Jalopy Xbox One Gameplay: SOMEONE STOLE OUR ENGINE?! (Let's Play Jalopy on Xbox One)

[@vonvilc3705]

After watching the Bus Simulator and this video, I have serious doubts about Mike's driving abilities. "I'm a BMW driver." Well, that explains it all.

[@Rawkwilder]

that's modeled after a Trabant! the engine is a 2 stroke engine that weight less than 50 kg, Mike AND the engine bay is spot on, MIKE! 2 stroke engine run on mixture of gas and oil, MIIIKE!

[@maxvel0city906]

In that case is the engine only lubricated when the throttle is pressed? As the oil is mixed with the fuel.

[@marcusnelson7026]

Seriously Mike!

[@marcusnelson7026]

@@maxvel0city906 When the engine idles it is still burns fuel. So if it is running, it is being lubricated.

[@dominicrichardson5546]

yeah some of the stuff he said pained me

[@jono3952]

Driving a whole car on a 2-stroke? I mean I know it's doable, but that is asking a lot of that little engine.

[@MerchManDan]

[game literally explains what each car part does] Jane: "What do all of these car parts do??" Mike: "I DON'T KNOW"

[@ryshow9118]

I think that's about my favorite part of any let's play on here. The staunch refusal to read and/or follow instructions.

[@Paldasan]

Ryan Schofill I like the bit where a game highlights where to click or activate something and they just move the cursor and keep looking.

[@ryshow9118]

@@Paldasan They are all wonderful and I adore them for the beautiful, unique flowers that they are. 💐😂

[@Paldasan]

@@ryshow9118 that they be, that they be

[@jono3952]

I know, It's infuriating! How can people who literally play video games for a living be so bad at playing video games?

[@kdisley]

A few historical notes: * The Berlin Wall came down between 1990 and 1992, which would make this the early 90's rather than the 80's * The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic lasted until 23 April 1990, when it became known as the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic until 31 December 1992 (which I assume is what CSFR stands for when Uncle Lütfi mentions it, placing the game between these two dates)... needless to say, it eventually settled on the modern name Czechoslovakia * The car featured is based on the Trabant, an East German car built between 1957 and 1990. The 1980's model had no tachometer, no dashboard lamps to show that the lights or the indicators were working, no fuel gauge and no fuel door (requiring the driver to pour the 2-stroke mix directly into the engine)... so actually, the one in the game seems pretty accurate * The name "Laika" was actually the name of the dog sent up in the Sputnik 2 satellite as proof that the Russian space program had the technology to keep a living being alive in space... of course, once she was up there they never actually planned to *retrieve* Sputnik 2, so this story does not have a happy ending for dog-lovers (sorry to end this on a bummer...)

[@Patrick-Phelan]

I suppose you could say the modern name is the Czech Republic and also Slovakia, but you could also say that those are the modern names of two different things and Czechoslovakia was Czechoslovakia until it was no longer a thing.

[@Giga-lemesh]

Mike: *misreads road tyre as round tyre* Mike: *mocks the game for specifying round tyres*

[@ghostderazgriz]

I mean... maybe I've been living in an alternate reality for the past 20 years but umm... it's spelled 'tire' yea?

[@Amaritudine]

@@ghostderazgriz 'Tire' in the USA, 'tyre' in most other English-speaking nations:-)

[@ghostderazgriz]

@@Amaritudine Whaaaa Really? lol that is so bizarre.

[@weneedaladder8384]

​@@ghostderazgrizwait 'til you find out about "curb" and "kerb".

[@timhutchinson8485]

Uncle Lutfi and the Tweed Zone sounds like some sort of weird European indie band.

[@callumdonington2227]

They sound like Cold War MI5 code words.

[@danneko4308]

Callum Donington a trigger phrase for Cold War sleeper agents? 😂

[@callumdonington2227]

@@danneko4308 While editing this video James was overcome with an unexplained but powerful urge to go sabotage Russian ICBM silos.

[@antimon05]

Here in Central Europe (in Hungary, in fact) we do have a lot of indie bans with names generated like this: XX (a person's name) and the Y (some weird stuff). Kispál és a Borz, Ivan and the Parazol, Paddy and the Rats, Péterfi Bori and Love Band, etc.

[@Cyfrik]

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Tweed Zone.

