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Drive Thru News #32 - Static struggles ain’t real #staticlife · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to drive thru episode number 32.
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  This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive
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  motorsport and random car adjacent news.
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  Now, let's pull up to window number one.
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  For some news, just news.
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  Oh shoot, that's left over from season 3.
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  We're in season 4 now, can you believe that?
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  Season 40?
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  Yeah, it feels like season.
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  Feels like season 40 for sure.
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  You know what else it feels like?
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  Like I'm having one of these macho man, Randy Savage kind of.
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  Season four.
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  So I'm like, yeah, brother, Ric Flair in this thing.
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  Like, we really got to come into season four with a bang.
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  Like, right.
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  I mean, God, you feel, you get the energy.
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  I feel it.
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  It's welling up inside me.
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  We've got to get this news out to people in an exciting way.
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  You know, I feel some energy to the energy.
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  I feel is more like NPR.
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  Welcome to drive through episode 32.
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  Tanya's over there.
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  Like, there's just a disturbance in the force.
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  No, these are always like.
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  As my bedtime approaches, so my energy level is not high.
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  You asked way too much for the hour of the day.
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  She's used to being an hour behind in Texas, so she had an extra hour.
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  I know, so nice.
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  That was life changing.
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  Well, let's snap into a drive thru, brother!
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  Jesus Christ.
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  Let's tap into our inner WWE, shall we?
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  Back in my day, it was an F, not an E.
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  But that being said, this month's showcase, we're gonna talk about
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  one of our favorite brands.
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  Probably for the first time as an actual showcase, rather than The next in line,
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  BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche.
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  Is it Porsche or Porsche?
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  There's different schools of thought on that.
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  I've heard the cars of Porsche and the family is Porsche, but I could be wrong.
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  Is that one of those things where you have to own one to know how to pronounce it?
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  Yeah.
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  There's a secret handshake too, because in that case you should know.
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  It's like the in and out menu, right?
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  There's all these secret things about being a Porsche owner.
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  But you know what?
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  Isn't a secret.
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  We talked about this before scout as in international scout, international
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  harvester, which we all thought belonged to Ford forever was bought by Volkswagen.
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  They own all that.
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  And they're coming out with the scout again, but as an EV.
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  So apparently scouts backed by Volkswagen is 2 billion factory.
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  In South Carolina, where did they come up with all this money?
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  Didn't they lose more than that?
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  Like 15 billion during diesel gate?
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  How did they make it all back?
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  How many billions did you get from diesel gate?
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  Cause you had a few of those.
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  Uh, I don't believe it was billions.
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  How many hundreds did you get?
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  I mean, if we counted it in kilobytes, then maybe it was
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  billions, you know what I mean?
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  You count it in yuan or whatever, in Chinese, dirty yin.
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  Two billion pesos.
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  There's a follow on article to this article from TechCrunch from Hagerty.
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  Volkswagen is obviously talking about the Scout plant and what they're investing
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  in it and they're really bullish on bringing this vehicle back and, you know,
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  how it's going to sell in the States because of nostalgia and everything else.
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  But they also talked about how there's this, let's call it gold rush in
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  America right now to build factories, especially for EBS in the United States.
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  And so I'm like, really, where are we building all these factories?
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  Exactly.
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  South Carolina and North Carolina.
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  Not densely populated cities, the whole Eastern seaboard compared to like the
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  Midwest, obviously the big three were building all their factories, like in
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  Ohio and Illinois and places like that.
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  Why not move back to those areas where they almost need it more?
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  Like, I feel like building another plant alongside of BMW and Mercedes
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  and everybody else that's in the Carolinas to include NASCAR.
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  Does that make sense?
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  I mean, it depends on how attractive the local establishment is making
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  it for these companies to come and build these facilities.
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  I mean, in the article here, it says that South Carolina Governor
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  Henry McMaster, classic name, by the way, he's making it a priority
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  to make his state an EV epicenter.
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  And I guarantee you having worked for quasi government agency and being in
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  the business of providing business loans and commercial loans to businesses using
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  state and public funding, there's a ton of incentives to be had out there.
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  It all depends on what the agenda is.
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  Of the local municipality and what they want to do.
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  He's making it an EV epicenter, making that a priority.
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  Then he's going to prioritize state funding, incentivizing
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  companies to come to his state.
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  I'm just curious, the drawbacks to, you know, building a factory, what's
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  the green initiative look like there?
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  How clean is the factory, right?
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  Because it takes certain machinery and tooling and things that already
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  exist today to create these, let's call them quote unquote, clean vehicles.
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  So there's sort of a give and take there.
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  I'm very curious.
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  To see how this pans out.
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  They're claiming 200, 000 EVs a year coming out of the new scout plant.
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  That's exciting because I think it's a cool idea.
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  I love to see these on the road.
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  They're also talking about potentially competing with the Rivians of
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  the world and the Broncos and the Wranglers and things like that.
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  So the price point of this scout is.
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  TBD at this point, I'm hoping they don't price the enthusiasts out of the vehicle.
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  If it's competing in those markets, it's going to be in the 40, 50, 60 range.
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  Yeah.
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  The Rivian, I think is on the higher end of that.
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  So that's the scary part.
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  Like, hopefully they don't reach for that level and they
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  keep it somewhere in between.
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  Yeah.
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  They'll have different levels.
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  I'm sure.
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  And they'll have different sized versions.
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  I'm sure too.
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  They'll probably have like an equivalent to the Bronco sport
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  as well as the actual Bronco.
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  I'm excited.
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  I, I'm all for more off road capable vehicles.
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  You think this is going to be off road capable?
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  That's what it's supposed to be.
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  It's supposed to be rugged.
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  US market with a rugged, oh, electric view.
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  Don't they all say they're rugged?
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  Until you actually take them off the mall parking lot.
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  Yes.
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  So it depends.
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  The Broncos are capable.
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  Wranglers have been proven for decades to be capable.
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  Yes.
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  I believe that if that's the market that they're going for
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  it, Dan will better be rugged.
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  Absolutely.
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  Well, switching gears, maybe they're paying for all this with the new
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  Porsche 911 GT3 RS tribute package.
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  Supposedly honoring the iconic 1973 Carrera RS.
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  What do you guys think?
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  I hate the frunk.
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  Thank you.
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  The frunk lid.
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  Even just the regular base 911.
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  I hate The little grill or whatever.
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  I mean, I'm sure they're functional, the hood vents or the frunk vents.
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  It looks like a Bajoran nose.
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  Oh!
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  There is something really wrong with that hood.
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  I agree with you that scaffolding across the bridge of its nose does remind me
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  now of a Bajoran now that you say that.
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  The bottom half of the bumper.
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  Is reminiscent of the Taycan.
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  It's kind of odd from the front.
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  The rest of the car, I like the livery.
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  I love the green, white, and black.
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  It looks really cool.
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  I do like the green and white, yeah.
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  I don't know how I feel about the spoilers around the wheels.
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  Oh, the canards?
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  Yeah, front and back.
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  Those are interesting.
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  I mean, obviously they're there for a reason.
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  They don't take away and they don't add, because of the other black
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  accents, I don't even notice them right away, and then you pointed
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  them out and obviously they're there.
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  I mean, what's more ostentatious is that rear wing.
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  I mean, good lord, if you couldn't feed a family of twelve on that thing.
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  It is huge!
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  And the weird fender arch, too.
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  The weird cutout.
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  Fender arch thing or whatever.
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  I don't know.
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  It's okay.
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  What I think they're doing is they're borrowing from the IMSA 9 11 in
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  that respect, where it has that sort of cut rear fender and the way
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  the bumpers come off on those cars.
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  So it reminds me of the legitimate GT three cars.
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  So I don't hate it.
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  Right.
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  Does that mean it's mid engine?
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  Uh, you know, but you know what it is manual.
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  It comes with a manual transmission.
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  Oh, so you won't see it on any racetracks then because they
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  don't use manual cars and races.
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  Yeah, I know.
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  Tanya discovered that much to her chagrin.
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  You know what else is disappointing?
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  You might be able to get two of these bargain at 314, 000 after
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  delivery and destination charges.
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  It comes with a watch.
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  So you can tell how quickly you're wasting your money.
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  So the watch is 300, 000 and then the car is 15, 000.
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  The magnesium watch.
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  So yeah, that stuff is all super cool.
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  If you're in the market for that, God bless you.
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  I'm going to be jealous from afar and live vicariously through every lap.
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  You turn at Watkins Glen with one of these things is coming to an HOD event near you.
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  It is cool.
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  Except for that hood in the further down pictures.
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  The car that has the color matched hood, it still looks like a
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  Bajoran, but it's not as hateful.
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  It looks better though.
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  If they would make, just make it all white.
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  Yeah, a hundred percent.
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  It would look nicer.
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  In order to drive your 911 GT3 RS on track, you need to put petrol
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  in it because it's not an EV.
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  And Porsche's got a plan for that, too.
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  Well, what you would put it, it eventually is Porsche's plan to make
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  their own e fuels, whatever that means in terms of it being their own.
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  I mean, hopefully, obviously, if they're partnering with major oil and
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  gas companies to fund, I guess, the process to make the e fuels, I mean,
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  hopefully it's not just a Porsche exclusive or something like that.
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  Right.
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  But there's also other.
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  News that the European Union is looking to legalize e fuels
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  as an alternative to electric.
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  I don't even know what that means because e fuel is still gasoline.
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  So gasoline's legal.
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  Why wouldn't Yeah, it's an oxymoron, right?
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  E fuel be legal.
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  I mean, it becomes an e fuel in the way it's manufactured is far allegedly
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  greener than Um, regular conventional gasoline, the point Eric was making about
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  the EV plants and manufacturing these factories, building EVs isn't necessarily
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  environmentally safe to begin with.
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  I think the point is to be carbon neutral from start to finish, I guess.
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  So whatever they damage, they do, they make up for it on the
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  back end or something like that.
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  I think it's, well, part of it with the plants too is.
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  You need power to run them, the power that you run your plants could
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  also be from sustainable means.
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  So whether that's wind, solar, nuclear, they said that the plant itself is being
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  run by like a single wind turbine or something like that right now, because
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  the E fuel plant is still sort of in the building stages versus, you know, where
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  they claim it's going to be in the future.
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  Yeah, I mean, if they're doing a pilot scale.
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  Plant.
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  They're not making huge quantities of it.
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  I'm sure they could probably have enough power generated
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  from a single wind turbine.
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  And I think part of the real Porsche announcement about them being successful
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  and I think their pilot plant, they're doing it down in South America in
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  an area that's very, very windy.
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  And they chose that on purpose, which is interesting because
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  that area is very, very.
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  Touristy, let's say can be, cause it's like the hub point to
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  some really big major hikes and beautiful landscape and area.
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  So part of me is like, yes, this is very cool.
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  We need to do this.
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  And the other part of me is like, why are you doing it in such a beautiful place?
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  Nobody wants that in their backyard.
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  Right.
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  Which is a classic thing with.
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  You know, all oil refineries and things like that to everybody wants their oil,
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  but they don't want it in their backyard.
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  But I did find it funny as you scroll through this article and they show
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  some of the shots of the beginnings of the plant and one in particular,
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  there's one of the tankers there, but if you pay close attention to the
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  background of the building, you see the Porsche logo, you see Siemens.
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  ExxonMobil, Enel, and a couple other companies on there.
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  And I'm like, there's some big names, obviously putting their logos on
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  the side of this building that are involved in this entire process of
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  creating this quote unquote e fuel.
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  ExxonMobil and Porsche partnered with this already several years ago.
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  They've been in the process of working together to develop this.
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  That's not news.
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  The process that they're using to do it isn't new.
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  I mean, it might be new to the general masses, but it's old tech technically.
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  So good on them if they're able to scale it in a more affordable way now
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  than versus, you know, decades ago, you know, the question is how much will
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  this fuel end up costing you at the end of the day as the consumer, because
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  talked about this in other places, gasoline and diesel are at this point
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  by products of the refining process.
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  It's not.
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  That refineries are just solely making gasoline.
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  You make a ton of different chemicals, if you will, from the process, two of
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  which go into our cars every day or in our planes or the lubricants that go
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  into your engine oils and all that stuff.
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  The asphalt that you drive on the road to the pen that you may or may not use, if
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  you still use paper, all these plastics and stuff in our daily lives are all.
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  Byproducts out of the refining process, you can destroy gasoline molecules
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  down further and use them to do something else, but that's expensive.
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  And most of the equipment on the ground today isn't designed to do that.
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  To go in and retrofit or redesign is very costly.
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  So you get to a certain point where you can only do so much and then
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  suddenly you're spending tons of money.
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  to solve a problem, you know, and that's going to just translate
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  into the cost of things.
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  So what they're doing here as well, they're going about it a different
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  route, but is it cost effective?
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  And we won't know until they start scaling it up.
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  It's great.
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  And we should be looking for alternative means and more.
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  Carbon neutral or greener, whatever you want to call it.
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  Gasoline right now is, I don't know, depending where you are, 3 to 4 a gallon.
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  People are upset about that.
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  Well, what if they come around?
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  They're like, we can have your e fuel.
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  It's 12 a gallon.
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  I don't think anybody's going to go buy it.
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  I mean, not saying that it's going to cost that much.
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  But it's not going to be 12 cents a gallon because it's, Oh, it's green.
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  Right?
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  Well, not only that, if you read this article, the way it's exactly written,
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  it's only designed for nine 11s for more than 700, 000 nine 11s alone.
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  We just completely disenfranchised.
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  Every other Porsche owner on the planet, they are not allowed to have this
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  fuel specially formulated only for the 911, which made me wonder when does
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  Ferrari come out with their fuel and is it going to burn a little hotter?
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  It's going to make the car a little faster, or is it just
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  going to end in disappointment?
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  Like every F1 race, they're going to call it Porosangue.
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  You're going to string along carbon molecules to make octane.
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  It's going to be the same.
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  SSDB, right?
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  Same ship, different bottle.
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  Is that what we're talking about here?
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  Well, and that's.
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  What I'm wondering, Porsche slaps their name on it.
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  Kind of like the formula car they were building.
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  Are you going to get an upcharge for that?
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  I don't know.
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  That's why I'm like, they can't be just for them.
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  They're linking carbon molecules together to make octane.
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  Octane's octane at the end of the day.
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  And beyond that, then everybody puts their additives in this, that, and the other.
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  Shelby power.
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  blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.
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  Right.
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  So are they going to make their own additives too that make it
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  especially Porsche, especially racy?
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  I don't know.
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  Cause I thought it said it will work.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  You don't need a different motor or anything.
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  It's just going to work.
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  Yes.
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  Cause it's octane.
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  The motor doesn't pair as long as it's getting it.
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  If I pour it into my four cylinder turbo and it suddenly sounds like a flat.
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  That's that Porsche ness additive that they add in there.
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  I mean, maybe.
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  I mean, it's great.
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  I love new technology.
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  I love them trying new things.
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  It's just a matter of can it be as affordable as what they're doing now.
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  Since you like new technology so much, I think you have
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  something you'd like to share.
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  Since retro's in still, I think it's still in right?
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  It's still in retro?
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  I think so.
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  Yeah, I think so.
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  I don't think we've moved out of that phase yet.
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  So to continue riding that train, Volkswagen has said that their ID two all
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  model, their names are a little confusing, but the ID two all, which I don't
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  think is coming to the United States.
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  But that electric vehicle that they're going to have in Europe
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  is going to have retro gauge options in the instrument cluster.
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  So you could hearken back to a Mark 1 instrument cluster or a vintage Beetle
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  instrument cluster digitally in your car.
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  There's good and there's bad here.
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  The goods.
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  I don't know if they necessarily outweigh the bads yet.
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  So let's go over the goods.
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  I love the fact that you can have like classic rabbit, Chiraco dashboard.
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  And I'm hoping it has like the weird vacuum buzzer and the shift
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  up light, even though this thing doesn't even basically have a
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  transmission, you know, stuff like that.
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  I think it's all super neat.
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  I believe Ford was doing some of this too with the Mach E.
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  Like you change the dashboard and all that kind of stuff.
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  I think it's a really neat idea.
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  But when you get to the radio, That's where you start to lose me.
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  That was hilarious.
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  The cassette drop in cassette.
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  I'm like, I would have that.
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  Okay.
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  That is cool.
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  1930s Beatle radio.
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  Not a fan of that at all, but it all makes me wonder.
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  How reliable it is, how good it's going to be.
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  It's completely touched.
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  There are no buttons.
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  And I've had some bad experiences with these sorts of things in the past.
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  Yeah, you don't need the buttons.
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  You don't need to worry about that if it's your instrument cluster, because
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  you generally never touch that.
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  Yeah, there's like the pegs to reset mileage or to time clock,
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  but we can do that differently now.
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  But the radio and all that stuff being just a iPad.
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  Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that.
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  And I think neither are some other manufacturers that we're going to
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  get into later, but it was Hyundai.
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  So they're not a fan of it either.
• 17:12
  Cause they said they want to keep going with the tactile buttons and
• 17:17
  all that stuff, because it's unsafe to be floundering around trying to
• 17:21
  figure out what your touchscreen is doing and doesn't touch because it's.
• 17:24
  Not sensitive enough or oversensitive and you're scrolling through 10 pages
• 17:28
  just to turn your radio station window.
• 17:30
  But the Volkswagen has the drop in cassette and the sticky notes and stuff.
• 17:34
  How cool is that?
• 17:35
  I would have the drop in cassette.
• 17:37
  I actually really like the sticky note.
• 17:39
  I don't know why, but I thought the little post it note and the added detail
• 17:42
  of the scotch tape was really cute.
• 17:44
  I don't know, but I agree with Hyundai.
