B/F: The Drive Thru #20

• Bianchi unveils two new mid-drive electric bikes for city riding and country touring

• Ford Restructures, Splitting into Ford Blue and Ford Model e (for Electric)

Chevy Silverado electric truck

General Motors, Dr Evil

• The Cheapest New Electric Cars You Can Buy Right Now
• Polestar has begun US deliveries of the Long Range Single Motor Polestar 2, and we got a chance to drive it

Polestar 2 calling out everyone else

• Michael Andretti Officially Submits American Formula One Team Plans: Report
• F1 plans talks with Netflix and drivers over DTS’s fake drama

• This $2.535 million Toyota 2000GT is the most expensive Japanese car sold at auction
• The New Subaru WRX Won't Be Getting an STI Version
• Here's Our Best Look Yet at the U.S.-Bound Toyota GR Corolla Hot Hatch
• Yamaha Turns Lexus V8 Into Clean Hydrogen Burner
• The Toyota Supra Is Almost Definitely Getting a Manual

Kia EV6 , total eclipse of the heart

Toyota Tundra, the Jones/Jonas

Nissan Z, Eugene Levy

• You Can Buy This Lamborghini Countach LP5000 S Replica
• Hottest Future Collectible Cars

• Porsche debuts the sexy Vision Gran Turismo for PlayStation’s Gran Turismo 7
• $2.7B Plan Would Turn A.C.'s Vacant Bader Field Airport Into Car Lovers' Dream

• The Electric Bugatti Baby From The GP Ice Race Is The Coolest Bugatti I've Seen All Year

• Chrysler Brand Has a Future, Will Be Revitalized with Several New Models

• Tesla Insurance looks to expand in two more states, underwriting itself for the first time
• Hertz adds Tesla Model Y to its fleet after giant deal for 100,000 Model 3s
• Tesla increases prices throughout whole lineup, its cheapest electric car now starts at $47,000
• Modified Tesla Model S Plaid Outruns Porsche Taycan Turbo S at VIR

• Porsche CEO confirms electric sports car to replace current 718 in 2025
• Volkswagen Says It Wants To Take Porsche Public

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Gran Touring Motorsports podcast, break Fix, where we’re always fixing the break into something motorsports related. The drive-through is GTMs monthly news episode, and is sponsored in part by organizations like h hpde junkie.com, garage riot, american muscle.com, hooked on driving and many others.

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This is our monthly recap where we’ve put together all news regarding Eldon Ring. Wait a minute. That’s my other show. Hold on. This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive motorsport and random car adjacent news. Now let’s pull up to the window number one for some automotive news.

What’s [00:01:00] up guys? Welcome to our season three kickoff. This month we’re talking about for the love of chips, for the love of chips, chips, potato chips. You know, there’s these chips that I get from Pennsylvania, fun chips only in Pennsylvania. They’re called middlesworth. They’re fantastic. My father-in-law brought me a whole, pretty much like a box full of them.

Can the audience hear me slamming my head on my desk right now? No. We’re gonna revisit a topic from months ago where Mark Shank filled in for Brad, where we talked hashtag because chips, chips are back in the news again. Did you guys hear about Toyota developing fake manuals for EVs? No, it’s not about I.

I don’t get it. I was even thinking about this the other day with all the automatic transmissions we have. Why do we need a stick shift, like object or even a knob? Why can’t it just be a button or just you hit D for drive. It doesn’t matter what gear it is. Right? P for park [00:02:00] and for neutral. End of story.

Move on with life. No Toyota has gone as far as to develop these fake manual transmission shifter things for EVs. What do they do? I am not. I’m guessing they shift gears. Sure. Well, what gears are there for are there are four of them. Park neutral, drive in reverse. But they look like gated shifters out of a Ferrari or whatever.

I mean, I guess it’s to give you that arcade feeling like you would have on your PlayStation. There’s lots of technological stuff like in charts and graphs in this entire article that I didn’t even wanna waste the brain cells on diving into, because I just think this is ludicrous going back to my point.

But, but, but, but I think this could be a good thing because we’ve all seen the memes. What’s a good theft to turn a car theft to turn a manual transmission? Well, now Toyota has fixed that. They’ve given your automatic car, a manual look. So there’s like a dead clutch pedal that does nothing. You just push it for like leg, it’s leg date, bro.

Just push that pedal. Well, most people aren’t, most people aren’t looking [00:03:00] for the clutch pedal. They, they look for the shifter. They see, oh, it’s a gated shifter, it’s a manual. I can’t steal this car. I’m gonna steal the Honda Civic down the street. I mean, I guess they basically could be adding gear reduction on the motor, puts you in a different battery induced torque band, but I don’t know why you would really care to do that.

A, again, with paddle shifters being in cars since like 2007 ish, who cares? Like, why does this even matter anymore? Again, this is a thought that crossed my mind the other day before I even came across this article and this article reinforced the fact that if you have an automatic transmission, none of this stuff is really necessary.

I mean, I, I do see some designs from British manufacturers that are super clean, like Jags started doing this a while ago. You remember the, uh, the trans, the selector would disappear into the console and stuff? Yep. It looks really cool. I mean, well, are they meaning it really to be that you’re driving down the road like a.

Traditional ice manual transmission, where you’re going, oh, I’ve started in first and [00:04:00] now I’m second, now I’m third. Or is it like, or is it like an automatic where you’re like, oh, I put it in drive, but now I wanna be in like, okay, sport mode and it changes. No, no. Drop it. I will read it to you verbatim. It says, this is according to the patent that they’ve submitted.

It includes a simulated clutch pedal, simulated dealership, and a method, and a method of interrupting torque flow to mimic the experience of driving a traditional, manually equipped combustion engine. Again, it’s a video game. I don’t, I don’t understand. Okay. And how, how much is this stupid option gonna cost?

So it’s a, so it’s a fan of tech. Inside your car. Exactly. It’s a on the bright side. Are you getting your replacement parts at Best Buy when, or my car center? Oh, it’s made by Sony? Hey. No, no, no. Because of what Sony’s been bringing to the car world, you know, they’ve been trying to show their, what is it, the Sony vision or whatever the hell that car’s name.

I don’t know. Mm-hmm. Yes. But maybe it is made by Sony. Maybe they brought something to the table. It’s a [00:05:00] PlayStation controller. Maybe we’re suddenly gonna hear how Logitech. It’s going to get into, uh, the automotive world. Oh man, it’s a little force feedback. There’s gonna be a fan attack, there’s gonna be a Logitech, there’s gonna be a Microsoft Car Master.

I mean, look at the aftermarket potential here. I just wanna know when I get the Game Genie for my car. Okay, what’s the contra code up over AB start? Cuz that’s what it’s gonna turn into. You have to have a Tesla that comes equipped with the games. Well, as far as I’m concerned, there aren’t enough chips to make this happen.

So this is fantasy more than it is reality. Fantech fan. I mean, again, it’s one of those things. They’ve got an idea, they’re putting a patent in. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re gonna implement it, but they’ve thought of something somebody else hasn’t and they should put legal bounds around it to prevent somebody else from doing something with it.

Yes. But now I’ve got a question for you. What is stranger this thing, whatever the hell it is, or the electric cars that actually come with a manual transmission? Because didn’t Ford come out with [00:06:00] a Mustang, an electric Mustang concept car that actually had a manual transmission? There’s a Wrangler as well, I believe that they did with a six speed manual strapped to an ev.

So what’s stranger? I’m okay with that though because I’m still physically connected to the car and I’m changing gears. The tachometer is the disconnect. I guess I’m shifting at 14,000 revolutions or something. I don’t, I don’t know what that might be. With an ev, it’s a little bit different to make that translation, but for an off, off-road or like that electric Wrangler prototype, it makes sense.

I wanna be in second gear, third gear, or whatever it is, versus, well, yeah, you wanna be able to control the torque, but I mean, I guess you can do that with the transfer case too. I don’t know. I like the idea of, of bridging the two together, but most people have already graduated away from manual transmissions.

I mean, I feel like a dinosaur. I still drive a manual car, but I love it. I enjoy that experience. It’s visceral. I’m connected to the car. This reminds me of those stupid arcade games where you know how they are, you sit down and everything’s just loose and [00:07:00] just gross. And I, I don’t know. Well, and you wonder what its place is in a future that seems to be heading towards all this self-driving.

Right. Well, what’s the point exactly? I mean, why do you need a steering wheel? Well, I mean, There’s always the, uh, the backup scenario that you need the steering wheel for redundancy in safety measures, but the transmission like that, I, I don’t know, extra cost, extra complexity, more things to break. But I think that Eric hopes in the future, these Toyotas, if they do make them with this transmission, they have a similar fate as the cargo ship that caught on fire in the Atlantic Ocean.

Oh, pretail. Yes. I think most people heard about this, that there was this gigantic car hauler, cargo ship that was suddenly a blaze off, I think the coast of Portugal or something as it was trying to set sail. Unfortunately, it was filled with high-end Volkswagen products, [00:08:00] so there were Porsches on there.

I think there were, I could misspeak if there was Bugattis or something. There were Lamborghinis on there as well. I think there were some other electric Volkswagen Propers, unfortunately, after the Blaze went out. It sank. So any hope of salvaging any of the cars that possibly weren’t fire damaged, now they’re water damaged.

The real tragedy here is the chips. Yeah. So I’ve got a conspiracy theory. I think this was caused by Bosch to get retribution on the whole diesel gate. He said. He said thing. So I think Bosch is getting revenge on vag. Well, that’s a stretch. That’s a stretch.

So that’s not the only, uh, issue with chips these days due to current economic crises. If you’ve watched the news lately, a lot more shortages are happening due to disruptions in supply chain and raw materials, et cetera, et cetera. So I think the latest victims of cars in production right now are the ID [00:09:00] four, the tecan, the.

Z four. Some of the Mercedes lines as well, some of the Fords also went slow rolling production and even GMs and whatnot because of this new chip shortage. The ongoing crisis, we’ll call it in the Ukraine, isn’t helping anything either because a lot of the Xon supplies and things like that used for the chips using the vehicles come from that area of the world.

So seeing production lines shut down or slow down, I mean, it’s all a trickle down effect at this point. Sad to hear everything that’s going on. You know, on the global landscape where I think we can wait for our take hands and our zu PRAs to come out, you know? Oh, for sure. They’re, everything that’s going on, they’re, they’re the least of concerns.

Yeah, exactly. I guess I’ll have to cancel the order for my take hand. Well, I mean, what are you doing with that cyber truck reservation you had? Right? You got to wait on that for a while too. I’m going to eat that a hundred bucks. And what’s gonna happen with that thing that, that being said, there is something I will stand in line for.

[00:10:00] Okay. And there was a video that got released recently that I am still salivating over and I’ve watched this thing a thousand times at the very least. And it’s the reveal or let’s say, sort of reveal of the tease. Teaser. New teaser. Yeah, the teaser of the new electric DeLorean. Just saying that gets me excited.

Like my, my heart skips a couple beats. I’m gonna say it again. Electric. DeLorean? Yes, please. A thousand percent. Look it to my veins, as they say. Take my money, take it off. Take my money. Unrelated, but kind of related. I saw a picture on Instagram of a lowered DeLorean painting. I saw that one too. Yeah. Oh my God, that was such a gorgeous, beautiful car.

Gorgeous. Oh, you know, and somebody had the nerve to tell me that that car needed to be lowered nine inches on top. It’s already slammed to the ground. Yeah, and, and even talking, I had a conversation about regular DeLoreans, the same thing. They’re too tall. I actually recently did an episode with a DeLorean owner sneak preview [00:11:00] here, guys.

Spoiler alert, that car is as tall as a nine 14. It’s only 43 inches from the ground in stock. Trim. That is a low vehicle by any standard. The only car lower than that is a GT 40 at 40 inches. The what are they? What are they? Spacing nine, they should be lowered by nine inches off. I mean, that’s an exaggeration, but, oh, okay.

I was like, what? Yeah. I mean, if you, if you, if you look at a DeLorean, it’s on 14 inch rims with like 75 series tires. It does look like it’s up on stilts, but in reality, when you see it in person, it’s a small car. It’s very wide and it’s very low. It’s not huge by any stretch of the imagination. No. No.

