I grew up in the U.P. of Michigan. Great roads, but don't know about doing their style of road trip during the winter! I've helped push many a car back onto the road in the winter. 😂
I truly feel that you should also show the "returning back" part of your trip, even if its just compressed into one 20 minutes episode. You'll have to drive your cars all the way back to your home where a lot could happen which ofcourse we'd love to see. Hope we'll get to see that in your next road trip.
When I bought my RX8, I was scared of taking the car on long road trips, mainly due to the bad reputation the car has garnered online... What do you know... 11,000 miles and three years later, this car has never let me down! And the last two summers, I took it across the channel to Europe on a 5 and 7 days road trip! Nice comfy cruiser, fun and agile and... Way more reliable than people give it credit for.
At not even 4k miles a year I can’t say I’m surprised you haven’t encountered any issues yet. I mean shit since I got my company vehicle (old Chevy express work van haha) I’ve put almost 20k on it in the span of 9 months. Already put 8k on my ISF since I bought it last February and I haven’t driven it the past 3 months because of winter. Glad it’s treated you well, but with how little you drive it I guess it’s just not crazy impressive that it’s managed to be problem free. Maybe for a rotary it is I guess 🙃
I'd add the car has done a 1000 miles road trip in 5 days and an 1100 miles road trip in 7 days. Each time in the middle of a heat wave. Each time on bad European roads. No issues. Original engine, oroginal cat, 63,000 miles.
The problem is certain cars are very tolerant of neglect and it sets an unrealistic expectation for everything else. Boring commuter stuff should be absolutely reliable but you can’t expect that with performance cars.
11 previous owners of the Eclipse😮. Like you said most likely each one of them probably make it as fast as possible the cheapest way. The fact is survived 11 of those type of owners...that Eclipse won before the road trip started. Great video series!😎👍
Greta episode! Being a DSM guy, I appreciate giving one some air time. They’re great cars. They’re not Hondas, they do require attention. But that’s part of what makes them so endearing. You actually have to be involved with owning them. Looking forward to see what comes next!
i have a 98 eclipse gst and i feel that, its my first car and i've worked on it so much already. i get so much satisfaction though when everythings done and i'm driving it.
They don't use salt in Colorado ben's! Its mag chloride. Cool to see you guys travel right through our state during winter and experience all the joys of it. The carmax visit was hilarious, 14 owners, WOW! 🤣
When I first bought a RX8, I basically dailed it all winter in MN. I drove it through several blizzards. It's saving grace is the rear lsd. The chassis and suspension is competent being Mazda. The only downside is the very low ride height. One 90 mile trip down an interstate, I was racing a blizzard, started at the beginning of the snow fall, was playing snow plow by the end of the trip and barely made it. I quite literally passed 300 cars on that trip because the whole trip was a time constraint. It did great right up to the point where I had to start pushing snow. You can't beat physics.
Great video series guys! Thank you. Now, as a fellow long-time RX8 R3 owner: Replace that collapsed cat (that killed your gas mileage and zaps power) or fit a decat, put the original air intake back in (that CAI is loosing you power and not cooling the engine bay while also hurting your mpg), put the proper Mazda coolant expansion tank back in (that aftermarket one is leaking). Some of the 'rotary downsides' you listed are just general bad mods and maintenance. The radiator you fitted runs hotter that the Mazda one too, I've got the same one. Works fine, just worse. Mazda knew what they were doing. Oh and no need to premix the R3 unless you're on track, save those precious dollars ;-)
We don’t salt roads in CO we use sand ❤ Well correction most places don’t use salt you will see used in differing combinations include sand, a sand/salt mixture, and various liquid anti-icers and de-icers.
I wish we could figure this out in the Midwest. The salt just destroys everything. I wouldn’t need a winter beater truck if we used sand but I refuse to let my dream truck get rusty.
