Car Torque with Matty J Apr 3, 2026

Buying cars for the fuel crisis

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Term

front wheel drive

Front-wheel drive means the front wheels do the work of moving the car. Many normal everyday cars use it because it’s efficient and cost-effective. It can feel a little different than cars where the back wheels drive.

Car

Rolls-Royce Cullinan

The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is a super-luxury SUV. People bring it up when they mean “the most expensive, over-the-top” kind of car.

Car

Ford Falcon

The Ford Falcon is a car model that was especially popular in Australia. The podcast talks about it like a club, which means many people really love these cars. It’s often remembered for being a classic, enthusiast-style vehicle.

Term

V8

A V8 is a type of engine with eight cylinders. It usually means strong performance, but it can also use more fuel than smaller engines.

Concept

interest rates

Interest rates are the cost of borrowing money. If they’re high, car loans cost more each month, so fewer people can buy the same cars.

Car

Honda City

The Honda City is a small Honda that’s known for being pretty cheap to run. Here, the host is using it as an example of a car that goes far on one tank and costs less to fill.

Term

LPG

LPG is an alternative fuel that some cars can run on. If it’s cheaper per liter than petrol, it can make driving much less expensive.

Term

heavy duty tow bar

A heavy-duty tow bar is the hitch hardware made to tow bigger loads safely. If you tow a caravan or trailers often, this is the kind of upgrade you want.

Term

headlight flasher

A headlight flasher is a quick “flash” of the headlights you can do to get someone’s attention. It’s usually a momentary button so you don’t have to turn the headlights fully on.

Term

D cell batteries wired together

They’re describing the hybrid battery as being made from many standard D-cell batteries connected together. It’s a throwback design that makes the battery feel more “DIY” than today’s sealed hybrid battery packs.

Term

liters per 100 Ks

They’re quoting fuel economy in liters per 100 kilometers. Lower numbers mean the car uses less fuel for the same distance.

Concept

kilometers (Ks)

They’re talking about kilometers—distance. They want to compare fuel costs using the same distance (like 400 or 500 km) so the numbers are apples-to-apples.

Term

80,000 Ks

“80,000 Ks” means the car has about 80,000 kilometers on it. That’s a useful checkpoint for thinking about routine maintenance and how much the car has been used.

Concept

combined cycle

“Combined cycle” is a test that mixes city driving and highway driving to estimate overall fuel use. It’s a useful comparison number, but your real results can be different.

Concept

F1 car

An F1 car is a super high-tech race car. The point here is that they’re talking about needing something extremely efficient, like what you’d see in racing.

Term

flux

Flux is a paste or liquid you put on metal before soldering. It helps the solder stick by cleaning the surface so the connection can actually form.

Concept

one of the last ones off the line

That phrase means the car was built near the end of that model being made. People often like late-production cars because they may include the final improvements, and they can be rarer.

Term

supercharged

A supercharger is a device that squeezes more air into the engine. More air usually means more power, so the car can feel faster, especially when you accelerate.

Term

10,000Ks

“10,000Ks” means the car has about 10,000 kilometers on it, which is pretty low. Low mileage usually means less wear, but you still want to check maintenance records.

Term

petrol

“Petrol” just means gasoline. When petrol prices go up, it gets more expensive to drive, so people start thinking harder about what car they should use.

Concept

oil leaks

Oil leaks are when engine or drivetrain oil escapes from seals, gaskets, or fittings. They matter because they can lead to low oil levels, contamination of other components, and in some cases fire risk if oil contacts hot surfaces.

Part

clutch

The clutch is what lets you shift gears on a manual car. If it needs replacing, that usually means extra work and cost before the car is ready to drive.

Concept

test drive

A test drive is just taking the car for a short drive before you buy it. It helps you feel if something is off, like the ride or brakes. If someone doesn’t want to test drive, it usually means they trust the seller or the deal is too good to question.

Term

radiator and heater hoses

Radiator and heater hoses are part of the vehicle’s cooling system, carrying coolant between the engine, radiator, and heater core. Replacing aging hoses helps prevent leaks and overheating, which is especially important before a long trip.

Part

evaporator behind the dash

The evaporator is the part of the air conditioning that actually cools the air inside the cabin. If it’s behind the dash, fixing it can be a bigger job than something under the hood.

Concept

Lego Ute

A “Lego Ute” is a pickup-style car that’s styled to look like LEGO. It’s usually a fun, attention-grabbing makeover rather than a serious performance upgrade.

Concept

plug-in hybrid

A plug-in hybrid is part electric and part gas. You can charge it at home or at a charger, and it can still use gas when the battery runs low.

Term

throttle

Throttle is how hard you press the gas pedal. More throttle usually means quicker acceleration and a more exciting drive.

Term

Ks

“Ks” just means kilometers—how much the car has been driven. Fewer Ks usually means less driving wear.

Term

watch list

A “watch list” refers to people tracking a listing (commonly on marketplaces) so they can monitor price changes or availability. The speaker’s mention of “26 people” implies demand and can influence negotiation dynamics.

Term

electric windows

Electric windows are the power windows you control with a switch. On older cars, the motors or switches can wear out, so it’s worth checking they work properly.

Term

cruise control

Cruise control lets the car hold a steady speed for you. If it doesn’t work, it can be a small-but-real issue when you’re deciding what the car is worth.

Term

aircon

Air conditioning (“aircon”) is the system that cools the cabin. If it’s not blowing cold, it may need refrigerant added or it could be leaking.

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Just myself.

And now we do the after hours.

Uh, gentlemen, what would you go for?

They see us in there.

Okay.

And because it's not a super car.

It's not.

Ordinary perfection comes in the form of two letters, A and U.

Long live my LTD.

Matthew Janina.

Welcome to Car Talk.

It's Jason here in 90.9 Northwest FM.

It's me, Matty J, in the studio with Mr. Chad DeBal,

the Edward Tom Bunting.

David Prince is joined us as well as Scotty Doe Johnson.

How are you gentlemen?

Well, thank you.

Edward, are you indeed good?

Yes, I'm good.

Yes, good.

What?

Oh, it's so good.

Thanks.

Good.

Thanks.

I forgot my role with being Effie at the start of everything.

That's your thing you need to do.

You need to make sure you're committing to this because it's

an important thing to commit to.

Good to see you guys.

It's been a minute.

I missed the last week's show.

Obviously, I had some things to get done.

Sorry, I wasn't here.

But we are now back to all our live listeners,

as well as back to our lovely people on the podcast world.

Let's start with some car updates, gentlemen.

It's been a few weeks.

Plenty to talk about.

Edward Bunting, I think you've got probably the biggest car.

It's not that big.

You haven't bought a Rolls-Royce Cullinan or something.

Well, in the grand scheme of things,

you've bought the apocalypse car, haven't you?

Yes.

We'll kick off with that.

We'll kick off with that because I'm inspired and I'll get to why

I think I'm allowed to buy one very shortly.

Oh, okay.

So, yes.

But Edward Bunting, I just want to welcome you, mate.

Welcome you to the fraternity, the Falcon Brotherhood.

Is this the first one?

You've had a first one.

No, no, no.

So, look, rewind a couple of weeks and fuel obviously started

to kick off.

I mean, it wasn't that long ago that I was driving the big girl

to Canberra and back.

Running the V8 and loving life.

It was like it was the 1980s.

Money was everywhere.

Excess was good.

It was a dollar seventy-eight a liter.

You know, they had big hair, big shoulder pads.

We're rocking around in our S class listening to wham or something.

And you know, wake me up before you go, go.

The world was good.

And then it feels like now we're in the early 90s recession.

Interest rates at, you know, they're not quite there, of course,

but back then they were 17% or 19% or something.

David will remember that well.

You will.

And I remember you telling me, David,

you had a car finance that was 19% and that was good.

That was a really good rate.

Yeah, I was in the trade.

So I got a good rate.

Yeah, in the trade.

That's horrific.

You start talking these like that, but it feels like we're in a bit early

90s recession, doom and gloom, a lot of liquidations,

and no one can afford anything.

So it was quite a contrast to the 1980s.

Anyway, so this all kicked off two weeks ago.

And I thought, right, diesels screwed.

It's $3 plus per liter.

The Pajero's parked.

The 190 diesel is parked.

They are but garden ornaments currently.

Herschel ain't much better, you know,

and a lot of my cars or a lot of our cars on this group,

they run on premium unleaded because they're older cars.

So I've got to put 98 in my Honda City, for example,

or in my Mini, for example,

and 98 is still $2, 70 a liter or 60.

It's not much better than diesel.

So I started thinking, what's the most economical car that I own?

And I think we said it last time I was on the Honda City.

It's probably the most economical car that I own.

So for me to run the Honda City, you know,

for one tank, I get about 450 Ks out of a tank.

It's going to cost me somewhere around $100 to fill that car currently.

And I thought, well, diesel's no good.

Petrol's no good.

But every time I drive past the servo,

LP gas back then was 79 cents a liter.

I was like, this is quite the contrast.

What car is the best gas car, a car that runs on straight gas?

What cars were made by companies that ran on straight gas?

Holden did some, and Ford did some.

What's the better of those two cars?

The Ford, because it's the Barra motor.

So I think I need to find myself a straight gas Falcon.

Like an old Greek taxi driver, you know?

Yeah.

Who likes to save a buck.

No, I don't really.

That's what I need to do.

So I actually really got quite panicked.

I thought these things are going to sell.

And I was probably slightly ahead of the curve.

But two Saturdays ago, I went and did just that.

I bought an E-gas Falcon.

I wanted an Eco-LPI, ideally, because they're more efficient.

But there weren't bucket loads of those around.

And also, people are still quite good money for those.

They do, and they hold on to them for a bit longer.

Eco-LPI Falcons, good ones are sort of 10 grand plus.

I was like, I want a cheap way out of this.

So I thought, well, the next best thing is the E-gas,

which is still straight gas, just not quite as efficient.

And it's the one before the Eco-LPI.

So I picked up an 09 E-gas sedan, one owner.

It's a base white XT.

It literally is the sales rep special.

But it's got a heavy duty tow bar,

which is good for towing my caravan or trailers or other things.

It's got steering wheel audio controls, ice cold air conditioning,

and it's very smooth and comfy to drive.

So I went, right, I'll just have that.

I love that.

I didn't even get for a bargain.

This is not like a car dealer bargain.

I bought it privately just because I thought not only,

I think, are we going to see a lot of, obviously,

hikes in fuel and gas will still stay hopefully pretty good.

