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Drive Thru News #13 - The Super Sized, Super Special! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to the drive through episode number 13.
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  This is our monthly recap, where we put together a menu of automotive,
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  motorsport, and random car adjacent news.
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  Now let's pull up to the window.
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  For some automotive news,
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  you know, guys, I've been looking over August and I thought it was
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  going to be an absolute bust.
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  We just had nothing but piles of recalls and halted productions and chip shortages.
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  And I didn't know what we were going to talk about this month, but the
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  magic of the interwebs and of the automotive world itself never ceases.
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  And you know what we're going to kick off this month talking about?
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  Lamborghini.
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  That's right, Lambos!
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  There's all sorts of news aflutter this month about Lamborghini,
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  our favorite tractor builder.
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  So what's in store there, Brad?
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  They've announced that they're going to come up with a successor to the Aventador.
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  It's going to be a V12 hybrid.
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  Their second hybrid, not to be confused with the Ceyon FKP and the Ceyon Roadster.
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  Is that, am I pronouncing that correctly?
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  Ceyan.
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  Ceyan, Ceyon, I don't remember.
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  Two cars that I had actually never heard of until this article.
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  So the Aventador is a little longer than the two.
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  So they're replacing it.
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  And of course it's going to have hybrid technology, the hybrid technology that's
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  in the cyan or Cion or Cion in the Cylon.
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  Is that the XB or the
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  TC?
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  This is the, this is the, the lunchbox, but apparently they said
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  that it's not up to par with the.
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  What they see for the future of hybrid technology.
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  So
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  you mean what Rimac is building
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  what we talked about last month?
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  Yeah.
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  Whatever Audi and Porsche have, uh, concocted, have, have, have contracted
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  for the Lamborghini to be doing.
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  So the, the technology that's going to be in the new car is not
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  going to be the same technology that's in the thes FK 47 Roadster.
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  Touchdown.
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  Hike.
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  Hike, hike.
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  Nice.
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  Well, on the other side of that, you know, we did.
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  Allude to in the past that Lamborghini was going to come up with a hybrid and to your
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  point, this is the second car that they're proposing with this hybrid technology.
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  I'm really impressed that they're bringing back a V12.
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  I mean, in today's age of let's go in the opposite direction and go quad turbo V6,
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  having a V12, I thought they were dead.
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  I thought they were gone the way of the Dodo bird, kind of interested
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  to see where this goes and why, and if it even really comes to fruition.
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  Well, speaking of quad turbo V6, the Huracan successor.
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  Is allegedly going to have a hybrid V6.
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  I believe that's what I saw.
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  Interesting.
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  And that's not the Countach.
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  No, that's completely separate from the Countach, which I believe is also
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  utilizes a V12, but a small electric motor for, you know, powering the.
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  the sun visors or the, you know, the lipstick lights or
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  whatever you get in the car.
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  So since we brought it up, that's the biggest buzz in
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  Lamborghini this month by far.
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  Let's talk about the new Countach, you know, the one, the only epic
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  music video car of all time.
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  Does the new one really stack up with.
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  Our hero, our icon, the David Hasselhoff of automobiles.
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  I hope no copyright lawyers are listening to this right now.
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  I personally.
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  Love, love, love, love.
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  I'm looking for a poster of it as we speak.
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  Love the new Kudosh.
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  I think it's amazing.
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  As a rebadged Aventador, you're absolutely right.
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  I have a few.
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  The front is
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  on point.
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  Yes, I agree.
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  Better than the original.
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  I mean, it's okay.
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  I don't like the back.
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  The back reminds me of the Decepticons in the live action Transformers movies.
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  Like the way their mechanical eyeballs are, it looks like a Decepticon
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  staring at you from the back.
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  To your point, it took me a minute to figure out the rear end of that car.
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  And actually it's very similar to a car we're going to talk about here in a
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  little bit, which is the Bugatti Divo.
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  I take a bunch of issues with the new Countach.
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  First of all, like we talked about in the past, there's other manufacturers
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  That have been very successful at taking classic designs and making them modern.
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  Let's just go with Chrysler as an example.
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  I think Lamborghini could have done a real salute, a real heritage car and taken
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  the LP 500 QV and just duplicated it.
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  And gone from there.
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  Now, I get that that doesn't fit this 25 year old Audi R8 chassis that
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  they've been recycling now on every Lamborghini since the Volkswagen
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  Audi Group bought Lamborghini.
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  And so I get it.
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  It's got to fit those dimensions.
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  But when you look at the press photos of the original car, even the LP 500
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  next to the new one, it is ginormous.
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  It just needed to put a wang on the back.
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  Wang definitely would have helped and it would need to be the wing from the,
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  uh, the LP 500, you know, the big like airplane wing on the back, but that scoop
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  on the side looks like a second window.
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  And it just, it irritates me.
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  I don't like the fender cuts.
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  Like we had talked about internally.
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  It reminds me of the Jalpa.
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  It doesn't really remind me of the Kuntosh, the way they
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  cut those angular fenders.
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  There's definitely.
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  Pieces and parts of other cars in the design, but at the end of the day, if
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  you read some of the comments, even on Instagram and some of the other social
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  media platforms, people are like, yeah, that's a great redo of the Aventador.
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  Does it really speak to the Countach?
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  And to your point, front on?
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  Absolutely.
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  I'm just, I struggle with everything else.
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  I can see your point that it should not be called the Kosh, and if it
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  was not called the Kunta, would your perception be any different?
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  How, I think the Isador isn't, the Aventador more is newer.
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  Way Newer, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I mean, this isn't a, I mean, this isn't, this would be
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  like an evolution of the Aventador.
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  Yeah.
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  You could say an evolution, but it's not a redo.
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  I mean, it doesn't, yeah.
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  Yes, they all have similar wedge body shapes, but I do think it hearkens
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  more to a Countach than the Aventador.
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  I agree.
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  But to Brad's point, we've seen it before, you know, somebody comes
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  to the table with a new Mustang, and you go, oh, it's an Evolution.
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  Yeah, but wouldn't you just say the Aventador is nothing
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  but a Countach Evolution?
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  Or is it
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  a
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  Diablo
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  evolution?
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  Which is a Countach evolution.
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  Yeah, I mean, yes, they all go back to that.
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  I mean, for a while there, they only
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  made one car at a time.
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  That's very true.
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  They made many different variations of that car, but
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  they made one vehicle at a time.
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  Going back to your point about the name, the name carries a lot of weight.
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  So certain cars, like, let's say the Esprit, if suddenly Lotus brought that out
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  and you, and you're doing this whole thing compared the old to the new, you know,
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  is the sequel as good as the original.
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  Right.
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  And that's kind of what we're, we're talking about here.
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  Performance wise, visibility wise, handling wise.
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  It's all the electronic goodies.
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  The new Kuntosh is going to be a thousand times better than the old one.
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  Hands down.
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  We all know that for a performance perspective.
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  I've heard that the old ones are terrible to drive.
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  You can't see out of them.
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  All that aside, that's the point.
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  They're awesome and they're bonkers and everything else.
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  So maybe it'll grow on me when I see it in person.
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  I like that it's white, just like some of the, you know, the older Kuntosh.
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  I mean, they
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  already made a new Esprit in 2014.
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  So that example is poor.
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  Is that the Evora?
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  I don't know.
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  It says 2014 Lotus Esprit debut.
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  Did that ever come to market?
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  I
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  think it was just a concept car.
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  I think it was a concept car too.
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  Yeah.
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  I think, I think that evolved into the Evora.
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  Yeah, I think so too.
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  But I mean, there's other names.
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  If I said Lancia Stratos, you know, I, I don't know.
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  There's, there's a bunch.
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  I,
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  I agree that there are Some cars that are iconic, they're of such a
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  level that you're killing yourself if you try to do a redo of them.
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  Right.
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  The Countach is one.
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  The Corvettes, I mean they I don't know.
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  I, it's definitely one of them, but I was thinking like a nine, five, nine,
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  four, um, Porsche, you can never have another nine, five, nine Porsche is
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  weird because all their names are numbers or, but you never have another
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  F 40, the F 50 was supposed to be an evolution of that, but I don't know.
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  But, but I think you understand my point.
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  There are some names that are so iconic that we do it in
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  the sports world all the time.
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  You see somebody.
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  A player that is so good.
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  They're in the hall of fame.
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  Their number is retired.
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  I feel like these names for automobiles should be retired.
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  Exactly.
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  The perfect example of bad naming convention is the Mustang Mach E.
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  What
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  about the Mitsubishi?
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  Eclipse.
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  SUV.
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  SAV.
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  Oh my god.
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  Oh, please stop.
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  But just to the point, talking about Lamborghini, say they introduce the
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  Miura again, you're like, uh, I mean, again, that's another name that I
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  think is, is hallowed and sacred in the halls of automotive history.
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  Like you can't have another Miura unless it really is super
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  close to the original one.
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  Right.
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  And I, I feel, Like that with the Countach.
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  Now you could flip the coin the other way, and let's talk about the Alfa
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  Romeo 4C, which is supposed to be the redo of the Alfa 33 Stradale.
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  I see the hints and the homage, but they weren't as ballsy to say, well, we're
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  just going to call it the 33 Stradale.
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  They said, here's the 4C, it's a new model.
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  It takes its influence from this vintage race car, but
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  it's not really the same thing.
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  It's a hard pill to swallow, but like I said, maybe when we see it
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  in person, it'll do it justice.
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  Maybe it looks different.
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  Some cars don't photograph the best.
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  Although the Kuntosh photographs pretty damn well.
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  All I know is if somebody can help me find high res versions of some of
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  these images, so I can turn them into.
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  That
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  would be no, I mean, like legit posters for my wall behind me,
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  I can find you guys some high res pictures of Fierro stuff.
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  So we got that covered.
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  All right,
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  what kind of contain on the, on the, on the hood.
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  So moving on a little bit coming from completely out of left field
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  is a Lamborghini that is now being referred to as the jump a con.
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  That's not a comic con.
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  No, no, it's not a
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  convention.
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  No, no, the jump a
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  con.
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  So
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  I was like, wait a minute.
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  What is this all about?
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  So I click on this and I go into it and I find out 2 kind of interesting things.
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  1.
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  there was a race that I'd never heard of before.
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  And apparently it's been going on since 1968 in the deserts of Las Vegas.
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  It's known as the mint 400.
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  the mint used to be a casino hotel in Vegas.
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  And now it doesn't exist anymore.
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  I don't know which hotel it's become these many years later, but this is
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  touted as the longest running hotel.
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  American off road race.
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  I don't know how that plays in versus Pike's Peak, but still, you know,
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  let's just say let's follow that.
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  You know, maybe we'll dig into that story a little bit more at a later date and then
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  comes to the table in conjunction with the 2021 running of the mint 400 is this
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  group called B is for build and you'll find them online, YouTube, et cetera.
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  They're known for building all sorts of extreme cars and they decided to
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  build an off road Lamborghini Huracan.
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  And so when you look at this thing.
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  You start to realize there's only a few pieces on it that
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  are actually Lamborghini.
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  It's very low to the ground.
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  You know, it's got big wheels.
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  It's got, you know, all this kind of stuff.
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  And then, you know, it's mostly tube frame.
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  It still has the scissor doors, which is okay.
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  But then you realize it's powered by an LS.
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  There's not a whole heck of a lot to it.
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  That seems to be Lamborghini.
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  And it got me into this whole kind of philosophical debate.
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  Known as Theseus's ship.
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  If you replace the parts enough on the original platform, is it
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  still really that original ship?
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  And so it kind of made me think, you know, was this a wrecked Lamborghini
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  that they basically stripped down retaining those few couple of pieces
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  still makes it a Lamborghini and maybe in its overall shape and design.
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  You could kind of debate that for a while, but needless to
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  say, You know what makes it
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  a Lamborghini?
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  Uh, yeah, that's probably the
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  only thing that makes wise, it
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  seems to perform they recorded that video of last year, they said t
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  the car really off road o an hour.
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  So this was kind video and we'll post it i you can check it out your
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  They're kind of hitting the sand dunes and whatnot at a decent speed.
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  And they learned some lessons.
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  They had to go back and redesign some stuff, different skid plates, more
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  ground clearance, stuff like that.
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  So really curious to see how it fared in the race itself, but
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  this Lamborghini Jumper can Batman Tumbler thing, it definitely got my
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  attention for all of, you know, the four minutes that the video was,
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  I don't know.
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  It's just people with way too much money and too much time on their hands.
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  More power to them for coming up with something unique and different,
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  but I hope they didn't take a brand new Huracan and do this to it.
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  I hope they started with a flood car or a salvage title or something like that.
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  Because It's a
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  waste.
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  Like, like the guy who
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  put the wagon wheels
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  on the Hellcat.
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  I just don't, I don't understand shit like that.
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  It's It's stupid.
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  That being said, maybe a little teaser for our lost and found section there, Brad.
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  What do you think?
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  We found a warehouse find is an all bare metal body Lamborghini Moira.
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  I don't know how to pronounce these words.
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  Moira.
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  Moira.
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  It's a Myra.
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  It's a Lamborghini Myra.
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  The Miura.
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  I'm not Italian.
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  I don't get it.
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  The
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  Miura.
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  Spaghetti.
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  There's a good
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  name.
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  They should have named it, instead of the Lamborghini Countach,
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  it the Lamborghini Spaghetti.
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  It's such a cheesy linguine!
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  The Lamborghini
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  Carbonara!
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  Uh, Gemelli, uh, the Lamborghini Miura P400S.
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  It's pretty cool.
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  This is kind of like some of those other unfinished vehicles.
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  You know, like we've talked about before, what is a barn find anymore?
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  Now we got warehouse finds, basement finds, and kitchen finds.
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  They're coming out of all the woodworks now, uh, no pun intended.
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  From last month's episode about the lamborghini, but this one I just think
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  is striking being a bare metal car and not being completely rusted Aluminum
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  bodied it's beautiful actually and it's just kind of pure form I am hoping
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  that maybe whoever put the car together or ordered it that way or whatever
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  At least put a protective coating on it And I think we'll talk about a car
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  that's very similar in design here in a little bit But I just think this is
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  kind of cool And if you haven't seen it check it out again These barn finds
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  are popping up all over the place
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  I think it's really cool.
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  It reminds me of the, the body is kind of like the DeLorean a little bit.
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  It's got that look.
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  It's obviously a much better, much cooler car.
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  I would totally drive this and blind the people, you know,
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  going down the road in the sun.
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  So as a teaser for our Motorsports section later in this episode, There's also a bid.
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  It's bid number six for the 2023 running of LeMans, and that's by Lamborghini.
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  The number of people lining up to run in LMDH, the replacement for LMP one.
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  The new hybrid hypercar class is going to feature the names Porsche Ferrari.
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  BMW, and now Lamborghini.
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  And we also mentioned last month Peugeot slash Dodge by way of Stellantis.
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  So that's pretty awesome.
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  And 2023 is stacking up to be an incredible year for Le Mans.
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  And we're going to talk more about Le Mans later in the episode.
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  To close out our section on Lamborghini, our friends at Garage Riot, we were
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  debating the Countach there as well.
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  You know, it's kind of hot news this month.
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  And Donovan happened to post a commercial.
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  For Lamborghini, which I didn't know, no, they did Lamborghini commercials.
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  And I got to thank him for this.
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  I got a great chuckle out of it.
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  The tagline for the commercial reads close to the road.
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  We're going to post that in the show notes.
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  You need to check it out for yourself.
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  I think it's, it's actually very well done.
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  Very tongue in cheek.
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  Good on you, Lamborghini.
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  Do we know when this.
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  Commercial came out, I want to make some guesses on who the arm belongs to.
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  It's definitely a baller.
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  Yes.
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  I think it's a V10.
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  So it's, it's a V10 era Lamborghini.
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  So it's gotta be within the last, Oh, I don't know, 15 years.
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  Right.
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  So who do you think it is in the car?
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  Well, knowing that you said it's V10,
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  it's Michael Strahan.
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  No, I don't know.
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  No, from the song gold digger, he's the one that wins the super
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  bowl and drives off in a Hyundai.
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  Uh, that's
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  right.
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  That's right.
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  I'll say Poby.
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  It might be, we don't know.
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  I mean, cast your votes on who the mystery arm is in this particular video.
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  But again, very, very clever, very cute.
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  And I very much enjoyed it.
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  So thanks Donovan for posting that.
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  And special congratulations to Donovan who just picked up.
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  Lamborghini Gallardo.
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  So it's a bit of a change from his background in BMWs and Porsches, etc.
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  But if you want to learn more about his recent acquisition,
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  check it out on garage riot.
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  com.
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  All the pictures are there.
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  And with that bit of Lamborghini news, we round out our showcase this month.
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  Since Lamborghini is You know, cousin second removed of Volkswagen Audi group.
• 17:29
  I think we should probably transition to Volkswagen Audi news like we always do.
• 17:33
  And I mentioned it a little bit ago, the Bugatti Devo, the last
• 17:37
  Bugatti Devo, a model probably you didn't even know existed.
• 17:40
  40 of which were built, the last one has been completed and delivered.
• 17:45
  That is the end of the production run for the Bugatti Divo.
• 17:49
  I think it's cool, but also very Lego like, I mean, obviously you
• 17:53
  can see the inspiration in it from the Chiron and the Veyron.
• 17:55
  And even like I was talking about the rear end of the Countach and things like that.
• 17:59
  It's sad to hear about a car on its way out.
• 18:03
  Because I think this would really been really cool to catch in the
• 18:07
  beginning, like, you know, something shocking, but there are other cool and
• 18:11
  unnamed models from Bugatti coming.
• 18:14
  We've seen some articles floating around, some spy pictures, et cetera.
• 18:17
  So I'm really excited to see what comes next.
• 18:20
  What do you guys think about this Devo now that you're probably
• 18:22
  hearing about it for the first time?
• 18:23
  I had no idea it existed.
• 18:24
  Is this the successor to the Chiron?
• 18:27
  It is a one off model.
• 18:28
  So no, it is not necessarily in that line.
• 18:31
  But much like the Cyan and some of those cars, it runs in that kind of vein of
• 18:36
  here, we're going to do a small batch and then move on to something else.
• 18:39
  So I didn't realize Bugatti was doing 40 car runs.
• 18:42
  I mean, to tool up for new unique body work like this, granted, it's still like
• 18:46
  a hundred year old R8 chassis underneath.
• 18:49
  It's still neat to see that they would put something out like this.
• 18:51
  They could have just called it a Veyron.
• 18:53
  But you can still buy the Veyron the what super sport now it is, I think
• 18:56
  at the top of the top line, 300 mile an hour monstrosity that they have.
• 19:01
  All right.
• 19:01
  So switching gears a little bit and talking about sort of related
• 19:04
  Porsche news singer that makes the most beautiful retro, what I call
• 19:10
  heritage cars out in California has pre sold 75 of what they call their
• 19:16
  DLS model based on the Porsche 964.
• 19:20
  For a cool 2 million each and an awkward pregnant pause there.
• 19:26
  As you do the math, that's an influx of 150 million into the company.
• 19:33
  Not sure when they're going public, but, uh, pay attention
• 19:35
  to that stock IPO for sure.
• 19:38
  And this quote from the Jalopnik article definitely summarizes how I
• 19:42
  felt about the consumption of 964s.
• 19:46
  And it reads, listen, I like an air cooled rear engine driving experience
• 19:51
  as much as the next guy, but you can't tell me that this car drives 1, 979,
• 19:56
  000 better than my shitty old 912e.
• 20:00
  Do you have any idea what I could do with 1.
• 20:04
  97 million?
• 20:05
  I could build a really freaking cool 9 11 and still have about 1.
• 20:08
  9 million dollars left over.
• 20:10
  That being said, it's also the reason why, and we talked about this when
• 20:14
  Donovan guest starred on the show, the prices of 964s are going up.
• 20:17
  Because 964, as we know, had the shortest production run of pretty much, you
• 20:23
  Most 911s, it only lasted about four to five years, and there's not a ton
• 20:27
  of them out there, especially coupes.
• 20:30
  You know, there, there was a mix of variants in the 964 line convertibles.
• 20:34
  There was a speedster.
• 20:35
  There was, you know, wide bodies, the four S and things like that.
• 20:39
  So there's all these variations.
• 20:41
  And singers just buying them up and turning them into these ducktail
• 20:44
  classics and short nose cars.
• 20:45
  And they're beautiful.
• 20:47
  They're handcrafted.
• 20:48
  Absolutely amazing.
• 20:49
  They perform really, really well, but it's driven the price of
• 20:52
  stock nine 64s through the roof.
