Mr Regular from Regular Car Reviews

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gentlemen. What would you go for?

They see us in. There.

OK, and because it's not a super duck.

It is. It's not.

Order and ready for infection. Comes in the form of two

letters, A and. U.

Long live my Ltd. Being to to the front of the

line of traffic ready to go in the direction you're turning.

That may have not made it any easier, but.

And. Unfortunately.

Did not. No, it's.

You'll have to demonstrate it. I am definitely going to

demonstrate it because and I said that the first time when I picked them up from the airport, that was one of the first things I said when we were going past. I'm like, hey, do you want to do

a hook turn? And I sort of got the vibe, you

know, it's probably better that we just get you to the house, but would do anything because they've been on a plane.

When you said hook turn, what I thought what the closest thing that in the Yankee brain went to was AJ, was AJ Turn made famous by the Rockford Files? Do you ever see anybody on mic?

Ever see the Rockford Files? David agree.

Yeah. Hang on it is it back and then?

Flick around, Yes. Yeah.

You gotta hit the E brake to lock your rear wheels in the front of the car. Pins.

Pins around, yeah. That's the Scandinavian flick

out here, isn't it? No, there's scanty flicks when

you when you're throwing it into a corner, like, yeah, like they do in like in Finland and stuff to go sideways around corner.

That's where they will. Oh, OK.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's where you load up the

opposite side of the car with weight.

Yeah. Like if you're gonna about to

turn right, you turn left really quick and then left and then right. Correct.

Yeah, pretty much. Welcome to Car Talk.

It's choosing out here on ICONI Northwest FM.

It's me, Maddie J online with Mr Scotty J Johnson, Mr. David

Prince, and then the other studio, Alam and Alamadeep Singh and Mr Chad. And it's very special guests in

the studio all the way from the United States of Freedom.

Is Mr Regular reviews himself? Well, part of it, I should say.

Brian, how you doing man? How you doing?

It's lovely to be here. It's great to be back on radio

again. Thank you, man.

Thanks. Thanks for taking the time out

and you brought a friend along with you.

Matto, how you doing man? Yeah, not too bad.

How you going? Good you're.

The Aussie hookup. I'm the I'm the fixer.

Yeah. Maddow solves problems, yeah.

Tries to, yeah. So thank you very much for

having me here. This fantastic be on a radio

station and Nick said in his regards to the other half of our CR YouTube channel, he's at home doing some work.

We're going to close up the live stream now.

I'm trying to get some more viewers in here.

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Northwest fm.org. Once again, Northwest fm.org,

Thank you. Thank you.

Shout out to the northern suburbs.

I was telling David earlier he's he's he's on the bottom left there earlier on the on the show earlier today.

You know, the north we've got, we've got some special terms here. Like I don't know if you guys

have heard them from here. Like if it spins forth, bring it

to the North. You know, you probably would

have heard drop a gear disappear.

But yeah, there's many like like that that we get only in the North. I live, I lived in Coburg for a

year and unfortunately that wasn't long enough to learn the local lingo. But, you know, I'm definitely

not opposed to coming back here and, you know, becoming a Northerner myself. Absolutely it's which is weird

because Melbourne is South of the pretty much the bottom of Australia. Those Mexicans.

I know I've been surprising. I've been called Mexican a few

times. My, I've got Fogger family in,

in NSW up top and midway up top and, and they, they call us Mexicans all the time. So it's like we see yourself of

the border, you're a Mexican. I'm like, OK, sure, we'll go

with that. We're about as far from Mexico

as you can. Possibly be.

Right now. Quite literally, quite.

I love how we don't count Tasmania.

I know it's just. This.

I do all. Our Tasmanian There's several

jokes we can make about Tasmanians with.

Well, it's funny, like my mom was in Tasmania recently for work and she you meet people in Tasmania.

Are you from the mainland? Like like like it's like such a

such a massive difference. I'm like, it's, it's not we're

all part of Australia. But anyway, that's that's just

how it goes. But gentlemen, how are you going

on on on in the screens, the screen.

Well, David Princeywell. Doing doing good.

Thanks man. Scooty Doe.

Yeah, not bad. Thank you very much.

And Chad and Alan, you guys doing well as well.

Very good. But first of all, Brian, thank

you for coming on the show. Thank you for inviting me.

I know you got a really busy schedule.

You're here for a short time. I thought I'd just throw Hell

Mary out there and see if you wanted to.

Hey, as we say in sales, if you don't ask, you don't get, correct, Yeah. So I've, I've, you know, I've

done that for a few people and you know, it's, it's worked for some and others I've heard nothing.

But but for you, I was like, oh, well, you know, you responded and and that was amazing. Been a big fan of of you and

Nick's work for for a very long time.

Well, thank you so much. You guys have been like kind of

YouTube superstars for a long time.

I'd. Hesitate to call us you

superstars, but you know Doug Demiro's the real 1, Matt Pair's the real one that's. Just you being humble.

Correct. Almost a million.

Subscribers almost had a million subscribers.

Everybody surpassed us. And like for people who

listening, we are a derogatory YouTube channel that is sort of in the world of automotive community.

We are the B side maybe. I guess in a way we are proud

that we never really compromised our principles as most of YouTube has gone to being influencers who are just walking products. We're still KMFDM and just, you

know, actively trying to ruin our own reputation for the, for the, for the sake of profane art, because the idea, the idea of, of regular car reviews, it started almost as a troll.

Well, it was, it was a troll YouTube channel for people who were coming in who wanted, oh, thank goodness.

There, there is a, a show out there that doesn't do super cars or sports cars. It's regular car reviews and

the, and the early videos, which people are saying, well, why aren't you going to do this again?

The well, the the environment of YouTube has changed in the past 10 years, but the the early videos, they began as a normal car review for about maybe 18 seconds.

I mean. And they would just go crazy.

Like we wouldn't even talk about the car.

We'd be making up characters. And then it would then it would

smash cut back to the car review and and in sort of the normal like with a very radio voice that would come in here like the Subaru Outback Impreza is a fine sort of car.

For me to hide my demons, I remember.

The first one was sort of your one of your shows.

I don't know guys if you would agree with.

My wife left me for a post office building.

Quite literally like you, you reminded me of there's a Facebook page that we have in Australia called single dad low income single Dad cars. And it's and it's, it's just

virtually that of like my wife left me, you know, this is this is all those things come to play when and you see when you see a car like that. And yeah, if you've probably

seen us, like you'll get an on the show.

But we're all very basic car people.

Like we like the most mundane weird things.

And it's nice to see a show that that you know, does it, you want a very unique way, but to, you know, it embraces the weird and it embraces like a bit of a bit of bit of this bit of that.

And it's not afraid to to drive a Hyundai Tiburon, you know what I mean? Which is which is cool.

Yeah, like we went all the way to the UK to drive an MX5 because it had a different engine than you could get.

You had a worse it had a smaller engine.

How does it, how does that even happen?

Like like like how does how do you put a small like an even lower powered engine in an MX5? They're not a fast car to begin.

With right I I mean it was an NC so third Gen Miata and I can't off the top of my head pull out my car nerd knowledge of what we got in. I guess it was a 2 litre and

maybe it was a 1.9 in the UK at that at those years.

I'm not certain I am surprised. So for for reference, I went to

New Zealand twice and never came over.

And everybody in Australia who watches the show is like, I can't believe you keep going over there and not coming over here. And now that we're here, the

people in the Commons are like, why aren't you in Sydney?

Yeah, yeah, well, you came straight to Melbourne and I'm like 1. I don't want to be just another

American who comes to Australia and just goes to Sydney and doesn't do anything else. Doing that by the way, because.

Of course, because this, you know, Melbourne feels like Philadelphia to me. And I mean that in a kind, kind

way, like you were talking about before, like, oh, like what were you doing? Like, Like the Melbourne is a

rough no, I'm not saying it's a rougher town, but there's more of an attitude. To it.

Look, I'm going basically off some of the comments that I've seen in, you know, in response to, you know, when you've announced that you're going to Melbourne instead of Sydney, a lot of people are like, why are you going to Melbourne?

Everybody's rude down there. I'm like, sure, but that's.

Well, to to add to that, I think we I think with a nicer place over Sydney and there's, I don't know if I kind of told you, I don't know about there's a, there's a, there is a beef.

Between Melbourne and Sydney. Oh, and it will go.

It will continue until the sunburns.

Yeah, Sunburn. Yeah, Palmy versus Palmer,

that's a big one. Yeah.

Yeah, and that's just that's just beginning.

We're not beginning to football coach I.

Think it might have something to do with the fact that we've held the title of most livable city for longer than than they have, if they ever held it. Like we're not even, we're not

even the first, the first city that people think of when they think of Australia. And yet we.

Liverpool. I'm more Liverpool than Sydney

and I tell you what, I've been there enough times as a truck driver by trade. I've gone to Sydney enough

times. I've seen the good parts and

then I've seen the really dilapidated parts like.

There's a lot of dominated parts, that's for sure.

Oh. We're all into much class here.

Absolutely, absolutely. It's classier just about

everywhere. Like there's no part of it that

seems to be like, there's no part of it where you can tell that money clearly hasn't been spent, where it's supposed to be spent, where you go to Sydney and it's like.

The bridge this. Is a There's a major highway

that goes that goes through home Bush where there's just cracks in the, like, cracks in the concrete everywhere and just a whole lot of unoccupied blocks, Yeah.

That sounds like New York City to me.

You drive in you. You need one of your Hiluxes

here to drive in and those buses go into New York City, even either over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge there.

There's two major ways to get into and, and of course, for for people who are listening and like, I don't want to have this turn into it like like an American versus all like which cities represent each other. I'm gathering that Sydney is the

New York City of it's like the the the city that everybody else knows. Correct.

Yeah. That, that, that would be

definitely like, yeah. Whereas like just South and I'm

making this correlation that that Melbourne is almost to Philadelphia of Australia because it's South.

Although although the East Coast of US, the East Coast for a driver because this is a car show for for a driver every major city on the East Coast of the US is usually two to three hours apart. Not freaking that you guys have

10 hours from where I live. And because this is all like the

people who said of the East Coast US is all, you know, the English, German, Lithuanian. So everything's crammed together

up there like Europe. So from where I live, 3 hours

I'm in in New York City, two hours I'm in, I'm in.

I'm in Philly, the three hours I'm in or three hours, I'm in Baltimore, 3 1/2 hours, Washington DC, all that stuff, 6 hours to Boston. So and it's all along this 95

corridor. But when you hit New York City,

it's they can, they cannot repair the roads fast enough for them to just get destroyed again.

Why is that? Is that, is that just because of

like the amount of like food traffic that gets through there?

Or is it just like? Or is it just they're just

patching it up to? To oh, yeah, I, I felt at home

when I, when we're driving around Melbourne, I see the big steel plates that are just bolted in the ground.

I'm like, OK, I know that. I've seen that before.

Yeah. That that's a lot New York York

City. It's so tough to repair the

streets because it's just so congested all the time.

You you close one St you've ruined a lot of stuff for for a while, especially because you have all these.

They keep trying to make man the island of Manhattan car usable and it really it shouldn't be. There should be parts like that.

