B/F: The Drive Thru #42

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VW "An American Love Story" Superbowl Commercial

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Crew Chief Eric: It’s a button. Welcome to the drive thru. I was going to say, should we kick this thing off? I’m ready to put it in first gear.

It’s a button.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, yeah. Breaking news. Welcome to drive thru episode number 42. This is our monthly recap where we’ve put together a menu of automotive. Motorsport and random car adjacent news. Let’s pull up to window number one for some automotive news. Bam! Let’s pick it up a notch.

Crew Chief Eric: Let’s do some smoky burnouts.

Crew Chief Brad: Isn’t that [00:01:00] what Emeril Lagasse used to do?

Crew Chief Eric: Bam! Bam! Brad, we have an update. We have breaking news. There is a cyber truck update. We found out a little secret when we were doing a crossover episode with one of our guests.

Crew Chief Brad: Did Elon Musk snort my hundred dollars up his nose? Is that what happened?

Crew Chief Eric: Well, he must’ve spent it on something because you didn’t get your day one t shirt that you were supposed to get as a reservation holder.

Crew Chief Brad: Did you get it as a reservation holder or after you place your order?

Crew Chief Eric: No, you were supposed to get it when you placed your reservation. Oh, I didn’t

Crew Chief Brad: get

Crew Chief Eric: anything. That’s what we were told. Remember, you were all upset about that.

Crew Chief Brad: It wouldn’t fit me now.

Crew Chief Eric: Anyway,

Crew Chief Brad: I don’t know

Crew Chief Eric: what happened to my t shirt. You know, what’s funny is that t shirt might be worth more than that Cybertruck allotment at this point.

Executive Producer Tania: And those were some expensive t shirts, a hundred dollars.

Crew Chief Brad: If everybody got one and they’re like millions of people put in orders for Cybertrucks.

Crew Chief Eric: I figured it out. It’s like the fire festival. Everybody put in all this money.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes. Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: Some people got a t shirt.

Crew Chief Brad: Tesla is the fire festival of the automotive.

world. Where is your order? Have you received Dogecoin? I have been spending all my [00:02:00] time, literally 24 seven for the last month, trying to cancel my order and, and just not having any luck canceling my order.

Crew Chief Eric: We will come back to the cyber truck.

Crew Chief Brad: No, please don’t. Oh, we will. We will. It’s. Please. Please don’t it’s still in the news,

Crew Chief Eric: but you know, what else is in the news?

We need to talk about a couple things that happened here in the month of February. And what’s important about this particular episode is this is our season four finale. Wait a minute. What? You didn’t know? Season four? Yeah. We’ve been doing this for. Four years. We are getting close to the point where if you are tuning into this show for the first time today, it’ll take you a year to listen to all of the episodes that we have.

That’s how close we’re getting. Wow. I didn’t realize that’s insane. And season four was pretty epic. And we’ll talk about that in a minute here, but We also want to talk about some other exciting things because February is a great time of year. We get to talk about the new cars that are projected for the rest of the year.

Because remember new car season starts [00:03:00] in August, September timeframe. So we only got six months to go until the 2025 model start hitting.

Crew Chief Brad: You got to slow down, slow your roll with the 2025. It’s barely 2024 fiscal year

Crew Chief Eric: 2025 starts in September.

Crew Chief Brad: No, we are nowhere near September back off that soapbox.

Crew Chief Eric: We want to talk about those awesome Superbowl commercials.

And we want to talk about the Superbowl racing, which is the Rolex 24 hours. Let’s jump into it. Which came first, the Rolex or the Superbowl? Well, it was the Superbowl. So let’s talk about those Superbowl commercials.

Executive Producer Tania: Two car commercials. I think

Crew Chief Eric: there were

Executive Producer Tania: six or two. There

Crew Chief Eric: were

Executive Producer Tania: six

Crew Chief Eric: and here they are in no specific order.

And I’m going to save the best one for last. There was the perfect 10, which is the Kia EV6 commercial, which we’ve been seeing for a couple of months. That was

Executive Producer Tania: one of them. And then there’s the other one. That’s the last one you’re going to mention.

Crew Chief Eric: Which is the redo of the Toyota commercial from last year with the Joneses.

Remember keeping up with the Joneses? Well, this one was the STFD handle or shut the front door handle or the daredevil handle. It was a couple of different titles for that one.

Executive Producer Tania: What are you talking about? Shut

Crew Chief Eric: the front door. I [00:04:00] linked it in the show notes.

Crew Chief Brad: There is a USA Today article that shows all the links.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes, it has all the links. I watched it.

Executive Producer Tania: Is this the ATV one?

Crew Chief Eric: No, that’s a good one too. The ATV, the mullet, that’s a funny one. You guys saw that one too? Well, I watched the Super Bowl, so yes.

Crew Chief Brad: Whoa! Tanya watched the Super Bowl? Of

Crew Chief Eric: course, I always do. I didn’t know you got

Crew Chief Brad: down like that.

Crew Chief Eric: She literally watches it for the commercials.

Executive Producer Tania: No, I used to have small little gathering every year for the Super Bowl. very much.

Crew Chief Eric: I wasn’t invited. When, when, when was

Crew Chief Brad: this? My first call. Yeah. My, where was my invites? Did it get lost in the mail? Is that what happened? Well, you sent it to my old address. We’re with my Cybertruck t shirt.

Executive Producer Tania: When I used to have them.

I don’t know if you were going to travel. I

Crew Chief Brad: would have traveled to Texas to hang out with Tanya for the Super Bowl. We traveled to go to an F1 race, for God’s sake.

Crew Chief Eric: That sounds like a good time. All right, so we’ve listed three so far.

Executive Producer Tania: Okay, fine. I remember the Toyota one. It was stupid. That’s why I forgot it.

Crew Chief Eric: So we got the EV6. We got the Toyota Tacoma commercial. We got the mullets with [00:05:00] the Kawasaki ATV UTVs, which I thought was Funny, especially when he blows by the bald guy who’s chopping wood. And then suddenly it’s like business in the front party, in the back, then you’ve got the Christopher Walken BMW commercial, which I’m not even going to try to imitate Christopher Walken.

But all I know is I wanted more cowbell by the end of that virtual.

Crew Chief Brad: And I just say, I am so excited to see Christopher Walken. Cause more times than not, I’m just like, where the hell is Christopher Walken? Like, I was like, he just fell off the face of the earth. You don’t see him in anything anymore. And it’s like, Oh, there he is.

Crew Chief Eric: The best part of that commercial wasn’t even all the people making fun of him It’s that scene where he’s at the dining table with usher and he’s like don’t you have somewhere else to be and then when he? Leaves he’s doing the whole chemical brothers dance thing on his way out. I was like, that’s cool.

That’s really good If you remember that music video, I thought that was really good.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah Yep,

Crew Chief Eric: yep. So it’s a tie for number one in my book. There’s two more to go.

Executive Producer Tania: Is your tied one even a car commercial?

Crew Chief Eric: It’s car adjacent

Executive Producer Tania: because there was a helicopter in it. The bridge is [00:06:00] out.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh my god.

Crew Chief Eric: Get out like a good neighbor.

Crew Chief Brad: Neighbor. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Like a good neighbor.

Crew Chief Brad: Neighbor.

Crew Chief Eric: So good. And the sheep. Oh my god. I was dying laughing. I was like, Oh, this is. I appreciate the comic stylings of Arnold Schwarzenegger and it counts because it’s car insurance with State Farm You know

Crew Chief Brad: as we said in the intro car adjacent news car adjacent commercials and then DeVito To reprise the twins role that was bad to me was the best part

Crew Chief Eric: It’s epic, but to Tanya’s point it is a tie for first in my book But if we’re going to get super specific I think the number one commercial, the one that really pulls at the heartstrings, the one that gives you the feels,

Executive Producer Tania: the Volkswagen American love story commercial.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh my God. What a piece of advertising going back to the days of like Das Auto, all the things that they alluded to in Mad [00:07:00] Men. Felt like old timey Madison Avenue marketing, and it was beautiful. It was super well done. The cinematography was a made all the black and whites and this beetle, you know, going through town ends up in the showroom and then all the little clips of Herbie.

And, oh man, what a great commercial. It’s long though, too. If you watch the unedited version, it’s like over two minutes long. There’s all sorts of other people qualify as great commercials from the Super Bowl, like the Dunk Kings.

Crew Chief Brad: That was stupid.

Crew Chief Eric: I just didn’t get it. It

Crew Chief Brad: was painful.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m looking for the car commercials because they are a staple during the Super Bowl, that there’s going to be car commercials.

And there’s been some epic ones in the past, like the 400Z commercial with Eugene Levy and the Fast and Furious stuff, the Transporter ones from back in the day with the Audi. I mean, there’s been some really interesting commercials. They

Executive Producer Tania: weren’t as memorable this time around, other than the Volkswagen one, and then Probably the Christopher Walken one.

Like the Kia one is,

Crew Chief Brad: it’s a normal Kia commercial. It’s

Executive Producer Tania: like the same commercial they had at Christmas time, basically. It [00:08:00] probably was the rejected Christmas commercial and they saved it for the Superbowl.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s like the B reel of that one, get the boppy where he’s driving through the cement tunnels and he’s driving to go get the little bear and bring it back to his son or whatever.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. That was the Christmas commercial.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. But were they a good neighbor? We posted the list in our show notes of all the Super Bowl commercials. I think there’s like 50 plus of them out there, but we obviously weren’t highlighting the car commercial specifically, I enjoyed all of them. Honestly, whether it was the Tacoma commercial or the Kawasaki’s or whatever, they were all pretty good, but you know, I wish.

That Rolex had commercials like these, because that’s what’s missing. Like the Rolex watch or the Rolex race? The Rolex race. They don’t have cool commercials. Like it’s always the NBC sports, blah, blah, blah, fill the airtime. So I don’t know about you guys. We did a viewing party here. We had people rolling in and out through both days of the race.

And, you know, I tried to stay up as much as I possibly could. Like always, I think I give Le Mans a little bit more attention than I do Rolex, because the track is shorter and [00:09:00] it does kind of get boring. Unless something happens in the middle of the night. This year was like any other year at Rolex.

Wouldn’t you say, Brad?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, there was nothing really that stood out.

Crew Chief Eric: Other than cars were dropping like flies.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, but every so often they go through years like that.

Crew Chief Eric: They do. And unfortunately it was Porsche’s race to lose. The odds were stacked in their favor. They had more cars than everybody else. We saw the demise of all the Cadillacs and the Acuras, the BMWs.

By the end it was like, all right, well, it’s going to be Porsche, Porsche, or maybe it’s Porsche. I don’t know who’s going to win this race. There’s people arguing, oh, the 963, da da da da da. I still don’t think that car holds a candle to some of the other ones that are out there. The difference is that it lasted the 24 hours, and that’s really the point of an endurance race.

But in terms of speed, in terms of performance, I don’t Think it holds a candle to some of the other cars, especially when we go back to Lamont’s this summer and we put it up against the Ferrari 499 again, I think the Ferrari is just going to clean their clocks.

Crew Chief Brad: Porsche didn’t do well at Lamont last year either.

Nope. They did not. [00:10:00] No, they didn’t have a good showing at all. Obviously this was the season opener for IMSA, but how is Porsche doing in WEC?

Crew Chief Eric: So there’s eight races in the WEC series, rounds they call them. And so the calendar started with Qatar, which is sort of like a prologue race that happened last week.

So if you’re listening to this on Tuesday, when it aired, that race has already ended. And then they’re going to do round one at Qatar on March the 2nd, then they go to Italy in April, Belgium in May. Then they’re at Lamar in June, Brazil in July. They’re in the U S in September. Then they go to Japan in September and then they’re in Bahrain in November.

So the calendar runs February to November, much like our show does, but there’s only eight races in the season.

Crew Chief Brad: I need to really pay more attention to WEC.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, you should, because you know what else they’ve done? They’ve signed a contract so that you can tune in to WEC on what was HBO, HBO max. It’s just called max now.

So if you have a subscription to max, you’re going to be able to pick up WC. [00:11:00] Now, if you don’t have a subscription to max. You have a decision to make because you could become a member of the ACO USA, which if you look at the annual membership, it’s a little bit cheaper than signing up for HBO and you can get access to the live stream of those WEC races.

So you kind of have a choice to make in terms of how you want to watch the eight rounds of the WEC to include Le Mans. So the cool part about this is if you’re at home this year. For Lamont, you’ll be able to watch it on two different services, HBO max and the ACO streaming service. So I think that’s really, really cool.

Crew Chief Brad: That is cool. I’m looking forward to watching.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, there is some good news coming out of Rolex. It wasn’t like last year where we had Porsches and GT three trying to take each other out and some action there in the last five minutes, I was thinking that the end was going to be a little bit more climactic than it was, but really the one thing that we wanted to celebrate was.

The Ferrari 296 and more importantly, Reesey competition winning their class and GTLM, so it’s a double win for Reesey winning Rolex [00:12:00] for the first time and winning it in the new Ferrari. Last year, we had still had that mix of 296, 488 going on. And it wasn’t a great showing for the 296, but this year you’re starting it off, right?

And it’ll be good to see the 296, hopefully win the championship. Cause it got really close last year up to third place, despite not starting off the season, very strong. You know, last year we were at Rolex in person, whole different ball game, watching it on TV, man. It is so nice to just flop on the couch and

Crew Chief Brad: go to sleep.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, there’s that too.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m going to forget that and still want to go back again at some point. Maybe when the kids are older, I can take one of them with me.

Crew Chief Eric: I think it’s more fun to revisit every couple of years and you kind of leapfrog it.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn’t do it annual. It would just be brutal.

Crew Chief Eric: You know, that does kick off the IMSA schedule for the year, which has a lot more rounds than the WEC schedule has. But the thing to remember about the IMSA schedule Look at it closely, because if you’re into the prototype cars, they don’t run all the rounds in a season. [00:13:00] There’s tracks like Lime Rock, there’s tracks like VIR, Mid Ohio, where it’s only gonna be the GT cars, the amateurs and the pros, running on those smaller tracks.

And the reason they do that is all those, those tracks are safe, but they’re just not designed from a safety perspective for the larger LMP cars and the type of speeds that they can carry. You know, those natural terrain courses like a mid Ohio or a lime rock that were designed eons ago at this point, great places to be all of us here have driven on them, they’re fantastic, but.

