Zack's Game Show; M5 Touring (Again); Aston Vanquish Review
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BMW M5
The BMW M5 Touring is a fast and sporty version of a BMW wagon. It has a powerful engine and is great for people who want a family car that can also go really fast.
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Aston Martin Vanquish
The Aston Martin Vanquish is a fancy sports car that looks really good and goes really fast. It's known for being luxurious and is often seen as a status symbol.
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Ford Mustang
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Shelby Cobra
The Ford Mustang is a popular sports car that has been around for decades. The SN95 is a specific version made between 1994 and 2004, which has a unique look compared to other Mustangs.
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fuel economy
Fuel economy is how far a car can go on a certain amount of gas. If a car gets good fuel economy, it means you won't have to fill up the tank as often.
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gas gauge
The gas gauge tells you how much fuel is left in your car. It's important to check it so you don't run out of gas while driving.
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Porsche Panamera Turbo
The Porsche Panamera Turbo is a fancy and fast car that feels like a sports car but has the comfort of a luxury sedan. It's designed to handle well and provide a smooth ride.
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double polarized NIR lens technology
Double polarized NIR lens technology is a special kind of lens that helps reduce glare and makes things look clearer. It's great for driving on sunny days because it helps you see better and keeps your eyes comfortable.
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Ford Mustang GTD
The Ford Mustang GTD is a super-fast version of the classic Mustang that is built for racing. It's made for people who love speed and performance.
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Hyundai Santa Cruz
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wheel weight
Wheel weights are used to balance your car's wheels so they spin evenly. If a weight falls off, it can cause the car to shake or handle poorly.
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Honda S2000
The Honda S2000 is a small sports car with two seats that is really fun to drive. It has a powerful engine that makes it exciting, especially for those who love speed.
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Porsche Panamera
The Porsche Panamera is a fancy car that looks like a sports car but has four doors for more space. It's fast and comfortable, making it great for both driving and everyday use.
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Rolls-Royce Phantom
The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a very fancy car that is all about luxury. It has a super smooth ride and a beautiful interior, making it one of the most expensive cars in the world.
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Porsche Taycan GTS
The Porsche Taycan GTS is a high-performance electric car that is fast and luxurious, designed for those who want an exciting driving experience without using gasoline.
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launch control
Launch control is a system in some fast cars that helps you start quickly from a stop. It makes sure the car accelerates as fast as possible without spinning the wheels.
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Lexus LFA
The Lexus LFA is a special sports car that has a unique engine sound and design. It's not very common because only a few were made, which makes it popular among car lovers.
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mid-engine car
A mid-engine car is one where the engine is placed in the middle of the car, rather than at the front or back. This helps the car handle better when driving fast.
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V12
A V12 is a type of engine that has twelve cylinders. It's known for being powerful and smooth, and is often used in fancy sports cars.
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Ferrari 812
The Ferrari 812 is a fast and fancy car that has a powerful engine. It's designed for people who love to drive quickly and enjoy luxury features.
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RPM
RPM means how fast the engine is spinning. When the number is higher, it usually means the car can go faster.
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CarPlay
CarPlay is a way to connect your iPhone to your car so you can use apps and listen to music through the car's screen.
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Aston Martin Vantage Roadster
The Aston Martin Vantage Roadster is a fancy sports car that you can drive with the top down. It's known for being fast and stylish.
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Aston Martin DB12
The Aston Martin DB12 is another luxury car from Aston Martin, designed for both speed and comfort. It's a bit more practical than the Vantage.
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tramlining
Tramlining is when a car's tires get pulled along the grooves in the road, making it feel like the car is steering itself. It can be annoying, especially in fast cars.
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MSRP
MSRP is the price that the car maker suggests dealers sell the car for. It can change based on what the dealer decides to charge or any extra features you choose.
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nose lift
A nose lift is a mechanism that raises the front of a car to prevent it from scraping on bumps or steep driveways. It's helpful for cars that are very low to the ground.
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front splitter
A front splitter is a part attached to the front of a car that helps it stay stable when driving fast. It works by pushing the car down onto the road, which can improve handling.
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carbon rear diffuser
A carbon rear diffuser is a part at the back of a car that helps control how air flows under the car. It can make the car more stable and faster, especially at high speeds.
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downforce
Downforce is a force that pushes a car down onto the road, helping it grip better and stay stable when going fast. It's important for sports cars to handle well.
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carbon diffuser
A carbon diffuser is a part of a car that helps control the air flowing underneath it, making the car more stable when driving fast. It's often made from a lightweight material called carbon fiber.
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McLaren 765LT
The McLaren 765LT is a very fast sports car made for racing. It's built to be lightweight and powerful, making it great for driving on a track.
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radar cruise control
Radar cruise control helps your car keep a safe distance from the car in front of you. It can slow down or speed up automatically, so you don't have to keep adjusting the gas pedal, especially in stop-and-go traffic.
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gas station
A gas station is where you go to fill up your car with fuel. They usually have pumps where you can get gas or diesel to keep your vehicle running.
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massage seat
A massage seat is a special feature in some cars that can give you a massage while you sit in it. It has different settings to help relax your back and other areas.
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postural adjustment
Postural adjustment is a car seat feature that helps you stay comfortable by moving slightly so you don't sit in the same position for too long. It's designed to help reduce stress while driving.
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Honda Civic
The Honda Civic is a small car that many people like because it's dependable and saves on gas. It's been around for a long time and comes in different styles, making it a good option for many drivers.
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Honda Civic Type-R
The Honda Civic Type-R is a sportier version of the regular Civic that is really fun to drive. It has a cool look and is made for people who love speed.
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Audi Rs
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Audi 100
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Audi RS3
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Ferrari 250 Gtos
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Pontiac Gtos
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Porsche Cayenne
The Porsche Cayenne is a fancy SUV that drives like a sports car. It gives you more space and comfort while still being fun to drive.
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Hummer H2
The Hummer H2 is a big, tough-looking SUV that can go off-road easily. It's known for being very noticeable and not the best on gas mileage.
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Ford F150
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Chevrolet C6
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Porsche 911
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Lotus Elise
The Lotus Elise is a small, very light sports car that is fun to drive. It doesn't have a lot of extra features, but it makes up for that with great performance.
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Cadillac DeVille
The Cadillac DeVille is a big, comfortable car that was made for a long time. It's known for being very spacious and stylish.
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Mini Countryman
The Mini Countryman is a small SUV that has a fun design and is easy to drive. It offers more space than a regular Mini, making it good for families or trips.
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Bmw X1
The BMW X1 is a small luxury SUV that is comfortable and fun to drive. It has a lot of space inside, making it a good choice for families.
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Aston Martin Valhalla
The Aston Martin Valhalla is a super-fast car that uses both gas and electricity to go fast. It's designed to be very advanced and stylish.
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Gordon T50
The Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 is a very light and fast sports car made for people who love to drive. It's designed to be super fun and exciting.
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Volkswagen Jettas
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Volkswagen Gtis
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Ferrari Ff
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Lamborghini Venenos
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Lamborghini Diablos
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Smoking Tire Podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by Off the Record. We love Off the Record here at the Smoking Tire. And every week, including this one, I get multiple emails from you guys saying that Off the Record has helped you get those points and keep those points off of your record. Do a little whoopsie on the highway. You don't just roll over. You don't plead guilty. You call for backup. You go to Off the Record.com slash TST.
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inspiration and the execution of that. I do take two on the M5 touring. The first one was broken. So they sent us another one and review the new Aston Martin vanquish, Yausa, plus me and Zach almost ran out of gas in the same car. All that and more on the Smoking Tire Podcast. Let's go.
Okay, I can see us. Can you? I can. Am I clear to you? I can see. Yes, because I'm clear. And I want to talk to you about that picture me rolling picture me in Scientology. Oh, you that kind of clear. I meant am I clear to you is from the intro to picture me rolling in a 500 bends.
Exist a yaw. Exist. I was waiting for some audience confirmation, but it'll work. Yep. Hello. Good morning. Good morning. I had a cool story on the morning. I want to shout out. I was walking to work. And I see a Mr. Chrome Terminator sitting in a light. And I about take my phone out to take a picture and see the window go down. And I walk up. And the guys like I'm listening to you guys on a podcast right now. Carlos and I put me in a great mood.
And I was like, do not take a picture of your car. Carlos Mr. Chrome. Cobra. Send us a photo of the mist. Is it? It was a first or second gen. Roundy one or new edge. A new edge. That's Mr. Chrome. The 96 one, the SN95 was just mystic. Oh, okay. I casually refer to both as Mr. Chrome and Mustang nerd Mustang nerd. Actually, it's actually just mystic.
Shout out to Carlos. Yeah. I got actually I got actually an email the other day because I went on a little rant about cafe a couple of like two weeks ago or whatever it was. Actually, cafe has nothing to do with the missions.
Cafe is just a tax scam to get the manufacturers to pay more for to build cars. The the email are referred to a system of penalties for not meeting fuel economy standards as a tax scam.
That isn't what a tax scam is. A tax scam is what an individual figures out how to not pay taxes on things they should be paying taxes on. That's that's a fine that you pay the government. If you don't do the thing, it's not a tax scam. Right.
And if you have if you really have to be explained as to why cars that have better fuel efficiency produce fewer emissions, I don't know how to help you. I'm sorry. Without me.
It's not a it's not a direct one to one. It's not a direct one to one. You could find a car that goes, well, this gets 35 miles per gallon, but puts out more well, diesels or in this one. But in general, industry wide.
If the cars are more fuel efficient, they are burning fewer things. Right. True. Yeah.
And also the cafe element is one aspect of it. I just watched this week's episode of some more news, which you should watch.
And do the fucking creep running the EPA now is fucking like a oil and like he talks like an oil industry lobbyist.
On all these like, there's just video after video after video of him going on these podcasts and talking about how the EPA will no longer get in the way of industry.
Like he's literally sounds like a lobbyist. He's like, well, we like the environment, but we can't we can't get in the way of industry. It's crazy. So anyway, it's all happening. It's good. It's going good.
Like if we don't, you know, you know, we might we might burn. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. It'll be fun.
