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Chevy Quits China And Subaru Gets Serious · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:05
  Don Armstrong: From the broadcasting studios in Texas, USA, it's the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, we talked to the busiest woman in NHRA drag racing, Angel Sampei.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the motor minute.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: I'll review the new Lexus.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: Nope.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: Sorry, we just did that.
• 0:22
  Don Armstrong: Mars is going to uh review the Subaru Outback.
• 0:27
  Don Armstrong: Sorry, Mike.
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: I know I know that he's gonna forgive me because I I I stole his spot the last time around.
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: I was panicking.
• 0:35
  Don Armstrong: I wrote it down.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: I was panicking.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, so he's gonna review the outback, and we'd like to say howdy.
• 0:42
  Don Armstrong: Along with Mike Out of This World Mars, we need more Jeff Zeke, Chief Engineer David Ainsley.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: So glad that you could join us today.
• 0:51
  Don Armstrong: You may not be glad that you joined us today.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: We've been having some sort of a couple of glitches.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: A row.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: I like that word.
• 1:00
  Don Armstrong: A row.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: A row.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: With apparently some sort of update that uh there's a gremlin.
• 1:06
  Don Armstrong: Uh some sort of update that uh Microsoft has done.
• 1:08
  Don Armstrong: It's not an AMC gremlin.
• 1:10
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, it's Google.
• 1:10
  Mike Marrs: Google Chrome, apparently.
• 1:13
  Don Armstrong: Well, aren't they all married?
• 1:14
  Don Armstrong: Aren't they all kind of one?
• 1:15
  Don Armstrong: Don't they go hand in hand?
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: Uh yes, does it make any difference?
• 1:21
  Mike Marrs: Yes, it makes a big difference.
• 1:22
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 1:23
  Don Armstrong: What do you prefer?
• 1:25
  Mike Marrs: Oh, I prefer Google, but I don't necessarily use Google Chrome.
• 1:29
  Mike Marrs: I use Google.
• 1:31
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 1:33
  Mike Marrs: There's a slight difference in it.
• 1:34
  Mike Marrs: I don't really know what it is, but uh I don't like the Microsoft.
• 1:38
  Jeff Dziekan: I think the difference is one works, the other one doesn't.
• 1:41
  Jeff Dziekan: That would be the difference.
• 1:42
  Mike Marrs: Well, depends on what day it is.
• 1:44
  Jeff Dziekan: That's true.
• 1:44
  unknown: That's true.
• 1:45
  Mike Marrs: If it ends in Y, it could be either one.
• 1:47
  Mike Marrs: It could be that's it.
• 1:49
  Jeff Dziekan: And it's every other week, according to Dom.
• 1:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, Dom.
• 1:52
  Don Armstrong: Dom told us every other week.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: That that's a new one.
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: That's a weird story.
• 1:55
  Don Armstrong: Yeah,$299 for a new car payment.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: But went down at the bottom and the printed, you can't even read with reading glasses.
• 2:02
  Don Armstrong: It's every other week.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Every paycheck.
• 2:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, free beer yesterday.
• 2:12
  Mike Marrs: Or those used car lots where you go pay weekly every Friday afternoon.
• 2:17
  Don Armstrong: Or you get a lien on the car after you go to one of those uh short-term loan deals.
• 2:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: That you're paying like 75% interest.
• 2:27
  Mike Marrs: Paycheck, yeah.
• 2:28
  Don Armstrong: Buy two beers, get the second one free.
• 2:31
  Don Armstrong: That's right.
• 2:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I fell for that once.
• 2:33
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 2:33
  Don Armstrong: Mars, uh, do we have Angel?
• 2:35
  Mike Marrs: No, ma'am.
• 2:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Right.
• 2:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff, what you got?
• 2:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, there's something you mentioned.
• 2:45
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sorry, earlier in the day, and I can't remember what it was.
• 2:47
  Jeff Dziekan: It was something.
• 2:48
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't write it down, my fault.
• 2:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh huh.
• 2:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 2:52
  Don Armstrong: Space out on that one.
• 2:54
  Don Armstrong: You know what we could do here?
• 2:56
  Don Armstrong: I know that it will throw everybody off.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: Uh-oh.
• 3:00
  Don Armstrong: Mike, are you listening?
