Le Mans is a famous car race that lasts for 24 hours. It's known for being really tough on the cars and drivers, and many people in the car world pay close attention to it.
The Hyundai Tucson is a small SUV that is practical and affordable. The 2022 version has a new, bolder look and better technology, making it more attractive to buyers.
Teletouch style shifters let you change gears by pressing buttons instead of moving a stick. Chrysler used this design a long time ago, and it was seen as a cool, modern feature.
Chrysler is a well-known American car company that makes different types of vehicles like cars and SUVs. They have a long history of making unique designs.
A crossover is a type of car that mixes features of regular cars and SUVs. They usually have more space and a higher seat position, making them comfortable for driving.
The Hyundai Kona is a small SUV that is popular for its modern look and features. It's a good option for people looking for a compact vehicle with some extra space.
Hyundai N is a special performance line from Hyundai that makes faster and sportier versions of their regular cars. These cars are built for better handling and more fun to drive.
A mild hybrid car has a small electric motor that helps the gas engine, making it use less fuel and produce fewer emissions, but it can't drive just on electricity.
It's a type of electrical system in cars that uses 48 volts to power different electronic parts, making the car more efficient and able to handle more technology.
A city circuit is a race track that uses regular city streets instead of a dedicated racing facility. This makes the race more exciting as it goes through urban areas, but it also means more rules and safety measures are needed.
LMP1 is a racing class for very fast, high-tech cars that compete in long races, like the famous 24-hour race in Le Mans. They are built to be the fastest and most efficient on the track.
Toyota is a car company from Japan that makes many popular cars and is also known for racing. They have teams that compete in big races, showing off their fast cars.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish sports car that many people love. It has been around for a long time and is famous for being powerful while still being less expensive than some other fancy sports cars. People often talk about it because of its cool design and its success in racing.
The GT class is a type of car racing that features sports cars. There are different types of GT racing, and they can vary in how fast and powerful the cars are.
GT Daytona is a type of racing class where cars are modified from regular street cars to compete in races. These cars are usually a bit less powerful than those in the more competitive classes.
The Daytona 24 Hours is a long car race that lasts for 24 hours at a racetrack in Florida. It's a big event where different teams compete to see who can drive the fastest and last the longest.
The World Endurance Championship is a racing series where cars compete in long races, like the 24-hour race at Le Mans. It's important for car manufacturers to show how well their cars perform over time.
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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the auto week podcast you're here with myself
that's Wesley Renn mr. Reynolds on the phone mr. Randall how you doing good how's it going
with you guys oh it's going but and also you're here with my cat Ziggy Ziggy's right in shotgun
in the podcast studio today we're here to discuss a lot of things mostly Le Mans question mark
which is weird to say considering it's almost October we're also gonna discuss some unfortunate
news we're going on a bit of hiatus but most importantly right now we're gonna talk about
the news and there's a lot going on there's a new f-pace or a refreshed f-pace anyway with
some new tech and some new new stuff and a new Hyundai Tucson a little compact crossover
mr. Randall what's going on with Hyundai it's quite a bit edgier now if this is really what
it's gonna look like down the road it looks pretty cool to my eye it's a 2022 that we're
talking about by the way yeah it's got a very greasy body it's gonna have some hybrid power
trains which Hyundai really hasn't disclosed much about yet it's much you know that the Toyota
Toyota redid the the mid-sized three-row crossover of theirs that everyone calls the
minivan without the minivan body and this thing looks quite a bit like that it's very I don't
know how to describe it man it's just it looks very futuristic and quite edgy for a Hyundai Tucson
much more sort of dramatic than than the outgoing car the body from the straight side is very
creasy very exaggerated fender flares and some things of that nature and yet inside it's very
clean like the dash and it's very airy and clean there's there's push button shift which seems to
be the rage now because it gives an impression of more room inside and a more airy sort of front
cockpit so you have an edgy sort of quote-unquote radical exterior with a very pretty clean interior
Mr. Randall my one gripe about the teletouch style shifters everybody's putting them on the center
stack and the sort like our friends at Chrysler did back in the day my opinion put them on the
steering wheel if you're gonna go Edsel go full Edsel I want my teletouch and I want it now or
maybe up on the dash in front of the you know to the left of the center console where you can put
you can put them vertically and push button them like an old Lincoln sure but it's you know
it's kind of interesting that that Hyundai would would go to this
sort of body style because this thing is sort of their best this is their bread and butter
