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Ferrari Fridays: Should Ferrari Build a Modern Manual F40? · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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I'm your host, William Ross.
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I got my diet Mountain Dew as always, and we're ready to do some chit chatting.
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Or I guess they say I'm just ready to do some talking here
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and we are going to talk about.
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Something that I actually, I guess you could say it's been brought up
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Intox before, but the big Hubble Baloo in the Ferrari world is the little
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nugget that Louis Hamilton dropped about a week and a half ago, whatever.
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I was gonna try and do this sooner, but I kind of wanted to wait to
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see what else got dug up on it.
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There's been a few other things, so it's been interesting.
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But anyways, Louis Hamilton dropped a little tidbit information.
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It kind of reflected on his photo shoot.
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He did when he was finally at Ferrari Marineo.
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They did it, you know, in the factory, then they do it in front of Enzo's
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old house office, blah, blah, blah.
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And he was standing there next to an F 40, all dressed up in his
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suit and everything looking good.
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And supposedly he wanted to have a black F 40 and Ferrari said,
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Nope, that's not happening.
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So they had the red one in there, but.
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The F 40 is one of Lewis Hamilton's all time favorite road going cars, so he
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would love, again, we don't know where this conversation has gone with Ferrari.
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If this is just something, you know, you're playing that game where he's
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gonna drop it out on social media and the news and stuff like that.
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Then try and see if it goes somewhere because it's got wheels, you know,
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make it more of a public forum type discussion than a behind doors closed
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discussion with Ferrari themselves before anything gets said or released.
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But he would love.
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To have Ferrari build him for him for release, I guess limited
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production, but a modern F 40 with.
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Jumble a manual transmission, which everyone went nuts about.
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'cause everyone's kind of been clamoring and everything.
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You know, Ferrari come out, everyone else is coming back to offering or
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putting in manual transmissions.
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I mean, obviously this is a kind of a higher level.
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You get in the hyper criteria like Konig Sag, paani, they're doing it.
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Porsche's always offered a manual 'cause hey, their buyers want it.
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But I think you're going to see a lot of other manufacturers
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step in and offer that.
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As an option on their cars.
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Now, way back when, for those of us of, I guess you would say certain age bracket
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demographic used to be when you bought a new car or you went to spec a new car,
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order a new car, everything, way back when manual transmission was standard.
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And you had to pay extra to get an automatic transmission in
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your car and it wasn't cheap.
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You know, a lot of these things, I mean, it was an expensive option.
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I mean, I know back at BMW back in the day and it was almost like a
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$1,500 option to get an automatic transmission put in your car.
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So people were like, forget that, you know, it was like, had a mail
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and people grew up driving manuals.
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I grew up my first Carver manual.
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A majority of people I'm sure will probably listen to this,
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their first Carver manual.
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No, you wanna teach your kids how to drive a manual 'cause it's just, you're
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more involved in the experience and it's such a different driving experience
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when you are rowing your own gears.
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It's phenomenal.
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Anyways.
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The discussion was had, you know, I guess a lot of people kind of tweaked it,
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you know, it's like the telephone game.
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It started, the story was here, and then by the time it got to this
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end, it was completely different.
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But you know, people putting their own spin and take on it.
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You wanted and supposedly call it LH 44 or something like that.
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You had the 44 designation and somehow some way, which probably be a little
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tough, but I mean it is Louis Hamilton and you know, hey, if he can deliver.
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A world championship to Ferrari and Constructors Championship
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with him and Charles Le Clare.
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Then I, I think Ferrari, no, he, no problem.
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He's gotta prove himself just because your name.
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Yeah.
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He's, you know, seven time world champion, F1 world champion, everything like that.
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Yes.
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No, he's got the CV to back up making this request.
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But you know what?
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A Ferrari just doesn't, they're pretty staunch in regards to how they operate
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their business, but his takeaway is no.
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He wanted to have a modern F four manual transmission.
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Now, what that would entail would be V 12, which I would think that
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yes, you'd have to go V 12 in that manual transmission all out F 50.
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That would be the route I'm sure they wanna go.
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Now, would you just kind of tweak.
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You know, make a more modernized version look of the F 40 or what have you.
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That would be kind of interesting to see how they'd go about doing that.
