The Audi A2 is a small car made by Audi that was produced in the early 2000s. It's known for being lightweight and having a clever design that maximizes space inside.
The Tesla Model S is an electric car that started being sold in 2012. It's known for being fast and having a long battery life, which means you can drive it for a long time before needing to recharge.
The Tesla Model X is an electric SUV that started being sold in 2016. It has unique doors that open upwards and is designed for families with lots of space inside.
The Econoline is a type of van made by Ford that was commonly used for work. It's known for being tough and able to carry a lot of stuff, but they don't make them anymore.
The Rivian R1S is an electric SUV made by Rivian, a company that focuses on vehicles for outdoor activities. It has a lot of space and modern technology, making it great for adventures.
The Toyota Prius is a car that uses both gasoline and electricity to run, making it more fuel-efficient and better for the environment. The 2003 version was important because it helped many people start using hybrid cars.
The Porsche Boxster is a two-seat convertible sports car that is fun to drive. It's known for its good handling and performance, and many people love it for the open-air experience it offers.
A plug-in hybrid is a type of car that can use both electricity and gasoline. You can charge it like an electric car, but it also has a regular engine that uses gas when needed.
The Porsche 718 is a type of sports car made by Porsche. It has a mid-engine layout, which means the engine is located in the middle of the car for better balance and handling.
A flat-six engine is a kind of engine where the six cylinders lie flat instead of standing up. This helps the car handle better because it makes the car more balanced.
Naturally aspirated means that the engine gets air from the atmosphere without any extra help from devices like turbochargers. This can make the engine feel more responsive when you press the gas pedal.
The Lexus LFA is a very special sports car made by Lexus. It has a powerful engine and is known for being fun to drive and looking great. Only a few were made, making it quite rare.
A halo car is a really impressive car that a company makes to show off how good they are. It's meant to attract people to the brand and make them interested in other cars they sell.
The hyper screen is a big, curved screen in some cars that combines different displays into one. It makes it easier to control things like navigation and music all in one place.
The EQS is a luxury electric car from Mercedes-Benz. It's designed to be very high-tech and environmentally friendly, showcasing the future of electric vehicles.
Torque is a measure of how strong an engine is when it comes to moving the car. More torque means the car can accelerate faster, especially from a stop.
Heated seats are special seats in cars that can warm up to keep you comfortable when it's cold outside. You can usually change how warm they get with a button.
The Mercedes-Benz 124 is a model from the E-Class series of cars made by Mercedes-Benz. It's known for being well-built and comfortable, and it was made in different styles like sedans and coupes.
all this stuff yeah you think style is equivalent no reliability the super looks better the super
is more reliable the the 2jz is not only more reliable but more tunable that three liters not
bad yeah okay fine the questions are brought to you by nick and his electric charger shirt
nick you want to tell us straight i was told this was a gas one i asked specifically i think what
she said was which do you want to be and then she just agreed with whatever i said next but yes
this is a gas powered one oh man i hope you want a couple i if you say that shirt in 20 years people
be like i can't believe there was ever a shirt for this car that's a good point this terrible car
that we all want to forget a Mustang hat like they had lots of good swag by the way the matter
they just invited me by the way to the press launch for it um i'm not going to go because it is in
vermont what you hamptons right there it's much more of a new hamster car for sure anyway it's in
vermont i'm not gone but you should go noted uh or you you ever want to go to a press launch in
vermont i think i'm busy that day it's good they're going to do it in the snow oh in the snow they're
out some sort of snow thing for the 550 for the four door ones the 550 horsepower and the 420
horsepower dodge invite me i'll be there that looks like it's going to be a lot of fun unfortunately
it's nine planes to get to burlington so i won't be going uh okay questions first question comes from
final oh by the way the questions this week were not good they were not good shame if you want to
ask us questions go to the community tab we will post a post asking us to ask asking for questions
folks think of your best stuff nicks gonna be back on the pod next week crazy nick ask your crazy
