A famous Japanese race car driver known as the 'Drift King' because he helped make drifting (sliding a car sideways through turns) popular all over the world.
The Corvette is a famous two-seat sports car made by the American company Chevrolet. It is designed to go very fast and look like an exotic supercar, but it costs less than similar cars from Europe. It has its engine located behind the seats instead of under the hood to help it handle better.
The Chrysler PT Cruiser is a small family car made in the 2000s that was designed to look like an old-fashioned car from the 1930s. It has a tall roof and a versatile interior where the seats can be folded or removed to carry large items. It is a very recognizable car that people either love or dislike for its unique retro look.
A prestigious, high-end classic car show held in Northern California where incredibly rare and expensive vintage cars are judged on their condition and history.
The Hyundai Santa Cruz is a small utility vehicle that combines the front half of a comfortable SUV with a small open truck bed in the back. It is designed for people who live in cities but want to carry outdoor gear like bikes, surfboards, or camping equipment. It is easier to park and drives more smoothly than a traditional, large pickup truck.
The Cadillac CTS-V Wagon is a station wagon that was modified by Cadillac to be extremely fast. It looks like a family car with a large trunk area, but it has a supercharged V8 engine from a sports car under the hood. It is highly sought after by car enthusiasts because very few were made, especially with a manual transmission.
The Ford Pinto is a small, budget-friendly car sold by Ford in the 1970s. It was designed to be cheap to buy and highly fuel-efficient during a time when gas prices were rising. It is well-known in history for safety concerns regarding its fuel tank location, but it was still a very common sight on American roads.
The Ferrari 456 is a sleek, four-seat sports car with a powerful V12 engine under the hood, built in Italy during the 1990s and early 2000s. The "Venice" version is an incredibly rare, custom-built station wagon version of this car made specially for royalty. Only a handful of these wagons exist in the world.
The ruler of Brunei, famous for buying thousands of the world's most expensive, rare, and custom-made luxury cars and supercars during the 1980s and 90s.
The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 is a classic, front-engined sports car from Italy built around 1970. The specific version mentioned here is a one-of-a-kind custom model that was rebuilt to look like a station wagon with a large glass cargo area in the back. It is a highly valuable and unique piece of automotive history.
The BMW 5 Series is a mid-sized luxury sedan made by the German company BMW. It is designed for business professionals and families who want a comfortable, high-tech car that is also engaging and fun to drive. It comes with advanced technology screens inside and offers various engine options, including hybrid and electric versions.
The BMW 6 Series is a premium luxury car designed for comfortable, long-distance driving. It has been sold as a sleek two-door coupe, a convertible, and a stylish four-door model. It is larger and more luxurious than the 3 or 5 Series, focusing on style and comfort.
The Buick Roadmaster is a very large American station wagon from the 1990s, famous for its wood-paneled sides and spacious interior. It was built to carry large families and their luggage in comfort over long distances. Underneath its conservative look, it actually has a powerful V8 engine similar to the one used in sports cars of that era.
The Jeep Wagoneer is a classic, vintage sport utility vehicle (SUV) from the late 20th century, famous for its boxy shape and wood-paneled sides. It was one of the first vehicles to combine a rugged off-road system with luxury features like comfortable seats and air conditioning. It is now a highly collectible classic car.
The Audi A2 is a small, futuristic-looking hatchback car sold in Europe in the early 2000s. It was unique because its body was made entirely of lightweight aluminum to save fuel, and it was shaped to cut through the air very efficiently. It was designed to be a premium, space-saving city car.
The BMW 7 Series (specifically the E32 model from the late 1980s and early 1990s) is a large, high-end luxury sedan designed to carry executives in extreme comfort. It was BMW's most expensive and advanced car at the time, featuring cutting-edge technology and powerful engine options, including a very smooth V12 engine.
The Volkswagen Golf is a popular, small hatchback car made by the German company Volkswagen. It is famous for being practical, easy to park, and comfortable for daily driving. It has a rear hatchback door that opens up to a versatile cargo area, making it a great all-rounder.
The E 63 AMG is an extremely fast, high-performance version of a mid-sized Mercedes-Benz luxury car, available as a sedan or a station wagon. It features a powerful, hand-built V8 engine and all-wheel drive, allowing it to accelerate as fast as a supercar while still having room for five people and their luggage.
