Carey Price Talks Ford Trucks, What's Toyota Teasing, Vinfast VF9, Chevrolet Blazer EV SS, Hemi Charger

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So kicking things off, it actually just came out last night or this morning, depending

on where you live and what your time zone is.

But this much, much anticipated Lexus something or other looks like it's finally going to

be here.

Actually, it may have debuted by the time you're hearing this.

Seems very odd for them to fully debut a car that is expected to arrive in Japan at the

end of the month.

Yeah, well, they've had a website going for, well, it's for 24 days total, so I guess

21 days.

And every day they leave these little cryptic messages and yesterday they put up a billboard

at the Fuji International Speedway and it is massive.

It's like the entire corner and it has headlight bumper shots of three cars, the 2000 GT, the

Lexus LFA and the unnamed that has a little GR badge.

Which is interesting because that would make me think it's Toyota, not Lexus, but maybe

they're going to double brand it depending on your region.

Toyota's never really done that, but I mean like Acura or Honda used to do that with the

NSX for instance.

So I don't know, but they are relating it to the 2000 GT and the LFA like the two most

iconic vehicles that companies pretty much ever made in terms of one-off supercars.

So you're putting a big expectation on whatever is coming and then there's two days left of

these teasers and then apparently on the 13th, which is Monday, maybe they won't, well,

maybe they'll show a picture, not the actual car.

I don't know, but gotta lead up to something.

Teaser of a teaser.

Excellent.

Yeah, I mean, I assume it's going to be there.

And Monday is also a little odd because the reason they used Fuji is the super formulas

there this weekend.

So I thought, you know, Sunday could show it off right for the race or something.

But yeah, we'll see.

It's they can't do nothing at this point, especially if you spent that much money to

put a massive billboard up in the back straight at the end of the straightaway.

That's a good point.

Well, we'll find out.

Yeah.

Hoping it has a twin turbo V8.

I mean, what was the what did they call that concept?

The at Monterey, the TC or the LC?

There was the Toyota GT concept.

And then.

Oh, I like that.

The GT car is a rumor.

No, the GT concept ran up Goodwood.

And then they showed the Lexus concept at Monterey.

That looks really nice.

And everyone and basically they're thinking that's what this is going to be.

But that was the concept.

But I don't know, does Toyota really go from concept to production that drastically?

I know Honda doesn't, but.

Yeah, remember how long we waited for the Supra?

Yeah.

I don't know if there's there's nothing to go on.

I mean, like outside of that concept.

But yeah, well, that was it.

Lexus Sport Cops.

Yeah, I mean, like, which is beautiful work.

We know that there's going to be a big show in Japan.

So it seems odd to kind of let the cat out of the bag two weeks early.

But yeah, we'll see.

Well, I mean, they do that in North America now, right?

Because then you steal all the attention before the show.

You don't have to battle with anyone.

And then maybe get people anticipated.

Like I said, maybe they'll show us a picture, but not the live car picture.

And then.

Yeah, we'll see.

Tokyo Mobility Show is that what it's called now?

Yep.

We will see.

All right.

So moving on to the first review of the week.

Kyle, you drove the Vinfast VF nine, which is the big boy.

Yeah, and it is big.

It's over 200 inches long.

I had a lot of thoughts about this and whether or not it's something

you should even consider buying really kind of depends on which market you're in.

So first off, it's pretty on target in terms of specs for this.

Category, I mean, there's not a lot of three row EVs, but this one is roughly

the right size.

It has a good amount of range.

It's a little under 300 miles.

But like most EVs, it was actually pretty conservative when I was driving.

So probably could hit 300 miles, 400 horsepower.

It's heavier than all the other ones, which I think is something you mentioned

with the VF eight was that it was a lot heavier than its competitors.

But it had the advantage of that drivetrain.

So it had more power than a lot of its competitors, whereas yours is pretty

much on top of whatever one of that class is running.

Yeah, I've got a little less.

Right. Vinfast quotes zero to 62 miles per hour and something like six and a

half seconds, which is funny because that's slow against everyone else.

But honestly, six and a half seconds for a people mover seems plenty quick.

I don't I don't think we need faster than that.

But how it delivers that is very strange.

There is a noticeable lag when you put your foot down.

And I guess it's I'm trying to get out of the eight to there is a weird gap.

But so that puts it between basically, well, not between it puts it between

power wise, the EV nine and the Onak nine, but slower than both to 60.

I guess due to the weight.

Yeah, yeah.

So that was weird, the acceleration bit.

The one pedal was very inconsistent because I like using it, right?

But it was hard to judge in the city.

In terms of ride, it was pretty good.

I've seen some people say that it's pretty noisy.

I didn't find that.

I actually found it pretty quiet and well damped.

It was comfortable.

The problem that I found in terms of handling and ride is that it has

an atrocious turning circle.

It was as bad as a Tacoma trail hunter.

Like I had a three point in a lot of my underground parking turns,

which is kind of nuts.

So that wasn't great.

The infotainment is weird.

I don't I don't want to give them too many bad marks for that

because like any infotainment, there's a learning curve.

So I feel like you'd get used to it after a little bit.

It is odd that there's a second screen in the back

and there's massage seats in the first and second row.

They're noisy as can be.

And the second row can actually adjust the front row's massage seats.

So that definitely won't be misused in any way.

So obviously, I didn't drive this.

You did. I drove the eight.

The one thing I can say without driving it is this is the better looking vehicle.

The yockier styling and the way the V grill is just suits it better.

I mean, I think it's probably their best looking vehicle outside of the three.

Remember the little VF three, the the baby Jeep two door thing.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I think it's a good vehicle.

So hopefully hopefully they stick around in our market long enough for Gen two

because there's like you said, there's learning curves and growing pains.

But maybe by Gen two, you fix a bunch of them and.

Yes, maybe hopefully there is one small part

what I which I haven't gotten to yet, which is the price.

In America, this this top trim, the plus

lines up with like a mid level Ionic nine, which is not great.

But hey, like this is the top trim.

You're getting some features, whether or not they're well integrated.

You wouldn't get in the Hyundai.

In Canada, this is more expensive than a loaded Ionic nine.

Yeah, that's a that's a that's a hard sell.

That's a real hard sell.

Yeah, it's it'll be interesting.

I mean, being vin fast, though, the price probably doesn't mean much

because they're probably going to put on some ridiculously aggressive lease rates,

which is what a lot would do with EVs anyway.

