An electric minivan is a minivan that runs on electricity instead of gas. Because it’s electric, it drives differently and uses a battery and electric motors rather than an engine.
Car
SP40 Speedster
The SP40 Speedster is a custom/updated car project. They’re presenting it as a fresh take on an older style, with the “Speedster” idea meaning a more open, roadster-like driving experience.
Hand controls are modifications that let someone drive using their hands. The host mentions them because the driver couldn’t feel heat normally, so the heated seats caused injuries.
The Chevy Blazer is an SUV. The host tells a story where a driver with hand controls had the heated seats turn on, and because he couldn’t feel his lower body, the seats caused serious burns.
General Motors is a major car company. The host says a person sued GM after getting burned by heated seats, and then GM’s bankruptcy later affected whether they had to pay.
The Subaru Outback is a practical crossover that’s shaped like a wagon. People often buy it for everyday comfort and usefulness. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because someone liked the heated seats and knows an owner.
Here, “dial” means a knob you turn to change settings—like the car’s heat level. They’re saying the heat was set too high, and turning the dial down fixed it.
The R-Class is a luxury vehicle meant to carry people comfortably. The podcast is specifically mentioning the R63 AMG, which is a more powerful version. It’s brought up because it combines family-car space with a performance-focused trim.
The Porsche Carrera GT is a very rare, very high-performance supercar. It’s the kind of car that collectors and enthusiasts pay attention to. The podcast is mentioning it in the context of high-value cars and how they’re handled.
They’re talking about the Tesla Cybertruck and how its interior feels very bare-bones. The host points out there’s no center console and the dashboard design is very simple, which makes it feel different from most trucks.
The center console is the area between the two front seats. It often has cupholders, storage, and buttons—so if a car doesn’t have one, the cabin feels more stripped down.
The Oldsmobile Curved Dash is an early classic car model. The key thing people notice is the curved dashboard shape and a simpler interior layout. The podcast is mentioning it because the cabin design is very different from modern cars.
A “spartan interior” means the cabin is very plain and minimal, with fewer features and a no-frills layout. The host is saying the Cybertruck feels especially bare-bones inside.
Steer-by-wire means the steering wheel doesn’t connect mechanically to the wheels. Instead, it sends electronic signals to control the wheels, and the host is saying this car doesn’t do that.
The Lucid Air is Lucid’s main electric car. The host is saying it had a lot of good ideas, but the execution wasn’t perfect—especially with software and some details.
Steering ratio is how much you turn the steering wheel to make the front wheels turn. A “quick” ratio means small steering-wheel movements create bigger front-wheel turning, so the car feels more responsive. It can also make steering feel harder depending on your hand position.
Some cars can change how “responsive” the steering feels by altering the steering ratio. That means the same steering-wheel movement can turn the front wheels more or less. In practice, it can make turning feel easier or harder depending on how you hold the wheel.
Term
circle wheels
“Circle wheels” just means the normal, fully round steering wheel shape. They’re comparing it to a flat-bottom wheel. The point is how the shape affects getting in/out and the racing look.
A flat-bottom steering wheel is shaped like a normal wheel, but the bottom is cut flat. People like it because it can make it easier to get in and out of a low, sporty seat. It also looks more “racing” than a round wheel.
Term
import tuner wheels
“Import tuner wheels” are aftermarket wheels that are popular with car enthusiasts who modify cars for a sporty look. They’re often tied to the tuner community and can be flashy or performance-oriented in style. Here it’s used as an example of that kind of wheel trend.
The Lucid Gravity is an electric SUV. Here, the host is talking about how the digital dashboard screen is laid out next to the steering wheel, and how the wheel could cover part of the display. They’re basically saying the design choice looks bad because the covered area doesn’t show useful information anyway.
A digital gauge cluster is the screen behind the steering wheel that shows things like speed and warnings. The host is pointing out that, in this car, part of that screen seems poorly positioned relative to the steering wheel.
A yoke is a steering wheel shape that doesn’t have a full round wheel—more like a split frame. The idea is to give the driver a clearer view of the dashboard, but the host thinks some implementations can create new problems.
The Ford Expedition is a large Ford SUV. Here it’s brought up because people in the comments think it uses a similar steering-wheel design to the one being criticized.
That just means the steering wheel has four spokes instead of three. The host is saying the wheel design bothered them enough that it affected whether they wanted to keep the car.
They’re talking about the main screens in the car you tap to control things. The host says the screens respond quickly, which makes the car easier to use. They also mention some small software glitches, but not with the keyless system.
A proximity key is the key fob that talks to the car when it’s close by. If it works right, you can unlock and start the car without pressing buttons or using a physical key. They’re saying their keyless system worked fine, unlike some camera behavior.
A 360 camera shows a stitched view around the car, usually to help you park and maneuver. The host is talking about when it turns on and off while driving. They’re saying the behavior can be adjusted, and some cars may have timing quirks.
Blind-spot cameras help you see cars in your blind spots. Instead of relying only on mirrors, the car can show what’s next to you on a screen. The host likes them because they make lane changes easier when turning your head is difficult.
They mean the glass roof acts like a greenhouse, trapping heat from the sun. So the air near your head can get hotter than the car’s temperature sensor expects. That can make the climate control feel like it’s not quite keeping up.
Automatic climate control is the system that tries to keep the cabin at the temperature you set. It uses sensors to decide how much heating or cooling to run. The host thinks the sensor is in the wrong spot, so it doesn’t account for how hot the roof area gets.
The Tesla Model X is an electric SUV. The podcast is talking about a unique design feature where the doors open in a special way. It’s being mentioned because it’s one of the Model X’s most recognizable traits.
Air suspension is a suspension system that uses air bags instead of metal springs. It can help the car stay smoother over bumps and can adjust how high or low the car sits.
Porpoising is when a car bounces up and down like a wave, especially over rough road. The host is using it to describe how the suspension behaves over bumps.
Expansion joints are the seams you see in concrete roads and bridges. When you drive over them, they can feel like a bump, and the suspension has to handle that impact smoothly.
A “magnetic shock” is a shock absorber that can change how stiff it feels using magnets. That helps the car feel smoother over bumps but still controlled when driving hard.
“Adjustable height” means the suspension can raise or lower the car. Raising helps with rough roads, and lowering can make it easier to get in and can improve driving feel.
Torque vectoring is when the car can send different amounts of power to different wheels. That can help the car turn more accurately and feel more “on rails” in corners.
Radar cruise control uses sensors to help the car keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front. It can automatically adjust speed instead of you doing it manually.
The Porsche Taycan is an electric Porsche. The hosts mention it because the dashboard design they’re seeing in this SUV looks similar, and it creates a noticeable colorful glare as you move your head.
They’re talking about the car’s electric battery—the big one that powers the motor. They’re saying the car seemed to use it efficiently, and the range estimate made it feel like you could drive comfortably without running out.
“390 to empty” is a range estimate shown by the vehicle’s battery management system, telling you how far you can drive before the battery is depleted (under current conditions). The host uses it as a real-world emotional/decision cue—feeling good because the number stays high while driving.
Concept
lemon laing
A “lemon” is a car that has serious problems and keeps needing fixes. The host is saying Lucid has had a lot of public reports about cars that didn’t work right.
Concept
super sedan
“Super sedan” is a marketing term for a luxury car that tries to feel sporty and fast, not just comfortable. The host says the car was sold as a performance-focused sedan, and that influenced what they noticed while driving.
An express lane is a special highway lane that’s usually meant to move faster than the regular lanes. It often has rules about who can use it, and the host says the car’s guidance sent them into it.
HOV means “high-occupancy vehicle.” It’s a lane that usually requires more than one person in the car to use it, and the host says the navigation assumed they qualified.
“Native GPS” means the navigation that’s built into the car. The host is saying they didn’t choose that option, but the car still seemed to use it for routing.
Car
Vespa Nuevo
Vespa Nuevo is a Vespa-branded scooter model, and the host is treating it like a “color reveal” moment rather than a car review. The discussion centers on the scooter’s paint/color options and how the finish looks in person.
“Fake carbon fiber” is a look-alike trim that’s meant to resemble real carbon fiber. It gives the same style, but it’s usually cheaper and not the real lightweight material.
Aftermarket exhaust means the exhaust system isn’t the factory one. People usually change it for a different sound (and sometimes for small performance gains).
Paint to sample means you can choose a custom color and the painter matches it. It can cost more if you want a special, complex finish.
Car
SP40 Restomod Roadster
They’re talking about the SP40 Restomod Roadster, which is a brand-new car designed to look and feel like a classic-style hot rod. Instead of just fixing an old car or tweaking one, it uses modern parts and a lightweight structure to make it drive like a newer machine.
The Mercedes-Benz SSK is an old, high-performance Mercedes from the early days of racing. The podcast is talking about it as an important original model that collectors care about. It’s mentioned because it’s historically significant and rare.
A tube space frame is the car’s skeleton, made from metal tubes welded into a rigid structure. It’s used to make the car strong and light without needing a heavy body.
A carbon body means the outer panels are made from carbon fiber, which is very light and stiff. That can help the car feel more responsive and keep overall weight down.
Independent rear suspension means the two rear wheels don’t move as one unit. Each wheel can react to the road on its side, which helps grip and smoothness.
The Ford Coyote engine is a modern Ford V8. People like it for custom cars because it’s powerful and there are lots of parts and tuning options available.
A Tremec T5 gearbox is the car’s manual transmission. It’s a performance-oriented gearbox that’s commonly used in custom builds where the driver wants a more engaging feel.
“Open wheel” usually means the tires and wheels are more visible and not fully hidden by the body. They’re saying this car is close to that look, even if it uses some wheel covers.
The Plymouth Prowler is a unique hot-rod style car. The podcast is pointing out that its wheels are positioned outside the body, which gives it a special look. It’s mentioned because it’s visually different from normal cars.
“Monoposto” means a race car built for one driver. The host is using it to describe those early European cars that were more stripped-down and driver-focused.
A five-speed means the car has five forward gears. The host is saying this particular car doesn’t really need a sixth gear because the engine already has plenty of pull, and the layout is tighter inside.
Torque is the engine’s “twisting grunt,” and power is how strongly it can keep pulling as speeds rise. The host is saying this car has enough of both that you don’t need as many gears.
A three-wheeler is a vehicle that has only three wheels instead of four. The podcast is talking about a Morgan-style one and saying it works because you don’t always need extra wheels for the experience. It’s mentioned because it’s an unusual design that changes how the vehicle feels to drive.
Car
Morgan three-wheeler
The Morgan three-wheeler is a quirky Morgan car with three wheels instead of four. The host is using it as a reference for how the car’s layout and driving feel compare.
The Ford Mustang is a sporty car made by Ford. People like it because it’s fun to drive and it has a recognizable engine sound and feel. In the podcast, it’s being used as an example of a car that just works when you start and drive it.
This is a pedal setup where the pedal pivots from the floor. It’s common in race cars, and it can make your legs feel cramped because your feet can’t tuck and stretch the same way as in a normal car.
A top-hinged pedal pivots from above (near the firewall or pedal box), which is typical of most production cars. Compared with floor-hinged pedals, it often gives more room for foot placement and leg stretching.
Electric power steering uses a motor to help you steer, instead of fluid pressure. Some people feel it doesn’t “talk back” as much as older hydraulic steering, depending on how it’s set up.
The steering shaft is the rod that connects the steering wheel to the steering mechanism. If it’s long, the steering can feel a bit less immediate or less “connected” when you turn the wheel.
This phrase means the car was tuned to feel smoother and more comfortable first. It can still handle well, but it may not be as sharp or as grippy as a car tuned purely for track-style driving.
Place
Canaan
This is a specific road/area the host drove on to show how the car feels in real conditions. They’re using it as an example of the kind of smooth, curvy roads where the car works well.
Mulholland is a famous curvy road route in the Malibu area. The host is using it to explain how the car feels on long, flowing turns—where both comfort and handling matter.
