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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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About this episode
The podcast dives into the bold and controversial design of the new Kia Tasman ute, sharing firsthand impressions from its launch and off-road capabilities. The hosts discuss Kia's challenge in entering a crowded market dominated by established utes, comparing it to competitors like BYD. They also chat about various vehicles they've driven recently, including the luxurious Genesis GV80, the massive GMC Denali Yukon, and the stylish Volvo EX90 EV. The conversation touches on the evolving landscape of Chinese car brands, the appeal of electric vehicles, and the quirks of car tech. Personal stories and humor add a lively, candid tone throughout.
This episode is guest hosted by Stephanie Coombes, she's a motoring journalist, car nut, professional smart arse and top shelf sort. We chat the new KIA Tasman, the Mazda MX-5 and Gordie froths over his latest long-term loan, the MGS5 EV.
Paul will (hopefully) be back one day.
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