• 3:01
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 3:02
  Don Armstrong: What we could do is we could do the recalls and we could do the sold car roundup.
• 3:11
  Don Armstrong: Or not.
• 3:13
  Jeff Dziekan: You want to do my motor minute?
• 3:15
  Jeff Dziekan: And he's not commenting.
• 3:16
  Jeff Dziekan: No, because he's focused on the room.
• 3:18
  Mike Marrs: No, I'm saying we could do either one, but I I'm also texting.
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: You texting?
• 3:22
  Don Armstrong: And driving?
• 3:23
  Don Armstrong: Like a like a little 12-year-old girl.
• 3:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That drives me nuts.
• 3:30
  Jeff Dziekan: People.
• 3:31
  Jeff Dziekan: You're second or third in line at a traffic light.
• 3:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, I have to go.
• 3:34
  Jeff Dziekan: And the light turns green, and you're waiting two minutes because the knucklehead that's in line first is on his phone or she's on her phone.
• 3:42
  Don Armstrong: You don't dare honk the horn.
• 3:44
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah, I do.
• 3:46
  Don Armstrong: You'll wind up with a pistol shot by the front window.
• 3:49
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm pretty quick.
• 3:50
  Jeff Dziekan: I can dodge it.
• 3:51
  Jeff Dziekan: But when you're third in line, they don't know who's doing it.
• 3:53
  Jeff Dziekan: So uh that's right.
• 3:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Third in line.
• 3:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Get a train horn.
• 3:56
  Jeff Dziekan: I would my Oldsmobile that I had, my dad gave me, had the old the Cadillac horns on it.
• 4:02
  Jeff Dziekan: And there were the long tubes.
• 4:04
  Jeff Dziekan: It looked like a trombone, and at the end of the track trumpet.
• 4:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, trumpet.
• 4:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Trumpet.
• 4:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, trumpets.
• 4:09
  Jeff Dziekan: I had two of those, and it sounded like a train horn.
• 4:11
  Jeff Dziekan: It was just a General Motors thing.
• 4:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Love that.
• 4:14
  Jeff Dziekan: I need that.
• 4:15
  Jeff Dziekan: I think that I think I need that back.
• 4:16
  Don Armstrong: You know, they sell those now.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: Then they're they're relatively cheap because they're not, you don't have to hook an air pump up to it.
• 4:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Those are illegal, I think.
• 4:24
  Jeff Dziekan: The ones that you're illegal.
• 4:27
  Jeff Dziekan: It's just a leg electric one that you normally so what are you gonna do?
• 4:30
  Don Armstrong: Write me a tra write me a ticket for a train horn?
• 4:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I think you they can't.
• 4:34
  Jeff Dziekan: It's like having those big spikes on the on the rims, too.
• 4:36
  Jeff Dziekan: I think those are illegal.
• 4:38
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna get some of those too.
• 4:39
  Don Armstrong: And then I'm gonna and then I'm gonna train a section.
• 4:42
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna find out where uh Steve Woodard is, and I'm gonna roll past him, honk the horn, and kind of scrape the side of his car with those great big lug nuts or those baskets.
• 4:54
  Jeff Dziekan: He's got a new like a chariot race.
• 4:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, chariot reel.
• 4:57
  Jeff Dziekan: But it drives me nuts.
• 4:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Or you're you're at a light and you look over to you know to see the wandering eyes, you look at the person next to you, and they're doing this.
• 5:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 5:08
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, George Carlin had a bit in his uh comedy routine where when you get your license, you're issued a little toy dart gun with the suction cups on it.
• 5:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 5:18
  Jeff Dziekan: And if you see somebody doing something bad, you shoot their car with the little suction cup and the thing.
• 5:23
  Jeff Dziekan: You get three suction cups on your car at any given time, you get a ticket for whatever it is, or you go to jail if you got three suction cups.
• 5:30
  Jeff Dziekan: How good is that these are being brought back?
• 5:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, it just drives me up a wall.
• 5:35
  Jeff Dziekan: And I'm not uh I'm patient, but I can get you know upset.
• 5:40
  Jeff Dziekan: And Kathy hates when I get upset because I do land the horn, or I say bad language.
• 5:44
  Don Armstrong: Do you?
• 5:45
  unknown: Okay.
• 5:46
  Don Armstrong: Oh, darn.
