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High-Octane Thrills: Exploring the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla and the Local Automotive Scene · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am central.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Let's try that again.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the award winning In Wheel Time car talk show, the mark consolidated as a car show you'll want to know about and we're getting you the details.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: You'll hear my thoughts on driving the new 2024 Toyota GR Corolla.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: What's it go?
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that too.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Rising in particulars coming your way and Mr Mars has this week's events calendar just ahead.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: On the In Wheel Time car talk show.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Today's show is sponsored by the Houston Meekum auction, april 4th through the 6th at NRG Center Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us this morning.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be a beautiful day in Houston, texas, today.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: I think the high temperature is supposed to be like 80 and beautiful white, puffy clouds rolling by, and muah, humidity is down, it's great.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: And we're down with the In Wheel Time car talk show.
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: The weather forecast said this is going to be the nicest Saturday this year so far.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: I think this afternoon I am going to go to the Bayou City Art Festival.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, very good.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go put Milan Cher out there with Leslie and we're going to listen to broken spokes.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: They're supposed to be playing down there.
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a good country band.
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard of them.
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I know a couple guys in there.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: All right, that out of the way.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Let's get to Dionne Wilson-Lamar consolidated ISD auto tech program.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: He is the man.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: The man, dionne.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning gentlemen.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: How are you sir?
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: I'm great.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Where are you?
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: I'm in glory, where are?
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: you.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: I'm great I'm at out here to spot for the car show I'm at 1011 Forest Band Avenue in Rosenberg, Texas.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: I'm on the steps of the Natatorium, the Natatorium.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: Have you got your swimming suit on?
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: Man, I always got it on.
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's the birthday suit, yeah.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: I have stories about swimming in school pools.
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: We'll come tomorrow and talk about it?
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, off the air At any rate.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: So you've got your big ninth annual auto fest.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: So have you been with the auto fest since the very first one.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Is this your idea?
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it's your idea.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: How many cars generally show up for the ninth annual auto fest?
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: We average anywhere from 80 to over 100.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: Very nice, very good.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Now, are these mostly students?
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Or are these pros or just everyday guys like us?
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: All of these?
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: Everyday, guys, it's got the nice rise.
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: They're the ones that got the money, so we invite them out.
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: A lot of wonderful cars out here.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: Do you have some cars there that were built, or at least owned, by your students?
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: There'll be some here a little bit later.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: yes, yeah, a little bit later, like when the show starts at 10 o'clock this morning.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: Right, there's already four gentlemen out here.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: Actually beat me here this morning.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's funny how us passionate auto freaks are.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: We'll show up in the middle of the night just to get a good spot at a car show Absolutely.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about the classes of cars.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: I see that you got trucks up to is it 59?
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: And then you've got trucks 1960 and up.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: You got the four by four Jeep class, cars pro what is cars pro?
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: Cars pro.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what it says on my sheet.
• 4:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a picture of your flyer up right now, dion, so that's going broadcasting to.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: I don't have that in front of me, but we have several areas that have 11 different classes.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: You know, try to cover everybody with imports to, to the hot rods.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: So, in other words, if you show up, everybody is going to be a winner.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: Kind of like playing little league softball these days.
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody's a winner.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we like that, and Dash Plaques for the first 50 participants.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: I like Dash Plaques, do you, I do, I haven't, I haven't.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: I have a couple back here on my toolbox from events in the past.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: I was going to say you weren't.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: You don't put them on the Corvette Dash, do you no?
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: there's no place to put those on the Corvette, the current Corvette Dash.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: There used to be, but there's not any longer.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Ok, so let's talk about the the benefit of this show.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: I understand it's a $50 donation, $30 donation per vehicle, and it's free to spectators.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: So what do you do with the money?
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, I am an automotive instructor, so we service over 200 students and we try to compete in the skills USA, the, the old vehicle competitions, and we need registration money and uniforms, and we also go on field trips and we use the money sometimes for some projects that we can't pay for with our regular budget.
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: So it's all to benefit the students.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: So is this the only fundraiser that you have?
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: This is our major one.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: We have a few minor ones here and there.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I, you know, I'm always in for a good spaghetti supper or something.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: So I'm just thinking, you know, you get the pot out and we'll boil up some spaghetti and go for it, you know.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: But at any rate, do you have any particular cars coming today that you'd like to hawk?
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: Talk about.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love every one of them.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: That's that you know you know that that's a pretty standard answer.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: I think that I think that, oh wait, there's no, there's no audio here.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry, we have a little issue here going on and I really can't.
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: So the show starts at 10 this morning, but you've got folks coming in right now.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, there's four rides here right now.
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: OK, 10 to three is the is the show and you said it's a judge show or not.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: Participant judged.