Place
Ensignal
This is another road the host mentions from their drive route. They’re using these names to describe the kind of curvy roads where the car’s driving feel shows up.
“Feed throttle in” means you add gas smoothly while you’re turning, not all at once. That helps the tires keep grip and keeps the car from getting unsettled.
SEMA is a big auto show focused on aftermarket and custom parts. The host is talking about a custom ring-shaped light/trim feature around the controls that they don’t like.
The Ford GT is a very high-performance supercar from Ford. It’s built to be fast and special, not like a normal daily driver. The podcast is mentioning it because it has standout features inside and out.
A “start button” is the push-button you press to start the car instead of using a key. The host is comparing how different cars do that button and what it looks like.
The “dash” is the dashboard. A “wood dash” means the dashboard trim is real wood, and the host says you can even choose the wood and leather/finish options.
A “boat tail” is a rear shape that tapers like the back of a boat to help the car cut through air. The host is saying that rear area is open and can be used for storage.
“Rev past” means the engine RPM—how fast the engine is spinning. They’re saying the engine wouldn’t go above a certain RPM, which usually means something in the engine control or fueling isn’t behaving right.
Term
loaf
Here “loaf” means you can drive gently without pushing the engine. The car can stay quick and smooth even if you keep the RPMs low.
“Long gears” means the transmission ratios are set so the engine spins slower at speed. That can feel smoother, but the engine needs enough pulling power to still accelerate without constantly downshifting.
A prototype is an early version of a car used for testing. If it’s the second prototype, it usually means they’ve already tried the first one and are improving things.
The clutch catch point is where the clutch starts to grab and move the car. If it happens near the top of the pedal, it can feel touchy and may seem like the clutch is slipping.
Clutch slipping is when the clutch doesn’t fully engage, so the engine revs but the car doesn’t pull smoothly. It can feel like the car is struggling to grab and can also wear the clutch faster.
The Morgan Plus Four is a British sports car with a retro look. The hosts are talking about how fun it felt to drive and how the engine/character compares to the other car in the review.
Car
BMW engine
They’re saying the newer car uses an engine from BMW. They’re comparing it to the older Morgan they drove, mainly in terms of how the engine feels and how memorable it is.
Mid-engine means the engine sits closer to the middle of the car, not all the way at the front. That usually helps the car feel more balanced and easier to steer.
Self-centering is the steering wheel’s tendency to straighten itself after you turn. If it doesn’t self-center well, the car can feel a little “wandery” and you have to steer more to stay on line.
The steering axle is basically the front axle where the wheels turn left and right. Where it sits in the car changes how the steering feels from the driver’s seat.
A recreation is a new build that tries to match an older car as closely as possible. The key idea is how faithful it is to the original, not just the looks.
A “blower Bentley” is a Bentley that has a supercharger, which helps it make a lot of power. The host is using it as an example of the hardcore, old-school enthusiast style of driving.
Radwood is a car-collector vibe/event where people show off and trade interest in older, iconic cars. Here it’s used to contrast “new build inspired by the past” versus just grabbing from the classic-car world.
Woodward Dream Cruise is a major car event in Detroit centered on classic and enthusiast vehicles. The hosts mention it while planning a live show tour date, tying the podcast to a specific automotive gathering.
The BMW 2002 is an older BMW from the 1970s that’s famous for being a fun, sporty small car. People still talk about it because it’s rear-wheel drive and responds well to modifications.
They’re comparing two BMW generations—E30 and E46—and saying the driving character feels related. It’s basically “same spirit,” just updated over time.
They mention an E30 M3 as a reference point, and they’re saying they’ve driven a car that combines an E30 M3 setup with a 2002 body. The point is that the driving character can be “connected” even with mixed parts.
Wind buffeting is when air hits the car in a way that makes the cabin feel shaky or noisy, especially with the windows open. It’s basically an airflow problem, not a mechanical failure.
The Mitsubishi Delica is a practical vehicle with a boxy shape. The podcast is saying that because it’s shaped like a “brick,” it doesn’t create as much wind noise while driving. That makes it feel calmer and more comfortable on the road.
Grommets are little protective sleeves that help protect cables or hoses where they pass through parts of the car. In air suspension, they can help prevent damage that leads to leaks.
They’re talking about Land Rover SUVs and how some of them can develop air suspension problems. When that happens, the car can end up sitting extremely low.
They mention Mercedes-Benz cars as another brand they see with air suspension problems. When the system fails, the car can drop and look like it’s sitting too low.
Airbag suspension is the same idea as air suspension: it uses air bags to support the car. The maintenance they mention is about keeping moisture and leaks from ruining the system.
The condensation tank is where moisture collects in an air suspension system. Keeping it cleared helps prevent water-related problems that can lead to leaks or failures.
They’re looking at an Audi e-tron GTS. They’re choosing it because they think it’s rarer and they want something different from the cars they keep seeing with suspension issues.
The Audi e-tron GT is an all-electric Audi. The host is saying you can sometimes find one used with a warranty, and they’re also checking recalls before buying.
Recalls are when a car maker has to fix a problem on cars that are already out there. The host is checking how many recalls a given model year has before deciding it’s a good buy.
They’re saying a lot of the problems they’ve dealt with were software-related. That often means fixes can be done with updates rather than big mechanical repairs.
A retaining ring is a small mechanical fastener that holds a component in place. In suspension/air-spring contexts, a loose retaining ring can let air leak out, which changes suspension behavior and can affect handling.
Quartz watches are watches that use a battery and a tiny crystal to keep time. The question is whether you can stop the watch to help the battery last longer.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a high-performance sports car. The podcast is talking about a newer Corvette design where the engine sits more toward the middle of the car. That layout is important because it affects how the car handles.
The Aston Martin Valhalla is a supercar, meaning it’s built for very high performance. The podcast is using it as an example of a special, exotic car rather than a normal vehicle. It’s mentioned because it’s meant to feel and perform like a top-tier supercar.
T-tops are roof panels you can remove to make the car feel more open. They’re not a full convertible, because there’s still some roof structure left in the middle.
On some T-top cars, the “T-bar” is the part of the roof that stays in place to help the car stay solid. The host is saying newer cars are strong enough that you might not need that extra support.
The host is discussing the idea of a Camaro convertible in the context of older T-top/roof-structure compromises. The Camaro is a Chevrolet model line, and the point here is how different roof designs affect structural rigidity and engineering constraints.
The Pontiac Firebird is a classic American performance car. The podcast is talking about a version with T-tops, which are roof sections you can remove for open-air driving. It’s being mentioned because that style is a recognizable part of the car’s appeal.
The Dodge Charger is a performance-focused sedan. It’s known for a bold, aggressive look and strong engines. The podcast is mentioning it because it’s a recognizable car people talk about in other contexts too.
The Buick Skylark is an older American car model. In the podcast, they’re talking about a specific year (1987) and imagining turning it into a much more extreme, high-performance custom build. It’s being mentioned because classic cars can be modified in big ways.
Restomodding means taking an old car and updating it with modern parts or improvements. The host is saying it can get complicated because laws and paperwork rules aren’t consistent everywhere.
A 1971 Volkswagen Beetle is a classic old VW that people often modify. The point here is that if the original car is basically gone, you can theoretically reuse parts of the body and build something totally different on it.
The Hennessey Venom GT is a very rare, extreme-performance supercar. The host brings it up to explain that some states are easier to register special cars in than others.
The Lotus Elise is a small, lightweight sports car. The host is saying that some supercars can be built using an Elise as the starting point, at least in the way they’re documented for registration.
VIN verification is an official process to confirm a car’s identification number matches the documents. Some states are stricter than others, which affects whether a heavily modified or custom car can be registered.
Emissions refers to the pollutants a vehicle produces from its engine and exhaust, which are regulated by law. The host’s point is that some extreme, low-volume “hyper cars” may not pass emissions requirements, and he argues that shouldn’t be the main blocker compared with bigger societal issues.
The G-Wagon is a Mercedes-Benz luxury SUV that’s also built for serious off-road use. The host is saying other SUVs can try to compete, but it’s hard to match the G-Wagon’s overall package.
The Lincoln Navigator is a big luxury SUV. It’s made to be comfortable and spacious, especially for families or long trips. The podcast is mentioning it because someone thinks it looks good and wants to try one.
The Lincoln Corsair is a mid-sized luxury SUV. It’s designed to be comfortable and stylish for everyday driving. The podcast is mentioning it because it looks good and fits the mid-size category.
ADAS means driver-assist features that help you drive more safely, like keeping you in your lane or helping avoid crashes. They’re saying the way it’s implemented in some cars feels especially good.
The Ferrari Luce is being talked about as a new or upcoming Ferrari model. The podcast mentions rumors about it possibly having a manual transmission. It’s brought up because people are hoping it will be more exciting to drive.
A gated manual is the classic kind of manual transmission where you move the shifter into specific gear slots. They’re wondering if the rumored car will use that traditional feel or something more digital/automated.
A “fake manual” is a car that sounds like it has a real stick shift, but the car actually does the shifting for you. People who like driving a manual feel cheated because you don’t really control the gears the same way.
This is a Lexus IS wagon version called the IS 300 SportCross. Wagons like this are uncommon in many places, so it’s the kind of car people get excited to spot on the road.
The Acura RSX Type-S is a sportier version of the RSX. When someone finds one that’s clean and well-kept, it’s a fun car to see because it’s popular with car fans.
The Dodge Omni is an older compact car. The podcast is mentioning it as something you might see in the wild with a customized, low stance. It’s being brought up because it’s a recognizable car that people can modify.
The Mustang is a sporty Ford car. The podcast is talking about older Mustang versions that are kept in great condition and sometimes modified. It’s mentioned because many car enthusiasts love them and they’re easy to recognize.
Axial flux motors are an electric motor design where the magnetic flux travels parallel to the motor’s axis, rather than radially like many conventional designs. In EVs, they’re often discussed as a way to potentially improve packaging and efficiency, but the host argues shoppers care more about how the car drives than the motor type.
“Solid state” here means a battery design that uses a solid material inside instead of a liquid. It’s supposed to be safer and maybe store more energy, but it doesn’t automatically mean the car will drive differently.
An EV is an electric car that runs mainly on electricity from a battery you charge. The discussion here is about whether advanced battery/motor tech changes how the car feels to drive.
“48 volt architecture” just means the car uses a stronger electrical system than the usual 12-volt setup. It can help run more electrical features, but it doesn’t guarantee the car will feel dramatically different while you’re driving.
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid car. You can drive it on electricity, and when the battery runs low it uses gasoline too. The podcast is referencing it while talking about how electric systems are designed.
The Tesla Model S is an electric car with a battery instead of a gasoline engine. The podcast is talking about Tesla planning updates to the car’s electrical system using a 48-volt setup. That’s the kind of change that can help the car run more efficiently and handle power better.
Alpina is a German company best known for making special versions of BMW cars. Here it’s mentioned in a joke about wine, but it’s the same Alpina name people associate with cars.
The Toyota Corolla is a small, everyday car. People often choose it because it’s usually affordable to buy and it’s meant to be dependable. The podcast is discussing it in terms of price and reliability for a new car.
The Honda Civic is a compact car that many people consider dependable. The podcast is saying that the older, very cheap “hard to break” Civics aren’t as common anymore. It’s a comment about how buying a reliable used car has changed.
The host is talking about which car brands might stop selling in North America soon. It’s basically a prediction about which brands could fade out over the next few years.
The Chrysler Pacifica is a minivan. It’s the kind of family vehicle Chrysler sells most often, and the host mentions it as the main reason the brand still shows up in the market.
The Dodge Caravan is a long-running minivan model associated with Dodge in North America. The host uses it as a comparison point for what might replace the Chrysler Pacifica if Chrysler’s minivan presence shrinks.