On a better note, Zach has a game show. Zach made a game show. And I was I was a bad delinquent friend and didn't watch it for six days after it came up. It was car week.
It was car week. I didn't do. You saw me not being able to do any real work. You were there. Yeah. So Hannah and I sat down and watched it last night. It was cool. Thank you.
Zach Cladman's driver's test. Driver's test is a good is a good name because they're all. He's on it drives a car. Well, and well, it's like in everyone who has a license to
take in their drivers test. It's a double double on top of the thing. It's a it and Zach has the disheveled suit. I see the standard. The standard. The standard. Internet game show host disheveled suit. Yeah. The time was left open by accident. It was so hot in there. But I really had completed the look. Yeah. If you I think if you had that suit with a like a well fitting tie, I think it would have looked silly. Yeah. I need to look silly, but not not too silly.
Well, I mean, not to shout about one too many time to show, but Cody from some more news has been wearing the same suit without like washing it for like five years. Really? Yeah. And it's gotten like progressively more disintegrated without washing it. I mean, I can't. I think it's without washing it. But like or it's like strategically washing it. So it falls apart. But like it's it's just it's self deconstructed. If I didn't wash the suit for that long, the armpits would have holes in them just for. Well, he's the only person on camera.
Yeah, you've got to have people surrounding you in this one. Yeah. So why'd you decide to make a game show? I was watching a lot of these British panel shows. The BBC is great because they have like five shows that are just excuses for comedians to talk to each other. It's like a podcast, but with a little bit of an agenda. So they've got, you know, it's there's a trivia. Like Jimmy Carr has a trivia show. Like every year. Yeah. And you know, people have to
answer the questions stuff. But most of it, like 90% of that show is banter and stuff. But they have a bunch of them. And it's just it's a it's like we need a vehicle for these people.
Funny people to talk and do something. And I was just sitting there watching these and thinking like there's no car version of that right now. There's no and it's. Yeah, basically that. Like we have all these people that are in the car world. And, you know, very entertaining folks, very knowledgeable folks.
And how can we get them together in a way that's fun. And, you know, and I don't want to like make a new podcast because I'm not going to do that. And it would just be.
You know, not doing another podcast is very important. Yeah, not really like I'm not going to reinvent that wheel. Yeah. But I just thought like what's what do we like to do like to hang out with all of our different people. People discuss a bunch of things.
And how do we add a little mission and a little bit of competition that makes them kind of, you know, try a little hard pay a little attention.
But the show's not too serious because a third of the. No, two thirds of the way through. I looked at Hannah and I was like, is there a score?
Like I actually like I was there a score. If that was the episode to have a score, maybe a lower third. Yeah, yeah.
But like I did actually for I assumed there was a score at some point, but I like the conversation turned to something else. And I was like, I don't
Is there is you're like use it somewhere you go. I'll award you two points. I was like, there's points like it was fun.
There's points with every question. I did intentionally not call out the score with each question because I thought, you know, TV production move. If one of the questions is a fucking dud.
Yeah, you can cut it. Yeah, yeah, you've got to cut it. You know, for the audience, like, we'll only cut it in a way that keeps it fair. I'm not going to change who wins.
I'm not going to be a kingmaker over there, but that was from caddy. Yeah, but we'll do it in a lower third. That was the most requested thing was a scoreboard. And then people suggestions like from friends, family and commenters online.
We're so funny. And all over my friend text me yesterday, he goes, he's like, here's the idea for how to improve your show. Three teams of three. And I was like, that is twice as hard to schedule. And he was like, one team knows nothing about cars. One team is just friends.
And one team was based. That's a brutal.
Jay knows everything about cars that have the four cars that appeared in movies from 1986 to 1991. And nothing about any cars outside of that at all.
Yeah. So that's why I intentionally paired him with Derek because Derek was a journalist works or work for car driver. And Jay has detailed files.
What? Derek has detailed files. Yeah, just shy of his spreadsheet. Yeah, yeah.
So no, it's a fun thing. I am going to give you absolutely no suggestions at all. Everyone else is giving you suggestions. I mean, I'm in a 100% support business.
You can listen to suggestions from other people. And if you want them, you can ask, but I bet you have enough. Either way, it's a fun idea.
I didn't know. I don't watch British chat shows. So when when I was watching it last night, I was like, OK, am I am I watching a game show that feels like a podcast or a podcast that feels like a game show.
And now that you've described to me what the sort of inspiration and intent was a little better because you you didn't, I think you intentionally didn't talk to me about this at all before you made it to be fair.
I only told five people and they were all there that day, which is like fine. And I knew you were doing something. And I figured if you wanted to tell me you would have and if you didn't want to, there was a reason and whatever.
And I didn't want to say anything really about it at all until I actually watched it. And I figured if you wanted editorial, you'd ask, but I enjoyed it.
And now that I know the backstory of it, that's what you did. It's like halfway between a game show and a podcast. So like, well done. Yeah, that's exactly if that was what you set out to do. There it is. That's the fucking thing.
And the guests are all people I know and like. And I hope you make more of them. And you got with one video, you got 3000 subscribers and 11,000 views. So I mean, that's, that's pretty encouraging. That's pretty good.
I was pretty shocked and like stoked on everybody who subscribed because, you know, it went from zero because it was a brand new channel. Yeah, to 3000 subscribers and then, you know, views are fine. And I'd launching a new thing. I went, this might have 100 views. I have no idea what it's going to do. But the response has been good. The support has been amazing. And we, I am planning to make more of them. We're going to make another one in September.
You know, the pace, I think I could do one a month. And because you have to get, you know, you know how it is, we used to sketch one. No, no, no, that's a pain in the dick. Yeah, that's not that's no fun. Yeah, you got to do. If you're producing that, it's for guests and the crew. And you're, you know, you're also kind of the director. Yeah. And I've to write all the questions. Yeah. And like 15, 16 of them. And you're guy. What? You're guy. That's Guy Fieri. Guy Fieri is the is the EP.
The showrunner, the director and the host and friends with all the chefs. Yeah. Of guy of Triple G. He directs it while he's hosting it. I don't think he's literally the on set director. There is like a person who tells cameras what's to point at. But he is the showrunner and EP. And in charge of the entire set. While hosting the show. And he's like, all right guys, let's go on to the next shot. Like I was there. He decided when a scene was done. Not not like some other person. Wow.
Yeah. Yeah. That's very impressive. Yeah. No, he's a fucking maniac guy. He's crazy. You can't, you know, one's like that. But, uh, but like I've having seen him do it. That I was like, that looks hard. Yeah. I was there one day. I go, that's why I could never be guy Fieri. Because of that. Well, he built that muscle over any of the brain probably. Yeah. He also has a 25 restaurants. And he's doing that on five television shows. It's insanity. Yeah. I don't know how you don't fucking explode. Yeah. He seems pretty, pretty mellow considering.
Um, but it looked good. Uh, the lighting actually was very nice. Just how it looked. We didn't light anything. You didn't use lights. Nope.
Where we at? Where do I go? That's Marcos shop is very well lit. I mean, it looks like it almost looks like a prepped TV studio lighting. It does. Yeah. We had the door open, which was a bummer because it was hot out. But they don't have AC in there. Anyway, so it would have been hot anyway. Um, but yeah, we just like opened the door. And then when I saw it through the cameras, we rented. I went, whoa.
That looked really well lit. We had. I had multiple people ask me if we shot it in front of a green screen. Yeah. Because it looked. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah. Uh, very, very cool. I know I go, go watch it. It's just Google or YouTube search Zach Clapman's drivers test pops up. You know, the first couple of hours of. Yeah. When you type in the exact name of it. It gives me. It gets you a bunch of other. Well, if someone Hannah, uh, you know, Hannah actually got a backwards and searched Zach Clapman's test drive. And God.
500 smoking tire videos, which is like, you know, accidental SEO deaf, you know, like my, like I always talk about my one of my favorite.
Uh, racing movies, motorsport movies is the documentary called one, just the number one, which is an unbelievable movie.
And people who like, I can't find it because it's called one. It's like, you just can't search for the number one. It just, it fucks up everything.
Yes. Yeah. It was hard. I watched that was Sarah recently. It was very hard to find. It's really hard to find. It's so, so bad. Yeah.
It's a great movie. Um, but that's awesome. Good for you. I'm, I'm, I'm 100% down. Um, I wanted to, uh, I'd ever talked about it, but I have like three weeks ago.
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So here's what happened, right? And I got I got a few people who are like, I can help you with your, you know, your cyber security, like clearly like your passwords not good enough.
Bullshit. I got I got boomer, but there's the fucking excuse. I clicked a link, but there's a there is a story. Okay. I did get boomer and that email that sent out to every single person I've ever emailed.
Not everyone in my contact. Everyone I've ever emailed from that at the smoking tire.com. I heard from a whole lot of people. I wish didn't know I still existed.
And you know, I just I clicked a link. It opened a website that looked immediately suspicious. And I did nothing else. And then four days later, it emailed everyone I've ever emailed. Okay.
So it was an email. And if you go scroll down my Instagram, I have a screenshot of what it was. Keep going, keep going, keep going. It's the one that looks like a fucking scam email. Keep going. Keep going. That view dashboard. So it sends you that. Okay.
Okay. That's what it sent to other people. Okay. It looks like a doc you sign is coming. All right. So it came to me the same way. It came to me the same way I would give it to you.
And normally if you get an email like this, you wouldn't if my dad sent me a fucking email like this. I'd be like, Dad, what's going to anybody? You send me an email like this? What the fuck is this?
What if that clap man? I sent you an email just like this. Yeah. And it would have you would have known about the show. You wanted me to be on it the whole time. I didn't know I knew. No, go keep going.
You know who I got the email from. I do, but it's yeah are fucking ads sales agent. The one person where I would go, I would go, okay. And open an email like this looks like a proposal.
It looks it looks like what these look like. Yeah. Yeah. Now it does it like and and and you know I within one click. I was like that this ain't right. And I was gone. And I hope to my Macintosh would save me. But it didn't. Yeah. No, I got boomer. But the email came from the fucking maybe two people in the world that I would actually open an email from that looks like this.
