The V8 Engines Replacing EV Motors! A $20,000 BMW Option, Doug's Affordable Dream Car!

Hello, and welcome to this car, Pa. I'm Kenan. I'm Felipe. And today we have a banger for you. Get it started with the news. The Corvette ZR-1, noted fast automobile, has gone on a little tour of racetracks all throughout the country. And it has set lap records at these racetracks. They were Watkins Glen, Road America, Road Atlanta, where Kenan is driven. Really? No.

I have. And VIR in Virginia. They set records on now. The interesting couple of interesting things. Number one, the records were set by like Chevy engineers. That's very cool. Like people who like kind of regular people basically. I mean, sort of like the Emmy engineers. They have a pretty good knowledge of how the thing works, but they're not pro. Like if you got Randy Popes out there, I bet he'd beat these records. Absolutely. All the way. The records were like production car records. Now, the engineers, it's impressive. That's very impressive. However, the car has 1100

horsepower and does 235 miles an hour. So like, you were I have done this. Maybe that is impressive because to keep a car that kind of power on the track is a notch. It's like me driving a 400 horsepower heavy car. Slowly was hard. Like that's pretty impressive that the like all the systems work on to keep it on the track. Yeah. Well, they have intimate knowledge of the system. Maybe race car drivers are not the fastest. Maybe the people who designed the race cars and they know every little geometric angle. I think Louis Hamilton might have something. Maybe Ferrari should get rid of that.

Louis and instead hire whatever computer. I find it fascinating to think that these seven gentlemen are the only engineers who have worked on the Corvette. The Corvette from start to finish was worked on these seven days. They spent evenings. They spent weekends coding every part of it. You're thinking every suspension. No, they had to work hard because it's only seven fellows. Right. Right. And luckily they got to race it. Yeah. And this guy oversaw the whole team. And that guy at the end. And these guys. They made this guy. Yeah.

The point is it's legit. And the other point is the zero one is really, really fast. Yeah. Other fast cars have gone around those tracks. Yeah. Like it's not like it's just that. And yeah. I can't do a good example. No, it's really impressive. And also obviously this is just another notch in the thing of, okay, American cars are not just fastest straight line. We've known that now for like 10 years. But this is just such a great example of it. I haven't yet driven the zero one. They sent it here. It was a drivable car. They told me not to drive it. A man drove it under the

lift and then down and me. Well, they're giving it to engineers to go thrash it around a track. These guys are in VR with it. What about me? I trust them more than you. Yeah. Same. Same. Honestly. No, that is a seriously impressive fee. The zero one is what we've kind of been waiting for on from the sea. A platform to see what this platform can really do. A mid-enge like the extreme version of a mid-enge in sports car from the United States. I mean, other than the 4GT, of course. But here we are. Although that is Canadian, the new one. It is. You know, maybe here's a thing. They're going to make another more powerful Corvette. You're hearing it here first, folks.

It's going to have the same situation, but a hybrid and it's going to have the front battery and the front all-wheel drive situation is going to have 14 horsepower. Okay. I'm telling you all this. It's going to be even faster than this. Hard to imagine. Yeah. Hard to imagine. Maybe then the engineers won't be able to set the lap records in that thing. They'll need a pro. They'll need a pro for that or a computer. Of course. Of course, we'd say that if we had heard that there was going to be an 1100 horsepower, 830 pound feet of torque one. Okay. Move on to our next news story.

You read about this? I did read a little. BMW has come out with center lock wheels, which are a noted wheel design that inconveniences the people who own them. Right. If it is, if BMW service is warranting, it's enough. BMW is coming in the center lock wheels. Worse. Instead of five, you only have to get rid of one. You're right. You do only have to get rid of so. So center lock is instead of five lug nuts, you have one lug nut. The drawback is that in order to take the single lug nut off the car, you need, you need torque that only can be provided by the con cord.

You need to be able to hit a stick with four's hammer to get it off. My understanding is, if you have a bar long enough, you can do like a right roadside tire change, but the bar has to be like, like the length of four full Epo's stacked on top of each other.

Well, it's not that long. We're wearing a giraffe shirt, but it does require an incredible amount of torque for the center locks are great for racing applications. We need to take wheels on and off the car very quickly for a road car that's going in for break pad. It's just bragging.

I mean, yeah, it's purely bragging rights, and it does add cost. It adds a lot of complication. And then inevitably some tech won't know what they're doing and will strip something.

It's just like, it's a damage and you got to replace one of these center lock wheels. Okay. So I didn't mention, but they're $20,000 extra and they're only $20,000.

The car costs in three years and their entire car. They're only going to be offered on a few of the models.

And so, but yeah, if you damage one of the wheels, presumably the 20 grand is actually kind of a deal because they're doing it scale.

If you had to buy an individual wheel, I have a suspicion it's going to be a lot more. And yes, it is a silly thing.

Like, I think it's silly. I have obviously the car with the center lock car GT. It's cool, but I'm not out here trying to add more center lock automobiles to my fleet.

You can't do anything with that.

Right. I mean, not that you're working on the car GT necessarily.

Anyway, if you have a flat or if you have a flat, if you're or BMW people are more tinkery than

couragey, T owners are, for honest. So you can't really, I mean, replace the front hoods, threats myself.

I did. Well, somewhat did.

Yes, it was me, but it is 20 grand is a lot for what is, you know, four hubs.

And, you know, I mean, that feels like a lot of money, especially because it just adds

complication and annoyance or how many people are going to, but they look cool.

I have to do a picture. This picture shows them, I guess, but I've seen a picture with the car with

wear in them like a full stop shot of a car. They look cool. And if you're in five, I've been offered

with center locks 20 years later, you're driving in five. Yep. I got the center locks. That would be a

point of dragging. Are they carbon fiber? Like, are they expensive wheels to start with?

They're center locks. Dude, this is the race track. It's a cost because of the center lock or because

of the wheel is costly period. I'm going to tell you this. If the ZR1 had had center locks at

VIR, those engineers would have been even faster. That's higher changes, probably. But it turned out

it didn't need them. They're just as fast. So anyway, that's BMW. So BMW's getting cooler.

And in fact, we have another story about BMW getting cooler, which is for some reason later in

the news, but pull it up now and let's talk about it. Sure, I'd like to talk about it. So BMW has

an, so it's specifically, it's Frank Weber or Frank Weber. I suspect it's how it's actually

pronounced in Germany. It announced that BMW is keeping the V8 motor. They have said that there

are specific markets for, the six owners make plenty of power and they keep those around.

But there are specific markets for whom the feel isn't enough. They want the luxurious sound

and feel and power delivery of a V8, specifically the American Middle Eastern markets. And so

they're keeping the V8 around. Yep. How about that? Yeah. So BMW gets a lot of, you know,

flack for how they're cars. Look and, you know, like they're charging for the stuff. Oh,

keeping V8s around. I salute that. Americans want V8s. They literally said,

due to America and the Middle East, which, which are politically two foes, but, but,

engineally, engineally, they're friends. This is one of your great points. I'm telling you,

for publicans, which is go to the Middle East, they'd be like, yep, V8s and things. But really,

so, so that's interesting. It is interesting. Now, but BMW, I mean, hate to bring up my car again,

but BMW learned this early on. The E34 M5, 6-cylinder did not sell well in the United States. They

were considering killing M altogether with the United States market for that M3, E30 M3 and all

like those questions. So they put a V8 in the M5 and all of a sudden, it sold dramatically.

Yeah. And then they did the same in the E9 XM3 and then they got rid of it.

Downcycling did eventually strike them. But the fact that they're keeping V8s down,

it isn't. There is a broader point here, which is worth discussing, which is that when this podcast

started, this is our 47th episode. Happy birthday to us. When this podcast started. Happy 47th

birthday. Sure. When this podcast started, we, I feel like every show for the first six months

was about EVs killing everything. Now we got BMW saying, nope, the V8 is going to stay and then

go to the Dodge story. Oh, there it is, my favorite. Dodge and CEO has implied in an interview

this week that there's room for V8s in charger land. Okay. I got a lot to say about this.

