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Welcome to Martini Works podcast. I am a special guest Alex Martini

I'm so happy to be here, and I'm here with our current residents of the Venetian Dakota and Gels

Yeah, Venetian. Hi. Good morning. Casino in Las Vegas. Oh kind of cool. Very expensive

And we hope you are having an excellent February as we film this right now just to kind of give you guys a lay of the

Geographically and obviously from a weather perspective because we only have three things to talk about in Wisconsin

One being cars to being beer and three being weather

We just hit our all-time high 50 degrees and a picker. Yeah, the 50 degrees and we've got the the sunroofs open

You know I did I did I popped mine yesterday. That's right. That's right

We got the we got the summer cars out for just a day

They're gonna go back in though at the end of the week

Give them good wash and yeah, yeah, be a great day to go to Lambo watch the Packers, but yeah

No, just not in season yet. You know what I'm saying. Yeah. No. Yeah, you got a there's

There's gonna be some snow coming down for the rest of the week

But let me tell you when I came back from Florida this past weekend

I saw I saw color back in the faces of our two favorite co-hosts Dakota and Gels

It's mostly red because it's the first time I've been out in the Sun in like three months

Yeah, seasonal depression is real but before we talk about seasonal depression and going outside to feel better about yourself

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So thank you so much for doing that absolutely as we start off with the first segment

I think we're gonna spend a little bit of time of talking about where I was where the heck did you go?

Yeah, you're always gone out and about where we always running away to warmer places

I'm gonna be honest this winter has gone by pretty quick for yeah

Sturgeon's beer and I'm not trying to win a bagel

Yeah, I don't want to brag their bud

But the winter weather and the winter accent went away when I went down to Florida

No, I went to Fort Lauderdale

And I went to and I had to Google this because I needed to make sure I said it right

I went to Boca Raton for the very first time which is fancy. It is fancy

I didn't know it was something I'd order at a restaurant

Yeah, it's like the Boca Raton sounds like a type of drink. I would get in an airport. I'll take a Boca Raton

Yeah, you know what I'm saying a seltzer water. Yeah, it's it was really cool though

It's it's a very very nice place. Okay quite

Expansion we're doing down there check out some like Nissan or some yeah some some some some ultimas some MX-5s

No, I went to an event called the Palm Beach Cavalino classic which is a Porsche. I'm sorry

It's a Ferrari only

Collectors event that's been going on for 35 years

Which is no small feat and it's literally nothing but just dope Ferraris from across the years

Which this year was really insane because

They had not the first

But the second ever made Ferrari on display. Wow, that's really cool. Yeah, so it was a it was a

1947

166 and that being like Italy or something it probably was

But money is just made up to the people that own these cars

Yeah, that's true and so they had it was originally I think in 1946

But then they shipped it back to Italy to get a bigger engine and when they shipped it back

They ultimately read like they rebadged it as a 1947 because it came back

And then next to it was the very first

Ferrari in America

That was ever introduced which I think was called a

166 Berlinetta and then the car next to it was the first Ferrari to ever race in America

Which just so happened to be called a Ferrari America

So there's some really cool cars there some stuff that I had never seen before

And then there's obviously some things that I had seen before that I really really loved like they had a racing

like the racing Ferrari section so it had like

550s it had lm's it had a 430 GT which was from like the 2006 2007

ALMS like racing series the GT2 racing series, which was really cool

They had stuff from their WEC era they had stuff. I mean pretty much everything

I think the only cars they didn't have there where for our reformula one cars interesting

So is it like what's the vibe there? Is it quiet or is like music bumping and people are lively or is it like very posh?

Keep that down, please. No, it was it's kind of weird the the demographic is obviously very different than what I am used to

You know, we went to a night event

Where we got to see the 849 Testerosa unveiled. There's a very cool gorgeous expensive car

With tactile buttons, which I'm gonna get into because this is really fun. This was like this was hilarious

They're doing this unveil right and there's this Italian up there and and dude

They all are just like these handsome

Incredibly-looking dudes like they got the perfect hair the glasses the whole minor and they're talking up there with the accent

You know on the thing I can't do the Italian accent. Can you do the Italian accent?

Can you can you do the Italian accent? Get me started and I'll try to do it. Weegee. There's too many damn goombas

Yeah, it's pretty good. No, that's not good. I need you. No, that was actually no, you know, I can't do it better than that. I

Can't even fathom what the accent is. You can't do any accent. There's none

You just do the same voice for all accent. We are so we're so happy for you

It's amazing because you know you recognize that you're not doing it still just okay, so anyway, so

There's events that we're having like the the people are obviously a little bit older

I cannot I can imagine they're they're all old

And and then it's also in Florida and if anybody's ever been to Florida or lives in Florida if you're listening

Oh, you know either a lot of the old people not just that but like it's like an hour away from Miami

Oh, and Miami people are are just different. Yeah, they're just

Way different than what you see and so

No, like they were all good. The music was was was decent

It was kind of weird is like this kind of old-school techno style vibe, but it worked

I would say that everybody everybody you'd have a good time

But then again, everybody was like kind of

Kind of

Kind of like too open, you know, there's a little open about okay a little bit of you know

It kind of just seemed like they were just open about a little bit too much

But that's besides the point was let that sleeping dog lie. That's right. I can't go. I just are asking for money. Yeah

Yeah, okay 50 bucks. I feel like they'd be like, yeah

You want five grand? I guess, you know

Box what's that gonna get in the center console?

Just go grab it. I will say it was pretty funny because I saw that they we had

We had drinks in there like doing tips and like one of the guys just like casually dropped a hundred dollars

For a drink

Yeah, I'm about to go get my bartender license see you guys

Yeah, going to Fort Lauderdale, but it was really cool

We had a great time the cars were incredible the people were different, but not not necessarily just in a bad way

It's just different, you know, yeah different things to talk about different things to complain about

I will say if you think it's hard to

Get a bunch of people to agree on something

In any group of people take that magnify it by like a hundred and that's what it's like to get a hundred rich people to agree on

Anything because everybody thinks they know everything about everything all the time periods like that's all so we just down there hanging out

Or did you bring your Ferrari? No, I went down there because I'm a collector

Is your Ferrari not allowed where your fur was your Ferrari in the show?

