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Drive Thru News #57: Is it torqued or cross-threaded? Tight-is-TIGHT. · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Uh, you ready, Tanya?
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Sure.
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I'm doing one last, okay.
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I've got, I've got my notes.
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I'm, I'm good to, all right.
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You ready?
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Yes.
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No.
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Yes.
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All right.
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Bring us in.
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Welcome to Drive through episode number 57.
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This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive
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motorsport and entertaining quote unquote, car adjacent news.
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Now, let's pull up the window, number one for some automotive news.
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How's everybody doing?
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We're doing well.
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We're gonna talk about how we're doing.
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Yeah.
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That's our showcase of how y'all doing.
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Is it really?
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It is.
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I just, it just tied right into that.
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Look at that.
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I right on top of that, rose.
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It's like those where I posted on Discord, those mints, they're called judgments.
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The, the Golden Girls judgments.
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Oh my God.
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You need to find some of those and bring them on Sunday.
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Could have bought them.
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They were right there.
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But I was given the Bob Ross happy little Trees, mints.
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I mean, they're all like Altoids or whatever at the end of the day, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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But the judgments you could give to somebody and said, you've
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just been judged, Tanya's doing comparative shopping on HPD events.
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'cause the prices are outrageous.
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Yeah.
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I, I have not looked at any of the pricing or anything.
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How bad is it?
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You know what?
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Just tell me upfront The cost don't make me go through,
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pretend like I'm registering.
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I wanna register based on the cost.
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I don't wanna go through the steps to register to then find the cost.
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Why is this complicated programming that's really dumb
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because they want you to commit.
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Uh oh, she's having heart palpitations.
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It must be bad.
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It really boils down to what we've been saying for a while.
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There's a lot of track days that are Tuesday, Wednesday, you know, you gotta
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take half the week off 'cause you got a trailer out there, you got a trailer
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back, and then it's like $9 million to go to some track and you're like, it's
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not even a top tier IMSA track like Road Atlanta or Watkins Glen or VIR.
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You gotta pay.
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More money you have to burn vacation days, which is more, more money.
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Yep.
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And then you're driving on like Jefferson.
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Correct.
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For seven, $800.
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That is stupid.
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And then nobody wants to instruct anymore.
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So they're hurting for instructors.
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Yep.
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Feel like the HPDE is kind of going through a swan song right now.
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We have hit a breaking point where we were trying to do the math and there
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are certain sanctioning bodies in the amateur club racing space where it is
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cheaper to go racing than it is to go do high performance driver's education.
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As an example, like at VRG event doing vintage racing, if you have a
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vintage car, one that qualifies, it is cheaper to go do that than it is to
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go run Summit Point on a de weekend.
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It doesn't make any sense.
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And at the end you're going door to door, you don't have to worry about point buys,
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everybody's licensed and you get a trophy.
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And if you don't care about being competitive, then you don't need
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to burn through brand new Hoosiers every session and shit like that.
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You just go out and have fun.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Like I said, this month's showcase is gonna be a little bit more
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personal, a little, little more anecdotal, if you will.
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Right.
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We got some stories to share.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I gotta start off with this one, Tanya, correct me if I'm wrong.
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You and I went out to dinner together the other night, walked into this place.
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I turned to her and I said, oh my God.
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Look, it's Daniel.
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It's Mountain man Dan spitting image.
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It was his cousin, that's for sure.
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We're like, man, Daniel's here.
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Holy cow.
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So then we're sitting down to eat and Tanya like taps me and she's
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like pointing out the window.
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I did a double take, dude.
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This guy was your Doppel gang.
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I thought you walked in.
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And I was like, oh.
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Oh wait.
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No, really?
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Yeah.
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Same color hair, same height, same haircut, same like everything.
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We're like Brad is here where we got the Daniel Doppelganger.
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This is incredible.
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So what I didn't tell you all was I was in Maryland hanging out with
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Daniel, trying to get my Simpson back and it didn't work out.
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Good luck on that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he is probably sold it by now.
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Desiree's probably wearing it for some reason.
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It is a harness after all.
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Hey, are we talking about Daniel or Gus?
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Oh, no.
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Oh, those are some memories.
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BaZing.
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That's some memories, yeah.
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Talking about track days.
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There's a lot of hand ringing going on right now in terms of, you know,
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who's going back to the track.
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And there's a lot of commotion on Discord today about, you know, back in
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the old days and we used to go to the track and there's, it's like, yeah,
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but a lot of people sold their cars.
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During COVID told them before COVID, before COVID, slightly after COVID.
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People have been getting out of HBDE for a while and there's been sort
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of a consumer and customer shift.
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But the problem is, you know, you hear about these events, we're full,
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we're sold out, blah, blah blah.
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And you're like, how?
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How?
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You're charging like a thousand dollars a day to go to these racetracks.
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And it's like, what?
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They're full and sold out the way.
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Tesla's autopilot is autopilot.
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That's how they're full and sold out.
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And you know, I had a conversation with several other instructors and, and
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even my wife, I haven't decided yet.
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I did the CI gig a couple years ago.
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I've done some coaching on and off you.
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We went to VIR the last time, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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And it's just like.
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My problem is I'm not stuck in the past.
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My car's not slow by any stretch of the imagination, right?
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But cars that people are bringing to the track, compared to the cars
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that we were bringing to the track 10 years ago, might as well be pirate
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ships and the Starship Enterprise.
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And there's this level of like, do I really wanna get into a 200 mile an hour
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hypercar and try to rein somebody in that just wants to go full Ricky, Bobby?
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I don't know.
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Maybe it's, I'm getting old.
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That's what it is.
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Uh, no.
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It's called intelligence wisdom.
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We call it wisdom, right?
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We call it wisdom.
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Yes.
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Through experience, we gain wisdom.
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And I'm the same way.
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You were coaching longer than I was.
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And yeah, I do not want to sit right seat with anybody ever again.
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And I didn't even have nearly as bad experiences as you've had.
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It's just coaching wasn't for me.
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And that was the only way I could afford to go, especially now with little kids.
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And I don't have a car, so I'd have to borrow somebody's car
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or rent a car or something.
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Coaching was the only way I was gonna go.
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I just completely lost interest in, in coaching, you know, even before
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COVID, I was just like, man, I gotta sit right seat with somebody again.
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God, such a pain in the ass.
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Which is the last event that I did.
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I actually paid for the Audi Club event at EIR in November.
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I was like, I I, I just paid for that event.
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Pay to play that way you're left alone.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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And I, I, I only get eight sessions out on track, but they're my
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sessions until I break the car.
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So I get two sessions.
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Yeah.
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You're not doing 16 sessions right.
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Where it's like you gotta go in eight sessions of somebody
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else's runs as well, you know?
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No.
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And then there's nothing better.
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Nothing sweeter than packing up at like 10:00 AM on a Sunday wave and bye to all
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your friends who have to stay there till 5:00 PM and then drive six hours away.
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Ah.
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Don't remind me.
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See ya.
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I'll be home by like afternoon snack.
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I'll be home before you guys leave.
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Yeah, right.
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Coaching sucks.
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I'm just gonna put it out there.
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There's some very altruistic things about it where you're like, I'm giving back and
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we're teaching at future generation of drivers and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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But it's sort of weird too, like the looks you get from people when you're like.
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Oh, well you drive that old thing and I'm like, yeah, and you got a R eight.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah.
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And I'm still gonna pass you.
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Yeah, right.
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So all that aside, I mean it is getting more and more expensive and I think it
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is not just a changing of the guard, but it's also due to the economy.
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Things got really expensive during COVID.
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Inflation is real, as we know really what we do.
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It's a luxury, right?
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And it's a fantasy and we're living out our boy racer dreams and you
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know, going and having fun with our discretionary income and you
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know, all that kind of thing.
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But right now things are so crazy.
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Is it worth going to go spend 700 bucks at Summit Point when
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I used to spend 200 bucks?
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And so you're kinda like, let me pump the brakes for a
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second and be smart about this.
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Because with all the dozing and the layoffs and the constant
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consternation that's out there, we just don't know what's going on.
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And to boot, now we gotta retract.
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Some of the stuff we talked about last month with our
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trouble with tariffs episode.
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I also think we should make a clarification that we're not
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retracting the highest seat in all the land is retracting.
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Do we even have tariffs anymore?
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Like I don't know what the heck's going on.
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No.
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We still do tariffs to do chips because?
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Chips, because tariffs.
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No, they're still all out there.
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That's for sure.
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The automotive ones held.
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But then previous agreements with Mexico and Canada aren't being voided.
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So basically certain parts that are being imported from those countries
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are not impacted by the tariffs.
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So they're not seeing a tariff, but like everything else still is.
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Brad sweatpants are, we know that I, I don't know.
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Because then how do other cars imported?
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Yeah.
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Those are still, I guess, subject to that particular country's particular
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randomly assigned tariff rate.
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I, I'd hate to be the person who has to account for audit and track all of that.
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I just wanna know where the money goes.
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We're imposing all these tariffs and where is the money going if it's actually
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being collected to lower our deficit.
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Right.
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You know, I'm not gonna get into that discussion, but this goes back to our
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anecdotal showcase for this month.
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So we're at dinner after we saw your doppelganger and this mountain
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man van clone that was out there.
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What did I order?
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Where was I?
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It was barbecue joint.
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You ordered a barbecue, place some, yeah, some ribs and some cornbread.
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Definitely got the pulled pork then.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So as we're sitting there enjoying our meal, talking with our friends
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who we hadn't seen in a while, they were telling us about their new car
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buying experience, and I'm trying my best poker face because we talk about
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this stuff every month and I'm like, if you don't have to, don't do it.
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Blah, blah, blah.
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You've heard me rant about this and I'm just like head in hand.
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Again, trying not to show my cards and I understand why.
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You know, their son is now of driving age, so they gave him mom's van and
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she's sort of lamenting about missing the van and she lived outta the van
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for so many years and she loves her van and blah, blah blah, and this and that.
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And they tell us this story about, you know, there've been a Toyota
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family for a long time and she wanted to get like a RAV4 hybrid.
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But you know, the fictitious countdown timer, like our DeLorean
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timer, if you remember that was rolling down and you know they gotta
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buy a car before the tariffs hit.
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Like a long story short, they ended up buying a Honda and she's.
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Not really in love with it.
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She's sort of okay with it.
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So it made me stop and think for a second.
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Maybe it's my tinfoil hat.
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Was all this a scam to get people to buy new cars because the automotive market
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has been soft for the last couple years and people are keeping their cars longer.
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Yes.
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Yes and no.
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Okay.
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I think the tariffs exist.
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I think there's a certain amount of sensationalism and panic that
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went with the communication of it.
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Oh, what was I just listening to?
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Where they were talking about tariffs and this, that, and the
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other, and there's actually, there's people taking advantage of it.
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Like we said, what would happen?
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Right.
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How do you know what a company's doing?
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And there's people that have no right to be charging tariffs and
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they're just marking stuff up.
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Because they can, because everybody else is marking stuff up.
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Yeah.
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That's very real.
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And that's happening.
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I'm seeing in my own world right now at work and procuring stuff where
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it's like our prices are rising.
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Oh, and look, there's a line here at the bottom that says tariff and
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literally like tariff, blah, blah, blah.
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And it's like, okay, now you just have this extra chunk
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of money that I'm paying for.
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What again?
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Where's the money going?
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Allegedly into the Department of Treasuries, bank account, Uhhuh.
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So is it a scam?
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I, I don't know.
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Did the automotive industry and others probably take advantage
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of, you know, fanfare and hype?
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I. To drive some extra sales at the end of the month.
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Probably, no doubt.
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In theory, it shouldn't apply to what's on the lot already because they've
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already been imported, they've passed through customs, so it should only
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apply to vehicles assembled, post the line in the sand or whatever.
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And then any other cars that are coming off the boat from other countries.
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How fast is the inventory moving?
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I don't know.
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Who are you to say that you know, X, Y, ZBMW from Germany off the
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line was here or not here already?
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Like I, I think it's unfortunate the consumer loses.
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All the time because at the end of the day, yeah, it's the person bringing it in.
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Who, who's gotta pay the tariff to us.
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And you know what they're all gonna do is it all ends up back to the consumer.
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'cause they're gonna raise their prices to cover it.
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I'm like, and I couldn't do the math.
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Maybe it was the barbecue sauce or something that was affecting
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my reasoning, but buy another used car for a 16-year-old.
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And you know what, I was thinking about this the other
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day in that thought process.
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And I think there was something else I was listening to.
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I listen to a lot of like WTOP these days.
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So I I, I hear a lot more.
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Oh my God, you move into Eric's neighborhood and all
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of a sudden you're Eric.
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She's worse.
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I'll listen to NPR, but I won't listen to WT P oh NPR.
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That's right.
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NPRI had a long drive.
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And the music selection and the radio banter gets old
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pretty fast into the drive.
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True, true.
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At any rate, so they have the relevant news.
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Conversations that they get you up to.
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Speed.
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Right up to speed.
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Look at that segue.
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Anyway, so I think they were even saying something and it prompted my thought and
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back to that night in that conversation and I was thinking, okay, the year 2025,
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you've got a kid that's coming to driving age and you go and they need a car.
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What's wrong with buying them a used car?
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Because the used cars that are in the bracket to buy now, 'cause everyone's
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argument's always safety, right?
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Oh, it's gotta be safe.
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Ugh.
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Well, a car that you're gonna go buy that's 10, 15 years old.
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Is way safer than when we, yeah, were 16 and we're getting the 10 to 15-year-old
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car, and it was perfectly okay then.
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But like the car in my background right now, I mean it's safe.
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Sure.
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Got no airbag so it's not safe.
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But back then it was no big deal.
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Today you go and be like, oh, I'm gonna get a used Corolla that's
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10, 15 years old that used Corolla.
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Is.
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A hundred times safer than this 40-year-old car.
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And that was my first car.
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So like what's wrong with getting somebody a used car?
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And to your point, have you seen those crash tests where they take
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your favorite car, the Malibu, and like run it up against like a 1950s
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Cadillac that's like the size of a school bus and it'll just destroy it?
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Like it's absolutely bonkers how strong the cars are, even from like 10 years ago.
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To your point.
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Well, I was even thinking like, you could go back at this point 20 years ago.
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Oh yeah.
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A 2005, which actually is my daily driver.
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I don't think it's a death trap.
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It's got all the airbags, curtain, this, the other steering wheel,
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dashboard, all that stuff.
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I don't have all the nannies.
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This is what reminded me of it.
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It was an article on LinkedIn and the person was talking about how when you're
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buying the cars for kids these days, you should absolutely be buying them a
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brand new car because again, it's the safety and this that and the other.
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And people were making arguments about, well, no, like an older car with less
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nannies makes them a better driver.
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They're just gonna get complacent with all this automated turn signal
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and the blind spot detector thing where CAR is doing it all for them.
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Like, no, you don't need to.
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And I, and that's what got me thinking of this, I'm like, again, the 20
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years minus 2025, that car is still perfectly safe for somebody to drive.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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It's a lot different story than.
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In 2000 and you went back 20 years.
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The 1980.
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Yeah.
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And you're like, oh, I want this 1980 car as my first car.
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And that also drove us into another part of the conversation.
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So I asked, 'cause I was really curious and Brad, you were on the,
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what should I buy for my first time driver in Teenage Driver episode?
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And if you remember, we were pressing one of the panelists about
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what it was gonna cost to ensure a 16-year-old new driver in 2025.
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Oh, I forgot about this.
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Right.
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Good shit.
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So Rob Lores, if you're listening, brace yourself.
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Holy crap.
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So I was expecting, she was like, yeah, you know, had to go through the insurance.
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We got the quote and she's like, you will not believe what it was.
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And in my head I was thinking, okay.
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'cause she, what did she say for the two of them?
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It, they were only paying like 2,500 bucks or something.
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Yeah, something like that.
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Maybe.
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Or not even that.
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Yeah, I don't even know if it was that high.
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I can't remember.
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But something in that neighborhood of 2000 or something.
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So I said, in my head I was thinking, okay, probably doubled.
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So I'm thinking like, okay, you're probably not at like
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close to five grand or something.