But I thought that we may not be able to get diesel.

Like if a tap turns off for diesel or it's rationed,

this car is even more valuable.

And I just, I really like the idea of having a car in the family

that was a different fuel source to petrol diesel.

Let's go with something that's made in Australia

or mined in Australia.

And yeah, something that is maybe a little bit dollar-proof

in that it's more inefficient than a petrol or a diesel,

but it's just so cheap to fill.

You know, a tank is 60 bucks, 65 bucks.

You go 450Ks on that.

So it's pretty good in that regard.

You can't really go wrong at that point.

Really go wrong with it.

Yeah.

And they're everywhere.

You know, there's anyone knows how to fix them and da-da-da.

It's a bit clunky in the dip bushes in mind in the rear,

but they kind of all are.

So I'm not too worried about that.

I'll probably get that done eventually.

And I don't quite know how long I'll run it for.

Like the moment I'm driving it every day when I need to.

But is this a six-month car, a two-month car, a one-year car?

I really don't know.

Is it an apocalypse car?

Yeah.

I mean, Trump will dictate maybe how long I drive that car for.

Is it floor shift auto or column?

No, floor shift in a sedan.

Okay.

I mean, the idea would be a ute, right?

And I saved all these utes and I saved all these sedans and wagons.

And every day my phone just goes ping, ping, ping, ping,

people are snapping them up, but particularly utes.

The tradies are all going back to gas utes

because running your dual cab, whatever, is just horrendous.

So you can see why the utes are sort of selling quicker than the sedans and the wagons.

But it doesn't really, I didn't really need a ute, of course.

So I thought, oh, sedan's fine for me.

That'll do what I want.

Yeah, that's my, you know, apocalypse car news.

I'm just rocking that.

And I thought, it's a little bit depressing.

Like the big girls parked up.

Everything else is just parked.

Like are these now museum pieces to never to see the light of day?

Or, you know, and in the back of my mind is this imminent, you know,

later this year release of the Honda super one, which I really like.

It's as we said before, it's the, it's given me a glimmer of hope

in an otherwise totally dull automotive industry that, you know,

yes, there's potentially something I can buy that I'll like in the future.

Now I'm not about to, you know, go and sign up for one now.

But, you know, if this continued on for a year and a half, two years,

and suddenly, you know, you're like, well,

from someone that has five Pajeros in the family, I can completely understand you.

I don't care about the other drivers really.

They can do what they want.

But yeah, I just like the idea of I'm glad that there's something

that gives me a glimmer of hope anyway in that regard.

Or even the humble Suzuki Jimny that we all love,

well, most of us love except Rob, but even something like that, you know,

the fuel use of that is certainly a lot better than other things.

And yeah, I would consider jumping into something like that

if I was forced to, you know, forced in inverted commas.

I just want to add, Scotty, as you know, you've always got your conspiracy hat on.

Trump mask mates.

Trump damaging oil prices.

Musk sells more Teslas.

It's a conspiracy.

Didn't they have a falling out those two?

Oh, they're friends again, apparently.

Okay, yeah.

But didn't, I think, well, I don't know.

I think Trump announced that something to do with the war.

There were peace talks and then oil went down and then all these friends sold all their oil

and then made lots of money or, you know, or went up or whatever.

You know, it's, it's, um, yeah.

It's all there's, this is money making going on.

Let's just say.

Yeah.

Well, here it first was Scotty because he's, he's our, he's our man with the tin full hearts.

So, Edward, that is your, they all your updates or is that the main, the main one?

What else?

Oh, the Renault 16 has no oil leaks.

I think I said that last time.

Yes, yes, you did.

Yeah.

So I've parked it for a few days.

I looked under, there's old oil stains from before, like, you know, when it was leaking,

but none now.

Um, so that's it.

Yeah.

That's it.

I think cause I bought a water pump for my other Renault 16 is having the motor rebuilt

that's coming from overseas.

Uh, that's been a bit of a slow burn.

I think that's probably coming on for four years.

No, other than that, I don't think there's any car things that I've done.

Oh, what did I buy?

I bought something.

I'm running.

I've still got the little Mercedes C280.

I've just been having that road worthy.

Um, I'm picking that up tomorrow morning and then I'll advertise that.

That's driving nicely.

The Ford laser that was ex Mr. Jim Barlow has been sold.

Yes.

That's gone to a little laser head who, who loved it.

I didn't deal with that person.

That was, that was our mutual friend who dealt with that sale.

So I didn't meet them, but, um, that's gone to a, yeah.

A laser aficionado.

What about Saabi?

Saab.

That's right.

The Saab.

Thank you for reminding me, David.

Saabi has been out of your mind.

I know, but you know, nothing like that reminds me.

Saabi.

Wasabi has been a naughty little biatch.

Um, what happened?

I loaned the Saab.

The Saab I was driving a few weeks ago, uh, picked it up from the mechanic,

having the tie rod ends done as I parked it, it died.

And then I restarted it and I thought that's weird.

Cause it was going crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank.

And then it did restart and I parked it and thought, oh, was that just a hiccup?

On the way home that day, it died again in traffic.

And I was like, great, but then it did restart again.

And I thought, I crept it home through the back street.

Um, and then I ended up loaning it to my friend.

And of course I said, look, it's just died twice today.

It's never done that before.

Just be, be warned, take heed.

And of course it died on him multiple times as well.

So he gave it back to me a couple of days later.

It was great.

What's that, David?

I'm grateful.

I know.

Gave it back to me.

Um, and it was dead on the side of Malvern Road and just would not start.

So I ended up getting a tow truck and, um, towed it to the first mechanic,

first mechanic didn't really want to do the repair,

but thinks it was the crank angle sensor.

So then needed to go to a subspecialist.

I stupidly thought, well, it's only five Ks down the road.

Oh, oh, just risk it.

Bad move.

Um, the first time it died was on the corner of sort of near the old

in-lux on the corner there of central wood and whatever it is.

Um, and I was sort of half blocking the lane and some nice guys in a

Commodore, you gave me a pushup onto the grass.

Um, and then I got it around the corner cause it was, I was literally 900

meters from the sub repair guy and I got it around the corner thinking, yeah,

if I floor it and roll a bit, I should almost get there.

And, and it died again straight away around the corner.

I thought, no, I've just got to get a truck.

So I rang the truck and I was right across the road from sexy land and I

thought, oh, while I'm waiting for the truck, you know, you can just pop in

and do some shopping.

Just pop in.

So I took a photo of the sub broken down and sexy long in the back.

I thought that was funny.

So, uh, yes, I went to the sub specialist.

He fixed an oil seal on the, it's cause the motor in the sub is the wrong

way round, right?

You know, the back is the front and the front is the back.

So of course what's easy on a normal car like a crank angle sensor is not

easy on a sub because it's right at the back of the motor against the

firewall.

So that's painful and expensive.

So he's put a new crank angle sensor in it, uh, in it to fix the oil seal

that was leaking and sort of giving it back to me and touch wood.

It's been fine since hasn't stopped.

So we think that problem is solved.

I loaned it back to the same friend last week.

Um, I say, yes, I've viewed a car can borrow and I'm like, you can have the

old girl back.

Thank you very much.

And he rang me, uh, on the weekend and I answered the phone, RACV roadside.

He goes, no, it's amazing.

I left it.

Dame Jones, Sutherland, um, best of opera classics tape.

The glove box.

So just wrapping around.

I'm listening to Dame Jones opera areas with the windows down.

It's beautiful.

And he said, it reminds me of Priscilla queen of the desert when the guy pierces

on top of the box and the opera's, you know, so the Saab is back.

It's back.

Back alive.

Welcome back, Saab.

Welcome back.

Um, soon to be roadworthy then for sales.

Uh, yeah.

So that, I think that's all the cars.

Yeah.

We are also joined by Mr. Rob Zadai and Mr. Jim Barlow.

How are you gentlemen?

Good. Thank you.

How are we all?

Very good.

Good. How are you?

Very well.

Thank you, Jim.

Continue with your car updates.

David Prince.

My car updates, uh, revolve around little cars because they don't use much petrol.

So, uh, been out and about in the LN a bit, which has been great fun running like a top.

Although it has developed an interesting, I was driving it on twilight the other night.

Beautiful evening.

I thought, oh, driving this tiny little car, put my headlights on.

So I put my headlights on, didn't have indicators when I put, because the scam's got a little

light in the dash that it's not illuminated left or right.

It just says turn, turn.

Turn.

Um, and, uh, yeah, it wasn't telling me to turn and no clicks or no nothing.

So, uh, typical little, um, 55 year old, um, car units, probably have a little, um,

bit of a, uh, auto look, have a look at that, I think.

It might be a flasher or something.

It could be a plastic can or maybe a fuse.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I turned the headlights off and the indicators worked fine again.

So, yeah, it's something related to.

To that switch, I think, and it's also got a bit of a, cause interestingly, as advanced

an automobile as they were, the end of the indicator stalk is a little button that flashes

the headlights.

So it had a headlight flasher like in 1971, which is great little feature.

Cause if, you know, someone's turning or you're not sure, you can just flash your lights

and really easily in them just with this little, little pressure switch at the end of the,

um, indicator stalk.

Uh, so anyway, I'll, I'll have another look at that.

I'll just might not drive it with the light headlights on for the time being.

Also driving at night, but in a straight line.

Yeah, that's right.

Don't turn.

That's maybe on the nullable.

It's a good, uh, a good car if you're driving to Perth.

Yeah.

Got a good drive in the end one on the weekend, which I haven't driven for some time.

It was a couple of weeks since I'd driven that worked on a couple of interesting things.

What's the new, um, the Ferrari 12 cylinder?

I think it was today.

Uh, someone managed to scratch the dashboard in a basically brand new car.

So it was a little bit to the customer and they said, Oh, we can't really deliver it

like this.

So I did a little bit of a number on that, um, sorted them out.

Yeah.

Had a lot of other stuff occupying our, our days and weeks.

So not a huge amount on the, on the car front, but, uh, yeah, always.

Uh, yeah, just, I actually did in the Caddy, the last couple of days, I've actually set,

brought up the screen that shows the consumption readout.

So I'm seeing how long we can get the consumption on that thing.

It's a premium unloaded vehicle.

What's it doing, David?

Today it was down around high sevens.

That's pretty good.

That's good.

It's pretty good loaded work vehicle.

Yeah.

Well, that's true.

Yeah.

I mean, we're not talking, um, but yeah, it makes a difference.

It's amazing.