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: What is it?
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: Get the heck out of my way.
• 5:50
  Don Armstrong: You big dummy.
• 5:51
  Don Armstrong: I've been with him, I know.
• 5:54
  Don Armstrong: He has quite the vocabulary, too.
• 5:56
  Don Armstrong: And the fun thing about it is, most of these were learned in the Detroit Auto Market area.
• 6:03
  Jeff Dziekan: I was a sailor one time.
• 6:04
  Jeff Dziekan: No, yeah.
• 6:05
  Jeff Dziekan: This factory talk.
• 6:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Factory talk.
• 6:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Gosh darn it.
• 6:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:12
  Don Armstrong: When you know that you paid the dollar and a quarter for the cookie in the commissary at the Ford Motor Company, and and then you get fired for not paying for it.
• 6:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 6:21
  Don Armstrong: And when essence you did pay for it.
• 6:25
  Don Armstrong: Here's my receipt.
• 6:26
  Don Armstrong: Golly gee.
• 6:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what I say.
• 6:29
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: What kind of uh vocabulary do you have when you get mad?
• 6:34
  Mike Marrs: I have a very good vocabulary.
• 6:36
  Don Armstrong: Let me hear it.
• 6:37
  Mike Marrs: Hello.
• 6:38
  Mike Marrs: How are you?
• 6:39
  Don Armstrong: But no, what no, what what kind of what kind of what kind of bad things do you think?
• 6:44
  Mike Marrs: I I really don't speak ugly to most people.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: No, not most people.
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: I'm talking about in the car by yourself when somebody is on their cell phone and the cars are backed up trying to get through the light.
• 6:58
  Mike Marrs: I can't repeat that on the air.
• 7:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, we'll see.
• 7:00
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 7:01
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm concerned that you know nowadays the car's all the technology and you're saying bad things about bad things.
• 7:06
  Jeff Dziekan: And does the car gonna pick it up?
• 7:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Is it gonna record it?
• 7:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Is it gonna send it to your mother?
• 7:10
  Mike Marrs: If Alexis picks this up and reports it, maybe somebody will do something about it.
• 7:15
  Don Armstrong: Well, I'm having to write down my favorite word, and uh Leslie told me what my favorite word is, and that's it.
• 7:22
  Don Armstrong: Oh I I use that apparently freak frequently and often.
• 7:32
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 7:33
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a good one, boy.
• 7:34
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a good one.
• 7:35
  Jeff Dziekan: It is a it is a good one, and you know, I I it make the church rafter shake.
• 7:42
  Don Armstrong: And it's not what you're thinking, it's not that, it's what I'm thinking.
• 7:47
  Mike Marrs: Are you sure?
• 7:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, yeah.
• 7:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, then that that leads me to a story.
• 7:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, and this is kind of a little off topic, but with the words and and uh directions.
• 7:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, there's a elementary school young young teacher teaching young kids uh about mammals, and it's a science class.
• 8:04
  Jeff Dziekan: And here we go.
• 8:06
  Jeff Dziekan: This teacher says, Well, the whale is the largest mammal on earth, and it swims around the ocean, and it has you know baby whales and everything, and it eats plankton, and its throat is kind of small, and it doesn't swallow anything big, like like they say, a human, but occasionally a little baby seal will get swallowed up.
• 8:21
  Jeff Dziekan: And little Sally raises her hand and yes, Sally, what's the question?
• 8:24
  Jeff Dziekan: She goes, Well, Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
• 8:27
  Jeff Dziekan: And the teacher goes, Well, no, the whale doesn't isn't built like that.
• 8:30
  Jeff Dziekan: The whale doesn't swallow human beings.
• 8:31
  Jeff Dziekan: She goes, Well, when I get to heaven, I'm gonna ask him.
• 8:34
  Jeff Dziekan: And the teacher goes, Well, okay, what happens if he didn't go to heaven?
• 8:38
  Jeff Dziekan: And she goes, Well, if he went the other way, then you ask him.
• 8:44
  Don Armstrong: I like it.
• 8:45
  Don Armstrong: All right, you know, we I have been talking to Jeff over the past couple of years with the help of other people.
• 8:53
  Don Armstrong: Jeff, why don't why don't we come up with a new feature called, you know, Jeff's thoughts?
