The Chevrolet Express is a big van that can carry a lot of stuff or people, making it useful for businesses. Some people also make it fancy inside for a more comfortable ride.
A VIN number is like a social security number for cars. It's a special code that helps identify a specific vehicle and can tell you things like where it was made and what features it has.
The Aston Martin V12 Vantage is a fancy sports car that has a very strong engine and looks really nice. It's made for people who love fast cars and luxury.
The depreciation curve shows how much a car's value goes down as it gets older and is driven more. Usually, cars lose a lot of value quickly after you buy them.
An inverse relationship means that when one thing goes up, the other goes down. For cars, this means that if a car has more miles on it, it's usually worth less money.
The Lamborghini Diablo is a famous sports car made by Lamborghini. It has a powerful engine and a unique look, making it very desirable among car enthusiasts.
The BMW E60 M5 is a fast and powerful version of the BMW 5 Series, made between 2005 and 2010. It has a strong engine and is known for its sporty performance.
Enthusiast cars are cars that people really love to drive and enjoy. They are usually fast, fun, and have special features that make them exciting for car fans.
The Honda S2000 is a small sports car that is fun to drive and has a powerful engine. It's popular with people who enjoy driving and want a sporty car.
The Ferrari Testarossa is a famous sports car made by Ferrari in the 1980s and 90s. It’s known for its unique look and powerful engine, making it a sought-after collector's item today.
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The 'car of Theseus' is a thought experiment that asks if a car is still the same car if you replace all its parts. It's like asking if a ship is still the same ship after every plank is replaced.
Collector cars are special cars that people buy because they are rare or have a lot of history. People often keep them for a long time and hope they will be worth more money later.
Cars and Coffee is a fun event where people who love cars come together to show off their cars and drink coffee. It's a chance to meet other car lovers and see different types of cars.
Value drop means that a car's worth goes down over time or when it has more miles on it. Knowing when this happens can help buyers decide when to buy a car.
This means a car that has been used very little, usually less than 5000 miles. Such cars are often seen as more valuable because they are in better shape.
The '50,000 mile barrier' is a point where cars start to lose value. Buyers usually want cars with fewer miles because they think those cars will last longer and have fewer problems.
A warranty is like a guarantee that if something goes wrong with the car, the seller will fix it for free for a certain time. It helps buyers feel safer about their purchase.
The Land Rover Range Rover is a fancy SUV that can drive on tough terrains while also being very comfortable inside. It's popular among rich and famous people, which is why it's newsworthy when something happens to one, like getting stolen.
Effortless Motors is a shop that makes changes to cars so they can fit people better or work better. They helped a famous basketball player by adjusting a car for his height.
First Line Trucking is a company that moves cars from one place to another. It's good to check if they are trustworthy before letting them handle your vehicle.
Cox Automotive is a big company that helps car businesses with things like shipping and data. They own many popular car-related services and websites.
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McLaren is a brand that makes super-fast sports cars. They're very valuable and are often stolen because of their high price and performance.
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I'm your host Doug Tabott here with my co-host Tyler Sanders, although the roles may be reversed
on this first segment.
Tyler has got some incredible genius.
I gave him an idea and he rolled with it, so I'm ready to be entertained as much as
I think you will be.
Our excellent executive producer behind the scenes, Ethan Huffnagle, and our technical
advisor is in-house again, Dan Doucet.
He may throw in a comment here or there to correct us when we're wrong, that's usually
what he does.
Switchcast is the podcast where we know what we're talking about, despite evidence to the
contrary.
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The show where we seek to edify, educate, and entertain in no particular order.
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What is fueling this podcast, Tyler?
Oh, I have got some delicious old bottle style Maker's Mark 46 cask strength.
I think it's a little too toasty for you, Doug, but it's a weak cork pot.
I've got my girly premixed Jalapeno Pineapple Margarita, but it's crafted with Trace Generationus
tequila, which I love.
I'm not much for premade drinks, but I like this one.
Ethan is not so much a fan.
Not a fan at all.
Not a fan at all.
Not a sponsor.
I can say that.
Not a sponsor.
Meh.
I give it a meh.
Dan gives it a meh.
I just, I maybe irrationally love it, but okay, let's see.
