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Drive Thru News #1 - Our 1st NEWS EPISODE! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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What's going on, everybody?
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Welcome to BrakeFix.
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I'm your host, Brad.
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With me, as always, is Eric.
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Heyo!
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We also have Tanya with us tonight.
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Hello!
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Tonight, we're going to do something a little different.
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Since it's the end of the month, we've got tons of automotive news to talk about.
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We're going to do, start a new segment called The Drive Thru.
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And basically this is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of local,
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racing, and random car adjacent news.
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So, let's pull up to the window and get into story number one.
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Give me a, uh, liter of cola.
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A what?
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A liter of cola.
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Liter of cola.
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Do we make liter of cola?
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Alright, alright, relax!
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This is just industry news.
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So first, the Mustang Mach E 1400.
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So I watched the video.
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I thought it was pretty epic.
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And, and, I think it's really cool.
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I think it's actually pretty damn awesome.
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At least the video was awesome.
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And after watching the video, it made me want to go out and buy a Mach E.
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Now I know that the Mach E that's going to be the production model that's coming
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out soon, if it's not out already.
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It's going to be completely different.
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I think Ford, Ford was trying to make a statement because there's
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all these people out there.
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We're part of them.
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Poo pooing the idea of performance, like all electric cars.
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And I think Ford's just making a statement like, look, electric cars
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can be, you know, performance cars.
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We've, we're going to take this thing all the way to the extreme
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and show you just what it can do.
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And I think the race, the comparison between all the different types
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of racing, the different types of vehicles that they have in their
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performance lineup and their.
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They're sponsored race cars and having this thing go up
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against them in the video.
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Granted, it was probably edited to look like the car was performing a lot
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better than it actually was, but still.
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1400 horsepower out of a grocery getter.
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Yeah, it's pretty insane.
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They, it'll never see the light of day for us, but I mean, nobody's
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going to have their actual production Mach E and they're not going to have.
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You know, 1400 horsepower doing burnouts all the way down to the, uh, the
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Aldi's, but I think it's pretty cool.
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Yeah, I mean, it's, it's exciting.
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It's, it's just, you know, showing what you can do with electric cars.
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I, I mean, I think it's trying to break the stigma that electric cars are just,
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you know, sort of like the original Prius and they're boring and all they
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do is, like you said, go be a grocery gutter, but they're capable of more and,
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you know, there's already the Formula E series electric formula cars and, you
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know, There's probably going to be more electric racing in the future, so Ford
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is showcasing, you know, what they can do and they have a long racing heritage.
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They should get into the game.
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Why not?
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I mean, I don't disagree.
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We were fortunate to see the Mach E at the DC Auto Show before everything kind of
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closed up here at the beginning of 2020.
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It's a really good looking car in person.
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I don't think the pictures do it justice.
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It has that kind of shooting break look to it.
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It gave me some feels and I wrote about this in the article and I
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would love to test drive a stock one.
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I don't know.
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It's still very cool.
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I mean, don't get me wrong.
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It's a very cool video.
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If you haven't seen it, watch it.
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But has it sold me any more on the idea of electric?
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I don't know.
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We're going to find out.
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We're going to talk more about electric cars here.
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I got to say though, at the end of the day, if the sound of that car.
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Is the future of racing.
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It's terrible.
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It's God awful.
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Let's make it silent, silent film, please.
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Because that is, that is a sound that I don't think I could tolerate
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for more than the length of that video, to be honest with you.
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Okay.
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Well, let's step away from the Mach E, but I want to talk about the Tesla.
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I don't care about them trying to compete at Pikes Peak.
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I want to talk about the car that they built.
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The article that we, we read, it was with the model three
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race car brakes track record.
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At Willow Springs.
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Buttonwillow.
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No, yeah, Buttonwillow.
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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Uh huh.
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And basically, yeah, they go through, they talk about the car.
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It's this performance shop that only works on Teslas, or I guess electric
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cars, called Unplugged Performance.
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And they, they have their eyes, or their sights set on the 911s,
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the GT3RS more specifically.
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I mean, they mention it a couple times in the article, and then how
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they beat the 991 GT3RS's lap time.
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It goes into the kind of the electric cars can be great performance cars as well.
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Look at us, we can do it too.
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Or anything you can do, I can do better kind of thing.
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And they say you can buy this package for this car.
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It's only 35 grand for everything that they did to this car.
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Well, insult to injury, they did it on street tires.
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Yeah, they did it on a Michelin Cup 2 tires, which I don't know
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what tires come on the GT3 RS.
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Probably something similar, I would guess.
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Well, I mean, that's the only other similarity between the Tesla and the
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nine 11, except for their handling.
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'cause if you've driven a Tesla with any sort of vigor, it
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handles a lot like a nine 11.
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So it makes sense that they chose that to go up against, because I, I can't
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see it going against a perfor or 4 88, you know, or anything like that.
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It's just, I get it.
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It's a David and Goliath story, but I think the nine 11 or the 9 9 1
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in this case has graduated beyond.
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Consumer streetcar status for a long time.
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The 9 11 was always kind of nipping at the heels of the supercars and the hypercars.
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I think it's finally earned its place in that rank.
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But I don't think a Tesla three has earned enough merit badges to get there yet.
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But also, so I was reading through the article and it said that the
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quote from the owner, the CEO of Unplugged performance that they
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took this Ascension R package of basically bolt on street tune upgrades.
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So I went to their website and I looked at everything that they did.
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So yeah, they've got suspension, they've got brake upgrades, they've
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got body kits, you know, with carbon fiber bits and stuff like that.
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Everything says bespoke, everything's a little custom and bespoke and one off.
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And I don't know if they're selling a package to a bunch of people,
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how it's all one off, but whatever.
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So they've got ultra lightweight wheels, the sticky tires, the
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Michelin tires and everything.
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Then they've got these bespoke racing seats.
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Now, I don't remember them being a bolt on.
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And when I look at the pictures of the car, the car is gutted.
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It's got the two racing seats, but there's no back seat in here.
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And in the video, you see part of the dash, there was no dash.
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All you saw was ECU and a bunch of other like wires and stuff.
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So that's not a bolt on car.
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And the same way that the Mach E 1400 isn't your run of the mill Mach E.
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So yes, it's another purpose built race car.
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David and Goliath story here.
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So, I don't know, I'm still coming to terms with the whole electric idea.
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I don't know that it's for me yet.
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I don't think there's a car out there that gets my jollies.
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Like, you know, like I still like a petrol powered car does, but I think there's a
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couple of the ones that we're going to talk about here in a minute that, that,
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you know, may bend me in that direction.
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No, it is.
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Tanya actually has experience being in a Tesla on a racetrack.
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I don't know.
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You didn't even get a chance to drive it, but you were at least right seat.
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Can you tell us about your experience with that and if you think this is a
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good idea to build a Tesla performance, like straight on race car, I did get
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to actually drive it on the track.
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It was during warm up.
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So we weren't, you know, supposed to go in full out.
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We weren't wearing helmets.
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It was, you know, very spirited driving around the track.
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And I mean, for the most part, the car was fine and it was pretty neutral.
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The most disconcerting part was coming down straightaway into turn at
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Shenandoah and the nannies, I guess.
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I don't know what it thought because I wasn't fully all the way
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over to the right on the curbing, but it actually lane corrected.
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That pretty good speed, uh, down the straightaway.
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I don't know what it sensed it saw, but it literally jerked the steering wheel.
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We made like a left lane change and I, if you can't turn all that stuff
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off, I would be very apprehensive to drive one of those on the racetrack.
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So hopefully there's the ability to shut all that down.
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Otherwise, I mean, it does get tail happy.
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I have experienced one on the street before.
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It's very easy to step out the rear end because lift throttle is.
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Huge because it's on or off.
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It's not, you know, it's a lot more difficult, more to get used to with the
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whole feathering, the throttle and all that, because the power is instantaneous.
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If you lift and mash the throttle back down, I mean, it's going to
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want to step the rear end out on you.
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So.
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Obviously, there's still a lot of work to race prep one of these.
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I mean, the article talked about how they basically grabbed all this body
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kit, suspension, et cetera, et cetera, and threw it all together in three days.
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And I wonder, okay, how much testing did you do?
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If you watch the video of him, the lap, whoever it is, he's driving.
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Um, I mean, it's the rear end stepped out a couple of times.
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It got swirly.
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And at one point they even corrected, they just drove off the track
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and kind of cut the turn a little bit, um, not to probably spin out.
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I mean, it's, it's, it's evolution, you know, there's probably going
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to be a, who knows, maybe it'll be a Tesla series and it'll just be
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very quiet and a bunch of people whirling around hearing tire noises.
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SCCA, spec Tesla.
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Well, I think a couple years ago there was an article that I read on Jalopnik about
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how they were trying to start a Tesla Model S race series and they were looking
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for drivers to, I guess, to compete.
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Now, I'm looking here at the list of all the parts on the Ascension R package,
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and aside from, you know, the suspension bits, and the wheels, the harness, the
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seats, side skirts, and the bumper, and all the, you know, the good bits
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there, it doesn't say anything about tuning, so I don't know, I mean, Tesla
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may lock down their tuning where you can't, they can't do anything to that.
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They say that you can have a lap time as fast as a GT3 RS for half the money.
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So I wanted to look this up too, of course.
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So the Tesla is 54, 000 without the government, you know, the
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government credit of 7, 500.
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So it's 54, 000.
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And then you add this package to get there to their results.
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So you add another 35, 000.
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So what's that 90, 000, a GT three RS, 253, 000.
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So yeah, it's, it's less than half the cost, but still, which would you rather
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have the Tesla model three with all this crap on it, or the GT three RS go Eric.
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Porsche, Tanya.
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I mean, I need to know how many laps you can actually do before you're not going
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to be able to drive your Tesla home.
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You got to tell it.
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I mean, I probably would go with the 9 11.
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I would go with the 9 11 even just to sell the 9 11 and buy 3 more Teslas.
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I mean, I'm not necessarily against the Tesla.
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I mean, they're not being built to be at high performance.
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So, I mean, there's there's still got to be a lot of.
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Tuning of the suspension and things like that.
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I mean, the weight balance is completely different.
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There's no honking.
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Hundreds of pounds of motor at the front or the back.
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Where do you dial that in?
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They probably still have a long way to go.
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I mean, I don't know why they're going after the GT3 RS,
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but this is an age old story.
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You can buy the greatest performance car in the world for 1 million
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dollars, or you can buy an HHR and put 50 grand into it, and you can
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have the fastest thing in the world.
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Who cares?
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You're still driving home in a shitbox.
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I mean, a Tesla, Tesla should be compared to an M3.
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Or you know, an Audi S four.
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The things, I think those things are more in there, but to your point, they've
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already proven that in a drag race, the Tesla is faster than an M five and
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an M three and all these other cars.
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So, I mean, I saw what even recently where it was on fifth Gear, I think it was,
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and they drag raced an S four with the V eight and all that stuff, or whatever.
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The latest engine they have twin turbo V six or whatever
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it is against the model three.
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And the model three obliterated it even.
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You know, even with just rear wheel drive and just putting his foot
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to the floor because the electric puts all the power to the ground.
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But at the end of the day, what can I do with that Audi
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that I can't do with the Tesla?
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And there's a lot of things on that list.
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Yeah.
