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Ferrari 599
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BMW M5
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LSD
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Mazda Cx50
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tramlining
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PDK
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Acura NSX
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Toyota Prius
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clutch helper spring
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Ford Explorer
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Toyota Tundras
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Ford Expeditions
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aviation-inspired seat belts
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powder coat
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suspension
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Faraday Future Faraday FX Super One
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Toyota Toric
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FF 01
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FF 91
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BMW M3
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Porsche Boxster
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service history
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one owner car
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PTS
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BMW Z4M
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driver plus
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Subang bronze
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Audi RS6
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Porsche Cayenne GTS
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All right, folks, on this episode of the podcast, I give you my five favorite indie watches from the Intersect Watch Show. Zach and I review the Mazda 3 in manual gearbox, that's right.
Last stick, Mazda 3. My engine is having a hard time getting through customs and update on the Myers-Manks and some fabulous questions from our patrons. It's the Smoking Tire podcast. Let's go.
Well, yeah, but the mine is more elegant. It's true. Yeah, it's like formal. Yeah. Like Hannah and I when Hannah had COVID, how we dined the opposite.
Oh, yeah, six feet away, dining table. I was like, give the butler, bring the salt. Yeah, I feel like I was in the gilded age, which is a show I am like ashamed to say that I watch. It's good at the actual age.
No, there it is, but also it's the television show, and it's like a show for my mother.
And for some reason, at some point out of boredom, I started watching episode one, but now I am in and current.
Why is it for your mother and not for you? Oh, because it's about like these like terrible, awful, scheming, high society people in the I turn to the century.
I think it's probably just before the turn. Is it billions, but with old clothes and horses? Yeah, but like it's more based around like the women of the society.
And the men are like kind of side characters, except for one husband that has who's like a shitty railroad baron. Like, you know, but like, yeah, I don't know why I watch this show.
It's like, I don't watch a lot of shows, but for some reason I'm watching this shit.
We're trying to watch the bear, which is a comedy. And I like it's a great drama.
It's a great show. But once I learned, and this was years ago, I realized that it's classified as a comedy at the Emmys and stuff.
I can't get that thought out of my head. So every episode, there are episodes where there's like one written joke in the whole episode.
Sure. And I just watch it. People are crying yelling at each other. People are having panic attacks. No, there needs to be.
And I'm like, this is BS. The last episode, you know, Sarah, like last year had a really rough year with her dad and her brother.
The episode covered both of those topics. And not in a funny way.
No, no, no, and no trigger warning. Yeah. So I'm just like watching her cry. And I'm like, and I'm also like, I'm pretty forgiving.
And if it's a dark comedy to dark comedy, like this has so few jokes in some episodes, it really bothers me.
I mean, listen, that sounds like some recent, you know, reactionary stand-up sets I've heard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the better.
There should be a category at the Emmys for panic attack inducing stress series like the bear, which is pretty much with that.
That, whatever that was, the first season, the, the episode that was like the long cut, where it was just a fucking panic attack for 46 minutes in one take.
Jesus Christ. That was too much.
For the family gathering, that was just right. Yeah, that kind of thing.
Fucking Jamie Lee Curtis, Harlan, a turkey.
And it's a, it's a great show. Acting, writing. The way it's shot. Everything's magic. And if you just put it as a drama, I'm on board.
When I, just imagining, I don't know who's fault is it.
The bear is like a comedy. I don't know.
I'm going to get to the bottom. I'll tell you what.
Because if it's, it's one thing, if it's like someone, if an EP did a production loophole, it's like, hey guys, guess what?
We're going to win.
We got just enough jokes to stay, you know, because to qualify, it's probably like, well, if I was a comedy for an Emmy, you need a three jokes per episode.
However, they probably could sneak in.
Other alternatively, if it's, you know, something that is chosen, they're nominated in this category by the Emmy commission, what are you going to say? No.
You know, you're going to say no to the golden statue.
But I feel like it wouldn't, it wouldn't win a best comedy against.
It's like, it's a comedy.
You're a senator. And they're like, look, you know, you're supposed to listen to what your constituents want to do.
But here's a boat. What are you saying? No, it's a boat.
You're not going to say no to a boat.
I think this is the Johnny Knoxville movie.
Remember he went in like the whole like, you know, person competing in a special Olympics thing.
And then like, you're not good enough to be in the real Olympics or the special Olympics because they're actually amazing athletes.
I feel like this is like, oh, it's put in the comedy part.
Like, well, it's not as funny as 30 rock. I know it's off the air.
But like, yeah, that's just anyway, that's my rant about.
No, sorry. A comedy, it's like, what the, it's like, well, it's like a porn.
I know what a comedy is when it's presented to me.
Right. You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Pretty sure I know what a porno is.
I know it when I see it.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. As long as it's not like some fucking preacher saying that shit and like a regular person, you're fine.
You know.
I mean, that was the senator who said that. I think during the case against what's his face?
Larry.
Oh, Larry Flanley.
Larry Flanley.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, if that senator doesn't have the horde, the horde to end horde.
It's a research library.
Oh, porno.
Matt Ferrell.
Matt Ferrell.
Am I not supposed to study the material upon which I am fighting?
I believe I'm supposed to study that material back and upside down.
And if.
Give me that Kleenex.
You would ejaculate during the course of my research.
I mean, I one could not be helped.
That's how we know it's pornography Matt Ferrell.
If I ejaculate during the studying of this bill of this legal argument, then we know it's pornography.
And if I don't, I'll try again.
We are heading there.
We are very much heading there.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, cars.
Hi.
How are you?
It's a good, like, fucking little warm-up vibe.
Who was on the island?
I don't know.
Don't forget.
Yeah.
Everybody, don't forget.
Well, keep talking about it.
The end two.
So there is a.
Me and Spike Ferreston did a television show in 2014.
It was the first time we ever really hung out.
And there were four people on this television show.
Four hosts.
Me, Spike, Sam Smith, and a NASCAR driver named Brian Vickers, who was a lovely guy and whose
wife, he is now divorcing the story broke yesterday, allegedly.
Red girls for Jeffrey Epstein.
Whoa.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And.
Is that why they're getting divorced?
Or is this like a.
If that isn't the reason why I'm saying somebody.
Was it already happening?
And then this just got discovered?
No, no, no.
Okay.
This was, it was known.
There was, there was other stories about this, about the wife.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
And when we met them, she was driving Ferrari, brand new V12 Front Engine Ferrari.
I think it was either, I think it was a 599 at the time.
And told us that she was an interior designer in like Palm Beach.
And it turns out that she did have, in fact, an interior design business registered in Palm Beach in a building for Epstein owns.
It was like, yeah, it was some, some interesting things.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's how it was connected to cars.
Okay.
Yeah.
Poor Bra.
There's a Ferrari in that story.
Wow.
Huh?
There's a Ferrari in that story.
Hey, there you go.
Brian Vickers was pretty fun.
I enjoyed hanging out with Brian Vickers during that TV show.
He was a good time.
Nice.
Yeah.
He was a good time.
Lift the mic a little bit, just because that's important.
Is it true?
That's that for Brudan.
Oh, wow.
They really, they really did crank this thing down.
They made no bones about that.
There we go.
I see.
One day we're going to need to replace those.
We're going to be $1,000 for those little knobs.
Better?
Yes.
I sound good now.
Uh, cars.
Well, we shouldn't go too far without talking about that little Mazda 3 that they just picked
up.
I got this thing last Mazda 3 stick shift press car.
And so there's no pictures of it.
I'm going to have to get it.
Sorry.
Um, but uh, it actually like, it's a fairly old design.
They've been making one that looks like this for a while.
Um, and it was the hatchback, which I think does look nice.
And the interior, man, if you're someone who doesn't want like too much screen in your
life, this is a great place to be.
That's true.
Really nice materials.
Um, everything you touch.
There we go.
That's it.
The gray one right there.
Yeah, that's it.
Um, I don't love the exterior styling of the car, particularly that last bit above the
rear wheel.
I think looks a little strange.
It's a, it's a really thick pillar.
It's a very, you know, because the glass doesn't wrap around, the back glass doesn't wrap
around at the side.
Yeah.
Like it does with some other cars.
Let me get it.
It doesn't like affect your rear visibility.
Like there aren't big blind spots or anything, um, but I just, I don't think it has, I don't
think every angle is good.
This fret three quarter.
Pretty good.
Yep.
Rear three quarter.
Profile profile, not because the front is, is like this nice trim aerodynamic.
I like the, I like the eyes of it.
All that stuff looks great.
And then, and even the a pillar from here looks really thin and then you go to the back
seat.
It's like, it's like they did the sedan first and then they went, shit, we need a hatch
back.
You know, like they did with the Ferrari Roma being convertible.
It's like that.
It's a good question.
Um, but, uh, and, but how, how long has it been since we've driven a brand new front wheel
drive, naturally aspirated stick shift car, like a pretty long time.
Yeah.
And what I really appreciated about this was like the linearness of it and, uh, the fact
that like you could, you could accidentally, if you weren't paying attention, just like
sit at 6,000 RPM in this car all day because it was so smooth.
Yes.
Smooth.
It's easier to forget to shift around town.
Yeah.
If you were the kind of person who really wanted to drive a manual transmission, but you
also had like a bitch of a commute, this would be fabulous.
It's not fast, but it's like fast enough.
It's fast enough for everyday driving for sure.
It's just not fast to be exciting.
Yeah.
Um, but the inputs are nice, steering wheel, lovely pedals, great seats were nice.
Seats are really comfortable.
The dash is simple, but looks pretty elegant.
Um, I feel like it will be not timeless, but close.
Like it's just so simple and neat that you go, I mean, we, I just looked at, we tested
one in 2021.
Yeah.
So it's four years later.
Yeah.
Still looks pretty good inside.
Yeah.
Hasn't done anything offensive.
It just doesn't have the touchscreen.
You have to do the puck thing, right?
Which I, I've, it is annoying to use car play with a puck, but I was surprised at how
quickly I was able to do things that I expected to take a long time, like just navigating through
car play.
I expected to be much more annoying with the puck than it actually was, so they've done
a great job of making like, not shortcuts, but laying out where the buttons land as
you rotate and you see, you know, it goes from whatever, like zoom in to zoom out to,
you know, go back and all that stuff and it, it, it worked pretty good.
It does work well and driving at night is really nice because the screen isn't super bright
and the gauges in front of you are really not too bright.
So your eyes stay, this is a thing that as I, as, as, as a, I'm, as I get older combined
with the fact that there's fucking cars or full of screens now, I really start to notice
this.
Like, it's really hard to find cars where your eyes remain adjusted to outside.
Yes.
And like, when you do find one, like embrace that shit because it's nice like this.
Yeah, look how clean this is, this, this interior, that steering wheel is as perfect
as steering wheels get folks.
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Like holding it?
That's about as close to a Porsche steering wheel as you're going to find for $30,000.
It's almost a perfect mimic of a car.
I mean, I just got out of the M5 touring that you gave me
and there's just so many weird buttons and shapes.
And granted, I just got into it, I'll get used to it.
However, this steering wheel here is simple.
It looks nice.
The feedback on the buttons is like a nice spring rate.
It feels like a more expensive car.
And that's what Mazda always gets right.
They make their cars feel a little bit more expensive than they are.
Yeah.
So if you were like, if you were doing a lot of highway and like,
I got like, you know, you get like mid to high 30s all day, regular gas,
you know, and there's no turbo that's not going to be a stressed out engine
unless you absolutely kick the shit out of it constantly.
There isn't an LSD in this one.
So it's not, you know, it's not super sporty.
But it is like, it is reasonably engaging to drive.
