To wait or to have now?

Does professional idiot. Drive.

After hours. Sorry to you out of my own lost

in your, with your, with your, with your little, your little guy yesterday, you little rabbit.

And just wanted to yes, I condolences on behalf of awesome. The Showcase.

I'd appreciate it. Might this week, this week's

review video is going to be dedicated to him.

Yes, it's crazy. That yeah, you should live

review of a Volkswagen Rabbit. Yeah, that's a fantastic idea.

We've really enjoyed a rabbit to review the officially.

I don't think. And it's a bit of a rare beast

from the seventies. Yeah, cool thing.

Now, It's, it is. So when when when an animal dies

is they're part of the family, you know, we've got a dog, I share with my girlfriend but also, you know, two dogs at home with with my parents. And, you know, they're like, if

anything happens to him, you you freak out more than anything else. Like it sit there there, big

part of the family. So, so, yeah, just so, you know,

I know how you feel when when, when a rabbit passed away, I had two rabbits at one point. So Wishing you and your partner

all the very best in regards to that she's that pretty sure to thank you so much. Well let's get straight into it

anyway with we're kind of busy few weeks on the show but a few people have done some things over the weekend which was to get in more detail when we do some clean up those but it will start with you. Yeah, it's in your car.

What are you saying before the show?

You're not spending any money because you don't, you can't at the bar with that times are tough.

As you know, yes, especially spending stopped.

I like to think of it. You know, when you go to jail, I

might have said this last time where that's it to get Frozen, you know, everything gets frozen.

Yeah, I've just done that. So self-inflicted, you will stay

home and you will not spend any money.

That's, it's Frozen. Having said that I did sell the

130i hatch, which was good, because I'd had that for a while, and I knew that, well, I thought it would sell quicker that car, but I knew that whoever bought it would be someone that specifically wanted a Hatch BMW in a manual you know it's a bit of a niche car so I suppose I'm not overly surprised that it took a bit longer to sell because you've got to be really looking for that which this guy was he appreciated it?

Ironically he had an SP 20, same as yours many in bright yellow.

So yeah, I think I might have mentioned this last week.

Anyway, I but yeah. They finally picked that up and

yeah, happy with it and off into the sunset.

So that was good. I'm driving around in my mom.

He banned Volkswagen the opposite end of the car evolutionary scale, seventh dated bezel, Auto and massive.

So that's good to drive, it's very comfy.

I like that part economy of that 2-litre diesel.

It's a very relaxing, easy car to place on the road you know given its 0 square U backing. It and everything.

The footprint is not bigger than a normal case 0.

You think that it's huge but really it's just normal.

Length and width. You just very boxy and up high.

So I am, I'm quite enjoying driving that.

I mean, I enjoy driving most things are by, but yeah, that, that particular one is very relaxing.

Excellent. So, there's that, what else I

jumped in the pig tractor, the little diesel 190 on the weekend, I was where that is stored.

So, I did drive that around and fortunately, I had the good, the good thought a few weeks ago to fill that with diesel.

So it's nice getting in a car. Our Let's Go full tank of diesel

vertical. Think about a spinning buddy,

filling it up. So I took that forever a joint

and went to a few antique shops and didn't buy anything crazy to when I didn't spend your money there.

But yeah I you know you always reminded when you get in that car, why you like it, what I bought it and all that so that was good. What else comes with us?

What else, what else? Don't think.

No, I think that's it. I've got status quo, very good

for kill me. Will You Free Will and moving

around Common Thread through glad Fred.

Fred moving on to Adam. How you going man updates when

you're in it. It's a good list.

Uh, Joe and you see that might not, there's been plenty of changes. Lots of changes.

So, still have this stage, I have advertised it, but I've done a really bad job advertising a mainly because I don't want to sell it. It's got its going to have to go

now but yeah, this is the next couple days actually I'm going to put on car sales and Just take some fresh photos.

And well, I'm not. So the stage you has to go but

of we've sold my partner had her salika sold 400,000 case Alika for 7470, and was a bit of a bidding war between a guy from Adelaide. And a guy from Port Macquarie

and the guy from Port kinda one well.

So got really good money for. It was so sad to say, but we

still keep in touch because he liked both.

Is parties were adamant about buying it as a bit of a collective sort of thing. So they keep in touch with us

and let us know. That Lola is okay, so what has

replaced? Lola bought.

A 2nd gen Honda Jazz. I managed to get the VCI manual.

So 1.5 manual Jazz and I forgot how great those cars are have.

Have bought the I did some photoshopping, you guys.

All enjoy this. This is not know, probably to

listening to this but you'll see so So I've bought for the VC is Wheels. I've ordered some spaces and

some i bark lowering springs and a paint, the wheels and like an anthracite gray. And it's going to look like

this. Yeah, yeah, that's me.

He's a bit and it was over. And that's it, silver.

