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Susan out here. 90.9 NW FM It's me, Maddie J in the studio with

Mr Alamdeep Singh and online with Mr Scotty Doe Johnson and Mr. David Prince. How are you, gentlemen?

Really good. Thank you.

Doing good. Thank you very much.

Happy to be here. I'm going to see you back man.

You're you're a travelling man for work now.

Yeah, I'm surprised. I thought it was more of a, you

know, baseball location job. But, you know, I go where they

send me. The money's green, you know, so

it's green. Well, the $100 notes are green,

which I rarely get, but you know.

The Benjamin. It's all about the Benjamin.

The money's yellow and green, so you know, I go.

I go where they send me. So how far, how far away away do

you go like? So, so far I've just been to

Sydney twice. OK, as things progress, I may

end up going to Cairns and Tasmania as well.

Nice. So you know, just depends on if

they like me enough or they trust me enough, which hopefully so far I'm prone to be trustworthy enough.

I'm not going to be the most trustworthy person, but I'm not the one that nearly crashed the car, which we'll get into in car updates. That sounds, that sounds good.

Edward Bundy's joining us as well.

How are you, Edwich? Good evening, all.

Good evening. I'm well.

Sorry, I'm oh mate, you you, you've done yourself a mischief there. That's that's.

It's on your record mate. It's on your record mate, it's

your first final. OK.

Noted. No, no.

Good to see you. Good to see all you boys.

Actually, it's, it's been a, it's been a busy few weeks.

I, I know I'm, I'm being flat out with work, but if everyone else is wrapping up while I'm ramping up because I've got all my yearbook stuff to do and getting stuff ready for grad next week because the school graphic designers need it.

So, So yeah, doing all that. But let's start with some Smith

Scotty. How are you mate?

What's happening with you and your cars?

Whoa. Me and my kids, things are

things are going OK, just plugging away with work as usual stuff with the car. So last time I left you off I

had the clutch was in so I was up to the transmission.

So had a crack at that on Sunday with Dad's help.

It took quite a few hours to get it to a point where we could balance it and kind of get it up.

The only problem is it's like in but it's not in with the splines. OK, so have you tried shaking

it? We did that quite a few times

and shaking it, moving, it still wouldn't go any further and it was getting a bit too late and I was like, Nah, I'm done, I'll spent. So I kind of left it at that.

So it's kind of sitting on the Jack still underneath the car, but kind of, yeah, I guess half in, you could say, yeah, I don't know. Next step on that one to get

that one to kind of go in the rest of my rest of the way, which is a bit of a pain in the butt to wiggle him in.

Yeah, I'll, I'll have to take another crack, hopefully this weekend. Coming on on the Sunday, I'll

take another crack. I don't know if Dad will be able

to help me this time. I think I've kind of crippled

him last time. The next day, he's don't.

Bounce back that wheel anymore. No problem, I asked him the next

day on the Monday I go. How'd you pull up?

Like I got sore shoulders and Max killing me.

Well, I'm not too bad. So what I'm picturing in my head

is Scotty's like dad, just move it this way and your dad's on you just barking instructions when your dad's just putting the gearbox in. I was a teacher.

He he, you know, he, he, He tells you what to do and you do it. Yeah.

I was at the front, so the front part was heavier.

He just, he was at the back trying to kind of wiggle it wiggle up more while I was at the front.

I was like, you're. Wiggling it wrong.

Holding back to it and at the. End with Scott.

He gave him an F. He was like, you know, beam me

up the class. And like, I was going to get to

the point where I was like, Nah, stuff this, I'm just going to go under it and I'm going to hold the whole thing by myself and I'm just going to like force it damn thing in.

It's like, I don't care. No, no, no, that's like, no, no,

no, that's unsafe. You might hurt yourself.

I'm like, what? I'm to the old dad.

This is safety Dad. Where'd this one come from?

I thought. Listed.

I think there's an, there's an age in every man's life where, oh, H&S becomes an actual thing. It does take a while to get

there, but it's, it's, you know, I, I still don't think my dad's there quite yet. But but in, in terms of, in

terms of other other other men, I've seen something like, yeah, sorry mate, you need a ticket for that.

You can't do that, mate. That's a yeah, you need, you

need to get your, your gold ticket to, to be able to, to, you know, do this on the other like mate, it's just there.

Nope, sorry, mate. Can't dig that hole.

So. Yeah, don't get me started on

ladders. It's.

Bad. Bad things.

Yeah, I was just going to kind of go underneath and pick it up pretty much and hold most of the weight myself and try and throw it in. That's like, you can't do that.

We want to make sure it's safe and we lifted it up a bit, the car up a bit higher and stuff like that.

Oh, make sure you put something underneath it.

He'll be fine. It's a new Jack.

It's all right. If it does fall, the stands are

still there, so it's only going to fold like, you know, an extra couple inches. That's like no, no, no, no, no.

All right, all this extra safety stuff that I just never did.

And he never did. No way he ever did that.

It wasn't that long ago. And he's out there with a mower

and whipper sniper and thongs. So, you know, so much for him

being thief. But yeah, it, it was it, it was

pretty funny. So would you say box is 80% in?

I guess you'd probably have to say what, 50% in OK.

It's gone. It's gone the halfway in and

then I need to be able to somehow wiggle it and get past into the splines to light up and get it in the rest of the way the other 50%. Just put some long bolts through

the mounting holes and just tie them up and it was just sandwiched together. Whether or not it works after

that, you know I don't know, but at.

Least get it together probably won't work.

What about? I see Japan, Scott.

When's that? Very soon, sunshine, and your

car's got to be there. Well, let's say it's the Sunday

after the Sunday you got to finish it.

So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sunday.

Sunday the 1st. You're 2 weeks going.

Oh, who's? Sunshine.

Who's who's free this Sunday? Sure, we could possibly make

some time. Yeah, we'll, we'll do it if

you're going to do. It we'll do it, I'll delegate.

I. Only need a couple of hours I

reckon. Come down, I'll get.

Injured Alan, sort it out. David, sort it out.

Then I. Just need sort it out.

I just need help to. Wiggle the pot.

I would otherwise I'll. I'll come down Scotty.

If I get injured, I'll just make sure like no, it gets seen.

It gets seen at work as an injury, you know, I don't know.

I'll be, I'll be sweet. You just need help to wiggle the

box in I think, and then the rest of it I'll shaft in and then I can drop the car. Then it's all the little bits

and that's it. I I can make some time on

Sunday. I'm doing the male burgering in

the M1 so I won't be there I'm afraid.

That's all right. So it's it's, it's very close.

What does it need? Just gearbox in and then.

Gearbox in and then just connect the lines.

The clutched lines. Clutch pedal.

Yeah. Clutch pedal in.

Yeah, fuel transmission with a fluid because.

You and then obviously put some fluid in there.

Would be a good idea. That would be good.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh my God. Yeah, don't forget that one.

That's it. I once drove from Ringwood.

No, it wasn't even Ringwood. It was like, what's that suburb

starting with an H out there? Heathmont.

Heathmont. That's where I drove from

Heathmont to Airport West with no gearbox oil in a Renault 16.

Now, when I arrived in Airport West, it was a little bit whiny.

Not. Happening.

And I said to the Renault mechanic guy, yeah, it's getting worse and worse, it's quite whiny.

And then he came back 5 minutes later and said I think I know what your problem is. And he filled it with oil and

it's been fine ever since. That's the yellow car.

That's the yellow one. Really.

Because what I forgot was when I got that literally from pick a part, you know, it was up on blocks and I had it removed from the yard and you know, fixed it. They drained oil, but I forgot

that they drained the transmission oil as well.

I sort of didn't think of that. So hence I'm just motoring along

and whinier and whinier and I was on the freeway and everything. Like it was quite a quite a

journey anyway. Well, it's a testament to a 16

They're they're, they're built. They're they're quite a tough

gearbox. That's not bad.

Yeah. Good gearbox, Yeah.

So that that's where I'm at. There's there's not much left to

go. I've got the parts, obviously.

I've just got to buy some transmission fluid.

Well, Scott, there is an end goal.

December 1, Classic Japan. We talked about last year's

Classic Japan and I think even the one before that, so.

We were talking about classic Japan.

We didn't say which year. Ed, Oh.

That's the I should have got that in writing.

In my defence, those ones, I was like way off true.

I mean, the car done all right. It wasn't even.

We didn't. Yeah.

But at the time it sort of seemed close, so.

It did, didn't it? It's closer now than it's ever

been. It's a lot closer.

Actually roadworthy. So that's the.

It's on club plates, you don't even have to take it anywhere else. Take it anyway.

Just drive it. Yeah, the transmission is is

there. It's halfway in.

Make it works good. Yeah.

Oh, the other thing I have to do is get an angle grinder and just cut the brake pedal. Oh yeah.