I do wish that like that there was the combination of
an incredibly smooth engine.
There's like no clutch feel at all.
So you find yourself like from a stop not being able to like elegantly pull away all the time
and riding the clutch a little extra or like, you know, not realizing like,
if you come to a stop and you're just like in neutral,
like if your foot is like resting, like just touching the gas a little bit,
like it can happen in any car, like there's no resistance.
So you don't just be like, and you won't even know it tilts at like four,
because it's so refined.
Such a smooth engine.
Yeah.
It also rides better than the CX-50 Meridian edition we had.
Yeah.
Where do God this has slightly better software spring rates or something.
It's just a little bit more comfortable around town.
I mean, it's smaller.
It's lighter.
It's got lighter wheels.
It doesn't need heavier springs.
It's the opposite of the M5, which has all the springs.
The thing has like truck springs and it's weird.
It's real weird.
All the spring and none of the damper is insane.
I get what you're saying.
I drove it for five minutes and you know, I know you put the thought of my head,
but it felt like A-dass was on.
Yeah.
And it's not.
And it's just, but it doesn't tram line as much as, you know, GD500 when it would do that.
You knew that's what was happening.
What, three old five fronts?
This is 255 front.
So I think the tram line is so subtle that you don't notice it at first.
And then you're the frog getting boiled.
You're like, is that what's happening?
Is that what it's not electronic steering itself?
It's just the road, but only a little bit.
It's like enough to make you unsettled.
But not enough to like move the car where you focus up.
Well, I don't want to detour into M5 land because it's too easy to do that.
And you've driven it for seven minutes.
And I want you to drive it for reels, because you will have many thoughts.
And I have many, many thoughts about the M5.
But, but this Mazda, if you, if you're like, I got it because there are so few manual transmission cars left.
We should be, we should be trusting all of them.
Yeah.
Whatever stick shift, I asked all the fleet guys.
Like, what stick shift cars do you have?
Like, there's almost none.
But look at that.
Look at that beautifully elegant and simple air conditioning control bit right in the middle.
The cup holders in front of the shifter.
So they're never in the way of your elbow when you're, when you're rowing gears.
Like the fucking $150,000 Porsche, we spent all morning.
When I put my coffee in the cup holder, you had to do some like back to the future door.
Yeah.
And they were driving to do that.
It's a rotating cup working.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the move, right?
Back to the fucking Marty McFly.
I had to reserve the back end over the top.
Yeah.
Like I was stealing fish.
Yeah, clearly that car was like not designed for stick.
Why don't they put the good question?
Why don't they put the cup holders in front of the shifter in the Porsche?
Put the HVAC controls in the back where you don't really touch in that much.
That's, I don't know.
There is definitely a reason.
There's definitely, oh yeah, that mean.
That cup holder's not a problem at all in the PDK car.
In the PDK car, that doesn't, that car a couple is all right.
And there's a far dash one on the right.
Yeah.
So you can like really use that one if it matters, but yeah, it's annoying.
The stealthy one in the Porsche is nice.
Somebody in some nerd in the forums has like made a thing
that you can get, I'm sure.
That puts the cup holder in the front.
That like, yeah, that's like it like it, instead of it being here,
it's like a 3D printed part that fits in that fitting,
but like moves the cup holder over here for if you don't have a passenger.
That's the accurate NSX move.
Right.
Yeah.
That's sort of the foot well cup holder.
Also, um, yeah, it doesn't go on the autos.
The autos have it.
The autos has the elbow.
Did that one.
It's back here.
Oh yeah.
NSX is on the side.
NSX was the, yeah, that one's crazy.
This also, I like going back to Mazda 3 gauges.
Simple.
Nice.
I mean, real analog, sure.
Like a little old school.
Maybe you can do it with like one screen somewhere if you wanted to.
If you had to get fancy, but like this look, this works totally fine.
Yeah.
For, dude, for this thing gets so many things right.
If you like driving a lot, and if you're doing a lot of miles,
like, oh man, I don't, I don't really want like a Prius or something like.
I need something that's like keeps me alive, you know, inside.
Yeah.
Like this will do it.
And also if you get stuck in traffic, the controls are light enough
that you won't like go insane.
That's true.
Yeah.
So I liked it.
I actually, I actually did like it.
Maybe there's some way in the aftermarket.
If there's like some clutch helper spring or something,
you just take out and all of a sudden there's clutch feel.
That would be maybe nice, but, but aside from that, I mean,
and it's, it's not fast, but like, whatever, it's fine.
Yeah.
For commuting, for it's, it was pretty fun.
Yeah.
And if you like stick shift and you like touching good, good inputs,
that's what it's for.
So thank you to Mazda for letting us have a go for that one.
Should I talk about Intersect, the watch thing?
Yeah.
Then I was out this weekend.
So Intersect is an awesome, awesome show.
It's actually put on, but I also did no Instagram,
but they have their own Instagram for Intersect,
because I figured I was doing this bit later.
So it's a watch show for enthusiasts put on by the notice guys,
who I did the collab with for the canyon.
And it's 30 brands come together at this brewery space
in Long Beach and and show their wares.
And you can buy watches there and you can put in, put orders in,
but that's not really what it's for.
It's really to like, because a lot of these,
what you call micro brands or niche brands,
you know, they sell online, they advertise on Instagram,
they promote online, but a lot of these companies like,
they don't have stores, so you can't really try something on without buying it.
It's just like the nature of the business.
So you listen to influencers or whatever,
but you never really know.
And so a lot of times you'll see something that looks cool on Instagram
and then you get it and you know,
it doesn't really look great on my wrist or whatever.
And that can happen at the very high end Swiss level as well,
except usually you would go into the boutique and try it on before you,
before you took it home.
So at least there's that.
Most of this stuff is done mail order.
So anyway, it's a great opportunity,
you know, like a traditional auto show,
like the LA auto show,
to actually, you know, test drive some of this stuff.
So I went and checked it out with Hannah.
It was really fun.
We were promoting the mother of Pearl Canyon.
People were really into the green canyon.
I think we sold almost every single one we had.
I actually saw some notices other newer designs in person for the first time.
They have one called the trail tracker,
which I don't love the name trail tracker,
but it's basically their version of a Rolex Explorer 2.
But it's this like gray like DLC coating on the whole watch and bracelet.
It's basically like a hiking mountaineering kind of vibe.
And I think you would really like it.
But I made a list outside of notice,
who I'm clearly biased towards,
of my five favorite, yeah, it's nice, right?
It's very cool.
Yeah.
My five favorite watches from Intersect.
Because a lot of times,
like there's so many micro brands that when people ask me,
like, what's a cool watch?
And like, I don't have something at this price point.
So like every watch it's on this list
that I'm talking about is under $2,000,
which is a price point that like we're trying,
everyone's trying, we're trying to hit a lot more.
Like I know that's a lot of money for people,
but like it's a lot less than 10.
And like what we're trying to do is get like quality watchmaking
to two people at that price point.
Well, I think to clarify,
you're saying it's less than 10
because the big brands that people know about,
right, those kind of start Omega Rolex, whatever,
that's kind of where they start.
That's like 5,000 and up.
And that's for many people is like not even close to a reality.
And for these brands,
the stuff they sell starts at like 600,
but nothing on the list that I have here is over 2,000.
Most of them are around 1,000, which is a,
you know, you want to get, if you want something like quality
that's that that's kind of,
you do have to spend a little bit of money,
like componentry ain't fucking free.
So, this is sort of my top five,
not in a ranked order.
This isn't the winners.
I just wanted to familiarize people with some watches
that I think are cool,
that wouldn't have come up in a conversation
of what should I be buying questions.
Because we could ask this a lot.
We do.
So, first one, this one I keep going back to,
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This one I keep going back to
and I've almost bought it twice.
This is called the Jack Mason Strato Timer.
They were selling at Intersect at a show special for $10.50
but the regular price is $11.50.
Extremely handsome watch GMT.
It's basically halfway between a Seiko Turtle
which I'm wearing right now and a Rolex GMT.
And it comes in a whole bunch of different dial colors,
bezel colors, you get on a Jubilee racelift,
you get an Oyster bracelet.
They're all about the same price.
They're not too thick.
They have sort of a cool vintage vibe.
They have different elements pulled from
different visual elements pulled from different styles.
You can sort of pick out the bits of inspiration
from other places.
Nevertheless, incredibly handsome watches.
I sent Zach the link of the one with the white dial
and the reason I like the one with the white dial
is because Rolex doesn't make one
in this particular combo.
They have other combos that sort of mimic Rolex colors.
But if you're going to do something
that even remotely knocks on the door
of being a Rolex homage, which I don't think this is,
but certain elements do get close.
Make it get it in a different fucking color.
Right, make it different to not make it look
like you're trying to knock off a Rolex
because it's just a bad look
because there's so many cool watches at every price point.
You don't need to fake it, you know.
So it's it's a it's got a good movement.
Miota GMT automatic.
It's it's finished ish.
It's got some finishing on it with it with a display back.
So anyway, I've almost bought these twice.
And every time I you know, it's funny is
the reason I keep coming back to it
is because it sits right in the at an event diagram
of visual elements I like.
Yeah, the problem is I already own all the watches
that have the visual elements I like.
Like a turtle Pepsi with a white dial.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fabulous look.
And they have them in all these cool colors.
I've just been like, man, it's like
right in the middle of shit I've already got.
I just I don't need to to plug that.
That's funny. You own the circles.
Yeah, this is the event diagram.
Yeah, overlap.
Yeah, so like someone could get in
and get a taste of all those circles
right here if that's what they wanted to do.
Like if you wanted to get a bunch of elements
that I love in a watch put together
smartly in one place, this is it.
It's a great watch.
And I've met the people a quick,
quick said micro adjust class.
Love it.
Yeah, yeah.
And so that's a cool one.
I really like that one.
This one is called Soul Labs.
And this is the watch I bought.
Oh, you bought a watch, right?
This is the only I limited myself to one.
And only if I absolutely fell in love with it
and had to have it.
This is called Soul Labs.
It's listed here for 1300.
I got it for under a thousand for show special.
But this actually, is this, is this not all the pink one?
Yeah, this is like a pink and purple.
Yeah, wait, they have it.
It comes in other colors.
The one I got, the one I'm getting has the blue.
But this chrome, this chrome, I must have sent you
the wrong color, but this chrome bracelet
it really reminds me of the ikepod stuff
from the 90s, the Mark Newson stuff.
No, that's the day one go up.
This one's called the day two, which is this guy.
So what's so cool about this watch?
I mean, the dial is super funky.
You got to love it.
The bracelet is super funky, shiny chrome.
And then it actually has a date, date, excuse me,
it has a date movement in it.
But as you can see on the dial, there is no date.
The big triangle is the hour hands.
The hollow triangle is the minute hands.
And the one behind it is the seconds actually.
No, there's another hand behind.
Right, but yeah, that's the seconds.
But you see the gradient disk that you can see through the dial.
So that's actually the date wheel.
But instead of showing a date, it's a full gradient.
So every day, the gradient color looks a little different.
That's cool.
Every day, it looks a little different.
That's a very cool idea.
And as soon as I picked this up, I went
just like the Myers-Manks.
I was like, absolutely, this is the one.
Super funky.
Yeah, that's very cool.
I like these kind of art piece things.
Like I like the icon pot or whatever.
Yeah, I think they're very cool.
Because a lot of these micro-brands,
they exist sort of in the middle.
They have elements that are inspired by other brands,
you know, and oh, by the way,
it comes with this desk clock.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, that's cool.
That desk clock is sick.
Yeah.
I might be, I might time the show with that.
So how fun is that piece?