• 17:46
  I am all for the buttons and it's one of the things I enjoy the most
• 17:52
  about the center console on my Jeep.
• 17:53
  The Uconnect for years was rated as one of the best MFI touchscreen systems,
• 17:58
  but it has complete button backups.
• 18:01
  So you don't.
• 18:02
  Have to touch the screen if you don't want to, to make everything work.
• 18:05
  And so I love the idea of the customizability of these setups, but it
• 18:11
  just scares me when something breaks, then it's 75,000 degrees outside and
• 18:15
  you can't turn on the air conditioning.
• 18:16
  So what if it goes obsolete and they're not patching it
• 18:19
  anymore and there's no update.
• 18:21
  Now you're stuck.
• 18:22
  It got stuck on the VW Beetle 1967
• 18:26
  Well, it better radio still.
• 18:27
  It's like your iPad and it says.
• 18:29
  Apple no longer supports this operating system.
• 18:31
  We're uninstalling all your apps.
• 18:32
  You're left with nothing.
• 18:34
  Let's talk about the ID two for a second.
• 18:36
  You said it might not be coming to the United States.
• 18:38
  Well, the ID to all either way.
• 18:41
  I like it.
• 18:42
  It's what the golf should be.
• 18:45
  It's sort of bigger than the polo, but not as big as the limousine
• 18:48
  that we got that is the golf.
• 18:50
  Now it's sort of reminds me of like a Mark four sized.
• 18:53
  Volkswagen, and it's very well proportioned.
• 18:55
  It looks good.
• 18:56
  This interior is cool that they're partnering with it, but bring us that car.
• 19:00
  I think that's the neat thing to have.
• 19:02
  And they probably won't bring it to us.
• 19:04
  Never forget it.
• 19:05
  I feel like if they brought that it would sell better than the golf.
• 19:08
  The golf's too big.
• 19:09
  Going the way the American market has gone with the crossovers and the Honda HRV and
• 19:14
  the Toyota thing that's smaller than a RAV4, it's basically a golf that's lifted.
• 19:18
  That's perfect for what the U S market wants.
• 19:21
  I mean, I'm going to put on my great car neck hat and you know, the whole Johnny
• 19:24
  Carson bit now, and I'm going to tell you that the ninth generation GTI is actually
• 19:28
  a Tiguan, but that's where we're going.
• 19:30
  I mean, to your point, Brad, right.
• 19:31
  They just keep getting bigger and taller.
• 19:33
  And I feel like the days of the classic hatchback are numbered.
• 19:36
  Every time I see a Mark 8 on the road, I'm like, when did it get so big?
• 19:40
  Not on the inside though.
• 19:41
  How does that work?
• 19:42
  Ah, whatever.
• 19:43
  It's funny.
• 19:44
  Cause they say the performance of this is on par with a GTI.
• 19:47
  Really?
• 19:48
  Obviously not fuel economy.
• 19:49
  It only has like a two 80 mile range.
• 19:51
  I imagine the GTI does a little bit better than that.
• 19:54
  Probably not much.
• 19:55
  It's probably in the three hundreds, honestly.
• 19:56
  But if you're getting the same, maybe horsepower zero to 60 that people
• 20:00
  love, that's pretty good for 25, 000.
• 20:03
  Even though we're not getting the ID two, there's a current collaboration
• 20:07
  for another EV coming out and it's a partnership between Volkswagen and Ford.
• 20:12
  It's the Explorer SUV that's going to be built off the VW MEB platform.
• 20:17
  It sort of looks like an ID four, which is obviously the platform that it's built
• 20:21
  on top of, but I kind of like it better.
• 20:23
  It's better proportion.
• 20:24
  It doesn't look like a bad.
• 20:27
  Facelift, you know what I mean?
• 20:28
  Where they take your face and they try to stretch it back to your ears.
• 20:30
  It's just that the ID four has got a weird front end to it that I don't
• 20:34
  understand, but the Explorer being a little bit more blocky, I like the way
• 20:38
  it looks, I'm wondering what Ford is bringing to the table on this particular
• 20:42
  build outside of the aesthetics and the brand, but it's interesting to see two
• 20:47
  of the bigger players coming together.
• 20:49
  And the question is why are they trying to take some market share away from Toyota?
• 20:54
  Are they worried about Tesla?
• 20:55
  What's going on here?
• 20:56
  Why all of a sudden, is there a partnership between Volkswagen and Ford?
• 20:59
  Well, cause Ford in Europe, because this SUV is going to be in Europe.
• 21:02
  It's not going to be the Explorer that eventually comes here.
• 21:05
  Right.
• 21:05
  So it has to be smaller because so far Europeans are still trending smaller, even
• 21:11
  though their cars are getting bigger too.
• 21:12
  Ford in Europe has always.
• 21:14
  sort of had a big presence and a different presence than Ford in America.
• 21:18
  And Ford in America has been very much focused on Merc, the Lightning,
• 21:22
  which is a non suitable platform.
• 21:26
  Yeah, that makes sense.
• 21:26
  For a small SUV.
• 21:28
  And so if they're looking to be quick and get into the market
• 21:30
  fast, then it makes sense.
• 21:33
  I don't know what the relationship is that makes it easy for them to
• 21:35
  partner, but it probably is a very.
• 21:38
  Easy way for them to quickly pump out a small SUV on a chassis that already exists
• 21:44
  versus them spending the time doing it.
• 21:46
  Makes sense.
• 21:46
  Curious to see how that pans out.
• 21:48
  Unfortunately, that might be another vehicle we just never get here.
• 21:51
  Maybe on our next European vacation.
• 21:53
  Right.
• 21:54
  Well, you know, it can't all be sunshine and roses for
• 21:57
  Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi.
• 21:59
  There's some wah wah moments this month.
• 22:02
  Should we give our loyal audience a teaser into what to expect later, maybe
• 22:06
  in Florida Man and Lowered Expectations?
• 22:09
  Sure.
• 22:09
  I love the one that's going to piss everybody off.
• 22:12
  Oh, well, which one's that one?
• 22:14
  Well, I think the title of the article is a little misleading, but
• 22:17
  it says Volkswagen wouldn't help cops find car with abducted child until
• 22:21
  the GPS subscription was restored.
• 22:24
  Now it really wasn't Volkswagen.
• 22:26
  It was a third party vendor that Volkswagen contracts with called Carnet.
• 22:30
  Because they do the vehicle tracking service for the Volkswagen GPS system.
• 22:35
  So Carnet refused to give the information to the police until they
• 22:40
  renewed the subscription for the GPS.
• 22:42
  And how much was that renewal by the way, for a GPS?
• 22:46
  50, which when a child's life is on the line, I would have whipped
• 22:50
  out my personal credit card and been like, let's get this going.
• 22:52
  It depends on the kid and then reported it as a fraudulent charge.
• 22:56
  No, I'm just exactly, you put it on the corporate card and it's
• 23:00
  really funny because there's different ways to look at this.
• 23:02
  I mean.
• 23:03
  Nobody wants to get fired from their job.
• 23:05
  This person's just doing what they're supposed to.
• 23:06
  It's what the script says, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:08
  How can they verify that, you know, this is actually happening?
• 23:12
  I mean, unless the cop is there, you know, that kind of stuff.
• 23:14
  There's a bunch of ways to look at this, justify this, et cetera.
• 23:17
  But then on the other side, it's like, why is the GPS?
• 23:20
  Subscription's so expensive.
• 23:22
  Again, why is it a subscription?
• 23:24
  Why is this even a thing?
• 23:25
  I feel like if this was OnStar in an emergency like this, especially
• 23:30
  dealing with a child, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
• 23:33
  They probably would have just done it.
• 23:35
  Obviously, they're a nationally recognized brand.
• 23:37
  They don't want this to be put out into the public like this.
• 23:40
  Any sort of backlash.
• 23:41
  But then I'm kind of thinking to myself, you know, for 25 bucks, you
• 23:45
  could put an air tag in your car.
• 23:47
  It's not just Volkswagen and whoever Volkswagen is using to partner.
• 23:51
  I don't know what OnStar would do or not do because they're a
• 23:54
  whole other party entity, right?
• 23:56
  Because Toyota behaves the same way.
• 23:58
  So I know someone who had their car stolen.
• 24:00
  They had just recently within a month or two.
• 24:04
  The GPS subscription had lapsed or whatever.
• 24:06
  And they had called Toyota asking, can I get it reestablished
• 24:10
  so that I can find my car?
• 24:11
  And they said, no, they would not.
• 24:12
  They refused.
• 24:13
  I don't know how hard the person tried because I would have
• 24:15
  been like trying really hard.
• 24:17
  I mean, he offered to pay, they still refuse.
• 24:19
  So I don't know how OnStar would react, but it's something in
• 24:22
  the script for these companies.
• 24:23
  And to your point, how do they know someone's not just.
• 24:27
  Bullshitting my car stolen.
• 24:28
  They're standing outside some Rando's car, hoping that they get the one
• 24:31
  person to unlock the doors remotely.
• 24:33
  It needs to be like when Picard would put in the override code, Picard, alpha
• 24:38
  beta Oh three, seven, you know, whatever.
• 24:40
  And then they go, Oh, okay.
• 24:41
  That's the unlock code.
• 24:42
  We're good.
• 24:42
  Like the cops need to have that in a situation like that, get
• 24:45
  your law enforcement involved.
• 24:46
  And maybe they can override.
• 24:48
  These companies and script be damned.
• 24:50
  The bigger concern here is a child was involved kidnapping.
• 24:53
  It's like, come on guys, you're slowing the process down.
• 24:56
  I've had the solution.
• 24:57
  They need to FAA.
• 24:59
  So they needed to like FAA, the police send them a special
• 25:02
  code that they typed in.
• 25:03
  So they knew it was the police.
• 25:05
  And then unlocked it and been like, just send me an invoice.
• 25:09
  Exactly.
• 25:10
  You are a problem solver.
• 25:11
  Excellent work.
• 25:12
  Ah, 150 bucks for GPS.
• 25:14
  Why is it a subscription to begin with?
• 25:16
  I don't understand.
• 25:16
  Why do you need a subscription for heated seats?
• 25:19
  Exactly.
• 25:19
  Why do you need a subscription for any of this bullshit?
• 25:21
  Volkswagen has not stooped to that level yet.
• 25:24
  Yet.
• 25:24
  That is a BMW.
• 25:25
  But they did with the GPS right here.
• 25:27
  Do you know what day is coming up?
• 25:28
  420?
• 25:28
  4 1.
• 25:30
  And what usually happens on 4 1?
• 25:31
  Oh, no, no.
• 25:33
  We get an update on the Corvette SUV.
• 25:35
  No, they're gonna change the name to Volt Wagon again or whatever.
• 25:39
  Oh, we're just kidding.
• 25:40
  We're just kidding.
• 25:41
  We don't know what it'll be this year.
• 25:42
  It'll be exciting.
• 25:43
  We should be on the lookout.
• 25:44
  We'll post that in Discord.
• 25:45
  So if somebody finds out before we do.
• 25:47
  It'll be Volkscription.
• 25:49
  Well, this next one I think is Borderline Florida, man.
• 25:52
  Because.
• 25:53
  I don't get the lifestyle, guys.
• 25:55
  VW Golf slammed so low it can't refuel without taking a wheel off.
• 26:00
  Come on.
• 26:01
  I don't understand the lifestyle either.
• 26:03
  I don't understand how the car moves.
• 26:06
  Well, it doesn't.
• 26:07
  It doesn't have any fuel.
• 26:08
  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
• 26:09
  Ha!
• 26:09
  Ha!
• 26:10
  Ha!
• 26:10
  Ha!
• 26:10
  That's fair.
• 26:11
  That's fair.
• 26:12
  But at least this one in this particular picture, I mean, it looks
• 26:14
  like it's riding on the, the rim.
• 26:16
  I mean, they're so stanced.
• 26:18
  It's like, are you even a millimeter of tread and you're just
• 26:21
  scraping the rim the whole way?
• 26:22
  Like, how does the car even move?
• 26:24
  Dude, that car is parked hard.
• 26:27
  Hard.
• 26:27
  You hit a cigarette button, what?
• 26:29
  I don't know, it's the end of the world?
• 26:30
  You bust a tooth?
• 26:31
  The folks that do it, I don't want to say they do it right, but the way I've seen
• 26:35
  it done is the car is on bags and they can lift it back up so it drives normally.
• 26:41
  It'll still have some stance.
• 26:42
  No, I've read that like, bag life is something different.
• 26:45
  You don't cross the two, I think.
• 26:47
  Bag life is posing.
• 26:48
  Parking hard, baby.
• 26:49
  My question is, how do you get negative 40 degrees of camber like this guy has?
• 26:54
  I mean, where's the shock tower in this car?
• 26:56
  That's what I want to know.
• 26:57
  What's spring perch and shock tower?
• 26:59
  What are these like foreign car parts that you're talking about?
• 27:05
  They don't exist.
• 27:06
  It's just welded to the inside of the fender.
• 27:08
  Basically.
• 27:09
  Yeah, it's just a straight axle.
• 27:11
  Well, I do love the subtitle for this stance can be good until
• 27:16
  it compromises basic safety.
• 27:18
  Yeah.
• 27:18
  Basic safety.
• 27:19
  Any of that.
• 27:20
  Over camber, any of that is compromising safety when you're on a street road.
• 27:26
  Like, I'm sorry, you're not at the track that you need to have
• 27:28
  the camber through the turns.
• 27:30
  But even there, nobody runs this kind of camber.
• 27:33
  No, because you would skid off the track!
• 27:35
  No tractions!
• 27:36
  No grip!
• 27:38
  Them skidder cars.
• 27:39
  Could you imagine the amount of sus Flexion, you would have if you
• 27:43
  had to have this amount of camber.
• 27:45
  Imagine going into the carousel.
• 27:49
  You'd probably obliterate into pieces.
• 27:52
  You would just stop right on it.
• 27:54
  Like it was like a sandbar or something.
• 27:56
  Like it just would beach itself there.
• 27:58
  There's no way you wouldn't make it out of the pit with that kind of stance.
• 28:02
  There's just the funny part is though.
• 28:04
  On this article, I read through some of the commentary.
• 28:08
  That's always the best.
• 28:09
  Oh, it's wonderful.
• 28:10
  So one thing I learned is that the rest of us who don't stance are known as static.
• 28:16
  So it's static struggles that we have.
• 28:19
  What?
• 28:20
  Do you want to like go for it?
• 28:21
  Because my static struggles are going to win.
• 28:25
  Every time.
• 28:26
  The first off ramp and this guy's done.
• 28:29
  I don't have struggles.
• 28:31
  I don't know what that means.
• 28:32
  The other great comment was this guy defending, apparently he's got a shop
• 28:35
  and so he does a lot of stance work and fixing people's cars and all that stuff.
• 28:39
  Because I assume these cars break down all the time, but nonetheless, like,
• 28:42
  seeing someone admit to this, and I quote, Hell, I have one myself that I literally
• 28:47
  replace my subframe every three months.
• 28:51
  What?
• 28:53
  Can you imagine?
• 28:54
  No.
• 28:55
  You're effing up your subframe and having to replace it?
• 28:59
  Every three months.
• 29:00
  I want more information.
• 29:01
  Like is this you drove it three times?
• 29:03
  You drove it every day?
• 29:05
  You drove it once?
• 29:06
  That is beyond comprehension.
• 29:08
  Let me continue because this guy it's all about the love and doing what
• 29:12
  you have to get the look you want.
• 29:14
  It's funny.
• 29:15
  Some people think they only do this for show then raise their car back up.
• 29:19
  That's what airbags are for.
• 29:21
  See?
• 29:22
  See?
• 29:22
  The whole reason of being static is quote, driving it like you park it.
• 29:27
  Oh yeah, I have a slam Chevy Aveo with negative 14 front
• 29:31
  and negative 20 rear camber.
• 29:33
  So us static people just want to drive it like we're parking it.
• 29:36
  No, I want to drive it like I can drive it.
• 29:41
  So if that's the static life, I am 150, 000 percent hashtag static.
• 29:46
  We need some t shirts.
• 29:47
  Hashtag static.
• 29:48
  That's a good idea.
• 29:49
  Static struggles aren't real.
• 29:51
  I'd love somebody to educate me on stance life.
• 29:54
  I'd love to see one of these cars up close, how they're built.
• 29:57
  I can only speculate on the type of engineering involved
• 30:00
  to make this successful.
• 30:02
  You mean buffoonery?
• 30:03
  Well, duct tape was used on this car as the fuel cap.
• 30:08
  Because we know duct tape is not impacted by something
• 30:12
  like gasoline splashing on it.
• 30:14
  But you know, hey, we spent money to have our rear calipers powder coated pink.
• 30:18
  But not The money to have our gas tank filler relocated.
• 30:21
  All jokes aside, I've seen plenty of show cars where things like the
• 30:26
  filler neck are hidden or relocated, but a lot of thought is put into
• 30:30
  those hot rods to make that happen.
• 30:33
  I know one in particular open the trunk and the filler neck is on the inside.
• 30:36
  Yeah, maybe not the best thing with fumes or whatever, but it's a show car.
• 30:40
  It gets trailered to most places, you know.
• 30:42
  It's also parked hard.
• 30:44
  It's super low.
• 30:45
  It's not stanced out like this, but the extra thought was put
• 30:48
  into, Wait, I gotta put gas in it.
• 30:51
  Cause I do have to move it every once in a while.
• 30:53
  I think I know the car you're talking about.
• 30:55
  So say like, this wasn't just a stance show car.
• 30:58
  How would you even pull this on a trailer?
• 31:00
  That's what the bags are for.
• 31:02
  Oh, wait, nevermind.