There was always talk of, you know, Times Square of just having that closed traffic. The problem with New York City

for drivers is New York City doesn't have alleyways there.

Excuse me, The island of Manhattan doesn't have alleyways. The the, the row houses in the

blocks are just smushed, right? There are some alleyways like

those the Joker steps, if you saw that movie, there were over like one or two or three actual alleyways that the the houses just stopped. So all deliveries, all trash

removal, everything happens in front of the businesses.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

So. Sort of stink.

Oh, New York City stinks it it does have an odour and you also have two rivers. So you get the fish smell, you

get the the the detritus in there mixed with a type of the wind can't really blow through. I I don't want to have this turn

into another new city podcast, like every comedy podcast I listen to. But yeah.

And also driving in New York City is an exercise in madness because there's markings on the road, but they're all worn out.

And the to see big American boats weaving in the in between each other because, you know, for the longest time, the New York City taxi cab was Ford Crown Victoria and Lincoln Town Car. And the oh, and this is this is

a fun. This would be a car to import to

Australia and blow people's minds.

The Lincoln Town Car executive L.

Oh yes. So what's is that like?

Just like a lot longer wheelbase?

Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, a lot longer wheelbase.

Which is really, it's a really long car, like it's a.

Oh yeah, you're. You're what do you reckon's the

longest car we've ever made or the longest car that's on our Rd. Like Australian made car.

Australian made car I. Think it was like a DALTD

Fairline that era that was that was a pretty that was the longest Fairline L Ltd they made.

Yeah, and the only challenger for that would probably be the WM Statesman. Yeah, the Caprice, they're a big

car. Yeah.

And then the executive L would probably easily have another foot on that, wouldn't it? Yeah, OK.

I think let's see it it the Chrysler Imperial from the late 60s or the Cadillac Series 59 or Series 62.

Both were about 20 feet long, which is 6.1 metres in length.

Yeah, yeah. Most of that, most of most of

that was hood or bonnet and trunk.

I drive back home in 1963 Ford Galaxy which is 17 1/2 feet long, which in metres is less than six.

So 17.5 feet is 5.33 metres in length and most of it is hood

and trunk. The trunk is longer than the

hood and it can hold. Mass.

I'm. From American after a little

things because somehow we like the English in a little weird way. Let's see.

It can hold. Oh wait, that's feet.

You guys talk about something. I got to do this math.

I was just, all I was going to say was here I am thinking that I've got it bad when I have to drive a semi trailer into the Into Melbourne CBD. OK, the usable, the usable

weight that I had that I, I can load 454 kilogrammes into the car and not hit the bump stops in the Galaxy.

So and that's six people in usually 6 people inside the car including myself and a trunk full of gear is.

There three and three, right? Like the Yeah bench seat?

Seats you could pay more to have less people in it yeah, that's and have the. You have the.

Sporty, sporty versions where they move the shifter from the column to the centre console. Oh, it's still an automatic, you

know, you could get though they did make like, oh, here's the fun thing about the Ford Galaxy from the 60s.

We, they did make racing versions of these things and you can see them if you look up on YouTube, the Thunderbolt.

We can talk about the Thunderbolt.

We think we talked about the Thunderbolt or was someone else maybe The Thunderbolt is not the gap, not the full size Ford platform. It's the mid size, which is a

Fairlane, which is in America was a was a lengthened version of our Falcon. Yeah, we unfortunately lost the

Falcon in 1960. 9. It ended.

Long. Left.

And then it continued and it became this wonderful vehicle that I'm in love with every time I'm here.

I hope you will get good news, Maddow from because you have a what? I have a 2010 F6 Ute.

Oh, nice. Yeah, cool.

Yeah, so. It's not got the best version of

the of the six cylinder that unfortunately died, you know, in the States, but continued down here.

It's probably got the second best, Yeah, the Barra 310.

Because it was the 325T which was in the Sprint, yeah.

When we took my Falcon apart, which was in 1960, which is what you called the. XM Would that be in or even?

I have the first year X. KXK OK.

Yeah. When I, when we took that apart,

most of the suspension parts that made in Australia on it, even though you got it in 61, we got it in 60.

They were already making it here and then shipping the parts all the way overseas to the United States.

Yeah. So what what's crazy is like,

and I don't know if you many people know this, but like the the Mustang and the Falcon, obviously you know, like.

The first Gen Falcon is a Mustang.

Yeah, correct. Yeah, like a lot of all the way

up to XF, like a lot of paths are interchangeable between a Mustang and A and a Falcon. It's like I can't confirm that

but I've looked underneath an XF and they look very.

Similar. Yeah.

Well one of the guys that comes in to show you normally he he had a 65 Mustang and it had all XF front end in it.

Yeah, nice. We saw a Gen 1 Mustang today.

We did. Where were we?

Back we were in Elfham, we were heading out to we were.

We were heading out to our filming location which we.

I'm trying to. Because we're on air right now,

we're going to not say where we're going to be because we don't want people showing up. But but.

It's out in the yeah, it's a nice little location out in the in the Northeast. Where we can get nice sweeping

shots and it's going to look very nice and pretty.

Yeah, well, we can talk about the two the two cars we did today and I'm fine with spoiling IT11I It's going to be 2040 until this is legal to import to the United States because we have a 25 year rule. Yankees like myself are driving

up prices of Nissan Skyline all the way, all the way.

There are people in, you know, in Japan who are just just putting them in warehouses because they know, you know, rich tech guys, the US are going to pay 50 to 8.

Some of these R34 GTRS are selling for six.

Figures. Absolutely.

Yeah, it's insane. So what we drove today was a

2017 Nissan or Honda N box. Cool.

Yeah, that was. Now, so, so David Prince over

here, he's got he's got an one Rs like a like AK car like that.

So he knows all. That's his wheelhouse.

Awesome. We put five people in that and I

rode in the I, I rode in the cargo area and it rode on its bump stops because we all go had to go to the bathroom.

We had to go find some public bathroom.

It was making some noise. I found it the torque to be

quite nice, but the torque on that 660 three cylinder with the turbo to me felt very masculine up to 1/3 throttle and then you'd press your foot down anymore and the car's like I don't want to. It's just travelling.

It's in a Tokyo person that doesn't need to go any faster than that. Yeah.

And then you're right, you know, so.

So David and I were in Japan last year that we we went together and it like I was just enamoured by these, these K cars. And then we went to a Honda

dealership and looked at looked at an actual inbox and in van, I think we looked at as well. And then he's like, I'm gonna

get a I'm gonna get an N1 Rs and it's got like a manual 660 turbo. And it's, it's super freaking

cool. Like it's, yeah, it's it's

definitely the coolest car that that I've I've said this, I support the coolest car I've. Driven.

Oh, big cool, big cool. It's a big cool, but it's it's

it's definitely a worthy call. And and the 660 is just so fun.

Like it's just it's just a funny losing yeah, three cylinder.

What are the rules for importing cars here in Australia?

It's it's. Interesting.

Yeah, so. Here we go.

How long have you got like? Yeah, yeah.

What, what we, what I learned in New Zealand is their rules are you can import something if it's significant or something that you can't get OK in NZ. Do you call it NZ or just say

New Zealand? Yeah, NZ, yeah, I mean like we

had different laws here because we still had industry and like the the laws regarding, you know, trying to protect inverted Commons, the industry drove the prices up like that, you know, of other cars. But since that's been, you know,

finished, it's almost been 10 years since since the since Toyota pulled out and Holden, Ford, even Mitsubishi pulled out earlier than that. They, we haven't had a industry

to, to protect, right. So they've, they've kind of

allowed a few years ago they, they relaxed it so you could bring, you could bring new things in, you know, like, like his. 4 categories now. So basically you have rarity,

environmental performance, and I think you know, disabled converted vehicles. Like that's a huge industry in

Japan. Well kept with for wheelchair

access and things like that. So it used to be you had to

satisfy two or three of five requirements.

Now you'll have to satisfy one of four.

Oh OK, that sounds too bad. So.

You actually have to get the car on the on the register called the sports and enthusiast vehicle scheme register, the SEVS register and then the car has to be brought in and tested to make sure it can comply. And then yeah, it, it goes on

and on. And then, but yeah, it has

opened up, as Maddie said, since manufacturing stopped in Australia, thankfully. Yeah, absolutely.

And it's and you know it's allowed for cars like, you know, the N1 Rs and and you know the inbox and van and stuff to to, to, to come to Australia. And now they're trying to trying

to stop at something that because of safety regulations because. We are getting that right now

with the K vans, the little K trucks in the K ran.

So now this is me being a conspiracy.

Conspiracy away. We love it.

Some senators and politicians in smaller farming states, mostly New England, where the farms are smaller, have tried to and some successfully sort of de concentrate or remove registrations and not allow any new registrations of like small Japanese trucks of which they include the Mitsubishi Delica on on the big. Delica or the 660 delica?

Oh, the big one. Oh my goodness.

Yeah, on the idea is that these are not safe and they do not make meet US safety regulations. And because the United States

has this, this tug of war between who's really in charge of state governments or the fellow government, I think it's more of a lobbying, lobbying campaign from John Deere, who makes tractors. Yeah.

And Polaris, who makes those? Snowmobiles and stuff, right?

Yeah, they make that and they also make Utvs these sort of like farm type vehicles. Yeah, with the little with the

four Wheelers. Yeah, yeah, with the and have

the the the tray on the back. Yeah, like you can call it a

side by side or a UTV or RTV. Polaris, I think it's one of

those big branches, isn't it? Yeah.

Yeah, Polaris, Ranger and you know, whatever the sporty 1 is, but that's not really a work vehicle.

It's more of a play thing. Yeah, they have the fancy wheels

on them and stuff and sound systems, but they're not street legal. And but they're $20,000 and in

the US you can get AK Truck for like 7 or 8 grand.

So what? And this thing is street legal.

It's got air conditioning. It does everything.

And by the way, it's made in Japan.

Yeah. So it's going to keep running.

So that's my and that's probably not true, but you know.

I can add something that might give some credence to this story is there's, I can't remember the location, but there is a mob somewhere in Australia that is making Ute conversions to the Suzuki chimney. There is, yeah.

And there are farms that are just buying a heap of Suzuki chimneys instead of these regular, like your Polaris Ranger or boat or RTV, for example.

I mean, you know, what are you complaining about when you've got a road vehicle with air conditioning and stereo system that also has a tiny little bed in the back and can fit around, like, inside most of the gates? Yeah, you know.

Yeah. Like it makes perfect sense.

Tiny little oil philtre. Oh yeah, it's an actual car.

Doesn't have a silly little CVT in there.

It's manual transmissions. Not fine.

It's most of the chimneys that you've seen so far are the sort of the wide track ones. They've got the the big black

plastic wheel guards on them. So that has a wide stance, but

you can actually get a narrower version of that.

Don't think they call it anything different necessarily.

It's just a narrow version of the Suzuki Jimney.

So it's almost as narrow as the inbox.

It's actually a page of using it, David.

It's a cake, nice and like and it's got a smaller engine and and. OK.

So they'll be coming in under the same sort of conditions as all the. Yeah.

Well, yeah, if, but do you think that'd allow that, David, because of? I think that's one of the ones

that has been canned, which is from that would, it's to do with one of the changes to the Australian regulations as far as crash safety which came out in October 2021.