You know, when you're actually, when you actually try how little with the traffic,

the way it is Melbourne, how little accelerator you actually need.

Like you can dribble it around.

So I'm hoping to improve on that during the week, but I'll get back to you with

my, uh, my test results.

A few updates will be next week.

I think gentlemen.

Yeah.

I wonder who can get the lowest leaders per 100.

Oh, I don't remember yet.

A little challenge.

Now, um, a good friend of the third David day has got one of the original

Honda insights of which 47 was sold.

He's had that for many years now and it's really a little bit down at the tooth.

And for a long time it's had no electric assistant.

The batteries, you know, he didn't know if he had to get a new battery or what

the story was.

He'd had the battery reconditioned at some stage and basically, I don't know

if I've mentioned it before, but the, the battery box that says do not touch,

you will die if you open it, um, has five D cell batteries wired together and

it's got 20 sticks of these five D cell batteries.

That's amazing.

That's the old school.

That's the battery.

Sorry.

That's all it is.

That all it is.

It's 20 sticks of five D cell batteries welded together.

Like in all of those things, batteries and seals.

Yeah.

In all of those things, the, the, the weakest battery will dictate how,

how effective the battery is.

So anyway, he, uh, another guy in the club has got, uh, one of the insights that

had a, had a battery that he wasn't using.

So David tried that and then, oh, the car's auto stopping again.

It's, it's getting assist.

It hasn't had assist for years, you know, because it, and being a three cylinder

one liter, it's not the quickest car on the, on the planet.

And he was getting about five and a half, six liters per 100 Ks.

Anyway, he pulled it.

He realized it was the battery.

So we thought, I'll take a look myself.

There are a couple of loose connections and, you know, that sort of thing and

replace a couple of, of the sticks that he could tell weren't quite, quite right.

Um, he's now getting 3.8 around town.

Wow.

And all the assist he wants, he said, okay, it's a different car to drive.

He said, it pulls up a hill.

Rather than having to, yeah, so I mean, nothing like necessity is the mother

invention sometimes, but for years, he's been, you know,

feeling around with this thing and that's barely can pull the skin off a

rice custard and, and he's got assist and everything.

So yeah, so my goal is not 3.7 or whatever he's getting 3.6 or 3.8.

Well, that's pretty good because mum's Yarra's cross hybrid that,

that is not what four years old now only, uh, that's getting in the high

threes.

So it's not dissimilar, but that insight came out when, you know, 26 years ago.

I mean, that's, that's, that's not a short space of time in automotive development.

And, you know, it really shows how, how ahead of the game they were.

That's right.

That's really incredible.

I think the heiress is probably a better car.

Like, you know, maybe a better, a lot more features, a safety features.

Yeah, yeah.

But those things, but I mean, that's right.

The technology hasn't advanced an awful lot.

And that's a 1.53 cylinder petrol motor combined with the hybrid battery.

So it's, it's not that different.

Interesting.

So yeah, economy.

That's the, that's this week's job.

Yeah.

Check on the, how few liters we can use.

So we're going to fuel talk.

Fuel talk.

See, that doesn't help me.

My falcon's terrible.

It'll be doing like 18 liters per 100.

It's just so cheap.

The 18 liters.

That's right.

Cause it's gas.

Cause it just burns.

Yeah.

So do we have a cost factor versus a, you know, the cost factor has to be part of it.

Yeah.

I think, I think that, that's the point.

Well, Alam's out of this.

He's gone.

How many Ks did you go and what did it cost you?

You know, that's.

Let's, let's do that.

Let's do that for next week.

Let's actually, let's do this.

Can we, can we cup it at like a certain amount of kilometers?

Why?

No, because like, you know, to keep it consistent, like let's say 400 or 500 Ks.

And I'm going to cost you for those 500 Ks.

Okay.

So let's, let's do 400 because I don't know.

400 because I'm driving the Falcon up country on the weekend and, and I'll easily do that

up and back, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah, cool.

400 is.

Well, it's easy to measure because my Caddy turned over as I backed in the driveway today,

80,000 Ks.

Well, there you go.

That's, that's like a Himala in a Caddy.

You get some sort of an award for Volkswagen.

Hopefully, hopefully deserve it.

It's like, it's like a grill badge.

Yeah.

Home.

The 80,000.

That's funny.

All right.

Well, we'll, we'll hear back next week.

I'll be out, I'll be out.

Zero to 400.

I'm going to reset my, my laser when I, I want to get back.

Scotty Dove up this with you.

Me.

Um, yeah, those amount of Ks I'm going to get nowhere near because mine's just used to

drive to work and back.

I'm only about 10 Ks away from work.

The blade, the blade is pretty thirsty and the smaller trips, it's thirstier.

Yeah.

But the smaller trips is what I've noticed.

So I tend to get, we may be 350 kilometers that ever tank.

Okay.

So it's pretty average, pretty poor.

Um, but normally when it comes to highway driving that you easily over 400 plus to 500.

It just prefers to cruise.

Um, car updates with me.

The insight is still available.

I've had no bites.

I can't believe that in these, in these times, no.

So talk us through just very quickly.

The economy of that car.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't really drive it.

What engine is it?

Should be a 1.5.

That's 1.3 small 1.3 and with a battery.

Yeah.

So integrated motor assist.

So that's the hybrid thing.

So it doesn't run on electric power only.

It's just an assist to the 1.3 liter engine.

Okay.

Um, and was that an Aussie delivered car or a Japanese car?

Yeah.

Delivered Honda Insight and it's manual.

No.

Auto.

I mean that's got to be pretty good on fuel, doesn't it?

Yeah.

It wouldn't be bad.

It's fine when you're plodding around town and everything.

It's, it's all good.

It doesn't love freeways that much, but you know, it's not really designed.

It's not really designed.

What's the use of that car?

Um, I mean 2010 or 2011.

What, what use the Insight 2010?

I'm just looking at consumption right now.

Has that got magic seats as well, Scotty?

Uh, I don't think so.

Oh, you mean where it completely falls flat?

Okay.

4.3 to 4.6 liters per 100 on a combined cycle.

Pretty good.

It's pretty good.

It's bad.

Why, Scott, why aren't you driving that?

Why am I driving that?

I don't have fun travel.

We do.

We actually used it to, um, last week we had to go all the way to

Mount Dennell and back.

And yeah, it was great.

It used maybe almost a quarter of a tank.

That's pretty good for that whole trip.

A lot of stop start was on that Thursday where it was just pouring down with rain.

That was great fun.

And it just, it didn't like the hills.

The range that it has on there.

So isn't overly accurate.

So, you know, it will say there you got 200 kilometers until empty,

but it varies.

It keeps changing a lot.

Well, that's cause of, you know, how you're driving.

Yeah, but like I've had the blade for a while now and it's

way more accurate with the way I drive.

It's not so up and down.

So as soon as I hit the hills or something, it, it changes,

and it changes drastically and all of a sudden you go back to cruising

and it shoots back up again.

It's just a little bit more over the place compared to what.

So it's based on like the current consumption and how many

cases you'll get at that current consumption.

So we have to get like an F1 car.

Yeah.

I don't think Honda Insight and F1 have been using the same

sentence ever.

Tell me how.

Thank you.

Maybe that's why the Honda designed their new engine.

I think Honda's working formula one gives it an insight how to

build a better car.

I think the next step is probably to put it up onto marketplace

now and see how it goes.

You know, I'd really put it on car sales rather than marketplace.

Hang on.

What's it on the tires currently?

Honda Car Club of Vittoria.

Oh, God, no wonder it hasn't sold in.

I'm not going to buy anything new.

They've got no money.

I'm lying.

There's blue people out there who are going to buy things.

Go see Ed who is flush with cash.

You know, he's going to sell you all that money.

It'll be a minimum of flush.

I'm going to start with one of the Falcons.

He's going to look up my Falcons.

Look up my Falcons.

I'm looking up other Insights.

And that's funny.

So that's you, Scotty.

That's it with the Insight.

I wanted to drive the R31 because I knew it's got close to a full tank.

And I thought that'd be great to use, you know,

backwards and forwards and use a bit of petrol in that one.

But the petrol gauge doesn't work.

And I thought, hey, it's probably wiring because sometimes it works

here and there.

And I thought, I'll get myself a soldering iron because I mean,

why would it be hard to try and solder?

That's easy.

So I got the whole set.

I thought, yeah, great.

Pulled the cluster out and it was just so many screws to get to the spot

where I wanted to do the soldering.

It's these super fine wires that connect and sit on there.

And soldering is like, I would say welding is really hard.

And then it must be soldering next.

Yeah.

Paration, use flux and you clean the spot and you'll be right.

It was just, it just wouldn't stay there.

And then I'm seeing there with the solder and it's just burning.

I'm like, where's the solder going?

Vanishing into thin air.

It's gone up in smoke.

It's gone.

It's like some kind of magic trick.

So I was getting frustrated with that.

And then finally put it together and I was like,

okay, I got the solder done and put it in and doesn't work anyway.

So I'm like, oh, great.

It could be the sender unit.

And then I broke the little, I broke the needle on the battery,

the battery one as well.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

On the voltage one, I was like, ah, and then I messaged my 31 parts going

and I go, I'm after a six, the six gauge one for 31.

He goes, yeah, what color?

I said green because the series threes have got the green,

previous ones were orange.

And he goes, yeah, a hundred bucks.

Perfect.

Oh my God.

Wait for a whole cluster?

Yeah, for the whole thing.

Oh my God.

That's so good.

A whole cluster.

I just did that with the first one.

Just a waste of those hours.

Stuffing about trying to solder.

All I learned from that was that I don't know how to solder.

That's my dead giveaway there.

I need a lot more.

I'll never lose that hour again.

I'll never have that back.

I should have spent it flaring out the guards because the

soldering iron also comes with a heat gun as well.

So I can use that and heat gun the sides and then just massage the

guards out a little bit so that it doesn't rub.

It will be easier to drive.

So hopefully that'll come and I can throw that in there.

That's you.

Yeah, that's it.

Blades almost out of fuel.

That's about 80Ks left in it.

But hey, school's over.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

Except I've got two days straight with parent-teacher interviews.

Oh, yeah.

We'll go with Rob.

Rob updates with you.

Oh, heaps.

Went it all for a day.

Before I got there, I had to put $100 worth of diesel in my

transit.

Oh, you took the transit?

Wow.

Yeah, and that got me a quarter tank.

Well, that's so bad.

I think it was about 20 litres.

I think it was 30 litres.

Did you put that for sale there, Rob?