The Dodge Ram is a pickup truck. It’s the kind of vehicle people use for hauling or for practical everyday driving with a truck bed. The podcast is mentioning it as a possible direction for a product lineup.
A franchise agreement is a contract between a brand and its dealerships. The host is saying those contracts might make it hard to close down a brand’s stores quickly, even if the brand isn’t selling much.
SEMA buttons are aftermarket switches you often see on modified cars. They can look a bit generic, so the host is saying premium builds usually use custom-looking, higher-quality controls.
The BMW M2 Competition is a small, sporty BMW built for fast driving. The host is saying the newer version is especially easy to get the car to rotate and feel playful at the limit.
Wheelbase is how long the car is between the front and rear wheels. Shorter wheelbase usually helps the car turn in and rotate more quickly when you’re driving hard.
Rolling diameter is basically the tire’s effective size when it’s rolling. If you put on wheels/tires with the wrong overall size, the car can act weird because it’s expecting a certain tire circumference.
They mean copycat aftermarket wheels. The concern is that cheaper replicas may be weaker and you might not get good warranty help if something goes wrong.
The Porsche Cayenne is Porsche’s SUV. They’re showing that a wheel can look good on one Porsche model (like the Cayenne) but may not be the best match for another (like the Panamera).
The Porsche Panamera is Porsche’s big, four-door performance car. Here they’re talking about which wheels fit properly so the tires don’t rub and the stance looks right.
The 2019 Honda Civic Si is a sporty version of the regular Civic. People like it because it’s still practical for commuting, and in this discussion it’s used as a reliable, cost-conscious choice for high-mileage driving.
The 2013 Lexus GS 350 is a comfortable, reliable luxury sedan. In this conversation it’s being weighed against the Civic Si for someone who drives a lot of miles and wants something dependable.
The Lexus ES 350 F Sport is a sportier trim of the ES 350. It’s suggested as a compromise: still a comfortable Lexus, but with a bit more driving feel.
The Toyota Prius is a hybrid car, meaning it uses both an electric system and a gasoline engine. It’s known for saving fuel compared to many regular cars. The podcast is talking about it as a reliable option, but also that some people don’t find it very exciting.
The Acura Integra Type S is a sportier version of the Integra. The host is saying that buying a used-but-recent one could be a good match for someone who wants something fun but still dependable.
The Hyundai Elantra is a compact car. The podcast is talking about a sportier Elantra version called the Elantra N. They’re also mentioning that it can come with different transmission types.
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top. Tom Segura's show, Bad Thoughts on Netflix is really, really fucking funny. There's a skit about
a very, a very Christian person, like a real Christian, not, you know, not a Christian,
not like a real Christian, who like goes to heaven. And then it's not, it's not what she expected.
That's a good bit. I think they had that in the trailer and I was like, ooh, I like this is
very, very funny. Yeah, it's like everything is boring. It's a very funny bit, but everyone should
watch that show. We watched Icy Hot, which is my name for heat rivalry. Oh, is that, you're into
that now? No. The gay hockey show? We went to dinner with our friend. Should I name him? You know
him. I don't know if it matters. But he, he knows scripts. He knows shows. Like we have a
similar sense of humor and he sold it so hard, no pun intended, to Sarah and I and we're like,
all right, we'll go watch this. And it was like, there's a lot of soft core. There's a ride. There
is like, it's like going to watch the travel channel and expecting to see hockey.
All right, I'll make sure to skip that one. You can skip it. Yeah. Spike spent all the weekend at
the Indy 500 on and on about the boys. I'm going back to that show after watching two seasons because
it's apropos. Which I'm like, all right, it's very hard to sell your friend in the show. Even
someone you trust, like, I don't know if everyone else feels like this, but when someone's like,
you should watch this, I instantly put up a wall and try and give a reason why I shouldn't. It's
kind of dumb. Depends on who I'm talking to. No, it's dumb. And I'm not that much of a TV guy.
I have a very limited TV time daily to allocate to anything. So it's got to be fucking good.
Not going to sit there for six hours, watch TV. Spike was on and on about the boys. I came back
and I said, Hannah, I think we have to start watching the boys. She's like, I watched half
an episode. She's unwatchable. And I was like, that was just the end of it. I don't know. It's a
team effort for you. It's got to be. It has to be an agreement. You would like it because
it's ability to predict where we are now. I mean, that's just started a long time ago,
but it's not a fun prediction. No, no. So I think in the line of media that accurately
describes our current world state, which inherently makes it depressing, right? Which you
like. This is the fictional version of the type of content you'd like, but you might not enjoy
that because you'd be like, I can just read all, you know, the ground. I liked, like, don't look up,
you know, Adam McKay type fiction. I liked that. So I probably, I probably would like this, honestly.
This might be one of those things that it's like Adam McKay, but not funny because it's pretty,
it's like very gruesome. I heard it's gruesome. Yeah. Yeah. It's more serious. So I mean,
it's good. I'll add it to the, then it goes, you know, it goes, it goes into the elliptical
machine category. Right. And I just watch it by myself on the elliptical machine. You know,
there we go. How's your back? Is it okay? No, it's not. I mean, it's not, it's, it's 5% better
than it was a couple of days ago because of the Lucid's massage seats. No, those helped a lot.
They do. They're good. They're pretty solid. We all the same PT place. And when I'm done there,
they give me the heated vibrating belt, which I don't know, does something or nothing. Not really
sure. The massage seats in the Lucid feel almost exactly the same. The heated, the heater cranks
and it goes, and I'm like, oh, so today when we, Sarah goes, you want to take my car to drop,
you know, your Tucker off? And I said, no, I'm going to take the Lucid because the seats
form better than Toyota seats. They massage and heat like, yeah, it's way better. They are pretty
good massage seats in our car. Yeah. We can talk about that car in a minute, but can I just sidebar
for 30 seconds because it'll probably be more, but it won't be much more. When Han and I got the
GMC Acadia that we drove on that road trip to scout the event that I'm actually driving in next
week for road and track, the heated seats in the GMC Acadia, and I found GM heated seats in general
are almost unbearably hot. Okay. Like it's crazy how hot GM heated seats get in my personal experience.
And it's weird that new cars get that hot because my dad has a friend. I have a friend too. There's
a car guy. His name's Chris. Chris L. Don't want to use his last name. And you'll find out why in
a second. Chris L. was a friend of my dad's from back in the day. He's my father's age.
Family friend. Christopher Lloyd. Got it. Christopher Lloyd. He was in Back to the Future.
So hot. Christopher Lloyd is a paraplegic. Okay. From an accident unrelated to cars. Okay. But he had
a Chevy Blazer fitted with hand controls. Okay. And that was like his car. Cool.
Totally, you know, as far as a gentleman, you know, fucking strong ass upper body and was as
mobile as a dude in a wheelchair could possibly be. Okay. But obviously, no feeling in the lower body
as tends to happen with many paraplegics. Oh, I know where this is going.
Well, in his Blazer, somehow the heated seats got activated. Not intentional because he can't
fucking feel his butt anyway. Right. And they were so hot and he couldn't feel anything. He got
second degree burns on his lower part of his body from the heated seats and had a proper lawsuit
going against General Motors that he won. And this was in 2008 and GM went bankrupt and didn't have
to pay him. Straight up. He got stiffed. It got wiped out. I mean, obviously, they didn't want to
go bankrupt, but for them, they're like, hey, the good news is all our lawsuits go away.
It got wiped in the bankers. But imagine what I'm thinking as I'm here in 2026 driving a brand new
GMC going, these seats are crazy hot, dude. Well, my cousin has an outback, I think. They had
him and his wife, whatever. They have a pretty new Subaru. Same thing happened. They got, I think,
what was assessed as first degree burns, but he just took it to the dealership and was like, hey,
you need to turn these down and they did. And I was like, you could have sued. There's like a dial?
There's always a dial. There's always something. I don't know how they did it, but he could have
sued, but they just didn't think about it. They just brought it in, but it was getting way, way
too hot set on three or whatever. The lucid set on three. After like 15 minutes, I just turned it
down. No, the lucids are not. To go back to the lucid, sorry about that sidebar. To go back,
a little depressing for you there, but to go back to the lucid. As far as I know,
they're not hot enough to give you second degree burns. Okay, let's talk about the gravity,
because now you and I both drove it. I drove it, spent a few days and you spent a few days in it.
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As Mercedes was trying to avoid at that time building a minivan, like sprinters, like vans
weren't in any way cool at all in like 2004 when they were developing that thing. So they were
trying to build a minivan that like didn't look at all like a minivan. They could be like,
this is not the minivan, but like now when fucking Demiro talks about it, it's the 500
horsepower minivan. Like car nerds are like super stoked that this is actually a minivan.
I think it definitely looks like a minivan. I think it looks more like a minivan than this
only because there are like windshield. This has a steeper angle from the hood to the windshield,
but the back is definitely pure minivan. I think they do a pretty good job at trying to make it look
as little like a minivan as possible. Once you get inside of it, the fucking dashboard,
the layout of the seats is like 100% minivan. Very true. I was next to a cyber truck in this
thing today and I just thought about that poor driver in there who has no center console,
who has no like curved dash in front of them, which we should talk about because it's not
perfect, but like that is such a Spartan interior in that vehicle and they cost similar money and
similar power and all that stuff. What a thing to drive. Yeah, I mean, I think...
Lucid has issues obviously, but just seeing the cyber truck and knowing, having driven it,
what it has and does not have inside, like man. It would be one thing because it makes you look
like such a loser to drive one. It would be one thing if there was some level of trade-off,
right? Like if it was actually awesome inside or awesome, like something. But the fact is,
it drives like basically every other EV. Like it doesn't like steer by wire. I admit is interesting,
but I don't like it. This doesn't have it obviously and steering is quick enough. I don't care.
I hate the steering wheel. You hate the steering wheel too, right? Yeah.
So I actually texted or I should say a Lucid representative who we're friendly with
and has always been super helpful with our reviews, information, whatever. Texting me and said,
hey, I'm here if you have any questions. Are you liking it so far? Whatever.
And I said, whoever put this wheel in here needs to be fired out of a cannon. And he said,
I actually think they were.
Can you just get a picture off of the, because if you haven't seen it,
talk about a fucking step backwards for a car company. So the Lucid Air was a product that
is, was flawed in execution, but like pretty A plus an intent, you know, like the software was,
was, was funky and, and they couldn't quite get there with stuff, but there was a lot that's
like really right about the air. And then the interior of this is objectively better
in almost every way, but they put this fucking squeal. Yeah. And it's a squished wheel. It's a
squished wheel. It's a, it's like an oblong wheel. Yes. And it is, I have to say, other than the
nine and three, and even sometimes then, other than the nine and three, it is awkward to hold
however you hold. There's no other. Because it changes your leverage with the actual steering
mechanism. You absolutely fucking nailed it. When you rest your, your, when you have a circle and
you rest your hand, it droops with gravity naturally, right? With a circle, it droops in a way
that we're like used to. Well, it's uniform. It's uniform. With the top of this, which is almost
flat, it's like having your hand on a seesaw, right? Yeah. And it, and the leverage, it makes it,
and because this car has a very quick steering ratio, it makes it like dart around. I'm going to
push back on you. I'm going to sell you. I'm going to be PR for a second. This is actually an adjustable
steering ratio steering wheel, Matt Farah. So when your hands are at the nine and three position,
you have a lot of leverage, right? But when you put your hands at the 12 and six position,
suddenly it's a smaller steering wheel and it's a quick steering ratio. You're joking,
but that's literally what happens. You have actually, in a joke, in a bit, you have accurately
described. It's not even a negative truth. That's 100% what happens. If you start a turn
by bringing down the side of the wheel and then mid turn, you grab one of the flat
ends of the wheel, the rate at which you're adding angle to the turn or subtracting it changes.