So off the wait rates, wait and see, lease rates.

And if you build it on the configurator right now,

you will get something like $12,000 in cash back.

So it is cheaper than its competitors with the current rebates,

but the list price is not cheaper.

So that's the main issue with it.

The old Ford train, I thought, yeah,

put a high price, but tons of rebates

and think you're getting money back. Yep.

All right. Well, moving on to another electric SUV, as I said, there's quite a few.

I drove the Chevrolet Blazer EV, the SS.

So this is one of those.

I feel like I saw it so long ago when I'm finally driving it.

Like the first time I saw this at the Detroit Auto Show,

I think it was still in winter.

No, no, I think it was the first summer one.

But I was excited because this was sort of the original

high performance EV SUV thing that was going to come out.

Like no one was really doing this yet.

It was like, here's 557 horsepower.

And I will drive in summer tires and offset like numbers.

And you're like, this is crazy.

And then it took them a while in the ionic.

Five ends been out.

The EV six GTs been out and discontinued already.

The I can't. E GT.

I can't fight it on the US site.

I was looking for. Oh, no.

If they haven't released the 26 pricing yet.

But yeah, the Mustang GT has been around.

But this is clearly the Mustang Mach E GT's competitor.

Yeah. So looking at that, it's it's got more power

when you put it into the wide open watch, the wild mode.

It doesn't quote regular mode.

But like I said, back in the day

when they were announcing this, it was always 557 horsepower.

And that feels a bit right.

It doesn't feel much slower.

It's not like the Silverado EV RST

where there feels like you have the 700 plus in wow.

And then you lose like over 200 when you go to regular.

At zero to 60 should be in the low threes,

which is close to like with the Mach E.

But I feel like this sustains power longer.

Like it's the best way to describe it is this a sledgehammer.

You you hammer with or without wow on and it just goes.

And if you throw it in a corner,

they've done a good job in making the four tires work together

to really just kind of pull you through.

But you feel like you're a half step behind at all times.

You're kind of half driving and half hanging on.

It doesn't have the precision of a five end, but I bet you

it's not far off in terms of what it would like

lap if you're going to race one.

It's the Ionic five end feels like a hot hatch that thinks it's an SUV.

This is an SUV that just has a whole lot of power

and some grippy summer tires inside the snow different.

I mean, you've driven a blazer.

This one looks even fancier.

It's red. There's two options.

So yeah, I applaud them.

Like like red with the same colors, the red

radiant red exterior paint that I had.

I like the way the dash is with the cool little vents.

And I mean, it's in every GM, but the screen within a screen set up is good.

The infotainment system and the digital dash fully configurable.

No problem. Big problem, as we always say.

And I got to bring it up every time I drive a GM EV.

There is no Apple CarPlay.

And yes, everything Google was installed and free and usable.

But it's just not the same when you have all your stuff set up on a certain device.

And it's completely incompatible.

I could use it like it was 2010 as Bluetooth.

And that was it.

So that's something I hope will be rectified one day.

I'm sure it is. I can't imagine they're not looking at it with all the flak.

They're getting from customers and media, probably dealers, too.

But otherwise, I like the look of this.

I think it's one of the better looking vehicles.

It looks long because the wheel base is long.

So compared to a blazer, I think it's an inch or three inches longer.

But the wheel base is nine inches longer.

So that really throws a perspective off.

It also it also looks so much longer because the rear window is tiny.

Like the glass looks so squished that this thing looks like a solid foot longer

than a regular blazer.

But that's one area where it really trumps the mocky is

it's not trying to look like an SUV coupe.

So you have a very usable cargo area.

I mean, the five and in the EV six GT same thing, they were more

squared off at the back.

But I went into it thinking that it was just going to be

everything we liked and didn't like about the blazer review with more power.

But it's it's a pretty solid package.

Like for the price, it's right on top of a almost identically

equipped mock EGT in the US, like we're talking hundreds of dollars apart.

And then it's a couple thousand less than the five and

and if the EV six GT continues this year, about a thousand cheaper, too.

So it's well placed.

Yeah, it's just one of the options out there.

So so I have a loaded question for you.

Does it live up to the SS badge?

Yeah, well, that was my review.

This one does.

OK.

Initially, it was the most powerful engine in a vehicle,

maybe a couple of little upgrades that can take corners.

But I mean, in the muscle car era,

there are the smaller ones got more like the Camaro, for instance.

But even the Camaro, the SS wasn't the handler.

That was the Z twenty eight.

So the SS Camaro of recent memory,

that was like the full package upgrade.

But that was just sort of like how you got a V eight.

I mean, there was the one, I think, for a while.

But yeah, if.

Going from the RS to this is a big difference.

And now there's even a front wheel drive model and a whole bunch of regular ones.

It's not like the SS mid two thousands

flurry where SS was on everything from Malibu's to

I think there's an equinox.

It was everywhere. Yeah.

OK, interesting.

So moving on, we go to Kyle driving an electric SUV.

Wow.

I drove the twenty twenty six Genesis Electrified GB seventy and

it's such a nice car.

I don't like using the word nice,

but it really feels appropriate on the Electrified GB seventy

in all the best ways where it's just this is a car that really

will SUV that really just wants to make your life smoother and less frustrating.

And it's still not perfect.

So for the improvements for twenty twenty six, the styling is barely changed.

There's this new series blue series.

C E R E S the first asteroid ever ever found.

That's what it's named after.

So it's this grayish hue that's very purple in certain light

and then more like a bluey gray in darker light.

Looks good. Yeah. Styling.

I'm glad they didn't touch much because they didn't need to.

But inside it's also just very nice.

It's a two color Napa leather setup with twin color contrast stitching.

And under the skin, you get a bigger battery pack from the Ionic five N.

And so you get a little bit more range, but this thing still has less range

than most of its competitors at two hundred and fifty ish miles,

which I mean, it's probably fine.

But because everyone's chasing the three hundred number, it really does feel like it's out.

Sort of like when I'm to it and super about the original BZ and Solterra,

they felt like the power and range was fine.

But everyone else was so much further on, they just felt a little off.

Yeah, let's hope this one survives because it's today and counterpart is gone.

I have a feeling that the fact they put money into it is because it does sell.

And there is probably hopefully going to be a magma down the road.

I mean, if they're putting all that into the 60, it's it's interesting, right?

Like would they do a magma gas or electric for the GB 70?

Because if you do it electric, then it's basically the GB 60.

