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Lexus LS460
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Lexus LS
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Nissan President
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Lexus LX 570
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Lexus LS 500
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twin-turbo V6
A twin-turbo V6 engine has two small turbines that help the engine produce more power. This makes the car faster and more efficient than regular engines.
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V8 engine
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miles
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LS
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passenger seat memory
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massaging seats
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Lexus RX 450h
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Toyota BRZ
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V8 swap
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horsepower
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Subaru BRZ
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snow tires
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5.0L V8 hybrid system
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air suspension
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coilovers
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LS 600h
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Cadillac Ctsv
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Maserati Quattroportes
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Volkswagen Phaeton W12
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Audi S8
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Audi A8
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BMW M5
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Genesis
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autocross
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Porsche
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track day
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timing chains
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Chevrolet Impala
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Chevrolet Corvette
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Bentley Flying
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Mazda Miata
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LIVE
Dave, Ian.
I am lucky to be alive.
Really?
I'm lucky to be alive.
Greetings and salutations, Apex adjacent, blah, blah, blah.
I guess we're all lucky to be alive, too, I guess.
Or maybe, are we?
OK, go on.
Yeah.
OK.
I've had, I'm going to say, four near-death experiences in the last few days, and that is
directly related as a direct correlation with the number of lifts that I've taken in St. Louis.
Oh, shit gets real out there.
I don't know what it is, because I'm from, you know, four hours up the road.
I'm not that far away.
Right.
And I forgot.
It's been a long time since I've driven through St. Louis.
Everybody is insane.
So I think one thing that you may not know about, like, kind of this, like, like you
said, you're from like four-ish hours north of there, right?
Like you've, yeah.
And on top of that, you live south of there, right?
I've driven through St. Louis many, many a time.
It's been, but it's been a long time since I have.
Right.
I have a theorem that there is like the Ozark proximity insanity circle.
Kind of the closer you are to Lake of the Ozarks, the more insane things happen.
And it's not necessarily like it's just crazy things.
It's like crazy, but like with a, like just a real, like, Missouri, every state
has their own version of Rednecks.
Like a real Missouri kind of like Redneck trajectory or spin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Every lift I've been in since I've been here and everybody that I'm traveling
with has had reported the exact same experience because like we, we took, we
all took some lifts to like a, a, like a team dinner thing last night.
And we all got out of our respective cars.
We were like, was that insane?
But the, everybody is, all of the controls are binary.
Like you, it is full throttle.
From the moment you get in the car, are you belted in?
Maybe, maybe not full throttle.
Just accelerating towards red lights.
The merging is minimum two lanes.
There's no merge and then get over and then get over it.
You're crossing multiple.
Minimum and you go far right to far left and then far left to exit.
And that seems to be the only protocol that exists here.
Okay.
Okay.
It's been a while since I've, I've been in that area of the country, you
know, uh, so I, I assume it's kind of escalated, but escalated in a
very Missouri way because, I mean, like highway driving in general,
like driving in general traffic, I think that in the last two or three years,
we've seen stuff that we would never regularly see 15 years ago.
Yeah.
Right.
We just do.
Yeah.
And I think that like when these things kind of like, um, when they evolve,
when they mutate, right?
Yeah.
Evolve is not, no, it's not getting better.
It is absolutely mutating.
Devolve.
Devolving, right?
They're, they're doing it in their own kind of ways, right?
And I feel like in Colorado, we have like very like slithery snakes through
traffic, right?
But I, I don't know.
I think, I think in Colorado, if anything, fucking no one is in a hurry.
There's, there's like three people on the road in a hurry and everybody
else is nowhere to be.
It is, it's Italy-esque here.
How much everybody is vying for the same piece of asphalt.
Okay.
Okay.
Never seen anything like it in the States as much.
But wow.
That's wild.
Well, yeah.
So what kind of like precautionary measures would you take in a lift?
Like, do you try to like talk to the lift driver if you're
starting to get scared?
Like what?
Like, or are you just like, well, like this car probably has working
airbags, so I'm not going to like freak out unless like shit gets really real.
Yeah.
I try to, if it's real scary, I just disassociate a bit and I find it funny.
Right.
Like, I'm probably going to die in this car.
That's hilarious.
Okay.
Okay.
And we should say, notoriously bad passenger you are.
I am a better passenger in the rear seat than I am in the front seat.
Ah, okay.
All right.
Because I think I'm control adjacent in the front seat.
The button adjacent.
Yeah.
I was like, I could, I could hit two buttons and fix this.
You've never wanted to take it like this is somebody else's problem.
Like, you know, they're playing like what, why are you going to panic
about turbulence is nothing you can do.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
The decision was made when you stepped on the plane.
Right.
Yeah.
There's, there's nothing, nothing that could happen from here.
Like, you've never wanted to disengage sport mode so bad in your entire life.
Right.
Yeah.
