B/F: The Drive Thru #34

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• GM hires former Apple executive Abbott to lead software unit
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• The First Electrified 2024 Chevy Corvette E-Ray Just Sold for Over $1 Million
• General Motors evaluating F1 engine programme

• Polestar’s new SUV has no back window
• Here’s What the Automaker Formerly Known As Saab Was Working on for a Decade
• DIESEL vs EV (SEMI) is it worth it?
• Rivian R1T Fender Bender Turns Into $42,000 Repair Bill

• Brad Pitt to Drive at British Grand Prix as Part of Production on Formula One Movie
• F1 GP Imola - Cancelled!
• First (digital) look at Las Vegas track

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• Manual-Equipped Toyota Performance Hybrids May Be Coming Soon
• Canadian Driver Accidentally Buys Hyundai Ioniq 5 With No Fast Charging
• Toyota Gets OK From California to Sell Hydrogen-Electric Semi-Truck Powertrains
• If it's good enough for John Cena - His DD is a 2020 Civic Type-R Manual!

• Mountain Man Dan considers a CTS-V wagon!

Car Prices are still Crazy!

• E Ink Launches E Ink Prism™ 3, A Multi-Color ePaper Film Enabling Product Personalization

• For Sale: Acura Plybertruck
• For Sale: Stubby 1976 Chevy Camaro Z28 Is Really a VW Beetle Underneath

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• Alyssa Milano’s Volkswagen Goes Up In Flames In Soho: A Troubled Journey From Tesla To Volkswagen

• Stellantis recalls nearly 220,000 Jeep Cherokee SUVs worldwide due to fire risk

• Analysis-Tesla’s new car-making process stokes debate among industry experts
• Elon Musk says working from home is "morally wrong"

• Audi On Track For First F1 Engine Test Sooner Than You Might Think
• Porsche Is Reportedly Launching a New Car on June 8
• In a Crossover World, There Was No More Room for the Audi TT
• The Original Audi TT Was Almost a Porsche Instead

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Gran Touring Motors Sports Podcast Break Fix, where we’re always fixing the break into something motorsports related. The Drive-Throughs GT M’s. Monthly News episode and is sponsored in part by organizations like H P D E junkie.com, hooked on driving American muscle.com, collector car guide.net, project Motoring Garage style magazine, and many others.

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But before we get into all that, welcome to the drive-through episode number 34. This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive motorsport and random car adjacent news. Now let’s pull up to the window for some automotive news. [00:01:00] We have to retract one of our statements. We thought we were gonna have a special guest host.

Instead, we have a special episode of the drive-through for you where we focus on finding things that were lost. We found Tanya this month. She’s here with us. Woo. Not only do we find her, we found two of her double trouble. Isn’t there a song something Double Trouble? Which Tanya do I address? Well, there’s Double Vision.

I’m seeing Double Vision. I’m definitely seeing that right now. Yeah, I think Double Vision isn’t that, that’s a foreigner song, right? Isn’t that a foreigner? Yeah, I think so. Double Vision. Yep. And you can only see that on Pat, but you know what else Brad? This episode has a new sponsor. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

This episode brought to you by Gray Chevrolet, where you can pick up 1988 Cadillac Deville base model for 17,988. Get yourself down to Gray Chevrolet and tell them you heard it here on Break Fix. We’ve never started a drive-through episode with Lost and Found before. So this [00:02:00] is kind of fun. And what set it into motion is not Tanya saying that she was gonna be here, but she came to the table with this really interesting article about all things.

The Titanic. How is this car, Jason, was there a car on the Titanic? Don’t think so. There were piano players on the Titanic. We may find out after this 3D scan that there were cars on the Titanic, but what’s brilliant about this is they have this new technology that is really, really super accurate and they can 3D scan the floor of the ocean and all this fun stuff, and yet, All the pictures from Space look like they were taken on a one megapixel camera from 30 years ago.

We still continue to find cars in barns month after month after month. But hey, we can map the ocean floor in high res three dimensions, right? It is Car, Jason, Tanya, and here’s why. It actually ties into spoiler alert, a future episode where we sit [00:03:00] down with author Larry Jorgenson and we talk about a book he wrote called Shipwrecked and Rescued, which is all about shipwrecks, where it was carrying cars and Michigan and all this kind of stuff.

Don Weiberg from Garage Style and I sat down and interviewed him and that was actually quite delightful conversation and it’s been pre-released several times through other affiliates, but it’s gonna be coming out here very, very soon. So you can tune into that. But I thought it was kind of funny that if we can map the ocean, be kind of neat to map Lake Michigan and some of the other things that Larry talked about on that episode, and see how many 1920s Chryslers are still sitting at the bottom of the lake.

Or you know, maybe they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa. I’m not sure which. Along with all things lost and found. We’re gonna talk a little bit about history. It’s a little bit of what should I buy as well. So right at the top of that list, we’re gonna hit you hard with the cheapest 300 horsepower cars you can buy.

You know, I’ve been looking through this list and the sad part is all of them, except for the Camaro [00:04:00] one lt, they’re all over $30,000. Yeah, that’s the new base price these days. If you’re not paying 35 for a car, which is something I swore I’d never do, you’re not getting anything. Where’s the golf R on this list?

That’s cuz it’s 45 does it? Dude, it’s so expensive. And isn’t it 400 horsepower now? More than 300? I guess the GR Corollas on here to Yeah, it is. We’re a meager price of 36,995. The four cylinder turbo Mustang’s a good deal on here at entry price of 29 1. And having had experience with one, I mean we know that they do perform really well.

I think it has better weight distribution than the v8. Granted, people argue there’s no power to do out of its own way, but John’s, he put that Ford performance package on there with the chip from the factory and he was making the 3 78 at the wheels. I mean that’s pretty substantial for a four banger.

Exactly. That’s really good. I enjoyed driving that. I mean, I’ve driven the Coyote powered Mustangs as well. I’ve been in plenty of Shelby three 50 s the track. But you know the four banger [00:05:00] for 30 grand. If you want a two-door coop with a manual transmission and rear wheel drive, it’s sort of hard to beat.

We’ll go around the horn real quick. Which car on this list would you have? You only get one. Do I get two? You get two. There are two of you here. That’s true. Eric, go, man, I’d have to go with the Kia Stinger. Really? That is such a surprise. After you just waxed. Poetic about Mustang 400 Turbo. The S V o Mustang’s, the obvious choice.

The Stinger, because it’s the precursor to the N 74 vision, which we can’t have yet and is gonna cost $200,000. I’ll go with the Stinger. Yes, cuz they look exactly the same. Same car underneath. Tanya won JR. Corolla, bazaro, Tanya, the Mustang. I would go with the GR Corolla. Moving on to the hottest family cars that are genuinely fun to drive in.

2023. What’s the F? Is this Aston Martin DBX? 7 0 7. Whose family car is this [00:06:00] or two $35,000. This list is a hot mess. This is rich people. Family cars. Yeah, I, I feel like this is in the wrong section. This should be rich people doing rich people things. The first car is 235. The next car is 123. Now we got the bargain basement Tacan at 99.

Oh, then you got the Jeep Gladiator, which is a terrible, terrible family car. What was this moron smoking. Did the person who wrote this ever actually drive a Jeep? Nope, because they ride like a medieval oxcart. Ask me how I know the other things on this list, just I don’t get it. A Hyundai Kona. The Hyundai Kona, there’s the W R X Civic Type R, which is yes, cuz the Civic is as big as an accord, but not the type R.

That’s not a family car. I don’t know the Camry as horsepower. So it’s the same. This list is stupid. So here’s the problem with the word family car. Unfortunately, there’s stereotypes around that. So you start thinking quote [00:07:00] unquote mom mobile. And I know it’s not okay to say that anymore. No. I’m thinking you have children that you’re carrying this with your spouse or whoever, and it’s like you’re not gonna go around unless you’re a rich person.

$200,000 Panamera, turbos se, hybrid sport charism. I mean, what the hell kind of family car is that? But if you’re dad and you only have to haul the kids around every once in a while, it’s okay. I don’t know about you being a dad, Eric, but I can’t afford a $235,000 car. Can you afford a $235,000 car? No. No.

This is why I am a cartoon avatar this month. I can’t even afford the zoom payment. You know Mercedes, G E 63 s wagon, 600 horsepower v8, all wheel drive, $122,000. Really, this list just doesn’t make any, there’s no continu. The Hellcat is not a family cover. There’s no cohesiveness between the list. The W R X and the Civic, even like the Civic si, I think would’ve been a better option for a family car.

What is the typical family [00:08:00] car these days? None of these. They’re all SUVs. Exactly. There’s not a single SUV on this list that that, well, that’s not true. Drio. Well, the Alpha. There’s the Alpha, there’s Theon Martin, is that thing an suv V. Yeah. And then there’s the Ipace something or other. Isn’t that an U v?

That looked very squat. If they had changed this list to Petrolhead Father’s Day special or something. When you win the lottery, this can be your family car. Yes, but this is like what you buy the dad who’s a petrolhead that sold his sports car. You know, that kind of thing. Like if you put it in that context, then it all sort of makes sense.

But the shades, these are hot family cars. Yeah, this is trash. Now I will say we have to give a special hall pass to the Audi R six Avant, the wagon of all wagons. Well, there’s also an A M G E 63 S wagon. Yeah. Yeah. But it’s not as cool. It’s not as cool as the Audi, because the Audi has these flares, it has these hips.

If you’ve ever [00:09:00] seen one in person, it is the coolest station wagon. In a long time. For me as a long Roof Society member myself, I really like this car now. $123,000 is a bit much, but it is probably worth every penny of it. That’s all I’m saying. Maybe it should just say family call or alternatives. We’re just subjectively nitpicking.

Yeah, we don’t like Ryan Sylvester I think is the thing. Well, we’re gonna see a trend as we go through this drive through this month. I noticed that a lot of the articles were coming from the drive and I’m starting to wonder if they’re turning into Jalopnik. I’m not sure I can trust what I’ve been reading.

We’ll get into that as we go along. Also talking about what were they smoking? The new segment, what were they Smoking? Best Affordable Sports cars are 2023 from money.com and this was all broken down in different segments. Like you can Best Family Car, best this Car, best Economy car. So I honed in on Best Sports Car cuz I was really curious.

Here’s how they broke it down. Best overall value [00:10:00] and best overall. Went to the Toyota g R 86. Best for safety. The burs, which is the GR 86. So the GR 86 took first and fourth place. Apparently the Nissan Z best for features the Chevy Camaro best for technology, which I’m a little puzzled about. And then finally, who won best handling the U S s Dodge Challenger.

Good night. I love how there’s only one kind of sports carish category. No, I like that. Under the Dodge Challenger, it says few standard safety features. Wow. It’s got a seatbelt. I didn’t know what to think about this. We’ve gone from like one extreme to the other, right? We went from 300 horsepower cars.

Okay, great. To the family car. Okay, whatever. And now this, how does it handle better than like a. 86 or A B R Z. There’s no way. Maybe if I’m pushing [00:11:00] Matchbox around my table, it handles better. Like who tested these cars? All three of these articles almost infuriate me as much as the yearly consumer reports thing, where it’s so all over the map where they’ll ditch one car like the B R Z and say how terrible it is and then they’ll commend Toyota for how great the G R 86 is.

And I’m like, do you people not realize it’s literally the same car with different badges on it? It’s notorious for stuff like that. And I just wonder who writes this stuff. So the person that writes this stuff, her name is Jacqueline Trop. She joined money in April, 2023. So she’s new and every single one of her articles is best.

The Best Subcompact SUVs of 2023, the best electric SUVs of 2023. The best plug-in hybrid SUVs of 2023. The best hybrid SUVs, 2023 Best three Row SUVs. Best minivans, best Large SUVs. That’s very specific categories. Every single one of her articles for this, that’s her thing. That’s okay cuz we’re gonna go over to [00:12:00] Motor Trend.

Where they know a thing or two about cars, they know a thing or two cuz they’ve seen a thing or two. Yeah. You think? Mm-hmm. And I love the title of this. Hell Will Freeze Over before these cars become collectibles. I mean, they’re not wrongs. I have a problem with the first car, the Chevy Lumina was out with the first one.

What is there not to like about the Cadillac Cera also known as an Opal? No, no, no, no. That’s, that’s just the cover photo. The Oh no, it was the Jaguar, the first car, the Jaguar S Type R. You mean the Ford Moneo S Type R? Exactly. What’s wrong with the EO again? Yeah, absolutely nothing. And maybe that’s just it because it’s built on a commodity platform that it will never be desirable.

It doesn’t really have any sort of specialness or rarity to it. I look at it and go, that’s awesome. It means there’s a ton of parts and maybe ability to modify it, do other things with it, make it bespoke in a certain way. And honestly this Jag, it’s pretty handsome. Yeah, I, I think it was a nice looking saloon to tell you a car that was god awful ugly.

Is the Mercury Cougar on this list? [00:13:00] Yeah. That Cadillac wasn’t. Very nice either. No refuse to even acknowledge it. I’m moving right to the Mercury and I remembered that little baby shoe of the Aston Cignet was created and then I immediately like deleted it from my brain because I was like, why did Aston make a smart car?

Like I just don’t un that. That will never be collectible ever. The only one on here that I could see being collectible, but it would be a niche collector’s market is the Subaru, the Baja. I could see that there’d be like some cult followers that would like have 10 of them or something. Those are the same people that buy the Pontiac Aztec.

Exactly. But if you’re gonna go down that route, I saw one, even the other day, you get an old Subaru brat and there was an older gentleman driving one around that was completely restored and I was like, look at that. There’s a Subaru from the eighties, there’s a survivor, and that’s cool. The new Baja, which tries to be the brat.