Yeah, but I mean, that's sort of what we have now, but it's more practical, bigger one.

I think I don't think we're going to have gas magma until

I have no idea what car, but it's going to be probably based on the V8.

They're putting in their hypercar because they don't really have anything else

unless they make a big meaty hybrid.

But who knows?

They might, right?

Because I mean, the Palisade hybrid has the hybrid set up on the 2.5 liter

engine that's in the base GB 70.

So maybe it hooks up to the V6.

I don't know.

Overall, I liked this.

I should point out two things with it.

One, when we did a comparison with this in the Lyric last year,

the Lyric just squeaked ahead.

So I'm not sure if this is actually better than the Lyric or not.

It's still one of my favorite luxury Vs, but the Lyric is also insanely good.

And then the other tough thing is pricing, right?

Because EVs are expensive.

This is a couple thousand more than a top gas model, though.

And I am of the opinion that if you're spending this much money on a small luxury SUV,

this sort of makes sense because it's not the sport prestige, right?

So it's not the handler that the V6 is.

But I think that's better.

I think that's more suited to what most people want out of a SUV.

And this is so smooth and so comfortable.

And that V6 is thirsty as can be.

So, yeah, I think this is the best GV70.

Yeah, it's interesting.

We have the price thing because you're right.

I think at this point, a couple thousand, it doesn't matter to the consumer.

What's going to matter is what they want.

And I think the GV70 is in a little difficult because it is basically

the GV70 just slightly styled different and has more electrified.

Whereas I think if someone's looking for an electric SUV still at this segment,

they want to like make a statement like the world.

They're like, look at me.

So they're going maybe with the, well, the IX5 is, I guess, a size bigger.

But yeah, I just, I wonder, like you brought up the lyric, like every time

I see a lyric on the road, especially if it's coming from behind, I'm like,

what is that sports car?

And then as it gets closer, like, oh, it's the lyric.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, actually, you just mentioned BMW.

And I feel like that's the big question, right?

Is when the IX3 comes soon, that's going to be a direct competitor for this.

And so I'm very curious.

That's something we need to get together.

Yeah.

All right.

So I swear, this is the last time we're talking about an electric SUV on this program.

One is coming back, which is a poorly hidden secret.

Everyone knew, but maybe we weren't expecting this.

No, no, I don't think we were expecting when Chevy killed the bolt and then said,

oh, sorry, guys, sorry, we'll bring it back.

I didn't think they'd spent three years to literally just bring back the same car.

Not not the same car.

Obviously, there's a new battery pack and it has a Naxport and very slightly

tweak styling, but it's it's the same car.

I will say the tweak styling, I don't know what they've done,

but it looks like an SUV now, whereas the old one, rather, regardless,

if you got, what did they call it?

Was it just called the bolt SUV or you?

It was it looked like it.

Yeah, it looked like a tall hatch, just like the regular one did.

So this looks like it would fit in with the tracks and the trailblazer.

So I think what they've done is taken the old EUV based on the window line,

which makes sense.

So yeah, they've slightly tweaked the styling.

The interior is also updated.

So of course, you get the current is containment.

It has slightly less range than before, which I think is interesting.

I bet it's the styling because like there's a lower belt line

and the front ends more SUV.

I bet the old, weird, tall thing was because that was the aerodynamic shape.

And they figured, well, we'll start for a couple of miles to make this

seem more like an SUV. Yeah.

It's still front wheel drive only, though, right?

It is. So it's barely an SUV.

And like another front drive, certain Nissan, I know.

Yeah. Yeah.

So like the leaf, front drive only.

And it will undercut the leaf because it is they announced a price.

It is twenty nine nine ninety or twenty nine nine ninety five.

I can't remember.

So that's including destination.

Wow. So will it undercut the little battery?

Oh, we don't know the little battery leaf yet.

We don't know the little battery leaf yet.

And then this will actually get cheaper, too,

because that is the price for the LT with the comfort package.

So when the LT without it comes down the road, it should be about a grand cheaper.

So, yeah, we're seeing a push into more affordable space for EVs,

which is one of the most common complaints about EVs.

So we'll see if suddenly they start selling or if people will find something else

to complain about. Yeah, I mean, I saw a good handful of bolts back in the day

and then they all disappeared because I think they were all leased.

So this and the leaf is just obvious.

We've got to do a comparison down the road when they're both around.

And then I would assume little battery leaf will undercut it in price,

but it's also down on power and a lot of range. So, yeah, I see.

And then we have to bring back the Niro EV as well to stick against them.

And maybe the Kona EV and then the Soltera, not Soltera, uncharted.

Uncharted, yes. Yeah.

And then just like a Subaru back in the day,

it'll be the only one with all wheel drive and all the big advantage about that.

Except they will sell a front drive one, which I wanted.

I want to compare all the front drives.

All right. So moving on to absolutely groundbreaking shocking news.

What was it? Last week, two weeks ago,

we announced that the 718 replacement would have a gas engine.

Well, guess what's coming from the 911? You don't say.

What? Yeah.

You mean they're not going to develop an entire new engine

for the platform like before when they weren't planning to in the first place?

That's so that's so very strange.

I wonder why Porsche with, you know, news of money issues

would suddenly want to just build off an existing engine.

Yeah.

I mean, it's great news for people who want to gas up on a night

because now you're getting this turbocharged flat six that like

in the smallest form still makes what high three hundreds.

I I've lost track of the variants.

Three eighty something in the base 911 at this point.

I do wonder if this means I wonder if the four liter

that was in the outgoing 718 will pass emissions or if that one

because that one's based off the turbo three liter in the 911

just stripped of turbos and then bored out by a liter.

So I wonder if it can pass emissions and then they'll just bring that back

or if this is going to have to be an entirely new engine all over again.

Well, I mean, they're building a whole new platform.

Now that you said that I'm worried, they're just going to strip the turbo off

the three liter and, you know, have like a two hundred eighty horsepower.

Here you go. I mean, that sounds perfect.

Give me a two hundred eighty horsepower three liter flat six in a 718 I'm sold.

And the best part is there's a manual transmission

that matches up to this engine still available.

So you should be able to put that into the 718 as well.

Well, that would be interesting, too,

if they actually put more manuals in the 718,

because the 911 currently has two models that will do it.

So yeah. Hmm. All right.

Watch them be like, no, we're putting the turbo engine in the 718.

Seven hundred horsepower.