• 31:03
  But apparently not.
• 31:03
  Hey, you know who doesn't have these struggles?
• 31:06
  Static.
• 31:07
  Static life.
• 31:07
  99 problems and static life ain't one.
• 31:11
  We're living the good life over here, static town.
• 31:13
  High life.
• 31:14
  We need some racing stickers made.
• 31:16
  Who's your sponsor?
• 31:17
  Static.
• 31:18
  Is that stasis?
• 31:19
  No, static.
• 31:20
  Static Motorsports.
• 31:22
  We're renaming the team now.
• 31:24
  Well, folks, we have to move on from Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche
• 31:27
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• 31:32
  com, your source for OEM and performance, Chevy, Ford, and Mopar parts.
• 31:38
  So we kick off with van life.
• 31:40
  Did you see how much camber this van has?
• 31:42
  This thing's wild.
• 31:44
  Maybe three degrees.
• 31:48
  Wait, they didn't put negative 20 on the rear?
• 31:50
  How's it go so fast then?
• 31:51
  I would love to see that GTI go up Pike's Peak like this.
• 31:56
  1973 horsepower Ford super van did is now the record holding
• 32:01
  fastest van on the planet.
• 32:02
  Fastest van.
• 32:03
  Yes.
• 32:04
  Yes.
• 32:04
  As Clarkson Hammond and May used to say on Top Gear, what's
• 32:07
  the fastest car in Europe?
• 32:08
  A Ford Transit van.
• 32:09
  Well, you know what?
• 32:10
  Alice is the fastest van at Pike's Peak.
• 32:12
  You know what's a shame?
• 32:14
  And the first thing I thought of was that we will never see this on the
• 32:18
  Nurburgring driven by Sabine Schmidt.
• 32:22
  She would have had a field day with almost 2000 horsepower.
• 32:25
  Can you imagine this thing coming up in your rearview mirror?
• 32:28
  Yeah.
• 32:29
  The hell.
• 32:30
  Out of the way, you wouldn't see it by the time you saw it behind you.
• 32:33
  It would already be in front of you Dude, this thing is incredible.
• 32:36
  I mean, I love stuff like this.
• 32:38
  This is awesome It's a little skittish looking though It looks like a
• 32:42
  ford gt the back end the with the cutouts for aerodynamics and stuff.
• 32:46
  It's awesome I'm in the market for a van.
• 32:48
  This looks pretty awesome.
• 32:49
  The video is fantastic.
• 32:50
  No, it looks cool But like watching the goodwood video i'm like Man,
• 32:55
  it felt like it was, like, on the cusp of being wildly unstable.
• 32:59
  That's how Eric likes to drive.
• 33:00
  Well, here's the best part.
• 33:01
  This is a legitimate run up the peak.
• 33:03
  It set the record for, obviously, its class.
• 33:06
  It was driven by a three time Le Mans winner who also currently
• 33:09
  holds the Pikes Peak record.
• 33:11
  From 2018 in the Volkswagen IDR.
• 33:15
  It's not like this was just like, Oh, publicity stunt.
• 33:17
  Like this is legit.
• 33:18
  So basically if you want a world record at Pike's peak, you just
• 33:22
  hire this driver to do it for you.
• 33:23
  And do it in a van sliding doors, sliding doors.
• 33:28
  I haven't seen an SUV run up Pike's Peak.
• 33:30
  I want to see the Tesla Semi do it.
• 33:33
  Well, you're going to be waiting a while.
• 33:34
  Okay.
• 33:35
  So it's going to cost you your down payment on your cyber truck.
• 33:38
  I agree with Tanya though.
• 33:39
  It looks very on the cusp of going into the wall.
• 33:43
  Let me put it in perspective for you.
• 33:44
  I know it's not the same company.
• 33:46
  Paint it black and then put a red stripe all the way up to the tail.
• 33:51
  Tell me this isn't the new 18 van.
• 33:55
  It's awesome.
• 33:56
  It's awesome.
• 33:57
  All I request from turn 10 is that this van be put in forza next forza game.
• 34:03
  Turn 10.
• 34:04
  If you're listening, I know you're listening.
• 34:05
  Please, please put this in there.
• 34:07
  Well, you know what else they need to add to the next four is a game.
• 34:10
  And I don't say this often about trucks, but this 2023 GMC
• 34:16
  cyclone that they're proposing.
• 34:18
  Come on, Tanya.
• 34:19
  You don't like trucks.
• 34:20
  This is hot.
• 34:21
  Super cool.
• 34:23
  I don't like the hood.
• 34:24
  What?!
• 34:25
  There's a lot happening on the front.
• 34:28
  Very, very gaudy.
• 34:30
  I hate the hood.
• 34:30
  I feel like y'all just farted in church.
• 34:32
  Like, what are you talking about?
• 34:34
  This thing is incredible!
• 34:36
  This is one of those, like, if I do this I'm like, yeah, I love the rear, the
• 34:41
  tailgate, and the fender flaring there.
• 34:43
  Solid, very boxy, so it's very like old school.
• 34:46
  And then the front, if I did this, and I'm holding up my hand covering the front
• 34:51
  half and now I'm covering up the back half, the front I'm like it's any other
• 34:54
  GMC and there's just a lot of grill there and a lot of hood scooping for no reason.
• 35:00
  Presumably look at that front on shot.
• 35:03
  It's like the fourth or fifth picture down the one just before they have
• 35:06
  the picture of like the autumn leaves and all that kind of stuff.
• 35:09
  Look at that front end.
• 35:11
  It looks just like a happy little Rottweiler.
• 35:14
  It wants to see you.
• 35:15
  It wants to nuzzle you like this truck is.
• 35:18
  Just aggressive, but sort of docile at the same time.
• 35:21
  Like I would drive this truck.
• 35:22
  I would drive the hell out of this truck.
• 35:24
  How can you not say that this is cool?
• 35:26
  I like it from every angle, but the first Brad, come on, Brad.
• 35:30
  You know, in my long term plan is to build a sport truck like this, but.
• 35:34
  It's going to be a lot more understated.
• 35:36
  I do dig the fender flares.
• 35:38
  I like the wide body ness.
• 35:40
  I just don't like that hood.
• 35:41
  I've never been a fan of like the hood scoops on that from the
• 35:44
  GTO to this, to the Trans Am.
• 35:46
  I just, I'm not a fan.
• 35:47
  That's Ram Air, dude.
• 35:49
  Ram Air.
• 35:49
  I understand.
• 35:50
  I understand.
• 35:51
  Personally, I just don't like it aesthetically.
• 35:53
  If it's any consolation, the front of the original Cyclone is
• 35:56
  nothing to write home about either.
• 35:57
  It's pretty boring.
• 35:58
  It's an S10, basically, whatever it is, GMC Sonoma.
• 36:01
  We can't have this truck.
• 36:03
  You know why?
• 36:03
  It's way too static.
• 36:04
  I love it.
• 36:08
  It looks like a 400 higher in the back of that thing.
• 36:10
  Do we know how much it's going to be?
• 36:12
  75, 000.
• 36:13
  That's a bargain.
• 36:14
  It's not actually for sale.
• 36:16
  I don't think that's the price.
• 36:17
  They're not actually building it, are they?
• 36:19
  It's proposed.
• 36:20
  It's a teaser, whatever.
• 36:22
  They're saying zero to 60 in three seconds.
• 36:25
  What's up twin turbos, all sorts of fantasy things that will
• 36:29
  probably never come to fruition.
• 36:31
  But again, make this.
• 36:33
  Take my money!
• 36:34
  Take it now!
• 36:35
  Wow.
• 36:35
  Awesome.
• 36:36
  You can keep all your Zs and all that other stuff.
• 36:38
  This is cool.
• 36:39
  You heard it here first, folks.
• 36:40
  I am voting for a truck.
• 36:42
  All right.
• 36:42
  On that note, you know, we talked about the lap record at Pike's
• 36:46
  Peak with the Ford Supervan.
• 36:48
  Well, Chevy's setting some records too.
• 36:50
  They did a new lightning lap in the Z06.
• 36:53
  It currently holds the LL3 class record.
• 36:56
  Yay.
• 36:57
  What?
• 36:57
  Okay, cool.
• 36:58
  This is the whole thing with car and driver, right?
• 37:01
  They have their test track.
• 37:02
  It's sort of the equivalent to the top gear.
• 37:05
  You know, lightning lap that they would do.
• 37:07
  So car drivers kind of trying to pick up the torch and do the same thing.
• 37:10
  Like, Oh, where does this next car end up on the list?
• 37:13
  You know, that kind of thing.
• 37:14
  Do we go by old lady's house and you know, all that stuff that they were doing.
• 37:17
  I mean, the new Z06 is a phenomenal car.
• 37:19
  It makes a jillion horsepower.
• 37:20
  It's, you know, a watered down version of the race car.
• 37:22
  Okay.
• 37:23
  I didn't expect it to not beat pretty much everything else.
• 37:26
  That's out.
• 37:27
  But you look at some of the things that are on the list and I'm like, okay, the
• 37:30
  Nissan GTR, they stopped making that how long ago the Dodge Viper SRT 10 ACR.
• 37:36
  Well, we know those are still for sale new at every Chrysler dealership that Brad
• 37:39
  looks into, but that's in the same class.
• 37:41
  They stopped making that car seven years ago.
• 37:43
  Oh my God.
• 37:44
  A Mosler.
• 37:45
  Like how old is that?
• 37:46
  This class is sort of weird in the sense that it's like, great.
• 37:50
  The Corvette now has the record against a bunch of cars that are like 10 years.
• 37:54
  It's senior.
• 37:55
  In order to get power into that proposed GMC Cyclone, which we know
• 38:00
  is never coming, GM confirms that a new small block V8 is coming.
• 38:05
  And again, here we go.
• 38:06
  We're talking about electrification, electrification, electrification, and GM's
• 38:10
  working on a sixth generation small block.
• 38:13
  I don't even know what to say.
• 38:14
  I guess maybe I'm like a proud papa.
• 38:16
  Yeah, GM, you go.
• 38:17
  Because we know that Stellantis has bowed out.
• 38:20
  We're not building any more muscle cars.
• 38:22
  Although the electric charger is coming.
• 38:24
  So now GM steps into their role and says, move out of the way, guys, we're
• 38:29
  going to bring you another three 50.
• 38:31
  Well, somebody needs to make internal combustion engines to run those e fuels.
• 38:34
  Will this run on the Porsche fuel?
• 38:36
  Will it be compatible?
• 38:37
  I don't see why not.
• 38:37
  Well, if that wasn't enough, Chevy also unleashed a 1, 004 horsepower Copo
• 38:43
  Camaro listed as a 136, 000 drag racing.
• 38:48
  Weapon.
• 38:49
  I keep seeing that as COPD Camaro.
• 38:51
  You know, what bugs me about this is the same thing we've talked about before.
• 38:55
  632 cubic inches.
• 38:56
  If anybody wants to do the mental gymnastics on that and convert
• 38:59
  it to the metric system, it's 10.
• 39:02
  4 liters out of a naturally aspirated V8.
• 39:04
  I think to myself, 10.
• 39:07
  4 liter V8, and it.
• 39:08
  Only makes a thousand horsepower.
• 39:10
  Well, in the case, when it comes to like trucks and stuff like that, and
• 39:13
  they've got these big motors and they're not producing as much power as a BMW or
• 39:18
  Mercedes with a motor, half the size, I think it's due to, I guess, the longevity
• 39:22
  of the motor and they're tuned in the compression is as such to make it.
• 39:25
  So the vehicles last.
• 39:27
  A long time.
• 39:28
  They're not wind out completely, but this is a drag car.
• 39:31
  The whole point of this thing is to go as fast as possible
• 39:34
  on a short amount of time.
• 39:35
  Why can't they get more power out of it?
• 39:37
  It doesn't make any sense.
• 39:38
  There's that too.
• 39:39
  And is it just a numbers game to say that they have what three
• 39:42
  more horsepower than the demon and they did it without a blower?
• 39:46
  What are you talking about without a blower?
• 39:47
  There's a blower on this thing?
• 39:49
  It says naturally aspirated.
• 39:50
  That's not a Roots type blower on the top.
• 39:52
  It's a Magnuson blower, isn't it?
• 39:53
  No, it says no blow.
• 39:55
  There's something on the top of that motor.
• 39:56
  Is that just air intake?
• 39:58
  Well, then they lied in this article, because it says naturally aspirated.
• 40:01
  So that makes it worse.
• 40:02
  We got to get down to the bottom of this.
• 40:04
  We got to put our sleuthing hats on, because my eyes are telling me that that
• 40:07
  is a fucking supercharger on the top.
• 40:09
  If that's the case That's even worse.
• 40:11
  Yes, you're right.
• 40:12
  The picture does say Magnuson and that probably is a supercharger on top there.
• 40:17
  Although I don't see a way to actuate that.
• 40:19
  I just see a throttle body and an, and a Ram intake.
• 40:22
  So that might just be a Magnuson intake.
• 40:24
  Yeah, maybe.
• 40:25
  Let's say it was supercharged, which the article, I don't think it is.
• 40:29
  That's not great either.
• 40:30
  And you're only making three more horsepower out of this V8.
• 40:33
  And the Hemi is so much smaller in the Demon.
• 40:36
  And even there it's like, okay, great.
• 40:38
  But GM, here you go again, five years too late.
• 40:41
  Dodge already did this.
• 40:42
  Why do we even care?
• 40:43
  Yeah.
• 40:43
  I don't know much about car scoops, but pretty sure that they should not have
• 40:48
  used, unless that's a picture from the old Copo Camaro, they might've just
• 40:53
  taken a picture and thrown it up there.
• 40:55
  You never know.
• 40:55
  Okay.
• 40:56
  Well then if they're going to be in the car industry and they're
• 40:59
  going to write articles about cars.
• 41:00
  So, okay.
• 41:01
  I'm looking at the pictures.
• 41:03
  There's one without a supercharger and then there's one with a supercharger
• 41:06
  and then there's one with a carburetor.
• 41:08
  So what is this?
• 41:10
  What are you doing?
• 41:11
  None of it really matters because as Tanya is going to tell us.
• 41:15
  GM's doing the hokey pokey with the Camaro anyway.
• 41:17
  So all of this is moot.
• 41:19
  We've all heard that the sales aren't great.
• 41:21
  And so they're going to discontinue it.
• 41:23
  And so that sounds like it's official that it will be gone after 2024.
• 41:27
  But a successor is already in the works.
• 41:29
  This is quote, not the end of Camaro's story.
• 41:33
  Is the Camaro going away or not?
• 41:35
  How can it be axed, but still have a story?
• 41:37
  What's the sequel here?
• 41:38
  Is it the Camaro blazer?
• 41:40
  Are we going to badge an SUV with the Camaro name like Mustang?
• 41:43
  Is that going to be the next Camaro?
• 41:46
  Yes.
• 41:47
  I think I just threw up in the back of my throat.
• 41:49
  Why?
• 41:49
  No, this is just like the Corvette SUV thing.
• 41:53
  I'm like, no.
• 41:55
  Badge engineering.
• 41:56
  I mean, why don't we just say we're not going to have 2025.
• 42:01
  model your Camaro, let it be like, we're not making a new one.
• 42:05
  And then eventually in five, 10 years, we'll bring it back because
• 42:09
  what's old is new again, right?
• 42:10
  And the Camaro will be hot as again, what it is, is the pony wars are
• 42:14
  over usher in the donkey trials.
• 42:17
  Cause that's where we're going to end up with a bunch of mules.
• 42:20
  Horrible.
• 42:22
  Well, look for your Camaro SUV starting in 2025.
• 42:25
  Bye bye Camaro in 2025, but the 2024 model year technically starts
• 42:31
  in August, September timeframe.
• 42:33
  So does the Camaro disappear this summer at the turn of the new year?
• 42:38
  Or do we get a whole nother year, a whole nother summer out of the sixth
• 42:42
  gen Camaro before it finally goes away?
• 42:44
  Honestly, I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a Camaro on the road.
• 42:47
  That's true.
• 42:47
  You don't see them that often.
• 42:49
  Maybe everybody's holding onto them.
• 42:50
  They've all turned into garage Queens.
• 42:52
  Who knows?
• 42:52
  Maybe if they are hiding in garages, Ford has an answer to that, especially
• 42:56
  if you don't make your payments, they have patented a self repossessing
• 43:00
  car technology to have their cars drive themselves away, taking another
• 43:06
  job away from hardworking people.
• 43:08
  Alternatively, also the car could drive itself to a junkyard.
• 43:12
  If it costs too much to be repossessed.
• 43:13
  No, are you serious?
• 43:15
  I mean, I guess they could drive it anywhere they want off a cliff.
• 43:18
  I mean, they're not saying that they're going to do this or install
• 43:23
  this software, but apparently they've come up with the technology.
• 43:26
  And so of course they've thrown their patents on it to
• 43:28
  block other people from this.
• 43:30
  I mean, it's inevitable, right?
• 43:31
  Like everything's remotely controlled.
• 43:33
  Well, I know Tesla did this where you could call the car to come to you kind
• 43:37
  of thing, which was reminiscent of 1988 Batman, where he summons the Batmobile
• 43:41
  and it just drives to him wherever he was.
• 43:43
  Well, the Ram does something similar.
• 43:45
  It's got stalker mode and the truck will follow behind you like a puppy.
• 43:49
  Are you serious?
• 43:50
  No, I'm serious.
• 43:51
  Yeah.
• 43:51
  Yeah.
• 43:51
  I learned something new every time we get together.
• 43:53
  I forget what it's called.
• 43:54
  I'm making fun that it's called stalker mode.
• 43:56
  It's something akin to that.
