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Car
Ford Bronco
The Ford Bronco is a type of SUV that is good for driving on rough roads and trails. It is built tough so you can take it off the pavement and explore nature.
Brand
Audi
Audi is a car company from Germany that makes fancy cars with lots of technology and all-wheel drive to help with traction.
Concept
money laundering
Money laundering is when people try to hide money they got from doing bad things by buying fancy stuff like cars or art to make it look like the money came from a good source.
Term
MotoGP
MotoGP is like the Formula 1 of motorcycle racing, where the best riders race super fast bikes on special tracks. It's the highest level of motorcycle racing you can watch.
Company
Sotheby's
Sotheby's is a big company that sells expensive things like old cars and art to the highest bidder.
Term
coasting downhill in neutral
Coasting downhill in neutral means putting your car in neutral gear when going down a hill so it rolls freely. This is not safe because you have less control over the car and can't slow down using the engine.
Term
engine brake
Engine braking means slowing your car down by letting the engine help stop it instead of just using the brakes. This helps your brakes last longer and keeps you safer.
Term
engine braking
Engine braking means slowing your car down by taking your foot off the gas and letting the engine help stop the car, instead of pressing the brake pedal. It helps keep your brakes from wearing out too fast.
Term
drivetrain
The drivetrain is all the parts that help your car's engine make the wheels turn. If you shift gears the wrong way, it can hurt these parts and cause your car to break.
Term
dropping your clutch
Dropping the clutch means letting go of the pedal that connects the engine to the wheels too fast. This can hurt your car because it shocks the parts that make it move.
Term
braking distance
Braking distance is how far your car goes after you hit the brakes before it stops. If your brakes aren't good, it takes longer to stop, which can be dangerous.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a fast and sporty car that many people like to drive for fun. It is well-known and has been made for many years.
Term
license suspension for speeding
If you get caught driving really fast, like over 100 miles per hour, the police can take away your driving license right away. This is to keep everyone safe on the road.
Term
MAC address
A MAC address is like a special ID number for devices that connect to the internet or other networks. Your car and phone have these IDs so they can be recognized and tracked if needed.
Term
over revs
Over revving means the engine spins faster than it should, which can hurt the car. Some cars keep track of when this happens.
Term
rev limiter
The rev limiter is like a safety stop that stops your car's engine from spinning too fast and breaking. It helps keep the engine safe.
Term
double clutching
Double clutching is a way to change gears smoothly by pressing the clutch twice and matching the engine speed to the gear speed.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Corvette is a famous American sports car that many people love because it's fast and looks cool. Sometimes, people talk about whether the company is honest about what the car can do.
Term
horsepower
Horsepower tells you how strong a car's engine is. More horsepower usually means the car can go faster or accelerate quicker.
Car
Golf Gtds
The Golf is a small car that's good for everyday driving and is known for being reliable and fun to drive. Some versions are sportier and faster than normal cars.
Car
Chevrolet Camaro
The Camaro is a sporty car from America that became popular in the 1990s. People like it because it looks strong and drives fast, similar to other cars like the Mustang.
Term
torque
Torque is the force that helps the car start moving and feel strong when you press the gas pedal.
Car
Buick Grand Sport
The Gran Sport is an old American car that was made to be very powerful and fast. Many people think it's one of the best muscle cars Buick ever made.
Car
Shelby GT500
The GT500 is a very fast and strong version of the Mustang car. People who own it usually have similar stories about how it drives and what it's like to take care of.
Company
Bring a Trailer
Bring a Trailer is a website where people can buy and sell special cars by bidding on them.
Brand
GM
GM is a big car company from America that makes many popular cars and trucks. They plan their marketing carefully to get people interested in their vehicles.
Car
Lotus Amira
The Emira is a sports car made by a British company called Lotus. It's built to be light and fun to drive, and it's different from most American cars.
Brand
Ferrari
Ferrari is a famous car company from Italy that makes very fast and fancy sports cars.
Car
Ford F-150 Lightning
The F-150 Lightning is an electric truck made by Ford, which means it runs on batteries instead of gas. Even though some versions are no longer available, Ford is still working on electric cars.
Car
Fiat 500
The Fiat 500 is a tiny car that's easy to park and drive around the city. It looks cute and is different from big cars because it's very small.
Car
Porsche Cayman
The Cayman is a small sports car made by Porsche that is fun to drive because it handles really well. It's a bit different from other Porsche cars but still very exciting.
Car
Porsche Boxster
The Boxster is a Porsche car that you can drive with the roof down. It's fun and easy to handle, making it a popular choice for people who like sporty cars.
Car
Koenigsegg Jesko
The Jesko is a very expensive and super-fast car made in Sweden. Even though it's special, it can sometimes have problems like any other car.
Term
turbo
A turbo is a part that helps a car's engine make more power by pushing extra air into it, making the car faster.
Part
rotor
A rotor is a metal disc that helps your car stop when you press the brakes. The brake parts squeeze this disc to slow the car down.
Part
caliper
A caliper is a part that pushes the brake pads onto the metal disc (rotor) to help stop the car when you press the brake pedal.
Car
Porsche 911
The 911 is a famous Porsche sports car that is very fast and well-made. Some versions, like the Turbo S, have had a few problems with parts that help stop the car safely.
Brand
GMC
GMC is a company that makes big cars like trucks and SUVs. They are known for strong and reliable vehicles.
Car
Ford F150
The F-150 is a very popular big truck in the U.S. that many people use for work and everyday driving. It's known for being strong and useful.
Car
Ford Ranger
The Ranger is a smaller truck that's easier to drive than big trucks. The special Ranger Raptor has sporty seats that make it more comfortable and fun, especially off-road.
Company
Recaro
Recaro makes special car seats that help keep you comfortable and safe, especially in sporty or racing cars.
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Evans Podcast.
I'm Dan.
Hello.
I'm Nicholas, and you're Dan.
And you're listening to Smooth Evans Listening, Heroin 101.4.
Well, I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas.
I mean, you know, there was no GT3 under the tree, but then again, nobody in my family
owns a daycare.
So, you know, if, you know, not a lot of money and honest work these days.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you, but it was a good holiday season.
Finally, got my Morph late.
I got one that worked.
Thank you, Mom.
Nice.
So, onto that.
Yeah.
How are things in your world?
It's nice down here.
It's been cold, but it's been beautiful, went for a nice long walk at the park today.
I did a little exploring over the last week, board driving, not as much off-roading as
I wanted to.
The weather kind of has hit and miss in the wet, but that's okay.
I'm totally fine with that.
That's a Bronco adventure versus a 150 adventure these days, but it's good down here.
I don't want to come back.
I really don't want to come back.
I know this isn't the place I want to live anymore.
Just being here for a month, this is kind of why I was down here to figure out where I wanted
to be sometime in the future when retirement or later, but I think it's, it's leaning me
more towards Arizona at this point.
I love it here.
Interesting.
But it's cold, which is not the problem.
It's a tourist town.
At the end of the day, St. George Hurricane, it's still a tourist-based industry.
And so you get sort of limited, I have to say it, if you ever lived in a tourist
town, you'll know, or if you've ever been in a lot of tourist towns.
Yes.
We live in Snoqualmie, Twin Peaks Heaven.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
But I mean, the most of the industry, the people that work in Snoqualmie don't actually
work in Snoqualmie.
They live in the east side, you know, and they commute from Snoqualmie like me.
Versus here, almost everything is tourist-driven.
And even I'm annoyed with tourists having been here my whole life, not here,
but I mean like, you know, when you're in a tourist town, tourists are annoying,
even if you're one of them, just accept it.
And so, let me say it, it's when we saw that what we saw here during the week of
Christmas is all those tourists flooded a town and it changed pretty dramatically.