The BMW M5 Wagon is a high-performance station wagon. It combines the large trunk space of a family utility vehicle with the incredibly fast engine and suspension of a sports car. It is designed for drivers who want maximum speed and handling without giving up the ability to carry large items.
The Mazda Miata is a small, lightweight convertible sports car with two seats. It is made by the Japanese company Mazda and is famous for being incredibly fun and easy to drive, even though it does not have a massive, high-powered engine. It is widely loved because it is affordable, reliable, and lets you drive with the roof down.
An ultra-rare 1990s supercar with three seats (the driver sits in the middle) and a gold-lined engine bay, famous for being one of the fastest and most valuable cars in the world.
The Suzuki Samurai is a very small, boxy four-wheel-drive SUV from the 1980s and 1990s. It is designed to be a simple, lightweight off-road vehicle that can easily climb over rough terrain and fit through tight spaces. It is loved by outdoor enthusiasts for its ruggedness and fun, open-top driving experience.
The Jaguar XJR is a high-performance luxury sedan made by the British company Jaguar. It looks like a classic, elegant executive car with a traditional shape, but it has a supercharged V8 engine that makes it incredibly fast. It was built using lightweight aluminum to help it handle better and accelerate quickly.
The Ferrari F40 is a legendary, extremely fast two-seat sports car built in Italy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was designed to be as close to a race car as possible for the street, meaning it has almost no comfort features like air conditioning or a radio. It is highly famous for its large rear wing and its twin-turbocharged engine.
Judgment night soundtrack. Great soundtrack. I love to listen to that.
And it's because it's a, it's a rack. It's a rap rock. Nice. They do a combo specifically made
for the soundtrack. So it's like a rap artist and a rock artist doing each song together.
Kind of crazy. So it's like Aerosmith and run to MC style.
Interesting. The only bummer is that on Apple Music, at least what I use,
you'll go to a soundtrack and they only have rights to certain songs. So it's like five out
of the 12 songs are missing because they didn't get. Oh, yeah. It's not like part of the soundtrack.
It's part of the other album. So yeah, I think, yeah, I feel like that's the same way I like Spotify.
Maybe, but full albums pretty good on there.
Desperately seeking Suzuki says, what's the worst intersection in your neighborhood and
how would you fix it? This seems like a very hyper local question. Very hyper local, dude.
I mean, in general, he does live right on the street from me. Oh,
this is a question for Lane. Well, he knows how to see from you too. He's in between us.
I have a weird one. It's the off ramp of a highway.
What's it's weird. It's like a merge onto a highway, but you can also just take a right
and go into my neighborhood. But when you take that right, there's no stop sign.
It's a yield that you're yielding to cross traffic off of like a fast kind of highway
on ramp, which is wild. And I've been in Ubers where it's like borderline sketch
because they're just driving on the maps. It doesn't say, they don't see a stop sign.
So they're like, wait, what? And then you're in the intersection. It's like, what the fuck?
So I don't know if it's a stop sign. Is it a roundabout? Roundabout wouldn't fit.
I'll have a question for you, Lane. This is hyper local. I'll let you get to your intersection.
No, you're that's the sickest intersection ever. Fix that. No, but why would you want to?
I mean roundabout is what like any European country would have. But what about more
neighborhood signs that say like prospect heights or upper west? Like how come that
doesn't really? That's not a thing. Carbonara has won some random ass sign. Why? Yeah, what?
They got pride in that. Why? I don't know. Anyways, think about it. Yeah, I like it,
dude. I like it. Hey, hey, let's let people know where you're at. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Nice. Like,
oh yeah. Hey, that is the name. Oh, I didn't realize I was in the fucking banana belt right
now. You're gonna need a lot of signs. Yeah, dude. That's pretty sick. Are you fixing an
intersection? I mean, I have an intersection that I have no idea how to fix it, but it's my
least favorite intersection. It's right near my house kind of, but it's entering the beach plots
of Santa Cruz, which is going towards the boardwalk. You go left to go over the bridge
to the beach plots, and it's a double left turn lane. And if you are on the inside,
I'm sorry, if you are on the outside of that lane, guarantee the inside is going to cut into you
and want. And so you have to be, be hyper aware of that car. So you have to basically,
if you're in front, if you're like the first car in line, you can go fast and get and make sure,
but if you're not, they're going to, they're just going to basically move over on you.
