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Gas Prices Do Not Follow Oil Prices Overnight · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:06
  Don Armstrong: It is the award-winning NWL Time Car Talk Show today coming to you from our Dual City Studios in Texas, USA.
• 0:14
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead of story of the week about oil prices at the pump.
• 0:19
  Don Armstrong: Plus, our recalls of the week and later, Jeff has his motor minute, and I'll review the 2026 Subaru Uncharted EV.
• 0:29
  Don Armstrong: What?
• 0:30
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's all brand new stuff.
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: I think that you'll enjoy the review.
• 0:33
  Don Armstrong: It's all coming up in this segment of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, he's over on the right side of Texas.
• 0:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, somewhere over there.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: We always need more Jeff C right here.
• 0:51
  Don Armstrong: David Ainsley is nowhere to be found.
• 0:52
  Don Armstrong: He was earlier.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: He was earlier.
• 0:54
  Don Armstrong: He was on the road, something.
• 0:55
  Don Armstrong: He's evading the law.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Arrest.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:58
  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us for this Saturday's live show.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: It's always great to have you with us.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: We're back in the studio.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: We've been gone, I guess, for um a couple of weeks.
• 1:09
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, the last two weeks for sure.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: And then a a week back and then a week out.
• 1:14
  Don Armstrong: And by the way, I want to say that the tailpipes and tacos thing, remember it was supposed to rain last Saturday?
• 1:22
  Don Armstrong: And it didn't.
• 1:24
  Don Armstrong: And uh the event turned out to be great.
• 1:28
  Don Armstrong: The parking lot wasn't overfilled, but it was filled to the max.
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: All the parking spaces had cars in it.
• 1:34
  Don Armstrong: It was great.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: So if you're listening and you were there last weekend, thank you very much for showing up.
• 1:39
  Don Armstrong: It was a great event.
• 1:40
  Don Armstrong: Uh the Easter Bunny made his appearance, and lots of kids with the kids' cars.
• 1:44
  Jeff Dziekan: The pedal giant colored egg walking around.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: And don't forget the Easter Bunny.
• 1:48
  Jeff Dziekan: The Easter Bunny was there.
• 1:50
  Don Armstrong: So it's all very good, and thank you very much for showing up.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Um I guess our next remote, Mr.
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Mars, is going to be up in Grandberry.
• 1:57
  Mike Marrs: It is.
• 1:58
  Mike Marrs: We've got a couple uh maybe come in between now and then, but uh we're still negotiating on that.
• 2:02
  Mike Marrs: But Grandbury is our next target.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's good, yeah.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: That's the Lone Star Street Rod Association event up in Grandbury.
• 2:09
  Jeff Dziekan: And that's a good point.
• 2:10
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you're out there listening and you do have any bets and you need us to show up, give it, give Mike a call.
• 2:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Reach out to Mike and he'll set it up and we'll be there.
• 2:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, but if you don't want to talk to him, and I don't blame you, um, then just uh email email Mars at InrealTime.com.
• 2:25
  Don Armstrong: By the way, you sent it to Mike at In Real Time.
• 2:27
  Don Armstrong: Send it to Mike at InReal Time.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: No, but there is no Mike at In Real Time.
• 2:31
  Don Armstrong: It is Mars.
• 2:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Mars, okay.
• 2:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, we didn't tell him, but we changed the I think that Mars is fixing it now, so he will now get that.
• 2:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 2:39
  Jeff Dziekan: See, when I plug it in my computer, I just hit M and it pops up, it's not already paying attention.
• 2:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Of course not.
• 2:44
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 2:45
  Jeff Dziekan: It's all it's all good.
• 2:46
  Jeff Dziekan: What?
• 2:47
  Mike Marrs: Hello?
• 2:48
  Mike Marrs: Okay.
• 2:48
  Don Armstrong: So you guys ready for the story of the week?
• 2:53
  Don Armstrong: This is automotive news, and I thought, you know what, we've really never talked about the crisis in Iran when it comes to oil.