• 43:58
  And it's literally because they expect us to be a construction
• 44:00
  site vehicle, the new Ram EV.
• 44:02
  And so while you're out walking across the site, you can set the
• 44:06
  truck to follow you at a slow speed and hope it doesn't run you over.
• 44:11
  I was going to say, what happens if you trip and fall?
• 44:13
  Does it just plow over top of you?
• 44:15
  If you're going across the construction site and you want your truck to
• 44:18
  go with you, why don't you just.
• 44:21
  We're too good for that now Brad.
• 44:22
  Nobody drives anymore.
• 44:23
  We're like dinosaurs.
• 44:25
  We actually touch our steering wheels I'm gonna spend 80, 000 for
• 44:28
  a truck to have it follow behind me.
• 44:31
  What sense does that make in fairness?
• 44:33
  They could be doing a walk down of something where they need to
• 44:36
  be closer to the equipment But the car could be following down the
• 44:40
  path and meet them the other end.
• 44:42
  You know, what else would work?
• 44:44
  If you park your 85, 000 truck in a safe location where it might not get
• 44:49
  damaged and use the golf cart that's on the construction site to go wherever
• 44:54
  you're going, can you train the truck to roll over and sit and stay too?
• 45:00
  If you're that Hummer driver from last month, you could roll
• 45:02
  it right off on a bankment.
• 45:05
  Yeah, you can teach it to roll over.
• 45:06
  Sorry.
• 45:06
  I digress on Ford's patent to repossess your car remotely.
• 45:10
  Because none of that matters.
• 45:11
  What boggles my mind is that we're wasting the thought energy on this kind
• 45:16
  of shenanigans versus putting it towards.
• 45:19
  It's something else that would be more beneficial to the automotive industry.
• 45:22
  How to protect ourselves from AI.
• 45:24
  That's what we need to do.
• 45:25
  Robot revolution is coming.
• 45:27
  What if you're in the car while it's being repossessed?
• 45:30
  Yeah, I didn't think about that.
• 45:32
  I guess you're going on a joy ride.
• 45:35
  Are you like locked in there?
• 45:36
  Babe, let me out.
• 45:37
  It's like.
• 45:38
  Kid when it would lock the doors and go into pursuit mode, right?
• 45:41
  It's like, boom, done.
• 45:42
  You better pay your bills, people.
• 45:44
  That's all I got to say.
• 45:45
  You can see that follow behind option being good for the cops.
• 45:48
  You know, when they're chasing the guys in Florida on foot on their
• 45:51
  lawnmowers, then the police car could just follow behind the officer
• 45:54
  until they're ready to detain them.
• 45:55
  And then they don't have to walk them all the way back in a drunken stupor
• 45:59
  to the backseat of their Explorer.
• 46:01
  See the trickle effect of this technology?
• 46:03
  It's a lot better to have the car follow them than to just drive it.
• 46:07
  Well, we're going to switch to Asian domestic news, as we like
• 46:10
  to call it, that encompasses our Japanese brands, Koreans, and others.
• 46:15
  I thought this next bit was pretty shocking, if I do say so myself.
• 46:19
  It's a bit of a turn.
• 46:21
  So it says Toyota CEO says that quote, silent majority of auto
• 46:25
  industry is doubting EV only future.
• 46:29
  Which is interesting because Porsche said it's not abandoning its ice engines.
• 46:32
  Right.
• 46:32
  And they're sticking their money where their mouth is because they're
• 46:35
  developing e fuels and partnering with left, right, and center to do that.
• 46:38
  But I also thought I read something recently that BMW has turned about face
• 46:43
  and said that they are going to also keep investing in internal combustion engines.
• 46:49
  So the pendulum is swinging back to some degree because it's not the panacea
• 46:55
  we all thought it was going to be.
• 46:57
  Maybe just maybe if only the governments would get on board with reality.
• 47:02
  Yeah, no, they're too busy trying to ban state by state, the sale of new
• 47:05
  petrol cars and craziness like that.
• 47:07
  And coming from Toyota, this could be a misleading headline
• 47:11
  because we're taking it.
• 47:12
  We're assuming, Oh, EV only future.
• 47:15
  You don't believe that.
• 47:15
  So that means.
• 47:16
  Ice engine.
• 47:17
  Well, Toyota has hybrids.
• 47:18
  Toyota has hydrogen engines, right?
• 47:21
  Those are all non EV only.
• 47:23
  So what are they really talking about here?
• 47:25
  Are they just talking about a future where you have multiple options and
• 47:28
  a mixed bag and you have proper use cases for For the different technology,
• 47:33
  which I think is appropriate.
• 47:34
  There's no one size fits all, and there's no one solution for everybody.
• 47:38
  Think you need different types for different markets.
• 47:42
  I agree.
• 47:42
  If you look at Toyota's lineup right now, do they actually have a.
• 47:47
  Full EV or is it mostly hybrids?
• 47:50
  They're all hybrid.
• 47:51
  I don't think they have a full EV at all.
• 47:53
  It doesn't sound like they even plan on producing one.
• 47:55
  No, because the BZ4X I believe is all electric and that's kind of like RAV4 ish.
• 48:03
  So another one of these compact crossover mini SUV thingies.
• 48:06
  I guess we'll see how it all plays out.
• 48:08
  Maybe that about face that you're talking about, Tanya, which we've all sort of
• 48:12
  suspected at the end of the day was probably going to happen anyway, when
• 48:15
  they can't harvest any more lithium or whatever else, maybe it is a stall tactic
• 48:20
  to develop a synthetic fuel to come up with an alternative hybrid to come up with
• 48:24
  hydrogen that's stable at room temperature and, you know, non volatile and God knows
• 48:28
  what else, you know, all these things that are being developed out there and somebody
• 48:31
  has got to be first to market right now.
• 48:33
  I think the easy button is EV.
• 48:36
  And I've been thinking that for a while, right?
• 48:37
  It's like, Oh, well, it's like a remote control car.
• 48:39
  Throw some batteries in it, runs till they run out, puts new batteries in it.
• 48:42
  Keep running it.
• 48:43
  If it was that simple.
• 48:44
  Yes, but these other technologies are still being developed.
• 48:48
  There are a lot longer term, more positive solution, especially some of the
• 48:52
  hydrogen solutions that are out there.
• 48:54
  I think I'm with the silent majority on this one.
• 48:56
  I don't think EV only is the future.
• 48:59
  I think.
• 49:00
  Like you've said many times before, there is room for all
• 49:03
  different types of drivetrains and power plants in this ecosystem.
• 49:07
  It's just a matter of which one you're more comfortable
• 49:10
  with at the end of the day.
• 49:11
  I think you'll like this one since you were so excited about the The N75?
• 49:15
  N74.
• 49:17
  Vision!
• 49:17
  No, but even the other end, the EV6 end or whatever.
• 49:20
  Oh, the Saab?
• 49:21
  The car shows, like the Encona, were super cool.
• 49:24
  Well, everyone liked the Ioniq 5.
• 49:27
  Oh, no, don't tell me.
• 49:29
  Won't you like an Ioniq 5N even better?
• 49:32
  Yes, I would.
• 49:33
  That's Awesome.
• 49:36
  So it's still in camo mode, so they haven't fully released kind
• 49:39
  of how they'll tweak the body and all that stuff, but apparently
• 49:42
  it's going to have like drift mode.
• 49:44
  That's awesome.
• 49:45
  Now the question becomes, when is Terry Neuville going to drive one of these
• 49:49
  and complain about it on the WRC stage?
• 49:51
  They don't have a lot of information on it though, because it's
• 49:54
  still kind of in development.
• 49:56
  They are saying it should be around 600 horsepower.
• 49:59
  What?
• 50:00
  That's awesome.
• 50:02
  That'll be really interesting to see how that all lines out.
• 50:06
  Now since we're talking about the Ioniq 5, I shared a photo with you
• 50:09
  guys in our JDM channel on Discord.
• 50:13
  Is that actually the way the rear hatch of the Ioniq opens.
• 50:18
  Please tell me that's actually a broken car.
• 50:20
  I've never seen the trunk open on one of those.
• 50:23
  I was not aware that it slides up over the roof.
• 50:27
  That is bizarre.
• 50:29
  This is a question I have, like, why reinvent the wheel?
• 50:32
  I mean, what was wrong with two little air shocks and a hinge?
• 50:35
  Now you're making the rear hatch slide up over a glass roof?
• 50:39
  I mean, it could still be a hinge mechanism that lifts and unfolds.
• 50:45
  The arms back down on itself and then come to a stopping point on the roof.
• 50:48
  I guess it's hard to tell what the mechanism is from the photo, but yes, at
• 50:53
  the end of the day, we don't need laser beams for windshield wipers case in point.
• 50:57
  Okay.
• 50:57
  But let's just say I'm the type of person that likes to have like a tool roof rack.
• 51:03
  And I want to put some extra camping gear in there because not everything
• 51:06
  fits in my Ioniq 5 because I have two extra passengers with me.
• 51:10
  How exactly does one get to the beer cooler in the trunk
• 51:14
  with the tool roof rack on?
• 51:16
  You don't.
• 51:17
  Oh, okay.
• 51:18
  But I also believe that there's something bizarre about that photo because I think
• 51:23
  in a quick search of Ioniq 5 trunk.
• 51:26
  They all live normally.
• 51:27
  So I do not know what the heck that person maybe modified it.
• 51:32
  Oh, I see.
• 51:32
  We get the static version.
• 51:34
  That's the trunk that opens normally.
• 51:36
  That's a stance trunk right there.
• 51:38
  When you, when you put 27 degrees of camber on that thing, you need
• 51:42
  the trunk to go up over the roof.
• 51:44
  So that's special.
• 51:45
  Well, speaking of.
• 51:47
  Not understanding.
• 51:48
  I feel like the EV market is constantly changing.
• 51:52
  Every time we turn around, they're talking about shifting the dates
• 51:56
  as to when petrol cars be banned.
• 51:58
  States are talking about banning on a local level, whether or not
• 52:01
  petrol cars can even be sold.
• 52:03
  How does this affect the used car market?
• 52:04
  We know the prices on bring a trailer are already astronomical.
• 52:07
  It's absolutely insane.
• 52:09
  But there might be a little bit of hope for all of us.
• 52:12
  There was a new bill introduced in the U.
• 52:13
  S.
• 52:14
  House of Representatives to prevent The ban of ICE powered vehicles.
• 52:19
  It's headed up by Pennsylvania Republican John Joyce.
• 52:23
  He introduced House of Representatives Bill 1435, and it's titled Preserving
• 52:28
  the Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act.
• 52:31
  And the bill is designed to protect Americans rights to choose the technology
• 52:34
  that powers their motor vehicles.
• 52:36
  It was introduced in response to the CARB, or the California Air Resources
• 52:40
  Board's plan to ban the sale of new internal combustion engines by 2035.
• 52:45
  And there's a lot of other states that are following suit.
• 52:47
  I say right on!
• 52:48
  I don't see why the government should be dictating what kind of cars we buy.
• 52:53
  You vote with your wallet.
• 52:54
  As people say, if you want to buy EV, buy an EV.
• 52:56
  If you want to buy a carbureted car, buy a carbureted car.
• 52:59
  I don't have a problem with it, but I'm glad that somebody's doing something
• 53:02
  about it and you can learn more about it.
• 53:04
  On the performance racing industry's website in conjunction with SEMA.
• 53:09
  So you can get a performance racing.
• 53:11
  com to check it out or check the link in our show notes to learn
• 53:14
  more about this new bill that hit the house floor on March the 14th.
• 53:18
  What did you learn about the insurance companies and
• 53:21
  electric vehicles there, Tanya?
• 53:23
  Well, it sounds kind of scary because they're basically saying
• 53:26
  some pretty minor vendor vendors.
• 53:28
  Can basically just total your car.
• 53:30
  Meaning what would have been minor and repairable on a traditional
• 53:35
  powered vehicle is suddenly a big issue because you do not fully
• 53:39
  understand whether or not the batteries have been compromised in any way.
• 53:44
  Which is obviously very dangerous because you don't want a situation
• 53:47
  where suddenly they burst into flames or another small impact creates an issue.
• 53:51
  So that's a problem.
• 53:53
  These cars getting into fender benders and then just basically being written
• 53:56
  off and ending up in scrap yards.
• 53:57
  And now this toll was supposed to be super good and helpful to the environment.
• 54:02
  And you got all this waste.
• 54:04
  Not to say that ice engines don't end up as waste in junkyards too, but
• 54:08
  there's far less precious metals that were harvested and put into them.
• 54:13
  The more disturbing thing reading through this was around the, in general,
• 54:17
  insurance and premiums and things like that, because it sounded like, well,
• 54:21
  here's another reason why the rest of us have higher insurance premiums is because
• 54:26
  there's people driving around in EVs that nobody knows what to do with them.
• 54:31
  Nobody knows really how the insurance breakdowns work.
• 54:34
  And are they really being scrapped when they shouldn't be?
• 54:37
  And it.
• 54:38
  That's just higher cost and this, that, and the other.
• 54:40
  I'm like, you know what?
• 54:41
  Then I'm glad Tesla has its own insurance.
• 54:42
  Y'all go figure that out yourselves and don't make me pay more
• 54:46
  just because you have an EV.
• 54:47
  It goes back to sort of the legislation part of the conversation.
• 54:50
  What I'd like to see happen is maybe some legislation passed to force the insurance
• 54:56
  companies to separate the rates between the ICE folks and the EV folks, because
• 55:01
  I don't want to pay for their issues.
• 55:05
  Because I'm still driving an ice car and I get it.
• 55:08
  If you get a small scratch on these batteries and you got to total the car,
• 55:11
  it's like the clamshell on a Lotus Elise.
• 55:13
  You get the slightest ding in it and they total the whole car
• 55:17
  because of the way it's made.
• 55:18
  And we shouldn't be beholden to that.
• 55:20
  I get it.
• 55:21
  The bills are high.
• 55:22
  You know, you've got to write off an 85, 000 EV.
• 55:25
  Well, something's got to give here.
• 55:26
  That's not my fault.
• 55:27
  I didn't make you go buy that 85, 000 car.
• 55:29
  Exactly.
• 55:30
  But then again, why are these?
• 55:32
  Things 85, 000.
• 55:33
  Like you've created this whole weird ecosystem, but then it's all
• 55:38
  disproportionate now because what happens when the Tesla hits me and
• 55:42
  weighs five, 6, 000 pounds and comes at my less than 3000 pound Volkswagen,
• 55:48
  like a torpedo and crushes it.
• 55:50
  I'm not going to get Jack.
• 55:52
  They're going to end up totaling the Tesla because of unforeseen damage to
• 55:55
  the batteries and all that kind of thing.
• 55:56
  But I walk away with what my premiums are not commiserate.
• 56:00
  To the type of payout that they're going to receive.
• 56:02
  So in my mind, it's like you total my car.
• 56:05
  You're going to give me 50 bucks.
• 56:06
  It's always been that way.
• 56:07
  I don't ever see it as fair.
• 56:09
  We pay all this money into these insurance systems.
• 56:12
  You're actually need the money, which is supposed to help you
• 56:15
  either fix or buy a new car.
• 56:17
  They're like, You can't have your money.
• 56:19
  What are you talking?
• 56:20
  We're not going to give you anything.
• 56:21
  You're going to give me 50 bucks.
• 56:22
  You know, I don't know.
• 56:23
  It's like legal thievery.
• 56:24
  The other part of the article, I found there's just a snippet in there that
• 56:28
  was like, well, you know, but really, this is really a small percentage of
• 56:31
  the ZBs that are ending up in this manner because ZBs are generally.
• 56:36
  Safer than ice, they are involved in fewer accidents because of all this technology.
• 56:41
  I'm like, really?
• 56:42
  Because as far as I know, the technology is forward facing.
• 56:44
  So if some person comes barreling at you from behind or side swipes, you don't
• 56:50
  think the nannies do a damn thing for you.
• 56:53
  They're equally able to be in an accident as anybody else.
• 56:56
  Yeah, they're vulnerable just like anything else.
• 56:58
  Yeah.
• 56:58
  Yeah.
• 56:58
  And people can turn those nannies off.
• 57:01
  So if they're driving it like anything else, then they're as
• 57:03
  vulnerable as anything else.
• 57:04
  So don't give me that excuse.
• 57:06
  Oh, well, this is really not brr, like, okay, sure.
• 57:09
  And that's the other thing I wonder about all these sensors and LIDAR and
• 57:14
  radar and all this stuff that they're using on these cars, especially in
• 57:17
  traffic, to your point, all those sensors on the front of the car.
• 57:20
  So when does it switch over?
• 57:22
  To the point where now you're liable as the ice driver, because maybe
• 57:28
  you changed lanes too closely to the autonomous self driving level
• 57:32
  15 torpedo that just hit you.
• 57:35
  And now it's your fault because it used to be like in the old days,
• 57:38
  if you got rear ended nine times out of 10, the other driver was at.
• 57:41
  Just because of, you know, you needed to be paying attention, stopping distances,
• 57:45
  all like some things can't be overcome.
• 57:47
  But in this case, they can be like, well, the data from the sensor shows
• 57:51
  that you were six inches closer than is recommended when you change
• 57:55
  lanes in front of that vehicle.
• 57:56
  I wonder how all that's going to play out, how the technology is going to be
• 58:00
  manipulated by the insurance companies.
• 58:03
  The further we go along with all this stuff.
• 58:05
  What a hot mess.
• 58:06
  Like I don't envy the actuaries or whoever it is that is in charge of
• 58:09
  figuring out these insurance tables.
• 58:11
  all this stuff because I'm sure it can't be fun, but please
• 58:14
  don't pass the price down to us.
