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Ferrari Purosangue: The SUV That’s Stirring the Prancing Horse Stable · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  I'm William.
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  Uh, again, appreciate you guys coming back.
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  Now I am doing this podcast today.
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  From, it's about 8:00 AM oh, I'm sorry, 7:00 AM on, uh, Hershey, pa.
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  I'm headed to the Hershey event this morning and I got a little time to kill.
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  It's a bit gloomy here this morning.
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  Uh, bit wet, so hopefully the rain gets outta here 'cause it'll just make
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  for a little bit of a muddy endeavor.
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  Uh, it's a little bit chilly out.
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  I, um, did not bring a coat.
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  Luckily I got some long sleeved shirts, so hopefully.
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  This does not go awry and I freeze my little patootie off.
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  So we shall see.
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  But anyways, onward and upward.
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  Today's episode, we're going to get controversial.
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  We are going to talk about the new Ferrari Purosang, the SUV.
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  Now, I know a lot of people out there, especially the Puros, think
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  this is an abomination and there's no way Ferrari should be making an SUV.
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  It just goes against.
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  Everything Ferrari stands for, but, you know, I guess you got
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  to look at it from both sides here regarding Ferrari's things.
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  You know, they got, People, they got an answer to shareholders, whatnot.
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  Um, you know, so, and you look at, I mean, look at what Porsche did with the Cayenne.
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  They make obscene amount of money off those Cayennes.
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  I mean, they did the same thing, you know, when they came out with the
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  Panamera, same thing, you know, they have to expand and, and doing it,
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  but they could not ignore the fact.
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  I mean, Bentley, Lamborghini, all these guys coming out.
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  I mean, it was inevitable that they were going to have to come out with an SUV.
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  So.
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  A few weeks ago, they dropped it.
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  I mean, obviously on the internet, there were tons and tons of, sorry, take a
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  listen to my pop, um, you know, spy photos and this stuff, and you know, the
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  car driving around and it's pretty close to, you know, factory production finish.
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  So it's, um.
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  You know, it's a good I think it's a good looking vehicle.
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  I like it I mean because it's not like some big bulking behemoth like that ugly
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  ass bentley or rolls royce I think those are the ugliest things rolling around.
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  I mean, there probably are some other cars But in my opinion, those things are
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  just horrendous, but I think it's a good looking vehicle, you know, and that's me
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  and When I buy one, yeah, I might have the cash to be able to buy it when I think
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  I would because I you know functionality wise you got to look at from this point of
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  view is the fact is is you could get a lot more use Out of it Then you could change
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  driving around in your, uh, SP2 or, you know, even your, you know, S, you know,
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  SF Stradale, you know, I mean, granted, they're trying to make those a little
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  more user friendly, but I mean, those cars get a bit extreme and try to drive
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  those and, you know, try to utilize them.
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  Hey, go into the store to get groceries, picking up junior from,
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  uh, from school and all this stuff that he's got to take with them
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  these days at school, you know, so it would be a little bit of a tight fit.
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  You know, in one of those two seeders, but you know, you get yourself to force it.
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  Now, here's the thing, you know, I haven't had a chance to, I
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  guess, get up close with it yet.
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  So I'm hoping to have that done here soon.
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  I'm not sure quite when, but you know, I'm trying to get something set up, but I'm
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  interesting interested to see, you know, what the backseat leg room is, you know,
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  and just actually overall space in the car, you know, is it actually going to be
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  something that's functional where it can, yeah, you can get four adults in there,
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  you know, and you know, the individuals in the backseat, you know, do have some room.
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  Resemblance of, I guess, comfort and leg room.
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  Cause that's the one thing, you know, you get some of these cars
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  out there and vehicles, you'll go, Oh, we got, it's a four seater.
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  Well, who's going to sit in the back seat?
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  A six month old because they, you know, their legs don't even
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  fit over the edge of the seat.
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  I mean, come on now.
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  So that's going to be the, I guess.
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  Interesting thing to find out and see what happens here with
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  the design and just overall, you know, interior space in this car.
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  I mean, exterior wise, I think, like I said, I think it looks pretty good, you
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  know, the kind of, you know, kept it, you know, uh, it's, I guess you could say
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  it's not so much like a beefed up station wagon, um, or a state as you guys would
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  say over on the other side of the pond.
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  Um, you know, it's got that SUV esque look to it, but it's just
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  not like really big and bulky.
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  You know, I think it looks pretty good.
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  Um, it's, you know, it sounds fantastic.
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  I mean, the beautiful thing they did was they are having the V12.
