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Welcome to drive through episode number 55.
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This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive, motor
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sport, and entertaining car adjacent news.
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Now let's pull up to window number one for some automotive news.
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One for the thumb baby.
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Season six, we're kicking it off, and I know you're gonna correct me.
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You're gonna say, but that's not right.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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'cause one for the thumb is a fifth one, right?
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I don't know.
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Technically this is our fifth full season coming up here because our first season
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was super short and it was only half.
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So I count this one as our fifth full one for the thumb baby.
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I mean, we've done 55 of these.
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Did we even do drive-throughs in the first season?
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Yeah, we did.
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Our very first one was like in the second month of the show.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Like August or something like that.
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Wow.
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We sold out that early.
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We sold out.
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I have news.
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You have news?
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What's going on?
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Actually, a lot has going on.
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Um, your car's done.
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Uh oh.
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It it's done.
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It's cooked.
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Hooked.
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What does that mean?
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Yeah, what does that mean?
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Oh, it's somebody else's problem now.
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Oh.
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Oh, you sold it.
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You sold it.
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I sold it.
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Whoa.
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Professional.
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Let's get into it.
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This, this is, this is, uh, break fix dashboard, confessionals.
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Dashboard confessionals with Brad.
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Look, he's a little misty-eyed about it for the first time in a very long time.
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You are not a Volkswagen owner anymore.
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I know.
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And it's gonna be for a while.
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I can't remember the last time I didn't have two vehicles.
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What made you kick the habit?
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Uh, I got tired of throwing good money after bad.
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That's the definition of Volkswagen ownership.
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What are you talking about?
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Exactly?
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So when I have my, what should I buy?
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I'm gonna have criteria,
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but it's basically I was, it was the right kind of car.
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It was the wrong.
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Car though it was the wrong specific car.
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Right.
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But it was what I wanted, but it, the car was too ragged out and beat.
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It was like, I enjoyed working on it, but I would've enjoyed working
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on it, making it better, not fixing the shit that the previous owner
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had fucked up the whole time.
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Like, yeah, I don't wanna sit there and change brake calipers
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and fix wheel bearings and all, and wheel hubs and all that bullshit.
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I want to throw turbos and shit on it, and superchargers and
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coil overs and all the fun stuff.
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And I kept throwing.
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Good money after a bad situation and it just kept getting worse.
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And the more I did to it, the worse it got.
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And I mean, I was double into it what I originally paid.
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At least it sounds like my BMW.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Which is why I'm making a statement now.
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There are only three, maybe four German cars.
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I will consider purchasing in the future ever and 17 Japanese ones.
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So what are these four German cars?
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I'm very curious.
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So the first one is a mark four R 32, because I'll do it right and get the og.
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Good luck.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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So that would be the first one.
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The second one is an E 46.
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M three.
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Yeah.
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Just because I've lusted after those cars ever since they were ever made.
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The third one is a nine 11, because who doesn't want a nine 11?
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I don't want one.
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Well, that's you.
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You've already got a Porsche.
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You've already got a P car.
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The fourth one is probably even more unobtainium than a Mark four R 32.
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And that is the Mercedes CLK Black series.
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Oh yeah.
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That's number one on my list if I have to buy.
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We, and it's funny, Tanya and I were just talking about Mercedes
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before we got on air, and she did some car spotting on the road.
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She's like, I'm not sure if it was a one 90 modified resto mod or
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if it was an actual EVO two or if it was a, you know, 4 65 60 SEC.
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We're trying to figure out exactly like what late eighties.
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Model it was or whatever.
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But yeah, the CLK black is definitely right up there.
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I'd like to interrupt our program here in Arlington, Virginia.
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You can purchase yourself a 2004 Volkswagen, R 32 with 108,336
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miles for the low price of $17,981.
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What color?
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Silver.
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They're not unobtainium.
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They're just more expensive.
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Which is fine because I'm not going to be in the market until
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the kids are outta daycare.
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You'll never get one of these.
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Then I, I'm going to go 'cause they'll all, they'll all be trashed
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or they'll all be destroyed.
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Oh wait, you said daycare?
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I was thinking like when they were old enough to drive.
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Nevermind.
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Oh, no, no, no daycare.
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So like four years from now.
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Yeah.
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I'll be able to pick one up then, or I'll get something else.
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Still a 20 plus year old mark.
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Four that needs everything.
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So you're in the same boat all over again.
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Yeah.
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But at least at that point, I'll know what I'm getting into and I'll be a lot
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more choosy about the vehicle that I buy.
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And I won't buy a car that was at auction.
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Well, yeah, but the thing is, the mark fours and the mark
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fives don't share any DNA.
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So you're going back in time.
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You know what I mean?
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I know.
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I prefer the mark fours.
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Oh, I, I feel you.
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I feel you.
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They're just more specific, you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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But one thing I did find, you know, not to keep going down this train.
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Oh no.
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You dropped the bomb.
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So yeah, I just dropped a truth bomb for the first, for the
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first episode of the new season.
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Now we're going down this road.
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The one thing I did find out between the mark four and the mark five is there's
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a lot more aftermarket support for the mark four than there is the mark five.
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Funny enough to this day across the board, yes.
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Exactly.
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So that was another thing I kept running into problem wise, is aftermarket
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support and even just stock part support for that car was really hard to find.
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Like I was, I, I needed, after doing all the rear suspension and everything, it was
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to the point where I, I basically needed to replace the entire rear subprime Ooh.
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Because it was so rusted out and everything, and.
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I couldn't find one anywhere.
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Yeah.
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'cause there were only a handful of those cars to begin with.
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Right Now, I will say build numbers wise, there are less Mark four R 30
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twos globally than there are Mark fives.
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Like they brought 1500 to the US but I think total production numbers was still
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under 5,000, which is not that much.
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No.
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Considering they brought 5,000 mark fives to the US alone.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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So that then, which is really weird that you would think you'd have more
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stuff available, but now you're in that weird period of, well, how much of it is
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shared with the second generation TT and you know, all that kind of crazy stuff.
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So, so I say, I say this and what I'll, what will actually ended up happening
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is I won't be able to find one.
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I'll still have the itch for another Volkswagen and I'll, I'll
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shoot for the star, the R 32 and I'll land on a 24 Val VR six.
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That's what's going to happen.
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I got one on the trailer, it's ready to go.
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I know, but I, I don't think you're selling it and it's not street legal.
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Everything has a price tag.
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Everything's for sale.
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As for street legal, you know, that's a whole nother problem.
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But anyway, those are the only German cars that I will consider buying in the future.
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I will not buy another German car.
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Wow.
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The lesson is finally learned.
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I guess German cars suck.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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That's not true.
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I'm kidding.
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They're just not for me.
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And to your point, my list of German cars keeps getting shorter every year.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The older I get, the less I want to deal with all that.
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Fucky.
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Chicanery.
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Yes, exactly.
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I don't, I don't wanna, okay.
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Any German listeners?
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Anybody that speaks fluent German, can you please translate fuckery
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to German so I can use that word?
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Farik.
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Newgen.
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That's what it, the translate.
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It's fucking stupid.
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That's what it's, uh, yeah.
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All right.
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So why don't we continue this thread.
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This is now the showcase.
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We're gonna talk golf Far because that's the first article coming
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out of Volkswagen, Audi Porsche News by talking about the latest R
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edition of the golf that's coming.
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What makes it an R?
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What makes any of these anything anymore?
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I don't see anything special.
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You tell me, is it wheels in the Brakes?
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Because those brakes, they're not even Brembo.
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I mean, look at these things.
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They look like the stuff you get at Advanced Auto that say
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like Corvette on the side.
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You just screw 'em into your actual calipers.
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It looks like you have a big brake kit.
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I mean, what makes this different than A GTI?
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Do they even make the GTI anymore?
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Is that the problem?
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All wheel drive and more horsepower.
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Like a hundred more horsepower.
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Oh, so it does still have all wheel drive?
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Yeah, it has our center caps for the wheels.
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And a really stupid looking R on the back under the Volkswagen
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symbol and that goofy exhaust and everything else that goes along way.
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Yeah, by outward appearances, other than the color, the Subaru Blue, going
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back to the original mark for R 32, that Volkswagen R Blue is specific to the r's.
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You can only get it on those models.
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Whoop Deep frick.
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It looks like every other STI out there.
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And it was on purpose because it was competing with the STI
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and the Lancer Revolution when those cars all came out together.
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So they've kept that traditional, it comes in limited colors otherwise, but they're
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standard Volkswagen colors, black, white, red, silver, blue, you know, whatever.
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Compared to the previous golfer, what makes it so special?
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I don't even know what addition we're on the mark.
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8.75 or some happy horse hockey like that.
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13 more hearse PERS than the last one.
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They just kicked up one more PSIA boost.
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Yeah.
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More than likely it's still dressed up with two 30 fives.
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They've been running the same wheel size since the mark fours.
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How pathetic is that?
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You got a car this big and they haven't stuffed more rubber underneath of it.
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It does look like it's lifted.
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It looks like a Tiguan.
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It does.
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Well, the best part is.
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There will be a wagon variant that the US won't see.
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Ah.
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And it will have the exact same performance in a heavier car.
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Ah.
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They even said it'll be slightly slower.
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No kidding.
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You're putting the same power in it, but you made it bigger and heavier.
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And that begs the question, how much more does this weigh than the previous golf R?
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Because 13 more horsepower keeps it at the same power to
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weight ratio that it had before.
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So it's not any faster.
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The car weighs between 34 72 and 3,500 pounds.
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3,500 pounds.
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Still heavy for a golf.
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That's what my old one weighed.
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Yeah.
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The golf R have always been heavy.
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The original R 32 was like 33, almost 3,400 pounds, right?
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Yeah.
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Although they claim zero to 60 and four point whatever, 4.6
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seconds and a top speed of 1 67.
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On what planet nor life.
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Yeah, right, exactly.
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Who would pay $50,000 for this car though?
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That's the punchline I wanted to get to.
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'cause I called it, I said the golf R is gonna be 50 grand and the GTI is gonna
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be right behind it with a 10 grand delta.
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Who's gonna spend 50 grand on it?
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And you know what?
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I already, I have the memory of a nat these days as I was listening to
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WTOP on my ride in this morning, as I do now, people still listen to that.
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Yeah, man.
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It's the only thing she gets on her tape.
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I was gonna say the am fm radio.
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Well see, here's the problem.
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I've already heard the 10 songs about 150,000 times, so I gotta like stop
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listening to the broadcast radio stations until there's a new 10
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songs that I can get sick of hearing.
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So you can switch to Spotify's Mix, which is the same 10 songs over
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and over again, at least those 10 or 10 that I most likely selected.
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But um, at any rate, you were listening to NPR, sorry, I was listening to WTOP.
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One of their new segments this morning was talking about the price of cars
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and how there's this boom happening of more people buying cars at a
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hundred thousand dollars or more.
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And I'm like, who are these people?
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They started talking about Land Rover.
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So that right there, that's a very niche market.
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Of course, yes.
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Okay.
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But also, who are all these young Americans or whatever they were
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saying that are buying these a hundred thousand dollars cars?
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I mean, on the one hand, A GTI is $50,000.
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Everything's creeping up a corolla's.
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$40,000. I mean, pretty soon.
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Yeah.
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It's gonna be pretty normal to be like, oh yeah, I spent $80,000
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on, uh, you know, grocery getter.
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That's pathetic.
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These people, the young Americans are YouTubers and OnlyFans models,
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and I guess all these 10 99 ERs that are in the entertainment industry,
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we've talked about this before.
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How many of these are leased versus bought?
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Like, whoa, you know, you old Z deal boomers buying your cars?
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Ha ha, ha ha.
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Idiots.
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Okay, fine.
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But you know what?
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I like my freaking car.
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So over the long term depreciation, it's gonna end up costing me
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less if I do the minimum amount of maintenance and not lease it.
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I mean, again, I don't wanna get into that argument.
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Yeah, you can have a hundred thousand dollars car if you're renting it.
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Sure.
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What do you care?
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Woo, woo, woo.
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Rent that money, I guess.
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So we've seen those stories.
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Don't do the math.
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At the end of your life, you've spent how many hundreds of thousands of dollars
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and you have nothing to show for it.
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You could have owned a My box when it was all said and done.
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You probably own multiple my box.
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So anyway, let's ground ourselves back in Volkswagen News.
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So one thing I wanna add to this Golf R story.
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It started with your recently departed Mark V golf there, Bradley?
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Yes sir. That was the first R golf that came only in automatic and the
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new one is only coming in automatic.
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So we're gonna repeat the same mistake we made the first time, which
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is why the mark fives didn't sell.
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Well.
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I do not have high hopes for this.
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I don't understand why they did that for the US market, because you could
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get it with a manual in, in, in the zeros outside of the BMW and Porsche.
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People that are like, save the manual, save the manual, keep the
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manual, all that kind of thing.
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There's been a lot more people saying, I don't care if it shifts
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in 0.3 milliseconds on the street.
