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The power by tire power recording in grounded.
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Highlights of all places.
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I was about to say the studio built by grounded.
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We are in the high Lux built by grounded right now,
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Genuinely is built by grounded this there's a wicked feature that I'm keen
02:06
to show you on the back on the tray.
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Yeah, I reckon you'll love it being a being a Ute guy.
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Yeah. I think you'll like it.
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We'll get to that a bit later when we walk around.
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I have literally jumped from the front door in my house inside
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the passenger seat of this car.
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Now we've got a bit of a this is a cool episode coming up. We're on our way
02:24
We're gonna we're gonna run this like a normal episode. Yeah amongst and how quiet is it in here?
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It is pretty quiet. I hope the I hope the audio quality is okay
02:32
Yeah, please forgive us if it isn't we'll do our best. Yeah, we are genuinely driving around in a 2026 Toyota Hilux
02:40
Yep, which is sponsored by a tough dog in time out of mind you just still going with tough dog in time
02:46
I'm almost 100% sure that the tires on this car were fitted by
02:51
Knowing how knowing how quality grounded do yes, and I know that they'll be looking at some tough dog suspension as well
02:58
Yes, obviously grounded they do massive dongers
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They got big quality quality products quality quality dongers as we've always said mate size does matter now
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I think we should I think we give a little quick update on I'm sorry a quick background on grounded and what grounded is there's
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Grounded so they are a construction and infrastructure company focus on the mining and resources sector
03:21
Great crossover for us with the footy club as well. So I know Paulie quite well who's right up there at grounded
03:28
Great Paulie Paulie. Yeah, Paulie Natoli. I think they build mining camps accommodation villages
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They're modular portable buildings. They so they do the full project
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Delivery so end to end they handle design construction
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installation refurb relocation of buildings
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They do civil and site infrastructure works remote project expertise and they emphasize
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Creating liveable communities
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For workers in remote areas, so they're basically building mining camps. They are so everything from the gyms or rec areas
03:59
Obviously the accommodation where they're staying
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Yeah, if you're a FIFO high chances, you're staying in a grounded condo and we're grounded
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But it's a great great nine people play on words there. Yeah, they're logo
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I don't know if you can stand on your honor
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You've got the grounded hat on but you've just got grounded on it. They're logo is a g-spot. They call it
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They call it the g-spot. Yeah. Yeah, but good people
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They've lent us another background they've lent us the 2026
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Hilux now Jaden will give you a run around the car as part of this podcast to
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But basically a little background on the Hilux so it's a grounded of it's not it's quite stock
04:46
But not exactly like it's the perfect. I would say weekend is set up. Yeah, it is. So we've got a ninth generation
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Hilux, it's a 2.8 liter the 48 volt hybrid. Yeah, so we've spoken plenty about that
04:59
Probably nothing really new in this in this car compared to the older Hilux is the 8th gen and all that
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Will by same dimensions the exterior front and rear was designed by Toyota Australia's Melbourne team
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So that that's a little bit. That's good. I think that's quite cool. And that's become
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The same uniform in over 150 countries. So that's just turned off. There we go. That's the 48 volt in action
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So what what I was doing there was I didn't have my foot fully pressed on the brake
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I had it enough to stop and it came up with a little oh, there we go. And we're off
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It came up with little
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Notification on the screen in front of me the dash which has actually got a lot of pop-ups and stuff on here
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So it can be a little bit overwhelming, but came up said push push brake in harder to activate
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Automatic stopping right or engine off when you stop and that yeah
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Did you just tap it in a little bit once you took your foot off the brake did that start it immediately?
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Okay, so I even put it on the accelerator. That's the 48 volt motor. That's the 48 volt motor there
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Yeah, that's helping out that lag time. Yep. Yeah, exactly. Which is pretty it's pretty nice. The other thing as well that I
06:08
Think we've we've noted down that's changed in the Hilux is is now that we've got electric power steering instead of hydraulic
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Yep, we're an electric power steering. Do you feel that you can feel it
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I was coming straight out of the high other the wagon the 76
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I drove the 76 straight to ground and picked this up. Yep, and what a change it is gone from a wagon to a Ute
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Obviously, obviously it is that I'm not saying it's this to like break ground or anything like that
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But you you didn't you feel it a lot. Yep
06:38
That's something that's new to the Hilux it's new. Oh, yeah, the electric power steering is yeah, and you knew new
06:46
Implementation, you know what I think that was part of the reason I
06:49
Chose but the steering in the Ranger when I bought that in 2017. Yeah was just unbeatable at the time
06:56
I felt maybe not unbeatable. I don't know I could try it every single car or youth on the market
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But the steering in that because that that has been electric power steering since 2015
07:06
Yeah, okay to yeah, sorry that the mark too, but that that is
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Yeah, but I think there's always the case for maybe horses have been a little bit more agricultural
07:19
But I think I don't feel like there's anything agricultural about this
07:22
No, it'll do all that. It does not feel it. It doesn't feel it
07:27
And this interior, which I'm sure you'll get a look at too. It's it's extremely comfortable. I'm not sure what model this is like
07:34
Spec no, but it's a trim is beautiful. I like I kind of like this the screens
07:40
