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Car Detailing: Pro Tips, Volkswagen's New Venture, and Subaru Outback Review · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the Gulf Coast Auto Shield Studios in Houston Texas, usa.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: It is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Just ahead, more with Serene Pease, the finish expert, with our inspection of the 24-year-old Corvette.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Right behind us, jeff has the cruise in and events calendars and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: You know, motor Minute.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Wait wait, Let me Wait, wait.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Can I start over Watch this?
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, you do Turn the page, Don you moron.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Well, you know I need to question Serene when she said that she uses, it's never going to work because she said concentrate, yeah, concentrate, concentrate.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Remember that from school.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: It's not going to work.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: When the little kid you know did this thing on your head Concentrate, concentrate.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Well, it's easier said than done at my age these days.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: I wonder what the car count looks like out there.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it's rolling in.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: I saw a Cadillac, I saw a V-Roll in.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: There's an old Porsche right there as a matter of fact.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: So John's got a connection.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: This is the car social, by the way, here at Gulf Coast Auto Shield.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: So a lot of people here, a lot of cars here too Porsches, lamborghinis, maseratis.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: We've got a Shelby Mustang.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: There's a Maserati out there in front Over there.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Got Porsches in here.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Got a lineup of Corvettes in here.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Got a Hummer.
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: Not a Hummer, that's a Cybertruck.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Cybertruck, cybertruck yeah.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't have I seen.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: I may have seen one Hummer on the street.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: So far that's a $125,000 electric.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah yeah, do you know?
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: They sell an electric bike too with that.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: You can buy an electric bike with that.
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: A Hummer bike yeah.
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it's a Hummer bike, but they offer it.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: It's like $6,000 for an electric bike You're going to get one.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get two, two One for you, okay, okay, we're going to switch over here, david, and we're going to go back over here with Serene, Well, we've got to get Mike going on his rig.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Well, when he gets ready it doesn't make any difference, because you can see me.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: I'll just do the general shot on that.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll wait for Mike.
• 2:17
  Speaker 4: So where are we going to pick up Serene?
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: Am I on?
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: Oh God, Can.
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: It is yes, um so we're gonna pick off where.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Pick up off gosh, I can't even talk.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Pick up where we left off.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Where was that?
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: shireen, where we, when we leave all we left off, okay.
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: So during the break I actually went ahead and prepped this panel.
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: So I went ahead and did the rinseless and then went back through and did the uh, clay bar as well.
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: You're standing in front of the camera, don yes he is
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: there's a little camera there.
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, here's the camera, okay, okay.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: So what we're using right now is a microfiber pad, and this is just a very generalized one-step pad.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: This is not a heavy cut pad.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: This is not a polished pad.
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: It's somewhere in the middle, so it's.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: It's really good for light marring.
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: Where do you buy those?
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: We actually buy ours off.
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: I believe it's Autoality, but it's a website.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: The other thing that I wanted to ask you is the type of motor machinery you've got here, because I had an old one.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: It was a one speed, yeah, and it was fast and it was ugly.
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: Step this way for a second If you want to take a look.
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: These are the machines that we actually use is the fine mac up here, those, that's the machine, so it's, uh, produced by fine lab.
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, fine lab, the one, the ceramic coating that we use they actually use those as well.
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: Um so, and then our pads, the actual pads we use.
• 3:40
  Speaker 4: These are some of my absolute favorites.
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: I'll set my buffer down, but so yeah, so you, this is the one I'm using right now yeah so this is your Lake Country.
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: This is a real good single stage for just about anything, unless you have extremely heavy cutting that needs to be done, a lot of heavy scratches or heavy water.
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: And then my second stage is I always go down to a foam pad.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: What's?
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: It called it's a foam pad.
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: Foam pad, yeah Foam yes, so it's a very light-density foam meant for finishing.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: So that's going to be for your polishing.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Now, once you use this on a car, can you rinse the stuff out and use it again?
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, so what I do tend to do is I actually a lot I like to wash them.
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: Some detailers don't like to get their pads wet.
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: I personally do, because I like to get all the compound out of there, you put it in the washing machine so what I do is I actually take them outside and I power wash them from afar first, so it's actually breaking down any compounds, polishes, stuff like that that's stuck in there.
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: Then I do take them home and I just stick them in the washing machine and run them through a water cycle gotcha no detergents.
