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Ford Ranger Raptor, the crazy BMW iX and...I told you so · The Driver's Show

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  Speaker 1: I guess the burning question everyone wants to know, how
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  Speaker 1: a rash down there for a while, I said, I
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  Speaker 1: said to you, didn't I say, go get a cream
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  Speaker 1: for that. You can't just keep walking around with one
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  Speaker 1: ball out your shorts. And then undering further inspection, we
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  Speaker 1: found out there was a little growth on your cash
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  Speaker 1: and prizes. That's how we're starting this. Yeah, this week's
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  Speaker 1: out and I'm not editing that out. Have you been well?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, much better now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, don't worry. Beers are on the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So, Yeah, we're not too far. It's nearly midday. The
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  Speaker 1: wonderful world of cars, haven't we been? It has been
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: very busy. I think the car world is very quickly
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  Speaker 1: moving to EV's. I think we're seeing a whole lot
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: of that. It's crazy, isn't it. Did you predict this? No?
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  Speaker 3: I think a few years ago when everyone said, oh
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  Speaker 3: EV's are coming, Everyone's like eventually, but.
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  Speaker 2: Not this fast. Now everyone's talking EV's.
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  Speaker 3: We actually had a story that kind of this is
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  Speaker 3: the context to it that Ev Council released some sales
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  Speaker 3: figures from Tesla.
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  Speaker 1: God, is there an EV council that reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: something you'd be on? Leave your bloody eight pocket river shirt.
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  Speaker 1: As an engineer, I'd like to say, as part of
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  Speaker 1: the EV Council, well speak up, tell me what do
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  Speaker 1: you can change?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think i'd be allowed on the EV
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  Speaker 3: Council because I sometimes called out bullshit EV stuff and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, no, I'm not allowed to say bad things.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: It's only good things about EV's and I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Well some is pretty shit.
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  Speaker 3: So but they released some Tesla sales figures and the
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  Speaker 3: claim was that they sold a little over fifteen thousand
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  Speaker 3: model threes last.
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  Speaker 2: Year, and I was one of them the year before.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. So what you know how last week
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you this. You know how
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: last week you set the challenge of me test driving
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: a shiny Yes, right, I was tempted to cheat the system.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: I could have gone Volvo yes, technically yes, but I
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: was tempted to cheat the system, and maybe I could
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  Speaker 1: have gone Tesla.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, my my Tesla is US built. So how
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: do you know that?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know where it was built how it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an Australasian build. No, it directly from really
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  Speaker 1: from the US. I would have preferred the Stuttgart build
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  Speaker 1: of Tesla because they are built.
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  Speaker 2: Over there, right Well, No, Berlin.
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  Speaker 1: Same Schnitzel, Jesus Christ, Why do you always correct?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, So Tesla they claimed the fifteen thousand figure, and
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  Speaker 3: it turns out they accidentally added the year before and
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  Speaker 3: last year together, so it wasn't fifteen thousand, it was
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  Speaker 3: twelve thousand, which is still a big number. And that
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  Speaker 3: meant that just the Model three outsold all of Lexus,
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  Speaker 3: all of Scota, all of land Rover, all of Jaguar,
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  Speaker 3: so just in one model. So I think evs are
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  Speaker 3: coming fast. But let's see, because I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the sales that came through that Model three with
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  Speaker 3: the entry level car, which is fifty nine thousand. At
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  Speaker 3: fifty nine thousand, it's actually very cheap and a very
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  Speaker 3: good deal. They get less and less appealing as they
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  Speaker 3: get more expensive, which is where a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: them are at the moment. So I think we'll see
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  Speaker 3: a proper flood of them once they are cheaper, and
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  Speaker 3: we see the thirty thirty five thousand dollars EV. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's where it will really sort of pick up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, MG are doing an EV for what
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  Speaker 1: about forty three.
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  Speaker 2: Yep BYD is apparently coming. They keep saying they're coming.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, one thing we're talking about this off air,
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  Speaker 1: the progression and evolution of evs seem to be so quick,
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  Speaker 1: to the point that if if you buy now in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years, it's going to look a bit obsolete,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my concern, especially with my Tesla for example,
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  Speaker 3: what are.