Massive, yeah, you think it's seven eight inch. I think it's a 17-inch display big size big size, and you know
07:46
It's a size matter. Let's not let's not get it. It's size matters. Everyone knows
07:51
But it's a beautiful screen and super easy to connect up with the with the Bluetooth, which is just a normal feature
07:57
I was sure that's my most cars. Yeah, this is car play through blue. That's cool. So on
08:03
In my car, I've got I've changed the display of the the head unit
08:08
To an aftermarket one. Yeah, but I still have to plug in to get to get a car play. Yeah, this is Bluetooth
08:14
That's I like that a lot. Yeah, I agree. I agree
08:17
But it also feel I don't know it feels like the Hilux is kind of Toyota and everything if they're getting modernized
08:23
They're city drivers now
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These cars are designed for city people. Yeah, it'll get out and get around no doubt about it at all
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Like they're still high Hilux Rangers all those cars are still yeah elite cars
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You can't you can't get much better. That's why they're so popular. Yeah, especially for driving and stuff
08:40
But it genuinely does feel like a much more modern modern. Yeah, I like like they finally come up to to where they should be
08:48
Yeah, that kind of stuff. I don't know. Now this is gonna be a normal podcast. So I want to get through
08:54
No, no, this is what it's about. We're driving the Hilux. Oh, there you go. Yeah
08:59
So does that the aircon still stays on everything? Yeah, that's what it helps me to that's that's the whole trick to it. So it shouldn't
09:06
Yeah, that shouldn't lack at all. Yeah foot off the brake and it's on again instant roll. Yeah, like it now
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I've got a quick one. Yeah tough dog tip of the week tough. So I'll do quality suspension
09:17
So here's a quality tip for our quality listeners from me a quality bloke. I didn't want to say
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No, no, well, you are you are now our quality listeners while we're waiting to turn here
09:29
You mentioned last week in last week's episode about checking your suspension
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Down south here tracks get a bit muddy
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Good time to do a bit of maintenance. This is beautiful from a good wave. Good wave. Yeah, great wave. Um, I
09:46
Notice the car behind me didn't wave
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Should we um, no, they're not a four-wheel drive
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Just go just make sure you know your wave next time. Um, so anyway, this this tough dog tip is around winter camping
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Yeah, um, rather than anything to do with the vehicles or the way we draw up
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Whatever is winter specific camping because we are coming into that time. You're still 28 degrees here, but beautiful day today
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I'm assuming over east. It's starting to get a little bit cooler. Yeah down south. So
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Winter camping tip. I've got a three for you. Okay, three three tips. Yeah three
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It's and they're about sort of staying warm. Okay, stay warm while camping in winter. Yeah, or sleeping mainly. Okay. So first one is
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30 to say 30 to 60 seconds of really light exercise
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So maybe some squats and push push ups few laps the car star jumps
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Yeah, before you jumping to it jump into the sleeping bag
10:37
Obviously don't want to stimulate yourself too much where you can't actually put the head on the pillow and go to sleep
10:41
Yeah, but before you jump into the sleeping bag
10:45
You'll generate a little bit of body heat, right?
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If you do that right before you jump into your sleeping bag
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You trap all that warmth in from your body rather than letting it dissipate into the air
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So you just you generate a little bit of body warmth little then get trapped into your sleeping bag if you've got a decent quality sleeping bag
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Yeah, okay, so that's one if you think you're gonna be fresh it's not you don't want to get sweaty
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No, it's your body will generate a little bit of body heat for you. That's one
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The second one is sleeping dedicated sleep socks
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So dry socks equal warm feet if you sleep inside like slightly sweaty or slightly wet socks from throughout the day
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Yeah, you haven't planned ahead and packed enough
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That wet will suck the heat out of your body
11:28
It makes sense to go to bed in a dry pair to keep your feet warm because you know if your feet are cold
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Or your feet are warm it normally is a good tell for how the rest of your body feels. Yeah, so
11:38
If they're slightly sweaty or slightly wet don't wear them into your sleeping bag because that will suck the heat away from your body
11:44
I like that dry pair of socks sleeping and sleeping only
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Yeah, keep them dry and the last one is you'll notice when you're sleeping in the cold and you just leave your phone or
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potentially a head torch like your battery
11:58
Battery is drained and killed faster by the cold air
12:01
So you'll notice sometimes when you put your phone in the side of the swag you wake up in the morning
12:06
It's just gone from 80% to 15% and you have not used it
12:09
That's because the cold will drain your battery much faster than a normal temperature. So I did not know that
12:16
I thought the cold would have protected it a little bit. It does feel like that
12:19
So if you sleep with those in your sleeping bag, then you just you save those batteries a little bit longer
12:26
Especially stuff like your head torch where you don't have a battery level. It's actually just
12:30
The batteries in there they will suffer a little bit too from being cold overnight
12:35
Yeah, and so they don't like the cold weather. So another one there for if you need to charge in the morning
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And you're not maybe moving camp where you don't have the greatest 12 volt set or set up to charge your phone back up
12:46
Yeah, don't put it keep it in your sleeping bag
12:49
Keep it in your sleeping bag next to your body where your core temperature will keep it a little bit warmer
12:52
What if there's a bag or something you can throw your phone in?
12:54
I thought that yeah, maybe a box that could put your phone in a sock something of that nature
12:58
Fresh sock. I reckon if you go let's go straight go straight through here. Can we go straight through there?
13:04
Let's get to Butler or we could go right and we'll go to go to that reserve. Yeah, we'll do that. Yeah, let's do that
13:10
Good tips mate. I like those
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So there's a few ones for when it gets a bit cool because you're waking up this morning and yesterday morning a little bit cooler
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Little bit cooler feel it. You got a jump run over here in Perth. So
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But you can take it
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I'm sure we called grounded they'd built us a little ramp or something to get over now as we go to pull up at
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This park. I think this deserves a bit more time a bit more love a bit more love
13:38
But I'm gonna talk about it now. Yeah, okay, do you reckon?