You look at it and you go, that’s a messed up looking legacy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That’s all it is. [00:14:00] But I will say there’s one car on. Oh, we’re gonna get to that. Come on now. Am I, am I gonna take your thunder? I’ll, I’ll, I’ll let you do it. No, go. No, no. I don’t wanna offend any of us. One. It is out there. Oh, yes, yes, please do.

Oh, oh yeah. Now I know. Okay. Nevermind. Before we get to that though, there are some other ones on here that I think are arguably interesting. Like the three 18 ti, I think is a collector car. People do a lot of swaps with those. The E 36 base car. So what makes it a collector car? Making it a different car that makes it a collector car.

You take a car, you turn it into something else, and now it’s a collector car. Yeah, that’s that collector car. You know, I know a lot of people they like gut these and they take ’em to the track and that’s not a collector on No, it’s a donor car That’s a rolling chassis is what that is. You’re right. It’s a collection though.

I feel The Ford Contour Contour S V T. Actually I used to lust after those when I was Yeah, back in high school. I thought they were pretty [00:15:00] snazzy. And then the Ford Probe GT two. No, that was so lame. No, I drove a 24 valve probe in Europe and it was awesome. I actually really enjoyed that car. So which was the one we got?

The one I drove was a US spec car. It was brought over. Oh, okay. Yeah, no it was great. It’s a Mazda 6 26. It’s got all the Mazda things you expect. It handles pretty well. It’s got good power. They designed it sort of to compete with the Carrado, but the Carrado will clean its clock cause it weighs so much less.

Oh God. I mean this thing is so lame looking. No it’s cool. The probe is cool. The three 18 t i is not it backed into a wall like a hundred miles an hour. I did like the Mercedes-Benz three 20 Compressor Co. Well how can you like that and not like the three 18 ti? I think the compressor looks weird because I’m not a B M W guy.

I’m not a Beamer guy. Oh, that’s terrible. But there’s one car we have not mentioned on this list, and that’s for a very specific reason. Are we gonna go there? We gonna avoid, are [00:16:00] we just gonna skip it all together? Should we just skip it? No, I think our fans would be sad if we didn’t. They would be re, they would be remiss if we did not mention this.

It’s not a Tesla, it’s a car you searched for many times on cars.com and bring a trailer in other places. It’s a car we’ve talked about several times. Yeah. Craigslist is where you should be looking for it. Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace. Facebook Marketplace. Craig, I was trying to think, what’s a step below Craigslist?

A Facebook marketplace. Yes. You’ll find it in the garbage bin on Facebook Marketplace. It is the. Chevrolet, h h r s s. Turbocharged.

You know what’s awesome about that? Nothing. This car is trash, but they handle so well and they’re very fast. I’ve heard you can get 500 horsepower out of ’em. I mean, which is true. You can get a lot of power out of them, but still you’re still driving a piece of shit. Tanya One and Tanya two. Think about it this way though.

This is why the HHR is awesome. [00:17:00] It made this list of terrible uncollectible cars and you know what’s missing from this list and can now say it’s second place to this. It’s the PT Cruiser and the Dodge Dart and the Aztec, like all these cars we know are terrible. Didn’t make it on this list. Maybe it’s because whoever put this list together didn’t realize that those cars were still on the road because I think those other cars are collectible and that’s just it.

Right? See, the PT Cruiser did it first and that’s why it’s collectible. No, not at all. No. Nobody tried to outdo the, the Aztec at whatever the Aztec was trying to do. You know what is super collectible, and I hope that maybe one day I’ll get $55 for mine, you know, which is $5 more than I ever bid on a car.

I will give you $56 for yours right now. Oh, will you? All right. Car of the week, according to Rob Report, ultra rare, 1971 Porsche. 9 14 6 was expected to fetch a cool [00:18:00] $550,000 at auction. I have a model car of this exact vehicle on my desk. Again, 55 bucks is where I’m at, but it’s just a stock. It is a 9 14 6.

There’s nothing. Is there something else special about it? Yes. The objective of complying with S C C A rules regarding production, Porsche made approximately 400 of the M 4 71 conversion kit, blah, blah blah. Without getting into all the very technical Porsche stuff about this, I missed that part. Okay.

It’s some ho allegation. I see. I see competition option group package that they made for the 9 14 6. So the price goes up with every single one of those words that you just said. The price goes up and what’s deceiving about this is you realize it’s basically the very, very first 9 14, 6 gt. It has the big flares.

It accommodates the bigger wheels from the nine 11. And so when you first look at it, you’re [00:19:00] not really paying attention to it. You’re like, oh, it’s a blue nine 14 big deal. It’s that very, very early 9 14 6 gt and those cars, you know, obviously went on to win many races, Berg Rain, things like that later on in life.

Kind of cool. This is a kin to the 9 24 DP that Al Holbert and his team were building for S E C A as well. Like they had these option groups for the Porsche cars to be able to compete. Probably in classes by themselves. This is along those lines for the nine 14, but still half a million bucks for flares.

That’s a lot. Yeah. Okay. That’s fun too. Rich for my blood. Other things. Historical and fun and rich people doing rich people things. And it ties into Formula One as well. The bastion veal. Getting back behind a wheel of Formula One car at Goodwood. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who’s he gonna be driving for?

Hos? No, he is driving for team ve, his own collection of F1 cars. Oh, this is really, really, really cool. At an autocross [00:20:00] like where’s he gonna be at Goodwood. What Festival of Speed. Oh, that’s actually kind of awesome. But the big thing that he’s pushing, so apparently he’s got like an ex Nigel Mantle. Yep.

Formula Car. He is got a McLaren MP4 that Santa drove. I don’t know which of the ones he’s gonna drive or maybe he’s driving several of them. But the thing about it, I guess it’s cooler or more important is he’s now on this sustainability kick and he was starting to go down that path while he was still driving in Formula One, recognizing the impact of fossil fuels and blah blah blah.

He is going to run them on refuels. Ooh. So that’s pretty neat. Is he gonna get a haircut? That’d be nice. But you know, that’ll retire from F1 and he is looking homeless. He had that hair in f1, so I think that’s Covid hair. They call it covid hair. I mean, if you’re buying old Formula One cars, you run outta money quick.

I think I had heard that he had bought Nigel’s car. I didn’t know about Senna. [00:21:00] I think he also has like one of Mark Weber’s car or something like that. And then there’s a bunch of other cars in his stable cuz he has a car collector. But I think that’s kind of cool. And it’s not the first time he’s been to Goodwood, so something to look out for.

Well, we might have a field trip in our future. Did you guys hear that Chip Kanai test race cars in our backyard? Uh, yep. I heard just now. Well, in Southwestern Pennsylvania, out towards the kind folks of the Pittsburgh area, there is a 4,500 foot long tunnel that runs underneath Laurel Ridge. It has had many uses over the years.

It was originally for railroads and some other stuff, and they were gonna use it for diverting traffic, things like that. It didn’t really work out, and eventually it was abandoned and it found its new purpose in 2004 as a race car test center for the chip ganassi racing team. Lord knows what they’re doing in the back cave, but I wanna go check it out.

They’re not building four gts, but can you imagine what it must sound [00:22:00] like with your own personal tunnel doing Dino poles and top speed runs and other things like that? I mean, that’s gotta be pretty. Awesome. Yes, it would be very awesome. I love this one little quote from the article tunnels railroad route.

Make it well suited for testing cars at speeds up to and perhaps over 100 miles an hour. Wow. A hundred miles an hour. Obviously you don’t know how fast race cars are. And if you do venture out to the Laurel Hill Tunnel, you can also enjoy yourself on the Laurel Hill Hiking Trail. You can’t actually go into it.

At best. You can like see it from the outside. You could call and find out if they’re doing tours and things. I think this would be fun based on the way the article is written. No, they’re not want to get a tour of this facility, but it is part of Atlas Obscures collection of unique things in the United States and other parts of the world.

So if you haven’t checked out their website before you ever seen those books, like Weird Maryland and Weird Portland. Mm-hmm. Oh wait, no, that’s just the Portland Yellow [00:23:00] Pages. You know all those books. Then highlight all the strange things in your state. So this is right along the up there with it, uh, over on an atlas obscura.com.

Ooh. And I moved to a new state. All kinds of fun stuff for me to find down here. Yeah. Down under, down under crying, I see that the value of Dodge Darts have gone up. Yeah, I don’t actually think so. Dude, I love this meme. This meme is hilarious. In 2017, you could get a Dodge Challenger s r t Heca for $65,000.

In 2022, you could get a Dodge Challenger r t, no Hellcat. For $65,000. In 2030, you can get a brand new 2014 Dodge Dart RT for $65,000. With the prices, the way they’re going these days, that is not far off. It’s called inflation, it’s called insanity over and bring a trailer right there is something off the charts.

So I’ve been scouring bring a trailer, [00:24:00] and I found something very peculiar. Oh, it is a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe Z 71 4 by four with 16,000 miles, how much would you think this truck sold for? I’m gonna go with our obvious guess here. $65,000 close. What this truck sold for $40,000. What some moron. And yes, I’m calling you a moron.

Paid $40,000 for this stupid thing. Oh my God. 40 grand. I hate to say you could pick up a couple year old pickup, maybe a base model F-150 or a ton for 40 grand. You can pick up like a 2017 Tahoe, right? You don’t need to buy a 2006, which has basically the same motor. They’re both 5.3 liters. I’m telling you, you want the newer motor.

Now that square bodies are so expensive, they have to move on to the round bodies. That’s why that [00:25:00] 2006 is desirable. It is not desirable. Whoever bought this is you dumb. Speaking of things, mountain man Dan would be interested in, he texted us on Discord the other day and he said he was considering of all things a station wagon.

Did you believe this guy? So he said at one point he considered it. I don’t know why he would buy something so new. They didn’t make a C T S V wagon in 1985. They did. It was the family trucker. You were Roadmaster. I didn’t realize there was a A square body CTS V Wagon put a 4 54 in that Buick. Roadmaster, you’re all right.

That’s the cts. There you go. Yep, yep. And it’s a square body. You see, why was that not on the family hauler’s list? So Dan tells us that he’s considered a C T CTSV wagon before and he sends us a link to a new one. And you know what the price was on that? Our magic number of $65,000 because it’s a car that was 40 when it was new and it’s 65 today.

[00:26:00] So here we go again. I should just do a search on bring a trailer for anything $65,000. That’s the new price point right there, man. That’s craziness. I scoured the internet and I found something you will find interesting. Nope. You can get either a brand new 2000. That’s 2 0 0 0 Volkswagen Jetta, G L S T D I, or a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta, G L S V r six.

Both of them brand new. According to the site at Alexandria Volkswagen, just up the road from me, just down the road from you at msrp. $23,000. Oh man. The price of my car just went up through the roof. My God. So if anybody wants a brand new Mark four Volkswagen, either the Gasser or the Diesel, you can get one brand new.

My left foot 6,500 becomes 65,000. Really quick, add a zero located in the [00:27:00] scenic suburbs of Joseph City, Arizona. Destined to fetch a high value. Here. I present you with the 2001 Acura. Ply truck. You know what? I think this is a steal. The cost of wood prices. I mean, shit. You buy this for the wood Brad, how much dogecoin would you give for this?

I am still selling my cyber truck reservation. If anybody wants to buy my cyber truck reservation for $3,000, I will turn around and buy the Acura Ply truck. You should, because the, your guaranteed delivery on this ply truck. I wonder what the, uh, insurance is on this. Do you have to take out like special insurance due to termite infestation?

Is there special fire insurance? Yeah, exactly. But they’ll include a camper attachment with it. Did you see those exhaust pipes? I love the interior. It’s got the star interior from a Rolls Royce. The things people will spend money on and build, just [00:28:00] blow my mind. My question is, is there an actual car under there?

The body is under there and it’s just covered in geometrically aligned cyber truck esque plywood panels. What is underneath? If you look at the interior picture and you look at the roof, that’s wood. There is no like Acura MDX underneath this. Oh, what? You know what? You’re right. It’s Acura mdx. It’s Acura MDX chassis.

There are right no MDX body panels on this. You’re right. The roof from the inside shot, you can see the wood. So they cut the roof off. This was a uni body car. How the fuck did they do this? I don’t know that any of that matters because there’s two important points here. First of all, it is a legitimate Tesla like product because the parts were sourced from the same place that Tesla sources.

Its sparks. The other thing is I have to commend them on the precision of the alignment of the body panels and all of the color matches. Look at that [00:29:00] panel gap. Yeah, I don’t know. Elon better watch his back. Acura is coming for you. This is one of those moments when you’re up at the mountain and Dan’s like, I can do it for cheaper.

The question is, is this gonna be a collectible more than the h r? I think this will be in a museum. You’ll see this in like Ripley’s, believe it or not, by a museum. You mean bonfire junkyard. Same difference. I have a question. I guess in fairness, there’s no rules around this. It’s street legal. Yeah, cuz it’s an Acura mdx.

Yeah. It’s titled as an mdx. But if the body panels have been removed, disturbed, I mean clearly the front bumper, the crash brace bar is still there. So I guess structurally and safety wise, what if you get. Hit in this wood box. Well they put you straight in the ground. You’re already in your coffin. Nobody light a match like yeah, you can’t smoke it.

This is [00:30:00] a nos smoker’s car. This thing is genius. That’s all I’m gonna say. Do you think this is like treated like if it’s out in the elements? Cuz it has no windows. It still has the barcode on the fender. Like when he bought it from Home Depot, I mean you can tell it’s ridiculous. But did he splurge for the pressure treated outdoor grade?

