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Originally Posted by Mr Burns
I didn't mean to be rude, but just not understanding the point of the video, at all.
Yes, there is some verbal commentary on the featured car, but you're never close enough for detailed views, so the car isn't really the focus, but instead it is the Autobahn, which inherently is a dull stretch of road.
What do you see as the point of the videos?
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The idea is to find performance cars on the Autobahn and provide a glimpse into what people really do with them on a road where speed limits aren't holding them back. We also want to give an impression of what the cars looks like in real-life action. And we provide some basic information about each car while looking at it.
Ideally, we find people going fast and road conditions that allow for that, but we need luck as this isn't staged. We can of course not drive too close so the view is not perfect - indeed the faster we go, the less close we can drive of course, so the slow stretches actually help to get a better view of the car.
There are plenty of videos out there where the details of the exterior and interior of cool cars are filmed in a parking lot - the first 20 minutes of a Doug DeMuro video - so we think that supply is already there. There are also plenty of videos where people drive a fast car on the Autobahn filmed from the perspective of the driver, but you don't see the car that way - just the road and the speed. There are also videos showing drivers or passengers react to fast driving or acceleration, but - again - you don't really see the car.
Of course, you can see what performance cars look like in action on TopGear or the MotorTrend channel, where they film them on closed race tracks, but that is staged and not real life. We are more interested in what one can actually do with a car like that in everyday life when you own one.
The Aston Martin video doesn't provide for much fast driving except for the first 40 seconds, we know - some of our other videos have much more of that - but we made a judgment call because you can literally count the times you will catch an Aston Martin on camera on the Autobahn on one hand.
Would it help if we explained at the outset of our videos what the point is? That way, viewers could decide right away whether they want to see this or not.