in America it's the best-selling car they have globally as well so it's you know for them to
not play it safe as they say you know I give them props I you know for their sake I hope it
doesn't fall flat on its face yeah it's definitely a more adventurous looking crossover but I mean
obviously Hyundai has the Kona right underneath it which is no sales failure so I mean if you
think the Tucson's a little too dramatic looking there's always the Kona and I hear rumors of the
Kona N all these different acronyms the N yeah that's that's Hyundai's performance brand you know
there's R there's AMG there's M there's SVT Cadillac V Audi R Audi R you know come on yeah there's
so anyway it's Hyundai M and I give them credit it's not a stretch to say that the small to mid-sized
crossover landscape is pretty dang dull so to bring in something kind of different I give them credit
for it credit where credits do but that's on the only crossover news this week Jaguar our friends over
Jaguar refresh the F-Pace and man I it's it's a very light refresh it seems like you can actually
speak to that better than me because you you wrote you literally wrote the book I wrote the book on
it yeah yeah so I mean I always thought I always thought the F-Pace was a good looking crossover
but like you say you can walk us through the changes better than I can I don't really see a whole
lot of difference yeah which I which I think is a good thing although the interior does look a
little bit different the interiors maybe the significant change but there is there's a new
sheet metal there's a new hood there's some new headlights there's some new tail lights you know
the normal stuff the really big deal with the new F-Pace again the extra styling slightly refreshed
you park them next to each other a 2020 and a 2021 which is likely coming after the change of the
calendar year for reasons that you're probably well aware of you can notice the differences but
just looking at pictures you might be like oh that's the F-Pace and that's perfectly fine because
it's a good looking crossover anyway which I think Jaguar has done a great job at not messing up
it's beautifully designed cars and crossovers with its mincycle refreshes some companies do but uh
not Jag but anyway well well and you know this is just let me say really quick that this is a
Ian Callum design Ian's since left Jag and opened his own design consultancy company but you know
he did he did this crossover it was the first crossover he's ever done and I remember talking
to him about it at the time and he did try to inject some you know some interesting lines and
things into the crossover game which a lot of designers have not it's basically a two box setup
and you know buyers are going crazy for them so you don't want to mess around with it too much and
I think they did Jag did the best it could and it's a nice looking car I agree wholeheartedly but
the real big news I guess surrounding the F-Pace is electrification the v6's as from what I understand
dunzo and their places are mild hybrid 48 volt straight sixes which are kind of taking over
the industry a little bit if we look at the greater landscape I mean we see them in Mercedes yeah
that's uh that is sort of the wave of the future it helps give you a little goose off the line and
things and without burning as much fuel I guess is the idea and it is sort of what automakers are
hinting at or actually putting out there like Mercedes yeah and obviously you can still get
the base model with the turbocharged four cylinder be a two three liter mild hybrid straight sixes
pretty ingenious I believe they're supercharged and turbocharged and got a mild hybrid system on them
which is I mean welcome to the future it's not that bad it's not that bad over here in the future
now Volvo Volvo's been putting out those supercharged turbocharged engines as well and
the idea is you have the low end torque and the high end torque with both the super and the turbo
chargers so and I like the Volvo engines and and they do mate that to a hybrid system quite a bit
over there in Sweden so it seems to work pretty good for them yeah and of course it's a mild hybrid
it's a starter generator belt driven system it's normal eight speed transmissions are mated to all
of these powertrains so you get the same eight speed automatic you know like it'll love it manual
transmissions especially in crossovers not going to happen or not going to be common anyway you
also got to remember that a lot of these 48 volt systems are used to power to help power all the
electronics that are on cars nowadays that's a big part of the reason for that 48 volt system
and speaking of electronics you like you mentioned it before the interior pretty significant refresh
I mean we have a bigger 11 11.4 inch curved HD glass touchscreen which packs a new infotainment
system the same infotainment system I believe that's on the Land Rover Defender that made its
debut the pivi pro as they call it don't know what that means seems British you know and you said
that the dimensions 11.4 looking at the photos online which I hope all the listeners do it looks
way bigger than that I would have guessed more but but like I said you wrote the book on it so
you know better than I do but it looks to me bigger than that yeah I think that since the IP
or the center stack or whatever whatever you want to call it with Jag is so wide I think that's a
a low angle cross section 11.4 it does look like a very big screen yeah it looks huge and it looks
good it does look good the interior looks nice on that car and a new center console as well joins
it and I don't know I mean the F pace like we've talked about a little bit not a bad car not by