Oh, that you don't need that anymore?

Or. Oh yeah, just completely get rid

of it. Breaking blame.

I can just stay on shift now. Braking's overrated, as I would

say, yeah. Yeah, no, just so I can make it

to the same size as the clutch pedal as the.

Yeah, the manual brake pedal. That's all.

So I think Dad's got an angle grinder or something kicking around. Yep.

Safety. 1st that can be his job. He likes doing stuff like that

so well. You're very close, Scotty,

You're very close. Yeah, I can.

I can really, really taste it this time.

Like I know it is close. It's just those little bits and

I've got everything, everything there.

Should I book you in on the on the Classic Japan website?

Yeah, book me in. Whoa, He's he's that.

He's that confident. I'm confident, like I just don't

see anything to stop me other than some people.

Don't say that, Scotty. Don't say that they're words you

wouldn't. Do not, do not tempt fate.

Famously. I'm touching.

I'm touching wood. I'm touching wood.

I can't see any reason why that car wouldn't run.

Anybody touch wood? I mean his first driving got.

Reconditioned it was reconditioned gearbox, so you know we're. In the business call that

foreshadowing. So.

You're looking, you're looking a little Peaky.

I think you might need a day off or two.

Yeah. Yeah, just got him, yes.

Yeah, what day are you feeling sick, Maddie?

I'm I'm happy it feels like any day of the next week.

I feel like coming on on like a a Friday.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, not well. At all.

I'm going to get a medical certificate for Fridays and Mondays. Yeah.

Sorry you just get them for like 20 bucks.

Yeah, the pharmacist. Oh dear, I get it on the app.

Oh, there's. What's it called?

There is an app. There is an app.

Yeah, instant, instant scripts and you just put down your symptoms, blah blah blah. And then you get you get the

doctor's certificate in like 5 minutes.

Oh wow. That's good and I just send that

one to work if need be. What a time to be alive.

How good is that? How?

Good is sometimes sometimes you unwell, like for that day could be like a massive headache or you know, just.

Yeah, but you don't need Doctor. And you don't need a doctor.

Yeah, you don't want to waste. Everyone.

Yeah, You don't. You don't want to get into a

doctor. Oh.

Man, that's the worst part. You got to wait for a week and

then you can't get in and then you end up going to one someone across town who looks here for like quite literally 20 seconds, like, yeah, you're right. He's just to be a piss off.

So it's. Not bulk Wheeling anymore, so it

costs you, you know. And if you are sick, the last

thing you want to do is get in the car and go to a doctor like you just call the cat. Looks like.

Yeah, I know what it is. Head cold.

I'm fine, whatever. Yeah, you just need that one day

to just lay there and just. Drink, lay there, get under a

Skyline, wiggle a gearbox and then and you'll be right and the headache goes away, you know? Sometimes you've got Skyline

fever and you need to finish it off.

It's it's a real thing that it's.

A real thing. It is a real thing.

Because it ain't. Burning in Mars was.

It yesterday, going home from work, I saw enough that he wanted. I'm like, oh.

You want one. Day I do want when it came back,

Scotland fever came back. It's a bad disease.

Yeah, it is. It kills me.

You can't get rid of it. No, you can like stifle the

symptoms for a while. Yeah, it always finds this way

back. It's like herpes, it comes back.

I'm not going to. I'm not going to ask anything.

We're going to move straight off.

Just what I've heard. Just what I've.

Heard. Italian film.

I I've watched it recently. I can't remember which one it

was, but it was like, what's your dog's name?

And he goes herpes. If she's good, she'll heal.

Oh. My God.

It's off the film. I can't remember which one it

was, but it was. Oh.

Yeah, it's one of those cult Aussie films.

I watched it recently and that that line isn't.

That's brilliant. So that's the only update Scotty

with the with the skyline fever. Yep, that's it.

David Prince updates with you. Updates with me.

I in the last week I've had, oh, I actually had an extended test drive of a friend's BS Vortage hybrid the other day.

Brand spanking new one for most of Saturday in the countryside.

Very nice car. It drives really nicely, very

well equipped, very economical. 5 point or 4.8 to 5.1 sort of

figures. It was running with 1000 K's on

the clock so I thought that was pretty good straight out of the box. Heated and cooled seats.

They're cooled, seats are cool. Literally do feel a bit like

you've wet yourself though if they're on too long at you getting all the very sort of cool, cold, damp feeling.

No, really, really nice. I still can't get my head around

the look of them. You've still got to walk up and

get into it. They've got looking headlights

and mocky looking slabby things. But but certainly rode really

well. And I was, I was, I was very

impressed having not sampled many of the new product of, of those manufacturers. I suppose the Tucson drive's

pretty much the same there. It's quite a crossover with a

lot of the interior appointments and stuff like that.

But yeah, I was quite surprised how how how nice it was.

Actually. I'll allow, I'll say as long as

I don't have to go walk out and look at it in the morning and get in it. Katie got serviced on Friday.

Wednesday afternoon, I went to open the side sliding door and it wouldn't open. You could just tell him that in

that in the handle that sort of pulls open the sliding door that something wasn't right and it wouldn't open at all.

So which is a pain in the neck because a lot of the stuff I use is there next to the front door, which is pretty convenient.

So according to the dealership, on the way home, luckily the guy bought the car off who was the new car sales manager as acting service manager for the time being.

He said, oh, that's handy. So it was very handy.

And he said, I said, how far ahead are you booked in?

He said, well, for you, he said, we'll do it right away.

He said, can you do Friday? I said, well, yes, I can do

Friday, I can leave it with you. And it's actually due for 60,000

K service as well, which is and it's just hit 60,000 K.

So I thought there you go, that's good.

So I'm still having the DSG. It's a bit squeaky.

I said, I know you know, you might not have time to inspect that, but if you could check it and report.

So they rang me a 60,000 K service.

I've had it, it's it's sort of, I've had it four years.

So it's quite low case really. They ring me about lunchtime,

early afternoon to say they checked the car over the door handle was worked fine. That was working.

They go to. The wrong side?

Were they on the left side? No, no, no.

And it's working. And the the the car test drove

fine. They couldn't identify any

noises in the DSG or the the slowness in selecting the gear when you first start the engine and and which before the the guy, the service manager said, well, that sounds like clutches to me. He said we probably can't do

that, but yeah, we'll, we'll report N So the report came back all good. I said, can you at least service

like change the oil or reboot the CBT?

So Oh no, they're, they're not it's all within spec and they're sealed for life. So, you know, yeah.

Yeah, sealed for life, but life on those is like 10,000 KS.

Yeah, life. So.

My. Life for the You know, the

Volkswagen's life. So I was away for the weekend,

picked it up Monday morning, got in it drives great.

Absolutely it it feels different.

So they had either remapped or rebooted or there was a, there was a drive belt that was replaced.

It was plugs. It was, you know, pollen fuel.

It was a proper full on service. Their big one?

Sort of this. Is the big one, yes.

So it was, I get a bit of a discount because they're one of my customers and, and I'm one of their customers.

So I get a little bit of a discount still came to just over $1000 for the service. And today I get in and I I'm

leaving one of my dealerships in Drive and I went, I took off and and and pulled it as an intersection quite nearby stopped there, slowed, kept on going, didn't change out at first. So just just ripped its head off

in first. And then instead of little D1

indicator comes up, a spanner came up in the D1 spot that wouldn't change out. At first I thought, oh great,

see what's going on here? So I had cars behind me and I

was in one of those little streets in Richmond which there's nowhere to pull over at all the cars down both sides.

So I I lived up at about four and a half thousand Revs in in first gear all over, but the hep hazard lights on put it back in park turned it off thought right.

We'll just have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again. That's.

Right, I did that. I did that.

I did that and drove home sweeter than that.

In my mind I was running through it right.

I've got a full week booked in all all these jobs, all these things I've got to do how am I gonna work?

How am I gonna you know they probably they won't have a van you'd. Like to borrow the Tarago David

I. Could borrow the Tarago work out

of the truck and that'd be awesome actually.

And I didn't get there at. Lunchtime.

That'd be great. David Prince, I'll, I'll import

you a Fiesta van, all right. Do you know what I want?

Do you know what I want? I want to like a Toyota Town Ace

from about 1998. That's cool.

That size bloody Toyota reliability put the key in goes anywhere does everything I don't need a high ace.

I don't I don't want, I don't want an eye.

I buy an eye load, but they're just too big for what I need.

You know, the the size is perfect.

Everything about the cat is good, but thankfully it's still under warranty. So it's never done that before.

It's never thrown a spanner up where it shows you the, the, the what gear you're in. So.

Well, David, that that stay. Tuned Stay tuned for the next

inciting installment of the DSG David and.

Then DSGS had new clutches in it.