13:42
The gila the gila. Oh, yeah
13:44
Let's have a quick chat through the gila before bow gets in and then we'll we'll do so I can't get through
13:49
Okay, straight. That's right. The good thing about the Hilux is it goes anywhere. It goes straight
13:57
That might the steering in this is
14:00
It's a really smooth it's a really smooth
14:01
It's a perfect car to do every single
14:04
Yeah, it is well, I'm not doing it out of the 76 tell you that no steering on that. There's a fair bit of play
14:10
Right, so on the radar, let's get through this quick. You have a guest coming. Let's be cool
14:14
So it's called this is things called the gila galaxy battleship 700. It's a Chinese vehicle
14:20
It's a car. It's yes. It's a concept on its way to production. So it's not so sorry
14:25
It's not just a concept anymore. It's actually it's the thing becoming a thing. Okay, the gila gila
14:31
So it's about g e l y gila. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce it l y. Yeah, so basically this thing is
14:40
Being built to rival say it's a Chinese brand. It's been built to rival
14:45
This this vehicle, but specifically he's been built as a bit of a 300 series
14:51
It's a similar bit similar to the tank
14:53
Okay, like the Bronco that they're doing now
14:57
Yeah, it's it's around that so you can go and have a look at what it looks like
15:02
The gila galaxy battleship 700. I think it's something else in the child
15:14
So the gila, so the thing about this car that sparked my interest when I was having a look
15:19
Was that the all-terrain system is supposedly a i generated
15:24
No, what what do you mean? So it is it's actually a little bit if you go straight
15:28
I think there's a park in here coffee if um
15:32
It's so to me extremely confusing. I was like, what what do you mean by that? But
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Apparently the vehicle when when you are off-roading will continuously read whether you are what terrain you're in so whether it's sand
15:44
Whether you're in mud whether your water
15:47
Rocks whatever it might be so it's continuously reading the sort of terrain that you're on and what the vehicle requires
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And it will automatically adjust the torque split between wheels
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the suspension height
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the steering angle and
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Whether or not it's so it's a hybrid delivery
16:03
So it's a hybrid vehicle hybrid power delivery. So whether it needs
16:07
Electric boost or whether it petrol delivered. So they're using it to impute the generation
16:11
But it's not a it's not a soft rotor. They're they're trying to spruce this up as a genuine four-wheel drive. So
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um ladder frame chassis low range gearing locking rear deer for adjustable ride height so that they like it's
16:24
Legit land cruise of patrol stuff they're sort of saying
16:26
It doesn't look like that when you see the car. It definitely it looks more of like a
16:31
250 prato spec bit square a bit square
16:35
Take may you know the old
16:37
soccer mom car right for one of a better term
16:40
But that is what they're going. It's got the crab walk with the four-wheel steering can do a tank turn and they
16:47
It's controversial. So it might not make production. They're saying right. They reckon it's got a swim mode
16:52
A swim and it can float through water at eight and a half kilometers an hour
16:56
If it gets a little bit too deep for the 800 mil weighting hot depth. Is this real you've got a this is a boat
17:02
No, no, this is written up by many unless it's going on April Fool's Day
17:06
But no, this is but there's a genuine season April Fool. It's already been tested in the snow and desert dunes in china
17:11
It's not April Fool's day physical switches to engage
17:15
Modes manually. So they've got like rather than like it's a very heavy ai tech car
17:20
But they've kept manual switches a bit like a land cruise or almost
17:23
Yeah, that mixture and that feel like the grenadier
17:26
a little bit. Yeah a little bit
17:29
They're targeting a similar market to that Defender 300 series Bronco those sort of things
17:34
Um, and they yeah like like I said at the start and then obviously pronounced Geely Geely Geely Geely. So that's uh
17:41
That's a little bit on that and I think it's
17:44
I think it's so see whether or not it works whether or not it in australian conditions. The concept is wicked. The concept is wicked
17:49
If it makes it it makes it
17:51
I don't think it'd be very popular here right away, but or at all to be honest. Yeah
17:56
But I think it's pretty buddy cool. I guess the interesting conversation is around the use of ai, right?
18:02
Yeah, well that that that's why you're gonna trust that
18:05
I don't trust ai at the moment
18:07
With everything like you're double checking you're going through things you're asking it like
18:11
Help on research that you've already done. Yeah, this is I mean that's the way I use it
18:15
yeah, if it was controlling my car
18:17
And selecting modes based on what it thought was best
18:21
I hope that works really well. Yeah
18:23
It could be but I have some concerns about it. I don't know. I don't know but anyway, it's
18:27
It's that's an on-the-radar thing. Yeah. Oh, that's a great idea right after you know, it's I just I've never seen that before
18:34
That's what they're pumping out. They're pumping up this ai tech. Yeah
18:38
But that's yeah, who knows I like it. I think it's a really good on the radar. That's not yeah
18:42
Well done for me. Yeah, so hopefully we do have video that actually recorded, but we'll have audio at least
18:48
Should we go get bowie then should you bowie before this?
18:52
If this is gonna shut down. Yeah, let's go get bowie
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Here he is in the front seat Bo Allen familiar familiar with this podcast
20:41
Just having a look at his chopped chopped 80 series
20:45
Which is unbelievable. I didn't know I was home belly
20:48
Uh, yeah, I got it. Um yesterday. I vote spin at G turbo for a bit. So yeah, so talk to us about what's going on there
20:54
Because part of the reason that we're doing this is one jade and I like we're doing a podcast in a car
20:59
We can't just sit in that whole time and talk to each other
21:02
And two is I told jaden that the
21:08
And I thought maybe you can't get around so we'll pick you up and go for a drive
21:12
But it's there. Yeah, you need anywhere to
21:18
Come through mate come through. Yeah wait wave and then just give him away. If he waive he'll waive. Yeah. Yeah, good
21:25
It's a very good boys. Well done
21:28
Um, yeah, well, I picked it up from G turbo yesterday. Um
21:36
Hg h333. I don't know some new turbo I've got on there. Um
21:41