And turn traction control back on.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, I will say when I did, when I did do this trip, which I've never done before,
is this is the first time I've ever taken an N-Prac for a work, work trip.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So I have to be, I had to be in St. Louis.
And what I did was I flew to Chicago to see a concert.
Which I assume was amazing.
It was really good.
Yeah, it was great.
Okay.
And then I took the train from Chicago to St. Louis.
And it was awesome.
Like, it was.
I bought the most expensive ticket I could.
It was $75 for business class.
No way.
Okay.
Yeah.
It took four and a half hours.
The train was five minutes late getting there.
And it was great.
I loved it.
That's awesome.
It was awesome.
Yeah.
I, it was fantastic.
Like, there's no way I would want to drive, like driving from Chicago to
St. Louis is way, is really boring.
Right.
Right.
But the train was lovely.
Like I just, I read, I did work.
There's Wi-Fi.
Okay.
Yeah.
Got coffee.
It was great.
Yeah.
Was it, yeah.
Talk me through the accoutrement, like what you'd get that you like,
compare it to like an airplane.
I mean, you know, yeah.
Yeah.
The best thing about it is that you can just like roll up like 15 minutes
before the train leaves.
And they still haven't boarded.
They take like 10 minutes to board the thing.
Oh, this is Ian's style right here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I arrived way too early, which is hilarious for you.
Yeah.
I know you could roll up super late because they don't even tell you in
Chicago, they don't even tell you what track you're boarding at because they
don't want people milling around by the trains until like literally like
15 minutes before departure.
Oh, wow.
And then you like, you line up and you go out to the train and you just
like sit down wherever and that's it.
Whoa.
Okay.
Yeah.
It was awesome.
That's so great, man.
Okay.
Yeah.
It was, it was fantastic.
I loved it.
Like decent highly recommend.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like decent coffee, like good like work table space.
Like the food was not good.
Okay.
I did have a breakfast sandwich that did not agree with me.
That was a real mistake.
Oh no, a train breakfast Sammy.
Yeah.
And I had more than enough time to get breakfast before I got to the
station.
I should have just done that and I got the coffee, which is just like
on par with like hotel coffee.
Like it was sure serviceable.
Right.
It was the best I could say about it.
It was a caffeine conduit.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
How bad does coffee have to be before you punt to like a soda?
Pretty bad for you, right?
Oh, really bad.
Yeah.
Really, really bad.
And then I would go, I'll go, you know, Red Bull or something.
But okay, man.
Yeah.
What about you?
Will you, is there, will you just not drink coffee?
Oh no, I am absolutely chemically dependent.
Yeah.
Better living through chemistry my friend.
I will drink the sluggiest sludge that's ever sludged
before, but like, I mean, when I was riding bikes all the time,
I would slam like a coke and a Snickers like halfway through
like a long ride.
But you know, yeah, you wouldn't want to do that with coffee.
But yeah, I don't know.
I almost never go caffeinated soda ever.
And it's like, that's when like the only caffeinated soda
that I ever like have is like a barks root beer, you know,
the one with bite, you know, and that's because it's like
the only root beer that's available.
And I'm like, oh, I guess it's one PM.
I guess I can have half of an eight ounce of barks.
Yeah, I think, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't drink a lot of soda.
So, um, but yeah, I, I have only a few times in my life.
Have I ever had a cup of coffee that like I couldn't fit?
Like I knew so bad I couldn't finish it.
And like one time I did get like a cup of gas station coffee.
This was in Oklahoma.
And I just remember I took one sip and I had walked out and I was
just like, nope.
And I dumped it on the sidewalk and walked right back in a
bottle of Red Bull.
And I was like, I can't, I can't today.
I cannot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would load it up with cream and sugar before I made the energy
drink choice.
Yeah.
It was, I, yeah.
Cause that's normally my go-to is I'll go, I'll put a
bunch of cream and sugar in it.
Like if I need to choke it down, but it was just something
about it was just like, I was, it just angered me that it was
so bad.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
So not only like, I'll show you by spending more money.
Yeah.
Not only were you dealing with like bad coffee, you were
dealing with emotions around bad coffee.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They did the coffee at you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The bad, the coffee was bad to me.
Yes.
Yeah.
So when you were on the train, I'm really curious about
this because I've never taken like a train beyond like,
oh, like an intercity train.
I have done New Jersey to, into New York city before, like,
okay.
So I've gone across like the, like that kind of like, you
know, bridge and tunnel stuff.
Um, just done that once.
And then like, you know, like, so I've never really
like taken like a train where like, I'm actually
traveling, you know.
Right.
Uh, did you have any of those moments where like you
were just flying past standstill traffic and just
like playing Balochero on your phone, just like suckers?
Um, there, yeah.
In the very beginning as you're going through
downtown Chicago, there's a little bit of that.
Uh, but then you're pretty quickly in like cornfields
and stuff.
Okay.
Yeah.
So.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think like one thing that I would be
hesitant of is like, if I felt like I wanted to like
leave outside of like a schedule, right?
