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Last time we did an overrated car list,
y'all got really mad they ended up all being JDM cars,
but I read through every single one of those
freaking angry comments, and I took some notes,
and I learned some things, and one of those things
that I learned is y'all really like to get worked up
about how this country of origin's cars
are way worse than this country of origin's cars,
and I wasn't trying to pick on JDM cars in particular.
It just so happens to be where the hype bubble is
at this exact moment in time,
but since you asked for it so much, we're bringing it back.
So how's about we take a stroll down a similarly beloved
rabbit hole of enthusiast cars that are surrounded
by undeserving clout and false information.
Today, we're going to talk about
the five most overrated European cars,
and make sure to stick around for the end of the video.
The last car on this list is surely
going to ruffle some Jimmys.
Who the (beep) is Jimmy?
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- And you just said mach four Supra turboed.
You just lost my respect there, right,
the moment you just said that.
Now, I just want your head on a stick.
I think everybody else now wants your head on a stick.
- Let's get into it.
Now, We wouldn't be doing this list any justice,
if we didn't start out by mentioning one of the most
anticipated and hyped up vehicles of the 21st century.
After being teased for years by concept designs,
promises of a product built on heritage
to murder its competition, and speculation of an engine
that would rival that of the famous 2JZ-GTE,
we were delivered a car that didn't quite
meet our expectations.
It barely outperforms its predecessor,
and it will cost you more than its competition
that runs circles around it.
I'm, of course, talking about the BMW A90 Supra.
The new GR Toyota Z4 is surrounded in a big ball of hype,
simply based on it being a super bad sports car
sold under Toyota, riding on the coattails
of its also overrated, but Toyota engineered older brother.
Toyota claims this new BMW will outperform
all previous production Toyotas to 60,
like a supercharged 2008 Tundra TRD,
and a 27-year-old Supra Turbo.
Wow, I'm flabbergasted by its too little
too late performance.
In all honesty, though, the looks have really grown on me.
After initially not enjoying the design
of the production car until I saw it in person
at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show,
I've come to the conclusion that Toyota did a fantastic job
making it look the part.
It looks better than the Z4 by a long shot,
but I'm still not sold on the interior.
So I don't know, basic BMW with questionable materials.
The Camry TRD I was in after experiencing the Supra
felt equal in quality, but more at home
with the Toyota brand.
I wish Toyota had made it feel as special on the inside
as it looks on the outside,
The new BMW Supra is an okay enough sports car
in a world of disappearing sports cars,
and it is 99% BMW Z4 for 93% of BMW Z4 money,
so it's not a terrible value
for someone in the market for a Z4,
but the new German Supra simply doesn't live up to the hype
they surrounded themselves with.
A 15-horsepower gain after 27 years of production,
guys, come on, you used to murder pony cars,
and now you can't even keep up with them,
so even though I'm glad to see an additional offering
of an enthusiast-oriented car
with lots of aftermarket support in a world
quickly converting to economy cars,
the BMW Supra feels like it's just trying to take advantage
of a niche market, rather than cater to it,
so for that reason, I've dubbed the Toyota Z4 BMW
underdeveloped and overrated.
Let's move on.
Number two is going to have to go
to my dearly beloved friend, the Volkswagen GTI.
The GTI is the staple of hot hatchbacks.
Everyone tries to be them, and nobody can outsell them,
even if they beat them on track.
Born into the world in 1975,
the 1976 model year with a 108 horsepower,
1.6-liter engine that shot 60 in 9.2 seconds.
Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, dang,
that's not very impressive, and you'd be correct,
but that seems to be Volkswagen's bread and butter.
Even to this day, a 2020 model year
barely makes 100 horsepower over its original rendition
after 45 fricking years of German engineering,
and all things considered, it's almost double the weight,
so even when you double the power,
they're not really outdoing themselves.
What the frig VW?
I generally do not understand how people are still so hyped
about a 220 horsepower GTI, especially with its focus ST
and Veloster end competition, and even with those cars
being so much better in performance,
GTI snobs continue sticking up their noses at them
like there's some sort of more logical hatchback owner.
Now, I can't argue with the fact that the GTI interior
quality is hard to beat in its segment,
and it's not as juvenile looking as the rest,
but come on people.
How are you spending 20% more money
for 25% less performance?
I'll be the first to admit, I do love me a GTI,
but y'all, VW engineers are starting to really
grind my fricking gears talking about 2020 GTIs
making the same horsepower as a 2001 1AT Audi TT.
That's not cool, and as a GTI fan myself,
I keep waiting for the day that Volkswagen
is going to bring the GTI to the 20th century,
but I guess if people are still buying them regardless,
they have no real reason to change.
Not enough power, not quick enough on the track,
yet they still charge a premium for their product,
the Volkswagen GTI is underpowered and overrated.
This manufacturer has made a reputation for themselves
by creating some of the most beloved, competitive,
and capable sports cars in the world.
However, along the way, one of them has been encapsulated
in a bubble that has them held on a pedestal
that doesn't actually represent its real-world performance.
I'm, of course, talking about BMW's E46 M3.