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: I never use any detergents on my pads because it cross contaminates things yes and then you've got problems with hazing and marring and other things, because you used all you know, because I guess these are the professional level like you use.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: They're kind of expensive they really are.
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: They really are, and you know we go through these things like water, I guess.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: That's a better reference than what came to my head.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: I have a question, I have a question, I have a question.
• 5:08
  Speaker 4: You can see over here, it's like I've got the three inches as well.
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: So, because we do use between a six inch and a three inch polisher, this one is actually more close to a cutting foam pad oh, so you can feel the density in that one versus the density in that one yes, of course in that one, yes, of course.
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: So this one's more abrasive, so that one's going to take care of scratches, water spots.
• 5:30
  Speaker 4: And I tend to use foam a lot on older vehicles because it's not as aggressively cutting the microfiber ones because of the hairs it's going to cut a lot harder.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: I don't like hair.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: And this whole process, and obviously we're here in your shop doing this.
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: The lighting you have high intensity lighting in the shop.
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: Somebody's going to do this outside in regular daylight, or do they need special lighting to see and to pick up all those little imperfections?
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: well, first off, I'm going to tell you, is anybody who does this on the weekends, whatever don't ever do it in direct sunlight.
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: Direct sunlight, obviously, because it heats things up.
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: The hotter a panel gets, the more malleable it is.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: So you're going to scratch, you're going to mar, you're going to do all kinds of stuff.
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: Don't even wash your car in direct sunlight is my best suggestion.
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: But as for lights themselves, you can see we've got a lot of fluorescent through here themselves.
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: You can see we've got a lot of fluorescent through here.
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: It's hard to see scratches with fluorescent.
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: That's actually why I have my little mcguire or milwaukee sorry, um, and it's just a basic flashlight, that's all it is, because it gives you more of a real daylight.
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: Look, so you can see a lot more scratching, hazing with stuff like this than you could with an actual fluorescent light perfect.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: See, david, I told you that.
• 6:44
  Speaker 4: See, see, david, you just don't listen, do you you?
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: Just don't you just sit there to look handsome, don't you?
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: All right Handsome is in the eye of the beholder.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: Not that it is, that it is.
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: All right, so we're going to go ahead and start doing this panel right here.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: You don't need a lot of compound and you don't ever put it directly on the paint.
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: You just put it on the pad, correct?
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: When you put it directly on the paint and then you go to run your pad through it, first thing it's going to do is it's going to sling it all the way down your car and then you're going to be cleaning up compound for days you want my, can I just tell you a brief history of my compounding days?
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: oh gosh, when I was working at the chevlet dealership.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: With a rotary oh yeah, and so we'd get a brand new car in and it had been on a railroad car and there was all sorts of ugly stuff on it, White in particular.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Really bad the rail dust, and so the car had a nice big ridge right down the middle of it because the hood was so huge it had to have some support.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah Right, I could take that thing and run it right down that ridge and go right down to the base, coat right through that into the primer.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: So now it's got a perfect race.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many of those white cars went directly to the paint shop after I got done with it.
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: You know, for some reason, I don't doubt that.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Don.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, yeah, but you know, what.
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: That's why you have me now, thank God, that's why you have me now.
• 8:07
  Speaker 4: That is why you have me now.
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm ready, all right, so I'm gonna go back about dime size for each one of these I'm gonna do four drops little dabble do you just a little day so, and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually dab out the compound, so instead of just leaving big globs like that, same thing's gonna happen you run through it, it's gonna sling great.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: Well, let me get out of the way sounds great.
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: So I'm actually, and I dab it out on the panel to the panel where I intend to actually run it.
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: So see, it's like it's just spreading it enough, so you're not leaving globs, that you do sling it onto the windshield spread just a little bit just a little bit.
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: And now I'm going to start my buffer.
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: These are all in rpm 2,000.
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: I'm going to start my buffer between 2,000 and 3,000.
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: Somewhere in there is usually about my good starting point.
• 8:50
  Speaker 4: So now this is going to get a little bit loud, so I'm going to have David cut off my end.
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: You're fine, Cut it out there.
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: Now make sure you've got a good grip on it so it doesn't want to yank you around A lot of times.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: I'm wrapping my entire hand around the top of it.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: Don't be yanking.