Like I wanted to be able to leave when I wanted to
like that kind of stuff, you know, like, you know, but
I don't really see any of the reason why, like my
wife and I wouldn't take a train somewhere, you know.
Yeah.
And, and luckily, so there was like a little light rail
thing that goes from the Amtrak station to I'm
staying down by the convention center in St. Louis.
So, um, so I was able to do that.
And then everything else, I've just been able
to take my life into my own hands in a lift, um, or
walk to, I've been walking around a lot.
So yeah, good.
Okay.
Yeah.
I like that at some point it could get so bad
lift wise that you actually like look at the
hotel mini bar as a viable nourishment source.
Like, yeah, these peanuts are seventy three
dollars, but it's, is it worth my life?
Yeah.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I, yeah.
And I, I considered after the first lift
incident, I was like, maybe I should just rent
a car and then, but then you would be on the
street with those people.
True.
True.
But then again, I can hit the buttons, you know, so
that's, that's in my head.
That's better.
True.
True.
Even if it's probably not.
Yeah.
True.
They would have to fill out the insurance forms.
You wouldn't.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
If you're the passenger, if you're the
passenger, yeah.
Okay.
Well, yeah, man, uh, good luck.
This is, I look, I, I want to hear like, who, like, who
else is listening that like feels like they may
have like a crazy like ride share kind of ecosystem
in their area.
Like that's, yeah, because I want to know like
what these spins are, you know.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, it was bonkers.
The first, the first one I was in, I was
like, oh my God, I got a live one.
And then it was the second one I was like,
what, two in a row.
And then the third one, I was like, wait a second.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of getting chauffeured, I think
that I wanted to talk to you about something
that isn't in the talk about, Ian, we didn't, we
didn't discuss this beforehand.
So we're coming in cold on this one.
Okay.
So I, so I bought a Lexus LS460 without
telling you, right?
Like I had purchased it.
I, it was in my driveway.
I had it for a touch of time.
This was during, you know, pretty heavy COVID
lockdown times, right?
And I revealed it to you on the podcast.
Like you were no part of the decision or
anything like that beforehand.
Right.
Mm hmm.
I, Ian, I want to do the opposite of that.
I want you to sell me an LS.
No, I, I am getting the hankering for a
different LS, a different Lexus LS.
So I am thinking about buying a 2013 to 2017 LS.
And I want to run you through like a few of
the options that I've come across and like
what you think about, like what options
I should be looking for.
I'll tell you what I'm looking for and
kind of, I want to bring you in because
I think it, it's getting to the point
now where like I can tell I'm making
enough online searches that this is
probably going to happen.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
Now I do want to point out that in the
past, I think you stopped asking me for
my opinion on car purchases because I
have bad idea.
We'll see.
Here's the thing.
I'm, I'm already telling you that it's
going to be a Lexus LS.
Right.
Very specific.
This generation, because I already in my
head, I'm like, you know what you
should do.
Okay.
All right.
Let's, let's, let's go down that rabbit hole.
Okay.
So like, let's say I'm, I'm going to spend
about 30 ish thousand dollars on a car.
Ian.
Okay.
Third, I mean, 30 grid.
You can get an old Bentley for that.
Ian.
This is, so the goal of this car is
reliable daily driver.
Who will this car you can get?
Reliable.
I understand.
We're saying the same thing.
Is there like a Google Meats translation
feature that I can enable like sanity?
I'm not sure, baby.
Sanity.
Do you have a filter on?
Okay.
All right.
Reliant.
So you, you know how I'm going to counter.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
But honestly, if you have another idea,
let me know.
I mean, could you do, have you looked
on, uh, like the Japanese import ones?
Like, are there, are there any, like,
cool JDM luxury cars that share enough
parts that you could like, reasonably
keep it going, um, but also, you know,
be, get a little style in there as well.
Like a Nissan president or something
like that.
Okay.
I can, I can tell you.
Crown.
I promise I will kind of, I will go
down that rabbit hole and investigate.
Yes.
Because, because the previous decision
making up until now has been, do I want
an LX570, the SUV, or do I want an LS460?
Like some of the LS500s are starting
to get into what I could afford.
But those are the twin turbo V6s.
And I, like, given that Lexus has killed
the V8 already, I kind of want a key.
I kind of want a V8 Lexus car.
You know?
Okay.
Right?
Yeah.
Cause that, that engine is so delightful.
It's so smooth and so nice.
Right?
It is.
Why do you want to get rid of the one you have?
You know, I think it's just, it's
starting to get a touch over heady in the summertime.
Like it's, it's getting to the point where
like, do I want to spend like $5,000
on a bunch of work on it?
Or do I just want to buy like a lot?
Like, cause I would be, it has a, my current one
has 173,000 miles, which is not bad.
Right?
Um, or do I want to buy like an 80 or $60,000 or
60,000 mile LS?
And then like, I mean, that might be the
last car I've ever owned.
You know, right?
Yeah.
