The Buick Roadmaster is an older, large car from Buick. People often keep them as classic cars and may update things like the stereo so it’s more enjoyable to drive. In the podcast, they’re talking about upgrading audio in one.
Sonos is a company famous for high-quality speakers at home. If a car has a Sonos system, it usually means the sound is set up to be noticeably better than the standard stereo.
A steep driveway is a hill you drive up or down. If your car sits low, the front or bottom can hit the ground, so you may not be able to drive out safely in bad weather.
Scraping the bottom means the underside of the car hits the road. It can cause damage, so the car may need more clearance or a different way to drive over bumps.
Road noise is the annoying sound you hear from the tires and the road while driving. If it’s bad, it can make it hard to hear the radio, especially on highways.
A hybrid system combines an internal combustion engine with an electric motor and battery to improve efficiency and reduce fuel use. In this segment, the hybrid system is presented as a shared technology between the Prius and Lexus ES.
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Dents and dings are body-condition issues that can reduce value because they may require repair and can affect buyer confidence. The caller repeatedly emphasizes the vehicle is “immaculate” with “no dents, no dings,” which is a key part of how condition is graded for valuation. Even small cosmetic flaws can move the price.
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Welcome to the CarPro Show.
Jerry Reynolds the CarPro was in the auto industry for over 35 years.
And in addition to getting his sixth win from the Texas Auto Writers Association for Best Radio Show in Texas,
he's a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
Along with fellow members Dan Rutheran, George Carlin.
His co-host Todd Chambliss just became a member of Applebee's Hall of Fame
for finishing off 84 check-in nuggets without using a dipping sauce.
Now let's get this straight talk and honest answers about everything automotive on the CarPro Show.
Happy Easter to you. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend.
We are with you for this entire hour and we're talking cars
and helping people make good car buying decisions.
And the phone number if you would like to call is 800-926-7777-800-926-7777.
A lot of you are used to trying to call and continually getting a busy signal.
On holiday weekends the phones aren't as busy as they typically are.
So if you've been thinking about something automotive that's not a mechanical question,
now's the time. You can get in. I've got a line open.
800-926-7777.
And the question of the day is what is the one thing you change about your current car if you could?
And I know for my sidekick here, Todd, the old roadmaster, he would upgrade his stereo.
Absolutely. It doesn't matter how good it is.
No, it has to be. There's something better. There's always something better.
I'm never happy, which is, it's a fallacy of mine.
But I have a 24-key Atelier ride and I was commenting earlier on the Adela show.
It is one of my favorite vehicles I've ever owned.
It's comfortable. Everything is solid.
We had a lot of rain on the way in where there were puddles on the road and everything.
It just drove like a dream, but it's the standard stereo that comes with it.
And while it's sufficient, it's not like great.
So it's like I would think there's got to be some subwoofers or another system out there
that would just kind of make that go to the next level.
But that's me talking out loud.
And see, I listen to talk radio all the time.
So I've ever viewed cars that have got some amazing, amazing sound systems.
The clips and the bows and all those.
Oh my goodness.
Some good stuff.
Yeah. And I had one with Sonos.
Sonos? Oh my gosh. Yeah. There you go.
I forget which car that was, but I have had a good week.
Oh, I would say you have.
I've, for the entire week, I've had the 2026 Chevy Corvette Coupe 2LT.
I just, I, this car is amazing.
Bright green color.
It's a bright green color.
That would not be the top of my list if I were purchasing, but I gotta tell you guys,
reading my review that it'll be out next week's newsletter.
And I tell you, this car has just, it's just such a engineering marvel.
You were talking about when you drive home, it lowers and raises the car.
And remembers that when you get to your address.
Yes. Based on the height.
Cause you say you had sort of a steep driveway.
A very steep driveway.
I'm screwed when it snows.
Oh, I bet.
I am.
I am.
I can't go anywhere.
And so with this car comes home, it remembers that it raises the car up.
So you're not scraping the bottom or you're not dealing with the steepness of the drive up.
And I mean, just unreal.
And a lot of the, a lot of the exotic sports cars have front end lifts like this one where
it, it, it memorizes when you set it.
And this one, I've got three speed bumps.
I got to drive over every day.
And this one, I set it Monday.
Every time I went over speed bump, I hit one button and it stores the information.
And right before you get there, every single time it raises that front end.
Otherwise it's going to scrape coming out of my driveway.
The, the two new Corvettes I bought the last generation Corvette one in 2014, one in 2016.
