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Welcome back, or if you're new here, just welcome. We're back with car reviews now, and we're starting with the frankly wonderful Fista Astrali. So this is a new release for this week, and unfortunately, this car is going to be locked behind GTA Plus for a whole month, which I'm not happy with.

I don't like it when they do that. I don't mind it when they do it for a week, but for a whole month, especially, and you know, spoiler alert, especially for such a good car. So what I'm going to say is what I always say with this.

I have this. If any of you want this, my PSN is on screen. Add me as a friend.

Add me as a friend. We can meet up in a session, and I will let you buy this one. It's not a problem.

I don't do that to make money. I don't know if you know how car sales work. The person selling the car doesn't get any of the money.

You just get to buy a copy. But yeah, if anyone wants this and they don't have GTA Plus, we'll come back to that number plate later, but you don't have GTA Plus, give me a shout. We can sort you out.

But back to the car, and what do I think of this? Well, I've been quite excited about this since I first saw the first screen grab. So this is based, I believe, I haven't seen an official line on this yet, but I think this is based on this, the Nardone 928, which is a resto mod for the original and frankly brilliant Porsche 928, a car that was just absolutely stunning in its time. It was first built in 1977, and it was so far ahead of its time that this is the car that, if I remember rightly, Jeremy Clarkson in a review said he once left London with a freshly cooked chicken, and by the time he got to his mother's house in Doncaster, which is 180 miles away, the chicken was still warm.

So it's talented on that front, it also has pop-up headlights, and who doesn't want pop-up headlights? But also, with the proper application of a rather offensive number plate like this one, or this one, you can cause a right old ruckus in Argentina if you want to. And if anyone doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about here, just get on BBC iPlayer, look up the Top Gear Patagonia special, another Top Gear special which had one of the original versions of this car in, absolutely fabulous watch, I recommend it to anyone. So back to the car... Apologies, we're still getting rid of the end of this ridiculous infection, whatever it was.

Back to the car, and what do I think? Well, I've tested this three times now, I tested the original unmodified, or the base version, I tested it with mods applied, and then I tested this in the middle, which is the HSW version, just to see what the difference was between them. And I can tell you that the difference is quite stark. The base version, before you modify it, feels heavy and lardy and slow, and the time it did was like a nine and a half minutes around this lap, which is not brilliant.

And for those of you that are new to the channel, what I do, I take each of the cars on a full lap of the map, so it's a circuit that I designed myself that starts with a twisty section, it has some high speed cornery sections, and then it has some flat out sections where I can measure the top speed, and it's a reasonably fair track, although I do think it does slightly bias towards cars with a good top speed. So I tested all three. The first of these, completely unmodified, did a 9.30, which is not horrifically slow for a car with no mods, and let's face it, who drives these cars with no mods? No one.

With the mods applied, that brought it down by 40 seconds. Now, neither of these laps were particularly clean, but that brought it down to under nine minutes, which is actually, for a non-HSW car, that's a reasonable time. Still not blistering, but pretty respectable.

And as for what the HSW version did? Well, we'll get back to that in just a second, but what I'm about to do, again if you are new to this, this is where I test the top speed. So instead of doing a theoretical top speed, or a top speed on a piece of perfectly flat road, running downhill to get the maximum possible, I try and go for the maximum achievable top speed. So I have this section of road, which I measured out, which is exactly one mile long.

I get down here as quickly as possible, do a little bit of very simple maths, and that tells me the average top speed through traffic. Because you will notice, I do leave the traffic on, and that's because when I test cars, I'm looking for how usable they're going to be in missions. And in missions, you have traffic, and you have other cars, and you have people trying to get in your way.

So under the finish line, and we've got 139, with a time of 25 seconds, a top speed of 139, which is, that is pretty good. That's putting it towards the top of the sports classics, it really is. So back to the actual car, what do we think? I think it's incredible.

Pfister Astrale – FAST, FUN & BEAUTIFUL – GTA Online A Safe House in the Hills DLC Lap of the map

Now this is not the sort of video I thought I'd be doing as my first video in the new year, but yeah, we need to talk about Hazard. So a few days ago Harmnon released a video where he started talking about Hazard stealing content, and he specifically called out Deadman Down Under who's had some of his content stolen by Hazard. So I was chatting with Deadman Down Under about this, and that's when he pointed out that this guy had been stealing my content as well.