Yeah, but that's the thing. I think we discussed last time I

was on the show. I'm gonna get these stickers

made up for the side of it. Yeah, it'll be texting.

So that's that's happened. So that's in the process a

moment and then to replace the stage here.

Yeah. Just as I said, I love that car.

But the roads here are so bad and a lot of the gigs I do like on properties Romeo and Hunter Valley and became in the corner.

Recently nearly hit a wombat and my - Wayne okay.

If I hit that one but that's the front bar, front quarter Bonnet, probably headlight. Where am I going to?

Get those parts from water that what's this going to cost me?

So I've gone and bought a second generation Honda CRV and I bought an aborted, a lift kit for it.

Already got wheels on it and this is the inspiration.

Oh, that's cool. Our year.

Look at that. Ha ha ha.

Yeah, so yeah, so everything most of the stuff is ordered haven't ordered The tires out. But again, brilliant, brilliant

things. So two very boring cars but with

a few tasty mods, will hopefully come out nicely.

So now become a Honda family again, Honda Jazz Honda, CRV Subaru, WRX and still have the stage here and still had the MX-5. Well, I think David's not here

tonight, but he'll be very happy to hear that you're becoming a Honda. Yeah.

So he was, he was partly. He was a bit of an influence

honestly, after training last time.

I was I thinking something else. That's he's he's the man, the

myth, the legend when it comes to Honda's, he's owned, many lineage as many as CRV and all those and I drink or judge you had that time it and that was cracking his Drive.

Yeah. And mine was only that one point

he, but there's such a versatile car for the size there.

So Frugal the magic seats, a brilliant.

It really is a punch above their weight.

Those those chairs are so great. Yeah.

They still look good, they look pretty normal.

There's just the seats are great and bolster and comfy, and there's just, there's not a lot. I don't like about them.

You know, they're just good. Yeah, I had, I had a gig

recently where I literally had to take my DJ controller.

So not like a full drum kit and Pa and everything.

And it was, let's say a little distance away and as a pretty wind and deserted Road at 2:00 in the morning and I gave it a pretty, proper go. And I was blown away at how

great that little Curry. Even on the standard 15

sanitizer about that wide. Yeah, like hypothetically.

If you were an intern stability and traction or hypothetically mid-corner hypothetically lifting it off it just it just kind of overseers nicely but it's hypothetically really easy to get back in and hypothetically slides around really easily spot conducted in Mexico.

Yeah yeah and all all will like an under the speed limit Sighs amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, two things

with that car. And what I want one, when I

drove when I drove Ed's money at that time.

And there was there was awesome and Driver really, really holds the well holds the road. Well, just really comfortable

and a nice little gearbox but to, I can't believe, Honda doesn't sell it anymore. Like what are they doing in

Australia? Where a crazy, you make anything

out of it? It's not because I didn't want

to hit some. Yeah, with whatever pressures

are going on globally, but it's going to make me money on.

And so what it wasn't real, really, not that, not that, it's not a good car, but it's not like that.

So like they, they Souls like, I know, but it's there are bigger things at play than you and I realize the back end of producing them and getting them here and what they'd have to Market it out here to make it, to make it profitable.

The market won't take that price, so it's just so cute if they could bring it even cylinder. 1809 you 2295 and make

money. Absolutely they'd bring them in

but they can't, you know, it was going to be like Like, I don't know the figure B at the, it was way more than that.

It was going to be, like, starting at 2627.

It's like, know people aren't stomaching that.

Well, how much does it matter to start out like 25?

I don't know. I'll use a better color than -

to know. I like my dessert is gonna

happen, you know, unfortunately, you can't bring in 4,000, it will billions of them and lose money on every one, you'll go back up real quick. So yeah, it is named The Flower

Market not viable and and people people aren't that into a job.

That they're going to pay x amount over the odds to do it.

You just don't know when I hate that.

Also HIV is only slightly more and and everybody wants their she be so it's yeah, yeah, it's a hard.

It's a hard argument to follow. So, the child needs a feeling

that nicely and alas, we don't have jazzers, but it just means the ones that are here are more valuable.

Yeah. Muted Edition was also in silver

atom and it had, it wasn't at the wheel is charcoal is you're doing but it did have the the limited edition charcoal ish, its with Polish Alloys. Yeah, no one's sort of platinum

edition, is it? It's what is it Jazz?

Might just be called, put Edition.

But it had fog Leah what, you know, those nice wheels and it was a good-looking car. Yeah.

Yeah, we again with the spaces and like, just this much lower in space is do amazing, things for cars and it's like a super underrated. I know you're not supposed to

put them on but yeah. So this space is on on a

standard wheel and slightly low I'm sad so much so much stance like a test. It just fills out the guard a

bit better. Also yeah.

Yeah. It's like it's like it's like

the difference between like a fit person being fit normally in a fit person that has just left the gym.

Good analogy. Great.

And so you become 100 on the family.

So you're going to keep the Rexy or is that still on The Chopping? Yeah.

