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Our LA special! Hyundai i20N plus Bentley in Beverly Hills · The Driver's Show

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Speaker 1: It's a very special app this week as we go
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Speaker 1: direct to La to get all the goss on the
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Speaker 1: Megan Fox machine gun Kelli engagement ladies and gentlemen, our
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Speaker 1: Hollywood correspondents, Polly, Oh my good, poorly tell us the latest.
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Speaker 2: Ah, I'm not going to reciprocate with an accent, because
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Speaker 2: my accent's are shit. Ouse.
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Speaker 1: Look at you over in La Live in the LifeStyle's.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful tan on me as well, don't you think?
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you just look like you've put a
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Speaker 1: bunch of soy sauce and a water pistol and gone nuts.
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Speaker 2: I've been eating incredibly unhealthily over here.
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Speaker 1: Have you gotten into the barbecue?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did barbecue last night. I've had in and
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Speaker 2: out too many times, I hoped too many times. I
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Speaker 2: think you're gonna have to roll me onto the plane.
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Speaker 2: It'll be disgusting.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Oh, is that the seven four seven you
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Speaker 1: quite enjoy flying as an engineer on his Instagram page
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Speaker 1: was the best post I've ever seen as an engineer.
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Speaker 1: It's such an honor to be on this plane wearing
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Speaker 1: these sensible slacks. Love you. Here's a deal, right, So
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Speaker 1: Paul gets flown over there for I'm just going by
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Speaker 1: what I know so far for some sort of Bentley convention.
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Speaker 1: Give's the deal. You get flown over there first class.
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Speaker 1: We need to work on your fashion because you posted
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Speaker 1: this photo of yourself in first class as an engineer
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Speaker 1: on A seven four seven, I'm like, what is he doing?
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Speaker 2: What is he doing? I was meant to be going
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Speaker 2: over on a Dreamliner and they switched it out for
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Speaker 2: the A three eighty and I just love that plane,
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Speaker 2: so as an engineer, So yeah, it was fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. You know what else is fascinating? Just when
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Speaker 1: you thought Rivers was going out of business. No, they're
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Speaker 1: not Paul's dress head to toe. Couldn't you have just
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Speaker 1: thrown on the Conics pj's or something.
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny. When I used to live in
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Speaker 2: a bit of a shitty area, I threw a set
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Speaker 2: of business class pajamas out and I went down to
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Speaker 2: our shops like the three or four days after, and
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Speaker 2: there was a dude sitting there like begging for money,
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Speaker 2: wearing the Quantus pajamas that I threw in our bin.
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Speaker 1: And then you bent down as if you were going
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Speaker 1: to give him money, and you just whispered, give those back.
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Speaker 2: Now, I just took the shirt off that. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: You ripped the pants and shirt off him in front
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Speaker 1: of everybody.
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Speaker 2: I will say, though, So I've been over here driving
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Speaker 2: the Bentley Flying Spur hybrid. So here in the States
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Speaker 2: there's huge incentives, especially in California, for hybrids and electric vehicles,
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Speaker 2: and Bentley sells an incredible amount of Continentals and Flying
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Speaker 2: Spurs here, especially in California. Now that they're bringing the
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Speaker 2: hybrid version out. It's a plug in hybrid, which means
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Speaker 2: you've got a little over forty kilometers of driving range,
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Speaker 2: and it's like the epitome of luxury. So it really
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Speaker 2: blends in beautifully down here, and it's just the weirdest dichotomies.
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Speaker 2: We were staying in Beverly Hills and you'll drive a
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Speaker 2: little out of Beverly Hills and you'll pull up to
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Speaker 2: an intersection where and homelessness is out of control in
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles at the moment after the pandemic. You'll pull
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Speaker 2: up to an intersection where you'll have someone begging for money.
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Speaker 2: They'll have a cardboard cut out with something written on it,
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Speaker 2: and at the traffic lights there will be like a
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Speaker 2: may Bark, a G sixty three wagon Ferrari, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: this is just so wrong that you've got a dude
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Speaker 2: asking for money and then you're in this area where
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Speaker 2: someone's driving around in a three or four hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars you may buck. It's it is just the weirdest
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Speaker 2: thing in the world. And I think this is probably
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Speaker 2: like the only place in the world where that happens,
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Speaker 2: where you've got the two extremes of poverty and then
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Speaker 2: just just wealth. It's just so bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got friends living over there and they've never
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Speaker 1: seen the divide so big. I can't remember the name
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Speaker 1: of the street, but you drive for miles and it's
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Speaker 1: literally tense city ten after ten after ten.