And I'm not one for drama, and I always assumed this would happen eventually, and I wasn't sure how I would deal with it. And in a way it's useful that I have been ill, you could probably still hear it in my voice, because it gave me time to think about whether I wanted to respond and what I wanted to do. So what I decided to do is, I have submitted a takedown request, and that seems to have been accepted, so he now has seven days to remove my content from his video, or remove the video altogether.

And considering that in that video that I looked at, he's used five clips of my content, and he seems to have stolen content from at least a dozen, possibly more other content creators as well, and that's just in one video. I think it's going to be easier for him to just take the whole thing down and rethink how he prepares his work. Now what I wanted to do is just spend a little bit of time talking about why I've gone down this this road.

As I say, I'm not into drama, I never wanted to get involved in YouTube drama or anything like that, but I just think it's important because creating these videos is hard. And just by way of an example, one of the clips that he stole was this, one of the cinematics from the FMJ video. Now these things are quite difficult to do, the Rockstar Editor is not easy to use, and by the way, if you do watch this hazard, there's a guide up here, you know, if you want to learn how to do some of this stuff yourself, go watch this guide, it's really easy to follow.

But yeah, the Rockstar Editor is not easy to use, so these cinematics take quite a long time to do, and I'm not even really the best at using the Rockstar Editor. If you want to see some of the best stuff it's capable of, check out Dexty's and Benny's Original Motorsports, the stuff that those guys do makes me look like an amateur. And for him to just decide, you know what, this guy's only got 2000 subscribers, so anything that he puts out there, I can just take that because I can't be bothered to do it myself.

That's really not on, I mean, look mate, you've got half a million subscribers. You're doing alright, you're winning at life. So just be respectful for other people's time and effort.

Now, would it have been different if he'd have dropped a message saying, hey I really like this clip, do you mind if I use it in my video? Almost certainly yes, almost certainly I would be like, yeah, you know what, you like it, go for it, but don't just help yourself to my sort of time and effort. So anyway, as it stands at the moment, it does seem to have released another video today. As of yet, he's yet to accept that this has even happened, acknowledge it, or issue any sort of apology to the dozens and dozens of content creators that he's been stealing from for God knows how long.

But yeah, you look at the video that he's released today, and all of the footage is just his rather creepy ass character just standing facing at the camera. So you can see why he did it, because without stealing content from other people, the background of his videos is pretty boring. But all you need to do mate, it's not a difficult game.

Jump in, record the footage, copy it off, edit it yourself. You're doing well enough from this, you can justify putting some of this effort in. Don't expect us, especially not us tiny creators, to subsidise what you're doing.

So that's probably all I'm going to say to this for now. But I felt it was important to call it out. As far as I know, Harm None has done it, Deadman has done it, Haki has done it as well.

So the more people that call out this kind of stuff, the better really. And I hope none of you think I'm overreacting doing a takedown request. As I say, all he had to do was ask, or give credit.

But no, he can't be bothered with any of those. So what I don't want is any hate going in his direction. Please don't feel you need to go and shout at him in his comments section.

But you can vote with your feet. You can unsub, you can stop watching his content until he starts creating it yourself. You know, if you want to watch someone, look at people like Deadman, like Harm None, like Tacos.

People who create new original content every day in some cases. Give your time and your attention to those people that are putting the effort in, not the people like Hazard who are just scraping the internet for some kind of personal version of Shutterstock that presumably he's just going to call stolen stock. So that's it.

HAZARD Stealing content from large and small creators – PLEASE STOP

First of all I need to apologise for the synthetic voiceover. I am genuinely struggling to speak at the moment, I'm fine, I just can't say more than a few words without coughing a lung up.

So I've decided to try this video. This is following on from Digby's 'Getting Clicked' series, which is a really cool series where he tries to do missions on the worst cars in GTA online.

I love using the cars in GTA Online, so I figured, I would be able to find a car that wa worse than any car he'd used for this challenge. The WORST car in GTA Online. Then put it to the test, and well, this is the result.

