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A Monkey Crashed Our Kia Review · In Wheel Time Podcast

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Don Armstrong: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
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Don Armstrong: We got a lot going on here.
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Don Armstrong: It is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show today coming to you from Team Gilman and the big Mega Me.
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Don Armstrong: We're going to have Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars do his Mustang GT review.
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Don Armstrong: I didn't get a Mustang GT to review, but you did.
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Don Armstrong: Thank you.
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Don Armstrong: He's also going to uh worm his way in here and do seven racetracks worth visiting.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, that's coming up in this next second.
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Don Armstrong: Uh howdy, and uh welcome to the Unreal Time Car Talk Show.
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Don Armstrong: Along with Mike out of this world Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeken.
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Don Armstrong: And Chief Engineer David Ainsley has decided to join us today.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us.
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Don Armstrong: Oh my God.
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Don Armstrong: Oh my gosh.
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Don Armstrong: Did you bring people with you?
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Don Armstrong: It's just you?
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Don Armstrong: You just stopped by to see Grandpa.
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Don Armstrong: She's Grandpa.
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Jeff Dziekan: She's gonna win a car.
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Jeff Dziekan: She wants to win a car.
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh, I see.
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Don Armstrong: Well, that's a good idea.
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Mike Marrs: I'm gonna go to each dealership back to my page.
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Mike Marrs: She can't say that.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Well, let's move on with things.
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Don Armstrong: Uh so it's Jeff's daughter.
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Don Armstrong: She's up here.
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Don Armstrong: Um let's do Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars and the Mustang GT, Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars.
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Mike Marrs: Got me, right?
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Mike Marrs: All right.
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Mike Marrs: Ready to go.
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Mike Marrs: We are ready to go.
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Mike Marrs: So this is the 2025 Ford Mustang GT Convertible.
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Mike Marrs: Drop top premiere.
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Mike Marrs: Now this vehicle was final assembly in Flat Rock of all places.
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Mike Marrs: It is the seventh generation of the Mustang, and it was reintroduced in 2024.
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Mike Marrs: So 25 is kind of a carryover.
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Mike Marrs: You can get the Mustang in an EcoBoost, an EcoBoost Premium, GT, GT Premium, or you can get the Dark Horse they just came out with.
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Don Armstrong: Well, was it C.
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Don Armstrong: You think the Dark Horse?
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Don Armstrong: I think I'll have that.
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Mike Marrs: So the GT Premium is where we were at with the convertible.
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Mike Marrs: And uh it's considered a sports car, and it's a four-passenger.
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Mike Marrs: Now, I'm sure anybody trying to get in the backseat might argue that with you, but it is considered a four-passenger vehicle.
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Mike Marrs: Got uh one thing I really liked about it, I was a little concerned, the roof, the convertible roof on it, is fully lined, cloth top.
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Mike Marrs: And uh, so it's really good at keeping out some of the sound.
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Mike Marrs: It seals up really good whenever you got the top up.
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Mike Marrs: Up front, you're gonna find automatic LED headlights.
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Mike Marrs: It's got a hood vent that actually not a hood scoop, but a hood vent up front that looks like an inverted.
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Mike Marrs: I think Subaru once upon a time was doing inverted hood scoops on it.
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Mike Marrs: Garrain sensing wipers and all those good things, but it also has Rimbo brakes with a premium lining on it.
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Mike Marrs: So you got the red calipers with the white lettering on it, and it's got some 19-inch black aluminum wheels.
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Mike Marrs: So you put all that with the bright red paint that's on it, the black hood scoop or hood vent and the black top on it.
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Mike Marrs: It's really nice looking.
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Mike Marrs: Going down the road, give you a ticket red.
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Mike Marrs: So uh inside we had a 12.4-inch LCD instrument cluster, so we got lots of room up there to see things.
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Mike Marrs: Got a 13.2-inch LED center stack.
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Mike Marrs: That's where you're gonna find all your convenience controls, your rear view camera, which works really well in that big of a screen.
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Mike Marrs: Now the front seats are very comfortable, front bucket seats, sports car, and uh even had the red matching seat belts on it.
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Mike Marrs: And but there is an optional Ricaro seats available in this car.
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Mike Marrs: It would have been nice to see how they worked in this convertible, make it a little bit cooler.
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Mike Marrs: Uh the back seat, like I said, enough said on that.
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Mike Marrs: Has the BO audio system with 12 speakers.
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Mike Marrs: Now we didn't have the opportunity because of the weather to drop the top and just how much ire we could raise with the neighbors, but uh it sounds pretty good with the top down.
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Mike Marrs: Under the hood, this is where it gets good.
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Mike Marrs: 5.0 liter V8, 480 horsepower.
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Don Armstrong: Do your neighbors have ire?
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Mike Marrs: Well, uh, the lady next door, I think she does.
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Mike Marrs: She, when I get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and leave, she gets a little irritated.
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Don Armstrong: Irritated.
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Don Armstrong: So you raise her ire.
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Don Armstrong: Yes.
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Don Armstrong: She's ired all the time, but you raise the ire.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, at her age, it's kind of hard to tell.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Mike Marrs: So again, we got this true.
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Don Armstrong: VS true 400.
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Jeff Dziekan: Do you know the next door neighbor?
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Jeff Dziekan: She doesn't want to she can neither confirm nor deny.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, she can't because she still needs a ride home.
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Mike Marrs: It's also got a 10-speed automatic.
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Mike Marrs: We didn't have the six-speed in it, but it does have the 10-speed automatic.
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Mike Marrs: Your engine combination that you can get with the car in the Mustang kind of dictates which transmission options you have available.
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Mike Marrs: Now the EPA says you should be looking for about 16 miles to the gallon in the city, 24 out on the highway, 19 combined.
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Mike Marrs: I drove this car 325.3 miles, including the the trip over here to kind of check things out to know how we were going to set up over here to pre-survey everything.
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Mike Marrs: And I got 20 miles to the gallon on that car, and I was really proud of that.
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Mike Marrs: Also, uh, as far as ride handling goes, of course it's almost like driving a go-kart.
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Mike Marrs: It has the performance vehicle, so it's got a little bit stiffer uh suspension on it, more for road handling and stuff, but it does make it ride a little bit rougher.
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Mike Marrs: Um, the bigger and the wider tires that are on this car, on this GT, has uh a little bit more road noise on it.
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Mike Marrs: It also has 355 gears on it, so it is uh got plenty of get up and go juice.
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Mike Marrs: Now the base trim price on this vehicle that we were driving is$56,580.
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Mike Marrs: The base model price on a Mustang is$33,915.
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Mike Marrs: Our MSRP as tested,$72,245.
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Mike Marrs: Really wow.
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Mike Marrs: So almost$20,000 of options between the performance package and some of the paint and some of the other things that were on here, the audio system, all of it that kind of adds up.
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Mike Marrs: If you're looking for something to compare it to, you know, maybe the Toyota GR Supra starts at$56,250.
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Mike Marrs: Okay.
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Mike Marrs: The uh Nissan Z Nismo, unfortunately, it starts at 62.
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Mike Marrs: Okay.
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Mike Marrs: You could get into a Z cheaper than that, but the Nismo seem to be more like a fair comparison.
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Mike Marrs: And really and truly, I uh again, Mustang's been around for years.
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Mike Marrs: It's got staying power.
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Mike Marrs: Got staying power.
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Mike Marrs: It's a very fun, daily driver capable car to have.
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Jeff Dziekan: They seem to be getting bigger and bigger every year.
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Jeff Dziekan: There's one right there.
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Mike Marrs: Well, they all get bigger, everything's getting bigger.
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Mike Marrs: It's it's it's uh we need to be.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, they don't make any competitors to it.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's true.
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Jeff Dziekan: The Camaro is gone.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, exactly.
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Jeff Dziekan: The Camaro, the Challenger, and the ones you mentioned are are you know things you don't think of.
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Don Armstrong: Listen, that car is cool.
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Jeff Dziekan: It is, but it's it's it's not it's bigger.
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Jeff Dziekan: You can barely see the hood on the on the shot there.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, it's uh it and it's a six-cylinder.
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Don Armstrong: Is it in there long?
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Jeff Dziekan: Is that the hurricane?
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Mike Marrs: It's the hurricane, yeah.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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Mike Marrs: I've never seen one.
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Don Armstrong: Well, there's I haven't either.
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Don Armstrong: And it's not sh sitting in the long ways, I don't think.
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Don Armstrong: I can't tell, but if it is, uh I'm surprised.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I thought that was rear-wheel drive.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, the young man, I think he's over there uh looking at the other car.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I think he is.
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Don Armstrong: All right, uh find him.
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Don Armstrong: So, Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Morris, we're gonna have you continue on your trek here of being on the air, because you have done nothing to contribute to the show up to this.
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Jeff Dziekan: Gummit running errands, he's making lunches.
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Don Armstrong: I know.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, you got the bannays and bologna sandwiches, or what?
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Mike Marrs: Well, I I looked for some of the cheese mixed with the baloney, the cheese and baloney slices, but I couldn't find it.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, on your way home, stop at a come and go and get a hot dog.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, come and now for seven racetracks worth visiting.
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Mike Marrs: So we looked at seven, I mean, we started looking at racetracks.
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Mike Marrs: There's racetracks all over the state, all over the country, different kinds, everything.