It’s Arizona, it’s, they’re in the desert. It doesn’t rain. It’s true. You’re right. It doesn’t rain. Sara, Arizona. I like the added touch of the tire shine on the tire treads. Did you guys notice that? That’s fresh to death. Yo. This thing is awesome. But you know what? All jokes aside, it has something in common with a vehicle that we’re gonna talk about later.

This thing is just amazing. Brad, I think you should give up your cyber truck allotment for ply truck. Three brand new Tesla Roadsters have been found sitting in a container for over a decade, and that is where they shall remain because nobody wants ’em. How’d they get there? They found the shipping container in China with three brand new Tesla [00:31:00] Roadsters.

They use the 3D scanning from the Titanic. Now X-ray vision into the shipping containers, which I think we need actually. How many shipping containers that still God knows what’s in them, but we probably don’t wanna know. Cool. They’re brand new. They’re gonna need new batteries. I guarantee they don’t work.

I’m surprised they haven’t called fire. I thought Tesla said you couldn’t get the batteries for those anymore. So basically you had the 3000 pound paper weight. Which is the scary part about some of these electric cars? What happens when the battery technology changes? Let’s say we do standardize. Who uses D batteries anymore as an example?

Anybody? No. You make the same power out of four A a’s you know, that kind of thing. And so what happens when you can’t get the battery for your EV anymore? I think this is a classic case of brand new cars that are useless. I mean, maybe they’ll end up in a museum somewhere. Yeah, it’s sad. Are we sure they’re really Teslas?

Are they TURs or Twizzlers or something like that? Are we sure they’re Teslas? We’re never quite sure they could be protons for all we know [00:32:00] Malaysia. So kind of wrapping out our showcase here, talking about all things lost found historical and just weird. Did you know that the Corvette finds its roots in of all places, Watkins Glen?

No. There’s a little known story from the creator of the Corvette, Harley j Earl, who talked to the Detroit Free Press. I think it was several years after the Corvette was built and is quoted as saying, I went to the Grand Prix at the Glen and it inspired me to build a sports car. Our friendly friends at the International Motor Racing Research Center have been digging into that story, going through the archives, fact checking, verifying, et cetera, and I actually got together with kipp.

He did a presentation in preparation for the 70th anniversary of the Corvette this year in the 75th anniversary of Watkins Glen. And it kind of ties the two stories together. They’re doing a big to-do at the Glen celebrating the Corvette’s birthday. It’s all about Corvette this year, which is awesome.

They’re giving away a Corvette or here as we go along how you can enter to win that Corvette. We have [00:33:00] hosted the story in a couple of different places. You can get it on a garage style, you’ll be able to get it over on gt motorsports.org, stuff like that. And it’s the little known story of how Watkins Glen influenced Harley j Earl into designing the Corvette and the car that actually kind of, sort of spawned the Corvette’s beginnings is also quite interesting too.

Carries the name Le Saber. If you wanna know more about the early, early, early days of the Corvette, head on over to Garage Style and GT Motorsports to check out that article. And there’s one more little bit of history that we need to talk about. I think he’s looking pretty damn good for 84 years young.

What do y’all think? Indeed. Yeah. If you’re just tuning into the show today, all you have to do is go back one episode to know what we’re talking about in celebration of our three year anniversary of Break Fix and 200 episodes later, and believe me, our foot is still heavy to the floor on the accelerator pedal around here.

We had the legendary, if there is anyone that is the man, the myth and the legend rolled up into one. We had Mario Andretti [00:34:00] on the show and a big shout out to our friend William Ross over at Exotic Car Marketplace for making a lot of that happen and being a part of that. And, and a shout out to the I M R C as well for helping us with some of the research, et cetera.

But having Mario on the show was absolutely amazing. He is very sharp, he is very technical, and he is rare in to get behind the wheel of a modern Formula one car again. And he talks about that on the episode. And he also talks about the future of Andretti Autosport in Formula One and the relationship with Wayne Taylor racing as well.

It wasn’t just old stuff talking about dirt car or, or indie or the Daytona 500. We talked about all sorts of really interesting stuff, uh, a lot to do with his time at Lamont’s in Formula One. And also, if you’re unaware, he ran Pike’s Peak three times with Bobby Unser. So lots of really cool stuff in that episode, especially if you wanna know some little tidbits about Mario’s history that you might not already know.

That wraps up, lost and found. Now it’s time to talk about Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen News. [00:35:00] What do we have? We’ve already heard Audis entering the Formula One fray. Gonna join with Saber, who is branded as Alpha Romeo right now, not until 2026 when the new engine stuff changes the announcement. The latest one was there, planning later this year to do bench testing on their proposed engine for the future.

I would love to hear that. Rumor has it after this episode airs. Mark your calendars. June the eighth on the anniversary of the iconic Porsche 3 56. Porsche is launching a new car. Another nine 11, right? It’s a new special edition nine 11. That would cost $5 million on Bring a trailer, put some sort of like 3 56 badge on it.

Then like, I don’t know, make it special. There’s some interesting stuff in here, like a quote from Seinfeld that says they might be putting the flat eight in this car. I’m like, It’s flat eight. What? What? What are we talking about here? Well, plus, remember the race cars are mid engine now. Well, I guess they keep moving the six cylinder forward.

They got [00:36:00] extra space in the engine compartment. They can add two more cylinders now, so that gives ’em a lot more room. They could do that. I think Seinfeld’s on crack, but yeah, I That would be cool if they did that. Why does Porsche do the things they do? Why do they call it Oval team? He’s got a license plate that says ply Birdman.

Do we need another nine 11? Do we need another delivery package? Do we need another combination of letters? You know, whether it’s the nine elevens St. That has been rumored, so Tanya’s point, it’s just gonna be another nine 11. Where is the new 9 28. Where is the new 9 44. Where? Where? Where the new 9 28 is the Cayenne and the new 9 44 is the McCann or whatever it’s called.

Porsche do something different. I did find something interesting this month. A quick follow up, as we kind of traveled to lower Saxony here, there’s new news about the EIN that m w is alleging for, you know, some of their [00:37:00] concept cars. And you remember we heard about the EIN prism. It’s that multicolor EPA film.

They did it on a couple BMW prototypes and it’s like you could have like gray scale, white, black, whatever. Now they’re talking. Are changing. What? Oh, I don’t know. Are we supposed to be surprised? No, but we speculated about this. How cool would it be going down the road and you get one of those cheesy little remotes, like when you buy any Chinese l e d from Amazon, right?

With the little buttons that you hit, and blue, green, red, yellow. Honestly, I think it’s stupid and I hope it doesn’t happen. Why? You don’t wanna be automatically be able to repeat your car on the fly. It’s not repainting though. No, not really. And the first rock that hits it, I’m sure is gonna f the whole thing up.

Not to mention there’s just too many bad people in the world to say, what does law enforcement think about this? Oh, my car was yellow. Hit a quick button. Oh, uh, that wasn’t me. Who just ran over an old lady on a sidewalk. That was that yellow car. My car is purple. Oh, you gotta make the car red so it hides the blood.

My bad. You’re right. That’ll [00:38:00] all change in the future. I’m gonna make a really old reference here, but it year 2000, it’s gonna be like the pilot episode of Seaquest. It’s gonna be RFIDs and barcodes and it doesn’t matter what color your bike is or your car is or whatever, because you’re not gonna be able to change that tag.

We’re not gonna need license plates in the future. Everything’s gonna be wireless and electronics. We’re not even gonna need roads in the future. Future. That’s where we’re going. We don’t need them. Yes. I don’t want that to happen either. It’s gonna happen. I’m telling you, we just deducted $250 from your bank account.

Thank you for speeding. That’s how it’s gonna work. I’m telling you it’s coming Seaquest, but it’s not gonna be dollars. It’s gonna, we just took 250 credits from you. Do. Or what’s that new currency that they’re talking about that’s supposed to rival the dollar? Muskets. Muskets. Is this the revolutionary four times?

No. Musk, Elon Musk. Oh, that’s his new muskets. I like that. Well, you know what’s not good, and I was a little scared the other day. Oh, recall [00:39:00] from status. And I’m like, luckily, thankfully I read it very carefully. I’m glad you did because you know, one of our members is very quick to point out whenever there’s anything wrong with something that might be owned by somebody else in the group.

So if you own one of these vehicles from 2014 to 2016, there’s a recall for over 220,000 Jeep Cherokees. Not Grand Cherokees where there is an issue with the power lift gate. There’s like a drainage issue. It causes a short, the power lift gates might catch on fire. The recall states that you should park your car outdoors away from your home.

But the recall is when the vehicle gets wet, it might short and catch on fire. So wouldn’t it be smart to keep it inside where it’s dry? I, I was a little confused on the resolution here. If you were out driving it in the rain and then you came home and parked it in your garage, you probably shouldn’t do that.

Yes, just let it burn to the ground. I mean, it is a regular [00:40:00] Cherokee. Maybe you shouldn’t be driving it in the rain at all because couldn’t it spark and catch on fire while you were doing 70 down the road? That’d be cool. This is part of a long list of terrible recalls by Stant customer service right now.

Kid. You not. I have a series of them for the Pacifica and the very first one is like there’s a problem with the transmission. Like that’s all it said. He’s just like, don’t call us, we’ll call you. I mean, that’s like literally the gist of the email that’s we’ll call you. I have it taped to the fridge in the garage.

I kid you not. And I look at it and I laugh. It’s right next to the recall. I continue to get for a 2000 Audi TT for the airbags, which, you know, I want to take the race car to the dealership and see what they think. I love these recalls. Right. And then there was another one that came after it and it said, okay, we’ve identified that the transmission may fail and the car will just stop operating.

Without warning, there will be no symptoms. And I’m like, okay. And I’m looking for the resolution, like what are you supposed to do? And there’s no resolution. Wait for them to call again, it’s we will call you. Right? [00:41:00] We, well our people will call your people, but it doesn’t say don’t stop driving your car.

It’s just like, you know, your transmission just might stop working. Like oh okay, that’s cool. So we got the third one and then it finally says nothing more than the previous two said, other than call us to discuss your vehicle. So they’ve written us three times and my wife is like, isn’t this the problem we already had where they replaced it like a while ago.

Cuz we did have an issue where it just suddenly bricked itself and Chrysler swooped in and they changed the trans. They actually put an upgraded trans in and all this other kind of stuff and it was all under warranty and it was great. So I’m wondering if we were on the front end of that particular, recall the absurdity to put that paranoia in any minute.

Now my car might just die 70 miles an hour on the highway. Right? I mean that’s just insane. You know? I want to go back to your recall for the tt. I wholeheartedly think you should load it up on the trailer and take it down to the Audi dealer and say, yes, I’ve got a recall for airbags, [00:42:00] I need new airbags.

Can you please put them in my car? The best would be to hand them the airbag controller and the steering wheel. Yes. As they give me my new airbags. They’re not attached to the car at all. Yes. Oh, that’d be great. Now that we’ve dipped our toe into our domestic news, let’s continue on with the rest of Ford and gm brought to us by American muscle.com, your source for OEM and performance replacement parts for your STIs, GM, or Ford product.

First one is the Ford F-150 Lightning, their EV electric pickup truck. Catching fire at Deerborn. No. So actually three of them I guess. Were in the lot. There was some issue with battery cells and they, I guess spontaneously combusted cuz there was nobody in them. They might have been on chargers, maybe they were actively being charged and obviously if there was a problem with a cell, created a reaction, set it on fire, et cetera, et cetera.

I found it funny. Responding officers quote, [00:43:00] we’re not putting this effort out to look at it. They have to put like a whole effing lake on it to put them out. So it went full Cher Noble is what you’re saying. All three of them pretty melted down from the photos. I mean they’re not completely down to like just nothing.

As we’ve seen some other EVs and like some Teslas, there’s been photos of that before. Like I, I think they caught ’em in time. Did they confirm that all three of them spontaneously combusted or just one did and got the other two? Oh, chain reaction. I’m saying that because it looks like the one in the middle is, is the most significantly more damage.

I’m wondering if that’s the one but then the left side of the one on the right exactly is destroyed too. So. Right. It’s like the right most truck, the left side of it is more destroyed maybe than the side next to the, yeah, so who knows. Yeah, it does look like they were charging to this. These, it does look like they were charging.

All it says is that they traced it back to a battery cell production issue. [00:44:00] You made an astute observation there Bradley. Since you have your Indiana Jones hat on as well, you’re looking for things here. You found a clue and this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, so imagine. You’re at Sheets or Target, Walmart and they have Tesla chargers or they have whatever chargers available and you’re in a row of cars and maybe you go about your business and something like this happens and the truck next to you melts to the ground and a pile of goo, is it gonna create a chain reaction with all the other EVs that are there charging technically, if the flames or the heat alone, yes.

That’s a huge risk on any lithium battery, whether it’s your cell phone or your laptop or whatever it is. You do not wanna expose them to extreme heat or any sort of fire because you can fuck them up and then bad things happen. What happens? You can compromise them, right? And then they’ll go off on their own.

When a vehicle is charging and it explodes, it catches fire like this and you spontaneously [00:45:00] combust, does it do anything to the system that it’s connected to? Does it send some sort of like over explode or something back through the system that could affect other vehicles that might be on the system as well?

I hadn’t even thought about that. And you’re right, there’s some sort of feedback, you know, maybe those systems have an emergency cutoff. I would assume they’ve designed them because you can do that right in the. If you wanna call it circuitry for probably lack of proper technical term. Yeah. But when the circuitry is melting, they designed the cars to, not spontaneous combust too, but they still, you’ll have blown some other capacitor in that circuit.

Right. So when you’re charging anything, you could have a reverse signal where it faults and then will stop a kill flow or something that into whatever it’s trying to charge. It reaches a certain voltage and just shuts off or something like that. Maybe the article makes it sound like the growing risk of, of EVs and fire.