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I would say it's gotta be a road going car.
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My guess and assumption, and if I said, I've touched on this before and said
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it before, if they ever did another manual transmission car, it was gonna
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be one of the I Kona series cars.
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So whatever it may be, you know, obviously we just have the S SP three.
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You got the SP one, SP two, you got the S SP three.
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You know, they do some one-offs for very, very influential
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customers, but it would be somewhere along the lines of Ioni series.
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So 500 cars, maybe 250.
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That's it.
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And obviously you gotta have that privilege and be offered
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that golden ticket to buy one.
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So basically, 99.9% of us in this world that are car fanatics and love
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cars would never have the opportunity to drive one, let alone sit in one.
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Or maybe even get near one.
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I mean, yeah, I'll probably see one, a show or something like that.
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Really cool, but just wouldn't happen.
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I mean, obviously there's a very, very, very small portion of us that probably
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get to experience an F 40 or an F 50 F 40.
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More than likely you could possibly, because they're
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over 1300 of 'em got built.
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F 50 is not so much.
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That's the only kind, I guess you would say thing that would really suck about it.
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Us people here in the real world would never get afforded that
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opportunity to, you know, if you got deep pockets, hey, God bless you
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and you can buy one awesome for you.
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I, that's fantastic.
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But you know, all of us out here that I.
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Muck it every day, trying to earn a living and to pay the bills
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and keep a roof off our head.
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And if we can be able to afford a decent fun car to have and do some
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fun stuff on the weekends with our friends, that's fantastic, but
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we'd never get that opportunity.
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So it's unfortunate.
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But the engineering exercise of it would be fantastic to see because it would
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be awesome to see what they could put behind that, because there's so many
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things you can do now in regards to.
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Making say a modern F 40 that's got a V 12 manual transmission.
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Now, obviously with the missions and stuff like that, oh well it's gonna go
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back to, you know, twin turbo V eight because hey, mileage and mid blah,
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blah, blah, all that kind of stuff.
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But if you're doing a limited, serious car, doesn't matter.
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Have at it whatever fees, whatever taxes, whatever some would've to
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pay because they're bringing that into their country or whatever.
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So be it.
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It's not gonna hurt anybody.
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But you know, you have all the electronic nanny aids that the F 40 didn't have.
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That you could put on there, you know, obviously your trash
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control, that kinda stuff.
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I mean, hell, you could have the rev matching computer do that so you don't
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have to worry about blip doing your little heel toe when you're driving
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the car, doing down shifts and that, which my opinion, I guess it would take
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away from the experience, but there's probably should be a button in there.
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Something.
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Hey, turn that off.
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I'm gonna do it because I know how to do it.
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Again.
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It would be interesting seeing what their take would be on that.
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Would they go basically stripped out minimalist like they did with the F 40?
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No sound, Eddie?
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No, nothing.
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It's just basically at the tubs.
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Some wheels, the steering wheel and some pedals have at it,
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or do you do it up like that?
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Kona Series R. I mean, those are.
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Beautiful cars inside and out.
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I mean, the leather, everything like that.
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They're beautiful.
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I mean, there's no doubt about that.
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The craftmanship is there, so it's like, so what extent do you go with this car?
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My opinion, strip it out, make it minimalist.
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We don't need.
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A nav screen.
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You don't need any of that stuff.
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Just give us the basic gauges, everything like that.
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Make a hookup for your phone and do a cool way to mount your phone in there somehow,
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some way, because that's all, everyone uses their phone for it this day and age.
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You don't need those stupid ass big nav screens and all that stuff
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on there, running all your stuff.
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It's a fricking waste of money.
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You know what?
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And the other problem is in five to 10 years, the thing fucking breaks.
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Pardon my French, you're screwed.
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Trying to get it fixed for repair or whatnot, you know, I dunno what's gonna
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go on with a lot of these cars, you know, down the road here when they have
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all these electronics like that, you're just gonna have to have to scrap 'em.
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Because it will make absolutely zero sense to pay to try and have
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it fixed or repaired or anything like that because of the cost of it.
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It's like, I'll just go get another car.
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You know?
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It's unfortunate.
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People are gonna have to be very, very, um, smart picking through the
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junkyards and breaker yards and stuff to find old units that still work to
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be able to pull that out, to put it in.
