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Revving Up the Future: A Close Look at Top Hybrid and Electric Vehicles with John Vincent · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning, 8 to 11 am, central.
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  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show and just ahead, john Benson with US News going to join us with the best hybrid and electric cars awards Mars has this week in auto history.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you caught up on the stories making headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars, we always need more Jeff Zekin and our chief engineer, david Ainsley.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Speaker 1: Glad you could join us on this Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, it's a beautiful day here in Houston, probably about 90 degrees for the high temperature this afternoon Somewhere around there, yeah yeah, and lots of sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: It's supposed to rain tomorrow, hopefully not 90, but it'll be, there.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, With the humidity it'll be about 98.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Downer, you're welcome, debbie Downer, right down there at the end of the dais.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Downer.
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  Speaker 3: It's the kind of day.
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  Speaker 1: It started off that way, didn't it?
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  Speaker 2: for you there, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Downer hey he brought it back.
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  Speaker 2: He brought it back to life in 38 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 38 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there's that Joining us now from US News and World Report, John Vincent.
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  Speaker 1: John, it's good to see you, how you been my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Just returned home from Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Did you?
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  Speaker 1: What were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Where were you going?
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  Speaker 1: What happened?
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  Speaker 4: I was at Fort Worth driving the 2025 Genesis GV80.
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  Speaker 1: Really, you know, we don't get invited to anything anymore, even Texas events, so we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of how did we fall off the radar?
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  Speaker 2: on that, Mr Vars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got some warrants out up there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's what it is the warrants, the county.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you got to look at the court orders to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: John, I have to tell you I did a little looking on your website before we talked, and you know I kind of like your publication, thank you.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, back in the day I've been in the news business a long long time, long long time there was print and then there was broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was on the broadcast side Tab.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those print guys yeah, what do they know?
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  Speaker 1: and, uh, you know you go to the doctor's office and there'd be us news and world report and you're just kind of like, yeah, okay, well, I'm in the news business.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: We don't do so.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get the hard copy anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get the hard copy anymore.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: I don't see the hard copy anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going the website.
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  Speaker 1: Look at all the stuff they've got on there.
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  Speaker 1: It's current, I like it, and you must have a huge staff at US News.
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  Speaker 4: We have a great staff at US News and we really you know we all work really hard to get that much content out there every day.
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  Speaker 1: It was truly a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: It was truly a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pleasant surprise.
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  Speaker 1: So kudos to you on that, and how long have you been working on this story?
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  Speaker 1: The Best Hybrid and Electric Cars Awards.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's one of the annual awards we do.
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  Speaker 4: It's all based on research, not on our personal opinions.
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  Speaker 4: So I have a big research team, or we have a big research team that crunches the numbers, spends a few months working on all of these awards and comes out with winners that you know.
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  Speaker 4: We don't just throw darts at a dartboard.
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  Speaker 4: We actually look at the hard numbers and come up with a list of really high quality winners.
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  Speaker 4: Anything on there that really surprised you really high-quality winners.
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  Speaker 4: Anything on there that really surprised you.
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  Speaker 4: You know there's always some things that surprise me.
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  Speaker 4: I think when we get to the best luxury electric SUV, it's going to surprise a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: It is the Volvo XC40.
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  Speaker 4: Recharge what, what?
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  Speaker 4: What you know I don't even Everybody thinks well, you know, tesla sells a whole lot more Model Ys, but our research has shown that you know, in almost every category where Tesla competes now, there's a better alternative.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that Volvo was connected with Polestar.
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  Speaker 4: They are.
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  Speaker 1: So is Polestar the upper end of Volvo.
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  Speaker 1: It is the.
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  Speaker 4: Luxury brand.
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  Speaker 4: Luxury electric sibling of Volvo Gotcha?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that the Volvo dealers down here would carry the Polestar brand, do they not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: Some do, but Polestar is setting up its own, uh own network of showrooms.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, um, and all of this, barring the fact that ev sales continue to slide so let me, let me correct you there.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, tell me, the rate of of EV sales is growing more slowly than it was.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to sell more EVs than we did last year, but that pace of growth is what's slowing and getting all the headlines.
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  Speaker 2: The pace of the growth.
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  Speaker 2: So, in other words, they wanted to sell as in I want to sell 100, but they're only selling maybe 19.
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  Speaker 2: That's the slow growth.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: And because I say that?
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  Speaker 1: Because, as you know, manufacturers are scrambling now to reintroduce, for instance, General Motors, reintroduce hybrids as kind of a go-between between ICE and electric.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, so all right.