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody gets a that puts a vehicle in the show gets a ballot.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: We tally it up and we give out 25 awards.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: Do they get to vote on their own car?
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: They just randomly pick what they think is the is the best.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Hopefully they pick the ones that are best.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: There you go, but I guess they potentially could vote for their own.
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Ok, good enough, that's very good.
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we know where you're at and it's just, it's not far from all the all the aspects of the stadium there, and then you've got the Lamar's headquarters, so to speak, that just down the road from you.
• 7:38
  Speaker 4: So this is you say this is the ninth annual.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, ninth and very good.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: So what else can?
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: you tell us about, are they going to have a food trucks there or anything, or cafeteria is going to be open?
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: Well, the concession stands will be over.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: We'll have some great festival sized Hot dogs and chips and a great drink, and we got a barbecue pit smoking over here, going to get us some turkey legs going in a little bit, oh man.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: Is that donated, or or folks are paying to participate as a vendor, so to speak?
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: There's a there to be a few people participating as vendors, but some of us donated.
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: Very good.
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: You got a lot of volunteers, mainly the children.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: I have four or five with the main crew that helps me out Any of the faculty.
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: None of the faculty helps out.
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: I mean you got a principal system principal out there.
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: In turkey legs after a while.
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do they have hot rods too?
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: I think one or two will bring a hot rod there you go there, you go, very nice you know we should be out there.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be a great time.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that that was what.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: This wasn't going to be stumped, the band was just just trying to continue the conversation.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't want to know, nobody really wants us, but you know our mothers maybe, yeah, but at any rate, well, it sounds like a great time and invite everybody out there.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: It's the lower consolidated independent school district and it is the ninth annual auto fast out in Rosenberg and we invite everybody out.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Don't you think that would be a good thing to have everybody show up out there and make a little donation to the, to the kids, to the cause run till 3pm.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, so 10 to three today and we invite everybody to go out there.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Deon, it's great to talk to you.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Best of luck to you and hopefully we'll get a few people out there for you All right.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: Let us move on.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: I have a story that I have been dying to tell you about.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: All right, let me put that back here, because I need to find it.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: I have it right up here, right here on her shoe.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: Really, big shoe yeah.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: So this is a story that you're just going to have to bear with me.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I think that you'll appreciate it.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, so it was written from Automotive News.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: They published this and I think that you'll appreciate it.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: Things haven't been looking good for Fisker Incorporated, which has halted production for six weeks and could file for bankruptcy soon.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Having consumer reports by one of its electric vehicles didn't help.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: After driving the Fisker Ocean for two weeks, the publication's testers praised the EV for a truly innovative design, superior cargo space and unique features such as a pullout taco tray for eating on the go.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: But beyond those few bright spots, the review was as harsh as well, apparently the ocean itself, which was described as both nauseating and jarring.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, here's some of what Consumer Reports wrote.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Quote so far.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Our experience with the ocean is like ordering pizza at a new buzzy restaurant only to get a pie with undercooked dough and no sauce because the tomatoes are still growing.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: The tantalizing promise of the final product is right there in front of us, but it's quite unappealing in its current state.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: It's inexcusable that safety and other features promised on the ocean's window sticker come and go, with their absences, only occasionally accompanied by warning messages.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: It feels like the ocean's software designers got some sadistic pleasure from programming new and different ways to prevent Bluetooth from connecting.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Wow, Regenerative braking is poorly tuned and difficult to modulate a nauseating experience that called to mind childhood memories of driving with my aunt Irene in her Buick Le Sabre oh, and a lot of perfume.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: The standard cloth upholstery feels like a cheap polyester suit.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: The touchscreen is slow, like $99 kids' tablets, slow and laggy, and touch sensitivity is all over the place.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Consumer Reports also slammed Fisker for its $2,438 shipping fee, the most it's ever been charged.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Yet the $63,981 vehicle turned out to be an excellent value, because Fisker never cashed the publication's check Quote.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: They told us they couldn't find it.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: The review said Just get back to this.
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: So it's free, free.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: Let's get back to the taco tray.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: What?
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: is that.
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: Why is it a taco?
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Why can't it be a Smashburger tray or a coffee cup tray?
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: That's the thing I really hate about Consumer Reports they hold back on what they think, yeah.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: Tell us how you really feel next time man, gee whiz.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: You know, somebody asked me the other day I'm looking at this new whatever it was a brand brand, new model car.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: I said don't buy it.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Don't buy it?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Don't buy it?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Why do you say that I love it?
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: I said because it hasn't been wrung out through the public's view yet and the service department really doesn't know what they're doing.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: If you have to bring it back for anything, and the chances of it breaking are pretty good, so give it a year.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Is it that important that you have that particular car?
