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Hilton head concours and I recount that to Zach who is back in LA having just returned from South

Korea I also talk about the amazing Panamera turbo se hybrid I just drove and boy did we get

some killer questions from our patrons today it's a good one from the smoking tire podcast

live from South Carolina and LA let's go well hola hola hola hola smoking tire podcast

remote edition I'm down here in South Carolina today doing I was at the Hilton head concourse

Zach was in South Korea for six days and is now back we haven't been in the same room together for

like 10 days now and so in order for y'alls to get y'alls podcasts we got to go remote

and I'm like I'm like in the real middle of nowhere out here so the internet sort of sucks

we's doing the best we can but welcome to the show and advance thank you to all of our patrons

for asking such good questions all the time and we got a lot of feedback about the possible

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about your trip to South Korea um yeah it was pretty incredible I was there for

six days thanks to Hyundai and it was a there was a lot you know I was on the ground for five days

and there was kind of five days of stuff so I was there to drive two cars one is the new version

of the Hyundai Nexo which I famously drove to NorCal and got stuck on the five when the

station there ran out of hydrogen so this is the new version of that car

and I don't know do they have uh let me see yeah and but that's um is it embargoed is what you said

driving yeah driving impressions are embargoed I was gonna just pull up the picture of it because

you know um I want to show you the profile view and tell me what you think of the uh the rear

profile of this car you'd go to share screen here okay Nexo would be a hydrogen car so there is a

there I mean just the mere existence of a second generation of a hydrogen car is kind of unique

and interesting yeah and we can definitely we can definitely talk about that because Hyundai's

investment um both time of resources and money into hydrogen is vast I mean first of all Hyundai

owns South Korea like I yeah I rode on a Hyundai train a Hyundai elevator the cars um the buildings

are everywhere of course I'd say 70 percent of the cars you see on the road are Hyundai then

there's Kia's and then somehow I saw two Mustangs one was a fake Shelby that was pretty surprising

even in in the distance we were at this racetrack and in the distance were these giant massive

orange cranes like two mountains over looming over the landscape like you know an at at in

Star Wars and it it was a crane they used to build ships and it said Hyundai in size 80 foot font

I was like they're everywhere this company is always watching and they are everywhere so so

they're their investment in hydrogen we got to go to their r&d facility and they kind of explained

their vision um you know it's they I think they want to be a little energy independent eventually

and it's also a little self-serving like they've they've put a lot of money into

developing the production of hydrogen the capture of it the storage of it and the vehicles

so if people or industries start choosing hydrogen you know they're very well positioned but

do yeah do they have any intention of like building their own hydrogen stations in oh they

around well they have so they have hydrogen production uh like plants um I don't know if

they would build uh like gas stations for hydrogen or if they would just sell the hydrogen to to

whatever or whatever yeah um that's a good question like we saw we saw fueling stations around

and I don't think they had Hyundai branding on them um one huge difference and I I mean

didn't mean that as a pun but it is one is uh the hydrogen pump that they did a demo at I saw a

picture of it I wasn't at that demonstration the pump system was like the size of WCCS Playa Vista

it was it was it was a it was a single pump in front of a literal building the size of your

three four-story car work car storage warehouse and the reason that's important is because when

I ran out of hydrogen what I learned from the hydrogen delivery guy is that the way the systems

work is that on the property there will be a large tank where they store hydrogen there's

a middle tank that fills and pressurizes and then that dumps into your car and the way it gets into

your car is it has to equalize the pressure so you've got you know you've got one balloon that's

full and you've got a balloon that's empty the balloon that's full is going to add air to the

empty one until they're equal and one of the problems that I encountered is that that middle

pump takes a long time to fill so I think they have this giant building-sized hydrogen pump now

to avoid those problems because they were able to fill cars back to back with no delay so that's

what I mean they must this is incredibly efficient obviously I mean I guess if it takes if it takes

you know a building with the footprint of a big gas station with one pump

in order to keep that production line flowing that's kind of interesting okay it's just the way

the system works but you know just it yeah I think it will require more real estate above ground

possibly I'm sure there's other ways to do it whereas you know our gas stations all the fuel

tanks are below ground and then they get pumped up out of the little thing and it goes in the car

so it's just one of the challenges but I mean Hyundai is just they're really trying to make

hydrogen work and they're not trying to push it on everything they're just like we made this

technology it works for some commercial trucks it works for some shipping ports right now

maybe it'll work for other vehicles hydrogen Brian are are my hydrogen liaison in my neighborhood

and bourbon enthusiast is a hundred percent in on hydrogen at the ports the short-haul trucks

that just run back and forth you know 10 15 miles a day the forklifts the cranes like all that

shit he is like he's all about that he doesn't care about passenger cars at all he said you could

you could clean the ports globally you know virtually overnight by running all this stuff on

hydrogen that's what made the most sense to me I mean I watched I watched their presentation with

heavy skepticism because of my experience with it and also just knowing you know the infrastructure

that has to be built for passenger cars that does not exist here and you know the infrastructure

failures is a big reason why Toyota is currently being sued by a lot of Mirai owners so I think

you know to ask the United States to pop up all these hydrogen stations for consumer for passenger

cars that's just too much resist resistance but if you have a port and like you said all of these

heavy equipment light equipment run on this the advantage is that when the forklift runs out of

hydrogen you could just go fill it up whereas a lot of people were trying to promote electricity

as the source of power for like new airport tugs and it makes sense like you need a lot of torque

you need and you know it can just sit there and then go into service and come out but when you

have to recharge you know that thing if it's an airport that runs 20 hours a day well now you

got to think of that charging and if someone doesn't plug it in is the airport have to stop working

so stuff like that where it's heavy equipment that would require really big batteries and

long charging times it might not be optimal but having this close circle very far right yeah

yeah but this is basically and that you could if you have an airport you could put that giant

building hydrogen station somewhere on property you know exactly yeah yeah so so that that side

that made a lot more sense to me um can you see these pictures of the nexo i can yeah all right

so what do you what do you look like see when you look at this area as tech yes i walked up to it

and like the front this looks like old chevy s10 i went all right that's kind of cool it's it's

similar to their 74 concept and i walked around the back and i just went as tech and the other

journalist asked me was like oh dude you can't unsee it dude you can't unsee it they've got it on

a couple things um i don't know the rear end of this car is interesting the 90 degree side profile

is the most as tech you showed a few different angles the other angles are better yeah no it's

just this this rear quarter window that is uh straight up as tech um i don't know otherwise

it's just like uh don't break the embargo dude yeah or is that not the embargo i don't know that's

not a driving impression but uh you're right i'll back away from that so you could you called it

that's a that's true you could have said that while sitting in there parked it's got a spacious you

meant spacious i did obviously you meant spacious i can't wait till this airs and you've beeped out

four words people are just can't wait can't wait to hear what you have to say about the

dynamics of this hydrogen thing that looks they were um some of the the people at the company were

very uh they had pretty narrow views of what um would break the embargo so someone had posted

some stories of just what they were doing like just being there and they had to delete those stories

but you know oh they're cautious it's okay um was uh i've never really spent any time in

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and I mean that as a compliment

like it didn't have the visual you know natural allure of like Thailand like the you know they

had forests but it wasn't super lush but there weren't like jagged mountains or anything it was

just kind of like lower altitude coastal stuff so it but it was fascinating it is the safest place