What is our warmup lap here, going to last segments here, checking my notes.
I was reviewing our Google search stats for Switchcars this month, how people find our
website because that's important data.
And you know, the first couple of terms that people put in Google to find us is usually
Switchcars, Switchcars dealer, whatever.
The third most popular term was a VIN number.
Of all the searches, yes, it was the Lightning Strike GT3 that we talked about on our Patreon
bonus segment last week.
So many people are after that car, they're searching the VIN and they're coming to our
website to find the information that we had prior.
Is the car like sold from the...
No, no, it's still up there.
So I think they didn't get the number they wanted like the last round, so they're just
kind of re-running it.
I did throw in a bid, but I've been outbid.
I bid $45,000.
Okay.
I mean, for $45,000, that would be probably a more successful experiment than your $456,000.
Yep, yep.
Oh, for sure.
Let's see.
A little story time, Doug's story time here real quick.
I'm not going to say when it was.
I made up this story actually, totally made it up.
But I don't know if you've seen, sometimes you'll see police academy students out on
the highway learning how to shoot a radar gun or laser gun, light our gun and measure
speed.
Have you ever seen that on the highway?
No.
No.
Okay.
Well, on a road, on a road, there was like a dozen of them and they all were pointing
lighter guns.
And it's a road I know well, it's a two-lane or four-lane road and fairly wide open and
stuff like that.
Good for, you know, speed tests up to the speed limit, of course.
And so I was like, this could be fun.
So I grabbed a bi-turbo four-liter AMG GT, which is a look at me car.
And I went back to them, I was like, hey, guys, what's your high score?
They said 60.
I was like, it's amateur numbers.
They're like, give us 80.
I was like, yeah, you just wait.
So I looped around frigging hammering it full throttle all the way through the gears by
them and went back and they're all like, yeah, cheering and stuff.
And I was like, what'd I get?
So 123.
Nice.
There you go.
You're like, I'm out.
You mean 35.
You got me a 35, right?
Yes, we got you a 35.
Yeah.
So I was like, all right.
So what are the, you know, what, what can you cite?
What did I, what laws did I break?
You got to, you got to know those.
They're like, ah, I'm none.
You're going 35.
I was like, well, you got to brush up in your lives.
You got to know what to arrest me for if that actually, if it actually happened, it didn't
because it's a made up story.
But yeah, figured that story will probably be told forever in police academy.
I feel like if they did more things like that, more people would want to be cops.
But anyway, can't rely too much on car facts.
Um, the biggest fail I found recently, besides the error with your old 996, is that a common
thing?
There's often errors.
It's not super common.
Probably one in every once every two or three months, I have to file for a correction because
it actually matters.
Collect your cars, maybe more because people are hyper concerned about how many owners
a car has.
So if it has five and actually has four, it's stupid, but your car shows it had like moderate
damage all over like every panel or something, and it was a warranty claim for mechanical
thing and it just got reported incorrectly.
So we're trying to get that corrected now.
But the biggest fail recently is an Aston Martin V12 Vantage seven speed.
I was going through the database that our technical advisor created and I was running
all the car faxes and I found one that's listed as a one owner car, yet it was sold
through an auction, registered in four different states and been bought and sold by two dealers.
I don't think that math math stuck.
The reason?
Okay.
It was a press car.
That is.
Oh, no.
But it's one owner.
Get out of here.
It's like saying a rental car is one owner.
In reality, a press car has had 50 of the worst possible short term owners on the planet.
Automotive journalists.
Oh, man, worse than a rental.
But anyway, it's a one owner car, car fact certified, sold new with 15,000 miles, yee-haw.
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You've all heard of the Hot Crazy Matrix.
Well, we've come up with a Hot Crazy Matrix for cars.
Sort of.
I came up with this idea in terms of talking about how the depreciation curve works because
I explained to somebody recently that mileage and value have an inverse relationship because
he sent me a 300 mile Lamborghini Diablo and I told him what it sold for.
Ah, that's not in my budget.
I explained to him that mileage has an inverse relationship to value.
He goes, well, find me a 2 million mile one.
That spurred the idea of let's actually break this down by mileage and how the values shake
out because people are always like, well, if I buy one with 15,000 miles, how many miles
can I put on it before I lose my shirt?