And so like, so I want something with
passenger seat memory because my current
car doesn't have it.
And I like my wife to have her captain's
position saved, right?
Um, and then I would love, I would
really love massaging seats.
Okay.
Because when did that get introduced in the LS?
Uh, I think the lumbar massage came out in
2015.
And then I think the years after that, like
they kept improving it.
Okay.
And then I wanted to see, because I've
kind of been looking at Lexus LS 460Ls, the
long wheelbase, which is six inches longer.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
For the ones that have the executive
seating package.
Yeah.
Where it's just the two buckets in the back.
Does that impact the amount of shit that
you can pile into it?
Well, yeah, because I think that I have, now
that like, now that like, reliably, I have
access to an SUV, right?
My wife's 460 or yeah, yeah, RX, 450 age.
I think that that, I'm not so concerned
about like being able to like throw like
all the stuff to go to the track in it.
Like, you know, so much stuff for lemons.
I feel like we could, there's better
ways to manage that stuff than what
I've done historically.
Yeah.
So, so it'd be like LS with like, you know,
the executive seating, if I could get it,
just because I think that'd be freaking cool.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, long, that's only in the
long wheelbase.
Um, and that, or like, you know, like,
do I, do I want all wheel drive?
Do I want to commit to driving at all
seasons? If I need to, you know, like,
do I want to stick with just rear wheel drive?
Yeah.
Would you, are you considering with the
LX the ability to tow?
I am.
Does that?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Mm hmm.
Because Ian.
Yeah.
I've watched more videos about that Toyota
BRZ Lexus V8 swap.
Oh, yeah.
Dude.
That might be your next track car, dude.
Like, it looks amazing.
I might just want to build one just to build one.
Like, dude, it looks incredible.
So I don't know, right?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Almost 400 horsepower on a, in a BRZ with a
let with a Toyota V8.
That's not super fun.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Right.
And so I don't want to spring a purchasing
decision on you, you know?
Yeah, you're my boy, you know?
Okay.
Well, here's the other question.
Do you have space in your garage for an LX?
Like, would it be, it wouldn't be too tall?
I don't think it would.
Yeah.
I would, and one of the things about the LX is I
don't want a lifted one.
I don't want like a, you know, a different ride height.
I want, I don't want the giant chunky tires.
You know, I, yeah.
I, I, you know, not that there's anything wrong with
that.
I just, you know, I just want the one that's easier
to get in and out on a daily basis, more comfortable
to ride in.
Yeah.
So downside of those LX is it's like 12 miles
to the gallon in the city, whereas that, because
it has like a five, I think still just a five
speed transmission with, you know, like all the
lockers and all that stuff, you know, stuff
that I'm never going to use, right?
You know, and I have access to an SUV.
You know, true, right?
But I don't have the ability to tow anything.
So, right.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, I think, I think the question
is how often would you tow something?
Right.
Is it worth, is it worth the upgrade?
I mean, it would be nice probably to have a
car with four wheel drive.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, but I don't know, you kind of arrange
your life to not have to drive in the snow
that often, right?
Like, correct.
Yeah.
The last time I did, when it was like, when
the, it was like, oh, shit, the weather's bad
and we have to go, was when I cut my fingers,
or no, what was it?
I had like, my wife had a sinus infection
and, or no, no, like, yeah, she cut her
fingers like with the mandolin and I had
like a horrible like earache or something.
And we both had to go to urgent care.
Like the most, right.
During a snow storm.
Yeah.
Yes.
The most entertaining couple in the universe.
We know how to party.
Right.
And so I drove the fiat with snow tires
and it crushed it.
You know, it was perfect.
Yeah.
Okay.
So yeah, I need to buy new snow tires
because the previous ones were dry
rotting, so I had to get rid of those.
And they're really hard to find for the fiat.
So, you know, yeah, I don't know.
I'm in this weird kind of like flux
where they're like, there's stuff I need
to do and want to do, but I don't know.
Yeah, I will.
I will genuinely look into kind of like
the JDM ownership stuff of kind of like
the higher incidents.
Kind of, yeah, I mean, it could be cool.
It could, right?
Yeah.
Cause I mean, ultimately, like if it's
basically the same as Alexis LS when it
comes to drivetrains, stuff like that,
you know, yeah, I mean, my LS was
made proper in Japan and so are the
2013's to 2017's that's like the only
car that Lexus made that they're like,
no, we have to keep assembling this in
Japan.
That's pretty cool.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, I thought they had moved
some of that to the States for all
the other models that LS they're
like, nope, it's staying in Japan.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's cool.
Yeah.
So yeah, beyond like, okay, then
other options, if we're talking
460L, then then the option for LS
600H comes into play.
Okay.
So this is when did that get
introduced?
Was that that's been available for a
long time.
So that was available in the
generation that I have, which I
have a 2008.
I can't remember the bookends of my
generation, but I know it stops in
2012.
