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It is, you know, it's very inconvenient to everywhere, Laurel Canyon. Wow. Can we believe people live up there?
Like a racetrack, though, during commuting hours. People are aggressive. Yeah, I bet. Probably sucks to get in and out of there during commuting hours.
Yeah, but my last experience there was cool. I was driving the Ineos and a like a 55-year-old woman on a triumph passed and looked back at it and give a thumbs up. And then she passed people over a double yellow like heading into the game.
Yeah. I was here before all you butterflies. It's like Amelia Earhart's granddaughter. Yeah, I was like her and the mama's in the poppers up there in like in the 60s. Yeah. I bought this fucking they knew for $12,000.
Yeah. Hello. This is our show. This is what we do. We sit in this table and we talk. Hi. Welcome back. We had a lovely morning on the mountain this morning with the new 4Runner. We're not going to talk about that now because we made a video of it and you can be able to watch the whole dang thing. All of it live and direct.
And I put Zach camping, but I guess that that's now gone sort of in yeah in the video, right? So we can we can just you know, we can just join that and talk about something else.
We've got CarPlay Ultra, but I did a little science first. Okay, tease CarPlay Ultra by talking about my own science. On a recent episode we've been talking about my mental health and panic attacks and such.
And I've been you know trying to like have that happen less as much as one does. And I have appointments with doctors and things lined up, but one I got a letter from a fan.
It said that their mom is a psychotherapist and that he and his sibling both have panic attacks.
And the psychotherapist mother says when you're having a panic attack, your neurons are like on like one of those like on like a diesel, like an outrun.
Like a runaway. It's like that. And so you got to like fucking throw a spoke in the foot, a stick in the spokes. You got like you got to get a hard stop. And like so when I was driving and had panic attack and I called Hannah, that like was a little bit like that was like.
Rub putting my finger on the tire to slow it down, but it wasn't to stick in the spokes. Stick in the spokes is to bite into a lemon or a lime.
Hardcore citrus right to the fucking dome will do it. Or you do the old drop a couple ice cubes down the back. Right. That either of those something makes you go.
Apparently can cool sometimes in the right circumstances stop a panic attack by fucking throwing throwing something into the neurons to be like, hey go look at this.
It draws all their focus. Oh cool. Sorry. I do I walk around with a lemon now just in case.
A little shot of a little shot of lemon juice. Yeah, probably would do it. You probably don't need to do the bite, right?
Anything that has to be fresh. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. Well, if you try the juice doesn't work, she goes, ah, you need the lemon.
And then you have the lemon country goes, you can't cut it ahead of time. You can cut it during. So that's there's a little bit of science might need doing.
In some other frustrating science news, a thing that I knew that I should not do is smoke sativa weed. It's it's for an anxious person, right?
It's it. It's the that's the up weed for those of you don't know about weed. There's up weed and down weed. Down weed is the indica up weed is a teva.
So teva weed also contributes to like productivity creativity. So if you are, if you were going to write something or place a music or if you wanted to clean the house or like that kind of shit a little teva weed.
But you should probably not combine the teva weed with caffeine, even if you're a normal person, if you're an anxious person, you rarely shouldn't do that.
And B, it's it's not it's not great for this guy. Well, my friend who's very kind and generous person gave me a bunch of weed like two months ago.
I don't need to say who it was, but it's it's very kind and generous person. And I was like indica and he's like indica and I was like he's just how you like it and it was sterile.
But that's about when panic attacks started. Now I maybe chalked it up to other things, but I I saw the friend again and he gave me some more.
And I'm not he's not not sound he literally has a lot of it and is like here. And I was like, okay. And that afternoon I got a little panicky timing was coincidental.
And I walked down to my local joint and I said, I want the fucking hardest core OG Kush put me in the couch indica that you've got definitive indica.
And if you can tell like usually sativa nuggets are like lighter in a little fluffier and indica ones are like real dense like almost like a fucking toy pine cone dense dense and they're super sticky.
So I got it and looked and yep, that is the dent. That's the dense and the other stuff for my friend was pretty dense. Okay, at least on the surface it was pretty dense, but not like this dense. Okay, we're in the right direction.
Guess what? 48 hours of switch from one to the other.
Feeling pretty calm crisis a very possible crisis averted not averted, but like, but like definitely and also because of my blood pressure, I'm taking my blood pressure four times a day.
That's 48 hours. My blood pressure is 10 points lower also. So I think my friend Doth know what he has.
Or doesn't or gave me or no, I mean does not. Right. Yeah, does not. Dost mean. Yeah, sorry, my Shakespeare. I need to really catch up. Pretty something.
Clearly, I didn't spend enough time in Verona. My Shakespeare didn't run in, but I think I might have been on the wrong type of the wacky tobacco. Yeah, he should very he should check with whoever.
Yeah, it's a hybrid and it's too strong. Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, but this person is the source. They should know they are. Yeah, no, that is the source. It's not the person I'm thinking of who gets it from their family member. I mean, yes, there you go. The family. It's true.
The fact that we just learned from this morning, which we won't repeat that joy at the game of telephone. Telephone is not good. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, sometimes someone said, you know, the coin flip says heads and they get on the phone.
They go, it was tails. Yeah, and it's not right. Not on purpose. They just know. Yeah, but either way, I don't think I've been a fucking up.
This is the the gentle version of that scene in Pulp Fiction, where she's just like, oh, look a bag of something. I don't know wrong direction. Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a fine line. We walk, you know, shit.
So, but potential potential crisis averted and also a lot extra weed for somebody who's going to want that. Just scatter it in your neighbor's garden.
I mean, look, shout out to him. It is studio. So if you're, if you're, I don't know, lazy and need motivation, I guess, perhaps a kick in the air.
But you're also not anxious. That's, you can't, you can't be lazy and anxious and then smoke sativa. Yeah, otherwise, you would have written like five books by now.
Oh, I've had a pretty productive couple of months, I would say, not like more productive than normal, but like just, I don't know.
It's a we'll continue. We're going to continue the study. It's early. I mean, it's early. We only have a small number of samples. I'll have to have Hannah turn it into like a beautiful PowerPoint present.
We have to fund science ourselves now. So we don't have a Jeffrey Epstein. What are you going to do?
Jeffrey Epstein. Right. Yeah. The thing that he did, you know, when people are like financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah.
What did he finance? He financed like science research. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, that's how he got into like all the academia and shit.
Oh, yeah, that's how that was his, that was the, I mean, I don't want to say his cover because he really did do it. But like, that was the good thing. Gotcha. Yeah.
Okay. Everything else that was the problem. I felt like we were on one of the start tours we saw today and also turn into a CVS lot.
And I was like, what are you in here? The funding of the science is in fact, the other side of the, yeah, everything else that was.
I wasn't referring to him cancelling funding science.
A couple larger entities that are doing it. But I get you now. Yes. Okay. Should we talk about Apple CarPlay Ultra or should we review Brad Pitt's F1?
Which we saw last night. We should do F1 right before the Patreon bit so that people, if we could do spoilers and people could just skip easier.
Let's write do we want to spoil the movie or do we want to just talk about it without?
We can probably, I think we can talk about it without without spoiling. I think we probably can. Yeah. I think we can. We should.
Because the A line plot of the movie is public knowledge.
Well, and like we can, I could, I could say what it is without like actually necessarily giving away the ending.
Which is that it is literally someone went into a meeting in Hollywood and went what if days of thunder, top gun, but in a formula one car.
There are actual scenes and plot points that are ripped directly from both of those films.
And lots of sports, lots of sports movies too. Lots of sports movies. There's a, the amount of race fixing happens is not very, very realistic.
In terms of go like major league level shenanigans that happen in the beginning of the movie.
In terms of, you know, creative use of rule bending, I would say. It's, ooh, I don't know.
Because they made a, yeah, I don't want to give too much weight. Like they were very good at saying, oh, this might be, if they do this again, they could get in trouble with F1, something like that.
I don't think they really bent the rules. I think they, I think they nudged against the line.
I think if one team did any, it all of those things in one season, they'd probably be thrown out.
Well, I accept right now. And in the years past, sometimes it seems like teams are doing those things, but they're doing them by accident.
Right. They're like, oh, yes, anept.
Right, right, right. That's different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If they did it, and then your teammate won, like it would, you know, or whatever.
So it was, I thought it was shot well. I mean, it was shot very well. Really, really, really well done.
Yeah, but also it's kind of funny to me that like, it, it's hard to make Formula One look exciting.
Like the racing scenes to me are not as exciting as the racing scenes in days of thunder, where there's like rubbing.
You know what I mean? Or as exciting as the fighting dog fighting scenes in top gun.
Well, because like it will Formula One is just like, it's, I don't know, it's the cars moving fast on a racetrack is not necessarily.
It's a hard thing to make look good.
Yeah. And if you watch Formula One, and if they don't, I watch other motorsports recently, like I try to watch Le Mans.
Le Mans, they didn't have the same coverage you have in F1.
So F1 like every car has, I don't know, three or four cameras on it, plus there's all the cameras around each track.
So they can, they can basically direct like a movie, they can jump to like the nose cone of Lewis's car as he's chasing two other people.
And you're like, this is amazing, because this is a shot you'd only get in the movie 20 years ago.
