This Porsche 964 Is The Evolution Of A Driver

You know, I do speak enough German to follow with out the subtitles, and what is written in the subtitle line often captures the facts but not the mood of the speaker, because he is speaking idiomatically, and the familiarity or warmth of that speech belongs to those words. You can always go back and view the video once, twice or three times, until you know the text and car just take in what the videographer has given us. But the writer of sub-titles can never give us the actual words as they came from the man’s lips. And I find myself grateful that Petrolicious gives us the word as they were spoken. The language of garages, of speed, of skill behind the controls of a car, is not easily translated. It is a language that the mainstream population of any given language does not itself speak. We talk about ‘graining’ in a tire; ‘shaving’ of tires and the depth of their ‘sipes’; or we discuss ‘over-steer’ and ‘under-steer’, in relationship to ‘trailing throttles’. We talk about ‘spooling’ in a ‘turbo’ and ‘fade’ in a brake. And who speaks this language in American english but us? Most people have no idea, and could care less about these distinctions. The language of cars is spoken by a small minority in any general population. I find it fun that Petrolicious decides to give us all of it, just as the word were spoken.