It's. Had new clutches in it 30. 1000

KS like not very long ago. Probably 80 months ago, probably

3540. That was under 40,000 KS.

Wow. That's insane.

Like I, I, I was going to say David, like the fact that it's, it's throwing the spanner, it's it would, it would definitely store the code. And you know, I'm happy to come

over and read the code for you and like store it.

So in case I say, Oh, no, there's nothing you'd be like, well, what's this? OK, interesting.

We can, we can definitely do that because like that's, that's, that's like I, I get people asked me all the time.

You know why we rag on VW? It's, it's this exact reason.

Is is the reason why we why we rag on VW products because it's just like, how's the car that's done 60,000 KS going going to go through two lots of clutch packs.

It's had it's had every service done in Volkswagen.

And the thing about it is that it's great in every other way.

Everything else about it's good. The, the, the thing that is just

this cloud over the long term reliability that the police is up in, well, the warranty's up in.

I've still got 2 of this warranty.

So that's my saving grace. You know what, whatever goes and

I've told them I'll be back if it's not, you know, if it's still making that squeaking noise, I'll be back in in January when I've got some time off.

But yeah, I love everything about it.

It's just this sort of cloud that hangs over when it decides to do something funny. The previous one I had to did

exactly the same thing with the handle.

It may and it was out of warranty and it cost me 400 bucks to fix. Wow.

So I don't know, but the door's working fine now, completely fine. But it feels different in the

handle when you pull it to what it did it it.

It went a bit dodgy for a couple of days.

I thought I'll have to watch that and then just wouldn't open. You could still open it from

inside the van. You could lean out, you know,

climb in or through all the stuff and open it from inside.

But the external handle is what you need to anyway I'm going to add. To add to the little Volkswagen

dramas of this particular podcast that sat waggon, I had a short while. Oh, yes, yes.

But your friend who had one? I started to to my friend from

work The Who his wife already had one.

So he yeah, yeah, he knew getting into and his wife's had had Christmas tree on the dashboard.

And anyway, this was the one owner serviced the whole time, same as you always at South Yarra and 84,000 K like not big KS. Anyway, he went to get in it the

other day. They were going down to Metung,

he said, and it had it had that morning he'd gone off from somewhere up a hill and the EPC light had come on and it was jerking and doing all sorts of things.

So then he he limped at home and said to his wife, well, we've got your percent with like 5 warning lights on and, and this one's only got 2. What do you wanna do?

You know, which is the lesser of two evils, you know?

Oh. My goodness.

So they ended up taking my one and he said it was jerking a bit and carrying on the whole way down, so much so that when they they did get there and when they got there, they they got the RACV to come and and then of course it didn't do it when the RACV goes, yeah. Yeah.

And then he said, well, can you just follow me?

So the RACV guy, you know, followed them for a few KS and and it didn't do it or something.

And and then at the end of the weekend, he said we drive home with without an issue. It was fine.

So he said, you know what, Ed, I think, and he's not, he's not bitter about it. He knew what he was buying, you

know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he said, he said, I think

I'm I think I'm going to get out of both.

He goes. I just can't handle the stress

and. That's the thing, you know,

like. Even even even a good one, you

know he does something. Yeah.

Yeah. I saw up a cell at 36 today and

I like still a good looking car, but I was just like, I just couldn't own one. Like I just I, I wouldn't do it

to myself. I'd be is it going to is it

going to work for me today? Is it going to do this?

Is it going to do that? Which is weird because like

every person I know that's got like an Audi RS3, even even even a listener of the show who's who's reached out recently, you know, they're making massive power and they seem to be quite reliable. So I don't know if it's, if it's

them, they're more powerful. You know, they're they're more,

you know, sort of yeah. Beefed up ones that are, that

are fine. And it's just they're they're

cookie cutter, you know, basic ranges that are just, yeah, just slapping together and off you go, you know, should be right because, yeah, like you just hear horror stories constantly.

Like the amount of customers I get that come into work, I need to top up. Let me guess, VW.

They're like, how'd you know how my car?

Let me tell you, it's and I I hate to be that guy, but like, you know, you've, you've yeah, it's it's it is, it is a big should you should you buy one? That's I don't know.

No you shouldn't. They've no offence.

I know you had to get one. He's on the warranty, you see.

So that's yes. But anyway, so, so that's,

that's the caddy, David. The Caddy.

The Accords proving absolutely faultless, which is lovely.

A friend took it down to a car show that had a class for original cars in it down just past Phillip Island and had it for the weekend down at Phillip Island and getting around and very much enjoyed every every bit of that.

And I did get out to the end, get out in the end.

One the other night out to the airport viewing, we had a car club drive up into the up to Mount Macedon, starting at the airport viewing area at Buller there, probably not far from you, Scotty. So we had about a dozen cars

there. So I I couldn't go on the run,

but I I made it to the start and actually one of Ed's old stalkers turned up to that too. I the Odyssey was there.

The 99 Odyssey was there, yeah, yeah, they're very happy with it. Good.

Good. Yeah, that was a good car.

Yeah. So I think that's me now.

Very. Good bunting.

Hello. Well, since returning from my

trip away, I have instigated service month, which has been getting a little bit later and later every year, but I'm actually OK with that. The days are longer, the

weather's warmer. It's, it's nicer to have service

month in November than it is in say June or July.

So I first serviced the 190 diesel.

Now I'm doing, I'm trying to do a lot of them myself this year.

Just the oil changes, you know, the rest of them pretty good.

The 190 diesel is a delight to service because you don't have to Jack it up. The drain plug is sort of right

near the front of the motor, and the oil philtre is a canister in the engine Bay with a lid on it. So you just unbolt the lid,

remove philtre, put a new one, bolt the lid back on.

It is the most brilliant design, so I thoroughly enjoy.

Anyone who doesn't service their 190 D is a fool because it's just so easy, you know. So that was that one.

Then I did the Moke. I gave that a nice oil change.

I couldn't get the Philtre off the Moke and I don't have the right tool, but it's done like 1000 KS, you know, like not no, not even. It's probably done 600K or 500K

since last year. So I thought, well, the Philtre

can stay on for another another oil change.

That's OK, but good to give it a flush out.

Then I did the MX5. Now the MX5's quite low, so

you're gonna put up on Jack stands to get to the drain bolt underneath. And the philtre is a spin on, of

course, but it's tucked in under the exhaust manifold, so you gotta wait for the engine to cool down.

I'll let you burn your arm. And you know, like I thought,

you know, for all the Japanese being amazing.

It's not as good as the. German here at. 9. 9 So I've got

another bunch of philtres on order and then I'll churn through the rest of the cars. I think.

I think Taraga might be next and then 300 Merc and blah blah blah. So yeah, just going going

through them all. Very good.

See the garage and I went and bought all this penrod at HPR 30 and I got like I had like 8 bottles of it lined up.

It looks like a shop in my garage now.

So yes, the girl at a girl at Repco or something was quite amused at my if you got one of these philtres, you got one of those philtres. You know, if I was more

organised, Maddie, I would have sent you the list and got you to order them, which I'll do next year.

But I was just disorganised I think.

It's a yes definitely. I'm happy to help bunding.

Thank you. Thank you.

So I'm driving the MX5 at the moment.

What else? The Peugeot.

I still have the Peugeot. I've been rung up by a few sort

of crazy, you know, Peugeot type people.

Were you expecting it? Yeah.

Yeah. It is what I expected.

I'm, I'm not. I wasn't shocked when Pascal

called me. And yeah, anyway, so Long story

short, I still have the Peugeot. I was saying to our friend Tommy

last night, you know, I'm, I may be driving that for some years.

You know, who knows? Who knows?

Radio's due again in December. I kept topping it up by three

months. I should have just paid for a

whole bloody year's worth. So.

So the Peugeot remains. Peugeot remains, and I really

reinvested in it. I filled the tank again, which

is another thousand KS worth of driving.

So I've got to, I've got to sort of get my money's worth out of that. Yeah, that's me.

I don't think any other any other car news.

Indeed, since I was in Sydney for the previous week, didn't get to do much car stuff. But you know, we were in Sydney,

we got another hire car. Once again, I wasn't allowed to

drive because it wasn't under my name at this time.

It was a Hyundai Kona. Oh yeah, yeah, a bit roomier

than the the Swift. Is it the current one, like the

latest one? Yes, yeah, yes.

And I drove on today. Yeah, there there was quite a

nice, you know, ride like nothing extravagant, but, you know, just to get us to the hotel and to the particular place of work that we're going to, it was pretty nice.

It had the wildest car play. Oh, she.

Wouldn't be happy this. Year, except again, there was

some issues setting it up, which I had to, you know, poke a few buttons. I got told off to poke a button.

Other than that. Toto.

No, I don't know. The Toto is pretty timeless in

my opinion. It does the job for a very low

low price. Terrible.

