Bring a Trailer Podcast Jan 15, 2026

The One-Year Garage: 2026

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0-1 time

0-1 time is a way to measure how fast a car can go from a stop to one second. It's important for understanding how quickly a car can accelerate.

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supercar

Supercars are very fast and expensive cars that are built for performance. They are usually some of the best cars in terms of speed and technology.

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quarter mile

The quarter mile is a distance of 1,320 feet that cars race to see how fast they can go. It's a popular way to measure how quickly a car can accelerate.

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0-60 time

0-60 time is how fast a car can go from a complete stop to 60 miles per hour. It's a way to see how quickly a car can speed up.

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BMW E36

The E36 is a model of the BMW 3 Series, which is a line of compact cars. This generation is known for being fun to drive and is often favored by car lovers.

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power plants

'Power plants' is a term used to describe the engines in cars. It can mean either gas engines or electric motors that make the car move.

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battery

A battery in a car is what stores energy to power the vehicle, especially in electric cars. It’s different from gas engines that use fuel.

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average price of a new car

The average price of a new car is how much people usually pay for a brand-new vehicle. This price can change depending on the type of car and what features it has.

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30 grand

'30 grand' means $30,000. It shows how much people used to think a new car cost a lot back then.

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45 grand

'45 grand' means $45,000. This is what the speaker thinks a new car costs now, showing how prices have gone up.

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MSRP

MSRP is the price that car makers suggest you should pay for a new car. It's like a starting point for how much a car should cost.

Concept

inflation

Inflation is when prices go up and money doesn't buy as much as it used to. This means that things like cars can become more expensive over time.

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Mitsubishi Mirage

The Mitsubishi Mirage is a small, inexpensive car that is easy to drive and good on gas. It's often considered a budget-friendly option for new car buyers.

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Nissan Versa

The Nissan Versa is a small, budget-friendly car that is popular for being one of the least expensive options you can buy new in the U.S.

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Volkswagen Fox

The Volkswagen Fox is a small car that Volkswagen made in the early 1990s. It was a budget-friendly option for families and individuals.

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Colin McRae

Colin McRae was a well-known race car driver who competed in rally races. He was famous for his exciting driving and won many championships.

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Porsche Carrera GT

The Porsche Carrera GT is a supercar made by Porsche, famous for its powerful engine and fast performance. It was made in limited numbers and is highly sought after by car enthusiasts.

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Mazda Protegé 5

The Mazda Protegé 5 is a small car that has a hatchback design, which means it has a rear door that swings upward to access the trunk.

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Volkswagen Golf

The Volkswagen Golf is a small car that is well-liked for being practical and fun to drive, available in different versions.

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Jeep Wrangler

The Jeep Wrangler is a tough vehicle designed for off-road driving. It's known for its ability to handle rough terrain and is loved by people who enjoy outdoor adventures.

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The Hyundai Equus is a luxury car made by Hyundai. It's designed to be very comfortable and has many high-end features, making it a good choice for people looking for a luxury vehicle without the high price of some other brands.

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Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevrolet Camaro C60 R1 is a type of sports car that is part of the Camaro lineup. It's known for being fast and fun to drive, especially among car enthusiasts.

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Nissan Leaf

The Nissan Leaf is an electric car that doesn't use gasoline. It's designed to be environmentally friendly and is popular for being easy to drive and maintain.

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Mini Cooper

The Mini Cooper is a small car that is known for being fun to drive and easy to park. It has a unique style and is popular in urban areas.

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Pontiac Fiero

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Ford Gtd

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Aston Martin Valkyrie

The Aston Martin Valkyrie is a super-fast car made by Aston Martin, famous for its cutting-edge technology and design.

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Porsche 911

The Porsche 911 is a famous sports car that many people recognize for its unique shape and fast performance.

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Gordon T50

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Acura Mdx

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No Reserve: Modified 2023 Honda Civic Type R

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6k-Mile 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V ESV

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to the Bring a Trailer podcast.

My name is Alex Porter, and on today's episode,

I am joined by Randy, Zach, and Beck

to do another of our popular one-year garage games.

This time about model year 2026.

So a little bit of a departure for us,

but we had a lot of fun arguing and discussing new cars

for this year and also prepping for the game.

We had a really good time.

Hope you all enjoy the episode.

Bring a trailer podcast.

So here we are again, doing another one-year garage.

This time, we're going to do something a little different.

We're going to do 2026, the current model year.

Are we going to set the stage and say

what the top albums, movies, and everything?

Happy New Year.

Yeah, what are the greatest movies of 2026?

What is the greatest movie so far?

I have no idea.

What are the movies going to be out of now?

How much Takashi 69 are you listening to on the way to work?

Oh, my god.

Randy's more of a win the awards.

Randy's a little yachty guy.

I don't even know how to use this anymore.

We are only six weeks into this year,

and we're going to talk about the model year regardless.

Am I missing something?

We're three weeks into 2026.

Oh, gosh.

Two weeks into this year.

But what I mean is we are sorry.

Is it Valentine's Day tonight?

Did I miss the memo?

Let's just launch it in three weeks.

My brain hurts so much just trying to think of 2026 cars.

You know, I was struggling with it, too, obviously.

I actually wanted to start with this was a Zach idea,

and I wanted to know what was going through your brain

when you thought about it.

I just think it's the challenge is fun.

I think it creates some discussion around what cars were actually

looking forward to and are excited about,

and then what cars were not excited about and started the new year.

Just something fun, interesting, different.

Have we done any post-2020?

We did 2012 recently.

I think that's the newest year we've done.

Yeah, that, and I was afraid to do back 1926 back, so.

Doing that back to back to this would be pretty good.

2026 and then 1926?

We can try it.

Zach was planning breeds of horses.

Yeah, totally.

We also list cars from 2026.

We've listed 19 of them, and there's

going to be more and more to come.

Zach, how do you and the curation department

think about brand new cars?

Well, good question, because that's evolved quite a bit

over the years.

And actually, it's 18 because one was a charity VIP experience.

Yes, that's right.

One is a sign, and one is lot number 2026.

Yes, that's right.

That's a Monday all in 2026.

Yes, that's right.

And there's also, for some reason,

when you type in 2026, a Dodge Ram in there,

which is interesting.

Oh, yeah.

An 06 Dodge Ram.

And mileage and mileage and all that.

But all that's to say to your question,

it's mostly the same formula of what's cool, what's desirable,

what do people want to see, what's

going to facilitate some kind of discussion around it all.

So, yeah, 0-1s, crazy.

I mean, they dropped all those stats this year,

and it pretty much blew every supercar out of the water

for a fifth of the price, right?

Yes.

And I don't know if you're up on the new 0-1X.

You've seen all those first ones.

It just dropped last night.

It did drop last night.

No, no, people are talking about that.

I was reading it.

What is that?

I mean, it runs 8.5 second quarter mile.

Yeah, no, but the 060 is like meaningless.

It's 1.3, I think.

So, 1.68.

It beats the Navarra.

I don't even know what that is.

I found this whole thing to be a very interesting exercise

because I'm not up on any of this, right?

Like, that's been the main thing for me.

Zach, you and me and Randy had kind of an abortive attempt

to do this last week.

And Randy said some very funny things about 2026 cars.

And I was like, no, there's cool stuff.

And then I've gone through this exercise.

And I'm like, wow, I don't even know if order matters.

You guys can have all the supercars.

I don't care about any of them.

It's fascinating.

I, like, they're just not interesting to me.

They're hybrid.

Can I go first with family haulers?

I've got a list of stuff.

Yeah, mine are like zero supercars.

I'm not, there's not a Valkyrie on my list

because that's Zach's daily.

That's his family hauler.

Yeah, family hauler.

That's his truck.

That's actually, yeah, family haul.

I mean, a lot of you have the stadium seating

or is that the one that does not?

It may have four afts, but it doesn't have any stavesy.

The thing that I found is the zinger.

The zinger has a, I don't know what that is.

It's like your E36 that you drove

with the third seat in the back.

Exactly, the center middle.

Except your legs are straddling the driver.

The flip side to not caring about

a lot of the exotic stuff is I found myself,

and I'm curious what it was like for you guys

getting ready for this too.

I found myself thinking in a much more practical terms

than I normally do.

Like my brain immediately went to like,

oh man, would I actually really earnestly buy this car later

this year to be a daily driver

or buy it for my wife or whatever.

It felt very much more like practical and real

than the previous years we've done.

It was also shocking to see how expensive things are

because we're so used to like depreciated stuff

for the most part.

And that's some of the joy of looking at 2012 cars, right?

Is how depreciated they are.

So that was really challenging.

Also, another one was just knowing

what the power plants are these days.

Just having no clue.

I had cars that I picked just sort of how they looked.

I thought they looked great.

And then if you were to follow up with a question of,

well, what's the engine now?

I have no idea.

It's a battery.

Do you guys still have that brain stuck in a certain year?

