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Drive Thru News #7 - Season 1 Finale · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Hello, and welcome to The Drive Thru.
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  This is your host, Brad, speaking.
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  With me, as always, is Eric and Tanya.
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  Hello!
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  This is the Winter Edition, and as you all know, The Drive Thru is our monthly recap,
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  where we put together a menu of local, racing, and random car adjacent news.
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  And now we're going to pull up window number one for some industry news.
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  But before we do that, Brad, I just want to remind everybody that this is the
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  last drive through episode of season one.
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  So season two of break fix kicks off here at the beginning of March.
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  We're excited to see what season two brings us.
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  A lot of surprises, probably a lot of changes, lots of great
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  guests and episodes that are.
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  Coming out here over the next year.
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  I just want to remind people that, you know, it's been a minute since we've
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  done a proper drive thru episode.
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  Hopefully you caught the last couple that came out.
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  We had a really great remastered, would you like fries with that last month?
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  And then some other things that we did in the previous months leading up until now.
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  So our goal for this.
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  Last drive through episode of season one is to capture some things
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  that happened over the winter.
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  You know, the motorsports world is pretty quiet.
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  The, even the car sales world is pretty quiet.
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  There's not a lot of debuts, but we found some, I think some good news out there.
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  And we just, you know, want to talk about those things as we get prepped and we
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  get excited for season two, the start of the next racing season, and we go
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  from there and we see where things lead.
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  So on that note, let's send it.
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  So the first thing I want to talk about.
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  Is Volkswagen 2022 Golf R based on the Mark 8 chassis.
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  Yeah.
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  I bet you all didn't know it was coming because they announced
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  on the same day as the election.
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  I don't know who the marketing guru was that decided we've
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  got to announce on this day.
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  Maybe it's because they're over in Germany and like the election
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  is a non factor over there.
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  I don't know.
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  The 2022 Volkswagen Golf R, I think it looks terrible.
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  Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and throw that out there, but that's
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  not what we're talking about today.
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  We're talking about the power output, which is 315 horsepower up
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  from apparently 287, 290, something like that in the previous model.
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  Still the same two liter turbo.
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  It's still going to have all wheel drive, but it's updated for motion system.
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  It's going to work in conjunction with the electronic differentials
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  and the dampening systems.
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  They call it vehicle dynamics manager, torque vectoring and
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  you know, all that funny stuff.
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  Basically in layman's terms, press the go pedal, spin the wheels, magic happens,
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  and the car just moves no matter what.
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  I thought you were going to say in layman's terms, it's an Audi A3 or an
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  Audi S3 with different skin on top of it.
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  You
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  Well, it actually looks more like a Q3 than an A3 to me.
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  If you look at it, it looks like a mini minivan.
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  It looks like it's lifted a little bit.
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  It is.
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  It's right up there with the BMW M8, right?
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  I mean, it's gargantuan.
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  I'm not a fan of the eighth series.
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  I mean, I've always been a big proponent of the even number series.
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  Volkswagen's are where they get it, right?
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  Well, I'm with you.
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  I think this one was a bit of a misstep.
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  I mean, a lot of people like it.
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  It's got a good aftermarket following already, just hasn't grown on me.
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  And I haven't seen too many in person yet.
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  And I think that's part of the problem.
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  Maybe when I see one in person, it'll change my mind.
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  But I do have a hard time with that front end, where it shares the look and feel
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  of like the new Tiguan and the Touareg, or I guess it's not the Touareg anymore.
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  It's the Atlas.
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  I just, I don't get it.
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  But I will say this, hats off to Volkswagen for finally putting out a Golf
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  from the factory with over 300 horsepower.
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  Sadly, I want to know how much this thing weighs, because if it's, 3600 pounds.
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  The power to weight ratio is actually probably worse than some of the
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  older R spec cars at this point.
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  So what have we really gained at the end of the day?
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  Well, I can tell you what Volkswagen is doing that is right.
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  And they're releasing this car with a manual transmission option.
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  Excuse
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  me.
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  Excuse
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  me.
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  What?
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  Yes.
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  And you're gonna love this figure.
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  The reason they're releasing it with a manual in the U.
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  S.
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  Is because Ford 40 percent for 0 percent of all ours and GTI sold in the U.
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  S.
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  are sold with three pedals.
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  60 percent of those cars are sold with DSG.
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  That's mind boggling.
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  In a market where the manual transmission is dying, you know,
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  and all across the board, no matter what, 40 percent of these cars.
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  So V Dub Kids, Dub Kids are keeping the manual alive.
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  Manual Preservation Society is strong in the VAG community.
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  I like that.
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  The other side of that is the fact that they've gotten rid of the golf.
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  The base level golf now is gone.
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  You can only get a GTI and then you can get the R package,
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  obviously, on top of that.
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  I think that's interesting.
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  And obviously, if you haven't heard the news, there's no longer a two
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  door golf or GTI anymore, either.
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  That was a big move they made last year or the year before to do away the two doors.
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  So I look at this as maybe an olive branch to the Volkswagen community to say, Hey,
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  you're giving us a manual transmission.
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  Thank you for that.
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  Still not a big fan of the four door move, but I get it.
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  They're trying to maximize the platform.
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  They're trying to, you know, minimize the amount of retooling that they're
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  doing because the A3, the S3, the Golf, all those cars are all the same.
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  It is sad though, to see the Beetle go away as we know that
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  happened not too long ago.
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  But on top of that, I think what pains me even more is there was always that
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  glimmer of hope that we might get the Scirocco and now that along with the TT.
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  Is done.
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  There is no more of any of those types of cars and it's heartbreaking, but whatever,
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  we've got to make progress or we're going to make room for other models to come in.
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  They got rid of the beetle and now they're moving towards EVs.
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  It's like the beetle is the perfect home for an EV, put the batteries in the back,
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  like the original beetles had the engine.
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  I mean, it's a perfect candidate and there's actually some, uh, you
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  know, renderings of what a beetle could look like in Eevee and pretty
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  much looks like a beetle, but it's got that futuristic y look.
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  It's, they're pretty cool.
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  Reconsider their, their lineup in the future.
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  It would be nice to see the beetle back, but
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  I agree with you there.
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  And honestly.
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  keeping the beetle design.
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  If you kept the previous one and put the motor in the back, as you're
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  suggesting, and even maybe did all wheel drive, the frunk would be larger by
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  cubic volume than the current hatchback availability that the beetle has.
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  So moving things around actually makes sense and you don't lose any people space.
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  You probably gain some at the end of the day.
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  So I'm with you.
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  I mean, They're doing the, the bus, the ID one or whatever they
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  called that thing or the ID buzz.
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  Right.
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  I mean, that's a cool idea.
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  The beetle should be right there with it.
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  And even maybe a Carmen Gia wink, wink, nudge, nudge, but
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  I guess we'll see what the future holds, but
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  with a beetle, I mean, they could do a dual motor version
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  with a motor in the back and a motor in the front called an RSI.
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  And have four, 500 equivalent horsepower would be ridiculous.
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  All wheel drive beetle.
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  No, no, the new, the new mantra is that we all aspire to own rental cars.
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  So, you know, Hey, it's okay.
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  Well, and the other thing is the beetle aesthetically is like designed
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  to be electric because it has no fricking front grill, basically.
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  Yeah, I agree with that
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  too.
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  In terms of all these new electrics that look kind of odd sometimes because
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  you lose all that grill for the airflow that you don't need to an engine.
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  It's like the beetle isn't going to look It's going to look right
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  and the Fiat 500 right behind it, right?
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  That's another one, another icon.
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  And then I could see the mini going in that direction as well.
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  I mean, again, those were three cars that had been competing with
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  each other for such a long time.
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  It just makes sense.
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  Speaking of changing the automotive landscape, I don't know if everybody
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  was paying attention over the last couple of months, we talked about it on
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  several drive thru episodes, the whole Stellantis merger, which is Fiat Chrysler.
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  Peugeot, Citroen, and all the other sub companies are now under one large
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  conglomeration called Stellantis.
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  It went official and they went IPO on the 19th of January, and they are now the
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  fourth largest automaker in the world.
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  There's a lot of stuff packed into that.
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  If you're just kind of going to blow it off and be like, ah, it's just Chrysler.
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  And we're just going to get more challengers making 9, 000 horsepower.
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  That's not true either.
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  I've heard rumors around the mill that.
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  Because of the influence from the French, they're talking about
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  scuttling the SRT division of Dodge.
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  Yes, technically, the division that is known as the SRT
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  engineering team is disbanded.
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  However, the engineers were just moved into, uh, A new division
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  of the global engineering team.
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  So they all still exist.
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  It's just they reorganized the structure and they're still going
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  to develop cars bad with SRT and all the performance models.
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  It's just that SRT is a standalone engineering group within the company.
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  It's no longer that they're just rolled up into a larger engineering division.
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  To your point.
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  A lot of people don't know if you look back over the history.
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  SRT was actually started by Iacocca and Shelby as a skunk works to
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  get the Viper off the ground.
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  So it's been in existence for quite a long time, even though cars didn't start
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  carrying the badge until way later, but the Viper was the Genesis for that.
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  So again, I guess there's a lot of confusion, a lot of
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  clickbait out there to your point.
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  Again, thank you for clarifying that we get excited about this.
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  I don't think we want to see a thousand horsepower challengers go away because
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  it gives us something to talk about.
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  Uh, well, if.
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  SRT was to disappear.
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  I mean, I would be devastated.
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  I mean, they're the last like holdout of making all these muscle
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  cars, essentially what they are.
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  I mean, in the traditional sense, like barbaric, you know, muscle cars, like
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  Mercedes makes muscle cars and BMW.
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  I mean, Mercedes definitely makes muscle cars with the big giant V8 up front and
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  the rear wheel drive and everything, but they're overly complicated, you
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  know, as the Germans like to do.
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  Dodge, Chrysler, Stellantis.
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  They still make.
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  700 horsepower cars for the everyman, which I would be
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  very sad if it disappeared
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  and I was really excited about the SRT Pacifica.
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  I mean, who doesn't want an 800 horsepower minivan?
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  I mean, as Tanya was saying, if they're, they've been dispersed
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  throughout the whole company and they're working in different divisions.
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  Now, we're going to have the SRT Patriot.
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  We're going to have the SRT front wheel drive though.
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  It'll be perfect.
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  Motor in the back in the, in the hatchback, it's going to be an 800
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  horsepower hatchback, all wheel drive,
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  like a, like an R5 turbo for the modern age, and we're going to talk
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  about that car in a little bit.
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  So there's a lot of movement going on there.
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  I see Jeep really taking off.
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  I'm just really not sure about Dodge.
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  I would love to see some French cars over.
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  Maybe we can finally buy a Peugeot, you know, get some hot
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  hatchbacks, stuff like that.
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  I'm being optimistic here, but I still think it's very cool.
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  Cool.
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  One other thing I will add from a historical perspective, this has really
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  been in the works since the early 1980s.
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  When Lee Iacocca took over Chrysler the first time, it was his goal and his
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  ambition to build a global car company.
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  And I think Stellantis is a move in realizing that dream that he had.
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  And for those that don't know, he originally tried to do this with
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  Volkswagen and it didn't work out.
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  So this is really cool to see all these.
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  Companies coming together and now in the top five.
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  So Brad, you're a big Jeep guy.
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  Why don't you talk about the new Jeep that is coming?
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  And
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  well, we were talking about the Volkswagen Golf R and I didn't get
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  to say the price, the price is about 40, 000 give or take, but for that
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  same money, you can get the new Jeep grand Cherokee L, which is coming out.
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  Which if anybody's been paying attention to Jeep and Chrysler and Dodge, the
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  sister relationship between the Grand Cherokee and the Durango, you will
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  realize that this is really just a Durango because the Durango has always
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  had since 2013, 14 or whatever, seven seats, you know, it's a three row.
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  Uh, so this is basically going to do the same thing.
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  It's going to be a stretched Grand Cherokee.
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  It's about 6.
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  9 inches
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  longer.
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  Is that 6.
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  9 liters as well?
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  Or is it just a small motor?
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  Nope, nope, nope.
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  It's just a small motor.
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  It's just going to come with the 5.
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  7 liter V8 if you opt for the Overland or the Summit editions.
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  If you go lower, it's going to be the Pentastar and no diesel
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  option for the Grand Cherokee L.
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  Yep, not going to happen in the Grand Cherokee L, at least to start.
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  New interior.
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  It's going to have 10.
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  1 inch gauge cluster dash 8.
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  4 engine votainment system.
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  It's going to have, they're all going to have the eight speed automatic
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  transmission, new air ride suspension, you know, all this fun stuff.
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  Regular Grand Cherokee is going to be coming out a little later in the year.
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  And that's going to have a hybrid option.
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  So again, no talk of a diesel.
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  Interesting.
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  A hybrid option.
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  That's really cool to know.
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  So I wonder though, is the Grand Cherokee L just the entry level Wagoneer
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  with slightly different sheet metal?
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  I would liken it to the same thing as the Range Rover Sport
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  that came out a few years ago.
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  It was built on the, or the LR3 chassis, but it had the Range Rover bodywork.
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  I think this is going to be kind of like a similar deal.
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  And I think it's good because that helps us deal with that initial sticker shock,
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  like we talked about in the previous drive through episodes about the grand Wagoneer
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  and how expensive it was and who's going to pay 110 grand or whatever it was for
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  a Jeep, you know, so if they're giving us an option that's similar, giving us
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  that third row seat and getting people in at a more affordable price, like you
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  said, in maybe that 40 or 50, 000 range, although even that is a lot of money.
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  Yeah.
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  That's not affordable.
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  It's a better option than double that, you know, for the Wagoneer.
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  Agreed, agreed.
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  So what else is going on, Tanya?
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  So we can recircle back to October, where we had reported on the new
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  You can't pronounce it either.
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  No, I can pronounce it.
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  It's Tuatara.
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  The high performance hyper car, whatever you want to call it, you know, back
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  in October, it said it broke the speed record at over 300 miles an hour, 316.
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  11 miles to be quite exact for average speed.
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  And then shortly after that was released, suddenly everyone,
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  well, that can't be right.
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  Fact checking, something's wrong.
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  Lag on the play.
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  And so since then, they have redone their high speed test runs and have
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  now with verified by whatever sources were there and double checking
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  and triple checking, blah, blah.
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  They have verified that they have indeed now taken the record for single
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  run and average speed, fastest speed.
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  Test run.
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  So they averaged 282.
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  9 miles per hour, which beats the previous record of 277.
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  87, which was the Konaseg, I believe in 2017.
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  And their single speed run, cause they did a run up and down wherever they
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  were, I think in Florida this time.
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  They did 286.
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  1 miles per hour in one drag, and that beat the previous
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  record of 285 miles per hour.
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  So they do indeed now retain the title of.
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  Fastest car,
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  but it is a much narrower margin than originally stated,
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  much narrower
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  margin,
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  unclear whether, you know, they were also saying, well, you know, we were
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  still down on power during these runs and this, that, and the other.
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  I don't know what all that means.
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  I didn't research it much further.
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  But for now they hold it and who knows, maybe there's still more in
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  the motor that they can get out.
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  I guess we'll see.
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  Maybe it'll be future test runs.
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  I think that it's a little disappointing that they didn't
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  get over 300 miles per hour.
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  I mean, all the, the hype machine was strong with this one.
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  And when the video came out and all that other nonsense, amazing 300 miles an
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  hour in a, in a street car on a road.
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  Yeah, not, not true.
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  Not the case.
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  This is false news.
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  You know where I'm putting my money though?
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  And they've been really, really quiet.
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  Salantas.
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  I'm putting my money on Bugatti with that new car that they're building.
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  They keep showing us like pictures of it and videos and
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  it looks like the Batmobile.
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  It pays homage to nothing.
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  And it's really a step away for Volkswagen, the parent company from the,
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  you know, R8 Avis, you know, going all the way back that they, they've been reusing
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  that chassis forever that the Veyron and the Chiron, they were all built on
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  basically the same car, this new Bugatti.
