Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????

[Andrew[MG]]

Digga said:

mudnomad said:

Do you guys follow Petrolicious?

For me they are absolute best at the moment.

I have for a while. Yesterday they released and absolute corker of a film. An extremely interesting car, in an interesting collection, owned by an interesting bloke. Namely a rare and savage Jaguar XJR-15, owned by a Brit, Jasbir Dhillon who emigrated to the USA.

Video: https://petrolicious.com/films/1991-jaguar-xjr-15-...

Gallery/management summary: https://petrolicious.com/articles/gallery-behind-t...

A former contributor to Evo, Secret Supercar Owner?

[Andrew[MG]]

Andrew[MG] said:

Digga said:

mudnomad said:

Do you guys follow Petrolicious?

For me they are absolute best at the moment.

I have for a while. Yesterday they released and absolute corker of a film. An extremely interesting car, in an interesting collection, owned by an interesting bloke. Namely a rare and savage Jaguar XJR-15, owned by a Brit, Jasbir Dhillon who emigrated to the USA.

Video: https://petrolicious.com/films/1991-jaguar-xjr-15-...

Gallery/management summary: https://petrolicious.com/articles/gallery-behind-t...

A former contributor to Evo, Secret Supercar Owner?

Maybe not.

H907 HTA
H999 HTT

Funny that they are both XJR-15 owners who moved to the US!

[ghost83]

Liked the video danny

Come a long way since the ccuk days

[Digga]

Andrew[MG] said:

Maybe not.

H907 HTA
H999 HTT

Funny that they are both XJR-15 owners who moved to the US!

Can't be too many XJR-15s actually being used, full stop. I know they were very easy cars to crash, so a few were erased from history fairly early on IIRC.

Top car collection that guy has though. Not just Jags, but also a 997 GT2 and a Carrera GT!

[TorqueR]

With Ford recalling the Focus RS, does that open up an opportunity for a video, Tim?!

As it is a widespread concern among owners, would it be worth documenting the process? Or are your sights now towards the new one?

[TheAngryDog]

dannyDC2 said:

Digga said:

It's like a lot of things, everything's fine, until it's not.

You could spend every day sliding around the roads and posting videos onto the web and, chances are, the police would be very unlikely to ever be interested, until there's a complaint, or worse still, an accident and you're involved. If there's footage that might be useful to secure a conviction, then it could, conceivably, be used.

True, I've certainly been attempting to tone it down a bit lately. Mostly due to the audience it was attracting... Not very PH at all.

I finally got around to watching some of your videos. FFS you're an utter utter bell end for making me subscribe. I hate you.

[egor110]

TorqueR said:

With Ford recalling the Focus RS, does that open up an opportunity for a video, Tim?!

As it is a widespread concern among owners, would it be worth documenting the process? Or are your sights now towards the new one?

The flip side to that is do you risk your relationship with ford by laying into them re the rs head gasket issues.

[InitialDave]

egor110 said:

The flip side to that is do you risk your relationship with ford by laying into them re the rs head gasket issues.

Well, he needn't do that. There's a good opportunity to cover exactly what Ford are doing with the cars, and he may well be big enough to get some kind of interview piece with someone from Ford UK about the hows and whys of what's gone on with the engines.

[Shmee]

InitialDave said:

egor110 said:

The flip side to that is do you risk your relationship with ford by laying into them re the rs head gasket issues.

Well, he needn't do that. There's a good opportunity to cover exactly what Ford are doing with the cars, and he may well be big enough to get some kind of interview piece with someone from Ford UK about the hows and whys of what's gone on with the engines.

You're right it's already in discussion. My manager reached out and has received back an official comment to include but I'm not currently in the same country as my RS so I'm not sure how/when to make a video. It's a topic we're seeing hundreds of comments about so it would make sense to cover it.

[anonymous-user]

TorqueR said:

With Ford recalling the Focus RS, does that open up an opportunity for a video, Tim?!

As it is a widespread concern among owners, would it be worth documenting the process? Or are your sights now towards the new one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nan3LURIq3k

here´s a video by a former merc tech addressing that issue.