Look at that.
I mean, that's just kind of.
Yeah, that's really rad.
Super funky, right?
So this is a little more off on guard.
But I think it, if it reminds me,
there's a watch by a guy named Alan Silberstein
that's almost very, it's cartoony,
but it's Bauhaus,
and this is like that.
It's very fun.
So I bought one of those.
That's going to be fun.
I think that's going to be my quail watch.
That's a good quail watch.
It's a good for them with manks.
It's going to be party time.
It's going to be.
If you go fancy,
there's so many people that have way more money
and you're far fancier.
I can't fucking out reach those people.
Forget it.
No, nothing I got even,
even would register on their radar.
It's either Aquinaut,
or excuse me,
Aquinaut,
I'm sorry, buddy.
I apologize, James,
for saying Aquinaut rather than Aquinaut.
You know, with the 48 dials.
Yeah, it's either that.
It's silly shit.
It's got to be silly.
So this one,
I've never heard of this brand before.
They're called Strom,
S-T-R-A-U-M.
And I love a fabulous dial.
And these things fucking rip.
They glow.
They have gradients.
They have these sort of carved
brass dials that almost look like waves
or drippings of paint.
And they come in all these different
dial colors.
I think I only pulled up.
These are,
this are 1700.
I think they were 1500 at the show.
But if you go up at the top menu,
there's that.
All those,
Jan Mayan down a little bit.
All of those are completely different
and fun colors.
Like look at that,
look at that burst one from the center.
So these guys are,
these guys are doing dial work that I would say,
not quite GranSaco level,
the precision
of GranSaco isn't quite there.
But certainly the expressiveness
and the use of color blasting.
And the fact that it's great.
Well, it looks like the three-dimensional,
like the dial looks like it's...
Yeah, like snow, right?
Right, like terrors of,
or not terrors, like the terrain of the moon.
Yeah.
And so there's a whole,
look at some of the,
the Arctic ones or some of the other ones are,
really, really beautiful.
And integrated bracelets
and well-integrated straps,
summer titanium,
summer steel.
There was some other special edition.
The basalt ones are really cool
with these basalt dials.
Isn't that cool?
Like, it looks like Mars.
So I really liked these.
So these, you know,
these at the show were 1500,
which I thought,
I thought, man, if I...
But I do have the GranSaco's also,
oh yeah, so there's these different colors
of these tundras.
Apparently,
the folks behind this brand
go on a lot of long camping expeditions,
camping trips,
and they get color inspirations from that.
I understand that.
There's a very GranSaco thing to do.
But I thought these were very handsome.
They use a quality movement.
And if you like a big blast on a dial,
this is what's up.
I love the gradient.
I mean, that's what I like to notice.
I just like having the color shift a little,
even if you don't move.
Yeah, it's cool.
So that's a really cool one.
This one, not a new brand.
I've seen these on the internet a bunch,
but this is the first time I got to try them on.
Studio underdog.
Really cool brand doing very cool stuff with colors.
Oh, I follow these guys.
Their shit is themed like avocado,
and watermelon, and pizza, and stuff like that.
Out of England,
using a variety of components from different countries.
I think their movements are from Asia,
but this new one, the salmon.
These are fucking sick looking in person.
I love them.
But they only come in two sizes,
like 34 and 37 millimeter.
That's 40.
Whoa.
Yeah, excuse me, that's 41.
Wow.
So they're small.
And they're thin, you know,
so if you, it's the kind of,
it's the size that you or I would wear with a suit,
but you wouldn't wear this with a suit.
I mean, unless it was like a really fun suit, I guess.
But like, it's not, this isn't a formal watch.
I'd wear it out at fun times.
I'd think God, if they make a 40 or a 41 of this,
take my money.
I loved looking at these.
They're so cool.
This one is a mono pusher chronograph,
which means rather than having a stop start and a reset button,
it's all on one.
Stop start reset is on one button,
but a bunch of really fun colors and special collabs
and shit like that.
Really cool.
Oh, there we go.
I think I started following you talking about them once,
and I thought it was such a cool way to get these real
rad bursts of color.
But then finding out how small they were,
I was like, oh, that doesn't even,
even my wrist, like that would look a little small.
It would look a little small on you.
You could, you could probably pull it off
under a suitably, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
But if you have a smaller wrist,
definitely check these out.
These things, you can wear one of these
in a room full of heavy hitters.
Like people rocking six figure shit in a room,
you walk up in one of these,
one of these really good, good colors,
and people will be asking you to take that shit off
and pass it around the room.
Gare and Teed, 100%.
It's cool.
For, these are about, I think these are about 2,500.
They're a little over the threshold.
But again, that this shit will get you
a seat at the table with big boys.
And the other ones that I brought up so far
will not necessarily do that.
This one, these I liked, I never really
experienced the brand Stella before.
And they have a bunch of beautiful
dials, scroll down, because we're just looking
at the back of one, what we call linen dials.
The dials are, they're different colors
of what looks like linen fabric
and in some cases actually is.
I mean, look at that, isn't that nice?
I mean, you love a good texture on a dial.
You don't see as much in the darker blue
or the black, but the light gray linen,
the white linen, this light blue linen is exceptional.
And these are also very affordable.
They are not super expensive.
I mean, they're $1,000, $1,185.
They were like $950 at the show.
But I just think that's a great looking dial
with it's got applied indices,
meaning like the notice,
the numbers and the, the hour markers
are placed, they're extra bits that go
on top of the dial, they're not painted on the dial.
It's a higher end thing to do.
But I just, you know, if you're going to wear a cool watch,
I think a dial that draws you in and keeps your attention.
That's why like these textures and colors.
And so I think this is just very, very handsome
and would be a good versatile,
goes with any outfit kind of vibe.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I'm going to do it.
Yeah, I think that was at the last one.
I think that was all five, right?
Is there another one?
That was all of it.
Yeah, that was all of it.
Cool. So, you know, it's, I think they're doing,
they're doing other intersect shows.
LA isn't the only one.
But LA is every July.
I went last year and it was like double the size this year.
So super sick, great place to really try,
try stuff on and you know, a lot of the people
behind the booth are the founders of the brand.
It's not like they just sent some fucking person.
You know, you're talking to the head of the brand sometimes.
So, and we sold a bunch of watches too.
So that's pretty cool.
Got the video from Mike,
Don at Max, cars running.
Cool.
He got me some aviation-inspired seat belts,
which sounds very fun.
The wheels came back from powder coat.
They look good.
It sounds, it sounds almost like they
should maybe be driving it soon, if not like to tomorrow.
Sure, imminent, right?
I mean, it's got seat belts and it's running
and when you saw it, it had suspension on it.
Oh yeah.
So, or, no, when I last saw it,
I went down with Debrawn after you.
And like the, everything was in.
Other than like steering wheel seats
and like the rest of it was like there.
And they were just waiting for some,
the software guy to,
which obviously they have sorted.
So, how excited.
Very cool.
Oh yes.
Speaking of cars that are almost done.
Have you seen the new Faraday future?
So, I got invited to go to this thing.
So did I.
Multiple times and did not go.
And actually, I now am sad I didn't go.
I regret not going because when I saw it on
the screen, I was like, I would have laughed so hard.
I know, I know.
But I also am glad I didn't go down
because it was a pain in the ass downtown
on in the evening.
And it's a terrible car.
You know, I jump ahead.
I regret not going to the cyber truck launch.
I regret, you know, these catastrophic disasters
that we got invited to and other people go
and tell us what is, I don't know, oh, man,
I would have loved to see a fucking crash.
It's like going to a demolition derby.
Like, yeah, shit had gone.
Yeah, shit had gone.
Yeah.
The couple up a picture of the car though
because it's hilarious.
Was there something you wanted to,
you were saying there was something you wanted to show me?
Was it, oh, these are photos from the launch?
There's, I mean, there's a couple things.
I discovered new things while looking
for the thing I wanted to show you.
The Faraday Future Faraday FX Super One,
which is the most Chinese name shit.
The big story with this,
because for people listening to the audio,
don't worry, you won't be left out.
Think of a minivan?
Great.
You got it.
It's a tall minivan.
It has a television screen where the grill should be.
That's, that's one of the stories I've discovered
more stories in this research.
This is like exhibit had to walk.
So you get to the Faraday Future Faraday.
That mic is over here going,
you gotta be motherfuckin shit.
I mean, the, the, the marketing copy they have for this
makes it sound like this is snake oil.
Like it's, they, they pitch it as like,
because it's an AI screen, right?
There's some, something there's AI in the screen
that will be your friend companion,
all this stuff.
If I can find, I couldn't find the video I wanted to show you.
So it's Van as Tomagachi.
Yes, it is exactly that.
And then there's AI in the pictures I noticed
because what is wrong with this picture, Matt?
I mean, there's a couple of things.
Wait a minute.
But let's, let's look for.
I mean, I like, one person's partying,
one person's working.
Does the, does the woman in the white dress have a left arm?
Um, I don't believe she does.
Is that what, is that what I'm looking for?
No, I actually was looking at something else,
which is funnier.
The woman on the right,
look at the length of her wrist and hand.
It's the same length as her forearm.
So like, I could potentially just, just potentially
say that maybe they shot this on like a nine millimeter fisheye
like they were shooting a cover for a remote.
Like a skateboard video.
I would agree with you,
except that the woman on the left,
her hair and face are like normal size.
Right.
And the woman on the right is also out of focus.
Her face is out of focus.
And it's like stretched.
She does, her head is about,
she has ostrich legs for heels.
It's just long.
Yeah, yeah.
So that was something that popped out.
I mean, and then when you go down,
you see like, is that person's legs a little too long?
Look how long that person's,
I mean, that seems like just super wide angle lens.
But their legs are,
they might, that person might have had leg lengthening surgery.
I mean, seriously.
This gentleman, um, let's see,
where, so here's another picture of the screen.
What?
Now for people listening,
it's a mini van on a red carpet,
and then it says, best actress on the front,
on the front screen of the van.
Oh, they're, they're too livery.
Like they're going to deliver,
the Oscar winner in the grand entrance for your life.
And then like the copy is just,
this is the champion's car, you know,
drive, arrive, recharge and ready for your next.
I mean, look, I'll go back to the,
go back to the possibly AI guy,
lounging in the car chair.
Like, let's try to be nice.
Those look like pretty dope captains chairs.
They do, they're recycling their cooled seats.
Kilt quilted.
Yeah, um, but ultimately,
what you've done there is made of mini van that already exists
from what I gather in China as something else.
Oh, this van, I don't know if they're building this van
or if they're just rebranding this van.
Well, no, I, I, I read several articles about this.
I don't remember the name of it,
because I can't remember the Chinese names of stuff sometimes.
And I apologize for my racism there,
but it's a Chinese van that already exists as a Chinese van.
It's just that now it has like captains chairs and a screen.
So, so is Faraday like,
what is it? It's like the Mitsubishi starry on or something?
Like, are they saying,
if they're bringing this to America saying this is our van
and it's actually someone else's van?
This is the Kirkland van.
This might be how they sneak Chinese cars into America.
Like, assuming this van's allowed to be sold in America,
because if it's a Chinese van anyway,
it might not be it.
Yeah, no, no.
It's like if they rebranded a BYD as Faraday
and the customization was like,
we saw aren't like, Yidd.
Like the screen on the front.
What are we doing?
Why are we doing it?
Dude, my kingdom to have been in the fucking room
when they were like,
turn on the front screen.
Like, okay, AI, like, talked, like, get the fuck out.
I can't got this.
Show me some influencers.
There weren't some influencers there.
Like, the fireplace.
That is, okay.
