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Paul returns from Portugal, plus WILLIAM designs an awful looking car! · The Driver's Show

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: He's arrived direct from Portugal.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: On some sort of human trafficking, drug smuggling expedition, has
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: come back to motherland.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Did you visit your many children?
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: I don't have any in Portugal that I'm aware of.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Well, we're using that language now that we're back in Australia.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: I did have lots of Portuguese tarts though, Oh what
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: about the food? They were delicious?
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there they were, right. So you went to a
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: third world country to see a masda. That is the
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: most ridiculous. Can you just fess up that your money
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: comes from bags of powder? Look?
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, So I've got a very mention, very briefly mentioned
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: the car so mas to see sixty it's coming to Australia.
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: It's like a bigger version of the six five. We drove,
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  Speaker 4: the plug in hybrid version. Now, the reason they chose Portugal.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: This is just I'm getting.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Boring. This is getting boring and unnecessary.
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: So the reason they chose Portugal, because you asked, is
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: because it's cheap. It's like the Bali of Europe. So
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: you can go there to a nice hotel. The weather's
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: generally good and the roads are generally good.
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  Speaker 3: So that is why and the car is not too.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Bad, so are we allowed to say that?
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, well, you can go to our YouTube channel or
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: the Car Expert website to have a look at the
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: review of the six sixty. But yeah, plug in hybrids
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: driving range of about sixty k's punchy little thing coming
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  Speaker 4: to Also, they're bringing a diesel six cylinder and a
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: petrol six cylinder to Australia.
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: It's three will drip so I'm excited for tho. So yeah,
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: it'll be here later this year.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: So now, two things I want to talk to about.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't do yourself any favors as an engineer. Jeez,
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: the marble being in the efidy house as an engineer,
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: this is amazing, Like that is cool to tell your
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: EV council, But dude, what are you doing?
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: I think the difference is I have smart people following me,
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: so they tend to find an interesting One.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Other thing, I will say, you really did travel like
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: an engineer abroad?
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: Is wrong with my style. There's some trendy shorts. Apolo,
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: I look smart.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: She said. The contouring of that shadow doesn't do you
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  Speaker 1: any favors.
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  Speaker 3: The sun was at one pm.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: I want to say if you need to join TikTok
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  Speaker 1: because you have a fantastic rack. Good to have you back.
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, anyway, it's nice to be in a slightly different studio.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: We're in Sydney today and this is your studio.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when are they finishing it? It's basically a public toilet.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: It's always it's always fire. Now that is on the roof.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: You're referring to this weird brown, mysterious patch. It strangely
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: looks like the polo shirt. You're more Portugal, but that,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: my friend, would be possum urine.
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: Oh that old chan. I'm going to take a picture
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 4: We'll put it on the Drive show social media because
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  Speaker 4: that is disturbing.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for shooting on my studio. Something I
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: really I saw that was really cool. That wasn't on
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: your Instagram. Something really cool is this kind of Brabus
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: rally concept which is sort of based on the g Wagon,
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: the am G sixty three, and for one point three
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: million dollars you can get a car, you can get
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: a rollcage that goes from zero to one hundred and
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: three point four seconds on a sand dune.
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: Isn't it ridiculous? So the Brabus crawler. It has no windscreens.
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: You have to wear goggles while you're driving it on
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  Speaker 4: your sand dunes. It has no windows, no doors, but
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: it does have a big old four point five litter
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  Speaker 4: twin turbov eight. It makes six hundred and sixty two
• 4:41
  Speaker 4: kilowatts of power and twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred and fifty meters of talk.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's absolutely insane, and like you said, it's like
• 4:48
  Speaker 4: one point three million dollars so, and it's like made
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: entirely out of carbon as well.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Do you think this car has baby Iso fixed points? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Because it should be shine now. Yeah, I can see
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  Speaker 3: a top ten. Good.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Good. There is back seats. There is room for two
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: in the back.