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It makes, no, it doesn't matter who gives a crap.
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We're not at the berg ring.
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So it doesn't matter if it shifts the most efficiently that it possibly can.
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They don't even sound good with the DSG.
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It's all this, eh.
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And it's like it shifts in 10 seconds and it's over and
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you're like, well that was lame.
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At least, you know, if I wanna granny shifter or if I wanna rev it out
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and you know, blip shift and all that kind, you can't do that with an
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automatic, it's just, oh, it's lame.
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Yes, yes, but it's the bragging rights.
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Oh, my car shifts in 0.23 seconds.
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So much better than yours.
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And I'm still dog shit slow around Summit Point, Maine.
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Well that, and you don't watch the lights properly and know how to read 'em.
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Then I got you off the line because by the time you figured
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it all out, I'm already taken off.
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Right?
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So it's like big deal at that point.
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And nobody can steal my car and you're still gonna get.
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Your ass handed to you by a Tesla.
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So it doesn't matter at the end of the day what you have, but the Tesla is gonna
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get lighter as it goes down the road because its panels are gonna fall off.
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It's like the F1 strategy where the cars get faster as they use their fuel uhhuh.
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The Teslas get faster as they drop weight, literally down the middle of the road.
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We'll get to that a little later.
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The other thing that bugs me about this $50,000 golf R is that when you bought.
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A golf R, especially the original R 30 twos.
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You got a super nice interior.
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Those Koenig high back racing seats hand stitched this and embroidered that and
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the black Alcan roof, it was special.
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Exactly.
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It was a special car.
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Well, Audis were always really, really luxury and really, really nice.
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Especially starting in the nineties when they started to figure themselves out.
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You had like really fine leather and wood trim and you know, one of
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the first cars to have the mobile carone, all that kind of stuff in it.
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I know that's ancient technology bystanders, but 30
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years ago it was a big deal.
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Now there's these articles coming out that Audi is even admitting that their interior
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quality is getting worse every year with every model that they've put out.
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But the price of the cars to Tonya's Point, continues to climb.
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So you're paying more and getting less, which is what bugs me.
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Again, going back to that Golf R situation, are you really
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getting something special for 50 grand over a GTI are.
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We surprised the quality of everybody's stuff, for that matter,
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I'm sure has been going down.
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I'm sure it's not just them.
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There's been talks about Mercedes quality going down ever since the.
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Basically people would say that the best Mercedes cars were the
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ones in the nineties and before.
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Yeah.
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Anything after that generation.
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It's all shit.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't it.
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Back in the nineties, Ferraris and Lamborghinis and Maseratis and like
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the Italian brands were notorious for terrible dash quality and like the dash
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up there on top of the steering wheel and all that were known to like crack
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and blister and break apart and all that.
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Yeah.
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Porsche had that problem too, right?
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Because they were experimenting with weird new plastics and composites
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and all this kind of stuff.
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The materials didn't hold up well to uv.
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Then you got the fun things, like you remember the nine 40
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fours where they would put this like carpet on the dashboard to
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cover all the cracks and stuff.
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You're like, oh, that looks so, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Terrible.
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But you know, they solve those problems over time.
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Yeah.
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The accountants are running the shop now.
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They're making sure that they cut all the costs that they can.
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Of course.
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And then you get inferior products that don't last long or you know,
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and you know, no one's gonna have a real leather interior anymore.
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Not cars that are meant more for the masses.
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Yeah.
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There's, you know, a Ferrari somewhere, even if they still do
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maybe something super high end.
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Maybach.
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That was something that Bentley always took pride in.
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Like they would get cows from a very special region.
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We're cage free.
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Like no fences, no way.
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That's lying in your Lexus going down the road.
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No, it's all pleather.
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It's all fake stuff.
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And then you already had decades ago, everyone using whatever that
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stuff is called, that nasty spray stuff to make everything look so
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wonderful and and nice on the interior.
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And then you know what happens after 20 years, it becomes this gross, disgusting,
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melted mess that stains everything that touches it and looks like garbage.
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20 years, those cars are all gonna be in the junkyard after that amount of time.
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Well, and that's what I wonder with these new interiors that are
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admittedly lower quality by the manufacturers, it's like, what are
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these gonna look like in 20 years?
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What are they gonna look like in 10 years?
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Are they even gonna make it five?
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What is it that Tanya used to say?
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Hot garbage.
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Hot garbage.
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That's what they look like.
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I guess Audi's gotta pay for that Formula One program.
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Somehow there, we found out the secret that in the new R eight that's
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supposedly coming, who's buying that?
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The article is talking about, you know, hybrid V eight and all this kind of stuff.
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And I said, that's great.
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The only thing that gets me excited about a new RA coming is that maybe Audi might
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return to IMSA in the GT three classes with something that's sort of cool.
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But again, if you're funneling all your money into Formula One right
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now, I don't think they can be distracted with other high dollar
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racing programs like ISA or even WEC.
18:41
So I was like, oh, you know, I wonder if Audi's gonna go back to lamont.
18:44
It's not gonna happen.
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I mean, unless money is suddenly growing on trees at VW and Porsche.
18:50
And all we've heard about for the last year is plant closures,
18:53
downsizing, how they're losing money.
18:56
And now we got dealerships that are being sued for underperforming what?
19:01
How do you sue a dealer?
19:02
What does that mean?
19:03
I hope they counter sue for the manufacturer making shitty cars.
19:07
Thank you.
19:07
Thank you.
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'cause that's what I kept thinking, like is it the dealership's fault that they
19:12
can't sell something that nobody wants?
19:15
I mean, if that was the case, who wants to be a Volkswagen dealer?
19:18
Well, and that's just it.
19:19
And I know one of the ones in our area, it was the same thing.
19:22
It was Volkswagen Subaru and Subarus outsell.
19:26
VWs nowadays, like three to one, if not more.
19:29
And it became over the last couple years, Subaru only, there is no
19:32
Volkswagen dealer here locally.
19:34
So we're like, oh, okay.
19:35
Well that's interesting.
19:36
Not that it matters.
19:36
I order all my parts from ECS anyway.
19:39
To your point, Brad, I mean, make a better car.
19:41
I mean, they make some boring stuff.
19:43
I will say Tanya and I drove by one of the dealerships the other day.
19:46
There is still one up this way, and they had three ID buzzes out front.
19:50
So speaking of the ID buzz, I saw one rolling down the road
19:54
today, may have been a wrap.
19:55
It was identical to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bus.
20:00
Oh, nice.
20:00
It looked pretty sweet.
20:02
I, I gotta say, I didn't see if it was Leonardo or Donatello driving,
20:07
but it did look pretty, pretty sweet.
20:09
One of the ones that we saw was that yellow that they have, I don't know
20:13
even know what to call that color?
20:14
Sunflower yellow or something.
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Yeah.
20:16
And then they have the blue orange, and then they had an all white one.
20:20
And the all white one was like striking because it didn't have the, it was
20:24
absent of color and you're like.
20:26
Oh, that's really interesting looking, you know, all one color.
20:29
I'm like, I wonder what it would look like in black, you know, or dark gray.
20:32
Yeah.
20:33
Like a eurovan instead of this two-tone sixties hippie bus thing.
20:37
It's like, I don't know.
20:38
I, I don't like the hippie bus colors.
20:40
Eric, just for you.
20:40
I just put something in the chat.
20:42
All blackness.
20:43
Look at that.
20:44
This needs some red striping.
20:46
Yes.
20:46
It needs to be the 18 van.
20:48
Yes.
20:49
Oh, I see it.
20:50
Now.
20:51
We need to put a VR six in this though.
20:52
Get rid of that electric garbage.
20:54
Yeah, I guess if you read through this a little bit more, so the complaint
20:58
actually has been going on since 2011 when they first started failing to meet
21:03
whatever their sales target quotas were.
21:06
And what they're actually saying is that there's other nearby dealerships that
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are selling well and meeting the targets.
21:14
So that could be indicative of a particular problem at
21:17
this particular location.
21:19
Or they just care to focus more on their Subaru sales than their Volkswagens.
21:23
Yep.
21:23
It could be anything.
21:24
'cause their customers don't want the Volkswagens.
21:28
Yeah.
21:28
Their customers go to the other dealers for the Volkswagens, one of
21:30
the other Volkswagen dealerships.
21:31
Sell other than Volkswagens couldn't tell you.
21:34
So let's move on to Lower Saxony.
21:37
We did that last month and we don't need to talk about it again for
21:40
like what, another five years or so?
21:42
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:42
I think that's our cycle.
21:44
Yeah.
21:44
Yeah.
21:44
Yeah.
21:44
BM, BMW and Mercedes not relevant.
21:46
We know what they have.
21:47
We know we're getting, that's the next time you talk about
21:49
cars that nobody wants.
21:51
That brings us straight into STIs.
21:55
STIs talk about a company that can't find their butt from a
21:58
hole in the ground right now.
21:59
Ah, this is what the British call taking the piss.
22:03
I'll just read the headlights.
22:04
Stellantis taps Swedish startup for Quadric cycle production technology
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that uses a flat pack chassis.
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We're talking Ikea style, build it yourself kind of stuff.
22:14
This is what Stellantis is focusing their attention on.
22:17
Company doesn't have anything to sell.
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This ain't coming here, so if they're marketing it in Sweden,
22:23
I bet it'll do really well.
22:25
Where is this being sold?
22:26
Not here.
22:27
Look at this vehicle.
22:28
In what Total recall.
22:30
Blade Runner demolition, man, it's, it's the murder, death kill cab.
22:35
This thing is horrible.
22:36
Nobody wants a car that looks like this.
22:39
You know what they're doing?
22:40
They're adding more fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet to lengthen
22:44
their mile per gallon average, or increase their mile per gallon average.
22:47
So they can build a 1200 horsepower Hellcat demon,
22:52
Satan, Lucifer, Morningstar.
22:55
Ooh, the Lucifer Morningstar edition.
22:57
Yeah.
22:58
Yeah.
22:58
There you go.
22:59
Is this actually a car that's going into production or is this like a concept that
23:04
they're trying to prove this flat pack technology or whatever else they're doing?
23:08
I'm gonna ask a question on top of your question, and my question is, who cares?
23:13
Who cares?
23:16
So, I will say this, to answer Tanya's question, the car in the picture.
23:19
Exists already.
23:20
That's the lovely o whatever that Swedish manufacturer is,
23:25
St whatever, FRG and Bergen.
23:28
But the point is, it's like Stellantis is partnering with lovely O to
23:32
develop their own version of this not so lovely looking vehicle.
23:36
I mean, this thing is.
23:37
Oh, this is bad.
23:38
Just bring us a new charger or challenger for the love of Pete.
23:42
All right, domestic news.
23:44
We got some domestic news.
23:46
Actually, Brad, I think you called this a while ago.
23:48
This is the greatest fear of all this stuff come true.
23:52
Headline reads, GM is sued for selling driver data to insurance companies.
23:57
Let's be fair to gm.
23:59
GM sold your data to a third party.
24:02
Third party, then sold data to the insurance company.
24:05
Let's make sure that we factually report that GM has to sell your data
24:10
because they're not selling many cars,
24:14
Bazinga.
24:15
They gotta find a revenue stream somewhere.
24:17
There's so many old cars to still enjoy.
24:20
It is just sad.
24:21
This is the world we live in, where everything soon.
24:24
It's gonna be standard.
24:25
And I think we literally said this probably in the past, talking about
24:28
the same conversation is like soon your freaking toilet is gonna be smart
24:32
and it'll be feeding information.
24:34
I don't know where the Charmin, pretty sure there are smart toilets
24:38
that link to an app on your phone.
24:40
I saw advertisements, not for the toilet, but for smart water bottles
24:45
that link to an app on your phone.
24:47
Why do you need that?
24:48
Because people can't just write down or remember how many cups
24:52
of water they've had in one day.
24:53
They need an app to blink and tell them, Hey, time to drink some water.
24:57
You.
24:58
Is it that complicated to know that you need to hydrate?
25:01
Am I such.
25:02
A Neanderthal that I can't just drink when I'm thirsty.
25:06
And if I'm not, I don't, I mean, not to divergent into that conversation, but this
25:10
is technology, be getting technology for the sake of technology for no good reason.
25:15
And now that water bottle costs $250 and comes with a warranty
25:19
plan for Verizon or something.
25:21
Why?
25:22
Because it's cellular data.
25:24
Yeah.
25:24
Yes.
25:24
The, the problem is people buy this shit.
25:26
I don't know.
25:27
What's the bigger evil that this stuff exists or that people buy
25:32
it, which therefore make it exist.
25:35
And it's all running on Amazon Web services.
25:37
And don't even get me started on that.
25:40
That's a whole other episode better than CrowdStrike.
25:42
That's a whole nother thing.
25:43
But still, I mean, some things just need to be dumb.
25:45
That's that.
25:46
All right.
25:47
General Motors.
25:48
And now we move to Asian domestic news.
25:53
Brad, you brought us this one.
25:54
Yes.