I can understand when you got these 200 plus mile an hour missiles, that there’s just no room for error and there’s just not enough runoff at some of those tracks. So pay attention to what you’re tuning into. So don’t be disappointed if you suddenly realize, man, where did all the prototypes go? It’s just, they run a slightly different schedule than everybody else does.

Alright, so we gotta move on. Just like every February, it’s time for us to reflect on the previous season, and like I said at the beginning, this is the Season 4 finale. What do you think, guys? Let’s put together a little playlist of episodes that people should tune into if they’re listening to the show for the [00:14:00] first time, or if they’re not caught up.

I think Season 4 was pretty epic, wouldn’t you say?

Executive Producer Tania: Yes, of course. I would say that the biggest I don’t know the whole season was our movie review of that. God awful stunt man.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s not two girls, one formula.

Executive Producer Tania: Was it this season? Did we also did the, um, Travolta movie?

Crew Chief Eric: So trading paint was in this season and it was released in this season.

The stunt man actually comes out in season five. We’ve recorded it in season four. It’s a little spoiler alert.

And there’s another everything I learned from movies, Steve and Izzy crossover coming in season five, which is going to be a lot of fun as well. So I don’t want to give that one away.

Executive Producer Tania: Obviously a highlight amongst all the wonderful guests that came on a true gem was none other than Mario Andretti.

Crew Chief Eric: Episode 200 goes down in the books as probably one of the most. Epic guests we’ve ever had on the show and that’s not to discount any of the other celebrities [00:15:00] we’ve had on the show But we did have the one and only Mario Andretti on break fix So if you have not listened to that go back and check out episode 200 you can learn all about his time in Formula One, his relationship with Ferrari, his time at Le Mans, as well as some adventures he had with Bobby Unser racing at Pike’s Peak.

So those are some of the things that we talked about on that episode. And I got to give a big shout out to William Big Money Ross for co hosting that episode with me, where we got to interview Mario Andretti. So lots of good stuff there. Well, Brad, you know, I know your favorite section of the drive thru is Lost and Found, but that goes hand in hand with probably one of the most popular sub series.

On break fix, which is what should I buy? We did quite a few of those this season.

Crew Chief Brad: I mean, I liked the whole series of going through the decades. We didn’t start that in season four. I think we started that in season three. So no, we started with the nineties, didn’t we? And then we kind of bounced around.

Yep. Those were some of my favorites. And then the, uh, kit cars and posers. Episode I thought was kind of fun just because you didn’t know what to [00:16:00] expect. Everybody came to the table with something different. I learned of a car that I wanted to buy.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, that Coontosh that isn’t a Coontosh. Yeah, that thing’s slick.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes, the,

Crew Chief Eric: the

Crew Chief Brad: Foontosh.

Crew Chief Eric: And we actually had, I don’t want to call it an oddball. What should I buy in there? And if you’re playing the break, fix trivia game at home, it’s the only episode I technically wasn’t on, even though I was present, which is what Tanya?

Executive Producer Tania: I know that one. I was in a, what should I buy?

Crew Chief Brad: The ladies, the EV, the EVs.

You hosted the EVs.

Crew Chief Eric: That was

Executive Producer Tania: this

Crew Chief Eric: season? Yes. That was the beginning of the season. That’s how far back that was.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, we’ve gone through like the hundredth day of January. So like, it feels like it was three years ago. My goodness. That was an excellent episode. Highly recommended. What a great panel of ladies.

Crew Chief Eric: It was. And a lot of people have commented on that episode. I’ve actually had some other ladies that I’ve met who have asked for advice about buying a new car and I’ve sent them the link to the episode and they came back and they’re like, that was awesome. What an excellent job the panel did on that.

And I have to say, you guys did a fantastic job and it is probably one of [00:17:00] my favorite episodes because I had nothing to do with it.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s also probably one of the better, what should I buy is cause it’s less. Bullshitty. More factual based and less like happy hour.

Crew Chief Eric: Every joke has a grain of truth in it, man.

That’s all I know. We crossed that 200 episode threshold, but we also crossed the 250th episode threshold. And as you’re listening to this, we’re beyond the 300th episode threshold now. So it’s been a really long year. Season four is by far our biggest season. And for episode 250, Mountain Man Dan and I got a chance to To sit down with Bryce Kenny from Monster Jam.

You know, we’ve been reaching out to different disciplines, trying to get folks to come on and represent their motorsport and talk about it, what it’s like. And you know, Monster Jam came a call and we were like, Hey, why not? Bryce was a great guest. He’s written a new book. He’s a motivational speaker. He has lots of really interesting things to say about the business of racing.

So it’s not just all about doing tricks with big trucks and big tires. He really has a message he’s trying to [00:18:00] put out there. And his life story is pretty interesting as well. And he gives a lot of credit to his grandfather and growing up through the top thrill dragster discipline of motor sports. So a very dynamic episode.

So if you didn’t get a chance to tune into that, I highly recommend going back and checking it out.

Crew Chief Brad: Definitely.

Crew Chief Eric: So I have a confession to make.

Crew Chief Brad: I knew it. Welcome to the confessional. No.

Come tell us your confession, my child.

Crew Chief Eric: This is why I tell people they need to sign up for Patreon and check out the behind the scenes, because you never know the bloopers that’ll come out of an episode, the screw ups, the things that just get left on the cutting room floor. But we had this moment on one of our episodes and that was actually the Bob Garrison Apple 935 episode.

So like I said, I have to confess. You can see this in the behind the scenes. It’s hilarious. So Bob is on the phone with Mike Carr and I, and Mike is our resident golden age of sports car era guru. [00:19:00] Before we got on the episode, we’re doing our research. We’re trying to figure out who this guy is. And all we were told is you need to interview him.

You need to interview him. Blah, blah, blah. He’s 90 years old. Get him on the show. Okay. I reached out to the records archivist. It’s at the International Motor Racing Research Center, I reached out to Revs, nobody’s got any information on this guy, like, who is this Bob character, like, I don’t know. So we get on there, we kind of like tee him up with these easy questions, and we’re literally trying to get to know him on the fly, and then at some point, the story just diverges and he starts talking about Steve Jobs and Wozniak and Apple and he had already talked about how he was developing these 935s and this and this.

I’ll never forget the look on Mike Carr’s face when I think at the same time we got struck by lightning we figured out who he was and we’re like holy crap this is the Apple 935 guy like this is one of the most iconic. Porsche race cars, like of all time. When you watch the behind the scenes, you kind of see how it all unfolds.

And then how we try to pick up all the pieces and rebuild this [00:20:00] episode. Because again, lightning struck and we’re like, Whoa. So when you listen to the edited version, it’s an incredible story and Bob’s story is amazing. And when I see people that have decorated their car with that livery, I run up to them and like.

Do you know the story of the Apple nine 35? Do you know why this livery is so important? And they’re like, no, well, we interviewed the guy that had the original card. You need to check out this episode. So I always like to recommend this as one of our best ofs. If you’re putting together a playlist of break fix episodes, so check out the Bob Gerritsen and Apple nine 35 episode.

Brad, we tried to cater to the two wheel community this year. I know that’s a soft spot for you. Motorcyclists,

Crew Chief Brad: the traveling, Larry lives, have a cool and Elspeth beard.

Crew Chief Eric: All of these guests had amazing stories. Larry going around the country, basically doing his own one lap of America on a motorcycle. Clive who’s holds the record on a BMW motorcycle at Pikes Peak.

And then you got Elspeth beard who went around the world on a motorcycle. I mean, absolutely amazing stories. And they weren’t the only bikers. [00:21:00] That we had on the show in season four, but those are three of the most epic stories.

Crew Chief Brad: So when are we going to have you and McGregor?

Crew Chief Eric: It’s coming, man. It’s kind of, I’ve, I’ve reached out to Hollywood, you know, they said, we’ll do lunch, you know, we’ll call you.

Don’t call us.

Crew Chief Brad: Emma McDreamy. I’ll do it together.

Crew Chief Eric: A hundred percent. And, and Eric Bana too. That’s another one. I want, you know, to trifecta. Love the

Crew Chief Brad: beast. What about the crossover episodes we had this year?

Crew Chief Eric: Dude, we had a ton of crossover episodes. I mean, obviously we have Steve and Izzy on every quarter doing movies and stuff like that, and we’re a little delinquent on getting them out on time, but that’s okay.

We had an. Action pack season this year. We had episodes with like Danny P on cars. We did stuff with Mark Green from cars. Yeah, just you name it. Right. One of the ones that was the most fun and she was on Tanya’s ladies and Evie episode was I got called up by Carolyn Ford again, and she wanted to do a crossover episode with her friend, Tracy Bannon from MITRE to talk about cybersecurity and cars, which actually related back to a article that we wrote that was on gt motorsports.

org tying together. Automotive security and [00:22:00] cybersecurity kind of stuff. And we did it as a Halloween spooktacular kind of thing. That was the vibe of it, but it turned into a really great conversation about data hygiene, renting cars, you know, where you should use your mobile device. Don’t ever plug it into that Malibu that you picked up from Hertz, you know, all that kind of stuff.

It’s actually a very informative episode, not always to do with cars, but a lot to do with cyber. And it’s also fun to find out that Tracy has a fun car herself and it’s one of Tanya’s. Favorite Mercedes, one of the older SLS from the eighties. So gorgeous car, Tracy’s a friend. We hope to have her back on the show, but if you haven’t checked out, look that up.

That was right on Halloween this past year. So another cool episode we did sort of how to left field talking car adjacent, just like cybersecurity. We had David page, the creator of diners, drive ins and dives. From Food Network on Brake Fix. And that was a lot of fun. And the Pit Stop episode, which is available on Patreon, is a great one too, because he talks about owning a [00:23:00] Maserati Biturbo and what that was like.

And his dad frying the clutch and all this fun stuff. He shared some really great stories. And we talked about how food influenced cars and vice versa. Just like we did that episode way back when, Brad, remember how we did music in cars? It was kind of in the similar vein. So it was a lot of fun.

Crew Chief Brad: Didn’t it come out in that episode?

Spoiler alert. That the red Camaro that Guy Fieri drives is actually David’s?

Crew Chief Eric: The original one was, and then he didn’t tell the story, but alluded to the fact that that one was wrecked. And then they bought another one to replace it with. So it’s a replica of the original Camaro. That was David’s. Correct.

And the new one apparently is Guy Fieri’s Camaro. So like he owns it or whatever. He owns several Camaros, but yeah. Is it Fieri or Fieri? Depends on how you want to say it.

Crew Chief Brad: Just like, is it Favre or Favre?

Crew Chief Eric: Do you have those Favre with, uh, Chianti? Favre beans? Exactly. A little out of left field, but dovetailing into one another.

You know, we did the whole DeLorean Legacy Project mini series with Kat DeLorean. We had the [00:24:00] designers and some of the engineers on and all that kind of stuff. Coming from that, we also got an opportunity to sit down with Malcolm Bricklin, who was very close with John DeLorean back in the day. What a character.

That’s a two part episode. The first half covers the early days, the Bricklin SV1, how he brought Subaru to America and founded all that really, really interesting story behind Malcolm Bricklin. And then the second half of that talks about the new car that he’s building under the banner of visionary vehicles.

So he’s got this vehicle called the three EV. It’s actually a three wheeled EV, really, really innovative and interesting stuff. And at well into his. Twilight years. I mean, he’s still trying to build cars and trying to get out there and revolutionize the market and shake things up. Really interesting to get to sit down and talk to Malcolm Bricklin about his 60 year run, if not more in the automotive industry.

And Tanya, you mentioned The Stuntman in season four, but there’s another movie you forgot that we reviewed with Steve and Izzy. Corvette Summer?

Executive Producer Tania: Wait, no, that wasn’t this season. [00:25:00] That was No,

Crew Chief Eric: that was our hundredth episode. That was way back when. Yeah, I don’t listen to podcasts. This was where we had Scotsman Gabriel Byrne playing an Italian

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, that horrible Lamborghini movie.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: you remember that?

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, that one, like, awkward scene that didn’t need to be there. Yeah, okay.

Crew Chief Brad: The whole movie was that scene that didn’t need to be there.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh yeah, because we watched that at Rolex.

Crew Chief Eric: We did, along with that weird Adam Driver movie where he’s going down the river in a grand marquee’s woody wagon.

Executive Producer Tania: That was the most bizarre, yeah, I don’t remember what that was called. That was so weird.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, we did a double header. It was like a double feature. We’re gonna watch that and then we’re like. Well, Lamborghini’s gonna be like, a walk in the park. We get to the end of Lamborghini, and thank God they threw up that disclaimer that says, This isn’t even based on anything in reality, it’s a loose interpretation of fiction.

Ugh, what a mess. I gotta say this, though. Season 4 is not quite over yet, guys. This is the second to last episode because there’s one more [00:26:00] because February has an extra day in it this year. So you get an extra episode in season four. Leap episode, leap season. That’s exactly it. And I’m not going to tell you what it’s about, but it’s a good one.

It’s got a great panel of folks on that. So tune in on Thursday for the. Extra bonus season four episode. And we kick off season five on March 1st, heading into international women’s month. And I tell you what, it is an action packed season five. We have some awesome content coming. And now that we’ve expanded into the motoring podcast network, look for more episodes from the Ferrari marketplace.

From John Summers, the motoring historian, there’s going to be Evening with a Legend. We have a new show coming called Pixels to Pavement. There’s all sorts of other really cool stuff coming in Season 5. And so we committed, even just on break fix, to double the amount of episodes we were going to do in Season 5.

Season five. But this is going to take us way over the top. So here comes episode 500.

Crew Chief Brad: What Eric’s not saying is that starting March 1st, we’re going to be releasing [00:27:00] one episode every hour for the entire year.

Crew Chief Eric: If only.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: If only. The goal is to make sure that people tuning into the show for the first time, you have to listen to break fix every day for 365 days in order to get caught up.

Crew Chief Brad: So here’s a question for you. Just, you know, looking into our five year plan, who’s going to have more episodes, top gear or brake fix?

Crew Chief Eric: It’s going to be cars. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: 2, 500 and change. And I have to give a shout out to Mark Green. He has publicly announced. That he is looking to retire. He’s looking for new ownership of cars.

Yeah. He’s looking to move on. I mean, what an incredible journey he’s been on. And we’ve been fortunate enough to work with Mark, to be mentored by Mark, have Mark on the show. We were on cars. Yeah. A couple of times ourselves. I mean, what a great guy. What he is entrenched in the car community. He knows so many people.