[@bilbo_t_baggins2762]

Of all the service station foods, German sausage is the wurst.

[@MerchManDan]

It even says so right on the package! Strange selling point though.

[@nicholascross3557]

Don't knockwurst until you've tried it.

[@mooniejohnson]

Being of German descent... this joke has my stamp of approval.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

*distant andy boos

[@thierryfux7318]

Boooo!

[@maxvel0city906]

I feel this game is so suited to Mike, can totally imagine an OXBOXTRA road trip Mike driving Ellen and Luke in the back shouting "ARE WE THERE YET!" every 30 seconds.

[@Binary-]

That's an easy fix! Just give Luke and Ellen some paper, pens, and coloring pencils. Before you know it they'll be amusing themselves with 'choose your own adventure' stories and drawing challenges

[@maxvel0city906]

@@Binary- looks like we've got this weeks SOTWE sorted then!😂

[@vincentcao2606]

Keep Andy in the front seat to replenish patience as needed XD

[@mar_speedman]

@@vincentcao2606 And give him a heart attack every time Mike attempts a stunt? lol

[@Zombiesatemydarling]

I don’t know. 0-60 kph in 22.5 seconds. I think he’d get bored and bail out of the car before then.

[@nekosama1412]

Being from Dresden I can confirm that it has slightly more textures than this

[@antonyingram]

"If you will leave your engine in the street, someone's going to take it" Why did nobody tell me this earlier? SO many missing engines.

[@clairet-rex]

Brb, just adding this and Bus Simulator to a new playlist: ‘Reasons why you actually don’t want to get into a vehicle with Mike’

[@CjMac270]

Everyone's upset about Mike's lack of car knowledge but no one has brought up how hard Andy must have cringed at "If the Wall's come down it must be the 80s"

[@ghostderazgriz]

xD the 80's fever in cinema and TV is so strong that it feels like everything happened in the 80's lol

[@HCBYRD]

Well, they mentioned the namechange of the Czech Republic (I think) and that was in '93 or something, right? Or maybe I misheard, I was probably too engaged in the storyline.

[@culturalosmosis4640]

Mike doesn't know about cars? He's a synth! Where's the real Mike!?

[@Zombiesatemydarling]

Well he did have that meeting with the new director...

[@kamenraider1175]

Bet he doesn't put the cap back on the toothpaste. Know who does that? A synth. ... I've been playing too much Fallout 4 recently

[@fridtjofriibe5961]

Burn him, he’s of no use anyway

[@maxvel0city906]

Your friendly neighborhood Max Velocity here. For Mike and anyone else interested a Carburettor basically utilises changes in air pressure to pull fuel through a tube from a reservoir and vapourize it at the correct air/fuel ratio for combustion to happen.

[@FnRenner]

You misspelled your own name. Which is the correct spelling? The spelling in the comment or the screen name? Continuity matters

[@myrrhfortheroad]

Thanks, Max! 😀

[@RogueTangent]

I think I learned from the mechanic last time I was getting my car fixed that newer fuel injection engines no longer have carburettors because the fuel injector does that job. Yes?

[@fridtjofriibe5961]

saafirebutterfly, yes, exactly. While carburettors do work, they’re very finicky and somewhat unreliable, so fuel injectors are the better option. That’s why they’ve been in use since the 80s

[@SpydersByte]

@@RogueTangent yea I was going to say cars don't have carbs anymore :D So I guess it's not *that* surprising that Mike didn't know what it was. Still slightly disappointed in him though ;p

[@cthulhufhtagn2483]

Uncle Lutfi: The fuel and oil have to be mixed by hand because it's a two-stroke engine. Mike: *ignores Uncle Lutfi* Why does the oil go in the same place as the gas?

[@cthulhufhtagn2483]

@Dylan Steezy I know. Just pointing out that Mike ignored the tutorial and was confused.

[@Stabra_Cadabra]

I imagine this is how Oxbox travels to events. Andy: "Did you get the car ready for the trip?" Jane: "Umm... I have wine and snacks?"

[@katrinah8870]

For those that do come to outside xbox for car maintenance education, a carburettor measures the amount of air coming into an engine so it can mix it with the right amount of fuel to ignite it

[@gosportjamie]

So, you managed to get to the first stop of the trip and Mike loses the engine of the car. Going on a road trip with him must just be SO MUCH FUN...