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No, ON to the G times three.
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Literally $15,000 is what the insurance company quoted to add their son 15
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GT FO one, five and three zeros.
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So then she said, oh, hell's no, basically.
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And I don't know what ensued and da, da da.
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At the end of the day, it came down to around the 5,000 number that we were
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all kind of guessing was gonna be it.
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But the original quote was 15,000.
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How did the insurance company justify that number?
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He's mail and 16 done.
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But still, it doesn't fucking matter.
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Do you remember when you got insurance at 16?
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I remember when I got my first bill and I was paying more than my parents.
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Yeah, I was, what my mine was, it was $3,600 a year and I was.
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Working to pay car insurance.
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Yeah.
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For a car I could only drive to work.
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Yep.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy, I think that's called is a circular reference.
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Yes.
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And I only needed the job to pay for the car insurance.
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And you needed the car to get to the job that you needed
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to pay for the car insurance.
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To pay for the car to get, exactly, exactly.
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So when the train leaves Boston and the other one leaves Arizona,
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how many Lito's pizzas is that?
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It's not enough.
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Lito's pizzas.
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Okay.
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So 15 grand.
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I feel like you're in a world of hurt.
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No wonder you gotta get paid $40 an hour to work at McDonald's.
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I feel like they need to sue the insurance company for predatory.
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Yeah.
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Policies because that is absurd.
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Not even that.
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The policy that they landed on, is that with the same insurance company?
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Yes, I think so.
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Okay.
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Then what did the insurance company do to justify that 15,000 fucking dollars?
18:46
I don't know.
18:47
'cause I asked her too, like when I got insurance on my car.
18:49
'cause it was old when I got it, and I'm sure you did this too.
18:52
Our parents are sort of like liability only on the car, do the personal injury
18:57
protection like you're supposed to.
18:59
That's state required.
19:00
That way you know if something happens, but write the car off.
19:03
Yeah.
19:03
You're buying a cheap car.
19:04
You wouldn't put full coverage on a 20-year-old car with a 16-year-old driver.
19:08
It just doesn't make any sense.
19:09
Right.
19:10
But, but but, but if you're buying a brand new car and you've got
19:12
a loan on it, you need concrete.
19:14
Yes.
19:14
It's, you need collision, you need liability, you need
19:18
the bells and the whistles.
19:19
And there's your 15 grand on top of a $40,000 car.
19:23
Well, they gave in the old minivan, so that wasn't necessarily the case.
19:27
Oh, true, true, true.
19:27
But I mean, just say people in general that are saying you
19:30
need to buy a brand new car.
19:31
There's other people that would do something like that.
19:33
Yeah.
19:33
People with no brains.
19:34
So granted, there's some mitigating circumstances here.
19:37
They're adding a third car, which is her new car, versus
19:40
he's getting the hand me down.
19:41
But then he's the new driver and all those, you know, amortization tables that
19:45
they go through, all that kind of stuff.
19:46
But what I thought was really interesting, but there's more, well wait, there's more.
19:50
Get out your slap chop for this one.
19:52
I kept thinking we saw doppelganger Brad.
19:54
I was like, Brad is hose man, two boys.
19:56
They get to driving age, it's gonna be like a million
19:58
dollars to insure these kids.
20:00
Right.
20:00
But what she told us was, it makes no difference.
20:03
Now, male or female, they have leveled the playing field.
20:07
There is parody quality baby.
20:09
Yeah.
20:09
But we burned our brass for not to vote, but to pay more for car insurance.
20:13
So I'm basically screwed as well.
20:16
I'm like, oh my God, this is why you buy an old piece of crap car.
20:21
But see, the thing is I keep telling the wife, we gotta buy 'em now and
20:24
then just park 'em in the driveway until it's time because the price
20:28
of used cars is going back up again like it was during COVID because of
20:31
all the shenanigans that's going on.
20:33
So it's like when you get to driving age.
20:35
You're gonna spend 30 grand on a used car for a 16-year-old kid and then
20:40
have $15,000 worth of, it's insane.
20:42
It's absolutely bonkers.
20:44
Just that gives me the agita just thinking about it.
20:46
You know what I mean?
20:47
Who knows.
20:48
Even how the automotive landscape changes, I would assume in the next 10 years
20:54
is probably not gonna be so drastic.
20:57
But I don't know anymore the world like, I mean, unless they start
21:03
introducing the sodium batteries and all this other kind of stuff,
21:06
even the EVs, you can't, it depends, like somebody wanted to be a jerk.
21:12
What if there's mandates that say cars have to have X, Y, Z features on them?
21:16
Yeah.
21:16
I'd have to bend all my cars.
21:18
Do you mean like rear cameras?
21:20
Cameras forward cameras, yeah.
21:21
Automatic braking because all the new cars have to have all that stuff.
21:25
Yeah.
21:25
So what if there becomes.
21:27
Even like airbags and stuff.
21:29
Oh, it becomes illegal.
21:30
Suddenly you can't be driving a car other than if you're towing it to a
21:33
car show or something like your cars have to, you know, blah, blah, blah.
21:36
Those kind of things.
21:37
Like suddenly there's a whole swath of the used market that what do we do?
21:41
Crush 'em all.
21:42
I don't know.
21:42
It's so funny to me that they've got all these features that are
21:46
mandated as standard for safety reasons, which you would think, oh,
21:49
if they make the car safer, then the insurance could, should go down.
21:52
Never does.
21:52
But then they also make the cars more expensive, which means they're
21:54
more expensive to replace and repair, which makes the insurance costs go up.
21:58
So you're always screwed.
21:59
And the driving tests are even simpler now than when we were started driving.
22:04
Did you know that they don't even do parallel parking anymore?
22:06
Stuff like that is like not even on the test.
22:09
And I'm like, are you?
22:09
You kidding me?
22:10
Especially on the East coast, if you don't know how to parallel park out
22:13
here, I don't know what you're doing because every city is a gajillion years
22:17
old and that's all you can do, whatever.
22:19
Anyway, so to Tanya's point about the automotive landscape, jalopnik
22:23
another one of our favorite sources for automotive news.
22:26
Put an article together estimating what it would cost for an all American made
22:30
car, let's say in the next five years.
22:33
Tanya, what is that number That they just, my God, $400,000.
22:39
What's the insurance on?
22:41
$400,000 car.
22:43
$4 million, right?
22:44
I don't know.
22:45
It's a lot.
22:45
So Brad, this leans back into your dashboard confessional about
22:49
why it's cheaper to keep her.
22:51
And oddly enough, I always used to think it was like a track thing.
22:55
You know, when we used to go to the track, I. And one car would break and then they
22:59
would all like systemically have like a pandemic of their own and then everybody's
23:03
in the pit trying to like fix their cars.
23:05
And it was, it was really weird coincidence.
23:07
So you're talking about your car and all this kind of thing.
23:09
And then I suffered a near catastrophic failure on the Jeep and a knock on wood,
23:14
I've had no issues with it in the last 11 years except for the oil, the oil line.
23:19
You had an oil line issue from the turbo.
23:21
Well that's what I'm getting to, right?
23:23
Well it came back different.
23:24
So I had one in the beginning where it was smoking in the cabin, but
23:27
they fixed that under warranty.
23:28
It was a BS thing.
23:29
Yeah.
23:29
This would've left me debilitated on the side of the road.
23:32
So long story short, I found out that the transmission cooler line was rubbing into
23:38
the oil pan, and it had cut itself a hole.
23:41
And if it vibrated the wrong way, it would just start puking
23:44
transmission fluid everywhere.
23:45
I thought it was, the oil pan was leaking.
23:47
And I discovered this after a couple days of driving into the city, as I tend
23:51
to do when my wife's outta town, to, you know, drop the girls off and stuff.
23:54
And so it got to the point where it was puddling in the
23:57
driveway like significantly.
23:58
And I'm like, Ooh, we got a big issue.
24:00
Got under there, figured it out.
24:02
And I figured, all right, I'll order new part.
24:04
We're in the middle of tariff time.
24:06
I will bite the bullet.
24:07
The Jeep has been a workhorse for years.
24:09
It's dependable, it's reliable.
24:11
I love it.
24:11
It's a great place to be and all that.
24:13
And I order the part from a Mopar Parts place in Texas.
24:17
I'm like, yeah, exciting.
24:18
It's, uh, it's 200 bucks.
24:19
I'll change it.
24:20
It looks like it's gonna be a pretty big job.
24:22
No biggie.
24:23
I've done worse.
24:24
They call me two days later and they're like, so the part you ordered
24:27
is not the part for your Jeep.
24:28
The part you want is no longer available.
24:31
What?
24:31
Oh, you're kidding me.
24:32
Right?
24:33
So I started looking into it.
24:34
It has to do with the diesel, it has to do with the transfer case, the way it
24:37
routes, you know, they only made 35,000 of those particular Jeeps in two years.
24:42
Like global production numbers were very, very low.
24:44
So a lot of this very specific parts are starting to disappear, which
24:48
has got me a little bit nervous.
24:49
So I started calling around, trying to see is there new old stock somewhere?
24:53
Is somebody sitting on one by chance?
24:54
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
24:56
So I, two options I'm gonna take to the fab shop and have it all ripped
24:59
out, replaced custom made lines, and you know, pay the piper do that.
25:03
But my first course of action.
25:04
Was the tried and true fix it with some Volkswagen parts.
25:09
Oh well yeah, that's how you fix anything.
25:10
That's how, yeah.
25:11
So once again, the legend continues.
25:14
Mm-hmm.
25:14
My Jeep is back on the road, although I need to do, I now need to refill
25:17
the transmission 'cause I don't know how much fluid I've lost.
25:19
So it's still parked, but it is no longer leaking.
25:22
So this is awesome.
25:25
Uh oh.
25:26
Yeah.
25:26
The Jeep's been down, which means I'm driving the wagon again.
25:33
I didn't realize you had stopped driving the wagon.
25:35
Wait, do I not know this story?
25:37
No, no, no, no, no.
25:38
So like, I've had to go on some excursions now, like I drove up to Watkins Glen
25:42
with it and like all these longer trips because you know, I had all this
25:45
stuff planned and it's not gonna stop me and I, the car's 23 years old now.
25:48
It's like I'm not worried about it.
25:50
It's been reliable too as all get out.
25:52
But this goes back to the conversation of when we were younger, you
25:55
in the old days, the good old days, we were beating our chest.
25:58
We had our first cars and it didn't matter if the AC worked because what did we have?
26:02
We had AC 2 55 rolled the windows down 55 mile an hour, except when it's the rainy
26:07
season and it's humid and it's gross and you have no air conditioning, that is the
26:11
most disgusting place on the planet to be.
26:13
Oh, and by the way, when you get stuck in traffic with a VR six, uh, where does all
26:18
the heat from the engine compartment end?
26:22
In the interior.
26:23
Mm-hmm.
26:24
That's like this car here.
26:25
You have this blast of air.
26:27
No matter what, it burns your leg.
26:32
I had to go to a meeting and I had to drive quite a ways.
26:34
I got stuck in track.
26:35
It took me three hours to get where I was going and first gear most of the way.
26:39
And I'm just like, please God, don't let me have like big armpit, sweat stains.
26:43
It was like a sauna in there.
26:45
I was just dying.
26:46
And then you try to crack the windows and then shit's all fogging up.
26:50
Oh, it was awful.
26:51
So I'm gonna give you a life hack.
26:53
What you do is you find a gym, right?
26:56
You a national chain with the most locations.
27:00
Okay?
27:01
You sign up for the national membership, get in.
27:04
I heard about this.
27:05
You take a change of clothes with you and then you shower.
27:08
Right by wherever your destination is.
27:10
Planet Fitness.
27:11
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:11
Yes, yes.
27:12
You sign up Planet Fitness, $20 a month gets you the black
27:15
membership, which is the uhhuh, all the, the national membership.
27:19
And then you can shower anywhere.
27:20
You take a change.
27:21
Clothes in the context of Big Brother is always listening.
27:24
They always say Your phone is always listening or recording or doing whatever.
27:28
It's like, who cares?
27:29
Popped up in my feed, you know, after I lost 10 pounds of sweat, another op
27:33
article, windows down impact on miles per gallon versus air conditioning.
27:38
And I'm like, oh, here we go.
27:39
So I read the article and it's always the same old story.
27:42
Parasitic drag of the air condition on the motor, chew up
27:45
miles per gallon, especially the hotter it is, yada yada, yada.
27:48
So if you can deal with AC 2 55, like when we were young and dumb,
27:52
you're gonna get better gas mileage.
27:53
So I will say in testament to that, would you like to guess what
27:57
I was getting on the highway out of a 23-year-old, six cylinder.
28:01
I can't guess.
28:02
I don't care what.
28:05
He is like, it's better than my truck.
28:06
Yeah.
28:08
My, my, yeah.
28:08
My truck sits solidly at 16.
28:10
I am proud of my vr.
28:13
6 28 miles to the gallon.
28:15
28 is impressive.
28:17
I was gonna say 21.
28:18
Right.
28:18
28 miles to the gallon.
28:20
That's damn good.
28:21
And that's not some BS computer figuring out, that's literally, I
28:25
drove this far and I pumped that much.
28:27
That's what I consume from full.
28:29
So even if I'm off by a couple miles, let's say it's 26, dude,
28:32
that's pretty damn good for let's say almost 25-year-old car.
28:36
We're a quote unquote performance car.
28:37
Yeah.
28:38
And I'm chipped and everything else.
28:39
It's like, come on.
28:40
But that's not the end of our Volkswagen drama, is it Tanya?
28:43
Well, there's more act now for just 9 99 a month.
28:46
So you know Tanya got her diesel back on the road, right?
28:49
I did not.
28:50
You do the motor swab?
28:51
Yeah.
28:51
Fresh motor and all that.
28:52
We want me to talk about my beetle woes.
28:55
We have a mystery on our hands.
28:56
We started off talking about track days, this, that, and the other, right?
28:59
Yeah.
28:59
I haven't done a track day.
29:01
I didn't do any last year because I was driving the beetle all year and
29:03
I said, I can't risk my only car now.
29:06
Something happening and then I don't have a car to drive.
29:09
Granted, the VR six would've been at my disposal had I needed it,
29:13
which you used it for a time, which I did have to use a couple times.
29:16
But nonetheless, I said, you know, I'm not gonna do any track days.
29:18
We end up doing any, we'll share the other VR six or something and blah, blah.
29:23
So in hindsight, I think it was very good that I didn't do any track days.
29:28
I started having this mysterious issue where I was watching the temperature
29:32
gauge go really high and then it would suddenly swing back down and then it
29:36
would go really high and swing back down and then settle back and be like normal.
29:40
And that's my secondary temperature gauge the actual.
29:43
Temperature gauge of the car doesn't exist, and it's just a
29:46
colored light that changes for you.
29:47
Mm-hmm.
29:48
Never went red to indicate that there was some sort of catastrophic
29:51
temperature situation that was happening.
29:53
So I'm like, okay, maybe my gauge is going bad, you know, blah, blah, blah.
29:55
This was also winter time.
29:57
This was also around the time when it was literally below zero Fahrenheit in the
30:02
area, which I think was also a blessing.
30:04
So cars running fine, running great poles, all this stuff.
30:07
I got the other car back running.
30:09
It was just before.
30:10
It was just before I was about to get the other car back running.
30:12
We said, oh, let's take a look at it, see what's going on.
30:15
Realize the coolant wasn't circulating.
30:17
We opened up the thermostat.
30:18
Thought it looked kind of funny when you looked in on the water pump.
30:21
Thought, oh, maybe the water pump blew up somehow, you
30:24
know, and it's not circulating.
30:25
So we said, while we were at it, we swapped to an open
30:28
thermostat, blah, blah, blah.
30:29
Put all that back together.
30:31
Turned the car back on, trying to get things flowing again,
30:34
diagnosed this, that, and the other.
30:36
Long story short, suddenly it starts billowing white smoke out
30:39
the back and like the temperature's rising, the coolant's not flowing.
30:43
We're like, shut it down.
30:45
I bring it back, park it in my garage.