Because people who sell when you're in the content creator business, you have different people that help sell you ads sell sell ads for you, right. We have a team that sells ads on the podcast. And we have a different team that sells ads on the YouTube channel. Okay.
And every once in a while will be independently approached by standalone agencies who also want to sell ads and also an ad to them directly. Okay. It's an okay system.
But like all the time emails come in like this from random ass agencies. But it's usually like you know fucking I don't want to say some crazy racist thing. But like some un unpronounceable Chinese name blah blah blah that's trying to sell some Amazon garbage. Right.
And you don't bother. But when it comes from the person who is the the ad prepared.
Well, and to add to that sometimes we'll get ad partnerships and the advertiser requires us to join a sort of portal tracking something or other dude. Very annoying.
Yeah. Like who was the who was it? Was it Carl in or somebody always said like, you know, it's not I'll do the comedy for free. You're like you're paying me to go to an airport.
And forget who said that. I don't want to I want to give them credit. But like I'll stay on stage until jokes were free. It's your paying me to same thing with cars. Sure.
I'll drive the fucking to go. I'll go drive the Mustang GTD around the track for free. You're paying your I need to to not be here though. That's the thing. Right. But like go on. Sorry.
But the getting paid bit is you signing up for these goddamn portals. That's not it's not it's not common in this game with us. But it happened maybe twice a year.
You see something that's like view dash where do you go? It's going to be one of these things where I got. I got to get a log in to track the thing instead of doing the way everybody else does it. And so I hate that.
Some more proposals are rate and they don't tell you until the end. If they knew if I knew I can see I'm going to start doing this. This is I can't believe it's been so long. I'm going to respond.
Thank you for your interest before I quote a rate for you. Will you require me to make a new account for a portal? Yes. No, because I need to factor. I've got to do a plus 1000 minimum. If you're making me do a fucking portal. It literally isn't that easy.
It sucks. I mean, I know people listening going how hard is it? Like there are some weird snacks. Yes. Because some of the analytic trackers are not very well refined. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But you know, they sometimes they want information that you're like, why do you need my bank account balance? You know, like what the fuck? Like why are you running my credit? You're just paying me.
This was the best treasure horse. I mean, this was it was from the perfect the perfect foil from the perfect person. I got to add. Yeah. And I also learned, you know, because I know exactly when it went out.
It went out at like 6.26 a.m. You know, whatever, right? Yeah.
I learned that people don't check their email for like four or five days sometimes, which is a wild thing to me because I check my email like a zillion times a day.
Oh, so five days later, five days, it's still common. Oh my god. I texted you early in the morning. I was like, I bet he's heard, but if he hasn't, but maybe. And then you responded back. It was very clear that I was number 70.
And no, if you're if that happens to someone who's your friend, even if they even if they're the 50th person of it, your friend, good looking out, you know, I'm overwhelmed, but good looking out.
But when it's like, no, because you could also like the some of the people that we worked with a very long time ago, we're all, hey, great to hear from you. You know, tried to would love to work on you. Let's get lunch.
But it's funny.
If it's someone you don't want to hear from the odds of them having clicked the dashboard or like 100% pretty hot. I want to work with that. I want to work with Matt. I'm in.
Click. Also, the perfect Trojan horse. Eventually, it'll send emails from people that did no one wants to hear from it.
The example of the most imperfect Trojan horse is related to this. I'm sitting with my mom in Santa Cruz a few days ago. And she goes, what is this email, this invoice thing? And I go, oh shit.
And I look and she hit opened an email where the subject title was no subject. And the body of the email said the number one, the number two dot dot. And then had a PDF attached.
My mom's like 84. But and she's like, I open this. I didn't order this invoice. And I just, I do explain how spam email works. And I was like, you see how the subject is just none to dot dot. And she's like, yeah, I'm like, that's nothing.
If it was a better scam, it would say Amazon bubble. I showed her like see these invoices. I have see what they look like. And she go, okay. But you clicked on this, which I understand. She clicked on that, which I do not.
Yeah, I've made a point. Yeah. And by the way, the one that was sent to me didn't say created by Matt Farah. It's created by and the name of my agent. I was all, my actually I did, I did the, ugh, I'm going to have to use the fucking portal for this now. That was what I said. And I was a bit like, but I need money. All right.
Click, you know, not going to want. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I'm, we got a, I'm going to start doing extra rates for portals, though. Fuck a portal charge, fuck off. Portal fee, portal fee.
Like a tear. Put it in the invoice. Portal fee. Yeah.
Yeah. Just abbreviated port fee. They're like, what's this? You know, only because like 98% of companies don't need analytics from this portal. Yeah.
You do. Are you so special? Well, these, the company that is using the portal, insulting our efforts. No, they don't, you know what? I don't care. I don't care. I'm not about that portal life anymore. You're going to pay for that shit. That's, that's a waste of time. That's not time that I'm spending talking about your product to our audience. Yeah, there's stupid.
Stupid. Um, so do you want to talk about the M5 touring take two briefly? Yes. Because if people recall, um, oh, I think you have to, you're going to have to go way to way pretty far down.
There it is. The blue one. Go up that blue. So if you recall, we had a, we had a BMW M5 touring. And I very much did not like it. That's true.
Um, and it was, it was really bad in a variety of ways. And we didn't even, we actually didn't film it because I was like yikes. I sent it back. And I said, hey, can you guys like look at this? It's, it's, are actually no, they said to me, we'd like to look at the car because based on your comments doesn't sound right.
Uh, well, uh, the tires are extremely bald. Um, and they were worse on the inside than they were on the outside, actually.
Uh, the front left wheel had thrown a weight. Um, and the rear steer was out of alignment. So when the rear steer is out of alignment, what you get is bump steer in a straight line.
So when it compresses, it does a little side shuffle, like a speed skater. And so that's remember you saying the movement of the car isn't matching the road. Yeah. That's that.
So it was doing was like the Honda S2000 AP one. Yeah, when it would compress would change toe. Yeah. But this does it at the back. It did at the back. Well, that's where it did it too. But this was doing it on a bump that like the we almost have moved two millimeters.
Like the tiniest little shiver, but it would cause the back to then shiver right or left. Yeah, really strange. Yeah, the car moved in an incredibly unnatural way.
So they were like, yeah, our bad. So they sent another one, this blue one. Um, it was much better. Yeah.
You drove it to right? Yeah. But it didn't do that thing. It didn't do that thing, which was the majorly problematic thing.
I mean, you just tried to perfectly do it. You said it felt like eight ass was turned. You felt you felt like the steering lane keep assist was on. And it thought you were leaving the lane constantly.
Yeah. So just for people's reference. Yeah. And when it was not it was not on. So it felt like the car was tugging you around all the time, which is like a fucked up thing.
Um, so anyway, this one, the blue one, still really stiff. Yes. Still not the car for me. I mean, Hannah and I drove it. We drove it a couple hundred miles. We drove it to wine country.
Um, and, uh, and it was comfortable. Uh, this, you know, the seats were comfortable. Um, it, it actually got shockingly good fuel economy. Got like over 30 miles a gallon going to wine country and back, which was pretty impressive.
Um, you know, with the starting with the full, uh, full charge, full, uh, you know, 30 mile charge. And, and it, it, it steered properly. It, it stopped properly and it behaved predictably.
So it was just, it was just really stiff and really big and really heavy. And it's not really the car for me. But it's not nearly as bad as our initial impression was. And I wonder how long that green car was that fucked up for before they checked it.
Like, was it the loan before us? Or did it go to a bunch of people who didn't notice the difference? I don't know. I mean, it's higher. It looked like someone, you know, thrashed it on the track. I think, do we ask Kameesa? Is this the car you had a chuck wall?
Yeah. He said, no, but someone did a track test. And then maybe it just went to us afterwards. I don't know. Yeah. Um, but it was, so it wasn't, it wasn't as bad as initially thought for sure. It wasn't, but it's still not the car for me.
Yeah, it's just the stiffness of it and the size of it. And okay, the size is, is whatever cars keep getting bigger and bigger. I just think it feels enormous. Yeah, it has a big interior. And you can put a lot of stuff in the back.
But it just feels huge to drive. And the ride just being stiff. Yes, it's the M5. Yes, it's a sporty one. I just think this is how I'd expect like an M5 comp or M5 CS to ride.
And if we're here already, then we, do we have anywhere to go upwards? Like is it just going to become, you know, even lighter and more abrasive? I don't know. It just, I, for, for being a luxury vehicle. Yeah.
It doesn't do the luxury bit that well. The only thing is though I keep thinking about it. If we lived somewhere else that had better roads, Georgia, Germany, you know, are we complaining about a problem that is really the environment we're in, not the car we're driving.
No, other cars ride fine here. So, but I think this thing is cool, but don't try a Panamera.
That's right. If you, if you think you like this and you try a Panamera turbo with the hydraulics suspension, you're going to be in for a world of surprise.
Good point. Because that handles just as well as this, just as well as this. Maybe if you're doing a fucking V-box magazine test, there's some incredibly
increment on the road. There's zero difference. Panamera turbo S will handle, we'll handle just as well as this. And it rides like a phantom.
This, this feels more like the Panamera or Tycon GTS, which I guess it should. It is the M5, but it's just really stiff. Maybe just reduce, like, make the sidewall bigger or something like that.
Let's shrink the wheels a little bit. We need rams though. I know. But it wasn't broken. So that's good. We found, we, we, we learned something. I just I didn't like the, I don't like the interior design very much.
That's an aesthetic subjective choice, but like the lights you can change and the big rectangular panels. I think it looks like a laser tag arena.
It does. Yeah.
I mean, that's like, and that's probably something that's plaguing the entire bottle line of five series right now. That's just what they're doing, but
there's so little about this car that hooked me. Yes, it is incredibly, incredibly fast. Holy fuck. It is fast.
If you do a full bore launch control through four gears, it is violently fast. But like, but, but like Camisa pointed out in his drag race, it's, it is violently fast in the car, but the Panamera Turbo S hybrid beats it in a straight line.
And it's not violently fast. It's smooth fast and it goes faster. So like, we, and it rides better. You know, some people like the people that like single clutch transmissions because they kick them.