I think I've ever been meaning the culture's attention to safety I've never seen before there

was a speed camera on every highway about every two miles like I drove I drove 358 miles of the

country like from top to bottom and back up uh and it was like at the speed limit yes dude at the

speed limit and everyone goes the speed limit and it wasn't it wasn't like there were speed

cameras just near the city and you get out and they dissipate like they were there and and what's

so funny is the number of warnings of an approaching speed limit or an approaching speed camera so

there's so many like there's blue and red flashing lights everywhere to look like cops that aren't

cops there are um really funny police like visages that they put in the bushes so basically as you

approach it looks like the back of a cop car if the car crashed into a tree and it's it's making

they don't actually use cop cars they use cameras correct I never ever ever saw a police car sitting

on the side of the road shooting radar I saw three police cars total and they were headed

to something so and what sucks is like the first the first five hours of that drive I saw those

those outlines uh those you know visage things and I went oh that's so silly and then by hour seven

one of them tricked me and I slowed down

but uh but I talked to uh one of the execs of Hyundai this guy June Park who basically he's

the reason that the end division exists he literally I met June yeah he's awesome cool yeah

June was rad he was at uh the five end launch yeah yeah that guy rules yeah he uh he knows how to

have a great time like in a car and uh like he's he's like one of us who somehow just runs a division

he said that half the cameras are fake um but he didn't he didn't tell me that until I'd already

like America yeah yeah it's there's there's more the same than you know for sure but like they

no one j walks there all the crosswalks are super lit up there's just so much attention

on safety safety safety be careful careful careful um so that was a very interesting part

place to hang out like you know I don't insult people that live there like everyone was incredibly

nice um super friendly and helpful I don't know if I would make it a destination like you have to

it's not like Japan to me where it's like you have to go there um I think if you're in the area like

literally stop in for a couple days walk around eat some food because it's great to see you know

how other cultures live what what is this like you know because they were strange differences

like their apartment buildings um so they have 55 million people in this country and the place is

like the size of California so where do you house all those people well strangely they don't really

have yeah dude up but what's weird is you would see these groupings of apartment buildings that all

look exactly the same and they're all like four windows by two windows so they're not

wide they're narrow but they be 30 stories tall and rather than having you know a development

where there's there's 30 apartments in a row on each side they would have like four of them

and I think they just they build one and then when they need another one they build another one

and another one and it's all the same construction company architect exactly the same like it was

like asparagus growing out of the out of the earth it was really just I've never seen been to a city

where there's that much uniformity in such tall buildings yeah I think like a lot of them like

I think it's not it's probably much more modern and and nice but like Americans don't love that

style because it's like it's got that sort of like USSR kind of like like the bad parts of

socialism vibe you know that sort of brutalist where they would build entire towns kind of the

same well there I don't think you're talking like that I don't think that's awesome of those buildings

that seemed older these seem newer it was just strange to see like a group of them where like

you know go to New York there's a lot of tall buildings but they all look different for different

yeah different there's just like even if there's eight different varieties this was literally

the same building over and over like and it would be really weird and 30 across so you look at this

you go well that's that's housing for a million people I'm dude the groupings of buildings was

insane and then you drive yeah for the next 50 miles it's just like open beautiful green landscape

occasional farms so no suburb no other little town development and then boom another city in

just just white buildings like as far as you could see that's crazy and I yeah go on sorry no no go

ahead I just like so the buildings the buildings are skinny right so there's only like going to be

a couple of apartments per floor but they just go way way up right yeah that's crazy so I don't I

don't know if it's because you know the landscape there is is not flat it's like constantly it's

like New Zealand you know it's a lot of little ups and downs little hills so my guess was rather

than having to flatten you know the earth for like five football fields you do a half a football

field you know on the on the top of this little hill and you build a thing and then the bottom

you do another one the bottom you do another like you just I don't know just maybe that's

simpler that way or they just build it with demand but really weird yeah yeah interesting

some people asked about car culture and I saw zero sorry I saw two like interesting cars during

the daytime in the two cities I went to I saw one Boxster and I saw the fake Shelby Mustang it was a

GT but with like a Shelby badge on the front otherwise everyone just drove passenger whatever

hatchbacks and I asked June I said you know is there just not a lot of car culture here

and he just said that the culture's idea is you drive your fun thing on the weekend so

maybe that's why I just didn't see any fun cars people just don't like here you know a lot of

you me a lot of our friends they our daily is something interesting but there it's just not

part of the culture so I don't know when you were in Japan did you see a lot of you know

rad tuned stuff all the time not like rad tuned stuff but I did see interesting cars

more than in other places I saw some classic stuff I saw some Porsches I saw a couple of

tuner type cars I did see some interesting customized things yeah in Japan more so than

other places every time I go to Spain which is now a lot apparent you know I'm shocked at how

great the roads are and how many good racetracks there are as well and there's fucking no sports

cars and very few motorcycles and it's not because nobody has any money I real I know I was on a

country wide Spain isn't a super rich country and there are a lot of people

they can't afford recreational type cars but like the parts of town where like they have these events

are nicer I you know I'm there doing I'm sitting at the bar I'm looking on Zillow and it's like

multi-million euro like villas like these people could afford cars and and they just don't I saw

last time other than the 911s was there I saw one other 911 that was like a 997

and I saw one Miata and that and that was it and that was it for the whole trip so

you know I'm regularly surprised at the particularly in major major American metro areas New York

San Francisco Miami LA the percentage of enthusiast cars is way way way way way above anywhere else

in the world I've been on a day-to-day basis hmm okay yeah it's just uh that was that that was a

difference that left out to me and I was curious about how it is you know in other places so

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Mexico even though I'm not necessarily into the way that a lot of Mexican people customize their

cars you know in a lot of the more rural areas and in like Cabo and shit they they do a lot of

like what we would call auto zone mods but like that's every like so many people have modded their

cars that's very true in Mexico yeah and a lot of percent yeah like Latin people here you'll go to

the neighborhoods over you know eastern LA and you'll see what's clearly like someone's daily

truck but it's got a wing on it or it's got like aggressive rims on it and there and Holland

Holland stuff or whatever I totally agree with you yeah yeah the Mexican and Mexican American

community by percentage fucking those guys don't fuck around they'll mod they'll mod everything

dude yeah I don't I guess they just think there's a lot of individuality in your car I guess from

at least from our observations so maybe there's less of it in in South Korea

yeah I took a high speed train 150 miles per hour loved it those are fun had those here oh my god it's

just it had more my seat which was not first class or anything because it was not an air condition

cabin I learned later that the further up the train you go based on the ticket you buy the train

gets cooler and so our no one of us knew that but we're like oh this is warm and we're gonna be here

for three hours but my seat had more room than any comfort plus seat I've sat in on a plane and the

tray table had way more space than any comfort plus seat I've been on on any airplane in the last

15 years and I was like this ticket was less and we're going we're traveling the length of California

