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Mis nano Taylor oil over a century of engineering excellence meets cutting edge nano scale technology.

Welcome to The Driver's Show podcast.

My name is Gordon and this is my co host Pablo Morak.

Hello.

I thought we'll take a professional approach this episode, and this is how I will be talking.

Good to see you Gordon the entire time.

Thank you.

Obviously, this podcast is no longer sponsored by it Amitsu now Volvelene.

You know what I mean?

You know what I mean?

Sometimes I like to sit in my bath and soak in some Velvelene Mortal oil as I rub that stuff all over my called slippery old nipples.

How's this for funny?

The other time I was here, I had a polestar too, and inside this rental car they had a sticker for the next service interval and it was a Velveleene sticker.

We're you going to pour that?

That's a really good point.

Yeah, that was funny.

Okay, that's some That's and that was the news segment we call Paul's Shitty tippit.

Oh thank you, Paul, speaking tidbits.

Whatever happened to your dad's stolen car?

You remember how the police you couldn't get the tracking stuff.

Did they ever find the car?

No?

But yeah, so the car was on it did it?

No?

But yeah, well the car the tracking device.

I should say, I've got to be careful what I say here.

Interesting lawyer is no longer on the scene.

I thought she took.

Was that.

No, she's not a leave, she's there's a reason I'm saving this macas to feed a family anyway.

So anyway, this is generally where the wheels fall off.

No, so the tracking device of the vehicle pinged back to the dealership he bought it from in a completely different state, at the other end of Australia.

Oh yeah, you didn't know that, So I thought.

It pinged to the dealership in Melbourne.

No, he bought it.

He bought this car from a dealership.

He's from Melbourne and he bought this car from I won't say the exact one, but he bought it from a dealership in Queensland.

Because if I tell you which one it is, you'll be able to know very very quickly.

Because okay, that must mean they just never set up the tracking properly.

Because well, we hope.

So unlikely that the thief would go, I'm just going to go get my car serviced.

Well maybe, or maybe maybe it was the dealership.

Maybe there's a lot of different things, so who knows.

That'd be interesting.

Who knows, maybe that dealership could be responsible for a few things I don't know.

Out of a bicycle club, motorized bicycle club.

Maybe the cops kind of said, please just leave it from now.

Let's just you know this, this stuff happens all the time.

I just don't worry about it.

She'll be right.

Well, it's more like I think it was more like, leave it to us.

We'll ask the questions.

Please don't contact these people, don't do this, don't do that.

I ask the questions.

It's been a long time now.

Nah, I don't think they did.

And well they might have, I don't know, but I think it was very much like, let's just insurance has paid it out.

Yeah, so I think once you kind of if you don't close these cases and move on to the thousands of other things they've got going on, they're just going to get bogged down and shit I mean, Mercedes made it so fucking hard, so absolutely impossible to track that car.

The fact that they didn't turn it on for two and a half weeks after police had asked them repeatedly, the fucking police, the pole leaks ask them to turn this thing on repeatedly in emails and on the phone, and they just blatantly refused.

How's the irony They market it as a tracking tool.

The second you need to use your fucking tracking tool, you cannot figure out how to turn this thing on.

What is the point.

I'm also surprised that it didn't like that if this was a dealer responsibility, a dealership responsibility.

I remember talking to Landrover about this and their car has already come with it.

Well, when I picked up Dad's Ranger, which has connected services, before you leave the dealership, they're obliged to set it up for you to activate.

The mode, and that's on the app, that's on everything.

The dealership before you leave, which in theory they would have had to have done with the BENS.

I wouldn't see why they wouldn't do it, given you've got the bloody service.

Yep, yeah, just a shit form.

Anyway, He's loving his brand Toyota Parto.

Well, can I tell you about his new toyde Prato or loves at general.

Yeah, Toyotas in general are getting stolen, ton't they.

It's out of control.

So Victoria, We've spoken about this previously about the huge amount of car theft going on in Victoria with Classic holdens and stuff.

Now the thieves have switched to Toyotas.

So two hundred series land Cruiser Prato, so previous generation, current generation Corolla Colas or eighty six.

They are getting stolen in huge numbers.

Highlux.

Highlux is the most stolen car in Victoria at the moment, is it really?

It's something like two or three a day are getting stolen.

Wow.

And they're using the same tool, that cheap tool that you can get off the marketplace, hem and stuff.

Yeah, that they were using for the holdens on all of these Toyotas.

And it's a clever strategy in the sense because if you steal a Classic Holden, it stands out a lot, whereas if you steal a White land Cruiser or a White Camri, no one can tell it apart from the other White Camri.

They clone the play and they drive around in this stolen car.