And just waiting to get it tuned and in a new fuel pump. So waiting on that
21:44
I'll send it back over there and the boys have been good. So
21:47
Hopefully get a couple more ponies out of the old girl
21:50
Yeah, and that was so the issue like you you sent it in just for the new turbo tune
21:55
And then they realized that a fuel pump was no good. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously the
22:01
Whatever fuel pumps on it. It's we haven't really
22:04
Um stuff around with that one too much. So yeah, uh, she's not
22:08
Not up to standard. So yeah, we'll get a new one and um, we'll go from there without the original fuel pumps
22:12
Well, we're not sure funny story. Yeah, I don't it looks brand new, but it's definitely not
22:16
I think it's been tinkered with by someone other than us and we don't really know what's going on. So yeah, right. Oh, yeah, that's to just
22:23
Getting you on I reckon. Yeah, so you run the through because you were you were thinking about selling the old girl
22:29
Yeah, why I was talking to the old man about it for a while humming heron. Yeah, um
22:35
I just thought now if it's worth a worth a buck
22:38
Before it shits the bed, which it won't but
22:43
Yeah, I'm just a little upgrade and not have to worry about cars, but
22:50
What was my advice to you
22:53
Never sell it. Yeah, never sell that. Yeah. No, it's a cool car. I do like it. But yeah
22:58
Yeah, it was probably looking upgrade, but I've just put a bit more money into it now. So yeah, hang on to it for a little bit longer
23:03
Well, we'll we'll put you in this soon and then we'll um
23:06
See this might yeah, maybe this will swing. Yeah, but um
23:10
So you got newtie boy at home too. We probably should have thrown newtie boy in the car
23:13
But we're running out of a little bit of room in here, but he's got the so the boys are riding to it at the moment
23:19
Hey, yeah, newtie's put his a bit into his as well. He's just um come back from a
23:24
Um a joining or just out of Perth actually, but yeah, he's got new lifts and new tyres
23:29
Yeah, some new rooms as well canopy on the back looks good. Yeah, we're top 10. Yep
23:34
No, he's got the whole setup
23:36
He's looking at doing a bit more like draws and stuff like that as well
23:40
So he wants to get hutchy
23:41
He's one of our other teammates to help him with the draw system. He was just saying and um, which is cool
23:46
Hey, this is nice. It is. This is really nice to draw. It's a little bit the back. There's not a lot of room
23:56
Kind of taken up a lot of space here. You might be able to see your own balls
23:59
Yeah, you're probably right now through that through that gopro, but size doesn't matter
24:04
No, it's it's knees are up around your neck
24:07
It's kind of um, you've got a bit of go too. Yeah, I still don't feel like if I'm really honest
24:13
Like I know we're not here to sell high luxes. I don't feel like it's got as much as the ranger
24:18
Go on continue that thought. Well, I just I don't know if it does if still
24:23
Driving it as a passenger. It didn't feel agricultural at all, but driving it still does feel a little bit
24:29
I'm not sure if that's because I'm used to
24:34
Let's talk about yours, mate. You got the unleash 79 now. We can talk about it. I thought you'd never ask
24:41
No, it's I actually got asked today. Is it like how do you find driving it around the city?
24:48
And I'll be honest. I was kind of looking I know last week's episode we spoke a bit about like
24:53
Not, you know fuel prices and all that going on
24:56
Having a run around car or not or downgrading to one car between two people that sort of thing
25:02
But I'm half looking at maybe yeah getting a run around a
25:07
Proper. Yeah, maybe like the cheapest thing I can find like an e-bike
25:12
Maybe I can find cars cheaper than e-bikes. Yeah, you probably can 100% I can but have a look at this boys
25:18
I wish you could flip the camera around like rip a day. It is a beautiful day
25:22
Bowie's fortunate enough not to live too far from the beach and I thought why don't we go down to the beach
25:27
See if we can find bow or missus
25:29
Possibly down the water here. Yeah, that's like a PT the young PT
25:37
But uh, I do this is this is like driving this around not having to worry about
25:43
Shifting or anything like that. I've got I kind of enjoy that aspect of driving
25:47
Mine around now, but there's also
25:50
This is so comfortable. How do you find the city driving compared to like the big trips?
25:55
I feel like city driving is a lot more with a manual like yeah, no doubt. Yeah, I think though like as well Perth is so
26:03
Perth is quiet compared to the rest of like
26:06
You know if I was driving that around melbourne, I reckon I'd be in trouble
26:08
Yeah, like even on a weekend in melbourne. I feel like it's busier than Perth on a weekday
26:13
Yeah, probably yeah, so I reckon like the yeah
26:16
Perth's probably the best place to be able to do it or Adelaide's probably similar
26:20
Darling, but like the other major cities you'd yeah, I don't know if it would be the go if you were living right in the heart of melbourne, but
26:28
Yeah, just driving this around like you do
26:31
It's easy, isn't it like you're not having to think about too much except looking at the road and
26:36
Stopping at a red light. So I know definitely this is quite nice
26:40
But I do I do find a little bit. It's a bit a bit luggage. Maybe it's like a little bit
26:46
Okay, but it's coming out of the 76. I thought this was very yeah, maybe I'm being maybe I'm very good
26:52
A lot the interior interior is good. Oh, it's real nice real nice
26:55
So mate, have you been away lately camping fishing? I know the boys are doing a bit. Oh, no, not really
27:01
Your car's been in the shop. Yeah, I've just been bunking in with newtsy to be honest. Yeah, just helping him with him
27:08
Yeah, sort of had my car away for a while. So yeah, I haven't been doing too much
27:13
Got any plans like mid-season boys. I know it's a long way away, but
27:17
Yeah, we might actually be going to look at a boat the sarbo. We
27:23
Well, newtsy newtsy's onto it
27:26
But a couple of other boys might jump in really what sort of art
27:33
Like a real old one. Yeah, there's like a 42 stroke on the back just something like
27:37
That'll get us out and about yeah
27:40
Fix it when it breaks it off
27:42
That's that's what's about a couple of the boys aboard a tinny. I know a lot of the boys are by looking at buying boats
27:47
So we've got like a lot of our teammates the bow. We obviously for those that haven't probably watched the first one with bow
27:52
We um, we played footy together. Yeah, we go dive in a bit more deeper to his 80 series because it's an absolute weapon
27:57
But so a lot a lot of the boys like I was saying before
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So newts has got kitted out for me now the highlights like a lot of the boys are right into it