Get arrested if you brought your my Ferrari 100% would not be allowed in that show

Why is an owner no because the the show only allows original cars

There's no modification modifications at all none zero, which is really wrong spot

Which is pretty crazy when you think about it because so the the event was gorgeous

It was really cool. It was held at the Boca Raton, which is a very cool hundred year old like resort now

But the thing that was so wild to me was how they judge those cars because I couldn't quite understand how it worked

because I went to the table after they did the ribbon-cutting and

You know, I met the team that ran the organization that ran the the not-profit. I we met

Literally Enzo Ferrari the nephew of Enzo Ferrari there. Oh shit. His name is

Enzo Ferrari

And he's got that swagger to him

Like you know if you saw, you know like a hundred Italians in a room

And they weren't arguing with each other and you put Enzo Ferrari in there

You'd be able to tell it was him. He just kind of had that that he knew who he was, you know what I'm saying

How could you not? Yeah, it was pretty cool. Anyway, that's crazy. What was I talking about?

Oh, yeah, so I'm trying to figure out how they rank these cars like how do they win trophies?

Because there's a lot of trophies at this table

I'm like how many classes they have and I asked Corey and they were maybe like less than a dozen

I'm like, well, then why they have so many trophies?

So I had to go out and I did my little Google and and I learned that at an event like this the cars aren't scored

In comparison to other cars in their class

They're only scored to themselves and there's two categories that you can essentially

Rank for as these people are going through and judging your car

So you might think like oh, so the racers have a certain class of cars and these other people have a certain class of cars

And that's not really true. They will rate things off of originality

authenticity and then

Like heritage so they'll they'll rank a car higher like you can have a

360 right a Ferrari 360 and it can have like sticky buttons and some wear on the seats and

Maybe just like a little bit of like sun fade, you know, like over time that can still rank

highly because the the car has not been disturbed from its

Original state from the factory

Then there's another class that takes into account restoration

Right and restoring a vehicle because sometimes you need to restore stuff

But it was pretty crazy to learn that they have this like huge manual that these judges go through where they like check everything and I watched one

they were doing a

GTB and I was I was watching them like score this car and it's like nothing had ever seen before like they're like

Turn on the engine so they turn on the engine, right?

And they're like, please raise the RPM to 3700 RPM

Is that Russian sounds Russian and so they do and they like they're like have a clock, right?

And they're timing it and they'll be like it's been 30 seconds

We do not hear a compressor and be like what like we don't hear a compressor is your compressor on

Let me check and they'll be like, okay

You have you know two minutes or three minutes to like try to get the compressor turned on or to try and get the the fan for the

AC to turn on because they check like everything everything that like should work

They're checking to make sure works

So like the valving system in a 430 because it runs a vacuum system for the exhaust

Like they were testing to see if that worked in some of the cars and they have all of these manuals for all of these different models of

Like race cars, which is just absolutely or just not race cars, but just different cars

Which is just insane. So they started judging at 8 a.m

And there's like a fleet of them, right and they didn't really finish I think until two

Wow, and they had like multiple groups of people doing that all at the same time

Weird fucking event. I like to imagine a judge comes up like pulls out the dipstick and like taste

Yeah, yeah, so not good the Platinum award is based off two classes authenticity and condition and then originality

So the originality allows cars that may not be in a perfect state to still win

Qualifying win. Yeah, but then the goal is it was just like the paper, too

Is like the the document for how they judge and like the the regulations are all online and you can read them

Dude, the freaking thing is like they they made it 24 years ago because they wanted a fairer way to judge

Original Ferraris without requiring people to have to go and restore a Ferrari to win because a lot of times that's what happens, right?

Like you have like this really old fifties Ferrari and you spend millions upon millions upon millions of dollars to restore it

Right to win an award which most people do when they go to like the Pebble Beach concor, right?

So they wanted to introduce a way for people that might have a car that is still original to itself still has heritage

But maybe is not a fully restored example of you know, like a literally a 70 million dollar

250 gto

So it's neat interesting. Yeah, lots of different stuff. I will say is

Not my world

It's another world that yeah, really it really is like the there are things that are about it that are so crazy

Different because the Ferrari is much more of like a status thing, right to them

But just like somebody who in the car show scene

Would go by the trendy car of the year to then modify and like put in a car show and win

There are other people who have

Just the love of the game in it, right?

That are just like people that have had these cars for decades, right now

Like there's one guy I met and he's like

From Florida, you know, he's older really nice guy. He's like he's well off

But he's not he's not millionaire millionaire millionaire

He's just he's had this car because his mom bought the car sure in like

1964 and he's like it's just been in the family and I've just taken care of it

And he goes I go to these shows because you know, it's kind of my way of

Remembering my mom and that's why I come to these like that. That's cool. Yeah, like there are there and they're out there

You obviously have to find them

But what was crazy the last thing I'll say and then we can obviously move on to something else

But it was like there's no cost to enter the car. Okay, so that was kind of interesting

Obviously, there's experiences around the event weekend. I guess your cost was buying a Ferrari

Yeah, and all the other stuff like the tickets are expensive and blah blah blah like that's all you know

But it was pretty cool to see some different stuff. It was nice to see

We met a lot of people that were from Wisconsin. What? Yeah, a lot of people from Wisconsin motion products was there

That makes sense. So that was really cool. There's some people from some other dealerships that were there that brought their cars down

Overall, I would say

Everyone was very nice. It is a different world

There is more of like a social

Status thing to it all

But we kind of cut through all of that because Becca came with and like Becca doesn't really give a shit whether you are a

Bartender or like the owner of IHG. She just wants to be friends with everybody

So we were really able to like cut through some of that like ego noise

Yeah, it was like really easy to cut through that noise to figure out who was fun to talk to and who wasn't you know

And so we met a lot of really great people

The Cavalinos hosted like your organizers are fantastic. The food was great

You have to see my first car auction a Ferrari car auction for the first time RM Sotheby's did it bid on something just for the heck of it

And I can I say you did can I tell you one story? Yeah, and I'm done. So we're having dinner