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  Is a step in a different direction, you know, obviously it looks
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  more like a Ferrari Enzo or a Lambo or something like that.
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  And I think this is going to be the car that's going to go
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  and try to break this record.
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  I mean, the Veyron and the Chiron have always been up at the top, much
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  like the Koenigsegg and whatnot.
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  So I'm excited to see what comes next because again, they've been
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  very hush hush about the specs and the numbers and that car.
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  And there's just been a lot of wind tunnel work.
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  So bum, bum,
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  bum.
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  As we know, during the winter, not a lot of cars debut, it's just kind of quiet
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  time, you know, especially with, you know, the conditions that we're still in,
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  you know, with COVID and whatnot, there hasn't been a lot of buzz in the car
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  world in the spring when people can get out more and in the summer, you're going
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  to start to see a lot more things pop.
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  But the Super Bowl, which happened here in February, is
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  one of those bastions of car ads.
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  We're always looking for the hot new, you know, commercial proposing the new
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  car that nobody's seen or, you know, the next Jason Statham movie that's going
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  to feature, you know, an Audi or a BMW or, you know, whatever it might be.
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  We won't talk about the game too much, but I wanted to Really kind
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  of hone in on who's saying what and who's showing off what's new.
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  And I was really surprised that right off the bat, GM came out swinging.
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  I saw
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  Will Ferrell was doing some weird stuff and a weird accent with
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  looking all scraggly and stuff.
• 18:03
  I don't know.
• 18:03
  That was
• 18:04
  the GM commercial.
• 18:04
  That was, okay.
• 18:05
  Well, I didn't pay attention then.
• 18:06
  I don't know.
• 18:07
  So that's okay.
• 18:08
  But in that commercial, there were, it was a two parter and basically
• 18:11
  it's Will Ferrell versus Norway, you know, GM for everyone, you know,
• 18:16
  also showcasing their new logo, which is very EV focused and whatnot.
• 18:20
  But you got the first shots, real shots of the Hummer.
• 18:25
  And the Cadillac Lyric, which we talked about on a previous episode that Tanya
• 18:29
  went into detail of both of those cars, but you got to see them kind of running
• 18:33
  and driving and whatever, and they were both showcased, uh, in those videos.
• 18:36
  So I thought that was pretty cool.
• 18:38
  Curious to see where that goes.
• 18:39
  As we've mentioned before, both of those are a hundred thousand dollar car.
• 18:42
  I thought it was a little off to kind of throw them out there and you go,
• 18:46
  Ooh, ah, and then if you start to do the research on them, people are gonna
• 18:48
  be like, Oh my God, you know, these are, These are upper echelon vehicles.
• 18:52
  You know, how do we get into that market?
• 18:53
  Why are automakers gearing all these electric, building all these
• 18:59
  electric luxury cars, these a hundred thousand plus is I guess they've done
• 19:03
  their market research and there's a demand in that segment, there's more
• 19:09
  of a demand in that segment than in the 20 to 30, 000 mile range,
• 19:12
  like anything else.
• 19:14
  The early adopters are always more affluent people, and then they
• 19:18
  figure out a way to scale those down into the economy where then you
• 19:22
  end up with the econo boxes, right?
• 19:23
  So let's just say the technology that comes out in the Ferraris, they're
• 19:28
  gonna put it out there, it's gonna be expensive, and then it's gonna
• 19:30
  find its way into the base model.
• 19:32
  You know, Fiat 1 26 or 500 or something, like over time,
• 19:35
  I think it's a lot more challenging for people that are less affluent
• 19:38
  to enter the EV market because.
• 19:41
  If you got a lot of money to burn, then you can be like, Oh,
• 19:43
  I'm going to trade in my car.
• 19:44
  I just bought two years ago that barely has any miles.
• 19:47
  And I'm going to upgrade to EV hotness that's out right now.
• 19:50
  Whereas if you don't have a lot of money and you've still been running your
• 19:53
  Corolla for the last 10 years, chances are, you're going to keep running your
• 19:56
  Corolla till forever for a good many number of years before you, you upgrade
• 20:01
  to something else, definitely not going to be able to upgrade to some.
• 20:05
  80, 000 Tesla, because not at just the cost of the car, but if you have to
• 20:09
  put the charging infrastructure in your dwelling, and if you don't have a home,
• 20:15
  like what if you live in an apartment where you park on the street or you
• 20:18
  park in the garage or a lot somewhere?
• 20:20
  I mean, it's a long extension cable.
• 20:22
  I'm not really sure how, yeah, exactly.
• 20:24
  A long extension cable.
• 20:25
  I'm not sure how, how you do that.
• 20:27
  So it is.
• 20:28
  geared at the moment towards people that kind of have extra
• 20:31
  income that they can spend, they're going to market towards them.
• 20:35
  I mean, I guess it makes sense as it becomes more commonplace as sales
• 20:38
  go up, then slowly things level out.
• 20:40
  They bring in the entry level vehicles, lower tiers that are more affordable.
• 20:45
  For everybody,
• 20:46
  the litmus test here is Tesla.
• 20:48
  So Tesla selling the model S at 90, 000 or a hundred thousand or whatever it is.
• 20:52
  And if you're trying to enter that market and be competitive, you're trying to
• 20:55
  be competitive with that car, right?
• 20:56
  Cause that is the flagship.
• 20:58
  So I think everybody's going to come out the gate and a lot of people
• 21:01
  have adopted Tesla's and bought them.
• 21:02
  If you're willing to pay that kind of money, then the Cadillac
• 21:05
  is going to be priced like that.
• 21:06
  You know, the next thing that comes out is going to be priced the same way.
• 21:10
  So I think that's where they're at.
• 21:11
  And then, you know, Obviously Tesla's has made motions to try to make them
• 21:15
  more affordable with the model three and the model Y and stuff like that.
• 21:18
  But they're at a technological advantage because they've already pioneered
• 21:22
  it and they're scaling it down and everybody's trying to catch up.
• 21:25
  So we're going to see it happen, but I don't want it to be, you know,
• 21:29
  that there's the lyric and then we're back to the bolt again, right?
• 21:32
  Because that is just.
• 21:33
  Too much of a disparity between the upper and lower.
• 21:36
  Yeah, exactly.
• 21:37
  Something in the mid range.
• 21:37
  Exactly.
• 21:38
  There's already been news reported within the last week that, and it's not a lot,
• 21:43
  but still Tesla feeling pressure from the other manufacturers coming out with
• 21:47
  competition and lower priced cars, even if they're still, you know, way expensive.
• 21:52
  They're actually lowering the price on the model Y and the
• 21:56
  model three to, um, compete.
• 21:58
  So, I mean, it's not like, Oh, it dropped 10, 000 or anything.
• 22:01
  I mean, it's a thousand here, a couple thousand there because they're seeing
• 22:05
  that the other manufacturers coming out or have slightly more affordable.
• 22:09
  Is that due to an increase in home Depot parts?
• 22:12
  So it's gotten cheaper to manufacture them.
• 22:16
  I don't know.
• 22:16
  Have you been shopping in a home Depot lately?
• 22:18
  Ever since COVID everybody's shopping parts.
• 22:20
  That's true.
• 22:21
  Price applies because the demand is high.
• 22:24
  Exactly.
• 22:25
  So let's talk about some of the other ads that were during the Super Bowl.
• 22:28
  I actually thought for once that the car ads were very sparse.
• 22:32
  The ones that were there were just kind of like, almost felt like
• 22:34
  the general ads you would see on, you know, watching like Rolex or
• 22:37
  something that we'll talk about later.
• 22:38
  Like the typical weather tech ads.
• 22:40
  There was a Paralympics ad with Toyota, which had nothing to do with
• 22:43
  Toyota's other than their sponsorship.
• 22:45
  There was a car shield ad, which I'm, I'm still confused on how car
• 22:49
  shield works, but it, it involved, you know, um, It involved Ric Flair
• 22:53
  and iced tea, and it's all this,
• 22:55
  you know, is there like,
• 22:59
  is that that undercarriage protection that they sell you at the dealership?
• 23:03
  No, no, that's something else.
• 23:04
  CarShield is like this.
• 23:06
  It's like an insurance policy for repairs.
• 23:09
  Like you pay into this thing.
• 23:10
  things so that you don't have to pay, like, if your transmission blows out,
• 23:13
  you're paying a, a premium or whatever it might be, whatever the difference is.
• 23:17
  And then they take care of the rest.
• 23:19
  I mean, I don't know, it doesn't work for me, but it probably
• 23:22
  works for a lot of people.
• 23:22
  But that commercial was interesting.
• 23:24
  Cause it was like a zoom call and, you know, you got all these celebrities
• 23:27
  on there and then at the end, you're like, what did I just watch?
• 23:29
  But that's typical of most Superbowl ads.
• 23:31
  The other ones that were in there were the, you know, Hyundai
• 23:34
  Tucson ad, which just felt like a regular little dealership ad.
• 23:37
  It must've been like a local one or whatever.
• 23:38
  And I, I was not compelled in any way, but then there were three more
• 23:42
  that were actually interesting.
• 23:44
  Another Cadillac Lyric ad, but it was a riff on Edward Scissorhands, the
• 23:49
  movie with Johnny Depp from back in the late eighties, early nineties.
• 23:53
  And it was Edgar Scissorhands and it was all about like hands free driving and
• 23:57
  like how he finally gets to drive a car because the Cadillac will drive itself.
• 24:00
  And I got to the end of that and I was like, well, I get it.
• 24:05
  I don't know if everybody else did, but it was cute, but it really, I don't know.
• 24:09
  I don't know that it sold me on the Cadillac because that whole autonomous
• 24:12
  driving thing, as we've talked about a million times, it works.
• 24:14
  It doesn't work.
• 24:15
  It's
• 24:15
  false advertising.
• 24:17
  It's totally autonomous.
• 24:17
  Exactly.
• 24:18
  And you know, guys falling asleep on the Tesla in Canada doing 180
• 24:22
  kilometers or whatever it was, you know, all that kind of thing.
• 24:25
  I was left like, yeah, okay.
• 24:27
  But I didn't get it because then there was all this big deal about like, oh, the
• 24:31
  big deal of this commercial with The actor and I'm like, I don't understand at first.
• 24:36
  I didn't know who the actor was.
• 24:37
  I mean, Winona Ryder was in the passenger seat.
• 24:39
  I got that.
• 24:40
  Yeah.
• 24:41
  I didn't understand the specialty of Edgar and it's like, okay, so
• 24:46
  now, now I gotta go watch this.
• 24:47
  Now I gotta find it.
• 24:49
  I
• 24:49
  get it.
• 24:49
  I mean, okay.
• 24:50
  Was this Edward Scissorhands song?
• 24:53
  I don't understand.
• 24:55
  I
• 24:55
  believe it was.
• 24:56
  I don't know.
• 24:56
  I mean, for me, I thought it would have been more entertained with Johnny
• 25:00
  Depp, you know, surfing the roof of the lyric, like Pirates of the
• 25:03
  Caribbean and then crashing into a dock.
• 25:04
  I think that would have probably been more interesting, but whatever, you know.
• 25:07
  Maybe they couldn't get Johnny to, to, uh, reprise his role.
• 25:11
  I think that was part of the problem.
• 25:13
  Probably would have made more sense to just have the older Edward
• 25:16
  Scissorhands as it progresses with the time world, you know?
• 25:22
  Exactly.
• 25:22
  The next one that had me confused, but was very like pulling at the heartstrings
• 25:27
  was the Middle of Nowhere commercial with Bruce Springsteen and the Jeep Wranglers.
• 25:32
  It's a very strange commercial because you're not sure if it's politically
• 25:36
  charged or if it's or what the message is.
• 25:39
  It all surrounds the 80th anniversary of Jeep and they're highlighting the Wrangler
• 25:44
  obviously because you know that style of Jeep is what really set it all off.
• 25:47
  Did they have footage of a Jeep atop a mountain biking
• 25:51
  trail in northern California?
• 25:53
  Did they have that footage?
• 25:55
  Negative.
• 25:56
  But it was very slow.
• 25:58
  It was just very off, but in the same token, you were very
• 26:02
  drawn into it and very engaged.
• 26:04
  And then when you got to the end, there was just this slow fade, kind of
• 26:08
  American flag, you know, Jeep logo thing.
• 26:11
  And you're like, okay, well, well, that's cool.
• 26:13
  All right.
• 26:14
  I guess I'll learn something new today.
• 26:16
  And then three days later, the ad is completely scrapped
• 26:19
  because Bruce Springsteen.
• 26:21
  was charged with a DWI or they found out that he was charged with a DWI like
• 26:25
  a couple weeks before this ad came out.
• 26:28
  Yeah, that commercial is gone.
• 26:30
  Find it on YouTube.
• 26:31
  Well,
• 26:32
  that's a shame.
• 26:32
  That's not the first time that Chrysler has done something like this either.
• 26:37
  I don't know if you remember back when the Chrysler 200 came out.
• 26:41
  It was imported from Detroit, I think was the whole thing.
• 26:43
  And they had Clint Eastwood and, and all that good stuff.
• 26:46
  I mean, that, that, I mean, they, they try to tug at the American heartstrings
• 26:50
  quite a bit in their advertising campaigns, especially with Jeep.
• 26:53
  I mean, I figured the
• 26:54
  next commercial will be set in Paris and it'll have a, it'll have subtitles
• 26:58
  because it'll all be in French.
• 26:59
  So
• 27:00
  it's going to be directed by Woody Allen.
• 27:04
  There'll be a Citroen DS.
• 27:06
  That's like the beginning of the commercial and you're like,
• 27:07
  what are we watching here?
• 27:09
  But anyway, speaking of cars and speaking of drinking the last one,
• 27:12
  the one that really got me, the one I thought was the best Superbowl
• 27:15
  commercial of all, I was wondering
• 27:17
  if you were going to bring this up.
• 27:18
  Oh
• 27:18
  heck yeah, dude.
• 27:19
  Yeah.
• 27:20
  for two reasons.
• 27:21
  One, I think it's going to be a disgusting flavor, which is the
• 27:24
  new watermelon Mountain Dew, right?
• 27:28
  That is just two things that don't go together, and I have a
• 27:30
  hard time even getting it out.
• 27:32
  But that Geo Metro convertible driven by John Cena had me on the floor.
• 27:38
  floor just cracking up.
• 27:40
  I literally, I saw it roll out and I was immediate like,
• 27:43
  yeah,
• 27:44
  the geo has achieved celebrity status.
• 27:47
  Finally.
• 27:47
  Now it's a God awful paint job, you know, with it's watermelon colored
• 27:51
  on the outside and on the inside, but I just thought that was epic.
• 27:54
  Yeah, that was, I knew you'd like that commercial.
• 27:59
  When that car is sold at auction, how much are we willing to pay to get it?
• 28:04
  For the club,
• 28:05
  50 bucks.
• 28:07
  I'm in it for 50 bucks and has Matt, if you're listening, that is
• 28:11
  the ultimate Geo Metro convertible.
• 28:13
  It's got your name written all over it.
• 28:16
  God, that is disgusting looking.
• 28:18
  And yeah.
• 28:19
  Oh my God.
• 28:19
  It looks like Pepto.
• 28:21
  Pretty much.
• 28:22
  It's going to be pep Pepto Bismol do,
• 28:24
  but with effervescence, right?
• 28:25
  With effervescence.
• 28:27
  So let's get away from the super bowl commercials.
• 28:29
  I think we nailed that.
• 28:30
  There was another bit of news.
• 28:32
  That we need to follow up on.
• 28:34
  So Tanya,
• 28:35
  well, it was, uh, I think originally a clickbait article, but what the article
• 28:41
  is, is the headline is a Toyota GR Yaris.
• 28:45
  Yay.
• 28:46
  Laps faster than Nissan R35 GTR Nismo.