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  Come out right out of the gate.
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  They're just stuffing the v12 in there from the The 812 so which is going to
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  make that thing killer killer fast, you know, so it'll be interesting to
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  see the road test and Everything, you know for the magazines will do and
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  what they're going to come about and what they're gonna basically What their
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  opinion is going to be of the car.
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  So again, you know, is it, you know, another aspect of you look at, so I'm
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  kind of looking at some more photos of it now, kind of just take a peek, you know,
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  is it, it kind of almost looks like it's a, it's a tightened up, you know, FF.
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  You know, uh, or GT four C Lusso, whatever the frick they're calling it.
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  They say they keep changing the name on it, but I mean, you know, the front
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  overhang doesn't seem as the nose is not as long, the ass is not as bad.
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  I mean, look, I'm not a fan of that GT four Lusso, you know,
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  it was just not my cup of tea.
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  I just, I, it sounded glorious, beautiful engine.
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  I'm sure they're phenomenal to drive a four wheel drive so you can drive
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  in the winter, you know, and I'm sure not many people do, but you know,
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  To me, I just, I didn't like it.
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  I was just not something.
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  I would spend my three, 400, 000 on, you know, I wouldn't take that and buy
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  myself a few other vehicles and have like three or four instead of having
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  just one, but I mean, it is a Ferrari, so it's got the prancing horse logo.
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  So, I mean, you guess you can't go over that.
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  Now I wouldn't turn a one way.
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  So we gave it to me, right?
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  That's I'm sure you probably wouldn't either.
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  So, but anyways, I'm just, it's, I think it's a sharp looking vehicle.
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  I mean, it's, it's, it's kind of Mazda three S.
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  If you kind of really look at it, maybe squint a bit, you know, you
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  know, hatchback looking thing.
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  Um, so it's, you know, I think it's a good looking vehicle, you know,
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  that's just, you know, my opinion.
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  And, you know, the unique thing is they got the, whatever you
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  wanna call those doors, the suicide doors, uh, for the back.
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  And so your ingress egress is pretty easy.
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  So, I mean, that's a nice little design feature.
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  And I, I think it's kind of cool.
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  Um, again, I would love, I can't wait to get, see this thing in person because
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  it does not look like it's all that big, you know, I, again, go back to compare it
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  to the Lusso, you know, this thing looks like it's 20 percent smaller, maybe, I
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  don't know, give or take, forgive me.
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  I can probably wrong, but you know, I went to public school, so what do I know?
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  But you know, it's again, I mean, interior wise.
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  You know, it's all pure Ferrari.
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  You know, I love the bucket seats in the back.
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  You know, I I'm a big believer, you know, you have an SUV something like that is
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  you have You know those bucket seats with the console between the seats and that I
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  mean, especially that level of car, you know I can't imagine why someone would
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  get a bench It's something like that But uh, so I don't know in the configurator
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  if you can get a bench seat back there.
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  I'm sure as heck hope not but You know, uh, it's a, it's a good
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  looking car, vehicle, SUV, whatever you want to call this thing.
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  You know, um, you know, one thing I don't get though with what Ferrari's doing,
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  I mean, it's supposed to like, engage the passenger, is the screen that they
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  have in front of the passenger now, the digital screen with all the readouts
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  and everything like that going on, like the rev counter and stuff like that.
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  That I don't get.
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  To me, I'm sorry, I just, to me it just seems pointless.
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  You know, I mean, I don't know.
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  Maybe you have a purist that's in this passenger seat next to you, you know
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  They maybe kind of want to watch it But I would guess that 95 percent of the
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  people that you have in that passenger seat won't give to you know What's
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  about it and haven't so I don't know but anyways, you know, I think it's I think
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  it's good I mean, I don't tell me what you guys think, you know, if you want
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  to shoot me an email William with the far marketplace comm tell me know what
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  your thoughts are on it And let me know.
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  So anyways, this is kind of a quick one.
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  Um, like I said, just wanted to get that off my chest.
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  Regarding, you know, the Purist thing.
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  And see what everyone else's thoughts are.
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  And how this thing is going to compare out there.
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  I honestly believe it's going to be a stonkingly fast.
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  I mean, that thing is going to just scream.
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  It sounds glorious.
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  I mean, that V12, you can't go wrong with that.
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  But again, it's going to be interesting to see what the road tests and people
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  get out there and you know I know I want to get to see this thing in person But
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  maybe somehow someone I can finagle a test drive in one, you know It was just as a
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  passenger and see, you know You never know and I could come back to you guys and kind
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  of give you a little Little update let you know what I think about it driving
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  it So I mean because you know, that's a tendency getting those SUVs, you know,
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  you got a lot of You know, weight up top.