So here we have a couple with a young child
sitting in a field with a cooler and some fruit on it,
a bottle of wine.
No wine glasses.
It should be said that the mother and daughter
are also holding microphones.
My mother and daughter are holding microphones.
And the, what do we call a front screen?
A screen?
A green?
The figure that out in the workshop, that little build screen.
Well, the front screen is in fireplace mode.
Like, occasionally you'll have the u-log going
exactly the party.
Yeah, they're doing that and singing
and I guess there might be a kid on the mom's lap.
I see a leg.
So it might just be an extra AI leg.
It could just be an egg, but.
But the question is, what is when you're outdoors?
Like, not when you're indoors in your living room,
but when you're outdoors,
the purpose of a fire is usually the heat it provides,
not just the looking at the, like, it's funny.
What's funny?
This, a desirable existence for anybody
to sit in front of your van with a u-log on,
possibly doing karaoke.
Well, is this an EV or is this a gas car?
I believe this is in the F.
Okay, because if it was a gas car,
what you just said would actually be hilarious
because the front of the car might actually be quite warm
and then you could do a good impression of a fireball.
Yeah, no, if it had heater mode.
Yeah.
Well, look, I don't want a discount
that this car has heater mode.
If you, if, like, there could be some smart people there
and I'm, I don't, I might be prejudging
a book by its horrible Instagram post.
I will judge a car that has a TV screen
on the front of the car.
I'll do it for you.
I'll take this bullet.
What would you feel better or worse
if when you put the u-log on,
it blew a really nice layer of warm heat at you.
Better.
I think I would feel better.
It would then be somewhat functional.
Yeah, I'd feel better.
And this is like, is this the tail?
But now it's funny.
It's like here, if you would put them
gather around in a football game on the screen,
way more, you get much more attention.
Because that's what we want to do.
Part of the car and then tailgate
from the front of it, but not in the back,
or the snacks are.
Why would you want to tailgate?
Why, why is such a great question?
Well, no, I'll tell you what,
if there, if there's a frunk behind the screen,
like if that van pop,
if the hood pops up in that van
and that could be your cooler,
and you, you know what I mean,
that we're talking.
Yeah, I don't know if it does.
Anyway,
anyway,
on screens on the front of cars,
stink though.
It just like a mat,
any accident, any accident.
Pretty much.
It's going to have a problem with it,
and they got to replace it.
Imagine you're like five mile an hour,
like parking lot, fender bender,
and that'll be $7,000.
Three days ago, four days ago,
it was on the 405.
It was traffic was moving about 10 miles an hour,
and I just hear a clunk next to me
and a guy driving a dish,
a discovery dish, you know, satellite installation van,
rear ended a couple driving a TORIC.
And it was just like,
he was trying, I didn't seem looking at his phone,
but like, that's part of what's happening
because everyone was moving,
but not quite fast enough to make full attention.
And if that guy had had a screen on the front saying,
sign up for dish now, five percent off,
he would have broken that screen and hit this car.
He covered someone in radioactive goo.
This is just so funny.
And look, people can reinvent themselves.
I believe in the system.
People can go to jail,
get a doctorate, come out, be a lawyer.
But this company has been trying to make a car,
or saying they're going to make a car
for how long?
Well, apparently they really did produce that first car.
They just only sold like 10.
Did they try to sell more than 10?
I don't know, but that's what the,
that's what actually happened in terms of just facts.
They sold that many.
I feel like it's hard to sell it.
It is.
It is.
It really is.
So that, I guess that confused me.
Maybe there's good, like, you know,
let's try something else.
Let's try many vans.
Let's give that a shot.
I just,
the ideas are wild to me.
Look at that one with the golf bags on the top left there.
Are those golf bags standing?
Those are vertical.
People load golf bags vertically like that, I guess.
I guess.
Is the van that tall?
How tall is a golf bag with clubs in it?
Four feet?
A golf bag with clubs in it.
That's about four feet.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess you, one could load their van
with the golf bags vertically.
I've just,
I've never seen that done.
I've always seen them stacked like logs horizontally.
I've never seen someone build a wall,
a vertical wall of golf clubs in the back of a van for it.
Why is the van in, like,
intruding onto this gentleman's
bicep tendon right here?
Well, none of these people are standing next to a van.
Maybe because that's AI people standing next to an AI van.
Yeah.
But, but like,
the screen is powered by AI.
Why shouldn't the marketing be?
That is such a great note.
That's a great.
I wish I could find the video where it talks to people.
It's so funny.
Anyway, that's anyway.
Oh, and Mariah Carey's there.
Well, she, they said that their concept car was in her music video.
Oh, of course.
I don't know when.
Type dangerous is electric.
Yeah, right.
They're FF01.
Yeah.
So that was the, that was the one that they sold 12 of.
That's it right there on the left.
This thing?
Yeah.
She had this in her new video.
In a new video?
That's, oh, that's FF91.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yikes.
All of it.
Oh, FF01.
There you go.
Excuse me.
F0 is right.
I mean, this looks like
no one, almost no one listening is young enough to have played that.
You're old enough to have played that game, but.
F0 rules.
It was awesome.
It was incredible.
Do you know how long it took me to put together that F0?
It was like, like F1, but zero.
I didn't know that until now.
Really?
Yes.
Someone's darker than me.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, it was like F1, but zero.
So shouldn't it be F?
Because zero gravity.
But the cars were gravity was.
Car's gravity.
Are they flew though?
No.
They have zero.
F0, but they were on the ground.
I thought, and then you hit jumps.
I thought they were like hovering.
Maybe they were hovering.
But also, I think to your point, it goes F4, 3, 2, 1,
is the best.
So F0 is zero beyond that.
Sure, that makes sense.
Yeah.
It took me a very long time to get that.
Yeah, this can go away.
All right.
Well, we can talk about something like this.
We got a few cars.
West Side is this M3.
Eric's M3 is going to end if this goes up tomorrow.
And so it was ends Tuesday at like two o'clock PM.
This is like the cleanest BMW F8M3 ever,
which is like choice mods and BBS wheels
and all the stock parts also.
Yeah.
It's probably going to go for like 42 to 45, I think.
I hope.
A lot of action on it already.
A lot of bitters.
Eric takes care of his plane like an airline takes care of their plane,
but he never flies it anywhere.
So it's it's like perfectly maintained and looks amazing.
Yeah.
It's like it's got great mods on it.
And no one's kicked the shit out of it like mine.
Yeah.
And then we got a really nice 7,000 mile boxster GTS
in a venturene with a chalk interior manual gearbox.
7,000 miles, really good, good clean DME report,
service history, one owner car.
Very nice.
Take that mother fucker to wine country all day.
And a venturene is a very fun color.
It was not PTS in 2021 when this was new,
but it is PTS now.
So to replicate this car now,
would probably cost you about 125 to 130,000 dollars.
And this one will probably I'm hoping we'll go for 85.
8590.
I'm not saying what the reserve is, but that's kind of where I hope to end up.
And then we just put this one up, Z4M Coop,
in Subang bronze, rare color.
It's got 80,000 miles on it, but tons of service history going back,
I think, all the way to new.
Really well taken care of, great color.
And it's got an exhaust on it, cat-back exhaust that is apparently a very desirable
type of cat-back exhaust.
I forget what it is, but I drove it.
It sounds really nice.
Sun strums, that sound right?
That would be a nice strum.
Strumming, yeah.
It sounds great.
Nice bass, not too raspy.
And it's got, it has not had the, what do you call it, done?
The rod bearings, but it has a super clean, recent blackstone thing.
The owner was a lunatic and has gotten blackstone reports every year.
So he said, I brought up the rod bearings.
And he was like, my mechanic insists we not do it until it's necessary.
All right, man, cool, like whatever.
But good, clean, honest, I'll call it a driver plus.
You know, it's an 80,000 mile car, but it presents very, very well.
And it's in a rare and desirable color combination.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah, you do not see a lot of Subang bronze.
The last, like, 25 on bat have been silver, black or white.
So anyway, those are up now, go bid, if you're into those.
They're, and they're of course available at WCCS for inspection seven days a week.
Although by the time you hear this, you probably won't have time to see that BMW.
But trust me, that one is fucking A says.
Should we go to the people?
Before we do, oh man.
So the, the, the, the headache that I have had to deal with with re importing my engine.
I have had to tell like 12 different people, like so many people.
I am not a business.
I am just a guy.
I am not an importer.
I am just a guy.
I do not, I do not plan to import more of anything.
I'm just a guy.
The thing I'm importing, I already own, I sent it out.
Matter of fact, you fucking sent it out.
Like, this is like the shipping company that I used to send it there.
Is now like totally confused about bringing it back because the fucking exporting people
and the importing people are different people that like don't talk to each other.
I swear to God, this is the sin-feldiest stupidest shit ever.
But like the number of the forms that I have to fill out where it's like
they want like business documents and like, because they're trying to like set you up to like
be an importer of goods, which I'm not.
Right, you don't want to be.
I don't, I'm not, I don't want to be.
I'm a guy who sent his engine somewhere to get worked on.
And now that very same engine that your company sent for me is coming back.
It's the who owns your car.
You own your car?
Like it's not registered like me, Matthew, Matthew Vera.
Right, then that should should be simple.
I guess it is.
Well, the engine doesn't even need to be connected to the car.
But like, yeah, it's like it's, they have documentation from whatever last summer
that this engine, engine number, blah, blah, blah, blah.
In this gearbox number, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We're shipped in this crate to this place.
One year later, that same shit is going back the other way.
Like, should be simple, that's it.
Yeah.
And I was like, they're having me fill out these forms and says, you know,
tariff code, tariff class.
And I'm like, I'm calling this guy up, going, hey man,
listen, the tariff on this needs to be zero.
This is my stuff, right?
And then I was like, okay, but like, you know, like, what do you mean?
And I was like, I am having a car restored.
I shipped my engine to Italy.
They're rebuilt it.
It's now coming back.
And then I was like, oh, so like, wait,
you already own the thing?
I go, yeah.
And he goes, oh, okay, well, I'm going to have to send you a different form of like,
dude, like, just please, like, you have to understand.
This is all my stuff.
Yeah, you're not importing.
Only reach.
And like, apparently this is some kind of commercial level importer,
that like regular people don't go to.
It was recommended by our friend who has the business.
And it was very easy going that way.
There was not, I mean, I had to fill out a couple of pieces of paper.
This, but there's just no communication did.
So like, I think they finally understand
that I actually own this thing already.
And I shouldn't be paying taxes on it.
So, but like, holy fuck it up.
I bet they're dealing with a lot of different emails and phone calls these days.
And you're getting caught up in the washroom.
There were also surprise, my parents, when we went to Italy,
we went to this place called Marano that's known for the glass blowing.
You should have come in when you were over the house to see it.
Where, which city is that?
In Venice. It's one of the islands.
Venice, the city of Venice is made of a bunch of islands.
One of these islands is a famous legendary for 500 years glass blowing.
Okay, I think I went there was 12.
If you went to Venice, it's a thing that like everybody does.
It's cool as fuck. I mean, it's like, it's really rad.
So we went and, you know, look around.
And my mother, because of course, is just buying a bunch of glass.
Sure, because as you would when you're there,
when I went when I was 12, she bought a bunch of glass then.
And so, her bond collection is ripping it is awesome.
Ripping to my mother all the time.
Const, you should see the, the hue when, when she,
it glows from the inside.
It's really great.
But yeah, surprise fucking tariff when that arrived at customs.
They held that shit hostage.
And I, you know, call my mom, no problem.
Hey, just so you know, I was it, you know, I was saying, because she got,
she's expecting a package too.
Her package is quite a bit bigger than my package.