any stretch in the imagination the interior was you know fine good even the exterior great but I
think the new interior is going to be a huge change and a nice upgrade to this to this SUV cool I like
but I think that that wraps up the news today a little brief brief section on some new cars and
now we can hop over to the motorsport side where we're talking about Le Mans
and we are back back with a section everybody loves the section I love personally and we're
talking about a race that I love and we're joined by a couple of great people the Stephen Cole Smith
joining in from Florida Stephen how's your day going doing well how are you doing Wesley oh I am
live I am we're also joined by Mike Price and Mike how's your day going it's going great I've been
to the dentist already and now I got the podcast it's a two for that is a two for a real fast price
and the cavity report I think I did all right I'm okay that's good news that's good news but I'm
pretty excited about it are you flossing though what about flossing you know I still I've never
really bought into that flossing thing they keep giving me this little silly string and I don't
know what to do with it so I got like I got several of them in a drawer and you can hear all of this
and more in our dental related podcast the teeth and but no we are talking about Le Mans 2020 and
we're talking about it in a way that it is no longer canceled and it's happening what in like a week
all right so tomorrow is a so tomorrow night for the people in France Stephen what the heck is
going on Le Mans well it's this is the 88th running and it is certainly going to be a remarkable
one to remember uh the biggest part of Le Mans is the fans the 100 000 plus that are just milling
through their getting drunk setting new records year after year for alcohol consumption they're
not going to be there this year west they're they they tried they tried some different ways to figure
out how to do it with a pandemic and uh they just couldn't so they gave up so the people that they
did sell take a twos you got their money back so it's just going to be a limited number of uh
journalists they said they're accepting a limited number which I think there actually is a limited
number of journalists in the world right now anyway but there's going to be a full field it's
going to be 59 cars and there's a quite a few people coming over from the US I've talked to a
couple of them and they're not really sure what to expect well it is going to be something now
I do have a minor question so circuitless arth is not a normal racetrack it's what's known as a
city circuit because it's a city how is the French government or the FIA RWEC going to police
this no fan policy when people can just you know go outside that is a great question the track is
what eight and a half miles long and uh there are areas there that are uh accessible so that would
take a lot of gendarmes to ring that thing and make sure that nobody shows up that's a good
question and I've got to think there's going to be a few people hanging in trees that are going to
be watching this race so so what we're going to have about 50 000 gendarmes circling the outside
of this thing making sure that the 100 000 don't get in this is going to be great that can be good
TV oh yeah yeah and according to a pressure lease uh the other day from Genetta uh one of the drivers
is Rob Dyson a US guy they're pulling out at the last minute and they're saying it's because
France has the highest rate of coronavirus that they've had since this thing started so add that
into the mix and uh it should be a pretty interesting weekend wow definitely sounds interesting
let's talk about the racially fast at the top ranks we have in the LMP1 class Toyota and should
we just give them the trophy now well you got to decide which Toyota there's there's two Toyota so
we've got to run 24 hours to figure out which of the two Toyotas is going to win no Fernando Alonso
this year yeah I think he's he's trying to stay safe I think he's uh he's still sheltering somewhere
and so that so I don't even know which one I want to root for now I was a big Alonso guy I know Brendan
Hartley I guess has got that seat uh with the team with the car that won last year in place of uh
Alonso and Hartley the former F1 guy who seems pretty cool so I guess I'll go that I'll root for
that car it's hardly raced here quite a bit and uh I think Petit Le Mans and some of the other races
so he's pretty he's pretty well known in the U.S. yeah so I'm rooting for the number eight car then
uh but there's only five cars in that LMP1 class so there's a good shot that you know your favorite
car is going to make the podium right I mean gosh we could get right we could get a car together
couldn't we and finish third I mean two of the guys are going to we could get a rental Renault
and have a really good shot at a podium finish I think yeah we gotta do this keep running for 24
hours we'd be good I think Porsche has some cars that they're not using anymore that they might loan
us out yeah there's a lot of Porsches in the race but uh they definitely have a couple over here in
the U.S. that are not making the trip and they're not going to use them after uh the season ends at
the 12 hours of seabring so uh there will be some spare Porsches around this time next year and and
Ben uh Ben Keating was telling me that the you know there's there's two GT classes one for pros
one for pro amps and the pro amp guys are racing all the cars that the pros had last year so some
of those cars are virtually identical so if we've got some pretty good amateurs out there we've got