Both those scraped every single time.
Let's talk to Amber in Baird.
And I believe that's out in West Texas.
Is that right, Amber?
It is.
We're 20 miles east of Abilene.
How are you guys today?
We're good.
Good.
Good to have you happy Easter.
What can I help you with?
Well, I am currently driving a 2022 Prius and I've been driving Prius since 2010.
Wow.
And my biggest complaint is the road noise.
Yep.
Yep.
They've been solid.
I don't have any problems with that.
I drive 130 miles a day round trip for work.
Oh girl.
So they've been solid on the road.
Yeah.
But they're just so noisy.
You can't hear anything and the radio has to go up again.
Standard radios.
Yeah.
But they have to go loud.
And I was wondering if there was a better option.
I will be retiring here by the end of this year.
So I won't be doing all those miles.
Is the Prius about the right size for you?
Are you going to want something a little larger once you retire?
I think I want something a little larger.
Okay.
I think you made a great choice with the Prius.
And I will tell you, if you drive a 2025 or 2026, that's one of the areas that Toyota
has focused on the last couple of years.
They are quieter today and it's noticeable.
But frankly, none of the Japanese products have paid a lot of attention to noise in the
past.
It's like seat comfort.
The Japanese were slow to come about with really comfortable seats and they were slow
to come about with that Americans have an aversion to road noise.
That's something that I am acutely aware of when I review a car because it's a hot button
of mine.
I don't like squeaks.
I don't like rattles.
I don't like wind noise and I don't like road noise.
And so I will always note that in a review.
It's a noticeable difference.
Now if you want to go up in size just a little bit, you could go up to the Lexus ES.
It's not an overly expensive car.
It's larger than what you have.
It's a very quiet car inside and it's got the same hybrid system as your Prius does.
So if you want to get it past 250,000 miles, it will probably do it with just routine maintenance.
The batteries on the Toyota and Lexus hybrid systems absolute best in the industry.
No question about it.
So I would look that direction, you know, if you're going to stick with a car and not
make that transition to an SUV, your choices are pretty limited these days.
There's not as many cars on the market.
I love the Hyundai and Kia sedans that they built, but they're not quiet inside.
Not as much as some of the others.
So I drive another Prius and then if you want to upgrade to something larger, then look
at that Lexus ES and get the hybrid in it.
To in fact, I believe all the 2026s are all hybrids.
So that's that's another move that that Toyota is making right now.
Let me know how I can help.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter Amber and thank you for calling the car brochure.
It's the car pro show with Jerry Reynolds, the car pro car max in the news.
And this was in the recent newsletter that came out Friday.
They have settled a lawsuit in California for just over a million dollars.
This this is interesting to me because I'm not sure exactly what benefit or why if this
is all true.
Car Max was so late with getting folks.
They have 30 days to get all their registration transfers and all the title and all that stuff
and they were not doing that.
So the folks who had bought from there, at least a number of them were left.
They couldn't go and refinance.
They couldn't sell.
They couldn't fully use their car.
So they they were told by a court they had to pay $1.1 million after prosecutor said
the nation's largest used car retailer repeatedly failed to deliver vehicle titles to buyers
on time.
So I guess my question is what is it just the negligence or is it just they just didn't
have their act together?
Or why would they not give them their title in 30 days?
Well, they they blamed it on COVID.
And well, it was four years ago, five years ago.
Five years ago.
They just California, you don't play around with that.
Well, if you buy a car, you need your title.
Yeah, they ain't jacking around.
So, you know, it's processes.
Carvana went through the same thing.
They they they got banned in one of the states.
I remember that.
I think it was Illinois, you know, where they couldn't even sell cars.
Wow.
For a while.
Finds wait till next week's free weekly news.
What a segue right there.
Man, you remember me telling you that the FTC Federal Trade Commission had sent out
warning letters to ninety seven dealer groups, which was which covers thousands of dealerships
and because they were baiting, switching people.
And I said at the time, this has been maybe a month ago, I said, they're going to make
an example out of somebody.
Well, you were in a pretty good little article about one or a couple of them.
Yeah, you did.
The example came.
I've got them.
I've got the details in next Friday's newsletter.
It was too late for this week.
OK.
But.
They're going to this dealership is going to be out.
Seventy five million dollars.
Have you ever heard of anything like that?
Not even close to anything like that.
Nothing.
And the dealer is the dealer group.
There's only three dealerships.
And they're saying, well, we just we we don't want to go through a long lawsuit.