Yes. A lot to say. First off, when I bought my last call challenger, I bought six of them to try

to flip. They're all in my house with the plastic still on them. I was told that they would stop

making powerful. Do you remember the Durango 392 issues? Yeah, the people seen them. The Durango

issues. They said it was going to be one year only. It was not one year only. And then

Chrysler got sued because the thing about Chrysler is they're fly by night. They're fly by night.

They're just doing whatever they can to get units out the door. I respect it. Can I read a quote

from him from that? I love this quote. One of the things that's encouraging is that the changing

leadership, the head of FCA, I was pushed out. You know, V8s are no longer a bad word around here.

Yep. Thank God. And how about that? Now, another interesting thing I found about this car.

When this car was first announced, my recollection, which might be wrong, but my recollection was

the charger and challenger are going EV. Which then there's actually a charger behind

a truck, whatever it's called is behind. Then it kind of, I don't know if it was dialed back or

if it was intended to go this way, but then they said, no, we're going to put the hurricane in it.

Maybe that was initially announced, but for me, when I heard about it, it was EV only.

They announced it as a year later than they moved it up very quickly.

Okay, so then they're going to put the hurricane, which is a six cylinder and a pretty good engine,

but not a V8. Now, it's, I mean, implying that V8s might make it in the charger. I'm going to

break the, break the news right here on this pot. There's going to be a V8 charger. Okay, don't go

buy it a hurricane just yet. Do they have a V8? Yeah, they got a V8 from the ramps of a V8

in some iteration. 392. That's an interesting question. They obviously have V8s because they didn't,

you know, they still are making those. Right. But that's an interesting point. What do they have

that has a V8? I mean, it's gone in from the wagon here. Maybe there's RAM still, but there

must still be a RAM there. A little dust one off for it in there. The point is, the point is,

they're going to do it in the charger, which I consider to be one of the great cars.

There's a business case. That's what he said. Let me tell you what the business case is,

because I've been driving around in the electric way. It's behind Doug. The business case is,

the vehicle behind me, the electric charger, will be purchased by no one at any time. And so in order

to actually sell these automobiles, they will need to put V8s in them. Maybe some people,

they will sell it to somebody who thinks they're getting the hurricane version.

Or maybe they sell it to some people in Orange County. That's the rare, I don't even think they're

going to get it. I don't think it's expensive. This is a $75,000 car. Okay, let's talk charge

review because we're here and we're doing it. Let's just talk about charge review. I have the

charger EV this week. I am exceptionally excited for this car because it has been crashed by everybody

from motor train to throttle house. That's the space. It's the full gamut. Full gamut.

Canada to the US. Right. So they sent me one. And right, it's already made in Canada. How did

throttle house trash? It's a homegrown product. Yeah, come on. Anyway, Thomas. So they sent it to me and

I've been driving around and I got to tell you, there are things that would make it great. Like,

go create. It's not that bad. It makes some interesting sounds. Okay, the electric one makes sounds

which are, I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to say embarrassing. I would want to say what tremendously

embarrassing? Well, how would you? Excruciating the embarrassing. Like, befitting. However, I'm

being serious for a second. Okay. The car drives pretty well. It's 5,800 pounds, which is 1,500

pounds more than the outgoing challenger. Hellcat. Not just a regular one, a heli with the big goal.

Wow. That's what we call the heavy community. But they've neutralized it fairly well. It

actually, it doesn't drive as floaty as you look at it. It's a foot longer, new challenger. It's

8,500 pounds heavier. You think it's going to be massive to drive it. They actually neutralize

it way further away. It's longer than an Odyssey. It's an inch longer than a Han Odyssey, but it only

has two doors. Yeah. Actually, 220 is longer than life. Still every car. Yeah, that's multiple counties

you take up. It's 12 is as long as this office. And that both versions of it one shorter,

one's long short, even the shorter. Yeah. But anyway, my point is it actually drives pretty well.

And I was driving and I was thinking to myself, if this wasn't a $75,000 electric car,

but instead was a $57,000 V8 car, I actually think it would have been pretty well received by the

market. And I truly and honestly have enjoyed driving the car. And I think it's cool. But not

with an electric powertrain and not with an $80,000. It's a stage two on the side.

You want me to explain that? Yeah. Okay. And whatever symbols above it. Okay, here's the deal.

The symbol above it is a historical nod to the the charges of your, which are obviously also

elected. Oh, it's also on that one. Okay. The the stage two, here's the deal that I learned.

The car with this one here has 670 horsepower. It's a stage two. The regular stage one cars have

590 horsepower. But in order to sell the early ones, they put the stage two package on

all three of charge. Right. And yet they still haven't sold. Anyway, the point in this new story and

the point of this whole thing is, I actually think it's a pretty good car. If it had power,

if it had power from a V8, if it had power from a V8 from an engine, I think it would be

pretty cool. It's the feel. It has sound a rumbling. It has the rumour. Well, behind you,

yeah, I heard it. It is funny to think that like it has a speaker that is

ear piercingly loud. And you think there could be modifications from like, there could be like a

course, a, you know, you see course of like exhaust speaker mod for this thing.

But you want the, I want the rock of a V8. I mean, that's what you're talking about.

Dude, I'm telling you, you turn this, you put this thing to drag mode. It's shaken. It's shaken.

But I'm not going to defend the EV thing, mostly because of the pricing. I think if it was priced

at $49.95 with EV power, it'd actually be pretty appealing. But it's double. Yeah, yeah,

that's a lot. And it will not, that will depreciate faster than you can think.

However, I truly think it's a pretty good car generally. And I think they screwed up by launching

it with the two door only and with an EV only. I think when the four door comes, when the hurricane

comes, if V8s come, I think this car will eventually be well received by enthusiasts. It's just not

at that point yet. But I was surprised how much I like driving it. I'm surprised how much I

like looking at it. It is a much better platform than the old one, which was an eight, you know,

the old one came out in 08. Yep, the two door number. The interior is leagues ahead. The

tech is a leagues ahead. Like it's a much better dynamic experience. It is. Interesting. It's just

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because they need to sell something and the hurricane isn't ready. Also, how much longer than an

XJ or shorter than an XJ 220, do you think it is? I think it's probably four inches longer.

Yeah, try to picture it. I think it's probably a common sight. I think it's only two inches longer.

It's a foot longer. A foot longer. The point is, this whole thing has been interesting.

And this is this and the BMW new story are tied together. Here are two brands who tried to go EV,

who pulled it back. We covered a couple of weeks ago that Chrysler bailed on the airflow

EV that they were going to make. I just had this Jeep Wagonier S electric car as a press car also.

It's fine. It's not going to light the world on fire. The EV pullback is here. And this

is specifically interesting because it is the first car where they took a beloved gas powered

car, made it electric. And we saw what happened, which was not pretty. And that brings us to the

Porsche news story, which is one more. Same thing. Yeah, that's fine. Porsche has announced that

they're going to work to add that they're investing about $800 million in the next year to bring

back internal combustion and hybrid powered vehicles. So, Porsche was the other company that was

going to do this. They were going to take a beloved gas powered car and turn it into EV.

I'm a car. What do you know, the Boxster? What do you want to bet they don't?

I would be surprised. I think there's more. I mean, it happens where manufacturers develop a

car, realize the consequences are going to work and kind of throw it away. They were developing a

V8 for the 911, for instance, in the 1990s. And decided, no, we're going to start with FUT6 power.

I wouldn't be surprised, like you said, if they go, you know what, it's clear the market doesn't

want this. Let's not do that. I think they're going to do both. Yeah. I think they're going to do the EV

because they're probably almost done with it. But I bet they do. It's still do a gas version.

I almost guarantee a great gas version. They learn from the McCahn EV, which is out,

not really seen a ton of them around. And they've decided to extend the lifespan of the regular

McCahn. But they invested all this money and time in building a new generation. When I

and they didn't do that for the nice. When they sent me the EV, they told me, which was a great car,

they told me specifically a gas version cannot be made. It was not designed for it. It cannot be

made. What do you want to bet they make? What do you want to bet it? It just happens to work out.

