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[0:32] wow that was anticlimactic and it was
[0:34] pretty incredible uh can everyone hear
[0:37] us and is the audio working correctly
[0:39] Mark decided to massively over
[0:42] complicate this
[0:44] um and Happy New Years to everyone
[0:46] hopefully you had a good time with your
[0:47] families yes Happy New Years to everyone
[0:50] I am greatly uh excited to be here today
[0:53] uh in the new studio space that we
[0:56] constructed this took what 15 years in
[0:58] the making uh this guy messaged me for
[1:01] like a week he's like oh my God I got
[1:03] all my foam phones
[1:05] I don't know how the glue is holding up
[1:07] it doesn't set yet Ikea desk yep my Ikea
[1:12] desk it was the only one in stock
[1:13] because there's a shortage of every
[1:15] single thing apparently oh I went to go
[1:17] buy some cubes for organizing my hard
[1:19] drives and stuff didn't it said it was
[1:21] in stock I go downstairs I'm like oh
[1:23] where is it at every High Bay rack is
[1:25] empty it's like sorry about that I'm
[1:27] like I just wasted an hour in this dog
[1:29] did you get meatballs at least I did get
[1:31] meatballs but they were sub part the
[1:33] people in the cafeteria were like what
[1:35] is this guy doing here why is he
[1:36] bothering us especially when I asked for
[1:38] extra lingenberry sauce they're like
[1:41] screw this guy
[1:45] um okay all right so I know there are
[1:48] some topics that Mark wants to talk
[1:50] about before we answer everyone's
[1:52] questions there's some patreon questions
[1:53] we need to go through yes and there are
[1:56] some lovely paid and unpaid questions we
[1:58] are going to attempt to ask every
[2:00] donated question we promise we will ask
[2:03] answer like we always do in every
[2:05] regular question at least the major ones
[2:07] we'll try to get to as well so what's
[2:09] the first topic you want to talk about
[2:10] before I get to about a billion patreon
[2:12] quotes yeah there's going to be a lot of
[2:14] questions it so let's just get this out
[2:16] of the way there's going to be this is
[2:17] going to be a long long session three
[2:20] hours is what I'm gonna tap out at okay
[2:22] Jack's gonna tap out at three hours I've
[2:23] committed to 15. this is gonna be like
[2:25] the Lamar Race 24 hours where I just
[2:28] crashed I'm gonna hit my head on these
[2:30] guys uh so you want to be a beauty and
[2:32] Fastbender is what you're saying no like
[2:34] yeah I'm not going to get into fast food
[2:36] that's actually a good topic but uh not
[2:38] tonight so the the format is podcast q a
[2:42] so podcast style and question and answer
[2:44] obviously as this Banner suggests here
[2:46] for those that are alright thank you for
[2:50] for the beef and cheddar money I'm sure
[2:52] that'll go very poorly for my health
[2:54] long term or at least March
[2:56] um and Adam thank you for your 50
[2:57] donation that's right wow yeah we're
[3:00] already starting with the money and
[3:01] that's uh you know let's get a lot more
[3:03] coming in here I gotta I gotta finish
[3:05] the remodel in here
[3:08] um I will answer this question right
[3:10] away forgetful foot uh we are doing a
[3:12] 987.2 Cayman video it's next month I'm
[3:15] trading my uh my gr86 with uh Greg from
[3:19] Chicago auto pros and he's giving me a
[3:21] stock car for a week or two to shoot a
[3:22] video this was uh another question uh
[3:27] about the Kirkland hoodie signature and
[3:30] uh he's considering a WRX for his next
[3:32] car have you guys had any experience
[3:33] with the 2020 23 model yeah we have a
[3:36] pretty long video on an orange one we
[3:38] did we dynoed it whole nine yards and it
[3:40] was in the uh comparison test we did
[3:42] with the
[3:44] Civic SI and a couple other vehicles
[3:46] it's a it's the best regular WRX in
[3:50] recent memory it's just kind of not
[3:52] great looking so you know there's
[3:54] nothing wrong with the car it's just not
[3:55] hyper exciting it does what it set out
[3:57] to do as being a daily driver that's
[3:59] all-wheel drive and somewhat fun to
[4:01] drive and a lot of capability the the
[4:02] body's way better than it used to be
[4:04] more rigid and all that but it's just
[4:06] it's a little Subaru and also has the
[4:08] RTV problems my gr86 has
[4:11] I mean I still think it's pretty good
[4:12] honestly I I enjoy driving it I don't
[4:15] know that it's my type of car to own but
[4:17] I'm going to leave it at that all right
[4:20] so let's get through the the topic
[4:22] questions before we start answering all
[4:23] these questions and yes so let's let's
[4:26] hit the topic so if anybody's thinking
[4:28] about you know donating or whatever you
[4:31] want to call it any sort of regular
[4:32] questions let's hold off that just for
[4:34] the sake of like hey
[4:36] um don't just so we can get through some
[4:39] of the initial topics because I really
[4:40] want to break this up in so it's not
[4:43] just all us answering questions
[4:45] and the the first topic that I want to
[4:48] get into is
[4:50] the FL Type R video that's all you mark
[4:53] uh Jack was not involved in that at all
[4:55] and thank God for him
[4:57] what a what a [ __ ] show honestly and so
[5:01] I'm gonna explain it just briefly
[5:04] I bought a tie bar and I bought a tie
[5:06] bar much like uh your X7 because I told
[5:10] you too yeah Jack's like oh man you
[5:11] should get it you should get an X7 it
[5:13] would be such a great deal complete your
[5:14] 401k yeah I bought all these cars and
[5:17] I've never used any resources from
[5:19] manufacturers or any of that before like
[5:21] that the X7 was like the worst buying
[5:23] experience ever like the worst dealer
[5:25] experience ever and I still stuck it out
[5:27] and bought it but the fl5 was the first
[5:29] car where
[5:31] uh we contacted the Honda reps or you
[5:33] made a connection for me with the Honda
[5:35] reps and they said okay maybe we can get
[5:37] you one through the region which means
[5:39] they allocate you a car and then they
[5:42] pick the dealer that it goes to and then
[5:44] they ship that car there specifically
[5:47] for you and the dealer has to agree to
[5:49] it so in this case they asked me what
[5:51] dealer I wanted to go to and I said well
[5:53] anything but Brilliance Honda because
[5:55] the previous dealership Crystal Lake
[5:58] Honda which no longer exists went
[6:00] bankrupt from screwing people over doing
[6:02] double loans the most Shady stuff ever
[6:04] so when the owner the the guy the owner
[6:07] who was in the video Kevin he had an
[6:10] opportunity because he worked for Toyota
[6:11] and then he worked for Honda like Toyota
[6:13] on the corporate side he they gave him
[6:16] an opportunity to buy this franchise
[6:17] because it was in the [ __ ] and he's
[6:19] like well uh I think he got a good deal
[6:21] on it I'm not sure about the financial
[6:22] part but then he had to turn all of this
[6:24] around but because it burned me as a kid
[6:27] I never wanted to deal with anything to
[6:29] do with that so when our Honda up said
[6:31] well you know this is who we use this is
[6:33] our agreement and the dealership
[6:34] actually has a lot of they work with the
[6:36] Chicago Auto Show the the owner works
[6:39] with that side of it and they have some
[6:41] connections in the media but for my part
[6:43] really all it was was
[6:45] Honda's like okay the car is coming
[6:46] which I never believed and then I got a
[6:48] call well it's on its way and then I got
[6:50] delayed in shipping it got stuck at the
[6:52] Port all this and finally it showed up
[6:54] and I went and talked to the owner and
[6:56] the owner's family and I'm like this is
[6:58] what happened to me in the past like
[7:00] what do you think and he explained
[7:02] everything to me like the fact that
[7:03] they're not the old dealership that they
[7:05] spent years trying to fix it that they
[7:07] understand how the industry has a bad
[7:09] name and they they only sell to local
[7:11] people like Illinois
[7:13] I for the gr86 series which is more for
[7:18] viewer series than it is for a personal
[7:20] purchase in any way uh the Toyota region
[7:22] set me up with St Charles and they only
[7:24] sell the locals as well which makes
[7:26] sense because if you look at and we
[7:28] talked about this too and there's so
[7:29] much in this video we didn't talk about
[7:30] we talked about carvana specifically why
[7:32] they're failing and carvana is failing
[7:34] because they did not understand how
[7:37] difficult it was to sell cars to every
[7:39] single state so if you have a company
[7:42] and you're like okay we have a buyer out
[7:44] of state every state it has different
[7:46] requirements for titling different
[7:48] paperwork requirements different loan
[7:51] requirements from the banks for each
[7:52] region so it became a mess and they
[7:54] couldn't meet all the state requirements
[7:56] so they made mistakes on paperwork they
[7:58] didn't get things to the DMV so they
[8:00] have all these customers that don't have
[8:02] titles they didn't have their their
[8:04] loans set up properly all this drama so
[8:06] they're like six months behind on
[8:07] everything they don't have the resources
[8:09] to do it so that's why they don't want
[8:10] to do it they're all small company local
[8:12] business that can only sell locally and
[8:15] I didn't say that in the video and it
[8:16] came across as like a plug for them like
[8:18] hey come to them and they they're going
[8:20] to help you out no they're not because
[8:21] they can't
[8:22] and the the other part was I did a
[8:24] really bad job of telling the story The
[8:26] reason I wanted to tell the story about
[8:27] the lf05 is the first Civic I ever
[8:29] bought was a red ex and I was like okay
[8:32] this was a big purchase for me and I had
[8:35] all of these like nostalgic feelings
[8:37] because I did everything much like you I
[8:39] traveled across the US it was the first
[8:40] car I could afford that was good that I
[8:43] did everything with so this red tie bar
[8:45] was like I said in the CRX video I
[8:47] wanted to close the loop I wanted to
[8:49] close out all these stories about these
[8:51] Honda cars that I loved as a kid that's
[8:53] why I'm doing the NSX video that's you
[8:55] know we're trying to go to Japan this is
[8:57] a disaster to put together that's
[8:58] something we'll talk about later but God