All right. So moving on to gas engines in electric cars.

This is a theme.

The charger is probably definitely, of course, it is getting a V8 at some point.

The reason they said this is

Stalentus did not confirm the chargers getting a V8,

but they've doubled their investment in the US from five billion to ten billion.

And part of the strategy is a Dodge V8 muscle car.

Hmm. How many cars does Dodge currently make?

What has a muscle car name and likes doing smoky burnouts?

So it's a Pacifica.

Yeah. So I'm curious, as we've said always,

when we are speculating, like, we knew it's going to happen.

It's the Ram has, I mean, it's it's the initial spike,

but it has spiked like crazy since the V8 went in, because it's all people waiting.

It's the question of sustainability, right?

Like, what's going to happen next year with the V8 versus the sixes?

Like, Ford, I mean, for them, they still sold.

They sold. They still sell V8 F-150s, but they don't sell as well as their EcoBoost.

But the EcoBoost range is much greater than Ram's,

but Ram always had less of an engine range in circles and circles.

I still think if they're putting this into the charger,

it's going to be the Hellcat because I don't see them putting

either of the other V8s in that would make similar power to the current turbo sixes.

Like, what's the point?

Unless they're going to put, like, just the V8 as an entry level engine

that doesn't exist yet, because the little turbo is like 420.

So what was it at the end, 370?

They'll do exactly what they're doing in Ram.

They'll charge people extra to have a worse engine.

Like, like, this is easy money, right?

Like, Stellantis is sitting here going, oh, crap, we need to make some money.

And, like, it's right here.

They'll just tell people, pay $3,000.

You can have a V8 and people will do it for a year.

Like, the 10,000 orders or whatever for the Ram V8.

Like, I'm sure it'll be great for the short term, but you mentioned Ford.

Ford sells, like, eight EcoBoost F-150s to one V8.

So, but in fairness to Ford, EcoBoost is everything else.

Like, for Ram, you'd have to count while they don't even have a V6 anymore.

So Ram doesn't have that entry market.

Like, I thought they still had the V6.

And then, OK, well, then if they do, if they do, like, that is,

like, Ford considers that as an EcoBoost.

It's not like it's all just the upgraded.

That's that's true about the two, seven and the three, five.

Yeah. Whereas it's like GM, right?

Like, they have the turbo four, I think, still.

And I knew that the the various V8s.

Yeah, I don't think they have anything between.

But anyway, back to the charger.

There'd have to be at least the SRT 392, I would guess, then,

because that's 480 something.

So at least it makes sense to somewhat be in the ballpark because the 570 in the last.

Yeah. And, you know, what maybe pricing will be.

And they'll have to just think of another cool name for from the past

because the RT is taken in and they don't have taken six packs taken.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, like, I guess, like, I guess I should be excited

for the people who want this.

But when the old challenger and charger died,

V8 models were sitting on lots unsold.

So I think this is just a lot of talk of people wanting them.

And we'll see if it translates to actual sales, like you said, like long term.

Like there will probably be a spike at launch.

But well, that was like you said with the old model, that was the problem.

Like the regular V8s, no one wants regular cars.

They're selling like hellcats and scat packs and that.

And now obviously those are in small numbers because they're more expensive

cars, but that's all that people wanted at that point.

So that's why I think like got a hellcat or something,

especially with the Banshee being officially dead now.

You don't have that halo model anymore.

Like, which I don't I don't think we talked about on the on the podcast,

but surprise, surprise, the Banshee's dead.

Well, we talked about where to go.

And yeah, various events we went to it was not talked about.

But yeah, Jailbreak Red Eye 807 horsepower to start.

Because as you said, to like that, I'll just print dodge money.

So might as well go with the big guy.

And then maybe you can trickle down later, but we'll see.

Yep. All right.

Well, that wraps up the news and reviews.

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Joining us now on the AutoGuide show is Kerry Price, best known for his stint

as the goaltender for the Montreal Canadians.

Thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having me, guys.

All right, we just announced a partnership with Ford,

pretty big campaign talking about your long relationship with Ford Trucks.

I was reading the press release, you talk about the Ranger.

A lot of different trucks that you and your family have experienced over the years.

Why don't you kind of give us sort of your origin story,

how your family grew connected with the Ford brand like that?

Well, obviously it started a long time ago.

I grew up in a very remote area in Northern British Columbia.

Me and my father, Jerry, we spent a lot of time in a truck commuting back and forth

from playing hockey.

It was a seven hour round trip to just to get to hockey practice.

So dad would load up the hockey equipment in our little Ford Ranger.

Can't remember what year it was, but I do remember it was white

with red and blue pinstripes on it.

Saw a lot of miles, a couple ditches along the way and it kept on trucking for us.

Seven hours. Wow. That's a that's a dedicated round trip.

Yeah, it's very my dad is probably the most dedicated man I've ever known

to give me an opportunity to, you know, and just have the opportunity

to enjoy the sport that I love playing.

I think he saw some promise in me as a as a young kid.

I spent a lot of time on the backyard rink and I'm like, you know,

we had a backyard rink for, you know, five months of the year, just about.

And, you know, we we spent a lot of time in the vehicle,

not only seven hours round trip for hockey practice, but we'd have to drive

say to Prince George or Kamloops or an additional three to three

to six hours on top of that, just to go playing the tournament.

Yeah, so go ahead.

I was going to say, Kerry, you mentioned that the players lot

that a lot of them would drive sports cars and things like that.

And you kind of like to hang out with your Ford truck.

It was a special edition one.

Can you kind of talk about that?

Do you still have that one or, you know, what is your current car

collection look like?

Well, my my first pickup truck was a was an F-150 Harley Davidson edition.

I felt I felt pretty cool driving a Harley.

You know, I had a leather jacket and everything.

I felt a little sheepish wear in the jacket.

But I thought it was I thought it was a really cool truck.

It was beautiful.

Well, when I first got to Muncher, all it was primarily, you know,

like SUVs, crossovers and as my career progressed, I think we got

a few more country boys in the mix.

I think that helped, too.

But we had a few more pickup trucks get into our little lot as my career went on.

Nice.

Just for our listeners and viewers, there's full photos and everything on the campaign.

So we saw some of that range you're talking about.

And I love 80s and 90s vehicles.

And that's just such a great looking package.

I love that the old pinstripe on that and the extended cab and the

the cab box and everything is really cool.

Yeah, I love I love a good 90s pickup truck, too.