• 20:54
  I've also read that once singer can't get any more nine 64s, they're
• 20:58
  going to move on to nine 93s.
• 21:00
  done so.
• 21:01
  So that means the price of 9.
• 21:01
  93 is also going to skyrocket, right?
• 21:04
  They want to stay with the air cooled 9 11s, the best of the best.
• 21:07
  I'm really, really curious to see where the whole Singer line
• 21:10
  goes because people are going to board the cars that they have.
• 21:14
  To try to hold out, you know, what's the, you're going to come to the table with and
• 21:17
  offer you 2 million bucks for your nine 64 and then turn around and sell it for four.
• 21:21
  I mean, good on them.
• 21:22
  Good on the person who still has their nine 64 that they
• 21:24
  can sell for 2 million, nine
• 21:26
  64 turbos will be there soon enough.
• 21:28
  Don't worry about it.
• 21:28
  I
• 21:29
  still think it's a ridiculous amount of money for a car.
• 21:32
  Yeah.
• 21:32
  And you're dealing with a car from the nineties.
• 21:35
  They overlap with the nine 93, five maximum six year run
• 21:39
  the low production numbers.
• 21:41
  Cause that was the first year of the 3.
• 21:42
  6, you know, stuff like that.
• 21:44
  You're dealing with a 30 year old car.
• 21:45
  So it's already vintage.
• 21:47
  And then you're making it even more vintage, right?
• 21:49
  Going to the late sixties, early seventies, look of the RSS and
• 21:53
  the ducktails and stuff like that.
• 21:54
  I mean, again, The singers are gorgeous, hands down.
• 21:57
  Maybe they'll start doing something else.
• 21:59
  Like where's my retro 308 built on top of a Modena 360 or a Ferrari F430.
• 22:05
  Why don't we do something different than a retro 9 11?
• 22:07
  I feel like they're kind of played out, at least in my opinion.
• 22:10
  I think we forgot to just start this one with rich people doing rich people things.
• 22:14
  You're probably right.
• 22:15
  Definitely out of my price range.
• 22:17
  I think we started the entire episode with rich people doing rich
• 22:20
  people things with the V12 hybrid Lamborghini and the Countach.
• 22:25
  Definitely not
• 22:26
  in the market for that.
• 22:27
  Yeah.
• 22:28
  So what else is going on in the VAG world there, Tanya?
• 22:31
  So Audi is unveiling that I guess they're going to join the Dakar series.
• 22:36
  We're going back to Rally What?
• 22:38
  We're going back to.
• 22:38
  Rally What?
• 22:39
  Huh?
• 22:40
  Come again.
• 22:40
  YouTube video out there where they're showcasing their brand new purpose
• 22:44
  built Design Decar Rally vehicle, and it's an e-tron and it looks sick.
• 22:50
  It's reminiscent of other rally cars of the Decar series.
• 22:53
  So that's exciting to see them returning to the world of rally
• 22:56
  and hopefully they actually go back to the other rally world as well.
• 22:59
  WRC.
• 23:00
  So they're calling this the RSQ.
• 23:02
  And I thought what was really kind of cute about the video is there's this
• 23:05
  like double asterisk that says this vehicle not based on a production car.
• 23:09
  So I was like, it's a purpose built Dakar rally raid vehicle.
• 23:13
  Right.
• 23:13
  And so what I thought was also interesting, unlike the VW submissions
• 23:19
  of years past, which were loosely based on the Touareg or the Amarok or some
• 23:23
  of the other vehicles that they have in their lineup, especially overseas.
• 23:27
  This is a purpose built.
• 23:28
  Desert rally car.
• 23:29
  It is super cool.
• 23:30
  The big question that came to mind, and I rewatched the video
• 23:33
  a couple of times in slow motion.
• 23:35
  And I thought I saw a shot of the crankcase and I'm thinking
• 23:38
  it's not a full e tron, but a hybrid, but I can't confirm that.
• 23:42
  And there's not enough information because the.
• 23:44
  Biggest question that came to mind.
• 23:45
  If this is a legitimate e tron, where are they recharging this thing on the Dakar?
• 23:51
  Because the Dakar rally is what?
• 23:52
  1, 000, 1, 500 miles.
• 23:54
  It's something ridiculous.
• 23:55
  I mean, I guess they're going to charge it with their diesel generators.
• 24:00
  This is some pretty long rally stage weights that you have to go through.
• 24:04
  So you've got to charge that thing up.
• 24:05
  I'm curious to see where it is and what the specs are.
• 24:09
  If they are going full electric, I'm shocked.
• 24:11
  And I want to see how that pans out.
• 24:14
  I don't want to, I don't want to say good, bad or indifferent, but I just want
• 24:16
  to see how it all works out for them.
• 24:18
  So best of luck on that, but design wise, super cool.
• 24:21
  Very futuristic.
• 24:22
  It reminds me of the Viet Cross.
• 24:24
  No, it does not.
• 24:26
  Speaking of futuristic.
• 24:27
  So they're at it again, Audi.
• 24:29
  So they unveiled a concept car.
• 24:31
  Car of the future, if you will.
• 24:33
  It's very sleek looking car.
• 24:35
  Got a lot of futuristic bits on the outside and definitely on the inside.
• 24:39
  I mean, this thing looks kind of like a Batmobile or should
• 24:43
  be in a James Bond movie or some villains driving this thing around.
• 24:47
  I mean, it looks pretty neat, but the interesting thing
• 24:50
  about it, it's an autonomous.
• 24:52
  Concept car for the future, but it's also a transformer.
• 24:56
  Wait, wait,
• 24:57
  what, what,
• 24:57
  what?
• 24:58
  Transformers.
• 25:01
  There's more than meets the eye here, but I'm done.
• 25:04
  When they say transformer, it's not going to suddenly stand up on its
• 25:07
  hind wheels and start talking to you.
• 25:10
  It actually can elongate the wheel base by almost 10 inches.
• 25:14
  So basically you can have a sport mode in a shorter wheel base
• 25:19
  or elongated 250 millimeters.
• 25:21
  To a more touring wheelbase, if you will.
• 25:25
  And since it's autonomous, they've created it such that the
• 25:28
  steering wheel is retractable and the pedals are attractable.
• 25:31
  So basically they'll disappear into the dashboard and the under dash
• 25:34
  so that you have more comfort room.
• 25:36
  It's a concept car.
• 25:37
  It's kind of the vision of where the future could be going once true
• 25:41
  autonomous vehicles, if they ever actually come to fruition, this could be the
• 25:46
  future of what more and more vehicles.
• 25:49
  Okay.
• 25:49
  So this car has melted my brain.
• 25:51
  I have looked at this video on repeat for way too long.
• 25:56
  And here's my takeaway.
• 25:57
  There's a lot of stuff.
• 25:58
  It's really expensive that can break.
• 26:01
  Okay.
• 26:01
  Well, I was going to save that part, but.
• 26:04
  First thing that came to mind, Batman, the animated series.
• 26:07
  Second thing that came to mind, the defender from Viper, because it looks
• 26:10
  like a Viper from the side and profile.
• 26:12
  Yeah, I was
• 26:13
  just about to say they, they went there, they're going all
• 26:15
  the way to the future of 1993.
• 26:20
  It looks like a Viper from the side.
• 26:21
  I mean like a gen one, gen two Viper.
• 26:24
  It's scary how close it looks.
• 26:25
  Third, what does 250 millimeters, which comes out to about 10 inches.
• 26:29
  Buy me on a two seater that I can lay down and go to sleep while it's driving me.
• 26:34
  Cause I don't understand.
• 26:35
  It's not like suddenly your back seats pop up out of this thing.
• 26:39
  I
• 26:39
  don't think it's for your comfort.
• 26:40
  I think it's for the driving experience.
• 26:43
  So if you want people,
• 26:44
  If
• 26:45
  you want to pull the steering wheel back out in the pedals and go hoon around a
• 26:48
  bit, I guess, you shorten the wheelbase and then you have a more sporty feel.
• 26:52
  It's a car that fits everybody.
• 26:54
  I guess if you're seven feet tall like our big man in a little car
• 26:57
  episode, you don't have a problem.
• 26:58
  You just stretch the vehicle like Gordon wanted to do with that Viper, right?
• 27:01
  That we had talked about.
• 27:02
  But in this case, I get it.
• 27:04
  It's cool because there's no drivetrain and so on these electric vehicles where
• 27:08
  they can put the power plants at the end of the car and all that kind of stuff, it
• 27:11
  makes sense that they can grow and shrink the interior, especially at the pedal box.
• 27:14
  And the way I look at this, I just, the question that
• 27:17
  continually comes to my mind.
• 27:19
  Is why, why do I need this in my life?
• 27:22
  Well, it's a concept car.
• 27:23
  So why do any manufacturer do the things they do with concept cars?
• 27:28
  They're proving they have the technology and the capability
• 27:30
  to do something that's crazy.
• 27:32
  So in my Mark four Volkswagen GTI, when the sunroof broke and it wouldn't
• 27:37
  retract or whatever, there was a crank and you had to manually crank it.
• 27:41
  So when you're stuck in 10 inch mode.
• 27:46
  Get outside.
• 27:47
  Outside.
• 27:47
  You need to pull, you
• 27:48
  need to pull out a crank.
• 27:49
  Yes.
• 27:49
  Stick it in the side and crank it back in to the driver mode.
• 27:53
  Cue the music.
• 27:54
  No, you,
• 27:55
  the jack in the box music . No, no, no.
• 27:57
  You just
• 27:58
  do like those, those cars that the kids have and you, you back 'em
• 28:01
  up until it winds up, you know, and then you can like let it go.
• 28:03
  It's the same thing, just back up the car into a wall until it crushes itself.
• 28:07
  It's perfect.
• 28:08
  Or, so I'm a baller and I've got my Audi, whatever this car is called.
• 28:12
  And I've got my, you know, supermodel girlfriend with me or whatever, and
• 28:16
  I can't get it to shrink back in.
• 28:17
  So I go stand at the front.
• 28:18
  I asked her to stand at the back and we just kind of smush it back together.
• 28:22
  Is that how that works?
• 28:24
  She, she walks away from you.
• 28:26
  She calls Uber.
• 28:27
  She goes
• 28:27
  over to the guy in the, in the Chiron.
• 28:29
  Yes,
• 28:29
  exactly.
• 28:31
  I mean, first of all, to do all this mechanism, I'm sure it takes a ton
• 28:34
  of power and there's a lot of servos.
• 28:36
  And like you said, it's expensive to replace something breaks, but
• 28:39
  the stats on this car are not great.
• 28:41
  310 miles of range.
• 28:42
  They're claiming equivalent 553 foot pounds of torque, but
• 28:45
  that's a lot of stuff going on.
• 28:48
  And it's still not more complicated or more expensive to repair than
• 28:52
  a Volkswagen Touareg or Phaeton.
• 28:55
  Uh, you're probably right about that.
• 28:56
  So there, there is an advantage to these cars.
• 28:58
  So we'll, we'll move on because this thing just, you'll see it in the show notes.
• 29:02
  It will just, it bends spoons.
• 29:04
  That's what it does.
• 29:05
  That's what it does for me.
• 29:06
  It's like the matrix, you know, normally our next.
• 29:09
  that we talk about on every drive thru episode is our friends
• 29:11
  over at Stellantis, right?
• 29:13
  The fourth largest auto manufacturer on the planet, now home to Chrysler
• 29:17
  and Peugeot, Fiat, Ferrari, and all sorts of wonderful names that
• 29:21
  are in the Stellantis portfolio.
• 29:23
  So normally this spot is reserved for news of 2 million horsepower Dodges, right?
• 29:28
  But sadly last month we talked about how.
• 29:30
  There was the last hurrah for the Challenger and the Charger.
• 29:34
  But since we know that most of these Chrysler products that fill this
• 29:37
  space that we love talking about are really built on as Brad would put a
• 29:41
  hundred year old Mercedes Benz chassis.
• 29:43
  We thought it was appropriate to bring in a substitute with a name in the automotive
• 29:47
  world that we haven't heard in a while.
• 29:49
  And that name is.
• 29:50
  Brabus.
• 29:51
  Yes, folks.
• 29:52
  Brabus is back and they won't be outdone.
• 29:55
  They were usurped by AMG many, many years ago.
• 29:58
  You know, there were other names out in the field, you know, doing really cool
• 30:01
  things as well, but Brabus was the name you went to for high horsepower Mercedes.
• 30:06
  So they've come to the table with all things in 800 horsepower
• 30:10
  SUV built on top of the GLE.
• 30:12
  It's wicked cool.
• 30:13
  It looks like any Brabus you've ever seen, you know, it's sort of.
• 30:18
  outlandish, but also subdued at the same time.
• 30:21
  It's got all these really cool styling cues internally.
• 30:24
  They've redone the interior, giving it massive horsepower.
• 30:26
  You know, the typical all Brabus black, it comes in one color, as long
• 30:30
  as you want it in black type of deal.
• 30:32
  It sounds amazing.
• 30:33
  I mean, I have to hand it to the Mercedes engineers.
• 30:37
  Their V8s are some of the best.
• 30:39
  Sounding V8s on the planet next to the Corvettes C7R and some
• 30:44
  other vehicles that are out there.
• 30:46
  There's just nothing like a Mercedes V8.
• 30:48
  So good on Brabus for coming back.
• 30:50
  I thought it was really cute to have it parked next to a Brabus Smart 4.
• 30:54
  2, which I didn't even know was still a thing.
• 30:57
  thing.
• 30:57
  So when you watch the video by Shmee 150, it's kind of an
• 31:01
  interesting review of the vehicle.
• 31:02
  It is new.
• 31:03
  The newest entry from Brabus, curious to see where that goes.
• 31:06
  And interestingly enough, the name Brabus came up on our,
• 31:10
  what should I buy 90s episode.
• 31:12
  So we were debating whether that was a good pick and a goodbye and
• 31:15
  kind of revisit that old moniker.
• 31:17
  If you're looking to invest into a 90s car.
• 31:19
  So if you haven't listened to that episode yet, definitely check it out.
• 31:22
  Sweet.
• 31:22
  I'll I have something.
• 31:23
  Oh, you do?
• 31:24
  So the other little bit of Stellantis news we have.
• 31:27
  So last month, we talked about the guy who was building the Lamborghini
• 31:31
  in his basement and there was some wood involved among other things,
• 31:36
  and eventually had to bust the basement wall down to get the car out.
• 31:40
  But nonetheless, wood strikes again.
• 31:43
  And this time though, it is an entire car made out of wood.
• 31:48
  No.
• 31:49
  Yes, so, oh, yes, it is a scaled down version of a Ferrari GTO 250.
• 31:56
  So it's not a one to one replica, but it's not the size of a go kart either.
• 31:59
  So a gentleman in Vietnam who is a woodworker and he is very talented,
• 32:04
  he wanted to give his son a Ferrari.
• 32:06
  So he built him one out of wood and it has a working electric drivetrain.
• 32:10
  So it is drivable completely on the road.
• 32:13
  Not that it's probably street legal, but But it does function and does
• 32:17
  run and it's, and he handcrafted it, carved it out of wood.
• 32:21
  Some of the proportions are off.
• 32:23
  That's okay.
• 32:24
  Like the windshield is ridiculous.
• 32:26
  I love the wooden windshield wipers.
• 32:27
  That does make me laugh.
• 32:29
  I mean, those little details, the door handle is exceptionally entertaining.
• 32:33
  Looks like something you'd see on a bathroom vanity, but I
• 32:35
  got to give you props on this.
• 32:37
  The woodworking is exquisite.
• 32:39
  The car does look really, really cool.
• 32:42
  I mean, I'm not sure what else to say.
• 32:43
  He's a woodworker.
• 32:44
  He had 70 days extra time on his hands and he built one.
• 32:49
  That is something else.
• 32:50
  That's for sure.
• 32:51
  I
• 32:51
  feel like this could have been done with a Fiero and 200 bucks.
• 32:57
  I don't know if they, there's a kid out there.
• 32:58
  I don't know if they have the Fiero out in Vietnam.
• 33:01
  Can we send them out there?
• 33:03
  'cause we don't want 'em.
• 33:04
  Yes, please.
• 33:05
  Like we do with like the campaign T-shirts and the Super Bowl loser
• 33:08
  shirts we send to third world countries.
• 33:10
  Let's just send all the fieros.
• 33:12
  Now to those third world countries,
• 33:16
  you know, and that's probably a great segue into talking about domestic news.
• 33:21
  We separate Stellantis because they're now this global conglomerate with all
• 33:24
  these different brands underneath.
• 33:26
  And so the domestics are now really Ford and GM Toyota aside and all the other ones
• 33:31
  that we know are built here in the States, but big, bad American companies, Ford and
• 33:35
  GM Ford has put out a press release saying they're going to move to build to order.
• 33:41
  And I'm like, cool, Volvo talked about doing that.
• 33:45
  BMW has talked about doing that.
• 33:46
  Porsche does that now, quote unquote, on their website.
• 33:49
  Doesn't MINI do that?
• 33:50
  Aren't all MINIs built to order?
• 33:52
  Supposedly.
• 33:52
  These are supposed to be completely bespoke.
• 33:54
  Like you're supposed to actually get what you want.
• 33:56
  And here's where I found the lies.
• 34:00
  As I'm reading the article, it just stands out to me and to quote ordering the exact
• 34:06
  vehicle color trim level accessories.
• 34:08
  Everything you want is how Europeans have been buying their cars for
• 34:12
  ages, lies, lies, and more lies.
• 34:16
  I've never been able to custom order a European car the way I want it, right?
• 34:22
  I want triple black or I want purple interior.
• 34:25
  All right, it's always.
• 34:26
  You could do it in their little configurator, especially today online.
• 34:30
  And then at the end, it goes find closest available compromise.
• 34:34
  And it's always black over tan or black over gray.
• 34:38
  If you want red, you can only get these wheels.
• 34:41
  It's always some stupid catch 22 that you can't actually get what you want because
• 34:46
  they're not building cars to order.
• 34:49
  And by the way, I've tried more than once going to the dealership and saying,
• 34:53
  I'd like the wheels off of that car, you know, while I'm there already making a
• 34:57
  compromise and they won't do that either.
• 34:59
  Was there comment?
• 35:00
  Cause I didn't read this.
• 35:01
  Was there comment in America?
• 35:04
  You can buy your European cars built to order or in Europe, Europeans can buy.
• 35:11
  Yeah, I think that's more the truth because what I read was the actual
• 35:15
  quote and they're like, Oh, Europeans have been doing this forever.
• 35:17
  And I'm like, no, no, no, not here.
• 35:20
  Not here.
• 35:20
  At least now.
• 35:21
  So I like the concept, right?
• 35:23
  Some people are like, well, this is dumb and blah, blah, blah.
• 35:25
  I just went down to the dealership lot and pick what I want to pick.
• 35:28
  But there are those of us in the community that would prefer to buy a bespoke.
• 35:33
  And I'm not saying it needs to be ridiculous, but at least give me
• 35:36
  the combinations that you offer.
• 35:38
  If I want a black interior on a black car with black wheels, you know, or
• 35:42
  whatever, I should be able to get it.
• 35:44
  Not get to the end, and it just be this giant tease, and I'm left with,
• 35:48
  Nope, there's 13 white ones and a blue one, so this is what you get.
• 35:51
  I'm like, what?
• 35:52
  What?
• 35:52
  No.
• 35:53
  I thought we were kind of moving toward that new hotness of, you know, made to
• 35:57
  order and a la carte and all this stuff.
• 35:59
  So I would think people would want to be able to have more choices in their
• 36:03
  interior, hopefully with some limitations.
• 36:07
  That we can't be getting hot pink Pepto Bismol color choices, right?
• 36:12
  Like here's a palette, choose from it.
• 36:14
  You can want to be able
• 36:16
  to choose heritage interiors.
• 36:19
  So I want the Ricardo Montblanc Corinthian leather in burgundy.
• 36:23
  I want everything burgundy in my car.
• 36:26
  As long as they can do it fast enough.
• 36:28
  I think people would be on board with being able to say like, Oh, I really want.
• 36:31
  White leather interior in my
• 36:34
  Oh, like the old Volkswagen Cabrio's had and stuff like that.
• 36:37
  But I want a tan dashboard, red carpeting in a forest green exterior.
• 36:42
  I don't know.
• 36:42
  Somebody probably wants that combination.
• 36:44
  Stop talking about the color choices that were in my UR Quattro from the factories.
• 36:50
  They had green pile carpet.
• 36:53
  I don't understand what they were thinking.
• 36:55
  Like, what is this?
• 36:56
  Black seats and a brown dashboard.
• 36:58
  What is wrong with you?