It's me Becca

Gales garage. She's an influencer car content creator

And then the team that we were with and then some representatives from Cavalino classic Alessandro

Who is super nice great guy and we're there and they're like where they're gonna do this auction and

The guy comes over and he's like just so you guys know

I'm your representative for this area if you would like to bid on anything that you see for the evening

Simply raise your hand. I'll come to you

We can discuss what you'd like to bid and then I will work with you to make sure that we get the piece that you want

And I was like I can't afford this conversation

I

Make sure I don't bid on accident five million and one penny

so we we get into this and

The first thing is like a signed book

And it goes for thousands of dollars. Okay

Next up is this model formula one car from 2000s the Ferrari

Model car and it looked to Becca and I was like I'm I said this is the thing that I think I can bid on and

Lose, but I think I can at least start the bid and it'd be really fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Participated in a Ferrari auction. Yeah, and so she goes well, what would you what are you gonna bid and I was like

I was like, I mean the thing's gonna start it like I don't know to grand

I say I'll bid 25 and I bet you it'll go right away, right? Oh, no, and she goes okay

Oh, no, and so the he goes the guy explains it and he literally goes and can we start off the bidding at ten thousand?

dollars

Fucking model and you you're like

It went for like 50 G

So then we started playing this game of like what did we think it was gonna go for right every car was we were wrong

Every car we were higher. Yeah, because like like this is like calculated gambling, you know like these guys they

Auctions are prices of auctions are insane. They're so and they're they inflate everything. So we saw a a

550

Go what I thought was gonna be

Maybe 220 because right now all of them online are going for like 220 to 25 went for 300,000 almost

$300,000 is a gated six-speed really cool. Then it was a

430 16m so spider version of my car low miles dark blue

Super cool, right?

thinking he would go for maybe like

400,000 it went for

$800,000

Bro, I was about to I'm about to part out my goddamn car. Oh, yeah

So are you kidding me and all of these cars every so even like the ugly ones like there was this dart spider

Ferrari fiat thing and I'm like there is not a chance. It looks like a goddamn shitty load

There's no way people are gonna spend a lot of money on that one of the guys that we met from Wisconsin spent

$550,000 and bought it because he said and I quote on the internet

I saw these things are going for like 1.2 1.4. I honestly think I got a steal for this car

And I was like well at least you know, I'm like at least you know, you're only in it 500,000

I told him I was like well at least you know if it doesn't work out you can just like sell it

I guess he's like, oh, yeah, I won't lose any money and I'm like well good for you

No, it was really cool

I mean, I think one of the toughest things as we like explore different car cultures is sometimes feeling comfortable in those places where you're very much

Not

You're not the same

But the good news like I said before going with Becca and going with the team like we bring a lot of approach ability to it

Met some great people saw some great cars got a sunburn

And there were some some really neat stories hiding in there and it makes me

happy

That even though obviously there's a lot of people for a lot of different reasons that on those cars

There are still a lot of individuals that are in it for the love of the game, you know, they just love cars

They just happen to have a Ferrari

There's so many people in this like in who we met this weekend that literally only were there because they've had the car

For two three four

Five decades and they were just a family heirloom. That's been that's really cool. I think that's really neat

So with that being said we are going to take a small break

But not before talking about our partner of the Martini works podcast gels is questionably looking at his microphone

So Dakota go ahead

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Well, hey fun fact fun fact. No, that was perfect segue

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The ECS-02 Continental ECS-02 back-to-back in wet performance

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So it was super fun, I think that's what I'm trying to say it was it was a great event

And I'm very thankful that the car culture is booming on

That side of the world because whether we want to admit or not a lot of times that money goes into racing and when it goes into racing

Who watches racing?

Just normal everyday people that like to watch race cars and guess what those guys do they buy

Normal everyday cars then what do they do they modify them and they usually modify them with parts from our teen works because they have a

But we need to talk about some of the things that we think are gonna be taken the world by storm in

2026 in terms of car

Community products right you want to spend a little bit of time talking about you know what wheels are gonna slap in 2026

What do we expect to be popular? Which is I'm gonna start it off if I may go for it

I've been hitting this for a long time

but I think

We've heard the term K curve on pop like talking about economics for like the last six months, right?

Like it's either going up or it's going down

People are either going up in the it's the same thing

It's called like the barbell theory where in economics when the marketplace squeezes sorry if you're sleeping when the marketplace squeezes

Right people either go up the totem pole of price and and buy things that are more expensive

Or they go down to get the most affordable thing sure

But the things in the middle always suffer the most they get squeezed the most because people have a really hard distinction of

Deciding whether something that could be mid-tier price point is better than something that is slightly cheaper or slightly more expensive than that

So people either buy expensive things they get the name-brand thing or they get the most great value basic version of that thing

Because they don't even want to deal with it. So I think that's happening in the automotive world right now

And I think you're seeing it a lot with some of the things that you see on the internet like counterfeit parts, right?

They're going for the cheapest possible thing that they can and then they're justifying it by saying that it's no different than the

So I've kind of taken the stand to say I appreciate and I am starting to get more vocal about the appreciation of

Prestige or like give back to the community and I think two brands that do that super super well number one are work wheels

I I think they're fantastic. I think their quality is incredible. I think their finishes are insane

They have an attention to detail that nobody else has and

Then number two

I think Koenig has gotten like locked in in their market for what they do because they've they've decided who they're going to be and they

service it so well and

It's a great brand with great products and affordable price point

And I think those are two brands that I think both do really well naturally

But I think in 26 they're gonna do even better because I think people and I hope people

Going into 26 want to have a brand on their car that they're actually

Proud of and I think those are two brands that you can be really proud of

Yeah, I agree too. I Koenig's I love Koenig

But like kind of what you just explained though, like I put them and kind of like the middle ground, right?

