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With me in studio is Jill Siminittle, contributing editor at ConsumerGuide.com, North American
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Car of the Year juror, and Freelancer.
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I didn't have a pronoun ready.
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You mean an adjective?
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Yeah, that's what I meant.
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I like to parse sentences in my spare time.
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So here's the deal.
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My daughter has purchased a car.
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I feel like I need to do a little drum roll.
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I'm going to talk about it a little bit right now just very quickly.
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But she purchased a 2024 certified pre-owned Mazda CX-30 Carbon Edition Turbo.
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I thought that Mazda was off the table.
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It was for a couple of reasons, not Mazda, just the CX-30, which would have been the
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only Mazda she would have considered, because the back seat's a little small.
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But it looks like the back seat's going to work for her and her pooch.
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You know, and you can always put the rear seats down and ...
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Also, after test driving five different vehicles, she chose the fastest vehicle.
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Well, it's also, and I don't know what other vehicles she test drove, but I have to say
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the Mazda CX-30 is a really nice driving vehicle.
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Our friend Damon Bell, one-time co-host of the Car Stuff podcast, recently reviewed
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the CX-30 and called it a legitimate alternative to the BMW X1 and Mercedes GLA.
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So, and it is that nice inside.
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And it is that fast, and it's nicely screwed together, and it's fun to drive.
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So there you have it.
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She doesn't love the color, and the Carbon Edition only comes in one color.
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So, we're dealing with it.
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It's like mica sand, something, something.
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It's a good-looking color.
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It just doesn't quite stand out in traffic.
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Is it like a bronzy color?
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I guess I'm not ...
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No, more of almost like a metallic version of a Toyota sand color.
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That's not horrible.
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Well, yeah, which is the majority of the cars out there.
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So, this is Monday when we record this.
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She's actually picking up the car tomorrow.
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But we test drove five cars.
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It is amazing how long it takes to test drive five cars.
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And here's a weird fun fact for you.
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The Hyundai Kona no longer exists.
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They have sold out of 2025s.
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They're gone, and 2026s aren't in yet.
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So, if you're looking for a Kona, either wait a little while
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or go drive a Kia Seltos.
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For certain models, there are a strange number of one-year-old
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certified pre-owned vehicles out there,
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and I'm not entirely sure why.
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Although, we may have talked about this last time.
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The Alfa Romeo Terale.
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Which was only that horrible plug-in hybrid for a while.
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Those are free used.
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You can buy a 2024 Alfa Romeo in good condition with low miles
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for less than 30 grand.
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So, not exactly free, but certainly not to...
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No, but it's a shockingly good deal,
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and you have to be prepared to ensure an Alfa Romeo.
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But the maintenance is going to be really stilentous,
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It's an interesting way to go.
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But we're done with this.
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And now we have to sell...
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Hey, I can just try and sell it right now.
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With 2024 Nissan Juke, it looks like a kid took it to college.
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It was, and it was very, very, very well maintained.
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That was a thing, because I didn't want her to ever be stuck.
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Anyway, that's that story.
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But if someone actually wants that Juke, let me know.
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So, congratulations.
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That's really cool.
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As a dad who writes about cars,
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what was the pinnacle of my whole life career right there?
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Buying my daughter a car.
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Achievement unlocked.
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I have questions for you.
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Ask somebody who reviews cars and occasionally buys cars.
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How was the process for you?
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Did you go in and how was the negotiation?
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Do people know what you did when you went in?
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No, I never told anyone.
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And they never asked me why I knew all this stuff about cars.
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And that wasn't like showing off or anything.
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But there wasn't a lot they could add to the discussion.
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It's like I've done my research.
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But no, yeah, right.
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But no one ever asked.
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Oh, the interesting thing is negotiating is kind of becoming a thing of the past.
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One of the interesting things is that going by like car facts and car facts you can
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know, they list cars.
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They list cars how long they've been on the ground and where their price is relative
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to the average transaction price for that car.
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So this particular car, which is kind of a strange color and is a turbo, which is kind
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of out of the price range of a lot of people, is strangely affordable.
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And it was listed as $1,200 under the average transaction price for that car.
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And I'm talking to the salesman.
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He's like, yeah, there's not really a lot more we can do here.
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Because it is so easy now.
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I was fully prepared to go into this battle, you know, and put on my tough guy hat and
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really negotiate and it ain't necessary.
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It is easier to buy a car than it used to be.
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And I mean, especially if you buy used because there's so much research out there.
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You go to Kelly Blue Book or Auto Trader or CarGurus and you can research the transaction
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price of used cars and what fair value is.
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And so, you know, knowledge is power and people go in knowing what other people are paying
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I mean, I'm pretty sure there's two or 300 bucks left on the table here, but they were
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They let us test drive for a long time.
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I had to come back and measure the car to make sure the dark cage was going to fit.
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I had a bunch of questions about the price and they've been very cool and got back
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And I feel like I don't really want to beat them up for 200 bucks.
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So that's the deal.
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And the salesman was really cool.
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I'll write about this.
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I'll talk about why she didn't like her, what she liked or didn't like about the other
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So, so it was the CX-30 and what else was she looking at?
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Oh, she looked at the Dodge Hornet, a very specific one also in a weird color.
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And remember, we talked to Cheryl Turner.
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This was her color.
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Is it Acapoco Gold?
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It doesn't help resell the car.
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So there's a, there's an Acapoco.
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Acapoco Gold Hornet, sitting there on a lot in Chicago for 26 grand.
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It's a loaded GT Plus.
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Nice car, actually.
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We also drove the Celtos.
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Interesting problem with the Kix.
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Um, we drove one other car.
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Oh, we drove, um, the Chevy Treblazer.
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Which is still as nice as I remember it.
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Although compared to these other cars, the interior is not very nice.
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It's a little average.
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So I'm going to write about all that.
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Well, I'm going to look forward to reading that.
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And I will say, I did write an article once about interesting colors and resale value.
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And, um, you know, usually the halo color that they launch with, uh, I don't know
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if you remember that weird lime green Genesis GV60 color.
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Um, you know, that was kind of, uh, one of my focus, foci of, of this article
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and how much the resale value dropped just because of that weird color.
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There was a bronze brass that the, the last Mitsubishi Eclipse car was launched in.
