Car Designer Reacts to Failed Inventions

[@somdusazerate]

Bob doesn't cease to amaze me. He is incredibly good at speaking japanese, that's what I observed last time around. He actually knows that Finland isn't a Scandinavian country. This guy is proabably waaaay smarter than what his golden comedic vibe conveys to people. Guy is the real deal.

[@realmechanicstuff]

Bob and I started yelling "PERKELE SAATANA!" after the discussion about Blue Piss to confuse Steph. We cut it for time/pacing. 😅🇫🇮❤

[@RukProtect]

@@realmechanicstuff Sikka, sikka, sikka, sikka...

[@realmechanicstuff]

@@RukProtect Terve Bob Hall!

[@BigFatCone]

@@realmechanicstuff Hyvää Bob!

[@bobloblaw1720]

Bobs the kind of guy who can strip off his coveralls and put on a tux and still blend. Proper renaissance man.

[@Huwbacca]

Bob is just an encyclopedia. He jokes around but seriously, that dude knows so much and is so good at communicating.

[@Ntwister]

it would be hilarious if all the info he shares was just made up xD would be even mote inmpressive tho ^^

[@fabr5747]

Well he also makes assumptions based on stuff he thinks he knows... The first clip with the Saab 90... He says that it was a requirement from the EU... Car produced from 1984 to 1987. The European single market has existed since 1993, prior to that, no European standard existed. So that's pure bullshit ! This was just a Scandinavian car thing. Volvo and Saab were innovators trying to have the safest cars, and back then, lights were not as good as today. Sweden seems to have made it mandatory for a certain period. Now it seems that only fluid is used for that. But for the rest of the world, it was sold as an option.

[@faizalfaiya]

Bob: hmm Steph: wtf ? 🤣⚠️👋🏼

[@flopjul3022]

@@fabr5747 but he did specify that Finland wasnt Scandivian so i give him that

[@fabr5747]

@@flopjul3022 Fair enough, he might know his geography basics !

[@KutZoru]

“Ford’s Engineering department I think was experimenting with drugs…” Bob’s sense of humour is awesome 😄

[@Tayl0r_]

He's probably not wrong, honestly😆 *cough* Fordlandia *cough*

[@andrewwang8204]

I'm so glad bob is just now a reoccurring character here. He's such a bro with that chaotic version of the James May energy

[@phbuss]

When Bob said Finland is not part of Scandinavia, I knew he was educated

[@HanSolo__]

There is only one reason why they are not Skandynavia. All the other things (1000s of them) say the opposite.

[@pad9175]

@@HanSolo__ No, skandinavia is just a geographical area and Finland is 100% not part of it. It is however part of the nordic countries.

[@HanSolo__]

@@pad9175 I know. It's Scandinavian Penisula. In English all you call Nordic are scandinavian in mine. And not only mine.

[@jama211]

@@HanSolo__ You're not making sense.

[@RadioactiveSaddam]

Yes!

[@BrandinooWOW]

I met Bob earlier in the summer. The guys a hero. Such a nice dude. Was very excited to see my little Mazda pin on my coat. So blessed to have met him and Tom Matano. Great guys

[@tonyl7286]

Bob's Japanese is very "Showa Japanese" - it has a specific cadence and rhythm distinctive to older people who grew up in the Showa era. Kinda like a transatlantic accent but Japanese version, really cool touch.

[@sgtmaggi]

Transatlantic accent comparison is a great way to explain it to people like me haha So its like a "everyone can understand it" kinda accent? Thats really neat. Is that something purposefully used today or like you said something of the past?

[@s70driver2005]

すごいですね‼️

[@MishtahPoog]

I'd love separate longer-form versions of these videos where Bob is allowed to go more in-depth with his responses and history lessons. I feel like there were a few times in this video where the short-form nature of this rapid-fire reaction format cut him off from expanding on his answers. I'll watch virtually any videos you make with Bob Hall in them!

[@robertnichols2283]

I agree On the other hand, at 20+ minutes, this video was already getting long for an RMS video, so I can see why the had to trim some things back

[@oscardiggs246]

Bob could save Donut from it’s owners.

[@fpSmoker]

Not just Gullwing doors but an episode on all non traditional doors would be cool. Koenigsegg Dihedral synchro-helix doors are by far the coolest

[@bofa83]

look up the 1954 kaiser Darrin. those doors are cool.

[@philallen7626]

The BMW Z1's doors that drop down into the car are cool too.

[@JC_500]

@@bofa83 that's like the bmw z1 doors but sideways

[@tallguygreg]

​@@bofa83 I just looked it up 🤯🤯

[@cixelsyd40]

@@bofa83 I have seen one in real life. The doors are indeed cool.

[@laurikoivumaki1471]

Finland we call washerfluid system a pissapoika direct translation is pissboy system 😂

[@realmechanicstuff]

Perkele!!! That's hilarious!!!

[@touko7337]

Suomi mainittu, torille!

