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MKBHD, Fisker, and "the worst car ever reviewed"

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Re: MKBHD, Fisker, and "the worst car ever reviewed"

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They get paid in access - you cant make a review if you dont have products to review. (and envelopes full of cash of course)

Note that this submission is again a counter example. The manufacturer withheld the product and asked the reviewer to wait, the reviewer got access to the product themselves.

Every other review on the channel - manufacturer supplied and supported - is glowing with praise.

Re: MKBHD, Fisker, and "the worst car ever reviewed"

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Which does not mean he's qualified to review cars. There's been a huge trend in the last 5 or so years for corporations to go to "influencers" like Brownlee because they're ignorant and uninformed to the depth the industry press are. This has been going on for a decade with shitty kickstarters for bicycle accessories which had to be kickstarted because the designers couldn't sell the idea to any existing companies, g…

> Which does not mean he's qualified to review cars. At the age of six I knew my mom’s meatloaf sucked. For some things in life, you don’t need to be “qualified”. You don’t need to be a Certified Gearhead to know that a backup cam that doesn’t work half the time contributes towards making a car experience crappy. In fact it can be good to have “normie” opinions and reviews. Some things are meant to be refined tools u…

Exactly. That’s why reviews by car enthusiasts tend to be useless for everyone else but other car enthusiasts.

Re: MKBHD, Fisker, and "the worst car ever reviewed"

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Note that this submission is again a counter example. The manufacturer withheld the product and asked the reviewer to wait, the reviewer got access to the product themselves.

Every other review on the channel - manufacturer supplied and supported - is glowing with praise.

No it's not, at least not exclusively; I recall a rolls royce video where he complained that the car has short range.
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