After getting the shaft on such limited amounts
of four-cylinder E30 M3s, and then receiving
the absolute abomination of an M3 for the E36 generation,
we were finally given what everyone refers to
as the United States' first true BMW M car.
It has six individual throttle bodies,
a race car inspired, naturally-aspirated six-cylinder engine
with 330 horsepower, which was unheard of at the time,
and an optional, super high tech sequential manual gearbox.
This thing changed the pace for sports cars
for years to come, and don't get me wrong,
it was super impressive for the time,
but the hype of the era hasn't seemed to dwindle
in the slightest, even as BMW releases faster,
better handling, more exotic, better engineered M cars,
the E46 continues to hold its reputation
as being the best M car ever,
ad I don't know if you've ever driven any of these cars,
but it's very early 2000s.
It is fun to drive, and it's plenty quick,
but it's nothing crazy, but everyone seems to think
these things are fricking rocket ships,
even though they run low 13s
with professional magazine drivers,
and they're getting low 14s in realistic conditions.
That's '99 to '04 Mustang numbers.
The E92 M3 runs fricking circles around it,
both on track and in the quarter mile,
but for some random, insane reason
the E46 M3 is now the same money as an equivalent E90 M3.
It makes no sense.
I mean, frig, these things are actually
appreciating in value, and even they're predicted
to keep appreciating.
The E46 M3 is outperformed and outengineered
by most things in its segment,
and it's cemented in time as the first and last
real M3 for some reason, and it demands premium money
because of it.
For that reason, the E46 M3 is overhyped and overrated.
The next car on this list is touted as being
a Lamborghini-powered Audi sport-engineered,
Quatro-driven super sedan.
That's right.
The C6 Audi S6 made the list.
On paper, this thing sounds absolutely insane.
I mean, come on.
What's not to love about a sport-oriented luxury sedan
with a huge displacement Lamborghini-derived 5.2-liter V10?
Well, as it turns out, a lot.
Maybe one of the biggest turns on about this car
is the amount of exoticness for not a lot of money.
However, what they don't tell you is that maintaining
a $15,000 V10 S6 still costs the same
as maintaining an $80,000, when it was new,
but people still see that as six badge
and the V10 designation on the fender and think,
dang, that's a nasty, fast car,
and that's all based around at the displacement
and the number of cylinders, but these big boys
ran the quarter mile in the mid-13s,
which isn't necessarily that bad for a full-size sedan,
I suppose, but these simply could not compete
with their competition.
The E55 AMG, with its supercharged V8,
made 40 more horsepower and 120 more foot pounds of torque
than the Lamborghini-powered sedan,
and even the M5 with a smaller displacement V10
made 60 more horsepower and destroyed the S6
on track in a straight line, and in top speed,
yet it demands the same money and attention,
and it still does to this date.
I don't know how they did it,
but how he found a way to hype up the V10 S6
to be compared competition to the E-class AMG,
and BMW's M5 even though they did not compare it all,
and for that reason, the C6 Audi S6
is overhyped, overpriced, and overrated.
Now, for my last trick, I'm going to need you
to do some deep meditation in order for you
to contain your soon to become overwhelming
feeling of rage.
The last car on this list defines overinflated demand
for an overhyped, underperforming sports car.
Perhaps everyone just thinks it's end of an era,
last of its kind, old school tech,
makes it investment worthy,
and the thought of that alone drives infinite demand,
or maybe it's just the older generation
who hate progression through advancing technology.
I'm, of course, talking about the 993 Porsche 911.
The 993 is touted as being the end of an analog era
for the enthusiast automobile, and the last manufacturer
to resist going out of the box to make strides
and progress through change.
For some reason, Porsche people see this
underdeveloped 911 as pure.
Now, I think these people are absolutely nuts
because the scary technology pack 996 Turbo outperforms,
not only the 993, but even some of the top supercars
at that time in every imaginable way.
Hell, even the 996 Carrera dances around the 993.
It hasn't had any marginal development since the 1970s.
Unfortunately, for the average enthusiast,
the 993 happened to fall into the perfect storm
of the 911 timeline.
The 993 was a perfect 10% better than the outgoing 964,
and then, the 996 changed too much
and put a bad taste in the mouth of purists.
Mixed with it's questionable
and experimental futuristic styling,
the 993, 911 has become encapsulated
inside the Porsche bubble as the last of the air cooled
Porsches, and then simultaneously touted
as the best looking 911 to ever be produced
because of this, which drove up prices drastically.
People were outbidding these on the auction block
by 30 to 70%, for some insane irrational fear
that these would be unobtainable or even worth
so much more money in the future.
These things went off like Bitcoin in 2017.
Fortunately, the prices have stabilized a little bit
in late 2018, but there's still extra tax
for no real reason.
The 993, 911's inflated reputation is based solely
around people touting pure analog as better
and not around genuine performance or significance,
making it actually better than its successors.
For this reason, the 993, 911 was one of the most over-hyped
and overrated cars of the decade.
Well, guys, that about wraps it up
for the five most overrated European cars.
Be sure to leave a comment about what cars you think
are overrated, or what you think I might have missed,
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