What's your favourite car related YouTube channel?

[Yarp]

Such a slow speed minor loss of control, but massive consequences, even in a modern well protected car.

That’s a really well put together video and pretty sobering.

It’s nice to see an 8 series crashes well given the wife and child ferry about in one every day. It shares the carbon core chassis that the 7 series uses and is supposed to be pretty damn strong and that seems clear from the vid.

However, I struggle to believe it crashed like that with all the traction and driver aids turned on. I’ve driven the 840i on cold, wet and greasy roads and it will not let you do that. Even in sport plus it’ll let you slip but still will step in if you get out of line. Anyone who has driven any other reasonably powerful modern BM will have experienced exactly the same. There are a million different settings and configurations you can do in the sport mode settings so it must have been at least full TC off and probably ESP off too. I could be wrong and it may have been bad luck but there’s no way I could get ours to do what that did.

Clearly he wasn’t driving like a dick though, and absolutely didn’t deserve the outcome.

 

[Waitey]

These guys are mint. Build some right stuff from just kind of winging it...

 

[McGherkin]

I'm inclined to agree but the fact he said it was in comfort mode etc makes me think that someone checked. All I can think is that it dropped a wheel into the mud at the edge of the road and that combined with the back end going light over the bump made it snap sideways.

 

[Short Norman]

You still wouldn’t expect a modern car to let go that much, and go that far sideways with all the safety systems still tuned on

 

[McGherkin]

I quite agree. You certainly wouldn't expect it and I reckon most would have binned it.

 

[hopgop1]

That’s a really well put together video and pretty sobering.

It’s nice to see an 8 series crashes well given the wife and child ferry about in one every day. It shares the carbon core chassis that the 7 series uses and is supposed to be pretty damn strong and that seems clear from the vid.

However, I struggle to believe it crashed like that with all the traction and driver aids turned on. I’ve driven the 840i on cold, wet and greasy roads and it will not let you do that. Even in sport plus it’ll let you slip but still will step in if you get out of line. Anyone who has driven any other reasonably powerful modern BM will have experienced exactly the same. There are a million different settings and configurations you can do in the sport mode settings so it must have been at least full TC off and probably ESP off too. I could be wrong and it may have been bad luck but there’s no way I could get ours to do what that did.

Clearly he wasn’t driving like a dick though, and absolutely didn’t deserve the outcome.

Pirelli tyres to blame potentially? I've been scared a few times by how shocking P Zero's are in winter.

 

[Chris V6 255]

Not a massive fan of the channel but love this build.

 

[Matt Cup]

Not a massive fan of the channel but love this build.

That car is the one and only good thing about AA.

 

[Trainerbrow]

That car is the one and only good thing about AA.

That's because him and Taylor haven't had their retarded hands on it.

 

[McGherkin]

Love this thing.

 

[Matt Cup]

Loads of random car facts. I particularly liked the Repurposed Kei Trucks.

 

[Matt Cup]

Surprised this engine swap wasn’t more popular in the escort shell.

 

[Yarp]

Surprised this engine swap wasn’t more popular in the escort shell.

I love it.

Kid driving is a whopper though. Changing gear like he’s driving a Fabia VRS with a 4k limit. Rev the c**t FFS!! It’ll do 110 in 3rd, make the fucker do it!!!

 

[McGherkin]

With the stock turbo, the party’s over by 5500rpm. But yes, he should be revving it more

 

[Matt Cup]

With the stock turbo, the party’s over by 5500rpm. But yes, he should be revving it more

I was thinking they don’t rev much from memory but didn't realise they ran out of puff that low in the rev range.

 

[Matt Cup]

Some impressive gains from the TDC turbo’d TVR too.

 

[McGherkin]

I was thinking they don’t rev much from memory but didn't realise they ran out of puff that low in the rev range.

You don't tend to feel it getting strangled and most people would probably rev out to 6-6500 before it got so strangled you notice, but (with the Volvo/Mondeo ratios) it worked out as being best to shift at redline in 1st, 6500 in 2nd then 3rd/4th/5th/6th shift at 5500 to get more torque. K04 revs out alright on a 1.8t but on an engine that's 40% bigger it's a tad on the small side

 

[mace¬]

I watch the top Dead Centre and All the gear channels, never watched that f**king loud mouthed dish water Auto Alex prick that pops up in the videos.

Is he bank rolling those channels or have they left his previous channels and gone alone? Because as i understand it they were part of his channel?

 

[Matt Cup]

I watch the top Dead Centre and All the gear channels, never watched that f**king loud mouthed dish water Auto Alex prick that pops up in the videos.

Is he bank rolling those channels or have they left his previous channels and gone alone? Because as i understand it they were part of his channel?

 

[Short Norman]

Such a shame that Alex and Rory own TDC

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Surprised this engine swap wasn’t more popular in the escort shell.

Interesting that someone has finally done that swap. I remember loads of people asking if it could be done back when the five-pot Focus ST came along, but the consensus was that you'd just have to cut out too much metal for it to work. It's a cool swap, and I bet it goes really well, as it must weigh about as much an empty crisp packet.

That said, I do wonder just how well the shell will stand up to it. It looks like the engine mount has been welded mostly onto the inner arch without any extra strengthening, so I wonder if that might crack eventually, and it appears that he's had to remove a lot of material from the chassis leg to clear the gearbox too. I'm sure I recall watching a video about the Matiz that had a GM V6 engine and that was suffering from pretty serious fatigue cracks, so I think people underestimate just how much can go wrong when you put a massive engine in a car that wasn't designed for it, especially ashe seems to openly admit that his welding is a bit sketchy.

 

[Trainerbrow]

Interesting that someone has finally done that swap. I remember loads of people asking if it could be done back when the five-pot Focus ST came along, but the consensus was that you'd just have to cut out too much metal for it to work. It's a cool swap, and I bet it goes really well, as it must weigh about as much an empty crisp packet.

That said, I do wonder just how well the shell will stand up to it. It looks like the engine mount has been welded mostly onto the inner arch without any extra strengthening, so I wonder if that might crack eventually, and it appears that he's had to remove a lot of material from the chassis leg to clear the gearbox too. I'm sure I recall watching a video about the Matiz that had a GM V6 engine and that was suffering from pretty serious fatigue cracks, so I think people underestimate just how much can go wrong when you put a massive engine in a car that wasn't designed for it, especially ashe seems to openly admit that his welding is a bit sketchy.

Plus, a Mk4 escort in any guise will drive like an absolute dog these days.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Plus, a Mk4 escort in any guise will drive like an absolute dog these days.

Yeah they were hardly renowned for their handling prowess. It looks like the five-put sits entirely forward of the front axle line too, which is sure to make it even better.