I think I am going to buy a 992 GT3, just to spite Mr. Regular. Then I’ll start driving it around central Pennsylvania. Every week I’ll wrap it in a new color, and Mr. Regular will think he’s surrounded by people driving GT3’s, when in fact it’s only me in the same GT3 with a new wrap.

@jacobrzeszewski6527

5 ай бұрын

And exactly like Mr. Regular said. You have no seperation of reality and fiction. That distinction is pointless. Hyper-reality at work.

@tomtbi

5 ай бұрын

Lol😅!!

@UnorthodoxMasterOfGames

5 ай бұрын

Dew it! Mr. Regular won't be able to discern between fantasy and reality in this new age!!

@TheMeanmarine13

5 ай бұрын

@@jacobrzeszewski6527 well jake, If I am not mistaken I believe he was joking. You seem to know the difference between reality and fiction but maybe you could work on the distinction between jokes and factual statements/intentions 😉 👉

@Jay-jb2vr

5 ай бұрын

*Have fun being broke forever*

Seeing this car go from Mat Armstrong to Tavarish, then end up on RCR is the crossover episode I didn't expect for 2023.

@Rekoyl116

5 ай бұрын

Came from Adam lz first

@TheMeanmarine13

5 ай бұрын

The Promiscuous Purple Porsche. She gets around

@MichaelD8393

5 ай бұрын

Definitely a bonus Christmas present I didn’t know I was asking for this year.

@Da_one_tl

5 ай бұрын

It’s Adam LZ’s although he apparently wanted nothing to do with it after the crash. I wish he would have driven it on Mat’s channel

@TimothyReason

5 ай бұрын

@@TheMeanmarine13makes sense for the fiancé stealing Tavarish to own it

Mr. Regular's thoughts were more interesting than the car itself.

@nate8088

5 ай бұрын

Literally anything is more interesting than this car.

@nate8088

5 ай бұрын

(Which is not to belittle Mr Regular's video.. because I thought this was a very well spoken sentiment. I'm just saying that it's not exactly paying a compliment to say that something is more interesting than this car.)

@skateecho

5 ай бұрын

Honestly, I kinda love when its more about his thought process, a literary lesson or just them making fun of the cars.

I was actually talking to a friend about this the other night. We were saying that Trump's election ended postmodernism (this isn't about his politics) because it hijacked irony to blur the line of what's real and what's made up. Every day, we have stories that 15 years ago would have been too ridiculous for a sitcom, but now they're news clips of a man sweating off black hair dye standing in front of a lawn care company called The Four Seasons. Irony is dead, and reality killed it. We turned postmodernism all the way to 11, and now absurdity means nothing. A large portion of the population's main sources of news are entertainment programs, whether they're John Oliver of some Fox News personality. Growing up, I heard a lot of adults in small-town America talk about Chris Rock's "There's a difference between a black person and a N****" sketch, and completely miss that he was doing a bit. We take comedy seriously, and reality lightly. And looking at the current landscape, what tends to be well-received are things that go against the ambiguous, interpretive nature of postmodernism and lean into sincerity and honesty. It's like your hyper-realism, but in art it's being emotionally honest and communicating clearly. Anyway, thanks for being an English nerd. Hope I get to meet you when you come to Aus!

@darksu6947

5 ай бұрын

​@@coliimusicYour comment made me experience some hardness, but not the good kind.

@JohnSmith-wx9wj

5 ай бұрын

I think postmodernism started when a majority of professors started telling their students that reality isn't objective with a completely straight face.

@ileutur6863

Ай бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-wx9wj because it isn't. There are only the basic laws of physics, everything else is relative and everything we are experiencing right now is direct proof of it.

I didn't expect to witness the birth of hyperrealism this Christmas.

Wonderful review, dude! This car is, and I'm not joking, the best manual car I have ever driven and it's not even close. I didn't think I'd like it as much as I did, but I am 1000 percent in love with it.

@grahamh9788

5 ай бұрын

Found him

@RuneDest

5 ай бұрын

And thank you Freddy for being a shining pillar of the car community. Your presence is always welcoming and its clear that you actually care not just about yourself, but everyone around you and those you interact with. I'm excited to see what else RCR filmed with you! Merry Christmas.

@mromatic17

5 ай бұрын

freddy I normally think porsche owners are stuck up aholes but I know that you are a real car person and are as nice as ppl come these days so its nice to see a porsche owner buying it for what it actually is vs it just being expensive and they bought it to look like they are a gearhead.