a shot at some of those guys mixing it up with some of the pros I think well that's a new element
to the the the race that that is I'm genuinely looking forward to that but we don't have a lot
of Americans Steven you mentioned in the story in autoweek.com earlier this week that you know
Americans are down this year we don't have the you know the Corvette racing group's not going
over there we don't have any Ford presence this year um so if you're an American if you're just
a fan of American race cars and race teams uh not a lot to root for this year yeah but we've
got quite a few Americans that no one's ever heard of that we mentioned in a story uh that
they're yesterday like uh Maxwell Root you know I don't know if he has a fan club or not but uh I
think he's a young guy he's 21 I'm not really sure uh who he is or what he does but he's going
to be there well we can root for root that's all I can say about that root for root man
but going back a little bit the GT class you mentioned that the GTM cars are basically running
the GT pro cars from last year well a few teams anyway with the 59 yeah the difference the difference
is that here in the U.S. the GT Daytona cars are not the same as the GT Le Mans cars they're quite a
bit dumb down they're quite a bit cheaper and over there it's the same car so it's just the
matter of the driver our friend uh Cooper McNeil whose dad owns WeatherTech he's actually running
in the pro division this year because they couldn't find a bronze driver who could make it over there
in time with the pandemic so they just moved up to the pro division and he's running with a gold
and a platinum driver he's the only silver driver in the entire class and silver driver uh you have
bronze silver gold and at the top platinum ratings and the two amp classes have to have some mix of
that with uh bronze or silver drivers and generally those are the guys with the deep
pockets who are uh financing the the operation well that pro class Steven is pretty it's pretty
lean this year look it's like uh i'm looking at the entry list right now we only have eight cars
in there we got uh looks like four Ferraris a couple of Porsches and a couple Aston Martins
again pretty lean and kind of similar to the LMP1 class I mean the two arguably most competitive
biggest classes are really small this year it's probably not going to be good for the for the
race no it's better there than it is in IMSA though we're looking at four GTLM cars for next year
when uh Porsche leaves so just nothing but Corvus and BMWs unless somebody Aston Martin or somebody
like that steps up Ferrari possibly well that's a story for another day but I guess big picture
what is up with that you know the GT class especially the you know the top GT classes
just three four years ago was was rocking and both IMSA and at Le Mans and now it's just down
to bare bones and is it just a manufacturer thing is it money is it I mean can we put our finger on
that yet yeah it's money Mike I had a long talk with Ben Keating yesterday about money about what
you can run for what kind of dollars and it's it sounds like right now P2 is probably the cheapest
class that you can run in right now even cheaper than GT Daytona because there's a bunch of chassis
out there they've all got the Gibson V8 engine so I expect to see maybe a few more P2 cars next
year and of course they've got P3 cars joining the field next year too here and at IMSA and those
cars don't run at Le Mans so we're going to have quite a bit different feel at the 24th of Daytona
then we have at Le Mans this year and that's unusual normally those two classes sort of reflect
each other but not not going to happen this year even we've got no fans I think again people are
going to tune in people are looking to find this on TV in the US here it's on Motor Trend TV and
they're going to do all 24 hours actually I think they have 25 hours of broadcast scheduled starting
at 7 30 Saturday morning Eastern time that runs again for 25 hours of broadcast time which would
be pretty exciting to watch if you have that access to that cable channel on your on your setup
but it's so weird Steven this is September we're still doing with the pandemic and on some levels
it's still affecting racing this as much as it was in March and you know it's too early to say gosh
is the June next year race already in trouble for Le Mans in some of these big events I mean this is
insane and then and I'm and I don't know where this is going to you one of the things that's weird
Mike is the world endurance championship which is essentially the IMSA of Europe this is their
last race of the season this is you know the ends the season with Le Mans but that's not
happening this year that's not happening until November in Bahrain there's nothing going on
between now and then but the champion won't be decided until November which is unfortunately
kicked some of the guys like been keating out because they put that race right on top of the
12 hours of sea bring oh yeah a lot of those guys aren't going to be able to make it over here
yeah to the credit of the racing world uh they did pretty much step aside this week you know we
don't have f1 this week we don't have IMSA this week so at least uh you know there's a there's a
you know any of these drivers they had interests on both sides or whatever are able to go but
like you say that baron but right about rain race I'm sorry uh if that is going to be opposite
some IMSA scheduling and and and all that that's that's too bad for that series and you know one
thing about that WEC they've gone to that series schedule where it's you know starts in the fall
