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Are Car Tech And Emissions Rules Making Cars Riskier? · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:05
  Don Armstrong: It is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:08
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 0:08
  Don Armstrong: Head, yes, the sold car price.
• 0:12
  Don Armstrong: And is your car on the recall list?
• 0:15
  Don Armstrong: Uh-oh.
• 0:16
  Don Armstrong: We got the latest.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the cruise in an events calendar plus this week's top automotive news stories.
• 0:22
  Don Armstrong: How do you get along with Mike out of this world of ours?
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: We always need more Jeff Zeke.
• 0:27
  Don Armstrong: Chief Engineer David Hansley is with us today.
• 0:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, he's not with us in person, but I guarantee you he's listening to every word.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: Teaching and being ugly about it as well.
• 0:38
  Don Armstrong: He's probably said a lot of words.
• 0:40
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I know he is.
• 0:42
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 0:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: I know I've known him a long time.
• 0:45
  Don Armstrong: So I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us on this Saturday for our live show.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: And uh we're gonna start off this segment of the show with our recall list.
• 0:55
  Don Armstrong: I got a doozy to start off with.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Doozy.
• 0:58
  Don Armstrong: You like doozy.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Give me a doozy.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: So if you own a Hyundai, check this out.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: I don't.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: They've issued a recall for more than 421,000 vehicles, including the 2025 and 26 models of Santa Cruz, Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, and Tucson plug-in hybrid.
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: The issue arises from a software issue in the front cameras, which may inadvertently trigger the forward collision avoidance system, causing the brakes to engage without warning.
• 1:31
  Jeff Dziekan: I hate that.
• 1:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Huh?
• 1:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Go on.
• 1:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I've got a story.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: According to the Hyundai Recall, this unexpected braking significantly increases the risk of a crash.
• 1:41
  Don Armstrong: You think?
• 1:42
  Jeff Dziekan: When I back out of the garage and it's raining, the rear camera sensor on the bumpers, you're driving out, you're doing maybe a mile an hour, you're just backing out the driveway, and it'll it'll lock, it'll it'll absolutely lock you in your seat, and you can bump your head and all if you're looking out the window, you hit you.
• 1:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, it's terrible.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know.
• 1:59
  Don Armstrong: I've I've I've experienced that myself in some of these press vehicles that I drive.
• 2:04
  Don Armstrong: Kathy's does the same thing.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Other recalls do not drive loss of control from control arm separation.
• 2:13
  unknown: Oh my god.
• 2:15
  Don Armstrong: So you got one wheel going this way and another wheel going that away where they never should meet.
• 2:22
  Don Armstrong: Ford Broncos Sport.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: Oh no.
• 2:25
  Don Armstrong: Wait, 21 through 26.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: Ford Maverick, 22 through 26.
• 2:32
  Don Armstrong: Are they on the same line?
• 2:34
  Don Armstrong: They must be.
• 2:35
  Don Armstrong: They must be.
• 2:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh my god.
• 2:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Where they made, does it say?
• 2:38
  Don Armstrong: I didn't know.
• 2:39
  Don Armstrong: Didn't say any difference.
• 2:42
  Don Armstrong: Well, yeah, it doesn't, but loss of control from control arm separation.
• 2:47
  Don Armstrong: That's not good.
• 2:49
  Don Armstrong: We move on.
• 2:50
  Don Armstrong: Instrument panel display failure.
• 2:52
  Don Armstrong: Lexus GX 2024.
• 2:57
  Don Armstrong: UX hybrid, 25.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: Toyota Land Cruiser Hybrid, 24 and 25, and Toyota Mirai, 2024.
• 3:07
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 3:08
  Don Armstrong: I don't have one.
• 3:10
  Don Armstrong: I've never had one.
• 3:11
  Don Armstrong: Why don't they put those in the press lead?
• 3:13
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 3:14
  Don Armstrong: Loss of dry power from engine failure.
• 3:19
  Don Armstrong: Ford.
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: Bronco Explorer Ranger 25 and 26.
• 3:25
  Don Armstrong: I think I should go back to 21.
• 3:28
  Don Armstrong: Seatbelt may fail to retract or extend.
• 3:32
  Don Armstrong: Ford Expedition 18 through 22.