And what they're increasingly using the two hundred series for is for ram raids and also for stealing other vehicles on stolen trailers.

So they'll steal a trailer most Land cruises will have a towbar.

They'll hitch on, steal a car, whack it on the trailer and away they go.

So it is just on another level at the moment in terms of how bad it is.

So they are they tolling a car with a stolen car.

Yep, Yeah it's crazy, but you would never know because they'll clone a plate and to the naked eye, it's just some like driving down the road with a car on the back.

So yeah, it is just crazy.

So if you do drive a Toyota, Toyota is being extremely unhelpful with this, like you know, to me, I kind of was very disappointed with the GM response to us that they kind of just don't give a shit.

And Okay, to a degree, I get it.

Holden's on on sale here hasn't met on sale for a while.

They clearly don't care about Australia.

Whatever, Toyota, you are still selling some of these cars, like you are still selling Corollas, in that shape, the RAB four in that shape.

They can all be stolen using this tool.

And while a lot of new toyotas have connected services, a lot of the older ones don't.

And these cars that are still in warranty, and I think.

They see that's my big thing.

If it's still in warranty and they're refusing to do or fix what is effectively a bug.

Yeah, it's a bug.

Well, it is inherently an issue with if you look at this holistically, a two hundred series land Cruiser ended production a few years ago.

Before that, it was on sale for ten more ten or more years at that ten year mark.

Ten years prior to it going to it wrapping up being on sale, they would have had engineers working on the security system, which would have been maybe two or three years before that.

So you're talking about a security system now that is about twenty years old.

So by that point people have reverse engineered this stuff and clearly set up tools that are cheap to buy and easy to steal these cars with.

So when you look at it from that point of view, you need to be doing better by your customers now and maybe incentivize them to come in for a service at a Toyota dealership where you fit this fix.

You know, they have smart engineers, they can fix this stuff.

So here's what I'd say.

We're at an issue where Toyota is not fixing them, right, So what do people do?

What is the fix to this?

So there's two devices.

There's a ghost to a Nigla.

Both of these are types of immobilizers.

Both of these at this stage can't be stolen by thieves, and at least I'm sure they can.

But they can't be stolen by the majority of thieves because the people that are stealing these cars are as dumb as dogshit.

They don't actually know really what they're doing.

All they've seen is on the internet.

Their mates send them a link to this device that can steal cars, so they just go And.

I think, I actually think some of them are fairly fucking smart.

I think the people who stole my dad's car fucking knew what was up.

Yeah, but I think that's just more brazen.

If you don't if you steal a car that potentially has connected services, like you are dumb because while you do that.

So I think that that is a level of brazenness.

But these people that are stealing.

These aren't all that sophisticated because a lot of them are joy riding in them, which just doesn't It's just stupid thing to do if you don't want to stand out.

So you don't think they're reselling and doing all that sort of stuff Wreckers and stuff, especially if it's a Toyota Wrap four and a look.

They might be, but it's not the market that is classic V eights.

There's so many parts available for all those cars at Wreckers that I don't know that you'd get the like an LS three.

You just cannot buy ls's anymore.

So this is where they're getting a lot of money from.

So yeah, I think that a lot of this just comes down to Toyota needing to do better.

And I will emphasize as well, this isn't limited to Toyota super heaps of STIs are getting stolen, Wrx's, Lavorg's this this is a thing that is happening to a lot of different car brands.

If it has a push button start, it can probably be stolen.

It's crazy.

Oh, speaking of the subs, they just released the new Forester.

You see the new Look out back.

What the fuck like an outback used to be a wagon.

The latest one got a little bit bigger.

This one.

I just do not understand, Like what it makes no sense to me, really makes no sense.

What do you mean?

What don't you like about it?

Sorry?

Just keep going, keep talking.

It looks tragic, the new outback.

What don't you like about it?

What are you googling?

No, I'm just I'm searching.

Someone's at my front door anyway.

What we're saying?

Superos?

Yeah?

Oh sorry, sorry, mates, some Katie Lang's playing.

I'm sorry.

I just you got any Scissor sisters.

The outback is really good.

Sorry, I don't know why.

I think it's every time you say super or outback, Katie Lang.

Starts playing on my phone.

I don't know why that's that's so random anyway.

So I actually I was thinking about the new Supero outback.

And oh jesus, Missy Higgins is playing.

I thought that's weird.

I don't know why that's happened anyway.

So, okay, thank you, thank you.

That's enough.

Jeez, unbelievable anyway, anyway, So I'm not I'm looking at the super back.

Yes, So anyway, I was, I was looking at the new design of that super hour back and the fucking scissors is a plague?

How random is.

