The new KIA Tasman and its crazy design, plus Gordie's new whip

The Driver's Show with Paul Merrick and Gordy Waters.

What are you driving?

I've got a 2014 BMW X1, which I own, which I bought off my brother and caught a little bit on fire.

Oh, did it?

A little bit, but it's fine.

Not a lot of fire.

No, it was just like when I got out of the car, I was like, fuck, it's really smoky in the Southern Highlands today.

It's so weird, it must be burning up.

And then I got out of the car and then I was like, the air underneath the car was like wavy.

Yeah.

And I'm like, that's a bit of fire.

I'm like, yeah, there is something really hot in this car.

And so that's been in the shop and I don't care to think about.

Yeah.

So it's still there?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's going to be a very expensive fix.

BMWs, I fucking love them.

Oh, swearing.

This is a Christian podcast.

I would prefer it if you didn't in the name of my Jesus.

Okay, that's noted.

So I freaking love BMWs, but when they go off a cliff, they're just right off, man.

They're right off.

Good service though.

Yeah, not that good.

Not really.

Not 2014.

In my experience, they were a great service.

I had a Mini though.

I had a Mini Cooper S.

Cute.

And then we were, yeah.

Or baby car.

Yeah, okay.

And they, yeah, they were always really nice.

Hey, by the way, the weird thing is it might seem that Paul is absent.

I'm so sorry.

It's been quite a while between recordings.

Basically Paul is no longer.

I killed him.

Yeah, well, you have.

So basically what you're hearing now is Pauline Pavley has transitioned, which is nice.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you so much for being such a supportive workplace for this.

Yeah.

It was a big decision, but I'm definitely a better person for it.

Did they, did they lob it off properly?

Like is that something you can bring in on the trolley?

I think that you're not allowed to ask that question.

Why not?

Because the rules say can't, but yes, it's gone.

It's gone.

Is that like, it's gone.

We can't call midgets, midgets.

Like we call it like dwarfs midgets or whatever.

I can't be cancelled on this podcast.

It's too early for me to be cancelled on this podcast as Paulina.

Paulina.

Paul is dead, but Paulina has a clean slate.

Wait till Donna finds out.

So yes, Steph Coombs is here, journalist, speaking of transitioning,

I guess we could say you're making the transition into,

there's a lot of car journalism going on in your life.

There is.

You know, because like truly at the core of myself as a person

and as a media professional, I'm actually a grifter.

Okay.

A through and through grifter.

And so I'm grifting out of podcasting and other stuff

and I'm grifting towards car media,

which is my preferred area at the moment.

I don't know what grifting means.

It sounds like a subject on you porn.

No, it's like, if you're grifting, you know,

you're sort of, you're like a traveling salesman.

Oh yeah.

You know, like a riverboat dandy.

Thank you.

Yes.

I've always thought of you as a riverboat dandy.

That's how I see myself as well.

Steph Coombs with her latest hoohawaki idea.

Precisely.

Give me a car.

Yeah.

So yeah, so at the moment I just, I just like cars.

And it turns out that you can get paid to do this.

Yeah.

Still trying to work that bit out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, some of us can.

Some of you can.

Not me.

And you can tell, by the way,

you can actually tell that Steph's the pro at this

because she's the one with the laptop

and I'm just scribbling shit on paper.

Well, you know, I'm Googling what is car?

Yeah.

I look like a, I look like a 1980s journalist

who's just like finishing the story

on the bottom of his car.

Submit.

Submit, I say.

I just, I'm basically Trevor Long.

I'll just yell my review out on the top of the town hall steps.

Do you know who Trevor Long is?

I do, actually.

Yeah, I do.

No, I'm surprised.

Not many people do.

No, back in my talk back radio days.

Another thing that I used to do,

he was our tech reporter I think

when I was working at 2GB.

Yup.

So there you go.

Wow.

I know.

I've been everywhere.

And I love the whole time.

Trevor's still just been a tech reporter.

Have you ever noticed that Trevor Long

just looks like a court drawing of a homeless person?

I'm sorry.

No, I don't know.

I haven't noticed that.

No.

Well, take another look.

I don't want to,

am I starting a fight with Trevor now?

Well.

If you got,

I feel like this is a long standing fight

you have with Trevor.

I've got no problems with Trevor.

You just called him a court reporter

sketch of a homeless person.

Yeah.

That feels like you've got a fight.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's not a fight unless it's accurate and facts.

Okay, all right.

So we're good.

Okay, that's good.

That's good.

Hey, I wanted to talk to you about the kid.

Tasman.

Because the launch has happened.

It has.

You got to go.

I did.

We can talk driving impressions.

I don't really know too much about this car.

They have released prices now, right?

They have indeed.

So we know prices.

We know it's out there.

We know there could be other variants coming.

We know it was designed by a guy called,

fuck it, that'll do Damon, just submit it.

We know that.

Do we want to talk pricing?

Because I have actually got it up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What are we done with?

I mean, not up.

It's all in my head.

I'm so good at this stuff.

So you've got about 10 variants coming, right?

So at the top of the line, you've got the X-Pro.

And that is like a really solid off-roading car.

And that does look good, I will say.

That one definitely looks better than I think a lot of the S-Line,

which has a much bigger nose on it.

So the X-Pro, that's going to be about $75,000 before on-road costs.

And then ride at the other end.

But for that as well, you get all the transmission lock.

You've got the low gear range.

You've got cameras that look at the floor when you're driving.

I found that to be not at all useful.

Really?

Not even slightly.

I love it.

It was too mushy to make much of an impression of anything.

But I'm also not great at off-roading someone else who's better

than me might get more use out of it.

So it's got the sports bars and stuff like that on it?

Because I saw it with the sports bar.

I'm like, that better be a factory.

Look, I think that there are accessories.

You've asked me a specific question, which I have not prepared for.

I could lie.

I don't know the answer to that.

Just make this shit up.

It's not like I sat in three press conferences

and was specifically told that information.

But at that point, I was probably playing Snake

on my phone or something.

Do you know when they first launched this in Tassie?

Funny enough.

Tasman.

See what they did there, guys?

The PR team are fucking geniuses.

So someone, it was literally like the Homer Simpson car.

One of the press journalists.

The Homer.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So one of the press journalists put their hand up.

Possibly it could have been Dave McCow and I'm not sure,

but they said.

My editor.

He's a great guy.

Yeah.

The first question was, is it too late to change the design?

And the designer was there.

And he's like, yes.

That is superb.

It's too late.

That is a bold first question.

I love that.

Well, look, the design is controversial.

You can't go online without people talking about it.

I reckon the S and the SX variant are uglier than the X-Line,

X-Line Pro stuff.

Yeah.

So I think the X-Line Pro is definitely the pick.

From what I've heard and, you know, who am I to spread gossip

on this fine established journalistic podcast that we're on.

Spread it.

From what I was told.

