What is ReDriven all about?

Does professional idiot. Drive.

Good night, how are you? Good, good.

Thanks for agreeing to be interrogated by us and join in, on the, on the shenanigans that is car talk.

I'm honored to be invited. I can't believe I've been

invited to do it so yeah. How could I not say?

Yes. No they it's it's an honor to

have you on. So thanks again for agreeing to

say, yes, thank you. So, normally we on our regulars

in the show would know that we would get into like a normal car up. There's at this point, but we're

going to Because obviously, you're a special guest on the show, we will just talk about you and a bit about your, you know, your industry experience. And, and we've come from to

where, to where you've got now and everything with, with, with three driven and, and the like, so yeah.

So, thanks again for agreeing to come on.

I know is got an Adder ready to interrogate the crap out of you now. Getting.

No, please please. It's like it's like me when I go

to any airport I always get randomly selected but yeah I yeah identified an airport spinning like a list of questions to ask. Well yeah, we get straight into

it. I like to.

Like, if you tell me how I could like a bit of a different guess and guess it's in the industry. I like to take you up with like,

first of all, just some some warm-up questions of like, some some quick drove, like what would you rather?

I gotta send cars and things that just To get your kind of like a kind of taste, so that of of your understanding of what you like in general cars, and MCL boys can be either like you and I we get this guy off the screen.

Always always. All right?

We'll get straight into it. I would you prefer an either-or

WRX? Wow.

God, it's hot. It's a holiday Isis.

This is a deep end. I've been fortunate enough to

own both. I currently own.

WRX. It doesn't get driven it.

So I bought it as an investment and I would rather neither right. I need 05 of the amazing.

Yeah, he broke five, ya dice, good choice.

Yeah Edward recently had an EVO 6 which he, which he sold that I probably talking of investment. I probably should have kept that

because it's worth a lot more now than when I sold it, which we are not that long ago, maybe two years, maybe, yeah, it's amazing. I've just blown up.

It's incredible. Hmm.

Yeah, Kari takes is just bullshit at this point, isn't it? No, it's not.

So you've got a wi. So, what model wxia?

Oh, yeah. I've got it.

I've got a 99, and it's, and it's only just done, a hundred thousand case, and it's in absolute Mint Condition.

I actually bought, I bought the wheels for it first, so I found on a rally, a UK rally Forum site, the actual wheels off, Colin mcrae's, not the actual that Colin McRae had, but the Speed Line type 2 You could arrange that we're on the 95 or championship-winning Carpenter micro these and they had never been opened and II earlier like six months earlier, at emailed Speedline to go. Hey, can I can I buy these these

wheels and is like that at that time weren't making them.

And but they had the molds and they're like, we can remake them for you, but the price they quoted Roots, like astronomical.

And then these other ones popped up.

And I've just got to have the wheel.

So I bought the wheels and then I thought, well, I probably need a car for these wheels, and then, and it took I bought it from a 40th for myself and it took well over a year to find the right one. So yeah.

Had to be white, had to be 99, had to have like no more than 120,000 case on it. And, and it's fantastic.

And it was driving it, and then just was very driven in life.

I just hadn't driven now. It's unregistered, it's also got

the same. Number plates is Colin, mcrae's

winning rally car, the N1 WIC plates, that's yeah.

And and yeah, I'm actually yeah, what?

I'm getting to a point We're getting from point was very driven way. I might be selling it to pay for

more red ribbon so on. Yeah, so yeah but it is it's

it's sunny but yeah I'm sure like I said I didn't pay very much for it and now the crisis of crazy.

So I'm so wrapped I've held onto it.

This is good. Yeah is this wrong that you

reviewed on your Gary group? Yeah yeah that's the car.

Yeah yeah so and it's just it's me that's it.

It's down in the car park I live in an apartment.

Stand in the car park, under a cover and I honestly haven't taken that cover off. It should be over a year.

Well, yeah, it's a stunning example.

Like, for the guys who, if you haven't seen on his channel.

It's a, it's a beautiful example.

Watch that episode now. Yeah, yeah.

I find those early one. Those early episodes incredibly

embarrassing to watch. Like, I cringe, it's horrible,

we still creams listing back to this so that's every day.

Like, every time I am sitting here editing.

I'm like, God, you idiot. How many episodes Have You Done

Adam of Regents? I think in total way over 200

videos now we do no less than two a week and that's just trying to play the algorithm game and we're going to be doing, we've been experimenting with videos called this versus that so we'll take, you know, the one that's coming up.

Will the new Honda Civic Type R but for the same money, what can you buy a used market? So you can buy, you can buy an

M3 or A C63 for the same price as a part.

So and when we throw it to you guys doing you know what would you buy between these two? So and they've had a really good

response those videos. So I think we're going to start

doing more this versus that as well as our top 5 videos and our normal review videos and we all do that, you know?

Like you'll hear of a friend buying a car for thirty thousand dollars and you go, wow, they spend 30 grand on that.

And then you like start that process of what could you buy for thirty thousand dollars. And it's amazing when you Kind

of sniff around to be, you know, being copy people and knowing these things that have come out over the last five, ten years if you just go that bit older. Well, you know, and honestly,

yeah forgotten about there's things.

You just wouldn't even pull out of the woodwork normally that suddenly crop up and you're like, well, I'd much rather that than that. Yeah, absolutely 100%.

It's funny because I think when we first came up with that concept was before covid, hit and back, then you could get some absolute Bargains for is these days.

We've had this verse that. Our ideas and like, our well,

everything is 200,000. So it's yeah, it's harder.

But I also like that with any budget, you know?

Like it when it's someone comes to me and said, I've got five grand to spend on a car, you know, open slather.

Really fun going well, hey, you know, yeah, oh, Yoda Volvo Mercedes. Like, there's a whole raft.

Yeah, we just read. Literally, tonight was the final

episode. We just did a top-five first

cars under $5000. We did small cars medium to

Cause small issue these medium to large SUV's and then find cars was tonight, but it was really hard now like 45 Grand.

Yeah, you've really got to go hunting.

You've really, it's a tough one, but there are Bargains out there. I think everyone, everyone goes

straight to the typical classifies but if you go hunting in Regional areas that wholesalers and auctions you can pick up some amazing deals. No I remember like be over 10

years ago now but when my brother started driving He was looking for his first car. You had five grand to spend and

we found a gen3 liberty RX manual.

Sunroof really nice car. Yeah.

That was a lot of car for flight for the money for five.

Yeah. Like I'm like, can this is a

cool car for five grand, you know?

And yeah, exactly, you can't get anything good that like like that these days and no. Yeah, and if that would even

without wasn't that much of an old car back then, it's those two drove, really nicely. And yeah, but now it's just

here, crazy where they were new. And I always had that I can't,

you know, Really buying a 40,000 dollar cars.

Just got a few years in case on it, but the engineering and the features and everything you're buying, you know, the car.

That was a lot of money, you like your 260 emac.

You know. That's a, that's an eighty five

thousand dollar car back in the day.

Yeah. Right.

It's old and whatever, but the engineering, the Tintin, it is very, very good. And that's sort of forget that

kind of the same. Yeah, I think, I think we're one

thing that we've really noticed and just through the research is there are these cars that can seem like that Bargains and then you start looking into what can or commonly goes wrong and all of a sudden you're like oh my God I'm in bit of the classic example. I had a friend of mine who works

in the trade and he put was it this is many years ago.

He had a trading come in of the what's up.

What's the is the SL Cooper the S-Class but it's a two-door coupe but then the AMG v12 one. They traded it for but oldest

and dearest friends. And that was one of the first

Cause it had carbon ceramic brakes.

So if you need to do your brake pads, you also have to do the rotors. But the parts alone are about

40,000 dollars for then, the way that cars ABS works, the ABS sensors are within the Hub, but then they have to be recalibrated. But the only people that can do

that are Ang. So then you have to pee and G

rates for them to calibrate the car online, which is like an astronomical amount of money. So to do the brakes as like a

fifty thousand dollar job. Job.

And that's why the car is now, eleven thousand dollars.

So it's unfortunately, from one of the reasons that we driven exists is we hear of these stories of like guys that are 20 years old going. Oh my God, I can buy a

half-million-dollar, Mercedes 4222 10 grand, 15 grand and then suddenly go, hang on a sec. I can't afford 50,000 dollar

breaks, so it's, yeah, it's they become an economical right off and we've had this discussion before in the old days, it was very easy to sort of walk up to a car and know that it was stuffed, you know, the paint's faded.

There's yes showing you know this bold ties, it's very visual nowadays, it's all electronic, it's all things like that and and Visually cars hold up very well General, so it's very easy to sort of go to the auctions. Get carried away with something

like that but it did their economical write-offs yeah, 100% 100%. Yeah, that was that was the

Catalyst honestly to read driven.

It was, was I remember according to Jim one afternoon, Jim is normally super charismatic. Dirk hilarious guy.

He was really down really flat and like it, right?

It's and he's just like the greens.

V12? No, no, no he said I had a

really rough day. A young guy came in he's like 18

years old. Apprentice, he saved up a little

bit of a deposit, got a bank loan for his dream car, which he did a whole bunch of research on like you went with looked at all the new car reviews and he bought a secondhand Volkswagen Touareg Volkswagen amarok. Stop at Volkswagen.

Yeah, that's the problem right there.

What's really sad? He said this kid, he's probably

25 granted by the amarok. He has it for a few weeks but it

private style. It was a four cylinder one

anyway, blows the engine up and the gearbox goes with it.

So it's about a 25 thousand dollar repair bill.

So now here's this kid, 18 years old, he loses his apprenticeship, as you know, it doesn't have a car.

So he's fifty thousand dollars in debt.

Even if If you can find the other 25 Grand to fix, the amarok is not is not going to get 50 grand for it.

He's only going to get maybe 20 grand for it.

So he's starting adult life, fifty thousand dollars in the hole and he did what he thought was, right, was research the car and obviously when they're new and have a warranty, they are an exceptionally great thing. But then when it goes, bang, it

cost a fortune. And then Jim told me, he's like,

that's the third amarok we've had in the last month.

Do the same exact thing, and it's like any.

And as Jim said, he's like, why is it why is no one taking Telling the public is stops and that, and that was the one of the there are a few Catalyst moments.

But that was one of the big Catalyst to go.

Yeah, we need to educate the public to go.

Luke. Yeah.

And might be awesome when you, and I might have a great warranty and the marketing behind, it might be fantastic, but when they used, shit, can go wrong.

So, yeah, and often they are. Yeah, we've had, we've had

plenty of examples on this show of Volkswagens.