and goes through the Le Mans at least that's what their their plan was and that's so tough for these
teams that are running IMSA for instance because their season goes January to December and you
got Le Mans or I'm sorry WEC you know they start in the fall and go through June the overlap there
it's got to be tough for some of these teams absolutely Ben Keating said he was absolutely
running all four of the endurance races and this means he won't even have a shot at that
title here in the US he said he just planned to come back for Daytona next year and that's another
thing you know all these sees all these series are scheduling from January which is when the
24 hours of Daytona is all the way through just as though everything's going to be fine and but if
this thing is still lagging into January into February into March it's really going to screw
up the schedules for next year too. IMSA we just just pointed out last week that IMSA's are now
selling tickets you know for the Rolex last weekend in January as per usual they either think it's
okay or they think we're going to be fine in you know three four months and well it's just so hard
to envision that right now and and other series aren't even bothering with announcing their schedules
yet because no one is raising their hand for those early spring dates right now they would rather
find a way to get into the fall or the late summer and and think they got a chance at this thing
I mean I don't think anybody imagined that 2021 was going to be you know as messed up as it looks
like it's going to be but I maybe we have fans back but I don't know how these schedules are
going to come out and sponsors have got to be sitting on the edge of their seats saying hey uh
how much money you need for next year when is your season how many races are you going to run
and really nobody has any answers for these guys right now. Yeah and I've got to think TV
deals are are up in the air too because uh you know NASCAR has managed to make the entire schedule
but they made it with having races on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights so I don't know how
much longer the broadcast networks are going to put up with some of the yeah I mean we we mentioned
the IndyCar last last week they raced last weekend but we didn't get a notice until September 6
that they were even racing that weekend less than a week's notice so I don't know how you
build a TV audience when you don't even have a week to tell people that you've got a race coming
up. Well no and the and you mentioned the Wednesday night races and things that were pretty popular
with NASCAR earlier in the in the summer uh the thing was that was up against nothing because
baseball hadn't started yet now we've noticed since baseball now we've noticed since baseball
season has started and they got their TV going almost every night uh the only thing NASCAR has
kind of leaked into the midweek stuff now is a is a truck series uh you know we have still
have some of these truck series races showing up on Thursday and Friday and what have you
but they've really not ventured the cup races back into midweek to go up against baseball
because right now that the you know people are not watching sports like it was novelty for the
first couple of weeks watching some of these races with no fans and all that but now that's
kind of worn off and I don't know if that's going to really fly into 2021. I don't know it's kind
of like the iRacing you know we all went nuts over iRacing because at least there was some
something moving on the screen and now I imagine they're uh uh have dropped back to where they were
and pre-covid conditions uh for for electronic racing so everything is changing so fast and
thank goodness I don't have to predict it. But I will make you predict this uh Stephen so going
forward if the WC runs Le Mans in June like they always do these teams only have a few months of
preparation now I mean they don't have a full year to get ready do you think that's going to affect
I mean obviously there can be fewer teams but what what do you think this shortened
wait period for the next Le Mans is going to is going to do to the teams?
Well one thing it's really going to affect us is the the new car you know we were at Le Mans next
year or I'm sorry at WC's first race of the year we were supposed to see the brand new car that was
going to be able to be run both in IMSA and in WC FIA uh that's been put off right now and nobody
has really said it in so many words but there's no way that that car is going to be ready so they're
trying to get some kind of work done on that car so they can at least figure out how it's going to
work and work on the cars that they've got now like he mentioned that they're going to have to turn
around and either run at 24 hours of Daytona or at the WC which I don't know when the schedule
supposed to start it's supposed you know if the schedule isn't over until November it's if they
started it's going to be right up against IMSA schedule probably starting in January I doubt
they'll start in December around Christmas. Well the racing offseason is shrinking more than we
ever imagined. Yeah it is it's uh it's sad but your local uh your local track may still be open
we're doing okay down here in Florida where I can actually hit a dirt track race or uh an oval track
race as long as we all sit six feet apart and wear masks so supports your local racetrack because
they're the guys that are really going to be hurting from this. I believe that uh Steven any
final thoughts about the upcoming Le Mans race I mean obviously it's it's coming on our radar so
quickly that it's it might be hard to to look ahead but what do you think's gonna happen?