And I was like, just so you know, expect.
And she was like, oh, well, they said that there wouldn't be tariffs.
And I said, well, they are either stupid or lying.
Because by the time there's fucking tariffs, guess what?
You've bought the thing.
If you're already home and this shit's sitting in customs, you know.
Right. Yeah, it's changing, huh?
I don't know how that works.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's bought there, but I don't know.
I don't know, but the tariff wasn't small.
No, it was big.
Yeah.
So yeah, it's very pretty though.
This piece of glass.
Glows in the dark too.
Literally, yeah, I'm so childish.
The one I wanted glow in the dark.
Wow, that's cool.
Yeah, it's awesome.
Absolutely.
It has a tritium dust.
Tritium dust.
I don't wait.
I think it's tritium dust.
Yeah, they grind tritium dust into the glass.
That makes sense.
Yeah, super cool.
Yeah, it's crazy.
You should have seen it there when we went
and we were in the gallery and they fucking go,
you want to see this and you know,
everything's beautifully lit and whatever.
It's also beautiful.
And they go,
and lower the shades and then hit all the lights
and the whole fucking room close in the dark.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it was awesome.
Yeah, it's real.
It's a fucking jellyfish in an orb
that glows in the dark.
It's crazy.
Do you have pictures of it to show me later?
I, yeah.
All right, yeah, show me later.
I'll, I'll, yeah, I can, uh, yeah, yeah.
I have tritium on something, but it doesn't, uh,
it's not a glass sculpture,
but it could help me get a glass sculpture if I really want.
Yeah, and put this in some jellyfish.
Let's go to the fucking people.
Uh, and of course, uh, this show,
if you're in Texas today,
this will go up Thursday, right?
Uh, yes, correct.
If you're in, if you're in Houston today,
we're going to be at the shop club tonight.
Houston, Texas and tomorrow night,
July 25th in Dallas, Texas at the shop club.
With Christian James Han doing the show live,
there are a few tickets remaining for both.
So come out and see us.
Have a beer with the boys.
We got exclusive posters.
We're going to be signing.
We got some TST merch.
We're going to be signing.
And we're taking pictures and hanging out
and bullshit and about cars.
And listening to Christian James Han show,
which is all, which is actually why I'm going to Texas.
Um, so yeah, uh, but anyway,
do that.
Please come see us.
Uh, and of course, the Patreon is where it is.
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The Patreon is where it's all going down.
If you want to ask us questions for the show,
if you want to listen to the show live,
if you want to listen to the show before everybody else,
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if you want to get early access to limited edition merch
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Patreon.com slash the smoking tire podcast.
Okay, machine gun Kelly blue book.
That's a fucking heavy name.
Right there always that if you want to,
if you, if those people out there want an easy guide
to coming up with a great name,
contraction, turn two things into into one thing.
The word Kelly overlaps.
You turn two things into one thing.
That's a great way to come up with a great name
if you're not super creative on your own.
Start with that framework.
Um, oh, wants to talk about the roof that fell off the carrier.
Do you think more damage was done to the chassis
or the driver's seat?
I mean, that picture is fucking hilarious.
Uh, oh, it's following a trip to Germany for fresh paint.
No, that stinks.
And, and the driver's seat comment is because the, you know,
whoever's transporting it is sitting in the driver's seat,
he had it acted up.
I mean, the thing fell socks.
It does, to be honest, and you like,
we don't have another angle.
We just have this one side profile.
And like, to be honest, it doesn't look that bad.
Like, it really doesn't look that bad.
It doesn't, but I think that might be because the exhaust
is probably holding up the, like, I think the engine probably took some
of the hit. The bumper took some of the hit.
Yeah, I don't know.
The engine might have been pretty well protected.
I mean, it didn't, it doesn't look that crunched in at the back.
I mean, the bumpers definitely fucked.
Maybe the exhaust, I mean, it's possible.
The engine took a hit, but like all in all,
it doesn't look that bad.
Like, it's not like it fell off on its roof.
Ha ha, LOL.
But it did, it fell off on its roof.
How does this happen? I mean, you've got like a ramp here.
Did the ramp start going up there as this person was backing up?
That is very strange.
It's, I don't know.
That's, is a fucking hilarious picture, though.
Gold mine for who got that.
Oh, bad day.
And also, look, look at the Instagram account that you,
that they've sent.
They've chosen to share.
Timmey ranked the following cars based on engagement as drivers cars.
M5 touring RS6 Porsche Cayenne GTS.
Cayenne number one.
M5 number two RS6 number three, but it's almost
like the inverse of that.
Like if you, if you talk about like ride quality for every day,
like which one would I actually want to drive every day?
It's probably RS6 then Cayenne M5.
Like the M5 like sucks at most things and we'll get to that in the next show.
But if you, if you really want to turn into a corner hard,
it does that.
It does, it does the hardcore drivers stuff like pretty well.
It's just the, it's the rest of it that's so bad that you have to live with every day.
I, the last time I drove an RS6 on the road was years ago in Malibu.
I remember it being stiff.
The RS6 Avant GT, I drove, had great turn-in in dynamics for being such a heavy car.
Like it was better than the GTS and the GTS is very good because I drove one of those last year,
I think. I haven't driven the M5 quickly yet, but I think the, I would go RS6 Avant GT
above Porsche Cayenne GTS.
Yeah.
James May's Big Brown Beaver, which I like.
Uh, heaven forbid, something happened to the Kuntosh.
What would I buy at Pebble for equal value?
Pebble is a bad place to shop.
Everything is a benth of there.
But shit, let's, what do you want to say?
I'll get, let's say I could get 750 for the Kuntosh.
Oh, I know again.
You know what I'm getting for 750?
4GT.
You're going to get a 4GT on a quick silver, quick silver, a quick silver 4GT.
That would probably be, man,
but that would feel like a downgrade because that's, those are great,
but they wouldn't, that doesn't feel like a million dollar experience today.
Then you go crazy to that.
I could, you're not getting one for 750.
You're not, you know, you're, no.
Couragey T's, Doug spent 1.6 on his.
No shit.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Them's a benth of there.
I thought they were still 3.4.
No, no, no.
Depending on mileage.
Them's expensive.
That's actually a kind of a tough place to be is 750.
You're not.
I'm just going to Google violin music really quick.
You're not, no, no.
I don't mean, I don't know.
I know, I know, I know.
I just mean like, the, it's like the comps are really weird.
Like, you could buy a great, a great, but not exceptional,
60's for a Ferrari GT like touring car.
You could buy a fabulous, fabulous 356 speedster
or a 356 coupe and get into like events like the Colorado Grand
and stuff.
You get an Emory car.
You get one of those crazy Emory Outlaw cars.
That'll get you in the club there.
Because then you get some speed.
Because the 356.
To be perfectly honest, I would use the money
on a down payment for a singer, turbo,
and find the rest of it later.
It's probably what I do.
And figure out what else I could sell.
Or however else I could pay for that.
It's probably, if I found myself with an insurance check
for that much money, I would call Maz and go,
I'll see you in the morning time to build me a car
because that's, you just stop after that.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Unless you could, if I could get an ST
for a number starting with a five
and then put the rest in the bank and be and go, okay, tapped out.
Yeah, because that also feels very special.
Yeah, and I wouldn't have to go finding more money.
Yeah, and you wouldn't have to wait for three years.
But if I had three years, I could find the rest of the money.
That's a good point.
I could.
In three years, I could find that money.
Yeah, lock shock Darrell.
Oh, see, that's a pretty good one,
but it should be lock shock and two smoking Darrells.
Should be lock stock and two smoking Darrells.
Yeah, but I like where your head is at.
Thoughts on the Doxasub 300T?
Have you ever owned one?
I own a Doxa 1000T.
Mine is a bigger number.
I don't know what these are.
I thought this was a Van.
Yeah, Doxas are great.
Doxas is a dive watch, tool watch, vintage vibes.
It was a vintage.
They were making them in the in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
The preferred watch of a guy you might have heard of named Jacques Cousteau.
And they have very cool bright colored dials on some of their models.
Their orange is very well known.
The yellow is very well known.
I like this turquoise joint you've got up.
Mine has a black dial.
My uncle was a navy diver and is like a suit,
is a pretty hardcore scuba diver.
Mine looks like the one on the right.
It's the the shark hunter with the black dial.
And he gave me that watch as a gift
because he's got like 15 Doxas.
And I expressed interest in Doxas.
So he gave me that.
And I sent him the he wanted the blue notice canyon night sky number one.
So I traded him a notice for a Doxas.
But I think these are very cool watches.
And I wear that it wasn't a brand I thought about much
before my uncle gave me the watch.
But now that I have it, I wear it all the time.
It's really comfortable.
It's really well made.
Can I ask, is there a function,
is there a functional reason for the flare out around the bezel thing?
Is it just for style?
It's mostly for style.
And they do have some watches that don't have a smaller dial than a case.
There's some where it's full with.
But that's like the vintage look,
the sort of cushion case.
Gotcha.
I do love me a Doxas.
Oh, good watch.
Too loud for Laguna, that's a good name too.
In Japan, the authorities have speed cameras to catch
violators, then they have devices that ping the violators phone
so they can track them down and arrest them.
How long until the Texas government uses a similar system to catch
fleeing role racers?
You know, it's so funny about Texas, didn't you?
Was it you sent me that story?
The Texas was the least free state, actually.
It wasn't the least free, but like it ranked.
Oh, it was the least free.
It was the least free.
It was a pure research thing.
And they looked at a bunch of stuff like
religion, I mean, they looked at everything.
Like, and I'm citing the things that were
specific to California, but it was like, can you use marijuana?
What's the religion?
Like, what's the restrictions like on abortion?
Like, basically everything.
Yeah.
And Texas was the least free.
Yeah, it turns out.
It's like BLM and Open Land and permitting things.
I don't know.
There was a bunch of stuff, but on that list, yes.
So yeah, it would be probably the first to you
to become a total surveillance state in that regard.
That stuff they do, what this person just described
also happens in the Middle East a lot.
Fatty is described that kind of thing happening everywhere.
Yeah, like if you even tried to do a thing,
they just show up at your door.
Yeah, they just track you backwards.
They would use the cameras to follow you home.
And our friend worked for a well-known computer company over there
and confirmed that that was, in fact, true
because he was the one maintaining the servers for that.
That's right, Cato Institute,
yeah, that Texas was found to be the state
with the least personal, fewest personal freedoms.
Is Adam yelling at us?
Is Adam yelling at us?
Hang on.
Hello, there was a exploded fire hydrant
across the street from the shop.
Fun times.
It's a geyser.
Yeah, okay.
Where were we?
Sorry about that.
Chris from Colorado says,
Carrera T-Question, the 991.2's go for around a buck 20.
Do they deserve to be trading at over their MSRP,
which was 100K back in 2018?
Well, the dollar is worth 25% less than it was worth since then.
So if you adjust for inflation appropriately,
they're really held their value.
And if you account for the tariffs on the new product
and they maintain their desirability,
you know, yeah.
And not all Carrera T's are 120K.
That's a pretty nice one.
Yeah, you can get a little mile.
You can get a 2018 Carrera T for less than that
because our friend, Dean Del Rey,
did get himself a Carrera T.
Oh, he didn't?
Yeah, he was dreaming of it for years
and God has asked a Carrera T.
I was going to safari it.
Dean, I told him to.
But yeah, inflation calculator,
100 grand in 2018 is $128,000 right now.
So they were vice versa.
Their years go.
Hot Dog Bathroom Enthusiast, there we go.
Thank you very much.
Doug said, Doug Dumiro said,
the Infinity QX80 looks like a land cruiser that's under water.
