I liked his reviews but lately he's been pushing tons of them with a lot of misinformation. Feels like his reviews are done in 30 min without actually knowing the car.

 

He says filming alone takes 5-6 hours usually. He often travels quite a bit to drive these, and it takes time to edit with the voiceovers and everything. So each video probably takes a total of a couple of days to finish.

I also wonder if, living on the East Coast, he's trying to get as many of these filmed as he can before the weather turns sour. He's not going to get to drive a 918 Spyder or F40 in January anywhere near where he lives.

 

I have to agree regarding the slow comments meaning the car being misunderstood. The best part of the S is the handling and that's what he found fantastic. A car simply can't be all things, there's going to be negatives. That said the S is still no slouch in this day and age. A 17 year old AP1 can still beat a 2018 Brz off the line and I don't think any other 2.0l 4 cyl even today has matching HP without a turbo. His "Doug score" seems to be fairly arbitrary as well, I think the $800k Porsche 918 scored a 6 in "value" if I'm not mistaken. I can definitely be a biased toward the S in these kinds of things but I think the items he pointed out are not necessary the downfalls of the S.

 

I've been thinking... to this day, has any production N/A 4-cyl surpassed 240hp, regardless of displacement? I can't think of one.

I think he should have factored depreciation into the value. I made money on mine after putting 23k on it over 3.5 years. I'd say that's pretty darn good value even if you have to shell out more upfront than you might expect for an old Japanese 4-cyl roadster. I'd rather buy a $20k car that loses no value than a $15k one that depreciates to $10k.

 

I wasn't trying to "learn" (probably the wrong word used in the post) anything from his video but was still interested to see what he had to say about the S2000. The first thing he mentioned getting into the S2000 was how slow it felt (multiple times) before you rev it to 6000 rpm. If someone who knows nothing about S2000 had watched this video may get the wrong impression that this is a slow car and that would be missing the point of the car. His videos are popular and get alot of views so I don't like the fact he provides the wrong impression about the S2000 to people who may not be a car enthusiasts like us.

 

Cannot stand Demuro. Will not watch.

 

I like his reviews of more oddball cars. More normal cars even some of the exotics just leave me wondering why he bothered. This one was particularly sad. It looked like he was just driving it around town which is were the S is pretty boring. He needed some of the back roads I have seen him on in some of the other videos he has done. Really disappointed about missing a lot of things and misinforming on others like the AC setting (nothing comes from behind you). The fact he didn't talk about the engine was a miss as well. Oh well. Maybe it will keep the S a little more of a secret.

 

I used to follow Demuro on Jalopnik but have not really bothered since he left, this review was really really disappointing and half baked on the information side.

At least he liked driving it for the most part.