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Speaker 2: Yes, skid rows. It used to just be one street
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Speaker 2: in sort of the Los Angeles downtown area that's now
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Speaker 2: become blocks of tents. Now under pretty much every overpass
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Speaker 2: you'll see tent city set up. And I've been coming
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Speaker 2: to the States for two or three times a year
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Speaker 2: for the past five ten years, and I've never seen
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Speaker 2: it this bad. So it is really sad to see.
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Speaker 2: And I know this is a car podcast, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: it is really sad to see. It makes you feel
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Speaker 2: shit driving around in a Bentley that's worth like seven
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. You pull up at the lights and
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Speaker 2: there's some bloke there that that hasn't eaten for a week,
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Speaker 2: begging for money, and it's just a I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you get used to it living here, but
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Speaker 2: to me, it was just a real odd feeling. It
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Speaker 2: just makes you feel really strange about yourself.
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Speaker 1: You did tell me that you got over that after
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Speaker 1: half an hour as you scoffed down a lobster and
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Speaker 1: cavia role.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is this is how ridiculous it is. Like
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Speaker 2: we I needed to get some money out and I
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Speaker 2: had this money. It was just this nightmare of a
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Speaker 2: thing getting money out. And anyway, I said to the
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Speaker 2: hotel concierge, can you just tell me where I can
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Speaker 2: get money out? And he's like, oh, at the right aid,
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Speaker 2: they've got like a money order facility, and he goes,
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Speaker 2: do you need a lift there? And I said, oh, look,
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Speaker 2: that would be amazing. So he says, I'll get our
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Speaker 2: driver to give you a lift, and he pulls up
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Speaker 2: out the front in a rolls Royce ghost and I
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Speaker 2: said oh god, Okay, So I jump in the back
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Speaker 2: and he pulls up at the front of the pharmacy
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Speaker 2: and I get out rolls Royce to get into the sea.
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Speaker 1: It's just like a roll of homeless people to yourself,
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Speaker 1: gold plated condoms, anybody. Wow?
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Speaker 2: So yeah, look look bet Bentley Flying Spur hybrid. Awesome car.
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Speaker 2: The thing I love about it it's got such a
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Speaker 2: clever system. And I don't know why more plug in
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Speaker 2: hybrids don't use this, but it has a hybrid mode
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Speaker 2: and it interacts with the GPS and if you set
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Speaker 2: a location that's you know, five hundred kilometers away or
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Speaker 2: even one hundred and fifty one whatever distance away, what
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Speaker 2: the car is able to do is look at the
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Speaker 2: topography of the route. So for us, we did a
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Speaker 2: drive sort of in through some canyons and down toward Ventura.
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Speaker 2: And what the car was able to do is in
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Speaker 2: situations where it was more efficient to run on the
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Speaker 2: electric motor, it would do that, and then in downhill
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Speaker 2: it would switch the internal combustion engine off and then
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Speaker 2: recharge the battery while it was going downhill using region
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Speaker 2: And the end result is you arrive at your destination
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Speaker 2: with no battery left because you've used the most efficient
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Speaker 2: form of internal combustion engine plus EV drive train to
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Speaker 2: get there. I thought that is a really cool implementation
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Speaker 2: of this technology, which kind of makes sense in a
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Speaker 2: vehicle like this.
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Speaker 1: That is pretty cool. And so when you start, does
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Speaker 1: that mean effectively you're running on no you're running on
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Speaker 1: no juice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you start, the idea is that you
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Speaker 2: fill the battery completely. And what Bentley was saying is
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Speaker 2: that of their owners, something like seventy percent of owners
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Speaker 2: had an EV of some sort, so whether it was
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Speaker 2: a plug in hybrid Bentley or a Tesla or just
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Speaker 2: any other EV. And of those people, ninety seven percent
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Speaker 2: had charging at home. So these are people that have houses.
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Speaker 2: They're obviously not living in a terrace in Sydney or
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Speaker 2: something like that. They've got houses and charging infrastructure. So
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Speaker 2: a lot of these people will charge when they get home,
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Speaker 2: and they will drive to their destination, which is generally
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Speaker 2: not very far away, and it'll be all on electric.