From my mind, when I hear 2014, I'm like, that's a new car.

Oh, 100%.

I've been at 12 years old at this point.

Totally.

So looking at the stuff from 26, my head's spinning.

Do you know what the average price of a new car is today?

Gosh, I remember when it was 30 grand

and I thought that was crazy,

but it's got to be way more than that now.

Average price of a new today is...

I'm going to guess 45 grand.

49.

I was going to say 50.

Oh, back dunked it.

Randy was going to get the point.

50 grand.

It's 50 grand.

That's the average price of a new car sold in the US.

I think that's 49 rounded out.

I win.

I think I win.

That's insane.

That's crazy.

I bought my Civic SiCoupe new in 2019.

It was $26,000.

Like, that's not a thing you can do anymore, right?

I guess some of that is inflation,

but also everyone buys electric SUVs

and they're more expensive.

Well, that and the value of used cars are going up, right?

So then the new car manufacturers can charge even more.

Okay, Alex, the cheapest new car today.

In the US.

It used to be a Mitsubishi.

That was the joke a long time ago.

It was a Mirage or something.

Wasn't that your rental car back when you...

I know what it was.

Didn't you have a real cheapo...

No, that was Howard when he went to Lebanon, Missouri.

That's right.

Am I supposed to guess what it is or what the number is?

Someone at this company has owned one for a number of years.

Oh, is it a Versa?

It is a Versa.

Versa, still cheapest car in the US.

Wow.

What's entry-level?

I don't know what a new one looks starting at 18, 330.

Wow.

18 grand.

My dad bought our Volkswagen Fox in 1991 for $7,000.

That was a new car.

I remember him being very excited.

Did not come with a radio.

Oh, shoot.

Maybe maybe a missed report.

It looks like on Nissan's website, $17,390.

Oh, some incentives.

They're putting some cash on the hood.

I think so.

Let's get out there and get one of those.

I can't tell you what a new Versa looks like, though.

Well, I don't like any of the other Nissan's.

Just kidding.

Let's look at everything else.

I think I already know the answer to this question for most of you.

I used to keep up with new cars religiously in car magazines.

And auto shows.

Totally.

And I used to go to the LA Auto Show every year.

I love to go to the auto show.

Yeah.

And now, no, I have no, I really have to go there.

I do not.

Cisco Auto Show Thanksgiving.

There's not.

Is there?

No.

Is there any?

Is there such a green?

No.

Well, there's LA Auto Show.

Oh, sure.

But not in San Francisco, though.

I don't know.

I don't know where else there is one.

LA still happens.

Detroit.

And is there a little Kobo Hall in Detroit?

Or have they rolled up to sidewalks at that place, too?

NYC is gone, right?

Yeah.

What was the last year auto show you went to?

Oh, that's a good question.

Would have been.

I went to a couple of the LA ones.

I drove to LA and went to the LA ones.

In the big glass.

I used to go to those every year.

Early 2000s.

But then the last SF auto show I went to, I don't know.

Yeah.

2008, 2009, something like that.

Yeah.

It's been a long time.

The LA Auto Show was starting to get sad in like 2005.

No, but then they injected some action into it, right?

I mean, there were more.

All the other ones closed.

So they're like, LA is going to live on.

I don't know whether it did.

But I don't know if you guys saw it also in the headlines.

CES, the computer electronic show.

A bunch of people were there and there was a ton of car stuff

because it's all so technology driven now

that they're like doing car releases there.

That's like the mobility show, the car show.

So that's pretty different.

Texas cars, cars are dead.

There's no Colin McRae, Subaru rally cars like jumping through the air.

Like I went to an auto show to go see that at the Subaru booth, right?

And now it's whatever.

How big is the screen in the dash?

I saw the Crer GT debut at LA.

Is that right?

Yeah.

So it's sort of almost like it's bifurcated away from it all just

being automotive based and one being tech based

and the other one being enthusiast based.

So if you go to Monterey, you've got those events

for people who do maybe want to see the Colin McRae Subaru happen.

That's what I want to see.

As opposed to the consumers are completely removed.

But that sucks a little bit.

I mean, that's what I mean.

Like I used to be so incentivized to read the mags and like what's the new?

Like it didn't matter if it was a Mazda, what were we talking about?

Mazda protégé 5 or like the Crer GT.

Or you'd want to see the new Golf.

That's what I mean.

But I was excited about all of it and now I have to spend forever.

I'm just even finding a place to tell me what's available in 2020.

I'm searching online and it's it's hard.

I'm looking at the media release from the SF Auto Show 2010.

Okay.

It starts with the new Wrangler.

Oh, look out.

Then goes immediately to the Hyundai Equus.

Oh, okay.

I think telling why Randy stopped going.

Yeah, probably.

And then new Camaro C60 R1.

YLR concept and the Nissan Leaf.

And then we've got like a Mini Cooper with Woody Wagon, big handling.

Yeah, there you go.

There you go.

No, it was still fun.

No, I mean, crazy stuff was going on.

Okay, my coolest SF Auto Show story is from it's got to be 84.

80.

Nineteen and a half.

Yeah, my dad used to take me all the time.

And I saw the like the first time I ever saw a Fiero.

And it was on the turntable and there was these like ladies standing around it introducing it.

And they took off all the body panels of a red 2M4, the original Fiero.

And they like pulled the front and the back and the doors and everything.

And it was this weird little like nothing chassis.

And it was turning around.

The lights were on and it was like ladies and we build excitement.

Introducing the Pontiac Fiero.

Do you still kind of want one of those?

That was freaking awesome.

I was so stoked on that.

That's like a formative moment.

That was like the biggest display at the show.

I mean, there were a bunch early 80s.

Auto Show still mattered to them a lot, you know.

But anyway, that's a zillion years ago, but it must have been 84.

I don't think it was 85.

I think that car came out in 84, didn't it?

So anyway, to see that, I totally remember Mosconi Center in the basement.

See in the Pontiac booth.

And then you watched Ferris's sister roll one around.

And then she rolled up in that.

Yeah, yeah, later after that.

So anyway, none of you guys were alive, but that was awesome.

But we're in 2026.

Why am I talking about 1984?

Well, because I asked the question about whether you care about new cars at all anymore.

And all of us are talking about nostalgic experiences and not about something exciting

that we just saw.

And that's notable.

I mean, those ZR1 numbers coming out last night, like I saw it and it was kind of a big deal.

And am I running out to buy a ZR1?

Probably not.

But when I saw it at Laguna, there was one at Laguna this year.

They had some pre-pro, whatever, ZR1X.

And they're next to the Ford GTD and stuff.

And they're like, the ZR1 is the deal.

Dude, donut media, bros.

That's the deal.

Remember the guys who interviewed you?

They were in a press.

But I was also like, OK, that's it.

I guess that's a meaningful car.

OK, other thing, this has been like the last maybe three or four years.

But I feel like we've seen more of a rise of these super limited manufacturers making

high horsepower, super sporty.

I mean, it's almost like it's not quite coach building in the modern day,

but it's all these one-off manufactured building, one singular car that doesn't have

to comply to all the same regulations.

Example.

Zinger.

Yes, you said that.

I was like, I don't know what that is.

Google it.

Look it up.

It's like a super car of some kind.

Yeah.

Another example.

I mean, the Valkyrie is kind of one, but that's made by Aston Martin.

I mean, Zinger is kind of the prototype.

They've rest him on a 911.

OK.

And what was Jensen Button's deal?

The 911 K.

No, he had the Radford coach building sort of low Aston cars.

Yeah.

OK, that's one of those.

Well, there's the Gordon Murray thing.

That's been trotted out quite a few times, right?

T-33 is.

This year, though, that's the second model, right?

T-50 is out, but T-33 is coming out.

Oh, Randy's following.

Randy's like, I got a factory tour at that place in the UK, dude.

Wait, did you really?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We could talk about that.

I don't think you said that.

I don't think you just told me that.

We could talk all about you.

The GMA is legit.

OK, that's the really super high-reving V10 or V12

or something like that, right?

Amazing.

You saw them putting those together?

Putting them together, yeah.

Wow.

It's like 12,000 RPM or something.

Yeah.

Some crazy number.

Cosworth engine.

They're Cosworths, of course.

So cool.

So rad.

Man, that's awesome.

We can dive into it a little bit.

So a couple of things that'll be different.

Like, typically, I use almost exclusively Bate to do research

for these two.

So that was a little different, right?

Yeah, that's out.

I could just spoil it right now.

I don't like C8s.

So that's the main thing that we've listed from 2026.

I'm not going to be picking one of those.

So have at it, y'all.

The other thing that is quite a bit different

is we have to kind of think about,

there's cars that may come out in 2026, but may not.

So such as?

Well, oh, you don't want to spill.

Yeah, I think we have to deal with them as they come up.

But there's a couple of cars.

I mean, Zach, there's a super car that I am excited about

from a big manufacturer.