@I53-624

5 ай бұрын

Have you driven a manual 997 rs?

@Jonathan_Doe_

5 ай бұрын

Fly somewhere where the GR Yaris is a thing, find some twisty backroads, then get back to us.

'I don't even enjoy the things I have, I just like that you don't have them'. Another pearl of truth from RCR

Sometimes the best Christmas gift is a total reevaluation of the modern age of consumption, and other times it’s a 992 GT3

"You drive a Boxster? You peasant!" That's the kind of snobbery a 992 evokes

@hybridAbsol

5 ай бұрын

i mean, i would too if i got a 911

@Louzahsol

5 ай бұрын

You haven’t experienced snobbery until you take a 944 turbo to a car show.

@n0sfreak

5 ай бұрын

@@Louzahsol oof.

@americanAlienBoy

5 ай бұрын

@@Louzahsolyou misspelled 914.

@silentracer911

5 ай бұрын

Well IVE been driving a 2000 Boxster S… Since new… what now? $70k sticker, in late 99’, received April 00’, still adore it.

RCR is a philosphy/literature/therapy channel that features cars. I'm here for it.

This right here, this is the rcr ive been missing. The analytical retrospection of what cars reflect and refract back at the reality that created them.

Roman you continually outdo yourself with the Christmas songs every single year, well done!

@LimitedTimeRoman

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I am now excited for a future where school children watch RCR like I read Mark Twain.

I think another talisman of hyperrealism, and maybe something that will come to define it, is AI technology. Now a picture that you see might be something an artist pored over for a week or it might be something a computer threw together from a slurry of stolen material. Even art that is "real" could have been upscaled with AI. We don't just engage with the fake as if it's real, we also have to engage with the real as if it's fake. That picture you're looking at may have no artistic intent or integrity behind it, and if you want to extract any meaning out of it you need to scrutinize it to see if it's genuine- and even then, you could be wrong. My brain is in overdrive just scrolling through twitter trying to figure out which media, which is already mostly digital depictions of fantasy, I can safely engage with as a consumer. I just saw an AI image be posted to the Porsche 924 facebook group. Not only is the line between media and reality faded, the line between media and slop is too. Eventually my brain just shuts off and I stop critically engaging with anything. Anyway thank you for making art that is always genuine, always fun to engage with, and always to a beautifully high standard. Always a pleasure to spend Monday morning with you.

@humperdinckfangboner9749

5 ай бұрын

"always to a beautifully high standard": 2:13

@DimensionN87

5 ай бұрын

Once you stop Critically engaging with everything, your experience with the internet will become so much better

@FurryWrecker911

5 ай бұрын

Being someone who used to do Photoshop mockups for people in the Focus ST/RS groups, I got sickened when people stated posting AI concepts in the groups. It wasn't the images themselves, but the comment engagements. "This is so sick bro! Is this your car?" "Nah bro, I generated it using AI" "That's tight, man!" Excitement spent over a computer automating a process normally done by a human person who had to learn and spend years to get to that level of production hurts. Now I know how factory workers feel.

@roddydykes7053

5 ай бұрын

@@DimensionN87once you stop critically engaging with the *internet* your *life* will be that much better

@leocheung2547

5 ай бұрын

What you said about images of artwork also applies to conversation and literature. That entire paragraph you wrote, however eloquent and sophisticated you may be, will likely be scraped and fed into an AI model to make them better at emulating human conversation, and consequently make them that much harder to distinguish from real humans talking/writing. Unlike an image where one could scrutinize for visual artifacts or inconsistencies, AI does a much better job at perfecting grammar and predicting the next best word to put into a sentence. Even if they can sound too professional, impersonal, or artificial today, that can very well change in the next few years, and somehow, I feel that it terrifies me less than it probably should.

911 gt3: A race car for the track for the streets that never sees a track

@falagarius

5 ай бұрын

And many dont even see much streets

@RDEnduro

5 ай бұрын

In Germany they do on the Nurburgring

@Mikegastaldo

5 ай бұрын

I live 3 miles from a race track that Porsche built...just for Porsche owners to use..it's always packed..you can see em from the freeway as you drive by.. dozens of Porsche's flying around the track..every model..old and new... dozens and dozens of em..every day...who told you these cars don't see a track? Mr who?..

@donQpublic

5 ай бұрын

I do a couple track days a year in New England. There’s always one or three on track.

@mtnman1984

5 ай бұрын

These get tracked

I have the same one in silver. Very reasonable and regular car.