Right. And what we don’t know is, and what other people will counter argue is that plenty of ice engines do catch on fire. You’ll see them on the side of the road burnt [00:46:00] down to same way as an EV of the vehicles on the road. What percentage of those are catching fire versus what percentage of EVs on the road are catching fire?

I don’t know what those numbers are. Are they higher in EVs? Are they less, like if you normalize them together, which one has the higher risk? The bigger problem isn’t any of them catching on fire? The bigger problem is it’s really easy to put out a ice engine fire. You put the fire hose on it and you’re done.

The lithium battery fire is much more difficult to put out. Not all the fire people are trained and they don’t have the proper foam or whatever other chemicals that they need beyond water to put ’em out. And my other concern with EVs would be, what is all that doing to the environment? If you’re dousing all that foam and stuff and then it’s leaching into your groundwater and to your drinking water and all that stuff, there’s other ramifications.

Is it like environmentally friendly foam? No, it’s nasty stuff like halan and other things in response to your ice engine. Cars on the side of the road burning down. And I say, yes, I’ve seen that too, but have you paid close attention to those cars that are burning on the [00:47:00] shoulder? They sort of. Deserved it.

We can take Daniel’s Square Body as case in point. We have video of that. By the way, if anybody wants to see it available free on our YouTube, hit us up on Discord. Speaking of General Motors, they’re taking a step into 2015. They just hired an Apple executive to head up their new software division. I’m not an IT person, so I could care less.

Yeah, same. It’s sort of like when the Apple guy was waving the flag at that race and nobody knew who he was. Oh. Is the point of this to show how General Motors is still constantly behind the times? I think so. Right. It would’ve been funnier if they had said that they had hired somebody from like Blackberry.

They’re like, yeah, old move there. Cotton Nokia executive hired by General Motors, like Right. You got a vision of the future. Year 2000, again, lost and found. All this stuff coming to the surface again in, in the line of General Motors. Over the last couple of years, we’ve talked about all the extensive [00:48:00] issues and recalls with the C eight.

Some are funny, some not so much that you know, need to be taken care of right away, especially if you are early c8, stuff like that. But now, as we’ve mentioned before, a lot of tracks are sort of bipolar on where they stand in terms of allowing EVs on track. Last month, I believe it was, we talked about how Summit Point has put out because of new insurance and things like that.

No EVs on the track of any kind. It doesn’t matter who they’re made by. Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t go as a spectator and be in the paddock and things like that, but you’re not gonna run your Tesla at Summit Point on the track. You know, things like that. A lot more racetracks are taking that stance.

And what’s the hottest car on the market right now with an electric hybrid that everybody probably wants to take to their next hooked on driving event. Tracks are saying No way to the e ray. Oh, well, it’s like the N S X in a lot of ways, as we’ve joked about in the past. It’s such a small hybrid. I sort of feel like the Corvette didn’t [00:49:00] need this.

This article specifically touches on events sanctioned by the National Council of Corvette Clubs. They’re the ones banning the E-rate. You know, I’m not that big of an EV fan to begin with, but I feel like this is more of a political move to show their dislike for the fact that Corvette has gone e. More than they want to just ban it because it’s an ev.

Are you saying this is a okay boomer moment? Yes. In addition to the things you’ve already stated, like the cost of insurance and stuff like that, these people are running Dees and, and club racing and things like that. Yes, those costs go up, but my Spidey senses are tingling. And I feel like this is a political move for some reason.

I don’t know why. I’m just, my, my cynicism is getting the better of me. But haven’t other organizations also said no EVs on track? I don’t know that organizations specifically have, but some racetrack specifically have. That’s correct. But when, but when I saw this was [00:50:00] events sanctioned by the National Council of Corvette Clubs.

He kind of triggered, I, I, I’m triggered. I feel triggered. Well, I don’t know what to think about it. You know, I have said before that I think the C eight was a step away from the classic Corvette owner. And no offense, we have plenty of friends in the Corvette Club. We love Corvette’s. I love going to ncm and coaching Corvette’s and things like that.

I still have yet to coach in a C eight that’s coming. I think it’s a step away from what people are used to, and I think people are still trying to adjust to that. Like anything else, there’s early adopters, but if you look at the crowd of people that are buying Corvette’s right now, the C eight s, it’s gonna be younger folks, right?

People that want that American nsx or they want that I, it’s, it’s like a Ferrari or like a Lambo, but it’s got an LS under the hood, you know, kind of thing. Mid-engine is a step in the right direction for Corvette. They’ve tried several times over the years. If we look at it historically, you know, there’s been [00:51:00] a lot of failed attempts at a mid-engine Corvette and they finally did it, and maybe a day late and a dollar short in some respects.

I mean, would we be having the same discussion today if they had done it when they brought out the c5, kind of stepping away from the C4 instead of waiting until now? Who knows, right? We don’t know, but people are sometimes hesitant to change, reluctant to change. This is a microcosm of that versus let’s say the greater EV discussion where people are still grappling with range anxiety and other issues and things we’re talking about.

I mean, the fire is a real concern. This stinks a little bit. It’s a little petty. Unless the track says no, who cares? Or if your insurance company says no, right. But if the insurance company says We will allow it for X amount of dollars, then you increase your registration costs to cover it, or you charge the people that wanna bring an EV a little bit more money.

If the e ray is probably heavier, then the stocks C eight because of everything else that has to carry with it. Yes, it’s making more power. But let’s say they left the brakes alone and it’s anything like Andrew’s C eight was, [00:52:00] and it chews up the brakes and suddenly you’ve got nothing going into turn one at Summit point at 150 miles an hour, the ramifications of that wreck to Tanya’s point from earlier, are you equipped to handle the battery fire and everything else that’s gonna come from that?

Right? So that’s a scary reality. What about you as the driver? That lithium fire that they can’t put out quickly that’s burning hotter? Likely than if your gas card caught your fire suit probably isn’t rated for lithium ion battery fire. Yeah, it’s useless. So we’ll have to have a conversation with our resident safety clothing and apparel company to see if there’s any developments on changing the technology behind race suits to see if they’re going to make something And there might be since don’t they have Formula E?

So yeah, those guys might. So what do Formula E have special million dollar race suits, but is that trickling down to og? How many fires have there been at a Formula E event Since the race series [00:53:00] has started? If they do happen, it’s not publicized very often. Although, I don’t know how much a Formula E is publicized.

I don’t know. I’ve never hear anything about it and I don’t follow it. So, you know, we talk about EVs and they, they spontaneously combust and everything like that. Does it ever happen when they’re moving? No. Or is it only when they’re stationary and shut off? A lot of the ones that I’ve reported seem to be like randomly parked in garages and stuff, but I don’t know which ones were moving.

Obviously when they’ve suddenly stopped moving, there have been problems. Yes. In fires. Yeah. They once were moving and abruptly stopped. Isn’t that what Clarkson said Would always get you, it’s that sudden stop. Yeah. It’s not the speed that gets you, it’s that stopping. Speaking of the Chevrolet Corvette ere the first electrified Chevrolet Corvette ere just sold.

For over $1 million. Did it come with lasers? You mean for the windshield wipers? Yes. A million bucks for a Corvette. [00:54:00] Really? I don’t know what to say. Somebody with money that, that was like a thousand dollars to them. Rick Hendrick, C eight Corvette, NASCAR team owner. Oh, Hendrick Motorsports. Yeah. Okay. Well, oh, okay.

Yeah, so it was like a thousand dollars. Yeah, he prints money. I mean, come on. Good for him. He can say he had the first one, right. And it’s a Hendrick Corvette or whatever, blah, blah, blah. But a million bucks. I mean, it’s still an expensive card, 150 grand or whatever it is. Damn. A million. If that ain’t enough.

Sounds like Audi’s not gonna be the only one bringing Power Plants. Formula One. Nope. General Motors, supposedly Chevy is going to join up with Andrei if they get their formula teams. So will this be the turbocharge h r for cylinder or will this be a big old thump in als? It’ll probably be closer to the for Cylinder Turbo.

But will it be a Chevy power plant or a Cadillac power plant? Because Cadillac seems to be at the front end of racing for GM right now. I mean, it’ll be Cadillac. They’re so strong. In the other racing, [00:55:00] of course it’s going to be Cadillac is GM’s racing Division. Apparently. It’d be one thing if this was the old days of Formula One, where you could bring anything to the party.

Four cylinder Turbo V8 V 10 flat 12 like Ferrari used to have in the eighties. You know, stuff like that. Yes. If they could pick up a Chevy V8 out of an indie car and say, yeah, we got a power plant for days, because they can get those like a dime a dozen and drop it into a Formula One chassis. Sure. They gotta engineer this from scratch.

Maybe the Quad four is the answer, right? We know it can make an a billion horsepower and a cobalt and an hhr. So maybe that’s the pedigree of the future. General Motors Formula One. It’s not gonna be a North Star motor. No, definitely not. No cylinder, deactivation trash. Moving on to JDM and Asian car news.

Toyota again, the hotness says, Hybrid and E manual in the super. Can you believe it? Go for it. Damn right. It’s about time. Make that money. But is it [00:56:00] about time or is this just old news? Because Honda did this with the C R Z. It was the first manual hybrid. If you check the history books there. Mm. I’m sure there must be differences in how the clutch works too, between them.

Toyota’s got a plan to bring a hybrid to the manuals or the manuals to the hybrids. This is interesting. I wanna stay on top of this story. I wanna see where this goes. Would be really curious to drive one for sure. I can see this partnering probably with the small motor, the four cylinder turbo that they already had with the manual.

So it’s kind of the next logical conclusion to do that. I like the fact that if they go in that direction, it’s another step away from B M W for the Supra. Toyota’s sort of making the Supra its own, even though it’s still gonna have the Z four chassis. Next up the Supra will be a station wagon, just like the Z four touring coop or whatever they’re calling it.

But hey, you know, we’ll, we’ll leave that where it is. Good for Toyota again, the hotness, they are pushing the boundaries [00:57:00] of what is possible. So in other Toyota news, apparently they’ve gotten the green light from the state of California to begin selling hydrogen electric semi-truck power trains in an attempt to push those trucks away from diesel.

That’s scary stuff for Tesla there, isn’t it? I think it’s a great idea. When is that electric semi coming again? It already came and then it got like towed or something. I remember seeing something recently like they got delivered. Who took the first orders? Was it like Pepsi or something? It like broke down immediately.

Apparently. Wow. The first load they put on it, did it get towed by a diesel? That’s the best, right? Probably. I don’t remember like what the failure was. And it was unfortunately broken down on the side of the road pretty soon after receipt and they received a letter from Tesla that said, don’t call us, we’ll call you.

But hey, they got no issues. You know what’s great about this article is it’s actually a little bit of foreshadowing for one of our guests that we had on. We had Carrie Shar on here who actually works for Pac Tar [00:58:00] and some other places where they do testing for semis. She’s been in the business for a long time.

She’s worked for Peterbuilt and some other big semi companies, and she actually talked about what the future of semis looks like and some of the hybrids and things like that. And her episode is actually available. Right now for pre-release on her website and that’s trophy girl designs.com. So you can go check it out over there and listen to some really interesting information about the semi industry and also her adventure going to the top of Pike’s Peak in a racing semi.

Really cool episode to check out. Nod to Mountain man Dan for co-hosting that episode with me. You know, really excited to kind of keep the pulse on what’s going on in the big truck world as well. Just remember that Tesla’s not the only one making changes out there. If you’re a Canadian beware, you could accidentally buy a high Hyundai I Unique five essential, which actually you can’t accidentally buy them anymore because only 30 units were made and sold [00:59:00] in 2022.

If you did accidentally buy one of these and you haven’t realized it yet, you cannot fast charge on them. Apparently. Essential means basic, basic, basic. So I don’t know if it takes like nine years to charge. It looks like five hours. These essential units were actually just like compliance models, so I’m not sure why they were even sold.

Like why would Hyundai do that? It doesn’t make sense. Like, we’re gonna give you something that takes a week to charge. That’s unfortunate to spend 40 plus grand on something and then get it home and then to realize, I don’t even think it’s retrofittable to the fast charging system. For whatever reason, Hyundai should just send all those people new cars.

And then flatbed the old ones out of there. That’s just sad. I have to say. You know, we talked earlier in our showcase about hot family cars. If it’s good enough for John Cena, it might be good enough for the rest of us. Would you like to guess what his daily driver is? [01:00:00] 2014 Dodge Dart. Oh, you wish he did?

No, I know. It’s a Honda Civic 2020 Civic type R with a manual, and he is on an interview, I guess he’s on a podcast or something, and it’s a short little moment that they clipped out of it and it’s actually a riot. He compares it to, I guess he owns a Kuta as well. And just why the Kutas is just complete garbage and the Honda is reliable.

It gets in it, it’ll do 140 miles, blah, blah, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, all this kind of stuff. And I was just like, you know what? Respect props. Good for you, John Cena. Promised earlier that we were gonna find a tie to Brad’s new ply bird truck to a new concept and ev car that Tanya’s gonna tell us about. And what’s the relationship between those two Pole star with no glass?

The ply bird truck, you couldn’t see out the back of it, had no rear glass. So does that mean it’s got a camera? That’s the thing with the Pole star. Their new S U V that they’re claiming is gonna have no back window is because it has 900 cameras on it. I’m exaggerating, but I’m assuming like a lot of cars have the backup camera.

So when [01:01:00] you’re in reverse and you go, well wait a second, I don’t back up down the road, I still need to look out the back glass, which nobody does. So I mean, why do you need a rear glass? They’ll have the integrated camera in the rear view mirror, so you’d still have a rear view mirror. And when you look in it, you’ll be seeing what’s behind you without seeing what’s behind you, which I guess is great till that stops working.

