The Art of Reviewing Cars: A Conversation with the Donut Crew

In this latest episode of the popular car review channel, Donut, the crew is discussing their latest ratings and rankings for various vehicles. One of the topics at hand is the safety features of a 2005 Ford Mustang. "I'm saying 9, probably, potentially 10," says one member of the team. "If you got a 10, that just changes the game." The crew goes on to discuss the importance of safety and how it can make all the difference in an accident.

As they dive into their discussion, the topic turns to the safety rating system used by organizations like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). "You would have the safest car though," says another team member. "Double down, double down." The crew also mentions that a 10 out of 10 is a high rating and can make all the difference in an accident.

The conversation takes a humorous turn when one of the team members jokingly asks if they should crash their own cars to test their safety features. "I'm gonna go crash my car," he says with a laugh. Before proceeding, the crew wants to talk about something that's really exciting - their new car collectible line called Stocky. They launched a Kickstarter campaign and were successful, and now they're opening up sales again for a limited time.

The team is stoked to share their new collectibles with their fans, which include two brand-new versions of Stocky: low car and real-time racing. These cars are officially licensed from Acura and are part of the popular Integra model series. "I think it's like a big deal for us," says one member of the team. The crew is excited to share these collectibles with their fans and invites them to check out their link to purchase.

The conversation takes a dramatic turn when one of the team members shares an experience from a rollover test involving a Volkswagen Cabrio. "This test was not done by NHTSA, it was actually done by a Swiss company in 2016," he explains. The test involved crashing five Volkswagen Cabs using a corkscrew ramp and showed that the cars could withstand significant forces without major damage.

The team is impressed with the safety features of the Cabrio and agrees that it's not ranked the same as NHTSA tests, but rather shows if you're walking away from an accident or not. "If you live or die," says one member of the team. The crew also jokingly comments on how the car performed in the test, with some members even pretending to be hurt after a "crash" simulation.

As the conversation wraps up, the crew thanks their fans for watching and invites them to subscribe to their channel for more content. They also mention that they upload videos multiple times a week, as well as a podcast or two (although the current status of this is uncertain). The team ends the video with a spin of the mythicality wheel and a heartfelt message to their viewers.

