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A coachbuilt car is a more custom kind of car. Instead of being made in a factory like most cars, a specialist builder designs and fits the bodywork to make it unique.
DMV is the government office that issues driver’s licenses and handles vehicle paperwork. Here, they’re investigating people who may have cheated on the driving tests.
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written tests
Written tests are the multiple-choice or short-answer parts of getting a driver’s license. The host is saying the DMV thinks some people may have cheated on that knowledge exam.
A driver’s license is the official permission to drive on public roads. This segment is about people possibly cheating to pass the tests needed to get it.
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driver tests
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Hand signals are simple gestures people use to show what they plan to do, like turning or slowing down. The host is saying they remember this being part of the test, but may not be asked anymore.
The 1199 Foundation is a donation program connected to the California Highway Patrol. The speaker says it gives you a special plate frame and badge after you donate.
The California Highway Patrol is California’s state police for highways. The speaker says a donation program benefits the CHP and comes with special identification items.
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The Tesla Semi is a large electric truck designed to haul cargo. It’s meant to do the same job as other semi trucks, but using electricity instead of diesel. The podcast brings it up when talking about what people might think is true about electric trucks versus what’s actually happening.
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Hood vents are openings in the hood that can help with airflow management and heat extraction, depending on design. In aftermarket packages, they’re also commonly used for styling and off-road presence.
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Ram Rumblebee SRT
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post-title package
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Every team, every topic everywhere. This is Belize.
Hey everybody, welcome to Shift and Steer and it's a mash-up with CarCast. So
it's CarCast and Shift and Steer if you're talking to Matt and if you're
talking to me it's Shift and Steer and CarCast. Yeah. It's welcome to the
party pals. We're here. We're gonna have fun today. We're gonna talk about some
great car stuff. Matt, how you doing? I'm doing well. Things have been busy but
I'll tell you, Aaron Hagar, our co-host on Shift and Steer is having the best
time ever. He took an impromptu trip to the UK to see his dad Sammy Hagar play
and I just kind of winging it and managed to just hook up with friends and
get invitations to Goodwood and tour the Morgan factory with Ed China from
Wheeler Dealers and just running into people and just having the best time
out there and it seems exciting. It looked exhausting actually. It does but
kudos to him for just going out there and going, I'm out here and having
wonderful people go, dude, if you're out here, let's make a plan. I gotta
see you Thursday. I gotta see you Friday. Let's do it and I've got an idea and
we're gonna go to this. We're gonna go to Chichester. We're gonna do the hill
climb and you've never been there and we're gonna meet up with people and
then Ed China reached out. He's like, let's not just hang out and
meet for coffee. Let's go take a tour of the of the Morgan.
Did you love Morgan's? Yeah. Yeah. And the thing about it is, is what great
timing. It just so happens that his dad is playing over there the week that
Goodwood is having. I mean, yeah. I'm surprised Sammy didn't go to Goodwood
and try to figure that out as well because he already flew home, right? I
think there is. Yeah, he's already home. Like Sammy and Mikey, the band is back
but Aaron's out until the end of the week, I think. Yeah, he comes home on Friday.
Yep. A few more events in there. Anyway, it's gonna be exciting to hear all of his
stories when he comes back, but yeah, I'm glad he's having a great time and so he,
we were chatting back and forth. We were texting back and forth. I'm sure it was
like late for him or being in the time change, but he's like, I've never been
to Goodwood. Like, what do I do? And I was like, okay, here's the
difference. There's like, there's the revival and there's the festival of
speed and you're going to the festival of speed and it's not the one where you
dress up period correct. It's the other one. He's like, oh, yeah, I was confused.
