, 2016 [3 favorites]
Which Corvette is Best Corvette is the perfect microcosm of a single model car show.
In my most humble classic car owning, classic car show attending, classic car show showing opinion, Corvettes are the worst cars at every show. Not their owners, just that there are so. many. Corvettes. at shows no matter the time, the place, or the invite list.
And there are always a dozen or more Corvettes, mostly current models, at every Cars and Coffee I've ever been to - so my favorite Cars and Coffee event is one that puts any car older than 1990 at the very far back of the parking lot. The back is always full full of modern Corvettes and their foreign companion, modern BMW M3s.
posted by lstanley at 8:08 AM on March 31, 2016
In my most humble classic car owning, classic car show attending, classic car show showing opinion, Corvettes are the worst cars at every show. Not their owners, just that there are so. many. Corvettes. at shows no matter the time, the place, or the invite list.
And there are always a dozen or more Corvettes, mostly current models, at every Cars and Coffee I've ever been to - so my favorite Cars and Coffee event is one that puts any car older than 1990 at the very far back of the parking lot. The back is always full full of modern Corvettes and their foreign companion, modern BMW M3s.
posted by lstanley at 8:08 AM on March 31, 2016
That said, it's definitely not for everyone - often it gets too gross for even me to stomach. They've gotten much tamer overt time though - the additional attention and writing gigs has forced him to soften up a little.
They actually acknowledge that the end of the last series. The first episode of series 10 has Mr Regular reviewing... I think a Subaru Brat? But, having eaten a whole bag of plums and trying to do the review before nature takes its course. I thought that detracted from the review. Luckily, the rest of the series has been a bit more toned down.
posted by generichuman at 8:11 AM on March 31, 2016
They actually acknowledge that the end of the last series. The first episode of series 10 has Mr Regular reviewing... I think a Subaru Brat? But, having eaten a whole bag of plums and trying to do the review before nature takes its course. I thought that detracted from the review. Luckily, the rest of the series has been a bit more toned down.
posted by generichuman at 8:11 AM on March 31, 2016
Yeah, I don't feel like the actual car reviews nowadays have much of a shtick at all, other than wandering into random digressions sometimes.
posted by smackfu at 9:44 AM on March 31, 2016
posted by smackfu at 9:44 AM on March 31, 2016
Hey, I had a '96 Cavalier, it wasn't *that* bad.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:15 AM on March 31, 2016
posted by Chrysostom at 10:15 AM on March 31, 2016
man you know what would be tight af is if someone managed to be hilarious about cars without idk all the sexism and transmisogyny
id like that. im a motor vehicle enthusiast and also oft mistaken for a woman and queer and this shit makes me wanna work dudes genital regions over with a fucking tire iron
posted by beefetish at 2:26 PM on March 31, 2016 [5 favorites]
id like that. im a motor vehicle enthusiast and also oft mistaken for a woman and queer and this shit makes me wanna work dudes genital regions over with a fucking tire iron
posted by beefetish at 2:26 PM on March 31, 2016 [5 favorites]
Intensely channelling Strongbad in the Honda Accord voice-over.
posted by brokkr at 5:54 AM on April 1, 2016
posted by brokkr at 5:54 AM on April 1, 2016
This totally needs more "Harry Potter Dear Reader" and less look me witty (and poop [and assholes]).
posted by Namlit at 12:52 PM on April 2, 2016
posted by Namlit at 12:52 PM on April 2, 2016
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