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And every picture of it, every ad of it, every test car was that color.
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I don't think it helped resale, but it stuck out.
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But yes, there are launch colors.
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So actually next week, later this week, I get the ID buzz, the Volkswagen buzz.
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Um, and I haven't looked at what color yet.
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I'm going to be surprised.
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But I'm liking the green.
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I like all the colors.
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I really liked that car.
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So interesting stuff happened this week, other than my kid buying a car.
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Uh, Audie is killing the A4.
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Apparently we knew that.
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I just, they just made news of it, but they're going to simplify their lineup
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and the A5, the, the, um, Sportback four door exists.
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They're killing the two door versions of the A5.
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So, and they're raising prices a lot and they are blaming tariffs.
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Well, I mean, they're, uh, they're not wrong about that because they, their cars are not
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They're none of them are.
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Uh, 800 to $4,000 price increases for Audie coming up, uh, Chrysler launched a very silly
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The Chrysler Pacifica Grizzly Peak concept.
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It is what it sounds like.
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It's an off-road version of the Pacifica.
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This thing's over the top.
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However, however, um, Toyota already sells the Woodland version of the Sienna.
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I think we're going to see.
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We're going to see something.
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It won't be this extreme.
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And I've already written an article about it.
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I'll share that on our Facebook page.
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When we had, um, Chris Fuela on the show, the CEO of Chrysler a few weeks ago.
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And she didn't tell us about this.
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She actually hinted at it.
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So it was like, oh, I could see using this whatever vehicle is in the, the rebel rally.
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And she was like, yes.
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Um, so she was kind of hinting at, you know, an overlanding type concept.
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It would have to be modded for rebellious because it doesn't have any belly protection.
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But does it have a lift?
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I didn't look at the specs.
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Actually considerable lift.
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It was like two and a half inches.
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So I mean, really the, I mean, yes, you would probably need skid plates.
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But the, the lift and the wheels, I think, and especially for X cross, which is what this
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would be in, uh, would, would be more important.
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And for people who don't know, when we say lift, we're talking about ground clearance.
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And that's, that's to help you clear literally the obstacles in your way.
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So two and a half inches up higher, that would be the lowest point on the car.
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In this case would now be eight and a half, nine inches, something like that off the
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Super is regularly compete in rebel and they have like 8.3 inches of ground clearance.
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So I'm just saying, all right, yeah, all right, uh, Dodge Durango, yes.
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Did you see this news?
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Uh, no, I was actually more focused on what I think you're probably going to talk about
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Uh, the Durango is going V8 only for 2026.
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So the 5.7 liter Hemi engine is now the standard engine.
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Um, that's a lot of engine for that vehicle, but it's also really nice.
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So I've driven the Durango SRT on a racetrack.
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Well, that's even more engine.
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I don't know if we know if that's coming back yet.
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That's probably, I think we're one announcement away from that.
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And the Hellcat version and the, I mean, it was just so much fun.
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Well, we know now that the, um, that the Ram, um,
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TRX is coming back.
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So that is the supercharged 6.2 liter V8 and if they're going to bring it back
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for that, which is relatively low volume, they're probably going to stick it in other
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They're going to put it in other things.
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Just to make the volume make sense.
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So, uh, Durango price is going up by four grand.
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So there you have it.
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We're going to talk to her about Durango later.
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And you can pick which quiz we do today.
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Cause we're doing two episodes today.
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This is live, but then we're going to be, uh, I was not going to give that
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Um, oh, I don't even know who this group is, but someone named us the seventh
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I don't know if you saw this.
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I don't even know who this organization is, but they picked the 100 best automotive
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We were seven on this list.
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So we cleared the top 10.
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Uh, and a shout out to our friends at Drive Chicago.
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They made the list too.
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So Mark and Jim, congratulations and thanks for having us because you do that
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We do their drive-bys.
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The quick spin or yeah.
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Oh, is there a difference between a quick spin and a drive-by?
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Or do they call those both?
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They're like, they're like three minute reviews.
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I'm like, I've never done a drive-by.
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I don't prepare much for a three minute review and then Jim O'Brill, co-host of
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that show will ask me some question I did not prepare for.
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And you're like, uh, that's a really good question.
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Very good stalling, uh, tactic.
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They do make some of these in Guadalajara.
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So, I did launch an electric vehicle that was, uh, very refined, but also very expensive
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and not very interesting.
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The range wasn't good.
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And it was overpriced.
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And it was out there and it was a good vehicle.
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And it was a nice starting place for them.
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However, it's all new.
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It's significantly updated for 2026 and you have driven it.
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So, the name stains the change, right?
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This is the 2026 Subaru Saltera.
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Uh, it is being updated at the same time that the Toyota BZ is.
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That's no longer the BZ-4X.
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Here's what's weird about that.
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They did have a naming structure in place and, and there is, um, uh, versions of this.
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There's a, like a BZ-3 in China.
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But manufacturers have, have a hard time globalizing these things.
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Well, and when they first came...
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And we don't care in the U.S.
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And when they first came out with the BZ-4X.
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I was just like, okay, this sounds very strange and I don't understand.
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Well, you know, the BZ is beyond zero.
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And then 4X was supposed to be like, oh, it's, you know, four doors and it's a crossover.
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You know, something along those lines.
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Yeah, I think it was.
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It was, it was, uh, 4 was the size class.
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And then X was always a crossover.
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And there's a BZ-3, which I think is a small car in China.
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And again, we don't care.
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No, we really don't.
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And thank, thank goodness they're only calling it BZ now.
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So that's a little irritating.
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Well, it's like ID Buzz.
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Volkswagen's ID Buzz, the van, ID Dot Buzz.
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And weren't we supposed to push the buzz together into one word?
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I, I, you know, Mini is all caps, but I never put it in all caps.
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Like I don't, I don't often adhere to it.
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I don't do Mini all caps.
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Saturn View going way, way back.
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View was supposed to be all caps.
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It's obviously AP style.
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It's, it, how is it different?
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Um, so it, it's, it's like, how isn't it different?
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I mean, obviously it doesn't get a drastic redesign, but you have the new front and
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You have new lighting signatures.
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You've got a lit emblem on the front.
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I want to just go back to something because I think you're using fascia correctly as
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Most people would say fascia.
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Well, well, thank you.