So I thought, okay, let's make this a science.
Tyler took it to a whole new level and just recreated the Hot Crazy Matrix for cars.
Look, Doug, you said, think Hot Crazy Matrix for cars and I did.
I followed the assignment.
I just didn't read the rest of it.
It was a simile.
Well, okay, let's see Tyler's Hot Crazy Matrix for cars and if, yeah, maybe we'll
see my explanation on the actual science of things and if not, we'll save that for a future
episode because it's probably going to be more boring than his.
So what you got?
Okay.
So I'm not going to go through explaining too much of the Hot Crazy Scale.
It is a YouTube video that's got like 10 million views.
You can go look it up.
It is pretty funny.
A lot of things are obviously said in jest, but what I have created, and I apologize
audio listeners.
This is a little bit visual, but I'll do my best.
I have on this beautiful whiteboard a, this is a graph.
So along the bottom, we have mileage.
This is going from what I've called the X axis is mileage from bad to good.
And what that means is that the zero point is what I've called moon plus.
We've really, you know, like, we've driven this million mile Ferrari.
Then it goes in salvage titles, everything.
Yes.
Like, yeah, some stuff has happened.
And then it goes 150, 100K, 50K and then delivery just to give you an idea.
This is not like terribly scientific.
The Y axis is a value proposition.
So this might be a little confusing, but it essentially goes from good to bad.
So this is a great value proposition, a good value and okay value, a bad one, or they've
jumped the shark.
Things are really just, we're not having a good time.
So it, well, it makes sense because as you go up, it is higher prices.
Yes.
But that is negative for the buyer.
And it could be.
It's mostly higher prices, but it could just be like they've really peaked beyond peaked.
You know, we're not having a good time.
So the first thing, the first area on this that I'm going to, uh,
going to draw out is what we call the no go zone.
So that is going to be your like moon plus to 150,000 miles, we'll call it, um, all the way up.
Just don't, you don't want it, don't worry about it, don't buy any cars in there.
Unless you're a YouTuber and you need content.
Yes.
That is exactly who is in this, uh, this particular bucket is YouTubers that need content.
These are, and you don't buy it for any price.
No, this Mark Spence loves to live in there.
Thrifty mechanics, project car dreamers.
It's never going to run, but oh, they got something amazing for like really cheap.
My Ferrari 456 is unfortunately like up here in the price thing, but all the way back.
See, Doug didn't listen to the chart thoroughly in the no go zone.
So what we've got next, um, so I also drew on the chart.
Those of you can see is the like the, the slope of one line to kind of divide it into,
you want to stay below the line, um, above the line after the no go zone is the danger zone.
Do not want to be here.
So the danger zone is where the people that drive E 60 M fives are, um, the nine 44 Kings
and Queens.
We'd love some unreliable expensive cars, but we're 10 years behind the curve.
So now they're just expensive and unreliable McLaren MP4, 12 Cs, 100% more money than cents.
Um, I'd also put in here every recent buyer in the last couple of years of delivery mile
997 RS's four O's. We've jumped the shark, get out. You're, you're so behind you tried,
but they'd be like way up to the right.
Yes. Then the nine and seven four O's are like up here, like delivery miles,
jump the shark. We're so out in danger zone.
Now below the line, what I will call, um, you know, from 150,000 miles to like 50,000
is the fun zone. This is where, this is where you really want to be.
You're going to spend a lot of time here. You're going to have fantastic experiences,
but you know that you want to get, you know, you want to move up the chart a little bit.
This is enthusiast cars that we all love. Just normal folks having a great time.
Corvettes, Mustangs, S 2000s, nine, nine, sixes and sevens.
No bad jokes there. You're just having fun.
And you don't worry about mileage. You don't obsess about it. You can just drive your car
and enjoy it, but you can't overpay for those cars either. If you're above the line on the
high mileage, fun stuff, exactly. You can flirt with the line a little bit, but just stay below.
Only if you're a mechanic.
So then the last piece of our chart here is our goal. So between 50,000 miles and
delivery below the danger zone line of value, um, this is like slept on quirky cars.