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But then you gotta program all stuff.
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There's a lot of stuff there, right?
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You basically gonna have to have a Microsoft computer degree or whatever
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you wanna call it, and programming and coding and whatnot to figure it out.
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My suggestion, I think, I think Zen Bo does this with their cars.
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They don't have a NAV scan like that.
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They got your basic one that's got your stuff on there, but for NAV
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and all that stuff, they have this really cool mount for your phone.
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Everything like that sticks in and plugs in connection.
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The phone, hey, goes through the speaker, it's got the Bluetooth or
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plug it in, which I think is fantastic.
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You can design a really cool.
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Tray or a holding thing for your phone where it sets in there, whatever
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shape or form or, so it's visible.
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You can see it's laying there.
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Obviously phones these days are a certain size and shape.
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Trying to come up with something like that that can fit in there.
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But just put something in there where, okay, it's makes
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it snug or tight, whatever.
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They'll put something in there, some material, something that can
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adjust to make it nice and snug in there and tight figure it out.
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It's not that hard, but that would be my suggestion.
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Just keep it minimalist in that interior on this car.
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So, because if that's what you're going for in regards
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to having a new modern F 40.
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That's what it needs to be.
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Something light some top and make that glorious V 12, sing the F 50
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sounds beautiful when you put some pipes on everything like that.
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Oh my God.
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That thing's just absolutely, absolutely phenomenal.
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And people are realizing that, and that's why those cars are all approaching
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the $6 million mark, especially if it's a US factory built one.
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It's obscene.
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You're holding steady at about two and a half to three and a half million,
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maybe up to 4 million on, uh, forties, depending on mileage, that kinda stuff.
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History, everything like that.
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Used to be they F 50, F four were about priced the same F 50 used to,
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and F four used to be a lot cheaper.
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But now people are realizing, the fact is that was the last
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V 12 manual Ferrari built.
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It's got some age to it and everything like that, but it's gained some traction.
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Now, as a side note, if you have not gone on the internet and looked
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up the F 50 gt, you wanna talk about how that car should look?
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Check that out.
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'cause I wanna tell you, the F 50 GT is absolutely beautiful.
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Now, I know there's a lot of people out there that aren't a fan of how that wing
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is molded into the back of the thing.
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So take a look at the F 50 gt, 'cause it basically eliminates that.
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There's still a wing, but it's a completely different look.
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The front end, the back of everything.
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It's phenomenal.
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There's only two three F 50 GTS built.
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They're rares, hence teeth.
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I would love to see someone and obviously do it with the higher mileage F 50, but
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body scan it and get one of these carbon manufacturers everything, do the body
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panels up and do a whole new, put the kit on there on your car and do it up.
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I mean, save your original stuff, but I think they'll look cool.
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But anyway, back to the topic at hand.
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Louis Hamilton's request, or I guess you would say nudge out in
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social media News world about doing a modern take on the F 40 for him.
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I would love to see it.
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I think it'd be phenomenal.
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But again, also touching on, you know, he said something about we
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having to call the LH 44, something like that, blah, blah, blah one.
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It messes up the lineage in regards to the designations On the car.
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You have F 40, F 50, then you go into your end zone, your LA Fry.
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Now you have F 80.
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It kind of making a step back.
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I think he can get away with it, but it'd be interesting to
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see what they would call it.
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'cause the other thing I just briefly mentioned is Lewis has
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not done anything at Ferrari yet.
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If he brings the driver's championship or even helps him brings the Constructor
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Championship with him and Charles, then okay, I could see the justification.
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I mean, look up McLaren.
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Building the Senate.
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He won all his titles.
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His three titles, three titles with McLaren.
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I know, if not there, correct me if I'm wrong.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you.
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So I think that gave McLaren the right to come out with a model called the Senate.
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'cause he spent the good majority of his career at McLaren.
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Obviously he only had those very short, what is it, six months, five, six months
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at Williams until he tragically passed.
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So I think Lewis is going to have to step up his game.
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Before something like that could happen.
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I mean, could be wrong.
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I mean, like I said, you know, Lewis's CV is fantastic.
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Seven world Championships prove himself.
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He is, you know, one of the best drivers of all time.
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It, it is out there.