Not, not like a terrible way.
Like things are still nice here and everything like that.
It's a great place, but it's not for us.
It's not for me.
It's not where I think I want to be later.
And I think I want to be somewhat, I'm leaning back towards that Arizona area
for the infrastructure.
I still want to be in the outskirts of town.
I still want to be like, you know, Cave Creek, Upper Mesa, somewhere out toward
the hills, not like directly in town.
But, you know, there's just things you can't get here at the convenience level.
And I'm used to that convenience being in that Snoqualmie area, like, you know,
Amazon's a day away.
If I wanted something really bad enough, I could just drive into Bellevue and get it.
That's not the case here.
If I want to drive, if I want something really bad, it's drive to Vegas and get it.
Which is hour and a half, bare minimum.
It's actually from Hurricane.
It's like an hour and 45, two hour drive there.
And it's a long drive.
It's a very long distance, just a high speed limit, which is why it's two hours.
Otherwise it would be, you know, two hours and 25 minutes, two and a half hours.
Um, so there's just things like that.
Um, and like, I, I like all of the things to do around here, but I
can still do all those things and be there and have those conveniences.
So I think that's where my head's at right now.
And I would be loved to be a little warmer in the winter.
I think that's more the main thing is I want to go to a place where I'm
getting away for the winter to somewhere warm.
And this is getting, even though it's sunny and beautiful here, it's very windy
and it's very cold.
And so that sort of limits things.
And I could still do the drives I want to do from there.
So I think that's where I'm, my head's at.
I don't know for sure yet.
I'm still figuring it out, but I have more than enough time.
This is more a planning for the future run.
Where do I want to be down the road?
And I think anybody who moves here would probably love it here.
If they know what they're getting into, uh, it's, but it's more of that.
You know, you're going to come out, like retiring here, probably
would be pretty nice.
I don't know if I want to live and work here is the thing as things slow down
for me.
Yeah, that might change, but right now it's still, I got another 10, 12 years
of go, go, go.
If I play my cards, right?
Hopefully 10, but we'll see with the economy or anything else, but like
there's the example, there's not an Audi dealer here.
There's not a Lexus dealer here.
Those are all Vegas.
And I don't really want to go to Vegas to get my services done or to
get the things I need.
Cause Vegas is one of the places that I just don't like coming to Vegas
is not my scene.
I know a lot of people love it.
And that's their thing.
And that's, it's great.
If that's your thing, great, but Vegas is not mine at all.
Vegas is the pinnacle of what is not Dan Vegas.
That is not the place I want to be at a halt in any way shape or form.
So even like the idea of like, oh, we have to go to Vegas to get
something kind of kills the idea for me.
Cause the next thing is like Salt Lake city, go there.
That's five hours north or go down to Phoenix six hours south.
You know, even Moab sort of would be more appealing to
screen junctions about the same distance.
And even though there's not an international airport there,
like there isn't Vegas, like, uh, it's just, I said, this place,
there's construction everywhere.
It's blowing up.
I don't know how sustainable it is.
Well, we, I mean, they've already mentioned the water issues there.
The water issues aside, but I don't know what other people are going to do.
You can't go a block here without seeing some new development coming in.
Like the explosive growth here is hard to put into words until you're here.
Like literally everything is being developed.
Any usable space that's not a solid rock is going to have houses on it here.
It's insane to see the growth, but who's buying it?
There's no work here as besides building what's here.
Like if you work here, you're working on building here.
You're building some kind of tourist industry or work.
You're building a new restaurant.
You're working in a car dealership maybe, but almost everything else,
like there's no businesses here that aren't specifically around leisure activities.
So I'm sure some people listening to this are thinking like, that sounds pretty
ideal actually, there's so much to do around where you are.
And they're right.
Like everything's Zion 35, 40 minutes away.
You know, you can, if you want to hike, if like your idea of having a good time
is going bicycling, motorcycling and hiking, this is probably going to be your
heaven, but it's going to be the same thing everywhere you go.
But that's it.
Like you're not going to go do other stuff.
So I don't know.
I think, I think what I'm getting at is I don't know how it works with work.
If I was a hundred percent remote again, that might be a different story, but
I don't know what else I would do here.
Like, I don't know how you could make, I mean, I don't want to get into the
tourist industry, I guess.
And so if I was going to reinvent myself later, that is not what I would choose to do.
So I think it might be more of a long-term growth thing.
I could see myself coming back here.
I'm sure I will come back here as a tourist and being one of those people
that annoy me, but I don't know if it's where I'd want to live.
I mean, really your only other options is healthcare in a place like that.
Cause the, you know, the tourism like it is and people living there,
you're going to need healthcare.
But that's, that's even, I can speak for Kate on that one.
You don't want to get into that.
So yeah, the American healthcare system.
It's the pinnacle of, you know, efficiency and organization.
No, that would be, I don't know if I could stomach that.
I mean, that, you know, we, we've all talked about it as a group
and you and I have talked about it.
And that, that, that analysis will be interesting.
You and I and, and, and Chana and Kate will have to have a conversation
because Kate was really looking forward to hearing your opinion and trusting it.
So, you know, we'll have to see.
Cause I mean, I think she would move to, to Arizona tomorrow.
Yeah.
I really see the appeal.
Like when, you know, cause I've been there so many times.
Yeah, but that's the thing is like the heat is well, when it's dry,
but like I've said before, it's nine months of amazing usable weather.
You can do anything you want.
Three months where you pretty much want to stay indoors.
Uh, it'd be good.
It's just too hot, but AC works and three months is pretty easy.
It's, I don't know.
I'm looking at dual living there and living it and back in Washington.
So three months of the year, those are the times I want to be back in Washington
cause Washington is in my opinion still probably the most beautiful state to
have a summer in.
If you can get the nice weather, like it's just incredible and hard to argue
with being all over the world.
I still think Washington is one of those beautiful places that exists.
I just don't want to live there and keep paying the insane taxes.
They keep that.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's been an interesting experience.
Less taxes we pay the more, more, more cars we can buy.
Exactly.
More cars, more bikes.
And I don't have to start selling drugs after my ski, my snowboarding career fails.
You know, I, I mean, uh, I guess, you know, when, when somebody probably looked,
what is his name, that's been big news.
Ryan wedding is the, and I'm sure somebody looked at Ryan and said,
what are you going to do after you were an athlete?
And Ryan kind of had it figured out that he was going to be a,
not a drug dealer, but a drug kingpin.
Um, if you haven't been following the story, he was a, an Olympic snow
boarder that didn't do real well for Canada, which is weird when you're a Canadian
athlete that doesn't do well in winter sports.
But, um, he kind of turned to the dark side.
The biggest news that's made national news from people outside the car
communities is the, the FBI.
Now who confiscated, they confiscated his like $12 million.
Mercedes Benz CLK road, but it was a roadster.
It's a CLK GTR roadster.
One of six.
Yeah.
It's worth.
Yeah.
It's one of the rarest.
You're in Dubai or a shot, you know, not a shot.
Which is where it came from.
It came from some Middle East royal family, like everything else.
So there's a funny story about that car, the car itself.
So this car came to Canada supposedly to go to Drake and Drake sort of basically
no showed on buying the car.
I don't know what the whole story is there.
And then, and like, as you do with money laundering, you
buy things like art and expensive cars and overpay for them.
And so his, he has like three money handlers, apparently his wife is one of them.
And they bought the car in their name.
But if you funnel the cash back, it goes back to Ryan.
And so we're bringing this, this is, this came out like early December.
And then like that was like the first tipoff is people
started following the money, the car was the first like major
repossession to get the news.
And then just a few days ago, they did a huge bust with the Mexican authorities.
And which is where obviously he's involved with the cartels down there.