You hear that HR, HR, HR.

Do you say that to Paul?

Spread it.

Do you say that to Paul?

I do actually.

And he does.

Let me tell you.

He looks like the kind of guy who would.

That pressed fruit bowl that he does on the glass of that studio door.

Let's just say.

I touched that with my hands before.

That fruit was out of season.

Let me just say that.

There is a fruit fire problem.

Again, I really hope that you guys wipe that down nice and well.

Yes, no.

So the rumor, the interesting rumor that I was told from

a couple of people is that there were a few designs, right?

And there was a design that was sort of unanimously preferred.

And they were like, it's that one.

And then there was a captain's call further up in the head office.

And they're like, no, we're going for this ugly one.

Because it's, and they wanted something that was really bold.

And you can't deny that it is a bold design.

It is something that stands out and they have to do something

that stands out because they are late to the game.

And they're in a very crowded market.

And what they're offering, I think is not a bad offering,

but only marginally better, I think, than what's already out there.

And people can debate that it hasn't gone far enough and whatnot.

They said at the launch, because I did ask the question.

I'm like, I mean, this is all anyone's talking about

is the way this looks.

I mean, are you concerned about that coming out to the launch?

And they said, look, we think that the angst,

there was not mine, the angst about the looks of this

will go down when people see it on the road.

I agree with that.

Yeah, and I do too. I do too.

Yeah, I think what's going to happen is after time,

this is like a design that is no doubt polarizing.

Polarizing, both.

But I think it'll soften by the time people kind of get used to it

and see it on the roads.

Another thing that Key has got to realize is,

or people have got to realize Key has really transitioned

their design language a lot.

You look at everything from the EV9 and downwards,

the Kia K4, all that.

Now they've come out with this ute,

and it really kind of has to set in that design language

that they're coming out with.

It does, and it's also tricky

because they have to very quickly establish themselves

as blokey ute makers.

Yeah, yeah.

And this is the hard thing because I think of Kia

and I think of sensible, nice lady cars for driving,

you know, around.

I had a Kia Stinger.

Is that a sensible lady car?

I'd like to think it is.

Which was a great car, a great engine.

A couple of people said like,

couldn't you put the Stinger engine in the Tasman

because it's, you know, but they haven't.

Didn't they, hey, by the way, with that,

I think they used the same one they're putting

in the Hyundai Palisade.

I don't know for sure, it's cool.

I've thrown that one out there.

Yeah, I love it how I have not prepared

for any of these things.

And that's what I'm talking about.

Look, it is a 2.2 litre

four cylinder engine,

which is, and I didn't

feel like it was.

And did they talk about the towing on that?

They did, but you know what, towing is complicated, isn't it?

So it's like, it's 3.5

when we towed something around it,

it felt we were towing around a two ton caravan

and it felt fine.

For all of these utes, they do over promise

and you have to be a little bit careful

about what your rear axle can actually take.

If you're doing any sort of serious towing,

is there any dual cab ute

that you really would trust with it?

There's only one

when it comes to towing that I

fully trust and that is

the BYD Shark

because

I mean, that is

just a piece of engineering genius

in the towing department, in the off-road department,

I'm being cynical,

but yeah, look.

So, hey, one thing I did

love about the Kia Tasman,

especially in the X-Pro, the interior

on this is really cool.

They've taken the bloke ute

and they've made it look really posh,

like it's really well set out.

The interior, and a lot of people

were saying this is like, you know, you're looking

that they've designed it interior out

in a lot of ways. So you've got a really nice

infotainment system in the X-Pro,

you've got this sort of faux leather, not actual leather, but

the seats are really comfortable,

electric seats, heated

seats, which is the one

thing, the one thing which is

non-negotiable for me, heated seats.

I cannot go back.

I refuse to go back. I love them.

Some people don't like them.

My missus goes, don't check the heated seats on,

it makes me want to poo.

To be honest with you, everything

makes you poo. You could walk

past gluten. Have you got it at like

the cooling seats? Maybe it would do the opposite.

Suck right back in.

But the heated seats

in the front and in the back

in the X-Pro, which I thought was

a nice little touch, and the back seats

actually had a reasonable recline on them

too, because usually the back row is just

miserable in these dual cabs,

but the back row was quite

roomy. The car is very large

as well. How does

it stack up to say like, the

BYD shock for instance, I'll go back to that, but

I think it's actually not a bad car, but

it's a bloody big bugger.

Does it feel big? It feels big.

And it is marginally

larger than a lot of these big

utes that are on the roads. I think

you need that, right? Like, if you're going to have

a comfortable back row, and if you're going to be

sort of

try and separate yourself on the

market, and they needed

it to be big, and they needed it to be blokey, and

you just need to look at the ads, right?

To see how they're trying to position themselves in the market.

Yeah, all the sports people cameos, like it's a

Happy Gilmore 2 movie.

Can I tell you a story about the launch? Go.

I think it was on the second night, there was

Tasman Town. And we had no idea what

Tasman Town was.

Do you need a map of Tassie to get around Tasman Town?

I'm not answering that.

So Tasman Town, as it turned out,

they'd taken over the town of Safala, right?

Where is that?

Safala, beautiful mining town, very

small town, only has like 150 people

population. Oh, I lived in

Orange for a couple of months, right?

Or you should know it. It's like around

the corner from Orange. Yeah, no.

It's like you're off there, and

the night was... Were you abducted?

Are you sure? It felt a little bit like that.

When you were at a launch, you were at some weird

made up town. I'm sharing my trauma,

and you just have to receive the trauma.

I feel like you're at a cult.

It felt... It was an interesting

night, because they brought in

all these sports stars who

were there, like Volkanovsky was there,

Alex Volkanovsky, the USC guy.

Boonie was there. I mean, they got all these

dudes going regional. They must be

there. There were nine of them, and I didn't know

half... Unless it's a racing driver,

I don't know any of these people, but they brought

all these guys in, and it was, I would

describe it as like live

improvisation theater, and I would

sooner, nor off my own hand, often

than deal with that, because I find that very

quite uncomfortable. So you're going in,

and all these guys are assuming the

characters that they've been playing in the ads.

So like Volkanovsky is

like the chef, and like Boonie,

it's Boonie's bakery in there, and so

the town mayor who is in the ads

is like, oh, you know, hello, you

newcomers, like come along, and I'll

introduce you to your neighbors. And

have you ever, did you ever go to

Old Sydney Town? Yes.

Imagine that. We had something

when I was growing up, because I grew up in Melbourne.

We've got something there called Sovereign Hill,

and it's very, it's a very similar

vibe, I reckon. Exactly that. So imagine

those sort of like historical open-air

museums or whatever. Only it's

Tasman Town and a sporting

star lineup that you've ever known. And I know

Volkanovsky and the rest of them, and Boonie,

because like, you know, it's Boonie. It's

Boonie, a VB bobblehead. Yes,

yes, legend. And everyone else,

this was a very, very stressful time

for me, because like I'm talking to people

like, do I know you from a car launch,

or are you some Australian sporting

legend? I should absolutely know.