It's my It's not my fault you're old and you can't use technology anyway. How I think it was the Friday

right before we left, we or we didn't leave in the morning, but in the morning we go to a cafe that's right near the place of work and this is in Healy, part of Sydney, even though a lot of near Sydney's Healy. So we were parked on an incline

kind of illegally, but that may be the saving grace of this story because we weren't near any other cars.

So we grab our little breakfast sandwiches and coffee and hop back in the car and my Co worker decides to put the car in reverse. As to why there's no cars in

front of you, you can just drive forward.

And at this point I had decided that I wasn't going to backseat drive because, you know, I was doing my best to just stay silent. So I just kind of buckle myself

up and they proceed to turn the steering wheel and then stomp on the accelerator. And we mounted the curve like

nothing else I've ever experienced before.

If there had been a tree in that curb, we would have smashed into the tree. If there had been a car behind

us, we would have destroyed that car.

What? Was she thinking?

I she wasn't, I suspect. I don't know.

She must have thought she was in Drive which?

Because because they're on the side of like, they're like a little thing. Oh, then we must not have the

newest one, OK, because that one is a centre console selector and the the reverse camera came up, you know, on the centre, the dash. So I thought, don't you like, I

guess she wants to reverse, you know, and yeah, she brushed it off and you know, again, I wasn't going to say anything because it's it was her credit card out of the car, I think.

So you know, it was her. I was going to have to explain

it to the, you know, the rental car company and then to our place of work. But luckily for her, nothing,

you know, serious happened. But.

Just the alignment be way out. Yeah, just just, you know,

nothing like a work trip with a little added, you know, physical danger just as a trait can. You drive next time, please.

I, I would like to, I'd, I don't think I'm, I'm going to possibly go with this Co worker. You know, thankfully we didn't

have any other scandals. We did not go what, 30 minutes

in the opposite direction of where we need to go, that sort of thing. So yeah, pretty uneventful trip.

Unfortunately, again, I would like to have just drive these cars just as a hey, I've driven the new Swift.

Hey, I've driven the new Colonel, the previous generation Colonel, I guess at this point because a good opportunity to drive cars that you otherwise wouldn't.

So hopefully I'll be put in charge more next time I'm sent off. And if that's the case, yeah,

I'll be happy to, you know, give a full car to car review.

But that was my week. So just a bit of work.

I did 2, a bit of Sydney's public transport and in some way that's better than ours. Not always, but they do have

boats, ferries as they call them, but they're just boats.

So I just, I did my little tour. I went from Mascot, which is

where the hotel was. I got the train to Circular

Quay. I looked at how far away the,

what's it called? That weird building they've got,

I can't think of it. Sydney Opera House.

No, I saw, I saw where the they like to think it's cool city.

It's not. Basically I saw how far away the

Opera House was. I'm like, I'm not walking there.

Probably so clicky. It's a reasonable amount of

times 10 minutes. I don't have 10 minutes.

Right. There it was late night.

I decided to get baskin-robbins because we don't have that here, I believe. What is Baskin?

It's just an ice cream. Joint ice cream.

Pretty average. And then I decided to hop on the

ferry and then go under the bridge and right as we hop on the ferry, the rain starts. Well, now I can't stay outside

and you know. Will you put yourself at this

point? Yeah.

Yeah. I wasn't my time was my time.

It's company's not paying. Yeah.

So, yeah, we're on the bridge, under the bridge, I should say, on the ferry. And the lightning started and I

thought maybe I, I picked a bad day to do this, but it kind of cleared up. And so, you know, I saw the

other part of the harbour got off on.

Is it Primont or Pridemont or something?

That's the one. And I then made a decision to go

to the casino, lose a couple $100 or, you know, get a light rail and head back to Central Station and head back to my hotel. I made that decision because at

this point, I think it was about 10:00, and I did have to get up in the morning again for work. So, yeah, And I think, like I

said, they have an OK public transit system.

I do like the fact that their train's a double Decker.

Yeah, that's cool. I don't know how many more

people that can really get in because we have more standing room I guess, in our trains, I feel.

And you can get to the airport by train really easily.

You can. You can.

Like most normal cities in the world.

Yeah, not ours. It's like miles out.

Yeah, well, you take the Sky Bus, which I'm not promoting.

A shameless plug, yeah? I'm not promoting that just

because they're part of our parent company.

No, not at all. Sky Bus is a valuable service.

I've. Taken that many times.

Yeah, it provides a valuable service at a reasonable.

Cost. And you've got a, you've got

free, free Wi-Fi in there as. Well, yeah, free Wi-Fi.

It only costs you like 40 bucks or something for the ticket.

Matthew, what about you? What are you done?

Well, this is me been dropping about two a fair bit actually.

I'm driving, driving it today. I realised that I've only driven

it like 10 times in the last year.

So I'm like, I'm like, and my renewals came through.

So I'm like I got, I got to drive it.

So I'm just going to drop it. You have the the 40 day or the

90 day, 45 day? OK, 45 day.

So you can, you can always make it up.

Oh yeah. If you're dropping it every day,

yeah, next for the next two weeks, so.

Whereas if you've got the 90 day, it's a little harder.

You got to plan ahead. Just drive the car every day.

Every day. Sorry, see, I've been driving

that it's been it's been great. That's actually due.

It's it's it's well and truly due for service.

It's it hasn't on the case, but it's just on the age.

So I have. You have you got service month,

Matt, or are you all over the place with these?

Kind of all over the place at the moment.

I want to. My service month last year was

January. Month.

My service was January last year and the MR2 missed it like I haven't done it yet. So I'm like, you know what,

that's going to be a January problem.

I'm going to do them all in January again.

So, so that'll be done. January typhoon will be done to

January. The, the laser will be due by

January so that those 3 will get done in January.

Fierce is not due till the middle of the year and has done the case so that I can wait. So in the scamp it's just had an

oil change like not long ago. So it's, it's ready to go.

Like I'm, I'm just going to drive that and, you know, next year do do that. So yeah, that's, that's pretty

good. In my end with, with Albia, I've

been really enjoying the MR2. Like it's, it's kind of like it

feels coming out of like something that's a bit newer.

It feels like it's just, it's feels like analogue, no power steering, no nothing. And it's it, it really reminds

you of like, you know, driving, you know, it's, it's proper, as you would say with proper motoring.

Yeah. So one of my Co workers, she

drove it today after work. She's she's she, she was, she's

like, she was in love with it. She's like, it reminds me, it

reminds me of my old Corolla. She had back in the I'm like,

don't say that. And then in my head and in my in

my head I'm like, it's all the Corolla mechanicals anyway.

So technically. It's.

So, so, yeah, she, she drove that and, and, you know, really appreciated it. What else?

I saw David Prince a couple of times actually, he, he was, he was out on the bout in the in the N1 Rs and we, we had the meeting of the three cylinder turbo 6 speed manual car club.

It's an illustrious club that you guys you guys enjoy very.

Exclusive. Very exclusive.

So David Prince drove the Fiesta and we then came back.

What else have I done car related wise?

I think that's pretty much it on my end.

Oh, no, sorry. We, we, we filmed Andrew

Wilsworth's car last night. So I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll touch.

Is this? The Is this the nerd noises?

Nerd noises. Yeah, yeah.

And it's exactly what it is, the nerd noises.

So so he came around and I was just like, well, I'll give it a go. So didn't have much Rusty Boy

Allen there, but he'll be there for the next one.

Yeah, hopefully we'll do it on a weekend.

Hopefully do it on a weekend be be be probably a bit easier, but how long? Does it take to to do?

The film is not long. We're just setting it up because

I, you know, I've got, I've got my, you know, I've got wireless speakers as well, you know, like lapel ones.

Yeah, but my camera doesn't have a a auxiliary mic input.

So that was really frustrating. So then so that that took us a

long time to get that set up. But now that's all that's all

should be all good. So I kind of.

So if I came round to do a Nerd Noises episode, you, you wouldn't need me for four hours. It would be no, no, no, one

hour. No, probably an hour would.

If you if you brought just the one car, yeah, we'd do one car in the hour. Yeah, it's about a car in the

hour. Yeah, if, you know, we had more

of a open space for like a workshop or something, we'd probably speed that. Up, yeah, 100% but.

You know, right now, you know, we're, we're still small, small potatoes here, 10. Percent, but it was good to see

Mr Rosworth. And he's Magna.

Yeah. Which one?

Which one? What's what's the name of that

one? Is it?

That's not Maggie, is it? It's Mandy.

That's it. Mandy.

That's right. Is this the Maggie 1?

The beige. Yeah, Yeah.

Sandstone. Yes.

I think you're bad. It's cool.

Yeah, that one. Sandstone playing Darude

Sandstorm. That'll be.