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  So it's got a lot of body rollers like that.
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  So we just see how they kept the weight down, you know, kind of keep
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  the low center of gravity going on it.
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  And unfortunately, as we all know where everything's headed, things
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  are going to get electrified.
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  So it's just a scary and stupid world we live in.
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  You know, that's another topic we might have to get down the
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  road and discuss about that.
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  I mean, I know it's kind of a touchy subject and people have, you know,
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  on the right or whatnot on that, but it's, You know, I, I think there's
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  better courses of action here.
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  We can go to satisfy purists with engine sound, but then also,
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  you know, satisfy, you know, the environment and do what we have to do.
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  I mean, look what Porsche is doing with the synthetic fuels.
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  I mean, that stuff's fantastic.
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  Zero emissions.
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  Uh, I just think there's different routes we can go and, you know, it's
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  kind of like putting the cart in front of the horse here and situation is.
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  You know, they want to put these mandates and laws in place that, you
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  know, you have, you have to start selling only electric cars by this
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  date, you know, California set it up.
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  UK has got it going on and over here for doing a lot of it, but the
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  infrastructure is not there to support it.
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  And it's just going to create a lot, a lot of pissed off people because who wants
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  to sit and wait, you know, if you get to a charger and you're in line and it
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  takes 45 minutes for a car to charge up.
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  And you're second in line, you're going to be sitting there for hours
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  waiting to get your car charged to be able to get on your way.
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  I mean, it just doesn't make sense.
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  But anyways, that's a different topic.
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  So anyways, like I said, this is kind of a, just a quick little podcast.
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  This is a short one.
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  I said, I'm, I'm on site here at Hershey and I'm passing some time.
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  So I figured I'd get this one out.
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  I wanted to do it regarding the Puro saying and get kind of,
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  uh, my thoughts out there on it.
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  And like I said, let me know what you guys think.
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  I think it's a good looking vehicle.
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  I like it.
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  Um, I know a lot of people out there just raising their hands saying, Oh my
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  God, Oh my God, Ferrari's building SUV.
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  That's the end of the world.
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  You know, again, Hey, it's business.
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  They got to do what they have to do.
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  And they're good.
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  You know, the interesting fact is they're not going like a Porsche or
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  the Lamborghinis that builds as many as they can and just sell them, you know,
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  they're only going to build X amount.
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  They're not going to go nuts with it.
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  They're not going to just keep building them and sell them because
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  they just keep selling them.
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  So they're going to limit production.
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  But again, that's.
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  How far he operates.
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  You're only going to build X because they get out there in a secondary market.
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  There are 2 to 3 times, sometimes more, what the MSRP was, even if they got
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  mileage on it, they've been used, you know, people, the lucky ones that are
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  on the list and that can actually, you know, get one of the new ones right off
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  the gate and order one, you know, they can sit there, get it, drive it for a few
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  thousand miles, turn around and make money and make a lot of money on having it.
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  So, you know, There's interesting to see what happens in the secondary
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  market with those and where they're at because I know these things are going
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  to be About three four hundred grand out of the gate and you know, that's
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  probably before options And we know how expensive far as options list can be You
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  know easily can add two three hundred grand just in options I don't know.
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  I don't know if anyone's ever had the opportunity or you know When
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  you go on a configurator kind of do it You know, that's a scratch and
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  a service what you can, you know, obviously get with this, these cars.
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  But I mean, it's, I've seen, you know, 800 here, 500 here just to
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  wrap the leather around like a little tiny lever or something like that
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  in the car, you know, it gets crazy how much they can just tack on, tack
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  on, tack on, you know, and something that costs them maybe like 20 to do.
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  I mean, but that's where they're making a boatload of their money
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  is options and accessories.
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  Hey, but Hey, it's business.
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  That's what they got to do.
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  Right.
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  And people buy it.
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  So I.
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  We're doing something right.
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  So anyways, I'm going to sign off again.
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  And I'm going to do some video here at Hershey.
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  Kind of going around and checking this out.
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  It's my first time here.
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  So, but anyways, I appreciate everybody listening.
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  I appreciate you listening to my ramblings.
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  And let me know what you guys think about the Ferrari SUV.
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  Now I'm interested to see what opinion is out there and just you know see if
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  it's either one way or the other if it's Kind of right down the middle.
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  So again guys, I appreciate you listening and take care and till next time.
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