[Yipper]

If you want to "see and hear" fast cars -- rather than watch some nerds waffle or preen their ego for 15mins -- then, this is the best channel on YT right now.

https://youtu.be/ANPEGaoYUig

[Kev_Mk3]

Sadly I have un subbed from TGE. The final straw was the last click bait title on the Yaris. "Trying to buy" then near the end said he enquired into them but all 100 coming to the uk sold. That isn't trying in my eyes.......

Don't get me wrong I like the bloke but the videos are getting more click bait ish and thrown out. Sensible with business plans from what I see with the health / fitness side of things and then the other ventures of air fresheners and shoes etc plus many more but sadly for now videos are not for me.


I'll re review in 6 months or so but getting car, selling car, getting car, selling car, every few months nah your ok.

[roystinho]

Kev_Mk3 said:

Sadly I have un subbed from TGE. The final straw was the last click bait title on the Yaris. "Trying to buy" then near the end said he enquired into them but all 100 coming to the uk sold. That isn't trying in my eyes.......

Don't get me wrong I like the bloke but the videos are getting more click bait ish and thrown out. Sensible with business plans from what I see with the health / fitness side of things and then the other ventures of air fresheners and shoes etc plus many more but sadly for now videos are not for me.


I'll re review in 6 months or so but getting car, selling car, getting car, selling car, every few months nah your ok.

There was literally no info about the car. I genuinely thought ‘ah, this will be good, Tom doing an actual review’, but sadly no... c’mon TGE, you could have done a good review with your humour in there (you must still read this)

[RotaryPoweredBlender]

jon- said:

Sid, the childrens TV presenter, back speeding and sliding cars around on very busy public roads while admitting to sliding (8m 15).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CmZCbnh90

Needs to be careful.

He films very cleverly though, you can’t prove he was driving in most of the external shots. He does drive stupidly on the roads though, way past unsafe.

Thing is, all it takes is the accusation of naughty stuff these days and the Beeb will drop him like a 70’s entertainer.

[NickCQ]

roystinho said:

There was literally no info about the car. I genuinely thought ‘ah, this will be good, Tom doing an actual review’, but sadly no... c’mon TGE, you could have done a good review with your humour in there (you must still read this)

TGE jumped the shark with the £100k Louis Vuitton suitcase. The video was incredibly awkward, a bit like David Brent after a lottery win.

[egor110]

RotaryPoweredBlender said:

jon- said:

Sid, the childrens TV presenter, back speeding and sliding cars around on very busy public roads while admitting to sliding (8m 15).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CmZCbnh90

Needs to be careful.

He films very cleverly though, you can’t prove he was driving in most of the external shots. He does drive stupidly on the roads though, way past unsafe.

Thing is, all it takes is the accusation of naughty stuff these days and the Beeb will drop him like a 70’s entertainer.

Sideways sid's co presenter Rebecca keeps a low profile when's she going to start on the youtube ?

[Kev_Mk3]

roystinho said:

There was literally no info about the car. I genuinely thought ‘ah, this will be good, Tom doing an actual review’, but sadly no... c’mon TGE, you could have done a good review with your humour in there (you must still read this)

I agree he could of done it so well but didn't, like he was along for the ride. I watched the video picking up the lambo. Well I say watched, I got as far as the person who actually bought it was introduced & he was annoying as f**k so off it went.

[RotaryPoweredBlender]

egor110 said:

Sideways sid's co presenter Rebecca keeps a low profile when's she going to start on the youtube ?

Are you joking? She does most of What Car’s videos, writes for the Telegraph and has had her own YouTube channel too.

Rebecca Jackson, used to be RebeccaRacer:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RebeccaSJackson

[egor110]

RotaryPoweredBlender said:

egor110 said:

Sideways sid's co presenter Rebecca keeps a low profile when's she going to start on the youtube ?

Are you joking? She does most of What Car’s videos, writes for the Telegraph and has had her own YouTube channel too.

Rebecca Jackson, used to be RebeccaRacer:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RebeccaSJackson

her own channel is quite sporadic , a video a month ?

[RotaryPoweredBlender]

As I said, she now works full time for What Car and other peeps, maybe she doesn’t have a lot of time for her own channel?

In fact look at how much content she puts out for them and it’s not surprising:

https://www.youtube.com/user/whatcar

Edited by RotaryPoweredBlender on Wednesday 24th January 21:13