A lot of underappreciated road trip and racing videos are uploaded to this TH-cam channel. The way they film it and dedicate effort to creating more entertaining difficulties and dramatic street breakdowns. Millions of views are due to them instead of thousands. I enjoy watching this channel.
This is the highlight of my week it gives me motivation and it's really inspirational! The quality is better than TV and it's just insane how the storytelling is. I really wanna get to this quality some day! Ben your editing is insane!!
We do need more roadtrip videos,at this point it doesn't even matter what cars you guys are taking the entertainment is epic! It's so cool to see the sites and get to see alot of the country. Thank you for always producing flawless content and introducing more people to cars that they might not ever enjoy,that in itself is an achievement of epic proportion! As always please keep em coming! I♥️G&G
DSM's are really not bad cars. I've own a GSX for over 12 years and it's been nothing but good to me, especially as a daily. Sadly living in Minnesota this car has rotted away with rust. I just bought another GSX from out of state with no rust and rebuilt it the way I like it, because it was just a bare shell. It is still not done but is drivable. I've also have never driven as far as they have so I would never know and I don't think I would ever want too because of the value of the DSMs now. IDK that's just me tho. As much as I would want an EVO, DSM will always be in my heart. DSMs definitely require a shit ton of attention if you do decide to modify them. Which makes them less "reliable," but in the end it comes back to the mechanical failures and I know I've had my moments.
Great series, and great summary of looking at the owner first. I've had my RX8 for almost 21 years. Been bullet proof with no issues. plenty of track days etc. As an aside, still not fantastic but on the trip from Nova Scotia to Deals Gap for the Rotary Rally I averaged 23mpg with AC on, my wife and our luggage for a week in the car.
I had a 240SX SE back in 99 and 2000 and I lived in the Appalachian mountains and that thing surprised me in the snow. Between these two cars I’d way more prefer the DSM. Even though it’s not been well built, if I had it I would fix every big issue I could find. Even all that interior rust. Yeah it wouldn’t be cheap to do, but can you imagine how awesome it would be to own a well built DSM today?
I have a 2004 Rx-8 that has done several cross country road trips very similar to this. Zero issues, great car on a road trip, except for the fuel economy. Also, pro tip from an owner of 8 years, you WANT the car to burn oil. If it doesn't, you've got problems.
Would love to see a coast to coast with custom built compact trucks like rangers, tacomas, frontiers, etc. Would be epic to see you guys go through more crazy terrain.
I love all your content, especially these road trips series! I hope you like to hear this, my wife who isn't really into car shows loves these series as well, she loves how you guy's are genuine car guy's and the video is genuinely a car guy trips. She said she hates Grand Tour/Top Gear Adventure eps because it's all about bagging each other out and not about the cars or the love of the drive.
Loved this series, I've owned an R3 RX-8 for the past 10 years (second car) and it's cost me pretty much nothing (brake pads/discs, oil, fuel, cheap servicing).
Seriously one of my favorite shows on TH-cam. Another trip in the bag. Really enjoyed following this one. It would be cool to see some trips with off-road cars and take them to their limits.
Man America is so beautiful, watching the scenery through a video is breathtakingly spectacular! I cant even begin to imagine how awesome it'd be to see it all in real life
I grew up loving both of these cars as a 90s baby and I gotta say... they both still have such a soft spot in my heart even after seeing the nightmare example that is this GSX haha. Great road trip, very inspiring, and thank you AutoTempest for helping the boys create some banger content 👌
"Don't blame the manufacturer for your reliability issues" Couldn't agree more. I see lots of Scotty Kilmer types holding the opinion that only Toyota's are reliable. In reality, Toyota's are the most reliable vehicles if you plan on never servicing your vehicle. If you service your vehicle properly, you can have pretty much flawless reliability out of almost any manufacturer.