• 3:02
  Don Armstrong: And uh oil, of course, turns into gasoline once they refine it.
• 3:06
  Don Armstrong: So oil prices dropped April 8th after President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, but the national average price of gasoline remained above four dollars a gallon uh according to AAA.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: As that dichotomy illustrates, while the price of crude oil and gasoline are closely linked, there is more to the story than a one-on-one relationship, a complex give and take section between supply and demand, politics, supply chain, geography, and other factors determines what consumers pay at the point.
• 3:42
  Don Armstrong: The drivers are still adapting to a more than 20% increase in the price of gas from one month ago, according to data from AAA.
• 3:51
  Don Armstrong: Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormos drove the price like drove the price height.
• 3:57
  Don Armstrong: Daily traffic through the strait normally carries more than 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas.
• 4:04
  Don Armstrong: After the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28th, Iran blocked tankers from proceeding through, driving up the price of oil and other commodities.
• 4:15
  Don Armstrong: So here's how the disruption influenced the price of gas.
• 4:19
  Don Armstrong: Crude oil is raw, unprocessed, and liquid petroleum pumped out of the ground at oil wells.
• 4:25
  Don Armstrong: The primary ingredient is crude oil is microscopic and marine organisms that capture the sunlight via photosynthesis.
• 4:34
  Don Armstrong: And if it's too deep for you, then you can look all that up.
• 4:38
  Don Armstrong: There are two main components that drive global oil prices.
• 4:42
  Don Armstrong: There's a fellow named Maximin, who works with Stanford University Center for Fuels of the Future.
• 4:50
  Don Armstrong: The first is a fundamental supply and demand balance.
• 4:53
  Don Armstrong: How much oil are institutions producing, and how much oil are people consuming?
• 4:58
  Don Armstrong: The U.S.
• 4:59
  Don Armstrong: and OPEC are two significant influences because they produce the bulk of the world's oil supply.
• 5:05
  Don Armstrong: Geopolitical events and weather can also impact the global supply.
• 5:10
  Don Armstrong: The U.S.
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  Don Armstrong: uses two main benchmarks.
• 5:13
  Don Armstrong: Rent and crude is the global standard, and West Texas Intermediate is the main U.S.
• 5:20
  Don Armstrong: benchmark.
• 5:21
  Don Armstrong: So why do different gas stations have different prices?
• 5:24
  Don Armstrong: The price of crude oil makes up about 50% of the price of gasoline.
• 5:28
  Don Armstrong: Areas of the country are starting with different crude prices that vary based on the benchmark.
• 5:35
  Don Armstrong: Another quarter of the price of gas is determined by the cost of refining it.
• 5:40
  Don Armstrong: Refining costs in different amounts in different states.
• 5:45
  Don Armstrong: California has strict environmental requirements that cost more.
• 5:50
  Don Armstrong: The stringency of the regulations there has prompted oil companies to idle refineries over the past couple of years.
• 5:57
  Don Armstrong: People are sick and tired of trying to deal with the Californians, according to Eric Smith, Associate Director of Tulane Energy Institute.
• 6:05
  Don Armstrong: They're the single biggest source of heavy oil in the United States, and they don't want to produce it.
• 6:11
  Don Armstrong: The remainder of the cost to consumers is determined by federal and state taxes, distribution, marketing, and retail.
• 6:19
  Don Armstrong: And this further explains why different states and even different gas stations within the same area have different prices.
• 6:26
  Don Armstrong: Alaska has the lowest gas tax at about nine cents a gallon.
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: California has the highest at about 71 cents per gallon.
• 6:36
  Don Armstrong: In response to the higher gas prices, because of the war, the EPA is waiving the summer fuel requirement temporarily.
• 6:43
  Don Armstrong: When will gas prices come down?
• 6:45
  Don Armstrong: Even if the ceasefire turns into a long-term peace, the price of gasoline will likely remain high.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: It takes about a month for crude oil to become gasoline, assuming the oil is not shuttled into storage, such as our strategic petroleum reserve, according to Smith.