I’ve actually never seen one in person. Ooh. I used to, wow. To, there was a guy, he lived near me. I would see him on the road, or sometimes he’d go get gas at the grocery store, gas station or whatever, and so he’d be there parked and I’d be like, walking to my car, the grocery store. I’m like, Ooh, it’s [00:12:00] a DeLorean guy.

That must have been back when people could actually afford gas. Well, I mean it by design. It’s a big Rocco, it follows in line with the Audi coop and, and all those cars of that generation. And why is that? I don’t know why. I think it’s because they were all designed. By the greatest, no, I’m just kidding.

By one of the, the best by Mr. Giro, who, he, he’s famous for many cars that we take for granted, you know, cars with the name Delta and Rocco and golf. And, and I mean, his, his list is on and on and on. He, he touched almost every major mark at some point. He even did like a concept Mustang or whatever, read his laundry list.

And apparently his company, etal Design is slated. So he designed the original DeLorean, they’re back on the team to design this new DeLorean Here is my bank account number. Yeah, right. [00:13:00] And by the way, he also designed the Fiat Panda. I mean, there is nothing that holds a account. I mean, I’m, I am, the only problem is this thing is gonna be like $175,000, so I can’t afford it.

But what I can afford is the new Lego set that’s gonna be coming out, which looks amazing. And that’s $170 instead of 175,000. So they drop off a couple zeros. Yeah, it’s one 10,000 the scale. So it’s perfect. Right? So it’s great. But yes, if you’re looking for an affordable DeLorean, check out Lego, they’re, they’re dropping soon.

And you know, we’re gonna talk about collector cars here in a little bit, but that DeLorean is still on the list of very affordable vehicles. If you want something from an era gone by, like the, you know, the early eighties, we’ll talk about this more on that episode than I mentioned. A lot of people don’t realize that 9,000 or so DeLoreans were built.

There’s a lot of them out there for a car that was basically in production for about a year. There’s tons of swaps, people putting LS motors in ’em and, and boxer engines [00:14:00] and all sorts of stuff. So I think it’s gonna become more of a collector item. Granted, back to the future, kind of saved it from oblivion, but this resurgence with the DeLorean ev, I think it’s awesome.

I can’t wait. I really can’t. So switching gears out of the, uh, chips, is it, or automatic, although I’m sure this next one uh, also runs on some chips. So what would I, what would you say about Saab? And there Wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Excuse me. Did you mean just blaspheme on the podcast? What, what did you just say?

You know, I saw SOB and I had to click it cuz I was like, what’s going on here? They were dead and uh, it’s not what you think it’d be, but it is still pretty cool. So the Saab saber tooth is an underwater autonomous vehicle. So it’s not really a car, but it’s a vehicle of sorts. So I just threw it in here as an interesting thing.

So Saap is still doing cool stuff and this particular autonomous underwater [00:15:00] vehicle recently is infamous for taking some pictures of the sunken endurance ship, which was. Ernest Shackleton, he did several expeditions through Antarctica and whatnot. Um, so it was able to go, you know, 10,000 feet or something deep and get first time images of that shipwreck that they found.

So pretty cool. It’s not a vegan wagon or anything, but you know, it sort of looks like a SOB 900 from the eighties. But that being said, there was a preview recently on History Channel where Lawrence Fishburne is narrating the, the expedition where they’re using this SOB technology and everything else to find that shipwreck.

So I think that’s pretty cool. So if you’re interested in diving more into that story, check out history channel. Speaking of technology, finally, maybe apparently the US has approved a new headlights, headlights that won’t blind oncoming drivers basically adaptive headlights. We can now have adaptive headlights.

What does that mean exactly? [00:16:00] Because it, if they’re not blinding you, it means they’re off. So what are they adapting to? I think it’s sensing the headlights of the other people and maybe dims or points ’em temporarily down because there’s a lot of like the adaptive, like high beams and stuff like that.

They can sense like super long distances. I was actually pretty impressed in an excursion I was in, in the mountains at how well that actually worked. I didn’t, wasn’t believing it at first, but when I’m driving around in my new DeLorean ev, which is 43 inches from the ground and a Tahoe is coming at me from the other direction, yes, and it points its headlights down into my eyes.

I have adapted to nothing but blindness. That’ll be an interesting test case. We’ll have to see how that goes. Will it keep people from turning on their high beams during the day? Pet peeves. Pet peeves? Do you not see the big indicator in the middle of your dashboard? Nope. That’s telling you your high beams are up.

No, of course not. Cause you don’t ever look at your dashboard. It’s Dawn. The sun is barely up. I can’t see the [00:17:00] big black truck coming my way. They’re holding the cell phone up to block the sun. Remember we covered this? It’s true. And that’s why they can’t see. So they need their high beams so they can see further down the road.

You wanna get me riled up? It’s people in their high beams when they shouldn’t have ’em. They’re sitting behind me. I will say this, the one thing that I think should be on all cars anymore, it was invented like in the fifties by the French, by Citroen, which is the headlights that turn. As you’re turning, and that was actually on one of the cars I hate the most on the, on the face of the planet, which is Citron ds.

Right. It had those, my Jeep has that now 50 years later, and it’s really cool and it does work. Those adapt to the road as you’re turning and all this kind of thing. Not every car has that. I actually think that’s more useful in some respects than this adaptive headlight thing because unfortunately we have so many vehicles with different ride heights and belt lines that again, to our point from before, I don’t know how this is gonna work outside of shipwrecks, Volkswagen has decided that it wants to take Porsche public.

Anybody [00:18:00] lining up to buy stock, didn’t they like try that then not try that and talk about it, but not talk about it. And you put your left foot in and you take your right foot out and you do the hokey pokey. I don’t know. I mean Volkswagen, Porsche, all them, they’re traded on the European markets. You can already look all that stuff up.

We just can’t get access to it here, obviously. Probably through Porsche, north America or Porsche cars, north America, whatever. They’ll come up with a way to list Porsche on the nasdaq. I can see this in the same respect that Fiat did with Ferrari and okay, that’s cool. But does Porsche really want to be a publicly traded company?

Do they want to be under that kind of scrutiny? I have no vested interest. Unintended. Lemme just what’s with this shift? Shift all my Tesla stock over. Shift, shift, all that a M C stock you’ve got. The Porsche c e o has also confirmed that an electric sports car is going to replace the current seven 18 model lineup.

And if you don’t know all the Porsche numbers, the seven 18 is the [00:19:00] Boxer Cayman platform. And so by 2025 they will be replaced by EVs, sorry, boxer Cayman owners, you’re outta luck. You know, keep what you got if you like your petrol powered vehicles. But it does seem like as they move to the Tecan and the Macon Electric and all these different ones, the holdout is still the flagship.

It is the nine 11. I think the nine 11 is gonna be probably one of the last vehicles to go ev because it takes away from the essence of the nine 11 and a lot of nine 11 purists I don’t think are ready to have a fully electric nine 11. They can drive their take hand for that instead. Right, exactly. I mean, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that strategy either between that, between the take hand that’s already there between the Macan, that’s supposed to become an EV as well.

They’ve got other vehicles in their lineup, so they are shifting towards electric, but there’s no reason to just necessarily just drop everything in one go. I [00:20:00] think also the nine 11 is held out because of its motor sports involvement, because the rules in organizations like SRO where they’re doing GT three and GT four and I M sso, where GTL M and GT Pro and stuff like that, where the nine 11 competes.

There are no EVs, there’s no regulations for that yet, so they have to keep. For homologation purposes, a petrol power plant in the nine 11. So again, I think it’s gonna be the holdout because nobody’s racing a tecan or really Caymans and, and boxers at that level of motorsport. You see it in the grassroots world or in the ProAm space, you know, the Caman GT four s and all that kinda stuff.

But you’re not seeing it at the higher levels like Lamonts and Rolex and things like that. So once that changes, once those things get adopted as they’ve hinted to 20, 23 and beyond, then maybe we’ll see something change. But it’s, it’s gonna be a ways, I think before the nine 11 gets a heart transplant.

Agreed. They’re just gonna build like a, a six liter boxer motor to go back there. It looks like there really isn’t a whole bunch of news [00:21:00] coming outta Mercedes or B M W this month. And we happened to get out of our lull of STIs news with the reemergence of Chrysler. I didn’t know they had exited. Well, cause you can still buy a brand new 2008 Chrysler Sebring convertible somewhere.

I’m sure sitting on the dealer lot it, it’s parked next to that 2016 Dodge Dart, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Or PT Cruiser. The Chrysler 200 Chrysler that you always get the rental. 200. I mean Chrysler kind of like faded into the sunset. It’s an afterthought for most people. Like yeah, we remember that the Seabring.

Ooh, like that’s something we should remember. Does you remember that brand that wasn’t quite as good as Cadillac or even Buick Chrysler? Does anybody even remember when the 300 left stage, did they make an announcement about that? Exactly. It’s there and then it’s not. But you don’t even realize. See that’s, that’s what Chrysler has become.

It’s like you don’t even remember that they’re there or they’re not there. I mean, that’s kind of magical in its own way, [00:22:00] but that’s secret assassins. But that’s the point of this is they want to bring it back so that you are fully aware that yes, there is a Chrysler and that’s a result of the new CEO that we talked about coming online at Chrysler.

We speculated about what they would do and whether Chrysler would be. A EV arm of STIs and all that. The new Pacifica stuff I’m seeing looks really cool, right? They’ve teased some stuff. I like the redesign. I’m not a big fan of the current one. When they kind of merge the caravan and the Pacifica together and they, you know, they created the Voyager, which people don’t realize exists right now.

Again, going back to Chryslers and stealth mode, but this new EV that’s coming out, it looks pretty cool and I’d be curious to see it outside of pictures in person and maybe even go for a test drive. First picture that they put in the article, car and Driver article on this is just a front shot and it’s called the Airflow.

I’m not sure if that’s quite gonna be the final name or not, but it’s being [00:23:00] called the Airflow. I mean it. It doesn’t look bad from the front. I don’t know what the rest of it looks like. It reminds me of an ID four. They’re also claiming 400 miles of range out of the new air flow. So again, it’s not a replacement for the Pacifica, right?

The minivan’s much larger than this thing. To Brad’s point, it does look like an ID four, but it’s got some good styling cues. You can definitely tell that Fiats had their hand in tooling this up. This isn’t supposed to be a minivan. They said it’s supposed to compete against the, the Model Y, the mach E, and then the Volvo recharge.

So it’s. One of those compact crossover. I’m not sure I’m an s u v, but I wanna be, so switching to domestic news, brought to you in part by American muscle.com, your source for Chevy Ford and Mopar Performance and O E m replacement parts. We’ve got only really one thing to talk about this month there.

There might have been a couple other things. GM has got another plant they’re trying to open maybe for building batteries here stateside. [00:24:00] Obviously there’s the chips issue across everybody and, and slowing production. But the cool thing that’s come out is, or interesting thing I guess is Ford is restructuring and they wanna split Ford into the ICE Ford and then the electric Ford.

So they’re calling it, I guess Ford Blue I guess cuz Blue is the Ford color and that’ll be the ice division. And then in the great infinite genius that is Ford. And I’m not saying that in a sarcastic way, their electric division is going to be called Ford Model E because they snatched that trademark name up.

Like way back in the beginning when Tesla started doing stuff with model blah blah blah, they were like, Nope, he is ours. And I love it cuz it hearkens back to the, you know, the model T and blah blah blah. Way to go Ford. Way to go, Ford way to be on top and last at the same time. This reminds me of Volkswagen and Vols.

Wagon. Yeah. Except this isn’t April 1st. I do not think [00:25:00] it’s a, they’re a week early. What can I say? They’re a week early. Yeah, exactly. A falsely uh, leaked April Fool’s joke, weirdness. Hopefully that doesn’t happen again. So the more I think about this, you know, even going back to what we talked about, the top of the show, where, you know, looking at how things have changed, you know, what’s the point of a manual when you have an EV or you have an automatic transmission, all that kind of stuff.

I think that the Mach e and this type of rebranding and separation is in line to save Ford from the brink of extinction. And that’s a strong thing to say, but if you think about it, they’ve already downsized all their vehicle fleet. They focused heavily on trucks, which we know are not fuel efficient and difficult to make long range EV pickups right now and things like that.