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Don Armstrong: But are they still open?
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Mike Marrs: So, so this is more of uh seven underrated U.S.
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Mike Marrs: racetracks that are worth visiting if you really decide you just want to go.
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Mike Marrs: Some people go to baseball parks and football stadiums, go to racetracks.
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Mike Marrs: So, one of them we want to talk about is Road America.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is the classic natural terrain remote.
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Mike Marrs: Wisconsin.
8:16
Mike Marrs: Yes.
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Mike Marrs: It's four miles, goes through the hills and forests of Wisconsin.
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Mike Marrs: You got a lot of long straights, so you get a lot of speed up, technical corners to make them slow down and try to maneuver around through the laps.
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Mike Marrs: But the thing about this track is there's a lot of fan freedom.
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Mike Marrs: There's a lot of places the spectators can run along big areas of the track to see it.
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Mike Marrs: And because of the elevation in the hills and stuff, you can get up and you can kind of see it.
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Mike Marrs: Uh and then uh it's special, it's considered one of the purest road courses in North America.
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Mike Marrs: Now, the another one I wanted to mention is the Virginia International Raceway.
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Mike Marrs: This one has a lot of elevation changes, which is what makes it kind of work really different from everybody else.
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Mike Marrs: You got uh a lot of places you can get the speed, but they've got flowing corners.
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Mike Marrs: It doesn't have the really long straight speed uh straightaways to where you're gonna get up the maximum speed that you're gonna get in a lot of people.
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Don Armstrong: And what's the name of that place?
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Mike Marrs: Virginia International Raceway.
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Mike Marrs: Now it's called VIR.
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Mike Marrs: That's kind of the abbreviation for it.
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Mike Marrs: I've heard of that one.
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Mike Marrs: But it's Virginia International Raceway.
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Jeff Dziekan: I've heard of VIR.
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Mike Marrs: And uh it's considered one of the better driving tracks that's in the country.
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Mike Marrs: And it because people go out there, they think feel like it's like a more like a country club track where everybody's just it's not like real media heavy whenever people go out there.
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Mike Marrs: Then the other thing is going up to uh the Weather Tech Raceway at Laguna Seca.
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Don Armstrong: Now this is not the Weather Tech, that's Laguna Seca.
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Don Armstrong: Weather Tech is sponsoring it.
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Don Armstrong: Exactly.
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Don Armstrong: They're paying them a lot of money to have their name at the top of it.
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Mike Marrs: And if you go look at any sign it says WeatherTech.
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Don Armstrong: Anyway, they're not spending any money with us.
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Don Armstrong: No, I know.
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Mike Marrs: But it's one of the things that it's famous for is because of it's got a corkscrew term with a sudden downhill left-right sequence that drops several stories in elevation.
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Mike Marrs: So you really kind of drop down on it.
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Mike Marrs: I've never driven that track.
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Mike Marrs: I've seen the signs as I drove by.
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Mike Marrs: But uh, it's uh in the hills near Monterey, California.
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Mike Marrs: Got a lot of scenic views, so you get a lot of exciting racing.
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Mike Marrs: Fans can sit on the grassy hillsides and watch them, which is one of the things that makes these tracks a little different.
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Mike Marrs: You're not parked your butt in the sands, stands all day.
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Mike Marrs: You can actually get out and enjoy some of the outside of it.
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Mike Marrs: Uh another racetrack is going to be the Seabring International Raceway.
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Mike Marrs: It's one of the oldest and toughest circuits in North America, originally built on an old World War II airfield.
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Mike Marrs: So it's all got concrete surfaces that can get kind of rough and uh makes things really challenging for the cars and the drivers because it's going to eat on tires pretty hard as well as the car.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is where you're going to find the 12 hours of sievering sometimes.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, I mean, that's a race that you can go there to see.
11:05
Mike Marrs: And it's more like old school racing.
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Mike Marrs: So a lot of people like there going to that gritty atmosphere, uh racing tradition, and you can actually camp there.
11:14
Mike Marrs: So if you're really interested in that, it's a really great place to go.
11:17
Mike Marrs: It's bumpy, it's brutal, and one of the toughest tracks for the drivers.
11:22
Mike Marrs: The other one, uh the Barber Motorsports Park.
11:26
Mike Marrs: Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
11:27
Mike Marrs: Wait, let's get the mid-Ohio.
11:28
Mike Marrs: Uh-oh.
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Jeff Dziekan: Where did Mid-Ohio go?
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Jeff Dziekan: Here it is.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's in Ohio.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, it's in Ohio.
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Mike Marrs: Mid-Ohio is a technical layout track and it uh flows through the wooded hills and elevation changes.
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Mike Marrs: And it's whole major series like indie car series there.
11:42
Mike Marrs: It's kind of a small track, but it's considered to be very technical.
11:48
Mike Marrs: Then we'll go to Barber.
11:49
Mike Marrs: Barber.
11:50
Mike Marrs: Barber.
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Mike Marrs: Barber Motorsports Park is considered one of the most beautiful racing facilities.
11:56
Mike Marrs: Why did it do that?
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Mike Marrs: In the world.
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Mike Marrs: It's got a lot of grass, a lot of sculpted places around the circuit to kind of make it look really nice.
12:04
Mike Marrs: Kind of a botanical garden area.
12:06
Mike Marrs: It's got smooth pavement, flowing corners, so you get a lot of racing for motorcycles there and the cars alike.
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Mike Marrs: Got a uh actually also has the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum on the site.
12:18
Mike Marrs: So you get a combination of the two, including the Indy Car Grand Prix of Alabama.
12:24
Mike Marrs: Road Atlanta is the last one that we're going to talk about right quick.
12:28
Mike Marrs: It's known for its fast flowing layout, dramatic elevation changes, and uh got a lot of high speed, steep downhill run.
12:38
Mike Marrs: The uh Imsa Sports Car Championship season runs through there.
12:41
Mike Marrs: And they have again fans like the classic feel of it, being able to sit on the grassy hillsides, being able to get to the areas where you can see the cars really well.
12:52
Mike Marrs: And that is seven racetracks that uh are much underrated and uh offer opportunities to go and see some different kinds of racing and different feels to the track.
13:02
Don Armstrong: You know, you know, I was just telling David, I said, you know, I would really like to get the Corvette to sound like that, or at least be able to do that.
13:11
Don Armstrong: The only thing that I could really think to do that is to introduce some nitromethane into it.
13:16
Don Armstrong: And if that didn't work it, then mistime it so I could get it to backfire a lot.
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Jeff Dziekan: You I could you could do that tomorrow, you just buy one of the WRX cars.
13:27
Don Armstrong: No, no, no, I know I'm telling I know that.
13:29
Don Armstrong: But I'm talking about the Corvette.
13:31
Mike Marrs: Oh well.
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Mike Marrs: So if that's the case, you need to put some flamers on it.
13:35
Mike Marrs: I'll plug in the panels.
13:36
Don Armstrong: I know how to do that.
13:37
Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know how to do that.
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Mike Marrs: You might as well do that whenever you're gonna backfire it.
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Mike Marrs: Just shoot the flames out the tail.
13:42
Don Armstrong: Absolutely.
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Don Armstrong: I could introduce that uh lighter fluid right in there.
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Jeff Dziekan: And uh I'm sure there's someone out here that helped you do that.
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Don Armstrong: I you know, it that doesn't surprise me that there would be.
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Don Armstrong: So what am I going to do next?
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Jeff Dziekan: Well we've got a young people.
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Don Armstrong: We do have somebody.
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Don Armstrong: And you know, I'm sorry that I can't introduce you because I don't know you.
14:05
Don Armstrong: I know that you can introduce yourself, and you are.
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SPEAKER_05: My name is Ethan.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh Ethan?
14:10
SPEAKER_05: Yes, sir.
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Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh I do content for the Carme Network and my own content for uh cars.
14:16
SPEAKER_05: We do car photography videos.
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SPEAKER_05: Right now we're kind of just trying to expand ourselves.
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Don Armstrong: So, in other words, you could you could take pictures of us and put them all over the internet.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes, sir.
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SPEAKER_05: I mean, wait, why would why would you not?
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Don Armstrong: I mean, we have we have such glamour to offer the world right here.
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SPEAKER_05: Everyone does.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: But I know, but this is the grandfather.
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Don Armstrong: This is the grandfather look that I know that you're looking for with all of your followers.
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SPEAKER_05: Of course.
14:46
SPEAKER_05: We're looking for everything.
14:49
SPEAKER_05: No, but um, I mean, we do post a lot of stuff, but everything, you know, we make it good now.
14:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we we make everything good.
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Don Armstrong: No, I know, but I'm I'm telling you to make it good right now.
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Don Armstrong: The story.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so right now, uh, my name's Ethan, of course.
15:05
SPEAKER_05: Uh, my content crew behind us is uh, which you can't see them.
15:09
SPEAKER_05: We have Eric, he's my other videographer and my driver.
15:12
SPEAKER_05: Um we do work with uh Carmi Network, we work with Gus.
15:16
SPEAKER_05: We go to all of his all of his events, we try to get our name out there.
15:19
SPEAKER_05: We also try to help Gus grow and you know, we try to bring people in, enjoy time, and you know, just make everyone happy.
15:25
SPEAKER_05: You know, you have a large group?
