Twenty minutes of luscious smoke filled beautiful pictures with three special cars grunting and groaning for the camera.
As far as content, a bit of a foregone conclusion after all, Harris owns the $208000 GT3 RS 4.0, by far the most expensive car in the bunch ( car journalism pays very well!).
As far as the lap times in the video, take them with a grain of salt. There is no info on tires, the GTS in on Pirellis Corsa and the GT3 RS likely on Michelin PSC, the Merc, maybe Continental Sport Contact?
I wish these guys would get on board with Traqmate, I would love to see an lap comparison animation to see where each car did what. That would be awesome but of course smoke works better on youtube and you can certainly just relax and enjoy the porn!
He's the only reason to watch videos by Drive but he has the classic brit reviewer Achilles heel: brit cars. Watch his recent lotus review for evidence. Minute after minute of oral servicing for traction control. Comparing it to the GT3 RS after only driving the lotus on a wet track for an afternoon. An almost pornographic slobbering over the designer with questions as hard hitting as "are you an ultra genius, or a super scientist?".
ReplyDeleteClarkson has the same problem, American cars are "unrefined" but £90,000 british cars thrown together in abandoned aircraft hangars with no doors and 104 HP are the greatest cars...IN THE WORLD!
Agree, that Lotus piece war John Holmes, alternative lifestyle porn! However, Matt Becker is amazingly handy with a Lotus.
DeleteHave you driven the new Evora then?
DeleteThese are fantastic videos, enjoying every second of them. For a car nut they are brilliant!
the videos are always fun to watch and that Lotus piece was an obvious love note to Lotus. And that's not to take anything away from Lotus...other than the fact they are horribly unreliable cars that are prone to spontaneously combust. Harris and the Brits (or Jalopnik for that matter) are unlikely to investigate that angle.
DeleteBut yeah videos are fun to watch.
BTW CG in his Lotus days was once at VIR and a chance to ride with Becker. He said the way Matt attacked the esses in an Exige was just insane. Check out the Traqmate traces HERE
They've stopped using the K Series engine, so they are a bit better these days. 'Loads Of Trouble Usually Serious' does still hang round the neck though.
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