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  Speaker 4: So you can actually have friends in there. The thing
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  Speaker 4: that is completely unrealistic about this, unfortunately, is that when
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: you do go sand driving, you are going to have
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  Speaker 4: sand in every single hole that ever existed in this car.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember once we were in.
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  Speaker 4: Dubai for the launch of a Maserati Levante suv and
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: they took a sand dune driving even though the cars
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: were closed the entire time. The gearstick was one of
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: those ones that it's like your stinger that goes back
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: to the original position. Yeah, and it would crunch because
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: sand got inside it, even though the doors were never
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: opened in the car sheese, I can imagine this that
• 5:42
  Speaker 4: actually has no doors or windows, a plus a spoiler
• 5:44
  Speaker 4: on the back and these like huge driving lights as well.
• 5:47
  Speaker 4: So your head to the Car Expert website and just
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: look for Brabbas Crawler to see a picture of this.
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  Speaker 3: It is absolutely stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I really love the fact that the images they've used,
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  Speaker 1: which is clearly filmed in Dubai or something. Literally there's
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: a camel in front of that guy's line of sight.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: See, this is the thing.
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  Speaker 4: This car is just a UAE special like this would be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they will eat this alive in the in the UAE.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: I think it will. Just it will be hilarious to
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: see one of these in real life.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: I have a friend of mine over there and he
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: was no tell us about that time. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: her off air. She's on the show next way. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a friend of her over there and he
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: was m seeing an event where they were selling off
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: number plates. Yes right, and one of them was like
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: a six Yeah right. I don't I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: means much to us, And I think it basically was
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: developed over there to be like a specialty number plate,
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: and it went up for something like thirty million dollars.
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: There's some dude just sitting sitting at a table in
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the full sort of head to toe kind
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  Speaker 1: of out fit, the scarf, what do you call it?
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: Careful?
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: What do they call it? I'm not big, a big honest,
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  Speaker 1: some big serious. He was in the full shit of
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: yeah it was a sheet. He's going to get up
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: and simmy shake the shimmy, shimmy, shimmy shake shack, wearing sunglasses.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: I am a respectful personation anyway. But number plates are big.
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: I remember going to an auction here that I think
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: Shannon's was running on behalf of the Victorian government, and
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: it was all Asian kids, like they were eighteen to
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: twenty two year olds buying number plates, and one dude
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  Speaker 4: bought it was in like twenty nineteen or something. He
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: bought the number plate twenty nineteen on a heritage plate
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  Speaker 4: and got into a bidding war with this kid who
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: looked like he was sixteen, and it went up like
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: half a million dollars and he bought it because he
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: had a pram with him and it was obviously for
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: the kid that was born that year. He wanted them
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: to have a registration plate. So obviously the other kid's like, well,
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to start a bidding war with you
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  Speaker 4: because I can see how desperate you are.
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  Speaker 3: This is the only number plates that's going to work
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  Speaker 3: for you.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: That's amazing, just crazy and went for what half a mil?
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Did he win?
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: The guy with the prim did yet?
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to celebrate, he did a bit of a
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: dance dance revolution and logged onto Pokemon Go. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is a crazy car. I really like it though.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's a one point three mil. Talk about
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: the cup and faber, Wow, that's insane. What else are
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: we looking at? Oh my god? The jeep jeep. Do
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: you know when you just have that friend that you
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: want them to succeed so badly you've grown up with them,
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: but they're just a constant cup. I should rephrase that
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: a total cup. You want them to succeed, You just
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: want them to be better, You just want them to
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: do better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So they've launched the Grand Cherokee in Australia with one
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: petrol V six engine and as a result of that,
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: it toes barely anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you won't be putting a caravan.
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: So two point two tons in one spec and up
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  Speaker 4: to two point eight tons, I mean, that's planet of
• 9:08
  Speaker 4: these guys on even like the entry level ute based
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: SUVs all to at least three tons, up to three
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: and a half. Now, even if this did have a
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: towing capacity of three and a half tons, a petrol
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: V six isn't going to move its hefty girth.
