Monday 1st February 2016

Tax the Rich 'Farmkhana': Time for Coffee?

The Tax the Rich boys are back again, and now they have an F40...

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Say what you will about the Tax the Rich videos, they are nothing if not dramatic. From rallying Enzos to an F50 tug-of-war, the levels of lunacy on display are hard to draw your eyes from.

By previous efforts then, this F40 'Farmkhana' vid is actually rather tame. 'Rather' being the operative word here, as this still involves a legendary Ferrari precariously close to some very tough looking bits of farm. There's clearly some real driving talent on display here too, as demonstrated by a couple of very nice pirouettes.

We won't condemn or condone Tax the Rich here, as it's a job so ably undertaken by you as PH users. Consider this your 'in case you missed it' nudge on a Monday morning.

Watch the vid here.

[MDMA .]

looks an amateurish video with an ok car. don't get it ?

[KarlMac]

MDMA . said:

looks an amateurish video with an ok car. don't get it ?

I think the point is given the value and rarity of the car you very rarely see it with wheels turning, never mind driven in a reasonably agressive way.

As said in the article, fairly tame given the bar set by previous antics, but still pretty cool to see rare cars getting a beasting and not stuck in a musuem / garage

[Matt UK]

Don't get me wrong, it's look more fun than my Monday morning. But If that rich, why not hire a race track and film crew for the day and do it properly?

An F40 can't stretch it's legs around a farm.

[ambuletz]

MDMA . said:

looks an amateurish video with an ok car. don't get it ?

check out his other videos too. It's nice to see someone giving supercars a good hoon then being locked up in a humidity controlled box.

[STiG911]

This is actually pretty tame compared to their previous outings - rallying the Rolls one of the best by far

[STiG911]

Matt UK said:

Don't get me wrong, it's look more fun than my Monday morning. But If that rich, why not hire a race track and film crew for the day and do it properly?

An F40 can't stretch it's legs around a farm.

If you want to see a Ferrari stretch it's legs around a farm, look for 'The Ferrari Enzo WRC' vid.
Bonkers-Hilarious.

[silentbrown]

Behind the scenes...

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercar/supercars...

Bizarrely, dated September 2014. Video production is a slow business...?

[Matt UK]

STiG911 said:

Matt UK said:

Don't get me wrong, it's look more fun than my Monday morning. But If that rich, why not hire a race track and film crew for the day and do it properly?

An F40 can't stretch it's legs around a farm.

If you want to see a Ferrari stretch it's legs around a farm, look for 'The Ferrari Enzo WRC' vid.
Bonkers-Hilarious.

Thanks, I'll look it up.

My point was though, if I had the funds, which these guys obviously do, that's what I would do. Or do a road trip to lap the 'ring. Whatever, I'd have come up with a better idea than this. Setting up cones round a farm wouldn't really have even made it onto the short list.

Still, each to their own I guess.

[ambuletz]

silentbrown said:

Behind the scenes...

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercar/supercars...

Bizarrely, dated September 2014. Video production is a slow business...?

strange because they also made an article last month for when that video came out.

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/video-ta...

[anonymous-user]

Matt UK said:

My point was though, if I had the funds, which these guys obviously do, that's what I would do. Or do a road trip to lap the 'ring. Whatever, I'd have come up with a better idea than this.

Looking forward to hearing your better ideas.

This makes a refreshing change to seeing supercars on tarmac; want to see a fast car on a fast circuit? Head to Google; there must be thousands of videos of that kind already. And for those who want some classier car smut, you have the very nicely produced Petrolicious ones to admire.

Watching these cars being hooned around the backlot of Emmerdale Farm is something different. While this particular video is realtively mild, the others have been a blast. I like the fact that there are people out there with the means and ability (and bravery) to do it. It's a much-needed 2 fingers up to the purists.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

About as pointless a video as wearing a Patek Phillipe watch while skateboarding, badly.

Nice car however I think I'd probably enjoy a video of it tearing down the mulsanne or around the targa floria much more. Cheap thrills for yobbos on their own private land I suppose but only a few steps away from those "look at me" types revving their cars in city centres and retail estate car parks.

[silentbrown]

Matt UK said:

But If that rich, why not hire a race track and film crew for the day and do it properly?

Because that would probably make a predictably uninteresting video, no matter how well shot. Dog bites man - not news. But, man bites dog...?

TaxtheRich is guys doing ridiculous and unexpected things with supercars. Taking one to the 'ring or round a track wouldn't really cut it.

The driver on these - allegedly - is Harry Hunt, who knows what he's doing. But I think his hair was longer when this wvideo was shot. https://twitter.com/harryhuntdakar

[Amirhussain]

[Baryonyx]

That was pretty tame by their standards. I suppose it was a quick job.

[dtmpower]

Matt UK said:

Setting up cones round a farm wouldn't really have even made it onto the short list.

Still, each to their own I guess.

You've completely missed the point of the 'tax the rich' ethos being portrayed in the videos.

[silentbrown]

Baryonyx said:

That was pretty tame by their standards. I suppose it was a quick job.

It's possible the video ended rather sooner than intended

[civicduty]

silentbrown said:

Baryonyx said:

That was pretty tame by their standards. I suppose it was a quick job.

It's possible the video ended rather sooner than intended

Is it it me or does the exit of that barn look quite tricky to get to?

[J4CKO]

Just a bit of fun, a lot of Supercar and valuable classic ownership seems to involve temperature controlled garages, shows and detailing, nice to see an F40 getting dirty, doing what it was designed to do, i.e. be driven, though I think F40 owners do tend to not be that precious about them as a rule, as owners of precious metal go.

[Matt UK]

abitlikefiennes said:

Matt UK said:

My point was though, if I had the funds, which these guys obviously do, that's what I would do. Or do a road trip to lap the 'ring. Whatever, I'd have come up with a better idea than this.

Looking forward to hearing your better ideas.

This makes a refreshing change to seeing supercars on tarmac; want to see a fast car on a fast circuit? Head to Google; there must be thousands of videos of that kind already. And for those who want some classier car smut, you have the very nicely produced Petrolicious ones to admire.

Watching these cars being hooned around the backlot of Emmerdale Farm is something different. While this particular video is realtively mild, the others have been a blast. I like the fact that there are people out there with the means and ability (and bravery) to do it. It's a much-needed 2 fingers up to the purists.

Well if I were sitting at home on a pile of money and an F40, I did provide my better ideas - hiring a track / film crew / 'ring trip is what I would do. I wouldn't care that loads of other people have already posted videos of it.

But if the objective was to get YouTube views because they produced something different, then fair enough, each to their own.

No matter how rich or bored I was, producing stuff that's 'different' but a bit crap so that a random group of people can 'like' it, would always rank below my idea of a fun use of my day.

As I've said, each to their own, I'll file this video under "neither entertaining nor interesting".

[Matt UK]

dtmpower said:

Matt UK said:

Setting up cones round a farm wouldn't really have even made it onto the short list.

Still, each to their own I guess.

You've completely missed the point of the 'tax the rich' ethos being portrayed in the videos.

Probably. I'm always open to enlightenment though.