[@jingalls9142]

​@@realmechanicstuffPerrrrrrggggg'kele

[@AddyEspresso]

hilarious

[@Efreeti]

@@touko7337 Tortilla tavataan! Olen saippuakivikauppias.

[@goodfinity8432]

Best decision Donut ever made, hired Bob Hall. I'm glad dude's has the place to spend his free time now that he's probably retired

[@RukProtect]

I wholeheartedly agree! bwob

[@dexnpy]

The way Bob imitated how english dubbing is often not synced with the mouth movement in the "Nucleon destroy tokyo!" bit had my rolling 🤣

[@hoilst265]

"No wonder Japanese is so hard to learn. Your mouth has to keep moving after you stop speaking." - Calvin watching a Godzilla movie, Calvin And Hobbes.

[@El_Negro2003]

I love gorillas

[@Dirk-Digs-U]

I was so confused watching Speed Racer long ago.

[@QuasiMonkey]

11:02 Former US President Lyndon B. Johnson had an Amphicar. He would often play practical jokes on passengers who were unaware the car was also a boat, pretending the brakes malfunctioned as they sped downhill and crashed into the lake water at his ranch in Stonewall Texas.

[@ianfinrir8724]

He would also hold meetings in the bathroom of the White House while he was on the toilet, and once got into an argument with his tailor over his pants not having enough room in the crotch.

[@thom-mark6443]

I owned a first gen 300ZX with the digital dash in 84' that included the "talking" option. Nissan had the good sense to use a female voice that sounded sexy and very realistic as opposed to Chrysler's robot male. The only problem is that it made me feel like my wife was always sitting beside me barking orders even when driving alone. The only voice command missing was "slow down before you kill us".

[@GoopWizard]

My 86 300zx had that as well, I really miss that car. Voice went out a few months after I got it but man that dashboard was sexy ❤

[@GremmieWhite]

With all due respect to Sandro, Angelina, Steph, Paul, others... Episodes with Bob are THE BEST. You just cannot be better host and at the same time know fascinating trivia about cars more than Bob

[@Tynamiitti]

I think his stuff would work better on his own engineering channel like "Real Car Engineering Stuff" . I love the guy, but him talking about engineering history and Carlos dunking on bad car repairs belong tonseparate channels. I personally just want more of both!

[@strangerinastrangeland3613]

For real! The guy is absolutely somewhere between an Expert and a Master when it comes to the entire automotive field. The guy's a legend, I wish the best for him and his health.

[@bpmcmanson8701]

Thats your opinion, personally dont care much for bob or that blonde kid

[@privateburke1st]

Steph detracts from every video. She seems to have very little of car history.

[@StayMadNobodycares]

@@privateburke1st She's trying to project too much energy and it's overwhelming.

[@krank4352]

Can we clone Bob? The world needs a lot more Bobs

[@FonikosGazmas]

I second that. Seems like a chill, awesome and honest dude.

[@keledek660]

Count me in. We need neighbours, friend, or uncle just like him.

[@Technically_Working]

Would you belive he has a twin brother that was a product planner with GM?

[@inhohvh7850]

just watch the princess bride. he's the little guy

[@channeldoesnotexist]

and vagene too

[@JongiB96]

Just a conversation between someone being genuinely funny, interesting, and knowledgeable, and someone who's trying their best to look and sound interested.

[@andrewh2341]

Yeah she’s annoying af

[@precesionnoreaster1507]

Fr fucking annoying

[@cambino66]

yea no offence to the other host but she seems like shes going for the react youtuber persona and it doesnt mix great with bobs bluntness. WOW DOORS LIKE TESLA to a 300SL is wild. Im sure shell find her hosting potential soon though lol.

[@justice91423]

Right? Feels so forced.

[@dereksutherland5564]

Yea, something about Steph just feels fake. Bob, Sandro, and Angelina all feel like real people when you watch them, like their real personality is being displayed. Steph doesn't give that vibe at all.

[@RandyBarlow-fn8lo]

No wonder the Miata turned out so good. Bob's IQ has to be super high, the guy's a absolute genius.

[@JC_500]

@@RandyBarlow-fn8lo he looks like you'd see him and Danny Devito rolling down the street in one

[@sihiri_kabari]

How? He has lots of experience and knowledge about cars, sure. Experience and knowledge don’t make anyone a genius tho

[@mofayer]

​​@@sihiri_kabarihow? In this very video you can see him recognizing a pattern and quickly adapting to it. That is the definition of high IQ. It* also leads to a quicker aggregation of knowledge.

[@CyberCheese392]

Yet he was against the pop up headlights

[@zh3nox]

@@sihiri_kabari don't worry once you start using your brains you will understand layers of intelligence.

[@mikelesnieski1488]

The fact that pop up and down headlights song didn't play makes me so so sad.

[@diddlybow3891]

I’m with you on that one. I miss James..

