The Official Mustang Thread

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AoA's car was on summer tires

[Xer0]

Does MT no longer post their head2head's on Youtube anymore?  I haven't see anything posted there for almost 3 months.

[MX793]

Does MT no longer post their head2head's on Youtube anymore?  I haven't see anything posted there for almost 3 months.

They do go on hiatus periodically.

[68_427]

I think the one on MTOD now is the first of a new season.

[68_427]

https://youtu.be/seuPuSI1CTE


Just saw this

[68_427]

Freiburger posted the following on his own FB page this morning:


Today this video was posted to announce the company's new plan for the airing of Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Dirt Every Day, Engine Masters, Ignition, and Head2Head. Here's the short version: new episodes of those shows will no longer be posted to YouTube, but they will be available free on MotorTrend.com. Right now you can see free new episodes of every series listed above.

Here are details as I understand them for now:
- MotorTrendOnDemand.com will become simply MotorTrend.com
- If you have a current subscription to Motor Trend OnDemand, it is still valid.
- All our shows will be available first to subscribers to MotorTrend.com, and will appear without ads.
- The free-to-view shows appear 8 weeks later and will have advertising in them.
- To see the free shows, go to MotorTrend.com, navigate to the series you want (like Roadkill), and look at the thumbnail photos. If there is no icon of a padlock in the upper left corner, you can watch for free. To see episodes with a padlock, you must subscribe.
- For a short time (could be just a few days) the company is offering MotorTrend.com subscriptions for $2.99/month instead of the normal $4.99 in order to encourage YouTube viewers to sign up.
- All the shows that used to be on YouTube are currently scheduled to continue on MotorTrend.com with the same number of episodes as before.
- In addition to the former YouTube shows, MT will continue to show our exclusive shows: Roadkill Garage, Junkyard Gold, Put Up Or Shut Up.
- All of our old episodes will continue to be on YouTube.
- The company has turned off commenting on all videos on YouTube as people react to this news. Comments might be turned back on in the future.
- Comments are now fully functional for subscribers on MotorTrend.com.
- There will be posts and comments from company agents other than me on the Roadkill social pages as they advertise this change and address questions.
- Older episodes of Roadkill will continue to appear on the Velocity cable network.
- Discovery and Velocity content will continue to appear on MotorTrend.com. There will be premieres before cable, and many past seasons can be viewed for free.
- The Motor Trend YouTube channel will continue to get new videos. They will be teasers for new episodes, cutdowns of episodes, and short-form content from all the TEN brands.

As you react to this news, please separate your feelings about company decisions from your comments about us hosts. Personally, I'm sad that Roadkill will no longer be available to those of you who can not afford a subscription—especially the kids who we've inspired to become car people. However, we hosts and producers still love what we do and we are lucky to do it and we want to continue making great shows. The best message you can send is to keep the original Motor Trend shows on top by continuing to watch on MotorTrend.com, even if you do it for free

[CaminoRacer]

I canceled my MTOD subscription last month since I don't have a lot of time to watch stuff anymore. But idk how I feel about this. Might be the beginning of the end, but it might be just fine.

[68_427]

I can't stand how they've implemented the velocity shows.  I don't care that they added them but they don't separate them from the originals on the main page and it's just a cluster fuck

[CaminoRacer]

I can't stand how they've implemented the velocity shows.  I don't care that they added them but they don't separate them from the originals on the main page and it's just a cluster fuck

Agreed.

[12,000 RPM]

Yea there are like 90 million shows now, it does suck. They prob added more for more revenue.

Truthfully, they go overboard with the production value. Matt Farah's One Takes with some track time is probably enough for 99% of people. The rest can go watch Top Gear by Michael Bay.

[MX793]

Yea there are like 90 million shows now, it does suck. They prob added more for more revenue.

Truthfully, they go overboard with the production value. Matt Farah's One Takes with some track time is probably enough for 99% of people. The rest can go watch Top Gear by Michael Bay.

