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rev up your engines,

do you think it's a smart idea to buy a smart car, now to understand if it is, you

need a little history lesson about the difference between Europe and the United

States, now the Romans, they built roads, they were eight Roman feet wide, which is

a little bit less than seven point nine feet, I guess the Romans had small feet

so in Europe, hey there's lot of really small streets in the cities, there isn't all

that much room, but here in Houston Texas, by law the city streets have to be at

least 28 feet, from curb to curb and many are much larger, so in Europe and many

parts of Asia, something like this Toyota Highlander it's seen as a giant vehicle

where here, it's just the normal sized SUV, so in Europe in 1993 the swatch

company, yes the people who made the watches, I mean do you really want to buy

a car from a company that makes a little watches, so then in 1993 they decided to

make a little urban car, they partnered up with Volkswagen, but Volkswagen they

thought about it and said we're not going to do that, so then they partnered

up with mercedes-benz, the name smart car is kind of an anagram of swatch and

Mercedes what they claim, and they started to build them in France, now

realize that the smart car is a very short car, the length of the smart car is

actually equal to the width of an average American parking space, not the

length, but the width, so they're easy to park in small spaces, but at the same

time, they're such tiny cars, if you're sitting in one and you're driving on a

highway and you're looking way up at an 18-wheeler, you're not going to feel too

safe, and they don't have too much power, originally they had 60 to 70 horsepower

with a vehicle that weighs almost a whole ton, almost 2,000 pounds, they were

very slow cars, and of course Americans, since we're such lazy people, mainly

we drive automatic transmissions like this one, in Europe they have standard

transmissions, they were a little quicker but with an automatic transmission these

things are pretty slow, and if you want a comparison, the last

one that they've made with a gasoline engine, put out 89 horsepower with a

turbocharged engine, but it only got 33 miles per gallon in the city and 39 on the highway,

in the same year, you can buy a Honda Civic that was turbocharged, which had a

hundred and seventy four horsepower and got 32 in the city and 42 on the highway

better all-around gas mileage for an actual car that four people can fit in, yes they

actually have quite a bit of legroom, and granted they are kind of cute in their

own strange small sort of way, if you like little cars, and with their engines

hiding in the back, the engine and the transmission is all on the rear wheels

so they actually do handle reasonably well, you can see the bottom of the

vehicle, there's the engine and the transmission the driveshaft all neatly

packed into the back, now last year in the United States they only sold five

thousand four hundred and forty of these smart cars, so it's not very popular they were

pretty much were a dismal failure in the United States, because really Americans

aren't in love with small kind of little cars, take the Fiat 500

they spent a fortune advertising it, at the peak in 2012 they did sell over fifty

thousand Fiat 500s, but last year even Fiat only sold 5500 Fiat 500s in the

United States, so they're pretty much a dismal failure too, and when it comes to

smart cars, there's other reasons well you shouldn't think about buying one, one

it's a Mercedes Benz conglomerate, the parts of them cost a small fortune and

in the United States, they're relatively hard to get even now, and as of 2018

smart car says, they're no longer going to make gasoline or diesel cars, they're

only going to make all-electric cars, so if you have a gasoline one, guess what,

getting parts for it and getting it repaired, is going to be even harder, it's

something I don't advise people to do unless they just want a toy to play

around with, because you can get them pretty cheap used now, but all in all

buying a smart car is probably not such a smart thing here in the United States

so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to

ring that Bell!

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FAILED Sketchbook Slam Art Challenge - 300 Page Sketchbook - Who Is This Challenge For? - Duration: 10:17.

Okay, it's a little bit late but, we need to talk, about the sketchbook slam

yeah .. no .. no

Okay, so i tried and it didn't really keep, my attention

yeah, i know it's about late disciplinary art whatever i'm gonna get into it i'm gonna get enjoy so i did i

don't even know cuz, i stopped so long, ago i wrote so many ideas i

Numbered my pages. I did like 50 pages

Not front and back

but i

guess i started that one

I did some i did a lot of like and i got really paranoid and i think that

Was part of it, it was stressing me out. i was like copying a lot of sketches off pinterest so then i didn't really

Want to like show

Them on my channel so i was like writing the name of the person i was like

Copying and it wasn't like to copy them, i'm not publishing this or anything i was just saying i like to learn, how

They drew and i thought their drawings were good but i didn't know

when is it okay to sketch from the sketching if it's like a learning how to sketch do i have to

Write how they were sketching? these I just drew on my own

here's the thing you guys

you, guys

it's

Ruined it was stressing me out i had to quit. it was stressing, me out so hard because i would be so exhausted

and i'm like

I haven't sketched today, I have

10 pages to sketch. all right if i did sketch it be like i did it seven pages not ten

and i'm like 50 pages behind. i was getting so worked up that he just had to quit

I was going to keep working on it and i was just like i can't even right now and

I think this challenge is for certain

People only. I don't think this challenge is for everybody and i basically knew this challenge was a bad idea

But i couldn't help myself i just can't i can't help

Myself jump into things and do things and overcome it i just can't do it i don't know, what's wrong with, me so

I hate this challenge so much

It wasn't for me like i started and it was so excited about it

But then i was just like i wanted to do really detailed drawings and i want to do really detailed sketches and you can't do

That with this

Challenge, you got to get through it and so it wasn't having fun

Because i was like i thought i would i was like i'll learn how, to sketch real quick but then

I kept just try and detailed drawings and i think that it was

Do i regret it? no because i got fifty pages filled out

So it's 50 pages probably more than i would have got filled up if i wasn't doing it so don't regret it but