Anyway, I'm just in this heightened state

of anxiety, and then you put a lot of pressure

on yourself. Are you alright? No, I'm not.

I should give you a check down. It gets worse,

it gets worse. So we're finally

there to sit down and dinner part. And I'm like, oh, thank

God. You know, now it's over.

Like, I'm sitting down and so this guy sits

next to me. And he's like,

I'm Nathan, who are you?

And I'm like, holy hell, that's

pretty aggressive starting

thing. I thought he was just sort of like a

brash car journal. So I'm like, I'm Stephanie,

who are you? And then he said, oh,

I'm Nathan Hindmarsh. I'm one

of the footballers. Also, I said,

how are you? What's wrong with that?

It didn't. I thought he said, who are you?

And he said, how are you? So I

just been a massive bitch to him. And I'm

like, oh, mate, I'm so sorry.

I don't know anyone here. I thought you said

let's recreate that, right?

So we're sitting at, we're sitting at dinner.

It's nice. It's been set up.

And you're just going about your business.

All right. How you

going? I'm Nathan. How are you?

And I say,

I'm Stephanie. Who are you?

Oh, and he was like, I'm

fucking Nathan from the bloody

shitty football club.

He wasn't like that. He was sorry.

I bloody got involved in that case a couple of years

back that we can't talk about. But I might have

a job on celebrity apprentice.

He was so nice. He was such a lovely

bloke. Nathan, and he was, he was

very good human about the whole thing.

In that situation, I was the bad guy.

Are you single?

Can I cup your tea?

He talked about his wife and his kids.

It was wholesome. It was a nice story.

I'm the bad guy. Okay. I'm the bad guy.

He's a good guy. He's a good guy.

All right. So anyway. So you got on.

You got on again.

Yeah, I got through it. But you could sense

how much time and money

had been sort of spent on this.

He's basically, he's

a stripper. He's been paid to talk to

you. And were you?

He basically.

I don't know if they'd like that, but.

They don't like a lot of things on their podcast.

Trust me. I'm doing okay. It's fine.

You don't need to stress. You're in safe hands.

We can say what we like.

I just, I don't necessarily endorse

the messages that are coming out on this podcast.

But yeah. It was, it was a

really seriously like

expensive and ritzy and quite

a nice event.

But it gave you a sense of just how much

they need this to work.

And they needed to work and they need to

align themselves with like

blokes and tradies and

sporting stars and they've got to build

really quick. And I think their car is

good. It drove well.

The off-roading was really good. It's

really smart when you get off the tarmac.

It does a lot of the thinking for you.

I think

four years ago, this car would

have been a smash hit.

I think like $75,000

at the moment for IKEA

and you're dealing with the tradies.

I think that's fine. I think like, I mean

it's kind of, it's somewhat priced

competitively. It's going up against

a lot of established

bloke brands that are out there. And Anna,

I don't know. It's a shaky one. We're going to

wait and see on this. Yeah. Well, they want to be

number four. So they want to be

number four. Yeah.

That's their target. Well, but like to be fair,

like they're up against the

Hilux, the Ranger, IZuzu, D-Max.

Yes. So like four is good.

But when you look at the

BYD shark, I actually

that's where their competition is, I think.

And I reckon, I reckon

it's hard to come in with a diesel

ute when there's a lot of diesel

utes doing a good job

that are established and you know what their resale value

is. Whereas like BYD

comes in with a plug-in hybrid

and you're like, well, that's, that's a compelling

different offer. Yeah, but this kid's

can do a lot of things that the BYD can't do.

I haven't driven the BYD. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look, I like

them. Like we, we joke about them a bit

on the podcast. I'm a BYD

fan boy. Like I friggin think

your performance is an excellent

EV. They make great cars.

In fact, like if I was to pick an EV

it would be at the top of the top of the pile

somewhere. But I think where they went wrong

with the shark is they advertised it

as a fun off-road car as well.

And you can see that

in their advertising. And

I don't know. I wouldn't confidently take

this. I'd probably, you know, I think it'd be

fine on the sand, on the beach

possibly. But that's where I kind

of draw the line. And I look, Paul

will tell you he had a lot of problems going up

test hills and stuff like that

with that car. So yeah, it's

it's a little bit shaky with the off-road

hill climbing and stuff like that. But

I think as a daily

you know, you want to chuck stuff in

the back of a car. You need to cut

the kids around. I think it's actually great. The tech

it's good. It feels bougie. It's really

competitively priced.

Like compared to the top of the line

Kia Tasman say the X-Pro

this is like 10 grand cheaper

on-road. Oh god, if that

could even be 15. I

will say that the Tasman

was really good off-road. I'm not an experienced

off-road driver. And so I thought

that this car was going to have to do a lot of thinking

for me if we were going to not roll it.

And sure enough, it really did.

It's only got a rear diff lock, which

is a slightly limiting factor. But

the traction control and it is so smart

that it does manage just to

really chew through some fairly rugged

roads. You're a rugged

person. I am. Can't you tell?

I can tell. I'm so tough.

I'm so tough. You're so tough.

You know what you need? What do I need?

A Genesis.

I had a Genesis.

I went on a cute little road trip and my Genesis

GV80 Coop as

Stefan likes to call it.

No, I had a Genesis. I took it down

from Sydney to Melbourne

and then up into the

Victorian Highlands. We took it

skiing. Stop it.

Lux. Yeah, very lux.

I tell you what, this

was one of the best

SUVs I've ever

driven. Really? Oh my God, it's so

good. It's so good. TwinTurbo

V6. So it's kind of got

that, I guess, the Stinger engine in it.

It's got a really strong engine. It's

just got all the lux. It looks good.

Mine was like this matte green

and yeah, the coupe at the back

is definitely the best looking Genesis

out there. The thing about the Genesis

is that I always look at that car

and I'm like, what is that car? What do you mean?

They're a bit of like a mishmash

of other cars. No, they're not.

I look at them and I'm like, oh, you are an

amalgamation of every car on the road.

I love a bit of mishmash in my Genesis.

Yeah, I mean, look, they're fine.

They're fine? They're fine.

I'm sure they're beautiful on the road

but I don't get, if I see a Genesis going

by, I'm not like, holy hell. Really?

There goes a Genesis. Oh my God.

I kind of think of them as like Timu

Bentley's, like real Timu Bentley's.

Like with the way that the wings

kind of flare out on the Genesis badge

and I'm like, who are you trying to

fool? You know, it's like

they're kind of pretending to be

a fancier car than they are.

I don't respect that.

Really? I don't respect you.

I don't, but hey, but you know what?

Terrible things about my Genesis, you little

bitch. Get out of here.

Put me in a Genesis car. Get out of here.

I haven't driven one, maybe. There you go.