Cause a lot of people want to get into the right lane to turn right after the bridge.
And it's dude, every time dude, they just kind of float over and it's almost like they think
the only the left turn can turn left. That's definitely what's happening. And it's like,
it's crazy dude. And so a lot of times I just go in the left lane, I stay in the left turn lane
during the turn. And then I cut it and then I did the right, but I know you're saying and I do
and I'm a way more aggressive, like aggressive driver and I'm looking at what I'm doing, right?
They're just like nonchalant, like I'm always hyper aware, ready to honk my horn, ready to
like skirt out of the way, ready to break, right? Anytime there's like a double turn,
it feels like that outside. If you're on the right lane, turning your sketch, it's sketch,
cause people don't realize that it's like a double turn. Yeah. The light turns green,
there's like, Oh, I'm turning everyone's going straight so I can like squeeze into the land
and stuff. The only way I see it, some it's not even fixed, but like it could be marked
stronger, but even that, it's like, it's, and it's kind of like the way the, um,
it's kind of cambered. So you kind of like your, your view is kind of weird.
It's like, it's just a bad turn altogether. I got into a funny conversation with Jason,
Camisa and Derek about uh, etiquette on the highway and how I was driving up to Mill Valley
in the second lane. So what is it? So not the slowest lane, but the, it's a four lane highway
or five lane. So I'm not on the slow lane. I'm the one next to a second. Yeah. It's like six
in the morning on a weekend. There's nobody around really except for trucks coming and merging on
those merge on ramps. So I'm in the second lane and allowing for that slow lane to be cars getting
on and off the course. Yeah. It's not many of them. There's some. So cruise control and there's
nobody to my left fast line and all that's open. No one around and you have people tailgating
you, tailgating me and then passing me on the right. Weird. And it's a weekend, by the way.
So left lane is open. All the lanes are open. Yeah. Oh yeah. There's no car pool. It's entirely
open. All you have to do is pass me on the left or stay left pass, then we'll get over whatever.
All of them, like three people pass me on the right. So I think the thing is that people's
mentality is that left is carpool. It wasn't even, you had two extra lanes before the carpool
lane. Oh, oh, you're, oh, you're, okay. Your second lane. Yeah. So your five lane highway. Oh, shit.
I'm just one over from the, oh, weird. They insisted on passing me on the slow lane.
Okay. That's crazy dude. And so I, I appreciate Jason's take on this because I've driven with
him on the highway a few times, like in another car and he's very German about it where he gets over
as far over as he can. Immediately after every car, he just, he leapfrogs everyone,
which is how you're supposed to do it. Yeah, but far right is crazy. He said,
his line to me was, I don't care if you're going 170 miles an hour, you need to be as far right as
possible. I'm like, but that's sketch because you get cars merging and trying to get off the
highway. Cause then you're, you're constantly paying Frogger and like that's like another dangerous
then you're the problem. So Derek was more on my side, but then it still irked Jason enough to
bring it up like later, you know, but I just said, Hey, there's nobody around except for
people getting on and off the highway a little bit. I was at cruise control a little over the
speed limit. Cause you keep hitting, you keep hitting slow cars too. Like, like you're,
yeah, you're helping to be in that second to right lane. You have two or three lanes to my left
to pass me at any time you want. It goes fast as you want, but they insisted on passing me. And
these are like, you know, young guy in a truck going to like some work, you know, thing and
you're keeping like a certain level of speed in that second lane. It's like kind of a good
thing. I don't know, dude. That's what I'm at. Anyways, all right. John Rice says,
since the U S has banned Polestar from selling cars in North America in America over the fear
that they're spying on us, what car is the James Bond of cars? No actual former bond cars allowed
the James Bond of cars. God, I don't know. I'm trying to think of names like a Suzuki Samurai
or Samurai's crafty. Oh, Kawasaki Ninja. They're pretty crafty. Like who's getting in there? Who's
doing the actual? Well, what does James Bond do? He's like, um, James Bond's like this sophisticated
dude and it's kind of like he's he wears a suit, but he also can, can fight and he can
like do parkour. Yeah. And he can like judo chop a neck. Maybe kind of looks old and like crusty,
but he's not that old. Yeah. But he looks way older than he is. He has like a lot of wrinkles
and stuff. And he's like kind of misogynist. Yeah, we can leave that part out. I don't know.