It was available for the generation I
have and the 2013 to 2017's as
well, 5.0L V8 hybrid system,
all-wheel drive and air suspension.
Oh, how do the batteries hold up
and how does the air suspension
hold up?
Because air suspension is like
scary, scary, right?
I do not know and really, really
bad.
Okay.
So you would just, you would
if you did that, you would swap
the static.
I would probably coil over it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would.
But then again, like, do I want to
spend like three or four grand on
suspension when I just get the
car, you know, myself, right?
But then again, how much is the
LS 600H discounted because it has
clapped out air suspension?
Yeah, totally.
Like, yeah, if you can get one for
super cheap because the air
suspension is collapsed and you
just know like you're going to
do that swap anyway.
Right.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Interesting.
Right.
Okay.
I didn't realize you were thinking
about that.
Yeah.
Well, I wanted to bring you in at
the ground floor because I, I
mean, yeah, last time I surprised
you with an LS.
Yeah, you didn't know I was
actually buying another car.
Like, you knew that the
infinity was overheating and
stuff like that, but you didn't
know, like, that I actually
had moved forward with a
purchase.
So yeah, I think, I
don't know, my wife and I
were.
So here's what I want the
listeners to do.
Okay.
I want them to contact me on
Blue Sky and give me more
terrible ideas to pollute your
mind with while you try to
make this very important
decision.
I did think about a Cadillac
CTSV earlier.
See, see, now we're talking.
Yeah, but then it's like, am
I, am I going to do a track
day with my daily driver?
No, I'm not Ian.
No, I'm not.
I mean, you could.
Right.
I could, but I'm not going
to and I won't.
Yeah.
Right.
And then I was thinking about
being in the same situation as
your dad, where his daily
driver is faster than his
track car, right?
Like, yeah, you know, like,
yeah, if my daily driver is
the thing that like destroys my
feet out in a straight line,
then what am I doing?
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I just want to
point out, I just want to
pat myself on the back
because I have not once
mentioned the words W12
Fayton Ian.
I can guarantee you that if
you go look on Carvana
and on CarMax and you sort
by engine cylinders, 12
a Fayton does not show up.
Really?
Oh, you did look.
Yeah, I looked.
We all get a little crazy
sometimes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK.
And I have done zero searches
for Maserati Quattroportes.
Yeah, that's that's probably
smart, probably smart.
But then again, I typically do
the opposite of what you say.
So shit.
See.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What I need to do is teach
you how to gas like me into
an insane purchase.
No, see, but I don't think
I don't think I don't think
Maserati Quattroportes fits you.
I don't think that you would
be happy with that.
OK, it's not your vibe.
OK.
Not your vibe.
It's a little too shouty.
Yes.
A little too like
look at me, right?
Right.
Like the 500 is a little
shouty, but it's hey, guys.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like a rare, you know.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So I mean Fayton, though.
That is you.
Yeah, it is.
Right.
That's the thing.
Is that like that?
If you wanted to still my
automotive taste into a vehicle,
it really is W12 Fayton.
It is.
Yeah.
Overengineered, understated.
Right.
Fast, big.
Yeah.
It just doesn't have the reliability.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
You're just too damn sensible.
Yeah.
Or like a big body Audi
A8 S8.
I think like I think that rules
itself out because I'd be the
third owner of it, you know.
Right.
Yeah.
M5 probably the same thing.
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Right.
Yeah.
So yeah, I don't know.
I wonder how I wonder truly
how an all wheel drive LS would
do in the snow with snow tires.
You know, I'm sure it'd be great.
Yeah.
Right.
It's a big heavy.
I'm sure it'd be awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Are any of the Genesis, do you
like any of the Genesis cars?
You know what?
That's a great point.
I really do like the Genesis cars.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'll have to think about that.
But I think that don't if I
remember right, I don't think
their resale is great.
No, it's not.
Dude, LS, LS resale is so
crazy good.
I mean, I'm looking at 10 year
old cars that are $30,000.
Right.
You know, yeah.
But then again, right.
It's a lot.
It's hard.
Yeah, it's a trade off, right?
Right.
You're probably not going to have
a ton of maintenance costs,
but you're going to pay for it
on the front end.
So right, right.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And I have never I've never
had a car like that I've worked
on that I walked away from so
happy than when I did a break
job on the LS a little while ago,
where I was like, that was a
freaking pleasure.
Like, right.
They thought about it before
they did it together.
Everything made perfect sense.
And it just like, yeah, all of
the fasteners were way bigger
than they needed to be, you
know, nothing.
Yeah, nothing.
You didn't worry about anything
being fragile.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's pretty awesome.
Right.
Yeah, it's a cool car, man.
It's a cool car.
And I love that V8.
It's just so nice.
Yeah, but I don't know.
So, you know, keep me posted
on thoughts. I will do.
I'm going to noodle on that.
Yeah, I figured you'd like that.
Yeah, I'll come.
I'll next next week.
I'll bring up a list of terrible
idea.
