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title: "Parody Car Reviewer Wraps Every Automotive YouTuber Into One Character"
description: "Get ready to laugh and roll your eyes—a lot."
date: "2020-08-17"
modified: "2020-08-17"
authors:
  - name: "Peter Holderith"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/35771/parody-car-reviewer-wraps-every-automotive-youtuber-into-one-character"
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  - "Culture"
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---

# Parody Car Reviewer Wraps Every Automotive YouTuber Into One Character

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There are words and phrases common to any profession or hobby, and if you're reading this, you're likely familiar with many of them concerning cars. Words like *beefy, full-bore, bonkers—*all of which are on *The Drive's* list of banned words, but that's just a taste, though. There are dozens of words that are so common to writing about cars, that they're considered beyond cliche.

In fact, if you really wanted to, you could make [a whole parody video about all of the words, phrases, and mannerisms common to a ton of auto journalists.](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8627su-jKWo&feature=share>) British auto journalists, in particular.

https://youtube.com/embed/8627su-jKWo

This video reminds me of just about every British car personality in some way. I think over in the U.K. there's still a lot of [*Top Gear*](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/35547/this-1-9m-home-with-a-private-airstrip-could-be-your-very-own-top-gear-style-racetrack>) influence floating around, which isn't a bad thing, it just makes a lot of the reviews have a similar vibe. We don't really have that in the United States, do we? Who are we supposed to imitate; Jay Leno?

I think this guy even has the British auto journalist attire and haircut down pretty good. We all know that the U.K. is sort of stuck a decade behind when it comes to fashion, so just looking this character up and down—yeah, 2010 seems about right. Sort of reminds me of that fella from [carwow](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO93x4PAI1U>), actually I think [Tiff Needell](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXUPvCb-sI>) might be more accurate. There are obvious influences from Jeremy Clarkson here, but I'm trying to be a bit more nuanced than that.

The choice of car to review is also accurate. [The Porsche 911](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/28958/no-more-than-two-identical-porsche-911-sports-cars-are-built-every-year-report>) is perhaps the most... I'm having trouble finding the words here without immediately heading into some inappropriate language, so I'll just say that a lot of auto journalists like it a lot. It would be unfair to say praising a good car is a bad thing, but at a certain point, it just becomes overwhelming.

Combine all of these details with the fact that the car he's reviewing is not actually a 911. I think it's a [Toyota Corolla hatchback?](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/33063/theres-a-toyota-corolla-hot-hatch-coming-to-america-report>) Certainly a Europe-only model. It has a massive dent in the driver's side fender and the shift boot is slowly decomposing. I think Porsche actually offers those two features as standard on the latest 911, so he got that right.

Perhaps he can do another video about the approximately 1.8 trillion [Tesla owner channels](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/35506/tesla-model-3-daily-driven-on-dirt-roads-collects-32-pounds-of-mud-in-rear-bumper>) now on YouTube. Plenty of source material there.

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## Author
Peter Holderith is a former staff writer for The Drive. He enjoys covering the regular news cycle, writing reviews, and hunting down long features on obscure pieces of automotive history.

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