Having the title of YouTube’s Most Boring Car Channel is not without it’s perks, and as many of my followers know that I buy cars (the clue is indeed in the name), I get a lot of emails and comments offering me a plethora of vehicles.
Often these cars are too expensive or too good to become true Geoff cars, but occasionally a car will enter the fray that I just simply have to find a home for. Even more occasionally, this happens the night before a big giveaway, throwing the whole thing into disarray with a large spoonful of additional chaos. That’s exactly what happened today.
The concept of a Booby Prize car is to give 2nd place a double-edged-sword-sort-of-prize, so that they can say ‘YAY I WON A CAR’ swiftly followed by ‘OH CRAP IT’S AWFUL‘.
See? On the plus side, you win an actual working car, but on the downside, its an absolutely hateful piece of automobilia. Where I’ve gone wrong is by accidentally improving the quality of the booby prize cars. A 2 seat Citroen Picasso half full of sand is an excellent booby prize, but the Peugeot 306 was actually pretty good. With the Slippers Special I excelled myself and cocked up completely by employing a Saab 9-5 as the Booby Prize, which many people thought was better than the two ‘hero cars’ that are on offer.
With this in mind, I’d been thinking of a way to up the ante and bring the Booby Prize concept back to where it started. That’s when Matt commented on a Facebook post offering me the worlds best Booby Prize car.
Say hello to my little friend!
A Peroudua Nippa. Peroud? Proudua? Pernod? Dua Lipa?
Nope, I can’t even spell it, I’m gonna have to google it.
The Nippa (or Kancil) was Perodua’s first car, launched in 1992 and lasting until 2009 in various guises, each of which was worse than the one that preceeded it. The Kancil is named after the mouse deer, a native animal commonly found in Malaysian jungle… although it was sold as the Nippa in the UK. Quite why it was named after a tiny deer or called a Nippa in the UK is anyone’s guess.
The Kancil was Cancelled in 2009 when it was replaced by the Kelisa, (the car that Jeremy Clarkson famously purchased brand new from a dealer and then smashed to pieces with a sledge hammer within full view of the showroom. Although this clip doesn’t seem to be on YouTube anymore, did Karen complain?)
So, here we have the worlds worst car, and Geoff’s biggest curveball.
Here’s the skinny…
If the first person out of the hat chooses the Booby Prize (aka the Saab), then the 2nd person out of the hat gets the Backup Booby Prize… The Nippa.
This will make for a quite hilarious live feed, because the first person out of the hat can effectively completely screw over the 2nd person out the hat by choosing the Saab… Which is brilliant.
It’s a bold move, Cotton, as they say. Bring the Chaos.
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