Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc? (Vol 2)

Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc? (Vol 2)

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RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
RobDown said:
Ah I was wondering why Ahmed150 had so many followers smile
Somehow, it seems that is actually an account with a grand total of 4 followers on Instagram!
Lol, I didn't actually check. I wonder if those 4 followers are disappointed with the lack of car content?

Kev_Mk3

2,735 posts

94 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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sagarich said:
Blimey, 500 pages went quickly. In for another 500.
me to.

Always makes for a good read on PH.

Danny any plans to head to Germany this year or still unsure?

parabolica

6,696 posts

183 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Truckosaurus said:
An interesting announcement of a new project from the MCM boys today.
Yeah makes me wish I lived in their local area! Everything they said about it sounded amazing.

Shmee

7,565 posts

212 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Not all YouTubers just pose with their cars in Knightsbridge or their driveways by the way!


S11Steve

6,374 posts

183 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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You're not going to get spotted by the car-parazzi at that sort of speed....

T 28

15 posts

122 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
Not all YouTubers just pose with their cars in Knightsbridge or their driveways by the way!

Speedo is 1km out........

Loving the work Ahmed, me and the boy love watching the vids

peterattheboro

1,361 posts

182 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Ahmedmobile doesn't have quite the same ring to it...

downhillmalins

149 posts

145 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
Not all YouTubers just pose with their cars in Knightsbridge or their driveways by the way!

Couple more RPM to squeeze out of it! what was your max speed?

jwo

984 posts

248 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Going a fair lick on the autobahn... good to see your cars get used as they should - ie driven! (and properly!)

Shmee

7,565 posts

212 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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downhillmalins said:
Couple more RPM to squeeze out of it! what was your max speed?
330km/h / 205mph was the quickest I got out of it and that was backing off because of traffic ahead. There is an electronic limiter set somewhere just above that but I couldn't tell you exactly where but it doesn't let you get to the very top of the revs.

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Call yourself a car YouTuber Ahmed? I haven't seen you go through a drive thru or have a rev battle yet?!

Davey S2

13,071 posts

253 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
downhillmalins said:
Couple more RPM to squeeze out of it! what was your max speed?
330km/h / 205mph was the quickest I got out of it and that was backing off because of traffic ahead. There is an electronic limiter set somewhere just above that but I couldn't tell you exactly where but it doesn't let you get to the very top of the revs.
Wasn't the 675 LT maxing out at about the same speed? Any discernible difference in stability / down force between the 2 that you recall?

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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peterattheboro said:
Ahmedmobile doesn't have quite the same ring to it...


Hang on, did I do an racist? Not sure these days. I’m sure someone will pop along and be offended if I did.

KillerHERTZ

930 posts

197 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee, is that really the case regarding numberplate in Germany becoming void for 10 years?

Whats to stop someone just pulling a plate off any old car and voiding someones out or spite or somthing?

Truckosaurus

11,160 posts

283 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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KillerHERTZ said:
Shmee, is that really the case regarding numberplate in Germany becoming void for 10 years?

Whats to stop someone just pulling a plate off any old car and voiding someones out or spite or somthing?
There isn't the same value to a German 'vanity plate' as there is over here, just the hassle of some paperwork in replacing it, so like it's saying "what's to stop someone putting a brick through the window out of spite".

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Truckosaurus said:
KillerHERTZ said:
Shmee, is that really the case regarding numberplate in Germany becoming void for 10 years?

Whats to stop someone just pulling a plate off any old car and voiding someones out or spite or somthing?
There isn't the same value to a German 'vanity plate' as there is over here, just the hassle of some paperwork in replacing it, so like it's saying "what's to stop someone putting a brick through the window out of spite".
Yes, german number plates aren´t valuable assets. That´s why paying a lot of money for a vanity plate is confusing for a german. But a lot of people steal number plates, typically when they steal a car they´ll put another plate on it to make it a bit more difficult for the police.
Also german license plates are considered legal documents and tampering with them is considered forgery.

I didn´t know they were blocked for 10 years which seems a bit long but I knew you´d have to get a different one and report yours as stolen / missing.

TorqueR

1,767 posts

131 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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e30m3Mark said:
Call yourself a car YouTuber Ahmed? I haven't seen you go through a drive thru or have a rev battle yet?!
He’s done a video at a McDonalds Drive-Thru before in a Rolls Royce. smile

BJWoods

5,015 posts

283 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
There was no noticeable loss of earnings on that video at all; I would say it hit the same RPM as anything else at current. On the other hand, for whatever reason that video did not get a huge amount of views in total so it's not easily comparable.

I'm sure that YouTube promote videos that earn them more; although they might not admit to it. I.e. a video connected to high rate advertisers gets naturally more views as well as more revenue, than something that's less easily connected to adverts.
I think you were at the same TVR reveal as I was, vaguely remember you, remembered your car more (only discovered video blogging, when you were videoing the TVR at Goodwood (who the hell is this guy, talking to his camera I thought?)

that aside, when did you put your order for a Griffith in? presumably at least before the reveal you went to, which means, you might get hold of a car quite early for review? (ie date of deposit - order of production)

Mr-B

3,754 posts

193 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Shmee said:
It did 5+ years ago but I guess I'm completely normalised now to all sorts of strange spellings. Most phones will autocorrect it to 'Ahmed' too which is always funny.
Dangerous to admit the Ahmed thing on here you will forever more be referred to as Ahmed on here.

Anyway here's some inspiration for you next purchase




Don't get the hump over it.

Shmee

7,565 posts

212 months

Thursday 12th April 2018
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Davey S2 said:
Wasn't the 675 LT maxing out at about the same speed? Any discernible difference in stability / down force between the 2 that you recall?
Correctly remembered, the 675LT Spider was on Vmax at 324km/h and had nothing more to give from there, so let's assume the AMG GT R would be somewhere around 10-12km/h faster on a similar power output. Fundamental differences from my experience were the LT brought significantly more drama to it which no doubt comes from the view over the shorter front end, increased vibration and noise and being right on the very top.

My assumption would be the LT topped out sooner due to more aero drag which plays huge factors at that speed, however both actually felt equivalently stable. Although I'd have expected the GT R to be more of a wanderer, it is an incredibly wide car with huge tyres on all 4 corners and that must play a role as well.
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