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Corvette ZR1X vs Mustang GTD w/ Drew Bunkley (AI assist)

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It is Monterey Car Week. What that means is coming up on

this show, I talked to Matt the moderator, D'andrea.

He's been a while since he's been on the show.

Great conversation, 30 minute preview of everything that he's going to be doing at Monterey Car Week, what races he's going to with Adam Corolla, all the famous people he's going to get to interview again because he's on a certain level.

In fact, I would say the highlight of my podcast career so far is being a guest on Carcast, which Matt the moderator, D'andrea Co host with Goldberg.

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Also, I caught U with Johnny Valencia, as we do every year to review exotics on Broadway Excet.

The problem with all of that is the audio did not record, fortunately. Drew Bunkley stop by the Studio

this Saturday and we had a great conversation about the Corvette ZR1 AI and maybe what to expect at Monterey Car Week for Chevrolet. One of the things I do remember

from talking to Johnny Exotics on Broadway is ours have changed. So if you're listening to this

or watching this and you're going to Monterey Car Week, it is now 11 to 4. So it's been moved up.

I think the last few years it's been from 1:00 to 6:00.

The area is also slightly expanded, so Fremont used to be a couple blocks. Now it's at least six blocks,

maybe all of Fremont Street. And they're also doing the

Fremont Experience, which is something you could pay to 10 is $30.00. But it gets you away from all

the crowds or most, most of the crowds because let's face it, Exotics on Broadway is the single largest free crazy event or Monterey Car Week, which means you're going to have 10s of thousands of people around you at any given time.

And you can't really move because it's such a great event.

But this Fremont experience allows you to buy a ticket ahead of time online. So you can go to Exotics on

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prepurchase. That ticket is $30 up to the

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Otherwise, a day of whether it's online or in person, you're going to pay $40 and you want to get there early because it is kind of first come, first serve. Think about it as a nightclub or

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out at Exotics on Broadway is going to be also in the Fremont Experience. Horatio Pagani is going to be

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There's a lot of stuff going on, so make sure you get out there and check it out. Exotics on Broadway Saturday,

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I forgot what Matt said. I'm I'm sorry.

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Drew Buckley, welcome back. Thank you for making the trek

from the other side of Phoenix. You brought came over here in

your Tesla. We're going to talk about that

today and some of the new technologies that you're into.

But you are the official Corvette correspondent of Hard Parking, so is there any? While you're wearing a Tesla

hat, what sort of new knowledge do you want to drop on us today?

Jay, there's a lot of things going on.

Yeah, obviously in the Corvette world, everyone's looking at things happening with the ZR1, the ZR1X, so.

Are you are you upset they didn't actually call it to Zora?

I'm I still, I'm still hopeful that they're still playing Zora.

I think it's going to probably going to be closer to more electric, but who knows. There are things in the future

for Corvette. They think about a new grand

sport coming back out with that because right now they're producing the majority of wide body cars.

So there's a lot of different things that's going on.

I think we're just keeping that Zora name out there.

You know, it's something that is hopeful.

If they do drop something, Corvette is obviously doing a lot of marketing, so. You told me that.

So you you posted the video of the Nuremberg ring lap times.

And then of course, I know you're the Corvette guy and Corvette people just like NSX people.

Yeah, any car people. Those people follow the same

accounts. And so I went in there because

when they posted that we made a faster time than the GTDI go.

Hey, personally, I would rather have a GTDI think it's a cool looking car. Not that the Corvette isn't a

cool looking car, but my part of that gripe is that there's just so many Corvettes out there. Your average person couldn't

tell the difference. Really only a Corvette person or

a car person be like, oh, well, that's that's an E ray.

And even E rays can be confusing too, you know, versus a regular, you know, run-of-the-mill Stingray, which isn't a bad thing, but with 25,000 made a year, right?

And then the GTDI think nothing looks like a GTD but a GTD.

And you know, some of the guys, they were actually nicer than I thought they would be. And I think when I didn't argue

with them, I was like, well, yeah, but.

And I agree with you, you know? You know, and I agree with you

100%, the Corvette is a mass produced vehicle.

The Stingray, you know, it's General Motors.

It's like a Ford Mustang to me. I mean, it's a mass produced

car. The Mustang, obviously the GTD,

in order for them to use that vehicle for racing in the GT series, they have to have a marketable, A sellable car.

So that's the reason why they developed that and brought this vehicle to market limited numbers.

And the same thing with Corvette, they race in the same series. So the ZR1, you know those type

of vehicles, really what they're doing is bringing their race car to the to the average person that can basically afford to purchase one. But those cars are designed for

strictly tracks. So for me, for Ford, for Chevy

to offer that car, I think for the market is it says something that most manufacturers are doing.