You know what? I was going to sell it until the

interest rates and all this stuff has happened because I just think at the moment. Yeah.

Like people just aren't spending as I did the really high end of the market that no, nothing's going to affect that.

They're like, no, the to do STIs and R34 GT-R, that's always going to be going crazy. But in that era can under

Thousands of above, 20 grand under a hundred thousand dollar range. I just don't think people are

that willing to spend money, so I'm just going to wait.

I'm no rush, there's something. If someone has to offer me great

money for it, I'd sell it tomorrow.

But I'm not, I'm not, I'm in no rush to sell the barracks and I think it's going to be another probably five years until prices or started creeping back up again.

And I'm happy to hold on to it for that long.

Yeah, I do need to start at haven't started it and over a year. So yeah.

Yeah, need their needs. It's just under a cover.

So yeah, need to start is it is a storage that or is it just let me know? Yeah, yeah.

No. This is it.

Like I just any comment on it. I'm just terrified.

It's going to get a scratch or something as it's honestly.

So meet such Mint Condition. So, yeah, I'm just, yeah, yeah,

which is terrible. I should be on drive it.

Ya know how you feel, they know how you feel.

Where is your ass man you-you-you in New South Wales in Sydney for a for an EV Expo. How did that go?

Yeah, good good. I was it sort of gave a little

bit of the car show wives, even though most car companies fail to participate, even if they did have an Eevee next year though, there will be the second time around and I think they will be paying big bucks to hold big stamps there.

Because this time around only some serious Brands like byd mg, it was certain degree. I'll divvy was there.

They were mainly around and mg did launch them G4 there which is supposed to be an affordable electric hatch but they didn't announce the price. So now people are wondering if

it's going to be around 45 Grand which is more than what people were expecting. and, Yeah, it was, it was good.

I think they had about 15,000 people attend or a very Niche show like nobody really knows about it.

They didn't really promote it through the mountain stream media. So next year, that will easily

get 40,000 people attend. But it was good.

They had most of owner, bought electric vehicles there.

And Very few other Technologies and charges and things of that sort. And yeah, and I was it was good

just a lot of people attended and the general Vibe was that this is sort of the start of something.

I mean these guys do a show in the UK, they easily get fifty thousand. Plus people walked up, okay,

because then going and doing it for a couple of years now.

Yeah, so yeah, I'm G4 was good byd.

That DJ is they had a whole lot of things.

I think that would have easily. Sold for 500 cars.

And just that one show, okay? Just huge domotics.

Such a quality product and you've said in it Matt.

So I got a chance to speak to the byd management and they reckon that one of the first Dolphins will be mindful to review who in the finally swim to our Shores.

They getting to next month's. So that should be that that

product it's going to be a game changer.

MJ's just piss fighting around. Not really doing anything

properly because they said it's going to be launched in the second half of the. Well I will they send any to

Australia when they can sell every single one on the sent to the UK? Yeah.

So whereas byd will be sending cars here first, so ya know, exciting times, just, it is good to see that, you know, even though it's different types of cars, at least there's a path to Future motor shows, because we haven't Had any and the only real show we have is the Brisbane truck show and once again, no cars, no, no order sell on none of the shows like they have in Europe, China or u.s.

So yeah, let's let's see. But overall good show and I

think there's plenty more product coming out soon.

You guys were going to take a yearly occurrence, like a yearly thing. You went to the motor show, like

yeah, it was an exciting. Yeah, it was You know, I never

miss it. Yeah, never miss the, yeah, you

can all the Shadows since Sydney.

International motor show is like, the thing.

I look forward to every year, there was the everybody get down my granddad and my best night. And yeah, never miss it.

And it's like, well, informed, from all accounts, I said are they were splitting between Sydney, Melbourne, Sydney, Melbourne, and then they just stopped.

And then they said, on the cross, it to astronomical to run it, the car companies don't want to spend the money to do it.

So it kind of like, you know, just felt We lie just like, yeah. What I'm doing anymore and kind

of nobody really bad. And I but it's just sad because

I used to go to that every year. Yeah.

And they would always be heaps of people there too.

So like I don't know if it was just it was just well I think just a to cost cut to cut costs. I should say or just they just

didn't really you haven't had any interest or much interest from consumers but it is sad and it's interesting that the be eating EV space. Dear.

They're trying to do it and get something from it.

I think that's that's the hope. Point.

I think the sad part about what they used to have is the digital media companies have basically effed it up for people and Enthusiast. I really wanted to go and see

the stuff because now car companies, when they have to think about advertising and marketing budgets, they said, well, hang on Facebook and track where everyone goes, they know what they like. So that more targeted

advertising and same with the car experts.

And real was in all these guys are the world.

But then again it just leaves the enthusiasts behind because they wanted to go see the cars in one place and now that the car companies are saying you know, rather than spending half a million dollars of being at a show and Manning it for two days or whatever. We'll just spent half a million

dollars, you know, with wheels and car wrecks.

