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TREVOR LONG picks up our phone call, we talk the rise of RAM, plus Subaru WRX! · The Driver's Show

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: I know how much food have you eaten this this
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: holiday season?
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: Not as not as much as you And that's that
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: was before we even got to Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Can you come down and just give me one of
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: those tarts that I brought him to share?
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: But you just have to be eating a lot. I
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: don't even know how old these are.
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  Speaker 3: They're good enough to eat, that's all I'm saying. I'll
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: have the chocolate, the chocolate looking one.
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  Speaker 2: Where's this from? Ferguson player? So if it makes you
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  Speaker 2: feel any better, the owner of this will found or
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  Speaker 2: whatever drives rolls. Royce Phantom really so by you stuffing
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: your face with those sweet treats helping fund his extravagant lifestyle.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Ferg I love how you're eating it with the fucking
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: the rapper still on it. That's disgusting. It's like an
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: aluminum foil wrapper. It's good disgust.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: There go, Lack your buduciary, bro, you're having the rolls rise.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: Good now you're right now right Christopher's case, Jesus, all right,
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: here we go. No, no, no, that was that's part
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  Speaker 2: of it. You're on.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, we have a tradition every year around this
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: time around Christmas time where I buy We have this
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  Speaker 3: tradition every year where I buy you something and.
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  Speaker 1: You get me fuck all. So I thought I would
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  Speaker 1: carry that on.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, where's my present?
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  Speaker 1: I've got you a real present. There's a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm actually genuinely excited for this.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: There's another lawsuit?
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, hang.
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  Speaker 2: On, stay there, stay there. Unfortunately he's rifling through his
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  Speaker 2: bag at the moment, but not his middle finger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not looking a big deal, not looking.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you love it? It's a B y D.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder where this is made?
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  Speaker 1: Sri Lanka.
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  Speaker 2: It was made in Sri Lanka and not China. But
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: it's made one size fits most. What if you have
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: an enormous brain, Well you.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: Have a big head, and that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: Put it on, Put it on, put it on? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: take your headphones off, no no, put it on. It
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  Speaker 2: is it's on.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, generally because it's a dad heart. There
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  Speaker 1: we go, look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on, I'll get the driver's show in the background. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Am I to send that to my good friends at
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  Speaker 1: B y D?
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Anyway, Merry Christmas is a good friend slash sponsors.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: Then they're really don't. I wish they were anyway. Yeah,
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, likewise, Mary xmis do you celebrate Christmas?
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: Everyone else is doing like a family sort of situation.
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: Paul's family just goes to the casino.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: It's the only place that's open.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: The kids in the car and let's go.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go have a seafood feast.
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: Well, welcome to the Driver's Show, formerly known as Another Show,
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Another show, but that's cool following legal action. Okay, yeah,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: we're going a big show today. We're going to talk
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: about some Japanese car stuff. We're going to talk about
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: some big old trucks and an even bigger truck that
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: is electric. So I'm really looking forward to that. And
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  Speaker 2: thank you also for your emails. It was it was
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: very encouraging to see so much support for us over
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: the break and following the news of everything, news of things,
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: everything that's happened. So yes, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very professional intro by you, Paul. Yeah, god,
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: we were in danger of sounding a bit too professional.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: You're in danger of losing your job. I could probably
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: do daytime radio.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Look, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I would love to hear pretty straightforward.
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: Let's let's hear you do. I think you've done Smooth
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: FM before. Let's hear you do Top forty Radio.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: All right, it's one twenty pm, folks, and it's time
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 1: Some Taylor Swift with It's a song. It's a song called.
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  Speaker 2: What's a Dance with It? Or whatever? It's called doing dance?
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  Speaker 3: What is it that shake it off?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know so many that one on what radio?
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: You did?
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: Do? The call sign on The Driver's Show with Him,
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: formerly known as.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Everything's Normal in your World? What have you have you
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: been driving? Anything exciting?
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Anything?
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  Speaker 3: You kind of go, wow, that was surprising. Can I
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: tell you one thing that was surprising for me? I
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: know it's been out for a while, but the facelifted palisade.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: It's actually like, it does look nice now. It looks
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: so much better, especially with the black package. Yeah you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that looks good.
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  Speaker 3: The top speck on that is like a weird kind
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  Speaker 3: of chroamy pewtery color.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you guys should not have done that.
