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The Nürburgring Car Park is OPEN again!
The Nürburgring Car Park is OPEN again!
"Dirty Audi RS6 Drama" - The FULL, TRUE STORY.
"Dirty Audi RS6 Drama" - The FULL, TRUE STORY.
DIRTY COPS Help Us to Solve a DIRTY CASE
DIRTY COPS Help Us to Solve a DIRTY CASE
NÜRBURGRING IS RE-OPENING AGAIN!!! Too Soon?
NÜRBURGRING IS RE-OPENING AGAIN!!! Too Soon?
Audi RS6: The Car I Will Never Forget | 2 Week Special REVIEW
Audi RS6: The Car I Will Never Forget | 2 Week Special REVIEW
Flood, Sweat & Tears 8: Tough Choices, Exhaustion and Frustration
Flood, Sweat \u0026 Tears 8: Tough Choices, Exhaustion and Frustration
Going NEXT LEVEL: New Cars, Tools & Supplies - THANK YOU!
Going NEXT LEVEL: New Cars, Tools \u0026 Supplies - THANK YOU!
Flood, Sweat & Tears 7: Sawdust and Creativity
Flood, Sweat \u0026 Tears 7: Sawdust and Creativity
Help Us. Please.
Help Us. Please.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 5: A Spark of Happiness
Flood, Sweat and Tears 5: A Spark of Happiness
Flood, Sweat and Tears 4: New Problems.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 4: New Problems.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 3: Fresh Supplies.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 3: Fresh Supplies.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 2: The Nürburgring Unites.
Flood, Sweat and Tears 2: The Nürburgring Unites.
Flood, Sweat and Tears.
Flood, Sweat and Tears.
The BEST SPEC Porsche GT3 RS MR? Quite FAST too.
The BEST SPEC Porsche GT3 RS MR? Quite FAST too.
What can I do to help... and will it be enough?
What can I do to help... and will it be enough?
Nürburgring CLOSED. Region hit by Flood. We're ok.
Nürburgring CLOSED. Region hit by Flood. We're ok.
Audi RS5 Turbo DTM | AudiStream Special
Audi RS5 Turbo DTM | AudiStream Special
Audi R18 LMP 2014 (RP4) | AudiStream Special
Audi R18 LMP 2014 (RP4) | AudiStream Special
Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO | AudiStream Special
Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO | AudiStream Special
Audi quattro S1 E2 | AudiStream Special
Audi quattro S1 E2 | AudiStream Special
Feeling Lonely in "My" New Audi RS6
Feeling Lonely in "My" New Audi RS6
Overslept a Track Day - But SURVIVED, unlike Some.
Overslept a Track Day - But SURVIVED, unlike Some.
Porsche Cayman GT4 MR | Everything You Need to Know
Porsche Cayman GT4 MR | Everything You Need to Know
How can this be boring?
How can this be boring?
Driving RingTaxi is Harder than Racing a GT3 on the Nürburgring
Driving RingTaxi is Harder than Racing a GT3 on the Nürburgring
@Robert Mitchell Tried to Sell His Cars. Bought More Instead -_-
@Robert Mitchell Tried to Sell His Cars. Bought More Instead -_-
MANUAL HOTBOX! BMW E92 M3 by @tom.schuetze EXPERIENCE
MANUAL HOTBOX! BMW E92 M3 by @tom.schuetze EXPERIENCE
UPGRADE! From BMW E92 M3 to a Porsche GT2 RS & it's EXTRA SPECIAL!
UPGRADE! From BMW E92 M3 to a Porsche GT2 RS \u0026 it's EXTRA SPECIAL!
Polestar 1. My First FULL WET Nürburgring Lap.
Polestar 1. My First FULL WET Nürburgring Lap.
Was this a Peugeot 106 at 7:50 ? Nice driving, commentary, and car ! Loved it.
This is very good for the vicinity.
A beauty with a beast inside ! Looks comfy. Nice video !
I don't want to comment on the audi happenings, but Misha you are the most honest and good person I know especially in terms of beiing someone that is situated in public with big range. If everyone would be a bit more like you, world would be a better place. :-) I know big words, but some kind I felt by following your videos. Your just totally in calm, even if there was a hard day and an email not as expected. Besides sorry for my english. ;-)
Great 👌
Have a great weekend, you've bloody earnt it!
For him, driving this car is like riding a tricycle for me
The whole E-Mail context does make the reaction of this 1 person from Audi actually look worse. However, when people are involved, shit happens. That's life. Next time, someone screws up at Ford when Fabio is on vacation, ill or whatever.