But they'll be able to get us as many clicks to our website.

Without really saying that, when people used to attend, it might not be millions of people, but when people attended the ever go on Older family and friends about hey I just saw this car.

You've got to test drive it or check it out.

So it's short-sighted thinking and that's just killed the whole throw like grieve with you. Yes.

Sorry. It's very I can only talk for

BMW as I work for them at the time and I worked at plenty of motor shows, then yeah. There was a huge cost to put it

on and I know that for BMW back in the mid-2000s it was around a million bucks to do a motor show.

So of marketing budget, and that's, you know, paying for the stand Space but the kid out of it all the promo people working on the stand as well as sales staff and head office staff and we all had to get suits made tailor-made for us to work on the stand. You know like it was a massive

operation and exactly what you said is it's very unfair, it's intangible you know how many people go to Motor?

Show actually end up buying a BMW, I would argue very few now the cool factor and the tell your kids factor and the getting that branding will psyche when you're fourteen.

So you I won when you're 35, you can't quantify that.

It's very hard to say that million dollars was well spent because in ten years time, we've sold all these three series because we got in the brains of kids back then, but who the hell knows, you know? So their argument at the time

was, this is costing us a lot of money.

It's getting more and more expensive to do it.

And yeah, we're better off doing something measurable like a targeted Drive day, where we can track who was there and we can track who bought a car, sent it It might be short-term thinking, but you can also put the other hat on and go.

Oh well, that's that makes more sense than putting a motor show on for kids from all over the freaking country, going to my car. And to be honest, car clubs and

enthusiasts are the worst people for buying new cars.

They never do you know, very real.

Yeah, the most tied up pernickety picky bunch of our souls and I'm one of them that you'll ever find will suss out a used car, you know, way were any Either way because we can because we're in that world and we know how rather than just going and said you got a new one, anyone can go buy new one, idiot could do that, but it takes a bit of skill to be able to find a good use one. So, you know, we don't always

laugh when they said all the BMW car clubs coming into coming into Melbourne to do an event. So yeah, that's great and come

in and use to show him the never going to buy a new car.

You know, they'll don't always wait till it's done all its depreciating and then they'll pounce because they're smarter than that, you know? Yeah.

And I think that that's the, it's a bit of a loss.

Loss. And I think we're that's

creating this opportunity is around, you know, some of the newer brands that then say well we'll take it one step further, we won't even advertised with the online media companies like the veals of the world will just go and do these little mini events because nobody's doing it.

That's what we what he was doing there to DJ there.

They're like and they do these activation events a lot and they could like, young people, I went to a Billy, Ales, concert with byd up in Sydney, couple of months ago.

And it was, it was all the young people that were there, right?

And they had a byd on display and they were having the after party's next to the byd. But I think they can do that

worries. I think it works because it's

new tech and everyone interested in it.

Whereas if I was to launch the new 3-Series BMW now or the next gen Corolla, it doesn't work. It's all saturable its own.

Known, you know, people would come to that.

You get very little interests. I think.

But because EV, and particularly byd is, and EV only brand is so fresh and it's the Hot Topic on everyone's lips.

Okay, great. This is new shit.

I want to go see it. Don't think it would work for

other more established Brands, I think, you know, I think you know how to do as well with budget.

Go, if you go, let's say with inflation that BMW standard a motor shows, probably close to two million dollars.

Now, you can, you can get you Can get Billy.

I should do a gig to say 1.2 million, it's been another 800

thousand bucks on marketing, all of that and then you got a bunch of social assets, get a bunch of other beautiful people there.

Then you've got, you know, months and months worth of brand exposure, all over Instagram, all over Tick-Tock.

Yeah, kind of from byd, but it's Billy eilish being a spokesperson for it. Just makes more sense if you

just get more assets to play with, and then just a motor show. I suppose the only one wondering

where the It would I think we're seeing when it was a card.

Once we started saying this was with World Time attack a lot of the traditional manufacturers suddenly started going hang on a sec. He's a really captive Market

here really broad demographic and it's the kind of cool keep driving with World Time attack and drifting.

So all of a sudden, you know, Toyota and Subaru were there with the BRZ and you know, the Toyota Peru Twins and then BMW M, where they're at all of the M cars.

So, do you when you got events like that or Goodwood Festival of speed there. Kind of more Niche things that's

where it's again smarter to put your money into that because then you can see the cars sliding around the track and yeah Drive days and all that sort of stuff here but it can Tow Motor Show. I just don't think make sense

anymore. If any of us were sitting there

with kpis and our salary dependent on it with a marketing budget in front of us and we had to decide where to spend it.

I think it would be pretty hard to go.

Let's do a two million dollar Motor Show.

Everything's online. Like what brochure?

Can't you get online? You can go and YouTube review do

after You, you know, what's 10, people reviewing, a card live, rather than picking up a Wheels magazine.