They were pulled out, I think almost $40 million in race bikes, race motorcycles,
like historic racing motorcycles, vintage MotoGP bikes, Ducates,
Norton's matchlesses, like the real, real rare stuff, this massive collection.
The photos of it are pretty insane.
I saw a lot of it, but I didn't, I don't have enough knowledge in, in, in GP
to know who a lot of these people, I do some of them, but some of them are
very iconic, like, like bikes that should be in museums and things like that.
Correct?
Yeah.
All of these.
So it's been interesting to see that unfold.
I want to see more about, I'm curious to see if, and when they ever
catch this guy or could just disappear under plastic surgery or something.
But yeah, it's a, it was a huge motorcycle bus or collections.
I was trying to find more details on it right here.
So it's been on, if you do a search for Ryan Wedding and motorcycles,
you'll see the photos of it.
A bunch of these, like Dino Rossi bikes, like Dino Rossi bikes, 500
CC MotoGP bikes.
This is like the who's of whose motorcycles.
I don't even know how he got his hands on some of these, but with
enough money, get your hands on anything, right?
Well, obviously he was having other people buy these things when they went
up for auctions and things like that.
Or yeah, yeah.
His, his, it's just, it's all money laundering so that he's buying
these things, aliases are buying these things for him, but it's
just crazy, the bikes in this collection.
I wish, I hope these go go to some like museum or get, you know,
something happens to them that doesn't get them left to dust and destroyed.
Excuse me.
I feel like whoever confiscated those bikes, be it the Mexican
government, the American government is going to want some money back.
And so there, those will probably go up to auction.
I would, I would expect to see those start to go to big auctions,
like the Barry Jansons, the Meekums, the, the Sotheby's and things
like that throughout the world.
Yeah, I'm somewhat worried about what'll happen to them in the
hands of government who doesn't know anything about anything, but
hopefully they'll get somebody in here who's got their head out of
their ass and can actually do something with these because it
would be a huge loss historically to see all these things go away.
There's some good art too.
I sort of laughed.
One of them was, what is that?
Rocco's modern life.
Remember that show?
Yeah.
The animated show.
One of them is like art from that guy who drew the show.
Interesting.
There's some pretty funny stuff in there.
He's got an eccentric art collection.
Yeah, it makes you wonder where he is, but you're right.
He could have a new face by now.
Yeah.
I mean, if you want to disappear and you got enough money, you
can do that.
Obviously, nobody's getting in trouble for if you're rich
enough these days.
Yeah.
So it's a cool story though.
And it's, I'm curious, I'm curious to watch it, how it
comes out.
It's always interesting to see how people, how really filthy
rich criminals use their money.
It's always fascinating to me to see how it gets spent.
Well, I mean, the key to us knowledgeable people that
are into the drug industry is if you drive something flashy,
it's going to attract attention.
Then people are going to start inquiring about you.
And then that can be your downfall, you know, the more
people that know what you do, the less, you know, I mean,
have you not seen Breaking Bad?
That's when it started going bad.
When he bought, you know, the cars for him and his son
and threw the pizzas on the roof.
It all went downhill from there.
That is correct.
Don't throw pizzas on your roof, don't buy fancy cars.
Exactly.
I mean, it'll be interesting to kind of see how that goes,
because obviously there's more out there.
I mean, if they found the cars, they found the bikes,
they're going to, if there's other things that will
start leading to them and then, you know, the
inevitable people will start tattling on him and
where, where his things are and where his, where he.
Yep.
Yeah.
Um, shall we do a Carter tip?
I've got one.
Yeah.
Unless you have one.
No, I don't.
All right.
It's New Year's Eve.
I'm barely awake.
No.
No kidding.
So this, this Carter tip of the week is about
coasting downhill in neutral.
Um, and why you shouldn't, even though it's an old
habit, people have done, it's a terrible idea.
Especially everybody knows it.
The funny thing is that it usually doesn't, it
uses basically the exact same amount of fuel.
It's engine braking.
The offset of engine braking is it's basically
using your brakes more uses more uses fuel.
So an engine braking efficient causes you to
use your brakes more efficiently to leave
beginning gear, let him engine braking work
actually is, is better for your car.
It's actually even illegal in a lot of states.
And it also uses a lot more wear on your brakes.
Because well, yeah, because the brakes are
bringing the whole way to the car down instead
of having the engine brake.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then so, and it's even a, it's a safety
concern because there's so much more wear on
your brakes that it's, you can seriously
overheat your brakes.
That's the biggest.
You can seriously overheat your brakes and
cause them to literally boil your fluid and
fail on a heavy vehicle, especially if
you're towing.
This is a, this is a terrible idea for towing.
You will, it's very dangerous to not use
engine braking while towing, even on a car
that's not a diesel or whatever you want to
use your engine braking.
And then if you shift your car in back from
neutral into gear, it causes severe wear on
the drivetrain because you've got, your
engine has to mesh that.
So it's just like, think of it like dropping
your clutch.
It's the exact same thing, but you've got
under all that load plus the weight, the
gravity to say it's going to, it's even
worse than dropping your clutch.
It's going to seriously smoke your clutch.
So, and if you have to do an emergency
maneuver downhill, something runs out in front
of you, if the emergency stop, you're just
more than tripled your braking distance on
average.
It's a, that's what they say is it's
apparently it can almost triple your
braking distance if your brakes can fully
engage.
So it's that big of a deal.
Oh, and worst of all, most cars today, if
you caused a fatality accident, they're
most almost every car today has a black
box.
Just keeping that out there.
We want to remind people of that, that
black box is there.
You're not as safe as you used to be.
If you don't want that, get an old car.
But just so you know, these little
things can do what can screw you and
your insurance absolutely will do
something terrible that causes a
fatality.
So, you know, it's funny you bring that
up. I was watching a case of that kid
in Florida who got a new Mustang and
ended up, he was drag racing and
killed and they proved he was
saying he was in it.
He was, he was young and stupid.
And they went back into the, the
black box in his Mustang and said,
well, over the past week, you've done
162, 150, they pulled up all the
speed.
And I didn't even know that was a
thing.
That was, I mean, it makes sense.
And I don't think there's any way
to go around that, but it's always
logging that I knew that, you
know, with, with, with the insurance
companies and they can, they can
track your, your, you know, your
phones and stuff like that and figure
out, you know, but I wasn't aware
that the cars were tracking
everything.
Yeah, in fact, there's a new
California law, we should talk about
going to fact, where if you go over
100 miles an hour, you can lose your
license immediately if they pull
you over going over 100 miles per
hour.
But there's also a new thing where
they're testing, automating,
basically checking your speed based
on your cell phone from tower to
tower.
And so, I mean, you've got so
many ways to monitor you in your
car all the time, the black box is
the least of your concerns because
your phone has, as you all know
for electronics, or you should know
by now because, you know, at the
Stone Age, electronics have a very
good digital marker called a MAC
address. And it is unique to your
device. It's also, it's in your phone,
your phone has that, your car
probably has that built in if it's
got anything online. So there's a
lot of ways to track your
information, how fast you were
going, that black box in your car
is going to tell you them
everything you need to know. In
fact, Porsche owners will know
this, you can track how many, you
can track your over revs in a
Porsche, like if you bounce off the
rev limiter, it'll track until
the next owner even it's like
that information isn't hard to find.
You can actually get all that
data from your car from Porsche
and the next owner can look at it
and see how the car was driven.
It can detrimentally impact the
value in fact. So things to
know, manual car owners, you might
want to think about this as well.
We were just talking about this
earlier, you know, we're actually
Nick and I were talking about this
earlier, we're going to talk about
some things coming up, but manual
transmissions are great. But as
all that data becomes available,
if you're not a very good
manual transmission driver, it's
going to be able to log and be
like, hey, this guy doesn't know
how to rev matches downshifts
and he pings the rev limiter all
the time because he doesn't know
how to use the clutch and those
things are going to become more and
more available, which is, I don't
know, I don't know how I feel about
that, how that data being available.