But again, nobody uses their mirrors anyway, so it don’t really, doesn’t matter why you don’t need the glass, you don’t need the mirror. I, I was about to say, why is this news contractors and painters have been driving vans without rear glass for decades? Why is this news? That’s great point. Although you’re right, a hundred percent.

This is race car technology. If you follow sports and endurance racing, they don’t have rear view mirrors either. They use those onboard TVs with cameras facing out the back. You can’t see out the back of the Ferrari 2 96 or the Huracan or any of those cars, especially with the roll cages and all the other stuff they have to have and onboard cameras for TV and all that stuff.

So they’ve got cameras out [01:02:00] the back and that’s how they see who’s coming up behind ’em. They’ve been doing that for years. I find this interesting in the sense that race car technology is finding its way to the street. Isn’t that how it always works though? Doesn’t it start in motorsport and then eventually, I mean for most, for some things, yes.

It starts in motorsport and then trickles down to civilian life. I’ve driven a car with this technology, Andrew’s C eight, and I absolutely hated it. It was terrible and I would never use it if I had the option. I would rather drive with not being able to see and just use my side mirrors than to use that crap.

Here’s a name that we haven’t heard in a while. Sob sob. Ooh. Born from Jets. Apparently, I guess the company that they became or bought them, which there’s like 20 people left in it, has been working on a new SOB for quite some time now, and they’re alleging the, what they’re calling the Emily GT sob 90,000 Nevs, [01:03:00] Emily gt, cuz nevs is the name of whatever this company is that owns Saab now, or at least the name.

They’ve been working on their own EV that is claiming 600 miles range. 484 horsepower with honest to goodness, torque vectoring, and even a performance variant that’ll get you 653 horsepower. I really like the front. It looks like another car. The front looks like a Camaro, the back, whatever. These little spy photos that are like taken in a dark alley closet with no lighting are really hard to, this is like when DeLorean Reimagined did that whole thing and we counted it down and all you saw was one third of the silhouette quarter panel.

Yeah. This is the same thing. This is annoying it. It’s old now, but the interior is where I’m stuck and I’m confused and I’m not sure the hole in the back of the seat for like if this was your family car, your child would be like kicking you in the back of the head through that hole [01:04:00] throwing Cheerios at you.

Yeah. Are those from a massage parlor? Are you supposed to put your face through that hole? Like, I don’t understand. It looks like a dentist’s office inside of this car. You read the comments below and people are like, oh my God, that interior’s so gorgeous, blah. And I’m like, what are you talking about? SOB?

People are weird. Anyway, so it fits the SOB brand. Anybody who likes putting their car key in the floor to start the car, I mean, shit. I like the color though. This weird goes back to the C 70 Volvo burnt copper. That color is having a resurgence and I’m okay with it. The only thing I like about this car is the front, but it looks like another car.

We talked about semis earlier. I’m just kind of following along with that since we’re talking about EVs Diesel versus ev. There was actually a recorded part of a congressional hearing that you can find as part of a TikTok video that Mountain man band sent us. What is disclosed as [01:05:00] Brad would say, a duo moment.

But also a reality of what’s happening in that market space. The look on this guy’s face, I mean, he gets shut down by this congressman when he says the words we’re gonna pass the cost onto the consumer. I was immediately like, bruh, we’re done. I was like, damn your face right now. I didn’t think they’d catch that part.

Yeah, right. Just this sheer audacity that some of these corporations have where they’re like passing on the consumer, we’ll make it a subscription plan, pay to play, blah blah, it’ll all come out in the wash. It’s unfortunate because these new semis that they’re proposing are three times what a standard semi cost.

Not that a standard semi is cheap. So what’s the cost of uh, your Amazon Prime membership gonna go up to? Is it worth all that free shipping? Now, the base model, EV semis are starting at the high end of the petrol powered [01:06:00] ones and they just go up from there. Who’s gonna recoup the cost? It’s gonna come on us, and this is where I get the environmental impact.

Of continuing to run the old trucks, but if the old trucks are still running, can’t we find ways to retrofit things like we’ve talked about, synthetic fuels or whatever, diesel, the motor itself isn’t necessarily as dirty as the stuff we run through it. There’s arguments to be made. We’ve made them before, but there’s gotta be ways to maybe make some of those older trucks better.

There’s gotta be a market there for people to develop parts, and it’s not passing the past onto all of us as consumers and making Pepsi or Amazon or whoever, like we’ve been talking about, buy all new trucks at three times their value. And I think it’s sad, and I think more people need to understand what’s going on, not just those of us that are in the car community.

Talk to your fellow civilians and explain to them in simple terms, maybe show them this video. Get them to understand what’s going on and what’s being discussed. Sometimes I, I [01:07:00] wish we spent more time watching CS span than c b s Paramount Pride. Get in touch with what’s going on behind the scenes. Well, I don’t know if this guy just got ripped off, if it really costs that much.

It’s another article from the drive. That’s what it’s, I think we do know that when an EV is involved in an accident, the repair costs seem to be generally higher than your traditional ice powered vehicle, which is why all our insurance rates went up because they’re passing on the savings. I love paying for other people’s stupidity.

But anyway, so this Rivian owner got rear-ended, damaged the rear bumper from the picture. Actually, it doesn’t even look like it’s that badly damaged, but apparently it was $42,000 worth of repair where majority of its labor hours, cuz the shop literally took the entire rear of the vehicle apart and rebuilt the thing basically, which.

Is part of the, did this guy get [01:08:00] scammed or something? Because there was another person that’s said that they were involved in a similar accident and it cost them less than half of that. They paid 14,000. That’s still insane. For a pickup truck, for a rear bumper, they’d be like, I’m gonna go down to the junkyard and get one for 500 bucks.

But for 42,000, he could have bought any of those cars off our top list. What was that first list of 300 horsepower cars? That’s right. 300 horsepower cars. So Tanya, does this change your mind about the rivian? Do you want one still? I mean, I don’t, I mean, I know you don’t want one, but Yes, yes. You like, but I don’t think it’s unique to Rivian necessarily because your Tesla go gets, gets rear ended.

It ain’t gonna cost you $300 to fix. It’s not gonna be Toyota Corolla or Honda repair charges and you’ll be out of a car for months. But part of this could be volume too. It takes, to Eric’s point, you know, if one of us is in a wreck, we can go down to the junkyard and get a replacement part or something, just because there’s so many [01:09:00] more of those vehicles around.

How many rivian are on the road right now? I mean, I see them all the time, but that’s just it. It’s the barrier to entry, right? And so obviously we’re not privy to their profit margins and all that kind of stuff, but if you’re doing the math, $42,000 for a repair bill, whether your insurance company is canceling you after that or not.

I’d rather buy an F-150 gas guzzling, EcoBoost, whatever, than deal with this nonsense, because at least if something happens, I can go to Ford or I can go to the junkyard, or I can get the part after market because it is the best selling car and the planet, even though it’s a truck. But the point is, if Rivian reduced the cost and it wasn’t a hundred thousand dollars pickup, maybe more people would buy them.

If it was a $30,000 pickup, it’d be something different. There’d be more volume, right? So they’re playing this game, and I have seen more rivian on the road, and I’m starting to actually dislike them. In the beginning, I like them because they were so niche and so different. But the more I see them, I’m just like, Ugh.[01:10:00]

Ugh. You have a R one T or you have the R one s. I’ve seen the SUVs too. Yeah. And I’m just like, okay, whatever. And then the fear that it’s gonna spontaneously combust and who’s paying for that? That’s not unique to Rivian. It’s not, but it’s very expensive. And is Rivian gonna give you a new truck when it burns to the ground?

That’s the thing that we haven’t heard about these things either. And again, say in this case, this guy wasn’t rear-ended, he was front-ended, potentially deadlier accident, but then it burned, which it matter of besides or hit anymore in EVs when you’re sitting on top of it. In my truck, I sit on top of the fuel tank.

I was in any different, I don’t sit on my fuel tank. No. My passengers sit on my fuel tank. It’s in the back. Yeah, I mean it. It’s down the center of the cabin though, because generally when you’re rear-ended, Your gas tank doesn’t absorb the impact and crack open and then a match get lit and it explode under your ass.

Well, I would like to think that with the [01:11:00] electric vehicles, they’re designed to where the battery does not take the impact of an accident they should be, but you have to trust that something so temperamental like a lithium battery cell. I wouldn’t wanna be in an accident in one of them. Yeah, I don’t trust anybody anyway, so.

Well, no, but there’s a lot more variables, there’s a lot more chemistry involved. To Tanya’s point, you crack open the battery like an egg. There’s other things that are happening. You suddenly exposed all that stuff to oxygen or, or carbon dioxide or something else. Or, or some, you know, moisture. Something happens and causes to react gasoline.

It pours on the ground. Yeah, it’s bad, but it evaporates as long as you don’t expose it to flame or spark on a rock or something. Yeah, I mean, we’ve seen that too. I mean, it either has to be at a super high temperature that it auto ignites, which probably isn’t. Or there needs to be a flame, whether it’s coming from a literal flame or a spark, it’s still a flame that creates the combustion.

So, This is not unique to Rivian. [01:12:00] I don’t know if that guy got scammed. I think he kind of got scammed because it says there were only three certified shops in his location to work on the rivian. So I, I feel like there’s some collusion here. I mean, that doesn’t sound absurd because to your earlier point, they make like three of them.

So there’s not volumes. You’re not gonna have a dealership on every street corner that, or of course, a service center that can fix these things. And if it wasn’t a Rivian certified place, it might be like in the contracting world, it might be one of those FU numbers. They threw it out there and they went, okay, well we gotta get it fixed, so that’s what we’re gonna pay.

And those guys are laughing all the way to the bank because they look at the complexity of the job and they make the quote really high. You got no choice. Right? It is what it is. If it was me, I would’ve just left the bumper messed up and pocketed the 40 grand. That’s how you do it with your Ford. Think I’d wanna know that nothing was compromised around the batteries.

Yeah. Yeah. But how do you do that without some sort of x-ray vision? But that’s why they took the car part. Yeah, they took the entire thing apart. Are they going to have it certified by Rivian That this will [01:13:00] not spontaneously combust as a result of this accident and the work that was done? It is under warranty.

Who’s taking the liability for this pass on the consumer? We already established that because this brings me to, I used to watch the TV show Gas Monkey Garage. Mm-hmm. And they took on the challenge of rebuilding a totaled Ferrari 40. They went through so much painstaking work and they even had to have the chassis re-certified by Ferrari before they could sell it for the, you know, the amount of monies that they were trying to sell it for.

I’m wondering if something similar has to happen with this, like if the shop is gonna certify or Rivian is gonna certify Yes. That the vehicle has sound now Cuz somebody’s gonna take on the liability for if this thing actually does blow up or still compromised. Who’s signing off on this saying? Yeah, it’s good to go.

I’ll just say this cuz I saw a 2006 ish Tahoe Z 71 like we were talking about earlier, going down the road the other day and I, and [01:14:00] by going down the road, I mean almost sideways cuz it was that severe crab walk because the frame was bent. If you see a rivian doing that, just pull over. Just stop driving and wait for the mushroom cloud because that is not good.

And that’s just it. That’s the other thing that I worry about is when you buy a truck, I mean, we’re not talking square bodies here, although they are still on the road, but a lot of people do keep their trucks for a very, very long time. And trucks are used and abused. And these rivian, where will they be 10 years from now?

20 years from now? Will they even be, and that’s what goes back to my point of we’ve made them so expensive. So expensive to repair. And it’s not like it’s something collectible, it’s a pickup truck. Are there going to have to be special junkyards or these electric vehicles when hazmat facilities decommissioned?

It has to be. Are they gonna go back to the manufacturer to recycle the parts? That’s the talk from Volkswagen and other people that there’s a whole recycling process, but nobody’s actually [01:15:00] gone through those steps yet. Everything’s still so new. There’s nothing to recycle. And I find it sort of like the same game they play with recycling a cell phone and some of the other electronics.

Like you take it to those places and they end up just dumping. It goes in a hole somewhere. It’s like, you didn’t really recycle anything. I just, I don’t see it. Ah, we would be remiss not to talk about Tesla. Oh, what’s going on in Elon’s Kingdom this month? Tesla’s new car making process. It’s gonna be revolutionary and all this stuff.

And honestly, I guess you’d have to go back and go to their investor’s day and find out the details of what was revealed, because this article really doesn’t explain anything other than some sort of different modular. Construction and like you’ll have all finished parts done elsewhere that then get put together later, like o.

Okay. Since we’re talking about things historical, this actually hearkens back to the eighties. It reminds me a lot of how the DMC 12 was built, all the body panels, everything were [01:16:00] built off the car and then was assembled later. But granted, they weren’t dealing with paint booths and painting and color matching in that whole process.

They were stamping out stainless steel components and then assembling the car later. I’ve heard rumor that Musk is a big fan of some of the earlier generation entrepreneurs like DeLorean and Aya Koka and others, and he is kind of stealing from their playbooks in some respects. We’ve built cars for a long time the same way because of the trial and error in the other processes that obviously failed.

And we build cars a lot with robots, which are very fast and consistent. Why deviate from that? If you’re not building a custom coachwork or some sort of hand-built car, why go through this process of some guy on a Monday morning, pumps out 1400 left front red fenders, and then next week when the temperature is different, he does the rear quarter panel.

Another question is whether Tesla can produce multiple vehicle models of different sizes and body [01:17:00] styles on the same production line with the unboxed system. What does that even mean? So you’re gonna have like a three coming down with a Y behind it with another three, within an X, within a Roadster, and somehow like.