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Well, and I think that leads right into the next topic.
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Um, I mean, there was an article from the new CEO of Audi and basically
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the headline was Audi admits behind the times, all electric cars.
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And I mean, they're not the only one and kudos for them for standing up and saying
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it, um, they're behind on the technology.
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Audi and all the major manufacturers aren't battery makers, right?
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And Tesla from the get go was all about the battery and the other technology
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that's wrapped in the cars itself.
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You know, the easy part is the sheet metal, I'd say.
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I mean, the first Tesla was basically a Lotus.
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That they retrofitted batteries into so okay.
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Yeah, but the major manufacturers.
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Yeah, they have ground to catch up.
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They've got the assembly.
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They've got the designs.
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They've got the reliability chain logistics.
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Yeah, I mean, they've got a whole different piece of the pie, but
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they're also trying to retrofit ICE, internal combustion engine cars,
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to have batteries versus Tesla was building a car around a battery.
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So there's a bit of a difference.
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Well, not only that, and I actually just had this conversation today at work.
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Most people don't realize Tesla is really a software company.
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I mean, granted they're in the energy business because of the Tesla batteries
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and the power wall and solar city and all that other kind of stuff.
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And that's really where their R and D is right in that electrical
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technology, wherever they're getting their assistance from.
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And we know for a fact that the original Tesla roadster was a Lotus Elise.
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There was rumors that the Tesla model S was actually a Jag, you
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know, stuff like that, I don't know how much of it is truth or fiction.
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It doesn't really matter.
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But at the end of the day, everybody that's bought a Tesla right now.
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You got what you got, and I hope you're happy with it.
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But everybody's excited about the latest operating system update.
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So Tesla, they're not offering you a new body package or wheels, like these
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guys are doing out in California, where they've devoted, you know, a new,
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you know, aftermarket business to it.
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But Tesla is a software company at the end of the day, right?
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So I, one of the guys I know that had one at work, he said, Oh yeah, they just
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installed a What cup man or some arcade game on my dashboard on the tesla i'm
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like why who cares this isn't a phone This isn't a game boy to your point.
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Tanya.
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I mean Audi's got an advantage right they've been around since
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When cars were invented, basically, if you look at their history, yes,
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people, Audi did exist before 2000.
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They've been around since the early 1900s.
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As a matter of fact, there's a lot of innovation.
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There's a lot of research in there.
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There's a lot of, you know, they've always been on the cutting
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edge of the VAG family, right?
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Where it's like, ah, well, we'll use Audi to experiment on the latest and greatest
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thing that they're going to come up with.
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But to your point, they've got cars that look good.
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They've got cars that handle well.
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They've got cars that are proven in all sorts of weather conditions,
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and they have a reputation.
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They have racing pedigree.
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They have a history there that, you know, other manufacturers do and don't have, but
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Tesla is definitely not on that do list.
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And once they do catch up.
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And they can find a battery manufacturer, maybe they come up with their own.
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Maybe it's, you know, Bosch comes up with it or Siemens,
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or they get it from Samsung.
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Then they will leapfrog over these startups, right?
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And just like a startup IT company, I think Tesla will be swallowed.
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I've been saying it for years.
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It's going to take a minute for it to catch up, but they'll eventually,
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they'll get absorbed by the board.
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I think what the, it was the new CEO at Audi said is correct.
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Yes, they are behind all of the.
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All of the car manufacturers right now are behind Tesla.
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But I don't think it's something that they need to worry about.
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They are behind, but they've got the infrastructure behind them that
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they can catch up really quickly.
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Because they know how to make a car, as Eric was saying.
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Tesla knows how to make software, but are they really that great at making a car?
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I mean, there's all kinds of videos out there about Tesla's build quality.
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I think the, uh, car manufacturers don't have any problems.
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Yes, they need to come out with something soon, and Audi's got the e tron now.
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Uh, and then they've got things planned in the future, but I don't think they
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really need to worry at the end of the day, cars are not software and I've seen
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it myself writing in Tesla's where you have poor, you know, door seals and bad
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bill quality and things that are just kind of shoddy and almost look like
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they were just haphazardly put together.
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You can't roll out a software patch to fix a leaking door, right?
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These are things that, you know, Volkswagen, Audi group
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figured out forever ago.
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You know, and now for them, maybe they take for granted that, Oh,
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we can make a door that seals, you know, to, to 200 fathoms underwater
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because we've done all the research.
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I don't think the Teslas are there and it's going to take a long time for
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them to catch up on the build quality of a Mercedes or a BMW, or even that
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Porsche that we were talking about.
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It's, it's when, you know, you spend 250 grand on a 911.
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Look at what you're getting for 250 grand, right?
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But you get my idea.
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There's something to be said about craftsmanship.
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The attention to detail versus this mentality of like
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software, slap it together.
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The users will figure out where the bugs are and let us know, and then
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we'll fix it down the road, right?
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That just doesn't work.
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But I will say that my, my 2001 Audi S8 that I had.
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Flooded after every thunderstorm.
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So it took him a while to figure out the leaking in the seals and stuff like that.
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Every Mark four with the sunroof leaks.
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I mean, let's get serious, right?
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Exactly.
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So, so Tesla is not too far behind on that respect.
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No, 30 years.
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That's all.
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All right, moving on.
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So we've got next.
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We've got Tanya apparently wants to talk about an electric Bugatti.
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I think it's the alternative to that 35, 000 Tesla package.
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What else could you buy for 35 K?
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Okay.
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What else?
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Indeed.
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So I like the news article title that I saw Bugatti is selling a
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35, 000 electric car for kids.
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And I read that and just said, what are you kidding me?
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I think an alternative title might have worked here.
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They could have used Bugatti.
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Rich people doing rich people things again.
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What happened to the couple hundred dollar, you know, pow pow power wheels?
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As a kid, I remember seeing, you know, oh, they have a power wheels.
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They must be rich.
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They got a lot of money.
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In hindsight, those poor destitute people.
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I mean, I don't know how they got by with their plastic power wheels.
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So, but this article is about the Bugatti Baby 2, and yes, 2, it
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means there was a 1 before it.
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So Mr.
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Bugatti, uh, he made the Baby 1 for his son, his 8 year old son at the time.
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I mean, sure, you're Bugatti, why not, right?
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But the Baby 2, this is geared towards teenagers.
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So we heard it starts at that modest 35, 000.
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It doesn't look like a Chiron or Veyron or anything like that.
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It's a replica of the 1920s.
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Type 35 Bugatti, if you're familiar with that, same Bugatti blue and everything.
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Right.
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You've got that base model that's at 35, 000, but there are two upgrade
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versions that you could choose starting at 50, 000 or up to 68, 000 or 75,
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000, depending on the article you read.
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And they come with the speed key.
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Now, if you're familiar with the Chiron, the Chiron has a speed key,
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which unlocks the pow pow power.
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So the models are the vitesse, French for speed, and the pure sang, pure blood.
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And when you engage the speed key, these pre learner's permit drivers
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can get up to 42 miles an hour.
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And drive it in the driveway, because they're not street legal.
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So I'm not really sure where these people are going, but I'm gonna suppose
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that if you have 70, 000 to spend on your child's toy, that the grounds you
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live on probably are pretty impressive, so there's Space to go driving?
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I don't know.
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There's a lot of, I have a lot of questions here.
20:31
I don't know about you guys.
20:32
Mainly mine are why?
20:35
And the only thing I could come up with was rich people, rich people things.
20:38
Well, my immediate answer was it's French and I was just going to leave it there.
20:42
I would need to buy two of them just so I can wear them around the shoes.
20:46
I think it's cool.
20:48
Let's just say you have the budget and you were like, man, I want the
20:51
coolest go kart that I can buy.
20:53
And it's a replica Bugatti type 35.
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I mean.
20:56
Yeah, that's pretty slick.
20:58
What go karts could you buy for 35, 000 that would go faster?
21:01
You can buy legitimate shifter karts for less money than that.
21:04
But here you go, you can buy your Bugatti go kart for 68, 000 or you can
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buy your little shifter kart for 15, 000 and dump, you know, 50, 000 into it.
21:16
And completely blow it out of the water for half the cost.
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That's what Tesla's doing now.
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Can I drive it at Pike's Peak?
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Yes.
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Ah, we're set.
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That's what the real reason is.
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Now we're gonna do Junior Pike's Peak Hill Climb in Bugatti electric replicas.
21:31
This is how it's gonna go.
21:32
And then we can claim that we're faster than a 1980 Chevette.
21:36
Let's just claim that we're faster than a 911 GT3 RS.
21:40
Does that work?
21:40
Who's gonna compare them?
21:42
Ah, that's true.
21:42
That's very true.
21:44
I like this plan.
21:45
What do we got next?
21:46
We gotta dodge.
21:47
What?
21:48
A do a what?
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We are taking 200 steps back, and we've gotta dodge Demon.
21:55
That's right, people.
21:55
Wait, wait, wait.
21:55
You're talking about the Challenger.
21:57
No, no, no, no, no, no.
21:58
I'm talking about the Miata.
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Excuse me?
22:01
So hear me out.
22:02
So back in 2007, before the Challenger, Dodge was thinking
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about making a Miata killer.
22:08
Well, a Miata competitor, not really a killer.
22:10
And they gave the Demon nameplate to this little two seat roadster
22:15
convertible thing that they were going to release to compete with the Miata.
22:19
It had 2.
22:19
4 liters in line for about 172 horsepower, 165 pound feet of torque.
22:24
Compared that to the Mazda Miata, it was two liters, four cylinder, 170
22:30
And, yeah, this was gonna be the demon.
22:33
So, wait, wait, wait.
22:34
Was it front wheel drive?
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No, it was rear wheel drive, and it had a six speed manual transmission.
22:39
Oh, wow.
22:40
I wonder who they borrowed that drivetrain from.
22:42
Cause I was gonna say, if it was front wheel drive, it was a Neon re skinned.
22:45
Cause, you know, that time period.
22:47
I'm sure all this happened after 2007, but I'm wondering,
22:50
maybe it was an SLK underneath.
22:52
Maybe it was like a Chrysler Crossfire.
22:54
So yeah, that could be a possibility that it was maybe a precursor to the crossfire.
22:59
We'd have to dig into that a little bit more, but oddly enough, all joking
23:03
aside, it's kind of, I don't, I hate this word, but it's serendipitous
23:07
that this showed up this week on grassroots motorsports, because we
23:10
just talk to one of our members about.
23:13
Trying to fit himself in a Dodge Demon when it was at an auto show.
23:17
And it made for a very funny story, which you guys will hear
23:19
on a later podcast episode.
23:21
But we thought it was kind of cool that this came up, maybe big brothers
23:24
listening or Skynet or the Borg or somebody, but we're going to post
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the article so you can check it out about this little known concept car.
23:32
And we're going to talk more about concept cars in a follow on episode, which is a.
23:36
kind of carry on from an article we wrote a couple years ago entitled,
23:40
Good Ideas and Bad Execution.
23:42
So we'll probably revisit the Dodge Demon concept a little later in the year.
23:46
Good pull there, Brad.
23:47
Since we're talking about concept cars, have you guys seen the
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rendering of the new Fiero?
23:52
Yes.
23:54
It looks like a Monte Carlo.
23:55
Yeah, it looks like a Monte Carlo or a third gen Camaro.