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  Speaker 1: So, with that being said, we'll take it from your queue now which way you want to go with your story.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's just go down the list.
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  Speaker 4: The best luxury electric car is the one behind me, the 2024 Lucid Air sedan, which is a better Tesla Model S than the Model S.
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  Speaker 4: Does that surprise you?
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  Speaker 4: The result does not surprise me, because I've spent a lot of time in the Lucid and I love this vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: It is fast.
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  Speaker 4: It has up to 500 miles range on a single charge Massive cabin.
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  Speaker 4: They're just doing a great job knocking it out of the park.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't driven one, but I did get to see one at a good friend of ours, John Gray, as a company called Gulf Coast Auto Shield.
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  Speaker 1: He does a lot of high-end stuff with the paint and all that paint protection and I was blown away by the fit and finish of this car.
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  Speaker 4: Yep For a startup car company company.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing great.
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  Speaker 1: They just need to get on people's radar that they exist yeah, you know, there's a thing called advertising and it just so happens that your company and this company, we we offer that.
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  Speaker 1: We do hello, just saying Okay, what's next?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we just talked about the XC40 Recharge.
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  Speaker 4: The best luxury electric SUV, best electric SUV in the non-luxury segment Hyundai IONIQ 5.
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  Speaker 1: I hear a lot of good things about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of them too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those vehicles that it's like is it really an SUV?
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  Speaker 4: But when you open the hatch and see how much cargo room it has, it's like, okay, yeah, I guess it's an SUV, gotcha Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But its platform mate won the best electric car award and that's the Hyundai Ioniq 6.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of a crossover, if you will.
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  Speaker 4: The platform is.
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  Speaker 4: The platform underpins everything that they're doing Right.
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  Speaker 4: The wonderful thing about an EV platform is it's like a skateboard you can put any box on top of it you want.
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  Speaker 4: So that platform is the Ioniq 5.
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: It's the Ioniq 6.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Genesis GV60.
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: It's the Kia EV9, Kia EV6.
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  Speaker 4: All it is is substrates that you build on.
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  Speaker 1: And I assume that they offer different battery packs and levels of range.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, they do.
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  Speaker 4: And electric car.
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: You can make that platform front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive by just changing out the motor configuration.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, yeah Well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's really what the whole industry seems to be going toward is the availability and the configurability of all of these EVs to make, hopefully, a price for everyone, although that seems to be a big hiccup right now with the price of the EVs being so much more.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: Although they're getting closer to general ICE vehicles, they're still pricey.
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: They are still pricey, that's for sure, and your value at the other end of the equation is also kind of iffy, because nobody knows what a used EV is going to be worth in three or four years.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're just now beginning to get those back on.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Well, get unused car lots because of leases and that sort of stuff when the popularity of them really started to catch on.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: What's next on the list?
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the one that's most important to you.
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  Speaker 4: Gentlemen in Texas, Tell me the best electric truck Ford F-150.
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  Speaker 1: Lightning no, but does it have any real competition?
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  Speaker 4: Sure it does.
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  Speaker 4: The Chevy Silverado EV is coming out.
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  Speaker 4: There is well that thing that they build in Texas, this Cybertruck.
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  Speaker 4: You can question whether it's actually a truck or just you know a large Tonka toy.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: You should say that I saw my first one just a few weeks on the road a few weeks ago on the road in our neighborhood out here, a few weeks on the road a few weeks ago on the road in our neighborhood out here, and I'm going that in person looks actually more weird than when you see pictures of it.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Well, we were on the way on the Hot Rod Tour Texas and that big car carrier had three of them on it and you were behind me and I was trying to get pictures of it as we were driving.
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  Speaker 2: I did get a couple quick ones, but three of them on a car carrier heading westbound on 290, going towards Austin.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you this, that our buddy, as I mentioned, john Gray at Gulf Coast Auto Shield, he has a couple over there at his facility right now that he is wrapping and so they're going to have color on them, and he said it's quite interesting to take the bumpers off of it and the wheel, well, openings and that sort of stuff, because those have to be painted, literally painted, where the rest of it can be wrapped.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: But it's an interesting process because you're working on stainless steel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so anyway, continue on.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we divert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but please continue on.
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  Speaker 4: Another major player in the pickup market and that's Rivian, which is making a great product.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the difference between the F-150 and the Rivian is the Rivian is an electric vehicle that happens to look like a pickup truck.