Like they're not like super expensive, but they're not like really cheap either

You know so that it kind of interesting to see what what happens there

I hope that's from that. They're coming out with some new designs. I think they just expanded their forge lineup

Which is really cool. I really like their forge lineup is actually like when you're talking about monoblock forge stuff

It's like a really good price. Yeah price and they look sick. Yeah good. They're like I

Don't want to say this in a bad way. They're simple designs, but in the best way possible kind of like how a TE 37 is a simple design

You know, it's just not super busy and that makes me think it's gonna look good on a ton of different platforms

Yeah, I think it does I think Koenig does a really good job with it and I think work has obviously like

Done an incredible job with it

And I think if I were to throw like a third one into the mix

I'm really excited to see what Motegi is doing with their stuff

I know we talked about them before

But like that the tri spoke wheel design the cool colors the battle six the colors are what got my attention

I know we've unboxings and stuff in it

I don't know how much of these you can see that you're watching

But we do have like the red battle six that is like that color showed up and we're literally talking to the guys and like

Yeah, we were just gonna do three colors because that's the fourth color finish for the battle six

They have the gloss white the like blackbird metallic, which is a wild name and then the gun Zilla

Yeah, like gray and they're like

We got the red it as a sample and we've really really liked it and we couldn't choose three

So we just did a fourth one. Yeah red. It looks really good

You don't have to like everything that they're making

But I love that they're one of the few brands in

2026 that are at least trying to be fresh and different and in introduce new things and like take risk

I kind of made a joke us doing something with Brent earlier, but it was like I'm so sick of the millennial gray

Of everything, you know, it's like cars these days. Everything is like great white black and it's like, oh, you want wheels

You get gray or or darker gray

I mean, yeah, you take a look at our wall here

Literally the only thing that isn't like earth tone is Motegi as I wear earth tongue clothing everywhere

But yeah, your cars are I all in all my cars are

Actually, it's like I enjoy it. I like it. I think it's cool

And I think the risk is worth, you know some sort of reward. So that those are those are who I would say

Yeah, I think that's a good call out. I had the Motegi battle as one of mine that I'm expecting

I've seen people comment about it and it's just a good design and it comes in really affordable

So I see this becoming popular this year for sure, especially with the fish like this blue finish is freakin nuts

But on the other side of that

People that are playing it safe, I would say but they're doing it well is work

And I'll say the new work vs kf sharp. I already see it hitting the streets

It's getting really popular really quick and it was a little surprising because it's like it came out and it's like

Oh, it's not that different

But just kind of some edges on it. Yeah, and I think too it's that we've actually had

And we had an order for a set of those companies, which is really cool parker order. Yeah, and um

And it's like, oh, I haven't really been seeing them. It's like then I forget. It's like well, it takes like

Six months to get them

We've seen we've seen a few those orders come through now too where it's like we kind of

We're like we're like you where we do the order and then we wait we kind of forget

You know and then like a few months go by and it's like hey, by the way, they're they're coming here. Here they are

And it's like oh, it's like oh man that wheel came out a year ago

Didn't really see that much must not have hit that hard

And it's like well the people that ordered them are you know, they've just got them a few months ago

Yeah, I'm starting to roll out and uh, it looks good like we had in the build threads. There's a guy 350z

They have them. They look really damn good. There are some

I think uh good good

Quality wheel designs coming out of japan that are iterations on previous designs and I love it

I know people are like wishing there was something more new

But there already is a lot that's new from those catalogs that need more time to breathe

Like even the the shigoku like the iteration on the kawami. Yeah, I like it. That's gonna be a little different

That's gonna be another banger a little different. That's not completely. I would that one's gonna be it's great for

Someone who loved to see our kawami and wanted to get that wheel

I think it's a great like alternative to that

Like like oh, yeah, I'm gonna like I'm gonna get that

Like it might be the thing to like push them to get that I can't see people like

Switching from their kawamis to no. No, it's not it's not that different

I also think the I think the specs of of the new one also are like meant to expand on load rating

To be more encompassing of some of the ev stuff that's coming and the suv stuff that's coming

I will say the I've seen especially from some orders that are coming in like the rotiform bpu is getting some some love

Which is kind of interesting. Um, I see more people snag that recently

But yeah, I would say if I were to put all my money on one wheel model for 2026. Yeah, can I be biased? Yeah, 100%

Can I say that one?

Why is that biased? Oh, wait, you know why it's biased. I know. Yeah

the

There's hosion. Oh the hosion. Yeah. Oh the three spoke over here. Okay. I thought you were talking about the other ones that were sitting on a car over there

No, no, those are secrets. Yeah sauce secret car. Yeah, I like the idea that that one's been out for I think a little over a year now

um, but three spokes I think still

Growing a bit in popularity like they had a really big spike a couple years ago

Um, but I think they're continuing to grow in popularity. The reason I love what motegi did with the hosion

specifically for

One of the cars that we're still working on releasing and kind of getting all that stuff put together

Is when we were looking at wheel sizes

We didn't think we were able to find anything close to a zero offset what we needed

Um, I needed like a really negative. We needed a super negative offset

But we knew that wasn't going to happen in a in a one piece like that unless we went with like a 21a

Or some crazy vulk or ssr wheel

um

And we went out there and I just started searching on the website just searching on martini works at zero offset

And the kosher popped up and I was like wait a minute you can get these in a nine and a half zero offset zero offset, which is

Awesome. I think it just has like a big backpack on it

Yeah, but still like I love that because then you don't have to run a massive spacer if you're doing something crazy with your fenders

But that's my pick dakota. Uh, I have one it's been out since like 2016, but I wanted to

Excuse me. I wanted to pick one that was like had a little fax behind it

So I went through and looked at all of our like recently added build threads

And I couldn't stop getting hit with gram lights

57s

The cr the 57 cr super popular wheel and again another simplistic design

And it seems like people are eating those things up again not a new wheel by any means been out for a decade

But people are still picking them up and I am seeing it on all kinds of different platforms a lot of them on the gr

86. Yes. Yeah, it's huge for that plan. I remember when I first got my frs

I wanted like those gun blue 57 cr so bad because I thought it would have looked really good with it

It would have it would um on that too

I I did pick the gram lights 57 dr because I literally went through the build threads

I'm like, dude, everyone's throwing gram lights on their stuff. I love that. Yeah, so I think those are going to continue to be huge

Uh, kind of sticking with the older designs really coming through here. I also notice it's like

