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Texas 4th of July - Muscle Car Love - '25 Stelvia review! · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars Driving Destinations 4th of July.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: You've got about a minute and a half.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: Got lots of stuff so we're going to go pretty quick.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: So up in Addison, Addison's Kaboom Town draws 400,000 people.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: If you're looking for some fireworks Now, this is actually considered the third best fireworks show in the entire country.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: Addison, texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Got lots of vintage warplanes going on, got an air show, Lots of things to go along with food trucks for the 4th of July.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Then you can slide over to Fair Park 4th in Dallas if you really want to go to something different and got lots of music, including the Army Reserve Band, kids Zones, water fountains for cooling off.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Now this is at the stadium, so be sure and check out the Cotton Bowl with the lagoon and the indoor air conditioning venues for the Fourth of Park Fair Park, fourth of July.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Now you go down to Frisco Freedom Fest.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: This is for you, don Spanning two days at the Kaleidoscope Park at Frisco Square.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: I would not do that.
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  Speaker 1: Honors veterans.
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  Speaker 2: Got tournaments, dog parades, drone show leading up to the fireworks A lot of great things going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Then, if you're over in the Austin area, they've got the HEB concert and fireworks on July the 4th.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Now this is where they synchronize the Austin Symphony plays and they fire up the fireworks.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: You've got food trucks, concerts, willie Nelson's 4th of July picnic going on, all kinds of things Food trucks, concerts, willie Nelson's 4th of July picnic going on all kinds of things.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Then you can slide over to the Sandy Beach Golf Cart Parade and Flag Ceremony in Brownwood if you're looking for something a little bit different and they cruised by and decked out golf carts leading and lots of other festivities, food trucks going up to the fireworks display.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Here's one I thought was rather different.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sensory-friendly LED light show up in Cypress Waters, up in the Dallas area.
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  Speaker 2: For people that you know, the lights and the loud noises kind of bug them.
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  Speaker 2: So they've gone to an LED wristband light show that goes to the music along with food and a lot of other festivities, including a petting zoo.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Then, if you're more into the rustic world, you can go off to Stanford, texas, which hosts the Cowboy Reunion over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Wild West, of course you've got the Chuckwagon Cook-Offs, horse racing, fiddling contests, street dances and the big rodeo leading up to the fireworks.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, the 4th of Julights is the Canal Walk in Las Colinas, irving, where it's all lit up and you can walk around for the weekend with the lights and it leads up to the 4th of July.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Everybody's got some fireworks or something going on.
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: This is coming up for the 4th of July.
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  Speaker 2: Places to go and things to do and people to see All right.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 2:32
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  Speaker 1: Join us.
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  Speaker 1: 1970s car poses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right Now, this right here.
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: Heavy on the engine, but light on amenities.
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: Buying a muscle car was an achievable goal.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: Look at the girl Yep, yep With the go-go boots, proud muscle car owners in their pictures.
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: Now, this is a Chevelle and it's captioned by the owner purple accents on some Chevy power.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: Now what I see?
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: There is kind of a fall-winter shot and it's captioned by the owner purple accents on some Chevy power.
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: Now what I see?
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: There is kind of a fall-winter shot.
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking it's either the owner or somebody's girlfriend.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, get in front of the car.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a picture, or dad taking a picture of the daughter's new car Right Could be, could be Absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 3: The next one we have and these are all real people, come on, there you go.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: This one is entitled Couple's Photo His and hers Mopar.
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Mopar magic.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Is that John Hovis?
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: John Hovis it might be.
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  Speaker 3: You never know, you never know.
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  Speaker 3: All right, here's a favorite of mine.
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  Speaker 3: This was called Out Front, and who hasn't taken a picture like this in front of your house?
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: Oh God, yeah, look at that guy Now.
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: Nice car, looks like he's a hot rod.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: He was at the Loopy Tortilla Bar last night.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: This one is entitled Nifty Fit or Nifty Ride.
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  Speaker 3: So pretty tall guy, probably a basketball player in high school, and all that good stuff.
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: Bell bottoms, bell bottoms.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got the boots, he's got the zipper boots.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got the John Lennon boots on and everything I think we all have a picture like that somewhere, don't we, Mike?
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: Not that I'm showing, Okay, Just making sure that would be you with hair.