Yep 1 previous owner 2011 Dodge ram 1500 with minimal rust and 200k original motor and serviced at all recommended mileages I bought it at 180k and I did a regular servicing, and put milestar Patagonia X/T's on the stock rims. Hasn't let me down yet except for the typical 5.7 exhaust tic because a manifold bolt snapped, planning to replace with short headers and Flowmaster Outlaw series with tucked under exhaust exit for better over landing clearance.
if its tuned properly it should be able to adjust for barometric pressure changes, I tuned my daily driver myself with a maxxecu on speed density, and since I change elevation a lot I made sure I set that up, its awesome stuff.
As someone who lives in Colorado and has been to Moab dozens of times, this series was really cool for me personally. I think a similar trip but in Europe would be super cool too
I gotta say I love the fact y'all don't hop in with a loud fake vibe every video even in background tracks y'all just maintain chill vibes humor on point too these Bois don't miss
This series is more of a reason why I respect both these vehicles. I am a DSM hie hard fan, but owning a RX8 once before is a feeling you can't ignore.
From Col. Springs. i70 is already questionable road without snow, I'm damn well surprised that the RX8 was able to move around let alone drive! Glad you guys are safe and didn't get texas driver'd!
Starting your car and setting off all the car alarms in the underground parking garage, I had the same problem with my Mk 4 golf VR5 with the stock exhaust...
RWD and FWD works just fine in the snow, with as you learn, PROPER snow tires... FWD benefit a bit more having ... generally anyway an engine over the front axle, the driivng one, I bet a Porsche 911 is excellent in the snow even if its rear wheel drive only! :) ...with proper tires. Probably why they are popular cars to have on ice tracks and make good rally cars too!
Tall Ben selling tools, clothes and even trying to sell his car... Got me in tears. Good way of bringing something new to these roadtrip videos. Loved it lol. Good comedy.
I owned an RX-8 for a few years before a deer jumped off a bridge straight onto my windshield… but it did me very well through the Canadian winter, always started up even in -32 Celsius and I drove through some pretty rough conditions without any real issues. Great car.
Makes me happier I got my RX-8 last year. Now I just gotta get a new clutch in the dang thing so I can hit the streets!..Great series by the way, really enjoyed it.
There's a possibilty to score fairly good deals at pawn shops. I desperately needed a guitar amp 8pm on sunday, and found that my local pawn shop was selling one for $70. Same models online were like $130, so i'm quite happy. Also that Carmax offer of 500 seems about right considering the looks and how well it functions.
People don’t realize how good eclipses actually are to drive u just fall in love with them, if u get your hands on a WELL maintained one you’ll wanna keep it, idk what it is they just feel right
I’m excited, I’m roadtripping to Colorado this spring from Nevada, taking the same roads from the end of this video. And in August I’m going coast to coast and back, and it’s the trips GnG take that really cement the idea of driving (which I love to do) instead of flying.
Why is no one talking about that Colorado doesn’t actually salt their roads, they use magnesium chloride instead of sodium chloride due to large wild game which come out a start to lick salt off the roads which was causing too many fatalities due to hitting moose and elk coming out on the road. Colorado has some of the cleanest non rusty cars in the country
About the Eclipse, I'm running speed density on ECMLink as well and I kept the narrow band sensor in simulation mode and my car runs fine no matter the altitude since it compensates for when the ECU is in closed loop, so Cruise, Part throttle and Idle.
aand the episode we've all been waiting for, I just gotta be very lucky again to have this after waking up, literal minutes. Can't wait for another videos!!
Wait, speed density does compensate for manifold absolute pressure, which is what changes when you go up in altitude.... It may not be tuned well to run at lower loads at those pressures, but it definitely does compensate for temperature and manifold pressure...