I don't like big brother.
Granny shift in instead of double
clutching. No, yeah, yeah, those
guys, those guys.
I just I didn't I wasn't aware
that I knew that there was way to
track us track things and things
and things like that. But I'm
just coming from an old school
person that, you know, when we
were caught speeding, you were
caught by a radar gun. But now
it seems like there's so much,
like you said, data that's being
collected on you on a minute
by minute basis that it's, you
know, I don't I don't could your
insurance company go back and grab
that? Like if I get a speeding
ticket, do they have access to
that without me allowing them to
have access to that?
So chances are, depending on who
your insurance is, you may already
have granted them access by just
assigning your policy. That's
worth checking. I know that with
all state, for example, that they
have if you've signed up anything
for their drive wise apps, if you
have ever if you ever have a
company that has a drive wise
app or some of whatever version
of an app they have, if you've
allowed them because you want to
discounted rate, they're going to
tell you right on the report,
you were going too fast, you were
going too fast, you break too
hard, you're there monitoring
your driving habits all the time
by checking on that nice fancy
G meter that's in your phone is
going to tell them everything they
need to know along with GPS,
like all that data is in your
phone, it's all available to them
all the time and it won't be
very long, it'll be well
within probably the next few
years that your insurance was
automatically cancel you because
of the data you've allowed them
to collect. I think there'll be
some laws that will probably
come into play either for or
against us, probably against us
because money that will allow
them to collect that data, whether
we want them to or not. This
is a great reason to buy an old
car.
Well, that's the reason I've
stayed away from like the
companies that have like the
little things where they plug
them into the OBT OB two
parts. And I'm with
Geico and they have wanted me
to do a bunch of stuff and I've
always said no and I've paid a
higher rate. But it's I don't
you know, I'm not exactly doing
stupid stuff, you know, in the
truck. I definitely wouldn't do
that if I was giving access
to any other car that I've
owned. Yeah, but that's the
thing though, it's like the OBD
two stuff, it doesn't really
matter anymore. All the same
data can be had in your phone,
especially with connected car
apps. I mean, all that data
would probably be really,
really easy to find, especially
if you've already plugged into
car play, you know, Android
auto, like it's already tracking
your trips. It's like, Hey, I
beat, you know, the fun game we
all like to play it'll take an
hour and 40 minutes to get
there. It only took me an hour
and 25. How did you do that?
Traffic was green. No traffic.
It was downhill and I was in
neutral. That's right. So
totally just I know it's
funny how much this stuff
used to be sound like paranoid
tinfoil hat big brother stuff.
And it's totally true. It's
totally true. Yeah.
So speaking of lying to
customers, it seems that
Corvette is lying to their
customers that they're their new
art zero one has more horsepower
than they're reporting, which
by the way is not unusual car
companies do it all the time.
I think that Corvette
officially is saying it's got
1051 horsepower and
Hennessy put it on it on a
dyno and it was a broken in
car and came up with like
what they say 1150.
So an extra 100 horsepower,
which doesn't surprise me for
stock. Yeah.
Let's see here. And then I
think Hennessy got it for 1150.
So it's still close to 100
more, even with
the law, the 10% loss
to the drivetrain. But this
is not a new thing.
We've seen it in the car
community a ton where something
will be reported. Ironically,
for insurance purposes, the
car doesn't have as much
horsepower as it is coming
from the factory.
You know, we've talked about
a ton. And as
as part of this, you know, when
you look at the new Corvettes,
the new Mustangs, the GTDs,
which by the way, Ford has
delivered more GTDs this year
than Bugatti and Bugatti
and Remac combined, which is
interesting because those are
pretty high end cars and that
that many people are buying
them. We're watching this
horsepower race now in the
United States between Corvette
and the Mustang again, which
is really fun. And I
don't I can't imagine what
the insurance rates are to put
one of those for insurance.
But it's kind of neat to see
this again. I mean, this is
this kind of reminds me of the
late 90s, early 90s, was what
we had with like Camaro
and and Mustang and Corvette.
Yeah. And so, yeah, 1,050
to the wheels on a car rated
for 1,064 at the crank, that's
either the world's most
amazing lack of parasitic,
you know, lots from the
drivetrain or yeah, exactly
like you said, they're sand
begging their numbers, which
great, I guess it explains
why the zero one is so damn
fast at everything. I mean,
we talked about it just the
last episode, it's basically
killing everything. Like nothing
is touching the zero one zero
one X is even out yet. But
other good news from Corvette
which I think is going to
really blow things away is
there's really, really strong
evidence that they're they
are coming out with a grand
sport, which will be a
manual transmission with an
LT six. Now the LT six is
going to be slightly less
horsepower than the zero six.
I think it's supposedly rated
for like 525, but it made
out put down more torque.
But the grand sport has always
been, in my opinion, the best
street Corvette to buy, like
even even compared to my last
zero six, the grants were it
was much more usable and put
down more power you could use.
It had all the bodywork and
all the flair of the zero six,
but it was actually a more
usable car because the lack
of the supercharger you could
use all that power. The zero
six used to just, you know,
waste its rear tires. But I
think it'll be the driver's
car. It won't be as fast
because it's not going to have
to do if it with a manual
because it won't have the DCT
that you can't outshift the
dual-clutch transmission period.
Nobody's that fast period,
but it could be way more fun
to drive.
I mean, and I think a lot of
people realize that the
grand sport hasn't been
around since, you know,
because when they when they
brought out the new Corvette,
it was stingray. It wasn't
they didn't bring up a
grand sport version of that.
And I remember, you know,
like you said, you get all
the looks and I mean,
that's one of the things I
love about a certain grand
sport owner and, you know, his
bright yellow car in this group
and the fact of you get all
the looks and you get a little
less power, but it's more
maintainable. So that'll be
interesting. I'd like to see.
I mean, I got into the weeds
when Dan and I were talking
about this. I was like, is the
interior of that car set up
for a manual? Because with
that whole waterfall, but I
forgot that they changed the
interior. So yeah, for 26,
they removed the waterfall
and it's just it's all the
buttons are physically below
the display. It's a good
move. I like the waterfall.
It was very functional.
So I don't think it was a
poorly designed thing at all.
It's actually really nice to
have at your fingertips. But
the I can see the
natural progression of where
they're going now and why
they did that. It's like, ah,
this all makes sense. This is
why you move the controls.
So now this could open the
door for manual transmissions
and other cars that people
wanted them. I don't think
it'll be necessary. I think
it will make a unique car
though, for sure, a mid
engine manual car. If you
watched, was it the
I was watching throttle house
tested a the guys out of
Canada, they tested the
zero the zero six against
basically everything. And it
it was the new fastest car
for them, even the GT3 RS.
It was the fastest car they
had ever tested, even more
than the BAC mono on their
track was saying a whole
hell of a lot. Yeah, if
you can get a GT3 GT3 RS
on the track, you're
going fast period. They're
going really, really, really
fast. So adding a manual
to the mix man like it
really knocked out of the
park and Corvette's always
been we've always been fans
of Corvette's for what they
are. We've never wanted to
be Corvette owners. It's
always been the argument.
But I'm I'm really
impressed with Chevy and
they keep being impressive.