And so the market is shifting. You’re seeing Tesla introducing sedans, CUVs and things like that. They need to compete to stay viable, you know, especially a company that’s been around for well over a hundred years at the beginning of when cars were new, right? They can say [00:26:00] that things like the Mach e, things like this model E plan, I think make sense.

They have to do this. This is why I tip my hat to Chrysler, right? They’re taking their time, they’re doing their thing, they’re trying to reintroduce, they got some cool stuff coming. Again, I asked the question. What is Chevy doing? Crickets, Chevy’s. The Chevy’s still fixing ignitions switches and, and the popup hoods on the, on the Corvette Cs, right?

And all that stuff. Yeah. The popup hoods on the Corvettes. Yeah. They’re still settling out lawsuits left and right. Ah, you know, but it’s something to think about. The market is. If you look at when Tesla was introduced, there’s a lot of Teslas now that are getting close to 10 years old. We’re 10 years into EVs.

Whether we like it or not, we still make it seem like it’s so new when it really isn’t, you know? And that’s, that’s a good long run for a lot of vehicles. So the market is shifting. The market is changing. I’m still holding true to certain vehicles that I, I love and cherish. I still want my electric DeLorean.

That’s a whole nother thing. There are some things that just kind of bogle my mind, and we’re gonna talk [00:27:00] about it more as we go through, which is the introduction of yet another awesome, cool sports model. Ice motor thing is like, are these last two rock cars? Or what the heck is going on? And more importantly, On the JDM side of the house, Toyota and Yamaha have gotten together and done something that I didn’t think anybody was gonna do, and basically they took one of the Lexus V eights, one of the race motors, basically, and made it run on hydrogen.

Much like Tanya mentioned earlier, Chrysler, you forget that they’re there and they’re doing this and that. Mm-hmm. Well, the same thing with the hydrogen cars. You forget that there’s been a bunch over the last 15, 20 years. So they did away with the fuel cell, uh, and said it’s gonna run on, on H two in place of gasoline.

I guess they wanted to show that you, you would be able to fill it, I guess easily, I guess more easily than a fuel cell, right, exactly. As a, as a true alternative to gasoline. Again, like I said, you know, a lot of hydrogen ideas have come and gone. Tanya’s talked about ’em too. Every once in a while there’s some really [00:28:00] cool like super hypercar hydrogen thing that they’re working on and you know, like that one that broke all those records maybe six months ago I think, or so that we reported on it.

I think this is neat, you know, going back to the well and saying, how can we refine and perfect the internal combustion engine to run on something else? You know, they’re saying it makes 450 horsepower. They’re saying yes, it’s zero emissions. All these kinds of things, but there’s not any comparable numbers right now.

I don’t know. It says that since they’re basing it on the five liter V8 Lexus RCF F engine, they’re saying it’s gonna be somewhere like four 50 horsepower and almost 400 foot pounds of torque running on hydrogen gas. And how much is the hydrogen gonna cost per gallon? That’s the bigger question. Right?

So I’m gonna let people kind of figure that out for themselves. Didn’t the Hindenburg run on hydrogen? No. Oh, damn. Speaking of expensive Japanese things, a Toyota of all things has set the record for the most expensive Japanese car to [00:29:00] be sold at auction at the recent Amelia Island, the Toyota 2000 GT Shelby Edition, the one that Shelby himself worked on and helped modify for GT racing back in the late sixties, sold for a whopping two and a half million dollars.

Now, that doesn’t seem like a whole lot when you compare it to $50 million Ferraris and Bugattis and all sorts of bespoke TBOs and things like that, but in the JDM world, two and a half million dollars for a vintage Toyota that’s saying a lot, that’s good. That means things are changing and people are really beginning to appreciate those cars.

But it took Carol Shelby to make it sell for that much. I don’t think it would’ve sold for that much without the Carol Shelby. Touch and the racing pedigree and the winds and everything else behind it. I mean, that, that car has history. So, but it’s good to see, I mean, I, I love those 2000 gts, I think they’re fantastic cars.

Every time we do a vintage series in Forza, you know, I choose one of these if I can, [00:30:00] and I think it gave way to other designs as well. Like if you look at the two 40 Z, which came mm-hmm. Several years later, they’re very similar. Right. And so again, there’s, there’s a lot of things to be proud of with the 2000 gt.

It’s a cool car. I just wish it was better known. But I also am curious now to see. What’s gonna happen with the nineties supras and things like that. As they get older, are they gonna blow this car out of the water or suddenly is this car gonna be a 25 million car one day like the Ferrari are now? You know?

So it’ll be curious to see what happens on the auction scene and in the collector car world. Well, all those cars that go to auction are unobtainium for me. But if we’re looking at new cars, something that a lot of people are looking at now is the new W R X. I’m sure you people have seen the 2022 W Rx that came out not too long ago.

It’s got the weird blacked out fender wells. It looked like it’s an off-road or, or whatever. It raised a lot of controversy. Well, with A W R X comes an s t I right. Not this time. Subaru has [00:31:00] said that, you know, with the ever-changing regulations and everything and the the need to build cars that meet greenhouse gases and, uh, zero emission vehicles and fuel economy and cafe and, and all that other stuff, they’ve decided to scrap the idea of an s t I for this generation.

And actually they’re looking into possibly an electric s t I and the future. So for all you people that saw the WR RX and thought, oh, I’m gonna wait for the s t I version to come out, you’re gonna be waiting a really long time. Uh, explain to me again how a flat EV is gonna work. Isn’t that the whole thing about Subarus as we got the flat motor?

I think the whole thing about Subarus is the marketing campaign. Oh, okay. Gotcha. All right. Nevermind. But since Tanya can’t get that Subaru STI that she’s been looking for, I found her replacement for all those beaters that she has. Dow has Blast Beed. Apparently the US market has been teased several times, is getting a Toyota gr.[00:32:00]

Corolla. I was so hopeful there for a minute. I don’t know anything about it. I mean, the Corolla hatchbacks not a bad looking car. We’ve seen them on the road. I like seeing the Corolla hatchbacks. Yeah. I have not driven one, so I can’t comment in that regard, but I think they did a nice job with it. Yeah. I enjoy seeing them on the road.

They are. Appropriately small. Yes. Yeah. As you would hope them to be. They’re proportioned. Well, I think they’re good looking cars. They are small. I would never drive one because I don’t fit well, you can still get one with a manual transmission. One of the few cars you can get with a manual transmission.

So they’re coming out with a GR gazoo racing version. I would like to see that. Two US shores, it’s, I wonder what the difference would be really. Maybe it’s all under the body work, cuz I believe you can already get the CO and the midnight murdered out edition, which is pretty sweet. So beyond that, I mean, I guess obviously there could be more aggressive air dams and, and things, and the body kit, blah, blah, blah.

And then hopefully suspension. It needs two. It needs, it needs [00:33:00] a turbo. A be big tur wheel. Cylinder drive. Yeah. A big turbo, four cylinder and all wheel drive. Although I don’t think the GR yards has all wheel drive does it? It can come with all wheel drive overseas. And doesn’t the Yaris come in a, isn’t it a three cylinder turbo or is it a four cylinder?

I think there’s different engine packages for that thing. For, for the, for the gr version. Well, the, the rally, the rally car’s a four cylinder. Okay. You know what’s interesting about this car in particular? I’m hoping somebody buys one of these and brings it to the track because the big question that comes out for me isn’t, how good is the GR Corolla?

It’s how good is it compared to the Hyundai Veloster nm. Because here’s the thing, I, I get to coach in a lot of different cars and the new civics, they’re cool. And you know, a Honda finally adapted turbos. It only took them like 30 years to catch up and all that. But the civic’s really big and it feels big, the veloster.

And you know, like I’ve said before, it’s the best G t I ever built in Korea. But the experiences [00:34:00] I’ve ever had with JDM cars, when I walk away from a Toyota, I always feel satisfied whether it was a Supra or an M R two or whether, you know, even if it was even a shit box, Corolla, I’ve always walked away from it.

Not feeling like it was just completely numb like a lot of other cars are. They’re just fun. They kind of remind me of the old Volkswagens in a way, and so I’m really kind of excited to see somebody bring one of these out and put it through its paces. Well, I’m glad to hear you say that about the Toyotas because I’ve got another bit of Toyota news that is unsubstantiated and unconfirmed and it’s just rumor mill Bs probably, but allegedly Toyota for the Zu PRA is bringing back the manual.

You wanna know why? I can speculate on this one. You wanna know why? Go for it. Because of the Z, because the Z’s coming with a manual transmission, and so to be competitive, they’re gonna have to put one in the Zu PRA as well, which isn’t a big deal for BMW at the end of the day. Right? They got like 93,000 ZF transmissions laying around that they could [00:35:00] probably throw in this thing, why they didn’t do it in the first place.

But also BMWs making that shift back to manual transmissions for the enthusiasts. We talked about this last month with the M three s and the M four s and things like that, so it all makes sense to put a manual in the Zu pra, but on the same token, I think it’s in direct competition against the Z. Mm-hmm.

The thing about the Z is if the price point. Is accurate. They keep saying it’s gonna be a high forties, low fifties car. If that’s true, it’s still gonna blow the supra out of the water. Thera was supposed to be in that range. I think it ended up being higher because of markups and stuff like that, and it was rare and blah, blah, blah.

The prices for Thera, well they haven’t come down because Covid this chipped that, you know, whatever. But I think it’s supposed to be in the similar range in the fifties, and I think the, the top of the line, after $20,000 in destination fees, you’re at 75 grand. Yeah, it’s amazing. But, but they also brought down, they also brought out the four cylinder RA as well, [00:36:00] I guess.

Wait, what? That’s a thing. That’s a thing. There’s a four cylinder Zora. Yeah. To, to hit a lower price point. So it’s obviously it’s not as fast and it doesn’t perform as, as well as the six. But yes, there’s a four cylinder Zora. So is that the two-liter turbo B M BMW motor that doesn’t wanna stay together?

I believe so. I don’t know. I haven’t looked into it too much. Cuz Who runs a four cylinder Supra? Exactly. So they sell three of us. Who wants an, who wants an NA Supra? No. It’s like the people that bought the clown shoe. Non ammunition. You’re like, really? There’s like three of those, right? It’s, they’re just clowns.

So I think we’ve talked too much about our four wheel friends here. What about two wheels? Oh, what’s Ducati doing these days? Yeah, yeah. What are they? Well, you know, honestly we’re gonna have to pull a little more info here cuz different manufacturers are stepping it up a bit and there’s more things coming out left and right in terms of the motorbike electric scene.

But this development. Is of the pedal [00:37:00] variety. Oh, so is this, is this Huffy? No. BMX is back. Do they still make Huffies? I think you can buy Huffies at Walmart. Yeah. It’s probably the only place you can buy ’em. No, I saw this and I have always, I thought really long and hard. The last bicycle that I bought, I really wanted to get a Bianchi and really the only thing that stopped me was the place I was living.

There really weren’t any bike shops that had them available to test ride and whatnot, so I ended up going a different route. And they’re very, very expensive bicycles and you really can’t buy a bicycle without testing it out. There are a lot of places around here, this Al Bianchis. Yeah, too late Hindsight.

Hindsight 10 years later, kidding. Apparently Bianchi’s getting into the electric bicycle realm as well, and they’ve unveiled two different city bikes. One city and one actually country touring bike that are gonna be mid drive electric Now I’m [00:38:00] sad actually to see that they’re not the classic Celeste Green that all bianchis usually come in, or at least some bit of it not being on here.

I think they need to, to fix that. If you’re looking for an electric bicycle, I’m not sure how much these cost, and I’m not sure they’re actually even gonna come to the states cuz they talk about the top speed being limited by European e-bike laws. And so they’re actually limited to 15 and a half miles an hour, which if you’re not really a cyclist, that goes out very frequently.

That’s. It’s a pretty good cruising speed and a lot of people can even struggle to hit that if they’re not routine bikers. You can pedal beyond that, so you can exceed the bike speed limit laws, which would be pretty easy to do actually. That’s pretty cool. This is not the first Bianchi electric bike. Ooh.