28:06
And at the moment fishing as well. So like boys are just on a day off or afternoon off. They're just
28:12
Jumping in this tinny
28:14
I think a few of them went in on it or they're just fishing under the canning bridge
28:17
Like they're just going anywhere they can to throw a line in
28:20
I reckon we had we had a breakdown as well. I reckon one of the boys got stranded for a bit
28:24
Really? Yeah, what happened? Um
28:28
Well, I don't know if you're saying like bake some fridge and crossing I didn't didn't they get stranded for like three hours on their tinny
28:34
Did they? Yeah. Yeah
28:37
Yeah, so I never talking to grassy about it. It was obviously down here bikes, but oh
28:43
Yeah, couple hours gone by in the tinny couldn't start it. Oh, no, it was a bit cheery. Was it cheery told us a similar story
28:50
Chewy chewy got stuck on a jet ski just out here. I think you're not to call it mate
28:55
No, when he was on the potty tortoise or was it in the tin getting um
28:59
The boat ran out of fuel
29:01
At the mood beach. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. It's all like oh, there's worse places to run out of
29:06
You pull you can't be out of the mood
29:10
Dumb all your fuel was a massive get
29:12
We will eat just the whole way past your boat
29:16
No, it's good. I'm loving how much the boys are renewed at the moment. Like it's actually
29:22
It's good to have something that's safe. I'm doing I'm doing less
29:26
Than anyone and I've got I'm apparently hosting a podcast about for driving all the boys are not more than me
29:32
Um, should we get bowie in the front seat driving? Yeah, let's do that. Let's pull in here
29:37
Out of an 80 series into a 2026 hylux
29:40
We've finally convinced you now
29:43
We took three minutes down great
29:46
Yeah, I don't think you can really be 80 80s. Actually, you know what we spoke about last week bowie
29:49
Uh, no, you wouldn't because it's actually not out yet
29:55
We actually um, we spoke about getting like a podcast car. Yeah podcast car. Yeah, like that. We could
30:03
Go back home take yourself back home, mate
30:07
That we could like take on trips do potties out of like this like
30:11
It's the podcast to buy him a daily driver. No, I was happy to put my own money into it
30:17
Um, sorry, marley come to try to get out of here. I can't see much coming
30:23
You can't boot it in the hylux. I mean, I said it was a little bit sluggish. I'd probably was being a bit harsh
30:28
Yeah, good. Yeah, clear
30:30
The steering is nice. I'll go it is nice. Hey the steering is the first thing that stands out. Sure
30:36
Can't really boot it along here. It's the speed limit. So yeah slow
30:40
Electronic power steering there bowie
30:42
Yeah, I wouldn't know what that is
30:46
Yeah, I think for all of us coming out of our cars and driving this is like
30:49
Yours would be nice wouldn't it Doug? Oh mine's yeah, mine's pretty good. Uh, just like it's not like this. Yeah
30:56
So what is this? This is brand spanker. Is it brand? How many k's has it done? Has it got that there?
31:03
Yeah, three seven eight seven there brand
31:08
Comfy. Yeah. No it is. No, it's cool. Plenty of room in the front. Anyway. Yeah
31:14
Struggling back there. That's huge for you
31:19
You know best part about like being in my car and taking soli for a drive, but so he's obviously back passenger side. Yeah
31:28
Like if I need to reach back to grab his dummy
31:31
Yeah, I'm close enough. It's so close. Yep. Whereas in Laurence car. She drives like she's in a Tiguan Volkswagen
31:37
It's so far away. There's so much space in it in the back seats that we can't reach from the driver seat
31:42
Never would have thought space in the back would be a negative, but you put it like that
31:46
Yeah, well, it's not like it's gonna be much better for when he's a bit older, but um
31:51
But yeah, it's funny because in the in the land cruise of this massive car. It's like he's like right on top. Yeah
31:57
It's really funny. How's the comfort in the 80 series?
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Yeah, it's pretty good. Um, obviously it's like 30 odd years old. So uh
32:05
No, the drivers one when you slide in and out of them for 20 years
32:08
They the foam like dies on the side. So we got it like reshaped and refoamed. So they're all pretty comfy
32:15
Um, it's pretty loud, but no it is comfy
32:18
I think I've molded the seats to what I want. So
32:21
Have you got the questions? Yes, let's get them up questions. Bowie. We put up a little story and we got a got a few in mostly from
32:31
Um, are you good with a tattoo gun?
32:34
Yes, talk to me about this and yeah, I did one today actually. Did you on newt? Yeah, no, I wouldn't be on me
32:41
Um, yeah, what? Yeah, go through that. What are we talking about? What you've got a tattoo gun?
32:47
Yeah, so we've got a tattoo tattoo gun of Teemu
32:52
All of 30 bucks, but it's probably done nearly 10 tattoos now. Um,
32:57
I don't know. I've got a couple up on my tiktok, but Jadon's um, Jadon's looking for some
33:03
Fresh some fresh ink. Yeah, we're pretty booked up, but I mean pretty booked up. Yeah, I'll fit you in
33:15
No, yeah, we just oh, we get a bit bored sometimes and
33:18
I don't know take some on a footy of it. Just sounds like a fun house
33:22
Set up the studio and absolute pad and go ham on the on the tattoo gun all the fourbies out of the front and tattoo on each other
33:31
What um, what tattoo would you give dango?
33:37
79 series on the ankle
33:56
Brendan Burke's favorite beer to take camping
34:02
You can answer this. Yeah, I'm not I'm honestly not huge on beer. Um pro athlete any any more
34:08
Well, yeah, I don't know probably
34:11
Jim van, so there you go cut all these questions. I love it. Just beep out everything every answer
34:17
Yeah, Jim, very funny as
34:20
I've been stitched up with these questions. That's pretty funny. Why me too
34:23
What walk us through the thoughts on the chopped 80 series whose idea was it originally?
34:28
Um yours or your old man?
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Uh, well, yeah, we didn't chop it. Um
34:34
But it all started, um
34:36
When we're doing the cray pots
34:39
The old man's 200 was in for a service and we needed obviously we're close friends with the previous owner. So
34:45
Um, we borrowed it to tow the boat down each morning to the pots and I just sort of
34:50
I don't know fell in love with it there. I just always like like going in it. I don't know. It was it was old
34:56
It was good. I just
34:58
Yeah, I like those sort of old looking cars and sort of just grew from there and when I heard it was sort of up for grabs
35:09
Another one on the 80 series from gav. What would you do differently if you started the build again today from scratch?
35:20
Let's say you've got it chopped
35:22
Yeah, you've bought it chopped and then you bought it not chopped. Would you chop it again?