My pet hate with a couple of good friends with Golf GTI is exactly the same thing. You know, just the kid down, the

road recently had One. It went bang in a spectacular

way about a year ago and then when they put a motor in it and then it went bang a year later. I'll just said that's it.

And he was quoted, another seven and a half to put it right?

This time and I said yeah I said walk away literally just helped him. Buy them as 26 hatch on Sunday

afternoon and you know, one donorperfect nothing's ever gone on longer that nothing. Nothing will go wrong with it,

even if no 180k on the clock and I was just like, I'm totally sleeping at night very well, knowing that you're in that guy.

Oh yeah. Not yet, 100% 100%.

It's actually good that you do you do as well.

One thing I want to talk to you about because it's actually a good thing that you're informing the public you know should you buy this car? Absolutely not.

Yeah unless you got Deep Pockets, don't nobody but if you but other ones you like yeah absolutely.

Yeah. It's a they work they're cheap

to fix, go for it, you know. Yeah.

Yeah approval and and it's quite often, not many people look at, you know, cars in the end. You know, if you used an

attractor, I work with a lady. He's got a VW Tiguan, I'm not

picking on VW tonight, but basically, I know I do, she bought a brand-new in 2017 and it's just, it's had that many issues with it and she, hey, she physically hates the car.

So they got first and third year, so it's it's, um, like a million RPM on the wall. It's just that the day is just

mounted on it. Yeah, anyway, I'm like dude you

need another car like the VW didn't want to really want to help her out and stuff. So I'm like, what do you go by?

She's and she's like, well, I like the new one.

I'm like, dude, aren't just dare do it.

Don't do it yourself, you know, B.

If you want to see by like, you know, something that'll be a bit more reliable. Yeah like you said if they're

under warranty and I've said that to people who want anything Volkswagen Audi group product. I say if you love it and it's

under warranty, I could find I can't stop you go nuts but sell it before the warranty expires you know bottom sent.

Yeah. And like it's like we we've got

a golf our video coming up in a few weeks that we've shot.

And it's one of my closest friends cars and that might be the ultimate car. Like I like I like the time I

had with it, I've driven it a bunch of times and driven golfers loads of times and they just phenomenal, they do Drive brilliantly. They look great, they do

everything right? And you as you said like it's

just that as soon as you start getting to that warranty area.

Yeah. Yeah.

And you in saying that there are also a bunch of owners out there that have never had a problem with some that the faultless and that's fine. Fine.

But it's just the risk factor is just a little too high.

Yeah. It's and also people falling for

the marketing and stuff and it's not just in this, not just in cars, it's in everything in life but it's amazing.

I think with the car because it is for most people that is the second largest financial commitment going to make the site next to our house when you buy a certain brand and we learned this the hard way with a recent Alfa Romeo video, I'm that you have some real passionate fans which is what we love passionate. Fans of particular Brands but

there is sometimes this point where it's like, you know, mostly cars. I love our shit cars.

They would never recommend to anyone, but I just happen to love them, but I'm also the first book may end up.

Engaged are terrible cars. I think the only analogy I can

think of is, I have a friend who's a massive Boston Celtics and Newcastle Knights fan and he will just not accept anything, but they are the greatest teams no matter how badly they're doing, he will not listen to reason.

And I won't talk about how bad they are, when things are going bad. When they're going, great.

You won't hear when hear the end of it, but with cars and like, yeah, I just some people have this just blind like following of like, no, no, my brand can do no wrong and say, hmm, they can, and it's such an emotional thing, cars.

You know, people come to me for advice all the time, and I'll tell them what about straight up.

Here's my two cents worth. Here's what I would do in your

situation but they're an emotional thing.

At the end of the day, they're going to do what they're going to do. I do.

You know, like yeah. Knowing what that kid knows.

Now, had you done a video on it? The Apprentice, you know, would

be of still bought an emerald maybe because he just loved the emerald compared to the Navara or whatever.

Yeah, you don't know. Yeah.

And that's and that's, that's totally cool as well.

And we're all about, you know, it's hard.

It's hard to Define how much value is in a car for a certain person versus like, reliability versus what it makes you feel.

Like when you look at it in the garage, Yeah, when you're behind the wheel. Yeah like that.

That out for a mi o that we show it my God.

I loved that car. I it was so totally get it on

love alphas. And I feel like in that video,

my part of the video is this, like, I love it.

I love it. It's great, it's great.

Then you cut the gym and he's like, these are terrible.

But then it's yeah, yeah, yeah. It's um, I think people will

justify whatever they want to justify.

However they want to justify it. So yeah.

Yeah. Thank don't, you know stop your

channel like it's I didn't know. Yeah, but yeah, at the end of

the day, you kind of go. All right, I've done my part.

What you didn't know is, that's all we have is favorite insane.

We get a lot of messages of people going on.

Yeah, thanks so much was going to buy X car, but after watching the video, I'm now going to buy. Why instead people that have

saved a lot of money, we've had a lot of people that have gone to spend a hundred thousand dollars on something and then after watching one of the videos have gone, well, I actually just spent thirty thousand dollars on its own missile. 70 grand.

So, when we get those messages that is like, we're like, we're blown away by that. It's if we hopefully made a

positive impact in someone's life that is what we're doing this for. So yeah, I guess this is where

the young people are so prone to making those sort of mistakes as well, right? Like we all have a dream car

when it was you know WRX is or Evo's or whatever but they come with problems and these days you can't find a good example anymore, just purely because of the age of those vehicles.

And and then, you know, people premises first jobs getting huge loans with the help of their parents or whatever because you know, parents want to help their kids fulfill their dreams top of thing. And then they get this car.

And then all of a sudden, it's just a bit, sort of ashamed, feel sort of an experience. And what you guys are doing, is

helping them really understand that, so they can educate themselves. And that's been the thing.

You know, once upon a time, people used to troll through forums and stuff, young people don't do that anymore.

No. I mean some of them struggle to

read. That's a different story, but

that's what he wants to buy.

Golf are sort of water is legit and he wants to do that.

And, you know, something Driven Channel.

Yeah, let's go these these portions for certain makes and models at they get ingrained very young, you know.

Found it like you'll love of Alphas probably if you rewind is from when you were a kid, something out for you, you know?

Yeah. I'm saying so it's very in your

DNA and like the football team example or what steam, it's it's come from Mom and Dad. It's come from your uncle,

whatever young, but it's hard to shake some of those things, all right? Absolutely.

Yeah, we might my dad. Like I got all my love of cars

from family and it was my dad is almost like the Aunty Aussie.

Like he's like, don't ever buy a falcon or a Commodore, don't drink beer and don't watch football.

So it's it's like like I was mad into cycling in mountain biking.

The cars we always had with everything but forwards and Holden's and I love wine. So it's yeah.

It's yeah, it's rubbed off for sure.

Perfect. I remember I should First, my

first, serious car was actually a HSB, and in that, in that, I think broke my dad's heart a little bit, but it was a bit of a rebellious like, you know, I'm going to go against what I'm supposed to do here. Yeah, yeah.

What did your dad drive? What were some of the cars or

the brands that he liked? So he had, he's actually telling

these my stepdad but he's my dad, I love him to pieces.

He's my best mate. He the first can remember, he

had a Rover 3,800 3,800 was the V8, 35.

Hundred 3,500 3,500 says I think he's Rover 3500.

Yeah well I kind of remember what my have to ask him.

It was here that I should have asked fun fact.

That car was actually crushed in the Newcastle earthquakes.

He wasn't it at the time, but yeah, yeah.

Got squashed under a concrete morning and there are very strong car to those rival. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The public filling it with stronger, if it didn't, then he had a Mitsubishi Magna after that.

Which is the SE one of the first Magnum was mid spec TM.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.

You would have had made courtesy lights in the doors rear.

Headrests spoon that nice and trimmed in the executive or the GLX. Yep.

I just remember, I remember what if it's fabric, they use on those seats. Scratching the hell out of the

backs of my legs when I wear or Shores from like family holidays. These are uncomfortable.

And then when you have after that is really, a few Hunters, had a couple of hundred Prelude. Yeah, it had a, got a Camry, the

enter, at the moment. What else has been on?

Mazda6? Was in there?

That's some good Japanese cars. Yeah.

Not a lot of you wrote stuff. But yeah.

It's been a good little, a good bunch of stuff.

Yeah, a wise man. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's

interesting. You say that though because like

a lot of, you know, the cars that I like, you know, I've liked because I like them, where's my one of my uncle's to bounce actually. About mechanics in there and

they're their Affinity to like certain brands is like super duper strong. Yeah.

But I've kind of been about, oh, I kind of like that and the research into him. Like, I liked it even more and,

you know, like my Affinity that way, but I'm still ingrained with like certain brands by my parents.

And I guess that's, that's, that's kind of, like a thing that happens with all of us. But yeah, I guess I see with the

kids art teacher every day at school, like I had made my year nines yesterday, and they were like to me that they'll talk about cars and I'm like, you should Getting back to work.

But whenever him talk about how do I get a zoom in?

Dude. Yeah, well when you talk about

and there is one of the kids like I'm my brother's Ball but a GD is I was like I want to I want to go far that's the dream car. My I thought you know, that's

really cool and that's saving kid.

Yeah. So but like you can see how like

with her family members and a lot of it really really does does change your kind of your I guess because you're looking cars and I think it's also generational.

I'm assuming all you guys are in your early 20s.

But I feel like, I think this for me, I am I grew up with fastballs and rotaries magazines and hot Forbes Magazine, and Gran Turismo, and Fast and Furious.

So, when it kind of got to the V8 thing like Commodores and Falcons and it especially American Muscle up until really the last few years, I just didn't get it.

I just, I was like, I'm what am I missing here?

Because I've driven, I've driven a bunch of like classic American muscle cars and It just all broken.

My heart doesn't. Just remember, there was a

particular Mustang. It was worth a fortune and I was

nervous, and I knew the shoot was coming up on my I got here we go. Gotta drive this thing and it

was just terrible. But then, you know, my love cars

was always stemmed from that falls and fastballs and rotaries magazine. So, it was always evos and Rex's

and are exceptions and supers, and GTRs.

And it was always that the import 10, then the Euro stuck because of British touring car racing watching that More water sports on Saturdays, and then we'll and World Rally Championship. So that's it was, it was always,

yeah. In Gran Turismo really shaped my

the cars and brands that I love, I think Scotty can agree with that, because, like Scott, he's having he's a GTRs, he's a, he's a TV audience laughing, and I think the PlayStation generation is what I like to call our kind of age group.

Yeah, because we really grew up with that shit.