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  Speaker 4: The F-150 is a pickup truck that just happens to be electric look like a pickup truck.
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  Speaker 1: The F-150 is a pickup truck that just happens to be electric Interesting.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: So the Rivian was made to be a pickup truck, but it didn't look like one.
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  Speaker 1: How do you figure that?
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  Speaker 4: So it's, you know, the skateboard platform again, you can put any body you want on it.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: So it started out as an electric vehicle and they made it into a pickup truck I got you Okay as opposed to retrofitting a pickup truck with the electric capability.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly Okay, I got your point All right.
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  Speaker 1: What else?
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  Speaker 4: So let's go to plug-in hybrids, which are kind of a bridge technology between pure electrics and gas vehicles.
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  Speaker 4: Essentially they're electric cars for short trips, gas cars for long trips.
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  Speaker 4: Best luxury plug-in hybrid Volvo S60.
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  Speaker 1: Recharge.
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  Speaker 1: Volvo and Polestar seem to be gathering all the big, big awards.
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  Speaker 2: here they're getting some steam going.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, volvo, the S60 Recharge is a true sleeper.
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: It doesn't look like it should be fast.
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  Speaker 4: It is, oh my gosh fast.
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  Speaker 4: It's the fastest Volvo you'll ever drive.
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just, it's a blast to drive and it's a Volvo and those phrases don't normally go together.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the best plug-in hybrid SUV, and that is the 2024 Kia Sportage plug-in hybrid.
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  Speaker 1: Does that surprise you?
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  Speaker 4: You know there are some really good players in that market.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: It's Tucson Stablemate.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: You know they're fantastic for commuters because you can do your whole commute on electric alone.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: They're fantastic for commuters because you can do your whole commute on electric alone.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you take that long trip on the weekend, it just switches over to gas and you don't even notice the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, you know, I have had several plug-in hybrids.
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  Speaker 1: They're okay and if you're a person that pretty much keeps it in town you know church, grocery store, short errands, that sort of stuff then it works.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: But the price, the premium that you have to pay for that capability kind of outweighs.
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: If you're going to go that far, might as well go all the way and just get you a hybrid.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I actually own a plug-in hybrid and it's a year and a half old and I just put my sixth tank of gas in it.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Six only because I had to, because it requires you to burn off the gas tank every 91 days so the gas doesn't get stale, right.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: But it covers my wife's commute, so she drives it back and forth to work and plug it in at night, and it's young to have a full tank the next morning.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I mean if, if that's what your commute, if your commute includes, allows you capability of using up the battery in that commute and you can go home and plug it in at night, I get it totally and when we purchased ours, it um qualified for the full 7500 federal tax.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, so the price difference was negligible at that point, gotcha, I understand.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's all changed, though, in recent months.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: It has.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to get better because we're getting more and more domestic battery production, so more and more cars will qualify again, but right now very few cars qualify for the full incentive.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: What's next on the list Best hybrid car car that's in the last year of its current product cycle but still took the award, and that's the 2024 Toyota Camry hybrid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I was hoping it was going to be the uh, the SUV, the Toyota SUV oh, that's my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's yours, yeah, but it's not everybody else's and it's not theirs, I know.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Well, they need to get up to speed.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: This is not a story about you, Jeff.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: This is a story about US News.
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  Speaker 4: This is the best hybrid car.
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  Speaker 4: You might be surprised because there's another SUV from Toyota that comes up here.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Oh there, you from Toyota that comes up here.
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  Speaker 4: Keep talking, but it is not the best hybrid SUV.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: The best hybrid SUV is the Tucson Hybrid, so it won both the Plug-In Hybrid and the Hybrid Awards.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: It's still a good-looking vehicle.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Hyundai and Kia are kicking, it aren't they?
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  Speaker 4: They are rocking it right now.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing a great job.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, All right.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, the best luxury hybrid Lexus NX Hybrid.
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  Speaker 4: It has, you know, that Toyota hybrid system that we've all grown to you know, know and love over the last couple decades the Prius, namely, Hybrid as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Prius, namely Yep, yeah, interesting.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: And I it's well, yeah, then prius, namely yep, yeah, interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And I, a few of them surprised me the pole star, the recharge.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I it's like hello, hello, what do you?
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: You don't advertise.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: How are they reaching the public with these?