But also, I am willing to my
wife and I have been talking
about like, there's a few kind
of places we want to hit.
Like, I really want to hit
a couple of barbecue places in
Texas.
Like, that's a bucket list thing
for for me, you know, so like
flying into Dallas or Houston
or something like that and
road tripping back home, those
kinds of things are completely
on the table.
This does not have to just be
color of a local.
Yeah, OK, so yeah,
nationwide searches in auto
tempest and cars dot com
and all that fun stuff.
The greatest way to make a day
just appear right.
So my wife and I, like,
I even called a dealership in
Houston about an LS that they
had, but I got kind of sketched
out from the like the sales guy.
So like, I put that one away.
But like, we were at the point
where like I was getting ready
to call a credit union booking
flights, like lining up schedules
with the barbecue places that
we're going to be open because
one of them is only open
Saturday, starting at eight
a.m. until they sell out.
That's it.
Oh, shit. Right.
Yeah, stuff like that.
You gotta get get some burnt
ends at eight thirty in the
morning.
Dude, honestly, you have to get
in line at like four a.m.
It's that snows that chef's table
was they did a chef's table
barbecue about.
Yeah. Oh, OK.
Yeah.
You know, so yeah.
Well, we came close.
We came close, but then like
just weird vibe.
Yeah. From the sales guy,
which there's sales guys
and there's a bar of weird
vibes I'm willing to accept.
But then there's like, oh, no,
like I'm hanging up the phone
now.
Yeah. I totally understand.
Yes, absolutely.
I have had those before as well.
Yeah. So anyway,
there you go, ma'am. OK, well,
that's fun. Yeah.
Yeah. Right.
Yeah.
What else do you want to talk about?
You know, I like an autocross reports.
Yeah, they sent out the pictures
of autocross from the Porsche event.
And here I can just kind of throw
this in the in the
share. Are there pictures of the
of the of the carnage?
That's all I want to know.
No, they are not.
They are not. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, look at him.
So he's so cute.
Here's my little B B boy.
Right.
Yeah. The best.
Yeah. Almost tripoding.
As we go almost tripoding.
Right. Oh, look at me.
Right. Race face.
I got my game face on.
Yeah.
But great.
Thanks, man.
I think I think my goals
for next season are I want a better
understanding of how my sway bars
are working together and kind of the
overall vehicle balance
because I feel like I'm still getting
some excessive lean on the outer wheel
when I you know, I want to
I want to try to keep the the front
as flat as I can, you know,
because right now this inner tire
is not doing much work on the,
you know, in this like in this turn,
you know, I think the trade off,
though, is that if I understand
sway bars, right?
And I almost certainly don't.
Yeah. Yeah.
But I think that the trade off
is if you stiffen the front sway
bar, that will mean
that you will lose traction
in the front sooner.
Right. And it will become less
pointy, which is what you want.
The right. So like you would dial in
you would get more grip,
but you would probably also get more understeer.
Right. And I watched a YouTube video
about like just a very brief thing
talking about that, like, if you want
to make changes in the front,
you kind of you need to take both
into consideration, the front and the rear,
like that it is the front wheel drive car.
Right. Right.
And with 65 percent of the weight up front,
right? Like, what do I do?
Like, or do I put in some kind of
like a bigger bump stop to keep,
you know, to keep that from pivoting over?
Like I think some suspension stuff
is some suspension stuff and driver mods,
I think are kind of what I what I would
like to focus on for next season, you know?
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I don't I don't know.
I don't think body roll is not terrible.
Like, right. It's not bad.
And I think it's man, I mean,
the last time I drove this car anyway,
it felt like it was totally manageable.
Yeah. I don't know if it's the fastest way to set it up.
It's fun. Right. Right.
It is fun. It is fun.
And going to the more slightly more narrow tire
and kind of like triangulating that sidewall,
I think has given me more protection
from roll over, like rolling the bead.
So. Oh, OK. Yeah.
So I think that that was a good change.
Yeah. So I think I'm going to stick
with the 16 inch wheels and the tires that I have,
which is good because I have two completely untouched tires
in my basement and two tires that have
like just three, three sessions on them, essentially.
So for next season.
So I'm good on tires. Right. You know?
Yeah. And I have a boost leak thing
that I need to figure out.
I still got to get that dialed.
But yeah. So that's kind of kind of what I'm thinking,
like see what I can do to maybe just kind of get that balance,
like a little bit more shaken out, you know?
Just got it. I have a adjustable
strip on the side of the turbo. Got it.
Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense.
It's a good idea.
There's a boost leak.
We you can only find it with more boost, right?
It stands to reason.
You triple the boost.
Right. Uh huh.
And send it and then it doesn't matter
if there's a boost leak because you're losing.
Less is a percentage.
Then my car is on fire. Cool.
Yeah. Don't think about it that much.
Just go fast. Go for me, brooms.
Yeah. OK, you got it, man.
And nitrous.
We're going to do a nitrous as well.
Left injection.