I mean it took yes it took longer we're going you know 150 not 500 but it's just so nice what a nice

yeah and you can you show up 10 minutes before the thing leaves it's not it's not as much of a

pain in the ass yeah and you're like you know a train is yeah yeah a train like feels like a plane

but it's actually much less space and weight constrained than a plane so you can have more

room even in the more basic accommodations yeah the like the event staff that Hyundai hired to

run this I'll tell one one story because it was just impressive so one of the journalists

shout out Alex Lenz he works for Motor Trend very nice dude but he's vegetarian and that's not

something South Korea really does a lot of is vegetarian food like vegetables everyone needs

a lot of kimchi I love it it was great but like I got a side of asparagus with a steak at one night

and they gave me two spears of asparagus not 10 or whatever so uh so for him to find vegetarian

meals at non-vegetarian restaurants was pretty challenging at times so after one meal he had

eaten like a simple Caesar salad and that's all they had and and the and the staff and everyone

tried like they told the restaurant do you have anything and they they did what they could

but he's like I'm just starving and we have six minutes before we have to be on a bus to

go to a train that leaves you know train leaves when it's leaving they don't hold that thing

and he's just like all right I'll just I'll find something to eat when we get back to

to the city and three minutes later this woman from the staff I don't I didn't get her name

she comes in breathing like and she's got a 7-eleven receipt and two packages of baked eggs

because they sell that at 7-eleven there and she had went she had sprinted and bought him eggs

so that he could have something to eat and she and I was like did you just full run to get this

just like yeah I said and like that's I worked in hospitality for nine years that's like the

nicest thing I've seen um yeah she was right very kind so he and he was very grateful that is a good

move shout out to the event coordinators yeah cool yeah all right so and then you also drove

Ionic 6n but we can't talk about it for weeks right yeah we can't I I had the the teaser I'll

say to people as I got to Drag Race June Park um you know we had a meeting we had a meeting to talk

about like the development of the car and I asked is the car just as fast uh to 60 in normal mode as

in when you have it in shifting mode and he said yes and I said oh we should have a drag race just

to prove it and he goes okay and I said for real he's like yeah okay so at 5 p.m. when everyone

else got off the track he and I did some drag races and just so we can talk about that later

it was very very fun yeah cool uh well that sounds like a good time and I will be looking

forward to that when I can learn about it uh I've had uh five four days in uh Panamera

turbo s e hybrid drove it uh 273 miles out to my folks place from Atlanta this is if I mean man

it's it's expensive it's really expensive but if you need a car that can do anything I mean

zero to 60 in two and a half seconds ten three in the quarter

630 plus miles on a tank um this this car has the uh internal combustion sedan record around the

nerve uh around road Atlanta with pat long driving and it has the hydraulic suspension the active

ride so it is just ridiculously comfortable and and and poised and we've driven it before but

just uh I got out here I picked this thing up I you know I woke up at like 4 a.m. in LA flew to

Atlanta grabbed the car you know it was like a four and a half hour flight grabbed the car got it

and just headed straight east and I made it and I mean once I got out of town there was like nobody

in the road and you could just stick this thing at allegedly 100 miles an hour at like it is nothing

just nothing at all it is the easiest car I have ever driven at the at that speed um

and I got I did the whole drive I did 273 miles in under four hours and I averaged 26 miles a

gallon while doing it which is amazing for a car like that for a car that makes like 800 horsepower

so that's pretty awesome and tomorrow morning it's at uh at 5 a.m. I'm gonna get up and like

rip it back to Atlanta where I'm swapping it out for a for a 918 which will be

interesting but dude these this car is so cool and um it it's so comfortable and it's so fast

and it could be anything it's got like 50 miles of electric range if you want it to be an electric

car it has a very aggressive sport plus mode if you want it to feel like kind of like a super car

it has the active tilt and pitch control so it can move through the world like a helicopter

on slow winding ambling drives which is really great um and and it has a lot of tech but doesn't

really overwhelm you with the tech but it's man this is this one's a real winner this car

I know it's expensive I can't afford one of these but it's sick uh well I was on um let me close

this window go back to you here so I was on the Renthusias radio podcast and they asked why uh

you know they're heavy into Porsches but Panameras seem to lose their value

quicker or maybe just not get talked about on the use market as much as like

m5 or five series or c63s um do you think that's true and do you have a theory as to why like a

used Panamera is not you know as sought after as some of the other competitors yeah I think

because it's positioned as more of a luxury car than a sports car in the marketplace it's it's not

positioned as a sports sedan the same way an m5 is in people's minds in reality I'll take if the

m5 touring is really nice if you've never driven a Panamera turbo and if you have it's like not in

the same league of car um yeah so and I think I think Panamera's always have leading technology

and stuff and and there's just not as many people looking for a I mean I think Panameras are

positioned more in the same way as s-classes in seven series than they are five series even though

they perform more like the m5 than they do like anything that's a seven series or an s-class you

know but there's a good point enormous value in used Panameras enormous value

they're reasonably reliable they don't have any like super horror stories they're frequently you

know you can get them just built out to the to the nines you know we just sold a really nice

Panamera uh belonged to a client of ours a 2011 I think Panamera turbo in in an unbelievable color

and it had miles on it but had great service history I think it was I think we got 25 grand

for it I mean it was like you know if you want to spend uh you know 50 or 60 thousand dollars

you're getting a not that old turbo s that is in good shape and rips um yeah they drive fantastic

they're so there's such good things to drive I'm just yeah I was wondering what your take was okay

I love these cars I mean I I think these cars are fabulous and and they uh I I love my EV for me

personally buying like I don't need the gas engine so I personally I don't need the gas

engine but a lot of people I mean this is a this is a car that just does it could do anything

it can be an EV almost every day almost you know you plug it in overnight level two even level one

and it's and it's an EV 90 percent of the time and then you got to go from one city to another

in the middle of the night and you got your own private freight train and you're just yeah you know

it's it's amazing um and it's invisible on I mean this oak green color I mean every once in a while

you know someone who knows but but for the most part this is not a car people are looking at or

think is a is a 700 plus horsepower car that's gonna be you know running 10 second quarter miles

yeah that's true yeah I'm just looking at the interior brown interior it's cool

brown yeah oak green metallic over a chocolate interior this is this is a pretty cool spec on

this one I would go with a tan if I could get it but but the bro the chocolate's nice I like the

chocolate this is this one's uh this is a good car I mean I just it's a bummer they're so expensive

but just wait it'll come to you yeah yeah um I really really do like it but and I'm out here

in uh in Spring Island uh my I'm a folks place uh because we went to the Hilton head concourse

today and I put some photos on the on the Instagram the win uh the win concourse is also happening

today in Vegas but I wanted to come out here because I got a gig starts tomorrow in Atlanta and

I figured check it out uh really nice it's a it's sort of a regional event um but over a couple