23:58
It looks like trash.
23:59
I'm just going to say it.
24:00
I'm just going to come out and say it.
24:01
It's a turd.
24:02
I mean, I had this reaction, like, when you were a kid, surfing the internet,
24:07
and all of a sudden something popped up on the screen and you're trying to close
24:09
it as fast as you can because you know it's something you don't want to load.
24:12
That was my reaction to the new Fiero.
24:15
I was like, close this browser window immediately, block the pop up.
24:19
I want to say that the Fiero, there's no good looking Fiero.
24:22
The only good, the best Fiero picture I've ever seen.
24:26
Was when I was about 10 years old and there was like a half naked woman
24:30
with giant breasts and like blonde hair sitting on the hood of it.
24:32
That was the best Fiero picture because I didn't have to look at the Fiero.
24:36
I just had to look at the girl.
24:39
The Fiero was a turd.
24:41
It still is a turd.
24:43
It's the biggest piece of shit.
24:45
Whatever.
24:46
The Fiero I hate it.
24:47
I hate that part.
24:48
To give the Fiero a little bit of credit.
24:51
Credit where credit is due.
24:53
Makes an awesome kit car.
24:54
If you want to have a fake Ferrari, but I think they only got it right in the last
24:59
year with the two M six and all the other things, when they finally figured it out,
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they were like, all right, we're done.
25:05
We're not going to make it anymore.
25:06
They do still hold a decent value, especially those last couple of
25:10
years of the Fiero, the early cars.
25:12
I think they've all just turned back into.
25:14
Rust and dirt at this point.
25:16
You don't see too many of them on the road.
25:18
I think if I got the opportunity and somebody handed me the keys,
25:21
I would drive it to say I did.
25:23
But I wouldn't probably ever tell anybody about it.
25:26
I would, I wouldn't drive it because I can't fit in it.
25:29
But I would push it off a cliff.
25:31
I also think that the other thing that, It just had all the GM stuff.
25:37
To include the T tops, right?
25:39
You're just like, oh man.
25:40
Every 80s GM trope.
25:42
We had to put it into that car.
25:44
But I love the T tops.
25:45
I had T tops on both my Camaros and I thought they were fantastic.
25:48
I'm not a T top guy.
25:49
It's just, I've grown out of sunroofs and T tops for me,
25:53
it's like, oh god, I don't know.
25:54
It's one more thing to leak.
25:56
Would I like to see the Fiero come back?
25:58
Yes.
25:59
But as the C8 Corvette instead, like, I don't know, I'm still hung up on the
26:04
whole idea of the mid engine Corvette.
26:06
It could have been called something else.
26:08
Maybe the Fiero, maybe the Corvair.
26:10
Do I want to see whatever this, I don't know, abomination, a good word for
26:15
it is, it is not a pleasant looking car, especially with today's design
26:20
cues in mind, it's just, like you said, it's a combination of things.
26:23
It does go back to the Monte Carlo.
26:26
I could see them building a Monte Carlo off of this, maybe some sort of GNX.
26:29
Modern thing, but I don't know this seems to be a recurring theme with GM
26:34
because right after the Bronco came out GM decided they were gonna throw
26:39
out a blazer Tease and and do a two door blazer like in the old days and
26:43
so we're gonna post a link to that as well What did you guys think of that?
26:46
I actually have to look at it again.
26:49
That's how much attention I paid it Well, while she's looking at it
26:54
again, I think it's really cool.
26:55
Now, was this a rendering that GM actually did, or was this something
26:58
that somebody else put out hoping that GM was going to do this?
27:01
Because I know GM released the Blazer crossover a year or two ago.
27:07
Too much, you know, complaints and criticism by the public,
27:12
and I think they're just trying to save face at this point.
27:15
If they're the ones that releases it's too little too late.
27:18
I think the article that we read said that it was going to be a little bit softer.
27:22
It was going to be more like the everyday off roader.
27:25
So it's going to have off road capability.
27:28
But it's going to be more user friendly for, I guess, everyday
27:31
driving around on the road.
27:32
If anybody who's owned a Wrangler, I've owned two of them.
27:35
I've never owned a Bronco, but I can imagine it's probably very similar.
27:39
They are not fun to drive on the road.
27:41
I mean, I made it fun to drive just because I liked, you know, balling
27:44
down the street in a lifted Wrangler.
27:46
But they are not comfortable.
27:48
There's no room in them.
27:49
They're terrible just to drive down to the grocery store.
27:52
You have to really enjoy driving a Wrangler.
27:55
And I think this is supposed to Grab those customers that want that look in
28:00
that that kind of Wrangler feel or that they want to look like the lifestyle But
28:05
they don't actually want to participate in it kind of like athleisure wear
28:08
the people that want to look like they work out But they don't work out.
28:11
I think this is the athleisure wear of the straight up yoga pants my
28:16
problem with the retro cars is If you're going to do retro, do it right.
28:21
And I got to tip my hat to Chrysler.
28:22
I know a lot of people call me a closet fan boy, but that's one
28:26
thing that Fiat's done right.
28:28
And even kind of Mercedes kind of set the stage there when they went and
28:32
did the Challenger and the Charger at first, I didn't like it, but the new
28:35
one is really actually kind of cool and everything they're trying to do.
28:38
And you know, the Durango was supposed to be the Grand Wagoneer and call
28:41
it what you want badge engineering.
28:42
But at the end of the day.
28:44
They did retro, right?
28:45
They look the way they're supposed to.
28:47
They, they outperform most everybody's expectations, but to build a retro car
28:53
and then end up basically with the FJ, you know, that weird two door thing that
28:58
Toyota came up with, which was supposed to hark back to the, you know, the
29:01
sixties and seventies, it was too soft.
29:03
It was too blobby.
29:04
It was like a marshmallow on wheels.
29:07
And does it really have any off road capability?
29:09
No, you, if you want to offer a capability, go buy a Jeep.
29:11
Go buy something else.
29:12
Right?
29:13
If you're gonna make a blazer, make a blazer.
29:15
If you're gonna make a Bronco, make a Bronco.
29:17
Don't give me a Mach E and then put different sheet metal on top of it.
29:21
So build something right, body on frame, build it the way people want
29:25
it, because all you're gonna do is end up with people disappointed.
29:28
And like you said at the beginning of this, The new blazer that came out is
29:33
a slap in the face to people that have square body blazers or early, you know,
29:37
blazers and all that kind of stuff because it's an equinox with a new badge on it.
29:42
Let's, let's just face it, right?
29:43
And it has nothing to do with the blazer.
29:46
Again, I say kudos to GM, but I agree with you.
29:50
It's a day late, a dollar short because they've been talking about the Bronco for.
29:54
What five plus years now, like they've been teasing that it's coming.
29:57
I'm glad it's finally here.
29:59
I know people are putting deposits on it and I think it's going to
30:01
be popular just like the Maquis.
30:03
And I think Ford did the right thing by sunsetting cars like the
30:07
Mondeo and the focus and things that just really weren't selling well.
30:10
And they're bringing out something exciting and GM.
30:14
I don't know.
30:14
I just think they're, they're playing catch up, you know, and I think the
30:17
Corvette was a fail and that was the most exciting thing they had, right?
30:20
Because what else did GM really have right now that gets you interested
30:24
in coming into the dealership?
30:25
You know, I actually used to be a GM fan boy and my family, you know, when
30:29
I was growing up With the exception of my 91 Honda Civic, all we had were GMs.
30:34
We had a Caprice.
30:35
We had numerous pickup trucks All GM, all Chevy Silverados, but with
30:40
what they've been putting out lately, I would say from 98, 99 to now.
30:46
It's all terrible.
30:48
I mean, there's not one car with the exception of the Corvette, which I
30:50
don't fit in, so don't even try it.
30:52
There's not one car that I would buy of theirs.
30:55
It's, it's terrible.
30:56
I will say, and not to diverge too far off, I will say the Impala is pretty nice
31:01
as an everyday kind of full size sedan.
31:05
We're probably going to see that car disappear, but they finally got that
31:08
right because the ones previous to the current one were pretty terrible.
31:12
But that's the only thing that I'd be like, yeah, I'd consider a GM.
31:15
It'd be pretty much that.
31:16
And a CTS, CTSV of some sort.
31:19
I had the unfortunate displeasure to have to be inside multiple
31:26
mid 2000 generation Impalas.
31:29
Oh my gosh, those are the worst.
31:32
No offense to anybody.
31:33
I cannot.
31:34
Stand those cars.
31:36
I will never ever.
31:39
I don't care if the new one is nice or not terrible.
31:43
Wait, were you in the back seat behind plexiglass and barred doors or?
31:47
No, I was driving it and the thing had 20, 000 miles on it and it drove
31:52
like it had 220, 000 miles on it.
31:55
It was horrific.
31:58
I can't imagine someone.
32:00
Willingly went to a dealership and gave up their hard earned money for one of these.
32:05
That's how passionately I feel dislike for them.
32:09
I think they went to Enterprise and got a rental and just forgot to return it.
32:13
And I think that's how all these people ended up owning Impalas.
32:16
They just forgot to return them.
32:17
And I think Enterprise was fine with that.
32:20
I think they were too.
32:21
And I can hear mountain man Dan right now.
32:22
Well, you know, that's cause you're used to that sport tune, Bill
32:25
Stein suspension, you know, in your German cars, you got to embrace
32:29
the mattress suspension of that GM.
32:35
Sure.
32:36
Where's my dromamine motion sickness medication.
32:41
So let's jump, let's jump to this new.
32:44
New, but old since we talked about retro before Morgan is bringing a car next
32:50
year is what I'm to understand 2021.
32:52
Yeah, so when did BMW buy Morgan?
32:56
Like when did that happen?
32:57
That's all I'm gonna start with that That's the thing that I was a little
33:03
bit unclear on because I didn't know that there were any British wholly
33:07
owned Companies anymore in terms of auto manufacturers, they'll be kind
33:10
of either bought up by the Indians or, you know, the Germans or, or whoever.
33:14
So I was like, ah, Morgan.
33:16
So when I, when I read about the BMW cooperation, their collaboration effort,
33:20
I was like, oh, that's interesting.
33:21
And now it does look like.
33:23
Every other Morgan from back in the day, which they're hard to tell apart.
33:27
Like, you know, there will be an episode coming out where we interview two
33:31
members and one of them has a Morgan plus eight and it's like an 85 or 86.
33:37
And I, to me, it looks like a 1956.
33:39
I mean, they all kind of look the same and the new one harks back to the same thing.
33:42
So it's.
33:43
It's a retro car, but I mean, they're still using the same size and
33:47
dimensions and bucks and wooden frame.
33:49
And so is it really, is it really new?
33:51
Or is it just got a new engine in it?
33:53
You know, I, I don't know.
33:54
From what I read, it's, it's completely new.
33:56
I mean, yeah, it's still using wood, but they, they've got control arms all around.
34:00
They're no longer using leaf springs in the back and the live
34:03
axle, and they've got more power out of it, thanks to the BMW.
34:07
In line four.
34:09
It's supposed to be a wider car.
34:10
So people larger than, you know, five foot seven, you know, can fit
34:15
in it comfortably, I guess, and it's, it's supposed to be a brand new car.
34:18
It gets up to 149 miles per hour.