In conclusion, the Donut crew's latest episode provides an entertaining and informative look at car reviewing. From safety features to collectible cars, the team covers it all in their characteristic style. With their passion for cars and sense of humor, they make car reviews engaging and enjoyable for fans everywhere.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Whoa.(imitates vomiting)- New guys in the corner,puking his guts out.- That's makes me a little bit scared.- You need to sell that car.We love old cars aroundhere and you do too,but our moms are worried.They think we all drive death traps.Today, we're gonnareview crash test videosof the cars that we love the mostto see if we're in as muchdanger as our moms say.I'm James, he's Jeremiah.Let's get dangerous.- Woo.- Thanks to Raid Shadow Legendsfor sponsoring today's video.Raid Shadow Legends isthe first game to bringa true console levelexperience to your phone.With hundreds of artifacts toequip and over 600 championsblessed with unique skills,you can build your team,develop your champions and raid your way.Use my links below todownload Raid on mobile or PC.Lately, I've been crushing ontwo champions in particular,I'm talking Royal Guard of the high elves.He's a true star of PVE combatand an extremely powerful abilitythat scales damage based on enemy max HP.But he doesn't justdeal incredible damage.he could even paralyze a boss.And then there's the masterof insults Angar of the Orcs.In the arena, he shuts down the enemy teamand in PVE combat,he can cripple enemy waves.Sure. 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We own two of them.This crash test thatwe're about to watch Jeris called the frontal barrier impact.It simulates a 35 mile perhour head on collision.Let's see how well our 20 year oldJapanese coops hold up to a wall.- All right.- It was just a wall.- Oh.- Airbags out.- I think that, to behonest, that's a bad crash,the airbag went out.You'd definitely be sore,but I think you'd be fine.I mean, he's going 35 milesan hour straight into a wall,So you go from 35 to 0, real quick.- Like that.- That hurts.- Ooh, that hurts.- And you know that that dummyis not as tall as you are.- Dude, the knee pressure broke the-- Straight through the-- Straight through the glove box.- The organization that doesthis test is called NHTSAand they give cars a ratingbased on how well the driverand passengers are protected from injury.Five stars is good.It means you got like a90% chance of walking away.One stars is very bad,that means you got a 50% chance ofbeing like seriously injured.So how do we think that the Z did?- To be honest, not as badas I thought it was gonna be.- That car is 100% totaled,but I think you'd walk away from it.For sure.I'd say driver four.- That's a good guess.- I'd say passenger three.- Yes. I was gonna guess four, four.- Four, four, four,three. Okay. Eight, seven.Let's see how NHTSA actually reads.- The 350Z actuallygot a five star rating for the driverand a four star for the passenger,a combined nine out of 10.So a big reason why it did so wellis because the front end crumples,so the impact is nottransmitted to the cabin.But the passenger's kneeshit the dashboard hardenough to crack the plastic.- Yeah, like we noticed.- We noticed.- We noticed that.- All you need is to nothave your knees get bashedin the passenger and you're perfect.- Yeah. Jeremiah,I've been told that thisnext car is for you.- Oh, this a surprise.Yeah. What do we have?- The Catfish Camaro.You got one parked right inthe parking lot right now.- I do.- Let's see how yourgood old Catfish holds upagainst the oblique frontal impact test.All right, this simulatesa 65 mile per hourimpact at a 22 degree angle.But unlike the brickwall that we just saw,this uses a deforming barrier,which means it'll take some of the impact.It's got a little give.- This is a great test,'cause this is whatmost Catfish people do.They do burn-outs on the streetsand then they run into a house.- Oh. (beep)- That car's fiberglass. Huh?- Uh-huh.- So this is more like asemi truck just nailing youor just being like stuck on a train track.- Whoa.(imitates vomiting)- Oh my God.- That is not looking good, James.That's makes me a little bit scared.- You need to sell that car.- But maybe on back thenscale, might be a three, three.- I'm gonna say three, three.- Okay. That's good.- The 1997 Camaroactually scored a four for the driverand a five for the passenger.- I knew it, it's a slightly-- I'm alive!- So originally we weregonna put safest at the top.But after that roller coaster,I think we wanna put mostdangerous at the top.So I'm gonna move the Zdown down a little bit.- 'Cause it's pretty safe.- 'Cause it's pretty safe.- Okay. So why is that safe?- I think part of the reasonwas the long hood didtake a lot of the impact.So there was more crumplebefore it got to the driver's area.- And that's what weshould think about it's.- It looks very dramatic.- But if the car's taking the hitand you're not and it's blowed up,and you're fine, then it's all right.- Next, we're gonna look atone of the most popular enthusiast carson the entire planet.I think there's likefour in the donut family.Of course I'm talking about the NA Miata.Some people think that theMiata is always the answer.Maybe this test will proveotherwise. All right.Maybe you'll be like, theonly answer Miata is foris how to die.So we're about to look at thecrash test for a Mazda Miata.An NA.