100 cars a few thousand people probably 20 different classes of a vehicle I saw some really really

examples of um hyper cars and super cars I saw some really great example of wild 30s French stuff

there was a whole section on boat tail cars there was a whole section of uh celebrating 100 years

of Chrysler there was a they actually had a whole section of like vintage uh speed boats on display

which I thought was very cool and a really well organized event a lot of fun saw some fans

said hi to some folks yeah there's the speed boat section which I thought was really fun

and it was a fabulous day and you know not uh it wasn't like it's not pebble right but there were

there were uh definitely a few pebble beach grade cars and uh it's you know on a golf course and

very accessible on hilton head I really liked that that's a you know vintage outboard engine I

thought was just so pretty a bunch of whole fin tail Cadillac uh little auto section which was

really cool um and uh the uh yeah it was great really really nice show they they put on a really

good show this uh this is a sp3 Daytona uh one of the newer ones and had a a red to black

color shifting paint job uh the window sticker which you can kind of see in the windshield there

it's yellow uh showed that that paint job was $42,000 and uh it also listed uh 129,000 in miscellaneous

other options is it it seems I feel like putting your window sticker with the prices of things

it's so like it's very juicy like because Corvette people do it and but but Corvette's

they won't put the price they'll just put here are the specs like here's what this car contains

here's the model but having the price point in there especially when it's a car that's

this expensive is like I don't know how how much attention do you need to your wealth to be like

by the way not only do I have this car that we all know costs a lot of money here's exactly how much

money it costs wow so the only possible explanation is that that may have been part of a sponsor

display that was a dealer maybe there was right in that area there were a couple of sponsor displays

that were like you know European car source or I made that up but like you know some second hand

your European car specialist next to it is a 996 GT3 RS there in white it may have been a car that

was possibly being offered for sale but yeah I agree if that's a personally owned car I would say

that's pretty douchey what is this thing so this is some kind of Lotus sports tracer from like the

you know early 60s wow it's got this sort of aerodynamic fin tail you know body on it that

was probably just someone went drew it on a napkin and went that looks aerodynamic just

it looks like they said well fish look like this and fish move through water and we move through so

let's put two fish with a white bridge in between yes it is it's a it's a it's a catamaran made of

two fish yeah exactly what this car is yeah yeah uh there was some there though that kind of stuff

that reminds me of the like the La monstra you ever see the La monstra Cadillac yeah it was like

looked like it was made out of someone's fucking repurposed refrigerator or something you know yeah

it's uh I think Johnny Smith got to drive it it I mean it looks like a monster it is an ugly vehicle

yeah it's heinous yeah but I you know I I uh I really like this this is a motorcycle display

like a 19 you know 15 or something motorcycle where there's basically no engine block it's just

like an exposed crankshaft and four pistons welded together holy shit it so yeah it's got like

I guess the crank is in here or is that a yeah yeah like I think that is a crank or that's

that's a crank housing but there isn't like an engine block there's just like four standalone

cylinders just this there in between a a two-part frame very funky you know what it looks like it

looks like you poured concrete into an engine block and then wherever you like and it followed

the oil and the water channels and then you took away all the metal like this right it's it's like a

skeleton it's the negative space of an engine block of a normal engine really cool yeah crazy

right yeah uh so that's that's fun this was a good show if anyone's in in the in the the southeast

the first week in november that's a good show that's that's worth uh worth your time and obviously

it's on hilton head so there's plenty of places to stay and chill and eat and you know whatever

um shall we go to the people zack yeah let's do that uh

of course if you if you uh are a patron you can catch the live stream and ask us questions

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to any merch collabs and things that we'd make over here uh zack what do we got all right rev limit

asks what are your thoughts after driving the new turbo s on the 750 s versus the turbo as a

track car and a high horsepower road car option so would you rather have a 750 s or a turbo s

750 s is crazy the turbo s is not crazy 750 s will if you turn the traction control off will

spin the tires into fourth gear a turbo s will not do that um so if what you want is extreme

competence extreme competence but sort of a clinical approach uh and something that can be a

very very relaxed everyday daily driver turbo s if you want crazy party time you want a 750

excellent um zack in sodak says is the new hunday santa fe 2025 enough boxy enough for Hannah

no uh it's it's she doesn't like it she thinks she says the tail lights look like dog bones

which she ain't wrong yeah um yeah she's not into that what she is into

is the rivian r3x very into that she's into the idea of maybe getting a heavily depreciated

electric g wagon in a couple of years uh because she likes the tycon but doesn't like love it like

she likes it but it doesn't she says it doesn't feel like her which i get it's that's a more

me car than a her car even though it's her car but she was she's eyeing the depreciation on

electric g wagons which i think will be significant yeah like a bag of sugar thrown in water it's

just like oh oh yeah losing everything you know what's that clap man will you please hold the phone

because i need more whisk egg sure it's my goddamn house and i'm gonna drink my

gallon if i want to that's fine this question is actually for me so i will just answer it um

listen and sometimes watch says zack you drove i read supercharged e92 m3 three years ago

from what you remember did it totally change the experience or just add more of what makes it

already great i think it was an e90 sedan and uh yeah it just superchargers to me maintain

quite a lot of the engine's natural uh feel and experience but it just turns everything up a bit

so it still had the throttle response it still had you know the torque but it had really getting a

200 more horsepower sunset on the bayou huh oh the question was for me anyway so i just answered it

it's about oh about the supercharged m3 i drove a few years ago but i think superchargers just

you know get take whatever elements there are to a car and they just turn it up they don't really

change the character of the power delivery um i agree having heard none of the rest of that i agree

with the last sentence uh all right uh the ghost of woolworths says uh i live i live close to lake

barriessa and i'm looking for a fun new vehicle matt you've driven those roads for your road and

track event would you say a gr carola or a used uh f 87 m2 which would be the better choice

uh i mean better uh you know lake barriessa in that area uh for those who don't know that's in

northern california wine country it's in this nappa sonoma area fabulous roads uh can be a

nappa and sonoma region is tight technical driving it's not big fast open sweepers i don't

think the power of the m2 would be very useful there but i think the rally vibe and small

footprint of the carola would be a good time uh that road there the 128 is the shit so you want

to fuck with that road right there and then you can also go um that was gonna yeah a little street

view so you can see the tarmac is good but not amazing um that's one of the better sections

actually but um yeah i think yeah it's got suspension travel a little ride quality and so i

would say uh the corolla right cool um all right gavin sullivan says we've often talked about

weight transfer being something we enjoy in a car which hot hatch or fast sedan has the best

feeling of weight transfer um fiesta st killed it back in the day killed at that was unbelievable

i think velociter n also was a really fun thing and had uh you know you could sense where the g

forces were moving the mass around um yeah um the golfer the current golfer is very good uh at that

um what's funny is that the softer the springs the more of the weight transfer you notice right

i mean like my fate like my fave my weight transfer champions are like the stirrato

you know like like or you know uh or the fucking roof rodeo which uh the video will be coming out

very soon i'm sorry we've been sitting on it for fucking two months embargo has kept coming up but

like the like trophy trucks off-road vehicles raptors like 9 11 Dakar like the the side by

sides like all that shit is that's the weight transfer champs that stuff yeah definitely um

buick lasaber tooth tiger love it love that name says what are our thoughts thoughts on the new

subaru sti concept that went up this week uh well i mean aesthetically i don't hate it uh aesthetically

it looks like sort of halfway between a brz and a w rx uh it definitely looks like something sti would

make um i didn't it didn't look enough like a real car that i really studied it past the photo to be

honest with you did you see it zack um i mean i looked at the pictures yeah and i think yeah you

know i think if they'll probably get rid of some of these elements i think it i think it looks close

to production honestly like this doesn't it doesn't look like a crazy concept you know maybe the

vents wouldn't be here on the hood uh maybe the wing will be smaller but like these these

fender flares to me look like you know they could make them i think it looks yeah i mean i guess the

front the low below the belt line looks like it could be fairly legit yes it uh it looks thick to

me it like it reminds me a bit of like mossy it does look like the the distance from the top of

the front wheel to what appears to be the hood looks very crossover uh even though the ride height

is not crossover it looks like a very tall thick car so that that kind of surprise it does it does i

wonder i mean if that's just a photo that was taken up close with an iphone and it's slightly

distorted um but that is a big wang on the back of it for sure and some real box flares

um i don't i don't hate it yeah i don't hate it i do think it looks the the the the lower half of

the rear bumper isn't my favorite but in general i mean i i do think i was talking to this literally

with my mother last night at dinner who was talking about how much she well she like loves her outback

you know and she's like subaru is doing such a good job and i love my outback and

what do you think about subaru and i was like it's funny that uh you know that you you know