That'll be. I just sort of thought them with

a beige magnet named Mandy, which we'll discuss off here.

As for Carter Grafton, yeah, that's that's but I think that's pretty much it for me. Now German, I wanted to talk to

you about what what you guys were mentioning earlier and you beat me. Did you beat me to to the point

actually, and I was actually speaking this to till later.

I drove my MR2. She's she I drove her new Kona.

She's got a brand new Kona electric or like it's a hybrid hybrid Kona. It's quite a nice car actually.

Still not sold on the way it looks.

I think the back half looks cool.

I think the front half's a bit been interesting, but I'm, I'm still, I'm still, you know, kind of warming up to it.

I kind of like it a lot more now than I than I previously have.

And it rides beautifully. Like it, it really, they drive

really, really nicely. And I've got me thinking, I'm

like, well, Hyundai and Kia can do, can do like suspension shooting for Australia. Why can't other car companies do

that? And, and considering we're such

a, we're such a niche small market here, the fact that they, you know, they, they, they, they still offer to do that.

It's like a, it's like a, it's a big thing.

And having a, you know, a tune specific for, for a certain country would be, would be very unique.

But I also think we're a very unique country in, in the form of that our roads are, let's be honest, terrible.

So do you think that more companies should look at investing time into to doing R&D here for our suspension tuning or do you think we'll just, it shouldn't matter because we're, we're such a small fish in the fish in the ocean anyway compared to the rest of the world?

Well, to start that off, my question is what I guess differences would the tuning have like Australia specific if we discuss like urban kind of Australia like our streets as bad as they would be probably wouldn't be much worse than what you get. That that is true.

But like in the UK or something, let's just say.

Yeah, driving her car. And like I, I, I've driven that

the new, the new Sportage as well and, and I've driven my brother's Santa Fe and they all have an inherent characteristic that I feel reminds me of like Holdens and Fords and even Mitsubishis from that were made here.

Yeah, I'll tell you what that characteristic is my sloppiness.

Here we go, ride like boats. Well, but I'm not saying that's

a bad. Thing that's what the.

Australian people want mate people.

Want I've said before on this very podcast, you know, when you take a, a Falcon on those Rd trips that I did a few times and stuff, they're very, very comfortable at eating up country miles. So I, I get it.

And I think modern cars are very much tuned for sporty looks over comfort and speed humps, speed humps in, you know, speed humps in AC class bends of a certain era.

Or like my little Peugeot, it's lovely, lovely, compliant.

Whereas most modern cars. Aren't but but I'm.

I'm gonna add to that point because like a lot of these cars like these SUVs and stuff they've they've had to make them stiffer because the the highest inner gravity they're they're trying to compensate right? Which rule which completely

ruins the ride 1-2. You see your average C Class

with your, with your AMG pack and and your your M Sport suspension on your three series makes them ride terribly.

Like like they're not made like they're not a comfortable car at that point. Like like, yeah, they're sporty,

but I I always was in the in the ballpark of like, if it's a sporty car, yeah, you should, you know, you, you know, you're getting into compromise. You have gonna have some sports

suspension that that'll, you know, it's a bit stiff, but that that that makes up for it when you go get some nice roads in the corners. Yeah, but like around town,

sometimes you just want, you just want some just just something that's very easy to to live with, you know, and and after driving that Kona today, I was, I was like this, this, this thing, it it, it, it, but it wasn't wallowy.

It, it just, it was nice and compliant.

It was, it was taut, but it wasn't, it wasn't crushy, you know, it was comfortable over bumps and undulations.

I'm like, they've got a they've they nailed the, the, the tuning on that. You know, it's, it's like, well,

this is if, if they can do it in SUV and, and, you know, like they can do it in all the other cards that, that they offer with, you know, for Australian conditions.

You know, I, I just find it a bit interesting that some companies would just be like, Oh no, it's sporty.

Yeah, I've got rock hards, rock hard suspension, but it makes it miserable to drive and it just it boggles, boggles the mind that that's that's the that's the standard that they that they wanted to go. We we're chasing Buddy Nurburger

and that times in a camera like like nobody wants to do that.

No, that's, you know, what that car is for.

I think a lot of people have forgotten, you know, because it's been so long since the majority of sort of affordable cars were genuinely comfortable like your, your Avalons or your Orion or your, or your Camrys or your magnets or whatever.

I think people have just become conditioned to harsher riding cars. And I, you know, I, I, I

probably have been to a degree, not that I drive new harsher riding cars, but, but like when I got back in that Ori and I bought off my auntie a while back, I was just like, my God, this is comfortable, you know, so, so it was so luxurious feeling in the suspension. And I just think we've sort of

forgotten it. You know, you get like like mums

Yaris, you know, that's got the nineteens on it and it doesn't ride badly, but it's firm 19/9 to eighteens.

Maybe they're eighteens. Well, even that, what do you

think about it? No, it's not the biggest wheel

you can get on it, but yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's not, you know, it's not a terrible riding car, but it's firm. There's no question there is

speed up and you're like, oh, feel that.

Yeah. Whereas, you know, those older

cars just were, were lovely. I bought, I, I borrowed bombs

Camry the other day and I looked down, I looked up and I was a spare. I'm like, oh, no.

And I, and I hit it, I hit it quite quickly and I was like, oh, that wasn't that bad. Like, yeah, whereas I couldn't

do that. And, and a lot of and a lot of

other things. But yeah.

Scotty what? What were you trying to say

earlier, mate? I was just saying, you know,

even 18 inch rims, that's huge. Yeah, Massive.

Yeah. You're gonna feel it makes huge

difference. Yeah, yeah.

Like, these are cars that would have originally had like, thirteens and fourteens, and now, you know, you've gone up 4 inches and everyone's like, you know, Yeah.

That's the standard now. Yeah.

It's like it wasn't. It now is, and it's, it wasn't.

We we suffer for it, Yeah. Like we?

Yeah. Low profile tyres now.

Yeah. My, my typhoon came on eighteens

originally and it, and it, yeah, it was, it's firm, but it's, it's, it's still compliant. I put the nineteens on it and

just an inch of inch of, you know, wheel difference.

You you, you're losing a lot of sidewall.

It changed the ride completely. Like it didn't ride anywhere

near as nice. Like it, it was, it was, you

know, it was, it was harsher. But I guess that's what people

want. They want, they want those, you

know, lower profile tyres. They want you, your, your big,

your big wheels, which which is cool.

Like, you know, if, if sure, yeah, why not?

But and and like, I get it from from from a performance standpoint, you know, less, less, less body roll, less sidewall, you know, but. Wasn't it proven that it's not

it's not better like track track wise do?

Any stance to any like if you're going for complete rubber bands on your on your wheels, then yeah, that, that no, but like if you've got if you've got a better side, well, absolutely, a bit of flex will will, will help it help it, you know, kind of kind of grip because it's you're gonna have you're gonna have more of a footprint as a as a tyre, as a tyre, you know, it gets put under pressure around corners.

So it's yeah, it's a yes or no. You ought to find the right

compromise. But you know, you have it like

like Honda with the last type R that had 20 inch wheels on it, but they but but they had engineered it to have 20 inch wheels. So like that's right.

So so everyone was like, it's this ride's amazing for 20 inch wheel to 20 inch wheels, but they engineered it for that, you know, so. Interestingly, they've gone back

to 19. 19 Yep correct and people are complaining now that the FFI

was too stiff and I was I was like there is no pleasing you people but the but. That.

It's also a type R like yeah. That's right.

That's right for. Buying a Civic Type R for, you

know, 75 grand or whatever it is, and you're not buying an average family sedan or SUV. Correct.

But I what I'm trying to like, you know, sports cars aside, like I'm just saying like your average car, they don't need to be super taut and stiff and like there is really no point for that. And so, yeah, I'm still amazed

that like, you know, companies like Kia and Hyundai are still offering an Australian treat suspension.

Like a friend of mine's got a Stinger and she's like, she's like this thing drives this thing rides nicer than my, you know, than than my other cars. You know, it's and, and it's a

Stinger. It should be, it should be the

most, the most sportier of the, of the of of her, her cars.

And she's like, it's compliant. It's lovely.

It's it's tuned for our roads here.

I'm like, jeez, like. I think it's it's a really

indicator of how seriously Kia and Hyundai take the Australian market. Yes, yes.

They, they've done that. But I think that what you said

initially, the second part is true that we are such a small market for, for so many manufacturers that it's not worth them, you know, trying to they've, they've, they've got to have mass market appeal. And I think generally speaking,

a lot of countries have better roads than we do.

They're breaking apart. There's a party in High Street

in Glenoris. I actually drove the N11 down on

Sunday evening, and I drove the Accord down last night.

And as I'm coming down to it in the Accord, I thought, oh, it's really rough here. You know, I sort of started to

brace myself in the Accord with half a million KS, just just so.