- Ooh.- 35 Miles an hour.You're straight to a wall.- Pretty good.- Actually. Yeah. Not bad.It doesn't weigh that much, right?It doesn't have that much momentum.- Dude. The passengergot totally boned though.- Yeah. That guy looked likehe wasn't wearing his seatbelt.- This isn't about how the car does.It's about how the passenger fares.- That's what we were just saying.Because the Catfish Camaro exploded.- High speed film.- Oh, almost.- Yeah, I don't think he banged anything,but he snapped his neck pretty fast.- Yeah. He's hurt. That's a grandma, dead.- Oh yeah.- Yeah. Think aboutsomebody who's brittle.- Well, we gotta put her in a home.So I'm thinking driver five,passenger like two, three.- I'm say driver four, passenger two.- I'm gonna go one for the passengerand four for the driver.- In 1990, you could smoke in schools.(laughing)- There were the pencil machinesand the cigarette machines.- The Miata actuallyscored three for the driverand four for the passenger.- What?- Even thoughthe driver had an airbag,the passenger actuallyexperienced less accelerationbecause old airbags were really powerful.And in this case it slowed thedriver's head down too fast.- Ooh concussion.- Ooh, (imitates smacking in face).- Yeah, someone punching you in the facewhile moving forward.- With a boxing glove this big.So this is more dangerous than a Catfish.- Which I mean honestly makes sense.- How about one of the mostpopular enthusiast cars everand for good reason, everygeneration is pretty dang good.I'm talking about BMW three series.So we're gonna compare a fewdifferent generations startingwith probably the moredangerous one, BMW E30.- Oh, no airbag?- No airbag, it's the 85.- I mean, I don't knowwhen stuff happened.- I'm surprised it evenhas a (beep) seatbelt.- So in 1985,they actually didn't do separate ratingsfor driver and passenger.So it's just one rating for the driver.- Out of 10?- Out of five.- I'd say this is a 1985, 4.- Kind of agree.- You gotta consider the year.- Cause BMWs are notoriouslyknown for being safe.- And this would be one ofthe cars that like made that.- Right.- Even though his headblasted the steering wheel.- Yeah, they're like, of course the head'sgonna blast the steering wheel.- There's a steering wheelin front of the head.- It's a car.I'm gonna say four.- Yeah, I agree.- I agree. Yeah, four.- Even though it doesn't feel like a four.- The E30 actuallyscored a three out of five.The head bouncing off thesteering wheel was bad,but you can also see the entireroof bending in the middleindicating that the impactwas being transmitted into thepassenger compartment morethan it should have been.- You know, I actually thoughtthat might have been a good thing.Kind of transferring it aroundthe passenger, but guess not.- So this is the most dangerous car yet.Next let's look at one of thebest bargains in cars today.E36, 3 series. We got one of'em parked right up there.This is a front overlap test,which means there's only half a wall.You're gonna hit halfthe front of the car.- Nice. I'm calling it rightnow. It's gonna be a four.- Four. Dude, you're like the Babe Ruthof this game that we made up.- Ooh. You had a baby in the back?- Yeah.- Okay. Well, based off thelast one, the roof is fine.- No passenger airbag wentoff, but he seemed to do okay.- That's a bad crash.- Have you guys watched anyother overlap tests though?- No.- No, we don't know.- So I mean, I think that'sgonna be worse for one side,which you know, giventhat that's the test,it might be better thanyou think, I'm going four.- Yeah. I'm going fumf.- Is this a combined score now?- It's German for four.- So what you think the passenger got?- I think the passengergot a four as well?- So eight? I'm going three, four.- E36actually got four, four.- Yeah.- Pretty good.- Fumf, fumf.We're moving on to the nextgeneration, super popular car.Justin has one, E46.We're gonna kick youout and go grab Justin.- Cool.- Do you know ahead of time what yours is?- (beep) no.- Justin's dog looks like George Clooney.Can we get a picture of Justin's dog?- Justin's dog.- George Clooney.- Smack.- Way better than the others.- That actually, yeah, thatlooks really good. Yeah.- Looks like they finally figure the roof,the previous two generationsthe roof buckled.Which is not...- That car seat is dangerous.- Oh, that baby's hitting like back glass.- Let us know in the commentsif you wanna see us make a video,$10 junkyard car seatversus, $1,500 car seat.- I think that's the best one.- That's really good.Well, it's the newest car.This is like, when, what year is your car?- Mines '01.- Okay, so this is in the2000s. Well, the Zs were good.- The Zs were good.- Zs were like 2003.Yeah. Z was really good.- Dude. I think this is a five, five.- I think this might be five, five.- Four and a half.- You can't do that.- Oh five. Totally. Yeah. Five.- E46actually got a four driver,five passenger.- That's pretty good.- Pretty good. That's pretty.Just as safe as my Catfish.- We're not here to talkabout new cars. All right?We're here for danger.Let's talk about one of my first cars.One of the most popularenthusiast cars out there,so much so that they're stupid expensive.Of course, the S13 240 SX from Nissan.Your brother had one of these, yeah?