Again, famous last words. I'm telling ya, it's a sickness.
I had a friend who had an '09 GT and just wanted a "little extra oomph". By the end of two years, there was every N/A part available on that car: Long tube headers, full exhaust, Ford racing cams, dyno tuning, CAI, hotter coil packs...you name it.
A kid did what?? He collected money from Youtube? Why do I get the feeling that he begged for it? I can't see why anyone would give him money to buy a new car, or how he could do that without any negative backlash for not working and making his own money to get something he wants! So he basically got a free Mustang then, BS, I thought nothing came free or easy in life. :frusty:And there is the way that you wait 12 month longer and get a used V8. $10,000 off the original price brings it down to the EB prices.
BTW: You don't have to start thinking that the EB will ever sound like a V8. No way! There is no inline engine who will ever sound like a V-engine. Yes you can get a different sound with aftermarket parts - but no V-sounding sound.
So reading and understanding your point of view - there is only V6 or V8 and the time when you should buy. I think you should get used V8 so you get what you are graving for. The V8 sound. You still can start to collect money on YOUTUBE like the young kid did to buy his EB Mustang.
His offer in return for any donations is to continue pumping out vlogs to give viewers a good understanding of what the ownership is like. Big viewer base, tons of videos; he's at least offering something in return.And there is the way that you wait 12 month longer and get a used V8. $10,000 off the original price brings it down to the EB prices.
BTW: You don't have to start thinking that the EB will ever sound like a V8. No way! There is no inline engine who will ever sound like a V-engine. Yes you can get a different sound with aftermarket parts - but no V-sounding sound.
So reading and understanding your point of view - there is only V6 or V8 and the time when you should buy. I think you should get used V8 so you get what you are graving for. The V8 sound. You still can start to collect money on YOUTUBE like the young kid did to buy his EB Mustang.
^ Agreed!
EcoBeast! Warranty questions aside (which again I'm not terribly concerned about), with something like a COBB AccessPort you can have your stock tune and your 'overboost' tune both mapped in (along with any other setup you want), and just kick in the extra boost when you want it, then switch back to the stock tune for the other 95% of your driving. Basically what these tunes are doing is dialing back the heat management at around 5500 RPM where currently the stock tune ramps back fuel ratio at that point to keep temps down. The stock tune is undoubtedly very conservative, but even with some extra boost you would probably never notice any issues if you drove the car with the tune 100% of the time (read: SOME extra boost). Still there's no need to even do that with the ECU plug-in technology that's out there nowadays. The EB is capable of making the same kind of torque as the V8, maybe even more, with NO PHYSICAL MODS. And you don't have to destroy your car to get it, you just have to be smart about it. (Granted putting out over 400 lb-ft of torque it's probably running some pretty nutty pressures...)
He has spent years building a YouTube channel doing car reviews, and he will be cataloging his ownership experience of the new EB on a weekly basis. I would have contributed if I knew he was doing it but I only found out about it after the fact. People say he's just begging for money, but people are just jealous that he had a good idea and made it work. I'm happy for him (and me because now I get to see what the EB is like on a DD basis).
Yeah, I agree with you.
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Hey man, if you can get 100k+ subscribers and pump out daily content that interests people, I don't see why not.
:amen:Hey man, if you can get 100k+ subscribers and pump out daily content that interests people, I don't see why not.
It's a hell of a lot better than some high school or college kid getting a free car through his/her parents.
I... don't really get that it is. Totally with you on it being a bad thing for a kid to get a free car from his / her parents (although my grandfather gave me my first car for free, but that was a 22 year old Carolla), but I don't see getting money off a Youtube channel you make as any different from that kid who got $50 grand from Kickstarter to make potato salad.Hey man, if you can get 100k+ subscribers and pump out daily content that interests people, I don't see why not.
It's a hell of a lot better than some high school or college kid getting a free car through his/her parents.
This... I'm sure the amount of time required is equivalent to working at least a solid part time job. It's silly to think he just "put up a video and got a free car". Bloggers and Vloggers are building a "business", just like if they went to a bakery every day and made cakes. They are producing a product, and people are buying. Just like in any business, some will be successful, some won't, sometimes it's fair market forces, sometimes it's the right place at the right time.
