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How Carfax Records Change What You Pay For A Used Car · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:03
  Don Armstrong: From our Jewel City studios in Texas, USA, it's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:09
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Carfax Patrick Olsen joins us.
• 0:12
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the motor minute, and I'll review the 2026.
• 0:16
  Don Armstrong: I want to make sure that I've got this right.
• 0:19
  Don Armstrong: I'll review the 2026 Land Rover Range Rover.
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  unknown: Right.
• 0:23
  Don Armstrong: Now you're going to say, Well, wait a minute, Don.
• 0:26
  Don Armstrong: Didn't you have that not too long ago?
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I did have the Range Rover, but this is another one and it's different.
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  Don Armstrong: Different color.
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  Don Armstrong: Different color and uh different propulsion.
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  Don Armstrong: Oh.
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  Don Armstrong: There's that.
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  Don Armstrong: There's propulsion.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Um, meaning that this particular vehicle is the dynamic autobiography.
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  Don Armstrong: No, auto.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah, autobiography.
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  Don Armstrong: We're gonna review it.
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  Don Armstrong: If I can if I can get the name out, get this.
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• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: Is that they don't even make a bumper sticker this big enough to hold all of that.
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  Jeff Dziekan: Oh wow.
• 1:10
  Don Armstrong: Or a bumper.
• 1:11
  Jeff Dziekan: They don't even make bumpers that big anymore.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: Well, that that's all that's all colored in.
• 1:14
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, we have Patrick.
• 1:17
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 1:19
  Mike Marrs: Absolutely.
• 1:20
  Don Armstrong: Well, let's get Patrick up here and talk to him.
• 1:22
  Don Armstrong: Patrick Olson, you sir, are in the hot seat.
• 1:26
  Don Armstrong: Okay, I'm ready.
• 1:29
  Don Armstrong: You're always you're always ready.
• 1:30
  Don Armstrong: Hey man, it's good to see you.
• 1:31
  Don Armstrong: How you been?
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: Great, I'm doing well.
• 1:33
  Don Armstrong: How are you guys doing?
• 1:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, well, pretty good.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: Pretty good.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: So uh Patrick is the editor-in-chief at Carfax.
• 1:39
  Don Armstrong: And if you don't know about Carfax, what rock are you living under?
• 1:44
  Don Armstrong: Because how long has Carfax been around?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: We've been around really since 1984.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_03: We passed our 40th anniversary a couple years back now.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Well, congratulations, because uh, you know, um, all of us that are in the car business, and I kind of some sort of way consider us in the car business, um uh we know about Carfax.
• 2:06
  Don Armstrong: But you know, it wasn't on the tip of everybody's tongue in 1984.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: And I think this is just me and my observations, Carfax really didn't get going until the dealers brought it into the dealerships and say, This used car right here has got a Carfax on it, and then all of a sudden it exploded.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: Well, it was for them to to have someone else do the work for them.
• 2:32
  Don Armstrong: But basically, yeah, yeah.
• 2:35
  Don Armstrong: And I'm am I wrong on that?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_03: No, I think and I think it was tied into that was the the with the was a phrase we still use today, which is show me the Carfax, right?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um when we when we launched first with the very first uh Carfax commercial using Car Fox, Car Fox was actually a hand puppet that a dealer was using to fool somebody.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then we made Car Fox our mascot, and uh recognition of Carfax nationally exploded.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: People everywhere knew us and knew us from the Fox.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_03: But I think it's that concept of show me the Carfax um that really got into dealers' heads and then got into consumers' heads after that.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: So, what what is it about Carfax that really changed the way that used cars are sold?
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: Because it's not just the fact that every not every car has a Carfax with it, and um and there are those that have a Carfax with it, and you're going, well, wait a minute, that car's been wrecked.
• 3:35
  Don Armstrong: So you and those that haven't been wrecked, so those that are that are in perfect shape.