[@abrown956]

James has his own channel as well now called speed

[@zachbreece2311]

They don’t wanna pay James residuals lmao

[@Maj_Kasul]

😢

[@michaelhowell2326]

I thought the same. James might not be around anymore but he was still a Donut Founding Father that can still be quoted and appreciated.

[@evelynsahoe8896]

5:01 she says that like a joke but a guy like 7-8 years ago managed to steal a plane, fly it for a few hours, AND do barrel rolls in a commercial aircraft with his only experience being flight simulator 🤣🤣🤣

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

He was just a broken guy who wanted to do barrel rolls and reclaim the sky. Godspeed, Sky King 😞

[@nolankahler6705]

It was in 2019

[@mr_pigman1013]

@@nolankahler6705yeah that’s like 7-8 years ago

[@nolankahler6705]

@@mr_pigman1013 missing a few

[@mr_pigman1013]

@@nolankahler6705 yeah I’m missin a few toes, I lost my left pinkie in a boating accident, my right middle toe back from when I was still workin for bill, and, my dear left big toe, that one got taken by my ex

[@AarmOZ84]

My grandparents had a talking Chrysler! That voice brought back so many memories of trying to get the car to talk. It would even say things like, "Your door is ajar."

[@Undaglibenglaubengloben]

“The windshield wiper… (sigh) windshield… take two!” damn this guy is SHARP

[@greenaum]

Presenter pretending to laugh at Bob's Betamax joke, having no idea what he's talking about.

[@Quasi_Terrible]

Bob should do the show by himself. Bob is awesome!

[@BringerOfDearth]

I wish I _merely_ possessed even just the ancillary knowledge that has spilled over from Bob's brain across his many, remarkably skilled, years in the industry. He, quite clearly, mastered his craft. I love the heck out of hearing him speak; he's a pretty dang engaging guy as well. Keep this series coming, please! 👍

[@A-man3607-p7o]

What?? he knew about Indians looking at building Thorium Reactors. That is crazy. Even most Indians don’t know that. And he is correct in saying that India is building thorium based reactors.

[@stephen3164]

Friend’s mom had a talking Chrysler. When the battery got low, the system flipped out and started going through ALL the programmed settings. Friend’s mom was freaking out, just trying to get us home, but my friend and I were both in tears from laughing so much.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Ah yes, computers get drunk when the battery is low 😂

[@davidmiller9485]

Most of us ( back in the 90's when these things were being made) just removed the wire to the voice box. It could talk all it wanted but you would never hear it. That has positives and negatives. If you overheat and were not paying attention, you would need a new set of head gaskets (at the best). On the other hand, you didn't have to hear a man (there was a woman voice as well) tell you that your "door was ajar" over and over. Still those cars had some nice instrument clusters on them.

[@Dennis-in5lo]

"Don't forget your keys"

[@Diecastclassicist]

Bob needs his own channel, he is the GOAT. He knew these already, he’s like an encyclopedia. He even knows all about thorium! And yes, please do an episode on Gullwing doors.

[@weaselwolf]

Give it time, eventually we'll get a 'Why I left donut' video from Bob lol

[@scottcol23]

@@weaselwolf Bob's retired and just having fun. This is a "It get me out of the house" type gig. Doubt he cares about any of that stuff.. What he needs to do is get on a few Podcasts, tell some banger stories and plug his channel. It would yield him a steady income.

[@weaselwolf]

@@scottcol23 That's what makes it a joke.

[@TheFattenedSausage]

​@@scottcol23 I'd listen to that podcast

[@ZombieByte]

4:31 perfectly sums up my problems with modern crossover suv's they're too big and heavy to be sporty, and they're way to high tech and overcomplicated to be useful for any kind of utility, so you just kind of end up with a swiss army knife of a vehicle that can do a little bit of everything, very poorly.

[@Serenity_Dee]

16:11 The Nucleon was only the second most terrifying idea for a nuclear-powered vehicle. Both the USA and the USSR experimented with nuclear aircraft, but they came to their senses before they went anywhere. The Americans never got past the R&D stage to build a prototype, but the Soviets built the Tupolev Tu-95LAL, which wasn't actually powered by the reactor, it just had a reactor running in the bomb bay while conventional engines actually powered the craft in order to test the shielding. (It wasn't quite sufficient and test crews fared poorly.)

[@JimoftheSlim]

The US very much did fly a reactor. Convair built the NB-36, which was a Peacemaker with a reactor on-board. It did quite a lot of flying and the reactor was operated safely. Both programs were canned more because the requisite size of the aircraft made them too slow to penetrate air defenses more than anything.

[@Oblivionbolt1]

and inspired all the cars in Fallout.

[@GSBarlev]

I will always love the Nucleon. But then again, I'm the kind of nutcase who thinks that Project Orion was our ticket to the stars.

[@Serenity_Dee]

@@JimoftheSlim I stand corrected. I _thought_ I remembered something about US test flights but a quick Google to check dates and project names led me astray.

