If I can’t have a GR Yaris they can’t have a goddamn Bronco. I will single-handedly put an end to this 

I’d rather get a brand new Lada Niva

There is a long list of bad cars shows, Street Outlaws is hateful but the one that annoyed me most is Classic Car Rescue a joint Discovery UK / Discovery Canada production that was so obviously faked and the actual workmanship so shoddy

Truly some of the most mindblowingly ugly ‘custom’ cars ever to grace the small screen. And built according to the ‘slap some more bondo in, it’ll be fine’ school of mechanics:

Oh man, you scooped my pick - although remember it was a sequel to the equally dreadful Bangla Bangers.

Diesel Brothers!

exactly, I was expect crazy NASCAR level shit

I watched an ep or two of graveyard carz (yes, with a Z because so edgy and cool). The main guy just kept coming up with (i.e. likely completely scripted in) useless knowledge of mopars as a “gotcha” whenever his ego felt particularly fragile. “yeah well, you didn’t know that in 1972 the coronet RT only had 765…

Its not on anymore but I would like to nominate Chop Shop London Garage. That show was like watching a train wreck every episode. I’m shocked it was never picked up by TLC.

It did give us that great meme template though. 

I really thought we were going to hear a bit more about the NASCAR legacy of pushing the rules right to the breaking point, finding loopholes in wording and finding extralegal ways to make the sled faster

All I can say is at least we have MotorWeek. My dad introduced me to the show back in the 80's and I have been hooked ever since. I grew up about five minutes away from Maryland Public Television’s HQ (they were the station that has produced the show since it started in 1981) and every once and awhile we would see…

“Gas Monkey, more like Ass Monkey”

All those car shows that end of being 5 minutes of wrenching on new clean things and then 25 minutes of adds for stuff. They are more informercials than car shows. Looking at you powernationtv.

The list is a hell of a lot shorter if you only count the car shows that are worth anything.

It’s unclear if the two had had a prior run-in on the road, or if the truck driver simply didn’t want the sedan getting ahead.

No roasting here. There’s a reason they keep trying to reboot the series with different hosts.

It may have been technically about motorcycles, but American Chopper has to be at the top of the list. It was the progenitor of every one of the terrible, formulaic, faux-reality, artificial-deadline-y, overdramatized custom car shop shows that followed, from American Hot Rod all the way to Counting Cars and every…

Since its premiere in 2012, this series has centered way too much on the drama of its cast, instead of the vehicles they’re meant to be restoring. It gets real old, real fast.