No.

He's all in now.

He's keeping it.

All in.

So anyway, it cost me $120 to get it all four days.

$100 of fuel and $20 because we've got a $5 discount to get in the

gates.

Wow.

Being over 60.

So I thought, you know, I'd go around all four days with some

really nice cars and all that.

But my favourite is the Mackie Hurts.

Oh, yeah.

That was like to me.

Did you see that?

I must say Mackie as a Hurts.

What the hell?

He's got a heart.

Made in England.

Wow.

There you go.

But yeah, I went around and caught up with my brother Luca.

He's got a new car and he's stable now.

He does.

He bought an FGX Sprint XR8 Sprint.

What is that, Maddie?

It's a 2016.

One of the last ones off the line.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So it's in a really nice colour.

It's, what's the colour called again now?

But I've got to remember now.

In kinetic blue.

Kinetic blue is called.

That's a V8 5-litre.

V8 5-litre Supercharged Manwell.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, very cool.

It's a limited run of car being a Sprint.

Yeah, it's only got 10,000Ks on it.

So it's like a brand new car.

Yeah, so.

So is that just going to be a sort of a little show car keeper?

Yeah, he put the babies in and he drove it down to a lot.

And he's like, it's a car that needs to be driven.

He's like, look, I'm not going to put a million Ks on it,

but I will drive it.

I'm like, that's good.

He also said to me, he's like, it's actually nice.

He's like, it's actually nice driving a,

driving a non-modified car.

He's like, it just feels like comfortable.

I'm like, well, you know.

Especially compared to the other car he has.

Yeah.

It's a fun car.

Wild.

Matty, did you see the other Sprint at the all four day

where he had all the photos of it coming off the production line?

Yes, the production line.

Yeah, so there was a white, there was a white Sprint there.

A Sprint XR8.

And it had all the photos when it was on the production line.

Like when it was getting built.

So I'm like, for sure, that's an owner.

Like that, like a previous worker.

Which was so cool to see.

Like you see in all its different stages getting.

It's like he's walked it down the line taking photos.

That's crazy.

That car is 10 years old.

Wild.

It looks brand new.

How is it?

How is it 10 years old?

How good has it been out of production for 10 years?

Time flies when you have fun.

Yeah.

And so, so the F100,

the actual transit went all right.

Even though it cost me $100 to get to the four day.

And when I got back, I go,

Jesus, I should get that F100 started up and cleaned up.

But I ran out of time, but that's on LP gas.

So that's my next project.

Get the F100.

Nice.

Get the service to F100 and get it back on the road and drive it on gas.

LP gas, mate.

It's worth it.

Yes.

Nice.

Welcome.

It's very good.

And that's pretty much it with cars,

but I'm heading off to Vietnam for three weeks on Thursday.

Oh, nice.

So the fuel there is pretty cheap.

It's only a dollar, I think about a dollar 50 Oz,

a dollar something US.

So, and it'll be quite cheap because we're running motorbikes.

Yeah.

I was going to say bring some back for us.

Yeah.

I'll bring a bottle.

You have 30 kilos of, you know, luggage.

Imagine that.

I'll bring fuel back.

So that should be interesting to see what the fuel situation is over there

because we're going to be going into Laos and then back into Vietnam.

So, you know, here that part of Laos isn't all that crash hot with fuel.

So we'll see what happens.

Well, Rob, you and my friend Luca from work have inspired me to get my

to get my motorcycle license just because I actually kind of want to do,

I want to do that thing.

I want to, I want to ride in Vietnam.

I think that'd be a real fun.

How do you go when you go?

Yeah.

Well, we can, we can, we can make this a thing.

So we'll have to get Rob to take us around because he's,

because he knows the place.

So we're here to our last, so last online update, Jim Barlow.

Yes.

Well, excuse me.

Firstly, put up with you a Saturday week ago and after having a great time in the city,

you worked wonders on the interior of the magma.

So it's looking spot on now.

Turned out very, very well.

And spent $146 on petrol last week and from Monday to,

sorry, from, I think I refueled on Sunday and just topped it up now,

which was $68, I think.

So, yeah, although personally, I do find people who went about petrol

the most, the ones that live closest to where they work.

But anyway.

Are you staying, Jim?

Well, I just find the people who don't drive very far always go,

oh, it's too expensive.

It's like, do you want to swap?

Because I'm quite happy to swap.

Yeah, but most people don't drive as far as you, Jim.

That would be everyone in society.

Again, quite happy to swap the bill.

I don't mind.

So good.

So, so, so Jim, Scotty, those are some fighting words.

How can I, can I rephrase this?

Have you washed your blade?

I was kind of intrigued actually to see, sort of see like a comparison

between what the inside would do on my commute versus the Civic on my commute.

But anyway, I think for a little while I'm going to have to give the,

what am I going to use?

I think I'm going to give the Civic a bit of long service leave

because the other day when we had like a bit of a downpour,

it was a bit damp and there's also a spot at the back of the rear window

that's looking a little bit discoloured.

So I think I'll try and get that scene too

and a few other oil leaks that every mechanic seems to change.

They mind about what's causing it.

Yeah.

So, yes, so I'll get onto that.

And then I guess the more exciting part was that I added another car

to my collection on the weekend.

Yep.

So.

RPG Falcon.

I bought an Accord Euro.

So, yeah.

Six speed manual.

I quite like a base spec.

So it's got cloth seats, no sunroof.

No.

Probably the only thing that Dave might differ on is I'm not a fan of sunroofs.

So, but yeah, had to catch a ferry and a train and a car to get there.

Yeah.

Sorry if that was funny.

Was it in Geelong?

No, no, no.

It was in Moondan.

Boy.

Yeah, ferry.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

With the smallest V-line train, I think in the entire system.

But yeah.

So, but drives well, I think like as I had already learned anyway,

you know, needs a new clutch, got to get roadworthy and stuff like that.

But it does drive really, really well.

I quite, I'm quite, one thing that's interesting too,

it's exactly the same year as my Magna.

So it's like a like-for-like comparison.

I will say too that listening to Archie Shaw or Glenn Miller just somehow sounds better in Accord.

I'm not quite sure why.

Yeah.

So the other thing I found that's a bit funny, the Civic, the Magna and the Accord are all silver.

I all bought them when they were 21 years old, when they had roughly the same mileage for more or less the same amount of money.

Yeah.

So as Jim told me about this guy earlier in the week, and it's silver.

It's, you know, it's got miles on it.

Baseback, you know, it's a, I'm going to start.

I'm going to make him a sticker, Jim Barlow spec.

Jim Barlow.

It's got to be silver and it's got to be like that.

Yeah.

No silver.

Jim Barlow.

So I'm going to make you a sticker, Jim.

I did jokingly think when I tried the economy, he tried silver.

I'm not near the air conditioning, but you know, I'm not going to have it missed out.

So yeah, but no, it drives very, very well.

It is, I mean, an iconic car talk podcast of Jim.

The fact that you've got a spec level named after you.

I know.

This is rather nice.

Jim Barlow.

Unsurprisingly, it is noticeably narrower inside than the Magna.

And I think it's probably the first, definitely the first manual, but I think the first car,

no, first manual that I've driven with a floor hinge accelerator pedal.

So that was a bit different, but yes, it's a very, very lovely gear change.

So although not as talky as the Magna, so I'm adjusting to that.

But yeah.

More economical than the Magna.

Well, I haven't done a like for like comparison yet, but we'll see.

No, I'm telling you, it is.

It depends how you drive.

I have a bit of an old, a bit of a geriatric when I come to driving.

So we'll see how we go.

Yeah.

I think you're called to be quite a margin better.

We'll see.

I don't mind you are not being crash.

Yeah, mine wasn't either.

Yeah.

So, and I mean, I run everything on 98 to so we'll see how, how that goes.

When I got back to the four leaders makes a big difference how much it's consuming.

Oh yeah.

Whether you're cruising or not boring.

It's no difference really.

Yeah.

So, yes, of course, we're going to get back to the island and fill the tank.

I did sort of have to take a few deep breaths.

But anyway, that's what the second job's for.

So yeah.

Very good.

Jim Barlow.

Scotty's got to go.

Yes, Scotty.

Yeah.

I've got a meeting with the celebrant.

Oh, okay.

Yes.

Well, enjoy Scotty.

Yeah.

You go, go and go do that.

So we'll, we'll keep that.

But gosh.

Have a good week everybody.

I'll catch you later.

Catch you later.

Bye buddy.

Take care.

Yeah.

So chat updates with you updates with me.

I haven't been away for the last week.

I was in Queensland doing some family stuff.

So I haven't got to do a lot of car stuff lately.

But what have I done before I left?

Not much.

I can't remember doing much.

Just because it's been a couple of hectic weeks.

But I was in, I was in Queensland and my father-in-law had a Tesla.

And so I got to drive that, drive that a little bit, which was interesting.

It's a really alien feeling car.

I got to experience that whole one pedal driving, which was weird fun in a way.

Stupidly fast.

It would be like a rocket ship, but zero feeling like nothing at all.

So, but that car sold.

It actually sold very quickly, which was very surprising.

I guess not really because it's so expensive, but this guy drove up.

So we're in Tuvalmo, which was about two hours west of Brisbane.

He drove up from the sunshine, not sunshine, Gold Coast.

And I ran 1500 with a tandem trailer.

And he just sent money to my account.

And he's like, all right, thanks, mate.

He just took it and left.

And I was like, all right, he didn't even haggle on the money.

Like I put it up for an amount and he was like, yep, sounds good to me.

He didn't even want to test drive it.

I was like, have a go.

Like, have a go of what it feels like.

Yeah.

And he's like, all right.

Yeah, it was like, he'd like, didn't care.

Yeah.

So, you know, it was obviously cashed up and all this stuff.

So he just, yeah, he just drove up.

I'm trying to figure out how much that would have cost him to actually drive.

Working out.

I reckon it was like, it had to be like 500 bucks.

Oh, absolutely.

Like towing model Y, which is quite a heavy car.

So that was an interesting sort of experience for me.

And then I had a rental RAV4 hybrid, which was pretty incredible car.

Like how efficient it was.

I think like the whole trip we got averaged around three and a half per 100.

That's ridiculous.

And that's like going up a mountain range and stuff.

So it was seriously like a very efficient car.

So, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm in an ironing about maybe upgrading one of

our cars to a hybrid or something.

So just for efficiency of it.

But we'll see.

I don't know.

I'm still thinking about gas Falcons.

Yeah.