70 something you know old jewish lady love your outback so much i was like because subaru has

basically abandoned the enthusiast you know they've decided that people like you buying outbacks

and foresters are more important to the bottom line than young people most of whom don't have any

money buying wrx's and and stis um and she's like what about the cross track and i'm like i think

the cross track has the same 2.5 engine that has been in supers for like 30 years at this point

and there's nothing wrong with a cross track like that's a but that a cross track is like uh

it's just it's like if someone says to me matt i just want a car like a car for my kid or a car

for you know a car for someone who doesn't give a shit about cars you just say cross track like

that's the car for that cross track i think is the uh it's like someone who aspires to own a

forerunner but they don't want to have the poor gas mileage like they can do a little off-roading

but they also are super safe they get really good get miles uh really good miles per gallon on the

highway um and yeah they're not exciting so if you don't need an exciting vehicle cross track

is a great choice it's funny that your mom loves it because my aunt has an outback and loves it

and her dog like it's everyone i know who owns a super right now is not a car enthusiast

yeah and my mom's like down here in in the south carolina my mom's like best friend has a forester

and she fucking loves it you know like my dad by the way i don't know if i mentioned it because last

time i was down here my dad was he my dad bought this highlander like a 2017 highlander as like a

kick around car and there's nothing wrong with a highlander it's a fine car but it was like

it's the most whatever car like it's just it's a not there's a nothing with nothing car it's just

it's you'd rent one for a weekend like if you give a shit about anything you're not buying a

fucking highlander but like he bought this thing and he had it from so he bought it and he bought it

like used he was like ah it was a good deal whatever fine so he got over it and he bought a

a lexus tx 500 h f sport which is a real mouthful but but uh he really likes it and i drove it

yesterday and i kind of like that kind of like it too actually it's not bad it uh it has like really

supportive nice seats um that are very adjustable and it has a really great big

vertically big door like like if you're a tall man you could just fucking slip slip right into

this thing uh no problemo um and just you know for a fucking run into the golf course and pottering

around uh it's a non plug-in hybrid uh so he never my my dad never has to plug it in and deal with

that because this is uh this is you know he's only here half the time so the thing kind of kind of

will sit for half the year um but uh yeah the the not a bad car i think it's a good choice for the

old man he got it in like a a battleship gray with black wheels not bad this this does seem like

the an in between you know kyan and highlander right well this is like the lexus highlander by

the way it's on that platform but it's right a little more upscale it's upscale it's much

roomier the way the layout of the car is it has much more leg room in both the front it has captains

chairs in the second row um so yeah it's that's pretty sweet actually i kind of i'm kind of into

it like i again wouldn't buy one and i don't need to make a video of one but for my 73 year old

father to drive uh to the golf course without like wrecking his back pretty good pretty good yeah so

so this is the layout he has right captains chairs yeah yeah captains chairs yeah pretty nice the

old man the old man is uh he's upgraded the vehicle but he didn't he he likes the panamera

but when i i took him to the car show in it today i i went three quarters throttle for about five

seconds and he did the oh you know one of those one of those one of those he's not he's not about

that and he doesn't like how small the door openings are in the panamera which actually

that's a valid criticism if you're old and tall and have a bad back big door openings are important

vertically big definitely absolutely yeah um uh all right up your ass and gasoline back to the

question says um does your ability to service a vehicle ever play into our purchasing decisions

so if a car we wanted to own landed in our lap would we walk away based on the maintenance

we're buy a car and then figure it out later only in a very extreme circumstance i mean i've had

old ferrari's if an old you know i mean like you know you gotta it's gotta be pretty fucked up for me

to run away from at this point i i've told these i will i will not buy a portion 959 i don't care

how rich i get like not happening you know but and i wouldn't and i mean like not a real world

problem but i wouldn't i wouldn't want to deal with the veiron bullshit either like the tires and

you know i wouldn't i wouldn't that's too annoying that kind of stuff i think at almost any price

point what really would matter to me is my access to service or parts like you know we live in socal

where you can get an old ferrari rebuilt by like five different respected people you know people from

iowa send their cars here but if you live somewhere where you're not near like if you buy

a lotus or a catering or you know something even that's not expensive and there's no one near you

that knows how to work on it you know if you buy a fucking camaro in italy i don't know uh it just

that's what i would think of it's what's my how what's my access to either the parts i.e lotus um

or service uh some sort of mechanic totally true i had that hummer for three three or four months

in 06 and it actually wasn't that the car itself was such a piece of shit it was that it had

i experienced a very known problem among h1 hummers there was a absolutely

dead to nuts reliable known fix for it and i couldn't find anybody to fucking work on that car

and even even at the time hummer was still an active brand with the h2 and h3 and they wouldn't

work on h1s which was crazy that's the dealer fair the dealer i was like are you fucking for real

i was like are you aware this is your top of the line product

geez that's that's and they said they said we don't have a diesel tech on site

so the fuck is that possible you're a hummer dealer you know well you know we don't really

sell a lot of h1s jesus christ man yeah they have they have 15 tax that can work on the six two though

um all right rolex lt terriott uh sorry rolex lt larry at king ranch that's someone's name

do we have thoughts on the upcoming ram electric pickup that has a 3.6 v6

ice engine that's just a generator do we think this is the future of plug-in hybrids where you

know it's just a range extender but the engine doesn't provide any of the actual thrust i think

it's a very interesting concept that i really look forward to trying out i mean i people have

it's actually like every time i bring home a plug-in hybrid my wife goes well why isn't this the

other way and i go what do you mean she goes you get 50 miles of electric and then 200 miles of

gas she goes why don't i get 200 miles of electric and then 50 miles of gas to be sure that i can

get to the next thing no matter what and i i go well the the the energy math doesn't really work

like i don't think otherwise they would right well yeah i mean otherwise if if they're installing a

generator system um you know the larger electric range is just based on battery size so you know

the company can save money and save you some money by shrinking the battery size and giving you

something very close to what you're right right if you have to have a full-size battery pack and

some kind of combustion engine the the entire plug-in hybrid premise is based on a smaller battery

pack that then makes room and for the packaging and weight of the combustion engine there is i mean

there is going to be a balance right like if you if you just like keep shrinking the ice engine

you know and slowly ratchet up the battery eventually you get to a pretty small engine

that's able able to generate enough juice to recharge this battery virtually indefinitely

i think mazda in the last like two days while i've been here showed a rotary powered concept

where the rotary engine which makes so much sense you don't need any fucking torque the

things just gotta spin as smooth as it possibly can right so um yeah i i i mean in in in concept

this seems like a good idea i hope that in practice it works that well yeah i agree

sam h says uh he saw a raptor with u-haul rental decals on it and thought it'd be funny to have a

short-term rally or something uh that had a decal system so what would our meme rap or customization

be for a rally car i 100 thought about this already i would be a fucking sprinter full luxury inside