I don’t know if you could ever, you could spend the next 10 years trying to get caught up on cars. Yeah. I mean, 2, 500 episodes. What’s on his playlist. Start

Crew Chief Brad: with Eric and my episodes.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right. But listen to it on break fix. Cause you can get it there too [00:28:00] and you don’t have to look for it.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: Well guys, it’s time we switch over and talk about Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche news.

And I have to pull back something I said last month. Maybe we spoke too soon. The end is nigh. The GTI is dead. Well, the day after we released drive through number 41. Volkswagen came out and said, here’s the design for the Mark 9 GTI.

Crew Chief Brad: They were probably listening to the podcast, and they heard us, and he was like, well, we’re not taking that shit.

We’re gonna release these images, and we’re gonna tell BrakeFix to suck it. And that’s what we got.

Crew Chief Eric: Can you tell me the difference between This car and the Scirocco at this point, four doors

Crew Chief Brad: instead

Crew Chief Eric: of two. I mean, if we squish that nose anymore, it’s going to look like the third gen, the

Executive Producer Tania: Scirocco

Crew Chief Brad: replaces the two door GTI and the four doors, just the golf,

Executive Producer Tania: four doors, a Jetta,

Crew Chief Brad: they get rid of the Jetta because nobody’s buying that car anymore.

Executive Producer Tania: No, because it’s the size of

Crew Chief Eric: one

Crew Chief Brad: Jetta is the size of a

Crew Chief Eric: facade. What are you talking

Crew Chief Brad: about? The facade’s the size of an S class.

Crew Chief Eric: Would you bring [00:29:00] up a valid point? Right? So we got all this shuffling going on and Tanya sent me something earlier about how the Scirocco might come back as an EV and all this kind of stuff.

I don’t want to get my hopes up. I don’t even want to acknowledge it. Just saying the word Scirocco just kind of pisses me off. Like I want one so bad. But I have to wait until they become a gray market car to get the good one. Right? Because how long is it going to 2008, 2009, 2010, those Scirocco R’s are fantastic.

And I’m like, ah, it’s killing me. But on the other side of the coin, we’ve talked about how the Passat is gone. You know, the jet is huge. The golf, I don’t know, whatever, but is anybody really surprised or does anybody actually care that the Arteon is dead ahead of schedule?

Crew Chief Brad: The what? I can count on one finger how many Arteons I’ve actually seen in the wild.

Every time I see it, I’m like, is that the new Phaeton? I don’t think it’s Arteon. I don’t understand the point of the car. They had the Passat, which was a fairly luxurious car, before they Americanized it and made it more like the Camry. Yeah, I don’t get it either. And,

Crew Chief Eric: and I could never figure out the Arteon’s [00:30:00] place, right?

Because, as all the VW’s got bigger, seemingly moved from, let’s say the A chassis to the B chassis and the B’s moved to the C’s and so on down the line. Was the RT on the A6? The thing is huge, which is why I jokingly say it reminds me of the Phaeton because the Phaeton was an A8, but the A8’s gotten bigger.

To your point, Brad, I don’t know where it fit.

Crew Chief Brad: The Phaeton was like a show of Creative force at Volkswagen to say, Hey, here’s what our engineers and design team can do. If money is no object, this is what they can do kind of thing. But this car doesn’t, I just don’t understand the point of it. The Phaeton I thought was a statement.

Crew Chief Eric: It was, but they didn’t need to build the Phaeton and they lost money on everyone that they

Crew Chief Brad: built. That was the beauty of Volkswagen in that era was they would just build shit to build it. And they would make up the difference selling clean diesels. Yes, yes, yes. And then the clean diesels turned out to be

Crew Chief Eric: Forever unclean.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, forever unclean diesels. Thanks, Bosch.

Crew Chief Eric: ILLUSION! You know what? Consumer Reports is at it again. And you [00:31:00] know how I feel about this. I’ve written articles about this time and time again. You know, Consumer Reports on your next track toy and how it’s an unreliable piece of crap. Here we go again. And basically the punchline is, don’t buy a Volkswagen, buy a Mazda.

Really?

Executive Producer Tania: That’s not the main focus of it. That just happens to be one set of the cars that they put in there.

Crew Chief Eric: Aren’t we talking about Volkswagens?

Executive Producer Tania: But you’re insinuating, like clickbait, that the whole article is just about that when it’s not.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, I know. It’s about punching holes in everybody else’s line card.

Executive Producer Tania: Let’s back this Consumer Reports article train up a hot second because the title is not to buy these popular cars offering these alternatives instead. I’m sorry, the Chevy Trax is a popular car. Okay, yeah, you’d avoid it, but it’s a popular car really. I find fault with the whole thing just off the bat.

Crew Chief Brad: This is like the Mary of Kill List. Marry this car, kill this car. So I agree with Tanya. What is a Trax?

Crew Chief Eric: It’s the evolution of the GeoTracker, isn’t it?

Executive Producer Tania: They’re a little weird, smaller SUV.

Crew Chief Eric: Didn’t you [00:32:00] just describe the GeoTracker?

Executive Producer Tania: Sure. I did have one as a rental once. I mean, it went from point A to point B, but it was.

Crew Chief Brad: Didn’t Buick have something too? Over, under the quality and ride of an Impala. Oh man.

Executive Producer Tania: I would take the Chevy Trax.

Crew Chief Brad: There you go.

Crew Chief Eric: So one of them on this list is kind of funny. The Mercedes CLA, the claw into the club, a good neighbor, but in this case, the alternative is to buy an a three and their gripe is it’s an all around better car, but it doesn’t have a ton of leg room.

Well, the Benz doesn’t have a lot of headroom. So which one is it?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, they said the Benz has no backseat. Essentially.

Crew Chief Eric: But the Benz is a bigger car than the A3. I don’t This is weird. Well,

Executive Producer Tania: then that’s quite telling if it’s a huge riverboat that you can’t put a passenger in the back seat.

Crew Chief Brad: The Benz is a longer car.

There’s no headroom because of that stupid coupe like greenhouse. It’s like the BMW SUVs, the X4 They’ve got that really stupid greenhouse that makes it so you can’t use the back [00:33:00] half of the car at all.

Crew Chief Eric: And it reminds me of the old BMWs, if you remember the three series in the five series right around the E 46 and the E 30 nines and even the E 36 s.

They were like, the M five is so much bigger. It has three inches extra leg room in the back compared to the three series. And I’m like, the five series should be bigger, but it’s really not. It’s when you get to the seven and so on that they get drastically bigger. So yes. On the road, the Mercedes looks huge, but to your point, it has a lot less headroom than the A3, so aside all this other stuff, don’t buy a VW, buy a Mazda, that was the one that stuck out to me, was the Mercedes Audi thing, and I’m like, if I’m spending the money, I don’t know, if you’re rolling up to work, what do you want to be seen in, you know?

To me, the A3 is a little bit too Jetta.

Crew Chief Brad: And then there’s don’t buy a C Class, buy a 3 Series.

Crew Chief Eric: But you know what has tons of headroom, tons of legroom, is this next car. A convertible. Oh, no. This thing is absolute fire. This is the RS6 by Audi, Avant, which [00:34:00] means station wagon, GTO concept. Find something wrong with this car, please.

Silence because it’s perfect. It’s beautiful. It’s a wagon high horsepower. It’s all wheel drive It’s still gas powered. This thing is a freaking monster and it has a spoiler on it It is just beautiful and that homage to the late 80s early 90s Early Haywood, Honstuch, IMSA, GTO, Audi 90.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s only going to be 85 of them.

How much is this thing going to cost? Like

Crew Chief Brad: 350, 000,

Crew Chief Eric: 700, 000.

Crew Chief Brad: And then it’s going to sell at auction for 20 million.

Crew Chief Eric: A hundred

Crew Chief Brad: percent. The thing that does it for me, I love the white wheels. Oh, they’re gorgeous. The white wheels do it for me. And they remind me of the old S4 wheels.

Crew Chief Eric: They do have a similar style to that.

You’re a hundred percent right. I can attest as an owner of white wheels. They are extremely hard to keep clean.

Executive Producer Tania: What? You know what else is hard to keep clean? I’m just kidding. We’ll get to that later.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh boy. Smell Tesla in that statement. That’s sarcasm. Race goes brown. You know, I [00:35:00] know Tanya loves small little hot hatches, especially Fiat Pandas, but who doesn’t love a VW Lupo?

Making over 500 horsepower.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, why not?

Crew Chief Eric: Right? This is one of those WTFN moments.

Executive Producer Tania: Look at

Crew Chief Eric: this thing.

Executive Producer Tania: I’m surprised it goes without screeching tires.

Crew Chief Eric: No, you know why it goes? It’s not front wheel drive. They did the whole Renault Turbo 2 thing. They put the motor in the back. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I

Executive Producer Tania: know, I know.

Crew Chief Eric: Thing is mid engine. Look how much they had to widen it. The wheel literally sits outside of the original fender well. This thing is bonkers. And it’s got an RS4 swap, right? So, I mean, this thing is an absolute rocket ship. This makes me happy. We need more of this.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, I’m sure there’s a lot more of this, just not here.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, can you imagine getting smoked by this thing at like spa or the Nürburgring?

Crew Chief Brad: It looks like it could smoke you though. It’s incredible.

Crew Chief Eric: And you know what else it has, Brad? It’s got white wheels. And it’s got the bumper bands. It does. What he yells when he, when he goes by. Cinder! [00:36:00] All right, we need to move on for Volkswagen out of Porsche news and talk about the rest of Lower Saxony.

We actually have some BMW news for a change. Can you believe it, Brad? They’re still in business.

Executive Producer Tania: There was some Mercedes news and I don’t remember what it was. Oh well.

Crew Chief Brad: Their cars should be avoided.

Executive Producer Tania: No.

Crew Chief Eric: They are beautiful though. I mean those GTRs, GTSs, what was the SLS? Those things are just unbelievably amazing.

Oh no, I love Mercedes cars. All AMGs. We kid because we care. Yes.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, if anybody wants to give me a Goldwing Mercedes.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes, a thousand percent. We will give Tanya

Crew Chief Brad: an A Class.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no, no, I want the Coupe. Oh my god, those SLSs, GT3s, all those, god. And I told you guys before, I got a chance to drive a CLK Black, which is what Clarkson owned years ago.

That’s the predecessor to the SLS and all that stuff. Dude, that car was unbelievably good. Unbelievably good. I got in the driver’s seat and I’m like, nah, I don’t know. This is going to be lame, but out on track. Ooh, what a weapon. And I can only imagine it was good. [00:37:00] Then they’ve only gotten better since, right?

Because that’s the German way you continue to refine those ideas and they get amazing. So I can’t imagine what a new GTS or GTR is like in comparison to that CLK black. But that’s not what we’re here to talk about. We’re here to talk about BMW. Will they, won’t they? This hokey pokey continues. What won’t they, will they?

The manual.

Crew Chief Eric: Weren’t they the ones saying that they were going to be the ultimate holdout? They were going to be the last ones with the petrol engine. They were going to be the last ones with the manual transmission. BMW is going to be the long pole in the tent. Sure. Yeah, okay.

Executive Producer Tania: They’re going to be the flag in the wind that changes direction, however the wind blows.

Crew Chief Eric: So BMW is now saying, It’s time to say goodbye to the manual transmission again, because we went through this with the M three and the M four, they got rid of the manual transmission. And then the owners all took up pitchforks and torches and BMW caved and said, okay, okay, okay. We’ll put manual transmissions back in them.

And now they’re saying, nope, nope. We’re done. No more manuals in BMWs. I don’t care anymore. What? Is there [00:38:00] a place for a manual transmission in 2024? Yeah, you’re Honda Civic. Man, you’re making me feel like a dinosaur. Love me, my manual transmission. I mean, you say that about yourself.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes, I would love to be able to shift gears and get a manual transmission in every car, but it’s just not realistic anymore.

I’ve made the conversion and I survived. How’s your left calf these days? Slightly smaller than your right. Just as big as the right. You can come measure it yourself.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know. It’s, it’s hard because if they transition, well, it’s never going to happen, but if the goals of electrification happen, the manual is dead.

And with all this autopilot stuff, the more that that gets put into. Even conventional cars, what do you need a manual for if the car is driving itself?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, Johnny Cab. It seems like the whole direction is to remove the driver from the driving experience from the car. We can’t be trusted. The car’s gotta do it all.

Crew Chief Eric: Ugh. Ugh. It just takes the fun out of driving.

Crew Chief Brad: Not necessarily. You have to find fun in other ways. Like the sound. The wind in your hair. Oh, yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: The sound. Sound that comes through the [00:39:00] speakers because the car doesn’t make any noise. I’m not talking about,

Crew Chief Brad: I’m not talking about the electric cars I’m talking about with the manual versus an automatic car.

And the automatics aren’t the same as they used to be.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m going to bet you in five years, they’re going to make it so that we don’t have opening windows in cars anymore, that the air is pumped in and filtered artificially. It creates too much aerodynamic drag to open the windows. And why would we want to add the extra weight and this and that, and blah, blah, blah.

And the mathematical computations that say we should all be driving eggs. On the road.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, if we’re not driving, period, why do we even need windows? Just sheet metal. Sheet metal’s a little lighter and thinner than windows. Little eggs.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, it could just be cameras. Like, Polestar getting rid of the rear glass and it’s just a camera.

You just have cameras everywhere. Yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: everybody’s gonna be driving around in panel vans. Panel vans! We’re all driving HHRs!

Executive Producer Tania: Just take me out of this life. Future!

Crew Chief Brad: Is coming to America.

Executive Producer Tania: Now go get a horse.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s all going to end up like an episode of Upload or Black Mirror.

Crew Chief Brad: Black Mirror. It’s going to be Black Mirror.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, you know, it’s not the only kind of scratch your head [00:40:00] moment going on. As we transition to talk about Stellantis, you know, they’ve been going through their reorg and obviously the big merger was bringing in Peugeot and Citroen and all that and trying to figure out what to do with the French. And there was an opportunity last year or the year before that they were talking about bringing Peugeot back.

But instead we saw the demise of Alfa Romeo. You know, we talked last month that they only sold 600 Fiat’s in North America last year, which is insane. The other brand in the fleet that’s really sort of on the fringes right now is Chrysler. So Dodge is okay. As long as they bring back the Challenger and the Durango and Charger and all that.