You know, it's bringing into a price point whether it's the Ford or the Corvette. But yeah, the Corvette's a mass

produced car, and that's ZR1, the ZR1X, you know, it's just a limited number of car that's going to be produced.

And you know, I totally agree with you on the concept though.

You see them everywhere. You can find a Corvette in any

parking lot when you go around town, especially out here in Arizona. Yeah, and I mean I think people

realize I wasn't knocking the Corvettes at all.

And when you, when you were talking about the having the road going version to, in order to be eligible moving forward, it kind of reminds me of like the C7 Rs.

Remember the race car C7 arrives and they, they, I think the road going version wasn't necessarily the same, but that's what I thought of. And I remember back when I was

watching FIAGT back in the late 90s or 2000s, some of the biggest dream cars is like a Mercedes-Benz CLKGTR, which is a road car, but it's, everybody knows it's a race car And it's in order for them to have it on the racetrack, they had to at least make one Rd. going car that they could sell for the GT1

class. Same thing with the Porsche GT1.

You've probably never seen one. And if you're so, you've

probably never seen one in person because there's so few of them that is legit a freaking race car for the street.

And it looks almost like, in fact, actually really unscripted. I weirdly have a, a Porsche like

a second generation GT1 car right here.

And so they actually make a street version of this car, right? Maybe two people own one in the

entire world, but you know, this car exists.

So that's kind of what made me think about the when you're talking about the reason why the GTD even exists to begin with, because I've heard people say, you know, it's just really a race car. And in order for them to do

that, well, still says it still says this Ford, Ford GTD, Ford Mustang GTD. Right.

And I think the big really for me being a Corvette enthusiast, the big take away from it is that the Corvette ZR1ZR1X, it comes straight off the Corvette assembly line in Bowling Green, KY, which matters exactly because the Ford has to go out and to be modified to be able to, you know, obviously be able to be manufactured for that particular car.

So it's a big difference when you've got a car coming right off assembly line, plug and play, hit the start button, you're there versus a car that's got to be modified.

Right. And I get that.

I mean, it's all in house at that point, which there's something to be said about that, you know, and I, I think I'd commented, you know, I don't want to see a 01 at every corner and I don't, I, I think it's rare that I ever see AC-70 when you see C sixes, but still not as often as you would think.

And then I know this one's even more limited.

I think they said they're making 4 to 500 of this sound correct?

So they only made 64 for 2025, right around 64.

The other orders that were put in had to be dumped over to 2026 models. So they redesigned the interior.

Oh, I saw that right. So there was a kind of a cut

off, you know, because they were trying to get to the new designs that's coming out. So all the orders that were for

2025, I guess there was a little over 100 that were accepted by General Motors by. For the ZR ones, For the ZR

ones, I'm not going to question you because I did that last time and I was dead wrong. But I thought I googled or

grokked or whatever. How many ZR ones are they

producing for the CA platform? I thought, I thought I said like

400 or 500 maybe that's through the entirety well.

Let's look it up. Yeah, because I know that's what

we got AI here for, right? Yeah.

Tell me the production numbers for the 2025 ZR one and what was rolled over to 2026 so. It looks like there were

initially 310 orders for the 2025 ZR one.

However, due to some production delays, only 108 were actually completed. That means a little over 100

orders got pushed to the 2026 model year.

How many do they plan on producing?

It's tricky to say the exact number they plan to produce.

Overall, they had those initial 310 orders for 2025, but with the delays it's unclear how that will affect the total for 2026.

Do you want to know more about the delay or the 20?

So basically from my information.

Why did you pick that voice? Well, she's smart and sassy.

It's a lot of I'd rather listen to a female talk back to me versus a male, unfortunately. That mean I don't want to hear a

female talk back to me. Just kidding.

That was don't get cancelled. That was a joke.

So yeah, have a nice conversation.

We all wanted Jarvis though. We did.

We do. We do.

My car's Jarvis. You know, it's funny that on her

phone for her, I think Google Maps or Apple Maps, whatever, she has a guy with kind of a British Y accent too.

Yeah. Turn left at the corner.

I'm like, what? What is this?

Some voices can be annoying. They give you a lot of choices,

so you know that's a good thing. But really getting back to that

so they what I am from what I understand, 64 of them got produced for 2025. The rest of those are turned

over to 2026. Those are the only orders that

they have in the bank. They've pretty much have not

accepted any more orders yet on the ZR1.

So technically right now 100 and so odd units are what they plan to produce until they get production of BLOB is with parts. Carbon fiber, sure, because a

lot of that stuff that they used on the ZO6 they had to put restraints on in order to get the ZR ones built.

