So You Want To Be A Car Enthusiast
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Cars have been around now for just over a century and in that time, there has been a handful of people out there who have sparks of enthusiasm for cars that aren't always shared by everyone. Over time that handful of people have grown into a community and spread over multiple generations, but what does it mean to be a car enthusiast? What does it take? Today Alex sits down to discuss a topic debated by the masses, So You Want to be a Car Enthusiast.
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Time Stamps:
0:00: Intro
1:17: There's The Plug
1:55: The Evolution of Car Enthusiasts
3:34: Being a Car Enthusiast in 2021
4:37: So You Want To Be A Car Enthusiast
6:05: Car Enthusiast Breakdown
6:56: What it Takes
9:11: Alex's Final Thoughts
9:56: Outro
Music: Coste - Solitary
#Car #Enthusiast #SoYouWant
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day 2 of asking for “so you want a huracan”
Gimme the focus RS, and I will be the happiest MF alive
I’m 18, and haven’t gotten wheel rights LEGALLY yet, but I drive and drive. It’s so soothing
Dad
@@spectrum_5694 mom
3 Steps to being a car enthusiast:
Step 1. Research car
Step 2. Buy it
Step 3. Love it like no other
Step 4. Tune it
Step 5. Break it
Step 6. Question yourself why youre doing it
Step 7. Fix it and tell yourself not to do it again
Step 8. Do it all over again just because.... "Race car" lol
Still working on step 2 lol. Someday
Step 1.2: have money to buy car ✍️
@@tomi3256 That''s much more accurate to where I am
@@itsjireh 😂
Make a video about the "EPA" and RPM SEMA" act
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Pls
Ideal media already did you should go check it out
@@joshuawilliams1477yup
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How to become a car enthusiast:
Step 1: like cars
Step 2: like cars a lot
And like cars even more
Step 4: be the car
Love the car
Make family with the car
I love spending My hard earned money on my POS 300zx.... cuz at the end of the day that’s MY POS 300zx!!!
From one z32 owner to another.....ITS A DAMN ENDLESS MONEY PIT😭
would you recommend getting one as a project car?
The engine bay is a pain to woek in as it is not much room. Nice platform though.
@@Miguel-ud7nh yeah i would recommend it, the only thing is you don’t have much room to work with in the Engine bay, unless u swap it
@@sengenjin6122 yeah man these things love their maintenance for sure
These videos are actually amazing. Alex literally has such a great personality for this. He was born by the In-line gods raised on E85 and was shaped into an enthusiast out of the womb, telling his mother seconds after breathing his first breaths releasing his first words...... “MIATA”.
From there he ascended into the lords of the car enthusiasts and struck power down upon the sinner tiktok sadboys with the stanced BRZs stickerbombed harder than me when I hear two stepping.
Alex is the lord and savior
🤣🤣🤣
Mans spitting gospel
Facts Alex is goat
@@Scarless42 i felt very in touch yesterday....
I just like cars, I dont care if you're building a twin turbo c8 or just straight piping your corolla. Cars are just cool and I just want to talk/work on them.
I feel like a car enthusiast is someone that loves cars and associates with them more than the normal person.
I work on them in a shop so I must be a real car enthusiest
Being a “car enthusiast” has taught me a valuable lesson; Things don’t always go your way.
Being a car enthusiast is being open to everyone’s build. I can’t stand cambered out cars but respect the build. If we all liked the same thing the car scene would be boring
@@aidenyuri6424 Disagree with that. You don't have to like it, you are allowed to have an opinion on what is ugly and what isn't. Just keep it to yourself, because at the end of the day your opinion probably doesn't matter to that person.
This video is perfect for me, I wanna learn about cars but don’t know where to start😭
we all start somewhere 🙏🏽
It helps if you’ve got friends with the same interest
Start with a car that you want, not that someone else wants. Don't just build a BRZ cause everyone else is, build whatever you want
How i started was by watching a Drifting DVD staring Keiichi Tsuchiya, id suggest just looking up different kinds of sports cars (Exotic, Muscle, JDM, Hypercars, Supercars, Vintage and etc.)
I'm in the same boat. Who gives a shit man. We gotta learn at some point.