• 9:01
  Don Armstrong: Rant.
• 9:02
  Don Armstrong: Jeff's thoughts.
• 9:03
  Don Armstrong: And um, and he can use accents because Jeff Jeff has some very good accents.
• 9:11
  Don Armstrong: And um we have a very large population out here that it is very fluent in their language, but it comes across strong.
• 9:21
  Don Armstrong: Um, and and you can still understand them, but it's a very strong accent.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I can't do that.
• 9:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, it's kind of why why?
• 9:30
  Don Armstrong: I mean uh you know, we've got uh insult anybody.
• 9:36
  Don Armstrong: That's not that it's it's not an insult.
• 9:39
  Don Armstrong: But that's about it.
• 9:41
  Don Armstrong: Well, let me put it this way I can tell you that his that his accent like this is very, very good.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: And um it adds to the story.
• 9:51
  Mike Marrs: No, I'm just thinking, I'm thinking random thoughts from a dark mind.
• 9:56
  Mike Marrs: I mean, there you go.
• 9:57
  Don Armstrong: No, I no, light thoughts.
• 9:59
  Don Armstrong: It'd be more along the lines of no deep thoughts.
• 10:04
  Don Armstrong: Deep thoughts, there you go.
• 10:05
  Don Armstrong: From the Saturday Night Live.
• 10:07
  Don Armstrong: Or no thoughts.
• 10:10
  Don Armstrong: You know what we always do.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: I'm not going to do it.
• 10:14
  Don Armstrong: See, see, these are the kinds of things that that that just come up.
• 10:18
  Don Armstrong: And this usually happens.
• 10:20
  Don Armstrong: This usually happens on a Friday evening after one or two marker readings.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: We have to get at least one down before we get it together.
• 10:27
  Don Armstrong: And and and you know, we're all crying at the table and we're thinking, you really need to do that on the show.
• 10:33
  Don Armstrong: Oh no, I can't do that.
• 10:35
  Don Armstrong: Well, you know, Michael Berry's got Shirley Q liquor.
• 10:39
  Don Armstrong: Do you know who Shirley Q liquor really is?
• 10:41
  Don Armstrong: It's a white guy.
• 10:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:43
  Don Armstrong: I mean, it it's not making fun of the race or anything.
• 10:47
  Don Armstrong: It has nothing to do with that.
• 10:48
  Don Armstrong: We'll see.
• 10:49
  Don Armstrong: We'll see.
• 10:49
  Don Armstrong: It has everything to do with the actual subject at hand, and you put the accent to it, and it really adds to the story in my opinion.
• 10:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe we've got somebody call in on our hotline or something and do that.
• 11:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Absolutely.
• 11:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Call Mike on the hotline.
• 11:01
  Don Armstrong: Mike, what is the hotline?
• 11:03
  Don Armstrong: Should I give them out your personal cell phone number that you answer at three o'clock in the morning?
• 11:08
  Don Armstrong: Because we found that out.
• 11:09
  Don Armstrong: Notifications.
• 11:10
  Don Armstrong: We found that out today.
• 11:12
  Mike Marrs: Facebook, you can text, you can chat with us, text us by YouTube, Facebook, any of those opportunities.
• 11:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, if you have some cute story, just you know, let us know if you want to subscribe.
• 11:21
  Jeff Dziekan: We have been getting some new subscribers lately.
• 11:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, and if if you're a new subscriber, give us your name, not just your handle on where you're you're you're from, because it's kind of hard to just decipher what it is.
• 11:32
  Jeff Dziekan: But yeah, new subscribers, let us know, and we appreciate you.
• 11:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe next time.
• 11:39
  Don Armstrong: No, it it it we'll definitely have to you and you'll have to work on this because you we can't leave you with just one one joke.
• 11:49
  Don Armstrong: It's gonna have to be, you know, you're gonna have a little stock.
• 11:52
  Don Armstrong: Maybe we could sprinkle it in throughout the show or something.
• 11:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, we'll sprinkle them in.
• 11:55
  Don Armstrong: Well, I think we definitely need to have a feature.
• 11:57
  Don Armstrong: What do you think, Mr.
• 11:58
  Don Armstrong: Morris?
• 11:59
  Mike Marrs: I think we could do uh a lot worse, that's for sure.
• 12:02
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, exactly.