Okay. Well, then that's the, you know who says they like single clutch transmissions, people selling cars with them.
Like people when they drove the LFA, they were like, this is actually kind of cool. And I disagree because it's slow.
I think I would suffer through a single clutch transmission in order to have an LFA.
I would as well. But if I had someone tell me, if I had a magic wand and they would rather keep the single clutch versus switching to a dual clutch, I would not believe them.
I wouldn't believe them either. They'd be, they'd have a, they'd have a real problem. You'd want to, you'd want to look into other aspects of their life and see where they've gone wrong.
Why do you need to be hit so hard? Why are you graduating while driving?
Yeah. Um, and then we can, uh, I can flip the switch to the Aston Martin vanquish, which I had for a week.
Oh boy. I'm sorry that you were camping and missed this one because this is a mighty automobile clapman.
This is a, this is really, well, don't worry because next month, we will have the convertible. So it's not, it won't be exactly the same, but you will have, you will have the vibe.
Um, 838 horsepower twin turbo V12. Um, it's, it's as long as my Ticon and only seats two.
And, and so it is, wow, it is proportioned in a way that many cars are not proportioned.
Um, you know, usually if you have a car this long that seats to, you're sitting at the front of it, you know, it's a, it's a mid engine car with a V12 or something behind you.
Um, this is, this is a sort of, it's not front mid because some of the engine is, is over.
It's not fully behind the front axle, but it's close. Um, it is a nasty thing.
It's, it's, you know, totally usable every day, putter around blah, blah, blah.
And when you're doing that, you sort of realize it's, it's, it's pretty stiff and it, it tram lines quite a bit.
The front end gets, and, and the front wheels are far away, but it has this very sharp steering.
Uh, no rear steer. So it's not like the 812. 812 also, the front wheels are very sharp, but very far away. That, it's like that.
I think also made almost as much power as this and there were no turbos. That's insane.
Yeah, I know. Yeah. Um, this doesn't, this doesn't have the same vibe as the 812.
This is a little more of mellow vibe. The 812 was a little crazier. High strong and crazy.
Um, but this thing, when you get the engine above 4,000 RPM, holy fucking hell, the earth spins the other way.
I mean, whatever was there is here. You're, you're here. You're there. You're here. You're there. You're just, the end of the, as far as you can see, it's here now.
Just, it goes up the road. So goddamn fast. Um, it has enough brakes, which is great, although they got real squeaky when I got really hot.
They started to get really squeaky. Um, but uh, the, the, the UI was pretty good except car play, uh, ultra kept fucking up.
Um, I had, I had a real tough time. Now I think possible journalist problem, but it might reveal a bigger problem.
Car play ultra, I think because of the amount of data in it takes longer to connect than regular car play.
In my experience, which so far is limited to Aston Martin's, okay. Um, and it, the first time you set it up, it takes like three minutes to set up the first time.
After that, you get in the car. If it's working properly, you get in the car. It's like 30 to 45 seconds to be car play.
When you're filming, as you well know, you're in and out and in and out. And the car stopped and the car started and you're walking away from it.
You're walking away. I confuse the hell out of the car, connecting, disconnecting out of range in range, whatever.
I'm sure most people aren't doing that. But after that, it never connected right the same again. Oh, yeah.
It kept doing do this searching for phones thing, which we have on the screen. And I'd click, click back to use the Aston Martin infotainment.
And my Bluetooth would work, but not car play ultra three days later, I deleted my phone from the car, deleted the car from my phone.
Started over, and it worked again, but it did take a long time to reconnect.
Initialize. Okay. Now, starting the Thursday, I have a vantage roadster, which obviously you can have for a couple days as well.
That has car play ultra also. So we're trying again, I have a new phone, iPhone 16 pro. So I have the latest of everything. It's not my old, I can't, we can't blame the old crappy five year old phone.
Any more brand new phone. So not the end of the world. And in some ways, only partially asked in Martin's fault.
Overwhelmingly, the car was excellent. The leather and the, it was crazy expensive. It's crazy expensive. And honestly, you can't feel that it's, it's like almost $200,000 more than a DB 12.
Yeah, DB 12 is like 250 to 300. This is like 450 to 500. It's a huge difference in price. And there are a lot of ways I would prefer a DB 12. Like this thing is pretty, like you can, that you could daily it if you wanted to, but the DB 12 would literally be better at it.
What software ride? No, no tramlining. Bigger trunk. Just still very fast. Still sounds good, but a little easier to live with better, a little better visibility.
GT more of a GT. This is a more focused car. This would be better on a weekend. You could certainly road trip and you could certainly daily it if you wanted to.
But it was stiff. And it's stiff and, and darty. Right. You, it's, you have to deactivate A-dass every single time you start the car, which sucks. And you, I would always forget about it until it showed up in a fucking very annoying time. And I'd scream at it.
But man, it's stunning. The back reminds me of 4GT a little bit. The newest 4GT. Yeah. I mean, that's not a bad thing. And the tail on this is so good looking. It is, it is so pretty.
That what's what's the black ass in that was that we saw the valiant. That was trash. I mean, this is a great looking.
And if you want to know how good as you see that special dish one, you go, oh, they broke it. Yeah, that one wasn't great. This thing was is so pretty.
It sounds great. You really, it sounds different on the inside than the outside. It sounds snarlier on the outside and more soprano on the inside, more like a horn, like a think like a woodwind instrument on the inside and like a snarly
on the outside. Yeah, yeah. Is there a enhanced sound inside?
I don't know. I think it's just very well insulated. And so you're just hearing different things. I don't think there's a speaker sound.
Really, really, really nice. I can't wait for the convertible. I bet it's going to be sick. But I hope they make the convertible a little softer.
Because if it's that stiff, it's going to be and we don't want it to be flimsy. How much is this MSRP?
This one was like 460. So an 812. I mean, these are definitely competitors. The 812 MSRP is 433. Yeah. So that makes sense.
But 812s go out the door for six, seven. Of course. Yeah. The options are crazy. Yeah. These I'm sure, you know, they're obviously insanely expensive.
But I don't think there's much of a flip market on them. I think you, if you can afford one, you buy it like dude.
People, people who buy 812s are not as rich as people who buy brand new vanquishes. You buy a brand new vanquish.
You know, you're taking a depreciation hit. People who buy 812s are so nervous about losing a fucking dime on them. They need to get that money back.
That is a great ad. Like that should be the best. It really should. The really rich people buy aston. Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. You ain't richer. Unless you can take a 200k depreciation the first 18 months.
And you know what's happening. But I would probably like, I think my choice, like, you know, Bentley GT speed. Same kind of price.
Force. Big money. Softer rider. No, I didn't drive the car. Yeah. Bentley, if you're, if you're dailying, especially if you're dailying,
in a place with four seasons, Bentley is, the Bentley is the fucking answer of all answers.
It's the, there's, there's, if you have enough money, the answer to almost any car question becomes Bentley.
Like, there's a, there is a, like, it all just funnels to Bentley.
Let's be actually two years ago. You drove the 12 cylinder one. Oh, the hybrid one is banana. Do you have the hybrid one?
No, I drove the 12 and the eight. Yeah. Yeah. And both of them, I was like, why is this handle so well? And it's also incredibly comfortable and smooth.
Like, it was everything. There's nothing of Bentley GT can't do exceptionally well.
So it all, if you're dailying, especially in four seasons, that's just the ultimate of everything.
If you're dailying in some, in, in the south, where it's never going to snow, db12 is really a nice choice.
And anywhere a weekend super GT, this is a fucking, this is nice.
This got a lot of love at good vibes. People were really into it. You got, you don't, you don't seem like an asshole when you drive it.
You seem, you seem like someone who knows some shit. Yeah.
Taking this on like a road and track event would be perfect. Oh, it'd be amazing. Yeah.
I, I wanted to, but they said it was too many miles. This car had almost 6,000 miles on it. It was a lot.
This one's been around. I really, really, really enjoyed it. And of course, I said, oh, I will say something bad about it.
No nose lift, scrapes everywhere. Oh, I must have scraped this thing probably three times a day.
No nose lift. No nose lift. No way to wait and stuff, but this thing's heavy already. And with a splitter, you want that?
Yeah, that was strange to me. And I, you know, asked him was all, you know, be careful. There's no nose lift. And I, and I really, I mean, you know me.
I try. I know how to take, I know how to fucking take a driveway without like, still, still everywhere.
I'm scraping this thing. And they asked and did not say this one doesn't, but it's an option.
They were like, thank which doesn't have nose lifts. So, I mean, because it has carbon,
and a front splitter right here. I don't know if it's carbon, but it ain't rubber. It's black. It's just black. It's not bear weave. No, it's just gloss black.
Either way, it's not, it doesn't look like the cheap plastic.
It's not a wear item like it is on my spider. Right. My spider, I do change that shit with every oil change. The rubber lip.
Just a little lower apron. Yeah, the rubber lip. It's like, I mean, it's not, it's not nothing, but it's pretty cheap.
It's cheap enough where if I scrape it, I go, whatever, fuck it. I'll change it later. Like, it's not, you know, a carbon one on a McLaren or something.
Oh god, no. Yeah, those, those are like, do the worst of the carbon rear diffusers.
If you have a carbon rear diffuser, you better be real careful back and up. Those curb stoppers, they fuck people up.
Yeah, with a vertical thing. It's great. You hit a curb stopper and you, and you nick nine fins.
Dude, your hose. Yeah, it's $20,000. A minimum. Yeah, it's probably, it's probably closer to 30.
You lost all your downforce. So now your quarring speed is reduced. Yeah, we had a guy, we got a guy who fixed that.
You see my guy fixed it where he painted the fibers back on. I saw him fix something and it was miraculous.
Yeah, the guy, the guy was able to, on a bare carbon diffuser where the guy hit a curb stopper on three fins.
Repair it and then, you know, using, I don't know, effectively like a bondo because it was like a one centimeter nick.
So we sanded it. He used body filler. And then he hand painted the weave to match the carbon.
And you couldn't see that shit. Wow. And it costs like, I think I, I think costs the guy like two g's and replacing it was 40.