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Because nobody knows about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Word of mouth.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Word of mouth and that's what's leading the growth in EVs is when your neighbor gets one and you see it and you ride in it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Then the likelihood that you're going to buy an EV goes up dramatically.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it does.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to tell you I had an experience with an EV just recently and my problem and we are in the greater Houston area and you would think that there would be lots of places to get a fast charge Wrong, wrong, wrong.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I spent three days and three and a half hours trying to find a fast charge that worked.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: One to find one, and then one that worked.
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  Speaker 4: Secondly, Yep, that's the Achilles heel right now.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is, and now that Tesla is pulling out of expanding their charging network, they've closed down that section of Tesla, and I don't quite understand that.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't really help the issue.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Well, everybody else is still expanding theirs, which will help, but it will help more slowly.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: With the adoption of the Tesla plug standard, you'll be able to charge anywhere.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: You won't have to find the charging station with your plug on it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: That'll help in the long run.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the more EVs that people are driving, the more funding that they'll have to build out the charging network, but it is still a huge problem.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Well, the thing that I saw recently, in the past week or so, how thieves would take the catalytic converters off of ice cars, ice vehicles.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Now they're taking the actual plug mechanism.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: They're cutting that off of the charging stations.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Wherever they are, they're taking the plug, they're stealing the plug.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know why there's a lot of copper in that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to add it to their 110 and plug it in.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're going to do, but that's what the latest crime scene is is they're taking the cotton pick and plugs Great.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, in order to get the power to the car, that cable has to be really big and really efficient.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's really high-quality metals in there that thieves are stealing for the metal Yep.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'd be afraid that the thing was on while I was hacksawing my way through that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: You know four-inch diameter pipe Exactly Well, john.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: It's always great to talk to you, my friend, and thank you so much for joining us today and giving us the latest from US News and World Report.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me on you bet, thank you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you, john and I encourage everybody to check out their website as well.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And before you go, John, I did want to mention that you can get to that report for free.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yes, everything at usnewscom is for free, awesome, well, that's just saying that ought
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to get you at least a couple of more subscribers.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks again.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, he's a wealth of information, he really is.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the In-Wheel Ties Car Talk Show we have this Week in Auto History.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Mars, do you?
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  Speaker 3: happen to have that.
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  Speaker 3: I just happen to have it, Wow that's a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: Let me bring that rascal up for you there buddy, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: So quite a few things happened this week.
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  Speaker 3: Some very interesting stuff this week in auto history.
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  Speaker 3: In 1879, george Seldon files the first US patent for the automobile.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what he did?
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  Speaker 3: He filed the patent for an internal combustion engine, and part of that is what are you going to use this for?
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  Speaker 3: So he had to show an application of the device and was on a four-wheel what's this?
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  Speaker 3: man's name george selden george it's another george in our life and this was eight years before mercedes did their patent on their motor wagon in germany.
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  Speaker 3: Now he finally had to do some more things and process it and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But he finally got an actual automobile patent in 1895, first one in the united states, then this week in auto history, 1914, erwin cannonball baker starts first country.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a cannonball doesn't he first cross-country run on his motorcycle.
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  Speaker 3: He beat the original um time by nine days.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was 11, yeah, by nine days.
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  Speaker 3: It was 11, yeah, by nine days.
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  Speaker 3: And a journalist said that he was faster than the cannonball express train.
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  Speaker 3: That's how he got the nickname of cannonball, which is exactly where the cannonball run comes from and clearly the man hadn't eaten in nine days because, look at it, looks like a bean and there's a movie out called the Fastest Indian about a guy that runs on an Indian.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great movie.
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  Speaker 3: An Indian motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, let's clarify that, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then in 1928, Chrysler announces the DeSoto.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Lord and it was now the name for the.
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  Speaker 3: Desoto came from a Spanish explorer who became the first documented European to cross the Mississippi River Juan Juan, he took it like a thudder.
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  Speaker 3: Then, in this week in auto history, in 2016, was the first autopilot death.
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  Speaker 3: First person was killed whenever their vehicle was on autopilot.
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  Speaker 3: Joshua Brown became the first driver technically to die while using hands-free driving technology in the modern age.
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  Speaker 3: Tesla declined any comment on the accident.
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  Speaker 2: Put that on her resume.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and also coming up this week in auto history, the In Wheel Time program was born, created, that's right, it was In 2011, if I'm right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the date was May the 7th 2011.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's close enough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this week, this week in Auto History, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much Thank you for reminding me of that, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We forget that, don't we?
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  Speaker 3: We had a discussion about that.