I didn't know which one was which. I was like, all right, you got it. So I think
he went and had a great time. He could have dressed up period correct and shown
up, you know, whatever. Well, he's already got a style. Yeah, Aaron already does have
a style. He's got a uniform. Yeah, he dresses up Aaron correct. Aaron Hagar period
correct. Yeah, he does. So anyway, that looks like a fun event. I wish we could go
out there. Wait, I don't remember if this has come up. Have you ever gone to any of
the Goodwood events? It's a sore subject. I was actually invited by Goodwood one
year, the first year they ever had hot rods at Goodwood at the revival. Okay. And
Pete Shaporis, myself, Bruce Meyer and a handful of other people were invited to
go. And I was in the midst of my watch company and I can't remember if I had a
trade show. It had to be a trade show because if it would have been, I was
going to my factory in Switzerland, I would have just done a stopover, made it
all work. So I must have had a trade show in New York or Vegas or something, but I
didn't get to go. And since then, I've just never ever made the arrangements to go.
Something that is definitely on my list. It's definitely on my bucket. I don't know. I think
if you turn down the Duke of Richmond once, you don't get invited back. So you're going to have
to sneak in now. I have to sneak in. You're the guy. You're the guy that said no. You're the guy
that said no. It's definitely worth going to. There are definitely some cool events.
They have originated curating an event like that. I mean, they really did. They just did such a
great, and the sculpture. I always am just so pleased with the sculpture that they have out front
every year. It's different. Yeah. And it's huge. It's over the top. It's not just some little
cool sculpture. It's so over the top crazy. What a neat deal. And if you haven't seen the
announcement yet, but Goodwood announced the first Goodwood America. And I was doing a little bit
of research into it, trying to figure out, you can sign up on the official list and you can be
an early member or whatever, and they'll send you the information. But what I found out is it
sounds like it's going to be at Willow Springs, this reimagined Willow Springs. Now, what's
interesting is they've done improvements to the track, and I know singers involved, and they're
heavily involved with Goodwood as well. I'm sure there's some influence there. Yes. But
when I think about going to Goodwood, I think about the town and all the little hotels and
the Airbnb's and the food you get and all that. And you think of the lack of infrastructure around
that I think of just the pile of dirt that surrounds Willow Springs. I'm like, how is
this going to work? Yeah, there's nothing out there. There's no hotels. And even the nearest town
has hotels, but nothing of any consequence. It'll be interesting. I'm sure
they have something planned. Yes. I mean, one thing we know for sure is the people that organize
and plan Goodwood, the Duke of Richmond and his team, granted it's his property and he has a castle
there. He throws an amazing party, but they are great event planners, and they must be thinking
about this, especially to the level of what they're doing. There's like a small airport. I don't know
too much about it near Willow Springs. You can land a small plane, but I don't know what the rules
are on landing. There's also a really big airport out there, too. It's called the Air Force Base.
Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. Listen, it wouldn't surprise me if they said, can we use your runway? We need
to land some private jets. Can we use your runway and your barracks? Right. But it'd be interesting
to see how they pull it off, but I would go. I mean, how can you not? I mean, it's here. It's
close and like any event, the first one is going to be a little complex and have some growing paints,
but it should be cool. Yeah. He probably hasn't come to see it yet, and he's thinking it's going
to be lush and green at where it's at, like his place, and he'll get out there and go, oh, it's
tan. It's no wait a minute. I'm sure the renderings of what it could be are way better than what it
currently is. Yeah, we spent $40 million on sod and $1 million on water.
No doubt the track will be beautiful because that part you can set up. I'm just like, how do you
set up hospitality and how do you set up accommodations and how do you set up transportation?
Hospitality, you can always make work with event tents and things like that,
but it's the accommodations because there are, like I said, there's some hotels out there,
no, motels out there, but there's not a hotel like a five-star, four-star out there, nowhere.
