Author Topic: Newbie car owner getting wrong information. (Read 1124 times)

GmanJoe · « **on:** August 05, 2003, 07:45:03 AM »

http://www.hirevtuners.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=192

Good cop, bad cop. One giving the right advice and the other is not.

« **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2003, 08:02:28 AM »

i don\'t know who\'s worse....the jackass that wants to rice out a frickin ford focus or the guys giving advice

thanks for wasting my time

Kurt Angle · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2003, 08:06:24 AM »

Why doesn\'t he just buy a focus RS, it turbocharged and has about 220bhp stock.

« **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2003, 08:48:45 AM »

...Probably because the Focus RS is not sold in the United States.

The highest performing Focus you can buy over here is the SVT Focus, which is an NA engine producing 170 hp.

Consumers in the US don\'t know a damn thing about Rallying, so they generally think it\'s stupid to sell a high performance Focus, or modify an ordinary one. (see above) Ford believes there is an inadequate market for a car like the RS.

BTW, adding performance parts is not "ricing out."

« **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2003, 10:38:31 AM »

It\'s the Hi-Rev Tuners forum, what did you expect

Have you even seen the show? Rice-o-rama.

videoholic · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2003, 10:55:41 AM »

The second half of the year wasn\'t as ricey as the first half. I think the main problem with the rice factor of the show is APC\'s involvement. They came in with quite a bit of cash and in order to do a show like that you need quite a bit of cash. First half of the season cost us a ton. 2nd half I think they did alright financially.

Then Speed cancelled it.

I actually thought the 2nd 13 started to get better. Rice factor was dropped 10 fold and they did real work. It\'s a shame they cancelled it because a little more work on the show and it could actually have been pretty good.

That show is the reason I didn\'t get a bonus last year and no freaking raise this year. Bah Humbug.

videoholic · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2003, 10:58:02 AM »

BTW, no one knows that Speed cancelled the show on the website, so please don\'t say anything. Speed is going to keep reruns going till December. No clue the sense in that, but such is Speed. What a whacked channel on this side of the fence. If they move my freaking show one more time I am going to Scream!! Now I am on Wednesdays at 8pm starting tomorrow. I still air Sunday mornings at 10am like always, but damn it\'s getting frustrating. I get so many Emails from people saying they got up early on the westcoast to see it and it wasn\'t on. Very annoying.

GmanJoe · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2003, 11:36:16 AM »

I wanna get into that sort of career. What\'s your advice be if you were to meet your younger "self" (me) ?

videoholic · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2003, 11:37:18 AM »

Get out while you can.

Heh, what sort of career? Cars, car shows, or just producing shows in general?

GmanJoe · « **Reply #9 on:** August 05, 2003, 11:38:08 AM »

Production. I want out of the IT department.

videoholic · « **Reply #10 on:** August 05, 2003, 12:09:01 PM »

Well I am the director/producer/line producer/and production coordinator.

So I pretty much know how to do most things around here.

I also use to shoot so I get pretty good respect from my crew because I\'m not just some guy telling them what to do that couldn\'t do it themselves.

The problem is you have to start making NO MONEY. It blows. I got out of college nad I was making 18 grand on my first job. I was only there for two years and I moved to Tampa and began making 34,000. So that wasn\'t bad.

It\'s just real tough not having experience to make any type of money. You end up being a production assistant, a grip, or something like that. Something that will get your feet wet and make you contacts.

I went the news route. I shot for 7 years, ran all around getting pretty good stories. I was essentially maxed out for cash in Tampa other than the piddly 4% raise each year. So I went into producing a tv show.

I "lucked" into the job because it was a friend of a friend situation. It really is who you know.

I put lucked in quotes because I hate my job. But it\'s a job so I can\'t complain. Actually I like my job, I just don\'t care for my boss and I hate being fake all of the time to him so he doesn\'t feel my utter disgust.

So to sum it all up:

Be a PA at a local production house.

Prepare yourself to make no cashola.

Meet anyone and everyone you can.

GmanJoe · « **Reply #11 on:** August 05, 2003, 01:19:53 PM »

Shit. I\'m making a humble $50k a year and I can\'t save money for shit. I have no idea where the money goes. So if I was to switch careers....at a lower salary....scary.

I appreciate the advice. Looks like I\'ll be a porn film maker then. I\'m half serious and half not believing it\'ll happen.

Canon XL-1 or GL2. Hmmmm....

videoholic · « **Reply #12 on:** August 05, 2003, 01:40:38 PM »

It doesn\'t matter how much you make, you can always manage to spend it all. I make about the same and I feel like I have as much spare cash as I did when I was making 16 grand. I just have nicer stuff and a maid cleaning after my ass.

« **Reply #13 on:** August 05, 2003, 01:50:47 PM »

Quote

It doesn\'t matter how much you make, you can always manage to spend it all.

. . . and more.

I love the editing and creation but the shooting I hate. I sometimes think about giving up the business and finding a job at a station, etc. The problem is after working for myself for so long there is no way I can have corporate scumbag telling me what to do.

MPTheory · « **Reply #14 on:** August 05, 2003, 05:27:50 PM »

I\'m soo sick of being poor... Id settle for being able to eat and pay for fuel to get to school and back for 2 weeks.... Bills suck ass. I can\'t wait till I graduate and get a good job that pays well. Do you think there is any job where you can completely love what you are doing? (Not including self-employed)

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Author Topic: Newbie car owner getting wrong information. (Read 1124 times)