Yeah. And going back to the original

point that they're producing fewer and they plan to produce fewer of those than than the GT DS, I think I had found that they're supposed to be doing somewhere close to like 1000 of those. So even though when you look at

it, nothing really looks like it, and one would argue it's just a Mustang with a body kit, I'm like, yeah, but most.

Impressive. It's impressive.

Yeah, it looks pretty cool because they produce another Mustang that almost, you know, almost has the same power and stats and everything, but it's not as fat or as wide as a GTD.

But yeah, there's at the end of the day, they're still producing more of those than the ZR1. But when you add the ZR1 with

the ZO6 and then the regular Stingray and the E Ray, you know, and then you're up to a lot.

And then to your point, you see them everywhere.

Not quite as often as those Tesla on top of your Have you done the Tesla challenge, the one that I mentioned on the podcast before where how many traffic lights can you go to consecutively without seeing a Tesla?

No, because I see them everywhere.

It's hard to make it to two, yeah, depending on where you are in the city. The other day I was sitting

there on my little Mini, my little Z just getting coffee.

And I had one not directly in front of me, but to the next lane over in front, two lanes over 2 of my rear view and then two facing me the other way at the same traffic light like right here off the on the Higley.

And I'm like, well, people did everything they did politically and they're still everywhere and they will continue to to be everywhere moving forward. So it's it's kind of interesting

not to sidestep too much from the Corvette conversation, but every time I look up, I see that T on your hat and it makes me think about it. Yeah.

I mean, I'm driving the Plaid. I mean, it's a fun car.

It's a daily car. The Corvettes are just more in

line with that. You know when you're driving a

performance car, the feel, it's a difference yes, feeling a car, being connected with a car and just the joy of hearing that engine rumble, there's nothing like it.

So no matter what people talk about comparing the Tesla Plaid, yeah, they're super fast in a straight line, but it's not a car, fortunately that. It's not a passion car.

Yeah, it is. It's not.

And it gets old real quick. Yeah, definitely.

I mean, I was excited when I got the vehicle.

I'm like, OK, got the top Tesla. You know, this is exactly what I

was looking for. Everyone can, no one can tell me

anymore that, oh, the toast was faster than the Corvette.

No kidding. I know I got 1, you know what I

mean? So it's not about that.

It's about, you know, the love of the car.

Can you tell when you're out there?

And maybe you can, because your your car, you've been into cars your whole life, and not just into cars, like you've been literally into the business. Of cars your whole life.

But if I were to go outside and just look at your car, I wouldn't have known that it's a Plaid.

But maybe because I don't know the visual differences.

Are there any visual differences between a Plaid and a non Plaid other than a badge? No.

So the visual difference is when you get a Tesla Plaid that comes with a carbon fiber spoiler badging on the rear.

That's it. The interior.

So minor styling. That's it.

You get those two different badging and rear spoiler 'cause you can get the optional wheels on either model platform, they're available. But the interior, you get full

carbon fiber for your interior versus the wood trim.

So that's really the kind of a subtle difference.

If you get into a Tesla, if you see all the trim is carbon, you're either in a Plaid or someone's overlaid it.

But that's. Basically the fact.

Is it carbon or is it like? Hydro dipped or fake carbon?

Yeah, no, it's not real carbon. I just thought I would.

Ask. I mean, it's a carbon fiber.

Look, the spoiler might be a real carbon fiber.

That's about it. Yeah, I just thought I'd ask.

And then they've got the new track package, so you can see if you've got one of the track package, you'll see the difference in the calipers. 2023, I think they went to red

calipers on the Tesla Plaid versus 2020 through 2020 twos.

They were just identical to the regular Tesla Model S.

If you miss a detail, that's fine because you're the Corvette guy. Exactly.

I'm not the expert here on him. I don't take this car to the

drag strip. I drive it back and forth to

work. So you have a Plaid.

It's arguably the fastest vehicle at any given time, quickest a vehicle at any given time on the road.

But it looks just like every other one.

Yeah. So, yeah, that's where it is

because you because you could drive like a 1980s hundred and I don't know, 45155 mile horsepower small car that's a 6 speed manual and have the time of your life.

Maybe not out here where the roads are incredibly long.

Yeah, it's straight, but just whipping around.

And so I get it. The, you know, that visceral

field just isn't there. But it's still cool to have a

Plaid. It's still cool to have a fast

ass car. Yeah.

And it's not. It's more than that to me too.

The technology in the car Yep, is really why I love the Tesla Plaid or the Tesla period. Just the updates, the thing

that's given to us, the new Croc features, you know, I hop in the car, I literally don't have to do anything.

I can just tap a button. The car will pull out my

driveway. It'll drive me right to work.