Get out of here, you fucking hussy.

Genesis.

Because you look at it, you look at it and

you're like, ooh, is that a nice car?

And then you're a little bit closer and you're

like, oh, it's a Genesis.

It's a great car. What's wrong with it?

It's just, it's not, I don't know.

You haven't even driven one. Yeah, I know.

I'm going to give you some homework.

You need to drive one, drive the

GV80 coupe, sports back, whatever

they call it.

I'm happy to eat my words on that one.

It is kitted out and it is

fantastic and it drives

just as well as

a BMW

X6.

Doesn't look as good though.

Yes it does. It looks fantastic.

It looks really good.

It's not bullshit. How dare you?

I can't believe we're having our first fight.

We are. I love it.

Hey, I'm going to say a couple of names of cars

that I've driven and I know you've driven

and then you can stop on one and tell me

where we could talk

about. Are you ready?

Mazda MX-5.

Next. I'll get back to that.

GMC Denali Yukon.

Yeah.

You're having to do a little

step out of that. How long did you

have the car for? All right, this is

a pissing contest. Or is it?

I'd win. Yeah, you would have the advantage.

I've got a strong, steady stream.

I was afraid what you're going to say then.

I've got a strong fucking poonus.

Pavley's my name.

I like cars, man. It's all

suspect. Yeah.

Sorry, what was your question?

I was too busy thinking about you.

How long at my schlong?

How long did you have the Yukon for?

I had it for a week, which is pretty standard.

So I was only there for the launch of that car

so I didn't have it for a very long time

but I really enjoyed it when we were

driving around sort of the back

areas, sort of Canberra and whatever

big country roads. It's like driving

a couch. The thing is with

that car, it is so big.

In fact, I think it's actually the biggest

SUV in Australia on sale right now.

Yeah. It for a bloody

large car feels

like a piece of piss to drive.

Absolutely. It's so easy

and it's such a joy

and it's such a shame that like these

American yang tanks, whatever you

want to call them, they're getting a bad name like, oh, they don't fit on

Australian bloody roads. Oh, they don't

fit in Australian bloody shopping center

car parks. Yes, they do.

Shut up.

Shut your fat, bloody

northern lager, bloody

great northern drinking, fat

prostate cancer

whole.

I can say that. My dad has prostate cancer but

Oh well, now you've brought the tone down

twice. No, I haven't. I've brought the tone

up but just shut up.

It's a great big fat American

car and we need to see more of this

in the future.

I don't know, man. Driving that, I

loved it when I was out in the country

but like driving that back to

Maricville was white knuckle. Oh yeah.

Driving around Sydney, I took that to

I took that to the work car park

which is think

like Meritan sweets style.

Usually my Janice just loves it

but this Denali

I couldn't fit it in and I had to drive

at home and I had to get an Uber into

work. So there is, okay, the big fat

dude is saying it doesn't fit in a

driving car park. Okay, that's

city driving. Yeah, all right.

You've had your way but like whatever.

It's very, it's the cost of it

is a bit inhibitive.

It's so expensive. What is it?

Like 170? Yeah,

1600, 1600, 70. Like it is an outrageously

expensive car and

but if you are a Rouse Hill Bogan

Don't say that. I'm sorry.

That is a Hills District

aspirational car. I think it's a

hashed up

man car. You've got five, you've got five acres

and you've got two

horses. Could be on the gold. You've got kids that

hate you. Yeah.

And then you've got, no, it's a Hills District

Bogan car. There is nothing Bogan about that

car.

There is nothing Bogan about the

Yukon Denali. Yes, it looks like a

Bogan car. It's

obnoxiously large.

It's ridiculous on the roads.

It is

overpowered and heavy.

Did you say it's overpowered? Well,

it's powered enough.

It was fun to drive. I found the braking

a bit tricky on that car.

Did you find that when I hit the brakes

I felt like it was

a bit touchier than I was expecting?

No, not really.

Maybe I'm just a shit driver. Yeah, I just found

it absolutely joy. I took that,

I did city and

I took it on a few road trips and stuff

and look, if you have

a block of land, if you've got an acreage

and you don't need to drive into the city,

this is a great car just because the city

comes with issues. But yeah,

I don't think there is

anything Bogan-ish. If you're going to say

Bogan, I kind of think like,

fucking, you could throw

anything. You could put a bloody Commodore

or something like that's Bogan. No, no, no,

no, this is, this is

new money Bogan car.

I will die on that hill.

I grew up at the supercars

and I'm a secret Bogan. I grew up in the Hills District.

I'm not fighting any of this. It's not a bad thing

but that is, I reckon that's

who their market is. So what if

if a cashed up person

like with a bit of suave

if they've got a big bunch of cash

what SUV are they driving?

A Genesis. They're not driving a Genesis.

Yeah. They're not driving a Genesis.

That's a good question.

Because it looks very

what do you call it? Cadillac

kind of looks like a, I guess like

it would be driving an Escalade. Yeah.

Look, I have nothing against it. I reckon

the TV screens at the back

nice car was very nice to drive.

I agree. But like as soon as

you're in sort of narrow streets, it's like

it's brown pan stuff. Tell you what I reckon

you would like. Yeah. The Volvo

EX90. Indeed.

Indeed. Now there's a posh car

we can both agree on. It's not a posh car.

Yeah. So I live in Bondi

now. It only took me how long to mention that.

And I see a lot of the EX90s.

I think that Bondi though, Bondi is the

posh capital of Australia. I think that

the posh to resident ratio

there would be ridiculous. But I see a lot of

It's pronounced posh, but that's

Yeah. Only if you're

a wanker.

So I see a lot of them. I don't

think of Volvo's particularly

luxury brand to be honest. Really?

I don't. I think of them as

a nice sort of mid-range

vehicle. But Volvo see themselves

as a BMW. Right up there.

And I was like, yeah, I know. But

from the second I picked up that car

from the Volvo headquarters

and usually when you're picking up a press car, I'm sure you've

experienced this, you're picking up from this warehouse

they throw the keys at you and there's just cars

everywhere and you are desperate not to scrape

up the car and just break it. Press cars

get damaged because it's just chaos. So you have to

drive it out and then you're in the middle of a very

crowded suburb. And so you're trying to work

out how to drive the car. It's a pretty unpleasant

time, I find. But I haven't smashed anything

up yet. When I was picking up the Volvo

you know someone from the Volvo

heads office who was wearing a suit and was

so sociable and charming came down and it's like

you know gave me the tour of the car and you know

this is how you do this and my favorite

thing about the car is this and like I think

that you'll enjoy the speaker system. I'm like

I think I will enjoy the speaker system. You don't get that.

You don't get that. You don't. You don't. Like if you are

picking up pretty much any other car it's like

the keys get pegged at you and you are on your

own. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the

right that way, dickhead. Yeah, have you

ever smashed a press car?

Yes. Have you?

