The Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge is a racing event where powerful cars, known as muscle cars, race each other in a straight line on a track. It's a fun way for car lovers to show off their cars and see which one is the fastest.
Drag racing is a sport where two cars race each other on a straight track to see which one is faster. They usually race a quarter-mile distance, and it's all about how quickly they can go from a stop to the finish line.
The eighth mile is a shorter distance used in drag racing, measuring 660 feet. It's often used for quick races and helps show how fast a car can go in a shorter amount of time.
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Cadillac V-Series
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The '3.6' emblem is a badge that shows the car has a 3.6-liter engine, which is a type of engine that helps the car perform better. It's like a name tag for the car's engine size.
Classic muscle cars are powerful American cars that were made mainly in the 1960s and 70s. They are known for their strong engines and sporty designs, making them very popular among car enthusiasts.
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Tesla
Tesla is a company that makes electric cars. They are known for being high-tech and have different models like the Model S and Model 3.
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Shell Recharge is a brand of charging stations for electric cars created by Shell. You can find these stations at some gas stations, and they help you charge your electric vehicle.
A fast charging station is where you can quickly charge an electric car's battery. It takes less time than regular chargers, so you can get back on the road faster.
An electric vehicle is a car that runs on electricity instead of gasoline. This means it can be charged at charging stations and is usually better for the environment.
Miles per charge is how far an electric car can go before it needs to be charged again. It's an important number to know if you want to drive long distances.
Ceramic coating is a special liquid that is put on a car's paint to protect it from dirt and sunlight. It helps keep the car looking shiny and makes cleaning easier.
Paint protection film is a clear covering that is put on a car's paint to keep it safe from scratches and damage. It helps the car look good for a longer time.
Gulf Coast Auto Shield is a place in Houston where car lovers go to get services that help protect and improve their cars, like paint protection and window tinting.
A radar detector is a gadget that helps drivers know when police are using speed cameras. It warns them so they can slow down and avoid getting a ticket.
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Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast.
It's the award-winning In-Wheel Time car talk show.
Somebody awarded us something at some point?
Yeah, for what?
Just ahead, our drag racing friends will learn about the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge
that you hear us talk about occasionally.
Plus, Jeff will have the cruise in and events calendars and I'll bring you stories making
automotive news headlines this week.
Howdy along with Mike out of this World Wars.
We need more Jeff Seekin, always.
Chief Engineer David Ainslie, I'm Don Armstrong, I'm glad you could join us on this Saturday.
I'm still trying to recover from the dash out.
I'm sorry, did never mind, I'm not, I'm not.
We actually went back to- It's an East Texas thing, just let me-
Okay, I'll let you bathe in the joy of that.
We actually went back through the script, you said, so we could read it again.
Yeah, we had to look at that.
So, just a second.
So, do we have you, Michael?
Mr. Mars?
Yes, Scott is here.
Scott Striegel, President of the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
Scott, good morning to you and thanks for joining us.
Morning.
Good morning.
So, Scott.
Guys, can you hear me okay?
Yeah, we're doing well.
How are you?
It's a little, you know, for October it's 89 degrees.
Yeah, are you up in the Dallas area?
I am close to Denton, so yes.
Yes, okay, very good.
All right, so for everybody that doesn't know, let's talk about the Texas Muscle
Car Club Challenge and this is a drag racing event that actually several of them that you
guys have put together in drag strips, mainly across Texas, am I correct?
Correct, we only have one in Oklahoma, but everything else is in Texas.
And so, generally speaking, these are eighth mile tracks, correct?
Yeah, so what we...
The only one we have that's quarter mile in Texas would be the motorplex in Venice.
In Oklahoma, we've raced at Thunder Valley, that's quarter mile also.
Now, do you run the quarter mile, just the track is a quarter mile and you just run the
eighth?
How does that work?
Is he frozen up?
Scott, can you hear us?
Uh-oh.
No, well, okay.
Well, Mr. Mars, I'm going to let you handle that.
We don't have anything to do with that on this end.
That is probably his cell phone signal, I would imagine, so we will let you take care
of that if you don't mind, sir.
Yes, sir.
You guys are bad.
There he is.
Yeah, he's going to have to re-dial us up.
Fine.
Okay.
All right, Mike, I'm going to let you take care of that.
It says here the Texas Messel Car Club Challenge Series.