This is like really great examples of enthusiast cars, engineers own these people,
midlife crisis cars. There's got to be some Corvettes in here, but this is where you go
when you upgrade. And that's how you know you succeeded.
Where's the wife zone? There's a wife zone on the hot crazy matrix.
This last one. I didn't watch it. The like goals are working cars. They're not wife's
zone because there's got to be a little section a little right in here. Yep.
Right in here. That's like is the wife zone. And that's the cars you keep forever. That that is
the like the 997 GT threes that have 15,000 miles and you got for a great price and
they only have one previous owner. Yeah. Good histories. Yes. Not a lot of baggage.
My car is I think right on the line. I think nine and six GT threes have really like,
okay, the value proposition is maybe not as great as it once was, but I'm flirting with
the line a little bit. So you got a good car, reasonable mileage under the jump the shark
price. So you're not in the danger zone. Wife zone. Wife zone. Let's go. What about the red heads?
Well, where are the Ferrari Testarosa's on that chart? Danger zone. Danger. All of them just
every single one. All of the red heads are in the danger zone. Yes. Alrighty. So that is
the hot crazy matrix of cars. That is wonderful. All right. Let's let's let's talk serious a little
bit while sort of serious as a buyer and how did the values go, right? So the values basically
have a reverse hockey stick. So if you start at the, well, for you the danger zone, but the
start in the crazy collector miles below 500 miles, all of those cars are crazy prices.
And of course, you have a bunch of nerds if you auction online asking questions like,
have all the seals, bushings been replaced? Have the shocks been replaced? Has the engine
been rebuilt with all new seals? Has the oil been changed every year? Have you started it,
brought it up to temperature four times a year? But they're never ever buying because they actually
want to buy a car in the safe zone, the wife zone. Yes. But they're looking at these cars that are
way out of their price range. And I think they think the under 500 miles is the wife zone because
they're like, oh, it's practically brand new, but then you've changed so much of it because you
need to replace all the seals at this point. It's the car of Theseus. Is it even the same thing
anymore? Yeah, but they don't buy because the actual buyers, they're buying it like Quaker steak
and Louvre restaurant. They might as well be draining the fluids and hanging on the wall
because they're never going to drive it. They're going to wait for the values to increase and
then sell it to somebody else who's never going to drive it. So and those people typically are
not even as concerned about condition as they are mileage, because there's a lot of low mile
cars that were not stored properly and are kind of rough, but people just want the bragging rights
of the mile. So they trade from collector to collector to collector. The next kind of threshold,
right, those cars should never go over 1000 miles, or it's, you know, you're going to lose your shirt.
Next threshold is 5000 miles. Still pretty crazy prices, but then you get into like the
second tier speculators, I mean, collectors who want to drive a car only to cars and coffee that's
nearby on a sunny day so that they can brag there about how their car hasn't been driven. It's got
super low miles and then they'll sell it in a few years without putting enough miles on it so
that hurts the value. So they never want to get it above like 6 or 7000 miles because man, you
get 7000 miles is like, Oh my gosh, that's high mileage to this group and crossing the 10k mark
would just end the world worthless. Right. These cars are also like hyper extremes. They're either
still with the original owner or they have like 17 owners because they keep going from like collector
to collector. These buyers are hyper concerned about things like paint meter readings, matching
numbers, original window stickers, options, whatever, because there's so many of these cars out there
that whatever sub 5000 mile Porsche GT car they buy has to be more special than the next sub 5000
mile Porsche GT car at cars and coffee. More deviated stitching. The next value drop is like 10
to 20,000 miles. That's a safe space from a value perspective. That's below your line.
Oh, we're visual late again guys. That's not in the wife's zone. That's in like the fun zone,
the top of the fun zone, approaching the danger zone. They're much cheaper cars than sub 10,000
miles, but you can still put some miles on it without concern. The difference between 13 and
17,000 miles is not really that big of a deal, but the owners are always stressed out because
they're caught in between their desire to have a perfect sub 5000 mile car, but without that budget
and their desire to be like the people who drive 50,000 mile cars around and don't care.