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Did you do that in a review you wrote?
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Like did you use the plural of fascia?
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I have to check now.
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It's very weird and weird in Latin.
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I took, I took four semesters of Latin and I remember none of it.
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Or at least I remember very little of it.
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Uh, so we'll just leave that there.
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Back to, back to the Subaru.
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Uh, we have the, uh, so there's some of the design differences.
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You go inside, you have a new 14 inch, uh, infotainment screen display, which is the
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Toyota infotainment system.
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You have dual wireless chargers.
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You've got, um, a better positioning for the driver's seat as well.
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Um, one of our automotive colleagues, Harvey, uh, Briggs, who, um, is, is his Harvey Drives
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Ryzen, Harvey's Driven.
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And he's part of We Are Motor Driven.
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And he's been on the show.
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Talking Rolls Royce.
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And, um, but so he was on the show or on the drive as well.
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He's six foot three and previously with the Solterra, a lot of taller drivers had
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a problem with the steering wheel by selecting the gauge cluster.
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The steering wheel sucked.
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Um, as a petite driver, this was never a problem for me.
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Um, so I specifically asked Harvey, okay, I'm like, okay, being six three, is this still
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And I don't know where that was going.
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Um, because it's like that in the Toyota Prius too.
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It's the same setup.
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And I think the architecture is related.
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But did they use a flat bottom steering wheel?
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And it looked like they were ready to go yoke.
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I don't think they were going to go yoke in the RZ, but I don't think they ever did.
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I don't think they were going to put the yoke in anything else.
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But I liked the yoke.
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The yoke, I had to drive it.
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It was really cool.
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Um, but, so back to, back to the Solterra, we keep digressing, uh, but, uh, well
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I'm focused like, uh, like a laser, laser focused fascia, fascia.
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That's what I'm going to say to you.
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Uh, so, uh, what else is new?
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So next charging is now standard and explain that.
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That is a big deal.
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So North American charging standard, which is the Tesla charging, a lot of automakers have
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started switching over to that.
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And some automakers, when they were still with the old charging structure would offer
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you a NAX charging adapter for a fee, uh, but Subaru has now included the port factory
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installed and they, I think they're offering a CCS charger for free with the purchase
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Well, I thought you got both.
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Is that what I, did I read that wrong?
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Well, it's NAX charging.
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And then the adapter's free.
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And the adapter, if you have to buy it's like two, three hundred bucks.
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Um, I, I think Subaru's pulling it in for free.
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I, I, I think I heard that correctly.
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If you're going to buy one, buy a good one.
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Buy a very good one.
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Just spend the money.
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Just spend the money and make sure it's correct for your car.
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Because they do melt.
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They actually melt.
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There's a company that I don't know anything about, is it called LekTek, LekTek?
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They're selling this stuff and they have very, very, very good reviews.
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And we'd love them to sponsor the show.
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Or come on the show and talk about it.
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I'm trying to get them on the show to talk about it.
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Oh, but they make really good adapters.
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I think of like two hundred and fifty bucks.
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And they're heavy and they're solid.
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And the, like, I think, I don't know who makes it for Ford, but the one that came
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with the F-150 Lightning, huge.
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It's a big, heavy thing.
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But you want it and you want a good one.
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You do not want it.
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And I'm sure it'll serve you forever.
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Until we, all the charging ports are, all the chargers are in a knacks.
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But so that's new, battery, bigger, better, more range.
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So two hundred and seventy-eight range is the minimum, two hundred and eighty-eight
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miles of range is going to be the maximum.
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And if that's up from, was it two twenty-eight?
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Which was just, it's almost there, but you just want a little more.
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And I find that, like, I'm driving the Volvo EX30 right now, two hundred and
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fifty-eight miles, I think.
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And that's plenty for me for a week.
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Like, you want to get to the mid-two hundreds, but three hundred is great.
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And I've read a lot of studies that say three hundred is about where people want
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And so they are right on the money.
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And Subaru and Toyota are very conservative with their range estimates.
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I remember when I had the Solterra previously and we only had two hundred and twenty
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I was getting, like, two fifty.
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So I was getting a lot more range and, I mean, it was, like, seventy degrees outside perfect
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temperatures, but I was getting a lot more range than what the EPA estimated.
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I want to, we have to break and talk to our guests, but I want to talk a little bit more
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about this vehicle after the quiz, because you wrote a little bit about off-road ability
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too and how Subaru is trying to maintain its off-road credibility with electric vehicles.
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So we'll talk about that.
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After a break, we're going to talk to Justin Loney, the CEO of Everati, about the coolest
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thing in the world, which is converting classic cars into electric cars.
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And their website, the photography is great and the cars they're converting are awesome.
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We'll take a break and be right back.
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Questions or comments?
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Drop us a line at CarStuff at ConsumerGuide.com.
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That's CarStuff at ConsumerGuide.com.
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Welcome back to the CarStuff Podcast.
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All right, we're back.
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This is the ConsumerGuide CarStuff Podcast.
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Jill, help me out real quick.
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Would you like to talk about social media?
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I would for just a quick moment.
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Just a quick moment.
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I am CarGuy Tom, an ex-Twitter and Blue Sky, and my Saturday collection this year,
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my CarSpotter Saturday collection.
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Did I say this year?
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I had a good drive.
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I drive around on Saturdays.
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That's my test drive day.
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And I go looking for weird, strange, rare cars, and I share them on X using the CarSpotter
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Well, and I had a really good CarSpotter last week, too, that Oldsmobile.
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And I was really excited.
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I got to meet the owner.
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I love B-Body and C-Body Oldsmobiles.
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Actually, the whole General Motors, that whole era of downsized, they're just
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really crispy-looking, and they were so important historically.
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And there were millions and millions and millions of them, but I think Rust has taken its toll.
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You don't see them anymore.
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No, this one was beautiful.
22:56
So we talk a lot about electric cars, but we don't talk that much about classic cars,
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and we never talk about electric classic cars.
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But our guest today talks about them all the time.
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Our guest today is Justin Lundy.
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Lundy is the Chief Executive Officer of Everuddy.
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Justin, how are you?
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks for having me.
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You are many time zones away, so we appreciate you making the time and the effort to join
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Justin, I'm at a loss to describe your company, so I would like you to do it because you're
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going to do it better than I do.