So they can put you like on the wing and in the seat and all that stuff.
But when you watch La Ma, they can't do that.
So I watch the Mustang race and it's like, it looked like a parade, you know, because it's just wide shots the whole time.
So I think they do a pretty good job.
You just don't have like the violence, basically, of Days of Thunder.
There's an Nascar for real. There's a lot more contact, which Nascar struggles to show on TV ironically.
And then dog fighting, it's like, it's machine guns and aircraft.
Yeah. It's definitely going to be more exciting.
I know it's it's just that even the even the most exciting racing sequences.
I was like, these are beautiful, but they're to me not that exciting.
I don't know, maybe I'm just not that into Formula One.
But I mean, I watch Formula One every week and I think that the shots were really well done.
I had trouble determining when they were using CGI and when they weren't, which I think is, I mean, that is a compliment.
But I think to your point, they had to cut, they had to change shots so often to try to bring up that energy.
That it's hard to make it feel like there's authentic driving happening.
Yeah.
Except for, you know, the two shots they used a lot of, like the one that makes, makes Brad look like he's racing a car.
They did a good job with that.
But other than those shots, like you didn't get a sense of the field really.
You didn't get a sense of cornering speed really.
They also, the hero car.
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And now back to the show. The hero car is black and they they're using the real current 2024 F1 field like the real drivers.
I'm sure they're having stunt drivers for most of it or whatever, but they're using the color scheme of the actual cars to put a black car in there. It actually kind of disappears.
There was a area. There were times where even on a giant XD plus seven screen, they're showing like a battle and it's like with Lewis or with with George Russell or whatever.
And like you couldn't tell like which car was which actually it was the same problem they had in the Michael man Ferrari movie where granted it was historically accurate.
But in that millie millie scene millie millie scene at the end of the film. The Ferraris and Maserati's look almost identical and they're almost the same color.
And so with a quick cut action sequence, Hannah was like I literally cannot tell which cars would.
Oh, that's a problem. Yeah, yeah, it's the Transformers problem, right?
Yeah, there's a road battle and you have absolutely no idea what anything is.
Yeah, I mean, that's why the Transformers they have to go yellow. Right, but once they get like silver versus black and hard to tell.
And I mean, I just I think they had an opportunity to make a really like a bright colored car that'd be really easy to pick out of a line of other cars and yet they made it black.
I wonder why they didn't someone our group was like, I think you could feel totals influence on what their this team's pit looked like.
Like the colors looked very Mercedes. It looked like the Mercedes.
The whole thing even right down to the the actress like the female leads all looked like Susie wolf.
Every did no way. Like both female leads look like the older female lead that's like the head of tech.
It looks exactly like Susie wolf and the the younger like tire changer girl looks just like a younger version of that woman.
Yeah, and also like Lewis's trainer person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which I thought was pretty funny. The other guy is obviously supposed to be an amalgam of the guy with the beard is supposed to be like an amalgam of team principles.
I have your brother to brother. His character. Well, how do you are bar dem who plays the team principle of Brad Pitt's team?
Who's like, will we be successful or not and I'm everything on the line. I actually think he did a very very good job.
I meant the guy who was the general manager, whatever you call him, running the team.
Okay, oh right. Yes. Yeah, I think who I think is the team principle, but the other guys the team owner. Yeah, true.
I thought I thought the the car cred stuff was done to a pretty high level.
There were no I can't remember any moments where I fully rolled my eyes. It's something that was said about cars.
The opening scene, which I will well for people. Yeah, what I'll say is when you're sitting there watching it.
The movie gets immediately gets better after that scene ends because like that racing scene, which was not enough one scene.
Yeah, I was like, this is weird. But this is way too fast and furious of like, oh, he's just gonna pass people because he's trying.
Yeah, and there's too much contact happening and fireworks for some reason. Yeah, but there's a cameo by I was blinded by the cameo from our friend.
Yes, that was super cool. Yeah, we had three friends who had cameos in the movie and it was it was very nice to see.
It was such a quick model. I was like, oh my god. Yeah, and that was great. That was that is a good.
I think I think what's also very funny is I guess it doesn't it doesn't matter to the.
In the opening scene of the movie, he's racing on a GT car team, a Porsche team that wins the 24 hours of Daytona.
This happens in the first nine minutes of the movie, so I don't feel like.
But when he gets to F1, you know, he's okay, come, come to drive for this team.
Everybody acts like this guy is a total fucking nobody.
You're a loser. You know, I'm one Daytona like a like a week ago.
Does nobody in racing know that I one Daytona week ago and I'm now here like true.
If he went from like, I guess it would be like GT class and past LMP one and two.
Yeah, just jumped over them to go back to F1.
Like it would be a little leap, but people would know who you were.
Yeah, like you would know who you were.
Probably she's really some fucking loser.
Well, he's a total bum, but he's like raced in Formula One before.
He's been racing in other series.
Apparently this entire time he's just like bad with money and gambles.
The bigger surprise that he's racing F1 before and then shows up and everyone goes, who are you?
If everyone does anything, it's remind you of the heroes.
I mean, it would be like if fucking Martin Brundel, you know, and actually the, you know, I believe I'm almost certain that the footage of Brad Pitt's quote crash from when he crashed out of F1.
I think that's Martin Brundel crashing.
I think so. Yeah, where he's fully ejected from the car.
I think that's a Martin Br, it's like it looks like his car.
It's the camel, the yellow camel car, which I think was the same.
It was the same livery that when Martin Brundel rolled it at the Australian Grand Prix and then got it when they had replacement cars and they rolled that car and then got in the other car and went out back out and raced like.
Imagine when they say approaching like Martin, we'd love for you to be involved in the film.
Oh, great. And they go, we just want to license the footage of you crashing and laying on the ground.
Yeah, I think it was, was it him?
I'm pretty sure it was.
I can't find that specific car that bright yellow.
Oh, but this might be it.
Oh, I think you might be right.
Yeah, where they recreated it.
Yeah, no, it's it. It looked like it 1984 Monaco GP.
Yeah, it looked just like it.
Yeah, it was bad car cut in half.
But yeah, no, the car, I mean, yes, some of the 24 hours of Daytona racing scenes where he passes the entire field are very silly.
But the other like the way they talk about the cars, the way they talk about arrow, there's in the beginning, there's clearly some dialogue and voiceover that's designed to teach the audience what they're going to be talking about the rest of the movie.
Yes, they did it. They did a ton of that.
They did a good job of it.
It was they kept it moving. It was all right.
Well, it was the same thing like Liberty Media does or actually the announcers do on F1.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The team of three and the announcers change a lot.
But you know, Alex Jakes and David Cooldhard, they all do a good job is explaining quickly and concisely to the audience what this change has meant for this team during the race.
Like, they do a really good job of going.
They've done that. That does this. Oh, they're at turn four and they did that through the whole movie with what's the guy?
The announcers name.
The actual.
No, no, no.
Oh, the guy who's the voice.
John.
John Hindaw.
Hindaw.
Is that his name?
That's what that.
No, he does La Monde.
He does always La Monde, yeah.
David Croft.
Sorry.
Yeah. Sorry. David Croft.
He was in there a lot.
And yeah, there's a lot of voiceover of like the PA system.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, even I hope people who aren't really into cars are racing follow along.
Yeah.
If you're in into racing, you'll follow along and you won't roll your eyes that much.
You won't be like, yeah, no shit.
You'll say, okay.
They're moving forward.
No, it's not.
It doesn't pander to people who know about racing too much, actually.
Uh, it's.
It's pretty good in that way.
There's some.
There's some movies that do a terrible job of that.
But like this one.
This one is pretty good.
It was.
It was a.
It was a fun two and a half hours, I think.
It's definitely.
If you can see it in iMacs.
Yeah.
Something on the screen.
Yeah.
It's.
It's worth it.
And if not, if you got a great home theater, it'll be fun to.
Yeah.
Um, the.
I thought.
I thought the young.
The young black dude was.
Did great.
I can't remember his name.
Sorry.
Um, I thought.
The, the both the leading women were great.
Yeah.
Um, don't know their names.
The stars were good.
Yeah.
And.
The dialogue was pretty funny too.
There are some good jokes.
They too much cheese.
But they structure the movie.
Like drive to survive.
They structure it race after race after race after race after race.
You know, which I think is probably so that people who watch drive to survive.
Like.
Like relate kind of.
But I think sports movies.
It's always, it always builds towards the world series.
Yeah.
Or the Super Bowl or the what there's always a big game at the end of the thing.
Yeah.
That they, you know, Rudy, they have to work toward.
Yeah.
Because then it's like the stakes keep increasing.
And that's going to be your last shot.
It's all like that.
Yeah.
It's fun.
I think it's cool.
I was really.
I watched Mission Impossible 3 last week and that was garbage.
Really?
Yeah.
And this.
Is that the, that's the current one?
Oh, yeah.
You can skip that.
Okay.
Forever.
Or fast forward it.
Because it's very long.
This was good.
Really?
Yeah.
It was, it was a, it was a satisfying watch in, in general, I think.
It was, it was worth your time.
For sure.
Nice job, everybody.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, yeah.
And you can, you can fucking not get it on CarPlay.
Also, by the way.
You cannot get it.
You cannot get it on CarPlay.