30:47
Next thing you know, I've got an oil puddle that magically appeared.
30:50
The car doesn't drip a fricking dot of oil.
30:52
Suddenly I have a puddle of oil under it.
30:54
Long story short, I guess whatever we were doing when we were running
30:58
it, trying to diagnose it and get the coolant running, I blew up the turbo.
31:02
Holy crap.
31:03
I got oil coming out the exhaust pipe.
31:06
That's how blown the turbo is.
31:08
Milkshake oil coming out the exhaust, that thing shot.
31:11
We started taking it apart, pulled the water pump out to find that
31:14
the water pump's perfectly fine.
31:16
And I got worried 'cause we changed another thing at the same time
31:19
while we were at it, we're in it 42 draft oil catch can, we swapped
31:23
it so we closed off the top.
31:25
So basically, I think it started frothing the oil because I, I pulled
31:28
like the dipstick out to check and suddenly it was like milky
31:31
looking and I was like, holy shit.
31:32
The head gasket like, what's going on?
31:34
Oh my god.
31:35
Before we touch anything, I drained some of the oil, took a sample, sent it out.
31:39
'cause like if the head gasket is blown, the whole thing's coming out,
31:42
there's no point in doing a timing belt service, this, that and the other.
31:45
Right.
31:45
Oil sample came back, said everything was fine.
31:47
There was no trace of any coolant in the oil or anything.
31:50
So I think whatever we did with the catch can was bad that it wasn't.
31:53
Freezing and it like frost the oil or whatever.
31:55
Fine, we'll figure that out.
31:57
Meantime, when we're going to like investigate the
31:59
coolant and all that stuff.
32:00
The antifreeze, shimmers, like glittery, nail polish.
32:04
Oh it's crazy.
32:05
Like fairy dust inside, like metal shavings, like very, very fine, fine.
32:11
Like everywhere.
32:12
Awesome.
32:13
But the water pump came out perfectly fine.
32:15
Nothing wrong with it spins, no signs of any damage.
32:17
The bearings all good.
32:19
So you know, mystery saga continues.
32:21
And the other alarming thing that happened when all the temperature stuff
32:24
in the winter, I had no heat in the car.
32:26
And I thought at first because everything, the car was running great and blah,
32:30
blah blah, but I would have no heat.
32:31
So yeah, it was fun times at zero degrees.
32:33
In a car that had no heat, car actually seals pretty well that car.
32:37
So I started taking apart the dashboard, which is still half apart.
32:40
'cause I was thinking, okay, maybe something happened in, in the, the doors,
32:44
like the door flaps weren't opening, so the heat's there, but it's not coming
32:47
out and this, that and the other.
32:49
But all that looked fine, da da da.
32:50
So anyway, they finally got to tackling it again this past weekend.
32:53
I think it was.
32:54
Did the timing belt service, put the auxiliary water pump in.
32:58
I got a new radiator 'cause we figured okay, the water pump was fine.
33:01
The thermostat's not the problem.
33:03
This isn't the problem.
33:04
That's not the problem.
33:05
Maybe the radiator collapsed and that's why there's all the metal shavings.
33:08
So ordered a brand new radiator.
33:10
The radiator is ancient.
33:11
Who cares?
33:12
They're not that expensive.
33:13
Put everything back together.
33:14
It's like still not really circulating the coolant with a hose.
33:18
We were able to put the water everywhere through to the system and eventually
33:22
there was some air still in it.
33:24
So we got some of the air out and then I started finally
33:26
feeling like heat coming through.
33:28
I think there's a problem with the temperature sensors,
33:30
which I just got today.
33:31
So we'll replace those on the radiator and the one that controls the fans
33:34
because the fans weren't turning on, which is kind of weird as the car was
33:37
getting up the temperature and we're sitting there and I'm like, the fans
33:39
should be coming on now and they're not.
33:40
Shut it back down before I Cher NOL something else and the fans work.
33:44
So I turned the AC on and then the fans started spinning.
33:47
So the fans do work, but if the thermostat and the switches and
33:51
the things aren't telling what the temperature to turn the fans on when
33:54
the coolant's getting hot, so be it.
33:56
Nonetheless, I don't have my track car still for like, it's been months now.
34:01
I think I got the other car up at the end of February, early March.
34:05
Mm-hmm.
34:05
And the beetle went down.
34:07
Basically the same time two weeks before.
34:10
Mm-hmm.
34:10
And then I was borrowing the VR six and uh, it's been down ever since.
34:13
So all this track dock, I can't go 'cause the car's not fixed and
34:16
I can't go 'cause I can't tow.
34:19
Wow.
34:19
So if I recall correctly, there was the motor from the Gus.
34:25
Yes.
34:26
This whole saga.
34:27
It was, if we have to pull the motor because something catastrophic
34:31
happens, you're putting the gus in.
34:32
Yeah.
34:32
Yeah.
34:33
We're putting in a 300 horsepower.
34:34
Four cylinder in it.
34:35
Yes.
34:35
A hundred percent.
34:36
Yeah.
34:36
Then maybe it's time.
34:37
So, so Tanya, did you blow up the beetle on purpose?
34:41
No.
34:42
To get the Gus No.
34:44
You should have, years ago.
34:45
Not at all.
34:47
I was very upset thinking that, like something with, of course,
34:50
like the head gasket blew and then I Chernobyl the whole motor.
34:53
I mean, I'm very upset that, that I unnecessarily, accidentally,
34:56
basically killed the turbo.
34:58
But hopefully that won't be too much of a tragedy.
35:03
The Beatle will ride again.
35:04
That's all I'm saying.
35:05
Well, it's just that it's so tight in there.
35:08
Uh.
35:09
The nightmare of getting that out.
35:10
That turbo worries me though.
35:12
I did watch a video of somebody, I was like, all right, lemme see how
35:14
bad it's, well, it's not that bad if you just take the whole motor out.
35:17
Well, they didn't.
35:18
They didn't, but you should.
35:21
So the joke has always been with the Beatle service position in engine out.
35:25
Yeah.
35:25
Tell 'em about what you discovered in the Bentley manual.
35:28
So the last time we had the bumper off, I don't even know how we got the
35:32
bumper off because the way the car is designed, so where the headlights are,
35:35
there's a piece of the fender that comes down and meets the bumper and
35:39
in behind in all encapsulated that you can only stick your finger through.
35:43
There's these two torques and it holds part of the.
35:46
One side of the fender to the bumper.
35:48
Somehow we managed to take this off another time.
35:52
How we got them back on, I don't know.
35:54
We, honey, I shrunk the kids and somehow got in there and like twisted the thing.
35:58
It's impossible.
36:00
So I, I said, let me look up some videos like have take the bumper off the beetle.
36:05
And then I watched somebody do it and I was like, huh, lemme
36:08
look at the Bentley manual.
36:09
Oh, they said the same thing.
36:11
The way to get the bumper off is you take the fenders and the bumper off all
36:16
as one piece and you take all of it off.
36:19
So all of it is off my car right now.
36:21
Holy crap.
36:23
Like I walked into her garage and I'm like, what did you do?
36:26
And it looks like a dune buggy because the way the frame rails come
36:29
down, it like cuts the nose off.
36:31
It's wild.
36:32
Very mad maxi.
36:33
It's pretty cool.
36:34
And then what's really neat is the timing belt job becomes whoa, really
36:38
easy when you take the headlight out.
36:40
'cause you could just put your hand in sideways.
36:42
Yeah.
36:43
Which you can't do on a golfer, a Jetta.
36:45
So I'm like, oh, this is awesome.
36:46
So you just dismantle half the car.
36:48
And then you can do the job.
36:50
It's no problem.
36:51
I was always really worried about like taking the fenders off.
36:54
I was like, oh my God, we take the fenders off and every, everything, like
36:57
they've never been off that I know of and it's like all your panel gaps are never
37:01
gonna line up anymore, so it's gonna be a disaster when it goes back together.
37:04
But actually there's like studs, so it's like you can't misalign
37:07
it 'cause it only goes on one way.
37:09
Right?
37:09
So I'm like, okay, this, this isn't that bad.
37:10
Then they, they actually thought about this since apparently the
37:12
service position has Take it all off.
37:14
Eric, I think you need to send Tanya on a trip or the next time she goes on a
37:19
trip, you need to take the beetle apart and put the gus in and she's just gonna
37:23
come home to a 300 horsepower beetle.
37:25
That's what needs to happen.
37:26
That was the plan.
37:27
That's a built boater.
37:28
It's ready to go except for the minor custom things that do need to
37:32
still be done to be it, it needs a downpipe once it goes in, but it's
37:36
gonna be a rocket ship for sure.
37:37
'cause I mean, you remember that car VIR It would just leave people.
37:41
It was like say yeah.
37:42
So I, I say just do that.
37:44
Just do that.
37:45
Stop messing around with a motor that you haven't even fully diagnosed yet.
37:49
Just do the Gus ran when parked.
37:52
A hundred percent.
37:53
All right, so as we wrap out our anecdotal showcase here, I mentioned,
37:57
you know, I was driving to the city.
37:59
I've been on these long trips lately, and you know, I got some
38:01
windshield time listening to podcasts, listening to old drive-throughs and
38:06
memories gone by and stuff like that.
38:07
Aw.
38:08
I did some car spotting while I was on the road as I like to do,
38:11
because, you know, I don't get bored.
38:12
I'm just constantly looking around.
38:14
Right.
38:14
First up on the list.
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Remember how last month we were talking about the new facelift, Tesla Y and how?
38:20
Oh ha ha.
38:20
That must be ai.
38:21
They put the cyber truck front end on it, blah, blah, blah, blah.
38:23
No, that's for real.
38:25
It actually doesn't look bad.
38:27
I'll be honest.
38:27
I never thought the Tesla model Y looked bad.
38:30
I was always thought it was funny.
38:32
It was made with Home Depot parts.
38:33
But the thing is the redesign is interesting.
38:36
The rear end is also interesting.
38:37
They made it, it almost looks like a previous generation Dodge
38:40
Charger with that kind of skinny light going across the back.
38:43
So all in all, I kinda like it.
38:45
I'm not saying I'm gonna run out and buy one, but I got to see it in person.
38:48
It looks better than it does in photograph 'cause it does look fake in photos.
38:52
So on top of that, did a quintuple take?
38:54
If I could do one, I got to see, 'cause I didn't think they existed.
38:58
I think they're like Tyrannosaurus Rexes.
38:59
The new two door ev.
39:03
Dodge Charger.
39:05
That thing is awesome.
39:08
It looks really cool.
39:10
Too bad it doesn't have the thump of a Hemi coming out
39:12
of it, but it looks badass.
39:14
It is low.
39:15
It is wide.
39:16
At first, you kind of think it's like some modified challenger.
39:20
Because it's two door instead of, you know, the typical four door charger that
39:23
we're used to the last couple years.
39:24
But with that skinny grill, oh, it just, it is menacing.
39:28
It is tough.
39:29
It's terrific.
39:30
Like I really, really liked it.
39:32
And honestly, if it had a gas or a hybrid option, I would go look at
39:36
one, like to go just to test drive one, because I was really, really
39:40
impressed with its stance and the way it just stands out on the road.
39:43
And it was a really pretty color too.
39:45
And I was just like, oh man, that's super cool.
39:47
Yeah, I can't say I've ever actually seen one on the road, but I know that the
39:51
dealers are selling 'em for like $10,000 under MSRP 'cause they can't move 'em.
39:56
They're also, they're stopping already.
39:58
They're discontinuing it in one year.
40:00
It's like the shortest production run of any stellantis product
40:03
because they can't move 'em.
40:04
Well the problem is they're built in Canada.
40:05
Ah, there we go.
40:06
Tariffs.
40:07
Oh, there we go.
40:07
There we go.
40:08
Boom.
40:08
None that maple syrup.
40:10
And then finally, the last one, and I know Tanya saw one too,
40:14
about the same time period.
40:15
It's the first time I've seen one.
40:16
Again, they're wild.
40:17
There's rare as hen's teeth, and that's the new Z 400, which, you know, I am
40:21
still very much in love with that car.
40:23
The redesigned one that's coming out with the double grill, I
40:26
think that's even better looking.
40:28
But this one, at first, I couldn't tell what it was.
40:31
I just see this black, low wide, big wheels tires, and I just hear
40:37
this V six sound coming tinted windows, and I'm like, what is that?
40:42
And it's coming at me, right?
40:44
It took me a minute to figure it out.
40:45
But there's that peculiar style of the new Z headlights where it's
40:49
sort of like the Nike Swoosh thing.
40:51
It's got going on with the LEDs and that's when I recognize it.
40:54
But in all black DCH chromed with a body kit, oh dude, it is tough.
41:00
That is a angry looking car.
41:02
And when he went by just from the back with the red lights and
41:05
kind of reminiscent of the 300 ZX turbos, it was like, holy crap.
41:09
That is a. Good looking car.
41:11
Much like the three 50 Z was a really good looking car when you fixed them up.
41:15
And did the whole JDM fast and furious stuff to 'em?
41:18
Yeah, so I think the new Z 400 really wears aftermarket
41:22
stuff really, really nicely.
41:24
So mad props to that guy.
41:26
Oh dude, I'm in love all over again with the ZI love the three 70 Zs.
41:30
I like the redesign above the three 50.
41:33
Like I, the three 50 was, it was a nice looking car, but I, I liked,
41:36
I really liked the three seventies.
41:37
A neat little benefit to doing the weight reduction mod on myself
41:43
is that I. My ass is smaller.
41:45
The cars that I would never have dreamed of being able to drive are
41:49
now, I mean, my height is my height.
41:51
I mean, I'm, I'm, I can't do anything about being six four,
41:53
but with my body getting smaller, my chest size is getting smaller.
41:58
You know, I, I can foresee fitting in cars like maybe A BRZ or the new Z, or I
42:05
don't know about the sra 'cause the SRA is tight for someone who's sub six feet tall.
42:09
So probably not that.
42:10
But I'm adding all these cars to my list of potential future purchase
42:15
within five to 10 years or so.
42:17
And I'm gonna have to add the 400 Z to that list because I like them in
42:22
the pictures and I'd like a three 70 Z. But who knows what's gonna happen.
42:27
But being able to fit in some of these smaller cars that I could not fit in
42:31
before, it's a neat little benefit.
42:33
And the new Z, you've heard me say it before 'cause I've
42:35
sat in one, to me, it's.
42:37
The Japanese 9 28.
42:39
It's a big grand tour.
42:40
There's a ton of space once you get in it because it's real low.
42:43
Yeah.
42:43
Once you sort of drop in it, you realize, you're like, man, I got
42:46
like a foot of headroom in here.
42:47
And unlike the supra, to your point where the roof cuts off really fast.
42:51
Yeah.
42:51
You at six four could get in a Z with a helmet on.
42:55
I think there's plenty of space in there.
42:57
The problem is, if I go and look at one now, I'm gonna wanna
42:59
bring it home a thousand percent.
43:00
I, I, I can't do that.
43:01
So I, I have to wait.
43:02
And that's why I asked last time when we were talking about this, because
43:05
the last time we discussed the, how the production numbers and the numbers sold.
43:10
It's outselling the super now.
43:12
That's a good thing for the used car market in a couple years.
43:15
'cause that, that means there'll be a lot more of them to choose
43:17
from when I'm ready to buy.
43:19
For sure.
43:19
Sweet.
43:20
Well that concludes our, our little adventure.
43:23
We should probably move on and talk a little bit more.
43:26
Volkswagen, Audi in Porsche.
43:28
I don't even know what to think about this.
43:29
So there's a new GTI coming, but it's not your grandma's.
43:33
GTI, what is it?
43:34
The ID 3G TI That is it an electric car?
43:37
Uh, Uhhuh.
43:38
They are going whole hog on this electric thing at Volkswagen.
43:43
We're gonna talk a little bit more about that in a second, but I don't like it.
43:46
I don't, it's a horrible.
43:48
But, but it's not great.
43:50
It's a Chevy Spark.
43:51
Yeah.
43:52
Thank you.
43:52
And that's the side profile that I just got stuck on.
43:55
It has that shape and this weird two-tone.
43:58
Yes.