• 7:02
  Don Armstrong: Plus, the logistics of oil production, much like those governing the auto industry, take a while to unwind and start to back up.
• 7:12
  Don Armstrong: The adrenaline and that part of the price of crude also needs to settle on its own set.
• 7:19
  Don Armstrong: The market will wait to see how the disruption has practically impacted the fundamentals of supply and demand.
• 7:28
  Don Armstrong: After the gas price shock driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it took about ten months for prices to return to pre-war levels.
• 7:39
  Don Armstrong: There's so many factors involved.
• 7:41
  Don Armstrong: Granted, the Strait of Hormuz is a big, ugly thing, and it does affect the price of gasoline globally.
• 7:48
  Don Armstrong: It's only 20% as far as the amount that is used uh globally, but the 20% that we use.
• 7:57
  Don Armstrong: 20% globally that comes through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: That's the global oil supply is 20% that comes through the Strait of the Strait of Hormuz.
• 8:06
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, we don't use any of that oil per se here.
• 8:10
  Mike Marrs: It's the rest of the world that gets more of the impact coming through there.
• 8:14
  Don Armstrong: But we also use global oil supply.
• 8:17
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, one way or the other, it doesn't necessarily have to turn into gasoline.
• 8:23
  Mike Marrs: No, no, but it's the market, like you say, you're right.
• 8:26
  Mike Marrs: The global market, regardless of who's using it, that's that's what drives it.
• 8:31
  Don Armstrong: Correct.
• 8:31
  Don Armstrong: And remember, oil makes up stuff that you wouldn't even believe.
• 8:38
  Don Armstrong: Did you know that the oil that comes out of the ground, parts of that actually go into women's makeup.
• 8:45
  Don Armstrong: On men's makeup, I feel so inclined.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: But there are so many different things.
• 8:51
  Don Armstrong: Plastics.
• 8:52
  Don Armstrong: Oil.
• 8:53
  Don Armstrong: Um there is a and I I learned this through narrations and stuff that I've done in the past.
• 9:00
  Don Armstrong: There are these things called pellets that refineries make, and they are turned into all sorts of things.
• 9:09
  Don Armstrong: Let's just take a milk jug.
• 9:11
  Don Armstrong: You know how thin a milk jug is?
• 9:13
  Don Armstrong: You know the color of it.
• 9:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, those pellets are about that color.
• 9:16
  Don Armstrong: So I don't know how many pellets it takes to make a milk jug, but a milk jug is made from oil.
• 9:23
  Don Armstrong: So all of this stuff is combined, and yes, it all affects the price of gasoline.
• 9:30
  Don Armstrong: How much is readily available as far as petroleum products is available in the marketplace.
• 9:38
  Don Armstrong: If there's not a lot of available, oil refiners are going to make more of it.
• 9:44
  Don Armstrong: Some of it, they'll some of the supply of the oil that's used to take that will also be used to make gasoline.
• 9:54
  Don Armstrong: So that's where you get these variations in gasoline prices.
• 9:58
  Don Armstrong: It's a very general oversight on my part.
• 10:01
  Don Armstrong: I understand that.
• 10:04
  Don Armstrong: Yes, you do.
• 10:05
  Don Armstrong: Well, but cook it is a general day a lot a lot of it is vegetable oil, but yes.
• 10:11
  Mike Marrs: But like you say, the the general oversight you're talking about is really how it works, because they're looking at the global market.
• 10:18
  Mike Marrs: We don't have per se, literally, in our refineries and in the storage tanks, there's not a shortage of oil.
• 10:25
  Mike Marrs: But the world supply, that 20% that goes to Europe and all of them, like you said, that's what's impacting it.
• 10:31
  Mike Marrs: So everybody looks at it and says, Oh, the world needs to go up in prices on oil.
• 10:37
  Mike Marrs: You know, it doesn't really get down to our local anymore.
• 10:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, at the beginning of the story, he said OPEC.
• 10:42
  Jeff Dziekan: OPEC is part of it as well.
• 10:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Now, back in the 70s when we had to downsize our vehicles, is because OPEC was in charge.