Yes. And your effort has to go up. And that's what I hated about it because I would, I did,
I drove back from Hollywood today, took a lot of 90 degree turns. I would initiate the turn
with my right hand on three. Right. And it was easy, predictable, like every other car we drive.
And then I'd have to move my hand to the top. And all of a sudden, the effort of my shoulder had
to go up by like 100%. Like it's suddenly more difficult. It does not make anything easier
other than if you're going straight, you can rest your hand on it. Sure. But then what happens?
Okay. And you know what the worst part about this is, Klapman, and this photo shows it perfectly.
If you're not watching the video version of this podcast, that's okay because I'm going to describe
when you have a wheel, like, all right, when we went from circle wheels to the flat bottom
wheel for the first time, it was in a sports car. And it was to help you get in and out of the car,
sliding your legs underneath the steering wheel. Like that's kind of why we started that in the
first place. And then it got more like yokey, I guess, as we started to do this motorsport theater.
Ferrari started putting all the fucking knobs on the thing. Lamborghini did motorcycle blinkers.
It all was like motorsporty. I think the flat bottom came from motorsport also,
though, because like if you're hopping in a race car, swinging in quicker is easier.
Yeah. There's flat bottom like sparkle wheels and stuff, like those import tuner wheels from back
in the day. But like, if you look at this photo of the Lucid, the Gravity's interior,
not only is there like an acre of leg room underneath the wheel to get in and out,
if you look at the digital gauge cluster, this angle is an artificially low angle. In real life,
the entire wheel will be below the gauge. You see the whole screen above the wheel.
But the bottom half of that center screen has absolutely nothing on it. Right. So were the
wheel round, it would block the bottom like inch or two of the center of the screen,
which has absolutely zero information in this car that you need to see. Like not just like,
like never, like it doesn't show anything there. We should cut out, like get a pizza round or
something and just put it on the wheel. Yeah. And see what it would block. It doesn't block anything.
You can look it's there's so much. There's a lot of space between the top of the rim
and the speedometer, which is like the first thing you see. Yeah, look, look, I'm just going to
hear like all of this blank that stays blank. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The bottom half of the gauge
pod, the gauge screen. Yeah. You know, when you're when you're driving is empty. So like it's on the
one hand, like we're spending 10 minutes talking about this. On the other hand, it's such a
catastrophically bad decision that it waterfalls into other things where it's like, it's like one
thing. It's like, if when you're interviewing people to watch your kids, you know what I mean?
Like, you know, you look for red flags and it's like us, you know, if there's a one inch on their
forearm, like very small, very small tattoo, but you go, you know, honey, is that a black square?
What's that covering? You know, is that a swastika? You know, and it's like, well, it's just a,
it's just one red flag, but it's, it's such a fucking egregious red flag that it, it, it just,
it just red cards the fucking whole game. I mean, I would say that
more people, I'd hope, would not hire that babysitter. But obviously there's a lot of car
companies that have some sort of yoke thing. People in the comments said that the Ford Expedition
and Navigator has the same steering wheel, which we haven't driven, but that's crazy.
That's extremely powerful. That supplier has compromised. Like he's, they work from a sod
or something like that because they sold a lot of them. What we don't know is this is in like the
Xiaomi, you know, this is like how they're, they're going to sneak Chinese cars in one part of the
time. They're just going to merge it with a loose end. And then you have a shop that will
disassemble 10 cars. Yeah, like the next gen losing is going to have the same like seats and door
cards. It's like this is going to slowly, slowly be a BYD. It's just a weird, it's just, it makes
operating it in the city and on the highway very strange. Yes. And it's such a pronounced
squish. I mean, it is really a narrow oval for people who are listening. Just deflate a basketball
like 50% and just go. And that's what you got. Turn a milk, turn a gallon of water on its side,
and that's the shape of the wheel. The shape and size basically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let's,
let's move on from the wheel. Sure. But it does, it just, it bleeds into everything. Like that's
important. I tell it all the time. I impulse sold a fabulous car. My Audi S4 at the first
sight of a Hummer H1. I love the car, but it had the stupid four spoke steering wheel.
Steering wheels are important. I need, if I had the three spoke steering wheel, I'd probably still
be driving that car today. No, you wouldn't, but that is funny. But I would have not bought a
Hummer. So but right above the steering wheel, well, let's do pros first. Let's do good things.
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well look 800 horsepower 900 pounds of torque a nearly 400 mile range
tons of leg room great grizzability I like the interior materials I've always like that with
a lovely place to be it's like a rounder Volvo inside there's a lot of like fabric and leather
and you know just enough shiny stuff but not too much the computer the response from the
touch screens is good yep I only had okay I had I had a couple of hiccups but they were the same
thing that happened over basically all the hiccups I had with software the proximity key I had no
issues at all yeah proximity key issue seems to be fixed the issues were cameras either they
didn't turn on when they should have such as when I put the car in reverse or they didn't turn off
when they should have such as exceeding 15 miles an hour okay which is you because you can actually
set when you want to turn them off like friend like there's a setting for if you're maneuvering
and the cameras come on the 360 camera whatnot or the rear cameras at what speed does it turn off
once you go forward and you can set it to like 5 10 15 so even if you had it set to 50 like it
stayed on until I went like 22 you know or something and I had to like X out of it that was the that's
like pretty minor stuff I had no other software hiccups besides that I didn't have any and I didn't
have the camera problem and I the side the blind spot cameras were really helpful for me right now
because I can't turn very quickly so and I know Hyundai's have them and whatnot but like the
response was good they came on I thought the angle of them was pretty good I like the greenhouse
but the glass roof gets hot like real real hot and I don't think wherever they have the
sensor in the cabin that determines what your automatic climate control is does not accurately
reflect the temperature that the driver feels no because it dude I if you put your hand above
your head it gets hotter significantly with each foot it's like it's like climbing a mountain
so if the temp sensor is down like at your knee yeah it doesn't know that up top is a greenhouse
like when I like the tycon is always just set 71 auto like that and look if other cars are a degree
like the Ford the Mach-E when we had it it was usually set 72 auto like you know whatever it
was like a degree or here or the other way fine this thing when I drove it around we had it at
like 66 auto most of the time just because of how that's where you had to get it to like blow enough
air to offset the fucking heat on my dome yeah yeah so I don't know if you can get it without a
glass roof or if not you'd have to like tinted tinted ppf it you know or UV UV tinted or whatever
because it got toast it might have UV I hope it has UV tint from the factory but I would want more
yeah basically I mean I like the you know the Model X did it first where the windshield goes up and
it's that sort of seamless it doesn't go as far as the Model X it stops sort of at 90 above your
head or maybe just behind your head it's a cool vibe like it's nice but it's a cool vibe and I
think it's it probably attracted buyers and it looks cool and it was a brand new idea but I think
I'm over it like the show of it is I am I'm like the light is it brings in a lot of light makes
it makes big cars that have high sills feel more airy and more visible you know
like older cars did for us before the pillars got really big but I'm just kind of over like
especially when they have the flip down visor you're like all right yeah that'll work if the sun's
in a certain spot but if the sun is above that spot it's still hitting the roof it's still warming
the car yeah I think you just lose a lot of function yeah dynamically I thought it was pretty good
I I thought the you know the power was excellent I thought the ride was great although I was okay
it was well you're right I don't think it was great it what it's not as refined as my Tycon with
air suspension in the city yeah it kind of not porpoises like it's a heavy car yeah so it needs
a lot of spring and whatnot but your car which I drove five days ago yeah like you go over small
rollers and bumps in the city and the wheels you feel the wheels moving around you but the car
doesn't move as much and this was like you didn't hear it but the whole nose would lift and fall
it was kind of like being in a boat with like very mild chop I think and I tried low high low
standard and high to see if that affected the suspension yeah yeah I think I drove it up the
mountain and I think in on a canyon road it it handles those type of bumps nicely I think it
doesn't do the 405 great the the expansion joints and concrete and it doesn't do the hard edges in
the city great it does not like the the the air was like wow they've done a lot here this one
is more of a just conventional SUVs ride like it wasn't it was okay but it wasn't
like special yes I agree and I think that for me there's so much of the car that feels special
that I was expecting it to ride like a Range Rover and so because of the way it looks on the
outside and the inside and the features and the price and the power and I was like all right this
I expect this to have mag ride level and I was just like okay I mean it's it's quite enough and
we're nitpicking for sure but it just wasn't as good as bad but but but it lacks either the ultra
luxury of an air suspension yeah or the you know the precision control of a magnetic shock right
I mean it well it has triple the triple chamber air suspension which that's the same as kind and
stuff this does this I mean I am truly shocked doesn't feel like it it just just feels like a
little it feels a little too stiff to me it feels conventional it doesn't that doesn't feel like
air suspension well yeah but then when you hit like especially when you hit that you know
change the height like it has to have adjustable height somehow so air suspensions the cheapest
way to do that true huh yeah I guess I'm a dummy but it doesn't really feel it doesn't ride like it
it's just it just move the whole body moves a little more than I was expecting because the
thing feels like such a luxury product now and I know that dynamically it's good you said so
jack from savage yeast like drifted it on the track and it was like this is the best handling
SUV out there so like this thing can slay corners and so that's what the engineers and the product
designer decided they want for me I'm just not as into that and I was expecting something just
like a little cushier but it yeah I think it's got this the really cool torque vectoring in order
to do that it's yeah the radar cruise controls awesome sorry that's you know like I thought the
tech worked great um oh the only other complaint was that the dash the wraparound dash which is
very much like the Porsche Taycans it had this like rainbow shimmer at least at my height so I'm
driving north on the 110 and I just kept seeing like this little orange reflection and I'd move my
head and it would move with me and it's like they didn't get the same anti reflection coating that
the Porsche got so how interesting yeah it was weird the Porsche screen isn't as great if you're
gonna if you're gonna get rid of that binocle that one's that's the least reflective one I've seen
yeah oh it's still so weird it out that that's air suspension and I didn't know what a dummy
um it just doesn't ride like it but it rides better than a rivian I mean it does that it I
think it rides much better than r1 s than an s yeah not than a t probably not than a t the t is
really good yeah huh all right well um it's it it's a really nice thing
but that's the steering wheel just crushes me it just can't I can't do it they gotta get rid of
that yeah and I if you get the as far as a dream edition I didn't look at the no this is just a
grand touring all right so they I mean they started like 70 to 80 and top spec is 140 um
I mean I don't know nice comfortable good seats all that stuff feels feels like a high quality thing
approximately working a lot better yeah yeah yeah if you want if you need tall people to fit behind
tall people sure it's good for that yeah and like it's it is really it was really efficient
like it I drove it a good amount um and it did not uh significantly uh go through the battery it was
really nice I mean and the the the it's weird because I I preach about not getting a bigger
battery than you need or whatever um but you know when you drive something that says you know
390 to empty you're like wow that's that's that does feel nice it feels nice to be able to sure
caveman like a number caveman like caveman like big number yeah they also very efficient tech
which is very impressive and that's I mean I like lucid I want them to survive and figure out
figure out all their stuff um I think they've just had a lot of headaches and a lot of they have a
lot of uphill battles you know with their various lemonings and yeah very public lemon laing but
this one did work properly for the most part which was which was good yeah um there was there was
a there was really a lot to like about it um the the ride just didn't do it for me I thought it
would be because the air rides so good right in other cars yeah and again like they've got
when we drove the early ones it was like I think I was paying more attention to dynamic
performance because that's what they were kind of selling us like super sedan and they did that
really well the way the cars handled the way that you know the the motors moved the power around the
steering was really good and that was back when they had fixed suspension so I was really impressive
and now like all right they can do that so can they do the electronics these are better than the
last car we drove that's good um oh lucid though you're gonna get a bill for the express lane
because it put me on to like hov express stuff and I didn't have oh the native gps
did and I didn't have it selected I didn't say select for this um and so I just followed what
it was saying all of a sudden I'm not supposed to be here so wow wow um where'd you go 105 to