43:59
Doesn't do anything for it.
44:01
It's almost like the inner color.
44:03
I'm like, Hmm, that back that, if you just tilted that up a little
44:06
bit, that's a Mark four right there.
44:08
Let's talk about the price.
44:09
How much is it?
44:10
$54,000. And it's made in Germany.
44:14
So we gotta add what's their tariff?
44:15
Roulette wheel.
44:16
60,000 on top of that.
44:18
Yeah.
44:20
But it's gonna have 335 horsepower.
44:22
Yes.
44:23
One of the most powerful GTIs produced.
44:25
It's gonna have 335 electrons.
44:27
Are they really horsepowers?
44:28
Are horsepowers even really horsepowers?
44:30
Well, you know, the Aussies have always rated their cars in kilowatts,
44:34
so I guess maybe that's, we're moving to that anyway, so it's all good.
44:36
Kilowatt kilowatts of power that way it's neutral.
44:39
It doesn't matter if it's ice or if it's electric, it's how many
44:41
kilowatts of power does it generate.
44:43
Then you don't have to worry about torques either because
44:45
it's just power generated, boom.
44:47
Done.
44:47
And to this, say it's gonna be rear wheel drive too.
44:49
I believe so.
44:50
'cause all of like the ID four and all those, unless you get the all wheel drive
44:53
package, they mount all that stuff in the rear because all of the electronic stuff
44:57
is in the front, which is why it doesn't have a FR like every other electric
45:00
car has, you know, you get a standard hatchback, that's how it's laid out.
45:04
So at the current terra rates, it would hit just that $60,000
45:08
just under a $54,000 GTI.
45:10
'cause it's 10% on Germany right now.
45:12
I told you the GTI was gonna be 60 grand.
45:14
One of these days.
45:15
It's coming sooner than you think.
45:17
What is the difference then between that GTI and the GTI in the next article?
45:23
Yeah, so the New Eagle.
45:25
Yeah.
45:25
What, why is that different than the ID three?
45:27
It looks better.
45:28
This is the two door.
45:29
So the ID three is a four door and the ID two is a two door for a second.
45:33
I was like, is this the interior green in the eighties?
45:36
No, it's not even close.
45:37
The back end is mark five, a hundred percent.
45:40
Mark five with the, uh, Ioni five rear taillights on it.
45:44
Yeah.
45:45
Now this could be a rendering.
45:46
I don't know if they've actually built this thing.
45:48
They're claiming front wheel drive instead of rear wheel drive, which
45:52
people are, are mixed about that.
45:53
I mean, I think it looks cool.
45:55
I don't think they're ever gonna build this because didn't
45:58
Volkswagen already say no more?
45:59
Two doors.
46:00
They were done.
46:00
No more two doors forever.
46:02
I There's a scene for the rear doors.
46:04
Yeah, it's just, it doesn't have a traditional door handle.
46:07
So it's like a veloster then where the rear doors sort of
46:10
hidden into the body work.
46:12
Yeah.
46:12
Which I think looks really cool.
46:14
I think I would buy a Hyundai.
46:15
I'm charged up for it.
46:16
Like the article says, get charged up, get get charged up.
46:20
That's some bad dad jokes right there.
46:22
My man.
46:22
That is terrible.
46:23
I, I'm a bad dad, so there you go.
46:25
I'm confused though by the naming conventions though.
46:28
What can be confusing?
46:29
GTI and e golf GTI and ID 3G TX.
46:32
But they're all GTIs.
46:34
And they're both a ev.
46:36
So what's the difference?
46:36
There's not, there's nothing GT about any of 'em really.
46:40
No.
46:40
This is like Audi's S line or Porsche's, whatever.
46:45
It's just the, the Lexus is F sport.
46:48
It's just becoming a badge.
46:49
So regardless of the GTI and E golf is a regular aline, but the ID
46:55
three golf, which is just an e golf.
46:58
Is the S line, maybe the Rs.
47:01
That's my confusion.
47:02
They're both golfs at the end of the day.
47:04
One's an e Golf electric, and the other's also an electric.
47:08
You have a better chance understanding Sumerian than understanding what's
47:12
going on in Volkswagen right now.
47:14
Okay.
47:14
So I think it's less that and more think Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.
47:19
Oh yeah.
47:20
I could see that for Bronco and Bronco Sport, I, I don't
47:23
think the new GTI is actually.
47:26
The same car, the ID two looks nothing like the ID three.
47:29
The ID three actually looks quite bigger, so they're probably not the same.
47:33
I think the only real GTI left is the golf R, the marked four.
47:39
Well, there's that too, but no, in today's money it's a golf R.
47:43
The golf R is still ICE powered.
47:45
It's Which is the GTI That's not called A GTI.
47:48
Yeah, but it's the only true.
47:49
It's the only purebred versus these other things, which we're gonna
47:53
slap GTI badges on it because we're trying to entice a new generation
47:57
of people into the GTI lifestyle.
47:59
Right?
47:59
Yeah.
47:59
Or whatever you wanna call that.
48:01
It's like the Ford Mach E. Yeah, we'll call it Mustang because the Volkswagen
48:05
Mustang, the Eagle Golf Mustang.
48:08
There you go.
48:09
To continue Volkswagen and Audi and Porsche's.
48:11
Infinite wisdom.
48:12
And we alluded to this a while ago.
48:14
That they were gonna do away with gas engines in the Boxer and the Cayman.
48:19
But now that is coming to fruition allegedly.
48:23
I think that's a bad move.
48:24
It's weird because when a bunch of other manufacturers are reversing course now
48:29
double down, stubborn Volkswagen way of doing things, and it's your bestselling
48:33
cars too, like the Boxer and the Cayman outsell the nine elevens, because the
48:38
nine elevens are so expensive, right?
48:39
If you're looking for a sports copay or a sports convertible and you go to Porsche,
48:44
you're gonna buy one of those two.
48:46
I mean, unless you have 250 grand like we talked about last time for a GT three
48:50
R Rs, because why settle for base nine 11 when you could have a track car?
48:54
Why settle you peasant?
48:55
God, it's so lame to go ev in these cars.
48:59
It's gonna drive the used market of a Cayman and a boxer through
49:02
the roof, though it's gonna come out before the new Tesla Roadster.
49:06
I'll bet money on that.
49:07
Who's buying these?
49:08
Who's the market?
49:10
Who's affording it?
49:11
'cause at the price that the gasoline ones are at, I mean,
49:14
EV's not gonna be cheaper anyway.
49:16
But that's not all that Porsche's up to.
49:19
Alleges alleges.
49:21
Yes, that's a good word for it, that they are gonna have a road
49:24
legal version of the Porsche 9 63.
49:27
And for those of you that don't know what the 9 63 is, watch any
49:31
WEC or IMSA race from the last.
49:34
Three years, and you'll see the Porsche 9 63.
49:37
It is an LMP one GTP hypercar prototype.
49:41
What are the rules around this kind of thing?
49:43
Because I don't wanna be the Debbie Downer poo-pooing things, but why
49:49
does this need to be street legal?
49:50
First of all?
49:51
Second of all, how can it be street legal?
49:54
This thing would pass no N-H-T-S-A safety standards of any kind.
50:00
This thing is going to give you the most insane rock chips
50:03
if you're ever behind it.
50:05
Big ass tires that are completely exposed.
50:07
Can you imagine the missiles that it send at your glass?
50:10
It's going back to the like 19 96, 97, right?
50:15
Brad?
50:15
With the nine 11 GT one and they made the Stren version, so they had like
50:19
street versions of the LeMans car.
50:22
I guess they're trying to do that again.
50:24
Who's gonna buy that other than to buy it and put it in a museum?
50:27
How much is this?
50:28
This thing is gonna be rich people things.
50:31
Oh, on steroid for sure.
50:32
So yes, it's gonna be a one-off model.
50:34
Yeah.
50:34
And you're gonna sell one of them.
50:36
Didn't they do this with the nine 18 as well?
50:39
There's like a street version you could buy of that Brad?
50:41
I believe so, yes.
50:42
It's not out of their wheelhouse.
50:43
I just wasn't expecting it with the 9 63 because there is nothing.
50:47
Street about that car.
50:48
You can't put groceries in it, even if you wanted to.
50:51
And I wouldn't take that to the track.
50:53
It's too much car.
50:54
Haven't we already done this with the 9 59?
50:58
And that like didn't turn out very well.
51:00
Yeah, it wasn't a good street car.
51:03
Uhhuh.
51:03
Why are we doing it with this?
51:05
Which isn't even worse because somebody at Porsche thinks it's a good idea.
51:09
Okay.
51:09
Because we're talking about it, aren't we though?
51:11
And we're talking about the brand.
51:13
These cars aren't really.
51:14
For people.
51:15
I mean, they're kind of unobtainium, they're kind of fantasy, but they
51:18
get people talking about the brand and you shoot for the 9 63, it's
51:23
like, oh my God, look at that car.
51:25
It's the poster car.
51:26
You can't afford one.
51:27
You'll never be able to afford one, like the richest person that you know
51:31
would never be able to afford one.
51:33
You can get yourself an electric boxer.
51:35
Mm-hmm.
51:36
That's true.
51:36
And you can feel like you're part of the team, right?
51:39
Yeah.
51:39
It's like I'm supporting Porsche.
51:41
Yeah.
51:41
I've got a Porsche.
51:42
Got a nine.
51:43
A nine.
51:43
Four four.
51:44
I don't have a nine 11.
51:44
9 4 4. Man, you're taking us back now.
51:49
All those 9 44.
51:50
9 24 guys going.
51:51
They are Porsche, I promise you.
51:54
Oh, I drive a Porsche.
51:55
Oh yeah.
51:55
What kind of PORs you got?
51:56
Oh, like cayenne to egg.
51:58
I, I, I drive the spice.
52:00
Well, this next one is what we should really be talking about.
52:03
And I know this hits hard for Tanya.
52:05
Do we need to like put her on the couch with a pillow?
52:07
We need to, we need to play taps for this.
52:09
I'm gonna have to go seek therapy.
52:12
It's sad.
52:13
So the Ital design firm, which is Giros design firm, basically,
52:18
and he's very famous for.
52:20
Many cars that people would know, especially during the eighties.
52:24
Volkswagen, Audi, the DeLorean.
52:26
Mm-hmm.
52:26
Various BMWs launches this that, I mean, the, the list of cars that he's designed,
52:32
iconic cars, including the one here in my picture, were designed by him.
52:37
And so apparently they're gonna sell off the design firms or dismiss them.
52:42
There is a for sale sign in front of etal, design layoff.
52:46
Boom, you're gone.
52:47
I mean, did he die?
52:47
He's still around, right?
52:48
Did he retire?
52:49
The way I read it is Audi bought 90% of the shares back in like
52:54
2015 or something like that.
52:56
And then when Juro officially retired, he sold the rest of his shares to Volkswagen
53:00
and Audi, and so they own it outright.
53:02
In their infinite wisdom.
53:04
We're gonna build something like the 9 63 streetcar that nobody's gonna buy
53:09
and spend all that r and d and all that time and all that money doing that.
53:13
And then they're gonna sell off one of the most famous design firms that's
53:17
right up there with Pinine, Farina and other names that you know and let that
53:22
go because they're trying to save money.
53:24
It's like, wait, what?
53:25
Here's the question.
53:27
And it's actually something I was thinking about recently as well, because you keep
53:31
seeing these hosts and things and it's, it's all AI basically renderings of
53:36
cars and whether they be reimagination of older cars in a more modern flare.
53:43
And honestly, it's like most of the ones I've seen, please hire
53:47
AI because it's doing a far better job aesthetically than the humans.
53:53
So is this a move to go, I can just have the AI do my designs now.
53:58
I don't need this team of 7,500 people that come up with crap, basically.
54:05
Right.
54:05
That's fair.
54:06
I don't know.
54:07
Is that the future?
54:07
Are there gonna be even more layoffs for automotive designers?
54:12
Because hey, AI can do it cheaper, faster, better.
54:16
The only problem with that though is we're always mining old ideas.
54:21
So AI is really good at refining and combining old ideas.
54:25
It's really good at doing that, but it can't come up with
54:28
unique, new creative thought.
54:31
And that's where humans have to come in and say, you know what?
54:33
We are gonna move that line like this a little bit because we
54:37
wanna catch the air a certain way.
54:39
Like I don't think we're at that level until you teach the
54:42
AI to think, well, once the AI thinks like that, that's Skynet.
54:45
That is Terminator time.
54:47
That's the goal.
54:48
We got issues.
54:49
All right, so let's switch gears and talk about Lanis.
54:53
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
54:55
What about our Mercedes and BMW News?
54:57
We've got like nothing.
54:58
We covered it for the year.
54:59
Didn't we?
55:00
Took care of it for the next five years.
55:02
We're good.
55:02
So what about that BMWM two?
55:05
That was designed to look like a redesigned 2002.
55:09
It actually looked really, really sweet.
55:11
I have a filter that says, show me nothing from these brands.
55:14
I might have seen that it was like a, like a khaki color almost, but
55:18
it was really, really cool looking.
55:20
I would've definitely ignored it.
55:22
But that was another AI rendering, right?
55:24
Yeah, it was.
55:24
No, I think BMW actually built it.
55:26
I thought, oh,
55:29
alright.
55:29
Right.
55:30
Well.
55:30
Audi Volkswagen.
55:31
Porsche divorcing themselves from retail design.
55:34
Ferrari did the same thing to ping Farina.
55:36
Mm-hmm.
55:36
A lot of people are kind of up in arms.
55:38
The new Ferraris are ugly as a result of not being associated with Ping farina.
55:44
Right.
55:44
And, and so I kind of wonder, to your point Tanya, are they using
55:47
computers more now to design things?
55:49
I personally like the look of the 2 96.
55:52
I think it's cool.
55:53
I think it's a throwback to some of the earlier cars.
55:55
I'm not a big fan of the F 80, although everybody says, oh, the F Eighty's
55:59
amazing, blah, blah, blah, blah.
56:00
I'm like, that's outta my range.
56:02
Right.
56:02
If I was gonna buy a Ferrari, kind of like the Porsche discussion, I could maybe.
56:06
Buy a 2 96.
56:08
I can't buy, you know, anything bigger than that.
56:10
There's something about this that doesn't say Ferrari to me.
56:14
No, it says Acura NSX.
56:17
It says McLaren to me.
56:18
Yeah, it does look like a McLaren.
56:20
A hundred percent.
56:20
You're right.
56:21
We talked about all this before.
56:22
I mean, and Matt Yip.
56:24
Mickey rest in peace.
56:25
He had an entire series of articles and stuff about like the car design
56:31
and how it suffered so much just for the pursuit of function over form.
56:36
Yeah.
56:37
He used to always say, you know, there's only one design that cheats the wind.
56:40
All the cars are gonna end up looking the same.
56:42
Yeah.
56:42
And I feel like we're closing in on that.
56:45
Yeah, especially in the performance car.
56:47
In the hypercar, in the supercar market, because nobody cares
56:50
about what they look like anymore.
56:51
The whole point is about their performance.
56:53
Well, the performance numbers of their stren 2 96 GT three,
56:58
whatever they got going on over there, 900 hearse, pers, that's it.
57:03
I mean, they could do more, but 900, that's nothing to sneeze at.
57:06
Just wait till they all start using Dara chassis, right?
57:09
They can make the company so small and just be engine manufacturers,
57:13
engine suspension components, and put those into a Dara chassis and then
57:16
slap any old badge on it they want.
57:18
Meanwhile, over at Alpha Romeo.
57:21
What is this thing?
57:22
I think it's a rendering.
57:23
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
57:25
All I got was a front end shot of the new stelvio, despite my
57:30
accolades to the quality of ai.
57:33
This might be a knockoff AI or something.
57:35
When you see those ais where they show the first with like eight fingers
57:38
on the one hand, Uhhuh, and it's like, oh yeah, this is the future.
57:42
Good luck.
57:42
It's not ai.
57:43
It's ai.
57:45
Yeah.
57:47
Well this looks like a cylon, like do you remember Battlestar Galactica?
57:50
Yes.