But.
Or CarPlay was produced by Apple Films or whatever it's called.
Oh, yeah.
This is to say we go speaking of Apple CarPlay Ultra.
But before that, I will say that the other sponsors in the movie,
which are basically the sponsors of Brad Pitt and the other guy's cars,
which is a great way to raise money for the movie.
Sure is.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
You sponsor this fictional F1 team and just be all up in it.
But man are their product shots.
The IWC watch has like probably nine seconds of screen time just on the watch.
Like, that's a color that was like just for this movie.
Oh, exactly.
He doesn't want the thing he wants.
When he doesn't take the Rolex, right?
He wins Daytona and he's driving away.
And the guy goes, doesn't he want your watch?
Yeah.
This is a guy with no money.
Yeah.
This is a guy who lives.
He lives in a van.
He has no money.
A fucking winner, a 24-hour winner, Daytona.
At a pawn shop, that's a $75,000 watch.
Yeah.
He goes, no, no, I got one.
Sure.
That is the most unrealistic part of the entire movie.
That a broke guy wouldn't take a gold Daytona after winning Daytona.
I think they actually justified it by the end, which I don't want to spoil for people.
They did an okay job.
But at the time, I didn't pick up on the IWC sponsorship.
Oh.
I completely understand why he turned it.
Yeah.
Guys waving a Daytona at him.
And he's like, no, I got a watch.
Well, he says, I got one.
I went, oh, maybe you already won this before.
That would make sense for the character.
He has an IWC that they kept showing.
And like a lot of the logo, like Expensify Sponsor, the race car.
Yeah.
And that's true when you watch F1.
The Halo ring on everyone's car is like a crypto company.
Oh, I was not talking about on the car.
No, the price one was Ninja.
But later, there's a shot of a blender.
And on the way home, I processed it.
And I went, it was like they're blending green things.
Healthy.
Like they were sending the whole message.
Yeah.
That's really funny.
Yeah.
I would love to do a rewatch purely for product placement just
to make notes of how much screen time each of those products
got in that movie.
Because it is pretty funny that they how much they snuck in there.
A whole bunch.
All right.
I want to talk about car play now.
Aston Martin actually do full disclosure.
Huh?
Sorry.
Now it's part of the movie.
Now I'll tell you after we're done.
Okay.
There's one of the best moments in it.
Oh.
So Aston Martin actually rented Westside Collector car storage
to have a small media launch for the fact that they are the first manufacturer
to have car play ultra in their cars.
So full disclosure, I financially benefited from this arrangement
because they paid for this.
So but I had absolutely nothing to do with the technology that's
in the car.
So we got to play around with it a bit.
It's the second generation of car play.
And essentially what it does is it integrates more into your car.
And when Apple came and told us about this last year and showed
us some slides and stuff, we were kind of like, oh no, this looks very bad.
But I actually do feel some relief having now used it in the Aston Martin
because it's much more like they actually listened to what people didn't like
about car play.
And it made some improvements rather than trying to shove something down
people's throats that is just an overkill of tech that maybe we don't want.
Am I right?
Yeah, I think what we saw, we kind of saw the skeleton of it or the functionality
but some of the fonts they had chosen and things felt like they were just
going to remove the personality of the inside of a car.
I wouldn't have looked at all in place in the Aston Martin.
Right.
And I think with this, they've gotten to say, okay, here's the functionality.
Now can we make this part of it look appropriate for the DBX or for the brand
and they did a good job.
Yeah, I mean, the main thing when someone says, well, what is car play ultra?
If you've used car play before and I imagine most of us have,
there isn't an equivalent for Android Auto right now.
Sorry, but basically when you're using car play in a car,
it's called Android Car Work.
It acts like an app in the car.
And then you know, you can do your phone.
You can play a podcast or music or whatever you would do with your Apple phone
that it allows you to do while driving, right?
But to do anything else like set the temperature or use FM or serious radio stations
or change drive modes, change ADAS settings,
you have to exit car play to do that.
What this does is it integrates all that stuff into car play.
So there's a climate app.
There's an ADAS or a vehicle settings app.
There's a radio app.
And so you can, I think Zach has a photo.
Can you make that photo a little bigger so we can see more screen,
more of the car screen?
What we're doing there is I'm scrolling through serious XM stations
within Apple car play.
And if you can, if you find a scroll.
So, so I mean, that's, that's pretty much it, right?
So, so you don't have to exit out of car play in order to change
basic vehicle settings that you might want to change often.
Additionally, it takes over, car play takes over your gauge cluster screen.
Now, you might, at first glance go, oh no, that's, that's not good.
But actually, there's like six different screens.
It's like what, I mean, other manufacturers have had different screens, right?
Oh, yeah.
But these supposedly just integrate a little more smoothly with car play.
So you can now have Apple maps as your cluster map screen,
not just the native maps app.
You can have, they do have that sort of Apple-like simple screen.
They have the, right, there's like three gauge.
Actually, I have pictures of I think.
Oh, there you go.
So here we go.
This one is Apple maps.
This one is the sort of Apple eye cluster or whatever.
That doesn't have numbers on the, on the circles on the RPMs.
Yeah, there we know like fake needle.
The circles are just simple, thick banded circles.
And then your miles per hour is a digital readout on the left.
Yeah.
This one's kind of the middle ground, I think it was.
Yeah, the one you just had was the sort of default Aston Martin gauge.
It looks the most like a regular digital gauge.
And then they have this one that's like a just bars, these four bars.
This is very like a video game power meters.
Yeah, there's just like miles per hour, miles to empty, sport, and then your temp.
Yeah, and so you can choose through all this stuff in real time.
Oh, they have this other one which is like a sport one that has like a terrain sort of background.
It's like a topographical map in the background.
And then this, and some of these to me looks very at home in an EV,
but not in my opinion in like a super SUV, but you have options.
And the same way, like Mercedes gauges these days,
I think it was like eight or nine different settings.
And some of them look like, oh, if I had a fighter jet, I'd love this.
But it's a real fighter jet one, you know what I'm talking about.
So they're not all great.
People might hate some of them, but hopefully like some of them.
Because I thought some of them were the ones that looked more like traditional gauges.
Looked good, super legible.
And the integration with all the other settings is really handy.
Yeah.
And you've got standalone volume settings for your different devices.
Which is all right now.
Holy crap.
Yeah.
And they've got some of the, some of like the eight ass settings,
which end up looking like Apple buttons because that's in there.
But here's one screen.
Go back.
So they've also had, they have a couple ones where it's not in car play ultra.
But it sort of sneaks in a background-assed and Martin UI screen
for certain like highly specific like audio tuning settings and stuff like that.
So every once in a while it will like sneak that in.
Do you have the climate, a picture of the climate control screen?
The climate control screen looks very much like Apple.
Oh, we don't.
I mean, it's basic digital temperature controls, but it's big blocky touch screen stuff.
They really, the Aston Martin folks said they wanted anything that you had to peck at.
To be a big, easy to find sort of block.
But it isn't, it is a nice improvement of car play.
It's, it's not bad at all.
And you don't have to use it.
I mean, you can still just connect your phone over Bluetooth.
And there's the Aston Martin touch screen interface underneath that.
Yeah.
But having the, the shorter journey to like the vehicle settings and other stuff
instead of having to back out is very helpful.
And also like, yeah, if you, like for me, I like to listen to serious a lot.
And so to bounce back and forth between serious and car play all the time
is an extra touch of the home button, both ways.
It's a layover, both ways.
Now I'm, now I'm in there.
So that's, that's nice.
And for, for, apparently for people that own many cars,
one of their complaints to Aston Martin is remembering all the different stuff in different cars.
And so, you know, once more, more brands roll this out, if they roll this out,
a lot of your basic settings and things should remain the same from car.
At least how you do stuff.
Yeah.
It really is that, that really is a continuation of the, the magic of car plays.
Yeah.
We're all used to using our phone.
So okay, it mirrors a lot of it.
We just, you're familiar with where these things are and how they look
and how responsive the tapping is.
Another thing we forgot is, like some of the buttons in the touchscreen are now much bigger
because it's, it's just easier to hit them.
You don't have to hit this tiny pin point.
Yeah.
Like you do in some cars, like, oh, I want to tick this box for ADAS, but it's very small.
I'm driving down a road, whatever.
Now it's like a four inch wide bar.
Oh, and also they've added, it's a hard button.
It's the legal minimum, like the GT3.
The legal minimum of button taps.
Two taps.
So there's a hard button.
It pulls up a pop up window in car play ultra and you just tap deactivate all.
And then you're all your ADAS is off, which is, which is great.
I forget someone asked was this wireless or wireless?
Wireless.
Yeah.
Yeah, wireless.
Yeah.
Or I mean, either it's either, but it works wireless.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you, right now it goes all the way back to iPhone 13, which my phone is just sneaking in under there.
And you also, for those of you who own a 2023 S and Martin, you can bring it in and they'll retroactively split it on, right?
2024 model year and up.
If it has the touchscreen, yeah, when they, when they got away, if it has, if it's post AMG, you are, they can retroactively.
You don't have to buy a new car, right?
Yeah.
So they're going to get us an advantage roadster because we've already driven DBX 707s a bunch.
So they're going to get us an advantage roadster with car play ultra in a few weeks.