Apparently. Further down in the article, there’s a link to, I guess a, a previous model that actually does have pricing. The previous model actually looks pretty killer, actually, if you find that link. But the top of the line, [00:39:00] previous version was. Up to $5,900, man. So I can only imagine that these a little more pedestrians.

So maybe they’re gonna be in the 4,000, 4,000 to $3,500 range, something like that. Which is still not cheap for a bcta. No. I guess if you live in the city and you, it’s a commuter bike, maybe you can afford that because you don’t have a car. So you don’t have that and you don’t have any, and you don’t want a moped or something like that.

So maybe this is affordable in that very specific use case. Buy a Bianchi bike or put gas in my vehicle. Which one do I Well, if you don’t have a vehicle, even if you do, you can’t afford to fill it. You just buy, well, yeah, these days I think that’s cool. I, I like the electric bike idea. They need to up the weight limits on them, but you know, whatever.

Well, I think it’s time for us to now move on to Brad’s favorite section. Boston found. So remember we talked about that Lamborghini, that some dude built in his basement? Yeah. The one that has [00:40:00] termites, right? That’s the one that had to, he had to like bust his wall down. Did it have a wooden frame? How did you, I can’t remember anything about this car.

Well, whatever. It’s for sale he says. He says, so cavalierly, it’s for sale. Where? It’s for sale on eBay. For how much too much? $85,000. That’s a bargain for a fake Lamborghini. Are you kidding? For 25 grand you can have a Firo with a F 40 body kit on it. You know I saw one of those the other day when I was at Auto Fab.

They do exist. So weird. They’re terribles are all wrong. This is like the nose is long enough, but the door is itty bitty and it’s got a Firo v6 and oh my God, those cars are atrocious. This one had an LS swap in the back with turbos and I can assume that it was fast, but it looks scary. Waste of money.

Waste of money. So speaking of waste of money and we were talking about chips, there seems to be a lot of new cars still [00:41:00] sitting unsold on dealer lots. Even in today’s ridiculous used car market, not shortages of vehicles, things like that. There’s still cars sitting around. What do we got sitting around on lots days and dealer inventory.

The Hyundai Genesis G 80. Oh, the Nissan Armand. You know, they missed one. They missed the 2016 Dodge Dart because that’s how many years ago was that? Um, so is that 1200 days? Yeah. So this is really a chart about the number of days that they’re staying in dealer inventory. And to your point, the Nissan Armanda and the Genesis are sitting in inventory for almost three months on lots.

So being unsold, but then those cars are on the higher end of the price spectrum too. If you’re gonna buy a G 80, you’re looking at a $70,000 car. It’s like no wonder, I mean, with the prices of vehicles being what they are, and we’re gonna talk about that a little more as we go along. It’s no wonder that they’re not selling.

Same with the Alfa Romeos and stuff, right? That the Julia and Stelvio, they’re a little bit more expensive. I did chuckle at the Passat because we know that’s. Had it [00:42:00] Swan song, you know, nobody has Firestone in a rental car. I’ve said it before. The thing that I like is the Jeep Wagoneers with all the fanfare and everything, and this is gonna take on Lexus and Range Rover and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Now they’d sit on the lot for 50 days. Well, it’s also 120 grand. So, you know, Hey, go for it. Why can’t they start dismantling all these cars and taking the chips and putting ’em into cars that people actually wanna buy? Uh, that’s what I keep thinking too. Now, the one that did surprise me was the Ram 1500 to see a pickup truck sitting on the lot.

Maybe because dodge trucks have a bad wrap. You know, like they always say you buy a Dodge truck for the motor and you wait for the rest of it to rot. I don’t think that’s the case anymore. The new Rams are really great places to live. E everybody that I know that’s bought one. Says nothing but good things about them.

The warranty that Chrysler Dodge has nowadays is pretty awesome. I can, I can attest to that personally. So I don’t know why a ram would be sitting around for, you know, 40, 45 days or whatever, again, could be the cost. I mean, these pickup trucks are coming in now with [00:43:00] markups clocking in anywhere between 70 and 120 grand.

We’ve seen It’s nuts. Yeah, I, I doubt they’re the tradesmen edition. They’re sitting there in a lot. They’re the big horns and the power wagons and stuff. Yeah, and the power wagons and the, what, what was that? The rtx or whatever the hell, they just came out with the T Rx, the Tyrannosaurus Rec. Yeah, the, the big a hundred thousand dollars 10 year auto loan ram.

Well, on the other side of that coin, Forbes is telling us that there’s a whole bunch of cars that we should hang onto because they’re gonna be collectible in the future. I love the fact that you’ve owned like three or four of these right? Con and continue to own two of them right now. I noticed that.

Well, one thing, one thing that irritated me about this list is what, it’s 67 ca, a list of 67 cars. How many duplicates were there was? There’s the Camaro, there’s the Camaro ss, there’s the Camaro one le, there’s the Camaros E 28, there’s the Corvette Stingray, there’s the Corvette Z L one. There’s the blah, blah, blah, blah.

How about just say Corvette with these [00:44:00] models? Well, did anyone notice that? This is the list of. Collectible cars. And then there was a Ducati. I did see that. I thought that was cute. I mean, it’s quite collectible. But then there were other things to Brad’s point, four generations of the Miata mean the Miatas, I guess it’s collectible to include.

It was only the recent version too though. Well, there was, I guess is the only good one now. Well, there was the nd, the N D R F, the NC Miata was on the list and to include the Fiat 1 24 of bar, which is a Miata. So there was at least four on this list. I mean, I kinda, I started losing focus on this list. I, I get it.

It’s the future car. So it’s cars today. And hold onto them later. But I don’t know. Some of them I, I was just like, really? I don’t think so. And then the number one, I was like, really? Yeah, Kia Stinger. I mean, it did start to feel like, here’s the hottest cars of the last 20 years, you know? Okay, fine. There were only [00:45:00] really a handful of vintage cars on this list, like the Ferrari test Arosa from 84 to 91.

I did chuckle at the VW van in West Flia. I was like, right on. That’s a, that’s a collector car. The Dodge Viper, 96 to 2002. The Gen twos obviously. And then to Brad’s point, they reiterated again with the Gen five Vipers. So pretty much I said Any Vipers collectable except for the one, yes. The two that Andrew bought.

Those are not the VW Carrado was on that list. But if you’re in the VW community, you already know the Carrado is a unicorn. It’s, it’s already a collector car. They’re unobtainium as they exist. I was happy to see the nine 14 on the list. That has a special place in my heart. Okay, in your garage. That is true.

The TT coop, the original Mark one is on that list, which is, you know, neither he nor there, but its counterparts. Were also on the list, right? The Z three, the S 2000. You didn’t see the boxer on this list. Actually, this list was completely devoid of Porsche’s except for the nine 14. So I thought that No, there [00:46:00] was a Cayman, there was a gt.

Oh, you’re right. There was a GT four on that list, but that’s a super new car. I think if I had to pick three off of this list, I don’t know about you guys. It would be the WK one s RT eight Jeep. That is definitely a collector. It’s limited edition. It’s the first of the big muscle Jeeps, unlike the track hawk, which they listed later, the Alpha four C, I actually really like that car, and I think the other one that would probably surprise a lot of people, and I’m gonna say this.

Is the BMW M two. And I’ve sworn off BMWs, but I’ve ridden in a lot of M two s and the M two s are really, really good. And I agree with the M two because look at what happened with the one M when they came out, right? They made it for like one year. They’re now unobtainium, even like a couple years, a used one with like 10,000 miles right after they stopped making ’em.

You couldn’t buy one for less than. 10 grand over what the person paid for it. Brand new. So I, I agree with the M two. So if you guys had to do a [00:47:00] little mini, what should I buy here? What would you pick off this list? Anything different than what I chose. I wish they would just show the list. I didn’t have to go through the stupid slideshow.

Cause that’s, yeah. I need the T L D R. Just list 67 of ’em in straight line. I would have the tester Rosa a hundred percent. I would also have the lfa. I would have the Julia, I’m seeing a theme here. They’re red and Italian. They’re, it’s Italian. Well then you need the Ducati cuz it is also red and Italian.

So you’re good. Or Brad would have that for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I would have the Ducati. I am actually upset at the lack of fiat panda on the list. Exactly. I don’t need, people don’t know what a collector car is. Yes. So, so what, what on this list would you take off and replace with one car? I think we just answered Tanya’s.

Obviously the Kia Stinger or the Carrado or No, the Kia Stinger is the one that would leave. Or the, the numerous versions of Camaros. Just keep one Camaro. Yes. I, I think a car I would add to this list that’s [00:48:00] underappreciated that is gonna become a collector car is gonna be the 9 28. I could see that because it’s so weird.

It’s so awkward. It’s got a mystique behind it too. It, it was around for a long time. It was supposed to replace the nine 11 that anything that’s supposed to replace a line nine 11 never actually does. Exactly. And it’s not as rare as a 9 68 or not nearly as modded as a 9 44. A lot of nine 40 fours are just ragged out race cars.

Like whatever. There’s a lot of nine 40 fours that were produced. But the nine 20 eights kind of like, uh, yeah, it’s a 9 28 and when you see one or may, maybe it’s just me. I get excited, I’m like, ah, it’s 9 28. Yeah, I think another, I was excited to see that it actually runs, Yeah, there were no British cars on this list that I, I could tell.

I think another, yeah, Aston Martin VA Advantage. Oh yeah, you’re right. There was a mini that John Cooper works. Yeah, I guess that’s BMW technically mind, and then that, that Aston Martin’s a Ford. But that’s a whole nother story. I think it’s a neat list, and if you’re thinking [00:49:00] about what’s sitting in your driveway or what’s in your garage, I think it’s a great opportunity to kind of review the list, maybe take some financial advice from Forbes and hang onto that thing instead of trading it in on whatever the latest, you know, Nissan Leaf is that’s coming out, you know, next week.

Something to consider. Except for you, Andrew. Get rid of those vipers. You said Nissan Leaf. And I think the only electric car out of those 67 cars was the Polestar. The Polestar one, which I didn’t even know was available for sale. There’s only an only meeting like 1500 of ’em, which is gonna make it super rare.

Uh, and I didn’t even think that’s 1500 that are coming to the United States. It’s just 1500 global. Maybe Never seen a pole star actually in the wild. Well, speaking of pole stars, actually, while everybody else is having chip shortages, apparently Polestar and Volvo and Gly are, uh, had a little, uh, little nest egg hoarding of, uh, chips.

The Polestar two is coming, it is actually arriving. And at what dealership? No, at the Polestar dealership. I don’t know. [00:50:00] Okay. I think they get delivered to your driveway. Oh. So it’s www.polestar.com. Okay, cool. No, I mean they are there to order. That sounds like a, that sounds like a different website Eric.

No, but you know like the pictures of it, I would be interested to see this one in person because it’s not as Sudan as the first one. It’s like if you just take the outline of it, I’m like, that is very flat back. GT coupe with the rise on on the back. Glass boxy front end too. Not very aerodynamic. I’d be interested to see one of these, but again, they’ll probably only make like two of them available and they start at around fif $45,900.

There’s one in Baltimore. I can give you the address if you wanna go look at it. There you go. They do exist. Polestar was throwing this car in our face during the Superbowl showing us all sorts of things and poking fun at Tesla and VW and Dieselgate and everybody. They could poke a finger at that. They did.

We’re gonna talk more about those Super [00:51:00] Bowl commercials, even though we know it’s a little bit late. That were covering them, but you know, they were right up at the front of the ones that got my attention. And now you’re seeing that ad constantly, which again begs the question, when people see this car, they’re gonna go, well, where can I find it?

Where can I go drive it? You know, nobody’s gonna order a car and have it show up at their house without test driving it first. A lot of people say you buy with your eyes. So yeah, if it looks good and all that, but then it shows up and you’re like, man, this thing drives like garbage. I mean, I don’t know. I, I would like to go to a Polestar dealer if they’re in bed with Volvo or whoever.

Fine. Let me know where it is that I can go see this car and test it out for myself. There are several different Polestar places to begin a test drive, spaces, events, destinations. Each one will have a polestar specialist on hand to assist with the test drive and help familiarize you with the car, uh, blah, blah, blah.