Well no matter what happens Les it's gonna be legendary it's gonna be one that we're gonna
be talking about for years in advance and we'll be able to tell our grandchildren or you guys will
I'll be dead by then that yeah I remember that uh that big race in France where uh 50,000 people
that showed up lining the the track against the John Darms all got uh coronavirus and all the
teams got coronavirus and uh that meant there was no uh 89th uh Le Mans so anything could happen
man anything could happen. Well I hope that doesn't happen. Well Steven before you before you sign off
Wesley uh one thing you mentioned there about all the the the fans the thing about Le Mans
the the fans line the streets not only for the parade you know a couple days before the race
but they line the streets for all the drivers coming out for practice and for qualifying
and for the race I mean there's tens and tens of thousands of people just in the streets
in the neighborhood around you know near the track I just think you can't keep them away
and it's there's gonna be a scene something that's gonna happen in that 24 hours or we're
gonna be seeing some breaks in the in the fence or something because this is their life in that
small community in France I mean that you can't you're not gonna be able to shut down the 24 hour
Le Mans and keep the fans out I don't believe. And alcohol is often involved and we don't want that
action. Oh not alcohol they don't have that in France. Well we'll never know we'll never know
but I hear wine is pretty popular over there I've never been personally. Yeah you gotta do it it's
a bucket list. Oh definitely definitely I am looking forward to the day that I can and maybe
next year we'll we'll see we'll see but I think that wraps up Le Mans you can watch that well if
you're listening this has when it drops tomorrow or you've already watched it and we know that
someone has won. It's gonna be playing on Motor Trend TV which is an online service and I think
it's gonna be streamed in its entirety. Mike do we know if it's gonna be on any other networks?
No that is it in the United States and Motor Trend TV is on a cable channel too it's not
just online so so check your local listings as they say Motor Trend TV has now got a lot of
racing stuff on there this is their this is their marquee event and I know they're a little bit
interested to see what their turnout is going to be because of the you know the timing of this thing
I mean it's it's September and no one's really expecting Le Mans on September but it should be
a lot of fun again and it is unlike the Rolex 24 where you have to jump around to different
networks or different channels within Fox and have to watch an hour or two online because nobody's
this is one of those races if you have Motor Trend TV on your cable you can watch all 25 hours
without you know getting up and changing the channel we still get up and I believe yeah I
believe if you don't have it you can buy the streaming service for two dollars yeah they have
they do exactly yep yeah and they've got an app too there's a Motor Trend app which I was just
notified about today that it's got a lot of really cool you know fan experiences for the role for
the you know 24 hour Le Mans so so maybe check that out again if you're hearing this podcast
in enough time to get you know hooked up with that app or whatever there's a lot of cool stuff on
there in car and a lot of features and stuff that if you're a real you know 24 hour Le Mans
fan like we are might be worth checking out and speaking of checking out don't forget to check
out quick spin it will be it's what it's the other out of week podcast and it is full of cars and
unfortunately you won't be able to hear the winner of Le Mans on this fair show because
we're taking a little bit of a hiatus a little bit of a break here on the auto week podcast
might return next year who knows but what I do know is I appreciate everyone that's been on this
journey for the past almost three years going on for it's pretty wild and thank you so much for
making this you know and thank you Stephen and thank you Mike for for joining me so often
it's been it's been an absolute pleasure thank you and again if you if you want to hear my voice
and the other goings on auto week check out quick spin it's a great show and I love it
About this episode
A preview of the 24 Hours of Le Mans highlights the unique challenges posed by the pandemic, including a lack of fans and limited American participation. The hosts discuss the refreshed 2021 Jaguar F-Pace, noting its subtle design changes and new hybrid powertrains, while also diving into the edgy redesign of the 2022 Hyundai Tucson. The episode features lively banter and insights from guests Stephen Cole Smith and Mike Price, making it a rich discussion for motorsport and automotive enthusiasts alike.
This week on the Autoweek Podcast, Wes Raynal talks with Wesley Wren about the 2022 Hyundai Tucson and the 2021 Jaguar F-Pace, discussing the Tucson’s wild styling and what that could mean for the rest of the Hyundai lineup. Wren lays out the big changes to the F-Pace.
After the jump, Steven Cole Smith and Mike Pryson preview one of the best endurance races in the world: this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, obviously taking place much later in the year than it would normally. While Smith and Pryson agree Toyota should take the overall win, the other classes are much more competitive.
Also, the guys talk about the Autoweek Podcast taking a break for the time being. Stay tuned for updates on the show’s revival at a later date, and stay in tune with the podcast team over at Quick Spin.