• 37:00
  All those cars were kind of slightly bespoke.
• 37:03
  They were all Not by choice though.
• 37:06
  Random combinations of interior.
• 37:10
  Took me the longest time before I realized that my black interior was
• 37:13
  actually a really dark chocolate brown.
• 37:16
  So bad.
• 37:16
  But on the other hand, you know what you can order, but you get all the
• 37:20
  options and no choices is a 300, 000 Ford GT 40 replica from South Africa.
• 37:27
  Well, you know what, if I'm spending 300, 000, you darn tootin better
• 37:32
  be giving me exactly what I want.
• 37:34
  So under license from golf to put the golf livery on the car and superformance
• 37:39
  who has made these superformance Cobras in the past, which were Ford
• 37:43
  approved replicas of the 427 Cobra.
• 37:46
  They are now constructing exact replicas of the 1968, 1969 Le Mans winning GT
• 37:53
  forties down to every single nut and bolt.
• 37:56
  So if you want to turn key.
• 37:58
  Late sixties race car.
• 38:00
  Get yourself a super performance GT 40 for a cool 300 grand.
• 38:04
  Would you buy this or a new Kutosh?
• 38:07
  But
• 38:07
  the price points will probably be the same.
• 38:10
  So in all honesty, I'm going to have to lean towards the Kutosh.
• 38:13
  only because 1960s replica means 1960s handling.
• 38:19
  It's not an homage or anything like that.
• 38:21
  It's a direct copy.
• 38:23
  And it even has the ability to be homologated into like vintage
• 38:27
  racing and stuff like that.
• 38:28
  That's how accurate this copy is.
• 38:30
  And so what that means is.
• 38:31
  Is awkward.
• 38:33
  You know, geometry is going to have an ancient handling characteristics.
• 38:37
  I've read that the old GT forties kind of were awkward.
• 38:40
  They were a handful to drive and it's something that I don't want that.
• 38:43
  I mean, if I'm going to spend 300 grand, I want it to be fast
• 38:45
  and I want it to be predictable.
• 38:46
  Does it have like 18 years to shift?
• 38:49
  Uh, only in Ford
• 38:50
  versus Ferrari.
• 38:51
  So
• 38:51
  Ford, we talked about them last month and about how people are taking
• 38:55
  delivery of their new full size Broncos.
• 38:58
  And they're not happy because the tops are trash.
• 39:01
  Well, Ford has come back and said that they're going to replace
• 39:03
  each and every one of those tops.
• 39:05
  For free, under recall.
• 39:07
  I thought they were having issues with sound quality and, and fit
• 39:11
  and finish and stuff like that.
• 39:13
  That's not the case.
• 39:14
  They're actually having problems with, Peeling paint and discoloration
• 39:18
  and things of that nature.
• 39:19
  Ford is going to replace each and every one of them.
• 39:22
  So if you've got one of these fancy new Broncos and you've got a hard
• 39:25
  top, take it on down to your Ford dealer and come October, they're
• 39:29
  going to start replacing those tops.
• 39:30
  So what else
• 39:31
  is going on in the world of Ford?
• 39:32
  Same thing that's going in the world of the entire automotive
• 39:35
  industry, the chip shortage.
• 39:37
  And Ford is obviously no stranger falling victim to this, not only in their trucks.
• 39:43
  And, you know, we talked a couple of months ago or last month about the F
• 39:47
  250 sitting on the side of the road and parked in parking lots and everything,
• 39:50
  because they don't have all the parts to finish production and get them up to sale.
• 39:54
  Well, the Mach E refused to call it the Mustang.
• 39:56
  The Ford Mach E is no stranger to this either.
• 39:59
  It is also hit by the same issues with
• 40:03
  We have a huge contradiction here, though, don't we, Tanya?
• 40:05
  Because there was another release that just came out from Ford that says
• 40:08
  Given the higher than expected volume of pre order deposits that have been put down
• 40:13
  for the Ford F 150 Lightning, the electric truck, Ford is actually changing their
• 40:18
  production plan and saying they're going to be doubling their original production
• 40:21
  numbers to keep up with this demand.
• 40:23
  So it will be interesting to see how they can do that with
• 40:26
  this global chip shortage.
• 40:27
  It just isn't a car manufacturing issue, it's anything that requires Microchip.
• 40:32
  I think the difference here is the Mach E is a car that was already
• 40:36
  in production and is already being sold and is out on the road.
• 40:40
  But the F-150 Lightning is not in production yet.
• 40:44
  Correct.
• 40:44
  They're doing kind of the Tesla thing.
• 40:46
  They took all those orders in and then for vehicles to be built in the future.
• 40:50
  Yeah.
• 40:50
  They're hoping that the trip shortage.
• 40:52
  Goes away and they don't get the chips they need in time, right?
• 40:55
  It'll correct itself.
• 40:56
  And I'm sure they've got inside information.
• 40:58
  They've been in communication with the chip producers, and they know that
• 41:02
  there probably is an end in sight.
• 41:04
  They just can't divulge that information to us.
• 41:07
  Or they start doing something like Tesla or Tesla to circumvent this allegedly is.
• 41:11
  building their own chip in what capacity that exactly means that
• 41:14
  they're not having it outsourced but lays or us like what kind of chips
• 41:18
  are
• 41:19
  they
• 41:20
  why don't they just put the new apple a12 chip or whatever that comes on
• 41:24
  the phone why can't we use those
• 41:26
  because they're made all on the same same place.
• 41:27
  That's the bigger problem.
• 41:28
  I mean, once places like Intel and micron and whatever moved their production
• 41:33
  overseas, they're all at the same, let's say Foxconn factory, you know, where
• 41:37
  they're all being produced side by side.
• 41:39
  So the global chip shortage also has to do with rare earth metals and all
• 41:42
  that kind of stuff and people being able to produce them on the line.
• 41:45
  So The Even the new Apple chip, that's why there isn't a new iPhone 13 yet.
• 41:50
  They're still stuck on whatever they have, the 12s and the 11s.
• 41:52
  You're starting to see a lot of re pops and refurbs and things like that.
• 41:56
  What I find interesting here in this contradiction on the Maquis
• 41:59
  versus the Lightning is Is the Mach E really selling that well, right?
• 42:03
  We haven't seen sales numbers yet.
• 42:05
  So if it's not selling well, it makes sense to halt its production to something
• 42:09
  like the Ford F 150, which we're going to talk about here in a minute, best
• 42:12
  selling vehicle in North America.
• 42:16
  The chip shortage is a great scapegoat for low production numbers, low sale numbers.
• 42:21
  Correct.
• 42:22
  And we saw that with the Camaro.
• 42:24
  We saw that with other vehicles where it's like, it doesn't
• 42:26
  make sense to keep this going.
• 42:28
  So let's just blame the chip shortage and we can take this thing off the line.
• 42:32
  Speculation here.
• 42:32
  I'm not saying that that's what the case is, but Brad, you're a numbers guy
• 42:36
  on paper, I mean, just the most sense.
• 42:39
  Just a quick look, apparently, without doing too much research,
• 42:42
  it does look like maki sales are continuing to grow month on month.
• 42:46
  Where, I don't know, because I don't see them on the road.
• 42:49
  It's like finding hen's teeth.
• 42:50
  You can count them on the fingers of one hand.
• 42:51
  The numbers
• 42:52
  are small, I think, in terms of production quantity.
• 42:55
  So it's not like they're sold 20, 000.
• 42:58
  They sold, apparently, in June, I think it was like 2, 500, barely.
• 43:03
  Oh, wow.
• 43:03
  This is a good little tidbit because I have actually seen
• 43:05
  a couple makis on the road.
• 43:07
  I've seen more unique Porsche take hands than I have makis.
• 43:12
  And that's a car that's what, five times the cost of a maki?
• 43:15
  Probably has five times the amount of chips in it too.
• 43:17
  You know, I love those.
• 43:19
  Marketing numbers.
• 43:19
  I mean, I see it all the time, even in my line of work where it's like a
• 43:23
  hundred percent growth year over year.
• 43:24
  Yeah, you're right.
• 43:25
  Last year you sold one and this year you sold two.
• 43:27
  So there you go to your point, Tanya.
• 43:29
  If we don't know what the sales numbers are, yes, the Mach E is continuing
• 43:33
  to grow, but at what rates, right?
• 43:35
  We're not seeing 200, 000 producers.
• 43:37
  It's not like the Mustang when it was introduced.
• 43:40
  Let's talk about the Mustang and the Iacocca era where it outsold anything.
• 43:44
  It's still the fastest selling car.
• 43:46
  Like.
• 43:46
  Ever during its first production year.
• 43:49
  So they're not going to see that on the Mach E, but to the point of the
• 43:52
  real sales numbers, the F 150 still holds the crown right now of the
• 43:57
  best selling car in North America.
• 43:59
  That's the U S and Canada combined.
• 44:01
  And based on some numbers that we've recently seen, which we'll talk about here
• 44:03
  in a minute, but go where the money is.
• 44:05
  If you're going, I thought we
• 44:06
  talked about that last month too, as part of the Slow down on some of the
• 44:10
  production was they were diverting where the microchips were going.
• 44:14
  So they could be slowing down production because they know if they're seeing those
• 44:18
  pre orders being so much higher than what the Mach E's were and Ford F 150
• 44:24
  being the all time greatest bestselling vehicle in the history of the galaxy in
• 44:30
  North America, past, present, future, then, I mean, it behooves them to make
• 44:35
  sure that they can fulfill those orders.
• 44:37
  Absolutely.
• 44:38
  And
• 44:38
  I'm sure you'll probably see things being peeled back or
• 44:41
  slowing on other vehicles as well.
• 44:43
  I mean, granted the big two, we won't call them the big three anymore.
• 44:46
  The big two have been peeling back.
• 44:49
  Their model proliferation for a while.
• 44:51
  Right.
• 44:51
  I mean, the fusion's gone.
• 44:53
  A lot of the passenger vehicles, you know, even on the Chevy side of disappeared.
• 44:57
  I had the unfortunate experience of driving a brand new Malibu the other day.
• 45:00
  They should stop making that car.
• 45:02
  I'm sorry.
• 45:03
  If you own one, uh, keep the Impala.
• 45:06
  No, get rid of that trash too.
• 45:08
  You know, since we are talking a little bit about GM.
• 45:11
  Let's step into that for a moment.
• 45:13
  The Chevy Bolt, there's been several recalls that have happened
• 45:16
  around the Chevy Bolt and fires.
• 45:19
  There has been a third recall, which essentially encompasses that every single
• 45:24
  Chevy Bolt globally has been recalled.
• 45:27
  All three of them.
• 45:28
  I think they sold more than three, surprisingly.
• 45:33
  I have to look at the numbers they've sold.
• 45:34
  I think like a couple hundred thousand or something.
• 45:36
  So I don't know that I don't know that the highest numbers were necessarily in the U.
• 45:41
  S.
• 45:42
  Nonetheless, this is a, I think a billion plus fix for Chevy and the
• 45:47
  fixes replacing all the batteries.
• 45:50
  car, which is you just
• 45:51
  turn a bolt over and take out the two double A's and put two more in.
• 45:56
  And the problem is, you know, with these electric cars, we're
• 45:59
  blaming, Oh, it's a piece of crap.
• 46:02
  Chevy catches fire.
• 46:04
  Well, Problem is Chevy didn't invent the battery.
• 46:07
  Chevy didn't make the battery, unlike sometimes Tesla claims
• 46:11
  to make all that stuff, right?
• 46:11
  This is why people get on their case because it's like, well, if you're making
• 46:14
  everything, then it's your fault, right?
• 46:15
  So LG, Ken, South Korean battery manufacturer, the ones that are
• 46:20
  supplying all the batteries for the Chevy Volts, along with a bunch of other
• 46:24
  car manufacturers batteries, apparently there's an issue in their manufacturing
• 46:29
  and not one, but multiple of their plants.
• 46:31
  And so there's some sort of instability, obviously they can't divulge exactly
• 46:35
  what their battery chemistry is, but the lithium batteries are already known
• 46:38
  to be somewhat dangerous, and you know, there's a lot of cobalt usually that goes
• 46:42
  into the batteries, which stabilizes the reactions, however, there's issues with,
• 46:46
  you know, how much cobalt's available, and that the cobalt comes from the Congo
• 46:50
  region, and there's human rights issues, etc, so a lot of folks have been trying
• 46:54
  to dial back cobalt mining and whatnot, and so if you Take the cobalt out.
• 46:59
  You got to replace it with something else.
• 47:00
  And they're replacing it with nickel.
• 47:02
  It sounds like maybe that chemistry isn't quite maybe as stable as it needs to be.
• 47:06
  And it's leading to battery fires possibly.
• 47:09
  So Chevy is trying to go after LG because they're making the batteries
• 47:13
  and the batteries are catching fire.
• 47:14
  We'll see what comes out of that.
• 47:16
  If they can maybe recoup.
• 47:17
  Some of their money, but that's a big problem.
• 47:19
  If LG Chem is making all these batteries, they're supposed to be, I
• 47:22
  believe, supplying the ID Volkswagen ID batteries for those cars.
• 47:26
  I'm sure more is going to come out of this.
• 47:29
  If there truly is some sort of manufacturing issue.
• 47:32
  Yeah.
• 47:33
  So this becomes like
• 47:33
  a Takata problem where everybody's getting their airbags from the same place.
• 47:37
  So, yeah, I see where you're going with this and, you know, it's going
• 47:42
  to be tough, maybe Chevy can harvest semiconductors from all these bolts
• 47:45
  and give everybody an Impala instead.
• 47:47
  And they can go, I
• 47:49
  mean, it's, it's, it's a growing pain also, because.
• 47:52
  This is new frontier, all these batteries.
• 47:55
  And, you know, I like the one statement in the article.
• 47:58
  If it was easy to make a battery, everybody would be doing it.
• 48:02
  I mean, Duracell and Energizer have been doing it forever.
• 48:04
  Come on now.
• 48:05
  Yes.
• 48:05
  Well, I think it's a lot different to power your flashlight.
• 48:10
  Versus, you know, your car to go zero to 60 and then the unnecessary 1.
• 48:15
  2 seconds, right?
• 48:18
  Or shrinking, you know, accordion in the car, right?
• 48:22
  We're
• 48:22
  asking a lot of batteries.
• 48:25
  Today, that is not historically how we use them.
• 48:27
  Right?
• 48:28
  How many dura cells would it take to power a bolt?
• 48:31
  I forget.
• 48:31
  I went to that museum, the Reno car museum, and they had one of
• 48:34
  the first electric cars on display.
• 48:37
  It had to go back through my photos because I took a picture of this thing.
• 48:39
  Like, You know, looking like one of those Model T, Tin Lizzy type vehicles.
• 48:44
  And I forget, it was an electric vehicle and it had like, I forget how many, like
• 48:49
  the car batteries we put in our cars.
• 48:52
  It had like, I forget how many dozens in order to make that
• 48:56
  thing have like 20 horsepower.
• 48:58
  I
• 48:59
  think they're insane.
• 49:00
  And they weighed like 9 million pounds.
• 49:02
  I was recently talking to somebody about the history of Porsche and you look at
• 49:07
  the lawner Porsche, which is like the very first one that Ferdinand senior built.
• 49:11
  And it was an electric vehicle.
• 49:12
  This is not a new concept to have an electric car, but back then, to your
• 49:16
  point, I mean, they weighed like nine tons and they went three miles an hour and they
• 49:20
  had the equivalent, you know, horsepower.
• 49:22
  Of two terrible, but we've been playing with this science
• 49:26
  experiment for a very long time.
• 49:27
  And I hate to say, and I know I'm going to get chastised for this.
• 49:31
  It's hard to beat petrol.
• 49:33
  It is consistent.
• 49:34
  If nothing else, it has been consistent for a hundred years.
• 49:37
  I mean, we've also had that many more years to develop it and do
• 49:43
  economies of scale and make it.
• 49:46
  Cleaner and et cetera, et cetera.
• 49:47
  So this is the problem of being in the middle of innovation.
• 49:51
  Yes.
• 49:51
  Everybody's going to bitch and moan and point fingers.
• 49:54
  And it's huge growing pains for research and development to still be going on.
• 49:59
  But then at the same time, trying to actually put it in
• 50:01
  the hands of the consumer.
• 50:03
  It's all fun and games until somebody's battery blows up.
• 50:05
  All fun and games till your house burns down because of your car.
• 50:09
  Yeah, right.
• 50:10
  Exactly.
• 50:10
  One last bit of domestic news.
• 50:12
  What do we got?
• 50:13
  So there's always the raging debates that go on.
• 50:17
  Like, is there a car that's faster than a Tesla in a drag race?
• 50:21
  You know, blah, blah, blah.
• 50:22
  Can anything beat it?
• 50:24
  And there's been tons of videos, right?
• 50:26
  Ferrari is going up against Tesla's and Veyron's and
• 50:31
  Porsche's and blah, blah, blah.
• 50:33
  And I haven't fully kept track of all this, but I believe finally, finally,
• 50:38
  ladies and gentle listeners, there has been a car that has beaten a
• 50:42
  model S plaid in a rolling drag race.
• 50:45
  Can, I guess.
• 50:46
  I think it was a A 2016 Dodge Dart.
• 50:50
  Oh, that's brutal.
• 50:51
  That's Savage right there.
• 50:53
  ? No, it was a HHR Ss.
• 50:55
  I was about to say Cobo SI was about to say what it also was not
• 51:01
  , all those things, HHR
• 51:02
  or any derivative thereof.
• 51:04
  No front wheel drive cars were harmed in the beating of this Tesla.
• 51:08
  Neither.
• 51:08
  Was it a Malibu or an Impala or any other flaming turd?
• 51:12
  No.
• 51:13
  In order to beat a model S.
• 51:15
  Plaid version.
• 51:16
  All you need is RURK!
• 51:18
  Shelby GT500 modified to 1100 horsepower.
• 51:23
  Yeah!
• 51:23
  Hell yeah!
• 51:25
  Yeehaw!
• 51:25
  That is not factory, that is not legitimate, and that is not fair.
• 51:30
  I don't care how you call this.
• 51:33
  Well, I mean, one could argue the Shelby GT500 is a factory car.
• 51:38
  However, yes, it did require some modifications that weren't base model in
• 51:43
  order to achieve a quarter mile mark of 7.
• 51:46
  91 seconds at 159.
• 51:48
  63 miles per hour.
• 51:51
  On the first round, second round, they got to 160.
• 51:54
  94 miles per hour at 7.
• 51:57
  66 seconds, beating the Tesla most times.
• 52:00
  By a very
• 52:01
  slim margin.
• 52:01
  What was
• 52:02
  that 2000 horsepower Challenger we talked about last month that doesn't exist?
• 52:06
  Didn't we name it like the bat out of hell or something like that?
• 52:09
  That's a production vehicle that needs to go up against Tesla.
• 52:13
  Well, why, why aren't people racing the Dodge Demon against the Tesla?
• 52:16
  Or are they in this losing?
• 52:18
  Cause the Dodge Demon is supposed to run seven, nine,
• 52:21
  hold up, hold up.
• 52:22
  I don't know.
• 52:22
  So that's it.
• 52:24
  This is a rolling drag race.
• 52:26
  So I don't know what, Oh my God,
• 52:27
  that's bullshit.
• 52:28
  So there's a little bit of a
• 52:29
  difference.
• 52:31
  Stop the line with all wheel
• 52:33
  drive and everything else.
• 52:35
  Yeah, that's junk.
• 52:36
  And that's what I'm saying.
• 52:37
  Pump the brakes because even the demon I've read that to get to that seven
• 52:41
  second number, Oh, you got to do all kinds
• 52:44
  of shit to it.
• 52:45
  They got to
• 52:45
  strip the car down.
• 52:46
  It's only got like one seat in it.
• 52:48
  No carpet.
• 52:49
  It's not really the car you buy off the factory floor to get to that number.
• 52:54
  No, no, it is.
• 52:55
  They just need to do a couple of little things.
• 52:57
  You can actually buy it without the seat.
• 52:59
  You pay a dollar for the additional seat and the extra wheels
• 53:02
  and all that other bullshit.
• 53:03
  It's a package and you're built to order Dodge Demon.
• 53:08
  I'm
• 53:08
  waiting for
• 53:09
  the bat out of hell.
• 53:10
  There's an advantage of electric over petrol in.
• 53:14
  I mean, you get one run, but that one runs really fast because it
• 53:21
  puts down all the power immediately.
• 53:23
  You don't have to build up to it.
• 53:24
  It's just, it just discharged.
• 53:25
  Here's the amount of voltage.