I love how it went from "check out our growing gallery" to "check out our MASSIVE gallery"
That's all you guys! Y'all are awesome
@@FitmentIndustries no u
me: knowing every car name on the road
me 2 minutes later I am a CAR ENTHUSIAST
Finally, someone that speaks out about toxicity in car community. Thank you
The Top Five for new car enthusiasts:
1.) Any car can look cool if built right. If you like the base car, don't worry about it looking cool immediately.
2.) Building a car takes A LOT OF TIME, I've been building my 2000 Impreza for over a year now and I'm probably not even half done.
3.) Never make fun of or clown a build, even if you think it looks dumb.
4.) For most people, HP and torque simply don't matter.
5.) Wheels, tint, and wrap changes the entire look of the vehicle, if you're going for cosmetics, those should be your big ones.
driving experience > power and speed
Honestly, I was always into cars but mainly just as a casual looking at them from a far. Since quarantined happened and I got money saved up I bought my Datsun and man it's been so much fun and especially working with friends and new people who have that passion for the car and can teach you a ton of things if you're willing to learn.
this upload was timed perfectly for me, thanks fellas
🤝
This video made me question whether or not I’m a car enthusiast for a second lmao.
I realized that studying mechanics and working as a technician doesn’t make you a technician but it’s not always about just working as a technician. I enjoy fixing cars just as much I love drifting off-ramps. I thought my thing was grip racing, and I was damn good at it, when I was younger I dominated karting and sims and when I got my first car first thing I wanted to do was go to the track and set the track record, got pretty close to it But in one of those instances I changed cars, I first had an 02 S60 T5 manual and I had bought an 86 Corolla SR5, i wanted to see how the car felt and test its limits, I came in a little to quick for those tiny ass brakes and I slightly braked to aggressively and I lost the rear end while trail braking and in that moment I felt a euphoria. That’s when I realized that I wanted to drift. So I ditched grip racing and autox for drifting and I found my new passion. Am I les sod a car enthusiast now because I ditched one drive I got discipline for another? No. The true answer to this question lies in words them selves. Are you *enthusiastic* about *cars*?
If yes then you are
If not then you’re not
To be a car enthusiast you don’t have to enjoy driving and enjoy working on cars. It could be one or the other.
You can be a driver, mechanic, technician, designer, engineer etc. and as long as you enjoy doing it you are a car enthusiast.
Oh and being a driving enthusiast ≠ to being a car enthusiast.
To me being a car enthusiast means to learn about the cars that you come across and to respect those who put in time and money to design and build the machine that represents them (even if it is not to your taste). I gain my knowledge of cars and their history through many means, like the internet or talking to other enthusiasts.
Costco Microfiber towels. I’ve got so many that they make their own loads of laundry.
Felt that!
Same lol
Same lol
Same haha. Full laundry hamper of them, never know what'll happen
Do they survive the wash OK? I break my rags down into stages.. wax polish, spot clean, wheels then garbage. Never tried washing them for fear of scratching my wafer thin Honda paint.
Shoutout to my fellow new car enthusiasts. It took me till I was 21 to understand why people were so enthusiasts about them. I'm loving the experience so far.
Love your channel. Every single video is perfect. Thank you for using your social influence to make this all better for all of us. 👏👏👏
I've been waiting for this one.... I didn't realize I would be getting into cars this much, but your videos always get me hyped that I started in the first place.
Be ready to spend more money than anticipated and be ready for things not to work always haha
So true Alex, I thought I was gonna like drags and drifting, but vip and stance has my heart
I just bought my first car recently, a '04 Saab 9-5 Manual transmission. I'm not a car guy, never really was, but this car, I fell in love, and I want to learn as much as I can about cars, and take as great of care of this car as I can. That's why I'm here now, watching car videos for the first time.
I want this car to last as long as possible and in good conditionfor years to come... maybe its not realistic because I don't have the knowledge, the tools, or the money to do so... But that's the dream, isn't it?
I’m always looking for help or inspiration with the car industry and this was awesome
There’s 1 step to being a car enthusiast and that’s just loving cars. You don’t have to wrench on them, own the best one, be the best driver, hell you don’t even need to know how to drive tbh
Exotic cars got me into cars, then I started learning more of them and found that’s my passion, I still don’t own a car but soon I will and will start building it little by little
I have never clicked so fast in my entire time of being on this very earth. Thank you for these videos
Wow you just spoke directly to me. In high school I liked to work on cars so I went to UTI then realized how different it was to being an enthusiast and being a mechanic. $20k later and I chose the enthusiast route
Not a mechanic anymore?