We're just, you know, we felt it was better to settle B.S.
You got caught red handed.
Yeah. And you there it's there was nothing to fight.
So you're just going to pay it.
I don't know how financially sound these three dealerships are.
But seventy five million would put a dent in any dealer group.
Oh, sure.
Let's talk to Everett and Houston.
Everett, welcome to the Car Pro Show.
Happy Easter.
Yeah. Yeah.
Happy Easter to you.
I appreciate you taking my call, Jerry.
You bet.
Yeah, my brother just bequeathed me a 94.
Fleetwood, Brahm, Cadillac.
Fifty, fifty one nine thousand miles.
Wow.
Fifty two now, less than fifty two thousand actual miles.
It's in perfect.
I mean, perfect condition from the standpoint.
The leather seats are they look brand new.
The the the color is a dark navy blue.
It the truck is just immaculate.
There's no dents, no dings, no anything on this vehicle.
My brother, I don't know why he bought it.
He drove a F one fifty.
But he bought it.
He he loves cars.
And so my question to you is.
I have an appraisal that came from the attorney of his estate.
And it says that the value of that vehicle is
they put it at 18000.
I don't know if that's high.
I don't know if that's low.
I don't know if it's on the money.
And so I decided I I'll just call Jerry.
Yeah, maybe you could out as to find out who I should call
or what I should do.
And secondly, maybe who to list it with also.
So you're going to sell it?
I'm oh, I'm not going to keep it.
I that's a big car.
Oh, my God. That's a big car.
Yeah, it is a monster taco.
We say that.
But I go especially the Fleetwood.
This is a perfect consignment car.
And I've got a company that I work with.
I've worked with them for years.
And they will take that car on consignment.
So you don't have to mess with anything.
But the best thing is they know exactly where to market it.
They know where to put it online.
And odds are somebody will fly across the country to get that car.
There are people out there actually looking for those kind of cars.
Go to my website, Everett, CarPro.com.
At the top of the page, click sell a car.
And when you get there, you're going to see that you can get a bit on the car
or you can consign it, choose the option on the right and talk to those guys.
They are masters of this.
If you bought a car you thought you'd love, but now you want to push it off a cliff.
Get some advice from the car pro Jerry Reynolds
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And next up on the car pro show is Lewis in West Hollywood, California.
Hello, Lewis.
Hi, good morning.
How can I help you in on car pro?
Well, I drive a twenty twenty Hyundai Ioniq plug in hybrid.
I've called in to you before about it.
And it only gets twenty four miles for a two hour and forty five minute charge.
And I want I love the Ioniq because it's very smooth on the road.
And it's very quiet on the road, unlike the Prius.
And I want a car that'll give me more miles per gallon.
It's a plug in hybrid and that will be comfortable on the road.
I like the size of the twenty twenty Hyundai Ioniq.
I'm very pleased with the car.
You know that if you didn't go plug in and just went regular hybrid
and you were getting and you were getting over fifty miles to the gallon, would that be enough?
No, I'm I'm already getting forty six miles to the gallon.
But your problem is range is you're only getting twenty miles on electric.
Yeah, I of course I'd like to get two hundred and fifty miles on electric
like the Tesla, but I need to use gas because we don't have a plug in in our garage at home.
Yeah, and they're getting they're getting the plug in hybrids are getting better range all the time.
But I mean, about fifty right now is the max and that's under perfect
conditions. And in which car is that in in in California?
You've got the pretty much perfect conditions of weather.
And so it doesn't get any better than that.
But I just had a.
I had the Jeep Cherokee, which is a whole different vehicle than what you're talking about,
that that did get me forty eight miles of range, even here in Texas, where the weather's a little bit more severe.
Check the stats on the new Ioniq and see what that plug in.
And I don't have the information right off the top of my head.
But check that and see what the new Ioniq is.
It's better, but I would say fifty is about the tops.
You can't get good advice from someone who doesn't really have a lot of experience.
That's why you need to call the car pro Jerry Reynolds before you get your next vehicle.
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Tell me what's the one thing you could you would change about your car,
your current car, if you if you could, what do you miss it?
What do you not like?
What what would you if you could just snap your fingers?
What would you change about your car?
And let's talk about that.
A lot of different responses on that question.
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I will have the first quarter results from every automaker
that sells cars in the United States.
All right.
And that's something that people tend to like and pay attention to.
Oh, yeah.
I'll give you the details on the dealer group that's getting fined
seventy five million dollars triple A did a study.