• 53:27
  It's almost not even really a fair comparison to even be doing like,
• 53:30
  no, it's like, let's take a seven 47 and drag race it against an F 18 fighter jet.
• 53:35
  I mean, come on.
• 53:36
  I mean, it's whatever.
• 53:37
  I mean, we're always going to do it.
• 53:39
  Hell yeah.
• 53:40
  I mean, so let's talk about.
• 53:42
  Our newest section that isn't really new anymore because
• 53:46
  we found it and it was lost.
• 53:47
  It's our historical and lost and found section.
• 53:50
  Before we hop into this first article, I just want to do my little cars.
• 53:55
  com search and tell you all what I found.
• 53:58
  Oh man, here we
• 54:01
  go.
• 54:02
  You can buy a brand new with three miles on the odometer 1991 Honda.
• 54:12
  Accord ex
• 54:16
  in white with a 2.
• 54:19
  2 liter four cylinders, 16 valves, single overhead cam.
• 54:23
  How much is it going for?
• 54:24
  I missed that
• 54:24
  33, 000.
• 54:25
  It's
• 54:28
  a
• 54:30
  The Sam Linder Honda in California.
• 54:33
  You're shitting me.
• 54:34
  Nope.
• 54:35
  Sam Linder out of his mind, Honda in California.
• 54:38
  That is insane.
• 54:40
  33 grand for a 30 year old car.
• 54:43
  But, but
• 54:44
  not even a good 30 year old car.
• 54:46
  At least it was something that I wanted.
• 54:48
  Not a fricking Accord EX.
• 54:50
  But it's, it's white.
• 54:53
  Well, did they really make any other exciting color?
• 54:56
  It's, it's
• 54:57
  not silver.
• 54:58
  Yeah.
• 54:59
  To quote Hazmat, that white makes it rare.
• 55:02
  It's rare.
• 55:03
  Well, considering there was a lot of, you're right, there were a lot
• 55:05
  of brown, gold, champagne y ones.
• 55:09
  I'm throwing up in the back of my throat just thinking about it.
• 55:12
  The next car after that is a 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 with 10 miles on the odometer.
• 55:18
  It's exterior color is metallic.
• 55:21
  That's all it says.
• 55:22
  And it's 55, 555.
• 55:26
  I just want to point out that metallic in my mind immediately
• 55:29
  conjured up the word rust.
• 55:31
  Cause rust is metallic.
• 55:32
  It's called
• 55:35
  patina.
• 55:38
  My brand new patina truck.
• 55:40
  I mean, for 55 grand, just hold out for the F 150 lightning people.
• 55:44
  Yeah.
• 55:44
  Right.
• 55:45
  Nobody wants a Dodge from 2000, please.
• 55:49
  Unless it's a Cummins.
• 55:50
  Maybe.
• 55:51
  Well, no, it's 55, 555 because Facebook Marketplace wouldn't let
• 55:55
  them put in the correct price.
• 55:57
  The real price is 1234 like all Facebook Marketplace ads.
• 56:02
  Ah, terrible.
• 56:03
  Speaking of which, the Passat is still for sale.
• 56:06
  Facebook people, somebody buy this damn thing.
• 56:09
  I need it to go away.
• 56:11
  It is lost.
• 56:13
  Somebody find it.
• 56:15
  He's going to find his way to a wrecker.
• 56:17
  No, it's a good running car.
• 56:19
  Yeah.
• 56:20
  Speaking of Volkswagens, there was a brand new 2001 GTI for sale for auction.
• 56:27
  I believe it was Germany.
• 56:28
  It was in the UK.
• 56:30
  Yeah.
• 56:30
  It's a silver 25th anniversary edition, which they did not bring the 25th
• 56:35
  anniversary edition over to the U S came over a year later as the three, three
• 56:39
  seven, but it's got the BBS wheels, the special interior, you know, all that good
• 56:43
  stuff sold a brand new car for 30, 000.
• 56:46
  38,000 pounds.
• 56:48
  38, 2 50.
• 56:49
  So translates to 52,494.
• 56:52
  I remember there being the 25th anniversary, GTI in this country.
• 56:57
  'cause it came in the three colors.
• 56:58
  It came in black.
• 56:59
  It came in that bumblebee yellow and it came in that candy blue and they
• 57:03
  said it was a 25th anniversary or they just sang that and it was 3, 3 7.
• 57:08
  Ah,
• 57:08
  they were sold here as the 20 ae.
• 57:11
  The 20th.
• 57:11
  That's right.
• 57:12
  Anniversary cards.
• 57:13
  Oh, that's
• 57:13
  right.
• 57:14
  Because you have to remember the GTI came in Europe earlier than it did here.
• 57:19
  Here it came out in 1983.
• 57:20
  That's the date we set at.
• 57:22
  So 20 years from there, 2003, 2004.
• 57:25
  You're right.
• 57:25
  You're right.
• 57:26
  You're right.
• 57:26
  Right.
• 57:27
  Yeah.
• 57:27
  52 grand for a Mark IV VW, especially a 150 horse motor.
• 57:31
  Yeah.
• 57:31
  No, thank you.
• 57:32
  But I found something interesting this month.
• 57:34
  You know, you've heard of the Flying Spur, which is a Bentley.
• 57:38
  It's a, Volkswagen product, we'll call it what it is.
• 57:40
  It's, it's an A8 somewhere underneath there.
• 57:42
  A gentleman decided that having a, what is considered a rare Bentley to begin
• 57:48
  with wasn't rare enough, he wanted to turn it into a ute that's right, folks.
• 57:53
  He contracted with a builder.
• 57:56
  To his specifications to develop a Bentley flying spur pickup truck.
• 58:02
  And it looks like every other Mark four Volkswagen pickup truck
• 58:05
  conversion that you'd imagine.
• 58:07
  Who gave Daniel access to a flying spur?
• 58:11
  In all honesty, the build quality is really good.
• 58:13
  I love the teak wood finish and all that, but again, it conjures
• 58:17
  up my quintessential question of.
• 58:19
  Why?
• 58:20
  Why didn't they just buy a Chevy SSR?
• 58:23
  I don't know.
• 58:23
  That's exactly what it looks like.
• 58:25
  It's terrible.
• 58:26
  It's absolutely terrible.
• 58:27
  Granted, Bentley doesn't make a ute.
• 58:29
  They don't make a pickup.
• 58:31
  They make the Bentayga, whatever that is, Toreg.
• 58:34
  They should have done this to a Bentayga.
• 58:36
  That would have looked also terrible.
• 58:38
  I mean, I just don't get this.
• 58:39
  I
• 58:40
  mean,
• 58:40
  this goes back to what Tanya says all the time.
• 58:42
  Rich people doing rich people things because nobody in the right
• 58:47
  mind.
• 58:48
  The best
• 58:48
  part of the article was this guy spent quarter million dollars
• 58:51
  in the car alone, if not more.
• 58:53
  The.
• 58:54
  Custom Coach Builder said we will not disclose how much he
• 58:57
  spent to do this conversion.
• 58:59
  So I'm assuming he probably doubled down on this vehicle.
• 59:03
  So here's a half million dollar Bentley Ute.
• 59:06
  Have at it, folks.
• 59:07
  So for a little bit of levity, there is a link that you can see a visual map
• 59:14
  representation of the best selling cars.
• 59:17
  In each country around the world, in the world, we already talked about Ford
• 59:22
  F 150 is the greatest best selling car, this side of the galaxy, inside the Milky
• 59:29
  Way, since the Milky Way came about.
• 59:32
  Yes, in North America.
• 59:34
  So the United States, it's the F 150, it's the F series in Canada.
• 59:38
  Ford takes the cake in North America, more or less.
• 59:41
  And then you have like countries like Italy, where is anybody surprised
• 59:46
  that the Fiat Panta is the number one selling vehicle in the country?
• 59:48
  No, I mean, you step foot out of the airport and there's like
• 59:52
  50 of them in front of you.
• 59:53
  I love that Kosovo was the Dacia Sandero.
• 59:56
  You know, Germany is the Volkswagen Golf.
• 59:58
  I'm not really too shocked by that one either, but I think there are
• 1:00:02
  some interesting thing ones in there.
• 1:00:05
  Like, actually, I didn't know that The Irish were into the
• 1:00:07
  Toyota Corolla, but cool for them.
• 1:00:10
  Another, I think, fun fact is which is the best selling car
• 1:00:15
  in the most number of countries?
• 1:00:16
  I was going to bring that up.
• 1:00:17
  It's the Hilux beats everything.
• 1:00:20
  When you look at it, it's in the worst places on the planet.
• 1:00:24
  Like Australia is the outback and Africa, South America, everywhere where
• 1:00:28
  the roads suck, you find the Hilux like a hundred percent it's everywhere.
• 1:00:33
  And then if it isn't a Hilux, it was like.
• 1:00:35
  Toyota Land Cruiser and like other stuff, just like it.
• 1:00:37
  I'm like, yes.
• 1:00:39
  So F 150 might be King on our shores, but around the world, the
• 1:00:43
  high luxes, we don't get to 16
• 1:00:46
  countries.
• 1:00:46
  The Toyota Hilux is the number one vehicle.
• 1:00:49
  And you know what, if it was available here, I'd buy one too, because I
• 1:00:52
  think they're freaking awesome.
• 1:00:54
  It is.
• 1:00:54
  It's called the Toyota Tacoma.
• 1:00:55
  It's just cause
• 1:00:56
  the Toyota pickup in North America.
• 1:00:58
  No, it's not as good.
• 1:00:59
  The Hilux is better and it comes into diesel, but I did see recently.
• 1:01:03
  There are folks.
• 1:01:04
  Importing right hand drive Hilux's from overseas.
• 1:01:07
  And there was one at summit point at summer bash.
• 1:01:10
  I thought it was super cool.
• 1:01:11
  It took me completely by surprise.
• 1:01:13
  Cause I'm like, what is this Navy blue thing that looks sort
• 1:01:15
  of like an eighties forerunner.
• 1:01:17
  And then I hear it, it's diesel and the guys on the wrong side of the car.
• 1:01:20
  And I went, Oh, that's the car from top gear.
• 1:01:22
  It's super cool.
• 1:01:23
  And I got to talk to him for just a minute.
• 1:01:25
  And you know, they're now coming in gray market, like a lot
• 1:01:27
  of other cars from overseas.
• 1:01:29
  And I think that's super neat.
• 1:01:30
  I don't know why Toyota just doesn't sell the Hilux.
• 1:01:33
  Here in Hilux trim, the way we all have seen it on television, the way we
• 1:01:38
  would want to, to your point, I think another car that got my attention and
• 1:01:42
  it was surprising to see in places that I didn't expect was the Renault
• 1:01:45
  Clio kind of popping up here and there.
• 1:01:47
  And I also thought it was interesting that more SCOTAs, which are a
• 1:01:51
  derivative of VAG, they're just rebadged are showing up more in Europe
• 1:01:56
  than the Volkswagen's themselves.
• 1:01:58
  Kind of interesting.
• 1:01:59
  Do we want to address that there are six countries where the.
• 1:02:03
  A Dacia of some sort is the number one selling car.
• 1:02:07
  I want to address that the Tesla, any Tesla at all, has made this list.
• 1:02:11
  The Model 3 in the Netherlands and Norway.
• 1:02:14
  Norwegians are pretty electric.
• 1:02:17
  Yeah, but why a Tesla?
• 1:02:18
  Because
• 1:02:19
  Tesla basically, who else was there?
• 1:02:22
  Yeah.
• 1:02:22
  There's other electric cars out there.
• 1:02:24
  I also want to point out with the Dacia, did we know that there
• 1:02:28
  are five different Dacia models?
• 1:02:30
  Stop melting my
• 1:02:31
  brain.
• 1:02:32
  The Sandero and then the Sandero adjacent.
• 1:02:34
  So there's the Sandero, which takes
• 1:02:36
  two
• 1:02:37
  countries.
• 1:02:37
  There's the Duster, the Logan.
• 1:02:40
  The docker twice.
• 1:02:42
  So there's four different ones.
• 1:02:43
  Three more than I knew about.
• 1:02:45
  That's three more than there should be.
• 1:02:47
  I love how this Saudi Arabia loves the Hyundai accent.
• 1:02:51
  Also Kazakhstan buys Camrys.
• 1:02:54
  I think that's like the funniest thing on this map, hands down.
• 1:02:59
  I get crazy this, but anyway, I think when you guys dive into
• 1:03:02
  this, it'll be in our show notes.
• 1:03:03
  It's actually very interesting to see the highest selling
• 1:03:07
  numbers of cars around the world.
• 1:03:09
  It's pretty shocking and very revealing too.
• 1:03:12
  So pretty surprise,
• 1:03:13
  surprise.
• 1:03:14
  The Russian leader is a lot of, I mean, how arrogant are the Russians
• 1:03:19
  and the Americans that their number one selling vehicle is their trash.
• 1:03:23
  Well, I mean, they're not allowed to import anything
• 1:03:25
  and the
• 1:03:28
  Italy and Germany or, and, and, uh, Spain Makes sense.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah.
• 1:03:32
  You know, and, and yeah.
• 1:03:33
  So,
• 1:03:34
  well, if it's a Sayat in Spain, it's just a Volkswagen.
• 1:03:36
  I mean, let's be serious, right?
• 1:03:37
  That's
• 1:03:38
  Sure.
• 1:03:38
  So Volkswagen really is not the car of the people.
• 1:03:40
  Toyota is the car of the people because more people across the globe by Toyota.
• 1:03:45
  Speaking of around the world.
• 1:03:47
  I came across a video recently, a husband and wife from the
• 1:03:51
  Netherlands, of all places, like we were talking about with their very
• 1:03:53
  electric Ford with their Teslas.
• 1:03:55
  This gentleman still runs around in the 1915 model T as a sort of retirement,
• 1:04:01
  you know, adventure with his wife.
• 1:04:03
  He decided to traverse the world North, South in his model T.
• 1:04:07
  So he started in Edom, you know, where the, cheese is from in the
• 1:04:11
  Netherlands, and he made their first trip all the way down to South Africa.
• 1:04:16
  It was 22, 000 kilometers, and they had not a single problem with the vehicle.
• 1:04:20
  Their first leg took 180 days.
• 1:04:22
  They set off on their second leg of the trip in the United States, uh,
• 1:04:26
  doing the United States and Canada and basically a little bit of Latin America.
• 1:04:28
  28, 000 kilometers suffered two failures.
• 1:04:33
  One of which was a flat tire and the other one was a malfunctioning
• 1:04:36
  alternator on their third leg.
• 1:04:38
  They did South America, and then they were going to do their fourth leg,
• 1:04:42
  which was in Australia, New Zealand, and that part of the world, again,
• 1:04:46
  got traversing North to South, kind of keeping Theme, unfortunately, when
• 1:04:49
  they returned home, they were involved in a car accident in the Netherlands
• 1:04:53
  and the Model T was destroyed.
• 1:04:55
  It was completely totaled.
• 1:04:56
  So there's actually still a campaign going on.
• 1:04:58
  Cause this was right at the front end of COVID and some other things and whatnot
• 1:05:02
  to try to get these folks back in the Model T and finish their world tour.
• 1:05:07
  You know, it's not that easy to just go get one anymore.
• 1:05:09
  If you don't already have one to buy one from somebody else.
• 1:05:12
  And it's not the same car again, going back to that, that Philosophy lesson about
• 1:05:15
  Theseus's ship, you start and rebuild.
• 1:05:17
  Is it really the same car?
• 1:05:18
  And I believe they were still working to do that.
• 1:05:21
  There was a big push from Ford to help these people get back on the road.
• 1:05:25
  And as I dug into it a little bit more, because this is an older video that
• 1:05:29
  I had seen for the first time, you know, keeping with our lost and found
• 1:05:31
  idea here, I didn't see any follow up as to whether or not they were able
• 1:05:35
  to complete this particular journey.
• 1:05:37
  But I thought it was really, really cool.
• 1:05:38
  It's about a four or five minute video.
• 1:05:40
  Telling their story and all that.
• 1:05:42
  And if you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth spending the
• 1:05:45
  amount of time to check it out.
• 1:05:46
  Where do you find an alternator for 1915 model?
• 1:05:50
  Yeah, no, that is a question I just can't answer, but you know what I can answer
• 1:05:56
  top 20 highest selling cars at auction.
• 1:05:59
  So another.
• 1:06:00
  Another article that came across my desk, it just kind of falls in line
• 1:06:03
  with this whole theme that we always talk about a loss of found about
• 1:06:06
  ridiculous auctions and whatnot.
• 1:06:08
  So the low end of this scale is in the 17, 80 million range.
• 1:06:12
  The upper end is on the 50 million range.
• 1:06:15
  No surprise here.
• 1:06:17
  11 of 20, over 50 percent of the vehicles on this top 20 highest grossing.
• 1:06:22
  Auction cars of all time are Ferraris.
• 1:06:25
  A handful of others are also Italian, they're Alfa Romeos.
• 1:06:29
  You have the rest of the lineup inside of there, outside of
• 1:06:31
  Italians, are mostly British.
• 1:06:33
  McLarens, Jaguars, Aston Martins, etc.
• 1:06:36
  So an interesting lineup, if you haven't seen them, check them out.
• 1:06:39
  With the way prices have been going, I'm surprised to not
• 1:06:43
  see a Porsche on this list.
• 1:06:45
  Uh, yeah, the singers aren't there yet, so it's only a matter of time.
• 1:06:50
  They're, they're only a 2 million.
• 1:06:51
  You gotta, you gotta cross that 17 million ceiling.
• 1:06:54
  Oh my God.
• 1:06:55
  Wipe my ass with 2 million.
• 1:06:59
  You know, Tonya mentioned plaid earlier.
• 1:07:01
  You know how we talked about with Donovan.
• 1:07:04
  couple episodes back about where this plaid comes from ludicrous
• 1:07:07
  mode and all these kinds of things.
• 1:07:09
  It comes from the movie space balls, right?
• 1:07:11
  But plaid is not an uncommon thing in the automotive world.
• 1:07:15
  And it actually was started at Volkswagen.
• 1:07:17
  Yes.
• 1:07:18
  There's a article on the Volkswagen newsroom that came out.
• 1:07:21
  goes into this in more detail, but essentially there was a female
• 1:07:25
  designer in Germany back in the day.
• 1:07:29
  Back in the 60s, she joined as a young lady.
• 1:07:31
  She'd formerly been a painter and chocolate tier candy box designer.
• 1:07:35
  So she had an artistic background, knew how to put
• 1:07:38
  colors together, things like that.
• 1:07:39
  They hired her in their fabrics and colors department in Wolfsburg.
• 1:07:45
  Apologize.
• 1:07:46
  I'm sure that's not the best accented pronunciation, but close enough.
• 1:07:50
  And yes, she is basically the founder of the plaid interior that we have
• 1:07:57
  come to know as standard GTI today.
• 1:08:01
  And also as a side note, the golf ball shift knob was also her doing as well.
• 1:08:06
  It's kind of a sidebar.
• 1:08:07
  So she had a lot of influences essentially from being in and around Great Britain
• 1:08:13
  because Great Britain is known for the tartan and all that, which is just, you
• 1:08:16
  know, the piece of cloth that's plaid.
• 1:08:18
  And so she got inspired from that.
• 1:08:20
  And even though I think I was talking about how she actually was very much like
• 1:08:24
  a black and white color palette person.
• 1:08:26
  Like she did enjoy like just having that contrast, but then still wanted
• 1:08:30
  to marry some color to break that up.
• 1:08:33
  And so she got inspired by the plaid that she saw in great Britain
• 1:08:38
  and incorporated that into the interior design of the golf and then
• 1:08:43
  clearly a smash hit and carried on.
• 1:08:46
  To this day,
• 1:08:47
  that's not all.
• 1:08:48
  She also discovered what we now know is metallic paint on our vehicles.
• 1:08:53
  She discovered the iridescent pearl color.
• 1:08:56
  Do you apply to a car service using transparent foil?
• 1:08:59
  So anybody with a metallic car in their driveway with the
• 1:09:02
  metallic flake and all that.
• 1:09:04
  You can say thank you to, uh, gunhill, to, to gunhill.
• 1:09:07
  Proud Gunhill.
• 1:09:08
  Let's get it right.
• 1:09:09
  Right.
• 1:09:11
  , so I'm not saying all roads lead back to Volkswagen.
• 1:09:13
  Interesting things are invented sometimes by accident and come
• 1:09:17
  from the weirdest of places.
• 1:09:18
  We've seen plaid interiors pop up in all sorts of cars, but that's kind
• 1:09:22
  of really the inception mainstream that it became like this cult thing.