[9:00] is that a [ __ ] nightmare yeah so all
[9:02] these Honda videos I want to do they're
[9:03] because I want to do it and when I talk
[9:05] to the dealership and learned about all
[9:06] the [ __ ] that they had to deal with
[9:08] from a small business and just how much
[9:10] hatred is there for them the reason I'm
[9:12] looking at my phone is so I can answer
[9:14] the questions by the way okay yeah I'm
[9:16] not bored of this conversation that's
[9:17] the reason why I'm I'm looking up yeah
[9:18] we don't have a moderator today just so
[9:20] you know chin face is out getting hair
[9:22] plugs yeah he's finally getting his
[9:24] plugs thank God uh so yes I put him in
[9:28] the video and it was a lot longer the
[9:30] video was like 45 minutes because I had
[9:31] a lot of interview footage and I just
[9:33] got tired of it and I didn't feel like
[9:35] it flowed well and then I forgot to tell
[9:36] my own story I didn't tell my own story
[9:38] well that this was about repairing my
[9:41] past relationship with a brand that I
[9:43] had a lot of bad experiences with at the
[9:45] end of the video is me at the old
[9:46] dealership that got that closed and I
[9:48] was turning off the lights and it was
[9:50] supposed to be symbolic of me like
[9:51] closing the chapter on Old Mark and
[9:53] here's the new Mark with the new car but
[9:55] of course everybody took it as a giant
[9:57] Flex like uh how can you get a car for
[10:01] MSRP a Civic like this where nobody else
[10:03] can get it and and I told the owner of
[10:06] the dealership because he was really
[10:07] concerned they got a lot of hate like
[10:09] they got a lot of hate because they
[10:10] thought I was making an ad for them and
[10:12] no I was just telling my own story and I
[10:14] sent him an email about the four things
[10:17] that I thought honestly had happened in
[10:20] that video that I didn't account for and
[10:21] that's my mistake take because I didn't
[10:23] realize that people were so angry about
[10:26] like what's going on in the car industry
[10:29] um
[10:30] and it's the lack of inventory and
[10:33] dealer gouging that's going on right
[10:35] especially in the Enthusiast car market
[10:37] that people have to jump through so many
[10:39] Hoops in the case of the gr Corolla and
[10:42] the Civic these are gold standard
[10:43] affordable cars basically every
[10:45] Enthusiast car yes and it's just not the
[10:47] cheap ones it's the expensive ones the
[10:49] Z06 the gt3s like all of these are hyper
[10:52] expensive and then the dealers know that
[10:54] they can't get them so any car they get
[10:57] they're sitting on it and people are
[10:58] angry so if you can't get one locally
[11:00] you start going out of state you find
[11:01] out a dealer is not going to sell it to
[11:03] you because you're out of state and you
[11:05] they don't really do a good job
[11:06] explaining why which I just tried to do
[11:08] and then they want to charge 20 000 over
[11:10] sticker for a car that should be like 45
[11:12] Grand people are pissed off about it so
[11:14] they're naturally angry at me for
[11:16] getting a car for MSRP because I'm like
[11:18] entitled media like why should I get it
[11:21] um the other part which I wanted to talk
[11:23] about the media side is the vaporware
[11:26] aspect of these cars they're paying
[11:28] these companies are paying a lot of
[11:29] money in the case of Toyota Honda these
[11:31] are the recent ones they're paying a lot
[11:32] of money to send media on these trips
[11:34] and they get everybody excited for these
[11:36] cars like gr Corolla gre-6 Type R all of
[11:40] that and they're like look at how cool
[11:42] these cars are we're making it cheap
[11:44] it's an entry level pricing well the
[11:46] gr86 the same way you can get them right
[11:48] so then you see all this on the internet
[11:50] people get excited and then they go to
[11:52] buy it and there's only like 300 in the
[11:55] country they can't get them made and
[11:57] then people like are they are they
[11:59] artificially not making these cars are
[12:02] they artificially not making them so the
[12:03] dealers can make more money and I think
[12:05] the reality is when you look at gr
[12:07] Corolla and the FRS or 86 and the type R
[12:11] they're in factories where normal cars
[12:13] are made and right now because there's
[12:15] such a shortage on commodity cars they
[12:17] are not going to prioritize the
[12:19] Enthusiast cars over the commodity cars
[12:21] where dealerships need those to make
[12:23] money and if you're a if you're one of
[12:26] these brands
[12:27] let's be honest the demand on paper
[12:30] looks like it's huge for a Type R if you
[12:31] looked at the internet you'd think
[12:33] they'd sell a million of these cars but
[12:34] the reality is they would probably maybe
[12:37] sell fifteen thousand the first year in
[12:39] the US so they're not going to move
[12:42] around production for the specialty car
[12:44] to reduce production of a car they could
[12:46] potentially sell for like 250 000 for
[12:48] All That Matters to oems is if they make
[12:50] money and the reality is even with the
[12:52] specialty car factories uh by the end of
[12:55] this month you'll see our C8
[12:57] manufacturing video and I can tell you
[12:58] for a fact spending a lot of time with
[13:01] the engineers at that factory and the
[13:03] the engineers at the company at this
[13:05] point they're not artificially limiting
[13:07] how many cars they are building they are
[13:09] genuinely trying to build every single
[13:12] car they can the available Parts they
[13:13] have Porsche is the same way when you
[13:15] talk to them knowing some people who are
[13:17] suppliers for that company they are
[13:20] building every 911 they possibly can
[13:23] it's just the way the world works if you
[13:25] know anyone that owns a factory who
[13:26] builds people parts for components they
[13:28] will tell you the same thing there are
[13:30] part shortages yeah and and it's it's
[13:32] definitely affected these cars and it's
[13:34] they've prioritized the mainstream cars
[13:36] or the high volume cars over the
[13:38] Enthusiast cars that don't sell a lot
[13:40] and while it may be a lot of margin for
[13:42] the dealers at this point to scalp you
[13:44] know
[13:45] 10 000 units of a specialty car at a low
[13:48] price is Not Gonna Make It or Break It
[13:50] for a dealer or for a for an oem and
[13:54] then the last thing that I I have to
[13:55] apologize for is because I didn't do a
[13:58] good job of explaining my side of the
[13:59] story of why I got a tie bar and then I
[14:03] made it I came across in a way that made
[14:05] me sound like oh I deserve this car and
[14:08] honestly
[14:09] I I don't I don't it's not a dream car
[14:12] for me I'm happy to have a Type R but I
[14:15] would never pay over sticker for it if
[14:16] Honda like dropped it on me last minute
[14:18] oh you're gonna have to pay 10 000 over
[14:19] sticker I wouldn't have a Type R right
[14:20] now I just don't think it's worth it
[14:22] um and I think there's a lot of people
[14:24] upset with how this works on the back
[14:26] end with people getting cars or special
[14:28] treatment
[14:29] um this happens like all the time it's
[14:31] not like I think the difference is
[14:32] journalists For Better or For Worse and
[14:34] many of you I'm sure don't do this for a
[14:36] living or understand how this works we
[14:38] have a direct loan to the oems and the
[14:40] Reps wanna
[14:41] build relationships with Outlets Car and
[14:45] Driver Motor Trend running track have
[14:47] been buying fleet vehicles for long-term
[14:49] testers for decades at this point and
[14:51] the way it works for them is they call
[14:53] up their Regional wrap like hey I want
[14:55] to buy one of these and the Lexus Toyota
[14:58] whoever's doing it for them will
[15:00] facilitate the transaction they are
[15:01] paying MSRP they're not getting special
[15:04] special treatment financially but
[15:06] they're making sure the dealer that is
[15:08] working with whoever Outlet it may be
[15:11] like Topher got one of these cars in the
[15:13] case of the type R Rady and like five
[15:16] other different Outlets got these
[15:18] vehicles all Honda did was hook them up
[15:19] with the dealer and assure the dealer
[15:21] that they got an allocation the
[15:23] allocation that was going to said dealer
[15:25] wasn't being pulled from another
[15:27] customer right and they did so the
[15:29] dealers that got media cars for people
[15:32] like myself they also got another
[15:33] allocation in the case of this
[15:35] dealership their allocation winds up
[15:37] having to go to the Chicago Auto Show
[15:39] because they don't have another car to
[15:42] show at the Chicago Auto Show for a
[15:43] tight bar so he actually has to use his
[15:44] inventory to display it as a display
[15:46] piece so again it goes back to the fact
[15:48] that they're not making enough of these
[15:50] cars to meet demand and [ __ ] rolls
[15:52] downhill and everybody's pissed off
[15:53] because everything's too expensive you
[15:55] can't get fun cars for cheap and then
[15:56] you got me like a dumbass like oh look I
[15:59] got a tight bar nobody else can get it
[16:01] that's not what this is about for me I
[16:03] love I've been into Honda since I was a
[16:05] kid I own forums I was a partial owner
[16:09] in like Honda Focus forums for
[16:11] enthusiast groups for like five years
[16:12] before I sold it I've had between the
[16:15] two of us we have like 20 Hondas it's
[16:16] not just like hopping on the bandwagon
[16:18] of the cool car but that's what it
[16:20] sounds like and that's what it looks
[16:21] like doing this so you know anybody
[16:23] that's pissed off I apologize for that I
[16:26] just I didn't tell the story right so
[16:28] anyway uh it's enough about that there
[16:31] there's other stuff too with the media
[16:33] part of it
[16:34] um that I mentioned about
[16:36] the business side of this
[16:39] um and I think you know on the back end
[16:41] people don't understand it and I think
[16:42] you tell it really well about the media
[16:45] relationship with oems and how that
[16:46] works because people think we get paid
[16:48] to review cars there's a lot of
[16:50] misconception that journalists or media
[16:53] like here's a car we're going to pay you
[16:55] for it and that's how we make money and
[16:56] that's not how this works the way the