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So, yeah, Everuddy was formed to really, I suppose, create some of the world's most
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We're pretty fortunate.
23:39
We work with cars that are already loved and we make them into something that can be used
23:44
So, my team is, you know, is X McLaren, JLR, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Formula 1, so we use
23:52
that engineering talent and we really use that experience and that knowledge to redefine
23:58
some really cool cars, make them really usable in the world today, and really enjoyable.
24:03
And that's, yeah, you can imagine, we love what we do.
24:08
And the cars are beautiful.
24:09
It seems like right now, you guys, you're focusing your own attention on a few specific
24:15
A portion on 11s, Land Rovers, the Pagoda-era Mercedes-Benz cars, which are gorgeous.
24:21
Why those vehicles?
24:23
So, yeah, you're absolutely right.
24:25
We are focused very much on a few specific models.
24:29
The reason for that is that each of those models has between six and say 10,000 hours
24:35
worth of engineering in to get it right.
24:39
I can imagine, yeah, doing one-offs would be extremely expensive.
24:43
So the focus of the company is essentially we're an EV powertrain's business and effectively,
24:50
you know, highlighting that brand on some of these gorgeous, gorgeous cars.
24:53
So the 911s, we principally focus on the 964 era, which is, you may know, is kind
25:00
of, you know, a very, very specific generation that's also used a lot in other rest
25:05
and mod-type businesses.
25:07
The Land Rover series, which is, again, absolutely gorgeous, you know, we have a number of those
25:11
on the East Coast here in the United States.
25:13
So Palm Beach, Florida, the Hamptons, Nantucket, those kind of beach-type kind of areas.
25:21
And then we also have the Mercedes-Benz Pagoda, which, as you rightly say, is just absolutely
25:26
And last but not least, we also do a fully electric 800 horsepower electric GT40, which
25:32
is kind of interesting as well.
25:36
So how is it, if you chose these particular vehicles, and obviously they are gorgeous, they
25:40
are historic, and I think people love these vehicles, I don't think there's a lot of question
25:47
How is it that you guys chose to do these specific vehicles from an engineering perspective?
25:51
Were these easier to do?
25:53
And from an engineering perspective, how close to a modern EV do you guys come?
25:58
Yeah, that's a great question.
25:59
So to answer your first question, I'll be honest, they were kind of cars that
26:04
I think have been very important, certainly in my life and some of my team's life.
26:09
So they've been our kind of launch vehicles that we've run now over the last three to
26:13
If you look at the Porsche 911, clearly it's hugely iconic.
26:17
The 964, which if you're into combustion, Singer Vehicle Design have done an excellent
26:23
job of creating that into something that is really, really desirable.
26:28
The Pagoda, again, the ceiling prices on those are becoming very, very high.
26:33
And that's really the key thing here, which is vehicles that have that ability to justify
26:39
the higher price tag.
26:40
Because as you can imagine, we're entirely rebuilding these cars.
26:44
They go right back to the frame, right back to the chassis.
26:47
In the Porsche's case, most of the panels that go back on are carbon fiber.
26:51
So again, very, very lightweight, fully integrated powertrain.
26:55
So essentially what we're doing to answer your second question is to keep them as
27:00
to respect really what they were designed to be.
27:03
So we always stick as close as we can to the original weight, ideally below the original
27:10
weight, which we're able to do with our 911 and make it as analog and easy as we can.
27:17
Because again, what we don't want to do is make a late 80s, early 90s Porsche still
27:24
You know, we want to keep its character, you know, we want it to keep its steering
27:29
feel, its suspension feel and something that you know, you genuinely can get in and
27:34
have the essence of the past.
27:36
But with with modern, modern amenities, you know, modern, modern powertrain, things
27:39
like Apple CarPlay, air conditioning that works, you know, dials, gauges that look
27:44
gorgeous, but they're showing proper EV data and the like.
27:48
So really, when you see one of our cars to the untrained eye, I'll be honest,
27:52
it looks like a beautifully restored combustion car.
27:55
But actually, under the skin is a lot of modern technology.
27:59
And then people are using them every single day, which is what I love.
28:03
You know, we've got clients in the Bay Area, they use them every single day
28:06
that would never do that if it was still a combustion car.
28:09
So I'll go ahead, Joe.
28:11
So you talk a lot about Porsche, but if somebody had a different classic car
28:16
that they would like to have electrified, I mean, would you take on a
28:21
commission or is it you only do certain vehicles?
28:26
No, it's a good question.
28:27
So, Joe, thank you for that.
28:28
It's we do have what we call our bespoke division, our kind of, if
28:33
you like, private office division.
28:35
But given what I just said about number of hours, as you can imagine,
28:38
it's not for the faint hearted.
28:40
We have a client in Dubai right now who is commissioned us to do
28:45
quite a special car.
28:47
You know, that will be, you know, probably a million
28:50
dollars plus just for the design and engineering of the powertrain,
28:54
which is again, not for the faint hearted.
28:56
He will end up with an incredible EV out of the back of that.
29:00
And, you know, we're using the very, very best technologies that, you
29:03
know, we're using the motors that are used in Formula E cars.
29:08
We're using silicon carbine inverters from places like McLaren.
29:13
So, you know, we're very fortunate.
29:15
We're a UK based company.
29:16
We have a very strong and high end supply chain and we're able to
29:22
access some of this technology.
29:23
So again, you know, we're kind of putting tech into these cars
29:26
that's otherwise found in some EV hypercars, and we're able to
29:30
provide that into, you know, into the kind of cars that we're
29:32
working on today as well.
29:34
So Justin, talk about the 911 specifically for a moment.
29:37
And like you talked about matching the weight, but can you
29:40
match the weight distribution?
29:42
That's a car with a wacky weight distribution, right?
29:44
You got the way off the back.
29:46
But how does that compete in terms of like, what is the range of that vehicle?
29:50
And how does that compete in terms of performance with a gasoline version of the vehicle?
29:56
So 911 is a great example.
29:59
So the Porsche 964 that we is our kind of our mainstay at the moment.
30:04
We can make that around 50 pounds lighter than let's say a 964
30:10
turbo of the same era, which is great.
30:13
The weight distribution itself is still 60 40.
30:16
So it's still as it should be.
30:18
However, the weight is ever so slightly in board of the rear.