So anything prior to that you can still bring in, but but yeah, the the ones without the, the the wheel arch extensions are 660 CC. So the the ones that were

delivered locally here are the 1.5, which does make a lot more

sense if you yeah, but but yeah, there are a few of the KS that are filled in before the rules change sort of thing.

But I don't think you can bring it AK1 into Australia now.

Which is, yeah, which which is interesting.

But having said that, like seeing a few more K cars on the road, I don't know if that's probably the only one you've seen so far in Australia, but they they are around and you, you do see them and there's they're getting more prevalent.

But hopefully they don't ban them all because there was a there was a big thing. I like seeing modern high places

there. Those are nice.

Modern high cases are cool. Yeah, yeah.

Like I saw that we briefly in the US got a version of the light ace in the 80s. They just called it the Toyota

van. All right.

And you, Maddow, have, I think, a matchbox or a Hot Wheels version of that hanging on the wall somewhere.

Yeah, yeah. It's the sort of spaceship

looking thing, the narrow from the quad headlights and stuff like that. We call that a Toyota Tarago.

That was the first to have the Tarago name plate on it.

Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, one of one of the guys

on the show, he's not here tonight.

He has one of those like with the square, square headlights.

Yeah, it's a manual. It's it's yeah.

It's really awesome. Yeah.

So yeah, the Tarago was the passenger carrying version of the Toyota van. OK.

Yeah, Yeah. We didn't get any sort of cargo

like that. And Toyota, until they had the

Sienna, really didn't have anything to work in the US.

They had the Previa, which you have of the the real version outside right there, I thought. That's Chad's one there, which

is also called a Tarago here, so they kept the Tarago name consistent. Nice, yeah.

Yeah, you're, you're an, you're a former English teacher, I believe. Yes, yes.

So it was an English teacher in the late 2000s and early into the teens. It was the last real job I had.

Yep, Yep. So, speaking to a fellow

pedagogue, a great. Word.

Yeah, I believe being an English teacher, I'm not an English teacher, I'm just a, I'm an art and design teacher of it.

You know the language you. Use.

I'm an art and design teacher, Mehdi.

Yes, I'm design teacher David Prince.

I'm just OK. I, I do a few other little

things here and there, but the, the, the language you use in your in your videos are really, it's really clever.

Like you use some really high end words.

And is that just because like you, you have the knack to just like I need to put something, something English.

Yeah. Exactly.

We got to do something. Yeah, yeah, to get it in there.

And also we try not to use profanity that much, even though it's a vulgar show. Very.

Because, because I think we're relying on swear words is a cheap way to get a laugh. I, you know, I'd save that for

the Twitch streamers. We don't have anything to say,

you know, and that and yeah, I'll use it.

I'll try to use polysyllabic words as much as I can.

I'll make people go to their thesaurus please.

No, no, it's it's it's actually fun to to hear some of the words you use because there's like, well, I haven't heard that word before, like, you know, but ask the question.

So what? So besides, obviously you never

coming to is this your first time to Australia?

It is. Yes, it is.

What else brings you to Australia?

Just is out of curiosity, just just just just to just to in get involved in the our car culture or yeah.

Yeah, because the we're the as far as the car, as far as all the car culture I've seen throughout the world, the United States and Australia are, are pretty much the same.

We, we are unabashed, unapologetic in our love of loud V eights and screw economy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The car culture in the UK was kind of odd in that.

Well, first of all, the, the, the late Mark versions of the Mini, the Mark 6 and the Mark 7 are still one of the greatest cars I've ever driven. And I've driven a Toyota LFA.

So yeah. And I think I'd rather be in a

Mini because there is this savage nature to it, and also because it had to learn to survive in in Great Britain and and. Get.

Drive on roads that were mediaeval oxcart pass and actually make a good make time doing it versus over in our two countries. Cars were allowed to like

goldfish in a bowl, you know build to a larger size and do things that that that culture in the UK can I I I will be very kind to UK car culture. A lot of it was parking and

posing and and I don't say that that people in the UK don't drive their question. Obviously they do in motorcycle

culture is is fantastic. But I've noticed even even we in

in in the foul in the in the older Falcon got looks and I think there was someone who said nice to us when we made a turn.

Do you remember that? That was yesterday.

That must have been the I have a recollection of.

He must have been the same guy that had because he said this.

He said the same thing that he used to drive one back in the day as a taxi cab. Was that the guy that you're

talking about? This was in traffic I I heard

someone at. The at the roundabout.

I think so. Wait this Were we stopped or

were we driving? We were driving.

And then someone just tried to yelled from their car to to us.

Oh, this was a pedestrian that I'm thinking of.

But but yeah, no, there are plenty.

There are plenty of people, especially, you know, either new dads or semi new dads that, you know, remember the good old days of the old XF Falcon waggon? Yeah.

That was the that was the car that they were riding in the back of back in the day. Yeah.

I believe you could get them with like Dicky seats in the back too, like the the backwards facing seats.

Yeah, which, which are, which are, which are very cool.

And yeah, there was an option you could you could get in.

It was mainly common. Like we still see a few of them

with like W12 fours, you know, like the waggons S1 fours, which which still have them. But we we we had a we used to

have I was mentioning before the show, we had a a Fairmont XF Fairmont which got nicked. It was a very long time ago, but

you know, but we used to see them everywhere.

Like there was a time when those cars were everywhere, like, Oh yeah. You know, and, and I think a few

of us can on the show can attest to this at that, you know, some of the some of the cars we saw 20 years ago, you know, we just don't see as much anymore. So like to see when that's

actually really nice. And yeah, in decent condition.

It's it's it's a test. We had a bit of oh, go ahead,

sorry. I was just going to say

especially the waggons because yeah, they were.

Whatever reason, they got trashed, abused and the and the sedan survived. Well, I think the way is because

I was more of a family hauler. Like they just, they just got,

they just got beaten. That would be like, you know,

the Falcons were getting abused in the states that, you know, demolition derbies and monster truck rallies because don't worry about it, We're saving the Mustang anyway.

Oh, exactly. Yeah, all the Mustangs survived,

and the Falcons, the, the only really classic Fords that survived are the convertibles because they were kept inside anyway because they didn't want to get rained in.

So they were bought by people who owned houses and had garage and the things lived inside versus the waggons, you don't see sedans. Maybe a little bit more briefly,

we did have the Ute yeah, yeah, they called it the Yep, they called the Ranchero. And then they try to get every

now and then a car company tries to sell a Ute to Americans and it fails every single time. And now Hyundai is doing it

again. They're going to try with the

Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, yeah.

Yeah, I see a few of them riding around.

I haven't got my hands on one yet, my friend.

Shout out to my friend Kurt, who works in the parts department of a Hyundai dealership. They had a new buyer who bought

a Santa Cruz. And on the way out, she asked,

you know, the parts department, can I have a, a bed liner Been like, you know, protect the bed. And he's like, well, OK, I mean,

it's already a plastic bed, but I guess the Hyundai will gladly sell you another piece of plastic to put on top of your piece of plastic. So they bring it back like a few

days later when the part comes in and they clip to this little Lego piece in the back. And she leaves and comes back

later in the day and says. Do you have?

Anything softer like carpet? This is going to scratch my pots

and pans and the flower pots that I'm buying.

Like what? That's what?

That's what you're buying. You're buying a you.

Yeah, yeah. So that may be the people who

are buying these things, the people who don't really want a truck. They want, they want something

to put things that aren't, see, I'm talking in circles now, because that's why your bar doesn't go inside.

It doesn't mess up your seats. Just buy the station wax.

Just buy the waggon if you want something covered.

You you guys have the Baja Subaru Baja, right?

Like. That is a bizarre story.

A Ute that was not sold here. Yeah, it wasn't sold or in New

Zealand. It was made by Subaru or North

American, you know, went to Canada as well.

I remember I had friends from outside Wellington in the Wirapa and they stayed at my house and my, but my, my neighbour one floor below me in the apartment I was living in had a yellow Subaru Baja. And I remember Bryce just

looking at this and saying, I don't get it.

Why is this here? Why have I never seen this

before? And he's like, Oh yeah, this was

a complete commercial failure. And then Chevy tried to do it

with the Chevy Avalanche. That was a Ute and I love that

thing because it came with a 8.1 litre in that thing and nose

thing. And you could, you could strap,

you could strap an eBay. Shout out to my friend Matt

Happel. He's amazing.

He's like roadkill knows about him, won't work with him because Matt Happel is like Yoda. He will tune your car if he

likes you. He he is a data tech for a

hospital. He takes care of like it for a

hospital. So he already is making money.

He does not care about sponsorships, but he does have a YouTube channel. It's called sloppy mechanics.

He reuses, he goes because in America you just trip over LS engines left and right. But.

And in America, all we want, all the all the cool people want is barrows because they don't exist here.

Yeah. Yeah.

How is that going over there? Like, like there's a few people

with them over there. Yeah, they are.

It's it's an interesting thing. You want an expensive engine

that you can't get parts for and it.

Makes no sense. There's no one really, but

you're going to have to find one yourself or know someone down here who's going to who's going to whack it together in a crate and get it. And then you have to go get it

from the like port of Newark or something like that.

And then, but then you'll have a barrel and then you buy and might as well buy a bunch of parts and parts and oil philtres and gaskets and everything you're going to have to fix, fix a few bits. Or you could go out and get a

van and get a six litre LS in it that has 200,000 miles on it.

Strap it because OK, there was called the Don't BS me build that Matt Happel makes for the LS or or shows you how to do it on sloppingmechanics.com because all you need all you need to do

is to make an iron block LS sing is Cam valve springs, turbo tune. That's it.

You don't need to open up the engine at all.

Those things will take it. You bang, there's 600

horsepower. Actually the iron block ones

like. They, oh, they love they, they

love it the, the, the aluminium ones or sorry, aluminium.

They they will, they will they take those are meant to be really NA, if you want to turbo turbo them, you're just showing off that you did it. But yeah, that Avalanche, you

could take an 8.1 litre LS and then put forced induction on

that and it was kind of funky because you're talking about an all wheel drive car now and that or was it?

Yeah, I think they were all all wheel drive.

They they certainly looked like they would have been all wheel drive. I don't know if they were if

they were traditional 4 by. And why would you call something

the Avalanche unless it was going to, you know, tackle 1?

Yeah, yeah, completely failed. But it is fun on the, it is fun

on the user market. These guys from Sloppy

Mechanics, they have one video that exists out there.

Does Bunnings here allow you to like rent A Ute for a day?

Yeah, they do. Yeah.

OK, imagine doing that with like a Chevy Colorado or or something like, Oh yeah. And and they threw a turbo on

one of them and then you just see this thing just doing these big slides and it just, it just said, you know, like Home Depot on the side and didn't. Say free candy.

Let's just yeah, it's just better.

No. And then they, I, I don't know

if they took the turbo back out or something.

They did it to AU Haul van as well.

They threw a tune on one of those things because that was would have been just a Chevy Express fan that we had that had. Those are the ones to get if you

have to. If you're for whatever reason

you're going for parts hauling in the US and you need a cheap LS engine, you look for a Chevy Express van.