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Speaker 2: You might be switching the engine on. So it's just
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Speaker 2: a really fascinating setup and I think that they've done
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Speaker 2: a good job there in terms of just making it
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Speaker 2: all work.
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Speaker 1: You know, once you get to this sort of elite
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Speaker 1: level of cars, I find that they have their own
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Speaker 1: languide in terms of Larks, in terms of.
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Speaker 2: How they drive.
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Speaker 1: You know, they say nothing drives like a Bentley, Nothing
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Speaker 1: drives like a Rolls. How's the transition been from say,
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Speaker 1: internal combustion Bentley to hybrid you know what I mean? Like,
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Speaker 1: does it still feel like a Bentley?
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Speaker 2: Look Bentley. Bentley's interesting because they don't want to be
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Speaker 2: Rolls Royce, and when you think Rolls Royce you kind
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Speaker 2: of think old person. Bentley is really targeting a younger market,
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Speaker 2: a broader spread of people, to the point where you
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Speaker 2: have fifty nine billion combinations of colors, interior specs, trims,
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Speaker 2: you know, anything you want you can customize on the car,
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Speaker 2: and it means that you can really personalize this and
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Speaker 2: it's unlikely that you'll ever see another Bentley on the
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Speaker 2: road that's configured the exact same as yours. And they've
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Speaker 2: gone down the path with the cabins of just really
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Speaker 2: going to town on luxury and making you feel good
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Speaker 2: whether you're sitting in the front or the back. They've
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Speaker 2: now also gone down the path of eliminating leather. If
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Speaker 2: you don't want it, so you can get a full
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Speaker 2: vegan interior. So yeah, they really have thought about everything here.
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Speaker 2: And I think that Rolls Royce should be worried because
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Speaker 2: Bentley really is now coming with cars that are as
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Speaker 2: luxury as, if not more luxuriers, but just have a
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Speaker 2: different vibe and image to them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon Rolls was a bit slow to the
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Speaker 1: party with that sort of stuff. I heard this really
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Speaker 1: cool story. I don't know if it's true, but pretty
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Speaker 1: much the head the CEO of Rolls Royce was walking
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Speaker 1: into a cafe and saw Rolls out the front with
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Speaker 1: a black grill, black Spirit of Ecstasy, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: a Matt Finish and stuff like that, and he said, wow,
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Speaker 1: how did you get that? Looks fantastic. How did you
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Speaker 1: get this sort of car? And he said, oh, Rolls
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Speaker 1: Royce doesn't do it. This driver obviously had no idea
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Speaker 1: who the guy was. Rolls Royce doesn't do it. So
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Speaker 1: I went out about and saw about getting it myself.
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Speaker 1: And that's pretty much apparently the backstory to how the
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Speaker 1: Black Edition.
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Speaker 2: Came out interesting because they hang their hat on that
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Speaker 2: basically blacking out all the highlights and just really sort
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Speaker 2: of murdering the thing out, and they have to do
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Speaker 2: that because the mographic of their buyers just wants something
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Speaker 2: that's different, but wants everyone to know that it's a
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Speaker 2: Rolls Royce and if you don't give them the option
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Speaker 2: of configuring that, you're just never going to sell them
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Speaker 2: a car. They'll just go to go and buy Bentley instead.
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Speaker 1: There's some amazing roles out there, like now that you can.
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Speaker 1: They have allowed a lot of customizable options and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. There was a black one for sale in
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Speaker 1: Sydney and it was sort of like a gun metal
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Speaker 1: gray there. It was a black addition convertible, completely bright
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Speaker 1: orange interior and they had this line on the outside
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Speaker 1: of the car that was matching the interior, so this
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Speaker 1: kind of hand painted orange line on the outside. I
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Speaker 1: think they valued it. It was up for sale for
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Speaker 1: just on a million bucks and I'm just like, wow,
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Speaker 1: what a what an insane car? I can't see. I mean,
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Speaker 1: to me, that's you wouldn't see an old person driving
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Speaker 1: that sort of car. I mean that would be that
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Speaker 1: would be your wrapper or whoever. But yeah, very cool,
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Speaker 1: I like Paul from Yeah, but yeah, hey we should
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Speaker 1: talk before we talk. I twenty n we should talk
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Speaker 1: a quick bit of car news actually before you before
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Speaker 1: we proceed. Is there anything really interesting that you've seen
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Speaker 1: over there apart from homeless people.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've just seen so much random stuff
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Speaker 2: over here. So I'm driving at the moment outside of
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Speaker 2: the Bentley stuff. The update at F one fifty. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and god, this thing is just a technological masterpiece. And
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Speaker 2: head to my instagram if you want to just see
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Speaker 2: some of the random stuff that it does. But they've
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Speaker 2: got like a seat that will fold completely flat, so
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Speaker 2: you can technically sleep in it if you want to.