So sticking with the forwards, have you ever gotten to drive any of the

like street truck F-150s, like any of the old lightnings or tremors or anything like that?

Yeah, well, I've been I've had a couple of rafters

and I remember one of my favorite trucks I've ever owned.

This was before I was pulling trailers and, you know, 30 foot air stream and whatnot.

But I had a I had a raptor with an eco boost in it.

And I loved it because of the suspension.

I can get up and down logging roads, unreal.

But, you know, with the eco eco boost engine in it, it was adapt decent on gas.

So that was probably one of my favorite trucks.

Very cool.

Are you at all a Bronco man?

Sounds like you're into off-roading and the wilderness.

What do you think of that?

Yeah, well, honestly, my mom, my mom drives a Bronco.

She has a Bronco sport, so I've been in a few Broncos over my lifetime, but for around here,

I always, you know, I always like having the right tool for the job, whether it was, you know,

in my shop here, you know, pulling a pull in a 30 foot trailer.

Obviously, an F 350 Super Duty is the right tool for that job.

And I think around here, the perfect hunting rig for me would be Bronco Raptor.

Those things look nice.

Yeah, they're they're crazy capable.

Two of my favorite vehicles I've driven in the last couple of months was I had a Bronco heritage

with the the baby blue and the white and the red lettering and everything.

And that got so much attention.

And then also on a complete opposite end, we had the Maverick Lobo, which is such a fun little truck

to rip around and wouldn't be good for your logging roads.

But in the city, it's great.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, as you can tell, I do.

I do a lot of driving down logging roads, deactivated logging roads, stuff like that.

So I spent a lot of time out of.

You're kind of I know you like to spend a lot of time out, you know, in the wilderness in the middle of nowhere.

Are you the hybrids or electric to those type of trucks, you know, hold any appeal to you?

Is that is that of interest?

Like, if I were to get like a commuter vehicle in town, you know, that would definitely

pique my interest.

But, you know, I'm a one vehicle man right now.

So I have an F 350 just because of the the stuff that I enjoy doing.

So but if I were just commuting to and from school drop off pick up, so it would be something I'd looking to you.

So we've talked about this on the show many times because what we do, you just mentioned you have an F 350.

I'm assuming it's one of the newer ones.

What are your thoughts on how crazy capable trucks have gotten over the last 10 years?

Like they can be rated until like 30, 40,000 pounds now, which is my one for a pickup.

Yeah, well, you know, I grew up, like I said, I grew up in a pretty remote area.

So I'm pretty used to seeing dualies pull, you know, cattle rigs up and down, up and down.

Pretty steep where I grew up.

So I always felt like trucks have always been pretty good.

But, you know, lately I can pull that 30 foot air stream and it doesn't feel like it's back there.

And probably getting better fuel economy than truck 20 years ago.

Yeah, 100 percent.

Yeah. What is on your maybe future car shopping list?

Are there any F series trucks or anything else, even like a classic you might have your eye on?

Yeah, well, I have a hockey player that lives down the street, Jordan Tutu.

I've known him for a long time.

He just rebuilt a, can't remember what, a 78 Bronco?

Like re redid it from the from the chassis up.

It looks unreal.

So, you know, I kind of piqued my interest.

And maybe when I get more time, maybe when my children grow up,

I'd like to consider doing something like that.

So I think a Bronco would be pretty cool.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I that's why I love the heritage, because it's like a modern look of it.

But getting one of those old ones and then maybe even doing an engine swap

with like a modern coyote V8 or something, just be such a fun vehicle to rip around in.

Yeah, he was talking about how, because he started rebuilding this one when COVID started.

So he went and hid in his garage for all of COVID.

And it was like it didn't even happen for him.

You know, he just went and hid out.

And I kind of like that because I have a shop here and I'm kind of a tinkerer by nature.

I'm not much of a motorhead yet.

But whenever I do something, I go all out for it, you know,

so I'm kind of biding my time till I get the more free time.

You know, I got three kids under nine years old.

So I got to kind of pick my poisons right now.

But in the future, I can definitely see myself getting down that.

Yeah, yeah, that's quite the ambition with three kids that young.

I have one, so I can't imagine what threes like.

Do they love getting in the truck too and going on road trips?

My kids love like the first like three hours of the trip.

You know, I'm sure I'm sure all dads and parents can relate to that.

A lot of our trips are fairly local around here.

My wife grew up in Kennewick, Washington, which is about six hours or so from here.

And I think about five hours is where things start to go downhill.

That's impressive.

My son, if I'm just doing two hours to my parents' cottage,

but an hour early is like another hour.

So yeah, you get three hours.

That's fantastic.

But they love getting in the truck and going to places.

They all love camping.

You know, we have we're fortunate here in British Columbia

that we have a lot of great areas, a lot of mountainous areas,

lots of, you know, water side campsites.

You can dry camp.

You can go to parks.

So we're pretty fortunate in that way.

And they all love camping.

We love camping primarily beside bodies of water, lakes.

So we all have paddleboards.

We go paddleboarding, fish off of paddleboards, that type of stuff.

So we're getting to the age where all of my kids can can get out on the lake.

So that's fun for all of us now.

Yeah, there's so many great places.

I want to get my son out there one day.

My aunt lives in Creston and when I was younger, I'd go out there

and she has a boat that they take on Kootenai Lake and whatnot.

And you're right, it's just so beautiful out there.

You're like, I've taken him camping here, but he has no idea what it looks like out there.

Oh, yeah, like the Kootenai's is unbelievably beautiful.

We spent a lot of time going down that direction.

We have some friends that have just kind of a week or like their own private,

like campsite on the Kettle River on the other side of the border in Washington.

And it's it's amazing to go down that way.

I love it in that area.

Nice. Very cool.

I think we're we've been this has been a great setup here.

I think we're right up against our time.

So is there anything we didn't ask you?

You would like to add about cars or camping or any fallout,

door adventures you have planned?

Oh, yeah, well, me and my dad just got back from Elk hunting in Alberta.

We drove my truck over there.

We went out in in our western Alberta this year.

Me and my cousin both got bulls out there.

So it was a good trip.

There's about six or seven of us that all go hunting out there.

Kind of a family trip.

We set up a 30 by 16 foot wall tent and as a base camp and

and truck around the woods and and hope to get a year's worth of meat.

So we're fortunate this year that we both got some and

you know, as a blessed trip, it's always fun to go over there

and spend some time with my Alberta relatives.