• 28:51
  Asterix only by four tenths of a second on a short flat track under wet conditions.
• 28:57
  Yes, in the rain.
• 28:58
  I was waiting for the in the rain.
• 29:00
  I knew it was coming.
• 29:02
  It was backwards on this track at night in the rain.
• 29:05
  And
• 29:07
  Michael Schumacher was driving the Yaris and an amateur was driving the Nismo.
• 29:11
  Yeah.
• 29:12
  Yeah.
• 29:12
  Yeah.
• 29:12
  Never, never.
• 29:14
  I don't know.
• 29:15
  Apparently that's some track in South Wales.
• 29:20
  That no one's ever heard of.
• 29:22
  Nothing's ever heard of.
• 29:23
  If you've heard of Landau circuit.
• 29:26
  Oh, that's in
• 29:26
  project cars three.
• 29:27
  So I have heard of that.
• 29:28
  Yes.
• 29:29
  So there you go.
• 29:30
  You can get on project cars and a test driver for yourself.
• 29:33
  Maybe they have a Yaris in project cars.
• 29:35
  Eric,
• 29:36
  I'm seeing a, a virtual rematch of this.
• 29:39
  Which one do you want?
• 29:40
  You want the GR Yaris or do you want the
• 29:42
  Nismo?
• 29:45
  Can I detune the Nismo?
• 29:46
  So it actually makes sense.
• 29:47
  I think that's part of the problem.
• 29:48
  You put that thing on a short track.
• 29:50
  It can't get out of its own way.
• 29:52
  Well, interestingly, the track map is an oval, basically.
• 29:56
  Like, I mean, it looked like it had two pretty long, well, quote, long straights.
• 30:00
  I don't know what the, how many miles.
• 30:03
  The whole track is an eighth mile.
• 30:06
  Maybe, but, uh, I mean, it had some like really low speed, um,
• 30:10
  corner kinks and things like that.
• 30:12
  But.
• 30:13
  You would've thought, I guess, that any straight would be enough for the
• 30:15
  600 plus horsepower or whatever the, the GTR is to outperform the little
• 30:22
  300 horse, somehow Odd horsepower.
• 30:24
  Yaris.
• 30:25
  I mean, the Yaris does way less, but nimbler, I I,
• 30:28
  they're both four wheel drive.
• 30:29
  I mean, you could
• 30:30
  run that Yaris flat out on that track.
• 30:32
  I mean, that's the advantage comes out the average.
• 30:34
  Speed, right?
• 30:35
  When you're trying to do something like that.
• 30:36
  Yeah.
• 30:37
  I'm not going to say I'm impressed.
• 30:38
  Let's redo this on a big track, you know, a VIR or a Watkins
• 30:42
  Glen or Laguna Seca or something.
• 30:44
  And I, I unfortunately hate to say that I think the Yaris is going to get crushed.
• 30:48
  Oh, it will no doubt.
• 30:49
  I mean, a hundred percent and it can't, the GTR has twice the horsepower
• 30:53
  and twice the torque or whatever.
• 30:55
  I mean, there's, there's no way it's going to compete, but I mean,
• 30:58
  even there's hot hatch fights.
• 31:00
  With the Yaris and, you know, the most recent John Cooper
• 31:04
  works mini and the mini beats it.
• 31:06
  There's no way the GTR is ever gonna win.
• 31:09
  Well, in the case of the new Golf R, the Yaris wouldn't get
• 31:13
  around it because it's so big.
• 31:15
  There's no space to pass it on the
• 31:17
  track.
• 31:17
  You could fit the Yaris in the back of it.
• 31:20
  Maybe just bump draft it to make the Golf faster.
• 31:23
  But here's the real question.
• 31:25
  Here's the 87 question.
• 31:28
  Which would you rather have?
• 31:29
  The The Yaris or the Nismo GTR?
• 31:32
  Yaris.
• 31:33
  Exactly.
• 31:34
  There you go.
• 31:35
  I would run the hell out of that thing.
• 31:38
  So let's, let's switch gears.
• 31:39
  Let's talk about some retro cars like we always do.
• 31:41
  So first of all, I don't know why you're calling this car retro.
• 31:46
  I guess the fact that it's not made anymore, even though it was only a
• 31:48
  couple of years ago, makes it retro.
• 31:50
  But that's like turning on the classic rock station and hearing Nirvana.
• 31:56
  It's, it's ridiculous.
• 31:57
  So, yes.
• 31:58
  2020 sale numbers have come out from Chrysler, and they sold a whopping four
• 32:06
  brand new 2017 Dodge Vipers in 2020.
• 32:12
  So let that sink in a little bit.
• 32:14
  The car was discontinued in 2017.
• 32:17
  Last one rolled off the the factory line.
• 32:19
  These four cars, four of them have been sitting around dealer lots.
• 32:23
  For three years, I guess someone saw it come out in 2017.
• 32:27
  They were like, you know what?
• 32:28
  I'm going to save up for that.
• 32:29
  Three years later, they were able to buy it.
• 32:31
  It begs the question.
• 32:32
  How many vipers are still sitting on dealership?
• 32:35
  That is a fantastic question.
• 32:37
  I would love to find that out.
• 32:38
  But just so you know, year prior, they sold five.
• 32:42
  I know.
• 32:43
  Right.
• 32:44
  If you go around and see a brand new Dodge Viper at a dealership, buy it.
• 32:48
  Increase their numbers.
• 32:49
  Maybe they'll bring it back.
• 32:50
  What's even better is it sold more, Chrysler did, or Stellantis now, sold
• 32:56
  more Vipers than the Ram van, the Ram cargo van or whatever, which sold one.
• 33:03
  That's hilarious.
• 33:04
  So if you think about how many cars are sold in the United States on
• 33:08
  a yearly basis, how many cars are produced, The Ram Van sold one.
• 33:13
  I want to know what I want to do for GTM for BrakeFix is I want to find that
• 33:16
  Ram Van owner and I want to interview him 100 percent out of all the choices.
• 33:22
  Did you buy a
• 33:23
  Ram
• 33:24
  band?
• 33:24
  Cause it toes.
• 33:25
  Because it toes.
• 33:26
  Cause it may, it may toe.
• 33:28
  It was probably Brett.
• 33:29
  Brett bought it
• 33:30
  because there weren't any more Ford transits available
• 33:32
  at the dealership next door.
• 33:34
  But also it gets even better.
• 33:36
  The Viper also outsold.
• 33:38
  The Jeep Patriot, which sold three.
• 33:41
  The
• 33:44
  best part about that is the Jeep Patriot was discontinued a year before the Viper.
• 33:48
  So out there sitting on brand new Jeep Patriots.
• 33:55
  That's like the scrap metal guy sitting on the metal going, it's
• 33:58
  going to go up in value soon.
• 34:00
  So what I want to know what I'm going to do some investigative journalism.
• 34:04
  And for the next drive thru, I'm going to find out how many brand new HHRs
• 34:12
  I'm going to find out how many brand new Chevrolet HHRs you can go out
• 34:16
  and buy on dealership lots right now.
• 34:19
  I'll have that researched for you by the next drive thru.
• 34:22
  I bet there are some out there.
• 34:23
  Oh my goodness.
• 34:25
  Meanwhile, speaking of
• 34:26
  vipers, speaking of vipers, apparently, what do you do with
• 34:31
  that new viper that you buy?
• 34:32
  Well, you got to mod it, right?
• 34:34
  And if you're familiar with some of the more famous Japanese tuners and
• 34:39
  modders out there, I mean, we've all seen the RWB 911s and wide body cars
• 34:43
  that are out there and stuff like that.
• 34:44
  There's a gentleman in Japan that took it to a whole new level.
• 34:49
  He took one of those remaining vipers and turned it into a wide body dually.
• 34:55
  And then, to make things even more interesting, gave it a patriotic U.
• 34:59
  S.
• 34:59
  Army Jeep livery.
• 35:01
  Needless to say, I mean, I love the Viper.
• 35:04
  This is a little bit sacrilegious, in my opinion.
• 35:08
  And it does kind of look like a funky Miata build, after it
• 35:12
  was all said and done, like it was done in somebody's backyard.
• 35:15
  It is just, I don't know what to think.
• 35:18
  But, you know, hey, go Army, beat Navy.
• 35:21
  I usually hate stuff like this, but I have to say, I think it
• 35:24
  actually looks kind of cool.
• 35:26
  I would never do it.
• 35:27
  I would never drive it, but the fact that it exists, I think it's kind of cool.
• 35:31
  I think the guy thought he was buying a Jeep and, and the Viper
• 35:35
  just showed up in his driveway.
• 35:38
  They just look so similar.
• 35:39
  I mean, just from the, you know, they're built on the same platform.
• 35:42
  It's
• 35:43
  all the same
• 35:43
  stuff.
• 35:45
  You heard the motors were the same.
• 35:49
  Oh, would you rather have this or an HHR?
• 35:52
  Oh, that's
• 35:53
  a hard, that's a hard choice.
• 35:54
  Can I go back to the Yaris?
• 35:56
  Cause I was okay with that.
• 35:57
  The answer, the answer is no longer Miata.
• 35:59
  The answer is Gazoo Racing Yaris.
• 36:01
  100%.
• 36:02
  Well, what is time to think?
• 36:03
  Oh, of that hideous abomination?
• 36:06
  Yes, of the Viper.
• 36:08
  You know, I, In terms of, you know, engineering and just the
• 36:14
  fact that he pulled it off.
• 36:16
  I mean, it's interesting, but I like how the article says you could
• 36:20
  have done this for half the price, just starting with the Miata,
• 36:26
  we could have spared the Viper and killed the Miata.
• 36:29
  I don't know how well engineered it is.
• 36:31
  Cause it looks like they used Pep boy parts.
• 36:34
  And in Home Depot, there's probably some duct tape in there.
• 36:37
  There's copper piping somewhere, I'm sure.
• 36:39
  Hey, so the build quality is right there with Tesla though.
• 36:41
  So we're good.
• 36:42
  We're good.
• 36:42
  Right?
• 36:43
  Exactly.
• 36:43
  Exactly.
• 36:44
  Hey,
• 36:47
  there's no words.
• 36:50
  I mean,
• 36:50
  why, why not
• 36:52
  exactly because send it.
• 36:55
  So speaking of sending it,
• 36:56
  Porsche, you all know, they make cars for the longest time, tried replacing
• 37:02
  the nine 11 with a front engine rear wheel drive car called the nine 28.
• 37:07
  You all remember that car came out in 1977, you know, big
• 37:10
  VA, decent power, grand tour.
• 37:12
  They were trying to replace the nine 11, nine 11 purists.
• 37:15
  Poo pooed that idea, said, no way, Jose.
• 37:17
  So they were going to try and turn the 928 into something else.
• 37:21
  In 1987, they created a prototype with the help of American Sunroof Company to
• 37:26
  create a four door 928, which, you know, as we all know, eventually came out as
• 37:32
  the Panamera like 20 years later, but.
• 37:34
  Back in the eighties, they tried this idea.
• 37:37
  They gave it 330 horsepower, five liter V8.
• 37:40
  They handed it off to American center of company to stretch it and give
• 37:43
  it, you know, two little coach doors.
• 37:45
  That company had done work with Porsche before for the convertible nine four
• 37:49
  fours and things of that nature.
• 37:51
  And they were going to try and make a nine 28 line.
• 37:53
  Well, they only made one.
• 37:54
  Because by the time it was done, Porsche had some change at the leadership.
• 37:58
  Uh, the CEO at the time was ousted.
• 38:01
  They brought a new CEO in.
• 38:03
  Instead, they scrapped the car.
• 38:06
  They scrapped a whole bunch of other projects and everything
• 38:08
  to become leaner and meaner.
• 38:09
  And eventually they, you know, started making Porsche profitable or
• 38:13
  whatever, but they created this one off 928 four door, which looks okay.
• 38:19
  I mean, for a four door Pacer, sure.
• 38:21
  It's fantastic.
• 38:21
  Thanks.
• 38:22
  Yeah.
• 38:22
  Terrible
• 38:25
  . Well, it's rumored that the gentleman that designed the 9 28 back in the seventies
• 38:30
  took his inspiration from the Pacer.
• 38:32
  So I make that joke with some actual truth behind it.
• 38:35
  Well, you know, because they, they had that guy on top gear and he, he did.
• 38:40
  His little interview or whatever, they were looking at the lines on the 928.
• 38:43
  They had one in studio and he actually pointed that out.
• 38:46
  It was like, we looked at the face of for our inspiration.
• 38:49
  That is dead is something to be inspired by, you know,
• 38:52
  but so they made the one it was given to the CEO or the owner
• 38:56
  of American sunroof company.
• 38:58
  And it's sold at auction for a whopping, are you, are you sitting down?
• 39:02
  Are you ready for this?
• 39:03
  44
• 39:06
  Thousand dollars.
• 39:12
  I You thoughts?
• 39:13
  Terrible.
• 39:13
  I was
• 39:13
  gonna say million dollars.
• 39:15
  Nope.
• 39:16
  You would be incorrect.
• 39:17
  $44,000.
• 39:20
  You can buy a golf R or you can buy a four door.
• 39:23
  9 28,
• 39:24
  somebody paid $43,999.
• 39:27
  Too much
• 39:30
  , $43,950.
• 39:33
  Too much.
• 39:33
  Exactly.
• 39:34
  I would've still given them 50 bucks for it.
• 39:35
  One, Bob, at the end of the day, one Bob, one
• 39:37
  50 bucks.
• 39:37
  But in the meantime, the, the project was scrapped.
• 39:40
  They made the one, Porsche directed their attention.
• 39:43
  To working with Mercedes on the, what is now revered 500 E, which is a
• 39:48
  four door sedan based on the E class.
• 39:50
  It's a, actually a really cool car.
• 39:52
  Very rare and power.
• 39:53
  It's a Mercedes E class with a Porsche drivetrain, supposed to be really cool.
• 39:57
  But even today, Porsche should just tip their hat to Mercedes and say, you guys
• 40:01
  know how to build a sedan and we're going to stop doing that because the Panamera.
• 40:05
  Oh, nevermind.
• 40:06
  I mean, It looks definitely the grandchild or the son of son or daughter of the 928
• 40:14
  prototype single production 928 wagon.
• 40:19
  I mean, it looks better.
• 40:21
  It still looks like hot trash and Porsche and Ferrari and all those
• 40:24
  kinds of people should never have a four door model car in their lineup
• 40:27
  personally, but that's a different.
• 40:28
  But clearly somebody at Porsche has had the picture probably of that wagon 928
• 40:34
  on their office wall this whole time.
• 40:36
  And finally was like, now's our moment, Panamera.
• 40:40
  And they're like, yes, we finally get to release it.
• 40:43
  Boo.
• 40:44
  Boo.
• 40:45
  Boo.
• 40:46
  Let's circle back to another retro car that you might be
• 40:49
  able to get your hands on.
• 40:50
  Yeah, so if you are into Raleigh and into Ford or into one of them
• 40:56
  or neither of them, I don't know.
• 40:57
  What's Raleigh?
• 40:58
  What's wrong?
• 40:59
  Stop it.
• 41:00
  Stop it.
• 41:00
  A UK company called Motorsport tools is building new street legal version of the
• 41:07
  legendary Mark II Escort that won WRC.
• 41:12
  What's WRC?
• 41:14
  Don't get me started.
• 41:15
  Don't get me started.
• 41:17
  The
• 41:19
  WRC championship back in 1981 and I mean, I like squarish bodied small
• 41:27
  cars and square with round lights is also particularly attractive
• 41:31
  and this checks all those boxes.
• 41:33
  So how much fun would it be to tool around in this car?
• 41:39
  This also goes back to the EU gets all the cool stuff followed by when is.
• 41:45
  The Capri coming back.
• 41:47
  Sign me up.
• 41:48
  And this can be yours for a mere 90, 000.
• 41:53
  Oh, dang.
• 41:54
  Would you rather spend 44, 000?