• 3:40
  Don Armstrong: So, how does all of that play into the way that many people, I won't say most, but uh many people buy cars these days?
• 3:49
  Don Armstrong: I know I do, yeah.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I would say one of the things is for us, you know, um VINs became standard in the US in 1981.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_03: And so for almost every VIN since then, um, and mostly for mainstream vehicles, but we still for exotics, um, we have a Carfax report for that.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: And what's changed over the years is from '84 till around 2014, we focused almost exclusively on vehicle history and looking at when cars got serviced, when cars got re-registered, when cars went through a safety inspection.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but we've added different things over the years.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like around 2018, we added our history-based values.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: So instead of just carrying what the year McModel and mileage of your car was, we cared about those service visits and we cared about um the accidents you and damage your car may have received.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_03: And now, you know, we do sort of a past present and future on the Carfax Report.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_03: The past, we have all the work that's been done in the car, the present, that history-based value in the future.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: We now have reliability predictions for most vehicles anywhere from three years old to just past 10 years old.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: And we can tell you what we estimate is the likelihood that you're gonna need a major repair on that particular vehicle, that specific VIN, uh, over the next three years.
• 5:07
  Jeff Dziekan: So the information on a person's car is only uh communicated to Carfax if that particular facility reports it, or does it go off the VIN number automatically?
• 5:20
  Jeff Dziekan: And the second part is if it does Carfax notice gaps in the history.
• 5:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe he had a fender bender that uh the guy down the street fixed it for you and it's not reported, but it looks like it's had an accident.
• 5:33
  Jeff Dziekan: So, do you see those things as well?
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, so let me think of the first one first.
• 5:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Sure.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, not everything is reported to us.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_03: There are uh plenty of guys, I imagine uh a fair number of your viewers who are doing their own oil change or doing what have you.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_03: So if and what's great is if they do that, they can report in the car care, the Carvax car care app, which is free.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_03: You can't buy anything in it, but you can note, hey, I did an oil change, and here are my receipts for the oil that I bought.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: It won't be on the vehicle history report, but it'll be in the app that you can show a potential buyer.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but we are, you know, we are limited to what is reported to us.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: But I can tell you, we are approaching a hundred thousand different service shops and dealerships who are reporting things to us, in addition to you know, uh registration and safety inspection and admissions inspections.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: So we've got a pretty good view on virtually every vehicle on the road in the U.S.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: today.
• 6:30
  Don Armstrong: Okay, and that that was gonna be my next question.
• 6:32
  Don Armstrong: So, what about Joe's repair shop in uh Sandusky, Ohio?
• 6:38
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I've been there.
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: You have?
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: I bet you have.
• 6:42
  Don Armstrong: That was for something completely different.
• 6:44
  Don Armstrong: I I think it turned into some sort of never mind.
• 6:46
  Mike Marrs: I think it was a doctor's office, actually.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: So, you know, I mean, this is basically a one-man shop.
• 6:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, he does oil changes, he does light repairs, he doesn't do engine overhauls and that sort of stuff.
• 6:59
  Don Armstrong: Um, what happens if that's the guy that you trust with your car?
• 7:03
  Don Armstrong: And there are a lot of guys out there like that.
• 7:06
  Don Armstrong: And so can he report to Carfax?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, he can.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: And as your as a customer who goes down for that work, you can ask him to report it to Carfax, and we will eagerly take that information into our system.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_03: What we tell a lot of repair shops and service places is we're helping you and helping your customer because the more that consumers know about the work that was done on that vehicle, honestly, the more that vehicle is worth when it comes time to sell it.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_03: So um, I think our the average we found uh over time for cars that have service records versus those that don't is something in the neighborhood of$1,500 when it comes when it comes time to resell it.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: So, unless you are keep buying a vehicle and driving it into the ground and you plan to sell it after three, five, seven years, it's crucial that you keep track of that.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and having your mechanic report to Carfax is an easy way to make sure that it's locked.