The five spoke has come back swinging. Mm-hmm hard

Uh

Specifically the workmeister s1. Oh

I think I've been seeing a lot of really good builds. Good man

Throw those on lately and I I'm loving it

If you own that wheel if you're listening to this and you own s1s, we are

Best friends. Yeah, and then uh, I'll throw my third one out right away too. And I think it's specifically

Because this wheel is celebrating its 30th birthday. Oh

Is the te 37 they ain't going anywhere. That's gonna be massive. Um, I think the 30th anniversary edition is pretty cool

I think that if you have the opportunity to pick up a set of those like

Yeah, we get to see them in person at tokyo

That's a set of wheels that I feel like you hang on to yeah and and like 10 years or so

They're gonna be worth a good chunk of change. It's the 30th pokemon anniversary and the 30th anniversary of t 37

That year they were just coming out with fucking heat. It's also the 30th anniversary of gels this year. So look at that

They are just coming out with timeless stuff

Yes, we're gonna take this thing and milk it till the end of time quite literally until they die

No, wait milk

Careful

Here they do with pokemon they're doing it with the t 37. I was listening. I'm not getting over there

Someone's gonna clip that's gross and I don't like that was a poor phrase

Poor freezing that was my bad. It was your bad. Anyway, Alex you got another wheel or

Uh

Not really. I mean, I think like there's a lot of good wheels

That are coming out. I think the the moteggies and what they're doing is is a lot of

An easy way for people to get involved in the brand

Uh, get something different get something with a really cool finish get some tech and get the availability

I think grandma lights is a really great brand from japan

Cost is really really good a little bit tougher to get getting the ray's name

And you're not they're they're a flow form wheel. Yeah, what about mid?

What about mid wheels? I don't I still need to understand that brand. I don't see mid wheels

Going going off this year. You don't think it'll be successful. Not that I don't think it'll be successful

I just don't think our our

nation

Under god is going to uh indivisible

With liberty do you think even japan will I do because I think

Based on dude, you went to japan now. You went to tokyo out of the mid booth

I saw the booth. I didn't see them on a single vehicle everyone

But you saw the brand like loyalty loyalty. Yes, brand loyalty is huge. It's massive over there

Um, and so I do think that you know, I think mid will will find it's I mean shit if they're

Cheaper than gram lights even and there's still a technically raised engineering wheel. Are they cheaper than gram?

I don't know

I feel like it's similar, but I just I would love I would absolutely love to have it like an interview with them and just

Like why what are you doing? What is the goal here? What are we? I feel like that's so fed up

That like reps were being made of their wheels. Yeah, and just did it flooded the market. They're like, we're doing it

We're making reps of our own wheels

And as a slap in the face for everybody, we're gonna call mid as they're mid

Like I don't I that's the only thing I could think of that even slightly makes sense in what they're doing with that

They they also released a bunch of off-road wheels too

That's because every japanese company is trying to figure out how to sell

Truck wheels to the united states and no one they got the coda. No one has figured it out. No because he doesn't have a truck

He's got a suv. Yeah, but here's the thing

Here's what here's a volk needs to do if they want to sell to the truck really you got the you got the I know

What volk needs to do you want this million dollar idea? Yeah. All right. Here's what you're gonna do

You're gonna take the te 37 right on it. You're gonna make it

24 inches in diameter. Okay wide though. Okay

Shut up in those in this

14 inches wide 24 by 14 t 37 then

Negative 76 right okay negative 76 offset

You guys following me. I know where you're going. Now. You know how it's got that those really cool finishes

They different colors and stuff like that. Fuck all of that black and mild. Yep

put

Put that bitch put that bitch on your f 150

And I guarantee you make it out of cast save money on the forging make it out of cast

And call it the the the te 37 t

And you'll make millions because

truck guys want

Very simple wheel designs. They want black and mild. What's a t 37 or they want

chrome most of them can't afford polished, but they'll buy the polished

But it's usually pv like the pcd. They don't want to keep up with the polish. Yep, and then they want it to look like

A super fancy wheel, but it's not a super fancy wheel because the center caps are all plastic

So evolk makes a plastic center cap flat te 37 24 14 negative 76 and black and mild

They've officially cracked the american market

Yeah, I don't know truck guys are hard to get a read on because it's like I feel like majority of truck

I really don't care about the name. No, not even a little exactly. So it's like

How do you sell that because that fucker is going to be

$20,000

The ones that were at seamal s your were I think a $30,000 set of volks because it was a fully

It was a single forged blank on a g-wagon

That was um shahns was a shahns g-wagon

That was like the 22 tens and those were a single blank te 37, which is insane

Yeah, it's absolutely nuts and that's more just a flex. I think yeah, but if you if you don't want to spend $20,000

What could you do instead?

like what would you

Sort of suspension you maybe breaking news. I can't spend $20,000

Yeah

Can I tell you one more story about the trip? Yeah, that I think is really important for this for no context whatsoever

So before we we had this event we went to one of the sponsor activations

Um, and it was at the it was at a place called ferretti

Which makes me think of rob ferretti from super speeders rob

But anyway, we're as ready as we think of gife yet. It's it's a it's a yacht

Just wait, it's a yacht building company. Like they

They make boats. We got one of them up in dora county. Yeah, this is slightly different

And one of the boats there was a boat called the riva

Which I've never been on before

and the riva

Is 88 feet long. Okay, and it has two

2700 horsepower engines

Ways 171

thousand pounds

And can go 43 miles an hour like 40 knots. Oh, yeah, right?

This one was from 2021. It was slightly used and I want you this was a this was a serious conversation

The boat was currently going for 7.5 million dollars. Okay, and a person that looked like

The fiera guy that talks about food on put some respect on his name. What's his name guy fieri guy fieri

There was a guy there that looked just like him with the glasses in everything. Are you sure it wasn't him?

No, it wasn't him. All right, literally the moment he goes seven and a half million the guy goes that's not that bad

Holy shit, I looked back and I immediately goes that's not that bad

If it was guy fieri be like that's gangster. Yeah

Kind of food. Can I cook on that seven and a half milli for that boat?