That I get in my super room when I lock my wist big for the muff?

Oh hey, so did you see this?

This popped across my desk the other week?

The Apple Cup play in the Auston Martin.

I don't have I do have a desk out there by the way.

Yes, we're in the studio that Gordon works in.

Yeah, and the desk over there is the one that looks like it hasn't been used in the twelve months we've been in this building because it hasn't.

I don't use my desk.

I just waltzed into the studio.

What's up, guys, girls, good old ladies.

Oh, come on, it's like seagulls fighting over a chip in here.

Take a ticket and wait in life, the deli is ready for business.

Yes, Apple Car plays, that was just that's just how this random salami you get in here?

Oh my god?

Sorry, okay, so yes, listen of Apple car play in the Aston Martin, which is not just like normal Apple car play.

It's a real interface.

Take over there running and the speedo, everything infotainment, And this is.

Kind of what we've been talking about for ages.

I know Trevor was sort of predicting this that Apple will concentrate more on the interface than their Apple cars that that were doing.

Can I tell you why this is fun and it's a bad idea?

The other day is so negative?

The other day I got an update for my iPhone and the lead line on that update was a Pride wallpaper that they're rolling out.

What they haven't fixed, though, is the fucked camera that doesn't work when car plays running, the phone that just randomly freezes so you can't type shit, the phone that won't charge sometimes.

This thing has become a piece of shit.

Come Tim Cook, I'm telling you, has fucked that company so badly and they've completely taken their eye off creating a phone that works.

So my concern is if the Apple car play inside that car is as shit as my phone is now, and there's a brand new phone with the latest software update, I mean, what good is that going to be when it just all stops working.

An interview with Zuckerberg and he said similar stuff, not quite to that ELK, but.

He was talking about vision Pro.

Yeah, well he was talking about Apple as a company haven't exactly invented anything great.

No Vision Pro was Tim Cook's thing, and it's shit.

It's expensive and useless.

So when you look at how bad that company is now that he's in charge, it's like they need a Steve Jobs back in there, someone who is willing to go, Okay, we're going to stop all the woke bullshit and we're going to go back to actually doing phones the work instead of focusing on all this other crap.

All that other crap can come when I can type shit on my phone and the camera works until that point.

Your ecosystem, though, having said that, is still very much This is what shits me because it's all Apple.

But I'm going to get to the point where this thing when I need to fire it up to film a video and it shits itself again, I'm just gonna Yeah, I'm going to crack it and just go get an Android, which.

I would recommend.

I actually recommend it some of the Google The Google phones were great.

I loved my Google phone.

The only reason why I moved to an iPhone was because it was just easier for social media stuff.

But now that they're all pretty much but fairly equal, And this also.

Links back into the discussion we had in the last episode about tariffs and Apple, and there's a bit of a side step here, but because he's had his eye off the game and he has been I listened to a season of the Land of the Giants, which is basically investigate companies, and Apple was one that they did it on, and this was recorded years ago before this tariff stuff, and they literally said in that that because they are driving their supplies so hard in China, everyone is a contractor, they try and extract as much margin as they can out of this phone.

If there is ever a trade war, Apple is fucked.

And that is precisely what's happened now.

Because he's been greedy and just wanting all these big profits, the issue has now become that he is going to face a massive loss or have to jack the price of the phone up, which you can only do so much of.

Even now, this phone is like a two and a half thousand dollars thing, which is insane.

If you want to make that a three thousand dollars thing, I think it is really going to be a struggle for people to actually justify that anyone.

Yeah, absolutely, it's fucking It's only two hundred bucks to fix that broken thing.

But yeah, and that's the other thing as well.

They're so disposable that if I can be on Apple Care for twenty whatever dollars a month and go throw this off the building here and then just go get a new one, it shows you how disposable they are and how much money they make off each one of these phones.

Oh yeah, and some of the horrific stuff you hear about the factories that these people work in isn't like.

Things like the screen.

This is supplied by Samsung.

Yeah, the screen, I don't know.

The Land of the Giants.

Thing I was listening to is older.

I don't know if it's now Samsung, but they basically the IP behind the screen and scratch proof.

And I use air quotes here because this thing is anything that scratch.

It is covered in scratches and I don't do anything like it sits in my pocket with no keys or anything, and it's like.

You put the glass protector thing on it.

But why why not make a screen that.

Isn't shit because the reality is they do.

Okay, well, then you don't say it's scratchproof, yeah, but.

It is it is.

It isn't scratchproof, So why need you just buy yourself a forty dollars.

Screen, Why should I I've bought your phone.

I'm spending twenty five bucks a month on Apple Care because you know it's cheap to get it replaced.