15:28
SPEAKER_05: No, really, uh it's a group of four people, okay, me included.
15:31
SPEAKER_05: Uh you know, we kind of stick small because we don't have money to pay people like that yet.
15:37
SPEAKER_05: So we're trying to keep it friends that you know want to do the same thing that we do.
15:41
SPEAKER_05: Because right now we're we enjoy it.
15:42
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we enjoy it, but we are trying to make it a business.
15:45
Don Armstrong: Well, see, this is what we've got here.
15:47
SPEAKER_05: I see.
15:48
SPEAKER_05: It's an amazing setup, by the way.
15:49
SPEAKER_05: Is it?
15:49
SPEAKER_05: Yes, I think so.
15:50
SPEAKER_05: I mean, y'all got the lights, everything.
15:53
SPEAKER_05: This is an all of it.
15:54
SPEAKER_05: Imagine this times a hundred.
15:56
SPEAKER_05: I know, something's in that truck.
15:57
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, for a mobile, for a mobile, this is amazing.
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Don Armstrong: So Welcome to Hollywood, brother.
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Don Armstrong: This is it.
16:04
Don Armstrong: This is it.
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SPEAKER_05: Is that what we're calling it?
16:06
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Hollywood, but not in Hollywood.
16:08
Don Armstrong: Right.
16:09
Don Armstrong: Not at the Hollywood price.
16:10
Don Armstrong: Holy something.
16:11
Don Armstrong: Yeah, so that's what it's all about.
16:13
Don Armstrong: You know this girl here?
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Don Armstrong: I do not.
16:15
Don Armstrong: You don't?
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Don Armstrong: Well, she's taking pictures and we're talking about her, and she's going, oh, let's go over here.
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Don Armstrong: We gotta be talking about something good or not.
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Don Armstrong: We could be talking about something not so good.
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Don Armstrong: You wouldn't want to be any part of that.
16:27
Don Armstrong: But but anyway.
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SPEAKER_05: Taking still images on if you don't care.
16:30
Don Armstrong: So do you do weddings?
16:32
SPEAKER_05: Not yet.
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SPEAKER_05: That is that is one of my big goals is to do weddings.
16:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh, my sister is getting married in like a few weeks, so I didn't know.
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Don Armstrong: So she's gonna be the test mule.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
16:41
SPEAKER_05: She did hire a camera.
16:42
SPEAKER_05: Maybe not a mule, but she did hire a camera person, of course.
16:45
SPEAKER_05: You know, she got her own photography, but I am gonna bring mine just so I can just some experience.
16:50
SPEAKER_05: Shadow her.
16:50
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
16:51
Mike Marrs: Let me give you just a quick background.
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Mike Marrs: When I was getting started doing freelance work and all that stuff, my wife went with me.
16:58
Mike Marrs: She would go out there and take pictures of the crowd while I'm taking pictures of the cars.
17:02
Mike Marrs: Yes.
17:03
Mike Marrs: It was great and fun.
17:04
Mike Marrs: But she decided she wanted to do weddings, so she would come and help me do cars, and I had to go help her do weddings.
17:10
Don Armstrong: That's why he's on his fourth wife.
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Mike Marrs: Exactly.
17:12
Mike Marrs: I'm just telling you.
17:13
Mike Marrs: He's getting married next week.
17:14
Mike Marrs: Oh no.
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Mike Marrs: When you get find out them when them bridesmaids come out and start griping at you because you're not doing something, and they want you to go do it, and the mother-in-law won't let you in there with the bride who's getting dressed, and you don't want to go in there while she's getting dressed.
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Mike Marrs: They're out there griping at you.
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SPEAKER_05: No, it seems like there's not going to be any wins to this.
17:33
SPEAKER_05: Stick taking pictures of cars.
17:35
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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Mike Marrs: That's what I'm that's the that's the story.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, honestly, I think that is where I'll end up sticking, you know, because I do love cars.
17:42
SPEAKER_05: Cars have been in my life since I was about five or six years old.
17:45
SPEAKER_05: So, and I mean, I don't think I ever see myself getting tired of it.
17:48
SPEAKER_05: Good.
17:49
Don Armstrong: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
17:51
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
17:51
Don Armstrong: You just keep on doing it.
17:52
Don Armstrong: Stay away from the weddings.
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SPEAKER_05: Is this the kind of cars though that I mean you're you're Yeah.
17:56
SPEAKER_05: I love I do also love like the older Americans and the older Japanese, you know.
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SPEAKER_05: I love a little bit of everything, you know.
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SPEAKER_05: I think if it has good body lines, it sounds good, we like it.
18:06
SPEAKER_05: We fit right in.
18:07
Jeff Dziekan: We're older Americans.
18:08
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and we look good in our own mind.
18:11
Jeff Dziekan: Ethan, it's great to meet you and your crew.
18:15
Don Armstrong: Hugs and kisses.
18:17
Don Armstrong: Keep up the good work, it's all gonna be good.
18:19
Jeff Dziekan: You need to take the lens cap off that camera.
18:21
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
18:22
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
18:22
Jeff Dziekan: Surprisingly, it's not on.
18:23
Jeff Dziekan: My suggestion.
18:24
Jeff Dziekan: You've got to take a break.
18:25
Don Armstrong: Thank you.
18:26
Don Armstrong: Appreciate you stopping by.
18:27
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18:38
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18:47
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18:51
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19:03
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19:12
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19:34
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19:38
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19:44
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20:24
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20:40
Don Armstrong: All right, so here's what we're going to do now.
20:43
Don Armstrong: You ready?
20:44
Don Armstrong: Yep.
20:45
Don Armstrong: I've decided that we're going to do the sold car price because we always do it, and it's fun to do, and we don't have anybody waiting to get on the air with us, so I don't have that obligation.
20:54
Don Armstrong: So I just figured that we would have a good time.
20:56
Don Armstrong: Sure.
20:57
Don Armstrong: And some of these cars actually could fit right, all of them actually could fit right in here today.
21:02
Don Armstrong: So are you ready, Mr.
21:03
Don Armstrong: Mars?
21:04
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
21:05
Don Armstrong: I know that you did the video on this.
21:07
Don Armstrong: I'm ready.
21:07
Don Armstrong: Okay.
21:08
Don Armstrong: All right.
21:09
Don Armstrong: Uh so David?
21:10
Don Armstrong: David is included.
21:12
Don Armstrong: What is the hemming sold car price on a 1996 96 Chevrolet Corvette?
21:20
Don Armstrong: It looks completely stock.
21:23
Don Armstrong: Stock wheels.
21:24
Don Armstrong: I think it's black or dark in color.
21:27
Don Armstrong: It looks clean, nothing special.
21:28
Don Armstrong: How much do you think that that's sold for?
21:30
Don Armstrong: 96 Chevy Corvette.
21:33
Mike Marrs: Looks like it's automatic.
21:34
Jeff Dziekan: That would be a C4.
21:37
Jeff Dziekan: I want to say right at 10 grand.
21:40
Jeff Dziekan: I was gonna say that.
21:41
Jeff Dziekan: I'll say 12.
21:42
Mike Marrs: Jeff Heitzman says twenty-four big ones.
21:45
Jeff Dziekan: Uh oh.
21:46
Mike Marrs: And George says sixteen.
21:49
Jeff Dziekan: We got George and we got George and Jeff.
21:51
Jeff Dziekan: And Jeff and David.
21:53
Jeff Dziekan: And David.
21:53
Jeff Dziekan: All right.
21:54
Jeff Dziekan: Well, it sold for 1417.
21:56
Jeff Dziekan: Oh, very good, David.
21:57
Mike Marrs: Jeff, what did you say, David?
21:58
Mike Marrs: You said twelve.
21:59
Don Armstrong: Twelve?
22:00
Jeff Dziekan: I said 10.
22:00
Don Armstrong: Toss up between you and George.
22:02
Don Armstrong: All right, next up is another Corvette.
22:04
Don Armstrong: This one happens to be a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette.
22:10
Don Armstrong: This would be a C3.
22:12
Don Armstrong: Okay?
22:13
Don Armstrong: 68 Corvette.
22:15
Don Armstrong: Again, it looks stock.
22:17
Don Armstrong: Um does it have white walls on it?
22:20
Don Armstrong: Somebody, surely to God, didn't do that, but whatever.
22:23
Don Armstrong: It does have that god-awful luggage rack on the back.
22:27
Don Armstrong: It's a 68 Corvette.
22:29
Don Armstrong: What I'm thinking is that this might be a stock 68 Corvette.
22:37
Don Armstrong: And it looks kind of original.
22:39
Don Armstrong: I'm going to say 22.
22:40
Mike Marrs: Heisman says 30.
22:42
Mike Marrs: Okay.
22:43
Mike Marrs: George says 1299.
22:46
Don Armstrong: Would you like to have a guess, David?
22:48
Don Armstrong: 18,000.
22:50
Don Armstrong: $25,200.
22:52
Mike Marrs: Yeah.
22:54
Mike Marrs: So a 68.
22:56
Mike Marrs: I think it just got a bunch of options on it.
22:58
Mike Marrs: Must have with the luggage rack you were talking about and stuff.
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Don Armstrong: It's a luggage rack.
23:01
Don Armstrong: But it's got chrome buffers.
23:02
Don Armstrong: I like that.
23:03
Don Armstrong: All right, next up.