• 41:59
  No, no, I would not.
• 42:04
  HHR or 90, 000 Mark II Ford Escort.
• 42:08
  GR Yaris.
• 42:09
  I'm going back.
• 42:10
  Yet again, I'll spend 40 grand on the Toyota before I do that.
• 42:16
  Well, I guess we've wrapped up our industry news and now it's time to
• 42:19
  jump in to our, our cutting edge EV section known as Jolt Cola.
• 42:33
  So Tanya, take us away.
• 42:34
  Well, at long last, the Audi e tron GT has finally arrived.
• 42:42
  I'm salivating.
• 42:43
  It's like, it's like a Pavlovian thing.
• 42:46
  You said Audi and GT.
• 42:47
  That was it.
• 42:49
  I mean, you had me at Audi GT since I have one.
• 42:53
  The problem is there's e tron in the middle there.
• 42:57
  That's the part you didn't hear.
• 42:58
  Well, there's that.
• 42:59
  And there's the fact that the standard E tron starts at 99, 900, which is quite
• 43:06
  a bit far above my, uh, price range.
• 43:09
  I'm just cutting to the chase here.
• 43:10
  You can get the Prestige Edition for 107, 100, or the RS will
• 43:16
  set you back a mere 139, 900.
• 43:21
  All this could be yours and more stay tuned.
• 43:24
  I take issue with this car, not because it's ugly or anything like that.
• 43:27
  It's a, it's a fantastic looking car.
• 43:29
  The proportions are right.
• 43:30
  It's a cool Evie.
• 43:31
  I'm down with it.
• 43:32
  The price isn't even the problem.
• 43:34
  The bigger issue I take with it is it doesn't pay any sort of homage.
• 43:39
  To the cars that bore the GT badge.
• 43:41
  And that comes from the original Quattro lineage, right?
• 43:45
  The type 80 cars, the 4, 000 series, all those, they were, let's face
• 43:49
  it, fat Chiracos, you know, in some respects, Giugiaro designed,
• 43:53
  you know, all that kind of stuff.
• 43:54
  It doesn't carry the badge.
• 43:56
  Well, I could see it as the new a seven.
• 43:58
  I could see it as the new Audi 100 from back in the day, like the 100 four door
• 44:03
  and the 100 coupe and stuff like that.
• 44:05
  It's a weird sticking point for me, I guess, as an Audi purist, I still want
• 44:09
  to see the real coupe GT or the UR quattro come back, they've been teasing
• 44:14
  that for a while, they called it the S one a couple of times, which is also
• 44:17
  kind of a weird misnomer because of the rally car and things like that.
• 44:21
  I think it's cool.
• 44:22
  I would just love to see something a little bit more affordable and, you
• 44:26
  know, whatever name, names are one thing, but it is, it is a gorgeous car.
• 44:29
  I can't deny that.
• 44:31
  I don't know if I a hundred percent agree with you and I'd have to see it in person
• 44:34
  because photos are always misleading.
• 44:36
  Unfortunately to pay homage to those cars and they're never going to do it.
• 44:39
  They have to be far more square than this one is.
• 44:43
  And I don't see them really doing that in these modern times.
• 44:45
  Only
• 44:46
  Chrysler can do that.
• 44:47
  Only Chrysler can make square cars go fast.
• 44:52
  But if it's not, and I haven't looked into how long the car is, if it's not,
• 44:57
  Long like an A8 or an A7 or something like that, then I'm feeling a little
• 45:02
  bit more comfortable because if it's something that's short, then to me,
• 45:06
  that is paying a little bit more tribute to the original Quattro and
• 45:10
  GT coupes and cars of that nature, because the back, that slope of the rear
• 45:15
  glass and the trunk looks very short.
• 45:17
  It doesn't have some wide rear end sticking out from the back tires.
• 45:22
  So that is a little more 90 coupe quattro GT coupe or, or the URQ styling.
• 45:29
  The pictures are deceiving.
• 45:30
  So this thing is like 157 feet long or something.
• 45:34
  It's an A6, right?
• 45:35
  It's like a yacht.
• 45:37
  Then it's kind of like, all right, it's just every other Audi in their line.
• 45:41
  If this is kind of like a very compact short car, then it makes me feel good.
• 45:46
  And it is very stunning looking.
• 45:48
  I wish it was more affordable.
• 45:49
  So not to leave out the details, apparently, I think it's the, I
• 45:54
  guess this is the standard version.
• 45:56
  Mated two speed transmission setup is capable of delivering 469
• 46:00
  horsepower, 464 foot pounds of torque.
• 46:02
  Apparently there's an overboost feature that you can engage, which
• 46:05
  jumps those numbers to 522 and 472.
• 46:09
  And that gives it the ability to zoom from zero to 60 in just 3.
• 46:14
  9 seconds.
• 46:15
  And it tops out apparently at 152 miles an hour.
• 46:18
  You know what that reminds me of?
• 46:20
  And it's for the IT nerds out there of a certain age.
• 46:23
  It reminds me of the, the PCs in the old days that had the turbo button, they
• 46:28
  would like, they would overclock, right?
• 46:30
  It's like the equivalent, like you just hit that button and you're super boost.
• 46:33
  You know?
• 46:34
  Is that, is that like the, uh, what is it?
• 46:35
  The, uh, ludicrous?
• 46:37
  Mode button or something equivalent.
• 46:40
  So, so the RS package adds 121 horsepower.
• 46:44
  So it's outputting 612 foot pounds of torques before over boost, which
• 46:50
  brings it up to a 637 horsepower, but still 612 foot pounds of torque,
• 46:56
  leaving out an important fact.
• 46:59
  It weighs like.
• 47:00
  5, 100 pounds, right?
• 47:01
  Whoa.
• 47:02
  The
• 47:02
  RS, yes, weighs between 5, 060 to 5, 139 pounds.
• 47:07
  Good
• 47:07
  God.
• 47:08
  I
• 47:08
  think that weighs more than your Jeep, Eric.
• 47:11
  It does.
• 47:11
  As a matter of fact, my Jeep is sub 5, 000 pounds.
• 47:14
  So yes.
• 47:15
  It's two of my GT coupes.
• 47:19
  Yeah.
• 47:19
  Those cars weighed 2, 400 pounds when they were new.
• 47:24
  So that's why it costs so much because you're getting a lot of car.
• 47:27
  That's some road hugging weight right there as Ford used to say, good night.
• 47:30
  So you all know there was a new C8 that came out last year.
• 47:33
  Yeah, I don't, we don't talk about that car at all.
• 47:36
  No, no.
• 47:36
  Apparently if you, if you missed it, you know, there was a new C8,
• 47:39
  mid engine, rear wheel drive V8, you know, all that good stuff.
• 47:42
  They're releasing some new, some different versions, you know,
• 47:45
  to come in the coming years.
• 47:46
  There's a Z06 in development.
• 47:48
  Sadly, there is not a grand sport.
• 47:51
  Really?
• 47:51
  Good.
• 47:52
  There's going to be a hybrid C8 called the E Ray.
• 47:57
  The
• 47:58
  E Ray.
• 48:01
  Oh, I like it.
• 48:02
  Like the E Ray.
• 48:04
  Okay.
• 48:05
  I get it.
• 48:05
  The electric
• 48:06
  eel.
• 48:06
  Yeah, I see.
• 48:07
  I see what they did there.
• 48:08
  I'm
• 48:08
  not sure if
• 48:10
  I like it, but I get it.
• 48:11
  Don't have a lot of specs on it, but it's allegedly going to have all wheel drive.
• 48:15
  The hybrid system is going to mate to the stock 6.
• 48:19
  2 liter V8.
• 48:21
  So, you know, fun times to be had in the C8 hybrid.
• 48:24
  It's probably going to be just like the Tahoe hybrid, just the big honking
• 48:28
  V8 with like a little itty bitty like tornado sized, you know, electric
• 48:32
  motor, just to say it's a hybrid.
• 48:33
  Can I rename it?
• 48:34
  I want to call it the ESX.
• 48:36
  Is that okay?
• 48:37
  Because I mean, it looks exactly like the NSX.
• 48:40
  So why, why not?
• 48:42
  Right?
• 48:43
  Because Acura already has.
• 48:45
  hybrid NSX.
• 48:46
  It's called the NSX.
• 48:48
  And speaking of that, if you guys haven't seen, and we're going to post
• 48:51
  the link to it, Chip Foose recently did a redesign of the C8 and love
• 48:56
  it or hate it in terms of his design style and whatnot, it's worth watching.
• 49:00
  It's sponsored by Hagerty and you're It's a time lapse recording of
• 49:04
  him redesigning the C8 right there in front of you in his studio.
• 49:08
  And I thought it was fascinating on multiple levels, but I
• 49:11
  would say go check it out.
• 49:13
  Leave your comments if you want on Instagram for us or on the show
• 49:16
  notes or whatever, because I'm really curious to see what people
• 49:18
  think about Chip's interpretation of the C8 and trying to make it.
• 49:22
  Pull some of the lineage of the previous Corvettes and get it to
• 49:27
  look a little less like an NSX or a Ferrari or some of the other cars he
• 49:31
  talks about, uh, in his monologue.
• 49:33
  So just want to throw that in there for something else to do after,
• 49:36
  you know, reviewing this episode.
• 49:38
  So what you're saying is Chevrolet did not reach out and consult with a world
• 49:42
  class automotive designer like Chip Foose to design their new Corvette?
• 49:46
  Negative, Ghost Rider.
• 49:48
  Not surprised.
• 49:49
  I will say, I think we need to switch gears back to Tanya a little
• 49:52
  bit here and talk about one of the slowest drag races I've ever seen.
• 49:57
  But there's no gears to shift in an electric car.
• 50:00
  So there is a video out there and it's in Italian, but there's
• 50:05
  English subtitles for those that do not speak the Italian language.
• 50:08
  It's a, I think like a eight or 10 minute video, something like it takes that
• 50:12
  long to do the quarter mile.
• 50:13
  But yeah,
• 50:14
  so it's a drag race of Fiat 500s through the various decades.
• 50:19
  So there's four Fiat 500s that are pitted up against each other.
• 50:23
  There's the original Fiat 500.
• 50:25
  There's the 1995 500 Sporting.
• 50:29
  There's the 2015 Fiat 500, which, it's the European version, so it's the 1.
• 50:34
  2 liter and not the 1.
• 50:35
  4 liter that came to the U.
• 50:37
  S.
• 50:38
  And then there's the new Fiat 500e.
• 50:42
  And so they put all four of these together in a couple of drag races
• 50:47
  and knowing that they were drag racing all these cars together, I already
• 50:51
  knew the outcome of the race, right?
• 50:53
  The original one, right?
• 50:56
  Yeah.
• 50:57
  Yeah.
• 50:58
  While the 500E was pushing it.
• 51:00
  Yeah.
• 51:01
  It was opposite day.
• 51:02
  So who finished the drag race last?
• 51:05
  So you're absolutely right.
• 51:06
  Actually, there were two knowns going into this.
• 51:09
  One, that the original 500 was going to lose, and that the
• 51:13
  electric 500 was going to win.
• 51:15
  Those two were quite obvious.
• 51:17
  So, the video, you know, confirms all this.
• 51:20
  However, what I found far more fascinating, I mean, the whole thing was
• 51:23
  fascinating, but far more fascinating was the race going on between the
• 51:28
  1995 Cinquecento Sporting, the 500 Sporting, and the 2015 Fiat 500.
• 51:36
  I mean, the Fiat 500, spoiler alert, it still won, but it
• 51:41
  was a close fricking race.
• 51:43
  And the 1.
• 51:44
  2 liter only has 68 horsepower and it weighs 1, 900 pounds.
• 51:49
  The 500 Sporting has 54 horsepower.
• 51:52
  It does weigh less.
• 51:53
  It weighs 1, 620, so it's got about 300 pounds on it.
• 51:57
  But, I mean, it kept up.
• 51:59
  So the best part of that is if you've never seen those early
• 52:03
  nineties Chin Santos, it's a shopping cart with a roof on it.
• 52:08
  Okay.
• 52:08
  That's exactly the design.
• 52:10
  There's nothing to it.
• 52:11
  It is a box with four wheels.
• 52:14
  I have had the displeasure of driving my grandfather's base version of
• 52:19
  that, which was an alto Bianchi y 10.
• 52:21
  It's an, it's an a thousand cc version of that car.
• 52:25
  Brad would take up the entirety of the interior, right?
• 52:28
  Versus two of us would be shoulder to shoulder and we'd be squeezed
• 52:31
  in this little shopping cart.
• 52:33
  It's a car that you can't drive it not at 9, 000 RPM.
• 52:38
  And then you're still rowing the gears to make it move because it's like
• 52:41
  a lawnmower engine and that thing.
• 52:43
  So when I saw that race, I mean, I was cheering on that little car off the line.
• 52:48
  I mean, he, he jumped.
• 52:49
  I was like, Dang, this is going to be really cool.
• 52:52
  And then it was like, by the time he hit fifth gear, it was over
• 52:55
  that, that time he was going slower.
• 52:59
  It had to launch on the 20, it
• 53:01
  was close.
• 53:03
  Well, all I've got to say is the lack of a barth in this article.
• 53:08
  Yeah, I would have liked to have seen the MultiAir in there just to
• 53:13
  mix it up and see what it would do.
• 53:14
  I bet it's a lot closer to the 500E in terms of performance, which
• 53:19
  isn't necessarily a bad thing.
• 53:20
  It is more powerful.
• 53:21
  It's making closer to like 200 horse or whatever that thing makes, so.
• 53:25
  So, 500 Abarth or Gazoo Racing Yaris?
• 53:28
  I
• 53:30
  don't know.
• 53:32
  Cause Tanya's kind of would be an Italian purist, I would think.
• 53:35
  So I w I would have picked her to choose the Fiat.
• 53:37
  Yeah, that's, that's tough.
• 53:39
  I think, I don't know.
• 53:40
  I really want to do that.
• 53:41
  Yours.
• 53:42
  I, if I have to, okay.
• 53:43
  If I have to make a compromise, I would take the Punto SS, which is slightly
• 53:48
  bigger, it's a proper hatchback and everything, and it makes more power than
• 53:52
  the 500, So that would be more in line with the GR yards if I had to go Fiat,
• 53:57
  but that's not a card that they sell here.
• 53:59
  So,
• 53:59
  well, it's also funny in the video was after they were done doing their, the
• 54:03
  couple of drag pulls that they did.
• 54:04
  And then he talked about how the, the finishing.
• 54:09
  Was like opposite to the sound.
• 54:12
  Yeah.
• 54:14
  The sound, uh, performance was like the opposite order.
• 54:18
  And so then they played like the in car like pull sounds and it was like
• 54:22
  the worst sounding of course was the EV because it sounds like nothing.
• 54:26
  Whistling nothing.
• 54:27
  They did.
• 54:27
  They didn't pump
• 54:28
  in any artificial exhaust.
• 54:30
  No, they didn't.
• 54:32
  But then, I mean, they ranked it as like the loudest was the original 500 decibels.
• 54:37
  I don't think it was the best sounding.
• 54:38
  Actually.
• 54:38
  I think the sporting was the best sounding as it was railing through the gears.
• 54:42
  It's
• 54:42
  very throat, very throaty for a 1200, but that's, but then again, it's also
• 54:46
  doing like 8, 500 RPM to get it to move.
• 54:50
  I mean, it's not,
• 54:51
  they didn't do any emissions testing either.
• 54:55
  No.
• 54:57
  That's a fun little video.
• 54:58
  If you're interested in those, those type of cars, check it out.
• 55:01
  Let's talk Blue Oval.
• 55:02
  So then, of course, there's all the buzz lately, and there's more news coming
• 55:07
  out, and they're finally here, and some of them, you know, a small amount are
• 55:10
  in dealerships already, and I'm sure there's people, you know, like, very
• 55:15
  excited to get the ones they pre ordered.
• 55:17
  What are we talking about?