• 3:37
  Don Armstrong: Navigator 18 through 22.
• 3:40
  Don Armstrong: You know the president of the Ford Motor Company has said repeatedly we really need to get the recalls under control.
• 3:51
  Don Armstrong: You think incorrect gear may be selected in the Chevrolet Express and Savannah from GMC, the 2026 model year.
• 4:02
  Don Armstrong: I didn't even think that they were making that thing anymore.
• 4:05
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't either.
• 4:16
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:17
  Don Armstrong: The Savannah.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: Well, and both.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: They're vans.
• 4:19
  Don Armstrong: One's GMC, the other is the right.
• 4:21
  Mike Marrs: But the question is, is it the driver pulling the wrong gear or is the not going to the right gear the driver wants?
• 4:28
  Don Armstrong: I would imagine that the driver may select, you know, drive and then somehow, some way it gets discombobulated and puts it in the low or something.
• 4:36
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 4:36
  Don Armstrong: Something.
• 4:37
  Don Armstrong: Rear seat belt bolts may not be tightened properly.
• 4:42
  Don Armstrong: And pretty much every Mercedes bins that you can think of.
• 4:46
  Don Armstrong: AMGs, GLEs, GLS, all of them from the 2026 model year.
• 4:54
  Don Armstrong: I guess they had some sort of a pneumatic wrench fail or something.
• 4:58
  Jeff Dziekan: And they they just kind of eh, okay, that's calibrated for certain torque.
• 5:06
  Don Armstrong: Let's go to a driver's seatbelt strap may not extend.
• 5:10
  Don Armstrong: Martha, I can't get out.
• 5:12
  Don Armstrong: Kia tell you ride and tell you ride hybrid for 2027.
• 5:16
  Don Armstrong: And for me, wheelchair seat belts may not properly restrain the occupants.
• 5:24
  Don Armstrong: Don't you hate when that happens?
• 5:25
  Don Armstrong: I do.
• 5:26
  Don Armstrong: Look, there goes Don out the back doors.
• 5:29
  Don Armstrong: Can't have anything nice anymore.
• 5:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Just can't have anything nice.
• 5:33
  Don Armstrong: Ram ProMaster Van 2026.
• 5:36
  Don Armstrong: Those, my friends, are the recalls.
• 5:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Kid a lot.
• 5:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Funny, not funny.
• 5:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 5:41
  Jeff Dziekan: It's sad in a way.
• 5:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, there goes Don.
• 5:45
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I'm just a recall of the four.
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: We left him back there in the intersection.
• 5:49
  Jeff Dziekan: You wouldn't think Mercedes would even be close to that list.
• 5:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know.
• 5:53
  Don Armstrong: You wouldn't think.
• 5:54
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 5:55
  Don Armstrong: Now the fun part.
• 5:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Let's do the Hemings sold car roundup.
• 5:59
  Don Armstrong: Get your in-wheel time decoder rings out.
• 6:02
  Don Armstrong: And so the goal here is for you to guess what this particular car sold for at auction online.
• 6:10
  Jeff Dziekan: I did pretty good last week.
• 6:11
  Jeff Dziekan: We all did pretty fair.
• 6:13
  Jeff Dziekan: We all did pretty good.
• 6:14
  Don Armstrong: So the first one up is for you, Jeff.
• 6:16
  Don Armstrong: Because we know you're a passion about Cadillac.
• 6:20
  Don Armstrong: This, my friends, is a 1967 Cadillac Coupe de Ville convertible.
• 6:27
  Don Armstrong: And it's purple.
• 6:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Kind of purple.
• 6:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't think that they have.
• 6:34
  Jeff Dziekan: No, this it's it's called a champagne, I think.
• 6:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Or a uh there is a color for it.
• 6:38
  Jeff Dziekan: I remember that.
• 6:39
  Jeff Dziekan: It wasn't a champagne.
• 6:39
  Jeff Dziekan: I actually had a bought a champagne.
• 6:41
  Jeff Dziekan: It's uh it's I'll I'll I'll find out.
• 6:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Anyways, I want to go 12 grand.
• 6:46
  Jeff Dziekan: 12 grand.
• 6:47
  Jeff Dziekan: I am for a convertible?
• 6:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 6:49
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a 67 though, and it's purple.