That's pretty funny.
I used to call the Infinity QX as the beluga whales.
That was the common, the colloquial name.
Land cruiser that's under water I think is funny
because it's more like looking like a,
it's like the, it's like a waviness.
Like it's like an, an out-of-focus land cruiser, you know.
But what are the best examples of something
looking like a worse version of a more popular competitor?
Almost all Infinity Q45s were just
worse version of Lexus LS400s.
Except the very first one, the very first Q45
was almost illegitimate Lexus competitor.
And I think it did beat the Lexus in sales for one year.
What else is the, the Ford Explorer flagrantly
copying the Range Rover design?
Yes, yeah.
From blinkers, so many things, the wrap-around stuff.
Yeah, if you put a cover on both of them,
you see what they did there.
That's a good one.
Now there was did a much worse
job of...
We did a, in a way, C8 Corvette Ferrari.
But not, it's its own thing.
Oh, there's a little undercover.
That's not a good one.
Yeah, I don't know about C8.
It is a, um...
Bronco Sport in Bronco.
Bronco Sport in Bronco.
Yeah, it's in the awkward teenage years, you know?
Yeah, I don't know.
That's a very tough question.
It did a worse version of the...
I mean, actually, I'll counterpoint that.
I think the Chrysler 300 in many ways
was more attractive than the Rolls-Royce Phantom at the time.
Just from a pure, you know, in 05 when it came out,
I think the Chrysler 300...
Raillooking car.
Did a pretty good job and made a little more of a statement
even than the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Well, it was a little bit more aggressive.
Yeah, then some of the edges were just a little harder
and it looked really good.
I mean, there is, of course,
the very famous Cat Williams, which I say all the time,
it looked like a phantom till a phantom pull up.
And he isn't wrong because it wasn't built like a phantom,
and in the beginning, if you remember back to 05-07,
all wrappers and everybody...
They treated it like it was a budget phantom.
And it's a fucking great line and very accurate.
Cat Williams is very smart, actually.
But in some ways, it did look better than the phantom, actually.
Benjamin Franken-Ferter,
Waymo is currently testing in Philadelphia
with a fleet of vehicles driven by safety operators
with your experience of going to Penn.
How do you think Waymo vehicles are going to be welcomed
in the city of brotherly love?
Go Birds.
So...
It's the Go Birds that is the...
That's the twist.
That's the M-Night Shylamon, who's from Philly.
Twist is that not just that they're from Philly,
but Go Birds means that if the Eagles win the Super Bowl,
all the Waymo's are going to get lit on fire.
That's what Go Birds means.
Because whatever a major sports thing happens in Philly,
Eagles win, Eagles lose, Sixers win,
Thanks for a big game, pick a big game,
whatever happens.
If they win, if they lose,
cop cars upside down on fire.
Reliable.
More reliable than the steel industry.
Reliable, dude.
Philly's got that shit on lockdown.
So, those safety operators are not there to train the drivers.
They are there because they're probably armed
in case people roll up with mallets off.
Imagine they say that, that's your job.
You know, it's like you quit your job as a new ice agent
because you're too traumatized and it's like,
which is like to work for Waymo and you go,
sure, and they go,
your job is to protect this car during a riot.
Dude, Philly's pretty advanced.
That'll be interesting.
Philly's a very advanced place to be testing Waymo's
because the roads are heinous.
They're so fucking bad.
Or does that matter?
The car, I mean, the car is a monster.
Well, it can't avoid bottles, though.
No, it tries to avoid products.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it uses like a light art scanning thing
and it doesn't always succeed.
In my experience, it doesn't always succeed,
but it does attempt to avoid big bottles.
Yeah.
At Philly's fucked up.
And in the zigzagging.
Yeah.
And Philly's not a place where things can't be left unattended.
You know, like you can't,
you know, where things can't be left on.
You just, you don't leave things unattended.
Has anyone I wonder tried to steal the wheels off a Waymo?
You know, you throw a couple of jacks under it
and before it can, you know, robot scoot away,
you just go, what?
And then, if you, like, NASCAR did it.
Yeah.
Well, if you, if you, if you walk up
and you get the axles in the air.
Dude, but it, but it'll have you on so many cameras.
That doesn't matter.
I know, maybe people should ask on that.
Maybe it can auto open the doors and hit you in the head,
like a Model X.
Security features.
Mm-hmm.
Nice cams has been tracking SS1LE for two years.
And the only thing that's been getting to me recently
is the lack of top end power.
I've been looking into going full bolt on
headers intake manifold, etc.
After tune, it'll probably be $8,000 or so.
Is it worth it for an additional 50 horsepower up top
in addition to the badass sound?
I think it will fool you
into thinking you're going a whole lot faster
and you won't actually be going all that much faster
at the end of that backstreet.
Is my thought on that?
I think 50's a pretty significant amount.
And if it, like, either raises the red line
or the power band moves up a lot,
that's great.
But I think you'll get bored of that power so quickly,
especially if the only place this person is really noticing it
is on a straightaway.
And you're going to go, ooh, and now what?
So, like, if I could get out of the Camaro into a vet,
you know, and take that eight grand
and if you get myself into, like, a track ready vet,
that would probably feel faster.
I mean, it weighs less, right?
It weighs less.
It probably feels faster.
And then it's a higher caliber car.
I agree.
8K into that car.
Assuming it's pretty stock now,
sell it while it's stock.
You know, and then put the money into a different car.
Yeah.
Easier to sell when it's stock.
Yeah.
I can't argue with, like, a nice sounding Camaro on a track,
but that's a lot of money for not a whole lot of return.
I mean, we just drove this, this Porsche, okay?
And for, we'll talk about it on next episode.
But for effectively $20,000 in aftermarket modifications,
you're getting 250 horsepower.
For you to spend $8,000 to get 50 NA horsepower
is not a good value for money.
That's BMW power for money.
Or that's NA Porsche.
Air, it's air-cooled Porsche.
It's air-cooled NA.
That's air-cooled Porsche money.
No, it's true.
Yeah.
Like, either fucking go all the way,
spend $10, 12, and go supercharger
with the shit that you need to keep it cool for track work,
effectively turn your car into a ZL1, right?
Do that, or new car.
Yeah.
And if you love the Camaro, maybe you can go get it.
Maybe you can get a ZL1.
Do that.
And then, because then you're at stock,
and you can sell it when you want to sell it,
but selling something with head work will be more complicated.
Yeah.
The one-pot hole on the FDR drive.
That one-pot hole on the FDR drive.
Yet pronouncing that right does make all the difference.
I know the one you're talking about, motherfucker.
My mom and I want to get, oh, I love where this is going already.
My mom and I want to get it convertible to share
for cruising and road trips.
Now, I hope you and your mother have a fucking
really good relationship because sharing a car with somebody
is a dangerous game.
I'll be maintaining it myself.
Okay.
She's been eyeballing E46 330 CI's
and a similar E90.
I'm looking at Lexus SC430s and IS25350 convertibles.
Anything else I should be looking at for 10K.
Let me just say that so far,
your mother actually has much better taste than you here.
Lexus SC430s and IS convertibles kind of suck.
Well, it's funny.
I'm actually surprised because I see a lot of women in L.A.
driving SC430s.
They're popular, but that doesn't make them good.
I agree.
It's a salaribut with a louder engine.
Yeah.
Okay.
What are you missing?
You're missing a Jaguar.
A Jaguar XK8, you can absolutely get for $10,000.
Sure.
Would do you want one?
No.
Also, Corvettes.
You can absolutely get a really nice C4 Corvette automatic convertible
for that kind of money.
100%.
Yeah.
I bet if mom's looking at beamers,
I mean, comfort is this for road trips.
So comfort's important.
I would want a more modern car than a C4 Corvette.
And if you're going to do the work yourself,
E46 330 CI should be pretty stout.
I think that would just be a really nice car to drive anyway.
Yep.
Yeah, or if it's an E90,
the problem with an E90, is it going to have a hard top?
They don't all have retractable hard tops, right?
I don't know if it's an E90.
Didn't so mean an E90, like you want a 328, E90.
Does that a soft top or retractable hard top?
Pretty sure it's a soft top.
Anyway.
The E90 was a very sophisticated folding hard top.
Really?
Oh, okay.
You don't want that.
E46 330 CI is an excellent choice.
I mean, maybe boxsters, but if you're maintaining it yourself, that could be a bitch.
I like where your head's at, though.
Zach's under drive pulley.
Thoughts on the Ionic 6N.
We can't really have many thoughts on it without driving it.
I've already put in requests to drive it.
So, I imagine if it's like a improved on version of the Ionic 5N,
I will probably like it a lot.
Unshitbox says, could electric cars have smaller motors that use less electricity
and smaller battery packs or the same pack and longer range for four to five hundred miles?
They don't all need to be dragsters.
Okay.
I thought this too.
And this is gas car common sense, right?
If you put a GTI motor in a Bugatti Sherone,
it couldn't you then go a thousand miles on that same tank of gas?
Electric cars don't really work like that.
The same, the high powered motor, the motor itself that outputs a thousand horsepower
doesn't take any more to run or to output a hundred horsepower than a motor that puts out
200 horsepower. They're like the same.
And the motors themselves are small, relatively lightweight and relatively affordable.
So, the incremental cost of making you a thousand horsepower doesn't take away from its range.
The other thing that you need to make a thousand horsepower is also a huge battery pack,
which is what you need for a range anyway.
There's no such thing really as if you have the horsepower,
wouldn't you double the range?
Like, no, it doesn't actually work like that.
You have a big battery in order to have the range,
and then you justify the price of it by saying,
oh, by the way, it also has a thousand horsepower.
That's how you sell it for a hundred.
Because you can get the current from the battery to the motor quickly.
You can make more power.
So, it's like having a huge gas tank,
but somehow having a larger gas tank equals more horsepower in an ice car.
Right. But it does it.
But if you're cruising along in a what one might call hypermiling,
the fact that your EV looks called it a lucid same car.
One has 500 horsepower, one has a thousand horsepower.
Otherwise, the same car, the it doesn't just puttering along in the very fast one
other than having maybe wider stickier tires and things like that.
For performance reasons, it's not it's the same.
The really the only real difference is if you go to the single motor.
If you ditch the all-wheel drive and you go,
this is the rear-wheel drive single motor,
you will have an increase in range then.
But if it's an all-wheel drive one,
having the power does not increase your range.
In fact, there's arguments that having and making it have more power could increase.
There's like good faith arguments that actually the more current we can get going
that is better.
Granny shift and not double clutch and like you should.
Me and Camisa were joking that we should add, oh, that I should add two cars to my ownership
to get the 10-car haggity discount.
What two cars would I add to the stable?
I mean, are we talking about real money?
I think if we're talking about real money,
and we have to be and I'm really going for a discount,
I might grab one of those E46 330 CI convertibles just as a fucking kick-around car
because that could be kind of fun and just some whatever other weird thing Hannah would like
because we have to make sure that the wife has all the toys that she wants too.
Otherwise, I cannot continue this toy purchasing process.
And to that degree, I would say an E30 BMW wagon for my wife, she would very much like that.
Auto Bon Jovi.
There we go. That's a good contraction.
Excellent.
Roughly how long does it usually take for buyers to pick up the car after waiting an auction?
I would say it takes two to three days for the money exchange to be finalized.
And then once that happens,
it really depends if the person is local or not.
If they're local, they show up pretty much right away.
If they are not local, then it comes down to, well, are they going to fly in and drive it home?
Are they going to, are we going to have a transporter come get it?
I would say the average time of, okay, ding auction done and the car is gone.
I never see it again is probably seven to ten days.