So Jeep is the flagship and then you’ve got Ram as well, but Chrysler sort of been in the wings. The only Chrysler left was the Pacifica. What they did is they gave the Pacifica a facelift when they got rid of the caravan. And then they took the old Pacifica body and they called it the Voyager for like a year or two.

And that I think is gone as well. So they’re sort of left with, okay, they make a minivan. All right. It’s not as popular as like a [00:41:00] Sienna or an Odyssey. So it’s not going to be the first minivan that people go to. Then here comes Chrysler going quietly, updating their logo, their emblem, the symbol on the car.

Very EV looking, very kind of like LED. Looks like something from Batman Beyond or from Tron. And I’m like, okay, well, what’s that all about? A little bit of Hubbaloo about that only within the, you know, the Dodge Chrysler camp of people that actually care about that. And then a couple of weeks later, they came out.

And they revealed this thing called the Halcyon. Have you guys seen this?

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, it’s a concept. Let’s be clear. It’s not necessarily ever going to see the light of day.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s not. But it also called into question sort of two things. Why are we bringing back the Chrysler 200? Which already failed. Because that’s what it looks like.

It’s just sort of like a Tron interpretation of that. And then it made me scratch my head going, weren’t they going to come out with the Airflow? Do you guys remember that? It was like a low slung CUV, sort of built on the Cherokee, not the Grand. It was kind of cool looking, aerodynamic, EV, [00:42:00] all this kind of stuff.

Whatever happened to that? Why are we focused on this Halcyon when they were talking about coming to the market with the Airflow? And they built a couple of Airflows.

Executive Producer Tania: I would just like to. Respond to your previous statement that it looks anything at all resembling a Chrysler 200 because if you didn’t know this was a Chrysler, you wouldn’t go, Oh, it’s a Chrysler.

Crew Chief Eric: You don’t see it in profile. It, the shape is like the same as a 200.

Executive Producer Tania: Now in the back and three quarter, I’m like, Hmm, that’s a take in. I see where your inspiration came from.

Crew Chief Brad: Or an Audi. Biggie Tron, BT, or whatever that is. Yeah, with that single light.

Executive Producer Tania: And then the front even, I’m like, Hmm, are you lucid y a little bit?

Not quite, but maybe.

Crew Chief Eric: If you compare this to Angel Guerrera’s concept of the new DeLorean, I think the front end was also copied from that. It has a lot of that design language in it. Low slung, angular, but also curved front end. When I looked at it, it was like, Man, this car has a lot of different cars. And it’s DNA.

Executive Producer Tania: And Chrysler 200’s not one of them, other than the name.

Crew Chief Eric: I bet it’s on a 200 chassis. [00:43:00] Those wheels even look like they’re off something else. It doesn’t say Chrysler to me.

Crew Chief Brad: Maybe that’s the point. Yeah, maybe. They’re rebranding and reinventing themselves. You don’t want to look like what you’ve looked like in the past, especially because their products were seen as shit.

Crew Chief Eric: The 300 was cool. Those were fun to drive.

Crew Chief Brad: The 300 was a Dodge, the Alpine or Alpine or whatever. That was a rebranded Durango.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s true.

Crew Chief Brad: Chrysler was like Oldsmobile. It was just rebranded products of somebody else. The Pacifica excluded,

Crew Chief Eric: which was just a caravan with a different body on it. I like it, but I don’t.

It’s interesting, but it just doesn’t say Chrysler to me.

Executive Producer Tania: But it’s not even about what it looks like. The bigger piece of this that they’re pushing is all the tech that’s inside. If you read like all the things this car is capable of doing and it’s lithium sulfur battery can charge 40 miles back every minute of charging all this stuff.

I mean, that’s ridiculously fast or much faster than what’s out there now.

Crew Chief Eric: How much of that is theoretical though?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, I’m sure all of it, but. You know, still, in theory, wow, that’s incredible. But then, like, all this biometric [00:44:00] recognition as you approach the vehicle, like, repositions. That’s kind of creepy.

Uh, and then it’s got chill mode, and I guess reclines your seat a little bit while the autonomous level For auto driver takes over and you get like a moon view out of the sunroof

Crew Chief Eric: and some sort

Executive Producer Tania: of augmented reality happens.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, we’ll talk about that too.

Executive Producer Tania: Watch TV, sit back, relax while your Chrysler drives you into a ditch.

Crew Chief Brad: My mind went somewhere else when Tanya was talking about the car doing things for you when you lean back and It sounded like a spa day. It sounds like something. It sounds like going to a strip club and the car is going to take care of you.

Executive Producer Tania: Tells you to relax. Lets you rest and relax.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh my

Executive Producer Tania: god. The dimmable glass roof and canopy.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s horrible, but yes.

Crew Chief Brad: I think it’s weird that the rear door is so tiny and the front door is so big.

Crew Chief Eric: Just like the 200. That’s what [00:45:00] I’m saying.

Crew Chief Brad: The 200 wasn’t this bad though.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, but the doors open. What’s that called when they open?

Crew Chief Eric: Suicide doors. Suicide?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Like a 63 Lincoln. I mentioned earlier.

Quick shout out to William, big money Ross and to John Summers, the motor historian during February, we put out an episode almost every day of the week, and we focused on the Mille Miglia and the reason I bring it up as part of slant is because Ferrari is part of this group as well. So it was devoted to the history of Ferrari and the Mille Miglia, which is a thousand mile race around Italy.

There’s lots of great stuff to learn there. We put some episodes in between. And then after that, William also covered things like the Cavalino classic, but one of the other episodes that he put out, and I got a chance to finally watch this was the Ferrari movie. I don’t want to spoil what William had to say about it.

Cause he talks about it from a historical perspective, but I wanted to see, did you guys finally get a chance to watch the Ferrari movie? Nope. Get a chance to watch it and then answer this question. Who is this movie really about? That’s what I was [00:46:00] left with at the end.

Executive Producer Tania: Lamborghini.

Crew Chief Eric: Lamborghini. Meanwhile, we’ll continue our domestic news brought to you by AmericanMuscle.

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Executive Producer Tania: Do you remember everyone’s favorite muscle car that went to Le Mans?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh

Executive Producer Tania: ho ho! So the Garage 56 car has made its debut at the 2024 Lightning Lap.

Crew Chief Eric: Is that a VIR?

Executive Producer Tania: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: And what did it do? God, I need to go there for this. It

Executive Producer Tania: did a lap time of 2 minutes 26.

7? I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

Crew Chief Brad: Wait, what? That’s on grand course. I

Crew Chief Eric: was gonna say, because if that’s full course, I can go faster in my car than that. What are you talking about?

Crew Chief Brad: No, that’s grand course. Yeah, that’s quick.

Executive Producer Tania: So they went up the climbing S’s at 158 and a half miles an hour. Wow.

Crew Chief Eric: Wow.

They’re saying that’s

Executive Producer Tania: 20 miles an hour faster than any of the other street cars that have left.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, it’s not a street car, it’s a race car. How fair is that?

Executive Producer Tania: Of course, it’s not fair.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s a two frame, two chassis race car.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, that’s what they’re comparing it to.

Crew Chief Eric: Compared to [00:47:00] a stock ZL1 Camaro, yes, it’s going to be ballistically fast.

Still, I would love to know where that ranks. If they’re just doing the top gear leaderboard, or if they separate it by race car. Versus, you know, streetcar.

Executive Producer Tania: Fell short, apparently, of whatever Subaru.

Crew Chief Brad: The Subaru Air Slayer.

Executive Producer Tania: So it fell shy of that record, I guess.

Crew Chief Brad: Which is just a souped up STI, it looks like.

Crew Chief Eric: Was it factory built or was it privateer? Because I don’t think it’s fair if it’s a privateer. Because they could make it make 2,

Crew Chief Brad: 000 horsepower. It’s 860. The two horsepower WRX built for Jim Connor by Subaru motor sports partner, Vermont sports car. So it’s built by Vermont sports car, but it was commissioned by Subaru motor sports.

Crew Chief Eric: So it’s basically a Hoonigan special. Yes. It’s a super corn to your point. If you took the Hoonicorn out there, that Mustang that makes a gajillion horsepower, right? Ken blocks car do the same thing. So I feel like these cars are in a special category compared to, let’s say the Tesla. Or, you know, the Taycan or some of the other lightning laps that they’ve done in the past, you know, whether it’s car and driver or some of [00:48:00] the other places that do these lightning laps at VIR.

Executive Producer Tania: But you can watch the lap from in car of Garage 56.

Crew Chief Eric: 226 on Grand Course, you know, every possible turn.

Executive Producer Tania: And apparently he locked it up in turn one. So there you have it. He could have been faster.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s respectable. That is absolutely respectable. There is video at the front of this article too. I need to go back and watch.

Crew Chief Eric: You just listen to it because the sound is glorious. Oh my,

Crew Chief Brad: yes. It’s the greatest sounding car ever. I will say, I love this little quote or the last line of the article. It’s an all NASCAR endurance race. Might be more fun than the 24 hour race in France, I would watch a 24 hour NASCAR race at a real track, not like a oval, but like a real track, 24 hours of NASCARs.

Oh my God. The sound that would make,

Crew Chief Eric: I think if they did 24 hours on an oval, like

Executive Producer Tania: how boring would that be? But

Crew Chief Eric: it would end up like trade and paint. You know, we were talking about the guy with the baseball bat on his forehead going around in circles. It’d be like a Tilt A Whirl. [00:49:00]

Executive Producer Tania: Well, so if they did a 24 hours NASCAR race, obviously there’s not enough NASCAR drivers to fill seats.

Right? Who do you have stepping in to make the teams up?

Crew Chief Brad: You get gentlemen drivers.

Crew Chief Eric: No, it becomes the IROC series again, which we all want to come back. Right? So now you bring out formula one drivers, you bring out rally drivers, anybody that you can get in there. You got to make teams and people that want to pay to drive.

Well, yeah, that too. All right, well, we need to move on to Japanese and Asian domestic news. And you know how we make fun of these stupid drag races between Teslas pulling Porsches and Porsches and drag races with Tesla Model 3s and hot laps of the Nürburgring and this and that and the other thing and why is it important?

Who cares? And this next one, I had to stop and I had to check it out. When they said an Ioniq 5N edition lapped the Nürburgring quicker than a Porsche.

Crew Chief Brad: Not just any Porsche, a two generation old GT3 RS. [00:50:00] Oh, you picked up on that too, did you? Yeah, for people that know the Porsche. Model numbers and stuff.

Yeah. It’s two generations old.

Crew Chief Eric: So it’s like a nine, nine, one dot one or something like that. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s a nine, nine, seven.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, wow. It’s even older. Holy smokes.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, cause they’re on the nine, nine, two now, aren’t they? Yeah. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Nine, nine, two dot two or something. Yeah. Because now they’re doing like software revision numbers.

It’s insane. I got to tip my hat for a front wheel drive EV that weighs. like a small truck. It’s respectable. I like that car. I still think it’s cool.

Executive Producer Tania: It does also say that it beat the Lamborghini Gallardo Ferrari 599 GTB along with the 997 996 in was seconds off of a Cayman GT4 BMW M2 and the Type R Civic.

That’s

Crew Chief Eric: not bad.

Executive Producer Tania: And it almost matched the Taycan Turbo, so I’m like shocked. But then again, it’s not an IONIQ 5. It’s this. Monster version,

Crew Chief Brad: the N edition. Yeah. A 640 horsepower version.

Executive Producer Tania: It can only do two laps. [00:51:00]

Crew Chief Brad: One of my biggest gripes about Hyundai, then this is from driving a couple of them, they look great on paper.

They put up good stats. Somebody like this can get a decent laugh. So I’m out of one, but every time I’ve ever driven one myself, I’ve never been impressed. They feel numb. They’re not fun cars to drive, even like a Genesis coupe or something like that. They just, I don’t feel it connected to the car. I haven’t driven a Veloster.

Crew Chief Eric: I had the opposite experience with a Veloster N, especially on track. I walked away from that going. This is the best GTI built in Korea because I feel that the new GTI is super numb. It’s got too many electronics, too many nannies, everything’s fly by wire. I’m surprised the brakes aren’t fly by wire at this point.

And so driving the Hyundai, it was like, wow, this reminds me of the old days. This is farfignougan, right? But you know, they discontinued that car. So, you know, there’s a lot to say there as well. But I, I like the fact that Hyundai sort of has their version of the. Our line, right? Which is this N series. So there’s an N version [00:52:00] of pretty much everything in their lineup and they didn’t stop.

They said, we’re going to do an ionic N. And I think that’s super cool. Maybe not all Hyundai’s are equally built. And to your point, the regular ones are kind of boring, but I think they all suffer the same problem, which is you take it to your local target and you can hack into the USB and drive the car away, you know, that whole, yeah.

Exploit thing. So there’s weird stuff like that. That makes you scratch your head going like, what are you guys doing? Would I turn one away? Nah, looking back, if I had to do it over again, kind of knowing what I know now, I would have seriously considered a Veloster and some of the other, even the Elantra N and some of those are really interesting cars.

If I had been in the market at the time that they were new. Well, in another twist of fate, you know, we talked about BMW doing the hokey pokey and changing their minds about manual transmissions, Toyota. Seems to be backing down off of their no EV policy. And we know they did put out that electric RAV4 thing.

I don’t even know if they’re really selling that, but they’re taking a different [00:53:00] direction with this. And they’re talking about investing in the Kentucky factory to build a three row SUV that’ll be all electric. I mean, where did this come from?

Executive Producer Tania: Out of the blue. Seemingly,

Crew Chief Eric: they’re not just throwing it at like, Oh, we’re going to build one.

They’re throwing 17 billion with a B dollars at this. That’s a big investment to make.

Executive Producer Tania: It did have an all electric land cruiser concept,

Crew Chief Eric: but those are just concepts like they can play with the idea, right?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, they’re taking that concept and they’re going forward. I guess

Crew Chief Eric: they’re also talking about bringing over the century, which is going to replace some of the higher end Lexus or the Lexi.

What is the plural of Lexus? The Lexi, I don’t know. So they’re talking about bringing the centuries over, which they’re not the centuries of old, you know, the big Luxo boat sedans, like we’ve talked about, which were the inspiration for a lot of the Lexuses, but this is like the replacement for the Lexus LX 600.