Id kove to see yall do a Gbody road trip. $2500 car budget and 3k upgrades then road trip to Beverley Hills and park them at "fancy" hotels and restaurants and see peoples reactions
Y’all really gotta include Arizona in one of these trips. We have some of the best driving roads in the country. SR89 Prescott and 89a Prescott all the way through the red rocks of Sedona, to the pine trees and huge 12000ft mountains of Flagstaff, SR88, Mt Lemmon, the road that drives along side the Grand Canyon, Roosevelt Lake, the list goes on. Would be well worth throwing at least one of these roads into the next road trip.
I used auto tempest to find out the rarity and value of my 2013 Nissan Frontier 6 speed 4wd King cab. There are maybe 6 for sale in the entire USA, and most code 2X or more what I’ll have into mine once it is fixed. Excellent tool.
Yo!!! Corolla is an FR. Houston had 240 accidents when we had a snowstorm this January and my 2020 Corolla drove through the ice/sleet without any problems!!
They should do a Great Lakes tour. The Keeweenaw has some fun roads, especially at Copper Harbor
Hell yeah, a Great Lakes tour would be great for summer/fall
up north on lake superior would be amazing in the winter
I live in Michigan and can confirm. That would be awesome. The tunnel of trees in the fall is awsome. I took my STI up there in the fall. Great drive.
Visited that area alot in my ol DA. Those roads were a blast
I grew up in the U.P. of Michigan. Great roads, but don't know about doing their style of road trip during the winter! I've helped push many a car back onto the road in the winter. 😂
I truly feel that you should also show the "returning back" part of your trip, even if its just compressed into one 20 minutes episode.
You'll have to drive your cars all the way back to your home where a lot could happen which ofcourse we'd love to see.
Hope we'll get to see that in your next road trip.
When I bought my RX8, I was scared of taking the car on long road trips, mainly due to the bad reputation the car has garnered online... What do you know... 11,000 miles and three years later, this car has never let me down! And the last two summers, I took it across the channel to Europe on a 5 and 7 days road trip! Nice comfy cruiser, fun and agile and... Way more reliable than people give it credit for.
Close to me there is a guy who has an rx8 (has a waifu wrap). He still is going strong although he took down a traffic light a few months ago
Sorry but 11k in 3 years is nothing to brag about. My 96 toyota has done 10k in the last 6 months since I bought it with nothing but an oil change.
At not even 4k miles a year I can’t say I’m surprised you haven’t encountered any issues yet. I mean shit since I got my company vehicle (old Chevy express work van haha) I’ve put almost 20k on it in the span of 9 months. Already put 8k on my ISF since I bought it last February and I haven’t driven it the past 3 months because of winter. Glad it’s treated you well, but with how little you drive it I guess it’s just not crazy impressive that it’s managed to be problem free. Maybe for a rotary it is I guess 🙃
I'd add the car has done a 1000 miles road trip in 5 days and an 1100 miles road trip in 7 days. Each time in the middle of a heat wave. Each time on bad European roads. No issues. Original engine, oroginal cat, 63,000 miles.
11k in 3 years?! 😂😂😂
_"Take care of your car, and don't blame the mfgr for reliability problems."_
As an owner of an older BMW, I felt that.
The problem is certain cars are very tolerant of neglect and it sets an unrealistic expectation for everything else. Boring commuter stuff should be absolutely reliable but you can’t expect that with performance cars.
Lol most definitely as a e46 and e60 owner😂
Except, blame E fking Lon, giggity giggity goo
Part of the Subaru community. Definitely feeling that. EJ205 still going strong.
Good
SATURDAY MORNING GANG
Wsp gang
Night time in my country 🤣
Here since the last 4 hours
gang gang
Good morning. Brap brap.
As someone from outside the USA, I've hugely enjoyed this roadtrip. Especially the drone shots of Vail. Thank you. Your country is stunning.
11 previous owners of the Eclipse😮. Like you said most likely each one of them probably make it as fast as possible the cheapest way.
The fact is survived 11 of those type of owners...that Eclipse won before the road trip started.
