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One of the best parts of the MotorTrend YouTube channel is Roadkill. The hosts are great, the content of each show is entertaining, and the guys certainly know their stuff. One of the most fascinating parts of the show for me is that Freiburger and Finnegan can dive into an engine, assess the situation, and work quickly to rectify any problems. They might not fix things perfectly, but they definitely know what they’re doing. As someone trying to learn more about wrenching, this aspect of the show is endlessly appealing to me.
That’s why I’m pretty excited about one of the new shows coming to the MT channel. It’s called Roadkill Garage and it sees hosts David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich from Engine Masters coming together for more automotive goodness. The premise is that the two will attempt to overhaul engines over the course of three days. Starting on a Friday, the duo will pull, assess, repair, and hopefully restart an engine by the end of the weekend. It’s basically what you and your buddies do at home, but with more interesting cars and a camera crew trying to capture the action.
Now, the first episode you can watch above for free. The rest will be sitting behind the new MotorTrend OnDemand paywall. So if you like what you see, I’d recommend ponying up a few bucks. This is quality content and supporting your favorite bits of online content is something we obviously support.
Roadkill Garage Explores 3-Day Engine Overhauls
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Let me know when they pull a 944 to make it keep its liquids separated, I’d really like to see that done in a time-efficient manner. The research for ordering parts took me longer than three days, and I didn’t even touch the engine yet…
I couldn’t watch it yet, but from the description it’s pretty “special interest”.. I hope they’ll find their niche!-
Yeah, given the size of the potential audience, a paywall seems to be an odd choice.
Most Roadkill episodes start out, “we’re going to spend the morning doing these few simple tasks, then hit the road after lunch” and then at 4am they sneak in a two hour nap so they can wake up with enough time to do the second item on the list. I wonder if the three days mentioned in the tirle will be a hard stop.-
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Well, they also proof that extensive research is well worth the time – I’m feeling better now, thanks!
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I like all of the video stuff that Motor Trend does with Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Dirt Every Day, Engine Masters, and Roadkill Garage. All of the shows’ hosts have good chemistry, much like Top Gear’s hosts did, which is, for me, the defining factor of a good “live” show, especially an automotive one. They seem to keep it pretty real and down to earth though, unlike Top Gear.
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I love Roadkill and HR Garage… but am I willing to pay for RKGarage? Probably not.
It may be a case of diluting the brand?-
Yeah, I find it really hard to justify paying to watch just that one show, although I do like it.
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Wrong flywheel diameter? I thought I was the only one dumb enough to do that….and admit it!
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This show was good to watch, and Dulcich seems like a more pragmatic and helpful version of Finnegan, but I’m not sure I’m going to pay money to continue to watch. I’m not sure I’d be bothered enough to go through their ‘sign up’ process even if it were free.
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The 3 day project took a month. When you have old cars you need to have lots of them so one of them is running while others are being fixed.
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Bingo, i’d rather have 2-3 paid off projects than 1 car payment.
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