Yes, and I've got a not scratchproof screen, but I'm now going to need to get replaced.

It's a forty dollars thing and you don't have to.

You won't get But imagine if you bought a car and they're like, oh, look it's fine, but you need to buy this thing for the engine to just work as it should.

Yeah, but that happens a lot when well.

What do you have to buy with a car that they claim that it just doesn't do?

But how many people modify their cars to make it better.

You can do that.

But this is the key item is the screen.

You say it's scratchproof, but if I run my finger across it, it is full of scratches.

Yeah, so it's not scratchproof.

And I don't necessarily like, I don't go and scratch this on surfaces.

I would never do that.

So how is it if I treat my phone?

Well, was it already scratched?

I'm worried about your health and I think you're going to have cholesterol problems, and I think you should.

Well, look, let me make some calls.

Let's see if I can get.

I do apologize for that rant, but I just think Apple has turned into a ship company anyway.

And that's what really grinds his gears Apple.

Okay, Well, we were going to talk about the the the Apple car play in the Aston Martin.

I'm look, I'm interested, I think, and I think Apple car play is if it works well in a car, it makes life so much easier.

I just hope they have the a team on it.

That's all all right?

Oh hey, did you say JAG has rumored to have split with that marketing company?

Why you're on your little rats.

I'd love to know what you think it is.

Yeah, who would have thought?

Bullshit work?

Marketing didn't work out?

It didn't work?

Wow?

Wow.

And and the fact that they were saying that they're going completely original, yet their new logo is a complete roop off of the Beats font.

It's honestly, you just look at it and you're like you you don't need to be a rocket signist to see that that was never gonna work.

The physical concepts that they put out, Well, they're not concept, they're arguably the actual car, right.

I kind of see that they want to make sexy and almost unattainable again, you know, cars that people dream about owning.

You know.

Then you see these rappers they want to kind of hone in on that social media culture.

They had that Barry Kadogan Ordogan, they had John Cadogan, they had social media superstar John Kodogan do their marketing.

Get a fucker's I shaved my bloody pubes with this razor inside this fucking car.

That was impressions.

That wasn't bad.

But yeah, Barry Keogan, I think his name is.

He's from salts Burn, Saltburn.

Did you watch that?

They spent a lot of their marketing and a lot on this launch, and wow, what a way to not do things.

You know what I reckon has happened unofficially.

I think Tata, who owns JLR.

You know, you look at the execs at Tata.

I think they're fairly conservative.

I reckon they would have looked at this and gone, who the fuck approved this?

And stop it at once, And they're trying to slowly walk their way out of it.

I think they're locked in with that car design and all the other craft that comes with it, because it's now at the driving engineering stage.

But I think they will see the marketing have a swift change because I do think it's embarrassing for the brand and they Tata bought the brand because it had so much heritage and they have viscerated that heritage.

Is it fixable?

That's the question.

I think this will take years.

Well, firstly, no one is buying luxury electric cars, so there's your first mistake.

So they're not going to sell any just based on that alone.

So I think that even if it is good, it's it's just not going to sell.

So sang Yong is now known as in Australia KGM KGM, which is very GM.

What does that stand for?

It's to build your dream situation?

Is that so KG mobility?

Oh my god?

They fucking what?

That sounds like a care facility kind of does it does?

It's like we bought you a wheelchair.

They're nevil.

It's the latest k GM, the camability.

So the genesis is that sang Yong part of KG.

KGM.

So kg Sanyong became part of the KG group.

They were then known as KGM sang Yong Okay, then, and the Sanyong brand dates back to like nineteen fifties.

It then became KGM Australia from June one.

Funk, why don't we even need chat GPT but we've just got Pavlo.

Yeah, so anyway, they tell me.

More about the history of kg What else have you got there?

They announced it at the same time as they announced the kg acton, which actually looks interesting.

Show me.

It's like a sort of very futuristic RoboCop style.

Really looks like it looks like a Pergo.

Yeah.

But yeah, look, I think it's a brand that has fairly struggle struggles for relevance in Australia, and I think giving it an obscure, random name isn't going to help.

Well, it's an interesting take because they yeah, I mean Fu Sangyong.

They they're bringing out sort of affordable cars if you like.

And then the little progress they've made, they've kind of got to start again with a complete rebrand.

This comment wasn't kg M an eighties rapper.

With a big shirt.

You've worked with it a mitsu before at their launch event, right.

I did?

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I am seated.

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I think I could read that better.

You ready it?

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Was that good?

Yeah?

Hey, I saw an old mate during the week, one who I haven't seen in quite a long time, and I was excited to catch up.

A bit awkward because I know they had a face left.

O.

God, can you imagine, Trevor, I'm wearing a fucking girdle.