And I don't know if that's going to be a 2026 or not.

But typically, for other years,

you've got to stick to the model year.

So we've had, what was Randy wanted, a prototype M1

or something?

There's been some like that.

Yeah, there was like the only edge.

Right.

So we may have to do a little more of that

than we normally do.

Like I would be comfortable.

I don't know what you guys think with like,

OK, it's likely that car will debut as a 2026 model year.

It's mostly just to talk about stuff

that we're actually excited about in 2026.

OK, all right.

Let me remind folks about the rules of the game.

And then we can dive in.

There's four of us here.

So we are going to each select a five vehicle garage.

Each one of us will select one car from five different categories.

Sports car, family hauler, truck four by four daily driver,

and a wild card.

It'd be very interesting to see what happens

with the last category there.

We're going to go round Robin style here.

We can pick the order.

Probably matters a little bit less this time, maybe not.

But we'll pick that here.

We'll end up with 20 cars selected in total.

And we will post those results in various places.

And we'd love to hear what people think

about each one of our 2026 model year garages.

Beck, you want to do the honors?

Absolutely not.

I've done this too many times.

OK, all right, Randy.

Beck.

Beck goes first.

Beck always goes first.

Randy second.

Alex third.

Zach last.

Zach's cleanup hitter.

OK.

He'll be all right.

All right.

This should be interesting.

Beck, how did you feel about doing the research?

The biggest challenge was what you referenced.

You can't really use bring a trailer for this.

I was using a car and driver for a lot of it

because they already do a lot of ranking of 10 bests.

But that sort of gets limited in mostly generic offerings.

If you're trying to find something really extreme

and out there, you kind of have to break out of that shell.

Am I choosing first category?

You can start the first category, buddy.

Oh, man.

Let's go sports car.

All right.

Might as well do it.

I was trying to make a last second edit on this

because something was mentioned in the pre-show discussion,

but the GMA T33.

Have you moved to Gordon?

Oh, you're going straight in.

I love it.

V12 manual.

I got to see it at Monterey 2024.

GMA was there with a T50.

And I want to say at least one T33.

And I think also the track version of the T50

that they were trying to promo as well.

It absolutely sounds like a race car.

It's fantastic.

But it's meant to be very much a thing you can drive on the road.

It's got a nice ride height to it.

The T33 doesn't have the fan suction portion of the T50.

So that sort of uniqueness is out the door,

but maybe that's actually kind of makes it a little bit easier.

That's a good thing in my book.

I don't want a propeller on the back of my car.

What?

Is it the same chassis?

I don't know anything about this.

It's going to have to be so much alloy.

It's slightly different because they're making

a convertible version of this one or a rooftop

that's going to come off.

And so it has to be slightly different.

So I think for the most part,

I believe the interior is at two seated side by side.

It's not a two-seater driver.

Correct.

Not a single seat.

And the front is sort of an homage to the McLaren

that it sort of is coming from.

But being still a V12, still a manual,

still sort of driver-centric,

I think is pretty exciting that it's still coming.

And it sounds like he's going to try to drag out that drivetrain

in multiple models into the future, too.

No, that's a super cool car.

And yeah, not as esoteric as Senator in driving position

and all that, and also much less expensive than the T50.

What's the T50?

$3 million.

It's a million dollars less.

It's only two and a half million dollars.

It's great value.

It's quite pretty.

Let's see who loses.

It's more conventional looking than I think it looks good.

You could fly kind of under the radar for a $2.5 million car.

Did you say sports car or daily?

That was me, sports car.

I think it's great looking and very true to what I was hoping to get at

with the 2026.

If here's a car we are universally excited about.

And GMA is Gordon Murray, something.

Automotive, yeah.

Okay, gotcha.

10,500 RPM still out of a four-liter Cosworth GMA V12.

Is it the same engine as in the other one?

Correct.

Okay, gotcha.

Great pick.

Randy, you're next.

Oh man, let me make sure they're still making these.

Talk amongst yourselves.

They don't make BMW M1s anymore.

I still want and wish I've always been able to get my hands on an Alpine A110.

Oh, that's good.

That was on my list.

So that would be a great sports car.

That would be a great sports car in the US.

I wish it came here.

I'd probably have one.

I've sat in one.

I've never driven one.

They've now introduced so many different versions.

There's the R Ultima.

There is the GTS.

I just want a blue one, and I want nobody to bother me with registration.

And I just want a good drive-in.

That's all I ask for.

Just get a registered import.

Anyway, not easy to pull that off, unfortunately.

But that's a killer car, and I want one.

They're extremely good-looking.

It's Ferrari-based, is that right?

Is it built on a Ferrari or is it its own thing?

I don't think so.

I think it's its own thing.

It's the French folks doing it.

Interesting.

They flip a Clio backwards, and then it's rear-wheel drive.

Is it a V6?

I think it's a Turbo 4.

Turbo 4, dude.

My dreams are four-cylinder.

And it weighs 2,425 pounds.

Wow.

2,426.

Now, I assume, that's not an emissions issue.

That's got to be a crash testing.

It's probably a crash thing.

Honestly, I mean, there's no Alpine sold here.

There's no Renault sold here.

I mean, they have a ton of cars that they do not bring here.

I don't think they sell them in Canada.

I don't think so.

Right when they came out, went to the Alpine dealer on holiday in France

and sat in the car on the showroom floor.

I mean, I've loved it.

Loved it.

I think they're amazing.

Thought of some ways to wrangle one over there to go use it and drive it,

but never figured it out.

So always long for one of those.

Wish they had them here.

So anyway, that's my pick.

That's a great one.

It's a really good-looking car, and it's interesting looking in the way

that the original is.

It's a really good reimagining or recreation or whatever you want to call it.

It channels the spirit of the original one, I think.

GT40, ask if you will.

Oh, yes.

Very good.

Original for GT.

I mean, yeah, totally.

Although that one's even almost more of the same look.

This is like an update, but very much in the theme of the original car.

All right, Alex.

Sports car.

Zach, I hate to do it to you, but I'm going to take a GT3.

I don't think I've ever actually gotten to draft a GT3 before.

I'm going to have a plain one, though.

No RS.

Touring.

No, God, no.

No, no, no.

Touring.

Yeah.

Well, the great thing about 26 is you can add the back seats into it finally as an option.

So great.

So touring, it can be your commuter.

So which category?

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, I guess it could almost even be a daily driver.

I did drive a 992 at that Vegas Track thing, Zach,

and I think you've driven a couple of them.

I don't know if I would want a daily driver.

It's a pretty aggressive car.

I think sports car is the right place for it.

Oh, interesting.

I think it would be fine, but I have a high tolerance for that kind of stuff.

I have less of a tolerance than I used to.

But yeah, I would have to be kind of an interesting color, I think,

but love those, love a touring, love no wing.

No, RS says I'm out on RS, pretty much all Porsche RS products.

It's too much stuff on the car that we've lost the cleanliness.

Well, here's a question for the game.

Can I be in on the RS and pick a GT3 RS for my sports car?

That?

Is it different enough?

That is what I was talking about before.

I don't know.

What do you guys think?

What if I also told you I have no other sports car pick?

I don't know.

It's a PDK, right?

It's not even, it can't be a six speed.

Come on, that wing, Alex.

I mean, sure.

Why the hell not?

2026 is different than some of the other years,

but talk to me about why RS over a regular one.

Because it's the first RS product for the street that I think has just gone so wild

and above and beyond with the normal GT3 offers that it feels different enough to want one,

in my opinion, where I feel up and to this point,

it's always just slightly taken the street ability out of the car.

But now you have that insane wing that looks like it belongs in Harjuku Street.

You could do full damper configuration within the car.

You can custom tune your suspension settings and load different maps onto it.

They eliminate the front trunk, so it's no longer equally as practical.

I just think it's so over the top and you see one on the street and you're like,

what is this doing here?

When's the last time you saw it on the street?

I've seen them on the street.

Oh, I see them all the time, maybe a couple of weeks ago.

Is that right?

Yeah, driving that car around on the street is amazing, I think.

Take it through the Chevron wash and the spoiler cod on that thing and it just ripped off.

I mean, it has a DRS button.

It's just crazy.

I think that's what was in motoring coffee.

When I went to drop the green car off there,

there was a green and white GT3 RS of some kind.

I can't even tell the generations apart, but I think it was a 992.

There's only been one 992 RS so far, right?

There's just a .1.

I mean, you know it when you see it, which is another thing I love about them.

They had a Christmas tree set up on it and the wing was so big,

they had all the presents on the wing, it was one of those deals.

Then you hit the DRS button and hear all the glass shatter.

What does the DRS do in it?

Does it actually move the wing?

Yeah, the wing opens up.

There's no so needed on the street for the rich guys driving this around.

35 miles an hour.

Awesome.

Okay, great.

T3s were going to be up there.

I was actually trying to see if I could pick a GT3 for every single category.

