Another Review

[funkified]

I used to enjoy them but, 1. Too much schtick, and, 2. having been fortunate to have owned so many vehicles, including my now 3rd Gen2 as I await my Gen3, I just can't put much stock into reviewers who have cars for a day or two or even three.

There's a dude called Raiti's rides on Youtube. Lives in Florida. Nice enough guy. Always wearing shorts which, I don't know, maybe p i s s e s me off when it's freezing here in NY. He goes to dealers, goes over the vehicle, then drives it for a few miles and makes the same oohs and aahs every time. I never understand how thousands of suckers watch that crap.

Ill agree with you on that. Theres only so much a reviewer can provide over the course of a few hours to a few days. Watching "reviews" of this style (Im talking Throttle House style) are purely for entertainment purposes, as they only give you the high overview of what the car/truck is.

To me its no diffrent than watching a review on Top Gear back in the day, you watch it for the jokes, the cinematography/production, and the reviewers personalities they inject into each video. Obviously Top Gear had a much higher budget to work with, but since they are not around anymore these channels fill that void for me.

Review channels from guys like Raiti, Doug Demuro, Ben Hardy and others are annoying to watch because its just a regurgitation of specs, stats and features. This review style is crap and is akin to the old Road and Track TV show or the Driving Television reviews on TSN (Canada) *barf*

I also watch savagegeese, their production value is great, the technical depth they get into is something no other channel does, and they call out a bad car when it is a bad car. They dont gush over everything.

 

[wanna_b_03]

They have no clue and don't even looks at specifications before a review. How could it be informative?

Anyone can google the specs. They drive everything so I like hearing what they say about it compared to other vehicles they have reviewed.

 

[MDJAK]

Ill agree with you on that. Theres only so much a reviewer can provide over the course of a few hours to a few days. Watching "reviews" of this style (Im talking Throttle House style) are purely for entertainment purposes, as they only give you the high overview of what the car/truck is.

To me its no diffrent than watching a review on Top Gear back in the day, you watch it for the jokes, the cinematography/production, and the reviewers personalities they inject into each video. Obviously Top Gear had a much higher budget to work with, but since they are not around anymore these channels fill that void for me.

Review channels from guys like Raiti, Doug Demuro, Ben Hardy and others are annoying to watch because its just a regurgitation of specs, stats and features. This review style is crap and is akin to the old Road and Track TV show or the Driving Television reviews on TSN (Canada) *barf*

I also watch savagegeese, their production value is great, the technical depth they get into is something no other channel does, and they call out a bad car when it is a bad car. They dont gush over everything.

I agree with you in general and on savagegeese. Only thing that annoys me about Mark and Jack is the seeming "lean" they have to overcriticize everything. If I had a dollar for every time Mark complained about the overwhelming amount of buttons on the Macan I could buy a new one. As anyone knows who has owned a Macan, the buttons are intuitive and super easy to learn quickly. Do they take a quick glance down, yes, but what doesn't? In contrast, when my son "stuck" me with his 2021 GL450, I literally couldn't change the radio band. Controls that are so busy as to be absurd. Speaking of that, did you see Mark's rant on the new S Class controls? He went apoplectic.

 

[funkified]

new review from Savagegeese

 

[raisins]

Ill agree with you on that. Theres only so much a reviewer can provide over the course of a few hours to a few days. Watching "reviews" of this style (Im talking Throttle House style) are purely for entertainment purposes, as they only give you the high overview of what the car/truck is.

To me its no diffrent than watching a review on Top Gear back in the day, you watch it for the jokes, the cinematography/production, and the reviewers personalities they inject into each video. Obviously Top Gear had a much higher budget to work with, but since they are not around anymore these channels fill that void for me.

Review channels from guys like Raiti, Doug Demuro, Ben Hardy and others are annoying to watch because its just a regurgitation of specs, stats and features. This review style is crap and is akin to the old Road and Track TV show or the Driving Television reviews on TSN (Canada) *barf*

I also watch savagegeese, their production value is great, the technical depth they get into is something no other channel does, and they call out a bad car when it is a bad car. They dont gush over everything.

Ben Hardy is so annoying.

 

[thatJeepguy]

Way better than Ben and TFL...

TFL is literally like watching someone read the brochure. Zero insite into the personality of the vehicle.