I’m on Pole Star’s website trying to, so, which, which flea market in the middle of Omaha am I going to, to go drive this thing? So you can go to Polestar, you gotta set up, uh, an appointment or they can bring the car to you. We’ll meet you at your [00:52:00] chosen location. A Polestar specialist will meet you there with a Polestar car, at which point your test drive will begin.

All righty then how bougie? It’s like Carvana, they come to you. We talked about that list of collectible cars, and we mentioned on several episodes in the past, you know, the price of cars are going up, especially new cars. And I think it was last month, we talked about how is the new freshly minted professional straight outta college or going to afford a new EV when they’re off to work for the first time.

And so there was a list that was put together of the cheapest new electric cars you can buy in 2022. There’s 11 of them. The prices range from 28,000 to 45,000. So the cheapest one is at 28,000, which is the Nissan Leaf all the way up to the most expensive one was the, uh, Q4 e-tron. Yeah. And everything in between, the Chevy Bolt is on the lower end.

The Mazda MX 30 is gonna be on the lower end at 34,000. I wanna drive none [00:53:00] of these. No, I don’t know that. I don’t, I, I wouldn’t mind test. Driving any of these, honestly. But I just look at this and I’m, I don’t know, I guess cuz my cars are so seasoned, if you will, old, I just like 40,000 plus and this is cheap.

I don’t know what that means. That’s the reality of the car market these days though, car prices are constantly going up. Yeah, I guess and I don’t, I don’t appreciate that. Cause I’m a, I’m not in the market, so I’m, I’m never really looking to allow. It’s like a TR Corolla comes out. Woo. That’s true. But let’s flip that around.

If you do a one for one comparison, right. The ID four, which is on this list from Volkswagen, clocks in at 41 Grand GTIs are selling in the mid to high thirties, let’s say five years ago. The prices on them have come down because obviously sales are down. When A G T I was commanding almost 40 grand after markup and warranties and all that, and you say, well, I can get [00:54:00] an all electric for 41.

The people that are in the market for a G T I aren’t in the market for an ID four, I don’t think, especially the people that are buying the $40,000 gt I Cuz that’s the gt. That’s the R. Yeah. The golf R is 40, so they’re looking for a specific car. They’re not in the market for an ID four. Yeah, and the people that, but I understand what you’re saying though.

And the people that do have ID four s or in the market for the ID four might also be holding out for the ID buzz. Right. The, the van that’s coming now, that’s something that I’m interested in because we’ve talked a couple times about how, you know, my family is growing and expanding and this, that, and the other, and we might be in the market for a bigger vehicle, and I’m curious as to what the ID bus is gonna be like compared to our current fleet, which is a Honda pilot.

So I, it looks stay tuned for. That looks small. It does look small. Small. It looks small. Small. I don’t, I don’t know if it’s gonna be the same size as like a microbus then it’s a no-go because I need something at least expedition size. It’s definitely, my wife and I looked at it too because she thinks it’s super cute, not [00:55:00] in that yellow color that they keep showing it in on the press releases.

But what we realized, the camera angles are very, I. Targeted. They don’t want you to see it specifically. It’s a two row vehicle. It’s not three row seating, which means it’s not a minivan size. Oh, that less dumb. When? When you look at the proportions of the doors, and if you kind of take careful measurements between the front seat and the back seat, a lot of times it’ll show with the seat folded down so it looks bigger than it is.

I think it’s built on like a car chassis of some sort. It’s not a minivan. It to your point, it’s a microbus. That being said, what’s it gonna cost? Is it gonna be the same price point as the ID four? Is it gonna be more expensive cuz it’s the hot new hotness? Maybe I walked back my statement from before.

There’s nothing on this list that I would want. Obviously the Audi’s gonna command a certain level of luxury and things that we’re accustomed to in every Audi. The only one that I put a star next to was the Mach E. It’s on the higher end of the spectrum at 44 grand. But I look at the Mach E. [00:56:00] It’s a good looking car.

I get that it’s a Ford Escape underneath with all the bells and whistles on top of it. I don’t, I, I don’t know. It’s the only one that I would want out of this list. If, if you told me these are the, the 10 or 11 cars that I’m only able to buy tomorrow, I would pick the Ford. Okay. If you forced me and said, you have to have, pick off this list.

Tomorrow or else, man, I would probably do Volkswagen pick. I would pick the mini, you know. And that’s the only one that looks like a normal car too, on this list. Exactly. Why? Exactly why? And it’s cheap. It’s like 31 grand. So is that really any more expensive than a Cooper s you know, fully loaded with all the bells and whistles?

Not that I necessarily want a mini, I would want it cuz it is literally the only car on this list. Traditional car. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, at first I was confused. I was like, why is this thing even on here? Cuz it’s just, why did they put a mini on nearby mistake? I. I guess we would be remiss if we didn’t talk about EVs and include Tesla.

And speaking [00:57:00] of price of electric vehicles, apparently, um, you know what happens to that whole model too? We’re gonna bring you an EV at 20 grand or whatever that Bruhaha Habu was. Cause now apparently Tesla’s increased their prices across the board for all their models. So the cheapest model you can buy, the model three now starts at $47,000.

Oh. That’s the one that was supposed to be 35 grand, the car for the masses, that everybody was gonna drive an electric car and they’re gonna drive a $35,000 Tesla. Apparently the masses can all afford $50,000, you know, loans Now I don’t get it. Uh, well, apparently, and, and if, uh, you were of the masses that wanted the, the Model X, what was that other, like S u V thing?

Mm-hmm. The Model X is, it got like, I believe the steepest price hike, it went up 10 grand is now a hundred fourteen ninety nine. The Model X or the model? Yeah, the Model X is the big guy. Yeah. The Model [00:58:00] X, the big one. Prices increase anywhere from, you know, a couple grand to $10,000 across their lineup. I think the Model S went up like five.

The model Y went up a couple does it, is a percentage hike across the board, or they just chose random amounts. I, I don’t know. It talked about obviously inflation, so now we gotta increase prices. But what the basis was, I mean, part of the Model X, they’re like, well, the Model X never saw a price increase or barely a price hike this whole time.

So they made up for lost time. I, I don’t know, that’s bs. The problem is they’re no longer receiving funds for the gas credits that all these other manufacturers were giving them. So they need to find a way to make up for that loss revenue. As you said before, Brad, this is no different than the Apple model.

This is why a brand new iPhone costs $1,100, right? Jesus. They keep slowly bringing prices up on everything. They’re following the same thing, proprietary, charging, all this kind of stuff, you know? Oh, it’s all branded together. It’s the [00:59:00] Apple model. I mean, it is what it is. There’s a reason why Apple’s, but the most valuable company in the world, or one of the most valuable companies in the world, they’re like drug dealer.

They, they got you hooked. They’re, they got you hooked and think you can’t live without it. And then so you’re just like, well, I, I gotta have it. So you know, what’s another a hundred bucks? What’s another a hundred bucks? You know? I’m not even, what’s another a hundred bucks? That $1,100, you mean what’s another $40 a month?

Because we’re all renting shit these days. Nobody’s buying anything. We’re all renting our iPhones. You can barely go into a store and actually buy an iPhone outright. They’re all like, oh, well, we’ll just hack it onto your plan. You don’t have to come outta cash at all. The phone companies are doing this shit to us too.

They’re in cahoots, collusion. With Apple forever clean. Now, speaking of other ways to earn income and some shady, sketchy things, possibly did, you know, I feel like I should have known, or maybe I didn’t, I forgot, [01:00:00] but Tesla, they’re underwriting their own insurance for their cars. We talked about this a season or two ago that, that we were trying to figure out how they were gonna go about doing this.

It was a whole thing. I don’t remember exactly what we said, but yeah, we did talk about this before. Apparently, I guess it was mainly in California where this was happening, but now they’re starting to increase the breadth of, of states for which you can apply for Tesla insurance. And on the one hand it’s like, okay, cool.

I guess on the other hand, What’s the ad campaign for that 15 minutes Just cost you 15 grand Tesla insurance, I think. I think they had to do this or they thought they had to do this because their customers were complaining about being able to get insurance for their vehicles for one reason or another.

I don’t know exactly because of the, I guess insuring an electric vehicle was diff was hard or difficult or something. I can only imagine that the way they figure [01:01:00] out those tables and all that, when you’re dealing with something so new as an electric vehicle, they have nothing to compare it to. So yeah, a brake rotor is a brake rotor and And a shock is a shock.

But at the end of the day, when you’re in an accident and you have all these cameras and radar and lidar and batteries and all this, there’s nothing to compare it to. So I can only imagine that, you know, Geico and Allstate and farmers and everybody’s going, I don’t even know where to start on how to insure these things, and it’s probably insane.

How do they total. An ev something as you know, complicated as a Tesla, you scratch the door and it’s totaled. Well, that’s what happens with the lotus’s, right? If you ding the clam shell on any lease, the cars basically salvage that point because it, it’s almost unfixable. Although anybody that could do carbon fiber or fiberglass can probably fix it, but the insurance companies will write those cars off in a, in a heartbeat.

Plus, I think the fact that Tesla has kept everything in house, So it’s not like insurance adjusters could say, okay, here’s a [01:02:00] $15,000 check. Go down to Joe Blow body Shop down the street and get your car fixed. I don’t think Tesla lets their customers do that. You have to go to Tesla, which raises the cost and even more.

Where is that again for the insurance company? Where do I take it to again? Do I drop it? Do I drop it off at Kohl’s and then somebody takes it to Tesla’s? No. So you, you, you get a buddy and you open the double wide doors at the mall where they drive in all the Jaguars because nobody buys a Jag. They’re all at the malls.

And then you drive into Tyson’s Corner to the Tesla shop, ah, right next to the Apple store in between the Apple store and the Microsoft store. And then you just park your Tesla in the middle of the showroom and say, here, fix this. At the Genius Bar. Yeah. At the Genius Bar, you drive to the Genius Bar in your cousin.

My, my only concern for something like this is something that Progressive tried to do several years ago. Luckily that seemed to fizzle out and I don’t think anybody else is doing it anymore. Or maybe they [01:03:00] are. They offered you that little pod to plug into your car so that you could save on your insurance by letting us track you as a good driver.

And it’s like, yeah, that’s a terrible idea. And basically that’s what this is gonna be based off of. Like your premium or your good driving is gonna be based on them recording all of your driving habits inside the Tesla. So it’s like, okay, at what point. Do I now get penalized because I wanted to see how, you know, I wanted to see the zero to 60 in two seconds and suddenly I’m getting flagged on my insurance report.

I mean, that’s, the premium goes up when once we have autonomous driving level 37, it’s all irrelevant because the cars will have to abide by the speed limits. Yep. Because they’re Johnny Cabs and none of it’s really that important. I, I hate to break it to you folks, when that happens, enjoy going 55 miles an hour.

There will not be 70 on 95 in the left lane anymore. It’s not [01:04:00] gonna happen. Well, I remember a couple years ago there was a hurricane coming through Florida. Tesla sent a software patch and gave all of the people that owned Teslas in that area More range or more performance or, or something. Yeah. To get out of the area quickly.

Now, I don’t know who’s read a Tesla contract then the fine print and everything, but if they can give you, they can take away. A hundred percent. So if you’ve got a loan, you’ve got a Tesla, Tesla model S, you’ve got your loan through Tesla, you’re five days late on your payment because this, that, and the other Tesla can throttle back your performance, throttle back your car, you know?

So you can’t drive it until you can They can break it. Payment. Yeah. Yeah. They can break your car until that scares the shit outta me. And to Tony’s point, I take my Tesla to the drag strip. I’ve got a Tesla plaid, and I wanna blow the doors off my buddy’s Dodge Viper and I do one run down the drag strip, and all of a sudden Tesla’s like, oh, we’re gonna throttle your performance until we can re-underwrite your insurance to make it so you’re paying [01:05:00] $5,000 a year versus the $2,500 a year.

It’s the same as the scam that the cellular companies are doing, where you pay for unlimited bandwidth up to a certain gig. They throttle it. Yes. And then you throttle it down. So it’s not unlimited. It’s, it’s gonna be the same thing again. It’s the Apple model. It’s turtles all the way down. Which, you know what this reminds me of?