So it's this constant state of anxiety. And I've seen this firsthand. I tell those people to put
a piece of tape over your odometer, but they can't because if they go past 20,000 miles, boom, values
in the toilet. But 25 to like 45,000 miles, that's your wife's own car. There it is. These are the
best actual deals on the market, typically as they experience pretty significant depreciation
from the almost collectible previous group. And a lot of enthusiasts and actual drivers like Tyler
fall into this category at 35,000 miles on the GT three you bought. It's a good sweet spot for
buyers and sellers. And you can usually buy a relatively fresh car that's not worn out, but
also put a bunch of miles on it without taking a big depreciation hit. So if you want to put
15,000 miles on a car, you can do that. Heck yeah, but don't cross the 50,000 mile barrier.
That's a big one. And I think this is also fed by like auto trader and cars.com because they have
the search thresholds at every 10,000 miles. So if you have 10,100, you lose this entire buyer
demographic above 50,000 miles, the curve starts flattening because there's kind of a floor to
everything. These, yeah, still in the fun zone there zone, right. These typically the buyers
typically, but not always fall into like the bottom feeder class of the market, the ones that
exotic card, they're the cars that exotic car dealers buy from auction put on the floor without
doing any recon or servicing, but they'll happily finance you for 10 years and sell you $10,000
warranty for peace of mind. The marginally successful crypto bros and highly leveraged
fresh grads from exotic car hacks are possibly among the buyer demographic there. So that's a
tough dealer model from a seller's perspective. Then you get above 100,000 miles. You're getting
almost into the no go zone. I mean, honestly, you're really, you're probably in the danger zone
in this situation. Very small cars are still in the fun zone. You'd think these would be the
cheapest by a large margin, but the depreciation curve, this is where it flattens out. It's that
reverse hockey stick because there's a lot of diminishing depreciation. And so I think these
cars go into the danger zone because you're really not saving that much money. They're cheap,
but they're not always worth it because depending on the car, the upkeep starts to become a real
thing. And then you have who the bottom, the no go zone, the 200,000 mile salvage slash flood
title cars. Now, the problem with these cars is they're definitely not a deal because a
depreciation curve has a dead cat bounce right there because there's so many YouTubers searching
for exciting content and low mile cars that work perfectly just don't get the views. So
the worst car is seemingly the more it's worth because there's only so many X repo drug lord
hurricane titled McLaren's out there and there's a lot of YouTubers looking for foster cars.
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It wouldn't be a Switchcast without talking about an epic transporter fail and or a luxury car stolen
by a transporter and lo and behold, we've got a new one. Shaq's Range Rover was stolen by a
transporter. Like Shaq bought it and it's on its way to him or it was his and it's on the way to
somebody else. He bought it. It was on its way to him to use to attend a game in New Orleans.
And he was having custom work done and it never made it there. Oh, this story was a tip from Shrewd
negotiator Larry. If you also want to be a shrewd negotiator on Patreon and get all the bonus
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to us by our wonderful sponsor, Shaughnessy Overland Express. If Shaq had used them to transport
his car, this would not have happened. Full stop. So let's go into the stories. We are referencing
two different media sources, freightwaves.com and the New York Times.com, which might have
just kicked me out. So I think we'll be using freightwaves.com. Nice. Anyway, Shaquille O'Neal
is a $180,000 Range Rover stolen in suspected transport scam. Authorities say someone may
have posed as a transporter to steal the SUV. According to the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office
in Georgia, the Range Rover had been worked on at a custom auto shop in Dalanega, Georgia.
It was purchased from California based effortless motors, which had done some custom work for
Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq, to accommodate his, you know, big height. They arranged the transport
for Shaq, but the vehicle never reached its destination. It went to Dalanega first, I believe,
to get some of this prep work done. And then it was supposed to get shipped to Louisiana,
so that Shaq could use it that weekend for an event he was attending. The company that it was
dispatched to or hired to do this is First Line Trucking, LLC. Now, of course, I always go on
brokersnapshot.com and other websites to look these companies up. And I did not find any immediate
red flags with First Line Trucking, which on a lot of these previous thefts that we've covered,
I've immediately been able to find some issues right off the bat that said, man, there's a red
flag with this company. They should never have been hired. The broker, the dealer who hired them,
is totally negligent. But this company looks reasonably okay. They've been in business for
nine years. They have one truck. They have one driver, one trailer. They have one or two inspections
in recent history. Like, everything seems legit for the most part. There's no immediate red flags
on this company. They're just a small trucking company, and there's a lot of owner operators out
there. So what happened? How did this get stolen? Our shrew negotiator, Larry, alleged that,
given his background and experience, he said, I bet there was a lot of payoffs involved here.
