Mondays are rough, they mark the start of the work week for many of us, but mostly they mark the end of our sweet wonderful weekend. This Monday morning in particular I was feeling salty. I have a lot of problems people, and now you’re going to hear about it!

What’s got me all wound up this morning is what I am going to generously refer to as an “Auto-enthusiast sub culture” of the wanton and totally tasteless destruction of automobiles. I was watching youtube this morning and was greeted with “2017 $500 Car Challenge – Part 1” from superspeedersRob.

Rob Ferretti is the COO of Gotham Dream Cars, which is like Hertz but with Ferraris and other exotics. Ostensibly I don’t have any problem with Rob or his business; what I have a problem with is Rob and his other youtube buddies do an annual cheap car challenge where they buy three different cars and participate in a series of “challenges”. It sounds interesting enough based on that description, it isn’t a new concept; Top Gear has done this many times. Cletus McFarland, who’s known for sticking things in his tailpipe, and “That Dude in Blue” David Patterson an auto-vlogger/reviewer are playing the role of the two buddies for this year’s adventure.

Watching these three is painful; honestly, I had a hard time getting through it. There seems to be no plan, they just move haplessly from one task to another. There is an overlying goal to take these cars 500 miles, but the challenges themselves seem like no real planning is done. Maybe they just work with a general outline and expect to ad-lib through it, I don’t know. It seems like these three don’t even know each other well enough to have any kind of on-screen chemistry. The first “challenge” if you can even call it that was to smash the cars a bit. They simply parked in someone’s yard and wrecked the cars using various tools. This is what drives me nuts, why not set challenges and then “modify” the cars to meet the challenge. Watching three guys smash windows using hammers and cut cars using saws is not entertaining to me, it’s just pointless destruction. Also worth noting is an absolutely reckless attitude towards safety which left two of the three injured, which is surprisingly low considering the amount of cringe worthy moments. It’s just plain bad.

Part 2, yeah I watched it, had the group go to “The Firm” in Florida, which looks like an awesome place. They seem like they are going to do some timed laps and actual testing but no. They start doing a timed lap where one was constantly pit-maneuvering the other throughout the lap. I don’t think they finished the lap. Then they sort of just screw around playing demo derby until one of the cars is totally destroyed and the other two are seriously damaged. Another car dies later on the highway, and the other blows a tire which was worn through the belts.

I know I am singling out these guys, and there are many more like them, they just happen to be relatively well known. I just can’t stand this vein of automotive entertainment. Pointless destruction is pointless! Give me some method and plot to the madness. I know the average youtuber doesn’t have a Top Gear budget, but making a plan costs nothing! Get a little bit of paper, have a few emails with the other two guys and come up with some legitimate ideas. There were no actual challenges, no points, and no winner. The whole thing is like watching Golf, it’s actually not that entertaining.

I don’t usually rant, I just really hate watching people needlessly vandalizing and destroying cars. I suppose it must be interesting to someone, the two videos have a combined viewing of 230,000. Do you agree or is it just me? Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments or on Facebook.