23:04
Don Armstrong: 74 Dodge Charger.
23:06
Don Armstrong: 1974 Dodge Charger with uh with are you ready?
23:13
Don Armstrong: It has a it has a Landau vinyl top.
23:18
Don Armstrong: Oh my.
23:19
Don Armstrong: Which is like a half vinyl top.
23:21
Don Armstrong: It is so ugly, I can't even begin to tell you how bad that is.
23:25
Don Armstrong: But they sold them in 1974.
23:27
Don Armstrong: I'm gonna go this looks like all stock, all original.
23:31
Don Armstrong: It's not it's not a show car or anything like that.
23:34
Jeff Dziekan: Let me see the 15 grand.
23:37
Jeff Dziekan: 15.
23:38
Jeff Dziekan: 15.
23:39
Jeff Dziekan: David?
23:39
Jeff Dziekan: 10 grand.
23:40
Jeff Dziekan: 10 grand for David.
23:41
Jeff Dziekan: Mr.
23:42
Mike Marrs: Heisman says 18.
23:44
Mike Marrs: Big one.
23:45
Mike Marrs: Is that that car right there?
23:46
Mike Marrs: Uh-huh.
23:47
Mike Marrs: He says 18?
23:48
Mike Marrs: George says 13.
23:50
Mike Marrs: 9.
23:51
Don Armstrong: It sold for 16, 275.
23:53
Don Armstrong: Oh wow.
23:54
Don Armstrong: The thing is massively big.
23:56
Don Armstrong: It is.
23:56
Jeff Dziekan: And I like it.
23:57
Jeff Dziekan: And the big hood and the big indicar.
24:00
Jeff Dziekan: Here's a really nice model.
24:01
Don Armstrong: 1966.
24:02
Don Armstrong: Oldsmobile 442.
24:04
Don Armstrong: Yeah, baby.
24:04
Don Armstrong: Price of the couple of things.
24:05
Don Armstrong: Old 442 66 model.
24:09
Don Armstrong: It looks like it has been restored.
24:11
Don Armstrong: It looks like it may be original.
24:15
Don Armstrong: I don't think it's a resto mod.
24:16
Don Armstrong: I think it's original.
24:17
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I mean it's it's still got the four speed in it, it looks like.
24:20
Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 21.
24:22
Jeff Dziekan: 30 grand.
24:24
Jeff Dziekan: 30 grand.
24:25
Mike Marrs: And our boys out there still working on it.
24:30
Mike Marrs: Shock over the charger.
24:31
Mike Marrs: Heitzman says 21.
24:37
Don Armstrong: George?
24:38
Mike Marrs: Yeah, I hadn't heard from George.
24:39
Don Armstrong: Okay, so yeah, we'll tell you that it sold for$44,100.
24:44
Don Armstrong: Which tells me that it stuck.
24:46
Mike Marrs: Yeah, and it's George came in at$21,999 for about half price.
24:51
Don Armstrong: Now here's something that uh I think that most people would appreciate a 2003 Chevy Silverado SS.
24:58
Don Armstrong: Now it's a 2003 SS, so don't think that it's got you know gobs of horsepower or something.
25:03
Don Armstrong: But it is an SS.
25:04
Don Armstrong: And it looks stock.
25:06
Don Armstrong: Um I don't I can't really see the wheels.
25:09
Jeff Dziekan: I'm just gonna take a guess here and go 18.
25:12
Jeff Dziekan: That's probably high.
25:13
Don Armstrong: But it is but it is a truck.
25:15
Don Armstrong: Yeah, so keep that in mind.
25:17
Jeff Dziekan: But it's it's a it's an SS, yeah.
25:20
Mike Marrs: I didn't think they made the real ones.
25:22
Mike Marrs: 13 cruise.
25:24
Don Armstrong: David says 13.
25:26
Don Armstrong: Well, I will tell you that it sold for$24,150.
25:32
Mike Marrs: I thought I was high on the 18th.
25:33
Mike Marrs: Right.
25:33
Mike Marrs: Yeah, George, 999.
25:35
Mike Marrs: Heightsman came in at 22 there towards the end.
25:37
Don Armstrong: Okay, Mars, this is your car.
25:39
Don Armstrong: All right.
25:40
Don Armstrong: The next up is a 1960 Rambler American.
25:46
Jeff Dziekan: Look at that.
25:48
Jeff Dziekan: It's even got a bad.
25:49
Jeff Dziekan: It's a two-door in it.
25:51
Jeff Dziekan: It is.
25:52
Jeff Dziekan: Look at that.
25:53
Jeff Dziekan: I'd drive it.
25:54
Jeff Dziekan: That's real steel right there.
25:55
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
25:57
Jeff Dziekan: See that?
25:58
Don Armstrong: I'm thinking that doesn't I Mars could I he would drive the up here and you go, by golly, that is Mr.
26:06
Don Armstrong: Mars.
26:07
Jeff Dziekan: It is Mars.
26:07
Jeff Dziekan: You get that for Paige.
26:09
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
26:09
Jeff Dziekan: Okay, so uh David, how many go 12?
26:12
Mike Marrs: 12.
26:12
Mike Marrs: 10.
26:13
Mike Marrs: 10.
26:14
Mike Marrs: All right, so uh Heisman's comes in at 11.
26:17
Mike Marrs: Yeah.
26:18
Mike Marrs: So everybody's kind of in the same ballpark.
26:20
Mike Marrs: All right.
26:21
Don Armstrong: Well, it sold for$6,800.
26:26
Don Armstrong: Paige, George said it's big dare to get to your car.
26:29
Don Armstrong: $12,99.
26:30
Don Armstrong: You want to see it?
26:34
Don Armstrong: I'm gonna show it to you.
26:35
Don Armstrong: Ready?
26:37
Don Armstrong: It's her next car.
26:38
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
26:39
Don Armstrong: This is a 1960.
26:41
Don Armstrong: This is a car that you've never even heard of.
26:42
Don Armstrong: It'll be in the driveway when you get there.
26:43
Don Armstrong: There it is.
26:44
Don Armstrong: It's a 1960 Rambler American.
26:47
Don Armstrong: Can you see grandpa driving that car?
26:50
Don Armstrong: Yes, you can.
26:51
Don Armstrong: Grandpa and grandpa.
26:52
Don Armstrong: All right.
26:53
Don Armstrong: Next up is a 1961 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88.
27:00
Don Armstrong: It's a dynamic.
27:01
Don Armstrong: The 61 Dynamic 88.
27:05
Don Armstrong: Convertible.
27:06
Don Armstrong: Oh my god, it's a convertible.
27:07
Don Armstrong: Drop top.
27:08
Don Armstrong: It is a massive, massive car.
27:10
Don Armstrong: 28,000.
27:12
Don Armstrong: 28.
27:13
Don Armstrong: 21.
27:14
Don Armstrong: 21.
27:16
Mike Marrs: Do we have any other guests?
27:17
Mike Marrs: White ready to know this.
27:20
Mike Marrs: Uh Heizen's come in at 13,000.
27:24
Mike Marrs: Yeah.
27:25
Mike Marrs: Oh man.
27:26
Mike Marrs: That thing is cherry.
27:28
Mike Marrs: It's got an instrument cluster on it.
27:30
Don Armstrong: All right.
27:31
Don Armstrong: Well, I'm going to tell you that this car sold for 31.5.
27:36
Don Armstrong: It looks completely stock and original.
27:38
Don Armstrong: It does.
27:40
Don Armstrong: And uh our last vehicle of the morning is going to be a 1953 Chevrolet 3600.
27:49
Jeff Dziekan: Oh, man.
27:50
Jeff Dziekan: There it is.
27:51
Jeff Dziekan: I have no idea.
27:52
Don Armstrong: Now this would probably have the blue flame six-cylinder motor in it.
27:56
Jeff Dziekan: It does with the canister oil filter.
27:59
Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
28:00
Don Armstrong: Split windshield.
28:01
Don Armstrong: Yep.
28:02
Don Armstrong: How much do you now?
28:03
Don Armstrong: It's a steak bed.
28:04
Don Armstrong: So it's not a pickup truck.
28:06
Don Armstrong: It's a steak bed truck.
28:07
Don Armstrong: Steak bed.
28:08
Don Armstrong: Steak.
28:09
Don Armstrong: Steak bed.
28:09
Don Armstrong: Steak bed.
28:10
Don Armstrong: Steak steak bed.
28:11
Mike Marrs: Flat bed with uh uh pilots with uh you got wood up on the side of it there to hold in the hey males a hay.
28:21
Mike Marrs: Took some pallets and turned them up on their E and on each side.
28:24
Mike Marrs: Okay, I got you.
28:25
Don Armstrong: Uh so it looks like it's been completely restored, super clean.
28:29
Don Armstrong: 24.
28:29
Don Armstrong: 24.
28:31
Don Armstrong: David.
28:32
Don Armstrong: 20.
28:33
Don Armstrong: 20.
28:34
Mike Marrs: George is at uh 21999.
28:37
Don Armstrong: George wins.
28:38
Don Armstrong: It's sold for$22,050.
28:41
Don Armstrong: Wow.
28:43
Don Armstrong: And uh it may do$60 on the highway, that's about it.
28:48
Don Armstrong: With the stakes down.
28:49
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
28:50
Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's it.