25:55
They're bringing out a new FJ cruiser, and I never liked the first one.
25:59
I thought they were dumb.
26:00
I had a friend that had one and he flipped it over trying to off
26:03
road through a construction site.
26:04
What?
26:04
No, no, he was, he wasn't off-roading through a construction site.
26:06
He was off-roading at a friend's farm on his birthday and flipped it.
26:10
I'm still gonna go with what, that's my response to that.
26:14
That's all I know.
26:15
I wasn't there.
26:16
I wasn't there.
26:17
That's what I heard.
26:18
That's the, the scuttlebutt around the water cooler.
26:20
So yeah, they're bringing out another FJ cruiser.
26:22
It looks like a Toyota version of the Land Rover defender,
26:27
which is exactly what it is.
26:28
It looks a little better than the original.
26:30
This is a rendering, so we don't know if this is chat GPT due and it's
26:34
thing or not, but I agree with Tanya.
26:37
It's better looking than the previous one.
26:39
Well, yeah, the previous one looks like a turd.
26:41
It's just goofy with that little door, like whatever.
26:44
Well, if this is what it looks like, it looks like literally a Toyota version of.
26:48
The defender.
26:49
Well, that's the prompt you put into chat, GPT.
26:51
Please re-render the Land Rover as a Toyota boop.
26:53
And there it goes.
26:54
Yep.
26:55
That rear end is terrible though.
26:56
Regardless of what it looks like.
26:58
There is a desire for a Toyota off rotor.
27:00
I mean, they redesigned the Land Cruiser.
27:02
They redesigned the Sequoia, you know, when they did the Tundra refresh.
27:06
So the Land Cruiser was made a little bit smaller and a little
27:09
bit more like off-road focused.
27:11
Yeah.
27:12
Than the previous one, which was a tank of a vehicle.
27:14
Jeeps sell well, Broncos sell Well, I'm not surprised that they're
27:18
trying to compete in that market and the scout is allegedly coming.
27:21
Let's put air quotes on that one.
27:23
Here's my question.
27:24
You know, I always like to pose a new question each episode.
27:26
What comes first, the New Scout or the new DeLorean?
27:29
Considering there's multiple companies with the quote unquote new DeLorean,
27:33
they might make it to market first.
27:37
Picking up where you left off on flipping FJS over in a construction site or a
27:42
car park or a farm, or whatever it was.
27:45
What about this next one?
27:46
What's the point?
27:47
Because other than the body panels, what is left of this being a two 40 sx?
27:54
I don't know.
27:54
And for those that can't see what we're talking about, it's an article
27:58
about some Japanese company that did a conversion to make a Nissan two 40 SX
28:03
into basically a Baja, a pre-runner.
28:07
So it's got a hood, it's got half of the front bumper, the headlights and the door
28:13
panels, and the roof, and the rest of it is a custom chassis and everything else.
28:18
So what kills me about this is why can't this be like a remote control
28:22
car, kinda like nascar, right?
28:24
Where you put a plastic body on the top of this frame and it looks like
28:27
a Nissan two 40, why did we have to sacrifice a two 40 SX to make this?
28:32
So I'm gonna theorize I have an idea of what I think happened.
28:35
I don't care what the article says.
28:36
I don't care what the guy said, if he said anything about why he built it.
28:39
I think he had the chassis.
28:41
For the PreRunner.
28:42
He had a two 40 SX that was sitting in a field somewhere, didn't run.
28:47
Mm. He was like, I'm just gonna take these body pan.
28:49
I, I need a body for the PreRunner I'll, that car's not running
28:52
and I'm not gonna fix that.
28:53
Let's just go ahead and slap it together.
28:55
That's like the top gear.
28:56
How hard could it be?
28:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:58
Something like that.
28:58
So, I mean, the offroad in me thinks it's kind of cool.
29:01
I mean, it would be kind of cool regardless of what body it had on it.
29:05
If it had a Toyota RAV4 body, if it had a Toyota Super Body, the thing
29:09
that would make it sacrilege is if they actually cut up a good working car.
29:13
But if they cut up a car that was already junk, then who cares?
29:16
I mean, yeah, if I kept that R, things kept going wrong with it, I could totally
29:20
see doing something like this with that.
29:22
Because the only thing good about that car was the body panels.
29:25
Are you sure about that?
29:27
Well, two or three of them.
29:29
Yeah.
29:29
I was gonna say you replaced some fenders and whatnot.
29:32
I replaced the fenders, the hood.
29:34
I've still got the door downstairs that I need to sell with the
29:37
wheels and a bunch of stuff.
29:38
Well, Brad, if that hasn't gotten you upset enough, I
29:41
know you're a bike guy too.
29:42
You've had plenty of motorcycles and this next one hits not
29:46
so close to home for you.
29:47
Were you planning on going to the Berg ring with the motorcycle anytime soon?
29:50
Yeah, I was gonna go next week, so I probably Oh, nice.
29:53
Which is really, it really sucks.
29:54
So I guess I'll just have to stick with the Isle of Man.
29:57
So article reads, end of an era, the Berg Ring Bans motorcycles from the Nord sfa.
30:02
That's significant because.
30:05
S, they have a massive amount of folks that ride bikes on the ring, and I get it.
30:10
It's a whole safety concern, is the reason why they decided.
30:14
But more importantly than that, it's not just safety of,
30:17
okay, well, it's motorcycles running with other motorcycles.
30:19
Nope.
30:20
The craziness of the berg ring as it always has been.
30:23
It's like, yeah, we'll send the cars out and the pedestrians and the motorcyclists
30:27
and the bicycles and the trucks and anybody that wants to pay to do a tourist
30:31
lap of the ring, you can just go out and do a lap of the ring and they just send
30:34
them out and people go varying speed.
30:37
It's not like a controlled track day when bikes and cars come together, which
30:41
we'll talk about a little bit later.
30:43
It's not so good.
30:44
I don't fault the ring for saying no MAs, but on the same token, maybe they could
30:49
have handled it a little differently.
30:50
Instead of just cutting 'em off, they are giving them a couple of events and there's
30:55
a big bike only event that they do every year that I think is still gonna happen.
30:58
But as far as during those.
31:00
Tourist laps that they do.
31:01
Tourist faran, I believe is the German term for it.
31:04
That's no longer a thing for motorcyclists cars only.
31:07
Well, if you're into two wheels, oh boy, they still do the 24 hour
31:12
bicycle race on the berg ring.
31:15
That sounds like torture.
31:17
Sounds amazing.
31:18
How many laps do they actually get to do?
31:20
If I'm riding one lap?
31:22
One lap in 24 hours?
31:24
It depends who's riding it depends how big your team is.
31:26
'cause you can be on a 2, 4, 8 person team.
31:29
Sweet.
31:30
But yeah, so no fun anymore for bikes at the ring.
31:34
But to your point, Brad, there's still aisle of man, there's still plenty of
31:36
other places to go ride your motorcycles.
31:38
Yeah, it stinks, but I don't disagree.
31:41
I like you.
31:41
I feel like they could have handled it differently.
31:43
They could have had like, like do go a swimming pool, you know, you run cars for
31:47
50 minutes and then you take 10 minutes.
31:50
For 20 minutes and let motorcycles run.
31:52
And then you go back.
31:53
Adult swim.
31:54
Yeah, you do a adult ride.
31:57
There you go.
31:57
Yeah.
31:57
But there's a lot of logistics there.
31:59
'cause now you gotta act like a ski resort and then you gotta have somebody
32:02
that goes on the back end and goes, all right, this is the last car.
32:05
Yep.
32:06
The track's clear.
32:06
Release the motorcycles.
32:08
Oh, you mean organized?
32:09
You're gonna have a time delay in there and it all becomes, it's gonna
32:12
be organized, logistical nightmare.
32:14
It's like last rundown.
32:15
You gotta make sure all the people are down the mountain.
32:17
Right.
32:18
It's like, well, you gotta make sure nobody parked their motorcycle on the
32:20
side and wanted to wait for their buddy and their nine 11 GT three to show up.
32:23
And then they go racing off together, you know?
32:26
Good way to get yourself banned.
32:27
But that's how they do it now, which is apparently what they did
32:29
because now they're all banned.
32:31
Well, let's switch back to EVs and concept cars and we'll head to France.
32:46
Why for, you know, some creep, Suzette.
32:48
Oh, because for, for what?
32:49
You guys are lusting after.
32:50
Yeah.
32:51
Because it is a giant tease constantly from Renault.
32:54
With this, we're gonna build the new R five, which is known as the
32:59
R five Turbo three E. And they are, but they're only gonna make 1,980
33:05
units, which is a throw to 1980.
33:09
So they're gonna make 1,980 units of this awesome looking electric hot hatch.
33:16
They add more a Coutre Mall to this vehicle.
33:19
Every time I see it, it gets better.
33:21
They just need to put a motor in it.
33:23
Like a gasoline motor and sell it.
33:26
Okay.
33:26
Make this EV version, but also make a petrol version that looks
33:30
like this and people will buy it.
33:32
Maybe it doesn't need 540 horsepower, but maybe it does.
33:36
You all won't be able to buy it here in the US for another 25 years, of course.
33:41
So 2052.
33:43
Why do you have to.
33:44
Burst my bubble like that, Brad, why you gotta bring in logic and realism
33:48
and just let me live this French fantasy of owning this super hatchback
33:53
That ties into our, what should I buy?
33:55
Episode.
33:55
We just, I know, I know.
33:58
A nice little intro there for folks as they get to tune in
34:00
for the rest of the season.
34:01
This is the hotness.
34:02
This isn't just a hot hatch.
34:04
This is El Fuego.
34:05
This is the hotness.
34:06
This thing is awesome.
34:07
That's what they should call it.
34:08
El Fuego.
34:09
They had a Reno Fuego.
34:10
It was terrible.
34:11
Go look it up.
34:13
It was hot trash.
34:14
It was terrible.
34:16
Hot cottage.
34:17
Well, here's another de do moment.
34:19
Did anybody not expect this?
34:21
You know, there's reports that say that by the year 20 30, 90 6% of
34:25
new vehicles will be connected cars.
34:27
You know, having built-in wifi, connectivity, access to all your
34:31
services and whatever devices.
34:33
But of course.
34:34
It comes with a cost because all that stuff is subscription based.
34:38
Cool.
34:38
Yeah.
34:39
Every car has all this from a Kia to a Bentley, but recent reports would suggest
34:45
that 76% of people in their survey that they did actually don't want any of it.
34:49
'cause they don't want to guess what paid the subscription fee.
34:54
Here's a novel idea.
34:55
Somebody buys a car, they pick and choose the features and stuff that they want.
34:59
It comes with the car.
35:01
They buy it and then that's it.
35:02
No, you don't have to pay anything else ever again.
35:05
And we've talked about this too.
35:06
We've moved away from that model in life.
35:07
Everything is microtransaction based and they're just trying
35:11
to do it in the cars too.
35:13
Oh, you want your heated seats?
35:14
Here's the subscription.
35:15
You wanna be able to use your windshield wipers in the rain.
35:18
Here's the subscription.
35:19
You wanna listen to the radio.
35:20
Another subscription.
35:21
So I've got a logistics question.
35:24
Uhhuh, from a manufacturing perspective, is it more cost
35:28
effective to build all the cars with all the features already built in?
35:32
Like for example, the one Tanya just said, heated seats.
35:35
You build the cars, you put the seats with the heated seats in, and
35:39
then charge people to turn it on.
35:40
Or is it cheaper to save on the materials and have some cars with the heated seats?
35:45
In some cars without the heated seats, like, which is more cost effective.
35:49
So I've always argued that long term it's cheaper to have all the features
35:54
in there and then have them disabled than it is to have cars with and without
35:59
because they make them so hard to update backdate because what are you gonna do?
36:03
Like as an example of our, you run a new loom for your heated seats.
36:07
Yeah.
36:08
You're gonna run your own wiring for heated seats, just put the wiring in
36:11
there and then it doesn't, you know, there's not a switch to activate it,
36:14
which is actually the point of a video I saw on Instagram the other day.
36:17
A guy has a newer BMW and he's getting around some of these things because
36:21
they put what would be a physical plate for like buttons and it has no buttons.
36:26
But he realized inside of there there's like a little control board.
36:29
So he 3D printed these little like actuators and he made like the fog
36:34
lights work and he made some other stuff work that like had no physical
36:37
buttons that were quote unquote subscription only because again,
36:41
the computer is just turning on a circuit, on something mechanical.
36:45
He was able to get around it and I said, that's gonna happen.
36:48
Then they're gonna be like, oh, that's like piring the car, blah, blah.
36:51
We're gonna come after you void your warranty.
36:53
Yeah, yeah.
36:53
FBI warning.
36:55
Right.
36:55
Although it's not anything that already hasn't been happening because cars
37:00
that are sold in Europe are different.
37:03
Slightly, yes.
37:04
And the car sold in the US take the comfort climate control switch that I
37:09
need to install in my mark for in Europe.