I'm going to take credit for this.
OK, OK.
Well, I wrote I wrote an advice column
about a month ago that asked was talking about
why headlights seem so much brighter now,
especially when you're facing, you know, when you're coming at a car.
And I really researched that.
It was a good article since then.
Everybody is doing an article on this.
Yeah, that's interesting.
And triple A just did one.
They did a headlight glare study.
So I think they read the newsletter and they're just not letting on
that they're taking some of your content.
Well, you know what?
You might have something there. Yeah.
All right. To the phones we go and Grace in Tom Ball, Texas.
Grace, welcome. What can I do for you?
Hi, Jerry. I have a question.
I'm driving currently a V6 2015 touring,
but I think my granddaughter will be taking it.
Yeah, I want another V6 in the sedan
or equivalent in horsepower to a V6.
OK, that's that has become a real problem is
everybody's going to four cylinders with turbos.
And when you drive one, it's hard to tell.
It's not a six cylinder, but.
You said your current car was a Camry.
No, no, no, a V6 Honda 2015 V6 Honda
with a V6 and a touring.
OK, so it's an accord? Yes. OK, very good.
And you're going to stick with the sedan.
Yes, right. Look at the.
Look at the Genesis G 70.
And we've got reviews up at car pro dot com.
If you put G 70 up in the search box,
it's got a three point three liter V6
that's putting out three hundred and sixty five horses.
This thing will really get up and go.
Also, the Lexus is three fifty.
It's got a three point five liter.
Naturally aspirated V6, no turbo.
And it's got it's putting out a little over three hundred three
ten, if I remember correctly, three hundred and ten horsepower.
And it is a really, really nice car.
And it's going to be it's going to be maybe a little bit smaller
than than what you've got now, but not a great deal.
And it's going to have a much nicer interior.
Pass that.
You're going to have to look at four cylinder turbos, grace,
or you're going to have to go to some luxury cars.
And you probably don't want to do that.
So no, I don't.
I don't. I I'd put that G 70
right there at the top of the list.
It is a great car with a wonderful interior.
And you get the ten year hundred thousand mile warranty with it.
The whole deal.
OK, I'm writing all this down.
OK, so do you think that Honda might bring back the V6?
I doubt it.
Nobody's going that direction.
They're all going the other way, which is OK.
All about fuel economy.
It you know, it takes it takes a lot of planning
when automakers decide to do a drivetrain change
and they decide today, OK,
grace and a whole bunch of other people want to be six.
So we're going to we're going to do a V six again.
If they decided that today, they're at least two years away from it coming out.
OK, more like three.
And so they they they take those changes very seriously.
And it's hard to know what people are going to want to buy
in the future, because we don't know what gas prices are going to be.
We don't know if the car companies making plans today.
They don't know what the next presidential administration is going to require.
It's changing every four years.
We went through the last administration with big emphasis
on better fuel economy, electric cars, chargers everywhere.
The new administration came in last year, changed everything.
And cars can't change that fast.
So, you know, I think they found kind of a sweet spot
with these four cylinder turbos, because turbos are so much more reliable
today than they used to be.
And so if you if you're used to driving the V six
and today you go out and take a test drive in a four cylinder turbo.
You may not notice the difference.
What is the horsepower on a four cylinder turbo car?
I think right now with my hand, I think I've got two sixty.
I can't remember, you know what?
And and they're all doing at least that now.
I'm driving I'm driving four cylinders now that are putting out close to four hundred horses.
And then you add to that the fact that cars have gotten lighter.
As we've gone along, they found ways to cut weight.
One of them that's not so popular is your spare tire.
But to say. Yeah.
So, you know, there's a lot to consider.
But if if you really hung up on getting a six cylinder,
look at the two that I said, look at the look at the G 70 and look at the Lexus IS
and see what you think.
And then just to satisfy yourself,
drive a four cylinder and see what you think.
You'd be surprised.
Some of the four cylinder turbos, when you go to get up on the freeway
or more responsive by far than some of the older six cylinders.
It's just all changed now, kiddo.
Hey, I appreciate the call.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter.
I've got some great dealers there around Houston that'll make test driving
really simple for you.
Use my list at car pro dot com.
If you think you want a hybrid or maybe an electric, call the car pro.
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Call the chase dot com car pro listener line now at 1 800 926 77 77.
Well, it's another list of cars that is in the newsletter from the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
They have their top safety picks.