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  Speaker 3: Plus a plus a trailer. Yeah, so they don't do
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: it diesel at all.
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  Speaker 4: So globally they do a V eight petrel in the States,
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: which we don't get here they are working on a
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: turbov six petrel as well, but I mean, I just
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: don't get how they do that. And one of these
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: I'm looking that price one of them was like one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hello, have they read the room?
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  Speaker 4: And the best bit was they they were quoted as
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: saying that, So this was in reference to diesel customers.
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: They have to reconsider what they need. It's like, how
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: about you just build what they need, which is a
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: diesel to toe stuff like the old one did.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it's a car that they no longer really care
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: about people towing stuff with that. That could be what
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: they want for it.
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they may not care, but the customers do
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: because a lot of people bought the old ones that
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: had a three and a half time towing capacity, It
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: had air suspension, it would go off road, it was versatile. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: now you can't toe with it, and the petrol engine
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: is much slower and it just doesn't suit a vehicle
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  Speaker 4: this size.
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  Speaker 3: So it is very troubling. I just don't understand where
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: they're going with this.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Perhaps they just want to appeal to the soccer mom.
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: Well maybe Yeah, potentially people who.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Just don't care and don't know what they're buying. Yeah,
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: that's just going to narrow that.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: The development of a bigger engine or keeping an engine
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: going like that, that'd be expensive.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Right, I think so.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: I mean I'm not encountered, but you're an engineer.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: I dress like one.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, there's a mystery car you want to
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: show me.
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: Now, I just for a bit of context before you
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: click on this link.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: William will I am from the Black Eyed Peaks.
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, that guy, he somehow convinced Mercedes Beans to produce
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: a bespoke vehicle just for him. Now, we're going to
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: make fun of the car, but we're not going to
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: make fun of the reason the car exists, which is
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: to support his charity.
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: Which is fine. But click on the link for me.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, So we're going to see this.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's the wow.
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  Speaker 4: It's got like a little teddy Bear instead of a
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: Mercedes logo, it's got like the front of a G
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: wagon and the rear of a CLS or.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: GT four door. I just I don't know what to say.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: Oh of course you do. You would love the shit
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: out of this that this is the demographic.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: Mind people, I love it.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: I just roll up to your house and do something
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: and Knoxious out the front where they.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: Like sing his songs. God, it is a shocker.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is. That is something pretty special. They've used
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: the Mercedes logo and blended it into a Teddy Bear's
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: face to kind of make it look like the mouth
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: and that just.
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: And they've called it the will I a MG. So
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: it's a play on words.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: There is there any interior shots? Oh wow, this sort
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: of jeez. It's pretty plain on the inside, isn't It's
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: very stuff.
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: They've just kept it very but yeah, it's got the
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: suicide doors.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Which is irony is I think you're going to need
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: more than a door.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: God, it is shocking. I don't mind the wheels, but
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: the rest is absolutely heinous.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: What are you kind of a side vents?
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: Just no, everything else is no.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: It's kind of got the front of a g wagon almost. Yeah,
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: so yes, oh god, those doors.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: It is shocking. So anyway, yeah, I have a look
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: at our social media to see what this looks like.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: It is. It is genuinely tragic. It is genuinely tragic.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: That is the most tragic thing to happen to the
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: black eyed peace sense. Fergie Paul doesn't know who that is.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: You didn't even know who, bloody, who are you talking
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: about the other day? And you didn't know like Johnny
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Cash or someone?
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Know who was that person that got banned from that Young?
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: You've never heard of Neil Young, You've never heard of
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: the Harvest album.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: The Harvest album sounds like something you'll find it.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Wooly's welcome to Welcome to the Queen Victoria about here's
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: the Harvest section the bmw IX three. I spend a
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: little bit of time with this. Should we talk about it.