• 1:09:27
  To have these certain patterns and there is a specific GTI red, black, gray,
• 1:09:31
  and white pattern that we've all come accustomed to, which is kind of cool.
• 1:09:35
  And you're seeing that resurface even today in the most recent
• 1:09:38
  mark eight models of the GTI.
• 1:09:40
  It hasn't gone away.
• 1:09:41
  They've tried.
• 1:09:42
  Variations on the theme over the years, but we've always gone
• 1:09:45
  back to that original pattern.
• 1:09:46
  And it's just, it looks really cool.
• 1:09:47
  And it still holds up to this day.
• 1:09:50
  So Brad, I found something really interesting this month.
• 1:09:52
  Did you know?
• 1:09:53
  Oh yeah.
• 1:09:54
  Do I know what
• 1:09:54
  this is?
• 1:09:55
  I think I have found the oldest new vehicle.
• 1:09:59
  I think I've broken your record.
• 1:10:00
  In speaking with a guest that will be on a future episode of
• 1:10:04
  Break Fix, he informed us that he has a new, never been sold 1950s.
• 1:10:11
  Porsche diesel tractor available with certificate of authenticity from the
• 1:10:15
  America Porsche Diesel Corporation, and it's located in Virginia.
• 1:10:19
  More on that later this season, when we interview Sal Finnelli, president and
• 1:10:25
  owner operator of Porsche Diesel USA.
• 1:10:28
  It's a very interesting episode in the fact that it is car adjacent
• 1:10:32
  and brings to light a side of.
• 1:10:34
  You know, motorsports icon, Porsche that many people are not familiar with.
• 1:10:38
  So be on the lookout for that episode later this season, as we go over Porsche
• 1:10:42
  diesel tractors with mountain man, Dan, as my cohost on that particular episode.
• 1:10:46
  But I also found something else.
• 1:10:48
  I have to thank mountain man, Dan, for this one as well.
• 1:10:51
  It is a 1978.
• 1:10:54
  Classic film.
• 1:10:56
  No
• 1:10:56
  thanks to be given.
• 1:10:58
  It stars Annie Potts, Janine from Ghostbusters, and Mark Hamill,
• 1:11:03
  Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, in a movie called Corvette Summer.
• 1:11:07
  And although Dan wanted to do this viewing party and review of the movie,
• 1:11:11
  I don't think it needs to be done.
• 1:11:13
  I think all you need to do is watch this four minute trailer
• 1:11:15
  and that's four minutes too much.
• 1:11:18
  Hot garbage.
• 1:11:20
  What got me though is Where the hell did they film this?
• 1:11:24
  It's a right hand drive Corvette.
• 1:11:27
  Yes.
• 1:11:27
  Toward the end, I was like, wait a second, pause.
• 1:11:32
  Why is he in the passenger seat driving?
• 1:11:34
  It
• 1:11:36
  to realize it was Mark Hamill at first too.
• 1:11:37
  Like, antipods, right away, I got it.
• 1:11:39
  The plot line is implausible.
• 1:11:42
  It starts off like a seventies porn.
• 1:11:44
  I mean, it's terrible.
• 1:11:45
  Terrible.
• 1:11:46
  So I just had to look up cause very familiar with Hamill's career.
• 1:11:50
  I mean, everybody is.
• 1:11:51
  I mean, he, Star Wars, basically, and then a lot of voice acting.
• 1:11:55
  The Joker.
• 1:11:55
  And Annie, yes, Miss Potts, people know her from Ghostbusters, people should
• 1:11:59
  know her from Designing Women, people should know her from several other shows.
• 1:12:02
  When I was watching this too, I was like, how did this not derail her career?
• 1:12:08
  I had to look this up.
• 1:12:09
  This was her fourth credit in IMDb.
• 1:12:12
  So this is her fourth on This could have been a
• 1:12:14
  career Ending movie for her.
• 1:12:16
  We could have had somebody else in the Ghostbusters movie
• 1:12:20
  because of this hot trash.
• 1:12:21
  I mean, who else would get flack to the Sugarbaker sisters other than Annie Potts?
• 1:12:25
  Come on now.
• 1:12:26
  I don't know.
• 1:12:26
  Dr.
• 1:12:27
  Venkman.
• 1:12:27
  Dr.
• 1:12:28
  Venkman.
• 1:12:28
  You got a call.
• 1:12:29
  God, I love those movies.
• 1:12:31
  That is must see TV.
• 1:12:32
  Dumpster fire.
• 1:12:33
  It
• 1:12:34
  must see it go into
• 1:12:35
  the garbage can.
• 1:12:36
  I mean, I guess, I guess Mark Hamill's lucky that his career wasn't sidelined.
• 1:12:41
  Yeah, he's lucky
• 1:12:41
  he didn't, he's lucky he got to meet Luke Skywalker again after this.
• 1:12:46
  I would, I gotta look it up and see where did this fall in his
• 1:12:50
  We're gonna call up our friends at Take Two and Everything I Learned From Movies.
• 1:12:55
  We do need to do a group.
• 1:12:56
  Viewing of this like mystery science 3000 style on this
• 1:13:00
  thing, because it is atrocious.
• 1:13:03
  Check out the YouTube clip where we show the teaser for this.
• 1:13:06
  I mean, it is all the glitter and glam that you would expect from any 1978 movie.
• 1:13:10
  It is time for us to move on to random EVs and concepts and Famous
• 1:13:16
  name in the motor sports world.
• 1:13:17
  Dennis Palatov has come up with a new radical battery idea for cars.
• 1:13:22
  He's famous for designing some very sleek and aerodynamic concepts and some very
• 1:13:28
  lightweight cars, kind of on the nose of, The ideology of Lotus, add lightness,
• 1:13:33
  then power, those types of things.
• 1:13:35
  And now he's saying, you know, for the EV world, same idea, highly streamlined
• 1:13:39
  vehicles, super light, all this kind of thing, granted, he's designing
• 1:13:43
  around, you know, tube frame, two seater, almost roadster type cars.
• 1:13:48
  But what he's also saying is, look, folks, you're running around doing 40
• 1:13:52
  miles a day in a car that has 400 miles of range, and then you're doing all
• 1:13:56
  these, you know, recharging exercises.
• 1:13:58
  He does specifically call out Tesla a couple of times in the article.
• 1:14:02
  And he says, why not put in batteries that only provide you with what you need?
• 1:14:05
  This way we could distribute the load of the batteries
• 1:14:09
  necessary for all of these EVs.
• 1:14:11
  We've talked about multiple times, where are we going to
• 1:14:13
  get all the precious metals?
• 1:14:14
  If they're pulling back on cobalt, where are we going to get the cobalt
• 1:14:18
  necessary to build these batteries?
• 1:14:19
  So to his point, I get it.
• 1:14:21
  If you're only driving a certain distance, smaller batteries makes more sense.
• 1:14:26
  However, if you want to go anywhere further than your normal
• 1:14:29
  commute, This doesn't work.
• 1:14:31
  I'm kind of torn on what he's proposing.
• 1:14:34
  It doesn't not make sense, but on the same token, meh, whatever.
• 1:14:38
  I thought at first, you know, with the clickbait headline, he
• 1:14:41
  was going to introduce some new revolutionary battery technology.
• 1:14:44
  Just wasn't the case.
• 1:14:46
  The similar concept to the naysayers that say you don't need
• 1:14:49
  a 700 horsepower Dodge Hellcat.
• 1:14:51
  You just need a car that can get you from point A to point B.
• 1:14:55
  Going the speed limit.
• 1:14:57
  My response to that is, fuck you.
• 1:14:59
  Yeah, I do.
• 1:15:01
  Because I can't.
• 1:15:02
  Because I want Merca.
• 1:15:03
  Merca.
• 1:15:05
  Well, the answer is, you're absolutely right.
• 1:15:07
  However, I still want one.
• 1:15:08
  What does he drive?
• 1:15:09
  He drives a Hilux, doesn't he?
• 1:15:11
  Drives a car that he designed himself.
• 1:15:13
  ACS Endero, Logan, or Docker.
• 1:15:16
  Yeah.
• 1:15:16
  How many resources did he burn up in research and development for his own car?
• 1:15:20
  But on the brighter side of concepts, Like we talked about names are important.
• 1:15:25
  There's a name that's coming back.
• 1:15:26
  What if I told you Integra?
• 1:15:31
  Oh, sorry.
• 1:15:32
  Can you repeat the question?
• 1:15:33
  No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:15:35
  I don't hate the Integra that much.
• 1:15:38
  It was fine.
• 1:15:38
  Integra slash RSX, I guess.
• 1:15:40
  I think that's probably exciting.
• 1:15:42
  It should be good news for us.
• 1:15:43
  Cause it's what should be a hot hatch entry.
• 1:15:47
  Liftback, there's always
• 1:15:48
  a liftback.
• 1:15:49
  Liftback, hot hatch, whatever.
• 1:15:50
  A compact car that's not a freaking saloon.
• 1:15:55
  Acura, Honda, whatever.
• 1:15:57
  The Civic is going away.
• 1:15:58
  What else do they have?
• 1:16:00
  What was it?
• 1:16:00
  91 Accord EX.
• 1:16:02
  Yep.
• 1:16:03
  Available today.
• 1:16:03
  33 grand, same price as a Civic Type R.
• 1:16:06
  So, I mean, this is a good thing to see a sporty little compact.
• 1:16:10
  My guess is it'll be an SAV, just like the Eclipse.
• 1:16:13
  You know That would
• 1:16:14
  be terrible.
• 1:16:15
  And the worst part is there's no pictures of it.
• 1:16:17
  There's nothing other than the shot of the headlight, which it looks like an
• 1:16:21
  NSX headlight, to be honest with you, with an embossed Integra font there.
• 1:16:25
  But to your point about the Civic going away, Is it really going away
• 1:16:29
  or is it just switching places?
• 1:16:30
  Is it changing outfits, right?
• 1:16:31
  Is it the Civic now becoming the Integra?
• 1:16:34
  Immediately when I read that I was like, what's the over under on this just
• 1:16:37
  being a Type R with different badges on
• 1:16:38
  it?
• 1:16:39
  What's the over and under being the size of an Accord or, good point Brad, being
• 1:16:43
  a freaking compact crossover thing?
• 1:16:45
  Could end up being a Acura version of the HR V or whatever that thing is called.
• 1:16:49
  The smaller one?
• 1:16:52
  It's their version of the, it's the Mustang Mach E.
• 1:16:54
  It's the Integra, except it's a fricking SUV.
• 1:16:58
  It's just, it's an Integra on stilts.
• 1:17:00
  Yeah, it's interesting.
• 1:17:01
  Look forward to seeing what comes of it.
• 1:17:02
  Not going to get too excited yet till they have some more photos leaked.
• 1:17:06
  We might as well hold our expectations low so that we'll be pleasantly surprised.
• 1:17:09
  I agree with that statement.
• 1:17:10
  That's what I'm going to go with.
• 1:17:11
  That's what I'm going to lead with.
• 1:17:12
  And we will follow up on this car when we know more about it.
• 1:17:15
  Tanya, as we know, has an affinity for small hatchbacks
• 1:17:18
  and small vehicles in general.
• 1:17:20
  Here's something new from Minnie.
• 1:17:22
  It's a small, small world.
• 1:17:27
  Yes, apparently, and I do not know, I apologize, who this famous
• 1:17:32
  fashion designer out of Britain is.
• 1:17:34
  Not very famous after all.
• 1:17:36
  Well, I mean, not over here on this side of the pond, but likely over
• 1:17:40
  there, but fashion guru, Paul Smith has re imagined, redesigned a Mini
• 1:17:47
  Cooper SE to be simple and sustainable.
• 1:17:51
  So what does that mean exactly?
• 1:17:52
  It's environmentally friendly.
• 1:17:54
  It's simplicity in its beauty, if you will.
• 1:17:57
  Oh my God.
• 1:17:58
  I kind of liked the, where he went with it.
• 1:18:00
  Cause essentially he gutted this thing.
• 1:18:02
  It's ready for the track.
• 1:18:03
  100%.
• 1:18:04
  I agree with that.
• 1:18:05
  And some of the things he did, especially those door cards and whatnot.
• 1:18:09
  I'm like, I'm going to copy that for my race car.
• 1:18:11
  Cause I like the way that turned out.
• 1:18:13
  I read the troll posts at the bottom.
• 1:18:16
  We'll call them reviews.
• 1:18:18
  We'll call them reviews.
• 1:18:18
  I'll be nice.
• 1:18:19
  I mean, most people are like, this is heinous.
• 1:18:21
  This is disgusting.
• 1:18:23
  Why would you ever do this?
• 1:18:23
  This is a publicity stunt, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:18:26
  I'm like, yeah, I see it.
• 1:18:28
  Nobody's ever going to buy a car.
• 1:18:29
  That's basically a gutted race car.
• 1:18:31
  No.
• 1:18:32
  And I don't think this is, I'm not sure this is supposed.
• 1:18:35
  To be out for production.
• 1:18:36
  I feel like this is just kind of a one off like, Oh, I did this.
• 1:18:39
  Oh, we can be sustainable.
• 1:18:40
  We can be more green with our cars, but no, absolutely.
• 1:18:43
  I was trying to like read through and be like, all right.
• 1:18:45
  So yeah, strip like everything out.
• 1:18:47
  Did you leave the sound deadening?
• 1:18:49
  Because no one is going to drive one of these on the road when you have none
• 1:18:52
  of the sound bending and the carpet, because people already don't like sporty
• 1:18:56
  suspension because it's too, yeah.
• 1:18:58
  So this would be heinous.
• 1:19:00
  to drive on.
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, everything is like, what's left of the door cards is made out of cork
• 1:19:05
  and the dashboard is like made out of cork and also partially clear.
• 1:19:09
  Essentially, he stripped out anything that he deemed was not necessary.
• 1:19:13
  So not really adding value or function, strip that out of the car.
• 1:19:17
  Like, I'm not opposed to the stairwell kind of.
• 1:19:20
  Parking back to the day when the steering wheel was a steering wheel.
• 1:19:22
  And he stripped out all the buttons and all that stuff.
• 1:19:24
  I'm not on board that we wrapped it in a tennis racket handle wrap.
• 1:19:32
  That's a little bit,
• 1:19:34
  we
• 1:19:34
  could have spent a
• 1:19:34
  little bit more money there.
• 1:19:35
  I think.
• 1:19:36
  That gets sticky.
• 1:19:37
  And when it gets hot too, so gross,
• 1:19:39
  I just had to unwrap two of my tennis rackets because the wrap
• 1:19:42
  disintegrated, touched it and it just powder black dust everywhere.
• 1:19:47
  You thought the soft
• 1:19:48
  touch stuff in the two thousands was bad.
• 1:19:51
  That's going to be nasty.
• 1:19:52
  No.
• 1:19:53
  Yeah.
• 1:19:53
  So, I mean, it would have been better off just like whatever the base material,
• 1:19:56
  the steering wheel is just polish it nicely sanded and just like an old wood
• 1:20:01
  steering wheel.
• 1:20:02
  Exactly.
• 1:20:02
  Exactly.
• 1:20:03
  Anyway.
• 1:20:04
  So this is this fashion designers.
• 1:20:06
  Bespoke, simplistic, bare bones car.
• 1:20:09
  The outside is unpainted, so going back to the car earlier where it's bare metal,
• 1:20:14
  I guess this is, I would hope, at least clear coated or something, but no paint
• 1:20:18
  on it, so you get silver, gunmetal gray.
• 1:20:23
  You can have any color you want, as long as it's metallic.
• 1:20:25
  It's ready to be painted, folks.
• 1:20:29
  Inside is painted blue, though, it makes no sense.
• 1:20:31
  They didn't build a car from the ground up.
• 1:20:33
  He took an existing car and stripped it of everything.
• 1:20:35
  So he obviously started with a blue car.
• 1:20:39
  I have issues with this.
• 1:20:40
  Okay.
• 1:20:41
  First of all, every fashion designer car I've ever seen is always to use your quote
• 1:20:47
  hot garbage,
• 1:20:49
  right?
• 1:20:50
  So I don't care who it comes from, whatever.
• 1:20:52
  I mean, this guy could be Gucci or I don't care.
• 1:20:57
  Right.
• 1:20:57
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:20:58
  Ralph Lauren.
• 1:20:59
  Whatever.
• 1:21:00
  That's usually the other extreme.
• 1:21:02
  Yeah.
• 1:21:02
  Right.
• 1:21:02
  Of ridiculous.
• 1:21:04
  Yeah.
• 1:21:04
  Of ridiculous.
• 1:21:05
  But what I'm getting at here is, first of all, it's made of sustainable materials.
• 1:21:09
  The car is still out of freaking metal.
• 1:21:12
  So I don't get it.
• 1:21:13
  It's not like he rebuilt the car out of recycled cardboard.
• 1:21:16
  Like you mentioned on last month's episode.
• 1:21:18
  Second of all, the chemical process to strip that car down to bare metal
• 1:21:22
  wasn't necessarily Eco friendly.
• 1:21:25
  Third of all, the stuff he stripped out of the car, I don't think that
• 1:21:29
  was the biggest detriment to the planet, the stuff that was in there.
• 1:21:32
  Because here's the deal, all that cork for the longest time, weren't they
• 1:21:35
  even talking about they had to make synthetic corks for wine bottles because
• 1:21:39
  it's an endangered species of tree and you can't do all this kind of stuff.
• 1:21:43
  So I'm like, I don't really buy that.
• 1:21:45
  And the other thing was you take away my racer brain.
• 1:21:48
  It's the first car I looked at and said, holy crap.
• 1:21:52
  You just made a Tesla look high class because it is kind of janky inside.
• 1:21:57
  If you're don't appreciate it from a motorsport perspective.
• 1:22:00
  So I think the outside actually looks nice.
• 1:22:03
  Wheels are gross.
• 1:22:04
  Those
• 1:22:04
  wheels are disgusting.
• 1:22:06
  I'm
• 1:22:06
  not looking at the wheels cause you can change those easily, but whatever
• 1:22:09
  minor, like the trim things that you change, it doesn't look bad.
• 1:22:13
  I think exterior wise, put a different set of wheels on it and paint them thing.
• 1:22:17
  It looks good.
• 1:22:17
  The interior.
• 1:22:18
  No, would I want that as my car?
• 1:22:21
  No, but I think I would take your arguments and take come
• 1:22:23
  at a different perspective.
• 1:22:25
  I don't think sustainably.
• 1:22:26
  He's trying to make 100 percent sustainable car.
• 1:22:30
  I think you could take it from the perspective of that's not attainable.
• 1:22:33
  However, There are many things you could do to make a car more sustainable.
• 1:22:38
  It doesn't need all these things.
• 1:22:39
  I think there's a problem with how gutted the interior is because
• 1:22:43
  realistically, how does this pass safety?
• 1:22:46
  So I think that's an issue.
• 1:22:47
  And I forgot what my third point was.
• 1:22:50
  Nonetheless, I think this is just an artistic piece.
• 1:22:53
  And we just leave it at that.
• 1:22:55
  It's more of a, get people thinking that there may be more simplistic things you
• 1:22:59
  can do that are a little more sustainable, but I don't think at the end of the
• 1:23:02
  day, you're like, what's sustainable making the whole damn thing out of wood.
• 1:23:05
  No, that's not sustainable either.
• 1:23:07
  Cause now we're talking about Vietnam.
• 1:23:08
  Did I
• 1:23:08
  mean, come on now.
• 1:23:09
  Well, he did it, but now, but now the argument is, well, you're
• 1:23:11
  chopping down trees, right?
• 1:23:13
  So I go, I go, I go back.
• 1:23:16
  Yeah, well, not even that really, but I go back and forth on that because some of the
• 1:23:20
  things I thought were really cool again, from a racer perspective, he replaced the
• 1:23:24
  glass with a new kind of Lexan, right?
• 1:23:26
  I forget what he called it.
• 1:23:28
  which I thought was really cool, super lightweight, but plastic made from
• 1:23:34
  petroleum glass is made from sand.
• 1:23:36
  Yeah, I don't know how they made the glass, but for instance, he replaced
• 1:23:40
  the floor mats that he did put back in were apparently from recycled plastic.
• 1:23:44
  Okay.
• 1:23:45
  That's a sustainable thing to do.
• 1:23:46
  We're burning through plastic.
• 1:23:48
  Like it's.
• 1:23:49
  nobody's business, whether it's plastic bottles, food packaging, etc, etc.
• 1:23:53
  So if they're able to take that or even tires and recycle the rubber
• 1:23:57
  and turn them into floor mats, I mean, that's a positive thing.