You’re assembling them all in the end, it’s one thing if it was like all the same base platform and then like I’m sticking different body panels on it, but they’re not. Yeah. More like the MQ chassis Volkswagen where it’s like, well, a golf’s coming down and then a Jetta and then a tt, and then whatever else maybe they are, and I don’t realize it.

I don’t know. Maybe a model Y chassis is exactly the same as a model three. I have a feeling they’re very similar. If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like they’re getting rid of the assembly line process and they’re probably literally gonna just take. Stuff out of a box and put it together. Well, what does that mean?

Like I just opened my Lego box and now I’m gonna sit here and put all my parts together, and then I’m gonna open my next Lego box. How is that more efficient? This is Elon Musk. That’s exactly what it means. How is that more efficient than an assembly line dedicated to [01:18:00] a model three? To a model model? I guess because you, you don’t have to have separate assembly lines for each.

You know what it’s gonna require is less vacation and more work. You’re definitely not gonna be able to work from home, and Elon has thoughts on that as he tries to take over the world. He has lots of thoughts. He’s the smartest moron I’ve I’ve ever seen. He’s a tool. No, he’s a 10 millimeter socket. Don’t offend a 10 millimeter socket like that.

Well, most of them are lost as well. Why can’t we lose this one? Yeah, Elon Musk is lost as a 10 millimeter socket. You know what’s funny is I listened to something the other day, and I know there’s the whole cancel culture thing, especially N P R and Twitter and Elon and all that stuff. We talked about that already, but they played some clip of him talking.

I literally held my head in my hands and I’m like, who is this tool that is talking right now? And they were like, oh, that was Elon Musk. I was like, oh my God. Seriously? Yes, he’s pushing boundaries. He’s challenging norms. He’s looking for solutions where there are no problems. The assembly line thing, I don’t understand.

[01:19:00] It worked for Henry Ford 130 years ago. It still works today. They’ve only made the process better. I don’t see why this boxing process or unboxing, whatever, it’ll turn into stupid TikTok unboxing videos. Yeah, I don’t wanna put my car together. It’s not a super seven. It’s not a caterer, right? No, it’s not an erector set.

I want my car to be the same color. I want it to be gapped correctly. I want seals that seal. I want a quality piece of equipment. Speaking of Elon Musk and saying stupid things, vacation is morally wrong. Not that vacation is morally wrong. It’s that working from home is morally wrong. Working from home is morally wrong.

I don’t understand what morals have to do with that, but, and when you’re king of the world, you can say whatever you want, right? I mean, that’s, that’s where this is my favorite part was. Musk said he himself works almost every day taking just two to three days off per year. I work seven days a week, but I’m not expecting others to do that.

He said, liar. Cool, cool, bro, [01:20:00] you work 363 days out of the year. Wow. You won a fricking gold star. If I had a billion dollars in the bank, I would do that too. Give me a billion dollars a year and I will work seven days a week in an office. Work is a hobby. At that point, you’re not really going to work. They say, oh, you.

You love what you do and you don’t do it for work. Of course, when you’re filthy rich, when you’re rich people, thanks. Everything is a vacation. Everything’s a hobby. What do you care? You like print money. I mean, this guy’s like one of the richest people on the planet. Why do we keep feeding this maniac more money?

Every freaking rocket he puts up into space, explodes or whatever. I’m like, come on. I mean, I wouldn’t even have talked about this and the sole purpose to not give this guy more airtime than he deserves, but it’s Tesla. The car is one thing, but the stupid stuff that comes out of his mouth, that’s the disconnect.

Do people not put those two things together? No. How can you ignore that? People do it all the time. If the president of Ford came down and said something like this, people would just like [01:21:00] their jaws would hit the floor. No, they wouldn’t. They’d go out and they’d rev their F-150 in the driveway and they’d go to the grocery stores.

Well, my expectations are. Thoroughly lowered the expectation. Ooh. He went deep. He reached down into his soul for that one. That was good. My deep soul. You’re channeling your Barry White right there. That was good. Let’s get it on. This is one of those moments where you’re just not sure what to say. I can tell you what to say.

It’s what the fuck. This car instantly made our uncool wall. Is this a Verne Troyer car? It looks like something that we built for him. It’s the Mini Sam credit where credit is due. It’s really well done. No negative credits. Take credits away from this. It’s exceptional. It’s a micro machine. No, it is stupid.

Okay, folks. It’s a [01:22:00] 76 beetle. That looks like a Camaro Z 28. It’s really well done. It really is. It is stupid. It is morally wrong. This is what Elon Musk was talking about. I love one of the comments in the comment block. It says, okay, you get one car. This or a Pontiac? Aztec.

Wow. This is genius again. It’s up on our uncool wall. You could check it out. You could vote for it. That’s all I gotta say about that. It hurts it. It’s so bad. It hurts to look at. It makes me uncomfortable. It’s so good. A Camaro makes me uncomfortable anyway, but this whatever it is, makes me uncomfortable to look at it.

You remember the 3D view finders we had as a kid, and you put in the little disc and you pull the arm. It’s what a Camaro would look like through a viewfinder because it’s always sort of distorted. It’s a picture on a Windows [01:23:00] 95 computer where it’s a regular Camaro, but you do stretch to fit. It’s designed for an 800 by 600 screen.

It is trash. What else is trash? Again? Another trailer for the Grand Tomo movie. Have we not learned our lessons yet? All I have to say. Is Doom. This isn’t a movie about the video game. This is a movie based on apparently a true story of somebody who entered those Grand Tourismo driving experience challenge to find the next great driver or something.

And like that’s what this movie is apparently chronicling. So it’s not like it’s some weird storyline of the video game itself. It’s that like there is this real race car driver that was a kid who was so good at playing grand charisma video game that he actually got a ride. As a professional race car driver now out of this Grand Charisma Academy, and now he’s home playing [01:24:00] Fortnite, eating Cheetos and drinking Red Bull.

No, he is not. He’s still a race car driver where nobody’s heard of him. Uh, what series in Brazil driving Chevy Cruzs. I mean what? He’s not in Formula One or Sports Car or anything? No. He’s in Toyota Racing series. F I A F three, British GT Championship, different Endurance. GT 4 24 hours of this, that, and the other.

Dubai. I think that was maybe like the first race after the academy or something. Yes, he’s achieved more than probably most of us will have ever done. But do they race at Mabel Valley? Of course. AKA Hill. I mean, I’m not saying this is gonna be a great movie. I’m also just saying that it’s not some weird video game movie.

It’s a movie that happens to have video game in it. It’s not like Doom or whatever other trash you compared it to. What was the other one? No, the Need for Speed movie that was trash. Oh, that was terrible. Yeah, that was really bad. This is more like a docu, the Grand Teresa sort of takes [01:25:00] the center stage on that and then you immediately go into this bias against it.

And that’s what I’m trying to highlight here. It’s like it could have been truth to 24, but then maybe that’s not gonna pull the people. And so it’s this weird game of marketing and then when people get there, they’re like, oh, this documentary is boring. But the minute it steps away from being a documentary, I didn’t think we can make it a documentary.

No, it’s a dramatization. Even though he is been a professional race car driver since 2011 and even to today, he’s still active. He’s not a max staff and he’s not a Michael Schumacher. So it’s not going to be interesting to be a documentary. Right. Like he’s had some good finishes in different series, but it’s also not earth shattering.

Right? Yeah. So it’s a challenge. I guess we’ll have to stay on top of it, see what happens when it comes out. I’m not saying I’m not gonna watch it, I’m not gonna pay money for it. Yeah, I’m definitely gonna review it with Steven Izzy. I mean, that’s all I’m saying about that, right? So it, it’s sort of like I’m trying to keep my expectations [01:26:00] lowered in this case cuz I don’t want to get into the height machine.

Who knows? Maybe it’ll be interesting. Maybe it’ll inspire other people to get off the couch and get behind the wheel of a car, if that is the moral of the story. That’s excellent. My only issue with the storyline and it’s based on a true story, so fine. I feel like it’s one of those, one in however many thousands of these kids were like in this academy that it’s like the odds of someone who’s never driven a car before they play the video game and suddenly they get in a seat and they can win a race.

I don’t know, I just have a hard time believing there’s such a disconnect between, I don’t care how good your simulator is. Uh, I don’t know. Maybe if your simulator’s like a hundred grand, it could be good enough. But I don’t know that grand charisma, the video game is good enough that like no. You are translating into real world, no driving.

No. And so he could just be raw talent of a person that had, he came up through carding or something like that, like he could have gotten to the same place. [01:27:00] So it’s really less to do about the video game because clearly thousands of other people didn’t make it right. And even there in the races that he won in the academy, he’s racing against other, let’s say, non-drivers.

So you’re the best of the worst. I don’t know how all that worked, but possibly. And if you’ve got a hundred grand to spend on a simulator, get out of your house and just go buy a Miata, you’re gonna have more fun. That’s the point of a lot of this stuff, right? Geez Louise, a hundred thousand dollars rig.

Well, I’m making up another. No, you’re not wrong, because there are, I’ve looked at them. Some of these sim rigs are 50, 70, 80 plus thousand dollars. By the time you’re done, they got the gyro scoping, this and that, and the shock absorbers. And buy a car. You could buy a yata. You could buy a race prepped Miata for less than $30,000 turnkey with a log book and go to the track, and you’ll have money left over for years because Miatas cost nothing to run.

And you’re gonna realize on LAP two, your video game has nothing to do with reality as good as it is. To your point, Tanya, [01:28:00] if you’re spending that kind of money, get off the couch and just go drive. Avis, we’ve talked about rental cars before. We know that Hertz was going into a deal with Tesla in the past, and there’s been other movement for EVs, and why I bring this up because amongst my Camp Lagoon, A A R P and other spam mail that I am constantly waiting through every day.

Every once in a while there’s a golden nugget in the pile of turds and Avis sent me a promotion to entice me to come rent an electric vehicle. Next time I need alternate transportation. And what do they show me? Cover of this ad. Saving me up to 10%. It’s Chevy Bolt. Yeah. I will take the base model Corolla.

Thank you very much. I watch a lot of Hulu and they have, there’s a lot of Herz commercials on there and recently it’s been Tom Brady trying to get a rental car or whatever, how easy it is to get a rental car. It herz, the first ones were of him stepping into a A Tesla. Yes. You know, at the end of the commercial.[01:29:00]

But the most recent ones are him getting into a poll star. I don’t know if anybody picked up on that. I haven’t seen that one yet. Is it all the same leading up to that moment? No. No. So it’s, the first ones are him, the Tesla ones are like, got annoying after a while. Cause he’s, he’s always like, come on.

Yeah. He’s doing menial tasks. It’s like, like he’s he’s acting like an inpatient jerk. Yeah. And then he gets to the rental car place and is like, let’s go. Yeah, let’s go. Yeah. And he gets to the car. He is like, let’s go. Let’s go, man. Yeah. Yeah. So, so the, the one with the pole star, he’s actually doing an interview talking about how he always just wants to, let’s go.

But he can’t. And then the interviewer is like, well Tom, we’ve got something for you here. You’re gonna get to go wherever you want, do whatever you wanna do. And they spend some stupid wheel and like, where are you going, Tom? You’re taking an EV and you’re going to X, Y, Z place. And then they put him in a white polestar that was like, Ooh, I’m sure Elon likes this commercial.

Meanwhile, [01:30:00] Gronkowski is doing commercials with horses. Yo Fiesta. Exactly. My choice in rental car is solely based on price. So if you’re gonna offer me an EV at the same price as a compact Yeah. Or maybe a subcompact, then I don’t care. Sure. As long as I’m somewhere where there’s a charging infrastructure and I’m not like driving into the mountains and the boons where I know there’s not gonna be.

But if I was in a city somewhere that had the infrastructure and you’re giving it to me at the same price as an ice, I don’t care. But I’m not gonna pay extra. And if you offer me a Chrysler 300 for the same price, I’m gonna take that. That used to be my go-to free upgrade. You want a Chrysler 300? We got like six of them.

Sure. Whatever. Let me, let me upgrade. Upgrade. But then again, like what is the insurance cost at the rental car on these? What if it’s spontaneously combusts? If you don’t own an electric vehicle, is your insurance company, are you gonna be able to just say, oh, I want to use my own insurance for this electric vehicle?

How does all that work? That’s a good question. Well, [01:31:00] you know what else is a good question? And it really is rich people. Thanks. I don’t understand this article. It was written really poorly, no flow, disjointed thoughts, zero like reasoning description. It goes right in line with basically photo needs no caption.

I mean, the summary here is Alyssa Milano, who’s the boss and many other things. She apparently owned a Volkswagen and she’s had quite the journey from her Volkswagen to her Tesla, from Tesla to Volkswagen. There was controversy when she made the switch because Volkswagen was in fact founded by Hitler.

But, and that’s why I don’t understand none of this flows, because it was like, there’s this controversy because Volkswagen was founded by Hitler, but then she criticized the car manufacturer, which now suddenly we’re not talking about Volkswagen, we’re talking about criticizing Tesla. And then Volkswagens threatened to sue her and then Tesla’s gonna sue her.

And I’m like, what are we even talking about? First of all, is [01:32:00] this the ID Volkswagen, or is it like a fucking atlas? Or is it a Mark four? Like I don’t even know what Volkswagen she has that caught her on fire. Now if you keep reading, if it was an ev, it’s not some, oh my God, another ev, like spontaneously combusted.

I guess what they found out, maybe, I don’t even know. Are there facts that have been checked here? Is there legitimate sources? I can’t tell. But apparently someone left a bucket of diesel and lit that shit underneath her car. And Arsoned is why her Volkswagen so messed up. And apparently they wrote F u Elon Hader.

Did she piss somebody off? Whatever her comments against Tesla were, I don’t know. Is any of this true? Who cares? Oh my God, this is all bullshit. It has to be three individuals wearing red hats. Did you like that one? Were seen running away from the scene. Did you like that fleeing? In a pickup truck with fake nuts, right?

