Mat armstrong

[WPA]

tim0409 said:

Doofus said:

I've said before that I love what Mat does, but I hate what he creates. So I watch, but the rise of The Goon Squad with their inane cackling and screeching is wearing thin.

I know, at 50-something, I'm not his core audience, but I'm finding it harder and harder to stay with him. Ironically, it's his dad, who's closest to my age, that I find the most annoying.

I’m with you on that; I’m sure they are nice people but like you say it’s aimed a different demographic so I tend to skip through most of it (plus I find his dad’s laugh seriously annoying..!). I always think it’s a mistake when youtubers decide to bring in family because it’s generally not their other half etc that people originally subscribed to watch, so the chances that they will enjoy it are fairly slim. I used to subscribe to a motorcycle YTer, but then his wife started featuring regularly in the videos, which wasn’t for me.

Maybe I am also the wrong age group but I do find his dad's laugh really annoying.

[55palfers]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article...

Made it to DM.

Hit the big time.

[thegreenhell]

InformationSuperHighway said:

youngsyr said:

pingu393 said:

thegreenhell said:

BlindedByTheLights said:

In the last week his newly posted videos have done 5.6m views. I suspect the purchase price doesn’t really matter anymore.

Even with those viewing figures he's going to have to stretch it out over many many videos to make a dent in the costs for this one.

Also, is he really going to raffle this one off when it's finished? It'll owe him many multiples of the value of any other car he's raffled before, and whoever wins it almost certainly won't be able to afford to run it so it will be for sale immediately after.

It looks like 5.6m views is around $30,000 ( https://www.thinkific.com/blog/youtube-money-per-v...). He still has some way to go if he is going to make a profit.

Good luck to him, though.

I suspect his audience is in a key demographic and that leads to a higher than average rate per view, possible as much as double your $30k estimate.

Indeed, and let’s not forget that’s only in 24 hours.

Also.. the video was sponsored by Car Vertical which will also bring in another 5 figure number.

He’ll have paid for the purchase price in after 3/4 weeks of videos maximum.

Repairs.. I guess we’ll see.

That's a lot of guesswork and assumption to arrive at those numbers. $30k is the very top end suggested in that link, and yet you think he can get double that amount?

Misha said in his video yesterday that he needed 4m views to make €8k to cover repair costs of a car he crashed at the Ring.

[Steamer]

55palfers said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article...

Made it to DM.

Hit the big time.

"Armstrong was able to purchase the vehicle for a cut-throat price due to it's terrible condition"...

Wouldn't exactly call it 'cut-throat' price... its still an eye-watering figure...Not to mention Matt having balls the size of Kingkong

[SydneyBridge]

When i was watching, I was thinking about £100k, could not believe how much it actually was

His dad annoys the hell out of me when he laughs and when Mat is not around

[MattS5]

tim0409 said:

I always think it’s a mistake when youtubers decide to bring in family because it’s generally not their other half etc that people originally subscribed to watch, so the chances that they will enjoy it are fairly slim.

Mike Brewer with his wife screaming "what's happening, what's happening, what's happening" on many of his Instagram posts springs to mind here.

It's horrendous

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

SydneyBridge said:

When i was watching, I was thinking about £100k, could not believe how much it actually was

£175K + fees for the car and he is thinking of spending another 95K on another fully working Rolls Royce Wraith to use as a parts car.

That is before we get onto the Mansory parts which are several thousand pounds per tiny forged carbon bit. I dread to think how much the bumpers and exhaust are going to be.

At this rate he will be £350K+ deep into that car.

[SydneyBridge]

Perhaps he needs to buy this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404883070346?itmmeta=01...

And I wonder if he has bought this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176065087418?itmmeta=01...

[thegreenhell]

He should try making some of those smaller bits himself. He has enough broken bits, or undamaged opposite hand parts, to make a mould. Forged carbon is easy to do - it's just some shredded carbon mixed with the sweepings off the floor in some resin. It looks gash even when done properly, so nobody will be able to tell.

[audi321]

100% he’s bought that bumper. I mean who else wants one!