And we'll get to play with it on some video.
But overall, I thought it was a, it was a nice system.
I told them to their face that I missed the real gauges.
And they said, they said, they said, they said a lot of people have brought that up.
So not the only person who brought that up and that, you know, sadly, you know, at the very high end,
that's the kind of thing they could come back.
They're looking at what Bugatti's doing and going, oh, the rich people want this.
Yeah.
They don't want more screen, you know.
I really like Porsche setup where it was mostly real gauges and like the one pod that you could change.
Yeah.
That was sweet.
Like in my car, that's no notes.
Yeah.
Believe it, just like that is perfect.
The, I was in the Uber.
I dropped off a customer car this morning after our show.
And I was in the Uber back here.
And I heard a commercial for Toyota, which I thought, and the commercial was appropriate
because we were just driving the TRD Pro 4 runner, which we're not going to review today.
But in doing my, you know, research for it, I was, I built one on their website.
And like you can get all these crazy, like stuff through the dealer, like,
automatic fridges and ARB this and rigid lights and Yeti built in coolers and like all kinds of cool stuff.
That you can just order with the car and it comes in.
I guess you could roll it into your financing, which is pretty sweet.
But this Toyota commercial comes on on the radio in the Uber.
And it's about how you can customize your car at the dealer.
And, and it's this guy who goes, I bought it.
It's like a Hispanic. He's like, I bought a Toyota Camry TRD Pro.
Oh, not TRD Pro. A Camry TRD, man.
He's like, and I just love it.
And then he's like, I customize it.
And then he proceeds to list off like the most like show low e-mods.
He's like, I swapped out the headlights.
I put a different exhaust on it.
I put, I put an intake. I put this.
I was like, they're doing in takes and exhaust the dealer headlights and headlights and changing headlights.
What are the headlights at the dealers?
That's just upgrading.
This is a radio commercial, right?
So then that's the guy.
Now my car is the sickest Camry on the block.
All right, cool, man.
Then the voice comes back on.
Come on down to your nearest Toyota dealer.
And check out our full line of modifications from makers like rigid ARB,
Dometic, Yeti, and like something else.
And they list off everything you can put on the forerunner.
And it's a coma.
They don't talk about anything this dude was just talking about with his Camry.
Nothing.
Now I wonder if it would be either they've been using that guys dialogue for a year.
And they can just attach different accessory readouts on the end.
Yeah.
Or it's just like the grossest version of trying to appeal to this market.
I think they know exactly what they're doing.
They go, but let's get a guy imply.
But not directly say that you could get parts for Camry's.
Even though this thing really is only for.
But if someone went to the dealership and was like,
I'd like to get the intake and exhaust they talked about.
Sir, your tires are at a date.
We're going to have to change those.
Well, you're down.
I think they get sued for false advertising though.
They have to.
They don't false advertising.
Well, it's just the implication, but they don't falsely say.
You could put parts on your Camry.
They don't say we have parts for your Camry.
Well, he says he customized his Camry, right?
He did.
So I think that's why I pulled out this intake.
I couldn't take you to get.
Play back the beginning of the commercial.
So I couldn't hear the words of.
I went to the dealer and got it.
So there is a TRD for a Camry.
That's the intake for a Camry.
I searched Camry intake.
Colored TRD.
Colored intake system.
Oh, dude, dude.
All right, so you can get an intake.
For a Camry, I guess.
This doesn't say Camry anywhere.
It doesn't say Google.
What this fits?
Look, go see, pull that down.
What this fits?
Three models, 68 variants.
Between 06 and 11.
What does it say?
What they are?
That's weird.
Over here.
Between 2006 and 2011.
All right, but this is Camry.
I don't know.
I just googled quickly.
That's pretty funny.
I think it's probably for a truck.
All right.
A.M. No.
Oh, here you go.
Don't get a cold air intake on your Camry people.
It's A.M.
Don't do that.
Just forget that.
Leave that alone.
That's funny.
But it seemed like a little bit of a bait and switch.
Speaking of which, look, Fred Anderson Toyota will
sell you a TRD cold air intake for $291.
But auto parts. Toyota.com will sell it for $772.
Do we know what it fits?
No, we don't.
He might not be the same part.
I'm showing two different parts in comparing prices.
Select your vehicle.
Let's see what this is.
This is an exact fit.
This one fits 43 variants.
Fewer variants.
But newer models.
I don't.
Oh boy.
I don't know.
I'm bringing us all over the map.
Yeah.
We're going to go to the Patreon before or but first.
Another update from our friend David Twig,
who is the project manager, project lead, whatever,
in charge of designing and building the Alpine A110.
Is the big two again?
We were talking about the unbelted passenger thing
and that's why it couldn't be sold here.
He added.
It's not just the shape of the dash but the shape of the roof.
And the fact that the roof goes far forward
and the windshield is pretty upright compared to a windshield
that's further raked back with a headliner that's closer to your head.
He said to redesign the car to meet the US crash standards
to redesign that car would add hundreds of pounds to the car.
Wow.
And he said a big part of the reason that the Cayman is global
and the Alpine is not, is the same reason that the Cayman
is like 500 pounds heavier than the Alpine.
Wow.
Yeah.
I love and look, the science is the science,
but like looking at the profile of this car.
Yeah.
To call this windshield very, you know, very upright.
Right.
But look at, so look at, look at the photo of that windshield
and where it, where the top of it is,
compared to a Cayman relative to the driver's head.
Okay.
It's going to show me a, no.
I thought it was going to show me a crocodile.
All right.
So the windshield is further back in the car
and the, and the windshield itself goes higher up
and further angled back towards the driver's head.
The Cayman windshield terminates just behind the mirror
on the door, right?
So we go here.
Well, the mirrors further forward are...
The whole canopy is pushed forward in the Alpine
compared to the Cayman.
The windshield's more upright
and the dash binnacle, the top of the dash,
where the windshield meets the thing,
is further forward in the Cayman.
Or in the Alpine, in the Alpine.
Sorry.
So the windshield's too far away.
Yes.
Is that the short, okay?
Yes.
So someone flies too far.
Correct.
Before hitting the windshield.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right.
And David wanted to add that in 47 out of 50 states,
it is illegal to drive without a seat belt.
And yet, we will coddle the other three
in order to build, to not have this car.
He's like, if you think it's annoying,
he's like, I saw your video.
When I tell you why you can't have that car,
you're going to be even matter.
He's like, because there's three states in your country
that refuse to enact seat belt laws,
and all cars have to coddle those people
that need coddling,
because they refuse to be told to wear their seat belts.
Are those people buying Caymans?
Well, they probably wouldn't even buy...
I don't want to be.
Wow.
All right.
New Hampshire is the only US state now
that does not require it to wear seat belts.
All right.
So 49, not 49.
Well, this was, as of 2019, New Hampshire was the only state.
Okay, so he did this car in 2017.
Right.
So maybe they've changed it.
But either way, that's...
New Hampshire.
What do you...
They're living for your dying.
Literally.
Yeah.
They're dying for not wearing seat belts
and helmets.
Free.
Good job.
Free from being told...
Right?
If you fly through windshield and you don't die,
it's probably going to be very painful for quite a while.
But wear your seat belt.
I knew someone who didn't believe in seat belts
and guess how he died.
Just like fucking that.
Seriously?
Yeah.
On the FDR drive.
Yep.
When ejected from a Ford Thunderbird.
And he...
He stood weighed 280 pounds.
Imagine getting ejected from a Ford Thunderbird
weighing 280 pounds and going out the windshield.
That's literal...
That's what happened to him.
I saw a video of someone getting ejected once
and you would not believe it's really alarming...
When physics takes over,
how quickly the body folds and molds
to the opening it's going through.
Yeah.
And like, your legs don't matter.
Like, it's just...
That's where it's going.
Because that's momentum.
And it's...
You wear a seat belt after that.
Do you go to the people?
Yeah.
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That's pretty good.
I like that a lot.
Do V12 starter motors sound cool
because of the number of cylinders
or something integral to the starter itself?
Do you think there's a market
for starters on smaller motors
to be tuned to sound like V12 starters?
I have heard lots of V12 starters
and I don't think they sound particularly special.
What?
The starter motor itself.
I don't think there's anything to it.
I couldn't do it in print.
I don't know what that would sound like.
I mean, I think certain manufacturers' cars
have a distinct start sound to them
that transcends the number of cylinders they make.
For instance.
Talking about the cranking sound.
Yeah, the cranking sound.
The cranking sound.
Like Ferrari starters sound the same.
All Ferrari starters sound the same.
All McLaren starters sound the same.
I feel like this is saying
did you see the T-shirt
that the lead guitarist was wearing
of the band you saw?
I'm like, I don't care what the T-shirts say.
I care what the guitars say.
I don't think there's anything
about the starter motors that are special.
I think each company uses a supplier
of a starter motor
and I mean more cylinders
the starter motor has to be more powerful
because it literally has to turn more.
Yeah, I think this person,
I think they might be confusing
engine sound with starter sound.
Yeah.
That or I think you want to hear something
that you're not really hearing.
I'm trying to imagine
if it's a higher pitch versus lower pitch stuff
or like F1 cars,
that's a different type of starter.
That's like a high revolution
or literally higher p.m.