And then I took a picture on it and I said that I was driving a dodge because that was the only thing I could relate to it

Dude, I'm not joking if there is anything that felt like a boat while driving it the a fucking dodge challenger is the most

The closest thing I've ever had to just they just decided that like I also drove in paula and weight distribution

It doesn't matter in those no hell no that thing. I felt like going 30. I could roll it if I really tried

There there are a few cars out in the world where I think I've driven them hard and I've been like

I just don't quite trust that this wouldn't flip over

Like I know that that would really just

Not agree with the laws of physics, but I just don't think it seems like there's a big crowd around challengers and stuff

So it's like I feel bad. I don't literally there's a big crowd around them

Usually at night and they're good at doing turns they do them all one direction a bunch of them

In a circle and anyways

I just had the worst ever experience with that vehicle and it's stuck with me

I hate I need one to change my mind like back in the day. I wanted an srta. I thought an srta

It would be sick. I remember elvis from stance nation has like a slammed one

I was like that's bad ass and now i'm like that's bad ass. That's a big car

Doesn't drive good. I hate it. I just don't know

I think one time I got in the car because I've driven them before and the speed was was kind of fun

um, but

The interior was just really not not it for me

Dodge because it's still fiat and it's like out of all the brands that are going through their own like trauma right now

We got certain brands trying to like

Unfuck it, you know

And Porsche is like, oh my god

We got to figure out how to sell scvs in america right now because otherwise we're gonna die

You have Ferrari making a fully electric vehicle

You have Lamborghini just pumping out uruses as fast as they possibly can you have bmw

Just dominating their segment because Audi doesn't know how to make a car anymore and Mercedes won't make a v8 even though their entire

Market group is telling them to just bring back a supercharged v80

What happened to brands listening to their customer base?

They just don't because I don't understand scared of where the emission stuff is going and then on top of all of that

Cars that's literally everything it's it is it is kind of crazy when you think about the fact that like you watch season five of stranger things

And you're like, what the fuck were you doing?

Sorry not to make it about the show, but I am still slightly upset

That I watched season four and thought the whole world was gonna end and we were going to start season five with this incredible

masterpiece of like global scale like this is it the world knows that the upside down exists the world knows

That the mind flare is really this is old news for everybody

You're way behind I know but still and then they started off and they're like sliding down the fucking

Panels that they put on the ground screw you. I'm not that stupid. Do you guys remember when

Honda and Nissan had to merge for like two days. Yeah, that was like a fever dream. Then they're like, no

But that's that's so weird. That's another great example of like putting time out or something

It doesn't make sometimes it just doesn't make sense what

They're doing. Oh to go back to that. You almost made me lose my train of thought. Oh, well, you were kind of rambling

Yeah, that's fair. I'm sorry

When we were at the unveil of the Ferrari eight four nine testarosa, okay, the ceo

Uh went up there and he was talking about the car and he was talking about the design language

And he was talking about this he goes and on the interior. We have brought back a very important piece. Just don't just that's russian

We've brought back

Okay, I'm going back to english

They see he goes

We brought back a very important piece of the interior that we think everyone's going to love

We've brought back tactile buttons and goes to continue to talk about like the thousand horsepower engine

And every single person that had an annual salary above everyone else

I possibly know started screaming shouting and hollering that it was the best news that they had ever heard for tactile for tactile

old people but also

Um, I know I agree with them. I'm I'm for that. I do enjoy tactile buttons

Yeah, they're like and we brought back the tactile buttons and they're going up to the top

I think I was like

Yeah

And that was it

They were all sold because so what the fuck did that have to do with stranger things?

That's what I interrupted. Where were you connecting the Ferrari listened to their customer feedback about tactile buttons

Manufacturers are not listening to their consumer base for tactile buttons

Stranger things should have listened to their audience and everything they wanted season five to be

But they didn't and they made some grotesque

Garbo season eight game of thrones season five finale. I don't I don't think it was quite that bad. I don't think it was

Really? There's really no, I don't just throwing balloons at at the mind flare and starting it on fire

And that's how they're going to take down fight was way too quick

But they got we got the dude duking it out in a 1v1 halo three map on the inside

We've got l it could have been a finger airing the other dude. It could have been better. I agree, but it wasn't like horrendous. It wasn't

Parable let's just let's just scale this mountaintop

very quickly

To throw things at this mind flare has that's been in hibernation

And is like the scariest thing and god knows what and then

Somehow we've got nancy turning into rambo and doesn't I just we've all we've all had a couple months to go through this

He's just he's just i'm still adapting to the to the to the I hate when shows or car manufacturers think i'm dumb

Yeah, I just don't like it. You're telling me out of everything. It's billy billy was a better antagonist

Than the mind flare in season five. Yes beckman general. Um, yeah, yeah, I can run at you

But i'm just gonna walk

The whole time it's it's across the board. It's it's with games. It's with cars. It's with movies. It's with shows

Dude, everything just went downhill after cova. Everyone did everyone realized how cheap they could do everything

And they're like that's how we're gonna do it for the rest of time

Cheap is the way to do and that's what I mean about like people need to give a shit again about the brands that they run like

Care because that stuff does matter and and I think there are brands that do care about what they make and people don't give it attention

So god damn it. Fair enough. Duffer brothers fix your shit. That's too late. Yeah season or episode nine when

So seeing theories about episode nine

It's not happening. It's not fucking it's not

Nancy and what's his name should have died in the goop

Yeah, the mind flare should have actually chased vekna through their world into the upside down

And the only way the mind flare could have died is by closing the wormhole because you cannot have such a

Dangerous insane being that can fucking end life die to a water balloon

But what you can do is you can suck it out into the proverbial space and time that is a black hole and have l die with it

And that's the ending. That's the cost. That's the consequence the sacrifice

Sure, and then at the end he gets the feeling in the back of his neck

That's so it's never over stranger things seasons

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All right next up breaking news there's breaking news

Stuff actually going on there is what do we got jails? Uh, I've got some stuff. Oh, I took a look through so

Uh, as we know the grand tour with our three favorite british gentlemen

Came to an end right or starting it back up again. We got three brand new house this time