[16:57] transaction Works to put it pretty
[17:00] bluntly is oems get access to sorry
[17:04] forgive me Outlets journalists YouTubers
[17:06] vloggers whatever when I think
[17:08] journalists I think traditional Buff
[17:09] books car driver Run Track Motor Trend
[17:12] uh Automobile Magazine if that thing
[17:14] still exists would get vehicles from
[17:17] oems to do a story on the logistics from
[17:21] the vehicle it getting to you if you own
[17:23] a press trip all that is covered by the
[17:25] OEM you're responsible for gas and a lot
[17:27] of the fun stuff
[17:29] you are not getting paid by the OEM to
[17:31] review the car you're making money off
[17:33] the content you produce there's not a
[17:35] direct exchange of goods certain
[17:37] magazines like Motor Trend Car Driver
[17:39] Run Track will do paid advertisements or
[17:42] paid features that are specifically
[17:44] labeled as ads for specific oems with
[17:47] the general stories you're seeing aren't
[17:49] paid even our giant documentary films
[17:51] you're saying that we do like on Z06 Z
[17:54] it's the same thing they cover some of a
[17:56] lot of a lot or many of the logistics
[17:58] costs well they wouldn't but I have to
[18:01] like literally when we do some of these
[18:02] projects now I have to put my foot down
[18:03] like I want to do this I want to do
[18:05] these big videos but I'm not going to
[18:07] pay four thousand dollars for travel
[18:09] because we're not making that money back
[18:11] to do this and the Honda stuff at least
[18:12] on the NSX which we'll get to later this
[18:15] is because I want to do it Honda's not
[18:16] like oh here's some money we'd love to
[18:18] see an NS NSX piece that we don't care
[18:21] about anymore because we don't make it
[18:22] this is stuff that I want to do and it's
[18:24] stuff that comes out of my pocket and
[18:25] the reality is there's not unlimited
[18:27] money to do this stuff there's not a
[18:29] huge return you have to crank out things
[18:31] and in my case I want to do it a certain
[18:33] way and that costs money it really does
[18:36] cost money to do this so they're not
[18:37] paying correct traditionally at least
[18:39] unless it's a paid ad and it has we have
[18:42] to say that you know like even on
[18:43] YouTube you can't just put something
[18:45] that's paid and not say that it's
[18:46] sponsored you have to have a flag on
[18:48] that otherwise it's a terms of use
[18:50] violation and if you're big media like
[18:52] Motor Trend and all them you'll see it
[18:54] it's like sponsored by or like funded by
[18:57] or it has a title sponsorship to pay for
[18:59] it and that's how they do it to make
[19:01] supplemental money but we've never done
[19:03] that with a manufacturer before unless
[19:04] I'm mistaken on anything any car
[19:06] manufacturer how do you think I have my
[19:08] stos and my yeah your Lamborghinis yeah
[19:10] all my Equinox paid reviews are great
[19:12] right yeah
[19:15] um one thing I will say as well the
[19:17] relationship between oems and Brands is
[19:21] is interesting right it is still a human
[19:23] relationship so if you piss them off you
[19:25] [ __ ] on every single one of their
[19:26] vehicles and you through personal bias
[19:28] and you can't point out objective faults
[19:30] with the vehicle you know it's within
[19:33] their best interest and well not
[19:35] necessarily yours as the Outlook but
[19:36] it's within their best interests and not
[19:37] to want to do business with you right
[19:39] Ferrari's famous for if they get a bad
[19:41] review you're done with them yes and
[19:43] that's that's the pro and the con of
[19:45] this that's why we when we are negative
[19:47] we try to back it up with objective
[19:49] facts and I a hundred percent I would
[19:53] 100 agree with that it's a slippery
[19:55] slope with uh all this stuff where
[20:00] um you you realize that
[20:05] you can't just do whatever you want with
[20:07] this you just can't
[20:09] um and this is a good example like this
[20:11] NSX video uh that I did a long time ago
[20:15] which is six years ago I drove with
[20:18] their their Factory driver at that point
[20:21] and then I had a philosophical
[20:23] conversation with him about the new NSX
[20:27] at that time and I brought up the fact
[20:28] like you drive gt3s he's a Porsche
[20:31] driver he drives gt3s I'm like how does
[20:33] this compare and it put him in a spot
[20:35] where not only did it get him in trouble
[20:37] because he said it without saying it
[20:39] that he preferred the gt3s over the NSX
[20:42] and then I went on a tirade how they
[20:44] engineered out the driver of the car and
[20:47] I we I did not get Honda press cars
[20:50] after this video a Honda or Acura press
[20:53] cars after this video for probably four
[20:56] years I basically had to restart the
[20:58] relationship with them in the formal
[20:59] capacity yes and and that's the reality
[21:02] like it hasn't been uh it hasn't been
[21:05] flowers and roses and there's things
[21:07] that you can get away with and there's
[21:09] things that you can't and generally I'm
[21:10] brutally honest like I Know Jack always
[21:13] says it dude you know we're running a
[21:15] business here you can't just be a total
[21:17] dick about stuff so you bury it in
[21:20] sarcasm you try to find a grounded root
[21:23] of like what's really wrong objectively
[21:25] it has to be objective it's not just
[21:27] like I don't like the paint color this
[21:28] thing's this thing's ugly you know you
[21:31] can't get you know you could say that
[21:32] but I don't even that's why I don't talk
[21:34] about the exterior cars anymore like me
[21:36] going off about how it's ugly does the
[21:38] OEM know Justice at all they already
[21:40] know the car is ugly because that's all
[21:41] they hear about so I we try to focus on
[21:44] like how's it drive is there a
[21:45] transmission issue why do they do this
[21:47] it makes way more sense but we're
[21:49] probably more negative than most people
[21:51] I mean our our even our Z06 documentary
[21:54] if you watch that the final thoughts
[21:56] probably some of the most negative there
[21:58] are of any video on that car and it's
[22:01] negativity based in objective fact and
[22:04] based upon and engineering decisions
[22:05] they make but if you paint it that way
[22:07] for oems it's typically more accepted
[22:10] because you can have an open dialogue
[22:12] with an engineer right all engineering
[22:13] is I'm an engineer I can tell you this
[22:15] so when you work on a project is what
[22:17] compromises you can live with that's all
[22:19] it comes down to and that's how cars
[22:21] work too and people seem to forget that
[22:22] well I think that's how business works
[22:24] right it's about the engineering of like
[22:26] things but it's also like trying to do
[22:28] what we're doing is you have to find
[22:30] that balance of like what compromises
[22:31] are you willing to make to do this
[22:33] you're not going to get cars shipped to
[22:35] you from manufacturers if you just
[22:36] regurgitate all over all of them it just
[22:39] doesn't work that way so it has to be
[22:41] this honest relationship that gets built
[22:43] up and not only that it's about the
[22:44] viewership right our responsibility is
[22:48] to the viewers the people that are
[22:50] actually watching these videos that's
[22:52] why I started this because I wanted to
[22:54] hear about the things that nobody was
[22:55] talking about I wanted to learn about
[22:57] these things that nobody was talking
[22:58] about either they didn't have the
[23:00] knowledge to share the information they
[23:02] didn't want to spend the time because as
[23:04] we've done this we realize why Nobody
[23:06] Does it and you had a conversation with
[23:07] a guy from was it Car and Driver a Motor
[23:09] Trend one of the I think it was Motor
[23:11] Trend and he flat out told me that
[23:13] consumers are essentially too stupid to
[23:16] consume technical information people
[23:18] don't care obviously our business is
[23:20] based on that not being true but a lot
[23:23] of the former or let's call it current
[23:27] journalists in the industry don't
[23:29] understand anything remotely Technical
[23:31] and the Reps other than certain brands
[23:34] don't want to know anything technical
[23:35] because a lot of them are formerly
[23:37] journalists or don't come from a
[23:39] technical background and they don't
[23:40] value it and that's why you see
[23:42] marketing from certain brands the way it
[23:44] is that's why you see content being the
[23:46] way it is they like making sure that
[23:49] information that is available to
[23:50] Consumers is basically for the lowest
[23:53] common denominator yeah which with how
[23:54] expensive cars are now particular
[23:56] particularly in a performance capacity
[24:00] it's sort of depressing because you
[24:02] unfortunately or fortunately need a
[24:05] professional job now to afford any of
[24:07] the stuff that's new which is it's it
[24:09] and it goes back to like the whole thing
[24:10] with the anger level that people are
[24:12] having towards these types of products
[24:14] especially on the Enthusiast side
[24:15] obviously the enthusiasts are the
[24:16] loudest voice all the time of like what
[24:19] they like and they don't like but I
[24:21] can't believe how many people and this
[24:22] this goes back to the comment I made in
[24:24] that Civic video like we know that we're
[24:27] making videos and that people listen to
[24:28] them I'm not telling people to go buy
[24:30] cars I'm just saying like we like these
[24:33] cars we think they're a good buy and it
[24:35] I talk to people the viewership just
[24:37] like we talk to our family I can I mean
[24:39] like I looked at my dad's like
[24:41] healthcare helper she just bought a RAV4
[24:44] I'm on the phone with a like a really
[24:47] close relative they bought two RAV4s now
[24:50] they want to buy another one but they
[24:51] they're looking for something else so
[24:52] now they're gonna buy avenza
[24:55] um another family member has a a RAV4
[24:58] your girlfriend has a REV for you know
[25:00] like all these people in this short
[25:02] window that's just the people we know
[25:04] and there is a lot of sphere of
[25:06] influence and there's a lot of
[25:07] responsibility that comes with trying to
[25:09] be honest to people about what is good