• 6:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and it's big.
• 6:53
  Jeff Dziekan: It's huge.
• 6:54
  Jeff Dziekan: I like it.
• 6:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I drive it.
• 6:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff Heitzman says 50 grand.
• 6:58
  Don Armstrong: 50 grand.
• 6:59
  Don Armstrong: Jeff, I think that you need to buy this.
• 7:02
  Don Armstrong: Is George Skelton with us today?
• 7:04
  Mike Marrs: George is, and and so is uh Stanley.
• 7:08
  Mike Marrs: Uh here's Mr.
• 7:10
  Mike Marrs: Lesk and uh Stacy.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: Oh, good.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: 28.
• 7:14
  Don Armstrong: He says 28.
• 7:16
  unknown: All right.
• 7:18
  Mike Marrs: He was here a moment ago.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: Well, he's probably Googling it.
• 7:21
  Don Armstrong: Either that or went to the bathroom.
• 7:23
  Mike Marrs: Are you still trying to type in more nines?
• 7:27
  Mike Marrs: That's it.
• 7:27
  Mike Marrs: 999.
• 7:28
  Mike Marrs: So what we have.
• 7:29
  Don Armstrong: It's sold for 17,850.
• 7:31
  Don Armstrong: Oh.
• 7:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Of course, we don't know what it looks like underneath.
• 7:35
  Jeff Dziekan: That's there is a color like that.
• 7:37
  Jeff Dziekan: I've I watched them go down the assembly line.
• 7:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 7:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Were you did you have the trunk lids?
• 7:43
  Jeff Dziekan: What's that?
• 7:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Did you have anything to do with the trunk lid?
• 7:45
  Jeff Dziekan: The trunk lid, I did the striker cover, yeah.
• 7:47
  Jeff Dziekan: But that's there is a color like that.
• 7:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay, moving on.
• 7:50
  Don Armstrong: Next up is the 1996 Chevrolet Caprice.
• 7:55
  Don Armstrong: Um I put this up here because it looks like a cop car, but I don't think it is.
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: And look at it.
• 8:03
  Mike Marrs: It is a cop car.
• 8:04
  Mike Marrs: It was uh ex Virginia State Trooper car.
• 8:07
  Don Armstrong: I was gonna say because it's got it's got buckets up front and a regular passenger car.
• 8:12
  Don Armstrong: I don't uh if the caprice offered that.
• 8:14
  Jeff Dziekan: I think the Apollo offered that.
• 8:16
  Don Armstrong: So 96 Chevy Caprice owned by a state government, and you could what's it got on it?
• 8:21
  Don Armstrong: You know, probably 90,000 miles or something.
• 8:24
  Jeff Dziekan: It's probably six billion dollars.
• 8:26
  Jeff Dziekan: No, it did it didn't sell for that.
• 8:28
  Jeff Dziekan: But I uh I'm gonna I'm gonna go nine grand.
• 8:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Nine grand.
• 8:31
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go nine grand, maybe ten.
• 8:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, look at that.
• 8:34
  Jeff Dziekan: The lust family, 48.
• 8:36
  Jeff Dziekan: They're singing my song.
• 8:38
  Don Armstrong: Well, I'm going to tell you right now that David and his wife win the car because it sold for$4,400.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 8:48
  Mike Marrs: You're the proud owner of the night.
• 8:52
  Mike Marrs: It's a one owner.
• 8:54
  Mike Marrs: That's it.
• 8:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 8:54
  Mike Marrs: He bought it straight from the police auction and he's had it ever since.
• 8:59
  Mike Marrs: So you really got a one-on-one?
• 9:01
  Don Armstrong: It was one of those transfer cars, I think, that they probably used uh to transfer prisoners to the federal penitentiary or something.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: Whatever.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:08
  Don Armstrong: Next up, this is for Leslie.
• 9:12
  Don Armstrong: A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro.
• 9:16
  Don Armstrong: Now, if I'm not mistaken, I would like to say that this is either an SS or an RS.
• 9:21
  Don Armstrong: It's a convertible and it's uh yellow.
• 9:25
  Jeff Dziekan: And it's got a big V8 in there.
• 9:28
  Jeff Dziekan: They call it banana yellow or something, or something to do with the fruit.