57:50
I was just about, I was trying to think of, I was thinking of
57:53
the giant sentinels from X-Men.
57:55
Similar too, but this it's just, no, hold on.
57:58
I've got the real picture for you.
58:00
That isn't it.
58:00
So the 2027 Stelvio, this is it.
58:04
Oh.
58:05
God, what is that?
58:07
Ugh, I think, Ugh.
58:09
There's vomit in my back of my throat.
58:11
That is terrible.
58:12
This is like if Stelvio was designed in Jersey.
58:16
Well, they went with that classic late 1940s Formula One grill with the alpha
58:21
male written across it like you'd see on a, what was it, the that Then that's fine.
58:25
Which looks totally outta place.
58:27
It does on a car of this century.
58:30
The problem is the shape of it's not right, like the
58:33
writing thing, fine, whatever.
58:34
I could get over that, but it's like the shape of that.
58:37
Is not right.
58:38
It's the Mandalorian's card.
58:39
That's what that is.
58:40
Look at it.
58:40
Do you see it?
58:41
Make it gray.
58:42
Hit the horn and it just says, this is the way, this is the way.
58:46
Did you guys hear these rumors that Stellantis might be merging with Reno?
58:50
I had not heard that.
58:51
Well, I read about it.
58:52
Apparently it's, it's not true.
58:54
So it can't be, well, it's not happening.
58:56
But I thought about that.
58:57
Got my spidey sense tingling.
58:59
Stellantis merges with Reno.
59:01
They already have Citro and, and eo.
59:03
They got all the French manufacturers that are left and then by proxy
59:06
they would own Alpine and Nissan.
59:10
That would make Stellantis the largest car manufacturer in the world.
59:13
I guess.
59:15
Is that really something to be proud of?
59:19
Because whenever we talk about the largest manufacturer of the world.
59:23
It's never conversations about how they're making great products
59:28
and the cars are all awesome and I'm so glad that they're the num.
59:31
They're number one.
59:32
It's always, they're the largest manufacturer in the
59:34
world and they make shit.
59:37
Tell me I'm wrong.
59:38
No, you're right.
59:39
Who is it now?
59:40
Volkswagen now the VA group and they make complete shit before Volkswagen.
59:45
It was what?
59:45
General Motors?
59:46
Yeah.
59:46
They make complete shit.
59:48
You get to be the biggest because you either you mergers and
59:51
acquisitions of failing companies.
59:54
Yeah.
59:54
So you just make your sinking ship bigger.
59:57
This whole Nissan pokey pokey that's been going on.
1:00:00
Right.
1:00:00
We talked about how Honda was gonna merge with them and then, you
1:00:03
know, I found this rumor about St.
1:00:05
Lantus and Rene, which meant they would've ended up with Nissan too.
1:00:08
And then I come to find out that Toyota had reached out to Nissan
1:00:11
after the Honda merger had failed.
1:00:13
I was like, okay, that's interesting.
1:00:15
And you know, you hear the, even today they were talking about, you know, the
1:00:18
head of Toyota's, like, if a car can't be fun, then don't bother making it this.
1:00:22
Coming from the people that make the Camry, the car for people who hate cars.
1:00:26
The 300 horsepower Camry.
1:00:27
Yeah.
1:00:28
I mean, it's not your grandma's Camry anymore.
1:00:30
No, but the reason I stopped at this motor, one article is that it had
1:00:34
these really great pictures of this new Nissan that they're touting right now.
1:00:40
But a lot of people might not realize.
1:00:42
And this is where I got excited is that this is the R five, the new
1:00:46
one that we've been talking about.
1:00:47
That's like $250,000 reskinned as a Nissan.
1:00:52
Just like the Duke was a reskinned Reno, Cleo.
1:00:56
But you didn't get the manual transmission.
1:00:58
I keep thinking, is this coming to the states?
1:01:00
Like are we gonna actually get the new R five by way of Nissan?
1:01:05
We need to go test drive this car.
1:01:07
Yeah, that'll be crap.
1:01:11
New Nissan Micra.
1:01:12
So it's a micro ma mi, micro Malta.
1:01:15
Ma. What is it?
1:01:17
Altima?
1:01:17
They're all Altimas.
1:01:20
It's the Ultima.
1:01:22
I think this is the coolest new Nissan next to the 400 ZI think this is neat.
1:01:27
I like this.
1:01:28
It's cute.
1:01:28
I added one.
1:01:29
Oh, the Fiat we, we haven't had much there, but.
1:01:33
Click this and look how cute their little new Tuck.
1:01:36
Tuck is.
1:01:37
I saw this the other day and I was gonna post about it.
1:01:39
Isn't this just the oppe?
1:01:41
Who cares?
1:01:42
I don't care.
1:01:42
It's beautiful.
1:01:43
I'd love to see one of those, oh, look at this cute little thing.
1:01:48
It's a K car pretty much.
1:01:50
Which there's also news about those starting to make a return apparently.
1:01:54
Yeah.
1:01:54
And laws are changing around K cars where they're becoming actually more acceptable.
1:01:58
There's one running around here now.
1:02:00
Some guy brought one in right hand drive and he runs around town with it and
1:02:03
he's, he's got this thing on the back, like if you see me post on Instagram
1:02:06
and tag me, I think it's really cute.
1:02:07
But he takes that thing out on the beltway and I'm like, good Lord.
1:02:10
If it does 60 miles an hour with a tailwind and a semi
1:02:13
pushing it, that's a lot.
1:02:14
Good night.
1:02:15
Apparently Colorado has passed a law that it allows them starting in 2027.
1:02:19
Yeah, so there you go.
1:02:19
Geez.
1:02:20
Heidi loves crap like this.
1:02:22
It's a three wheel.
1:02:24
This is a Vespa with a bed on the back, but they're only gonna
1:02:28
be in Africa in the Middle East.
1:02:30
So changes are, we're not gonna see one roaming around Europe.
1:02:35
Is that because they can't sell these to the little old Italian guys?
1:02:38
Probably not, because theirs are still running after 900 years.
1:02:43
That's why they're like, I'm not buying anything new now.
1:02:47
The thing is in Italy you can drive these without a license.
1:02:51
So I'm wondering if that's still the case.
1:02:53
I've also added on another recent article.
1:02:56
You've been hiding Fiat News from us.
1:02:58
What else is going on?
1:02:59
So there is the Grand Panda four by four, the Granda.
1:03:03
It's the Granda Padana
1:03:07
I Donna Pan Granda Padana.
1:03:09
It's a concept so who knows, but they're calling it a direct air to the eighties.
1:03:15
Panda four by four, except that the front lights are from the Hyundai
1:03:19
Santa Fe that's out right now.
1:03:20
That's problematic.
1:03:21
And we have time to change that.
1:03:23
'cause this is a concept.
1:03:25
Oh, I see how it works.
1:03:26
It's kind of cool.
1:03:27
The little side panel where they have the two-tone thing
1:03:29
and if you notice it says Panda.
1:03:32
Ooh.
1:03:33
I still like the other concept that they came out with a couple
1:03:36
years ago that was like that electric panda, that thing amazing.
1:03:40
Still needs to be built.
1:03:41
They need to go back to that and restart.
1:03:43
You just need to import an original panda.
1:03:45
They're old enough now.
1:03:46
Maybe I should go shopping later.
1:03:47
Yeah.
1:03:48
Alright, so random EVs and concepts.
1:03:50
Tanya, you brought this to my attention.
1:03:52
I didn't know Amazon was getting into the EV game.
1:03:54
The pickup truck.
1:03:55
Yes.
1:03:56
The Bezos backed slate.
1:03:58
The affordable EV truck to outdo the anti Tesla, as they'd like to say.
1:04:03
It's minimalistic.
1:04:04
I think it has like roll up windows, all that kind of stuff.
1:04:07
Like that's the level of minimalism that it has and its starting
1:04:11
Price point alleges to be $20,000 after federal EV incentives.
1:04:15
Why do these look like Broncos?
1:04:17
Nineties?
1:04:17
Broncos?
1:04:18
The white ones in la Kind of Broncos.
1:04:21
And is that a bad thing?
1:04:22
Probably the same thing as those Mahindra.
1:04:25
Yeah, because they bought the rights to the old Jeep design, so they own the
1:04:30
rights to like the, the Willie's design.
1:04:32
They can't make 'em and sell 'em street legal, but they can make 'em
1:04:35
Well, the other thing with these is I believe they're all configurable.
1:04:39
And so you see the picture of the Bronco, it's the pickup truck
1:04:43
that they put the cab on the back.
1:04:44
Oh, okay.
1:04:45
And then they put the seats in.
1:04:46
And so it's, it's able to be converted into the five seat SUV versus the
1:04:51
two seat pickup truck or whatever.
1:04:53
And apparently it has a payload capacity of 1400 pounds, which if you
1:04:57
wanted to compare it to a maverick that has apparently 1500 pounds.
1:05:03
How many bags of mulch is though?
1:05:05
It's a lot of bags of mulch.
1:05:07
I like it.
1:05:07
Actually, I, I think it's cool.
1:05:09
I wanna see this get made.
1:05:10
I'm gonna do a Brad question.
1:05:12
What gets made first this.
1:05:14
Or the scout, it's made first.
1:05:16
Uh, definitely this, which do I want to come first?
1:05:19
The scout, what you should do is look at their website because
1:05:23
with the customizable stuff, just scroll across the cars.
1:05:27
You just hit 'em.
1:05:28
Like look at all the color configurations apparently you can do, and like different
1:05:31
wheels you get, but it's all like the same car, but it's like, which Lego
1:05:34
piece do you wanna swap in and out?
1:05:36
Does it come with a prime membership?
1:05:38
You can order it on prime and get two day delivery?
1:05:40
Is a drone gonna deliver it?
1:05:42
It'd be interesting to see one on the road.
1:05:44
So unlike the Tesla, you can reserve this for only $50.
1:05:47
Oh wow.
1:05:48
They're undercutting.
1:05:49
They did the undercut.
1:05:50
Fully refundable.
1:05:51
Fully refundable.
1:05:52
As long as you don't cancel that credit card.
1:05:54
For whatever reason, Tanya brought us another one in the
1:05:57
category of EVs and concept cars.
1:06:00
I never thought I'd say this.
1:06:02
Ever in my life.
1:06:03
Oh, it's the Russian Ionic five.
1:06:05
This Hugo, I'm gonna say it again.
1:06:07
This Hugo is really cool.
1:06:11
It's not terrible actually.
1:06:12
That's the sad thing.
1:06:13
But the front of it reminds me of like the EV charger.
1:06:16
Yes.
1:06:17
Al or something.
1:06:18
Let's bear in mind this is a model.
1:06:21
Yes.
1:06:21
Car, right?
1:06:22
Correct.
1:06:22
So a lot of people are like, oh, I gotta look at the build quality.
1:06:24
It's already crap.
1:06:26
They can't even remember.
1:06:27
It's like a shoebox size model.
1:06:29
Yeah.
1:06:29
It's like a one 18 scale model because you know, that's all youo can afford anymore.
1:06:34
What is, is it, is this a car for ants?
1:06:38
Yes.
1:06:39
I think this is really cool.
1:06:40
I mean, if they could actually make it.
1:06:43
Be affordable.
1:06:43
It wouldn't be horrible if there's worse looking things than this.
1:06:46
The question is, will the build quality be reminiscent of the originals?
1:06:50
Hmm.
1:06:50
Are they just melting down old Hugos and recycling the parts here and, all right.
1:06:55
All right, well, I'm, I'm in it.
1:06:57
Um, we're gonna put a pin in that.
1:06:58
We're gonna keep an eye on it.
1:06:59
We're gonna skip over.
1:07:00
Lost and found this time, there was really nothing to report, nothing
1:07:04
from Chuck LED Duck, nothing from Chuck LED Duck or Gray Chevrolet.
1:07:07
But Brad mentioned before that we didn't have any Mercedes or BMW News.
1:07:13
That was a good thing.
1:07:14
I've been biting my tongue this entire time because we went straight to the
1:07:18
uncool wall with a brand new Mercedes.
1:07:21
This is another model, right?
1:07:22
This isn't, no, this is for real.
1:07:24
No, this is like a paint drawing.
1:07:27
The paint app on your computer rendered this, and people are saying.
1:07:31
And I quote the Mercedes Vision v vis-a-vis is damn sexy.
1:07:37
And I'm like, am I blind?
1:07:40
Did I miss something?
1:07:41
So when I saw the front end, it's a large mouth bass.
1:07:44
Reminds me of the cars Pixar movie.
1:07:48
Yes.
1:07:49
And it looks like Doc Hudson so bad, who is voiced by late great Paul Newman.
1:07:55
It looks like the Doc Hudson character.
1:07:57
Why are his headlights doing suddenly?
1:08:00
I, it's, it's a Mercedes.
1:08:01
It's looking down on you.
1:08:02
It's giving you side eye.
1:08:04
It's side eye.
1:08:05
Yes.
1:08:05
It's, and it's name is.
1:08:09
Gustav it is ugly is what it is, and that's why I put it up
1:08:13
on the uncool wall immediately.
1:08:16
You can go vote on it now with like 75 other cars that we have on the list,
1:08:19
but this is ugly from the word go.
1:08:21
This is some CGI though, like they didn't actually build one.
1:08:25
This is just computer simulation, but this is the garbage that
1:08:29
comes up in the news now.
1:08:30
It's stuff like this because there's nothing else to talk about, but
1:08:34
we're gonna get rid of etal design and we're gonna let computers
1:08:37
design the next generation Mercedes.
1:08:39
Again, to contradict what I said earlier, this is the bad ai.
1:08:46
Actually, this is probably human that did it.
1:08:47
That's the problem.
1:08:48
Horrible.
1:08:49
It's what it is.
1:08:50
It looks like a carp.
1:08:51
A carb carb.
1:08:53
That's unfortunate.
1:08:55
So switching to lowered expectations.
1:08:57
Lowered expectations.
1:09:03
I read this headline and that's all that needs to be read.
1:09:07
California thinks driverless, big rigs are a great idea.
1:09:11
What could possibly go wrong?
1:09:13
I think that since we've clearly, we've mastered self-driving in.
1:09:19
Regular cars.
1:09:20
They don't wig out when they see the sirens, the flashing lights and crash
1:09:24
into stationary parked vehicles.
1:09:26
And as we saw from a couple episodes ago where there was that comparison with the
1:09:32
the Roadrunner painting and the Tesla blew right through the self-driving.
1:09:35
All this, clearly it works flawlessly in a three, 4,000 pound vehicle.
1:09:40
Couldn't be anything but gangbusters.
1:09:42
When you got 19,000 tons coming, nothing could go wrong.
1:09:47
This is Stephen King, this is Death Race 2000.
1:09:50
What are you talking about?
1:09:52
I only see this being a good idea.
1:09:54
If it's hauling other Teslas and it's hauling them off a cliff,
1:09:57
this is maximum overdrive.
1:10:00
Yes, yes.
1:10:01
Greatest movie.
1:10:02
Hundred percent.
1:10:03
Okay.
1:10:03
That's what could go wrong right there.
1:10:05
Let's all go watch that movie and then see the future.
1:10:08
From the past fact.
1:10:10
Let's go back to the future with maximum overdraft.
1:10:15
Speaking of what could go wrong, one of my favorite sections on top gear.
1:10:19
Remember when they'd always start one of their little mini challenges
1:10:21
with how hard could it be?
1:10:23
There's been a lot going on with Top Gear and as we know, top gear's
1:10:27
officially off the air after they had that accident and that three wheeled
1:10:30
Morgan at the old test track with the new crew and there was some lawsuits
1:10:35
and somebody got injured and all that.
1:10:36
So top gear went off the air, everything went dark, and then
1:10:38
the Grand Tour finally closed.
1:10:40
But now Hammond and May are back without Clarkson doing some top Geary stuff,
1:10:46
and I don't even know what to call it because it shows up on Amazon Prime.
1:10:49
But then they were spotted at the old Top Gear studio and doing laps
1:10:53
around the track, which is kind of cool and fun, but also really sad.
1:10:57
If you watch the video of Hammond.