Great video series!😎👍
Rolled off the line a born trooper 😂
Greta episode! Being a DSM guy, I appreciate giving one some air time. They’re great cars. They’re not Hondas, they do require attention. But that’s part of what makes them so endearing. You actually have to be involved with owning them. Looking forward to see what comes next!
i have a 98 eclipse gst and i feel that, its my first car and i've worked on it so much already. i get so much satisfaction though when everythings done and i'm driving it.
yall are like the new TOP GEAR , cant get enough of these!!!
They don't use salt in Colorado ben's! Its mag chloride. Cool to see you guys travel right through our state during winter and experience all the joys of it. The carmax visit was hilarious, 14 owners, WOW! 🤣
@doctorunicorn5550 well colorado vs east coast cars disagree.
did Ben really sold the car btw? i got confused at that part, and my english is not that good
Magnesium chloride is a salt
The Mazda looks sick with the snow spray on it!!
it's making me want to take my NC miata up the mountain with some snow tires haha
When I first bought a RX8, I basically dailed it all winter in MN. I drove it through several blizzards. It's saving grace is the rear lsd. The chassis and suspension is competent being Mazda. The only downside is the very low ride height. One 90 mile trip down an interstate, I was racing a blizzard, started at the beginning of the snow fall, was playing snow plow by the end of the trip and barely made it. I quite literally passed 300 cars on that trip because the whole trip was a time constraint. It did great right up to the point where I had to start pushing snow. You can't beat physics.
8:19 hearin a car alarm at 7am is a great way to start the day 😂
Great video series guys! Thank you. Now, as a fellow long-time RX8 R3 owner: Replace that collapsed cat (that killed your gas mileage and zaps power) or fit a decat, put the original air intake back in (that CAI is loosing you power and not cooling the engine bay while also hurting your mpg), put the proper Mazda coolant expansion tank back in (that aftermarket one is leaking). Some of the 'rotary downsides' you listed are just general bad mods and maintenance. The radiator you fitted runs hotter that the Mazda one too, I've got the same one. Works fine, just worse. Mazda knew what they were doing. Oh and no need to premix the R3 unless you're on track, save those precious dollars ;-)
These road trips are my favorite thing about the channel I love traveling
We don’t salt roads in CO we use sand ❤
Well correction most places don’t use salt you will see used in differing combinations include sand, a sand/salt mixture, and various liquid anti-icers and de-icers.
I wish we could figure this out in the Midwest. The salt just destroys everything. I wouldn’t need a winter beater truck if we used sand but I refuse to let my dream truck get rusty.
@@tylersmith7054salt is mined in the Midwest so it’s cheap
These road trips are my favorite thing about the channel !
I just love these road trips they are stunning to watch, well produced and well fun. Thanks for this!
A lot of underappreciated road trip and racing videos are uploaded to this TH-cam channel. The way they film it and dedicate effort to creating more entertaining difficulties and dramatic street breakdowns. Millions of views are due to them instead of thousands. I enjoy watching this channel.
This is the highlight of my week it gives me motivation and it's really inspirational! The quality is better than TV and it's just insane how the storytelling is. I really wanna get to this quality some day! Ben your editing is insane!!
We do need more roadtrip videos,at this point it doesn't even matter what cars you guys are taking the entertainment is epic! It's so cool to see the sites and get to see alot of the country. Thank you for always producing flawless content and introducing more people to cars that they might not ever enjoy,that in itself is an achievement of epic proportion! As always please keep em coming! I♥️G&G
DSM's are really not bad cars. I've own a GSX for over 12 years and it's been nothing but good to me, especially as a daily. Sadly living in Minnesota this car has rotted away with rust. I just bought another GSX from out of state with no rust and rebuilt it the way I like it, because it was just a bare shell. It is still not done but is drivable. I've also have never driven as far as they have so I would never know and I don't think I would ever want too because of the value of the DSMs now. IDK that's just me tho. As much as I would want an EVO, DSM will always be in my heart. DSMs definitely require a shit ton of attention if you do decide to modify them. Which makes them less "reliable," but in the end it comes back to the mechanical failures and I know I've had my moments.