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: Does it cost Joes in Sandusky, Ohio, money to report this to you?
• 8:09
  Don Armstrong: It does not, it costs him nothing.
• 8:11
  Don Armstrong: So, how do you qualify him or quantify him, however you want to put it, to make the report on the car that he just serviced?
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, but now you've gotten into a realm that's probably a little bit over my head and out of my wheel.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't mean to do that.
• 8:26
  Don Armstrong: That wasn't okay.
• 8:28
  Don Armstrong: So uh so he can report, you know, that he changed a water pump on the car, and that and that he changed the oil in it and did a general inspection, you know, and he did a right front brake and he replaced the pads in that and that sort of thing.
• 8:42
  Don Armstrong: Yes, gotcha.
• 8:44
  Don Armstrong: All right, and does it cost him anything to do that?
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_03: It shouldn't, no.
• 8:47
  Don Armstrong: Okay, yeah, all right.
• 8:49
  Mike Marrs: And I will tell you I will tell you that my one of my granddaughters just bought her first car, went through that whole process.
• 8:56
  Mike Marrs: Okay, here's how you go down and set up the financing.
• 8:59
  Mike Marrs: And and one of the things when she did find the car she wanted, uh I I told her, ask him for the car fax, ask him if he's got one.
• 9:08
  Mike Marrs: So she got that, and it it showed a one-owner car, bought from that dealership, traded back in, had all the records on it.
• 9:15
  Mike Marrs: A little high on the mileage, but like I told her, I said, here's where it shows how well that car was taken care of.
• 9:21
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, you know, and and and that was that was very important.
• 9:25
  Mike Marrs: And and uh I was really glad that she had that and made her made her feel a little bit better about buying the car.
• 9:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, these certified used cars, Patrick, uh do they differ from uh a regular used car dealership?
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so that really uh a certified pre-armed car CPO, as we call them, that's really up to automakers, right?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: So Toyota and Lexus and GM and whoever they set up their own rules as to what those are.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_03: But uh talking about the car that your daughter bought, uh, we just recently introduced a new approach um to help consumers identify cars just like that, which is a car that's bought at the dealership, gets serviced at that dealership, that dealer buys it back and then puts it for sale.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: We call that a homegrown car.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_03: And we have found when dealers call that out to shoppers that those cars sell faster and they sell for more money.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: So consumers, and like your daughter did, there's you it's nice to know that this guy sold it originally, this guy took care of it.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_03: He's very familiar with this vehicle, and now he's selling it.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it it in consumers' eyes makes those cars seem a little bit more legit.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: Well, CPO is another way to think about cars being better handled, better inspected.
• 10:41
  Mike Marrs: Um a little bit better taken care of.
• 10:43
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, exactly.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe it's a little more expensive, but there's some peace of mind because almost always a CPO car comes with some level of extended warranty, which is yeah.
• 10:53
  Jeff Dziekan: There's also variations of what a CPO is because the dealership will, you know, 127-point inspection, you know, a you know, check make sure all the bolts are tight.
• 11:02
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you've got the guy in the corner with six or seven cars that says we check 14 pieces of the vehicle to make sure because they're all they're doing is protecting themselves, yeah, the service, especially the used car side of it.
• 11:14
  Jeff Dziekan: So CPO varies for different uh organizations.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, and it's important, I think, to really look at uh the the definitions and descriptions of what CPO is to make sure you're getting that value out of it.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 11:28
  Mike Marrs: Yep, yeah.
• 11:29
  Don Armstrong: Now okay, go ahead, Mike.
• 11:31
  Mike Marrs: That was a great statement you made about the the dealership using that.
• 11:35
  Mike Marrs: They didn't.
• 11:35
  Mike Marrs: This dealership, I mean it's a new car dealership, but uh they didn't.
• 11:39
  Mike Marrs: She had to ask for it.