It's not even close to LA, so it's a good couple hours to the nearest five-star hotel,
so guys are going to be helicoptering. I mean, there is some thought, like not being sarcastic,
there is some thought in going, why don't they look at hotel agreements with Santa Clarita and
LA and figuring out transportation going, we've got VIP shuttles like, I get it, you're in the
car for an hour and a half, but there's helicopters, there's transportation, there's nice buses,
can they bring people in and go, we've got, think about all the buses and stuff that we go from
the various hotels within Vegas just to get to the seamish, that's a 20-minute ride, but if you had
planned travel like that throughout the day and go into various hotels, there is a version where
this could work. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, but there's not even any Airbnb's up there, unlike Monterey,
where you can, okay, oh, we're in a really nice out there, it's just not up
there, you know? It's not there, that's the issue, for sure, yeah. That'll be an interesting aspect
of this if they do it there, yeah. Yeah, all right, so I'm going to throw this in real quick,
we do have to take our first break. We do. For a little bit of housekeeping, so let's go ahead
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All right, we are back. I'm so glad you did that because I kind of forgot about it since
we were talking about, I was so into where are people going to stay and what are they, you know,
that I, I mean, because look at Monterey as a good example. Monterey doesn't have a lot of luxury
hotels up there. I mean, they've got them, but it's not like one after another,
so they fill up all the other ones and they fill up the travel lodge and they fill up them,
but there are so many Airbnbs up there as we know, you know, we've stayed in them and the,
you know, out there, there's not. So anyways, hey, did you hear about the World Endurance
Championship? They're having to move events because of the ongoing conflict with Iran.
They are, they're moving their Qatar race and they're eight hours of Bahrain.
It's the final two rounds of the season and they're like, with all this going on and with
bombings and everything like that, missile, missile attacks, they are moving those events
and it's really surprising. They're moving to Willisprings and it's, it's going to be pretty,
where are they going to stay? Yeah. No, they're moving them to Barcelona, Spain and Monza, Italy.
Nice. But F1 has said they're also looking at the races in the region and possibly having to move
some of theirs and they said that it's probably going to impact them in the amount of about $200
million to move a couple of races and. F1, not everybody else. Just F1.
Just F1. And then you think of the WRC and it's just amazing because you always forget about
things like that. I mean, they've had a lot in the past few years. They've had quite a few instances
where they've had hurricanes, to move races from the South Pacific and
things like that. And that's so costly when they have to do that. It's just not to mention all
the fans who have bought tickets for there and accommodations and made trips and everything
like that. And now they can't, can't do that. But it's pretty interesting when you look at
the dynamics of that because you have to look first of the race itself. It's dangerous to stage
a race where there's an ongoing conflict and where our military bases are getting missled.
Gosh, if you had a big event like that, I think they would, those people in Iran would probably
love to send a missile into something like that or not. Maybe they wouldn't. But you've got to look
at the economics of Bahrain and Qatar. They've lost all that income. That was a huge,
huge piece of their money coming in. And then the teams, they all have to regroup,
figure out something else, all the fans. It's a lot of moving parts, literally, literally.
And yeah.
There's a, speaking of events, there's another event that I haven't gone to yet. I don't know
if you've gone, but it's really been getting traction. There is the Las Vegas Concord. It is
a really nice weekend in Concord at the Wynn Hotel. And it's, I want to say it's like the weekend
before SEMA. And we're just taking a quick look at it right now for those of you on YouTube.
But this looks like an amazing event. I talked to my friend Aaron Shelby a few times and I think
he's been involved since day one. Might have helped curate it or he was a judge there, but
he's been pretty active in it and absolutely loves it and has just said amazing things about
this event. So I'm trying to get out there this year. We're trying to get out to Vegas a couple
days early for SEMA and try to swing by and check out this event. But when you check it out, it's
at LasVegasConcord.com. If you check it out, it looks like they went all in. Like they try to
make it pretty epic from the get go. A lot of production, a lot of display and grandeur and
things like that. You're absolutely right. Yeah. It's funny. This video was going by and I saw
briefly in there was the Radford car, the Radford coach built car that Jensen Button
and Anstead is on. Yeah, it's based on that Lotus. And it just reminded me that I think
either at Goodwood or just before Goodwood, they just debuted the new one. They're doing
a Roadster version of it, which is really kind of yeah. And they just launched that. So that
company is still at it. They're still going at it. If you guys haven't looked at the
Radford car, it's pretty cool. That's interesting. So I hadn't heard anything about it in so long
that I wasn't aware that it was still going. So the Radford. So they launched.
I don't think even the Roadster is even like on their website yet, but they
are there. It's a cool looking car. Funny thing. I got some trucks to talk about. There's truck news,
but before we get into that, this is something that's kind of funny that popped up. This is
California being California. If you're from California, you're not surprised. Maybe other
states are, but California has an issue with people cheating on their DMV drivers license
exams, written tests, driver tests. And so the DMV sent out notifications to people that they suspect
is had fraudulently passed whatever test.