[Steamer]

thegreenhell said:

He should try making some of those smaller bits himself. He has enough broken bits, or undamaged opposite hand parts, to make a mould. Forged carbon is easy to do - it's just some shredded carbon mixed with the sweepings off the floor in some resin. It looks gash even when done properly, so nobody will be able to tell.

I thought the same thing - depends on what he plans to do with it though:

Competition winner = probably not fussed with home made parts

Selling the car to anyone remotely interested in an Mansory car = probably not into BluePeter antics.

[Discendo Discimus]

I find it really weird that so many people get annoyed by somebodies laugh.
People are having a great time, laughing and enjoying themselves yet grumpy old men on here somehow find that intolerable.

What a miserable bunch some of you are. Would you actually rather they kept straight faced and were serious all the time?

[Doofus]

Discendo Discimus said:

I find it really weird that so many people get annoyed by somebodies laugh.
People are having a great time, laughing and enjoying themselves yet grumpy old men on here somehow find that intolerable.

What a miserable bunch some of you are. Would you actually rather they kept straight faced and were serious all the time?

[pingu393]

Is it me, or has he avoided playlists? I just want one video to follow the next IN ORDER.

The Rashford Roller was followed by the Stig spinning his McLaren.

[Doofus]

pingu393 said:

Is it me, or has he avoided playlists? I just want one video to follow the next IN ORDER.

The Rashford Roller was followed by the Stig spinning his McLaren.

As of now, the RR video is the newest one, and the only one on that car.

[Mr Miata]

Muzzer79 said:

Mr Miata said:

Im struggling to see how Mat Armstrong will make any profit or break even on this RR.

Someone earlier posted that Mat paid £184,000 for the crash damaged car. Then from the video it looks like he was going to buy a donor car for £94,000

I definitely would not want to buy a badly bodged, cut and shut. I wouldn’t even drive a cut and shut car I was given for free. So I can’t see those with £372,000 to spend on a Rolls Royce wanting such a bad example.

I really don’t care it was previously owned by Marcus Rashford. Him and the Mansory brand label are meaningless to me.

Who said anything about a cut and shut?

Do you know what a cut and shut is?

The car will be raffled off, not sold.

From the BMW M3 video, he definitely cut the damaged corner out and welded in the whole rear wheel arch area and C pillar from another car. He’s not a professional bodyshop using OEM parts but an amateur who’s improvising.

If he’s spent £278,000 on the Rolls Royce project, could he even sell that many raffle tickets? I don’t know anyone who would want a badly rebuilt crash damaged car. Looking at all the bad welds that (currently) holds that M3 together, I wouldn’t feel safe in it.

[PinkHouse]

thegreenhell said:

He should try making some of those smaller bits himself. He has enough broken bits, or undamaged opposite hand parts, to make a mould. Forged carbon is easy to do - it's just some shredded carbon mixed with the sweepings off the floor in some resin. It looks gash even when done properly, so nobody will be able to tell.

Have a look at the latest SuperfastMatt video on YT if you want to have a proper laugh at some "unique" forged carbon making

[NordicCrankShaft]

Like him, but the thing is horrific.

[thegreenhell]

PinkHouse said:

thegreenhell said:

He should try making some of those smaller bits himself. He has enough broken bits, or undamaged opposite hand parts, to make a mould. Forged carbon is easy to do - it's just some shredded carbon mixed with the sweepings off the floor in some resin. It looks gash even when done properly, so nobody will be able to tell.

Have a look at the latest SuperfastMatt video on YT if you want to have a proper laugh at some "unique" forged carbon making

That's what prompted my comment. The ham sandwich...

[dudleybloke]

thegreenhell said:

PinkHouse said:

thegreenhell said:

He should try making some of those smaller bits himself. He has enough broken bits, or undamaged opposite hand parts, to make a mould. Forged carbon is easy to do - it's just some shredded carbon mixed with the sweepings off the floor in some resin. It looks gash even when done properly, so nobody will be able to tell.

Have a look at the latest SuperfastMatt video on YT if you want to have a proper laugh at some "unique" forged carbon making

That's what prompted my comment. The ham sandwich...

Shouldn't have put butter on the bread, schoolboy mistake.