Digby's Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/DigbyCCeasar

And Digby's Clucked videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTXZ0EAaHv0&t=12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvqtmIVllYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffBpDUmskM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekfOPsesCxg&t=457s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJroJOymBtE&t=414s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBIs4ISDX8M&pp=0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv

And BTW the cool as fudge music is the Menu Music from CRSED. I've never been able to find out who actually produced or 'sang', if indeed that is in fact singing, so I can't really credit properly.

Fuster Cluck – The worst cars in GTA ONLINE for missions – The Slamtruck

It's Christmas, we all chilled, some of us or a little drunk, so let's have a look back at how we got here.

Thanks so much for watching my silly videos you absolute legends. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and I'll see you in the new year.

Merry Christmas everyone and remember to be kind to yourself.

Merry Christmas From GTA and Perengerin, and a quick channel review, because, why not!

Progen Luiva The fastest non-HSW car in GTA Online – Safe House on in the Hills DLC Lap of the map

$It's time for the next full review from the Safehouse in the Hills DLC in GTA Online, and this is for the brand new Vapid FMJ Mk V. Now this is a car that I may have unfairly maligned, and I'm not going to say I'm a row back on this one, but I have had, you know, a bit of a change of heart. Not a lot, but a bit. So what was my problem? Well, to describe the problem, here's Holly from Red Dwarf. And that pretty much sums it up. I'm not complaining about the handling per se, I'm definitely not complaining about the speed, this is definitely a fast car, I'm certainly not complaining about the looks. What bothers me is what I've referred to as a dead zone, but you could probably, it's very, very understeering. So the reaction to steering input is so slow and so delayed that when you combine that with a really fast car, it means that by the time you see a car on the road, there's a good chance it's going to be too late to avoid it. And then the normal turning point for corners does have to change because again, if you turn into a corner as you normally would, you're just going to completely miss it and understeer wide. And if you want to see what that looks like, here are a few practice laps. So yeah, so that's what this thing looks like when you try to control it. And that's why, when I did my initial ranking, I put this fourth out of five, which is not good. Whichever way you look at it, that's not a good ranking. Now I have changed my mind on that a little bit. At the time I said, it may be that this would redeem itself on the track, and it may redeem itself with a little bit of practice. And it was certainly the latter that seemed to help. So how did I solve this? Well, it's not like the Fiesta Xtreme. I didn't need to change the setup. I just needed to learn a little bit more about how the car handles. But unfortunately, what you have to do does sap a little bit of lap time out. So I genuinely think there's a possibility that this could be the fastest car in the game, because it's incredibly quick in a straight line. We'll get around to that in a second. And it has a huge amount of downforce. So through the mid-speed corners, this thing's untouchable. Through the mid-speed corners, or mid to high-speed corners, should I say, this feels like one of the Le Mans cars. You know, it feels like. Even one of the open wheelers, there's that much downforce. It just sticks. But that understeer is so bad, that actually getting a good entry and exit through that corner is incredibly difficult. However, there is a bit of a tip. What I've found that seemed to work with this is, just before you need to turn in, if you just let off, just for a fraction of a second, and I mean let off the accelerator, not, you know, not let off. That's not going to help. But letting off the accelerator, just for a fraction of a second, will. It basically shifts the weight forward, it gives you that tiny bit of grip, and it gives you some grip at the front end, so you actually get a little bit of turning. And doing that, I'm managing to avoid the other cars on the road, and I'm managing to get into the corners better. But this is the real test. This is where I really want to see how this compares. So if you're new to these videos, this is my top speed test. What I do here, I've got a section of road that's exactly one mile long. I time how long it takes me to get down that section of road, do a little bit of maths, and that tells me the average speed that I'm able to maintain in traffic. Not a theoretical speed, an actual practical speed that you can hit too. And this one, 146.9, is not actually bad. However, the Niobe hit 149, and the Banshee GTS hit 165. So, in a straight line, it still isn't the fastest car in the game, but what I will say is it certainly feels like it. Okay, so, what else have we got to say about this car? First of all, it's not cheap. It's not available to anyone outside of GTA Plus at the moment. However, if you do want this car and you know someone that's got it, you can buy it from them at the LS car meet. If you don't know someone that's got it, my PSN is on screen now. Add me as a friend, meet me in a session, I'll sell you this, and any of the other cars that are locked, I've got them all at the moment, so if you want to buy those, or any other deleted cars for that matter, I've got most things, so if you want to buy anything like that, add me as a friend, meet me in a session, we'll do that. However, back to this, even when it does become available, my god, this thing's expensive. It's about three million to buy, and then another million plus for the HSW upgrade, then your individual upgrades. The point, in fact, I bought this one from a friend who had already applied the HSW upgrade and all of his customisations, all I did is I changed some of the customisations and did deliveries how I wanted them, and this cost me to buy 5.3 million dollars.$