• 12:03
  Don Armstrong: Well, and you know, here's the other thought, too, is that we could put up a picture of some random person and let Jeff tell the story over the picture of the random person.
• 12:14
  Don Armstrong: Pick a name out of the phone book.
• 12:16
  Don Armstrong: The phone book.
• 12:17
  Don Armstrong: The phone book.
• 12:18
  Don Armstrong: By the way, speaking of which, you know, there are these people that do these posts on all sorts of Instagram and Facebook and all that stuff.
• 12:29
  Don Armstrong: And um they uh have uh glomed onto some of the things that the kids now no longer know, and one of them is the white pages and the yellow pages.
• 12:42
  Don Armstrong: They have absolutely no clue what that is.
• 12:46
  Don Armstrong: Well, that goes to show you how old we are, because we do, and then they continue with the asking the questions.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: So, what do you think that means?
• 12:58
  Don Armstrong: Well, you've gone to Staples and you bought a pack of white paper, and that would be the white pages.
• 13:09
  Don Armstrong: No, that's not it.
• 13:11
  Don Armstrong: It's a book of information, and then they sit there and they ponder and they say things out loud about what it could possibly be.
• 13:18
  Jeff Dziekan: And it is absolutely hysterical.
• 13:20
  Jeff Dziekan: I thought when they combined, you know, because it used to be the white pages were a separate book, and they they combined them, and that was like genius.
• 13:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, do you remember sitting around just tearing them in half, you know, after school, tearing phone books?
• 13:30
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I don't remember that.
• 13:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Those were fun days, yeah.
• 13:33
  Don Armstrong: But I do know that here in Houston, I I remember distinctly when they put them into two different books because each of the books were like that thick as Houston continued to grow.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: They couldn't put them all, the book would be that thick.
• 13:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, so uh did you ever have your dad put you in a tire and roll you down a hill inside the tire?
• 13:51
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 13:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, those are good years, yeah.
• 13:53
  Mike Marrs: We've done that.
• 13:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, those were good years.
• 13:56
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 13:58
  Don Armstrong: And you know that the word that I wrote Michael, the word that I wrote down when we were discussing things that you'd say in the car, I put it at the top of my rundown page here.
• 14:08
  Don Armstrong: He's gonna, he's gonna say it.
• 14:09
  Don Armstrong: And and uh I've you know, it's there.
• 14:12
  Don Armstrong: It's there, and apparently I say it quite frequently when I get frustrated in traffic.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: I don't notice it when I'm by myself, but I still say it.
• 14:24
  Mike Marrs: Nobody's listening when you're by yourself.
• 14:26
  Don Armstrong: Nobody's listening anyway, Mike.
• 14:28
  Don Armstrong: It doesn't make me say, yeah.
• 14:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Do you sing in the car?
• 14:32
  Don Armstrong: Uh rarely, but yeah, sometimes.
• 14:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, if there's something good that's on the radio, I'll tap your foot or your finger because I'm always beating on something.
• 14:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Jason gave me the little things, it's it's uh like this mic stand, but it's got a little symbol on it.
• 14:45
  Jeff Dziekan: And you plug it into your you clip it onto your vent and you play your driving and hit the symbol.
• 14:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Hit the symbol.
• 14:52
  Don Armstrong: It's kind of like the button that uh that was easy.
• 14:56
  Don Armstrong: That was easy.
• 14:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you got buttons on the on the board.
• 14:58
  Jeff Dziekan: I do, yeah.
• 15:00
  Mike Marrs: About several, several years ago, I was on the way to work one morning in the fall, it was cool, the windows were down, I had the radio cranked up, and I was jamming.
• 15:08
  Mike Marrs: And I look in my rearview mirror, and here's this motorcycle policeman with red lights and all that stuff going.
• 15:13
  Mike Marrs: And I pull over and he comes up, he said, What in the hell do you think you're doing?
• 15:18
  Mike Marrs: I said, Uh I was just going to work.
• 15:21
  Mike Marrs: He said, No, you were jamming here.
• 15:25
  Mike Marrs: Speeding.
• 15:26
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, you know.
• 15:27
  Don Armstrong: Well, that that that speeding, you that's not a support.
• 15:30
  Don Armstrong: You're listening to Margaret.