[@darthmeow1370]

The idea was brilliant, thorium like Bob said is not very dangerous from a radioactivity standpoint and certainly won't kill you any less dead in a crash than a massive fireball of burning jet fuel. The tests were successful --they didn't have the reactors running the engines but they were operational while in flight so they could test if radiation shielding light enough to be airworthy could also be effective, and it was. There was no reason they could not have been built and flown safely. The project was canceled late in development because the ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missile) was invented rendering ultra-long range bombers for dropping nuclear weapons no longer necessary. If it had been completed and put into service, the tech would be in commercial airliners long before now and fuel costs would be incredibly low, countless tons of pollution wouldn't have been put into the skies, and a lot of people might have survived plane crashes with minor radiation sickness instead of being roasted alive in a kerosene fireball.

[@uncleartax]

I love that you guys randomly got the miata engineer on and he is now the best part of the show

[@nahhwe1141]

Bob is the friend who turns into a comedian when the baddies are around

[@cornovii3012]

With headlight wipers don't forget we used to have glass headlights, plastic headlights that we have now wouldn't last a day being scratched to death with a wiper and dirt.

[@Angry_Squirrel555]

Mercedes had them on the E-Class and S-Class back in the '90's. Pretty sure that those units were plastic.

[@noGoodNickLeftForMe]

@@Angry_Squirrel555 no, plastic headlights came with W210 E class, W220 S class and so on which hadn't had wipers, but high pressure jets. Older models like W124, W126, W140, R129, W201 all had glass headlights, I've owned them all ;-)

[@SoulTouchMusic93]

​@@Angry_Squirrel555I e seen them up to early 2k on volvos.

[@Fortzon]

My Volvo S80 has glass headlights but the wiper motors died ages ago :D

[@Angry_Squirrel555]

@@noGoodNickLeftForMe I thought that later models had them, but apparently I am incorrect. I never had a desire to own a Mercedes but my brother has owned a few.

[@CobetcknnKolowski]

15:11 Bob is such a treasure, he just has Excellent mastery of Comedy both physical and wordplay, and being able to make jokes involving the media format (Leaning over the table to "look" down at the comments)? Just bless that great man.

[@ps3Hubbards]

Can we get this guy's reckons on the cars of Cyberpunk 2077? They're pretty thoroughly thought through

[@TheGrace020]

😳😳😳

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

A cheap model is described as "a guillotine cross-bred with a meat grinder" when it comes to safety

[@zacharias_b]

Bob is one of the 5000 main characters of this world

[@1RungAtATime]

One time, me and three friends dropped acid, drove around in my dad's car. He has one of those talking cars. We're tripping and the car goes, "The door is ajar!" We pulled over and thought about that for twelve hours, man. "How can a door be a jar?" "Why would they put a jar on a car?" "Oh man, the freeway's melting." "Put it in the jar!" - Bill Hicks

[@DoubleMrE]

That reminds me of when I was a kid. “When is a boy not a boy? -When he’s abed.” I totally didn’t get that when I was small. 😊

[@joeshmoe7967]

@@DoubleMrE When is a fire truck not a fire truck?...When it turns into a fire station...

[@DoubleMrE]

@@joeshmoe7967 😆👍

[@AFMountaineer2000]

As a truck driver i see horrible drivers everyday giving them the ability to fly makes a bad situation worse

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

0:40 Sorry, Bob is wrong here. It was never a EU regulation, it was mandatory in Sweden between 1972 and 1990. In Germany it's mandatory for any car registered after April 1st, 2000 with headlights that are brighter than 2000 lumen, but most car companies try to keep the brightness under these 2000 lumen, so that they don't have to add headlight cleaners. As far as I know wipers aren't required at all.

[@teslatrooper85]

They are not. They require some cleaning system and most companies settled to pressure washing. Old Mercedes cars have wipers, with Xenon lights They moved to pressure washing.

[@AVDB95]

Absolutely otherwise we would have more cars that had them. Only time I ever see a car with headlight wipers it's a mercedes at a clasic car meet. Even the spray system for headlights is quite rare, I mostly see it on porsche's.

[@teslatrooper85]

@@AVDB95 even the 10+ year old VW Golf of my GF has the pressure washers.

[@AVDB95]

@@teslatrooper85 Still not common, my 2023 A4 doesn't have them. Neither I or my parents ever had a car that did have headlight washers.

[@michaelXXLF]

BMWs had little head-light wipers in the late 70's and early 80's. You could get them on the E23, E24, E28 and E30. Volvo had them as well!

[@MandBstudios]

Bob hall is a national treasure, I could just listen to him talk about car history for hours

[@mominx2412]

Only his 2nd video and Bob might just be the best Mechanic React host.

[@mmilley]

As someone who had a job pumping gas back when it was not uncommon to encounter cars with the gas cap behind the license plate, I hated them. The spring loaded door made it a pain in the ass to get the nozzle to hook onto the filler tube and all too often the nozzle would fall out and spill gas everywhere. I also remember crud falling into the filler since the whole area was constantly pelted with whatever was on the road.