Some British car. It's just all the cliche stuff Jaguar Rolls Royce. Like I don't know.
I don't answer this question. I think it is like it. It has to be like a it's a it's definitely
like whatever your it's your M fives, right? It's your sports. It's your it has to be your
like sports sedan, right? It's your kind of sedate kind of sophisticated thing that can also
that can tango on a back road. Yeah, but it also has to be pretty old fashioned.
Is it like a the last XJR Jaguar before they move to the new bullshit? Yeah. Yeah.
Is it that last, you know, stately? I know, but that doesn't exist anymore.
Quad headlight. What new car? New car. I don't even know new cars.
It's a new Ferrari dude. No, don't even try to come up with a new Ferrari.
I don't know. I don't know what this is. Is it the new Spectre?
What's that? Boring? It's the big two door rolls. Oh, yeah. Boring, you know,
on many levels, but then it's probably faster than, you know, an F40.
Yeah, maybe. Could be that. Fidel Lighted says, this is a good question. Last one.
Would you rather race in Formula One for one season under Ferrari
or have a 10 year guaranteed contract with Pujo at Le Mans?
Dude, this is tricky. Formula one, dude.
One and done. The insanity, the chaos, the scrutiny.
You can't walk around anywhere without people knowing who you are. Now, if you're a Le Mans
see with Pujo, I don't know any Pujo drivers from Le Mans. I mean, of course,
motorsport, people who cover motorsport do part of me is like,
I don't know. I don't think I want to be. This is the whole thing. I don't think I want to be an F.
I don't want to be a race car like driver like a Le Mans driver is like
traveling in the world racing for 10 years. I kind of like don't want to be that guy.
So I feel like one season is cool. And then with that, with that one season,
I get privileges to race in anything I want to race in my whole in my life. I can go to Goodwood
and like race like, you know, because then I can do like little one off stuff whenever I want,
because I don't want to be like a working racer, which is a Le Mans racer is kind of like a working
racer also paid like. I don't think those guys get paid like crazy money like they're just getting
they're kind of they're just worker bees, right? Again, but you know what I'm saying,
comparatively, but the F1 dude, he can like show up somewhere and just be like, hey,
like, and they'll be like, okay, pay. They'll pay me to race there for our 250 short wheelbase.
By the way, they'll pay me dude to hang out at Goodwood and race their car for like three laps,
dude. Yeah, this is the answer for sure, because I think you nailed it where it's
like, do I want to be grinding in endurance racing for 10 years? Yeah, probably not driving
at night. My vision is not back for like six hours, like hours and of racing. And
yeah, it's a lot of stress. It's a lot and I mean, not like F1 is not a lot of stress.
That's probably insane, but like, but one season of it. Yeah, one season and you can just lock down
and be like, like I feel like yeah. And to really see that experience from the inside of Ferrari,
at the factory, at the most payload, like team of all time. Yeah, that's it. That's the way. And
and I mean, yeah, it is the limelight and you are like famous as hell, but that's maybe not
such a bad thing. And you also like money comes with that and a lot of good things come with that,
right? Oh, big time. Yeah, that's it. This is the way as Mandalorian would say. Yeah,
trying to load up something. All right, it is trivia time. It's trivia. All right, a couple,
this is related to auto manufacturers names and where they originated from. So
the first one that was surprising to me is Acura. Where did the name Acura come from?
Any guesses? Lane Acura again in 1986.
Marketed it's in North America, of course, but the name, where did it come from and where is
it derived? I'll give you a hint. It was not. It was not made in Japan. I know it's American
company. So like or you know, it's an American thing. Acura.
I'm guessing it comes from like being accurate or precision.
And so it's just like an abbreviation of like accurate, like precision or precise product.
And they were going after because they were going after precision. And that's where it comes after.
You nailed it. It's derived from Acura or accurate form from Latin, meaning mechanically precise
or executed with precision. And this is the surprising part though. It was
created by NameLab in San Francisco, California. Nice, NameLab. That's crazy that NameLab exists.
