agreed with comment a few above - not mentioning buffalo is better.
The video is cool, but shows nothing/nowhere good about/in buffalo - we get enough shit by people that don’t know better, and leaving out the location helps IMO.
See, if this was a one off video I might agree. But it’s a video series that promotes it’s location often prominently. People are used to seeing it. Without it in the title they’re actually calling attention to the lack of a named location.
People on the web are asking where it was filmed, finding out anyway, then saying “Oh that’s why they didn’t put it in the title; because Buffalo sucks.”
Maybe they’d say “Buffalo sucks” either way, but I think overall less people would had the location not been omitted.
Am I the only one disappointed that the powers at be in Buffalo didn’t take better advantage of this? Using more/better locations and getting some media coverage on it could have been a real slam dunk. No?
I did find this on the WIVB website. not sure when it aired.
As the producers of the turtles movie learned, you’re way better off filming if people don’t know about it so you don’t have 1000’s of idiots poking around during filming and getting in the way. After the filming wrapped though I’m really disappointed our local leaders and media didn’t do more to cover this. It was the same thing when Top Gear US came here for their amphibious cars episode. In that case the shots they had made our region look amazing but even then short of Top Gear fans basically no one knew about it. it show’s our local leaders are still the JV team when it comes to marketing opportunities.
I get that Gymkhana videos aren’t for everyone, but this video had 150k views yesterday and today it’s up to 2.5 million. Yesterday the Buffalo News entertainment section’s prominent feature was about some half hour comedy almost no on watches and had zero ties to the region. You can’t tell me this wasn’t more news worthy locally than that.
Yeah, exactly my point and well said. I get not wanting coverage during a shoot, but there was plenty of opportunity missed post-production. Shame.
The credits mentioned thanks to the people of buffalo
Slow Roll gets more coverage. It appeals to the Starbucks, slipper sneaker, Chinese character, food foo culture.
good read and some good pics http://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/qa-ken-block-gymkhana-9