So it really affected me and and, and it affected a lot of the cars that that I like, Because I already know about half the cars until I played Gran Gran Turismo as a kid.

Like I was like what what the what the hell's a Levan beeze that are? You know, like what?

Yeah. Yeah and you find out all about

it and it's yeah, it's just open my eyes, open my eyes up to it.

But I just got it was heavily influenced by our and yeah.

Need for Speed is really absolutely.

There was another one that they got me but but yeah, I totally totally get that with a bit about.

Yeah, yeah. Well, seeing as we have really

moved past the, the quick quick, quick, Stage first color, you are and what have you owned and and do you plan on purchasing anything in the future? Obviously, said, your thing

about moving on with your racks and things and yeah.

Okay. So the the first, the first

owner said a serious car. I owned was actually, it was a

CB G SL Lancer. Hatch the 3-D, or little

hydrogen almost. Looks like the be acidic.

Yeah, but I put all Evolution three running gear under it and it got to the point that thing. And it was honestly had so much

power. He was pulling the chassis

apart, so the where the front quarter panel on the doors, it started doing this. And any time it rained, the

footwells would just fill up with water prisoners.

Like he was in a member was, I was, I shouldn't admit this, but I was doing quite a lot of like illegal street racing back in those days. And it was, it was at a point

where I was like, I was racing motorbikes and it was the thing was off its head, there was crazy.

So there was the first prop ago, my dad, my dad made me One day add up what I spent on it and I stopped counting after fifty thousand dollars. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, it was, it was, I went

through gearboxes like, like butter, there was this new little crazy. But yeah, that was that was the

first. I'm gonna say the first proper

seriously. Like my God cat and it was

asleep. Oh, didn't it?

Didn't look that flash. So, yeah, it was great.

Did you because it will dry converted as well?

Or just we'll just know. It was, it was purely

front-wheel drive and I literally end up putting a thinks, the last gearbox we had was like a group in rally dog box with no synchros and then we just weld it up the all Drive section. So it was very and that was the

only thing. It was horrible.

I also had one of the first Microtech Computers in it so they don't have that back then they didn't have an idle control. So I learned how to heel toe

because every time I pulled up to lights, I had to bike balanced, my foot on the brake, and the accelerator.

So that thing wouldn't stall is when it when it's told, they had to pry. Fuel pumps again turn

electorate. That was just a knife so stupid.

Yeah, crazy, yeah. That was like, the kind of like

technology. They like like, like like yeah,

technology like we're. Yeah, I mean, we don't have like

the crazy good health tech systems and linkies use and stuff that we got these days. So, yeah, it was horrible.

It was, it was, it was a nightmare to drive it.

Like, if you had to warm it up a little cool down, you just couldn't get traction, but you could change lanes.

I'd be on the freeway and just accelerate.

Wait for The turbo to spool up and it is torque steer across the lane. It was just, yeah.

I was gonna say how big are you how big were your arms back then with yeah? Yeah, he was.

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.

Oh, just, I was earning good money playing music and and just was like, yeah, it's got sick and this did.

And yeah yeah so so stupid anyway.

Anyway we'll be that matter will be minute.

Yeah, yeah. And then you progress obviously,

to out to other cause you said, you said you had HSV what he had a VR. Club sport series to me iíve

actually, I think I've had I think again our work this out during covid. I've had think north of 50 cars

so there's been a lot of stuff. Everything from had not 32 gdr,

what else? Worst car was a 206 GTI 180 just

that was, I could not get comfortable in it with my body in French people, we don't look French and I can tell from my limbs, it was just a most uncomfortable car.

Our had a few ran into guns God. What else?

It's gone blank. I've got an MX-5 at the moment.

I've got the stage here at the moment.

That couple of BMWs. Yeah, yeah.

But it just loads of different things and if you were to purchase a car, now like that you could do, you could buy any money, what would you offer any money?

Wow. Is it is only one car like I

have to live with this thing or up to you.

I am I drove maybe my ultimate dream car a few weeks ago, and I still having wonderful flashbacks and it's a Honda NSX.

Yeah, I am again. I've been so fortunate to drive

like I've driven a GT2 RS, GT3 RS, MacLaren's like all the really crazy stuff and it is super fast, but you just can't GT2 RS. Honestly like you can't bends

physics like that. You can't.

I just didn't enjoy it. Like it's amazing.

Like total respect that. Yeah you'd be in jail and no

time. Where is the NSX?

It's the perfect for me. It was the perfect amount of

speed. Like it was a great amount of

performance but you felt engaged the whole time and you're not going so fast, you're going, well I can't even comprehend.

What information is entering my brain, at the moment, I'm just holding on for dear life. Yeah, that thing that was a

special car so the ultimate any money, I think an NSX Type R would be, my God would be happy with that choice.

Good. But, in terms of a lot, did you

find the turbo lag in the 32 really horrendous, or was it?

Mine was far from standard and I own my own it for 14 days as I could not get insurance on it in the cover note finished in 14 days and luckily the wonderful guy that I bought it from boy.

Back off me. He was, yeah.

It was a very, very wealthy international student and literally ringing laughter. Like, I think that the cheapest

Insurance quite up again at the time was over ten great.

So, yeah, and I rang him like look, dude I can't he's like he's like Helens are coming out and back then, it was like 14 days. He was like, hold on for a trip

for a couple weeks and I'll buy it back here.

So yeah, it was amazing. It was like 700 horsepower or

something crazy. So yeah, yeah, loads of Vlag.

And then just like the universe opened.

There's like, went into a different dimension.

Yeah, that's the reason why you kind of got into this because you, cause you've played around with cars for so long and your family or is it was that or is he just wanted out of it?

I think it might be part of the actual DNA.

So mum mum says that there's a video of me somewhere as a toddler sitting with my uncle, at the front of our house up in Port Stephens in a Early on you cars before a new colors.

So I'd be like, Corolla prasida but didn't, but didn't know what orange was. So yeah, your goodness, you're

good, man. It's just been.

It's, and I honestly thought I remember in my twenties, when I was doing that stupid Lancer thinking, oh yeah, one day I'll grow out of this and it's just the opposite happened.

It's just, it's the addiction is so incredibly deep, so yeah, we've always had Had cars in my family or my granddad had everything. Like he had all the muscle cars

and then he had no 240 said and Rosie and 260 and yeah, it's just all the cars are just always been a huge part of our family. So, is that why you've gone

through so many cars? Because you just want to try

every single one? Yeah, I know.

I haven't think I have the world's shortest attention span as well. I just yeah, I yeah.

Yeah. I've done a fair bit of racing

as well. So I'm like what?

I feel like it's only in the last few years.

I've really honed in on what I love out of the car.

So I think I just was experimenting this stuff until I found kind of something that spoke to me and then find it going. Okay, yeah, so like for me it's

not outright performance like the the straight-line speed drag racing does nothing for me. I will take steering feel and,

and balances pretentious as that sounds over outright performance every day. So, Yeah.

Well in terms of like we drew and you said how you said how its kind of come about and stuff in terms of the second-hand Market, do you do you like ask people to say hey can you go like if you know somebody with the Sonic I'll be like, hey could I could I drive it intestinal?

Or do these days? Just come to you and say, hey,

I've got this. Would you like to?

Yeah, and see and see how you like it.

We've really noticed. A very clear Tipping Point in

the last couple months actually. So yeah, for the longest time,

dude, begging and borrowing. In everything.

Like, like literally leaving notes on people's cars and asking friends of friends and it's yeah, it's and we've got a few friends in wholesalers and dealerships that, you know, we can reach out to. We tree generally use wholesaler

cars as our emergency backup cars because we have had a number of cars that we've booked in and then the car's broken down the day before. Yeah, well, we also had someone

that led us down Literally a couple of weeks ago we had to give you guys an idea like we will spend some times a month researching like it's myself and my cousin Hayden will go through forums and owners groups and will join owners groups and then we'll find who the main commenters are and then we'll get in touch with them privately and go.

Hey, here's what we're doing. Can we pick your brain?

So we put as much research in as we possibly can.

So this particular car coming up weeks of research and then on the day, We we we've been shooting two cars, the same day just to try to get a bit of a lead on and we had a Lexus booked in and then there's a Honda S2000 that we had booked in. The guy just didn't show up,

just never turned up, and there was like, messaging, the night before. He's like, yeah man.

Yeah, it's all good and he reached out to us going.

Hey, I've got an S2000 if you want to review it like yeah, that'd be amazing. And then the morning of the

street like hey bro, any news and then that afternoon like at 5:00 is a guy. Yeah, something came up Like

havior? Yeah, so amazing lady down from

near yes. Also got in touch and she has an

S2000. So likely all that, all the

research didn't go to waste and the week later, we shot the car that videos coming out in a couple of weeks but yeah.

And now we're getting a so many offers, which we absolutely blown away at the only drama we have, they tend to be hero cars.

So, which we try to do per month.

We try to do one. Hiroko month.

And then the other three cars are what we call just normal cars. But a lot of the cars being

offered are a lot of hero cars and it's supposed to be like a DJ, like as a DJ, you don't want to go and play, all the hit songs in the first, you know, 10 or 15 minutes of ucj settlers.

You got nowhere to go. So we're there's a bunch of

really special stuff that we can get our hands on that.

We're just going, we'll get there.

We'll don't don't don't play or your card straight up.

So yeah. And the other thing is that, you

know, please to that Enthusiast market and it's not relevant for most people. You know, most people aren't,

buying an NSX or shopping for an NSX.

So yeah, it's a watch but really, you know, eight out of ten people are like, well, I can't afford it doesn't do What Ya Doin, I'm more interested in a, you know, mu X review.

Yeah, yeah, I think our goal is we're playing the long game, I where we've got huge plans for re driven, so rather than going for bulk views in a short period of time, I'm like it like a viral video. It's like, you know, a new

Pagani. We would rather be the number

one video for each car that we feature.

So at the moment hopefully I haven't checked this for a while but if you type in Ford Focus RS I think we're the number one video if you type in Mazda3 with the number one video so we figure if we can be the number one video across all of the normal cars. Hopefully that all you know

Kuwait's to be a stack of use rather than just having you know 30. Million views on one particular

Big Daddy Veyron. Unfortunately the way the

algorithm works we do have to play it a little bit so we do have two. There will be like we've got

some super car stuff coming up because we just have to play the algorithm but then we look at what Supercar stuff is already out and you're right well there's no point in just rehashing what someone else has done like Chris Harris like you know, something that's a god like him.

So we've just got to find our own our own way of doing it and see. I think they are giving anyway.

I think we've found a bit of a cool way to do it and in a way that no one else has done that sort of stuff.