And I said, I don't think so. This is all a bunch of organized crime, and they are just exploiting
loopholes. Nobody needs to be paid off. I don't want to allege that first line trucking or effortless
motors was somehow on the take and involved in this, because I've seen too many good trucking
companies and good dealers get scammed themselves in these operations. And I know that they were
not on the take. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but there is organized crime behind this.
But it's just too easy. It's like low hanging fruit. And I can tell you exactly what happened.
The article, one of the articles states that there was this high level security breach. So
basically, somebody got the information for the pickup for the shipment. And a trucking company
that was not first line trucking showed up with enough information to get the Range Rover released
to them. We've seen over and over and over again that Central Dispatch, which is a company owned
by Cox Automotive, which is a freaking publicly traded company, media giant, has been hacked over
and over again, such that this keeps happening. Somebody at some point needs to hold them liable
because it's going to keep happening. Is there a way to prove the connection?
In terms of them- Yeah, so my car was stolen and it is directly related to Central Dispatch
getting hacked. I think it would be difficult to say, to actually prove, you're the internet
expert. If you're not Central Dispatch, Central has all the data other than the company
saying, well, we did the bill of lading on Central Dispatch and somebody showed up
with the information. So the only way they could have gotten it, so you could prove it by elimination,
but Central Dispatch isn't going to release their records of a security breach unless you
sue them and a judge forces them to do that. It just feels like we're stuck in this weird
point where nobody can actually prove it, so it's going to keep happening until somebody tries to-
Okay, yes, yes. However, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, this could have been prevented
very, very easily. First line trucking, I can look up their MC and DOT number. The other thing I can
do is I can look up their inspections history and their inspections history shows me the VIN number
of the truck and the trailer that is in that inspection. So I know which truck and trailer
belongs to them. I don't even have to go that far. If I'm actually booking a load with them,
I would request a certificate of insurance from their insurance broker. That also lists
the scheduled autos on that COI. So I would know this truck and this trailer with these VIN numbers
are registered to this company. Okay. So let's say that it was a highly sophisticated scam
and somebody showed up with a similar truck and trailer and a proper bill of lading and they faked
all their paperwork and were like, yes, we are first line trucking, which is what these articles
allege, which usually that's not the case. Usually it just gets rebrokered to another company
and the person releasing the vehicle isn't even paying enough attention to notice
that they're not giving it to the same company that they friggin dispatched it to. Like that's
how easy it is to steal these cars. But let's give everybody the benefit of the doubt, including
the scammers and say this is a really high level scam. They hacked into central dispatch,
got the pickup and delivery info, fabricated a bill of lading, taped the MC and DOT numbers on
the truck, which is a red flag, taped the company name on, et cetera. All the shop who released the
Range Rover had to do is look at the VIN number on the truck, compare it to the COI and if it was
different say, hold up. I'm going to call the trucking company and say, did you have a breakdown?
Did you send another truck? This is a red flag. Before we release this.
Can you confirm? And in the article, it says a first line trucking never even just they hadn't
dispatched a driver. So like, it would have been a real easy phone call. They would have
called first line said, Hey, you're guys here. And they would have said, No, he's not. Yeah,
what are you talking about? Boom, end of theft prevented stopped two minutes. So this is just
the same story that always happens where you need to do a little bit of due diligence. You need to
just like sniff a little harder as a part of your sniff test and boom, you're good. It's slightly
different every time, but it always falls under an umbrella of like five or six different things
that can be done to prevent it, even if central dispatch keeps getting hacked. All of these scams
are preventable. And this one was was easy. And the only reason this is getting a whole bunch of
attention is because it was shacks, right? So of course, you know, the sheriff's office is making
all these public statements, they've gotten search warrants, they've tracked the GPS, which the GPS
says it's likely already on a container ship going overseas. So pretty sure it's gone. It's
gone. But boy, is that sheriff's office on this. And they said, this is funny. I literally, if you
just gave me a few clues about this article and said, Hey, this car got stolen. I would have said,
let me guess, is a security hack and a different company picked it up. And it was a late model
Range Rover or Bentley or McLaren. And it went to Atlanta and then got put in a container ship,
right? That sounds oddly familiar, Doug. That's what happened. It got delivered to somebody in
Atlanta. And then it went to a container ship. It's over and over. It's Atlanta, it's Miami,
it's New York, Southern California. That's where they get delivered. Then they go into containers.