Like, there's so much you can get.

Now elsewhere, are you don't need to get Motor Show to pick up a ready, brochure to get your little fix.

I think it's, it's dead for numerous reasons, you know, even though I liked it, like, I don't like it, but I don't think it for a lot of reasons yet, I was like, at the, at the Grand Prix.

I think a few years in a row Jaguar, had an experience, had little skid pan. Set up there and you just line

up and they throw you in one of the cars and they just go around and thrash around with you in it and there you go.

But guess what? You got.

Not just hand me the keys. They're getting your name and

your email before you jump in. Yeah.

No to do it. So, hey, they've got people that

have driven, the Jaguar, you know, beautiful little audience that they can Market to and do something else with.

It's all like you've got to get something or give something to get that reward. You know what is a mocha show

you did buy ticket walk in? They've got no idea who you are.

How much money you don't? How you driving when you're

going to buy another one? Don't know anything.

It's totally it's throwing money into the wind really from their point of view, and it's not big enough.

No, no, strain, Mafia hits. You know, Europe America.

It's not worth bringing all your cars down here to have a motor show. It's all right, we were moving

to you, you give or take, but why is it that we've got one of the most saturated markets? What brand wants compared to

anywhere in the world yet? We've got one of the smallest,

you know? Except for Toyota's but shells

two hundred thousand cars a year later.

Everybody else you know doesn't and the fact that we still got like a running at 60 Branch or something that data for sale in in in Australia currently almost huge.

You something up. Yeah it's nuts.

Like it bugs the minor as how that works.

I mean what I want to the motor shows is a kid.

My dad used to take me in you know like I'll be like I'm going to get one of those one day and you can be end up buying one of those one day but also you get that brand affinity and now I think that's what R is was talking about like you get that you get a bit of affinity The brand and, you know, like I really like what they're doing here.

You know, if I could somehow are in one of their cars, one day, it's something to Aspire to and I guess seen the YouTube and stuff videos and things, you know, it's just for specially like new reviews and things. It kind of like it's a bit of a

discount like there's like the cards there and in your here and in the middle there's just there's a interweb space which is kind of not giving you that tangible experience with the car, which would you you might, you might look at it and be like that looks great and see. It in like this is shit like

this is, this is crap. Like I yeah too high or or you

know it's this I don't feel comfortable in it.

The blind spots are terrible as the three and and you wouldn't get that. Like I'm a big bombers.

Don't remove the three guy, but I got into the internal light into the latest one. And I wouldn't have done it

until I sat in one be like, that is the most horrendous blind spot I've ever seen. Like, you like that, it's like

kinked up like that for to make it the to make the car look really good and aggressive, which it does looks hot.

You know, you would have done that again.

You losing that tangible experience with the cost.

So but again, I do see, you know, two million dollars.

It's not exactly a, you know, it's not exactly a small amount of money so it does make sense as to why they're moving on.

But anyway, moving on, Scotty update with you, man.

Before we get into today's topic, last care.

Mine will be fairly quick. This will be the very last time

that I will be in this house. So, next weekend, doing the big

move so we'll be in a Whole new room and new house and everything. So you got your little bit.

So I am probably won't have everything set up yet by then, but, you know, so I won't have my car collection and that will set up behind me, where I'll do well, do the podcast but, you know, will be on news. So that'll be special security.

Just a quick one. Yep.

When are we going to be invited at the Hope Island Golf Course, where your mansions that because we know you're an avid golfer We get tips from you all the time and would just love to know where this golfing and the car passion comes together.

So would like to visit one day more.

Yes. Don't forget us.

That's all I'm saying, you know. I'm so I never how could I

forget you? This is Scotty.

Buys cars based on if you can fit his golf clubs in the back of it. Like I mean that's the reason

why I'm raising its reason why he's going to 31 in a little bitty before that. These are the two, he's a

series. Yeah, easily figure clubs.

Well, this is, this is the reason why Scotty's stopped listening to rap because in some rap songs, it says, hopped off the porch and into a Porsche, but the Porsche doesn't fit the golf club, but he's like, no, I'm not listening.

I'm just listening to Zen music so I can buy vehicles that I can get my golf clubs in and move into bigger and better property.

So congrats. Scotty forward to seeing your

new about thank you. All five never play golf in my

life and I've never had a go at it or they're buying mountain bikes. And I feel like there's like

this is like this is where a normal human sits.

And then you've got like extreme sports over here and I'm in this group were just holding onto youth for dear life and pretending, I'm much younger than what I am.

We're mature people like yourself again.

No no I don't want to fall off a bike racing downhill.

I'm going to take up golf, there's a both sports seem to be blowing up with all my mates but no one does both.

That's so true. True.

Yeah, I mean I always played golf even like as a teenager here and there, but then I just dropped off quite a while and was doing all the other things like skateboarding and stuff like that. But, you know, at 35 and I think

I can really skate anymore. I'll see ya.