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  Speaker 3: You should have just blacked it out because the black
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: looks so much better. And I guarantee now people ordering
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: Topspec are just going to take that to a just
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  Speaker 3: dip it or whatever and get that fixed up deleted.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, that's that. That was a car that
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  Speaker 1: has surprised me.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, ah, well, actually that is surprising, but
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  Speaker 2: also the newness and pathfinder is surprising. I just drive
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  Speaker 2: that recently, and that thing is really good. So you
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: can get it in seven or eight seats, and in
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: the seven seat version as captain's chairs in the second row,
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: and you can remove the second row sort of storage
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  Speaker 2: thing to create a walk through for the kids so
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  Speaker 2: they can walk through to the third row.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you mean like the what is effectively the boot.
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  Speaker 2: No, but they've got if you come into the car
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  Speaker 2: through the second row, they've got like a sliding storage
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  Speaker 2: box with cup holders. You can take that out entirely
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: and then use that as access for the kids. And
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  Speaker 2: the doors open almost ninety degrees so you can actually
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: get baby seats and stuff. And it's a really clever car.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that was quite surprising.
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  Speaker 3: It just doesn't like to me, I was expecting more
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  Speaker 3: with the looks of it.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't look face enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks okay, it looks fine, but I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: bring something like striking to the party.
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  Speaker 2: It might be hard to please you know.
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  Speaker 1: Who, please me, Donna.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: Daniel gives it a fair old as well, start even
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: getting started. Daniel is probably the one that started that,
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  Speaker 3: the reason why we had to take a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a break. Thanks Daniel, Daniel, Thanks Daniel. He's like, no worries,
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: mister Gordy's Hey, I've noticed there's a nice.
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  Speaker 1: Little Scottish car out there. They've built a brick.
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  Speaker 2: They've built a brick, an electric brick.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like the cross between Elon's cyber truck and
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  Speaker 3: something I made in grade six.
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  Speaker 1: It just looks like a school project.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's out of Monroe, that's the company, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a four x four and it's I'm sort of
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: in two minds because it's sort of kind of cool,
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: and then you look at it from all sorts of
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  Speaker 3: angles and you're.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Just like, Jesus, what is going on?
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  Speaker 3: It honestly looks like it looks like the project someone
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: did it like sheet metal tape.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of does look like that. And I
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  Speaker 2: love their sketch. It's literally two bricks on top of
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: each other.
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  Speaker 3: This sketch is literally like something someone would have drawn
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  Speaker 3: in primary school.
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  Speaker 2: It's so interesting. So it's a really just fascinating vehicle
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  Speaker 2: because they're saying it's the world's most capable off road
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  Speaker 2: all electric four by four and some of the specs
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  Speaker 2: of fascinating. So they're saying, enters production in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see about that one thousand kilos payload, thirty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred kilogram towing capacity, and a sixteen hour off road
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  Speaker 2: duty cycle on a single battery charge, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So they're saying that it uses electric motors that aren't
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  Speaker 2: quite like electric motors in other evs, So between five
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  Speaker 2: thousand and eight thousand rpm. Sometimes electric motors can spin
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  Speaker 2: up to twenty thousand rpm. So that means that those
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  Speaker 2: RPMs allow it to effectively have a low range transfer
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  Speaker 2: case without having a low range transfer case. It's actually
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  Speaker 2: hold on it says this negoates the need for a
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  Speaker 2: reduction drive, enabling drive to be taken directly to the
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  Speaker 2: transmission transfer case from the motor. Interesting, so by combining
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  Speaker 2: a two speed transmission, the motor can work at low
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  Speaker 2: speeds with greater efficiency. Yeah. Wow, two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: kilowats or two hundred and eighty kilowatts and two battery
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  Speaker 2: pack sizes as well.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I love. Zero or one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: nine to five seconds really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that i'd want to be doing
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  Speaker 2: one hundred in that thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they've got a good testing ground Scotland is
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: if you're going to test a four by four, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's where you want to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty two kilowatts three phase A C charging, which
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good. So look, the specks actually look pretty decent.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and it's very basic inside. It doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of a fairly new company. Monroe too. Twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: I think they started, and I think it was started
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  Speaker 3: from privately funded investors, like a it's a real startup.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having Look here it says here Monroe claims it
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  Speaker 2: will be the first automotive manufacturer to build cars at
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  Speaker 2: scale in Scotland since Pergio Talbot closed It's Lindwood plant
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one. So there you go. They're bringing Scotland
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: back on the map of manufacturing.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Fun were they ever on the map?