• 55:18
  The Mustang Mach E.
• 55:21
  So Ford,
• 55:22
  strike that.
• 55:22
  We don't call it the Mustang anymore.
• 55:24
  This is thee.
• 55:26
  Yes.
• 55:27
  Well that was for different reasons.
• 55:30
  That's pretty smart.
• 55:31
  And but we won't, we won't get into that.
• 55:33
  But yes, it is still technically, I believe the Mustang Mach E but for all
• 55:37
  intents and purposes, people just refer to it as, as the Mki 'cause it is.
• 55:41
  It's aesthetically very different than what people are accustomed to
• 55:45
  with the historical, iconic pony card.
• 55:49
  It's very similar to what SRT4 owners are doing with their neons.
• 55:55
  Yeah, I will start T4 is not the neon SRT for two.
• 56:00
  Neon SRT4 purists.
• 56:01
  It's just the SRT4.
• 56:03
  They don't want to be linked to the Neon.
• 56:05
  Where this, people don't want to link whatever this thing is to the Mustang.
• 56:10
  So, and I will make a suggestion.
• 56:12
  So Ford, if you're listening, brilliant campaign to try to go get that Jeep off
• 56:16
  the side of that cliff in California.
• 56:18
  Let's use that person to rename this car, the Puma.
• 56:22
  Let's carry that name over.
• 56:24
  From Europe or maybe the Cougar or something else,
• 56:27
  differentiate it from the Mustang.
• 56:29
  I think it should be the Eagle High, the Eagle Eye Hammer Thrust.
• 56:32
  Uh, just let's not call it the CA because that would not work in New
• 56:36
  Jersey, New York, or Massachusetts.
• 56:38
  I
• 56:39
  mean, they can go, if they want to keep with horses, they
• 56:41
  can just go with stallions.
• 56:43
  We can't call it the Pinto because we know how that's going to end.
• 56:46
  Well, it's, it's more like a Clydesdale.
• 56:51
  So at any rate, as.
• 56:53
  This thing is actually real now, you know, um, and with all EVs, the whole
• 56:58
  range saga is a big thing and people, you know, everything's always compared
• 57:04
  against Tesla because they were basically the first, so they're kind of the
• 57:06
  benchmark, how does it compare, da da da, and the range figures are out for now.
• 57:11
  I don't think they're, not all the variants of the Mach E, I think, are out.
• 57:15
  Fully published because the California trim and there's one other trim.
• 57:20
  I can't remember what it is right now.
• 57:21
  They, I don't think they finalize what the range numbers are.
• 57:24
  And I think the California should have the highest mileage range, but
• 57:28
  the standard range all wheel drive is clocking in right now at 211 miles.
• 57:33
  The standard range are real will drive.
• 57:36
  230, the extended range, all wheel drive 270, and the extended range
• 57:41
  rear wheel drive is 300 miles.
• 57:44
  So those are EPA ratings.
• 57:46
  If you take the extended range, our wheel drive, the 300 miles is short
• 57:51
  of what the Tesla model Y can do by, I think like 26 miles or something like
• 57:57
  that, but that's not even fair because the Tesla model Y is all wheel drive.
• 58:02
  And now we're comparing real world drive with all wheel drive.
• 58:05
  If you compare the all wheel drive model, it's 270 versus
• 58:08
  a 326, so it's falling short.
• 58:11
  What I want to know is how does this, how do they change in the
• 58:14
  frozen tundra of Texas right now?
• 58:16
  Some things you see when you're reading about the battery life and all that is,
• 58:19
  it's not necessarily The cold itself that is detrimental to the battery, which
• 58:24
  I don't know that I fully agree with some of those arguments because I think
• 58:27
  there's been proof that batteries are impacted by the cold weather, but I don't
• 58:33
  know the significance of that impact.
• 58:35
  A lot of what happens in the cold weather is because of people are cold.
• 58:39
  And so they turn the heat on.
• 58:40
  And unfortunately in an electric car, some of the battery power has
• 58:44
  to be diverted to heat the inside of the car in a gasoline or an ice.
• 58:50
  Vehicle, the heat's a by product of the combustion of the engine.
• 58:53
  And so it's free, basically, in a way it's kind of free energy, right?
• 58:57
  Like the, the fact that your car is running, it's creating heat.
• 59:00
  That heat is pushed into the cabin and whatnot, very simplistically, right?
• 59:05
  And that's what gives you the warmth.
• 59:06
  But in an electric car, you have to use precious battery resources, if you will.
• 59:11
  So in the meantime, you're driving at night, it's cold.
• 59:13
  You got the heat on, you got your headlights on, you got
• 59:16
  the radio blasting, the wipers.
• 59:18
  You probably got your seat warmers on, and the steering wheel warmer,
• 59:21
  and you got the infotainment system going, and you know, God knows what
• 59:25
  else, that all is battery, right?
• 59:28
  Whereas at least in an ICE car, the heat component is separate, it's not draining
• 59:33
  the battery like all the other things.
• 59:35
  Batteries put off heat, they overheat.
• 59:38
  I mean, they can overheat and everything.
• 59:39
  Isn't there a way, there's no way to harness that somehow.
• 59:43
  There is some facet of liquid cooling going on.
• 59:47
  I just don't know what those radiators and that heat exchange level is like.
• 59:50
  I think at best, even if you put a blower across it, like a standard
• 59:54
  heater core, it's going to be tepid.
• 59:56
  It's not going to be hot.
• 59:57
  Because the water in an ice engine, whether it be gas or
• 1:00:00
  diesel, it's close to boiling.
• 1:00:02
  So it's very easy to produce heat at any level, right?
• 1:00:05
  And do all that kind of stuff.
• 1:00:07
  I don't think the batteries are probably generating enough
• 1:00:09
  heat at all to do anything.
• 1:00:11
  They generate enough heat to catch fire.
• 1:00:13
  Because if it did produce that much heat, I think bad things would be happening.
• 1:00:18
  You'd definitely be warm at that point.
• 1:00:20
  So back to the Mach E range numbers.
• 1:00:22
  So, yes.
• 1:00:23
  They don't look horrible.
• 1:00:24
  They're not, you know, a hundred mile range or anything crazy like that.
• 1:00:27
  But the more interesting thing is there's a separate article that's recently
• 1:00:30
  come out that's saying that these EPA rating numbers are understated.
• 1:00:34
  So the Mach E performs better than what the EPA is saying.
• 1:00:38
  So apparently Edmunds did their own and they do their own independent.
• 1:00:42
  Studies and surveys and whatnot, and what they found when they tested the
• 1:00:46
  all wheel drive extended range version is that it didn't get 270 miles.
• 1:00:51
  It got 304 miles on a single battery charge.
• 1:00:55
  So now the all wheel drive is knocking on the door of its
• 1:00:58
  true competitor, the model Y.
• 1:01:00
  But kind of with that logic, if the rear wheel drive extended
• 1:01:04
  range is also understated, then could it see closer to 330 miles?
• 1:01:09
  It could, at the very least, meet But then even possibly slightly
• 1:01:14
  beat what the model Y is doing.
• 1:01:16
  So that's pretty exciting.
• 1:01:17
  And another note in the article to quote them directly is that interestingly
• 1:01:21
  Edmonds notes that every Tesla model it tested failed to deliver
• 1:01:25
  the numbers estimated by the EPA.
• 1:01:27
  So there's a big, a history there where.
• 1:01:29
  And I think I've seen this in different articles to where Tesla numbers are
• 1:01:33
  overstated, and they don't actually perform to what the number is versus
• 1:01:37
  even the TACAN is another good example where everyone was in outrage over
• 1:01:41
  like the abysmal miles that it gave.
• 1:01:43
  And then when it was actually tested in the real world by
• 1:01:46
  somebody else, not the EPA.
• 1:01:48
  Did like twice as good twice as well and twice as far or whatever, right?
• 1:01:52
  That's a
• 1:01:52
  long standing VAG card that they play.
• 1:01:55
  They did that a lot in the early 2000s with like the S4s where
• 1:01:58
  they understated the horsepower.
• 1:02:00
  And then when people actually tested them, they were making 30 more
• 1:02:03
  horsepower than what was on paper.
• 1:02:04
  I think from the VAG family, it's one of these like cautious.
• 1:02:08
  Moves to say, well, we're guaranteed.
• 1:02:11
  If we build it, we're always going to be able to attain this number, but if you're
• 1:02:15
  able to get 20 percent over good for you, but we're guaranteeing this number.
• 1:02:20
  Right.
• 1:02:20
  And they can hold to that.
• 1:02:21
  And then they're not liable to say, well, you know, you said it
• 1:02:24
  was two 40 and it's really two 20.
• 1:02:26
  They'd rather be like, it's two 40.
• 1:02:27
  And in real life, it does two 80, you know, or whatever.
• 1:02:30
  And then they just use a
• 1:02:31
  cheat device by Bosch.
• 1:02:32
  If they're not getting the numbers.
• 1:02:33
  Sick
• 1:02:34
  burn.
• 1:02:36
  And that's fine.
• 1:02:36
  I get there's, there's reasons for doing that or whatnot.
• 1:02:39
  I think the importance or significance of this is that people shouldn't get too
• 1:02:43
  excited yet over the range numbers until these cars are out there and people are,
• 1:02:49
  they're being tested more and whatnot.
• 1:02:52
  And then let, let's see really how it chips fall.
• 1:02:54
  Right.
• 1:02:54
  Because everything is always Well.
• 1:02:56
  The Tesla.
• 1:02:56
  The Tesla, the Tesla, the Tesla.
• 1:02:58
  Well give these guys a chance here to breathe and get out on the road
• 1:03:02
  and show us what we can really do.
• 1:03:03
  And, and you know what?
• 1:03:04
  If they're matching the Tesla numbers Ah
• 1:03:07
  yeah.
• 1:03:08
  And the price point is right.
• 1:03:09
  And it's price point
• 1:03:10
  is right.
• 1:03:10
  And quite honestly, I'm not the price point biggest Ford fan, but.
• 1:03:15
  The Mach E, I mean, hands down, is more attractive than the Teslas in my opinion,
• 1:03:19
  but that's, you know, to each their own.
• 1:03:21
  I saw it at the DC Auto Show last year.
• 1:03:23
  I think it's a gorgeous car.
• 1:03:25
  I think Ford's going in the right direction.
• 1:03:26
  I think they might struggle with the Blue Oval loyals, right, that are used
• 1:03:30
  to their Mustangs and all the trucks and everything, but I think there's
• 1:03:33
  going to be a contingent of those that are going to sign up and say, Hey,
• 1:03:36
  I'm not interested in leaving Ford.
• 1:03:37
  I want to stay with you.
• 1:03:38
  Now you have something that's comparable to the Tesla.
• 1:03:41
  And then once you start seeing them on the road, that's usually the cascade effect.
• 1:03:44
  You just see more and more and more of them.
• 1:03:46
  They made the right move with the Bronco.
• 1:03:48
  I'm now starting to see them on the road and that was very popular.
• 1:03:51
  It was very well received.
• 1:03:52
  And I think the Mach E, if they position it correctly and they market
• 1:03:56
  it right, it's going to take off.
• 1:03:57
  And I'm, I'm, I'm applauding Ford for that.
• 1:04:00
  Ford at the moment.
• 1:04:01
  The opportunity for more marketing gold is just like fire hose down their face.
• 1:04:06
  I think right now, because if you look at the recent events that have
• 1:04:09
  happened across the state of Texas with the winter storm that came
• 1:04:13
  through in February of 2021, if you're listening to this later and you don't
• 1:04:17
  know what, what month that happened, Ford called up a bunch of dealers,
• 1:04:21
  apparently down throughout Texas and said, Hey, your F 150 hybrids electrics
• 1:04:26
  that you've got sitting on the lot.
• 1:04:27
  Send them out to people so they can use them as generators to power their home.
• 1:04:33
  Ford built tough Ford, America, Ford, helping for getting, yeah.
• 1:04:37
  And we, and
• 1:04:38
  we talked about that.
• 1:04:39
  We're like, who's ever going to use that?
• 1:04:41
  Why would they ever use that?
• 1:04:42
  And now we have this application for it, which makes total sense.
• 1:04:45
  So
• 1:04:46
  people, there's a real world
• 1:04:50
  application and circumstance that happened where people might,
• 1:04:54
  people that were against Ford EVs.
• 1:04:56
  That are the diehard, I want my gas, diesel, guzzling, whatever.
• 1:05:00
  They might go, oh wait, wait a second, maybe electric
• 1:05:03
  planning ain't all that bad.
• 1:05:05
  I don't know.
• 1:05:05
  We'll see what happens.
• 1:05:06
  Maybe this will cause an uptick in sales for Ford.
• 1:05:11
  On the other side of the pond, while Stellantis is being born out of,
• 1:05:15
  you know, like Lord of the Rings.
• 1:05:16
  Hahaha.
• 1:05:19
  Hahaha.
• 1:05:19
  The other large French contingent that owns several Japanese companies and
• 1:05:24
  many other, you know, corporations down the line known to many of us as
• 1:05:28
  Renault has put out a rendering of what a potential R5 EV would look like.
• 1:05:36
  Now there's really no specs on this car.
• 1:05:38
  It's really an artist rendering of the classic R5 turbo two rally car.
• 1:05:43
  And I will say when you Yeah, it's fantastic.
• 1:05:47
  So when you guys see the pictures on the follow on article to this episode, you
• 1:05:51
  can take a look at it for yourselves.
• 1:05:52
  If you haven't already seen it, it's done in the elf livery, right?
• 1:05:56
  Which is the French petroleum company from way back in the eighties.
• 1:05:59
  It's a black, yellow, and white combination.
• 1:06:02
  I think the car looks fantastic.
• 1:06:03
  I like the squareness of it.
• 1:06:05
  I think the R5 really lends itself to an EV and I'm excited to see this come out.
• 1:06:10
  And I think good on Renault, right?
• 1:06:12
  We got the new Nissan 400 coming out.
• 1:06:15
  We got all these other cars.
• 1:06:16
  I think this is right up their alley and they could make a move to kind of
• 1:06:21
  come against the mega muscle machine.
• 1:06:24
  That's going to be Stellantis with, with SRT and all these other things.
• 1:06:26
  So I think this is really cool to take them on head on, but also
• 1:06:30
  take it from an EV perspective.
• 1:06:31
  Meanwhile, Hyundai.
• 1:06:33
  Has decided to put out something known as the Ionic version five or Ionic five.
• 1:06:38
  It's just another EV kind of hot hatch looking thing.
• 1:06:42
  I guess we're expected to see this on the shores.
• 1:06:44
  The Ionic was here for a while in a previous version, but it,
• 1:06:49
  but it, it wasn't very popular.
• 1:06:50
  You don't see too many on the roads.
• 1:06:52
  Every once in a while I see one and at afar, you're like, is that
• 1:06:54
  a, like a Elantra or something?
• 1:06:56
  Yeah.
• 1:06:56
  Prius.
• 1:06:57
  You're like, what is that?
• 1:06:58
  And then you, you see the badge and you're like, Huh?
• 1:07:00
  It's kind of like the Scion IQ that came out, you know, all
• 1:07:03
  those cars, you're like, what, what are we talking about here?
• 1:07:05
  But they came out with a new version.
• 1:07:07
  Again, they're trying to break into that smaller compact space with
• 1:07:10
  EVs, the hot hatch EV friendly, you know, things of that nature.
• 1:07:14
  So I'm curious to see where that goes and what it finally looks like outside
• 1:07:18
  of the, you know, the spy photos and things that they've put into the marketing
• 1:07:21
  photos that they've put out of the car.
• 1:07:22
  Well, the renderings are very different than what I would
• 1:07:25
  expect from a Hyundai to look
• 1:07:28
  correct.
• 1:07:29
  that have come out right Sonata and the Elantra an know about you guys.
• 1:07:34
  I'm those weird headlights th like reverse check marks and there's a lot of led I
• 1:07:40
  thought this car you co In comparison to what they're putting out right now.