34:21
It's 0 to 60 in 4.
34:22
3 to 4.
34:23
7 seconds.
34:24
It's, I mean, it's not too shabby for the low price of well, see, that's the thing.
34:29
It's the 4th of the price of the GT three RS.
34:33
It's, it's 70 grand.
34:34
They're not being sold as production cars.
34:36
They're being sold.
34:38
They're using the loophole because they don't sell a lot of vehicles
34:41
here in the United States.
34:43
So they're not selling it as like an auto manufacturer, it's like a kit car.
34:46
It's going to be sold as a kit car, much like the three wheeler that's
34:50
sold here now, which I love by the way.
34:52
I would never be able to own one, but I love them.
34:54
They're sold as motorcycles.
34:55
So the internet, Oracle of all things, it is It's not owned
35:00
by anybody but themselves.
35:02
They are still the Morgan Motor Company.
35:05
Um, I think they have an, uh, apparently an Italian investment group, um,
35:09
maybe is backing them right now, but their parent organization is still
35:13
the Morgan Motor Company Limited.
35:15
All right.
35:15
So let's switch gears.
35:16
Let's talk about, you know, we've talked about a lot of different
35:18
cars and retro cars, whatever.
35:20
Let's talk about a car that never came to the States, was
35:23
never destined for the States.
35:25
But has to be one of the coolest cars you've never seen or never heard of.
35:30
And maybe some of you have, if you're a, if you're a, a German
35:33
car fanatic, like some of us are, we posted a video to a recently
35:38
released wide body conversion on a VW.
35:43
SP2.
35:44
And for those that don't know what an SP2 is, it was presented in 1971 as Project X.
35:52
The SP2 is a sports car developed by Volkswagen of
35:55
Brazil for the Brazilian market.
35:57
And was produced from 1972 to 1976.
36:01
It's actually built as a variant on top of the carbon GIA chassis
36:05
and was equipped with a 1.
36:07
7 liter flat four over that four year period, 11, 000 units
36:12
were produced in South America.
36:14
There was a short lived and very unpopular SP one.
36:17
That came out before and there was actually an SP3 prototype, which in my
36:21
opinion is better looking and we can post some links to all that stuff where
36:24
you guys can look it up on Wikipedia.
36:26
But this particular wide body car came across my desk and I was
36:30
completely glued to the screen.
36:32
It is gorgeous.
36:34
It is a color that I don't understand.
36:37
Uh, it changes because it is technically midnight blue as, as the title of
36:41
the video, which you don't really see until the second half, but wow, what an
36:47
amazing bill, the guy that put that car together, it's, it's really, really cool.
36:50
And you definitely got to check it out.
36:52
So I know you guys watched it.
36:53
How about some feedback?
36:54
I don't actually think it's a real car.
36:56
I think it's all CGI because I follow, I follow that guy on Instagram and stuff.
37:02
And he's got a whole bunch of different renderings and stuff.
37:05
I, I could be wrong and the listeners will tell me where they
37:08
won't because nobody's listening.
37:10
But I think that it's, I think it's all CGI.
37:13
I don't think it's a real car.
37:14
That's why you get the color change because it starts out as gray.
37:17
And then it's, then it's midnight blue all of a sudden.
37:20
I think the gray is when he's first.
37:22
You know, like, like the first draft or whatever.
37:24
I don't think it's an actual real car.
37:26
But the videos of the car going down the road and just kind of
37:29
watching the suspension travel and, you know, and everything like that.
37:33
If it is CGI, it's damn good.
37:35
Watch the driver.
37:36
The driver's head does not move.
37:38
Oh, I was just annoyed at the audio track being so loud.
37:41
You couldn't hear the sound of the engine.
37:43
It's like, can we turn that down?
37:45
It's fabulous music, but please.
37:48
I'm interested in the sound of the engine.
37:50
And I wanted to downshift.
37:51
And I wanted to see him go bruhhh.
37:54
Nothing.
37:54
There was a moment there where you did hear the car And it sounded
37:58
like it was a six cylinder.
38:00
Uh, I don't, I couldn't tell if it was a flat or a VR of some sort, you
38:03
know, like all those crazy, all those crazy conversions out there, but
38:07
you know, that is a rear engine car.
38:08
I mean, obviously built on the carbon gear chassis, so you could fit probably a lot
38:11
of things back there, but rendering or not you guys, come on, it's a sexy car.
38:17
I mean, it's, I think the only detractor is that nose and that's, it's a face.
38:23
Only a mama can love, you know, it's kind of goofy, but I thought about it.
38:28
If the SP two had a different nose, then it would just be
38:32
kind of a weird looking nine 11.
38:34
I like the SP two, even just to stop on.
38:36
I mean, it's different.
38:37
I like different, I like all those.
38:39
It was older cars, so I mean with the wide body kit, it definitely looks nice.
38:43
I mean, there, there could be some slight different fits and finishes
38:46
that you could do, but I mean, overall it was an attractive car.
38:50
I thought it was really cool looking.
38:51
It actually reminded me a lot of like a 280z or like an older Z car.
38:55
I thought it was really cool.
38:57
I don't fit in them, so I don't care, but I think it looks good.
39:01
Somebody else would have a lot of fun with that car.
39:03
I, I would.
39:04
A hundred percent.
39:05
So bad.
39:07
And for, you know, the only SP2 you can own in the United States, not
39:11
imported through the gray market, you can pick up at your local
39:14
Walmart because Hot Wheels has cast them for the last couple of years.
39:17
And I have a small collection of SP2s here at the house.
39:20
So just letting you know, you know, they only cost about a dollar.
39:23
So it's a huge savings over that Tesla we talked about earlier.
39:26
So let's go to our last bit of industry news.
39:28
Yeah, we're going full circle here, right back to the electric
39:31
talk that we started with.
39:33
Oh, why?
39:34
Oh, but this is nice.
39:36
This is fun.
39:37
This is, this is electric buses.
39:39
It's the Gary Busey, right?
39:43
So there's a German company called Electric Brands, and they're developing
39:48
a modular electric bus that's not just a bus, it's a pickup truck,
39:52
it's a camper van, and much more.
39:54
It's called the eBusey.
39:56
An unfortunate name, but maybe they'll change it, you know, right off the bat.
40:00
I'm thinking, you know, this thing actually gets made and sold.
40:02
Is this a competitor to VW's ID buzz, which you haven't heard the buzz
40:08
about the buzz ID buzz is the new VW bus, the iconic love and hippies
40:16
bus that we know the type two, the transporter, as it was called, and this.
40:21
This e bussy is very reminiscent of the Type 2.
40:25
Uh, the Type 2 came in a wide variety of configurations.
40:30
You know, it had the panels, it had the flatbed, the pickup truck, the
40:34
Westfalia was the camper van, and so on.
40:36
So the e bussy is going to have two chassis options.
40:39
It's going to have urban and it's going to have off road.
40:41
It's also going to have 10 configurations from bus to flatbed pickup truck to
40:47
traditional pickup with the side walls to camper van and so on, just to name a few.
40:53
Now, the other interesting thing about this bus, since it's so modular,
40:57
so not just removing panels and reconfiguring it like Legos steering
41:03
and the pedals are not mechanical as is modern day drive by wire, right?
41:09
You will be able.
41:12
To slide the steering wheel and pedals left to right in the cabin.
41:16
So you can go from left hand drive to right hand drive.
41:21
Which is very interesting.
41:22
I'm not sure useful, but interesting.
41:25
Can I sit in the middle like a McLaren?
41:27
Actually, you can.
41:29
I watched a video on it and there seems to be three positions.
41:32
Left, center, and middle.
41:34
And you kind of rearrange the panel box in the dashboard, apparently.
41:40
So, alright, you've got that.
41:43
Aesthetically, if you haven't seen it, I would categorize it as, quote, cute.
41:48
I mean, if there was a sequel to WALL E, this would be the
41:52
star, and it would convert into a wheelchair moving the humans around.
41:57
It's Wheely.
42:00
Voiced by Gary Busey.
42:02
Yes.
42:04
Disney, give us a call.
42:07
We got this figured out.
42:08
Okay, so some more about the bus here.
42:11
So it's not very heavy.
42:12
It's 1000 to 1300 pounds.
42:14
I'm sure that's based on what the chassis is.
42:17
It's only going to be all wheel drive.
42:19
Um, it's also going to have 20 horsepower, but 737 foot pounds of
42:26
torque, which to me sounds incredible in such a small, light vehicle.
42:33
It's going to do a wheel stand.
42:36
I'm getting excited.
42:37
The smaller 10 kilowatt battery, it's going to get you about 120 miles of range,
42:41
but there is a 30 kilowatt battery that will get you around 370 miles of range.
42:45
In terms of price, we're talking on the low end and 18, 000 on the higher end.
42:50
If you want to go off road camper version, um, it's closer to 33, 000 do
42:56
not foresee, unfortunately, I guess, this ever coming to America and despite
43:01
it being clearly influenced by the.
43:04
VW Type 2.
43:05
I'm not sure it's going to be a competitor to the ID Buzz.
43:09
I actually think, because if you've seen images of it as a flatbed or a pickup
43:14
truck, it reminds me of the little three wheeled trucks that run around Italy.
43:19
Oh, yeah.
43:20
The Apes.
43:22
Yeah.
43:22
The Piaggio.
43:23
And Ape, fun fact, is being Italian and they've been around since
43:28
1948 and they've been making this little three wheeled delight.
43:32
I mean, it's a Vespa with a truck bed on it.
43:35
I mean, they're fantastic, really.
43:37
I mean, Piaggio is the company that made, makes Vespa.
43:41
So, I mean, it's not a leap that they got there.
43:43
So.
43:44
Considering how the off days use where it runs around small city towns,
43:49
and, you know, it's very commercial.
43:50
You've got guys just doing maintenance things running around doing deliveries,
43:54
commercial things of that nature.
43:56
You know, this, I would see actually, it's more of a competitor.
44:00
To them, then, you know, I'm going to cruise around town in my VW bus
44:05
that doesn't, you know, turn into a transformer, but I can see this
44:08
competing with the transit to the for transit because they they've
44:12
got different configurations.
44:13
I mean, they don't have a pickup truck configuration, but you can get different
44:16
van sizes and you can get the tall 1, the short 1, a little bit longer.
44:20
So I would see it as a competitor for that.
44:22
Two questions.
44:23
One, do I fit?
44:25
Would I sit in the center and nobody on either side of me?
44:28
And then two, is it just me or does the logo look like the Bugatti logo?
44:33
Is this a Bugatti bussy?
44:35
Bugatti bussy?
44:37
You would cost a lot more if it was.
44:39
Yes, true.
44:40
And there was no mention of a speed key.
44:42
No, okay, okay.
44:43
What I really want to know is What does it do at Pike's Peak,
44:47
and what can I compare it to?
44:48
Is there a 35, 000 Ascension R package for it?
44:52
It might be coming.
44:54
And if it did, would you buy one?
44:55
I mean, honestly, I would go look at one.
44:59
It's like your electric Fiat Panda.
45:01
Alright, I'm putting it in the universe.
45:03
We need a Fiat Panda.
45:04
Fiat's here in the us It's gotta happen, but it's gotta look good.
45:08
We need to be on the retro panda wagon, not the new, the new panda.