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's the snazzy and stylist BMW I X three
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: is priced at one hundred and fourteen nine hundred dollars,
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: which includes the msport pack. I think it looks pretty great.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: What did the boys think?
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: You don't sound impressed. I'm concerned.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Let's start this by saying this is correct me if
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. The X three is one of the best
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: selling BMW's out there. Right, so they're pretty much taken
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: an X three. They've taken the engine and put in
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: an electric motor and put some nice little blue bits
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: and pieces. Yeah, and that's their electric car.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is what we in the industry call a
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: compliance EV. Right, It's an EV that exists because they
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: had to do it, not because they wanted to do it.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: But I do have hope for them because if you have.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: A look at the IX that was ground up effectively
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: an EV. Yeah, so they went to a lot of
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: effort there. Yes, this I think is a temporary solution.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: I thought, I'm hoping that the next one is more everything.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: But also, this doesn't look like an EX which I
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: also like because it means you can have a vehicle.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: That looks like an X three yes, that is electric.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: You can also get it without all the blue shit
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: on it, so you can just have a normal looking
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: X three.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you my first impressions? So jumping into
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: this car right literally picked it up from BMW, and
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: it had been a while since I've jumped in a Beama,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and there is like, whether you want to admit it
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: or not, this quirks to a Beama. Yep, right, things
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: like reverse park, the button on that whatever, It's just
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: a bit. So I was a bit kind of right
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: right finding my feet. There was a bunch of BMW
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: execs out the front there to meet me. There was
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: about ten people and it was awkward as all. Hell,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: oh god, Yeah, they put on a bit there. I'll
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: tell you one thing. They've got bloody good customer service
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: at BMW. Yes, really good.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Did you go to that new dealership they've built that
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: is insane?
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is huge, it's really good, and I think
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Mercedes aren't technically part of it, but they're there. Yep,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: mining's obviously there. It's a stunning showroom. It's really something special,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: to the point where when I went to return the car,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I got kicked out of the showroom. Why because I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: was just like lurking. I was walking around looking at
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: all the pretty things, and I saw up above there's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a separate level, like with all these what looks like
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: cars on display, and I'm like, I want to go
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: check out that. And this lovely lady who I thought
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: was going to ask me out, unfortunately asked me to leave.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Ask you out vision in bed? Does she have a
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: guide dog? Get out?
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Sick of you're shit? I picked you up from the airport.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I see a bloody you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: The driver.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Two stars for you. By the way, It's interesting jumping
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: in a car like this because it feels like I
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: just didn't belong. It felt like I was hanging out
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: with corporate suit types. Really boring, and it's very German.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: When you hop in like it's very like, this is
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: how you're drive, sit up straight, you'll this is how
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: firm the car is. Deal with it like, it's very
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: it's very straight. The seating position, everything's just a bit
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: kind of stern and this is what you're doing. It's
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: TechEd out really well. The parking in this is probably
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: some of the best I've seen.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so they actually have a cool feature. I don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: think anyone else does. This. It's called the Reverse Assistant,
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: and what it does is it remembers the last fifty
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: meters of driving when you park.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: So if you go down like a narrow one way.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Street and you're like, fuck, I'm not going to make
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: it out of here, I need a reverse, you hit
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: the reverse Assistant and it will guide you with precision
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: accuracy fifty meters back the exact same path that you went.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: So didn't you hit anything on your way in, You're
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: not going to hit it on the way out. So
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: it's actually a pretty cool Features seven. I think they
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: took a bit of a backward step in terms of
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: OYE drive than you OS eight is much better, But yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: I think that I think they've done a really good
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: job with it. And from an interior and tech point
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: of view, I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I think it felt very much like a compliance ev.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It's real will drive.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: It's sort of not overly punchy, and you know, kind
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: of can't because it's real will drive.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the design is conservative, to say it the least. Yes,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: there's nothing really offensive or abrasive about it. The blue
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: kind of highlights. They're not for everybody. Clearly. I quite
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: like it. I think it's cool, stands out. It's got
