Car People Make Strange Choices

Jack's face is already morphing into late 40s concerned dad perpetually.

Not just Cars boys, it’s Life. At some point its just generally hard to be impressed or moved by anything. A sunny day, cup of coffee, smile from your kid , that’s what it’s about

My addiction to Premium Arby's meals and blood thinners is all-encompassing. Not even a PT cruiser can help.

As a fellow GTI owner, I could not help bursting into laughter as Jack shared the harsh reality of these cars, only to hear the audible bing of a dash light before he could even finish his thought. 🤣

Mark just described addiction, a phenomena when one chases a fleeting or unobtainable good emotion.

Car people are torn between buying a car with their head and buying a car with their heart. When we're making compromises between the two, we often make bad choices that aren't smart and don't make us smile with joy. Once we end up with some spare money we might blow it tilting at windmills and then regret it later.

This is like a "it's me not you" breakup video with a car. This car should be prepared to be driven by someone new very soon.

Lesson learnt - we need to experience disappointments to savour happiness

3:30 I agree that you wanted to recreate being that age Mark. I bought a Four Loko the other day to try to recreate my sophmore in college days but it just gave me really bad diarrhea and pissed off my wife cause I passed out on 2 pm on a Sunday

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." -Socrates This applies here and elsewhere in life. Great video Mark and really interesting discussion, this is what keeps me coming back. Wouldn't expect this from a car channel, but glad to see it.

Screw you guys, my new Chevy Cruze gonna make me the happiest guy on the planet!!

Please guys, we need longer form conversations like this.

Having a chime notification for low windshield washer fluid is about the most German thing I've ever heard.

There is something special about a first car. Everyone remembers their first car and the crappier the car, the more character it has, the more you remember it. I used a tennis racket to prop up the hatch on my 98 Civic Hatchback. AC condense line leaked into the passenger side floor so I put a plastic Tupperware container there and emptied it once a day. The roof used to loudly pop when it was in the sun because it had a big dent in it and the sun expanded it and it scared the shit out of me every time it happened. I drove it to school, soccer practices, McDonalds, my local 7-11 where I used to be able to buy Coors Light or Natty Lite as a minor. Memories. But if I had that car now, I would sell it immediately cause now I don't have time for all those things that made it a fun, interesting car. Life moves on and then you die.

Money can't buy happiness, but when I get into my Miata RF (In no small part due to SG) and it gets pretty darn close. That car seriously brightens my day as I slot through the gears at 35mph. You just need to buy for you and what makes you happy, if you chase numbers or specs or clout you'll always come up short. These days cars are all about HP numbers, 0-60 times, 'Ring times, number of screens, etc and getting caught up in that will always leave you wanting. Great video guys!

What Mark said at starting 3:20 hits deep and I know what he's talking about exactly. I tried to recreate experiences like that too, I even tried to play the same music that was on during the initial experience and it never worked. It just made me think "what the hell am I doing here"

I think what I learned from this video is that buying specific cars to relive past experiences is a fruitless affair so instead we should buy cars to have new experiences with them. A joyful moment in time will become mundane when experienced over and over again so we should look to the future for happiness and not the past.

I needed this reality check... recently been looking back to a particular car I owned in my late teens, early 20's. What ties such good memories of that car is less about the car, more about the good times with great friends, freedom, and my whole life ahead of me.

IMO this is one of the channels best videos in a while, it takes balls to go online with such a big audience and admit you made a mistake.

This will resonate with lots of viewers, and even though is such a simple thing, We appreciate the fact of you guys putting it out here. This video and conclusion was much concise and accurate then 6 months of therapy with my Psychiatrist