This reminds me of the old coal towns where people would work for the coal companies. They weren’t paid in actual currency, they were paid in coal chips or whatever. And then you used those to buy a house owned by the coal company and you shopped at the general store owned by the coal company. It’s called, it’s called Bitcoin Uhhuh.

Uhhuh, see this? Exactly. You’re living in their coal, the new modern day coal country, a hundred percent. Which is also powering the electricity that charges the, but I’ll leave that where it is. Nevermind. Speaking of taking your Tesla to the drag strip, what about taking it to the racetrack, right? Yeah. Uh, we’ve seen some people do that and [01:06:00] apparently someone, you know, whoever commissioned this, uh, lap at v i r Grand Course in a Model S plaid edition, modified apparently with aftermarket carbon, ceramic front brakes.

I guess it went there to contest the Porsche Tecan track record there, and apparently it beats the Porsche Tecan record by four and a half seconds, so it did a lap at v i r in two minutes and 50.7 as a time. Interesting. Maybe you can watch a video of the lapse. I will say the pucker moment going the uphill Ss where he almost bend, it was like, woo.

That was a, luckily he recovered so good, good on that professional driver. But that was a bit of a scary moment or could have been a scary moment. I hate these kind of things because it’s not the same driver who drove the tecan. So you know, what was the day of the week, the weather, the conditions. I would like to see these done.

And I’m [01:07:00] not saying you know, that it’s necessarily not faster or not, but I would just like to see it, you know, the same driver get in and outta the car and well, the same day at least that you have that. Apples to apples comparison. And can I just say, why not do this on v I R full? Why does it have to be grand in the, you know, no pun intended, grand scheme of things.

I guarantee you there’s thousands upon thousands upon thousands of more laps on v I R full than there are on V I R grand. So why not pick a course that people can relate to? I’ve never driven Grand two 50. Okay, that sounds great. I don’t care. Give me a sub two minutes on v i r full. That’s, I wanna see something like that.

Well, the, the reason is when you do v i r Grand, for those that aren’t familiar with the course, you could go try it maybe on Forza or some other game, or iRacing or something like that, depending on the configuration. Grand or Grand West. I can’t remember which one is which. Either way, it cuts that 7,000 foot straightaway down into two pieces.

So [01:08:00] if the Porsche has an advantage on top speed that equalizes it with Tesla, because they’re not using the full length of the straightaways by cutting up the course, adding Patriot in and doing all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Is it a fair comparison to your point? No, because nobody tests on grand. Mm-hmm.

You don’t see car and driver and road and track going to v i R and te. They always test on v i R full. So yes, I, I would love to see this redone. Obviously there’s a lot of politics when you do a shootout. It’s easier to do when you know somebody independent owns all the cars. It can take their GT three and their Tesla and their their zl one Camaro and everything that was on that Forbes list to v i r do a shootout.

But Porsche’s never going to formally challenge Tesla in a race. The only record that matters. I think in this comparison is a Tesla model plaid against the Tecan Turbo or whatever it is, dollar for dollar at the berg ring with a professional driver that knows the track behind the wheel of both of the [01:09:00] cars.

I think that’s the more fair shootout and the best part about this is that even in the article, they make a clarification. This story has been updated to clarify that because the Model S plaid was modified, its lap time is not directly comparable. I’m gonna repeat that part, not. Directly comparable to the lightning lap results of the Tacan turbos.

So what the F are we talking about here? We’re talking about, we’re talking about apples and chainsaws. That’s what we’re talking about. We’re we’re talking about a regular Mazda Miata and a SSM Miata doing lap times. It’s incomparable. Yep. Go away, Tesla. Well, they’re not going away quite yet. So next time we talked about this a while ago, the next time you found yourself in an airport, once you could fly at an airport again, which now is the time and you needed to go get a rental car, that you would be able to get a Hertz model three.

So apparently that had that contract has come to fruition and not only has that one [01:10:00] come to fruition, but they are expanding the contract further and are going to have another a hundred thousand vehicles. The Model Y as a Hertz rental. And actually this is gonna tie into something a little bit later.

Let’s keep that in the back of our heads. Tesla rental cars. Basic it, it hurts my wallet. Just to think about this. Tesla is doing what GM did. We can’t sell our cars, so we’ll make them rental cars, which is where all the Impalas and the Malibu ended up. Tanya, when was the last time you drove an Impala?

God, it’s my nightmares. But let’s move on to something a little bit more fun now that our expectations have been lowered. Let’s review lower expectation. Let’s review the Super Bowl commercials. And I know we’re a little late to the game on this because there’s been so many other things that we’ve needed to cover over the winter of 21 and 22.

So let’s get around to talking about these Super Bowl commercials. So there was the Schwarzenegger Selma Hayak, [01:11:00] B M W Electric Car Commercial, which I liked in the sense that I liked it cuz it was Schwarzenegger. I thought he was funny. Him singing was funny. The fact that it was like a car commercial, I don’t know.

Okay. It was cuz the B M W showed up eventually. But other than that, so that to me, I like this one the best because of Selma Hayek. That’s kind of funny. You liked it? Cause of Arnold. I liked it cause of Selma. That’s, this is definitely not my favorite. No, that one’s not my favorite. Then we alluded to the Polestar commercial, which was very simplistic.

It was almost like a black screen. Just had some words that kept coming up. Know this, know that, you know. No conquering Mars. That was clearly a A Tesla dig. Dieselgate. Yeah. No diesel gate. Oh my God. Pulsar had the gloves off. They’re coming at everybody saying, Mm mm Look what I got. Look what I got. So none of that bullshit.

You got none of that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They said, so that’s pretty funny, clever way of doing it. I guess we’ll see how well they actually do when we start seeing more of them on the [01:12:00] road though. So then we had the Chevy Silverado electric truck, which I’m so confused by now. What the hell? So this is basically, A rivian, then?

Yes. Isn’t it? Yes. Okay. Okay. Then I’m not confused anymore. Cause her, I’m seen her by the Rivian instead. Who cares? Right? Yeah. That was such an unmemorable commercial too. Like whoever the heck that was, she was driving. They said something soprano, something, I don’t even know. And then like she’s driving around and then she like pulls over or parks wherever she was going.

I don’t know. Isn’t Yeah, this is Meadow Soprano. She was the daughter. Oh, okay. Sure. Yeah. This is Jamie Lynn Siegler. That doesn’t help me. It was also on Entourage. All righty. Well, there was that commercial for anyone who’s interested, obviously was not a favorite of the group here. Here’s my favorite one.

I was really liked this one as well. Yeah, the Toyota Tundra. Keeping up with the Jones’s Jonas commercial was funny then. Who, who, who the hell are you? I’m Jonas. That was the best part. We’ll [01:13:00] try to keep up whoever you are. Plus it had Tom Jones music playing. I mean it was great. And it was nice to see Tommy Lee Jones.

It was like, where, where’d he go? It was nice. Alive to see Rashida Jones.

Kidding. Moving on. Well, I, I’m in for Leslie Jones. Whatcha talking about? Then there was the Kia e V six commercial with the electric robot dog and they had the total eclipse of the heart song playing. This was like one of those emotional, I think commercials, like the poor dog. He’s trying to chase the Kia and he can’t, and then he jumps off the building to be with the Kia and his battery’s drained and he can’t.

Nail his landing. It was just like, did we just kill a robot dog in this commercial? I was so w wa about this commercial. I was just like, is it over yet? It’s it over yet. And then he plugged in. He took like the charger from the [01:14:00] Kia and plugged it into the robot dog and charging him or something. Yeah, I was confused.

I didn’t know where the commercial was going for the longest time. And I was like, we just killed the dog. But okay. But then we revived the dog. So the key is wonderful. You can charge your other electronic devices with it. Like your dog. My dog would get very mad if I tried showing you Calebs, but do not plug your charger into your biological dog.

I wanna see this commercial redone black Mirror edition with those crazy like robot do the real robot dogs like chasing the Kia down the road and Nakia explodes. Like that would be the commercial for me. Like that would be awesome. Anything where Ike explodes, I think is for you. H how did we feel about the general motorist commercial?

There was a general motorist, general Motors we’re having a conversation. Eric asked earlier, what is General Motors doing? They’re having a conversation. That’s it. So they do a lot of talking, dude. I mean, why resurrect something from literally [01:15:00] 20 years ago that the young generation, I mean obviously it’s targeted at us, but nobody, Austin Powers Exactly.

It’s targeted at, at this generation that would recognize that Cause this generation is the more likely to be able to go out and buy one of these. Yeah. We’re the generation that still buys cars. Okay. Yeah, we got our driver’s licenses. Austin Powers movies are showing up on Turner Classic movies these days.

I mean, none of the young generations watching this stuff. I wasn’t a fan of it. I mean, it was interesting in the respect to see all the characters were there, like the actual, all the actors and actresses came back, but it was, someone said it was cringy and yeah, it was a little bit cringy, I guess. Yeah, it was.

It’s just not. Austin Powers was funny for a hot minute and I have fond memories of it, but going back it’s unwatchable in a way and so it’s kind of, yeah, it’s cringy. There is one that you forgot on this list before we get to the ultimate one. Here is the Jason Bateman Hyundai [01:16:00] Ionic five commercial, which is now playing all over the place where we got to see it for the first time outside of the pictures.

What’d you guys think about that one? I don’t remember it cuz apparently I missed it. He’s just driving around. Basically they keep shooting to him inside the car and he is talking about it. You see it on regular broadcast now, but it did air for a hot second during broadcast. I’m just saying. Yeah, I don’t remember it either.

Then there’s the ultimate, my personal favorite video. I’m glad you saved it for last. I did quite enjoy this one as well. It’s the best. This was best the Nissan, the new Nissan Z thriller movie. It was like the thriller movie and it was starring Eugene Levee as an action star. It was like a fast and the furious.

Parody kind of movie that he was pretending to be in as he is driving to Nissan Z all around. It was awesome. Did anybody recognize the fourth Gen F body? Chasing him? Mad Max style? Any, any, anybody? And am I the only, am I the only FBO fan here? It was the Camaro, right? So I can’t tell from the front end.

It looks [01:17:00] like a Firebird from the back end. It looks like Camaro taillights. Yeah. So I’m gonna go, I could, I don’t, I don’t know enough. I thought it was a Camaro all like in Mad Max gear. Yeah, I think it’s a Camaro. Well, regardless, okay, this is a, this is a Z commercial. What are you worried about a F body for?

Well, he drove over it. Z 28 Z No, 28 Z 400 is where it’s at, dude. So the only thing I I, the only thing I don’t like about the Z is that that color, that yellow, I’m not a fan of it. I think it looks better in other colors that I’ve seen. I haven’t seen one yet in black or silver or the burgundy. The disease came in a long time ago.

I want to see some of the other dots and colors that just were available back then. That Yelp, it needs to be in that brown, that, that SUV’s in. Yeah, that, that metallic brown, the disease came in. Yeah, exactly. But it’s still a good looking car. The more I see it, the more I like it. I cannot wait to test drive one.

I feel like I’m being teased though, kind of like that electric [01:18:00] DeLorean where it’s like, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, and, and it just, it’s not here yet. You know, you look on Nissan’s website. It doesn’t say anything about the z other than, you know, promotion. It doesn’t say available models.

You know, I can drive to the local Toyota dealer here, and there’s Zupas sitting out on the lot. There’s just, there’s no Zs right now. I, I don’t get it. Thank you for that tidbit of information because I’ve been trying to get into Azura just to, to poke around. We had six of ’em for like forever. Like they wouldn’t, they couldn’t move ’em.

I’ll have to come up to your dealership, but it’s to, to the point about the, the color in the video, he pulls up next to a brand new Nissan EV and like a metallic brown, and I think that color would be perfect on that car. To me it looks a lot like a A G R 86 or B R z. I think the burrs and the furs were modified.

To look like the Z during their facelift that they just recently got. Exactly. Exactly. Be, yeah. We, we’ve seen the Z now for several years in this configuration that it was coming and it, it’s just been delayed again. I [01:19:00] like it and I’m ecstatic to go drive one, and I think this commercial was the best out of the bunch.