Now, have a look at me.

He looks like a court drawing.

But it's been quite generous and that's it.

That's that's where it ends with that.

He just looks like a court drawing.

That he looks like, he looks like if a homeless man imagined themselves getting their life together.

I love you.

Trevy was supposed to be here this week, so anyway.

And why doesn't want to be here?

I don't know why.

We had macas and everything.

Yeah fuck, can you imagine if this stuff, this macas would not have lasted long.

If Trevor's here.

There are four person bases.

He would have he would have he would have poured this large chips into Donna's belly button and just needed like a dog.

Wow, that was that was good.

You got him there.

It's like it's just like a dog.

Last time he was here, he was dragging his arms on the car, but I had to fucking hit him with the rolled up newspaper.

No, so I did catch up with an old mate who had a face left.

I'm talking about the Toyota eighty six baby.

Oh yeah, yeah, it'd been wild.

It had been a bloody hot minute.

And you know, I always liked the Toyota eighty six's.

I always thought that were good cars.

I mean I preferred them over the subib z R or b Z or whatever.

But it is still just a brilliant, engaging, clean cut sports car.

There's no rits about it.

There's no fluff, it's just it still has that two point four flat four.

When you look at these numbers, one hundred and seventy four kilowatts, two hundred and fifty new meters of talk zero to one hundred and six point three seconds.

On paper, they're not that impressive, but when you drive this thing around, it proves that they don't need to be.

They're a perfect example of numbers don't necessarily sell cars, and and that's.

Why this and the stuff like the m X five Kindness still just work.

People buy them because you know, they just do the job.

Oh what I mean, they're engaging, they're not a ton of money.

They fill the road so well, and they've got they're almost intuitive to the driver the way they corner.

They're just such a great car.

They don't need to be.

They don't need to have buckets of power.

And as I said, yes, they're just clean cut, real will drive the interior there is nothing.

I mean, the one I had had cloth everywhere, and I thought about that.

I mean, I guess a lot of people in that sort of boy racer kind of group will take those seats out anyway and chuck some sports seats in there.

They're not obviously electric seats or anything.

But what a fucking great car.

Just a really fun car.

I mean, it's just one of the few examples of just being able to just drive around and have fun.

Yeah, not have to spend a mega amount of money, No, you know, and for a lot of people's that's important at the moment, so why not.

So yeah, yeah, it's modest and honest.

And at the same time, I thought to myself, does this thing need a turbo?

And I don't think it does.

I think it would loser.

And that's the thing they've resisted for so long out of get turbo.

And it's like, you just don't really need it for that.

If you want to go do it, you'll do it on your own, but you necessarily need it, And I think that's the that's the impressive part of it.

And I think it still sounds pretty good too.

You could possibly add an exhaust if you wanted to, if you wanted a more gutsier sound, but it probably doesn't need it.

I have, you know what, I even had the auto and at the start, I know, no, I know, and I'm telling you now I got proven wrong, Like it wasn't maybe look maybe for me because it was a daily it was I was doing it in traffic.

I was like, oh, this is great, this is really good.

And the paddle shifters they still work fine.

M M M eighty six.

Baby, you're a stick gay, You're like a bit of stick.

Just throttle it, yeah, just really onto it.

It's are we still talking about car?

Done with here?

Now we're done without?

Hey, Porsche mccahn, the EV.

You've the EV Porsche mccahn.

You've had this for what a couple of weeks now, and I'm keen to get your thoughts on it because I remember at the launchers there was some impressive stuff going on.

The speed behind them was good.

And the McCann is an interesting Porsche because it's the car that keeps Porsche going.

It kind of keeps the lights on.

If you're like, it's the car that kind of saved them back in the day, or one of the cars that saved them back in the day, and we're in a new era now.

I think they've made a critical error on that front.

McCarn was something like half of their sales volume and they killed the internal combustion one and gambled everything onto this fully electric one with no other option.

They have come out as part of their last investor updates saying that they're working on another internal combustion small suv which they will give a different name to.

It won't be called a McCarn.

And look, when I went to the launch, I was sort of fairly impressed with it.

You know, they were very smooth roads, and I thought, now, wait till we get it back to Australia.

And I guess part of the problem I've got with this This is a base McCarn.

And unfortunately, for whatever reason, we let one of our junior staff configure the car.

And you know, I just would never choose these options because of the results of what this car is.

I saw those options, like it's.

Got ninety thousand dollars of options on a car that has a base prize one hundred and twenty or something, which I just think is outrageous anyway, because my Carn used to be a small stretch for someone from a Q five.

Now it's this enormous leap, comes with nothing standard and you look at the car and you're like, I could see where you've added maybe ten grand worth of options.