37:11
Was a standard feature that you could have one touch turn signals, not a standard
37:16
feature on the US cars, however you can get the module and install it on the US
37:21
based car because all the stuff is there.
37:22
Yep.
37:23
This has already been happening.
37:25
They already do this.
37:27
They're just making more work for themselves at the end of the day.
37:29
I mean, I think I agree that it's probably long term cheaper if you
37:33
just put everything in there and then you either turn it on or off
37:36
or you hide it, but it's also.
37:39
Why they had packages and cars, right?
37:41
Like, yep.
37:41
To your point, Brad, of I wanna be able to choose what I want.
37:44
Well, it's okay.
37:44
Well, I want the midnight murder edition, and that comes with, you know,
37:49
X, Y, Z, other features and duh duh.
37:51
Or I just want the Conno Box Toaster edition, and I have
37:55
roller crank windows still in it.
37:57
Yeah.
37:57
I think though we should make the distinction with these cars that the
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interior stuff should be all the same.
38:03
All the creature comforts all the human stuff.
38:06
Touch the button, get this, the heated seats, the heated
38:09
mirrors, the power window.
38:10
Like that chef should be standard.
38:12
I think the exterior packages should be optional.
38:15
Do you want the midnight murdered out, no Chrome Edition?
38:18
Do you want the big wheels?
38:19
Do you want big breaks?
38:20
Do you want stuff that can be bolted on to the basic car that you don't
38:25
necessarily need for every day?
38:27
But as a commuter, as a driver?
38:29
And I think that's the other thing too, is the Europeans especially.
38:32
They drive, but they don't drive as far as we do.
38:36
And, and I'm gonna just lay that out there.
38:38
America's a lot bigger and we do go a lot more distances in our cars.
38:42
You know, it's not like a hop, skip and a junk from the DC area to Florida.
38:46
I mean, granted, we can get on a plane, but the thing is, if you're taking these
38:49
long trips like we're used to in America.
38:52
You want those things, you might not need them.
38:54
You know you live in Texas, but that one time you went to Denver
38:58
to visit your friend and it was freezing 'cause you were skiing.
39:00
It's nice to hit the button to turn the heated seats on.
39:03
Even though 99.9% of the time in Dallas, you don't ever use them.
39:08
Just give me the stuff and I'll use it when I want to.
39:10
Well then that feeds into their subscription based model because
39:14
99.1% of the time I'm not using it.
39:17
But that 0.9%, uh, let me just pay the month subscription.
39:21
'cause I'm gonna be skiing this month.
39:23
Cars shouldn't have micro transactions because how much did you pay?
39:27
As we talked about many times for that Tesla, for that F-150,
39:30
for that nine 11 for the BMW.
39:31
You're a hundred thousand dollars into this car and now you want me to pay 4
39:35
99 for the heated seats for a month.
39:37
Hell yeah, get outta here.
39:38
But they're brainwashing people into that because every other
39:41
aspect of their life is that way.
39:43
It's awful.
39:44
It needs to stop their third appendage.
39:46
I call it the digital enslavement device.
39:50
Or whatever the extension of their hand, the cell phone is nothing
39:54
but a microtransaction suck.
39:57
They had to try.
39:58
They all had to try, right?
39:59
They had to try and get on the bandwagon and see if they could
40:02
make it work, but unfortunately.
40:04
This is an area where, yes, people spend a lot of time in the car,
40:07
but at the same time they don't spend as much time as other things.
40:10
So I don't think they're willing to pay for that kind of stuff because
40:13
their digital enslavement device, they're staring at that while they're
40:17
driving, not anything else in the car.
40:19
So what the hell do they need all these other special features for?
40:21
'cause they're just staring at their phone anyway, going down the road.
40:24
They're warming you up to the idea of the autonomous vehicle.
40:28
That too.
40:29
And like a lot of those futuristic shows, you know, you watch like upload or you
40:33
watch, you know, the new this, the new that, whatever it is, and they're like,
40:36
oh, hello John Smith, blah blah, you're on your way to the blah blah blah.
40:40
Would you like me to queue up this for you?
40:41
And then it's like B deducted from your bank account because you know it's part
40:45
of that concierge service now rather than part of the driving experience to
40:50
have those, you know, creature S Can you imagine you could get into your car
40:53
and it knows your order so it already contacts Starbucks as soon as you get
40:57
in the car and your order's there and then you drive through the touchless
41:01
personless drive through, it's Starbucks and it goes chaching deducted and
41:05
then you pick it up out of the window and you just keep going on your way.
41:08
There are people right now going, yes, yes.
41:10
Yes, I want that.
41:11
This is like the smart water bottle.
41:13
Some things should be dumb.
41:15
You Boomer.
41:16
I'm a Neanderthal.
41:17
That's what it is.
41:18
This is like that episode of Black Mirror.
41:20
All the people are riding the bicycle like, and they have to,
41:23
to ride the bike to generate Yes.
41:25
You know, points to do things.
41:26
And then they spin their points, Dogecoin, their government efficiency coins.
41:30
And then they're dicks.
41:33
No, they're, they're dicks.
41:36
I've merged the Doge in the efficiency coins.
41:39
Sorry, this is scary to me is what it is.
41:42
What you guys are talking about.
41:44
It's very scary.
41:45
And you're a hundred percent right because if it works with cars.
41:48
Generally it works with other things.
41:49
You can already pay $5,000 for a refrigerator that it
41:52
will tell you what's in it.
41:54
It's connected to wifi, Bluetooth, whatever to your phone.
41:58
And I think it can create like a grocery list.
42:00
'cause it knows you're low on milk and gives you a warning,
42:02
Hey, you need to buy milk.
42:04
So what stops it from going, Instacart needs gallon of milk.
42:07
Do, do, do, do.
42:08
And then boom, you have a milk delivery at your door.
42:11
Again, there are people going, yes, yes, I want this.
42:13
I need this in my life.
42:15
And they're the same people in the movie Wally that are just.
42:20
In the wheelchair thing, more like Idiocracy watching the nut Punch videos.
42:25
There you go.
42:26
I have a sure fire way to see what's in my refrigerator and know when
42:32
I need to go grocery shopping.
42:33
Here we go.
42:34
It's really simple.
42:35
I walk over to the refrigerator, it takes me about 10 steps.
42:40
I open it and I use these things called eyeballs.
42:43
No, but look at all that energy you're wasting by having the door open to look
42:47
if the fridge can just tell you or have a camera for you to view inside it.
42:52
You know, Tanya, it must be my new health conscious lifestyle that is
42:56
driving this non laziness for me.
42:58
I'm sorry I, I know that's not majority of the the world.
43:01
You got it all wrong guys.
43:03
See, this is where.
43:04
Married life comes into play.
43:06
You learn the game and you turn to your significant other and you say,
43:10
Hey honey, go check the fridge.
43:12
Do we have any mustard?
43:13
And they go, Nope.
43:14
And you go, okay.
43:15
I didn't even waste the trip to the refrigerator.
43:17
Look, I don't need a smart refrigerator.
43:18
I got a smart spouse.
43:20
What the hell do I what I need on this electronics?
43:22
But what Eric isn't telling you is he's asking his smart spouse from his
43:26
office, she's sitting on the couch in the living room, he's asking her
43:30
a question to go check the fridge.
43:32
She doesn't get up.
43:33
She just says no.
43:34
And now Eric has four bottles of mustard.
43:37
There's a Samsung refrigerator meme that says the Samsung's new fridge will ping
43:41
your phone if you leave the door open.
43:43
And the reply is.
43:44
Why the fuck doesn't it just close the door itself if it's so smart?
43:50
The next thing they put hydraulic openers on the, like, the Rolls
43:53
Royces and a fridge will cost $5,000.
43:56
No, I, I got it.
43:57
So, so I figured out how me as a layman who doesn't have a smart
44:01
fridge, can see what's in my fridge without having to get up.
44:05
I put my GoPro in the refrigerator
44:10
because I've got a GoPro lying around.
44:12
I put that in the refrigerator and I just queue it up and I can use
44:16
the GoPro app to my phone and then I can pull it up and say, Hey.
44:19
We're outta beer.
44:20
Well, this next one is actually something smart for change.
44:24
I came across this article, I found it fascinating.
44:27
I was like, wow.
44:28
Something I can kind of nerd out on.
44:30
And coming at the heels of a lot of these EVs being in production for over a decade
44:36
now, and it talks about how firms are putting a new spin, pun intended, on EV
44:42
motor technology and how they're trying to recycle and harvest materials out of older
44:47
EV motors into these new designs that they have and how much more efficient these new
44:51
motors are, and how much more power they can generate and all this kind of stuff.
44:53
So I won't get into all the technical details, but the punchline is.
44:58
As we've always said, EVs are extremely wasteful because of all
45:02
the precious materials that are used to create them, not to mention
45:07
their detriment to the environment.
45:08
You know, harvesting all these rare earth metals and all this kinda stuff.
45:10
So these firms like zf, you know, one of our favorite German
45:14
manufacturers is working on.
45:16
How do we take these older motors apart, reuse some of the pieces, you know,
45:20
recycle them down, melt them down, turn 'em into something else, whatever it is.
45:24
And so I thought this was actually really cool and I just wanted to share it.
45:27
Obviously this is a great idea, but isn't this something that ice manufacturers
45:31
have been doing with ice cars?
45:33
The cars go to the junkyard, they get broken down to their raw materials.
45:37
Aren't those materials recycled and then put back into other things?
45:41
Why do you have to come in with that pin again and burst my balloon
45:44
with this logic and realism?
45:47
No, absolutely.
45:47
Now, the thing is there are rare earth metals in things like catalytic
45:51
converters, but it's not nearly the same amount of quantity or
45:55
quality that that exists in an ev.
45:57
So they have to go about it in a completely different way to recycle.
46:00
Of course.
46:01
I feel like ironing out the recycling process years ago would've been smart.
46:06
Yeah.
46:07
Is that the point of this article?
46:09
Probably not.
46:09
Well, it is and it isn't because I thought they were also talking about
46:12
using a whole other motor technology.
46:15
Correct.
46:15
I only skimmed through it.
46:17
So magnets.
46:18
But they're magnets made from rare earth elements, but then those earth elements
46:23
are actually recyclable and they could remake magnets once the magnets wear down.
46:27
Correct.
46:28
And so you kind of have this.
46:29
Cyclical never ending.
46:31
I mean, sure, sure.
46:32
At some point you get to a point where you've lost enough of it that
46:35
you need to replenish with new.
46:37
But that's interesting.
46:38
If they're coming up with a different motor technology that's not necessarily
46:41
relying on what they're doing today.
46:43
Exactly.
46:44
Still doesn't solve the problem of mining for rare earth
46:47
metals for the batteries yet.
46:48
That hasn't changed yet, although there's a whole fit, Panasonic and lg, and there's
46:53
all these new batteries that are coming that are not supposed to be lithium based,
46:56
but we've heard about that for the last.
46:57
Five years.
46:58
So who knows?
46:59
Well these things take time.
47:00
They do.
47:01
Well now it's time we move on to Lost and Found.
47:03
Brad's favorite part of the drive through where we try to see what
47:08
Chuck led Duck and Gray Chevrolet have to offer us this month.
47:12
Well, I'm not going to cars.com, but I will see that apparently there was
47:16
an abandoned Ford Escort Cosworth.
47:18
Two of them actually.
47:20
Yeah.
47:20
One only has 12 and a half thousand miles on it.
47:23
And as we learned from an upcoming, what should I buy episode, the Brits go nuts
47:28
for anything with a Cosworth badge on it.
47:30
Right.
47:30
Correction.
47:31
Apparently the Brits go wild or anything with a blue oval on it.
47:35
Not necessarily just, yeah, that's true.
47:37
For whatever reason, they loved them over there.
47:39
So these cleaned up, got running again.
47:41
They will sell for a pretty penny, so they are projecting the cars
47:45
could fetch over a hundred grand.
47:47
Then someone could take that money and buy a civic.
47:49
Ain't that the truth?
47:50
Mm-hmm.
47:51
All right.
47:51
Continuing with Lost and Frown.
47:52
Brad, this was another one you brought us.
47:54
It's from Haggerty, according to you, you being, not you Brad, but
47:59
the audience cars that never got the engines that they deserve.
48:02
And I went through this extremely long list.
48:05
I didn't really need to go past the first one on this list.
48:08
The Dodge Dart.
48:09
Yeah.
48:10
So I love the writeup on this where the crowd is saying, oh, the modern
48:15
Dart should have got basically Alpha's one T that came in the four C and
48:20
blah blah blah, and this and that.
48:21
And you know this.
48:22
And I'm like, another four banger.
48:24
Who cares?
48:25
Put a V six in this thing, put a straight six in it, five cylinder.
48:28
I don't care.
48:29
Ooh, a five cylinder would be cool.
48:31
Yeah, yeah.
48:31
Don't take a 1.4 turbo and then say, oh, I'm gonna put a 1.8 turbo in it.
48:37
Like.
48:37
Really, 400 cc does not make that big of a difference.
