/Drive Discussion

Can someone explain to me what Drive is and where it came from? Who are these guys, anyway? Chris Harris... what made him so special that he gets to be the guy that drives all these cars? And Matt Farah? What gives?

Is it really as simple as them being youtube stars? I don't get it.
 
It was basically a bunch of guys that came together and wanted to make YouTube videos of the "best cars in the world".

And it worked. Big time.
 
And now Chris Harris has become my favourite car reviewer (well he's been my favourite since 2013).
 
Pretty much what Slash said.

They're hardly nobodies; Mike Spinelli founded Jalopnik, Matt Farah founded TheSmokingTire and Chris Harris is a freelance journo who's written for nearly every British rag there is.
 
I don't get it though. Mike Spinelli founded Jalopnik? So that's back when it sucked. What is TheSmokingTire besides a youtube channel? Is it a podcast based on a youtube channel? Or vice-versa?

I like all of them, I just don't understand their origin.
 
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The /Drive channel has been really quiet lately, no videos from Chris in two weeks? Got all excited for his next review and nothing was posted. :(
 
It's on now! Watching it right now. :D

Edit: *30 minutes later* well that was short. About half was just commercials. I'm a bit disappointed.
 
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The /Drive channel has been really quiet lately, no videos from Chris in two weeks? Got all excited for his next review and nothing was posted. :(
He plans to be back on next week, that's what he posted on Twitter a few weeks back. (I don't have a Twitter account I just use it to stalk Chris Harris :P)
 
I don't get it though. Mike Spinelli founded Jalopnik? So that's back when it sucked. What is TheSmokingTire besides a youtube channel? Is it a podcast based on a youtube channel? Or vice-versa?

I like all of them, I just don't understand their origin.
Matt Farah is the strangest one of the bunch. TheSmokingTire is still not that well known compared to the Spinelli's creation or the publications Harris writes for & the only reason it was created was due to Farah breaking off from Super Speeders to become an independent journalist. Which honestly surprises me that Farah gets to review what he does considering he has a large documented past of illegal activities with Super Speeders. The owners of the cars he tests must not do that much research because Tanner Foust's actions of doing burnouts & drifting is exactly what stopped owners from lending him their $300,000+ supercars on a previous show.

Farah to me seems to be about as great a choice for his segment as Doug with a longer background & his own website; they're both just average online car reviewers.
 
Matt Farah is the strangest one of the bunch. TheSmokingTire is still not that well known compared to the Spinelli's creation or the publications Harris writes for & the only reason it was created was due to Farah breaking off from Super Speeders to become an independent journalist. Which honestly surprises me that Farah gets to review what he does considering he has a large documented past of illegal activities with Super Speeders. The owners of the cars he tests must not do that much research because Tanner Foust's actions of doing burnouts & drifting is exactly what stopped owners from lending him their $300,000+ supercars on a previous show.

Farah to me seems to be about as great a choice for his segment as Doug with a longer background & his own website; they're both just average online car reviewers.

He also was caught blatantly lying, by me and a few others here:
http://forums.finalgear.com/the-smoking-tire-episode-discussion/ford-gt-vs-ferrari-250-gto-44210/
The whole thread is rather entertaining.

I've seen the V12!

So much for journalist integrity.
 
They uploaded that I think it was last week and now they've re-uploaded it. Was there some sort of copyright issue or something?
 
He plans to be back on next week, that's what he posted on Twitter a few weeks back. (I don't have a Twitter account I just use it to stalk Chris Harris :P)
So is it me or has the Drive channel died? No new videos at all.
 
Yes it has, it seems like the whole channel had decided to take a long break, hopefully normal service will resume soon.
 
I believe they are filming for the next season. Big muscle is anyways.
 
Summer Vacations time... or working hard to bring new content and footage to us fans...


I believe that the Monkey has been hard at racing for thepast coyple of weeks, i think he drove the 24h of Nurb/Spa...

The teaser is lame... but for sure they are not dead, if anything, it will come back stronger...

To answer the question posted above, the Drive network was created by legitimate car fans with some editorial skills (CONNECTIONS) in order to bring car news and info to the World Wide Web, without relying on any major paper or outlet that would otherwise limit their creativity and original ideas... they wanted to go rogue when most magazine are struggling to compete with the online fast and immediate information /communication...

These guys have a vision that is evolving as we speak... so much so that now NBC, ironically a major outlet wanted nothing to do with these guys inthe first place, and that Spinelli wanted to avoid, are trying to associate themselves, because of the potential of this new form of passion sharing... i predict and its probably tru already that GTPlanet is one of the major source of info for Drive, and vice versa...

Thats the new world we live in, everything is practically interconnected...
 
i have seen on Chris' twitter that hes been driving a lot of new cars; however there hasnt been much by leo other than just marketing for his real job... whatever that may be
 
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