Team-BHP - The Official Car and Bike Videos Thread!

Hello petrolhead BHPians!

Continuing posting about my European adventures from last year (yes still editing videos and still more to go), we go back to the Nurburgring where you saw me last flying in the Porsche GT3 RS.

This time though, I was on the other side at the short circuit which was used for Grand Prix racing some time ago. Co-incidentally that same weekend it was hosting a round of the Nurburgring Drift Cup.

Now this is the other side of cars that not many enthusiast appreciate. The machines here are aesthetically appalling with wires, bumpers, mirrors and other bits handing off them. But all that is for a reason, as all the money spend on these cars (which is quite a lot) goes underneath their skin.

While I was talking photos and filming there, I came across Thomas Highlander Grosse, a veteran motorsport professional who's been in the business for more than 35 years. Started off as an oval racing driver, these days Thomas makes drift cars for his clients and his team (THG). He was kind enough to agree to give me a taxi ride the next day in his personal drift car - A BMW E30 M3 with a 450hp V8 from an M5 shoehorned under its bonnet. Weighing just 1,050kg meant that there was enough muscle to break the rear tyres loose in literally every gear.

The next day, once again greeted by terrible weather, I met Thomas who lent me his spare suit. Soon we were off in his lightweight drift machine, and the rest was just the most epic experience I have ever had in a car!

More in the video below:
https://youtu.be/7VblPyFM9qo

We all need to cheer-up every once in a while :Cheering:. Sometimes to remind ourselves, "Why we go through the daily grind? " or Remind ourselves while sitting in traffic :Frustrati about the decision to buy a car (maybe one with manual transmission). Reasons can be many, The Place to find it should be 'One'.

here are my favorite ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhzsc7POwRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mp35ClVL4

Care to share your favorite one(s)???

Hello fellow Team Bhpians automobile fans.

I like to start this thread of the good videos on line for important repair and overhaul of cars. There was no such thread on Team Bhp hence wanted to start one. If the moderators feel that it violates some laws as we will be showing videos of other on line sites, please feel free to take it down.

While there are many videos, especially from abroad regarding modification and upgrading like adding a turbo or remapping, I like to share a video regarding humble honest repair to get the engine and cars systems back to their factory condition.

This lock down, took the opportunity to trawl the net for such videos and in my humble opinion, videos by Mr Mukesh Chandra Gond seems a good balance in information and technical facts. While on some videos he has mentioned that his intention is to teach and train mechanics, I believe it will help us gather knowledge of internal intricacies of an automobile engine.
I am sharing the link below. Once on you tube, you can see the other videos he has posted.
I request the forum members to share such videos by knowledgeable mechanics who gives out honest and correct information. Also any videos by our own forum member is also welcome.

I am in no way related to this person and I am starting this thread so we all have a list of good videos for such overhauls and mechanical repairs on Team Bhp. This will help to have a ready reckon-er to such videos should we need it and we can discuss the aspects shown on them for correctness of information. The videos to be share can be repairs on any thing from Engine overhaul, Gear box overhaul to Dent correction and Painting, Electrical repair, you name it, if you come across a good video please share it here.

Please see the link below.

https://youtu.be/HpHB-9BJCZ8

Sitting at home over the last couple of months, I'm sure a lot of us have spent countless hours on YouTube binging over car videos. To my own surprise, I have not watched a single TV series since the lockdown started in March (lot's of movies though). The last series I watched was actually Drive to Survive (highly recommended for anyone who likes Formula 1/wants to start following the sport).

Coming back to the topic, I spent A LOT of my free time watching hundreds and hundreds of car videos. Probably watched every video on the internet on the Porsche 987 and most videos on other Boxsters/Caymans in general stupid:
I've always loved Porsche and have started to appreciate them even more now but I have always been a hardcore Ferrari boy. Probably why most of my favourite videos are Ferrari videos.

I hope this thread can be a collection of all our favourite car videos, so we can come back to this when we have some time to kill, dreaming about machines we probably can't afford. These videos make me feel part of the experience of being in these amazing cars, which is why I'm drawn to them everyday!

Here's my top list:

1. This is the best video on the internet on the Ferrari 250 GTO. The driving footage at the 4:11 mark is pure bliss!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQaikxTUJs

2. Love the story in this video. There are many better car videos but this one has a unique story, and portrayed beautifully about a man and his Ferrari F40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm-8UelHlnc

3. I'm biased here but it's a very enjoyable video for everyone to watch (PS: I know that's a 981 and not a 987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-6s-ZhlYs

4. A very fun video by Top Gear 'comparing' (if you can call this a comparison) of my 2 dream cars - Ferrari F430 & 458 Italia. He's not being fair to the 430 here but it's a fun video to watch, nonetheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgKjp1pq7iI&t=361s

Disclaimer: I love Lamborghini, Aston Martin etc. and watch a lot of videos on those. The above is just my top list in terms of quality of content :)

Here is a list of my favourite car video channels on YouTube (in no particular order) -

Carwow
Top Gear
Doug DeMuro
Autocar India
Petrolicious
TPN Rainmaker
Fifth Gear
Carfection
Wheeler Dealers
The Drive