It's really just a great
bargain of a car. I I
wouldn't look at a zero six
this week, actually, not
to buy just for fun. We
were driving by Chevy
dealership and I was
like, let's go take a
look at one. Shana really
wants a zero one X for
her next car. And so it's
like, let's go look the
interior is going to be
similar. Let's see how to see
how you fit in it. See if
you even like it at all. And
she was shocked at how nice
it was inside how well the
seats fit how well the
interior was laid out. She's
like, man, this is a perfect
cockpit. She just she fell
in love with it immediately
shouldn't want to she hates
Corvette's from the idea
of being a Corvette
can't stand it. We watch
some videos online. And of
course, it's I'm just
going to say the quiet
part out loud. It's always
some big dude who barely
fits in the car who's
like wearing flip flops and
jorts and or, you know, shit
that doesn't fit and just
like, they're shoehorned
in there and that you're just
like, I don't want to be with
this owner's group, but the
car is so good.
Don't forget the three
button shirt with multiple
Corvette symbols and
different colors all around
it. Yeah, right. And the
stereotypes are so
painfully true. Like you
and I have been to the
meat. It's just like, I
don't want this. Where's
my sandwich board? You know,
so you can put up next
to my car so I can say
it's one of three in
this color because nobody
else was stupid enough to
configure this like I
did. Yeah, it's just it's
a sin to be a Corvette
owner. And yet I love them
so much and I will probably
have a third one.
I think there's any anything
better than talking to
somebody about their Corvette
and that has done so much
research in the fact that at
the end of the day and so
many times I've heard people
talk about their cars and I
always love listening to
the specs. But it comes
down to the one thing
where it's like it's the
same. It's the same as the
same, but you don't
understand. It's one of two
made in this color on
this day. It comes down to
the day, which I think
is great. We make fun of
it. Corvette owners make
fun of themselves. So it's
not yes, we're not insulting
anybody here. Like I said,
this is, you know, but and
everybody has a unique car.
And I mean, I love the
Corvette owning owners
community. They're they're
wonderful people just same
with the Mustang community.
Yeah, they're super
knowledgeable. Yeah. So it's
like, you can talk to GT
five owner GT 500 owners
and it's the same thing.
It's like, well, you
know that this convertible
was made on a half day
and so there's always
something, you know, kind of
unique about it. But I mean,
I think it's that the new
Corvette's a neat car. It
always has been since the
thing I came out. So I'd be
interested to see how it
works. And people figured
this out because there's
part lists or something.
How did how did this come
out? Yeah, so what they so
it's been a historically
reliable, very reliable
method of determining that
Corvette is the parts list
for the vehicle comes out
like your repair manual and
the parts catalog comes
out. And so dealers get
ahead of that or it gets
leaked early because it's not
as tightly controlled. And I
think some of this is
Corvette and Chevy
intentionally leaking the
stuff GM is like, let's just
let this out there and watch
and see how the hype goes
because if we let this go
before people start buying
them, we can see how people
react. And then we can
either, you know, change
our change our build
and say, okay, nobody was
really that excited. And we
can just say, nope, that
was never in the plans or
we can be like, oh, yeah,
people really want this
and we can start pumping
these out. And Chevy
being Chevy, they're going
to make a million of these
things like it. So what got
the conversation started
early this week is we were
watching I was watching
bring a trailer. I sent it
to you in the group chat. So
a 2024 zero six with 3,500
miles on it. And a zero
seven spec with, I mean,
carbon fiber wheels,
everything like the guy had
checked every box $180,000
MSRP car, 121,000
trailer still under warranty
barely driven $60,000
loss over a year and a half.
And for me, that's
fantastic because that's
that's a part of the second
owner. That's wonderful.
Yeah, I mean, and then
another one came up.
Zero seven package, almost
the exact same car 70th
anniversary special, you
know, every box check
almost exact same MSRP
119,000 huge losses
for the original owner. So
zero ones have fared quite
a bit better. But for those
of you looking for a quote
unquote bargain, $120,000
is still a buttload of money.
But for that kind of
performance GT3 RS level
performance in a car that is
going to cost you one fifth
to maintain. And it's
already bottoming out. You
could have the deal of the
century. And that's one
causing this. Is that
what's is that what's
causing it?
No, Chevy just makes way
too many cars zero six
isn't the big dog anymore
kind of thing. No, zero ones
always been the big dog.
No, but I'm saying they
didn't always make a they've
made zero ones. But it seems
like they're rolling them
out like zero six was last
year zero one we're going to
zero one X it's like it's
so quickly being rolled out
that our people buying zero
sixes to drive for a couple
of months while they wait
for their zero zero one
when they're zero one X
will come out. So that
obviously we're going to see
a ton of zero sixes and
zero ones on the market
for people that dumped
them.
Well, one this is probably
the most options we've
ever seen for Corvette we've
got the C8 the C8 Z 51
they're basically the same
car I know they're both but
anybody with a Z 51 I'll tell
you they have a Z 51 it's
like because it's got better
suspension and a few other
things. It is a nicer car
then you've got the the
e-ray that they you know
which is also probably a
better car for most people
the zero six which is
the powerhouse the flat
playing crank V8 that
everybody loves that you
hear it once and you're
like yep that's the one I
want. I've got the zero
one coming out and you have
zero one X coming out
and you've got this grand
sport coming out. So you
have essentially six or how
you look at it seven trim
lines and you've got these
cars they're not low number
cars. These aren't you know
they're not building it's
not a GTD where they get
how many like 3000 or
whatever who knows they'll
say they'll say 500 it'll
be 5000 but it'll be like
Corvette's not hiding the
numbers. There's thousands
and thousands and thousands of
these cars. There's also
tons of configuration
options. So you can have
$120,000 specs zero six or
you can have $180,000 spec
zero six. Well, guess what
those custom options aren't
going to aren't going to
lead to big resale numbers
as we've obviously shown.
So with all these options
out there and all these
price points, it's just
not if they're just not
holding the value because
there's just so many of
they're obtainable like
anybody can walk into a
dealership with money and
just buy one and they're
not and they're going to
buy one under MSRP right
now you can get 10,000
off a brand new one if
anybody else is looking
for a zero six for new
for some reason.
Okay, I'll play financial
advice once in my life.
Don't that's really stupid
when your car is worth
20% less the second you
roll out the door buying
cars news, not a great
idea in general, but
especially that.
But I mean, there's just
so many out there.
And Pete and as we've
said before, these cars
are expensive, really
expensive. There's not
a lot of buyers out there
who can be like, yeah,
I'm going to go buy a
$150,000 Corvette or
$150,000 anything for
that matter where we are.
We see a lot, but
even down here, I've seen
a couple. I've seen no
rights. I've seen no
Porsches. I've seen no
Lamborghinis, no Ferrari's.
They exist here, but they're
really rare. These cars
Northwest listeners, I think
just don't get it because
there's so many in a
VOTS. There's so many in
the Pacific Northwest because
there's so much tech money
there. There's so much in
California. There's so much
in Scottsdale.
These are like little
dots across the country
though. There's so many
people who just can't afford
these cars. And so they're
just sitting on lots.
The COVID pricing, I mean,
it's not sustainable. It never
was. And now we're seeing
even more of that. Cars
cars are really expensive now
and people aren't making as
much as they. We haven't
caught up with inflation.
Inflation has come down
quite a bit, but we're
still not. I mean, 200, if
you're making $200,000 a
year like with this one
perspective, you're making
a shitload of money. You
still don't make enough to
go out and buy a $150,000
car. And so you spent your
money well, but that's
insane. It's just
not an afford a house. I
mean, maybe you don't have
kids and you have no
responsibilities. I could
spend your money, but I'm
telling you, I will tell
you, I don't think that's a
very smart investment.
Also, as I'm just looking
at this and kind of getting
myself updated on the new
Grand Sport, it looks like
GM is already deleting stuff
off the off the book that
they took off the LS6
already.
Yeah. And I said part of
me thinks this is a big
company with big budgets
and people that are really
smart in marketing. I still
think this was a very sly
intentional drop from GM
to be like, uh-huh, you
know, yeah, people want
we'll have to see what comes
out at the end. But I think
it's I think you're right.