questions i want i want to answer the best and brightest and most special question there are
371 questions i went through literally all of them and they were not as good as previous uh weeks
nonetheless there are i found nine or so good ones all right from final funky pants who handled a
nostalgic nameplace worse gm with the blazer or honda with the prelude i'm going to answer this
and i'll take then you guys can the honda prelude is one of the most the worst abominations in the
history of the automobile it's it was absolutely horribly redone this ridiculous car uh underpowered
overpriced not going to sell the answer is the blazer they're not about it if we can only pick
between those two but what else would be a you give me the fourth thunderbird no but the boomer
the boomer thunderbird and to pull up those port holes the boomer thunderbird i mean
that's what the boomers wanted dude i posted my video review kind of knocking it and the
comments were like you don't understand this car they gave people what they wanted did they
is that what we wanted like 200 horsepower v8 it was 300 and that's what the boomers who bought
the car water were you going to spend 56 on a two-door lincoln base okay there's a lot of
examples i mean it's not just that like hit us with some more i think those are probably the two
words look at these windows the port hole windows that is a clean car this was a complete commercial
failure they could not give them away 10 grand on the secondary market they're not really valuable
you know i actually i actually enjoyed driving it it's a pretty comfortable like you know kind of
cruiser type car which i think is what it's it's honestly aged well where now it looks like
like a concept car that escaped the museum till you look at the inside of the interior has some
bright spots yeah in the dark um but what is worse play i think blazer is the worst of all time for
sure the prelude at by the end of the run in 2002 with a dated product too like the nameplay had
kind of lost people don't talk about the fact that that fifth gen prelude had was not really
particularly beloved even then now over the years we look back with rose colored glasses and has
become beloved but like i was there and i remember people complaining even then that it was front
wheel drive and underpowered yeah because it was now these days i think it's a pretty cool car it
in that one it is incredible this the jdm wasn't good uh soft it's incredibly cool but i think the
nameplate didn't have that much value at a certain point the blazer nameplate though especially when
ronko and wrangler and forerunner are here selling hundreds of thousands of units a year
and gm looked at that and they're like let's do a unibody crossover that only sells to rental
fleets it is one of the most laughable mismanagements in the entire history of laughable mismanage
this was the direct predecessor yeah but that that happens like like the fourth gen camaro
wasn't amazing and then the fifth gen came out and it was incredible like that happens nameplate's
the mustang in o4 the new edge had kind of we were kind of wondering if the mustang was gonna
die completely and then o5 shows up one of the great redesigns in car history like they could
have done that with the blazer too also this one looks kind of cool oh yeah the z art this the
zero two is a lot cooler than any of the trash they're making now i give the blazer some benefit
of the doubt that i just think that they do you know what we're gonna build that car anyways and
then they just slap the wrong name on it like that's what they screwed up is that the blazer
should have been an off-road car they could have still made what is the blazer and just
named it like some forgettable midsize suv whatever yeah like it's just the nameplate gm is so
afraid of making off-road cars they're like honda except except the problem is their core products
also are bad but like the trail boss like they won't they won't just go and make a raptor or
make a raptor r or whatever like that or this the blazer like the market is so clearly demanding
these vehicles and they won't go do it yeah is i also find it weird that zr one is a corvette and
zr two zr five here's a very interesting trivia do you remember what zr five was no zr five was a
was a slightly off-road trim level of the last generation chevy s10 with four doors type in
bet we've sold one i bet we've sold one type in zr five and see if it pops up
nope oh i want to shame i saw one on the road the other day nope type in s10 zr five you remember
the s-dime dude yeah oh yeah that was it uh it looked nice they did you ever cool that yeah the zr
five yep you're thinking where's the zr three and zr four no i think any such thing what was the
the zx five was the focus five door and zx three yeah uh okay you got you don't have a nostalgic
nameplate worse handled than blazer you're over here talking but i don't hear you with one i'd have
to do a little more deep research but the 500 was handled beautifully the fiat 500 yeah i'm not saying