How did you get to ninety thousand dollars in options.

You know, he specs it with twenty two's the performance tire option, which makes the car skip along the road when you do like a tight U turn in the cold, which is just entirely unacceptable.

The ride, it rides like a boat, it tramlines.

It really is just unimpressive in that spec What was.

The what a color was interior?

Was it like?

It wasn't red?

Red?

And it wasn't red.

And this is the thing.

We did a configure out a challenge and our readers picked that one.

So it wasn't his full that he configured it that way, but I would just I don't know why Porsche went ahead with that, because this car, when you drive it, it's just not impressive.

So and all of that stuff adds together to then affect the range as well.

So I've done a fair bit of driving in it, and I wanted to see what the range would be like.

So it's pretty cold down in Melbourne at the moment.

And started off one hundred percent, did three hundred and seventy k's battery got down to eighteen percent and was averaging over twenty kilo what hours per hundred ks, and I'm like, that is a lot for what is meant to be a high tech, efficient expensive car too, So it means that realistically you're getting four hundred k's of driving range out of a battery, and this is marketed as having over six hundred k's in that base, which is the lightest configuration.

So I don't know.

To me, I just think that that they've missed a trick with it, and.

It's disappointing because they're a great car, the S, the gts and like, they're all good.

I'll see what it's like to drive another Speck, but just for the mar Like, there is no way I'd spend two hundred plus on roads on this particular car.

And so hang on, let me just pause you there.

So how much so you said this was a base car.

How much was this going base before you added like the ninety thousand worth of options to it?

I think it's like what one twenty something?

Yeah, yeah, that is a big step up from what the Q five.

Yeah, So yeah, here we go.

So starts at one twenty eight four hundred, so pretty much one thirty plus on roads, so it's jumped thirty three grand.

And then you realistically turned it into a two hundred and ten thousand dollars car.

Plus on roads.

So two hundred and fifty k in this thing, and I do not see it well even the I'm going to pull the key.

Out, so you guys obviously round this experiment.

Give me a lot cheap?

Does that look?

So you have to pay something like six or eight hundred dollars to customize the key?

Ah, that looks like just a base.

Yeah, it's plastic.

Usually these are beautiful with the they almost have a shellac coating on them, if you like, and they usually color them in the same car.

Maybe that's a spare key for the car or something.

I don't know, but it just that looks cheap.

I've never seen this before, like I've never seen one.

Look this cheap.

Oh that's basic?

Boys, shit, look at that?

Yeah?

So has he got a fronk?

Yes?

Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Just just a bit disappointed in the car even just interior space.

Not much room inside and if you want to buy it as a family car, my daughter's seat in it, Like you barely fit anything else.

In the boot when you've got a pram in there.

Yeah, not much leg room in the rear.

They haven't improved the boot room at all.

Just yeah, it's I don't know, really not that impressed.

Unfortunately.

I know there caman ev is coming out soon, and I'm really hoping they don't fucking ass up that up that.

Up even that.

It's like, why are you doing this?

Yeah?

Who's asked you to do this?

Yeah?

Your customers haven't.

No, what are you doing it for?

I just find it really odd.

It's a very poor business decision, definitely, But I just hope it doesn't.

I know them, they're trying to meet European emission standards, so aren't they.

Yeah, I mean.

They're meeting all their trading credits and stuff.

But actually here you go, so looking at their stock, I mean this tells you everything you need to know at Porsche is now publicly this company.

Their stock over the past year is down forty percent, So I think that that kind of just tells you everything you need to know.

Your investors don't think it's a good idea any of this stuff.

And a lot of this downward activity started end of last year, so it's just and then from March this year onwards, it has just capitulated.

If they literally were under the thumb from the EU.

They should really be making that more public because let's just say they've been having to sit on this for at least let's say seven years.

At that point they could easily argue and go, what EV has just gone ballistic apart from a Tesla.

Well, that's actually I just took myself out of that because seven years ago Tesla was fucking booming.

But if you want to compare it to other car companies BMW, who's also publicly listed over the past year, their share prices down thirteen percent.

So yes, you have a downward trajectory across all the companies, But thirteen percent versus forty forty plus, I mean, that's a that's a big difference, all right.

Question This one comes from Durant's construction the Big three F one, fifty, fifteen hundred and Z one slash two.

Which one would you pick for your garage and why?

So?

Our choices are the F one, fifty YEP, the fifteen hundred RAM YEP, and the Silverado.

I'm guessing YEP, Z one slash two.

I'd be For me, it would be probably the Chevy because I love the V eight.

I know it's not the fastest there, but it sounds great.

