VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR

Hola. Ramonito here. We back. Here is our submission for the ISYS100 video assessment task thing. I think it's pretty good but we're probably gonna get crap marks anyway. Cause logic.

And there you have it. No white people were harmed in the filming of this video. Hope you enjoyed. 

- Ramonito

Wanted Dead or Alive

YO. WHAT'S UP FRIENDLY PEOPLE?

Look. I'll be honest. My dodgy car story is more of a dodgy driver story, but NAH. HERE WE ARE, BLOGGING WITH RECKLESS ABANDON. Much like the driver featured in my story...

*For legal purposes, I have changed the names of all parties involved in this story. I am aware that some of the actions perpetrated within this account are felonies, but I AIN'T NEVER TALKING. Thank you.

*LAW AND ORDER DUN DUN*

Back in high school I played guitar in a couple of the school bands. Okay, that's not entirely accurate. I SHREDDED PEOPLE'S FACES OFF AS A BLOOD SACRIFICE TO THE LORDS OF MIGHTY VALHALLA in a couple of the school bands. This shredding meant that I had to leave school quite late occasionally, which was a total bummer because after school on Friday nights, I had work at Hungry Jacks. Work started around 5 or 6 usually, and my rehearsals would usually finish around 4. I didn't have my own car yet at the time, so I would usually have to catch public transportation, and this would usually suffice but this one particular afternoon however, practice ran quite late. Thus enters my would-be saviour, Beavis*. Beavis was in the grade above me and he owned a seafoam green Suzuki Swift. The old one. It had duct tape holding the front bumper on and I'm pretty sure one of the tires was the wrong size, but hey, it was a ride.

Beavis' Suzuki Swift looked like this.

Beavis, the gentleman that he was, offered me a lift to work knowing that I was running late. KIND MAN. He'd always been nice to me in our previous encounters, so I gladly accepted. LITTLE DID I KNOW JUST THEN THAT I HAD SIGNED AWAY MY SOUL TO SATAN. What Beavis forgot to mention was that he was not on his P's. No he was on his L's at the time. But it was "alright bro, my mate Kumar* here is on his P's, he can teach me!" I was desperate to get to my work, because I didn't wish to lose my prospective future career in fast food hospitality, so I got in anyway, along with two of my other mates Rita* and Paolo*. 

Beavis' car was a manual. So this started us off with great difficulty as he was having trouble balancing the gas and the clutch. We pulled out of the school and he started honking. Oh my Lordy. We zoomed through the streets at a speed which indicated confidence of a driver who'd been driving for years. Unfortunately, Beavis had the skill of a driver who'd been driving for minutes. In fact. More like negative minutes. He had so little skill that it actually reversed. Anyway, Kumar would try to give Beavis tips on how to handle the car more smoothly, but BEAVIS DON'T GIVE A F***. Indicate left? Nah, don't worry. Slow down at zebra crossings? Not necessary. Clear the right at roundabouts? NAH. YOLO. This pattern continued until we reached the top of a hill, which had a roundabout on it. Beavis for once stopped the car at this intersection. However, he seemed to have forgotten that once the car stopped, he had to keep his foot on the clutch. So once the roundabout was clear, we started rolling backwards. Profanities flew across the car. I wee'd a little bit. Beavis wasn't really upset, he was just confused while trying to figure out this clutch thing. He took so long to figure it out, that we rolled right onto the front bumper of a lady in the Ford Territory behind us. The car goes silent....

Kumar yells "GO GO GO"

And so Beavis, spurred by the pressure of the situation, becomes an amazing driver within a split second, and zooms off, thus performing a hit and run which Homer Simpson and/or the dude from GTA would be proud of. He got onto a main road soon after that and it was home free. There were no more major hiccups except for when I got out. I retrieved my guitar from the boot, but Beavis forgot to put the handbrake on and so the car rolled its bumper into my shin. Not that bad. But still kinda crappy.

ANYWAY. This is my story. Please don't report me. Or Beavis. OH. He lost his license in the end anyway, due to an unrelated driving offense. I LOVE YOU!

- Ramonito

Muddy Water Is Muddy Water

Ahh, so I may or may not have mentioned previously that I earn my $$$ on a farm. And as I'm sure you are aware, farms see their share of thrashers, bangers, stuck cars and minor fires. So, from the depths of my brain, here is a sampling of some of me and my farm-bros'sz vehicular good times.


This one guy had an amazing old falcon wagon that he started with a screwdriver, it was doing fine until the whole front end just kinda dropped out one day. There's another story with that car which involves a female, copious amounts of alcohol and a slice of pizza. But that's not a story for your eyes, fine readers. His next car had a fertiliser bag for a back window which did nothing to keep water out whenever I was in the back seat and he decided that he simply must drive through dat puddle. On the subject of windows out, that magna I had and hated got reversed into (THANKS TRUCK!) and I was out a drivers side window and a crushed shut front door for the rainiest month of the year a couple years back. That was awesome. Had to get in through the front passenger seat which, when you're all tall and white and uncoordinated like I am, is massively appealing to all who view it. Ladies.


Rain always brings the fun. Some awesome dude in a semi attempted to reverse up the driveway and slid off the side, almost *almost* rolling over. Not two days later some drunken asshat in a douchey jacked up pick-up tried, and failed, the same reverse up the driveway trick. Both times I watched with a mixture of glee, bafflement and anger, seeing the future of these fellow road users before it happened.


I myself have pulled many a fellow employee out of muddy strife during my precious lunch breaks with my mad tractor skillz.