[@kendoyle]

Mike is trying passenger transportation one type at a time. I'm looking forward to flight simulator

[@mar_speedman]

Oh, you mean the game that inverted his camera controlling sense? This will be good lol

[@Nathanyel]

Caution: do NOT open the passenger door during flight.

[@mar_speedman]

@@Nathanyel passenger door? Ha! Mike will skip straight to the eject button!

[@nickjeffery536]

"What does the carburettor do?" It burettes your car, of course!

[@antimon05]

Love the concept. By the way, I've an '89 green Skoda Favorit with a white door on the passenger side, so I feel the pain. Welcome to Central Europe, mate!

[@wellitsureisntdale1860]

You've a Skoda? 'Skoden. (This is a joke only I and other Native Americans might get. It also isn't a very good joke)

[@antimon05]

@@wellitsureisntdale1860 Yes, it is! (I've just looked it up). I'd love to take my Skoda there just to be able to use this joke. I'm not sure it would survive the trip, though...

[@coyoteartist]

@@antimon05 Just read how someone drove one of those buggers from Liverpool to Madrid in June. Although the MOT in April did find about 85 faults in it so Lord knows how they made it.

[@antimon05]

@@coyoteartist These old machines can go until the wheels fall off. There is a Hungarian saying for these kind of constructs: as simple as a peg. No electronics, no unnecessary fuff like airbags: it's an engine in a box with wheels on it.

[@coyoteartist]

@@antimon05 True.

[@Captain_Yesterday]

You forgot the car blankets

[@mar_speedman]

ROFL!!

[@Cooperma426]

All those jokes from Andy and Jane about how hard Mike would rage about their lack of carburetor knowledge, and it turns out he doesn't have the foggiest, either. XD

[@CjMac270]

"How big can Dresden really be?" Not the first time a Brit has asked that question.

[@mar_speedman]

Jane: What's a carburator, Mike? Mike: I literally don't know Says Mike as the game explains what a carburator is...

[@tomgymer7719]

A carburettor mixes air and fuel. These days lots of cars use fuel injection instead, but my dad's old car still has a carburettor.

[@bastibastonne5670]

"How big can Dresden possibly be?" For those interested, Dresden, the capital of Germany´s federal state Saxony, has just over half a million inhabitants today. It is known for it´s beautiful baroque architecture, historic buildings, and as a center of engineering information- and nano-technology (thanks to it´s Technische Universität).

[@AgentHomer]

historic buildings? can't be that historic, since the us bombed the city to the ground in WWII.

[@rikdawson9165]

"Twiddle! Twiddle? Be twiddled!" I'm learning so much, from a mechanical standpoint.

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

I like how there are like 50 different explanations in the comments of what a carburetor does. It probably means it’s a multifunctional or complex component, but as someone who knows nothing about cars, I like to think it’s a conspiracy and they don’t actually exist.

[@ptonpc]

Don't tell anyone but car engines are powered by pixie dust and unicorn farts. It's a massive conspiracy to enslave the fae folk.

[@EzraColdsGarage]

This is the most beautiful exorcise in complete failure I've ever seen.

[@SonicRooncoPrime]

Wait, Mike doesn't know what a carburetor is? *Mike?!* ...I genuinely feel like my life is a lie right now. I think I need to lie down.

[@ptonpc]

Same here

[@mar_speedman]

I'm convinced Jane's theory that he's messing with us is true

[@notoriousbmc1]

I feel as though I've learned so much about how to build a car from the ground up. In fact, I might just give it a go. *Lifts engine block. breaks spine*

[@thierryfux7318]

The Tweed Dimension sounds like a excellent name for a tailor!

[@FnRenner]

Between the bus video and this, there is definitive proof that Ellen or Luke is the true "car guy" of the OX family. Sorry Mike, but proof.

[@Captain_Pudding]

It's a 2-stroke, you add the oil directly to the gas.

[@MerchManDan]

Dang, watching this makes me crave a simpler life. Just sleeping in a garage, building cars from leftover parts in a single morning, road trips to and from the Eastern Bloc. Hopefully from, anyway.

[@Catilleon]

My dad has a story his engine block being ripped out from his car while he was briefly parked outside a mechanics in Sydney's Guildford suburb. I want to say he's joking but this and many other stories are never delivered as jokes. More strange anecdotes about why the family doesn't live in Guildford anymore.