• 1:23:59
  So there are aspects of, Hey, we can be more sustainable
• 1:24:02
  and friendly in our design.
• 1:24:03
  You don't have to start from scratch every time with petroleum products to
• 1:24:07
  make every component in the vehicle.
• 1:24:08
  The one thing that was missing from this, as we kind of Finalize this thought
• 1:24:13
  stood out to me as I read the whole article, not one time did they mention
• 1:24:18
  how much weight he saved out of car.
• 1:24:20
  I mean, I would imagine it has to
• 1:24:21
  be a lot.
• 1:24:22
  I'd be curious, but they wouldn't say they didn't weigh it.
• 1:24:24
  So it's kind of like,
• 1:24:26
  I don't know what the point.
• 1:24:27
  of it, of any of it was other than like the guy did it.
• 1:24:31
  I'm surprised we generated this much conversation on it, but good talk.
• 1:24:34
  It's exactly.
• 1:24:35
  Moving on.
• 1:24:35
  We'd be remiss if we didn't move on.
• 1:24:38
  It's time to talk about Tesla.
• 1:24:40
  Oh God, here we go.
• 1:24:43
  So there's three points to hit here.
• 1:24:45
  And I think it ties back to some things we were already talking about
• 1:24:48
  earlier around supply chain issues.
• 1:24:50
  Microchip delays, things of that nature.
• 1:24:52
  So the Tesla semi truck, was it just me or did that thing
• 1:24:56
  drop off the face of the earth?
• 1:24:57
  Cause that, that thing was coming.
• 1:24:59
  Like I thought five years ago already, it was hot and heavy and
• 1:25:02
  orders were made and we were going to make so many of them in crickets.
• 1:25:05
  Which is, let me offend some people, kind of par for the Tesla course, right?
• 1:25:09
  Because every time, like, we're announcing something, it's always like six years
• 1:25:12
  later that it actually comes to fruition.
• 1:25:15
  Whatever.
• 1:25:16
  But, you know, that boy who cried wolf gets a little old after a while.
• 1:25:20
  So the Tesla's truck is once again delayed and it's very unclear as to what the delay
• 1:25:27
  is but it sounds like it is essentially supply chain issues and refocusing.
• 1:25:33
  Kind of what we were talking about earlier with the Ford is they're
• 1:25:36
  refocusing their energy and The supplies that they do have, the semi and the
• 1:25:40
  Cybertruck as they both are delayed.
• 1:25:42
  They do kind of talk a little bit about, We believe we remain on track
• 1:25:46
  to build our first model Y vehicles in Berlin and Austin in 2021.
• 1:25:50
  Well, 2021 is almost over folks.
• 1:25:52
  The pace of the respective production ramps will be influenced by the
• 1:25:55
  successful introduction of many new product and manufacturing technologies.
• 1:25:58
  ongoing supply chain related challenges and regional permitting.
• 1:26:02
  To better focus on these factories and due to the limited availability of
• 1:26:05
  battery cells and global supply chain challenges, we have shifted the launch
• 1:26:10
  of the semi truck program to 2022.
• 1:26:13
  We are also making progress on the industrialization of Cybertruck,
• 1:26:16
  which is currently planned for Austin production subsequent to Model Y.
• 1:26:20
  I mean, it goes hand in hand.
• 1:26:22
  The Cybertruck is also delayed.
• 1:26:23
  The Cybertruck was supposed to come out this year.
• 1:26:25
  It's supposed to be in production.
• 1:26:26
  That's not happening.
• 1:26:27
  That one's vague too.
• 1:26:29
  I would assume the whole we're shipping the model Y is part of it.
• 1:26:32
  There's also question as to, are they having problems with the design?
• 1:26:37
  Or,
• 1:26:39
  or could it be, they got to figure out how to resell those carbon credits that
• 1:26:45
  they sold everybody that got returned.
• 1:26:48
  Or B, is it because they're under investigation for Tesla's
• 1:26:51
  hitting emergency vehicles?
• 1:26:52
  Let's unpack that.
• 1:26:54
  Or, before we unpack that, C, they're seeing how well the F 150 is already
• 1:26:59
  putting pre sales in, and they're like, hmm, maybe this triangle blob thing
• 1:27:04
  polygon from Nintendo 64 days isn't what people want as a pickup truck.
• 1:27:09
  That's specifically why I put 100 deposit.
• 1:27:12
  Can
• 1:27:13
  we
• 1:27:13
  get a big doy
• 1:27:15
  from Brad?
• 1:27:15
  I mean, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• 1:27:17
  So, I mean, Those people are all blind.
• 1:27:20
  You like the look of that thing, I guess, to each their own.
• 1:27:22
  I mean, I'm not a pickup truck fan, but give me the F 150 all day, every day.
• 1:27:27
  You can haul.
• 1:27:28
  I have to.
• 1:27:28
  If you're
• 1:27:30
  telling
• 1:27:30
  me I have to have a pickup truck, I would like a traditional looking pickup truck.
• 1:27:34
  So give me the F 150, give me a Rivian, give me whatever,
• 1:27:37
  as long as it looks good.
• 1:27:39
  Square body Chevy,
• 1:27:40
  Dan will get you one tomorrow.
• 1:27:41
  It's hot.
• 1:27:43
  I do not want one.
• 1:27:45
  So they are also under investigation right now because of the number
• 1:27:51
  of times their Teslas have struck emergency vehicles while operating
• 1:27:56
  in the autonomous mode, which they're still claiming is fully autonomous.
• 1:28:01
  And then also Elon Musk recently tweeted in the last day or so how
• 1:28:04
  their autonomous beta testing version, whatever the heck they're on 9.
• 1:28:08
  2 or something.
• 1:28:09
  Eh, might not be that great.
• 1:28:12
  He's like, literally said something to that effect.
• 1:28:14
  In my opinion, it's not so good.
• 1:28:16
  Oh, okay.
• 1:28:16
  Yes, that's what the rest of us know.
• 1:28:18
  Because A, it is not fully autonomous.
• 1:28:21
  There's no such thing yet.
• 1:28:22
  There's no vehicle that you can lay down in the back seat and get to
• 1:28:26
  where you're going without dying.
• 1:28:27
  Okay.
• 1:28:28
  I mean, you might get there once, but I wouldn't put my
• 1:28:31
  face in that more than once.
• 1:28:33
  But it becomes a
• 1:28:34
  hearse at that point, you go straight to the funeral coffin,
• 1:28:40
  converse into a casket and you're done.
• 1:28:41
  I guess it's not like there's been like hundreds and hundreds of these
• 1:28:44
  accidents, but I mean, there's been like almost like a dozen or so over the last
• 1:28:48
  five years, which is more than enough.
• 1:28:51
  to make people go why is it always happening when there's an emergency
• 1:28:54
  vehicle on the side of the road with their lights flashing, particularly
• 1:28:58
  in night or low light conditions?
• 1:29:00
  What is wrong with this technology that's not seeing
• 1:29:03
  what it should be seeing, right?
• 1:29:04
  And I mean, I think it's Tesla themselves need to investigate this.
• 1:29:07
  That's pretty serious.
• 1:29:09
  Often when there's an emergency vehicle on the side of the road, there is a
• 1:29:11
  human being on the side of the road outside of said emergency vehicle.
• 1:29:15
  It
• 1:29:15
  does seem to be a reoccurring theme, whether it's police
• 1:29:17
  cars, ambulances, et cetera.
• 1:29:19
  It's like the camera system on the Tesla target fixates on those flashing lights.
• 1:29:24
  It must freak out the camera in such a way that it causes The thing to
• 1:29:29
  become basically like a homing beacon or like a, like a targeted missile.
• 1:29:33
  I mean, it's just, it's
• 1:29:34
  nothing happening.
• 1:29:35
  It's blinding something there.
• 1:29:36
  I have read he's very adamant.
• 1:29:39
  Tesla's are only going to be using the camera technology as opposed to
• 1:29:42
  other people's autonomous vehicles are a combination of the camera,
• 1:29:45
  radar, LIDAR, all these things, or, or so my understanding is the, it's
• 1:29:49
  kind of insistent that it's going to be a hundred percent of cameras.
• 1:29:52
  It's like, okay, maybe one day, but it doesn't seem like the camera technologies.
• 1:29:55
  Quite as good as the human eye that's paying attention, plenty of people
• 1:29:59
  at the hands of the wheel that have struck emergency vehicles also.
• 1:30:02
  So
• 1:30:03
  I still think the biological alternative, you know, the organics
• 1:30:07
  in your head are still far superior to any camera and any computer.
• 1:30:11
  And that's part
• 1:30:11
  of the debate too, is just a computer.
• 1:30:14
  they're not sophisticated enough to have that reason component and to
• 1:30:17
  understand and to get the other clues that can warn you about something.
• 1:30:22
  Not on a computer that small.
• 1:30:23
  I mean, yeah, sure.
• 1:30:24
  If you got big blue from IBM in the backseat.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah.
• 1:30:28
  Yeah.
• 1:30:28
  I
• 1:30:28
  mean, if you've got three stories of
• 1:30:33
  I'm sure it can be better than the human eye, but yeah, no, at any rate,
• 1:30:37
  Brad's a huge fan of Toyota, as we learned earlier, but we
• 1:30:40
  heard something interesting
• 1:30:41
  and this is something we don't hear very often, but BMW has recalled it's super a
• 1:30:45
  model or wait, I didn't get that right.
• 1:30:47
  BMW has recalled it's Toyota super a model for a breaking issue.
• 1:30:52
  Basically, it causes them to not have brake assist, which means it's
• 1:30:56
  very difficult to stop the car.
• 1:30:58
  And once it's in motion, so if you have a BMW Supra, make sure you
• 1:31:03
  get down to your BMW dealer and get this BMW Supra issue taken care of.
• 1:31:09
  Is that the Zupra?
• 1:31:10
  Zupra with a Z?
• 1:31:11
  Yes, your BMW Zupra.
• 1:31:13
  So I have to say, I actually rode in one of these recently.
• 1:31:17
  During summer bash weekend, I got to the right I got to right seat in a new Supra.
• 1:31:22
  I went in with a little bit of prejudice going, uh, it's just a Z4.
• 1:31:27
  It's just a Z4.
• 1:31:28
  It's not going to be that good.
• 1:31:29
  I will be honest with you.
• 1:31:31
  It is really, really good.
• 1:31:34
  Surprisingly good, incredibly fast, very agile, unlike any
• 1:31:39
  other new car I've been in.
• 1:31:40
  Granted, there are cars that are better.
• 1:31:42
  I will take a 2016, 2017 ACR any day of the week.
• 1:31:46
  911 GT3.
• 1:31:49
  The Corvette C7 I think is a better car overall, but for what it is as
• 1:31:54
  this cooperative effort between two brands that I never saw coming together
• 1:31:59
  to work on something like this.
• 1:32:01
  It's really, really good.
• 1:32:03
  It's the best.
• 1:32:04
  BMW Toyota has ever built.
• 1:32:06
  You mean is the best Toyota BMWs ever built?
• 1:32:09
  It depends on which side of the street you live on.
• 1:32:11
  Now, question, did you have an issue with the wind buffeting?
• 1:32:15
  Because there was a huge complaint from owners with the windows down.
• 1:32:18
  It was almost undriveable because of the wind buffeting issue.
• 1:32:21
  You know, to be honest, no.
• 1:32:24
  I didn't notice it at all because of the track you are forced
• 1:32:26
  to run with the windows down.
• 1:32:27
  Granted, I had my helmet on, but it was not this over exaggerated
• 1:32:33
  blowing over a Coke bottle type of scenario as everybody described it.
• 1:32:37
  I actually thought much like other cars with a similar shape
• 1:32:41
  like a 944 or the Audi TT.
• 1:32:45
  There was hardly any airflow coming into the vehicle.
• 1:32:48
  It was kind of hot in there.
• 1:32:49
  Now, granted it's got enough horsepower.
• 1:32:51
  You could probably run around the track with the air condition on and not even
• 1:32:53
  feel it, but I never noticed any of the wind buffeting or anything like that.
• 1:32:57
  And the brakes seem to work just fine.
• 1:33:00
  All four days that this car was on track, no issues there, but.
• 1:33:04
  I would say the only downside to the Supra is that it doesn't
• 1:33:06
  come with a manual transmission.
• 1:33:09
  I think that would be my only gripe, especially when you look at the new BRZ,
• 1:33:13
  when you look at the new Z400 coming from Nissan, they're being offered
• 1:33:17
  with manuals, it'd be really cool.
• 1:33:19
  If the super came in a manual, because I don't think it would
• 1:33:22
  take anything away from it, right?
• 1:33:24
  Everybody says, Oh, but the double clutch is so much faster, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:33:28
  Granted, if you're Randy Pope's or Tom Christiansen, or one of those guys
• 1:33:32
  running around the Nurburgring doing a power lap for us, normal pedestrians.
• 1:33:36
  On a regular track day, I still think the manual is a lot more fun
• 1:33:40
  and you have a lot more control.
• 1:33:42
  You can kind of decide when you want it to shift and all that kind of thing.
• 1:33:45
  Just to be an old timer, you know, call me a boomer.
• 1:33:48
  I think it would be really cool if the Supra came in a stick, just
• 1:33:51
  like all the other two door sports cars that are coming out right now.
• 1:33:54
  And if any of our listeners have a new Supra, please let me know
• 1:33:58
  and reach out because I would love to see if I Fit in one
• 1:34:01
  again, if you haven't driven one, I highly recommend it.
• 1:34:03
  And for the money, I'd say it's a good compromise compared to some of
• 1:34:07
  the other stuff that's out there.
• 1:34:08
  Now, is it going to be as good price wise as the 400 Z?
• 1:34:11
  No, if the 400 Z comes in where they're saying it's going to come in, that's
• 1:34:15
  going to be the hot ticket next year when it's officially slated to come out.
• 1:34:20
  But moving on
• 1:34:21
  rich people, doing rich people, things
• 1:34:23
  you didn't say that.
• 1:34:23
  Right.
• 1:34:23
  As rich people doing rich people, things.
• 1:34:26
  New Enrich people, fangs.
• 1:34:27
  I mean, I think we can just read this headline and then move on.
• 1:34:31
  Now there's a license, three quarter size Ferrari, two 50 Testa Rosa for fancy kids.
• 1:34:37
  How much does this thing sell for?
• 1:34:38
  That's what we wanna know.
• 1:34:39
  It's up there with the Bugatti Baby two.
• 1:34:41
  It's up there with that Aston Martin James Bond thing.
• 1:34:44
  What are we talking about price wise?
• 1:34:46
  I'm just curious.
• 1:34:46
  We are talking about for a whopping 37 miles an hour.
• 1:34:51
  It is so expensive they don't list the price in the article.
• 1:34:54
  It's a Ferrari, of course.
• 1:34:56
  You only pay for the best.
• 1:34:57
  Well, since we're talking about ways to blow your money, two things
• 1:35:00
  came across my desk this month.
• 1:35:02
  I found some really cool logo merch, officially licensed products at
• 1:35:10
  paddockcollectionstore.
• 1:35:10
  com.
• 1:35:11
  So if you're looking for stuff from F1 teams, Brumos Porsche, IMSA
• 1:35:16
  related stuff, pretty much different facets of the motorsport world,
• 1:35:20
  check out paddockcollectionstore.
• 1:35:23
  com for some actually great sales, reasonably priced,
• 1:35:26
  officially licensed merchandise.
• 1:35:28
  And on top of that, I saw an ad on Instagram for something called The
• 1:35:32
  block zone, which is the coolest custom Lego sets I have ever seen.
• 1:35:37
  So there's a group in the UK that puts together and sells sports
• 1:35:42
  cars, race cars, et cetera, for you to buy, you know, they're not Lego
• 1:35:46
  sets, they are the block zone sets.
• 1:35:49
  Although they are comprised of Legos, you can order these reasonably priced.
• 1:35:53
  What's funny is if you want to search for certain brands like Porsche or
• 1:35:57
  Lamborghini or Ferrari, you have to use kind of creative ways to look them up.
• 1:36:01
  Like the old bull is what they call the Countach and
• 1:36:05
  the prancing horse is Ferrari.
• 1:36:08
  Could you learn their nomenclature?
• 1:36:09
  Lare pretty quickly, and there's some very cool sets out there.
• 1:36:12
  I highly recommend the Porsche nine 17 kit came in right around 150 pounds
• 1:36:18
  or so, which you know, can be kind of expensive, but it's a 2000 piece
• 1:36:22
  set and it looks really, really good.
• 1:36:25
  So.
• 1:36:26
  Check that out.
• 1:36:26
  We'll post a link for it in the show notes and maybe think about that as
• 1:36:29
  a Christmas gift for your petrolhead this winter and stay tuned for our
• 1:36:34
  holiday shopping guide later this year when we'll talk more about that.
• 1:36:37
  August was also the month for Car Week.
• 1:36:41
  Traditionally earlier in the year, but the Monterey Historics were back!
• 1:36:45
  You know, first time since COVID, they had some keeping it weird cars in the
• 1:36:50
  collections out there at Monterey.
• 1:36:52
  And one of our members, Ryan Compton has a huge assortment of pictures that he
• 1:36:55
  took while he was out there in person.
• 1:36:57
  But there were a few cars of note, one, especially I targeted for Tanya.
• 1:37:01
  The Bugatti.
• 1:37:02
  What's it called?
• 1:37:03
  The Bugatti Bebe.
• 1:37:04
  The Bebe.
• 1:37:05
  Is that the baby?
• 1:37:07
  Zero.
• 1:37:08
  The original.
• 1:37:09
  Is it the original baby?
• 1:37:11
  The bebe?
• 1:37:11
  I think it is.
• 1:37:12
  So there's some really interesting cars on this list of seven oddballs that were
• 1:37:17
  at the Monterey Historics this year.
• 1:37:18
  I think the one that really got my attention was the BMW, which
• 1:37:23
  is the only BMW I've seen without the signature kidney grill.
• 1:37:28
  It looks like, what's it called?
• 1:37:29
  A
• 1:37:29
  Studebaker.
• 1:37:30
  Japanese
• 1:37:31
  car.
• 1:37:31
  The Cosmo.
• 1:37:32
  It looks like the Cosmo.
• 1:37:33
  Yeah.
• 1:37:33
  I like the Glockenspiel.
• 1:37:35
  I mean, I mean the Glockler.
• 1:37:37
  So before we wrap up our, we would be remiss with our
• 1:37:41
  traditional Florida Man stories.
• 1:37:42
  I wanted to touch on a couple of quick things that you can check out today
• 1:37:46
  on your local streaming services.
• 1:37:48
  Most of us know that the Grand Tour released their newest episode
• 1:37:52
  Lockdown during the month of August.
• 1:37:55
  And so I got a chance to review it.
• 1:37:57
  I don't know if you guys did, or if our listeners did.
• 1:37:59
  I would be curious to see your thoughts.
• 1:38:01
  I walked away from it going.
• 1:38:03
  It was better than the last one, but it's the same old formula.
• 1:38:07
  I'm okay with that.
• 1:38:08
  I enjoy seeing Clarkson Hammond and May doing what they do best.
• 1:38:12
  I found it rather delightful.
• 1:38:14
  The cars that they chose and some of the way the scenes played out.
• 1:38:18
  But it was kind of more of the same.
• 1:38:20
  I watched it.
• 1:38:21
  I was bored about halfway through because I was like, Oh,
• 1:38:24
  it's another top gear episode.
• 1:38:27
  I didn't like the car choices or the premise or whatever.
• 1:38:29
  It just, it wasn't for me.
• 1:38:31
  I guess the Buick Rivera was pretty cool.
• 1:38:34
  I think it was pretty slick.
• 1:38:36
  I feel bad that he kind of chopped that thing up.
• 1:38:38
  I think he ruined a perfectly good car.
• 1:38:41
  I would have cared less if they had done that to the Lincoln or
• 1:38:43
  the Cadillac, although lowering the Cadillac was kind of funny.
• 1:38:46
  I mean, what a turd.
• 1:38:47
  There's been some other mockumentaries that have come out.
• 1:38:49
  There's a new John DeLorean one that has come out.
• 1:38:51
  The Lady and the Dale is finally available on Hulu.
• 1:38:54
  You have to pay for it on, you know, Hulu's premium service.
• 1:38:56
  And then, you know, we were teased with Rust Valley Restorers, their latest
• 1:39:01
  season, but I can't find it anywhere.
• 1:39:03
  It's supposed to be on Amazon Prime.
• 1:39:04
  I don't know if that's like Prime Canada.
• 1:39:06
  And eventually make it to the U S syndication there or whatever.