35:27
Um, I actually wouldn't mind the the wag inside of it. I think eventually I'll probably put
35:33
A canopy on the back so
35:35
Um, I actually know best of both worlds, but
35:39
Maybe keep the wagon
35:40
Could you do anything differently for like you've obviously got it chopped you bought a chop?
35:44
Is there anything on the build that you do differently?
35:48
Probably not differently. I think we did it pretty well. I just took our time
35:53
But yeah, maybe a canopy on the cards, but that might be a little addition. Yeah, cool
35:59
You went custom on a lot of that stuff didn't you like you and your old man? Yeah, well, obviously old man's
36:05
by trades and mechanics, so
36:08
Yeah, he's helped me out with a lot of that
36:10
Teach me along the way, but
36:11
um, like all the labor and stuff was basically done at home and
36:15
I'm just tinkered with it. Obviously there was stuff we sent it the shops to do but
36:19
Yeah, probably saved a lot of time and money doing it ourselves
36:22
So what do you where do you draw the line between like custom fabbing stuff custom making stuff and then buying stuff off the shelf?
36:29
Uh, well, like for example, like the hood lining that was all pretty cooked. So
36:34
Um, obviously like dad knew somebody that did like hood linings and stuff
36:38
So that he did that but then sort of the door cards. I went around to um, some like
36:44
What do you call them like scrappy like other joints and sort of ripped apart another 80 and got some door cards and
36:50
Um molded the two and got the best out of both. So like I did that myself, but yeah, I wouldn't attack a hood lining
36:56
It'll probably end up just falling down
37:03
In any gear that surprised you
37:10
Um, I've got west coast suspension. Oh, we can't say that. Can we? No, you can. Yeah, I can. Yeah, I've got west coast suspension
37:19
In the car and that's sort of that was like the cheaper option, but I've had no issues with that. That's um, it's actually been great. So
37:25
still a comfy ride and um
37:28
Yeah, that's done me really well actually
37:35
Nah, it's not different Nathan. Uh, what's the bucket list trip that you haven't ticked off yet?
37:40
And what's stopping you from going on it? I need I need a
37:43
Like a better camping setup. Obviously it's set up right now just to sort of be a car
37:49
And and get me from a to b but I need sort of some power in the back either like a canopy or
37:54
Some fridge set up just in the back. Um, but once I do get that set up in the near future. Um, anyway, really I've to be honest
38:04
Explored that much. So I was pretty interested in the trip you did Doug, but yeah, um, that's pretty hardcore. You'd need a good crew to go
38:11
You anything really where you've grown up. You've been pretty spoiled for choice having you like locally just to go
38:16
Hit the dunes. Yeah, we used to ways to not walk hills and that it's like half an hour from home
38:21
So yeah, like yeah, you just straight into it. Yeah, basically. Yeah, no, the beach is good. Love the beach, but
38:30
Oh, well, yeah, it's a good question. Um
38:36
Either or I reckon if you found a nice bush camp like next to a river. Yeah a little water. Yeah, that'd be nice
38:42
I like that too. Yep. Yeah, great
38:44
This one from Nathan this time. It is the right Nathan. Is there a modern four-wheel drive?
38:48
You'd consider switching to big ups or see
38:52
Yeah, probably a 79
38:55
Or a 200 and obviously pretty sought after cars, but I just love them. Obviously they've still got I'd still go for the v8 option
39:04
So, yeah, good motors still a still a cruiser
39:09
obviously ones are you and ones are
39:11
A wagon so you'd weigh that up and I don't know figure out what you
39:16
What your best suit was but probably one of them too. I reckon your setup's wicked dug. That's that's cool
39:21
And the old man obviously out of 200 so we still have 200 familiar to that. Yeah, no, they're good cars
39:27
um liable so I saw a
39:30
Double dump like exhaust 200 before the massive kenworth like
39:35
Being here and it was like it was like, yeah, it was pretty nice sounded unreal
39:40
And last one as we pull into the driveway from as a do you think the full driving community is getting too obsessed with
39:45
Tech and comfort or is that just the natural progression?
39:54
I don't know. What do you reckon? I'll switch that one to you
40:00
Is that on yep, I'll put the handbrake on yeah
40:04
I don't think we're getting too obsessed. Well, I just spoke about it. This is the natural progression
40:08
I'd say I'll just spoke about an ai
40:10
Yeah, full drive system
40:13
Why well, I as like I was researching this morning
40:18
There's a full drive system. They're building in china in this car called a Geely
40:23
Yeah, battleship 700 or something like that
40:33
Um, no, it's like it's like a so the car will read the terrain that you're in and adjust your like
40:38
drivability to what it needs so like
40:41
Drive to the wheels suspension height
40:45
Whether it's ev powered or petrol powered what it needs at the time like all of that
40:49
Yeah, that's that's extreme that yeah, that's it's more of a they reckon
40:53
It's actually in production at the moment, but oh, I've got to be foot in the pedal. I reckon
40:57
In my mind does there are yeah, I'm the same
41:00
I think we're all of a grants that
41:03
We're probably love the
41:05
Keep it simple. Yeah, but I think the community is a whole. I reckon is
41:10
Enjoying the tech side, which I think needs to be embraced to a degree as well
41:14
Yeah, I think there's new school for drivers who enjoy the tech and having the comforts and stuff
41:18
and then there's old school for drivers who just enjoy having
41:21
Wind up windows and just having the accelerator in front of you. Yeah. Yeah
41:26
Option but you can't you can't like I definitely prefer that I wouldn't
41:30
I wouldn't do the gun barrel with this much technology. I can't even do a traction control. Yeah, like
41:37
It's pretty nice. No, it's nice for comfort and all that. I'll do the gun ball and I don't know mate like
41:42
Now that I've done it all the tech stuff
41:45
I don't know if all the felt confident doing it the first time in in one of these or even my ranger
41:49
Yeah, but I reckon now that I've done it. I think you could
41:55
We're here anyway. Thanks, Bowie. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming for a drive having a little run in the highlights. Thanks for picking me up
42:02
No worries. Save me a couple dollars
42:05
Yeah, thanks to ground. I won't be doing it tomorrow. All right, so we dropped Bowie off Bowie's done
42:09