The goal of it is to provide a racing venue for people who want to race for fun.
It's a club against a club event that races for points, a challenge committee representing
the clubs will meet periodically and decide how many races to run each year.
Where to run, the structure of the program, and the rules, and these are basically friends.
Yeah.
Buddies.
And they go to these different events as friends and they race against each other.
And it's better than the street.
You see these TV shows about street racing and all the bad stuff that happens after that
and then the city's alone, so that's good.
Yeah.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, the street takeovers and stuff like that, this is not that.
This is legit stuff with time slips that they hand out after the end of each run and
hey, look what I did.
I beat you by, you know, two tenths of a second, whatever the case may be.
Yep.
So at any rate, Texas Messel Car Club Challenge, they sponsor one of our segments on the program
and anyway, it's good stuff.
So I did want to mention to you and you probably heard the commercial already and we're going
to repeat it a couple of times during the rest of the show.
There was a throw down tailpipes and tacos event that was scheduled for October the 18th
and it is still scheduled.
And this is going to be at the Lupi Tortilla Tex-Max out in Katie, which is the only place
for tailpipes and tacos and it's coming up on October the 18th that I tell you this
because we typically will be there for all of the tailpipes and tacos events, Stan and
Chase and the whole gang out there at the Lupi Tortilla out there.
But this particular event we will not be at because we had already committed to another
remote broadcast for the Spring Branch High School Foundation and we are going to be at
that event while this event is taking place.
So you've got your choice.
You can either go to tailpipes and tacos or the Spring Branch.
We have to do it without us.
Yeah.
With us or without us.
Either way, it's going to be on October the 18th, so I believe that's three weeks from
today.
Yeah.
That's coming up.
And if you'd like more information on the Lupi event, go to tailpipesandtacos or you
can go to inwheeltime.com as well and get the information there.
Or you could go to both.
You could start it at one and end at the other.
And you never know.
You could very well do that.
And I think there's going to be a Dachshund show.
No, a Dachshund.
Dachshund's show.
A Dachshund.
Uh-huh.
A Dachshund's show.
Don't say that too fast.
Too quickly.
Okay.
Mike's working on the guest.
Izzy.
Okay.
Well, we don't have any control over that, so we're just going to kind of move on.
All right.
I had a story that I was going to originally use for our story of the week.
And another one came up that I changed it out, but this is kind of a part two of a story
of the week.
Late model used vehicles, some of the most profitable for franchise dealerships are harder
to secure in 2025.
Competition for a smaller amount of that inventory is very strong, however, in response, some
dealerships turn to their service department as a potential internal gold mine for those
used vehicles.
If you've taken your car to a car dealership here of late, chances are you've been approached
by someone within the car dealership that says, Hey, you want to sell your car?
Well, dealers have been finding inventive ways to source pre-owned vehicles for several
years.
The pandemic and subsequent semiconductor shortage curtailed new vehicle production.
That resulted in fewer U.S. sales and in particular new leases in that in turn led recently to
a shortage of off lease vehicles returning to dealership Watts as trade-ins.
Some dealership managers said the service drive is one way to find inventory at their
fingertips.
The supplement, but they can't find as frequently in other channels.
It's a it's an interesting thing that they have discovered and hey, we've got all these
people coming to the service department.
They're coming to us with used cars.
Why not say, Hey, we can make you a deal.
So that's what it's just coming to life.
That's been around a while because, you know, now you can sell your car without buying one.
So that's all that all started.
And I agree.
But they used to do that when I was working at dealerships.
They would do that.
Hey, but you're a lot younger than me by a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Years.
Decades.
It's a full commitment, according to Jim Farkas, executive manager, manager of a preferred
auto dealerships in Grand Haven, Michigan.
I wonder if he's any relationship to Scott Farkas.
I don't know.
Farkas introduced preferred auto dealerships to sourcing more out of their service drives
in 2025 after honing the strategy at a previous dealership group.
What matters most is establishing consistency said managers should designate employees to
work that process with regularity while setting clear goals for how many used vehicles need
to be acquired.
A dealership sourcing 8% of its overall used vehicle retail inventory each month from its
service customers, for example, would be rocking it, he said.
Yeah.
So when you go in there and you may or may not be ready for a trade or a new car or to
get rid of your car, but it might be something to consider, especially if you've got, you
know, 35, 40,000 miles on it and it's either off lease or it's not an off lease and you
are making payments on it.