• 1:39:09
  Car masters season three released earlier this month.
• 1:39:13
  And I did a review on it, which is available on our website.
• 1:39:15
  You can read all about it.
• 1:39:16
  I don't know if you guys watch that.
• 1:39:18
  It really, to me feels like season two part two, because it picks up exactly
• 1:39:23
  where car masters season two ended, but no
• 1:39:26
  spoilers.
• 1:39:27
  I'm watching it right now.
• 1:39:29
  It is kind of off the rails.
• 1:39:32
  I posted on garage ride a couple of pictures from the series for
• 1:39:36
  folks that hadn't seen it yet.
• 1:39:37
  I wanted to get their gut reaction.
• 1:39:39
  The response was, is that what they're building now?
• 1:39:42
  If you haven't seen car master season three, I recommend it.
• 1:39:45
  You know, I sat down and watched it with my wife.
• 1:39:47
  She enjoys the show because she enjoys the cast of characters.
• 1:39:50
  She had a lot of really Insightful feedback, which I incorporated into the
• 1:39:54
  article, not all of it, because some of it was a little more colorful than
• 1:39:57
  I was willing to put in the article.
• 1:39:59
  Would you like to know my pet peeve?
• 1:40:00
  Sure.
• 1:40:01
  And I'd have to go back and look at the other two seasons, but I think there was a
• 1:40:05
  change and I'm terrible with their names.
• 1:40:07
  I don't remember what their names are other than caveman.
• 1:40:10
  The female Constance, Constance.
• 1:40:12
  There you go.
• 1:40:13
  The only female that's on the show.
• 1:40:14
  And I don't remember exactly season one, season two, but I feel like season
• 1:40:18
  three is different in that this chick has got freaking manicured fake nails
• 1:40:23
  and she's working on a car and her hands are always constantly pristine looking.
• 1:40:28
  And I'm like, please step off.
• 1:40:31
  This is so fake, which is terrible because I actually think her credentials
• 1:40:35
  that they explained from like season one or whatever, she actually knows.
• 1:40:39
  What the hell is she's doing and actually knows how to work on
• 1:40:42
  engines and things like that.
• 1:40:43
  So it's like, why do we have to freaking make her fashion model?
• 1:40:48
  And I guess the pretty eye candy to generate, you know, more viewership
• 1:40:52
  from the male audience or, you know, whatever audience she knows what she's
• 1:40:55
  doing with cars, let her be herself.
• 1:40:57
  Maybe she works on her cars and somehow it doesn't get greased on her hands.
• 1:41:01
  I need to learn her trick then.
• 1:41:02
  I've never seen
• 1:41:03
  anybody on the show where a pair of gloves.
• 1:41:05
  So, you know, whatever now granted, they are dealing with a lot of new parts
• 1:41:10
  and new parts are not dirty either way.
• 1:41:12
  There's some grease involved.
• 1:41:13
  There's some grime involved.
• 1:41:14
  I've worked in new parts and you still get, I've managed to get, but I
• 1:41:17
  break a nail when I don't even have nails.
• 1:41:20
  So I can't even imagine.
• 1:41:21
  working on cars and things like that with fake nails on.
• 1:41:25
  I
• 1:41:25
  agree.
• 1:41:26
  And I've gone back and forth on this.
• 1:41:27
  And Jess and I talked about as well, honestly thought in season three,
• 1:41:31
  despite the Lee press on nails that she's got going on, that she actually
• 1:41:34
  had more credibility this season because she was given more screen time.
• 1:41:38
  Yeah.
• 1:41:38
  She speaks educatedly when she speaks about the stuff that she's working on
• 1:41:42
  when they partnered her with cave man.
• 1:41:44
  Yeah.
• 1:41:45
  And with Tony to work on the two special builds, they did the
• 1:41:48
  fire bike and the school bus.
• 1:41:50
  I was like, wow.
• 1:41:51
  I mean, she's on point in the previous two seasons.
• 1:41:53
  I'm with you.
• 1:41:54
  I felt like Constance was a bunch of eye candy.
• 1:41:56
  They were just there to spike the ratings to keep people
• 1:41:59
  interested in the show their work.
• 1:42:01
  Stands for itself.
• 1:42:02
  They don't need the eye candy.
• 1:42:03
  So to your point, if she's going to get dirty, let her get dirty,
• 1:42:06
  let her do what she's going to do.
• 1:42:07
  I go back and forth on this all the time.
• 1:42:09
  You know what I mean?
• 1:42:10
  But I do like the cast unlike some shows like West coast custom.
• 1:42:14
  And even as much as I like Ross Valley restorers, I can't.
• 1:42:17
  Get into a show where people are constantly at each other's throats,
• 1:42:21
  it takes a lot to put up with that, but this show they seem to gel.
• 1:42:25
  They seem to get along, which is good because
• 1:42:27
  it's a very good show.
• 1:42:28
  Like, don't let that comment deter anyone from watching it.
• 1:42:32
  It's very entertaining.
• 1:42:33
  They're wildly talented people, all four of them and what they do.
• 1:42:36
  I tried watching the first episode of the first season.
• 1:42:39
  I couldn't get behind the whole trade up to we're going to do this.
• 1:42:43
  To trade to this guy to get this car to ultimately trade
• 1:42:46
  up to this guy to get this car.
• 1:42:48
  They lost me with the trade.
• 1:42:49
  It actually works.
• 1:42:51
  Unlike other shows, it keeps it so unique.
• 1:42:54
  Mark towel has done a really good job of not copying the counting cars formula.
• 1:43:00
  And that was very apparent in this season specifically where Sean, the
• 1:43:05
  guy that does the wheel in and deal in was trying to bring in these high
• 1:43:08
  profile customers and these high profile builds where they're just doing like
• 1:43:11
  parts hanging and stuff like that.
• 1:43:13
  And I could tell his body language and his, the way he dug his heels in, he
• 1:43:18
  was like, I don't want to be that show.
• 1:43:20
  And I kind of knew where he was going with that because if you watch counting cars,
• 1:43:24
  it's the same thing over and over again.
• 1:43:26
  And a lot of people love to copy that formula and it's worked.
• 1:43:29
  It's been good for Danny Coker and his team whatnot, but this show is unique
• 1:43:34
  in the sense that they are doing this whole bargaining and bartering and
• 1:43:37
  upgrading and trading and whatnot.
• 1:43:39
  And that's, what keeps it interesting.
• 1:43:41
  Even though I sometimes take issue with the way Sean does his business deals.
• 1:43:47
  Even Jess was like, gotta take a shower after this.
• 1:43:51
  Cause it's kind of slimy.
• 1:43:52
  It just, it works like their team works.
• 1:43:55
  The whole premise works.
• 1:43:56
  And I do enjoy the show.
• 1:43:57
  And I'm, I'm very serious when I say that I want to see it come back.
• 1:44:01
  And it is on my top 10.
• 1:44:03
  shows amongst Goblin Works, Rust Valley Restorers, these guys and others.
• 1:44:07
  I do want to see them come back and I want to see them succeed.
• 1:44:10
  I would like to see him branch out of the Gothic Batman stuff that he's
• 1:44:15
  been doing and do more like what was in season one with the Futura and
• 1:44:19
  even the Exner from season two, like those kinds of builds where it's
• 1:44:23
  really over the top, but authentic.
• 1:44:26
  resonates more with me as a viewer than some of this kind of
• 1:44:29
  crazy brushed aluminum, you know, gothic skeletons and spider webs.
• 1:44:33
  I know spider webs are his thing.
• 1:44:34
  He even brings it up in the show.
• 1:44:35
  He's like, I take flack for it all the time.
• 1:44:38
  You know, Hey, let's see what season four brings us.
• 1:44:40
  Right.
• 1:44:40
  And let's hope that they survived.
• 1:44:42
  The COVID because that's where season three ends is right on the beginning
• 1:44:45
  of all the lockdowns and shutdowns.
• 1:44:47
  I did visit their website.
• 1:44:48
  They are still around.
• 1:44:49
  They're selling merch.
• 1:44:50
  There's pictures of some other builds on there where they've been using
• 1:44:53
  some C fives and C sixes instead of the classic C four, which I gripe
• 1:44:56
  about in this particular season.
• 1:44:58
  So again, Let's see what happens in season four
• 1:45:00
  in order to be a well informed podcast host, I'm going to go
• 1:45:05
  through and watch the show so I can have an informed opinion next time,
• 1:45:08
  probably right.
• 1:45:09
  Is when I watch drive to survive.
• 1:45:11
  So
• 1:45:12
  you watch drive to survive and get up to date before the next drive
• 1:45:16
  through and I'll watch car masters.
• 1:45:18
  I have watched
• 1:45:18
  both.
• 1:45:19
  I am currently watching season three of the car masters.
• 1:45:22
  And
• 1:45:22
  you can
• 1:45:23
  tell me if my review is wrong.
• 1:45:24
  Just leave a comment on the website.
• 1:45:26
  What did you think of drive to survive?
• 1:45:28
  I thought it was very good.
• 1:45:29
  I enjoyed it.
• 1:45:30
  I think it's gotten better since the first season.
• 1:45:32
  It has, but they added Ferrari too.
• 1:45:35
  Cause Ferrari wasn't in the first season.
• 1:45:36
  The first season was like.
• 1:45:38
  I don't even remember now, but it was very focused on only like two or three teams.
• 1:45:41
  And then every season it's expanded.
• 1:45:44
  And the last season, actually, you got to touch on, like, everybody
• 1:45:47
  got the opportunity to have a voice or, you know, be covered.
• 1:45:51
  So
• 1:45:52
  yeah.
• 1:45:53
  And then the drama that they create for each of the episodes is
• 1:45:56
  actually really well put together.
• 1:45:57
  And some of it's stuff that I didn't even realize was
• 1:45:59
  happening throughout the season.
• 1:46:01
  It's not overly like soap opera ish or dramatic either.
• 1:46:04
  So it's not like you just.
• 1:46:05
  feel like, Oh, this is stupid reality TV.
• 1:46:08
  And what I've actually heard from some folks, it's doing a positive
• 1:46:12
  thing for American viewers to formula one, who never were ever interested.
• 1:46:18
  I've heard people that really, they're like, I watch formula one now.
• 1:46:21
  Cause I watched drive to survive.
• 1:46:22
  Like, this is so cool.
• 1:46:23
  Like I'm into formula one now.
• 1:46:25
  So that's a good thing.
• 1:46:27
  And we're going to talk about, I think later in the motor sports
• 1:46:29
  thing, how there's possibly.
• 1:46:31
  Another American team that could be coming to Formula One.
• 1:46:35
  Spoiler alert!
• 1:46:36
  Spoiler alert!
• 1:46:37
  We'll talk about that in a little bit.
• 1:46:39
  So, I mean, if the show can bring more people into this sport that is pretty
• 1:46:44
  big everywhere else in the world, then I think, I mean, it's doing something
• 1:46:48
  what we would consider positive.
• 1:46:50
  I'm just bringing more people into the
• 1:46:51
  motorsports world.
• 1:46:52
  The only downside is if you get new viewers into Formula 1 and they see
• 1:46:58
  the same people winning all the time and the same BS and the same drama
• 1:47:01
  and all the things we've talked about, I hate to say Hamilton's got to go.
• 1:47:05
  But that's fine because Hamilton, the reality is.
• 1:47:07
  He's waning, how many more years is he really going to keep going?
• 1:47:11
  So I don't think had drive to survive came out seven years ago and now
• 1:47:15
  everyone got into it and they're like, Oh, this dude's still winning again.
• 1:47:19
  It's a different story, but
• 1:47:20
  don't get me wrong.
• 1:47:21
  I have no complaints against Lewis Hamilton.
• 1:47:23
  Extremely talented driver.
• 1:47:24
  I just want to see him behind the wheel of something else.
• 1:47:27
  I don't want to see him behind the wheel of another formula car.
• 1:47:29
  That would be a great wish.
• 1:47:30
  And we all know that's the epic challenge.
• 1:47:32
  Put them behind, you know, what was the force India car or something, which is
• 1:47:35
  actually his old car anyway, but you know, I'd love to see him in a prototype.
• 1:47:39
  Do you like what Alonzo did?
• 1:47:40
  Go to IndyCar, go do like Juan Pablo Montoya, go to NASCAR, get, you know, get
• 1:47:44
  into a prototype at Le Mans, whatever.
• 1:47:46
  I mean, just do something different.
• 1:47:48
  To your point about the Force India car or the Racing Point car being
• 1:47:53
  Lewis Hamilton's old car, there's actually an entire episode in Drive
• 1:47:56
  to Survive about that very topic.
• 1:47:58
  I don't know that I need 45 minutes of my life used up to explain that.
• 1:48:02
  You
• 1:48:03
  do.
• 1:48:03
  You really do.
• 1:48:04
  It's very interesting.
• 1:48:05
  Uh huh.
• 1:48:05
  Next week on Mujeres Engañadas.
• 1:48:09
  Telenovela of Telemundo.
• 1:48:12
  Let's move on.
• 1:48:13
  How about Florida man stories?
• 1:48:15
  So we got a couple and we're going to kind of do maybe a reverse order this time.
• 1:48:18
  I'm going to start super serious and then we're going to end it on a high note.
• 1:48:22
  Oh man.
• 1:48:23
  You mean a low note?
• 1:48:24
  Oh, a high note.
• 1:48:27
  The first one is, uh, is really not funny at all.
• 1:48:29
  It's very quite serious.
• 1:48:31
  I hope the gentleman recovers, but I want to use it as a public service
• 1:48:35
  announcement for people who think that their neighborhood is, you know, The
• 1:48:39
  Indianapolis 500 straight away, because I would like to inform you that it
• 1:48:43
  is not, nor is anyone's neighborhood.
• 1:48:45
  So please drive accordingly.
• 1:48:47
  So there's a gentleman in Detroit who apparently brought up with the county,
• 1:48:52
  the city, whatever, that many, many people are speeding down the neighborhood street.
• 1:48:57
  Please put in speed bumps, please put in speed bumps.
• 1:49:00
  And I'm not a fan of speed bumps.
• 1:49:02
  Okay.
• 1:49:02
  By any stretch of the means, but he felt so strongly that
• 1:49:05
  he kept petitioning for this.
• 1:49:06
  They kept rejecting him.
• 1:49:08
  No, who knows?
• 1:49:08
  I mean, like Detroit can afford to put a speed bump in, right?
• 1:49:11
  I'm surprised the road is so smooth that someone can be
• 1:49:14
  speeding down it, but that aside.
• 1:49:16
  So unfortunately, and this was like caught on, I guess, surveillance video,
• 1:49:20
  the guy that had been petitioning for so long that People were speeding down
• 1:49:24
  his road, was going to turn into his driveway, make a left hand turn, and
• 1:49:27
  people started victim blaming immediately that, oh, his turn signal wasn't on.
• 1:49:31
  Well, okay, it's a neighborhood road.
• 1:49:33
  As he's turning in, he gets t boned by a guy in a pickup truck,
• 1:49:36
  basically doing twice whatever the speed limit in his neighborhood.
• 1:49:39
  I mean, it shoots him down two houses.
• 1:49:42
  The guy brain damage, all this other stuff.
• 1:49:45
  I mean, he got T boned by a freaking pickup truck and he was driving what
• 1:49:47
  looks to be possibly a 1991 Accord EX.
• 1:49:50
  No, no lie.
• 1:49:52
  Which
• 1:49:52
  where I know where he can get a brand new one.
• 1:49:54
  Versus like a modern day pickup truck.
• 1:49:57
  So, you know, He took one hell of a hit at whatever the speed was to get T Bone.
• 1:50:02
  So this poor man is probably fighting to survive right now.
• 1:50:05
  So please don't be an ass and drive respectively.
• 1:50:08
  There's no need to speed through the neighborhood.
• 1:50:10
  In a neighborhood, you should always assume that there's
• 1:50:12
  pets and kids and whatnot.
• 1:50:14
  Well, the best
• 1:50:15
  part is he's turning left into his driveway.
• 1:50:17
  And he gets T boned the truck going to the left.
• 1:50:21
  Why are you even driving that way?
• 1:50:23
  Yeah, that doesn't make sense.
• 1:50:24
  That being said, the same is true of the paddock.
• 1:50:26
  We sometimes forget, even at the racetrack, that paddock speed is as fast
• 1:50:29
  as you'd like to get run over by a car.
• 1:50:31
  I mean, I say that all the time during group meetings and
• 1:50:34
  briefings and stuff like that.
• 1:50:35
  So it's something to just keep in mind.
• 1:50:36
  There's no reason to be doing 60 mile an hour in a 20 mile an hour zone.
• 1:50:40
  But moving on to more idiots.
• 1:50:42
  Because we've kind of heard these stories already.
• 1:50:45
  I don't know what this new hotness is, but I'm going to let the title
• 1:50:48
  speak to itself and then move on.
• 1:50:50
  Some assholes in Camaro's stop traffic to do burnouts on a New Jersey turnpike.
• 1:50:55
  Wait, wait, that's the actual title of the article.
• 1:50:57
  That's
• 1:50:58
  the title of the article.
• 1:50:59
  Jalopnik is amazing.
• 1:51:02
  Nailed it on the head.
• 1:51:03
  Jalopnik.
• 1:51:04
  Well done.
• 1:51:05
  You captured it.
• 1:51:06
  I.
• 1:51:06
  Don't need to read the rest of the article.
• 1:51:10
  So also, public service announcement, don't be these people.
• 1:51:13
  Completely unnecessary.
• 1:51:14
  Go to your local skid pad at your local racetrack and do your donuts.
• 1:51:18
  For the gram!
• 1:51:19
  For the gram!
• 1:51:21
  For the moron.
• 1:51:22
  But For TikTok.
• 1:51:23
  TikTok
• 1:51:23
  these days.
• 1:51:24
  For TikTok.
• 1:51:25
  Now, to end it on a high note, have you watched the link?
• 1:51:27
  Of this YouTube video.
• 1:51:29
  I have seen this.
• 1:51:30
  Mad props to that guy.
• 1:51:34
  In his pull start, power wheels, whatever it was, peeling out of the local diner.
• 1:51:41
  He peeled out of that parking lot onto the road.
• 1:51:44
  That thing is fast.
• 1:51:46
  I think the best part of that video is the lady.
• 1:51:49
  And she's like, no, he didn't.
• 1:51:51
  And he's just like, burned down, like takes off.
• 1:51:53
  I was like, that's awesome.
• 1:51:55
  My favorite part is the Jolly Roger flag behind them.
• 1:51:57
  Yeah.
• 1:51:58
  It's street legal, right?
• 1:52:00
  Yeah, definitely Florida's Waffle House.
• 1:52:02
  It's downstate.
• 1:52:03
  All right.
• 1:52:04
  Well, it's time for us to go behind the wall, the pit wall
• 1:52:07
  and talk about motor sports news.
• 1:52:09
  We talked a little bit already about the F1 season, drive to survive, et cetera.
• 1:52:12
  And there is.
• 1:52:14
  a constant revolving door of schedule changes this year, just
• 1:52:18
  like last year for Formula One.
• 1:52:20
  So I'm going to kind of summarize two of them.
• 1:52:23
  Miami is on the docket for May of 2022.
• 1:52:26
  So next year, the Formula One Grand Prix of America is in Florida.
• 1:52:30
  So very curious to see how that turns out.
• 1:52:32
  And rumors indicate that Indianapolis.
• 1:52:36
  May return as a replacement for the canceled Japanese Grand Prix.
• 1:52:42
  Now we ran six to seven American Grand Prix's at Indianapolis, especially
• 1:52:48
  the one where, you know, three teams ran and there were only six cars on
• 1:52:50
  track because they were boycotting the tires and that whole situation.
• 1:52:54
  You know, there was a lot of interesting years at Indy.
• 1:52:57
  I went to a bunch of them myself along with some of our other members
• 1:53:00
  in GTM, but it's cool to see Indy coming back on the calendar, even if
• 1:53:04
  it is Just as a substitute teacher.
• 1:53:06
  But I think there's even bigger news that Tanya alluded to coming to Formula
• 1:53:10
  One in the next couple of years.
• 1:53:12
  Michael Andretti has announced that he's trying to throw his hat into
• 1:53:16
  the Formula One ring and bring a U.
• 1:53:18
  S.
• 1:53:18
  team into the mix.
• 1:53:20
  I'm glad he didn't say he was coming back to Formula One, because if anybody
• 1:53:24
  grew up watching Michael Andretti in Formula One, it was not so good.
• 1:53:28
  The Andretti name.
• 1:53:30
  Carries a lot of weight.
• 1:53:31
  His dad, Mario, Formula One champion, right?
