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Top Car Video Picks: Monday, March 31
This Smart Car Is Stacked! Vanishing Point Revisited! Camaro Gone Wild! Apes Love the Ford Ranger!
We've watched a bazillion YouTube videos and we're constantly flabbergasted to find that apparently a lot of 21-year-old kids can afford BMW M3s, Lamborghini Murciélagos, Ferrari 599 GTBs and Toyota Supras with exotic turbocharger systems that cost more than my house. Where, pray tell, do they get the money?
Are they all rap stars who we're just too old to care about? Do their parents give them an allowance of $80K a week? Are they just the world's most successful crack dealers?
Meanwhile, we're about to make the last payment on a six-year-old Impala LS. That's 71 payments down and just one to go!
Twice as Smart!
Is it possible Fifth Gear, the perennial also-ran, is finally challenging Top Gear for the title of "Best Car TV Show on Earth?" Could be....
This clip from Fifth Gear is an exploration of the inspired idea of bolting two Smart Fortwos together — one on top of the other. It's frankly hilarious. Meanwhile, over on Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson is making yet another Richard-Hammond-is-short joke.
Point of Vanishing
No single car model is more indelibly linked with a particular film than the original Dodge Challenger is with 1971's Vanishing Point. This speculative commercial brilliantly mixes clips of the new Challenger SRT8 with clips from the original film to reassert the bond between movie and muscle car. And it does it all to the amazing sounds of Bob Segarini's and Randy Bishop's "Over Me" from the original Vanishing Point soundtrack.
Dodge ought to take the hint and have its high-priced ad agency produce a commercial just like this itself — right down to the song.
Scratch One '67 Camaro
Compared to other motorsports, crashing is relatively rare in drag racing. But when drag racers crash, they crash hard. Real hard.
And it was such a pretty Camaro, too.
Ford's Monkey Business
Proving once again that we have no language recognition skills whatsoever, we freely admit that we have no idea what the country of origin for this commercial might be. Our wild-ass guess is that it's from Thailand, but we're sure that by the time he gets through reading this sentence, Senior Copy Editor Doug Lloyd will already be muttering under his breath that we're a moron.
Anyhow, the commercial is funny — and the humor has nothing to do with what the driver is doing at the side of the road.
Are they all rap stars who we're just too old to care about? Do their parents give them an allowance of $80K a week? Are they just the world's most successful crack dealers?
Meanwhile, we're about to make the last payment on a six-year-old Impala LS. That's 71 payments down and just one to go!
Twice as Smart!
Is it possible Fifth Gear, the perennial also-ran, is finally challenging Top Gear for the title of "Best Car TV Show on Earth?" Could be....
This clip from Fifth Gear is an exploration of the inspired idea of bolting two Smart Fortwos together — one on top of the other. It's frankly hilarious. Meanwhile, over on Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson is making yet another Richard-Hammond-is-short joke.
Point of Vanishing
No single car model is more indelibly linked with a particular film than the original Dodge Challenger is with 1971's Vanishing Point. This speculative commercial brilliantly mixes clips of the new Challenger SRT8 with clips from the original film to reassert the bond between movie and muscle car. And it does it all to the amazing sounds of Bob Segarini's and Randy Bishop's "Over Me" from the original Vanishing Point soundtrack.
Dodge ought to take the hint and have its high-priced ad agency produce a commercial just like this itself — right down to the song.
Scratch One '67 Camaro
Compared to other motorsports, crashing is relatively rare in drag racing. But when drag racers crash, they crash hard. Real hard.
And it was such a pretty Camaro, too.
Ford's Monkey Business
Proving once again that we have no language recognition skills whatsoever, we freely admit that we have no idea what the country of origin for this commercial might be. Our wild-ass guess is that it's from Thailand, but we're sure that by the time he gets through reading this sentence, Senior Copy Editor Doug Lloyd will already be muttering under his breath that we're a moron.
Anyhow, the commercial is funny — and the humor has nothing to do with what the driver is doing at the side of the road.
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