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  Speaker 2: Well in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, So I think it's cool.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: I'll be keen to see what this is like, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope it eventually comes to Australia. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I will sit on that and just kind of put
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: my foot down and go. I could not give a
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  Speaker 3: shit if this car comes to Australia. I'd prefer the
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: Bronco to come to Australia, and that probably won't be happening. No,
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: what about the one fifty that is coming. That is coming,
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: isn't it. They're doing right.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: Hand drive conversions for that in Australia as well, so
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: they have prototypes ready and everything is sort of coming
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  Speaker 2: along nicely. So that will go on sales. Right hand
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: drive vehicle, that's what you should get.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: You should get that.
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's only just the normal one. They're not
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: bringing the Raptor or anything like that just yet.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: There is a there is an F one fifty Raptor though, right.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, but just not for right hand drive just yet.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: And they've just done a Raptor R, which is a
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: supercharge V. To answer the baha, yeah, to answer the
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: t rex. Oh okay, yeah.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: You know what I've seen on the road a lot rams,
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot. I'm talking about the car I've
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: seen a lot.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I was driving out.
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: Territory and Jesus keep away from his bloody sheep.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, no, I've seen a lot of Rams
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  Speaker 1: on the road.
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: It's so funny because there's a lot of body kits
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: on them and I can't tell if they're factory like
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: genuine or not. They really just go all out with
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: the weirdest shit. Some of it looks amazing, some of
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: it not so much. But there is a lot more
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: here in Australia now right, and the sales are killing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love this because Walkinshaw who is basically doing
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: all the conversion of the Ram trucks and also the
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Silverados as well. These guys basically worked on HSV's back
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: in the days hot up commodorees and that was.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: That's a family company that still gets going too, so
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: A lucrative business. But no one ever thought that, you like,
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: when these first started coming out as right hand drive,
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I didn't know that there's really
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: a long term business case on this. They have just
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: constantly broken records. They're on track to sell almost ten
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: thousand rams this year. Last month they delivered seven hundred
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: and ten rams, which is ridiculous. They manufactured nine hundred
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: of them out of their remanufacturing facility. And the other
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: cool thing as well is they outsold last month the
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: Nissa Nevara. So more people are paying over well in
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: excess of one hundred thousand dollars for a Ram than
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: they are well under one hundred thousand dollars for in
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: this and Navara, which I find absolutely staggering. And we
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: recently did a big yut comparison that'll be coming out
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: soon where we tested the Ram TIERX. That thing is
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: an absolute beast. That is well north to two hundred
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: grand worth of worth of car, and you see a
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: few of those on the road now as well.
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  Speaker 3: So here's my thing. Though Australian roads are different from
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Oaken roads. They're a lot narrower, they aren't really built
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  Speaker 3: for speed in a lot of ways.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Well you say that, but I didn't have any issues
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: driving TRX around. Our roads are no sort of smaller
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: than American rale, I don't think so. I've driven plenty
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: of these pickup trucks locally and they don't feel any
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  Speaker 2: worse on Australian roads.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think they feel worse.
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: I just think it's probably a little bit tougher to
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: kind of get along in a lot of ways.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Well, it is if you go into a shopping center
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: or something like that, but.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Which you don't do you just had the maid to
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: do that. Yeah, it's half of a reason why you
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: got married.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Even parking a dual cab ued at a shopping center,
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: it's a normal sized one, is hard work. So this
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: is always going to be tricky. But yeah, to me,
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  Speaker 2: I think that I think that we're going to see
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: more and more of these on the road, and the
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: appetite for them is growing. Eventually, we will get to
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: the stage where the sales of these are so high
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: that they actually start manufacturing them out of the States
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: in right hand drive, and that's when I think we
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: will see just a huge over run of these because
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: they will be priced competitively with standard sort of duel cabute.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it is. It is fascinating times. And I
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: can see you.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: In one of these, actually absolutely, I can see you
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  Speaker 1: in there.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: Bloody kicking back American style, eating a bloody hot dog
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: with Trevor, Like I can see it happening, just listening
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: to some Kenny Rodgers or something.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: You and Trevor.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: You guys would be sharing like the same foot Long,
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: it'd be like lady in the trap, just like sucking
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: down a bit of spaghetti. But it just seems like
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: your wildest dream here at the moment, getting closer and
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: closer as you double.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Dog that double dog a little bit of double dogging.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's really cool. So they Ram Trucks
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  Speaker 2: Australia employed six hundred and forty one Australians, so, which
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: is pretty cool. So it is a big industry at
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: the moment and supporting locals as well, which I love
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: to see too.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: So you know who I haven't heard from him in
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: a while is Trevor Long, who you two would have
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: some sort of hot dog rendezvous in one of these cars.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: And I saw him on Twitter the other day. I'm like,
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: oh fuck, jeez, I'd love to piss you off again.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: We should get him on at some point, what do
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: you reckon?