[25:11] and what's not from not just a [ __ ]
[25:13] level of like oh look at all the
[25:14] features because everything is feature
[25:16] driven right like if it otherwise every
[25:19] single CUV and SUV would be identical
[25:21] which they pretty much are so they have
[25:22] to pack on all of this stuff to make it
[25:25] like oh look at all the things that we
[25:27] have all the bells and whistles that's
[25:28] the only way sales people can push these
[25:30] things to make them any difference other
[25:31] than price and at the end of it like
[25:34] everything's so complicated now it's
[25:36] really hard to weed through that and
[25:37] that's what our job is and it's becoming
[25:39] far more complicated to do than it ever
[25:41] has in the past because of of everything
[25:43] that we're seeing
[25:45] um sorry no no worries all right let's
[25:47] let's touch the the next topic as we've
[25:49] sort of beat that one death sorry if
[25:51] let's put anyone to sleep yeah I know I
[25:53] just wanted to get that out of the way
[25:54] clearly you know we could sit here and
[25:55] answer questions all day but there's
[25:56] some interesting topics
[25:58] um that I've wanted to cover for a while
[26:00] unplugging me I haven't I haven't done
[26:02] anything so I gotta go back and and flag
[26:03] them while you start answering certain
[26:04] questions
[26:06] um
[26:07] the Dell integration really quick you're
[26:09] going to see a couple more of these Dell
[26:10] Integrations in in well I mean it's
[26:13] integrated in every video like it's
[26:14] clear that I'm doing that uh we're going
[26:16] to be putting it into the Z Z06 Factory
[26:20] video that we're doing that should be
[26:21] out in two weeks
[26:23] um I'm trying to convert over a lot of
[26:25] my technology and pushing forward so
[26:27] you'll see me talking about HDR and I
[26:29] know that matters to about a handful of
[26:31] people but I want to make sure that the
[26:32] content is at the highest quality
[26:34] possible and now that I have equipment
[26:36] and I have all these resources to do it
[26:37] I'm going to keep leveraging that and
[26:39] the support so you're going to see that
[26:40] and I just want to be transparent about
[26:42] it you're going to see a lot more of it
[26:44] um
[26:45] this next one is a big topic
[26:49] Jack likes to talk about Corvettes well
[26:53] um you're gonna be hearing a lot more
[26:54] about Corvettes this year we are doing
[26:56] assuming it gets off the ground uh our
[26:59] first big like Factory backed by both
[27:01] oems comparison test between a certain
[27:05] company that makes four liters in German
[27:06] cars and a Z06 around a racetrack with a
[27:11] Pro driver same same tires cup 2rs a
[27:15] pretty good idea I assume you know what
[27:17] I'm talking about that'll be shot in
[27:18] early spring we have our Factory video
[27:21] coming out which is has very little to
[27:23] do with a specific car but how cars are
[27:27] made and one of the things we don't get
[27:29] to talk about often because most people
[27:31] don't find it interesting it's a
[27:33] manufacturing process people seem to
[27:34] forget that cars are made by people yeah
[27:37] four people they aren't made by some
[27:39] Amazon robot in some Factory somewhere
[27:41] and then airdrop to a dealership these
[27:44] take Supply chains yeah training just
[27:48] the engineering associated with Main
[27:49] factoring like I come from an Emmy
[27:51] background of mechanical engineer and I
[27:53] spent a lot of time in factories and
[27:55] just getting the workflow through it's
[27:57] incredible and you think about how
[27:58] complicated a car is how that has to be
[28:01] built by human beings hopefully you get
[28:03] to appreciate more of that in this video
[28:05] it's going to be very similar to our Z06
[28:07] film and that you're going to hear
[28:08] directly from Engineers people that
[28:10] media typically doesn't get access to
[28:12] and we're going to try to explain how a
[28:15] car is made and the Beautiful part is
[28:18] it's not only just that like how all of
[28:20] them are made Jack got to see his own
[28:22] cargo down the line and while we're
[28:25] trying to correct the mistake I made
[28:26] with fl5 Type R like then hey I got this
[28:29] car this is this is how I would have
[28:31] wanted to do and that's what we did with
[28:32] Jack's Car it's an unbelievably rare
[28:35] opportunity that you never get to see of
[28:37] having access to the people that
[28:39] designed everything seeing them make it
[28:41] and then seeing your own car go down the
[28:43] line but really for the more for me it
[28:45] was I think I was more excited than you
[28:47] to see this honestly I didn't get to see
[28:49] Jack's Car go down the line but when we
[28:50] want to shoot again to see the level of
[28:54] like
[28:55] I I got so excited about the paint booth
[28:58] right like how the hell I am this is
[29:00] what I asked the engineers and he's
[29:01] probably what the [ __ ] is wrong with
[29:02] this guy I asked them how they got the
[29:04] paint off the spray booth greats like
[29:07] all the parts that go through all the
[29:09] hang on panels like all that overspray
[29:10] gets on grates like how do you clean
[29:12] that the carts come in clean and they go
[29:15] out with paint on them how do they get
[29:17] the paint off the carts that go through
[29:19] like all the logistical nightmare of all
[29:21] this from ventilation it's just amazing
[29:23] and I hope we capture just if we capture
[29:26] 10 of all that in this video they'll
[29:28] feel pretty good about it and bottom
[29:29] line is
[29:30] I think people really like it I hope so
[29:33] at least
[29:33] um it's a very very cool story and the
[29:36] people involved much like our original
[29:38] Z06 video are amazing they're very
[29:40] passionate they're they're happy to be
[29:43] there and I was telling mark because
[29:44] this this was a project that took many
[29:46] many different trips to film all Yes uh
[29:49] the first time I was there Mark's like
[29:50] oh how was it and he and I make fun of
[29:52] Corvettes yeah of course it's easy right
[29:54] the stereotypes are often true and I'm
[29:56] like these people are really happy to be
[29:57] here and he's like no no no they put on
[29:59] a face and when you're actually there
[30:01] with them they were happy to be there
[30:03] it's the sad truth is or the the pro
[30:06] depending on who you are that's sort of
[30:09] the Apex of American cars made here in
[30:11] the US is the Z06 and the all the future
[30:13] performance variants it's about as good
[30:16] as American manufacturing gets here now
[30:18] that the NSX Type S is dead right that
[30:21] Ohio plane isn't building the NSX
[30:23] anymore I can't really name another
[30:25] American Supercar that's built here yeah
[30:28] I mean you could get into the the
[30:29] boutique manufacturer yeah like that
[30:32] type of stuff but yeah to that to that
[30:34] level yeah we just don't see it so it is
[30:36] special especially if you're in the
[30:37] United States I I there's this mixed
[30:40] thing of like manufacturing going away
[30:42] and all these jobs going away and we've
[30:44] seen it decimated and there's like a lot
[30:45] of good reason why it has and there's
[30:47] all these internal politics someone said
[30:49] Ford GT the Ford GT was built in Canada
[30:51] and it was a multimatic car yeah so or
[30:54] was it multimatic yeah it was multimed
[30:55] okay or it wasn't actually assembled by
[30:57] Ford per se yeah so that that's even
[30:59] that's like a race division you know
[31:01] that put that thing together just like
[31:03] uh like the GT350 are like race cars the
[31:06] multimatic cars those were not even
[31:08] through this like a traditional assembly
[31:10] line but I mean anyway really it's just
[31:12] special because we don't see that level
[31:14] of manufacturing everything's gone you
[31:16] know the jobs are gone so you see these
[31:17] people at the Pinnacle like this is the
[31:20] best that it could possibly be for those
[31:22] those workers and the people there they
[31:24] have a lot of budget they have a lot of
[31:25] respect and it just shines through which
[31:28] you know hopefully your video captured I
[31:30] hope so so anyway that's a long day trip
[31:32] in a sex video so we've been talking
[31:34] about this for about a billion years at
[31:35] this point we've already shot let's call
[31:37] it the meat and potatoes of the video
[31:39] the thing we've been trying to do and
[31:41] it's the it's been my job in some ways
[31:43] I've failed at this but it's also the
[31:45] joys of dealing with uh Japanese and
[31:48] American Honda at the same time and
[31:50] trying to get this to work correctly is
[31:53] many of the teams or team members of the
[31:55] original NSX the Gen 1 have pseudo
[31:59] agreed to come out of retirement to talk
[32:01] about this car Yahara some of the
[32:03] technical people who have worked on the
[32:05] original car have all agreed to be on
[32:07] video and initially when Honda when we
[32:10] approached Honda about this because this
[32:11] is a it's not it hasn't been done by an
[32:14] American team yet to do a documentary on
[32:16] this car while these people are still
[32:18] alive and a little bit fun stuff and as
[32:20] soon as we talked about the logistics
[32:22] involved with it Honda North America uh
[32:26] quite frankly doesn't give two shits
[32:28] about the genuine NSX and the Gen 2 the
[32:30] hybrid car is sort of uh the unloved
[32:34] child of the family it's not
[32:35] particularly valued by Japan and wasn't
[32:39] the most successful car here in North
[32:40] America so their enthusiasm to support
[32:43] this project has been interesting yeah
[32:46] and basically a lot of promises on their
[32:48] end fell through so we're trying to now
[32:50] get this come full circle with support
[32:53] from certain members in Honda and King
[32:56] Motorsports specifically yeah so that
[32:58] I'm going to leave it at that this is
[33:00] the longest project that I've ever tried
[33:02] to get get done
[33:04] um because I wanted to like again it's
[33:07] about closing the loop of all my
[33:08] favorite Honda cars and I wanted I
[33:10] really wanted to get these guys on
[33:11] camera before they're gone and it's
[33:14] it's just more it's more difficult than
[33:16] I thought and it's a lot of money like