• 1:53:34
  He's actually a triple crown winner.
• 1:53:36
  Le Mans, Indianapolis, and F1.
• 1:53:40
  It's a long legacy there.
• 1:53:41
  The Andretti family, you know, kind of kicking ass and taking names.
• 1:53:43
  I would really like to see this happen because Andretti making a play for
• 1:53:46
  Formula One will be the first of its kind.
• 1:53:48
  Fully American team, American cars, American owned, American drivers in
• 1:53:53
  Formula One, I think almost ever.
• 1:53:56
  So that'll be a first.
• 1:53:57
  I mean, granted there's Haas as an American owned team, but
• 1:54:00
  employees, you know, foreign drivers.
• 1:54:02
  So this would be really, really cool to see this, this play out.
• 1:54:05
  Meanwhile, in the world of IMSA, BMW is making a play, not just
• 1:54:11
  in LMBH, but in GT3, the BMW M4.
• 1:54:16
  is set to race in the Super GT series next year.
• 1:54:19
  On top of that, a Portland teen is set to become the
• 1:54:22
  youngest driver in Le Mans ever.
• 1:54:26
  He will be 15 years old when he takes the green flag.
• 1:54:31
  at Le Mans in 2022.
• 1:54:33
  Wrap your head around that.
• 1:54:35
  Not sure how that plays out, how that works, but cool to see a young
• 1:54:39
  American driver on such a big stage.
• 1:54:42
  You know, the biggest stage, the Le Mans 24 hours.
• 1:54:45
  We now have yet another bid!
• 1:54:47
  Lamborghini is not alone!
• 1:54:49
  In making their bid this month to go to the 2023 running of LeMans,
• 1:54:53
  which Lamborghini running LeMans.
• 1:54:55
  Isn't that really Audi?
• 1:54:56
  I wanted to mention that earlier, but Hey, you know, it's their way in the door.
• 1:55:01
  But Cadillac has also confirmed that they are making a bid to go to LeMans too.
• 1:55:06
  So it's going to be an action packed hundredth anniversary of LeMans.
• 1:55:10
  I can't wait to see it in person going to be absolutely amazing.
• 1:55:13
  But what we need to do is take a moment and talk about.
• 1:55:16
  This year's 89th running of Le Mans, the 98th anniversary of
• 1:55:22
  the first Le Mans here in 2021.
• 1:55:24
  Brad, what'd you think?
• 1:55:25
  I know you watched the race.
• 1:55:26
  We didn't do our viewing party this year like we always do.
• 1:55:29
  I stayed up as long as I could and I think I got the most sleep of
• 1:55:33
  any Le Mans race I've ever watched.
• 1:55:35
  I actually did not watch the race.
• 1:55:37
  Out of the 24 hours I was able to watch maybe about a half hour.
• 1:55:42
  What?
• 1:55:43
  But I've got other pressing life Events going on right now.
• 1:55:47
  So I did not get to
• 1:55:48
  tell
• 1:55:51
  that to my eight month pregnant wife.
• 1:55:55
  I did see the new hyper car class.
• 1:55:57
  Uh, or at least I guess the early makings of the new hyper car class.
• 1:56:01
  Oh, you mean the
• 1:56:02
  LMP2 cars with slightly boosted motors?
• 1:56:04
  Yeah.
• 1:56:05
  I thought some of them actually looked really cool though.
• 1:56:07
  I will say this, the Glickenhaus car, which was the big to do, the announcers
• 1:56:12
  in the middle of the night, and because I was up late watching it, and
• 1:56:14
  like I said, I did watch most of it.
• 1:56:16
  They mentioned that the Glickenhaus team, which is, you know, Scudiera,
• 1:56:20
  Glickenhaus, this whole nonsense name that they came up with.
• 1:56:24
  Is supposedly the prototype for the Peugeot nine X eight that we talked
• 1:56:30
  about last month, kind of cool to see it.
• 1:56:32
  So they're using it as a test mule, this weird hyper car class that they
• 1:56:36
  have, you know, it's supposed to be a mixture of like DPI and like all
• 1:56:39
  the LMP and all this kind of thing.
• 1:56:41
  Right now, the cars that were running in there outside of the Glickenhaus car
• 1:56:45
  were basically boosted LMP two cars.
• 1:56:49
  I was really excited for team Alpine Alpine, depending on You know, which
• 1:56:54
  accent you use the Matt Moots car, basically under the auspices of, Hey,
• 1:56:59
  it's a Renault and it's a Renault power plant, everything on Nissan, whatever,
• 1:57:04
  you know, whatever effort they were calling it under, but that Alpine,
• 1:57:08
  it had a chance of beating Toyota,
• 1:57:12
  if
• 1:57:12
  the circumstances.
• 1:57:14
  For Toyota went sideways on them, which is the same thing we say every year.
• 1:57:18
  If it falls apart on Toyota, they're going to lose and an LMP
• 1:57:21
  two car is going to win, whatever.
• 1:57:23
  But that Alpine or Alpine did a really great job in terms
• 1:57:27
  of its qualifying lap times.
• 1:57:28
  It was very much on pace with the Toyota hybrid.
• 1:57:32
  So I was very excited to see that.
• 1:57:34
  That means there is potential next year, depending on how things play out in this
• 1:57:38
  new LMDH class and hypercar class, what the competition is going to be like.
• 1:57:42
  What I haven't heard yet though, is Toyota's bid for 2023.
• 1:57:47
  So I'm wondering if they're going to bow out gracefully, maybe
• 1:57:50
  next year or even unspoken this year, like maybe this was it.
• 1:57:54
  And next year as Porsche and other folks are got to be testing.
• 1:57:58
  I mean, they're not going to come to the big stage without testing something.
• 1:58:01
  I'm really curious to see how 22 plays out, but as just like last year's
• 1:58:05
  Le Mans kind of took me by surprise because I forgot it was in August,
• 1:58:09
  but also it was really unexciting and Corvette suffered a bunch of problems.
• 1:58:15
  The Porsches were still privateer cars.
• 1:58:17
  Ferrari pretty much swept the GT class.
• 1:58:20
  Good for them.
• 1:58:21
  The same folks that are doing the AF Corsa cars are also building the Ferrari LMDH
• 1:58:27
  cars that are going to come out in 2023.
• 1:58:29
  to see more of a presence from Corsa as well.
• 1:58:33
  I found it oddly disconcerting that I was really excited about the
• 1:58:37
  LMD2 class more than anything else.
• 1:58:39
  So that speaks volumes as to this race.
• 1:58:41
  And I'm sure there's people that are going to be out there.
• 1:58:43
  Oh my God, imagine it was.
• 1:58:44
  It was boring.
• 1:58:45
  All right.
• 1:58:46
  I'm going to just flat out say it.
• 1:58:47
  It was boring.
• 1:58:48
  And I can't wait for 2023 when we actually get some brands back on the table
• 1:58:52
  competing for a proper championship and not a bunch of let's stick it in there so
• 1:58:57
  that Toyota isn't running by themselves.
• 1:58:59
  Well, two things, one Toyota's next entry is going to be the BMW
• 1:59:03
  Supra and two, the Glickenhaus is the car that I was looking at.
• 1:59:07
  It was like, damn, that car looks really good.
• 1:59:09
  It's a really awesome looking race car.
• 1:59:11
  It reminds me of the old days of like.
• 1:59:13
  Group c imsa Can-Am with like the nine 60 twos.
• 1:59:17
  It kind of has that look to it.
• 1:59:18
  It's like an old school prototype car, which again, I'm
• 1:59:22
  like, Mercedes, hello Salberg.
• 1:59:25
  Let's do something here.
• 1:59:26
  You know, I'd also select to see Mazda come back.
• 1:59:28
  I mean it granted their whole sky, active diesel, whatever the heck that
• 1:59:33
  DPI thing was, they were running an imsa.
• 1:59:35
  wasn't so great.
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  I mean, there's an opportunity for Acura here, Honda McLaren, whatever.
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  I mean, there's a bunch of other names that could still come to
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  the table in the next two years.
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  So I'm really, again, excited for 2023, but 2021, a little bit of a letdown.
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  I'm just glad that Le Mans wasn't canceled.
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  That's pretty much it.
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  I would say the grandstands weren't full.
• 1:59:55
  There were definitely spectators there.
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  And as typical of any Lamont's race, it was more exciting at
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  night, which forces you to stay up.
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  The, the announcer shut up and you can actually watch the race.
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  It's more exciting at night than it is during the daytime
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  hours.
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  And do we want to talk on the changes in the schedule and when the next races are?
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  I think the IMSA Petit Le Mans has changed and the VAR race has changed as well.
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  I think they're both within like a couple, like a, like a month of each other.
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  I think one's in October, one's in November.
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  Because Lamont's.
• 2:00:26
  Slid from typical father's day weekend to this August date right now, which
• 2:00:31
  hopefully it'll slide back to the middle of summer, the VIR race and the petite
• 2:00:37
  Lamont has slid way into the fall.
• 2:00:39
  Again, I'm going to be watching those.
• 2:00:40
  I will say that the WEC schedule has been severely disrupted
• 2:00:45
  because of Lamont's moving.
• 2:00:47
  So the final two WEC races are going to be held at Bahrain, a six and eight
• 2:00:52
  hour race in September and October.
• 2:00:54
  I think it was, I looked and for What I understand, none of those
• 2:00:58
  folks really like running at Bahrain.
• 2:01:00
  They just don't like the track.
• 2:01:01
  They don't like the layout.
• 2:01:02
  So to have two races less than a month apart, it's kind of a
• 2:01:06
  womp womp for the WC season.
• 2:01:08
  If you're into watching that particular series, which is
• 2:01:11
  available on like motorsport.
• 2:01:13
  tv and, you know, places like that, but I think we need to move on to.
• 2:01:17
  F.
• 2:01:17
  I.
• 2:01:17
  M.
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  The Motorcycle Racing Series.
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  What do we got,
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  Tanya?
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  Talked about him before.
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  Likely GOAT Valentino Rossi has finally announced that he will
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  retire from motorcycle racing at the end of this season.
• 2:01:31
  That is a shame.
• 2:01:33
  It's probably inevitable.
• 2:01:34
  I mean, he's getting up on years.
• 2:01:35
  Motorcycle racing is definitely its own beast.
• 2:01:39
  You need to be a young man.
• 2:01:41
  I think you got to have those reaction times and whatnot.
• 2:01:45
  And you know, the fact that he hasn't really been winning in the last
• 2:01:47
  couple of years does not detract and how skilled he is because he's still
• 2:01:51
  wildly skilled, but when you're, I forget how old he is, 40s already,
• 2:01:56
  like, and you're competing against.
• 2:01:57
  People aren't even 20.
• 2:01:59
  It's just not the same, but I mean, kudos for him.
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  Congratulations.
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  He's still a young man.
• 2:02:03
  There's, you know, speculation, rumor.
• 2:02:05
  What's he going to go on to next?
• 2:02:06
  Could we see him in DTM?
• 2:02:08
  I already know that he usually competes in a couple of races a year in WRC.
• 2:02:12
  So could he do more there?
• 2:02:15
  I don't think this is probably the last we'll hear of him.
• 2:02:17
  So I've heard
• 2:02:18
  he's heading to IMSA.
• 2:02:21
  I'm super excited about that.
• 2:02:23
  So Valentino Rossi might be on the schedule for IMSA and maybe
• 2:02:27
  Valentino will be at the 2023 Le Mans.
• 2:02:30
  What's up?
• 2:02:31
  So I'm really excited about that.
• 2:02:32
  Don't know which team he's signing with, but I'm going to be keeping tabs on this.
• 2:02:35
  I'm sure you will too.
• 2:02:37
  Big name like that.
• 2:02:38
  Moving from motorcycles into cars, not necessarily a bad thing.
• 2:02:41
  Again, I mentioned this about Lewis Hamilton.
• 2:02:42
  Try something different.
• 2:02:43
  He's And again, like you said, behind the wheel of a prototype or
• 2:02:47
  even a GT car, he's still got a lot of years ahead of him because look
• 2:02:51
  at somebody like Yann Magnussen.
• 2:02:53
  I mean, I feel like he's the elder statesman of IMSA Le Mans right now.
• 2:02:58
  The guy is still blindingly fast, feel bad for the wreck that he was
• 2:03:02
  involved in, you know, the middle of the night, which basically took him
• 2:03:05
  out of the running in the LMP2 cars.
• 2:03:08
  But you know, it is what it is.
• 2:03:09
  You know, we'll look to next year and see Yang Magnuson yet
• 2:03:11
  again out there on the WEC stage.
• 2:03:14
  So what else for Valentino?
• 2:03:15
  Is there a little bit more news?
• 2:03:16
  I think we have congratulations in order because he is also
• 2:03:20
  going to be a father to be.
• 2:03:22
  So he and
• 2:03:23
  his girlfriend are going to be expecting a little girl apparently.
• 2:03:27
  So congratulations to them.
• 2:03:29
  So maybe another Rossi and FIM in the future.
• 2:03:32
  This time a female.
• 2:03:34
  Think about that.
• 2:03:34
  That would be something very exciting.
• 2:03:36
  Well, that's it for our motorsport news.
• 2:03:38
  Now we need to jump into our quick little recap of our local news here at GTM HQ.
• 2:03:44
  And I want to remind everybody and thank everybody again, that came out
• 2:03:48
  to our charity event at the end of July, beginning of August, uh, our
• 2:03:53
  summer bash seven in conjunction with auto interest summit point American
• 2:03:58
  cancer society, we raised over 90, 000.
• 2:04:03
  200.
• 2:04:03
  That's 9, 200 on behalf of the American Cancer Society.
• 2:04:07
  That was our biggest, baddest, best fundraising event yet.
• 2:04:11
  Can't thank everybody enough that showed up and participated from the
• 2:04:14
  people that came out and volunteered.
• 2:04:16
  It worked the event that were part of the car show, our members that were
• 2:04:19
  there for our anniversary reunion.
• 2:04:21
  Fantastic event.
• 2:04:22
  It was a lot of fun.
• 2:04:23
  It was a long four days after it was said and done.
• 2:04:26
  And right behind that, We went to Carolina motorsports park and met our
• 2:04:31
  friends at just track it face to face.
• 2:04:34
  I will say this about Carolina motorsport park.
• 2:04:37
  If you haven't driven it yet, go drive it.
• 2:04:39
  It is a heck of a lot of fun.
• 2:04:42
  I wasn't sure what to think of it when I was looking at, you know, track maps
• 2:04:45
  and videos, another one of those types of tracks that doesn't do it justice.
• 2:04:49
  I unfortunately learned the track as quickly as I could in the rain,
• 2:04:52
  but that quickly translated to some.
• 2:04:54
  Awesome dry laps about midday on the first day and throughout the entire weekend.
• 2:04:58
  So I can't recommend going there enough.
• 2:05:00
  If you haven't tried it, if it's on your list of tracks to get out to, and
• 2:05:03
  you've been kind of like, ah, I'm not sure if I want to make the drive, it's
• 2:05:06
  definitely worth checking out and check it out with our friends at just track it.
• 2:05:09
  They run a fantastic event, very affordable, well run, very well
• 2:05:13
  organized, right on point and a big shout out and a thank you to Nabil
• 2:05:17
  and his team for inviting us down and letting us experience a CMP together.
• 2:05:23
  Our trackside report brought to you by hpdejunkie.
• 2:05:27
  com.
• 2:05:27
  What's coming in the next couple of months, there are still a ton of events.
• 2:05:30
  I mean, Hooked on Driving's got an event this week at Summit Point, Maine.
• 2:05:34
  You've got Chin all over the place.
• 2:05:36
  You got PCA.
• 2:05:37
  I mean, there are events still booked.
• 2:05:39
  Day in and day out now through Audi's event in November at VIR.
• 2:05:45
  So I don't want to list them all.
• 2:05:46
  I could just recommend going to HPD junkie.
• 2:05:48
  com and checking it out.
• 2:05:49
  But a couple of things that fall in line with our trackside report, join us,
• 2:05:53
  the GTM team for our end of year bash, what we refer to as the animal house.
• 2:05:58
  Yes, we're going yet again to Watkins Glen that's October 22nd through 24th.
• 2:06:04
  That's.
• 2:06:05
  Three days on track with hooked on driving at the famous, maybe infamous Watkins
• 2:06:10
  Glen full circuit Lake Seneca in New York.
• 2:06:13
  So if you haven't checked it out before, it's breathtaking.
• 2:06:16
  It's beautiful.
• 2:06:17
  It's enormous.
• 2:06:17
  It's fast.
• 2:06:18
  It's fun.
• 2:06:19
  If Watkins Glen is a bucket list track.
• 2:06:21
  Get it done.
• 2:06:22
  There's no excuses.
• 2:06:23
  It's absolutely amazing.
• 2:06:24
  And it will become one of your favorites by far.
• 2:06:27
  Talked last year about Oak Ridge and new tracks coming to the Tennessee Valley,
• 2:06:33
  the Smoky Mountains and things like that.
• 2:06:34
  Turns out that we know didn't happen.
• 2:06:37
  It got shut down, but there's a new track.
• 2:06:39
  Coming to Missouri.
• 2:06:41
  It's called the Ozarks International Raceway and it was slated to open in
• 2:06:45
  2021 to Tanya's point about other things that are supposed to happen in 2021.
• 2:06:49
  It's already come and gone.
• 2:06:51
  So what we're going to do is we're going to pay attention to HPD junkie.
• 2:06:54
  com and see when Ozark gets added to the roster and who's going there first.
• 2:07:00
  It's within reach, even from the DMV folks to get out there.
• 2:07:03
  It's within that 12 to 14 hour window that you can try a new track and the track
• 2:07:09
  map, the aerial view looks pretty good.
• 2:07:11
  It looks kind of exciting.
• 2:07:12
  I'm interested to check it out.
• 2:07:14
  I can only imagine that out in the mountains, it's going to
• 2:07:16
  have some elevation changes.
• 2:07:17
  For next year, as we kind of pre plan our schedule, we're going to be looking
• 2:07:21
  again to Dave and the HPD junky schedule to figure out when there's going to be
• 2:07:25
  events at places like Club Motorsport.
• 2:07:27
  Palmer Motorsports Park, National Corvette, Gingerman,
• 2:07:31
  and maybe Road America.
• 2:07:33
  So these are some of the things we're talking about for next year.
• 2:07:36
  So if you're a hardcore, what we call cannonballer and want to do
• 2:07:39
  some long distance caravanning and go experience a new track together,
• 2:07:43
  or go to a track you've been to before with a great group of people.
• 2:07:45
  We've got you covered.
• 2:07:46
  Let us know, get involved in our cannonball runs.
• 2:07:48
  Those are the types of tracks we're looking at.
• 2:07:50
  So a little sneak peek.
• 2:07:51
  Usually we reveal this in the fall, but those are the things we're thinking about.
• 2:07:54
  Drop us a note, let us know which one you're interested in, and we'll try to
• 2:07:58
  coordinate with you to get it out there.
• 2:07:59
  And also remember to check out HBD junkie.
• 2:08:01
  com for who's going to be there.
• 2:08:03
  Who's going to be hosting events and when you can get on track sooner than later.
• 2:08:07
  And in case you missed out, check out the other podcast episodes
• 2:08:10
  that aired earlier this month.
• 2:08:11
  We talk suspension 101 with Jake and James from PowerFlex USA.
• 2:08:15
  an engineering company devoted to improving your street and
• 2:08:18
  track handling experience.
• 2:08:19
  We chatted with fellow petrol head Mark Schenck as we discussed
• 2:08:22
  which 90s icon he should consider in a what should I buy episode.
• 2:08:26
  We talked STEM and eSports with David L.
• 2:08:28
  Middleton of MyRacing and got a first hand account of his incredible
• 2:08:32
  journey of becoming an American race engineer at the Nurburgring.
• 2:08:35
  And lastly, don't miss the full length Pit Stop episode with
• 2:08:39
  Porsche enthusiast Mark Porto.
• 2:08:40
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• 2:08:44
  featured in the new book, The Beltsville Shell, You Are What You Drive.
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• 2:08:51
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• 2:08:53
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  Uh, we have one shout out.
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  Uh, we talked about him earlier in this episode.
• 2:09:41
  He was over at Monterey historics car week, uh, this, uh, past
• 2:09:44
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  You know, Brad birthdays are special, but how about some anniversaries in the club?
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  I want to give a big shout out to folks like Rob Lors, who's been on break fix
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  Fellow instructor, Brett Sonderby celebrating four years with
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  GTM, Andrew Maureen, Lauren Thompson, celebrating a year.
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  And we picked up a couple new members this month as well.
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