- Yeah, and it was a tin can.- So you've driven one.- Ugh. Yeah.- How do you feel like it's gonna do?- It can't be good. There's just no way.- We're gonna look a rear impact test.Also known as the Pinto testbecause when the Pinto got hit,the gas tank would explode.So this is to ensure that thefuel system remains intactand doesn't explode, which is bad.So let's see how the 1989 Nissan 240 does.That's oh, that's waybetter than I thought.- For the driver, yeah, they're fine.- It's hard because there'sno dummy to look at.- That's surprisingly not bad.- Yeah. I think that's good.I bet in 1989 that's a five.- That's not bad.- So the S13 passed.- Yay.- The S13passed the rear impact test,and as far as the frontal impact test,which we do not have video for,scored a three driver and four passenger,tying with the Miata.- It's good that the rear did wellbecause whenever I in anS13 I'm dragging wall, baby.I'm dragging wall, baby.Nolan what kind of car do you drive?- 2006 Mustang GT. So.- So, we're gonna watch a videoof your car running intothe front of a wall.We just shot it this morning.- I love it.I assume it's probably notsafe by today's standards.- But we're going off of 2006.- So maybe it's fine.- Ooh.- Crunch, crunch, crunch,crunch, crunch, airbags deployed.- I think that's pretty good.- I think so too. That looks nice.- That looks really good.- Minimal kind of damage tothe passenger compartment.The airbag deployed, thehead is being supportedas we'll see right there.- Great seatbelt.- Yeah, good seatbelt.- Seatbelt. The roof.- Roof is good. It didn'tcrumple or anything.The back end looks good.- I'm saying 9, probably, potentially 10.- If you got a 10, thatjust changes the game.- That'd be pretty cool.- We haven't got a 10 yet.- You would the safest car though.- You'd have the safest car.- Double down, double down.- Id say 10. That's a 10 outta 10.- 10 outta 10. Let's go.- Let's go.- Come on NHTSA, give us a 10 baby.- The 2005 Ford Mustangscored five driver and five passenger.- Safest car at donut.America.- That's amazing, that's awesome.- The old pony car. Subpar schnitzel.- S197 Mustang, top of the pack.Cadillac of the sky.- That goes on the bottom.This is the best. Remember?- Whoops.(laughing)- I'm gonna go crash my car.- Before we go any further.I want to talk to you guys aboutsomething that we're reallyexcited about here at Donut.We're launching a car collectibleand it's called Stocky.A while ago, we did a Kickstarterand it was really successful.These guys are ready to shipand we're gonna open up salesagain for a limited time.We have two brand new versions of Stocky,low car and real time racing.If you watch speed channel inthe early 2000s like I did,you definitely recognizethe real time racing.Integra's super, super cool.These are officially licensed from Acura.I'm really, really stoked about these.I think it's like a big deal for us,and I'm really stoked thatyou guys can be part of it.So click this link, get yourself a Stocky.Eventually we're gonna makeall your favorite cars.Let me know in the comments,which ones you want us to make.All right, we have one more car left.It's near and dear to our hearts.- That was wild man.- We just bought one.I'm very excited to drivethis car all summer.The mark three,that's the third generationVolkswagen Cabrio.AKA the newest member of the donut fleet.Can we get a pictureof Leonardo the Cabrio.- Look at that beauty.- James, this is a, a corkscrew..- I see it.This is the first onethat there's a ramp, okay,and that's because thisis a rollover test.- This testwas not done by NHTSA,it was actually done bya Swiss company in 2016.They crashed five VolkswagenCabrios using this corkscrew.- Why?- Was this for like a lawsuit? I bet.- Must have been.- Probably a legal thing.- 'Cause why else would you do that?Besides having a lot of fun.- So thisisn't gonna be rankedthe exact same as a NHTSA,but really you're gonna just be seeingif you're walking awayfrom this accident or not.- If you live or die.- Let's see.- I bet it's gonna be safe.- Oh, I don't know.- Dude.- For flipping or convertible, not bad.- That that looks so scary.- Dude that's hard.- Yeah, here we go.- Lets see that roll bar. Roll bar works?- Skids dude.- Roll bar worked great.- Wow. What about that front?- I mean, given that's whatthey were supposed to do.- Huh?- Oh, arm out.- Oo, oo, oo.- That's user error.(laughing)- Oh no, the boys.Oh, you're face graved on the-Oh, that's your head.- All right. So it's live or die in that?- I don'treally have the score.You guys just saw it foryourselves and how it did.- Okay. I think I'm fine.- I'm definitely fine.- Yeah. I'm okay.- I'm dead. I don't think Iwould've walked out that one.- I am surprised how,dude they were going.- They were whipping.They hooked that, bro.The windshield did fold quite a bit.- It folded quite a bit.- Quite a bit.It almost flattened completely.I think you're dead.Honestly, our moms have alot to be worried about.(chuckling)Thank you guys so muchfor watching this videoand every other video on Donut.If you're new to the channel, welcome.We upload a bunch of videosmultiple times a week.We also have a podcast,a couple of them maybe,by this point, probably not.Probably still just one.Make sure you like and subscribe.And now it's time to spinthe wheel of mythicality.I love you.- See ya.