But just kidding about that, you know, funny joke. Many took an interesting approach. I don't

know if you remember this. Many has a new, there's a new many, and there's an EV and a gas powered

engine. Well, gas powered one. They are fully separate vehicles. They actually don't share

an underlying chassis. What? That's the same. They did the same. Do what's the

same? The difference is because the interior is notably different as a result of that. I wouldn't

be shocked if if Porsche updates their current platform. Oh yeah, it took a look to look like

the new one, but it won't actually be on the new one. Maybe. I'll tell you either way, though, these

three news stories hitting this week all are very interesting. And that's in conjunction,

by the way, with Porsche announcing that sales were down last year, sales, they expect they're

forecasting a sales decline again in 25. I'm sitting at the dealership. They're really by China,

not the US in the US, they were sales. Yeah, but what is what is selling in China is they got EVs

that Panamera's four doors that are they claim are not selling. Yeah, Porsche has in vet. I mean,

it's an it the whole thing is an is an interesting situation and we're seeing sort of upheaval in

the car world. I think if you had sat here and made predictions three years ago, you would be

surprised at what has happened. Agreed. Sense then. And I don't think it's all political.

Like there's obviously there's going to be a sense of changing, but I think there's some demand.

I don't even think three years ago back two months and I would be kind of surprised. I mean,

the writing was starting to get on the wall maybe a year ago. We were starting to hear

of automakers pushing their EV targets back. But even so, like, yeah, it is it is interesting.

I'm at two year point. I think there is room for EVs in these cars, but for the experiential stuff,

sports cars, muscle cars, yeah, the Macon. Very, very. Exactly, but that's exactly right.

You don't need an engine in that car necessarily. That would be fine as an EV if it fits into your

life that way, which it doesn't for everybody. And indeed, regardless of whether it does or not,

people don't seem to be buying them. I do think there needs to be a broader education on EVs

in for the buying public. I see so many people trashing EVs, including people for whom I actually

think EVs would be pretty perfect. I don't think most people realize how well an EV would adapt

to their lives, or they're afraid because they don't have to fill up with electric.

And it's like, you don't understand. Like, this isn't going to be an issue for you. However,

yeah, for the experiential cars, the cars that are interesting, the BMWs keeping V8s,

Dodge is putting a V8 back into the charger after saying they were going the other direction

and Porsche saying that they're going to spend $800 million to put gas-powered versions of their

cars re-energized gas-powered versions of cars in the lineup. Long live the gasoline

engine. Damn. So the point of this new story is that Porsche is going to bump up the

heavy exclusive option divisions. That's correct. So we talked just like special wishes.

Yeah. Yes. We talked and they also have another one that's like exclusive, something I can't

exclusive, but German, which is related. We talked last week about how for Ferrari,

something like 25% of their revenue came from. 20% from option. Just options. It's not surprising

that they want to make extra money on the same thing, right? Give people a little bit more

what they want, charge heavily for it. Yeah. I mean, fundamentally paint the sample at this point.

Oh, I know. Catalog of color. It is one of the most laughable things in the world.

Porsche charges like 15 grand for paint to sample. No one is submitting samples. They're just

choosing colors from the old days. This. This. Which they just have. Right. Like, available.

It's like, it's like, it's like something. These rich guys think they got something special.

They're like, I got this paint to sample. What was the sample? Oh, it was a color they made

in 2007. It's because it's written. Yeah. Something that's this sound or vision, whatever.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't see German. Is that next level where maybe you can get something

a little bit more? Well, I still want a Cayman shooting break. What do I have to do?

Pay. Do I have to go to Germany and knock on some doors? One time I was in Germany and I tried

to order a McDonald's drive through using English and it didn't work because I didn't speak English.

I didn't speak German. It seems eminently written. Yeah. Oh, it was it was really cold. Yeah.

Um, that's the. The McDonald's or the dump truck. No, it was like February and, um, it's hard.

I had just seen a ZJ grand Cherokee, which I was really excited about. That is very exciting. Yeah.

Okay, give us the next new story, please. Let's skip through a couple. Oh, Lucid.

Filippo, tell us about Lucid. Lucid, money said last week. Yeah. First of all,

this is the Lucid gravity. Gravity. You're aware. Um, many different. It's like a mini. It's an SUV.

It really does. I don't know. I've spent a lot of time looking at cars.

That's a minivan. I'm just going to say.

Their CEO, Peter Rollinson, um, has said that he wants Lucid to be to shift gears a little bit

and be 20% focus on their own vehicles. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, 80% focus on being a supplier for other

manufacturers, um, like Intel is basically what what he said, right? Where there are Intel chips

in computers. They want their motors and drivetrain and components to be in other

manufacturers cars. They had a deal for a little bit with Asmard to provide their electric

vehicle motors. And Lucid to their credit is very well known for having some of the most

advanced motor designs, some of the smallest motors, the most power. So it makes some sense.

The question is, does any manufacturer want that right? Well, probably. I mean, yeah,

that's an interesting point. We're sitting here talking about how auto makers are engaging

about EVs. Lucid is struggling, although I read in one of these press releases, I wrote in one of

these stories about this exact topic that Lucid wants to sell a million cars globally. If you count

all components by the early 2030s, in last year, they sold like 5,400 cars. No, that's a little

of that. That's ambitious on a level that is actually kind of difficult to describe.

That's like Filippo actually wanting to become a director. I'm not saying you can't. Which is more

likely, do you think, that with the minivan and the car. I mean, hey, man, he's already got the

shirt. He's halfway. He's closer than that. He's closer now. It's an interesting idea.

Lucid, which we've been, they've been preaching these special, beautiful cars. I mean, the sapphire

was incredible. Now they're sitting here saying, you know what? We actually want the vast majority

of our business to not really be making the cars. I get it though, because they certainly had a

lot of trouble getting demand up for their vehicles. And it is really hard to launch a full brand

and get marketing out, get dealerships, make sure that that's a good experience for your buyers,

providing componentry, being an equipment provider for OEMs. That's a known model that could work,

especially because a lot of OEMs probably don't want to invest the hundreds of millions of dollars

that it would take to develop their own batteries and electric motors and other componentry.

I guess, but riveting Volkswagen was better than that. I drove that Xiaomi Su7 and they're,

well, this was the, they also buy parts from other, from other folks though.

Didn't Rimmots do this? Wasn't that the whole thing that still pointed to supermarkets like,

so they clamped? Yeah, the whole concept is certainly interesting and I'm interested to see

how it plays out. But here is yet another news story today about how an EV company has facing

dodging us. But the only non-story of this was BMW Mcenter Lock Wheels. Even the ZR1 story was

pro non EV. Hell yeah. So what world are we living in? The world where the, some of the realities of

what it's actually demand have come at the plug. Yeah, it is interesting when you pull away incentives

and when a certain portion of the population already gets these cars and when they get so expensive,

75 grand for a charger. You start to wonder about, like, does this have real legs?

One of the new stories that we didn't talk of in depth about last week was,

manufacturers are starting to come out and have committed to some cheaper cars. For some of them

that just be contenting. Right. Some of this in products. For others, it's all new lines. The

Kia K4 was the best selling Kia in Q4, 24, 24. That's their cheapest model. It's hard to sell a,

however much elusive gravity will cost. It's hard to absolutely $1,000.

Especially in a world with 6% interest rates, especially when people see the depreciation that

these cars have. And so that results in people wanting to lease them, which results in a

enormous incentive from the manufacturer that comes back to them. It is interesting. It certainly

is interesting. I do wonder if EV, if there were some EVs that were priced at a more reasonable

number, it's hard to get the price down though. I mean, Chevy to their credit has done the best job

of this. Yes. The only really affordable ones, the most affordable one is the Econox EV.

And initially the bolt and the bolt. Right. And like, it's, but it's hard to get the price point

today. It is without a lot of scale, without a lot of investment. And to really make money,

which is honestly why Tesla is so successful. The Model 3 is a tremendously good performer

at a fairly reasonable price rate. We never quite where they said it would be. But like,

when you look at it, and especially when you consider lease rates and what it offers,

that is like a really good combination of everything. And there's been rewarded with massive sales.

$120,000 minivan, tough sell. Ask Mercedes about the R63.

Or ask Mercedes about any EV. Yeah.

I think from this is an analogy that I know you will roll your eyes up, but this reminds me a lot

of the Swiss quartz crisis, the watch crisis in the 1980s. Yep.

You're really mad too. But it's where watches switch from mechanical to battery powered watches.