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  Speaker 1: We up to now? Four minutes in and seven mentions?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: My concern is that, yeah, in three or four years time,
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  Speaker 3: if you have an EV that'll do eight hundred kilometers,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to buy my car secondhand that does four
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  Speaker 3: hundred exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my warning here.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to go buy an EV and spend
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  Speaker 3: mega dollars on it, it's going to be, just like
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  Speaker 3: any new technology, that will be obsolete and probably worth
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  Speaker 3: not very much very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how they're going to do that. Like you
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: look at the Porsche tie Can and you go, what
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  Speaker 1: is it like say two hundred and thirty k for
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  Speaker 1: the turbo. We were talking about a couple of EPs back, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that has arranged roughly of about four for twenty kilometers. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were to buy one today, walk that
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  Speaker 1: out of the showroom in three years time, that car
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  Speaker 1: is going to look a bit. Really, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: look a bit hundred kilometers really. I mean theoretically it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't make too much of a difference with charging stations
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  Speaker 1: kind of coming up in the exactly a few years.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean they're starting to release concepts of you know,
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  Speaker 1: that Mercedes that was one thousand kilometers or something on
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  Speaker 1: the clock, but the progression is so quick, yeap.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that anyone really needs one thousand kilometers
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  Speaker 3: of driving range in an EV I mean, if you
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  Speaker 3: travel a lot and interstate fair enough, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, I wouldn't necessarily spend an extra thirty
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  Speaker 3: grand to travel a thousand kilometers because I don't think
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  Speaker 3: you would need it. I would end up just doing
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  Speaker 3: the same thing where I'd let it run empty and
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  Speaker 3: then I'd feel it. It's no different whether it's four
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  Speaker 3: hundred or two hundred or a thousand, I would still
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have ready.
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  Speaker 3: Access to charge it, it doesn't really make that big
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  Speaker 3: of a difference to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I think most times in the next five ten
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  Speaker 1: years are going to have charging stations any degree of
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  Speaker 1: which can I mean effectively, you can do it now,
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  Speaker 1: but you know in a couple of years time those
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  Speaker 1: supercharge networks, you'll be able to affordably have one in
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  Speaker 1: your own home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I look at our apartment building, for example.
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  Speaker 3: We have one hundred and seventy five apartments in there,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm on the.
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  Speaker 1: Top floor, no doubt. And how sweet are we owners? Committee?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, the.
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  Speaker 1: Driver, you're on the committee, you're on the what do
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  Speaker 1: they call it, the strata? Got one of those decks. No,
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  Speaker 1: your dog is not allowed in that building. I saw
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  Speaker 1: it next to my tesla.
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  Speaker 2: Actually joking.
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  Speaker 3: There was a debate at the last meeting whether dogs
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  Speaker 3: should be allowed on the podium unleashed.
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  Speaker 1: What's the podium We've got.
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  Speaker 3: Like an outdoor podium area, whether tennis court, Instagram caller, I.
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  Speaker 1: Bet you have an actual podium for first, second, third,
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  Speaker 1: and you just stand up on number one.
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  Speaker 3: So I know in our building that We're now up
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  Speaker 3: to four people with EVS, me included.
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  Speaker 1: What EV's had.
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  Speaker 2: I drive a Tesla.
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  Speaker 1: That's number nine. We'll get up to ten. I get
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  Speaker 1: to you're buying the first drink. So yeah, basically, the.
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  Speaker 3: Progression of EVS in our building kind of reflects what's
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  Speaker 3: happening in the market as well, so I think it
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  Speaker 3: will just be a sign of it increasing over time slowly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get there. I've lost my spot because that
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  Speaker 1: was just you were so boring. What are we going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about now, oh, Ranger Raptor.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So this is a little complicated, right because right
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  Speaker 3: now it is.
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  Speaker 1: We won't say the exact date. I like to make
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  Speaker 1: these podcasts sound timeless.
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  Speaker 3: It's before the Ranger Raptor has been revealed, so some
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: of the stuff that I'm about to say may not
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  Speaker 3: actually be correct, but this is what I well.
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  Speaker 1: We know so far, and it's before launch at this point.
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  Speaker 3: So what I do know is that it's powered by
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  Speaker 3: a three liter twin turbo V six petrol engine, which
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  Speaker 3: is awesome because we all thought it was just going
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: to get the V six diesel, but they have gone
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  Speaker 3: whole hod here and gone with the turbo V six petrol.
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  Speaker 3: That also probably means is gonna get launched in the
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  Speaker 3: States with that exact engine as well, and it will
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  Speaker 3: be a global for performance spec for that car.
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  Speaker 2: But I did a development drive with Ford.