30:22
So effectively, it's not quite as tail happy as one of those eras of cars.
30:27
And last but not least, performance wise, I mentioned, yes, about 50
30:31
pounds lighter than the 964 turbo, but it's about 70 percent more powerful.
30:36
So zero to 60 is about three point.
30:40
Yeah, three point seven seconds, which isn't fast,
30:43
I suppose, by really modern EV standards, but it's appropriate for the car.
30:48
In other words, we're not trying to make these things dangerous
30:50
and you want to make them enjoyable, obviously.
30:53
So people interested in getting a car from you guys, do they
30:57
do they buy their own car and bring it to you?
31:00
Or do you source these cars?
31:01
So generally speaking, we help the client source a car.
31:05
So, you know, we essentially are selling the dream
31:08
is a dream of an electric 911 or the electric Pagoda and nine times out of 10,
31:14
that client will not already have that vehicle.
31:17
In fact, in fact, quite the opposite.
31:20
I think only less than five percent of our existing clients
31:24
have ever even owned the combustion version of the car we end up building for them.
31:30
And I think that's because they they had this dream, you know,
31:32
they had that dream as a Pagoda, maybe, you know, beautiful car to enjoys,
31:36
you know, as you just described on Sunday,
31:39
but actually probably wouldn't want necessarily to live with its foibles,
31:43
you know, the fact that it may leak oil on the on the garage floor,
31:47
the fact that it may break down, you know, that there's a number of things
31:50
that unfortunately that, you know, the promise doesn't always
31:53
deliver what you might expect.
31:55
And therefore, they're people that have loved the idea of these cars
31:58
and then finally want to own one that is easy to use and easy to maintain.
32:03
Justin, have you run into any pushback from classic car
32:05
enthusiasts to like classic car purists to think you shouldn't be doing
32:10
these conversions to vehicles that are basically, you know, timeless classics?
32:15
Yeah, we do to a point, but it's so funny.
32:18
So I was actually so I'm currently in Southern California.
32:21
So I'm a few time zones away from where I normally am.
32:24
And, you know, I went to see one of our build partners
32:28
and we have a very, very poorly looking
32:32
1990 Porsche that, I'll be honest, is entirely unloved.
32:37
It's a tiptronic, which, if you know, Porsche's was not
32:40
the was not the gearbox to have back in the day.
32:43
It's by modern engineering standards, it's not a gearbox you'd want to use.
32:47
So we're taking this car that's leaking oil, that is not easy to drive,
32:50
that is very, very, very sorry for itself.
32:53
And certainly within six months, that will be an absolutely gorgeous
32:56
carbon bodied masterpiece that people will be using every day.
33:00
And I think that's what people forget.
33:01
We're not we're not taking the holy grail classic cars.
33:06
We're taking some of them, you know, the very unloved ones
33:08
and giving them an entirely new life.
33:10
And I think once people realize that again, we're not ruining
33:13
that Rembrandt of cars, you know, we're not we're not ruining an art piece.
33:18
We're just taking something that currently exists
33:20
and giving it a brand new life into the future.
33:24
And I think that certainly from our client's perspective
33:26
is quite an attractive proposition.
33:28
I suppose, too, in the case, especially of the Land Rovers,
33:32
one of the things that you're probably bringing is reliability.
33:35
That's right. Yeah.
33:36
You know, they are to many
33:40
gorgeous to look at. They're really cool trucks.
33:43
You know, they obviously were used many, many parts of the world as,
33:47
you know, in the Middle East and certainly, you know,
33:49
in various parts of the world.
33:54
But they were not great on reliability.
33:56
They were not great on performance.
33:59
Being honest, there's bits you can't change too much.
34:01
You know, I often joke it on that Land Rover.
34:04
It's a 1960s design.
34:06
You know, we only do about 150 miles to a charge on that,
34:09
which is bizarrely about the same as the gas, the petrol version.
34:14
But I often joke that, you know, you need a car
34:16
of practice with you after about 30 miles anyway,
34:18
because the seating position is so bad.
34:20
So so in reality, you know, you're making it easier to drive.
34:25
Certainly far more enjoyable.
34:27
It will break when you want it to,
34:28
which again wasn't necessarily part of the original design.
34:31
And yeah, but it's fun to look at.
34:34
It's fun to to to to drive.
34:36
And you're going to get looks and smiles wherever you go in it.
34:39
And I think that's the other thing that I'd say is you wouldn't
34:41
necessarily get that from a brand new EV. Yeah.
34:45
So Justin, soup to nuts.
34:46
Tell them walk me through this process.
34:47
I I just realized I got a nice tax refund.
34:51
And I want I want one of the Mercedes Pagoda convertibles.
34:54
I call you guys up.
34:55
You guys help me source a car and then you restore that car.
34:58
How long will that process take?
35:00
And what will that cost me?
35:02
OK, yeah, Pagoda is one of our most
35:05
complicated build in terms of the process.
35:08
So that car, as I'm sure you know, even though they're gorgeous to look at,
35:11
they've had lots of them a very tough life.
35:14
Even even kind of dry state cars will need an entire overhaul.
35:19
So that car is entirely stripped.
35:22
So it goes again, right, right, right way back to the chassis,
35:24
right by the way back to the frame that is then dipped.
35:29
So it's basically almost acid dipped to ensure that we get everything
35:33
that we know exactly was wrong with that and then rebuilt up basically
35:37
with either new parts of the chassis or elements that, you know,
35:41
ensure that that chassis is 100 percent that then is coated.
35:45
So coated, the can no longer get any corrosion.
35:49
And then all of the body parts are put back on either.
35:52
Refurbished body parts or brand new in many cases as well.
35:56
So effectively what comes out of that process is basically a brand new
36:00
body shell on an existing chassis for Mercedes Pagoda.
36:05
Clearly through that entire process, we've discussed paints.
36:08
We've discussed leathers.
36:10
We've discussed stitching.
36:11
You know, we had a client recently
36:14
in one of the southern states of the United States
36:17
who flew over to London on his own jet to ensure that we had the exact
36:23
look for the interior of the jet that he wanted on his car.
36:26
So that gives you an idea of some of the clients we may have.
36:29
And then, yeah, and then that is entirely rebuilt as a, you know,
36:32
as a custom vehicle.