@giggiddy

5 ай бұрын

Vulgar- I leased one about 5 years ago. It was very expensive, stupid quick, attention getting, and sexy. One thing it was never was REASONABLE and REGULAR. Im glad I got it out of my system tho because boy was it fun.

Taking this car to an actual track is the ultimate flex. Like, just imagine having the discipline to buy something special but also the risk tolerance to lose it again. Imagine being able to evolve from the very mindset that got you what you wanted - and move on to enjoying what you wanted, remembering that was the real goal. I'm sure many of us will own our dream cars, but how many of us will truly experience them?

@americanAlienBoy

5 ай бұрын

One of my fellow instructors tracks his GT2RS. Drives the piss out of it too. Must be nice to come from generational wealth.

@JeremySayers38

5 ай бұрын

It depends on what experience means to you. If experience is push it to it's limit to see where the limit is or to enjoy the inyeraction with it. Do you push the limits of your friendships or just enjoy them. Risking losing something of value for a temporary moment is immature.

@57precision

4 ай бұрын

It's true. Don't track it if you can't afford to replace it. For most of us, even affording a car like this in the first place is a real challenge.

The most exciting part of this is the return of Roman's title cards

Does every 992 GT3 come with a leaf blower? "Tavarish" must be a *really* good friend to allow his car to become a purple, Florida-plated exemplar of a whole new era of hollow human existence. When you reach one million subscribers, then you'll have to start posing like a centaur as well ;-) I really enjoyed this ... one of your best. I once was in an investor relations meeting with the CEO of Porsche, and he said "I don't sell cars; I sell 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes after work where a middle-aged corporate executive can forget about the dreariness of his life on both ends of those drives."

Regular Cars, deep Xmass edition. Love it! Great work.

Big applause for Roman with his rendition of “Silent Pipes, Noisy Pipes”.

This is the exact stuff I come to this channel for. Happy Christmas, Mr. Regular & team

Merry Christmas! Great video as always.

Beautiful review. These reviews where I also learn something are the ones I really look forward to. And not only did I learn something, I got a very fresh perspective on a car it seems that everyone says the same thing about.

Regular Car Reviews talking about vrchat ERP in reference to a GT3. We really be living in the future.

Damn y’all are consistent!! Its Christmas day and thinking everything is closed…and the first thing in my KZread feed is a RCR video! Because its monday. Elite!

As always, you speak to me beyond a car review. Thanks for doing what you do. All the best from canada.

an absolute banger and a gift for our holiday seasons. good stuff mr regz

Thank you Mr. Regular for your content. I’m a 28 year old guy from Bulgaria. I started watching your videos back in the beginning of 2014. Almost 10 years ago. I like hearing your thoughts. To me your better than the modern influencers and cooler than them. Happy holidays🎉

Damn..this was a really Good review...no lies told..🏁👍🏽

Merry Christmas to Mr. Regular and to all, and to all a good night.

Wow this got DEEP. Love this channel

Merry Christmas Mr Regular and Roman!!

I would go to lectures hosted by you, your social commentary is always a treat. Merry Christmas.

Just got up on Christmas morning, what a treat!

Wasnt expecting such a philosophical episode, but a great one nonetheless. Happy holidays Mr regular and folks ❤️

Thank you mr regular, Merry Christmas.

I am a decade long subscriber, but I'm still so blown out by the quality of the writing. You guys are the best. Full stop.

Merry Christmas Regular and Roman

This was a great RCR! It had the right balance of everything and wasn't too long. I wish you could keep these videos under 20 minutes. They feel much better that way. Any longer than that and it feels as though they're dragging and I find myself pausing and doing other stuff and sometimes forgetting that I forgot to finish the new RCR. Also, the return of the title bars with Roman's music sting, near the beginning, was a welcome surprise. Please bring this back! It adds weight and anticipation to the opening teaser and a satisfying entrance to the rest of the video -- like separating the starting and up-shifting from the settling in at cruising speed. Roman's car-centric song-parodies at the end remain a perfect denouement. This video reminds me of the value of editing and that less is more -- and also of how good RCR used to be every week and of how good it still can be! Happy New Year!

Love the hypermodernism essay at the start.

I always love these theology type videos. Bravo Mr. Regular.

My absolute dream car, I see these all the time at my local track and I never get tired of of seeing them ❤

mr regular as a man who found you when i was just a boy you talking about not being the right this or that has helped me become more understanding youre doing gods work and you will be remenbered for it from a day 1 fan

Always profound - this episode particularly so!