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: right now, today, 001.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: There's a good point of interest when you're looking at a dealership to go buy a car, be it new or pre-owned.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: Go to the service department and kind of scan what's up on the racks, what's being serviced, is it a warranty, is it a recall?
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: You can do it For whatever problem.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Look at the service department and see what cars are in there.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Either that or do a little stalking, stalk.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: One of the service advisors.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: So, at the end of the day, say, hey look, I'm looking to buy it.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: Or a technician, I'm looking to buy product X from you guys, is it worth it?
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: And he will tell you is it worth it, yeah.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Or my suggestion also would be is look at consumer reports, because they have input from their people that subscribe to their service thousands of them and they will tell you and they judge the vehicles based on what people say and, of course, they're driving experience as well.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Technicians will be right up front with you.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: In fact, they had one at a store that I kind of frequent in the past.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Talk to them about it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: He goes no, don't, don't, don't, buy that, don't buy this model, this model, this model was all in the same brand.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: So, okay, all right.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: So I went out and bought it.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: I was going to say don't do that.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Don't do that no.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I just thought that it was a very interesting story and I thought it was extremely funny.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: And they got it for free.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: What did you break?
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: That is a great price and you can give her free for free, while they had cash to check.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: You couldn't find it, I couldn't find it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Don't think, don't think.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: spiral like after usually 60 or 90 days Def copers smell their nahia nani now depends on the bank and then they've got to cancel or stop it.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Couldn't find the check.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: My God, that's a company that I want to do business with.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, with all these, and let me tell you, there is still more and more and more startup companies trying to build EVs.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: They're all trying to go after Tesla.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not going to happen.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Tesla's got a big leg up on everybody, yep, so I wouldn't really try to do that.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: You don't necessarily start out going after the big dog.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: You want to go in and just get a little piece of it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Action and and yeah.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: And starting up a brand new automobile manufacturing company.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Boy, I'll tell you what you have to be really stupid or have really deep, stupid pockets, live investors.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: And you got to.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: You got to believe in your product, boy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I could.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I can believe in a lot of things that I've not.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That don't mean I got the money to actually deal with it, yeah, yeah.
• 16:28
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• 16:35
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• 16:44
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It's the end of the Enwild Time car talk show on this Saturday, coming to you from the Sugar Shack Studios here, and we are so glad that you could join us today and every day because we got lots to do and lots to say.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Lots of car talk.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Is it worth?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was listening to another car talk show the other day and I thought you know ours ain't too bad, yeah, so anyway.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: No, I like it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you do.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You continue to show up here knocking on my door in the middle of the night, but it's okay.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Time now for this week's events calendar.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Mr Marr says that.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: In this time of year there's tons of stuff going on.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: We're going to start with Lamar, Consolidating Independent School District.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Night Day to Autopest that we were just talking about Perfect.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: That is high school.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: That's the future of our automotive sport.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: So we really encourage everybody to go and support that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: 1011 Horseman Drive in Roseburg.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Champions Hot Rod Car Club has an event tomorrow 9am to 2pm at Rox's Bar and that is at $89.05.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Lweta Spring $35 entry fee.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Spectators are free.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: We're going to be talking to them in our Car Club spotlight shortly.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Also, saturday March, the 30th Space City Cruiser Spring Car Show, 7am to 3.30, 807 Highway 3 in League City.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Registration $40.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: That's old Galveston Highway for those locals.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, old Galveston Highway that was before they built I-45.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That's still being built, the new Galveston Highway.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Do they still call it old Galveston?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: They're stealing that road I think it's Highway 3, but I think that it's also the.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I think I've seen that sign.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: That was in.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Mississippi and I saw a sign Galveston next exit.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I think somebody's stealing that road.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Somebody's stealing that stuff Coming up.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: April 4th, through the 6th NRG, is the Meekum Auto Auction.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one day ticket is $30.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Multi-day is $75.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: You can go to meekumcom for more information or you can listen to us at 10 o'clock we're going to be talking to John Cramon about that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: But we always know that that is a massive car show, even if you're not a buyer.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: If you just want to go look without having to have pylons with all that stuff you're going to see vehicles that are in collections to come out for the auction.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: So it's a great car show to go to April 25th through 28th.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Go to Hot RodTourofTexascom for more information.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Talk to Bobby Yesterday.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, they've got very few entries left.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: They've just about sold out the whole 350 cars that are allowed that they're going to take for registrations.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: So if you're interested in going, you need to get that in May 4th and 5th.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Kills and Wheels at Lakewood Yacht Club killswheelscom for more information and the Lone Star Street Road Association straight state.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: That's kills dash wheels.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: You're right, kills dash wheelscom.