• 15:32
  Don Armstrong: I've ridden with you once, and that's all I'll ever ride with you again.
• 15:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 15:39
  Don Armstrong: No Mars is like the early adoption of the lane keeping assist with kind of bounced between it because of him.
• 15:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, but this particular one, it bounces between the stripes.
• 15:51
  Don Armstrong: It didn't stay in between them, it bounces between them.
• 15:54
  Mike Marrs: For the taxes I pay, I want to use the whole road.
• 15:58
  Don Armstrong: That's that's good.
• 16:00
  Don Armstrong: Uh we will uh definitely have to remember that.
• 16:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, yeah, and then uh Neely, Neely could be able to help us with that too, but he wasn't on.
• 16:06
  Don Armstrong: No, he wasn't on either, and neither was Angel and somebody else.
• 16:10
  Don Armstrong: I mean, it's been we've been batting a thousand here today.
• 16:14
  Don Armstrong: It's okay.
• 16:14
  Mike Marrs: Yes, we have.
• 16:15
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's all your fault, Mike, but you've heard that before.
• 16:19
  Mike Marrs: Yep.
• 16:20
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, it's I'm glad to get the that does that bear off my shoulder.
• 16:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Does uh Becky or your mom say bad language in the car when they're in the car?
• 16:28
  Don Armstrong: They don't say bad language ever.
• 16:30
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 16:31
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 16:32
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 16:32
  Don Armstrong: Does your mom ever slip up?
• 16:34
  Mike Marrs: Nope.
• 16:35
  Don Armstrong: Never.
• 16:36
  Don Armstrong: Does Becky ever slip up?
• 16:38
  Mike Marrs: Occasionally, depends on what I've done.
• 16:44
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead.
• 16:45
  Don Armstrong: Jeff's motor minute and a review of the new Subaru Outpack that Mr.
• 16:50
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• 16:51
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• 18:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Time now for the motor minute, Jeffrey.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, Don, you were talking about China and uh sales and things in China.
• 18:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, General Motors, or Chevrolet, an iconic American brand of General Motors, is waving the white flag in China at steep drops and sales over there.
• 18:59
  Jeff Dziekan: According to report, uh, the brand is ending sales in the country after 21 years.
• 19:03
  Jeff Dziekan: While the idea was once unthinkable, the publication reported that the sales went down from over 767,000 units in 2020 to less than 9,000 just last year.
• 19:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Decline of 98.8% in just a little more of a decade.
• 19:17
  Jeff Dziekan: But the story gets better.
• 19:19
  Jeff Dziekan: The writing has been on the wall for a while.
• 19:21
  Jeff Dziekan: GM recently said that they've sharpened his focus on the Buek and Cadillac brands in China.
• 19:25
  Jeff Dziekan: That's good.
• 19:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh they're far more successful, and the company has hit the new electric lineup or the electra lineup is what they're calling it in China.
• 19:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Chevlet offered a number of different models in China, including some that would be familiar here to us in America.
• 19:40
  Jeff Dziekan: This included the Blazor, the Equinox, the Malibu XL, and the Seeker, which is what they're calling a trax.
• 19:46
  Jeff Dziekan: They were joined by Monza, the Menlo EV, Equinox plugin, hybrid, and a tracker.
• 19:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Most of these are gas powered, despite the fact that Chinese consumers embrace the new electric energy focus.
• 19:58
  Jeff Dziekan: While the Bow Thai brand will end its China GM uh sales with GM sales will reportedly continue to build Chevrolets in the country as the automaker explained their lineup optimally tailored to the needs of the export market.
• 20:13
  Jeff Dziekan: So they're going to build them in China just to get them out of China.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Needless to say, GM isn't giving up China following the failure of Chevrolet.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Quite the opposite.
• 20:22
  Jeff Dziekan: GM recently extended their partnership with China for 20 more years.
• 20:30
  Don Armstrong: You know, it build them and export them, but can we say dumb, dumb, and dumber?
• 20:38
  Don Armstrong: Unbelievable.
• 20:39
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 20:39
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the much delayed and much sought-after review of the Subaru Outback.
• 20:46
  Don Armstrong: And Mr.
• 20:47
  Don Armstrong: Mars, my apologies.
• 20:48
  Don Armstrong: I know that I skipped over you last hour, but we're going to make up for it now.