And some of those kinds of things, these things are just huge SUVs. This is really interesting, especially because we’ve heard from Toyota so many times [00:54:00] that they’re sticking to hybrid. They’re sticking to hybrid. They’re sticking to hybrid. And it’s like, wait, now you’re investing all this money to start building EVs.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, they have two. It’s not that they don’t have any, because they have that weird alphabety. BZR4, BZ4X. This is a

Crew Chief Eric: RAV4, basically.

Executive Producer Tania: And then there’s a Lexus, I think, that’s all electric.

Crew Chief Eric: The new one that replaced the LX600, yeah, that they showed after the Super Bowl. TX. Because I kept thinking T Rex every time I heard it.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know what it means in their future. Just because they’re putting a handful of all electrics in their portfolio doesn’t mean they’ve necessarily abandoned their stance that hybrid is a better option, or even hydrogen. But I think the problem, the hydrogen, they’re dealing with the infrastructure problem.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, it doesn’t help that Shell is closing all of its hydrogen fueling pumps. Sadly, I didn’t even know that was a thing. I have never seen a Shell station in the United States that has hydrogen. Have you?

Executive Producer Tania: Of course they’re not in the United States.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. So they’re closing them down in the rest of the world.

[00:55:00] All right.

Executive Producer Tania: I think so. I don’t think they’re in the United States. I could be wrong, but

Crew Chief Brad: actually it says right here, Shell permanently closes all of its hydrogen refueling stations for cars in California.

Executive Producer Tania: There you go.

Crew Chief Brad: There you

Executive Producer Tania: go. California.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, we’ve sort of fallen backwards into EVs and new concepts.

So Mountain Man Dan sent us one. Travis Pastrana reviews an electric motocross bike. I’m not really sure what to think other than that. It’s cool. It’s neat to see Travis out there doing what he does on bikes with an EV. The question is, and Dan has brought this up before that they are. Using in them in competition, one of the championship races last year, something like that, the EV was like clearly doing well until something catastrophically broke and then it was over, but that’s like any motor sport, right?

Stuff happens, things break, and you learn what to fix because you’re stressing these pieces of machinery to their limit on the racetrack, whether it’s on road, off road or otherwise. So I think it’s cool. We’re going to link to the video in the show notes and you can check it out, leave your comments, let us know what you think about the new [00:56:00] electric motocross bike that Travis was.

Checking out, but I think we have some other random EVs and concept cars, right, Tanya?

Executive Producer Tania: The Fisker Ocean, we haven’t talked about in a while, and I actually think it was sometime early last year, was passing at car transporters filled with oceans, which was interesting to see. However, I wonder how all of those are doing because according to reports, they’re not doing so well.

Crew Chief Brad: Uh oh.

Executive Producer Tania: Tesla’s not the only one with problems sometimes. Apparently they’re plagued with a lot of gremlins. Even the cars that people high up in Biscar have received have failed. So they’ve had multiple like high level people that took ownership of the cars and then they’re driving down the road, complete power failure, car dies, multiple reports of that.

Even if normal people have taken ownership, other issues around brake loss and in all sorts of other electrical gremlins of. But the fob’s not working, other sensors, this, that, and the other. So that’s not really a good sign if they’re plagued with a lot of software or electrical issues.

Crew Chief Eric: I’ve got a simple solution for the brake problem.

You want to hear what [00:57:00] it is? So what we’re going to do is. We’re going to have this reservoir filled with hydraulic fluid and then we’re going to push a pedal and it’s going to make these pistons move these plates that are going to create friction and slow the car down. I’m on to something here, guys. I can

Executive Producer Tania: solve the key fob problem too.

Because what you do is you get this thing called a lock cylinder and then you make a key that has a metal piece protruding from it and then you stick that in and then it moves these tumblers and it moves a lot.

Crew Chief Brad: Wow. Oh, you can fix the power failure problem by adding this motor. It’s called a internal combustion and there’s an explosion that happens inside each cylinder.

You’re going down the road and this just keeps the motor going and going and going and it transmits the power through what’s called a transmission and it sends that power to the wheels.

Crew Chief Eric: We are onto something.

Crew Chief Brad: We are innovators,

Crew Chief Eric: visionaries. No one has thought of this before. This is incredible. We are in uncharted territory.

Like, I got to start contacting patent lawyers today because we are going to solve the problem. We’re going to

Crew Chief Brad: cut all [00:58:00] this out so people don’t steal our great ideas, right?

Executive Producer Tania: Uh, all jokes aside, hope they get their stuff figured out.

Crew Chief Brad: I hope they don’t.

Executive Producer Tania: I could care less, honestly, but you know, I’ll send them good vibes.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, like we talked before, people are going to be driving eggs. That levitate down the road soon because Polestar has removed the rear window in their vehicles. I’m like, really guys,

Executive Producer Tania: why, why one more thing to break

Crew Chief Eric: because Polestar is a hot mess. I’m going to lay it out for you right now. Hot takes.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah.

They just got like kicked to the side. A

Crew Chief Eric: hundred percent Volvo ditched them. And the Polestar CEO comes out and says, you know, there’s issues in the EV market because the used car market is complete garbage. When it comes to EVs, they’re worth. It’s sort of like buying somebody else’s used dust buster. Do you really want to do that?

I’m not going to buy used Ryobi tools. Like that doesn’t make sense. So the EV market on the new side is flooded with just junk. And then I read this report recently that there’s a place, I think it’s down in Texas where they have these Teslas. For just like acres and [00:59:00] acres, they’re insurance cars and they’re destroyed from different angles and they’re basically totaled, but they don’t know what to do with them.

And it’s not like we’re going to make three good cars out of two, take parts from this one. And it’s just, I watched this video and this guy’s just walking down and it’s model three, model Y model one after the other, after the other, after, and you’re like, whoa. And then we’ll talk about this in lost and found.

Brad, if you scroll through cars. com or autotrader, you’re not going to find a lot of used EVs on there. People sort of keep them until they’re consumed or wrecked and then it’s like single use plastic. Well, one and done and kind of move on and buy something else.

Executive Producer Tania: We’re so conscious about the environment.

Crew Chief Eric: Shush, shush you. Remember, we’re going to get the patents on this new way of doing it. I’m going to call it clean diesel.

Crew Chief Brad: Diesel is such a bad word. You got to call it something.

Crew Chief Eric: Is there a bleep button for diesel? Like every time it’s like Brad, it’s time. We move on to your favorite part of the drive through lost and found where you get to scour the internet, looking for [01:00:00] the newest old piece of crap available in dealership lots.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh my God. The Ford GTs are multiplying. There are now two Ford GTs out here. Both of them, 450, 000. Oh, one yellow with black stripe. One looks just like Jeremy Clarkson’s old car. It probably is Jeremy Clarkson’s old car. Yeah. I thought Doug DeMuro bought that one. And then there’s a 2008 Shelby GT 500 convertible for 71, 000.

A 2012 Fiat 500 lounge. If we can’t sell new Fiat’s, we’re definitely not going to sell this.

Crew Chief Eric: Who puts together an appearance or comfort package called lounge?

Crew Chief Brad: The Italians do apparently this car is an athleisure wear accessory. That’s it. There’s not much going on out here. There’s a bunch of Volkswagens.

Crew Chief Eric: You know what there is going on. We have another nominee. For the uncool wall. What? Have you guys heard of the Vetter slash?

Executive Producer Tania: Hot garbage.

Crew Chief Eric: Take a look at this thing.

Executive Producer Tania: This looks like something from another decade that belongs in like a TV show.

Crew Chief Brad: They put a rear window on the front.

Crew Chief Eric: Because [01:01:00] Polestar doesn’t need them anymore.

So there’s a clearance sale on those. They just put them on.

Executive Producer Tania: Like what bastardization is this? What got butchered and put back together?

Crew Chief Eric: Is that a Pontiac badge on the front?

Executive Producer Tania: Looks like it.

Crew Chief Eric: This started its life. Believe it or not, Corvette C six, Corvette

Executive Producer Tania: poor thing should have been put out of its Missouri.

Crew Chief Eric: This looks like something out of Batman, the animated series. But when I first saw it, because of this burgundy color, it brought me back. Do you remember the Bradley, which was like a C3 Corvette, that the guy tried to put it Ford, crown Victoria on top of, and it was like this color and it was kind of put together in the same weird way.

So I immediately, I went back to that. I was like, this is the modern Bradley,

Executive Producer Tania: look at this thing. It’s. Terrible. From the front, suddenly I’m like, oh, is it trying to be a Bugatti, like a Veyron?

Crew Chief Eric: This is like something I

Crew Chief Brad: expect to see on Car Masters now. Yes, like that car that they built with the weird vents and shit.

Executive Producer Tania: So many angles. Oh my god, the back.

Crew Chief Brad: What is going on with this interior? They [01:02:00] took a Nexus 7 tablet and just put it everywhere, glued it to the dash. And then they covered it in this material that was taken out of a Dodge Viper from the 90s. Why? Why would you do this to a Corvette?

Executive Producer Tania: So what are reverse?

What are those called?

Crew Chief Eric: Stupid. So those are called, I’ve never seen reverse scissor doors. How the hell do you get in and out of this thing? So imagine it, if you’re listening at home or go look at the show notes, because this car is an incredible feat of engineering. The doors pivot at your hip and they open upwards like a Lamborghini or a McLaren, but they open backwards

Executive Producer Tania: out and back.

It’s like,

Crew Chief Eric: well, this is going up on our uncool wall and you can vote for it later today. So cast your votes. There are, I think, 65 other cars on the uncool wall now. And one of the things we added when we remodeled the uncool wall, it’s still. Terrible to look at on purpose by design, but we actually added badges to the car.

So you can go back and see our staff [01:03:00] picks our drive thru nominees and some of the ones coming out of our discord and things like that. And honorable mentions are on there as well. So a lot of fun. You can go back and vote as many times as you like on our uncool wall. And you can find that on gtmotorsports.

org. What’s next it’s that time again. It’s time to talk about Teslagate. We

Crew Chief Brad: would be remiss.

Executive Producer Tania: Yes, so, Tesla.

This first article about a driver in a Cybertruck driving with VR or AR goggles on. First of all, I think it was a stunt, so there’s that. The more concerning thing is don’t put this out there in the world for people to try to go do. That’s the more concerning thing at the moment because the Cybertruck doesn’t have autopilot.

So it’s a stunt because there’s no way that it’s self driving and he’s just not paying attention. So boom on that. But second of all, don’t put this out in the world. So people are like, Oh, I can go do this too. Or some [01:04:00] asshat’s going to go do it in their Tesla, which is another article they’ll accidentally.

Bow over a woman and her dog killing them and then go, I didn’t realize I, uh, ran anybody over. While they were checking emails on their phone in autopilot, allegedly. I mean, what a great excuse to like, bow somebody down and be like, Oh shit, oh crap, what do I do? Oh, you know what? I was on autopilot. Like, it’s not still your fault, asshole, and you didn’t notice?

Like supposedly there’s some like street cam that’s like the woman was on your hood for a hot second, you know, dying. Like, what

Crew Chief Brad: the f To Tanya’s point, there are no cars in existence today that have autopilot. Go read the fine print. They all say the same shit. The car does not drive itself. Don’t be fucking delusional.

Crew Chief Eric: Mm hmm. I will say you missed the point entirely, Tanya. Nope. She’s, she got it. She good. The whole thing with the VR goggles. It’s just like when I sit down on my simulator, I don’t need to use my monitors, I can plug my Oculus or MetaQuest into my sim and play the game through that. So, [01:05:00] when you plug your Oculus into the Cybertruck, you don’t need a windshield.

Remember I said, we’re going to be driving eggs that levitate. So, how do you know where you’re going? You put on your VR, AR goggles and it’s just like being

Crew Chief Brad: outside. Elon Musk was a visionary. He saw the writing on the wall. You don’t need a windscreen wiper because you’re not gonna use the windscreen.

Crew Chief Eric: You won’t know that it’s raining.

Crew Chief Brad: The laser goes across your meta quest. They use the same laser from that eye surgery.

Crew Chief Eric: They’re giving you LASIK.

Crew Chief Brad: From the LASIK, yes, LASIK technology. Then your meta quest that goes across and cleans your windshield. The simulated rain in your simulated world. Just like they added simulated rain to iRacing.

We’ll see how that turns

Crew Chief Eric: out. No, no,

Executive Producer Tania: no, no, no, no, no, no. See the neural link.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh God.

Executive Producer Tania: The neural link. Put in you and then that’ll connect you intimately with the car.

Crew Chief Eric: Didn’t they put the neural chip in somebody’s head? Like Tesla did that. I

Executive Producer Tania: think so.

Crew Chief Eric: Cannot wait until [01:06:00] they have complete cranial meltdown because I feel like I have that when I’m reading these articles.

I can only imagine if that thing’s self combust inside your head. Good night.

Executive Producer Tania: They did put it in someone and allegedly they can move a mouse, like computer mouse with their mind.

Crew Chief Brad: You know, I think I’ve got a new invention. It’s called a hand, and you put the hand on the mouse, and you can move it without even needing to use your mind.

But you use

Crew Chief Eric: your mind to

Crew Chief Brad: move

Crew Chief Eric: your hand! You see, it’s that telekinesis powers

Crew Chief Brad: that we have. I don’t, I don’t need wireless! Touch it! I can push the buttons! You’re

Executive Producer Tania: not telepathic! You don’t have telekinetic powers! What, the mouse must have a chip in it or something? Like, and you’re like microwaving like waves out of your brain to control it?

Crew Chief Eric: There is no spoon. So all you do is tilt your head and that’s the mouse. It’s like the old trackball mice. No, no, go back, go

Executive Producer Tania: back! Like Night at the Roxbury! Refresh! [01:07:00] There’s already technology like that where your eye movements can be tracked, and so that you could move things on a computer screen in that way.

Crew Chief Eric: Right.

Executive Producer Tania: I think they’ve already designed that stuff for people with disabilities. I don’t need to embed a chip in my brain and then all of a sudden have like, I’m going to get charged to go to the facilities in my own home or something.

Crew Chief Eric: Just imagine how many Camp Lejeune emails you can get straight to your brain.

Executive Producer Tania: You’re going to get paywalls. I need to pay for my subscription to, I don’t know, use my brain. I get like shut down because my Neuralink subscription expired. Like

Crew Chief Brad: yeah, cause you didn’t pay your bill. Dear Lord, please start the apocalypse. Start over. I mean, we are

Crew Chief Eric: solving the world’s problems. And you know what, Brad, we alluded to earlier, there’s more news with the Cybertruck.