45:14
Least that's have gotten the Jordan one drive.
45:17
One of those I one day maybe we'll drive one of the older ones.
45:21
Alright, so let's go behind the pit wall and just let's do some local news
45:25
real quick before we get into some of the fun stuff and, and, and wrap up.
45:28
Today's episode.
45:29
So real quick, HOD has put out a call for coaches for all August events.
45:34
That's Pocono summit point and pit race.
45:36
So if you're a coach and you're willing and able to help, please
45:39
reach out to Kenny Ivner at Ken E that's K E N E at hooked on driving.
45:44
com for more information.
45:46
More importantly, HOD has changed the format of their August
45:49
eight, nine summit point event.
45:51
It is no longer three days and is no longer on three tracks.
45:54
It is now two full days on summit point main.
45:58
You can find more details about that particular event at www.
46:01
hookedondriving.
46:02
com and then click on Northeast and it'll show up there.
46:05
But more importantly, HOD has authorized GTM to extend our
46:09
discount to any of our listeners.
46:11
So if you're interested in participating in this event, you
46:14
can use our discount code of GTM10 during checkout and save yourself 10
46:19
percent on the Summit Point entry fee.
46:21
Now some COVID related changes to the track world and to the
46:25
motorsports world in our local area.
46:27
This may apply to areas outside of the DMV, but I'm just going
46:31
to pass this information along.
46:32
If you're interested in tracks in our area like NJMP, Summit Point, etc.
46:36
EMRA, the Eastern Motorsports Racing Association, they've recently put out a
46:40
press release talking about how Travel restrictions within New York, New
46:44
Jersey, and Connecticut have changed.
46:46
There's a lot of States now that are on basically a no fly list.
46:49
And that is causing issues with registration at events and locations
46:53
like NJP Watkins Glen, et cetera.
46:56
As of the 23rd of July, they had said they were very short of registrations.
47:00
And they were on the verge of potentially cancelling the event
47:03
because many people from outside the area weren't able to participate.
47:06
With that being said, they were supposed to follow up the same day and they didn't.
47:10
But I recently checked their website, emrahracing.
47:14
org, under upcoming events.
47:15
And the event for August was still listed on their website.
47:19
It's two days at NJMP Lightning.
47:21
And then they do have some follow on events later in the season
47:24
that you can look up as well.
47:26
If you plan on going to any of the events, Make sure you check
47:29
what state the event is in and if that state has any restrictions
47:33
for who can come into the state.
47:35
We had 1 guy at Watkins Glen get turned away because he was from Maryland.
47:40
Another guy almost got turned away because he lived in Florida,
47:43
but he had a Delaware license.
47:45
I mean, he had a Delaware property and he was able to use that
47:48
address to get into the then.
47:50
So.
47:50
Be very careful what you register for and make sure that you can actually go.
47:54
Exactly.
47:55
And stay tuned because changes are happening all the time.
47:59
Uh, and every state is different and state by state.
48:01
So, you know, there's events happening all over the country as
48:04
of, you know, the beginning of June.
48:06
So, and we're going to talk about that a little bit more here.
48:09
Another press release from SCCA.
48:11
came out and the governor of West Virginia has outlined a status
48:16
on West Virginia's recovery plan.
48:18
It's kind of short and sweet to the point.
48:20
They've changed a lot of their focus on different counties in West Virginia.
48:24
The county that summit point is in is not affected.
48:26
So they're basically, they're continuing to move forward with the
48:30
way they've done business up until, you know, as the track had reopened.
48:33
In June, the mandates for endure use of mass remains in place.
48:38
So if you're a novice or intermediate student, you're required to go to
48:40
class, you're required to wear a mask, you know, look at the guidance of the
48:44
club to see if master required when you have a coach in the car, or if you're
48:48
a coach, you know what the rules are they doing lead follow in car, etc.
48:52
The good news for the DMV, especially for the WDCR region of SCCA is they're
48:57
gonna move ahead with all of their scheduled programming, which means
49:01
competition race school, which just happened, and, and Brad will talk about
49:04
here in a second, as well as their chime trials, HBD events, auto crosses.
49:09
Uh, all of that is gonna continue is to include the rally cross
49:13
events at Summit Point, et cetera.
49:14
So the Mars 2020 club racing season is now basically underway
49:20
until Summit Point closes.
49:21
In addition to that, I got a news flyer came across my desk with respect to our
49:27
friends at National Corvette Museum.
49:28
We've had the opportunity to go out there many times over the years.
49:32
Great facility out in Bowling Green, Kentucky, just down the
49:35
road from the Corvette factory.
49:36
And I was shocked when I read the email, and I know a few other people
49:40
have probably received this as well.
49:42
It looks as though they have crammed their entire season into the month of August.
49:47
They are doing HPD events, club racing, club driving, autocrosses, trek at
49:52
the track, which is a walk, bike, run, Corvette C8 experience day, pro touring
49:57
truck shootout all in the month of August and they're basically running events.
50:02
Throughout the week and throughout the end, you can look up what's going
50:06
on at ncmm by visiting motorsports park.org/events, and you can see the
50:11
crazy schedule they have laid out.
50:13
I wish I lived closer to ncm because I would probably jump
50:16
in on some of these events.
50:17
It's a really cool track, unlike anything else you've ever
50:20
driven, because of factory test.
50:21
Track is not a race track and NCM specifically is designed and
50:25
modeled after down to, you know.
50:28
inch scale of corners at Le Mans and Daytona and other places.
50:33
It's a really interesting track to drive at.
50:35
So if you're in the area or are planning on going out there,
50:38
it's definitely worth doing.
50:40
But again, check those state by state restrictions to make sure that you're
50:43
allowed to travel, you know, into Kentucky, especially to go to NCM.
50:47
In addition to that, two other pieces of news.
50:49
If you're a fan of indoor carting, especially electric indoor carting,
50:53
Autobahn Speedway, which has facilities all over the DMV, and now I believe
50:58
in Pennsylvania and some other places, they have opened all of their locations.
51:02
By reservation only.
51:04
So if you want to go carting with your buddies, you want to do an Enduro,
51:08
you can get a block of time, check out their website, autobahnspeed.
51:12
com for more details.
51:14
One of the things we were planning as a, as a club this year, as an extended
51:17
cannonball was to try to go to the Canadian F1 Grand Prix, that event.
51:22
Many people don't know is actually a limited number of people can go there
51:25
because the track is on an island.
51:27
You can't actually drive onto it.
51:28
There's shuttles, things like that.
51:29
It's very complicated logistically, and it sells out like within 24 to 48 hours.
51:34
So we've been keeping an eye on it.
51:36
We really wanted to go this year.
51:37
We actually kind of missed our opportunity.
51:39
But unfortunately and regrettably, the Canadian F1 circuit has responded and said
51:45
that they are canceling the F1 Grand Prix.
51:48
They're very disappointed.
51:49
It's very difficult.
51:50
It's very challenging.
51:51
A lot of people traveling from all over Canada has
51:54
different restrictions in the U.
51:55
S.
51:55
due to COVID.
51:57
For people that already bought tickets.
51:59
By the 27th of July, you should have received a communication from the Canadian
52:03
F1 Grand Prix track about the status of your tickets and what they're going to do.
52:08
They want to thank everybody for their loyalty, and they'll
52:11
let you know, you know, when they can open the track back up.
52:13
Um, well, this past weekend, the SCCA held their, their annual competition school.
52:19
I think it's annual.
52:19
There may be one or two a year.
52:21
Two of our members, Matt Wood and Jordan Furman, both
52:25
entered the school and passed.
52:26
Matt Wood continued on through the weekend and competed in his
52:30
first real SCCA sanctioned races.
52:32
So let's give a round of applause to them.
52:36
Congratulations guys.
52:37
Also, I think the weekend before that, one of our other members,
52:40
Sam Harrington, went to an event at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
52:45
It was called the Jersey Devil Majors, where he finished first place in his
52:49
race in his Formula Enterprise 2 car.
52:52
So congratulations to Sam as well.
52:54
And then other than that, I mean that's, that's pretty much it.
52:57
The SCCA competition school is interesting.
53:00
I was there and I worked with Matt and Jordan as pit crew.
53:05
Because the way it works is you're in the classroom, you're in the
53:07
car, in the classroom, in the car, just in and out all day long.
53:11
Uh, you really don't have time to set up the car like you would at, at an
53:14
HPDE event, so you need some help.
53:16
It was very interesting.
53:17
We hope to have them on later to get some more inside information about
53:20
their experiences at the school, so please stay tuned for that.
53:23
Switching to some international news, just some two pieces of information
53:27
that came across our desk that we thought were a little bit interesting.
53:30
Team Acura is separating from Penske at the end of this season.
53:35
I know the IMSA season has been a bit of a wash.
53:37
You know, some of it being done on iRacing this year and a lot of the races being
53:41
done without spectators and, you know, IMSA TV is a little bit restricted.
53:45
I wish it was a little bit more open like Red Bull TV is where I
53:48
could actually watch the races.
53:49
Acura's had an interesting history with Penske over the last You know, let's
53:54
call it four or five years, but it seems as though they're going to kind
53:57
of branch out on their own or maybe find a different major sponsor from what I
54:01
read in the article from motorsport.
54:04
com.
54:04
It sounds like Acura is going to continue to participate with
54:08
their Daytona prototype car, but they are just, you know, they're,
54:11
they're looking for a new home.
54:13
There was another article that came out that Some of our
54:15
members got excited about that.
54:16
McLaren is now set to bring the iconic Gulf oil brand back to
54:22
formula one as part of a new sponsor.
54:25
I don't know why.
54:27
I mean, so here's the problem I have with it.
54:29
I love the Gulf oil color scheme.
54:32
It's been around since the sixties.
54:34
I know that Gulf oil sponsor Bruce McLaren back in the old days of formula one, but.
54:39
There was something in the article that stuck out at me and it was
54:41
actually my initial gut reaction.
54:43
And I'm just going to read the quote.
54:45
The golf logo went on to become one of the most well known in motor racing.
54:50
It was featured heavily in the 1971 movie Le Mans with Steve
54:54
McQueen driving for the golf team.
54:56
And I'm like, yeah, the golf logo, the golf livery, in my opinion, is synonymous.
55:03
With the Porsche 917 and I know there's listeners that
55:06
are out there going to tell me.
55:07
Ah, you're full of it You don't know what you're talking about, but for me
55:11
and maybe for a lot of our listeners.
55:13
I just feel like there's a bigger mental relationship there between
55:17
golf and Porsche like even The golf Porsches, right the golf Porsches.
55:22
I don't really say the golf mclarens now.
55:24
I know You know, back in the nineties when the, when the McLaren's
55:28
went into IMSA with the, with the McLaren quote unquote F1, which was
55:32
actually a, you know, BM BMW powered supercar, they bore the golf livery.
55:36
But again, it's something I forgot about.
55:39
And when somebody says golf livery, I think Porsche, what about you guys?
55:43
I mean, they were also on the GT forties, right?
55:45
That is correct, yes.
55:46
With the Fords.
55:47
I've only got one question for you.
55:49
So what is the, the team Porsche F1 car look like again?
55:54
Yeah, I don't have an answer for you there.
55:56
So I don't care what car it's on, especially in Formula One
56:01
where all the cars look the same.
56:02
It doesn't really matter.