The RAM fifteen hundred of the new turbo charge c goes like shit off a shovel.

It is incredibly fast.

So if he wants the quickest pickup truck out there, that's it.

The Forward I just think it feels pretty low rent.

And there is going to be a version of the F one fifty the Platinum coming, which should definitely elevate things, so that should be here as part of a face leaf.

I want to say the F one fifty generally, they are such an iconic, beautiful like you get a big black one fifty.

They are stunning.

I had the Chevy Silverado over a couple of months over Christmas and I loved it, loved it, So I'd be picking that.

Yeah, okay, I'd be picking that now.

Two for the ship you they've got a follow up question also also, is Pablo keeping Donna in the back of the Shark six?

Is this why it can't get up the Heill?

No, it should help it because it would be a lot more weight.

You'd be at payload.

I don't know about your payload.

Thoughts on the twenty twenty six Yen Day Palisade.

Great question they're coming from Liam Leaf.

God, it looks good, looks great, looks so bloody good.

I think that yondy.

The Santa Fe knocked it out of the park in terms of interior.

Looks so good.

I think palis Abe will take it to another level.

So I haven't driven it yet, but very much looking forward to it.

Yeah, I agree.

I think the Santa Fe was three quarters good on the outside.

Yeah.

I look the back end and they've been on the roads for quite a while now, that's sort of them.

What's that you get used to get used to them.

They're fine.

I think they're a great looking car.

They drive fucking so well.

If you can get it with the Captain chairs spec that would be my pick.

That looks awesome.

They know how to make something right the last couple of years they've proved that.

I would I was thinking about the twoson the other day.

They should make an end version of that.

I know they've got their Genesis GV seventy Sport, which is Magma.

Yeah, they kind of took that.

Yeah, the Magma they took the I thought it was the same as their Stinger engine and put that in there.

But I would have loved to have seen that in the two soon.

They never did that.

In fact, their end products have been they've sort of been quiet on that.

I don't know why they sell pretty well to tipc But yes, thoughts on the new Palisade looks fantastic.

I think it's reasonably priced.

It's kind of starting to creep up there.

I think they're starting to know what they've really got.

Yeah, what do you guys think of new laws in Victoria for emergency vehicles on the side of the road.

Well, it's been a while since I've lived in the Victorious.

Yeah, pretty to this.

The laws are not new for emergency vehicles.

What they're new for though, is sort of I guess you could call them emergency vehicles as well.

But stuff like RACV tow trucks, the city link cars that get about the place you are now required to slow to forty for them as well.

So in theory, this is a good idea because you need to slow down around these vehicles because there is a worker outside next to a freeway potentially, and they need to go home to their families at the end of the day.

Where it doesn't work, though, is when everyone most people don't know it's a rule.

Every time I see it, I slow down, and pretty much no one else does, or a handful do.

And finally cotton on where it's an even bigger issue is where you're on the Hume, where you've got enormous trucks who cannot stop on a dime.

So if people all of a sudden remember this rule and jam the brakes on, you can cause an almighty accident here.

So it's one of those things that needs to be a rule, but it is a very difficult one because road rules and driver education in Australia in general is fucked, so no one knows it's a rule.

So all you're going to get is the police doing is sting one day, finding all these people pissing people off.

I just think that it really comes back to driver education and people needing to get a clue on what to do on the road, even stuff like I'm just going to very quickly digress here stuck in traffic on the way into work, and what I always do is, depending on if I'm in the adelane and we're crawling, I'll move over so there's room for motorcycles to get through.

Most people don't so you've got a motorcycle that will have decent sized gaps for people that move out of the way, and then other people are just oblivious to this, and it's like, why would you not just move a little bit?

And in Europe they all do that.

They actually will have a path, a full path for a vehicle to come through an emergency services vehicle.

Everyone instinctively does it.

They move right out of the way.

But we don't do that here.

Again, it just comes down too terrible driver training and.

None relirements for it.

Yeah, it's like, why would you not be spending all your speed camera revenue on proper drive training for everyone?

Well, yeah, I mean you just can't rely on people's driving skills.

Like I've got a maid of mine who is a motorbike rider and he is in hospital right now because he broke his pelvis.

He was pulling out of work and a fucking car came in and didn't indicate and it just took him right out.

Like he's lucky to be alive.

He's in a wheelchair at the moment.

Wow.

Yeah, it's one of those things with motorbike riders.

I feel for them because I don't think a lot of these accidents are necessarily been caused by them.

They've they've really just got to look out.

For other cars most of the time.

They're not like you get the occasional person riding like an idiot and coming off, but typically they'll just kill themselves.

Yeah, but people who are just trying to get to work on a motorcycle are just constantly battling idiot drivers who don't know what they're doing.