So yeah. Good.

Oh yeah. So Adam.

You're telling us that you're not the Supercar.

Blondie. No.

No. She cooks.

She cooks a lot of shit but after doing what we do.

I now look at the amount of work that I'm imagining.

She and her team put in and yeah I'm not a super car guy but I have huge respect for them. Matter work like that takes to.

Yeah, she knows her Market really well knows how to knows how to play that market and good honor for the success.

Speaking about team, like if you got a big team for Adriana was it just you? Jim and you obviously said your

cousin was it and yeah, tiny, tiny team.

It's so there's myself Sam, who seemed annoyed that I suppose the main two guys see him is just one of my dearest and closest friends and absolute Talent.

So Sam shoots edits and we kind of the business.

We'll have to get on so he's my main offsider we've got Jim obviously using the clinic in the videos we've got maybe one cal cal edits or the top five videos and the this versus that videos from cousin, Hayden just helps me out with research and he's a huge shop there and that's about it and then on the website side we've got we do cheat sheets.

We've got a couple of guys helping us out with the cheat sheets as well, more from a research point of view, so that's it. That's that's and then, you

know, All of our partners being incredibly patient with us and dealing with not having any social life anymore.

So sorry, honey. I've got a I've got a review of

Iran. Yeah, dude, my, my partner cheat

my girlfriend is I don't I couldn't eat it with the other hand, she's yeah, she's so incredibly supportive as all my friends and seems the same. So yeah, it's interesting

because like I was talking to him for a few friends of mine that year few years ago, we were planning on doing some some video stuff, but we know we know They got around to it, but the, the time and effort involved is massive and and that's why people don't really realize about looking at a YouTube video, like, especially something that's as well produced as yours. You know, it's nice.

It's not just like, you know, like the usual handheld Vlog kind of kind of video which which, which is matte and 99.9%

of YouTube. Yeah, but basically it is a lot

of work and people and people don't really understand how much work goes into it and the fact that you've got like in team, it's fantastic. And thanks, man, thank you,

appreciate it. Great great things.

And I think in terms of for people in general like you said you do one halo car in three standard cars are, you know, I think that's a really good thing because like for example my girlfriend, she's got a Holden Cruze, okay?

And it's before me I would have stopped it.

If they would have seen your video two years ago, they would have not dropped an extra six or seven Grand into this piece of shit because it is and its location.

Ample, but everything is just, it's just, it's mounted.

Yeah. And and I'm like, you know, it's

videos like that would save like, like, you know, that from happening. So see.

See, that's, that's yeah. That's, that's that.

That is literally the plan. That's all we want to do is.

Yeah, try to help people as much as we can.

This is kind of, like, cliche, As that sounds.

It's it is it honestly does come from a really good place so and like we're honestly we're completely blown away the response. Like we, we thought we might,

you know, I think we feel like our first business plan weeks ago. And I think it was like, we

thought in the first 12 months, if we could do Things like a thousand subscribers and 100,000 years and 12 months.

That would be like, that's way too optimistic, but that'd be incredible. And I think we did, I was like

50,000 subscribers and like 4 or 5 million views or something crazy. And it's, and now I think now

we're about to tip over 100,000 subscribers and 10 million views and it said, I can't, I can't even I can't get my head around those numbers, I'm Joe. Yeah.

When did you start at him how long ago?

So we started December 22. To last year.

No, Josh, yeah, no, it's been, it's nearly, we're coming up on two years, so, yeah, it's pretty fresh.

Yeah, it's, um, and we've done like it's completely organic what we've done. No promo, no advertising, no,

like still trying to kind of get our head around the format, and playing the algorithm. And yeah, make honestly, I'm

speechless with the response has been incredible.

Nominal. Yeah.

Is that your favorite? The thing about doing re-drill,

like just getting that feedback or is it more like just making the videos like like it, how do you get like out of bed every day and say? Okay, I'm giad up to do this

video. Like, you know, like um well a I

get to talk about cars. Like, it's my favorite thing to

do, so they anything the cars. I'm just, like, I'm obsessed

with it. I got it.

Like, even even in downtime, I'm still, like, I still sit on car sales, daily young. Well, what if I had this much

fun in water with a bike? And I'm on my look at the car

news sites every single day because I just, I Only love cars. It's really driven but it's

again, so cliche, but it's just creating something from nothing like to kind of go like, honestly, the the plans we have now that we sort of know, okay? There's an audience and it's

growing and it's a viable product when what we want to achieve with it is is enormous. So just now kind of going.

Okay, these are the goals we want to hit and then let's just strive forward as much as we can.

It's honestly I don't have kids but you know there's a kid.

Now you've made a you've made a thing that grows and develops and changes like the yeah, this is kind of my version of having kids. It's like we built this thing

and it's growing and yeah, it's unbelievably satisfying even the most tedious Parts I still love. That's awesome out of I mean

that's the thing like being I'm involved in the startup space as well and that's what it's about trying to create something from nothing and satisfaction. You get that every Get up as

Mary was sort of asking every morning you get up, you're doing something that you're driven about or read driven about.

Yep. No problem.

Roll down here. It's something that's, you know,

very, very satisfying. And to see the rewards of all

the hard work and effort that you put in, I think you're doing, you know, the great service to General automotive industry which the traditional media has missed for whatever reason because you know, No no no one selling a Golf R is going to be, you know, paying a media company to promote that on the used car market, where Volkswagen for new cars will definitely put it out there so nobody wants to do it because there's no money to be made and what you guys are doing is is

fantastic that. So yeah, keep it up.

Thanks so much mean. It's very exciting.

I worked in a new cast place for a while and it's hard like that.

I feel for what I've got so many.

Nice agenda is within the new task B and where the industry has become really difficult. Is that if you if you were to

come out and say some really negative things about a car or a brand, or you just want to get invited to the next launch and then that, that just puts you at a disadvantage has as a journalist. Whereas now I just couldn't give

a shit about the car companies. Think both, you know, like it's

like it's harsh as that is if they never advertise with us, doesn't bother me, you know, like it's weird.

We're here to serve the consumer more than you know, play nice with the car companies and hope to hell.

They get invited to the next the next press launch.

But then I also feel like you can the guys from Top the approve this like you. If you can position yourself in

the market as enough of powerful entity, the car companies will, you know, do what you want to do, you know, you're here, Jeremy Clarkson and Chris Harrison.

Those guys are that level, they can say whatever they want because they know that they've got a massive audience.

So we have plans on dabbling into the new car space again, how we will be doing, it will be completely different to the way anyone else is currently doing it.

It's still a little while the way off yet, but I do feel like we still need to build our own Brands and our own profile first before we start doubling and things that world.

Because if we're going to get into the, you can space.

It has to be honest there. It's not on their terms.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's also very hard and you know, I was always have a healthy day. Disdain for car journalists

because new cars are all pretty. Damn good.

You know, like you don't really get in one and go, this is horrendous, you know, they're all they're all great standard these days and you could jump in a 30 grand Hyundai i30 and hell, it's not too far off 100. Yeah.

Something else in terms of features and the way it goes and corners and all that stuff. And so you don't really know

what a good car is until it gets a few years under its belt in a few cases under it. And that really sorts the wheat

from the chaff so Volkswagens. Feel amazing.

And then you golfer. Yeah videos they're all.

Fantastic and sometimes Plastics and doors that go thunk and you go. Wow, great.

That's what sucks everyone in. But the true story is that you

know, five year 100,000 K. Alright.

Well has it really been at spit like wine you know.

Yeah 100% you got to give it a few years to get to see what it's really like. Yep in like one is also

subjective these days. As you said like like yeah like

an M&M. She like, they're great for what

they cost and they have a massive warranty and like I drove a mg3 recently, I was like, this is great like for like for what fruit for the people that are buying it.

Like no one's buying energy, three-game Chi really sort of so many more like a Lamborghini later than those that are buying them. Just want.

They want to get from here to over.

There is easily as possible, without spending a fortune and have a bit of a warranty. And for that, they do a great

job. There are, there are no shit new

cars. All new cars as you said, Good.

They're all good. So I've had people go are, you

know, I'm between a b and c car and I generally say well, which one do you like? The look of the best?

Yeah, because if you end up with any of those, you getting a good car and I used to W is not get people coming in, being smart ass and say, so why should I buy BMW over a Mercedes or Alexis or an Audi? And I said, well, you know,

Point number one to the to answer that you buy any of those your garage door when you see any of those in there, you got a great car, you know, like you're lucky, you're wealthy, you live in a great country and you've Ain't enough money obviously to buy something pretty nice. So number one, now having said

that there are some differences in the way they do things and then you delve into it. Yeah, okay.

Like I'm not gonna stand there and shitcan the other products because you know, they all Drive really kind of the same but also you know, is that there's that notion of card journalist living in a bit of a fake Bubble World. You know, I remember years ago,

when I was selling BMWs, I had numerous people coming in when they're f33 series was launched somewhere in 2012 and they They were had two or three. Come with sure.

I've been asked me about on how the Adaptive suspension the Adaptive suspension. I said, where are you getting

this from? You know, you know, oh, well,

you know, I've read a road test. It said, you got to get the

Adaptive suspension. I think it was pulled over or

someone like that back in the day and I said, you know, okay, like let's just pick this apart. What are you driving now?

You know, I've got a whatever, you know, nothing like a 3 Series with adaptive suspension or even if it was a 3 Series is still a great handling car but it was they They absorb this thinking they've got to have the Adaptive suspension which was a seven thousand dollar option back then give or take.

And I'm like look if you get a normal 3 Series, you are getting one of the best rear-drive chassis ever produced.

You know, that's been honed over the last 40 years, you know, the fact that some journal in a bubble as told.

You need the Adaptive suspension is literally ridiculous.

Yeah, so I just feel that sometimes they don't live in the real world. And yeah hence hence are more

Every man, and every woman, every, every person review relevant. But yeah, it's yeah.

It's also the, the whole like the brand stigma to write.

Like, for example, my dad would have said is number one.

He bought it. You bought it?

Yes, exactly. Exactly.

I just just been so nervous. Anyway, he got written off,

someone someone he didn't, and, you know, and he wanted another Merkin. Obviously, for the, for the

money, you got paid. A out.

You weren't going to buy on the same car because they've gone up crazy, know you don't like we were able to get a new Orion you know, a quarter of the caches and and he's like any and he was like I don't know drove it said shit this draws better than my Merc ever did and and absolutely loves it.

So yeah, it's you get caught in that all you know, if you got to get this back in the starting the other, yes, sometimes.