48:40
You can turn up the wick on those Abarth motors pretty high and make really good
48:44
horsepower if you're gonna do something, put a six cylinder in it, what it really
48:47
should have had, because the Dodge Dart actually wasn't a bad looking car.
48:51
It was a pretty cool looking car.
48:52
You know, if I was in the market for a little, a little con car, yeah,
48:55
I would've probably considered it.
48:56
They should have made an SRT version with the motor from the, the SRT neon.
49:01
Yeah, for sure.
49:01
The, what was it, the two liter or 2.5 liter or whatever it was.
49:04
The turbo motor.
49:05
The Perche motor, yeah.
49:06
That is what they should have put in this car.
49:08
Yeah, I agree with that.
49:09
A thousand percent, but they just never did.
49:11
Yeah, they did the Abarth motor instead because fiat, and that's that.
49:15
Although those 1.4 liter turbos, they sound really good.
49:18
They're really throaty for what they are.
49:20
But again, it's a front wheel drive, like you know what
49:23
you're getting yourself into.
49:24
Yeah.
49:24
It's ANCA car.
49:25
It's not meant to be anything else but Anca car.
49:27
There's all the usual suspects on this list.
49:29
The Fiero, the Prowler.
49:32
I was surprised by the Citro and Ds and the Cadillac ante.
49:36
And then there were things like the Fiat X one nine should
49:38
have had a different engine.
49:39
And I just sort of scoffed at that going.
49:41
Yeah.
49:42
And what did Fiat have in 1973 when the X one nine came out, other
49:46
than a one and a half liter engine?
49:48
Like, give me a break.
49:50
What are you gonna put in it?
49:51
And then there was some talk about the Panther chassis, which
49:53
is, you know, your Crown vs.
49:55
Which I think is dumb.
49:56
I think the Crown Vic was fine with the 4.6.
49:58
Yeah.
49:58
It was built for longevity, not for performance.
50:00
Exactly.
50:00
You could get the performance version, which was the mercury marauder,
50:03
which did have the modular motor, uh, make it 300 plus horsepower.
50:07
So quit crying about it.
50:09
If that's not what the car was designed for.
50:10
Some vehicles are designed for certain purposes and they don't need all of that.
50:14
And then one, one that kind of got me here is the cc.
50:17
Yep.
50:17
I thought there was a V six cc.
50:19
Yeah.
50:19
You read that too, right?
50:20
Because I was, I read that and went, did you guys not realize
50:23
it came with a 3.6 liter VR six?
50:26
Hello?
50:27
I don't know.
50:27
That was sort of a stupid nomination there.
50:30
Then there's the, one of all, the ones, the most obvious one outside of all the
50:34
malaise era cars, which there's a reason why those cars got those pathetic engines
50:39
that they had, you know, the gas crisis.
50:41
We've talked about that on what should I buy as before?
50:43
It's the DeLorean.
50:44
Yeah.
50:44
We all know should have got a bigger motor.
50:47
There were reasons for that too.
50:48
So my argument to a lot of this is.
50:51
Some of these cars are old enough now.
50:54
Do the swap.
50:55
Yeah.
50:55
Or they've already been done.
50:56
People putting Hellcat engines and LSS and every, it's Ls swap the world folks.
51:01
If you have the money in the wherewithal, you can take any of these, I hate to
51:05
call them gutless wonders, but they are.
51:07
And turn them into something awesome because that technology,
51:11
those engines that we want them to come with didn't exist until way
51:15
after they were out of production.
51:17
So it was a nice little fluff piece going down that little tangent.
51:21
You know what would be really cool?
51:22
In a DeLorean, what's that?
51:23
A two, Jay-Z, A big turbo.
51:25
Straight six Toyota, two Jay-Z and a DeLorean.
51:27
I don't know that it would fit back there.
51:30
No, I, I don't, I've never seen the back.
51:31
Two Jay Z's pretty long.
51:33
It is the DeLorean's big, but it doesn't have that much space back there.
51:36
Like it'll fit a V eight because the, like a LS is tight, but yeah.
51:40
Uh, in line six, I don't think you're getting it back there.
51:43
Okay, well nevermind then.
51:44
It's a good idea though.
51:45
I like it.
51:45
I mean, you know, we could just cut the back of it off and
51:47
just have it hang out there.
51:48
So it's all good.
51:49
I mean, you could.
51:51
That's an option.
51:51
Alright, well we said we weren't gonna talk about Tesla,
51:57
but this month it's unavoidable.
51:59
We have to talk about this one, right?
52:01
Tanya?
52:01
You know what, we'll talk about the two things.
52:03
We'll talk about the first one, which is a public service announcement To
52:05
those of you out there who have elected for reasons that you can keep to
52:09
yourself about purchasing a cyber truck.
52:12
But if you have, there is a total recall
52:17
on every single cyber truck that's been produced and sold due to.
52:22
Exterior panels, trim pieces in particular that may detach themselves
52:28
from the vehicle at any point in time, including when driving weight savings.
52:32
So please make sure you get into a service station to get that
52:35
fixed before you injure somebody.
52:38
So wait a minute, is there a Tesla service station?
52:40
There is one in that WH and Diesel video.
52:43
I have seen some and there's normally a tremendous amount of
52:46
Teslas parked in the parking lot.
52:48
I don't know what that means.
52:49
Well, the Tesla's not selling them, so they need a place to put 'em.
52:51
So they just park 'em in the service station?
52:53
No, they're recalling them.
52:54
Oh yeah, they're recalling all of them.
52:55
All the ones that they did sell.
52:57
The ones they can't sell, they're just sitting there.
52:59
It's like the Ford F two fifties sitting in mall parking lots and stuff,
53:02
because chips, I think a lot of people are hoping that they're just going
53:05
to stay there when they recall them and maybe crush them or something.
53:09
I think nowadays that might be the case.
53:10
So somebody brought up a good point about that too, is what happens to the cyber
53:14
trucks that have been wrapped or painted?
53:16
Is Tesla gonna pay to have those wraps redone?
53:20
No.
53:20
Those are actually being held together by the wrap, so they're probably more stable.
53:23
Oh, oh, the, the adhesive from the wrap is better than the Elmer's glue that.
53:27
Tesla used originally.
53:29
You got it.
53:30
Moving on from that, there is an interesting article.
53:33
This is so good, that was posted by Electric and it's discussing this
53:37
YouTube video from a former, I think NASA engineer now turned, you know,
53:43
YouTuber as everybody does at a certain point in their life apparently.
53:46
But the point of the video and his assessment was to compare LIDAR
53:52
versus the camera system of a Tesla.
53:55
You guys watch this?
53:56
I did.
53:56
I did.
53:57
Yes.
53:57
So it was 18 minutes long for those, they might be interested.
54:00
The first about eight minutes of it actually had nothing to do with Nope.
54:04
Typical YouTube garbage people stop watching.
54:06
So they didn't actually see what happened because they broke the seven minute mark.
54:10
Yeah, so it was about eight minutes and 30 seconds of nothing to do with the cars.
54:13
It had to do with Lidar technology, but as it was applied to.
54:18
Taking Lidar footage of Space Mountain at Disney World and the Haunted Mansion
54:22
ride, which if you're into that kind of stuff, I found the Haunted Mansion part.
54:26
Interesting.
54:26
'cause I didn't realize how far away the ride actually was to the entrance
54:32
outside of the park fence line.
54:35
At any rate.
54:36
Fast forward about eight minute 30, where he then starts to go into
54:40
a comparison test between a Lidar vehicle and a Tesla model three.
54:44
It was a model Y. They all looked the same, correct?
54:46
It was a model Y. So basically he ran it through six different tests,
54:50
which were pretty interesting, trying to simulate real world events.
54:53
The first test was stationary.
54:55
Dummy of a child in the road.
54:57
Can the lidar see it?
54:59
Can the Tesla camera see it?
55:00
Both the cars were able to see the random child object
55:04
that was standing in the road.
55:05
No problem.
55:06
Then they did the test.
55:07
Of course, the child that shoots out in front of the road from behind another car,
55:11
you know, stimulating that neighborhood experience you might get that is so fake
55:14
because kids don't play outside anymore.
55:16
So that is not a valid use case.
55:19
That was an unrepresentative use case.
55:21
Could be a, a dog.
55:22
I guess that's when they, when they start adding player characters to fours.
55:26
A horizon.
55:26
Yeah.
55:27
There you go.
55:28
And speaking of dogs, if you own an all black dog, please don't let it
55:32
out on the street at six o'clock in the morning when it's dark outside,
55:36
because it's really hard to see when it's standing at the edge of the road.
55:40
Not if you have xito light bulbs.
55:42
I don't think I would've seen it even with those.
55:45
The dog was not harmed.
55:46
It was busy sniffing at a tree.
55:48
Any rate.
55:49
So second test, child running out, both passed it.
55:51
Then it gets interesting.
55:52
They tried to simulate fog or whatever.
55:55
So they had fog machine, da, da, da, lidar, wind, Tesla,
55:59
camera fails, which was awesome.
56:02
And then I knew the next one, it was like rain.
56:05
I was like, this is gonna be exactly the same, which was a deluge of rain that they
56:10
shot like three different fire hoses out.
56:12
Was not representative of a normal rain situation, though
56:16
it could be representative driving through a hurricane.
56:17
Lidar winds, Tesla fails.
56:20
Then they did the xito headlight test.
56:22
Yeah, the xito headlight challenge, which I actually was kind of wondering
56:26
if the Tesla was gonna make it or not.
56:28
But they both passed that test.
56:29
I will say the lidar passed all the tests better.
56:32
I think it stopped sooner.
56:34
It recognized, yes, the object faster than the cameras.
56:37
And then there was the final test.
56:39
So funny, which, oh God.
56:41
Which was, which was the hook kind of on the whole article.
56:45
'cause it's Tesla autopilot drives into Wiley E Coyote, fake road
56:49
wall in camera verse lidar test.
56:51
And they literally set up a fake wall.
56:54
Very much Looney tune styles that blended in with the background of what they were.
56:59
But to the human eye, you instantly could see the guy wires holding this wall up.
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You, you knew that there was a wall there.
57:07
So what do we think happened?
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I know what happens besides what the title says.
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Wiley Coyote hit the wall.
57:15
Wiley Coyote not only hit the wall, went through the wall, it was like
57:19
a styrofoam wall and everything.
57:21
Obviously, he didn't wreck his Tesla for this.
57:23
I mean, it just goes to show the superiority of the Lidar system because.
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As he said in the video, the lidar doesn't care what you had painted on the wall.
57:31
The lidar knows there's something there that shouldn't be there.
57:34
The camera couldn't distinguish that it was fake.
57:38
It just saw, oh, open road.
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It couldn't tell that that was an object Impeding the lane of travel.
57:44
So it blew right through.
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It didn't even hit the brakes.
57:46
Not only that, the lidar could penetrate through stuff, which was part of what
57:49
they were showing even at the night vision where it was picking up things.
57:53
If you notice it was lighting up things on the side of the road because it's lidar.
57:56
Right?
57:56
Right.
57:56
So it's, it's getting that resonance back so it knows where objects
58:00
are, regardless of what's going on.
58:01
So it could have done the Wiley Coyote test in the dark?
58:05
Oh yeah.
58:05
With the headlights off in all the conditions.
58:07
The rain could, you could've done every condition and the lidar would've won.
58:10
Overall, the Tesla would've gone through every time.
58:13
A hundred percent.
58:13
Two points.
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One, didn't Elon say something about Lidar being dumb or stupid, or not
58:19
usable or, or something like that?
58:21
Wasn't he quoted saying something like that?
58:22
They were never gonna use anything but cameras on the Tesla is what
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he, I believe he said, yeah.
58:27
For some reason, I thought he said, like, specifically said something
58:29
about lidar not being good at technology or something like that.
58:33
And two to the Tesla's defense, 90% of the drivers out there in in the world
58:42
would not have been paying attention enough to see that it was a Wiley coyote
58:45
wall and they would've hit it as well.
58:49
I don't, I don't know that that's necessarily, that's probably
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true when you're looking at TikTok instead of driving.
58:54
You probably would've driven through it.
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Yeah.
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I mean, if you're on the road, you're doing about 50 miles an hour.
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I mean, unless your situational awareness is where ours is, I can
59:04
see how Joe Blow soccer dad ends up just driving right through it.
59:08
'cause it was pretty convincing.
59:09
And they did a really good job with the wall.
59:11
I will say, I believe in the early, early days of Tesla, I thought
59:15
they started out with radar, if not a mix of radar and camera.
59:18
And then he basically, I think at some point was like, well, the radar
59:22
technology's not here, so we're gonna go camera, we're gonna double
59:25
down, quadruple down, quintuple down.
59:28
And I think he's so dug in that the cameras are superior.
59:32
He doesn't wanna backtrack, although like what does he care?
59:35
'cause he is happy to backtrack on anything, I think.
59:37
But I don't know what it is that they're so dug into the cameras, but it's
59:41
like, come on the Lidars way superior.