And having a truck that's powerful enough to bring everything home.

Yeah, for sure.

Like we, you know, we I have a I have a topper on the back of my truck

because you can imagine it seems like you got to bring a lot of stuff

for everything you do, whether it's for camping with your family

or go on Elk hunting.

It just seems like there's there's so much equipment to bring with you.

And so having a big truck and a big topper really helps me organize everything.

Well, thank you for joining us, as Greg said, it's been great talking to you.

And you just maybe want to get out doors out in the DC area again,

because it's been a couple of years and joy your your time.

And hopefully you do get a project card to work on sometime in the future

and enjoy the four trucks and appreciate it, fellas.

Thanks for your time.

Thank you.

Hello and welcome back.

We have Colin with Joining us once again.

It is an off week, but the rumors and news never stop.

They do not.

And the juiciest one that they came across very recent.

This is not a Formula One driver for those who don't follow other forms

of motorsports. And I'll be the first to admit, I, although just for you

and I were chatting about prototypes and Indy car and stuff like that.

I'm not I'm not the biggest into these other ones and especially used to watch

WRC more when it was back on speed vision back in the day.

But so this is this is a photo of Kalei Rovenpera.

He is a Formula, sorry, World Rally Champion.

And he just announced this week that he is retiring from WRC at the tender age of 25.

I mentioned how young you are still.

Yeah, apparently he he was like competing, I think at 14 and was actually

like like legitimately driving rally cars at the age of eight.

So he's he's a Finn, as the name kind of suggests.

And the Finns love to churn out their WRC drivers as well as some F1 drivers.

So so here's the interesting thing that this is where he seems to be pointed.

He has basically he said he's leaving WRC and he is going to be going

to the Japanese super is it super formula is what it's called for super formula.

Which is it's we talked about earlier in this podcast, but anyway, go on.

It's it's a level sort of actually above like my understanding

is the speeds are actually above like F2 and it's been for some drivers.

So Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasly were both super formula drivers in the past.

And so it has been a stepping stone to Formula One.

And the the signs point in that direction that that's where he's going.

And if I can add on something, what do I love to talk about on this podcast?

Mike, I love to talk about how Toyota is going to go formula one racing.

So this is me is the biggest sign.

He is a Gazoo Racing driver for Toyota.

The rally car team.

He is going to be backed by there by Toyota in the super formula series.

And you have to think that they're thinking sooner than later,

they're going to get into F1 and that he's going to be one of their drivers

and they're moving them up the ranks.

They're clearly making some big moves in the background to get this all going.

So this is my like, I've been calling this for a while.

So there was a good I'll see if I can find a good quote from

the GR racing team actually put out a statement.

And it says, oh, so it says, first of all, that, you know,

the two time rally car champion were being part of the TGR family,

aiming for the pinnacle of circuit racing in the future.

So that's what that was like from the official announcement that the the GR

racing team made.

So so yeah, I mean, there's stickers in F1.

Come on, they're already there.

But yeah, I don't know if this is their driver,

but it seems like they're hedging their bets and have drivers everywhere

that they're they're trying to see who's ready to go.

So with super formula, I mean, there's always a bait sort of where it ranks to me.

Like that's obviously Japan's biggest open wheel.

It's like they're America's indie car.

They have super formula and it's like, where do they rank compared to formula one,

formula two, formula three? It's all a debate.

But I would say this is probably the the second tier right below F1,

because they don't ever touch oval.

So the cars don't have to be compromised in any way to to do both.

So yeah, and they have, I don't know if they still have push to pass

or with DRS or what they have now, but they've always had something like that.

So it's interesting because I'd say like NASCAR rally and F1

are like the three most different disciplines you could do.

So going from one to the next is interesting.

But as we've seen, fantastic drivers can pretty much hop in any car and be good.

Yeah. Yeah. So what sort of got the first thing that came to mind when I saw this

is he actually did a test in one of the Red Bulls like a year or two ago

and apparently was very impressive.

I never got any info on like what those lap times were.

It was around the ring in Austria.

And so he's driven a Red Bull F1 car.

And so people were, you know, I think the first thought was, oh, future Red Bull driver.

And it's like, first of all, Red Bull has kind of enough problems

trying to find drivers as it is.

And they have a lot of young people coming up.

So I don't think that's where it's going to be.

I think the Toyota backing is there.

And I think you're right that we've seen them getting a lot of people lined up, right?

So he may not be the guy, but I have to think that if you're going to leave

at your championship to be a driver, you're not going to leave

unless there's some type of a pretty serious contract.

Like, he knows something we don't 100% know.

Otherwise, I can't see him leaving to just go race in super formula.

Like, that's not that is not a step up in your career from being a WRC champion.

So yeah, unless you just want a new challenge, you never know.

But it's funny to say the Red Bull test seems everyone does,

but it's because Red Bulls in like every motorsport,

I feel like the marketing agency has one of every car their own.

So it's like when you're testing, you're not actually testing Red Bulls.

F1 team is just like, oh, we got one of those.

Yeah, we just test our rally car.

Yeah, it's like the stunt car.

They pull out to like do shenanigans and stuff like that,

which is clearly not the real F1 car, right?

But yeah, yeah, it sounds very interesting.

All right, moving on.

All right. So this is a Carlos side.

So this is I thought it was funny.

We sometimes will start off the podcast.

We'll talk about the last race and we didn't

partially because Singapore was kind of a dud.

However, the controversy has has come up.

There's you know, I'm sure you've seen it on on Twitter or elsewhere

that people are complaining that there actually was some good on track action.

We just never saw it because they were too busy

showing shots of the wives and girlfriends of the F1 drivers.

And so Carlos Sainz actually came out and said that there's a little thing.

He was on a podcast recent.

He said it's becoming a bit of a trend.

And he said, let me see here.

I understand that if there's an overtake, a very tense moment in the race,

it is understandable that the production team might want to show a reaction shot.

So the wife, girl from whatever, you know, reacting.

He said it's worked in the past.

But last weekend, they didn't show any of the four or five overtakes I did at the end.

Nor did they show Fernando's pursuit of Lewis.

They missed a lot of things.

And actually, I noticed that they like at the very the race was over

and we kind of know who was in what position.

Anyway, and then they they were not showing the fact that Lewis was like,

had no breaks and was coasting.

And Alonzo was like, I was watching the numbers on the top and it was going

for like 48 seconds, 30 seconds.