[@banichi2269]

The yellow car at 1:53 with the roll over headlights was an Opel GT. I had a 1970 GT, it was all mechanical operated by a lever next to the emergency brake. Cool little car that I had tons of fun in.

[@TheCrosshare]

Big super points for saying "Even though it's not a scandinavian country" for Finland, so refreshing to hear! Fun fact on "superpiss" btw, in Finland we call windscreen washers "pissapoika" aka "piss boy"(origin for that is debatable, probably from the peeing boy statues/figurines), so superpiss is quite apt :D

[@boester69]

We need WAYYY more Bob! This man is a national treasure of great jokes and amazing knowledge, please film as much content with him as you can, when you can!

[@tfrowlett8752]

3:17 one of the main issues with this car/plane is just how much paperwork you need just to own it. You need a drivers and pilots license, it needs to be registered as a car and a plane, you need a radio operators license and medical certificate to be a pilot, and because it’s over 17ft when the wings are being towed, in America you need a chauffeurs license which requires another, different medical certificate. That’s eight licenses and certificates just to fully use it. No wonder only five were built.

[@BigUriel]

People never seemed to understand that once you make a car that can fly it's not technically a car any more, it's aircraft with all that entails. That thing is not a flying car, it's a really crappy airplane.

[@callummclachlan4771]

@@BigUriel Yep. Not sure what the laws are in the US. But in Australia, (legally at least) pretty much everything has to be done by a qualified aero mechanic. Makes sure everything is airworthy.

[@MrOmriSan]

Bob is a legend! Such a great sense of humor to go with so much knowledge. We need more of Bob.

[@jasonpatterson8091]

You'd think that a gyroscopically stabilized car would be awful to corner in as well. Not because the gyro can't go around the corner - it can, without any resistance other than inertia, but that's only true if it's perfectly vertical. This thing is a two wheeled vehicle that can't lean into a turn. Similarly, it's going to struggle mightily if the road itself is banked in a turn.

[@aleks5405]

As stated before you need two gyros for the job. It wasn't cost effective on a train so I doubt we'll see it on a car anytime soon. Maybe it could have some uses in a big boat to avoid keeling over but I'm sure there's a reason why it's not used there either.

[@mfree80286]

@@aleks5405 A lot of times you want the motion of a large craft to happen. Think about heading into heavy seas, do you want the boat to climb the wave, or forcefully shove it's nose in there and get swamped?

[@jasonpatterson8091]

@@aleks5405 But even with multiple gyros you've got to change the things' angular momenta just to tilt. Seems like a lot of work/extra equipment for something that is 95% cool and 5% useful.

[@Thinginator]

Yes it can lean into a turn. The Gyrocar had a system to move the gyro so the car would lean. You can find clips of the gyrocar driving on KZbin where it visibly leans. Even if it didn't lean, it would still remain upright and would actually be more stable than a four wheeled car. The only reason for it to lean is comfort.

[@Greatdome99]

The gyro only affects roll, not pitch or yaw, so turning corners is not affected.

[@cadburybunny]

As a Canadian who has used it ... SuperPiss Blue is fuggin good shite!

[@ssemaganda1]

This guy - BOB is very knowledgeable

[@joshkraynek9494]

If this ever gets a part 2, I’d love to hear Bob’s thoughts on Ford’s Big Red Turbine Truck. Now there’s some nifty 60’s engineering!

[@SavageShooter93]

We had an 87 New Yorker and that stupid thing said "please fasten your seatbelts" and "engine oil pressure is low prompt service is required" constantly no matter how full the oil was or if you had your seatbelts on.

[@EcoSpeeder]

17:41 This tech has great potential. It sounds like the engineering sticking point is being able to control the Thorium reaction more precisely. And be able to shut the reaction it down on a dime.

[@thegreatawoo4072]

The Superpiss gets it's name from Helsinki slang, the windshield washer is often called 'pissapoika' or "pissboy" and the washer fluid is 'pissapojan neste' or "pissboy fluid". There's no official origin to the slang that I could find.

[@varinrommel]

As a pilot, and a driver, there are a few more problems with a flying car. In an airplane, we actually steer with our feet. The top of the pedals are our brakes, one for each side, and the whole pedal, in some small aircraft, steers the front wheel and also moves the rudder. Not to mention that a used small, relatively, aircraft is going to run you around $30k.

[@KernelFault]

Also, would you want to deal with a car that has the same maintenance requirements as an aircraft?

[@Garbox80]

​@@KernelFault And if you do, Audi RS6 is a nice option 🤪 (or probably any supercar etc., but RS6 is referred to have use hour to service ratio of a helicopter... at least amongst Audi "hobbyists" in Finland).