36:34
That process itself takes around 14 to 15 months.
36:39
Once, you know, once we have the donor car, part of the reason
36:42
for that is it goes to Germany or to Poland.
36:46
So that, you know, the people that, I guess, have the very,
36:49
very greatest skills in rebuilding Mercedes tend to be clearly
36:53
in that part of the world, as you can imagine.
36:55
And then that is shipped back and the EV install actually happens
36:59
here in the United States.
37:01
And that is delivered to you as a, you know, a fully functional,
37:05
gorgeous looking, almost concord standard, but clearly not
37:08
concord because it doesn't have the original engine.
37:10
A car that you can just enjoy on a daily basis.
37:13
Again, not for the faint hearted.
37:15
So excluding the donor, the starting price on that is $525,000.
37:21
So again, that tax refund that I'm looking forward to you getting
37:27
is, yeah, it's going to be on the largest side generally.
37:33
We're at a good starting point.
37:34
Yeah, I'll put that down.
37:37
So how many cars at any given time are you guys working on?
37:40
Do you do like one at a time or do you have like a certain
37:44
capacity or a certain number of vehicles you're working on?
37:47
Yeah, it's a great question.
37:48
So we are because of our distributed nature.
37:50
So our horses actually are built in Irvine in Southern California.
37:54
Our Landrovers are built in the UK.
37:57
Mercedes built in Europe and actually we work with
38:01
superformance actually on our GT40s, which is you may know
38:04
as a US based company.
38:06
So in essence, so to answer the first question, I think
38:09
we've got seven cars in build right now.
38:13
But we can scale that.
38:14
So, you know, with our Porsches, for example, we can do up to 30 to 40 a year.
38:23
Pagoda is probably less than that, maybe maybe 20 to 20 to 30.
38:28
Landrovers also 20 to 30.
38:29
So that's kind of where we are today.
38:31
But of course, we also then can scale that.
38:33
So if we want to, you know, let's say we want a different Porsche.
38:36
In fact, we're actually we just launched during Monterey Car Week.
38:40
We've announced that we're doing the next generation of Porsche.
38:43
So the Porsche 993, which was an absolutely breathtaking
38:48
and big, you know, big, big moment in Porsche's history.
38:51
You know, we have, you know, we have capacity to do to do those
38:55
in addition to existing.
38:57
So again, we can scale this not to a manufacturer level clearly.
39:02
But, you know, what we find is that these are kind of thought
39:05
leaders, high net worth clients that want something different.
39:09
And and certainly, you know, we we can technically do, you know,
39:13
certainly north of 50 or 60 cars a year and certainly as we grow,
39:17
you know, north of probably 100 to 200 cars a year.
39:19
So it's it's a gradual process, but we're not there yet.
39:21
But that's certainly the capacity that we're aiming at.
39:24
Well, this is all very cool, Justin.
39:25
I'm glad we talked to you today for people who want more information.
39:29
How can they reach out to you guys?
39:31
Absolutely. So the company's EverRati.
39:33
I'll explain that forever, keeping great cars on the road forever.
39:37
So E-V-E-R and then Rati is the goddess of love, passion and desire,
39:42
which is what our clients have for their cars.
39:44
So EverRati, so E-V-E-R-A-T-I dot com.
39:48
And of course, we're also EverRati cars on, let's say, Instagram
39:52
and we're also on other social channels as well.
39:54
So we always love to hear from people who are interested in what we do.
39:59
Well, we're very interested.
40:00
Justin, thank you so much for your time today.
40:02
Thank you very much, both of you.
40:03
It's lovely to talk to you.
40:04
That was Justin Lundy, the CEO of EverRati.
40:06
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40:07
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40:13
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41:02
She's Jill and we don't have enough money for an EverRati.
41:06
If we pooled our money together, we would still not have enough money
41:09
and then borrowed 20 bucks from producer Randy
41:14
and then borrowed another five hundred and twenty thousand from the bank.
41:18
Well, I would love to drive one of these.
41:21
You know what we didn't get?
41:22
We got the range on the on the range over about 150 miles or whatever.
41:26
I'd be interested to know the range of the Porsche.
41:28
Yeah, I think there are limitations to how much battery
41:31
they can get into them.
41:32
Yeah, and they're trying to keep the weight close to original weight.
41:36
So the battery works against you there.
41:37
Yeah, no, this is this is fascinating.
41:40
I am so glad we we had them on.
41:42
Yeah, we'll have to follow up with them in a year or two
41:44
to see if they had any models.
41:46
But yeah, I love I love the people will post a picture.
41:49
But the Pagoda Mercedes Pagoda is a nickname for the car.
41:53
The one they have pictured here is a 280 SL.
41:55
But it's the early version of the Roadster.
41:57
And I think this is the generation of Roadster that came after
42:01
the legendary 300 SL, the the Gal wing and the.
42:03
Yeah, those will those would be way too expensive
42:07
to do this to also probably heresy.
42:09
Because those drivetrains are pretty pretty classic, too.
42:12
So all right, it is quiz time.
42:15
I have two quizzes in front of me.
42:16
You already gave away the fact that we're doing two episodes today.
42:19
So I have two quizzes ready.
42:20
No, no, no, that's OK.
42:22
That's the illusion that we just work on a holiday.
42:25
I enjoyed that. I know.
42:26
I know next week is Labor Day.
42:28
Yeah, without explanation. OK.
42:31
Do you want the quiz called red question mark or LX question mark?
42:36
Knowing that in an hour, you're going to have to do a different one.
42:40
Let's start with LX. All right.
42:44
Today's quiz, the car stop power quiz brought to you by consumer guide.
42:51
Is LX question mark?
42:53
All you need to do is tell me if a particular model,
42:55
a twenty twenty five model is available in the LX trim level.
43:00
OK, I knew this was going to thrill you.
43:03
Yes, this is so thrilling.
43:05
And I like the bonus question.
43:07
I am not I'm not hip to LX. All right.
43:10
Are you ready? Yeah. LX as a trim level,
43:12
the twenty twenty five Kia Seltos, which I test drove with my daughter.
43:17
Still a very nice car. Oh, I haven't driven
43:22
the twenty twenty five.
43:26
But Alex, oh, I'm trying to think if that's a Kia.