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Speaker 2: The gearstick is electric and it moves out of the
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Speaker 2: way so that you can set up a work bench.
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Speaker 2: It even has an onboard generator that allows you to
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Speaker 2: run seven point two kilo wots of energy out the
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Speaker 2: back of it. These things are absolutely remarkable. They're not
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Speaker 2: just a standard work sit anymore.
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Speaker 1: I saw that, and what I loved about it was
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Speaker 1: they're doing stuff that you just don't see in workites
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Speaker 1: and they've really thought about it. Like the load on
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Speaker 1: the of the tray there, Yes, the tech will tell
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Speaker 1: you how much you're loading in and same with the
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Speaker 1: tail lights.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got like four LEDs on the tail lights
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Speaker 2: and as you put more weight in, it just comes
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Speaker 2: up and tells you when you're at your limit. I
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Speaker 2: mean it's so cool, and you know, I just think
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Speaker 2: it's just a really interesting vehicle and you can see
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Speaker 2: why it's the best selling vehicle in the US, like
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Speaker 2: it's for a long time running. They've sold like a
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Speaker 2: million of these a year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to have one as a family, and
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they've come a long way. But god,
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Speaker 1: I hope they really bring the new one out to
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Speaker 1: us because it looks sensational.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And just in terms of other stuff, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: the driving here is just crazy. The speed people drive
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Speaker 2: is just absolutely ridiculous. So it's just interesting to see
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Speaker 2: how little enforcement there is when you've got such a
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Speaker 2: big volume of drivers on the road. It's impossible for
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Speaker 2: them to enforce really anything. And some of the stuff
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Speaker 2: they drive on the road as crazy as well. Like
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Speaker 2: I took a picture of this van that was literally
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Speaker 2: like a meter and a half two meters off the
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Speaker 2: ground and I don't even know how you'd get into
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Speaker 2: this thing, And it's just stuff like that you would
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Speaker 2: never be allowed to drive on the road in Australia.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty cool, Pretty cool. Hey, some big news, kind
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Speaker 1: of some interesting news hitting as this week, which was
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Speaker 1: the Porsche ty Can outselling their infamous iconic nine to eleven.
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Speaker 1: Which did that surprise you? It surprised me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it surprised me as well, like I know that
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Speaker 2: they've sold a lot of Tycons, especially in Australia. In
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Speaker 2: Australia it was the third best selling EV in the
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Speaker 2: country and that was behind the Tesla Model three and
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Speaker 2: the MGSS. Here in La, you see so many Tycons,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of them are the turbo Wes just
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Speaker 2: literally the most money you can spend on one. But globally,
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Speaker 2: Porsche sold just under forty thousand nine to eleven's the ty
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Speaker 2: Can out sold it at forty two, just under forty
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Speaker 2: two thousand Tycans in total. So that's a big bit
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Speaker 2: of news for Porsche because it's it's just signaling change.
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Speaker 2: We know the new mccahn will be full electric, and
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Speaker 2: down the track we'll see Boxer and Canan go electric
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Speaker 2: as well. Obviously, McCann and Cayenne are still the best
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Speaker 2: selling Porsche models because they're SUVs. But when Porsche does
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Speaker 2: an electric suv, I reckon this is going to blow
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Speaker 2: stuff like a Tesla model way out of the water. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it will be more expensive, but it means that you
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Speaker 2: can have a Porsche brand a vehicle that is that
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Speaker 2: is EV powered.