They are more precise, they're cheaper to make. But they're still charging a ludicrous amount of

money for them. And I think something like in the mid 80s, 75% I think of all watches produced

were quartz. But that's not what the customers wanted in the end. They wanted that mechanical

thing because that's what they attached to the craftsmanship in Volvo. It's different.

It is an interesting concept though, in the sense that we have something better in some ways that

is cheaper, more reliable, etc. But the customers used to a certain thing. It's not necessarily what they

want. I will say, I question sometimes the EV pricing. I've been in these a bunch of these

Chinese cars now. For some reason, I've been reviewing all these Chinese cars. I have no idea.

They show up here. They're great. I love these. I reviewed a couple of weeks ago the Feng Cheng

Baobao 5. I'm sure you're I am, which is not an EV. Ah, true. And it was well priced. No,

but it was mostly an EV. It had a 1.5 liter gas engine. But then it had like 9,000 electric

horsepower. I had the Su 7. You look at the pricing of some of these EVs and it's absolute,

these cars in China and it's unbelievable. Meanwhile, stuff here hasn't gotten at that level.

If they were able to make them cheaper, it would be interesting. And shouldn't they be?

There are way fewer components. Isn't that what they always are telling us? The batteries

are still expensive. And also, I will say, part of it's also what American consumers are

requiring right now. Lucid CEO has also said that the future really is, I'll let your cars

have like 180 miles of range because you can get the brick and the parts way down if your capacity

goes down. And fundamentally, people don't actually need that much range for their daily driver.

But especially in the US, people want that. It is an interesting concept in China. They never had

these cars with these massive ranges and quick fill-ups. Because the gas powered cars weren't

common in China to travel less. You travel less. But also, it just never got ingrained in

a consumer's mindset. Like every day in China, new people are buying cars who are in their bottom

before or replacing an electric car with an electric car. Here, the feeling is you have to be

able to drive a thousand miles on a single day. And no one has ever done that, except you,

except me. And truckers. Even then, I think it's illegal. If they're able to increase the speed

of charging and only have 180 mile range, that would be doable. I don't even think they need

to release the increased speed of charging. I think they just need to educate people.

When was the last time you drove 180 miles in a day? Seriously. All the time. All the time?

Yeah. This is, he's the problem exactly. No, this, this past weekend, I drove, it was like,

I guess it was, I drove 90 miles in a day and then on Saturday. And then you plug it in. That's

the thing. Consumers need to be educated more about EVs. People think it will fit in their lifestyle.

In large part, it actually would. And people don't really understand that. This is America.

We want freedom. We want freedom. I think that's a component of it. I totally agree with that.

I think people, it's why people buy land rovers, right? No one has ever actually taken a range

over off road. But the idea that you have this ability. Oh yeah. You're never going to take

that thing down. Well, I've taken my Submariner. It's not a submarine. It's different.

Right. Right. Right. Okay. Next, we move on to the top cars segment where we talk about

cars. I want to talk about the, the most important car of the day, which is the CLK on the site.

Can you put them? I can't explain to you how much as a child growing up in Denver, a little boy.

I wanted an O3 to O5 CLK 55 coupe. Yeah, you can please try to explain. Should I buy this car?

I want this car so bad. This is a one owner California car. Silver is the only color you want.

Yeah, solar. Pillarless. I love the design of this car so much. And everybody's like,

oh, the black series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. This is like a $9,000 car. And at the greatest motor

AMG ever did, the NA 54548, I want this car. Who built it? I can't explain to you how much I want

an O3 to O5 CLK 55 with the full-size screen in the dash, which this one has. It's an aftermarket

screen, but I'll accept it. Can I say one thing? Yeah, I support you and you're in the back.

Go back to the exterior shots, because it's beautiful. But I want to say something about this,

because go to the side. I scheduled the cars that are going left today. And right before this car

went live, you know what went live? A Ferrari 550. You know what I love about this car? And you are not

seized on the, the, oh, everybody likes the 550, which looks beautiful. You know what's called

your season, the CLK 55. That's right. Fantastic powertrain, beautiful. And you know what I really

love? Settle. Look how subtle this is. There is not a person on the planet who knows that this is

a fast car. And then you just put the hammer down. That's so true. This is a one owner, the only

way you could tell it had the flared rockers. Those wheels were even offered on the AMG package CLK

500 or 550 or whatever. The 350 may have had it. This is perfect. This car is perfect. I want

this car so much. I go have these. You go have these? No, I wouldn't. No, don't, don't do this.

86,000 miles is pretty reasonable too for that powertrain. I'm telling you, I want this car.

326 horsepower. 326 horsepower. I want this car so much. You're not buying cars. It's a great

looking car. CLK is a great car. I'm not buying cars. I wish I was because this is kind of like,

this would be like my youth finally coming to roost. When I used to lie on internet forums as a

14-year-old boy, I claimed to have one of these. Yeah. And everybody's like, that's weird.

That's weird. That's not true. Oh, look at that. I mean, but you have said, I mean,

the clothes of a boy don't fit the clothes. That's not where the clothes went. That's why I'm

not going to do it. But I really want to go back to the extra. It is. Whoever buys this car,

can you bring it to the office? Just like a duck and stare out of her day. It's so beautiful.

That was the thing about the car. People look at it now and they're like, oh, it's just an

old Mercedes. This was a time when you didn't need to do stuff to be cool. Like now all these

companies would put in gold, the bright calipers and center lock wheels, yes. And flashy little

canards. This thing just did the job. Can you go to a 550 now just so we can get a little

power cleanser? We don't have to talk about it. I just want to see it. I can't believe you're saying

that, but I do agree with you. Look at that. This is the Italian. This is the Ferrari that we've

decided you and I agree. Go to go to one of the side profile shots. Even just the front.

No, no, go to the side. All right. Let's move on to the next story. The CLK is more

beautiful. Leave that there. The CLK is more beautiful. This is a beautiful car. And the CLK is

even more beautiful. That is a bold take. Yeah, I agree. Everybody says the black series is beautiful.

What does the black trees have wheels and some flair? It's not beautiful. It's striking. That's

it's different. It's going back to the car. It is beautiful. It's just a simple design.

Piddler less. Piddler less. The color of the design is gorgeous. I will agree.

This car, this would be the perfect daily driver. If I was a divorce dad, you would have a 550.

No, look at this. This car is fussy. Look how unfussy. Look seriously, compare the two.

Look how unfussy this is. Simple, clean. Pillarless, no little wheels that's wheels are just

simple files for go back to the 550. Okay, the wheels are a lot. I agree. Not original

on the car. These are the most beautiful wheels. These are the most beautiful cars made

no three. These two cars. Most beautiful cars made no three. But the CLK edges it a little.

575 was made no three, not the 550, but you're missing my point. But I don't know what it goes.

They're not. Don't you know the differences? I'm keeping close. But anyway, I mean, I want this

CLK so beautiful. I appreciate the subtlety of this car. I appreciate it, generally.

You know how people want like an e-type that is modernized? I want this but modernized.

It's like with distronic and like a slightly nicer interior and like the door handles the

most smooth as possible. Distronic? Because it may have been. I don't think so. I mean,

this is early days, man. This is a thread that the S-classes have made were of the CLKs weren't.

They were for they didn't. They were for drive. They were for those. They're for real drivers.

Yeah, driving up and down the highway. It's like a toner salesman. That's why I like it.

You think they're for toner salesmen, but everybody thinks that about these cars. They blend

in, but when you get behind the wheel and you put that hammer down, you're in the next

county by by by dinner time. That's not that power. It's like no game. It's 364. I guarantee you

if I have a car, I race you in five. I win. No, that's not true. Well, whoever buys this car,

bring it to the office. San Diego, 92 something or other. I don't know exactly, but bring it here.

I'll show you. I'll wipe you off. But it is a very cool car. Okay. Yeah. Anyway.

Flip, but you got anything? Yeah. I want to talk about Coinbase for a second. Oh, boy.

Okay. Yeah. We sold a pickup truck in partnership with Coinbase. Yeah. And the truck got picked up

yesterday. A man came and got it. A man and his friend came and got it. And they paid in

USDC as was prescribed in the auction. Yeah. And I knew how it would work and you would be seamless.