And then that's different.
I don't know.
I think certain companies have started
with like McLaren's
have a specific one
and Rolls-Royce is a specific one.
Ferrari does maybe certain old 9-11s
like air-cold 9-11s have a specific one.
But like I just think it's the part
they were using combined with the sound it takes
when you start to move that engine from rest.
Yeah, I think that.
I do not think there would be a market
for tuning the sound of a starter.
Tim A says we now have lots
of experience off-roading EVs.
I don't know about a lot,
but enough.
How does it feel to off-road
an internal combustion forerunner
after spending time in a G-Wagon
or Rivian outside of range?
Is there an upside to a traditional off-roader?
No.
No, I missed the instatorque.
Yeah.
The EV stuff.
Yeah.
I like the silence.
I like not having gears.
And yeah, infinitely variable to work.
I mean, once you've done a Rivian
or an electric G-Wagon,
like you can't go back to regular cars after that.
P-car photos.
What underrated, by the way,
I saw that guy in Malibu on Sunday.
What's up to him?
What underrated car community
or niche deserves more attention?
Texas quail rigs for sure.
Oh, that's...
Texas quail rigs are dope as fuck.
Nobody's talking.
That's like the safari thing, right?
Yeah.
With the benches on the front and stuff.
Sick.
Frontward drive drifters.
Skid plate racers?
Yeah.
No paying attention to them.
Sure.
We should pay more attention to skid plate racers.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't discover a new car community very often.
I mean, there's...
If there's...
If there's a group of 25-year-olds
that have model tees and shit,
let me see what they're up to.
They're doing something cool.
Let's see what that's about.
I want to see the very young people
that are working on brass-era stuff.
The kids we made in Audrey,
like those guys,
they're doing something interesting.
These are kids we grew up in.
What I want to do is figure out
how to fix cars that are 100 years old.
That's true.
Yeah.
Doug's the narrow.
That's pretty good.
You guys are getting better at this.
I picked up my first premium watch.
It'll make a seamaster.
After three months,
it has its fair share of light scratches
and dings from everyday wear and activities.
That is superb.
How do you come to terms with the potential damage
or patina when wearing your high-end watches?
I mean,
oh, and then he says,
how do you come to terms with the potential damage
of wearing your watches out in the world?
This is a $4,500 watch,
but I can't imagine having the confidence
to wear a 100K watch out in the world.
I mean,
I don't wear 100K watches out in the world,
so I understand.
But I think...
Let me put it this way.
My father has been wearing a Rolex Samariner,
no date,
since he bought it brand-new in 1990.
Pretty much every day.
He now has a couple other watches,
but that's new for the first...
for the last three or four years.
Up until then, for 40 years,
he wore this one watch every single day,
and it's a little faded,
and it's got scratches on it,
and I guarantee you two things.
One is that someday he will die,
and when he does,
I will wear the fuck out of that watch,
and he has other watches that he's bought,
including this unbelievable protect
that he's never worn in the box,
in the safe somewhere,
and he says it's for me.
He bought it for me,
and I said,
okay, well, can I just have it now?
No, it's for you when I die.
I don't want a dad's dead
here's a consolation prize new protect,
like that's not my idea of a good time.
You know, if we're talking about an inheritance,
the beat-up sub-mariner that he wore every day,
that's the one I want.
I don't really give a shit about this other thing.
It's just a thing that's worth money,
but besides that, who cares?
And also, I have watches that my dad gave me,
the two watches that he's given me,
both Rolexes, both beat to shit.
They got scratches all the best.
Memories, they've been around,
and now when I showed,
look at that, oh, that's great.
That's the fucking patina.
You're not going to break that watch.
I mean, you could, you might actually break it,
it could be fixed,
but like little scratches and stuff,
like, oh, just, it's all good.
You don't see them from more than a couple feet away,
and nobody cares.
The other thing I could guarantee you
is if my dad went to sell that watch today.
He decides, I'm a piece of shit who doesn't deserve it,
and he wants to sell it.
I guarantee you, adjusted for inflation,
he makes a profit.
There's no question in my mind that he could then,
he could take that to Kraft and Taylor,
or any of these guys that buy hot vintage.
The one he's worn every day.
The one he's worn every day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.
One owner, one service, never polished,
nicked up, but running great and looking good.
That's a desirable watch right now.
So this dude's watch could be that one day.
Maybe his kid wants it,
and those nicks and stuff are,
those are his dad's life on that watch.
Yeah, it's a sign of a life lived.
That's the thing.
And like cars with paint chips and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I understand.
If you've got something really expensive,
I get it, you don't want to scratch it up.
I only take really good care of one watch that I own,
and it's because it's gold.
And gold scratches, scratches, scratches, scratches.
And so I was shocked at how quickly my wedding ring
went from being round, not round.
And I was like, whoa, it's been a month.
Yeah, yeah.
So the one gold watch I have,
I treat a little more gingerly.
Everything else, fucking, who cares?
Angela's breast.
I still don't know what that means.
I don't know.
I just googled it,
and I got some strange YouTube videos
that are saying like,
here's how to pump breast.
And I didn't click on them.
Yeah.
So I, I don't know, maybe this person is a new parent,
and they, they think their world is everyone's world.
I don't know.
Yeah.
A while back I asked about what cars are practically imperfect,
but perfect for their ethos is the Alpine,
the gold standard of this.
I mean, yes and no,
it's not that impractical.
It's not that impractical.
The only thing about it that's impractical
is that you may have to adjust your,
it comes with its own luggage.
And that's annoying instead of using your own luggage.
Other than that, I don't think it's much of a sacrifice
to drive that car.
Someone explained that that's a horny version
of Angela's crest.
Angela's crest.
Oh.
Oh.
I think I feel dumb now, David,
and Ethan.
No, but it's Angelis,
not Angel Luz.
If it was A-N-G-E-L-E-S,
breast highway,
that's the joke.
You need it highway.
You need it highway.
Yeah, I think it works.
Like Los Angeles, Angelis.
They really do need to workshop it.
You need to workshop it in one.
Two at highway, and you got it.
Right.
H-W-Y.
Granny shifting,
not double clutching like you should.
I realize you're not super fond of these questions.
Would you rather own a first-gen 4G-T or 9-11-S-T?
Hmm.
That's very interesting.
I'm talking about the 0-4-5.
Yeah, the 0-4-0 so on.
Yeah, but yeah, that.
It depends.
If I wanted a car that I was going to drive once a month
or if I was going to have a car that I was going to drive every day,
once or twice a month, 4G-T,
100% not even a question.
Drive it 200,000 miles as much as possible.
S-T.
S-T, the S-T could just be your car.
Mm-hmm.
There's no reason the S-T couldn't just be your car.
You can't, you couldn't do that with the 4G-T.
Very true.
There's no trunk.
There's not enough fuel in the world.
There's no trunk.
You can't like park next to other people.
Yeah, all that.
It's amazing, but it's also like super annoying.
Mark Farhar, the tired smoker.
That's kind of actually good.
Did I spot Misha in the crowd at Abu Dhabi in the F1 movie?
I think you meet Misha from...
What should we get?
Oh, Misha ring.
Oh, I wasn't looking for him.
I'm not sure I could see him out of context.
Also, the crowd shots.
There's a lot of people.
Yeah.
Would we try to take that?
Given the opportunity, would you take a stab at serious racing?
I mean, I don't have it.
I don't have the thing that Santa said.
If you do not go for a gap, I don't have that.
I don't go for those gaps.
I am a really good teammate on an endurance team.
I'll run that number.
If the lap time is...
If Pat Long can do this track in 130,
I can do a 128, a hundred times in a row.
That's what I do.
Wait.
If Pat Long runs it.
I'm sorry, I won 32.
Excuse me.
I'm sorry.
I can do a 132, a hundred times in a row,
and bring the car back perfectly shiny.
Stop right in the box.
So I'm a good teammate.
But I don't have the fucking kill thing.
I would try it, but I don't think I would be up front,
but I would happily try actually racing.
I mean, it's all about funding.
So if I had lots of money,
and I was like, I'll do a season of specmiata.
Just to do it, sure.
Yeah.
Bad...
Bad Gardener has a question,
I'm wishing for a thing that their shore exists,
but doesn't.
Wants to know the best or craziest sponsors offers
that we've declined.
There isn't some crazy thing where we could have made all this money,
and we were like, oh no.
There was going to...
There were opportunities to be literally paid mouthpieces for OEMs.
And we declined those.
And those come up all the time.
But they're not usually...
It's not usually give our car a good review.
It's come to a speaking engagement at our corporate thing.
And we turn those down.
There really are...
There's like weird boner pills
and weird supplements that are not FDA-approved
and unverified.
Most of it doesn't even merit a response.
Chinese just total junk products, crypto scams.
I mean, the number of crypto scams are...
There was a year where like every month I get a DM on Instagram
that was said like, hey, how much do you charge for a shoutout?
Yeah, yeah.
Look at the profile and it was just...
Every single one of those.
Yeah, every one of those that I've gotten, I get...
I get probably two or three a day.
How much for a shoutout?
They're all crypto farms.
And I go, I don't do crypto.
Why not, bro?
We are not...
We are not coin.
We are farm.
What does that mean?
Like, go away.