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  Speaker 1: We had a discussion whether it was April or May Without you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was May, may the 7th, and I don't think you weren't on the first show, were you no?
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  Speaker 1: That was like a one-hour thing on a day in.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me, look at how haggard I look.
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  Speaker 1: This is all that I've been through all these years Haggard, haggard.
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  Speaker 3: But not too many people can say they're still around after 13 years of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Either I'm pickled or stupid one or the other Pickled's coming later on this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Pickled last night.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll have to join us Bowling adventure or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, electric vehicle maker Tesla's launched another round of layoffs, including staff from the software service and engineering departments.
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  Speaker 1: Electric reported on Monday, citing emails and sources familiar with the matter.
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  Speaker 1: The move comes after Elon disbanded its EV charging department.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh, stay tuned.
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  Speaker 1: Penske plans to invest $6 million and add up to 130 jobs in suburban Detroit for a custom paint factory for new special edition vehicles by Ford Motor Company and possibly other automakers.
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  Speaker 1: The company intends to build a state-of-the-art painting facility 115,000 square foot.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to also have a building for its wet painting program, which involves disassembling parts of a vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Think black stripe down the middle of a Ford Mustang, shelby GT500 or Lincoln Navigator black label series topped with black roof panels.
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Navigator Black Label Series topped with black roof panels and automated driving.
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  Speaker 1: Startup Wave W-A-Y-V-E said Mundy, it has closed a $1.05 billion funding round, signifying revived investor interest in the autonomous vehicle industry.
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  Speaker 1: That's next Three of the tech sector's biggest names SoftBank, nvidia and Microsoft.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming and it's just around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: It's akin to a vehicular version of ChatGPT.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, it's coming and it's right around the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Could you say that again, chatgpt.
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  Speaker 1: No, the Animal Time Car Talk Show will Close things out in just a second.
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  Speaker 1: Tailpipes and Tacos is back Memorial Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while, but the popular Tailpipes and Tacos cruise-in returns to the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, saturday, may 25th.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your hot rod classic or modern classic to compete for one of the famous Chili Pepper trophies and get a free breakfast taco.
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  Speaker 1: Just make a donation of any size to God's Garage and Loopy's will match it.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be helping single mothers who need a set of wheels.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a year in the making, so don't miss this Tailpipes and Tacos cruise in Saturday, may 25th, 8 to 11 am.
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  Speaker 1: Donate what you want to God's Garage and grab a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco.
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  Speaker 1: Tailpipes and Tacos only happens at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy on the West Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard, just south of the Katy Freeway.
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  Speaker 1: It's car show season and what better way to kick it off than a free taco and camaraderie at Tailpipes and Tacos Memorial Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday, may 25th, 8 to 11 am.
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  Speaker 1: The In-Wheel Time Car Talk show will be there too.
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  Speaker 1: Proceeds benefit God's Garage, weather permitting.
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
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  Speaker 1: It's a car cruise in like no other.
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  Speaker 1: Expect Ferraris, lamborghinis, corvettes and the featured brand Porsche.
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  Speaker 1: Get social at this special cruise in event.
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  Speaker 1: You'll also see Gulf Coast Auto Shield's private workshop and learn about their many products and services.
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  Speaker 1: Questions are welcomed.
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is easy to get to at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, near West Airport Boulevard, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
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  Speaker 1: The Car Social featuring Porsche takes place Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
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  Speaker 1: Tell your friends and no matter what car you have, bring it and enjoy this rare opportunity to see some of Houston's finest rides.
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  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time will bring its car talk show there too, so join us for another Car Social at Gulf Coast Auto Shield Saturday morning, may 18th, 8 to 11, at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
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  Speaker 1: Visit GCAutoShieldcom to see the show flyer for more details.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted with the latest car stuff all week long.
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  Speaker 1: And, don't forget, we live stream this show on Facebook, youtube and InWheelTimecom every Saturday, 8 to 11 am Central time.
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  Speaker 1: The end will time.
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  Speaker 1: Sales and video technical director is we always need more Jeff Zekin for booking agent, video editor and the man who always needs to tighten his belt, mike out of this world March, along with chief engineer David Ainsley.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us again next week, where we'll be broadcasting from the 2024 Spring Social at Gulf Coast Auto Shield here on the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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  Speaker 1: That's next Saturday, may 18th, from 8 to 11 am on all of our In-Wheel Time Car Talk outlets.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, stay safe out there.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central on Facebook, youtube, twitch and our InWheelTimecom website.
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