We got my golf again. As Adam said, you were on the

extreme side and in there. Now you're a mature man playing

playing golf. So I mean if you listen to any

of the other reason besides but probably the last Ten episodes we ending the episode on a Scotty's golf tip of the week because because he's a, he's, an avid golfer now.

But anyway, that's, that's my mentor issues golf is having to wear a polo shirt and I'm just, I'm not ready for that yet.

Yeah. You don't have job dropped off

and just normal t-shirts and stuff like that, but it's not really like that. Scotty.

Your shoes and you know whatever.

Yeah I guess it depends what golf course you're going to.

Hmm, you just say with the basic ones, you can't rock a nice.

Just a nice normal t-shirt and that's fine.

School had two things that interest me about golf is one Happy Gilmore and to the golf carts because I just want to just drive race them and crash them and hopefully not die but apparently people die in them every year.

Do you use a golf cart? Like is that it's like a golf

buggy. Did you get into one of those

and Go go sideways and all that or was no I have before but because I want to try and get a bit of exercise and stuff.

I tend to just walk the 18 holes now because otherwise I don't really do any exercise so it's good to do that but he has sometimes you you want to jump in the car and it is a lot of fun and they can tip over very easily.

We'll go for me so years and that's definitely experience with me and my brother, definitely very good.

Look, we'll move on to tonight's topic General.

Now. Now Adam you, Reasonable to

reason upside you you just dropped one today but the previous episode was of basically what would you what could you buy instead of buying and this you know something else like something that was brand new correct.

So so basically what could you spend your money on potentially save us? Thousands of dollars on their

you had some really good examples on there it's gonna be happy when I tell him this one about the the Pajero you choose to buy I cafeteria like what you've got Edward and then you know you're happy happy man you can you can buy that over pretty much any other four wheel driving And it'll it'll drive nice to be more reliable and and everything.

And it got me thinking, I'm like, what are some other ones that we could discuss? And obviously, you've put some

real good ones in that episode of the show did just before we get said, I would ask you a question about it.

Did that come about of like, people coming as you?

Like I've only got this much money, but I can't wait two years to three years, for a Toyota RAV4.

What could, yeah, what could I buy it?

What could I do? What could I buy now?

That is better value like literally, yeah, that is that's exactly how it came about and on Publications.

So we didn't really have a plan of doing a multiple multi-part series but by popular demand yet part 2.

Came out to not part 3. Everybody wants it will be out

next week. Yeah, and we're talking you know

like tonight's episode was 70 series Land, Cruiser is a classic up here. It's over to go to, I need to

look tough thing to buy and didn't have clothes.

The Toyota of close the books on it and if you want to buy a current pre-owned when you're looking at sometimes North too.

Hundred thousand dollars which is amazing for something that generally doesn't come with power windows and then on the weekend my friend has one that he very cleverly bought a couple of years ago because he went looking for an ex mining one you know for 40 50 Grand or whatever.

And he was just like oh God they're all stuffed and and it's not that much. I knew so he cleverly somewhere

around. Might have been 2019, he bought

a new workmate, 70 and I drove it.

This week on and he's done a lot of mods, you know, like it's cheap. It's raining.

It's got the fat tires on it, the data and I drove this time ever, you know, and I thought, just to give him a couple of Snippets. I thought it drives very well

for a truck, no question, but as I was motor during long in this thing that's costing God knows how much money or and what it's worth. I thought you the Pajero you

know actually sort of sort of drives better.

Oh yeah. Better, everything drives better

than for a Trippy. It was good.

No question. There's better than one stand

but he's had to do a lot of mods just to make it livable.

Yeah, you heard it said it will. It's it popped up from a bunch

of reasons. We also had somebody a friend of

mine called me up the other day and she was saying I you know, she has my car is getting really old.

I really need to get a new car wondering what to get What do you recommend? And I said it, what it?

What it look, how would you Koch has Arts really old?

Its from 2018. Anyway, that's that's not all it

shows. You had to 2018 Q7 and I went oh

thank you so much. Probably should tell him.

It's like in doggy throttle rabbit years, you know.

So it's like yeah Toyota. 2018 is like hasn't even ads for

service. You know, whatever and and Q7

2018 is like 90 years old. It's interesting to sort of go.

Wow. Like some people think that a

car that's 2089 that's really all.

I got to get rid of it and that's why, you know, Again the video came up again will do you, but do you really need to buy a new and young part of read ribbon is to try to encourage people to recycle what they're what they're buying.

And, you know, not not buying new, for the sake of buying noobs. A lot of people do that and a

bit again. Yeah, the cars that are on these

enormous back orders now RAV4, Huge back orders on the Embrace of red for hybrid I30 an I-20 in the order books are closed.

Jimny order books are closed on the Auto 5 doors going to sell out within minutes when it's when it's finally, when deposits are able to be taken. So yeah, it was it got a much

bigger response than we're expecting weary.