28:51
Don Armstrong: All right.
28:51
Don Armstrong: Well, that was fun.
28:52
Don Armstrong: Good.
28:53
Don Armstrong: It was good.
28:54
Don Armstrong: All right.
28:55
Don Armstrong: Hey, uh, if you'd like to uh get in touch with us, shoot us an email.
28:58
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29:13
Don Armstrong: The Easter bunnies coming.
29:15
Don Armstrong: To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
29:21
Don Armstrong: And you're invited to.
29:23
Don Armstrong: Bring the kids and grandkids.
29:24
Don Armstrong: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
29:26
Don Armstrong: With the donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Luffy Tortilla breakfast taco.
29:30
Don Armstrong: There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic.
29:36
Don Armstrong: There's no entry fee and no registration.
29:38
Don Armstrong: Just bring your ride and the kids.
29:41
Don Armstrong: Bad bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this tailpipes and tacos a very special one.
29:48
Don Armstrong: Photo opportunities abound.
29:49
Don Armstrong: The Inwell Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience.
29:55
Don Armstrong: It's the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter Middle, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
30:00
Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I-10, the Katie Freeway in Katie.
30:07
Don Armstrong: Make plans now.
30:08
Don Armstrong: Loopy Tortilla is pretty good.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: Houston, get ready! We're collaborating with the Car Meet Network, so you know it's gonna be crazy.
30:26
SPEAKER_01: And that's not all.
30:27
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be wrestling up six cars to be sold at a thousand dollars each.
30:31
SPEAKER_01: See below for more details.
30:36
SPEAKER_02: You're not gonna want to miss this, Houston, March 14th.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: We can't wait to see you here.
30:46
Don Armstrong: From the Team Gilman Mega Meat Cruise In.
30:49
Don Armstrong: Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
30:52
Don Armstrong: Just ahead, we've got stuff.
30:54
Don Armstrong: Got more stuff.
30:55
Don Armstrong: Yeah, we we don't have a lineup of people guests, which is fine because we've got stuff to get in.
31:00
Don Armstrong: More stuff.
31:01
Don Armstrong: More stuff.
31:02
Don Armstrong: And I'm going to talk about the 2026 Kia Sportage.
31:07
Don Armstrong: Give you a review of that.
31:09
Don Armstrong: As well as lots of headlines that we can all uh appreciate.
31:14
Don Armstrong: Because we need to have news headlines that aren't, you know, wars and death and destruction.
31:21
Don Armstrong: Well, some of the cars maybe, but uh not intentionally.
31:25
Don Armstrong: Um thank you very much for joining us today.
31:27
Don Armstrong: By the way, this cruise in lasts until two o'clock in the afternoon.
31:32
Don Armstrong: Uh and so we've had some cars leave, but there's still lots here.
31:37
Don Armstrong: And there's food.
31:38
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
31:39
Don Armstrong: There's food and all sorts of stuff.
31:40
Jeff Dziekan: And was the thing you mentioned.
31:42
Don Armstrong: Did Paige ever find the uh food book?
31:44
Don Armstrong: There's food over there's some people on around the road.
31:46
Don Armstrong: Out there, yeah.
31:47
Jeff Dziekan: From the inside of the tent.
31:49
Jeff Dziekan: Well, as soon as we get done, I've got to get something to eat.
31:52
Jeff Dziekan: On the advertisement, they're giving away two cars from each of the dealership.
31:56
Jeff Dziekan: Uh they're offering raffle, right?
31:59
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
32:00
Jeff Dziekan: Well, you you get to buy them for a thousand.
32:02
Mike Marrs: Right.
32:02
Mike Marrs: And you have to go to each dealer to uh register for that.
32:05
Mike Marrs: Is that how that works?
32:05
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I found that out earlier.
32:07
Mike Marrs: One of them was a Corvette.
32:08
Mike Marrs: I heard I heard them the other day talk about uh uh you know five, oh six, some some Corvette that they had taken in was going to be one of them.
32:15
Mike Marrs: Yeah.
32:16
Mike Marrs: I would take it for a salary business, isn't it?
32:18
Mike Marrs: I think it's that black strawberry there with there with the scar of seats in it?
32:22
Jeff Dziekan: Uh-huh.
32:22
Jeff Dziekan: That ain't it.
32:23
Jeff Dziekan: It's the one with the hood closed.
32:25
Don Armstrong: It's the one with the hood closed.
32:26
Don Armstrong: Well, there's another one with the hood closed next to it.
32:28
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
32:29
Don Armstrong: You know, there's nothing really exceptional.
32:30
Don Armstrong: It's clean under the hood, don't get me wrong, but there's two schools of thought about showing the car.
32:36
Don Armstrong: If it's judged, you need to have the hood open because you're going to have that judged cleanliness, all the accoutrements that you added on, the stockness of it, that sort of stuff.
32:47
Don Armstrong: But if you're going to show it in a meet like this, my school of thought is you want to see the body lines.
32:53
Don Armstrong: You want to see what it looks like with the hood closed.
32:56
Mike Marrs: Yes, that's actually.
32:57
Mike Marrs: If you don't have a lot of chrome or a lot of add-ons to put under there, then yeah.
33:01
Don Armstrong: My car speaks for itself.
33:02
Mike Marrs: Well, you need one of those things on the side of a Pikachu or whatever that is on the side of yours.
33:07
Mike Marrs: That yellow thing on the side of the side of that black car.
33:10
Don Armstrong: Don't tempt me.
33:10
Mike Marrs: The dingo stole my baby.
33:14
Don Armstrong: That's a that's that's something new.
33:16
Don Armstrong: I think so.
33:17
Don Armstrong: And uh huh.
33:17
Don Armstrong: And and Jeff's going to sell it as soon as the show is over with.
33:21
Don Armstrong: Time now for my car review, the 2026 Kia Sportage.
33:25
Don Armstrong: Now don't turn your nose up because I think that you may like this.
33:29
Don Armstrong: Uh, I had the hybrid SX Prestige all-wheel drive.
33:36
Don Armstrong: This is considered a small SUV, Seats 5.
33:39
Don Armstrong: It was all new in 2023.
33:41
Don Armstrong: One of the most modern, sharp-looking exterior designs on the market today, I think.
33:48
Don Armstrong: Vertical front lighting reminds of the 60s GTO.
33:52
Don Armstrong: I know that may be a stretch for some.
33:54
Don Armstrong: I don't care.
33:55
Don Armstrong: Stretch it out there.
33:56
Don Armstrong: I'm telling you, it's got a good different look to it, and I like different because most of the cars today they all look the same.
34:02
Don Armstrong: This one doesn't.
34:03
Don Armstrong: Uh black wheels go with the hybrid.
34:06
Don Armstrong: And obviously, hybrid is part of the trim package.
34:11
Don Armstrong: Uh, and so we change wheels with trim packages these days.
34:15
Don Armstrong: Extra big hatch opening should swallow almost anything.
34:19
Don Armstrong: I mean, this thing takes up the whole back end of the vehicle.
34:25
Don Armstrong: But I liked most everything.
34:27
Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
34:28
Don Armstrong: The height line on the rear funny.
34:31
Don Armstrong: I'm sure I'd get used to it eventually, but it looks funny.
34:36
Don Armstrong: Um interior high highlights include quality, look, and with the top of the line against high marks, comfortable seats, front and back, with sharp waffle human screen stretches from an instrument cluster to the dash and the digital display.
34:59
Don Armstrong: Dial it up a trans shifter on the center console.
35:02
Don Armstrong: That's with a dial and not an actual stake.
35:06
Don Armstrong: Uh trunk room, cargo room, adequate for this small SUV.
35:11
Don Armstrong: Now what I liked about it?
35:12
Don Armstrong: Easy accessory controls.
35:15
Don Armstrong: And let me tell you something.
35:16
Don Armstrong: You're getting harder these days.
35:20
Don Armstrong: You really have to look for something.
35:24
Don Armstrong: If you're going to buy a new car, I encourage you to get in, drive it so you can find out what controls are.
35:32
Don Armstrong: Some of them are in the infotainment system.
35:35
Don Armstrong: If you're good with that, I'm good with it for you as well.
35:39
Don Armstrong: You know, I see I see Mike Mars coming this way.
35:43
Jeff Dziekan: Do you?
35:44
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
35:44
Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
35:45
Don Armstrong: See him right there in the Gorilla suit?
35:47
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, there you go.
35:48
Don Armstrong: Um, what could use improvement?
35:50
Don Armstrong: A few more buttons, please.
35:53
Don Armstrong: Okay.
35:56
Jeff Dziekan: David, go get the monkey.
35:59
Don Armstrong: Uh, engine, a 1.6 liter turbo, inline four-cylinder, 232 horsepower, which ain't too bad.
36:06
Don Armstrong: Uh 271 pound feet of torque, six feet automatic transmission, with a 2,000-pound rating uh as far as towing is concerned.
36:14
Don Armstrong: So a one-ton tow.
36:16
Don Armstrong: 35 miles per gallon city, 36 on the highway for a combined 35.
36:21
Don Armstrong: I got 34.4 miles over 376 miles.
36:27
Don Armstrong: What I liked about it?
36:28
Don Armstrong: The mileage and the fair competitive pricing on this vehicle.
36:31
Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
36:33
Don Armstrong: Come over here and get on the air with come on over here, get behind us.
