YouTuber Who Crashed His GMC Hummer Known as It “Pathetic”

Final week, the world stared with schadenfreude as a YouTuber totaled his nine-mile-old GMC Hummer EV. We’re all used to a world of on-line content material creators with extra money than sense, and there’s all the time pleasure to be present in watching wealthy idiots break their very own shit in a quest for clicks and likes.

However Edmond Barseghian, the proprietor of this Hummer EV, isn’t your backyard selection wealthy fool. He’s frolicked in IMSA and ARA, and — whereas by no means precisely podium-topping — I’m prepared to imagine he is aware of automotive management higher than the common YouTuber. So when he blames the Hummer’s weight for all its harm, reasonably than his personal driving, I’m prepared to imagine the reality lies someplace within the center.

Barseghian spoke with Street & Monitor in regards to the crash and the sheer quantity of injury that the Hummer sustained from a dip within the dust. He claims the shocks collapsed, the entrance subframe was broken, the physique panels bent, and even the body itself was closely twisted by the impression. At its core, he blames two elements: weight and suspension journey.

“[B]as a result of the truck weighs a lot, the body [was] simply fully destroyed. Additionally, I had traction management off, as a result of I wished to go sliding, however that dumps the suspension, so the suspension had no journey in any respect.” In fact, for off-roading, why would you ever need suspension journey?

Barseghian claims the harm would price $78,000 in components and labor to restore, which brings us to the opposite facet of the YouTuber coin: Barseghian continues to be, on the finish of the day, some style of wealthy fool. This isn’t the primary costly automotive he’s crashed, and it received’t be the final. He instructed Street & Monitor that he crashes “a automotive each 5 years,” and that this crash signifies that his “supercars are secure for the subsequent 5 years.” He didn’t even run the automotive via insurance coverage, as an alternative promoting it himself for a large loss.

Neither facet of this crash, the automotive or the driving force, appears innocent within the destruction. The Hummer’s weight and suspension settings met a driver with a seeming lack of mechanical sympathy, and all both bought was a $78,000 invoice. Silly video games, meet silly prizes.