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: And then LSSRAorg for more information on the Lone Star Street Road Association state run up in Grandbury, june the 7th through the 9th.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Lots of stuff going on.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: It is just all you got to do is look in the direction you want to go and you'll find it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: And depending what you want to do to, you Do, you know what GR means from the Toyota Group.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Well, if it was a serial, it would be great.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: It no.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Mars, you know?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: No, I'm trying to think no.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I really don't.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: GR stands for Gazoo Racing with the Gazoo part of the name Toyota yeah, but the Gazoo part of the name meaning garage.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It is yet another performance offshoot from Toyota, and it's even cooler than you might have imagined.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The GR sub brand began as a sort of skunkworks project started by Akio Toyota before he became the company's current president.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: It eventually became the company's dedicated motorsports arm and has grown to include the development of performance streetcars for Toyota.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: The GR brand races in the world endurance championship, the world rally championship, among other series.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Now you're going to say well, wait a minute, what about TRD?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I got a feeling that TRD is going to be shuffled off a little bit.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: They're not going to promote that as much as the GR, and I think that that's smart move.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I was a big fan of kind of sunset.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I bring all this up a lot of it, though and I bring all of this up because I had a chance to drive the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla, and when I was told that I was going to get a GR Corolla, I thought, oh, it's just a Corolla that's gooseed up.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: No, it's not, it is a hot hatch.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It comes in three editions trim levels the core, the premium and the circuit edition.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The circuit edition doesn't have a backseat.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: It is a five door coupe Hatch or coupe Well, it's a coupe hatch kind of thing.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It's a performance subcompact hot hatch.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: How's that?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It seats five.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to describe.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Think of it as a Volkswagen GTI, okay, think of it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Think of it as a WRX from Subaru.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, that kind of thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I don't ever recall Toyota coming up with something like this.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Seats five.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It's all new last year.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Small four door aero rocket with four wheels, basically Short nose and rear Huge open mouth grill takes up three quarters of the front fascia.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The hatch looks like race business with three exhaust exits, not two, not four, but three.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Wow, break ducts on the front fenders.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: The race style black wheels.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: The whole thing is every boy's boy racers dream, and I actually love it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Interior highlights lots of hard plastic throughout the cabin.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So you know, then the dirty boys get in there with the greasy pants and the greasy hands, they can just wipe it right off.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Comfortable form fitting race style cloth seating.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Fold down back seat.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, the circuit edition deletes the rear seat A basic infotainment system without navigation.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: What?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Because you've got your phone, yeah, and then they're doing away with navigation systems that are built into cars.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It's all going to depend on your phone and your Android or your iPhone, or someone giving you directions.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Apple CarPlay.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Well, that's easy to do.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Cargo trunk room is tiny.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: The easy shifting stick.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, it did have a six speed manual transmission and the GR label on top of that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Nothing Don't mess with it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: A 1.6 liter three cylinder engine with 300 horsepower and 273 pound feet of torque, as I mentioned, six speed manual.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Now mileage it's a race car.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: City's 21 highways rated at 28 for combined to 24.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I got 23.5 over 424.7 miles, by the way.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Tested in the quarter mile 13.1 seconds at 105 miles an hour.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: This thing will get it, buddy.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, roll cage the best time that I could get in the Corvette that has close to 400 horsepower was 13 seconds.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: That's the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it only beats it by 0.1 seconds.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Wow, and if you and it depends on who's going and who's driving, who's rolling off the light first and then pretty much yeah it has to do with the three exhaust pipes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Don't touch it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Make upgraded race parts available at the parts counter.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: That's all I can say.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and handling feels like a buck in Bronco.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And I put on here yes with an exclamation point.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: More race stuff options.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Base trim price 37,595.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Price is tested 40,159 dollars.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: The base model price is 36,5.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So obviously the $1,500 bump is actually.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: It's only a thousand dollar.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Bump is for delivery Competitors Honda Civic Type R 44,795 dollars 315 horsepower.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Hyundai Alantra N 33,700 dollars with 276 horsepower.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: The VW Golf R 45,665 dollars with 315 horsepower.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Get one today.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hot rod.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my review of the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla.
• 28:31
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• 28:33
  Speaker 1: The address is info at inwheeltimecom.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: We're back after a quick break.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Stay with us.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in Southeast Texas.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invited you to visit the original loopy tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make loopy tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes loopy tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Loopy tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Historians have come to expect it Loopy's.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 of the Grand Parkway.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: At Kingsland Boulevard in Katie, find yourself an ackee land.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Head to the loopy tortilla college station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Head to East, to Louisiana.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Stop in at the loopy tortilla in Beaumont.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It twos on I-10.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You can't miss it.
• 29:34
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• 30:40
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