that as the owner of one i'm like truly that was like a successful rebrand the bronco really
successful yeah a lot of a lot of times they've done it well not that one not the blazer the
challenger pretty good i don't think relative to the blazer i don't even pose that bad uh okay next
question from t barrett if you had all the money in the world which automaker would you pay to do
a special one-off car and what car would it be lemo oh lamborghini lmo to finally make me one i
want a limited production i want it with a v12 like like kind of like that with that veiron which
i think is the obvious answer here give me a lemo lmo to revival that wouldn't break down every 20
miles lmo would you accept an oris with the like a santa cruz oris uh if done extremely well they
could reuse some oris parts sure i wouldn't i wouldn't prefer not like let's go off-roading we got all
the money in the world all of it we want a lemo yeah and i wanted to look like the original
lemo just modernized like just yeah modernized tweak a little here give me like a decent interior
yeah and powertrain stick three-pet oh you're not a three-pet no but hey hey hey
you got any on off-road vehicles generally speaking automatics are preferable
and on your sports cars so anyway uh the only the only manual you have is a diesel
and it's first hatchback that's and you're getting rid of it because you want out yep he doesn't
know how to drive it for me and probably lmo to be behind the list i would definitely want a
modernized f40 i think be really cool yeah uh with a manual the louis at the end ever end up
there was talk about that but then he raced poorly i guess i didn't really know he's dating kim
kardash you know like there's nuts not happening yeah so he's a busy man got nothing you got nothing
nothing great how my brain works so some kind of a car that should be a manual that isn't a manual
make that manual wagon make that a manual wagon oh yeah shooting brake recommissions a c8 e-ray
manual wagon yeah i mean a long roof version of the c8 would be really cool or a caiman i
remember when they offered that when they were going to offer that like yeah cut make your own
program i had like talked about that nobody did anything um those are all possibilities
the lmoo is a good one lmoo is a good one the veyron from last week's pot is kind of the
i don't know i think that's probably the correct answer to the question can i propose a better
little thing to you it's you know uh no you can't uh okay next question uh you wasted your genie wish
next question from quasi brad this question's for you guys oh it's about me but it's for you
guys dear dog what do you think you'd be doing professionally if youtube didn't pan out uh would
you've gone back in the industry would you know something else what do you think i would be doing
if youtube hadn't a panned out i think you would have been that guy that goes in jeopardy and
wins a couple times in a row yeah just a couple yeah that's not really a career though i think the
question is more like well you would have had like kind of like a mid manager role or something
but never been able to go past mid manager because of your people skills like you would have told off
your boss and like kind of just got stuck at some level but you would have then gone on jeopardy
and everyone's like wow that guy's really smart and then that's a fair and then we never would
hear from you again okay i mean that jeopardy you win a few times you win maybe 40 grand pre-tax
you would have gone big in like the early 2000s on jeopardy when that was like something the early
2000s nick i i i you got about a house i turned 12 in 2000 you got about a house okay flipo what's
the answer i think for a while you have gone back into that like into like vehicle allocation
management i would have gone back in the first actuary i think you would have been really bored
there and also you're too intelligent and driven to stay in the thing like that oh my god he's
saying people don't stay in the car industry if they're smart no no you're gonna say that about
tim canis because i promise i don't know i don't know the answer to that i do think jeopardy
champion it was a real pathway that you should have considered and honestly you should should
probably about the same odds it's making it big in youtube no it's definitely definitely higher odds
of being jeopardy champion of which there have been thousands but meanwhile on youtube only me
and hoovy have ever made it big am i right you guys are crushing i saw hoovy no four times at
barrett jackson each time he had bought another cart from the previous time
oh man dude was killing it i'll tell you this though it's february you know what that means
he's got a sell ball by april 15th tax time here in the united states april 15 who you gotta
assume surely he passed a pay quarterly well but he doesn't that's one of his things you got to
assume that i'm gonna get a text from hoovy here in the next few weeks saying he's got to sell some
