This Cars Rip-Off Will Make You Question Everything
These days, nothing is immune from being ripped off - even films. All sorts of shoddy, just-about-safe-from-the-copyright-lawyers knock-offs exist, and they’re often hilarious. Case in point? Spid the Racing Car.
Spotted by a CT colleague searching for information about Pixar’s Cars - the franchise it’s, err, riffing off - Spid the Racing Car looks to be an adorably cheap attempt to emulate Lightning McQueen. Made by someone who knows squat about cars.
Watching this for the first time brings up so many questions. Like why does Sid struggle to keep up with a bulldozer? Why does he have a V-twin, and a V-twin which sounds like a V8 at that? What in the hell is a ‘turbo button’? And how can new wheels “grip the road better”?
Perhaps I’m over-thinking this, but kids TV shows are supposed to be educational. But it hit me earlier: this is educational. If you have a child, a neice/nephew, little brother or sister, sit them down to watch this, give them a note pad, and get them to write down everything that’s wrong. Their future depends on it…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
spid get some sick chopper engine 😂
Are these narrated by the “Will it Blend” guy?
This is what you get if Cars had sex with Bob the builder
Spid reminds me of a Ferrari or a Shelby
What a plot twist! Crash on the wall. Become second.
seems Rob the Jedi has fallen on hard times, oh well at least he found a job he can still use the force in!
I wish I was as good a mechanic as Rob. An engine swap without even opening the bonnet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAA7ZeXXvg4
Why tf do the dozers sound better than the car?
Of course he had trouble with keeping up to the bulldozers, he had a v2