I think. Yeah.
Dr., oh, cold play camera operator, best luxury vehicle for a divorced CEO.
Do you know why they're asking this question?
Oh, for, oh, because it matches the username.
No, no, because of the guy from astronomer.
Yeah, no, because it matches the username, cold play camera operator.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that story, right?
Yeah, yeah, because it's very, it's very prudent.
It's amazing.
Yeah, the divorced CEO should absolutely be driving a,
I'm going with Chevy HHR panel,
because they can, I think the guy's pretty tall,
so he can lean back and hide his face.
People next to a mobile to see who's driving,
and no one will suspect that the CEO of astronomer is driving this old truck.
Yeah, oh, for that particular person.
For that person, yeah, yeah, but I was thinking more like,
I'm a CEO and I'm divorced, and I'm trying to like,
you know, like our friend over there,
our friend up north.
We got divorced, which is now having a very good time.
He's our friend.
Come on, come on.
I feel like we have a lot of friends that got divorced.
Right, but, but this one's having fun.
Okay, so what are they, should they be driving?
I mean,
911 in a fun color.
If we're given it's a,
honestly, I think, I think you should flex your PTS.
Target, perhaps.
Yeah.
Dr. Cockto says F1 decides it wants a street race in SoCal,
and asks you to design the track route.
What layout would be your first suggestion?
I mean, first, I would say you're kidding, right?
Because it's so, there's nothing smooth enough anywhere, really.
Well, they repaid like Long Beach.
They'd have to wear the race.
Yeah, they have, they repaid Vegas for the race.
It would be rad if they could shut down the city.
Like, and if they could have a section that,
like through LAX,
the horseshoe as a turn will be sick,
and then down one of the ramps,
like on a sub-pulvita.
Yeah.
And then you could go up to the left,
on Lincoln, near Manchester,
you're going to pass the school down the hill.
Like, you could make a pretty cool course if it was smooth.
Yeah, I'd like them to redo
the original Santa Monica Grand Prix course
from, I believe it was 1906 to 1912.
That was an eight mile course
that started on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica.
Let's pull up a map of Santa Monica real quick.
All right, just Google Santa Monica Grand Prix course map.
It started, start, finish line south on the beach
on Ocean Boulevard, Santa Monica.
It then turned east on Wilshire.
Yeah, look at this, look at this in San O'Track.
No, that's not it.
It's the one, it's down to the right,
that, up, that one, that's it.
So, this is the course.
So, start, finish is on the ocean.
And then there is about a three mile dead straight away
going inland up Wilshire Boulevard
until you hit where the end of San Vicente Boulevard is
right in front of the VA hospital there.
Turn left on San Vicente
and just rip all the way down
back down San Vicente to the ocean.
You got like Dead Man's Curve there right at the ocean.
Sure do, this is going to be a low down force
configuration.
It has an eight mile circuit.
And then break, break, break, break, break,
90 degree corner and just drive.
Yeah, wow.
A heritage baby, it's about the heritage.
So, that's what I would like to see.
I think that'd be fun, right?
Many Finney says in the past, I've generally been
anti-replica as the first question anyone asked is, is it real?
Do you still feel that way?
For instance, I can buy a, what is a rouch?
Oh, a supercharged.
Like a GT 40 replica.
Oh, you can do that or you can buy a 993 for a 140 grand.
I mean, I could buy this crazy 911T.
I mean, look.
It, it's not going to bother everybody the way it bothered me
to say to everyone who asked, no, it's a replica.
And I bet you this GT 40 is a great fucking time.
And just like Cobra's, there's plenty of people
who would love the experience of feeling like you're in Lamar
and being Ken Miles.
And don't have whatever $10 million it takes to buy a real GT 40.
And even if you did have $10 million, you probably wouldn't want to drive
that on the street.
So like, if what you want is the experience of a real-ish feeling GT 40,
because he's feeling it jitters out, then they're fun.
I think the GT 40 is the nicest car that superformance makes,
by the way, from a quality standpoint.
They're fucking great.
They really awesome.
Yeah, they are awesome.
But just me personally, yeah, it would drive me nuts.
The first thing anyone has a real.
And you have to go, no, but and tell a whole story.
It's just whatever.
I don't mind saying that with the Cobra, but I get it.
It was a headache to me, but whatever.
I'm surprised people ask, because your car was like so extreme.
It was so obviously not.
Right, yeah, it's been obviously, whatever people are people.
Misfit Cyclone says, am I overreacting by saying the GT3 RS is overrated?
I'm going to Cars & Coffee.
I'm seeing a dozen of them there.
I'm over the hype and blah, blah, blah.
Do I have to experience the car to appreciate it?
Yeah, I think you have to be on a race track with one of those things.
Otherwise, it makes no sense at all.
It really makes no sense.
I see them just driving around Beverly Hills.
It makes no sense like that.
They ride like shit.
They don't have a trunk.
They're annoying.
But if you get one on a race track, they're fabulous.
And you know, as we learned when I went on the launch,
the reason so many people have them out at their thermal,
their racetrack country club is because
to a lot of drivers, like full on race cars with like a motech,
and all that stuff are actually really intimidating.
And they want to go on the track, like they want to track their car,
but they really want like the familiarity of it being
like the car they drive on the street.
You know, they know where stuff is.
They know how to make it work.
It feels like, you know, even if you get into a very well-engineered like
LMP race car, like that was my comparison.
Like you get a GT3 RS for $400,000.
Or you get like this, like a LEGIA LMP3 car
that you would literally enter in Le Mans for like half that.
But like not everybody wants this like prototypey thing.
A lot of people really do want just a really, really fast track
oriented version of the thing that they already have
and are used to.
And I get that on a race track, a GT3 RS for how extreme it looks
is incredibly approachable.
And it feels easy to work your way up to speed.
So like I get it.
But yeah, I guess you do have to experience it on a track
because they're fucking fun and sell on a track.
Frozen Dingleberry Metallic.
Have you guys seen Tedson Motors?
They're essentially taking Gallardos and giving them
the singer treatment.
These are kind of interesting.
Although how awkward of a name is Tedson Motors.
It is. There's no, I went to their web page and there's no pictures
of the inside of the Gallardo.
Yeah, it's a re-style.
The front, they've sort of made it a little bit like that
Kuntosh that Lamborghini did, the modern Kuntosh,
the Ventor with the little lights here.
Yeah, a little bit like that with those horizontal lights
and I think the front mouth being very horizontal.
They louver to the rear fenders.
Yeah, I'm sure we will see one at the quail
and they also do Porsche stuff.
So I don't hate how it looks.
I mean, I think it's, they haven't made it look super ugly.
I mean, I think it's a nice look.
Oh, they've done a thing like the eventador on the side.
You see that?
Instead of having the perfectly vertical scoop there,
they've made it like the eventador's.
That looks very good.
It's kind of interesting.
The name, Tedson is out.
Sounds like Ted Danson started a car company.
Yeah, I'm not telling someone I'm driving a Tedson.
Sorry, it's not happening.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's very true.
And also, and maybe they're just aren't pictures up yet,
but so much of what Singer does
and so much of what got attention was the interior.
Like seeing that woven leather in all these colors.
And so for me, to most people that look quickly,
they're just going to, it looks enough like a hurricane.
That they're going to go, oh, Huracan.
And so unless the inside is this new, sorry,
sorry, it's like this new bespoke amazing thing,
then I don't think you'll grab people
the way that they hope they will.
Yeah, I mean, it's not ugly though.
No, I think it's a generally, it's a very attractive,
the direct rear isn't my favorite.
The entire center of the rear, the painted part
below that the horizontal top deck,
the painted part below that, but above the carbon diffuser,
looks pulled off a front engine Aston Martin.
Or it looks for the McLaren GT.
That's it.
The back end is McLaren GT.
That's what it looks like.
To me, front three-quarters, the best angle.
That there's your angle right there.
Side profile, pretty good, rear end, I'm not sold yet.
I wonder how much it costs also.
I'll probably a million bucks, which would be crazy, wouldn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Name, I mean, especially like,
name is like a hard out there.
No thanks.
No thanks.
CrabHab is trying to explain slow car fast to somebody.
The kid is enamored by LS power,
and I'm trying to sell him on the finer points
of Miata's and BRZ's, et cetera.
Any metaphors to help explain fast car slow?
I mean, for me, it was something
that had to be learned through experience.
Driving fast things and going, okay,
fast isn't actually the greatest thing in the world.
You get used to the nuances of driving.
It's like, I don't know, just drinking energy drinks
for a long time and then going, I'm just going to sip tea
and notice the flavors of it.
That's not a great analogy, but.
No, but like, they have to try it.
Yeah.
I think someone who's never tried a lightweight roadster
probably doesn't really get it,
but if they got to try it, they'd probably enjoy it.
I would also ask CrabHab has this person
done auto cross or track days?
Have they done a lot of driving
that frankly just has corners in it?
Because if all they do is highway stuff
or you live in Texas,
I understand how easy it would be
to just go after horsepower and want louder and more power
because that's the only experience you can have.
You just want to build a bigger rocket ship.
Yeah.
Um, I like silence of the Lambo's question,
but I don't think we'd be like,
I think the people that we'd put there
like aren't like famous people that anybody would know.
I don't think it's, I don't think we're going to like the answer.
Um, why known as big brown beamer?
That's a, is that the, that's a separate primate?
We have multiple primus references in one show, okay?
Strangest place you've ever driven,
I never thought I would drive here a situation.
Uh, off-roading in Panama, maybe.
Yeah. That was 9-11 Dakar in the Moroccan desert.
That's probably a good one.
I also, Morocco, I remember I was riding
in the back of our, uh, like whatever car,
like our crew car and I looked behind me
and we were being followed by our fixer
in an air-cooled 9-11 and I was like sitting sideways
and I just went, where the fuck am I?
Like we're driving into this market.
It was so crazy.
Uh, I drove a Sherp in a frozen lake.
That's pretty good. That was probably one, yeah.
Iceland, off-roading in Iceland.
Iceland, yeah.
Uh, anti-siliconciousness.
That's a very good one.
Used R1T quad motor prices are in the 40s
with five years left on the battery warranty.
Would you roll the dice?
I wouldn't want a, a Rivian that doesn't have a bumper
to bumper warranty because that air, that suspension system
they've got could be something, something.
I, I wouldn't want an early Rivian without a full,
forget the battery.
The battery, okay, fine.
But there's more to a car than a battery.
We've seen around this town a lot.
A lot of cars, luxury cars that have air-back suspension.
The air-backs collapse, the car never moves
because it's so expensive to fix it.
Gin and Teconic State Parkway,
do all modern 9-11s have power folding mirrors?
No, it is an option.
You may not be able to get them on like GT3 RS's,
but, but, uh, pretty sure it's an option
on all other regular Porsches.
Great gimbal as a fire.
That's pretty good too.
What is the most Ferrari Lamborghini?
And what is the most Lamborghini Ferrari?
That's pretty good.
40 years old Max.
So the Lamborghini Yelpa was designed
to directly compete with the Ferrari 308
with the same transverse V8 engine,
which was really just four cylinders cut off the V12.
Targer Roof, just like the 308, about the same size as the 308.
Actually, it's a reasonably handsome car.
It looks like a Pantera.
Yeah, kind of.
Kind of, yeah.
The interiors are not great in these,
but I always smile when I see one at a car show,
and that is very rare because they did not make a lot of these.
I think that's the most Ferrari Lamborghini,
the most Lamborghini Ferrari.
I think the Purosangua.
Because I think Lamborghini led the charge,
but when you look at that car,
it looks like two cars stacked on top of each other.