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: And you can see I'm not moving super fast.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: I would be through that paint in a New York minute, if that were me, I'm sure you would Don, because you're not finesseful.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: I'm heavy handed.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: I'm a man babyhanded.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: I'm a man, baby yeah.
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: I'm a man.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: I'm a woman, so does it depend on whether you're right-handed or left-handed, and how?
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: you go.
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: I'm a woman, I'm a man.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: You know this is going to get a million views on every kind of social platform there is.
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure there will probably be some great memes made out of it too, and so we're just going to attack basically this front end of the fender right now, just to not take up the whole day with trying to buff and polish.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: I'm going to come down about halfway on that scratch, all right.
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: So, as you can tell, I'm just staying off of this edge.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: You don't ever want to get too terribly close to these edges right here, so you want to keep it straight.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Don't bend it in, because your paint is always thinner on these edges.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: So you'll end up like Dawn and you'll end up with primer showing real, real, quick out of that.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: We're not going to try to pull a Don today and burn Don's car Because John jinxed me.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: He asked me.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: He said wouldn't it be great if you burned it on air?
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: No, it would not.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: He jinxed me.
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: And so I'm really trying not to do that today.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: Please don't.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: So.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: When removing any sort of compounds, stuff like that, I never use microfibers.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: These are not the way to go.
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: I don't even know the name of them, I just call them fluffies.
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: It's just my fluffy.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: So this is different than this.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Correct, I got lots of these John gave me a bunch of these.
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: But when going to wipe off, like your polish, your compound, you don't want to use those because it's going to lightly scratch it.
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: These ones because?
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: It's got more fibers to it, it actually pulls the.
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: You know it basically encapsulates compound and stuff like that.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: So oh yeah and you can see that's just a single step.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: So, like you're asking about that marring, that was right along there, gone in a matter, in a matter of seconds, just gone.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but how much of the clear coat and everything else is taken off of it?
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: Probably not much If I did ceramic coat it before.
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: Right now all I'm taking down is the coating.
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: The coating will give you a sacrificial clear coat so you can kind of see it's a little hazy and that's because that's just a compound style cut.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you haven't polished it up yet.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: So then once I go back to polish, it'll actually clear it out and give it that deep black, lustrous shine.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the whole car you've talked me into.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: I want the car back.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: How long is it going to take you to do the whole car?
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: Full car start to finish.
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: Most of the time I take about a full day for buff and polish and then a whole other day to coat it.
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: So you drop it off to me Wednesday Most of the time.
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: You can have it back sometime Friday.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: How much does something like that cost?
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: So our pricing so simple paint correction alone starts at about $800.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, Because I am a professional and you pay for a professional level.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget the tip.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: Exactly, you got a tip.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: I do accept beer as tips, just so you're aware.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Beer, beer.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Everyone can know that right, I was thinking wine.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: I accept beer as tips and food.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: I was thinking wine or champagne.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: No, you don't know me that well, do you?
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: No, apparently not, am I ladylike?
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Very much so.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: God, you really don't know me.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: Don, we got problems.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I really didn't know how to answer that, so it was off the top of my head.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, hey.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that you want to present me as a lady.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Well, you are, I'm a female.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: You are.
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: Lady, I don't know.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: And we love you, so that's more important than anything else.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: But so our base ceramic coating package.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: So when we do Fine Lab Ultra starts at $, at thirteen hundred dollars, and we have coatings that go all the way up to twenty five hundred dollars.
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: But the twenty five hundred dollar one is called heel plus.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: It's a seven year coating and it is one of the most durable coatings you will ever come across.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: But it's one of those that if you're not willing to pay twenty five hundred dollars and then treat it like you spent that kind of money, it's not worth well, let me just say this that I I love a nice looking car, yeah, and I know my limitations and I am not as skilled as you are by any stretch of the imagination.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: We all know that, and I will tell you that I would rather, if I could afford it, I would rather pay somebody to do it the right way.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Most definitely, most definitely.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: I have to tell you that right after you did the first one, you know, we put the car over at Autorama at Thanksgiving and we got lots of compliments on the paint.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Hey man, that doesn't look like a factory paint job.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: I said, well, it is a factory paint job.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: But my girlfriend over at Gulf Coast Auto Shield had her way with it and look at it now.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: But I mean, if I'm going to show the car, I'm going to show the car or not.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it on.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You know, hot Rod Tour of Texas coming up in April.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Most definitely I want it to look good and when I go I also want it in the condition that I can use the rinseless car wash on the road.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: And you know that's where ceramic coats really come in very handy because they're hydrophobic.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: So you get caught in a rainstorm.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: You know, while you're out on a cruise, most of the time You're coating.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: The only spot you're ever gonna see any dirt is right down here, at the bottom side of your fenders or your quarters.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: You know, right behind your tire, the majority of the water, everything just beads right down the side of it.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is so, so nice.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: And you know, having that coating, because it does keep it as at a hydrophobic level, it's not gonna mar, it's not gonna because that stuff's not sticking to the surface.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: So, like, how you can?