56:04
I just think the fact that they're coming back to motorsports and sponsoring a
56:07
motorsports team is what's really cool.
56:09
And me, being a Daniel Ricciardo fan, And he's going to be
56:12
driving for McLaren next year.
56:14
It's just, I'm, I'm ready to spend thousands of dollars
56:17
on my golf merchandise.
56:18
You know, my golf McLaren merchandise, my Daniel Riccardo hat and replica
56:22
helmet and all this good stuff.
56:24
I'm ready to go.
56:25
I can't wait.
56:26
All right.
56:26
Well, let's head into our next section, which is.
56:42
Would you like some fries with that?
56:44
Because every, every good story seems to start with a Florida man.
56:49
So I'm going to start with a Florida man.
56:53
Sets his car on fire, driving with a candle.
56:57
I really like this story.
56:59
Now, before I break it down, I wanted to say nobody was hurt, thankfully.
57:03
Um, I think the only injury was obviously to this man's vehicle, and
57:08
his pride and ego, and whatever else goes along with that, but Can I ask you
57:12
a question before you dive into this?
57:14
It's a Chevy Malibu, so who really cares?
57:16
It's not much of a loss.
57:17
No, no, no!
57:18
I wonder, because he's driving with a candle.
57:21
And you guys are going to hear about this on a later episode.
57:24
Was he trying to recreate the ambiance?
57:28
Of the night scene in Gone in 60 Seconds.
57:31
I think he was on a date.
57:33
Well, let's break it down here and let's see what we think
57:36
when we get to the end of this.
57:37
Who is this Florida man?
57:39
I'm gonna leave the nameless nameless, okay?
57:42
See if I can get this with a streak.
57:44
So a man was driving with a scented candle in his car at this point.
57:50
Okay.
57:50
I'm more interested In why it's a scented candle.
57:55
What is the scent?
57:56
What's the flavor?
57:57
What flavor candle is that?
57:58
Black ice like you get at track auto.
58:02
I want to know how bad does this guy's car smell that a pine cone air freshener
58:09
from the corner gas station wasn't enough Okay, he needed a scented candle.
58:14
Okay.
58:15
Candle tips over, ignites some paperwork.
58:19
Probably divorce papers.
58:22
Who manufactured this candle that it tipped over, didn't snuff itself
58:27
out, and then ignited paperwork?
58:29
Also, where was this candle that you didn't see it fall over?
58:34
Subsequently, ignite paperwork that you couldn't put the fire out very quickly.
58:39
It was in the backseat for safety.
58:41
Also, was there accelerant on this paper?
58:43
Because, I don't know how it lit this quickly.
58:47
We read Fahrenheit 451.
58:49
Now, the man pulls over.
58:51
grabs a trash can, goes in search of water.
58:56
At the risk of minor burns, why would you not grab the paperwork, chuck it out the
59:02
car, or, I don't know, grab the floor mat, start beating the flames to put it out?
59:08
Like, at what point do you decide that, there's a trash
59:12
can, now let me go find water?
59:14
Well, that's what you need the candle for, because you keep
59:16
putting trash water in your car.
59:19
So, he presumably returns, I don't know with water or not, in this trash
59:24
can, but the car is engulfed in flames.
59:28
He returned with marshmallows.
59:31
Maybe.
59:32
Again, I want to know, where was this candle, but more importantly,
59:37
who made this extraordinary candle?
59:41
This lit this car on fire, okay, and that's basically the article.
59:45
But even further, I'm left with, what do you say when you
59:50
call up the insurance company?
59:52
I mean, the candle excuse has been used for every meth lab explosion
59:56
on the east coast that I know of.
59:57
I mean, from the picture, the candle was in the front, okay?
1:00:02
It looked like it was in the front passenger seat, so I
1:00:04
don't, I just Can't even imagine.
1:00:06
Yeah, only in Florida.
1:00:07
Statistics have shown that people flatulate up to 14 times a day.
1:00:11
So maybe this guy spent a lot of time in his car and therefore
1:00:14
the candle was a necessary evil.
1:00:17
I don't think he has to say anything to the insurance company.
1:00:20
I think when they look up his record and see Florida man, I
1:00:23
think they've got a whole special department for Florida residents.
1:00:26
A hundred percent.
1:00:27
Public service announcement listeners, please, you know,
1:00:30
do not drive with candles.
1:00:32
I imagine seeing that on the digital board going down 6.
1:00:36
95 next week.
1:00:37
So Tanya, tell us about the next Florida man.
1:00:40
Oh, so he had another Florida man, and this is very annoying, okay?
1:00:45
Gets 4 million in COVID PPP and buys a Lambo.
1:00:50
Now, I, this whole time, have misunderstood what the Paycheck
1:00:54
Protection Program was for, because it's apparently for buying a Lamborghini
1:00:58
Huracan and not for paying your employees during the time of COVID.
1:01:03
Like this jackass is gonna say it.
1:01:05
I mean, it's utterly disgraceful in a time like Now, where people are under
1:01:09
real crisis, they're without jobs, small business owners are struggling to
1:01:13
make ends meet to pay their employees.
1:01:14
You've got this guy defrauding the paycheck protection program for 4 million.
1:01:19
And he was shooting for way higher than that 4 million to support
1:01:23
his alleged four businesses.
1:01:26
And I'm wondering again, if the missing link, what we don't know
1:01:31
is that one of his businesses.
1:01:34
was to drive around the Lamborghini Huracan.
1:01:36
That still only falls under marketing expense, in that the way the Paycheck
1:01:41
Protection Plan worked is you had to spend at least 75 percent on your
1:01:45
payroll costs, which included health insurance and taxes and stuff like that.
1:01:49
And that leaves you with a million bucks if it's 75%, right?
1:01:53
That's good enough to buy a Lamborghini or Correct, correct, but
1:01:56
that means he doesn't get to write all, or he can't get that million
1:01:59
dollars forgiven for that Huracan.
1:02:01
I mean, apparently it was a 318, 000 Huracan, so I don't know what
1:02:06
they actually go for, but Slap some vinyls on the side of that thing.
1:02:09
It's marketing, baby!
1:02:10
And I will say that it was dirt simple to get approved for the PPP loans.
1:02:17
I'm an accountant, and I've had to do this for a couple clients.
1:02:20
And, I mean, they asked for some information, but you
1:02:22
basically fill it out yourself.
1:02:24
You go through your bank, and if you've got a good relationship with
1:02:27
your bank, they don't look, they don't ask questions, they just say,
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oh, you're approved, here you go.
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That's unfortunate.
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I mean, it wasn't just a Lamborghini either, I mean, he was buying lots
1:02:35
of other high end luxury items.
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With a million bucks to spend, of course, but what I want to know is What
1:02:41
type of candle did he buy for his name?
1:02:44
What scent do you think it came in?
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See, that's gonna be the next article.
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Florida man burns Lamborghini to get rid of evidence.
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It smells like donkey.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, does it come in shit bag?
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It smells like jackass.
1:02:58
I mean, he was caught, he's facing serious criminal charges as you should think.
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Bank fraud, falsifying, you know, statements to a lending
1:03:06
institution, engaging in transactions with unlawful proceeds.
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It's, it's, it's serious.
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It's a million dollar fine and 30 years in prison.
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So, I mean, hope that was worth it.
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This reminds me of that story a few years ago where another Florida man bought
1:03:20
that Bugatti Veyron and tried to sink it in the, I guess, in the intercoastal
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because he didn't have the money.
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To cover the loan or whatever.
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So we tried to do insurance fraud.
1:03:30
Our last Florida man on here actually isn't a Florida man, but a Michigan woman
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who sets her boyfriend's Jeep on fire.
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I'd say ex boyfriend.
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I, yes, at this point, uh, I do believe that would be accurate.
1:03:44
I also think that this one could be retitled Michigan woman reenacts waiting
1:03:51
to exhale an apartment parking lot.
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Cause I'm going to go out on a limb here, Angela Bassett fan.
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Has the waiting to exhale DVD extended cut, and not too big on science.
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Thankfully, no one was seriously injured.
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The boyfriend was not, or the ex boyfriend, was not in
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the car, was not in the Jeep.
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I mean, the arsonist, no doubt, bumps and bruises and some burns, but nothing
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that was reported as life threatening.
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Did they use a candle?
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There's a comments team here.
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I mean, if you haven't seen the video because somebody in like the, uh,
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another apartment building videoed the whole thing on their phone.
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So it's, it's, it's spectacular.
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It's definitely a what did I just watch moment.
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It's out there.
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Go look at it.
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I mean, she doused the interior of the Jeep.
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With gasoline and then she sticks a stick lighter inside to light it,
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presumably thinking that it's just going to gently light, maybe like the candle.
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That's what the movie show is.
1:04:52
The movie show is a gasoline lights nice and slow and just takes a trail.
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Yeah, no, except in reality, what happens is all those, the vapors.
1:05:01
Ignite first and create a blast that sends you Rocketing into the parked
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car that's right next to the jeep.
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That's what happened.
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She slammed into it like WWE.
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I mean it was Incredible I mean she quickly picked up all our things
1:05:20
and scampered off as the video showed craziness in Michigan Florida
1:05:25
man, Michigan woman, there you go.
1:05:28
So speaking of craziness, I think now it's time for us to
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order up a side of Golden Mike.
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Some random car adjacent news.
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So first up, Mountain Man Dan discovers a lime green Geo Metro Ute for sale on eBay.
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I mean, it's eBay, of course.
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Uh, it's probably sitting in his yard now.
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I'm disappointed I did not get time to bid on it, because we
1:05:54
would have bought it for Matt.
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So Matt, if you're listening, that would have your name all over it.
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It's the ultimate sport utility vehicle there.
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Meanwhile, speaking of crazy time, how about that 88 BMW M3 that sold on Bring
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a Trailer for a quarter million dollars?
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Is the BAT, does that actually stand for BAT shit crazy?
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It stands for bring a trash bag full of money.
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Yeah, yeah, 100 percent and get yourself a Paynos.
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But, in reality, I don't understand those kind of purchases.
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I know some people are going for Guinness Book of Records for most expensive
1:06:34
car sold or something like that.
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But to me, I mean, the E30 M3 is a fantastic car.
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It was Trend setting and the whole nine yards, it was really a step out for BMW.
1:06:46
And they're, they're very sought after, but I just think there's
1:06:49
an extra bunch of zeros on there.
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Like I could see a pristine low mileage E30 going for 25 grand, but I can't see it
1:06:58
for going for a quarter million dollars.
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I mean, who has that kind of basically F you money to throw
1:07:04
around on a 30 year old BMW.
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I mean, it's just, it's not that special at the end of the day.
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A, they also just bought their child a 70, 000 Bugatti baby too.
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Oh, okay.
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You stole my thunder.
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You know, I wonder which PPP loan he got to buy that E30.
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I mean, I don't know, the E30 M3 checks a lot of boxes for me.
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But not at 250, 000.
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I'm back in that 9 11 camp for an extra 3, 000 if I'm spending that kind of money.
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It checks the no box for me at 250, 000.
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100%.
1:07:41
That's a no for me, Alex.
1:07:43
So, in other random news Some of our listeners may know
1:07:48
the Xbox One is sunsetting.
1:07:50
The new version is about to come out, the Xbox.
1:07:52
The Xbox Series X.