• 1:07:47
  But I think it's more in line with the E Golf and the ID4 and the
• 1:07:52
  Renault and all these things that are being positioned right now.
• 1:07:55
  So I think it's better looking than some of the stuff that
• 1:07:57
  they're, they're currently pushing.
• 1:07:59
  If the photo of its front is going to be anything true to how it actually
• 1:08:04
  looks, it, it kind of looks like a BMW because the way they have the headlights.
• 1:08:08
  They've got essentially two on each side that are, they're not full circles, but
• 1:08:12
  they're, they're half squares actually.
• 1:08:14
  Yeah.
• 1:08:14
  Reminiscent of like the old E30s and stuff.
• 1:08:16
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:08:17
  So interesting.
• 1:08:19
  And then we won't talk about BMW, but I will say this because it's not EV related.
• 1:08:24
  Those new Star Trek looking front ends that the BMWs have, we could have an
• 1:08:29
  entire episode on those by themselves.
• 1:08:31
  So I'm just going to leave them there.
• 1:08:33
  Love it or hate it.
• 1:08:33
  Okay.
• 1:08:34
  I have heard though that it is on purpose to get people's knee jerk reaction
• 1:08:39
  to really pay attention to BMW, these new, just gaping open fish mouths that
• 1:08:45
  they're putting on the front of the cars.
• 1:08:46
  It's not the first time they've done that either.
• 1:08:48
  They did that back in, I guess, 2004 or five with the seven series.
• 1:08:52
  Yeah.
• 1:08:52
  The
• 1:08:52
  bagel BMWs.
• 1:08:54
  Yeah.
• 1:08:54
  Yeah.
• 1:08:55
  So Brad, I see that another luxury brand is coming to the EV market.
• 1:08:59
  Yep.
• 1:09:00
  Rolls Royce, Rolls Royce has come to the EV market with
• 1:09:03
  the Vision Next 100 concept.
• 1:09:06
  And it looks to me like something out of the thirties, the old gangsta cars.
• 1:09:12
  Fenders that aren't part of the car, but are part of the car and luggage storage
• 1:09:16
  system right behind the, the wheel.
• 1:09:18
  And
• 1:09:19
  it looks like something out of Batman, the animated series, like when they
• 1:09:22
  would exaggerate those old gangster cars.
• 1:09:24
  Then when I saw the video for it and stuff, I was just like,
• 1:09:26
  how does this thing even turn?
• 1:09:28
  Like, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
• 1:09:30
  It definitely gets your attention.
• 1:09:31
  There's no metrics on it that I could find, but it's definitely
• 1:09:35
  a stunner if you're into that super high end luxury vehicle.
• 1:09:38
  So kind of cool to see, you know, a brand like Rolls Royce jumping
• 1:09:42
  in there and not doing what they did in the eighties and nineties.
• 1:09:46
  Where they just pretty much cranked out the same stuff
• 1:09:48
  they had been making forever.
• 1:09:50
  So it's good to see them taking a step into this world and kind of
• 1:09:53
  joining the ranks with everybody else.
• 1:09:55
  This was foretold, right?
• 1:09:56
  We saw this, we talked about this on several other episodes at this part,
• 1:10:00
  this segment of the show, where it's like, it's only going to be a matter
• 1:10:02
  of time before the euros and everybody else kind of get into this scene and
• 1:10:07
  start to take on, you know, Tesla and everybody else in this Evie world.
• 1:10:11
  So again, curious to see what happens.
• 1:10:13
  It looks to me like it's the next logical progression for this car
• 1:10:18
  would be the wheels mechanically fold in under the car and it takes flight
• 1:10:24
  like the
• 1:10:25
  DeLorean.
• 1:10:27
  It's already got a Rolls Royce motor, you know, Rolls Royce is
• 1:10:30
  known for their aviation motors.
• 1:10:32
  Here we go.
• 1:10:33
  This is the next logical step for flying vehicles.
• 1:10:36
  So I guess we would be remiss as Tanya likes to say if we didn't
• 1:10:40
  talk about the Tesla one more time.
• 1:10:43
  Well,
• 1:10:45
  I don't think this is the last time, but it's literally
• 1:10:48
  not the last time.
• 1:10:50
  I mean, I don't want to belabor this point too much.
• 1:10:52
  I mean, it's just, you know, a report out of essentially, you know, consumer
• 1:10:56
  reports, reliability survey to do the reliability surveys all the time.
• 1:11:00
  That's a gold standard for.
• 1:11:02
  Reporting on that kind of information.
• 1:11:04
  And you know, not shockingly, the Teslas don't do well in
• 1:11:10
  consumer reports for liability.
• 1:11:11
  So pretty much overall, they sit at second from the bottom of a 26 brand ranking.
• 1:11:18
  That's not so great
• 1:11:19
  is GM underneath them.
• 1:11:21
  You know what?
• 1:11:22
  I can't find the list.
• 1:11:23
  I don't remember who was at the bottom now, who's at the very, very bottom,
• 1:11:26
  but nonetheless, I mean, we all have heard the stories, whether it be the,
• 1:11:30
  the home depot parts and all that, but, uh, the misaligned body panels and
• 1:11:37
  suspension issues and, you know, the in car electronic issues and all that.
• 1:11:42
  And then to a minor scale, which is considered, I think, in the
• 1:11:45
  reliability Ports is like things like the finish of the paint being
• 1:11:49
  pretty abhorrent and things like that.
• 1:11:51
  I believe all these different categories are weighted.
• 1:11:53
  So I don't think the paint category is, you know, putting
• 1:11:56
  too much on the liability, but still it's measured in there.
• 1:11:59
  So,
• 1:11:59
  But we've seen over the last winter months here, Tesla stock continues to climb.
• 1:12:06
  Yeah.
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  And, you know, Oh, we're making so much money and all this.
• 1:12:10
  stuff and I was really confused back in when the years just melt together now
• 1:12:19
  in the before times
• 1:12:22
  in 2020 with all the COVID not that we're out of COVID when we were deeper
• 1:12:27
  in the COVID last year in 2020 you know there were reports that the
• 1:12:30
  earnings were You know, the best ever, even though the factory in
• 1:12:33
  California was shut down and all this stuff, and they didn't sell any cars.
• 1:12:37
  And I'm like, how the hell are you making money if you're not selling
• 1:12:39
  cars and the factory's closed?
• 1:12:41
  I'm not the best with, you know, those kind of finance things, but,
• 1:12:46
  um, something didn't add up for me.
• 1:12:48
  So I found it interesting when there was an article.
• 1:12:51
  Yeah, it's a little bit of a grabber title, if you will, you
• 1:12:54
  know, Tesla's dirty little secret.
• 1:12:56
  It's net profit doesn't come from selling cars.
• 1:12:59
  But needless to say, I mean, the grabbing this work because I wanted
• 1:13:01
  to read what they were talking about.
• 1:13:03
  I hadn't put it together before that they are selling carbon credits.
• 1:13:08
  So they're making all their money, not from selling their vehicles,
• 1:13:12
  but from the fact that they have an abundance of carbon credit and
• 1:13:16
  they're selling that to other people.
• 1:13:18
  So apparently they brought in 3.
• 1:13:21
  3 billion over the last five years, which apparently 1.
• 1:13:26
  6 of which Was just in 2020 alone.
• 1:13:29
  Whereas apparently the, I think their car sales was something
• 1:13:33
  like seven or 21 million.
• 1:13:35
  So without all that carbon credit selling that they're doing, they
• 1:13:39
  would actually would add a income loss for people don't know what that is.
• 1:13:42
  Essentially, you know, the whole admissions and carbon and all that.
• 1:13:46
  There's, there's a whole cap and trade system.
• 1:13:48
  So basically different areas, different regions, different
• 1:13:50
  companies, businesses, whatever.
• 1:13:52
  You're capped on how much you can, you know, invest.
• 1:13:53
  Emits and pollutes, and then you either obviously need to, if you're going to
• 1:13:58
  exceed your threshold, you either need to invest and get green, essentially
• 1:14:04
  lower your carbon emissions in whatever form that can be, or you can buy
• 1:14:09
  carbon credit because it's this kind of whole market exchange that you can do.
• 1:14:14
  And so you can buy credits from somebody else in lieu of,
• 1:14:17
  so, so essentially you can.
• 1:14:18
  You can over emit your threshold, but you bought the carbon credits
• 1:14:22
  to do a whole offset thing.
• 1:14:24
  It's a whole thing that exists.
• 1:14:25
  And so apparently they're making a ton of money being able to do
• 1:14:28
  that because they're a fully trick based company and they've got a ton.
• 1:14:33
  They're sitting on a ton of carbon credits apparently.
• 1:14:35
  So there you go.
• 1:14:36
  Fun fact.
• 1:14:36
  It ain't because they're selling a million Teslas.
• 1:14:39
  They might not be selling a million Tesla threes either because there's
• 1:14:43
  a shortage On chips globally.
• 1:14:46
  So those are all the silicon microchips and everything to go into these new
• 1:14:50
  cars and computers and everything.
• 1:14:51
  As we move further and further into the EV world, we've become more and
• 1:14:55
  more reliant on all these computers and boards and chips and all these stuff.
• 1:15:00
  And apparently there is a global shortage.
• 1:15:02
  This has also extended the production lines and production timelines of a
• 1:15:07
  bunch of different auto manufacturers.
• 1:15:09
  One of those specifically GM.
• 1:15:11
  So again, you know, they're teasing us with the Super Bowl ads and the lyric
• 1:15:14
  and the Hummer and all this stuff.
• 1:15:15
  Stuff and they can't even build the cars yet because there are just aren't enough
• 1:15:19
  chips out there to make it all happen.
• 1:15:21
  So, you know, that is a major drawback.
• 1:15:23
  I mean, outside of places like Texas that weren't prepared for the snow and
• 1:15:28
  you won't be able to charge your EV, they can't even build them right now.
• 1:15:31
  So, you know, we'll see how that changes.
• 1:15:33
  You know, obviously companies are going to have to tool up quickly to be able
• 1:15:36
  to, to produce more and more chips as we become more and more dependent on
• 1:15:40
  computerized systems in the future.
• 1:15:41
  Here's another issue that cropped up also.
• 1:15:44
  So there's two main battery manufacturers for the lithium
• 1:15:47
  ion batteries that are in Korea.
• 1:15:49
  There's SK and there's LG, basically.
• 1:15:51
  And, uh, SK apparently they're having some sort of legal issue.
• 1:15:56
  So there's some sort of misappropriation of trade secrets on battery technology.
• 1:16:00
  So, so there's some big thing between SK and LG.
• 1:16:03
  what's happened now is that SK, they had contracts with Ford and Volkswagen
• 1:16:08
  for sending over lithium ion batteries.
• 1:16:10
  They're allowed to continue that for the next four years, but basically
• 1:16:13
  they can't export out the lithium ion batteries to anybody else at the moment.
• 1:16:17
  So.
• 1:16:18
  There is another issue because now if somebody like LG can't
• 1:16:22
  take up all that slack or another company doesn't come along, where
• 1:16:25
  the battery is coming from then.
• 1:16:26
  So if they can get their act together and resolve whatever their issues
• 1:16:29
  are and prove this, that, and the other, then you know, they can go
• 1:16:33
  back to doing business, but we'll see how, how this impacts anything.
• 1:16:37
  And much like Tesla is selling credits, who's to say.
• 1:16:40
  That, uh, SK can't sell them to Ford or Volkswagen and then Ford or
• 1:16:45
  Volkswagen turn around and resell them once they're out of Korea.
• 1:16:49
  I mean, that's a whole logistics supply chain thing that right.
• 1:16:52
  Well above our pay grades, but yeah, you're right.
• 1:16:54
  I mean, there's all sorts of things involved there from the business
• 1:16:56
  perspective, but even those batteries.
• 1:16:59
  For a lot of people that don't know, I've done some research myself on like
• 1:17:02
  the anti gravity batteries and stuff for the race cars, there's boards
• 1:17:06
  and chips inside those batteries to do like automatic tending and jump
• 1:17:10
  starting and a lot of other stuff.
• 1:17:11
  So even those battery manufacturers are kind of being held to what's the
• 1:17:15
  supply chain like for those chips.
• 1:17:17
  I think it's really cool that those, you know, batteries are becoming
• 1:17:20
  that sophisticated, super light.
• 1:17:23
  Obviously they weigh almost next to nothing.
• 1:17:24
  Uh, when you're doing, you know, a replacement.
• 1:17:27
  Again, we'll see what happens this year.
• 1:17:29
  And maybe it's going to be like the Viper.
• 1:17:31
  How many EVs are sold for, you know, we are a car enthusiast
• 1:17:36
  and motor sport podcast.
• 1:17:38
  I guess it's time for us to talk about motor sports.
• 1:17:41
  And so let's transition and go behind the wall.
• 1:17:44
  For some motor sports news.
• 1:17:45
  So right up front, you know, at the top of the segment here, most people
• 1:17:49
  in our community are interested in circuit racing, club racing,
• 1:17:53
  HPDEs and things of that nature.
• 1:17:55
  At the end of the year, obviously month by month, we could tell you what was
• 1:17:58
  left on the calendar, which tracks were, you know, popular, you know,
• 1:18:01
  looking at the big ones like, you know, the Glenn and VIR and stuff like that.
• 1:18:04
  Now that we're at the top of the season, which pretty much kicks off in our area
• 1:18:08
  in the mid Atlantic, right around the March timeframe, obviously places that
• 1:18:11
  are Well, not Texas, but places like Florida have already started early in
• 1:18:15
  January, you know, returning to the track, I'm not going to list any events.
• 1:18:19
  I just want to give a big shout out to Dave Peters and the crew over at HPDE
• 1:18:23
  Junkie, because they have what seems to be like well over a thousand events already
• 1:18:29
  in the system that you can go and search by each track, To figure out who's there.
• 1:18:34
  And those events aren't just for the next couple of months.
• 1:18:36
  They're for the entire track season.
• 1:18:39
  So if you're looking for something to do, once the weather breaks,
• 1:18:42
  you know, check out HPD junkie.
• 1:18:44
  com for all the latest information on, you know, who's where and when, and why
• 1:18:48
  one of the biggest things that happens in the winter every year, and it's
• 1:18:51
  been a tradition for all of us here.
• 1:18:52
  Here at GTM is to get together and watch Rolex like we do in
• 1:18:56
  the summertime with Le Mans.
• 1:18:58
  So this year was a little different, you know, we didn't have the
• 1:19:00
  typical viewing party, Brad's house or somebody else's house.
• 1:19:03
  We did it virtually this year.
• 1:19:05
  So we had a 24 hour session going where people could jump in and jump out, comment
• 1:19:10
  on the race, get together and all that.
• 1:19:12
  And it worked out really, really well.
• 1:19:13
  It was a lot of fun.
• 1:19:14
  In the end, it was probably more fun than the race itself.
• 1:19:17
  Wouldn't you say Brad?
• 1:19:18
  Yeah, the race was pretty boring.
• 1:19:22
  It was like the year when we went to the actual race.
• 1:19:25
  I don't know.
• 1:19:25
  I don't have much to say about the race.
• 1:19:27
  It
• 1:19:27
  just, there just wasn't much luster to it at all.
• 1:19:30
  And it was weird because there were people there and we had some guys on
• 1:19:33
  the ground who jumped in on our session and were telling us, you know, we could
• 1:19:36
  hear the PA system in the background and the cars going by, which made it super
• 1:19:40
  exciting, but it just seemed a little bit.
• 1:19:43
  Meh, like that's the best way I can describe it.
• 1:19:46
  I think it's also on the precipice of a lot of changes that are coming
• 1:19:51
  to IMSA, that are coming to WEC, that are coming to the Daytona prototype,
• 1:19:55
  you know, series and things like that.
• 1:19:57
  They're changing the rules.
• 1:19:58
  They're changing the classing for the next couple of years.