Well, part of the reason I was asking whether we can double up on things,

Porsche has so many versions of every model.

And that's probably true of a lot of other manufacturers,

I would imagine as well, right?

Like the difference between whatever the entry level BMW X3

and the highest spec X3 is pretty different.

It's also the difference in just how they do branding,

that they call them different models,

whereas other car companies will have the same car,

just with different engine options, but they'll call it the same model.

All right, Beck, where are we going next?

Let's do family hauler.

All right.

Man, I struggled with this one,

because this is probably the one that's the most applicable.

But there's so many cars now can accommodate people.

Just as Zach mentioned, back seats in a GT3

means definitely that could be a family hauler.

But I'm going to stick with the modern version of a car I have now,

which I would love to replace one.

Here's the modern X-Terra.

Which is supposedly they're going to come back there.

They want to bring it back.

That doesn't exist in 2026.

It does not exist.

Keep hanging on for that one.

That would be great.

No, E55 AMG wagon.

Oh, nice.

As a daily driver.

That's currently sold as a 26.

They call it E55.

I'm sorry, E54.

I'm sorry.

They call it my brain.

Do they call it an E54?

They do, yes.

I've never seen that badge on any car.

AMG.

They're probably going to come out with an E63 as well.

This will be sort of like the mid-level to it.

I kind of like the mid-level.

But I've never heard of that.

A lot of goals.

Well, the 43 was back at one point,

which I think is a Twin-Turbo V6.

But then I imagine the 53s and 63s are Twin-Turbo V8s.

54.

54, sorry.

Get it right.

Sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's even wrong even more.

It's an E53.

E53.

Okay.

Is that a V6 or a V8?

I want the limited edition E54.

I'm going to keep looking for it until it shows up.

The SL73 or what was the one back in the day?

72.

72 with the V12.

That's rare.

We've listed a few.

That's a good one.

You're a Benz wagon guy, Beck.

I am.

I love those two.

Unfortunately, still going to be no third row in the back.

But that's sort of the plan is once the kids can't fit in the folding third row

is modern AMG wagon to replace it.

Silver.

No, I would prefer not.

I need color in my life.

Everything I have is gray scale.

Color on a Benz is so flash.

I don't know.

Dark blue.

They look really good in dark blue.

I just want them all to have the F1 safety card livery circa 97 to like 2010.

And they had silvers and reds.

Didn't they?

Yeah, I think so.

And light bars.

Crucially.

Light bars.

Put a light bar and a huge F1 logo on the hood and rip that wagon.

I love that.

Does a 2026 E53 AMG have DRS?

No.

Come in soon.

Nobody follows those cars.

In the black series.

But it should.

Email Toto to ask for it.

Come on.

Toto.

All right.

Awesome, Beck.

Not surprising, but good pick.

Randy, family hauler for you.

Okay, I'm going through a few.

Yeah, controversial.

You guys are going to hate this.

But interestingly, the first choice I was going for was made and imported in 2025.

Skipping model year 2026 and returning in 2027.

That counts.

That's fine.

That doesn't count.

No, I'm out.

I'm not taking it because of that.

It's not a 2026 ID buzz.

Oh, it's going to come back though.

I actually think those are rad, but they cancel it for 2026,

but it's coming back for 2027 with different configurations or something.

Because they sold.

No, they can't sell any of them.

They can't sell it at all.

They're overproduced 25 and they have to sell all those off.

As they.

I wonder if they're selling them in Europe for 2026.

So I don't know.

Maybe I can actually take that.

Yes, you can.

Okay, because it's a current adjacent vehicle.

But I don't know where they get one in 2026.

Maybe price blink because they can't sell a single one.

I think the problem is the range.

They only go like 200 miles.

Okay, well, I'm going to hook a Rivian to the ball hitch

and then it'll get another 300 miles.

The Rivian's the generator.

No, it's like a push.

It looks like it's like a Bonneville.

Yeah, yeah, you definitely push with the Riv.

Okay, have you guys seen anyone that specced it in a single color?

I saw one of, I saw a picture of one.

I didn't see it.

No, no, no.

You know what I saw?

I saw a white, white.

I just saw an all white and it looked like a refrigerator.

Yeah, it's like an anal van.

Yeah, that's sad.

We have one in Westportal white that has got the vinyl wrap.

I don't know if they took the dealer offer.

That was a thing they were doing for a while.

The dealerships were offering to do a lower wrap on the car

to give it a two-tone look.

And who did a plaid?

Ooh, wrap on the lower end and it's street parked

in Westportal every day.

Okay, anyway, I'm actually okay with those.

And I always want to cheer for Volkswagen,

even if they're circling the drain.

All gray, it's a little Euro van to ask.

There's Euro van.

Yeah, look at the black and the dark blue or whatever.

Anyway, you can make them interesting.

And I think you could wrap it in some sort of way that'd be cool.

You don't want to probably the standard light green, white,

or the blue, white, they're okay.

I haven't figured out what wheels need to look right.

But anyway, I'm going to, for the rest of the time,

while you guys are recording, I'm just going to Google.

You're going to spec one?

I think in that, like that was the color of my gear

was originally that yellow, green.

Yeah, there you go.

We've sold a couple on BET, actually,

if you're researching 2025 cars.

So anyway, wow, okay, well, I'm recalibrating

because I thought you were going to hammer that

and say no chance.

You're not allowed to do that.

But I'll take it if you'll give it to me.

Yes, I think you can have it.

Let's go with it.

I am going to do something that I just did in our 2012 draft.

I'm going to draft a car that I own.

I'm going to take an Acura MDX type S.

We just bought one and I love it.

So this is my one.

I know this is like your nightmare, right?

No, I think those are on the list of what?

Top two or three best SUVs you knew you could buy.

I just love it.

I love driving it.

And this is why I was mainly excited about doing a 2026 draft

is like cars that I could actually own.

Like that's where I found the most inspiration.

We haven't gotten to daily driver stuff yet,

but that's where I'm like,

oh man, do I want one of these right now?

Yeah.

And this is a car that's in our garage right now.

I love it.

My sister has one of those.

I think they're cool.

We can't get the gold color.

We bought the gold color because ours is a couple of years old

and that is no longer available,

which sucks because that's one of my favorite things about it.

But they have a kind of interesting,

unsurprising non-metallic color.

Everyone's got non-metallic now,

but a non-metallic kind of grayish blue.

But I love that car and non-metallic paint

is a trend that dies this year.

Oh, I do too.

And I do too.

It all looks like these cars went to Mako to get their

shark gray or Nardo gray paint job.

Especially the GT3 RS.

Yeah.

Would you go to Nevada to buy it again?

If I didn't have to do it for retail dealership,

maybe I loved the drive home.

I just didn't like the dealership experience,

but that part was really fun.

The only part that sucked was none of you guys

were there in Vegas with me for a night.

When I think about a new car, Bec,

I'm sure this went through your head too.

I thought about my actual family sitting in it,

which is different than when we've done these before.

So it's easy for me to picture them in this car

because they literally are.

All right, Zach, family hauler for you.

Okay, question, guys.

Is aircraft eligible for 2020-26?

Oh my gosh.

Is it a daily?

Like how much family hauler?

How many miles you're covering?

Well, there's a new Honda jet for 2020.

Oh, yeah, they stretched it, right?

Is this the long one?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, sure, take it.

We're falling off the rails.

I think you're allowed to have it,

but it is only allowed in wild card category.

Okay, that's my argument.

Well, I can bite my tongue for now

and just pick this Civic Type R as my family hauler.

Oh, good.

Get after that.

That's cool.

The only difference for 26 or 25,

it costs $1,000 more for no reason.

Yeah, no color changes or anything like that.

No special colors.

Love that car.

Would it match your Honda jet though?

That's the color.

We'll see if I get there for wild card or not.

The stretched Honda jet looks really good.

If we get there, we can talk about it.

There's trivia.

Where's that car built?

The Civic Type R is built in Japan.

Is it?

Okay.

The Integra, I think, is built in Ohio.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think it's in the old NSX factory, isn't it?

Or they were building the hybrid.

I saw the new Integra driving down the freeway the other day

and I wasn't offended.

I thought I would be,

but what struck me most is I was like,

what is that thing?

Because I never see them.

Are they selling any of those?

I have no idea.

Doesn't seem like it.

Doesn't seem like it, right?

I see the standard ones.

I don't see them.

No, but I saw the hopped up ones.

Yeah.

I don't see those very often.

And it was going down the road and I was like,

wow, what is that?

Yeah.

And I was like, wow, I'd never,

maybe the only one I've ever seen.

So anyway, I took notice.

I like them a lot.

And it's a car that may come up again in this draft.

Oh, sorry.

No, all good.

I mean, we didn't talk about the Type R,

which are like, they're the very similar car.

That's another car, again, Zach,

that I think about all the time.

Is that correctly good?

Acts or refreshed or whatever?