And it was actually like better than I expected. He hadn't paid yet. He came to the office.

We signed over the bill sale, signed the title and then he scanned a QR code on my phone

from my Coinbase app. And then a minute later, I had the $17,000 USDC in our Coinbase account.

And it was truly the simplest experience I ever had. Meanwhile, one of our producers bought a

car last weekend and he flew with cash across the country to do this. Here's a better way.

Two things. One, he did do that. He was, I've never seen so. And the guy still didn't give him the

title. He was sitting on the. He doesn't have the title. He doesn't have the title. He was sitting

on the plane and he was like, I'm out of his car. It's so excited that the guy called him and I was

like, yeah, I don't know if I want to sell it. He's sitting on the plane to go there. It was the

crazy thing. It makes fun of our producer time. But he had to like go to the bank and do all this.

But here's like a way better way. I actually like he doesn't have the title because the seller

wanted the check to clear. Right. I have to point out. I was here while

Filippo handled this. I helped put the license plates. He did painting the ass on this car.

Why do you take them off? They do play it differently. Why? I call for it. I don't know.

California plays state of the car. Why don't you leave them on? These are these are part 25 year old

place. New place from DMV. I wasn't part of the. I guess. I followed orders very hard because

that's the nut on the. It was like the defender's operation very hard. But it was true that within like,

I mean, it was over in the two minutes. It was so fast that the guy left. He forgot his back back.

Had to come back and get it. Like that's how quick it is because that's why people's big complaints

about the car buying process. I'm of course a little skeptical of crypto. But I will say this does

take some interesting friction out of the process because there is always that level of friction.

Like how many when Nick is buying sketchy cars or almost exclusively when Nick is buying sketchy cars,

the friction point is he doesn't want to pay and the guy doesn't want to release the title of

the car until he pays. But you have this sketchy little moment here and if you could do it all kind

of at once, it's so quick that it made it life legitimately wager. I didn't have to wait for

anything and it's just there. Well, the guy's got his truck. Where does he live? He's local. Yeah,

he lives in the San Diego area and he is rightfully very excited. Also cool. The truck looks so good.

It's so cool. I moved it to like, I brought it outside for him and it just

It's such a good truck. Yeah, he asked us if we'd read on the interior. It's like, no,

we just. No, it's just an honest truck. You know, I drove the truck. It was hard to believe because

it had a lot of miles. But back in this era, it's hard to explain now. But back in this era,

Toyota's focus was on just really durable. Simple parts, but durable ones. Like this truck doesn't have a

tack. Like, even though it's a manual, like it doesn't have stuff that you would want. But like,

it has it runs like it was two, three inches. Yeah, fuel temp. But tack would be nice for a manual,

but it doesn't have that. But that wasn't Toyota's focus wasn't giving you nice stuff,

like a tack. It was just like, we want to make the the small amount of stuff we do provide

really last. And it did. It does. It's amazing how this truck had held up after this many miles.

It's further proof also that if you have your car in California and you take care of it mechanically,

it can run for as long as you're willing to continue to operate it. It will just keep going.

Like the elements will not consume the vehicle. So true. For instance, if like, if you look

like underneath, it was still like, I mean, for a California truck, look at that. I mean, it was,

it was like, it was still. Now this was in the pre-rust era for Toyota Toyota. Toyota then had an

issue where the truck could have been hermetically sealed and still the bed would slip more.

They replaced the frame. They replaced a lot of frames under recall for like 20-year-old part.

That is a tough recall because you have tax in New Hampshire, you have to pull the body off

as Sequoia and then and then like take rusted parts from under then put a new frame. I mean,

I hope you didn't have that shot. Right. Okay, so that was the coin-based thing. It went

well. The truck is gone. Kenan, give us your talk cars segment. It was Filippo related.

Yes, I have a Filippo related thing. So Filippo and I, you know, Filippo and I for those who

don't know work together, Filippo helps run this company. These are our director of operations

that you're official time. They'll make that and I'm the managing editor. So and I run the

team of auction specials. They create all those things. And Filippo and I were in a meeting and

he, somebody brought it up and it's like, guess what car Kenan isn't at the office when we

have things we sit in the back of all these cars. And I said, everybody said, oh, it's an M5,

but we have two. We have the challenge M5. We have biome 5. And so which one is it and Filippo said,

I know which one it is. I looked at it and I was like, Filippo, you know, two giveaways.

One is you have a rear dashcam. I do. Yes, that's true. One. The second is that I know for a fact

that our challenge one as a full leather interior. That's right. Yours is an option yours does not have.

It's unfortunate. It's a benefit. But the full leather interior ones don't have the rear

sunshades. That's right. The doors. And the yours, which does not have full leather does. And you had

the rear sunshade extended. Yes, that's correct. So I tried to explain to my wife why I was

proud of this and she did not understand. I once told him that he retained it. I told it and he

said, oh, that's interesting. I assumed, okay, well, but no, Filippo then brought it up months later.

And of course, me being me, I was ecstatic. And so I realized something, Filippo. Yes.

I vow to you that I will learn some facts about normal cars, but normal to most. You can pick

whatever it is that you want. Really? But in general, I'm going to internalize the stuff that you have

to say about normal because I realize that it is a huge blind spot in my automotive knowledge.

Okay. I'm on. And I'm going to retain the information. I will try to bring it up in a meeting

whenever I can. I'm honored. So you will be my teacher and I have your student. I vow to support

this. Okay. Moving on to our next segment, the market report. Now, as as always, the market report

is brought to you by cars and bids and or the cars and bids app, which you can access by going

to the app store and downloading it. Is that all it's all correct? Folks, it's only took me,

it only took me six months, but I got it. I'm so proud of you. You go to the app store.

I have it on my cellular telephone. Yeah, it's great. There's a lot of things happening.

I got a lot of weird apps recently, too. Is that so? What is it? Yeah, no, I got some weird,

I got some weird stuff on here now because I've had to do stuff lately. How unfortunate.

I got the American Airlines app. Well, you had to fly very weird. I hate the airline apps.

A state farm. What are the state farm app? Shout out to the United apps. It's actually very good.

Okay. I want to talk market reports. Somebody that wants some miles.

Oh, but our app is great. Not like the state farm app, which may or may not be great.

I don't think I used it. Okay. I want to talk market report and I want to start with the 4GT.

You know about the 4GT? I am familiar. I'm going to make the front one gold one of the old one.

I'm going to make up. There's no old one. Well, there is, but it wasn't called GT.

That's kind of the thing. You know, if I called his car, the M, he'd be so fast.

Five competition. He'd be upset. Okay. So I'm going to make a, I'm going to make a proc

lamation. Here's a proclamation for you. And I'm stating this on February 12th, but with this

goes live on 14th Valentine's Day. That fellow remember I said it on Valentine's Day 25.

The old 4GT within three years will be selling for more than the new 4GT. So I'm talking about

the manual transmission. This 4GT. Yep. Set account. I'm putting it in my calendar.

This 4GT will be selling for more than the new one that's built in the nicest versions of

this one. Yeah. But we're selling for more than the worst versions of the night. Let me,

let me put, I'll put it. I'll even go for the specifics. The nicest versions of this one.

The O5 will be selling for more than an average to OK version of the new one.

The market is already clearly shown this. Niceest versions of this car are now in the

six to seven hundred plus range. What? The, they're selling all the time. What heritage is?

No, all even even colors are selling for over 600 now. The old than the new 4GT is now down

into the low eights with a little bit of miles. Yes. A special one with no miles, whatever is maybe

still a million bucks, maybe. I am marking this date. Kenan is just typing it out. I'm writing it

all down. It's taking 35 minutes, but he's adding Mr. Calendar. This date I am saying that within

three years, the old 4GTs will be selling for more than the new 4GTs.

Basin, three times as many. Basin, the trajectory, you're so right.

OK, right in that down. So podcast number 200, I think. That's, yeah, fine. You never take.

Close enough. By podcast 200, the old 4GTs will be eclipsing the new 4GTs.

Now when the new 4GT came out, people are like, oh my god, it's just a different car.

This is a totally different, crazy thing. I'm amazing. They've changed everything.

The market doesn't want it. No, the market wants this guy.