They will be high mileage, but they're still going to be the iron block 6 litre for they'd be the 53LS engines is it's the 48535766.2 and then I don't know, forget what the 8.1 is.

That's that's the crazy thing. I could question later from

Eddie. I'll just write that down.

We we do a we do a car quiz at the end of the show, which you, which you guys are more than welcome to join us on, but it's legit street cars. Alex.

He's he's got an express fan that he's, that he's backed the supercharger on and and it's like it's.

Like an 18. 18 person van and it's just like mounted in the

paint, but like it looks it looks so cool and he's just boosting past everything. So yeah, big, big fan of of of

those. We actually don't have anything

like the biggest vans we have are I think like as you.

Know you're like a cab over designs here.

We do, yeah. I'm not too sure what that is

like our smaller inverter commas used, which are big to us, like our dual cab use, have really been the biggest seller in Australia for like the last 10 years or so.

Hilux, Ranger, stuff like that. And it's for people who want to

have a, you know, a suitable work vehicle but also want it to be the toy hauler on the weekend and to take the whole family off. Rex But like we've discussed in

the show, news on. Every level.

Yeah, that's what we'll discuss in the show.

Just like Doug David said, they're completely compromised.

They don't do anything. Well, no, like they're, they're

actually, they're not great. When we actually used to have

proper Utah like Falcons income model utes and and stuff with that, you actually had to have a usable bed.

I love how I love how Holland was trying to capitalise on the popularity of the Quad Cab with the.

Crewman. The crewman, yeah.

Back in the that's a vehicle I need to tell you about Lane and the crewman. It was a regular Holden Ute that

was stretched to fit an extra row of seats in the back, but you could only fit the kids in it if you want.

If you wanted to fit full size adults in that like.

Was it a 4 door? It was a four door, Yeah.

And it yeah, it was it was kind of like your your bar, but like it was a similar failure. It didn't really do well.

Yeah. And.

Total vertical. Totally vertical.

Backseat the back. OK, like a Southwest, OK, We

don't have Southwest here. Yeah, I don't know Jetstar like

that type of seat, correct? Yeah, they did make a HSV

version of it. I think they believe they call

that the avalanche that they'd interest.

Yeah, so that's the they made a HSV version of the Crewman Cross 8, which is, yeah, an all wheel drive quad cab Ute in the Australian sense of the word. LS1.

Yeah. Cool.

And I kind of want to make the comparison between the.

It's not the same comparison. It's like if we had a Subaru

Baja, it would be a Holden crewman cross eight.

Yeah, that's because like, yeah, the bed is shorter on the crewman because the damn thing's already too long.

Yeah, 100%, absolutely. So like they, they always looked

a bit unproportionate and, and they're, they're a bit of a weird looking car, but I guess it kind of said the same because that's kind of what everybody's driving now, right?

Like so yeah, everyone's here in Australia anyway, which is, which is, which is, which is definitely interesting.

But gonna ask you man, what else you got planned with while you're here? Like are you, are you, you got

many other events happened, like you've got an event coming up on Sunday. Yeah, that's gonna be our car

show. Car show is at the what?

It's at the Bell St Mall. OK, that's on the 10th. 10th

Yeah, yeah, on the 10th. 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, although we may have

to leave at noon because that's the same day we're flying home.

Yeah, we have to leave the car. Show it was a little bit of a

like I was trying to figure out, OK, so we need to have it during the day because the kind of crowd you get at car shows during the night is, you know, flip a coin.

They'll either be, you know, they'll either be good boys or they'll be a nuisance that attracts the attention of the law. Yeah.

And you know, I've, I've been to a couple of those shows and they always like, you know, you don't want to be going to one location 1st and then have to move to another location because the cops have already figured out what's going on like.

Yeah, it's it's, it makes it very hard.

Like the good thing with the mall, it's actually quite a good location. Yeah.

And people love doing car shows there.

They do. And they're very, they're very

accommodating. Yeah.

They, they ask for us to make a a poster and we never did.

But I think, I think with social media, what I've been doing every like I've been making Instagram reels the whole time I've been here and people have been offering more cars.

There's like a carbs museum slash consignment shop dealership that wanted us to come by.

Yeah, there was someone from Toyota of Australia who wanted to give us a mirage. Trying to get us a mirage.

The hydrogen. Yeah.

I'm like, do you have any Hiluxes?

Because we don't get out of there.

I won't drug one of those. I'm going to work with a Twitch

streamer here on Saturday named Z or Scribbie.

No, it's an artist, but I like, but this is not a car person and they don't know how to drive shtick.

And so I want to try to find a stick shift car that they're OK with someone learning a little. Yeah.

I've been just pulling up DMS that I've been getting.

There's one here that was at 3:53 PM, Says while you're here.

I have a 19 now. They didn't say where.

Yeah, they are, But they have a 1991 Holden Jackaroo.

They're going to. Drive.

I. Haven't seen a Jackaroo in

years. So guys on the like, Alan's

done. You guys seen a Jacker?

I haven't seen one in forever I think.

One of my family friends had one, so I think I've seen one like not just really really recently, probably a couple years back. OK, there's someone.

Probably crashed it could. Have been trooper at the sights

I think. What horse wasn't it?

Yeah, that they. Yeah, it's usually a trooper.

Yeah, that's what it would have. Been Oh, it's a trooper.

Yeah. Oh, OK.

There's one that I used to see at a customer that I used to deliver to, and it was like some sort of special edition, maybe the. They did do a HSV version Chad.

Yeah, there was one that was like the, I don't know some.

There's like a long road between SA and the Nullarbor edition or something like that. Oh yeah, yeah.

Weird one, yeah. But that would have just been a

trim package of some description, wouldn't?

It yeah, but but it's it's still like better than you, you standard jackaroo. Yeah, it's it's a fancy

jackaroo. This is someone who is offering

me their parents car here. We here in Melbourne, my parents

have a hole in WH Statesman. Yeah, cool.

Yeah, yeah. That's not that crewman you were

talking. About no.

It's it's the big, it's the big long wheelbase Commodore.

It's that's the delegate's car or the, you know, the dignitaries car here. It's, it's the one you, you, you

would buy if you couldn't afford that because like that's the, that'll be the Caprice. Yeah, yeah.

Not true, I think. One of the states in America

considering them as police. Cars to recruit?

Oh yes. OK.

You. You write that one.

Yes. Oh, that.

That. That was a statesman.

OK, yes, briefly. OK, so we have laws, or maybe

it's a clause within the Fraternal Order of Police, which is the police officers union in the United States that no police car can be made, can be foreign, can be made outside of the US.

Excuse me, That is a law in Pennsylvania.

So there are Holdens badged as Chevy's in the state of New Jersey that were used and then they were sold as the civil Yeah, they they brought it back as the Caprice and but technically they were able to work the rules that say, yes, this is a unite, this is AUS car.

But yeah, OK, yeah. That would have been, I'm, I'm

pretty sure it would have just been a Caprice body because you know, the body stamping on it, they had to make it longer to accommodate for more leg room in the back.

It would have been a Caprice body or a statesman body with maybe the the interior out of an Omega which was the base model.

Yeah, like I've I've done a bit of research on to that and Alex from the just three cars over there has got one as well.

Yeah, but you put it like a fat Cam and it's hilarious.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The it's like it's vinyl

backseat. It's it's proper cops back.

Yeah, it's it's a very stripped out It it's got none of the like creature compass. We haven't because I can.

The Capricia, for some context, was the top TR flagship of Holden. It was their, it was their, you

know, their most expensive car. The Cadillac ever come here?

No, no, but they are, they are, they are, they are coming here very shortly interest, which is which is interesting because like GM had no interest in doing right hand drive anymore and they're that's like they pulled out of of Australia.

It was just costing them too much, which is, which is weird because the Zeta platform is your, is your Camaro over there, which is your, you know, your last Gen Camaro.

But yeah, it it, it's interesting how they how they've how they've done that. But but now, now they're

bringing Cadillac here, which is towards the end of this year.

Apparently they're gonna, the first car's gonna be on the road. So we'll see.

It's a shame. It's a shame you missed the

CTSV. Oh, it's a cracky car, yeah.

Yeah. I think that some people managed

to get, I don't know whether they got the CTSV over here, but the like same generation as the first few.

Like I remember seeing one in person back when I was working as a mechanic at Toyota dealership.

You know, this is circa 2009, 2012.

Yeah, one. Yeah, one day I just came in and

there was one there and I'm like, what is this doing here?

There, there was one in Upper West they got around for they were around there for years. I don't know if it's it's the

same car, but it was a seat. It was ACTS wasn't AV, but it

was. Yeah, it was a really nice car.

I was. It was always there.

I think this was just a regular CTS as well.

Yeah. And like, who brings one of

those things in here when a Commodore would do just as well, you know? Actually bought a few out for

evaluation and there there are a number kicking around in right hand drive obviously and interestingly I I know for a fact that a number of them got sold off when they decided not to proceed which is. Right.

OK, import company like the imported car companies couldn't do like they couldn't sell off their their evaluation cars, but there, there are, there are some CTSS on the road out here.

So David, would they, would they, would they have been from GM directly? Well, there was a time when they

they, they got very close to selling them, selling them through the the dealer network and the plug was pulled right at the last minute. And from memory, it was sort of

around the time Opal sort of was set for resurgence and didn't last, didn't last the year. They actually pulled the pin on

Opal after nine months, I think. And I think it was sort of

around the time there was quite a bit of flux going on.

I think. I think the writing was on the

wall internally. And Holden and they just

thought, why we're complicating our lives with, you know, these cars that we won't. Yeah, We'll then have to another

10 years arts wise and the like, reading between the lines, that's what happened. But there was certainly a number

boarding and a number made it onto the road registered.

On the road that's actually I had no idea like I thought they were all cut down here but I knew they did right hand Dr versions because they did sell the CTS in in the UK.

So. And in Japan, yeah, you are

right, yeah. Which is, which is really,

really cool. So yeah, interesting that that

you've said that though, because I, I was always wondered how they how they got here, but I didn't realise they were here for evaluation years ago. So my yeah, sorry, go on.

No. No, I was going to say yeah,

that there was a significant batch board out and, and I'm, I'm tending to think that that it was like the initial batch that they thought, you know, that the 1st 50 or whatever they thought they would sell and then decided not to go ahead.

But they if I think if you're in the know, then there was a way you could get one. Yeah, that's really cool.

Yeah, I suspect it must have belonged to one of the big wigs that was friend with the dealership owner.

That's right. Yeah.

Yeah, that sort of thing. That's probably how it would

have, how it would have gotten through.

We got a guy on on DMS who's offering us up.

Unfortunately not a manual, but Maddow's looking at it right now. Someone in town has a 2000 and

what? What does it say there?

Let me have a look at my phone. Sorry, I meant.

It is. I just say ZF and I already know

what's going to happen. 2008 FG Falcon XR6 turbo.

Oh, that one, he's OK, Sorry. So I don't know where where in

town is. He sent us this DM yesterday.

Yeah cool. And still have not done a Turbo

Falcon yet. This.

Wasn't. It was it, Benny.

This is no, it wasn't. It wasn't my one.

Now I've got, I've got, actually I've got, I've got the the bigger brother to that, the the F6 Typhoon, which is like the FPV version. Oh.