@@PossiblyAzrael only as side work and on my own vehicles. I transitioned to commercial building maintenance and repair for work. It's uses pretty much the same skills. Turning wrenches is turning wrenches. Now I'm not so burned out on working on cars so I actually look forward to wrenching on mine
@@jacoblittle3209 now that’s respectable. I’ll get back to you in half a decade when I have my own toolkit
@@jacoblittle3209do you think having that knowledge from schooling helps or do you think you would’ve been the same just getting your information as you worked?
@@fentanylinmyblunt oh, it definitely helped. Just learning the steps to take when diagnosing issues helps in many different fields. And a car has many different systems in it that having knowledge of helps in many other fields. Air conditioning, fluid flow and pressure, electrical, vacuum, etc. I am now a commercial building maintenance supervisor and having the knowledge of automotive mechanics definitely gave me an advantage over not having that experience. $20k worth advantage? Who knows? I can imagine I would have gotten just as much useful knowledge from a good community College instructor
i love the car culture and want to track some day even though i don't know much. bought everything to work on my car where i can, spend hours doing research and trying to learn little by little, but sometimes it's intimidating asking for advice cause there are a lot of a-holes out there. fortunately there are some friendly people at the car meets that don't judge too much.
Top gear, intial D, and working on 99 Jeep Cherokee's with my dad and for fun going out when your little with the owner manual and following the mid pipe and learning the names of the parts. That's what molded me to like cars. My first car might end up being a 2013 Hyundai Elyantra GLS. Not fast, but could still be fun with an Intake, Muffler, wheels tires suspension. Love the cars for what it can offer you not what it doesn't. (Those Yaris Grs' are sick.)
I spend more money on 10mm sockets, then my car lol
I felt that on a spiritual level
Me knowing not that much about cars, applies to mechanics class for college. No but seriously I grew up watching and helping my dad work on his cars and i felt so satisfied fixing or replacing something successfully and I love cars and I wanna be a mechanic
Eyyyyy I made the video🤘 I love a builds and respect everyone's passion. You never know how much you can influence someone good or bad in the car scene or life in general 🤘
I hate how you just spoke to my soul. I worked on cars professionally for 10 years and finally gave it up to go back to loving cars like I once did.
My si was very very reliable when I bought, then I lowered it, then I bought i/h/e n hondata, then tuned it. Then bought some cosmis xt206r's 17x8 +30 from you guys, then dropped a CHUNK of cheese on a rrc im j37 tb big ass skunk2 stage 2 cams and matching valve train, now I rub everywhere I go, my car shakes cuz I have solid motor mounts and an a2 oil pump, but I love my now unreliable money pit of a honda, it makes me so much more happier than anything to drive it those 2 days a week, 6 months out of the year that I get to.
I love my bad financial decision !!!
ay another nice vid guys! love this kind of topic! vid idea: eg hatch
“And for the love of god it’s wheels” 😂💀
I see you freshkicks and if your car isn't ready for show season, heads up your late ( again ) , it's popping already . seasons open lets go
I'm really quite surprised they didn't film something like this a few years ago 🙏🙏
It’s been a week since i really wanted to be a car enthusiast, I’m 15 years old. i had a car edit on my fyp, i liked it a LOT so i liked the video, since that i got lots of car edits and now i want to get into cars but I don’t really know where to start, but I’m lucky to have a best friend that’s also interested in cars 😭
Maaaaan I am still mad
I got addicted to preludes. It's a subpar platform and I love it like no other.
Can you guys please do the truth about Veilside or something about them. I think that would be dope
It’d be extremely helpful to me if I knew people who had some more knowledge about modifying cars than i do about modifying cars in my local area.
black ops references top notch. editing top notch. Love it
The perfect soundtrack to my morning dump. Thank you Fitment Industries :) 🦅♥️👍🏾
😂🙏🏼
Man everyone gets they first car from they parent what luck😂. Had to buy my first 2 starting at 19😂
@@jeremiahpinto1041 lucky you guys, had to save up for my car and was able to buy it at 27 LOL
We need more videos about it, great video
Interesting video. It's a lot fun to be a car enthusiast but it takes a massive lot of time and money to make it worthy.