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: And then this one is called Mopar Muscle on the Farm.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: Now look at that.
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: That is one hot-rodded car.
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: I like the barn Iwered.
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  Speaker 3: He's a little skewered, so that is a nice one.
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  Speaker 3: And of course you've got the hot rod in the background as well, the old hot rod, the old hot rod and the farm implement on the side.
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  Speaker 3: This one is entitled Making Improvements by just squeezing out a few more, and then we'll leave that up to you.
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  Speaker 3: The thing I noticed on this that's all going to be brought to your attention here in a minute the hole in the hood.
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: Look at the hole in the hood.
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: It looks like a saber saw.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: Is that a.
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin, car I can't really tell yeah, it's a Wisconsin car, america's Dairyland.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, America's Dairyland.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Not any orange car.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of dairy things going on there, absolutely.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: He said that.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: I know he said that I know he said this one.
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: I, kathy, and I have a picture like this somewhere around, but this is called waiting by the car.
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: We have places to go drive.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the car in the background.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: Look so you got the mustang back there, the charger up charger up front.
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: Look at the wheels.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, that young lady's ready to go.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: You know she could be going to the mall.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: She's waiting for you to get in the car, yeah.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: So again, these are all real the car and let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, these are all real people, real cars, so send them to me and I'll get you on here and we'll do that.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: This one's pretty good Dang.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: This one's called.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Garage Posing Are those velvet pants, sleek silver paint.
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: It looks like velvet.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the fender wheels.
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: That have been cut and flared.
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, looks like velour.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: Possibly it's got blood red interior on that nice side pipe I'm thinking velour.
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: Nice young lady, probably posing by her boyfriend's car.
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: It could be her car, or dad's car it could be dad's car as well, you never know.
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: Or mom's Could be mom's.
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: Now, this one, this looks like me.
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: I was just going to say that is you?
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know it's either a spring day, because it's kind of wet, trees haven't bloomed or anything, all that good stuff.
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: He's got a T-shirt on no belt, skinny jeans.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I remember those days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was kind of yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: Now this one's just a plain old beach.
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: Drive it right up to the water, Get out, Do some suntanning 70 model.
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: Keystone Classics on some Goodyear tires and you know it's all washed up.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and he's trolling for a girlfriend yeah, sand crabs.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: Look at the background on that you got a Volkswagen bus, you got a micro bus.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: You got some vans, a couple of things in the background, the girlfriend probably took the picture.
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: That or the beach patrol.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: It looks like he's got clothes hanging up on the inside so he could change.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: To get back to school.
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: He's going on a date.
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: This one's entitled Too Bad.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: This Front Seat Is Taken, so look at that, the guy driving it, and two chicks.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, those are two chicks.
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: Those are two women's.
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: I understand that, but that's not her legs.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: No, that's the driver's leg.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying two girls and the guy that's not a guy.
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: That's not a guy.
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: Don't let him look.
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: Here's a bonus shot for you.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: That's me in 1977 with my Nova out front.
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: You know how the crimes shot for you.
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  Speaker 3: That's me in 1977.
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: There's my Nova out front.
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  Speaker 3: And you know how the crimes when they fade your picture.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: You know what that looks like.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: They block out your picture when you're crying.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: That looks like you posing as question mark in the Mysterians.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: It could be.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a criminal thing where they blur out your face.
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: But that's my Nova in the background and Kathy's my mother-in-law's driveway.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: Look face, but that's my Nova in the background in Kathy's, my mother-in-law's driveway.
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: Well, you can hardly make it out.
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: Well, it's the only one I had.
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: I don't have a lot of pictures of it.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: It's the only one I had.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Well, that was good.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: I liked it, mr Morrison.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: Time now for this hour's car review.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Jeff and I had the opportunity to ride and or drive the 2025 Alfa Stelvio.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Final assembly location is Casino Italy.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of appropriate, don't you agree?