• 10:50
  Jeff Dziekan: We were we weren't drilling on our own backyard.
• 10:53
  Jeff Dziekan: So we were we were uh dependent.
• 10:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Dependent, yes, or we were slave to the OPEC uh decisions, and that's why we went to uh the oil crisis and gang Wednesday and all of those things.
• 11:06
  Mike Marrs: Absolutely.
• 11:07
  Mike Marrs: And and yes, we now we now export some oil.
• 11:11
  Mike Marrs: Exactly.
• 11:12
  Mike Marrs: And and we could do more if we really chose to, but we don't.
• 11:16
  Jeff Dziekan: What's ever happened to the Canadian pipeline that Biden shut up?
• 11:19
  Jeff Dziekan: It's still there.
• 11:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh no, the one that uh he didn't build or they didn't build?
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: Well it was it was built mostly.
• 11:25
  Jeff Dziekan: I actually have a friend of mine that was in a band that I played with.
• 11:29
  Jeff Dziekan: He was actually on that project.
• 11:31
  Jeff Dziekan: He's up in Alaska now.
• 11:32
  Jeff Dziekan: He's living up there because he was started doing that pipeline from Canada through the Dakotas and all that area.
• 11:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh and then that was all shuttered, so he moved to Alaska to actually work on other people.
• 11:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Great guy, fantastic musician, great voice, but he does what he does.
• 11:51
  Jeff Dziekan: And he's probably making a lot more money than he is by playing event.
• 11:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, maybe he'd be doing other stuff.
• 11:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Come on.
• 12:00
  Jeff Dziekan: You don't make money in a band, you know that.
• 12:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 12:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I don't.
• 12:03
  Don Armstrong: You do.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: So I guess that the the bottom line is that hang tight.
• 12:13
  Don Armstrong: Yes, the price of gas.
• 12:14
  Don Armstrong: Oh my god, premium gasoline for the Corvette.
• 12:17
  Don Armstrong: Now, I don't have to put premium gas in the Corvette.
• 12:20
  Don Armstrong: It'll retard the timing and back off of the horsepower and all that sort of stuff automatically through its computer.
• 12:27
  Don Armstrong: But uh price of uh premium gasoline, five dollars and something.
• 12:34
  Jeff Dziekan: We need to reach out to Jack D.
• 12:35
  Don Armstrong: Rat out in uh yeah, we haven't talked to him in a while.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Have you talked to him, Martin?
• 12:39
  Mike Marrs: He's been he's been traveling and stuff.
• 12:41
  Mike Marrs: I think he's gonna be on the 18th.
• 12:42
  Mike Marrs: I think it's uh yeah, that's next week.
• 12:44
  Mike Marrs: He'll be here.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, there you go.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's time.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Send him gas money.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he definitely needs uh needs to come to Texas.
• 12:56
  Mike Marrs: Well, she doesn't live here anymore.
• 12:57
  Mike Marrs: She's there, and that's where he's been for the last couple of weeks up in Northern California where she is.
• 13:02
  Mike Marrs: You know, she's more important than us for some reason.
• 13:05
  Mike Marrs: Yes.
• 13:06
  unknown: Okay.
• 13:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, she graduated.
• 13:09
  Mike Marrs: Graduated, got married, and she got married too?
• 13:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 13:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, because she got married, and but she was going to school.
• 13:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 13:18
  Jeff Dziekan: But we'll find out next week.
• 13:19
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 13:20
  Don Armstrong: Well, at any rate, to wrap this up, it's very easy for somebody to say, oh, straight up hormones, that's the big problem.
• 13:27
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's part of the problem, but it's not the problem.
• 13:30
  Don Armstrong: And uh I think that uh the really the the answer is going to be hopefully this weekend, when our vice president is supposedly, I think today, passing to a meeting with uh all of the people that are important that have a say in all of this, that they're going to finally put a cap on all of it and say, okay, we'll do it this way.
• 13:53
  Don Armstrong: And that I think will stabilize a lot of things.