And as you mentioned earlier on the Dallas show, you are
taking this with a grain of salt because obviously it's the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety in the name.
You know, exactly kind of the the inspiration and who they were beholden
to with this list, I would imagine. Yeah, they kind of favor.
I mean, they're they've been around a long time, but their job started
as a lobbying group for the insurance industry.
OK, and they are most interested in saving insurance companies money.
Yeah, what they do is they look at some of the safer cars out there
on the preset that all vehicles built to they are safe.
But there are some that are safer than others, and it doesn't necessarily
have to be the more expensive cars.
There are some that are actually pretty affordable on the list.
Oh, absolutely. No question about it.
Now, I have followed along a story
about State Farm for a good while now in the newsletter.
And one of the things that I talked about was their
way they value cars.
When somebody has a totaled out car, how do they value it?
Well, they they they took.
Replacement value, essentially, what they'd look at online
and do a survey of cars online similar to the car that got totaled out, right?
And then they.
Come up with this theory that car dealers negotiate the price
so that they were they were they don't want to pay the full value.
They don't want to pay what it would take to go out and actually replace that car.
Well, they got sued.
Class action. It should be. Yeah.
And that was the right thing to do.
Yeah. And you're going to find out in next week's newsletter
that they settled, settled.
And when a company like State Farm, with all their attorneys, settles,
it's because they know they're going to lose.
There is some fire where that smoke was.
And they settled for fifteen million dollars.
Well, that's going to be I'll take that in the shorts.
Next time I pay a state foreign payment.
Yes, you will.
And and it's going to spur a lot of other
suits, I guarantee you, on the way they've been paying people.
Larry in Houston, Larry, what is going on, my friend?
Happy Easter.
Well, I enjoy your show.
Thank you, sir.
I have a four.
I have a 14 Ford Focus of one hundred and sixty six thousand miles on it.
That's got to be some kind of record.
Yeah, I know that the transmission is notoriously were bad.
I had it rebuilt here in Houston and it's been great.
That the rebuild transmission is two years ago and a lot of miles.
I've got a lot and I hope it holds up another.
But a while, you know, let's say for all of you, I'm going to have to replace it one day.
I'm going to replace it with a sedan compact, just like it is.
What would you recommend to me?
Well, the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla are the benchmarks
for compact cars sitting outside.
Now, if it were me,
I'd take a hard, hard, hard look at the Kia K four.
And if you haven't seen that car,
it's slightly bigger than the others.
But it it replaced the Forte, the Kia Forte.
It's it gets what I which is what I wanted.
But they quit making them. Yeah, go but go ahead.
OK, the game, the K four is replaced.
It's, you know, it's it's a little bit larger.
Fuel economy is great.
And you get that 10 year 100,000 mile warranty, which is great for a guy like you
that keeps their car a very long time.
The other one that I would look at is the Mazda three.
It's of all the compacts out there.
The Mazda three drives the best of all of them.
It's a fun car.
It's also a good car as far as.
Long term reliability.
So there are choices and I got good dealers for all of them down there, Larry,
when you're ready buying a new vehicle can either be like Christmas
or like performing a root canal on yourself. Ouch.
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His mother-in-law chose the Chevy to purchase.
It is a used twenty twenty five Chevy traverse, by the way. Oh, nice.
Alex made sure all the questions were answered.
He said, what's going to finance work?
Two great gentlemen to make sure all that worked out great.
Would highly recommend this dealership.
And they said, these two gentlemen, Alex and Kevin,
who helped them get the used car this time, but also they can help you with a new
car there, Toyota of Katie. It was a great experience.
You can just when I do a commercial with Kevin,
you can just listen to him and tell he's got a great radio voice.
Well, he's just a genuinely nice person.
He is. And you can tell he has passion for car pro listeners.
Oh, he really does. He really does.
And when you have that, that's when you know you're going to be taken care of.
Yep. That's correct.
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seventy seven, seventy seven.
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About this episode
Jerry Reynolds and Todd Chambliss field listener calls on everything from car buying to comfort and safety. A Prius driver complains about road noise and asks for a quieter, longer-life upgrade; Jerry steers them toward newer Toyota/Lexus hybrids like the Lexus ES. The show also covers CarMax’s California title-transfer settlement and broader dealer bait-and-switch enforcement, plus advice on replacing a high-mileage Ford Focus with reliable compact sedans. Other segments touch on plug-in hybrid real-world electric range, classic-car community fun, and what to do when you want a V6 in a world shifting to turbo fours.