Pavley doesn't know about this yet.

I haven't told Paul. Okay.

So and I don't know. He's not here.

I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it.

But you know what, I did pay for the damage.

Yeah. So it was

the GWM

Canon Alpha.

Big, beautiful

Chinese

ute.

That is a big car. It's a big

bugger. Yeah, it's good. I actually enjoyed

it. It was a diesel. The problem

is I was coming out of a car park where

it's look it's a dicky car park where

the gate of the car park

goes inwards and

you have to stop at a ramp

got a swipe your security card

and then the gate opens inwards

and so by the time you've

got clearance, one you've got to kind

of get up this ramp. So you've got

and plus dealing with the diesel

I looked at it and I literally had less

than an inch on each

space, right? On each side

I knew it was going to be narrow, but I've done it heaps

of times. I've been parking

there for over 12 months. It's

generally fine. But the problem is

when I sort of revved it to get up this

ramp, the whole thing just

fucking came out of nowhere.

Like really like push forward.

Oh no. And yeah, just I

really scraped the shit out of the side.

Drive by field. It was that

gate that got it. I'm like, what the fuck?

Oh no. How many panels?

The front

the front quarter panel.

Yeah, it was bad. It was real bad. I mean

I paid for the damage and it

doesn't change my opinion on the car.

I think the car was actually really good. And I

think Great Wall are making some really good

cars. But yes, I scraped the shit

out of this. It's very, very

embarrassing. I haven't

touched wood, but like if you're driving

a lot of cars, it's a matter of time. Do you want to see

the photo? Oh yeah.

Let me have a look. I am

I can see the pain in your face. Oh wow.

Oh no.

I thought it was a bit of paint. No.

No, that's body work. No, I properly fucked it.

No, that's

that hurts a bit. Yeah.

But can you see the amount of room I had?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're crazy. It is.

But this is why I don't

take out anything that's a luxury car

because the cost of

repairs if you mess it up

would financially ruin me. Yeah.

It wasn't looked that I owned it. It was fine.

That was good about it. We did

what we had to do, but yeah.

This is the thing. Like it is hard

when you are driving a car that is not your car

and especially if you're changing them often

driving the EX90

I was really anxious about that car because that

was a very large car and it felt big

on the roads. Big SUV

lot of go, lot of guts

but like taking that into a car park

if I've got a press car often just don't go into

car parks because it's like I can't be certain

not just me that someone isn't going

to push a trolley into it and

it was a nice enough car that I didn't

want to bugger it up. Like it was

really nice inside, really nice outside.

It's like I've got to return

this in one piece. It's such a

brilliant car. We've got an XC40

I love it. Yeah. It's such a

great little cheap run around car

and it's funny because I

look the spec we've got it's very basic.

I think it's cloth seats and stuff like that

which I was fine with. I think the cloth

seats in that one looks pretty good

Yeah. I would consider these. I would

consider now like we were talking

about this off air. When I was a kid

Volvo was the big fat station

wagon. Yeah. Station wagon. Exactly.

That's it. That family car

and it was the safe car. Yeah. But

it was Swedish and it was

it wasn't. I wouldn't have called it

shit. You know what I mean? I wouldn't have called it

like Hyundai in the early days.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look it was never a bad car. I just

never found it a particularly sexy car. Yeah.

It's like it didn't have any of the sort of the

I still don't necessarily think of it as a sexy

car but I can say

that was a luxury car

and as someone who has worked

in audio and who really cares about sound they

handed over and they're like I reckon this will have the best

sound system that you ever have and

it did.

An electric car that's a bit quiet

plus all the speakers that they had

I was listening to my own music that's

on my phone hearing stuff that I hadn't heard.

Your own music like you might. My own not go.

Oh my god. Can you imagine.

Tell me about your music. Tell me about your

rap album.

What does it sound like?

If I did have a rap album which I cannot stress

enough I do not have you couldn't waterboard that

information out of me. I wonder

what your rap album would be called. I reckon

it would be called. Born to be Mild.

It'd be like. Milk Toast

the album. Fat

Sheenus. Fat Sheenus.

That's just the title of the album. That's not

like a rap. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

We'll work on the rap.

But yeah I was listening to it and like

I'm a sound person. I like you know good

headphones or whatever but I'm like I'm hearing

stuff from this car sound speaker

which I think has really good high

ends and really good and really nice

sort of balanced sound system. So I rate

that. I rate that if you can get your

hands on one of those give them a go. Yeah.

I think I was like this is the standard

it is very big but

it did set the standard I think for SUV

electric cars. They are big aren't they?

They've got everything in them it needs

to be there. They're so good with the storage.

They're so good. I think nowadays I would

consider Volvo like just a sexy

stylish luxury brand

and a luxury car. Yeah. And I think

they're doing far out that EX

30 and that little run around that they've

they've done. That's a great little

car. A bit small but yeah

I mean they look great on the roads. Paul

not so much of a fan but

I've got a lot of love for the Volvos.

Yeah. I reckon they're great. You're in an electric

car at the moment are you? Oh yeah we should

talk about the MG

5S EV. No I haven't driven

I've never driven an MG. I was supposed to

actually on the topic of snafus

I was supposed to drive

snafu little issues little issues.

You're making up words today. I'm not making

up words I've just got a good vocabulary

I'm sorry I'm trying to try to bring

if Grifter and snafu

Snafu sounds like someone I'm playing on kiss.

Yeah. Here's the latest

out of Shabuzy and Shafu. I'm trying

to I'm trying to bring up the tone I'm trying

to help. Good luck. That's bloody

that's carrying shit up a hill.

But yeah we I was supposed to have an MG

and then I think

something happened to the MG that

the car that I was supposed to be driving. Yeah yeah that was it

and so I've never actually driven an MG

but they feel like they're releasing

a new car every week those guys. Here's

what I'll say about the MG. I remember when they came out

with the MG

HS and all that sort of stuff and I'm talking

like seven eight years ago they were

releasing cheap SUVs

and they were selling really well and

for me at that time

I was a bit like ho hum

whatever they've got their thing going on and

yeah they kind of

serve a purpose. So now

what they've done is they're bringing

out these cars that are

well priced and their quality and I'm

not like this isn't pissing in

anyone's pocket I'm just literally

stating you can check for yourself. They're

brought out of fleet where

one all the new design language

has changed and

I feel like they're settling on these cars that

are just doing

really well in their space. So

you look at say whether it be the HS

or the the ZS

Hybrid Plus. I had that for a while

that was a great car.

The MG sedan

I'm not a huge fan of

but everything else what they're putting

out is just really

great stuff for their

space well priced well designed

and what I think it's allowing them to do is put

out these these cars

that are kind of like oh all right

that's a bit wow cool you're actually

doing that so that was like the MG

Cyberster for instance. Yeah like that EV

it's a two door

convertible sports car

the dealership guy

called it a super car he's like 110

thousand it's not a bad price for a super car

shut up sir. No I

love that that's cute. This isn't a super car.