Merry Christmas Regular, Roman & all.

merry christmas to you both!!!

Damn, that's well said. Merry Christmas, guys.

Yay! Roman outro again! I knew you guys were messing with us 😂

Merry Christmas RCR

introspective view of possession i think i’ve ever heard on a youtube car review. that was great. didn’t change my perspective on things but definitely made me question it.

that green S14 at 0:59 looks crazy good

Crazy Taxi @ 15:15!! Had The Offspring playing in my head as soon as it popped up.

The realism diatribe is frighteningly spot on! Thank you Mr. Regular for keeping it very real.

Oh boy, another RCR Christmas video

merry christmas mr. regular!!

this is a banger of a review

loved the piece on hyper realism

Happy (belated) Christmas and Boxing Day. I've been watching you guys since you first uploaded. I laughed so hard and learned so much during this review. I wonder if the pandamoc hadn't of happen or was not as extensive, if we'd have postmodernism and hyperrealism at all or if it would exist in a lesser form?

I can't stop watching your videos ! "My car costs more than your house" I spit my drink out ! 😁😂

Merry Christmas rcr family

I had a commercial for a Luxury Microwave right in the middle of the rant about exclusivity, which really was perfect.

I came here to hear about a porsche and I left completely rethinking life itself..

excellent work.

Merry Christmas!

Sick episode

It just occurred to me that Roman’s music lives somhere, and turns out there is even a whole Christmas album!! Judging by Spotify numbers it went under all of our radar so GO 😊

Beautiful outro, btw

Massive respect for not chasing views. Solid essay, solid car

Your philosophy/history lessons are my favorite part of these reviews.

Merry Christmas RCR Community!

porsche review, with roman's intro and outro talking about art and farts sprinkled with reflection about life? this christmas we eating good

i used to be a valet at porsche and drove a lot of audi’s there too, but my experience with the 992’s were super cool but i always found myself falling in love with the caymens more thats something if i would drive on a daily if i can afford it but a 992 idk feels like something i would drive once special occasions, they are cool cars

This is a poignant message on a day that mankind has evolved into the beacon of consumerism. I came here for the pretty purple Porsche and got Linus at the Christmas pageant.

Roman back with the outro vocals 🥵

You could build a university course around RCR, this episode would be the capstone.

So many KZreadrs have driven that one now. Adamlz, Collette, Matt Armstrong and Tavarish 😂

@tturi2

5 ай бұрын

just need the stig to drive it

@IMTHATELDER

5 ай бұрын

@@tturi2 I’m not so sure, he’s not really the stig or even seen as the stig anymore. The magic and mystery is kinda gone these days. Misha chouridin from the Nurburgring would be cool tho or maybe clarkson

@tturi2

5 ай бұрын

@@IMTHATELDER ben collins was the stig we know as the stig all other are just cheap copies or poorly represented imo

@IMTHATELDER

5 ай бұрын

@@tturi2 I know but he’s more known as just Ben Collins now. That’s what I’m saying, if he’s stuck with carrying in the sting persona it would have been a lot cooler. Now he’s just Ben Collins

this is a masterpiece of video making

10:15 ["Ceci n'est pas une Porsche." - a hyperreal reference to the original postmodernist reference "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" - reference to the real modernist industrialized production of a real pipe] - Mr. Regular, 2023 - René Magritte, 1929 - Michael Scott, 2009

Man. You’re hanging out with Freddy now?!?I love both of y’all’s content! Happy holidays and let’s hop on VRChat LMAO

Appreciate the TNG 'ugly bag of mostly water' references

You can hear that haspberg jaw in that first few minutes. Love your wit. Ooooh yiiiiis I do deeclaaaaare!

Died at the seat belt part 💀

Porsche was cooler in the 90s when they didnt seem to care how much their cars weighed and they were just solid little tanks.

@monaclemin4807

5 ай бұрын

Yea that was cool considering Porsche actually used to make tanks. The weight thing nowadays is just the new trend to rip off first owners who are actually wealthy enough to spend that money. You think that some middle aged fool is gonna notice a 100lb difference when he can’t drive for shit on a track? I’ve been honing in my skills rigorously for 5+ years and even then I’ve got so much to learn. For example, real Motorsport drivers can realize and improve upon the slightest details in a rig. I’m mighty struggling and then you got this marketing technique of less = more to sell some crazy level race car to a rich guy. It’s just funny 😂

@fabioribeiro5071

5 ай бұрын

@@monaclemin4807but the majority of the appeal these Porsche have is the fast ring lap time and other stuff for the owners to brag about and the casual car fans to dream with, when in reality they would probably crash it trying to outspeed a type R on the canyons. 🤷‍♂️

Merry Christmas

I knew it was you in Mats and Tavarish's videos!