This must have been written by chat, G p T. Nothing makes sense. I’m like, [01:33:00] I tried to scroll up. Is there a date on this? Like, was this April Fools? This is some, I’m trying to see the name of the publication, but I can’t because of all the fucking advertisements. I don’t even know if it’s what, what the fuck?

What site is this? What bullshit is, what is this? Like, I don’t even understand. This was like added malware on my computer probably by opening this link. This is the best. What the fuck? Whoever, this and that. The person charge. Beder, Badar, Chri Badar. He’s a small business owner and blogger. Just run your antivirus after you open that look online.

Tabloid is what it is. Oh, it’s terrible. Well, if that wasn’t bad enough, we still have to go south and talk about alligators and beer.[01:34:00]

So this Florida people article is just stupidity at its absolute finest and could happen anywhere, and it’s worth watching this video because this was so avoidable. And then the poor person whose Tesla was catching all of this with the cameras that we’re recording was innocent, and the video is taken from this poor Tesla’s vantage point, so dumb on so many levels, inability to zipper merge, impatience not paying attention, distracted driving raging to rear end two cars.

And not like you rear end one that rear-ends the other. No. You’ve like simultaneously managed to rear-end two cars at once and it’s almost like the second Tesla that’s doing the rear-end ending was like accelerating through it. Like I don’t think the person ever hit the brakes. That’s Tesla and Tesla [01:35:00] crime right there.

I feel bad for the white Tesla. It did nothing wrong except be present. What a mess. But also I liked the Lexus or whatever it was. I was like okay, first of all, try to duck out of the way if you’re gonna swerve off the shoulder to Swer, avoid rear, like get the hell onto the shoulder. Not like stay like a quarter on in lanes cuz you wouldn’t have gotten rear-ended and she would’ve plowed straight into the other Tesla.

How much does this crash cost? That’s a hundred thousand dollars of damage done right there. Those are totaled Probably a hundred percent. I mean the white one’s probably totaled Well the the red one too with the front end collision. The airbags went off for sure. Yeah, the both of ’em. The red one too.

Probably the F funk popped open, whoever that was. A lot of clothes in that funk. Yeah, I noticed her shooting, she was living in her car. She couldn’t afford a house anymore. She’s living in her car. But anyway, not really funny, more public service announcement, but it did happen in Florida. Now this next one also really isn’t that funny, but in Colorado the title of [01:36:00] this is the Gall of some people.

I don’t even know if that’s the right thing to say, but don’t drink and drive always that public service mountain. Please don’t drive under the influence of any type of substance. Suspected, d u i driver leaps from car implies the dog was driving. Fido is the one responsible for the car accident. Can you imagine?

He’s supposed to be here. The dog ate his homework and drove him to school. I mean, shit, you know? And he ran, he fled. And guess how far he got? Not very far. 20 yards.

He made it two first downs and then was caught. He sucks. This guy cannot run for shit. He, we, I wonder if it was a straight line. He was running in. In fairness, he didn’t have a collision, but he was driving. Enough under the influence, the dog was responsible, I’m sorry, the dog that he allowed to drive the car was not [01:37:00] well equipped.

Just like cats. No opposable thumbs. Did the dog have his learner’s permit? You know, you should have your dog taken away from you. I mean, that’s protecting the dog at that point. I mean, I’m sure there’s somebody, peta, who’s like this man, endangered the dog a hundred percent. Dogs are not supposed to operate heavy machinery of any point.

Wow. I’m gonna venture a guest that a dispensary was involved at some point. It’s time we go behind the pit wall. This first one confuses me, guys, what the hell happened at Azure? Baja. An astute observer would notice that on the podium there is a Netherlands flag under which Charles LeClair is standing, and Max for Steppen is standing on the third place podium with the name Charles LeClair under him, underneath the Monaco flag.

That is not correct. So somehow the two of them stood on each other’s podium. So it’s just a little bit amusing. That’s all. Did you also notice [01:38:00] that it says Ferrari under all of them? Yes. They all drive Ferrari. It’s a complete win for Ferrari. I mean, this whole thing is messed up. Wow. Good job. Good job.

That’s what you paid that Formula One subscription for. Right? The podiums and stuff like the words on them could just be sponsored through that because there’s like four podiums there, right? And they all say Ferrari, so it’s not like there was a fourth place person. Brad Pitt, we’ve talked about him before.

He is doing that Formula One movie is working with Lewis Hamilton to bring that to the table. I don’t know what’s gonna be more realistic that or that Grand Teresa movie we were talking about earlier, but they say they’re gonna put Brad Pitt behind the wheel of a Formula one car. Yes, he’s directing this movie or whatever.

I think also like it’s, this is his brainchild. Hamilton’s involved in at least a consulting capacity for now T B D I guess if he gets some sort of role maybe driving another car or something. It’s a little bit of clickbait cuz it’s like Brad Pitt to drive a Formula [01:39:00] One car and it’s like, not really, cuz like, yeah, that’s right.

Brad Pitt driving an F1 car from Silverstone onwards. He won’t be on the racing against any other people on track and the race car he’s driving will really be a modified junior F two or F three car. Hmm. So I’m like, you’re not really driving a Formula One car, then he’s driving a formula car. Yes, but not a Formula one car.

This whole movie is just a pet project for Brad Pitt to be able to drive a formula car, which I’m sure he could do without doing this movie. Maybe. I mean, Richard Hammond did it and didn’t wreck. So you know, hey, whatever. That’s true. Which is the moral and the point here. Don’t forget he who does his own stunts, does his own crashes too.

We’ll see how that plays out. Speaking of seeing how things play out, Northern Italy is in a bit of chaos, which forced the, I formerly known as the Samino Grand Prix to be canceled and or postponed. That’s not what it was called. Isn’t it? Some like [01:40:00] 15 word name? It is now. It was Samino. We, we had this argument once, they call it, by the region now, so it’s the Grand Prix.

There was something like the First State something or other, whatever, I, I don’t know. There, it was a whole bunch of names and there were a ton of memes about the name being exceptionally long. Spaghetti Ling, FECC Z, it’s TB D. What happens because on the Formula One site, it’s listed as postponed in the schedule and not canceled.

So maybe they, they’re probably gonna try and force it in somewhere. I think somewhere down the line there was still a canceled race, right? Like they were supposed to be somewhere. Yeah, where they’re not going anymore. So maybe on one of those kind of open weekends they can rel slot it in, I guess TB d it’d be nice to see them race there, but obviously if they can’t, they can’t.

This weekend is Monaco, so that will be interesting because whoever basically is on poll there is gonna win the race, so it won’t be that exciting. Where you qualify is where you finish. That’s. Monica pretty much. So it’ll be a train and [01:41:00] maybe like one person will get to pass somebody, but that’ll be about it.

And Miami was two weekends ago and that was really a snooze fest. Yeah. Miami was boring with fake water. It’s good stuff. Not even that, it’s just the difference in the Red Bulls is just outrageous. He passed the Ferrari and the Haas, which is also a Ferrari, he was behind them. He came out from behind them when the d r s enabled and it was like they were fucking parked.

How many places did he make up? He made up like 10 places, right? Or something like that? No, that was Ezer. Baja, wasn’t it? I thought it was Miami. Cuz he didn’t finish q2. They didn’t send him out in time. Yeah, yeah. He didn’t get a, he didn’t get a lap in q2. So it was basically Sergio, his race to lose. Yeah.

And then he lost. Again, the Red Bulls were out ahead. You saw like they were posting like the speeds, the Red Bull and then like the speeds of the fart and it was like 10, 15 miles an hour. Fa like, what the hell? [01:42:00] What? You’re a good 10 miles an hour faster. There’s no way. There’s no way. How is anybody like, I mean everybody else needs to get their act together again.

You guys are not convincing me to watch Formula One. You were all psyched. You gotta watch it. You gotta do this just sounds like bull crap. No, I think what Brad’s been saying is you should watch Drive to Survive. Not, not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. I have a confession to make Uhoh, you know? Is this a safe space?

I can believe so. Can I? Can I speak? I did not finish the last season of Drive to Survive. I only, oh, oh. The pot has blackened. Soon it will be the Kettle and I feel like I don’t need to see it because you just watched the season. I watched the season, did watch the last season, but I didn’t watch the season before cuz I’m like, I don’t need to watch this.

I literally just watched the season. Why do I care? I used to be all hot and bothered about seeing the stuff going on behind the scenes and I thought it was really cool and now I’m just like, I watched it [01:43:00] unfold. I don’t like Red Bull. Red Bull’s. Okay. I don’t like, no. You like rich Energy. We already know that.

I don’t like Vern. I think he’s a tool bag. It was one thing when Louis Hamilton was winning, but I thought he was the decent enough human being. But I don’t like versa happen at all. Well, there’s also rumor now that Hamilton might be going to Ferrari. I’m like’s, well, I did see that. I, I, I heard, we’ll have to see what happens.

I can’t see that happening. Is Ferrari that desperate? What? And I thought that was like a thing with Hamilton. He didn’t wanna be associated with Ferrari cuz he didn’t wanna be Schumacher’s replacement. The optics on that, look for him, if he’s already broken Schumacher’s records, he’s well ahead. He’s, he’s surpassed Schumacher.

I think now, now is the time to do it. May that may have been true. Yeah. Before. Now he is his own legend. He’s not under anybody else’s shadow. I don’t know, maybe I’ll feel differently in 10 or 20 years when Formula One merges with Formula E. It was different growing up with Formula One and the characters and the people.

Like right now, I, I have a hard [01:44:00] time identifying with anybody or really getting engaged with any of the drivers and that’s kind of kept me away. And I guess that’s the same when we talk about rally right. For you, Brad, as you’re kind of learning the system over there. So, you know, we’re on two ends of that spectrum, but as we wrap out Formula One News, Tanya, you got a first kind of digital look at the track for Vegas, which is coming up in November, right?

Mm-hmm. What do you think? Looks like Long Beach. I fell asleep on the straightaways and I, I woke back up and it was like, oh, there’s Caesar’s Palace. What? Um, it literally looks like Long Beach. The straight is so ridiculously long. Red Bull is just going to be lapping everybody, I think because they’re so much faster straight line that it’s going be boring.

Yeah, and Brad, you’re right, kind of does lay out a little bit like Long Beach in a way. And having been to Vegas many times, Tanya, you’ve been there as well. The strip is pretty long. There’s not a lot of places to kind of turn off. So if they’re gonna build any sort of straightaway, they’re gonna have to use more of the Vegas strip.

And that’s [01:45:00] your point. The the, it’s a long straightaway, it’s boring, and they’re gonna do that twice, right? So you’re like, oh, okay. It’s not the same configuration as the Old Vegas Grand Prix, which did use some of the city streets. We’re gonna actually talk and cover that more throughout the year.

There’s some episodes coming to talk about the history of Formula One in Las Vegas and stuff like that. So look forward to that. If you tune into the show every week, I’m glad there’s another race coming, but you know, honestly, I’d like to see Formula One cars. Back at the Glen or something like that, or you know, somewhere else in the states.

Eric’s glad another race is coming, but he doesn’t watch and he is not going to watch and he’s not gonna go either. Can any of you afford to go? Nobody’s gonna be able to go to that race if you haven’t booked tickets three years ago, it ain’t happening. Sure, sure. Yeah. Same with Miami. Once those were put on the books, it’s impossible for us normal human beings to go.

And where are you gonna go? Like, what’s the point of going to somewhere like Vegas? Where are you gonna watch the race from the tallest building you can find. Are you gonna walk down the sidewalk of the strip to get [01:46:00] to another turn? No. Do you go to pay for that? What? Million dollar v I P package? Yeah, you try to get some, some penthouse room in the MGM or whatever, the hotel, so you can just see over everything.

Yeah. Good luck. Brad Pitt will be in that room. Yeah, when we do the Vegas recap, we’ll put that under rich people, doing rich people things. A hundred percent on that one. Well, we’ll switch quickly to WRC News. Brad, did you watch anything since the last time we got together? You know, I haven’t had a chance to.

My family’s been sick for the last three weeks and I’ve just been trying to survive. No worries. Well, I will pick up where we left off if you don’t mind. A quick recap of Croatia and Portugal as we reported last month. Unfortunately, Craig Breen was killed during an accident before the Croatia rally in testing for the Croatia rally.

I will say Croatia watching it was quite sad. It was very somber. It. Red Bull did an okay job of sort of covering. I expected more of [01:47:00] a tribute to Craig. Some of his past exploit, some of the cars he used to drive, teams he drove for. They didn’t really go into all that. It was really like, what is everybody else doing to honor him?

You know, maybe that was at the behest of the family, you know, stuff like that. I don’t know. I thought it was cool that Hyundai threw a livery on all the cars. It was an Irish flag in honor of Craig. I thought the cars looked fantastic. I think they should kind of play into that maybe a little bit more.

One of the drivers, the gentleman that replaced him, Danny Sorto, is going to be running an Irish helmet all year and then giving it to Craig’s family at the end of the year, which is pretty cool. Uh, it’s a spectacular looking helmet. It matches the car’s, deliveries and stuff like that. So as you move away from that, you could tell all the drivers were pretty bummed out, the whole just attitude of the race.

It was just, ugh, watching it, I was just like, Ugh. Like this is depressing. People were definitely not at their prime or at their peak. Croatia is generally really intense, really high pace, very narrow. [01:48:00] It’s fast, it’s exciting. This one just was not there on Friday. Both the Toyotas suffered punctures in the same pothole, driving the exact same line and like, In your guys’ notes, you should have noted not to put the car there, and that took them out on Friday.