1:10:59
In May going around, and I think it's May's Porsche Tecan, and they're
1:11:04
doing like a slow lap of the track.
1:11:06
You don't realize how long they've been away from the old top gear set,
1:11:10
like how many years have gone by.
1:11:11
But you also begin to really realize how old they've gotten.
1:11:15
We've grown up with them, so you really don't realize it, but then
1:11:18
you, you kind of watch May and he's, he's sort of got the shakes
1:11:21
a little bit, you know what I mean?
1:11:22
And he's, and he's struggling to like remember certain things.
1:11:25
And he also almost killed himself in that tunnel.
1:11:29
In Sweden?
1:11:30
Yeah.
1:11:30
Or Norway or whatever.
1:11:31
Yeah, in that Subaru.
1:11:33
The Mitsubishi, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11:34
The Lancer, the Evo, um.
1:11:36
So who knows what traumatic brain injury he sustained from that.
1:11:40
Actually, legitimately, I don't think he was right after that accident
1:11:44
to be honest with you, but it was a nice little trip down memory lane.
1:11:47
It's fun to see them doing stuff.
1:11:49
I watched most of the new Grand Tour special, which all it is is just a best
1:11:54
of retro clipse from previous Grand tour episodes, and they've got Clarkson in
1:11:58
there doing the voiceovers and everything, but that's not what got me excited.
1:12:02
What got me excited about Top Gear Again is that it's now available
1:12:07
as a dedicated channel on Pluto tv.
1:12:10
You can watch Top Gear 24 7 and it's freaking awesome to go back and watch.
1:12:16
And my girls were already fans of some of the Specials and the Grand Tour and
1:12:21
so I got to introduce them to things like the Bolivia special, or remember
1:12:25
when they did the Olympics and they did the Mini Cooper off the ski jump
1:12:28
or the cop cars and stuff like that.
1:12:30
And so they've been getting into it and it's kind of cool 'cause I'll catch even
1:12:33
my young one or she'll bring Pluto up on her tablet and she's watching Top Gear.
1:12:37
I think it's absolutely fabulous that this is now available.
1:12:41
And if people didn't know, I'm like, go get Pluto tv, it's free.
1:12:45
Scroll down to Reality Television and there's a top Gear channel.
1:12:48
Boom, done.
1:12:48
Mark it as your favorite and watch it whenever you want.
1:12:51
It's awesome.
1:12:51
Fantastic.
1:12:52
Well now I, now I know what I'm doing with the rest of my life.
1:12:55
We gotta switch over to rich people, things sponsored by a garage
1:12:59
style magazine because after all it doesn't belong in your garage.
1:13:02
Right.
1:13:02
Just when you thought you had everything, Brad, I found
1:13:06
something you need in your garage.
1:13:09
How about a golf live Cushman golf store?
1:13:14
Take a look at this thing.
1:13:15
Available.
1:13:15
Mecom auctions, I've looked up to see what it's sold for.
1:13:19
They don't list the price.
1:13:20
They're keeping that hidden.
1:13:21
Somebody bought this thing.
1:13:23
Don's writeup over garage style reads.
1:13:25
We know just by virtue of its uniqueness and super cool golf paint scheme,
1:13:30
that if he'd had the chance, Steve McQueen would've bought this thing.
1:13:34
Okay.
1:13:36
This is a three wheeler Uhhuh, if you want this or the new Fiat Tuck.
1:13:41
Tuck.
1:13:41
I want the new Fiat.
1:13:42
I want the new Fiat because at least I have a roof over my head
1:13:44
and you can put something in it.
1:13:46
It's got a truck bed.
1:13:47
This thing's useless.
1:13:48
I don't think Brad's six foot four could fit in this.
1:13:50
His knees would be in over his shoulders, behind his head.
1:13:54
I would have to high tower it.
1:13:55
Yes, I would have to rip the seat out and sit in the back and kind of
1:13:59
stretch my legs across both seats and just shift in the center of my legs.
1:14:03
See, and this is where you sit.
1:14:05
On it and not in it.
1:14:07
Right.
1:14:07
There's a big difference.
1:14:08
Yes.
1:14:09
See, he would sit in the seat, but I think his legs would be over the
1:14:13
dash, so to speak, and then he'd just reach down with his hand.
1:14:16
Then push the pedal, control the gas pedal.
1:14:18
Yeah.
1:14:18
Yeah.
1:14:20
Alright, Brad, well if you didn't like that one, okay.
1:14:22
That's too flashy for you and Tanya said it was useless.
1:14:24
It doesn't do anything.
1:14:25
You can go with the standard edition Cushman tow Cart, which Don writes
1:14:30
this three wheeler is Sure to make life easier in a number of situations.
1:14:34
And while it's a little rudimentary compared to some of the other
1:14:37
items on offer in this particular collection, we wondered if it might
1:14:40
be the tool you've been looking for and that every garage needs No.
1:14:44
Okay.
1:14:45
Okay.
1:14:45
So it's got a fricking engine hoist on the back of it.
1:14:48
That's the best part.
1:14:50
Unless you have a garage that's a warehouse.
1:14:53
That's useless.
1:14:54
It things awesome.
1:14:55
I think Brad could sit on that one.
1:14:57
Yeah.
1:14:57
Just spread leg out a little bit wide.
1:15:01
But yeah, this is the kind of stuff that shows up at these auctions though.
1:15:06
And so I've made it a point now to try to pull some of this stuff out.
1:15:09
This is rich people's shit.
1:15:11
Nobody in their right mind.
1:15:13
Maybe Daniel.
1:15:13
They literally half-ass cut the legs of an engine hoist.
1:15:18
Yep.
1:15:18
Fricking using cotter pins.
1:15:20
Yep.
1:15:21
To hold that MFer down in there.
1:15:23
Yep.
1:15:23
You are gonna tell me that you're gonna lift an engine
1:15:25
and that aint gonna rip out.
1:15:27
You're gonna flip it over is what you're going to do that Oh God.
1:15:30
You try to lift a big block, 4 54 with that, you're gonna end
1:15:34
up with an engine on the ground and that thing's standing up.
1:15:37
Sure.
1:15:38
You know, you could have maybe, maybe convinced me with the, without the
1:15:44
engine hoist because it has a toe hitch on, it has got a little bit of bed
1:15:49
that you could have put something in at least four bags of mulch at best.
1:15:53
But it's a shame.
1:15:55
The price is unknown.
1:15:56
Zero.
1:15:57
It did not sell.
1:15:58
They're lying to you.
1:15:59
That's gotta be a five figure sale.
1:16:01
I guarantee it.
1:16:03
Again, I would take the took, took.
1:16:05
Don't forget, if you're looking for that extra special automobilia to complete
1:16:09
your garage, office den or man cave, be sure to check out garage style
1:16:13
magazine.com for a list of upcoming auctions and events, along with a curated
1:16:17
list of items going up for sale all over the country, because after all,
1:16:21
what doesn't belong in your garage.
1:16:23
Thanks for that, Brad.
1:16:24
It's time we switch to Are you faster than an interceptor?
1:16:29
Nailed it.
1:16:44
You might have an advantage.
1:16:46
Just a slight advantage right now.
1:16:48
'cause GM is donating cars to the Secret Service so they can learn
1:16:53
how to drive manual transmission.
1:16:55
Well, the secret's out.
1:16:56
Secret's out, but they're doing it in Cadillac, CT Black Wings
1:17:01
till they get a handle on that.
1:17:02
You might outrun 'em even in that, Hugo that we talked about
1:17:05
earlier, but not for long.
1:17:07
Can I join the Secret Service just to drive the Black Wing
1:17:10
and then quit immediately after?
1:17:12
Can I be a secret service trainer?
1:17:14
That's a cool job.
1:17:15
I want to be their de instructor.
1:17:17
Yeah, Tanya.
1:17:17
We did that Cadillac special event at VIR that one year.
1:17:20
Remember that?
1:17:21
Yeah, I remember that.
1:17:22
She still traumatized all the hearse pers.
1:17:26
Yeah.
1:17:26
There was too many hearse pers You didn't like all them hearse pers
1:17:29
Not when I was in the right seat.
1:17:31
I didn't.
1:17:32
Appreciate them, especially spinning at the top of rollercoaster, entering
1:17:35
rollercoaster with you in your student's car coming at us at my door particular.
1:17:45
But I shall preface this section by most of these have not been curated
1:17:48
by me, but you will know the one that has been curated by me, of course.
1:17:53
But I am shocked, and again, maybe it's Big Brother that's listening out there.
1:17:57
There's so many of these articles that are popping up now about the police
1:18:01
and traffic and all this kind of stuff.
1:18:03
So I find them entertaining and you know, Brad put it into universe.
1:18:06
Are you faster than an interceptor?
1:18:08
And one of our long, longtime fans of the show, Mark Hewitt wrote
1:18:12
this month, Brad, he reached out.
1:18:13
Oh, oh my god, mark is alive.
1:18:16
What's going on?
1:18:16
Mark?
1:18:17
He sent us an article.
1:18:18
About how the state of Virginia, your new home state, will use technology
1:18:23
to slow those chronic speeders and other states are rushing to join in.
1:18:28
Haven't we talked about this?
1:18:30
Aren't they gonna use those revolutionary items called cameras?
1:18:33
No, no, no, no, no, no.
1:18:34
But they're actually gonna rate limit you.
1:18:36
Like slow your car down.
1:18:37
Yes.
1:18:39
What?
1:18:39
So your car would have to be chipped, forcing you to put something in the car.
1:18:44
Yeah.
1:18:44
They're either gonna flash the ECUs, which again brings up a question of
1:18:48
whether or not that voids your warranty or the manufacturers on board with that.
1:18:52
You know, do you have the right to do that?
1:18:54
Or they'll put in some other device that will basically electronically
1:18:57
speed limit the car to whatever speed they want it to be, which.
1:19:02
Realistically, I've said before, with GPS technology, with an ev, they'll
1:19:07
be able to do this in the near future.
1:19:09
Well, not even an ev any, the new modern cars that have the built-in
1:19:12
GPS systems, they can easily do it with all the infotainment system.
1:19:17
If it's 45, it's 45, and if you slam that pedal to the floor, it's gonna do 45.
1:19:22
So they haven't set exactly what the speed is going to be for stuff like this.
1:19:27
Because here's the problem, do you set it to the state maximum, which might
1:19:31
be 55, but on some roads it's 65.
1:19:34
And in other places in Southern Virginia it's 70, or do you make it 70?
1:19:38
And now these people can still go 70 anywhere they want
1:19:42
when the speed limit's 55.
1:19:43
So they're still speeding.
1:19:44
So there's a problem with this scenario.
1:19:46
Well, they started talking about super speeders and super speeders, someone going
1:19:51
more than 20 miles an hour over the limit.
1:19:53
Then they go on to talk about all the people doing over a hundred miles an hour.
1:19:56
And I'm like, okay, well those are very two different things.
1:19:59
Yeah, yeah.
1:19:59
Well it's 20 miles an hour over what and where a 20 mile school
1:20:04
zone and you're gonna blast through there at 60 miles an hour.
1:20:06
Probably not a great thing, a stupid 35 mile an hour limited back country
1:20:12
road through farmland where there's nothing but grass on either side of you.
1:20:16
If you did 55 and it's straight and flat and you can see it's not the same thing.
1:20:21
Now going through there at a buck 20, probably not a good idea at all.
1:20:25
But this is tricky.
1:20:27
There's so much gray area and it goes back to previous conversation of the
1:20:31
speed limits are still ancient in a sense.
1:20:33
They're based off of corvets going down the road that couldn't keep
1:20:36
it in the lane and crap like that.
1:20:38
And with modern braking and all this stuff, and even all the stupid nannies.
1:20:42
In the cars, some of the speed limits should actually be higher.
1:20:46
Yeah, like 20 over a speed limit actually might not be beyond the
1:20:50
capability of the road and the car on it.
1:20:53
This is again, a slippery slope.
1:20:55
Why is Virginia getting away from their old tried and
1:20:57
true throwing people in jail?
1:20:59
That takes too much time and there's too much crowding?
1:21:01
Probably.
1:21:02
Probably.
1:21:02
But that's okay.
1:21:03
Because the state of Florida has proven that speed cameras are
1:21:06
effective in the great capital city of Tallahassee, they are earning $318,000.
1:21:13
I'm gonna say that again.
1:21:14
$318,000 a month.
1:21:17
From their speed cameras and they want more.
1:21:20
They plan to install 23 more cameras thinking they can
1:21:23
generate 18.6 million annually.
1:21:27
That's some good numbers.
1:21:28
Can I own speed cameras?
1:21:30
Like people own vending machines, can franchise speed cameras?
1:21:34
Can I franchise some speed cameras and just set 'em up at random locations?
1:21:38
Yeah, I'll just take a percentage of that.
1:21:40
I, you know, I don't even, 1% of 18.6 million.
1:21:43
That's not bad.
1:21:44
Yeah, every day.
1:21:45
Uh, I will say 10%.
1:21:46
Perfect.
1:21:47
You can keep the 90.
1:21:48
I don't care.
1:21:48
Just gimme 10%.
1:21:49
But that's okay.
1:21:50
As we know, and the DMV over 50% of the cameras don't work because we
1:21:54
don't have the funding to keep 'em going and they're all broken, you would
1:21:56
think that they would fund themselves.
1:21:58
Again, it's like tariffs.
1:21:59
We don't know where the money is going.
1:22:01
Hashtag corruption.
1:22:03
So the great state of Washington not to accused with the city of Washington,
1:22:06
DC also has speed cameras all over cities like Seattle and whatnot.
1:22:11
In recent times, more than 8,000 drivers in the state of Washington
1:22:14
have received speeding notices.
1:22:16
In the mail, but they're not being fined.
1:22:19
That's a very west coast thing.
1:22:21
Well, no, I think it's 'cause they're new.
1:22:23
So there's a, like, there's a grace period like warning you, Hey,
1:22:27
you would've gotten a ticket and this is going to go into effect.
1:22:30
Hey, hey, hey.
1:22:31
I saw you.
1:22:33
You better slow down Mr. Well, according to the article, they actually
1:22:39
break out what the fines would be.
1:22:41
And all that.
1:22:42
And so again, it gets into this conversation about many people
1:22:45
are like, Hey, you run through one of those cameras on the highway,
1:22:49
you pay the fine, who cares?
1:22:51
You don't get any points because they can't validate who
1:22:53
is actually driving the car.
1:22:53
It could be anybody.
1:22:54
It could be a rental for all that matters until we get the forward
1:22:57
facing stuff that we talked about on a couple drive throughs to go.
1:23:00
But I just think it's, to your point, Brad, it's so West Coast, it's so polite.
1:23:03
Like, I'm gonna send you a letter.
1:23:05
Do they include like a donation envelope like you do at church?
1:23:09
It's like if you would like to donate to the cause so that we can continue
1:23:16
to mail you letters about how fast you were driving and how bad of a sinner
1:23:21
you are, please, please just send us a check for $5 and absolve your sins and
1:23:28
the next time they send you the little address labels with your name on it.
1:23:32
Very Salvation Army.
1:23:34
Oh my God.
1:23:35
Yes.
1:23:35
Please accept these labels as our generosity.
1:23:39
Welcome to the neighborhood.
1:23:40
Thank you so much for being a kind human and only speeding.
1:23:43
10 over the speed limit and not 50.
1:23:46
Well, in, in talking about that.
1:23:48
Well, before we move on, I just wanna say I was in Maryland a couple months
1:23:51
ago and I blew through a speed camera.
1:23:54
I was doing like 60 and a 30.
1:23:57
Oh, well it's on, um, New Hampshire Avenue six 50.
1:24:00
Yeah.
1:24:01
Down there in the very rural part of Montgomery County.
1:24:03
But I knew the camera was there.
1:24:05
They keep moving the camera, like different locations and I thought I had
1:24:08
already passed it and apparently I didn't.
1:24:10
So I never got a ticket.
1:24:11
I mean, this was a couple months ago.
1:24:13
I never got anything.
1:24:15
Nothing has happened.
1:24:16
Could still show up.
1:24:17
Or sometimes they're off.
1:24:19
So you might have lucked out.