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: I know we were like, we're not disgrace yourself.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: I know we're already like that.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: The last sort of legal issues have just settled down
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: and we could potentially start some new ones.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: We should do a check in. Should I call him up?
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: I've got his number, you don't I don't think he'll
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: answer you don't reckon, No, I wouldn't.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try it. Oh, this would be amazing if
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: he answers. I'm gonna make sure it's on a private number, though.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Should I talk? Should you talk?
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Ring?
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Ring?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Ring? I'll talk with you.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Hello, God, even the way he answers the phones annoying.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Hello, is that Trevor long Steak. It's Gordy and Paul
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: here from the Driver's Show podcast.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Who else would be calling me on this day?
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Who else would be calling you in general?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, I've.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Got a long list of quaints to Sinka rama.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, so, welcome to the show.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: By the way, it's great to be here, isnt Trevor?
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: About fifteen exactly?
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I'll make it known to you that Gordy has just
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: gifted me a BYD hat and I'm convinced that he's
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: on the take with BYD.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I'm really not well.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Else would what else would he be so angry about
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: me just getting the driver's vehicle? I mean, it's just
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: remarkable how up tidy is about the whole thing. He
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: shall be the reason they put the price up by
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: three grand?
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, Trevor, coming down with your little
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: flex of knowledge there, Hang on, we should do a
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: bit of backstorry for those who don't know. Basically, a
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: long time ago, I was given the Australian first. I
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: was given the Australian.
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  Speaker 1: Exclusive to drive the by d at oh three.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Now how it went?
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Was our good compadre Trevor Long. He was showing it
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: off on his little program on.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: The what is it called the Today Show or something?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: The Today Show with Today? Yeah?
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Right, they don't even have a blood do they even
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: have two hosts at the moment. They don't even know
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: who's feeling in that. That thing is just a revolving tool.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Carl steff and over against Sarah Arbor. It's going to
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: be great twenty twenty three.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who is it?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Cart?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: From January sixteenth?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Carlos and who?
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: That's what we need to remember.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jesus, did you just sniff?
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Then?
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Have you got a plate of bloody cocaine in front
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: of you? What are you doing?
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I've been quite sick all week, but I've got out
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: of my sick there to speak to you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Oh that's kliness all right.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Anyway, A stupid backstory, A no.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: No, So then I was I was promised this, and
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: then you did your little show off on the Today
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Show and then handed me the keys, and I was like, okay, cool.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: And by the way, you weren't driving, and you weren't
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: supposed to give any driving impressions on it. You were
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: just supposed to showcase it on there next to whatever
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: your segment was. Things to have in fucking twenty twenty two.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: You should have this fridge, this vacuum, this car. I'm
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Trevor long Sea later, right, That's all you're supposed to do.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: And then you handed the keys to me, and I
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: was supposed to have the first drive, drop out driving impressions,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: all that sort of thing, and then within twenty four
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: hours of doing that, you jumped on your little YouTube
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: channel and put out first fucking driving impressions.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: It went well too, Jesus. It was a good video.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Numbers shot up Marreck nos this. You know you have
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: a good burst of early numbers. It was great. The
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: problem with your funal little story is I don't know
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: what you're talking about. No one knows what you're talking about.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: You've made this story up on your own, haven't made
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I I've been I've been working alongside Luke and the
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: team at BYD for two three years.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Dropping the CEO. Look at you dropping CEOs. Now, I've
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: been working alongside with Luke. What have you been doing
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: playing golf and eating hot dogs?