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  Speaker 3: Probably six months ago now and we got to be
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: passengers in the Everest V six diesel, Ranger two liter
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: diesel and Ranger Raptor, and it was through the Victorian
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: high country and some of the stuff this car was
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  Speaker 3: doing was insane, like it was climbing these mud covered
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  Speaker 3: clay hills that I probably wouldn't even attempt in a
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  Speaker 3: modified four wheel drive, and they were just sending it
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: and it is awesome. So front difflock, center difflock, rear difflock,
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: so you've got three differential locks on the car. So
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: it is a proper off road machine, full time Fabell drive,
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  Speaker 3: but can go into two wheel drive for drift mode.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds absolutely awesome, and the interior looks different enough to
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  Speaker 3: the standard Ranger to get that sort of RAPTI vibe
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  Speaker 3: to it. We don't know price or exact power and
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  Speaker 3: talk outputs, but this will be expensive, I reckon The
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  Speaker 3: current Ranger Raptor is around seventy six seventy seven grand
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  Speaker 3: given they've just thrown the kitchen sink at this, I
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  Speaker 3: reckon maybe eighty five ninety thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars with all that, Like it is properly kitted out.
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  Speaker 1: And what you were saying about the interior, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: even though you know there's enough difference from the say
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  Speaker 1: the standard Ranger, when you look at what the twenty
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: twenty two Ranger is adding at the moment, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: kitted out. It's enough, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like you've got proper recaro seats, you've got the
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: big sort of display in the center, raptor highlights inside
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: the cabin that the sort of paddle shifters. It actually
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: gets the same suspension as the fine fifty Raptor update
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: in the States. So that's with the I think it's
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  Speaker 3: called live valve suspension, which is Fox racing suspension, but
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: it has adaptive damping, and it also has things like
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: a jump mode so that it can actually press the
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: suspension for full extension and then full jam, which is
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: that's cool, soo jounces where you get that full compression.
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  Speaker 3: So the way that it deals with it impacting the body.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: It's Paul going down to the Westfield Car Park. Check
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: come off full of thick car. Check it out, bro.
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  Speaker 3: Jumps jounces, So yeah, it's it's going to be an
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  Speaker 3: absolute beast and I cannot wait to drive this.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: Are they bringing the F one fifty here? Look?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not? No, The problem is at the moment one
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  Speaker 2: looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: F one fifty in the States is you know, And
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: we discussed this in the LA Special. F one fifty
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  Speaker 3: is a proper truck and they are at one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent capacity just for the States and left hand drive markets.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: So for them to make it right hand drive, it
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  Speaker 3: just makes no sense at all from an engineering standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: So the only way.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: They would do it is to bring it here and
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: convert it to right hand drive locally. Toyota appears to
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: be doing that with the Tundra, and I think if
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: Toyota does it, Ford will be forced to do it
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: We need to talk about Young Day's Ionic five real quick,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: because I've got a feeling this is a case of
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Paul going as an engineer. I told you so, guys, guys,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: I told you yeah so. Look.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: One of my main complaints with the five.
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: I thought it was a really great car, but one
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: of My main complaints was the body control, and where
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: we tested it at the proving ground it I've almost
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: left the ground at one hundred and thirty ks now,
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: which is the maximum speed you can do in Australia
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: on the sine waves. So when it gets to that point,
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: it shows that the car doesn't have a great deal
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: of body control, and to me that wasn't a good thing.
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: And for that reason I wouldn't buy one because a
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: lot of people do highway driving with family on board,
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: and if it doesn't feel comfortable or safe, you don't
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: want to want to buy one. So in this instance
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: I complained about it. Everyone else thought it was fantastic
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: and I thought, well.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Well that's not quite other people when we reviewed that. Now,
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: when we review this, I said, like, my main concern
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: with this car was it doesn't handle great, and it
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: just doesn't handle like, for instance, the normal commute.
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: Yep, okay, outside of you and one of my friends
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: who is actually a dynamics engineer at a car company,
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: who was.
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  Speaker 2: Another engineering friend, yep, he thought it was shocking as well.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Everyone else thought it was great.
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: And the thing is with this Yonday has now come
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: out and said that there are some changes coming to
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: the Ionic five, including some different suspensions. So now they've
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: now introduced smart frequency dampers that are said to improve
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: the response of the front and rear suspension to increase
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: right comfort and improve body control.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: So I told you so is where I was going
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: at with that.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: He just wanted to get that in.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's all.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: That's literally. He sent me ten texts this week. Hey,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I told you, so, what are you talking about? Hey?
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I told you I want to talk about Singer. How
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: do you pronounce this? Is it Singer by Design or well?