panic sell some stuff on cars movie just texas now i've done my part i've done my part that might
mean that he gets to come back on this podcast because usually we pay him some honorarium and he
comes to do a pod with us i i tried to buy him out of the i guess i shouldn't out what car he got
but he got a car barrett jackson that i was trying to buy him out of but it was unsuccessful what
it just buy it at barrett jackson you nincompoop uh oh i'm sorry people skills it's the people
yes yes that's why you're gonna be a middle manager forever yeah right uh okay next question uh
this is another one about me that you guys can answer from ram tin underscore hey dug yeah you've
mentioned you prefer reviewing cars locally due to family and logistics yeah i do prefer it most
people prefer convenience over inconvenience yes flipos laughing because it's not it's not
it's an only yeah if you received an offer to have any car in the world and could actually
drive it what is one holy grail car that make you drop everything and fly anywhere flipo go
ahead and answer the question i think you know the answer the answer is going to be nothing
that's wrong that's not that's not the real answer he was offered to design columbus when he was in
italy and he turned it down offered to me i was two hours away with my family i said no i think if
somebody says here's all of these cars and this history you think that's a sultan i think of the
sultan yeah that's true i will say you'd go sultan would work if the logistics all worked out and
the sultan thing worked out and i could get a full week in brunette and pickin shoes i could come home
you know after six days with 12 13 videos shot yeah you do it and we would finally have an insight
into what some of those cars are like which of brunette seasons would you go in i don't do well
in the heat yeah which is the problem because there's only ever heat i assume i would shoot the
whole thing indoors but i also assume they don't have air conditioning what about japan for the
aspar cal it's made in italy okay are you sure nobody knows no one yes they claim it is okay two
more questions and then i have to leave uh what yeah next question for aspects a good looking car
63 splitty at what number this is for you i think at what number does the 570 s become a goodbye
105 we sold one the other day right for 105 today we sold one did it go did it end today what did it
sell for i'm into that one they're there i think oh under 100 for 570 s is there 89 it sold for with
61 000 miles and that was a cool spec this one yeah 61 000 miles yeah and also was titled in cancels
it's got a that's a that's a tennessee sorry i'm messing with it's in chula vista it's in
san diego but they're they're titled in tennessee and i in cancels or tennessee i don't think that
really matters that much who told me the stories uh we sold we aren't one failed to sell between
what's the number which you buy one of these i mean i you're an automatic transmission guy
where would you where would you hop in i think 89 is a quite compelling number it is quite
compelling i would hop in there if i were in the market for another automatic sports car this is
like a 564 that's why you're not calling on the diablo it's three pedals and you're done yeah that
must be it he doesn't know how to drive manual i'll swap it to an auto um okay it's a real car
last question from that million mile volvo which dead car manufacturer do you miss the most and why
is it sob i it's not sob for me i'll tell you a minus but you go ahead first please go first here's
a sob of course well please go first but you know sob didn't die when it stopped production sob died
in about 1998 when gm took majority ownership there is a damn this is like a hipster sob sob
died first when gm showed up and it died second when it actually died uh by the way the actual
answer was became a solo a wholly owned subsidiary in 2000 2000 i remember the day it was a big deal
nick what's your what's your favorite dead car brand it's not my actual is that my yeah of course
what do you mean yeah the key went in the center i know so they had a z4 so i did there's a channel
where somebody uh did a bunch of work with sob i did a whole 15 minute bit about why sob was special
for this kids youtube channel it's great what do you got i'm gonna guess that you're gonna say
Saturn no i absolutely miss it although it is a shape same with scion neither or a ship
nick what's yours come on um i think delorean got a bad shake are you say auto bianchi that i was
tempted to say packard initially oh my god that's actually not a bad one but um delorean is embarrassing
i think also mercury i miss the mountaineer what merkin legend the mountaineer the legend was an
accurate like there's still a strong part of me that wants to buy fords and rebadge them as mercury
she's just because why not all right change the grills to be the correct answer is paniak you miss
the g6 yeah dude there was a g6 gxp that had a massive powertrain and massive front end that looked