You know what I mean? There's just so much involved

and those are little things that the car keeps on giving to you.

You know there's updates so. It's.

Like it's not like years ago where you had to always buy a car. Even today with any

manufacturer, you got to buy a car every three or four years.

If you want to get the latest tech, the new Corvette, you want to get the latest tech, you got to get a 2026 not so you know what manufacturers can do that and develop vehicles that can give you because technology, we're in our cars, you know, we spend a lot of time in our vehicles.

So it's nice to have convenience that that you enjoy.

You know, each person is different, obviously.

So those are things I like. Yeah, I think Tesla and some of

these other EV companies, which unfortunately a lot of them are, aren't as successful yet, if they even survive.

But the the biggest thing to remember is that most people, a very large majority of people just want the convenience.

That's why smartphones are so damn popular.

You know, when the iPhone first came out, I go, that's dumb.

Who, who would want to do that? I just give me a phone that

doesn't even make any sense, you know, And I've had nothing but iPhones for the past, I don't know, 15 years.

Went from flip phones. Yeah, Yep, Yep, Yep.

And so I get it. And most people are, they don't

care. They just want to get from point

A to point B with as much tech and comfort.

There's Tesla's a transportation company.

They're not a car company. I saw a video someone sent me

about why, you know, Elon Musk doesn't, you know, like he lets all this stuff just, you know, roll off his back.

He doesn't really care too much about what people say.

And when you think about everything he's invented, and this isn't necessarily a shadow corner, conspiracy corner thing, but when you lay it out, my God, his mission.

Have you seen this video about his his drive to get to Mars?

Yeah. Yeah.

Everything he's made is sustainable on Mars.

Everything he's coming out with is sustainable on Mars.

Everything from the shape of the cyber truck to these these rockets that cost 110th of any other rockets that can get caught to these robots, these Tesla robots that are coming out, they are all designed to work in, you know, 0 atmosphere.

They don't need food, they don't need water.

They need the sun for the solar power, and they can build these.

All these robots can be flown to Mars.

That's why they have this thing that can catch them and they can build shit so that it's ready by the time we get there.

And it's like when you think about that, it's like, wow, that's some crazy shit when you really think about what Tesla's doing. Definitely innovation

technology, you know, Space XI mean it's definitely a look to the future, but I got questions like why do we need to leave?

I mean, in my lifetime, yeah. I mean, in my lifetime, we

don't, you know, but that that's just that vision because we know that the the life cycle of a of a planet and the sun and the moon. But I mean, this is a long ways

away. It is.

But if that time comes, we need to have a plan.

But everybody here is going to be long gone.

Yeah, I think we're doing what we've done before, finding a new place to live. I think we came here.

Yeah. So I mean, maybe you're a future

shadow corner guest, you know, I mean, there's, there's so many things out there that just if you open, I would say open your eyes. But if you open your mind, yeah,

there's questions that have been you can't answer.

No one can answer. You just have to wonder, right.

But you, you touched on the Grok and the innovation or the integration with the Teslas and the technology.

And I know you've been really big into AI lately for productive future businesses purposes, not just the consumer.

Like I consume it, I try to use it to help with the show notes or to generate things for me images.

But that's so fundamental of a usage case.

Then what you and some of my other former guests are trying to do with it. Are you at freedom to kind of

talk about not only your fascination with where you think it's going, but maybe what, without too many details, what it is you're trying to do for your future with AI?

Always trying to evolve, you know, I'm a little bit older so the workforce isn't always there for people when you get to a certain age. So if you're not an

entrepreneur, to be able to have income streaming in for to be able to live, you know, you have to do different things.

So I've got a couple people that were looking at some advanced AI technology as far as integrating into people's websites, apps and those sort of things. So we've got a few things we're

developing. I'll be launching here within

the next few weeks. So really I'm looking at trying

to learn as much as I can because being a little bit older, a lot of times we get to the point where we can be stagnant. You know, we see technology and

if you don't keep up with technology, you get left behind.

And So what I'm trying to do is educate myself, make sure that I can stay forward thinking, you know, I can look at what's happening. And when I look back at it, a

lot of people don't realize that our generation, we started this, you know, I was building computers when I was 16, motherboards and you know, I mean, first PC.

So we know what technology looks like, how it advances.

And I, as a person that's been involved in this kind of stuff my whole life, I just want to make sure that I'm focused and can, you know, take pretty much tap into what's happening right now because it's a right now the tech world, AI world is taking off and we got to be careful. But there's things that's going

on in the world today that it can definitely help in the right hands. Yeah, I agree.

And there's so many different AI technologies out there.

I think people get stuck with Cyberdyne, you know, and and that's Skynet, you know, those are, I wouldn't say they're, they're unrealistic, far fetched fears.