Oh boy, uh, two members of throttle house. We got james and thomas

From throttle house being the two

Uh, I guess members of the new grand tour

But the third one and I thought this was super freaking cool. Uh, we got francis bourgeois

Bourgeois, I think is how you pronounce it

You know this guy you've been on tech doc. You know this guy because he is the like train spotter guy

He always has like he had like the camera like on his 360 cam and he's like dude's hyped about train

And he goes like train spotting, but

He's secretly he's kind of a car guy too. He's got a

K swapped pink honda jazz

I don't know if you've uh, he did like a little series on it too and it was really cool

And he's super hyped. Uh, he's he's got like an engineering background and stuff like that too

Um, and he's going to be joining as the third member

Of the new grand tour and I think that is really cool because I think it's going to bring a really unique

Perspective from that especially with like an engineering background and and just like the stuff that he knows

I think it's going to be really cool. That's cool

I'm excited to see it because I always I think those shows work best when the trio has

Zaza, yes, you know, you gotta smoking weed

Yes, is that what that is? Yep. Oh, well, maybe that too, but like

You thought about you thought about the original three

They always had that they always had that sauce and they always said I mean I think for our generation

You don't need that level of edginess anymore, but I do think you need to have a level

Of humor that works and has to work for everyone

And I think what always happened is is like if you didn't find james may funny

You always found richard ham and funny if you didn't find richard ham and funny you found clarkson funny

You always found one of the three so as long as like

Their personalities fill those three. I think it'd be pretty cool. Did you just

Listen to what you said though as long as their personalities fill those that's

Such big shoes to fill and I commend them. Good luck. That is such a hard thing to continue forward with

It's such a it's so tricky and no disrespect that I'm excited for him. I hope it's awesome. It's just like

Those are three legends. Those guys have been around doing that for so long

It's not only they were such good personalities and they vibed off each other so well

Like it's insane how that that show worked and how they got those guys. It just was amazing. Absolutely

So I think it'll be cool to watch. I'm excited for it. I think it'll be refreshing

Uh, I was kind of reading through like the the reactions like the announcement stuff like that and seemed really positive

Seemed really open-minded, which I thought was really cool. Someone left a comment like rushing like hey

Any new automotive content? That's right form like this is new automotive content on a platform like this and I'm willing to give it a shot

So absolutely. Oh, yeah, I think that's super cool

Other breaking news ford

Remember a couple years ago. They're like, we're not making any more sedans

Or anything like that anymore focusing on trucks. Yeah, apparently the Mustang

SUVs um, they're apparently going back on that

Heard rumblings that ford might be getting back into making sedans in mini vans like a near future isn't

Ford just report that they've had

Four consecutive years of like less than target earnings back up though

And I might be having the biggest brain fart of all time or like why can I not think of a ford van besides like a transit van

Ford used to hat was at the

shit

I think a dodgecare van. I think Chrysler pacifica. I'm gonna say a name. I'm probably wrong. Was it like the

Something star the trans star or something like that ford

Oh the ford

The wind

Windstar, that's what it is. Thank you, ambi. I'm a ford windstar

I can't think of ford having a like a it is like the most stereotypical like mini van you would ever think of

I'm trying to think um, I'll put a picture. It's weird that they've just avoided that market though

That thing looks like fucking shit

Five days ago ford reports

Five days ago ford reports worst quarterly earnings miss in four years. It's for better for you

I was gonna read you the top five titles ford van. I literally commented or just typed in ford here the top like six article titles

I hate ford ceo says china's ev progress is the most humbling thing he's ever seen

Basically saying that china is shitting on their ev product. Uh, ford sales are tanking in europe and here's why

Europe it's all the coolest. Yeah, what the hell uh farley says ford couldn't compete with toyota and hunday

So it stopped trying

Ford ceo's want americans to get back in love with the small cars ford gave up on like

I don't understand jim farley's angle on all this because he drives vintage race cars

We see him at imson. I think that that's very cool. But every time I see his name pop up in an article of some kind

It's always him like shit talking him there them and like praising

Someone else people don't like him

And i'm like and like as it when it started I remember people like I love how like open he's being and I love how transparent

He's being about trying new things

But like every time I see him mention something or like somebody comments about him doing something he it's like all worked up about it

And it's like bro, you run

One of the largest automotive companies in the world again

Fucking focus on you. Listen to the fucking people that you're selling the shit to they will tell you what they want

It's crazy. Not that hard of a fucking concept

Anyway, anyway, yeah, so uh, we might be getting

New focus or something who know if they make a new van they need to fucking figure that shit out because the old one

I understand why they stop. I want the wind star too. No

What if we just did what if we just named cars like like video games

The wind start too. Yeah, actually just in star three the same. What about nissan? Uh, 350z 350z 350z

Yeah, nissan tried that actually

Uh in other news

Uh, I got a bit of a sad one for you. This is sad to me. Anyway, well, I'm sad all the time. So it's fine. Oh, Jesus

Uh, the LC 500 is coming to an end. Oh

And that's a little that's a little sad

Uh production apparently uh, going to be ending this august

Giving the car an official nine-year run. It kind of makes sense honestly because who the fuck is that car for like that car?

I like it. I love it. I think it's a gorgeous car, but like it doesn't do anything really like amazing

It's just good all around. Yeah, and not amazing at one category. I think yeah, I think I think it's for

like it was targeted for

Someone who wanted a luxury style car, but had like that

Super car kind of style

Um, I think the convertibles sold way more, but then it's like it's a tour. It's a great. Yeah. It's a great tour

It's not sporty. It's not like it is

It is not almost like it's almost like the lexus corvette in a way. No, I don't even know

it's like it's it to me to me it's like a

Like a cts without the v. I don't know. There's just something weird about it

I know there are guys that like dead on alex modified his looks absolutely sick

Yeah, they love it. Gorgeous. That looks super cool

But like that is what they're good at is like looking really good. I've seen the interior of them

Didn't really fall in love with it. I've seen the performance of them didn't really fall in love with it

like they're

It makes sense because toyota has the grg t and the lfa that they're starting the entry

So I'm assuming we'll see a new version of that chassis with a lexus name plate on it in some way shape or form