[33:18] international travel like somebody's got
[33:20] to pay for that like I'm not just gonna
[33:21] go and do like hey I wanna I wanna
[33:23] interview all these guys and you know
[33:25] bring them out of retirement for the
[33:26] sake of a video that advertises a brand
[33:28] without having some of those Logistics
[33:30] I'm not asking you to get paid but
[33:32] something's got to be covered from it
[33:33] and we haven't been able to to get to
[33:35] that place and I'm like we have probably
[33:38] we have so much stuff shot for this
[33:40] thing already that it's like when they
[33:42] talk about projects that sit in the can
[33:44] for too long it's a bad sign honestly I
[33:47] think what we have is great but we don't
[33:48] have the final story and I don't just
[33:50] want to talk about the American side of
[33:53] the NSX because that's nothing other
[33:55] than the current car right nothing and
[33:56] even then the current car is not all
[33:59] that exciting and I think it's a car
[34:01] that came out too early for its own good
[34:04] and while the type S I mean from a
[34:06] technology perspective the fact that
[34:08] they made a hybrid Supercar that was all
[34:10] aluminum you know all these things that
[34:12] you want and was it the price point it
[34:14] was very very impressive but I think
[34:16] it's sort of been made irrelevant by
[34:17] everything else that's come out yeah the
[34:19] fact that it wasn't a focused car yeah
[34:21] right yeah and I mean we're going to
[34:23] talk more about that I think when we get
[34:24] the NSX video out I I will talk more
[34:26] about the differences between the old
[34:28] and new and some of the old and new
[34:29] Honda mentalities and the split
[34:32] internally I think there's a huge split
[34:34] between the Japanese Engineers the
[34:37] American side what we want versus what
[34:39] they want leadership it's just this
[34:41] weird like weird disconnect between what
[34:45] everybody wants to do and then the
[34:46] long-term vision of the brand which is
[34:48] not internal combustion it's hybrid and
[34:52] it's electric only so these types of
[34:54] cars that we're talking about are like
[34:56] we're over it you know like some of the
[34:58] American team at Honda here is great our
[35:00] rep is amazing yeah yeah
[35:02] um some of the leadership we've met have
[35:03] been very very nice to be around like
[35:06] Jonathan river is the guy we interviewed
[35:07] for Integra the first time around great
[35:09] guy just a weird disconnected brand I
[35:12] think in some of these cars and some of
[35:14] these
[35:14] there's a disconnect I feel like between
[35:16] marketing leadership and some of the
[35:18] engineers yeah and it it's troubling
[35:20] like if you compare this to GTR someone
[35:22] brought it up in the comments and again
[35:24] that's why I'm looking at my phone
[35:26] um Nissan has no budget they have no
[35:28] money but their team members care about
[35:31] cars that have been dead for 40 years or
[35:33] 30 years like if you talk to really any
[35:36] of them Dan pass specifically Jonathan
[35:37] about Legacy Nissan products they perk
[35:40] up and they are more excited to talk
[35:42] about those things and I've I could ever
[35:44] be myself and that shows up like
[35:46] tomorrowson the gentleman we had in both
[35:48] Z and GTR it really is his life's work
[35:51] yeah and he's made it his mission in
[35:53] life to talk about those cars and
[35:55] celebrate the people who worked on them
[35:56] obviously including himself but
[35:58] celebrate those products it's it's a bit
[36:00] disheartening that Acura Honda doesn't
[36:03] have that same I think I don't know I
[36:06] think they're passionate about it but
[36:07] being passionate about it in the US
[36:09] where a lot of these cars are not
[36:10] designed is different than the actual
[36:13] like parent company that's to do doing
[36:15] all the engineering and development I
[36:16] mean there's only certain level they can
[36:18] go to be like this is what we want and
[36:21] even though you may be the primary
[36:22] market for a lot of these sales they
[36:24] still like they're not making the car
[36:27] the Japanese are making the car so you
[36:29] it's it's really hard to thread that
[36:31] needle and get these people to to really
[36:33] work together but every brand is like
[36:36] that you'll hear it from the German
[36:37] Brands the U.S side to the Germans don't
[36:39] really work cohesively the Koreans are
[36:42] very very separated you know most of the
[36:44] Korean brands that we see in the United
[36:45] States they're there purely for product
[36:48] planning and like marketing and all that
[36:49] they're not like we're not coming up
[36:51] with anything in the U.S for any of like
[36:53] the Hyundai and Kia stuff other than you
[36:55] know market trends potentially but uh
[36:57] that's a lot of inside baseball Jack is
[36:59] there any other topics you want to
[37:00] answer before we answer some of the paid
[37:01] questions and patreon questions I will
[37:03] tell you what we have in the can and
[37:05] we'll we'll cover that in a little bit
[37:06] uh we'll cover whatever is left there's
[37:09] some other BS topics that I want to hit
[37:11] but let's get right into
[37:14] um
[37:15] the general top general questions and
[37:18] the uh can you go back and flag all
[37:20] these while you're doing the patreon
[37:22] stuff well starting off with that
[37:24] all right so as we promised our loyal
[37:27] patreon members we are going to attempt
[37:30] to answer as many questions as possible
[37:31] and this time around I will actually go
[37:34] back and whatever I don't answer Mark or
[37:36] I will comment and try to answer
[37:39] um
[37:40] the first question is oh man we got a
[37:43] lot bear with me as I scroll to the
[37:45] beginning of this
[37:47] man there are a lot of questions
[37:52] are there executive and bullet are the
[37:55] executive and bullying tears real how
[37:57] did I miss this announcement yes we do
[37:59] have a Boolean and executive tier for
[38:01] our patreon and they are real I don't
[38:04] necessarily suggest you join those tiers
[38:06] but if you feel like pissing away your
[38:08] money feel free yeah it's there a joke
[38:11] for just people who want to donate
[38:12] because we constantly on patreon get
[38:13] people that are just like I just want to
[38:15] give more do you have another tier so we
[38:17] created I think it was bullion boys
[38:18] where all we talk about is gold bars and
[38:21] you know I I it's a joke it's sarcasm
[38:24] it's not like we're talking about
[38:26] patreon essentially allows us to run
[38:28] some of these big docu films at a loss
[38:30] because often like things like the old Z
[38:32] video or a good example they didn't make
[38:34] money right no and we spent what a week
[38:36] there to do the Z video yeah and what
[38:39] three weeks editing but the Z video is a
[38:41] perfect example of why we do this you
[38:42] have a team that's passionate about it
[38:44] and they didn't have a lot of money to
[38:45] work with to and re-engineer that car
[38:47] and work with it but they put everything
[38:48] they had in terms of passion to make
[38:50] that car and get it done so in a away
[38:52] like for me I don't have a problem doing
[38:55] that so much but that was the case it
[38:57] was a breaking point for me because I
[38:59] spent a lot of money for that trip and
[39:01] we didn't make it back so that's where
[39:03] the turning point for me personally as a
[39:05] businessman or whatever you want to call
[39:07] it I'm like Jack we can't lose money
[39:09] doing this stuff you just can't so we've
[39:11] had to be a lot more smart to sell my
[39:13] shirt on yeah Jack Jack sold all the
[39:15] supercars how many factories did you
[39:17] have to take offline well thankfully uh
[39:20] BMW and Audi and VW still use piano
[39:23] black so I'm doing all right okay good
[39:25] um what happened to the S2000 mods video
[39:27] sooner or later that'll come out as many
[39:30] of you may or may not have been watching
[39:31] the gr86 series the original plan was to
[39:35] compare that to the S2000 because of all
[39:37] our projects this year I just got a lap
[39:39] time done and we sort of talked about it
[39:42] in between I think the S2000 outside of
[39:44] maybe another set of wheel is going to
[39:45] sit the way it has been for a long time
[39:48] you sort of ruined that car or didn't
[39:49] ruin it by widening out the fenders for
[39:53] the bigger tires but past that it's
[39:55] pretty much the way it's been for a long
[39:56] time right it has yeah it's it's been
[39:58] that way for a long time uh Kristoff
[40:01] asks thoughts on Ford canceling the
[40:03] fiesta and focus in Europe two of the
[40:05] most iconic models will not be replaced
[40:07] once this model year ends I think when
[40:10] you talk to the Ford folks and I've got
[40:12] to spend he and I got to spend a lot of
[40:14] time with the head of Fort performance
[40:15] they are focusing on being a global
[40:18] brand and for them Financial For Better
[40:20] or For Worse it means all of the
[40:22] products they sell have to be able to be
[40:24] sold in a global capacity so what that
[40:28] means is if you can't sell the focus in
[40:31] Fiesta here in your biggest markets it's
[40:34] not going to be worth it to them so
[40:35] they're going to be focusing on SUVs is
[40:37] it sad yes is it the way Ford works
[40:40] also yes speaking to that guy you know
[40:43] each brand has its own identity and
[40:45] philosophy about their products what
[40:47] he's seen most proud about versus
[40:48] individual products like gt350r GT500
[40:53] raptor r regular raptor is that they
[40:57] have a performance variant of nearly
[40:59] every vehicle they sell and that's what
[41:01] he was excited about the fact that they
[41:03] have such a broad number of products and
[41:05] all the markets are sold in which is a
[41:07] very different perspective than I'm used
[41:09] to and that sort of they're business
[41:11] people for their business people he's
[41:14] proud that Ford performance can build
[41:15] cool cars and then they make a shitload
[41:18] of money
[41:20] sorry
[41:21] oh my god dude I hope that's a fake
[41:24] account I had to put it up there I'm
[41:26] like I I was like at your what you were
[41:29] talking about was also amusing but when
[41:30] I saw this my brain broke uh all right