• 9:31
  Don Armstrong: I have no idea.
• 9:33
  Don Armstrong: But anyway, it it's kind of banana yellow.
• 9:35
  Don Armstrong: I don't know what the color is officially.
• 9:37
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm stumped.
• 9:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Are you what year again?
• 9:39
  Don Armstrong: This is a 69 Camaro that's got a V8 in it, probably a 327.
• 9:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I see the big air cleaner on that.
• 9:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 9:46
  Jeff Dziekan: An aftermarket.
• 9:47
  Don Armstrong: That's not a factory air cleaner.
• 9:49
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 9:50
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 9:50
  Jeff Dziekan: So how much?
• 9:52
  Jeff Dziekan: He's going 12.
• 9:53
  Jeff Dziekan: I was gonna go 15.
• 9:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Really?
• 9:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Ed went or uh George went 12,999.
• 9:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 15.
• 10:01
  Jeff Dziekan: David says 12.
• 10:03
  Don Armstrong: It sold for 45,679.
• 10:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, we're pooling our money.
• 10:08
  Jeff Dziekan: We're all gonna pull our money and we're gonna get it.
• 10:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, do that because that's the only way you'll be able to afford that thing.
• 10:14
  Jeff Dziekan: I wouldn't buy it for that.
• 10:15
  Don Armstrong: Next up, uh, this is a 1964 Pontiac Bonneville.
• 10:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, baby.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: A 64 Pontiac stacked headlights, eight lug wheels.
• 10:28
  Don Armstrong: Does it have those?
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: No, it looks like it's got those fake uh wire wheel covers.
• 10:35
  Don Armstrong: Has it got the big V8 in it?
• 10:36
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's I don't know.
• 10:39
  Don Armstrong: A what?
• 10:40
  Don Armstrong: A 389?
• 10:41
  Don Armstrong: 389, four barrel.
• 10:42
  Don Armstrong: So then it should have them.
• 10:43
  Don Armstrong: Well, so what do you think that that it's not a convertible, is it?
• 10:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Is it oh it's a hard top?
• 10:48
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a hard top.
• 10:49
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a hard top.
• 10:49
  Don Armstrong: Two-door hardtop.
• 10:50
  Don Armstrong: Pontiac Bonneville.
• 10:52
  Don Armstrong: What did it sell for?
• 10:53
  Jeff Dziekan: On the used car market.
• 10:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff says 30, 30 big cap jamoles there.
• 10:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh I'm gonna go.
• 11:02
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 14.
• 11:04
  Jeff Dziekan: $14,000.
• 11:06
  Jeff Dziekan: I am George says$14,999.
• 11:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 11:11
  Jeff Dziekan: You guys are at 14.
• 11:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Interesting.
• 11:12
  Jeff Dziekan: And the Lusk family says 32.
• 11:14
  Jeff Dziekan: 32.
• 11:15
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, it sold for$18,743.
• 11:20
  Jeff Dziekan: That's with TTNL.
• 11:21
  Jeff Dziekan: I can get it.
• 11:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 11:22
  unknown: Okay.
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: Here's one for you, Jeff.
• 11:26
  Don Armstrong: You moved up to the 1987 Buick Grand National Regal.
• 11:31
  Don Armstrong: And uh boy, it's shiny.
• 11:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 11:33
  Don Armstrong: I don't know what it's like under the hood, whether it's been ratted out.
• 11:37
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 11:37
  Don Armstrong: It looks good.
• 11:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 11:39
  Don Armstrong: Buick Regal 87 model.
• 11:41
  Don Armstrong: And uh this is the turbocharged.
• 11:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep, there's a turret, there's a picture under the hood, looks pretty good.
• 11:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go uh I'm gonna go 18.
• 11:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Really?
• 11:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I'm gonna go 18.
• 11:53
  Jeff Dziekan: For a grand national.
• 11:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't say that.
• 11:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Just get to it.
• 11:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't discourage me.
• 11:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 11:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Really?
• 11:58
  Jeff Dziekan: You're gonna go that low?
• 12:00
  Don Armstrong: Well, Heightsman's down there at 21.
• 12:03
  Don Armstrong: You guys haven't kept up with the market on this.