So this is, this is a, this is the FG.

And it's, yeah, it's not quite the sedan version of mine, but it's very close. All right.

You know, it's a sedan, Is it a waggon?

So yeah, you. Could get the XS6 turbo or it's

a sedan or a Ute and then like that was like the Ford branded one and then you could get the FPV branded one, which was like the FPVF 6 yeah. And what you got was basically

slightly better seats, better motor, a different appearance, package and suspension. You got suspension brakes?

Yeah, it was, it was for working over.

It wasn't just it wasn't just a it wasn't just a like an appearance back. It was it was it was he.

Says it's a sedan. Sedan, yeah, cool.

Yeah. So you get control, Blade, IRS

and all sorts of stuff. So yeah, like they're like

they're, they're a good thing. They're a good thing.

The the ZF's a really, really smooth transmission.

For I was gonna send a picture which is great for.

Radio, but that's what I've got in mind.

Alright, you've got a ZF, yeah? I wanted to go manual but I

decided you know, if I need the tow something, if I need to tow a trailer at any point in time, I would rather get because they they D rate the the. Manual.

Yeah, the manuals, they, they bring the towing capacity down by order of like 200. Kilos or something.

That's yeah. That has, I think it has nothing

to do with the clutch. So it's blue.

It's blue with wheels that look like flowers and and some sort of hood scoop going on. Here So yeah, the hood scoop

came on the bulge yeah bulge. The bulge was an XR8 or or FPVGT

option but a lot of people. Not going to rant about.

That but yeah, it's it's it's nitrous blue, though.

It's it looks car. They're the turbo wheels that

they came on for the like the luxury packet.

Different, different, sort of. Wheels.

Oh, he has the cold air intake because Box said five more horsepower. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, unless

they're tuned. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say if he

wants to bring it along. When, when we review mine just

for fun, then by all means. OK, Well, more than happy to

have. Yeah, happy for him to do that.

Let I'm going to text him right now.

Let me check check my schedule and see if we can do this.

If not, please don't hate me. That's all good.

So Speaking of Australian cars, well what is your thought in Australian cars and and if you had to pick some, what would you take back to the? USI would take.

Oh. That is a good question.

Well, what? What was that?

Roses are red, Violets are blue. My VL turbo goes.

Yes, that, that's a very cool that.

Yeah, the things that you can't get because one of my favourite cars I've ever driven was the R version of the Pontiac GTO.

Yeah, which is really the what? It's.

The Monaro. Yeah, which is really a

Commodore with two doors. Yeah, correct.

And a lower roof. Yeah.

Because it's like, oh, it feels like a Corvette, but honestly it handles better and I can use it for stuff.

The only weird thing about it is that it has a really, really small trunk or a boot because that's where the fuel tank is.

Yeah, they had to change into the US because of your regulations. Oh really?

So, yeah, so in Australia, the early ones that were underneath the car, you had a big boot and the later ones they had to change for regulations and then they put them.

So you your boot space got. Yeah.

Yeah. Really small, but I loved it.

It was a great cruiser. It was something that could

just. Hold at a. 100 miles an hour,

just all day, every day. At the end, you just did not

care. The thing about Corvettes and we

saw a Corvette today. It was a we did, yeah.

It was a pre facelift Chrome bumper rolling around this place where we were filming. I gave him a thumbs up and but

the thing about Corvettes is that they're never they don't ride well that they are I I understand them.

They are a great value. They're a great performance, but

they are made for unimaginative old men who who just want They aren't there's there's nothing exclusive about.

That the people, they say, Oh no, my car was built on a Tuesday with they're built for that guy.

Like I would the the we were trying to.

There are nice there are nice Corvettes and C6ZO6 or ZO6 that thing that the the big engine, all motor, 505 horsepower, no turbo, no anything, no supercharger.

The thing just just pulls all day long.

Those things ride very well and they can do stuff on the track.

Your average one and then then the Z06Z06 Z 006.

That's nice with with the supercharger, but your average one. They honestly are just beater

cars that that that that people have elevated to be this ultimate pinnacle of achievement.

And then you get into, you know, an MR2 is better than a Corvette. It the honestly this thing is

made to handle. But people what I think some of

these these these old these old cul de SAC men in the United States want, they just want mid power for them to roll up to. 75

miles an hour. Wow.

And then roll back down again and just sort of do that yo yo rubber band thing all day long. That's who buys these things.

And then they go to try to sell them to other old men and they all have an arm folding competition on Facebook marketplace to see who budges first.

I mean, there was another YouTube out there of of Ed Bowling when he says he tried to do a project with a Corvette and he says the worst buying experience I've ever had with anyone because the all of them don't want to pay the price and they don't want to accept the a reasonable price.

Yeah. Yeah.

So the only way I I say buying a Corvette in the US is like trying to buy a house. You have to wait for the man

inside to die. Yeah.

Yeah, it's interesting. Putting it bluntly, yeah.

I mean, there's a few like there's a few Corvettes in Australia and there's and they're actually selling the the current Gen. You can buy it like brand new

here, which is, which is a converted, converted vehicle.

But Corvettes, well, until recently we're all leaf sprung, correct? Like they're all.

The last it was an interesting leaf spring cuz it's.

It's a cross. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, the C3's, the ones that, the one that we saw today, that's, that's across leaf spring, I mean, they do kind of well, the C3 is a bizarre driving.

Have you ever had a chance to drive AC?

Three. OK, you are closer.

You your, your, your butt is almost on the rear axle and then you have this long hood in the front.

So when that rear end comes around, it's like on a carnival ride, 'cause you come around with it too, 'cause you're sitting all the way back there. You got this long, long, long

hood which only got longer in the past, like like maybe 7980 when they put that fibreglass nose on the front to try to make, to try to make grandpa look modern because the the the C3 Corvette was 1960. It's 68. 68 to 81, yeah, they

kept that thing running. Yeah, I have a tangent.

Another thing about Australian card culture that you didn't really have in the laser where our like in 1971.

Crisis. Yeah, it it didn't affect you

like it did US where it. Kind of did, like the cars

weren't as powerful. We had the the horsepower scare

and a few of the boys would know this quite well.

Like we're out the the street cars were just getting too powerful and they complained. I was trying to explain the

whole thing about the GTHO the other day.

Yeah, yeah. And the faithful was killed.

And then he made a few, and there and there were.

There's like 3 or 4 of them that were ever made.

Yeah. And I think 2 got crushed.

And so, yeah, there's this quite literally like, and it's because like the horse powers, yeah. So they, they they kind of

neutered quite, quite, quite a lot of them.

And then they put they put the power down.

And I think the Leafs, to answer the earlier question, I think the, I think now people in the comments whether the Leaf spring ended in the Corvette on the C7, OK.

So even the C6 had a very composite crossmember leaf spring in the back. It's sort of like how the

Mustang had a had a live rear axle up until the the S550 and then finally got in a new. Edge, right, like if you if you

would. Oh yeah.

Well, the new Edge Mustang was still an.

SN95 which is a fox body. Which is still, Yeah, yeah.

So. So that thing continued for a

while. Ate the fox body.

Ate it. So much and now hipsters are

loving this thing. It's one of the it's so badly

built. Bored.

It's like. You sit not in front of the

steering wheel, the steering wheels close to the centre of the car, They're like, good enough.

And then once you got to the SN95, you were behind the steering wheel. And I'm like talking about 1993,

No 94. Yeah.

Because of the Vanilla Ice Mustang was like, yeah.

But it's a cool car. It's cool to look, it's cool to

look at. It's be terrible to drive.

I mean, Alan, Alan in the other studio hates the Fox body.

Like you despise it, don't you, Alan?

It's. Extinct.

A fox body is kind of nice when you track prep it, they will run. There are lots of parts for it.

I think the best versions of Fox body parts are when you put them in a Fairmont because then you know, our fox body Fox body pheromones in the US were so you can take all the go fast stuff.

Put in a Fairmont. You actually have a bench seat

now and or you, you're in front of the wheel the the and then of course, and then you get just get done with those stupid Windsor blocks and in goes the LS.

But you keep the Ford 8.8 rear, which is a fantastic rear end

because you could take what we did with my Falcon is you could take an 8.8 out of a Mustang. You need two of them because the

pig was offset. So you take two of them, put the

short, short axles on it and moves it to the centre.

And now you can take that 8.8 rear and put it in Mustangs or

Falcons. And that's what we did.

Now the problem is with my Falcon is there's so little Falcon left and then we were done.

Because, you know, once you change one thing on cars in the 60s, yeah, you need a bigger engine.

Now you need a better transmission.

Now that drive shaft is going to split in half.

You need a bigger one of those. You need a bigger rear end.

So our drive shaft would just rub in the drive shaft tunnel.

Because you got a three or two in that, don't you?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that thing's long gone.

Ended up selling it to the person who won my auction on was in a kind of wealthier area of Philadelphia called Kennett Square. And this was a individual who

had a particular style of Twitch streaming where as she played her video games, you know, of buttons perhaps a clothing malfunction, not a complete malfunction.

Just enough. Just.

Enough. As she played her video games

yeah, on the stream and then that's well, hey, make your money yeah and are. Only fans eat your heart out,

right? So.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm hmm.

I miss my MR2 though. I miss it so much when I saw

that out there. That is one of the cars I wish.

I'm happy that it's no longer living in a in a state that rusts out cars. It's now in Malibu, CA and I got

to go visit it once time and I'm like, I kind of miss this one thing, you know, we're both taller people.

It's not really meant for It's tiny.

I and I got wide flipper feet, so I needed to I there were certain shoes I couldn't. Yeah, yeah.

And then and then the fact that the engine was right there, I took a 5 hour road trip in mine and that just here in right behind, I wait the whole time and I had some I had some puckering moments in that car where I hit both the gas and the brake at the same. Time yeah yeah, yeah that yeah,

they don't particularly like that yeah well, the the idubs never really snapped as hard as like an S dub because the the wheelbase was a little bit different and there was suspension revisions on the on the second Gen were made a bit more of a inverter Commons driver's car to be to to those who could drive, but for those who couldn't Dr they'd put them in hedges really quick. Oh yeah, and especially like 00.

And here's a car from that that you guys hear that it's becoming legal is a Toyota Caldina. Yeah, no.

Well, we've had them here for years.

Yeah, they're really cool. Well, but by the time they had

the Gen 4 three SGTE in them, because my friend who used to do the giveaways with me, Justin Burnash, he had a shop in New Jersey where they would get Chaldena engines either from Japan or here. And those things fit in

Southwest 20s and all you need tune in a turbo and now you're 300 to the wheels and those things.

Which is which is nuts because they came out of like a family waggon with full drive, which was ridiculous.

They never gave to Americans. We don't get the nice stuff from

Japan. I wonder why.

I can think of one reason. I can think of two reasons that

we don't get their very nice stuff.

Well there was a reason there why your 34 GTRS are worth 6 figures over there, because. Yeah, but even for us though,

and this is the reason why Scotty bought imported cars and stuff, you know, and and Chad and and and David, it's because like even we didn't get a chance to get to get them until recently. Really.

So like it's, it was, it's very hard.

It was very hard for us for a long time because they were trying to protect their industry.