Hasn't been around for a few years?

Or is this a brand new one?

I think 23 is the first and all the year.

So it's a little late in the cycle,

but nothing too different at this point.

Okay.

Yep.

It's only been a couple of years,

but there's still over sticker.

I still see them sitting in the dealer showrooms.

We just sold one lightly modified from a seller

who has a big YouTube following,

Honda Pro Jason with 20,000 miles,

some mods for almost 55 grand.

Wow.

Which is 10 grand over what they are new in theory.

Which is five grand more than the average car.

Good callback.

Yeah.

Amazing.

All right, Beck, where are we headed?

All right.

We're going to head over to Daily Driver,

which I feel like is going to be a decent amount of crossover

with family hauler.

Definitely, I've heard a few cars referenced

that were on my sort of lower end of my list,

but nobody took my first choice,

although they're kind of similarly adjacent.

Lower end of Beck's list.

Lower end of my list.

Everyone's never been taken to this.

9-11 GTS for Daily Driver.

GTS.

Tell me about the GTS.

Why does that matter?

So the new GTS coming out in 2026,

similar to Zach's GT3 RS,

took some technology coming out of Formula One

that is going to be going into the GTS,

which is the twin hybrid system.

This one is going to include an electric motor

on the turbocharger,

which is something that Formula One actually gave up

for the next engine formula

because they deemed it to be too expensive

and too complicated,

and yet Porsche is putting that in a standard street car.

And it's essentially, I think it's like the way

to keep the internal combustion motor alive

and keeping it going in new cars.

And even though you can't get it in a manual

for a daily driver with four seats

and kind of the cutting edge of Porsche technology,

that's about it.

That's where it's at.

Do we know if that's going to go into other cars

or is that not clear yet?

I suspect some version of it will,

but they've not announced anything though.

The GTS is definitely the Pioneer 4.

I think there's a T-Hybrid.

You're right, someone else.

I thought the new 911 Turbo uses the 3.

Correct, you're right.

The Turbo will have it too.

It's the exact same tech?

More or less.

Okay.

Yes.

The motor on the turbocharger itself,

which if I'm correct,

I don't think any other manufacturer has that right now.

Gotcha.

So that's what's sort of wild about it.

It's a thing that essentially eliminates turbo lag entirely,

which I think from a new car is you're fully comfortable with,

you don't necessarily need that sort of vintage turbo experience,

but at the same time produces an incredible result for it.

And it's PDK only, I'm presumed.

PDK only is an issue.

I don't think that's an issue with a turbocharger.

That's the issue of the split hybrid system

where there's electric motor on the front axle.

So it's got motors all over the place.

Correct.

Okay, interesting.

And GTS remains like a sporty version

or it's more of a lug-zo thing?

It's basically the sportiest, it's a little lug-zo.

It's like a junior turbo, if you will.

It's cutting in between the S and the turbo.

It's all squishier now because everything's got a turbo.

Right, exactly.

And an electric motor, probably.

Awesome.

That's a cool car.

I had heard about that,

but didn't know all the details on that powertrain.

Randy, daily driver.

No turbo on mine.

I want a Renault 5.

Oh, sweet.

Little economy, mobile, EV.

They only sell them in Europe.

Again, wish they would bring them here.

Those are pure electric.

I've got two friends that have these in Paris

and they are awesome.

Wow.

And when I saw them on my most recent travels there,

I was like whipping around, trying to get a photo of them.

I think they're super, super cool.

They have some call-outs to the old Renault 5

of the late 70s and 80s.

And it kind of has some early mini sort of vibes, right?

Like retro and small and city car,

but it's just so much cooler now.

I think the Minis have kind of lost the plot a little bit

lately and French cars are weird

and little cars, when they have weird features,

it kind of works.

So anyway, I think those are cool.

You guys saw a couple of these at RetroMobile last year.

You've already erased that from them.

Yeah, I don't remember it at all.

It was in, remember the crazy Renault display?

I remember that, yeah.

The vintage cars on one side,

they had modern cars on the other side.

There was a crazy rally turbo like Pike's Peak version.

Interesting.

But there was also the main one, which was there.

I remember the yellow 80s turbos.

Yes, the vintage one was there,

but this is the sort of modern version of my old car.

Yeah. So anyway, I like it.

It's pure EV only and it's fun wheel drive.

I don't know if it's all or if it's front,

but you know, it's at least front.

It's definitely got the retro vibes,

retro colors, which I love.

Cool. Awesome.

Those are terrific.

I wish we could see one here.

Two French cars, Randy.

I'm going French and a couple EVs and like bright colors.

I'm in like a crazy mood right now.

I got to get control here before trucks and wild cars.

No, I would say this is a very Randy list.

I think this is right.

The freedom of going anywhere in the world

has really opened it up for you.

Oh, it's my turn.

Gosh, it's boring if I choose Integra Type S,

which is what I would really want.

I thought of having that be my family hauler.

Do it. Just grab it.

I'm going to go somewhere else.

Two Renault's you need to do.

Let's talk about a different car.

And this is a car I also love.

And I also often think about having as a daily driver,

I'm going to choose the Toyobaru, a BRZ slash 86.

They're still making that.

Yeah, they are.

And I think the second generation is so pretty.

Every time I see one,

the first generation is very good looking too,

but the new one looks great.

And they've got a lot more power.

And you and I are always talking about

what's like a cheap car that I could do,

not cheap, but a car I could just daily drive around

and also take to the track.

You said people have a lot of fun with those on the track.

I've been thinking about getting one of those a lot lately.

It would be perfect.

They just look really, really, really good to me.

Still NA.

There's not really cars with an NA motor left

and a manual transmission and rear wheel drives,

simple old school formula that I love.

And I see them street parked all the time around San Francisco.

They're 230 or 240 horsepower now.

What's sticker on that car?

I think they started around the early 30s.

The BRZ is more expensive.

The BRZ is like 35 or 37.

And I think the Toyota is a little bit cheaper.

I should grab one of those.

I know.

And they have cool colors on them.

Is the Subi rear drive?

They're all rear wheel drive.

Yeah, normally aspirated.

Split one.

So when I run into a wall, I only have to pay for half of it.

Perfect.

Then you have to fix that half.

Yeah, exactly.

Totally.

Do you like those, Beck, when you see them?

They're handsome cars, don't you think?

I do.

It's pretty fantastic.

They're still making it because there's not a lot of

manufacturers, especially ones that we think about

when we think about rear wheel drive manual experiences.

The fact that Toyota's keeping that going is great.

Is there a GR version of it?

I think they announced one, maybe.

They just call it the GR86 now.

Oh, that's right.

Technically, they're all GRs.

They did launch one at the end of the first gen, didn't they?

But I don't think there's any extra power, really.

It's like just...

They did another special edition with this one.

But yeah, I think it's got a little more brakes

and stiffer suspension.

Did they fix the oil baffle issue?

No, I was just looking at that the other night.

Everyone's like, just run thicker oil in it.

Yeah.

Don't pick the stickiest tires out there.

And there was a powertrain flat spot that they fixed.

But I mean, it's 2.4-liter NA, 7,000 or 7,500 RPM and 230 horsepower.

I mean, that's a dead formula, essentially.

The only issues is they sound.

I'm sure they do.

It's not a good sounding.

I'm sure they did, too.

I don't think any of you are going to choose this,

so I think we can just...

Well, we can talk about it.

But the other car that I very much thought about here

is just a Mustang GT, which is a huge amount of power now.

Remember when we saw one of those on the floor at Galpin?

Yes.

It was like its standard Mustang GT,

and it had like immense horsepower.

It has so much horsepower.

And it's also 7,500 RPM NA.

And you can get a track pack on them.

They've got a retro color Randy

that's like the teal from the 90s.

You can give them a new one.

Still with a stick, rear drive, and a big Vietnam.

From the 93 Cobra?

Totally.

That teal, I like that.

The same, but it's definitely a tribute to that color.

And Zach, that fixes your sound problem right there.

I'm going to stick with BRZ,

but the Mustang would be a very close second.

Well, the other thing that fixes the sound problem

is when you blow it up to your oiling issues,

you just swap a K20 into it and then problem solved.

Think on it, Alex.

But man, then you lose the low center of gravity

with the flat engine.

Man, I've got big changes there.

I've got two good picks for commuter,

and I can't decide.

I think this one's more interesting.

Did you guys know Ducati is making e-bikes?

No.

E-bicycles?

E-bicycles, bike lane,

hack that can still go like 40 miles an hour.

It sounds like a bargain.

It is a bargain.

I think it starts at like $8,000.

Okay.

That's actually pretty cheap.

Do e-bikes count for commuter?

I love that you're getting airplanes and e-bikes.

This is kind of like there's a subtext

that he's not interested in 2026 cars.

We recommend it at all.

The part of the reason I like this is

that's my big premise on this.

Like, does anybody care that much about cars anymore?