59:44
Can you record Lidar footage and sell it?
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No.
59:49
No.
59:49
You cannot have your Tesla watch your neighbors doing inappropriate
59:54
things for others to be viewing through their front windows.
59:57
From the driveway.
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Correct.
59:59
Inside or correct outside the car.
1:00:01
Do there, but your Tesla is always recording.
1:00:04
Yeah.
1:00:04
It's ridiculous.
1:00:04
And it's doing something with that data.
1:00:06
But the car is using lidar.
1:00:08
I mean, they're not recording the lidar.
1:00:09
No.
1:00:09
It's just, it's live.
1:00:10
It's what?
1:00:11
So I think that's, that's good point.
1:00:12
Think that's one of the reasons.
1:00:13
I mean, it's storing data and data is money.
1:00:16
There you go.
1:00:17
There we have it.
1:00:18
The other thing that came out of this also was some further investigation
1:00:21
about the autopilot system.
1:00:23
And in a situation like this, whether or not it was true or false, that
1:00:28
it disengages and they prove that it disengages right before it figured out
1:00:32
that it was gonna have an accident.
1:00:33
It's too late.
1:00:34
Yeah.
1:00:34
There's been arguments about, oh no, well autopilot, you know,
1:00:37
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:00:38
So I'm like, okay, we're, we're just gonna leave that where it is.
1:00:41
But I think we already know where things stand with respect to autonomous driving.
1:00:45
You can't do it with camera alone.
1:00:46
There's no way you're gonna have access.
1:00:48
You're gonna kill people.
1:00:49
But the thing is, it's not only that, it's the liability on Tesla that
1:00:53
basically they caught it on camera as the system disengaged itself.
1:00:57
So then if you looked at the black box recorder, autopilot wasn't
1:01:02
engaged at the time of the accident.
1:01:04
Now the liability's back on the driver because they weren't
1:01:07
handling the car correctly.
1:01:08
Well yeah, of course.
1:01:09
'cause you were always supposed to have your hands on the wheel.
1:01:11
You're supposed to still be paying attention.
1:01:12
Well, if I had to fucking pay attention and put my hands on
1:01:15
the wheel, then I'll just drive.
1:01:16
Then I might as well be driving the car.
1:01:18
Difficult.
1:01:18
I know.
1:01:18
It's like smart water, which is why autopilot it does not exist.
1:01:22
No, it does not.
1:01:22
And I won't get on my soapbox.
1:01:24
It sounds like the Tesla people say, let go, let God.
1:01:27
The Tesla did the same thing.
1:01:28
You got to the point where it's like, I'm gonna let go.
1:01:30
Let God Jesus take the wheel.
1:01:32
Jesus took the wheel right through the wall.
1:01:33
Well, that's unfortunate.
1:01:35
Lower expectation.
1:01:41
I read this next article and I just said, is this a Daniel thing?
1:01:46
The only thing I could say is, stop buying cars on Facebook.
1:01:48
Marketplace.
1:01:49
I would never buy a car on Facebook.
1:01:51
Marketplace.
1:01:52
I would never buy a car site unseen.
1:01:54
Go put your hands on it.
1:01:55
Go see it.
1:01:56
To verify it.
1:01:56
Do your Carfax.
1:01:57
Like, I know all that stuff is annoying, but you know what?
1:02:00
I don't wanna deal with individual sellers anymore.
1:02:03
I will go to CarMax, I will go to whatever.
1:02:06
I just don't wanna deal with it anymore.
1:02:08
Right.
1:02:09
I don't wanna deal with the hassle.
1:02:10
And I know, Brad, you just sold your car privately and all that.
1:02:12
I'm not trying to say anything.
1:02:14
No, I didn't sell it privately.
1:02:15
Wait, how'd you sell it?
1:02:16
Carvana.
1:02:16
You sold your car on Carvana.
1:02:18
Ooh, they came and picked it up.
1:02:20
Damn.
1:02:20
Just like the commercials.
1:02:21
They came and picked it up.
1:02:23
I didn't wanna deal with tire kickers and all that bullshit.
1:02:25
I just like, you know, and they gave me a good deal.
1:02:27
So I was like, you know what, screw it.
1:02:28
I mean, they gave me more than I paid for it originally, so.
1:02:31
Well, they're gonna just take it to auction.
1:02:32
They're not gonna do anything with it.
1:02:33
Well, exactly.
1:02:34
I, I asked the guy, I was like, this car's destined for auction, isn't it?
1:02:37
And he was like, yeah, I mean, it's too old.
1:02:39
Too many miles.
1:02:40
It's too beat up.
1:02:41
I was honest.
1:02:41
I put it, it's in rough shape.
1:02:43
They're gonna take it.
1:02:43
They're gonna take it straight to auction.
1:02:45
They're not even gonna mess with it.
1:02:46
Yeah.
1:02:46
But whoever gets that car is gonna be lucky.
1:02:48
'cause it does have the United Motorsports triple tune on it.
1:02:51
Nice.
1:02:51
They're lucky.
1:02:52
Unfortunately, this other gentleman who bought a Ram 2,500 from
1:02:57
Facebook marketplace, he is out 28 grand and then he was two weeks
1:03:01
later surrounded by the police.
1:03:03
That took him and his truck away because it turns out the car was stolen.
1:03:07
But he didn't know that red flag.
1:03:09
Number one for me is that it's a 3-year-old Ram 2,500.
1:03:14
So heavy duty for only $28,000.
1:03:17
Right.
1:03:17
That's a red flag to me.
1:03:19
Well, that's why he jumped all over it.
1:03:20
He was like, that's a good deal.
1:03:21
That truck should be easily double that.
1:03:23
I wouldn't pay 28 grand for that truck.
1:03:25
Well, no, but think of the mulch you can haul with that truck, Don ya.
1:03:28
Ah, think of it, that short bed.
1:03:30
The moral to the story is just stay away from Facebook in general.
1:03:33
But that's a whole nother conversation for a different podcast, not this one.
1:03:36
Well, that's unfortunate for that person.
1:03:38
It is.
1:03:38
I feel bad because.
1:03:40
Stuff like that happens all the time.
1:03:41
And, and I bring it up jokingly about Daniel because he's got a story, his
1:03:45
first of three Duallies whole transaction and it disappeared in Texas somewhere.
1:03:50
And I'm like, oh my God, man.
1:03:52
Like it is what it is.
1:03:53
But that's really, really unfortunate.
1:03:54
But do your homework.
1:03:56
At least run the VIN and make sure the car isn't stolen, because I wouldn't want the
1:03:59
poppo showing up somewhere along the line.
1:04:02
Somebody would've flagged it.
1:04:03
You know what I mean?
1:04:04
Like where's the title for the vehicle?
1:04:06
Exactly.
1:04:06
The title would be in the dealership's name.
1:04:08
How was he able to title the vehicle or get plates for it
1:04:11
if he didn't have a title?
1:04:13
So many questions.
1:04:14
This story stinks for some reason.
1:04:16
It does.
1:04:16
It really does.
1:04:17
It's a little fishy.
1:04:18
As we transition into our next segment, I wanna close out lowered expectations
1:04:23
with the rest of the center story.
1:04:25
Did you finish it, Tanya?
1:04:26
Yeah.
1:04:27
So I did finish the Netflix Sena Docudrama series, whatever we wanna call it.
1:04:33
The Shusha love story.
1:04:34
Yeah, Suha love story.
1:04:37
Um.
1:04:37
I did not listen yet, unfortunately, to the podcast review.
1:04:42
So am I giving my comments now or am I waiting till the next time?
1:04:47
I mean, that's up to you.
1:04:48
So I will say cinematically and all that stuff.
1:04:53
I think it was.
1:04:54
Well executed.
1:04:55
It was a good production of a, of a show, of a series.
1:04:58
I mean, his family and everything had, I think, a big hand in the script and,
1:05:02
and the development of and everything.
1:05:03
Right.
1:05:03
I think you can tell that because maybe those that aren't familiar with the Senna
1:05:07
background wouldn't have picked up on it.
1:05:09
Or maybe you would, but there was very much a reverence through the whole thing.
1:05:13
It was almost like it was Jesus Christ on the screen.
1:05:17
Every time you saw him.
1:05:18
It was always this passion of the center.
1:05:24
That's the sequel comes out on Easter, that a Pontius pile and it, it pros
1:05:34
punches pro.
1:05:38
Punches pro sent Christ and punches prost.
1:05:40
Oh my gosh.
1:05:41
No, but there was definitely just like this awe and this reverence
1:05:44
constantly and the way the cameras and everything was was on him and he
1:05:48
was so soft spoken and I don't know.
1:05:49
And he was kind of, I guess.
1:05:51
Softer spoken in real life too, but I don't know him, obviously I never
1:05:55
got to meet him, all that stuff.
1:05:57
Was he really as nice a guy as they portrayed him to be like off the track?
1:06:01
On the track?
1:06:02
I don't think they quite portrayed his, his ego, his red mist, all that
1:06:07
stuff that he think he could be.
1:06:09
I think they glossed over a lot of that.
1:06:11
I don't know if it's true, and you probably talked about it in the
1:06:14
podcast and I'll have to listen, but.
1:06:16
After a while toward the end they portrayed his relationship
1:06:20
with pros to be very chummy.
1:06:22
And I'm like, did this really happen?
1:06:24
They're like, suddenly their B, f, F and it like they were hardcore bros on like
1:06:29
his final day alive and all this stuff.
1:06:31
And he, it was like prot was the last guy he ever spoke to before
1:06:35
he died and all this stuff.
1:06:36
And I'm like, that's like a complete.
1:06:38
Fricking 180 from what we thought the relationship was.
1:06:41
Is that even true?
1:06:43
It's like, was it drama, theatrics, their relationship
1:06:47
and they were actually chummy?
1:06:48
Or is it just we threw the chum in there.
1:06:51
That pro was like, y'all can't make me be the devil here.
1:06:55
You need to listen to the podcast episode.
1:06:57
So I'll answer will be revealed.
1:06:59
That's right.
1:07:00
So we're gonna put a pin in this and next month you'll come to us
1:07:03
and tell us what you thought about the three-way crossover between me.
1:07:07
John Summers, the motoring historian, and William from the Ferrari marketplace.
1:07:10
So you'll have to let us know.
1:07:11
I feel like this should just be a segment for the entire season.
1:07:14
Like we spend like two minutes talking about Tanya's review of
1:07:18
this and the podcast and like we only get two minutes for it.
1:07:21
Tune in next week for whatever else happened with the podcast.
1:07:25
And Tanya, same times, same center channel.
1:07:29
There you go.
1:07:30
We have some rich people.
1:07:31
Fangs sponsored by Garage Style magazine.
1:07:33
'cause after all, what doesn't belong in your garage?
1:07:36
The only really.
1:07:37
Bit of important news here that I wanted to point out.
1:07:39
We got a press release by way of William Met Exotic Car Marketplace.
1:07:43
Concorso Italiano.
1:07:45
One of the main events during Car Week over in Monterey is celebrating its
1:07:49
40th anniversary this year and they've already put tickets on sale to the event.
1:07:54
These big name Car Week events sell out fast.
1:07:57
So if you are headed to Monterey this year and you wanna get in on Concorso,
1:08:01
which is a gorgeous show I attended, the one in 2023, all Italian cars, everything
1:08:05
you can think of, including some gray markets, get your tickets now because
1:08:09
they will not be available if you wait to the week of to go check out Concorso.
1:08:13
So all the details in the show notes, very, very cool stuff.
1:08:16
So Tanya Brad decided that we were gonna rename Florida Man
1:08:21
to at least for this month.
1:08:23
Are you faster than an interceptor?
1:08:28
So it's time we go down south and talk about Roscoe Pico train.
1:08:46
Roscoe p Coltrane.
1:08:48
Apparently Roscoe in North Carolina has just gotten a big upgrade to his vehicle
1:08:53
fleet in the form of a Ford Mustang V eight interceptor, and the title is
1:08:59
Feeling Lucky, and I stopped there.
1:09:04
It's like dirty, hairy.
1:09:05
Make my day punk.
1:09:07
And I said, okay, V eight Mustang.
1:09:10
We're talking high speeds, feeling lucky.
1:09:13
We've all seen cars and coffee, so maybe
1:09:17
feeling like you might get away.
1:09:21
What happens if it's a police interceptor Mustang chasing another Mustang?
1:09:25
So what you do is you go into a parking lot and then you exit the parking lot.
1:09:31
The Mustang's Achilles heel.
1:09:33
Yeah.
1:09:33
Okay.
1:09:34
Yeah, you got it.
1:09:35
See?
1:09:35
See?
1:09:35
Well, that's like that shot on Instagram of all the highway patrol Mustangs at
1:09:39
the parking lot of the police station.
1:09:41
How many of those survived on exit?
1:09:44
But you know, this is not uncommon for the state of North Carolina.
1:09:48
They've, for some reason, always had the fastest cars in the
1:09:52
country as their highway patrol.