[41:33] we'll answer some uh more uh patreon
[41:36] questions while this is going
[41:38] um
[41:40] I answered your question Jay
[41:43] uh uh when I am streaming Spotify what I
[41:47] notice or benefit from any of the
[41:48] qualities depicted on your audio graphs
[41:50] including your longer uh reviews so the
[41:52] way the audio tests work we have a video
[41:55] that you guys can look up on it
[41:57] um we have a gentleman that helps us who
[42:00] is a audio engineer and is a supplier
[42:02] for automotive oems in the audio space
[42:05] we use a series of
[42:08] software programs that essentially
[42:10] measure the speakers objectively and I
[42:12] can tell you for a fact even at Spotify
[42:14] as long as it's not horribly compressed
[42:17] and you know the compression doesn't
[42:18] sound like it's coming out of the
[42:19] bathtub
[42:21] um you can hear when an audio system is
[42:24] not good even with Spotify I think
[42:26] that's a fair statement isn't it Mark
[42:27] you can so that's an inter I really am
[42:30] into this and I don't want to get too
[42:31] deep into into the woods because we
[42:33] could do a whole video about it again uh
[42:35] the way I test it is three ways you do
[42:38] Bluetooth
[42:39] try to do Bluetooth because there's a
[42:41] totally different chipset for testing
[42:43] Bluetooth audio in the car and almost 99
[42:45] percent of cars are not up to date
[42:48] they're on the like three revisions back
[42:50] or two revisions back on Bluetooth
[42:51] chipsets so it's really you're not
[42:54] getting the max quality and there's a
[42:56] ton of compression and the the whole EQ
[42:58] roll off is like okay here here's the
[43:00] flat graph of it because there's so much
[43:03] compression artifact like okay let's
[43:04] roll off the highs and roll off the lows
[43:06] and what you have left with is just the
[43:08] middle part and then they do all this
[43:10] noise reduction [ __ ] so Bluetooth is
[43:12] really bad on a lot of cars and then I
[43:14] listen to find out which one is good and
[43:15] the Volvo was really good the BMWs are
[43:18] typically really good and it's almost
[43:19] always tied to Bowers and then uh
[43:23] Spotify if you're connected through
[43:24] Android auto and apple carplay wired is
[43:27] really your best option Wireless is
[43:29] there's some level of compression that
[43:30] changes because your signal strength
[43:32] changes for Wi-Fi so there's some
[43:34] buffering effect but typically wired is
[43:36] the best
[43:37] um but in short you can you can tell it
[43:38] you can tell difference I'm sorry yeah
[43:40] and the audio test we do one of them is
[43:42] frequency response and the other one's
[43:44] just showing General curve General curve
[43:46] shows whether you have too much high too
[43:48] much low what frequency is being rolled
[43:50] off and what's not yeah it's complicated
[43:53] but it is accurate and that's why we do
[43:54] it and the reason why it's not on the
[43:56] screen for 40 seconds is it's YouTube
[43:58] you can press you can pause it yeah and
[44:00] it's hard we need to we did do an audio
[44:01] testing video explaining a lot of this
[44:03] but what we really need to do is sit
[44:05] down and explain the graphs the two
[44:07] major ones you're going to look at is
[44:09] frequency response and SPL which is
[44:11] sound pressure level you just look at
[44:13] those graphs it should be very very like
[44:17] flat as much as possible there's always
[44:19] going to be a roll off in the highs and
[44:20] a little bit on the low because the
[44:21] speakers can't produce the entire
[44:23] frequency range in a car it's impossible
[44:24] so when you see a graph that's like the
[44:27] base is up here and there's huge drops
[44:29] all over the place that's typically
[44:31] where you hear it audibly because your
[44:32] ears are really sensitive to changes in
[44:36] like sharp changes in tone like or are
[44:39] sharp changes in volume change and
[44:41] that's sometimes they roll off volume
[44:42] two which is the worst but when you see
[44:44] a graph that's more flat that's
[44:46] typically a system that's had more money
[44:48] or time spent in engineering that's
[44:50] that's where I'll leave it with that and
[44:52] what what's the worst audio system we've
[44:54] heard to just quickly answer one of the
[44:56] super chat questions
[44:58] the Ridgeline was probably the worst car
[45:00] we've ever tested it sounds like
[45:02] literally phone speakers in the car
[45:04] everything about it is bad it's it's got
[45:07] the worst if you ever want to get in
[45:08] there
[45:10] um
[45:10] so the the test that I did was a song
[45:13] that started with acoustic and I got
[45:15] electronic like bass in it so the
[45:17] acoustic is like oh yeah everything's
[45:19] level and then the bass kicks in and all
[45:21] the acoustic guitar disappears out of
[45:24] the song because it's like trying to
[45:26] protect the sound system because it
[45:28] can't reproduce the bass I mean it's
[45:29] like almost comical how bad it was they
[45:32] spent probably 20 on it like on the back
[45:35] end if that 20 bucks yeah I'm sure the
[45:37] piece Parts alone were like ten dollars
[45:39] uh will you review uh the LC 500 coupe
[45:43] with the new handling characteristics
[45:44] it's an LC 500 so we will try to get one
[45:46] in the Press Fleet yeah for sure um any
[45:49] news on the upcoming rear-wheel drive
[45:51] six cylinder platform for Mazda we will
[45:54] be doing a video in the following months
[45:56] on that don't be too worried about that
[45:58] uh any thoughts on the
[46:01] b9.5 A4 I'm looking to replace my G20
[46:05] 330i Audi and us have a interesting
[46:09] relationship
[46:10] um they aren't particularly good about
[46:12] getting his press cars they were very
[46:13] kind and finally got us an RS3 but they
[46:17] are they just don't care about the
[46:18] Midwest basically we have to be in one
[46:20] of the coasts to get cars from them in
[46:22] any real capacity so that's where we're
[46:24] at if I can ever get an A4 I'll tell you
[46:26] but
[46:27] the three series is a pretty good
[46:30] platform we have an es right now I
[46:32] picked it up because we gave the Es as a
[46:34] um one of the luxury or mid-sized car
[46:37] contenders and being in it while it is
[46:39] very quiet and it is very comfortable
[46:40] compared to you know modern claw or one
[46:43] of the rear-wheel drive platforms it's
[46:45] definitely lacking in any form of
[46:46] Dynamics
[46:49] um I'm trying to think what else uh will
[46:51] we be able to get a m340i if any of you
[46:54] guys wanted to take a whiskey shot at my
[46:55] mention of the b-58 uh I've asked BMW so
[46:59] I could drive the rear wheel drive
[47:01] variant of that m340i for literally
[47:03] years and BMW much like Audi is terrible
[47:06] at getting his cars they try their best
[47:08] but the Midwest is not a priority so
[47:10] there you go
[47:12] no I know because we're not real America
[47:15] here
[47:16] like whenever we go to these press
[47:18] events because every press event is in
[47:19] California like it started to trigger me
[47:21] more and more I'm not like a big like
[47:23] stumping for the Midwest because let's
[47:26] face it our weather sucks it's there's
[47:28] nothing really to do here the people are
[47:30] pretty real Down to Earth but it's not
[47:31] like oh my God you gotta move to
[47:33] Illinois nobody says that it's like the
[47:35] joking Noah thing about uh when he was
[47:38] on the Bulls he joked around about
[47:39] what's so great about Cleveland yeah
[47:41] nobody says they take their vacation to
[47:43] Cleveland it's it's true nobody's like
[47:45] oh I got it I gotta come now I gotta
[47:47] hang out in the northwest suburbs Jack
[47:49] and Mark but it pisses me off because
[47:51] it's always like the whole world doesn't
[47:53] revolve around California's like
[47:54] mentality of how cars work there and
[47:57] people work there it's it's so removed
[47:59] from reality of the rest of the country
[48:00] especially the rural areas more so
[48:03] uh
[48:06] okay now I just lost every we just got
[48:08] quiet because we realized you just
[48:09] sacrificed your entire relationship with
[48:11] California it just just fell into the
[48:13] ocean for you
[48:15] um all right uh Mark can you share your
[48:17] experiences with music streaming service
[48:19] title versus Amazon music
[48:22] um
[48:24] what what do you use I use Spotify
[48:26] because I'm a basic [ __ ] and Mark uses
[48:28] Amazon because he loves Jeff Bezos it's
[48:31] because I want one service where I don't
[48:34] have 10 different subscriptions once
[48:37] Amazon went to like lossless or near
[48:39] lossless audio I was good for that I
[48:41] mean it's already tied into Prime and
[48:43] all of that five minute MPR you do get
[48:46] like Spotify is better but Spotify
[48:47] originally you could only sign up with
[48:49] an account if you had a Facebook account
[48:51] do you remember doing that no like they
[48:52] were heavily integrated into Facebook
[48:54] and I'm just like Auntie yeah even
[48:56] though I have an Instagram thing for
[48:58] Savage geese but anyway it's it's
[48:59] nonsense
[49:01] um
[49:02] can you Michael ask Mark can you comment
[49:06] on the historical aspect of new slash
[49:09] used car affordability where do you
[49:11] think the market will be in five ten
[49:12] years from now for background I'm in my
[49:14] mid-20s with a well above average salary
[49:16] and I cannot I still have to drop out of
[49:19] the market because I couldn't swallow
[49:20] paying forty thousand dollars for a
[49:21] launcher and or fifty thousand dollars
[49:23] for a gr Corolla or Type R
[49:26] you answer that I I mean you know how I
[49:29] feel about it cars are a shitload of
[49:32] money now and I they are going to get
[49:34] more money they're going to continue to
[49:36] cost more till people stop buying cars
[49:39] and I think that's just going to be the
[49:40] way it is used vehicles I think
[49:44] because of interest rates the way they
[49:46] are going will come down in price out of
[49:48] necessity but I I honestly I I don't
[49:51] know uh
[49:54] I don't know I don't have a good answer
[49:55] for it when it comes to reliability
[49:57] though and the concerns when it comes to
[49:59] uh like how these vehicles are going to
[50:02] hold up they're going to be a lot more