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the weird kind of plastic what do you call them panels, yes,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: on the front, which I mean if you weren't getting
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: this car in black and they were still black panels,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: that would look odd.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know what color they are. Are they body colored?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: They look black and the car I had was black.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I like the wheels on it. I'll tell
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you what. Those big twenty years wheels are kind of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: arrow design on them. I think is to that stays black.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just having a look on the interweb now, and
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: regardless of which color you choose, it stays black.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah it's going to Okay, it looks like it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: wearing like wayfarers or something. But yeah, the wheels are
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: really cool. I think it's a fine car. Yes, it's smooth,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it's well balanced, it's got presence. It's the whole thing
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: like is very I don't know, cohesive. I guess it's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: kind of everything kind of feels well put together.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: So here's the issue I have. Okay, it's one hundred
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: and fourteen nine hundred for an extra four thousand dollars,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: have the m forty I, which has the turbo six
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: cylinder petrol enginet and is smooth and sporty and fun.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: So you'd have to really want to be an ev
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: fanatic to get this over the M forty I, because
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I think that is a much more engaging and interesting car.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: If you're gonna get a BMW, you want it to
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: be sporty. This isn't sporty.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It's a good drive, but there's nothing exciting about it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: It's just a conservative car.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It's a guy in a business suit with a little
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: bit of dribble on his pants. I just I love it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: There's probably some old guy listening to this show going
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: bloody listen to this because I thought it was an automobile.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It's a deep recording, and he just compared it to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: some bloke with a bit of dribble on his Trodish trousers.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a fencehip.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that anyone listens to this.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: In my day, if I hundred opinion, I'd go on
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the stepshift town Hall and you yelled through a newspaper.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know, so suf fast to say you wouldn't
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: buy one.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean one fifteen before on road? What are
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: we looking on road? It'd have to be a round
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty three thousand on road.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Here's the biggest issue they're going to have. The biggest
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: issue they're going to have is when Tesla launches the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Model Why because for one hundred and fifteen in Model Y,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: that's going to get you an all wheel drive performance
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: version which will be infinitely quicker than this, probably have
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: more range, we'll have better charging, better tech.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: The charging speed on this was pretty slow too.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I think Tesla is really going to upset a lot
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: of these German manufacturers when that car goes on sale here,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: and it will actually be pretty cheap in Australia because
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: in Portugal the Model Why Performance, which I saw stacks
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of over there, is like hundred and twenty grand.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: It was really expensive.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think that when the Model Wire arrives
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: in Australia it's really going to shake up a lot
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: of this segment and really force them to reconsider their
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: price points.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: By list or miss. I think if you're going to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: list it, you're going to have to really you'd.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Have to love BMW. Yeah, you're going to have to.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Be brand loyal, because I think that's the only way
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you'd want to get this across the line.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, I think so as well. I'm sort of
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: in two minds about it. It was okay, but it
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: just really wasn't incredible.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So do we have any any questions from the house any.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I thought i'd mentioned something.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. I feel like you've been sitting
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on this because getting prepared for a zinger. Guys, he's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: getting prepared, little chaft, he's got the smirk going on.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I'm into crypto and NFTs and she's yeah, I know.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: He was one of the first companies to do an
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: NFT collection, and I've been following it closely and I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: minted one of them.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It has been Does that mean you bought one? What
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: does that mean? I minted this? I minted an NF two.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I did buy it. It has been a shit show.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: So normally what happens with these projects is they will
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: create ten thousand of these NFTs and each of them
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: will be unique, and some will be rareer than others.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: And Hyunda was the first car company to come along
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: and go, hey, we're going to do this, here's our collection.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: What happens then is you log into a discord server
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: and that's where you talk with the team and all
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. Now, being a Korean company, they
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: just didn't account for speaking in English with any great accuracy,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: so all of the communication made no sense at all.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: They then asked you to do all these stupid things
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: to get whitelisted for the projects so you could be