Yeah. See, they sent me one, Matt. I aced my exam. Okay. And now they're saying they might
achieve it. What's interesting is they didn't say they didn't clarify saying people
scammed the driver's test or it was just the written test or it was the pre-test.
But because you can do some of that testing online, they think there's AI involved and people
filling out the tests. I heard through some of the comments of people that work there
saying that in some instances, somebody else showed up and did the driver's test and somehow
made that work. I don't know some sort of identity fraud, but the DMV sent out 11,000 letters to
people saying you need to retest or risk losing your driver's license. They sent out 11,000 letters
of people that scammed the system. It's not that difficult of a test. I mean, it really isn't.
Well, that's the funny thing is really easy. Yeah. I haven't taken it in a long time,
but I don't think they even ask you about arm signals or anything anymore, do they?
Right. Like hand signals? Like if you were on a bike or if you were in your car and you saw
somebody on a bike and they were doing their hand signals, what would it mean? I don't know.
I don't think they even do that anymore. That was the hardest part. I remember it was like,
okay, it's upright or it's downright. Yeah. It's like, oh, wait, left is just straight out the door.
Down is means I'm slowing down instead of brake lights and then up is a right-hand turn.
You know what's funny is a lot of states out here as well. There's another one, too,
that they don't have. Yeah, there's that one. The old one-finger salute.
Out here, we have traffic school. So if you get a ticket and you don't want the points on your
license, you can go to traffic school. Which is funny, this has come up a few times early in the
car cast days when Adam Karoldo was doing this with me. One of Adam's first, he always talks
about his construction jobs and swinging hammers and being a carpenter and cleaning carpets.
But one of Adam's first comedy gigs is he taught a class. He taught the driver's comedy class.
So you could pay back. Oh, I remember those. Yeah, they had comedy classes you'd go to on a
Saturday or whatever. Yeah, it was like the driver's course, the class, but
sort of like improv involved as well. And you pay a premium. Back then, it was so cheap. It was like,
I don't know, $12 for a class, but for $15 or $18, you can go to the comedy version.
And Adam taught the comedy driving school thing. Yeah, he did that. We were trying to explain it.
It came up again because we were walking around someplace and explaining what it is to Sonny
Karoldo, to his son. And he's like, you can do the driver's school. And then I could point something
because I taught the comedy version. And Sonny's like, what's funny about driving school? It was
like me. I am. Because I am. I'm much funny. It's like anything but sitting there, listening to
some guy drool on about, do they even have the in-person ones anymore? Isn't it all online?
I think it's all online. And that's one of the comments that came up was people saying maybe,
they're saying maybe the driver's license course should not be online. It should be in-person
only. But then you get just lines around the building. Lines and you got to have a place to do
it. Yeah. And an instructor. But I just had this conversation at dinner the other night.
I was out to dinner with several people and they're all super car owners. So they've all
been pulled over at one time. Yeah, everyone but you. And yes. And they, I never get pulled over
and knock on wood. The cars have to run. Yes, the cars have to run. And they were talking about
how, yeah, I had my kid take my class. Oh yeah, I paid one of the guys that works for me to take it.
Nobody does it. They pay somebody or they have their kids do it and then they pay their kids.
Like the one guy goes, yeah, I told my kid that he could drive my Lamborghini.
You know, if he did my class. If he did my online course. Yeah. And so nobody does it anyway. And
the thing is is that, and then we got off on an 1199 foundation thing. Out here in California,
there's the 1199 Foundation, which is a donation to the California Highway Patrol. And when you
make the donation, you get a license plate frame that says member 1199 Foundation and you get a
little badge that you put in your wallet. And we were all discussing, I don't belong any longer,
I used to. And we were discussing about how, if and when you get pulled over, it's like,
you know, one of the wives asked, well, do you just flash it to him? Oh, no, no, no. You just slowly,
like in slow motion, open it and make sure they see that it's there while you get your driver's
license out. Yeah. And he goes, and they're just like, oh, okay. And some of them go back to the
car and just sit back there for a while. Some of them talk to you. It's like they got to spend time
with you. But then they're not always, but 99%. Not that he is tearing up the streets these days,
but the greatest gig right now is I just spoke with Gordon McCall. He is the creator of the
Quail event at Monterey Car Week. Motorworks, yeah. And the Jet Center Motorworks party,
which was sold to Hagerty, he is currently the chairman of the 1199 Foundation.