Farah has stopped doing One Takes.  I think the last one aired a few weeks ago.

[12,000 RPM]

I know, I meant format wise. I hate this trend of overproduced car videos. One of my favorite car reviews of all time was Chris Harris in the 991 GT3. 1 dude, like 3 cameras, couple of rolling shots, good driving and knowledge of the car and its context. Done and done. I feel like people who need a whole production about cars to watch videos about cars don't really like cars.

[CaminoRacer]

Yea there are like 90 million shows now, it does suck. They prob added more for more revenue.

Truthfully, they go overboard with the production value. Matt Farah's One Takes with some track time is probably enough for 99% of people. The rest can go watch Top Gear by Michael Bay.

I think the production value or Roadkill is perfect. It's well done but in a useful way, not a artsy fartsy way.

I wish Roadkill & Roadkill Garage would rebuild stuff more than just swapping new engines in. I wanna see the original slant 6 rebuilt & hot rodded, not another big block swap.

[Xer0]

Wasn't there some other car channel that went subscription only a couple years ago and pretty much died?  Drive I think?  That name sounds right.

Anyway, I think this might have more to do with Youtube as a platform and the serious reduction of ad revenue.  Thats why all the big content creators have a Patreon attached to their channel.

[12,000 RPM]

Yea, Drive completely goofed.

The key to making money on YT is building a huge subscriber base to have regular high views, not monetization. MT has 5.5M subscribers though and their bigger vids do about 1M views a pop... there's no way even 500K of those people do MToD.

[MrH]

Drive wasn't bad though. I was a subscriber for a bit.

Motor Trend is hit or miss. I pretty much only like their new car reviews and head to head. All the roadkill and things aren't for me.

Drive is now a tv show on msnbc which is pretty bad. But even worse than that, did you guys watch Jalopnik's car vs America? It was so, so bad.

[CaminoRacer]

Motor Trend is hit or miss. I pretty much only like their new car reviews and head to head. All the roadkill and things aren't for me.

New cars are boring. The Mustang vs Camaro lap time comparos are the only new car videos worth watching.

[Tave]

I've seen barely any Everyday Driver videos since they moved to Velocity. Hope they're doing well on the monetization front, but can't help thinking they must've lost +50% of their base audience.

[12,000 RPM]

Damn cuz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16dLr4pmGA

Not a fan of catless headers on a street car though, both as an enviro weenie and a pragmatist

[Galaxy]

So this thread might cover SUVs in the future... 

[Laconian]

Hey, Mitsubishi did it to the "Eclipse"...

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2017-ford-mustang-shelby-gt350-reliability-update-3

That oil consumption tho!

[FoMoJo]

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2017-ford-mustang-shelby-gt350-reliability-update-3

That oil consumption tho!

10 quart capacity.  Might suck a bit of oil, depending on usage.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

10 quart capacity.  Might suck a bit of oil, depending on usage.

18 Quarts over 36K? No way!!!

[12,000 RPM]

Unacceptable......

[FoMoJo]

Many Ferraris have similar oil consumption; depending on how they're driven.  Check the Camaro forum.  Same thing.

[FoMoJo]

Bad ass...Test Drive: 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt



Mustang Bullitt. That method of generating increased output? Make the engine spin faster.

Ford's sticking to its guns on this approach with the 2019 Mustang GT, and the new Bullitt variant thereof. Ford's 5.0-litre Coyote V8 is an absolute class act, loves to rev, and in Bullitt guise, makes an improved-by-15 ponies output of 475 horses, all-motor style. Also, it revs gleefully to its screaming 7,400 rpm redline, which is just fine with me.

[r0tor]

Why does it look like it has a Fusion grill all of a sudden

[CaminoRacer]

Generating more HP by increasing the redline is kinda worthless, though.

[68_427]

The new Mustang V8 supercar is terrible.  Has the same roof height as the Falcons