• 13:58
  Don Armstrong: Where's that in wherever they're meeting okay?
• 14:00
  Mike Marrs: Oh, I think that's I think it's Pakistan, yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, okay.
• 14:06
  Mike Marrs: I uh I'm not sure what kind of connections they have over there, but yeah, okay.
• 14:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, they they talk funny.
• 14:13
  Jeff Dziekan: I I noticed what they're showing how all the dignitaries were going in there.
• 14:18
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a lot of motorcycles.
• 14:20
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a lot of like Honda 170s over there that they all ride around.
• 14:26
  Jeff Dziekan: They probably have some of those too, but they're just small little motorcycles that they ride around.
• 14:30
  Mike Marrs: I was looking, and there is there's a whole lot of them over there, but there's one brand that's making they're trying to come into America, but they can't get past the crash test.
• 14:37
  Mike Marrs: But they use them for taxis.
• 14:39
  Mike Marrs: They have the long seats on them, and they're actually motorcycle taxis.
• 14:43
  Jeff Dziekan: And they have people hanging off them like the people on a motorcycle.
• 14:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, they invented they they took that idea for Vegas and now it's a pedal bar.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: Where the pedal, everybody pedals, and the car was not settling anything up on the break.
• 15:03
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 15:04
  Mike Marrs: I could see you on one of those.
• 15:06
  Mike Marrs: I was looking at a no, I was looking at like Oh, pedal bar?
• 15:11
  Mike Marrs: That's too much work.
• 15:13
  Don Armstrong: That's what I'm saying.
• 15:14
  Don Armstrong: Not if you're steering.
• 15:16
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, you're just steering.
• 15:20
  Don Armstrong: After you've been drinking half the day.
• 15:22
  Don Armstrong: And so you just steering.
• 15:23
  Mike Marrs: Well, no, you know, you can't you cannot drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
• 15:27
  Mike Marrs: That's all I can tell you.
• 15:29
  Don Armstrong: See, you know, you brought something to the table here that I think is worth discussion at another time.
• 15:34
  Don Armstrong: What do you think?
• 15:35
  Mike Marrs: I still think so.
• 15:36
  Mike Marrs: Like five o'clock this afternoon, maybe?
• 15:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Or the uh the boats in San Antonio in the river walking.
• 15:42
  Jeff Dziekan: I believe you can have a cocktail on there.
• 15:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah.
• 15:46
  Jeff Dziekan: You can.
• 15:46
  Don Armstrong: But you can't drive it.
• 15:48
  Jeff Dziekan: No, no, they don't let you drive it.
• 15:50
  Don Armstrong: Can you imagine something like that?
• 15:52
  Don Armstrong: I think they should actually have some sort of motorboat races on the on the river.
• 15:57
  Jeff Dziekan: But they do tell stories of all the people that fall in during certain events like the like the lighting ceremonies and things.
• 16:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Cinco de Mayo.
• 16:05
  Don Armstrong: 32 people fell in the river this morning.
• 16:08
  Don Armstrong: By the way, and by the way, what are we doing for Cinco de Mayo, Mars?
• 16:13
  Mike Marrs: Cinco de Mayo?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: You familiar with that?
• 16:17
  Mike Marrs: Well, I am, but I hadn't thought of it, to be honest.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's coming up, Mike.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Cinco de Mayo.
• 16:24
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Mike Marrs: Maybe.
• 16:27
  Mike Marrs: Maybe we should have tacos and margaritas.
• 16:31
  Don Armstrong: I think it's a great idea.
• 16:33
  Don Armstrong: So we're gonna call uh and get uh Stan and uh Chase to have a separate room just for us.
• 16:41
  Don Armstrong: We'll do the broadcast from back to back.
• 16:42
  Don Armstrong: They didn't do the before the hidden back room.
• 16:47
  Don Armstrong: Oh, that's the end of the room.
• 16:48
  Mike Marrs: The one with the padding on the walls.
• 16:50
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 16:51
  Don Armstrong: And we'll get uh Steve Woodard, Sergeant Woodard with DPS to come and uh he'll be the bartender.