• 11:40
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, and and if he would have said, yes, here, let me show you this.
• 11:44
  Mike Marrs: I mean, she's 21 years old, let me show you this on your first car.
• 11:48
  Mike Marrs: Here's some of the good things.
• 11:49
  Mike Marrs: To me, that would have been a very that would have pushed her a little bit quicker into making that decision.
• 11:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 11:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, a little place of sale.
• 11:56
  Mike Marrs: Yes.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a relatively relatively new idea that we're pushing.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, honestly, we launched this back, I think, at the NADA show in February.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think for a lot of dealerships, they haven't really considered it.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: But we've done some case studies, and we definitely see a very positive response from consumers around cars and where they feel like, hey, they know this car, and they're not selling me something they bought hot off the street yesterday.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's been here and it's been back here, and you know, they know what's working, they know what's not.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're proud of it.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: They want to show it off.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:30
  Don Armstrong: Patrick, how much how if I'm in the market for a used car and um I I found one that I'm kind of honed in on, um, how much does it cost me to run a Carfax on that?
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: So if you want to buy a Carfax report, um, which is great, we we encourage it.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: It's$45 currently.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I would really push the seller, uh, whether it's private party or dealership, hey, you know, give me the Carfax because there's a level of transparency there and trust that that seller should be saying, should be eager to give you the Carfax.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_03: The 50 bucks or whatever or less if it's a dealer that it costs them to persuade you or convince you of the value of the car that you're trying to buy, that should be a a positive to the dealer or to the private party seller.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: If if particularly private party doesn't want to give you the Carfax, I would A, make sure I buy one, and B, go through it very carefully.
• 13:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, wonder why I'm sorry.
• 13:31
  Don Armstrong: When I when I get ready to sell the 2001 Corvette, yeah, it's never been wrecked, it's had several owners, but it's been garage kept.
• 13:38
  Don Armstrong: This thing's baby, and yeah, you know, it's it's it's it's a nice car.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: Um, when I get ready to sell it, so it would be it'd behoove me to buy the Carfax on uh and and say, hey, look, you want here's the Carfax.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, absolutely.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_03: Because I think that just shows to the buyer, I'm not hiding anything, right?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not trying to obfuscate, I'm not trying to distract you.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Boom.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Here's here's the details.
• 14:04
  Jeff Dziekan: So, Patrick, I've worked on his car.
• 14:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Should I report it to Carfax?
• 14:08
  Jeff Dziekan: No, he doesn't want to be buying.
• 14:10
  Jeff Dziekan: No, that that then the value would go down.
• 14:12
  Don Armstrong: We don't want that.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, we we do have dealer and server shop ratings.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't know if you personally have any, but he does.
• 14:21
  Mike Marrs: You just can't say him on public ships.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you do know we do.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: We get user reviews from people who we know are at the dealership.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: So this isn't Bob owns a server shop and goes back on his computer and writes up 16 positive reviews of himself.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: We're only pinging people we know got service there, and we're asking them what they think.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and those are what what populates our dealership and service shop user reviews.
• 14:46
  Don Armstrong: So we it would behoove me if I bought a new car to join Carfax and be able to report all of that stuff, and then you would know that I'm a legit guy with this particular car.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: The the beauty of getting the Carfax Car Care app, which is where you would uh register your van, again, cost you nothing.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: But we would tell you, for example, like if you had a brand new recall, there was one this week for a half a million Kia tellurides with a park outside recall, meaning they want you to park it away from buildings.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: But we would tell you that instantly, and whether it's for a brand new uh telluride, whether it's for a 2010 Ford Escape or something, that's the beauty of the app, is it is constantly keeping you up to date, not only in the services that you need, um, in your favorite dealerships and service shops, but also when new information comes in, like, hey, there's a recall for this, you got to get it fixed.