Great series, and great summary of looking at the owner first. I've had my RX8 for almost 21 years. Been bullet proof with no issues. plenty of track days etc. As an aside, still not fantastic but on the trip from Nova Scotia to Deals Gap for the Rotary Rally I averaged 23mpg with AC on, my wife and our luggage for a week in the car.
2 years ago i purchased an RX8 from NS and drove it back to manitoba, it was a lovely trip
I had a 240SX SE back in 99 and 2000 and I lived in the Appalachian mountains and that thing surprised me in the snow. Between these two cars I’d way more prefer the DSM. Even though it’s not been well built, if I had it I would fix every big issue I could find. Even all that interior rust. Yeah it wouldn’t be cheap to do, but can you imagine how awesome it would be to own a well built DSM today?
I have a 2004 Rx-8 that has done several cross country road trips very similar to this. Zero issues, great car on a road trip, except for the fuel economy.
Also, pro tip from an owner of 8 years, you WANT the car to burn oil. If it doesn't, you've got problems.
Saturday morning kid nostalgia
My favorite weekend routine is get up and watch Gears and Gasoline. As always great job guys!
This series was put together beautifully! Great job guys.
Petition for them to do a road trip from Maine to Baja California and drop a 5 episode series.
I grew up in Colorado, and seeing yall drive the roads that I grew up driving on was amazing. Wish I could’ve been there to see it
Same
Thank you guys for another great road trip episode and thank goodness everyone is safe and healthy.
These roadtrips are the best content on the tube for sure. hands downnnnn
Awesome video as always Ben T and Ben L. Y'all's road trips are so insane.
Would love to see a coast to coast with custom built compact trucks like rangers, tacomas, frontiers, etc. Would be epic to see you guys go through more crazy terrain.
Sorta like MCM with the jimmy and kei truck
With the Ben’s it’s probably just as good content just waiting to be made.
@@jorgeantonini201I’ll have to check out that video! Haven’t seen MCM for a good while now.
You inspire me so much to buy a car and travel all over. I love your videos and bless up to all of the crew
I second the motion,
All those in favor say AYE
18 seconds man the timings was prime
Unlike Ben's motor lol
That Mazda RX8 looks great and is underappreciated.
I love all your content, especially these road trips series!
I hope you like to hear this, my wife who isn't really into car shows loves these series as well, she loves how you guy's are genuine car guy's and the video is genuinely a car guy trips. She said she hates Grand Tour/Top Gear Adventure eps because it's all about bagging each other out and not about the cars or the love of the drive.
6:19 please always bring a fire extinguisher on your road trips. the acura tsx and mitsubishi eclipse could have been bombs 😂
alternate title: ben lin gets bullied for 21 minutes straight
Love these road trip videos, keep doing them!
Loved this series, I've owned an R3 RX-8 for the past 10 years (second car) and it's cost me pretty much nothing (brake pads/discs, oil, fuel, cheap servicing).
Seriously one of my favorite shows on TH-cam. Another trip in the bag. Really enjoyed following this one. It would be cool to see some trips with off-road cars and take them to their limits.
Man America is so beautiful, watching the scenery through a video is breathtakingly spectacular! I cant even begin to imagine how awesome it'd be to see it all in real life
I grew up loving both of these cars as a 90s baby and I gotta say... they both still have such a soft spot in my heart even after seeing the nightmare example that is this GSX haha. Great road trip, very inspiring, and thank you AutoTempest for helping the boys create some banger content 👌
"Don't blame the manufacturer for your reliability issues" Couldn't agree more.