1:07:54
There we go.
1:07:55
The Xbox Series X comes out for this holiday season.
1:07:58
Now, all of us aren't going to rush out and probably buy it day
1:08:00
one, although some of us listening probably will, but there is a title
1:08:05
that is, I think, worth pre ordering.
1:08:07
Some art people would argue not, that's going to come out on the PS4 and the
1:08:11
Xbox One, and that's Project Cars 3.
1:08:14
The best part of the article that I read about it was actually
1:08:17
what engaged me the most.
1:08:18
And it says at last a driving SIM that's properly playable with a game pad.
1:08:24
And for those of you that don't have full racing rigs at home, you'll know
1:08:28
that the previous project cars were near impossible without major tuning
1:08:32
to play without a simulator rig.
1:08:35
But it is a fantastic game.
1:08:36
It has a lot of more realistic features than some of the
1:08:39
other games that are out there.
1:08:40
It's a little bit more entry level.
1:08:42
There's a lot of articles describing pros and cons of all these games, like a set
1:08:45
of course, uh, and I racing, et cetera, and barriers to entry in terms of costs
1:08:49
and project cars is really sits in the middle between a Forza and a grand Turismo
1:08:53
and all these other games that are there.
1:08:55
The new version, thankfully is a partnership.
1:08:59
Mostly because Codemasters bought Mad Game Racing, and therefore it is now under the
1:09:05
same publisher as games like Grid and Dirt and all the Formula 1 series games, etc.
1:09:12
And with the influence from Codemasters, It means that project cars three is
1:09:16
going to have a lot of the features and functionality that we're used to seeing
1:09:19
in, you know, a dirt or a grid, et cetera.
1:09:22
And it's going to be a lot more playable.
1:09:23
It's got a lot more fun.
1:09:24
I've seen some of the early videos of project cars three.
1:09:27
It looks amazing.
1:09:28
And I have to say, despite the fact that it's coming on a, on a chassis, that's.
1:09:33
Basically out the door.
1:09:34
I still pre ordered a copy because I'm going to play it.
1:09:37
With that being said, we may or may not pursue the idea like we've
1:09:41
said in the past of doing a virtual racing league with a game that isn't.
1:09:47
Forza, with that being said, Forza 8 will debut on the new Series X platform, which
1:09:52
again, we may or may not run out and buy.
1:09:55
So this might be an opportunity for us to use Project Cars 3 to bridge
1:09:58
the gap as we decide where we're going in 21 with our virtual racing league.
1:10:03
I mean I'm looking forward to more information on the game.
1:10:05
I've been trying to, I go to the Project Cars 3 website pretty routinely to see
1:10:10
if they've updated anything because right now they're still sticking pretty
1:10:13
generic to over 140 cars or track configurations or whatever the stats are.
1:10:20
They're not, I'm waiting, I want to see like a track list, what's new,
1:10:23
what's different from the old ones.
1:10:25
There are snippets of articles that talk about a couple new tracks.
1:10:28
But then also some tracks that I guess they don't have the licensing
1:10:31
rights for anymore and might be disappearing like spa apparently.
1:10:35
So, I mean, we'll see what, what's actually true.
1:10:37
I'm waiting to actually have Codemasters and Mad Game, you know, officially
1:10:42
reveal that on their website.
1:10:44
And we're, we're a month away.
1:10:46
Cause it's supposed to release in August 28th.
1:10:48
So hopefully they update their, their information pretty soon.
1:10:52
But I mean, I'm excited for it.
1:10:53
I, Project Cars 2 was definitely very different than Forza.
1:10:58
You did have to configure that controller very heavily to make it drivable.
1:11:03
It's different in a good way, and it was enjoyable, so hopefully Project
1:11:06
Cars 3 is, you know, they keep a lot of their physics engine intact, even though
1:11:10
they're making it more user friendly.
1:11:13
I think it's going to be a lot of fun with the tweaks from Codemasters
1:11:17
to make the game more playable, make the UI better, probably make
1:11:20
the multiplayer experience better.
1:11:22
I think it's going to be an all around win.
1:11:24
And with it coming out in August, That means we still have four to
1:11:28
five months before the new Xbox comes out, if it releases on time.
1:11:33
So, in anxious anticipation of the Series X coming, I need
1:11:38
something to do in the meantime.
1:11:39
So I think Project Cars 3 will be a great excuse for something to
1:11:42
do when the track season closes.
1:11:44
And God forbid, if there's another COVID shutdown and we're all kind of stuck
1:11:48
at home again, I think it'll be a nice distraction to have a new game to play.
1:11:52
With my friends and with the virtual racing league people,
1:11:55
and we'll see where things go.
1:11:56
Kind of switching gears a little bit to kind of talk about filling time.
1:12:00
Tanya brought to my attention the other day.
1:12:01
There are a ton of rally documentaries on, of all places on Amazon prime.
1:12:07
I happened to watch one the other day that was kind of short, sweet,
1:12:10
and to the point about group B.
1:12:12
I'm a big WRC fan, probably one of the few people in the club that is.
1:12:15
I've mentioned that before, but especially group B, it's kind of the
1:12:18
sweet spot because I grew up as a kid actually watching those races,
1:12:22
you know, on television, you know, or live on what was, you know, cable.
1:12:26
This particular Documentary is called rally the killer years.
1:12:30
It's 53 minutes.
1:12:31
So it's very easy to just kind of blaze through and it gives you
1:12:35
a great overview of group B and why it ended so abruptly in 1986.
1:12:40
I actually discovered some information that I wasn't clear on.
1:12:45
And there's three big Kind of catalyst that caused group B to end
1:12:50
and kind of a little spoiler here
1:12:57
Two of them involve Aloncia and one of them involve a Ford a death at the
1:13:02
hand of an 037 and a Delta s4 two of the drivers went off track, one of
1:13:07
them at Corsica and the other one was at another location and they died.
1:13:11
And that was part of the impetus.
1:13:13
Most of us feel that it was, Oh, somebody got killed in a crowd or whatever.
1:13:17
That was part of it.
1:13:18
And that's really the Ford story.
1:13:20
And that's a really.
1:13:21
A tragic story about driver hubris.
1:13:24
And so there's kind of an underlying message there because it was a complete
1:13:27
send it moment and the driver that Ford hired to drive the RS 200 at
1:13:32
that race in Portugal, unfortunately, he had never driven the car before.
1:13:37
He was very ambitious is the word I'm going to use.
1:13:40
And he literally said before going out at that stage, he goes, I'm just going
1:13:45
to learn how to drive the car while I'm out there and what had happened.
1:13:51
as they show the footage and it's pretty gruesome.
1:13:53
So if you watch it, you know, make sure you explain to your kids
1:13:57
or anybody else that's watching what's, what's about to happen.
1:14:00
But basically somebody from the crowd wanted to reach out and touch the car.
1:14:05
Cause that was the thing back then.
1:14:07
And the driver freaked out and because he was unfamiliar with mid engine rally car
1:14:12
and the rs200 was notoriously twitchy He over corrected and basically spun into
1:14:18
a crowd of people and hurt maimed killed many many people and He actually walked
1:14:25
Out of the car after it all went down, he actually sat in the car for a period
1:14:28
of time, kind of with his head on the steering wheel, probably contemplating
1:14:32
the rest of his life at that point.
1:14:34
But, you know, he walked away from the crash, whereas many other people didn't.
1:14:38
And that was one of the most horrific crashes in group B.
1:14:41
And it was kind of the nail in the coffin with respect to that
1:14:44
most extreme of motorsports.
1:14:46
And that's why rally is now finally very regulated, et cetera.
1:14:50
And in the short time that the film.
1:14:53
Runs.
1:14:53
It covers all of this.
1:14:54
There's great interviews with people like Michel Mouton,
1:14:57
Walter rural, and Ari Vatanen.
1:15:00
And it's very insightful, you know, firsthand accounts of what
1:15:03
happened back then and all that.
1:15:04
And it's very cool.
1:15:05
And I highly recommend watching it.
1:15:07
If you want to get a really good high level overview of what group B
1:15:10
rally was like back in the eighties.
1:15:12
Moving away from that and and unfortunately kind of, you know,
1:15:15
more somber note, we wanted to also kind of tip our hats.
1:15:18
Regis Philbin passed away this week on the 25th of July.
1:15:22
So Regis passed away at 88 years old.
1:15:24
So I tried to see if there was any car adjacent to him and I
1:15:27
didn't really find anything.
1:15:28
I don't know that he was.
1:15:30
Probably particularly the car guy.
1:15:32
But, however, I did find that there was a show in the early 2000s, Faith and
1:15:37
Hope, which starred Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa, who Kelly Ripa was his, one of his
1:15:43
co hosts after Kathy Lee Gifford, and he was, I think, on two episodes of that
1:15:48
show, and he played a used car salesman.
1:15:52
Boom!
1:15:52
There it is!
1:15:53
Car connection.
1:15:54
He was Handsome Hal.
1:15:56
Oh man.
1:15:57
This is like six degrees at Kevin Bacon.
1:16:00
That's why it's car adjacent.
1:16:01
Car adjacent.
1:16:02
And we have one more piece of random news before we close out.
1:16:05
It's a future Florida Man story.
1:16:08
Yes, this is.
1:16:09
Folks, we are going back to Florida on this one.
1:16:12
I could not pass up this article when I saw the headline.
1:16:16
It's new drive thru Halloween experience coming to Orlando this fall.
1:16:22
And I'm just going to go and quote directly the Orlando Weekly.
1:16:26
At a time when most Halloween events are canceling on 2020 completely.
1:16:30
A group of Central Florida creatives is hosting a drive thru experience
1:16:34
to scare the crap out of you in the safety of your own car.
1:16:38
The quote, haunted road builds itself as Orlando's first
1:16:42
immersive, completely contactless drive thru Halloween experience.
1:16:46
They plan to tell an original theatrical story through twisted
1:16:50
creatures and quote, unexpected scares in every drive thru scene.
1:16:55
I love this, and I am extremely worried.
1:16:59
about the execution of this.
1:17:02
If there's one thing that I loved or that I love, it's being scared while
1:17:08
behind the wheels of an automobile.
1:17:10
I just love that.
1:17:11
It's just amazing.
1:17:12
I can't wait for the Florida Man stories to come out of this.
1:17:16
I mean, how many, what's the over under on how many people are going
1:17:19
to get killed in crowd control?
1:17:20
Well, it's going to look like that Group B rally documentary that I watched.
1:17:24
And then some genius, because you're probably going to do this with your
1:17:28
headlights off, is going to have a candle in their car because they can't
1:17:31
see where the hell they're going.
1:17:33
So it's a win across the board.
1:17:36
Stay tuned, folks, for more, more on this story.
1:17:39
I can't even imagine.
1:17:40
All I know is that when I, I like haunted houses and haunted
1:17:43
forests and all those things.
1:17:44
Sign me up.
1:17:44
I won't watch a scary movie, but I will go walk through a haunted forest.
1:17:48
It makes complete sense.
1:17:50
But I will say that I instinctually take off running at the sound of chainsaws.
1:17:55
So I do not know what would happen if I'm in my car and I
1:17:59
hear a bunch of chainsaws going.
1:18:01
Oh, I know what would happen.
1:18:02
It would look like, you ever see those Florida flea markets?