It was just dropping so fast, like it's going to happen.

Something's going to happen at the end and he didn't quite make it.

But it was it did seem like race direction was not great.

And there's a million memes now about how they're just showing pictures

of wives and girlfriends and nothing else.

It's it's funny because I didn't hear this quote from him.

But I've noticed that lately.

I'm like, why do they keep showing the wives and girlfriends?

Like, it's to the point where do you really want to be filmed in a garage

watching a TV like while you're you're seeing a few others out there risking

their life and you got to be all done up because you're on international TV.

And yes, it's a little ridiculous.

And your point about missing the action, I've noticed that over the years

where we have our favorite drivers or we have a driver that has an interesting

story and you're just watching their time and you're like, they're doing

something crazy and they just keep showing Max.

And and how many races has there been?

We're like, second, third, fourth, maybe you're somewhat close.

They keep showing them.

And then at the end, they're like, oh, by the way, here's Max or here's George

or here's Landau that won the race.

I got no airtime, you know, you're leading.

Yeah. And I don't mind that if they're if they're out and leading the race totally

and it's dull, like let's not follow them.

I totally agree.

But you're right.

There's as a viewer, right?

You'll be watching the race that they're showing you, but you're always

scanning that leaderboard on the left side to see who who's within DRS.

Right. Where is the next pass going to come?

And what should we what should we really be watching?

And especially if it's like your driver, right?

You're cheering for, you know, somebody or their team and you're always

keeping an eye on how close they are as somebody catching them or they

catching someone else.

And then so so it's there's some criticism boiling up.

And I mean, I know they want to show, you know, beautiful women.

I I I don't I don't fault them for that.

And I know that that's part of the celebrity of the whole thing.

But yeah, missing the good racing.

It's not not a good not a good shot.

Sorry, that's that's the that's the number one thing.

Well, two, two quick things.

First, yeah, you don't want to get to a point where people start

trying to date an F1 driver so they can get X amount of TV time.

They start making arrangements like that.

And the counterpoint to all this will be Sky Sports will come and say, well,

subscribe to our whatever package and you can pick your individual driver

and watch their on board the whole race.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it was funny because I actually saw a there was one of the memes

was, you know, do your Sky Glass or Sky Q and and you can see a live

reaction of the the wife or girlfriend the whole time.

They have a camera.

Yeah, yeah, the whole.

And then you can just watch that.

You can just, you know, her.

She's taking a bite of a sandwich.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, biting her nails.

Oh, no.

And speaking of the race, you're right.

It was a dud the entire race was a parade and the only action was at

the very beginning where we had Lando and Oscar fans yelling at each other.

We did.

And so, so this is I mean, whatever I I don't there's there's camps on both

sides.

There's all these people who think that like the team is only about Lando.

And I get that a bit.

And there's teams when I find strangers, people in like, oh, the team is

like a totally only backs Oscar.

And I'm like, really?

That doesn't seem legitimate at all.

So to me, if I was going to say, I'd probably think they're more Lando

bias, but I don't know.

And but this is, you know, a little meme of Zach Brown looking upset when

your favorite child doesn't win.

But it sort of plays into the fact that there's a Alex Pellew who's, I think,

now suing or involved in a court case with McLaren because he didn't get the seat.

And there's a quote from a recent review says, I went for dinner with Zach

at Beaverbrook near MTC.

Zach told me it was not his decision to hire Oscar.

He said it was the decision of the team manager, Andreas Seidel.

So he's basically saying, you know, wasn't wasn't Oscar wasn't Zach's choice.

It's kind of the way he's putting it.

So and I will add that with all of this, often there is people have other

reasons for saying what they're saying to stir up controversy, unsettled to do

whatever they want.

Right.

Like it's clear now that if Alex is not going to race from McLaren, he's

probably thinking, what can I do to make their lives miserable?

So it's funny.

I was thinking, is this Mercedes or Red Bull or Ferrari that's planting these

seeds so they can get Oscar to leave the team and steal them for their team.

But why not?

To the thing with Zach and the data, like the quote he made, it's like, I'm 100%

and he said that, but he's like a slick business guy.

Like, of course, he's going to say that to the guy in front of his face, whether

or not he had a final say or not, because this gets him off the hook, but

doesn't throw anyone else under the bus.

So I don't know.

It's also like, like, you know, this is that's how the business actually works.

Right.

Like it's like, you know, a baseball, right?

That the coach coaches the players, the general manager picks them, right?

Like you, so it's the same thing here that really what Zach is saying is,

is nothing revolutionary.

He's really just saying, I hired Andreas Seidel to pick the people.

He picked the people like he's not saying it's almost irrelevant to him.

He's just like, that's not, he picks Andreas, Andreas picks Andrea.

Andrea picks the drivers, right?

So I think that's where he's really going.

So we can stir all the controversy to what you want, but it's probably

much more of just a normal operating procedure than anything else.

So yeah, it's like all sports.

You know, you have a, usually a GM or a president that picks a coach

and then the coach picks who's playing where it's not the GM.

But yeah, but even just to the back to the dinner thing.

Like if you and I are in a group of five type friends and I have like three

tickets somewhere and I take four and I don't take you, if you and I go for

dinner after and you're like, why did you take me?

I'd be like, oh, you know, it was the other guys.

They decided we were going to go and not you.

Like, you know, you're in that situation.

I can be like, it was me not eat up.

I hate you.

It's like, well, I don't like your face.

So see you later.

And to the race, like the whole beginning thing.

I mean, like, McLaren's my team of us to that many times.

And I do like Lando and also like Oscar.

Um, it, it was a, an aggressive move, but it was a racing thing.

Like Oscar made it sound like Lando pushed him into the wall, but like Max was

up, whoops, Max is on the other side.

Like he, he, he, he hit max, which is kind of Lando's fault.

And then bounced into Oscar.

You know, it's not like you just squeezing them out to me.

It was a total racing thing.

Like I get that.

And they're trying to spin more controversy out of this than I think

there is one of the interesting things I saw an interview on a sky with one

of the guys and he was basically talking about how, um, why Oscar's actual

reason to be upset here is that, um, that the, the papaya rule state, like

you will not run into another driver.

And if you do, they'll rectify that on track.

So he did run into him.

And then he's basically saying, you told me these are the rules.

If he runs into me, I get the place.