It's cute when they've got that when they drink the

Koi. Yeah it's nice when they drink the Koi.

But it is a having said that the Cyberster

is I reckon it's a great car it's so fun

and it's it's fast and I actually

think it's worth the dollars but what I'm trying

to say is everything else that they're putting

in their space is quality

and it's worth the price

so the MG 5S EV

depending on spec

around about between 40 and

47,000 drive away as well

two battery types and range

the 49

kilowatt hour battery and the

I think it's a 62

kilowatt hour battery

somewhere along there so you're going to get anywhere between

sort of 335

and 435 kilometers

WLTP

just for transparency I had the top

spec which I think is like the essence

I mean you're getting essence

essence. Not as good as a

Janice has everything

going on to like

the faux leather seats the heated steering wheel

which I know you love

heated steering wheel

oh god I wish my car had a heated

steering wheel I've got the heated seats

oh yeah oh yeah it's locked I aspire

to that panoramic sunroof

electric tailgate all the all the hoo-ha

the tech in this by the way the 360 camera

the wireless

phone charging wireless Apple CarPlay

as well here's what I'll say like

$47,000 you're getting all that

in an EV that's driving

really well and it feels like

it feels way more expensive than it is

it drives really well

as a get-around towner picking up kids

doing your daily stuff it is

just mint it is bang on

for what it's supposed to do it's serving

its purpose so well the tech in this

I will say there's two things that

piss me off about tech nowadays there's all the

the bings and bongs the safety

we all hate that we all hate that

the first thing you get when you get into a new car

what do you do oh you turn it off

you turn it off it's like can we just

it's got all the tech and the cool thing I do

love about this is literally

with one swipe you can go swipe

save it to your favorites button

you got the favorites button so then

any time you're in all you're doing is just pushing

the favorites button which is on the steering wheel

and it's all gone it's not all gone

like you pick and choose what you want but the annoying

stuff is gone so

yeah I hate

Lane Assist in 90%

of the cars like the amount of times

Lane Assist has tried to drive me into

traffic it's not a lot but it's enough

the little jolt

stop it stop it

when it's when you're driving next to a

really big truck for example and you're in a big

car and it's like I think you should be further along

that's like no no I reckon I don't want to be under

the wheels of that truck I think I've got this one

like let me I hate fighting

cars who think that you know

they're driving better than you and I've

never had it save me because I don't know about you

but I don't drive off the road that often

who is this for

driving to car parks all the time you probably noticed

um yeah no this thing is packed

full of the safety tech which is

customizable the one

big plus for this car and

I think a lot of them aren't doing is

a lot of tech these days

is getting inbuilt in the screen

which is the most annoying AF

thing ever right we all agree

you don't want to be fumbling around

what they've done is at the bottom of the

the screen it's kind of hard

wide in so you've got

everything you need at that one touch

things like heated seats

heated steering wheel the

climate control is physical and it's

bloody easy the volume

that is actually physical that's all there

everything's kind of that

you definitely need is physical and

everything that you want to have that you don't want to

have to fumble in the tech is all hard

wide in it's probably one of the best

infotainment setups I reckon

I've ever used but EV

47 grand top of the range

so far so good I

think if I was to give it a bit of a

a stab

possibly driving range is getting to me

so 100%

is getting me around about

390Ks

which it's

published as about 430

which is a bit concerning I'm going to have to

check that out I suspect it could be a fault

I'm not sure but yeah

MG 5S EV

so far big ticks

you need to get him one

yeah I mean look when you are like relatively

new to the game as I am a lot of this is just

getting into as many cars as possible

so you have like a sense of what is on the road

and you can start sort of building a

mental library of like oh well this

drove well in this way and but you know

compared to this or whatever so

it's funny there is a little game

that I've noticed that you can play with most

car riders or car journals which is

who do you think will be

divorced first

that's easy though

that's an easy one but like

I'm not going to pick on

my peers and marriages

of course that's what we do here

like I said I am new to this game I cannot do that

give me another year and then

we're going to start bitching about the car

but of the new

Chinese cars that have entered the market

who do you reckon will be

still in the game in this time

BYD

MG is one that comes up a lot as well

yes but they're not specialising in just

EVs no no but just Chinese

cars full stop Chinese cars who have come

into the market yeah because as we all

know there's been a huge influx

who will actually be here in ten years time

it's tricky because like even Volvo for instance

is a Chinese car they're just like

masking as a Swedish car yeah

but of the of the newer

so like will a cherry be around

do you reckon I think cherry is going to be there

I think cherry is doing really well I think

MG are doing great but they've been in the market

for a long time

BYD for me would be probably

the safest bet

I have all of them I think

if you're going to bet on car brands

that won't be here

in five to ten years

I'd be surprised if

Leap motor

are still kind of floating about

I had their C10 and that is

easily the

worst car I've ever tested

really oh my god it's just

I hated it I hated it so much

it's so clumsy it's

undercooked it's not ready it's not ready

for the market it's like the user

experience is just who is the

focus group when they were putting this thing together

because it's so poorly put together

the card which

I know Paul loves but I hated it

the card is like I find cards

really tricky cards and your mobile

phone we're past that

I don't have a mobile phone that's going

so this card isn't proximity

it's actually

you've got to tap it on the side

mirror and by the way it is

a happy gilmore tippity tap it

you're fucking around with it for so long

what else did I hate about it

it's got no wireless apple car play

it's got no

in fact it's hard to find a car that has

in fact it's got no apple car play or android auto

so it's got none none of that

you literally have to use whatever the

Leap motor apps are the boot was a

faff around

it's kind of refreshing though

because I've had this conversation before

with other people it is rare I think

these days to get into a car we're like

that's a bad car and this is one of the

challenging things if you're writing about

this industry is that you get into it and it's

like it's another above average

car like it's rare that you get

something that I think is exemplary

and it's even rarer to get something where

you're like this is a lemon like we don't

have lemons in the way that we used to have

lemons at least we don't when they're

lemon years that's when they may become lemons

but we don't get them for five six seven years

we get them for two weeks so it's kind of hard

to say these days that was

that was trash yeah I think the Zika are

good I think they're based themselves really

well I think they've got good foundations

they've obviously got a few little improvements

here and there I think that mainly goes into

software for me as a personal thing

but yeah I think the the established

one about jaco jaco are good

I haven't had too much experience with them

I've had a little flutter

and I think they're putting together something really good

they certainly look good

are they owned by the same people who

own Land Rover I do

not have an answer for that off the top of my head

let's ask chat gpt

yeah because we trust that yeah I do

hang on let's let's try it let's give it a go

hey is the

owners of the car

jaco do they own

Land Rover

yes Jaguar

and Land Rover are actually part of the same parent company

they were both acquired by Tata

mooters and Indian automotive

giant back in 2000

oh thank you

I think that what a lot of these people are going to be fighting for

is just brand awareness

because we've had this like influx of car brands

and it's actually hard to keep up on

who's got what and where they sit in the market

and whether they're good and

I reckon that there will be a reckoning at some point

or another there's gonna have to be some of these brands

are gonna have to shave off because there's just too much

I think there are more cars and there are people looking to buy cars at this moment