It was on a seven, six, five L. T. Pinstripe Chris. It was, it was, it wasn't safe. Yeah, what this guy did.
I, I, and then, and then when I saw it, I was like, you should be charging more. And then the next time he charged a lot more.
I said, I did. Yeah. Yeah. If it really is hidden. Wow. No, no one ever saw. No one, no one has ever noticed. It's still there. It's still good. Yeah. Yeah.
I've seen him do it on a couple of other cars. It's unbelievable. Yeah. But be careful with your curb stoppers.
So that's, that's pretty much all I have on, on my list for today.
I'm, I'm handing back the trailer to Marco. Do we, we can, well, no, we'll go some questions. We'll talk about trail. I don't want, I am writing that for road and track.
And so I don't want to, I don't want to give too much about it. The only thing I'll say, I drove the Bentley around Monterey a bit, which is very, very nice.
But when I was coming, when we're coming back from Big Sur, it went down there for breakfast. And I was driving with Sarah and I was driving Hannah back to the house.
And I'm just duper duper duper duper driving chillin. And I looked out the gas gauge, which I hadn't looked at all morning because I'm idiot.
And I was like, it's actually kind of hidden. If you don't know where it is in the Bentley, it's not obvious. It's inside of another gauge.
And it's a very subtle gauge. And you can thumb through the screen. Like normally I have the miles to empty up, but you can change that screen.
So it shows something else. And then it really doesn't really show much at all. It's very small and it had like 62. And I didn't have enough service to look up how many miles of the house it was.
But I knew it wasn't 10. But to your point, we spoke yesterday, the miles were going down in increments of five. And then I got real quiet and real nervous.
How, how low did you get it? It was fine. It went down to like 40. And we have like, but just that moment of, oh, it's not going out down and we were not going five miles before it would drop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, we've done one miles going down five. Now I'm freaking out. And I think we were like 25 or 30 miles out from the house. Wow.
So just for about 10 minutes, Sarah and Hannah kept talking and I stopped adding anything. And I was just watching this gauge. Did you tell them this was happening?
After I, after you, I literally said like, by the way, I was quiet because I was worried we were going to run out of gas. Yeah, but we didn't. So coming over the grapevine, which is the big mountain range north of LA, the five freeway goes over.
It's called grapevine section of this highway. There was construction. And then in the construction to semi is crashed into each other, wrecking out both their trailers. And one was hanging over the cliff.
Geez. And so there were two recovery semis to recover these semis in the middle of a construction zone. So there was already lanes reduced. So I get there. And, and it says on Google 35 minutes to let it ended up being an hour and 35 minutes was 95 degrees.
And I went like seven eight miles at like three miles an hour. Now Bentley radar crews exceptional. Although it doesn't seem to adjust for towing because I wanted to creep pretty close in traffic. So I put it at one bar of distance. And it got way too fucking close breaking.
And I was like, it doesn't know about the trailer break. So yeah, so I put three bars. And then it was fine. But, but when I got to this traffic. I saw, okay, the accident is eight miles away. It says 35 minutes.
I had 90 miles to empty on the thing. I was like, that's fine. There's there was a gas station, not 10 miles past the accident. And it was all downhill there. That would ever find.
But every set 10 minutes. It just went down by five. And so by the time I got to the accident and started going again, it was down to 40. It went from 90 to 40.
And I didn't really know how long, you know, much because the thing that said, you know, time in traffic 30. It never went up to an hour and a half or down.
It just I kept sitting there and it kept saying plus 35 plus 35. And I'm like, please, please don't run out of gas in this fucking camera magnet rig. I'm looking at this. There's no shoulders. There's no exits. And I'm like, please, please.
It was right. We were saying places, the fucking sapphire, where we're coming back from Sonoma in the sapphire, where we were sweating, making it. It's there. It's right there.
It's the bermuda triangle of the. Don't don't go up the grapevine without a without plenty of fucking.
If you have to sit there and write the base, where all the outlets are and stuff. When I went up the hill, there were no dude. I went up the hill. And it said, you know, ETA to PM.
Just when I'm deep enough to be, for there to be no alternative, it just went, it went from two to 240. And I just went, uh-oh. And I would, there was no way out.
Fuck yeah. Yeah. So it was a mildly, it was stressful. It was definitely stressful. When it got down, when it got below 50, I was like, oh, you gotta be fucking. But then I'm looking around.
I'm looking around at everybody around me, and I'm going, I can't be the only one here who's thinking about this right now. I was like, I bet there's some poor, poor fucking sap in this traffic jam right now in a fucking little car that, you know, put 20 bucks in or something and is really, really on fucking hovering on E and like praying right now.
Yeah, definitely.
You know, I was at least, I was in a Bentley with a massage seat going on. But if your car runs out of gas, your massage seat ends.
Well, man, well, so here was, here was my next thought process, which is what I absolutely would have had to find a way to do. I don't know how I would have done it, but I would have had to do it.
The fucking manks is full. I filled it on my, I filled it on my last drive. The manks is full. And the fillers on the nose. And it's, it's only like eight feet to the Bentley's gas thing.
I got, I got nine gallons of gas right here. It's a reserve tank, but I don't know how what, what would I have done? You, I mean, I'd have to find someone with a, I mean, it was a very slow traffic jam, right?
So I could go walk, car to car and go, who's got a home?
Yeah, nine feet of hose. No, you do.
Can I use it for gasoline? No, it's for your garden. Lame. Next person. You know what? I bet the odds of a truck like a work truck.
Yeah, yeah. That has, it has something. It's pretty decent. Pretty decent. I bet you could buy nine feet of hose. And that would be an amazing story.
I mean, I wouldn't have died up there, but like it was, you could also just culture play and they'd bring you five gallons of gas.
With the traffic, it would have taken them seven hours to get there. So what you do is you pull over when you have 25 miles left, you just give in and then you just wait it out.
The massage in that car is so mid. It is, it's like there's a drill versus better trying to escape the seat, but the gerbil is tired and out of food. And it's like every 10 seconds, there's a very weak nudge.
And they don't call it a massage sheet. They call it a postural adjustment. And it is neither.
Are you sure you had the massage seat on? I'm pretty sure. How did you turn it on?
I hit the seat button and like the comfort thing. And then there's that you can select all or you can select back or lower. And I hit.
But you were in the postural adjustment menu. 100%. Postural adjustment is stress relief. That's designed to just move you slightly.
So you're not in the same position all the time. The massage button is on the side of the seat where you move it forward and back.
And you press it and it brings up the massage touch screen, which is eight modes. I take you to not get there problem. Yes.
I did not get that. Do not find I with Bentley experience new instinctively where that was.
What I don't like about that is that you have to put it head hit every 15 minutes. It auto turns off. It doesn't just stay on.
And it's funny that because the screen does so many things in that car. Yeah. So for you to have to go to a button on the seat for massage.
You don't have to then go to the touch screen. That brings the touch screen up.
If you if you prefer one of the modes and like I like the lumbar massage mode. So I just leave it in that. So I only have to hit the seat button.
Right. But I'm saying is there a way to get to the massage menu without hitting the seat button? Not that I know of.
That's what I think is silly because the screen controls everything controls all.
And yet you still have to go to this old school thing. Sure.
Sure. Journalist probably. Yeah. I should have better trained you on the massage seats. I'm sorry.
That's okay. Postural adjustment. I guess it did its job then.
The seat heaters and the manks work really good. That's good. Yeah.
But after like 400 miles of driving around in that like small bucket seat like I fit in it. But it's not not great on my lower back after after that many days.
My body was a little beat up. Yeah. Let's go to the people of course. If you want to ask questions for the show.
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I will tell you when it's ready. The hold up was it's a different bracelet on this watch.
It's an oyster bracelet, not a Jubilee bracelet because oysters and pearls go together, right? Yeah.
So anyway, it's an oyster bracelet instead of a Jubilee bracelet. It will fit with the it'll interchange with the other ones.
But we were waiting on that because it was a new thing. We couldn't just go new dial in the same watch.
So Thursday for Patrons, and then they'll have 48 hours.
And if there's any left, which I suspect there will not be, but if there are, they will go to the public after that.
Okay. Cool.
Gargle tune. That's pretty funny.
Did you see the guy? I don't know if it's fully real, but I saw it on Instagram that a guy let GPT tune his car.
I did see that video. I don't know if it's totally real, but it's kind of funny.
If it's fake, it's great SEO, whatever. I mean, it's great engagement.
It's topical. And if it worked, cool.
I would like to see if Mitch, I'd like to I'd like to sit down with Mitch and have him go through that process and analyze what it spits out.
Let's do that. That would actually be more interesting video. That would be more interesting.
So Gargle tune. Oh, doesn't even want to talk about cars wants talk about cooking.
I love. I've just started cooking and I'm loving it. Advice for a novice. Any particular recipes or cooking hardware you'd recommend.
Okay, big question here. Recipes. I mean, no, but like start with recipes, right? Like most people are intimidated by recipes.
And I think that's because a lot of recipes like in cookbooks are written by people who want to make themselves sound smart.
And so they use big fancy French words instead of like basic ass words.
But a lot of the times like YouTube recipes can help because they can show you what to do.
The same way like a YouTube musical instrument lesson versus just trying to read sheet music.
So you want to have a couple of really, really good knives. They don't have to be super expensive.
They just have to be sharpened properly. You want probably a nine inch chef's knife and six inch chef's knife.
You need a good cutting board. Obviously. You're going to want a couple of good pans. You want one good non stick.
You want one cast iron. And then you probably want like a Dutch oven of some kind.
You're going to want good baking sheets with sillpats. And then everything else, you just kind of buy as you need.
I mean, as you find a new recipe that requires a tool, you know, think about as an opportunity to buy that tool and like stuff in your kitchen.
Like, you keep that shit forever. I literally have my, my hand blender, my immersion blender, my like pancake blender.
I have a quieson art. I have a waffle iron. And I have a crock pot.
There were all gifts to my mother for their wedding. My fucking mother. And I'm cooking with that shit. Still using it all the time, all the time.
I was, I was the, my mom gave me the pasta maker, the, the canned crank pasta maker that we've used.
Yep. My mom got that as a wedding gift and gave it to me brand new in the box like six years ago.
