To everyone asking, yes, this is Jack from Car Throttle.
Happened this morning. Jack minding his own business in the slow lane, lorry driver failed to look properly when changing lanes, jack-knifing Jack's GTi and pushing him 0.5 miles down the road 😯
Jack is shaken but ok.
Announcement 📢
After almost 10 years with
@CarThrottle
, I've handed in my notice to pursue freelance presenting. CT is my first paid freelance gig, so I'll be in most vids moving forward, but you'll see me elsewhere too.
Wish me luck!
(Despite the date, this is not a drill)
VERY excited to reveal my first ever 'proper' car. And by proper, I mean reliable, modern and uncompromised.
This 530d Touring is the result of needing something ULEZ compliant, and I think I've done it right. 400lb ft, +45mpg, and it has working air con & a tow bar!
Fantastic!
LEVELLING UP!
Just got the keys for Autoalex HQ, 1500sq ft of space for builds, a new podcast, eating pizza and shitbox hoarding 🤓
Absolute dream come true!
Say hello to my E53 BMW X5!
3.0d manual (!!) with 158k miles, detachable towbar bar, sliding boot floor, heated seats, cruise, nav and and and!
Previous Cat C write off (front end damage once upon a time) but completely straight and superb to drive.
The best bit? £950! 🙌
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Our £600 former camper van might not look like much on the outside, but after 6 days cutting, sanding and fabricating, we now have a Podcast studio on wheels 😀
One more nostalgia / 944 appreciation post, and newfound respect for mum daily driving one for 4 years. No power steering, no driver aids, just single mum badassery 👌
Absolutely WILD first month on YouTube!
1. Got a man off the streets
2. 325k subs and counting
3. Now selling 'Shitbox Appreciation Society' T-shirts and stickers.
4. Getting Phil back on YouTube
5. Proving to myself that life is about taking calculated risks.
Happy days!
I've never celebrated Father's Day, so when my gf asked me if I could 'quickly knock up' a gin bar for her dad (who recently beat cancer), I agreed.
25 hours and £100 later, this is what I came up with. I get to reveal it to him tomorrow and I'm weirdly nervous!
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to set up a car show in 12 days, let alone have 1000 people attend - incl
@mikebrewer
and
@RichardHammond
- while raising +£30k for an amazing family.
Also drove Goodwood and got a (tiny) tattoo. What a time to be alive 🤙
📸
@JFong8000
Forget supercars and frivolous finance deals. This is what automotive happiness looks like to me...
A leggy E46 330i Touring (218k miles and going strong) and a 4cyl Porsche nobody cares about👌
Shoutout to the woman with the side profile of a fish (lip filler) in the red Picasso on the M4...
Lane 3 at 65mph, undertaken by multiple cars. Finally moves over to reveal she's STILL texting.
The best bit? Her 3/4 year-old son in the back!
Shit driver, APPALLING parent.
The wait is over. The car I bought for £2000, was of course this S2000!
It's rusty but it runs and will be on the channel in the next couple of months 🤙
The benefit of having an old car is being able to syphon fuel at home.
Now, my gf's car is topped up and she's able to visit her parents before her dad starts chemo.
Well done the media for causing this fucking mayhem.
11 months and 52 videos ago, I launched my own YT channel. Today, that channel hit 500k subscribers 🤓
It's my fill time job, I get to travel, mess around with cars and motorbikes, and I honestly couldn't be happier.
If you've got a dream, CHASE IT DOWN and make it happen!
Well, this is awkward. Today I posted about the van I bought my best friend as a wedding present.
And right now (as in right fucking now) they're somewhere on the M1 in it with a seized engine 😅
The world has gone mad, but I'm here for it 😆
The channel I launched on Thursday has just hit 100k subs! This was legit my 'unrealistic' target for the end of 2022...🤯
So erm...thanks? I legit need a lie down.
Finally able to reveal what I bought my gf for her 30th 🙂
This Audi TT 225 BAM quattro needs work (wing, alternator, new turbo, cam chain, belt and ccm) but she's over the moon.
I'll do the work with my buddy over a few weekends and then it should be good to go 👌
This is Christian Von
@koenigsegg
, maker of the world's fastest car. I said hello to him yesterday and the first thing he said to me was, and I shit you not, "how's the V6 running in your MX-5?" Turns out he watches the channel and owns a mk1 1.6 MX-5! How awesome is that?!
Spotted this pic of mum standing next to our old 944, and thought fellow car bores would appreciate.
The Porsche replaced our old '85 Granada whose auto box died a few miles from my Grandmother's place in Germany. What an upgrade 👌
Drove the
@CyanRacing
P1800 yesterday. The most reckless, pure and perfect car I've experienced.
5-speed dogleg 'box, 420hp, 950kg, no traction control, no ABS and unservoed brakes. Madness, but it works.
Just please, put it on 16s 🙌
Excited / shit scared to announce the launch of my new channel, AutoAlex.