There are ID buzz appliances laying on their side.

They're like all these things.

ID buzz?

Or, I mean, I'm so done calling it that.

I keep saying that word that I promised I'd never say.

But no, okay, e-bike.

Let's get back to Zach.

Well, the other alternative is a 12-cylindry,

which I think is one of Ferrari's better-looking cars

over the last 15 years and is kind of interesting,

but it's just a big frontage in virtual Ferrari.

Thanks for giving me an idea on my wild card,

which I don't have spoken for yet.

Okay, well, I got to see a picture of this, whatever.

Tell me what...

Ducati e-bike?

What is it called?

Is this this thing that looks like a mountain bike?

Yes, it is.

There are three options.

Give me the road bike one, because I'm commuting on it.

I think you should commute on a Ducati bicycle to work.

It's pretty sick.

I mean, I'm ready for you to do that.

Get to go on the bike lane,

but go 40 miles an hour and not stop at traffic lights?

I thought it was going to be those things that we see all

over the city that look like a little baby motorcycle,

but that looks like a bike.

That just looks like a road bike with...

Well, the mountain bike, what looks like a motorcycle?

Yeah.

Watch me show up to the Tour de France and like jeans and that thing.

Rippin' us in.

I'll get a DQ'd on day four.

I mean, it looks good.

Cool.

I'm sure.

Are they licensing it, or did they build it themselves?

I'm sure it's just a Ducati logo slap.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's tech.

Yeah, wow.

I think it's cool and interesting,

and we're seeing manufacturers branching out and doing different things.

We need to do Jetta trick.

We totally do.

Wow.

Which should be the same eight grand as that bike.

Roland has a GLI Jetta.

Did you see that?

He brought it here?

No.

It looks really good.

A new car.

A brand new GLI Jetta.

Wow.

He got sick of driving that lifted cruiser all the way down the freeway.

I'm sure he's got that.

I'm sure he's got many broken cars.

Shout out, Roland.

But the GLI looks fantastic.

Okay, well, there you are, man.

You're back in.

You're out on 2026 cars, then you're wildly in.

No, I just like the boring.

It's the boring daily driver cars.

This is a metaphor for Alex's personality.

Oh, okay.

Guard rail to guard rail.

That's true.

Okay.

That's true.

I know I'm not excited about the things that other people seem to be excited about.

It's the boring cars, right?

Not many people are going to be like,

Alex, great take.

GLI Jettas are sick.

Like that's like high fives.

You win.

Right.

No, totally.

They're going to be like, oh, T33s and DRS wings on GT3s is what matters.

In your corner.

You have a couple supporters.

They are.

They might want a T33 also.

I'm not sure.

Okay, Beck, I presume you want to go trucks four by fours?

Let's do it.

One of my usual routines when I'm doing this research is if I can't always find what I'm

looking for on the site, I go to the various race car websites to see what competed in like

Le Mans in that year and try to find what the base version was.

What do you do for trucks for that?

Currently happening right now is the Dakar race.

Correct.

You've been watching daily updates.

Trying to get some things on YouTube occasionally on updates for Dakar.

And there's one category called the stock category.

There's only really two machines being operated.

One of which I think purely based off its livery looks pretty awesome and would be

really exciting as my truck four by four, which is the defender.

Have you been watching the vids on this?

I've been watching the team.

Yeah, they're pro drive halfway through.

Oh, really?

I know.

Awesome.

Super awesome.

The race is still going on.

So the fact that the stock available quotes everywhere car is still going halfway through

Dakar is pretty fantastic.

It's technically called the Land Rover Defender D7XR.

I want BET to have those illuminated tents that they work for underneath.

They look so rad.

Two of them and you can like see them from outer space or whatever and they're branded.

It's just unbelievable.

I watched several of the videos of the build of those.

Those are cool trucks to begin with, but the Dakar spec is very cool.

A very fun thing to do on the Dakar website is look at just the categories that I didn't

really even know existed, like all of the semi-trucks.

I sort of generally knew, but I didn't realize how many there are.

There's like 40, 50, what they would call lorries running through the sand right now.

Yeah, it's insane.

No, that's awesome.

I love that about Dakar, but there's a classic category.

I don't know if you saw that and there's guys running 959 replicas, which is unbelievable.

I think there's at least three of them running.

But anyway, back to Defender.

That's a cool choice.

They look like that.

I don't like the regular street versions of those, too.

They look great.

I didn't like those at first at all.

I was very against them and then, I don't know if it was in the UK or somewhere like

rainy and like in their perfect environment.

And I saw one and I was like, I actually kind of love those.

Yeah.

When they're simple.

Not the 130 though.

No, no, no.

The smaller ones, simple white wheels, white roof.

Steely S wheels.

Sort of like how a Bronco needs to be spare.

Yes, totally.

But I like the four door.

I don't really like the shorty short.

No, it looks like a bloated Wrangler.

The Wrangler is the same issue now being a two door.

It just looks weird.

I totally agree.

And they've got the retro colors.

What's the 90s NAS Defender color?

They've got that as Arles blue.

They've got that color.

They have the green.

Yeah, they've got a good call.

Yeah, great stuff.

Good pick.

Randy, truck four by four.

Pass.

You guys go first.

I'm going last on this category.

Okay, great.

Because I haven't made up my mind yet.

Since we've gone off the rails and we're allowing all kinds of things,

I hope you guys will allow me the scout.

That's where I'd like to go.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

There will be zero deliveries this year.

Okay.

There will be zero deliveries this year.

No, no dice on Scout.

Not even close.

You'll get a Rivian R2 before you get a scout.

Maybe 2028.

I mean, those are almost exactly like them.

They're rad.

And I want one in the office immediately for all of us to drive.

But they're not even close.

Like Christmas next year.

Okay, hard no.

It's vaporware.

Okay, two years.

You can have the scout.

Okay, great.

I think we're never doing a 2027 draft.

No, I think it's a tradition, a new tradition of new year in January.

Oh, they didn't want to do it here.

I'm loving this.

I think first Marlboro.

You're also going to say the scout and it's going to be better.

So I looked it up and everyone's like, oh, 2027 model year,

but like you think 2027 model year will be delivered in 2029?

2027 model year.

There's no way there's deliveries calendar 26.

That's what I've heard.

I've heard deliveries 27.

They can only select all copy of Rivian so fast.

Well, I like them a lot and I like the pickup and the wagon.

I like both.

I like the wagon slightly more and I want one.

All right.

Well, has that made you solidify your decision, Randy?

No, no, I'm still reeling.

I'm not choosing myself.

I'm just telling you what you can't choose.

Well, I appreciate that.

It was really helpful.

I'm going to then pivot to a car that was actually on site,

which Randy also had choice things to say about last week.

I'm going to take an Escalade.

There you go.

I'm going to take the V-spec Escalade.

We had one Escalade V.

It's dude.

It's not a Honda collaboration.

I love...

Oh, sorry, V-spec.

Spec V, what is it called?

Escalade V.

It's just called V.

Escalade.

Okay.

Then V.

Okay.

All right.

Does it have a little hyphen after?

Regardless, it's sick.

I would love to roll around with one of those.

That's a gigantic vehicle with a big gigantic 616 horsepower.

Do you want that new electric 1000Q or whatever?

You don't want that one.

Do they still make a gas one at the same time?

They probably do.

Whatever we had on our website all blacked out.

Give it to me.

I'm ready to go.

That's just like a 98 Tavo that's been sort of warmed over.

It's got a supercharger on it.

Yeah.

Yes.

I'm ready to go.

Great.

Give me sticker.

Talk to me about stickers.

I'm going to get through my list with all gasoline-powered cars.

There's not one goddamn battery anywhere.

Sticker on that is enormous.

It's close to 200K.

One year two.

7685.

One 76K.

Yeah.

Give it two years, man.

No chance you're titleing that in California.

Oh, listen.

California wants me out.

Look at my list.

I'm just burning hydrocarbons.

Asking for 20K check.

California will extract the fuel, but they'll send it elsewhere from the oil fields of Taft.

We need to veer off and see if you establish a name for a Montana entity or not.

Man, I did actually.

I'll show it to you after this.

Do you want Zach to go first or first truck?

Definitely going.

I still haven't made up my mind on truck.

Loose definition of truck.

Goldstream G7.

I'm putting it in.

The Huracan Strato is my truck.

There you go.

It's four by four or a truck.

It counts.

At least you didn't say the rough road.

Do they still make a Dakar Porsche?

We could have one more 911 Porsche.

They don't or they do?

I think they dropped it for 26.

They used a GTS's powertrain.

Oh, so sad.

I'd rather have a Strato anyway.

Really?

It's a wheeler.

I love it.

The ACAR is that cool.

I love that.

Well done.

I was looking up supercars.

There is a new Lamborghini, but that's an

evented door replacement.

So the Huracan or whatever is still sold.

The Strato has been out for a few years.