You might be able to bump up with a few dollars more.
Not only that, you're in there for service.
So is the car paid off?
Are you upside down on it?
Is the repair more than the value of the car?
There's all that to consider that these sharp set people will put that into a presentation
and get you into a new car.
I had a friend of mine that actually had a vehicle and they were having lots of trouble
with them and they had taken it in for, well, they were going to trade it in or sell it
to a car max and the guy at the dealership said, Hey, I'll give you $2,000 more than
car max will.
So she brought the paper from car max and said, this is what we're going to offer you.
So here you go.
Here's the extra money and they bought the car, the used car and got her a new car.
There's even a commercial with the guy, the car, Vanna, where you buy in your car or they
come pick it up.
There's there's a big promotion and marketing.
And I have to tell you, speaking of Carvana, there was a time when Carvana came to town
and they put up the big vending.
She's still up.
They're still up.
They're not building them anymore because they're very expensive.
But Carvana has actually turned the corner and are actually doing quite well.
So there are a lot of other used car retailers out there that haven't made it room for one
of them.
Shut down.
And then there was Texas Direct that shut down, got bought up by somebody else and it
was the whole used car thing just kind of evolved to what it is today.
But it's not an easy process.
Even to Carvana, there are a lot of things, a lot of hoops you got to jump through and
there's a lot of fine print that you have to read before buying or selling a car to
them.
If you buy a car from them, you have to have certain things required by them through their
outfit for insurance and things.
And then you go through the steps to sell your car or to buy your car.
If you want to deliver, you got to do certain steps to have it delivered.
If you want to pick it up, you got to go through certain steps.
Yeah, they make it sound so easy.
I know there's not commercials that there's there are things that you have to do.
Jump through this hoop.
And by the way, we're going to set it on fire when you jump through.
So when when you sold your Cadillac, did you trade it in?
I did.
You traded it in for the Buick.
Yeah, yeah.
OK.
How was that process?
Pretty simple.
Was it pretty simple?
What was a General Motors dealership?
It was a GMC Buick Cadillac store.
Oh, it was. OK.
And other than take the title, what else did you have to do?
Nothing really.
Just take the time.
Yeah. Here's the title.
Sign it over. Yeah.
Give them a check for the car and boom, I was out.
It probably took maybe two hours.
Stopped. Yeah.
And that was me calling them on the way to the dealership to find out if the car
was still there that I saw on the ad.
It was still there.
I got there in two hours later.
I was driving out in that car because that's the car that you saw online.
That's the car that you want to make the story longer.
I was at another dealership for the same car and they couldn't sell it to me
because it was missing a sticker from General Motors.
That was part of a recall under the hood.
There was some type of technical sticker that General Motors puts under there.
It was missing.
And they said, we can't do that.
Well, how do I get this?
You could sell it to me and then mail me the sticker.
I'll get my own when I don't need it, whatever the case can't do it
because they'll get in trouble through the feds and General Motors.
Right. So, you know, very upsetting.
I left the dealership and on my way ticked off very.
I called another dealership because I'm sitting with the guy telling me
he can't sell me the car and I'm scrolling to buy another car on the phone.
So that's what I did.
And they had one basically like the one just like it.
Just same identical, in fact, had less miles, like 10 miles on or something.
Oh, OK. But you did buy it new, right?
Brand new car. Yeah, brand new car.
Yeah, they had to get cleaned up.
And actually, that was probably the process of the two hours done cleaning up the car
because it sat on the ladder for a few days or whatever it was.
You know, I had the papers all filled out.
I paid cash for it.
I had a check in hand, all that stuff.
So it was good.
And they treated my good.
Gave me the value of the car.
Yeah, they actually gave me more because it was a V.
Oh, my God.
So the story with the V, they didn't they didn't make a Cadillac.
Was it a generation one?
They did make a V. Mine was mine was the third generation.
It was an SRX. Yes.
Yeah, Cadillac SRX.
Beautiful car. Yeah.
Station wagon looking kind of neat little car.
It was fit me perfect.
It held all my drum equipment in the back with, you know, passenger despair,
all that good stuff.
It was at the CT five that took its place.
What was the XT five XT five and then they made a smaller on the XT four
beyond that.