Um, but this is where having rules like that come into make it more complicated

because this, this wasn't the case of like the two were like all by themselves

out battling and, and Lando like, you know, forcibly drove them off the outside.

Like that's, that's not what happened here.

This was like a, in the heat of a turn one, turn two action that, uh, that,

that, that's happened.

So, so I think, uh, what, what I do think is interesting is after that, we're

now, I think seeing, especially now the constructors championship is locked

down, I think McLaren will be very much, uh, gloves off, um, for, yeah, let

the drivers really just sort of have themselves.

So, so we'll see.

Well, they also don't want Max to sneak up and take second over.

Like he's not that far behind Lando.

So he's not, if, if one of them DNFs, it changes that story a lot.

So, uh, they also can't do that, but they could do that fighting for a championship.

Things happen.

So we might actually get a good year here.

And I get like dirtier.

You keep a certain gap and, but it would be something different too.

If, um, Oscar stayed like the two, three seconds behind Lando the whole time and

he could push up and get too many wanted to, but I don't kind of pulled away.

So it's like, why stop the spots when he's just going to be on you and you're

going to kind of impede both your race while you're trying to get the championship.

So totally agree.

Totally agree.

All right.

Well, that's it for this week.

We had a, it's some extra time to use.

So we used it up next week.

It's race time again.

So I'm sure more will happen between now and then we'll see if you're.

Toyota prediction comes closer and closer, but I'm going to bug.

I've got some, I've got some Toyota contacts.

I'm going to start bugging them cause yeah, it's a, it's totally happening.

So I should like register a domain for Toyota F1 fans or something like that.

Yeah.

Next time we go to Toyota, sneak around and look for that F1 engine being built

secret room somewhere.

Sounds good, man.

All right.

See ya.

Take care.

Okay.

So that just about finishes things here on the AutoGuy.

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We had lots of cool stuff to talk about.

I got to talk to a probably future Hall of Fame NHLers.

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Yeah, it's been a good day.

Well, Kyle, why didn't you make the interview?

Well, I could not because I was driving the most important new vehicle launch of the

year.

I was driving the 2026 Toyota RAV4.

I won't be able to tell anyone what it's like for a little bit yet, but it was

an experience.

And I also got to go to one of the plants that builds the RAV4.

So that was a fun little get to.

And then after that, even though I was then around for the back half of the week,

I went on another small little local thing with Volvo to drive the refreshed

XC60, which is actually a fun fact.

Not only is it the best selling modern Volvo, which is not surprising.

It recently overtook the 240 to be the most.

It's the best selling Volvo of all time now.

Well, I mean, yeah, that's just the way the market is.

So I'm going to break a bar go on the RAV4.

It's a smallish SUV that works well for family life.

Done.

No, I look forward to seeing what you say about it and then getting our hands on it

for like a that's one like dead of winter.

I want it for just family duties, taking my son to like karate and

and baseball camps and getting groceries.

And that's what it's going to be used for.

Like it's I don't use the word appliance because that's just like people

use it as a negative word, but like that's what the class is.

It's like something to make people use their cars for.

Yeah, yeah, you should get it over the holidays.

Live with it for two weeks.

Yeah, maybe that's actually not.

I'll take a seven one day anyway.

So this week I was around.

That's why I got to do the interview.

I have been driving.

It's Kyle.

You said this last week and you're right.

We've completely flipped off.

I've been driving a two hundred thousand dollar Range Rover Sport.

Yeah, addition to SB with a six hundred and twenty six horsepower

BMW turbocharged V eight under the hood.

The coolest matte paint job that somebody didn't wash properly.

And a very nice interior.

And yeah, I mean, it's like one of those I was out shooting video today.

And it's just hard to it's hard to even say the video because it's like

the only person buying this is the person that wants to buy this.

Like, you're not cross shopping.

And even at that price, there are other CVs,

but they're like super sporty like the Aston Martens, the Lamborghinis.

Or they're like super luxurious or then there's a G-Wagon that's on its own too.

But this that thing is a bit of everything.

It's stylish, luxurious and it's sporty,

but it doesn't do any of them like amazing, but it doesn't do anything bad.

It's like, yeah, yeah.

So anyway, it's a nice piece of design.

I really love how current Range Rovers look inside and out.

It's funny to say that because like that's my part of my intro and extra.

I don't want to give too much away, but it's like everyone knows what a Range Rover is

and everyone knows what they look like.

And if you buy this, you're buying into that too.

So, you know, like everyone's going to know like, whoa.

And then the paint job just makes it stand out.

It's called Nebula Matte Blue, which is pretty cool.

So it's it's like the villain turned hero in the Marvel in MCU.

I mean, yeah, it's it isn't too far off.

I know they actually mean Nebula and that's why she was named that.

But yeah, it's like I've had so many people say like that paint looks amazing.

And I'm like, I know when I picked it up, I was like, this is I hand washed it today,

which I rarely do when it's this cold out, but I just want to make it look nice

again for the video in the weekend.

So anyway, moving on to next week, I have a Canadian only special.

It's the Hyundai Elantra N.

But in Canada, we have something called the TCR, which is a tribute

to their racing success in the TCR touring car championship.

And it gets a massive wing and some other cool bits.

But I'll save all that for another time.

What are you doing, Kyle?

Well, I should probably just quickly point out, I drove a Tucson hybrid

this week and very intentionally because driving the four.

So next week, I am driving the Mercedes CLE 450 convertible,

which I'm very much looking forward to because convertibles are always great.

And the 450 engine, the three liter in line six is one of Mercedes best.

So I'm excited for that one.

But I am going to be doing more events next week.

I'm going to be driving the 2026 Toyota Rev four.

That's weird.

Going to be driving it again because, well, there's other models to drive.

So I need to drive them all so that I can give people reviews on them.

And then for the back half of the week, I will be going to the

Automobile Journalists Association of Canada's annual test fest,

where there will be dozens of cars and journalists from all across the country

go and drive them for two days to score them for what will

eventually be a labeled car and utility vehicles of the year.

And we talked to Steven on our episode last week about just that.

So yeah, it's going to be another busy week.

So it's the formalities you need to do before the Lobo

or just the Maverick in general with this utility of the year.

I mean, we joke, but yeah, I'm pretty sure the Maverick is very high

on my personal voting list as well.

That and the Hyundai Palisade.

But yeah, going to be a fun week.

All right, well, it sounds good.

I guess we'll end things there.

This has been another edition of the AutoGuide show.

And we'll see you next week.

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