I think everybody who's into the technology can kind of see how things could be misused. But I think overall the

utilization of AI and what what is AI?

It's, it's, it's just a series of sometimes autonomous instructions that just keeps reinventing itself over and over and over and over and over. You know, one of the examples

that I've given people before is you could send me a 10 page.

Hell, I had a, a guest that sent me a book, you know, that's actually coming up next week. And you know, I got the full

transcript of the book and I wanted to be prepared for this interview. And so I asked, I think Google

Gemini, which is just a plug in I have for Gmail, said scan this attachment and come up with five questions I wouldn't want to ask this author for a future interview.

And it wasn't an hour later, right?

1520 seconds later, they had this big long layout of not only questions I want to ask, but why I want to ask them.

And then it broken down by different categories in the book, you know, and that's AI, right?

AI is doing that for me, you know, so as a personal assistant, you know, a, a productivity thing or just to make people's lives better. So I think, you know, I'm all

for AI. Of course there's some crazy

shit out there for entertainment purposes, There's going to be some crazy abuses of it. But the good stuff, not even

what I use it for, but the stuff that you're doing, the stuff that other people are doing, the good stuff you have to pay for because they're powerful tools. And even with you paying for

those and helping, you know that using that to help build your future business, that's also a learning platform for the AI developers. Most of the stuff is open

source, right? Yeah, a lot of things that

happens today is a lot of small business owners, you know, that's kind of the niche that I've always been in trying to help them develop. You know, websites are easy to

throw up, but now they have these smart websites.

Basically they can take your leads, send everything to you as far as answer phone calls. And a lot of times people don't

have the time to or they don't know how to develop and get those leads correct. You know, I mean, and so with

this type of technology, it can help bringing in leads for a client that has a detailed business, you know, mobile detailing or that has a car accessories, they whatever the case might be, sure small things can help them generate leads.

And that's what it's all about, trying to help people develop and grow their business and be able to enjoy life.

Because, you know, I think with the technology, people are trying to get AI to help them be more self sustained.

And with anything in life, that's what it's about for me, you know, trying to do. We have to work all day, you

know, I want to enjoy life. You don't want to be the greeter

at Walmart unless you're bored and you want to be the greeter.

At Walmart. Right.

I mean, seriously, as as we age up, right, because our brains, I mean, not, I'm not saying you're slow, but our brains slow down and we we're adult learners. And so some of these concepts, I

mean, my niece and nephew are downstairs and they probably can do some of this modern shit 10 times faster than I could.

It would take me to even figure out, right?

I just, it's just, it's just so different.

I use with some of the AI tools out there right now for this podcast. I mean, you look around the

studio and you have all these homemade, you know, sound suppression panels that I built. There's software out there.

You don't need this. We could be in almost a

completely hollow room and make it sound almost as good, if not better than what this final product is going to sound like.

Drew, that shit didn't exist two years ago, right?

Yeah. You know, in version one of that

existed a year and a half ago. Version 2 came out about 8

months ago. Now when I do a podcast

interview with somebody on Zoom or Teams or whatever before, I'd be like, hey, where are you at? Where are you in the house?

You must be in an empty room, aren't you?

Are you on Airpods? You are.

Can you take them off, please? Can you hold the phone?

Yeah, because it sound the the quality is so bad.

I know that it's going to take me forever to clean it up just to make it halfway presentable to use.

Now I just upload it to Adobe podcast AI and 90% of the time it cleans it up and I can control how much of the noise in the background I want to use. I can control how much

processing it, it'll spit it out and I just plug it in right.

You know that shit didn't exist. There's one, I, I think it's

built off a Chat GPTS architecture because people don't realize ChatGPT is a product of open AI and open AI produces dozens because everything is open source.

Although I think they're trying to go to closed source, but it's called descript or decrypt descript, descript and what it does. No, no, that's different.

There's one called speaker split.

So it was before when you and I are recording, it's going to record on 2 separate lines and I'm going to edit those independently. But by using the other thing, if

I need it, I probably won't need it for Adobe Podcast AI because the studio is the way it is. But if I only had it on one

line, I could run it to speaker split and within a minute it'll split our conversation with 90% accuracy between speaker A and speaker B, right? Yeah, that's AI.

That shit didn't exist before. Yeah, I've been doing script

writing and I've got a program that actually has duplicated my voice. So for my reels and for my

videos, I just put the script and now I don't have to edit over and over and over, you know, right out of scripts in here and I'm trying to make sure it sounds properly.

I just put in ChatGPT the script I want, maybe throw in something that knows exactly what my description is and it pops out the prompt. I put it into my other program

and it generates it in my voice. It's kind of scary though, too,

right? Because that's one of those

those things where it can be abused.