like captain's chairs fucking ripping blondes chilling the outside would be a fedex just delivery

van just was blanked out you know park that bitch wherever you want just what the hazards are like

yeah that's very smart there's a guy i watched he's a british dude that builds um

you know fancy camping vans but his whole move right now is building stealth ones so it's like

white white for transit with fake plumbing business livery and like he puts a ladder he puts

a ladder on it just so he can hide the solar panels and then in the back it's it's pretty luxurious

it's very cool yeah because he's supposed to probably park in these shits on the street right

and getting broken into or whatever right yeah and i think uh where he is it's harder to like

the rules about where you can park your camper to sleep for the night are strict so he goes well

here's a way you can just park pretty much wherever you want and hopefully no one's gonna mess with

the van yeah yeah exactly i love it and i bet you i bet you people if you're in a fucking work

truck i bet people are nicer to you on the highway than if you're in a kitted out sprinter

hmm i don't know i've never felt any sort of i've never felt animosity towards either van it's

just like how are they driving so i haven't felt animosity either but i find when i drive different

cars that people treat me differently sure when i was rolling that bentego last week review up on

instagram right now bentega speed very lovely vehicle people treated me like i was a piece of

shit it wouldn't let me merge anywhere it's funny what uh one downside of the um stealth van move

is with what he did he didn't have side windows you could open because you know it's like it's what

it's all white it's supposed to be a panel man so your um breathability you might suffer or

the you know you gotta really have a once you could open so you could you got to do what they do on

the buses where they do the dot the dots right we're on the outside it looks like graphics but

from the inside like light goes through you know yeah that's good so you would get a van that has

windows but then do graphic on the windows so you couldn't really see in you know that'd be yeah

that'd be a good idea yeah um all right uh i don't know whether i'm the boxer or the jag asks if we

could go back that's very good yeah if we could go back and remake any of our past automotive

adventures for the modern day such as all cars go to heaven be first to get a ticket uh or a guy

taking his tree stump for a walk with the logging chain uh how would we remake it differently for

the modern era i would have chased down the logging guy 100 i would have fucking chased that guy down

and confronted him on video if i knew that's the new way yeah if i knew what that would have been

i would have chased that motherfucker down for sure yeah because you don't want to leave unanswered

questions you know the audience is like what what's the story and now you go hey man hey man

would you get this log what do you do for a man you could what do you where can i get some of the

meth you're doing because obviously yeah that's that's a no brain that's a no brain yeah um all

right uh zack clap mancery says uh uh thoughts on that's pretty funny that's really funny

mancery god their cars yeah very good certainly a thing um uh thoughts on swapping his gator strap

out for a steel bracelet on his i wc portuguese or 40 to give it a little more daily usability

because the leather feels too dressy sure i fucking hate alligator unless you're wearing

suits every day i think it does not look good so i think you have a lot of options i wc makes

a metal bracelet for that watch you can buy that um there is a variety of rubber straps you could get

that give you a more sporty look uh that are cool you can also get leather uh leather straps that

aren't alligator that are more smooth that look a little better uh casual you could also get stuff

like sailcloth um sailcloth is a really good one because um it matches the aesthetic of a leather

from a distance but up close it's a little sportier and you can do fun colors and stuff if you want

to do a splash of fun you could do a bright bold color with a sailcloth strap so um yeah if you

want to go bracelet go bracelet um just make sure if you go bracelet that the end links

match you don't want just a you know a bar across it's got to be flush like if i can show like with

the case the end link bit on a metal bracelet like if i took this bracelet off you know and just put

a strap here you'd have a little gap right so that's fine with a strap that's like how straps work

but if you buy an aftermarket metal bracelet you don't then want to have a gap there that's janky

shit so yeah but i'm i'm pro ditching gator gator sucks if you're not like 70 it definitely seems

like something from a bygone era um uh trace commas not seashells i yeah i don't know it slips

commas not trace seashells i like that very much trace commas not seashells says uh if you can snap

your fingers and remove one car feature from existence forever what is it haptic buttons yep

there we go they've come and gone in what 10 years like they're pretty much leaving and that tells you

something um uh did it uh billy idling says matt will you be test driving the new vespa 300

there's a new vespa 300

is there i don't know but your intrigue was great is there if there really is a new vespa 300 is

on the very top of my priority list i put i'm writing it down right now there's something called

the vespa gts i have a vespa gts all right is this mine is of gts super 300 is there a new one

oh well this this is a slightly updated this looks a little bit different from mine um the the

wheels are slightly different it's all and there's new colors i don't see anything else

different go go down it's got a new it's got a lot of vents on it i don't think you're

has had as many fins yeah no mine does right the ones on the upright there yeah this thing yeah yeah

that's that's for the radiator the the 300s water cooled those are radiator vents other honestly

dude other than the wheels and a couple of these colors this looks just like mine

oh it's 310 no no 310 310 oh so mine was a 300 and now there's a 310 10 more ccs it's 10 more

how much can you can you find look at the tech specs and see how much power the 10 ccs gives you

oh don't download pressure just click on it click on one and and see if there's a

technical specifications we must know high high performance down yeah yeah 310 cc 310 ccs it doesn't

say it does not key oh it's got keyless ignition and remote start now i love that there we go

wait go back oh there we go okay here we go max power 25 horsepower

i'm dude i'm pretty sure mine makes 26 oh you know what this is dude this is running to stand still

look look at the very bottom of this sheet euro 5 plus oh this is this is the 991.2 gt 3 for

scooters they've added 10 cc in order to give you the same horsepower as the old one with better

emissions right so this has uh i think i think that's what this looks like do you know your

to emission certificate offhand nope absolutely not but i'm i'm i based on what i'm reading here

i'm pretty sure those 10 ccs are to offset a emissions control system that takes away horsepower

what uh what year is your vespa 2020 and it's a gts 300 we're really this is investigative

journalism i think i think mine makes 26 horsepower though i just was uh am i no is that right yours

makes go away engine go down there single cylinder

oh wait there it is horsepower 23.8 oh i'm off i apologize 23.8 so the new one makes 1.2 more

all right well look i stand corrected about my about my uh running to stand still 1.2 horsepower

is in fact more that is correct okay well look now i i have to feel this power increase we we

must you should try the new one what if it's totally different what if it's totally different

it's gonna feel totally different okay um look now i know and now i'm writing it down

vespa 310 press loan all right

lucid gravity bong says they have an ionic 5 and their lease runs out soon they're considering

the 6n as a fun commuter to add to their ionic 9 for family are there any other ev sedans worth a

comparison new or used 75 000 max uh mochi rally or they need to be cq ceo cpo yeah mochi rally

you know marco just bought one yep he says he likes a lot yeah mochi rallies dude uh marco

just our boy just got one 36 months uh low down payment 550 a month that's where you want to be

that's money um those are a good time uh avante to go fast i love that name avante to go fast

considering replacing the wife's and family holler it's a 2013 q7 tdi it's mechanically sound

yeah mechanically sound dated interior i think so um this person is concerned about the complexity

of longer term and and longer term reliability with most newer cars is their concern overblown

or is there a sweet spot that balances core features without excess they probably want to

stick with an out of your Volkswagen they say i mean look car the average age of cars on the

road is going up you know so the complexity of the cars isn't necessarily making them not work for

or as long as they need to work i think but um yeah okay so i mean q7 tdi was an awesome car

actually um other i mean other than the emissions cheating shit i mean that that's obviously bad

but as a car it was a fucking great car my mom had one um so is the question the question is

is the question just about the the concerns about the tech or was there actually a recommendation

sort of suggestion in there uh but basically should they be concerned about you know yeah

what would what would we recommend assuming that the concern about reliability is overblown

if you know and if you're sticking without a new q7 is fine like a new q7 is pretty nice