I opened it from like 1978. Wow. Yeah. So, um, stuff, stuff in the kitchen.
If you take care of it, it'll less forever. So any opportunity to buy a new kitchen tool.
We know within your budget, you'll probably keep that tool for a very, very long time.
Um, and the most important book in your kitchen, forget cookbooks.
If you like a chef and want to buy their cookbook, that's cool. But the internet is really better for recipes than any cookbook.
The most important cookbook that you must have in your kitchen is called the flavor Bible.
If you don't have it, you are very much missing out. Do you have it? Really?
Oh, you had it at the big house, but I still have the original copy.
The flavor Bible is the best cookbook because it's not a cookbook.
You can, you, it's an encyclopedia, you look up any ingredient, broccoli, okay?
And it shows you everything that goes with broccoli, all complimentary flavors.
And like some are like bold and some are starred and like ones that are bold.
Like the best flavors. And it's the most important book for here's what I've got in my kitchen.
What can I make? Oh, man, my wife says she wants a, she wants a Brussels sprouts dish, but I want some new flavors.
Like, what do I do? And like, if you want to, um, like the way I, I went from like someone who cooks from recipes to someone who cooks from brain,
is by starting with the recipe. And when I find a recipe, I like just changing like one ingredient.
The flavor Bible helps you decide what ingredient to change and what ingredient to change to.
And before you know it, you now have your recipe. It's not the fucking New York Times chicken casserole anymore.
It's Matt's chicken casserole because I've changed this thing.
So, so I, you know, recipes and then change one thing at a time.
Buy a new tool as a recipe demands it. And buy what buy a tool that's nice enough that'll last for a long time.
Couple of chef's knives, flavor Bible. That'll get you going.
Your mom's a knife sharpener knife sharpener. They don't have to be expensive at all.
Knife harper shoning rod and sharpener. And yeah.
But even like every twice a year, maybe professional knife sharpening farmer's market guy does it.
It's like $2 an inch. Oh, really? Yeah. It's it's not bad because like home sharpeners good most of the time.
But then then guys with the real with the angle grinders, they really get it done.
Mine knives, the new West ones look with the colorful handles lifetime unlimited.
So like once a year, I fed X them in. Oh, and they send them back.
Like what I'm going out of town for a week. I'll fed X them in. They'll sharpen, send them X for free. Nice.
Yeah. Your mom drives a stick says the Honda fairy grants you a new civic or vintage civic or civic based model for free to add to your stable.
What do you pick any year?
Any year. I would either do a 2000 civic SI blue stock.
The HDP, HP, which what is it called? We drove that one. It was like the first video we ever did.
No, that was 2010. I mean, the one from my high school, the two door coupe. Yeah.
Civic SI or the S the civic type are hatched from Japan of that same era.
Yeah. I think I think same one, the blue, the blue early 2000s car is a stunner in every way and it drives awesome.
And they don't exist anymore. Well, now they're $200,000.
I literally haven't seen a stock one outside of the Honda Museum in years.
No, I bet after that, bring a trailer auction. Anyone who owns one is probably not driving it because they're too valuable.
Oh, did I tell you that I spoke with somebody at Ford on Saturday night at the fire pits at Spanish Bay?
I spoke with Angie and a few other people at Ford. Remember we talked about the concept car that my aunt drove me around in.
Yes. Someone at Ford remembers the car was like, oh, the green one. I was like, yes.
And I was like, does that car still exist? And they're like, I don't know. We have to like check the like art.
So I said, if that car still exists, I want to drive drive it and woodward dream crews.
And I want to fucking drive it straight. My aunt and uncle still living Detroit.
I want to drive that bitch to my fucking aunt's front door and be like, look what I got.
I think it would blow her mind. That's if I showed up in the car. It'd be a six story.
Great story. Yeah. Yeah. So they were going to look for the car and see if it's still around.
I don't know if it is, but that'll be pretty cool, right? So cool.
Yeah. My aunt Janice rules. She is, she is a fucking serious, serious woman.
She's a very high level executive at both Ford and Bombardier, which does jets, right?
As well as they own see do ski do all the all the do all the do's.
Here's Saco X girlfriend's ego, Eagle talent. That's that's a lot.
Okay. So the question here is, I don't want to read the question because it it it sort of it.
So okay, the question is about the Audi RS 3. When I reviewed the Audi RS 3,
there was this misunderstanding between me and Audi or a miscommunication or bad information or whatever,
about how much torque was going to the rear wheels. The question says I drove it in rear wheel drive mode.
That's not what it is. It's a it's called torque rear torque mode, which sends as much power as possible to the rear.
Right. The idea being it helps the car slide.
In the RS 3, which is a car I really like, it only worked okay.
And so the question is, if me and Audi themselves can't seem to distinguish between these performance modes,
who are they being developed for if you can't tell who can, but that's I can tell.
It's not the it's not me and Audi. It's it's we know what the mode did does.
The discrepancy was that Audi said it sends 100% of available torque to the rear wheels.
The word available never gets above 50%.
Right. So that was the thing. I knew there was torque coming to the wheels.
I didn't think it was rear wheel drive only. It was just maximum torque to the wheels.
And they said it was a hundred, but it wasn't driving like it was a hundred because it wasn't a hundred.
That was the discrepancy. So it wasn't about feeling or anything like that.
It was just about marketing jargon being in my opinion misleading.
Something that is not the car's fault because of front wheel drive based MQB car.
It's they're they're doing what they can. And I actually believe it or not.
I for you know have we talked about ever that the second half of my September is a complete chit-show
that I'm doing the seat the road and tracks seaside to Sierra Rally and performance car the year back to back without coming home.
And then I'm tailing that off with playing golf with my dad for a weekend in northern California.
So I have an RS3 for all of that. So I'm doing an RS3 for seaside to Sierra.
I'm taking I'm tracking it at Sonoma. We then have it for performance car the year where we're tracking it again.
I'm then driving it you know 1500 road miles. So I will have a lot of RS3 seat time experience
and we will have a lot to talk about after that. I love the RS3 is such a great car. Such a fucking great car.
Yeah it was really just the marketing term right and they adjust it after words where they say it's
you know 100% of the available 50 goes to one wheel not 100% goes to the wheels.
I didn't I didn't chase them down and beat them up to change the words once.
You know I I I basically said the word was misleading they then kind of got mad at me for how I said it.
And then I said look this really isn't my fault you're you know and we sort of left it at that.
You know it was what it was. Okay.
BBI auto sport. I really I really like that and I think we should tell the Tim to make a t-shirt.
That's pretty fucking good actually. I really do like that one a lot.
How do you think the cars that come out in the let have come out in the last couple of years will age.
Will there come a time when owning a used car is prohibitively expensive due to constantly increasing complexity.
We've been saying that for a while and it hasn't really I mean it's driven like if you look at the price of a 2010 or to 2015 like S class or Panamera or
seven series like they're pretty cheap in in part great part because technology evolves so fast and those types of cars and also
because they're so expensive to fix relative to their age and you know overall value.
So but that's always kind of been the case right those luxury cars due to appreciate like that as technology moves pretty fast.
I don't know what it will take for them to to be re-appreciated again you know.
Yeah I don't know and I don't know if the market like let's go ahead 30 years will the market for 2010 CLS.
Yeah be much smaller than the current market for early 2000's AMGs or 90's AMGs is now or will it have the rad would affect where it's all generational.
But maybe people will look at how complicated and expensive it is to fix the twin turbo four liter V8.
Yeah actually I'm going to go back to the NA one because I can just afford to maintain it.
Well and right now the sort of peak collector cars are still you know the analog stuff.
The stuff that's going up is the the end run stick shift stuff and sort of the early hyper cars I guess because there are so few of them.
Right you know there's there's only 25 C.C. X's so that's with when a brand is as strong as Cone Zigg is now their early stuff will be very valuable.
They look so short and stubby by the way.
The old C.C. X's they look we I saw when I was like that's a kit right.
Yeah compared to the new one. Did you see the prototype the C.C. prototype round.
It's like purpley.
It looks very bizarre. Yeah they look funny compared to the newer one.
Yeah but I think look you were talking about the auction 250 GTOs are going softening in price.
That was a car that seemed like it would only go up in value.
Not GTOs but other other Ferrari 250 cars like two fifth the road cars of all that generation.
GTOs are GTOs are in another universe.
No I'm talking about all like 250 GTS and 250 short wheelbases and California's California spiders.
I mean the even the only the SWB competition Cone the gray one that one was huge money as it should be because it was so so rare.
But the 250 long wheelbase that went right right before it did not bring you know Ferrari California money.
It brought it was down.
We saw a couple other 250 car based cars that were substantially under the below estimates.
But yeah I mean Porsche has done a good job by back dating technology so you can put part car play in your 997 or in your first gen Cayenne.
And so that helps a lot certainly that retrofit that makes it more usable today.
So we'll see if other companies fall soon down the road like if the PDK pumps start failing.
Sure how much will those be to repair how complicated will they be you know are you going to have someone who.
Can buy the car for 50 grand but is the transmission 12 right now.
Yeah yeah yeah it may it may happen it may happen for sure.
The smoldering rim I'm looking to diversify my collection.
I have a C6 Corvette a mini Cooper and F150 and a Hummer H2.
Okay I'm on a budget and I want to spend up to 60 K.
I'm looking at obvious 911 choices but I'm starting to get interested in the Lotus of Vora.
Thoughts on that it's an interesting option.
I think you should get something from the axis of evil just something right now it's America and then you got a British.
I mean I if you've never owned a 911 60 K will get you a pretty good one get you a great 997.
It'll get you a great 996 turbo.
It'll get you a decent 991.
Probably an S or a lot of box to a lot of box to come in.
However a Vora's I would say as long as it's an S you definitely want at least an S.
You don't want the naturally aspirated one at least an S.
If you can get the right car it's pretty flat money money and money out.
Miles don't really matter so much.
There's there's such reliable cars.
They're so easy to service.
As long as you don't.
Ding a body panel right that's the hard.
Well the on a lease is an exegis those are really bad it's better on a Vora's because they're not like.