Yeah, you know, softly and compliantly, but yeah, the probably half a million KS on the suspension probably makes it nice. But but yeah, I think the the

overall state driving around in central Victoria over the weekend, the roads are appalling.

You know, like I'm just out of wood end as you come in from the from the West. They're actual like the 40

kilometre an hour signs are proper Rd signs.

Now they're put 40 kilometre an hour Rd sign on main road into wood End because the road is literally falling apart and they're not fixing right. They're just, they've been there

for a good two years. You know, it's, it's just

shocking. So of the fact that Kia and I

and are actually embracing some sort of attempt to, to, to mitigate that for us is, is, is brilliant and probably part of the reason why they're so successful.

When Steph and I drove the the latest Sportage, like a big reason why why, why we liked it is because how, how well it rode and how well it drove and it didn't feel like it kind of felt like it reminded me actually of my dad's territory to drive in terms of, you know, the compliance and dynamically, you know, it's very not not similar. It's it's, it's from wheel drive

biassed. But the suspension, you know,

the way it went, the way it went down the road was like that kind of feels like the territory, but, but it wasn't as, it wasn't as good as the territory, but it, it felt like that.

I'm like, you know, this is actually, this is a livable car.

Like you could, you could, you could definitely do this.

So and you know, and the guy was like, yeah, that's because that's because we we're going here at Kia.

And he was, he was doing the whole, doing the whole kiosk kiosk here at Kia, you know, that's what we do.

And I'm like, but yeah, it shows like it, it's when you how many new sport cars are you seeing on the road?

They're kind of qualitatively everywhere.

They're they're, they're they're sold really, really well.

So, you know, I think people are realising I don't want a harsh ride. I don't want to, I don't want to

just jiggled all all over the road.

If I'm, if I'm not in like a car that's made to do that, I'd rather just get from A to B as comfortably and as smoothly as possible. And you know, your Aureons, your

Camrys, your Falcons, your Commodores, they were brilliant for that. Like that, like they genuinely

were. And you know, now like the fact

that two companies, well, they're really one company anyway, but offering some something like that, it's actually, it's actually a good thing.

And, and you know, it shows how how they're doing in the, in the sales race that people are taking notice.

I think another big issue to the actual, I guess driving comfort factor is so many of the cars on our roads are now huge.

Yeah. And that that suspension, as Ed

mentioned, when you know, he experienced it and discussed the the D Max with me, was that unladen?

They're pretty terrible. Yeah, they're great.

Yeah. Because ideally they want some

load on them and people, for the most part, everyone's just trying to round unladen. So, you know, you go to a

shopping centre where they've got those horrendous, you know, they're just their stiff humps and you smash your hand to the side. Yeah, as you know, you're doing

that, you know, that shake. And it's like, well, what do you

expect? You're bringing, you know, these

utility vehicles as like, you know, daily drivers and even the like, we'll call it the MUX or the Everest or whatever.

They're built on the same kind of the chassis anyway.

So you're not getting that much of an improvement over?

On they're not they're not much, but even though they've got they've got a coil spring rear. End well, it's not a rare like a

fortuner is a you know, a Hilux, but it's the least got coils I think but. But they're still it's still not

good. Like you know, it's it's but

it's made for a purpose, right, Like, and and that's again, intended sports guys, they made for a purpose.

It's not, it's not like a, you know, like, like a, like a Camry with a, with a TID suspension, you know, set up like, you know, it's it, it just, it just doesn't make sense, you know, So, but I just feel like a lot of car companies are like, oh, you know, it's going to be better by being more stiff.

And, and I, I completely disagree.

I just, I think, Oh yeah, if you're trying to say like, Oh yeah, it's got sporty handling. Why would you, you know, why

would you want to sell a Camry or a, you know, God like a Mazda 6 with with with that, unless it's like a performance orientated model. You know it for me, it just

boggles the mind, but. Go back to comfort everyone.

Absolutely comfort to. Comfort.

That's right. Like I'm not like our roads are.

Going to get any better? Correct.

Yeah, correct. Absolutely.

Like, you know, as far as, as far as I can remember, there's always Rd works everywhere and the, and the roads are still cooked. And so, you know, it was, it

was. Yeah.

Hear me out, David and and Ed I I we've all been to Japan in comparison to Japan, Even in the rural areas where we drove, the roads are still good. Great.

Yeah, it was pretty good. So, and I'm like, this is, you

know, you know, I, I get you could, you could probably get away with a more stiffer car here.

But like, in the same token, you know, our roads are shocking and we just, we seem to be selling more and more and more and more cars with, you know, stiffer suspension and bigger wheels.

And every time on, on all the car pages, Oh, I've broken a wheel or of curb or, you know, of, of buckword, a wheel from a, from a speed from a pothole, you know, and what, what size you was, oh, 20 inches. And I'm like, well, yeah, like

there's, yeah, it's quite literally.

It's like smashing it against the I, I, I against a brick wall. You know it's going to break.

You need to set a good 14 inch steelys.

Right. 14 inch steelys is where it's at.

That's. Well, even if they do buckle a

bit, you just hammer them back out.

Yeah, exactly. They've got a bit of give in

them. So, so, yeah, I'm more aboard

the comfort train in terms of like a daily driver, like I, I, I think that I think that's, you know, makes in, in terms of like, like an everyday car, yeah.

Like you're not wanting your, your, your family, your family hall to be super stiff and, you know, unmanageable.

But I guess the whole SUV craze and even even the dual club craze, like they're having to make them stiffer because otherwise they've just, they've got 0 handling characteristic.

Yeah, because, Because physics. And people try to drive on my

cars. Yeah, correct.

Yeah, that that is that is also true your Co worker.

I was heading to a friend of ours the other day, a few days ago on the weekend I think, and we're talking about ranges or the like of ranges with, you know, off road tyres, you know, like Falcon Wild Peaks or whatever.

And he said they did some tests and he said a good car to pull up from 100K an hour slamming on the brakes is like 30 metres.

You know, he said a bad ones like 38 metres.

He said a Ranger they tested it was 50 metres.

Wow, she. Said.

Wow, he said. That's the difference between

hitting something at 15K an hour or hitting something at 60 K an hour. You know, it's the difference

between, you know, having a bit of a bad bumper bar and dying.

You know he is bad, but he said no one talks about that, you know, no one, no one, no one's sort of hopping on about how how terrible these things are compared to, you know, other other Rd going cars. I will say one thing, though.

The Ranger up the suspension's ridiculous.

Like I, I was, I was shocked at how unbelievable that was.

Like it felt like you weren't driving on anything.

It just felt, yeah, it like my brother would hit straight into like, you know, roundabouts. You you wouldn't, you wouldn't

feel it. The the the shocks just absorbed

everything. It was it was the most

ridiculous thing, but they. Tuned that one different to the

other one. Yeah, it's it's got like Fox

shock, like Fox Racing shocks. Oh, racing.

It's it's, it's meant to go like off road Baja mode and just not.

Feeling anything? And I'm like, they should make

every car like this, you know, but yeah, that they're $20,000 shocks. But, you know, most likely, you

know, run a Ranger. But but yeah, I, I, I, I get

what you mean with a cut, it's especially high, like, you know, coming down the brace, it's got a nose dive and that that's already, that's already distance.

It's it's weights. You can't.

You can't avoid mass. You know, all those other things

as. Well, the person drives, not

paying attention. They're on the.

Phone that's extra distance so yeah, I'm for the.

Quiz. Time for the quiz, gentlemen.

David wrote the quiz. David wrote the quiz, yeah.

David, David. We like David's quizzes.

Do you? Is it because you win them?

No, I never do. Matt always wins them.

That's true. So so just want to end on the

Car Talk Car Talk top tip if you're sick of cars that are too stiff to buy new. Buy Camry.

Buy Camry or. Got a Kira or a Hyundai these

days, Which is which I can't believe we're saying.

But anyway, there you go. We're an Orion.

Why the Lord loves his Orion. He's like he was, it was all

about, you know, selling it and buying a buying a Merc.

But he but he's I've convinced him.

He's like, he's like, no, this is great.

I'm like, yeah, good, good. That's why just drive it, turn

the key and just drive all right.

Quiz audio OK, Are you happy to score Maddie?

Oh, I've got her ready to go for you, mate.

You're a Honda legend mate. On Shenanigans.

Already early in that's. Yeah, I'm getting in early with

that. OK, so so Maddie, I've got a

confession mate. Absolutely go go for it mate.

I've I've been cheating on you. Oh no, I've been listening

around the podcast. Oh mate.

It's been this is a little bit influenced by a couple of those.

So, have any of the rest of you listened to Tim Ross's Cars of?

The the new series. I've listened to the new series.

No, but like. That's good.