1. starting to get knowledge about cars
2. having a favorite movie/show about cars
3. liking a certain car
4. buying your favorite car
5. regretting that you became a car enthusiast because it's expensive
6. fck this shit I'll just drive my car
7. this wheels looks cool I should buy it
8. falls to an endless moneypit
I was driving Bmw e90 for six years and it was just good daily to bring me from a to b. Half year ago i had accident with a boar and i have to repair left front(headlights, bumper etc.) and that when i started becoming car enthusiasts. E90 is standing 4 months now becouse all the time something(almost nothing left stock) is to do but im almost done with outside and interior so my project will drive soon 😊
dang a scotty droop!! good job guys
Did my first oil change yesterday. Excited to start this journey
You got this!
I felt inspired thank you 😊🙏
It's funny most all my life a car was just away to get around didn't care what the car was or how it looked ..and then I baught an 08 E63 AMG and now I'm obsessed
The 5 people who didn’t like this video are all named “Sean”
ouch
Ever since I was little I've loved cars. I used to draw them, read every car magazine I could get my little hands on, and watch any car show I could. Even as a teenager, getting my license and having a car was something I dreamed of and couldn't wait for. Now at 28, I have my license and a car, read all the articles on Super Street, Hot Rod, Truckin' Magazine, and Speedhunters, fawn over car videos online and love the sound of engines but even through all that, I still feel like I'm not a real car guy because I don't have a project car and can't afford one, and honestly can barely afford to keep my Tucson on the road. I feel like a poser in this scene because I don't have a project car to wrench on and don't even have any tools or somewhere to work on a car. I love cars more than anything but it honestly, feels like I'll never be a real car guy because I don't know if I'll ever be able to get a project car, garage or tools. It's a bummer, man.
This video was very helpful 💯
And that's what it's really all about @ 9:30. I do agree!
Do guys should do a video on what car color and wheel color combo goes together very good.
Love it!
"Sometimes you don't really know Something until you break it yourself" ~ felt that. Trying to fix it all now... send help 😅😅
I won't lie - I like quirky and different cars. It may not be fast, but if it looks interesting and tasteful, then I don’t mind it at all.
BattleCars with huge-ass off-roading tires? Yup! JDM/KDM Ricers? Sure! Itasha cars? Fellow weeb here checking in! Donks? Sure, I guess. Kia Soul owners? I had one - not gonna lie, I kind of miss my Kia Soul after I ended up trading it in. Might get another some day. My neighbor has a 2021 Soul, and I really dig it.
Point is that enthusiasts come in different shapes and sizes. Some like it fast and furious while others like it slow and low.
Me? I like cars that are simply and aesthetically built to look different or out of place, but still functional. In some ways, I see the car as a canvas and the builder paints that canvas with whatever mods that might look interesting, whether it’s a performance mod or a cosmetic mod. Hell, a passerby might post it on /r/Shitty_Car_Mods/ but as long I’m happy with how the build is turning out, then I really don’t care what the critics say about my ride.
Now if stuff falls apart while on the highway… well, I that’s a different story. Lost count of the number times I swerved around a random car part on the highway.
Hey! I used to own a kia soul too! Its nice to know I'm not the only enthusiast with one. Mine was a base 6 spd manual, sometimes I used to take the top of the air box off and go for little drives. The vvt sounds pretty sick without air box on lol
Love the Black Ops reference 🤣 brings back good memories 🥲
The Black Ops reference is GOLDEN!!!!
Its just so expensive man 😭
Very very expensive
@@DzusINC very very very expensive
@@car-enthusiast3141 very very very very expensive
@@pretzelmonkey3 very very very very very expensive.
We feel your pain fam 🥲
I'd still say the ONE thing we should require with cars is driving manual. If you can't drive manual, you lose out on enjoying most enthusiast level cars. That's a required skill tbh and whether you continue to drive manual or not is one issue, but you should know how to at least.
i get where you're coming from but i gotta disagree, as not all car people are into the same stuff that most people in the online car culture are, imo you still still be a car person and not give a shit about the manual
@Talking_Ben_ the point is you should KNOW how to do it regardless if you like it or not. It's a basic driving skill and as car enthusiasts we gotta know that much
Wish I could find like Idk a car guru mentor to guide me on my path of mastering the 4 elements as the avatar wheels, exhaust, tune, and suspension
Fresh kiicks in the intro 🔥
Hahaha love the black ops reference took me back to the good days
Please make a video about the RPM Act
A *car enthusiast* is a person who is *enthusiastic about the automobile* in general!
