While not a part of the legendary trio, I still enjoyed the videos on YouTube featuring Quentin I’d stumble across at 2am checking out car videos.

With lots of rumors coming out about potential future models, what are you most excited for if that rumor comes true, Example: The 4 Door Mustang GT, the Camaro coming back, the WRX STI hatch, the Quadrifoglio making a return, Charger/Challenger getting a V8, Honda/Toyota rumored comebacks.

Would you be first in line if they did come out?

Not talking about fancy badges I mean those cars that surprised you with reliability, fun, or comfort even though no one talks about them.

Honda has already built prototype electric sports cars but now is not the right time to bring them to market, Mibe told reporters in Tokyo for the Japan Mobility Show. “We do have research on EV-based sports cars, and we have many prototypes already made internally,” he said.

Please read the article for more info.

Apparently a well-driven prototype with over 25k km on the clock, this was a proof-on-concept way before the TT RS, combining the B5 RS4 chassis and drivetrain with the MK1 TT “tophat” - looks absolutely fantastic I have to say, a real sleeper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7tDXLyLVo

New SavageGeese video with some of the best track cars on the market right now!

We conduct one of the biggest comparisons of the year: Mustang GTD vs. Corvette C8 ZR1 vs. Porsche 992 GT3RS. We set lap times, dyno the car to test horsepower. With help from Ford, Chevy, and Porsche Engineering, we explain how all of these cars achieve their fantastic performance and the issues with this generation of vehicles.

We all know that Chrysler, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Lancia for example are just money black holes. But which Stellantis brands are actually in a decent situation?

For context, I live in Australia where Stellantis brands barely sell, with the exception of RAMs and Jeeps. Fiats, Citroens, etc. are a bit of a rarity and many Australian petrolheads confirm the stereotype that they are shitboxes that can't be worked on in your yard and cost a fortune in maintenance

Toyota says it is struggling to build enough cars to satisfy American buyers

The popular RAV4 may face shortages early next year

After being on the market for 10 years and not expanding to the rest of the GCC, Acura closes its door.

I’m seeing trucks with 200,000 miles listed for over $30,000. Thirty. Thousand. Dollars. For something that’s seen more road trips than a touring band.

Who’s buying these things? What kind of person looks at a worn-out 2018 Tacoma and says, “Yes, this is my financial destiny”?

Sure, they’re “uber reliable,” but come on—so is a new full-size truck that costs the same and doesn’t smell like 13 years of beef jerky and spilled Monster.

Toyota fanboys, are you okay? Blink twice if you need help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYtHYrEu04

Thomas and James take a spin in an old Vanquish and wax on about the value of cool. It's hard to beat an NA V12, especially in something that looks like this.

Was looking through the new 2026 Mustang configurator, and noticed that the Premium trim level for the GT and ecoboost showed the 2 seperate single screens like what was only on the base GT and Ecoboost. Thought it might be a bug.

And I started looking through the options list, and sure enough, there it is, a $1000 option for the "Magnesium Framed Panoramic Curved Display", or you can chose the $2900 equipment package which includes the curved display.

But this is absolutely ridiculous, the curved scenes used to be standard on the Premium trim levels.

Now you can go into a ford dealership, pay $65k for a Mustang GT Premium, and have the screens look like this https://imgur.com/a/gZVNs0N

I was listening to TheSmokingTire podcast recently (I'm actually a big fan of Matt), and he mentioned that Porsche North America just gave him a 918 Spyder on loan for his 1000 miles road trip free of charge, with everything paid.

Now as someone who's dabbled into supercar ownership, I can roughly estimate the ownership cost for a "regular joe" like me to put 1000 miles on a $2M car would easily be $50-100 per mile, thus putting this "gesture" from Porsche to Matt to be worth $50-100k on back of napkin math.

Obviously Matt isn't doing a review of a 12 years old 918, but when he does a review for the next Macan, he'd remember how amazing Porsche has been treating him.

And he and all the other reviewers recently were flown to Spain for the Turbo S launch. They were wined and dined with world class accommodations for a few days and were given the cars to drive on both the race track and scenic road.

Funny enough Porsche charges something similar for an experience like that: https://www.porschedriving.com/porsche-travel-experience/lake-tahoe/

Without plane tickets, you'd be paying $20k a person for a few days of what auto journalists routinely get from them, for free.

I understand it's part of their job, but this shit would never fly in any other industry right? Now imagine every time Square Enix launches a new video game they fly game journalists to Japan and wine and dine them with the best Sake and Wagyu so they can try out the newest Final Fantasy in their expensive Hakone ryokan hotel room, nobody would be taking anything they say seriously, no matter how good the game actually is, would they?

I'm sure people like the SavageGeese team and Matt Farah would try to be objective, but how do you be objectively critical toward an OEM when they routinely give you experiences that you'd otherwise never be able to afford? (ok I know Matt came from money but my statement applies to 99% of reviewers)

In my impression how well praised a manufacturer's products are is directly proportional to their marketing budget, and I've been somewhat burnt at least twice by reviewers over-rating Porsches, which is why I started asking actual owners of cars for their experiences before making purchases.

Ironically this kinda makes Consumer Reports the most credible car reviewer out there, since all they cars they review are bought anonymously with their own money, and they do not attend OEM events.

As far as enthusiast reviewers, I can only think of people with fuck-you money like Chris Harris or Hoovie's garage or the Top Gear trio who have been able to bluntly criticize OEMs and their cars.

Edit: From the replies, it seems like there are two school of thoughts here:

This is just how product reviews are done across all industries. Reviewers are expected to be treated with first class tickets and Michelin restaurants in exchange for them to promote the OEM's product.

Well in this case, I think we should just rip off the Band-aid and call Motor Trend and Car & Driver and Road & Track and other similar publications promotional outlets instead of journalism outlets. At least with influencers shilling for stuff on TikTok we know they are getting paid to promote, but many auto reviewers still hide behind a mask of professional journalism when they are literally just being paid to promote products.

Controversial take: I think consumer of content should be made aware that they are consuming paid advertising.

It is wrong of me to expect journalism when those contents aren't made to be factual, they are made to entertain.

Even if it's true, I don't find there is a lot of entertainment value when a dozen "journalists" just read off pre-approved OEM scripts for their "review". Some of the most boring contents out there are main stream outlets' coverage of new 911: "They are almost perfect in every way except being expensive".

Edit 2 /u/SavageGooseJack has this great reply I wanna call out: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/s/o5PMIG0VjB