Fastest Car

Love this show. I especially love watching bad ass ladies destroy supercars. Love seeing boxes race against supercars. Such a cool idea. More please.

While it's interesting to watch these cars and the effort that goes into them... Why oh why does every driver have a son story and end up in tears!?

Driver 1 "I'm doing this for my dead mother" que tears.

Driver 2 "my wife divorced me" que the water works.

Driver 3 "my best friend's dog passed away" que the deluge.

That's pretty much every episode. It starts to grind on your gears (excuse the pun).

What is great about this series, is the people and their stories. Not only is the Fastest Car filled with neat vehicles for gear heads, but it features amazing stories of struggle and perseverance. I love this production.

In typical American reality-TV fashion, there's an endless amount of cheesy dramatisation and very little actually working on the cars. Everything is so painfully , it feels like the show is made for people with IQ below 70; Supercars owners are intentionally chosen and framed to be as obnoxious as possible and the underdog car builders are have the same repetitive sob-story. Way too much BS and way too little racing and building.

Definitely a really well done show. There's a lot of focus on the people behind the cars- their motivations, back story, and what they hope to accomplish from the race. You get to learn a little bit about the cars and what's under the hood, but it's not just about trying to match up cars with known quarter mile times and racing against a supercar that also has a known quarter mile time. That certainly wouldn't be good TV. Instead, it's about drivers, their sleeper cars, and stories about real people.

I enjoy fact that the supercar drivers aren't just "rich assholes" looking for kicks. They have their own stories as well, and the contrast with the sleeper car drivers is certainly interesting.