• 15:41
  Don Armstrong: So, where is the Carfax Tower in America that holds 10,000 people putting all this information in?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh well, it's it's more like 1,500 people.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and we are all over the country.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Our headquarters are in Centerville, Virginia.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: We have an office in London, Ontario.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: We have an office in Columbia, Missouri, and Columbia, Missouri was the original home of Carfax.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but we have got people all over the country.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: For example, I'm talking to you today out of my house in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: So we are all over the place.
• 16:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, when they open up a Maui office, we're in.
• 16:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Maui.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: We'll do that when we have I will I might have to go scope it out first just to make sure it's okay.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 16:21
  Don Armstrong: Go and you also uh get everything running, and you're also taking the in-wheel time car talk show with you to help promote the fact that you're opening up a Maui office.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it really wouldn't be the same without y'all.
• 16:33
  Don Armstrong: That's you hear that, Virginia?
• 16:37
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 16:38
  Don Armstrong: Well, well, Patrick, it's always great to talk to you.
• 16:41
  Don Armstrong: Is there any uh parting thoughts that you'd like to give us?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the the last thing I'll tell you is we added uh back at the beginning of the year something called dependability.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: And we look at uh a vehicle, let's say like a Chevy Tahoe, at the percentage that have made it to 150,000 miles, percentage that made it to 200,000 miles, and the percentage that are still on the road after 20 years, and we compare those to the same model year and average.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm telling you guys, for your viewers, that is going to be an eye-opening to see which models make it to 150, how many make it to 200,000, the delta between those two, there's a huge drop-off, and then how many are still on the road today.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: If you are looking for a used car, there's some great details there in our research pages.
• 17:26
  Don Armstrong: Does it cost us anything?
• 17:28
  Don Armstrong: Does it cost us anything to get that?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: Cost you zero.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_03: Go to Carfax.com slash research and have at it.
• 17:34
  Jeff Dziekan: And that's just if there's no gaps in that information, too.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: So well, we've got we've got literally more than 35 billion records that we use.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: We have no gaps in that information.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: Gotcha.
• 17:44
  Don Armstrong: Patrick, it's great to talk to you.
• 17:46
  Don Armstrong: Stay cool up there now.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_03: Here, yeah.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: All right, trying.
• 17:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, all right, all right, brother.
• 17:50
  Don Armstrong: We'll talk to you again, hopefully toward the end of the year.
• 17:53
  Don Armstrong: All right, man.
• 17:53
  Don Armstrong: Sounds good.
• 17:54
  Don Armstrong: You guys see you in Maui.
• 17:55
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, take care.
• 17:56
  Don Armstrong: All right, yeah.
• 17:58
  Don Armstrong: See you in Maui.
• 17:59
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Don Armstrong: You know, I don't, I don't, I wouldn't want to go to Maui right now.
• 18:04
  Don Armstrong: I mean, if the weather's there, it's always the same.
• 18:07
  Don Armstrong: I want to go, you know, the weather's really different.
• 18:09
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, you're on an island, you got all the other other islands around.
• 18:12
  Jeff Dziekan: It's very expensive, but just ahead.
• 18:15
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 18:16
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• 20:18
  unknown: Okay.
• 20:19
  Jeff Dziekan: I like it.
• 20:20
  Don Armstrong: And who's that from?
• 20:21
  Don Armstrong: I'm thinking uh that was uh oh gosh.
• 20:24
  Don Armstrong: Lawrence Well got a one-a and a two-a.
• 20:27
  Mike Marrs: That's not who I was thinking.
• 20:28
  Mike Marrs: Champagne bubbles coming up from behind.
• 20:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, there's the those are the that's the champagne orchestra.
• 20:33
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, all right.
• 20:34
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the motor minute champagne.
• 20:37
  Don Armstrong: Okay, ready to go.
• 20:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, the motor minute is just I've got some interesting car facts, not no, see, car facts from uh Patrick.
• 20:44
  Jeff Dziekan: This is just information that we may not know.