• 58:17
  But fun fact, since you mentioned LIDAR.
• 58:20
  Oh, so I had an interesting revelation last night, actually, as I was
• 58:24
  driving home in the evening hour.
• 58:26
  So it was dark outside.
• 58:27
  I was on three lane divided highway, cruise control, minimum business, very
• 58:30
  light traffic, handful of us on the road.
• 58:32
  I had a radar detector in the car.
• 58:35
  It was on and all of a sudden it started going off laser and it's a
• 58:41
  very shrill noise when that happens.
• 58:43
  And so it was going off like bells and whistles I like to say
• 58:46
  because that's what it sounds like.
• 58:47
  I didn't really need to slow down because I wasn't doing anything offensive, right?
• 58:51
  I wasn't worried but obviously I was looking around and
• 58:54
  okay I don't see anybody.
• 58:55
  Laser works, it has to be targeted at you.
• 58:58
  So normally the guy's got the gun and he's pointing it at you and
• 59:02
  that's when the laser registers.
• 59:03
  So I'm looking around, it goes off again.
• 59:05
  It goes off again.
• 59:06
  And I'm like, what in the world?
• 59:08
  There's nobody around by now I should have passed somebody or should have
• 59:11
  seen taillights up ahead, you know, blah, blah, blah, you know, one car
• 59:15
  in front of me, there's a car behind me, and I recognize it right away
• 59:18
  because of the shape of the headlights.
• 59:19
  It was a lucid air.
• 59:20
  Oh, and I was like, Oh, interesting.
• 59:22
  There's a lucid behind me, you know, oh, cool.
• 59:24
  And as I'm freaking lasers going off over and over again,
• 59:28
  and he's slowly creeping thing.
• 59:29
  Transcribed Closer and closer behind me, and then he gets over,
• 59:32
  changes lanes, goes around me.
• 59:34
  It all stops.
• 59:35
  He goes in front of me, it's all gone, and I went, oh my goodness,
• 59:38
  he was self driving or something.
• 59:41
  It's using some sort of nanny, and the laser was beaming at me, and the radar
• 59:45
  detector was incessantly picking it up because he was shooting lidar at me.
• 59:50
  And then I realized all the times that it's going off on K band, which it does
• 59:55
  in the most random places when you're on the highway, which makes no sense because
• 59:59
  there's absolutely no one around and no reason for it to be going off, a lot of
• 1:00:02
  the other nannies of the self driving and the automatic cruise control and all that
• 1:00:06
  stuff and all these EVs are operating off of K bands and things like that.
• 1:00:10
  It's all being picked up by a radar detector.
• 1:00:13
  So what you're saying is now the radar detector has a dual purpose,
• 1:00:17
  a picking up B for T justice hiding in the bushes, but also the Tesla
• 1:00:21
  that's stalking you in traffic, that's not actually driving their car.
• 1:00:25
  Exactly.
• 1:00:26
  So now that torpedo coming at you, you have an early warning.
• 1:00:30
  Oh, it's like a submarine.
• 1:00:31
  It's like torpedoing.
• 1:00:32
  Oh God, get out of the way.
• 1:00:36
  Let me translate it for you.
• 1:00:40
  That's okay.
• 1:00:40
  Cause the steering wheels are falling off the model wise.
• 1:00:42
  They wouldn't be able to hit you anyway.
• 1:00:43
  When I realized what happened at Lucid Air, I wanted to get back in front of
• 1:00:46
  him and see if it was to confirm and be like, yes, it's going off again.
• 1:00:50
  It's definitely his LIDAR, but I wasn't going to accelerate in case
• 1:00:54
  there was a real threat out there.
• 1:00:56
  Well, you did some textbook research to verify it.
• 1:00:59
  So it's all good.
• 1:01:00
  Well, before we get into Tesla gate, let's hit up Brad's favorite section,
• 1:01:05
  lost and found, where he scours the internet looking for the newest old
• 1:01:08
  car available on dealership lots.
• 1:01:10
  Please tell me that Cadillac is still out there.
• 1:01:12
  Yes, the Cadillac.
• 1:01:13
  Gray Chevrolet.
• 1:01:15
  We need to get them as a sponsor.
• 1:01:16
  I mean, how much free airtime have we given gray Chevrolet at this point?
• 1:01:20
  Apparently none, because no one's buying that car.
• 1:01:23
  They're not getting any business from us.
• 1:01:25
  Don Wieberg, if you're listening, there is 88 to fill with your name on it.
• 1:01:29
  It's not an allante.
• 1:01:30
  He's not interested.
• 1:01:31
  That's true.
• 1:01:32
  He's not interested.
• 1:01:32
  That Ford GT is still out there at the low, low, low price of 450, 000.
• 1:01:38
  I swear it's come down.
• 1:01:40
  Every time we talk about that car, the price has come down.
• 1:01:43
  Nope.
• 1:01:43
  415.
• 1:01:44
  That's it.
• 1:01:44
  The only thing new on here, new, new to the list is a 2004 Nissan
• 1:01:49
  Xterra XE V6 at Beck and Mastin Kia.
• 1:01:53
  None of that was exciting.
• 1:01:55
  Not at all.
• 1:01:55
  There's a couple of Dodge Avengers, a Fiat 500.
• 1:01:58
  No Dodge darts.
• 1:01:59
  All right.
• 1:02:00
  Well, whatever.
• 1:02:01
  Maybe in April, as we get all our showers in preparation for
• 1:02:05
  our May flowers, something will blossom in the used car market.
• 1:02:08
  I wonder where you were going with that.
• 1:02:10
  Maybe somebody will buy that Cadillac after all.
• 1:02:13
  But it's time, you know what time it is?
• 1:02:15
  Teslagate time!
• 1:02:16
  Oh,
• 1:02:19
  we would be remiss.
• 1:02:21
  That's what time it is.
• 1:02:22
  Teslagate.
• 1:02:23
  Wait, what?
• 1:02:24
  How dare you?
• 1:02:25
  They've never had to recall a single vehicle ever.
• 1:02:27
  I think this finally counts as a recall.
• 1:02:29
  This has to.
• 1:02:29
  I mean, come on.
• 1:02:30
  I'm sorry.
• 1:02:31
  They don't want to count any of the software because it's software.
• 1:02:34
  They don't want to count any of the other stuff as recalls.
• 1:02:37
  But I think this is definitely.
• 1:02:40
  A recall.
• 1:02:41
  When you forget to put the steering wheel lock pin bolt in, and so
• 1:02:45
  your steering wheel comes off.
• 1:02:46
  I don't think a software over the air patch fixes this one.
• 1:02:50
  Nope.
• 1:02:50
  Is it a recall if the owners all die?
• 1:02:52
  Well, I don't think anyone was severely injured.
• 1:02:55
  Witch Isle.
• 1:02:57
  and bin at Home Depot, do I get the lock pin for the steering wheel?
• 1:03:01
  Their local Home Depot was sold out.
• 1:03:04
  aisle 12.
• 1:03:05
  It's somewhere between the cabinet knobs and the schlage locks.
• 1:03:09
  You'll find the lock pin for the steering wheel.
• 1:03:11
  But yes, in fact, Model Ys have a reported defect of over 120, 000 models.
• 1:03:16
  That have been sold?
• 1:03:17
  Wait, they sold that many, apparently.
• 1:03:19
  Wow.
• 1:03:20
  But yes, there is a defect because the steering wheel is
• 1:03:22
  basically held on via friction.
• 1:03:25
  So a hard enough pull force will disengage it from where it should be To
• 1:03:30
  Tesla's credit, we know somebody that went on track in a Miata that had a
• 1:03:35
  similar setup and survived Watkins Glen.
• 1:03:37
  So I'm just gonna leave it.
• 1:03:38
  Right where it is.
• 1:03:39
  It's doable.
• 1:03:40
  Flip the car really quickly into autopilot or, you know, whatever self driving.
• 1:03:44
  I mean, the steering wheel doesn't need to be attached.
• 1:03:46
  If you're not, doesn't need to be attached for it to drive itself.
• 1:03:49
  I would imagine.
• 1:03:50
  Exactly.
• 1:03:51
  Exactly.
• 1:03:52
  Well, last time we talked about Tesla gate.
• 1:03:55
  We were on the precipice of Investor's Day.
• 1:03:59
  Yes, we were.
• 1:04:00
  So what came of Investor's Day?
• 1:04:02
  What is Brad going to buy?
• 1:04:03
  How much more dogecoin is he going to spend?
• 1:04:06
  Apparently they're saying that they're going to release a 20, 000 Tesla.
• 1:04:10
  I've heard this before.
• 1:04:11
  Yes, it's the 30, 000 one, but now they can do it for 20, 000, I
• 1:04:15
  think because they made it smaller.
• 1:04:17
  Oh, they cut the rear end off of it.
• 1:04:18
  It actually looks like they cut it where the rear door should be and then just
• 1:04:22
  push the front and the rear together.
• 1:04:24
  Tell me you don't think that what I just described is not that photo.
• 1:04:27
  Oh, that's different than the other one that they showed.
• 1:04:30
  Who knows?
• 1:04:30
  They're all like weird spy photos.
• 1:04:32
  Yes.
• 1:04:32
  The original one was like this weird golf ish thing with four door.
• 1:04:38
  This next photo is like missing the rear doors and it looks like chopped together.
• 1:04:43
  I mean, this one would make more sense for the 20, 000 mark.
• 1:04:47
  All in.
• 1:04:48
  They're all ugly.
• 1:04:49
  The red one that they showed from autocar.
• 1:04:52
  co.
• 1:04:52
  uk is much better looking than the one that you're showing us.
• 1:04:55
  But either way, I'm not a fan of any of this.
• 1:04:58
  And again, I don't believe any of it because here we go.
• 1:05:00
  20, 000 Tesla.
• 1:05:02
  I just, we haven't seen that yet.
• 1:05:03
  Wow.
• 1:05:04
  Tesla owners are in for a big shock.
• 1:05:06
  Well, um, maybe, I guess it was weird the way the article was written.
• 1:05:11
  It was like, Hey, no big thing.
• 1:05:12
  It's all good.
• 1:05:13
  Okay, but you're losing a 7, 500 tax credit to make your car cheaper,
• 1:05:17
  but somehow it's like, no big thing.
• 1:05:18
  It's fine.
• 1:05:19
  It's all good.
• 1:05:19
  Like, okay, apparently that's happening because the legislation
• 1:05:22
  or the rules or the tax credits are available if everything is made in
• 1:05:27
  the country and the batteries are coming out of China manufacturing.
• 1:05:30
  And so at least the Model 3 and I guess the Y can no longer
• 1:05:34
  fly for this 7, 500 credit.
• 1:05:37
  So what you're saying is Anybody looking at a Tesla, it just
• 1:05:40
  got 7, 500 more expensive.
• 1:05:42
  I would think so.
• 1:05:43
  But then they keep saying that they've been lowering their
• 1:05:45
  prices too at the same time.
• 1:05:46
  Like another thousand here, a thousand there.
• 1:05:48
  I'm like, okay, hokey pokey.
• 1:05:50
  Didn't they just raise their prices though?
• 1:05:51
  It's like the Christmas time specials where they raise the prices
• 1:05:55
  in October by like 10 percent and then they give you 5 percent off.
• 1:05:59
  So they're still 5 percent ahead.
• 1:06:01
  You gotta wonder sometimes.
• 1:06:02
  It's like it's on sale for the regular price.
• 1:06:04
  Yay!
• 1:06:04
  Many times it's been said that Musk is following the Apple model and
• 1:06:08
  we joke about it, but it's true.
• 1:06:10
  Think about it.
• 1:06:10
  The iPhone blah, blah, blah just came out and it's 93 million.
• 1:06:15
  And then next week on Verizon, it's like trade in your old phone for a 360 credit.
• 1:06:19
  We'll give you a new iPhone 14 for the low, low price of 499.
• 1:06:23
  Well, how much does it really cost?
• 1:06:24
  Is it 1, 200 or is it 499 plus my trade in?
• 1:06:29
  If they're following that kind of chicanery, none of this surprises me.
• 1:06:33
  This whole month is just sort of disappointing.
• 1:06:35
  Maybe it's because it's the end of winter, spring has just arrived, it's still cold,
• 1:06:41
  it's still whatever, I'm just like blah.
• 1:06:43
  All the news is blah.
• 1:06:45
  We're kind of in the mid year slump if you think about it.
• 1:06:47
  If all new cars in the U.
• 1:06:48
  S.
• 1:06:48
  come out August, September, we're at the mid year mark.
• 1:06:51
  We're cresting it and now we get to ride the rollercoaster
• 1:06:54
  through the rest of the summer.
• 1:06:55
  So I feel like my expectations are pretty low right now.
• 1:06:58
  Lower expectation, oh, this means it gets worse.
• 1:07:03
  Depends on your point of view.
• 1:07:04
  Some people might think this event is good, this one didn't
• 1:07:07
  make collector car guides.
• 1:07:09
  List of events that Brad talks about every month.
• 1:07:11
  It really should have.
• 1:07:13
  I swear I would go to this event.
• 1:07:15
  Would you really go to this event?
• 1:07:17
  The thought of this scares me.
• 1:07:18
  Think about the people that go to car shows.
• 1:07:21
  Right.
• 1:07:22
  Think about them like this.
• 1:07:24
  Stereotypes aside, this isn't even static problems.
• 1:07:27
  This isn't even stance problems.
• 1:07:29
  Okay.
• 1:07:30
  The annual, meaning it happens more than once, but only once a year.
• 1:07:34
  The annual nude, as in naked, nude.
• 1:07:41
  We're not talking about the cars being nude.
• 1:07:44
  Nope.
• 1:07:45
  Talking about the people.
• 1:07:47
  The best part is this is Wisconsin.
• 1:07:49
  Would you have said if someone just told you there's an annual nude car
• 1:07:51
  show going on in August, somewhere in the United States, would you have
• 1:07:54
  been like, yeah, it must be Wisconsin?
• 1:07:56
  No, no, Florida, man.
• 1:07:57
  It gets better.
• 1:08:00
  You got to read into the event.
• 1:08:02
  Not that I want to see pictures from previous events or anything like that.
• 1:08:05
  The Valley View Recreation Club hosts the annual nude car show.
• 1:08:10
  We're not one beautiful summer afternoon where you can gaze upon
• 1:08:15
  the Mustangs and the Ferraris and everything else that accompanies them.
• 1:08:19
  No, not one, not two, four days of fabulous buns, guns, and TARS.
• 1:08:28
  in the sun.
• 1:08:28
  Can you imagine?
• 1:08:29
  There must be other activities, because what could you possibly do for four days?
• 1:08:32
  Stop, stop, because this is going to go off the rails.
• 1:08:35
  Other activities?
• 1:08:36
  We playing cornhole?
• 1:08:39
  Hide the salami.
• 1:08:41
  Wisconsin's known for cheese.
• 1:08:43
  The naked car wash.
• 1:08:44
  This cheese stands alone, let me tell you.
• 1:08:47
  Anyway, well, if you're interested folks, August 12th, 2023, this year.
• 1:08:52
  Find it in a small village in Wisconsin, Valley View Recreational Club.
• 1:08:56
  Just don't forget that annual spelt with two N's.
• 1:08:58
  When you Google that.
• 1:09:00
  Two N's and you.
• 1:09:04
  Every once in a while, we got to go there.
• 1:09:07
  And this month we got some rich people thangs.
• 1:09:10
  This is like, not even rich people thangs.
• 1:09:13
  Like this is.
• 1:09:13
  Florida, man.
• 1:09:14
  I mean, it's also lower than expectations.
• 1:09:16
  It checks all the boxes.
• 1:09:18
  I mean, I feel bad for this person.
• 1:09:21
  She's so proud.
• 1:09:23
  That's why I feel bad.
• 1:09:24
  Cause I'm like, I'm sorry that you've been failed in life.
• 1:09:27
  I know the used car market is insane.
• 1:09:31
  I'm impressed that this car didn't show up on Brad's lost and found list.
• 1:09:34
  Let me paint a picture for you.
• 1:09:35
  It is this.
• 1:09:36
  Beautiful, late 90s, sea green, you know, sort of metallic.
• 1:09:43
  You're not really sure what color to call it.
• 1:09:46
  It's a Ford product.
• 1:09:47
  You know, one of those quality Fords from the late 90s.
• 1:09:51
  But it's not a Contour or like a Taurus SHO or even a Mustang.
• 1:09:55
  No, no, no.
• 1:09:56
  This new proud owner picked herself up a 1998 Ford Escort for the
• 1:10:02
  low, low price of 289 a month.
• 1:10:05
  And how long is this loan for, Brad?
• 1:10:07
  Seven years.
• 1:10:08
  Can you imagine?
• 1:10:09
  Did this car even make it another seven years?
• 1:10:12
  84 months at 289 a month.
• 1:10:15
  To put that in real numbers, 24, 276 for a 1998 Ford Escort.
• 1:10:22
  This thing was worth like 500.
• 1:10:24
  I would have rather gone on a long term loan agreement with Hertz.
• 1:10:30
  And just rented a car every month for this kind of money.
• 1:10:32
  It's sad is what it is.
• 1:10:34
  And it's criminal.
• 1:10:35
  Exactly.
• 1:10:36
  It's just predatory lending.
• 1:10:37
  Sure.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah.
• 1:10:38
  Sign right here.
• 1:10:39
  You're not a robot, right?
• 1:10:40
  You got to check that box.
• 1:10:40
  Almost like payday level scam on this car.
• 1:10:44
  This person got so taken advantage of.
• 1:10:46
  It's.
• 1:10:47
  Disgusting.