I love the taillights. I love the whole back end of the car. It’s very, very iconic and very of a period, but it looks good. It’s proportioned well. I don’t think it’s gonna be a big car, which I’m totally a fan of, and I’m, I’m a huge advocate for the fact that it comes with a manual and again, I want to drive one on, I wanna drive one, and I want be in one on track.

You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. So, mm-hmm. I’m not even mad that it’s a three liter twin turbo because the 400 horse that it’s coming with, that’s why I keep calling it the Z 400. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Okay, so quick question for you, cuz you’re always kind of in the market for a car, some, somewhere in this price range, Dodge Viper or Z 400.

I can’t get a fifth gen ACR for that kind of money. If I had to buy a new car today, everything being, you know, equal, I would buy the Z and I have to own a French car at some point in my life. So it’s gonna happen, but it’s the closest I’ll ever get. But no, in reality, I [01:20:00] think that if it’s true, the price point and everything that they’re saying about the Z, it’s going to be a bargain.

What I’m hoping is that they don’t do like they did with the introduction of the c8. The C8 was supposed to be this, you can be all in for 55 grand or 60 grand or whatever they were saying, and then suddenly was 110. You’re like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Right? So I don’t want this bait and switch to occur with the Z where I show up at the dealership and go, all right man, it’s a hard pill to swallow at 52 K.

But. This card does everything and checks all the boxes. It’s worth it. If you don’t buy it now, it will be 110 grand in two years when everybody realizes just how good it is. That, that’s my thing that, and I’m sticking to it for now. You know, speaking of the ridiculousness of prices of things these days, I guess it would be unfair if we didn’t talk about some rich doing rich people things, rich people things.[01:21:00]

Got something on the list. We’re coming, we’re, we’re revisiting something that we’ve already visited before. Mm. And that is the Bugatti baby too. Remember that, that little gem I bought one for Henry.

Did you get it with the speed key? Of course. Oh, excellent. Nothing but the best for my little one. Oh man. That’s, that’s fantastic. Well, obviously, you know these exist, but why it’s back in the news is Bugatti was doing a celebration of its racing history and they were doing GP in an ice race. They brought, you know, a Type 51 Bugatti to, to do that.

But they also brought the little ev baby two with them and they, they outfitted it with a limited slip studded tires. I mean, they did some modification to this and they went ice racing with it. Nice. Now that sounds pretty. Epic. That’s some spec racing that [01:22:00] needs to happen right there on ice and snow or whatever those conditions were.

If they were using the speed key version, I mean, they’re, they’re getting up to 42 miles an hour ish, miles an hour. So that’s on ice. That’s like on ice you’re flying and that thing and that thing. Thing’s like a little go-kart. I mean, it’s, it’s small. The question is, did it beat the original? You know, I don’t think they talk about that, but that would be interesting.

Well, that’s always fun. So if you have an extra, you know, 70 grand laying around for an electric go-kart, that’s the way to go right now. I can’t wait for the Bugatti baby three to come out, so we’ll have to wait and see what that looks like as we move away from champagne wishes and caviar dreams to the complete opposite spectrum of stories, swamps and alligators and beer.

Yeah, going down to Florida. Oh, Lord, have mercy. Going down to florid. So we got a couple stops throughout Florida. And our first one, this is just dumb. Yes. I mean, obviously dumb, but you know, it’s, uh, [01:23:00] one of those warnings for the rest of us. The repercussions of intoxicated driving or intoxicated behaviors.

A a public service announcement. Public service announcement, if you will. This dude, the mugshot picture, not very flattering, so I’m not entirely sure all the things he was on. However, he but was on Tiger King. He might’ve been, I mean, he’s got like a scratch across his face. He might’ve gotten scratched by a tiger.

I don’t know. Please don’t drink and drive people. Okay, let’s just put that out there. But this guy, of course, there’s always one, you know, chose to be out. You know, 1:00 AM he’s on the wrong side of the road. He’s driving in the middle of night, got no headlights on. Cops see him decide they’re gonna try and pull him over.

Of course, he’s not gonna have any of that. So what does any logical person do? You’re not logical when you’re strung out or, or drunk, right? The logic of a drunk person says to drive through the fence to the local golf course, drive across the golf course, drive [01:24:00] into a pond, abandon your vehicle, and then try to hide in the little swampy marsh area.

You’re going to go undetected by the poppo. What is the stroke penalty for driving your car into a water hazard? I think he was, uh, what is it? Bogey.

Oh, he bogeyed. All right. No, so then you got that guy, but then you have some good spirited people that despite bad circumstance, that happens to them, that befalls them, they still have a positive outlook on it. You got a guy that’s walking out of a convenience store. All he wanted to do was grab his 12 pack or 24 pack, go do God knows what in Florida for the rest of the day.

And he has, he is leaving local golf course. Go to his local golf course, check the pond, you know, to see if there’s any valuables. And he’s salvageable trucks and you know, he is walking out of the store and you got some crazy dude, probably the same [01:25:00] dude that was driving the golf course, Mrs. Stopping in the parking space and just drives into the entrance of this convenience store as dude is walking out.

So he gets hit. Oh, he gets hit. Ooh, by this car, and as they’re taking him away on a stretcher, he obviously sustained some injuries and whatnot, not life threatening. He asked the cops if his beer was okay. Is it still cold now? That’s a half glassful kinda outlook, isn’t it? Looking for the ray of sunshine after getting struck.

Save, save, save those beers. I’m gonna need ’em when I get outta the hospital. Yeah, exactly. You gonna bring them for my iv? I paid good money for them beers. They didn’t see that the 21 year old woman who hit him was intoxicated. She just hit the wrong pedal. Was that the reason she tried to hit the brake and, and got the gas unintended acceleration?

Yes. Did you say 21 or 201? The 21 year old girl. 21. Well, maybe if you were filming a [01:26:00] TikTok video at the same time you got a little confused and forgot where you were, you know, cause you were doing a dance step in the car and so then your feet, you know, there you go. You got two pedals. Remember two pedals to worry about.

You got a 50 50 chance. Okay, this time it didn’t work out. Gotta know when to hold and know when to fold them. You know, there’s a theme going on with really poor driving and, uh, intoxicated driving. So this next one, the heroism of this police officer. Thank God for her and her bravery, cuz whew, lot of guts to do what she did.

So she was stationed to assist in a 10 k run that was taking place on part of this highway. And this cray drunk lunatic, somehow evaded barricades and other officers that were, you know, posted on along the route. And she started driving towards the runners. Basically she was in an, in a, in a path towards the runners and this brave police officer when she saw that she basically, Put herself in the way of a front end [01:27:00] collision.

You can see the video cuz they got the dash cam from the cop and like she took full force, hit however fast that drunkard was going. Luckily she was okay and everything, but thank goodness for that. Those people were spared or that would’ve been fricking horrific news. We alluded to something earlier.

Teslas and rental cars. Oh man, here we go. Nothing good apparently can come of it because if you heard what happened recently in Los Angeles, so now we’re going across the country here, we’re in LA and they said apparently some dude got a rental of some sort Model S and he decided to go reenact some Duke’s hazard stuff.

And he shot off this LA kind of neighborhood street came down. You can see video of it cuz of course you know you’re recording yourself so you can post it on YouTube and incriminate yourself cuz these people are geniuses and the 20 other people standing around recording it as well. Yeah, exactly. He smashes down on the front end.

I’m like, hey, surprised like didn’t explode or something [01:28:00] given such an impact on the battery. But I’m sure the safety features should have disengaged everything. But he’s, he’s lucky the car didn’t flip Endover end the way it, no kidding. It was quite the steep fall, but Palm’s landing. He took out somebody’s Subaru Forester that was parked.

So this guy wakes up in the morning to his car. Like destroyed on the street corner. And apparently there was another Tesla sitting around. So dude abandons this now totaled Tesla and just leaves why there’s a, there’s a positive to this. He flew through the air, landed impaled a Subaru and walked away.

Think about it, that Tesla’s a tank. That’s a good thing. I mean, it does say something, I guess to the crash integrity of a model S and the fact that it didn’t Chernobyl when it crashed. Yeah. That part was more impressive I think than anything. It’ll, it’s gonna Chernobyl two weeks later in the impound lot.

It’s smoldering currently. Yeah. I think I saved the best for last. [01:29:00] Okay. Yeah, we’re back in Orlando and this woman, yeah, she had a little bit too much to drink. Trying to get her off the plane, put her back in the terminal, get her to sober up dispatch the police terminal cops. He arrived by a bicycle, which I’ve never, I normally see the Segways.

I don’t think I’ve seen a bicycle in the airport. But nonetheless, the woman decided to evade him. And apparently she had some sort of luggage called a moto bag, which is an electric scooter slash luggage. So she got on her little scooter luggage and there was a chase through the airport at eight miles an hour, at eight miles an hour.

You know, he really needs one of those bianchis. Well, let’s face it, Paul Blart can’t run eight miles an hour, so that’s a hell of a chase, right? I mean, normal person probably walking a couple, three, four miles an hour, five if you’re really power walking. I would assume so. I mean, eight. She was zipping. I love how she’s sitting there [01:30:00] drinking.

He’s coming up to her. She’s like, F you, man, I’m out. And she just pulls away on her luggage. So is that driving under the influence’s? Definitely a dui. It’s definitely a, it’s definitely a private road. I wanna see like more slalom action from this suitcase. I could also see this now becoming an event at Hyper Fest where, you know, screw the power wheels, we’re just gonna ride luggage down rollercoaster at V I r.

So why not? I don’t know what’s better. The fact that she gets stopped or the fact that she gets stopped like four or five times and still rides away after each time. Well, cause what you gonna do is a bike cop inside an airport. You’re just gonna, I mean, I’m not gonna tackle you. What? So then, so there’s a little bit of icing to this story too.

They do finally apprehend her whatever and you know, she was yelling at the cops and allegedly spitting and, you know, whatever. I. So they get her into the patrol car and apparently [01:31:00] she does a little business in the backseat. No. Yeah, she’s, she’s facing up to five years in prison for all these shenanigans.

So that, I don’t know if that was worth it. Oh man. She’s got that weaponized covid. Oh, in Florida folks, I guess it’s time for us to go behind the pit wall and talk about motor sports news and here we are at the tail end of March and you know, a lot of the racing season has begun, but it’s still pretty much in its infancy.

There’s never an unending amount of drama over in the formula one side of motor sports. I’ll start off with the more serious news before I pass the baton off to Brad to catch us up on all the things that have happened in the world of Formula One. Michael Andretti has officially submitted his American Formula One Team Plans.

Yay. Oh, that was the Somber news. Yeah, that was pretty much it. He didn’t say, he said serious. More serious news. Oh. Which I’m all for an Andretti team in Formula One. I guess maybe [01:32:00] he’ll take over the Haas team or something. I don’t know. I think that would make, that would make sense. Yeah. Especially with everything that’s going on.

I don’t see them adding another team with two more drivers to make the field. 22 cars. I don’t see that happening. So he’s gotta take over for somebody else. Cool. Good on him. I hope he’s got enough money to do it for more than one year. Well, since you brought up a Haas, that’s a great way to talk about what’s been going on.

Yeah. So F1 raced last week, Bahrain Haas, you know, I’m sure everybody knows what’s going on in the Ukraine. Uh, and because of sanctions and this, that and the other and social influence, global social influence around the world, people are basically cutting ties with anything that has to do with Russia, including the Haas race team.

They had a Russian driver, Nikita Zein, his father was the main team sponsor. His company basically Uro Kalei or something. Yeah, uro. Kalli. They were an agricultural company. Basically. Haas cut ties with them, ripped up their contract and then fired his son. Uh, and then in doing [01:33:00] so, they brought on Kevin Magnuson, who used to race for Haas.

Prior to last year, it was a good turnout. Kevin Magnuson got fifth place in the race. That’s awesome. Qualified and seventh, I believe, finished in fifth. It helped that both Red Bulls and one of the, uh, alpha tore cars, dfd that freed up a couple spots ahead of him. But it was an excellent showing from Haas, who, if we all remember last year, Finished dead last and second to dead last the entire season.