I think that stuff dropped
and then people went, oh, we
want this. We don't want
that. And all of a sudden
the engine is not there.
Will it be back? Who knows?
Yeah. But I mean, Tremac
was the big one. That
Tremac was the first
the first leak. Tremac
being the famous
manufacturer of really great
transmissions for tons of cars.
They dropped the fact that
they now had a manual
transmission that mates up to
the GM platform. So
who knows? I hope I would
love to see a manual for that
again. That would be a really
cool twist because there are
no manual mid-engine cars,
not one not a single manual
mid-engine car in the market
exists. There's well, let
me take that back. There are
no American cars.
The Lotus Amira
is I think the only car
that exists in a manual
that in a mid-engine
configuration.
There will never be a prettier
setup than the
Spiker. Yeah. Speaking
of manual mid-engine, but
yeah. Beautiful manual.
Yeah. Yeah.
Anyway. More manual cars,
please. That's what we want.
I mean, yeah. Hashtag
save the manuals. That's
what the shirts say.
So you have to see it.
Yeah. It's almost a brand
new year. Who knows what
we're going to get?
Obviously, coming into the
new year, we're going to
see a lot of stuff that's
going to be coming out.
You know, a lot of things
will be coming out of their
camo, a lot of the Italian
cars. I mean, Ferrari's
dropping cars like they're
having triplets every day.
So who knows what's next
coming out of them?
I will be honest, I'm not a
hundred percent a fan of some
of the new stuff, like the
new Testerosa's not really
doesn't take on my fancy.
The 296 speciale really
I like. Obviously, it's
easy to like when you have
nowhere near the money to
even look at it.
But yeah, I think
that this next year is
going to be a pretty, I
think we're going to see
some toss-ups in the
world. Obviously, a lot of
the electric electric stuff
is kind of going away.
Ford is if you don't know
it, like we said last time,
the lightning is gone, but
they are sticking with car
play, even though nobody else
is, which is interesting.
Thanks for it.
Thanks for it.
I mean, if Ford liked to
get rid of that, again, I
have complained if they
want to get rid of their
lane assist or change that,
I'm fine with that.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, I so I'm going
to backtrack on something I
said a while back, because
I was thinking about this
more about the car play
thing. So I think this
when I think is a wrong
move for car manufacturers
to do this, it's one of
those things that if they
all get on board with each
other and say, we're all
dropping it, this is good
for the consumer.
It's not good for the
convenience. It's good for
the consumer in the long
term, because Apple
notoriously charges a
buttload to use their
apps to car play
licensing. That cost is
too high. Cars are already
too expensive. If everybody
drops it, the car play
market isn't going to go
away. What's going to
happen is the car play
market will adjust. Apple
has the ability to adjust
as they have the money. It's
not going to kill Apple. But
if nobody's got you installing
car play in their cars, Apple
is going to have a serious
problem on its hands, like a
real real problem. If it is
a specialized thing to the
point of it could cripple
an entire part of Apple, at
least temporarily. So if it
takes the income, our
inconvenience for a couple
of years for all
manufacturers to say,
screw you Apple, get
your prices down, because
we're not going to pay
your, you know, your fee
than good. I want to see
that market become cheaper.
It won't. It's not going to
kill Apple. It'll just end up
better for us in the long
run. And like I said, Apple
notoriously takes way too
much for their ads. It's not
a secret. They have a really
nice platform. Obviously, we're
running iPhones here. I've
got tons of Apple stuff. I
think you're great. But, you
know, they've gotten a little
greedy to say the least. They
have been greedy for a very
long time. So it's nice to
get an example of this was
Bluetooth. Bluetooth was out
there and it was a stupid
expensive when it came
out and exactly. Yeah.
Now you can get it in
a dongle. Yeah. Now Bluetooth
dongles are three to four
dollars. Yeah. You just be
dongle like they are throw
away money. And that's kind
of the idea is like this
things are just getting too
expensive is what I'm getting
at. And this is a good way
to keep the cost down.
It's funny. Our good friends
at Griots have been doing
some great publicity
marketing videos with some
of their people walking around
the office and stuff like
that. And one of their their
high ups was they're like,
what would you like to see
changed? And I'm seeing it
in the community. She's
like, I want to see more
buttons, more dongles, more
not dongles, more switches,
things like that. Yes. I love
that. I love that. And I hope
car manufacturers we beat on
this subject. But I hope
that's something we're going
to see a lot more of in in
the coming years.
You and me both tactile
buttons. Screens are great.
But you know, I was talking
to somebody in a parking lot
here at Safeways had a
Bronco and he was talking
one of the things he loves
about. I was trying to get
into joint events, which I
think he's going to was the
fact that he loves the fact
that there's still a button on
the dashboard and with his
lockers and things like
that. So a pushable button.
Yep. Very positive
engagement buttons. Yeah.
Yeah, I think people are
going to that. I think the
screen thing has been a fad
for a very long time. It's
not going to age well, like
any screen in any car. If
you've looked at any any
cars that came out with
screens 20 years ago, they
were pretty awful. And then
of course, Ford ran with
those old haptic feedback
screens up until like 2021.
Like those screens are trash.
They're terrible to use.
These screens are not they're
going to be the same way.
Speaking of Oh, well, he has a
shelf life. They're going to
be extremely expensive to
replace. They're going to be
yeah, I'm that's going to
be a nasty market that the
Chinese are going to own
look how long Ford hung onto
the actual like physical
gauges in the in the trucks
like the actual. I mean, I
love the digital dashes. I
think that's put the money
into the digital dash and
think I'm fine with that.
But and I and I'm having a
screen for radio stuff like
that. But my heating
controls, my off road
controls, whatever you want to
call it. The Corvette, we
were talking about the
waterfall being gone. I mean,
physical buttons will
everybody still wants that
like you know, you don't
know how many times you've
been in the car and you've
hit something on your screen
you're like, did that
actually work? Did I turn on
my heat? Did I? Yeah,
yeah. Exactly. Have you been
following any of the stuff out
of China for the market they
have there? We talked about
this a little bit last
episode about the cars, the
cars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That electric electric
gate. Well, mwkb or
whatever that he has one of
those Chinese Teslas as I
was calling it. It was
pretty good. Yeah. Him. Yeah.
Is Yami or Yami? I'm
never going to say it.
The cell phone company that's
making cars and doing a
really good job at it.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm
curious to see if American
manufacturers are going to
catch up in the next couple
years. Like I said, Ford
dropped it entirely. But I
have hoping my hope is that
they will take some of that
technology, especially for
the 2026 year. So what are
you looking forward to most
in 2026? That's not mine
but less debt. No. I you
know, I don't know. I
think you and I are very
rarely surprised by anything
because we spend so much time
trying to do, you know, for
this, the Corvette thing that
kind of that gets my blood
pumping. I'm looking for I'd
like to see some of this
stuff come through. They've
been talking about with
Trump's new talks about
having some smaller cars,
like some of the really
small little commuter cars,
the the K trucks. Give me
a Jimmy. Huh? Give me a
Jimmy. Absolutely. Absolutely.
I think I'm kind of
interested by that. I
think that's I'm in a
situation, I think in my
life where I want to have my
cake and eat it too. And I
would love to have like a
little commuter car. Like
the Raptor is great. And I
love it. But was it the
best choice for a daily
driver? No, I don't leave
the house a lot, but
still. But I would I'd
like to see that I'd like
to see some announcements
where I think that they
can take a lot of cars
from Europe and maybe make
that, you know, do some
crash testing and get them
over here. The Jimmy's
a perfect example. You
know, I was a big fan
of the Fiat 500 when
they introduced it. I
thought it was a really
cool brand and especially with
the Abarth and things
like that. I mean, it
works. I remember when they
introduced the smart cars
here and everybody was
parking them nose into the
curves because you didn't
have to parallel park
them. Things like that.