[@varinrommel]

@@KernelFault if I remember correctly, there is a 50 hour inspection, 100 hour inspection, an annual inspection, and that’s not counting the routine maintenance that needs to be done. I will mention that the hourly inspections are based off of engine runtime so if you’re doing a four hour trip, there is nearly 1/5 of your allowed runtime on your engine already. Not to mention gas mileage is horrible. The best gph I’ve seen for small aircraft would be 11 gallons per hour, and that’s on a small two seat aircraft called the Ercoup

[@Outworlder]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@varinrommel you don't remember correctly, unless you are in some country with different requirements . You just have annual inspections unless you are carrying passengers for hire(or flight instruction), then you need to do 100 hour inspections. Some flight schools do 50 hour inspections since their aircraft get pretty banged up but it's not required. There's a recommendation for 50 hour filter and oil changes, which are no more difficult than a car and can be done by the owner. I don't understand the tidbit about 1/5 of engine runtime or whatever. People do cross country flights all the time and spend days flying and just refueling and topping off oil. Engine TBO is around 1200-2000 hours, depending on engine. There are some aircraft that guzzle fuel, but small general aviation aircraft aren't them. The Ercoupe consumes 5 gallons per hour. A Cessna 172, which is a 4 seater, uses around 8 gph in cruise. The fuel efficiency for the 172 is roughly 15mpg. Which is not amazing, but consider the distance you cover in one hour, and that's without twists and turns and traffic or stop signs.

[@varinrommel]

@@Outworlder I am going off of my flight school specs. I am an aviation student in the United States and I probably fly pipers more specifically the piper archer 3. they do about 11 gallons per hour. I’m going off of Colorado since that’s where I fly.

[@qwertykevin1]

19:43 " gross. GROSS, I do not like that" so sasssy, I love that love part

[@jrhoadsHTI]

I love Bob being involved. He's so knowledgeable and charismatic.

[@BogeyTheBear]

16:26 Bob's right (Bob is _always_ right...) It's the transduction from thermal neutron flux to kinetic energy that takes up most of the work. You're boiling water in order to get power out of a reactor, and water is _heavy._ Once we get aneutronic fusion licked, where the energy coming out of the reaction is electrically-charged particles instead of the heat coming from neutrons hitting matter, then we can see compact nuclear reactors be practical enough to run the flux capacitor installed in our flying DeLoreans.

[@Garbox80]

I'd place my bet on low radiation batteries instead. Some easily replaceable units. In real life. Won't make a flux capacitor though 😁

[@mfree80286]

@@Garbox80 If they do *anything*, unless there's a drastic breakthrough in physics it'll probably be a small TEG that just charges a standard lithium pack when the car sits. The current state of nuclear anything basically can't be shut off unless it's a critical mass, and then you're far too large for a land vehicle of any kind. So it needs to be small enough for heat rejection 24/7/365, since it's going to be pumping out the same heat load when parked doing nothing.

[@baoboumusic]

12:07 "it didn't do anything you and I would recognise as handling" That absolutely cracked me up 😂

[@JCReeves]

YASSSS! Do gull-wing doors! The Mercedes C111 and C112 (i think) should be one that's near and dear to Bob's heart.

[@andrewholden1501]

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson found the best use for the Amphicar (10:58). He would invite people to ride with him, scream, "oh my God, the brakes are out," and drive into the lake.

[@Scott_Buchanan]

That’s hilarious but LBJ was a POS

[@millenniumf1138]

"...who is ready to send the car off with a driver who promises to be about as non-technical as they come." "What does that mean? That she's a woman?!" *Bob turns into Silent Bob*

[@Bob-Sacamano]

She was just dying to make this a gender thing the whole time

[@BixbyConsequence]

@@Bob-Sacamano Well they were pretty obviously leaning into a gender stereotype when it was filmed.

[@millenniumf1138]

@@BixbyConsequence Yeah, it didn't even really bother me all that much. But c'mon, I had to make a Silent Bob reference!

[@Agret]

@@Bob-Sacamano I don't know who she is but it's clear she is not the right fit for this segment

[@godsbadside]

Say it with me now! 1:49 "Pop up, up and down head lights!"

[@MuhammadAziz._.2004]

I dunno why but rms is becoming better then donut all the hosts Step, Angie, Sandro, Bob especially are great

[@bebokRZly]

I ile only Bob and the way they montage movie. Hosts are quest of Bob :D

[@snrkybrd]

It's the same reason, actually. Donut Media (the company) is going in a more corporate direction and that allows them to put money into paying these legit ass people. ... Unfortunately that same money used to pay the creatives at Donut.

[@0308090]

Make this guy a mainstay. We all love Bob

[@HoRRiiBLe1313]

Bob really is becoming a household favorite on this channel. We need to protect him at all cost.

[@eidodk]

Saab didn't go out of business, the automotive division was bought by GM. Saab is very much alive, making fighter airplanes, which by the way was the only reason that company exists in the first place.

[@Yora21]

Which is why there is now a "Saab AB" with stands for "Swedish Automobile Stock Company Stock Company".