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But it's that kinda adage though, that always kind of irks me.
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You know, obviously you gotta have the best car.
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All these guys on the grid, they know how to drive a race car.
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Obviously there's a couple that are above everyone else.
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They can squeeze those few extra 10 tents out of the car Max.
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We're stopping for one.
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But how much is it the car that helps because you put Max back into a Williams
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or you put him in the S or something?
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Yeah, he is not gonna be, I don't know if you can get up
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into the midfield with that car.
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'cause way regulations are and everything like that.
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You know, everything's supposed to be pretty similar and everything like that.
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But everything comes down to aerodynamics.
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You know, you look at from first to last in qualifying, everything that
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led to, I mean, you are so tight.
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You know, you look at it like, wow, he was only five tenths, two tenths slower.
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But in they look at that inside themselves, they're like, holy crap.
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That's like eons.
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Supposedly Ferrari's got an upgraded floor for this weekend for about rain.
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So it's gonna be interesting to see that could really change up the dynamics or
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give 'em that few extra tents they need.
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They're not that far behind.
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McLaren, you know, obviously we're talking, it's McLaren, then
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Mercedes, red Bull, then Ferrari.
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Well, no, I take that back probably McLaren, Mercedes, Denver, Ferrari, then
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Red Bull, because Red Bull is lacking.
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I mean, they got the best driver on the grid right now and he's
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coming out to be probably one of the greatest of all time in stopping.
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But Yuki and, and a side note, I think Liam Lawson got screwed.
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They didn't give him a chance and again.
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How's he gonna drive something and give him two raises a car?
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He never even drove everything like that.
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I mean, it's a tricky car to drive.
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I thought he got the short end of the stick on that.
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I wanna say he approved or whatever, but it's gonna be interesting to see if
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they give the whole season now to Yuki, like, yeah, all right, we're gonna just
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go the, we're gonna, we ride until we die, so to speak and see what happens.
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But you know, that's gonna kill 'em in the Constructors championship
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because as of now, max is the only one scoring points for them.
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Liam in the first two, and then Yuin and the last one in Suzuka.
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You know, they didn't score in points, so it's gonna be interesting
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to see how that plays out.
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But anyways, again, back to Lucy's request and dilemma at Ferrari.
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I. He's an old guy.
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Well, I dunno, if you look at Alonzo Lonzo's going, what?
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He's 44, 3 43 years old.
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44 years old.
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Lewis is 40, 41 years old, something like that.
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So he's only got really a few years left.
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I mean, he's still driving top level, there's no doubt about that.
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But I don't care.
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What anyone says is you age and you get older, your brain changes and the
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dynamics in your head and how you think of things and look at things changes.
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Dramatically from when you were late teens, early mid
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twenties, even late twenties.
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Brain develops.
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You get more thoughts in regards to your keeping yourself safe,
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not taking some of the risks.
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'cause I mean, you're talking, you could be in some mega crash.
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I mean, look what happened with Jack Doula, who, again, in my
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opinion, it's getting screwed by Flave Bear, Tori, which.
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Is odd because Flavio is his manager.
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I've never been a fan of Flavio.
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Uh, I think he's a piece of dirt the way he goes about business.
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I just can't stand him.
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And I can't believe Alpine.
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Alpine brought him back.
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But you know what?
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It is what it is.
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They're desperate and they're trying anything.
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So, but anyways, you know, my guess would be if Lou can prove himself this year.
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And finish in the top three in regards to points and maybe somehow some
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way they can eke out the battle with McLaren and with the Constructors
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Championship, which I just, I don't know what to see after this weekend.
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I think it'll prove it because, you know, again, 2026 season.
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Completely different regulations, completely different cars.
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The rules are changed completely.
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Now, of course the scuttlebutt is, they might put it on hold and wait till 2028
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'cause they wanna bring back v tens 'cause of the sound, blah, blah, blah.
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You know, which I think they could do, 'cause the sustainable
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fuels, everything like that.
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Instead of trying to go the hybrid route, electric route, I think they could go
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back that route because the sustainable fuels that are, could be coming out
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now that are available are phenomenal.
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The WRC runs all their cars on it.
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That would be brilliant to see.
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But F1 teams are so far into their programs in designing, building,
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and constructing their 2026 car, they would lose a ton of money.