• 12:05
  Don Armstrong: No, we just know what a GNX is.
• 12:07
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, the GNX doesn't have a rear seat in it.
• 12:09
  Don Armstrong: It's basically a rear next.
• 12:12
  Jeff Dziekan: 22 there for David.
• 12:13
  Don Armstrong: It's sold for$55,125.
• 12:19
  Don Armstrong: This car, there's something about this car, this next one, that I I like.
• 12:25
  Don Armstrong: And I've never been a huge Dodge fan, but John Hobis with that black Dodge dart that he's got, it's about the same model, yeah, except for that didn't have the big scoop on it.
• 12:36
  Don Armstrong: But I like that, I like the body style.
• 12:39
  Don Armstrong: Sleeper.
• 12:40
  Don Armstrong: And I like the the bucket seats.
• 12:42
  Don Armstrong: I like the four on the floor.
• 12:43
  Don Armstrong: There's everything I like about this car.
• 12:47
  Don Armstrong: Looks like it's got a uh got a hammy in it.
• 12:50
  Don Armstrong: 340.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: Oh, it's a 340.
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Is it a six-pack?
• 12:53
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: No, that'd be the 446-pack.
• 12:55
  Jeff Dziekan: George says 1699.
• 12:57
  Jeff Dziekan: 16.
• 12:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 12:58
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 32.
• 13:00
  Jeff Dziekan: 32.
• 13:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 13:03
  Jeff Dziekan: 32.
• 13:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeffrey says 33.
• 13:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 13:07
  Jeff Dziekan: And George.
• 13:09
  Jeff Dziekan: 21,999.
• 13:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 13:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, George wins the b bid on this one.
• 13:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, and David says 28.
• 13:17
  Don Armstrong: It sold for$22,050.
• 13:20
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 13:21
  Don Armstrong: That'd be something that I I would consider buying.
• 13:23
  Don Armstrong: $28 from the Lusk family.
• 13:25
  Don Armstrong: $28, yeah.
• 13:26
  Don Armstrong: I think$22 is a fair figure.
• 13:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I think so too.
• 13:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:30
  Don Armstrong: It's clean, it looks good.
• 13:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:34
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 13:35
  Don Armstrong: We're getting close to the end.
• 13:36
  Don Armstrong: Uh again, this is for you, Jeff.
• 13:38
  Don Armstrong: A 1965 Buick Special.
• 13:42
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a green with a black convertible.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's it's a convertible.
• 13:46
  Don Armstrong: It's got wire wheel covers on it.
• 13:48
  Don Armstrong: Um not not a big volume vehicle, but it's got clean lines.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: This is 1965.
• 13:59
  Don Armstrong: Throw yourself back there.
• 14:00
  Don Armstrong: So, what do you think that that thing sold for?
• 14:04
  Don Armstrong: It's been garaged a long time.
• 14:06
  Jeff Dziekan: It looks like it's in good shape.
• 14:07
  Jeff Dziekan: It's got some nice wheels on it.
• 14:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Mine needs a new top on it, but whatever.
• 14:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Um, yeah.
• 14:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff Heisman says 13.
• 14:12
  Jeff Dziekan: I was gonna go 12.
• 14:13
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:14
  Mike Marrs: The interior looks pretty good.
• 14:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, it does.
• 14:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Looks nice.
• 14:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Reg the top looks uh intact, doesn't have any broken glass or panels in the back or plastic.
• 14:24
  Jeff Dziekan: George is Hart Grindel.
• 14:27
  Jeff Dziekan: $700.
• 14:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Man, that's brilliant.
• 14:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Lusk family,$7,500.
• 14:33
  Jeff Dziekan: That's pretty close, too.
• 14:34
  Jeff Dziekan: That's a good that's a good bargain there.
• 14:36
  Jeff Dziekan: $75 for David as well.
• 14:37
  Don Armstrong: Well, David and the Lusk are gonna have to share driving responsibilities because it sold for$8,500.
• 14:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh man.
• 14:44
  Jeff Dziekan: That would be a the Rust family says it looks rough.
• 14:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, I agree with them actually.
• 14:49
  Don Armstrong: Who would put red heater hoses in it?
• 14:52
  Don Armstrong: The guy that replaced it?
• 14:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know.