Good video
pancakes, ring, friends and Porsches = good way to cut the stress
Awesome
Thank you for this entitled bullshit speach about a car that was not yours to do with what ever you wanted...
What did the PR person say when you called them on the phone for clarification of the points in their short email?... you did call them didn't you?
If Audi was smart they coulda used this to their advantage. This could have been PR/Marketing GOLD. They could have sent out a camera crew. And produced a well put together commercial of the RS6 racing the Nurburgring and juxtapose it to being used off-road in a ravished land helping people in need. “AudiTogether” “Quattro” “Born On The Track, Built For The Road” “#TogetherWithAudi” “Best Decisions Never Came This Easy” lol. They could have milked this. Plus this is in their native land. What a bunch of imbeciles
Have a nice day! That's well deserved by now :-D
Friends, Cool Cars & Pancakes!!! Perfection!
Pancakes !
🥞 + 🚘 + 🌞😎👍🏻
I get what your saying Misha but when you work in PR and for a brand as big and influential as Audi this type of thing is your bread and butter. It wouldn’t have taken a rocket scientist to turn this into a massive Pr boost for Audi but instead they dropped the ball massively. The stage was set for them to do so and they failed to show up.
Audi 0 : Ford 1 And I am an Audi person. But whoever wrote that heartless reply, should think about himself and his relation to the brand.
All necessary Misha "tap-dancing" aside, Audi comes out of all this negatively - and Ford makes out quite well by comparison. I endorse Roberts' comments on this topic. - Ed on the Ridge
This is what people needed right now. There's a lot going on and people are working hard. Now that the ring is open they can cut some stress and local businesses can stop worrying about money.
Maniac's have arrived
Dear Misha, I am a car enthusiast and I am not really a brand basher, yours was an honest response to this email blunder. The message the public gets from the PR department to convey the company slogan: - If Audi's is Forwards With Technology, on the day the email was sent out the thoughts were "I am not currently human just a corporate clot, thinking of legality, not humanitarian aid". The VW group can be very faceless at times. Hopefully, Audi can actually be humble and humanitarian & auction more than one vehicle off. Regards Philip Cupid in Zug Switzerland
Can someone please find that car a buy it 😫from Audi and sell it for this cause? 🙏 We need a go found me page to buy this Audi!
😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌❤❤❤❤❤❤
Pancake time!
"Pancakes First"
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NICE
I think the email was a bit lost in translation. Email SHOULD have said as long as you give us the car in perfectly working order as per the contract, we don't care what you do with it. However, we did see your vids and loved what you did with it.
Willkommen in der Welt der "Influenzer" - das ganze Probleme entsteht dort, wo PR auf das Spannungsfeld von Influenzern und Journalisten trifft. Es ist ein Drama für viele PR-Abteilungen bei der Industrie. Dort sind "Testwagen" für viele Jahre einfach nur ein Werkzeug gewesen um "Journalisten" mobil zu halten. Mit Influenzern wie Dir, geht eigentlich die Marketing-Seite der Unternehmen in ein ganz neues Abenteuer - und die Grenzen zwischen PR und Marketing schwinden. Das wiederum führt zu Grabenkämpfen in den Unternehmen. Und irgendwo dort - bei all der Reibung, geht dann die grundsätzlich gemeinschaftliche Idee von PR UND Marketing unter. Vielen Dank für diese besondere Transparenz in diesem Fall. Ich kann mir sehr gut vorstellen, in welchen Strudel aus Interessenskonflikten du geraten bist.
Bedankt voor meer achtergrond informatie Misha. Feit blijft dat in deze omstandigheid een PR persoon van AUDI zich heel druk heeft gemaakt om 1 auto die nuttig ingezet werd in een noodsituatie, hier mee laat een groot bedrijf zich kennen ondanks ook hun noodfonds ten bate van het rampgebied. Heeft AUDi al een officieel excuus naar buiten gebracht voor hun domme gedrag?
Thanks Volkswagen and Bosch for the dieselgate..
Exploding Kittens!!! Love that game. :)
Far too much waffle on this topic. ok, someone at Audi wrote a clumsy email. But this whole anti-Audi movement by all these ‘followers’ is getting ridiculous.
it WAS clumsy but you don't do that to someone like Misha who was a large social media following.
I don’t think the email was that unfair. I would have just replied ‘many thanks, car will of course be returned in flawless condition’ which you guys have done. Maybe if the Audi PR guy added some more positive emotion to his email then the ‘flawless comment’ might not have been perceived as a potential negative. I just think the PR guys email was very professional and corporate to and extent, a more informal approach could have prevented all of this. No biggy though.