Video 001 will be live tomorrow around 5pm, but for now, here's a link to my channel and a first look at my new logo 🤯
Another day, another 100k 🤯
For someone who thought they REALLY knew YouTube, I really don't know YouTube, because this is not how I expected to start the week.
Better start making those videos now 😅
With Barney now insured, some proper pics and details.
Individual 330i Sport Touring in Techno Voilet. Manual 'box and apparently 1 of 1 ever made in this spec.
Super high miles (217k) but the M54B30 sounds smoother than any other 3.0 I've heard.
Life's good 👌
@BMW_UK
@BMW
For all the doubters about my "April Fools" news yesterday, I can confirm today that after almost 10 years with
@CarThrottle
(the best 10 years!), I'm now fully freelance, and am happy to say that CT is my first official paid gig. From an audience perspective, very little changes
450k subs in 8 months = mind blown 🤯
Roll on 2023 for big trips, a series on a cheap V12 and maybe even a brand new podcast!
Until then, thanks for the amazing support, and have a great New Year!
I've ridden to work from Ealing to Farringdon, 10 days on the trot.
So far, I've saved:
- £72 in tube fares (including £7 fuel)
- 17 hours commuting times
- Being at the mercy of signal failures
Riding, can't recommend it enough
@HondaUKBikes
👌
Bought an Audi A2 yesterday. Guessing it'll be the cheapest in Europe, is also ropey AF, but still achieves great MPG. It's my mission to make these cool - long overdue!
5 months and 21 vids later, the Autoalex channel has just ticked over 400k subs.
Hoped for 50-100k by year end, so to say I'm over the moon is an understatement.
Lesson here is to always back yourself and surround yourself with good people. Happy days!
Say hello to my new daily driver tow car! 250k miles, front suspension needs bringing back on air, but otherwise clean and tidy!
I won't tell you how much I paid for it because I didn't pay anything 😆
My mate just called: "my front left wheel is making weird noises when I turn right".
Wheel bearing? NOPE, the garage that changed all 4 tyres 1 week ago FAILED to torque that very wheel. His BMW was minutes away from becoming a Morgan.
Surely repercussions are in order?
Mental that I've just hit 50k subscribers on the new channel 🙌
The support, well wishes and offers of cars for me to play with has been awesome, so to anyone who that includes, big love!
Thanks 😘
Some people are cu*ts.
- empty beer bottles
- disposable BBQs
- paper plates strewn
- fly tipping
The true calling signs of society's biggest bellends.
10-hour round trip mission to Wales yesterday to pick up a dream bike!
BMW S1000RR, gen2. 193hp and heated grips as standard 👌 Will be riding it to Bruges this Friday!
@BMWMotorradUK
what you think?
Immensely proud of our latest video:
- Lots of moving parts
- 3 x shitboxes
- Crap weather
- 1 day to get it all shot
- Proof that sponsored vids can be awesome.
We even blew the CT budget, spending more than 3 figures 😅
Hope everyone enjoys 👍
I'm lost for words, but
@theRealTavarish
has just given a really generous donation for me to buy a car for special needs kids to tinker with at the centre my gf works at. Rest assured, the car will be loved and will be called Tavarish! What an amazing world we live in! Thx T! 😘
Bloke on the tube drinking coffee. Closes his laptop, puts the cup on the ground and goes to leave the train. I say: "you not taking your cup?" He picks it up like a good boy then gives me the middle finger as the doors are closing. Brave prick 🤣
#pickupyourshit
I BOUGHT THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST MASERATI MC20 FOR £500!
Na, just kidding.
@MaseratiGB
called me up yesterday & asked if I wanted to take theirs for the weekend (thanks, BTW 😘)
£254k (as tested)
3.0 twin turbo V6
+600hp
202mph
2.9sec to 62mph
No YT vid, just a dirty weekend 🤓
So 90s it hurts 🙌
Picked up my E34 yesterday and already love the thing. Beautiful cruiser (M50 2.5 non Vanos), super comfortable, and sounds awesome (especially when the weld on the back box broke on the motorway and it turned itself into a straight pipe!).
Love, love, love.
Just had a go at an old guy on the bus for telling 2 Polish ladies to speak English. When they tried to talk, he'd sing loudly and put 2 fingers up at them. As the ladies got off one said "thank you, nobody has ever done that for us before". And that's bloody worrying!
Just had a call from
@ethansmale
who very narrowly avoided a nasty crash on a 'smart motorway'. He had to swerve into lane 2 without warning after a van in front slammed on anchors to avoid hitting a static car. Had Ethan not been in a new press car with good tyres... (1/2)
After 2 years snoozing, Phil's V6 was (rudely) awoken in style on Silverstone track last weekend. This year's plan is to get him rebuilt with track days in mind 🔥
Do I need to be talked out of owning this 4.4 V8 X5, or is my heart actually on the money here?
Speaking of money, this is a 1 owner car, FSH, 130k miles and mine - if I want it - for £1000 🤓
AND, it's ULEZ compliant. And a bloody V8!