I thought it might just kind of pot around in the background that video and it's I've looked at the numbers but it yeah, through Tuesday video for us. It was a big one.

Do you think the market is always going to be like that?

Do you think we're ever going? To be able to catch up to orders

and things. Are we always going to be

chasing our Tails? No, I think, I think the

semiconductor the issue will start resolving.

I think the problem at the moment is this transition period, so, where he owned a Q&A and Kia have the challenge, whether but his immense demand for I30 and I, 20 n, I'd new I-20 facelifted I-20 and is around the corner, but with the I30, they're kind of going will. Do we invest any more money into

this car and the I30 in general, when we should be doing EVS, But they haven't got the ATVs down to an affordable Point yet.

So the ionic 5 n is going to be bloody expensive.

It's gonna be north of 100,000 bucks and a whole different market and I ran out of done the same Renault of wrapped up the Megane RS, and there's no replacement.

At the moment, it's called there is a PS2 wrapped up, as because they're just not making fiestas anymore because everyone's pointing Pumas in Europe, there's no point to have a Fiesta ST anymore. So it's yeah, really funny,

transition point but I think, yeah, I think on Some identities, a blanket statement of what?

Yeah we're going to catch up on no we're not just depends on the model and the car. I'm not sure that what we're

seeing at work Scotty with some of our modeling days because we track all the retail offers out there in the market for the last two years. They've been bad girl offers

because there was demand is outstripping Supply.

So why are you going to do a deal on a car or promote an offer? You got an order Q out the door

that's coming off, you know, so this first half of the Year orders are still being fulfilled and People are riding on the coattails of that a little bit, but we predict the second half of this year, he's going to be quite different, you know, a lot of those orders will either be fulfilled, although cancel, because they can't afford to. Now, take it because their minds

thousand dollars a month, more than it was Island.

That's the money. I was going to put towards that

car when it finally arrives, so they'll be a bit of that.

But once all that washes out, we're even seeing now, you know, those, those incentives are starting to come back particularly on. Ian grades, you know, we're

still dictated to largely in Australia by parent, companies overseas, who say, you know, you will take X number of these you'll take X number of those. Now, those aren't necessarily

what we want. Everyone wants the Honda,

everyone wants the the RAV4 hybrid, but the other models, the more normal models that not, everyone wants will see some incentives creeping into the market on those.

So, I, we predict that second half of 23 is not going to be as joyous as first half of 23 and that demand will dry out.

Those orders new car orders will dry up and people will be sort of battling matches a little more than him.

Yeah, you know, you noted on the Richter interest rates Rising.

I was enjoying her car wholesaler.

And with the big dealership up here recently, he was saying they're already feeling the effects of people, canceling their orders. So range of raptor, they had

huge amounts of orders on Ranger Raptors, and those people are being outgoing. Knobs can get my deposit back.

I'm not going to order it anymore.

Lady that goes to my gym. She was telling me that with

With her home loan, and two small investment properties.

And with these with, as of April to fix Robux left, she's got to find an extra $800 a week. Like that's huge.

So she's selling she. And she and her husband is

selling their to the got a relatively new Merc and a relatively new Audi and both selling them and she was like what can I get for like 15 grand?

Because we just can't, we can't. We cannot afford the cars.

The homes, the whole like 800 bucks a week, that's it.

I want. What's that?

A motherfreakin actually almost a month?

Yeah, seriously. That's my stolen.

So you've got to earn, you know, almost double that to sit say that after tanks. It's yeah.

And that's why at card talk. We've had our expert, dr.

Alan deep-sea Challenger, Deep Singh.

He has said, Magnus our reception proof.

Yeah. So they should upgrade to 1988

mitts. Rishi Magna and whilst they do

that then that way they can find every eight hundred dollars or whatever they need, I'm weak but that's where things are going.

Like you know, and the interest rate Rises up, there's more to come. It's not like things are slowing

down anytime soon. So it's going to be I think that

you're right. Like this is this is where

things are going rav4's. Used to have at 18 months

waiting time. Now, people are like so happy.

They're like, ah, I placed an order table table.

I might Dealer rang and saying, the car is ready and I'm thinking that's because 300 before you have cat and sold and I'm sent there's just people can't pay 60 grand for RAV4.

That's exactly what I think is happening.

My brother, he for tax purposes for his business.

He want to forward to buying and, you know, the new ranger and and they're like, they that he walk in, they laughed at him.

And I'd like my, you're not getting one for 18 months, he's like, all right, so he called around and he called Bendigo Ford. And he's like, look, I'm just

calling around. You got any you got any Ranger

wildtrak basics'. He's like, actually, we've had

two cancellations like today and they in the country and you can have yours in two weeks if you put a deposit on it.

Right now, instead of waiting the the over 12 months is like, yep, I'll send you my money across right now.