1:24:20
Yeah.
1:24:20
No, no.
1:24:20
It was, it was on, I saw the flash and I was like, well, I'm done, but I don't
1:24:24
care 'cause I don't live here, so bye-bye.
1:24:26
Send me my a hundred dollars ticket and I will pay it.
1:24:29
My little church donation and I'll talk to you all later.
1:24:32
I kept on going.
1:24:33
I floored it to like 70 or 80 after that.
1:24:35
I was like, well, shit, I'm already getting a ticket.
1:24:37
Who cares?
1:24:37
Now it's the next camera's 10 feet down that you know.
1:24:40
Yeah.
1:24:41
Well, speaking of feed limits and whatnot, North Dakota is the next state to raise
1:24:47
its interstate limit to 80 miles an hour.
1:24:51
They could lose it to a hundred.
1:24:52
There's a population of a thousand in the whole state, and this is
1:24:55
the hot news over on the drive.
1:24:58
Thanks for that.
1:24:59
They're just raising at five miles an hour.
1:25:00
It's already 75.
1:25:01
What do people do on those roads when they're by themselves?
1:25:05
Do they just do like a hundred or do you do 80?
1:25:07
Like is 80 fast enough at that point because you're so bored,
1:25:10
it should just be infinite.
1:25:11
I've always felt that iregardless of whatever the speed limit is.
1:25:15
People are gonna go the speed that they're comfortable going.
1:25:18
True.
1:25:18
So on like a back road or something, the speed limit could be 45.
1:25:23
I'm comfortable doing 50 55 on that road, so I'm gonna do 50, 55 on a highway.
1:25:29
You know, I don't need to go anymore than 70, 75 miles an hour, especially
1:25:34
on like a road trip or something.
1:25:35
I just set the cruise control and go.
1:25:37
So I think most people are just gonna go whatever speed they're comfortable
1:25:41
going, regardless of whatever the speed limit is, comfortable and capable.
1:25:44
When you're locked in at 72 miles an hour and somebody blows by you and they're.
1:25:50
Up your butt doing 90, 95.
1:25:52
And it's like, guys, the speed limit's 55 or 60, we're already going well over.
1:25:57
You're doing double or what, you know, you're trying to do double.
1:25:59
Are you in that much of a hurry?
1:26:01
Well, see, that's the thing.
1:26:02
When you're driving in New Jersey, you know there the, the speed limit signs
1:26:06
all have an invisible one in front of the number that you, that you can't.
1:26:11
So they've got special glasses that they wear.
1:26:13
Oh, got it.
1:26:14
With the Jersey vision.
1:26:15
And whenever you see a jersey plate, you know that they operate
1:26:18
from a different law system.
1:26:19
Well, meanwhile, in California, it was a bad day at CarMax, California.
1:26:25
No Santa Party.
1:26:26
Did you guys see this?
1:26:28
Dude who apparently was super unhappy with his appraisal on his Subaru Outback.
1:26:33
This person should be thrown in jail and that's it.
1:26:36
No, he should be thrown in a mental hospital.
1:26:39
Probably has some sort of Yes.
1:26:42
Mental instability.
1:26:43
Because what rational, sane person goes, oh, I don't like this.
1:26:47
Hmm.
1:26:48
The next logical course of action is for me to drive my car through
1:26:51
a CarMax and wreck everything.
1:26:54
That really helped the appraisal value of this car.
1:26:56
Right?
1:26:57
That's what I was thinking too.
1:26:58
I'm like, where's the logic in this?
1:27:00
There was none.
1:27:01
That's the problem.
1:27:02
Nobody, nobody has any logic.
1:27:04
He trashed that car.
1:27:05
He trashed the CarMax too.
1:27:07
Not only is his own personal insurance.
1:27:09
Not gonna give him a red scent on this because there's camera footage.
1:27:13
I'm sure the insurance company's gonna see it.
1:27:15
So if he was thinking he was gonna get a better value from insurance
1:27:18
than the appraisal, you're outta luck.
1:27:21
And now you gotta pay for the damages on this building.
1:27:24
I think he just had the red mist.
1:27:26
He was throwing a tantrum like a toddler.
1:27:29
He did not know what was going on.
1:27:31
He was completely irrational.
1:27:32
And at first you think maybe this is one of these staged bs, TikTok
1:27:36
Instagram videos, but this is real footage because why would you do this?
1:27:40
Why would you damage a building?
1:27:41
Why would you damage a business?
1:27:42
All these people are like running out of the way 'cause they don't want to get hit.
1:27:45
So it's for real.
1:27:47
But what got me was, if you go scroll down into the comment section, I love that
1:27:52
there's a Florida man, Tampa Bay comments.
1:27:55
My car's not worth that much.
1:27:56
Oh, I guess I'll just permanently ruin my life and the lives of people around me.
1:28:00
I was like, Lord man, calling it the way it is.
1:28:03
All right.
1:28:03
Now we've saved the best.
1:28:05
Finally, let's get to real Florida men's story.
1:28:07
Even though we're not going to Florida, the women of the East Coast right
1:28:10
now are going through something.
1:28:12
Apparently last month we had the crazy lady in Virginia who got on
1:28:15
the other person's car in a road rage incident, ripped the windshield
1:28:18
wipers off that poor woman's car.
1:28:20
Well, this time in Pennsylvania, this woman in her road rage, rage
1:28:25
got out of her car and took a deuce on the hood of the other persons.
1:28:29
I'm sorry.
1:28:29
I have to excuse myself, ladies and gentlemen, listeners, Eric
1:28:34
is dying in the back right now.
1:28:39
I love the little disclaimer.
1:28:41
You can view the original video, but warning.
1:28:44
The video is graphic and could disturb some viewers.
1:28:48
They've censored it out though, so you don't get to see.
1:28:50
No, you don't get to see how healthy Oh no.
1:28:53
I was looking for the two girls.
1:28:54
One cup.
1:28:55
Damn.
1:28:56
Oh, no, no, no.
1:28:59
You're telling me there's video footage of this?
1:29:01
Somebody videoed it.
1:29:02
Yes, they videoed it, but they censored it.
1:29:06
My God.
1:29:06
They say defecate so many times.
1:29:08
It's almost a drinking game.
1:29:11
This is insane.
1:29:13
They don't really show it.
1:29:14
That sucks.
1:29:15
The shite grin, this woman has.
1:29:18
Oh my God.
1:29:21
I love the tagline.
1:29:23
Crappy situation.
1:29:31
What compels people?
1:29:33
Is it drugs?
1:29:34
Probably.
1:29:36
Karen was so mad the video was shot by a 17-year-old named Greg said he was
1:29:41
driving to his friend's house when he saw two women in a confrontation and pulled
1:29:45
out his phone and started recording.
1:29:46
So he's like, oh look, cat fight.
1:29:47
It's like, that's not the cat fight I envisioned, that's
1:29:50
not what American Pie told me.
1:29:52
That is unreal.
1:29:54
Hold on, I'm not done yet because apparently.
1:29:57
The suspect goes by the last name shithead on her Facebook, believe
1:30:05
it or not, allegedly is an only, well maybe you can't believe it.
1:30:09
She's an OnlyFans model.
1:30:11
Oh, that's some dark stuff right there.
1:30:17
But she has more subscribers than we do now.
1:30:19
You have to wonder, was it a stunt?
1:30:21
Yes, a hundred percent.
1:30:22
It had to have been, had to have been for her OnlyFans page.
1:30:25
Except she got caught.
1:30:26
Well, she got arrested and I got a bunch of charges against her, so I
1:30:30
don't know how good of a stunt that is.
1:30:32
Lewd act in front of a minor.
1:30:34
'cause the guy filmed at 17.
1:30:36
He is not an adult yet.
1:30:37
That's true.
1:30:38
That's what they'll get her on an idiot.
1:30:40
Well, public defecation is illegal too.
1:30:43
It depends on the state.
1:30:44
I don't know what Pennsylvania law is.
1:30:46
They can ride motorcycles with no helmets.
1:30:47
I'm pretty sure they, they can, they can dump out in the sidewalk public.
1:30:52
Yes, those laws are related.
1:30:54
Same, same, but different.
1:30:55
The no helmet laws in Pennsylvania do boggle.
1:30:58
My mind when I was coming back from the Glen, you spend a lot of time in pa
1:31:02
and there was a guy running alongside me or running past me, and I'm like,
1:31:06
dude, you're doing like 85, 90 mile an hour, like weaving through people on
1:31:11
your big old Harley with no helmet on.
1:31:12
I was like.
1:31:13
You're an organ donor, I guess.
1:31:15
'cause I mean, I don't get it.
1:31:16
It's not even that.
1:31:18
That would be my first concern.
1:31:21
Getting hit by a bug.
1:31:22
Yeah.
1:31:23
And I have had that happen through the open window of the car that hurts.
1:31:28
Now imagine a rock.
1:31:30
You could go blind.
1:31:31
That's why they wear those bit viper sunglasses, you know?
1:31:34
Ah, whatever.
1:31:35
People are dumb Darwinism.
1:31:37
Pennsylvania's just like letting that work itself out.
1:31:40
Well, and it's like, okay, the law's the law, but you could still wear the helmet.
1:31:44
Yeah.
1:31:45
That's the smart thing to do.
1:31:46
All right, folks.
1:31:47
Well, it's time we go behind the pit wall sports news.
1:31:50
Well, the first up is we have to report sad news.
1:31:54
The passing of the legendary or celebrated engine builder.
1:31:59
Ed Pink, who died at the age of 94.
1:32:02
He's known for many v eights motors in nascar, Canam, IndyCar, drag racing.
1:32:10
He pretty much, I think, was the guru of these motors.
1:32:14
He even consulted on with singer tuning flat sixes and Porsche, I think
1:32:18
they said his last build was a couple months before he even died, like.
1:32:23
Just doing it like croaked basically, I guess the motor sports world has lost
1:32:28
legend there because we are still in time.
1:32:31
I wanna mention again that Laman is almost here and the A-C-O-U-S-A
1:32:36
is sponsoring not one, but two viewing parties over LAMA weekend.
1:32:40
The first one will be hosted in conjunction with the A RCF, the
1:32:43
Automobile Club of Florida at Sebring International Raceway.
1:32:47
That's a start to dark event, just like last year's viewing party at M1 Concourse.
1:32:51
And you'll also be able to sign up to do hot laps of Sebring
1:32:55
International while you're there.
1:32:56
So that's an added bonus to that event.
1:32:58
And the second, A-C-O-U-S-A viewing party is held in conjunction with our
1:33:02
friends at the Simone Foundation Museum in Philadelphia, and that's a full 24 hour
1:33:07
event with camping around the clock, demos of lamont's vehicles, all sorts of stuff.
1:33:11
Details on that event are in our show notes.
1:33:14
And guess what guys?
1:33:16
We just got added to the playbill.
1:33:18
I am gonna be doing a live.
1:33:20
Evening with a legend from the Simione Museum at 7:00
1:33:24
PM on Saturday night of Lama.
1:33:26
So tune in for that.
1:33:27
There will be a live streaming option and we'll make that available
1:33:30
to you guys as soon as we have it.
1:33:32
Do we get to know in advance who it is or is it a surprise As long as nobody
1:33:35
cancels, it's gonna be Harley k Clarkston.
1:33:38
Izzy would say, who's that?
1:33:39
Steve.
1:33:41
He is member number one, the Club de Pilt.
1:33:44
He's actually the owner operator of the Mirage Racing team.
1:33:49
He took over in the mid 1970s and bringing many, many wins to mirage and golf racing
1:33:55
through the middle and late seventies, and then carrying on much, much later.
1:33:59
So, very interesting guy.
1:34:01
I've talked to him before.
1:34:02
I'm really looking forward to interviewing him there.
1:34:04
Live in front of an audience at the A CO viewing party.
1:34:07
Do we wanna mention IndyCar predictions for the Indy 500?
1:34:11
Sure.
1:34:12
What you got?
1:34:12
Uh, well, I gotta go with willpower.
1:34:15
SSVG running IndyCar.
1:34:17
That tells you how much I know.
1:34:18
I actually don't know who's burning.
1:34:19
I, I think there are a couple female drivers, I don't know, but not of a man.
1:34:23
What, what's her, I can't remember her name.
1:34:24
All I've heard about indie cars so far is all this drama about Penske
1:34:29
and the cheater parts, and they got disqualified and people got fired or
1:34:33
they got moved to the back of the pa.
1:34:34
It was like all this drama and I don't really know what it was all about.
1:34:36
You know, we cover Indie 500 month, right?
1:34:39
Because it still takes a month.
1:34:40
There's all this qualifying and all this testing.
1:34:42
They qualify like a week ahead of time and all this other stuff.
1:34:45
Yeah, there's so much stuff going on that you kind of lose track because
1:34:49
it takes forever to get to the race and a lot of things happen in between.
1:34:53
So I'm not saying that I'm toning it out, but I have dedicated my life to formula.
1:34:57
Uh.
1:35:00
Isn't a rookie sitting on pole Pretty 500.
1:35:03
Yes.
1:35:03
I don't know.
1:35:03
I bring it up.
1:35:04
I did exactly zero research.
1:35:06
I just know that it's this weekend and I'm probably gonna watch it a a little
1:35:09
bit of it with my host on Sunday.
1:35:11
So a typical Brad fashion.
1:35:13
Yeah.
1:35:13
Watch that Or watch the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.
1:35:16
Both.
1:35:17
They're on different times.
1:35:18
No, you get to choose one.
1:35:21
He's torn.
1:35:22
Apparently the Monte Carlo Grand Prix is Monaco, correct?
1:35:25
I am I just being an idiot?
1:35:27
Yes.
1:35:27
Okay.
1:35:27
Yeah.
1:35:28
I've never heard it called the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.
1:35:30
It's in Monte Carlo idea.
1:35:32
I don't know.
1:35:34
I would watch Monaco a thousand percent.
1:35:36
Okay.
1:35:36
Fun fact, my wife and her family went to the Monaco F1 race about 10 years ago.
1:35:41
Wow.
1:35:42
Her dad's a big F1 fan and they went to Monaco for the race.
1:35:45
Wow.
1:35:45
Look at that.
1:35:47
Well, since you've ushered us into formula, uh,
1:36:00
predictions for Mona, it is a snooze fest.
1:36:03
Yeah, it's a procession.
1:36:04
Sounds like it might rain during qualifying.
1:36:07
There's a slight chance, but looks like there's sun during
1:36:10
the race, so there you have it.
1:36:12
No.
1:36:13
Yeah, wherever they qualify is where they finish, unless somebody
1:36:15
wrecks and that's pretty much that.
1:36:16
Or Ocon tries to take 'em all out again.
1:36:19
One or the other.
1:36:20
I'm gonna predict Lance stroll is not gonna win.
1:36:24
I was gonna say.
1:36:29
Hold on.
1:36:29
I'm gonna do the Great Carac for a minute.
1:36:31
And Louis Hamilton, eighth place?
1:36:34
No, I think Louis Hamilton's gonna get sixth place, please.
1:36:37
I think Alonzo's gonna win.
1:36:39
No Alonzo's too busy just being a jerk.
1:36:42
Like does he want everybody to hate him?
1:36:44
I read these articles about Alonzo and he is just like, I don't get it.
1:36:48
Like if you're done with Formula One, retire, he's not done.
1:36:52
He's not done with this.
1:36:53
Oh, is that what it is?
1:36:55
Yeah.
1:36:55
He's not done with the money.
1:36:56
The Benjamins.
1:36:57
No, of course not.
1:36:57
Okay.
1:36:58
Okay.
1:36:58
God.
1:36:59
He drives me nuts though.
1:37:00
He's got such a chip on his shoulder and I was hopeful there because
1:37:03
the Mila race last weekend was one of the most exciting races we've
1:37:07
seen so far, at least to a point.
1:37:09
And it was like, oh look, Alonzo, he's up near the front and then it was
1:37:13
like boom, garbage back of the pack.
1:37:17
I realized he is there to tow Lance stroll around.
1:37:22
He is paid to be in front of Lance.
1:37:25
And just do lead follow while a race is happening.