Yeah, that's funny. How
about you? For me, it's
the zero one X probably
just seeing that and
seeing what that does
to the just for the
numbers. It's one of those
things I don't hypercars
don't do it for me. I
think they're they're
cool for what they are
they're art more than
their vehicles to me,
but I have no interest
in owning one or
driving one extensively
except for the fact that
I want to appreciate the
craftsmanship that it
took to create it. Other
than that, I'm like, I
don't really I'm one of
those weird ones. I'm
like, I see a Pagani and
I'm like, okay, cool,
whatever. I don't get a
crap. They haven't
changed their design and
how many years and
it's just kind of a
status symbol more than
a car. That's not why
I own them. I'm curious
to see because of the
price point, a car, if
they can get a sub
$300,000 car that's
going to basically break
every lap record on
the planet. So they're
almost already doing with
the zero six anyway,
but just took zero one,
excuse me, it's taking
eight lap records. I'm
really curious to see
what the zero one X
will do with that next one.
And then the new
if that's going to mix
things up and the fact
that people are going to
go, why would I pay $500,000
for a Ferrari or a Porsche
when I can get this?
Yeah, I think
the same thing that has
always fought or has
sort of ruined the
Corvette brand is the
same thing that sort of
pushed back on the GTR
ownership isn't owning
both is that you still
have to go to a Chevy
dealer, you still have
to go to a Nissan
dealer and you get treated
like a Nissan customer and
a Chevrolet customer, even
if you pull in with a zero
one X. And if you have a
Porsche, for example, like
when I have a turbo s, you
walk in there, it's a very
different experience.
Even if you have a Cayman
or a Boxster or if you
have a like I did the
turbo s, like they pay
extra attention to you.
I don't mean me over
the other guy. I'm
saying it's a nicer
experience overall. The
dealerships are nicer.
It's a more premium
brand. It's a more premium
feel. You don't feel like
you're getting shoved
into the quick loop
lane with some kid who's
18 years old who finally
got his first job at a
dealership and no offense
to them good for them.
But like I don't want them
touching my $280,000
Corvette. I don't want them
touching my, you know, turbo
s. That's not what I want.
I want a little more hands
on. I want a little more
responsibility from the
dealership. And I didn't
get that at any Nissan
dealership at any
Chevrolet dealership.
In fact, I had my problems
with both, but I did it
Porsche and that's until
they can figure out that
which we've talked about.
No, I'm right because I've
talked to other owners.
This is the big problem
with these dealerships.
There is no, you're just
Joe Schmo who bought his
work truck in. Those
aren't the same experiences
and those require different
levels of attention
because the risk, the cost
of the mistake goes so much
higher. You get somebody
who doesn't know how to
handle carbon ceramic brakes,
for example, which is a
big deal even on like the
C seven, you get somebody
who, you know, just
doesn't know their way or
doesn't take as much time
to very cleanly reinstall
that faster under your car.
So they strip out the part
where the bolt goes in for
the underbody tray for a car
like that on a regular car
that could be a simple $5
to $10 mistake on a car
with a full carbon fiber
under tray and especially
pressed and fitting that
could be a $20,000 mistake
plus the ding on ding
on the repair on your vehicle
on your ownership record,
then you're calling your
lawyer for diminished value.
Those things are real problems.
Chevy GM, I should
say, Nissan, they
haven't figured this out
and it sucks because
they should they make amazing
cars, but it's it's not
a transfer that
doesn't translate well, I
should say to the customers.
You're still just to do it
with the GM.
You're still just to do with
the Chevy and that's
yeah, I was going to say
beyond that, you've got the
new the new Lexus
or Toyota, excuse me, the
500 and you've got Mazda
potentially coming out
with another rotary car.
As much as I think the
rotary is a terrible engine
for a car, I'm still
excited to see it.
I always want to be wrong
in these things.
I want to see something
unique and cool come out
and do well in the market.
Always I don't care what it
is or if it doesn't align
with what I want to buy.
I still want to see it.
I still love innovation.
I love seeing things
go out of the norm.
So hope they both do well.
One thing that I had several
questions about and we
haven't touched on just
because it's kind of it's
an ongoing thing is this
issue between the Hamilton
collection and Koenigsegg
and Christian von Koenigsegg.
And it has gotten worse
if you don't know if you
check it out.
Hamilton collection.
He has amazing cars.
He's had many Koenigseggs.
He had a yes go on order.
He had a
reguera that has had nothing
but problems.
He voiced those concerns.
Christian von Koenigsegg got
on. I mean, it's been
an interesting thing.
He got his reguera fixed
at the same day his
Jesko came in.
They both broke down
within like five minutes.
The Jesko came off the
plane. It broke down.
Reguera.
I'm interested just, you
know, not a lot of people
we know this because we've seen
it. When you're a hypercar
owner, you're really not
allowed to bitch and complain
about things about these
hypercars. And a lot goes
wrong. Pagani's, Ferrari's,
Koenigsegg. These cars have
a lot of issues because
they're there's not mass
produced. Now Koenigsegg, I
think, is has less issues
because Christian von Koenigsegg
is he's a meticulous.
But there's a reason why a
lot of these cars don't get
driven. And people go, well,
they're going to do in
value. It's true.
But also things break and
they in its very costly to
fix them. And sometimes you
have to ship them back.
Bugatti is the same way.
I'm interested to see how
this works. I'm hoping this
changes. I think the two
people involved with this
Christian von Koenigsegg and
the Hamilton collection are
both very intellectual people.
And I think they will come
to an agreement. And I
think the car community will
be better for it. It's sort
of a he said she said
mean girls thing right now.
But I'm interested to see
how this kind of plays out.
And I'm hoping it will be
better for the car community
and we will see better.
I know it sounds stupid.
I'd like to see these rich
bastards be able to drive their
cars. How's that?
I like people who I love
anybody who drives their car.
I don't care how they get their
money. I just like seeing the
cars get driven.
And so this is this is Steve
Hamilton.
Steve Hamilton. I don't know.
I don't know much about him
except for he owns that wheel
company. Yeah.
Well, there's a bunch of
subsidiaries underneath that
and he's and he has come
from nothing and created that.
So yeah, I like the fact
that his channel, all the
money goes back to it
helping kids and things like
that they don't make money
off the channel allegedly.
I don't I have, you know, but
he shares his he shares his
cars with the community and
he's he's the guys that a lot
of like a lot of people around
here at Exotics, you know,
they're letting kids sit in
their cars and stuff like that
and sharing that experience,
which I like.
I like that that people are
doing that.
Yeah, see, I know I know he
didn't come from money.
There's a there's a story I
remember reading my head about
how like his first job was
at McDonald's at 14.
Like the dude is not a, you
know, and no shame if you got
your money from your parents,
they set you up great.
I don't care.
But this it's nice to see
somebody who actually came up
through the ranks and we all
love seeing the underdog went.
So good for him.
I'm I am disappointed that from
that from Koenigsegg,
you know, just being a fan of
Christian and his cars.
I hope they like you said, I
hope they get there be figured
out.
Anyway, I think I think a lot
of the issues with the Riger
have been solved with the
Yesco, but of all people to
deliver a car to and then
have an issue like moments
later, that's, you know,
it's you're getting into it
and it's it's not loss.
It's and stuff like that.
But it is a I will give them
this. If you don't know what
Christian von Koenigsegg looked
like, he looks like a white
Thanos and they took a picture
of him and turned him into
Thanos, which was really,
I think genius.
Well, that's funny.
It's so true.