Yeah, but I would get my car washed because I worked dealerships
with American tireless regional manager dealerships three, four a day.
And I would get the car washed a couple of times a day.
You know, if it was raining or something, I'd get pulled.
Hey, how much does it cost for a car for a car wash?
No problem, Jeff, give me your keys.
While we're doing business talking about tires and things, they were cleaning
up my car. Well, there's one particular one at a Cadillac dealership.
It was in San Antonio, bachelor Cadillac, I believe it was.
And the operations guy was a good friend of mine came back and said,
Jeff, I got a problem.
The 3.6 emblem on the back broke off during the process of washing the car.
Oh, gosh, we'll just put another one on.
We can't get one for like another week, eight days.
All right. Well, what do you got?
Well, we got a V. Let me have it.
I didn't let them put it on.
I took it with me and I put it on.
So I had a V meaning a high horse power Cadillac.
Yeah, exactly.
So I had that for ever pull up next to you.
Look, I've had people go, hey, I'm good.
That's a V. That's a V. The car is not that is a V emblem.
Let's get technical about that.
Love. So yeah.
And I think they gave me more money because they thought it was a V.
I know. I'm just kidding.
Give that man give that man some extra money for the V.
Speaking of extra money, there's Michael.
Yes, sir.
Well, did you make it back?
You know, I did, but we were having I'm not sure what's going on with Scott.
We texted back and forth and he was going to do some rebooting.
And it just didn't happen.
It didn't happen.
Oh, boy. Well, Scott, it's great to have you not with us.
I'm sorry that he's trying to guess this all happened.
I got that, but we've got to move on.
OK. Hey, we do want to remind you that coming up,
Jeff has the crews in and events calendars.
And I'll have the stories making headlines this week.
Stay with us here on the award winning in wheel time car talk show.
We continue after this quick break. Stay with us.
You've waited all summer and it's finally here.
The tailpipes and tacos fall 25 crews in car show.
It's been a while, but the popular tailpipes and tacos cruise in returns
to the loopy tortilla Tex-Max and Katie Saturday, October 18th.
Make any donation to Shirley's kids and get a free breakfast taco.
They'll be mimosas and Bloody Mary's to get to the best cruise in of the year.
Tailpipes and tacos car show Saturday, October 18th, eight to 11 a.m.
Cruise in, make a donation of any amount and grab a free loopy tortilla breakfast
taco tailpipes and tacos only happens at the loopy tortilla Tex-Max in Katie
703 West Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard just south of the Katie Freeway.
Join the car Conradery and your car will automatically compete for one
of three chili pepper trophies at no charge.
Follow us here and what better way to celebrate than with a free taco
at tailpipes and tacos cruise in car show Saturday, October 18th, eight to 11 a.m.
It's the cruise in you won't want to miss loopy tortillas, tailpipes and tacos in Katie.
Time to fire up those engines and pay tribute to the folks who make freedom possible.
Bastrobs on heroes and hot rides is rolling in for Veterans Day weekend.
Friday night, downtown cruise Saturday, 400 of the coolest rides in Texas.
Proceeds help veterans, shelters, food pantries and scholarships sponsored by
Craig's Jewelry, November 7th and 8th, Main Street, Bastro.
Don't miss it.
You know, there's some, there's some production, real production work done there.
You think?
Yeah.
I love the yee-haw at the end of it and the music is perfect.
The chicken picking on the banjo.
Yeah.
You know who's a good banjo player?
Um, Tom easily got to play bass for us in the band.
Is that right?
Oh yeah.
He teaches banjo.
He's really good at it.
He's, you know,
Hey, be sure and join us for a live show every week in wheel time airs Saturday,
10 to noon central time.
And, uh, we're on Facebook, YouTube and in wheel time.com.
Thank you for joining us today.
Time off with the cruise in and events calendar.
Oh yeah.
I'm sorry, Jeffrey.
I saw Mr.
Mars, you know, just, you know, here's one for us, danger field days, car and bike
show, danger field, you're probably wondering where danger field Texas is.
It's East of Dallas and it's sort of between, uh, Shreveport and, uh, what's up?
Not Lubbock, Lubbock's on the other side.
It's just North and East Tyler, all that.
It's a little bit north of Tyler, but it's in that area, you know, it's up there
with Georgia.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, it's the horn family, family funeral home run.