[@mjouwbuis]

Unfortunately, after GM sold SAAB, it went out of business.

[@eidodk]

@@mjouwbuis A GM owned "Saab" wasn't Saab anyway. when GM buys a car company, they either develop it or use it for tax purposes, this one was for tax purposes.

[@formatique_arschloch]

Yes. Saab makes fighter jets, radar systems, missile systems, all sorts of top tier military stuff.

[@rowdyringsak9448]

Gm built the Chevy Cruze basically from the Saab 9-3 platform. It's literally pretty much the same car.

[@SockyNoob]

Bob Hall never fails to be entertaining and educational at the same time. What a legend. No surprise he'd be the one to convince a car company to make the Miata.

[@robertsvet6980]

1:24 now we need some superpiss washer fluid in My Summer Car

[@hubareu]

Lmaoo

[@Trojan_Rabbit]

I really want Bob to exclaim, "Inconceivable!"

[@ubacow7109]

Bob is such an intellectual personality a true gem, we rarely have people like this anymore

[@auntykriest]

1:52. 1968-1973 Opel GT! Rotating POP-UP UP AND DOWN HEADLIGHTS! Awesome! Fun fact they were rotated with a sliding lever under the dash and looked cool AF. Bonus fact, if there was never an Opel GT there would have never been a Corvette Stingray. 😉 Dig it!

[@FastSS02]

How so? The C3 Corvette was introduced in 1968, the same year as the Opel GT.

[@banichi2269]

@@FastSS02 The Opel GT was first unveiled in 1965. They weren't going to build it but got a lot of positive feedback so a few years later they decided to go ahead and the first production GT came out in 68. At the time GM owned Opel and the same designer, Clare MacKichen, worked on both and they incorporated a lot of the design into the Vette.......supposedly

[@banichi2269]

I had a 1970 GT. 1.9 liter 4 cylinder left a little to be desired but since it was so small it would move pretty good, handled like a go cart. Very fun little car. It did get old hearing people say "Oh, it's a little corvette" NO it's not, the vette is a big GT😉

[@chada75]

And the GT made awesome drag cars.​@@banichi2269

[@JoriDiculous]

Always wanted an Opel GT. Just for the look alone. Wish Opel would retro-remake it someday.

[@baileydillon3331]

Bob would’ve saved donut

[@Odayian420]

No not even Bob could have saved something like that channel. The people who acted as the face couldn't make any calls.

[@ginger_nosoul]

​@@Odayian420we all know that, just play along mr literal

[@KernelFault]

Just the other day, he stole MY doughnut.

[@alexjackson936]

No, James couldn’t lol, nothing can stop rich out of touch suits… they see money, the think to themselves how to maximize it. They see loss of revenue, they blame the consumer and just keep on going with it… big money kills creativity, always, no matter what…

[@InTenSiFieR-29]

They're happy with their Chinese overlords

[@airborne82nd61]

I love the "kid at heart" vibe Bob has!! Awesome guy!!!

[@kamackmac]

WE LOVE BOB! WE LOVE BOB! He's honestly hilarious, well-spoken, and super knowledgeable! He's the reason I get on so well with a lot of (chill) older folks.

[@joeytgolf]

2:15 You can actually see the guy's arm moving as he raises the headlight. Would never have noticed if Bob hadn't said something about that.

[@joejoey7272]

SAAB isn’t out of business, they make fighter jets and made cars for a brief period of time

[@ps-fun1000]

SAAB cars is definitely out of business, it was a different company from the jet part.

[@joejoey7272]

@@ps-fun1000 both under the same parent company initially then SAAB sold it and became as you said a separate company

[@denizplays1307]

Bob can't be any cooler, his knowledge of the history on cars is incredible, the details he knows about, and his humor has no limits and him speaking fluently Japanese is just the cherry on top, hell I would be blown away if Bob was in Initial D/MF Ghost 😂

[@Mr-Neven]

The biggest problem with flying cars is gravity. Not an insult here, Bob reminds me of a combo between Wallace Shawn from Princess Bride and Don Rickles

[@stephen3164]

People have a tough enough time controlling a car in 2 dimensions - just imagine how many air accidents there would be when drivers had to navigate a third dimension! Also, can’t slam on the brakes or hit anything - bc then you fall out of the sky. It “works” in sci fi movies, but the logistics of making highways in the sky, and placing traffic signs and controls up there - it would just be a nightmare resulting in blocking out the sun for anyone stuck on the ground.

[@Mr-Neven]

@@stephen3164 Yup! Additionally keeping it up to code.