• 1:20:00
  You know, by the time we hit 2023, Le Mans, you're going to see a lot of
• 1:20:04
  crossover and blending of these classes.
• 1:20:07
  And it started to surface a lot of articles about the future of GT racing.
• 1:20:13
  At Lamont's and at IMSA.
• 1:20:15
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:20:16
  I personally love GT racing.
• 1:20:20
  There's nothing more exciting to me than seeing cars that you see on the street.
• 1:20:25
  Slap a bunch of stickers on them.
• 1:20:26
  Now, I know they're not the exact same cars, but you get the
• 1:20:28
  point they're out there on track.
• 1:20:31
  It gives the every man the sense that, hey, I can go do that with
• 1:20:34
  my car, which leads into HBD and autocross all that other fun stuff.
• 1:20:39
  I'm not a fan of open wheel too much.
• 1:20:41
  I mean, I watch it, but I would much prefer GT racing to see it go away
• 1:20:46
  would be a huge disappointment for.
• 1:20:48
  Yeah.
• 1:20:49
  And I think that the restructuring is going to make things interesting, right?
• 1:20:52
  They're talking about bringing TCR and GT4 up into a new kind of homologated
• 1:20:57
  GT3 class, but then that also means they're going to do away with GTAM.
• 1:21:02
  So all those gentlemen drivers we talked about early on in season one, in that
• 1:21:05
  episode, that might not be a thing anymore, but then you're also seeing
• 1:21:09
  the manufacturers pulling out of GTLM.
• 1:21:11
  I mean, I thought GTLM this year was.
• 1:21:13
  I hate to say kind of pathetic.
• 1:21:14
  It was Corvettes race to lose.
• 1:21:17
  They really didn't have any competition.
• 1:21:19
  Even the privateer Porsches and stuff.
• 1:21:20
  It was like, eh, I really would like to see that bolstered back up.
• 1:21:24
  I'd like to see more production sports cars in there.
• 1:21:26
  I, you know, Rolex was the sunset of the 488 Ferrari.
• 1:21:30
  So what's Ferrari going to come to the table with, if at all, you know, there
• 1:21:33
  was, yeah, there was a couple of Lambos in there, so, you know, Volkswagen's
• 1:21:37
  doing their thing or Audi or whatever.
• 1:21:39
  What I don't want to see though, is.
• 1:21:41
  And we know that DPI is a weird in between of LMP1 and P2.
• 1:21:47
  I didn't like the whole LMP3 thing.
• 1:21:49
  I didn't understand why they even needed to do that.
• 1:21:51
  But what I don't want to see is Rolex and some of the other races and Sebring, etc.
• 1:21:55
  Or this entire series just become LMP2 cars because it's just NASCAR.
• 1:22:02
  With prototypes at that point, because they're all the same, you know,
• 1:22:05
  basically the same chassis, same engine.
• 1:22:07
  Does anybody really watch the LMP2 race?
• 1:22:09
  Like I couldn't tell you who to root for the end of the day.
• 1:22:11
  So that's not exciting.
• 1:22:13
  And LMP1 is kind of a bust right now.
• 1:22:16
  To your point, the excitement is in the GT class because that's where
• 1:22:19
  I can get excited as an enthusiast about cars that I might see at an
• 1:22:24
  auto show, or I might see Or I might, you know, or something like that.
• 1:22:27
  It's closer to reality for me than a lot of the other stuff.
• 1:22:30
  And don't get me wrong.
• 1:22:30
  I love my LMP one cars, but there's just nobody there right now.
• 1:22:34
  So let's talk about other things that happened during
• 1:22:36
  the winter, outside of Rolex.
• 1:22:38
  In our world, we did some virtual racing.
• 1:22:40
  So as this airs, it's actually airing on the last day on the championship round
• 1:22:45
  of our virtual racing league for lupus.
• 1:22:47
  So if you haven't been catching up on that, we've been doing
• 1:22:50
  that for the last eight weeks.
• 1:22:51
  It was a DTM inspired series.
• 1:22:54
  We went back and kind of looked at the classic DTM days.
• 1:22:58
  We allowed cars from Audi, Benz, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ford, and Opel, because those
• 1:23:03
  were the brands that ran in that series.
• 1:23:05
  Mixed class racing, just like IMSA.
• 1:23:07
  And we raised almost 1, 500 for lupus in the name of one of our members.
• 1:23:13
  If you guys haven't caught up on that, you can go back and watch the
• 1:23:15
  replays of the live streams on Patreon.
• 1:23:17
  You can go back and see the scoreboard on our website.
• 1:23:21
  Good showing on the part of both teams from Garage Ride and GTM.
• 1:23:24
  It was a well thought series.
• 1:23:26
  It was a lot of fun.
• 1:23:27
  And I'm really curious to see how the championship race turns
• 1:23:30
  out at Road Atlanta, which is a petite, petite Le Mans.
• 1:23:34
  30 laps, two mandatory stops, mixed GTLM and LMP cars.
• 1:23:39
  So that should be an exciting finale.
• 1:23:42
  If you haven't tuned in yet, you should tune in for that race.
• 1:23:44
  It's going to be a lot of fun.
• 1:23:46
  So we look forward to that.
• 1:23:47
  And, uh, again, thanks for everybody that has contributed.
• 1:23:50
  If you haven't.
• 1:23:51
  So far, and you're still in time to donate to the cause.
• 1:23:54
  You can go to our website and search VRL for charity.
• 1:23:58
  That's VRL virtual racing league for charity, uh, on the website.
• 1:24:02
  And there's links to bring you to those spots where you can donate
• 1:24:05
  and do all that kind of stuff.
• 1:24:06
  Outside of that, there were some other things that happened during the winter.
• 1:24:09
  We saw a robo race car immediately crash into a wall.
• 1:24:14
  Uh, they tried to simulate, you know, what Audi did and a few others
• 1:24:18
  with, you know, quote unquote, autonomous driving on track.
• 1:24:20
  But this time they did it with an LMP car and it made it straight
• 1:24:24
  out of the pits, hooked a Louie and went right into the wall.
• 1:24:28
  Auto drive technology.
• 1:24:31
  Somebody has to touch the steering wheel to make it work.
• 1:24:33
  So that didn't end very well, but outside of that, there were a couple
• 1:24:37
  other cool things that happened.
• 1:24:38
  You guys know, I'm a WRC fan, so this might only hit close to home for two other
• 1:24:42
  people in the world that are listening to this, but Yari Mati Latvala, the madman
• 1:24:48
  of WRC, one of the remaining kind of veterans of the sport, unlike a lot of
• 1:24:53
  the new guys that are in there, decided to throw down and kind of park his GR Yaris.
• 1:24:58
  WRC car to the side and jump into Carlos Sanz, 1991 Celica GT winning WRC Toyota.
• 1:25:08
  They took the car out of a museum.
• 1:25:09
  They take this 1991 Celica out of the museum and Yari throws down the gauntlet
• 1:25:15
  and says, I can guarantee you this car is as competitive as the new cars are.
• 1:25:19
  And everybody's like, ah, what are you talking about?
• 1:25:21
  And I've said this myself.
• 1:25:22
  I wonder if the old group B cars or even the later cars could
• 1:25:26
  compete with the new WRC cars.
• 1:25:29
  And I tell you what, I don't want to give it away, but you got to watch the video.
• 1:25:33
  You got to check it out.
• 1:25:34
  I mean, he throws down in this thing and it is an awesome run.
• 1:25:38
  And I mean, he earned the title madman.
• 1:25:40
  WRC for multiple reasons, but he does a hell of a showing.
• 1:25:44
  And I will say some of those old rally cars can still really
• 1:25:47
  send it at the end of the day.
• 1:25:49
  So that was a lot of fun.
• 1:25:50
  So check that out.
• 1:25:51
  Meanwhile, as we know, Ken Block has kind of pulled out of the gym,
• 1:25:55
  kind of world he's kind of pulled back from the things he's doing.
• 1:25:58
  Obviously he's big and still into Hoonigan stuff and building crazy
• 1:26:01
  cars and all that, but Travis Pastrana has picked up the torch from Ken.
• 1:26:06
  And has now decided to get into that Jim Connor world and try to create some of
• 1:26:11
  those videos and him being from DMV area, specifically from Maryland and whatnot.
• 1:26:17
  As some of you might recall, we talked about him trying to start up a track
• 1:26:20
  on the Eastern shore, specifically for rally and things like that.
• 1:26:23
  He decided as a publicity stunt, as now he's engaging in this and involved with
• 1:26:27
  Subaru and things like that to jump.
• 1:26:30
  His Subaru WRC car across gasoline alley it basically
• 1:26:35
  there in the harbor in Annapolis.
• 1:26:37
  And there's a tons of videos of that.
• 1:26:38
  That was really cool to see.
• 1:26:39
  There's some guys that I work with that happened to be there in person.
• 1:26:43
  And, you know, they were sending the videos around.
• 1:26:45
  Obviously it's all very practiced and staged and timed, but it's
• 1:26:48
  still kind of cool to see a rally car flying through the air.
• 1:26:52
  In the middle of, you know, Annapolis
• 1:26:54
  F1 driver, Lewis Hamilton, you know, you may have heard of him.
• 1:26:58
  He drives for the Petronas F1 team from Mercedes, but he won his seventh
• 1:27:04
  lucky number seven F1 championship.
• 1:27:07
  And that's all I have to say about that because it's old hat now.
• 1:27:11
  Nobody gives a crap.
• 1:27:11
  The
• 1:27:13
  question is, is he going to go for eight?
• 1:27:15
  Right?
• 1:27:15
  I think that's the question on everybody's mind.
• 1:27:17
  He does
• 1:27:17
  sign the contract with Mercedes for more time.
• 1:27:20
  So yes, he is going for eight.
• 1:27:22
  So what we're, what you're telling me is it's yet another boring
• 1:27:25
  season of F1 to come for 2021.
• 1:27:27
  My prediction is Daniel Ricciardo is going to destroy in the McLaren
• 1:27:33
  and win his first championship.
• 1:27:36
  That's my prediction.
• 1:27:36
  That's my hot take right now.
• 1:27:38
  And we know from listening to the International Man of Mystery
• 1:27:41
  episode, folks like Judd are getting super excited because Alonzo is
• 1:27:45
  coming back this year as well.
• 1:27:47
  So true, true.
• 1:27:48
  It'd be interesting to dice up, you know, can Alonzo come back and
• 1:27:50
  be as competitive as he once was?
• 1:27:53
  You know, I mean, obviously his hopes and dreams of getting that triple crown
• 1:27:56
  being the next, you know, Jim Clark, Mario Andretti to win Le Mans Indy and F1 have
• 1:28:02
  Let's say been shattered a little bit.
• 1:28:04
  So I'm excited to see him come back to F1 and dice it up.
• 1:28:07
  What I'm worried though, is as Tanya mentioned on the last official drive
• 1:28:11
  thru episode we did, you know, maybe he's more of a Valentino Rossi.
• 1:28:14
  He's going to give those guys a run for their money, but is he going to
• 1:28:17
  push to take that championship away from Hamilton in this 2021 season?
• 1:28:23
  That's what I'm thinking.
• 1:28:23
  Personally,
• 1:28:23
  cause he, he's going to Renault.
• 1:28:25
  Correct.
• 1:28:26
  I don't think the Renault is.
• 1:28:28
  Competitive.
• 1:28:29
  So I don't think he's going to do well, but one person I'm anxious to see or
• 1:28:34
  excited to see is Sebastian hair loss.
• 1:28:36
  Vettel in the Aston Martin.
• 1:28:42
  So he lost it.
• 1:28:43
  He lost more hair.
• 1:28:44
  So he's lighter now, but in that Aston Martin, you'll, if you recall, that is
• 1:28:48
  the, uh, the former of the racing point car, which was actually very competitive
• 1:28:53
  and won a couple of races last year.
• 1:28:55
  It's got a Mercedes drive train.
• 1:28:56
  So it's.
• 1:28:57
  It's actually a really good car.
• 1:28:59
  And I think with Vettel driving, you know, I I'm excited to see the
• 1:29:03
  kind of year he has after such a disappointing year with Ferrari last year.
• 1:29:07
  So what I heard was it's not an Aston Martin.
• 1:29:10
  It's an Aston Martin chassis.
• 1:29:12
  I believe.
• 1:29:12
  But it's like a Tata power plant and
• 1:29:16
  a Mercedes drivetrain.
• 1:29:18
  So the only thing that can beat a Mercedes apparently is another Mercedes.
• 1:29:21
  Yeah.
• 1:29:22
  We'll take that with a grain of salt and I guess we'll see what happens.
• 1:29:25
  It wouldn't be a drive through episode if we didn't finally get to
• 1:29:29
  our fan favorite section, known as.
• 1:29:32
  Would you like some fries with that?
• 1:29:36
  So take it away, Tanya.
• 1:29:37
  Of course you have to click when the title says, Florida
• 1:29:40
  Man Builds Very Florida Jeep.
• 1:29:45
  You can't not click and see what that says.
• 1:29:48
  Apparently this guy, I don't know why, he, he does have a 2020 Jeep
• 1:29:52
  Gladiator that he cut in half.
• 1:29:54
  That seems like a good use.
• 1:29:56
  Of, uh, of a Jeep Gladiator.
• 1:29:57
  Anyway, cutting, cut it in half to create this custom Jeep that looks like it
• 1:30:01
  could have been part of Mad Max films.
• 1:30:04
  I don't know.
• 1:30:05
  And it's got two extra wheels in the back.
• 1:30:08
  Um, so it's a six wheel Jeep Gladiator now.
• 1:30:11
  Um, I assume for the intents of the photo, the doors are off just to be off.
• 1:30:17
  I assume you can put them back on, but maybe you can't, maybe you just
• 1:30:19
  ride open to the wind all the time.
• 1:30:22
  I mean, it's just.
• 1:30:23
  Looks like something preparing for end of days, maybe.
• 1:30:26
  And you got like six of the other Florida buddies on the back with guns.
• 1:30:30
  I don't know.
• 1:30:31
  I mean, is this an attempt to build a cheap six by six G
• 1:30:34
  wagon like Mercedes had because
• 1:30:37
  apparently he put an LS three, 500 horsepower engine in it also.
• 1:30:42
  Well, okay.
• 1:30:43
  Hold on.
• 1:30:44
  Why would you buy a new car?
• 1:30:45
  Could you just go buy an old like YJ and do the same thing?
• 1:30:49
  That question is as old as time.
• 1:30:52
  That's what Jeep people do.
• 1:30:53
  When I was on the Jeep forums, because I used to be a Jeep person, you would find
• 1:30:58
  people spending 45, 000 for a brand new JK Unlimited Rubicon, taking all the Rubicon
• 1:31:07
  out of it and putting another 50 grand into upgraded axles and wheels and tires
• 1:31:12
  and suspension and all kinds of the crap.
• 1:31:13
  You're right.
• 1:31:14
  Why not just start with an ax or a sport.
• 1:31:16
  you know, something base model or something older and just do that.
• 1:31:20
  It, this just baffles my mind.
• 1:31:22
  I'm going to spend 60 grand on a Jeep gladiator truck and
• 1:31:25
  then spend 250 grand to make it whatever the hell this thing is.
• 1:31:30
  But it wouldn't be a Florida man story if it didn't involve
• 1:31:33
  catching on fire, a scented candle, dumpster water, uh, Gators.
• 1:31:39
  I mean, there's gotta be something, you know, did he print a check?
• 1:31:41
  and bought it from Walmart.
• 1:31:43
  I mean, there's got to be more to this, right?
• 1:31:45
  Apparently, I mean, it's for sale.
• 1:31:46
  So there's an ad other than the fact that they have poor spellings and grammar and
• 1:31:52
  apparently it tows 12, 000 foot pounds.
• 1:31:54
  What does that mean?
• 1:31:57
  According to the ad,
• 1:31:58
  12, 000 pounds of food.