We still got grey imports. But yeah, it was, it was a it's

it was a different kind of world.

But like you guys have to wait 25 years or did?

You get the Toyota Sora. Yeah, we got them here.

But what? But.

Yeah, but but but they were never, they were never, they were never sold through Toyota. We got them as the the Lexus.

Well they sold. They sold them through

dealership. But did you get the the two J

with the turbo in them? No, we didn't.

Oh, same. Yeah.

One did they twin turbo? We got a Lexus, ISIS something

or other. IS3 hundreds got them but they

but they never they never rode turbo.

Did you get the Lexus LS400 with the one with the one UZ?

Yeah, we did, yeah. We got.

Did you get it in manual? No, we didn't.

We didn't either. Yeah.

So. People people who swap them in

the US use the the transmission out of Nissan.

You get say Nissan or Nissan Nissan, Nissan 350Z.

Yeah, you can just adjust the bell housing and they they fit on pretty easy and that that's a that's a common thing like that three 50s here are are kind of getting butchered.

They're they're. Same.

Yeah, yeah, there's a like, oh, you can't, you can't afford a well, obviously no one can afford Gen 4 Supras and even Gen threes are coming up. But yeah, it's it's sort of like

it's, do you guys say hooligans? Hooligans.

Yeah, it's a hooligans car. It's like, yeah.

Yeah. We just say Hoon don't.

We, we, we say Hoon and, and I'm assuming that you, you're talking about people at St takeovers and stuff that, that use these cars and they, they, they use infinities now and stuff. Oh, the the G37, I hate that

thing. It's it's the it's the grimiest

V6 in the world and everybody's straight pipes and I hate that sound. But this is just this is just a

a complete scumbag drives those things.

I Nissan, Nissan isn't what what it used to be.

It's I, I because they made some sophisticated machines and and I even loved the early infinities that they had.

I mean, the Pulsar was just fantastic and but no, I mean.

Yeah, we, we had the, we had the Pulsar up until recently, actually. And yeah, it was, it was always

a decent seller. It was, it was a shadow of of

its, of itself at a point. But yeah, listen, I've, I've

said to the I've said to the guys on the show, it's, it feels like the Chrysler of Japan. Yeah, it's yeah.

But anyway, moving on, because we, we don't have you here on our, you know, you're a busy man.

Oh. Yeah, we got to go home and dump

footage. I have to.

I have to organise the footage that we shot that.

Oh yeah, the other car that we shot, it was a 1964 Volvo 122.

Put a tune on it. I love that.

Also didn't know that you kept the imperial system of measurements up until like the 70s or something like that.

Yeah, I've, I've got, and Dave's got one as well.

We've got an old which you had the as the Honda N600 over there. We we had them as an N 360 and

and and then and 600. We got the N600.

Yeah, yeah, they're, they're very, they didn't sell really too many of them, but. I wouldn't know there's an N

over there. Maybe they were just the Honda

600 sedan and the 600 coupe. Oh, there.

You go? Yeah.

David's our resident Honda guru. We, they're, they're in, they're

in mph so nice. So yeah.

Though in the future, you can thank us.

We the Americans are about to shackhammer up the prices on the N 660, be able to get here. Yeah, yeah.

People want that little hey, yeah, right.

Because which is curious because Honda Beats are very affordable in the US. Yeah, I've seen that and but

like autos amazed ones are really expensive there.

A little bit, yeah. I think the thing that keeps

them kind of reasonable is there another car that does not fit Americans. That was another car I had to

take my shoes off to drive. Yeah, absolutely.

Gentlemen. You got any questions for the

guys before we move on? I have a question and a query, I

guess 1 Sharon, who is Matt's mom and also my boss.

There's no nepotism or collusion going on there.

She would like a shout out. So Sawyer got fired.

Shout out to you, Sharon. She also wanted me to ask about

the Volkswagen Beetles. OK so the new beetles, my mom

has one like the new modern. One of ones, yeah.

I mean, they're what are they? Are they golf?

Yeah, yeah, I was about to say. I mean, OK, I I drive them.

The turbo ones are kind of neat. You can hear it.

It's now with the older ones, you have the Type 1 and then you have the Super Beetle. The Type 1 is a bizarre driving

experience and I don't know how this machine became this it's it's a difficult car to drive. It handles strangely 'cause you

have swing axles. Shout out to my friend Veronica,

who has a functioning auto cross Herbie replica, the Herbie Love bug. And she got that thing to do 95

miles an hour. Eventually she just buried that

thing. Of course, she's also running

fuel injection or she's running, excuse me, the Mexico engine because it continued there and it got fuel injection.

So he she has that swapped in. In trouble with the 1st to 2nd

shift in the first one of those early, yeah.

It's not back you you shift, you have to go.

You have to do a loop, the loop or something else.

It's not an H pattern, it's just an HR Geiger or.

They were. Little do they have spirographs

here that yeah, it's like that to go in every gear.

I like posing. Next to.

Them I like driving them around a little bit it's a loud car.

My friend Justin Kramer had one. It's, he said.

If you're not in the build quality or any sense of protection for your general well being, it's not really that bad of a car. It's.

I I went in the back of one recently, probably a year and a bit ago. I'd rather drive a Citron 2CV.

OK. Yeah, than a beetle type one or

super. OK, well, there you go.

I, I, I've never been to 1 before and obviously in no seatbelts. And we were driving 100

kilometres an hour and I was like, I thought I was going to die. Yeah.

And I couldn't wait to get out of it, to be honest with you.

But I haven't driven A2 CV and I, I David have.

You It's like driving a pinball machine because the shifters in the dash and once you as long as you don't think about it, as long as you don't look about it and.

It just works. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a little. Canada, like French Canada, It's

it's. It's it's hilarious.

It actually the suspension and everything.

It was quite nice. If you kind of think in K car

terms, like you know how much power, you know how much torque, but you have momentum and you can keep it up.

And we're on a motorway somewhere, somewhere in the Midlands of UK driving this thing with four people in it and the guy was just used to it. You just put your foot down and

just send it. Send it.

Yeah, well, you have to because like, yeah, you can't screw up the cylinders. Yeah, you can't get out of your

own way. Yeah, yeah.

No Lovett. Any other questions from you

guys? Yeah, Brian, out of all the cars

you've driven in, I'm more talking about like listening to cars or, you know, that sort of thing.

Not so much like the new cars or whatever, but what what is like the one that sort of made them, you know, giving you the biggest smile or made the impression on you.

The biggest smile we talked about it before is the Mark 6 or JDM Mini Cooper with fuel, fuel injection that is I mean it's still British. It's kind of just disintegrate.

However, there's that little bit of like, OK, it's for the Japanese market. We better bring our A game here

and now Leyland's A game is like Chevy's A game.

But the the thing that I love so much about Mark 6 and Mark 7 minis with the fuel injection and really all of them, the answer to how fast can I take this corner?

Yes, just just just just keep your foot in it.

It'll go around other now to the complete other end of the I've mentioned before the Lexus LFA, the ultimate nerds car is this was a very nice person in the tech industry who let me drive it, who who kept it outside. It was filled with hamburger

wrappers and stuff bird poop on it.

He did not care. I mean, when you when your net

worth is over a billion dollars, a car that is is worth this.

It's fun. He just says, yeah, it's my

Toyota and he drove it around. I scraped that thing over speed

bumps. Yeah.

And but oh, it's it's a great guy.

I had a wonderful time. I'll tell you off air about that

experience. And but that was like, this is

Toyota's a game where you know, the flappy paddles inside, they're weighted differently and they make different clicks up and down. There is nothing in this car

that has been left to chance. And in LFA, it's that good.

The only one thing is that the hood release.

That little part spin. Same as a Hilux.

Right. There and when you when you pop

the hood of now Lexus LFA's peaked at about $1.3 million in

the news market They were only made in what 20 we we can look it up the only. As far as I know there's only

two in Victoria and who knows how many in total are here.

The last I checked it was maybe 4I.

Think four or five. There's there's.

Yeah, I don't know how they're going to get serviced.

Like where does it take to? And it had, you know, the

individual throttle bodies. Come on.

Now, the one weird thing about driving a Lexus LFA is that it does not like to drive around town.

That transmission as it goes through, it wants to be up at the Thai Rev range where you're just bang it.

And I, I was scared to drive that thing, even though the owner says, Oh yeah, bounce it off red line.

That's what it's made for. Just do it.

And I'm like, I'm driving on these winding roads in, you know, the Napa Valley of California.

And I'm like, I'm not wrecking this.

The idea that I'm at this guy's house and, and, and, and driving this car was, was, I mean, it still brought another smile.

And the other car that also brought a big smile on my face that we don't get, well, it's, it's a JDM car and it's also a Toyota is the sentry. And that happened on a day it

was in windy Wellington. And we were I've it was my first

experience with wind there. It was so windy it blew.

I told Matt thoughts out of my head.

And like here in Melbourne, I was grossly underdressed.

I thought it would be warm. It's.

Not you bring a jacket in Melbourne.

Everywhere. On a 30° day you still bring a

jacket. Yeah, I left my Marmont at home.

I'm going to go get a Kathmandu. What's the other one?

Mac pack. Mac pack?

Maybe I'll about get a Mac pack and I'm going to spend the money there. I have fistful 50s in here.

Just make the wake the make the weather stop, please.

So I'm out there and it was so windy.

I'm trying to remember these shots.

We had a Toyota Crown and we also had a Celica GT, the four wheel drive. Jet that.

That one, that one, that's another good car.

But when I got into the sentry and just hearing those doors close. Do.

Just deadness. And I just, I just a lamb's

little seats come on. And I just want to sit in this

thing. It is so quiet.

V10, right? Well, 12 even better.

This guy took two mufflers out and it was still quiet and just driving a like, oh, this is a car that shuts up the world.

And I know blah, blah, blah. It's the Yaku is a car.

But it was sort of like everything that's like to say that a Cadillac is a mafia's car like.

Well, yeah, it's a big, expensive car.

Yeah. That's what they're going to

drive, right? Yeah, absolutely.

I could see myself buying one of those in the US just for a little bit, but again, I'd have to find some someone to work on it and ideally probably the the the next weird JDM car I'm going to buy is going to be a Toyota or excuse me, a Honda today.

One of those little things because it has the Beat engine and my friend Veronica and her girlfriend Kit know how to work on one because they just bought a Honda Beat that the engine was blown, blown up on and the and the main bearings were spun and they were there. I was just watching their video

last night how they were getting the main bearings that how they're getting the the crank bearings out by taking a Cotter pin and you hammer the end, stick it in the oil passage and then turn the engine because it slightly hit.

So you turn the engine and it pushes its main bearing out and you and it just comes out. And there's also like they, they

were geeking out about that. Toyota thought about one of the

bolts that goes in. They made a little kind of a

cooby hole or something. So you could move the bearing.

You could like slide it in in here into the frame and then push it through. So you don't have to take any.

You don't have to drop the engine to get this one bolt.

And we thought of you. It's putting it in, Yeah.

So the Japanese really think about the the mechanic that's going to work, yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely.

I can say that as a as a former Toyota, yeah, actually they were the easiest things to work. Absolutely, because I actually

care for like the engineers and the mechanics talk to each other, whereas in Germany they don't.