[@thebonkarsgamer449]

Could talk to Bob all day, also the sleeve is stunning

[@Bonitacreekrcs]

Watching Bob is a blast

[@Furko08]

my W124 has headlight wipers. one of them still works. the rubbers on both are shot and very expensive to replace not like you actually need them so don't even think about fixing them

[@arvidgreat]

Im Swedish, the moment he said Finland was not a Scandinavian country, I knew he was smarter than the 99% of people in the world

[@Number5_SCP]

Need Bob to cover gull wing doors

[@hectorsarinana4486]

They just need to have Bob write all the puns and transitions for all their episodes at this point. Not a single cohost has beat his puns yet 😂

[@TomLehockySVK]

Why is this not just the expert talking about the stuff ? Why is there another person just repeating what was said and randomly laughing??

[@Thinginator]

Yeah I just found it annoying how she called everything unconventional ugly or ridiculous. There was a point to all of those inventions, even the gyrocar, and just because something is odd that doesn't make it ugly. The gyrocar is just a typical sports car of the era narrowed to half the width because two wheels and aerodynamics. Also I get the feeling neither of them understand that 1950s concept cars were meant to showcase potential future technologies to get the public excited about the future of innovation in car design. The Nucleon didn't have to be possible at the time, it just captured the fascination America had with nuclear technology at the time and imagined what a nuclear car could be like if it could be made to work. Concept cars existed to be fun and imaginative regardless of whether they worked, they aren't failures at all. They were great publicity stunts and therefore a success.

[@danielmuonio7043]

She really is awful.

[@ellsworthm.toohey7657]

Just shows how DEI is poisoning EVERYTHING ! 10 % of useful stuff for 90 % BS !

[@Jdowling357]

They call that a "hole" in the radio world

[@robertnichols2283]

Same reason that, with broadcast sports events, you have one that calls the play, and the other that does the commentary (“the color”) It sets up a far more interesting dynamic And, quite frankly, I expect the “color” commentator to be goofy Is any one besides me old enough to remember “Dandy Don” Meredith from the original Monday Night Football? RMS is “Infotainment”, not just (dry) information

[@mattlinthicum4207]

this guy must be hilarous at parties, especially the 24 Hours of Lemons or a Cannonball party

[@QuantumShow2022]

Gull wing doors YES PLEASE! Cover more Gull Wing Door Cars!

[@DailyWarbird]

Bob is awesome, every time he is involved its entertaining. Keep it up!

[@Dattson510]

I would love to see Bob talk about Citroen and Saab. So many weird and wonderful quirks.

[@RukProtect]

Ummm...Citroën...

[@RetroQGaming]

No one will ever convince me the pop up headlights on my Mazda NA MX5 are bad or ugly. They're the reason it's the best car ever made.

[@KingChadKennedy]

To qualify as the best it should be super popular all over to the point where it's disgustingly overhyped and I live in South Africa I've only seen 2 Miatas a red one and a lhd green one so it was not sold here if it was it sold horribly so it's not the best

[@RetroQGaming]

@@KingChadKennedy It's my favourite car so it's the best to me!

[@stephen3164]

Especially with a set of E-code Hellas with H4 bulbs. Now the headlights are as bright as modern cars! (or you can put those Jeep LED lights in there, but those look a bit strange on a Miata)

[@RetroQGaming]

@@stephen3164 Mine is off getting some of the LED Halo rings in the pop ups atm, but the normal running lights have been converted to LEDs. It was annoying me having white daytime lights and orange halogen pop ups.

[@TheJohn8765]

I smile every time I see one on the road. It's just so charismatic! A bit of engine work to boost the power and it's one of the best cars ever made.

[@ExploringFate]

You know what would be awesome well 2 type of videos 1) At the end of each year a Car Designers React to the Best Car for Each Brand for the year. Where they pick 1 best design model from every car manufacturer at the end of each year. Guess it will start with 2024 since this is the first year. 2) The best car manufactured ever from every car manufacturer. Example: The greatest car Ford ever made, the greatest car Mercedes-Benz ever made, the greatest car Toyota ever made ect.

[@diddlybow3891]

Bob is in the house!

[@IAmTheCoastalGhost]

MORE STEPH AND BOB WOOOO

[@FloridaDIYer]

Well, more Bob anyway.

[@IAmTheCoastalGhost]

@@FloridaDIYer I kinda like Steph, she gets Bob and not everyone her age does.

[@joevykopal]

I could listen to Bob tell car stories all day! MORE BOB!❤🤘That man is an automotive culture treasure to be protected at all costs!

[@tornadogames7165]

imagine all the drunk drivers in flying cars

[@NEEDbacon]

Not even drunk drivers, just take a look at who you share the road with day to day and think "Boy I wish we were thousands of feet in the air where a slight fender bender sends us plummeting to our deaths".

[@gavigoldstein8077]

@@NEEDbacon You'd probably have to try to get in a "fender bender" thousands of feet in the air. I think a drunk pilot would pose more danger to people on the ground.

[@ShepTheCreator]

15:08 🔥 bob do it

[@KyleCarpenter-e2t]

Bob is the best! I love all the videos he’s in, such a gem 💎 ❤

[@FonikosGazmas]

1:35 His wordplay is magnificent 😂