But I'm hoping to see that
this will this will.
He's willing to speak up and
it's interesting because a lot
of other people that are owners
and of the Koenigseggs and
things like that are speaking
up through him because they're
still a little afraid of
repercussions, which this is
a thing. Like, I mean, you know,
Ferrari used to be that way.
You didn't. You didn't.
That's why Lamborghini exists.
We talk about it all the time
and the fact that Friduccio
Lamborghini told Enzo Ferrari
he didn't like his cars.
And he said, you know, go make
tractors. So.
You're not not really
allowed to.
How do I want to say this?
You're not allowed to condemn
the person you're buying the car
from, I guess.
Yeah, which is I don't know.
I've always been critical of the
cars I've owned, which is not
because I dislike them.
It's just it's
not how I say it.
You need to be vocal about those
things so they can improve them.
Yes, I'm not like I've had
problems with.
I think let's see.
I don't think of a car I've owned
that didn't give me any issues.
I don't think I've had any.
My C6 had the transmission
replaced under warranty for a
first second year Syncro,
which they took care of
really well. It took.
Two months because the
transmission was on backorder
and then they upordered to
a newer transmission from a
newer C6 or ZR1
actually, which is the better
transmission.
So that was a win for my favor.
I had the brake pad sensors
fail on my C.
You had that that front cooler
on the C7.
Yeah, it took a stone.
So I don't I don't fault Corvette
for that. I had a took a stone
to a what was it?
It wasn't it was a cooler, but
it wasn't for it wasn't for
it wasn't a radiator.
So I meant to say I think it
was the the air exchanger
for the supercharger cool.
OK, I can't remember which one
it was, but I had a really small
leak from that, but I had break
by a faulty brake pad sensor
on the C7 zero six and they
replaced both of the front ones
and the pads automatically
like they just put brand new ones
on there Chevy to get separate
that my Turbo S was in the shop
for a transmission control unit
failure that caused me to
put me into limp mode once
and left me stranded three times.
They eventually replaced basically
entire everything in the car.
Porsche took care of that as best
they could, but that was still a
major major problem with that car.
My C63 was an absolute nightmare.
That was the worst car I've ever owned,
but that was an issue.
I think it was more of an insurance
issue with the turbo with
your dad. Well, yeah, that was I got
it. Yeah, I had a stone or
something lodged between the rotor
and the caliper and destroy one
of the front rotors on the
on the 911 Turbo S.
That was that was bad.
That was it.
That was a almost $14,000
warranty repair and not warranty
but insurance claim.
I had to use it ended up being
a comprehensive claim.
Thank God it was COVID because
they refused to send anybody out
and just basically signed on the
dotted line. Yep.
Take care of it.
Talk to the dealer dealer said
something got caught in there and
blew your rotor out.
So they were like, yep, go for it.
Thank God it was COVID because
that would have been a nightmare
to just deal with.
I would probably would have to
get a lawyer.
I think
my actually I take that back.
My 2020 50 Raptor never
went in for a warranty repair
of any kind.
Never once.
Your newest one.
You got a tailgate.
Yeah, newest one had
the tailgate was possessed
and decided to open and close on
its own while driving several
times because it got water in
the rear harness because they
forgot to
put dielectric grease in the
rear harness.
But it also had a known failure
recall for the handle getting
water ingestion in there and
then ruining the power tailgate
release.
So it ended up being two issues
but ended up being a new rear
harness and then a new handle
a new rear camera.
But that was a pain in the
butt because I was doing repairs
on the house.
My GMC
had a battery issue that
killed two batteries a tailgate
that dropped on its own while
driving the carplay never
would connect.
It would intermittently click
then it just stopped working
entirely even after a full
reset.
I think there's something else
I can earn with that thing.
That thing was a piece of shit.
I was so glad I got rid of
that thing.
Hated that truck.
There's going to be stuff all
the time.
I'm just saying, yeah, like no
matter what cars I've had,
they've all had issues.
It's just and you need to talk
about those things because like
the F 150 thing
came into like that actually
triggered a recall
for the truck.
I wasn't the only one but it
was because a bunch of owners
like me were speaking up
saying, hey, go fix my shit.
And they finally did introduce
a recall for the rear
handle and the rear wiring.
So like the fact that you
can't talk about these things
is stupid.
Especially if you pay that
much for your car.
You should be loud about these
things, not angry,
tactful saying, hey, this
happened to me.
And other owners would say,
yes, this also happened to me
so that manufacturers
can go back and make upgrades
to the dot two facelift version.
They should have all these
things fixed from the factory.
Like it's stupid.
They can't say it.
Look, look at what Brian
Dallas and everybody else
has gone through with the
Recaro seats in the Ranger
Raptor.
Everybody's having to get
them received because,
you know, somebody at
the Recaro factory
decided to have a bad dick.
Yeah, because yeah,
we talked about Recaro
go almost going bankrupt.
I think they got saved.
But like, and oh, man,
I got so much heat for saying
that somebody posted an article
on Facebook and I had comments
that was like, well, yeah,
Recaro's quality has gone
to shit over the last five years.
Like I've had so many years.
My Gen two Raptor had
was starting to get that wear
on the seats like you guys got.
I never fought with it
because it was at like 45,000
miles and I'm like, well,
I've been sitting in this
seat far more than most people
for so many miles.
And so I was like,
that's just it seemed like
more normal wear and tear
for me, but still not
the quality I would expect
for Recaro for saying
you have a Recaro seat
you expect a lot higher
standard out of a seat.
And I was like, no,
Recaro is the same company
that's making airplane seats,
child seats and sub quality
interior car seats.
They're aftermarket stuff.
Like if you buy a Recaro seat
and put it in like your older
car, those are super nice.
The factory installed Recaros.
It's like you guys have
basically just sold your name
off and had, you know.
Yeah, they did the exact
rubber stamp your name on it
and send it on down the road,
like which I also accused
AEV of doing.
That was the other thing.
That's AEV I've accused
and openly accused of doing
the same thing.
They've stamped their name
on things.
AEV makes really nice stuff,
but their lack of support
for that really nice stuff
is really annoying.
And I expect more from a company
that has such a high.
They made their name
by building one off trucks.
You know, where you'd bring
a truck to them and then they
would, but when they partnered
with people and had to mass
produce things that didn't work,
you know, the quality went down.
Yeah, because they weren't
doing the quality in-house
at AEV.
They were putting their name
on things and then having GM
install it, which.
Anyway, boy, we could turn this
into a much longer episode.
We've already been in it.
Stand up for your rights.
Yeah, never, never, never
always complain, but complain nice.
You know, obviously more honey
than vinegar with bees or
something like that.
I don't know.
Everybody gets stunk.
Who knows?
To shit.
Well, I mean, this is the last.
Well, this, well, I guess
last week was the last episode
of 2025, but this will come
out.
This is our our little bit
of a fun 2026 looking ahead.
So should be an interesting year.
It should be a good year ahead.
I think at least in the car industry
said it's a golden time.
If you are golden time to be
a car owner, we're still living
in the golden age of cars with
more horsepower and more performance
than ever.
So enjoy it and turn off the data
sharing and go play
with your cars.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, let's wrap it up for this
episode of the Vance podcast
as always.
I'm Nick and I'm Dan
and don't just get there.
Enjoy the drive.
About this episode
Dan and Nicholas discuss the challenges and lifestyle considerations of living in a tourist-driven town like Hurricane, Utah, weighing the pros and cons of moving to warmer, more convenient places like Arizona. They touch on the impact of rapid growth, limited local services, and the appeal of outdoor activities. The conversation shifts to the story of Ryan, a former Canadian snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, whose rare car collection and money laundering schemes recently made headlines. The episode blends personal reflections on living environments with intriguing automotive crime news.
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