And this one is just ripe for the picking. This is delicious.

Executive Producer Tania: See, it’s all misunderstood. The problem is the type of stainless steel they have chosen is magnetic, has slight magnetism to [01:08:00] it. Therefore the metal fallout from everywhere, be it brake dust. passing a railroad track, factories, they’re sprinkling little metal pieces that are attracted to the stainless steel body panels and then they get attached there and that metal is what’s rusting.

Lies. Not the actual Cybertruck.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, flag on the play. I call bullshit.

Executive Producer Tania: So even normal painted cars. Have this problem. What

Crew Chief Brad: I call bullshit. Cause there’s nothing that’s attracted to the cyber truck. All right.

Executive Producer Tania: Just go get some barkeepers friend and just polish your thing all the time.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, I guess you can’t use like Google on or whatever that the bug stuff is to get rid of it.

We

Crew Chief Eric: just take this back to basics. The whole point of stainless steel is that it’s not supposed to rust. The fact that it’s rusting indicates to me that it’s stainless steel.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s the stainless steel itself is not rusting.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s the metal that attaches to [01:09:00] it.

Executive Producer Tania: There are deposits of metal that are falling onto the stainless steel body and getting stuck there.

And those little pieces of metal are what is rusting and creating the little orange flecks everywhere.

Crew Chief Brad: Are we on that game show to tell a lie? We’re going to tell you three statements. Two of these are true. Yeah. One is a lie.

Crew Chief Eric: Two truths and a lie. Yeah, this is like, wait, wait, don’t tell me now, right? I mean, this is insane.

Crew Chief Brad: Did DeLorean have these problems?

Executive Producer Tania: Apparently they did change their grade of stainless steel at one point to make it more repelling, less magnetic. I don’t know enough about DeLorean’s history because I’ve never heard, but again, the community is very small. So who’s to say?

Crew Chief Brad: So is the Cybertruck community.

It’s getting

Crew Chief Eric: smaller every day. It’s getting smaller and smaller. Based on precedent, on all the other things we’ve learned about Tesla, and all the other adventures that we’ve been on through TeslaGate over the years. I don’t

Executive Producer Tania: know what to believe.

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly. And it will come to pass in several years that it’s really [01:10:00] actually brushed sheet metal posing as stainless steel, and the cars are rusting.

Executive Producer Tania: Regardless, if I paid 100, 000 for it, I don’t know, put an effing clear coat on the stainless steel.

Crew Chief Eric: Ya

Crew Chief Brad: think? No, you just put a wrap on it. Did

Executive Producer Tania: that defeat the purpose again? We’re happy to offer you that as an extra fee.

Crew Chief Eric: One of the most genius moves ever. But also has a negative side effect. If you guys remember the original McLaren F1, the way those cars were painted, it was actually really, really cool.

They would do the color and all that kind of stuff. And then they would literally lock it in with like a thick urethane that was basically impermeable. So the color would never fade. It could never get shipped, but you also couldn’t repaint the car because it was locked into that particular color. It was basically sealed.

To your point, Tanya, I don’t know why they couldn’t have done this with the Cybertruck. It’s not like it doesn’t already weigh literally 10, 000 pounds.

Executive Producer Tania: There must have been something they could have sealed the panels with to prevent this, if it’s truly the industrial fallout.

Crew Chief Eric: They could have used great stuff because the doors leak like every other [01:11:00] Tesla does, right?

The point is More of these issues are coming out. Like we’ve said, it was kind of rushed to production.

Executive Producer Tania: Rushed, hasn’t it been in product? Have been trying to build for like a decade. It’s been rushed.

Crew Chief Brad: Rushed to production. . Wow. Rushed to production.

Executive Producer Tania: rushing it for a decade.

Crew Chief Eric: Two lies and a truth. Well, there you go.

Crew Chief Brad: Two. Two truths and a lie. . That was clearly the truth.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s unbelievable. It is. It is. I don’t know that my expectations could get any lower, but these next couple of articles have really put me there.

Crew Chief Brad: Lowered expectations. Riders on the

storm.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s

Crew Chief Eric: what

that

Crew Chief Brad: sounded like. Riders on the storm.

Crew Chief Eric: So the great not state of representation without taxation, the District of Columbia in our fair capital.

is pushing for speed limiters on cars.

Executive Producer Tania: How does that work? Like, like they could only impose that on DC registered cars.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no, no, no, no, no. Because [01:12:00] if California has their way, because they are the neck that turns the head of the snake, California is trying to adopt a European style speed limiter. To impose on the rest of us, but it’s only really going to work on new cars from the sounds of it.

Executive Producer Tania: And my old car is going to be worth so much money. I got it. No, right. For a while.

Crew Chief Eric: But you remember back in the seventies when they made the speedometers only go up to 85 miles an hour. So that way you thought you were saving gas because you couldn’t go past 85. Although some cars could do like 120. You just bury the needle and go for it.

So same kind of thing, but this is going to be electronically controlled. And I said this before there was going to come back to bite people in the butt with all this auto driving, self driving nonsense that we’ve been talking about. Enjoy driving the speed limit. Cause they’re going to. figure out a way to limit the cars with GPS to that speed.

Executive Producer Tania: Nationwide tried that already. Put our transponder in there for your good driver saving so we can charge you when we see that you go over a certain speed.

Crew Chief Eric: No, thank you. I’ll pass.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t understand why people don’t get it. Like if we really did truly at the [01:13:00] snap of a finger could move tomorrow to this futuristic sci fi world where everyone is in a self driving car, i.

e. trains, essentially, right? Like, like, essentially, like, the world is just a bunch of series of monorails because the cars are all going to be computer controlled and they’re going to follow the leader.

Crew Chief Eric: Remember they’re levitating eggs, levitating eggs. Whatever,

Executive Producer Tania: the levitating eggs are going to follow one speed and someone’s going to decide what that speed is.

And maybe it’s 55 miles an hour, certain roads and 30 others, or who knows? Maybe it’s. 155 miles an hour, I doubt it. But there you have it, you know, it’s all going to be controlled. Because in order to have a system like that actually work, you can’t have multiple speeds going on. I mean, you can, but it’s more complex programming, and who’s going to bother doing that?

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly. And the GPS systems already know, because of the mapping software, what the speeds are of the roads as they exist. today. But it does bring up an interesting conversation because the more local roads, the B roads, the city roads, those speeds are dictated based on the number of pedestrians and sidewalks and all this kind of stuff to determine what the speed of those [01:14:00] boulevards and avenues should be.

But on the highways, the National Safety Commission, National Highway Commission designates the national speed limit based on fuel economy. And let’s just say in an ideal. Sci fi world where it’s like Demolition Man and we all have our levitating eggs with foam and all that kind of stuff when they wreck.

55 mile an hour speed limit, which has been raised to 65 in a lot of places. The 55 mile an hour speed limit, let’s just say, which is the national average, doesn’t need to exist anymore because it’s based on fuel economy. So what should the new speed limit be on the highways?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, it’ll be based on electrical economy.

Because you’re not gonna go 80 and then drain your battery faster. So there’s going to be an optimal point where you’re in a range, even of speed and power drawing off the batteries that makes sense.

Crew Chief Eric: Isn’t part of the whole thing with EVs? Especially with electric motors is once you get to a certain point, you need a very minimal charge in electromagnet to keep it spinning at that constant speed.

Theoretically speaking, a higher average speed limit could be attainable without [01:15:00] consuming more power,

Executive Producer Tania: but there’s still a volume of cars problems,

Crew Chief Eric: but they’re going to take care of that. They’ll make all the petrol cars illegal, you know, it’s coming or at least the conspiracy theorists believe it that way.

There’s probably an ounce of truth to that, but it’s going to take a very long, it’ll be beyond our lifetime before we see the last petrol car, not able to drive on the road.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s a scary thing with all the computer stuff and how integrated and in the cloud the cars are becoming. I mean, who’s to say that somebody doesn’t just push a button and slows your car down.

Crew Chief Eric: Or stops traffic altogether. I mean, you make fun of these movies like the Italian job where they took over all the traffic lights and the Fast and the Furious where they hacked. You know, it’s kind of thing, but let’s just say in the real world, some of these it systems are not that secure or not as secure as they could be.

And there’s new vulnerabilities and exploits being derived, you know, zero day attacks and all these kinds of things every day. So let’s just say somebody could get through and stop Skynet and all of the levitating eggs just suddenly freeze and you’re locked. In it, it’s got no windows, no artificial recirculating air, and your [01:16:00] VR goggles are still showing you Cupman or whatever, you know, video game you’re playing while this is going on.

It’s kind of a scary reality, if we get to that point.

Executive Producer Tania: No thanks, I have a horse.

Crew Chief Eric: There’s a lot of movement going on. So, Europe influences California, California influencing the District of Columbia. I understand the District’s complaint at the end of the day.

Executive Producer Tania: If you read the article, they’re not saying they’re blanket doing this.

I can’t say necessarily, I disagree. If this is truly that it’s repeated offenders would get a governor installed.

Crew Chief Brad: I saw where it said first time offenders.

Executive Producer Tania: Is it first time?

Crew Chief Brad: Would get it for a year. Yeah. Well, that’s

Executive Producer Tania: a little bit harsh.

Crew Chief Brad: For like major speeders.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, first of all, drunk driver shouldn’t.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s a different story.

Executive Producer Tania: Punishing people like that, by all means.

Crew Chief Eric: And part of DC’s problem, and I get it, is the fact that they have a lot of Unrecognized revenue based on all these speeding tickets and cameras and all this kind of stuff because a lot of the folks that are speeding through the district are from out of [01:17:00] state.

Well, let’s face it. DC is like what, seven square miles or something like that? It’s not that big. It’s like, okay, everybody’s out of state. So you’re going to put all these punitive legislation against the, so many people that live in the district. And then how many of those are a diplomat tags where they get everything waived anyway.

So it’s like, there’s a small percentage of the population in the district of Columbia that actually lives there. That’s actually registered there. And they’re the ones that are going to be getting nailed. Does this really solve a problem? And then what you put a restrictor on my car. If. Maryland and Virginia and Delaware and everybody else doesn’t have any reciprocity.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t see how they could do that. And how could they put it on the out of states? What’s their jurisdiction?

Crew Chief Eric: They don’t have any. See, again, it’s the taxation with no representation thing. It’s never going to get anywhere. It’s big talk. But if California has their way, then it’ll become part of these new rules.

And all the manufacturers will have to bow down to that. That’s the scary part is you will start seeing cars that are GPS limited. And as we said before, it’s going to come in the cars. That have all these fancy fly [01:18:00] by wire features. Think about this. We joked about the solution to the electronic brakes failing on the Fisker Ocean, but when your brakes are electronic, I can override them and slow down the car.

And it doesn’t matter how hard or how you didn’t hit that pedal. The analog systems are still unhackable at the end of the day, unless you bust the brake line, which is pretty rare. Well, this next one, you know, we need to lighten the mood a little bit. So there’s a great meme that we found, and this one’s specifically for Tanya, and we’re going to post it in our show notes.

And it’s a picture that says GTR or RX 7. And what are the pictures of, Tanya? Garbage. It’s a Chevy Impala from the early 2000s and a Ford Taurus from the same time period. So which one do you choose? GTR or RX 7? Horse. Walk. Bicycle. These are the two cars we get to pick from, guys. Which would you choose?

These are the only two left on Rent A Wreck. All the other levitating eggs are out. These are the two cars that are left. Which one do you choose? [01:19:00]

Executive Producer Tania: You know, honestly, because I’ve never driven one, I’m just gonna choose the Escort.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s a Taurus!

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, yeah, sorry, Taurus.

Not on here.

Crew Chief Eric: What about you, Brad? Are you a blue oval or Chevy man?

Crew Chief Brad: What do you pick? I’m going to choose the Impala because I feel like it would be a more comfortable ride as I go off the cliff and plummet.

Executive Producer Tania: That you’ve done the Louise yourself.

Crew Chief Brad: I think Ford has more spontaneous combustion issues in their lineup than Chevy, so I’m going with the Chevy.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, good, then it’ll be put out of its misery quickly.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m going the lap of luxury. I’m trying to really pull on those distant, distant, distant Cadillac relative genes in the

Crew Chief Eric: Impala. I guess that leaves me to break the tie. I’m going to choose the RX 7. I mean, the Taurus. The Escort. I Yes, only because I know it shares DNA with the ever popular, [01:20:00] globally renowned Monday and I wouldn’t be caught dead in an Impala of that era.

So, sorry, they’re terrible. You wouldn’t be caught. You’d be in the trunk. Ain’t that the truth. Well, speaking of getting stuck in things. Have you seen this Instagram reel of Jeremy Clarkson and McLaren?

Executive Producer Tania: Why can’t he get out of it?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s the point.

Executive Producer Tania: He can’t figure out where the door handle is?

Crew Chief Eric: And the best part is, you don’t realize it’s him until he starts talking to the other person.

Executive Producer Tania: That’s funny.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, it’s not all fun and games in Lowered Expectations. This next one is sad. And I think it needs some explanation. Right, Tanya?

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, I don’t know why they just vandalized this Waymo card just because the people in San Francisco just lit it on fire.

Crew Chief Eric: I don’t get it either. And I was just in San Francisco in December and I saw these running around town.

I mean, they’re pretty benign. You know that they’re there. They’re riddled with cameras and stuff. Why it felt like you remember back in the nineties, Brad and university of Maryland winning the football game. And they’re like knocking down the goalposts and trying to burn the college down. Is that what we’re doing here?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. I was wondering, does this have [01:21:00] to do with the 49ers with the Superbowl and the 49ers?

Executive Producer Tania: It was February 11th. Oh, Superbowl Sunday.

Crew Chief Eric: So maybe because there’s nobody in it, they figured they could go crazy and riot and just burn a wemo to the ground.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s a lot of purple gases. That are released when batteries are burned, so these people aren’t of high intelligence.

I

Crew Chief Brad: feel like the fact that it’s a Wemo is just like an anecdote.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t condone, I couldn’t vandalize anything like that or anything

Crew Chief Brad: at all. It was just a coincidence that it was an electric car. I don’t think they single out that car and say, we’re going to destroy this electric car because it’s an electric car.

I don’t think that’s what happened. I think they were just a bunch of drunk people that thought they were having a good time and were just being really dumb. But

Crew Chief Eric: in a really fun cartoon sort of way, I would have liked to have seen a video of it fleeing the scene on fire and like panels falling off.