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: That's that's just wrong.
• 14:56
  Don Armstrong: Well, we're on a black.
• 14:57
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I'll take the red, that'll be fine.
• 14:59
  Don Armstrong: Uh no.
• 15:00
  Mike Marrs: And the red's for the hot for the heater hose.
• 15:03
  Mike Marrs: That's kind of cool.
• 15:04
  Mike Marrs: No red heater hoses.
• 15:06
  Mike Marrs: Good call, Mike.
• 15:07
  Don Armstrong: All right, now here's one that really kind of surprised me.
• 15:09
  Don Armstrong: This is a 2002 BMW Z3.
• 15:15
  Don Armstrong: Now, if I'm not mistaken, I think this has a straight six in it.
• 15:19
  Mike Marrs: 3.0 inline six.
• 15:20
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 15:22
  Don Armstrong: Um have you ever driven one of these?
• 15:25
  Don Armstrong: No, I haven't.
• 15:26
  Don Armstrong: It's a little rocket ship from BMW.
• 15:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 15:29
  Don Armstrong: But that straight six didn't weigh very much.
• 15:31
  Don Armstrong: It's a two-seat sports car, and it has well, we know that it's got the removable hard top.
• 15:38
  Don Armstrong: It might have the the convertible soft top on it.
• 15:41
  Don Armstrong: I think it does.
• 15:42
  Don Armstrong: There's a picture of it.
• 15:43
  Don Armstrong: So it's got two tops.
• 15:44
  Don Armstrong: It's extra clean looking.
• 15:46
  Don Armstrong: Uh all looks like it's completely stocked.
• 15:51
  Jeff Dziekan: You said it's a 21?
• 15:52
  Don Armstrong: It's a twenty two thousand two.
• 15:53
  Don Armstrong: 2002.
• 15:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 15:55
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 15:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm going to go uh I'm going to go 17.
• 15:59
  Jeff Dziekan: 17.
• 15:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff says 17.
• 16:00
  Jeff Dziekan: All right, good call, Jeff.
• 16:03
  Jeff Dziekan: George 35999.
• 16:06
  Don Armstrong: I think that you're going to be surprised.
• 16:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Lust Family 42.
• 16:11
  Jeff Dziekan: And David says 25.
• 16:13
  Don Armstrong: It sold for$13,643.
• 16:19
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 16:19
  Don Armstrong: That would be something that I might have high miles on it.
• 16:23
  Jeff Dziekan: I think it could have high miles on it.
• 16:25
  Jeff Dziekan: I doubt it.
• 16:26
  Mike Marrs: Those cars usually don't.
• 16:28
  Mike Marrs: It's been slightly modified because it said it was factory, it was 237 horses and it's now rated at 250.
• 16:34
  Mike Marrs: So they put an exhaust or something like that.
• 16:40
  Mike Marrs: But they uh they're not just not real popular cars, but they're little rocket ships, like you said.
• 16:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, they are.
• 16:46
  Don Armstrong: Stan actually had one of those at one time.
• 16:48
  Don Armstrong: Anyway.
• 16:49
  Don Armstrong: Interesting.
• 16:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Don Armstrong: Thank you all for playing.
• 16:51
  Don Armstrong: We'll have more next week.
• 16:52
  Don Armstrong: Coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 16:57
  Don Armstrong: The Gin Wheel Time Car Talk Show continues after this 90-second break.
• 17:02
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• 18:48
  Don Armstrong: All right, time now for the cruise in and events calendars, Jeffrey.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes, uh this weekend, ours goes for next weekend, but this weekend there's a lot of Father's Day events and stuff going on.
• 18:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Check your local area.
• 18:58
  Jeff Dziekan: It's probably school or a church that's got something going on.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: So enjoy that.
• 19:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Weather permitting.
• 19:02
  Jeff Dziekan: So next week we've got Daniel's Meat Market, Cars and Coffee.
• 19:06
  Jeff Dziekan: It's uh 8 to 10 a.m.
• 19:07
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Baytown, Texas.
• 19:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh there car owners can register, they're invited to register their vehicles by email.
• 19:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh you can check that out.
• 19:15
  Jeff Dziekan: All classic cars drivers will receive free coffee.
• 19:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it takes place every Saturday morning.