It's super extroverted outside,
and the interior has wins and misses,
and you can't, like, it has all these problems.
And to me, that is a very Lamborghini.
It's an exotic car-owning experience,
and the exterior of it is as almost as controversial as the worse.
I was going to say the most Lamborghini Ferrari.
That's a very good one is the Enzo,
which looks styling-wise.
Yeah.
It's one of the few square Ferrari's, I would say, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Uh-huh.
Good question, though.
Let me go back.
Find it.
I like the yelp and yellow, too.
That's a very good one.
Okay, spin the black circle if we were to marry each other
and have an adopted child.
What two car are a holy fuck?
How many hypotheticals can we stack?
Okay, if we-
Right.
Fell in love.
Sure.
First off, let's back it up.
If we were both gay.
Right.
Or buy or something.
Uh, and then also if we were not already married to other people.
Okay.
And then we were to also fall in love.
We could be married.
And fall in love and then divorce those people.
We could probably be great for the numbers.
Great for the gilded name.
Great for the numbers.
Okay, and then we'd have an adopted child.
So we do get that paperwork done.
It's not even like-
That's why I love this beer head DNA that's happening.
It's like, we'd have to forget nature.
We have to pure nurture
and adopted child
into having two cars.
Yes.
It adds criteria.
What cars are they going to have?
That's the funny thing is what cars-
Are they saying what cars would we have?
Are we the same?
Are we the same?
I read it as the child because they-
Me too.
Yeah.
If Matt and Zach-
But Matt and Zach are also-
All right, let's assume the cars are ours.
Okay, fine.
So what are-
So-
So all right, so we have to-
We need something that can drive the kid around.
We're gay.
Right.
Which obviously matters when choosing a car.
Sure, definitely.
I mean, people will say it-
It does, so it must be true.
We're going to want comfy seats.
Right.
And we're going to need at least-
At least one suit.
It's a butt-
Zach's joke.
Zach's sorry.
Okay.
Yeah, I think we probably would need a-
I would need a Panamera Turbo SE hybrid
with the, you know-
With the suspension.
With the suspension.
Okay, so that's what you-
We drive this kid to school in-
Mobbing.
And then I would-
Ranger Raptor
Or introduce the kid to going outside into the woods.
But at speed.
Yeah.
And you could-
You could have-
No, sports car.
No, it's just-
And you-
You could have gay sex and either of those cars.
Pretty easily-
True.
Pretty easily-
Folded in-
Yeah, pretty-
I mean, pretty-
In the bad, you know, whatever.
In the bad, you know, in the bad-
In the bad, you know, in the bad-
Panamera might be a little challenging.
Yeah.
So-
So-
Cabin My Asks.
What a name to follow.
Yeah.
What a name.
Which would you choose for long-term use
Integra Type S or CT4 Blackwink?
Both great.
Neither-
Even those cars in terms of like-
I mean, long-term-
Like-
You want a rear-wheel drive car with, you know,
475 horsepower?
Do you want a front-wheel drive car that's very-
I mean, one is 50 percent more expensive than the other.
Yeah.
The Blackwink is a nicer car.
Yep.
It's more powerful.
It handles better.
It's rear-wheel drive faster.
It might get better gas models with the same.
Because I remember the Type S did not get a good gas model.
The best-
Right, good gas model.
Yeah, it's a small tank, right?
Yeah.
So-
I don't know about long-
If long-term use means keep it for a long time,
or if means like lots of road trips and shit like that-
I would go Blackwink.
I think it's-
Yeah.
They're both good cars.
Yeah.
But the Blackwink is an M3 that's made in the United States
or by an American company, at least.
I'm going to skip that one.
Automar Piguet or Audi Morris and Pujo.
By the way, just-
Everybody knows that when someone says I'm Audi 5000,
that's-
That's AUDI 5000, right?
Everyone knows that, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, people are-
There's people I think that don't know that.
That it's not O-U-T-I-E as opposed to A-U-D-I.
No, we're using Audi, but-
Yeah.
I don't know how to hear it, but yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How much would minor damage on a car fax impact your decision
to keep a 997.2 Carrera long-term,
got a too good to be true deal on a car,
and I can't tell from looking or driving it
and found out two years later.
Well, I mean-
So, there was damage in a car fax.
You can't tell from looking at it.
You can't tell from driving it.
The only person that gives a shit
is you when you were buying it,
and obviously that didn't stop you then,
and you and the person you might sell it to.
In between, it's just a car.
No one's reading the car fax.
So, would it affect my decision?
Like, this is like going on mori.
Like, if you had a car that you liked,
and two years later, you found out
that-
That you're not the father.
That you're not the father.
Are you going to sell this car?
Like, you found out about this damage,
you're like, oh my god, I have to get rid of it now.
Like, if you already have it and like it,
it wouldn't impact your decision to sell it at all.
Fucking keep it. Who gives a shit?
And I think if when you go to sell it,
then you just, the best thing to do is be honest about it.
Not, you know, because if it's in-
it sounds like it's in the car fax and they didn't notice.
Yeah.
So, the next buyer might notice,
and I don't know, hopefully it's not a big deal
and it's not structural and you go,
look, you can't feel it.
I've had it to these shops.
They can't notice.
The alignment's all fine.
Yeah.
And you might not care.
And the next buyer might not-
The same thing, this same shit with Eric's M3.
That's ending right as people are probably listening
to this unbring a trailer.
Eric's the third owner of that car.
The second owner was Russell, who also works here.
Russell bought it CPO from a dealer.
The first owner was in a minor accident
and the bumper was sprayed or replaced and painted
in the car fax.
Would you ever fucking go look at the car?
Would you ever know?
Like, no, no one knows.
They replaced the bumper and they painted it to match and
and it's been, it's been so long since then.
So, like, this car will still bring all of the money
because it looks fabulous.
It's documented.
We've got paint meter readings showing
that it was done to factory spec,
like, whatever, like, what else can you do?
Yeah, there's some people that want the car to be a virgin
and look, you bought the car with, despite this flaw.
Someone else who's a smart shopper
and you got a good deal.
So, they might get a good deal.
By the way, got a, got a too good to be true deal.
Sure.
Means that, like, you got a discount on the car
for whatever reason, now you can say you got it for a reason
because it was hit.
Right.
So, if someone else is going to end up
getting a little discount because it's hit,
it's money and money out, whatever.
If you got a too good to be true deal on a car
that had some damage, who fucking cares?
Keep it.
And when you, you know,
you might not get all that money back on the other end,
but, like, I think it'd be fine.
This is the last one.
Okay.
We can save the lower one.
All right, Toby Keith Urban.
That's a good contraction.
There we go.
Stepping into the watch world never realized
all of the Uber popular watches were so small.
Are there certain brands models that fit better for big guys?
Of course there are.
I'm six foot five and a 48-millimeter fossil
I've had since high school looks correct on my wrist.
Boy do I have luck for you, buddy.
Where were you in 2016 when huge watches were all the fucking rage?
No worries.
Actually, right now,
Toby Keith Urban is the absolute perfect,
never been a better time for you to buy a watch secondhand.
Big faces are minimum cool right now,
but they will always come back.
You need to be shopping for panor eyes.
Panor eye luminors, Panor eye radio mirrors.
They have a variety of watches that are 45-millimeter and up.
And that is your big wristed watch right there.
A Panor eye luminor.
Yeah, there it is.
It's also a good time to get a watch if you're getting into them.
Because the watch index is at an all-time low.
The watch index is down.
No, yeah.
It's back to where it, you know,
back to where if you spread out the line to max,
does it have max?
So if you ignore the pandemic and just draw a line from 2017 to now,
it's pretty much a straight line.
But because of the pandemic, it's everything seems down.
Yeah, so I would say it's a great time to be a new shopper to watch it for that reason.
Yeah, exactly.
And so here's where you need to be looking at brightlings.
Brightling has a lot of big face offerings,
navetimers and super oceans and super marines.
You want to be looking at panor eyes.
You want to be looking at omega planet oceans.
Those are 45-millimeter.
Yeah, that's where you live, my friend.
And you will find happiness there, I assure you.
That's our show for today.
Zach, do you think that our shows from Texas
are going to be the next shows that we air?
We're going to have two shows next week from Texas.
Well, they recorded them in Texas.
We have a show we're recording on Wednesday and that will air Tuesday.
And then the first show we record in Texas will air the following the next Thursday.
Right.
Okay, yeah.
All right, so everybody will hear the shows from Texas eventually.
Provided they're good.
Yeah, they will be good.
We probably will not be able to use Christians stuff, though, unfortunately.
Okay, I'm having dinner with him tonight.
We will discuss.
But I think probably not.
Even though I think we could probably get away with it,
I just wouldn't want to make his life harder.
But yeah, there are a few, just a few,
of the Green Notice Canyon's left, the Black Pearl.
The Black Pearl, I'll tell you what the last hold-up was,
we are doing the Oyster bracelet on the last pearl
because oysters and pearls go together
as opposed to the Jubilee bracelet we've done
on all the other ones.
So we'll have a unique bracelet for that one.
Almost everybody who's getting one of those
has another canyon also, I assume.
So they can interchange them.
So that's going on.
And yeah, everything else is coming up fucking roses.
Yeah, we'll see you guys in Texas if coming out to see us.
It should be a great time.
And thanks to our patrons for such great questions.
If you want to get in the game patreon.com slash the Smogentire podcast.
And we will see you on Wednesday with another episode.
About this episode
A lively discussion kicks off with the hosts promoting their upcoming live podcast events in Texas. They dive into a review of the Mazda 3 with a manual gearbox, highlighting its smooth driving experience despite its modest power. The conversation then shifts to the Intersect Watch Show, where they share their top indie watch picks. The episode also touches on various topics, including the Faraday Future's peculiar design choices, the challenges of importing car parts, and humorous anecdotes about TV shows and cars. The hosts engage with listener questions, offering insights on car choices and personal experiences.
aviation-inspired seat belts
clutch helper spring
Colorado Grand
driver plus
Emory Outlaw cars
engine
LSD
one owner car
PDK
powder coat
Acura NSX
Audi 5000
Audi RS6 Avant
BMW 3 Series
BMW M3
BMW M5
BMW Z4
Cadillac CT4
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet Malibu
Chrysler 300
Ferrari 308 GTS
Ferrari 599
Ford Bronco Sport
Ford Expedition
Ford Explorer
Ford F-150
Ford Ranger
Infiniti Q45
Infiniti QX80
Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini Gallardo
Land Rover Discovery
Land Rover Range Rover
Lexus LS
Mazda 3 / Axela
Mazda CX-50
Mazda MX-5 / Miata
McLaren GT
Porsche 356
Porsche 911
Porsche Boxster
Porsche Cayenne
Porsche Panamera
Rivian R1T
Rolls-Royce Phantom
Shelby Cobra
Subaru BRZ
Tesla Model X
Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota Prius
Toyota Tundra
Volkswagen Golf
Original notes
Matt's Top 5 entry-level luxury watches; Faraday's weird future; Myers Manx engine update; Lamborghini Countach engine problem; Mazda 3 hatchback manual review; and Patreon questions include:
- Rank fast wagons
- Replace the Countach with?
- Will Texas track speeders like Japan?
- Are 911Ts worth their price?
- Cars that look like worse versions of competition
- Can Waymo handle Philly?
- SS 1LE Track car: modify or replace?
- Best convertible for road trips with mom
- Would a smaller motor make an EV more efficient?
- Best car for divorced CEOs?
- Plan an F1 street route in Los Angeles
- Why Matt doesn't like kit cars
- Is the 992 GT3RS overrated?
- Tedson motors
- And more!
Recorded July 22, 2025
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