So which is, which is, which is very, very common.

We've got, we've got a few friends with, with, with, with some interesting Hondas like David himself.

But I've seen it today. Well, we saw one recently at a

Highball Cars and Coffee, which is pretty cool, which a good friend of the show has. But any other questions,

gentlemen, before we move on to the quiz?

I had a quick question just about with your filming and the way you I guess put it together and the Perry that you do afterwards on it. Is most of that scripted or is

some of it you did kind of come up with on top of your head where you're going? Some of it is on the fly when

I'm there in my little sound booth, but most of it is, is written, handwritten out. And of course, RCRS, half

myself, the other half Nick Roman, Nick will give me his notes. He'll send it to me.

I'll print it out and I'll be there with my notebook and I'll like stitch it together. I mean, but but when I'm there

reading the narrative, I'll have his notes and my notes and I go in between them. There are, there are.

Nick does one video a month where he'll do the entire thing and usually I'll have one video a month where I'll do the majority of it as well. Like motorcycles.

He's not a fan of bikes, so if it's a bike, I'll do that one myself. My last question for you guys

before we get to the quiz is so do you think the success of regular car reviews has got to do with the different style reviewing cars like like like that, it's so different to what everyone else does or it's just, or do you think it's more that people like, oh, they're driving a regular Hyundai Tib you're on or ASC 300 or what have you? Is it the do you reckon it's the

type of cars or the way you're doing it that gets people?

I think the way we're doing it, because I go to my when I have car meets, they feel completely different than other car meets.

They're often very well behaved, They're weirder people, they're dirty people. And also and also RG regular car

reviews is upfront as an LGBTQ friendly car show.

So some of the stuff that you like you maybe it's probably a little bit nicer here and in New Zealand, but in the US it's still very much a masculine thing when you go to a car show.

Some people are intrusively political at a car show, whereas RCR is just a bunch of like because RCR is a is a very sexually charged show as well or an LGBTQ stuff which automatically turns some people immediately off and don't want to come. Like because I tell people like

when we get volunteer cars, like this one person who says it's my parents car, like I'm going to say OK.

You. Your dad want.

Well, first of all, why isn't your dad contacting me?

Like, like, OK, this is what RCR is.

You are about to give your car to a middle aged gay man who's going to talk about stuff. He's going to call this car all

sorts of all sorts of names. Are you cool with that?

You know, Yeah, I, I, I love dating men who have rings on their fingers because they are hungry.

Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's cool that like,

you know, like it's like, especially when you, when you, you do like the deeper voice and stuff and you talk about the.

Gravel. Yeah, it's it's.

A little bit like if you had a look at a.

Tom of Finland. Painting like this is what it's

going to be. It's always like you put it even

at the right times and it makes and it makes total sense and and it gives, it gives the the you know, the the different last character and it kind of makes the cars have character in like it builds a personality for them, which is, which is something that I've I've always like, you know, I never thought that the you know, and I'm coming back to again with like the because I I'm so sorry, rewatch this one recently.

The the Tiburon video was like, it's the car that no one else buys, but you'd have to buy it if you really wanted to be in the tuna scene, but you couldn't afford to buy anything else.

And it's you got. The Tiburon here.

We did, yeah. Yeah, Oh man, that that that has

the laggiest torque converter. And if you had the thing like

the whole thing, you can, you can you can almost who step it in motion, you would just keep building Revs.

It's such a well, but yeah, I mean Adam Smiths invisible hand, a free enterprise, like if you have to go to the bottom of that, you can't even afford a Toyota, a SEO.

Yeah, you're in a Hyundai Tiburon.

Which which to be fair, I, I, I owned a Paseo as a race car for a while. And, and yeah, it was, it was

all right. But what I can see how people

would end up with with the, with the TV run as their as their car. But anyway, moving on,

gentlemen. So we do what's called the car

to car quiz where, where we fight for the illustrious title of bragging rights for the week. So because this is, this is like

a weekly podcast. So I'll ask 10 questions.

There's some bonus questions in there and you just, you're buzzing with your name. So like, so like everyone plays

along when you're buzzing with your name and like first in you'll get get the first time with the question and you'll, you know, I then I'll, whoever wins, I'll ask you who you want to thank. And Scott just says himself.

So I. Don't.

Mean very often so I don't get to thank myself.

You know, it's, it's just a bit of fun just to end turn the show on. So 10 questions plus some bonus

questions. Just a bit of fun question one.

According to Statista, I'll give a closest to.

How many countries drive on the left?

David, David, I'll give closest to.

I'm going to go 12. 12, says David.

I'm not going to do prices right.

Where else? Chad.

Chad. We'll say 8. 8 says Chad.

Well, I'm counting on my fingers.

He's counting on his fingers. Let's say 9.

Nine, says Alan. So we've still got Scotty and

Madam. Did someone already say 8?

Someone has said 8. Oh yeah.

Doubling up. Did someone ever say 12?

No, yeah, someone said 12. Yeah, come on.

David said 12. He bet you there.

All right then, I don't know. I have to say 13.

I don't know what would I thought the 13th would be.

No, I'm just going to say 11. 11 says all right matter and Scotty

your last on the on the tour. It's got to be more than that.

I'm going to say like 32. 32 you are closer, Scotty.

It's 78 countries out of 100. And 74.

Way off drive. Wow, drive on the left, Yeah.

Question. Oh, I forgot all the Eastern

Bloc countries. Yeah, they're they all drive.

Yeah, they all drive on the left pretty much.

Wait, no, Russia drives on the right.

Russia drives on the right, but all of other European countries drive on the on the on the left. What does Spain drive on?

Spain, I think they're on the left, maybe.

I don't know. I would have to would have to

listen to ask our listeners. Germany drives on the right.

The right, correct, yeah. France.

Right, so. I'll find out.

It's statistics. Is a, is a is a.

OK. Is the Internet website thing

you know we all believe the web's the Internet as as as you do. Question 2.

When Toyota first introduced the Toyota Camry into Australia to get foot traffic into the showrooms, they offered a book as a gift for those who took one for a test drive.

Oh. What?

Book did they offer it's a famous book.

It's it's it's all over the world, this book so.

This is something I should know, but unfortunately.

Can you give a joke answer Kamasutra?

I would love to give you that point, but it is not the Kamasutra. So this is the first Gen Camry

like the square one, like the the early 80s one that.

Replaced the one you're talking. About.

Yeah, that replaced the. 5/2. Hatch.

The five 2 hatch, correct, which was to replace the Corona I believe that we had in Australia.

So they offered they if you came in for a test drive, they would give you a book and it was a book.

That's a very famous book. That's Alan.

They gave you the Bible. They.

Give you the They didn't give you the Bible.

It's the most. Favourite book in the world?

They didn't give you the book. Lies, but it's said.

Famous book, yeah. It is a It is a famous book.

It's full of lies, but that's not here.

And all there we're not getting to Brian.

Brian, Great Expectations. Great Expectations.

Incorrect. And everybody that drove test

drove A5 to a Camry. Yes, that's Chad.

I'll just take a wild guess, just like To Kill a Mockingbird or something. No, not To Kill a Mockingbird.

What year is this? 8384.

Naked lunch. Naked lunch.

Incorrect. It's I'll give you, I'll give

you guys a hint. Everyone's back in.

I'll give you guys a hint. It's a book that's that's done

every year. Like it's, it's really.

Oh, Chad got in there first. DNS book of world records.

DNS book of world records. Well done.

Wow. Yeah, that's a that's a true

story Question 3. The Ford Taurus SHR with its 220

horsepower Yamaha V6 got its manual transmission from What Car company? Brian Brian Heisen.

Incorrect. It's a company that Ford.

Brian Brian Borg Warner. 41 is incorrect.

It's a company that they work. David, David, I was going to say

Mazda, but. What?

Mazda is absolutely correct. Mazda 5 speed.

Is it true the Mazda 5 speed in the American Ranger is the same transmission? If you got the two leader it was

the same transmission from an MX5.

Might have been I have to double check that, but that would probably make sense. I.

Feel like you mentioned something about that in the range of review. Yeah, all the way.

I just want to know if I was talking about my rear end.

Score check David, Scotty and Channel 1 Everyone else get the score Question 4. Honda has announced that all

Civics but the Type R in Australia will be David.

Hybrido. Hybrido is correct.

They're they're no longer bringing in anything that's naturally aspirated unless it's yeah, sorry, that's not a not a hybrid bonus question. John Cena, a famous type owner,

has had two. What colours were they?

Oh, Ellen. Ellen.

I got for white on one of them. White is correct, so you got one

one point. There.

Chad Red. Chad Red is incorrect.

David. David.

Black. Black is also incorrect.

I'm I'm just guessing blue. Blue is absolutely correct.

He had a blue, he had a, he had a blue FK 8 and now he's got a white FL 5. Bonus bonus question John Cena

is now doing what for Honda in the US?

David. David.

Marketing. Marketing you're .5, I'll give

you a point 5.5 you're kind of on the, you're kind of there if

you can add to that alum. He's doing commercials.

Commercials. He's doing commercials for him,

so he's doing all the YouTube commercials and and stuff.

So I'll give you the other .5 alum I.

Don't know what he's trying to sell.

It's it's fine. It's weird though.

Like you read all the comments like, is this John Cena like that's narrating or it's so weird.

You can figure if the cars drive itself in the commercial, you know what's John's. Saying.

Question #5 GWM or Great Wall Motors has been a resounding success in Australia on its comeback.

What brands do they offer in in Australia under it's GWM.

Monica, Matt, just talk Maddow, you can go in.

Yeah, you've got. So they offer, they offer Great

Wall as its own thing. That's one, correct.

So they there's a point. For each of this.

So yeah. They offer for SUVs that.

Is correct. That is another point.

And they also do tank for. That is also.

Called rugged SUVs I guess. Yep.

And does Aura count as its own mark?

Absolutely it does so correct so you so they're all separate marks under the one brand. Yeah, so we were going over this

very recently, just how weird it is that you've got.

Yeah, GWM started here as its own thing, just selling utes and then it, yeah, introduce Havel later, then the tank brand and the Aura sort of hat, yeah. Absolutely.

They've also got like another two brands, I believe two or three brands underneath their Monica in overseas as well, so.

Yeah, and they haven't bought them here.

Not yet, which is only a matter of time.

The Chinese are taking every hour.

How lucky are we? How lucky are we?

Yeah. Question number six, the key of

Tasman it's design has been teased after months of being of of of of of speculation and what it would look like earlier this week. The design has well, polarised

opinion, polarised opinion. Why?

So why has the designer revealed?

In what way has the designer revealed why they made it look so different? For what reason, Scott?

So he's talking about because it's getting people talking.

So it stands out compared to anything else that's on the market. I would absolutely agree with

you that that is correct. It was they he tried to make it

a bold design, so it was a deliberate attempt to get a notice in a sea of similarly styled vehicles.

I cottoned on to that and I've seen people on Reddit ranting about them. Cars Australia Reddit page

ranting about how ugly it looks and I'm just looking at it.

I'm like, what do you expect in this current day and age when everything kind of sort of looks the same as everything else?

But the moment a car company tries to do something so drastically different like the Tasman, everybody goes, it's shock, horror. Oh, what is that like?