Even before this AI shake got super popular a couple years ago, an old high school buddy of mine that I've talked to every once in a while on social media, he sent me Adm and told me about investing in crypto. And it was so weird.

He's like, hey, you know, there there was that big scam going on a couple years ago and people were like, Hey, if you, I can get you 10,000 in Bitcoin if you give me 100 or whatever the case. That was like a big thing on

social media. And it was his voice.

It was 100% his voice, but he swears his hand to God.

It was 100% not him. And I got suspicious because

this is weird for this guy. He knows I don't, you know, I've

dabbled in in in the crypto since then, but he knows I'm not like a crypto trader. So it was super weird for me to

get that voicemail from him, voice message from him about crypto. So I hate him.

I text him on my real phone and say, Hey, was that you?

He's like, no, I've been trying to get my ID back and someone's using my voice and doing all this shit and it's sort of like me. It's like, dude, that's fucking

nuts. Yeah, it's scary.

I mean, we'll copyright into with the artist, you know, music. So I think they're making a a

lot of adjustments as far as the law goes.

But yeah, it can definitely go the wrong way.

Monterey Car Week's coming up. I think you've, have you not

been to Monterey or it's been a while?

And I think we have this conversation every year.

Yeah, another year. Not for me as well.

Maybe next year if Acura has something they want to show.

Do you know if Chevy goes out there at all?

I mean, I've been there, but I don't know why I'm asking, but because they have they, you know, they have these products.

So I know they're introducing, I don't know what the quail thing is coming up. I mean that's something type of

a car event that's going to be in.

California. That is one of the premier car

events during Monterey Car Week. OK.

So they are just unveiled their new ZR1X quail edition.

There's going to be a special edition.

So that's going to be there'll be unquailed at that show.

So obviously, yeah, they'll be there this year.

Yeah. So they'll be they'll be at the

Quail and they'll probably be at Pebble as well.

What won't the ZR1 XB I mean. In my garage because I can't

afford it and it's not available yet it.

Won't be in mine either. What do you think is going to

happen to the price of those? Because one of the one of the

comments on your thread was, you know, you can buy this, the Corvette for half the price of a GTD or 1/3 name, say half the price. I think they said like a third

of the price or the quarter of their price.

I'm like nobody's getting this shit for sticker.

I wouldn't think. Now all the posts that I've been

seeing lately, people are just paying right now for the ZR1 just because of the limit ability 65 built people are dropping 450 like that. They're it's just 'cause they

have it. They've got it.

People that are buying that car are the ones that have the money and just have to have it. So they spend whatever when

production comes in. I mean dealers are pretty much

around 201 fifty on that car over.

So yeah, you're looking at 300 to 3:50 to pick up one.

If you're going to even go to most of the dealers, they all have markup on them. Yeah, and I think the GGD was

supposed to be about 350. I don't know what the markup is.

I know someone who has one. I guess I could just text him

and he would tell me, but he's had his for a few weeks now.

He had it up at Rd. America.

OK, nice. Yeah, it's got a white one.

I think if if you get it, you got to get like the gold wheels so that not the gold gold, but kind of the bronzy matte gold because it make it look more like the the race car.

Not that it really needs to, but I just think it's cool.

Look. Yeah, but I don't I don't know

if people are paying out the wazoo extra for it.

In fact, why don't we ask our assistant here if people are paying more? And then I want to talk to you

about the the top ten stolen cars.

Crock, Are you listening? I'm sorry I haven't changed your

voice yet. I have a podcast guest here that

prefers women that talk back. No worries at all, I can switch

to a female voice for your podcast guest.

Just let me know how I can assist.

For the the the Ford Mustang GTD what are people paying overstock for it or sticker? The Ford Mustang GTD has a base

price of around $318,760.00 with a starting MSRP of $327,960

after delivery and gas guzzler tax.

Some buyers are paying over sticker due to high demand and limited production, with markups pushing prices to $400,000 or more for well optioned models, though exact over sticker amounts vary by dealer and configuration.

OK, Thank you. That'll be it.

Yeah. I don't like that voice.

Yeah. You know, and it's I think

people will make such a huge deal about it because of the mass production where you can get a Corvette for, you know, 70,000 brand new C8 look at Ferrari, look at Lamborghini these these manufacturers, these they do the exact same thing when they have those limited. Porsche all day.

Porsche, they make you buy other vehicles to get on a list yeah to even be able to source, you know, 9/11 GT3 Rs.

So it's not like this is something that's unique yeah.