3.0 t proven motor

oh are you there i'm sorry i was just thinking i i would say this person i i would go look up like

you know we need to know your budget so you should take your budget and go look at

forums or consumer reports for the a the year of car you're tempted to get like if you want to get a

2022 q7 you know we always drive the brand new ones so you that will tell you if the new fancy

screens and stuff are having problems or not i would definitely look that up first you know i

have anecdotal but my friend had a brand new company car it was an s5 this is two years ago

and it went back to the shop twice i think for screen problems and you know out he has a lot

of screens controlling a lot of the stuff in their vehicles so um i would look at uh cpo

cayenne hybrids too cayenne hybrids are rad they're really nice i would look at cpo those because

you can get you can get our our boy john harper who's a photographer who i've worked with a bunch

for magazine stuff and for all kinds of stuff he just got like a shockingly old cayenne hybrid on

cpo i want to say it was like a 17 or an 18 and he got it on cpo from a dealer like that's wild

and so if you can find a 2020 to 2023 cayenne hybrid like the one my dad has it kicks ass it's

great um this username is not ai generated uh says my wife just passed a major milestone in

her career and she wants a watch neither of us know anything about watches we are looking in the

$10,000 price range um the first brand that came to mind was rolex but all of her friends say

cartier are there any women brand watches you'd recommend looking into all women love cartier

it's just a just a rule of life death taxes and all women love cartier so i am not surprised

that the two big answers are rolex and cartier rolex is if you want to buy a watch if you got

10 grand you you you're gonna do what essentially my mother did which is my mother got a nice rolex

lady date just it's steel but it's got diamonds on the on the on the indices it's not insane but

it's lovely she got it in 1996 she's gonna wear it every day until the day she does that's what

that watch is for you get a rolex date just and it's the last watch you fucking buy until your

death if that's if you're not a watch person and you want a great watch for every outfit for the

rest of your life get a date just a couple of diamonds on there done or you go cartier

cartier is not an everyday watch for most people because of leather straps you can't get it wet

things like that but all ladies love cartier so this is a celebration it's a vibe you know

do you want a special occasion watch that's a little fancier maybe a leather strap maybe it's

made of gold or do you want something that is going to be i'm going to put this on for every

activity i do for the next 40 years so there's your choice i mean outside of that you know the

standards you're looking at well for women you might be looking at bulgari or bulgari depending

on how you pronounce it really some interesting ladies focused watches over at bulgari there are

a couple of really cool iwcs that are in smaller diameters for women if she wants more of like

a tool type watch or you could go vintage if you really want to be hardcore but my guess is you do

not um yeah i think you're on the right track though cool um big ben says i'm thinking of

my f80 for one of the hot small crossovers considering pre-owned x3m but parentheses with

softer springs a macan gts or the wild card is lease an ionic 5n home charger is not a problem

how do we feel these cars compare from my from a dynamic or driving enjoyment standpoint

very interesting what do you think i think uh well the x3m is i think the most the stiffest and

most exciting but if you soften the springs it'll ride better but in my opinion then you're kind of

landing on macan gts i think the macan has better steering feel and i like the ratio of it better

i like the shape of the steering wheel better i think the the bmw's have that thick um you know

like lego man handhold uh the lego grip yeah it's a lego grip man it's like it's a really

thick rimmed wheel and the 5n is fun interesting i i kind of got bored of the soundscape pretty

quickly um the lower center of gravity is nice but it's also it's a really big car i don't know i

i'll look up what the measurements are when you talk i'll look it up i'm not sure how it compares

to the macan gts but the ionic when i stand next to it seems like a larger vehicle than um it's

the exterior dimensions are similar but it's not as tall it's a little bit lower

but the the length and width are similar to a macan but it's not quite as tall

um i would probably rather have a macan gts with a cpo than a bmw x3m personally

even though the x3m is faster i don't really care most of the time um ionic 5n

is the right car if you want it to be a regular ev most of the time but then you have the option

to turn the gimmicks and stuff on when it gets twisty and fun um if you turn off the sound if

you turn off the gears and you just drive it like an ev it's a nice ev and driving an ev every day

is very refined uh you you might be a little more relaxed when you arrive at your destination

because the lack of the vibrations from gas engines and transmissions and things like that

so if if you think you might want to try an ev but not give up the dynamics of a fun crossover

that's what the ionic is for but if you want you know gas i would go macan

you also have more versatility with a macan because you could you could road trip it

to anywhere more easily than you could the uh the 5n if that's a if that's a thought you could

marginally my mom by the way is i i've had this conversation with my mom is i think

i dare i told my mom because she just doesn't i i've told her about the charge network and

she's like i just i wouldn't i go mom you drive like 40 miles a day like you could you you you

don't you barely use the battery in your hybrid like you could have an ev and she's like but but

what if but what if and i go i go you this isn't a a thing i go it would be it's one thing if you

didn't have a home charger and you had to find public charging in granite kinetic it twice a week

you know in order to make it to your job in the city right but if you're talking about charging

at your house every day and road trip i'm 70 something rather you know the the idea that

she's going on a road trip is ridiculous and even so i said i said i said along all the interstates

every walmart has a bank of high speed chargers they're all over the place on the interstates

and she's like i just i just don't trust it and i'm like mom i'm gonna force you to do like a

three-day ev road trip with me just to prove to you that your fears are not real and like

they're they're just not like people do this every fucking day it's not a big deal

i think well there's a there's a small learning curve to it that's gotten there's a small learning

curve i agree in the beginning you like you know like imagining my mom going to a charger and then

the charger doesn't work and she has to try three or four of them like that's not good for anybody

but the charging infrastructure has gotten better the payment things don't stop as much like there's

less of those issues but it would i think i think it's a great idea to take her on a three-day trip

and just have her experience it and get her take on you know what it's like and maybe and and after

that trip would she go oh this actually is not as daunting or you know charging i thought it'd be

i mean if you if you set up plug and charge so where your car you know it can can connect

without you interfering to the charge network you set up with charge point you set up with ea

and and maybe tesla if that you know applies and you've got a reciprocity there if your car works

with tesla you show up and you plug in i mean 99 percent of times you show up and you plug in

you know and so um and i and i'm not trying to say that everybody needs to switch to ev but i

but i'm saying that there's a lot of people that would find their day to day lives would probably

be improved driving an ev and they're just afraid of what is mostly nothing mostly very true very

true um days of the new edge mustang uh if you redid the cheap car car in a bad band together

if you redid the cheap car challenge like you did with robin vinnie what would the price point be

today gotta be a thousand bucks right i don't know i don't know what was the challenge before it might

have been 500 you know in 06 i think a thousand bucks is your is your minimum for a running car

with a license plate on it in 2025 right yeah probably um do the mitzubishi evolution

matt you hand write your notes um how do you organize them if you ever want to go back and

search for something this person uses a remarkable tablet so they can do handwriting

