Regular Car Reviews poses a deliberately unanswerable question at the Carlisle Ford Nationals, wandering a field that spans everything from Model A-era classics to a modern carbon-fiber GT. Host MrRegularCar’s deadpan commentary turns a simple car show walkthrough into a running bit about what ‘best’ even means across nearly a century of the same badge. Watch to see which Ford nearly breaks the host’s trademark cynicism.
Regular Car Reviews built its entire reputation on refusing to review the cars everyone expects. So when the channel showed up to the Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with a question this simple sitting in the title, longtime viewers already knew not to expect a straight answer. The premise sounds like a joke — and delivered in host MrRegularCar’s deadpan drawl, it plays like one — but wandering an entire field of Ford’s most significant models side by side turns out to raise a genuinely harder question than it first appears. Which Ford actually deserves the title, and does the channel even bother answering it?
A Joke Question, A Serious Field of Cars
The Carlisle Ford Nationals, held annually in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest single-marque gatherings in the country, drawing everything from Model T-era classics through modern GT supercars onto the same fairgrounds. Filming there gives Regular Car Reviews access to a genuinely rare cross-section of Ford’s history in one location — a mix that would be nearly impossible to assemble any other way short of visiting a dozen separate owners individually. That accessibility is a big part of why RCR keeps returning to marque-specific gatherings like this one rather than sticking to solo reviews filmed in a parking lot.
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Regular Car Reviews’ Deadpan Formula
MrRegularCar’s format has always leaned on deadpan absurdism over conventional car-journalism structure — long pauses, exaggerated cadence, and a habit of asking questions that sound rhetorical until the video makes clear he’s actually chasing a real answer underneath the bit. “Which Ford is Best Ford?” fits that mold exactly: delivered with a straight face, repeated enough times that it becomes a running gag, while the footage itself does the more serious work of actually surveying Ford’s lineup across decades.
Why Carlisle Ford Nationals Matters
Carlisle’s Ford-specific event matters because it filters out everything that isn’t a Ford product, which forces a direct, apples-to-apples-ish comparison across the brand’s entire history rather than against competitors. That structure is exactly what makes the video’s central question answerable at all — comparing a Model A against a modern GT only makes sense with both machines parked feet apart, wearing the same blue oval, at the same event. It also means the comparison carries a kind of built-in credibility — every car on that field was chosen by an owner who specifically wanted to be at a Ford-only show, rather than assembled by a producer chasing variety.
The GT That Stole the Show
One commenter’s reaction sums up the video’s most memorable beat: watching the host get visibly “mesmerised by the shiny new GT” to the point where the jokes briefly stop. The second-generation Ford GT, with its carbon-fiber tub and twin-turbo EcoBoost V6, represents about as far from the show’s usual beater-focused subject matter as Regular Car Reviews gets, and the footage captures a rare moment of the channel’s trademark cynicism giving way to genuine enthusiasm.
Comparing Eras That Were Never Meant to Compete
Directly comparing a decades-old Ford to a modern GT is, strictly speaking, an unfair fight — different engineering eras, different manufacturing tolerances, different everything. But that’s part of the video’s point: “best” was never meant to be measured on a single objective scale. A Model A’s mechanical simplicity and a GT’s carbon-fiber construction represent Ford at two completely different moments in its own engineering philosophy, and the video treats both as legitimate answers depending entirely on what a viewer actually values in a car.
What the Comments Reveal About the Format
The comment section leans heavily into the bit itself — one viewer joking that the title alone, read as “which ferd is best ferd” in the host’s accent, “lost it,” while another asked, half-seriously, whether MrRegularCar walks around actually saying lines like this out loud in daily life. That response is typical of the channel’s audience, who engage as much with the delivery and persona as with any actual car content, which is itself part of what’s made Regular Car Reviews a durable format.
An Answer That Was Never the Point
True to form, the video never delivers a definitive answer, and that’s arguably the entire joke — “best” was always a setup for commentary on Ford’s range rather than a question with a real conclusion. What the video does deliver is a genuinely useful walking tour of Carlisle’s Ford Nationals, filtered through a host whose running commentary makes even a straightforward car show feel like a scripted bit, right down to the closing shot leaving the question exactly as open as it started.
Why the Format Still Works
Regular Car Reviews has built a decade-plus career out of refusing to take its subject matter as seriously as traditional automotive journalism does, and this Carlisle visit is a good example of why that approach has staying power: it turns what could have been a straightforward car show walkthrough into something closer to a personality-driven bit, without ever actually abandoning real information about the cars on the field. Viewers get both the joke and the substance in the same video, which is exactly the balance the channel has built its whole identity around maintaining.
Best Ford, Still Undecided
Regular Car Reviews has revisited marque-specific gatherings like Carlisle multiple times since this video posted, and the “best Ford” question has never gotten a firmer answer in any of them — which seems to be exactly the point. Muscle car enthusiasts arguing in the comments about whether a Model A, a Fox-body, or a modern GT deserves the crown are, in a sense, doing the video’s real work for it, since the disagreement itself is what keeps Ford’s decades-long range interesting to debate in the first place.
A Field Guide to Ford’s Own History
Wandering Carlisle’s fairgrounds functions, almost incidentally, as a walking timeline of Ford’s engineering priorities across nearly a century — from the utilitarian simplicity of the Model era through the muscle car boom, the malaise-era compromises of the 1970s and 80s, and finally into a modern lineup chasing six-figure performance halo cars. Regular Car Reviews rarely frames it this explicitly, but the footage itself makes the case better than any narration could: whatever “best” means, it has clearly meant something different to Ford in every single decade represented on that field.
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I’ve never seen good Ford….lol
The one you just got foe something else lol
The good one Steve is the one you just sold traded junked to get something else means you just learned a lesson
Mustangs
None of them
THE ONE IN THE JUNK YARD
F150
Only good ford has a Chevy engine.
The F150 I’m driving now !!!
No such thing as a “best Ford”!!!!!!
None
0
In the scrap yard
Dead ones
A crushed one!
Hard too choose one. They’re all good
best ford is the one in the junk yard
There all awesome
any ford that’s on it’s way to the junk yard.
One that just got crushed
Never heard of it!
1932
67 Fairlane 427
Didn’t play the video, there are no good Ford’s.
I owned an 86 Crowne Victoria Interceptor, bulky, but an awesome drive.
None
Our 2016 F350 diesel dually 4 door with 8′ bed that we use to pull our 5th wheel rv
Focus
79. FORD BRONCO….351 MOD.
THE BEST FORD EVER is the 69 Ford galaxie sportsroof my friends and I had many good times in during the early 1980’s
An afFORDable ford xD
Best Ford??? No such thing…lol…FORD…Fucking Old Rebuilt Dodge =P
None
My Ford
My ford
none
They are all garbage , worst handling crap cars are ford
None…
One that runs!
Anything pre 1980 and after Jack Nassier got fired for blaming Firestone and General and not taking responsibility for Ford’s screw up
Doesn’t exist
Anything SHELBY touched… LOL Just saying
None
My,,,,65….2Dr. Galaxies…
A Chevrolet!
SUPER DUTY ‘S …. then MUSTANG
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Best Ford…a Ford in the junk yard
I prefer the ones made by matchbox lol
I got 20 seconds in , very annoying
https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/20065619/1927-ford-at-4-a
Woooo. $$$$$
Elanor and 67 t-bird
F-150
Mustangs & thunderbird