Gass Falcons are, you know, they're in the back of my mind.

I'll honor a Greek on the program.

Edward Bunting would be the first take.

The Falcons.

Give it to the front of your mind, Scott and Scott Chad and make it happen.

Yeah.

I mean, look, it's hopefully something's in the works as well.

What else have I done?

It has, yeah, been a lot of non-car stuff.

You've been a busy man though.

You've been a busy man.

Yeah.

It's been a busy with family stuff.

So, yeah, um, that's, that's all for me.

Updates from me real quick.

What have I done?

I have had the Camry's transmission flashed and serviced.

I then had the, there was like a little bit of an octave though.

They thought they found it.

It's still, it's better, but it's still a little bit there.

So I'm going to take it back.

Um, what else did I get done?

I've got all new radiator and heater hoses on that car.

Um, so it can be all ready for its big voyage to,

to rattle aid for, you know, uh, beta birdwood in the,

which would be fun.

So that's, yeah.

Let's drop it on.

Are we, are we still doing that?

I'm, I'm planning on going.

So I've, uh, I've got to save up for some fuel, but it's,

I've been driving that pretty much emptied the tank in the,

in the Camry the last few days.

Um, so yeah.

How's the efficiency on the Camry?

Not great.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's not great.

Yeah.

Isn't that real quick?

Yeah.

It's, it's, it really isn't, um, like it's,

it doesn't have a big tank either.

Like it's surprisingly, it's got about a,

I think a 50 liter tank in it.

Um, it gets about 400, which is not too bad, but it's not great.

But that's a little of just bumper to bumper traffic.

Yeah.

And, um, me giving it a hiding here and there.

Um, so, but no, it's, it's, it's, it's okay.

I think on the freeway, it'd be better.

Once the torque converter locks up and, you know,

it's just dropped and off it goes.

So, so yeah, but that's been all right.

Um, the, the, the gold laser norm is in getting some surgery.

So the air con issues and a few other bits and pieces getting

just, just, just old age stuff, like the radiator is old,

uh, hose are all old, um, the evaporator behind the dash,

which I didn't realize it's a full dash out job on that.

So it's, yeah, it's a bit of a, bit of a pain.

Um, but so that's all getting done at the moment.

Um, hopefully picking it up at some point tomorrow or Thursday.

So that'll be done.

What else have we done with my cars?

Oh yeah.

Drove the Typhoon for probably the last time in a very long time.

My brother's like, we're going to get all four days.

He's been telling me, you know, ages and I'm like, oh,

I'm like, all right, we'll, we'll go.

Cause I did fill it up last week and I sent you guys a photo

of like, you know, it's last drink for a while.

Um, so, I mean, I can't complain.

My brother was driving a five liter supercharged V8.

So we drove up together.

He brought the kids and his wife.

I brought staff.

And, um, you know, it was a, it was a nice day out actually.

Like we, I had to leave it early-ish, but, um,

this will lead into, into the next bit,

which I was going to talk about before we get to the quiz.

The, you know, all four, all four day,

which, which was held last Sunday.

Um, it is apparently the biggest one make.

You know, event in the Southern Hemisphere.

Oh, really? Yeah.

That's what they've touted it as.

And people say it.

So I'm like, that's, I mean, Rob,

did you feel like there wasn't as many cars this year?

Absolutely.

I was going to say that.

I would say there'd be only two thirds of the normal.

Why didn't you tell me it was on?

I could have been part of it.

You could have, you could have bought the E-Gas.

Um,

He would have been yelling.

He would have been doing some maintenance or something.

Yeah.

I would, I would have actually gone to that.

I was there.

I was there any transit there?

Yeah, I know you were.

Um,

So,

so,

but Luke and I,

um,

we obviously drove there and,

and, um,

you know,

he called me halfway on the way and I just hear his daughter just screaming in the car.

He's like,

we're going to pull over.

I'm like, okay.

So we,

we pull,

we pull over and she's just going nuts.

Um,

but then she,

you know,

she calmed down and stuff and she,

you know,

obviously she didn't have a,

have a nap at that time of the day.

Um,

so we get there and she's in the prayer and she was great in the prayer.

Um,

his little boy was,

was running around,

but yeah,

I got there.

Um,

I was a bit disappointed this year because I think there was not as many cars,

but I think that's a few reasons obviously fuels,

expensive,

et cetera, et cetera.

But I just think,

um,

yeah,

it wasn't as,

it wasn't as many cars.

There was a lot of cars I've seen before.

Um,

but I thought probably the biggest thing was there was hardly anything else besides,

besides Falcons there.

Did you notice that Rob?

There was pretty much just 90% Falcons,

which I'm not complaining about, but like,

there is another day that's the small forward day,

small for Sunday.

Yeah.

So they would go to that.

But they also come to the RS club also come to,

come to this,

but there was,

there was hardly any lasers.

There was,

there was no,

there was really not much else besides,

besides Falcons,

which is,

which is a bit disappointing because every year they have like a really nice

selection of all different forwards.

They've got the Zephyrs,

they've got this,

they've got that.

But yeah,

it's interesting to hear that you've,

that you probably noticed the same thing Rob.

There wasn't,

there wasn't as many cars.

Did you notice the B,

I think it was the BF,

there's two forward drive BF UTS.

I did.

Yeah.

Did you guys,

did you guys see these?

No.

They are,

there's a BF UTS,

XR8 UTS

and a big AXR6 turbo UTS,

which have been put on patrol chassis.

Wow.

And they've kept their like engine and,

and

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Mechanical drivetrain just,

just been put on like on full frames.

And they're fully engineered.

Wild.

And the plates are BA four by four and BF four by four.

Wow.

So utterly wild vehicles.

What did you think of those Rob?

That was pretty cool.

They were done well.

Yeah.

They look pretty good.

That was probably the highlight of the show,

two BFs.

Absolutely.

I couldn't,

I couldn't believe it.

I was looking at it and I was like,

Oh my God.

It's like they're huge.

I'll find some photos.

They're pretty wild.

But,

so yeah,

they were definitely a highlight.

What were your highlights Rob before,

before we get into mine?

Just,

Yeah.

The UTS,

Macky,

the Hurts.

The Hurts, yeah.

Yeah.

The Shelby Mustang,

the new one.

That was nice.

Yeah.

That looked very nice.

The X,

you know,

there was a couple there.

There was a couple.

There wasn't as many though.

There's usually a lot of Caprice,

a lot of Escorts.

Yeah.

A lot of them, you know,

but there was just,

there was hardly any of them there this year.

Not as many RS 2000s around,

what were they?

There were like two there.

Yeah.

So apart from that,

no,

they're sort of the cars that I like anyway.

XPs,

there were a couple of nice XPs.

They were,

I saw a nice old four door sedan.

I liked them in the station wagon.

Mm hmm.

They're sort of my era.

Yeah.

And I know Luke is like,

he's looking at X,

what is the XAs or something or XPs now?

He's wanting an XB for,

Yeah.

All that many.

I mean, there were,

I mean, there was a few coupes.

Yeah.

All right.

But not as many as normal really.

No, there wasn't.

Yeah.

You are right.

And it was,

I was like,

you know,

there wasn't,

I don't either they were too scared to bring them out or,

because like the day was,

it was a perfect day for it.

It was like,

you couldn't have asked for better weather.

It was just,

it was phenomenally good.

And like the older vendors,

I like how they place the vendors this year down the,

down the pathway.

I thought that was a lot better.

So it was really well organized.

There's some really cool vendors.

This is one guy that I'm going to actually get into commission me a,

a model.

So he makes his clay,

like out of clay or you just sending photos of your car and he'll make it

out of like a little,

a little clay,

like a stoneware,

you know,

fully glazed and everything of your car.

Oh, that's cool.

I mean, he's,

he's an older gentleman.

He charges about 400 bucks for like 20 hours of work or a hundred for 20

hours of working,

but it's a lot of, you know,

it's, it's, it's a lot of,

yeah,

yeah, he's a crystal synestic.

So,

too much money.

Too much money.

I pay,

I pay guests.

So,

yeah.

So,

you know,

I was thinking because like that don't really make a laser SR2 model.

That'd be kind of cool to,

to get,

but they were heavy too,

like proper,

yeah.

Properly done.

Um,

but yeah,

really cool,

you know,

really cool cars.

Obviously not the,

not as big as it normally was.

A good friend wasn't there.

I didn't see his car there.

Hayden.

Yeah.

I didn't see no doc there.

but I also saw a few other cars and Edward Bunting,

the guy that you,

that we went on the drive with that day with that XE that full,

with Luca that.

Oh yeah,

that guy.

Yeah.

He won best X series Falcon.

Yeah.

It's,

it's a,

it's a very nice car that seriously.

So he did,

he did well on that.

Anyone best territory as well.

So yeah,

look,

overall my pick of the day was like,

I did get a few photos and.

I really liked it.

It's just such a mundane car back in the day,

but there was this,

there's a lovely old,

I think I've missed it in the chat,

but there's lovely old XF family edition wagon.

Yeah.

It's in it.

Oh yeah.

It's really original old thing.

You know,

it's super cool.

Even had the,

the Australian design award,

you know,

award sticker on the,

on the,

on the back quarter.

Yeah.

Really,

really cool thing,

really cool thing.

And I was sitting by itself in the middle of nowhere.

Did you notice that it was like parked by itself and it kind of

looked a bit lost,

but I thought it just reminded me of like,

like an old family outing where you take,

you take the old,

you know,

take the old Falcon,

you know,

you take the wagon and open the boot and get out,

you pick the wagon and stuff.

I would not talking to the other members of its family.

Yeah.

Correct.

Yeah.

Another one was the,

sorry,

was that a bench seat?

It was not.

Yeah.

So,

actually,

I think it was a bench seat.

No,

you can see that.

Yeah.

The Catholic family edition.

Exactly.

Absolutely.

So,

so that was a really lovely old thing.

Another cool car,

which,

you know,

I thought was really hilarious was the Lego Ute.

So,

this one guy made his FG

into a Lego Ute.

So,

basically,

Lego wheels and Lego,

Lego vinyl,

it was ridiculous,

but it looked kind of cool.

I was like,

The wheels are actually Lego?

No,

it's made to look like Lego.

like,

you know,

it's got that little,

that little,

yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

So,

so that was kind of cool.

Yeah,

some cool,

yeah,

cool,

interesting cars,

interesting cars there.

But I think,

yeah,

I think it was just,

it was a bit,

bit lackluster this year.

and I think maybe the fuel,

the fueling issues and stuff had had a lot to do with it.

