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Well. Nobody loves futuristic cars more than I do, but ... really? Now I've seen everything. It is unclear whether this is a complete joke/spoof or if someone who never saw a real Packard came up with this at a frat-party kegger.

I'm watching my YouTube feed and this thingie pops up with an awful robotic AI narration. All filled with mis-pronunciations The robot spiel was obviously written by a guy wearing a plaid sports coat, with mirror sunglasses and smoking a cigar!

The video claims to be displaying "the 2025 Packard Caribbean." It shows several views if what appear to be three different designs ranging from what appears to be a modified Lamborghini to golden combination crab/praying mantis. And amalgram other present-day supercars. Meanwhile the robot narrator glowingly describes "quilted leather seats"... (while showing what appear to be flat-padded vinyl). Yawn.

The narration goes on to describe "traditional Packard design hallmarks" but shows none. No red hexagons. No hood spears. No bird ornaments. No family crest. The narrator even goes into the "upright radiator" in one version, incredibly claiming it is "like Packard" but showing neither traditional Packard shape nor cusps. Sorry.

Then, they really step in the pile by misspelling Packard ON THE VEHICLE as both "PACARD"... "PAKARD" and "PACLARDD" while they repeatedly reference the lighting as "lead lighting" (presume this means LED lighting). Then calling the car "krib-yin" instead of Caribbean.

Here is the link:
youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zcGZce080

Have fun looking. They never say who or what is behind this bizarre video...

AI-generated garbage and nothing more. Actually it's probably edited manually by someone in a low GDP country such as Nigeria, but with 100% AI images, text,
and text-to-speech.

25 views in 5 hours, channel with 12 subscribers.

Did you see the "El Camino"-Camaro video next to it?

See all new Trabant with more doors than ever before! New style, speed and power compliments soft seat with cover of cloths. Requires no more gas than a motoscooter and doubles as a nifty breadbox for kitchen or rustic piknik!! New price and same old color or new sunset pink if you like for smallest upcharge! Includes starting key and another tire!!

Thanks for the laugh.

There was one that claimed that the Studebaker Champ pickup truck singlehandedly killed the company.

More alarming was one about a Citroen DS coupe that had me for a few minutess. The AI image was actually quite good.

This is the starting gate of the factless future.

Misspelled "Pacard" on the trunk lid.


I know, picky picky picky . . . .

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As I stated earlier in my original post... they misspelled Packard three (3) different times, three different ways... yes, on the cars they show...

I deliberately didn't save the link to it - recently there was one for Studebaker similar to the Packard one Leeedy found that was similarly (and horribly) inaccurate. Apparently there was no attempt to edit it for correctness of information, spelling or pronunciation.

most of videos have more wrong information than correct. They seem to be made for people who know next to nothing about cars even newer car ones are full of mistakes. My wife gets upset when I start complaining to computer while watching mistakes. qne thing really bothers me is showing restored car with wrong engine

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Ahhh. Well it goes even deeper. There are the videos being made by people who know nothing at all about the car they are featuring (often nothing about cars at all) ... but bristle if anyone corrects them or points out silly things in their video. Like the guy who makes authoritarian-sounding "historical vehicle" videos and then says such absurd things as (when talking about 1956 Caribbean)..."they had that airbag suspension and this one may need to be pumped up!" Or refers to Packard Torsion-Level suspension as "Torsionaire" (Chrysler's term for their front-mounted torsion bars). Or the time he talks about a 1959 Cadillac Biarritz and expresses shock that there is no dual-circuit braking system... "No dual-circuit braking system? You mean one circuit to stop this big car? Isn't that dangerous?" As if cars from the 1950s just could not stop without a dual-circuit system. Please. When I made an accurate comment in his "we welcome your comments" section... the video guy went ballistic and posted a nasty retort: "You've got no camera and no YouTube show so..." blah-blah.

I did not bother to respond, but I could have said, "Yes, but I have actually owned a 1956 Packard Caribbean convertible, a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible, a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham and a 1960 Eldorado Brougham (yes the one made by Pininfarina in Italy). I also could have pointed out that I've been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO and CBC... but that might have realllly popped his clockspring.

THEN there is the other type of online video. The kind where the guy doing it reads an article or two... then pirates all of the info (sometimes images too) and tries to make it appear in a video as if– oohhhh yes– HE somehow is the source of the information. That HE has special expertise on the subject (NOT!).

Like the nuclear hatchet job video about Packard Predictor making the rounds. It is quite obvious that whoever did the video got all of the ACCURATE information in it from reading the history yours truly wrote for The Packard Cormorant magazine. AND/OR they read the section on Predictor in the book, Creative Industries of Detroit- The Untold Story of Detroit's Secret Concept Car Builder by Leon Dixon.

Now, how can we say the video got this info from these sources? Because the video hits nearly every inside story and goes into information in images. THIS information and images (especially those showing the scale model with the "Javelin" name on it) were only published in these two places. Before these works were published this was all unknown stuff. Suddenly EVERYBODY is an expert on Packard Predictor.

Journalism 101 teaches (or USED TO teach) that it is a serious and customary courtesy to state the source of such detailed information. As in "according to The Packard Cormorant magazine..." etc. But no. Not one mention of the obvious sources. WHY?

This is yet another rampant and unfortunate trend of the internet as it exists today. The wild west! Myths repeated as facts, videos made to seem authoritarian when filled with either myths or pirated from un-named sources. It is easy to stand tall when doing so by having one's feet planted on top of someone else's shoulders.

The video stuff is out of control... and I won't even mention print media where anything and everything now goes... it is what it is...