• 16:57
  Don Armstrong: He'll be the bartender, and he'll also be the one giving uh uh drunk tests.
• 17:02
  Don Armstrong: Citations.
• 17:02
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, citations.
• 17:04
  Don Armstrong: And then we'll get on the pedal bus powered by Mars.
• 17:08
  Don Armstrong: All right, just ahead.
• 17:10
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• 17:16
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• 18:58
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 18:59
  Don Armstrong: Okay, he's on the phone and he shouldn't be um we shouldn't be seeing that.
• 19:03
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 19:05
  Don Armstrong: Um anyway.
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• 19:16
  Don Armstrong: Crank it up.
• 19:17
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• 19:18
  Don Armstrong: All right, time now for Jeff's motorback here on the N-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 19:22
  Jeff Dziekan: The uh there's a big event going on today in Houston.
• 19:24
  Jeff Dziekan: It's called the Houston Art Car Parade.
• 19:27
  Jeff Dziekan: This thing originated in 1984 with a fruit mobile.
• 19:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Now, what this does, uh it's it's for charity, and there's all kinds of things going on.
• 19:36
  Jeff Dziekan: The artists and individuals founded by artist Jackie Harris, promotive and supporters like Ann uh Ann.
• 19:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I can't remember that.
• 19:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Right there.
• 19:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Ann Harathoth.
• 19:51
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 19:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Thanks, Ann.
• 19:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Anyways, uh it's a big event.
• 19:54
  Jeff Dziekan: It's been going on for quite some time, uh, since 1984, like I said.
• 19:58
  Jeff Dziekan: So get out there.
• 19:58
  Jeff Dziekan: It's it's never been.
• 20:00
  Jeff Dziekan: I I think we went once early on.
• 20:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh don't remember.
• 20:04
  Don Armstrong: It was it goes up and down uh Allen Parkway.
• 20:06
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 20:06
  Don Armstrong: It goes up and down.
• 20:07
  Don Armstrong: It goes into downtown, then makes the U-turn and goes back.
• 20:09
  Jeff Dziekan: It's very cool.
• 20:09
  Jeff Dziekan: And and the whole point of it is is to get the community involved and it's art for the art uh uh people.
• 20:17
  Jeff Dziekan: What do you call that?
• 20:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Art art classes, art class in Houston, the artsy, artsy people.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: So artsy for artsy people.
• 20:23
  Jeff Dziekan: And that's what's going on in Houston, so check it out if you're in town.
• 20:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Um it's also gonna be on channel 13.
• 20:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Channel 13 is covering it.
• 20:29
  Jeff Dziekan: I think it's at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
• 20:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't go get it on the two.
• 20:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Get out there, get a good spot.
• 20:35
  Jeff Dziekan: And another thing for today, today is uh Fireman Jack's birthday.
• 20:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Fireman Jack.
• 20:41
  Jeff Dziekan: But there's no event.
• 20:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Um there they're I've got to be.
• 20:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Everybody's an event for Fireman Jack.
• 20:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I saw it on Facebook say, Happy birthday, Fireman Jack.
• 20:48
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there you go.
• 20:49
  Don Armstrong: All right, thank you.
• 20:50
  Don Armstrong: Time now for this hour's car review.
• 20:53
  Don Armstrong: I had an opportunity to drive something that's all new.
• 20:57
  Don Armstrong: All new.
• 20:58
  Don Armstrong: And it's the 2026 Subaru Uncharted.
• 21:03
  Don Armstrong: And you're thinking, Well, heck, that looks pretty darn good.
• 21:06
  Don Armstrong: And it does.
• 21:07
  Don Armstrong: So it comes in these trim levels premium, sport, and GT.
• 21:12
  Don Armstrong: I had the middle trim level, the sport, and it was orange like that.
• 21:17
  Don Armstrong: It is considered a subcompact SUV, about the size of the cross-trek.
• 21:24
  Don Armstrong: Seats including the driver, five.
• 21:26
  Don Armstrong: All new for this year, as I mentioned.