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I dunno how you recoup that r and d and that investment saying they push it out to
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say, okay, we're gonna push this to 2028.
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We're just gonna stick with the same cars for the next two years.
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Well, three years include this season and then 2028 we're gonna drop it.
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We're, we're gonna redo it all again.
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Completely redo it.
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We're gonna do the v tens, blah, blah, blah.
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All stuff, which I would be all for because I just think it would be
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phenomenal the way they would sound.
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Of course, I'm curious to see how things sound next year.
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'cause the way they are changing up the powertrain, I think there's opportunity
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there to make 'em sound better, but.
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There is nothing, nothing like the sound of those v tens screaming.
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That is just such a glorious sound.
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Now I remember being at Indianapolis before the F1 races there and just
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standing right there at the fence.
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They were starting right there.
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The starting grid.
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Obviously they were going the opposite way, but all those cars just screaming.
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I mean, it is just, oh God, it's such a beautiful, beautiful sound.
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I was dumb enough not to be wearing, I guess, earplugs 'cause
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it was loud, but I didn't care.
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So anyways, I could see if Louis.
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They do something this year far is able to do something.
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There's no way he's gonna win the World Championship this year ain't happening.
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They might have a crack at the constructors, depending
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how things play out.
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There's some stuff where McLaren doesn't score points, their cars
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drop outta cars, anything like that.
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So right now there's a shot there.
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After a few more races, we'll see.
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No, they don't have a shot 'cause it'll be XY 'cause of
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points will just be outta whack.
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I mean, the one thing they do have going, they're both scoring points, but
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they're not getting up high enough in the points to really kind of do anything.
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But he would have to win a world championship in the next three years
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for, I think, to justify Ferrari coming out with a car like that for him.
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He hasn't been there long.
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He hasn't proven thing, he hasn't like established like, oh, he is a Ferrari guy.
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I mean.
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If anything, Ferrari comes out and calls it the Schumacher, call it the Ms.
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Ford, you know, whatever.
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Call it after Schumacher and build that way.
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You know, that I think would go over very well.
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That I feel is justified.
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Maybe after Lewis retires he can go back and go to Mercedes and they
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could come out with something special.
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You know, something along those lines.
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But Ferrari should build that car.
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Yes.
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Come out with the modern F 40.
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Put in a V 12 manual in it.
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Bare bones make that thing a screamer.
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Just sound awesome.
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I mean, obviously you got regulations, but put it in mind that
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when you build it, construct it.
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Hey, it passes all your missions and regulations for the countries it's getting
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sold in, but also keep it in the back of your mind when you engineer it that,
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okay, hey, make it easy to modify that car sound-wise, everything like that.
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Something along those lines.
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I mean, it's not that difficult to do, I don't think.
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But Ferrari definitely needs to build that car.
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I don't think it should be in the name of tribute, whatever, to Lewis Hamilton.
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He hasn't earned it yet at Ferrari.
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Has he earned something like that along the lines of his career?
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Yes, I agree with that.
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But not at Ferrari?
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Not yet.
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They're gonna do it.
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Name it in name of, uh, Schumacher.
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You know what, what was his thing in the grid?
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MSC, whatever it was.
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You know, come up with something along those lines.
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Now, like I said, r and d and development, everything.
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They have to build that road going car and do it.
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That's a multi-year endeavor.
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If they don't have something started now or kind of in the works.
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If they just start now, 'cause that's what's come out and they got like a small,
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Hey, let's just start dipping our toe into the pool so to speak with this and start
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doing some basic design, blah, blah, blah.
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That kind of stuff.
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I don't think you really gotta get so much into trying to look at budgets
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and RD, like we'd say a afforded GM does, okay, what's it gonna cost?
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Here's the budget.
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This is what you got, this is what we need to come out with, blah blah.
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It's more along the lines, Hey, whatever we can come up with, we can build it.
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'cause we can charge whatever the fuck.
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Frick we want, so you're gonna recoup your money and make a boatload off of each car.
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So I don't think that would factor in so much, but I think, you know, timeframe
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wise, but if you start now, you could have that car out in four or five years.
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So that would give enough window and just say, okay, it's internal code name.
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Is LH 44, but the actual name of the car might be something along the
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lines of at tribute to Schumacher.