Whole claims the same way that the Elise and the exegis but it's you know yet it's more annoying.
Yeah it's the only thing but otherwise they're fantastic cars.
And yeah they nailed it.
It looks like a super car but it has Toyota reliability.
Pretty cool.
The Deville went down to Georgia.
Wife and I just adopted a great Dane Puppy.
Congratulations.
I was going to buy a GR86 but that can't happen now.
How about a fun dynamic manual car that can fit a gentle giant?
How about this?
The mini JCW Countryman.
Our friend Alonzo Bowden the comic has a great Dane adult great Dane and goes in the back of that.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's a good one.
I think what you want Deville is a fast SUV-ish crossover thing.
That's a huge dog so you need that roof height so yeah.
That's a great answer.
Yeah I mean you could also do an well man it's got to be manual.
That's really tough because there's just not a lot of them.
Focus ST.
Maybe it's not that tall but a taller manual.
If you get a John Cooper works mini forget the Countryman and take the back seats out and do a rear seat delete kit.
That dog will fit back.
That's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The problem is wanting manual.
That is.
Like that eliminates there aren't manual big cars like they don't exist.
Because otherwise you could get CX 5 you could get a Macon you could get.
Yeah.
What else is fast and like a little bit tall?
Any number of like outies?
I guess like old ones not like.
Yeah.
New ones.
Yeah.
If you don't want manual you ask you five Macons.
Yeah.
But the intersection of basically truckish crossover and manual that's fast.
Yeah.
Extremely rare.
I don't even know if the Countryman comes and stick anymore.
I mean it did for a while I don't I'm not even sure it does.
Can you get a can you can't get like a fork.
Can you get a forester and stick or even like not?
You can get an impressive but not like a fast one.
Yeah.
Well they're already driving around in STI.
You may have to like build your own car.
You may have to you may have to get a forester XT with a manual that's like a few years old.
And then turn it up a bit.
Yeah.
Didn't what about that that a couple of years ago it must have been like 10 years ago the BMW X1.
That was fast.
With a manual and rear wheel drive with the N54 engine in it.
That's not really fast.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Those are fast.
The N54 is a maintenance name.
I know.
But like manual.
You could go what N55 X1 with the automatic and it's automatic but at least it'll be.
It'll have most of the things you want.
Yeah.
Mike's finale's bus stop hair.
I'm inheriting a 94 LT1 C4 Corvette.
It's mint and auto.
Can't get rid of it but also don't really have any interest in it.
Is it worth modifying or do I keep it stock and use it for a funny date night car once every few months?
That's too bad.
Inheriting a car you're stuck with.
You can't get rid of it.
But you don't really want to drive it.
Why can't they get rid of it?
I think I would.
Now it could be a two soon situation.
If it's a two soon situation then I would say wait it out and then get rid of it.
Yeah.
Because a car that you don't want is really a pain in the ass.
And you're just going to let it fall apart.
Yeah.
Hopefully you can just wait a bit and then explain to friends and family.
You look I don't know if anywhere store this.
It's costing me extra money.
I don't drive it.
Yeah.
Is it worth modifying?
Like not really.
I mean if it was something you enjoyed driving you could then modify it to make it even better to drive.
But like being an auto.
Right.
Yeah.
I don't know what you're going to do with it to make it more fun to drive.
Yeah.
Unless.
Now if you lived in you know Georgia Blue Ridge Parkway you could use some handling stuff and then you're kind of in one gear anyway.
But it's such a bad place to start.
Yeah.
It's not a good place to start for a project.
Unless you were for some reason interested in swapping it to a manual but that seems like it's not worth the effort in a car like this.
Yeah.
I don't know man.
I mean if they suggest keep it stock and use it for a funny date night once every few months.
I mean I guess that's okay.
I mean.
I guess if it's a weekend car if it's a weekend cruiser like all right.
I would also say if this person hasn't driven it much they just they fell in their lap.
Drive it for a little bit.
Maybe you'll grow to like it.
Bad Gardener says the Aston Martin Valhalla has no trunk.
Is this not a serious miss when this is supposed to be a real street car?
I feel like most people buying it would use for dream trips like car week and drives to concourse.
Would a Valhalla customer use this as their Canyon car?
I think a Valhalla customer would use it as their Canyon car.
This is the mid engine Aston Martin we're talking about.
It's probably going to be just under a million dollars but it'll be very expensive.
I don't like when cars don't have trunks.
I think cars should have trunks.
Almost every time I'm taking a car somewhere I'm bringing something with me.
But listen, Porsche GT3RS has no trunk.
They sold every single one of them for GT has no trunk.
They sold every single one of them.
Some of these cars are the customers are not road tripping the car.
If they're having the car shipped to car week delivered to their house on 17 mile drive
or being minded by Aston Martin themselves.
I think calling it a quote real street car as Bad Gardener did is just a really loose term.
For most people this is they'll drive it twice.
They'll drive it kind of fast and then they might one person will track it.
But for most people it's like oh I was able to buy the Valhalla.
It'll sit in my garage.
I'll sell it in a few years.
It's not something they're going to drive around.
I don't think it's a road trip car at all.
No one's going to road trip this.
There's a difference between a real street car between that and a GT car and a car
that you could go on a road trip and I think a lot of very high performance cars,
like the T50 and whatever, you know, Paganis and all kinds of stuff.
They have very, very small luggage compartments.
In many cases requiring fitted luggage, if any.
And even Porsche's got on the bandwagon with the GT3RS.
My guess is that bad gardener and my taste for wanting a trunk is not the same as the people
actually spending the money on this car.
Having said that, my new car has no trunk.
That's true.
Yes, Sarah wanted to put her sweater somewhere and Hannah was like, we're at quail.
And she was like, oh can I throw my sweater in the manks?
We don't want to like just discard clothing visibly.
But Hannah was like, where can we put it in the manks?
Yeah, there isn't anywhere. There's there's nothing.
Granny's shift and not double clutch, and like you should says,
do you have any embarrassing or funny stories of when you were younger?
I mean, sure, there's plenty of things I'm embarrassed about from when I was younger.
I assume you mean car things.
There are things that if you saw the picture of my car without context,
you'd probably be embarrassed or you'd probably be like cringey.
Like I had a Subaru, my first Subaru taxi.
But I was hanging around with Mustang people.
So I had a, I put a Hurst T-handle shifter on my Subaru.
But I was also hanging out with Volkswagen people.
So I had the tully snowboard rack that they were putting on the jettas and the GTIs at the time.
And I also did street glow neon on the car.
Now this was in 1997.
This was three years before the fast and the furious came out.
So it was not considered corny at the time.
It was actually kind of novel.
In hindsight, its amateurish and not cool.
But like now it's come back.
There was cars like at car week with fucking street glow on it.
I think Jesse Wouji's R34 has street glow on it.
And it's like, it's an homage to the Japanese tuner scene that that came from.
Yeah.
Well, and now with LED strips, they can do it much easier.
I had neon tubes.
Yeah.
That wasn't great.
And I literally bought an exhaust from actual AutoZone.
I bought a muffler from AutoZone.
How about a fucking intake manifold?
Yeah.
Because it's Edelbrock.
Yeah.
So I mean, in hindsight, that is like, yeah, it's not great.
But like at the time when you were 16 and like the internet wasn't fully developed yet
and Subaru, like the WRX wasn't here.
There was no Subaru aftermarket at all in America at the time.
Very true.
I kind of just improved it and wouldn't do that again today.
But you know, is what it is.
Pontiac Simon Phoenix.
How does that go together?
Is there a Pontiac Phoenix?
Pontiac Simon Phoenix, I don't get.
Because Simon Phoenix is the guy from Demolition Man, Wesley Snipes his character.
Pontiac is a car.
But I don't know how I don't know the contraction.
There was a Pontiac Phoenix sold from 77 to 84.
Get the fuck out of here.
What does a Pontiac Phoenix look like?
I'll let you just describe it.
77 to 84 from Pontiac.
All right.
Is it 77 to 84?
It's a malaise era hatchback that shares its platform with some kind of awful Chevy.
Maybe a chavette.
Yeah.
It's a malaise era coupe.
But you know, it's a box.
It's, oh god.
Oh, okay.
Cool.
That's the, it's like a, is that a B-body maybe?
Whatever.
That's...
Oh, actually, and there it also is a hatchback.
There's a hatch.
God, that's terrible.
Is that the Vega?
Is that the, is that share with the Vega?
Maybe?
I don't know, but it looks terrible.
There's a four-door version that's even worse.
God, look at that.
Yeah.
That looks like a chavette or something.
That's fucking awful.
Wow.
Okay, all right.
Thank you.
Pontiac Simon Phoenix.
I now dub that.
A good user name.
Always wanted to send good, oh, this is last week.
I don't have an enthusiast car.
Can I go to good vibes?
Yes.
Park not somewhere in the middle.
Hang out, make friends.
Okay, wait a minute.
No.
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
Gin and Teconic State Parkway is the Ferrari FF, a good buy at 100 to 110K.
If you want a comfortable modern Ferrari GT experience for a third of what that costs normally,
yes.
However, they are very, very expensive to maintain.
As an example, we have a client with a GTC4 Lusso, which is the turbocharged version,
but the story that we just had to take it to service.
We had to replace a faulty window switch.
It was $2,400.
So for a window switch.
So just so you know, that's what you're looking at for parts with a second hand Ferrari.
Fiat Antichristler, that's kind of funny.
Is getting a long wheelbase car, like a town car, seven series, G90, etc.
A bad idea for a driver who just loves the look of it.
No.
If you like the look of a long wheelbase car, get a long wheelbase car.
That's okay.
They're not like...
If you like the look of a car, just buy it.
That's it.
Yeah, that's fine.
No reason not to.
For sure.
Yeah, no reason not to.
Okay, last...
Let's see.
Last one, nice can't.
But this is like the greatest name.
Jeremy Clarkson's spoken class today.
That fucking rules.
Oh, it's just completed a 10,000 mile road trip across the US on tour with my band.
What is the prettiest state to drive through on regular highways and interstates?
Utah.
Yeah, Utah or Colorado, probably.
I think.
Right?