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Playing the game? Mate, It's what we do. What we're
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: doing this game exactly, the networking game exactly. I want
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: assured you of something. And then here's what they shouldn't
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: have done. Here is the first tip you should have
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: had that that wasn't going to happen was when they said,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: can you come pick up the car? You're picking it
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: up from another journey.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're playing in the first indicator.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I'm We're gonn't fade this clown down Jesus for someone
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: who's apparently had COVID or whatever it had, cheesy talks
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Here's the situation. The thing that you just said there
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: is the game. And that's exactly why.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: We started this thing, because all these journeys in the
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: fucking pockets of these car companies there, Bloody b one e.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You want to talk about someone who's in cahoots, mate,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: you just said it yourself. You've been working with these
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: guys for three years.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Anyway. Well, I am convinced that you are in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pocket cording because I don't know where this hat comes from.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I don't have a hat. Let's put it that way.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Do you know where I found that?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Maybe they gave me my hat because he didn't get
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the first one.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Although you didn't get the first rof, but he got
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: the first hat.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: No, I'm actually genuinely concerned about Trevor. I can hear
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: his breathing, and I think you need to sit down.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I think something could happen.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: What do you what do you like? You relaxed?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Oh God, Jesus, do you know what I love about
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: this show? Right?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Is it not?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You so just hide down to its?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I just love that you'd never get this unlike what's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: under the bonnet, Like you never get like just a
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: couple of guys talking about Trevor and hot dogs. And
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you know that's the thing about the car industry, right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: it suffers a lot from representation of females and like
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: black representation and LGBQ, but not anymore thanks to our guest,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Trevor Long, I represent.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: The fad community. Yeah, wait things out a little bit.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: That's where me and trev unite.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, we we're from that community and Paul.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Had a stint but into shape exactly.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Well, actually, I have a genuine question forever are you
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: going to see Yes?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know it's the biggest event of the year
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: for me. January one, we leave. I take a team
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: of four because it's epic. It's the biggest show.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, So can I just poise you there?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: So I have a question for it?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I get it, I get it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I just want to for those who aren't engineers or
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: whatever the hell you guys do, can you just explain
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: what that is?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: What that expo is.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: You go to. This is the consumer electronics show. It's
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: been running for I think fifty five years. It used
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: to be where companies would announce something like a brand
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: new product, and then it's where retailers, liking in our
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: old Harving on the JB hih I go and they
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: do all the deals to actually get the rucks that
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: they're going to bring into Australia during the year. A
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: little bit less like that now it's a little bit
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: more just you know, show off the showcasing, but there's
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: still deals done by the retailers to bring products and
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: there's a bunch of car companies that go there as well.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: They don't launch cars, but they do spruit their technology.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: You know, they'll talk about their autonomy or their battery
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: parerent stuff. So there'd be a bunch of cars there
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: as well. It's pretty big car show at the same time.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Do you get a bit of a taste of what
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: to expect? Do you know what you get kind of
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: get to see, like is there anything you're looking forward to, like,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: oh the new I don't know. Well.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Last year, as in twenty twenty two's event, it was
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: this weird because of the first time back since COVID.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: The show floor map had all these big car companies there,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: but they didn't turn up because they shouted themselves at
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: the last minute and went, oh it's COVID drama. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: so I think there's going to be a lot of
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: the stuff we expected last year turn up this year,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: like concept cars from Mercedes. They've got an equxx Paul,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: you know, they've got a bunch of concepts out there.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: BMW last year had this color changing car, the paint
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: change colors like eating I'll do something fun again. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: don't know, to be honest, what to expect that that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the front of it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Well, can we maybe while you're over there or when
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: you get back, get you to fill us in on
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: all the car stuff that's gone on there?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yah? Bloody oh something. I love it, this weird, weird
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: thing where it's the only time of the year where
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I'm happy to talk about things that aren't real, if
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like I don't like talking
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: about phones that are only released in China or you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: phones that only sell in Europe because it doesn't matter
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: to Australians, whereas this is the one time of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: year it's kind of that beyond two thousand. Look, you
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: know this is just cool Staff. It might not be
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: on sale this year, it might be on SEF for
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: teen years, but just to know that a company can
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: achieve a certain thing, whether it's a level of autonomy
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: or arrange in kilometers on an electric car, I think
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: it will make a difference in the long term. So yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: it'd be great.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I love how you just compared that to be on
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: two thousand. I've always said you're the Amanda Keala of now.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I think Amanda would be deeply offended by that, So
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you don't listen to this show.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Does actually she really does. She told me she's coming
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: on the show next week.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I saw the other day and I said, I'm going
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: on with Gordion Portuguess. What the hell are you talking about?