It's in surprise. This is a VA with a manual and it's raw and the new one is very raw.

It's a race car, but it's not, but they made 41% of these. And the new one, they only made like

1,200, 1200. They made 4,038 of these. They made like 1250 new ones. They're literally four times

as many. And I am still making this part. If you ask me what car for 350 grand? Yeah, I would buy.

Yeah, it'd be a 4GT. Really? Did you hear that?

I'm stunned to have heard of that. I think so, because it's-

You both have invitations for this event.

It is. It is actually one of the, like, there's not that many cars in that part.

So, frankly, that are that appealing. But this is such a special car. It's a stand-alone

piece of history in a lot of ways. It's not like the best version of a 9-11.

It's something separate. It's its own car. And that makes it really special.

But it's going to be a shame when they are, when this is 600.

Well, I'll tell you, it ain't far off. Nice ones, even mild ones are starting to

to excel for. What do you think? Your year's is 35,000 miles?

I wouldn't sell mine today. I mean, I'm not interested in selling mine. If I was interested

in selling mine, I think I could probably get between 350 and 375. You just said for 350,

I don't think they're out there for 350 anymore. I think it's exceptionally high-miles.

My name is exceptionally high-miles, but it's a special color. I think that a red car with my

miles is maybe a 350 car, but you won't find one. It's much easier to find a car with 2,000 miles

of 800 miles than to find one with high miles. What a shame. These cars, 400 is the new baseline for

like a car with any sort of miles. A lower mileage one is like a 450 car and really nice ones are

easily 600 heritages are about to crest up here. I hope so. I'll start ahead with that.

I hope that with their value appreciation and enthusiastic appreciation for these cars,

that Ford then starts supporting them more because one of the issues you've run into is like,

they don't do the best job supporting these cars and supplying parts for owners.

These things are hard to get for these. Getting harder. But I have three of these.

There's a lower splitter on the front of the car. Front splitters and I have a whole new set of

brake rotors. Having you publicly said that, that actually they're still available. The splitters

are still available and still cheap. I bought three splitters for like 300 bucks like when I bought

the car seven years ago thinking I was a god and actually they cost the same now and they might have

probably been damaged sitting in my basement. Gages are a problem. Gages are a problem but not

hard to find. Okay, but tail lights are a problem. Wasn't something else? I don't know. I've never

had an issue with mine. My reverse light went up, but we found out that it was the same bulb from

it Tacoma and so I just. Reliable component. The point is the point is that these cars are showing

what the market prefers. The new Ford GT has proven to be tremendously complicated. The dealers

are already refusing to work on it or simply don't demonstrate the technical know-how. They're

obviously way more like focused frenetic like hardcore vehicles, which I think most people don't

really want for cars. They drive around. No, you can't drive this around. You can't. And the old one

just has the look, the V8, the manual. It has what you want. This is cool. I will say that. It's

incredibly cool. I remember your video where you went out. The new one is incredibly cool. I can

imagine these ever dropped down to 500 stuff, but the old one I can imagine will be in the 500 to

800 range for a long time. And I bet you'll set some point be able to choose between new and old.

We'll value the clips. Your Kuntosh will there be a. I can't believe it. I'm sitting here watching

Ford GT values climb. I'm thinking, folks, you need to get a Kuntosh. God, that one is just. Or if you

can both. Yep, we can both. Okay. Philippa, you got a market report for us. Yeah. Can we talk

about a Volvo V60? Look, I am who I am. I'm here to look. All right. Last week we sold a Volvo V60 T8

Pulsar engine ear to send a wrench. Yeah. Amazing. Now that's a really long name. Yeah. But

here's what it is. It's a wagon from Volvo. Yeah. It's practical. It's great. It also has a plug

and hybrid. And it's the most powerful version of that. And it has old and stainless. Where is this

Denver? They're like doing old and stainless. Yeah, they do. I wasn't going to say correctly. I wasn't

going to try. But here's a car that the the there's a window sticker in the dock session. I don't

remember offhand. Okay. This was a 70,000 car. 70 car, right? In 22. In 22. They've driven it

30,000 miles up in that. 30,000 miles 40. And it's over 54 at normal Volvo depreciation.

Oh, yeah. Three times that amount. Yeah. And a 22 XC60 is like a 19 car. So he I'm stunned by how

well it says retain value now. They didn't sell a lot of. No, they're hard to point. And especially

the nice version of T8s, which have the Pulsar engineering. They don't all have that. Yep. This

is the one you want. If you want to be sexy, I'm not surprised somebody paid up for it. But man,

did they pay off for it? Well, there's a special car. What are you going to find another one?

If you're looking for one of these, it's one of those things. It's like me looking for the GLS

with the offhand package. Like in the wagon community. Yeah, you win. I think you win more than

if you had like a 63 and I was driving the 4GT home from 10 to the other night. One of these

got up next to me and was like trying to. Yeah, it was a T8. It had all these badges. I admit,

I'm a little lost by some of the top end versions of this car. They got a little confusing.

But it was it was this. It was a V60 with the Pulsar badge. The only other one in the country.

It was pretty cool and he was like going fast next to me and I wasn't racing a whole

lot of station wagon, but you know, I mean, I'm going to. That's right. It's ridiculous,

it's crazy. They were at plus. They were the one. No, it's only 415. Five horsepower.

Anyway, it's so cool. And I'm glad that the market is the market to appreciate these

and I mean, the market does appreciate these these V60s. I get a lot of people who come up to me

on the street. I'm like, I have a V60. Really? Yeah, I legitimately, whether it's one of these

or just a regular one, but it's set. They're in the enthusiast car. In the sense that it is

a smaller wagon. Remember, the competition for this car, none of them were sold here. The C-Class

wagon was gone. The three series wagon was gone. And only after the three, the last generation

was just just three. The A4 was all road only and small motor only. You had to be like a

serious enthusiast to pursue the high performance Volvo and V60. Plus this for what it's worth.

I think the seller did themselves a huge favor with the photos, which look great. And selling with

a ski box and a tow hedge was a ski box, including the sale. It probably made a real difference

because of the look. Yeah, it's great. I'm jealous of this person. You're jealous of the buyer.

I'm jealous of the buyer and the seller because he owned it for a few years. And he made this.

I want this. But yeah, well, you could. It sounds like this guy didn't lose much money. So,

like, you know, you can't find any for food. It's not a cost. You truly can't. He's also,

it's too small. Can I European delivery this? You can. They still sell this? I think so. Maybe

this last year. They still sell this new. The problem of Volvo Eurodelivery is it starts in Sweden

at the end of the day. That's something they got to go. It's not awesome. It takes like a day to get

anywhere you want to be. No offense to the Swedes watching. But I, but if you're going to Europe on

vacation, it is surprise. Gothenburg isn't your type. Don't Denmark. It could be nice. It is

surprising how little they lost in this. Even then. How little what? How little money they lost.

Yeah, it is that becomes interesting. You present it well. It's a special car. It's a rare car.

Nonetheless, they paid 69. They probably didn't pay 69, too, honestly. Okay. Can

it give us your market report? Yes. We had a very special car on the site recently. One of my

all-time favorite cars. This Aston Martin DBS, but critically, had a six-speed manual transmission.

They produced these cars with six-speed, but they didn't make all that many of them. They made

a lot more of these than its competitor, the 599. They made a handful with 60-man transmission.

These are substantially more common, but this car was a one-owner car. Flippin, I talked about it

in the live now segment of the other channel on the cars and the business channel.

And it sold for a strong money. 114 grand feels like right for the car, but it had to come

out at 53,300 miles for one of these. Wow, so this thing had miles and still brought 114,

which is especially impressive because if you look up DB9, which ultimately had the same

powertrain and basically the same look, yeah, similarly look we'll say, but yes, but.

So that, I mean, an O9 DB9 is a 42-car. It's admittedly with an automatic. I imagine

the manual would be more, but the point is, the DB9. As much as you think, actually. Do we have sticks

on here? The point is, I've seen some other places for around in the 30s. The point, the point is

like the DBS without that many changes is a really, the DB, you know what the DBS is?