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: Look, I just know them as Singer and Singer basically takes.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Singer vehicle design. Let's go with that.
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: So Singer just takes Porsches and keeps the retro Porsche
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: look on the outside, but it goes wide body. It
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: just adds a lot of styling flare to them. And
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: I tell you what, these things look sensational. And we
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: just published a news story that Singer is now getting
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: into the turbo business. They're based in California and it's
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: basically taking the nine six four generation nine to eleven
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: and reimagines it for enthusiasts. They are expensive and the
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: latest one is called the turbo study and it comes
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: powered by three point eight letter twein turbo charged and
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: into called flat six making over three hundred kilowatts of power.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: And this thing is just wow, They're stunning. So yeah,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: like you were saying, it feels like this really is
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: the service for the rich and famous. It is almost
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: like a private commission. You bring your secondhand Porsche might
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: probably would need some sort of restoration anyway, and you're like,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: give it everything. Here's my budget. And by the way,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: there is no budget. Just go to friggintown and they will.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: And I know before COVID I was saying that one
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: of my mates was into it and it was about
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: an eighteen month wait then and that was you know,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: getting it overseas, getting it all done, sending it over here.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: That was within eighteen months, and that was like, wow,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: that's such a long way. So now I don't know,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: but i'd have to say at least two years plus.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have blown out.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: And that's the thing with these vehicles. You it's expensive
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: because you have to have one to start with. They
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: then butcher it. And by saying butcher it, I mean
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: they have to take it all apart to add all
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: this stuff to it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: But the thing is, anyone can really buy a Lambo.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: So if you just walk into a Lamborghini dealership, you
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: just throw money at them and they will get you
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: a car.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: But with these guys, this is why people go and
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: buy these. They're just different. Oh the absolutely you know,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: buy this.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Porsche doesn't generally like people stuffing around with their cars,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: but I feel like there is almost a bit of
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: an understanding. Yeah, there's almost like a tip of the
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: hat yes this, and I think there's a lot of
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: respect there. And I'm just I'm going through the instapage.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: It really looks stunning. I thought they did. I thought
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Singer were the ones who did that. Did you say
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: that Porsche Baha?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, I'm pretty.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Sure they were on board with a bit of that. Anyway,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: that thing was a gun like that was going over
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: sand dunes and stuff like that. They made about three
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: of them, and I know recently two of them came
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: up for sale.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: It's them as well. So I'm just reading a story
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: here on Road and Track. The latest portion nine to
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: eleven from Singer is a Baja Ready twin turboo Monster. Yeah,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: so it's called the All Terrain Competition study and it
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: looks mental, but just.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: The way they kid out their interior, and for an
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: American company too, like usually when Americans get their hands
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: on a car and do mods. I don't particularly think
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: it's that tasteful. I really don't.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: But the thing is that I've noticed in none of
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: these stories do they mention the price. And I think
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: that's indicative of how much it costs.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: The guy who started this used to be in a
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: rock band back in the days, so cool, I forget it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's like Rob Dick Dickinson up. I don't
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I can't even remember the band he was in, but
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I know he was in English or he's an English guy,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: and I think that maybe that says a lot for
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the for the way that this car is put together,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: because the Heia is just just stunning. The herring bone,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: the dash, oh man.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: It's it's one hundred percent there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I love it absolutely, It's one of it looks. It's
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: one of those things if if if you had that
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: crazy amount of money and you wanted to do a
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: J Leno style garage, you would be like, guys, whatever
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: it takes put this car together for me, I want it.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I want it. The turbo that they made was incredible.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's almost like I kind of wish
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that they got together with Porsche and put something together
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: for Porscha.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Is going to do their Baja car, which is like
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: an off road version of the nine to eleven. Right,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: so we'll see what that looks like. But I don't
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: think it'll be anywhere near as cool as this singer stuff.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: No, I agree, Car Review Time, Yes, throw to it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Just you always give it a bit of a Yars
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: or yards Queen or whatever you do. Yes, okay, that'll do.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Cue the bloody New Zealand. I had to pay that
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: woman so much money, and I want some sort of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a drummed up. Yes.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: The Bmwix range prices start from one hundred and fifty
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: six thousand, five hundred and fifty three dollars for the
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: x Drive forty to the one we reviewed, the x
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Drive fifty at one hundred and eighty three thousand, two
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: hundred dollars excluding on road costs.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: The bmw Ix, which is currently parked out the front
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: looking lovely except.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: You're in it. Who looks better the car or me?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Oh my god? You honestly don't deserve to be in
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that car. You look shady as anything. You look honestly,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you look like you've stolen it. You werering songs today