You know you've got manufacturers and and some of these dealers out here that when they require you to buy 2 of their vehicles that they got on there over age units to even put you into the category to be able to purchase their top tier vehicle. You know, people don't talk

about that as much as they do a huge markup on a car.

Yeah, I forgot the vehicle, but Jordan, my buddy Jordan, no ball or TTR when when we had him on, I don't know, three or four months ago, he had mentioned that one of the vehicles he'd bought or was going to buy from the from the dealer.

They're like, yeah, if you buy these other two cars, then we'll we'll let you get this one for this amount.

He's like, get the fuck out of here with that shit.

I think they were trying to push a Mini like a minivan on him and something else. Yeah, it's crazy.

It's it's you got. Two other vehicles if you want

this one here. I mean, so for a person to be

able to go and pay 200 grand and just go great, what they want, you know, hey, that's what that's what, that's what they gather money for. So the other thing that you have

to realize too is that some of these manufacturers, you know, with the limited number of cars that they've got out there, you're not going to see that vehicle anymore.

You know, and a lot of these cars are going into collectors.

So they're going to be in someone's garage, they're going to sit and they're looking at resale value.

Yeah. And in most cases, you're not

going to get that money back if you pay upfront.

You know a lot of the NSX guys when the the NC One platform that came out in 2017 to 22, they paid 200,000 or more over not over sticker but just for the car.

And then they turn around and try to sell them in 2000, 2020, 122 for, you know, there's a guy right now selling the 2019 thermal orange one and he wants 200 and like $25,000 for it.

Trying to recoup his money, yeah.

And I'm looking at him like, dude, it only has 500 miles.

You're never going to sell this car.

Never, you know, not being negative, but no one's ever going to pay you this amount of money for this car in this market because it's way above market, right?

And I think everybody looking at that is kind of laughing.

And then you get the people who paid even they were trying to sell, sell their 20 seventeens for 190,000 like dude, no one's going to buy it. It could have no miles on it.

No one's going to buy it for that, right?

Because you can turn around and get a a 2020 or a 21 or not a 22 with a Type S, but you can turn around and get those for A160170 all day with low miles. Like you lost your ass because

you couldn't wait. Yeah.

So I think this is going to same same deal with the rest of these other cars too. Yeah.

Definitely. So the top ten, there was an

article that came out and it said that the Camaro ZO1 was the number one stolen vehicle and I was amazed.

That's crazy to think. Yeah, 'cause I mean, we're used

to it being OK, maybe a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic.

I was thinking the dodge. Durango's were stolen a lot.

My Someone tried to steal Jaylene.

My daughter's. They're taking Hellcats and.

Yeah, Hellcats challengers all day.

And so let's can you cue that up?

Let's see what yours. I don't.

I don't want to hear my assistant anymore.

Today I'm going to go in there and change the grok voice.

Hey, can you tell us what are the top stolen vehicles in the United States right now? OK, here's the deal.

Those sports cars are definitely hot targets, but trucks and SUV's are also pretty high up there.

Think about the GMC Sierra. Not what?

He asked. So what happens when they talk

back to you all? Right, so let's start fresh and

new. I want you to give me a list of

the top vehicles that are stolen in the United States.

OK, here's the deal. The most stolen vehicles in the

US are usually pickup trucks like the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado. But there's a new trend with

Kia's and Hyundai's being stolen a lot, too.

Andy know. About a specific type of

vehicle. What are the top 10 most stolen

vehicles in the US? 10 most stolen vehicles There

should be a list. Can you give me that?

Oh, you're getting mad at her, all right.

Here are the the top 10 most stolen vehicles in the US IN20231 Hyundai Elantra 2 Hyundai Sonata 23 three Kia Optima 4 Chevrolet Silverado. Why don't you try?

She said 2023. No one's asking about 2023.

All right, Grok, we're back up. Can you tell me the top 10 most

stolen vehicles in the United States according to 2025?

Based on recent reports, the top 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States for 2025 are Hyundai Elantra with around 31,712 thefts 2. Hyundai Sonata about 26,720

Thefts 3. Chevrolet Silverado 1500 roughly

21,666 Thefts 4. Honda Accord approximately

18,539 thefts 5. Kia Optima around 17,493 thefts

6. Honda Civic about 15,727 thefts

7. Kia Sol roughly 13,562 thefts 8.

Ford F-150 Series approximately 12,952 thefts 9.

Toyota Camry about 12,296 thefts 10.

Dodge Charger around 11,452 thefts.

These numbers reflect data from 2024 as it's the most recent comprehensive set available showing Hyundai and Kia models dominate due to security vulnerabilities in older models.

Always lock your doors and consider anti theft devices to protect your ride. Is it?

Is it one LZ or ZL1? ZL1 would be there.

How often is the Camaro ZL1 stolen?