Just just sitting in the car and driving it for yourself and see, how seeing how it makes you feel?

Is I think could be the most important thing?

100%. And if he even kind of like

getting back to that one analogy.

So perfect was, I think we're now at a point with cars where, you know. Yeah, you read you read a review

about a RAV4 and they're like, I'm under steering you wants.

Isn't quite right off Centos. Now they like no one cares about

that shit. And the only people that can

tell that our car journalist because they're going through so many cars and like I've worked with guys that it's like, they can pick up the sound of dust falling on felt where you're going. How can you, how can you?

The new ones that they can feel in a car is absolutely incredible in the same way there are producers and music that I've worked with where they're like yeah that that snare drum just needs to come down like you know half a DB and like how like they can hear it. But the general listener is

never going to hear that difference and it seems the same with car reviews, like you kind of get to appoint a going, no one, no one except another car journalist is is ever going to pick up on these differences. And one thing that I noticed In

the UK our world. It's again a bit like the music

world in music. You'll have certain genres or

certain musicians that literally will play for the other musicians in the room. And they'll have all these

amazing trops and Technical ability but they are not playing for the general public. They're playing for other Muses

and I'm fine journalism. I might be just a man thing.

Sure. Anything men do, we all do the

same thing. A lot of journalists will write

stories to prove themselves to other journalists, and show off the their words skills to other journalist, Robert.

I'm going here mistake. I should just be writing for the

average Joe that's like hey is the car shit or not like should have bought a lot. Like we're very much going down

though. I don't have those skills.

I don't have, you know, go-biz amazing ability to know what the steering Nuance in a rav4's. Like I just don't have that

skill set but hopefully I can tell someone that this thing might blow up. So don't buy it.

Yeah. Journalism has so many has.

It did the card design like I sort of have this theory that You know, it because the journalists whinge about, you know, sharper handling, or bigger wheels, or whatever, it might be, the cars have gone down that road and we've sort of lost. Its the, you know, the form is

coming rather than the function. You know, we've we've lost that.

Some people, you know, and I maintain this just want a comfortable car like yeah. There's a reason why I get in a

w202 Mercedes-Benz and drive over three speed humps and go my God, these things ride beautifully, you know.

Yeah. Why doesn't a new C-Class on?

One fucking inch rims, or whatever it is, you know go over a pothole like this old thing. Does you know, why have we gone

so nuts for looks and wheels and bling?

You know, at the expensive just Tech, nice quality comfortable car, you know, and I think of my parents is an example.

They like a nice car. They like a reliable car, but

that's where it stops, you know. Yeah.

You know, I think, I think I listened to the marketing departments too much. I think, I think there's I think

there's like If you guys remember this but there was a, there's a period that way especially about hatchbacks and small cars where when you, when you read like, you know, fast Falls or hot Forbes Magazine, a pretty big wheels on it, lowering them because Normal cars didn't look like that.

But then all of a sudden, the hatchbacks that we're coming out, suddenly started to take some of those design cues from modified cars and that scene, and I think like, obviously do a stack of Market testing. So they'd probably be a whole

bunch of people going on which it had like bigger Wheels was a bit lower. So all of us something.

Okay. Well, the engineers probably

going. No, no but it's going to ride

like shit. Yeah, the marketing departments

can put the public they want. Big wheels and the lower ride

height. So yeah.

Question who were they asking? You know I like yeah I don't

know if you sat in the latest measures 23 hatch but I whinge about this all the time but I sat in that car for the first time a few months back with a friend you know when to buy one the dash was so high in came out you know sort of almost to my chest level the last areas were so small.

And it came right up to here. The roof lining was black

because all the hatches have a black roof lining.

I feel like I was looking out of a letterbox in this thing and I just thought this isn't after 10 minutes of being in it, I just thought this card does not feel nice to being, you know.

Yeah. What and I thought, why is that?

Because it's black an oppressive and there's no glass and I thought the simple thing of just having a glassy light interior that seems to be diminishing in a lot of cars.

Yeah. It's yeah, yeah.

The looks are overpowering the function, you know, and I get in one of my old benzes from the 80s.

I think, huh? God.

This is nice like roof like seats.

Like glass everywhere. It's nice.

You know, we don't do it in our houses.

You don't have a black ceiling is a room would feel shit.

Why do and expect it to feel good, you know, that their rooms called prison. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Ages ago. It was really interesting

because the guys that the engineers they were saying that because because the safety standards are always moving forward and always getting harder, a lot of car companies will try to almost predict where the safety standards again and need to be busy scars. Like platform of a car, can go

for 10 years. So at the start, they go.

Okay. Well, if this is where the

safety thing that's going to be over here, well then let's try to make the car that safe now, but unfortunately, that means smaller Glass House. You know, massive a-pillars,

massive side impact protection heaps of airbags so it's where does it go like like like just have no glass, you know, cameras were around and sensors everywhere.

It's like you're absolutely safe.

You're in it, you're in it like a bunker.

It's really interesting, right? Like how the as what Ed was

talking about there is the zoom zoom feeling which is basically being in a prison but In terms of, you know, having glass can give you good safety rating if it's designed correctly.

I don't know if you guys saw the news or not and I don't ancap rating Euro and cap. The best rating ever received by

car Tesla Model, why blast through the glass roof.

Yeah, yeah. Last roof.

So, you know, it's and it's that safety standards that, you know, have come a long way but so have cars and in Technologies and it goes back to the earlier Point around marketing because we've been so accustomed to selling SUVs because they make higher margins on them. All the car manufacturers are

just doing that. Create a big box, make it dark

as long as low to the ground or whatever sell it to as many people as you want. And then you know, that's where

the margins come from, but I think the market itself is Will shift and people will demand cars that are more Airy and gives you know still provides. That's safety.

You're not be these dark dungeon e places anymore.

Yeah. Yeah.

And what's the oldest car that you've tested on re driven?

I think we did it. 205 GTI, I think might be the oldest one so

far. We've got a 56 Porsche 356

coming up soon. So we loose rule is that it has

to be more than three years old. Yeah.

In saying that so Jim has a GI Aris that That honestly has lived the life of a 20 year old car.

Like he tracks that he that is on a racetrack almost weekly.

It's had, it's been it's been introduced to a couple of walls subtly. So yeah.

That that car. We've got a we've got we're

doing a full review of like a GI Yaris, basically race car only because it's it has is like the only time it gets driven its banging off the rev limiter. So yeah, and it's been

faultless. Been amazing.

So yeah, we don't have any, I don't think we do any pre-war stuff. I don't think we go that far

back, but any kind of from, let's say early 60s on.

We're open to so Edwards, pretty safe.

Then we can, we can, we can get our car is interesting because it I mean, they're so valuable now.

Ya know. It's, it's hard to come at that

with a Very pragmatic. Yeah, I give attitude is to all

right. Well, what's this thing

actually? Like to live with it.

It's but it's, it's cool because so many reviews are like, it's amazing. It's Ferdinand, Porsche Turbo,

you know, they wax the about it, but it's like.

All right. Let's just cut the cut, the

emotional shit. What's this thing actually like

as a classic to own and live with him?

What's going to go wrong with it?

I prefer that, you know? Yeah we're mate.

You'll see this Friday. I'm really nervous about this

week's video. This is the one I'm like

honestly genuinely nervous about We're doing the 70 series Land Cruiser. So yeah, we did a video a while.

So quick back story. We top 5 videos.

We did a top five, underrated top five, most underrated and most overrated full tribes and itís.

The arrow is in the underrated list.

It was made it was yes. Are you know, i-i-i none of the

cars listed at my, or Jim, or Sam's opinion, and we quite literally reached out to everybody.

I know in the fall driveway, I've got made a mincer manager and they are beasts or multiple mates that are full drive specialist Mechanics for y for journalists like made of mines, a ex-cop that is now four by four driver trainer of expert.

But yeah, everyone owners groups and the car that came back as the most overrated 4x4 was the 70 series Landcruiser?

Yeah. Yeah.

And we we put it up an absolute war that started in the comments was Amazing. So, it was just sitting series

owners can tend to be passionate as putting it mildly.

So, there's this video, the point of going to the video that's coming on. A product, is the 70 series

video, but unlike every other 70 series video, we drive that thing in the suburbs because that's where they spend 99% of their time. And it's was again nervous

because I'm not, I'm not kind of saying, you know, it's amazing off-road, it's just it is Pretty ship to drive around town.

That's you know, once you kind of get take the rose colored glasses off its. Yeah it is yeah it's just this

that ego. It's that reputation same with

Land Rover owners here. They can't be told any

different. Yeah, no, Defenders are

horrendous to drive. I own one at my friend.

Brother's friend zone one, we've driven them.

They're awful things, and not only that, you know, they're, they're generally pretty unreliable and horrible in most ways, you know? Yes, good off-road if you ever

get there, but that's the 30 and 70 series.

The number of people that go on, spend 100 Grand or 80 grand and then another 50 on shit to put on the back, then they're overweight, they can't do. They think they can't all this

weight but they can't because they're actually legally over.

Yeah, my friend of a friend bought 130 cases worth of Ford or 70 and and his kids are hated going in at the ride, was too rough. I couldn't put anything in it

because he had all the things on the back and in the end decided it was too nice to useful work and went and bought a falcon you for 5 grand. Yeah, sat in the shed is the

good car. You know.

It's like hang on. You good class should be an Audi

A8 or a. Yeah.

An S-Class or something. For some days this is nuts.

Like, yeah. Absolutely.

Yeah. Well, canning stock route,

daily, you know, maybe 70 0. 70 series is what you want, you

know? Yeah, very much daily.

There are multiple like more than a dozen to us.

Three series over two hundred thousand dollars online at the moment and then and I like it's just unlike like that's that's yeah there's multiples of a quarter of a million dollars.

I want to order him like he's literally who's honestly going to go Bush bashing? Yeah in that and you look at

them online and they're like they've never seen dirt.

I've never been Offroad. A friend of mine bought a few

years ago. I bought a 250 thousand dollar

Range, Rover Evoque black on black.

Vogue the start and refrain driver called him there.

Like I do want to do, you want to do some pool like a full Driving Experience is like, it's like yeah, absolutely.

And he's like, I'd speak Cantonese like white, bring my car down easy. As I make this cousin, Lucy, a

gravel road, like it's, yeah, so it's really a good deal.

He was linked to a Toyota dealer, so he got a good price and and that's what he wanted and dreamed about and all that.

But, you know, he immediately had to replace the front seats.

With leather seats and actually had bolstering.