The challenged redollae of the DB9. That's exactly what it is. Are you going to rail against it

and say you hate it? No, I've never driven one. I've always wanted to. I wish we had

never driven one. We should have sent this one down. It was like an Oxnard, wasn't it? It was

in Hollywood, but yeah, it's a, but yeah, it's a, I have driven. I mean, I don't want a different

two actually. The only DBS is I've ever driven or manual. I mean, it's so cool. It's not,

it is an incredibly light clutch and the bite point for whatever, even when the clutch is brand new

is actually surprisingly high. So it's not as great as you think, but who cares? I get told

Flipple, your heel toe downshift is 12. You hear the downshift in a V12 and it just had, it had just

enough subtle changes that like those who know, know. And to us, nobody else really matters.

Like if someone else sees me and thinks it's a DB9, that just means they're not that much

regard to screw all those things. You know what I'm hearing? Your shifter looks like a power

ranger. It was cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's so cool. The shifter is really cool.

Truly such a job. It is the challenged redollae. It's like, it's like the upgrades were subtle,

but, but significant. It wasn't just cosmetic stuff. It wasn't just a manual transmission.

They gave it more power, better suspension, better wheels, the flared rockers,

the manual, the wheel that does ensures there's like little and the clear tails.

Was Jeremy Clarkson described it when it was new? It's like a DB9 S. Every single part of the car

is just a little bit better. And that totality of adding all that up, that's what makes it.

So one owner car for 16 years with the manual here in LA. Yeah, 114. 114. That is a cool car. And

I don't know if it's a buy or not 114. I don't seem losing value. I swear these things were

100 grand 10 years ago. No, and I think it's just such a good experience. I mean,

I mean, get one of these. I love it. What are you going to get? One of these or an Accura?

A DB9 S. In the 30s. Interesting. Oh, no, he's, but again, but again,

he's a hazier person. Okay, we're going to move on to the questions, questions, questions. Now,

remember, you two can ask us questions. You go to carsandbids.com, you click on the community tab,

and then there's going to be a post there that says, this is where you ask your questions,

and then you can ask your questions there. Does that make sense? Yep. Okay, questions.

First question from Toyota Supra. Question for all. Do you pay attention to the

Doug is the type of guy comments? If so, are there any that's out here, especially funny?

He for a long time, I did, but I don't really anymore, and I don't really remember a lot of them

anymore. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. It got like, I thought they were fine.

I'm not trying to like say, oh, I didn't listen to that. Screw those. Like I'm not one of them.

I thought there was a good period of time where they were funny, but it was like three, four years.

Everyone's a friend. There's somebody will like be watching an old video and

master me a screenshot of a comment, and there's some great ones. There were some great ones.

But, you know, the meme, I don't know, the meme's not as strong as it is as it used to be.

Plus, there should be flipos type of guy comments because damn.

Next question. There are flipos type of guy comments. I don't know the flipos.

We never flipos spelled correctly, by the way. No one or Kenan. Kenan and

Filippo, no one's ever spelled them. K-E-N-N-A-N. I'm not, I'm not. Too many eyes and

else in peace. Honestly, sometimes I have trouble. Sometimes I have trouble. Sometimes I have to

copy and paste it off someday. Sometimes I have to sign into our into our paste-dub system

and copy and paste it off. They're just off of social security information because that's

the only way I know for sure. Yeah, yeah. Or you just type in. Yeah, pow.

Next quip, pow. P-A-O is hyzer. Next question from Alec Metz, 2011. Why do you guys sometimes

choose not to answer questions on here? Okay, let me tell you what happened. Back in the day,

I used to say that we would answer the highest upvoted question no matter how stupid.

And then you would happen. Some of them were really stupid. No, what I've decided, here's

what happened. I have noticed that when we post the question, this launches every Friday morning

and I, or after you, I don't know what it'll all to be honest. And when we post the questions,

I've noticed that there are some people who instantly post a question and then that gets upvotes

and then that question is like the top uploader question. And sometimes that question is not

very well thought and is often the same person asking the questions every week and every week.

And so I've decided to, instead of focusing on people who hurry to ask their questions right away

to try to take questions that are more interesting and more exciting, some of the time.

Not this week though, I might throw in the top uploader this week. I will also say some of the

questions are sometimes duplicative, which I'm sure is not intentional, but if we've answered

it in a recent video now. Yeah, that's also true. We've done 47 of these. I have a general good

knowledge. We've been asked the question a million times. What car are you excited to import

this year? What car would you buy for 45 grand this year? Yeah, like I move on from a lot of those

questions. But generally, I try to answer all of the questions at the top with exceptions only.

I never will deflect a controversial question. Throw me some controversy, folks. I love it. I eat it

up. However, if they're boring questions, it's been a while since you chewed on the microphone.

Okay, people listening at home without the video. The cap in there. Next question from Tengle 92.

This is actually a decent question. Assuming Kennen pulls the trigger on a cayenne, that would

mean that between the three of you, there are 10 vehicles, half of which are German. That's

not entirely true. Is it close? I have six cars. You have three cars, so he and he has two.

That's a third of my cars are German. But a lot of German. The point is a lot of German.

All of his cars are German. Half of your cars are German. So he says in a hypothetical

situation where all German vehicles were wiped from the planet, how would you replace your beloved

vehicles with the closest American and Italian and Japanese equivalent joy? Yeah, I would actually

love it to be perfectly honest. First off, I get an XJ 220. I mean, I like to be honest with you. It's

like there are some, I mean, CT5V blacklings pretty appealing. Like it's that there are cars that

are not just German. Germans do make wonderful cars. That's what they do is a nation. 550 Maranela

would be a really lovely thing. Right. The thing that annoys the time of Italian where it comes

up. Filippo says that Italian because the things that annoy me about the Germans is what makes them

good manufacturers of cars. That's because they're pedantic, focused, no humor generally speaking.

Good engineering rules all. I'll never forget this is a little German for you.

One time in here in the United States, if you like through a supermarket parking lot,

you can generally assume that cars will stop for you. Like the pedestrian is gone.

Got your car with your eggs that you spent a fortune on. People are like, oh, I'm going to stop.

Like no matter what, people are walking haphazard ways in every supermarket parking lot and cars

are like 8,000 feet from them. I remember one time I was in Germany with some of my

Porsche colleagues and I was walking through a parking lot and I kind of walked in front of a car

and they were like, what are you doing? And I was like, what do you mean? And they're like,

they were like made it clear that the machine has the right, in Germany, the machine at the right

of way. Yes, you respect the car. What's you're doing? You wait your turn. You go very small.

This is very big. You can't wait. That's true. And Italy too, but for very different reasons.

Right. And Italy, you can't. The driver will run you over, but like that's the thing. God made man,

but man made this. Anyway, the point is, I would have actually no problem with it. I love my

Ford GT. I love my Cooontosh. The only car that it would be annoying to replace would be the

Courage GT. What? Oh, my E-Class station wagon. I get a V60 Polestar. But you said the Ford GT

is the, quote unquote, poor man's Courage GT. Yeah. It delivers as close to an experience

from another manufacturer. So that would be the car you would replace it with if you couldn't have

a German car. Well, I already have the Ford GT. Honestly, if the Courage GT went, I probably

just take the cash and hang out for a while, brag about it to Filippo.

But then you couldn't get a 99 through turbo. No, I'd get an XJ220. I would get an XJ220.

Wow. Don't law. Send it to Don law. And you know what would happen? Here's what would happen.

I'm driving my XJ220. And I get up at a stoplight next to an EB110. And I'd say 110, 220.

You made this point with, you said with my E-39, you said, can I just realize something? E-39, F-40.

F-40. You got E-39, F-40. Better in every way, one better. Well, yeah, obviously it's

bad. Okay, question for next question. Some guy from Seattle, we're going to do maybe two to

three more. Something like that. Question for all, what is the best weekend car for around $15,000?

Give or take two to three thousand dollars. Pull up some sales, Kenneth. There's a clear answer.

You boxed 96 bucks. No, an A-meata, an B-meata. And D, you can't get an N-D's for 50.

You can get an N-D for 50. We've had this discussion before, and I still don't think it's true.

18, 27. Go to lowest price to N-D's. Oh, you don't want to know where that goes.

There's 16. There's 16. I remember this one was total. This one was totally for 15.