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: driving a one hundred and eighty thousand dollars car. That
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: pisses me off because you actually see genuine like rich
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: people doing that, getting into their portion nine elevens just
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: with you know, tracks, it pants and whatnot.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad you don't feel too strongly about it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Lovely car, it's really nice. I think I'm gonna preference
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: this by saying that obviously I haven't been driving it
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: around like you've been driving around, but as an Admira
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: looks really cool.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look in the pictures, it looks interesting. In person,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: it looks interesting, And styling is entirely subjective, right, So
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: what I think looks great, other people may not, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: vice versas.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: So it is imposing.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: It turns a lot of heads, but I don't know
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: if it's turning a lot of heads for the right reason.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I do love the back of it. The front not
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: entirely sold on, but it is what it is. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: actually mentioned when we were filming this at the proven
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: ground where we film at that I don't know how
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: well this will work in the country, because the door
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: handles are set up in such a way that you
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: could have a huntsman or something living underneath them.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: You are a certified pussy. Well where we were filming,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: where you were filming was literally at a huntsman's nest,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and they were everywhere everywhere.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: It was like five of them in plain sight. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: then one of them, which I thought was dead, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: went back inside five minutes later and it had vanished,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh this, I'm getting out of here.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: So this is why I think that if you owned
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: this car in the middle of Australia, that you would
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: have all sorts of fun things living under the door handles.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I kind of feel like that's with any door handle though,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: right a very spacious door handle recesses.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, that hand yester you just did, Banji
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: look like a going to collogist.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: So yeah, look a few curious things about the outside.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I mentioned to you that the grill. The grill is there,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: but it's not real because it's an ev They only
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: use the bottom section, which has these loovers that open
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: and close depending on whether it needs cooling. That just
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: sort of calls the battery right, and the grill section
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: actually has a speaker behind it for the order a
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: pedestrian warning stuff. It has the radar, It has a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: dimeister in it to keep that from frosting over.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: But it also has a self healing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Sort of finish on it, so if you do get
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: a scratch or anything like that on there, you apply
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: heat to it and within twenty four hours it closes
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: over the gash.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: So Jesus, I think we just got pulled off Spotify again.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So it's like my ex wife, So yeah, I think
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that's cool.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Also, the bonbit doesn't open, which I think is stupid
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: because EV should take full advantage of the space under there. Well,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: it doesn't open for the consumer. So you fill the
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: washer fluid through the BMW logo, you press it, it pops open.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's interesting.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It looks like a rough Saturday night down Oxford Street.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It's just that's good. I think that's good. No, yeah,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Oxford there was those photos of you coming out
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: of the tool shed. That was Scandal's we're in the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bumless chaps. What were you doing that day?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: So yeah, Like in terms of the car itself, the
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: interior you've sat inside it, what do you think of
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the interior?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I like it. I think it's you can customize this,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: like you're saying to almost anything, this particular one that
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you're driving. I wouldn't personally do it like that. It
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: sort of has these weird if you want to configure
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the seat, you know, you want to move it up
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and down and across and whatever. It looks like it's glass, Yeah,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it's but it's this kind of brown glass like it
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: looks like Geny Little's ear rings. It looks like a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: nineteen to seventy Scotch bottle, do you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. But yeah, it's very sort
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of I don't know how to describe it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: It's artie.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's for chicks, it's what that means. But yes, yeah,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: it's it's got a it's got a feminim touch about it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: It's got the wood grain on the on the front,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: which I think is really cool. The one thing that
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I point it out to you was they've gone to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: all this effort to put in glass, this stunning looking
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: kind of glass wheel in the middle and glass on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the sides for adjusting seats and whatnot, and then wood
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: grain on the dash and then sort of scratchy plastics
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: at the bottom. It's like, come on, like why do that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I think the key sportage had that wood grain and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: then you know, next to cheap plastics and stuff.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, look.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You're doing that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I think with the interior they've when I picture a
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: modern EV this is what I think it looks like.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: The huge infotainment displays that one screen, it's like one
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: screen from the It's the first BMW to features eight,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: which is the latest version of their sort of high
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: drive infotainment system, and it works really well. It's a
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: big step forward. Great integration with the app. So you
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: can take a photo of outside the car, a three
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: sixty photo. You can take a photo inside the car.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: If the alarm is activated, it will save the photo.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: The sort of vision from inside and outside the car,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: so good sort of connectivity with the app and the
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: tech inside is fantastic. The chairs are like lounge chairs