six oh just the yeah yeah just that oh but it was like here take this exit I went I think it's off
to the right but all right and then I saw what was happening yeah yeah center uh thank you lucid
for letting us uh have a go in that one long last it was nice uh nice to try it yeah good one
I spent uh oh and before I get to the next thing uh if you bought a uh notice canyon
berry edition shipping this week watches are assembled sick and going out nice uh so there was uh
what 22 and a half weeks three weeks between that's pretty quick ordering and
shipping that's that's about as as long as we ever want to do it so that's good so new watches
coming out next year but thank you to everybody who got um a berry canyon uh you're gonna really like
your watch tag me in your photos on instagram when you go uh also in other uh fun colored news
did you see in the asset drop I gave you my Vespa Nuevo has landed did you see it there it is
this is it dude they so I thought we were looking at colors remember and they have the
matte green and the and the matte blue yeah well I go up there they go the green and the blue are at
Vespa of Los Angeles up there in Sherman Oaks and I go well let me stop in on the way back from
Santa Barbara with Hannah and look at the colors and I go there I get there and this fucking thing
is there I go what is that and he goes it's the blue I go no I was thinking about this blue here
and he goes oh you want that one I go fuck no yeah this is really listening it's like this is a
shiny blue electric code yeah blue sky blue yeah great yeah it's awesome electric blue
with black accents and the the center thing in the front of the fender is uh fake carbon fiber
I'm sorry to say it's not real carbon it's like a trunk it looks like an elephant trunk but uh
black hardware black mirrors black gay headlights around it has the upgraded quilted leather seat
and the little very excited cool man yeah way better than the mat the matte green behind it
that's yeah the matte green was no was not good in person I mean it's not horrible but it's not
for me it no it's it's like phoenix yellow e46 green yeah yeah so I I was extremely stoked on
this color I think it's great and we're just waiting they they don't always come with the top
cases I need the top case so there was like a there's like two weeks to get that so I said
do you mind holding on to it and I'll come back and get it when the case comes in so sweet but
that's it I send the wire I own it it's uh it's mine fantastic brand new three miles on the odometer
you've been scooter free now for a few months and I miss I must we must have scooter right
now full disclosure I did not ask for nor did I trade for when offered a discount I was offered a
discount straight up no strings no nothing and I took I did I took it uh I don't know what to say
besides that there's a disclaimer but I'm not reviewing this product this is my I was never
reviewing the original one I'm not reviewing this one you know you're not reviewing it you're
speaking about your ownership and your time with it they did offer me a discount yeah and so I I
took a little discount um still not cheap that's fine but you know fucking I'll probably have this
thing for 20 years um because that'll be it'll be that long before they invent an all-new engine
um but I'm fucking super stuff nice Vespa summer electric what's the the closest Porsche blue
dolphin is either no no dolphins dolphins somewhere between Miami blue um Mexico blue yeah
it's closer to that Mexico blue uh Porsche color a little I think it's a little
darker than Mexico but it's but it's uh real close yeah sky blue it's great bright ass sky blue
with a little bit of a a little bit of a black and red uh stripe on the front fender yeah
I think it's great good yeah this will be fun it's keyless start it's got uh you
know fucking it's fully keyless all like all the goodies I'm very excited they don't really have
other than the colors they don't really do uh have options though they have aftermarket exhaust
I was like no it's it's not for me but they have some cool like um art bikes and stuff up there at
and they will do at Venice of LA Vespa of LA excuse me um and he told me they will fully do
uh paint to sample wow so it's it's like 2000 to 4000 depending on how crazy you want to go
and he had one up there that was like candy apple hot rod red um which that was very
sparkly and cool um but I think I mean you know you're not going to see another one that's this
color around very often so I think it's a good blue I'm comfortable it's a really friendly blue
it is very friendly yeah it's a it's it reminds me of like the French Riviera yeah or something like
that yeah great times um so that's fun dude so uh should we talk about this thing yeah I spent the
morning in the sp 40 uh Resto Mod Roadster and calling they call it a Resto Mod honestly because
I think a mistake in branding and English being their second language to be honest with you because
these are Argentinian guys they're sort of uh uh they're lovely folks um and they they they in
their their business before was building recreation and pre-war stuff like alpha eight C's and
they do a Mercedes SSK and they did one of the original they're a replica of the thing that
inspired this car which was that Edzel um special um but this is neither restored nor modified this
is a whole new thing yeah yeah no this is an entirely new car so it's a it's a it is a tube
space frame it's a carbon body it's an independent rear suspension it's a it's a coyote engine a
Ford coyote engine it's a a Tremac T5 gearbox and an independent rear suspension um it is an open
wheel I mean not technically open wheel it's because it's got wheel covers of sorts but it's a
exposed wheel um what do you call that would you call it open wheel I wouldn't call it open
wheel that's because it does have wheel covers so I think that's not technically open wheel but
like a Plymouth prowler or a hot rod the wheels are outside the body of the car but they have their
own color fenders on them right um they say it's 2600 pounds honestly I don't know it's
fucking fast I mean this is it's it's fast whatever it doesn't matter whatever the acceleration
is it like this is irrelevant as shit um it's not carbon bodied because carbon is it's not
because it's supposed to be as light as human it's not a catering although they do care about
dynamics it's because the original Edsel Roadster Edsel Edsel Ford went to Europe in the 1930s saw
like an early Grand Prix um and saw these sort of monoposto type uh pre-war European sports racing
cars and they didn't have anything like that back in America he came back to America and had
Ford's airplane people build him this Roadster thing and they used aluminum which was the
advanced you know material at the time so these Argentinians are trying to update it so they go
yeah we're going to do carbon because that's this is the advanced material I think they want it to
be light but I don't think they really give a shit if it's a few pounds either way um I don't
think that was the point I happen to think it looks cool as fuck uh people in the comments were
sort of divided about it and I think when we talk about it like I want to talk about it like
as an experience and a car sort of separate from the price for a minute because when I sit when
you say the price is $500,000 people just have a knee jerk reaction because a like nobody can
afford that and b you know it doesn't necessarily look it doesn't look like something right away
that should be that much money and I'm not trying to I'm not going to now go into 20 minutes on
defending the price I'm just saying like just separate for a second into like forget the money
forget like they want to sell you one of these it's just like is this fucking dope and does it work
and those type of things let's let's go through those first like so like I think dopeness a plus
um wait let's back up we'll back we'll back up does it work uh for the most part yes uh you
know it's a pretty straightforward powertrain it's a five-speed uh Tremac it has pretty nice long gears
but it has so much power and torque you genuinely would not need a sixth gear the reason it has
five gears is because the the whole car is rather narrow as is the cockpit a five-speed
gearbox is much narrower so you have a lot more room for your right foot it's a it's really more
of a space issue and they said also they built one with a six-speed and it was a lot of shifting
and it wasn't really necessary and actually I having now driven it I completely agree with
their decision five is more than enough um you know and uh so it you know how morgan three-wheeler
like the one with the motorcycle engine not the super three like the older one
that it's like good because it's bad this is in that same type of thing like it it fucking
totally works like you know you turn it on it starts up it's a fucking Mustang engine no problem
you drive it around it's it's uh it's slightly unrefined in a couple of ways in the same way I
could say the chimera was slightly unrefined in a couple of ways but like overall pretty fucking
good can use it as a car okay does it it it drives like you think it's going to drive
it steers predictably it has a very nice ride on the on pch cruising I could do a couple hundred
miles in this thing but for the leg room probably wouldn't I my legs would get a little cramped up
because I can't you can't straighten them out the pedals are floor hinged all right like race car
style pedals in my opinion if they had a top hinged pedal like a normal car not like a race car
it would a be probably more period correct and period looking and b you could tuck your feet
under the clutch pedal you know and stretch your legs out a little bit
while you were cruising which you can't do with a floor hinge pedal just my opinion
but they're like race car pedals basically you know powers electric power steering it's not
the most communicative as you can imagine the steering shaft is quite long but it's it's direct
and and this is a car that is what I would call a it's like a cruiser plus like I pretty much
would put it in the same category of driving as I put in a in a replica cobra which is like
you're not going you're not taking them on the track day like you're going to hit the canyons
at seven tenths wind out the motor but you're not going to like super super push it and I think
they made it handle as good as something that's shaped like this will handle pretty much I mean
maybe if McLaren tried it or something but but they they did put ride over handling but the
handling is still good enough you can hustle it through a canyon as long as it's not like the
like the snake is like suboptimal but on you know we didn't have time but if we were taking it in
the angeles forest with the open sweepers it would be the absolute greatest like I drove it
up Canaan and across Ensignal and then back across Mulholland and so those roads it's a
little inside baseball folks sorry but those are the more open sweeper roads of Malibu
and on those roads where you're just like winding out sort of third and fourth gear
and sort of you know setting it you know you break it set it and then sort of feed throttle in as
you sort of bobsled through these corners it's a fucking good time you know you're leaning
a little bit out the body of the car on left hand turns you know you want to put on a fucking scarf
and you feel like Fongio or something you know it's it's it is enough of that theater with that
view and the open fenders and and and it's kind of like a Morgan Arrow you know yeah it's in the
the things that you touch are pretty modern simple but modern I mean the the all the knobs and
shit all the gauges are all made for them they make the steering wheel they make all the they only
use the only button behind the shifter they have one of the SEMA special ring it's a ring it's the
light you hate and I said I had to explain to them listen you want 500 for this car you need to get
rid of that and I said the Ford the Ford GT red start button the Ferrari you know big red start
button that's you know not that one but outside of that is the wood dash actual wood or is it
it is but it's not like structural no it's real wood okay it's real and I'm just looking at the
picture so no it is it's real it's real wood and you can choose your wood you can choose you know
they'll make it however you want any leather any wood they'll do this is bare carbon
the body but they'll do painted you know any color you want these seats I think are very cool
they're these they're buckets that look like the kind of buckets you'd find in sort of an old Ferrari
or an old Cobra but the backs hinge forward to like almost flat and then the space behind them
is the full boat tail is open so they make a set of luggage that Tetris is in there real nice or
you can throw your own stuff in there but it actually holds like a bunch of shit
it was it actually was was very easy to drive it does get hot sure um oh you mean because you're
supposed to the sun or because the trans tunnel well give us a a shot of the full car so yeah
so you know a couple things the side pipes not not such a bother but those um louvers the
I guess they're not punched because it's carbon but they look like punched louvers on the side of
the engine oh those vent heat from the engine that just goes directly into your face they are aimed
at your face they're aimed right in your face and so there is air conditioning and you can run you
crank the ac at the same time you're you're driving and that does help there's also pretty good
heat if you know if our cold mornings there is like a proper heater um they what else can I say
the wheels are the very art deco I like the design of the wheels they're cool they kind of look like
rally wheels the center cap though like this huge center cap is very cool and they say when
they're spent I couldn't see this but when they're spinning apparently those silver um I guess you
could call them spokes like the this the ring of silver squares around there those make it look
like a white wall tire kind of when there's when it's spinning oh okay I could see that it's got a
very small white wall tire it's fine uh but it has a great attitude a great stance a great sound
it's obviously like pretty loud but um for any real amount of time you might want to wear some
hearing protection to drive it because it's kind of loud but like it's it is in the same type of way
that a chimera is very unique this this is really different um it's not bad like uh it's not other
than not having a roof um or doors and you know being generally unsafe in a crash um outside of
that like it doesn't have a lot of bad behaviors um they said they were having an issue where it was uh
it was not missing but like it was it was not it was it didn't want to rev past like three
and they had to like look into what was happening I mean but it's it's a coyote engine like whatever's
happening it's like it's just it can be fixed um and and for the record uh I was warned that that
was happening by another journalist who drove it the other day they then said hey just so you know
this has been happening and I was like well let me try it and it didn't do it for me so what what
you need was a fucking farra love a little bit you see waiting for the proper driver and you
know at start at first I was like all right well I just keep the revs down and like you can loaf