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Speaker 1: You know, when the McCann and the kN entered the scene,
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Speaker 1: I remember there was such an uproar, but in hindsight
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Speaker 1: they were the vehicles that essentially saved Porsche. This is
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Speaker 1: really going to change the game once again. This is
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Speaker 1: an important car for them and I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to take them to new places. I mean, and we're
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Speaker 1: looking at early days for this car really too, and
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Speaker 1: only big things can come from now, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm excited to see what it
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Speaker 2: brings because the Tykon was good, fun to drive, and
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Speaker 2: I think that if they can translate that to McCann
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Speaker 2: as well, that it would be cool. The one thing
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Speaker 2: that Bentley's working on is by twenty twenty five they
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Speaker 2: will have their first EV out and that EV will
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Speaker 2: sit on a brand new platform that I suspect the
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Speaker 2: ty Can will eventually go to. So car companies are
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Speaker 2: now building EV only platforms and I think once that
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Speaker 2: starts happening, and they're not sort of hybrid platforms with
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Speaker 2: internal combustion cars. Once that starts happening, we'll see we'll
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Speaker 2: see a real diversification of the cars you can buy
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Speaker 2: and how good they are. I think that they will
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Speaker 2: simply go to the next level when these guys really
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Speaker 2: get stuck into building EV specific platforms.
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Speaker 1: Do you reckon that Bentley's going to keep a petrol car?
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Speaker 2: Well, they've said that the V sorry, the W twelve
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Speaker 2: will exist up until they kill they kill the internal
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Speaker 2: combustion engine, which is twenty thirty, but it will see
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Speaker 2: transitions within all of their models, will see transitions towards
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Speaker 2: plug in hybrid and then eventually full electric, and then
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Speaker 2: it'll be the end. I mean that there's just no
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Speaker 2: space for this in regulations in Europe, and that's where
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Speaker 2: they sell a lot of these cars. So the second
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Speaker 2: you cut them off at the feet there, it'll just
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Speaker 2: be EV only.
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Speaker 1: Hey, so should we talk twenty Yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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Speaker 3: The twenty twenty two Hyundai I twenty in this pocket
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Speaker 3: rocket only comes in a manual transmission and you can
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Speaker 3: drive it away for just over thirty six thousand dollars,
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Speaker 3: preferably fast.
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Speaker 1: I got a week with the car that I have
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Speaker 1: been looking forward to for a while. I finally got
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Speaker 1: in one.
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Speaker 2: What did you think of I think, Oh, well, no, no,
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Speaker 2: I'll go crazy. Look beauty.
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Speaker 1: Okay, do you know My first impressions of this car
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Speaker 1: was sheese, it's been a while since I've driven a
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Speaker 1: stick shift like it has been a while. It has
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Speaker 1: been a hot minute. And yeah, I missed it driving
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Speaker 1: in in full on, busy Sydney traffic in this thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh geez. It was different, and I gotta be honest,
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Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy it that much. But yeah, look I
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Speaker 1: took I took it for a proper rip around and
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Speaker 1: it probably nearly killed me a few times. But I think,
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Speaker 1: all up, this was a small bag of fun. This car.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting because it's comp is what the Apolo GTI
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Speaker 1: the yeah for fes st. I was going to say,
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Speaker 1: the Toyota G a Yaris.
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Speaker 2: Can you compare technically it is?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Can you compare a four wheel drive to a
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Speaker 1: two wheel drive? I think you definitely can.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean technically it is. It is significantly
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Speaker 2: more expensive, but I mean they sit within the same
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Speaker 2: segment in terms of size and comparatively doing what they do,
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Speaker 2: which is being an entry level hot hatch.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm gonna say I loved it. Here's the thing
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Speaker 1: you look on the outside. It's brilliant what Yanda are
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Speaker 1: doing with their design language. I'm all about that. The folds,
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Speaker 1: the creases, the sort of I don't know, origami. Feel
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Speaker 1: about it if you like very cool eighteen inch black alloys.
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Speaker 1: The red brake calipers look very cool. They totally pop,
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Speaker 1: very body, very strong. You know, it's weird in photos.
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Speaker 1: The exhaust doesn't look that big, but Jesus, when you're
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Speaker 1: behind that car, decent. It is decent and it sounds brilliant,
18:03
Speaker 1: and it's my favorite part of the car, which we'll
18:05
Speaker 1: talk about more in a second. But interior is interior
18:09
Speaker 1: is an interesting one because I think at first glance,
18:12
Speaker 1: it is very simple. The seats are comfortable, you know,
18:16
Speaker 1: they've got enough support. They're plastic y. Parts of it
18:20
Speaker 1: I thought were a bit cheap. It looks good, but
18:23
Speaker 1: it's kind of there's a lot of sort of plasticly
18:27
Speaker 1: tough scratch.