Again,

like there was hardly any lasers.

There was,

there was a lot of the stuff that I'm used to seeing there.

There wasn't any,

there was no fiestas.

I'll take that back.

There was an early fiesta,

but there was no,

like STs or anything.

And,

um, yeah,

so it was just a bit of a,

it was a bit,

it was a little bit disappointing about this year,

I thought.

It was.

A few of my friends,

um,

swore they wouldn't never go back again.

uh,

over the last few years where it was unorganized,

uh,

muddy or too dusty or the actual judges went all that crash

hot with the,

uh,

judge in the cars.

There was a lot of,

I have to say,

bad remarks about the whole event over the years.

And so I think that it's going to take time for them to build

their reputation back up again too.

Yeah.

I thought it was better organized this year in terms of like

the way they put their vendors and things.

I thought that was really clever of it.

I just think,

could have been,

could have been a little bit better.

Um,

I could say,

you know,

cause it's,

it's always out of the biggest one make event in,

in this part of the world.

Um,

but,

you know,

I guess times are tough and,

you know,

and it is expensive to,

to get out there these days and,

um,

but,

same location as it was last year.

Yep.

Yeah.

It's a really big,

a really big space.

So it's,

it's sort of hard to fill it up.

I suppose it sort of went on and on last year.

I think they brought the fences back.

They did this year.

Yeah.

It was, it was,

it was a lot,

even though it was more confined and more brought in,

it's still like,

you know,

had, um,

really no,

it just looked like there was so much open space this year.

Um,

which,

which I guess was a little bit disappointing.

I think for,

for the event,

but, you know,

there's still some really high quality vehicles there.

there,

I didn't see a single BA typhoon.

I didn't see,

like, you know,

these are cars that you think you might see there,

but like,

I didn't see one of those.

Mine was the only one in the car park.

Um,

and,

you know,

it was,

it was stuff like there was a lot of,

a lot of the same thing,

but,

you know,

like things that you'd say,

oh,

there should be one of those that didn't see.

So,

um,

yeah,

I thought,

I thought a little bit disappointing on that end.

Um,

it was definitely better last year.

I thought in terms of the amount of cars that,

that,

that were there.

Um,

but I think the way it was organized and the way it was laid

out this year was far better.

did the price go up from last year of many?

It's $25 to get in now.

I think it's getting,

it's getting a bit pricey.

Yeah,

it is getting pricey.

And,

and I think that's probably turning a lot of people off too.

Um,

kids are the 15 or 14 get in free,

I think,

but yeah,

still still a bit pricey.

I think 25 bucks a pop for,

uh,

for,

you know,

for an event,

probably,

probably not ideal.

It's probably throwing a lot of people off.

So,

yeah,

it just,

it was just a little bit,

a bit lackluster this year.

I thought,

yeah.

You heard it here.

You heard it here first.

It is time for the quiz.

So,

David Prince has kindly offered to do the quiz.

Now,

he is currently dominating the,

the quiz standings.

I'll,

I'll give you a,

I'll give you a winners list.

Um,

David is currently on one,

two,

three,

four,

five.

Um,

Edward is second on one.

Um,

and everyone else has yet to score.

So,

we're officially,

uh,

coming into the second quarter.

So,

David has won every quiz except one.

Well,

sorry.

Yeah.

So,

I mean,

do you make a good point?

Yes.

I have been involved,

but I have,

you know,

I stand by my things.

I've,

not,

it's rigged Jim.

No,

I said that Manny's also won several times too.

Well,

that's Matt.

Yeah,

but they don't count because I'm the,

I'm the host.

Don't start this.

I don't agree with that.

I think you should.

I don't agree with that.

Well,

you're out voted Manny.

Three and two.

So,

you've won more than me.

So,

it should go David,

then Matt,

then me.

Yeah,

I guess.

You could buy yourself a tasty,

safe dinner.

I could.

Yeah.

And I'll invite you guys all have to watch me eat it.

How does that sound?

Still.

Okay.

Are you happy to subscribe to you?

I've already got it ready to go for you,

mate.

These are all over the place,

like a mad person's breakfast.

But anyway,

it is what it is.

We've already mentioned the newly released

Toyota RAV4 that probably wasn't the

brand new model that Chad had last week,

but they have just released a new one

that I did drive on Saturday.

Interestingly,

how many models,

how many levels of trim

are there in the new RAV4?

Oh,

I will say that there are

six.

Incorrect.

Chad was next, I think.

No, you're thinking.

Did I get in for you?

Okay.

I'm just,

I'm doing the math in my head of what they are.

I think there's five.

Incorrect.

Okay.

I think it was four.

Incorrect.

Oh.

Rob.

Seven.

Incorrect.

Jim.

Barry.

Incorrect.

I think it's going to be high.

Yeah, it's nuts.

Yeah.

So they've got GR,

correct?

Because I know they've got a GR in the

estate.

GR.

The Current Wheels magazine lists them all.

There are 11.

11.

Why?

That's just,

that's not all trim differences though.

I would say that's driveline and trim differences.

Yeah.

I was the nearest too.

So I wouldn't appoint.

Rob, you don't.

So who was the highest?

Who was the highest?

Rob was.

And how many?

A point.

Seven.

Or actually,

Rob,

closest to,

if you're going along those lines,

it's actually,

There you go.

Edge,

XSE,

Cruiser,

XSE,

and then plug-in hybrid

and GS Sport,

plug-in hybrid,

all-wheel drive.

Yeah.

Because if you add the engines in,

then it's like,

there's more again.

So much the engine.

They've all got the same engine.

Yeah.

They're all the same.

But two-wheel drive,

four-wheel drive.

Oh, okay.

Yeah,

driveline engine.

Yeah, you can,

you know.

And I'm sorry,

Toyota,

we're not America with your

XSE models and stuff.

like,

well,

you know,

just,

just know.

Just know.

Okay.

The top spec car is,

Where's our,

where's our touring?

Sorry.

Touring.

Okay.

So the,

the top spec car,

the Toyota RAV4,

GS Sport,

plug-in hybrid,

all-wheel drive,

costs how much?

Closed.

Matthew.

I'm going to say

62,

62.5.

Yeah.

You run that down, David?

Yeah.

I'm writing this down.

Yeah.

Ed.

79.9.

Oh,

it's,

it's not a Prado.

Listen.

Chad,

I'll do 64.990.

64.990.

I'll go flat 68, Rob.

58.

68.

50 or 60?

60.

68.

Okay.

I'll do

69.

Nice.

Good choice.

Nice.

Brad, please.

What did he say?

Don't worry, David.

It's too,

it's too colorful for your few eyes,

my friend.

That's nice.

That's good.

It's a nice number.

That's a good,

it's a good number.

That's probably my

trimest time.

Yeah.

So,

so Chad,

Chad and Rob,

actually,

I think I've got to work out his closest.

Hey,

You're at me at 79 David. Don't forget me. No, no, you're without me. It's $6,340,000. So that's 165,990. I think Chad gets the

Yeah, but you're Ted. So wait, Chad, you got to say your word now. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Question two. Which manufacturer has just

launched a revolutionary new electric chassis technology called IM. Rob, Matthew, Rob, Rob, BMW.

Incorrect. That's what I was. That's exactly what I was going to say too. Thanks, Rob. Thank you, Rob, for beating me.

I am Matthew, Matthew, Honda. Incorrect. Ed, Ed, Hyundai, Hyundai. Incorrect. Chad is a Volkswagen or VAG

Incorrect. Jim. And BYD. No, closest to that, Jim. No, that's everybody. I think, isn't it? It's MG, Moro Scars. So it's called

Intelligent Mobility. It's got front and rear mounted electric motors, four wheel steering, management of six degrees of

direction, which is concerning. And I am central vehicle motion control processor is changing the relationship between the car's

software and hardware. Tragically, the first one is actually quite a good looking car. I can't believe I'm saying it. Oh, you heard it first

here. Yeah, my aunt's brand new MG. It doesn't feel very flush inside either. So okay, there you go. Okay, can we have

score check, Maddie? I'm all confused. Score check is Rob one, Chad one, the rest of us yet to score. Okay, cool.

Cool. Question three. Mercedes has just launched a new AMG GT Pro that among other things offers a 100% increase in what

feature? Matthew, Matthew, rich knobs buying them.

Very rich knobs buying them.

No, I think, I think, I think they're, yeah, I don't think it's 100% improvement.

They're offering 100% more of this feature. That's right. All cars have them. They're all mundane. Now, they're 100% more boring.

What's the model name again?

It's the AMG GT Pro.

Oh, I know what this is. Let everyone guess and then I'll, I'll, I'll think I've got the answer.

Is it range?

No, incorrect.

So it's based on the MG GT?

GT, yeah. So I'm GT Pro.

Yes. So who's left? Rob and

No, Chad.

Edward?

I don't know.

Edward doesn't.

He's losing it. He's losing it.

Quick, quick.

It's, it's a

Well, I'll say for no point.

It's, it's two extra doors, I believe.

Incorrect.

Close.

I thought they did a four, they're doing a four door GT.

But they're already got a four door.

They've already got a four door GT.

OK, well, I'm wrong.

Yeah.

Oh, that, that weird hat.

It's a weird little thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, they're all weird.

Let's face it. Come on.

I mean, they all look like, yeah, something not right.

No, it actually has four seats instead of two.

Oh, yeah.

Exactly the same as they did at Dell.

So why would you buy an MG GT?

Yeah, it's really buried the lead with that one day.

It's actually a hundred and seventy seven

millimetres longer.

It's got a larger three hundred and twenty one litre boot

than the previous model.

No transaxle, two extra seats,

transmission located directly behind the engine.

And the V8 is moved further forward.

So it's so it's in every way.

It's a two door.

Yeah, it's a two door.

Yes, yeah, it is, it is, too.

Yeah, you are.

How weird. Who asked for that?

Oh, no one.

Paula, Evie, Jira.

Yeah.

Yeah, bonus question.

How many kilo wasps does its four litre

twin cam V8 produce?

Chad. Chad.

Five hundred and twenty kilo wasps.

Five hundred and twenty.

OK, that's too many.

No, I think I think you're pretty close

because like the it's quite a bonkers power power plant.

Matthew, I'm going to say four seventy five.

I'm saying four eighty five, Rob.

Four eighty five, Rob.

Yeah, I'll say four twelve.

Four twelve.

Edward, come on, come on.

What's the question?

How much power has it got?

How many kilowatts?