this motherfucker around and it's still like pretty quick sure doesn't weigh anything and you know big
torque long gears like no problem whatever but after a while they're like okay just kick up the
revs and like it was fine so um is this the first prototype or the first public this is the second
prototype okay the first one they said this is the first the first one had a bunch of different
rear suspensions they tested had a bunch of different gearboxes they tested you know different
different this different that and said did they said didn't even have any body work on it this is um
this is the first one that's like road worthy for someone like you know me to have a go in
and they're letting people drive it and you know they're trying to sell 40 of them which is a you
know manageable number yeah they've apparently sold one according to them um but honestly like
there's a lot of good details the tail lights are these little dainty things but within that one
tail light is a blinker an actual tail light and a reverse light all of which are different colors
i'd expect so right which is like yellow but it's like a propeller of color it's kind of okay kind
of neat um there's just there's good little details there's bluetooth stereo you know it's
keyless keyless start it's kind of like a cool fob that's a mini version of the car like a little
not it's a probably matchbox car sized okay version of the car and it was a
i would say the steering precision wasn't amazing it was okay that was probably the most
compromised part of the experience and i didn't love the catch point of the clutch it was pretty high
like the top two inches of a 10 inch throw is where it caught oh yeah it almost felt like
there's a clutch slipping but the car only had a thousand miles on it so i doubt it was that i was
like if you can make somehow an adjustment so the clutch catch point is lower i don't know
whatever you could do or maybe nothing but that you know it's not a 10 tenths car no one's going
to fucking track day in this thing but as a as a five to seven and a half tenths cruise
this was the fucking titties this thing i mean the morgan that we drove around was the plus four
i think yeah that was so fun and the engine was fine it was like an inline six i think bmw engine
right um no the plus four was a four cylinder forward engine oh that's because of the four the
new one is the bmw engine but the old one the you drove was the last one okay yeah the engine that
was like totally was whatever literally forgettable yeah it was whatever because the rest of the car
it's the vibe it's the look of it the way it's styled i made you know me feel like i was from
like the 30s i think this looks gorgeous i think it's a really cool design so people obviously have
to be you know wanting to put on that style of shoe to go out yeah i mean that's who this is for
it's for people who have you know a lot of money and it's funny like you say that the steering
feedback's not great yeah the dynamics back then when they raced these cars oh these were first
developed probably not great oh we've evolved now to have mid-engine or you know the engines are
closer to the middle like that's that's all changed and improved so this is going back in time like
modern materials but classic shape classic proportions and so you just have to deal with
some of those compromises and for and for the record the steering isn't bad it's not like that
totem thing where there was no self-centering it has an okay weight you
know you can tell where the wheels are pointed it's not like totally vague it's just not super
precise but like look how fucking far it's got to go of course it's not super I mean it when I say
that given the shape of this thing where you're sitting just in front of the rear axle yeah the
steering axle is in front of the radiator yeah it is so far away your feet are like
not even a third of the way to the to the steering axle yeah the wheels are the front wheels are
effectively like bolted to the front bumper of a car yeah it's it's and it's already a long car so
it's as good as it's going to be given the circumstances it's it's pretty good yeah um
and it uh it's just a very like it's not it's not angry it's like it's it's loud
but it's not it's not a mean thing it's like it's very fun and and an approachable and friendly
people want to talk about it you don't seem like a dipshit when you drive it
I had a cop give me a fucking what's up on it today it's on a Montana tag you know so
how many originals were there is there one wow it's sold for 88 grand that seems very low this
I don't know when this auction was let me see that's that can't be right this has got to be a replica
you sure can't be right recreation you're right yeah got it um this company um
among the other things they recreate did do an accurate recreation of the original one
I don't know how much it costs but that's what inspired them to do this one which is a sort of
an all-new build I think it's extremely cool dude there's you know yeah it's super super expensive
and so that if you start thinking about what else you would use that money on
almost anything is going to be more practical than this but if you're at the income level where
that's not a thing you think about and you just go what is what is different and cool and you know
outrageous and we'll get those fucking car juices going in a way that nothing else does
this is unique yeah this seems like the thing for a a true car enthusiast who probably bought
you know a big Lambo when they were 26 yeah that's what you're you're in doing you want to be
loud you know literally figuratively everything and then 20 years later you go all right I want
something that still turns heads but it's a little like I've calmed down and matured and it's a
little classier and a little bit more subtle but then there's already sorry but there's also you
know them guys that take like you know their blower Bentley's and drive across you know a continent
this is the kind of car where you can do that you can be hardcore where you're exposed to the
elements and you don't have a roof and you know you've got that vibe but you don't have to know
how to fix a fucking blower Bentley in order to do it and you don't have to learn how to drive
a blower Bentley in order to do it or something of that era sure in order to do it and this holds
a bunch of your stuff you know if you want to go on vacation you can convince someone to go with you
it it and you're probably not going to get sort of poo pooed by the actual guys in the
blower Bentley's the way you would you know if you were driving a recreation of a pre-war sports
car oh right uh well interesting because this is sort of it is inspired by but it's not a recreation
yeah I mean it's they've they've definitely like looking at the original they've changed
some of the angles but it's very similar in design oh yeah it is similar but they've also
made it lower it's the top of the body is lower and the ride height is also lower it looks the
profile is awesome yeah it's bitchin it's super cool and I was saying I took these guys that shot
is at paramount ranch so I took the Argentinians there and I was telling you about the history of
the racetrack there they're pretty stoked on there they got a house in Malibu and they've
been like there for like three weeks you know driving the car in the hill he's always like
this is fucking great out here you because you're lucky I think it's really cool and I know that
people if you're mad about the price sure that's fine like they're they're selling so few of them
I'm happy this exists yeah I think it's cool that someone instead of building another uh
hypercar competitor or instead of grabbing more stuff from Radwood dude are in the fucking
964 back date right another one of those things they go let's like let's go way back further I
think that's really cool it's so cool like you know this company we we also we've worked with
Persang which is another company that does this those recreations and like it's a pretty dope thing
that the the craftsmen that are that have typically applied their talents to these recreations are like
well what if we took our aesthetic you know but but built something that's brand new
and you know I go out and drive it like you know fairly aggressively on in the canyons and it's
like not shitty like it's actually pretty nice take the knowledge from today and very fun
and it's like it's like motoring you know it's you're you're you're extremely involved in the
process yeah you know and that is like that's a thing I think people seek I think so because cars
remove us from the process more yeah yeah even though it's expensive and so few people can afford
it I think it's still a net positive to society to exist for sure it's fucking cool and like
this is the kind of thing where I think even if you can't afford one and will never afford one
if you saw one on the street you'd be stoked to see it you'd be stoked that someone else had it
and that it was out for you to see I am quite cranky about you know the state of income inequality
and blah blah blah I'm happy to see this well these guys were fucking cool and they're they're
leaving for Argentina and the car has to go in and get that issue sorted but they're coming back
later in the summer so you'll you'll get to have a go hopefully your back will be
up to it but like yeah if you got silly money fuck get one of these these this this is the
shit it's real I thought it was just just great I had such a good time I bet yeah um so we go to
the people all right I'm gonna refill my glass how do you like this shirt looks
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linen shirts and like you can't believe how much wind is going through them they're a little see
through but like it's all right I have to get some new linen shirts because most of my
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i finally we got the artwork back for the fucking poster and the event bright page so
i'm gonna post that very soon very cool by the time this show goes up to the public it will be the
event thing will be up so we'll have the tickets uh dude come hang in detroit fuck car week this year
let's go to detroit yeah let's fucking party burnouts um and we're working on a show that'll
be in la area uh august 18th so pencil it in and we're gonna have you have a date we that's probably
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guests hubby so let's fucking go uh rage against the ultimate driving machine nice a plus plus
that is what contractions are for uh i know it's been many moons since your bmw 2002 review
has your opinion of the little classic changed um no i don't really like bmw 2002s i think a 325 is
accomplishes exactly the same goal in my mental uh in my in my filing process of car experiences
just much fucking better i think they feel very different but i understand what i just package
them the same okay that's fine i think i think this i think the 02 is has more of the weird design
whimsy of like you know the sp 40 thing oh yeah like they look old they feel old yeah and then you
drive you know a 1993 25 and you're like this feels almost modern it's so good it's not modern but
it's not but i think can connect the dna very easily from the e 30 to the 46
but the 2002 i think feels totally different i that's fair i just was so offended at how poorly it
went up hills you know and i was like this this is not good this is this is garbage
you know it went it went up hills worse than like a 356 i've never driven a 356 a good 356
will fucking rip up a hill them shits is from austria well i've ripped i ripped sam smith's
rust bucket but good driver in the hills around tail of the dragon great and then i've driven alize
like built i know that's a that's a e 30 m3 with a 2002 body on top so i'm just saying i've had the
the diaspora and i like it she put her Volvo on my pole like a star very good are there features
that you can't believe are not solved problems yet for me it's either wind buffeting or air
suspension durability those are both pet peeves wind buffeting typically is related to a car
being super aerodynamic which is usually done with the windows closed and they give no fucking regard
to what happens if you want to drive with the windows open i think it's a solved problem
like they could fix it but they focus they don't give a fuck right because they're like
what do people do they roll the windows up they go on the highway yeah so how do we maximize
efficiency for that situation yeah there's often like if you have a car that wind buffets and you
there's an enthusiast club of that model you can often get some little bit that you glue
or like sure 3m tape to like somewhere on your side view mirror that will largely solve it yeah
the lucid's wind buffeting was fucked up oh i didn't try oh it was brutal so bad it was so bad
the taikans is bad too the lucid's is not lucid's not unique they're the taikans bad too
the best is like my my old shit dude the delica it's a brick no buffeting well because the wind
is being sent completely into other neighborhoods before it goes around there's no better car for
ripping heaters than the fucking delica it's perfect the airflow is so calm for having a
fucking heater while you're driving you don't even think you're moving yeah it's amazing um air
suspension i mean rubber durability has probably improved but i would say there's a great installation
at the peterson i don't know if it's still there that shows the different versions of tire and
wheel they made for the mars rover it's like here's what they went through they ended up with
like this metal mesh thing you know rubber can only be so durable you can only inflate it which
stretches it so many times before it's gonna break down or it's gonna cost 80 billion dollars to have
suspension that lasts forever i'm pretty sure pretty sure that there is preventative maintenance
you can do to an air suspension lotion it puts the lotion on it yeah put the lotion on its grommets
on its o-rings is that a triple chamber system get in the room uh there i'm there's gotta be
preventative maintenance you can do to an air suspension system that is so expensive the
fourth owners of these cars are just not doing it my my neighborhood is so clean
there's no like trash or anything around there the the the trash in my neighborhood
is land rovers and mursadies on blown out air suspensions like that's this that is the full
on all over the place early 2003 to 2008 land rovers and mursadies on blown out air suspension
everywhere so acuair air suspension i think we drove that was my first experience we worked
with them that's after markets years ago yeah but they have a blog that's like how do you maintain
airbag suspension and their thing is to clear out a tank that the condensation tank uh make sure
the lines are secure there's like a bunch of little things so i guess we don't really know why
the many cars in la are having failed you know they're they're they're all over a certain age
they are i'm wondering is the line breaking is the bag breaking but yeah there's a lot of them that
are just slammed yeah uh my leaky valve gasket says uh i see tycons all over where i live and in a
desire to be different i'm looking at Audi e-tron gts which are much rarer for a reason uh no kidding