An ode to the 996 owner. Merry Fing Christmas.

Thats tavarash gt3. Love the color and matt putting it together.

Not that I can afford one, but I think cars like these are enjoyed more by people who enjoy cars in the same way I do. People who don't like cars as a status symbol or even representation of their personality, but rather enjoy driving itself. These cars are meant to enhance driving, what many people abhor as a daily mundane experience, some of us actually like to do. So its purpose isn't to show off how much disposable income you can flush down the toilet, but to have an enhanced experience doing things you already enjoy: going over to your friends' or relatives' houses, going for a cruise around town on the weekend, visiting other places on little road trips around where you live, or hell, I even enjoy my commute to and from work. To me, the downside to owning a car like this would be the unfortunate fact that it DOES draw attention. People differentiate between wanted and unwanted attention, but to me it's all unwanted: cops eager to write citations, jealous and malicious people willing to vandalize, aspiring gold diggers, street racers with something to prove, and even friendly car enthusiasts, for someone who just wants to be left alone, would become overbearing.

@fabioribeiro5071

5 ай бұрын

That’s what happens with any fast sports car ownership problem is specially with Porsche,things are getting out of hands and that has to do with their greedy owners because they want to stand out. That’s the harsh reality.

@sump22

5 ай бұрын

Well said. There's a subset of owners of these types of cars that buy and use them for their engineered intention. Once you drive one, the old slogan of "There is no substitute" really does ring true. Granted I now only have a 'lowly' Cayman, I struggled with purchasing one for a few years after it being a lifelong goal. I do not like the attention, but get me on a back road with no one but me a 6 speed, there's nothing better.

@glennhavinoviski8128

5 ай бұрын

@@sump22 My first Porsche was a new, ruby red color Cayman in 2008. Far as civilians were concerned, it was a million dollar car. I think Mr Regular said somewhat of the same thing when he reviewed it years ago. But as far as other Porsche people were concerned, it was more interesting. Most 911 people were nice but on the snobby side (this was 2008-09), though many of them are now my friends once we all got to know each other. But the Porsche 356 people loved the Cayman- a small rounded coupe that the old 356 people could identify with because it was sort of an underdog and the first Cayman had more overt styling cues from the pre-911 era. Porsche blew that hierarchy up in a big way when they introduced the Cayman GT4 in 2015 and completely changed the market by limiting production. Suddenly 911 owners wanted Cayman GT4 and even GTS models, and the only way Porsche could "protect" the 911 was to put a Turbo 4 in the Cayman and Boxster and call it "718". I eventually had a 718 Boxster S which drove great but sounded,....er.....different. And pissed off enough people that they later came up with a premium-priced "GTS" model that had....a normally-aspirated inline 6 that sounded like the older Caymans and Boxsters. Which people often waited 1-2 years for and paid MSRP or higher. It got to the point where used Porsches cost as much as new Porsches. And yes I now own a 992 911 Carrera T because used 911s of all or most types were in the same price range for the longest time, and many still are. So heck, I decided to go new. And I love the sound of the engine and the feel of the manual transmission (though it's different than the 6 speed on the GT3) and it handles like a combination of a sports car and a GT car. Which by the way, is the most unusual thing about this RCR Porsche review. It is the only 992 GT3 review EVER where you don't even once hear the engine wailing at 9000 rpm or even hear the autoblip downshifts. They're talked about but not heard. There are entire reviews where engine noise is all you hear in the background. Instead we hear extended farts and burps. Yep, sounds like an RCR review.

@KGungo

5 ай бұрын

yeah this is totally why i also don’t own a GT3

Mr. Regular does a fabulous job of hiding his disdain! 😂

I've been emailing them to do a video of my gt3. Guess I'm glad they took somebody else's! I track mine

That is a sick color though, have to admit.

When he went to yellow seatbelt voice I lost it 🤣

Nice TNG reference, appreciate it.

Well, you've summed it up

Yup a new ls3 manual Corvette at 26yrs old, the work to get there and the memory of the experience far outlasted the car.

thank you

The Flipper Zero joke was great

Yo the crazy taxi car is looking FINE

I love Tavarish's taste in cars. Awesome that you fucks with him too.