So and he's like, look, I just got lucky but he's like a cool like four or five other dealerships and I was laughed at me like my you're dreaming. If you're thinking you if you

can get in the car. So Cottle top tip if you, if

you're after something, maybe shop around a few dealers because you never know who might have cancer their orders, especially at this into the country.

This is a country that's also a source of.

Yeah, it's funny. We gave the kids a lot of the

prices that we quote, on some of our videos that get in the comments below being now bullshit.

You can't get a car for that price but yeah, you can go regional and local wholesalers. Yeah.

Auctions and wholesalers like West Way West.

Amazing. What deals you pick up out

there? Absolutely.

Yeah. I was just like, wow, really

cool musical a time when you when you come on like what are you guys? Like are just sort of deranged.

I'm getting in like two weeks. I'm like what do you mean you

getting into? Like I couldn't believe what

he's saying. Anybody's acts the exact same

thing reason he's like so I kept caught around called your called country Regional areas and they said yeah we got to cancel today. Come come, do you got your pick

of a gray or white one? Take your pick and he's like,

I'll take the great one so out of Interest.

Matt, what's he doing the old Ranger?

He's going to sell it privately. Maybe you're all traitors, all

trading it in uses different. Yeah, you know,

and he's like ones that I got with 80,000 case with saying Go for 65. So he's like, he's like, I've

virtually how could sell it tomorrow and he's like I'm still doing so so I think that's why he's choosing to do that.

But yeah, it's just it's just it's just Insanity.

What what, what's happening markets?

I've been a whole mindset shift. It was like, you know, first it

was, you know, you obviously wouldn't drink over, you know, people are buying out buying cars but now it's kind of a bit of a bit of a hidden them on the air, on the handbrake there and it's also it's also going down. So did you hear about talking

about interest rates and that with Uber drivers, the deal that boober do if you buy a car through them?

No, no war. So, that's probably why you see

a lot of Camry Hybrid surround as Uber drivers because ear you can get one of those through them.

And there's a weekly payment that you have to pay them and it is a lot. So, I got to try and make a

profit on that and in the end when you end up paying it off, That carrying hybrid would have cost you between 70 and 80 thousand dollars, what? Yeah, so I can guarantee you a

car but they all the be like, well, this is what it's going to be that that's that in say they that's a weekly payments and take years and years and in the long run, you've just bought a Camry Hybrid at the end for 70 to 80 grand in a few years time.

So yeah, if you can, don't do that.

Yeah, well we'll get into a A few of the few of, you know, what you could buy, if you can't get ahold of these, now I can remember, Adam, did you mention the the new Civic type-r last week? No, no, I didn't didn't mention

it. No, yeah, that's another one.

We should put it on the list for next week.

Yeah. Yeah.

We talked about the FL five is from all accounts a cracking car. It's the best drivers car.

This side of a 911 GT3 RS, from all accounts.

It is, you know one of the best manuals, you can get XYZ.

Obviously, you cannot get one for quite a, quite a substantial amount of time. Bigler, some quite expensive to

like they're there in the 70s now.

Yeah. Which got me thinking what other

hot hatches like. Well, hot hatches because like

this hot hatches in this come like hyper hatches, I guess.

I guess they call them there. You can get for see more money

or for for cheaper and here there is quite a stir.

There's quite a lot, a lot to choose from.

So I was going to say straight off the bat, you've got your last ocean Focus RS which is, which is a, which is a crack at that. I was going to stay straight off

the bat. Yeah, which you can still get 50

in lower, which is, which is, which is pretty pretty good value for what you get and you able to get those.

Now, it's want to hear your thoughts on those.

Got on that, guys, do you reckon that's a good alternative to our to assume typo? Because if you look at startups

and hates FK, it's a still very like this.

They're 70 grand. So if you want yeah, something

about 20 grand at, that's a good option.

Oh yeah, I was so fortunate when we was at card but we did a hot hatch Mega test and we had a limited edition RS, which is the one we call the diffs and type R and a bunch of other stuff.

And I actually had a run through the Victorian High Country in the type R vs, the RS. And I can't I'm not I'm not

going to tell you who the other driver was but could properly steer and I was amazed at how well that type are the only times that I park. Didn't get any of the photos was

out of the tightest of hairpins and generally a bit of a hill anywhere else that type are was all over the back of the RS.

And then we swapped, and this guy was a far better to drive than I am. He's a professional super car

driver and in same back again. Like this, could not get over

how capable. That's why power is.

So you might have to spend, I think the type are still more fun than a Focus RS. So my life to spend a little bit

of extra cash. On the Focus RS, too.

I suppose liven it up a little versus the type R.

But yeah, that's, that's, that's a good choice.

Yeah, I mean I was going to say if you can get into an F K8, a little bit cheaper. I reckon that's probably your

best bet, but seeing the use bronzer FK, it's just I water really expensive, especially for like, for like an update, the facelifted face of the version. You can get into an early one

for ya like lows, mid to high 50s.

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