• 21:29
  Don Armstrong: Best looking vehicle for its size, period, according to Don Armstrong.
• 21:35
  Don Armstrong: I I really like it.
• 21:37
  Don Armstrong: Um front fascia, clean design, doesn't look EV-ish, which is a big thing for me.
• 21:43
  Don Armstrong: Why do they have to have EV cars look different than the rest of them?
• 21:48
  Don Armstrong: Granted, you don't have to have a big opening in the front for cooling the radiator.
• 21:53
  Don Armstrong: It's not moving.
• 21:55
  Don Armstrong: But pardon?
• 21:56
  Don Armstrong: It's moving.
• 21:57
  Don Armstrong: It's moving.
• 21:57
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 21:58
  Don Armstrong: Um but this one.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: It does have kind of a grill-like thing.
• 22:02
  Don Armstrong: It's an air intake, but good.
• 22:04
  Don Armstrong: They put it in the front like it's supposed to be.
• 22:09
  Don Armstrong: The fastback rear hatch gives it a sports car look.
• 22:13
  Don Armstrong: The rear door handle is disguised in the C pillar.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: What I liked just the right proportions of curves that will give it extra appeal, in my opinion.
• 22:25
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 22:27
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 22:28
  Don Armstrong: Don't touch it.
• 22:29
  Don Armstrong: I think they've got a home run here.
• 22:31
  Don Armstrong: Granted, it is a small SUV.
• 22:33
  Don Armstrong: Interior highlights.
• 22:35
  Don Armstrong: Dual horizontal phone chargers are superb.
• 22:39
  Don Armstrong: Yes, dual.
• 22:40
  Don Armstrong: So you can see part of it right up there.
• 22:42
  Don Armstrong: You can put two phones up there, one for you and one for your passenger.
• 22:47
  Don Armstrong: Isn't that nice?
• 22:49
  Don Armstrong: Huge screen on the center dashes, easy to read and use.
• 22:53
  Don Armstrong: Comfortable seating.
• 22:55
  Don Armstrong: But rear leg room is a bit tight.
• 22:57
  Don Armstrong: As you can imagine, this is a subcompact.
• 23:00
  Don Armstrong: Steering wheel controls are kind of hard to read, but I've got old tired eyes.
• 23:05
  Don Armstrong: So don't blame it on Subaru.
• 23:07
  Don Armstrong: Blame it on me.
• 23:09
  Don Armstrong: As far as cargo, it's tight in the back, especially with its fastback design.
• 23:14
  Don Armstrong: So you give up a little bit of room back there in the back.
• 23:17
  Don Armstrong: But I'll tell you what, I I just I like the whole thing.
• 23:31
  Don Armstrong: But why not use a stalk style shifter on the column that would save the center console space for something else?
• 23:40
  Don Armstrong: Just saying.
• 23:42
  Don Armstrong: To me, this gets an urban vehicle award.
• 23:46
  Don Armstrong: It is awesome.
• 23:48
  Don Armstrong: Engine is a 3.47 kilowatt hour high capacity lithium battery that has drumroll, please, 338 horsepower.
• 24:00
  Don Armstrong: Dude, that's a lot.
• 24:02
  Don Armstrong: It's a direct drive, dual motor, motor, uh, front or all-wheel drive.
• 24:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh all-wheel drive, obviously, is an option.
• 24:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh well, it got 3.8 miles per kilowatt or hour over 481 miles.
• 24:18
  Don Armstrong: Now I charged it both at home and at work.
• 24:22
  Don Armstrong: Uh, and obviously you have to charge it because it's strictly an EV, nothing but uh electricity there.
• 24:28
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, plenty of power, plenty of power.
• 24:32
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: The range, 287 miles.
• 24:35
  Don Armstrong: Now I've got another EV that I'm driving.
• 24:37
  Don Armstrong: It'll be the third one in a row that I'm driving now.
• 24:40
  Don Armstrong: And it also, different size vehicle, but it also has 287 miles of range on it.