Sad for the VAG group indeed...like the bosses would have actually known or cared for that matter given the scale of things.. that jobsworth bellend needs to go work at lidl
#audi don't like to save Germany in this horrible weather!
POV: you’re here from the news article
Can't help myself on 2 facts: Employees allowing you to test an expensive car, sometimes act as billionaires owning that car, so better keep your fingers off the dash, not to leave your greasy fingerprint marks on "their asset". If you do not show up in a 7-series or S-Class, you-re most of the times valued as a poor beggar honored to spend rich’s men time in luxury cars. Totally wrong way to evaluate a person. Especially one like Misha.
AUDI has definitely missed an opportunity here, to show unity with the people. On top of that, the way the e-mail is written, they truly opened the channel for a shit storm and it does also leave some bad feelings associated to the Audi Brand with me. Misha, great video. Respect for leaving out personal feelings and bad emotions while providing transparency about this situation.
Amazing car! Wish i could afford one :) I absolutely love the RS6 !!
don't overthink it , it is what it is , move on
Looks like a short email response, where the other side has no time or interest in helping out. I mean, he/she could have written something like "please return the RS6 like its written in the contract, but i will check if there is any possibility of..." and so on. OK, can happen, but at his side, I would call you some days later and apologise for maybe misunderstanding that email (IMO there's not much space for interpretation^^) and finding a solution. Maybe he's pi**** about that Ford move (well done Ford), who knows. And OF COURSE Audi raised funds for that catastrophe (everything else would be bad PR), but cmon... their employees should spend and they raise it by not even a million... Look at BMW, VW, Ford... All these little things in combination give audi in my view a bad name. When talking about the Flood with friends I told them about your support and help there and that you drive them in a RS6 to the villages and explained what Ford does... everyone was pleasently surprised and a bit proud ("its Audi/Ford, what do you expect")... and then I told them some days later about that email... ("how stupid can they be" was one quote) You did the best out of it Misha! Maybe there will be a response or maybe not. I like the quote "A muddy RS6 is a happy RS6" :D
Thank you for clearing that issue up Misha. I didn’t comment on the video in question, being aware that emotions were running high and exacerbated by exhaustion. Glad that you still have an amiable relationship with Audi and that they are behind the flood support effort. Your transparency and honesty is exemplary and admirable.
You guys are awesome. I wish I could get there to help but unfortunately I am in Aus atm and cannot get there. So cool. Keep up the great work.
👍
Turned into a bit of a PR disaster for Audi and in my opinion rightfully so. I agree they could of used the car as a way to perhaps raise awareness/ money for relief effort. They don’t need to but would of helped with their PR and marketing. At the end of the day this car will probably end up being written off as a business expense by Audi anyway. Also Porsche have donated 20 mil to the relief effort where as Audi will only top up employee donations to six figures which depending on the generosity of the employees will become less and less of a commitment. I’m sure there are many wonderful people who work for Audi however.. a brands reputation relies on the people that represent it to the public and in this case Audi have been left lacking.
Pretentiousness on all levels. Audi PR properly understeered into the wall there, but then again that’s not a surprise.
Thanks Misha for the explanation. Audi somehow reacted insensitively and without heart in this email. You did the right thing under such extraordinary circumstances and Audi should apologise. Hugely embarrassing to hear from a huge german brand how it reacted to the use of your RS6 during such catastrophic event...
Hats off to you guys, everyone involved and Ford. Love the fact they were so keen to help, and didn't even care what condition they come back in, *cough AUDI* makes me feel good to drive a Ford now
So well said Misha. Thank you for the video
That Dyno at start…..the car drifted across to the edge of the roller. Any rim damage and tire?
so its a reliability test but you have to return it in flawless condition. that makes so much sense..
Good explanation but the Audi rep should have been back to you regarding a fairly terse insensitive email in after all a humanitarian crisis situation.
I was never going to buy an Audi bcos those cars feel like they have no soul, after this they just proved my point so especially Im never ever buying an Audi.
Ich kann mir halt vorstellen dass der Audi Mitarbeiter das überhaupt nicht böse gemeint hat. Vielleicht war es einfach nur eine unglückliche Wortwahl ggf auch durch nicht perfekte Englischkenntnisse.. aber wer weiß. Alles in Allem den Trubel nicht Wert.
If AUDI had played this right they would have gotten more than the price of a RS6 plus some. Mix the footage of helping people after the flood with Tom K winning Le Mans 9 times in a AUDI, families going on holiday, the UP, E-Tron etc etc, that says something about the brand and scope. Instead we get someone that wants the RS6 returned in "flawless condition" after being driven to a disaster zone. Yes, it is just one person, but he is part of the culture where he works.