There’s nobody actually driving the car, but it’s like, it starts screaming, must return to base. Let’s return to

Executive Producer Tania: base. That would have been so sad for the machine.

Crew Chief Eric: A little bit too, uh, WALL E, you know? [01:22:00] Weemo

Crew Chief Brad: 5 is alive.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, it’s time to go down south and talk about alligators and beer.

Executive Producer Tania: Okay, so we will go to Florida, but first we’re going to be up north around Grand Rapids, Sturgis, Michigan.

Crew Chief Brad: The Florida of Michigan. I thought Sturgis was like in the Dakotas.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, there’s multiple, like, cities all have the same names, right?

Crew Chief Brad: There’s a Springfield in every state. There’s a Sturgis in every state.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, anyway, we’re in Michigan. We’re 90 miles south of Grand Rapids. Is there a big Amish population in Michigan?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, just like there is in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Is there really?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Michigan? Yeah, it’s there. I didn’t appreciate that. Okay. Well, this woman stole a horse and buggy from some Amish folk, Walmart parking lot, which also the Amish [01:23:00] shop at Walmart.

Crew Chief Eric: We got to start with that.

Executive Producer Tania: What are they buying at Walmart? I don’t know. I don’t admittedly know much about the Amish.

Crew Chief Eric: Maybe they were reenacting the Griswold family vacation where they were on rumspringa to Walmart.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s Michigan. Where else are they going to go? Detroit?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, who knows, but the problem is, though, for whatever her purposes was, legally, it was better to have stolen a car to have received a misdemeanor instead of by some horse laws and getting a felony.

Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho,

Crew Chief Brad: ho, ho, ho. How is Grand Theft Auto a misdemeanor? It doesn’t endanger a horse. Well, how much horsepower was in the car? There was one

Crew Chief Eric: horsepower in the buggy.

Executive Producer Tania: The distinction to your question is, if she was just doing this to go joyride, it would have been a misdemeanor on the auto thing. If she was stealing it to steal it permanently, then I think it becomes a felony.

But there is no question, I think, when it’s a horse and buggy, whether it was a joyride or not, I think it’s a felony.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh my god. It’s felony.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s the livestock aspect of [01:24:00] this.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s a horse, of course. This is insane.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, and then what do you do with it? Are you prepared to take care of a horse?

Crew Chief Brad: She’s like, I’m going to rescue you.

You’re going to be my friend.

Crew Chief Eric: I am going to give you carrots. It could have been an act of saving the horse or something like that. I mean, I, I mean, wilder things go through people’s heads. But I would be like, okay, cool. There’s a horse over there. Whatever.

Crew Chief Brad: What a time to be alive where we get to talk on this show about a tool bag sitting in a cyber truck, playing with his hands, with his VR and a woman stealing a horse and buggy in the same show in the same country

Crew Chief Eric: in 2024, how does stuff like this still happen and what possesses people to be like, you know what I’m going to steal that horse and buggy.

We could put this on Ripley’s, believe it or not, you know, again, two lies and a truth, right? Or whatever it is. So here we are. Did she get caught? Uh, I mean,

Crew Chief Brad: did they catch her? Did the police have their own horse and buggy chase?

Crew Chief Eric: This is slowest getaway in the history of the world. It ended up looking like the LA in the nineties.

It was a low speed chase, [01:25:00] multiple cop cars. They’re boxing her in the whole thing. Jerry’s and Barry’s man.

Crew Chief Brad: Did she ditch the wagon and just hop on the horse to go faster? What is this West

Crew Chief Eric: world?

Crew Chief Brad: Yes, it was Dolores.

Executive Producer Tania: So, yes. They found the horse and buggy abandoned, and then they found her nearby at a motel.

Crew Chief Brad: Covered in horse poop. Yeah, she was at a motel.

Executive Producer Tania: You had to get somewhere. The only option was the horse.

Crew Chief Brad: Did she hitch the horse to a post when she went to the inn?

Crew Chief Eric: If you’re gonna steal something from a Walmart parking lot

Crew Chief Brad: Honestly, that’s probably the best thing to steal from a Walmart. There’s probably not much else there you’re gonna Steal a couple of Impalas, some F 150s from the 80s.

Crew Chief Eric: It goes back to what we were talking about earlier. Simple solutions for simple problems. In this case, why steal a horse and buggy? Get a bicycle. It’s going to be faster. Like, I

Executive Producer Tania: don’t get it. I just don’t.

Crew Chief Eric: So what’s next? What else is for Florida man?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, that was Michigan. Now we’ll go to Florida.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh boy.

[01:26:00] Was there a Rolex man? That’s what we really need to dive into. And can you imagine if the Superbowl had been in Florida? Good night. We’d have stories for the next 20 years.

Executive Producer Tania: No Rolex man.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. Well, what happened in Florida then?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, I’ll start with the worst of the two and worst being like, this is just absurd.

So this Florida man carjacks someone. That’s still a thing? Yes. But who does he carjack? He carjacks his grandmother. Ha

ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha

Executive Producer Tania: ha ha! You know, he knows it’s his grandmother. Carjacks, of course, gets arrested. And then writes her a four page apology letter.

Crew Chief Brad: Meemaw, I’m sorry. Meemaw, please don’t put me in jail.

Please don’t press the charges on me, Meemaw. Can I have some meatloaf? Unreal. How about you not carjack your grandmother?

Crew Chief Eric: You just asked your grandmother to borrow the car. What did he do? Carjacker at the end of the driveway? Get out. I need to go to Walmart. I need to meet somebody head of motel after they pour some muggy.

But let’s flip this around. Imagine you’re the carjacker and it’s like old school 90s carjacking. [01:27:00] So you just run up at the intersection and grab the person out of the car. Like they were doing it in LA and stuff. Right. Can you imagine running up and you’re going, man, this car looks familiar. And then you grab your grandmother driver’s seat, leave her in the middle of the road, like seriously, I’ll see you later.

He

Executive Producer Tania: had her come outside to unlock her car under the pretense of getting something out of the trunk. And then he like. Grabbed the keys out of her hand and like, sadly pushed her to the ground and then like, stole the car.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay, wait,

Executive Producer Tania: is that really carjacking? I mean, loosely, but nonetheless, you couldn’t have just been like, Hey, I need to borrow the keys to get something out of the car and then steal the car.

Crew Chief Eric: Drugs are a powerful thing.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, speaking of drugs. This next person in Florida allegedly stole an Amazon van and then went on a 20 mile joyride.

The best

Executive Producer Tania: part is the sheriff’s office having a great comedic sense on social media. Quote, is your package late? Wow. [01:28:00] Wow. Wow. So not only is this guy charged with grand theft, meth trafficking, possession of weed.

Which, is that a problem in Florida anymore? I don’t know. But yeah, he was lost in the neighborhood. And so I thought that taking the van would help him get out of the neighborhood he was lost in. What?! Kids, don’t do drugs!

Crew Chief Eric: Unbelievable. Is your Amazon package running late? Definitely.

Executive Producer Tania: This last one is in Texas.

Oh

Crew Chief Eric: boy. And it’s

Executive Producer Tania: not necessarily, eh, I mean, take it for what it is. A 9, 000 pound Hummer EV. Sink so deep in Texas mud, a tow truck has to come pry it out. And this was like the Hummer with the super awesome off roading package, whatever it’s called, that they have

Crew Chief Eric: the same all terrain tires the Cybertruck comes with?

Executive Producer Tania: It must. But it had the GMC Extreme Off Road Package with 35 inch mud terrain tires in extract mode! Except it had to get extracted by something else.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m surprised a regular tow truck was able to extract it.

Crew Chief Eric: [01:29:00] They used the one they pull semis with.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, that’s probably what

Crew Chief Brad: you need. Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: 9, 000 pounds for sure.

And then 9, 000 pounds plus the suction force

Crew Chief Brad: of the mud, which pretty much doubles or triples the weight of the vehicle.

Crew Chief Eric: And for those that don’t understand what we’re talking about, have you ever stepped in mud and lost your shoe? Because that’s exactly what we’re talking about here.

Executive Producer Tania: In fairness, I think like anything would have probably gotten stuck in this like mud pit that he parked his car at his parents house or something to go charge it.

For some reason in this grassy it was already swampy and wet from the rain and then parks it there and then it like slowly sank and then he tried to like get it out the act of getting it out made it dig in and sink even further and then it just it got beached there.

Crew Chief Eric: So they pulled it out with the F 350 dually?

Executive Producer Tania: They pulled it out with a Cybertruck now. Ah.

Crew Chief Brad: All I can think of is the scene with Marissa Tomei on the stand and my cousin Vinny. Everybody knows when you get stuck in the mud in Alabama, one wheel turns, the other one does nothing. [01:30:00]

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, I love me some Florida, man. What can I say? Well, what I can say is it’s time to go behind the pit wall and talk about motorsports news.

And this month, the month of February, not only do we have the Super Bowl and the 24 Hours of Rolex, we also had the Daytona 500. So we dedicated to the month of February. To NASCAR and its derivatives. So we kicked it off with origin stories about Bill France, the evolution of NASCAR, all the way into a discussion about NASCAR in space.

And we had special guests, Steve Post, who’s been the voice of NASCAR on MRN. That’s the motor racing news network for over 20 years on the show. We caught up with him. We did a two parter with Steve, and there’s a lot of other great content on Brake Facts that you can go back and check out. But did you also hear that they’re going to start campaigning EVs in

Executive Producer Tania: NASCAR this year?

What do they do, like three laps and then?

Crew Chief Eric: I’m trying to figure that out because I wasn’t sure how you put a four speed and four [01:31:00] barrel car on an EV. You know how the rules are in NASCAR sometimes. I mean,

Executive Producer Tania: they did it with the Formula E, I guess. Why not?

Crew Chief Eric: All jokes aside, with the new sprint race format, which Formula One has Started to sort of adopt as well over the last couple of years, I can see them building an EV that lasts long enough to run those shorter races.

And to your point, they probably have to change cars, especially a longer race, but I think we’re going to start to see more EVs campaigned in NASCAR. So. Between the seventh generation garage, 56 type Camaro, all that kind of stuff. There’s lots of technology advancements happening in NASCAR. So if you’re not a fan today, I would say start paying attention because there’s a lot of really cool stuff going on.

Crew Chief Brad: I mean, running in formula E braking and you’re not flat out for 500 laps is very different than Running around an oval, it flat out for an extended period of time. I don’t see how that went around the wait and see.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, what does it sound like?

Crew Chief Brad: Can

Crew Chief Eric: you imagine? Yeah, that’s pretty much it, right? We got to switch to [01:32:00] formula one because there is so much drama going on right now.

Danny Rick, Danny Rick, what can we say?

Crew Chief Brad: So he’s with our. B now?

Executive Producer Tania: Visa, paycheck,

Crew Chief Eric: cash app, blue thing. Is that an Indy car? It’s not a Formula car, right? What? It looks like an Indy car. The way they decorated it.

Executive Producer Tania: Delivery.

Crew Chief Eric: Because all the other Formula cars look all the same every year. I can never tell. The Aston looks like an Aston.

The Ferrari is still red. The Mercedes is silver. I don’t know. They always look the same. Everybody makes such a big deal.

Crew Chief Brad: This steak doesn’t look the same. Is it still steak? I thought they were, they couldn’t be steak.

Executive Producer Tania: They can’t use that name.

Crew Chief Brad: Why can’t they use steak?

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know, but I thought I saw Are they

Crew Chief Brad: vegetarians?

They’re vegans, aren’t they?

Executive Producer Tania: But it’s not! The Vampire Coalition should be involved. It’s not like a steak like you eat. It’s like a steak, steak in the ground.

Crew Chief Brad: I know, it’s the Lumber Coalition. The Lumber Coalition’s involved.

Crew Chief Eric: Isn’t it a betting thing? Like a sports book?

Crew Chief Brad: It is, exactly.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know if they’ve officially changed from steak, but I thought I saw something that said that they can’t use that.

Crew Chief Eric: All kinds of cool stuff about [01:33:00] Christian Horner, though. Christian Horny. We will get into that, for sure. What in the heck is going on in Formula 1 in 2024 and not just new liveries like the Visa, Cash App, MoneyGram, Chipotle special.

Crew Chief Brad: There’s nothing going on. Formula 1 has been so boring this off season.

All the drivers are staying put. The team principals have their jobs for next year. There’s been zero controversy. I mean, I’ve literally slept through the entire F1 off season. What about you, Tanya? What did I miss?

Executive Producer Tania: You’re absolutely right. I haven’t heard any news. It’s been pretty quiet. Obviously they started pre season testing this weekend.

So other than that, I mean, it’s business as usual.

Crew Chief Eric: Andretti got his team, right? Is that what I heard?

Crew Chief Brad: Andretti got his team. Porsche and Audi are both coming. Christian Horner is a standup citizen. Susie and Toto Wolf. Were not investigated. And then Uninvestigated, Gunther Steiner is still at Haas,

Crew Chief Eric: so this is like 16 lies in a truth.

Even I’m paying attention to this and I don’t generally pay attention to Formula One that much anymore.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. What else did not happen? Lewis Hamilton is going to sign with [01:34:00] Mercedes for the rest of his life, even after his career. He’s going to sign on for an ownership deal and he’s gonna wear the three pointed star on his.

Tombstone.

Crew Chief Eric: If this was the April Fool’s special, I’d say you all are correct. Everything that has been said is the exact opposite. So where do we start with this?

Executive Producer Tania: So has Christian Horner been, like, what’s happened with that? Like, he’s accused of some inappropriate conduct towards a female employee.

Crew Chief Eric: What it means is He updated his LinkedIn and it now says open to work

Crew Chief Brad: down to clowns.

What it says, I

Executive Producer Tania: think that’s what got him in trouble to begin with. Maybe allegedly possibly or ginger spice,

Crew Chief Eric: poor Jerry Hallowell. Yeah. That blows my mind, man.

Executive Producer Tania: He seems like such a nice. But I

Crew Chief Brad: knew Christian Horner was a tool bag. You said that many times before. Well, cause I’ve got, I’ve got a man crush on Toto.

That’s why. Okay.

Crew Chief Eric: Is that second to your Daniel Ricardo man crush as well?