So you could go round corners, you get a cup holders in it because, you know, doesn't come with those had to replace the stereo to do. The Apple carplay had to rip out

the entire true P. Interior and sound, didn't it

himself? Because it's like a friggin you

know boom box back there and he's continually you know, chipped away at this thing. And spent God knows how much

taking his already 70. Something thousand dollar car.

Well into the 80s and into the 90s.

Yeah, just so that he can sleep in.

The back when he likes to go away overnight somewhere.

Yeah. Yeah.

Loves it. Because he's a bit of a fanboy

of it. Okay.

But the reality is May 20 grand Pajero with a pop-top Hardshell roof top ten. We've done everything yet war

and be fun ice to live with than that thing. 100% 100% any little

saved yourself, you know, 70 grand or 60 ground, completely agree. Yep.

So he doesn't know the negative comments you had before about the seventies years. What's your, what's your take

on? - comes edid just like, they

would like the Michael Jackson popcorn Emoji or, yeah, I know, right? Get your opinions on this.

So why do I get all the bloody time?

And my parents like I my parents get called out who my parents that my pants are too tight and they're not they're just normal pants from genes from General pants because like you know, Trends are changing kind of you know loose-fitting pants are coming back in. I bought loose-fitting pants and

now my 0. What's y?

Your pants? I Lose.

I'm like, I can't take it. This is scary thought.

Yeah, now I love I love the height, right?

I do I really really appreciate constructive criticism like when someone's you know? Say hey, I like this.

But have you thought about doing this?

I we can't get enough of that. Love constructive criticism.

I also we see him and I both reply.

We try to reply to as many comments as we can and we love talking people around So there's been a few times where it's been a pretty much a blatant attack on us and we've sort of said, okay, cool, yeah, get where you're coming from but look at it from this angle, it's happened in previous jobs as well. I we did a hot hatch Mega test

for someone and it took it was like a month of trying to organize the cars enough staff, a racetrack trying to get everything to culminate in a one moment and then typical we get to the racetrack and it pisses down rain.

Salute torrential rain. And in the comments, why are you

should have? You should have shouldn't have

done it in the rain. I'm like, yeah, you're right,

the amount of the amount of logistics, it takes to make this thing happen and we couldn't even get the track for the whole day. We only had it for the morning

and I like this, we didn't have any other choice.

I would you, rather not like no story and no video coming out or we just do the best with what we can.

And I think a lot of people have no idea of the amount of work that goes into it, although the like Logistics involved, like why did you do this Rodney? Do that and likewise we just we

don't have the money. We can't reap can't do that

personally, I see the worst kind about those ones.

Freezing ice or 100 test recently and it was like, you know, a Ford Focus on it. And and the comments are like,

oh, I wonder how much food page of the to God.

It's funny was it with used cars as well because like the car companies don't really care. But why would they, because

we've been accused of the same thing.

I, you know, that we're in Toyotas Papa's.

We generally generally speaking recommend Toyota's, because they, yeah, but I just laughs, let's go forever.

But like, yeah, we're not getting a Cent and Toyota like, there's no money the white and why would they pay us?

Like no one's. Yeah, we're not we're not big

enough at all for anyone to go Ry.

Hey, Bri driven said this will then, you know, we're only going to buy spoilers from now on. So So, yeah, yeah.

The, the being in the pocket thing is ridiculous.

Yeah. I just, I just love reading

those comments and just like, oh, you know, if that was a golf, I would have flog, that focus.

And I was like, yeah. And it, even, even in the test,

they said, it's a front-wheel-drive hot.

Hatchback test. You know, hence, no gir has

hence know, you know, you know, far and they're still good, but it doesn't matter. It just turn up, comment.

Yeah, yeah. We got quite a lot of times to.

Yeah, I did. I can you do that?

So you can it came within the algorithm doesn't like that.

So the yeah. How could I please the

algorithm? Yeah.

See ya algorithm gods. Are we have to bow, bow to Rich?

You don't. That's cool.

That's that. I had like the algorithm because

it's I think having limits on what you do makes you more creative. I think if you just had free

rein, I don't think the work could be, there's good.

Yeah, it's yeah, yeah. And comment, look most I'd say

99% a fantastic and we love them but then at the same time I do love to have bad ones. I love you, I love a great bad

comments resource mm. Yeah, it's awesome.

Yeah I guess I did his been times where I've had friends messaging I hate into it and slice it and I'm like here we go. Forget to reply on some YouTube

videos. Is ha.

He said he's had some good times with that.

I've had to get home. It's a small addiction.

It is 100%. Totally.

Totally. Yeah, I love it.

I um, had to get Heidi going bedding for a moment.

I want to say who but friend of mine is a journalist.

He never signed up to be a presenter.

I hear that was never part of his job description and then obviously, you should happens. And now he has to be in front of

a camera and he hates that hates doing it.

He has and he caught some really nasty comments on a particular video years ago. And this guy just really

personal and not not cool. And so I wrote to the guy and at

like, in the comments right now is like this, you know, disco and told him the story like this was a journalist, he prayed in want to be in front of video and also, I know this dude and he's got a massive heart. And what you've said, he'll take

to heart and this will keep him up at night and he's already not confident in front of a camera. This is not helping him at all.

Yeah. Constructive criticism is one

thing that this has been genuinely harsh in the guy wrote back going. I yeah, you know, I know you're

right. I just yeah, I didn't even think

for a second that this guy would read it.

And yeah, I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have said that.

I might ha well, this guy that. Yeah, he's actually sort of came

out and apologized. It was like, that was really

good. It's good.

Hmm. Yeah.

But good yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I was reading a review for a some sandpaper auto part store and I was like, yeah, really? Right there wet and dry, really,

really good. I keep us I keep a few, keep a

few sheets of 80 grit a spare toilet paper, I just pissed myself. Like I was when people were

people, you know, review like that.

It makes it worthwhile like, I know that it's great but uh, yeah, but the fact that people like can be real personal and like Real Attack you'd like, and I don't like, I'm will bring back to the shooter. Kyle blondi, kind of, kind of

back into this, but she cops it like, oh yeah, absolutely cops.

It yeah, you know what she takes on the chin, figure it to us, you just keeps doing what she's doing.

And yeah, yeah, she's making the money and he you guys are just people walking away and yeah, yeah enough said I'm said that's a few guys and like, Neo will get heavily criticized about something and I'll mostly go. Cool, man.

Will you go do the same? Okay, go make the same video and

just show. Me how we should have done it

the first place, like, you know if you great Riley, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Go dedicate your life to the

cause of making your own YouTube channel, and sacrifice friendships, and then time off and sleep and Hemorrhage money into it. Just to show us how we should

have done in the first place. I'm, I'll be, I'll be all ears

like, you know, show us. So that goes back to people not

seeing what you go through to get a video out especially to a week mean. Yeah, that is full To get two

videos out of week. Yeah, it's some will to add

insult to injury. So before covid mode,

girlfriend, I booked some, some trips, so did the UK for it for a month and then literally just got back from New Zealand on Sunday night. And but the problem is when you

when you go away for any period of time.

So we went away for four weeks to London.

Well, then it means that I have to not only make the content and write and research the content for the time that we're in, but also the fall. Weeks leading up to the like to,

you know, have content going out while we're away but then also the week afterwards just in case there's some jet lag or if there's a delay in a car or a car, doesn't set up.

So yeah, Sam and I had to and then also sampled the trip to Bali just after our UK trip. So, there's a, there's a few

months there, where we were? We were literally creating

double the amount of content, so we were making 4 videos a week.

Well, for that. So we could have that kind of

One period off and it nearly killed us inside yet.

I think it's like Morgan with my girlfriend so I'd slept for over 10 hours on a flight straight. I got on a plane just was out

because it was just and then also being in front of the camera. Like like there's been nights

where I've had like maybe four hours sleep because it's been writing and researching and then getting from the camera, you got about. Hey g'day.

Welcome to retrieve its some more makeup.

Yeah. Yeah.

Inject coffee in the neck. Yeah, say that.

Yeah, not complaining. That's still love it.

But yeah it is it's a pretty decent workload.

So yeah, I always remember my he was an art teacher at high school and we went on an Excursion to the gallery.

You know you said you know your, I love listening to people comment you know, my two-year-old could have painted that and it was this big pause and he said the fact is they didn't ya. Fred yeah yeah, yeah.

Now the way I you know, I love like the cop section guys, like Henry catch pole and obviously Chris Harris and in Matt Watson from Colorado, we use the number one for us is Mighty Car Mods.

Like if it wasn't for Blair and Marty we wouldn't be doing this in the first place. So just see those guys in their

success and and their two guys from Sydney, the musos it just it made us going to go. Okay?

Well if they can do it then let's let's give it a shot and let's do our own our own spin on it.

And And yeah, seeing their success is what kind of Keeps Us driving ahead to just keep workout it and we're not stopping anytime soon. So we know we're getting to that

point hopefully soon where it'll actually start paying a.

Some kind of wage that would be great.

So yeah, it'll get there, it'll get there.

Yeah, just takes time. Yeah, whereas in that in that in

that part of the moment with his startup like it's just it's just real. Just?

Yeah, it's grinding work. It's a real hustle.

It's a real, you know, Driven in better comments?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's you putting in you

putting in the hard yards and it's, and it's not, you know, it's not for the faint of heart. Like, a lot of people try all

this and working, I'll give up at the fact that you've done.

Like, what do you say 200 years now?

Like, yeah, it's 200. Or touch over 200.

Yeah, yeah. What do you pressive like?

Thanks man. Thanks, dude.

Yeah, well, my honestly, like you, you reaching out to do his podcast. Like you don't understand how

much that like the impact that had.

I've never done a podcast. I will Of podcasts.

And there's my first one I've ever done and hopefully, not the last. But yeah, it's a kind of be

invited on to a podcast right man that that is one of those moments are going. Holy shit like wow where do we

think we're doing something, right?

If we get invited to go on a podcast, this is yeah man.

It really meant a lot and does mean a lot.

So really, really, really appreciate it and we doing a car quiz Maddie. Yeah, we're doing a car quiz.

Couple last questions before we get into the car quiz.

Also your local mechanic, Jim who He's my arguably, my favorite part of your, of, your of your shows because because he just, he's just a know, she kind of guys and you just, he's just always the best, he's the best. He's so yeah.

How did you come across here? Are you just he just seems like

just like he's like, yeah, don't buy it.

It's shit. My agent said yeah that is his

response. Like this is fantastic.

Yeah and I hear me, it's just a mutual friend of friend of mine I got good. Adam Freeman is another drama

who I love dearly. He he was made to the gym.