That's good. I liked that podcast.

I listened to a few as well. And because David told me the

other day, there was one all about the mini Moke and I'm very interested in that episode. So I listened intently.

And there's a guy not to hijack the conversation totally.

Oh no, no. Guy who was interviewed called

Hans Falstrop, who is quite an adventurer.

He put a mini moke on a boat, like a blow up boat, like a like a a rubber raft, a dinghy and he went across Bass Strait and he arrived at Flinders. What?

On the Mornington Peninsula. And he drove the moke off, you

know, like did. You know that story.

I'd I'd heard of him, you know the name Hand stole struck rings a bell. So.

Oh, yeah, this is some adventurer guy, but I didn't know he did that with a moke. Yeah, and I just thought, wow,

he's still alive and that. Was pretty Gaulsy, that was.

Yeah, I'm just. And he said, oh, it was a bit

dicey there. Storm came through and I'm

thinking, and the raft is not much big.

It's only about a foot wider than the Moat.

Like it's not really. You think holy hell this guy's

nuts? And there and there goes

question 6 of David's quiz No. No, no, I didn't reference that.

There's also a very good French car episode, which I thought you might be. Yeah, it's.

Worth. It's worth listening to those

things, yeah. Yes.

See, I'm not very afraid. I only listen to Car Talk and

and auto retro. Auto retro, Yeah.

Oh. Thanks man, that's a nice thing.

I think I listen to your show like I probably listen to each episode probably two or three Times Now.

Like I've just I've I've. Oh goodness.

You what? That's all you can do.

Yeah. It's like that episode of The

Goodies years ago where they read a conversation.

They had one song called Walk I Walk in the Black Forest and they say and now it's time for. I walk in the black.

Forest old lady in it cuts this old lady.

She said that. Oh, wonderful.

You got to do that thing. Going round and round and round.

When the shows don't have enough content, so they do like a flashback episode, they do like a flashback episode.

It's like the best scenes from, you know.

Yeah, yeah. Did they jump the shark?

It's the, it's, it's the what's called the the greatest hits of of order, retro greatest hits greatest.

Hits. The whole episode is David Day

just. Just last question one, how many

generations of the Subaru Brumbie were produced and sold in Australia, in Australia, Sold in Australia?

Matthew Well, I think Alan beat me into it.

I. Think I heard Alan.

I must say 2. You you'd be correct.

Yeah, excellent. OK, Second question, closest to

same subject. How long did the 2nd and an

arguably more popular generation of the Brumbie run for closest two wins? I'm going to say 11 years.

OK, Matt, 11 years. Yep.

I will say. Six Scotty 6.

I will say 7. LM713. 813, OK, well, I think

we're going to have to award half of 1/8.

It's actually 12. So.

Thank you very much. Hang on, why would I get half?

Well, you because you were each one off.

No, I'm closest too. No, I was 11.

Oh, he was 11. You and you were. 11 Oh, sorry,

I didn't hear the 11. Sorry.

All right, fine. Half a point, half a point.

I was like that, OK? In the US of E it was known as.

Well, nothing. That was Ed.

That was clearly Ed. OK, if you're wrong, you might

not be able to the next part because you didn't wait for the rest of the question. It was a Subaru Brat and it came

with rear seats that were in the tray that faced the opposite direction. That wasn't a question.

OK. In the US of A, it was known as

the brat, but this is actually a backronym.

Do you know what a backronym is? A backronym is when you have a

word you want to use and you come up with what it's an abbreviation of. So brat is actually a backronym

of what? I think this was a quiz question

years ago and I've completely forgotten what what what it actually means. I.

Never heard it. I, I, I, I'd never heard it

before. I laughed out loud in in the car

listening to it. Everything now is brat like brat

summer and stuff, that's the thing.

I know. I know, but someone?

'S got any idea? You're listening to too much

Charlie XCX, mate. That's I've.

Yeah, no, I've no idea. OK, it stands for Buy Dr

Recreational All Terrain Transporter.

Oh jeez, what do you? Think of.

You can't call something a double.

Into double overhead Cam, into cool turbo.

Thank you, Liberty Rs. Yeah, I drive Recreational

Terrain Transporter. I thought that was brilliant.

I'd I'd always know it was a brat.

I never knew that. I just thought it was a brat

because it was a naughty car or something.

There you go. Okay, question 4 Ed ready.

What unique feature allowed it to be Oh?

The rear seats that face the wrong way did.

You say your name? No, I said.

Say his name. Alan said his name.

Pretty sure I heard Alan. There's some sort of delay.

No, you didn't say your name then.

So yes, the rear seats which happen to be located in the tray and they face the wrong way or the opposite direction, I should say. OK, correct.

Thank you. Well.

Done, Alan. Well done.

I thought of that all by myself, you know.

Yeah, well done. Yeah, no worries.

Targa, you came in. Optional.

Targa, the rear seats avoided avoided the chicken tax at the time in America, which was a 2 point admit that they were only subject to a 2.5 import tax as opposed to a 25% tax for light

trucks. The fact they didn't have

seatbelts or we just literally bolted to the floor of the thing didn't seem to worry anybody as far as I felt the safety.

Yeah, so land of the free. Just forget about that that

nasty Subaru now. Sorry, what?

I was going to say, can I ask you guys a quick question?

Sorry. Sorry Dave, I'm not hijacking.

Go for it. Go for.

It what TV show was a was a brat with American painted livery in it was it was a pretty, pretty famous show.

It's not that old, actually. Ed.

Ed. Stranger Things now.

Well, good guess though. It's it's a comedy.

It's a comedy show. It's from like the 2000s and it

was my name is Earl The his his ex wife drove one.

Yeah, she. Named Earl.

My name is Earl. I always, I always remember

that. That's I was like, I don't

remember much of the show, but I remember the brat.

So. OK.

We've got a couple of closest to coming up.

So question 5, the Toyota Tundra was officially released this week for sale in Australia rather than limited lease or something that it's been on till now.

Before run Rd costs, what is it's recommended retail price?

Matthew. Matthew.

I'm going to say 160 two 162,000.

OK. One like AF150 competitor.

Correct. Yeah, all.

Right, well, let the boys answer first one.

Ed. Ed.

All hear that? Yeah, I heard that.

You said sold that. 1:40. 1:40. Now is this sold by Rd dealers?

Toyota dealers are selling this. OK, Toyota dealers are selling

this and this is before on roads.

Before on road costs the recommended retail.

OK, 119 please. 119 Mr. Allen. Yes, 119, this is Allen.

Scotty. I'm gonna say 158. 58 like it?

OK. So.

I was 162 K Allen 119, Scotty 158 and Edward 140 OH.

Scotty, you got it 59990. Oh my God.

You were, well, you were 162. Yeah, I was just under 160 by 10

bucks. You outlook.

No shame. No, they go to the Toyota.

They can charge whatever the hell they want.

David, do you want? Do you want a score check?

Yeah, scorecheck would be great. Edward and I are on .5 currently

last Scotty on one and and leading is Alamont 2 and so.

Anyone's game? Yeah, I gave Alam half of that.

Can I, can I just say Alan? Alan prefaced this this quiz by

saying, oh, let's kind of win it again.

Mate, it's anyone's game at the moment.

It is anyone's game. Yeah.

There's also there is a bonus question to the Toyota Tundra question Ed. The only it's only it's been

converted here and we are going to be the only right hand drive market for the Tundra as in the only right hand drive ones produced in the world are going to be done here really.

There you go. That's half the point.

That's half the point. I reckon that.

Judge, you're an executioner here, Tundra.

'S. Tundra's actually a Toyota car,

this house. It's off point.

It's off point. I was going to ask, how many

kilowatts is it? It's 3.5 litre V6 hybrid engine

produce. Closest 2 Closest. 2.

Ed. Ed 260. 26260 I'm.

Going to say 2:45. Two 45245 Maddie.

I'm going to say more than that. I want to say 390.

I will say 312. OK, that would mean that would

mean Alan gets the peanuts this time 326 kilowatts.

Unless you're going to say 325 before this, but it's not to to, you know, knock it down a bit. That you didn't 320 sorry.

Because I thought the the hybrid system would, would they'd, they'd consider that. But anyway, that's that's

probably my own. And 790 Newton metres of torque.

You could tow a house. You could tow literally a house

I'm. Saying mate, that's rubbish, my

fiesta's got 320. It's 320 and it's a three

cylinder. Question 6.

Hyundai have released a limited edition of the I-30 N sedan.

What is it called? Matthew.

Matthew. I saw this it's is it the TCR

edition of Performance? Edition I30 and TCR in honour of

winning the World Series in TCR. I was going to say the I-30 and

sedan, we got too many we can't sell edition.

Help help help I30 think they. Cancel their orders.

Is that a thing? I don't know.