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: there as opposed to just seats. They really hug you
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: in nicely. Even in the second row. There's padding on
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the side so you can kind of sleep on the
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: door if you want to.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: It just supports you all, yeah, he's had a few
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: rough nights and yeah, so yeah, it's it's just a
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: really beautiful interior and I think they've they've done such
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: a nice job with that in terms of how it drives.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Look, it does all the ev stuff great, like it
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: pins you back in the seat.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: The specific specification that we're driving here is the X
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Drive fifty, which is currently the top spick. There is
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: an M sixty version coming, so the whole thing kicks
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: off at around one hundred and thirty five grand, but
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: this one here is about one hundred and seventy and
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: that brings with it a pretty punchy drive train, so
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: three hundred and eighty five kilos of power, seven hundred
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and sixty five new meters of talk.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: They're good, they're good figures, you know.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Well, the range is actually pretty good as well.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: So it has a one hundred and twelve kilo white
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: our battery, so it's a big battery, but with that
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: and the power train, it allows you to do zero
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: to one hundred and four point six seconds and it
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: has a range of six hundred and thirty kilometers. Just
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: pretty decent, like you don't feel like you need to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: be filling up all the time. The thing I don't
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: understand though, You can buy literally the cheapest.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Tesla they sell on the market, which is here we go.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: What's that number?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Ten?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Oh? Great lunch is now officially on.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: So the entry level model three will charge at two
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty kilowatts.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Ye, that is the cheapest Tesla you can buy.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: This will only charge at well at under two hundred kilowatts,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: so it peaks at at one ninety or thereabouts.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: We need to put the killer wat thing into like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: normal person perspectives. Well, so if you want to go
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: from yeah, so if you want to go from ten
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to say eighty percent, okay.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: So basically, according to them, it adds ninety five kilometers
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: of range in ten minutes, or actually in the extra
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: fifty it's one hundred and fifty kilometers of range in
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: ten minutes. So if you wanted to half charge, the
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: battery would take twenty minutes, which isn't very fast compared
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: to other cars on the market, like the Oni five,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: the Tesla stuff, they all charge at a much faster rate.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: So I think that's a little bit disappointing to me.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Is this car worth one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Look, I think it is from the point of view
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: of it being a luxury car. It does luxury incredibly well.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: But where we tested it at the proving ground, we
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: add it on the right and handling track and it
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: doesn't tick the BMW brief of being the ultimate driver's machine.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: It is very floaty.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: It feels a bit like a bus to drive, and yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: great for highway cruising. It is very comfortable and very
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: quiet inside. But it's not dynamic and that disappointed me
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: So those sorts of things are going to come into
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: play when you're driving through busy traffic, weaving in and out.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Look at it'll be okay there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: It's more if you find yourself on a mountain pass
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: and you want to have a bit of fun. Every
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: other BMW product, if you put it into sport mode,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you can have fun with it regardless of what it is. This,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. Feels
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: more like a Mercedes Benz than a BMW. I don't
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: know if that's a bad thing, but it's Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Should it be on the list? Are we buying this? Yeah?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Look, I think it's a really good alternative to everything
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: else Like that e tron I think is just the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: worst way you could buy an ev Yeah right, it's
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: just not very good at all. This, on the other hand,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: has lots of arrange. The tech is fantastic, very comfortable,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: lots of room inside, but it just doesn't handle very
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: well and also doesn't charge very fast. But if you're
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: not too fussed by that, then on an issue.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: All right, So what do they do with the bloody
• 26:28
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• 26:29
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• 26:31
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• 26:33
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• 26:37
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• 26:46
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• 26:49
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• 26:50
  Speaker 3: out just a couple of sort of bits of feedback
• 26:53
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• 26:59
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• 27:02
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• 27:07
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• 27:09
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• 27:12
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• 27:19
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• 27:22
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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• 27:36
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• 27:40
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• 27:47
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• 27:52
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• 27:55
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• 27:59
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• 28:00
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• 28:04
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• 28:12
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• 28:17
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• 28:32
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• 28:34
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• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I you know, a couple of EPs ago, you sent
• 28:39
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• 28:43
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• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Croatian car.
• 28:48
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• 28:50
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• 28:52
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• 28:58
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• 29:00
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• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Is that how funny the Croatians are? That's a joke?
• 29:06
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• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 29:14
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• 29:16
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• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:37
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