hmm so who do you reckon is gonna stick around

I think MG and I would also say

well obviously BYD

they're just sales are killing

and they're doing interesting things

also they're like the biggest EV

car manufacturer in China

and they have been for years they've got a lot of money

behind them and they're one of the few that are kind of

manufacturing everything

every part of their car they manufacture themselves

I spoke to someone who worked at BYD

and they were like oh we got to go to

a tour of the factory right and it's like

you arrive at the factory

the factory is the size of a city and it's like oh okay

well to go get your pass

you first have to get on the BYD

monorail because it's so

large you can't walk there so like

it's got its own sort of like transport system

internally because it's just and like it

defies the imagination of someone

in Australia where you know where

we don't really do manufacturing

how ridiculously huge and how much money

is going into this so I think

BYD at this point are too big to fail

absolutely

Cherry as well I

they're making quality stuff

and it's being well received

like I was in the Tigo 4 I think

and for the price of what it is

no wonder we're losing cars like the Ignis

because how could you possibly

compete on price like it's just

what is a cheap car has now

really fundamentally changed

I'll have to double check but I think in South Africa

they've launched I think it's

like a motor and Cherry

and I think Cherry is known as

like a luxury car brand over there

which is so wild considering

like what they've launched here

the same car, same sort of

stuff at an amazing price

it is really hard I think

for the Korean car manufacturers to sort of work out

who they are in this market like what is

cheap has just been redefined

and it's really hard to do

I think it's great though I think it's good I think it's bringing on more competition