• 1:10:47
  Hey, but they went viral on the interwebs and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:10:51
  So you don't want to go viral or infamous.
• 1:10:55
  Look for 289 a month.
• 1:10:56
  They even put a big red bow on the hood.
• 1:11:00
  You're damn right.
• 1:11:00
  They did.
• 1:11:01
  And look at those hubcaps.
• 1:11:02
  Those look new.
• 1:11:03
  That has got to be worth something.
• 1:11:05
  Those bows aren't cheap.
• 1:11:06
  289 a month cheap.
• 1:11:08
  It's a good 300 for that bow, yes, but those people were
• 1:11:11
  laughing all the way to the bank.
• 1:11:13
  It makes me angry how taken advantage of this woman was.
• 1:11:17
  I mean, wherever she bought this from, like the piece of crap human being
• 1:11:20
  that was like, yeah, let's do this.
• 1:11:23
  Only in Florida, right?
• 1:11:24
  Because now it's time we move south and talk about alligators and bear.
• 1:11:42
  You know what?
• 1:11:43
  It's kind of a disappointing month for Florida Man and I think it is the weather.
• 1:11:48
  There's a lot of news about alligators right now.
• 1:11:51
  Alligators knocking on people's doors.
• 1:11:53
  People standing in the water feeding a pork loin sandwich to an alligator.
• 1:11:58
  Why would you do that?
• 1:11:59
  That sounds like you don't want your arm or the rest of you.
• 1:12:03
  I'm thinking like it's getting warmer and the seasons are changing.
• 1:12:07
  I mean, it's always the same temperature in Florida, but I guess the alligators
• 1:12:10
  also have seasons probably, you know, maybe they're coming out.
• 1:12:13
  And so the Florida man is emerging also.
• 1:12:17
  So we don't have as much out of Florida right now, unfortunately.
• 1:12:21
  But there's some good ones here though.
• 1:12:22
  And I don't recall if this one was Florida or not.
• 1:12:25
  Probably is.
• 1:12:26
  This picture is unreal.
• 1:12:28
  It's one of those pictures, a thousand words, and it's a pick em up truck.
• 1:12:32
  I don't know what kind of pickup truck this is.
• 1:12:33
  That's a Ford.
• 1:12:34
  That's a Ford.
• 1:12:34
  The Ford F 150.
• 1:12:36
  Division, error, they're all the same.
• 1:12:37
  Ford pickup truck.
• 1:12:38
  I don't even know what he's got in the back, but it's an SUV of some sort.
• 1:12:41
  Mosaic Tesla.
• 1:12:42
  And it's sideways.
• 1:12:44
  And it's in truck bed, roped around that truck bed.
• 1:12:47
  I'm impressed.
• 1:12:48
  I am too, because the rear springs are taking all that weight, and the
• 1:12:51
  front end is still on the ground.
• 1:12:53
  He's going somewhere.
• 1:12:54
  He's going somewhere.
• 1:12:55
  He's on the move.
• 1:12:56
  Yeah, he's going places.
• 1:12:58
  As Brad always likes to say, if it fits, he sits, right?
• 1:13:01
  In this case, if it fits, it ships.
• 1:13:04
  UPS ain't got nothing on this guy.
• 1:13:06
  There's so many questions here.
• 1:13:07
  How did they load it this way?
• 1:13:09
  Who thought this was a good idea?
• 1:13:10
  How long are those straps?
• 1:13:12
  What's the tensile strength of those straps?
• 1:13:14
  What happens the first time he goes on the highway and takes an off ramp?
• 1:13:17
  What is the side of that vehicle that's now resting on its side look like?
• 1:13:22
  Are there fluids still in the engine?
• 1:13:24
  Are they still in the engine?
• 1:13:27
  I feel like this is a movie, and they're filming Transport of Florida.
• 1:13:31
  I want to understand, I really Because this car, this vehicle,
• 1:13:34
  this SUV looks in good condition.
• 1:13:36
  Was.
• 1:13:36
  From the visible body panels.
• 1:13:39
  But I can't imagine it sitting on its side, that that looks good anymore.
• 1:13:43
  It's a 1 1 scale Hot Wheels.
• 1:13:45
  It could be Photoshopped.
• 1:13:47
  Could be.
• 1:13:47
  But I don't think so.
• 1:13:48
  Probably not.
• 1:13:49
  This is insane.
• 1:13:50
  This is like a candid camera shot too.
• 1:13:52
  So like someone was like running and be like, get my phone out.
• 1:13:54
  He was on his lawnmower on the shoulder.
• 1:13:56
  So it was okay.
• 1:13:58
  Wow.
• 1:13:59
  Well, this next one hits close to home.
• 1:14:01
  We haven't had a, had a Maryland person in a while.
• 1:14:03
  Maryland man, or ever.
• 1:14:05
  Maybe this is the first Maryland man.
• 1:14:06
  I'm not sure.
• 1:14:07
  But I think it might be.
• 1:14:08
  It might be the first, and what a way.
• 1:14:10
  To come in with a bang because this Maryland man who ran
• 1:14:14
  out of gas on an interstate.
• 1:14:15
  I'd like to know which one.
• 1:14:16
  695 where all the shit happens.
• 1:14:19
  Oh man, Jesus Christ.
• 1:14:21
  Everything happens on 695.
• 1:14:23
  Okay.
• 1:14:23
  So you ran out of gas, pulled over as you should.
• 1:14:25
  And he's on the shoulder.
• 1:14:27
  Obviously.
• 1:14:27
  I don't know.
• 1:14:27
  He's waiting for somebody.
• 1:14:28
  What do you, what do you do in that situation?
• 1:14:30
  Do you just merely wait in your car?
• 1:14:31
  I mean, no, you probably shouldn't.
• 1:14:33
  You should exit your vehicle and safely get on the other side of hopefully a
• 1:14:36
  barrier or guardrail because you never know when an errant driver will just.
• 1:14:40
  Rear end you and that would be catastrophic.
• 1:14:42
  So at least he did step one.
• 1:14:43
  He got out of his vehicle.
• 1:14:44
  However, he sat behind his vehicle, assembled his drum set, and just
• 1:14:49
  began banging on them drums.
• 1:14:51
  I love the comment block on this.
• 1:14:53
  It's so hashtag dad jokes.
• 1:14:55
  And it's like.
• 1:14:56
  That's what I call a traffic jam.
• 1:14:59
  What possesses people to do stuff like this?
• 1:15:03
  Did he want to be a meme?
• 1:15:05
  Is that what it is?
• 1:15:06
  I mean, I would have loved to have passed that on 695.
• 1:15:09
  I don't know what I would have been.
• 1:15:10
  It would have been one of those double take moments.
• 1:15:12
  Did I just see that?
• 1:15:14
  No one would have believed you too.
• 1:15:16
  I would have been like, guys, you know what I just saw?
• 1:15:18
  I was on 695 and dude was drumming.
• 1:15:21
  He was on the shoulder with drums.
• 1:15:22
  Y'all been like, nah, you don't know what you saw.
• 1:15:25
  Uh huh.
• 1:15:26
  Uh huh.
• 1:15:26
  That right there?
• 1:15:27
  Right there?
• 1:15:28
  So this last one, we actually haven't gone across the ocean in a while.
• 1:15:32
  Ooh.
• 1:15:33
  So we're hopping the pond and we're going to Italy.
• 1:15:36
  Oh, is this our first Italian man?
• 1:15:38
  Well, no.
• 1:15:39
  So this isn't an Italian man.
• 1:15:40
  This is an American man.
• 1:15:42
  In Italy.
• 1:15:44
  What did they do to that poor fiat?
• 1:15:46
  Because you can bring the man out of Florida, but you can't bring the Florida.
• 1:15:52
  I'm not saying he was from Florida, but I'm not saying he wasn't from Florida.
• 1:15:55
  Oh, geez.
• 1:15:57
  Do not know where he's from.
• 1:15:58
  However, he, I guess, rented a Ferrari.
• 1:16:01
  Okay.
• 1:16:01
  As I'm sure you can do and decided in Florence, he was just going to
• 1:16:05
  like drive it out into a piazza.
• 1:16:08
  A piazza that cars don't go into.
• 1:16:10
  They just like park it, because obviously he's entitled.
• 1:16:12
  So That's a bold move, Cotton.
• 1:16:15
  They only gave him a 500 ticket.
• 1:16:17
  I mean, that's getting off pretty good.
• 1:16:19
  If you've ever dealt with European parking and how much it costs,
• 1:16:22
  that was probably a bargain.
• 1:16:23
  They made a big deal that it was a historic piazza.
• 1:16:25
  I'm like, everything in Italy is historic.
• 1:16:27
  So like, okay, next.
• 1:16:28
  Yeah, it's all ancient, right?
• 1:16:29
  I mean, come on.
• 1:16:30
  Be on the lookout.
• 1:16:31
  Aaron's Ferrari is driving into piazzas in Italy.
• 1:16:34
  You know what?
• 1:16:35
  He listened to our show.
• 1:16:37
  He heard about that other fool that drove down the Spanish steps and he
• 1:16:41
  got lost trying to find them because he wanted to drive the Ferrari down the
• 1:16:44
  Spanish steps like the other idiot did.
• 1:16:46
  He said, you know what?
• 1:16:47
  Screw it.
• 1:16:47
  There's a nice cafe bistro over here.
• 1:16:50
  I'm just going to grab lunch.
• 1:16:51
  Forget this noise.
• 1:16:52
  But that isn't it for Florida Man.
• 1:16:53
  So, breaking news for those of you Netflix subscribers out there.
• 1:16:57
  A limited series is coming on April 13th of this year.
• 1:17:00
  Yes, that's just a mere, what, two, three weeks away.
• 1:17:03
  And that series is Florida Man.
• 1:17:06
  No!
• 1:17:07
  It's not Tiger King rebadged, is it?
• 1:17:09
  No, so It looks like from the synopsis and from the preview, it actually has
• 1:17:16
  a plot line and the main character and it's taking place in Florida.
• 1:17:21
  And they're somehow going to bring in a lot of Florida man
• 1:17:24
  elements into what's going on.
• 1:17:26
  And how?
• 1:17:27
  You ask how?
• 1:17:28
  One of the shots in this trailer Was this woman that I think had like a cigarette
• 1:17:34
  lighter in her hairspray can and she turned it into a blowtorch and she
• 1:17:37
  was trying to scare this raccoon away.
• 1:17:40
  And the raccoon like was just sitting there.
• 1:17:42
  It was like, what you doing?
• 1:17:44
  They're bringing like crazy stuff in like that.
• 1:17:46
  I don't know.
• 1:17:47
  There's gotta be alligators.
• 1:17:48
  I don't know.
• 1:17:49
  It could be interesting.
• 1:17:51
  Too much like a reboot or continuation of that show.
• 1:17:55
  What was it called?
• 1:17:56
  My name is Earl.
• 1:17:57
  Do you remember that one?
• 1:18:00
  That's, that's what I'm feeling here.
• 1:18:01
  This is like ex cop.
• 1:18:02
  Who's now like in trouble with gambling.
• 1:18:05
  And so there's some sort of like mob thing going on.
• 1:18:08
  He's trying to get his life back on track and all this stuff.
• 1:18:10
  And he has got to go back to Florida and then the shit ensues.
• 1:18:15
  It's like the Florida man version of Magnum PI.
• 1:18:18
  What is this?
• 1:18:19
  I don't know what this is.
• 1:18:20
  But you know what?
• 1:18:21
  Our goal is to watch it before the next drive thru so we can talk about it.
• 1:18:24
  We will report back on Florida Man.
• 1:18:27
  The Netflix series.
• 1:18:28
  Maybe it has better luck than any of these Formula One shows
• 1:18:31
  they've been coming up with.
• 1:18:32
  Speaking of which, it's time we go behind the pit wall and
• 1:18:37
  talk about Motorsports News.
• 1:18:39
  As we noted the last time, Kimi is back with Trackhouse Racing to
• 1:18:43
  go drive a Chevy, which doesn't exist next year, in NASCAR.
• 1:18:47
  And then there's Jensen Button.
• 1:18:49
  And he's signed up to race three NASCAR Cup Series races this year.
• 1:18:53
  And I just kept wondering myself, is he already that bored with retirement?
• 1:18:57
  Yes.
• 1:18:58
  He's done a lot, right?
• 1:18:59
  He hasn't done this.
• 1:19:00
  Sure.
• 1:19:00
  Well, I mean, sports car, whatever.
• 1:19:02
  I have my biases.
• 1:19:03
  Good for him.
• 1:19:04
  I mean, there's been plenty of other Formula One drivers, Juan Pablo Montoya
• 1:19:07
  and others that have gone to NASCAR.
• 1:19:09
  So let's see what Button can do.
• 1:19:11
  He's got to pay for those old Nigel Mansell era race cars at some point.
• 1:19:15
  So, you know, whatever.
• 1:19:16
  They're not cheap.
• 1:19:17
  Meanwhile, in the glorious drama filled world of Formula U, the
• 1:19:21
  season is officially underway, right?
• 1:19:23
  We're two races in and it's not looking good.
• 1:19:27
  Oh, geez.
• 1:19:28
  What now?
• 1:19:29
  Not looking good if your name isn't Red Bull.
• 1:19:32
  Although I will say, Ashton Martin's doing pretty well.
• 1:19:36
  That's for sure.
• 1:19:37
  Alonzo has podium twice now this season for Aston Martin he switched
• 1:19:42
  over teams he left Alpine last season got the ride in Aston Martin the
• 1:19:46
  first race it was hilarious because in Bahrain I was dying when it was like
• 1:19:54
  turn two and stroll nearly took him out And I was like, here we go again.
• 1:20:01
  He rear ended him a little bit.
• 1:20:02
  He didn't even know they I, I think they probably purposely didn't tell
• 1:20:06
  him who did it 'cause he had no idea.
• 1:20:07
  I think they like told him at the end of the race 'cause he
• 1:20:09
  probably would've blown a gasket.
• 1:20:12
  No damage.
• 1:20:12
  Something like that.
• 1:20:13
  They kept going.
• 1:20:13
  He finished third in that race.
• 1:20:15
  He finished third in Juda, red Bull one two.
• 1:20:18
  The big shakeup was Perez beating out.
• 1:20:22
  Verstappen taking his, I think, fifth Formula One first place podium.
• 1:20:27
  A little drama there with the teams because Max had some
• 1:20:30
  issues during qualifying.
• 1:20:31
  Something broke or something or other.
• 1:20:33
  So he ended up like starting 15th, had to make his way back up through the crowd.
• 1:20:36
  He made it into second.
• 1:20:38
  There wasn't quite enough time to really challenge Perez and come in first.
• 1:20:42
  However, there were team orders to maintain pace and Verstappen
• 1:20:45
  was like, F that noise.
• 1:20:47
  I'm getting fastest lap so I can get that extra point.
• 1:20:49
  And be number one in the championship points, two races in.
• 1:20:53
  And that's exactly what happened.
• 1:20:55
  They actually gave orders to Perez.
• 1:20:56
  You're fine.
• 1:20:57
  Just keep your pace.
• 1:20:58
  And yeah, he was a little bit pissed about that.
• 1:21:01
  So some interesting team orders across all the teams too.
• 1:21:04
  There were lots of miscommunications.
• 1:21:06
  There was the penalty thing that happened with Alonso on this one.
• 1:21:09
  He.
• 1:21:10
  Started on the grid box slightly left.
• 1:21:12
  And so that was kind of a false start infringement and he had
• 1:21:15
  a five second penalty to serve.
• 1:21:17
  Served it under the full course yellow, which the rule book is just
• 1:21:21
  all sorts of all over the place on if that was legal or not or not.
• 1:21:25
  And so he finished third and then they took it away and then they reread the
• 1:21:28
  rules and somebody probably got paid.
• 1:21:30
  And so they put him back on the podium.
• 1:21:32
  So Mercedes didn't get a podium.
• 1:21:34
  And so there you go.
• 1:21:35
  He got his hundredth.
• 1:21:36
  Podium.
• 1:21:36
  He's in the century club on that one in his career.
• 1:21:39
  And there you go.
• 1:21:40
  Four or five Mercedes and Ferrari was somewhere right behind them in six, seven,
• 1:21:46
  they finished and they didn't catch fire.
• 1:21:48
  That's important.
• 1:21:49
  Those are two things this time, unlike in Bahrain, where Leclerc
• 1:21:54
  did suffer a mechanical failure and was not able to finish the race.
• 1:21:57
  So this is progress.
• 1:21:59
  Both cars did finish.
• 1:22:00
  They were once again in the top 10.
• 1:22:02
  So that is good news.
• 1:22:03
  No, for last time, we really dove deep into formula one, the
• 1:22:08
  tail end of last year, we had good news to share about Haas.
• 1:22:12
  You know, they picked up some new sponsors.
• 1:22:14
  Now they're allegedly sponsored by money.
• 1:22:16
  Graham, you know, there's a whole episode we devoted to that, but
• 1:22:19
  they picked up another sponsor and no, it's not gray Chevrolet.
• 1:22:23
  And if you're listening, we would like to be sponsored by you.
• 1:22:25
  Acai.
• 1:22:26
  Like, I didn't know you could be sponsored by fruit pulp that you
• 1:22:30
  put in a smoothie at Smoothie King.
• 1:22:32
  Acai is whatever.
• 1:22:34
  I don't know.
• 1:22:35
  They offer money.
• 1:22:35
  Is that how you pronounce it, by the way?
• 1:22:37
  Well, how did you want to pronounce it?
• 1:22:39
  I don't know.
• 1:22:39
  I'm just, I have no idea.
• 1:22:41
  I believe it's acai.
• 1:22:42
  It is acai.