Let's just be clear

If you have children this challenge is gonna be really hard. if you have

you know like a full-time job and a side job it's gonna be really hard like i

work i see a home with, my kids but i work from home i have my youtube channel and i just

Was like getting really into, my youtube channel and i felt like it was taking, away?

from me making videos and i was rather making videos so i just gave up now i

Want to work on my art more but i just i felt like i was like this can

Push, me work on my art meet my, goals but i kind of it made me realize that

Maybe like having a goal of being like so good at art this

Year is just not my goal my goal

Should just be youtube and like that's it because youtube is taking up so much of my

Time it's not like i can like it looks like i can just sit here and talk for five minutes but i am so particular

Even when i film

A week, like i like a planning

Week i'm writing in my planner, it is like

45 minutes and then i have to edit that down to be like not a complete waste of your time and

Then i'm like

marketing it or tagging it or whatever so it just takes forever and then i have like you know children so i

Honestly felt like i was going mental i was going mental. I felt so bad because they put on my channel

That i was doing it and i didn't do it i like literally, my videos planned for that week

Was just like sketching in my thing and i don't even know if i put out

any of them because i

Don't even know if i filmed any of them i think i found one and not me you've been just the first one saying that

I'm doing the challenge so

But yeah it just it was so hard it was so hard so anyone, who completed it

I'm not being sarcastic dude i don't i don't get it i don't get how

you, did it without, going insane maybe you, went a little bit crazy, i it's so big of a

Challenge holly really puts us to the test

But i don't think that and not being able to finish challenges or not being a hundred percent sure if you can

Finish the challenge is a reason to not, do them i'm like

So pro challenge i think that i learned a lot of it myself i learned that i do not like long term art

Goals and our long term art

Challenges the one where it was like this shirt be challenge and it was one drawing yeah that, was cool, and then it was over

This, like long-term thing right, now i'm doing, like, this video challenge and it's like

made me sick of going on facebook live i

Was doing so, well and then now, i hate it i'm in the last week of it i just

Want to quit so maybe long-term challenges in general or not for me because i don't have the biggest attention span

I just, don't i'm into something new every like, five minutes so yeah should you do it

Pick a month in where your yeah

Should, you do it should. You get this isn't even the right, book, but i'm in canada explained in my first

Video i'm in canada, and that book, was like $90 and this was $25 on

Amazon i'll link it below and it is 300 pages and it's like an inch shorter like this is a nine

By eleven and a half i think and the other one was like

Mmm 11. By 13 i don't know. It wasn't that much i feel like to me personally a

Lot of people doing this

sketchbook slam even holly, she like, did not go to like the very edge of the page you're

Doing the middle and i felt like it's not really going to affect, how

Much i was drawing. that's my personal opinion if you, wanna if you're on the states for the books a lot

Cheaper totally go for it and if you, like, don't care whatever like, you know get that book if you

Want to save a little bit money i feel, like, this, book it's, still, gonna push your limits and drive you insane

So there i'm not saying that it's like a terrible challenge i just think do some thought like

Do you, have anything, else going on that month and how much time do you really have this is gonna take you hours

Every day to do. i think that it will make you a faster drawer i actually, saw

improvement just from like the 50 pages i did

Do over two weeks because i quit after like two weeks and i did see improvement but

It's just what's a grain, of salt just give it some thought before you commit to it and then

Also, don't be hard on yourself if you don't finish. it is extremely hard and

It's an unfair advantage to people

who Like if you're

A student and you've this summer off that would be a great month i don't suggest if you're a student and you're

Going to this summer off i don't suggest, doing it this month

wait till you the time off

Yeah, cuz it's brutal it's just it's literally even if you do

The quickest drawings ever and you have to like find things like it keeps more time too because you have to find things

To, like look up to

Actually draw so you're, not just it's not like, literally just drawing time you have to like come up with things to draw from and

Okay i'm done i'm done i'm out. I quit i'm omitting it on the youtube, so i'm sorry. You guys there's been no updates

Because i suck i can't do it i just can't do it i quit i will still use this sketchbook

For sketching and when i get to sketching?

I will, i actually do like sketching with my kids. We will sit on the couch and sketch side-by-side so that was really nice that

We were doing that together

I'm still gonna use this sketchbook it's just i'm not gonna set any time limits on it because it's just not happening for me

Now if you've tried it let me know, how

It went i will seriously be happy for you if you've got further than

Me or if you finished it like that's incredible i'm not trying to discount anyone he did it like if anything i'm trying to talk

Them up, because it is so hard

it is so hard and

I just i don't have enough time right now will i ever do it in the future? probably not but if by, some miracle like

my kids do at school and i have all the time on my hands then yeah i'm crazy i would probably try to do it

Again i probably get another book, and try to do it again

If my kids were in school because you literally need like i'm saying

i seriously think you need

Like like i wasn't even trying to commit to 600 pages i was trying to come into 300 peaches i would say

At least, like, three hours a, day

There yeah if you can

Have, three hours a day then you could probably do this josh but i like doing it real fast watching

their time and not getting carried, away and drawings mean ain't all pretty like i

Was spending like 20 30 minutes per drawing and it was like i need to really change

this, because they need to do 10 drawing a day and

It's just way too much it's like, five hours

All right hope it was helpful

I'm sorry, about that here's my update and yeah good luck, let me know, what you guys are doing if you, like, this video

Which i hope you do like how insane I am

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