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'cause Lewis just didn't do anything at Ferrari.
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I mean, I think if you leave that door open, but obviously the thing that's
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gonna kind of bite him in the asses, there's gonna be a lot of leaks.
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There's gonna be people poking their nose around and if they find out, well they
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internally, they were kind of making it like LH 44, but then they come out and
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actually name it when they start moving cars to customers, it's after Schu mark.
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I think that could create a real bad PR problem.
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So I don't know how they would address that.
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I mean.
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Keep it under the wraps, just name it something differently
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internally, you know, who knows?
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Um, call it the next awesome Ferrari.
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Something like that.
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Internally, I don't know, do something along those lines.
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But it would take them probably at least five years, maybe four, if they
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pushed it to come up with what they do.
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If you look at what they did for the SP three, the SP three was based on
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an existing chassis they already had.
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They just put the V 12 in it and did all that kinda stuff.
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So it wasn't that tars, mainly a lot of body work they did to that car and
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then inside it and everything like that.
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So it wasn't that difficult.
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To bring that car to market.
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Now this would have to be, I would think a completely new car chassis.
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They could possibly build it on that 4, 9, 9 customer version car, take that chassis
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and then do something along those lines.
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And a side note, if you have not seen that F 80 in person thing is absolutely.
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Awesome.
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I mean, you could take that chassis and do something with it, I guess the
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F 80 chassis, which is based off the 4 99 customer car, that's track only.
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So you could do something with that, that would save significant amount.
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But you know, you have the tub, you have everything.
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But then again, it's like, all right, you're gonna have to really make it look
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different than the F 80, and you're gonna have to make it something so spectacular.
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Do you make it above the F 80 in regards to performance and everything like that?
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Or do you make it a step down?
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I mean, where do you go with that?
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Because you can upset some people, so I don't know.
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It's kind of an interesting conundrum that they could have on their hands.
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'cause I don't think this is gonna go anywhere and I think this is gonna
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be a topic that's gonna be brought up for at least the near future for the
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next six to eight months, especially depending on how the season goes.
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Because if you know who Loose Hamilton wins the race or two starts
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having some success, that's gonna come to the forefront of everyone's
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conversation with anybody from Ferrari.
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So how's the RD coming on Lewis?
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Hamilton's new, uh, take on the F 40, blah blah, blah.
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You know that stuff.
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So.
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They're gonna have an interesting, uh, little, uh, thing on their
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hands coming here this year.
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So it's gonna be interesting how it plays out.
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I mean, I'm all for it.
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Like I said, it would definitely be in a Kona series car, but if
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they're gonna do it, make it a manual V 12 minimalist inside.
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Just do the what you need.
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No screens on that crap.
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Don't need it.
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Just be it where you can just plug your phone in and have everything on that.
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Make an app that once you plug your phone in, all your diagnostics,
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all that crap goes into that.
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You just give your basic gauges, your rev counter, your speedo, some oil
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pressure, your temp gauge, your gas gauge.
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That's it.
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That's all you need.
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Don't need anything else.
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And maybe, you know, put a nice clock in the one spot, maybe, I
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don't know, something on those sides.
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But that's my take on that.
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Like I said, you know, I touched on this in previous episodes in regards
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to them bringing it back a manual and stuff like that, but that was just me.
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Just swirled in my head.
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This actually has got traction because the request has been come
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from Sir Lewis Hamilton himself, so we'll see where it goes.
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It's gonna be very, very interesting to see how this plays out.
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Could you imagine it'd be pheno?
23:37
Could you imagine how fun that 2 96 would be in a Emmanuel?
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I was at MotorTrend Road Track, how they did a little conversation
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with one of the guys, marketing, PR guy, whatever, from Ferrari.
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Their thought is, oh no, flappy paddle.
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Well, you know, is that performance?
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It's that they don't get it.
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It seems to be in regards to.
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The percentage of how these cars are driven on the road and compared, driven
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on the track, everything like that, and that visceral experience that
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you get out of driving a manual, it'd be awesome to see that, but there's
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no way to do swaps on those 'cause electronics, everything like that.
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It's just impossible.
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But it would be awesome to see if they came out and they did a
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special edition I COEs series.
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New take on F 40.
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