Crew Chief Brad: Toto’s a man. Daniel’s just a boy. Toto’s a man. Oh, okay. I have a boy [01:35:00] crush on Daniel. Real talk. Does this

Crew Chief Eric: open the door to allow Gunther Steiner to come back? Does he get Christian Horner’s job? That

Crew Chief Brad: guy is No. Steiner never should have had the job at Haas.

He like bullshitted his way to get that job. As much as I love him, this is not for you, my friend, find a new day job.

Crew Chief Eric: Can you imagine how all this is going to play out in Drive to Survive? You need Gunther in there.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, he’ll be in one more season and that’s it.

Crew Chief Eric: So in Dreddy’s Out, they rumored a possibility of Formula One racing in Chicago.

We’re not sure if that’s the same street course they use for NASCAR and IndyCar, things like that. That’s kind of interesting. That would put us up to what, like four locations in the United States. For Formula One Grand Prixs, that’s huge. I mean, why we can’t go back to Watkins Glen is beyond me, but Hey, you know, that was the old Formula One Grand Prix of the U S back in the day.

Crew Chief Brad: Could you imagine these cars at Watkins Glen though?

Crew Chief Eric: I can, and I want to dream and I want to hope. Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: They talked about it, but who knows? It’s not on the schedule this year, so it’s not happening. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: But in the future, we could be adding another [01:36:00] track to the schedule. Can you imagine four races in the U S for Formula One?

That’d be pretty good.

Crew Chief Brad: Four races that are still too expensive for me to go. Oh, a hundred percent.

Crew Chief Eric: So Christian Horner’s on the outs, Gunther’s looking for a job still, he’s on the unemployment line, Andretti’s out, like, out, out, like, I think, hopefully that’s either finally dead, or, I don’t know what they’re gonna do there, maybe he’ll just buy Haas.

I don’t think it’s finally dead, I think

Crew Chief Brad: they’re still He’s still trying, and I agree, Gene Haas has not been happy with his team’s performance in F1 since I’ve been watching.

Crew Chief Eric: They’re touted as the all American F1 team, right? So it’s like, why doesn’t Andretti just partner with Haas? Is there some other blockage going on there?

Or just Gene, he’s just trying to be a

Crew Chief Brad: dictator? I don’t get it. Maybe he’s just trying to be something with the word dick in it. He’s just trying to be a, yeah, I don’t know. And then. Yeah, we’ll see Leclerc and Norris lock their contracts. Who’s Leclerc going to be driving for? Ferrari?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. So

Crew Chief Brad: alongside of Lewis Hamilton.

Executive Producer Tania: Next year. So

Crew Chief Brad: here’s the question, which one’s going to be the primary driver? Which one’s going to [01:37:00] be number one?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, because he is the primary Ferrari driver. How do you let him be the primary Ferrari driver when seven time champion, whatever he is? Louis Hamilton is on the team.

Crew Chief Eric: Is it seven or eight?

It’s not eight. It’s seven. But I thought everybody said he had more championships than Schumacher and Schumacher had seven. No. I think he tied Schumacher. I heard it was eight time champion. Maybe I’m wrong about that.

Executive Producer Tania: No. He’s got seven titles but I think he’s got more total wins than Schumacher.

Crew Chief Brad: Okay. He definitely has more total wins.

Crew Chief Eric: Like

Executive Producer Tania: podium. First place podiums.

Crew Chief Eric: Which doesn’t mean anything. The championships. Matter more,

Executive Producer Tania: they’re tied.

Crew Chief Eric: Point being, I thought Hamilton was not, no way, not know how. I’m never going to Ferrari because he never wanted to be considered like Schumacher.

Executive Producer Tania: It said that it’s been a childhood dream to drive for Ferrari.

Crew Chief Eric: So which is it?

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know. I’ve never heard him say that he didn’t wanna be associated with Schumacher,

Crew Chief Eric: but he could have gone to Ferrari ages ago. That doesn’t make any sense.

Executive Producer Tania: No. Why would he have left the cash cow Mercedes that was winning [01:38:00] championship after championship?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. It wasn’t until two years ago that Mercedes fell off a little bit.

Executive Producer Tania: And not to Ferrari.

Crew Chief Brad: Where’s Ferrari been? I can’t remember the last time Ferrari was like legitimately competing. Yeah, it was Vettel. I think Vettel and Kimi.

Executive Producer Tania: I heard something about Ford engines on Red Bull.

Crew Chief Eric: I heard Ford might be making a comeback to Formula One after all these years. Yeah, not this year though.

But a lot of these changes, like even Hamilton going to Ferrari doesn’t happen until next year. Right? So let’s just say by the grace of whatever powerful being, he wins a championship with Mercedes this year, which is probably a stretch of the imagination to say that

Executive Producer Tania: not

Crew Chief Eric: gonna happen. Let’s say he gets his eighth.

Is there even a point of going to Ferrari?

Executive Producer Tania: Sure, why not?

Crew Chief Eric: Money. I guess. Say you

Executive Producer Tania: drove for Ferrari.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, but why would Ferrari want a backmarker? Because he’s like middle of the pack now.

Executive Producer Tania: Wait, you just said if he won a championship, why would he go to Ferrari? If he, of course, Ferrari will want him if he wins another championship.

Crew Chief Eric: No, my point is you get your eighth, you [01:39:00] have all the records. You got the most wins and the most championships. Wouldn’t you just hang it up and be like, I’m done. I’m good. Would you

Executive Producer Tania: go drive for a Ferrari? Cause what the hell do you have to else to lose?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. You

Executive Producer Tania: look

Crew Chief Eric: good in red. Yeah. But then you go to Ferrari and you don’t have to really participate.

You can just kind of show up kind of like Schumacher did when he came back after he left Ferrari, he was kind of like, yeah, whatever I’m here. I’m the car. I don’t really have

Crew Chief Brad: to drive that hard. I don’t know that I believe that. I think if you’re a competitor, you’re a competitor. Long shot, if he wins again this year, he will try to win with Ferrari as well, unless they make a strategic decision as a team that the cleric is the future and the cleric is the number one.

And Lewis is in a more support role given his age and where he’s at in his career, his stage,

Crew Chief Eric: it ends up just like it was in the eighties with Gerhard Berger and John Lazy and playing that stupid game. You had burger kind of there, just like, or, you know, whatever, just. To have a second person with a name in the car.

He’s not a

Executive Producer Tania: backmarker, because if the car is competitive, then Leclerc should be in first position, and Hamilton becomes Botas. He’s there to [01:40:00] take second in block.

Crew Chief Brad: This is about the team and the constructors championship at this point, and trying to get points for that, versus the drivers championship.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s not what Formula One is supposed to be about, though. And to me, this is why I can’t watch it anymore. It takes away from the spirit of the sport. It’s all this politics.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s always been drivers orders. That’s nothing new.

Crew Chief Eric: There is a cutoff point, like in the prost days with Senna, like that didn’t really exist.

They drove as hard as they possibly could and damn near killed each other every time they went out.

Executive Producer Tania: Because they said, I’m not listening to the

Crew Chief Eric: orders. Yeah. And

Crew Chief Brad: did every team have two drivers?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. It’s always been that way. It’s forever.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s always been that.

Crew Chief Eric: There was a point that it changed. And I remember the team orders being a big deal when it was Schumacher and Barrichello.

Because up until that point with like Eddie Irvine and all that stuff. like, yeah, like whatever, but when it was Schumacher and Barrichello, then it became a whole deal where there were a couple of times where like Rubens was going to win the race and they’re like, you need to let Michael come by. He’s got to take the lead.

Even though you’re like way ahead, you know? And so [01:41:00] team order started to become a thing there in the late nineties, early two thousands. And it’s just like,

Executive Producer Tania: yeah, so it’s been like 30 years. It’s nothing new that there’s team orders in the formula one. It’s not like five years ago they started doing team.

No,

Crew Chief Eric: but even then it wasn’t as. Prevalent is it is now where it’s like literally we’re all tuning into the driver broadcast and you’re hearing them just tell the drivers like what to do and they’re just kind of doing it and it’s like they’re not racing anymore. They got their spotters telling them exactly what to do.

To me, I feel like it takes away from the sport

Executive Producer Tania: could be wrong. You don’t even watch.

Crew Chief Brad: I feel like what you just described is in every racing. Program, I’m sharing with the multiple teams. There’s team orders. Now, every once in a while, the team models will be let them race case in point with team Corvette, it’s the legendary Daytona race at the final laps where they were battling it out with each other.

Botas and Hamilton did that a few times when they were teammates.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, there’s also the team orders of y’all are one and two, stop fucking around and crash and not be one and two at all and be DNF, right?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. The team orders that these cars are [01:42:00] expensive. Let’s not have to be jackasses kind of thing, but it’s in every, it’s not just formula one.

I guarantee you any team motor sport, there’s team orders. Guaranteed.

Crew Chief Eric: I think they’re just different, the way they’re executed. Like, I think the IMSA team orders are like, Hey, you’re going to be out for this amount of time and to do this. Like, it’s different in endurance racing than it is in Formula One, right?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, endurance racing, you have time to be like, Well, in 45 minutes, you’re going to let the guy, whatever. Like here, it’s like in four seconds, he’s up your ass. Just give him the pass.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, maybe I’ll start tuning in, because I found out the other day that you can somehow access Formula 1 through ESPN Plus, but I got a resource for you.

No, you can’t.

Executive Producer Tania: You cannot access it.

Crew Chief Eric: But it’s false advertising. That came from Hulu.

Executive Producer Tania: What did it say? Free with your Disney Plus access?

Crew Chief Eric: Well, why did they show

Crew Chief Brad: Formula

Crew Chief Eric: 1

Crew Chief Brad: there with all

Crew Chief Eric: the other stuff?

Crew Chief Brad: Because they want you to buy.

Executive Producer Tania: Yes, they want you to realize that suddenly you have to buy the ESPN subscription.

Because

Executive Producer Tania: ESPN plus is just the app to ESPN. [01:43:00] It’s like the most convoluted thing. Like you still have to pay for ESPN, and then you pay for the app to watch the shit from ESPN. And if you want to watch it on Hulu, you have to pay 75 a month for Hulu live. When you can pay that for a year subscription of F1 TV, and F1 TV gives you so much more if you’re really interested in Formula 1 because you choose the drivers and you can go into their like live.

Feeds and like be on board with them and do all that. And listen to their

Crew Chief Brad: team orders.

Executive Producer Tania: You get access to like everything, which anywhere else, you’re just going to literally see whatever the broadcast is. Right. So true fan, like that one TV makes sense. If you already have ESPN, then awesome. You get to watch formula one, but I already went through this.

They’re like, oh, I’ve got Disney Plus with the ESPN Plus, and everyone’s telling me, oh, you just did thing, and then found out these people that were like, oh, yeah, oh, but I have ESPN. Oh, so that’s why you watch it.

You’re

Executive Producer Tania: paying for ESPN. You can try in like two weeks when the first race is there. I tried, and it doesn’t exist.

It’s not there. You have to buy the other subscription.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s okay. I’ll be on [01:44:00] HBO Max watching the WEC races anyway, so it’s all good. There’s plenty of rally to catch up on too. But that being said, you know, we mentioned that earlier, it’s interesting to see more of these streaming services picking up different forms of motorsport instead of having to go to just one place, but I agree with you, F1 TV, IMSA TV, WRC plus, there’s some great services out there if you want to get all those extras and all that other access.

Speaking about access, press release went out recently from the ACO USA, and I’m going to do a humble brag here, but yours truly is going to be the next Master of Ceremonies or host of their Evening with a Legend series. Yeah, I get to sit down and interview legends of Le Mans, folks like Doc Bundy, Rick New, and others.

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Crew Chief Brad: And a big shout out and thank you to our executive producer, Tanya, for yet again, another fantastic drive thru show and a fantastic season with drive thru episodes.

And to all of our fans, friends, and family who support GTM, without you, none of this would be possible. Outro.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s the season four outro,

Crew Chief Brad: isn’t it?

Crew Chief Eric: Quatro! Oh, it’s Quatro! Hey! Ooooo! I was gonna say, what’s that thing that Jim Carrey used to do?

Crew Chief Brad: I don’t remember that. I just remember

Crew Chief Eric: Let me tell you what happened!

You look like Christian Horner when you do that.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, I got to do it via text. I’ll send you a pic of it.

Crew Chief Eric: Where’d Tanya go?

Crew Chief Brad: Uh, the bathroom.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, there she is.

Crew Chief Brad: She’s on a hike. She’s on a hike in the Grand Canyon somewhere.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, got it. Got it. Oh my God. What do the kids call it with it? The dab?

Crew Chief Brad: [01:49:00] Gosh.

Crew Chief Eric: The most boomer thing I’ve ever said, I think.

Crew Chief Brad: What is that thing that kids say these days? Ha ha ha

Crew Chief Eric: ha ha. OOOTRO! And we’re out. Here

we are in the

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Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• 00:00 Introduction and Sponsors
• 00:34 Kicking Off the Episode
• 01:02 Cybertruck Update
• 02:21 Season 4 Finale and February Highlights
• 03:26 Super Bowl Car Commercials
• 08:38 Rolex 24 Hours Recap
• 10:01 WEC and IMSA Updates
• 13:46 Season 4 Highlights and Memorable Episodes
• 28:02 Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche News
• 36:33 The Mercedes-Benz Experience
• 37:14 BMW’s Manual Transmission Dilemma
• 38:24 The Future of Driving: Autopilot and Electric Cars
• 39:57 Stellantis and the Chrysler Conundrum
• 45:09 Ferrari and the Mille Miglia
• 46:11 American Muscle at Le Mans
• 49:30 Hyundai’s Surprising Nürburgring Performance
• 52:40 Toyota’s EV Shift
• 55:17 Electric Motocross and Concept Cars
• 01:00:48 The Uncool Wall: Vetter Slash
• 01:03:17 TeslaGate: Cybertruck and VR Driving
• 01:11:42 Speed Limiters and the Future of Driving
• 01:13:07 The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
• 01:13:47 Speed Limits in a Sci-Fi World
• 01:15:16 The Reality of Computer-Controlled Cars
• 01:16:09 DC’s Speeding Legislation
• 01:18:24 The Great Car Debate: GTR or RX-7?
• 01:20:31 Vandalism in San Francisco
• 01:22:52 Horse and Buggy Theft in Michigan
• 01:26:11 Florida Man Strikes Again
• 01:30:04 Motorsports News and Updates
• 01:46:09 Upcoming Events and Final Thoughts