Unpredictable ones too.

Let's move to Gemma in Perth.

Hey, Gemma in Perth.

What is your pick for the best ev and the most reliable?

Oh?

What is your pick for best and most reliable non EV hot hatch Ah, I'm going to say I'm going to take this one.

I really like the I thirty n Yeah.

I literally was about to say I thirty en because it's been around for ages, heaps of accessories, people know what they're doing.

Comes with the track warranty, but Sunday are generally pretty good with warranty as well.

Yeah, if it's not really if you want something a bit more up to date, the new Golfer they've just launched.

It is a big step up in price, but it is a lot of car and comes with some pretty cool tech and I think is probably the king of the hot hatches.

Is that the Mark eight point five?

Yes?

Yeah, because I remember when the Mark eight came out, I was like, I was really impressed that they had the I think they had they had like a drift mode on that.

Why have diesels disappeared from the Australian passenger car scene?

From the Australian passenger car scene?

Will they ever come back?

Yeah?

Diesels are an interesting one.

There's not as many of them in passenger cars until you step up to SUVs and stuff.

I think it's a trickle down from Europe.

You've got this situation where in Europe they're less favored because of the emissions that they have and they don't solve the problems that they need in terms of hybridization.

That most hybrids are internal combustion petrol instead of diesel.

So as a result of we just don't see many of those.

You don't see many Chinese market cars with diesel engines.

They run a lot of petrol cars.

So I think you're just seeing a downscaling of where diesel's being used.

You will well and truly still see diesel used in stuff like lan Cruise's Everest Ranger all that sort of stuff for a little while yet, so it's not dead just yet.

Last question comes from Gordon.

A family car for under eighty thousand dollars.

Here you go, a bit of fun.

This guy sounds like a pain.

He's a pain in the ass.

What about I think we kind of flirted with the idea of a Beamer M forty.

I ye used obviously, Yeah.

M three forty.

I think that would be cool.

Yeah, or if you still look bad ass, they still look still.

Very current, if you can get an X three M.

Forty I yeah, that's what I said.

You know, I thought you meant three series.

Oh yeah, yeah, sorry, the three series or the the X three as well.

I think that they'd be my two picks.

Fun sound good, hopefully within.

Budget watch this space.

Maybe you put a deposit down next time.

Yeah, that'd be good.

I just bought a oud E T t R s.

Ah Yeah did jh Yeah?

Yeah, run run over it tho because I don't like it.

Yeah.

Actually, I'll tell you what happened to my phone, right, So, maybe I'll take a photo of this and we'll put it on the cell shoals but what has happened with this phone is it's it's massively crushed up the back.

So I was going for a I was going for a bit of a run, believe it or not with my dog.

No not, yes, someone chasing you.

I was.

I was running from the rspz A someone else's dog.

Yeah, it's running from that.

It's running from dinner.

I have to run very fast.

So no.

So basically what was happening is I was I stopped off.

It was it was late at night, and there was actually funny enough.

There was a Beamer three series M forty I yep in a Kupra show group like what do you call them?

Dealer shit?

Like, ah, that's cool.

And it was this really nice blue and that big pop and blue that they do.

And so I quickly sort of went over across a busy highway to have a look at it, look at the price all that.

I could have just looked it up on carsoles.

Anyway, I'm running back over this road and I'm like fuck.

I had my headphones on and I'm sort of walking in I could feel my phone had dropped out.

I was listening to the music and stuff, and I'm like, oh, fuck.

I've dropped my phone and I'm looking on the nature streep and I'm like looking all around.

I didn't have a light.

It was pitch black, asked this poor dude.

I'm like, hey, can you just light up your phone so I can look for my phone?

And we're both sort of looking in the nature streep and couldn't find it.

And then I said, would you mind calling it?

I'm really sorry.

I can tell it's close because I can hear the music playing through my headphones.

Yeah, yeah, no worries.

And he calls it and we're looking around.

We're like, what the fuck, and then we look in the middle of this highway and it's just flashing in the middle of.

The high and it had been there, doubles.

It had been there for a good five minutes with cars running all over it.

So I mean, like for like five minutes worth of cars running over I ever.

Seeing a camera that fucked Like every one of your little camera lenses, yes, and again stupid designed by Apple because they protrude.

But every one of those camera lenses, like carved in the whole back is shattered.

Thanks for that.

I'm trying to sell this on marketplace.

Yeah, no, look, I will get it fixed.

It's the problem is it's it's only two hundred bucks to get that thing fixed, but it's a forty five minute wait without my phone.

So I'm like, what am I going to do forty five minutes when you come to your disk, don't tell me how to work.

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