Vapid FMJ Mk V One of the fastest cars in GTA Online – Safe House on in the Hills DLC Lap of the map

And away we go with our first full review of the release day cars from the Safehouse in the Hills DLC in GTA Online. And the first one I thought I'd do is this one, which is the Fister Extreme. Or as I put it in my ranking video, the Fister Extremely Shite.

Now, I may want to row back on that just a little bit. So we'll come back to why in a second. First things first, what do we think of how this thing looks? Very much, it's going to be an individual taste kind of thing.

I actually really like it. I think it's a really pretty car. It seems really well balanced.

It's based on the Porsche Project X, which is quite a dramatic car. But somehow this carries across into the game really well. I just quite like it.

I think it's quite a nice looking thing. It carries off this livery really well. Yeah, looks wise, I'm happy.

The two reasons I'm not happy, first of all, it is yet another electric concept car. Now, I don't know why they keep giving us these electric concept cars. There are so many really, really cool cars that they could be giving us.

I don't dislike it. I don't dislike how it looks. But it's another thing that there are so many cars that you have to google to find out what they are.

For example, the new Porsche, I've been looking into what the other new Porsche is. The one that's based on the 928 concept. And that seems to be based on Nardone's 928 concept car.

But again, I'm really into my cars and I had to google that because I didn't know what that is. And if they're adding cars where you need to google them to find out what they are, surely these aren't the best things that we could be adding. But anyway, I digress.

So back to the big problem. The big problem is it's yet another concept electric supercar. And it has all the same problems as every other concept electric supercar in the game.

It has a great takeoff, as you would expect. It actually has reasonable handling. Um, initially, I... Well, let me just show you what the initial problem was.

Here I am, trying to take a simple corner, admittedly, with the suspension maxed. So at this point, I thought I'd just set the suspension too low. So I went back and knocked it up a little bit.

So then, maybe you can't change the suspension at all. Let's put it back up to the highest setting. Surely that will be okay.

Apparently not. But luckily, after a lot of thought, I found a solution. Now, luckily, I've got some really cool subscribers.

And a couple of them jumped in and said that this was a known glitch that had happened on a couple of cars before. Which is when you change the wing mirrors for some reason. It causes these kind of handling glitches.

So I can confirm. Went back in, put the wing mirrors back to standard, and it completely removed that issue. So yes, it doesn't do this anymore.

But it still has the other issues. The handling is good, but it's only so-so. And that's affected by, in my view, the top speed.

Because I know I constantly moan about this. But Rockstar will insist on putting these electric cars in the game and giving them ridiculously low top speeds. Now, I kind of understand, to a certain extent, why they would do that.

Because if you have electric cars with this vicious acceleration, and with a top speed that's actually representative of the ridiculously high top speeds that these cars have in real life, then they would be a little bit overpowered. So I get it. I get why they're doing it.

But what they're essentially doing is creating a whole category of cars that's entirely useless. Because this is so slow, what can you do with it? You can't use it in a race. Because it will probably lose to cars that have been in the game since it released.

You can't really use it in sessions. I mean, it's okay around the city. But as soon as you need to do anything that means getting on the freeway, you have to sit and listen to this for 10 minutes.

And that is not particularly inspiring. And just to highlight the point, let's have a look. Let's have a look at the top speed.

It's been a little while since I did one of these, so I'll just explain it for those of you that are new. What I have here is a section of track that I've measured. This section of track is exactly one mile.

And it's also fairly clear. So what I do, I get the car up to full speed. I time how long it takes to travel this section of track.

That gives me an average achievable top speed through traffic. Not a theoretical maximum when you're going downhill. It's just an achievable top speed that you can hit.

And this is what we managed to hit in the Porsche. Which is, it's not dreadful compared to some of the others. But you know, it's not great either.

Now, coming back to this car. One of the other problems is I just don't see what it's offering that you can't get from elsewhere. So for example, I'll let you into a secret.

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