What?
Yes.
Wait a minute, run that by again.
Horn family funeral home is sponsoring this.
It's a 400 web street in danger field.
Danger field days will feature car and bike show with categories, including
classic muscle cars, jeeps, trucks and Corvettes from 1990 and newer.
The event includes food trucks, barbecue, vendor booths, kids area and
cornhole tournament registered for the cost is 20 bucks.
Takes place between eight AM and 10 30.
Judging is scheduled between 12, 30, around 12, 30 ish as the king and queen
of the event going to be riding, I don't know, but it's a funeral home.
People are dying to get in there.
Uh, so also various raffles, 50, 50 raffle along nine people's choice awards.
So there you go.
It's in danger field at horn family funeral home.
Good luck.
Uh, Bellaire high water truck pull and car show.
Uh, that's going on at seven zero zero eight South rice in Bellaire, Texas.
Not far from here.
They'll host a high water truck pull and car show October 11th.
High water truck pull.
Yeah.
October 11th.
The event runs from eight AM to 11 in Bellaire, Texas.
The truck pull invites participants to play tug of war with high water rescue
trucks supporting special Olympic Texas athletes.
The car show welcomes all vehicles, including hot rods, vintage cars, customs,
motorcycles, and daily drivers.
You know what they need to do is get one of those great big army vehicles that
they use.
Yeah.
Like mattress Mac has one of those.
Is that a fight?
You gotta step up into the bed.
That's, you know, I got a feeling.
I know who'd win that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Then we got one legacy four of Rosenberg Mustang club of Houston fall open
car show is the 11th, which is next Saturday, nine AM to one 30 legacy four to
27 to two five Southwest freeway in Rosenberg.
Legacy Ford Rosenberg hosting this event fall car show.
The event opens to all makes and models, not just forwards.
It'll be held at the Southwest freeway location for them.
Registration runs from nine AM to 11 30 AM.
The show will run from nine AM to one 30 awards presented at two entry costs of
30 bucks pay cash discount rates for 25 for the first responders.
18 classes will be judged.
Go out there and support that.
It's a good cause.
We need to do a remote there.
Yeah, we do.
Patrick is the general, the principal, the general manager.
Pretty much part Patrick, Patrick, the owner of legacy Ford cars and coffee
hosted by fearless performance.
That's in Huntsville and that goes from eight AM to 11.
And when you're done with that, I can go take the tour of the prison.
I was going to say that's an entry to go see Sparky.
And then we've got one that we're doing.
Don mentioned it earlier, back to the past car shows, the annual classic car
truck and motorcycle show, museum, open house, cornerstone academy, spring branch
bears is on the 18th.
I believe that is.
I wrote eight correct.
Maybe you're right.
Okay.
And that's it.
Thank you for that, Mr.
Mars.
Was that playing me out?
Was that coming from you?
We have a trip now.
I was trying to hit the mute button and I hit the wrong button.
Oh my God.
Okay.
He's playing me out and that's about it.
I mean, support your local car shows, your car events.
I'm sure you've got them, you know, either at a church or a car dealership.
Well, October is the big month.
Yeah.
October is a big month.
A lot of people do that and then they take the car home and then they start
cleaning it up for Autorama, which comes next giving weekend.
That's a good deal too.
Yep.
It's always fun.
All right.
Round, round, round.
I'll wait for the music.
You know, you know, you know what?
What's really nice about this set up is that I can take this button right here
and go pod me down and we can't hear him.
Oh, please.
Something Mars.
Hello.
It works.
But we know that feature is great.
This digit right here works great for you.
He's got nine others.
Yeah.
They don't know.
We don't want to know what they do.
Yeah.
No, you don't.
All right.
Time now for some of the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
Detroit three automakers have mounted a furious last minute lobbying blitz over
the Trump administration's potential tariffs on medium and heavy duty trucks
in a fight pitting Detroit's legacy automakers against each other.
Oh boy.
Huh.
What is the last time that happened?
Girl fight.
It still goes on today.
Stalantis has lobbied the administration in recent days to waver or soften a
possible 25% tariff that could otherwise hit medium duty Ram pickup trucks.
The company makes in Mexico.
People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
This is a story from automotive news.
General Motors and Ford, meanwhile, averaged Trump's administration officials to
dismiss the request, said the people who asked not to be a judge.