36:36
Don Armstrong: Let's take a picture.
36:37
Don Armstrong: Take a picture.
36:39
Don Armstrong: Come on.
36:40
Don Armstrong: Don't I was gonna say don't trip on the curb.
36:42
Don Armstrong: Got it.
36:43
Don Armstrong: That's it.
36:44
Don Armstrong: Come on, you gotta get behind us because the camera's back.
36:47
Don Armstrong: There you go.
36:47
Don Armstrong: Come on over here, young man.
36:48
Don Armstrong: Uh, here we go.
36:49
Don Armstrong: Oh, we got some other folks.
36:50
Don Armstrong: So y'all get behind it.
36:52
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
36:52
Jeff Dziekan: Come on up.
36:54
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
36:55
Jeff Dziekan: This is great.
36:57
Jeff Dziekan: Mike, you gotta move the camera.
36:58
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you gotta get the camera, Mike.
37:00
Jeff Dziekan: Hold on.
37:01
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, so we've got to get the camera.
37:03
Don Armstrong: Yeah, because this is some good stuff here.
37:05
Don Armstrong: Thank you guys for stopping by.
37:07
Don Armstrong: Space City Robot Entertainment.
37:09
Don Armstrong: So you've got to give them the plug.
37:11
Don Armstrong: Mike, are you part of this group too?
37:12
Don Armstrong: You're part of this group.
37:13
Don Armstrong: Come on in here.
37:14
Don Armstrong: There you go.
37:14
Don Armstrong: Come on in here.
37:15
Don Armstrong: Come on.
37:16
Don Armstrong: Come on.
37:16
Don Armstrong: There you go.
37:17
Don Armstrong: Get in here.
37:17
Jeff Dziekan: Get in here.
37:18
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
37:18
Jeff Dziekan: How does my hair look?
37:19
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
37:20
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
37:21
Jeff Dziekan: Look.
37:22
Don Armstrong: This is great stuff.
37:22
Don Armstrong: Thank you so much.
37:23
Don Armstrong: Thank you, Mike.
37:24
Don Armstrong: Appreciate you stopping by.
37:26
Jeff Dziekan: I've never had a monkey pet me before.
37:28
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you have.
37:29
Jeff Dziekan: Well, I have.
37:30
Jeff Dziekan: That's right.
37:30
Jeff Dziekan: That was back in the 70s.
37:34
Jeff Dziekan: Back in the 70s.
37:34
Jeff Dziekan: And you, you, y'all, you all are together, right?
37:37
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
37:37
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
37:38
SPEAKER_08: Good.
37:39
SPEAKER_08: This is entertainment.
37:44
Don Armstrong: So uh you need to come and take it.
37:46
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
37:46
Don Armstrong: We'd love to have you out there.
37:48
Don Armstrong: This is great stuff.
37:49
Don Armstrong: Yeah, I like it.
37:50
Don Armstrong: Um, so robots.
37:51
Don Armstrong: Do you each have a name?
37:52
Don Armstrong: No, you just robots.
37:54
Don Armstrong: Just got it.
37:54
Don Armstrong: Space City Robot Entertainment.
37:56
Don Armstrong: This is very cool.
37:58
Don Armstrong: I like that.
37:58
Don Armstrong: You know, I needed somebody that looked like that.
38:01
Don Armstrong: Harry Batmanov one time back in my day.
38:03
Don Armstrong: That was the fun you used to shave it for.
38:05
Don Armstrong: That was yes, I remember that very well.
38:07
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
38:09
Don Armstrong: So you know, I was doing a car review, but I've got totally sidelined to redo it.
38:13
Don Armstrong: What you have names, specific names for your No, they don't.
38:16
Don Armstrong: Okay.
38:17
Don Armstrong: They don't.
38:17
Don Armstrong: So uh anyway.
38:20
Don Armstrong: Um I I I've lost my thank you, monkey.
38:25
Don Armstrong: Thank you, buddy.
38:26
Don Armstrong: Thank you guys very much for stopping by.
38:28
Don Armstrong: We appreciate it.
38:30
Don Armstrong: Be good.
38:30
Don Armstrong: Matter of fact, you're more than welcome to stick around for a while because uh I don't I don't have anything else to say, clearly.
38:37
Don Armstrong: Um yeah, it's thank you very much.
38:40
Don Armstrong: I found my spot.
38:42
Don Armstrong: All right.
38:42
Don Armstrong: So where were we?
38:44
Don Armstrong: We were talking about I can't I can't there you go.
38:49
Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
38:50
Jeff Dziekan: That's it.
38:50
Jeff Dziekan: That's it.
38:51
Jeff Dziekan: That's better.
38:52
Jeff Dziekan: That's beautiful.
38:52
Don Armstrong: It's better that that's better entertainment than I could ever yeah.
38:58
Don Armstrong: That's it.
38:59
Don Armstrong: You got that, Mars?
39:00
Don Armstrong: He's got it.
39:01
Don Armstrong: He's got it.
39:02
Don Armstrong: God bless.
39:02
Don Armstrong: This is good stuff.
39:04
Don Armstrong: You cannot Mike, give him a little peck on the cheek as he goes by, though.
39:07
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
39:07
Don Armstrong: And uh where is Paige nearby?
39:09
Don Armstrong: Maybe she could.
39:10
Don Armstrong: I think she ran off and hid.
39:11
Don Armstrong: Well, I I would too.
39:13
Don Armstrong: Her grandfather is here.
39:15
unknown: All right.
39:16
Jeff Dziekan: Okay, that all happened at 11 uh 34.
39:19
Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, 1134.
39:21
Don Armstrong: Okay.
39:21
Don Armstrong: So uh I was doing a car review and we we we've got it, we got it blasted away.
39:26
Jeff Dziekan: You know what?
39:27
Jeff Dziekan: We what you what'd you say, Jeff?
39:30
Jeff Dziekan: I don't think we even had it on the screen.
39:32
Jeff Dziekan: We didn't?
39:33
Jeff Dziekan: I think I don't I don't think it was still in the car review.
39:36
Don Armstrong: Oh, that's too bad.
39:37
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
39:38
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
39:39
Don Armstrong: Well, at any rate, um, I will tell you that um the 2026 Kia Sportage also had a smooth ride for such a small vehicle.
39:51
Don Armstrong: Uh what could use improvement?
39:52
Don Armstrong: Maybe an off-road trim offering.
39:54
Don Armstrong: I don't know, maybe.
39:55
Don Armstrong: Uh base trim price out at 40,390.
39:58
Don Armstrong: As tested price, 41,985.
40:01
Don Armstrong: Base model price$30,490.
40:05
Don Armstrong: Competitors, Toyota Rav 4 hybrid for$32,850.
40:09
Don Armstrong: The Honda CRV gas version,$39.20.
40:13
Don Armstrong: And I included that because uh Honda doesn't have a hybrid.
40:17
Don Armstrong: But the Honda Tucson, its cousin, has a plug-in hybrid and it's at$40,325.
40:24
Don Armstrong: So I think the base model price of this uh hits a sweet spot,$30,490.
40:29
Don Armstrong: So I encourage you to uh seek out a dealer for the Kia Sportage and go check it out.
40:37
Don Armstrong: Cool.
40:38
Don Armstrong: So that's my car review.
40:42
Don Armstrong: You okay with that?
40:43
Mike Marrs: May do a little editing for you to send it to.
40:45
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I don't know if it came out on the air because we had the car review on.
40:48
Mike Marrs: Well, the audio did.
40:49
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well, you're gonna have to edit it in.
40:51
Mike Marrs: Yeah.
40:52
Don Armstrong: Can you do that?
40:53
Mike Marrs: Well, I was gonna edit them out.
40:55
Don Armstrong: No, no, edit them in.
40:58
Don Armstrong: Edit them in.
40:59
Don Armstrong: I want to see them because people don't know what we're talking about here.
41:03
Don Armstrong: I don't even know if we got the shot because it was in review.
41:06
Don Armstrong: Yeah, but at any rate, yeah, we had the video running.
41:08
Mike Marrs: We'll have to look at it and see.
41:10
Don Armstrong: Okay, so there was a monkey and two robots that stopped by to say hello to the show.
41:13
Don Armstrong: And they were touching me.
41:14
Don Armstrong: Yeah, so sorry that we didn't have uh we didn't have the video up, but we are going to have the video up for the rest of the show.
41:23
Don Armstrong: We're not gonna miss it.
41:25
Don Armstrong: Because I've got a whole slew of headlines that I need to get in.
41:30
Don Armstrong: Because I wouldn't be doing my due diligence without it.
41:34
Don Armstrong: Oh.
41:35
Don Armstrong: Can I say those words?
41:36
Don Armstrong: It sounds very lawyerish.
41:37
Don Armstrong: Put them all together.
41:38
Mike Marrs: Due diligence.
41:43
Don Armstrong: No, we don't need them.
41:47
Don Armstrong: Maybe we do.
41:48
Jeff Dziekan: Where are we at?
41:49
Don Armstrong: Well, we need to take a break, is what we need to do.
41:52
Don Armstrong: We're at uh yeah, we do, because we're at that time of the day.
41:55
Don Armstrong: Uh and so we are at the uh Team Gilman Mega Meet up here on the North Freeway.