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: they're just kind of right, they're not moving.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah with us with a better ceramic coating that does not stick now yours.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: We just need to refresh it, and that's the problem right now.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: That's why it's you know feeling the way we're going to do in our last segment at the bottom of the hour the last segment at the bottom of the hour.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't rightly know you want me to talk about coating.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: We can talk about the coating, well, we can do that.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: We can do that.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: We'll work on what we're going to talk about.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I am going to throw a polish on this real quick.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, you just go for that and I'm going to go over here and take a quick break.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a good plan.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Alright, thank you very much.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll be back here shortly.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Alright, very nice.
• 15:49
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• 18:19
  Speaker 1: All right time now for Jeff's Motor Minute.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: What do you got today?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I got a Motor Minute at a $46 billion automobile giant eyes Roger Penske's friendship to crush a major roadblock in America.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Mike, what is that you say?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: German automaker Volkswagen Group is now looking to leverage its ties with Roger Penske.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Because they're planning to roll out an ambitious product under their sub brand called Cupra.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Now, the German automobile giant has already invested a lot into North America the past few years.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They created Scout Motors and Cupra to drive further into the markets of the US.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: What is it, you might say?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Well, vw's sporty Spanish brand, cupra, is reportedly to already be in talks with Penske.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: In other words, they're trying to get Penske to invest in their EV portion of Volkswagen.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So that's what it's all about.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: So Volkswagen, they're going to introduce the Cupra, which is an electric car.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: They're very popular in Europe, but they want to introduce them to the American market.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So they figured they would leverage Penske to do that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And the American automakers are spending billions and billions of dollars To get out of it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've shut down battery plants and, as a matter of fact, they've canceled the battery plant outside of Detroit.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Right, that's the latest thing Before they pulled one back.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, billions of dollars in there, built it and then pulled it back.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Amazing.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So good luck to that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: All right Time now for this hour's car review 2025 Subaru Outback.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: All right, this comes in these trim levels base, premium, onyx limited and touring.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I was looking here on this to find out where it's built, and it is built in Lafayette, indiana.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: All right, I did not know that local.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, I have the touring xt model, which is top of the line.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Uh, this is a small suv, or what some may refer to as a station wagon.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Uh, it really is an suv.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Uh, in the fact that if you want to throw in capability here, it is capable.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: The only thing that would keep it uncapable are the front and rear overhangs.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: They're a little bit on the long side in each, so if you're trying to go rock climbing or something, like that, you're going to get that.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so keep that in mind.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: No exterior changes from last model year.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Exterior kind of looks like mom's do-all car.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Nothing really stands out about it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's not bad looking, it's nice looking, but it's just a Subaru.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, low slung shape is deceiving because it does have the ability to go off-road Longer.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Front and rear overhangs, as I mentioned in here.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Pardon me Prevents some rock climbing ability.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: As I said, the sunshade is atop the rear glass.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Blackout wheels give it a little attitude.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: We could use improvement.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: The oversized roof rack distracts from its sleek design.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That's just me talking.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The roof rack actually has the bows, if you will, that are collapsible into the roof rack.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: That's why the roof rack is so hot.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Interior highlights Big infotainment screen is center point of an attractive dash, a functional dash as well.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Seating is comfortable, with legroom in the second row, which is kind of different because usually in a car this size you don't have much rear seat leg room.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: This one you do.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Apple and Android connectivity.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Material selection is great, nice fit and finish throughout the interior.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Cargo trunk room.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Because it's lower to the ground.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Loading and unloading from the hatch is a breeze.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I like the comfortable sitting position that you're in, the comfort overall and the view especially out the rear and out the rear quarters.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: We did not like the multiple menus in the infotainment screen.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: They kind of go along with what Mazda's got got going and it just I think that they could go back to the drawing board.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: 2.4 liter turbocharged, flat four in it turns out 260 horsepower, which is nice, 277 pound-feet of torque, and with the flat four in it it has a lower center of gravity.