• 20:47
  Jeff Dziekan: But uh the most expensive country uh to buy a new car would be in Singapore.
• 20:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh you have to have a certif a certificate of entitlement or a COE that provides.
• 20:59
  Don Armstrong: I know some several ex-wives like that.
• 21:02
  Don Armstrong: Certificates of entitlement.
• 21:03
  Jeff Dziekan: No, those are that's alimony.
• 21:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Um the policy aims to reduce congestion and limiting the number of cars on the road.
• 21:10
  Jeff Dziekan: So you're only selected, you have to show the means and you can not clog up the roads.
• 21:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Um it's about 7,807 people per square kilometer.
• 21:22
  Jeff Dziekan: That's how many people they have.
• 21:24
  Jeff Dziekan: How many square miles is that?
• 21:26
  Jeff Dziekan: It's 247 uh square.
• 21:29
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you got a calculator, you can figure it out.
• 21:32
  Jeff Dziekan: We're gonna use a calculator in all of this.
• 21:34
  Jeff Dziekan: So the longest car in the world was built by a person that is a car guru in California called Jay Olberg.
• 21:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, Guinness Book of World Records has the longest car ever at 100 meters, which is 328 feet for those listening.
• 21:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh car was built with a swimming pool, a diving board, king-size waterbed, and a helipad.
• 21:51
  Jeff Dziekan: How about that?
• 21:53
  Jeff Dziekan: The cheapest car in the world is a Tata Nano.
• 21:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Tata Mano.
• 21:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Tata.
• 22:00
  Jeff Dziekan: The car is the world's cheapest car.
• 22:02
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a rear-wheel drive car that's at speeds of 105 kilometers.
• 22:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Again, that's 65.24 miles per hour.
• 22:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, when it was first introduced, the car was only 1400 bucks.
• 22:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Now it's around between 32 and 4600.
• 22:15
  Jeff Dziekan: I guess the materials of the Tata have gone up.
• 22:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Hey, world's fastest police car.
• 22:22
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 22:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Dagmars.
• 22:24
  Jeff Dziekan: The world's fastest police car, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is in Dubai.
• 22:30
  Jeff Dziekan: The Dubai Police Department has a Bugatti Veyron, a thousand horsepower.
• 22:34
  Don Armstrong: Uh wasn't they confiscated from some drug dealers?
• 22:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably, I don't know about drug dealers in in Dubai, but uh confiscated some oil.
• 22:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh 253 miles per hour, which again that's 407 kilometers.
• 22:47
  Don Armstrong: Why are we doing the kilometers and the media?
• 22:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Because I just want to mess with your catalyst.
• 22:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, you've done that.
• 22:52
  Jeff Dziekan: There's no doubt.
• 22:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Automotive recycling 80% of the average vehicle is recyclable.
• 22:56
  Jeff Dziekan: 12 million vehicles are recycled every year.
• 22:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Unbelievably, automotive recycling is the 16th largest industry in the United States.
• 23:05
  Jeff Dziekan: So, how about that?
• 23:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Just some interesting car information facts on that.
• 23:09
  Jeff Dziekan: That is interesting.
• 23:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, some of them burn up right here in the city of Houston.
• 23:14
  Don Armstrong: Park them outside with some tires over the fence.
• 23:16
  Don Armstrong: Park them outside.
• 23:17
  Don Armstrong: Time now for this hour's car review.
• 23:20
  Don Armstrong: I had the opportunity to drive the 2025 Land Rover Range Rover.
• 23:25
  Don Armstrong: It is built in Sully Hill, United Kingdom.
• 23:29
  Don Armstrong: Just thought you'd like to know that where it's built.
• 23:33
  Don Armstrong: Available trim levels, the dynamic, and the autobiography.
• 23:38
  Don Armstrong: I had the Sport Dynamic S E P H E V.
• 23:43
  Don Armstrong: That is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
• 23:46
  Don Armstrong: Mid-size SUV.