[@insertclevername4123]

An unhelpful Uncle in a video game? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

[@sheolcodemonkey4027]

I feel like I should take a few shots at Mike for being a car enthusiast and yet not knowing about the car parts, but I'm a programmer applying for jobs who every so often gets asked to do a technical test and is just like "wut r compooters?", so I feel like I can understand

[@phyllissmith1966]

The car needs wheels, uh how about the fact that uncle needs EYES. I am a woman and I even know that the carburetor is the thingee that seperates the stuff going to the watchamacallit so the doohicky doesn't stall. haha And it is clear you never changed a tire on an older car because they used to make the jack so that the tire iron was used as the handle for the jack, that is why it was there.

[@magicstew45]

They've actually gone back to that style of jack sorta with new cars. In order to save space and weight new cars (particularly low sitting ones come with spider Jacks that have a tire iron that functions as a handle for the jack

[@SgtKOnyx]

It may be a surprise, but many "Eastern European" cars had incredibly light engines. The guy over at Aging Wheels owns a Trabant that he's taken the engine out of and subsequently apart. He was basically an to lift it by hand. By the way, even if you know nothing about cars, the man has an incredible dry wit that is worth watching.

[@redneckhybrid2964]

A carburetor controls the air fuel mixture that allows the engine to fire

[@Uniclonus]

22 seconds in and I can already tell this going to be entertaining. Probably for the wrong reasons somehow

[@somepunkinthecomments471]

You are now entering, the tweed light zone. 🎵Spooky music🎵

[@johnsansker7064]

At 2:44, when you pick up the engine block it says it adds 54 kg weight to the car, that'd be 119 pounds . A full size Class 8 truck engine, 12.7 liter 6 cylinder diesel engine weighs 2,550 pounds dry. Not sure what kind of car Jane has heard of that has a 3000 pound engine block.

[@tba113]

>Jane: Mike, I thought you knew all about cars! >Mike: Hey, man, I just ride in 'em, I dunno what makes 'em work...

[@mrm.acampbell2722]

Sausages and wine is the perfect substitute for a missing engine

[@smudgusinterruptus2246]

“A trunk and a fronk” - Mike

[@coyoteartist]

It's perfectly possible to be a gear head and only have rudimentary mechanical knowledge. Just like you can be one and not actually be able to drive. And I'll fight any auto shop loitering track day demon who tells me otherwise.

[@CaptainYokkiller]

When I woke up this morning I didn't think that this was something I wanted but here we are.... this being something I want more of

[@Compgeek86]

That coat reminds me of how they drew plaid in old bugs bunny cartoons

[@tamfuwing1]

I think Life of Boris or maybe his Gopnik Gaming channel also features this game.

[@tamfuwing1]

Mike loses an engine, Boris gets a fuel tank stuck to his hand which he can't get rid of. Hilarious.

[@WestCooly]

Uncle: Giving vital information on the operation of the old car you’ll be trusting your lives to on this trip. Mike: Mashes A while telling Uncle he’s not being helpful. Safe driving Oxventurers. ✌️ 😝

[@Icam_here]

the verve of some people, you leave your engine on the ground and someone steals it, also how did they manage to turn the car around with no engine in it

[@fae_gavan7582]

If I remember correctly, the game takes place in 1992, as Boris from Life of Boris played the game, and he saw the date on (i think) the calender.

[@tba113]

Mike follows the same school of car use and maintenance as Bertie Wooster: get aboard, prod the self-starter, and leave the rest to nature.

[@milspecrider]

Why does uncle have a seeing eye puzzle as a jacket?

[@kirbyrawstorne]

A bit project-managey?! I'll be filling out the HR27-SB form about that comment and no mistake! Signed, a Project Manager

[@chadp363]

This is like real life, but you can shut it off when you get frustrated, unlike real life.

[@Paul_The_Spaceman]

Thanks for popping the price in the description.

[@hngongstring]

Mike! It's a two cycle. The oil and the gasoline DO get mixed together in the tank. The first saab had a 2 cycle.

[@archer8492]

Wow. The Cold War Eastern Bloc road trip sim I've been writing letters about for years has finally been made.

[@Sznfctm]

It's a Trabant, most parts are optional. :D Car construction process is accurate too, you could do it at home back in the 80s, any related skillset was optional.