Right. They used to have a big display there at the at the Motorworks and you could renew your
subscription there every year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's active with it, though. He's very active
with it. He's very proud of designation. I think Bruce Meyer was. Bruce Meyer was for a while.
Yep. And I think that's when I did it the first time, was he bent my arm and I did it and I had it
for a while. It used to be a lot more prevalent. Used to see a lot of those license plate frames
out here in California. I mean, when I had my Ferrari, I remember I would see them all the time
and I didn't know what it was. And finally I asked him, what is this 1199 Foundation? Oh,
you don't have one? And that's when I started looking into it. So maybe the rules have changed,
like you can't just donate 500 bucks. Maybe the donation to get the license frame now has to be
very significant. It's a lot more expensive. The last time I had it, it was 1500 and I think it
might have gone up from there. I would imagine so. Yeah. To make it a little bit more exclusive,
but also have the donations be more meaningful. Right. And now I see every once in a while,
not very often, but every once in a while, I'll see somebody with a fake license plate frame,
like a plastic one that they had made at the SWAT meter or something. And I think, dude,
they'll probably just pull you over just out of spite if you have that on there. Yeah, that's
worse. Yeah, I'm going to pull this guy over. Yeah, you're getting pulled over and you fraudulently
claimed your part. And he's got a lone ranger badge inside his, you know, hey,
yeah, right. Yeah, the plastic one was in like a crackerjack box. Exactly, you know.
Hey, have you ever, do you ever see, I was looking on Jalopnik recently. Okay. And I saw
something that was kind of interesting that I've always wondered about. And I found out that something
that I just maybe assumed was not true. But when you see a semi truck, especially like dump trucks
and things of that nature, that excuse me, that have one axle lifted up off the ground.
Do you ever wonder what that was for? Oh, like it right. So the dual one set of their wheels.
Yeah, yeah. I've seen it. I never really given it that much. I had heard years ago, somebody,
yeah, I said, I wonder why, you know, we were saw one in a stoplight or something started talking
about and this guy that I knew he goes, Oh, that's because they get charged by how many
axles they have touching the ground and and it made sense because they do they get, you know,
six, you know, a four axle truck gets charged, you know, more than a two axle truck and
and he had this big explanation for and I was okay, I believe that. But they did this big
in depth article and basically I found out why. And what it is, is that it does come down to some
laws and and they did say that there's other reasons as well, which could be what he said. But
the primary reason is how some bridges and some roads say you cannot exceed x amount of pounds
per axle. And if they've got a load where with two axles, it's 20,000 pounds an axle, they can
drop those axles new pneumatically, and it displaces some of the load to another set of axle.
And it goes down to like 16,000 pounds and now they can drive on a road they couldn't
have otherwise. Right. Okay. It also on semi trucks, they said some of the semi trucks are these
huge oversized load trucks. You've seen those ones where they're hauling some huge massive
missile or something and they got like 16 axles or 12 axles. And I didn't realize I thought that
was again to displace weight, which it does. But it also says that the more axles they have,
the smoother it is. And if they have a fragile item that they're hauling or something that could
shift weight or something like that, the increase in axles helps with that as well. So a little bit
of tidmint of information that I found interesting. Okay. Yeah. So when I see them dragging the
space shuttle around. Yeah. And it has, you know, 100 axles. Yeah, just all axles underneath.
It's like a caterpillar. It is. It's crazy. Yeah. So, you know, we were talking about the Goodwood
Festival of Speed here, and I'm looking at their sculpture from this year. And it's really cool
they had three porches, full scale, of course, like that. Yeah. Hanging from these, what I would
call very 60s era type of arches, you know, really, really cool. It's always, it's always cool when
they do those. Love it. Love it. So what else going on, Matt?