• 20:53
  Mike Marrs: We got plenty of time.
• 20:54
  Mike Marrs: We got plenty of time.
• 20:56
  Mike Marrs: So again, we're talking about the 2026 Subaru Outback.
• 21:00
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is all new design for 2026, so it's actually the seventh gen iteration of this vehicle.
• 21:07
  Mike Marrs: Now the final assembly location is in Ota, Guma, Japan, or something to that effect.
• 21:13
  Mike Marrs: It's available in six trim levels the premium, the limited, the limited XT, the wilderness, the touring, and the touring XT.
• 21:22
  Mike Marrs: Now I happen to be driving the wilderness for the review time.
• 21:25
  Mike Marrs: Now the government says this is a small SUV.
• 21:28
  Mike Marrs: With it parked in the side in the driveway next to my wife's mid-size, I would think it's more of a mid-size, but being that what it may, seats five passengers.
• 21:37
  Mike Marrs: Now, this year it's got a taller roof line on it, so you got a lot bigger windows, which improves the view outside of it.
• 21:47
  Mike Marrs: Uh it's got power heated side mirrors, got black uh roof rails on it.
• 21:52
  Mike Marrs: The front LED lighting package that goes all the way around it, but the front headlights or steering responsive headlights, which at night To kind of play with a little bit, but it's pretty cool to watch it.
• 22:02
  Mike Marrs: Uh, even got uh the daytime running lights and the fog lights are also LEDs.
• 22:07
  Mike Marrs: It's got a moon roof on it, again, the black roof racks, and it's rolling on some 17-inch black wheels.
• 22:13
  Mike Marrs: Now, this all works together to give it that rugged off-road look that they're looking for with the wilderness brand.
• 22:19
  Mike Marrs: But on the inside, we're gonna find black Napa leather.
• 22:22
  Mike Marrs: The front seats are heated and ventilated.
• 22:25
  Mike Marrs: The second row seats are also heated on the outboard seating positions.
• 22:30
  Mike Marrs: Got a 12.1-inch multimedia system right there in the middle of it.
• 22:33
  Mike Marrs: Big nice screen with navigation, got your surround view, hardened, Harman card and speakers for the audio kind of fill it up really nice.
• 22:41
  Mike Marrs: A 12.3 inch LCD instrument cluster gives you all the information the driver's gonna be looking for, and you can adjust it, of course, to whatever you want.
• 22:50
  Mike Marrs: Wireless charging for your phones, uh, it's got front and rear USB ports for everybody to have plenty of times to places to plug in their stuff.
• 22:58
  Mike Marrs: And the rear seat is a 6040 fold-down, and it does have a cargo cover in the back, which a lot of people kind of, but that's really important, I think, because it keeps all your good stuff back there out of sight, out of mind, so people don't even think about trying to steal it.
• 23:13
  Mike Marrs: Now, the outback can come with two different engines.
• 23:16
  Mike Marrs: The wilderness has the 2.4-liter turbo boxer.
• 23:20
  Mike Marrs: This has got 260 horsepower, 277-pound feed of torque on it.
• 23:24
  Mike Marrs: It's backed by a CVT, but you can put it into a manual mode which mimics an eight-speed transmission.
• 23:31
  Mike Marrs: Uh the tow rating is 3,500, so that'll take care of your small boats, your kayaks, and maybe even a small pop-up camper.
• 23:39
  Mike Marrs: Now, the EPA says you should be looking for about 21 miles to the gallon in the city, highway 27, combined 23.
• 23:46
  Mike Marrs: Now, I got 21.8 across 292 miles.
• 23:50
  Mike Marrs: Most of my time was spent in town, did a little bit out on the highway.
• 23:54
  Mike Marrs: So I was well pleased with what I got out of it because with the turbo, it's got a quick power.
• 23:59
  Mike Marrs: There's really not a turbo lag to it that I really felt was uh important to notice, but it was very quick and had plenty of power and very responsive steering, and the lane keeping system was really strong.
• 24:13
  Mike Marrs: In other words, it will you knew it had it, you could almost fight it if you wanted to change lanes without turning on the turn signal.
• 24:19
  Mike Marrs: It would let you know that you're doing it, and it would you'd have to kind of fight it a little bit.