Everyone has their preferences:
Is it japanese, german, italian, US american, ... kind of cars
OR
a specific brand(s)
OR
car style.
*Either way, at the end of the day that person still has an appreciation for other type of cars, doesn't matter the nationality, brand or style!*
Only ppl i dont consider enthusiasts are those who dont work on their cars, im glad Alex started with getting the tools of the trade
Can We get the Forbidden
“So you want, (to be) Up to speed”
Fitment x Donut Collab????
"you can modify anything" - welllllll
My goal is just to be a better mechanic; decided I love cars but the ones I love the most (might) need help to be (or stay) their best. I regret not getting into the hobby when I was younger because my dad tried, but with the family cars it was always repair, never much fun. And who wants to stand around outside in stale 95+ degree heat when I had my first Pentium?
You're not wrong with what you're saying.. Sad thing is I been to a couple meets recently and the way the game has changed as well as me aging is it seems like it's going to the kids.. But one thing that's true is I love cars regardless what age I am.. Never let anybody or anything get to you because there's always another way and you can find it, ask for help, look on groups or forums, change up your car or anything.. Good topic though, keep up the good work guys! :D
I literally just lost my damn 10mm socket 30 seconds after your comment on 10mm sockets. You jinxed me, I'm blaming you!! Lmao
All I gotta say is if you go to Takeovers or support them you’re not a car enthusiast 🤷♂️ you wouldn’t want to ruin something you like/love
The Black ops edit made me sub
At the end of the day, if you love what you drive then nothing else matters.
I wanna learn about cars. I find them pretty and very interesting but I know nothing about them except the brands. That's why I started my research, hopefully I'll get the basics and then continue to learn!
how's it going
@@-forg Pretty good, I've definitely learned a lot more and still going. thanks for asking!
I love being a car enthusiast
It’s expensive to be my username...😏. So thank you for being me.
So you want a lotus exige s. Day 165
What car parts did everyone buy with their stimmy? I got some dope new wheels/tires.
@@howieewalt1322 I don’t get one :(
Car enthusiasts are people who like to people love cars and personalise it and make it unique...
Best advice ever: build your car 4 you, not everyone else.
can you do a video of the best manual/v8 car to collect? Looking 20 years into the future, a manual car that is the best to garage, easy to work on myself, semi-reliable. I was thinking of the final v8 manuals, like blackwing, chevy ss, mustang.... but I started wondering which one would be the best to keep running for the next 20 years. No electrical gremlins, or hard to find parts. Thinking terminator mustangs, or WS6 TA.... GTO? Even ford lightnings. I am just wondering what manual v8 would age the best.
IK this sounds like a bizarre scenario but hear me out: I've been into cars even before I started playing video games (I was 5-6 years old when I started), but I've always been a "visionary" because I never had the skills IRL to be a proper mechanic.
Once I got my coilovers on imma send in a photo of my car
I went to Mustang week in a slammed Miata and you would be surprised at all the hate I didn't get. No one talked smack about my low HP (which is changing very soon) or the fact that its a "girls car" they saw a slammed Miata with a duck bill spoiler and a hard top and was super happy to see it. just like I was happy to see some mustangs on bags.
“And for the love of god... it’s WHEELS” 😂 I loved that.
never clicked this fast in my life
Make a video about refurbishing old rims.👍 Cuz I don't have money new ones 😭
Do a e36 or e46 !!!
Trying to save a car, that everyone would send to the scrapyad
Alex, I have a question. If the rubber part is a tyre, and the metal part is a wheel, what's it called when it's put together?
The metal part you’re referring to is called a rim lol. Both of them together are called wheels
It's hard to be a car enthusiast in a country with 180% taxation over MSRP on cars and most parts, and legal issue on performance modding cars, so it's just a window tint and some nice wheels and tires for my econobox, for me being a car enthusiast is doing what you can, within your means and enjoying your car.
Look. If u wanna do either or ur a car enthusiast A break tractions on purpose while going around corners or hope not to breack traction when going around corncers to fast