Through cycling actually through mountain bikes and cycling and then just end up hanging out like one Ivo with free mo and then just hit it off instantly. That was honestly, that was like

20 years ago and Jim and I have been great mates ever since then. Yeah, have hung out.

Yeah, test. He's a legend in them and then

when that story about the Volkswagen happen and it was around the same time that I was leaving the previous job and it just about a bunch of stuff all happened at once and And I just said, you know, you're hilarious.

You've got heaps of Charisma. I think you'd be great in front

of a camera and I think having this kind of legitimate, you know, I kind of think of this. I'm like the subjective voice in

the videos and he's the objective voice in the video.

So kind of having this genuine mechanic commenting on these cars. I think adds so much to the

video and and yeah, he's got his own fan base man.

Like we had so many comments to that gym.

So, yeah, it's great. He's he's he's a cool dude.

Just wait for the what way for his opinion on, what he's going to say. And yeah.

Yeah. He's he's brutally honest.

And you know what, in terms of in terms of what you're doing, I think he has to be like yeah it was like yeah don't buy it like these are these are a money pit. Yeah yeah.

It's um we're both getting recognized lately which is bizarre and yeah he he got yeah he got his first somebody recognizing recently at a race event and now it's happening a bit more often and then yeah, it's again.

That's I mean, I never even considered that side of this.

I never that was never a thought so it's weird again, completely flattering when people come up but yeah, yeah.

Here Amy here. Amy strategies like someone

Ricky Was Bitten tried, can't believe.

You've got to go. Thanks for coming on tonight.

Reason, I'll speak to you during the week.

Great to meet you here. And my last question for you,

Adam, when you hop in a car, do you find a spot for you to say?

I can be a coffee, wanker in this car, like, with my My with my son. The coffee that sighs, I just

thought follow all over the place, but I'm really comfortable with my my pretentious attitudes towards coffee do it. So I'm just trying to make you

laugh. It was funny whenever you say

that in you like you like for you know, the small little coffee Spandau in one of my cars.

I see it. I'm like I'm like I know exactly

what he talks about anything that I take interest.

In. So like watches bikes Cars

movies. Yeah.

It's part of my personality this to obsess over it and yeah, I am. Yeah.

And it's generally pretty pretentious, I think.

In friends out of like comments. Like we've got guys that we've,

you know, messages, like on install whatever.

And and I would Now call them mates, you know, and it's lovely to kind of have that connection. It's great.

Yeah, the community is a really cool way of doing that.

Like I met, I met Ed through a car that a cousin coffee.

I'll, he's always got his old friend of 16.

I'm like Rihanna 16. Yeah, it started talking and

yeah, I'm at least getting you what it knew, what it was to any loans online. It knows what it is.

I'm like okay well Chat. Yeah, so so yellow.

It's like I'm a prisoner at a car event and I met Scotty, go through work and we just Bond of cars and yeah, you know, it's it's it's really interesting like a lot of my friends like nailed like that. I'm like that.

I guess my mom will close friends and I've always just in the car community and it's a bit weird because, like, because like, back in high school, like I had, I didn't really have any friends I went into cars because I know they're all like, if you went to college, but weird. So yeah, it's actually it's

actually one of the best communities and in fact, I'd like people your commoners alike becoming friends with, you know, like that that's fantastic. Like that doesn't seem credible

mean. It's yeah, Mighty Car Mods.

Tell this story about it, was the first time those guys went to the states and they were we're talking, you know, I think nearly a million subscribers are crazy numbers and they announced that they were going to La, they were on the going over to the Cima show and they got there, a few days early and they're like, oh hey, we just from. Yeah.

There's anyone out there wants to Grab a coffee or something.

We're going to be at this particular spot and and they had like, thousands of people turn up and and how what the hell's going on? That's what, that's what the

community can do, you know, together for this like-minded, kind of this like, want to go, and I feel so intrinsically in it, but I feel like because it shows like drive to survive and end because of you If I feel like the community is growing, I feel like they used to be a period there where it was not cool to be into cars. Like it wasn't cool to be into

for me alone, whereas now, it is very cool to be into Formula One and I do feel like, yeah, maybe we kind of tipping the other way to be. It's kind of cool to be into

cars again. So hopefully that's the case.

No, I completely agree with you. I've got like somewhere your

towels. I teach there's one girl, Jess.

She's she's she's just got her license but she's a massive car head. Like yeah.

We should just drop the Corolla but she's addicted to Formula One. She's a dick.

She wants a Fiat, 500 like an original Fiat 500?

Yeah. So cool.

She's like not the new junk while now she's like I want.

Yeah she quit and and I'm like damn that's cool.

I guess that's so cool. Such a cool thing.

Yeah and and and the fact that she's not afraid to be yell like cars like and a few of your friends like we should be weird but you know it's a great thing and I thought for a while there Kind of dying off, especially with the, with the rise of the SUV. But I think, I think those of

you who are those of us who actually really, like ours are, you know, staying staying strong.

So upset? Yeah, I think so.

I think so, I'm confident. Yeah, if you want to be part of

the quiz, you let's get home. I'm nervous.

Who comes on this rig. That's rigged it.

So I got my name out all the time first and it's like, I never got called sister. Lets me the internet in my area.

Yeah, it's that it's, that you don't lose any points or anything, but like the next person who's buzzed in can go and I don't think we ought to First to help sorry it still gets the highest score at the end.

Wins is a couple of bonus questions in there.

So yeah, let's let's do it, let's give it a Guinness.

I'm excited, question 1. Okay, now we're starting.

Okay, put some context, I've been into Hubble's recently because I've got one of the rental for a long story reason.

And and just just, you just switches.

I was like, Vietnam. Done to annoy a dime on while

putting another. Another have a question in

there. What is it?

According to have an Australia, the word.

I'd have will means what. Yeah, I'm gonna have crickets in

that question. I think.

Wow, I don't know it, it does. It mean have more?

I'll give you a point five. You got the food.

You got the first part of it, right?

How does the first part? I'll give you a point five point

there. Adam, is it have or as it have

all ordinary good? That's that's that's really.

Now thing, the same thing I was like, is it have it all or something? It's it translates to have.

Which in English is basically have and value have value.

Okay. Cool.

Very nice question 2. What was Ford's official?

Reason not to make the current focus into a Focus RS?

Adam Adam. It was it was it like in global

platform and it's, they did the cost of doing it is just not going to work out. Yeah, I'll pay that basically

they couldn't really justify the performance for such a niche market. Yeah.

And stringent emissions and stuff.

Now, these like Ian are CBF. Yeah.

So you're on the board. Bonus question, which generation

of the Focus RS. Had the biggest engine in liter

capacity You Adam, Adam is the to use the five cylinder.

This is the 2.0, my God, is a 2.3 He was a 2.3 litre

five-cylinder. I'll give it to you.

I'll give you the point. It was the mark 2 with 2.55 song

that I have five. She is the same engine upgrades.

Question 3. What car am I?

This cars model came out in 2002 and is still on sale today and as it is now in its third generation, this car was it's company's first foray into New design philosophy of being stylish, insightful and spirited, Ed, Ed master, six, your small messages. Well, I just bought so it's on

the brain. Yeah, no ice.

There's the available as a four-door sedan, 5-door liftback and 5-door, wagon, Alfred fantastic ride handling out of its mid-size segment. And arguably was the one to be

if you were the inverted commas, driver's car sedan and hatch end away and wasn't? It was fun.

Right. Yeah.

Orange going to be art in the Mazda6.

Is the most underrated car you can buy?

I agree. Yeah, just to give you some

context that I want to walk the with my neighbor was a 09 so it's that second shape. I can join you one owner car

180k on it. That metallic red but not so

it's quite it's a nice sort of read.

It was a top-of-the-line with Bose leather, sunroof xenon's, you know Crews keyless entry out the nice snowflake e alloy.

These sensors front when we all of that, you know, like this things, you know, twelve thousand dollars.

Give or take like what a cracking car, you know?

So good. So great, really?

It's um, if you're getting a lot of car for the money now.

Oh yeah. Yeah.

Complete completely agree. You got to do in ps4 version?

Yeah yeah. We've got so just seemed as to

measure the three. And yeah, I think I can get my

hands on the MPS. It's got a confirm it but yeah.

A master 6 is these coming. I'm trying to track down a wagon

because I just yeah, I think that we've had quite a few requests on what the wagons like.

So yeah. And then one of the few

companies that still make an actual bag, you know?

Yeah. By the wayside it's one of the

few left. So he's actually recommended

that quite a few people. It's like you don't want an SUV

and you just want a good wagon go by one.

Yeah. Great car.

Great car, bonus question. What is the Mazda6 known as in

Japan? I know this.

Well Scott is it that is Tina, incorrect.

But was the 323 of the 33. Yeah.

It's not that Alexa. That's the threatened as a

three-letter Lexi. Exactly.

Exactly. Yeah, yeah.

I'll know it when it sees you say, I don't know, it does start with a but that's all, that's all right.

I literally, yeah, well I literally saw one on Sunday morning, in New Zealand. There's obviously they're all

Imports and I'm just trying. I saw the back of it and that's

fine. It is the

when it came to nuts and put the What size was the engine Ed?

Ed just got in there. First I want to run SL Angie.

I don't know if they ever officially did name g and that, but they certainly did the V12 in.

It was at the 6-litre. V12 incorrect is a V12.

I'll give you that. But it's a it is a it is they

did do an hour. MJ did like three angry bones of

it? Adam you were next to buzzing.

Yeah. I think it's not a seven layer

is like 6.56 prophecy? No.

Yeah, I'm sorry. It incorrectly, so sorry.

So are we saying it was a V12 or not?

It was a V12 yet do I get half a point to saying V12 if you be a nice guy today I'll think about it.

Alright 6.86 want to know it was 7.3 L.

Yo Mama G's 386 lat. Engineer cool.

Yeah, yeah, question fire. That's some serious powerful

back then. That's, that's the.

That's insane. That's crazy.

Those are these videos on YouTube is one of those with a like, okay, well, no muscles like a straight through exhaust and it sounds like an 80s Formula One car.

It does. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I think it was one with that.

They also did it to a, to a, to an S-Class but that V10, V12.

And yeah, just straight piped it and yeah.

It was insane. Yeah question 5 what car was the

original Holden Cruze based on Adam Adams Suzuki gets okay all right. All right

and the only thing, the only thing that's ever gone wrong with The alternator needed replacing like three years ago, we're going to move lower on because they've they're actually getting pretty good money and and she's in mint condition.

Both my girlfriend in the car. I mean, sure what to replace it

with. And I'm seriously thinking about

getting one of those holding Cruisers because it is literally a Suzuki, and they did a little Drive.