Bowie's down in Bowie down to the beach. That was nice. That was nice. It's a beautiful day in WA for um for that
42:16
Yeah, you couldn't um very nice need a more relaxed boat than Bowie. I don't reckon. He is so chill
42:22
So chill. Such a good man. Yeah, um each time I've he's time. I've seen him out. It's he's just
42:28
Chatting about forward driving with him and how his car's going and all that and it's just it's perfect
42:33
Good amount of knowledge for like a 20 year old a on you can't believe he's 20. Yeah, you forget
42:38
Um, but no shout out to shout out to Bowie and yourself for jumping on today and making the time
42:43
I know it's your day off. No, so for you boys to do that. That's that's wicked. Oh, it was nice. Now, um
42:49
I want to just readdress what I've said before about this band of its luggage
42:52
We actually were in zones where I probably couldn't speed up. Yeah too much. Uh, gave it a little kick just in one of the back streets then
43:02
It's pretty it's pretty decent. Yeah, you did say like we're off the lights here
43:07
Like it's it's actually there if you put your foot down it goes. It's there. Yeah, um, I was probably driving a little bit
43:13
Of course, which is which is fine too, but I reckon I've probably sold a bit short and didn't actually give it a crack. So yeah, um
43:21
It's yeah, it's better than what I thought. No, it's good
43:24
It's only a little like 2.8 liter four cylinder like it's not a massive engine. Is it so like you're expecting a little bit of
43:30
Give from Ronny. Ronny loves the Prado the Prado and the 76. Yeah, um, true
43:35
Or maybe a bit of different gearing, but it's good. Yeah, it's actually quite nice and I I think it's comfortable
43:41
Um, I like it and I think this the grounded one looks sick. So yeah, I agree. Um, and it's got yeah
43:48
New wheels new tires. Yeah suspension on it. I'll probably a two inch. I don't know exactly what suspension is. Yeah, I think it's yeah
43:55
I think it's really standard two inch standard. Yeah, so it's a car. It looked like a tough dog suspension to me
44:02
It's got some yellow down there a bit of yellow and yeah, but I didn't have a good look at it
44:07
Yeah, two inch two inch lifts. I would say maybe a three
44:12
Yeah, so it's it's got a few upgrades on it
44:15
Yeah, 17 inch wheels on 265 the tires look more aggressive than what
44:21
The 265 usually does. They're very aggressive. I didn't actually check the brand of tire that they're running there, but um
44:28
It's it yeah, nice car. I've actually enjoyed driving this around so
44:34
Would I be in the market for one?
44:36
probably not but I'm also
44:40
You'd be happy. You'd be happy as Larry driving this round. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I was saying before with
44:47
Bolly was just the technology. I don't I don't feel comfortable with all this
44:51
Technology I had to think there's a lot that can go wrong, especially those corrugations on the gun barrel. I think
44:56
What it did to our cars and Ronnie's grenadier
44:59
Sending all those sensors on and stuff. I don't I'm not a huge
45:02
There's a bit more to play with you in there fanning of that but
45:06
There you would make this
45:08
You would send this across the gun barrel. No worries. I think it's fine and it's quite simple
45:12
Like when you think about it, it is pretty simple. It is it's there's not a whole lot down here
45:16
There's a dial for your mode select. So that we're not going to play around with that. Well, we're moving right now
45:21
Yeah, you've got different things, but it's um
45:24
I think it would be simple enough
45:28
I agree the the four-wheel drive button is an interesting one. Yeah, it's not really a button
45:32
It's a roller to go from too high to four high to push it in and go to four low
45:37
Which we won't do. No, it's a bit driving
45:39
But that's I've not seen a not seen a button like that before. Yeah
45:43
Anyway, it's the gear stick
45:46
You know the four-wheel drive gear stick and you go from
45:51
Well, we need this. Yeah, I do
45:53
I'll tell you what though this when you when you are like again, I'm speaking about my ranger
45:58
That's okay. I've had experience in when you're driving at the right speed and you just
46:03
You know, you can click from too high
46:06
To four high. It's just a simple turn of a dial or a click down this little roller
46:11
It's pretty nice. That is that is pretty nice. I can't it's pretty nice. I can't hate on that
46:16
Yeah, I mean you can do it still in the in the manual. Obviously you just
46:20
You clutch it and off you go, but we lost that again. Yeah lost it completely. That's all right. I know we're still there
46:25
How does um, how does it compare to the ranger?
46:30
Can you compare it?
46:31
Yeah, I mean you have to rangers and highlights compared each and every day. Yeah. Well, you've now you've
46:37
You've also owned a higher ranger and now my range it was 10 years or nine years older than this
46:43
Yes, so they have come along too. Um
46:47
This is comfortable feels really sturdy stable the steering is really nice. That's quite light
46:52
Which the ranger has always had so
46:55
I'm a I'm a ranger fan
46:58
Yeah, I'm a ranger fan. So that's just me but this is a great car
47:04
You can you can tell yeah, like to just to drive this on road
47:07
We're obviously not off-roading, but this is it's a very nice car
47:10
But those brand new rangers that that screen they're all they're all offering a similar thing
47:14
The thing about the ranger that I like is that they've gone to
47:20
A six-cylinder engine
47:22
Um, so I think you know, they're a heavier car because of the bigger engine, but um
47:28
I like that about them
47:31
So that that's yeah three-liter six-cylinder
47:34
And I like that. So yeah, that's me. Um
47:39
But yeah, this is bloody perfect. It is like oh probably
47:43
Said it was a little bit safe at the start, but it's it's not it's it's fine. It's this car
47:48
Again, like for a lot of us
47:51
We're not on the road full-time to drive this around where we are now through the suburbs and city streets and yeah
47:59
Want to take it off-road on a weekend? You couldn't go wrong
48:02
No, you can't you can't this is a
48:05
It's a great modern you yeah, I would say it's a great modern you and there's a reason they're so popular
48:10
Yeah, yeah, so I think maybe we might have to lie. I was powering off again
48:16
Sorry about the video and this one guys
48:18
Maybe we'll lay her in the shots of the car
48:24
Yeah, sorry about that. We are
48:26
Running a go pro and it is
48:28
Very very hot here. Is that usually happen?