I think it's putting people in

brand new cars in safe cars

new cars with big warranties like that MG

I hate to bring it up again but the MG

5 SEV

that was like a 10 year warranty

I think the thing is like a warranty

and the same thing for the Tigo

it's got like a 7 year warranty something ridiculous

but a warranty

is only so good

as the parts being available

the service you're getting

so it's like when these

things start to as all cars inevitably

have their issues and whatnot

will they actually be fixable

and serviceable I think that that is the

next big test and you might get

people to buy your car once but if you give them bad

service and the parts aren't available

and they're on a back order for four years

then what happens

and that is the true test of a car

and they haven't been on the roads long enough

for us to know that I think

look at this, you're stamping it down

you're like the young event of car journalism

thank you so much yeah just don't

no one fact check anything I say okay

if we can all agree on that I sound very convincing

yeah I think it's good do you know

what I loved you had a rant

on your socials

the other day right so many

yeah so many but it was one of my

favorite things I like to look at

on YouTube and it was

I don't know if I'm allowed to say it

but it's the fat chicks

at Disneyland plus size park hoppers

leave them alone

the large ladies

at Disneyland right and they test out

like the different food

sorry they test out the different foods

and like the rides

and

it's like it's incredible they'll be like

okay the triple stack was okay

and the splash

mountain ride was okay but

if you have a no pan the camera down

if you have a look at me it's been giving me

thyrash I haven't seen

talking about thyrash I think you're being mean

I mean like I like it

if you if you can't eat the whole

thing just stick it under your armpit

it'll keep warm for a couple of hours

for people who are listening

that is so unfair you know what they're just

a bunch of fat chicks who are who are just like hey

I'm fat like here's what the experience is

you might fit in this ride you might not fit

in this ride and I and here's the thing I've got skin in the game

I used to be a fatty right not

not plus size park hopper fat to be fair

but like how big are we talking

look I reckon I'm about

sixty three or four kilos

now right I would have been about

eighty six that's all right

that's me now yeah but like

I didn't carry it well so like I was festive

have you got a photo I do but I have to

dig it out it will put it in the show notes

can we fat Stephanie

can we put it in the loop fat Stephanie

I don't I it's like a video

and it's more it's more as well

as an 18 year old I just I looked like a

50 year old woman who'd gone through a couple of hard

divorces and she had two teenage

sons who she just didn't like

yeah I didn't like her

no no recently shut up and play with your

fucking PlayStation

Steph's got to get back to bloody

I wouldn't have to work so hard if your

dad didn't leave me for that 20 year old

A anyway so like that that was the

you know I like

I'm not I'm making fun a little bit I agree

but I genuinely think

it's just very it's just very

interdating stuff like it's very

like what's nice about them

is their charismatic women who are actually

have good chemistry but you go into the comments

and people are just so mean

in the comments like

the village costs so little just be nice

come on come on if they're putting

themselves out there like that they've got

a bloody they gonna know they're going to get

roasted like just for existing

no they're not existing

they just say like hey we're fat people

were at a theme park we thought this and

everyone's like they lose their minds

no no they're doing more than that they're going

this is if you're if you're like a

what do I say what's the correct thing

by the way they call themselves a plus-size pack

but like you are coppers but you can

you know fat is a descriptive word

I can say I was fat and I can say that those women

were fat am I fat can I say fat

I don't think you're fat I think I'm fat

I reckon I can say fat

and I reckon I can say like that

yeah fat

shit

anyone who sees my like

reviews on insta where I'm just doing the selfie

thing the millennial high

angle yeah yeah they can tell

and though the amount of times I've got to breathe

I reckon I can classify

as fat

I think that there is actually a few interesting studies

that if you are mean to people on the internet and just

you know like just say mean things

you are statistically more likely to be a cunt

in real life so we can

we're not like that

but like you know if you're a

asshole online you're probably an asshole

in real life

so just if you have the choice between

being an awful person online

just seeing that and being like

whatever I'm going to let that go

and I don't actually have to be an asshole

then in which case like

choose the second option

I feel like this is going to go up online

I'm just going to get a bunch of mean comments

what about those guys

have you seen that family who goes to like

Costco it's like a double chocolate chip

cookie we're trying it right now

I love America

I love it

no wonder you like the Yukon Denali

I'm taking that thing to Costco

yeah look it's just

the weird sort of dichotomy of me is that

I love cars and I love like big cars

and stupid cars and petrol and whatever

and I also like EVs but you know I'm a bit of a

dirty tree hugging greenie as well

and I just try not to think about that

but there is something about the ridiculous

consumption of America which I find very entertaining

and I kind of admire it

like look at you guys

that's exactly what I'm talking about with the plus size pack

yeah and the Yukon Denali

yeah that is that is as big and as obnoxious

as a car can get good for you

yeah you did it

I wonder if they drive a Yukon Denali

oh they'd have to

see I didn't say that

I'm allowed to

how the tables have turned

now I'm the bad guy

sorry for anyone who actually wanted to hear about cars

in that bit

no that's what we're all about

you're putting this podcast on some sort of a pedestal

we barely talk about cars

I feel like I listened to you guys once

and they know what they're talking about

they kind of talk about cars

yeah we'll get to cars eventually

but there's a lot of like waiting through the shit

and just crap that we talk about

but hey if you do want to listen to me

roundabout dumb shit on instagram

at Coombals

my last name is Coombs

how we spell on that

c-o-o-m-b-l-e-s

you're going to get a whole heap of

men following you

you know what I'm always happy

to have new simps

have you ever got like a creepy dam

I have

I got a really nice one once from a guy

I was like I just want to pay you to exist

and I'm like oh no I better not

what does that mean I want to pay you to exist

just pay me to exist

but then I was like look at his profile

I'm like oh man you're not rich enough to do that

is that a nice way of going

hey here's 200 bucks

no it wasn't even like

you know he was probably like a little pay pig

I don't want to take money from someone

I totally will and I'm open to that

shit yeah if you want to pay me

hey by the way if anyone's listening and wants to DM me and pay me 200 bucks

I will

I'll do a little dance for it

I will get my butt out and I'll get my butt hole

and I'll be up and on this

I will give you 200 dollars to not see your butt hole

would you? yeah

pay me 200 bucks right now I'm getting my ass out

cause like Christ y'all

a wire or two yeah like that's how you could actually

make money yeah it's like reverse only

fans yeah exactly it's like every

day I get 200 bucks

I'm not gonna show you my butt hole

yeah I'm gonna threaten

I'm gonna threaten to get my dick out

yeah yeah that's I reckon new business model

but I want 300 bucks

to keep it in

man I reckon

people would pay for the health

and safety of people please we do not

want to see your tiny penis

yeah anyway

this is the

the next iteration of the driver's show

yeah whatever it is

we're wrapping up by the way oh are we

I feel like we've talked about have we talked enough

yeah I reckon have we missed anything

I don't know do you know

Paul's been away everywhere

and one of the places he was

at is Goodwood cause he loves

a little Goodwood

and I was

five kinds of jealous so what I've kind of done

is I'm making it my little

New Year's resolution oh right

yeah yeah yeah yeah so I know it's like

we're mid-year but I'm

I kind of said to myself so this time next year

I'm definitely doing Goodwood

yeah do you think that's gonna happen

see I've got this thing called

radio ratings and I don't know if they'll let me

go in yeah that's the thing

you just have to pull a really convincing

sicky yeah have a little

mental breakdown mid-B I could do that

yeah exactly like a that's pretty common

in my game and I believe

it coming from me because I can do a podcast

about men's depression or something and then

then you're off we can talk about our

problems yeah I

have said that to Paul so many times

I said we're gonna get this podcast

up you need to start fucking

crying I need you to talk about

your mental health I need

I need you to share I need

you to be vulnerable I would love

to see him being vulnerable I don't know

if Paul could do it we're looking at him

right now we can see the photo right now do you think every morning

he looks in the mirror and just goes why did

Jesus make me so deformed

he has the cold dead eyes of a killer

he does he's very

werewolfy he's very hairy

and I just I actually tried to

get writing work for car expert oh did you

they ghosted me how'd that go oh no

why did you reply no

no was he well yes yeah yeah

but I was right Paul

you bitch no I don't think I got in

touch with Paul actually with someone else in the team

but that's fine I'll let that go

I now have a few little

places I write for and it goes very well yeah

yeah many many publications

I am I am many well

storied publications hey before

we wrap yeah you have a

three cars to go into a dream

garage I'd be keen oh man

that's too hard no it's not

oh let me help you out one classic

one EV now here's the deal

I always think at the moment

where I'm at in my headspace is

you can't it's like a topic

about depression again yeah

so you kind of have to have

like I reckon it's

a good idea to have like some sort of hybrid or

EV preferably EV yeah and

plus a super car

I honestly I'm honestly stumped

by this

if I was going to go something old I

want something a little bit weird I think like 1980s

cars really beautiful so I would

consider like a Mitsubishi

starion for example of it which

is I don't think that that was a particularly good car

to drive but the ad campaign

for the starion at the time was

quite like sort of punky sort of

new wavey really cool really

sort of retro Japanese campaign yeah really great

new order it was quite beautiful the car

itself it's funny how you know

when your kid 1980s cars look a bit

you know ridiculous but now they're so cool

like that sort of like really boxy

aesthetic yeah you could even

like the ugly

like I'm a Porsche fanatic you look at even like the 928s

they were like what the fuck

yeah they look kind of cool now

yeah they do so I'd want

something kind of silly you know like I'd want

a car and like in good condition but

but silly good condition yeah

EV

the ex 90 is top of

mine literally because I was just in it and I haven't driven

a lot of EV so I know that one is good

I am a bit of a

BMW fan I would love to drive

some BMW EVs

that doesn't catch on fire like yours

to be fair to my car

that it's an X one from like

2014 so you know it is at that time

where it just catches on fire occasionally but I

love I do

the bath is 12 hour oh every

every year I love the bath is 12 hour and the BMW

is the one we're just shockingly

yeah like shockingly beautiful new

M2 is a good and you know

speaking of cars that sort of grow on you like the

BMW with the sort of toothy grill

looked ridiculous I think

when they first came out and they released something

and it looks really absurd and then they sort of

pull it back a little bit in later iterations

and so like I think the

X5 M is a good looking

car like that looks like

a weapon on the road yeah

beautiful like that really so sharp

I've been looking at the X3

and the X5 M40Is and

yeah they look

they're just solid they're so good

yeah yeah yeah it's a

Mercedes new air class as well because that would

oh I don't I'd be interested to know how that goes

we don't we don't talk about Mercedes

on this podcast oh don't we no no no because

um my dad got his

uh Merck Stolen quite recently

really yeah yeah and Mercedes

refused to turn on the tracking device it's a

whole thing right oh okay

yeah some of the reels it's all in there

yeah because the GT you know

AMG like I find those

really sexy cars like big

big front hood so maybe one of those

it was really disheartening when all that happened

because I was like I'm never gonna fucking buy a Merck again

but oh and then you see one and you're like oh they're

beautiful yeah they're so nice it's like I forgive

you it's like it's like a on the crazy hot

girlfriend's gal right like it's you know

crazy hot but treat you bad but so hot

and it's like I'm sorry babe

I'll come back to you crazy hot

girlfriends never gonna bring you a lasagna for lunch

that's the problem they're not they're not

but they're so hot and then you know you seen with them

and everyone's like wow look at that

like look at that so like that's that's

she's home maintenance cost you a lot at the mechanics

I know yeah haha but but also she's hot

yeah I would I would be considering

you know some AMG

two-door ridiculous thing

anything BMW would be great

good picks yeah yeah so look I mean

picks yeah but also something silly

you know a little silly it's something

you know something that's hard to drive and

ridiculous love it contacted the

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