This Cars Rip-Off Will Make You Question Everything
These days, nothing is immune from being ripped off - even films. All sorts of shoddy, just-about-safe-from-the-copyright-lawyers knock-offs exist, and they’re often hilarious. Case in point? Spid the Racing Car.
Spotted by a CT colleague searching for information about Pixar’s Cars - the franchise it’s, err, riffing off - Spid the Racing Car looks to be an adorably cheap attempt to emulate Lightning McQueen. Made by someone who knows squat about cars.
Watching this for the first time brings up so many questions. Like why does Sid struggle to keep up with a bulldozer? Why does he have a V-twin, and a V-twin which sounds like a V8 at that? What in the hell is a ‘turbo button’? And how can new wheels “grip the road better”?
Perhaps I’m over-thinking this, but kids TV shows are supposed to be educational. But it hit me earlier: this is educational. If you have a child, a neice/nephew, little brother or sister, sit them down to watch this, give them a note pad, and get them to write down everything that’s wrong. Their future depends on it…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
the blue bulldozer crashed and the yellow one finished second, yet it was listed as third, and the blue one - second. I stopped watching after that
How did the blue bulldozer come second when it dnf
Ya know, with the type of mods he was given, bulldozers might have actually been fair competition…
“turbo button”
Clearly asphalt 8 stuff.
The mechanic is a misture of Darth Vader and houdini
Turbo button? So like the focust st200?
more like N20
zzax a
I couldn’t watch 30 seconds of it. Just no.
What bothers me even more, is that they copied Star Wars in a few instances. How do you even mix Star Wars with Cars?
I imagined something like this happening - dissapointed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQd7-MofZM