43:29
The Kia Seltos and the Hyundai Kona kind of benchmark cars in that class.
43:34
Yeah, they do just they're they're refined.
43:36
If you get the turbos, they're pretty quick.
43:38
Yeah, really good use of space.
43:40
The pricing is agreeable, although it's going to go up this year.
43:44
Yeah, twenty twenty five Kia Seltos.
43:46
I need to know if there's an LX.
43:54
Yeah, it's available.
43:55
Alex is the base trim.
43:56
Yeah, I was going to say if in Kia, it's usually the base trim.
43:58
But Alex SX X line, SX.
44:02
OK. And I think you need to get X line or SX
44:04
to get the turbocharged engine, which you want.
44:08
You have no points.
44:10
Your favorite phrase. It is the twenty twenty five Honda Civic sedan.
44:16
Is that available in LX trim?
44:19
I feel like it used to have on Alex,
44:21
but the question is, does it now?
44:24
Because I I'm going to say no.
44:30
LX sport and sport hybrid for the sedan.
44:33
OK. And I don't remember what they are for the hatchback.
44:37
You've got no points.
44:38
This is getting dire. I know it's getting dire.
44:40
Five questions total.
44:41
You need three for a win.
44:43
The twenty twenty five Dodge Durango.
44:52
My first inclination is to say no,
44:54
which is probably wrong because I've been wrong so far.
45:02
Getting your butt kicked today, Joe.
45:05
I knew this was not going to be good.
45:07
Lot of trim levels for a relatively low volume vehicle.
45:09
GT GT plus RT RT plus
45:12
RT premium, RT twenty fifth anniversary plus
45:16
and RT 20th anniversary premium.
45:19
Those are your twenty twenty five trim levels.
45:21
OK. I presume there'll be fewer next year
45:25
with one engine and no anniversary additions.
45:28
Yes. Although they might bring back an SRT.
45:31
Yeah. So all right.
45:33
You have no points.
45:34
You need to sweep the west of the way out.
45:36
The twenty twenty five Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross,
45:39
a vehicle we talk about all the time
45:40
because we love it so much.
45:42
It actually is not that bad.
45:45
I hardly remember it.
45:47
I I do remember that the the first generation
45:51
before the before it was
45:54
fresh and had that stupid spoiler that bisected the rear view.
45:58
That's a dumb thing to do in the modern era.
45:59
Yeah, that was well, you know, Prius used to have that as well.
46:03
The split window in the back.
46:06
You know, I would say it would probably be.
46:10
I mean, not in Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross,
46:13
but like in a higher end vehicle,
46:14
you could probably get away with it these days
46:16
if you had the rear camera mirror.
46:20
Because the new Polestar four that's coming out,
46:22
which no rear glass at all, talk about in October.
46:24
Yeah, no rear view, like no rear glass at all, no rear window.
46:28
Weird. I'm going to go back to no.
46:31
Correct. You have a point.
46:34
And this is super confusing.
46:36
The base model is the E.S.
46:38
The next trim level is the L.E.
46:40
And then the third trim level up is the S.E.
46:43
Yeah. So you have E.S.
46:46
And they're separated by something that isn't E.S.
46:49
I mean, they probably do that so that you don't get confused,
46:52
but the end effect is it's confusing.
46:54
There's also a rally art and an S.E.L.
46:56
OK. So S.E.L. is the top trim level.
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So you have one point.
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Yeah. I'm going to write that down here.
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One. I have a point. Point.
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Got to write that down and underlined it three times.
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The 2025 Toyota Camry.
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I don't think L.X. is a Toyota trim
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because I feel like they go X.L.E., L.E.
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But it's like S.S.X.E or X.S.E.
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or something like that.
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So I'm going to say no.
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No. And you name them all.
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Yes. It's L.E. S.E.
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And now that everything's hybrid,
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the lineup's a little simpler.
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OK. Actually, that's the lineup.
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There it is. Yeah. That is the line.
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X.S.E. can be very nice.
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X.L.E. can be very nice.
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Yeah. Well, you know, what I find interesting
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that they've done is with the S.E.
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and the X.S.E., they try to go a little more sporty.
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And then with the L.E. X.L.E.,
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they try to go more like luxury.
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Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
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And then also the L.E. and S.E. are your value plays.
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Yeah. And they can be...
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A base Camry can be a very nice car
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for a very good price.
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Yeah. And I can't remember
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how their pricing structure works,
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but I feel like L.E. and S.E.
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might be the same and X.L.E. and X.S.E. are the same.
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I don't know about the bottom, too,
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but I think that's true in the top end.
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And we're seeing more and more of that.
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Yeah. Like when I was driving,
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or not researching the Trailblazer,
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the Chevrolet Trailblazer for my daughter,
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the RS and the active, I think,
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are the same price.
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And one looks off-roading and one looks sporty.
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And neither is neither.
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OK. They look nice.
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Neither is neither.
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This is not especially sporty or especially off-roading.
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All right. You've got two points.
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You need the bonus question to make this work.
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Are you ready? All right.
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Do you know what the five most popular birds
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They are the Robin, the Cardinal, the Blue Jay,
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the American Crow and the Chickadee.
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Chickadee. Chickadee.
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We're going to talk about the crow.
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There are 40 varieties of crows.
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OK. About the crow.
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I thought you said the crow.
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I'm like, what? No.
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OK. That's funny because I cracked
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a terrible dad joke with my daughter the other day.
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But the answer was King of the Crow.
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It was a joke about a show about an animated guy
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who was really into bailing whales.
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It's not really funny now.
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Was it funny the first time is the question?
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Yeah. I laughed really hard.
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That's what a dad joke is.
49:30
It's actually funnier when my daughter gets my stupid jokes
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and then tells them to me deadpan.
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And I'm like, oh, maybe it wasn't funny.
49:37
I can see her for doing that.
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All right. 40 varieties of crow.
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Which of the following is not one of those 40 varieties
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and is indeed fake?
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The New Caledonian Crow.
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The Sierra Madre Crow.
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The Dingus River Crow.
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The Cuban, I did, I thought I wrote Cuban Psalm,
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but it's Cuban Palm Crow.
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New Caledonian Sierra Madre, Dingus River, Cuban Palm.
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I kind of feel like it's going to be one of the last two.
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Dingus River or Cuban Palm.