42:02
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42:04
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42:08
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42:16
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44:00
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44:05
Don Armstrong: They've got Acura's, Subarus, and Mazdas.
44:11
Don Armstrong: Yep, a lot of turnout.
44:13
Don Armstrong: Yeah, very nice turnout.
44:14
Don Armstrong: I can't I can't imagine anybody would be uh disappointed at the turnout here.
44:20
Don Armstrong: It's huge.
44:21
Don Armstrong: All right.
44:22
Don Armstrong: I've got car stories, and I want you to listen up because I want you to comment.
44:26
Don Armstrong: Okay.
44:27
Don Armstrong: Make your usual Jeffree stuff.
44:30
Don Armstrong: Okay.
44:30
Don Armstrong: Federal Trade Commission is warning 97 automobile dealership groups, their advertised prices must include all required fees.
44:43
Don Armstrong: The vehicles advertised must be available, and the price in the ad must be offered to all customers.
44:52
Don Armstrong: This is something new.
44:54
Don Armstrong: Uh the agency announced March 13th.
44:57
Jeff Dziekan: What makes it different, Don, than all that little fine print you see at the bottom and we watching TV?
45:01
Jeff Dziekan: You can't you need a microscope to look at it.
45:03
Don Armstrong: Well, that car has to be available with all the stuff that's on it and it has to be included in the price.
45:11
Jeff Dziekan: Isn't there like a there's a uh what do they call it, uh uh disclaimer in that may may not apply.
45:18
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well, um then you need to talk to the state of Texas if they're not gonna be able to do it.
45:23
Don Armstrong: They're gonna crack down.
45:24
Don Armstrong: Okay.
45:24
Don Armstrong: Um the Trump Vance FTC is committed to preventing auto dealers from misleading consumers with low advertised prices and then adding on mandatory fees at the end of the purchasing process.
45:37
Don Armstrong: Chris McFarage, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, said that in a statement.
45:43
Don Armstrong: He says, I am concerned that your company may be engaging in one of the more one or more of these practices, which offers six examples of what the agency considers illegal advertising behavior.
45:56
Don Armstrong: You ready for the list?
45:57
Don Armstrong: Yep.
45:59
Don Armstrong: Advertising a price for a vehicle that does not reflect all required fees.
46:07
Don Armstrong: Advertising a price that reflects rebates or discounts not available to all consumers.
46:13
Don Armstrong: Advertising a price that fails to take into account the amount of an additional required down payment.
46:21
Don Armstrong: Conditioning the advertised price on consumers using dealer financing, requiring consumers to buy additional items not reflected in the advertised price and advertising unavailable or non-existent vehicles.
46:41
Don Armstrong: Those are the new rules.
46:42
Jeff Dziekan: Lost leaders.
46:50
Mike Marrs: I would think.
46:51
Don Armstrong: Well, you better be on your toes and be able to be able to back up whatever it is that you've advertised and make sure that that vehicle.
46:59
Mike Marrs: Which is fine with me.
47:00
Mike Marrs: I you know, tell me what this is gonna cost.
47:02
Don Armstrong: Well, here's the problem that I see.
47:05
Don Armstrong: So let's just take, for instance, that Subaru right there.
47:10
Don Armstrong: Right here.
47:10
Don Armstrong: Right?
47:10
Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's a brand new, I don't know, Forester or something.
47:14
Don Armstrong: Okay, so I've advertised that for sale at this dealership for let's just say forty thousand dollars.
47:22
Don Armstrong: Okay, okay.
47:24
Don Armstrong: Does it does not include tax, title, and license?
47:29
Don Armstrong: Or, and it doesn't say here, do you have to put that the tax title and license on the price of that car and show the price of that on the sticker?
47:40
Don Armstrong: I'm not sure you're I'm just asking the question.
47:42
Mike Marrs: Well, I understand, but it sounded like that's what they're getting to, to where you have to say it's forty thousand dollars plus tax titan license makes it 4123.99.
47:52
Jeff Dziekan: Oh contrary.
47:53
Jeff Dziekan: So you have to advertise that.
47:54
Jeff Dziekan: Oh, but wait, what about you're in finance and you go, what?
47:58
Jeff Dziekan: I'm I want I want coding on it.
48:00
Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna add coding to it.
48:02
Jeff Dziekan: I want to put wheels on it.
48:04
Jeff Dziekan: But you can put wheels on, then you get the TTL after all of that's finalized.
48:09
Jeff Dziekan: No, you're gonna put TTL on just that car.
48:11
Don Armstrong: No, it's just as long as you advertise that you've put all that stuff on that car, you're good to go, as long as that's the total price.
48:18
Mike Marrs: Yeah, but you as a consumer, if you want to add more, then it goes to different deposits.
48:22
Mike Marrs: I got you.
48:22
Mike Marrs: I could see that.
48:23
Don Armstrong: One of the other things is too, is that when you talk about financing, then you talk about well, you don't qualify for this financing because you have poor credit rating.
48:33
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, okay, you've got to switch vehicles.
48:35
Don Armstrong: You can't, I don't know how you could advertise that because it depends on your credit rating.
48:41
Don Armstrong: Unless it's zero finance.
48:44
Mike Marrs: I I've seen some disclaimers though in the fine print where they talk about, you know, got to have certain credit ratings or may not be available to all, depending on your credit, zero finance.
49:00
Don Armstrong: According to this, then you have to have it available to all.
49:04
Jeff Dziekan: Well, that sounds like it'll be a good thing then.
49:07
Mike Marrs: I I kind of think it probably is, but then when you get to the other side of that, like the price leaders, you know, you get in there, you walk in.
49:13
Mike Marrs: Well, we've we sold all of those cars that we had to that price.
49:17
Jeff Dziekan: We got a baby blue whatever.
49:19
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you wanted a red one.
49:21
Don Armstrong: Yeah, so I think that the I think you need to do your homework before you go to the dealership.
49:24
Don Armstrong: And then when you get to the dealership, you find the car that you like and say, Okay, I want to see this, this, this, this, this, this, this.
49:31
Don Armstrong: I want to see you meet that.
49:32
Mike Marrs: That's always been the problem, though, trying to get them to show you.
49:36
Mike Marrs: Just tell me what it's gonna cost me to get out the door.
49:39
Mike Marrs: Well, we gotta do this, we gotta no, just tell me, I'll write you a check.
49:44
Don Armstrong: No, buy it online.
49:47
Don Armstrong: Like what people are doing.
49:48
Don Armstrong: I understand.
49:49
Don Armstrong: A new car, you've already driven it, you know that you want that color, you want that kind of car, you want the automatic transmission, you want this, you want that.
49:58
Don Armstrong: You found it, just buy it online.
50:01
Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's possible.
50:03
Don Armstrong: Okay, another story.
50:05
Don Armstrong: U.S.
50:05
Don Armstrong: Auto Market proved a mixed bag for major automakers in February, with volume dropping at Ford, Subaru and Mazda, but edging up at other companies in what was a weak stretch for the second straight month.
50:17
Don Armstrong: New car and light vehicle sales fell 3.8% to 1.18 million last month, with retail volume down 5.6% and fleet shipments up 4.5%.
50:29
Don Armstrong: Whether an end of federal tax credits towards electric vehicle purchases and affordability weighed on showroom traffic last month, according to analysts.
50:37
Don Armstrong: The weakness is expected to stretch into the early spring selling season.
50:41
Don Armstrong: March and April are highly likely to be down as well.
50:48
Don Armstrong: Ford Motor Company's U.S.
50:49
Don Armstrong: sales fell 5.5% last month, volume down six point three.
50:55
Don Armstrong: Uh volume rose three point two at Toyota, deliveries up three point three.
50:59
Don Armstrong: Toyota's results driven by a twenty-two percent increase in pickup sales.
51:04
Don Armstrong: All right.
51:04
Don Armstrong: Wow.
51:05
Don Armstrong: Imagine that.
51:06
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
51:06
Don Armstrong: And a 14% gain in car sales.
51:09
Don Armstrong: Huh.
51:10
Don Armstrong: So it seems to be trending in the right direction.
51:12
Don Armstrong: Yeah, they do.
51:13
Don Armstrong: Average retail transaction price with non-EV vehicles increasing three percent, now up to forty-six thousand and ninety-seven dollars.
51:24
Don Armstrong: Buy one today.
51:25
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
51:26
Jeff Dziekan: Plus T T and L.
51:29
Jeff Dziekan: Well, and they're they're giving away cars here at each do it each of the dealer.
51:33
Jeff Dziekan: That's right.
51:34
Jeff Dziekan: And uh the if uh the way I understand it, I haven't seen it yet.
51:39
Jeff Dziekan: You get a ticket with a number on it, and then for that number, you have the ability to buy that vehicle for a thousand dollars plus DTL.
51:47
Jeff Dziekan: So I don't know what the cars look like.
51:49
Jeff Dziekan: Uh Mike heard of something.
51:50
Jeff Dziekan: I heard a couple of them.
51:51
Jeff Dziekan: The there was one of them had a Corvette that that was gonna be, and then another one it was uh one of the Mazas, I guess.
51:58
Jeff Dziekan: No, I'm that I don't know, but they're saying they're available.
52:01
Jeff Dziekan: I don't know what they were gonna be, but they're all evidently drivable certified for all that.
52:08
Jeff Dziekan: Not brand new.
52:09
Jeff Dziekan: No.