But this, we have leads of people on interest out of this location, and we have search warrants,
said the sheriff. Let me tell you what, I am ticked off on behalf of every small guy who's had
their car stolen and doesn't get the cops to do anything. But because it was shacks, and because
of the media attention. Oh, man, the cops are on it. They're never going to recover it. But boy,
they're on it. They've gotten search warrants versus some of my clients who've had this issue
happen. They've gone to police with the active GPS tracking saying, my car, which is stolen,
is right here. It's pinging right now. And the cops are like, yeah, we can't really do anything.
That's insanity. Yep. So there is not equal justice for everybody. But if you're seven foot
one, and a famous basketball player, you get a little bit more attention. But hopefully this
will shine more light on the problem as a whole. Central dispatch slash Cox automotive will be
held liable or they will do something about it. Goodness knows they have enough money and resources
to do it, but they don't respond to anybody's complaints or anything about it.
Yeah. And hopefully people will get more wise to stop this stuff and not rely on somebody
else to fix it or the cops to recover it because they're not going to. But this could have been
stopped. This could have been stopped with a little tiny bit of legwork by anybody involved
in the situation. Anybody. Anybody brings us to the props and flops brought to you by switch cars.
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The pick of the week this week is 2015 Porsche 911 Targa 4S seven speed manual 991.1 with 10,000
miles black over tan. It is the first and last of the naturally aspirated Targas with the Targa
bar roof instead of the sliding glass squeaky leaky feature on the previous four generations.
You do not want that sliding glass window. You do not want the sliding glass window.
Anyway, our flop of the week is a burp, speaking of shipping fails, a burgundy Corvette C6
convertible was on a transport truck that got hit by a train. It was an open transporter,
so somebody cheaped out. A couple people sent me this video, including our friend Burt,
loyal listener. The transporter made a mistake that we often see in viral videos where they went
over a raised crossing and they high centered the trailer. And you even see the warning signs.
There are an image. So I guess if you can't speak English, you could still, I don't know,
but you've seen those signs where it looks like sparks flying and that's to warn you.
But anyway, so they high centered the trailer on a raised crossing and the train went right
through the middle of that trailer and hit the burgundy Corvette C6 one of one dead on.
The predictable part of all this is that even though the video was kind of grainy,
you could clearly see the driver's Adidas track suit as he walked around outside the scene.
If you know, you know, there's a stereotype. Rumors are circulating that after the wreck,
he was going into local businesses asking if he could use the restroom.
Oh man, another inside trucker joke. But anyway, our Prop of the Week, I hate to be commercial,
but our Prop of the Week goes to our transport sponsor because the fails. It's a perfect product
placement here. Shaughnessy Overland Express, if you want to not have to think about these things,
like when they show up, it's a big truck labeled Shaughnessy Overland Express, nobody can scam
that. So you just know that you have peace of mind when they're shipping your stuff.
You don't have to have a dealer arrange it for you. You don't have to deal with a broker. You
don't have to double check VIN numbers on the trucks. You can just hand it over and let them do it.
So next time you're shipping your burgundy Corvette C6 convertible one of one,
don't stick it on open transporter with a guy in an Adidas track suit.
Send it to Shaughnessy Overland Express.
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About this episode
SwitchCast dives into the intriguing concept of a 'Hot Crazy Matrix for Cars,' exploring how mileage affects vehicle value and depreciation. Hosts Doug and Tyler humorously break down the relationship between mileage and value, categorizing cars into zones like the 'No Go Zone' and 'Fun Zone.' They also discuss the latest automotive news, including a high-profile car theft involving Shaquille O'Neal's Range Rover, shedding light on transport scams and the importance of due diligence. The episode is packed with insights, anecdotes, and a unique perspective on car ownership and value.