is the difference in uh overall experience that much better in the Porsche um well no i mean not
as like a daily like in my opinion tycons feel like Porsches and e-trons feel like Audi's like
they they just feel different the Audi sits a little higher you don't sit down sunken into the
into the body the way you do in the tycon you just sit like an Audi the dashboard in and the way
the controls work is very much Audi um i happen to prefer i'm used to and prefer the way that Porsches
work to the way that Audi's work if i'm given a choice of do you want to operate a car the Porsche
away or the Audi way i'll take the Porsche away it's just me right do you i mean they're similar
dynamically they're not like they're they both have the double screen like they look very similar
and they operate very similar i like the Porsche design better i don't like all the angles on the
Audi's right now that's just me and um i don't know i was looking at consumer reports to see if
there was a like a reliability verdict but there's not so i'm not sure but they they look cool and
you don't see many of them around so you will be different i don't hate them i mean and when i
bought the tycon i was like shit if i really want to save money i'll get a fucking e-tron and
they're not worth anything on the second hand more seriously you want to deal a real deal yeah
go right past the Porsche dealer to the Audi dealer and get yourself a two-year-old e-tron GT
with 20,000 miles on it for like 50 grand for like for fucking half price or less less than half
price probably um they're they're good cars they're not bad cars um i thought that i would enjoy a
tycon and our audience would would because each when you're a content creator e-tron GTs are SEO
death nobody gives a fuck um yeah but that doesn't make them not cool cars they are cool the average
e-tron GT price for 2023 is 37 to 56 thousand dollars dude wild that's a 23 and my tycon's a 22
like dude them shits is cheap if you can get a cpo maybe you need one of those dude
if i get a cpo if you get a cpo four-year unlimited mile i do that if there's a warranty with it
on one of those that would be sick that that would be the deal of a lifetime imagine you can get one
of them in the 30s with a four-year warranty on it i'm reading their list i'm reading the list of
recalls right now just to see if there's any there are many there's 14 for that year um that's okay
i've probably done yeah i've probably had seven or eight for my car but they've all been software
they just update a loose retaining ring may allow air to escape compromising vehicle handling and
increasing the risk of a crash so that's like an expensive problem your air suspension nice
yeah there's some electric thing and some other things uh an air suspension strut failure may
cause loss of vehicle handling we'll just make sure they're done yeah it doesn't make it a terrible
car i'm just i'm just reading what's on consumer reports i'm just curious no yeah get them done
which i'm sure they have then maybe it'd be all right yeah i don't know that could be there could
be deals there's definitely deals i can call it dude we got i got people in outie stores all over
the place look you want a wuhan bat you know i can get you to
have a e-tron that'll be it'll look beautiful it'll be a little smelly but it'll be very cheap
world rally blue chuberoo says uh is there a good way to maximize the battery life
of quartz watches or do you need to just wear them do you leave them with the crown pulled out
i don't i just leave them i don't have one quartz watch battery last three years
years so if you want if you pull the crown out and stop the watch i don't write it is that what the
theory is it is i don't know never tried don't care three years is long enough yeah i'm okay with
three years i don't know i'm not trying to be a snot but i don't i don't have a whole bunch of
battery powered watches i have one how much is a watch battery i think all my watches are one
cheap watch cheap battery expect there's there's quartz paddocks there's quartz ap's yeah my my
watch had to go my watch had to go back to japan to get the battery change it was like three months
wow yeah gs gs uh compt it because i'm an ambassador now but it would have been 180 bucks
okay okay yeah but that's what you know that's a very accurate quartz movement so what are you
gonna do uh nefarious shaboying boing will catalac use a c8 chassis to make a new super car prime
time to bring back the catalax cn i dude pull up a catalax cn because nefarious shaboying boing
is very much not wrong here the proportions of the cn could be fitted over the c8 chassis
like pretty closely right like this is a fucking it's not far off i mean you would need much bigger
side scoops obviously um and i don't know if uh like if the front end would totally work in
production the way it is there but it you could make it look kind of like this like you wouldn't
have to go far off yeah they could figure it out i think i bet if the f1 program goes decent like
right now they're finishing like 20th 19th like if the cars don't break during the race that's great
and that's what they're figuring out i think if the program goes in a good direction they'll probably
have the justification to build a super car because they need the marketing f1 has
we've done this well and da da da and now you can drive it on the street but like it'll be a fucking
it'll be like a valhalla it won't be this a c8 catalac it'll be it'll be a
million dollars maybe because that would cost way more money but but they might do that because
they also have their whether lmp one like their imsa program is also doing great yeah so they have
they have racing pedigree like that some people care about but they need the racing pedigree
everyone cares about when that's f1 uh but i would love to see a catalac cn make it the catalac
has had in my opinion the best concept cars the last 30 years da da da that didn't make production
their lineup of abandoned amazing concept cars is absolutely unparalleled history of cars amazing
the dope shit that catalac absolutely refuses to build
v6 ways till sunday are t tops not possible because of regulations or are they just out of style
i think that yeah cars are structurally better now and you don't need the t bar anymore
oh i didn't think of that oh yeah i always thought it was just like a fun half measure
no them shits was mad flimsy so if they had made a camaro convertible back then
oh you wouldn't want to see that huh yeah i guess that was that was their way of getting as close
to convertible but maintaining the structure perhaps like you could take a
firebird coop and just cut the t top and it's like a little open air but they they don't have to you
know reengineer the structure right correct yeah like that theory um makes sense i mean i think
look it would i think it wouldn't be the one could whimsically you know if all of a sudden out of
nowhere gm which would be fun honestly it could be fun as hell you know how from
2010 till 2025 the camaro you know was the evolving modernized version of this 68 69 camaro
like what if out of nowhere they dropped the updated gen 2 right it would be sick right right
it could yeah it could look really sick yeah and if they had a t top people would not in their
fucking pants right they would they people go crazy yeah and they call the radwood addition
i think they're gonna skip that gen and i think there might be an updated version of the iraq
coming which is what i would do if i was gm let's see um but pts normal says uh do you think lucid
will survive uh sorry real quick i'm sorry i'm dropping a card on t tops but you're right uh
nitsa became a thing and it was they were safer than the convertibles so a lot of companies were
like oh our convertibles might be too dangerous and if nitsa tests them they'll discover how
dangerous they are so let's just keep the t top structures pretty much the same and we can just
sell it interesting and the card got saved all right continue no pts normal says well lucid survive
uh and uh i mean probably i think probably uh i'll try to look up there i don't know i mean i
just i i don't know their finances right um i i hope they put a round wheel back in that car
is all i really care about jedi master chronometer says what are each of your favorite batmobiles
tim burton era for me 1990 michael keaton oh i go uh the newest batman a tumbler no no
the one after that from the new batman i think it's called new batman right the one that spills
on like a charger and i mean i got to do an article about it but it's i like the tumbler
the most because it looks like it could actually do shit and then the charger looks like batman
could have actually built it instead of using like a defense company to build it so that's why
uh wheat city night court says uh is there a regulation about how much of the original car
in a restow mod must remain in these reimagining is there anything preventing a 1987 buick skylark
from being turned into a v12 hypercar are we testing regulators patience with these loopholes
that's a funny good question uh there are states that have literally no inspections of any kind
and uh they start with amin end in ontana and if you fucking you literally they don't have to
look like the as long as the title still goes to something somewhere like they're not looking
and so they'll just give you a plate and so it just it doesn't fucking matter like it's the
when it comes to restow modding old shit is the wild ass west out there dude
yeah i don't that's a good question though because you know people can get
the you know they'll find a 1920s or 30s ferrari like in the bottom of the ocean
they pull it out they cut the little vin thing off and then they rebuild it and they say it's
the original because it still has this panel right so if could you just take the skylark panel
make your catalax cn and go well it's a skylark but or are you transforming it into something new
so right now i own a 1971 volkswagen beetle do i good point yeah that's the better example
what's left of that like fucking nothing nothing left of it so like what's preventing me from
integrating that floor pan into a v12 you know glue it to the bottom of a carbon tub right you know
funny um uh the the hennessey venom gt that's a 2005 lotus elise on paper right you know like
you so it's it's if they're in look you can't let that you can't register in california
you know you can't register in a number of states that have vin verification requirements but like
there's plenty that don't and they'll happily give you a plate based on you know the existence of a
title that's really it so you know these are very small volume cars so yeah i believe
that mass market cars should be safe and clean you know and efficient and all that kind of stuff
but you're building 20 hyper cars i don't give two shits about this have at it guys like whatever
the fuck you want to build 20 psycho death mobiles that don't pass emissions like
i don't fucking care man you know we got bigger problems to solve that uh 50 rare shades of gray
very good um ford recently released a luxury trim for the bronco inching ever closer to
putting a lincoln badge on it and giving the g-wagon a run for its money not if they put an oval
steering wheel in there how well would a lincoln a fide bronco work out i i don't think it would
i just i don't that's i mean it wouldn't compete with the g-wagon they could say it is it won't
like they just because there's too much part sharing because the oval and companies like it
require that to to save and make money so there's just gonna be too much part sharing from cheaper
cars whereas Mercedes gets to pull parts from a higher tier of car you know we've talked about
before and you know they all like Porsche their most expensive Porsche will have some parts from
the cheapest Porsche but starts at $85,000 it doesn't start at $28,000
sure so um yeah lincoln's got got nothing rugged about it you know that's a street cruiser i don't
think they need a bronco i think lincoln and man lincoln could they could have been somebody
that's all i'm saying they could have fucking done it they could have done it but they they
who knows what the fuck i'd like to try one of the i see navigators around and i think they're
pretty good looking cars like i see do they do the navigator have a fucking football wheel too
according to one of our commenters yes but they also like i think the exterior design of their
cars are pretty good and distinct yeah the mid-sized suv looks good like the corsair or whatever
that is that looks pretty good uh tap that european adas twice good very good uh you talk about not
fill it fitting well in certain cars if you were three inches shorter and had size 10 medium feet
what cars would you bought a bike great question number one uh all the value for the money
guiardo lp 560 spider manual the best but i don't fit for shit great great value great time
fast as fuck makes a great sound uh can be had for relatively small money right now for a Lamborghini
and like yeah uh frary 355 um i don't know what would you buy if you had smaller well you don't
you don't have this problem things you know you don't have this problem yeah um
the things i don't fit in are because italians design them to fit very specifically shaped
five foot seven people like i can sit in the car and i go wow their arms must be six inches longer
than mine but they have no legs yeah i mean like all modern lamborghini's like hurricanes are i if
you'd have to be like 510 tops to really drive those cars vented or svj not that not that
that's what's keeping me from buying it right svj but uh a viper if you're shorter you can see out
of a viper yeah oh yeah because i'm even i'm too tall for that droop the droopy bonnet yeah you
gotta be short to drive a viper that's true go buy a c4 zr1 says uh the last five years of ferrari
models have been disappointing and now the luce takes it to the next level rumors of a manual
returning for a special model will it be a gated manual or some kind of digital model i heard they
were doing a small run of 12 c's in manual okay but a small run i wonder now i i wonder if our
patron is asking is it going to be a real manual or is it going to be a fake manual like an econic
seg that controls a different box that then shifts it's like this this transmission that's in the
12c right now it'll be a real man probably yeah probably real yeah they can buy them from some
supplier yeah and it would be i think they're the uh they don't need any more bad press so if they
did a fake manual people would be mad yeah herkimer battle jitney says what regular cars do you get
excited about when you see them in the wild um i'll tell you what uh lex's is 300 sport cross
yeah wagon those are a treat um i see a clean is 300 because i wanted to buy one that's a
like that a clean rsx type s is a lovely thing to see i saw a clean tsx today on gold which i
thought was cool uh i mean really any super clean you know fox body or or i rock or a dodge omni or
like low riders in the wild low ride when you see them on the highway especially after you know your
test drive like we know how bad they are yeah they're crazy that that's cool uh randy says you've
talked about how nobody wants to spend more than 150k for an e v with special advanced technology