• 19:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Then you've got the Saturday night headlights.
• 19:23
  Jeff Dziekan: This is in Beaumont, Mike, not too far from you.
• 19:26
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 290 Crockett Street.
• 19:28
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from 7 p.m.
• 19:29
  Jeff Dziekan: to 9 p.m.
• 19:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it is cars and coffee styles, all kinds of vehicles.
• 19:34
  Jeff Dziekan: They uh invite you to go on out there and check it out.
• 19:37
  Jeff Dziekan: They're gonna have food and all kinds of good stuff out there as well.
• 19:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Community focus is the main event.
• 19:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Coffee and chrome at Gateway Classic Cars of Houston.
• 19:44
  Jeff Dziekan: That's at 1910 Cypress Station Drive in Houston, suite 200, but I'm sure you'll see it once you get up there.
• 19:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh warm up with coffee and donuts while supplies last, of course, open to the public.
• 19:55
  Jeff Dziekan: There's no admission fee or anything like that, so that means it's free.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Brizoria County Cars and Coffee.
• 20:02
  Jeff Dziekan: This one's down in Lake Jackson.
• 20:03
  Jeff Dziekan: We talk about this one every now and then.
• 20:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it is at uh 221 Parkingway Street, goes from 9 a.m.
• 20:09
  Jeff Dziekan: to 11 a.m.
• 20:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Parkingway.
• 20:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Parking way.
• 20:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Organizers emphasize no reving of the engines.
• 20:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Make sure you got rev those now.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Remember your engines, make sure your fingernails are clean and your hair is cut.
• 20:19
  Jeff Dziekan: So get on out there.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: So, anyways, these are all uh weather re weather permitting, of course.
• 20:24
  Jeff Dziekan: And uh again, check out your your local area.
• 20:27
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure there's something going on in your area.
• 20:30
  Don Armstrong: I may have shortchanged you on the on the uh on the news stories this week, last year.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: But I've got them all this week.
• 20:37
  Don Armstrong: Oh boy.
• 20:38
  Don Armstrong: U.S.
• 20:38
  Don Armstrong: electric vehicle registrations are recovering from the loss of federal tax credits, with April's 9.8% decline, marking the smallest year-over-year drop so far this year, and a signal the market is stabilizing.
• 20:53
  Don Armstrong: U.S.
• 20:54
  Don Armstrong: new EV registrations fell to 89,147 in April, compared with the same month a year ago, according to SP Global Monthly.
• 21:03
  Don Armstrong: Yet that's the highest tally of 2026.
• 21:07
  Don Armstrong: EV share of the U.S.
• 21:08
  Don Armstrong: light vehicle market held steady at 6.2 percent, the same as in March, but down from 6.6 a year ago.
• 21:14
  Don Armstrong: Tesla, of course, leading the pack.
• 21:16
  Don Armstrong: They were up uh in April, up 13%.
• 21:19
  Don Armstrong: They sold 45,800 cars.
• 21:22
  Don Armstrong: All the rest of them are so far behind, it's unbelievable.
• 21:25
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 21:26
  Don Armstrong: Mitsubishi Motors, and you know, I I've not really ever been a big fan, but I think that they're gonna try to make some waves in the U.S.
• 21:35
  Don Armstrong: car market.
• 21:36
  Jeff Dziekan: We've talked about this in the past.
• 21:37
  Don Armstrong: Mitsubishi Motors no longer just talking about a North American comeback, it's rolling out the metal to prove it.
• 21:43
  Don Armstrong: Japanese automaker delivered a much needed shot of adrenaline to its retailers this month, previewing its first modern EV arriving in early fall.
• 21:52
  Don Armstrong: The next generations of its workhorse crossovers and a rugged flagship SUV that could reshape the brand's future.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: Broadly praised the pivot toward larger, more profitable crossovers, SUVs, and pickups in segments where customers' demand and margins are the strongest.
• 22:10
  Don Armstrong: Mitsubishi's a niche player.
• 22:12
  Don Armstrong: One dealer said, I don't want to sell$20,000 cars, nor do we want to buy them.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: That's why that is that.
• 22:22
  Don Armstrong: Mercedes Benz is giving its four-liter twin turbo V8 a major update that enables the quad-cam 32-valve high performance engine to meet stricter emission standards on the books in some global markets.