Thousand horsepower is what I'm hearing.
Yes. Yes. Let's do it.
Uh huh.
You know. Yeah.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
That's kind of what I'm thinking.
And my goal for autocross,
my main goal for autocross next season
is do as many events as I possibly can.
I'm going to try to do all the BMW ones
and all the Porsche ones.
I found out that at the Porsche ones,
you cannot have passengers.
Can't pass.
And only instructors can ride long.
So like if you came with me,
we wouldn't be able to ride together.
And that's one of the most delightful things
about autocrossing with my friends
is riding with them.
Hello. Yeah. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's a weird rule.
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
So I don't know if they think like.
I don't know.
Somebody's going to get egged on or what.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah. So maybe they're trying to get people
to keep people from having an advantage
of seeing, seeing too many laps of the track.
I think that that's it.
Yeah. Which, OK, sure.
But it's the Porsche club.
Right. Yeah. Right.
So I don't know what is
like what is getting sponsorship off of that.
Right. Yeah.
So since like kind of like stuff with our limits team
is is very much in flux, like what do you
what do you want to do next season
when it comes to car stuff?
Like, what do you think of, buddy?
I don't know.
I mean, I definitely want to get my car back on track
and get get it to I need to fix the brakes
because I was getting big vibration in the brakes.
OK, I think I just didn't bed them properly
when I the last time I changed pads.
So I want to change those out and get those dialed
so that way I can do full full sessions
and OK and really reliably kind of have
like an all day track track day again.
Yes, because I had the car there for a while.
And now it's like and it's and it's not there now
because I lose confidence in the brakes after a few laps,
which is no no fun.
No, yeah. Yeah.
And I I'm a thousand percent here for doing that wrenching
for I would love to do that mechanic work, you know, with you
and I'm for you on you.
But but I'm also I'm also right at 150,000 miles
and I haven't done timing chains ever.
OK. And I'm on the original clutch.
Like there's a few things that like need to probably happen this year.
OK. So those are those bigger things.
I'm I want to do this winter. Oh, OK.
If possible. OK.
And I will take I'm going to take it someplace to do chain guides.
Sure. Because so the chains themselves are fine.
They they can stretch, but it usually doesn't happen for a long, long time.
But the plastic guides will wear.
Yeah. And those are all original right now.
Oh, OK. So I mean, yeah, the car has been honestly
like the engine has been completely reliable.
Like I change oil in it and that is it. Right.
Yeah. I don't do anything. Right.
So I need to do all that.
And brakes may be a suspension refresh, but that's getting expensive.
So we'll we'll see we'll see what I can get done.
What brand of dampers do you have on there today?
I have ponies.
Oh, OK. OK.
So like you can send them out for a rebuild like that whole thing.
Yeah. If you wanted to.
Or you could spring for like the Owlans or something.
Like you said, like you said, upgrade to Bilstein's.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think Owlans are the way to filter.
Oh, yeah. The Owlans are supposed to be really good for that car.
Yeah. Yeah. You're right.
Yeah. My filter, the filter I have. Yes.
Yeah. The bad decision filter.
Right. It's really, really working well tonight.
Oh, OK. OK. Yeah.
Well, cool. And then I don't know.
I want to figure out how to do lemons next year, too.
But yes. Yes.
I want you to add minimum.
You can see a rive and drive and just, you know,
I ride shotgun with you for a day, you know, for like just
wrenching, being there because one of my favorite things
is seeing my friends on the track racing.
So I love that so much.
So yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Hopefully we can make something happen.
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
The Limits folks have a new matchmaking system now.
It was previously their OK Stupid System.
Now I think that they have an actual app
that allows for like a lot more communication and a dedicated thing.
Yeah. Yeah.
For matchmaking. I haven't seen that.
I'll have to check that out.
Ian, I read the lemons emails.
Ian. Yeah.
Yeah. Let me look.
Yeah. 24 hours of lemons of lemons.
Matchmaking.
Team up.
Ba ba ba solo driver matchmaker.
Page one.
Oh, that's a forum post.
Yeah. OK.
Stupid Facebook.
Yeah. I can't remember, but they did send an email out
about a new kind of driver platform thing.
Interesting. Yeah.
OK. Yeah. I'll have to check that out.
Yeah. For sure. Very cool.
If I find it in my inbox, I'll send it over.
Yeah. Nice. Sweet.
OK. Yeah.
What else do we think?
Should we do an album of the week?
Yes. And I did want to tell you
that I haven't had a chance to listen to the Tame Impala
album yet, but I definitely, yeah, I definitely want to.
That's still on my list.
Yeah. OK.
So this week, we're going to go classic, classic Indy Rock.
OK. Later Brit Pop record.
We're going to go with spiritualized
ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space.
Yeah, there you go.
It's been kind of gray and cool and rainy
in St. Louis.
And I've been walking around a bunch with my headphones on
and this has been a perfect soundtrack for that.