And thus, we come, to the tractors. Oh yeah. Just you try driving tractors around a hilly farm in the wet, wet bookends of summer. (CURSES TO YOU, NOVEMBER AND FEBRUARY), see how long you go before losing control and ending up in a dam or with a tractor on you. Both my boss and his father have flipped tractors onto them and we've alllllll slid our ways up and down hills. Sometimes intentional. Sometimes not. I literally saved my own life by wedging a runaway tractor/trailer combo between four trees. I was heading quickly towards a rather steep embankment. MINIMAL DAMAGE YERRRR!
We've had chunks flying, toes runover, tyres fall off and last year I reversed into a drain 'cause who knew that when you reverse you gotta check what's behind you.


FARMS AND MUD AND HILLS AND TWO-WHEEL DRIVE MAN. HOW DO THEY WORK?

I am sure your super awesome imaginations make up for my unfortunate lack of photographic proof to all these tales.

Word.

-anxzibitinyoxzibit

Signing out

GOSSIP GOAT

Checking in for the last time its been fun and we have seen some amazing car reviews and some not so amazing car reviews. Actually most of them have been pretty average, BUT HEY  we are average guys! well i'm a goat but all good in da hood.

Now I know what you're thinking what are you gonna do with your self if you haven't got averageguyscarreviews to look at every day!

WELL GUESS WHAT GOSSIP GOAT GOT YO HAIRY "BAAAAA"CK!

- isn't that a sheeps noise? shhhhhhhhhhh no more talking

Me n my bros up on the mountain have come up with some more entertainment which should for fill everyones needs

Check out some of these amazing videos that have absolutely nothing to do with cars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8IethsyIQ

This one is really good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3iOLJkIXXo

HAVE FUN!

We hope you enjoyed!

XOXO GOSSIPGOAT

uP! - i dont think so

Whaddup fellow mountain climbers (I can assure you this car today won't be climbing no mountains) Gossip Goat checking in

Holy mother of car gods have I got one POS looking car for you this week for ugly car week.

Introducing the VOLKSWAGEN uP! (yes some bright spark spelt it exactly like that)

Yes I know what the hell did volkswagen pull this ugly thang from? I have no idea but this has to be one of the most unattractive volkswagens ever made!

VOLKSWAGEN STICK TO THE GOLF BUDDY!

Volksawgen describe this as 'cute' OH EM GEE! THIS IS NOT CUTE!

This POS is pathetic how am I suppose to get me and my goat pals in here to have a disco disco... it just aint going to happen and everyone is going to have a BAAd time.. (lol see what i did there?)

With its 1L engine you aint going anywhere in a hurry (what is the point of its 5 gears) and this brings about the question of how in goats name did this thing achieve "World car of the year???????????????????????????????????

There really isn't enough question marks in the world Gossip Goat is dumbfounded to say the least!

All in all the

 Design is crap

Safety is crap

Driving is crap

and the 

Price is CRAP (Nearly 14k for this POS)

Dont waste your time better of buying a few extra bails of hay for da boiz

GOSSIP GOAT  OUT 

Modified car scene down under

I thought i would do a post on a few cars i snapped at the local JDM meet last month at eastern creek raceway, just to give you guys an idea of where the modified car scene in Aus is at and where it is heading.

Now we have all kinds of car enthusiasts, from the euros to the imports, the JDM'ers, the exotics and the stanced. But what i find amazing is how they all came together with one passion in one night at the recent car meet held by Top secret imports. Of course the internet has facilitated cars going viral- good example being Zomaya's Evo from Sydney. But it is exciting to see just how alive the modified car scene in Sydney is!

Ill start with one that has been plastered all over the Internet lately, Zomaya's Mitsubishi Evo IX right from home...This wide body Evo has something about it that i just cannot explain and when your done perving at the pictures I'm sure you will agree...

Check that ASS!!!

Now Evo's aren't the only cars out there showcasing class, the boys from house of stance have taken it upon themselves to define what they think is stance, and i might add they are doing an awesome job...

Of course we have an abundance of exotics and many GTR's proving their street cred and arching up to their pricy rivals!

All in all it was awesome to see the turnout at the Mega meet and it showed just how alive and diverse the car community in Aus realy is, showcasing some of the finest cars. 

-Boost

Bad things in Small Packages

Beauty is a subjective thing, and even more so when it comes to cars, the taste for cars is similar to that of cuisine, in that there are things everyone likes, things some people like, and things that in the history of man and beyond, no one likes.

Now beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, however when it comes to the ugliest, and worst, cars known there are many debates and point of contention for aesthetic and physical appeal of automobiles.

The car I have chosen I find to be not so much ugly, or bad, as it is just a plain, and simple, joke.

Presenting....the PEEL P50!

Replica PeelP50

(Image courtesy of http://www.peelengineering.co.uk/newimages/p50_7.jpg)

The Peel P50 is a great example of British engineering, a 3-wheeled micro car that was produced by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man between 1962 and 1965.

PeelP50 Prototype

(Image Courtesy of http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.carter/images/p50_prototype.jpg)

Reproduced as replicas in 2010 under Peel Engineering Ltd (Not the same company), the cars are road legal in the United Kingdom and are powered by a 49 cc engine to put out an amazing top speed of 61 km/h.

Famous Peel P50 49cc Engine

(Image Courtesy of http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2007/11/peel-p50-2.jpg)

Not to say this isn't a nice toy, but as a car, it's a like it or lump it case, wherein my view towards this "car" is that of a hobby or little play thing, nothing more; able to seat one person and their shopping bag. That being said, it is rather cute.

-VTECpony