• 24:24
  Mike Marrs: And I really liked driving it because I had a lot of glass, the big glass on it's got a lot of view, you can see outside real well, almost like driving a big bus.
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: That's for those people that are uh really getting bad at seeing things.
• 24:36
  Don Armstrong: Can you see over the steering wheel?
• 24:38
  Mike Marrs: Exactly.
• 24:39
  Mike Marrs: But it was it was really cool like that.
• 24:41
  Mike Marrs: Now, the base trim price on this is$44,995.
• 24:45
  Mike Marrs: Now, the as tested price is$50,539.
• 24:50
  Don Armstrong: Wow, and a Subaru, yeah, uh mid-trim level Subaru.
• 24:55
  Mike Marrs: And the of course you get a base model price at$34,995.
• 24:59
  Mike Marrs: So using that, went over and looked at the Chevrolet Blazer,$34,300 is the base model on it.
• 25:05
  Mike Marrs: The Mazda CX70,$42,750, and the Honda Passport is$44,950.
• 25:11
  Mike Marrs: And again, I thought that that's where it fit in better because it's a little bit bigger, it's square, it looks much more like a mid-size to me than the smaller ones, and these all seem like fairly comparable, other than the price.
• 25:23
  Mike Marrs: Subaru is definitely a better price in that range.
• 25:26
  Mike Marrs: So that's some of the things that I found on the 2026 Subaru Outback Wilderness package.
• 25:32
  Don Armstrong: You know, I I will have to admit to you that I actually like the Subaru brand.
• 25:40
  Don Armstrong: Um, I think that uh it's a different way to build a car.
• 25:44
  Don Armstrong: I like the boxer engines, I like those a lot.
• 25:47
  Don Armstrong: They do a very good job with those.
• 25:49
  Don Armstrong: And you know, the CVT transmissions have actually been bumped up.
• 25:54
  Don Armstrong: They they remember the original ones?
• 25:56
  Don Armstrong: God, they were just awful.
• 25:57
  Don Armstrong: You know, rev rev up to 6,000 RPM and sit there forever and ever and ever until you got it up to 60 miles an hour.
• 26:04
  Don Armstrong: They're not like that anymore.
• 26:06
  Mike Marrs: No.
• 26:06
  Don Armstrong: Um, and Subaru has come miles and miles now with their new interiors.
• 26:13
  Don Armstrong: They've they've been working at it.
• 26:15
  Don Armstrong: And um, I think that they're doing a much better job than they used to.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: And for those that are in the market, I would definitely suggest that you at least give them a try.
• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: Shop it.
• 26:27
  Don Armstrong: You may not like it, but shop it because uh chances are you're gonna find something in there that you're gonna like.
• 26:33
  Don Armstrong: I just that that's me.
• 26:35
  Don Armstrong: Uh would I go out and buy one?
• 26:37
  Don Armstrong: I wouldn't, I'm not in the a new car buying mode, but uh I definitely would put it on my shopping list.
• 26:44
  Don Armstrong: Wouldn't you, Mr.
• 26:44
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 26:45
  Mike Marrs: Particularly this Outback, because of the size of it, this new generation of 2026 by it being new, the changes they've made, it's gone away from all that swoopy stuff that you used to see in the smallest.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: Well, and they all look like grown station wagons.
• 26:59
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, and they've got and this one is definitely, to me, looks better and more like that in what a lot of the bigger full.
• 27:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Wheel trim packages and things is kind of hard to get used to for me.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I think that they I think that they've come a long way and uh they've allowed themselves to change it up and make the different models that people are actually looking for.
• 27:17
  Don Armstrong: I I I'm I'm kind of impressed with the super.
• 27:20
  Don Armstrong: You know, it's the other Japanese automaker.
• 27:23
  Mike Marrs: Right.
• 27:24
  Mike Marrs: I got a friend that he's on his second outback, and he he wouldn't drive anything else.
• 27:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:30
  Don Armstrong: And from what I understand, very reliable.
• 27:32
  Don Armstrong: They last a long time, and you rarely hear of one of those being recalled.
• 27:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, yeah, my sister-in-law had one, and she had an accident and that was into that car, but you had it for a long time.
• 27:42
  Jeff Dziekan: They loved it.
• 27:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 27:43
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: Thank you, sir.
• 27:45
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• 27:47
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• 27:49
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• 29:27
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