The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has a whole vehicle theft rate that's 39 times higher than the average for all vehicles, based on data for model years 2022 to 2024. Specifically, it's all about

18.3 theft claims per 1000 insured vehicle years in March

2024, compared to just 1.3 for older Camaros from 2010 to 2015.

This spike started in 2023, largely due to a technical glitch. All right, so I'm, I'm, I'm done

listening to that. But what those statistics?

So where's, where are people getting their statistics?

Because we don't know, right? Because the Hyundai Elantra

leads one list according to two voices.

But we just confirmed earlier that it was AZL one or 1L1L ZAZL. ZL1 yeah.

'Cause one's the, one's the Corvette.

So yeah, off camera we we first did it, it said it brought reference to the Camaro ZL1. Right.

So I don't know. I mean, when I asked

specifically about it, we didn't ask specifically about her earlier when we were playing around, but we asked specifically about it this time. Why don't we try this here?

Let's see what she remembers. Yeah, ask her.

Ask her what that was about. So you can't trust AI.

All right. Can you give me a recap when you

told me about the ZL1 being on the list?

Is that something new and who reported that information?

Yeah, the Z-01 Corvette's definitely making.

Waves. Nope, it's a.

Brand new one at least. At least my AI can say Ford

F-150. OK, I need you to give me a

recap on the information you gave me about the top stolen vehicles and you mentioned the Camaro ZL1.

Can you give me a recap on that information and where did you get it specifically? OK, here's the deal on the

Camaro 1 Zlati. It's a high performance sports

car, and apparently. It's all right, we're done here.

The. Thieves.

The Insurance Institute for Hwy. Safety or IIHS did a study and

found that the ZL1 has the highest DEF rate out of all vehicles. They think thieves go for it

because it's powerful and expensive.

Is there anything else you'd like to know about the Camaro 1 Zlati? I guess that's how you're

calling it. So no, I'm good.

Thank you. The Carol.

So is that The thing is it? Is it the Zalotti?

I think it's giving some slang because it mentioned ZL1 but it kind of reference it to. I can go somewhere with the

voice you've chosen. Is that what we're?

Getting So tell me, why are you calling it the Zodi?

Is that a Zodi given Zolotti? She hung up on you.

Are we done? I think, but here's the deal,

theft rate versus stolen. So theft rate, maybe someone

reported someone tried to steal it versus someone physically actually stealing it. Like, I don't know, I just

thought about that when she was explaining it.

Yeah, can tell you, Jay. Right.

But I mean, it's just maybe that's it.

Maybe it's the, it's, it's the, it's the verbiage that's different. Who knows?

Who knows? It's the thing about AII mean

it's it can give you good information.

I even in the car coming over here today, I'm asking the vehicle about conversations we had that one couldn't remember it. So I'm, you know, a lot of

things in testing, we're in development, they're using as Guinea pigs is basically the whole story, you know?

Yep, that's what I was saying earlier.

That's why it's open source. It's collecting data.

Right, exactly. So it's going to get better,

obviously, yeah. And we're just using it and

giving it information to basically improve and get better and to learn. Mr. Buckley, I'll let you go, go

go out and take a look at your Tesla.

Taking for a ride man. That way you can at least say

you've driven 1. Driven or ridden?

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About this episode

A lively discussion unfolds between hosts and guest Drew Bunkley as they compare the Corvette ZR1X and Mustang GTD, delving into their production numbers, rarity, and performance. The episode also highlights the upcoming Monterey Car Week, including event changes and the significance of Exotics on Broadway. With insights into the automotive market and personal anecdotes, the conversation touches on the allure of limited-production vehicles and the evolving landscape of car technology, including AI advancements. Bunkley shares his expertise as the Corvette correspondent, making for an engaging and informative episode.

Original notes

Ep288..

Monterey Car Week is here! We give some highlights of Exotics on Broadway and some new changes this year. Show resident Corvette expert Drew Bunkley stops by the studio in his Tesla Plaid to discuss the ZR1X vs Mustang GTD. Jhae and Drew both use Grok AI as personal information assistants. What could go wrong?

Referenced in this episode:

Americans Most Stolen Vehicle is a muscle-car favorite

https://www.motor1.com/news/768332/camaro-zl1-stolen-most-often-says-iihs/

Corvette ZR1X Quail Silver Limited Edition

https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g65614776/2026-chevy-corvette-zr1x-quail-sliver-edition-gallery/

Fully Loaded ZR1 $240,000

https://www.motor1.com/news/750492/chevrolet-corvette-zr1-configurator-fully-loaded-price/

Mustang GTD starts at $327,960 before options

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65034149/2025-ford-mustang-gtd-official-price/

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