At the right time of year, I mean, if you get the meaning like the angle of the sun,
like sunrise or sunset in Utah, lights up.
They have so many different colors of rocks.
Yeah.
There's like purple stuff, red stuff.
I was blown away going through Utah again.
Yeah, Utah, if we're just talking about scenery, roads that go by scenery.
Tough to be interesting the whole time.
Tough to beat that.
I heard Montana has some stunning parts.
It does, but it's mountains.
But Utah's more like more variety.
Montana is big mountains and beautiful forests and things like that.
But there's just, and then, you know, there's just sort of a lot of that.
Utah, it starts with desert and then red rocks and then huge rockies.
And then four is just more variety, I think.
Yeah.
Good ones.
Good ones today.
We will save the rest for the next.
Oh, wait.
Oh.
People, do we love, no, no, no, we'll save those.
Okay.
We will save those.
Thank you, everybody.
We appreciate it.
Is that the right time?
123.
Ah, we'll do two more.
We'll do two more.
Go, let's go.
Matt's substitute video editor says thoughts on the new Lamborghini phenomenon.
Phenomenal.
Phenomenal.
I, um, I don't know like what it is.
Like, I didn't really care.
Like, I saw it.
And then I, I kind of didn't care.
Um, so I kept going.
Um, is it?
It's just like the, it's just like a different body on a revolto from what I think.
Um, yeah.
I never noticed this.
They have something they called the few off screen.
The few off screen.
Like, yeah.
No, the few off.
It's like the, um, the cyan and the, and the, whatever, the venenos.
Those are the few off.
They'll do like 10.
So they're doing 29.
They're doing 29.
And, and you know, um, I don't, I don't care.
Uh, they're going to go to a bunch of billionaires who are never going to drive them.
So the interior looks basically like a revolto.
Um, and yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
I hope, uh, I hope the people that are lucky enough to buy them the excellent returns on their investment as being part of the access club.
Did you see the cars there that were called like eccentric or something?
Yeah.
The, the, the, the, the re, uh, the rest of them on diablo.
Diablo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, Johnny really likes them.
I don't love them.
I think they look off.
I think, I think the late Audi era diablo's are just much, much prettier.
Just get one of them.
That's a, an Audi Diablo 6.0 is a restomod diablo.
Yeah.
That is, that's a diablo that Audi re-engineered to be a much better diablo.
Just get that.
Yeah.
I didn't do it for me.
I did like, look up the totem Alfa Romeo's.
I'll fuck with these.
Oh, these are cool.
We're getting one to drive.
By the way, these are really cool.
This is like, I was, I was pretty down with these things.
These have the prettiest engine bay ever seen.
The prettiest engine bay and the interiors are batshit.
The one that I saw had this crazy, like, floral pattern on it.
And the shift knob was Marano Glass.
It took my hot dog shift knob from the manks to, like, super next level.
So we're going to get one of these to drive.
They look sick.
600 horsepower.
Yeah.
So, like, if that Alfa Haulix one is the singer of Alfa, this is the Gunther Works.
Yeah.
Look, I mean, these are, these are pretty slick though.
I mean, it's a beautiful shape.
Yeah.
The, uh, the interior was insane on the one that was there.
It's an electric one and the gas one and then a super one.
So the, the, we're going to get the gas one.
The GT Super, which has a leather interior, like a moral, like, luxurious interior.
That other, like, crazy one has, like, the full carbon interior, which looked insane,
but not as comfy and nice.
I agree.
Yeah.
This is, this is the one to have, right?
That's profiles ever.
I mean, it just looks fabulous.
Um, they look great in person.
Uh, and this dude, uh, Ricardo, who was there, uh, selling him.
He was, uh, he was a boss.
I liked it.
Yeah.
Those are going to be cool.
Can't wait to drive that.
Um, and last one, of course, frozen, oh.
Oh, frozen dingle bearing metallic.
Oh, I look thin.
Thanks.
I feel thin, I think.
Um, Christian says, okay.
Or this feels like a lot of Googling.
That's so much.
I can't, I can't, I don't know what tickets cost.
Yeah.
Christian, I want to help you, but I can't tell you what events happen and prices per ticket are.
I've never bought a ticket to anything.
I'll say the short answer because they say are there events that cost less than $1,000?
Yes.
Oh my god.
For sure.
Autopian puts on a good event.
There's the,
I think the conglors is, the actual conglors is like 500, which is, and that's expensive,
but there are car shows all over town.
They're free.
They're free.
Yeah.
Some are like $12.
Yeah.
I think the Audubon legends, you had to pay to park.
And if you paid advance, it was $30.
And if you just parked on the street somewhere, you could just walk on.
Yeah.
So like there's tons of stuff that cost a lot.
And there's a full calendar that gets published, like buy.
I think it's by the Pebble Beach concourse.
Actually, they publish a full calendar of like all car week events.
Um,
it's really only the concourse, the quail motorlux that are expensive tickets.
I mean, going to manufacturer parties, you can't even buy tickets of that.
You have to be invited stuff like auctions.
You can buy a spectator ticket to an auction.
It might be like 50 bucks.
I mean, that might be a lot.
It might not be a lot for you, but like it's not a thousand.
You don't have to be a bitter.
You can buy a spectator ticket to that.
And with those, can you like walk through the pit of cars that are coming up?
Yeah.
That's a great thing.
You can go in.
You can go basically anywhere except you can't like sit in the front like, you know, 25 rows or whatever.
I want to sit right away.
What if I sneeze and they're like, oh, you're just bitch.
Right.
No thanks.
Yeah, there's tons of shit that's that's free or regular people prices.
It's really just quail concourse and motorlux that are insanely expensive.
Okay, wait, Vespa question.
I'm going to be in Sonoma and Napa counties a week a month for the next year.
I don't actually have to get anywhere because I'm work from home and I can always Uber if the weather is bad.
But when it's nice out of is a Vespa good for the roads.
I'd be looking at a 300, but don't understand the differences between the lines.
I want to avoid getting a car because of parking it for weeks on end, but a bike or scooter.
I can leave it a friends garage and a tender.
Okay, cool.
I like where your head is at, Courtney.
I think as long as you don't have to go too, too far, you know, Sonoma and Napa counties are like big, big windy roads.
There's some highways.
There's some back roads.
There's urban.
It's very beautiful.
It does rain there.
You do have actual rain.
It's not like LA.
It rains, you know, somewhat regularly up there.
So mainly a 300 would be ideal.
A 300 is the biggest Vespa they make.
It's water cooled.
It's not still not that big, but it has better suspension, better brakes, better storage, better everything.
A little more money up front.
It goes faster.
It stops better.
It has ABS and traction control.
150s are smaller.
If you're a man under 150 pounds, then you'd get a 150.
Above that, get a 300.
But I like the idea.
I think you get a phone mount for it.
So you can use your GPS.
It has a USB port in it.
So you can keep your phone charged if you want to go to Bluetooth to a headset.
So you can use GPS and get the cargo box on the back for your groceries and you're in business.
Buy it used.
Pull up like just real quick.
Pull up Craigslist.
Let's just see what.
Let's look at Craigslist for Sonoma, California.
What city instead of maybe San Francisco Bay Area, SF Bay Area.
And maybe we can do nearby.
Do we have Sonoma, Napa, anything?
Huh.
Just look up Bay Area.
For sale motorcycles.
And then just search a VESPA 300.
And let's see what is a VESPA 300 go for in San Francisco right now on Craigslist.
Oh, top right.
33 750.
Great color.
San Jose South.
3700 miles.
7200 bucks.
I'm going to sell mine on a profit.
Fucking today.
Give me 70.
Give me 7200 for mine.
Let's go.
It looks like five to seven thousand gets you a great one.
Three to five thousand gets you an okay one.
And that's just on a quick glance of Craigslist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
And that's good.
That's money in, money out.
Whatever you pay for it now, you'll be able to sell it for basically that in a year.
Yep.
I endorse that decision.
Okay.
Well, a pleasant way to get around Napa though.
Fabulous.
Oh, it's so great.
It would be fabulous.
Yeah, I'm definitely pro that.
That's some good gear though.
Yeah.
Like, if you're riding that around Napa's transportation, like you don't have to wear full leathers or anything.
But you got to wear a good jacket.
You got to wear a full face helmet.
You got to wear gloves.
Maybe consider shoes.
I mean, if it was me, I would only wear jeans, but I would maybe consider some riding pants that are reinforced that look like regular pants.
There's a lot of great options.
Yeah.
Because the roads could be damp there.
Yeah.
The roads can get cold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And people will drink wine.
Yeah.
You'll be careful.
Yeah, I wouldn't treat it like you're in Bermuda with your flip flops on your rental scooter for the day.
I would treat it more like motorcycling a little bit.
How are the headlights on that?
I remember when I was in Sonoma.
When it's dark there, it's dark.
It's real dark.
Yeah.
It's real dark.
But I mean, my Vespas headlight is fine.
I know it's got high beams and low beams.
Like, I've never had a problem with it.
Yeah, that's good.
That's our show, folks.
I'm going to go return this trailer to Marco.
And I appreciate the questions from all of our patrons.
We certainly aren't going to throw the rest away.
We will get to them.
Provided we haven't already covered those topics.
And, yeah, new merch coming up in the SmogentireShop.com or click the link on our website.
And of course, the Black Pearl Notice Canyon will be available to patrons in a matter of days.
Or by the time you are listening to this, if you're not listening to it early today, probably Thursday.
Thursday, the whatever, 21st.
21st.
21st, yeah.
Nothing else?
Bye.
About this episode
Zach introduces his new game show, 'Zach Clapman's Drivers Test,' inspired by British panel shows, sparking a discussion on its format and execution. The hosts also revisit the BMW M5 Touring, sharing insights from a second test drive that revealed significant improvements over the first. Additionally, they review the Aston Martin Vanquish, highlighting its impressive performance and luxurious features, while also discussing quirks like the lack of a nose lift. The episode wraps up with listener questions covering a range of automotive topics.
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Original notes
Zack has a new automotive game show; take 2 on the BMW M5 touring; reviewing the new Aston Martin Vanquish; and we almost run out of gas in the same car, separately.
Recorded August 19, 2025
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