1:18:05
Where the guy, like, drives right in there.
1:18:10
I mean, I'm sorry.
1:18:12
It's not funny, but it is.
1:18:15
I mean, I, I sincerely hope that it goes off safely and it's a great production.
1:18:20
It could be a lot of fun.
1:18:21
I'm waiting for the YouTube videos on this one.
1:18:23
I am ecstatic.
1:18:24
Well, I, I don't think this is something that I can go to.
1:18:28
Being somebody that has been thrown out of a Six Flags at
1:18:31
one of these Halloween events.
1:18:33
I probably will not be going to this.
1:18:36
Woo!
1:18:36
That is just, wow, so much Florida.
1:18:38
So much Florida action there.
1:18:40
Call this fast food.
1:18:41
Uh, hi?
1:18:43
Fifteen Big Macs, please.
1:18:45
Excuse me?
1:18:46
Fifteen Big Macs, please.
1:18:49
How much Big Macs?
1:18:50
Fifteen.
1:18:51
Trios or just the Big Macs?
1:18:53
Just the Big Macs.
1:18:54
Fifteen Big Macs?
1:18:55
Yeah, it's 76 and 73 cents.
1:18:59
Okay, can I get a liter of Big Mac sauce on the side?
1:19:01
No problem.
1:19:02
Thank you.
1:19:03
Alright, our final segment, we call it the secret sauce.
1:19:07
We cover specific, uh, GTM news.
1:19:11
So we know you're listening to a podcast right now, but we want to give you
1:19:14
a little sneak peek of some upcoming episodes in the next month that are
1:19:17
scheduled for August next week, or right after this episode, you'll be listening
1:19:22
to a member story from Portia Al.
1:19:26
After that, we're going to have a special, what should I buy episode
1:19:29
entitled regrets and the desert Island.
1:19:32
We have a two parter called story time with crutch.
1:19:35
And then wrapping up August, we're going to have the Latin lads racing team on and
1:19:40
to talk about the case of the cursed mini.
1:19:43
So those are the episodes you get to look forward to here in the month of August.
1:19:47
Just so you guys know, depending on how you're listening to the podcast now, Break
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That means Apple, Google, and Spotify.
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There's people using all different ways to connect to us.
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If you would like to listen to us on another service, like maybe a Pandora
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or Prime, we do have those options.
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Just let us know if that's something of interest.
1:20:09
But we think we have everybody covered with those three.
1:20:12
Summer Bash 6 is going to be held the weekend of August the 25th.
1:20:18
First at pit race this year, this is the first year where we're
1:20:21
not holding it at summit point.
1:20:23
It was a long and kind of drawn out board meeting with respect to where we
1:20:27
were going to do the event, why, and et cetera, it just seemed to make more
1:20:30
sense with the logistics that you heard earlier about HOD changing the plans for
1:20:34
summit point, that we would do it at pit race, the pit race facility is great.
1:20:38
If you haven't been there, it's probably one of the best laps on the
1:20:41
East coast these days, especially for a track that was built, you know, in the
1:20:45
last, let's say decade or two decades.
1:20:47
A lot of fun, really long track and a full configuration.
1:20:51
Lots of elevation changes.
1:20:53
It doesn't particularly lend itself to slow cars or fast cars.
1:20:56
It's a great mix of technical and speed, but at the same time, it has a go kart
1:21:00
track and it has a lot of other amenities.
1:21:02
And so being summer bash, what it is.
1:21:05
And if you participated in the.
1:21:07
Paddock party at pit race last year.
1:21:09
We're basically combining those two events thanks to COVID and we're
1:21:12
going to make the best of an excellent weekend and out in Pittsburgh.
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So if you haven't signed up for that already visit www.
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com and register or visit our website and look for summer bash
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anniversary celebration and everything that comes along with that.
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You can buy your e tickets on there.
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You can buy your t shirts on there.
1:21:32
You can pre register for go karting, all that kind of stuff.
1:21:35
We don't, we have a ton of really interesting, uh, Instagram posts
1:21:38
to follow up on this month, but I will remind people that there are
1:21:42
some hashtags you may want to watch.
1:21:44
If you're into Italian cars, GTM spicy Italians.
1:21:48
If you like the oddball ones, I've been posting a lot of French stuff
1:21:51
thanks to our French appreciation week that we did a couple months ago.
1:21:55
Uh, GTM , we also have for the Mark four Volkswagen people, we have GTM Mark four
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1:22:06
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1:22:09
And of course you can always follow the podcast under hashtag GTM Break
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Fix in other GTM specific news.
1:22:16
May not come as a surprise.
1:22:17
You know, a lot of us are very much invested in the European cars, but
1:22:21
a little announcement to the members and anybody else that's listening
1:22:24
and it's interested, we are now officially an FCP Euro reseller.
1:22:29
So if you're interested in getting some discounts, want to talk to us
1:22:31
about parts and availability, stuff like that, please reach out to us.
1:22:35
You can listen to that at the end of the podcast, all of our contact information,
1:22:38
and let us know what you're looking at.
1:22:40
We can get you some pricing on parts for your European car,
1:22:43
especially for your track car.
1:22:45
And I think here kind of wrapping up, we want to do some shout outs
1:22:48
to people that helped us this month, especially with the podcast and with
1:22:51
different things around, you know, GTM HQ, Brad and I are going to go around
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and just mention all these folks.
1:22:58
And we want to say, thank you again for supporting us, but go
1:23:01
ahead, Brad, let's kick it off.
1:23:03
Uh, we want to say thank you to John for being on a couple of our
1:23:06
podcasts that you'll be hearing soon.
1:23:07
If you haven't heard already.
1:23:09
So the Wade brothers, Steve and John Porsche owl, who's no longer
1:23:12
Porsche owl, but Nissan out.
1:23:14
Jason Ferguson for helping out with our Big Man in a Little Car episode.
1:23:19
Andrew Mason also for helping out with the Big Man in a Little Car.
1:23:23
And the coolest dentist you've ever met, Gordon Bell, for the same thing.
1:23:27
And Brian Young, my brother from another mother.
1:23:31
And Mike and Chrissy, the Crutchfields, for participating in multiple podcast
1:23:35
episodes over the month and also recording their individual member
1:23:39
profile episodes which are going to come out later in the year.
1:23:44
Uh, we're going to say thank you to, uh, Kerwin, who's a
1:23:46
longtime listener, no time caller.
1:23:48
Hopefully we'll get him on eventually at some point.
1:23:51
Judd, thank you for being on the, the contest that we had.
1:23:54
The You named that tune contest, even though you named exactly
1:23:58
zero of them and Matthew, Matthew.
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Yep.
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Thank you for being on.
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Now, man, Dan, my, my brother from another mother, he has been on multiple
1:24:07
episodes and multiple episodes to come.
1:24:09
And Dan's going to be a recurring figure on here.
1:24:11
He really enjoys the whole podcast format.
1:24:14
So look forward to more things coming from Dan and a special square bodies
1:24:18
episode somewhere in the hopper there.
1:24:20
So if you're into GMs, no offense to earlier statements.
1:24:24
Dan is your man when it comes to that.
1:24:26
We want to say thank you to the Chivalry family for always,
1:24:29
you know, supporting GTM.
1:24:31
We also want to throw out some thoughts and prayers to their son, Chris Chivalry.
1:24:35
He was in a motorcycle accident about a week or two ago.
1:24:39
He's been in the hospital.
1:24:40
He's got a GoFundMe page set up.
1:24:43
We'll try and put a link in with the Patreon.
1:24:45
I think we can get access to that.
1:24:46
But please go help them out.
1:24:48
They're great people.
1:24:49
He's a great kid.
1:24:50
We hate to see him down like this.
1:24:52
Special thanks to Gunther Hoyt.
1:24:54
He is the president of the Old Dominion Packer Club and he's part
1:24:57
of the Classic Car Club of America.
1:24:59
He and I had a very interesting interview about classic cars and
1:25:03
how to get, you know, younger people involved in that and that episode
1:25:06
will be coming out later this year.
1:25:08
It's really fun, especially if you're into older older cars.
1:25:11
So thank you again, Gunther for coming on the show.
1:25:14
We want to throw more thank yous and more thoughts and prayers
1:25:17
out to the Sonnerby Clan.
1:25:18
Max, Brett, and Michael.
1:25:20
We plan on having them on as a part of our Generations or Origins story future
1:25:25
podcast, but some of you may know Max was in an accident in Watkins Glen a
1:25:29
couple weeks ago, and they ended up.
1:25:31
Uh, totaling their C7 Corvette.
1:25:33
So thoughts and prayers with him.
1:25:35
Uh, and Brett, all I'm going to say is Panos.
1:25:38
And thank you for the Sonderbeest to, uh, for contributing
1:25:41
and supporting the podcast.
1:25:43
I know Max is a Patreon member And, uh, Michael donated as well.
1:25:46
So thank you again.
1:25:47
Every little bit helps and you know, we we're fueled by volunteers.
1:25:50
So it's So it all adds up.
1:25:53
In addition to that, I want to thank Garrett from Chazz's Used Auto Parts
1:25:56
for always being a top notch sponsor of GTM, but in addition to that for
1:26:00
coming on and doing a recording with us for a future podcast episode where
1:26:04
he tells us all about dirt track racing and motorsport that probably many of us
1:26:09
are not familiar with, but it actually is very interesting and has a lot of
1:26:13
parallels with some of the things we do.
1:26:14
So thank you Garrett for doing that and for extending all the courtesies
1:26:18
you do when we come out to the shop.
1:26:20
And for just being an all around great guy and thanks to your dad as
1:26:23
well and everybody over at Chaz's and we look forward to continuing doing
1:26:27
business with you in the future.
1:26:29
And we would be remiss if we didn't thank our wives.
1:26:31
Thank you, Jessica, for allowing me to have Eric, you know, for all
1:26:35
this time that we spent on this.
1:26:36
And thank you, Adrian, for putting up with all my craziness.
1:26:39
I know you're not a car person, but you you put up with me being a car person.
1:26:43
And, you know, we greatly appreciate it.
1:26:45
That is the key to success right there.
1:26:47
We've said it once.
1:26:48
We've said it a hundred times.
1:26:49
This goes to all of our members.
1:26:51
This goes to all of our listeners.
1:26:53
This goes to everybody that supports GTM, whether you're following us on
1:26:57
Instagram, on Twitter, on LinkedIn, through our articles, you know,
1:27:00
everything that we do and all the way we try to touch and influence
1:27:03
people's lives and bring motorsports enthusiasm to the world without you guys.
1:27:10
None of this would be possible.
1:27:11
So a big round of applause to everyone that's out there that's,
1:27:15
that's helped and contributed, that we didn't mention on this list.
1:27:18
Again, thank you so much.
1:27:20
Yeah, without you guys, it would basically be me and Eric sitting
1:27:23
in his basement, talking about cars that we wish we could afford.
1:27:27
And on that note, I think it's time to end.
1:27:30
And have a great rest of the month.
1:27:33
Goodbye.
1:27:39
Here we are,
1:27:43
us cars in back of us, all just waiting to order.
1:27:47
There's some idiot in a Volvo with his bright son behind me.
1:27:51
I lean out the window and scream, hey, whatcha trying to do, blind me?
1:27:56
My wife says maybe we should part.
1:28:02
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