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: So it comes in these trim levels Base Intensa and triputo italiano.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Forget about it.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: Forget about it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I had the veloce package and it was the base with the veloce package.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, my italian isn't really all that good not up to speed.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: No, uh, it is a small suv five seats in it.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Exterior changes well, it was all new in 2018.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: So it's getting a little long in the tooth, but this is a fun, sporty ride.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I saw one pass down the street, really yeah, the other day.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: Sharp looking, unique and attractive overall design with a triangular grille.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Now you're thinking, wait a minute, a triangular grill, ew.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: No, it works.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Smooth rear sunshade over the hatch, glass Wheels, five rounded hoops for the spokes.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: It's kind of weird, but it works.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Green, white, red Italy tribute on the side view mirrors.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: It's a little bitty thing, but it's fun.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Yep, what I liked about it is its uniqueness and I, speaking of unique, had the green paint called Verde Fangio and it got believe this.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: he put some ointment on it and it went away.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this I got more damn comments, Positive comments.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Hey man, I got more damn comments, Positive comments.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Hey man, I really like the color of that car and when I first got it I thought, no, that doesn't do it for me.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: But everybody liked it.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big green car fan because that goes back to racing superstitions and all that, but at any rate, yeah, verde Fangio Interior.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Highly detailed design on the interior, hvac in its own pod, below the center vent.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Two-pod instrument cluster with a smallish infotainment screen but remember this is from 2018.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: The start button is on the steering wheel, which is kind of weird.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: But, like I said, this is a very unique vehicle very Italian Cargo room, small.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it the very Italian neck, italian uniqueness.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: You ain't going to find anything like this.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: This is one unto itself.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of surprised that they don't sell more of them.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: This thing is pretty cool.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: The infotainment functions are confusing, however.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: My Italian friend schooled me on the thought process and I still don't understand it.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: So you have to become a little bit Italian to be able to understand the functions and how it all operates.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: Eat a lot of pasta.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Two-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder, 280 horsepower, so it's got some juice.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Torque 306 pound-feet of torque, and it can tow up to 3,000 pounds.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Mileage 22 city, 28 highway for combined to 24.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: I got 25.4 miles per gallon over the 754.7 miles that I drove up to Granbury and back and then back and forth to work.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: What I liked about it?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: The sport car-like handling that is built on the Giulia platform, which is a sedan that really is a sporty sedan.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: The half of Romeo thing is sportiness and it's got that kind of ride and unique handling to it and you either like it or you don't like it.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I like to be able to go around corners fast.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure about feeling comfortable about that in a high platform SUV, but apparently it'll do it.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: How much was it?
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the base trim price is $48,995.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: The price as tested $59,140.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: The base model price $48,995.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Competitors include the Audi Q5 for $45,400.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: The Mercedes-Benz GLC for $49,250, and the Acura ADX that I didn't even know about.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: You know we don't get too many Acuras to drive.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: No, we don't.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Did you know that there was an ADX?
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: No, there's the RDX.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: You're familiar with the Right.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: This is the Acura ADX, which is a small platform.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: It competes with the Lexus UX, so it's small small $44,000 is what they're getting or asking for the Acura ADX.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Huh yeah, it was a very unique vehicle and I'd like to thank Kimberly Schultz, with Stellantis, who allowed me to drive all those miles in it.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: You liked it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: I liked the car.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: The car was very comfortable, the seat positions you could get put anywhere and you'd get comfortable.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: I agree with you, the infotainment system was a little challenging.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: We were trying to do some things.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Jeff, I'm trying to drive.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Would you please do this?
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Well, let's see, it's on the steering wheel.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm trying to drive.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Would you please do this?
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Well, let's see, it's on the steering wheel.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I got my hands over here and I'm going like this, digging around on the steering wheel trying to get things.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: And the truck driver going by is looking out the window like what the?
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Hell are these?
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: two men doing in there we had four hands on the steering wheel trying to figure stuff out.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: We made it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were trying to reset the trip odometer, right right, and you had to drill down into it to reset the trip odometer.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some of that, more of that stuff where it's getting too complicated.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Well, and also, when you get there, you've got to know what to do with it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: So there was.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I broke out the manual.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: We were reading the manual, just saying Is that all?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: It was a nice vehicle.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: The front grill, you said the.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: What did you call that Triangle?
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Triangle Looks like what the Edsel used to be with the horse collar.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, that is not ugly, not as well.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: To me it's kind of.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I think of that one.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: You're more traditional.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: You're a Detroit boy.
• 15:51
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• 15:54
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• 15:56
  Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this.