Culture | October 18, 2007 | 7 comments

Kart Vader VS Rendez Vous, a contrast in Street Racing Styles

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYXabC_8wM

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People always talk about Rendez Vous as the ultimate street race video, but Kart Vader is the real deal! No fake audio or mystery cars.

Kart Vader is out of his mind and I love it. Lucky he survived!

The real question is, why do both these segments take place in French-speaking parts of the world?

Rendez Vous was filmed in Paris in the 1970s, and Kart Vader is filmed in Quebec in around 2004. I will admit that the Parisian version does have a more artistic appearance, almost Hitchcockian in feel. Kart Vader, being a Quebecois home video, has more of a “Jackass”, lo-fi, Guerrila quality.

There must be a genetic link to why the French come up with this crazy stuff. I do not think this is a coincidence.
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  • Justin_Gunn
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    • I love this stuff...Trying to figure out which video I enjoy watching the most, and I'm realizing that they are both incredible for entirely different reasons.

      Way to go, Frobot!

    • 4 years ago
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    • These shifter karts are very fast. 0-60 in under 3 seconds and they are not made for the road.

      Trust me.
      I totaled mine on an access road next to the racetrack once. Everybody thought it was funny.
      Cost of the accident and repair to the kart: $1100
      Helmet: $800
      Smashed fence: $300
      Getting a laugh and walking away unscathed: Priceless.

    • 4 years ago
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    • Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

      Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece.

      Lelouch is known for making movies based heavily on improvised dialogue.

      He was arrested after his 1976 film, C'était un rendez-vous, reportedly at the time featuring a Ferrari 275 GTB being illegally driven at speeds approaching 140 km/h through the streets of Paris by a Formula 1 driver, was first shown publicly.

      Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. Several independent groups have verified that the car in the film never reaches past 140 km/h (85mph)

    • 4 years ago
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