There's a guy that lives by Washington Square Park

in New York that has a Strato.

And at like 8 p.m. on Friday night,

he's just driving laps around Washington Square Park,

letting everyone know.

So low or passenger?

So low, obviously.

Yeah, obviously.

Does he have an Instagram handle in the window?

No, no Instagram handle, surprisingly.

Oh, good question, Beth.

I'll put yours on there next time I see them.

Anyway, it's like a lifted,

it's like a Subaru Outback version of the Huracan.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Those are funny.

I see them around.

They must have made a fair amount of them.

I've seen them because they've got the big black

over fenders on them.

I know.

I wish they didn't have all that plastic cladding,

but other than that, I think they're kind of cool.

Yeah, I like them.

I think it's an interesting car.

All right, Randy, should we all do our wild cards?

No, no, no, I'm ready.

I'm back.

Maverick's re-engaging.

I just, I want a...

98 Yukon.

Back to the 98s.

No, I want a GMC Canyon AT4X, which is their midsize truck,

and they're sort of off-road package for it.

And I think those are sick.

I saw one of those driving down the road.

I'm a huge Tacoma guy, but I actually think this is

a cooler truck than a Tacoma.

I think the modern Tacoma is sort of snooze.

If I may say that, I think that of the Forerunner as well,

which are two of my favorite name plates that I always...

I'm just like, if somebody's like, what do I buy?

I was just to just get one of those.

But I saw one of these GMCs going down the road the other day.

I do like the Ranger.

I'm a big Ford guy too, but this GMC is very cool.

And I've seen them around.

And the AT4 pack is a cool setup.

And I think, what are they saying?

These are right around 50K, right around average.

Is that the same thing as a Colorado ZR2,

which I really, really like?

That's a Chevy version.

I would actually also take one of those.

Yeah, they come with a diesel,

but you can get them with a turbo four or a gas V6, I think.

For a period, they were, but I think, I don't know.

I don't want a diesel.

I don't like diesels, but this thing...

I think these are cool.

I think they're super cool.

I like nice.

They look cool and you can get deals on them,

because I don't know if they can sell them.

It's like a mid-sized truck.

That's like way bigger than a full-size truck was 15 years ago.

So anyway, I think those are sweet.

That's the truck.

It's nice to see because usually GM's mid-sized truck

is kind of sad.

Often, and these are kind of sad in low spec, right?

But with the four-wheel drive and the off-road package,

they're actually pretty rad.

I don't know if they still have them,

but there was a point when Canyons and Colorado's had

a five-cylinder in them.

It was the inline six that was in trailblazers

and they cut a cylinder off, and that was the engine for those.

Is that right?

Yeah.

To frame this point, look at the new Tacoma on Steelys,

like base spec.

Actually, I don't hate that.

I actually don't hate that all of a sudden.

It just looks like any other mid-sized truck.

Yeah, but this, I mean, these are just all over the place,

and I'm just kind of like, I don't think I care.

Agreed.

If you had done that, Zach, I would have been like,

I would have sworn up and down that was a General Motors product.

Oh, for sure.

From like the White Steelys fleet vehicle.

Cab back.

Yeah.

All right.

Wildcard's back.

Where do you want to go?

Well, I'm going to stay where I was slightly

because in my research that ended up on the Dakar race website,

found the challenge category.

Challenge being sort of like, imagine an LMP2,

sort of like spec prototype style.

I know where you're going.

And there's a company called Taurus that makes the T3 Evo.

But more importantly, you can buy it.

It's powered by a three-cylinder Volkswagen carbon tub.

You can buy it in a box and build it yourself.

This is not where I thought you were going.

A Taurus.

Oh, it's like a TA-U-R-U-R.

Yes. T3 Max.

You can buy it as a kit.

Is it a side-by-side?

Is it a wide-by-side?

It's sort of like a power sports, but for actual racing.

Now, though, there is a sort of a power sports category as well.

But this is an even more extreme level of it.

Father, some project.

Where is it out of?

What country is this out of?

Europe.

Some place.

So adjacent.

Okay.

And I just thought this would be the most festive world.

This is a ROWUston project.

Cool, man.

I thought you could buy it just as a kit and then put it together yourself.

Power, train is a Volkswagen three-cylinder.

Three-cylinder.

What's that in these days?

Like a probably.

Polo, polo, polo.

Yeah, that's okay.

Okay.

That's rad.

Gosh, I don't think either of you were there.

But last year in Arizona,

I had dinner with Spencer Trennery from Fantasy Junction.

And he raced a side-by-side in Paris to car when it was in South America.

Okay.

And like slept underneath it.

You sleep underneath so that when other cars jump over the dunes,

they don't kill you if you're just like laying next to your car.

I'm not lying.

Layed under a truck.

I slept under my FJ60 because I was terrified.

I was going to be dismembered if I slept out on the sand.

That's probably smart.

I mean, guys, yeah, guys develop that habit for a reason.

Terrifying.

Park also like, I would imagine near like the top of a dune too.

Would you not?

I don't know what to do.

I think it's on the back side,

but I think there's dunes so many places you could get,

you know, people come from every which way.

That's a cool pick back.

Love that.

All right, Randy Wildcard for you.

Shoot.

It's my turn already.

That came quick because I was at the end of the last one.

I don't think I should go first because I think I might steal yours.

I might do it for Wildcard.

I know.

I'm worried if you're going to take mine or not.

I think I want a GTD Mustang.

Oh, that's exactly what I was thinking.

No, really?

Yeah, I knew you were going to take it.

Didn't you grab a GT?

No, I took a BRZ, but I think they're different enough

that we could probably have both.

Multimatic amazing build.

They're not going to be as fast as the Vets

and they're not going to be as fast as the Porsches

even if you put Verstappen driving them on YouTube or whatever.

But I think they're very cool and it'd be fun

to have one of those as a track car.

Done, done.

Have they delivered any yet?

Oh, yeah.

We saw one.

Comer had one.

It is Pitt right next to though.

He has white 66 GT350, no stripe, and then old GTD.

It's crazy because they expose all that rear suspension and stuff.

That's a cool car.

Somebody was like, they pointed at the front clip.

They're like, that's a GT3.

And they pointed at the back clip.

They're like, that's a GT3.

And they pointed at the middle part.

And they're like, that's a Hertz rental car.

Basically, all this dough on the front and rear end.

And the middle is just like a standard, whatever.

Okay, that's a bummer.

I wanted that.

But I'm going to go.

That's okay.

I mean, I'm picking cars that I would actually want.

I'm definitely going to lose in the public competition version

of this, but I'm going to take a car that every time I see one

I get excited about, I think they're really rad.

And that is a Lotus Amira.

I really, they're fascinating to me.

I would worry about one as a daily driver or a sports car.

But man, I think they're so exotic and pretty.

And from what I understand, they're going to be the last Lotus

that's not like a electric car or something else.

I understand they could be the last Lotus.

I think there's always been that chance.

I think that was the true with the Elite in 1957 or whatever.

I just love the way they look.

I actually like the way Avora's look a lot too,

but I think they've really improved the looks on them.

They just have so much presence.

Every time I see one, I'm like, damn, that's good looking.

I wish that's what modern Ferrari's looked like.

Clean and simple.

This is a V6 with a manual or the Turbo 4 automatic, right?

I think you can get the Turbo 4.

You're a big Harry's garage guy, Alex.

I love Harry.

And he bought one and owned it for like three weeks.

And it was a pile.

Said no, thank you.

Yeah, he got rid of it super quick.

And that was almost alarming to me.

Yeah, they're just extremely good looking.

And I'm taking it as a wild card because I bet you'd have to have it in the shop a lot.

But from what I've read, they're delightful to drive.

Right, it's an NA V6.

It's kind of the formula that you and I like over and over again, right?

Normally aspirated motor, manual transmission, mid-engine.

Very pretty design.

I love them.

I got passed by one out in the middle of Texas.

So one of them was reliable enough for somebody who was willing to drive it

through a couple hundred miles of open highway.

They're way wider.

Totally.

It reminds me.

I was going to say, it reminds me of the 4C in that it's like a car that the silhouette

and shape of it punches way above its late weight.

And both those cars are so much cleaner than the super cars in terms of design language.

And that's why I love them.

That's it.

This is the end.

Yeah, there's some honorable mentions.

Still making the Daytona SP3, which I feel like is kind of a cheater answer,

is new for 23, not 26.

Do you like that car?

I think they look pretty stellar.

That's the one with the streaks around the corner and back and all that stuff.

Yeah, we saw those.

And I think it may be kind of an end of an era car for Ferrari.

It's no hybrid powertrain, no turbos.

It's the V12 that still dates back to the Enzo.

Just cool to see.

Is it in the lineage of the LaFerrari and stuff, or is it a lesser thing than that?

I put it in there, but Ferrari now has this weird division of their website,

where it's not under what they call super cars, which the F80,

which is kind of the new replacement for the LaFerrari is.