I want to know how much they paid for that. I would love to know too. It's always funny. Like
if you see like when Pepsi did a rebrand of their logo. So crazy. The kerning changed and they paid
a million dollars, 3000000 dollars. Remember when that in my point of reference is always
I was the Los Angeles logo. Do you remember when that they did that like three years ago,
five years ago? No, Los Angeles logo. Yeah, the new Los Angeles logo for the city of Los Angeles.
Oh, no, it's like it's just cursive Los Angeles has like a palm tree in the background.
It's like the most like it's like if you like typed it's like if you AI'd like a graphic for a
shirt for like this, like I want a city. I got a lot like a Florida graphic or Los Angeles.
It would do that. this, this cursive text and it would put a palm tree in the background.
Yeah, it's exactly that. That's the Los Angeles logo. It sees like famous LA design house and
a New York design house. They got them together to work together to make this logo. It cost
something like 3000000 dollars nice and they came up with this amazing thing. That is just
fantastic. Yeah. All right. Next one Alfa Romeo. What does alpha stand for alpha Alfa Romeo
was that an alpha? I mean so alpha is like
I found it in 1910 by Frenchman. I didn't know that. Pierre, Alexandra,
Derek in Milan, Italy. It's spelled A-L-F though. Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with this
guy's name. Alfa Romeo. Dude, I have no idea. I would know it here. It's just one of these things
that I just kind of don't think about, but it's I'll give it to you. It says began as Anonima
Lombarda Fabrica Automobili, which translates to Lombard Automobile Factory Company or
Alpha. So Anonima Lombarda Fabrica Automobili. Oh, wow. Okay. So there you go. Oh, so it's an acronym.
Yeah. Oh, alpha. Crazy. And then where's the Romeo?
No, no talk of Romeo. Fuck Romeo. Yeah. Fuck that guy. I have no idea. Oh, no, it says it became
Alfa Romeo when entrepreneur Nicola Romeo took control of the company in 1915. So five years
later, it was just alpha. Oh, interesting. Romeo was like, let me get my name in there. Yeah.
And that was, that was kind of it. You know, the rest of these are mainly like
pretty all the stuff we kind of know, right? Last names of founders. You got Honda, you got
Cadillac, you got Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Ford. Yeah. Yep. Yep. But nothing, nothing too wild.
Yeah. Is there any others you can think of that are like kind of obscure? I don't know.
This one is talking about Jaguar, which started as animal. It started as the Swallow sidecar
company and then SS was what it was using then after World War II for obvious reasons. They
just changed it to Jaguar. Doesn't really have a great story about it. But yeah, SS.
How about Lexus? Do we know that one? Let me see if it's in here. Yep. Here it is.
So it is luxury brand was introduced in 1989. Because that's probably American thing too, right?
Another consulting firm came up with 219 possibilities. Come on, dude.
Alexis was an early front runner. A-L-E-X-N-I-S, Alexis. After some discussion, it was then
Lexus without the A and then switched to Lexus and quote, because it sounded more luxurious
and high tech. So great. It just means nothing. According to Lexus, the name has no specific
meaning. It's just nothing, dude. It's just word. It is a perfect name. Yeah. I always think about
that with like things we refer to with weird words that we don't think about at all like elevator.
Yeah. Like why? Elevation, right? Sure. It could also be like floor lift. And if we just knew that
from forever, it would seem weird at all. I'm going to get on the floor lift. Yeah. It is a
lift. I mean, that's another thing, right? Yeah. Floor lift, elevator. You know, things are happening.
Yeah. Was it Dimitri Martin had that? He's like an orange. It's just called an orange.
But why is a carrot not called a pointy orange or whatever? Like a pointy orange thing or
totally. It's all that stuff. All right. That's it. That's all man. That's all I got for you.
All right, guys. You did great. Later. All right. We're going to eat some more beef jerky.
See you later. Bye.
About this episode
Warren and Lane hold down the fort while Art is in Europe, kicking things off with a live taste test of a bizarre, blue, Takis-inspired beef jerky. The conversation quickly shifts to a jam-packed weekend of automotive events in Northern California, including Wagon Fest and Morning Motors. They explore the rise of hyper-specific, niche car shows—from Woodies on the Wharf to Hillsborough Concours—and share updates on the local Santa Cruz car culture and food scene.