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: She actually had no idea who you were?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding? I? Actually, again, you.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Are so so precious. I mean, if I didn't just
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: make that whole thing up, I.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Didn't make me listen to me.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: You're on my show, all right, listen, you just shut
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: your little man?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Paul doing this show? Bad people. That's all I've heard.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't bag anyone, just Paul.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: How good is the coopra formentive vs?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Can I just say I've driven that too? That that
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: as well? You could have asked me as well. You
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: could have included me.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: But I wanted to actually ask.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: The funny thing is, actually haven't driven it? So how
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: good is it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: What you reckon of?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I think you actually liked it? Didn't you got it? Yeah?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I did. I did.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It's sort of I don't know.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It's it still feels a bit like underwhelming to me,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: a bit like I mean, I.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Think the hybrid's great. I think it's it's a really
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: nice uh really nice kind of movement from the electric
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: to the to the petrol. I love it because I
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: love the look of it. I love the brand. My
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: first car was A say it so I'm a little
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: bit biased, but a good car, I don't. I don't.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're priced well enough to make it
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: properly work in Australia. But that's another problem for another day.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I think no, I agree with that point, actually, but
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I think everything generally is put together really well in
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: this The interior looks stylish.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I reckon that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Did you have the matte paint.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: On the Yeah? I didn't on the vz D, on
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the original four Mento I drove. I've got the white
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: one of the Moment, which is a vs D. The
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: matte paint is a little bit much for me, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I think it shows up every bloody speck of dirt
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: and water. Be horrible to keep in your driveway.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Trav's a conservative man.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Your conservative, well, you know I.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Think about I'm just such a big hater of things
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: that cost too much money. I think cars today cost
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: way too much money. I don't know why. I think
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the market has not. I think the car company is
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: probably making more money out of every car than they
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: ever did before because cars just seemed so much more
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: expensive today, and.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: People are like, what what gets me is people are
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: prepared to wait the crazy amount of wait times that
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: they are, do you know what I mean? And it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: getting worse, Like the whole the whole chip shortage thing
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: is just such a fast do you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Guys reckon that's a real thing anymore? Because I obviously
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: twelve eighty months ago that was a genuine thing, there
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: was chip shortage and all that kind of stuff. But
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I think the car company is now realize that they
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: can essentially manage the supply by just taking orders. Now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're ever going to get back to
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: a point where they just have swaths of stock sitting
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: on show room flaws anymore.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because every two months Toyter puts out a press
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: release saying we're cutting production again because of semik and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: but you still have a two year weight on a
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: four and dealers earn more margin. There's not cars sitting around.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: It's actually a pretty Lucra.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: There's no competition. You can't ring one dealer to another Kenya,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: and you can't actually shop around anymore.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And I think what will happen is ringing dealerships will
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: probably narrow down anyway, It'll probably be done more on
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: a website.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: What your temple started that, and Mercedes had started doing that,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: bowl I was doing that. It's a good thing because
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: it means everyone's getting the same price, but it's a
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: bad thing because it means you're never negotiating on the
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: price of the car, and that means they can continually
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: just put a price up. It's like you know what
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the bid example, they just go the price has changed
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: as of now, and there's no there's zero chance to
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: negotiate that because you don't have a dealer, there's no intermediary,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: and so you are literally stuck with whatever the heck
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: sticker they put on the car.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: What was your first car?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Did you say say it?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I'd be is that where you went on schoolies as well?
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: The Gold Coaster?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Of course, I can't imagine you at schoolies on the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Gold case.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Actually I was very boring.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I was pretty much designated driver, although I was actually
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: seeing some don't really matter.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't to me, come across as a bit
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of a where'd you go to schoolies? Lake's entrance.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, well, Trevor.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Thank you for actually coming on the show that we're
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: not done with, Trevor, is this started?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: What is this just a show? Is this what you do?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Just talk?