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: So going around corners is pretty good.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not some indie sports car or something like that, but it works very well.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: CVT transmission, full-time all-wheel drive in this Mileage 22 city 29 highway for a combination of 25.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I got 26 miles per gallon over 349 miles.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it was the mileage on this is pretty good for its capability.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Some noticeable turbo lag, transmission response to the throttle and it's not necessarily a smooth transition.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Of course I'm probably a little bit more aggressive than Mom would be going back and forth to the grocery store.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: But that's just me.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Not trying to make excuses for it, but you know my driving style is probably different than yours or yours or yours or yours.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Ride and handling was excellent.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think anything could use improvement for what this car is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Base trim price $41,615.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Prices tested $44,325.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: But remember, this is top of the line.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: You can get in one of these for $28,895.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: As far as competitors are concerned, kia Sorento starts at $33,365.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: The Toyota Venza is $36,046.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: The Bronco Sport starts at $29,995.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: We recommend the Wilderness trim in this particular because it's more off-roady appearance and it's got a different front trim on it as well.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So you might want to consider that the wilderness trim.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I liked it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Overall, I'm going to give it a b plus.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty nice little vehicle, especially at the price, and especially the starting price, and that's my review of the 2025 Subaru Outback.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Now some of the shots we had.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's got a little tow package on it because it was pulling a trailer.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Also, the roof rack had the Yakima rack on it and a canoe in the beginning.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So it's a good hauler.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, it seems to be a good camping vehicle.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It's a very capable off-roader and that part of it surprised me because once I started looking into it and doing the research on it, it gets really high marks in off-roading ability.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You can't say that about every.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: SUV.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Just because it's an SUV, that's because it's sitting up higher off the ground.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It makes it very different.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: This particular one sits lower to the ground, it's more car-like, but it works pretty well.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: What are you fooling with?
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: The main camera went out, so Mike's redoing that Is he fiddling with it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he's fixing it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So we just got a shot of your car.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: No, he's not fixing it, he's fiddling with it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Well, we had it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: It was blinking.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Mike, I noticed when you were doing your review we had some folks coming back and touching your car to see just how smooth it was Like a baby's butt.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I think there was a baby touching it with their butt.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: There was over there and somebody else mentioned what, just how smooth it is.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's smooth.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's factory paint too, by the way, like my hair is smooth.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, for a 24-year-old car it's not bad.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I Well, you know, for a 24-year-old car it's not bad.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think it is what it is.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Would I like a Niro one, maybe?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I'm a member of the C5 Corvette group on Facebook and they can be really brutal on there If you put any kind of comment or whatever it is that you ask a question about.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: You know there's always the smartass in there that has got to have some sort of smart kind of like David.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: You know his smartass comments.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: But for the most part I've learned a lot through that forum and actually I posted a question on there just yesterday as a matter of fact because, as I've told everybody that I'm going to have the harmonic balancer changed.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: So my question was am I being over paranoid because of all of the ugly things that I see in this forum about the harmonic balancer?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And I haven't looked at it lately to see if there are any responses.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: But I'm sure that there are that could be.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I don't want to take a chance.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and spend a $1,000, because it's mainly labor.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It's not the harmonic balancer itself, because you've got to take the string rack out of it to get to it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: But I think I'm going to go ahead and go through with it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be on the hot rod tour of Texas and have the harmonic balancer to say clunkityity, clunkity, clunk.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Underneath the hood wobbling away because it's fixing to go out.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: And if it does go out it can ruin the engine.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: It'll grind its way right through the front of the crankcase, all right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: So if Mike and I want to switch places, he can get his remote camera so you can finish up your discussion with Serene.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: All right, what do you got going on here?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You've already done reviews, so you want to take a break and then we'll go back to that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I think that Jeff is wanting to produce the show now apparently.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Well, here you go, somebody has to.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Because you know I'm not All right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: We are going to take a quick break.
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