I see lots of Scotty Kilmer types holding the opinion that only Toyota's are reliable. In reality, Toyota's are the most reliable vehicles if you plan on never servicing your vehicle. If you service your vehicle properly, you can have pretty much flawless reliability out of almost any manufacturer.
i once bought a $300 pair of sunglasses and went straight from the store to a pawn shop just for shits and giggles. They offered me $5.
Yep 1 previous owner 2011 Dodge ram 1500 with minimal rust and 200k original motor and serviced at all recommended mileages I bought it at 180k and I did a regular servicing, and put milestar Patagonia X/T's on the stock rims. Hasn't let me down yet except for the typical 5.7 exhaust tic because a manifold bolt snapped, planning to replace with short headers and Flowmaster Outlaw series with tucked under exhaust exit for better over landing clearance.
please do more roadtrips. your channel is what im looking forward for every saturday
if its tuned properly it should be able to adjust for barometric pressure changes, I tuned my daily driver myself with a maxxecu on speed density, and since I change elevation a lot I made sure I set that up, its awesome stuff.
i already loved the RX-8 for being the first car I remembered driving in a racing game, now its in my top 10.
As someone that has used a RWD car in Ontario winters for the past 8 years. All you need is some good winter tires and its great.
That RX-8 looks awesome with a snow jacket on, oh my god.
As someone who lives in Colorado and has been to Moab dozens of times, this series was really cool for me personally. I think a similar trip but in Europe would be super cool too
I gotta say I love the fact y'all don't hop in with a loud fake vibe every video even in background tracks y'all just maintain chill vibes humor on point too these Bois don't miss
I finish work at 12-1am every Saturday here in aus. Perfect thing to watch and unwind to when I get home
This series is more of a reason why I respect both these vehicles. I am a DSM hie hard fan, but owning a RX8 once before is a feeling you can't ignore.
From Col. Springs. i70 is already questionable road without snow, I'm damn well surprised that the RX8 was able to move around let alone drive! Glad you guys are safe and didn't get texas driver'd!
best feeling ever cherry on top for a saturday morning
🔥🔥🔥Road trips Go Great with my morning Coffee ☕ Thanks Guys🙏
Seems we are indulging in the same routine on these videos 😂
Starting your car and setting off all the car alarms in the underground parking garage, I had the same problem with my Mk 4 golf VR5 with the stock exhaust...
Favorite series on TH-cam hands down. Thank you! Used to dream of doing this with the homies 🫶🤙😎
Watching from RWANDA in Africa, Am a big fan of your content man!!
RWD and FWD works just fine in the snow, with as you learn, PROPER snow tires...
FWD benefit a bit more having ... generally anyway an engine over the front axle, the driivng one,
I bet a Porsche 911 is excellent in the snow even if its rear wheel drive only! :) ...with proper tires.
Probably why they are popular cars to have on ice tracks and make good rally cars too!
These videos are probably the best car content on YT right now
Tall Ben selling tools, clothes and even trying to sell his car... Got me in tears. Good way of bringing something new to these roadtrip videos. Loved it lol. Good comedy.
I owned an RX-8 for a few years before a deer jumped off a bridge straight onto my windshield… but it did me very well through the Canadian winter, always started up even in -32 Celsius and I drove through some pretty rough conditions without any real issues. Great car.
Makes me happier I got my RX-8 last year. Now I just gotta get a new clutch in the dang thing so I can hit the streets!..Great series by the way, really enjoyed it.
I usually picture what it would be like to be a previous owner watching these videos but 11 of them seeing how much the car has changed is hilarious
Love the series! Definitely scratching that Top Gear special itch.
omg i just realized how this series fills that vacuum. i love it!
2:40 desperate enough to walk in with it 😅
MOAB is such an amazing place, every camera angle you showed, i physically seen and been. Visited 4 times wish i could go back 4 more times.
There's a possibilty to score fairly good deals at pawn shops. I desperately needed a guitar amp 8pm on sunday, and found that my local pawn shop was selling one for $70. Same models online were like $130, so i'm quite happy. Also that Carmax offer of 500 seems about right considering the looks and how well it functions.