1:37:27
It's like a de it's ridiculous.
1:37:29
It's not a bad gig, I guess.
1:37:31
Yeah, dude, I would be so pissed.
1:37:34
Depends on much money he is getting.
1:37:36
Go do something else.
1:37:37
Go race, WEC or imsa.
1:37:39
But what, what else does he have to prove?
1:37:41
He's won Lama, hasn't he won an F1 championship?
1:37:44
Yeah, a couple of them.
1:37:45
So what else does he have to prove?
1:37:47
Who gives a shit what you think?
1:37:48
Fine.
1:37:48
Did he win Indy as well?
1:37:49
No, he, his car broke down.
1:37:51
Ah, okay.
1:37:52
So he doesn't have to triple crown.
1:37:53
He was, he was in the Hondas.
1:37:53
That kept breaking down, I think.
1:37:55
Well then he should go do like the Berg ring 24 or something different.
1:37:58
I think he's gonna go do whatever the hell he wants and he doesn't care
1:38:01
when any of us think he's got his money, he's got his championships
1:38:04
in two different motor sports.
1:38:06
He's fine.
1:38:07
Go run to car, go Valentino Rossi and go to motorcycles.
1:38:11
Go the other way.
1:38:12
I'm not sure that transition works as well.
1:38:15
Uh, it, it, it does not, it is a very different discipline.
1:38:18
That's when, uh, like Hockman went to go do rally and he is apparently the only
1:38:22
finished person without rally jeans in his DNA and he was absolutely terrible at it.
1:38:27
Does he have NASCAR jeans instead?
1:38:29
Oh, like gimme, yeah.
1:38:31
No, no, no, no.
1:38:33
Alright, so continuing the saga of the Tizi and Ferrari and Lewis and
1:38:38
all this happy horse hockey Miami.
1:38:42
Is a terrible track.
1:38:43
It's a terrible event.
1:38:44
Yeah, boy, it's a waste of time.
1:38:46
Terrible track.
1:38:47
It sucks.
1:38:48
But there was a moment of just absolute radio glory.
1:38:52
It's the funniest thing.
1:38:54
So Tanya, do you remember it was like after all the rain debacle and weather, it
1:38:58
was gonna rain, whether it was gonna rain, there was all that stuff at the beginning.
1:39:00
So it was a little bit exciting.
1:39:02
And then once there was no more call for rain, it got super boring and
1:39:05
everybody just kind of fell into place.
1:39:07
Much like with some of the other tracks.
1:39:09
There was that moment though, where Lewis is fighting with LeClaire over the radio
1:39:14
because one is arguing that the other one is holding them up and the team orders
1:39:18
And the team wasn't giving him the, give him the point by let him through, right?
1:39:21
Yes.
1:39:21
So Brad, did you see this race?
1:39:23
No, but I think I saw clips of what you're talking about.
1:39:26
So Le Claire at some point is like, all right, give me back the position,
1:39:30
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:39:31
So he is gotta let Le Claire through.
1:39:33
And Hamilton didn't really want to.
1:39:35
Although he made a big stink about having better tires and he really didn't gain
1:39:39
anything by being in front of Le Claire.
1:39:42
It's like, because the Ferrari's are like, I don't know, they're just dog shit.
1:39:45
They must be four cylinders while everybody else is six because they
1:39:47
can't get out of their own way.
1:39:49
To that end, he lets Le Claire through, and then his engineers like
1:39:53
on the radio and he is like signs, 1.6 signs, one point whatever.
1:39:56
Signs, signs, signs, like signs is behind him.
1:39:59
And then Lewis is like, do you want me to let him through too?
1:40:02
And I just died.
1:40:03
That is the funniest thing I've heard in Formula One in like forever Apparently it
1:40:10
like went over like a lead balloon, right?
1:40:12
As it should.
1:40:13
But I was like, I was not expecting that from Hamilton for him to like sort
1:40:17
of bite back and be like, Hey you, why don't we let me let signs pass too?
1:40:20
He's very frustrated.
1:40:21
Was this the same race where he said that it like, just, just go
1:40:25
have a tea or something like that?
1:40:27
Yes.
1:40:27
Yeah.
1:40:27
That was later because he is like, the strategy was complete bunk and he's like,
1:40:31
these guys don't know what they're doing.
1:40:33
And it was just, it's an absolute mess and obviously he's comparing them to
1:40:36
many years of being with Mercedes.
1:40:39
That race in Miami was, it was boring.
1:40:41
The second half was whatever.
1:40:42
Other than that, it was.
1:40:43
Yeah, it was boring.
1:40:44
It seems like over the last couple years, Ferrari has just not been able
1:40:48
to figure out a strategy that works.
1:40:50
So why did he go to Ferrari?
1:40:52
It was stupid.
1:40:53
Uh oh.
1:40:54
It's about that.
1:40:55
It's about that again, it's about the tariffs.
1:40:57
I got it again.
1:40:58
How many championships does he have?
1:41:00
What does he actually have to prove?
1:41:02
I don't care what he says in public facing.
1:41:04
Yeah, but what does he actually have to prove?
1:41:06
Absolutely not a God thing.
1:41:07
It's collect the paycheck.
1:41:08
Yes, exactly.
1:41:09
Like I've been saying.
1:41:10
So Emila the, uh, Emelia Romania Grand Prix.
1:41:13
That was a good race.
1:41:14
That was exciting.
1:41:15
Lots of interesting stuff's happening.
1:41:17
Suddenly the Red Bull is fast again.
1:41:19
The McLaren's, you know, they want to take each other out.
1:41:21
I think Lando is kind of playing dirty.
1:41:23
I don't just let Ptri do his thing.
1:41:26
He's faster than you get out of the way.
1:41:28
It's all these games there too.
1:41:30
But I think Le Claire.
1:41:31
You really got to see some of his true colors come through at that race.
1:41:36
He got angry and he was driving in anger and I think it was hilarious.
1:41:41
And there was that moment there on the radio too where he's like,
1:41:43
is this what racing has become?
1:41:45
Right?
1:41:46
Where it's all BS team politics and they can't just race anymore because
1:41:50
we have to go to Plan Delta, we have to go to plan this and that,
1:41:54
blah blah, blah and all this shit.
1:41:55
It's like, just let 'em drive.
1:41:56
Just let them drive.
1:41:58
Stop screwing around with tires and pit stop nonsense.
1:42:02
Build a better mouse trap.
1:42:03
Go out and race the hell out of 'em.
1:42:04
And let's see who wins.
1:42:06
But Tanya, you kept talking about turbo mushrooms during that race.
1:42:09
The Ferrari cars have a problem and it'll be interesting.
1:42:13
Whatever that problem is, is ever unearthed because they are
1:42:17
incredibly slow and sluggish.
1:42:20
They barely can pass each other.
1:42:22
They can't keep up with the fricking Williams, with DRS wide open.
1:42:26
They can't make a pass.
1:42:27
Everything is super slow.
1:42:29
But then there's moments where it's like he got the turbo mushroom in Mario Kart,
1:42:34
and suddenly like he's raking people in and like the lap times are coming down
1:42:38
and it's like, holy crap, here we go.
1:42:40
Let's go.
1:42:41
And then suddenly it's like, do.
1:42:44
And the mushroom ran out and is back to being turd.
1:42:47
They can't get it out its own way and accelerate like what is wrong?
1:42:51
That, or the geral wore off one or the other.
1:42:53
Even LA Clare's car is the same thing.
1:42:56
Yeah.
1:42:56
Personally, watching some of that video of the Incar when they're running for
1:43:00
top speed, even with DRS open, they're like an eighth gear foot to the floor
1:43:05
and the thing just hangs there at like 6,000 RPM in the wrong part of the
1:43:10
rev range and it just, it won't pull.
1:43:13
And I turned to Tanya as we were watching.
1:43:15
I said, I think the Ferrari needs to redesign their transmission.
1:43:18
I think the gearing is wrong.
1:43:20
And that's keeping those cars behind.
1:43:22
If they could shorten up their gear pack a little bit, six, seven, and
1:43:25
eighth gear, maybe they could get back some of the speed that they're missing.
1:43:28
But if you're sitting there in eighth gear.
1:43:31
At 6,000 RRP M doing 190 miles an hour and it won't pull, what is it geared for?
1:43:36
300? Like, it doesn't make any sense.
1:43:38
Those stupid engines turn like 14,000 RPM.
1:43:41
You're barely in the power zone at that point.
1:43:44
You might as well just leave it in seventh at that point, you know?
1:43:47
So I, I think they're gearing is maybe what's killing them.
1:43:49
And then we're gonna hear excuses about the floor design and this and that.
1:43:53
And the wing here.
1:43:54
And the wing there.
1:43:54
I think it's the transmission.
1:43:55
I think that's the achilles heel of the Ferrari.
1:43:58
And we heard Hamilton, I think it was even in the last race, keeps
1:44:02
complaining about the brakes.
1:44:03
The brakes are very different.
1:44:05
The design is different than what he is used to from Mercedes.
1:44:08
He mentioned before that he's never had to engine break one of the cars before.
1:44:12
And he's having to learn how to do that here and it's okay.
1:44:15
So maybe one to chalk it up to he is progressing the violin,
1:44:20
singing a song, complaining.
1:44:21
But at this last race.
1:44:23
LeClaire through qualifying in like practice was bemoaning the brakes.
1:44:29
Like, my God, my God, my God.
1:44:31
Apparently they were like behaving.
1:44:33
So I don't know what their technology or their brakes is,
1:44:35
but it would, they're electric.
1:44:36
They would behave one way in a certain time and then suddenly they were
1:44:39
behaving differently at another time.
1:44:41
And it's like if your brakes don't work, if they're not carrying the right speed
1:44:44
or decreasing the speed in the zones and, and having the right power to come
1:44:48
out, and if they have a sluggish motor, the transmission's not geared correctly.
1:44:52
I mean, they're losing time everywhere.
1:44:54
Yeah.
1:44:55
They can't get outta their own way.
1:44:56
It's horrible.
1:44:57
I mean, LA Clara's not a bad driver.
1:44:59
He's fighting and we could say the Louis Hamilton's not a bad driver either, right?
1:45:04
And he's doing crap.
1:45:05
But then you see that them when they're side by side with the other cars and it's
1:45:09
like the disparity is kind of evident.
1:45:12
They are not competitive against the Red Bull or the McLaren.
1:45:15
We'll see how it changes.
1:45:17
What race number is this, like 10?
1:45:19
Uh, I don't know that there's been that many, but my prediction
1:45:22
has held true by the third race.
1:45:24
He wasn't gonna do any better than where he is at, but if the car is a problem.
1:45:28
Then it's not fair either, because where are the Mercedes?
1:45:31
They're at the front doing better.
1:45:33
Antonelli started like second at Amala.
1:45:35
It was insane.
1:45:37
You guys told me the Mercedes is inferior.
1:45:39
They don't know how to build a car, blah, blah, blah.
1:45:41
And now they're like kicking butt.
1:45:42
I don't think anybody said that.
1:45:44
The Mercedes as last year's season.
1:45:47
So Mercedes fell off and they were wildly uncompetitive.
1:45:51
You talk about how, yeah, yeah.
1:45:52
Ferrari can't accelerate and get out of its own way.
1:45:55
It was pathetic.
1:45:56
The Mercedes as the season last year, wound down their improvements.
1:46:01
You could see they were doing better.
1:46:03
The Mercedes was becoming more competitive.
1:46:05
So whatever they've done coming into this year, yes they
1:46:08
have a more competitive car.
1:46:09
So maybe had he stayed with Mercedes, it'd be a whole other story right
1:46:13
now because Russell's doing great.
1:46:15
Antonelli's doing great.
1:46:17
Guess we'll see.
1:46:17
Too bad.
1:46:18
Super disappointed in Ferrari this year, but I'm gonna tough it out.
1:46:21
I promise you guys we're gonna, we're gonna ride to the end.
1:46:24
That would've been the last five years as well.
1:46:26
So I mean.
1:46:27
And you wonder why I don't watch.
1:46:29
I'm telling you guys spend a year following IMSA and WEC and you will
1:46:34
see much better racing than the garbage that Formula One is putting out.
1:46:39
And now we're gonna bring Mickey Mouse into the equation.
1:46:42
Now there's partnerships with Disney.
1:46:43
Once I read that, I was like, thank God this is the only year I can go back to
1:46:47
watching real racing and not this trash.
1:46:49
He acts like somebody put a gun to his head doing it for you guys.
1:46:53
You called me out.
1:46:54
You said, I didn't know we told you to watch Drive to Survive.
1:46:57
Yeah.
1:46:57
You're not a real fan unless you watch Drive to Survive.
1:46:59
Well, let's correct that.
1:47:00
Emmy Award-winning drive to Survive.
1:47:03
Let me puke a little bit.
1:47:05
Emmy Award-winning.
1:47:06
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:47:07
It's like giving yourself your own.
1:47:08
Yeah.
1:47:08
It's such garbage.
1:47:10
Whatever.
1:47:10
No, thank you.
1:47:11
There is no reason to watch Drive to Survive if you watch the races.
1:47:14
I mean, I'm just gonna flat out say that, but you don't get all the drama.
1:47:18
Ah, you know what's gonna have a bunch of drama in it, this Brad
1:47:21
Pitt movie, are we gonna go see it?
1:47:23
I mean, eventually I will see it when it's at the bargain bin.
1:47:27
Free 99 on your streaming service.
1:47:29
Preferably, but I, I guess I could spend money on it.
1:47:32
I think I have a gift card.
1:47:34
Wow.
1:47:35
I'll use someone else's money to watch this terrible movie.
1:47:37
Third one of the night.
1:47:39
Brad Pitt movie, or completely unrelated, but car adjacent the Paul Walker story.
1:47:43
Which would you watch?
1:47:44
I need more information.
1:47:46
Is it any Brad Pitt movie or the Brad Pitt Formula one
1:47:51
movie is what I'm referring to.
1:47:53
So driven two or the Paul Walker story?
1:47:56
Yeah.
1:47:56
Yeah.
1:47:57
Um, I would rather sit there and watch Sesame Street with my kids for two hours.
1:48:03
Again, you're gonna be able to watch Disney with F1 soon enough.
1:48:06
So that's the future.
1:48:07
That's the future.
1:48:08
That means SPN owned by Disney too.
1:48:10
So yeah.
1:48:11
Yeah.
1:48:11
Wait, is that what the partnership, is that like you'll be able to
1:48:13
stream Formula One on Disney?
1:48:15
I haven't read into it.
1:48:16
All I saw were pictures of Mickey Mouse with a Formula One car
1:48:19
and I was just like, I'm done.
1:48:20
I'm out.
1:48:21
No, I'm not out.
1:48:22
'cause if you regular streaming Disney Plus, if you've got a
1:48:25
subscription to it now you can watch Formula One without paying another
1:48:28
subscription to the F1 channel.
1:48:30
Can we rename the F1 drivers with cars characters?
1:48:34
Oh man, that'd be so funny.
1:48:35
The winner of this year's championship becomes Lightning McQueen.
1:48:38
Mm. And then we've got the other guys, I don't remember their names.
1:48:41
Oh, is there gonna be a Pixar Cars?
1:48:43
But F1, there was an F1 car.
1:48:46
He was Italian in cars too.
1:48:48
Yes.
1:48:48
I just don't see F1 TV giving up the goat to Disney.
1:48:52
Giving them the rights?
1:48:53
No, I don't think that's what this is.
1:48:55
They're trying to appeal to the very younger crowd by like
1:48:59
partnering to have the mascots.
1:49:01
But then I would question, do young kids even watch Mickey Mouse?
1:49:05
Henry likes it.
1:49:05
It still on.
1:49:06
Okay.
1:49:07
Maybe it's the other way.
1:49:08
Formula One is trying to bring Disney up to its level, not the other way around.
1:49:13
They gonna move the Miami race to Orlando.
1:49:16
It'll be on an oval and it'll be run by Indy cars.
1:49:20
Oh wait, wait.
1:49:21
They already do that.
1:49:22
Go 45 minutes east and just run it at Daytona.
1:49:25
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1:49:28
come to light in the upcoming months.
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