Chad, if you're listening, we love the I-30 and sedan.

I love Chad. Yeah.

I was hoping Chad to be on for that.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Question 7. What manufacturer has this week

announced the imminent release of yet another petrol electric dual cab Ute? Matthew.

Matthew. BYD.

Incorrect. Oh, OK.

Kya Ed Ed No, that was last week.

That was Tasman, wasn't it? Azman.

The Tasman. I wonder how many orders have

been cancelled now after seeing what it looks like.

But anyway it. Did get people talking and

that's what they were after, evidently with making it as polarising as it was. Scotty, I don't think it's

Australian truth suspension, I'm going to help it, but anyway.

Scotty. I just say, Maddie, you said

BYD. Yeah, I did.

Yeah, GWM. Oh, no, incorrect.

I'm trying to think has handed to this.

No comment. I'm going to say Hyundai.

No incorrect G. Serious.

I'm deadly serious. Does that one also look like an

F150? They all do.

They all do. I mean, you're key to the

computer like, you know, boxy you with, you know, it doesn't doesn't do any job really well, but does the whole bit of everything. Tagline's F-150 from the TMU

factory, but. I just say that like, you know,

I'll give Kia credit. Like at least they're not trying

to make it more look like an F150.

Yeah. That's true, true, true.

And that's what they said, that there's a sameness to so many of them. Let's make it really ugly.

And, you know, like they should. Have made it look like a cyber

truck. Truck.

I love seeing photos of cypher trucks on the back.

Like Kia virtual Ute or something?

Yeah, virtual. Ute looks.

Like a RIP off thing too. Question 8.

What Aussie car was available in a Challenge, Grand Tour and Safari? Limited Edition Ed.

Ed. Magna.

Correct the mighty Mitsubishi Magda.

Hello, Andrew, if you're listening.

He'd be screaming at the radio right now.

What did the Safari one have? The safari was a limited edition

of the waggon. Oh OK of the tea or Andrew.

I'm sorry if he if you're listening TN I think was available the TP. The TP was available in the

Safari did. It come with a little roof racks

and that's what made it safari or.

It came with a stripe that said Safari.

And a toy giraffe. If you were breaking down the

doors to get them, you. Have a binocular so when you

when you actually shipped over to Africa, you could take it on safari, yeah. It was.

It wasn't as innocuous as the Holden Commodore 4 cylinder Metro which came with a Melways. That's like the equivalent of

getting NAV in the 90s. Yeah, that's.

Exactly right. Factory NAV.

Factory NAV. That was expensive.

Question 9 What year saw the iconic Falcon hardtop come first and 2nd at Bathurst? Oh God.

Man, 1972. Incorrect.

Matthew. Matthew.

I'm going to get crucified if I get this wrong.

It would it would be 77. That would be.

Correct. Yes, well done, well done.

Bonus question, what was the name given to the homologated limited edition Malc Maddie? That'd be the Cobra.

Correct Cobra. The XC Cobra.

Cobra. So limited the question 10, is

this the five points on five points?

On offer. Wow, So everybody.

It's anyone's game. It's anyone's game.

Literally anyone's game. Unless Matt buzzes in first.

Question 10 Limited editions have often been named after racing drivers, race tracks and places.

Can you match the car to the name?

OK, so I'm going to give you a name.

OK, and And you've got to tell me What Car?

OK. It was a likely position, OK.

Yeah. That's that's a good one, Yeah.

You ready? Yeah, at first.

Matthew. Matthew.

RX7. Oh.

They did do. AI think they did do a they did

they? Did that wasn't the one I was

thinking of. I didn't.

Think about two. That was the one I was thinking

of, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

They they did what they did one for both.

I'm not 100% sure you're not. Getting an extra point, you can

have one. At first wasn't badged though I

don't think the the RX7 wasn't badged.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna Fact Check this.

I don't think it was bad. I don't think.

It was. That's an incorrect guess and

you don't get the point. Anyway.

No, I don't think it was badged. It was in the title of it, but I

don't think it was badged. Yeah, the the Mazda RX7 Bathurst

R Here's what it was can. You place the The walk in the

Black Forest music for his head. You.

Might have to pay that David, you know.

It's up to you. Up to you.

I, I, I won't step in your toes if you don't.

Want to play it? No, no, no, no.

He Well, well, you need the other one as well, but you know.

But he guessed on the 1st 7. The next, next, next.

All right. OK, we'll see what we'll see

what it comes down to at the end.

I'll Yeah, yeah, it's got it comes down to.

I'll I'll make it a .5. I'll do a .5 because I I OK.

OK, OK, Do a point. All right?

He's doing a win. He might.

OK. That's pretty clear in his eyes.

OK, listen up, Alex Zanardi. Oh.

God. Think early 90s American race

car driver. Matthew.

If it's. Going to be an American race car

driver. I'm going to say it'd be a

Camaro. Incorrect.

How, how long We'll say a Mustang.

Incorrect. Bye Oh.

God, Ed. Ed.

Honda. .5 More information please.

A Honda NSX. Correct.

Oh. Yeah.

All right. Yes, where have I pulled that?

From and Alex Zanardi had had the first car that was delivered. Wow, yeah.

Edward quite literally pulled that one out of his ass.

OK, next one John Goss. Matthew.

Matthew. That's a That's a Falcon

hardtop. Correct.

XB Falcon Hardtop Jack Brabham. Oh, Shane Robertson here.

This demonstrates the urine gap in our ages, I'm sure.

Yeah, I mean, I, I know him and everything but.

Thankfully, Yeah. Well, yeah, I can imagine that

he was. Yeah, lucky.

I know him. Just just trying to think what

I. Remember.

What? What he put his name to.

Yeah, I know. I think in later years he just,

you know, might not have been the best decision of his career.

But anyway. Well, I know he he had his name

on Hondas from from when I was when we were reading about the at the, the Motiki, you know, but I don't think.

That they weren't. They weren't sold.

Yeah, they were race cars. OK, it was an Australian car.

Matthew. Matthew.

Toronto. Matthew, well done. 1967 Alden

released the Brabham, Toronto. Wow.

So before the GTR, it actually one of its main claims of fame was that it had that that six dial instrument panel.

So with the Taco and the and the the Speedo and then the four little ancillary gauges around it, which then went on to be in the because basically the IT was the HB Torana, which was basically a re re badge engineered Vauxhall Viva.

Viva, Yeah. Which the the interior the the

LC after that and the LJ. They were basically the same car

underneath but be re shelled basically.

They did look better than the HB.

Oh, 100%, but the Brabham Torana had a 70 horsepower engine and had stripes and yeah, it was some and Taco and all that sort of stuff. OK, where are we at?

So next one, Eddie Jordan. Matthew.

Matthew. That was on a Civic.

Correct, that was a bright yellow Honda EK6.

Not in Australia, but it but worked quite long now.

OK, because our bright yellow ones were those indie edition ones. That's right.

Based on the base. Base models.

Yeah, base. Base base, base base.

Why? Would they do that?

Honda Australia? Listen.

Listen to your customers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's not go there. So they said.

Could we have a score check, Maddie?

I don't think anyone wants to know the score.

Yeah, that's yes, yes, yes, we do the.

Winner tonight is Scotty because we're playing my golf rules on one congratulations Scotty thank you everyone for listening that's all the time we have we have to cut it short he's.

Visiting store. Check.

Finally we have Scotty on one, Ed on 2.5, myself in a

blisteringly close to 2nd place at 3, respectable, and then we have Mr Maddie Chay on 7. Kevin.

Sorry gentlemen, I I noticed I'm.

Sitting running these questions past Maddie first.

I don't think there's any collusion or I'm hoping.

That was gonna win right at the start.

Did I feel it? Here we go.

The Call the shenanigans, the concept, the. 4 shadowing I

think. That's a podcast, gentlemen.

That was that was good fun. Thanks boys.

Catch you later. David, you can do a plug.

I've got to eat all. Right, we'll talk to you soon.

Mate. Let's go round the rooms,

Scotty's golf tip of the week. Golf tip of the week, a really

good one before you hit your shot.

A lot of pros and that do it is to actually keep your club just a bit levitated off the ground and not just sit on the ground.

If you're sitting on the ground, you have a habit of loosening your grip and actually moving your hands around.

So you'll kind of want to keep that perfect grip that you've been practising and before you're about to swing it, then just kind of sit it down and then get straight into the swing. That way you're not going to

mess it up. That's a great tip.

Like that one, Like that one, David Prince, you do a podcast.

I was going to plug Tim Ross's Cars Cars that Build Australia podcasts. Plug away, plug away.

Yeah, great two series in and yeah, really entertaining, easy to listen to podcasts, much like Auto Retro, the Car We the podcast where we talk about cars of people's lives.

I love that segue. That was a great segue.

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