52:10
Jeff Dziekan: By no means, so yeah.
52:12
Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
52:14
Mike Marrs: Be interesting.
52:15
Mike Marrs: That's Theresa Paige came, got up at five o'clock in the morning.
52:19
Mike Marrs: She can register for the vehicle.
52:21
Mike Marrs: She gets a ticket.
52:22
Don Armstrong: Good.
52:23
Don Armstrong: So she's got a good chance of anybody else.
52:26
Don Armstrong: And you gotta be present.
52:29
Don Armstrong: And that's why Laura showed up.
52:30
Don Armstrong: She wanted to have a chance.
52:32
Don Armstrong: Honda is bringing back its storied on again, off again, Insight nameplate.
52:38
Don Armstrong: Remember the Insight, the Honda Insight?
52:40
Mike Marrs: The Honda Insight.
52:41
Mike Marrs: Kind of a weird looking.
52:42
Don Armstrong: Compact crossover will be imported to the home market of Japan this spring.
52:48
Don Armstrong: Limited to 3,000 vehicles, Honda said.
52:51
Don Armstrong: A Honda spokesperson declined to comment on plans to introduce the new Insight to other markets.
52:57
Don Armstrong: Where are they building it at?
52:58
Don Armstrong: I don't know.
52:59
Don Armstrong: Honda Motor Company.
53:01
Don Armstrong: The story doesn't say.
53:02
Mike Marrs: Are they building it here and importing it back to Japan?
53:05
Don Armstrong: Yeah, they are.
53:06
Don Armstrong: That's that's the thing that Honda's doing.
53:08
Don Armstrong: They've got other cars that they're building here.
53:09
Don Armstrong: Probably some cord and that sort of thing.
53:11
Don Armstrong: Honda made history with the original pint-sized three-door insight hatchback in 1999.
53:17
Don Armstrong: Way back in 1999, Mars, when it became the first gasoline electric vehicle to be sold in the United States, beating the Toyota Prius to market.
53:27
Don Armstrong: But unlike the Prius, the Insights funky aerodynamics, replete with rear wheel covers, which were fender skirts in our day, never really caught on.
53:39
Don Armstrong: Remember those?
53:40
Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:41
Don Armstrong: God that could be I'll never forget when it came to the United States.
53:45
Don Armstrong: Dan, Lieutenant Dan, Lieutenant Dan Patrick, he, I don't know, somehow or another, he had one.
53:52
unknown: Yeah.
53:53
Don Armstrong: And he says, get in, I'll take you for a ride.
53:55
Don Armstrong: So we went riding somewhere in the thing.
53:56
Don Armstrong: It was a smooth riding car, but my God, it was ugly.
54:02
Don Armstrong: That's why they're the ugly the better.
54:04
Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: Hey, ugly cars need love too.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
54:08
Don Armstrong: Well, by somebody else, but not by me.
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Don Armstrong: Pope Leo the Oh yeah, Pope Lee.
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Don Armstrong: What is it, the 14th?
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Don Armstrong: X1V.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
54:22
Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Pope Leo the 14th has driven a Ford lately.
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Don Armstrong: You going what?
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Jeff Dziekan: We could call Leslie, she'll know.
54:29
Don Armstrong: Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley and his wife, Leah, gave the Chicago-born pontiff a 2026 Explorer, custom built, his hometown auto plant.
54:40
Don Armstrong: The one-of-a-kind vehicle includes a number of local touches, including Chicago flag seat tags, center console stitching replicating the city's skyline, and scuff plates showing both the Windy City and Vatican City.
54:56
Don Armstrong: Ford even included a pair of vanity license plates reading Leo XIV and Da Pope.
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Don Armstrong: The latter is sold on t-shirts in Chicago as a takeoff of Da Bears.
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Jeff Dziekan: The Bears.
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Don Armstrong: Popularizing Saturday Night Lives part in the uh part that was done by Chris Farley.
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Don Armstrong: Farley, Farley, Farley.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Da Bears.
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Don Armstrong: Hyundai and Kia are the latest brands to pull back on electric vehicles in light of slowing U.S.
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Don Armstrong: sales, affordability issues, and tariff uncertainty.
55:37
Don Armstrong: Hyundai is trimming the South Korean built Ionix 6.
55:43
Don Armstrong: Light up to just one model, the Ionic 6N, a high-performance sedan that has as much as 641 horsepower.
55:50
Don Armstrong: Car scheduled to arrive sometime this model year.
55:54
Don Armstrong: Even though the Ionic 6, which starts at 39,000, shipping included, is being dropped.
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Don Armstrong: The car will be available for some time.
56:03
Don Armstrong: A nationwide search shows that more than 800 Ionic 6s at dealerships around the country.
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Don Armstrong: Just 229 were sold last month.
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Don Armstrong: I bet you that they would love to see you in their showroom to say, let me see that Ionic 6.
56:16
Don Armstrong: You betcha.
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Don Armstrong: Come on down! And finally, Infinity is adopting a pragmatic approach to an ambiguous plan for a high perfor to a high performance sub brand to rival the Mercedes, AMG, and BMW M C M divisions.
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Don Armstrong: How do they make that deal?
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Jeff Dziekan: I don't know.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, it's fine.
56:43
Jeff Dziekan: It's like the echo thing.
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Jeff Dziekan: One of them just says Hey, what's your name?
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Jeff Dziekan: Ezekiel.
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Jeff Dziekan: Hey, Ezekiel! That kind of thing.
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Don Armstrong: Tony!
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Jeff Dziekan: Hey, hey, wait.
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Don Armstrong: Infinity's prioritizing quicker market entry by fast tracking a more muted red sport performance derivative of its flagship full-size SUV.
57:06
Don Armstrong: All right, need to take a break.
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Don Armstrong: We're going to wrap up today's events here at the Team Gilman.
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Don Armstrong: At the Team Gilman cruise in.
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Don Armstrong: So we invite you to stay with us.
57:19
Don Armstrong: We'll be back right after this break.
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Don Armstrong: The Easter bunnies coming.
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Don Armstrong: To the Tailpipes and Tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
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Don Armstrong: And you're invited to.
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Don Armstrong: Bring the kids and grandkids.
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Don Armstrong: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
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Don Armstrong: With the donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco.
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Don Armstrong: There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic.
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Don Armstrong: There's no entry fee and no registration.
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Don Armstrong: Just bring your ride and the kids.
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Don Armstrong: Best bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this tailpipes and tacos a very special one.
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Don Armstrong: Photo opportunities abound.
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Don Armstrong: The Unwell Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience.
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Don Armstrong: It's the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter Metition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
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Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katie, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I-10, the Katie Freeway in Katie.
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Don Armstrong: Make plans now.
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Don Armstrong: Loopy Tortilla is pretty good.
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SPEAKER_00: Houston, yes, Tim Homan is hosting a mega car meet at the North Complex.
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SPEAKER_00: Ask for a lost Subaru.
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SPEAKER_00: We're collaborating with the Car Meet Network, so you know it's gonna be crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's not all.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be wrestling up six cars to be sold at a thousand dollars each.
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SPEAKER_01: See below for more details.
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SPEAKER_02: You're not gonna want to miss this, Houston, March 14th.
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SPEAKER_02: We can't wait to see you here.
58:53
Don Armstrong: Well, I can't believe that it's over.
58:55
Don Armstrong: It's over.
58:56
Don Armstrong: Well, that's all for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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Don Armstrong: Be sure and check us out online at nrealtime.com.
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Don Armstrong: We're always looking for new, informative, and great automotive events to bring to our global audience.
59:07
Don Armstrong: If you've got an idea, an event, a road trip, cruise in, tall tale you'd like us to feature, let us know.
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Don Armstrong: Our email address is info at nrealtime.com.
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Don Armstrong: When you're looking for award-winning car talk, you can find the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show 24-7 on the In Real Time app and website.
59:22
Don Armstrong: Grab a podcast from your favorite podcast store.
59:26
Don Armstrong: Video stream our live show every Saturday, 10 to noon, on Facebook, YouTube, and InWheelTime.com.
59:33
Don Armstrong: Normally.
59:34
Don Armstrong: Today we went till one.
59:36
Don Armstrong: Boy, am I tired.
59:37
Don Armstrong: The In Wheel Time Video Coordinator is we always need more Jeff Zeken.
59:41
Don Armstrong: The booking agent and video editor.
59:43
Don Armstrong: Mike out of this world, Mars.
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Don Armstrong: And let's not forget His Majesty David Ainsley.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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Don Armstrong: Thanks to our weekly show contributors, Jeff Heitzman and Joyce Skelton.
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Don Armstrong: Next week, we'll have another three-hour extravaganza beginning at 8 a.m.
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Don Armstrong: Beginning at 8 a.m.
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Jeff Dziekan: Beginning at 8 a.m.
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Don Armstrong: Uh Tailpipes and Tacos and the Cruise Inn at the Lupia Tortilla in Beaumont on I-10.
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Don Armstrong: Please stop by and say hello.
1:00:12
Don Armstrong: It's great.
1:00:12
Don Armstrong: And then when we finish that, we're all going to go over to Mars House.
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Don Armstrong: So come on by.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_08: Come on by.
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Don Armstrong: Have a great, safe weekend.
1:00:20
Don Armstrong: So long for now, everybody.
1:00:32
Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website.
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