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Postby steroidcontaskie » Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:38 am

Hey Guys

I have been laid up with my no good back again, so have been getting my car fix with you tube. Been watching lots of Motor trend channel, its lots of American stuff and they do the Roadkill series, but there is some good general reviews etc. Here a couple I just watched.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSrwTq ... jTam_2tH-p

Car review 2016 mustang vs 2015 chenrolet Camaro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtdtGgf1BF0

Worth a look if you have some down time over xmas.

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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby Flannelman » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:44 am

Ive been waiting for the Mustang GT350 review for a while, especially the Camaro Z/28 V GT350R comparison.

I need to find a way to afford that Mustang. 8200rpm factory V8 is just awesome!

As with most Motor Trend YouTube clips Ive seen are informative and non brand bias. As, one comparison was the Corvette V GT-R. One comment the Racecar driver said was that the GT-R is a very fast car, but as the car does all the work it is rather boring to drive at the limit.

Always a good way to spend some time watching someone put a new car to the test both on and off the track.
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby Bling » Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:02 pm

If you haven't watched this already, it's great: https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby thornz » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:15 pm

A few other good channels to check out are:

Mighty car mods
Speed academy
Motive dvd
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby Vertigo » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:58 pm

Motor Trend is fantastic, and Roadkill especially is pretty much the best Youtube series Ive ever watched. Absolutly brilliant.
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby MAC_HATER » Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:09 am

I love all of the Motor Trend stuff, Roadkill is amazing, as is their spinoffs HotRod garage and their new Engine Masters series (they just tinker with engines and dyno the shit out of them to see what changes, it appeals to the engine nerd in me a LOT) and then there is Dirt Every Day for the mudbug truck stuff, and then the proper road testing stuff, Randy Pobst is awesome too haha

also, for more stuff, https://www.youtube.com/user/drive is great, they have heaps of awesome stuff too, their BIG MUSCLE series is great, just looking at really awesome and rare Yank Tanks that are more than just dime a dozen rotters with a 454 in it, stuff that is genuinely awesome and incredible
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby DeeCee » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:17 pm

Motor Trend Ignition used to be good with Carlos Lago (now moved to Edmunds). Jessie and her stuff wasn't too bad until she got hurt bad in the Audi R8 crash. Roadkill is always awesome!

Used to watch a lot of /Drive when it was free on Youtube, but they have moved majority of content to Vimeo on subscriber services and Chris Harris has left to do his own channel.
/Drive and GTChannel have been showing the series on Vermont motorsports / Subaru Rally Team USA. That has been pretty interesting to follow.

EVO UK is okay, though sometimes the review are a bit dry. COTY 2015 was good to watch.

I have subscribed to Kelly Blue Books to get the latest car reviews - general 5 or so minutes. Not bad.
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby MAC_HATER » Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:05 pm

Yeah its a shame they all seem to be moving to their own proprietary subscription channels, Motor Trend had done the same, but they seem to have made a nice compromise where everything they do ends up on youtube a fortnight later, so really you only need to pay for their subscription if you really want everything as soon as its aired, if you can wait, its still free eventually

Another channel I watch for a giggle and some serious stuff is Mr Regular and his Regular car reviews

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

its quite cool watching the work they are doing with the falcon they have now also, its gonna do alright with a V8 under the bonnet haha
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby RS13 » Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:31 pm

Motortrend is awesome.. Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Dirt Every Day.. haven't watched engine masters yet although if Freiberger is involved it should be pretty good!

Seconded.. Bad Obsession Motorsport, Mighty Car Mods and Drive are all well worth watching as well if you haven't already.
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby MAC_HATER » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:53 am

Engine Masters is good, Its Freiburger, Dulcich and Steve Brule doing nerd shit with engines on the westec engine dyno, its great :D
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Re: Motor Trend Channel

Postby Pelo » Thu Dec 24, 2015 6:12 am

Tom's Turbo Garage is pretty good. Extremely geeky, with really high quality builds. The latest series is 13 episodes of putting a 500hp V8 in an MX5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... JZ38lKFKI9
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