Matt, what else happening?
Sorry about that. I was muted for a second. I was looking up the, I was looking up the
sculptures. Oh, the sculpture in Goodwood? Yeah, there it is. Yeah. Yeah. This one. So, yeah,
are those, those are singer porches, aren't they? Those are all singers. Yeah. Yeah.
So they got about three, a little over $3 million worth of cars and then the sculpture itself is.
Yeah. They got, yeah. Okay. That's good. First ever slant nose singer Porsche up there as well,
which you know my affinity for slant nose porches. I know, you are a fan for sure.
I did. I like it. Yeah. We talked about this on a previous show about all the cars that
we should have bought when they were still very affordable and now they've gotten crazy priced.
Crazy priced. What else happening? So we got some truck stuff, but I know we're,
we're, we're going up against time. So let's, let's take one more break. We'll do a little bit
more housekeeping and then I've got some truck announcements we can go through real quick.
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Okay, we are back and news from from both Roush and Shelby. So aftermarket truck packages,
if you want to do a little bit of off-roading, then you certainly can because now Roush has
a post title package for the Ram 1500. It's called the Ram 1500 Direct Connection by Roush Package.
This one is no real power adder. The only thing performance wise as far as horsepower would be
a cat-back exhaust system, but it takes the Ram 1500 and this package adds suspension system for
so you get a coilover design system. It's the Roush Performance 2.0 coilover system.
It's got a twin tube hydraulic dampers on it. It's got 33 inch tires.
The cat-back exhaust system to it. You can also get the the there's some exterior and
interior upgrades for it. There's a hood vents and graphics package if you want that stuff and
there is the interior package. You can get the Roush leather interior package for it.
On the the drive trains, the 392 rear axles, the E-locker. It's got the protection groups,
skid plates, trailer brake controller, all that good stuff on it and it's good. It looks good.
Now you can add this as a dealer installed package. You can order it I believe through Direct Connection
through your dealer. It adds $15,995 to the price of your truck. So
you could probably get the whole thing, the truck and the package for about $79,000.
Keep in mind that all of the Roush stuff comes with a three-year 36,000 mile warranty
on their components and then the truck is covered under whatever Ram's warranty is on that.
So a nice little package if you're looking to add some performance to the Ram 1500.
That's the off-road package. Now, if you want to spend some money...
Oh, it's an off-road. It's not a street truck.
Right. That's the off-road package. That's lifted 33-inch tires,
somewhere, you know, not Ram TRX money, right? So if you just want the regular Ram but you want
an off-road suspension interior upgrades and some exclusivity to, there's potentially some
resell value there. But if you want to... Kind of stuff you might do to your truck,
but you package it, you get it, it's under warranty and you drive off the lot.
Right. But with the graphics package and the hood and some stuff like that to it,
which is kind of cool, the Roush interior, it's got kind of a diamond-stitched kind of looking,
Roush leather package, which is nice. They do a good quality stuff. So yeah, so a little bit more
than just doing suspension upgrades. Obviously, you could do the suspension upgrades in the
cat-back exhaust for less money than the $16,000 package, but this is meant to be
a turnkey system for $16,000. You get all of this stuff and it's all covered under warranty.
Now, going in the opposite direction and if you want a street truck, but you really want
kind of the ultimate street truck. Now, this is interesting because we talked a little while ago
about Ram coming out with the Rumblebee SRT, the 777 horsepower. It's like the TRX engine,
but in a lower street truck, adjustable suspension. It's actually very, very cool. I'm excited about
that truck. I can't wait to drive one of those things. I think that's going to be cool. So
because Ford doesn't have a high-performance street truck. Now, they gave us the Lobo,
but they kind of dropped the ball on that. It doesn't have a lot of the higher-end features,
leather interior and heated and cooled seats and stuff like that. And there's no performance upgrade.
It was just meant to be sort of a jumping off point if you want to modify a crew cab truck
because it has the 5-liter Coyote engine in it, where now, and I'm not sure if you knew this, but
the top trim model for trucks like the King Ranch and the Platinum,
you can't get it with the 8-cylinder. You can only get it with the 6-cylinder or the hybrid.