Identified because the discussions are private.
Oh, yeah.
Ford argued that shielding Stalantis from the medium duty truck tariffs would
hand the company a cost advantage over US assembled trucks that contain imported
parts already subject to tariffs, they said.
GM told administration officials that if Stalantis gets relief on trucks, other
automakers will want exemptions and the maker of Chevrolet and GMC pickups could
and should get one on its other Mexican built models, according to one of the people.
The effort comes just as the administration has blown past a timeline for
imposing the tariffs, which the president has said would be in place by October
one. Trump said last week, the 25% duty on heavy duty trucks, part of the month
long investigation into heavy and medium duty models.
We'll see what happens on that.
They're fighting.
They are.
Uh, more money news to tell you about the repeal of the US electric vehicle
tax credit won't just crash EV sales in the fourth quarter.
It could slow the pace of adoption for years to come, according to industry
forecasts, market share for new battery electric vehicles was already stuck in
single digits before the $7,500 tax incentive expired September 30th.
Now, forecasters are scaling back their targets as affordability options and
worries deepen.
US EV share will hover below 10% this year without federal support, according
to Stephanie Valdez Streedy, director of industry insights at Cox Automotive.
It will likely rise to about 25% by 2030.
She said that's just half of the most optimistic industry forecasts from a few
years ago.
Still 25% market share takes EVs out of the niche category.
Valdez Streedy said she urged automakers to address EV headwinds such as
affordability and charging.
Two of the big things that keep people from going, I'll buy one of them.
Yeah.
Well, I feel the understanding that the automakers are buying up the excess EVs
to keep that rebate in place.
That only lasts for a while.
I know.
Well, and that's like her, like her talking about it going up to 25% in 10
years or whatever it is.
They're not buying them now.
It's slowing down now because it's all a money matter, which means they don't,
most of us don't want to take that lifestyle change that it takes to move to
an EV if there's no money for it.
And you and I both know that it is a lifestyle change.
If you want an EV, my daughter has one and a friend of mine that I work with.
He has a Tesla and it is.
And he told me I'll never have another one because it is too big of a pain to
have to go somewhere on a road trip to stop for 20 minutes to get it charged
when I can just pull in the gas station and for five minutes, I can get 400
miles worth of gas.
20 minutes if you stop at the right charger, otherwise it could be an hour
or an hour and a half or my charging story.
As I told you on this show, I had an EV that was running low and I just
could not catch up.
So I decided that I was going to go find a fast charger.
I did.
And it was a called a shell recharge station.
There was no gasoline available.
It was strictly a fast charging station.
80% charge took 20 minutes.
It cost me $50, $50, but didn't you drive to Pasadena to get that?
No, no, no, it was right there in first column.
Oh, how many miles did that get you?
Well, um, it got at an 80% charge in that particular vehicle.
It was about 320 miles.
Yeah.
Okay, 50 bucks, I could, I could have a car, a gasoline motor to go to Dallas
and halfway back for $50.
Yep.
Yeah, I would think so.
Yeah.
Well, what was the last tour we went out?
We went, uh, when we followed you out, I think it was one of the tours.
I did the whole thing on a tank of gas.
Yeah.
Down to Victorian back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's that.
I get, uh, this week I got little, I got like 29 because I was more city driving,
but I'm generally in the 32 range on the highway.
Yeah, they're, they're hoping that EVs take off.
There's no real data that she can present.
I don't believe I've never seen any that'll justify her statement that 25% of
the market will be there in 10 years.
I don't agree.
Yeah.
I agree with you, Mark.
I'm driving a Buick and everyone should own one.
Yeah.
I, I got sent from the very beginning.
If the EV can't compete head to head without an incentive, then why?
The, and these companies have spent billions of dollars already and they've
stopped building buildings that they're going to build these EVs in.
They backed out of these big battery plants.
It, it's, it was way too much Tuesday and no infrastructure.
Wait for my motor minute.
You government, that's your government at work here.
Yeah.
Well, it was my government at work.
Yeah.
They're the ones that started all this mess.
Well, um, okay.
I think that, uh, we are done with this segment.
What do you think, Mr.
Mars?
I think so.
Um, I think it's, we have some other things to do.
We do.
We do.
What are they?
They're in the next segment.
Oh, all right.
Well, I'm just checking.
All right.
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