It it's, I think, I think it'll be like a trend set of like, and, and people, you know, it'll be kind of like the kid joke.

I was on the kid joke, The, the, the, the Nissan joke.

Yeah, because that that that became, you know, all about the cars. People are calling it the AU

Falcon of this era. That reminds me of your video

you did on the Nissan Juniors. For the first time.

Fun Dad. Are they spelled?

It in the US. It's got to give a spot on.

That was a funny video. The the fun day.

I like that one. The the the missing joke

question #7 Jim Carrey's character in the movie Liar.

Liar drove What Car? Oh.

God. Meadow Meadow Mercedes SLK.

Incorrect SLK. It was a huh.

It wasn't an SLK. It wasn't an SLK.

Brian Jaguar XK. Incorrect, it wasn't an XK.

I know for sure it was a Mercedes.

It was a Mercedes that is called.

Oh, it was a Merced, David it. Was an SL, wasn't it?

It was an SL, yes, and it was an R129SL500.

I'll give you the point, David Prince.

Bonus question, what happens when he gets pulled over by a cop and opens the glove box? Brian, Brian, I have unpaid

parking tickets. Correct.

Yes, I have unpaid parking tickets, that is.

Yeah, Yeah, that's correct. It's a good movie, though.

I watched it recently. I was.

It was. That was funny question #8 I

kind of mentioned earlier in the evening the Lexus LS.

How many generations of the Lexus LS has been have there been? Clarification what like LS what

the LS400? There's the LS like the the.

Entire mark because they change they they change the numbers every generation. So there was LS400 LS.

Four Yeah. 4 Maddow. Maddow.

I'm going to say 3 incorrect. David.

David, I'll say 66 is also incorrect, different.

Moment. Alan sitting back just.

He's waiting for everybody. Yes, the question.

Completely. So, Alan, just waiting for

everybody to answer incorrectly and be like, okay, it's the one that you guys haven't seen. Yeah, Chad.

Is it 5? I was correct, Chad.

Well, no, they've they've they've had five generations of the LS. The current one has been since

2017. What are the generations it?

Was just first, second, first, 4th, 5th.

Oh. Yeah, so, so first generation

was LS400, then the LS4. 30. LS460, LS 500, Yeah, and that

there's another. 600. 600, yeah. And they stopped conforming to

the engine displacement. Yeah, because.

The V6 is the one. Yeah, it was like 4 litre V8,

then 4.3 litre etc. Yeah.

Score check gentlemen. Brian on 2, Madelon 4, David on

three, Scotting on three, alum and Chat on 1.5 each.

Plenty of time, plenty of questions left.

Question #9 Cadillac, as mentioned earlier, is mentioning is entering the Australian market later this year.

With what vehicle, David? The lyric.

Lyric is absolutely. Correct.

Have you, have you, have you driven a lyric like like.

I'm hearing this thing for Is this something that we're making for you guys? The lyric.

It's electric. Is it a skateboard platform?

I think it might. Be I think it might be.

Because yeah, because that would probably make sense.

If it's a skateboard platform it would be so much easier to do the right hand drive. Conversion.

On. Because in theory, a skateboard

platform, you don't even have to have a steering column.

Not at all. No, you just, it's just

everything across. Yeah, so.

Here's the question, Maddie J, is is it actually?

Is it built in China? Cadillac speak in China.

Cadillac is built is massive in China.

Actually that is a great question.

I should find out where the Lyric is built.

That's also why the reason why Buick hung Buick hung on in the United States. They were going to axe Buick

along with Pontiac, but because Buick sold in China, they didn't want to lose that market. OK.

Buick's hung around. Because a good like.

It's still, it's still is around, yeah.

I'm. Going to ask you Buick's like

nowhere in the States, right Like that.

That has to be like. Oh, my gym manager drives one,

one of those little dinky as like crossovers that they're around. It's yeah.

I mean, Buick was often sort of the working man's catalogue.

That's where they were. But they yeah, yeah, Buick has

always been here. Of course they hung around big

time. They they got a huge boost in

the 80s with the grand. National.

Yeah. Cool car.

It's so Oh you ever drive one? Oh, it is malaise.

It is bad GM inside yeah, this stuff just fell apart, but you know the I yeah, I the 3.6 V 6 was fantastic.

If only I had been manual and that's that's.

The Yeah, there were, there were all.

Things they had given the turbo version of that V6 to us for the Commodore. Yeah.

Which was, which is what it was because.

You had that engine. Yeah, we had the 3800.

Yeah, yeah, for the longest time.

And I think I drove a version of that in New Zealand, yeah.

Yeah. I work at countdown and I want

to go fat. As they say, never light in the

3.8 and question #10 the Ineos Grenadia, Is that how it's

spelled? Great, I'd say.

Greater deal. I don't even know how to how to

it's Yeah, it's a weird thing is made in which country?

Oh, Brian. Brian India.

Incorrect. Oh damn.

I thought, see, I honestly thought it was when I told you, look at the question. I thought I was like, oh, this

has to be Indian man. Maddow and it's probably wrong,

but I'm going to say the UK. Incorrect.

Yeah. It was.

Chad. Chad.

Is. This South African.

Incorrect. No, Brian, just you got in there

first yet. Malaysia.

Malaysia's Incorrect Alan. I've got Thailand.

Thailand is also incorrect matter.

Prince. Is next and then we'll get you

back in. I'm doing it now.

I'm going to say France. France is absolutely correct.

France is. It's made in France.

I don't know it was. Going to be either France or

Germany. Germany, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bonus, bonus. Sorry, bonus question.

What engine does it have? Oh, shoot.

Wasn't it going to have a like multiple different engine choices? The the main one that's

available, yeah. Yes.

I couldn't. I couldn't answer that.

Question, Brian, I don't have an engine designation that's it's a Mercedes V6. Incorrect.

Who is Chad Good in the next thing?

Yeah. Is it the same as the like the

defender Turbidasel? Incorrect, David.

David. David.

I always thought it was electric.

No, not not electric, not electric.

There you go. They want to do a hydrogen

version of it. Oh, do they?

Yeah, because any OS has stocks in hydrogen technology.

Maddow. Maddow.

I don't have a designation either, but I want to say BMW.

It is a BMW. It has a BMW.

Give you a .5. If I give you the other .5 you

can you can name the actual engine code that it's got.

Yeah, no. Oh good.

No idea it's the legendary B 58 that's that powers the Toyota Supra. The the.

The new supra, The fake. Supra.

Yeah. So you enjoy those, those what's

the the the timing, the timing gear is in the back of the engine. Enjoy those.

Yeah, don't know why they do that.

That's it's a German car thing. It's a weird thing.

That is a car quiz, gentlemen. School check.

Ellen and Chad on a 1.5, Brian on two, Scotty on three, Maddow

on 4.5 and tonight's been around 5 is Mr. David Prince.

Well done. Well done.

Thanks. Thanks for being part of the

quiz, gentlemen. That was.

Fun. Yeah, no worries.

It was fun. Hopefully you guys got learnt

some things. 70 odd countries, I think 78 countries and.

They drive on all I could remember I somewhere on social media I thought I read that it was like 75% or like some sort of percentage of, of countries that that drive on the.

Left on the right. Yeah, on the right.

And then, yeah, there was just the time.

It's like a third still driving on our side of the road.

And I'm thinking to myself, well, you know, if you could go back in time, it probably would have made a bit of sense to just go with left hand drive, right hand side of the road for production costs you would think.

I mean, that's why, as I said, that's why GM kind of pulled out of Australia because there's no point in continuing this platform. Yeah.

So they, they would like to see you later.

And then now they're coming back with.

But I guess they can if it's like a skateboard platform with with with the new lyric, we just spell with AQ.

Great spelling. Actually, I, I, I told a kid

last year his name was spelled the same way.

Yeah, right. Lyric like with with AQ and on

his year 12 genre had lyric with the cue.

But anyway, moving on. Last question before you go, if

you had to bring an Aussie car back with you, what are you going to? What are you putting in your

suitcase? Oh, oh, OK, since I already

since we already talked about the VQ Commodore, I'm not going to say that again. I would like you look the, the,

the one guy already did the the that that Ute conversion from the Venn wiki stories that we were watching.

Yeah, the. VEU.

Yeah, so I got to get weird with it.

You were. You were sounding pretty partial

to the AU, yeah. Oh.

Yeah. Yeah, they won.

They we were here. We saw an AU founder.

I saw you guys pressing that. It had peeling paint.

It had big wheels. The perfect.

From it, from an earlier one. Yeah, it you know what?

Yeah, give me that. Give me an you can have.

The first Gen now, yeah, I want. They're old enough.

I'm gonna yeah, yeah, 999898 they.

Yeah, 98 they were introduced 90 yeah 98 or 99 you could have right now if you're. With manual.

Yeah, with a manual. You can get them sick.

Okay, yeah, give me. One of those five.

Yeah, awesome place that if I break it.

I gotta I must say, you're probably the first, the only guest we've had on the show that would be happy to take well.

Because I went in the UK, my favourite car that I drove in the UK was a Rover 75. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, we've actually got a few of them here too.

They they, they, they did sell them here for a, for a for a short time. Brian, thank you for coming

here. Maddow, thank you for coming on.

It's been, it's been, it's been a pleasure having you guys on.

Thank you for taking the time out.

I know you guys got a busy schedule, so thank you.

Wanted to personally thank you. You're welcome.

Any plugs? Anything you want to give to our

listeners before we start off for the evening?

If you're interested in watching my YouTube channel type in regular car reviews I'm the 1st 2 pages on Google.

Also look up Ronnie Wheels it's another great mechanic and a new YouTube channel. And also, if you remember sloppy

mechanics, my friend Matt Happel from the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Nice shout outs there, Maddow.

You want to shout out anybody? I've got really nothing to shout

out, but I was going to say something earlier in the show.

Americans, if you want all the if you want all the barriers.

Scotty's Garage has already confirmed that the green motor is no longer the $2000.00 bill that you wish it to be.

Yes, because they're all busted. Yeah, they're all either stolen,

broken or beat up. Scotty Golf Tip of the Week.

What typical week is before you have your shot?

If you're a beginner, they're talking about compressing your irons. Instead of holding it dead

straight, just lean it inwards. You'll be a lot better when you

swing and compress it. I'm sure you guys have got no

clue what I'm talking about when it comes.

Back, yeah. It started ages ago and now just

start having. Everything it just.

Entertain you, Scotty. I've tried golf once or twice

and I'm like, yeah, it's fun for a bit, but then it's yeah.

Old enough or rich enough for golf, so I just.

We were doing the Robin Williams joke about golf as a sport in general the other day, so. Makes sense.

Makes sense. It's it's just Scotty's Scotty's

avid golfer and it's not as a joke.

And now he just has a golf tip of the week every week.

Love it. David Prince you do a podcast

with Edward Prince Edward Bunting.

Yes, I do. It's called Auto Retro and we

talked to. People about the paths of their.

Lives. So what are you looking up

Brian? On YouTube, you can look us up

as well. Yeah, absolutely.

Have nearly 1,000,000 subscribers yet.

So awesome. Gratefully received.

Absolutely. You might have two more tonight,

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