• 1:22:44
  All seriousness, the parent company, Oakberry, becomes
• 1:22:47
  the official acai partner.
• 1:22:50
  Alongside of MoneyGram to the Haas Formula One team.
• 1:22:52
  And I'm like, good for them.
• 1:22:53
  You guys are picking up the weirdest sponsors you could possibly find.
• 1:22:57
  I mean, who's next?
• 1:22:58
  Maybe Charmin Toilet Paper will sponsor Haas.
• 1:23:01
  Not Rich Energy.
• 1:23:03
  Anybody but.
• 1:23:04
  I didn't even know Oakberry was a.
• 1:23:06
  I don't even know where their stores are.
• 1:23:09
  Maybe they just produce acai for, you know, Smoothie King
• 1:23:13
  or some of these other places.
• 1:23:15
  I mean, I don't know.
• 1:23:15
  There's a whole list of their official sponsors at the bottom.
• 1:23:19
  I mean, the ones you expect, Pirelli because of the tires and
• 1:23:21
  Alpine Star because of the driving suits and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:23:24
  There's some other weird Did you know that they're sponsored by Chipotle?
• 1:23:28
  No.
• 1:23:29
  The McDonald's.
• 1:23:30
  Right?
• 1:23:31
  I'm not really sure who the Palm Angels are or Open Seas or Hentik Markets.
• 1:23:36
  Like these are some really like random sponsors.
• 1:23:39
  I mean, I'm sure every team has like majors and minor sponsors, but I kind
• 1:23:42
  of just look at the size of the logos, especially on this press release.
• 1:23:46
  And like the MoneyGram one is just like.
• 1:23:48
  Ah, it's huge.
• 1:23:49
  But the rest of these, I don't know.
• 1:23:51
  I mean, if someone's giving you money, you don't turn your hand, right?
• 1:23:53
  Never bite the hand that feeds you, except if you're also trying to make
• 1:23:57
  money selling stuff to the Russians.
• 1:23:59
  Hmm.
• 1:24:00
  Hasan, a little bit of trouble.
• 1:24:02
  Granted, at the time they were selling stuff to the Russians.
• 1:24:07
  But they also had Russian sponsorship and a Russian driver
• 1:24:09
  and it was all before the war.
• 1:24:11
  And they're very adamant about delineating the timeline.
• 1:24:15
  As soon as the war happened, then they cut ties and got rid of the contract and
• 1:24:18
  got rid of the driver and everything and stopped selling equipment to the Russians.
• 1:24:23
  Do you really believe it?
• 1:24:24
  I do.
• 1:24:24
  I feel, I feel like this is, I feel like they're just grasping at headlines.
• 1:24:28
  To just get more notoriety and pick up some other obscure sponsor?
• 1:24:31
  Yeah.
• 1:24:33
  Speaking of notoriety.
• 1:24:34
  Yeah.
• 1:24:34
  Speaking of notoriety, yeah.
• 1:24:36
  There's an untold rivalry in Formula One that people want to bring to light.
• 1:24:40
  They wanna educate us on the battle between Gillsville, niv, and Peroni.
• 1:24:46
  Did you guys know this was a thing?
• 1:24:47
  I, I mean, I was a little young at the time that they were racing
• 1:24:51
  each other, so no, I wouldn't have appreciated it was a thing.
• 1:24:53
  I wasn't born.
• 1:24:56
  Yeah, but like, nobody even talks about this.
• 1:24:58
  It feels like the quietest rivalry nobody ever heard of.
• 1:25:02
  Are we just, again, to Brad's point, are we sort of grasping for Formula
• 1:25:06
  One drama to paint a picture of two guys that aren't even alive anymore?
• 1:25:10
  Yeah, I believe this is what they call a slow news cycle.
• 1:25:13
  Ah, that makes way more sense.
• 1:25:16
  Well, they're going to make a documentary about it.
• 1:25:18
  And when it comes out, why don't we take a look at it?
• 1:25:20
  Well, it's out already.
• 1:25:21
  The problem is it's not out in this country.
• 1:25:23
  So the question would be is if they will put it on the service that we could watch.
• 1:25:28
  Cause right now it's on a UK based service.
• 1:25:31
  I bet motorsport.
• 1:25:32
  tv will carry it or something like that, but you got to pay a premium for it.
• 1:25:35
  Popular in Formula One has always been very high everywhere outside of
• 1:25:39
  the United States, essentially, or at least in Europe, very high, right?
• 1:25:42
  So there's more.
• 1:25:43
  Like even then, maybe the popularity is even growing, right?
• 1:25:46
  So yes, there's probably to some extent people are trying to take
• 1:25:49
  advantage of the F1 train and making more of these documentaries.
• 1:25:52
  But on the other hand, like, why not?
• 1:25:54
  I mean, this is interesting stuff.
• 1:25:55
  It's a documentary, so a lot of it is real footage put together
• 1:25:58
  and that's kind of neat to see.
• 1:26:00
  The history and how it was back then and all that for sure.
• 1:26:03
  I mean, there's always opportunities to learn more things.
• 1:26:06
  And that's sort of the point of the show too, is it's those untold
• 1:26:09
  stories, bringing them to the surface.
• 1:26:11
  Everybody has a story.
• 1:26:12
  I am curious to dive further into this.
• 1:26:14
  It's sort of one of those, like.
• 1:26:15
  Uh, didn't really know that was a thing.
• 1:26:17
  So let's regroup on this at a later date and share it with our audience
• 1:26:21
  and see what we thought about the Villeneuve Perroni rivalry.
• 1:26:25
  I mean, I can't imagine it's up there with Hunt and Lauda or Proust and Senna.
• 1:26:30
  Fun facts.
• 1:26:31
  Apparently Didier Perroni's son, who.
• 1:26:35
  I believe he died before he was born.
• 1:26:38
  I don't think they were married, but his partner, whatever, named
• 1:26:41
  him Gilles in honor of Villeneuve.
• 1:26:44
  And he works on Mercedes as an engineer on Mercedes F1 team.
• 1:26:48
  So full circle in that family.
• 1:26:50
  Speaking of Formula One, I came across, admittedly, not listened to F1 Beyond
• 1:26:54
  the Grid podcast, but apparently they've done an interview with Alain Prost, which
• 1:27:01
  I don't know how often he does these.
• 1:27:03
  But pretty long podcast, cause it's almost an hour and I was scrolling
• 1:27:06
  through some of the other podcasts, which are much shorter, I have it in my
• 1:27:09
  download list at some point I will listen to it cause I'm kind of interested to
• 1:27:13
  see what they're going to talk about.
• 1:27:15
  I mean, when you have the professor on your show, I think you just let them talk.
• 1:27:20
  Your 30 minute format goes out the window when you have a celebrity
• 1:27:24
  of that caliber on the show.
• 1:27:25
  Yeah.
• 1:27:26
  I'm curious too.
• 1:27:27
  I hate to say morbid curiosity.
• 1:27:29
  I side on the SENA side of that rivalry.
• 1:27:32
  I don't know.
• 1:27:32
  Maybe we'll learn.
• 1:27:33
  thing or two.
• 1:27:34
  Brad, your charter this year has been to keep up with WRC news.
• 1:27:39
  So round three, Mexico just concluded.
• 1:27:43
  What do you think?
• 1:27:44
  I'm having a hard time staying interested if I'm going to be
• 1:27:49
  completely honest with you, as I've said numerous times, it's the coverage.
• 1:27:53
  I can't see enough of something to really bind somebody to
• 1:27:57
  like to root for or anything.
• 1:28:00
  It's, I don't know.
• 1:28:00
  I did think it was funny on, you know, what happened to
• 1:28:03
  the Fords on Friday though.
• 1:28:04
  Oh my god.
• 1:28:05
  And the cars pulling into Mexico, driving through that little
• 1:28:09
  city tunnel and everything.
• 1:28:10
  That was super cool.
• 1:28:12
  But I think the only way I'm really gonna find a way to get
• 1:28:15
  invested in Rally is going to one.
• 1:28:17
  That's a good option.
• 1:28:18
  I like that.
• 1:28:19
  You know, we've been talking about going to Pikes Peak.
• 1:28:21
  That's on the docket for next year at this point.
• 1:28:24
  It's not quite the same as the World Rally stages, but I'm telling you right now,
• 1:28:29
  if you were to actually watch the full coverage of a rally, you'd be so much
• 1:28:34
  more bored than just watching the recaps.
• 1:28:36
  And that's not because it isn't exciting.
• 1:28:38
  It's just overwhelming.
• 1:28:40
  And you would just be like, Oh my God, make this three days worth of content.
• 1:28:44
  Stop.
• 1:28:45
  That's why I was surprised.
• 1:28:46
  Mexico was so action packed, especially since.
• 1:28:49
  It hasn't been on the schedule in three years.
• 1:28:51
  And when they set the stage, they took us back to 2020 and they
• 1:28:54
  showed Oittanik's crash where he literally put his Fiesta underwater.
• 1:28:59
  And you just watch it sinking from the onboard GoPros.
• 1:29:03
  I'm like, this is.
• 1:29:04
  Beautiful.
• 1:29:05
  Like it was so awesome for me.
• 1:29:07
  And this is, again, this is just my personal opinion.
• 1:29:10
  I feel like it's the equivalent of coming into Grey's Anatomy now and missing the
• 1:29:17
  entire first 200 seasons of the show.
• 1:29:20
  That's what it feels like to me.
• 1:29:22
  I have no frame of reference.
• 1:29:23
  I have no historical knowledge or background on any of these drivers
• 1:29:27
  or anything or rally itself.
• 1:29:28
  I don't know what's going on.
• 1:29:30
  Completely lost.
• 1:29:31
  And I'm trying so hard.
• 1:29:33
  The coverage of the cars racing and stuff is cool.
• 1:29:35
  But as far as understanding what's going on, I have no idea.
• 1:29:39
  Just go with it.
• 1:29:40
  Just embrace it.
• 1:29:40
  Right.
• 1:29:41
  And maybe it's one of those things.
• 1:29:42
  If I just watch enough of it, it'll eventually click.
• 1:29:44
  And Mexico was interesting.
• 1:29:46
  It's very difficult.
• 1:29:47
  As you saw, it was Sebogier's.
• 1:29:50
  Race to lose, he's like, what, six time WRC Mexico winner, whatever
• 1:29:56
  he was going for, like, one more to like, really, you know, set him over
• 1:29:59
  the top, all this kind of thing.
• 1:30:00
  And like we talked about, he skipped the last one altogether.
• 1:30:02
  He's like, I don't even need to bother with that.
• 1:30:04
  So Seb was back.
• 1:30:06
  To your point, the Fords were having a terrible Friday.
• 1:30:09
  I mean, I love the commentator.
• 1:30:11
  There's a stage called El Choate and he goes, El Choate, the
• 1:30:15
  stage where the Pumas melted.
• 1:30:17
  And I was just like, it's so true, because every one of them had a failure
• 1:30:22
  of some catastrophic sort or another, some they could fix, you know, whatever.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah.
• 1:30:27
  The first one was that the, one of the turbo pipes, right?
• 1:30:29
  Oh yeah.
• 1:30:30
  Oix car.
• 1:30:31
  Just, just that the turbo just stopped working.
• 1:30:33
  He picked a terrible place to stop, by the way.
• 1:30:35
  I mean, right there with, with the dust, he's, he's like basically
• 1:30:39
  two or three feet off the circuit and nobody can see him.
• 1:30:42
  Yeah, it was terrible.
• 1:30:44
  I felt so bad for him.
• 1:30:45
  By the end of Friday, he was like seven and a half minutes behind.
• 1:30:49
  There is no coming back from that.
• 1:30:51
  There's literally WRC two cars that are finishing in front of you.
• 1:30:56
  Like that's how far back you are.
• 1:30:58
  And I felt bad for him, but then.
• 1:31:00
  Here we go.
• 1:31:01
  Crash it again.
• 1:31:02
  Takamoto.
• 1:31:03
  Did you see the role?
• 1:31:04
  He rolled the Yaris again.
• 1:31:06
  Again, this is like the second time in three races.
• 1:31:09
  At least he stopped driving this time.
• 1:31:11
  A hundred percent.
• 1:31:11
  Yeah.
• 1:31:12
  He didn't try to go while he was upside down.
• 1:31:13
  I don't know if it's bad luck or that just, he's more of like a rookie
• 1:31:17
  still or whatever, but I'm just like.
• 1:31:19
  Bro, I can't wait to see him roll it again.
• 1:31:21
  I mean, Yari Matalopoulos has got to be like pulling the, what's
• 1:31:24
  left of his hair out of his head because these cars aren't cheap.
• 1:31:27
  And for this guy to like destroy one, trying to remember his
• 1:31:30
  name now, he was like a Scotsman and he would do the same thing.
• 1:31:34
  Every time he came out, he would destroy a Citroen.
• 1:31:37
  Finally, after like six rounds, they cut him loose.
• 1:31:40
  Because they couldn't afford to keep replacing the cars and they brought in
• 1:31:42
  another driver and all this kind of stuff.
• 1:31:44
  And I'm like, here we go again.
• 1:31:46
  Takamoto, if he doesn't get this car on four wheels consistently,
• 1:31:50
  it's not going to end well for him this year, that's for sure.
• 1:31:53
  And then you got Esa Pekka Lappi.
• 1:31:54
  You're telling me that you can't get into it.
• 1:31:56
  A goddamn telephone pole landed on him.
• 1:32:00
  That wreck was out of control.
• 1:32:02
  Like, it happened so fast.
• 1:32:04
  And it knocked out the power in the area too.
• 1:32:06
  They literally had to red flag the rally.
• 1:32:08
  I mean, that's how bad it was because he's in the middle of the
• 1:32:10
  road with a U shape in his roof.
• 1:32:13
  Basically, the roll cage is holding this electrical telephone post from
• 1:32:17
  decapitating him in the navigator.
• 1:32:19
  But again, it happened so fast and it was so unexpected.
• 1:32:22
  He lost the back end of the car and he literally just
• 1:32:24
  backed into it at full speed.
• 1:32:26
  And that was all she wrote.
• 1:32:27
  It was just nuts.
• 1:32:28
  Absolutely nuts.
• 1:32:29
  So on top of that, the SCOTAs are still kicking butt in WRC2 and
• 1:32:33
  whoopie doo, because there were so many retirements, you know, and
• 1:32:36
  breakdowns and failures in this race.
• 1:32:39
  Seb won overall in Tierneyville podium.
• 1:32:41
  It's like, Whoa, okay, great.
• 1:32:43
  I felt like it was like y'all won by default and hopefully
• 1:32:46
  next time it gets better.
• 1:32:48
  I mean, I can't deny that the coverage is exciting, but as far as
• 1:32:51
  the championships and the drivers and stuff like that, I don't care
• 1:32:54
  about any, there's no Volkswagen.
• 1:32:56
  Well, that's the Skoda.
• 1:32:57
  That's in WRC2.
• 1:32:58
  I'm rooting for Hyundai right now.
• 1:33:01
  They are plagued with some issues because of the new hybrid system, but
• 1:33:05
  they were really strong last year.
• 1:33:07
  And Ford's got a new car.
• 1:33:09
  And M Sport has generally dominated.
• 1:33:11
  And I want to see them dethroned and Toyota is always the wild card.
• 1:33:15
  Like they're super consistent.
• 1:33:16
  They've had the same car forever.
• 1:33:18
  They're under new management, but the gazoo racing team knows how
• 1:33:20
  to put together a good race car.
• 1:33:22
  So it's a good fight between them, but I am rooting for the underdog.
• 1:33:26
  I am rooting for the Hyundai's in this case.
• 1:33:28
  I just want to see Terry Neuville get out of his own head and stop blaming the car
• 1:33:32
  and get back to driving kind of thing.
• 1:33:33
  But as a pack of lappy, as long as he stays away from telephone
• 1:33:36
  poles, he might be okay.
• 1:33:38
  By the way, folks, he walked away from that wreck.
• 1:33:40
  So amazing engineering in those cars to keep those drivers safe, that's for sure.
• 1:33:44
  Moving on to IMSA and WEC, really quick, I just wanna highlight
• 1:33:49
  something really, really important.
• 1:33:51
  You know, LeMans is about two months away.
• 1:33:54
  There are abouts, there are 16 hypercar in the LeMans field.
• 1:34:00
  Right now.
• 1:34:01
  That's pretty awesome.
• 1:34:02
  But you know, who's not going to be there.
• 1:34:05
  Acura and BMW.
• 1:34:07
  No, I'm rather disappointed in that.
• 1:34:09
  And I wonder if it has to do with their performance at Rolex.
• 1:34:13
  And, you know, obviously throughout the season so far, BMW was definitely
• 1:34:16
  lagging behind as we talked about and things like that, but all the other
• 1:34:20
  major players are coming Peugeot.
• 1:34:22
  Ferrari with the new four nine nine P Porsche with the nine 63.
• 1:34:26
  There's going to be some fantastic cars running out there.
• 1:34:29
  And again, my whole thing about this is I want to see Toyota dethroned,
• 1:34:35
  but it's anybody's game, right?
• 1:34:36
  It's anybody's game.
• 1:34:37
  And we saw some real promise out of Ferrari at the Sebring 12 hours.
• 1:34:42
  What did you guys think of that race?
• 1:34:44
  So I didn't watch the whole thing.
• 1:34:45
  I did tune in like right.
• 1:34:47
  After the lead Acura, one that was under all those penalties for
• 1:34:53
  alleged tire error, deflate gate, whatever you want to call it, issues
• 1:34:57
  at Daytona, that car lost a wheel.
• 1:35:00
  Whoopsies.
• 1:35:01
  So unfortunately they were out.