• 23:48
  Don Armstrong: Now you'd think that this would be full size.
• 23:49
  Don Armstrong: Nope, mid-size.
• 23:51
  Don Armstrong: Five seats in it.
• 23:53
  Don Armstrong: That would include the driver, clearly.
• 23:55
  Don Armstrong: It was all new in 2023.
• 23:58
  Don Armstrong: We're just now getting this in the press fleet, but I'll tell you what.
• 24:01
  Don Armstrong: Oh my god.
• 24:02
  Don Armstrong: It's a good looking, good looking vehicle.
• 24:04
  Don Armstrong: Ooh, it is absolutely beautiful.
• 24:07
  Don Armstrong: Exterior features, smooth arrow body lines, modern yet conservative.
• 24:14
  Don Armstrong: All horizontal and slick design throughout.
• 24:18
  Don Armstrong: Front and rear lighting is no frills, but is extra sleek.
• 24:22
  Don Armstrong: As a matter of fact, the rear tail lights are kind of like built in to the it looks like the body work on this.
• 24:29
  Don Armstrong: Like shaved in.
• 24:36
  Don Armstrong: I know, I think I know what you're talking about.
• 24:38
  Don Armstrong: It's not the same thing.
• 24:39
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 24:40
  Don Armstrong: Big wheels are really straightforward and good looking.
• 24:46
  Don Armstrong: There's nothing fancy about anything.
• 24:48
  Don Armstrong: It draws your attention.
• 24:50
  Don Armstrong: The whole thing is just slick.
• 24:52
  Don Armstrong: How else do you say it?
• 24:53
  Don Armstrong: It's a good looking car.
• 24:54
  Don Armstrong: Overall design gets high marks.
• 24:56
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 24:58
  Don Armstrong: Don't get gray.
• 25:00
  Don Armstrong: Gray is boring.
• 25:01
  Don Armstrong: Why would you get a gray car?
• 25:02
  Don Armstrong: It's almost as if you here.
• 25:04
  Don Armstrong: Let's go ahead and get the car um sprayed as a primer.
• 25:10
  Don Armstrong: Let's do the gray primer.
• 25:12
  Don Armstrong: They don't use red primer anymore.
• 25:13
  Don Armstrong: I don't know why, but anyway, I just don't understand gray cars, but whatever.
• 25:18
  Don Armstrong: Interior highlights.
• 25:26
  Don Armstrong: No frills looking.
• 25:27
  Don Armstrong: Interior is ultra conservative in its design.
• 25:31
  Don Armstrong: Materials top-notch with comfortable seating surfaces.
• 25:35
  Don Armstrong: The infotainment screen is tablet style, kind of small, actually, in comparison to some of the ones that we see today.
• 25:43
  Don Armstrong: Simple conservative controls for the HVAC.
• 25:47
  Don Armstrong: And uh, as far as cargo and trunk room is concerned, it is smallish with the second row up.
• 25:53
  Don Armstrong: Again, this is a mid-size.
• 25:54
  Don Armstrong: Look how slick that is.
• 25:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, it looks nice.
• 25:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Don Armstrong: Now, this is a brand new car.
• 25:58
  Don Armstrong: You'd think, well, wait a minute.
• 25:59
  Don Armstrong: That's kind of like the old stripper models of the Nova back in the 1970s.
• 26:04
  Don Armstrong: No, this isn't.
• 26:05
  Don Armstrong: Hardly anything.
• 26:06
  Don Armstrong: Can't even compare it.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, the simplicity of the look.
• 26:11
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 26:12
  Don Armstrong: Some of the screens of the infotainment screen, a little complicated to maneuver through.
• 26:17
  Don Armstrong: I think that I would go back to school on that one.
• 26:20
  Don Armstrong: But like anything else, you buy a new car, you get used to it, and then it's no big deal.
• 26:25
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: So what's it got under the hood?