Have you had you do that?

I always go too high.

Five hundred and one.

Yeah, you've gone too high.

Matthew, seventy five is the answer.

Four hundred and fifty is.

Sorry, you're closest with four seventy five.

Four hundred and fifty is the number of kilo wasps

that it produces.

I will take the answer.

Well, we also joined as we can do about Mr.

Turbotary himself.

Anthony, how are you doing?

Yeah, not too bad, lads.

I'm in the car at the moment, so you've got to bear with me.

But yeah, going all right, man.

How are you guys all going?

We're going well, mate.

We're just in the car quiz currently.

So feel free to join this.

It's still anybody's game.

I will try and chime in where I can.

And apologies if you hear boost noises.

Yeah, that's fair enough.

Show off.

Well, talking about boost, the important thing

about the new AMG GT Pro.

The real gains actually are in the not in the zero

to a hundred kilometer an hour time of three point two seconds.

But it actually is half a second quicker to two hundred

kilometers an hour to be really ten point nine seconds

to two hundred kilometers an hour.

Yeah, it's almost impossible to have a tarry.

So about Terry, that's right.

Question number four, the current issue of Wheels magazine

features an interview with J.

Joseph, the CEO of Honda Australia.

He drives an FL-5 Civic Type R as a company car.

That's his choice of a wise man.

Good man.

But he has a Honda, a classic Honda

that he keeps at home in America.

What's that classic Honda he keeps at home?

It's an Accord, Jim.

Well, if that would answer it, that's that's incorrect,

but we'll we'll put it in the corner.

Jim.

Is it an S2000?

It is an S2000, correct?

A Silverstone Silver with the red interior.

Lovely.

He's a 25 year veteran of Honda in America

and the first non-Japanese CEO of Honda Australia.

Sure, yeah, sure.

Yeah, sure, sure.

Good chat.

The question number five,

Mazda Australia is heavily promoting the Mazda 6E

and the CX6E electric cars that are soon to be released

and with a clever take on their very famous.

Matthew.

Soon, soon.

Correct.

Oh, that's the new tagline.

That's the new tagline, yeah.

Is that because it's arriving?

Oh, right.

It's probably seen.

I think that was pretty clever.

Yeah, it is clever.

It made me smile.

I'd love to know, do you know when Zoom was released?

I think it was 2001, I think it was.

Yeah, early 2000s, yeah.

Yeah, there can't be many car companies

that have held the same tag.

I think it came out with the Mazda 6E

when the 6E was launched and that was like a one or a two.

Okay, yeah, it might be a one.

Season, Honda.

A pair of 3E, a pair of 3E's been a while.

Yeah, it's been toned out now.

Yeah, I should know what it is now,

but it's not that.

It's something, it's three phrases.

Anyway.

The President of Honda Car Club, ladies and gentlemen.

Next month.

Thank you.

Next week.

Question number six.

What model now replaces the Kia Serato in the Kia Matthew?

Oh, I think Jim got that.

Yeah.

I've probably got it wrong now.

Is it the K4?

It is the K4, correct.

That is correct.

Which was having a chat online with a friend,

Hayden Shannon the other day

and we were both limiting the fact how ugly that car is.

Yes, although, although you're getting a wagon,

which isn't too bad.

Okay, well, the interestingly,

they chose to release the sedan first,

which is exceedingly unattractive.

It's hideous for them.

Which is even, which is undetired to blazes.

I don't know how car manufacturers

can't go through the final prototypes and go,

oh yeah, that looks great.

You know, when it actually looks like

it's got wheels from a supermarket shopping trolley.

Yes, but remember, it's the nephew of the Tasman though.

That's true.

That is true.

Cross-eyed at behind when they put their brakes on,

they're like son.

Look, I'm all for car companies being different.

And BYD, you know, we've held your praises

for your interior and exterior designs.

But Kia, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

We thought BMW was better.

Especially I saw a GT line hatch the other day

and I sort of get it.

But yeah, you don't want to buy a car

that you sort of have to explain

how good it looks to people.

It was a lot of throttle, it was fun.

That's true, it was fun.

Yeah, it was great.

Question seven.

Smart has returned to the Australian market

after an absence of quite a few years.

There's a one and a three.

I think they're their name.

What's significant about the release button

on the...

Anthony.

Jim got it.

I think you've got to put your finger in the hole of the A.

That's correct.

You do that.

What?

Get your finger out of my A.

Were you going to say that, Anthony?

Yeah.

Is that really a pinch in the back?

Yes, yes.

Push it, yeah, push it in the middle of the A, yeah.

Which luckily is the middle letter of the name on the top.

The middle of the boot, that haven't sort of gone off.

It's not what I make sense, you know.

But yeah, you've got to, yeah.

If I was Persia, I'd be pissed because in the 508s of dance,

in the O, it was like the little boot button.

Oh, is it actually?

It is.

That's what they put it.

Oh, there you go.

Well, they're following the famous...

Famous, I don't know about that.

It's not really a great car, but anyway.

Both of them, one's A, and the other one's O.

True, there is a D.

An O-hole, that's quite the same as the same thing.

Still a hole.

Dead.

Come on, man.

I don't know what's happened to that.

This is outrageous.

I like just the chuts taking on the...

I'll talk after dark.

He's taking on Allam's role.

He's not an Allam here.

That's so crass.

It has been funny.

You've been holding up the comedic side of the show really well.

Thank you.

Hey, question eight, I think we're up to.

OK, Rob, it's your time to shine.

This is your generation.

The P76.

Tiger Floreo.

The P76.

Ed.

Oh.

OK.

Come on, Ed.

The Rover ST-1.

Do you want to hear the rest of the question?

OK.

I need to.

Is that answer is incorrect?

In 1977, Rover released a Landmark car, the Rover 3500 ST-1.

What?

Half a point.

No.

That wasn't the question.

What does this D stand for?

Matthew.

Shit dick.

It wasn't a good car.

It was not a good car.

My friend, Darren Braybrook at school,

his dad bought one of the very first ones in the country

and it was a piece of.

Every bull.

Shot.

I even knew they were fit.

Matthew.

They weren't great.

I watched a lot of documentaries on the ST-1

because I actually kind of find it an interesting car.

Fundamentally, it could have been an incredible thing.

Yes.

And it should have been an incredible thing.

And after that, a full head of hair as well, Matt.

And pigs could fly.

But yeah, but it fundamentally wasn't.

Special Division.

What?

Correct.

Oh, well.

I can't believe anyone bothered to make a docker about that car.

It's a good looking car.

I think I think they still look good.

It's good.

It's quite handsome.

Quite handsome.

And have a good test.

It's an abandoned plow edition.

By an 85.

It was actually a pretty good car.

Like a lot of cars.

They fixed it up.

They had a lot of the bugs.

And yeah, it was a pretty nice car by then.

So I want to do a bit of it.

Did you know?

Here's your tidbit guys.

You ready for a tidbit?

The passenger side vent for the air was actually where the steering column

would be on the left hand drive or right hand drive car.

So you could quite literally just move it.

It was done for cost savings.

Oh, no way.

It's, it's.

The column would go.

Yeah.

Pretty much like a straight through.

Yeah.

They're really innovative in a lot of ways.

Those things.

And a big hatchback design, you know.

Absent sort of the cabinets in the back.

Bad battle gaps.

Yeah.

Bad battle gaps.

Correct.

Overheating.

Okay.

I've got a brochure question now.

Question nine.

You don't give any clues usually, do you, Matthew?

What, what country?

It depends.

I, if I say it, and if no one's getting it, I say, okay, clue is this region is what

I do.

And then go from there.

Sorry.

This region or it's European or it's Asian built or whatever.

Okay.

This is Australian.

Australian.

Okay.

Australian.

Now blank blank.

That's the manufacturer.

I'll blow that out as well in association with blank.

I'm proud to announce the introduction of the blank blank blank.

Blank blank blank blank blank.

The exclusive edition blank.

Sorry.

This exclusive edition blank has been distinctively

Style to reflect the good taste of blank blended with the comfort, luxury and

Engineering of blank blanks.

Finest Motor Car.

Bear with me.

We'll keep going.

a color scheme of the blank blank is exclusive.

The exterior is finished in a classic metallic champagne

with burgundy pinstripes and accents.

Ed.

Ooh.

Is it the Ford LTD Cartier edition?

It is, Ed.

Oh, that's correct.

That's a hell of a guess.

That's a great guess.

That's the night.

I've got that.

Let must be cut.

I need to see that.

I need to see that in person.

I couldn't find my Zampatti laser brochure.

Damn it.

I had to stump for that one.

Wow.

There you go.

Well done, Ed.

He's not asleep, everybody.

That's good.

No, he's asleep.

10.

What vehicle am I?

Notice I said what vehicle am I, okay?

Over 13 million have been produced since their launch.

Ed.

Ooh.

Honda Super Cub.

No.

They've been way more than that, haven't they?

They've been way off.

Oh, all right.

They've been way off by like 87 million.

They've been way more than that.

I don't know how many Super Cubs.

I just know it was a lot.

Over 13 million have been produced

since their launch in 1965.

They celebrated 60 years of continuous manufacture in 2025.

And it's consistent with one being sold

every two and a half minutes.

Over four generations with literally thousands of variants

produced initially in the UK,

but also Turkey,

South Korea, and the USA.

I don't know what it is,

but I sort of feel like I might need to get one.

You've probably owned one of these at some point.

You've sold me with the story.

South Korea.

So South Korea, Turkey, UK.

US.

And the US.

Have all built this car.

Chad.

Oh, no, I don't know.

No, I'm tapping out.

Sorry, I don't have a favourite.

It doesn't make any sense with South Korea.

And the UK.

South Korea's storming me off because...

Yeah, well, it's...

I threw me off too, actually.

It threw me right off.

Maybe don't think of South Korea.

Go with the four mentioned countries,

but it's on Wikipedia as being assembled in South Korea.

As well.

Which did assemble some weird-ass things over the journey.

They have over the journey.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gee, it has to be.

No, famously, as a favourite amongst getaway...

And great bank robbers.

Matt, Matthew?

No, I think Rob.

It's not the Ford Transit, was it?

It is the Ford Transit.

I was just going to say the Ford's Rob.

Really?

Not one one.

Oh, thanks.

Thanks for that one there.

Have they built that in South Korea?

What the hell?

It's black.

What kind of transit was built there?

So they say when they built it in South Korea?

This was through Minister Seven, Chad.

Bear with me, you know.

No, that's what we do, yeah, of course.