Like, weird.
But, yeah, there's...
None of them are crazy.
They're all just stupid and-or fake or scams.
Okay.
Bald bearded and beautiful.
With modern synchro transmissions,
is there any value in double clutching
as opposed to just healing towing?
No, there's no value in double clutching.
A modern synchronized transmission.
You do not need to do this anymore.
Okay.
What is it?
Panic at my disco.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, we could workshop that a little bit.
What is it about OEMs that drive them
to design and implement car features
that the masses generally do not want or need?
Why does Cadillac develop doors that close
with a button in the Escalade IQ?
Even though an equivalent amount of effort
is required to just pull it shut.
Same principle applies to electronic folding rear seats.
Why?
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Hang on a minute.
This person has a rant
that has a 100% objective answer to it.
Why does this Cadillac have doors that close with a button?
Because that's considered luxurious.
Rolls Royce does it.
They're copying Rolls Royce.
Cadillac is not original.
Cadillac hasn't had an original thought
in a really, really long time.
They just, whatever Rolls Royce is doing,
they copy it on a budget, right?
So that, the electronic door closed, that's Rolls Royce.
Electronic folding seats.
That started with like Audi or Range Rover or something.
They're just copying it.
If you have a giant SUV,
electronic folding rear seats is luxurious.
I would argue that your theory
that customers don't want or need,
if they're paying $150,000,
they're saying they'd better have this.
Right.
Because the Jeep Grand Wagonier for $67.5 has it or whatever.
And if you have a deep trunk
and the old way to fold your rear seat
is to like reach way forward, unclass the thing,
push it forward.
If you're a shorter person or a person
with some sort of physical ailment
or you just don't want to because you have money,
like hitting a button is nice.
Yeah.
Follows up.
Why can't OEMs fix real problems?
Do you think this is a joke?
No, I think this is real.
Here's the list of real problems.
A cup holder that will fit my hydroflask.
Last I checked, the hydroflask is like a big bottle.
Well, yeah, it's very, it's a big cylinder.
And what's funny and not to talk shit at panic,
but like you say the masses.
A lot of people use hydroflasks,
but I'd say right now more people use Stanley cups,
for example, and Stanley cups taper at the bottom.
And I think, look, this forerunner,
the center console would be wide enough
to fit one hydroflask.
I have a hydroflask.
You could fit one or you could have two cup holders.
Yeah.
So the masses use a cup.
Let's talk about a huge bottle.
It's bigger than any cup holder on the market, basically.
Yeah.
So that's not a real problem.
And then it's limited to only fitting that thing,
versus if you go into a gas station and you buy any number
of sodas or red bulls or whatever,
like I think designing cup holders
that can fit a wide variety of beverages
is a challenge.
Many engineers undertake every year.
And there's good cup holders and not so good cup holders.
But saying why can't you fix a real problem
like making a cup holder that's bigger than any cup ever?
It's very specific.
Or dashboards that don't become sticky over time.
I mean, some of that is really out of their hands
because they don't know what happens to this car.
What's 20?
Yeah.
I think they don't want to.
Like the next example is,
why don't they make headlamp assemblies that don't cloud up?
They don't want the cloud up.
Yeah.
Now something is breaking down in the glue or whatever.
And then if the engineers know that's happening
for 20 years and never fix it,
well then they're just being cheap
or the accountants are being cheap.
Yeah.
Or it's a, you know,
you need to go to Dupont and say,
please make me a new kind of glue
to hold these things together.
Yeah.
But they don't want.
And I don't think any documentation.
Made a dashboard or buttons where they said,
we're going to put these in.
No.
And they're going to be sticky over time.
And like they're always trying to come,
you know, manufacture, it's like,
it's like when a manufacturer takes shit
for when a car is not reliable
15 years after it was sold.
It's like, dude, I get it.
Nobody wants to make an unreliable car.
But they're trying to make it get to the end of their warranty.
And after that, like, you know,
they're honoring this car presumably
for a pretty reasonable period of time.
Yeah.
I think it hurts their reputation
if the lenses in the headlights fog up
or get condensation within a lease cycle.
Yeah.
Then they have a problem.
Like then that is a poor design.
But if it's eight years later.
And if you're talking about luxury cars,
luxury features and luxury cars,
those are always going to be technologically on the lead.
A luxury car is about cramming technology
and features into it
until you get to Rolls-Royce.
Yeah.
Well, it wasn't the line.
I think Clarkson said,
if you want to know what every car
will have in 15 years,
today, I don't know if that's true anymore,
but it was true for a long time.
And if you're going to be the first one
through the door developing a new technology,
Japan will be the one
that will make it super liable
and a lot less expensive,
but it's going to be 20 years later.
Yeah.
And if you're making an electric SUV
with a fucking 200 kilowatt hour battery,
why wouldn't you make it do
some fucking electric dance shit?
You know what I mean?
Like, make all the...
Tesla made all their doors electric clothes
in the Model X.
And it got a lot of eyeballs.
Yeah.
And it was kind of a cool, entertaining thing to do
and those doors broke a lot, but...
Yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
Like, I...
It's...
I don't know what this part...
What would actually make this person happy
other than someone custom building a car
that's just for you
and that lasts 30 years.
Biggest car.
But it's also a lug...
You know, also luxurious, you know?
Um...
Okay.
Uh...
Alejandro says new forerunner
or land cruiser for 90% daily driver
with once a quarter off-road trip,
like a BDR.
Have you driven the new land cruiser?
I have not.
I did.
But after looking at the pricing of forerunners,
I would definitely go test drive a land cruiser
if I was doing 90% on road.
I...
Without really...
I mean...
Yeah.
The land cruiser I drove was like a middle of the road one.
And then this is the TRD Pro forerunner.
Mm-hmm.
So I didn't go...
I didn't really go trim for trim.
No, but I think we go dollars for dollars.
That's how I'm thinking about it.
I don't...
The land cruiser I drove was only
a little more expensive
than this fully loaded forerunner.
It didn't feel like it did more.
I mean, it had like a lot of the same stuff in it.
It held basically the same amount of people
and things for me.
Do you need a third row?
Because land cruiser was a third row
and the hybrid...
But they had...
They both had the hybrid engine.
The Lexus one I drove with the sixth cylinder,
I didn't love.
I'd probably rather have the hybrid engine,
to be honest with you.
Either of those vehicles,
in almost any trim,
would be able to do a BDR trail.
We did the BDR in accents and previas.
Yeah.
But you could get through it
without a scratch in a land cruiser
or a forerunner, for sure.
Are they worth it at 60 to 70k?
I mean, kind of.
I don't know what the comp...
I haven't priced the competition,
so I don't know.
Well, everything's expensive now.
Everything's expensive,
but the forerunner we drove
was 12 grand more than the Ranger Raptor.
That's like a $57,000 compound.
Yeah.
And if you're going off-road capability
comparison, like, they're even.
Yeah.
So I think that's...
The Ranger Raptor was definitely a better value
from under the eater of the Toyotas.
Now, I think you don't need...
I think the thing I would tell Alejandro
is someone like you doesn't need the TRD Pro.
Yeah.
There are a number of different trims below it
that start in the 50s,
that are like a forerunner off-road
wherever the name is.
Their names are not very good.
But that have four-wheel drive
and decent clearance and all this shit,
and we'll do the BDR
and also save you $15,000.
Yeah.
We'll look at those.
We had to get to some pretty technical stuff today
before needing to engage low range
or any of the technologies.
You know, regular four-by-four mode
that comes with any forerunner
or Land Cruiser would get you up this trail
without trouble.
I don't know.
And also, like, which one do you like looking at?
Also.
As you ask me, the forerunner looks better
than the Land Cruiser.
But that's just my opinion.
I like the Land Cruiser's interior better.
The forerunner has the same interior
as the Tacoma and the Tundra,
and it's very much like
fucking monster jam.
Interior.
It's like Riverside County flat-bill monster jam.
It's not classy.
No, it's just very knobby functioning.
Yeah, all that stuff.
Joe says, what's your opinion on painting cars
with paint from other manufacturers?
No opinion.
Do it on the fuck you want.
Exactly.
There's no opinion on colors.
If you like it, then do it.
I saw someone did a frozen berry spider RS
and I saw it and it looked pretty cool.
The gold wheels.
The essence that we're here,
I looked at the green and I was like,
that's what I want my car to look like.
Put that green on an E46 all day.
Nino Pinto Santa Maria.
That's pretty funny.
It's a $6,000 R53 Mini Cooper S
as good of a project track car bargain as it seems.
Them expensive to fix.
Well, I love the term,
is this a good project bargain?
Well, it will be a project.
Yeah, I mean, you're going to blow it up,
for sure, they're not great track cars.
But, I mean, $6,000 is a pretty low amount
of money to risk for a car that's pretty fun to drive.
So, they're a good time.
I don't have an STI says,
I want a V8 rear wheel drive manual experience
for under 75,000 Arizona back roads.
C706 or Shelby GT350R.
I would have the Shelby 350R.
C706's don't do much for me.
And if you want to do an Arizona track day
with a C706, get used to lip mode.
Them don't have the coolings.
You could also look at used C8Z 51s for that money.
Yup.
Oh, you want a manual.
V8 rear wheel drive manual.
