Kevpm

I follow Hoovie's garage and noticed this video went up yesterday. He bought a budget ex-rental automatic 996 turbo to make into a safari style awhile back and had very few updates.

In this video he tests out the equipment, and unsurprisingly may have done some major damage to the engine. It still seemed to run and drive afterwards to the shop.

Thankfully he bought the car back from the person who had agreed to buy it when the build was complete. I'm sure we will get to hear the damage in further videos. It sounds like mud was sucked into the turbo. There was very little ever shown regarding this build until this video.

He did have a nice 996 manual turbo coupe a few years ago, but I think he did not keep it because cars breaking, and the resulting fix is his thing. He does not normally destroy cars but buys them cheap and repairs them.

docwyte

I saw that too and was shaking my head. I get it, he's a YouTuber and does dumb stuff for clicks, but who the F off roads a car like that right before you're going to drop it off with the buyer? When I have a car that's about to be sold, I don't even drive it...

RCF925

He ruined the motor, Had to give buyer his money back, Idiot sucked in debris through turbos. He really knows nothing about mechanic's at all. His channel not worth watching

Lazurus

I have long hoped to be able to do what that guy did with his car, but I could never do what he did to his car once he did it.

Bernard IV

The Porsche 959 Dakar vehicle was kind of a cool one off but I don't really get the whole safari 911 trend.

Highline-Autos.com

I've noticed a pattern when automotive Youtubers get in the rhythm of "I lost this amount of money.... this is how this car broke.... this car was totaled and here is what happened..."... just starts to sound like they're building an alibi to someone, the bank? the IRS? the insurance company? Who knows.

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2fcknfst

Still, the idea of a 996 Safari is very intriguing.

QwikKotaTX

It's for clicks. Some of these guys make more money on ads than the cars are worth. It's sad as far as being an auto enthusiast goes.

Kevpm

Whatever he has done, I am jealous of his car collection, the farm he just built with giant car barn, and the supermodel he is dating and living with.

Getting paid a ton of money to buy cool cars and make videos sounds like a pretty good life to me. I personally wouldn't have done what Hoovie did to that 996, but he knows more about what gets YouTube views then I do.

Whistling Diesels videos are literally painful to watch (just wrecking perfectly good, new cars), but when you look at the view count (millions), he knows what works, and I am sure is laughing all the way to the bank.

RCF925

My local Porsche dealer in San Luis Obispo has 2 911 Dakars for sale if you want one. Only 350k each

Carlo_Carrera

I have been in one on an off-road trail. It was really fun. It's a rally car.

vtec_

He's a massive beta and he got cucked and divorced raped by his ex-wife.

He is nothing to emulate or admire.

He ruined this 996TT and it would of made a good track car or a resotmod project.

Carlo_Carrera

He is still a multi-millionaire with a huge estate and dating a model.

The whole sad sack buffoon loser thing is an act to generate clicks and it works because people thinks it's real. It's not real, it's entertainment.

rufrob

He seems to be going the way of Whistling Diesel... I think. The other YouTuber who destroys cars. There is a special place in hell for people like him and his audience who enjoy seeing nice things destroyed. Thought Hoovie learned his lesson from the Rover cabriolet when the comments where overwhelmingly negative.
His complaints about being broke is tiresome. We get it he likes cars and bought a few too man. We get it he bought property you can't afford.
My question is who the F is lending him more?

RCF925

His schtick is getting old, He doesn’t even know about his own cars. Thinks tip in his 996 turbo is same one in Mercedes. It isn’t and it is the one in his McLaren SLR that he also thinks same as Mercedes