[50:04] expensive to repair than they used to be
[50:06] particularly as all these vehicles move
[50:08] towards hybridization and EVS I think
[50:10] that because of the repair cost used car
[50:13] prices for more commodity Vehicles will
[50:14] come down but
[50:16] that's it yeah I think you're going to
[50:17] see a correction this year I mean you're
[50:19] already starting to see it in used car
[50:20] prices so once that kind of Tanks you
[50:22] know then inventories come back up and
[50:24] nobody wants to pay seven percent
[50:26] interest on car loans like the average
[50:28] the reason why there's no T in my
[50:29] alphabet is all the t is in me
[50:31] [Laughter]
[50:34] um man that was horrible forgive me uh
[50:37] Mark oh you don't you haven't
[50:38] transitioned look this is probably the
[50:40] the only uh female that's on here that's
[50:43] fake
[50:46] I had I had to do it oh wait a second
[50:48] hold on a second Jack let me get this
[50:50] banner up because it's
[50:54] [Laughter]
[50:57] um what's your uh what is mine and
[51:00] Mark's favorite coffee beverage
[51:02] and is there a spot open for a grumpy
[51:05] Cameo from Scott okay uh so first let's
[51:08] do the drink one
[51:10] all right unless you started on
[51:12] I am a cappuccino or latte man
[51:17] how about you mark That's it yeah like I
[51:19] thought you like a whole bunch of stuff
[51:20] I do I like I like some fruitful drinks
[51:23] but now I'm I'm going hard on the pure
[51:25] like latte or cappuccino I've been
[51:27] aeropressed at homes every morning I I
[51:31] would love to do you really yeah I do oh
[51:33] my God I think we're joking
[51:35] no I should have bougie I should have
[51:38] known uh I'm in there with my my farm to
[51:40] table beans grinding them up every
[51:42] morning while I sit there with my apron
[51:44] on
[51:44] uh what about you mark so Mark does have
[51:47] a dairy intolerance so he's he's moved
[51:50] from uh soy to Oat uh yeah so the the
[51:54] back story about this to take a break
[51:56] from the questions is I used to work at
[51:59] Motorola back in the day and this was
[52:01] like Greg and all them and it was like
[52:04] 10 of us guys and this is what Motorola
[52:06] was like Motorola before it was uh
[52:08] Lenovo and they were just like they were
[52:10] done like they were done and nobody
[52:13] cared about anything so we'd come into
[52:15] work and they because we were
[52:16] contractors at that point they literally
[52:18] took our I.T team and they didn't know
[52:20] where to put us so they put us in the
[52:22] Law Department with all these Motorola
[52:23] lawyers and we were so obnoxious that
[52:26] they kicked us out of the department
[52:28] literally had the like the facilities
[52:30] guys come Boomer cubes out and they put
[52:33] us in the main hallway in the building
[52:35] like when you walked out they just built
[52:37] our cubes in the hallway because they
[52:39] didn't want us to be around anybody else
[52:40] so we'd go and like screw it none of the
[52:44] management care so we'd go on like four
[52:45] hour lunches like literally we would
[52:47] only come into work to go to lunch to
[52:49] hang out because everything else was
[52:51] like a [ __ ] show so we'd go to lunch
[52:54] first we'd go bowling and then we'd go
[52:57] like let's get like an appetizer and
[52:59] then we go get lunch and then we go
[53:01] somewhere else and then we go get ice
[53:02] cream every day and it was like a course
[53:04] of a year of getting like hot fudge
[53:07] sundaes and turtles Sundaes and banana
[53:10] splits that like one day my buddy Greg
[53:12] he had his his family's like Exploder
[53:15] and it was like brand new in the leather
[53:17] that fake leather smell I I had this
[53:20] gurgling in my stomach and they
[53:22] literally had to pull over a gas station
[53:23] I barely made it and that was the
[53:24] turning point for me after that day
[53:26] every time I had Dairy I was like done
[53:28] for but it was like years of abuse like
[53:31] literally years of abuse so uh now I
[53:33] don't like coffee so I just drink chives
[53:35] with oat milk and it's as close as I can
[53:37] get to my Dairy fix uh Jakey asks any
[53:40] updates on a long-term MDX Type S we
[53:42] have that vehicle we're gonna be doing a
[53:44] a series of videos we have two long-term
[53:46] testers right now that oems gave us we
[53:50] have a Mazda 3 all-wheel drive turbo I
[53:52] can't tell you how many times people
[53:54] have asked us to do a long-term current
[53:56] gen miles the three we talked to modest
[53:58] about it they gave us a loan for six
[54:00] months so we're gonna try to pile on
[54:02] like 20 000 miles in six months I'll let
[54:04] you know how that goes but oh that's
[54:07] what I forgot to upload that the one
[54:09] clip
[54:11] um I might be able to upload it
[54:14] um for people to see
[54:17] about the transmission thing oh yeah so
[54:20] the type S has a gearbox problem it goes
[54:22] into neutral all the time which we'll be
[54:24] talking about in our actual video when
[54:26] that comes out yeah I'm not going to put
[54:27] it in our Mazda 3 uh it's a brand new
[54:31] vehicle it's an all-wheel drive turbo
[54:32] every single option because it's a press
[54:34] car that's how it works it already has a
[54:36] horrendous headliner rattle but you know
[54:39] you're about to see what's going to
[54:41] happen with that vehicle long term I did
[54:43] bring it in for the transmission issue
[54:44] because I had a flat tire like I
[54:47] literally talked to three people there I
[54:48] I said this is a press car it's
[54:51] Automotive media and it's from the
[54:52] manufacturer can you please take a look
[54:54] at this if the if the trans ECU needs to
[54:56] be reset for like relearn
[54:59] um I talked to the the tech I talked to
[55:01] the service manager and I talked to the
[55:03] the main guy who handles service calls
[55:05] and they're like oh everything's all
[55:06] done I'm like oh so what was it the
[55:08] trans he's like the text just like oh it
[55:10] does that in sport mode I'm like yeah
[55:12] that's not what I said and it happens in
[55:14] every mode it doesn't matter what in
[55:16] Comfort mode it does it so they
[55:18] basically didn't do anything so I'm
[55:19] gonna see uh once I record it I'll go
[55:23] back and bring it back and kind of
[55:24] really like hey what is really wrong
[55:26] with this is it from the factory that
[55:28] way or is it just a problem but anyway
[55:30] yeah uh Dan who's a hero oh sir Chris
[55:33] I'll answer correct I'll ask answer the
[55:36] answer Chris's question first what do
[55:38] you miss most about your LC 500 do you
[55:40] regret getting rid of it uh I missed
[55:43] that car a lot
[55:44] um but I didn't I didn't drive it it was
[55:46] a car I really wanted I thought it was
[55:48] like it was everything I wanted in a car
[55:50] at that point in time but drove the hell
[55:52] out of that thing dude I drove that
[55:53] thing like none other and it wasn't
[55:54] designed to drive it the way that I did
[55:56] and I think that's what broke it for me
[55:58] is we went to the track a couple times
[55:59] not not because it was my plan to do
[56:02] that I just wanted to see what it was
[56:03] like and when we were out there with
[56:04] Jack's vet his uh Grand Sport the thing
[56:07] was fast it really wasn't pulling the
[56:09] straights on the Grand Sport yeah I mean
[56:11] and I drove the piss out of it but the
[56:13] problem was is it didn't have the
[56:14] cooling to support its capabilities it
[56:17] needs stiffer suspension like a better
[56:19] suspension to control the weight it
[56:21] needed a trans cooler and it needed an
[56:23] oil cooler all three of those things
[56:24] would not be the biggest deal to do and
[56:27] I would buy another one but I would not
[56:28] buy it without that because I'd always
[56:30] get to the threshold of having that
[56:31] there for like 10 or 15 minutes and went
[56:33] over here no it wasn't even that in the
[56:35] heat like it would literally four laps
[56:37] of me driving and the trans would reach
[56:39] us
[56:39] oh yeah right no the oil would the oil
[56:42] would be in red like every time I drove
[56:44] it uh Dan who was a hero and thank you
[56:47] Dan for being a long-term supporter of
[56:49] this channel
[56:50] uh long-term plans for Savage geese have
[56:53] you considered moving to warmer climates
[56:55] both of our significant others and
[56:57] families are out here in the Midwest so
[56:59] that's pretty much where we're stuck uh
[57:01] posting to different platforms such as
[57:04] Rumble
[57:05] um we post to I think we're going to
[57:08] start posting on Amazon again
[57:09] and um
[57:13] uh our stuff is about to go up on
[57:15] Samsung assuming that goes through but
[57:18] not really I mean YouTube is sort of our
[57:19] home I mean if this Outlet or platform
[57:23] dies and for whatever reason we continue
[57:25] to do this we'll probably move to
[57:26] another platform but I think you know
[57:29] what would you be honest you you're
[57:31] gonna move into another platform if this
[57:33] does yeah I'm going back to corporate
[57:34] work yelling at all my employees and my
[57:36] factories Jack's gonna have a job in the
[57:38] corporate world and I'm gonna ride this
[57:40] out until it absolutely crumbles to the
[57:42] ground I think it doesn't live in my
[57:43] yard yeah I'm gonna like live in Jack's
[57:45] basement that's for sure my goal like
[57:47] there's days where when Jack and I have
[57:49] this conversation and it's a real
[57:50] conversation to have
[57:52] um doing this six to seven days a week
[57:54] is not fun a lot and the the amount of
[57:57] stress personally that I'm under to make
[57:59] this work and then work and then try to
[58:00] be creative I wake up days and I'm like
[58:03] I just want to go back to my corporate
[58:04] job it was it was easy not like easy
[58:06] like I talked about the Motorola story
[58:08] my corporate jobs that was that's not
[58:10] how I was really liked all that you are
[58:12] the I.T director that just disappeared I
[58:15] gotta go I gotta fund the local ice
[58:16] cream shop this week
[58:18] um my real my real jobs were hard but
[58:21] they were never as hard as this I mean I
[58:23] I just don't get a break so anyway
[58:26] um expansion of savage geese my goal is
[58:28] more projects our goal this year is to