What? Yeah, you can't get it with the 8-cylinder. So they've done this for a few years now. So some
people are getting the standard cab 2-door truck or the ST or STX or whatever it is now. I don't
remember all the trim models with the V8, but then you don't get all of the higher-end features.
No, you're saying I've got to buy the performance one, and then I've got to buy a King Ranch,
and I've got to swap the interiors and everything like that. Right. So yeah, you get more of the
entry-level model truck, and then you can do the interior upgrades, and you get the V8, or you can
do... There's not much you can do if you get... There's minor modifications you can do to the
6-cylinder or the hybrid 6-cylinder, but you can't get that V8 power. The way to do it is you step
over to Shelby American, and Shelby American now has a post-title package that they just launched
their configurator on their website, because they have that there. I'll share that. I'll show you
guys that. But this is the new Shelby F-150 Super Snake, and the Super Snakes have always been the
highest-end versions of their vehicles. And so the Super Snake is the four-door crew cab truck.
It's lower. It's got a ground-effects package on it. It's got an aggressive hood, the Shelby
Stripes, big front air dam on it, but this also includes the Whipple Supercharge, the Stage 2
Supercharger, 810 horsepower package, which looks really, really cool. You get the Michelin Pila Sport
AS4 tires, 22-inch wheels. It's on king-adjustable coilovers on a lowered suspension, Borla catback
exhaust. These are more exclusive. You get the serial number. You get all the badging and the...
I guess the rarity of it, if you will. Now, this isn't a $79,000 truck, though. This truck
sets you back almost $141,000. That's not the package. That's the whole truck. So you can order
this thing direct from Shelby American or through their dealer network. But if you want the ultimate
street truck, this is it. This thing is going to haul the bacon, as they say. I got to tell you,
I'm surprised down here in Orange County how many of these Shelby pickup trucks I see. I've seen a
number of them running around. A few years, I went and toured the Shelby American factory in Vegas.
And it's an incredible facility. It's big. They do a great job over there. And they were building
trucks and they were building Shelby Mustangs. And they tell me that they build and sell
twice as many, maybe more than twice as many Shelby trucks as they do the Mustangs. They have
an off-road version as well. And I don't know if you saw this online. I sent it over to my
friends at Shelby. I was like, hey, if you guys are looking for free promotion from the best of the
best, the Rock did a video of his Shelby truck, all blacked out Shelby truck. And he's like,
here's my Shelby truck. I love this thing. And he's kind of doing like a little, like just an
Instagram walkthrough of his Shelby truck. He's got the off-road version of it, which is kind of cool.
So good for Shelby, man. The Rock just did a video for you for free.
No kidding. That's great promotion. Every company wants that.
Now, the Shelby Super Snake is more money than what the Ram Rumble B SRT will be. Now,
you can argue exclusivity and some other features. And I guess you kind of have to look at them
side by side. And maybe you're just a Ford guy or a Ram guy. But it's going to be, I think it's
a hundred and something thousand, but it's not 140,000. It's 103 or 108. Don't quote me on that
because they haven't really released the exact pricing on those things. But I would expect around
that $100,000 mark for the Rumble B SRT. There's three Rumble Bs, three versions, sort of a small,
medium and large, if you will. But the SRT is the big one with the 777 horsepower.
You need a new truck, Brad. Why don't you get one? Yeah, you know what?
My days of customized trucks are over, I think. I've had so many of them. I'm ready for
something a little different, I think. Something a little different. I am really fighting with what
to get. And then I was really upset with GMC. I will say it right here in the public when
they're offering all this 0% financing on their pickup trucks. I'm like, wait a minute,
can't you do 0% financing on your Yukon XLs? I mean, I would run down tomorrow and buy a brand
new Yukon XL if they would do 0% financing. That's free money. Yeah.
Go to the dealer. You've got to beat them up. You've got to talk to them. Say,
make me a deal. I'm ready to buy. go. If you can't do 0% financing, then maybe adjust
the price of the vehicle to compensate for what you'd be spending on that interest.