But like yeah, I never understood and they're fucking expensive. Yeah

Yeah, they are not a really 90 some thousand dollar car. It was just in a odd spot. Yeah, I didn't know

I really liked the car. I really appreciated it. I've I love seeing them. You know, you can get for 90

I know you can get a lot of other cars two dodge vipers

Really like the lc 500

But it is crazy to think that that car has been out for nine years

Yeah, it's kind of wild. Yeah. Um, I'm kind of surprised it went for nine years. Yeah

Almost a decade. Fuck. We almost had people born in 2002 or 23 years old

I need some good news to close this up. Bless you

That was from a bath a closed bathroom

Just so you guys know

You heard about a bear yelling in the microphone like 20 seconds

That is that is schnell sneezing in the bathroom

He either exploded that toilet

Or he needs to go to the hospital. That is insane to be that loud

Hey, you got big lungs a lot of air moving

The quietest gentlest soul and then when he sneezes it's just all of it. He lets it out. Yeah, that's the demons out

Oh my that's why we say bless you

Someone gotta bless that we need the priest

Oh, someone give me some good news so we can end this on a good note. Um good news. Yeah

Dakota got a new bumper. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's good news

Um, shout out johnny too. He uh helped put it on there and install it for me

But yeah, I got a c4 fab low pro bumper with the high rise bull bar on it

And then a 30 inch baha designs light bar that lights up the neighborhood dude. Yeah

That was so funny last night

Like it started the sun went down. I was like, oh, I really I haven't seen the light bar at night yet

Like I'm curious. So I had it backed into my garage and I have neighbors straight directly across from me

And so it's a really old guy. He's really nice really kind

Now he's blind and he opened up his garage and he's walking around doing doing whatever he do

And uh, I went and pushed the button

Dude, I could see what religion that guy was

Fucking lit up so bright his whole girl. I've never seen that house that way before

I hope he didn't look back because he would have been black. I could not I was like, holy shit

And I like turned it off right away. It just illuminated the entire inside of the house. I felt horrible

It's like christmas vacation when she like falls down the stairs

That's exactly what it was like

Exactly. Yeah, I I felt horrible. I was like, man, they were probably so happy

I got rid of the supra and no gotta worry about cold starts anymore. Oh, god. Shit. Now I got fucking the sun shining at their house

I love light bars. Yeah, honey. What time is it?

It's all yellow too. Yeah, dude. Yeah, there was multiple neighbors. It was just like I can't believe how bright that fucker is

I think I think you said does a video if I can if I can export it all throw it up for reference because it was wild

Yeah, it's really bright. But yeah, I just want to I'm still modifying the forerunner having fun with it

Got some more stuff. I'm doing looks really good

Yeah, throw a sherpa rack up on it because I don't like the mullet rack that the trd pro comes with

It's okay, but I don't want to party all the way across not just a party in the back. Fair enough. Yeah fair enough

Fair enough. Yeah fair enough

well

Alex, we're gonna reveal that car so we can talk about it. I know it's been a while

Because I want to talk about that and what you're doing with that

But you just you want to keep it a secret for eight months before you talk about it

Well, to be honest, I also need to like register it in the country. What else is new? Yeah, that's not anything out of the ordinary

You guys suck

Hopefully in the next like week or two. All right. Oh, okay. All right. So you're that you're that podcast or week or two

Yeah, it'll be really fun. I'm trying the I suffer. I suffer from this terrible disease where

I

Announced a car and I work on it and there are four other cars. I need to work on and finish

I'm really trying to make sure that our other stuff is taken care of first before we talk about that car

So I can talk about that car more. Good news is this one don't need much. This is a good car. It's solid. Yeah, don't need much

Um, yeah, it's honestly this thing's sick. I wish you guys could see right now

It's hot

But uh besides that no man, I'm just uh, I'm excited to get out there

I'm excited to to get some laps behind the pfm been driving it on iRacing a lot. So that's been really fun

I'm excited times excited for you guys actually get out and drive that this year. It's scary as hell in iRacing

So it should be fucking blisteringly quick in real life. So really excited for that and uh, yeah, that's what I got going on

man

Oh, yeah

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Thank you so much for listening and we will see you next week. Have a great weekend

I think you have another sponsor to talk about their bud. Well, I'm old and I forgot

Damn old ass motegi

Yeah, oh, yeah, shit. Well, I haven't been on the podcast in a month. I'm the special guest

That's true. Yeah

You want to I can take it I can take it. Oh

Ladies and gentlemen me me me me

Ladies and gentlemen, there was a time where I've had people be like on red. Well, it was only one time. So I was like

they uh

They're they're sponsored by companies. So don't trust what they say

We are always very honest when companies sponsor us because we tell you that when they're they're sponsored

Because when we say motegi is a sponsor the martini works podcast that thereby implies

That they're sponsoring us

But I what I will say is that we don't take money unless we believe in the brands that we love

And this we can say no and we pick them. You know and we and I say no a lot

Otherwise you'd be hearing some goddamn four and one fucking

Yes, I feel like that's whatever a lot of AI things. Yeah

Um, we ain't doing that. Motegi's a good brand. I like them. Yes. I I'm really excited to to get them on some cars here

This year

Great brand that one cool finishes

Absolutely sick stuff and I like the designs and I think it's fun that they're doing something fresh

And I think they're doing something different and I think if you're trying to feel a little bit fresh this year

It's really a great brand to grow with and and do stuff different with

They've got different kind cavity profiles for their designs. The stuff is is well made the finishes are cool

And honestly, I think it's just worth trying something different

And so if you're if you're on the fence you want to get something you want to mix it up a little bit

Motegi wheels is an absolutely great option

The finishes are sick and the inventory is very nice so that you don't have to wait

You can just buy it and they'll get packaged shipped with tires right to your door good to go

Um, and so I would say yeah great wheel brand to pick up

Thank you. Motegi wheels for sponsoring the martini works podcast if you need help with your fitment

Just reach out to us at martiniworks.com. We'd be happy to help you out. Yeah, we're good at that

Okay, now. Goodbye. Okay now. Bye. Bye. Bye

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