1:09:54
They had Camaros back in the day.
1:09:56
They've had Corvettes, they've had all sorts of stuff.
1:09:58
So did Florida.
1:09:59
Yeah.
1:09:59
And so this is not anything new, but to your point, when
1:10:03
he's sitting in the woods.
1:10:04
You might have a minute or two before he catches up with you.
1:10:08
Oh my gosh.
1:10:10
Well, we are gonna go north actually for a hot second, and uh, I have been to Sunday
1:10:16
River in Maine, so this one is an idiot.
1:10:19
You don't sing.
1:10:21
An idiot, Subaru Impreza driver who decided that he was going
1:10:26
to try and drive on a ski slope.
1:10:29
I just wanna know what he was trying to recreate.
1:10:32
Was it the classic eighties commercial from Audi where they
1:10:35
drive the 5,000 up the ski slope?
1:10:37
Or is he trying to recreate the grand tour where they came down the ski slope?
1:10:42
So which one is it?
1:10:43
He didn't get very far from what I could tell.
1:10:46
He basically made it from the little short news clip that they showed.
1:10:50
He didn't make it up anything.
1:10:52
He was basically at the bottom of a green at the start of a lift, hit the lift.
1:10:56
So they say he did like $45,000 of damage to the ski resort, let alone the
1:11:02
damage to his own car, which apparently was a lot of excessive body damage that
1:11:07
they didn't show a picture of his car.
1:11:08
33 years old.
1:11:10
You should know better.
1:11:11
Should you though.
1:11:12
You should.
1:11:13
You know, if it's a 23-year-old, maybe he's originally from Florida,
1:11:18
transplanted up from Florida, you, he's a Florida man transplant.
1:11:21
The Maine doesn't understand how all-wheel drive actually works.
1:11:25
Know ground clearance is important.
1:11:27
You know, not street tires.
1:11:28
Yeah.
1:11:28
'cause basically deep ruts, I mean, just.
1:11:32
Buried it, uh, whatever wasn't idiot.
1:11:34
But that's not how Subaru sells their all-wheel drive systems.
1:11:37
Some giron take their Subarus out to Roush Creek, the off-road park.
1:11:41
Oh my God.
1:11:42
They're lifted.
1:11:42
Foresters, you know, it's, it's a terrible idea, but they do it
1:11:45
because Subaru drivers are special.
1:11:47
Bless their hearts.
1:11:48
Earlier we talked about the new R eight and we talked about bikes, and we talked
1:11:52
about bikes and cars coming together.
1:11:54
I don't even understand what the R eight did to go off the road into a tree.
1:11:59
Everything in this video is dumb, and then I don't understand.
1:12:03
The motorcycle had so much time to see what was happening.
1:12:07
How the fuck did you still run over the debris of the R eight and fall?
1:12:11
I laughed at that because I was like, what are you doing?
1:12:13
I mean, obviously this wasn't staged because why do you wreck
1:12:16
a a hundred thousand dollars car, whatever the RA costs?
1:12:18
What I saw from the R eight was they were booking pretty good because the
1:12:22
video starts and the bike's already doing 90, and the Audi's way ahead of him.
1:12:27
Oh shit.
1:12:28
You're right.
1:12:28
Okay.
1:12:29
Didn't see this pedometer.
1:12:30
Yeah.
1:12:30
Yeah, and then he breaks.
1:12:32
In the middle of the turn at Apex and then the carb gets away from
1:12:36
him and there's no runoff room.
1:12:38
So he just wipes out.
1:12:40
He almost went like straight off.
1:12:41
Yeah, I don't know what tree he hit 'cause there's no tree there anymore.
1:12:44
So he obliterated whatever tree that was.
1:12:47
This is like that F 40 that wrecked like the same thing.
1:12:49
You know we saw that other video, but to your point, the bike, I laughed 'cause
1:12:52
I was like, where were you looking?
1:12:54
There's nobody in the left lane just get outta, you ran over the rear
1:12:57
bumper and then dropped the bike.
1:12:59
Like what are you doing?
1:13:00
Yeah, I don't know.
1:13:01
It's the most bizarre 30 seconds ever.
1:13:04
But again, this is why I. Bikes shouldn't mess with cars on the street
1:13:07
and vice versa because it always ends poorly one way or the other.
1:13:12
And I'd hate to say, you know, go get your jollies off at the track.
1:13:15
But unlike the berg ring, we already know cars and bikes
1:13:18
don't mix, so we don't do that.
1:13:20
You can go to a track day with a bike.
1:13:21
I mean, they have bike track days.
1:13:23
Yes, but this isn't the bike's fault like this all started.
1:13:26
No, the Audi, yeah, the Audi needs to go to the track too.
1:13:28
Going to the junkyard.
1:13:30
We don't know what was happening before.
1:13:32
This is a clip of that guy's video, so we don't know what Yeah.
1:13:35
Ass hattery they were doing up until this point.
1:13:39
And the motorcycle just caught a glimpse right before he nails
1:13:42
the drive axle or the bumper or whatever that was, uh, in the road.
1:13:45
He was doing 25 miles an hour.
1:13:47
So he slowed down from the 90 plus and still hit it.
1:13:52
Oh God, but still hit it.
1:13:54
Well, he was doing Dave's of Thunder.
1:13:55
You're trying to drive through the smoke.
1:13:57
The other driver too.
1:13:58
I'm like, okay, first of all, you shouldn't have
1:14:00
been doing 90 at that curve.
1:14:02
You should not on that road at all.
1:14:04
But also, why are you staying in your lane?
1:14:07
You should have been like cutting.
1:14:09
Yeah.
1:14:09
If you could see around the corner, you apex that corner, you don't
1:14:12
pretend like you're like on a slot car track and try to stay in the lane.
1:14:16
Just because you have a fast car doesn't mean you can drive it.
1:14:18
If you're gonna drive illegally, go full illegal.
1:14:21
Yeah, exactly.
1:14:22
I mean that car is totaled.
1:14:23
Hopefully the passenger wasn't injured and the driver wasn't too fiercely injured.
1:14:27
Alright, now we go back down to Flora.
1:14:31
Actually, I don't, what did, where did that one take place?
1:14:33
Where were we with the R eight?
1:14:35
Did it even say no?
1:14:36
It, I don't think it did.
1:14:38
I don't think it said, we don't know.
1:14:39
We were somewhere where that happened.
1:14:41
We were on earth.
1:14:42
Maybe we don't know where we were, but now we're going to florid.
1:14:45
Oh my.
1:14:46
And you know, we, we haven't had one of these in a while, so we are due
1:14:50
three months into 2025 and we hadn't had a beer fueled stolen ambulance
1:14:56
chase, but here it is, folks.
1:14:59
Oh God.
1:14:59
Bingo.
1:15:01
Bingo.
1:15:01
You got your Florida Bingo card at my card is complete.
1:15:04
Bingo Dodge Dart at NASA Space Flight Center.
1:15:09
We got 'em all now we've checked all the boxes and I don't even
1:15:13
need to say anything else.
1:15:14
I. He steals an ambulance, he's drunk, he goes on a chase, they catch him.
1:15:19
You know, it's typical Saturday night things.
1:15:22
Yes, but what were the cops driving?
1:15:24
That's what's really important.
1:15:25
Now that's what we need to focus on, not the mustang va interceptors.
1:15:30
So what you're saying was he had a chance.
1:15:32
He had a chance.
1:15:34
He had a chance.
1:15:35
So for those of you who are playing Florida, bingo, hopefully one of these
1:15:38
days will have a nice, uh, gator story or hops into the crick to escape the poppo.
1:15:45
Oh, those are my favorite.
1:15:46
And they get naked while they do it too.
1:15:48
It's, it's amazing.
1:15:48
And we also need a good drunken lawnmower chase.
1:15:53
Oh, those are excellent.
1:15:54
Alright, now this last one is less funny than like piss you off a little bit.
1:16:00
So apparently there's some guy down in Texas who is going around and
1:16:05
there's a video, there's a couple like video clicks, short little Instagrams
1:16:09
that you can see of him, quote, test driving these cars and they got
1:16:12
the dealer guy and his passengers.
1:16:13
He's just abusing the F out of these things and I'm like,
1:16:17
why are you doing this first?
1:16:19
It's stupid.
1:16:20
Some of the times he is like on a public road with other people in
1:16:23
traffic just driving like an ass hatt begging to have an accident
1:16:26
like the R eight and like, what are you getting out of this other than
1:16:29
trying to get your Instagram likes up.
1:16:32
Why are you doing this?
1:16:33
Because he saw the Jeff Gordon stage videos from 20 years ago of
1:16:38
the, remember he would go in Yep.
1:16:39
In disguise to the dealerships.
1:16:41
Mm-hmm.
1:16:42
And drive the Camaros.
1:16:42
But that was all produced by gm.
1:16:44
It was all on purpose.
1:16:45
It the Super Bowl commercial or whatever too.
1:16:47
Yeah.
1:16:47
I guess he's trying to do the real relay version of that.
1:16:50
But I mean, he's getting the likes on Instagram, 175,000 views or whatever.
1:16:54
It's funny, they can't catch this guy yet, apparently.
1:16:57
'cause I guess he's using a fake name and then he never shows
1:16:59
his face in any of the videos.
1:17:00
So I don't think they've actually caught the guy yet.
1:17:02
Wouldn't the dealerships have cameras?
1:17:04
Wouldn't they see him?
1:17:05
Isn't that, I don't know.
1:17:07
And don't you have to provide a driver's license?
1:17:09
They don't just give you, unless you have a fake ID and everything lies on it.
1:17:13
I, I have no idea.
1:17:14
Like how you haven't caught this guy yet.
1:17:16
Yeah.
1:17:16
Is confusing.
1:17:18
This could also be BS as well to get people to go into those
1:17:21
dealerships for all you know.
1:17:22
So I have a confession to make.
1:17:25
Uh oh, dashboard confessional.
1:17:27
Yes.
1:17:27
This is my dashboard confessional.
1:17:29
When I was younger, in my twenties or so, one of my hobbies was going to
1:17:34
car dealerships and test driving cars.
1:17:36
Some of them were cars that I was interested in.
1:17:39
Many of them, most of them were cars.
1:17:41
I really was not going to be able to buy, but I wanted to be able to drive
1:17:45
them so I would take them for a drive.
1:17:46
Now they were all normal test drives and you know, it wasn't like I was doing what
1:17:50
this guy was doing, but when I met my friend Andrew, he was working at CarMax,
1:17:55
the first time I ever met him, I went with this other guy and we went to CarMax and
1:17:59
they had a 96 or 98 SVT Cobra on the lot.
1:18:05
And I was like, Hey, can I test drive that?
1:18:06
And he was like, sure.
1:18:07
I mean he, he thought I was a potential buyer.
1:18:09
And so I took it and that one was a little more reckless.
1:18:13
I got the car sideways a couple times, almost did a cars and coffee and yeah.
1:18:17
And now we've been friends for 25 years.
1:18:19
There you go.
1:18:21
What this guy is doing is trash.
1:18:23
Are you sure you did it or did the Mustang actually do it to you?
1:18:26
It might actually be the natural behavior of the Mustang.
1:18:29
It was like the movie Maximum Override, like I was just along
1:18:33
for the ride like everybody else.
1:18:36
Autopilot Pontius pilot took the wheel.
1:18:38
That's what Tesla needs to call it.
1:18:39
It's not autopilot.
1:18:40
It's Pontius Pilot.
1:18:41
Pon pilot.
1:18:45
That's awesome.
1:18:46
Oh, and just like him, the autopilot washes.
1:18:49
Its hands of it by disengaging man, Jesus.
1:18:55
Oh, you can't take the wheel.
1:18:57
That's right.
1:18:58
Oh, Jesus'.
1:19:00
Hands are tied at the moment.
1:19:03
Now we have to go behind the pit wall and talk about motor sports news.
1:19:07
Brad, what did I, what did I what?
1:19:09
What happened?
1:19:09
Guess what?
1:19:09
Guess what?
1:19:10
Guess what?
1:19:10
Um, guess what?
1:19:12
I subjected him to.
1:19:13
You made him watch a race.
1:19:15
I made him listen to it.
1:19:16
It was on the laptop in the garage while we were doing some work.
1:19:19
I had the race playing, so he at least was listening to it,
1:19:22
possibly sometimes seeing it.
1:19:24
So I'm just sitting here waiting for Eric to say, I told you so.
1:19:28
Thank you.
1:19:29
He said it multiple times.
1:19:31
He said it multiple times.
1:19:32
Thank you.
1:19:47
I'm gonna be nice.
1:19:48
Bullshit.
1:19:48
When are you ever nice
1:19:52
flag on the play.
1:19:53
I'm gonna start with Alonzo's.
1:19:55
He was baffled by his unlucky crash that came out of nowhere because
1:19:59
it was the same freaking corner that everybody was trying to cut
1:20:03
in the rain through the sand trap.
1:20:05
And if it worked for the first guy, it must work for the rest of us.