• 26:28
  Don Armstrong: A three-liter inline six-cylinder that turns up 454 horsepower and 487 pound feet of torque.
• 26:38
  Don Armstrong: This isn't the big V8.
• 26:40
  Don Armstrong: This is the three-liter inline six.
• 26:42
  Don Armstrong: Toes up to 6,600 pounds.
• 26:46
  Don Armstrong: And if you want to just get on the gas only, it gets 21 miles per gallon.
• 26:52
  Don Armstrong: Not bad considering you get this all this horse and the lexi.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: Isn't it beautiful?
• 26:58
  Don Armstrong: To see it in person is just truly stunning.
• 27:00
  Don Armstrong: I got 28.3 miles per gallon over 381.8 miles.
• 27:06
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, the power.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: Plenty.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: It's always there.
• 27:09
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 27:11
  Don Armstrong: Absolutely nothing.
• 27:12
  Don Armstrong: Uh, maybe a full electric would be interesting to drive.
• 27:16
  Don Armstrong: Now, I did not get the 110-volt charge cord with this vehicle.
• 27:22
  Don Armstrong: For some reason, they didn't include it.
• 27:24
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 27:24
  Don Armstrong: It would have been nice because I can plug it in here at the house and then at work, they have a 110-volt outlet there.
• 27:31
  Don Armstrong: And so I could have probably got a lot better gas mileage if I plugged it in all over the place, but I did not.
• 27:36
  Don Armstrong: So I want to be sure and transparent in that regard.
• 27:41
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, the air suspension, one of the best.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: Plenty of control, but my God, the ride is just to die for.
• 27:49
  Don Armstrong: Um, what could use improvement there?
• 27:51
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 27:52
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price,$95,100.
• 27:56
  Don Armstrong: I was sitting here thinking, how pretty is that car?
• 27:59
  Don Armstrong: Price has tested$96,725.
• 28:02
  Don Armstrong: Base model price$79,450.
• 28:06
  Don Armstrong: Uh, let me just say this before I get into the competitors.
• 28:10
  Don Armstrong: This is was actually shocking to me.
• 28:14
  Don Armstrong: Um, because I have driven vehicles in the$130,000 category.
• 28:19
  Don Armstrong: This beats them.
• 28:21
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 28:21
  Don Armstrong: This is probably one of the nicest vehicles on the market today, as far as reliability concerns.
• 28:28
  Don Armstrong: I don't have them.
• 28:29
  Don Armstrong: I don't know anything about that.
• 28:31
  Don Armstrong: Uh I might want to check into that if you're interested in this, but I'll tell you what, if you're interested in a super luxury, beautiful vehicle that has lots of horsepower and you want to impress the neighbors, I think I'd check this one out.
• 28:44
  Don Armstrong: Okay, here are the competitors.
• 28:45
  Don Armstrong: The Lexus TX PHEV for 80,000, the BMW X5 PHEV for 76,000, and the Mercedes GLE PHEV for 72,250.
• 28:57
  Don Armstrong: Next week we review the VW Tigwan SUV, which is a complete redesign.
• 29:02
  Don Armstrong: I think you'll be interested to hear what I have to say about that.
• 29:05
  Don Armstrong: So you don't like great cars, do you?
• 29:07
  unknown: Boy, I'll tell you what, man.
• 29:09
  Don Armstrong: If if if I were a rich man, which I am not, uh, I would seriously consider buying something like that.
• 29:15
  Don Armstrong: The wife would love it.
• 29:16
  Don Armstrong: I had don't have a wife, but you gotta buy the wife, then you get to carry it.
• 29:19
  Mike Marrs: I think that color's got a lot to do with it.
• 29:21
  Mike Marrs: That brilliant red.
• 29:23
  Don Armstrong: Golly, it is it's stunning, is what it is.
• 29:26
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• 29:28
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• 29:30
  Don Armstrong: We're back after this quick break.
• 29:32
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