48:31
Hey, that usually happen with the go pro gets hot. Yeah, it gets real hot and starts to shut down. Yeah
48:39
Go on give us a run around
48:41
Just thought I have a little play get a brand new Hilux, you know, yeah, give us a quick run around of your of your Hilux
48:47
Yeah, so we've got uh, we've got the grounded Hilux
48:58
kind enough to lend us
48:59
The Hilux today just have a little run around we picked up Bowie had a chat did a podcast out of it
49:04
Um, it's a it's a real nice car. I mean, it's um, you know, it's it's a modern new Hilux got everything you could want inside
49:14
All the comforts, but a walk around and have done with it is it's just a nice
49:18
It's an SR5 model, but they've thrown some wheels and tyres on it. Um, got the roller on top
49:24
It's all pretty clean and neat
49:26
But with a little bit of that stuff that we spoke about being the perfect probably weekender
49:30
Whilst you're driving it around the city for your for your daily drive, but um
49:35
So basically what they have done is this is the roller I was chatting about. Um, it's from
49:42
Roller cover the hsp youth lids
49:45
Hello snack pack youth lids
49:50
But this is really not like so you can how do you do it off the key?
49:54
Double tap the unlock double tap the unlock button
49:58
And away it goes so
50:01
That's pretty nifty. I like that. Um, I think this is a pretty good option for
50:05
A weekender like that keeps your gear nice and dry. It's got this built-in light when it's pulled back for for night time
50:12
Um, but it's it's pretty practical. I mean you you're not putting a lot of stuff on top
50:17
You could put a rack on here to utilize the space up above there, but obviously for grounded. It's a company car
50:23
Um, it's probably not used for camping. So
50:26
But you sort of got a few few options there. It's got the buttons up here as well. So I can shut it
50:34
I think what are the car lock actually?
50:38
Open the car back up a little work. Um
50:41
I like this similar to the ranger this obviously not been put in
50:44
And I don't know if this comes with the sr or the sr5, but the tub step is um, I think that's just a practical feature
50:53
It comes on the hylux
50:55
So they've got fuel rims. They're 17 inch rims the wheels
50:58
And the tire they've gone road venture
51:05
They look aggressive but they look quite aggressive for for what they are
51:11
It's not overly big pretty standard, but it looks it really goes well, especially with the black flares
51:18
That that is nice. I like the look of that
51:20
Side step standard. Obviously you got your grounded branding
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And then this is the part that I was really skeptical about up the front is
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This this front end. I didn't know if I was sold on it
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When I when I first saw these hyluxes come out
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I don't know if it's the tires
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And uh, and the rims that are making this look better to me
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But I am I've come around to that front, especially from that angle that you see and right now
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I reckon that it looks pretty sharp. It looks good. It looks sort of half aggressive
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Without being overs
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We're chatting with the boys if you're going to put a bull bar on this
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Does all of this come off?
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Because that's quite deep. It is deep
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So you you'd be pulling off quite a bit there, but I actually really like the look of it as it is
52:07
I mean like I said, it's a grounded company car for what it is doing a lot of its work around here
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I don't think you need I I wouldn't put a bar on this
52:17
I really like the look of that and then the front grill is the other part. I was skeptical on
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And I don't know what it is about this one if there's I don't know if there's a different trim or what it is, but I quite like
52:29
how that comes up so
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Yeah, I mean it's a
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Brand new hylux 26 has done 3000 kilometers. We've taken it for a drive. It's got enough go. It's comfortable
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all the tech you could want
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Nice big screen in the middle, which I think is what a lot of people are wanting these days
52:49
Throw a set of tires on it a lift. It's got a two inch lift. We're not too sure about what's underneath it
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But we're shooting it's a two inch lift and I think it's come up a real treat. So
52:59
appreciate it grounded for um for letting us to car for a day and run to the podcast out of it and
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I don't mind the idea of a
53:08
Of a rolling podcast. No rolling podcast is might be the way to go might be uh
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You big on it now, aren't you? I'm big
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Anyway, the ground of the hylux
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I've been a pleasure to drive thanks to grounded for um for giving it to us to to lend and and drive around for a little while
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I'll get a feel for it. We've been chatting about it. Never sat in one. So that's perfect. Um,
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But I'm yeah, I think it's a great car
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this looks nice in the ground vehicle and um
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Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it might to be honest. Yeah, I've been impressed with it so far. It's it's very similar to driving ronnie's prado the 250
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Uh, and also he's 76. Yeah feels very similar. Yeah, as it should they're both new Toyota cars. Yeah, um
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But nothing too much tech for you. Nothing bad. Nothing bad. But no, look, it's just because I'm used to the 76, right?
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I've got roll down windows. I don't have central locking. I don't have a lot of stuff going on
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Yeah, coming into this is a bit different. Yeah, but I don't mind the tech like obviously tech is good as long as it holds up and it doesn't
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Like that tech is not holding up. That tech's not holding up. But as long as it as long as it lasts and
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Doesn't hinder your full driving or anything like that then you know, I'm happy with tech. It's magic. I think it's great
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Like it's comfortable
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The space in the back is what I don't like about utes. Yeah
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That's any ute though. It is any ute. It's every ute. So
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Yeah, other than that, I think I think it's been fun driving it around
54:44
48 volt is that is that something that's going to last or is that something that's on its way out?
54:48
Obviously we've got the electric highlights coming up towards the end of 26 or
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Into 27 depending on where you are
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But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what that one's like like like we said at the start
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This is just a facelift
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Highlights basically it's a yeah, there's not much that's different to any other high luck. So
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Tell you what the brakes feel nice. It's just a good car. Press it in harder
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Oh, now we're moving again. Apologies, but we it just breaks. No, it does. It does break nice. Yeah, it does
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Anyway, thanks grounded wrap up. Thank you. Thanks grounded. Thanks dago. Thanks bow. Thanks tire power. Thanks tough dog
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Um, see you guys next week. Hooroo. Cheers
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