[@happybob1441]

Stealing from the shop. Threatening to run other motorists off the road. Mike trying to go GTA in the GTA car related game possible.

[@oynque8965]

I don't know how picked those tunes, but you really need to upgrade your road trip playlist.

[@ghostderazgriz]

"You really need to update your cassette tape playlist" "Why?" "Well for one, they're cassette tapes"

[@Patrick-Phelan]

@@ghostderazgriz Driver picks the music, Uncle Lutfi shuts his cakehole.

[@mikeswormstedt5351]

Background music is very soothing. Can you be more specific who it is or where it can be found?

[@Se7en2107]

I was actually watching this from a hotel room while on a road trip.

[@ryans6363]

when jane said "tire iron" I thought she said "Hi Ryan" and I got really freaked out. Actually had to go back to make sure she wasn't watching me through my webcam or something

[@MSte21]

The controls are so fiddly. Definitely not made for a controller.

[@justburnitwithfire]

Uncle probably sold the engine for more wine and sausages while everyone was asleep.

[@MetabolicSpore0]

Airfilter? Roll down the window... Job done.

[@shannonolivas9524]

There's an interesting article on Rock Paper Shotgun about some of the tricks involved in getting this game working a somewhat convincing way, including moving the center of gravity for the car 10m under the road. Worth a read if you're interested in behind the scenes stuff about games.

[@CondorCalabasas]

This was too perfect. More of you playing this game please.

[@JudgeEd]

Only Mike could play a road trip game and lose the engine.

[@tsoliot5913]

a carburetor aresolizes fuel, making an atomized fuel/air mixture as well as dictating the mix ratio, before the cylinder draws in the mixture and compresses it in order to engage in combustion.

[@jvwriter9028]

This video would be a great example to show someone if they asked what outsidexbox was like.

[@thisiseliot]

Now I want to see Mike struggle through My Summer Car.

[@Lezmila]

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 Doesn't have anything to worry about.

[@lycanthrochick]

After playing this game, Mike has suddenly forgotten how cars work

[@owenbush2991]

Its supposed to be released today, why isn't on the store?

[@tomtitherington]

Jane Douglas, world class mechanic!

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

They just don't stop giving Mike the controls over vehicles. No matter how many times he crashes or leaves it unattended.

[@taylordudley3673]

Now I want a playthrough with Mike and Car Mechanic Simulator.....

[@DamnedEyez]

I'm assuming, with all the car repair apparently in the game, that they did need to find the engine....but I still wonder why they didn't try closing the hood/bonnet before trying the ignition.

[@katrose5179]

Carbonator regulates fuel consumption in a car. ^_^

[@lordshadow3822]

Cupboard opens by itself... Ahhh the garage is possessed!

[@Ch3k0v]

Mike, how did you manage to double softlock XD That's truly impressive

[@MovieEggman]

Oi! Jettison that jalopy from my driveway this instant, you deadbeat!

[@charliejones3119]

Basically a carburettor is just there to supply the engine with a mixture of air and fuel and you can adjust the mixture with a screw that's on on carb that adjusts a valve the only vehicles that use carbs are bikes prior to around 2012 now they run on a electric fuel injected system where instead of mixing fuel and air together in a system like a carb EFI system has the fuel squirted into the chamber and the air taken from your air intake and combining them in the chamber to be ignited by the spark plugs

[@Hellwyck]

Greatest road trip sweets - Maynard Sports Mix!

[@nihal.organa]

I'm no expert, but I'm quite sure you need a car blanket before going on driving.

[@kallasantysanty6092]

That was ... different. It looks like Interstate 76 went to see his poor and sick uncle but got lost on the way ...

[@mik4k6]

Your uncle is Stan from the _Monkey Island_ games! That's where he went! ^^

[@brocksisson7128]

I've rushed to pack for a trip before, i've never had to build the car to get me there.

[@mik4k6]

Too bad you couldn't back this video with music from _Mike and the Mechanics._ ;P

[@Superstino]

At 6:48 it seems to mix up two sentences. That's an interesting bug.

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

I came here to see Mike smash into things and instead I learned about car parts.... It was horrible.

[@yondie491]

"For some reason, the [tire] iron is by the jack" tee-hee

[@MIGHTYBOOSCH198]

Good thing uncles not in a rush

[@Pbmarron]

Well that all went predictably Mike.