Yeah, it's 1.6. L all drive.

And it has the same power to weight ratio as a Suzuki Swift sport. Which is pretty good.

Yeah so I've never driven one but I'm glad he tempted.

Yeah, yeah. They're fun little things and

they look kind of funky to yeah. Yeah actually a photoshopped one

with some I did a photo shoot with Jack up with all terrains and then load then load with some like Volk rims or something. Like yeah, I just I think it can

be a cool thing. I think it could be

Sports. Yes, they're all awesome.

Awesome, awesome. Little thing.

And it was just been about out of our price range because we wanted like budget as we didn't spend much on all the car.

Yeah. It was a cracking in the drive,

really fun. So yeah, that whole that whole

new cruise is literally mechanically the same car but it's all drive. And it's as you driving harder.

They have appetites with manual gearboxes but because it's a Holden Cruze, no one buys them. You can get like an expensive

one is four thousand dollars? Yeah.

Yeah they're there. Yeah you can get him to Grant

with like 120,000. Kazon do you think people are

reading reviews going? Don't touch a Holden Cruze.

Don't talk Tom Cruise. Yeah, realizing that's a Suzuki

home. Yeah, not the later.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah.

It's I think yeah. Like, as the Mazda6 is probably

the most underrated car out there.

I think that Holden Cruze at bigness Holden, Cruze is maybe the most underrated small little car cheap car.

Yeah yeah I called the proper Holden Cruze.

Yes that's yeah, that's a good bonus question.

This is Sookie ignis sport which I previously just mentioned was introduced after its debut in the World Rally Championship.

What type of seats that it receive it?

Ed, what ahead recaros in it? Did every car isn't a hundred

cars with the I believe I think I had the fishnet.

Yeah. proton Satria GTI, they had the same thing, which is the

more traditional Question 6, the 300 series Land.

Cruiser came out with a different engine.

How many cylinders does it have a Adam?

It just bear. That's the lightest one.

Let's say that's a 6. That is a six.

Well done question 7 which Australian car was the first production car in the world to use Eaton's twin vortices supercharger. Hey Ed was it the Commodore

supercharged Commodore like the VR Commodore incorrect Adam.

Adam is it a valiant incorrect? It was because sitting down the

TRD Orion was the first one to okay to use that twin vortices supercharger. Yeah well because the Condor one

wasn't a twin supercharged was it like it was like it was He's like, I don't really notice some magic happens in the works.

Say three based on an E36. An E30 rear end.

I think they were they weren't so I still think they would German but I know that's a trick question.

I think I'm going to go like Austria incorrect, Adam, Adam, I'm gonna go with like Czech Republic incorrect.

Okay, Tim come on Scotty, come on, you can do it.

And we now I know one of the desserts and I don't know if it's going to be the right one, but was it America?

Absolutely. It was a miracle.

Well done. Science News.

One of them. I thought.

Well, everyone said everything else.

I was thinking. Yeah it was um it was actually

the first BMW. That was only ever proved like

produced there like built and just produce their that was it wasn't built anywhere else. It was just boom.

Yeah. Okay, question eight.

How many generations of the Honda Civic?

Have they be it Ed? Well, there's a new one that's

just come out. Here we go.

He's going to he's going to come up now.

No, I'm not kidding. I'm just kidding.

I'm just going to take that out. Okay.

What be 1111 is absolutely spot-on.

Edward on. Yeah, Yeah.

Question 10. What car is set to debut

tomorrow in America? United States of Freedom.

Adam, Adam new Mustang. The new Mustang is absolutely

correct score. Check.

Scotty one. I don't want for and tonight's

winner is Edward on 4.5 exam. The Ridge of the old Land

Cruiser engine the VA. Yeah, well game, I like that

game. That was a great, good

questions. Yeah, we do that every week.

It's getting to the point where I'm like I'm really don't like scratching for like questions to ask.

Like I'm like I've asked this one before.

I can't say same questions. I'm just like yeah, yeah.

Just rephrase it a bit, you know.

Yeah. Just like the, what car was came

out last week in America now, I'm looking forward to actually seeing the new Mustang so yeah. Yeah, that's it.

It's a car. I did not want to like and could

not help but fall in love with some had had three of them as press cars and I remember the first time it was when it first came out and they told me I was getting a Focus RS which was super excited for and set up. They gave me a Mustang like now.

Okay and then I remember getting home and Morgan going what is this? I'm like I know, I'm sorry, I'm

sorry. Sorry.

And then and then and then after like, three days were like, this is awesome, such a great. And then I had the bullet in the

my God. That was brilliant.

The bullet was absent. That's one, that's a fantastic

car. Hey listen, yeah, yeah.

It was just sorted and just not crazy, fast didn't need to be just in every trip you had in. It was like, this is so fun.

Such a good thing. Yeah, have you done a Mustang on

read driven? Not yet where I'm trying to get

my hands on one that we actually had a neighbor here.

He works in the military and he was like, yeah, and take mine.

And then again, two weeks before we were due to have it.

He got posted somewhere else and cars going.

So, yeah, I do need to find a Mustangs.

We've had heaps of requests for it, but, yeah, because there You know for all their Brawn and you know, kind of street cred, they were not built beautifully in the safety rating really awful and what are they like 100,000 case on them?

Yeah. We don't we try not to do me

condition ones because it's not a good representation of what's on the market. And we also try not to do

anything as completely abused. So trying to find something

that's like right in the middle. There can be a challenge at

times and will generally now because I've got to I stuck because we can reach out to will happily be patient and just wait for the right one to come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, if you need a noisy delivered, r31 just just hit me up. I do.

Yeah, not even you can't give him that car.

It's almost there. It's almost on the roads.

Trouble to you guys. Got a bunch of mates down there

and listen and try to shoot as much stuff as we can.

And we're definitely doing a camera trip because yeah.

I can't believe how many cars have been offered there.

It's amazing. But between you and me, Matt.

And Scotty what? How many cars we got probably?

So this is awesome. We might be the same but if you

guys got a typhoon we must wait until I've got a like this Matt does. Yeah.

It's a it's an original 6-speed manual.

Just just perfect example to you so awesome.

Love them. Love them.

Yeah, and it comparison my brother's got like a 680 kilowatt F6, like like FG generic.

And I'm just like every time a guy said on this show, if you'll just go in that car is like I'm like I don't want to be in this thing anymore. Like this is.

Yeah yeah. That eat that even though that's

the most violent. I've been skydiving and it like

skydiving was heaps more fun than driving that Evo right now.

You don't want that. It's a horrible horrible.

Yeah, I honestly couldn't get the full beans and the times I gave it like 80% And couldn't focus on what I was doing, was not sin and Alex. The guy that owns it was like,

does take it too late. Take a look as long as you want

and then he and then he came to get it.

He's like did you get him? Did you get heaps?

Like no, not really terrified and he said, no, come on.

I'll take you for a spin and I'm like, okay, here we go.

Anyway, I said goodbye to my girlfriend and our pet rabbit and then that's it. I'm done.

Yeah, we went down this is this. You saying this on a podcast?

But went down. This is great.

Yeah, yeah. Went down a racetrack that he

hired, honestly, I've driven a GT2 RS and this thing leaves it for dead it like, well, he did. He took it for the to the drags.

It's not a drag car, he just built it to see could, and not even on drag radials, I think the first runner did like in the low 90s. Yeah.

It's it's doubt. It is the most violent thing

I've ever. Is he also took gym for a drive

in it, Jim come. Jim is a rally driver for years

and is now competing in the New South Wales, who climbed chicken chips. And I've never seen the color

drain out of Jim's face. Like a did.

He came back and Alex left and Jim just looked at me and went.

That was that was horrible. That was a hell of an

experience. Yeah.

Yeah. I've never had my, I couldn't

focus. Despite it's just noise and blur

and oh, my God, it was terrible. But awesome.

The 10. Like I've been in a few times,

but like after he's had this recent tune bigger, turbo, this that the other like we're in Mexico and you gave it a hit and I was like I didn't like dude. No more.

Like I've never felt like the whole world becomes tunnel vision. I just became like like the

freaking the Starship Enterprise.

It was crazy. I was just, I felt like, I never

thought I'd be saying be like, that's just too much power, like I was like, oh, yeah, 100% like this is just yes, this is bullshit. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like it's just not, it's just not.

It's the it was not fun. I just like I'm first put my

hand up and I just don't have the driving ability to handle that like and I just yeah, I'm not a Formula One driver.

So I just died. Yeah yeah I know how I don't

have. Alex keeps the thing on the road

though he's got a bunch of other cars but like that thing.

Yeah my God and something like it's got to like a 30 or 40 thousand dollar sequential gearbox in.

It's just Baba bad bonkers. Absolutely crazy.

Yeah. Yeah, I can understand how you

would feel a bit sick in something.

Like I was so shit. Yeah.

Well and good to catch up with a small coffee with you. Yeah.

Yeah. Sounds great.

And again guys I can't thank you guys Enough by honestly this this, yeah, it's one of these kind of little moments in life of going. Holy shit.

We got invited to be on a podcast.

That's that's amazing. So yeah, really honestly, really

appreciate you reaching out. So thank you so much.

Now I appreciate your coming and show.

My least I can do give yourself a plug and the stuff that you do and so where can people find you and all the social Stuff Etc.

Yeah honestly re driven Dot-com and just YouTube very driven and obviously Instagram. And now Tick-Tock as well.

We're doing a bunch of tick-tock stop soon.

So as embarrassing as that is to say, it's got to do it.

So, yeah. Anyway, you can finally driven

Trump on the Great Edward, bunting your podcast.

Yeah, it's kind of having a little break at the moment.

It's called Auto retro where our good friend David.

And I talked to people about the cars of their lives, a bit of a bit of a, this is your life. Through the lens of what cars

you've had. So you can find it on YouTube,

on Spotify and that elsewhere. But yeah, as we say season, one

out, season 2 are pending. Awesome.

And Scotty do anything this Neutron.

So, so, just for some context again, Adam, because you because it's got, he's our resident snitch, he will.

If one of our cars, broken heel, slippage to eddore's, whoever gets the awesome. That's so great.

I've got a little insight for you Scotty.

Kevin Walker job, Matthew and I had dinner the other night and he snitched to me that He's been to 60 is broken.

And I thought, I don't know if Scotty knows about this.

No, I kept quiet for running issues Scotty.

So I Feast on that. Yes, God.

He doesn't like a hot. Start at the moment.

I don't know why. So, yeah, okay.

I'll I'll let everybody know now.

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He's also Got stuff written for the driven.

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