And I don't think you're,
you're not getting a 2015 Viper for that, are you?
Isn't it weird that Viper's like the fucking Gen 5 Viper's
have like the best resale value of any car ever?
If you're into a track day,
you'd rather have a Viper than a ZC706.
Really?
Yeah, it went overheat.
Oh.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true.
That's very true.
I was like, I only joined Viper's on the street.
And...
Viper's are fun on tracks.
Unique seating position.
Everything is daunting.
350R.
That's the best.
That's all right.
Let's see.
Okay, here for Matt's cats.
I want to put actual exhaust tips on my Volkswagen Atlas
and get rid of the fake plastic exhaust
and the downturn tips under the car.
I'm not sure I'd pick something
that will look natural, any advice.
Okay, can we get a picture of the rear of a Volkswagen Atlas?
My gut says to not do this, by the way.
I think I know exactly.
I know where your brain is going,
but I really don't recommend you do this.
And it just won't...
Okay, so that top left is the photo we want there.
That gray.
So those are fake.
Those outlets.
And there's...
The muffler is behind the bumper.
And there's a...
You could kind of see...
Can you see it in there?
Did that photo not...
It doesn't...
Oh, bumper.
It doesn't really zoom in.
So...
Well, here's why I wouldn't do this
because the engineers didn't...
I'm betting the engineers haven't put heat shielding in there.
The exhaust goes in a direction that they plan for.
And if you send exhaust out the back,
you might melt the bumper,
tailgate, like you might fuck up.
So you could literally cause a car fire
and it might not be insured
because they're like,
you did what, sir?
I would not do that.
And for what?
What is the upside of this?
I mean, the upside is a thing about this car
that bothers you, maybe doesn't bother you.
But like...
You're gonna put...
You're not gonna put an aftermarket exhaust on this thing.
It makes...
It makes...
At the most,
275 horsepower.
I do understand the instinct
because I remember early on in this job,
when you started seeing cars
with the cool like metal slats,
but then you saw the pipe,
you either set back from it
or just turns down
and you go,
oh, that's...
That's stupid.
It's ingenuous.
Like, I always...
Can I connect those tips or something like that?
But in this case,
you can't change the exhausts
for having to go through a body panel
without some pretty significant risk.
Yeah.
And the upside of it is so low.
Yeah.
I see, especially...
Now that you're looking...
Now that we're looking at this...
You get a crown.
It really does look terrible
with the fakes.
And I understand
why you would not want it to look like that.
Because it does actually look kind of stupid.
Well, in the side profile,
they've really made the atlas look a lot like a pentagon.
Yeah.
You can really see the...
In these press photos,
whoever shot these press photos,
who was that Michael Sumari?
Shout out to him.
That looks just like a Bentley Bentayga right there.
Nice job.
So anyway,
I really wouldn't...
Even if you were to find an aftermarket exhaust
for this thing,
which like,
who would put an exhaust on this?
Who would bother engineering one?
Who would make one?
Yeah.
It's not going to go through the bumper.
Yeah.
You'd have to fully, fully fab this from scratch.
And even then,
imagine you set your atlas on fire.
Yeah.
Just because you were like,
I don't like those fake ones.
They're just like everybody else's fake ones.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, look at that.
You exo-performance.
There are people do make exhaust for this dumb thing.
That's crazy.
Like, this one just dumps out under the floor.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah.
That one just got a dump.
Where's the exo-performance?
Second row.
Second from the right.
That.
There's eBay exhaust.
That looks like it has a dump too.
Oh, yeah.
And something else.
Every now and then, you know,
someone will have a product.
They'll be like,
Oh, I found a Chevy exhaust.
I'm going to rebrand it as an atlas exhaust
and sell it on eBay and.
Wait, third row in the middle.
The vertical photo.
One down, one left.
Real tips on an atlas.
Oh my god.
On a VR6 atlas.
A VR6 atlas.
Okay.
So here's a guy.
Read it.
Has everything.
And by the way,
this doesn't look that good either.
This only looks okay.
These are like Corvette tips.
Yeah, they're weird.
So scroll down.
Does it say,
does it have a thing?
Okay.
Yeah, it doesn't.
It's just,
Yeah, I don't know.
Go back up to the photo.
It's not my favorite.
This is a bad choice.
But also,
this person, the tips,
terminate after the bumper.
Yeah.
So they're having,
so you'd have to do that also,
because they're probably
worried about the heat.
It just don't do it.
You just don't do it.
I'm saying dude,
because there's no way a woman
would ask this question.
No.
No way.
Barbecue sauce,
Anima Titais.
On Doug's podcast,
he mentioned the average Rolls-Royce
specter buyer is 35.
A lot of Rolls-Royce depreciation
is based off of maintenance costs.
But if it's electric,
that doesn't equate
because it's electric
will they depreciate
more or less?
They will depreciate more
because they're electric.
And there is no evidence
that an electric Rolls-Royce
will be any less maintenance
than the gasoline one.
And my guess
is that the average Rolls-Royce
specter buyer
is very much brought down
by China,
by the number of people
like in their 20s
in China buying those.
Well, it's also
it's a coupe
and people
who don't have kids
and families and whatnot
by coups.
And once they do,
they go, I would like
the Cullen Inn, please.
Yeah.
That too.
I think they will depreciate
very, very fast
as all luxury electric cars do.
Christian says,
can you scroll down?
When I finally remember
my E39 BMW,
I think of how solid
the interior felt
out of all the cars
you've driven,
what stands out
with the better
interior, best interior
build quality.
Bentley.
I mean, just anything
from Bentley.
Did everything
worked out?
I mean, in my car?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, my car was made
of fucking metal
and, I mean,
it was, that thing
was built unbelievably well.
I've never been
in a Bentley
that wasn't put together
impeccably.
I would say
that on the other side
of the mileage coin
would be like LS-400,
you know,
because you can
put 500,000 miles on them
and everything
feels good.
Yeah, those were
even the seats.
When they were new,
they really, really did
held up, pulled up very well.
Prashan says,
on an old
podcast,
I prefer the
SLS AMG GT
to the 997 GT3
on track.
You really
talk about SLS
compared to 997
these days,
and I'm,
you're curious
if you still feel this way.
I think that was probably
the last time I ever drove
a 997 GT3 on track.
So I don't,
nothing has happened
that would
change my opinion,
but I,
I wouldn't
buy either
of those cars
to do track work today.
I just think they both,
they would both feel old today.
I mean, that,
that was
the newest SLS AMG
is like a 2013
and the,
and the newest 997
is a 2011.
So I mean,
well,
here do we drive
that SLS black
across Europe?
That was
13 or 12.
No, the black series was
15.
That was the end.
Sorry, I guess it was
13, 14 maybe
for the GT.
SLS is,
I think,
I've always thought
the GTs were really nice.
Those were,
those are great cars.
They're great roadcars.
They're fun as shit.
They were a lot better
than the early SLSs.
And I think,
time will be very kind to them.
Would you rather drive a VQ
swapped RX-7
or a rotary swapped 370Z?
Wow.
Is that just like the,
this is auditory torture?
Yeah, that's just like,
the worst possible,
probably,
probably the FDRX-7
just because the chassis is
better than the 370Z.
Yeah,
God, that's terrible.
Yeah, I'd go RX-7
just based on looks.
Alfa Romeo and Juliet,
I like cats,
but how do I prevent them
from walking
and sleeping on my car outside?
You got to put a cover on your car,
I think.
Yeah.
It's warm.
Yeah.
That's why they're there.
They're there because it's warm.
Yeah, I mean,
I presume you're talking about,
like, random strays,
not your own cats.
Not much you can do about that.
I would say get a cover.
Oh, there we go.
Here for Matt's cats,
are some kinds of
modded cars better poised
for dealer trade-in
as opposed to private sale
or do modded cars
need a private sale
for best results?
No.
If you're going to a dealer,
you need that car to be stocked.
Yep.
Do not try it.
A dealer will
double-fuck you
for your car being modded.
They're going to go,
I have to put this back now
and it's going to cost me
all this money.
Yeah, because they can't sell
a modded car.
We have a friend who has
leased or financed
several new cars
in the last five years
and modded the fuck out of them,
including like vents
in the hood.
And he always puts them
back to stock before
turning them in,
so follow his way.
Yeah.
Okay.
Rage against the touch screens.
What is your opinion
of the relationship
between delta airlines
and Porsche?
And if you were advising
on their car partner strategy,
what would you do
for loyalty parks?
First, for the record,
I've never been shuttled
anywhere in a Porsche
because of my delta status
or my automotive
journalist status.
My opinion of it?
I mean, I think it's smart
for Porsche and I think it,
you know, if delta is going
to have a car
any way to partner with,
Porsche's North American
headquarters is like
at the Atlanta airport,
which is where
delta's headquarters are.
So that's why that makes sense.
There's a PEC
at the Atlanta airport.
So, I mean, what would I do
for loyalty?
I don't know about the second
half of that question,
but like, I don't see
any problems with it,
other than they've never
given me any rides,
that's by far the biggest
problem.
This quick google on
simplyflining.com says
you can pay delta
$350 for a person transfer,
they'll drive you
from one plane to another,
but it doesn't guarantee
the Porsche you might
actually just be a
golf cart or something else.