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And you laughed at the last one.
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I think you may have given that one away.
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No, I'm laughing at both of them.
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I'm going to go with the last one.
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It's the Genghis River.
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It's the Genghis, the Genghis Khan is fake.
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That's actually it.
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I'm going to sign this for you anyway.
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Well, I don't want it.
50:32
We didn't look at the donuts yet.
50:34
I wanted to talk to you real quick and get back
50:39
When we talked to the folks at Subaru about the Forester,
50:43
Subaru made an interesting decision
50:45
to forego a little bit of fuel economy
50:46
to stick to their roots and their core sort of US marketing
50:51
position and be an off-roading company,
50:53
and they kept their symmetrical all-wheel drive system.
50:55
Actually hurt them a little bit in fuel economy,
50:58
but the vehicle maintains its off-road credibility.
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But what's interesting here is they can't do that.
51:03
This is an electric vehicle, so they
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have to get to the same results as via motors.
51:09
And I don't know how the torque distribution works and stuff.
51:12
But you did have a chance to do some light off-roading.
51:14
Do talk about that.
51:17
So they set up a course for us at,
51:19
I believe it was at Private Ranch,
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and there were some moguls and some hills
51:24
and just some slightly rough terrain.
51:27
I mean, it was nothing crazy.
51:29
It's not like going to the Rubicon Trail
51:32
or doing any serious rock climbing or anything like that.
51:36
But it was, if you were going to go to a trailhead,
51:39
if you were trying to find a little bit of an off-the-beat
51:41
and path campsite, it was like that.
51:44
And I thought it did really well.
51:47
And we did some moguls, and so there was wheel lift,
51:51
and you didn't feel like the car was going to break.
51:55
And it handled them very well.
51:57
You didn't bottom out on anything.
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And I want to say there's like 8.3 inches of ground clearance.
52:04
Because that's actually under the battery.
52:07
The battery in almost every modern vehicle,
52:09
modern EV with any range,
52:11
constitutes the floor of the vehicle.
52:13
Yeah, built-in skid plate.
52:18
That's actually a thing.
52:19
I don't know what the,
52:21
like is there a plate, a skid plate,
52:23
protecting the battery?
52:24
I don't think they mentioned that.
52:27
And like looking at the specs in my head,
52:29
I don't remember that.
52:31
You know, there's some extra cladding around the front
52:33
and the back and the wheels,
52:34
but like I don't think there's a skid plate.
52:37
So yeah, maybe don't puncture the battery
52:39
if you're going to take it off.
52:40
That is excellent advice for the youngsters out there.
52:42
Yeah, I think that would be a bad idea.
52:44
But no, I mean it did really well.
52:47
And when you put it into X mode,
52:49
these really cool cameras pop up
52:50
so that you can see the side of the vehicle
52:52
as well as the front of the vehicle
52:54
and the trajectory of your wheels
52:56
as you turn your wheel.
52:58
And so I thought that was a really nice feature
53:01
You're starting to see that
53:02
in a lot more off-roady type vehicles.
53:04
You had raised a point and you wanted,
53:06
you said that the the around camera,
53:08
the around view, off-road support,
53:10
around view presentation
53:15
was locked out at eight miles an hour.
53:17
I think the primary reason for this is
53:19
they want you to start looking forward at that point.
53:23
I mean, it's just a decision
53:24
that safety gurus and lawyers and engineers made
53:27
that at that point,
53:28
you better look out the window.
53:29
But there are times when you are driving off-road
53:32
and I mean, I do a lot of off-roading
53:36
and you're going nine miles an hour or 10 miles an hour
53:40
and the vehicle can handle it in that train,
53:43
but it's just nice to know and get an in-depth look
53:46
at where the rocks are
53:47
or where your wheels need to go in the ruts.
53:49
And I know it's because of distraction or whatever.
53:53
But I just, a lot of other automakers,
53:55
I know Chevrolet and GMC
53:58
and I believe even Salantis or Dodge Ram, all of those,
54:03
they have allowed the cameras to stay on
54:06
actually at highway speeds.
54:07
So I just, I get that there is a lot of lawyerism
54:12
that has to happen, but I just, come on, 10 miles an hour.
54:16
You know, it's funny when we were test driving cars,
54:18
my daughter has more interest than you might think
54:20
in the stereo system.
54:22
So I kept hooking up my phone while she was driving.
54:24
Does she like your music?
54:27
We agree on some stuff.
54:29
We agree on, they might be giants, the talking heads.
54:31
She hates the jazz.
54:33
She hates the jazz.
54:36
She's still like Mark Knopfler.
54:37
But anyway, anyway, she doesn't want a bad stereo.
54:40
She doesn't need a great stereo.
54:42
So we were hooking up my Bluetooth
54:45
while we were driving.
54:46
Some cars let you do it while you're driving, most don't.
54:50
You have to come to a complete stop, put it in park
54:52
and then you can finish hooking up the Bluetooth
54:55
so they don't want you distracted.
54:57
All right, guess what we did?
54:59
Well, one more thing before we run out of time.
55:02
First off, this vehicle's not gonna be available
55:06
We didn't mention that yet and pricing hasn't yet been
55:07
announced, but they have said that there is not going
55:09
to be a huge price increase.
55:10
Well, that's impressive.
55:11
If you can get more range for less money
55:14
or the same money, that's great.
55:16
More range for features.
55:17
And speaking of that, the companion vehicle to this,
55:19
the Toyota BZ, price cuts.
55:24
So yeah, that's good stuff too.
55:26
It's interesting that the federal government no longer
55:28
really wants to support electric vehicles,
55:31
but manufacturers are still cranking them out.
55:34
And they're getting more interesting.
55:35
Well, that's the thing.
55:38
And the, for instance, the Chevrolet Bolt EV
55:43
I don't know how much cheaper they can make that
55:45
than an Equinox EV, but we welcome an affordable EV.
55:50
Now guess what we did?
55:51
Now, now we are running out of time.
55:53
Now we've talked too much.
55:56
Thank you to Justin Lundy of the CEO of Everett.
55:59
That was a very cool conversation.
56:01
I need to look more about those.
56:02
I want to see some test drives.
56:05
I haven't done that.
56:05
So I need to check that out, but check them out.
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Thank you, producer Randy.
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