They have it under Icona.

Also with this, what I think is particularly sad, the Monza SP3.

That's tough.

So many cockpits.

People love those.

Those are track only, right?

You can't even drive them on the street.

Some people love Richard Millet.

Richard.

Thanks for calling him Richard.

I have a buddy named Rich.

I'm going to start calling him Richard.

What is it like when the brand manager of Richard Millet and the guy who came up with

the Icona branding hang out together at Lake Como?

You know the guy at the watch dealer?

Seeing a guy pull up in an SP1.

It's like this big exhale moment, like, oh, yes.

You know, I'm going to take the rest of the month off.

Oh my God.

The new Testerosa is what I saw a picture of that.

It's probably one of the ugliest cars Ferraris made in the last 15 years.

And there's some competition there, buddy.

Oh, dude, the Testerosa is bad.

Look how inboard the wheels are.

I can't believe they reused that name on this thing.

That is a weird name for that car.

Look at the door.

Wow, that's a weird looking car.

Also, Testerosa redhead.

Look at the headlight, like stripe.

No, thank you.

So anyway, all that's to say.

Yeah, give me that Honda Jet.

Great.

Hold on.

Is Ferrari selling, I guess they sold them out in two seconds or whatever,

but are they selling the street going version of the Le Mans winner?

Didn't they do that for like five seconds?

They don't know about that.

If they did that, I'm changing my vote.

Alex can have the GTD, but I don't think they are.

What was that car called?

I mean, you can just go show them on winning.

We're only an hour.

Should we just go and just redo all our choices?

499P.

Yeah.

Didn't they sell some of those for the street?

I talked about normally aspirated, rear-wheel drive manual cars.

Nobody even discussed Miata's.

That's still a thing that you can buy.

Big good daily driver.

Packs like no.

A car that I seriously thought about.

We had one a couple of years ago at Monterey as a press car,

is the 400Z, which I feel like is almost underrated.

There was so much hate on it, kind of like the new NSX when it came out.

There was so much lukewarm reaction that everyone just kind of forgot about it.

I don't think I've seen more than one or two ever.

There was some press release that Nissan put out that the 400Z had beat out the Supra in sales,

and I haven't seen any.

I see quite a few Supras.

I've seen almost none.

I think they look great.

Maybe they beat it in 2026 because there's no 2026 Supra.

There you go.

Yeah, they put a manual on the Nismo Z for this year.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, they're trying to dig themselves out of the whatever hole they have.

I think they're good looking.

They did a great job with it.

Agreed.

But yeah, you never see them.

Nobody mentioned a BMW product at all.

The M2 is kind of beloved.

The M2 is the closest to being an acceptable buy, right?

Not visually.

I don't mind them, but I don't like them visually.

Again, to Zach's point, if they have metallic paint on them and they have silver wheels,

they're actually tolerable, right?

I can tolerate them because I like weird looking cars, but there's no doubt it's weird looking.

They're always at track days.

That's like a common track day street rig.

Ton of power, manual transmission.

They're big.

Are they four-wheel drive only or can you get a rear-wheel drive?

I think you can get them in the rear.

I thought they are.

Maybe they are rear.

The new M5 is the whole selectable thing.

The new M5, I very rarely read magazines anymore, but I read one recently and it's like

a thousand pounds heavier than the last one, which was already 5,000 pounds.

Interesting.

Okay, not a lot of BMW love.

I know.

You don't like them, Zach, but my favorite current Ferrari is the 296,

which I think is at the entry level one.

That's the V6 car.

That's my favorite of all of them.

I just don't think they look very good.

The Roma's are cool.

Oh, Roma's are pretty.

I like Roma's.

I like the Arturo, which looks less good.

Roma.

Oh, my God.

Let's get Ferrari's branding guy on the podium.

Rivian R2 is probably going to get C deliveries this year, so that kind of counts.

I don't even know what it is.

I've heard about it.

Smaller.

Smaller Riv.

But, yeah, it's scout will be after that, so I'm not sure which one of those you get

for this year, but you probably get them for next year.

No Corvette love.

Yes, the R1X was on my list, though, only because of the precious from yesterday.

Crazy, though.

Do you need that much?

I mean, that's crazy.

No, but I think just the idea of a $200,000 car beating $2 million car

is sort of a storyline that's come up in the past.

That is the reason why we put cars up on shelves before.

So that was on my list, but surprisingly nobody took it.

I was going to also say no Lambo love, but Zac fixed that.

Plenty of Porsche love.

Plenty of Honda love.

I think a couple other Renault's I could have added to other categories,

but I decided not to, so I'm good where I was.

No Seats, no.

Sorry, none of those.

Does Morgan still exist?

Can you buy a Morgan?

You can buy a brand new Morgan.

Yes, you can.

Interesting.

The factory is still putting out cars.

Oh, yeah, because the three-wheelers keep in a lot.

Look like they're from 67, and they're somehow a brand new car.

I love that.

I can't handle the new.

Oh, wow.

Look, they like modernized it.

There's no Harley-Twin power plant anymore.

There's headlights, bug headlights.

I don't think it's electric.

The V-Twin out front is the whole point of a Morgan three-wheeler,

as far as I'm concerned.

You just want people to talk to you at that point.

But they don't.

It's a weird part.

Do you go up to that guy and talk to him?

No, you're like, okay, I'm out of here.

Any other honorable mentions, guys?

Ranger Raptor was my number two.

Oh, yes.

Yes, good call.

Pick up.

Good call.

There's no Camaro, right?

That's gone for now.

No Challenger, right?

For 2027.

No, the EV one is around, isn't it?

That's a 2D charger.

That's a Dodge.

I think the Challenger is the same.

Same, same electric one.

Have you guys seen or heard one of them?

No.

I've seen.

I saw one the other day.

They growl at you.

They have V8 noises that they can make really loud,

but it still sounds like it's coming through speakers.

Like it doesn't vibrate.

It's not good.

Oh, man.

I think that's the shortest list of honorable mentions

where we drafted almost everything.

Interesting.

I mean, there's other Porsche products, Porsche SUVs.

The Boxster is still around.

Presumably, you can still buy a WRX, right?

I don't see very many of those.

I don't think the Boxster may not be around for 26.

Oh, interesting.

They were going to draw.

Were they going to drop the ICE version of the Boxster?

Because there's a new electric thing coming up.

And they decided after basically recent sales

to basically pivot real hard.

It's still showing on the site,

so I think they're around for 26.

I saw an SUV yesterday.

This is like just again, exposes how ignorant I am

about new cars.

And I thought it was a Lamborghini Urus.

And when I got closer to it, I was like, oh, it's smaller.

And I'm like, is that a Buick badge?

And it was a small Buick SUV that had like Urus-esque styling.

I was like, what is our world coming to?

Man, everything's an SUV and it has an electric motor in it.

But none of my picks do.

All right, let me recap real quickly what everybody got.

All right, back for your sports car.

You have the Gordon Murray T33 for your family hauler.

E53, did we settle on the number?

It's a 53.

53, I'm 55% sure it's 53.

E53 AMG wagon, daily driver, 911 GTS, truck,

4x4 Land Rover Defender, D7XR, wild card, a Taurus T3,

side-by-side, Paris Dakar, father-son project.

There you go.

Randy for your sports car, Alpine A110, family hauler,

ID Buzz, Volkswagen in one color, daily driver, Renault 5 EV,

truck 4x4 GMC Canyon AT4X wild card is Mustang GTD.

Yeah, there you go.

For me, sports car GT3 Touring, family hauler MDX type S,

daily driver Subaru BRZ, truck 4x4 Escalade hyphen V, wild card,

Lotus Amira, for Zach, sports car GT3 RS with DRS activated,

family hauler Civic Type R, daily driver is a Ducati road bike,

truck 4x4 is a Lambo, Sturrado, and wild card is the stretched

wheelbase Honda Jet.

There we go.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I have no idea how to even handle all of that.

It's weird.

We're all over the map.

I'm so glad we have a sound by to Randy saying that.

There you go.

And I know about four times as much about the 2026 car market

as I did when I walked in this room one hour ago.

I didn't know about any of this stuff.

So anyway, this is consumer advice that we're providing.

Totally.

Please follow.

This is a public service.

Worth every penny.

The disclaimer should be this is consumer advice.

Please follow what the people here are saying.

This is investment advice.

Yeah, totally.

I don't think any of us have driven any of these.

Is that correct?

You've driven probably a 992 GT3 Zach.

Not an RS.

Well, this was fun.

Thanks, guys, for doing it.

2027, maybe you can bring somebody else in to host that one.

I don't know.

I think I've embarrassed myself enough for the day.

Thanks as always to everyone for listening.

We will post all of these picks so that folks can tell us

where we went horribly wrong.

Looking forward to that.

We did not.

No, we went right.

Randy cooked with the GTD.

That's right.

Thanks as always, and we'll catch you next time.

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