18:29
Speaker 2: The interior looks really cheap, like it's good that they
18:32
Speaker 2: have the two twelve point five or two point two
18:34
Speaker 2: inch screens. But yeah, the rest of it is just
18:38
Speaker 2: this nasty plastic from top to bottom. And you know,
18:41
Speaker 2: it is thirty two four ninety plus on costs, and
18:45
Speaker 2: it's like, guys, let's make this not look as as
18:48
Speaker 2: cheap and cheerful as it actually is.
18:50
Speaker 1: The razzle dazzle is definitely in the tech in this car,
18:52
Speaker 1: like the steering wheel, and yeah, the screens for sure.
18:56
Speaker 1: I kind of thought to myself, you know what, I'd
18:58
Speaker 1: probably throw an extra couple of grand down if they
19:01
Speaker 1: boogied up the interior a little bit, you know, got
19:03
Speaker 1: rid of those much the exterior, right, yeah, you know,
19:07
Speaker 1: and gave it some real kick. I think the I
19:10
Speaker 1: thirty End Sedan or the I thirty Sedan End, which
19:13
Speaker 1: we'll talk about in a future a the seats are
19:17
Speaker 1: probably better in that, you know, with the illuminated n
19:19
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I just kind of thought, yeah, look,
19:21
Speaker 1: it's a very simple, striped back interior. Great. The wow
19:26
Speaker 1: factor is definitely obviously in the tuning and the tech
19:29
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. But what were your
19:32
Speaker 1: first impressions before we talk driving?
19:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look, I reviewed it at the same time
19:37
Speaker 2: as the ConA End. So we had it at the
19:38
Speaker 2: proving ground and yeah, look, I think that I did
19:43
Speaker 2: enjoy it because it weighs twelve hundred kilos, it makes
19:46
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty kiloots of power two seventy five
19:48
Speaker 2: new meters, so it is it is a hoot in
19:50
Speaker 2: terms of those figures. It actually uses a similar engine
19:53
Speaker 2: to the end line version of the I thirty. They
19:56
Speaker 2: just have different turbo charges setup and different suspension compared
20:00
Speaker 2: to the normal Eye twenty, it sits lower as well.
20:03
Speaker 2: We of course don't get the normal Eye twenty in Australia,
20:05
Speaker 2: so this is the performance version. It's got a limited
20:08
Speaker 2: slip differential front, which is good news if you're into
20:10
Speaker 2: your type fun cornering. What I found with this is
20:13
Speaker 2: that you can drive it very quickly, and it's surprising
20:16
Speaker 2: for such a tiny little car how quickly it moves along.
20:19
Speaker 2: And it's really comfortable in and around the city too.
20:21
Speaker 2: With the ConA end it is extremely firm, whereas this
20:23
Speaker 2: has that good balance. Ultimately, though yeah, I was disappointed
20:27
Speaker 2: by that interior. I did love the fact with launch
20:30
Speaker 2: control you can customize the RPM that it launches from,
20:34
Speaker 2: and I just went straight to the maximum five thousand
20:37
Speaker 2: rpm and you literally just dump the clutch and the
20:39
Speaker 2: thing just does this, and the thing does this enormous burnout.
20:44
Speaker 2: It's just a really really cool setup, even the fact
20:46
Speaker 2: that you're getting a little bit more bump on overboost
20:48
Speaker 2: as well. So look from a handling perspective, it's really nice.
20:52
Speaker 2: I think you can do with more sound outside. The
20:56
Speaker 2: sound inside I think is fake through the speakers, but
20:59
Speaker 2: the sound outside I think could just be a little louder,
21:01
Speaker 2: especially when you compare it to things like the I
21:02
Speaker 2: thirty N and the ConA and have cracks and pops
21:05
Speaker 2: and all the emotion. For me, it came down to this.
21:08
Speaker 2: So I found the Ford Fiesta st a little bit
21:12
Speaker 2: more raw and just exciting to drive. And then you've
21:16
Speaker 2: got the Polo GTI, which is the perfect daily because
21:19
Speaker 2: you can get it in a duel clutch automatic as well.