Awesome job on these road trips especially when you guys post it on a Weekend :D
Love The Eclipse What An Amazing Machine, Glad The Old Girl Made It.
People don’t realize how good eclipses actually are to drive u just fall in love with them, if u get your hands on a WELL maintained one you’ll wanna keep it, idk what it is they just feel right
Can’t wait to see more Eclipse content! Great series as always Ben(s)!
I’m excited, I’m roadtripping to Colorado this spring from Nevada, taking the same roads from the end of this video. And in August I’m going coast to coast and back, and it’s the trips GnG take that really cement the idea of driving (which I love to do) instead of flying.
Hope you never stop doing these! They’re the best
As long as they have sponsor to fund their trip
The quality of your videos are unmatched and every Saturday I’m waiting for the new video! Great work boys!
What song is that around the 0:42 mark
Darude - Sandstorm
Around 0:46 guys if anyone would know the song
@@dennisnavarro1819 Moonshot - Aaron Sprinkle
Great start to the Saturday ☕️ Loving this series.
I love the "Too late, chassis's already gone!"
Why is no one talking about that Colorado doesn’t actually salt their roads, they use magnesium chloride instead of sodium chloride due to large wild game which come out a start to lick salt off the roads which was causing too many fatalities due to hitting moose and elk coming out on the road. Colorado has some of the cleanest non rusty cars in the country
About the Eclipse, I'm running speed density on ECMLink as well and I kept the narrow band sensor in simulation mode and my car runs fine no matter the altitude since it compensates for when the ECU is in closed loop, so Cruise, Part throttle and Idle.
aand the episode we've all been waiting for, I just gotta be very lucky again to have this after waking up, literal minutes. Can't wait for another videos!!
Wait, speed density does compensate for manifold absolute pressure, which is what changes when you go up in altitude....
It may not be tuned well to run at lower loads at those pressures, but it definitely does compensate for temperature and manifold pressure...
Found it odd they tuned on 93 since it was detained for safety and traveling across the country where 93 wasn’t widely available….
Finally! I love these kinds of videos! 🎉
Id kove to see yall do a Gbody road trip. $2500 car budget and 3k upgrades then road trip to Beverley Hills and park them at "fancy" hotels and restaurants and see peoples reactions
You guys should do the opposite of this series where you do a roadtrip in supercars. Love the content!
It’s so hard to wait 8 days for this amazing video guys. You guys should do 2 videos a week
Y’all really gotta include Arizona in one of these trips. We have some of the best driving roads in the country. SR89 Prescott and 89a Prescott all the way through the red rocks of Sedona, to the pine trees and huge 12000ft mountains of Flagstaff, SR88, Mt Lemmon, the road that drives along side the Grand Canyon, Roosevelt Lake, the list goes on. Would be well worth throwing at least one of these roads into the next road trip.
I’ve been waiting for so long for this episode
I used auto tempest to find out the rarity and value of my 2013 Nissan Frontier 6 speed 4wd King cab. There are maybe 6 for sale in the entire USA, and most code 2X or more what I’ll have into mine once it is fixed. Excellent tool.
Great vid. I used to own a Turbo Eclipse just like that, so cool. The Nostalgia.
🏎🏎🏎Budget Road Trip Movie Poster - so glad got it ordered ! It came with a little extra. Thanks Short Ben and entire G&G group !🏎🏎🏎
Yo!!! Corolla is an FR. Houston had 240 accidents when we had a snowstorm this January and my 2020 Corolla drove through the ice/sleet without any problems!!
Awesome series! I hope you do more of these! I like the idea of a great lakes tour maybe even into Canada.
Love the vids, and the guy who picks certain tracks as far as songs goes.
I work for CarMax, the appraiser noted "the car looks like it rolled out of a junkyard" 😂
I can almost Guarantee he paid more than 500 for that car too