• 24:46
  Don Armstrong: I think that that's just kind of like, oh, well, we'll just throw it 287 miles.
• 24:50
  Jeff Dziekan: It's like a cafe standard type.
• 24:51
  Don Armstrong: I yeah, and that's 287 miles.
• 24:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh, but it depends on how you drive.
• 24:56
  Don Armstrong: Do you floor it a lot?
• 24:58
  Don Armstrong: Do you drive it at high speed a lot?
• 24:59
  Don Armstrong: It ain't gonna do 287 miles.
• 25:02
  Don Armstrong: But for an urban vehicle, which this is classified as, in my opinion, uh, 287 mile range should be enough for you to get around town and one day of driving.
• 25:13
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Don Armstrong: One day.
• 25:15
  Don Armstrong: One day.
• 25:16
  Don Armstrong: Not two days, but one day.
• 25:19
  Don Armstrong: Ride and handling, eight inches of ground clearance gives it a true off-road look.
• 25:25
  Don Armstrong: Ride and handling, smooth ride for such a short wheelbase EV.
• 25:30
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 25:31
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 25:32
  Don Armstrong: Okay, here comes the pricing.
• 25:33
  Don Armstrong: You ready?
• 25:34
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price.
• 25:36
  Don Armstrong: Now I had the sport model, which is middle of the road,$39,795.
• 25:40
  Don Armstrong: Price is tested,$41,720 because of some extra options on it.
• 25:45
  Don Armstrong: Base model price you can get in this vehicle.
• 25:48
  Don Armstrong: $34,995 is where it starts.
• 25:51
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 25:52
  Don Armstrong: Excluding tax title and license.
• 25:54
  Don Armstrong: Competitors, the Hyundai Ionic 5, the Tesla Model Y, and the Mustang Machi.
• 26:02
  Don Armstrong: Next week I'm going to review the Kia Sportage plug-in hybrid electric.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: And here's what I here's what I want to tell you about that.
• 26:11
  Don Armstrong: This is the first vehicle that I've actually made it an effort to plug it in.
• 26:17
  Don Armstrong: Because it's got a gasoline motor.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: And so you plug it in and it's going to give you, I don't know, 40, 50 miles of battery.
• 26:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: So I've plugged it in, and I think that you're going to be surprised by what I have found by plugging it in.
• 26:31
  Don Armstrong: This one out here is a true EV, so you it has to be plugged in.
• 26:35
  Jeff Dziekan: So the plug-in hybrid, that is the same relation as having a donut spare, because the donut spare tire only goes about 50, 60, maybe 70 miles.
• 26:47
  Jeff Dziekan: So the hybrid plug-in is basically the donut spare for the car.
• 26:51
  Don Armstrong: But oh my gosh, what a difference it makes in the gasoline total calculations gives you higher mileage.
• 27:02
  Don Armstrong: I was shocked.
• 27:04
  Don Armstrong: And you know, I don't know why.
• 27:05
  Don Armstrong: I have not done it in the past because it's a pain.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: But I've got the pain worked out.
• 27:10
  Don Armstrong: I charge it at work and then I charge it here at the house.
• 27:13
  Don Armstrong: So I run an extension cord.
• 27:14
  Don Armstrong: And by golly, it works.
• 27:16
  Don Armstrong: So there's that.
• 27:19
  Don Armstrong: Alrighty, Lynn.
• 27:20
  Don Armstrong: If you'd like to get in touch with us, send us an email.
• 27:22
  Don Armstrong: The address here is info at nwheeltime.com.
• 27:26
  Don Armstrong: Now, if you want to, you can ha harass Mike Mars by sending it to Mars at nwheeltime.com.
• 27:34
  Don Armstrong: Just saying.
• 27:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Just to see what he's up to.
• 27:37
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Don Armstrong: The NWL Time Car Talk Show continues right after this quick break.
• 27:40
  Don Armstrong: Stay with us.
• 27:42
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• 28:10
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• 28:31
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• 29:05
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• 29:09
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• 29:13
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 29:16
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website.
• 29:26
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• 29:35
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