• 1:31:59
  Feet, it
• 1:32:02
  that has 12,000 foot pounds of towing capacity.
• 1:32:05
  So the hat that for whatever that possibly means,
• 1:32:09
  Oh my God.
• 1:32:11
  I mean, I don't know.
• 1:32:12
  And, and according to the ad, the listing, it, it can take on and off
• 1:32:16
  road challenges and double quote the article in, in that listing effortlessly
• 1:32:21
  hits 90 miles an hour on the highway and not be all over three lanes.
• 1:32:26
  Not me.
• 1:32:30
  That is marketing gold right there.
• 1:32:32
  I'll be all over it.
• 1:32:34
  So wait, can it mountain bike trail?
• 1:32:36
  That's what I want to know.
• 1:32:37
  No, it cannot.
• 1:32:38
  It can take off road challenges.
• 1:32:40
  So I
• 1:32:43
  mean, if a soccer field is an off road challenge for this thing, I mean, I.
• 1:32:47
  Okay, hands down.
• 1:32:48
  I get it, but
• 1:32:48
  I will tell you this thing looks killer parked outside the local Starbucks
• 1:32:52
  Does it fit in the parking spot?
• 1:32:54
  It fits in three of them
• 1:32:57
  It does long ones like a cracker barrel fits it,
• 1:33:00
  but it's not all up all over four lanes
• 1:33:10
  Tesla gonna Tesla
• 1:33:11
  I feel like there's been more than just this time that it's happened, or
• 1:33:14
  maybe this is the same article I'm just misremembering, or it happened again.
• 1:33:18
  Another Tesla model exploding in a garage in China.
• 1:33:24
  Are they being
• 1:33:26
  used as bombs?
• 1:33:28
  Like, I mean, I'm not trying to make a joke of it, but it
• 1:33:30
  doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
• 1:33:32
  This, this is a covert ops mission on the US to destroy China by
• 1:33:36
  blowing them up with Tesla batteries.
• 1:33:39
  I mean, there's never really too much information about these articles.
• 1:33:42
  It's just kind of like, Oh, this happened.
• 1:33:44
  And I'm like, I know, I'm pretty sure I've heard of it happening before.
• 1:33:48
  It's unclear.
• 1:33:49
  I mean, could it be someone deliberately doing this?
• 1:33:52
  You have a serial Tesla exploder.
• 1:33:55
  I don't know.
• 1:33:55
  Not trying to start a new rumor.
• 1:33:57
  No,
• 1:33:57
  his perfume line, his perfume line is called Musk by Elon.
• 1:34:03
  Well, you know this.
• 1:34:04
  That's the scented
• 1:34:05
  candle, Musk by Elon.
• 1:34:09
  This solves the problem of not being able to heat your Tesla with, you
• 1:34:14
  know, so you just start a fire.
• 1:34:16
  Oh god.
• 1:34:19
  All right, so I'm going to set the stage for you.
• 1:34:21
  Okay.
• 1:34:22
  Somewhere in This
• 1:34:23
  is fantastic, and I've only watched like two
• 1:34:26
  seconds.
• 1:34:27
  Somewhere in Appalachia, there is a race that none
• 1:34:31
  of us have ever seen before, and it is considered the most
• 1:34:35
  insane Barbie racing ever.
• 1:34:37
  We posted this on the show notes, so you definitely need to check it out.
• 1:34:41
  This is, this is 15 minutes, so I'm just going to All
• 1:34:46
  you need is the first 10 seconds.
• 1:34:51
  It is like a 15 minute video, but to Tanya's point, you only
• 1:34:54
  need about 10 seconds to get the gist of where this is going.
• 1:34:59
  This is adults riding power wheels down rough dirt hill.
• 1:35:05
  It is
• 1:35:06
  the funniest thing I have seen a long
• 1:35:08
  time.
• 1:35:09
  Oh, MG the, the, the crazy dangerous things people do
• 1:35:14
  and they're like crashing.
• 1:35:15
  They're like flipping off these things.
• 1:35:17
  One guy makes it, one guy makes and the crowd goes.
• 1:35:20
  And it's kind of funny because it's like a J shaped ski slope almost,
• 1:35:25
  but it's super rough to your point.
• 1:35:26
  And there's people lining.
• 1:35:27
  I mean, I'm surprised they're not out there with air horns and like
• 1:35:30
  cowbells and stuff like you'd see, but the wrecks are spectacular.
• 1:35:35
  Is the guy who won, cause I've just been randomly fast forwarding through this
• 1:35:38
  thing is the guy who won the dude in the, in the United States flag onesie.
• 1:35:42
  I think he's the only one that makes it all the way down without
• 1:35:45
  the thing, blowing up, flipping over or crashing into the people.
• 1:35:48
  But it's fantastic.
• 1:35:50
  The guy I just saw, he made it all the way.
• 1:35:53
  He had to pick it up and carry it the rest of the way.
• 1:35:55
  Oh yeah,
• 1:35:56
  it happens too because like it's half busted, but it still counts
• 1:36:00
  if they carry it across the line.
• 1:36:01
  It is outrageous.
• 1:36:03
  I've never
• 1:36:03
  seen anything like this.
• 1:36:04
  He did make it down.
• 1:36:05
  He did make it down on like a, what looked like maybe a hummer.
• 1:36:08
  Yes, yes, that's the one.
• 1:36:10
  Yeah.
• 1:36:10
  And then he, and then he stands there in his United States
• 1:36:13
  flag, onesie, chugging a beer.
• 1:36:15
  Well, again, motor sports fans, all sorts of different disciplines.
• 1:36:20
  And this one I'd never seen before.
• 1:36:22
  So apparently downhill power wheel, Super G is where it's at right now.
• 1:36:28
  I will tell you that this is not, I mean, there's something very similar
• 1:36:33
  to this in the motorcycle world where they do it with big wheels
• 1:36:36
  on roads like tail of the dragon.
• 1:36:38
  All I know is the rule book for this is non existent.
• 1:36:42
  It's a paperback.
• 1:36:43
  And there are no safety regulations whatsoever.
• 1:36:48
  This guy like went down.
• 1:36:50
  I think it was.
• 1:36:50
  Get a little G power.
• 1:36:52
  He like flipped over and like barrel rolled and all in three of the wheels
• 1:36:56
  like blew off its power wheels.
• 1:36:58
  That's the man that takes
• 1:36:59
  it up and then carries it across the line.
• 1:37:02
  It is amazing.
• 1:37:03
  This is definitely hashtag hold my beer.
• 1:37:05
  Well, I will say this, it's right up there with some videos that we
• 1:37:08
  saw, and we may attach this to the show notes, which is the guys that
• 1:37:11
  are building the cardboard sleds and running them down the tube slides.
• 1:37:16
  This is right there with it, but this is more of the Shiner
• 1:37:19
  approach to that style of racing.
• 1:37:23
  So, both worth watching, both absolutely hilarious.
• 1:37:26
  So, if you guys recall from a previous drive thru episode.
• 1:37:30
  I clued you in on one piece of would you like fries with that, where a gentleman
• 1:37:34
  wanted to figure out how good and show the world how good square bodies really are.
• 1:37:40
  So if you remember this clown, you know, it's 20 minutes of
• 1:37:43
  your life you'll never get back.
• 1:37:45
  Well he created another video where he decided that he needed to put a Hellcat,
• 1:37:51
  brand new, on a set of horse and buggy wheels and see how far he could get.
• 1:37:56
  So I'm like, all right.
• 1:37:58
  Same idiot as before.
• 1:38:00
  Let me clue in on this.
• 1:38:01
  Let me watch it.
• 1:38:02
  And I'm just baffled.
• 1:38:03
  He's, you know, talking about a sponsor built these hubs for him so he could put
• 1:38:06
  these, you know, Conestoga wagon wheels on this thing and he makes it work.
• 1:38:10
  I see the car in the garage.
• 1:38:12
  And my next question is, how does this thing turn?
• 1:38:14
  Are these hubs big enough?
• 1:38:16
  How does this change the geometry of the car?
• 1:38:17
  All this kind of stuff.
• 1:38:19
  So he pulls it out the garage and, you know, normal stupidity ensues
• 1:38:24
  and he's doing burnouts and like all this kind of stuff and whatnot.
• 1:38:27
  But he drives it into town, drives it through a McDonald's drive
• 1:38:30
  through, like all these kinds of people are looking at him.
• 1:38:32
  He gets screwed up.
• 1:38:33
  spooked by the cops a little bit because he's, you know, he's driving,
• 1:38:35
  basically he's driving around illegally on these horse and buggy wheels.
• 1:38:38
  They let him go by.
• 1:38:39
  Then he, you know, tries to do some burnouts and whatnot.
• 1:38:42
  And by the end of this thing, you're just appalled because you feel bad
• 1:38:45
  for the car because you notice the amount of damage he's doing to it.
• 1:38:49
  The hubs aren't big enough.
• 1:38:50
  The wagon wheels bashing into the fenders, they're pinching
• 1:38:54
  the body panels and whatnot.
• 1:38:55
  I mean, this brand new Hellcat is basically ruined.
• 1:38:57
  And then when he does this kind of final burnout, the wagon wheel,
• 1:39:01
  the tire just like is obliterated.
• 1:39:04
  And then because of the way those tires are built, it ends
• 1:39:06
  up whipping the side of the car.
• 1:39:08
  And it just, it just beats the fenders in and it ruins the pain.
• 1:39:11
  And, you know, they're having, they're laughing and having a good time.
• 1:39:14
  And I'm just like, this is just more internet brain rot.
• 1:39:17
  If you want to see what these guys are up to, check it out.
• 1:39:20
  We posted the video, but I just beside myself.
• 1:39:23
  I've only got one question
• 1:39:25
  for all the Quakers.
• 1:39:27
  Oh yeah.
• 1:39:28
  Yeah.
• 1:39:28
  The Amish rather.
• 1:39:31
  Cause why does he have to dress up like that?
• 1:39:33
  I don't know.
• 1:39:33
  He didn't do that in the square body video.
• 1:39:35
  So
• 1:39:36
  I want to know when, at what point in the video does he die of dysentery?
• 1:39:41
  We're gonna call that car the Oregon Trail.
• 1:39:43
  But you never actually see, there's never actually video of him turning.
• 1:39:48
  All the video is always ever of the steering wheel straight.
• 1:39:51
  Trying to like skip through to see because I don't understand.
• 1:39:53
  The turning radius would be a bit.
• 1:39:56
  Horrendous, horrendous.
• 1:39:58
  I
• 1:39:58
  mean a Volkswagen would have a better turning radius.
• 1:40:01
  Than this thing.
• 1:40:04
  Absolutely.
• 1:40:05
  I mean, cause you're right.
• 1:40:06
  The, the little bicycle tire would just hit the fender after a minimal
• 1:40:10
  amount of steering wheel input.
• 1:40:12
  That's just, wow.
• 1:40:13
  Somebody who's got too much money.
• 1:40:14
  I just feel sad for that.
• 1:40:15
  Okay.
• 1:40:15
  I guess that pretty much wraps up.
• 1:40:17
  Would you like fries with that?
• 1:40:18
  So let's just touch on a couple quick pieces of news and
• 1:40:20
  some thank yous and whatnot.
• 1:40:21
  As we wrap up this final episode of the drive through for season one.
• 1:40:26
  Something to note on our end.
• 1:40:27
  You know, we're really planning to have a really cool year this year.
• 1:40:30
  You know, obviously last year was a bit of a bust.
• 1:40:32
  Um, we were able to launch the podcast and still do some,
• 1:40:36
  some events throughout 2020.
• 1:40:37
  We're hoping 2021 will be a lot better for the GTN members and
• 1:40:41
  our fans and everybody else.
• 1:40:43
  So we've got some exciting things planned.
• 1:40:45
  Obviously we have still not now nailed down.
• 1:40:48
  We're still When and where summer bash is going to be.
• 1:40:50
  That's always the big question.
• 1:40:51
  That's our big anniversary party.
• 1:40:53
  So as soon as we know that we'll let you guys know, we are still
• 1:40:57
  projecting on going to some big name events, uh, some races and whatnot.
• 1:41:00
  We're going to, we're going to maybe do some drag racing this
• 1:41:02
  year, some off roading this year.
• 1:41:04
  We're going to go to tail the dragon.
• 1:41:06
  There's a lot of really cool stuff 2021 schedule.
• 1:41:09
  So it's not all.
• 1:41:11
  Just about going to the track and making some left and right turns
• 1:41:14
  and sometimes going straight, you know, look out for that.
• 1:41:16
  Watch the club schedule on the, on our website and just stay tuned for more.
• 1:41:21
  I also want to do a quick shout out, you know, to all our sponsors.
• 1:41:24
  You know, we picked up some new relationships over the winter.
• 1:41:27
  You know, obviously a big thank you to Garage Riot for
• 1:41:29
  helping us out with the VRL.
• 1:41:30
  Big thank you again to Dave Peters and the guys at HPD Junkie for always supplying
• 1:41:34
  us with up to date information there.
• 1:41:36
  You know, the boys at Chazz's, you know, and so on down the line and all
• 1:41:40
  of our sponsors, we did pick up a new one Harper home services of Michigan.
• 1:41:44
  So if you're in our new middle and west region, and you're looking for somebody
• 1:41:48
  to help you out there with home remodeling and things like that, reach out to HHS.
• 1:41:53
  Their website is Harper homes of michigan.
• 1:41:55
  com and you can see what's going on there.
• 1:41:58
  But we do have a bunch of new patrons to thank throughout these winter months.
• 1:42:03
  So we're going to go through that list and make sure we do a quick
• 1:42:05
  shout out to all those folks that have been supporting us, you know, and
• 1:42:09
  funding us and things of that nature.
• 1:42:10
  Big shout out to Christine and Amr, Jim and Sue Miller, Rebecca Griffith,
• 1:42:17
  Harry Brill,
• 1:42:18
  Michael Sonderby, John and Carolyn Wade.
• 1:42:22
  And BJ, the better Harrington.
• 1:42:26
  Well, I would, I would argue that Bruiser is the better Harrington.
• 1:42:28
  Well,
• 1:42:28
  that's true.
• 1:42:29
  But we, we, we would be remiss if we did not give a shout out to the, the show's,
• 1:42:35
  you know, creator and, uh, organizer and manager and all around great person.
• 1:42:42
  Yeah, that's true.
• 1:42:43
  Thank you for a great season one.
• 1:42:45
  We look forward to what's coming in season two.
• 1:42:47
  And again, to everybody that's out there, everything that we're doing, the
• 1:42:51
  podcast, the Instagram, the website, the live streaming, the VRLs, the charity
• 1:42:55
  events, everything that we've done.
• 1:42:56
  We've got going on.
• 1:42:57
  We are super busy here at HQ.
• 1:42:59
  None of this stuff would be possible without your guys support as fans,
• 1:43:03
  as members, as contributors, as authors, you know, et cetera.
• 1:43:07
  And we want to thank all of our guests that have come on the show in season one.
• 1:43:10
  I mean, we could sit here and rattle off all their names and go back over
• 1:43:14
  the episodes, but you know what?
• 1:43:15
  You can do that by visiting our podcast.
• 1:43:18
  You're already listening to it, so go back and look at all
• 1:43:21
  those guests that we've had.
• 1:43:22
  We've put out almost 50 episodes in less than a year.
• 1:43:26
  So we are geared up to do about the same next year with all new
• 1:43:29
  content, all new guests, really big names, really awesome stuff.
• 1:43:32
  So look forward to great and new content coming into this new year.
• 1:43:36
  2021 season.
• 1:43:38
  So again, thank you all.
• 1:43:39
  You know, none of this would be possible without you.
• 1:43:41
  So we tip our hats and we say, here's the next season.
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• 1:43:56
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• 1:43:59
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• 1:44:03
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• 1:44:05
  Hey, what you're trying to do?
• 1:44:07
  Blind me.
• 1:44:08
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• 1:44:15
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