1:20:08
Meanwhile, crash off into the side eating a sandwich.
1:20:12
He's done.
1:20:13
I kept saying it.
1:20:13
I was like, every time somebody came through that turn to that chicane,
1:20:17
I'm like, guys, you know it's raining.
1:20:19
The curbs are slicker than snot and you've got this garbage sand on the
1:20:23
inside, and you saw it happen with Ptri.
1:20:26
He coded his tires.
1:20:27
He made it to the next corner and then he was off because he had zero traction.
1:20:31
After putting it through the sand trap and you're confused by what happened.
1:20:35
This is like racing 1 0 1, driving in the rain.
1:20:38
The rain line is where you have grip.
1:20:41
Also, don't touch the curbs.
1:20:43
No kidding.
1:20:43
Like we learned all this crap in HPDE, like we learned
1:20:47
it all a million years ago.
1:20:48
But again, their Formula One, they are the best drivers in the world.
1:20:51
They need to go back to HBDE.
1:20:52
I think he was surprised by the crash.
1:20:57
Meanwhile, there's all the Instagram videos of Alonzo.
1:21:00
I never wanna speak to the media again.
1:21:02
I have nothing to say to you people.
1:21:04
There's nothing new to talk about.
1:21:05
I am a robot.
1:21:06
Do not interview me anymore.
1:21:09
I'm like, whatever, dude.
1:21:10
Isn't it time freaking retire?
1:21:12
It was a Sunday.
1:21:13
Jesus was busy.
1:21:14
He didn't have time to take the wheel in that case, let's
1:21:17
get to the punchline here.
1:21:19
Okay.
1:21:19
The juiciest part of the episode is about to happen.
1:21:22
Let's get to it.
1:21:23
Hamilton first, race of the season.
1:21:25
McLaren wins.
1:21:26
Lando Norris, P one oh Max for stopping P two because of p's.
1:21:31
Unfortunate slide in the last few laps of the race, as was just mentioned, Russell.
1:21:37
Mercedes.
1:21:37
P three.
1:21:38
Give us the rest of the drivers between Russell Mercedes, the inferior Mercedes.
1:21:43
Mercedes can't develop a car.
1:21:46
Mercedes.
1:21:47
Rookie Driver, Jimmy Antonelli.
1:21:50
Fourth place Uhhuh.
1:21:51
Alex Alvin Williams.
1:21:53
Fifth place Uhhuh.
1:21:54
Lance Stroll.
1:21:55
Aston Martin.
1:21:56
Sixth.
1:21:57
Nico Holberg's.
1:21:58
Kick Solver.
1:21:59
Seventh place O. Okay.
1:22:01
Charles LeClaire Ferrari.
1:22:03
Eighth place.
1:22:04
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
1:22:05
What haven't I heard yet?
1:22:07
Oscar Ptri McLaren.
1:22:09
Ninth Place.
1:22:10
Who should have been second?
1:22:12
Wait, hold on.
1:22:12
We're in ninth place.
1:22:13
We're like almost out of the points at this point.
1:22:16
A two position drop from his qualifying position of eighth Place.
1:22:20
Who was in 10th place?
1:22:21
Who was it again, sir? Lewis Hamilton.
1:22:23
Seven time World Champion, Louis Hamilton.
1:22:25
Oh, okay.
1:22:26
Alright with his debut Grand Prix with Ferrari.
1:22:29
Now I will say a couple things.
1:22:31
One, the Williams team really surprised me.
1:22:33
Science was in P two during practice.
1:22:36
I'm sorry, feel bad that he wrecked himself out on like Lab three,
1:22:41
another one where Jesus was busy.
1:22:43
And then the next thing I'll say,
1:22:48
not today, not today, not today, Carlos Jesus put up a sign and said out to lunch,
1:22:55
it's the time difference in Australia.
1:22:57
He was like, nah, man.
1:22:58
True, true, true.
1:22:59
He was in another part of the world.
1:23:00
I'll also say it was mostly a rain race the whole time.
1:23:04
Pretty much rain races are very unpredictable and a lot of shit happens
1:23:08
and a lot of the grid doesn't turn out like it usually does during a dry race.
1:23:12
So rain races do have a lot of variability flag on the, I can't
1:23:16
even use the referee whistle anymore.
1:23:18
I'm gonna get a vula and be like.
1:23:21
Because isn't Hamilton touted as like one of the rain gods?
1:23:25
Like when the weather gets bad, then Hamilton comes to life and
1:23:30
all this bs.
1:23:32
Maybe in the Mercedes he was, that's the Hamilton of 20 years ago.
1:23:35
Because the Hamilton I saw in Australia in 2025.
1:23:38
Hang it up brother.
1:23:39
You're done.
1:23:40
We'll give him the benefit of a few more races to see how things turn out.
1:23:44
We're gonna make it to the third round and I'm gonna tell you it's
1:23:47
gonna be the same from then on.
1:23:50
He was also having trouble with the team strategy and like understanding
1:23:54
the team strategy and stuff.
1:23:55
It's, I mean, I'm not saying, I'm not saying you're wrong, Ferrari.
1:23:58
Ferrari though.
1:23:59
Yeah.
1:24:00
Ferrari did what Ferrari does in offense or defense, whatever
1:24:03
would be appropriate for here.
1:24:04
They did Ferrari themselves because when it did start raining hard at the
1:24:09
end of the race, everybody else pitted and they stayed out too many laps,
1:24:14
kept trying to go on the hard tires and when they all finally pitted it f
1:24:18
LeClaire, he would've been way higher up based on where he was had he pitted
1:24:21
with everybody else, but they kept them out and they did a typical bullshit
1:24:25
Ferrari strategy of like two years ago.
1:24:27
Yeah.
1:24:28
They looked like they were in the drive through line in McDonald's,
1:24:30
like one car behind the other.
1:24:31
Like what are we doing here?
1:24:32
You know what I mean?
1:24:33
This is ridiculous.
1:24:34
The thing is that strategy, I don't know how to understand,
1:24:37
how you can't understand it.
1:24:38
Like they're gonna tell you to pit and you come pit.
1:24:40
But the strategy behind the wheel, when you're on track, you're driving and you're
1:24:44
supposed to be driving to your limits and pushing past your limits and being the
1:24:48
the God amongst Gods Actually not anymore.
1:24:51
See, because.
1:24:52
They actually tell them not to as the strategy then what
1:24:55
is the point of this anymore?
1:24:57
What I've observed over the last few years of coming back in and
1:25:00
watching it is they go really hard.
1:25:02
Like the first two, three laps, they try to like win at the first corner basically.
1:25:06
And then after the first couple laps, everybody just dials it
1:25:09
back and they go into cruise mode.
1:25:11
It's tire preservation and then they all try to punch it in the last two
1:25:15
laps of the race to win it again.
1:25:16
But no, it's not like 20 years ago where it was like, we're going hard every lap.
1:25:21
12 tenths the whole time.
1:25:23
No, they go like 11 tenths the first laps and then they go seven tenths
1:25:27
for 40 laps out of the race and then they start dialing it back in.
1:25:30
Like they literally, like you can listen to the strategy where they're
1:25:33
like, oh, you know, don't push, don't push, or, or then they'll be
1:25:36
like, okay, it's time to push now.
1:25:37
Can you go faster?
1:25:39
Are they giving birth?
1:25:40
Like what is all this push up?
1:25:42
You know?
1:25:43
Eric, to your point, they don't make drivers like they used to.
1:25:47
Can't all be sna can't we?
1:25:51
Oh, oh,
1:25:55
I, I'm just saying Hamilton wrecked the Ferrari at the test track.
1:26:00
I don't think it's gonna get any better for him.
1:26:02
And I don't wanna hear about how, oh, new team, you guys told me all this stuff.
1:26:07
They'll pull that.
1:26:08
'cause I already saw a thing where it showed his first years in any
1:26:12
of the three teams he's driven in.
1:26:14
He did not win.
1:26:15
So even when he moved to Mercedes the first time, his first year was crap.
1:26:18
He got points, he got some podiums and all that, but he was not one the first time.
1:26:22
And the same thing with like McLaren for the one year that he
1:26:25
did it, I guess, or whatever it was.
1:26:26
And then, so people are gonna say if he has a bad year, they're still gonna
1:26:30
hang it and they're gonna be like, oh, he did it in with the other teams too.
1:26:34
So we're gonna hold out for, you know, next year.
1:26:37
Uhhuh.
1:26:37
Yeah, sure.
1:26:38
Just like every football team.
1:26:39
But the point is.
1:26:41
By that point, he'll be two years older than when he transitioned over.
1:26:46
Oh yeah.
1:26:46
He's aging out of Formula One.
1:26:48
He just needs to stop.
1:26:49
You can't beat Father time.
1:26:50
And it might just be that, you know, reflexes are down
1:26:53
the drive to risk your life.
1:26:55
He's already proven what he needs to prove.
1:26:57
Now the thing is, if he's still got it in him to say he wants to better
1:27:02
Schumacher and not be tied with Schumacher, then he's gotta do it.
1:27:05
But if he can't, then he can't.
1:27:06
It is what it is.
1:27:07
There's plenty of other champions out there that have settled for, I did
1:27:10
what I came to do and I'm done, and what's the point of hanging on and
1:27:14
collecting a paycheck at this point?
1:27:15
Because to come in 10th.
1:27:17
10th.
1:27:17
Well look at Alonzo.
1:27:19
I don't understand what Aston Martin's doing.
1:27:20
Two time World champion coming in back marker.
1:27:23
Well, mid pack, they're like Tom Brady.
1:27:26
It would've been hilarious if Alonzo hadn't wrecked, he would've
1:27:29
finished in front of Hamilton.
1:27:30
But to have Lance Stroll and all these other guys in front of you that we make
1:27:35
fun of all the time, you know, in previous years, you're like, dude, you're done.
1:27:39
Like you're not Haas, but you might as well be.
1:27:41
Well, this weekend is the Chinese Grand Prix, so we'll see what happens there.
1:27:46
We shall see.
1:27:47
Champ, I'm coming over.
1:27:48
We're, which I saw something.
1:27:49
They're having issues with tires, logistics, like
1:27:52
getting tires, BS with tires.
1:27:54
I don't want hear it.
1:28:01
Real quick, WRC News.
1:28:03
I got hit over the head this past weekend.
1:28:05
I wanted to get caught up because we're moving into Kenya
1:28:09
and some of the other rallies.
1:28:10
Red Bull has started geofencing their race coverage, so the first three
1:28:14
rounds are blocked in the United States.
1:28:16
Can't watch Monaco.
1:28:17
Can't watch Sweden.
1:28:18
Can't watch Kenya.
1:28:19
On Red Bull tv, so I am now forced to consider finally moving to WRC
1:28:23
Plus, and then I found out WRC Plus is not available on the Roku Boo.
1:28:28
Did you use A VPN?
1:28:29
You know that's a whole rat hole.
1:28:32
How do you get a Roku to use a VPN?
1:28:34
Figure that out.
1:28:35
Right?
1:28:35
That's the problem.
1:28:35
We gotta put the whole house in A VPN.
1:28:37
Yeah, that's a mess.
1:28:38
Does any rate.
1:28:39
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Welcome again to season six of Break Fix, brought to you by Grin Touring Motorsports
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The month of March was dedicated to the fearless female
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Evening with a legend, the log book, break fix, and of course the drive through.
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Without you.
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None of this would be possible.
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And this is my dashboard confessional.
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And congratulations again on selling your card.
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Combine that with your tax return.
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You might be able to buy thinking a rotisserie chicken from Costco.
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Well, does it cover your cyber truck allotment?
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Hey,
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you didn't make any comments about my hair.
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I'm disappointed you didn't make any comments about my hair, bro.
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Oh, you're looking neat and tidy there, my friend.
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I know.
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I got a, I got a fresh cut.
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A fade.
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Fade.
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He's got all that money in his pocket now.
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'cause he sold his car, you know, he's like, I'm good.
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Rich now.
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Make rain.
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Make rain.
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Uh, no, no, no.
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Alright, go ahead and do the intro.
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See, all he did was he turned on his computer.
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He is just teasing us now.
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That's what it's
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What is that?
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From Halloween.
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Oh, that's right.
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Oh, is it?
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It's a good thing we don't live stream this.
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That would be fun.
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Can you imagine what bothers me about this is that I, I don't get any warning.
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So I'm talking and talking and you guys keep talking over me and I don't
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know if like I should be mad because you're just like ignoring me or if
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you like you just don't hear me.
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And it is the latter.
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Not the former my friend.
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It is, it is that I figured, I figured he's got the touch a touch too much.
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No, he is, she's talking like, uh, Stan Bush.
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She got the pow or the Transformers movie.
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Yeah, I was thinking the ac DC song.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well here we are in the drive through line.
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Me and her cars in front of us, cars in back of us all just waiting to order.
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There's a idiot in a Volvo with his brights on behind me.
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I lean out the window and scream, Hey, what ya trying to do blind me?
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My wife says, maybe we.
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