recognition but then they can search for a topic if they have to go look for something

would you ever try such a thing mass taking his head i flip backwards in the book until i find it

yeah when you when you hand write when i hand write stuff if i know it's hand if i wrote something

in the book hand written i will remember what it looks like in the book and when i flip to that page

i will see it right away and it does not take that long to flip through all the pages especially

if i can connect it somehow to my calendar and i know roughly what date the thing happened on or

about and then i can find it easily in the book yeah but my notes don't need to be searchable

if i was doing it for like five different classes in college like using the one notebook for

chemistry writing data like then i understand the benefit of search function um but you know

yours is is day by day my notebook is largely just to do lists um lists of things to talk about on

whatever podcasts we're doing that day uh topic lists for it's it's all lists of stuff and so 95

percent of the time when i turn the page and start a new page i'm pretty much done with whatever

is on the previous page most of the time it's only once or twice a year i need to go back

and look for something in a notebook from from back in the before

um plemitz jewish space laser uh did anything happen trying to have jessie singer on this

person read there are no accidents and it was a great book did we ever oh jessie singer jessie

singer i i gotta circle back with jessie i think she was like about to have a baby when i

contacted her and she said like oh you know it was it was like like maternity leave kind of thing

and she was like can you circle back and we tried a couple times and it didn't work i will try again

jessie singer

this name's right all right uh faraday's front mount dumbo tron

that's pretty good that that car um they put a screen on the front on the front of a minivan i mean

just just just tell us you're laundering money it's just it's not really illegal anymore so just

just just say uh if you could make changes to any affordable car uh let's say under 40 grand

what car would it be and what changes would you make um like this person would want to make a

kona n a wrx competitor so you know we want to take an affordable car and change it somehow to

make it a new thing um i would want to take the john cooper works mini and turn it into the john

cooper works mini from 20 years ago yeah make it smaller and more fun smaller faster better steering

more engaging fully disabled traction control manual transmission it has to go

yeah uh that's that's pretty much it i would go i would get rid of like almost all the screens and

bmw's like i would put a turbocharger on the brz um that's a good one yeah that's a good one i would

yeah turbocharger bs i would do that yeah just like the regular s wrx motor would do it pretty much

yeah yeah um front wheel drive nsx how much time do you have left we have what i have six minutes

and then i have to go to dinner great um front wheel drive nsx uh it's a watch question they're

looking at sheffield watches the prices are cheap that's a good thing they are um they work in a

restaurant and they're wondering sorry they work in restaurant equipment repair will this watch hold

up to their job most of the forums about reliability are from office worker types yeah dude i i am not

qualified to answer if you can abuse this watch in a you know smashing it into stuff i i know that

for the price point these are quality watches have i torture tested one i i i genuinely couldn't

tell you i'm sorry um type r negative that's pretty funny like that uh what enthusiast cars

could keep would we keep for 50 years while minimizing risk of part availability issues

something besides 9 11's uh i think a lot of japanese enthusiast cars i think those companies

will be toyota and honda are going to be around for a long time and i think they're i think they're

recognizing the importance of their classic sports cars and they'll probably keep some sort of part

supply uh and yeah bmw shit i mean i think i think the old euro cars have huge support network

sure you've never been able to not get a part for a ferrari i mean for any ferrari um

it's not exactly a car of the people but if you buy a 80s or 90s ferrari for you know reasonable

money you will not have a problem finding parts they might be expensive if you want them from

ferrari but but but they're gonna be around yeah um this might be a little sketchy aston martin

maybe you know got you get a db7 or something or a fucking or a vanquish it may be tough to

early vanquish may be tough to find parts for um certainly lamp some lambos like you can you if

you got into a lambo yelpa you know you get into one of those for 100 120 grand very rare

lambo you get into any concourse you enter but yikes try to find parts for that oof man that

would be tough um corvettes you'll be fine you know you could you've always been able to get

anything for a core for any corvette um old rusty beamer wants to go back to your

bmw r2d2 uh review um the the what is that no you you drove that motorcycle that um

it was like the rd tw o nine or whatever it was called oh r9t yeah r9t yeah so

originally this is what they say originally you described the drivetrain is clunky

then a listener pointed out that the drivetrain is from an older model so the clunk yes the

intentional you then said it's not clunky it's cool uh this person says can you explain this

reasoning of change uh are we all dumb monkeys and there's a reason designers and engineers

don't listen to us not sure i understand the second part but like i don't it is my takeaway is you

know if the drivetrain is clunky when you see it as a brand new technology but if it's an old

technology you go actually that's not a bad thing it's kind of cool because it's you know vintage

and uh and tough yeah i mean

let me just say that it's not for me but if you are into bmw's heritage and you wanted

something that felt a little older i guess but was still a brand new bike you could get one of these

things um i'm not really sure what the question is implying and and although it seems i said that

the clunky shifter was maybe cool in the context of this being a retro style bike i did not think

that made it more desirable to ride or own for me personally um just the tip tranny says what do we

think of the walls that have been placed around streets of willow uh i've seen some close call

videos that look like minor mistakes that could be punished heavily a la sinoma so we so we've had

you and i've had people ask about this regarding motorcyclists riding in streets of willow yeah

what is your what is your take well so they've added walls but they've also

added paved runoff and in the areas where they haven't had paved runoff they've added

graded runoff so if you go off you're not like going into a ravine anymore or hitting like boulders

so that's like a major major improvement um if you go off with enough speed and force to then

go through those runoffs and hit the wall um i'm fairly certain that that might be better than

the alternative which is i don't know just driving out and ending up out in the desert um

or maybe catching an edge in a ravine and rolling um i i don't think the walls at streets of willow

are in any places that would punish you for going off more so than you would have been punished off

going off before where the undercarriage of your car would have been absolutely wrecked

having said that i have not driven any high-speed laps of this track yet so i'd love to go out there

in the next month and poke around and run some laps and and come back with some thoughts on that

from a real driver's perspective which i don't have yet okay and the last one matt and the giant

Porsche that's that's so funny oh yeah get cute like james and the giant peach um i recently became

obsessed with the idea of getting a 996 GT3 have either either of us ever driven one and if so what

are our impressions this is not a value investment play um so don't think about that part not only

have i driven one there's a video of it on the channel you can go see it i drove it back to back

with five other gt3 and rs products at the Porsche experience center five or six years ago um

um 996 GT3s are raw really raw um they ride stiff they're fucking loud um they really do feel

like motorsport grade products but they are much rarer and more aggressive than they look like they

are um they're cool they are very cool in their own way i after driving one it's crossed off my

list of a desire to own i would rather have a 997 GT3 i know they're a lot more expensive but

um the the 996 was a little too aggressive for me um yeah i drove i drove a GT3 and a GT3 rs and i

very surprised how a car that was 25 years old i was like this is really stiff for him for for all

the compared to the other cars of the era i was yeah wow this is locked down the steering steering

is kind of heavy i don't like the interior very much um yeah you know it was a way to get in the

club but yeah i agree and marco our friend who had one sold it and bought a cup car he was like wow

i might as well just go all the way at this point you know yeah uh all right well those are

some great questions from our patrons thank you guys for your patience as we podcast from

opposite sides of the country today uh the next time you hear us we'll be back in the studio um

i appreciate all the patrons for having such good questions today uh and i appreciate everyone

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