21:22
Speaker 2: So this kind of splits the difference between the two,
21:25
Speaker 2: and I think that it sits in a good little
21:26
Speaker 2: middle ground. Yeah, I just a lot of people raved
21:30
Speaker 2: and raved and raved about it. I just I thought
21:32
Speaker 2: it was fun, but yeah, I just didn't feel that
21:37
Speaker 2: it had the sort of nice daily feel that the
21:39
Speaker 2: Polo GTI has. And then equally, it wasn't as sort
21:42
Speaker 2: of raw and crazy as the Fiesta st was, So
21:45
Speaker 2: I was kind of in that sort of middle space.
21:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad I'm not alone on this one because
21:49
Speaker 1: I was pretty similar. I feel like in terms of
21:52
Speaker 1: the drive with this six speed manual, it's got a
21:55
Speaker 1: lot of grunt to it. It's direct. There is refinement,
21:59
Speaker 1: probably not much as say maybe the Toyota gi Arris,
22:05
Speaker 1: but or a Polo for instance. You know, it's direct.
22:10
Speaker 2: It is very direct. That's a good way to put it.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah. The problem I have is would I want to
22:15
Speaker 1: drive this as a daily No. I think if you're
22:19
Speaker 1: gonna buy this car, you need to one live in
22:22
Speaker 1: an area where you're able to chew up some road
22:25
Speaker 1: every single day, and two, I reckon you're going to
22:28
Speaker 1: need to be able to track it. I don't think
22:29
Speaker 1: there's any point in owning this car if you if
22:31
Speaker 1: you're not gonna bother tracking it. Because it's got amazing tech,
22:34
Speaker 1: it's got it's got like tracks set in there so
22:36
Speaker 1: you can obviously set times and you know, do all
22:39
Speaker 1: sorts of things. There is no point in owning this car.
22:42
Speaker 1: If you're not going to have fun with it, and
22:44
Speaker 1: there is no point if you are going to be
22:46
Speaker 1: sitting in bumper to bumper traffic every day, you won't
22:50
Speaker 1: enjoy it. It would be uncomfortable. I don't know. I
22:52
Speaker 1: kind of like to have a coffee on the way
22:55
Speaker 1: to work and if you're stuck between first and second
22:57
Speaker 1: for thirty forty minutes, it's just a pain in the ass.
23:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. I think that's the that's the
23:03
Speaker 2: point of difference here. But it's just not quite the
23:05
Speaker 2: daily and I think if it's a weekend car for
23:07
Speaker 2: you and you're really sort of going to enjoy track
23:09
Speaker 2: driving as well, fair enough. But if you're not, I
23:12
Speaker 2: just I think there are better options out there. So
23:15
Speaker 2: it did get a lot of rave reviews, and certainly
23:17
Speaker 2: on the track it's good fun. But yeah, if you're
23:20
Speaker 2: going to be doing it daily and track driving, I
23:22
Speaker 2: think it is just worth perhaps looking at other options
23:24
Speaker 2: as well.
23:25
Speaker 1: So that was I twenty end. That was fun. That
23:27
Speaker 1: was a good car. I'd like to know what our
23:31
Speaker 1: listeners think we should review next. I think we should
23:33
Speaker 1: throw it over to the.
23:34
Speaker 2: People, Yes, definitely, Yeah, let us know what you think.
23:37
Speaker 2: What would you like to know more about and we'll
23:41
Speaker 2: see what we can conjure up.
23:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to say whose doors I can kick
23:45
Speaker 1: down and still still.
23:47
Speaker 2: There and get arrested?
23:48
Speaker 1: Still their keys? Yeah, so far what we've done is
23:51
Speaker 1: is kind what we're picking cars I feel like are interesting,
23:56
Speaker 1: the Ionic five, the I twenty n lan Cruise, the
24:00
Speaker 1: three hundred was kind of a big fan boy car,
24:02
Speaker 1: so we went with yart. But do you want us
24:04
Speaker 1: to go more exotic? Do you want us to go
24:07
Speaker 1: more plain? Jane? We could do a key sportage if
24:11
Speaker 1: you want. Oh, kid eating six would.
24:13
Speaker 2: Be fun, Yes, definitely with the Australian open around the corner.
24:17
Speaker 2: I think that would be very fun.
24:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's going on right now. That'll reach you
24:20
Speaker 1: because you're in LA. That'll reach you in about two
24:22
Speaker 1: weeks time. There's a delay.
24:25
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