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Yea?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So tell me about your podcast there, Trevor, what's that called?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Which one? I'm going to do about five a week?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: THEFTM podcast, which is talkback technology podcast, tech question. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: can answer it like talk back radio and there the
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: two Bokes Talking tech podcast been running for twelve years
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: as of February, so that's like tech news every week.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Is the best movie You've never seen, which is me
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: watching movies since the very first time and seven rabbiting
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: on about how he's seen them a million times.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Pornos, Yeah, whatever you want, mate, They all sound shipp
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: by the way.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Well, can't be any worse than what I've just listened
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: to for last Sinday move.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: No, look, hey, here's the thing.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Going to go on forever.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Calm down, mates, God, I'm worried about your health now.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I want to I want to bury the hatchet. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: want to genuinely say I didn't I don't have any apology.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Music queued up but Trev is.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Actually a genuinely brilliant tech reviewer. I watched his videos,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, I do watch videos. I watched
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: that expo you went to it in Berlin, and I
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: thought that was really cool.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: You ate fake meat or something.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Something for meat?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, horrible, And I think what he does is really
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: good and it's entertaining.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Let me say this then, all right, let me say this. No,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I genuinely had no idea that someone else was promised
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: a first drive. I didn't ask for a first drive.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I just had the car and studio had twenty four
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: hours before to take it back. So I hooked up
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: a GoPro. What do you do? What do you do?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just a man with a GoPro in fact podcast.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, now we're going to end it and we're
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: going to chat to you once you come back from
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: CS and we'll we'll have it talk about car stuff.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Good boys, Thank you, thanks, true thanks. Right before you
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: go before we go, just hag up the phone before
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you go.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I just want to say one thing. I love you.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I love you too.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Yes see, I love him.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Here's the part love you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty three.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Subaru WRX and WRX sports Wagon. Prices start from forty thousand,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: nine ninety dollars for the basic trim levels.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: You do in two sixty two.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Thousand, four hundred and forty dollars for the top of
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: the range, Todam WRX s TI Final.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Edition, Suberu WRX, and the I want to put the
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: sports Wagon in this review too, because I'm going to
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: try both and they're both similar cars. One's just a
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: bit of a different shape to the other, and I
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: know there's a lot of interest in the sports Wagon
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: as well as the standard, So that's what we're doing
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: with this.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What are you do you think of these?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Because we were talking about the new Subi before it
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: was released and before we got to see the car,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: before we got to drive the car, I remember my
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: impressions being it just didn't look because cosmetically design wise,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: it didn't.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Sort of look it just it didn't look that drastic.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And I know I'm hard to please with this sort
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: of stuff, but it just didn't look that drastic, And
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you know, I thought the interior was and suber who
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: have kind of been always a little bit guilty with
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: this on the WRX. It just was never kind of
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: flashy or just seemed very basic. But now we've driven it,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: has my opinion changed slightly.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Well, look, for me, it's it has two personalities. So
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I drove a manual one and I quite enjoyed it
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: because it was a visceral experience. Everything was happening, I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: was doing everything, but I was a bit underwhelmed with
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: how quick it was in the noise, it really sort
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: of made no sound and it wasn't that fast. Yes,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I then briefly drove the CVT and I thought it
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: was going to be terrible, but it wasn't as bad
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: as I thought it would be. But the downside with
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the manual is it misses out on half the safety
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: tech that you get with the CVT, and at the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: price that they're asking for this it kicks off what
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: does it kicks off from? Around forty five grand for
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the entry level manual, there's a lot of money to
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: be missing out on basic safety tech that you can
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: get on virtually every car today. But for me, I
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: like the interior tech. I just didn't like the materials.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: They are a bit sort of scratchy in parts, but
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I thought the tech was pretty cool, and I like
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the design as well. I know that's probably a little controversial,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: but I think it looks cool.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I don't mind it. Now that I've got
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: to see it in the flesh, I don't mind it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I was saying to you before we aired this. The
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: design has now just kind of settled in. You know
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: when something like shock value or interesting aspects of a
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: car sit for a while and then they soften. To me, Yeah,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the cars softened even further, so I think it's very
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: much a normal fixture design wise.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Could they have done a bit more perhaps.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I still don't think it's the best looking WRX. Yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: it's not the best looking WRX that they've put out.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: It's not the bug Eye. It's not as shit as
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: the bug Guy looking one. You know, that car was
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: so ugly it's almost become some people like it. Yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I know they do, no, but it's it's now become
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: almost a cult classic because it's so out.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: From everything else that they've done.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Anyway, But yeah, look the interior again, it was it