Yeah, I get that because there's like cold weather albums
where like there's a bite to them and there's a cold weather.
There's like cold weather albums that like.
They're not necessarily like warm, but they're just like,
I don't know, they're just more immersive, I guess, or not as like biting.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is the good like the first time you walk outside
and you have to put a jacket on.
Yeah. And bundle up.
Right. Put your hood up with your headphones on.
This is great for that.
Nice, man. OK.
I love this record. I love this record.
So are you are you a spiritualized fan or or you're because you like pulp, right?
That's your I do like pulp, but I also love spiritualized.
Yeah, I like, yeah, I love that whole, you know, yeah.
I my best friend growing up was a huge suede fan.
And so he was my in road to pulp and blur and like all like, you know,
and like, you know, years before that like Queens Rite and U2 and stuff like that.
He was like that musical like that.
Oh, you know, I don't have an older brother,
but that kind of like older brother envelopes on me. Sure.
And then, you know, when he came out and was a gay club kid,
he was like my in road for tons of like
electronic music and dance music, you know? OK.
And so. All right.
Yeah. And then that evolved really into like a complete obsession
with Britpop and suede.
I love you, Jason.
Thank you for introducing me to all of this stuff.
You know, but yeah, absolutely spiritualized.
Yeah, that's I love it.
It's fantastic.
I think that like there's there's times where when I was younger,
I don't think I appreciated it in the way that I can now
because I was like, you know, like fucking Apex Twin,
it's just going to make my face melt in three minutes, right?
Instead of like just sitting in something.
Right. Right. Yeah.
You know, even though selected ambient works very different.
This is a very different vibe than Apex Twin. Right. Right.
Yeah. They do different things. Yes.
It's like, why would you buy a minivan when you could have a Corvette?
And it's like, well, they could they do different things.
Right. Right.
Why would you buy a W12 Bentley flying spur with twin turbos?
Yes. When you could have a Miata.
I mean, like, well, those are two different cars, because that's why.
They're two different genres. Right. Yeah.
Yeah. So no, I do like this album
and I I would really like to revisit revisit it
because I haven't listened to it for a while.
Yeah. It's been a minute.
I I think that this holds up better than most Brit pop.
I think spiritualized in particular, like it doesn't sound of its time.
Like it sounds like it could be from any time.
Yeah. In a way that like, I mean, you listen to Oasis
and you're like, this is from the 90s. Right. Right.
Yeah. And I think I think a lot of blur is that way, less so.
But like, definitely pulp is that way.
A thousand percent that way. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
And that whereas I think spiritualized definitely sounds like
it's still nothing sounds quite like it. So.
Right. It sounded futuristic then and it sounds futuristic now.
Right. Totally. Yeah.
Yeah. You're spot on.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I did that, man.
Yeah. OK.
Take a listen. Take a listen to ladies and gentlemen.
We were floating in space.
One of the best one of the best records of the 90s.
Yeah. And if there was a record for quantity of substances
in imbibed during album production,
like spiritualized probably takes the cake.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's that's probably true.
Yeah.
Crazy.
I need to find out if my dad has ever listened to this record,
because I think he would actually really like it.
OK. Yeah.
And I don't know that he's ever I don't know that he's ever heard it
because it's it's really good.
And I think it's up his.
It's if you like Prague rock sort of stuff.
Yeah. This is sort of the 90s equivalent
to that where it's very ambitious and grand sounding.
Yes. Yeah.
An orchestral and all that.
So it's really cool.
Yeah. I see like this as a direct jumping off point
for like battles and rat-tat-tat.
Like if you're like looking at like the rock genre kind of offshoots of this.
Yeah. Absolutely. That kind of stuff.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is where it's at. Nice.
Spiritualized. Thank you.
OK. I thought you'd like that.
Yeah. Nice, dude. OK.
Awesome, ma'am. OK.
Dave, I think we done did a car slash transportation show today.
Yeah. It's about trains.
Yeah. Transit adjacent.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
I love it. OK.
Apex adjacent at Gmail 7205151391.
Anything else?
No. Show us your cars.
Yes. Send us send us pictures of your cars.
Apex adjacent in Gmail dot com.
Like Ian said, you're in show.
Show us your cars.
So yeah, you send us your car.
Tell us stuff about it if you want or don't.
Just send us a random picture of your car.
Maybe as blurry as possible.
We'll talk about it, but we condense all that into a year in show.
Yeah. And so send us your cars.
Apex adjacent at Gmail dot com.
Yes. Absolutely.
Everybody, thank you.
We love you. Goodbye.
About this episode
Dave shares his harrowing experiences with rideshare services in St. Louis, describing the chaotic driving culture that left him feeling lucky to be alive. The conversation shifts to train travel, with Ian recounting his enjoyable Amtrak journey from Chicago to St. Louis. They also dive into car discussions, particularly Dave's interest in purchasing a Lexus LS, exploring various models and features. The episode blends humor with automotive insights, making for an engaging listen.
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