Well, because they made a strategic plan, instead of investing a ton of money into building a competitive car for one season when all the regulations were changing for the next year, they elected to say F that they took all their resources, put it into the new car and just said, we’re gonna run last year’s car and we’re just gonna give these rookie drivers some experience.

That’s what we’re gonna do. I mean, even Schumacher came in at 11 now. He missed the points. [01:34:00] It’s clear that the new house car is competitive. Well, I can’t wait to see how they spin this on Drive to survive. Oh wait, I can wait because I haven’t watched a single episode yet. And it’s probably for good reason because now Formula One is chasing Netflix saying there is undue drama in that series.

So I don’t know who to believe anymore. Right. And maybe I just gotta go back to watching the races. I still think you should watch Drive to Survive. It’s very interesting. But yes, there is a lot of made up controversy and confrontation and soap opera ness to the whole thing. Okay. So is it, is it Bravo level of like reality television, like Real Housewives Orange County?

Or is it, I don’t think it’s Bravo level, but one thing I will say strikes me as genuine is the hatred between Toto Wolf and Christian Horner that I think is 100% dead on. I think those two hate each other’s guts and it, it comes through in the, in the show. But I don’t think Lando [01:35:00] and Danny Rick have an issue with each other.

I don’t think Lando hates Carla signs. You know, they tried to play up those aspects because I guess otherwise, one are the days of the big rivalries. Like, like S cross? Yeah. Or hunt hunting Lata. I think those days are over with. So they’re trying to make it, they’re trying to make something out of nothing.

But another thing about the F1 race, this, this past weekend, Ferrari came in, won too, for the first time since 2000, 2018. I think it was 2018 at the same track. It wasn’t even further back than that. They only did it once in 2018. Yeah. So it was good to see Ferrari at the front of the pack, one of the fastest cars out there.

What’s the deal with the Red Bulls and the fuel pump? Wouldn’t we all like to know, including Red Bull, I think, but uh, they haven’t really disclosed too much information. But the cars failed because the engines were starved for fuel. We all hear all the time that lean is mean, but apparently two lean is not that mean and Mercedes is having issues.

Is that what I also heard? There was some speculation [01:36:00] and talk during the testing that Mercedes cars weren’t up to their usual standards. They did. Okay. I mean, they came in. Third and fourth. So they’re not terrible. Obviously if the Red Bulls were there, though, they would’ve been a little further back.

They’re not running away with it like they have in previous years. The gap has been closed between the front and the back, which is good. It, it is. It is good for racing, I think. Well, it’s gonna be really hard to divert our attention away from GT and prototype racing, especially as we build up to Lamont’s 2023.

I’m gonna be paying a lot more attention to GT four, GT three, and GT two racing this season. And you know, not to spoil anything that’s coming down the pike, but we’re gonna definitely gonna be talking a lot more about touring car GT racing and prototypes and things like that in the months to follow.

That’s my second love right next to World Rally. So I guess we’ll see what happens there. But in other news, Porsche has debuted a sexy new car for Grand Tomo seven I, I [01:37:00] have to chuckle at this because. A number one. I feel like Grand Teresa seven took a hundred years to come out. And B number two, this Porsche, it’s cool looking.

I wish it was a real car, but it also kind of reminds me of that. Remember that Nike car that was in like Grand Teresa before? You know that they like made up and it was like the fastest car in the game. I feel like this is like the same thing. Slap a Porsche badge on it. Call it a day. I mean, if it’s a way to drive people to PlayStation and to Branch Turmo fine.

They did the same thing. Not the same thing, but they used fours X seven to unveil the nine 11 GT two. Yeah, they partnered with games all the time to, to do this, especially since they didn’t renew the contract with the need for speed series and they opened themselves up to all these other racing platforms.

So I mean more Porsches and more video games. I’m all for it. I’m with maybe the popular, maybe the popularity of the car in the game will prompt them to actually make a real version of it. You never know. And I’m hoping that in the months to follow, we can [01:38:00] get back to an idea we had where we do like a, what should I buy for some of these racing simulators?

Get a deeper look, have some previous guests back on to talk about it, that are knowledgeable and subject matter experts in that field. I mean, I’ve been testing a lot of games recently, streaming stuff on Twitch and whatnot, and, you know, spending like a month on one game and then moving to the next one.

And, you know, I, I gotta say, I can’t do iRacing. I don’t get it. I don’t love it. It’s way too complicated. I just wanna. Jump in and drive, but I don’t want it to be cartoony, like something that is on a console. Right? Obviously, grant Primo seven and Forza being, you know, the upper echelons of the console world.

There’s plenty of, you know, you wanna play Rocket League. There’s plenty of those kinds of racing games out there, quote unquote. I dabbled with the new Grid legends. I thought the story mode was excellent. I have it all up on our YouTube page if anybody wants to see the game and not try it themselves. I, I still think it’s good.

It has a lot of replay value, but I’ve also moved on to a set of course, uh, I think. For me, it speaks to me. It’s a [01:39:00] lot of gt racing. The tracks are good, the graphics are excellent compared to a lot of other stuff. It was easy to set up. You know, a lot of people say it’s difficult and challenging. I, I found that to be the exact opposite and I’m enjoying it and I’m streaming that now as well.

If people wanna check it out on our YouTube channel. And on our Twitch translation, Eric went into Steam and bought all the discounted, you know, car games that came out about a month ago. Quiet cause Cause I did the same thing. So we have some sad news here to report. Earlier this week, mechanic legend in the DMV area in longtime motor week, I guess guest spot Pat Goss passed away.

Brief moment of silence for for Pat Goss. So he wa he was on Motor Week. He had the segment telling people, it was kind of like a click and clack thing. Would Was Goss Garage? Yeah, Goss’s Garage. He would go over General Automotive News actually he had a separate TV show of go of, of [01:40:00] more extended version of Goss’s Garage telling general maintenance tips and answering phone calls and people’s questions and things like that.

My brother tried taking his Camaro to him and he quoted like $3,500 for a car that cost like 1500 bucks to fix. And so, You know, maybe he was living off his fame or whatever at that point. It is still sad to see and, and a D M V Automotive Legend Pass. So it’s absolutely, and and Motor Week is a nationally televised show, right?

It’s in syndication in a lot of places and whatnot. I mean, him and Jim Davis are the two basically anchors on that show. I met Jim Davis in person a long time ago, and I feel like I grew up with Pat Goss because every week you watch Motor Week on PBS or whatever and there they are, you know, telling you all the latest car news and, and things of that kind of like our drive through, like we try to do every month.

So, yeah, sad to see, you know, a legend in the community. For sure. So speaking of other community news, We’ve got upcoming local news and events brought to us by collector [01:41:00] car guide.net, the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts. First thing we wanna talk about here is the 2.7 billion plan to renovate the vacant Bader Airfield in Atlantic City to a car enthusiast dream, which will include a 2.44 mile course.

A race course. Close course. Yeah, that’s cool and all. I don’t like the fact that it say you can drive your high-end automobiles there. What about the people with the GTIs? We want, we wanna drive. Two, don’t forget about us. And also it says there’s literally nothing like this anywhere in the world. Except like 40 miles away.

There’s N J P, right? If there’s N j P, there’s Monticello, there’s Watkins Glen, there’s blah, blah, blah. There’s blah, blah, blah. There’s v i r. You’re in a league of your own with all these other people. It’s very Jersey short. I’m not gonna snub my nose at more racetracks, though. Hundred percent more the merrier.

Bring ’em. Bring them one. Well, yes and [01:42:00] no. Other than that, they’re trying to make this into like a theme park. It almost seems like, because they’re gonna have auto themed de attractions and a retail promenade and housing units, so it’s like a country club amusement park. So, so yeah, you bring your high-end cars, it’s probably gonna cost you an exorbitant amount of money just to go.

That is some fancy marketing speak for the stuff we already know to be true garages, concessions, and like the race shop and whatever mean call, so whatever. Go car track, auto mean detraction. Exactly. Okay. Okay. So, so you add a museum and you’ve got barber. Yeah. What else? You got a thousand percent exactly.

What else you got? Exactly. Well, we are gonna pick this apart, this plan that’s unlike any other in the world’s. I, I think the thing that’s gonna stop this from happening as much as I want another racetrack to be here, at least in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, is the proposed 2000 houses that they wanna build around this.

And I’m like, this is never gonna fly because we’ve seen it before. You [01:43:00] build houses around a racetrack, everybody complains. It’s like you knew the racetrack was here. This is why racetracks are built in the middle of nowhere. So I, I don’t know, I see it being stopped by any, you know, housing commission isn’t gonna let this fly.

Now granted, they’re trying to repurpose and abandon airfield. Whatever was already there. People were used to the airport. I don’t think it was, it was in a major airport, but still, that’s the thing that I don’t understand cuz it’s not very clear, is, is that 2000 units of housing intended to be a neighborhood?

It’s adjacent or is it intended to be Country Club Villas for you to go spend your weekend or your week because you have a country course membership here and you can just, you know, instead of having my condo in Vail where I go skiing for a week outta the year, I have my, my condo in Atlantic City where I take my race car.

The only thing I see about that is you take the race track on top of the airport. Kind of think about like, what is it, Dunfield, where they had the original top gear [01:44:00] track, which is built on top of an airport. Same idea. Let’s call it the top gear track of New Jersey. The acreage of that municipal airport isn’t gonna be that large, right?

It’s a couple strips and taxiways put together. Where are you gonna put 2000 houses? So they’re gonna be built surrounding this airport or in existing neighborhoods maybe that have been abandoned or need to be rehab or gentrified or whatever word you want to use. So I just, I don’t see it working as a full, I love the, as a full package.

Yeah. I love the package. It says it’s even gonna have an eSports video game playing facility, quote unquote, somebody’s bedroom. It’s gonna have one Fantech set up in the gray shop somewhere. Oh my gosh. For people, she should, for people that can see the stream behind me. I’ve got my eSports gaming playing facility right there.

You should Google Maps this actually Google Maps Bader Field. Okay. Like I said, it’s time, is it the size of Tipton Airfield? There’s a McDonald’s literally across the street. Yeah. Oh my God. Now that is a concession they [01:45:00] don’t have at V I r. So more local news. Upcoming shows in the area. We’ve got the Damascus Cars and coffee, which is every Saturday through October.

Likewise, the Jimmy Cohn cruise ends are the first and third Saturdays every month through October at the famous Jimmy Cohn in Mount Airy Maryland. Hager Sound Cars and Coffee is the first Sunday of every month. We have the Battle for South Mountain Drag or Die featuring folks like previous Break-Fix guests, Bobby Parks on April 8th and ninth.

Golden Gears Cruzin has a new location in Frederick. April 10th Classic Auto Mall is holding their annual swap meet in Morgantown Spring. Carlisle has been scheduled for April 22nd through 24th. Vols Fest, not to be confused with vfa, will be held on April 22nd in Manheim, Pennsylvania. Vag Fair will be in August in York.

Fairgrounds and the 45th annual PCA swap meet returns to Hershey on April 30th. Tons more events like this and all their details are available@collectorcarguide.net. That’s right, and it’s [01:46:00] time for the track side report sponsored by h hpd junkie.com. So what’s coming up here in April in May, well April 9th and 10th weekend H O D hooked on driving returns to New Jersey Motorsport Park for one of many weekends.

They have scheduled there. Also hooked on driving, has just recently announced that they are adding a three day v i r date in July on the 22nd through the 24th. April 14th, the Colonial Challenge Cup is holding their track day at Summit Point, Maine, and you can learn more about their program from the episode that aired earlier this month.

Emera, the Eastern Motor Racing Association kicks off their season at Limerock on April 2nd with a full lineup of locations like N J M Summit Point, Pocono, and the New York Safety Track. So check them out@eeraracing.org. We’re looking forward to being able to be on site with SRO America, powered by AWS and CrowdStrike for their June v i r and July Watkins [01:47:00] Glen events.

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Here we are in the drive-through line. Me and her cars in front of us, cars in back of us all. Just waiting to order. There’s some idiot in a Volvo with this bright sun behind me. I lean out the window and scream, Hey, watch your trying [01:50:00] to do Blind me. The wife says Maybe we should park.

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