making more interested like axial flux motors solid state or lithium batteries 48 volt architecture
etc no these cars drive the same yeah it's the driving experience that i think people cap at
150 there's it's not all electric motors when deployed underneath your foot feel the same
all of them yeah so if those new technologies made the cars feel distinct
then we can have that conversation but all the things they listed are what you'd see in a press
release that most shoppers don't care about yeah did 48 volt architecture help the cyber truck
not in a way most people cared about it not in the operation of it really yeah
and has 48 volt architecture led to tesla announcing the development of a new model s or x or
three or y featuring 48 volt architecture no it has not well that's there i don't think it
makes a difference i i i think that's i think customers cap the driving experience of any
e v no matter how fast at that um christian says i know you don't like car themed watches but would
you buy alpina wine yes i would alpina is the largest importer of wine in germany and i would
fucking buy all the wine from alpina that guy probably knows more about wine than they know
about fucking cars alpina watches are not related alpina cars andy bovenceepin wears an alpina
watch because he's cheeky like that and it's got his fucking company's name on it even if someone
else makes it but it's a different company alpina wine is the same company as alpina cars and that
motherfucker knows something about wine he's he's making cars for fun his wine is his job drink his
wine wow the pops and bangs bus pretty funny that's good oh wait oh wow that's another question about
the 150k e v sorry i thought i was deja fucking it's a question we've answered before so you
could probably do it quickly but okay what is the floor of wait okay 150k is the ceiling for e v's
but what is the floor that's worded weird what you mean is when the manufacturers say nobody wants
a bare-bones simple car with no options i think they are right what they want is like
a regular car that just costs what they can afford but because wages and all that like the
the problem isn't the price isn't the cars it's the wages but that that is getting the the venting
about the wages comes out in we can't afford the cars and they go well we're going to build you a
bare-bones car and they're going no you asshole you have to pay us more so we can just buy regular
cars right yeah good but you know the whole system keeps making products cheaper uh i don't think
people want a car with i think there are probably a lot of people that would buy a car that if it had
ac and auto windows and like because they said no options like sure that there's probably a good
population that would go fine this does all the things like that's why i think that's why
b y d and others are such a threat because they provide what people need simple transportation
that's comfortable and if they can do it for 12 grand instead of an entry price of 24 you know for a
toyota corolla then people would go over there i think what people want is a is a car that will
run for 150 000 miles with absolutely minimal maintenance yeah and and they see a car that's
very complex as a car that won't do that even if sometimes it kind of will you know they just
the perception is you know it's like where have there was someone wrote an article recently that
was like where have all the beaters gone and it's like that you know the the the 5000 dollar
indestructible honda civic really doesn't like exist so much anymore you know uh j cat says not
a watch person but discovered the jujaro design seiko's from the 80s do any of them stand out
it's exceptionally weird or interesting uh yeah jujaro did a collab with seiko did some watches
and and and uh the famous one is called the ripply because um ripply wears it in the movie alien
because they use it it's like a it looks futury and weirdo um i mean they are cool when i see
somebody wearing one i go oh yeah cool look at that but i'm not a seiko collector in that way
so i i would i've never wanted to own one but i know few people that have them and it's a treat
to see one out in the wild they are very funky yeah uh uli kunkles autobahn uh what car brands will
disappear from north america in three to five years predict deaths um
is alpha mayo still a brand in north america um good question let me look alpha
and is is christler i mean they have the the pacifica but i feel like the pacifica is going
to become either a dodged caravan or a ram of some kind because that's the only product they have
so like why keep christler going so according to good car bad car dot net Alfa Romeo usa sales
figures halted in march sorry that's i'm an idiot um they are still selling cars looking at this over
like in 2025 they might have sold 3000 that's not good that's down from
height like a peak in the 2019 looks like 14 000 which is still a low number that's still low but not
great not great okay um fiat i think i think christler they don't need to be here anymore
they make a van call the van by ram call people like that van it's a good car it's good at its job
it's the only product they sell yeah so who cares i i don't know why like take the money you spend
like making christler ads and then just save all of it and slide over into something else
what if it's because they have franchise agreements with christler stores and they have to
continue you know maybe those agreements run out in five years and they just they just drag this
motherfucker out until they can shut it down for less money maybe that it would cost them to
shut it down today or something like that there could be some businessy decision where they're
trying to like you know squeeze them out or something um but yeah they could just make
that a dodge caravan and then and and then they're you know that's that um
crx makina that's awesome uh what would you consider the features and aspects of a minimum
premium resto mod build things like switchgear ac comfort steering wheel etc the problem with
resto mods is it's very easy to come up with a list of things that the car should have and check
boxes it's actually the important bits are do those things work are they easy to use and intuitive
and how do the how do they feel to operate you know making a car go faster stop better turn
better all that shit is easy actually um making it not a shit box is really hard
you know making it not rattle and squeak and all that kind of stuff and then past that is the
making the things that you touch and look at be really really premium um and and not recognizable
as parts stuff from other cars so the best the very best ones make all their own switchgear
they make their own seats they make their own steering wheels they make their own buttons and
stuff and the sort of cheesy ones use um what we talk about the SEMA buttons and and just off the
shelf parts that are pretty easily identifiable um as as being you know generic fairly generic parts
so there's nothing uh uh wrong with building a car yourself with generic parts but if someone's
trying to build a resto mod and sell it for big money um and i can see that there's generic parts
in there it's it's no good um if three more do you want to do all three okay quadruple the o-face
as any have you driven anything quicker to rotate than the last generation m2 competition uh the
current generation m2 is the most tail happy car i've ever driven not the cs the regular one
uh the red mini cooper um the gildred racing yeah basically anything the shorter the wheelbase
usually the quicker to rotate with the right tire setup and stuff so the gildred car was terrifying
that felt like it wanted to spin all the time yeah that was the most maybe the 1m originally um
i'm looking panamera paper says i'm looking to buy my first set of wheels for a panamera turbo
sport teresmo what are your dos and don'ts for wheel selection uh my car is agate gray what color
might look best i mean so you know first thing is your your overall rotating rolling diameter
has to be the same that otherwise your car's gonna be all fucked up um i don't i mean if you have
panamera like you you i wouldn't get like big 20 twos or something like i'd go whatever the size of
the sportiest factory wheel is you know that's your biggest size um and i don't know what you're
replacing with you know if you've already got sport wheels or if you've got basic wheels or whatever
but you know you don't want the if you're if you're talking about getting hre's they're
fit your car properly but you you certainly don't want wheels they're gonna stick out
if if you have wheels that are like a chrome lip like i have on my tycon it could actually
make the rims look smaller than they are not bigger than they are um i don't love black
oh so much especially not on a gray car like i think you could go with a more aggressive
contrast bronze is good gold maybe uh white could look cool when they're clean really bright silver
something like that or you could get crazy colorful if you want to but yeah look at things like
you said like rotating size important offset because you might think a wheel is cool but if the
offset's wrong suddenly you're having rub when you you know hit a bump or it's gonna hit an inside
suspension component um and make sure it's from a company that is reputable like there are more
stories of people buying replicas from like alibaba or timu the wheels break a lot uh you
can't get warranty service obviously so just make sure they're from a good company pull up at
hre 521m it says like they're looking for let's see what those look like and we'll give them a go no
go on the 521m since you're since you're serious i think those look vaguely like uh an oem Porsche
911 wheel i don't really know how that can you scroll down on this page and see if there's images
of it on a car there usually are is there anything looks like a panamera there what kind of what we
have a cayenne okay there it is on a cayenne i think that looks pretty good it's a nice looking
wheel it's aggressive it's sporty it's very aggressive it's not a luxury wheel it looks
like a sports car wheel um but on a panamera wagon it could look cool let's see here what's that on
a panamera but it's a great no gti yeah so if you get it on agate great panamera
like it's a nice looking wheel it's not it's not bad it's probably not what i would put on a panamera
but it's not bad i'd put a more oh there it is on rs6 these these look more like what i'd put on a
sports car than what i'd put on a wagon i feel like they're trying really hard like on the big wagon
you know i agree i think the great i think when i think wagon i think monoblox something like that
like thicker spoke yeah because the car is big so i don't want like a little dainty spoked wheel i
want the proportions to be kind of right you know it's a in my head it's like a sturdy big car yeah
give me like a sturdy big spoke uh yeah these are a little sports car for my for my taste but but i
don't hate them um see i think the 527 i think is kind of interesting i don't necessarily think it
would work on a panamera but it was just the big spoke pull it up on a nine on the 9 11 there
i look on the 9 11 right here yeah on any of any of those 9 11's
that could work on a panamera actually it could it's not bad this is very similar to my nsx wheels
but the big thick spoke i like the big hard on a panamera yeah see okay you know food for thought
yeah was that it uh that was it i think right there's one more one more oh rick says i have a
2019 civic si and a 2013 lexus gs 350 considering call consolidating both into one um i drive 30
to 40 000 miles a year reliability is important and i'm looking for sub 40 000 bucks um i don't
care for manual unless it's a great one uh auto is fine okay 30 to 40 000 miles a year that's a lot of
miles uh how do you beat a fucking and a naturally aspirated honda civic si for that and a gs 350
like i was going to say you go gs 350 f sport but it's going to be almost the same car um
can you if you can you get an es 350 f sport i mean it's it handles okay it
handles nice i shit that's a tough one because when you talk so many fucking miles that's hard
because you're this is a good amount of money i mean 40 grand will get you like so many types of
car but 40 000 miles a year yeah i'm like i'm not going to push you into a turbocharged bmw or
turbocharged mercedes so i think you 40 grand you could just well you also didn't provide like
it seems like you need a car with four doors so you don't need a really fast thing and you don't
need an suv um what's the coolest reliable brand new prius no you'd hate you'd hate us for that
the new wasn't the new accurate um what do we drive not the one you could you could go ahead no
you could do new integra yeah two year old integra type s if that is that price yes if it's
not like a brand new civic si is probably what you actually want for like 34 000 bucks
shit you could probably get a elantra n either manual or a dc t that's true
yeah it's a dc t i think it's dc t that's a good car elantra n could do it and it should be cheaper
than you have so you'll have money to repair it well they have a 10 year warranty oh yeah all right
that's 10 years 100 000 mile warranty two and a half year warranty well 10 years 40 40 000 miles a
year that's two and a half year warranty man did you see it don't they offer unlimited no that was
kia kia you could just change out engines every week you could you save the money yeah you know you
34 grand or whatever you save the money you get the extended warranty when your warranty runs all
right on the cars and bids a two year old integra type s went for bid to 44 grand so there's
a little too expensive yeah elantra n though elantra n yeah is where you're at that's all day
thanks everybody fun one happy uh thursday enjoy the uh i guess we're recording this on
thursday you're gonna hear it a week later on thursday so slight delay of game i hope this
doesn't sound like old news for the rest of y'all but um we love you and we'll see you next time bye
About this episode
Zach and Matt kick off with two very different targets: the “800 plus horsepower electric minivan” Lucid Gravity and the SP40 Speedster—“a not Resto mod, but totally new, old, cool thing from Argentina.” Lucid’s comfort tech gets credit for easing back pain, but the hosts nitpick heat settings, camera behavior, and an instrument-cluster layout that wastes screen space. They also dive into steering feel, air-suspension expectations, and EV/enthusiast-car buying logic—plus a deep detour into restomod identity and how to keep classics street-legal.
Matt Farah and Zack Klapman review the 2026 Lucid Gravity. Is it a minivan or an SUV? Pros and cons abound. Matt tells the tale of driving the SP40 Restomod, a carbon fiber Mustang-powered creation from Argentina. Patreon questions include:
Will Cadillac build a supercar?
Has Matt softened on BMW 2002s?
Any "Why haven't they solved this?" features?
Am I a snob for preferring the Audi E-Tron GT?
Will t-tops come back or are they too dangerous?
Our favorite batmobiles
Could Lincoln make a fancy Bronco to compete with the G-Wagen?
Ferrari's future manual
Why special EV technology won't the prices more attractive
North American brands that will disappear
How to buy wheels
And more!
Recorded Friday, June 4, 2026
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