• 1:35:03
  But then what later happened in like the last basically 18 minutes of the
• 1:35:07
  race was left was just like carnage.
• 1:35:10
  Absolute carnage.
• 1:35:12
  And there's a short YouTube video that captures the three minute
• 1:35:16
  moment, if you will, and took out like six cars off the lead lap.
• 1:35:20
  It was insane.
• 1:35:21
  It was basically like all the lead cars got wiped out in the last
• 1:35:25
  remaining few laps of the race.
• 1:35:27
  It looked like one of our virtual racing leagues back in the day.
• 1:35:30
  Like it's like such a Forza move to do what they did.
• 1:35:33
  Was it a racing incident?
• 1:35:35
  The guy swerved from one side to the other thinking he was going to take the outside
• 1:35:39
  line, pass everybody on the outside.
• 1:35:42
  That inner car was moving over.
• 1:35:44
  One could argue to set up his turn to set up his turn, to be where he was.
• 1:35:49
  One minute, the dudes on his right, two cars away, it's nighttime.
• 1:35:53
  There's headlights.
• 1:35:53
  There were a bunch of cars right there, and the next second,
• 1:35:56
  dude's on his left, and the gap is closing to the grass, he goes off.
• 1:36:00
  He was done.
• 1:36:00
  There was no way.
• 1:36:01
  Like, I don't think he tried to be a torpedo.
• 1:36:04
  He wasn't stopping.
• 1:36:06
  But the best part, it looked like a video game, because it was like, all
• 1:36:09
  that stuff happened, and the double bump, and the guy's in the grass, and
• 1:36:12
  suddenly he ends up hitting him anyway.
• 1:36:14
  So you thought you got away from him, and nope, here he comes and broadsides you.
• 1:36:18
  Yeah, and you're not expecting that either, so that guy was like, probably
• 1:36:20
  like, the F just happened to me.
• 1:36:23
  Because he comes shooting through the grass, onto the track, over
• 1:36:27
  the track and just T bones him off the other side of the track.
• 1:36:29
  It looked like a Forza round.
• 1:36:31
  I'm telling you, it was just, I couldn't believe it.
• 1:36:33
  I watched it so many times.
• 1:36:34
  I was like, this is unreal.
• 1:36:36
  But the only camera angle that really showed What happened was luckily the
• 1:36:41
  helicopter view because all the other ones were super deceiving as to what
• 1:36:45
  it made it look like some BS stuff was happening where it was intentional and
• 1:36:49
  all this, but like the helicopter view was like, pretty clear where it was like,
• 1:36:53
  this was an unfortunate racing incident.
• 1:36:55
  I don't think.
• 1:36:56
  That guy intended to cause an accident.
• 1:36:59
  And what was funny is the commentators climbing all over it.
• 1:37:02
  They finally were like, all right, we, we got to backpedal.
• 1:37:08
  We got to retract like everything we just said, because we
• 1:37:10
  just saw the helicopter view.
• 1:37:12
  Uh, so sorry.
• 1:37:13
  It looked really bad from like in car, like track level footage, but
• 1:37:17
  from the helicopter footage, it was like, Oh damn, this was really just an
• 1:37:20
  unfortunate accident that created a.
• 1:37:24
  That's sort of the funny part about those commentators.
• 1:37:26
  It's sort of like, look before you leap on that one.
• 1:37:28
  They were taken by surprise.
• 1:37:30
  They're going to have a delay and when they're getting the footage too.
• 1:37:32
  Yeah.
• 1:37:33
  Well, there's one more bit of motor sports news to share with you.
• 1:37:37
  And that is the 2023.
• 1:37:39
  Cardboard classic.
• 1:37:41
  If you've never seen this before, I cannot recommend these videos enough.
• 1:37:45
  I got to thank one of our Patreon supporters, Sean, for sending this
• 1:37:49
  to us every year, because I tend to forget about it, but then when it
• 1:37:53
  comes full circle, I just love it.
• 1:37:55
  And I got to say, there's one part of this video I think is epic.
• 1:37:58
  I want to see the build out on this cardboard vehicle and
• 1:38:01
  it's at the minute 21 mark.
• 1:38:03
  These guys built a full.
• 1:38:05
  back to the future DeLorean and send it down this ice luge, shoot,
• 1:38:10
  whatever you want to call it.
• 1:38:11
  That DeLorean was epic.
• 1:38:12
  That guy spent a lot of time on that.
• 1:38:14
  It looked good.
• 1:38:14
  I'd hate to send it down and crash down the ski slope thingy.
• 1:38:18
  And you didn't even get to see it run.
• 1:38:19
  You only sort of got to see it.
• 1:38:21
  I did love the working Gullwing doors.
• 1:38:23
  That was so awesome.
• 1:38:24
  I'm like the amount of detail he put into that to run it down and basically.
• 1:38:27
  Hopefully not obliterate it before it got to the end.
• 1:38:30
  You got to transport something like that in an enclosed trailer.
• 1:38:33
  How are you going to put that back on an open closed trailer?
• 1:38:34
  Put it sideways on the back of an F 150.
• 1:38:37
  That's how you transport it.
• 1:38:38
  It's cardboard.
• 1:38:38
  Don't weigh that much.
• 1:38:39
  Exactly.
• 1:38:40
  Don't blow away at 60 miles an hour.
• 1:38:44
  perpendicular out the back of a Malibu or something, you know, it's all good.
• 1:38:48
  If you've never seen these before, I mean, they range from mundane to insane
• 1:38:53
  on the scale of these cardboard creations.
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  And they send all sorts of people down on these things.
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  It's just nuts.
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  Where does this happen?
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  Poconos.
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  We should totally do this.
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  Yeah, we should go there.
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  I don't, I don't think I want to participate.
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  No, no, no, no, no.
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  We should compete.
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  With what?
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  You build a cardboard 914.
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  See how that only fits two people.
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  They got, some of these, they got like a school bus of people going down.
• 1:39:16
  Yeah.
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  And then on the other guy, it looks like he's just going down on a sled.
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  Those did the best.
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  So there was one where it was like 30 people, a flat sheet of cardboard.
• 1:39:25
  It's like all that weight, real stable.
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  So you guys are winning.
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  This reminds me of the Red Bull fluke talk.
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  Yes, yes, yes.
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  And to Tanya's point, there's something to be said about simplicity and design.
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  You know what I mean?
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  That flat sheet of cardboard.
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  But yes, the Flutog, I missed the Flutog.
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  It's another reason to watch Red Bull TV.
• 1:39:45
  I think GTM needs to commission a vehicle for this.
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  I think we should do it.
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  I'm going to get project motoring on this.
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  I got it.
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  I know exactly what we're going to build.
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  Pontiac Aztec.
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  Oh yeah.
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  Oh yeah.
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  Cardboard Pontiac Aztec.
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  It's even the right color.
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  It's like middle aged beige.
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  Greige.
• 1:40:04
  Just like Heisenberg.
• 1:40:05
  Yes.
• 1:40:06
  On that, we should probably wrap up with some local news and events.
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  Upcoming local news and events brought to us by CollectorCarGuide.
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  net, the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts.
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  So let's see what's coming up for April.
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  The Cruising Car Show season is ramping up with events like Jimmy Cone, Chewy's, the
• 1:40:24
  Damascus and Hagerstown Cars and Coffee, all starting on April 1st and 2nd weekend
• 1:40:29
  and repeating throughout the season.
• 1:40:31
  The air cooled Volkswagen show will be held at the Zimmerman
• 1:40:34
  Auto Driving Museum on April 8th.
• 1:40:36
  There are a bunch of MECOM on time and road art auctions happening in April.
• 1:40:41
  The World Racing, the Big John Music Memorabilia Collection, the
• 1:40:45
  Jim and Brenda Hoffman Collection, and others closing by mid April.
• 1:40:48
  So get your bids in now while you can.
• 1:40:50
  The IMRRC is hosting their 8th Annual Model Car Show on April
• 1:40:54
  15th as part of Opening Weekend, right after the Green Grand Prix.
• 1:40:58
  And tons more events like this and all their details are available
• 1:41:02
  over at CollectorCarGuide.
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  net.
• 1:41:04
  That's right, and now it's time for our HPDJunkie.
• 1:41:07
  com Trackside Report.
• 1:41:08
  So what's coming out here early spring?
• 1:41:11
  Well, the track season has begun.
• 1:41:13
  It started as early as the beginning of March here on the East Coast.
• 1:41:17
  The time trialers over at EMRA, the Eastern Motor Racing Association,
• 1:41:21
  kick off their time trial season at Lime Rock Park on the 1st of April.
• 1:41:26
  They've switched up.
• 1:41:27
  Their season this year, they're predominantly running at Lime Rock
• 1:41:30
  and Pocono kind of alternating between the two locations for an
• 1:41:33
  action packed time trial season.
• 1:41:35
  Meanwhile, the Washington DC region of SCCA kicks off their series of
• 1:41:40
  autocross schools on April the 1st with others peppered throughout the year.
• 1:41:44
  So it's not just a one time autocross school.
• 1:41:46
  If you want to get involved in that, not only that BMW car club of America
• 1:41:50
  is also kicking off their series of autocross schools on the 15th of April.
• 1:41:55
  So check out both of their websites.
• 1:41:57
  To see how you can get involved in that discipline of motorsport.
• 1:42:00
  As Brad mentioned, the IMRRC is holding their eighth annual model
• 1:42:04
  car show after the green Grand Prix.
• 1:42:06
  And the green Grand Prix is in its 18th year and will be held on
• 1:42:11
  April the 14th, which is a Friday at Watkins Glenn international.
• 1:42:15
  I will be personally participating in it with my alternative fuel vehicle,
• 1:42:20
  and I'll be live streaming from the track and throughout the event.
• 1:42:25
  So tune into our Twitch channel, twitch.
• 1:42:27
  tv forward slash grand touring motorsports for live coverage of the green Grand Prix.
• 1:42:33
  We talked about legislation earlier, the performance racing industry, PRI
• 1:42:39
  in conjunction with SEMA and others is working to pass legislation.
• 1:42:43
  That's one step closer to law in West Virginia, especially at
• 1:42:47
  our home track of Summit Point.
• 1:42:49
  Virginia lawmakers are working to support a PRI supported legislation that
• 1:42:54
  was established called the Motorsports Responsibility Act, which would define
• 1:42:58
  areas of responsibility and assumed risks by participants for recreational
• 1:43:02
  and commercial motorsports facilities.
• 1:43:04
  What this really means is it's going to reduce.
• 1:43:07
  The liability insurance premiums allowing racing venues to invest the savings that
• 1:43:14
  they're getting for promotional purposes, you know, tourism, other things like that.
• 1:43:18
  Hopefully this will translate into cheaper track day weekends, not only
• 1:43:23
  for the organizers of track day events, but then the trickle down effect is that
• 1:43:29
  because the tracks insurance is cheaper by proxy, the organizers insurance
• 1:43:33
  should also be commiserate to that.
• 1:43:36
  Again, hopefully making track day weekends a little bit more affordable since the
• 1:43:40
  prices have gone up over the last couple of seasons due to COVID and other things.
• 1:43:45
  So to learn more about that, you can check out performance racing.
• 1:43:48
  com for all the details, or check out our show notes for the link.
• 1:43:51
  We talk a lot about EVs on this show and in the HPD and club racing
• 1:43:56
  world, we wonder all the time, are we going to see more EVs at
• 1:44:00
  the track every once in a while?
• 1:44:02
  There's a guy with a Tesla, you know, they get about 20 minutes
• 1:44:05
  and then they got to find a charger and all this kinds of thing.
• 1:44:07
  And they have a hard time being out there with the rest of us.
• 1:44:10
  Ice powered folks.
• 1:44:11
  Well, there's three tracks in this country right now that are taking
• 1:44:14
  a major push into making EVs.
• 1:44:17
  More accepted at the racetracks, two of which we've run at many times at
• 1:44:21
  the past VIR, Virginia International Raceway and Lime Rock have made the list
• 1:44:27
  along with Button Willow being at the pointy end of the progress here to make
• 1:44:31
  sure that the tracks have more chargers available to folks that want to come
• 1:44:36
  and enjoy their EVs on the racetrack.
• 1:44:38
  So look forward to more enhancements in the future coming from those locations
• 1:44:42
  and hopefully more as we move forward with EVs in racing in the future.
• 1:44:46
  The next HOD Southeast event is Thursday, April the 6th at Sebring.
• 1:44:51
  While Hooked on Driving Northeast will be at New Jersey Motorsports
• 1:44:53
  Park on Saturday, April the 8th.
• 1:44:56
  And that's a Saturday only event.
• 1:44:58
  And we bring up these HOD events because we want to remind you.
• 1:45:02
  As a thank you to everyone that is a loyal supporter of GTM and a
• 1:45:06
  listener of Break Fix Podcast, Mike and Mona Arrigo from Hooked On Driving
• 1:45:10
  are offering a discount all season on HPD events on their schedule.
• 1:45:15
  So be sure to use Code Break Fix 23 to receive a discount on your
• 1:45:20
  event registration at checkout.
• 1:45:22
  So thank you all again for being loyal supporters of all of our efforts.
• 1:45:25
  Tune out through the year.
• 1:45:26
  For more promotions and be sure to get up off the couch and get out
• 1:45:30
  on track in case you missed out.
• 1:45:32
  Check out the other podcast episodes that aired this month.
• 1:45:34
  We started celebrating international women's month with Hannah Thompson's
• 1:45:38
  episode on the history and evolution of the NASCAR hall of fame in
• 1:45:41
  Charlotte's glory, the NASCAR hall of fame in the queen city.
• 1:45:44
  We continued with our first all women's What Should I Buy panel, focusing on
• 1:45:48
  the new EV car buyer, with returning guests Kat DeLorean from DNG Motors,
• 1:45:52
  Sarah Lacey from A Girl's Guide to Cars, Carolyn Ford from TechTransforms, and GTM
• 1:45:57
  members Emily Fox and Chrissy Crutchfield.
• 1:45:59
  Lauren Goodman took us back to the 1930s with her discovery of racer and
• 1:46:02
  team owner Lucy O'Reilly Schell and how she innovated motorsports in France.
• 1:46:07
  Dr.
• 1:46:07
  Chris Lizotte shared her study on autocross, life skills, and the
• 1:46:11
  woman driver in her piece Real Racers Turn in Both Directions.
• 1:46:15
  Samantha Zimmerman is a fine artist specializing in realism with the
• 1:46:18
  breadth of her work consisting of automotive and motorsports subjects.
• 1:46:21
  She joins us from her home studio in San Antonio, Florida to tell us how
• 1:46:25
  she blended her passion for art and motorsports into a blossoming career.
• 1:46:28
  And we will round out International Women's Month with an extra
• 1:46:31
  episode where we chat with a third generation SCCA club racer.
• 1:46:35
  Taylor Hyatt and her plans to get more ladies on track.
• 1:46:38
  Thank you to all the guests that came to the show this month.
• 1:46:40
  We're so excited to be in our fourth season.
• 1:46:42
  And if you're tuning in for the first time, you've way too
• 1:46:45
  many episodes to catch up on.
• 1:46:46
  So just hang in there for more awesome new episodes dropping each week on Tuesdays.
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  And don't forget to sign up for our newsletter in the rear view
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• 1:46:56
  New Patreons for the month of March.
• 1:46:58
  We got to give a big shout out to our newest Patreon supporter, because I
• 1:47:03
  think Brad made him feel a little guilty.
• 1:47:04
  So, you know, Brad, you might want to say thanks and apologize at the same time.
• 1:47:09
  How did I make him feel guilty?
• 1:47:10
  Thank you.
• 1:47:11
  Thank you.
• 1:47:12
  And sorry to Mark Hewitt.
• 1:47:14
  I guess mark has been a loyal fan of the show and we really do appreciate as he is
• 1:47:20
  quoted as saying busting out the pry bar and opening his wallet to help continue
• 1:47:25
  to keep the lights on here at break fix.
• 1:47:26
  So we really do appreciate you doing that.
• 1:47:28
  Every little bit does add up.
• 1:47:29
  It really does count and it helps us continue to bring you great content month.
• 1:47:33
  After month.
• 1:47:34
  Yes.
• 1:47:34
  And in addition to Mark and the new patrons, we've got some other shout outs.
• 1:47:39
  Unfortunately, no anniversaries in the month of March, but we do want
• 1:47:43
  to welcome back Logan Ellsworth.
• 1:47:45
  You can ping him on our discord at Lolo and stop by and say hello.
• 1:47:49
  And if you'd like to become a member of GTM, be sure to check out the
• 1:47:52
  new clubhouse website at club.
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  gtmotorsports.
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• 1:47:57
  That's right.
• 1:47:57
  And we don't have any special guests, so no thanks.
• 1:48:01
  And of course we do want to thank Tanya though, for all her hard work on the show.
• 1:48:07
  And remember folks for everything we talked about on this episode and more, be
• 1:48:10
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  None of this would be possible.
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  The annual two ends alphabet soup.
• 1:48:26
  I think there are too many letters in annual.
• 1:48:28
  And not Oh, oh man.
• 1:48:37
  I'm just gonna leave that there.
• 1:48:38
  Uh, you all can use your imaginations.
• 1:48:41
  That's it, folks.
• 1:48:41
  Uh, that's, that's a wrap.
• 1:48:43
  I don't even know how you follow that anymore.
• 1:48:46
  Um Shweaty balls.
• 1:48:48
  Here
• 1:48:53
  we are, bus
• 1:48:57
  cars in back of us, all just waiting to order.
• 1:49:00
  There's some idiot in a lights on behind me.
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  I lean out the window and scream.
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  Hey, what you're trying to do blind me?
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