like if you pull up the g6 gxp it looked like the new m3 pull it up it looked like people are like
oh the m3 paniak had it first paniak had everything first and i'll tell you this
oh you haven't sold a lot of you i'll show you the one you sold they did a hard top convertible
that's not it by the way that's not the gxp i want to make it clear that but they did do a hard top
convertible like the sl by the way um but also they were gm's performance brand you're the first
person since their own marketing team to compare it to the sl there was a blown you know what the
crazy thing about this car was there was also a soft top convertible there was a blown v6 that
they did a lot of cars with there was a v8 that went into the grand prix do you remember the
grand prix yes it's p gtp well yeah there was that but that was the supercharge one look at that
look then they did a great gxp which had a v8 that was serious that was a north star yes this
look at that grill you think the m3 nostrils or something this is a beaver god that was tough
that is that's a lot it was ugly although i will say when i was in detroit just film the
celestic guess what was parked in the gm campus no someone had one of these live in the dream
i miss paniek it was the excitement brand the solstice gxp the grand prix gtp super six and
the gxp v8 the g8 the grand prix was special which was a crazy cool car brought from australia
rear wheel drive manual everybody's like oh Chevy ss paniek g8 all of the cars were cool
except the torrent at the very end oh yeah and the g3 in canada and the vibe the g3 wave
g3 wave i think it was called technically the g3 wave can't go down this road um anyway i also
want to revise the the revived nameplate one ford lightning gen 2 lightning overnight parts from
japan to an eevee pickup eevee pickup was faster and better in every way i think that was a mistake
look the point is paniek we miss you dearly i do for some reason gm kept buick which i think
has no redeeming qualities but paniek had real performance there was there was love there
and instead they took it away from us right when a new firebird was about to come out
although it would have been nice thank you that's your answer and that's your podcast
for this week the finest we've ever done nick do you have any parting thoughts or anything
you want to shout out yes follow me on cars and bid seller profile maybe keep following
felippo or not that's up to you well i like that you're not trying to get people to watch
yes youtube content or anything else that we only think it matters to him the leader cars and bids
leader board which is important that i have this vanity metric that's all that provides me no utility
in the real world but i would like it reputation scores important number of cars sold car value
sold i will never win no no wow cars one you clearly will never win that's 77 that's impressive
it's real legit okay uh that's nick flippo you gotta need to plug your yeah go to cars and our app
is great i'm told our app is great truly if you have an iphone download the app you'll love it
the app's great the podcast is great everything we do is great goodbye everyone thank you for
watching the cars and bids podcast or maybe it's the dug demure i don't know this car there you
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A lively discussion kicks off with the hosts sharing their recent Euro road trip adventure, featuring their quirky car choices and the unique auction strategy for selling them. The conversation shifts to Tesla's surprising decision to discontinue the Model S and Model X, exploring the implications of their aging designs and the company's focus on humanoid robots instead. The episode wraps up with news about Porsche potentially scrapping its electric sports car project due to high costs, leaving enthusiasts pondering the future of performance cars.
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Chapters
00:00:00 THIS CAR POD!
00:00:12 The Euro Import Road Trip
00:03:49 Tesla Robots Are Killing Cars
00:09:28 Porsche Cancels EV Sportscar
00:12:28 Lexus Killed The LC
00:17:35 The New Mercedes-Benz S-Class
00:20:45 Acura Cancels The RDX
00:25:32 New Corvette Grand Sport Spied
00:30:46 Hyundai Cancels The Santa Cruz
00:33:42 China Bans Electric Door Handles
00:36:31 Hellcat Durango Lawsuit
00:40:34 Toyota's New 3 Row
00:41:58 Ford And China
00:42:01 Talk Cars
00:43:58 Doug's Wants An E55 Wagon
00:50:21 Nick Went To An Auction
00:54:30 Filippo's Car Is For Sale
00:56:26 Market Report
00:57:24 Mercedes-Benz R129
01:00:11 Doug Wants A WRX
01:05:09 Community Questions
01:06:56 What Ruined Thier Name Worse, Trailblazer or Prelude?
01:11:47 What OEM Would You Want A One Off From?
01:13:52 What Would Doug Do If YouTube Didn't Work Out?
01:16:39 What's One Car Doug Would Travel To Review?
01:18:06 When Is a 570s A Good Purchase?
01:19:16 Which Dead OEM Do You Miss Most?
01:23:18 Nick's Parting Thoughts
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