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: invited to buy something. And it went live today today,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the day being we record this, and of the ten
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: thousand items they listed and they had whitelisted like twenty.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Five thousand people, only two thousand sold. My point is,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: if car companies want to get into the metaverse, they
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: need to do better.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Than y they just did with NFTs hasn't gone down
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in terms of sales, like by ninety percent. I saw
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: some stat like the NSC market is just crashed now.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: The whole crypto market is down at the moment, and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: that causes flow on effects. But it's it's fine. It's
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: it's not that big of a deal.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: That's what he's telling his wife. It's fine, life savings
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: are fine. I'm just waiting for Elon to tweet it's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: good and we're good. We're good. We're good. I gotta go, Honey,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: who do you find this music?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Truly from Skager from your iTunes collections? Now, speaking of feedback,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: we get some email. I'm so out of touch at
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the moment. Let me look at our at the moment rating. Okay,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: we've got a new one here from FPV Boss three
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: point fifteen obviously likes a car, a decent car, absolute
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: blast of entertainment, awesome show. I think everyone listening to
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: this will end up buying a Tesla. Well here's a
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: good point, because I think you're thinking about it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean at first I thought it was just
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we were doing this because you're getting kickbacks from them,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and fortunately not, you're really not, which is kind of annoying.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I think the state, I think
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we're moving to electric quicker than anyone imagined. Yes, and
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: including myself. I think though at this point in time,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and I know it's kind of a popular thing to say, like, oh,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think this country is really rude for electric
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: cause because we're such a good country. But I just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: think these charge fox people are just just throwing down
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: buckets of shit with this, with their charging stations. There's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: just you just look at them and they looked cooked.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the reliability of them is woeful at the moment,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: best on what I've seen. So yeah, I think if
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: that continues, we're going to have a big issue. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping car companies realize that all the free charging
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: they're giving away with their cars is going to be
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: useless if you rock up and you can't charge.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And it's literally like getting a fuel.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Card with your new car and then you rock up
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to the petrol station and the pump doesn't work.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, well, bad luck, You'll just have to
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: just go do something else, like some fuel.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Also, like the weight on a brand new car is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: at least twelve months, and you can generally get in
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a tesla between Sitwell they're quoting when you buy one
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: off the website, they're quoting six to nine months.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they come in in big batches. So I
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: think that that will start slowing down as it neeble,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: start getting better eventually before it gets worse.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Other manufacturers just need to switch on and get on
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: with it, and they need to fix the charging thing
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It's a shame because there's some brilliant electric cars out there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I raved about that Eve six I had
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the other week. I still loved it. I loved it
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: more than the BMW put it that way. But it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: kind of like Apple versus Android in a sense because
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: what you're charging with with what cables are around as well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's just it's a shame.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: But I think the only thing that's that's making me
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: staring Tesla's direction a little more is the fact that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the supercharger network just seems to be they.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Don't have any issue. And this is the thing that
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I find so confusing. A supercharger, if you take the
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: covers off, is basically a device that turns electricity into
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: whatever format it needs to go into that then goes
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: down a cord.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: They're all the same.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: They're all the same, So how is it the charge
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Fox network is so bad and they just do the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: same thing yet they can't figure it out yet. Tesla
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: it just works all the time. I haven't come across
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: a faulty Tesla charger yet, so yeah, it is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's a maintenance for one. The weird thing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is charge Fox are getting a shitload of cash from
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the government. If they're not employing technicians and service people
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: for these charges, then something needs to be said.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, anyway, thank you for responding to that one
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: comment with that ten minute rant.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: But yes, we're go out a little bit.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we would really appreciate.
• 27:03
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• 27:06
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• 27:09
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• 27:12
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• 27:14
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• 27:16
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• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And now Paul will leave us with a Portuguese song,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Please take away. Oh this is a good one. This
• 27:27
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• 27:39
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• 27:48
  Speaker 3: See everyone,