Okay.
I don't think JF has even
having it.
Like, my old boss flies
more than anyone we know.
Yeah.
Works for Porsche a lot.
Like, I don't think
he's ever been anyone.
No.
I mean, it's probably
it's probably, well,
first off, JF is
united, not delta.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
So he wouldn't.
But he wouldn't.
I mean, it's, I don't
know.
It's a gimmick, right?
It's not like a real thing.
It's not actual.
It's not like an
actual airport transfer
that you can count on,
but like, you know,
if you're super status
and it's a long way
from one connecting flight
to another and they show
up at the thing
and they take you
in the cayenne.
That's, that's all right.
I'm not.
I'm not a, I'm not
against that.
Chris Limbrite says,
Joseph, Joseph Kaczynski
has had two movies in a row
where he's been able to
capture what it feels like
to fly in Top Gun Maverick
and to drive in F1.
I, yeah.
Okay.
Whatever.
What should he do next?
Maybe something
in the 90s that involves
cigarette boats or something
with hydroplane boats?
No.
No.
Because F, I mean,
this movie would not
have been made right now
if Liberty Media
and Drive to Survive
weren't so successful.
Yeah.
So you need, you need to
build the masses interest
and right now the masses
interest is definitely
not in cigarette boats.
Yeah.
Or hydrofoils or anything
like that.
So you got to figure out
like what are people
paying attention to
and then they want to
feel like they're in the
seat of.
And Top Gun, the first one
did that great job
of that and everyone
wants to be a fighter pilot
because it looks like
fucking awesome.
Yeah.
War propaganda is so cool.
Yeah.
It was very effective.
Yeah.
Like, would you not want to
go mock two and then
you know, bank left?
Or maybe I want that
because of obvious.
I was like, they have,
look at all these brown people
I could kill.
These like ambiguous brown people.
Like, they're not,
like, they're,
they're, they're,
they're Balkans.
So they're not like,
they're not like white.
Who are they fighting
in the first one?
I forget.
I know he gave,
right.
So straight up,
so on the nose.
Well, that's why Top Gun 2
it was just faceless.
Yeah, ambiguous.
Yeah.
Not quite brown.
No, you can see
anyway.
They're just wearing helmets.
But not quite white.
Right.
Like, it wasn't black people
because it was snowing there.
Right.
So you've got to figure
there's a brown fighter
for God's sake about that.
So it's got to be,
it's got to be Balkans.
Right.
It's got to be something
with a stand in it.
Eastern Europe something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, what's the difference
really?
You know, you're,
you're hitting them
with a roller
from the fucking couch
there back in
whatever it's called.
Oh, the Pentagon.
Vegas.
Yeah.
Or wherever.
The drone center is.
Is that what it is in Vegas?
That's one of them.
Yeah.
Is that where they fucking
where a lot of people from?
Well, it's where a lot of
drone pilots are based.
It's just outside of Vegas.
Yeah.
Some in India too, right?
It's cheaper.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
That's more of the
Amazon shopping thing.
I thought you might
neighbor who told me
he's like, bro, you got
this new bookkeeper.
He's fucking great.
He's like, so cheap.
Get to Donnever Complains.
Oh, yeah.
Where do you find
virtual Latinos?
It's called virtual
Latinos.com.
It's a company that supplies
you with remote workers,
like MBAs and CPAs and stuff.
Whoa.
Virtual Latinos, bro.
I feel like there's
something I don't want to
save money on.
It's my account.
I think this one's on there.
This one seems to be okay.
I don't know.
This guy is, I don't know.
All right.
He might be doing crimes.
I don't think so.
It depends on how much money
you're saving, too.
My account doesn't have to
do that much, so I'm like,
I'm happy to pay you this.
This guy owns, like,
40 apartment buildings.
Okay, so he's got a lot of
nothing.
Yeah, it seems like he needs
a virtual Latino.
On the other hand, if he owns
40 apartment buildings,
can't he afford to not
outsource his work?
Yeah, but he, I think,
saves money by outsourcing
it to them.
I don't.
I employees all work
in this building.
I know.
I can't outsource.
Right.
Okay.
I even had a conversation with
somebody who was like,
you should have an AI phone
answering thing.
I was like, but we have people.
They're like, but AI.
I'm like, but there's
humans like better here.
Yeah, they're here.
They're actually here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Joseph Kaczynski.
What should he make a movie
about?
What would you like to see?
I mean, space is always cool,
but I don't know if we need
another space movie just yet.
That would be a gravity
code.
Yeah, but he doesn't really
go to space.
Sorry.
We wanted to use it.
A little too low out.
The else is too low.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
But, but Zach is totally
right.
You either need a war
propaganda machine behind it
or he needs to tap into
something that's already,
it's already going.
Yeah.
What else is there?
What else is that?
Well, I mean, like,
what's the question?
Live golf.
Live golf.
Live golf.
Live golf.
Golf has their own driver
just arriving now.
Oh, it's called like swing.
Full swing.
Full swing.
Full swing.
So maybe they'll have to do
that, and then they'll make a
golf movie.
We haven't had a serious
golf movie in a while.
Have you got more
twos coming out?
Right.
That'll hold up.
I'm sure.
So maybe they'll make a golf
movie and really put you,
you know, on the green.
I don't know.
That wouldn't be a good use
of his skills.
Oh, you know what they'll do?
Motor G.P.
That's what they'll do.
Motor motorcycles.
Motor motorcycles.
Because Liberty Media just gone.
I live in.
I live in.
I live in.
That would be a better movie
than for a GP.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Especially.
And then what they have to do
something else they've done.
And then somebody's got to
die making it.
And then it becomes a whole,
you know, thing.
Hope not.
But that's just what happens.
I mean,
Film it TV.
Someone's going to die making.
That's true.
I thought.
Yeah.
So it's not it's a gnarly thing. That's a good call. I bet they do I love man
I bet they do
MotoGP gets the interest and then they go to from making Isle of Man
Well, that's if they make the movie right if we follow the formula
They need a new rider for their MotoGP team. Mm-hmm, but they go to like Dakar and they go to like the TT
To get the guy and that's right and that's where they find
Who play
People Michael fastbender like he's two he's too old to be a guy from the guy in the gentleman
I've watched that show Jacob Lordy. He's very hot right now. Okay
Yeah, I don't know I don't know but motorcycles it seems like that seems like a probably a good one. Yeah
Because everybody wants to be on a bike if they don't admit it. It's true, right? Yeah, I feel like a superhero
I regret buying motorcycle. I was thinking about that on my camping trip because like maybe my body wouldn't be
Fucked up, but it still makes you feel like a superhero when you ride around
What if you regret buying motorcycle when you were younger, but like got one now
Do you think you'd have approach it differently? Or do you think it would be just the same? Oh, if I never got one younger and then but you got one now
Oh, that's a good question
I'm sure I would approach well. Yeah, but it's 25. I thought I was never gonna fall down because I was the careful one of the
Growth sure wasn't I was I was a careful one. Yeah, the careful one. It's a but it's a sliding scale
It was a sliding indeed. It was sliding indeed my friend. Yeah, I think I'd be more careful, but
Who knows
That last question. That's does make any sense
It doesn't talk outside, you know, we wanted we want to do all the questions, but every once in a while
Let me choose to start a very different class. Listen, that's not gonna. That one's not gonna help there
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About this episode
A review of the new F1 movie starring Brad Pitt kicks off this episode, with hosts discussing its plot, cinematography, and comparisons to classic racing films. They also dive into their experience testing Apple's CarPlay Ultra in an Aston Martin DBX, highlighting its integration with vehicle settings and user-friendly interface. The episode features personal anecdotes, including discussions on mental health and automotive experiences, alongside a lively Q&A segment covering various automotive topics.
24 Hours of Daytona
ADAS
aero
Android Auto
CarPlay Ultra
exhaust
F1
Ferrari
Formula One
granny shifting
Alpine A110
Aston Martin DBX
Aston Martin Vantage
Bentley Bentayga
BMW 3 Series
BMW 5 Series
Cadillac Escalade
Chevrolet Corvette
Chrysler Daytona
Dodge Viper
Ford F-150
Ford Mustang
Ford Ranger
Ford Thunderbird
Jeep Grand Cherokee
Lancia Delta
Land Rover Range Rover
Mazda RX-7
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
Nissan 370Z
Porsche 911
Porsche Cayenne
Porsche Cayman
Shelby GT350
Skoda Yeti
Suzuki Verona
Tesla Model X
Toyota 4Runner
Toyota Camry
Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota Previa
Toyota Tundra
Original notes
A review of the new F1 movie (without spoiling it); we tested Apple's new CarPlay Ultra; a weird Toyota ad; the DUMB reason we can't have the Alpine A110.
Plus we answer Patreon questions including:
- Would you want to tune the sound of your starter?
- EV off-roading vs ICE
- Underrated car communities that deserve attention
- The fear of wearing a watch
- 2004 Ford GT or 911 S/T?
- Would you want to take a serious stab at racing?
- Is "double-clutching" still a thing?
- Why can't OEMs fix "real" problems?
- 4Runner or Land Cruiser?
- Why you shouldn't replace fake exhaust tips with real ones
- VQ RX-7 or rotary 350Z?
- And more!
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