• 22:35
  Don Armstrong: The move is part of a broader plan to boost sales of the high performance limited production AMG line to 200,000 units annually.
• 22:43
  Don Armstrong: Although horsepower and torque ratings remain the same at 603 and 627 pound feet, Mercedes says the engine in the two 2027 AMG GLE63S and AMG GLS 63 delivers slightly quicker zero to sixty mark mark miles per hour acceleration times, with both vehicles reaching it in under four seconds.
• 23:07
  Don Armstrong: The biggest change to the engine, a flat plane crankshaft.
• 23:11
  Don Armstrong: The new crank reduces engine weight and revs faster.
• 23:14
  Don Armstrong: And with the cylinders firing in an alternating pattern between left and right, airflow through the in redesigned intake and exhaust ports is more.
• 23:23
  Jeff Dziekan: See, that was my question.
• 23:24
  Jeff Dziekan: You got the four uh four cam.
• 23:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Four cam uh quad cam.
• 23:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Those lobes are probably really tiny.
• 23:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah.
• 23:32
  Jeff Dziekan: And they're probably really short in length.
• 23:34
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got the crank.
• 23:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I was gonna ask a question about the crank, but you answered that.
• 23:37
  Jeff Dziekan: So that's a tiny compact little powerhouse.
• 23:41
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm thinking recall in the future.
• 23:44
  Jeff Dziekan: It won't be one of the it won't be that.
• 23:50
  Jeff Dziekan: We should start a car company just called Recall.
• 23:53
  Jeff Dziekan: The Recall car.
• 23:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm going to buy a recall.
• 23:58
  Don Armstrong: No, we're not.
• 23:59
  Jeff Dziekan: For$103,000.
• 24:01
  Don Armstrong: Stellatis joining the global Robo Taxi race through a partnership with Uber and Wave to launch fully autonomous ride hailing vehicles worldwide.
• 24:11
  Don Armstrong: Robotaxis will be Society of Automotive Engineers Level 4, meaning they can operate autonomously without a human driver in defined conditions.
• 24:19
  Don Armstrong: Companies do not give details about where and when they'll be rolled out, but Uber and WAVE have a separate partnership that will deploy the taxis in London, Tokyo, and ten other cities around the world.
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: U.S.
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: inventories of several key missiles used in the Iran War could take years to return to pre-war levels.
• 24:41
  Don Armstrong: A May 27th report by Bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies found.
• 24:46
  Don Armstrong: By collaborating with Lockheed Martin, General Motors can leverage its high-rate manufacturing capabilities.
• 24:58
  Don Armstrong: They're going to be taking lessons and they're going to be taking business.
• 25:02
  Don Armstrong: And high fuel prices spurred by the war in Iran have pushed customers across the industry away from expensive pickups and SUVs faster than General Motors executives expected.
• 25:13
  Don Armstrong: I'm not going to sit here and say it's permanent yet, GM North American President Duncan Allred said at a Center for Automotive Research Conference in Ipsilati, west of Detroit.
• 25:25
  Don Armstrong: But we are seeing somewhat of a shrinking of pickup trucks, full-size utilities, and some of the heavier vehicles, and an increase in more affordable segments of the industry.
• 25:36
  Don Armstrong: You think?
• 25:37
  Don Armstrong: Several weeks into the Middle East conflict, CE CFO Paul Jacobson told investors that it usually takes around six months of sustained high prices for people to start considering cheaper, more fuel efficient options.
• 25:50
  Don Armstrong: So take that.
• 25:53
  Don Armstrong: And Chevrolet's coming out with uh a bunch of uh new V8s uh and uh that's coming up in the new pickup truck that was debuted this past week.
• 26:02
  Jeff Dziekan: We need to be on the lookout for that.
• 26:04
  Jeff Dziekan: When you say new V8s, are you saying horsepower configuration?
• 26:07
  Don Armstrong: Dropping the 5.3.
• 26:09
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 26:09
  Don Armstrong: Hey, uh be sure and join us every week for our live show.
• 26:14
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• 27:49
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's all for this week's In Real Time Common Talk Show.
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• 28:39
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• 28:43
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• 28:53
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