This one was total. I do remember that car. Can't, and it fully, but you can get these cars.

December 3rd, we saw one for 16. For 16, but it's how many miles we're on this car?

A reasonable number. 28. Let's see. Good car facts, but it just definitely wants to get achieved.

You wouldn't get a 96 over an N-D. Not a chance. Really, but there's so much mid-engine, dude.

What about an MR-2? What is an SW-20 go for? 12-9 at this one. That's Japanese.

But that's Japanese. That's right-hand driving. You can still get a turbo.

But I want to shift from my right hand. I'm right-hand dominant.

This one's not. That's a two MR-2. No, I would rather have it.

Oh, yeah, a lot. T-M-U, but A-me-U. T-M-U was my favorite type of miles because it could be

10,000. Would you explain or not known? A 996 cab with a tip, a 15.

Yeah, this one. This one's 15. Yeah, a 996 cab with a tip. I would rather have this car

five million times over that. Dude, can I buy that? Go back to that. Can I just have this?

When did we sell this? In 2021. 21-13-7. I mean, you probably can't buy this car for

13-7 anymore. No, that is a cool little car. I love this car. Where's this park that this car is at?

What's- where's this car? Oh, it was california owned, but it's almost down. So I was like,

that doesn't work. I assume I have two thousand miles. That cheap.

You can find some really high miles at that point.

Can I get an MR2? Oh, yeah, what about that? That's two thousand. This one seems like

pretty reasonable. And 14-2. Oh, no, it's a weekend car. Yeah.

Two, seven. And D-2, is that your- And D-1, but- And D-2, without you.

And D-2, they're on cheap enough yet.

All right. It's going to be on the A-A-P.

You want the A-A-P. You want the A-A-P? I think you're going to have to say that.

Still thought the A-A-S. You'd rather have an N-D than an S2000.

No, you're right. No, you wouldn't. That's shit.

But like, you'd rather have an N-2000 than an SW20 Turbo?

Yes. Really? S-W20 Turbo is a powerful car.

A mid-engine is important to me. I've spent a lot of time driving mid-engine cars,

and the physics difference is significant.

Okay, why not a 987? Yeah, don't want it.

Cameron, you can get it at that point.

I don't think you can get a manual 987-1 at 5.

But it's hard. Go down. Go down. Just go down.

No, go back. Oh, yeah.

That's actually- You can do it.

Yes, I select it for sure.

He's making fun of it. They're not-

It's for sure. Cameron's barely.

It's hard to find.

Yeah. It's hard to find.

These are movie cars.

We saw some really high-mile ones or problematic ones.

I don't need a Cayman.

People are always like, Cayman, Cayman, Cayman.

I'm a live-in-so-cal man.

I want to take a box for all their lawyers.

How many miles are on this?

This one? 105.

That's actually-

Yeah, the base, dude.

You get a base boxer for 13, and you beat on it.

You beat on it.

That's a driver.

That is a driver.

I don't know what the answer is, but it's one of those.

So, yeah, so S2000, SW20,

N-D-987,

one of the best cars in the decent 986.

No.

Yeah, you can get a T-L-Type S,

but it's not really a great weekend car.

It's not really a weekend, the car, yeah.

But something like that, something along those lines.

Okay, two more. This one is really fast.

I'm going to do it. You guys, if you disagree with me,

you chime in, but I don't think you will.

From TSX enthusiasts, keep cell destroy.

Cadillac, CN,

Chrysler, ME412, Volkswagen, W12, Nardo.

The answer is, keep the CN.

Don't care what happens to the other two.

I never got into the ME412.

Everybody else can be really cared.

Okay, I'm going to choose one more.

Oh, here's a good one.

You know what, I'm going to do three more.

Wow. Sure.

Do it. Wow.

We're going to be quick.

Do it.

The first one, which car sellers are the most out of touch

with the value of their car when setting their reserve?

I haven't done reserve setting in a long time.

So, explain your answer.

A lot of them.

Who?

Modified Braindler owners.

Modded Jeep Wrangler owners are.

It's a good one.

They think that the mods they threw on

double the value when actually they don't.

Especially in Florida.

Okay, next question.

Next question.

Clyde B.F.

Oh yeah, yeah, you're right.

Old Bitty, another theoretical for you.

You're only, you're forced to own only one car

that was introduced in the year you were born.

I'm bringing this up.

Easy.

I'm bringing this up because it's useful for me.

Reliability is in play here.

What car do you pick?

F40.

F50.

Damn, it's, by the way, this is supposed to be our only car.

Right.

Done.

Yep.

Next question.

Fletch is easy to use in that car.

All right.

The service, but I'm looking at the list.

What year were you born?

94.

So the, oh, the 355 was, but so was ours to a lot.

C class, C class, C class.

C class, C class.

C class.

ours to a lot.

I think C class for him.

ours to a lot.

So F40, F50, and then,

the C class.

No, first gen.

No way.

Absolutely not.

They didn't come out to at least 96, 97.

The, the gen that it was based on,

what it was named out until 95, the legacy gen.

First generation, 1994.

That did not come out in 90.

And the clarinet form was in production in 1995,

wasn't it?

But it wasn't, it didn't come out.

Didn't come out.

Oh come out, yeah.

Okay, so yeah.

Production.

F40, F50, original C4 for the 1995 Mallier.

For that back.

For the legacy.

Outback.

He's the C class.

Okay, final question from Acre Shaw.

Any idea where your 360 went?

Seems like an important car in the trajectory of your career.

Would you ever try to get it back?

I sold my 360 to a man, very nice man in the robotics world.

And seriously, and he was the C2 of a robotics company.

He bought it, came in.

He was living in Davis, California near Sacramento.

And he came in to Philly where I was living at the time,

flew all the way across the country, drove the car.

Bought the car.

Car went to Davis.

This was in 2014.

And that year I went to Pebble Beach.

And I saw the car at the Quill parking lot,

137, 880.

And he, and that was the last time I saw the car.

I've never seen it again.

And I don't really care about that.

And the question is, would you ever try to get it back?

Absolutely not.

Anyway, goodbye everyone.

I never, the 360, I'm, it's not for you.

It was a part of your past and you acknowledged

that this is an important car.

And if I don't think you'd want your bumper to buy the range over a back,

the last end or anything.

I don't care, I will say this.

I don't care that much about my particular 360 much.

I mean, it was actually, in the world of them, it was a pretty good car.

It was also of course a stick 04, which kind of the car you want.

I have increased my fondness for the 360 since I,

in the ensuing years.

I was pretty disappointed with that car.

And over the years, I've kind of come to reframe how I view the 360.

And I actually think it's a really fun car as long as you go into it,

not thinking that you're buying like a super,

the special super car ever, which is what I thought.

Like, I was like, I'm 22.

I'm buying a Ferrari.

This is the coolest thing in the world.

You're 25.

Yeah, I was 22.

I was 22.

And I was like, this is going to be the coolest thing ever.

And it's just now, like no possession will ever kind of have that.

But if you drive it for what it is, it's actually a pretty fun, fun car.

And that's assuming it has a gated manual transmission in three pedals,

which drone shade is a tip.

That's F1 frog.

Kenan wants a stradal.

I do.

Oh, man, that's the dream.

Filippo, do you have any parting thoughts trying to think of any Ferrari that I want?

Yeah.

What about the 456 Venice?

Oh, Filippo.

Why?

You know what?

You know what the problem is?

He doesn't know what it is.

He knew what it was.

Of course I know what it is.

I knew that it's M5 had.

He says, of course I know what it is.

Meanwhile, he doesn't know what I could tell a diablo for my guy or no.

He doesn't know what a Lamborghini silhouette is.

That might be true.

I know what an old rebuild of the better.

I can't give anything.

This is the best podcast we've ever done.

Best podcast we've ever done.

No parting words from Filippo.

You're not even going to tell people to download the app.

Oh yeah, good download the app.

Go to the Apple store.

Sell your app store on your iPhone

and download the cart of the app.

Go, you have to go to the app store on your iPhone.

You can't just, that's the easiest way to download it to your iPhone.

Can you send the app to your iPhone from a different device?

I don't think so.

Apple's got some work to do.

Yeah.

Get on it too.

But it's a great app.

Download it.

You can find it through one.

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