That was a, that was a pain in the butt on Saturday. Terry Newville wrecked his Hyundai. I mean, he slid out, hit the back of the car on a tree and it snapped the car around and crushed the front end. And it was so fast and it was so violent. And you’re just like, wow, okay. That was cute. It was on a very narrow section of track where he really had no choice.

It was like hit the tree or go off the cliff, and that was that. There was an interesting battle between Rob Perra and Oje, the two leading Toyotas. They did lead going into Sunday, but Elvin Evans was pretty much at the top of the race. It was his rally to lose. He’s been in that position many times before, but then something catastrophically goes wrong, and then there goes his win for the overall of the rally.

I will say [01:49:00] congratulations to Takamoto. He didn’t wreck, so another Toyota came home in one piece. That was pretty cool. The end result was Vin Evans TK and ESAP Papi 1, 2, 3. Terry Newville. They were able to get his car back together enough that he scored an extra five bonus points in the power stage, which is the last stage of the event.

Good for him. That at least keeps him in contention, gives him some points since he didn’t do that. Well, overall, I will say Citroen came to the table to play in Croatia. They beat out the leading SCO DDA in the WRC two class. There wasn’t a ton of coverage on that, but it was actually quite exciting.

Those guys were going full send in those citroens, in those SCO DDAs, and if you watched some of the action, I mean, they were just destroying those cars coming off of jumps and stuff because they were just pushing really, really hard. And like I said, overall, the whole of Croatia was meth. It led into Portugal, not even two weeks later.

And the big draw in Portugal is what they call the faf stage, the F A F E. [01:50:00] It’s stage 16. It’s the one with the jump, the one everybody recognizes. They show it in all the rally videos. You get massive airtime, couple stories off the ground, flying at full speed. One of the most famous stages in Olive rally.

Unfortunately, Evans wasn’t able to capitalize on his wind from Croatia. He wrecked the car so bad in Portugal, it also caught on fire. So he was out starting on Friday, and that was the end of his weekend. But Terry Newville could not catch a break. I chuckled so many times. Something wrong with the gear box.

The car was stuck in third gear, and then he, they took him out for a while. They tried to fix the car. They got that fixed, and he had zero power. His turbo failed. The hybrid failed and I’m sitting here going, why bother? He was going out and literally doing stages at like 30 miles an hour just so he could get points for the ch Didn’t he have turbo issues in Mexico?

Yeah, he had issues, he’s had issues with [01:51:00] the car constantly. He keeps complaining about it and I, and, and at first I was like, stop whining. You know, you’re getting old, you’re getting beat by the young guys, but he’s legitimately having problems. The car is falling apart around him, but it was just pathetic.

And during the super stage at the end they put him out first and you’re just watching everybody else and they’re like, this is going to take forever cuz it’s like 40 kilometers. He can only do like 30 miles an hour. It’s gonna take him an hour to get to the end. And it’s like they sent him out first thing in the morning and said, all right Terry, just make it to the end.

He brought the car home, but it, it is just laughable. It was comical and, and absolutely ridiculous. Suffered problems with the Puma. He had hybrid issues where he was also down on power, not in the same way that Terry Newville was. The end result of the race was Reverend Para Danny Soto and ESA ppi. So ESA PPI taking home, two third place podiums in a row, Croatia and Portugal.

Scota was back on top of WRC two. And then I found a parallel between Rally and [01:52:00] Formula One. There’s this kid, Pierre Louie Lube. I don’t know if you paid attention to him or not, Brad. He is the DeVry of Rally. He shows up when he wants, his dad pays for him to drive. He wrecks a car, he doesn’t care. He goes home and they focused a lot on him for some reason in Portugal because apparently, I guess maybe that’s his favorite or, or whatever it was, just laughable right now.

Robin Perra, who is O J’s teammate at Toyota, he leads the overall championship going into the Italian rally at Sarnia. And even though Oji kind of glazed when he wants to, he’s still in the top three right now in terms of points and everything. So really interesting to see if Seb takes it to the end and ends up winning despite not putting in all the races.

Kind of goes to show how the points work in rally. Moving right along into Sports Guard and endurance racing. I don’t have anything to report right now, but I will be reporting some in the coming weeks. So pay attention to social media, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, because I [01:53:00] will be at the hundredth anniversary of Laman.

So I will be reporting from France, which also means we won’t be having a drive-through next month because going on vacation, we’re all taking a break. We need one after three years and 200 and some odd episodes. So look forward to the next drive-through in July. But there will be updates from Lamonts.

We’ll be talking all about Romo Lamonts, and I’m hoping Brad and Tanya catch the race from home or wherever they’re gonna be. And we’re gonna talk about it a lot more, but it’s gonna be exciting. 16 cars in lmp, one or G T P, Porsche, Puja, Ferrari, Cadillac, and so on. Down the lines, seeing if they can take on the mighty Toyota.

So I’m looking forward to being there in person to see that it’s a kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity in some respects. I just wanna remind everybody that our Motorsports News is brought to us in partnership with the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen. Just so you guys know, there are more episodes that we’ve done in partnership with the I M R C and the Society of Automotive Historians coming your way each month on Break Fix.

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If you don’t want the Corvette, there is a cash option and they run promotions throughout the year. Buy more, get more, those kinds of things. Two for one ticket opportunities, et cetera, et cetera. And really quick, they have a couple of events. As we mentioned. They are focusing this year on the Corvette, celebrating its 70th anniversary alongside of the 75th anniversary of Watkins Glen, the hundredth anniversary of Lamont’s and the 25th anniversary of the center itself.

There’s an upcoming center conversation called the American Sports Car, an inside look at Corvette racing. And that’s gonna be on June [01:55:00] 24th from five to 7:00 PM It’s a fascinating behind the scenes look at Corvette Racing by Richard Prince, the official photographer for Corvette race team over the last 27 years.

An author of the book, Corvette, 70 years. One and only if you’re in town for the Salem. Six hours at the Glen. Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to this presentation while you’re there in town on September 30th, the I M R R C is gonna have their 25th anniversary party and more details on that to come.

So stay tuned to their website. G T M, along with many others, will be live streaming and in attendance at the annual Michael r Azinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History. That’s on November the third and fourth at Watkins Glen International. The symposium provides an opportunity for scholars, researchers, and motor racing writers of all descriptions to present their work related to the history of automotive competition and the cultural impact of motor racing to their peers and the motor racing community in general.

We were there last year, we [01:56:00] live streamed the whole event. There’s other episodes coming as a result of that, and it was a fantastic and fascinating event to be a part of, and we’re really looking forward to being there. So if you’re interested in meeting any of us from G T M, feel free to come on down and if you can’t make it, be sure to tune in to our Twitch feed and we’ll be telling you more about that as we get closer to the event.

Upcoming local news and events brought to us by collector car guide.net, the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts for June and July, mostly June. We’ve got a couple events that we want to highlight. June 3rd, the Mopar Show is going on at the Volo Museum in bolo, Illinois. June 10th. Rawood is coming to Philly at Subaru Park in Chester, pa.

June 10th and 11th, the seventh annual Chesapeake Bay Motoring Festival at Kent Island Yacht Club in Hint Narrows, Maryland, June 17th. Thunder on the River in downtown Columbia, pa. This one really got me. June 17th, the mc, Sherry’s Town Fishing Game, big Roast Car and Truck [01:57:00] Show. Unfortunately, it didn’t give any details about where it is.

Is that before or after the Nudist car show that you’re going to, I think this is before the Nudist car show, but if you want to go to this on collector car guide.net, there is a phone number to call. I believe the guy’s name is Gary and tickets are $30 on June 23rd through 25th, invading the Dragon at Tail of the Dragon with BMW enthusiasts, uh, taking their M cars to Tail of the Dragon in Maryville, Tennessee.

And it’s great you brought that up because that’s being brought to us by one of our other sponsors, which is E S E Carbon Wheels. So want a big shout out to Mike Pippentone for letting us know about the Invading the Dragon event, along with other Tale of the Dragon events listed over at Collector Car Guide on June 24th.

The Rocking Chair, NATS Car and Truck Show at Mason Dixon Drag way in boonsboro me and tons more events like these and all their details are available over@collectorcarguide.net. That’s right, Brad. And now [01:58:00] it’s time for our h hpd junkie.com Trackside report. So what’s coming out here as we are going on vacation?

Well, the Northeast Quatro Club is gonna be at Palmer Motorsports Park on June the 15th and 16th. They’re also making their annual run to Motrum Blanc in Quebec, Canada for a couple days of road tripping and some H B D E Fun on July 15th and 16th. The Audi Club is also holding an H P D event at Watkins Glen on July 31st through August the first, and I’m actually looking forward to potentially going to that event.

So more details on that to follow. Our friends at the Washington DC region of S E C A will be holding their sixth combined H P D E and time trial on June the 24th and 25th at Dominion Raceway. By the way, that’s the same weekend as the Salem, six hours for anybody that was trying to make a decision on what they wanted to do that weekend.

Meanwhile, if you can’t make that W D C R will return to Summit Point for the Shenandoah Circuit Time trial on H [01:59:00] P D E on July the 15th and 16th. That’s the seventh event of the season so far with a, I believe, a total of 10 or 11 for this year. W D C R will also be holding their Level two Autocross school on June the 25th at Summit Point.

Motorsports Park Emra, the Eastern Motor Racing Association, will be holding their third event of the season at Pocono on June the 25th and 26th weekend. National Corvette Museum has their fourth H P D on July the 21st at National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park, and there are details out there on how you can drive it.

Spa, yes, that’s SPA in Belgium over the 4th of July weekend with our friends at Hooked on Driving. And since we mentioned Hooked on Driving, that reminds me as a thank you to everyone for being loyal. Listeners and supporters of Gran Touring Motor Sports and fans of Break Fix Podcast, Mike and Mona from Hooked On Driving are offering a discount all season on H HP D events on their schedule.

You use Code Break Fix 23, all one word break. Fix two [02:00:00] three to receive a discount on your event registration at checkout. So thank you for being loyal supporters of all our efforts, and tune in throughout the year for more promotions. In case you missed out, check out the other podcast episodes that aired this month.

Practice makes perfect, which is why you need to maximize your track time with Charlie Stryker. Over at Max Track time, the perfect blend of testing and track weekend. Jim Cruz from Classic Auto Insurance takes us through why we should look past regular vehicle insurance for our beloved classic collector and race cars.

Colleen Sheen recounts 52 years of Ferrari online, now known as the Prancing Skunk as she takes the helm and sets sail for another 50 years in the collector car world. We celebrated Indy 500 month with two I M R R C and S A H episodes, second to one by Joe Freeman and Harry Miller and his machines by Gordon Elliot White, both pertaining to the early days and developments of racing at Indianapolis.

And finally, we celebrated our 200th [02:01:00] episode with the legendary Mario Andretti. Tune into episode 200 for awesome insight into his amazing career, and find some great behind the scenes and outtakes available on our new YouTube channel at Gran Touring Motorsports Media, as well as more extras over on our Patreon.

And since we’ll be on break in June, fixing to get back into more drive-through antics in July. Here’s a sneak peek into next month. We chat with Rob Morgan from MPG Racing Home of the GT Celebration series. Bob Garrettson stops by to tell us about the genesis of the famous Apple Porsche 9 35 KA.

DeLorean returns with Tony Vala to talk about what it’s like to bend stainless steel into pieces that resemble a vehicle. Jeff Willis tells us about his new book, human In the Machine, and hear from John Summers about how social and modern media have changed racing. And finally, Kevin McDonald from Positive Talk Radio Chats with Crew Chief Eric about some of the lesser known parts of the G T M [02:02:00] origin story.

Thanks again to everyone that came on the show. We’ll see you in July. Thanks Tanya. We do have some new Patreons for May. A big shout out to our new Patreon supporter and G tmr, as well as Northeast Region Co-Chief Marissa Cannon. She signed up to support us on Patreon, celebrating some anniversaries. We have Northeast Co-Reg Chief Shane cease celebrating nine years along with Ethan Pinkard, who’s out in Colorado now, but originally from our DMV region.

We get together with him at Rolex. We’ve, we’ve done that a couple times and we hope to see him next year at Pike’s Peak. And Matt Small celebrating four years with gtm. And if you’d like to become a member of gtm, be sure to check out the new clubhouse website@club.gt motorsports.org. We didn’t have any special guests, I’m sorry, Markit, we ran out of time.

And of course, our co-host and executive producer Tanya. And remember, for everything we talked about on this episode and more, be sure to check out the follow on article and show notes available [02:03:00] over@gtmotorsports.org. I’d also like to add that all of our episodes starting for a while now have transcription and closed captioning available as well.

And to all the members who support gtm. Without you, none of this would be possible. I guess it’s not Otro this month. It’s all Reir. Honey, did you know Eric was going to France? Off to France? Bon Voyage? Are you ready for me to start? Yeah. I didn’t read the article. O of course, because why would I do that?

This is, this is excellent. See, I was thinking of the U2 song. Um, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Well, that is the theme this month, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. You were lost in, now you’re found Duda. Duda. You were lost in. Now you’re found, oh, Duda Day. That was creepy. 1988. Porsche nine 11 Carrera Coop G 50.

$65,000. It’s like that old TV show. What’s the $64,000 question? Yeah. What’s [02:04:00] for sale and bringer trailer? I didn’t read the article. Sorry. You know, surprise, surprise. I thought you were gonna talk about Ron Burgundy. Keep it classy because I’ve lost my mind

when here we are in the drive-through line. Me and her cars in front of us, cars in back of us all. Just waiting to order. There’s an idiot in a Volvo with us. Bright son behind me. Hi Lena. The window and scream. Hey, watch ya. Tryna do blind me. My wife says Maybe we should park.

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