0% just sounds so good though. It's so free. like you can't go wrong with that.
There was a bit of news that I read the other day, I think it was on Sunday,
that Orange County, California has a new record that they've made.
They now have more people than anywhere else in the United States
that own Bond Speed Streetwear t-shirts. Oh no, that's not it. Okay, no. They have more people
in the United States than anywhere in the United States that have a car payment
that is $2,000 a month or more. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah. A friend was just looking
at leasing a car and saying, what's Porsche got going on right now? What's going on with
Panamera and Taycan and Cayenne and the nice daily driver utility Porsches, if you will.
It's like, let me find out. We reached out and we got some quotes. Every one of the leases was
basically $10,000 down and more than $2,000 a month. Some are $2,000, some $2,100, some is like
$1980, but it's all $2,000 a month. If you want to lease a Porsche as a daily driver,
everything's going to cost you $2,000 a month and nobody leases more Porsches than Orange County.
Do you see quite a number of them? Yeah.
But it's just amazing. You just think of people that... We've talked about it on other shows where
I've never been a big fan of financing a car for a long time. I try and do two years, three years
and just hit a big payment and be done with it. Then I own it and I have a little equity in it.
I learned that the hard way. The very first new car I ever bought was a Monte Carlo SS in 1984.
I went in and I fell into the trap of, how much do you want your car payment to be?
I felt like I never owned that car. I'd look at the value of what I could sell it for versus
what I owed it and it was almost always about the same. I was like, come on, man. I've been
paying on this thing for years. Shouldn't it be better than that? Pretty interesting that there's
that many people. If I look through my neighborhood, there's a number of people that have two car
payments of $200 or more. We did an episode of Car Cast a little while ago. We often bring in,
couple times a year, we bring in Jessica Caldwell, the head of insights at Edmunds. She had talked
about how now, more than ever, people have been rolling over negative equity into their next car
loan because the cars that they had are worth less than what they owe. You could have a $50,000
car owe $50,000 on a $40,000 car and you got to take that 10 grand and roll it into your next
loan. You're paying $10,000 extra. You got this negative equity rolling into that car payment.
That's a brutal cycle. You definitely don't want to be in that position.
There's people that roll it. Then a couple years later, they get another new car and then roll it
again and all of a sudden, they've got a $100,000, $30,000 car. Yeah, they got a $100,000 loan on
a $30,000 car. Yeah. Gosh, that's just scary. That is just scary. All right, so I think we're
wrapping things up. You got anything else? No, we're wrapping things up, man. I will say something
just to shout out. If anybody watched the TV show that used to be on Faster with Finnegan
or most recently, there's a new episode coming out, Cotton and Newberg. Mike Cotton,
who is a buddy of mine. I've known him forever. We worked on a project together for SEMA many,
many years ago. He was kind enough to wear a couple of my Bond Speed Streetwear shirts on
his most recent episode and in some social media posts. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
And where do we get those? Throw out a plug. BondSpeedStreetwear.com.
Awesome. And thank you for that. Yeah, no, everything's good. I think we're all set.
Give us the wheel company too. Let's check that out for those of you who haven't.
BondSpeedWheels.com, American made forged billet wheels built to order for cars, trucks,
exotics, anything that you have, we can build a wheel for it. And yeah, cool. We're just keeping
busy. It's another summer, another summer, Matt, of crazy carness. But I think we'll be back next
week and that's a promise, not a threat. There you go. All right, on that note, I'm not going to do
the normal car cast. Now go ahead, do your thing. All right, we're going to do it. We'll see you
next week. And until then, keep the air in the spare and the bag in the wheel. There we go.
Thanks, everybody. Thanks for listening.
About this episode
Goodwood and motorsport logistics take center stage as the hosts talk about “Goodwood America” near Willow Springs, event differences between the Revival and Festival of Speed, and why travel may involve helicopters. The conversation then shifts to real-world disruption: series relocate races due to conflict and cost estimates for moving events. Back on the street, they cover California DMV cheating crackdowns, traffic-stop etiquette, and how high monthly payments can trap drivers in negative equity. Shelby and Roush truck builds wrap the show.