The getaway vehicle got me because in England,

that's what they used to use.

That's what they used to use, man.

Transit, yeah, dude.

Oh, just blend in, I guess.

Blend in with the Transit.

And they had good hands.

Obviously, the next question was going to be...

The next thing was going to be that they're normally white.

Yeah, I thought so.

But just such a mind-blowing collection of variants and stuff

over the years and different bodies and...

There you go.

Got one of the longest running cars built.

There you go.

60 years.

Interestingly, I thought of you the other day, Rob,

because I called in a motor trimmer, made of mine,

who had a Mazda MP, no, he didn't have...

He had a Mazda 6 diesel wagon, whatever that thing is.

And he had it from New.

Doesn't do a lot of Ks, because he's in Melbourne.

But there was this bright blue,

long-wheel-based Transit custom in his driveway.

I said, oh, are you working on this?

He said, no, I've just bought it.

He said, oh, really?

I thought, you're the second to know

that it's got one of those.

I didn't say that.

How do you find it?

He said, I'm currently trying to claim my money back.

Oh, well.

He said it has been the biggest pile of rubbish.

Oh, wow.

He has ever bought $72,000, I think it was, in the long run.

Oh, well.

In electric blue with all the black pfingos,

it won't select reverse.

Well, it's intermittent.

Sometimes it'll select reverse, sometimes it won't.

So it's had a gearbox.

He actually took it to the selling dealer a couple of weeks ago

with a big hand-panded sign in the back

that said, drive by a Ford and parked it outside in the Ford.

So, yeah, it's not happy to have you.

Well, we can't blame Chud's Uncle on what he only does this.

He only does this.

No, that's right.

That's right.

I'm sorry.

They have his friends.

You should have come and seen me before you bought one.

Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's, you know, it was such a considered purchase

after, you know, absolutely.

You know, the Mercedes-Benz wagon, not one thing went wrong

with the time he owned it, you know.

Which is quite funny because the Mercedes-Benz is in a diesel.

Everybody knows you stay well clear of who the diesel is.

Yeah, it's relatively quick.

It's horrifically unreliable.

It's not a problem when it's been a great car.

In fact, he sold it to the son of a friend

through his first car, who loves it, you know.

Got a lot of money on it and he goes surfing in it and might use

paying $3 and something like that to fill it up now.

So it might not be going quite as far.

It might be going to the surfing place in Telomere.

They can't be too near the car.

Amazon are driving a lot of brand new transits at the moment,

if you've noticed.

That's because they're driving him straight.

Like they're just stopping and they're just throwing things out

that we don't get to keep them going.

They're not pretty able to reverse, Rob.

That's true.

I wonder if it's like a speck of a speck of transits

that have the issue or maybe because I noticed that Amazon ones

are really like the long wheelbase and the high ones as well,

the high cube ones.

I wonder if they have any different components

that have less problems or something.

A lot of them are front wheel drive.

They're Amazon ones.

And whereas mine's a rear wheel drive.

So the front wheel drive ones seem to be OK.

Wow, OK.

I do see a lot of transits around.

I have to do F around by Ford.

Oh, I think Rob, you got to make a thing of saying,

now listen, if you're going to buy a transit,

here's what you need to know.

You've got to do a public service announcement.

I can need to, yeah, do not buy a Ford Transit.

Yeah, this was paid by Carter Robsonite on TV.

Funded and sponsored by Robbsonite.

And this is when I say this is one of the highest.

It's so much better.

Yeah, there you go.

It is.

Correct.

Yeah.

Scorecheck.

Matthew?

Scorecheck.

Anthony, late to the game, you get the score, but it's OK.

You knew what I had to say, Anthony, which was good to know.

This was the A-hole.

A-hole.

And I know my A-holes.

You deal with a lot of real A-holes.

I deal with a lot of my A-holes.

Charred and Ed on one, Rob and Jim on two, and unfortunately your winner tonight is myself

on three.

Well done.

Thank you.

But thank you for the quiz, David Prince.

Very welcome.

A varied quiz.

Very varied.

With the SD-1 Special Division.

It's a shame because fundamentally it was a pretty quirky, quirky, but also like a really

cool thing.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Aren't the front indicators on that the same as a Daytona or similar or something?

They look very similar.

Yeah.

They were actually, yeah, when they released they were nicknamed the five-door Daytona.

That's funny.

Yeah.

The SD-1.

Gentlemen, I think that's a podcast.

Yeah.

All done.

Good.

All done.

All dusted.

Let's do some plugs.

Mr. Turbo Terry, your Toyota Crown for sale?

Anybody chasing a MS-123 Toyota Crown, give me up, decide to list it the other day.

Comes with a copious amount of spare parts that's very hard to come by these days and

that's where the majority of the value of the car is.

How much of this car?

I've listed it at seven and a half, but I am negotiable.

Is that come with the Turbo as well?

Not for the Crown, no.

The Barra engine is not for sale, but I do have the original documentation from the

day of purchase from the original owner, so that's a little bit of documentation going

on there.

That's your provenance right there.

Two owner cars.

Exactly.

Two owner cars.

Exactly.

Where was it purchased?

Oh, where was it?

It was in Victoria in the end from the initial purchase.

I need to look at the paperwork for it.

Northcut.

No, it wasn't Northcut.

I think it was further east.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

But I need to have a look, but in the end, the owner moved up to Aubrey, Woodongaway.

I was up there for a good bit.

I mean, Matt even remembered this one when we went and picked it up and she sold it to

us.

She wanted to take the Tobol off of the car because she thought she could put it on her

new little Mazda.

And did not realize that it's actually attached to the chassis.

I mean, the 50 mil ball might be a swappable part.

No, she did not have any Tobol set up.

She just was planning on, you know, just actually going across and I'm like, yeah,

it doesn't really work that way.

You have to be good with a midwader.

You don't know.

You know, she might be good with that.

You never know.

But no.

Yeah.

Crown is up for sale.

Second owner, 7000 Ks.

She loads of birth parts.

I have three dashes for it.

Door cards, doors, boots, bonnets, quarter panels, literally more things than you can

poke to stick up.

So anybody interested, let me know.

There's currently, I think 26 people on car sales who have added to their watch list,

but yet no enquiries.

So I haven't gone to that extent yet.

I probably need to get the other half to throw it up and see if anybody is interested.

Yeah.

I think it's going to be a good point of contention.

I think I'm the only only one, there might be one other MS123 up.

It's either I'm the only one for sale or there's only two of them for sale.

So what is that, 70?

So 1984.

So the single overhead cam, not the dual overhead cam though.

Okay.

Yep.

Yeah.

So that's the cruise control, the electric windows, all those other goodies.

I think the aircon worked too when I drove it.

Yeah.

Aircon needs a good regas, but that's, yeah, you get that.

So does that mean territory staying in the fleet for now?

Look, for now, for now, I have, I did initially list it up for sale.

And then I was having second thoughts about it.

So I have removed it from the current listing.

I did just pick it up from my mechanics as we speak to just had its service done.

And I got it in to go over it with a bit of a fine tooth comb.

So I know what is needed for a roadworthy if need be or haggling points and whatnot.

Where there is a fair few little gremlins, which have come out.

So things to bear in mind, but I think ballpark is said.

If it was to get the car pretty schmick and on point, I'd probably be looking at about

three grand worth of repairs on the territory between, you know, control arms and a few

other little bits and pieces.

So I mean, it's, it's at those case Anthony really like 220,000.

That's, that's pretty good for all that original stuff.

Yeah.

And look, that's the other side of things.

And especially now given that it is modified for the last what 30 or 40,000 case as well

with extra boost going, but not that it's been, you know, driven, driven hard.

And in excess, but it's still, still extra wear and tear and spray and put on the engine.

So for, for now it has been withdrawn, but it does not mean it is not an option down

the track, but it's things to consider.

I did have a look on car sales.

There's only two turbo terries for sale in Victoria at the moment.

One of the ones that when I did list it is no longer there.

So there is one, which is $19,000 that has 190,000 case, I think it was, but is in a

lot better cosmetic condition than mine.

And then another one, which has just gone up, which is at $20,000 with 150,000 case on

it.

And that one has been modified by independent motorsports as well and is running like 320

kilowatts at all four wheels in a stage three.

So I mean, look, to be honest, I'm not far off that the figures in my tune.

It's more just the fact that my intercooler is basically maxed out.

And if you change that over, you'd be in the 300 Cobb.

And if I chose to do a forward-facing plenum that would seem into like the 320.

More money would have to go into it.

Does that come with an oil tanker?

Maybe.

Anthony, we'll hold you there quickly.

Oh, no, sorry.

It's hard to go.

But yeah.

So keeping it for now and we'll see how we go.

Keeping it for now.

See how we go.

Crown is the sale.

Hit me up.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Rob's doing it.

He's fixing it.

He's welding it.

He's neighbour fighting it.

He's, what else are you doing?

Rob's travelling.

He and I have travels.

Rob's bike tours.

So here we have Rob there.

Rob, have a great time.

Thank you.

See you in about four weeks.

Yeah.

Enjoy us, mate.

Sorry.

Enjoy it.

And don't think of us too much while you're over there.

Jim's, anything, Jim's car taking?

Well, I would say at the moment,

no one probably wants their cars taking anywhere.

But if you did,

well, potentially not with this podcast,

but it might turn up,

might turn into Jim's fuel saving tips,

because I probably drive more than most people will be at the moment.

So, yeah.

Jim's hypermiling.

That's what we're going to go with.

Chad's delivering it.

Delivering to a place near you.

Order it.

I'll deliver it.

Chad's a magnet swaps.

We're going to start doing.

Make the parts soon.

Soon to be available.

David's words of wisdom.

Like the jingle.

I've got to put it in there now.

That's how it's going to be.

Thank you, Matthew.

Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity,

but an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Oh, nicely done.

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Oh, they're really up.

They're really, they're really quite impressive.

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Fuel prices spark a buying-and-keeping strategy: Edward grabs an E-gas Falcon to diversify away from diesel and premium petrol, aiming for cheap fills and “apocalypse” practicality. The crew also trades real-world efficiency stories—Honda Insight hybrid battery fixes, low-consumption challenges, and commuting math—plus ongoing mechanical sagas (a crank-angle-sensor Saab drama, indicator quirks, and various maintenance). They compare notes on the All Four Day Falcon show (fewer cars, mostly Falcons, but standout builds like engineered BF Utes). The episode ends with a wide-ranging car quiz and a few classifieds-style plugs.

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