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: still feels a little bit. Plain definitely enjoyed this car,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: like you're right with It's slowish, I think by today's standards,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: it feels it's they've.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Gone from a two letter to two point four. Power
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: is up five kilotz. The talk is the same at
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: three p fifty. Yeah, it's like, how exactly that was
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: not even possible?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Those numbers in twenty twenty two to twenty three, they
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: don't really stack up as much as they used to
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: with Subaru WRX. You know, I know that they are taking.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: A very much approach. I believe from what I've heard
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: very much.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Numbers on paper don't sell cars, which I kind of get,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: but it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Also makes it hard for people to test drive if
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: they see the numbers.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: That's true, What's what's going to get them over the line.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: It's it can be a numbers game. I mean as well.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I think for me, why I enjoyed this was a nostalgia.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: It was it brought back the Subaru is such a
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: brilliant car. It's such a great driver's car. I didn't
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: get to drive the manual as much as you did.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I spent maybe an hour with that, to be honest,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: and I had the.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: DCT for like a week with the sports Wagon CVT
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: whatever fuck put it, I say, DCTCD.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Look, I think The tech in it is good, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I think it's where it needs to be. I think
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it's sitting kind of where it needs to be twenty
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: But big screen was that? Was that wireless Apple car play?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Wasn't it massive tick for me with that sort of
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: stuff has its own It has a few in built
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: apps as well, I think too a few er. They've
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: got an STI logo on.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: The wheel where why why?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: And they're from like official word from Subaru was oh
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: for nosulgic reasons.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well there's not going to be an STI. No,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: they're saying that the SI will be electric and later on.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: So it just feels weird to me. Maybe it's like
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: how BMW does m Badgers. Sure, maybe tuned by a STI.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: It's not like you're.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Getting like an STI package though, No, do you know
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: what I mean? Like not with like an interior fit
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: at or anything like that. Yeah, exhaust or body kit
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: or anything. But I still think this has got life
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: in it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I think it's definitely a great car if you're considering it,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: it's damn it's a great car to get. It is
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: what it always has been it's a great driver's car.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Does it stack up with their faster cars out on
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: the road for a similar price point?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Arguably? I completely agree, And I think this will have
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: a certain type of buyer. It's the type of buyer
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: that's always wanted one of these and always had one of.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: These, and they just want one with new attack.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. The fact that you can't get the
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: wagon in a manual, I just don't know why that's
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: not a thing, But yeah, I think that. Yeah, I
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: think that people will enjoy it. I think once you
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: modify it, that's probably where you'll start getting proper enjoyment.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So sticking in isourced on it, bigger turbo, that kind
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: of thing, I think that's probably where it'll be. But
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I haven't really seen many modified ones, so it's like
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: people are just keeping them fairly stock and not really
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: doing a great deal to them. That's the thing it is.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: I can hear from your voice. I'm in the same boat.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: It's like, it's fine, yeah, I'm under look in all
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: understand I'm underwhelmed. I think what they need to do.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Super were doing this thing where they're just I feel
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: like they keep on keeping on.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And it's like Toyota. They just continuously just deliver just
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: what you kind of expect. There's nothing surprising there.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's solid. There's always going to be something good,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: but it's never Yeah. I just it's not the evolution
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I wanted. I kind of feel like, imagine if they
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: rested this car for ten years unheard of, and then
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: they just relaunched it and it was a complete beast
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: of a car as it once was.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Is the rally scene as big as it was in
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the mid nineties, No.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: But it's still pretty decent.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I just think this is an iconic car.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Everyone's got their favorite model, everyone's got their favorite year.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: The Subaru fan club is strong, and they deserved something a.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Little bit better.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Yep. Agreed, as always.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Contacted The Drivers Show dot com dot au on Instagram
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: to the Driver's Show.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: What do we called the Drivers.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: The Drivers Show dot com dot au is where you
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: can find us on Instagram.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: That'd be great they listen to this.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Now send us a DM.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, slide into our DMS.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Slide into our DMS and I will get Paul to
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: send you a photo of his Willie, which is very underwhelming. Yeah,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I've got some amazing news I'll say for episode three.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I'll save it for episode I'll say it for the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: episode anyway. Amazing news.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, and let us know if he want us to
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: chat with Trevor about anything else, like if there's anything.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I'm personally just between the listeners and I I think
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: it'd be a great replacement for Gordy. So sorry you
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: heard that. My apologies. It just the Driver's Show with
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Paul and Trevor just it just slides off the tongue
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: a little better.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what else slides off the tongue. Trevor's dick,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: go sucker.