[58:30] do one docu style film or big video
[58:32] every single month that's why you guys
[58:34] watch this stuff
[58:36] um so that's what we're trying to do we
[58:37] have a lot of big projects that are
[58:39] hopefully gonna come through and you'll
[58:41] see a lot more like the c806 stock you
[58:43] film or those the Nissan Z film or any
[58:46] of those big videos where you see
[58:47] engineers and people and we try to tell
[58:50] you a story that's a little bit more
[58:51] time Timeless and less disposable than a
[58:53] lot of the standard review or content
[58:56] that is put out on the internet
[58:58] perhaps more satirical content yeah why
[59:01] not we're trying to do Wednesday videos
[59:03] from now on we'll uh were there going to
[59:05] be topical or be a little bit less
[59:07] formal we're never going to do skits or
[59:09] anything like that but that's not who we
[59:11] are I mean I I could easily do Skits the
[59:13] Tom Todd stuff was hilarious you know I
[59:16] mean that's the type of stuff that I
[59:17] would do yeah I mean there's some
[59:18] classic stuff to do but to keep up that
[59:21] shtick in every video becomes like
[59:24] it'd be I can't do that like it has to
[59:26] be very metered out and people are not
[59:28] watching at least our stuff for the
[59:30] comedy no one likes us
[59:32] they might like the sarcasm to a certain
[59:35] extent and some of the [ __ ] that's
[59:36] in it if it was me I would have like
[59:38] probably 500 people watching because I'd
[59:40] be such an [ __ ] all the time but I
[59:42] have to dial it back especially with
[59:44] this guy uh one of the Bronco video
[59:46] comes out like it's coming up Friday and
[59:49] you'll see like I'm such a dick in the
[59:51] shop and I I caught it together where
[59:53] every time I had a snide commented Jack
[59:54] is just like completely ignoring me so
[59:56] he can get back to like the actual
[59:58] business that's what it's like uh today
[60:01] in the shop we were talking about uh
[60:02] something and it dawned on me I'm like
[60:04] man when I'm like 45 and I'm burnt out
[60:08] with life I'm and I'm a pure business
[60:10] man I'm gonna be such an [ __ ] yeah
[60:12] yeah you add another like 10 oh well
[60:14] this is the thing like when you're young
[60:16] you have a different mentality you have
[60:18] a lot more talents for stuff and then
[60:19] you attack on every 10 years you're like
[60:21] a totally different person more so with
[60:23] business and depending on your
[60:25] relationships you're gonna put up with
[60:26] less if you're on your fifth divorce you
[60:28] know I'm only 17. you're not there yet
[60:31] you know you're going to clearly look at
[60:33] this person and be like I the first time
[60:35] there's a whiff of like drama you're
[60:37] like see ya oh Mark's always like oh the
[60:39] old bones well did you see uh the lady
[60:42] from Amazon or what's the I don't I'm
[60:44] sorry I don't remember her name the guy
[60:46] that was the guy the girl who was
[60:47] married to Bezos she got remarried and I
[60:49] guess she's getting divorced for the
[60:50] second time already like you know she's
[60:53] probably like yeah
[60:55] you know I I don't need these it's
[60:57] easier to pull the rip cord yeah exactly
[61:00] do you think the industry will shift
[61:01] from Cars to trucks is it indicative
[61:04] um of a post-apocalyptic world where
[61:07] Road Zone exists uh
[61:10] that's a good question honestly Dan I
[61:12] think the reason why people are pushed
[61:14] towards trucks and SUVs versus cars is
[61:17] purely a utility perspective and
[61:19] packaging you look at the new Ram EV I
[61:21] Know Dan doesn't like EVS but that thing
[61:24] is the size of is it's not going to look
[61:26] like the concept vehicle I would be
[61:28] shocked to look anything like the
[61:30] concept vehicle but that thing is
[61:31] enormous 50 ads huge and because it's so
[61:36] big uh they there's so much more utility
[61:39] and flexibility for the OEM now a truck
[61:42] or an SUV can be that everything vehicle
[61:44] so
[61:46] um all right Scott what do you think of
[61:49] the best
[61:51] what do you think the best Porsche
[61:52] purchase would be as a driver's car
[61:55] investment for 30k or close must be a
[61:58] manual transmission you think these cars
[62:00] will ever return to prices like they
[62:01] were two three years ago
[62:03] um
[62:04] probably honestly investment's hard
[62:06] because all cars are for the most part
[62:08] bad Investments but something that isn't
[62:11] going to just crater into the ground
[62:12] value-wise
[62:14] I don't know like I can't you're gonna
[62:16] hear this from everyone Cayman or maybe
[62:17] a 996 911 if the IMs bearings were done
[62:20] it's just they're a lot of money and
[62:22] that's the other thing you're buying a
[62:23] car that's thirty thousand dollars now
[62:25] if anything bad happens to that Porsche
[62:28] when we do our Cayman video or 987.2 it
[62:30] may be thirty forty fifty thousand
[62:32] dollars now that car was you know nearly
[62:35] a six figure vehicle when it was new
[62:36] particularly when you included inflation
[62:38] some if something bad happens
[62:42] you are going to have a bad time
[62:44] financially it's going to be a lot worse
[62:45] than a traditional 30 000 card Effect so
[62:48] just keep that in mind
[62:51] um
[62:52] you know I'll ask you know as a premium
[62:55] patreon number
[62:58] um are we gonna do any fan meetup events
[63:00] like we did at TMP several years ago I
[63:02] am working with Chicago auto pros and
[63:05] Autobahn as we speak I'm doing a track
[63:07] day
[63:08] autocross car show viewer Meetup at
[63:12] Autobahn sometime this spring or summer
[63:14] uh the proceeds will go so the proceeds
[63:19] that don't cover the track rental so
[63:21] it's going to be run by Chicago Auto
[63:22] Pros but the car show element and the
[63:25] gate fees I'm trying to make sure all of
[63:27] the autocross fees as well go to a local
[63:31] animal charity a dog charity because I'm
[63:33] a dog person and pets are amazing I'm
[63:36] gonna let you run with that dude because
[63:38] uh he's not gonna run the event but he
[63:40] will be there we're trying to get some
[63:41] other YouTubers to be there as well the
[63:43] track day the autocross should be fun
[63:44] it'll be at Autobahn
[63:46] um yeah all right so there's that uh
[63:49] what are your top five manual
[63:52] transmissions this is from Eric Lowe uh
[63:55] well since I am paid for by Honda CTR
[63:59] ctrcs Civic Integra Type R Civic Type R
[64:02] the fl5 type R and even if you moved you
[64:06] could see a Civic yeah no uh I think the
[64:09] best ones modern history are the GT350
[64:13] or whatever yeah GT350 the Tremec 60s TR
[64:16] 6060 so it would be the similar [ __ ] in
[64:18] the Camaro right I mean yeah the to me
[64:22] it's GT350 it's the gt3s they basically
[64:25] feel the same time 1.2 and 992 Uh
[64:28] current fl5 CTR no joke as a front wheel
[64:31] drive it's a very good gearbox uh
[64:33] Hellcat yeah yeah surprisingly it's very
[64:36] industrial but very very mechanical yeah
[64:38] it's crazy but I guess you could say the
[64:40] same thing about the Vipers it's like
[64:42] it's got that same like
[64:44] it's a perfect transmission for Jack
[64:46] because well maybe not so much now you
[64:48] smoothed out your your shifting but
[64:50] before you know this guy was like uh a
[64:53] robot arm you know in a factory it's
[64:55] like for my mt82 with my mgw yeah the
[64:57] guy shotgun Blossom I would say that's
[65:00] 2000 is probably one of the best despite
[65:02] it being a little bit finicky Blackwing
[65:04] gearbox
[65:05] that's another Tremec unit yeah that's
[65:07] it for me
[65:09] um all right there are quite a few more
[65:11] so hopefully people totally disappear
[65:13] from this
[65:15] um
[65:17] love that this is from Chris Rice
[65:21] yeah this is from Chris rocks don't hit
[65:23] me uh love what you did with the gr 86
[65:26] versus super versus Z on the same tire
[65:28] and breaking upgrades would love uh
[65:31] enjoying seeing more of those comparison
[65:34] tests uh on older lightly modified
[65:37] sports cars
[65:39] honestly we have some comparative
[65:42] comparison tests coming up and they're
[65:44] all going to be an re71 rs's I don't
[65:46] know about older cars because that
[65:48] involves getting viewers involved and
[65:49] having their cars modified and all that
[65:51] other fun stuff
[65:53] um our comparison test no surprise we're
[65:55] trying to do a gr Corolla a launcher and
[65:57] CTR Golf R Video we have that four liter
[66:01] that is double Wishbone from Germany and
[66:04] the Corvette one coming along and a
[66:07] couple others this year I'm trying to do
[66:09] one with the manual Supra and a couple
[66:12] other vehicles but I know people like
[66:15] them it's an easy one and I'd like the
[66:16] philosophical almond Brit who um is
[66:19] still sort of the lead instructor at
[66:21] huddleban Country Club it's a tremendous
[66:24] driver and he does give very very good
[66:25] feedback and he's very consistent so I
[66:28] know you guys like it so we're going to
[66:29] try to put those together they are a
[66:31] bear to make though oh yeah it's it's
[66:34] like 10 times longer but I mean it's
[66:36] like anything Enthusiast related right
[66:38] like when when you're catering to an
[66:41] Enthusiast like there's a different
[66:42] level of expectation for those types of
[66:44] cars versus like a commodity thing like
[66:46] we could [ __ ] out like the Equinox that
[66:49] we have right now speaking of which
[66:50] we're going to take a quick break uh and
[66:52] show you this is a this is an exclusive
[66:56] live stream review that I'm gonna play
[66:58] for everybody right now
[67:01] Blake and Timmy from Tick Tock beg me to
[67:03] do a video on my brand new Chevy Equinox
[67:05] here we have the Chevy Equinox with two
[67:09] gauge clusters there's a speedometer
[67:11] here and then this is telling me how
[67:13] fast the engine is going
[67:15] um so this when this goes High the
[67:18] engine's going really fast we have a a
[67:21] fuel economy meter here and this is
[67:23] whether I'm hot or cold so what we do is
[67:25] we can hit this button and it'll turn on
[67:27] the heat and then the airbags heat up
[67:29] just in case there's an accident
[67:31] we come over here and this is a one of
[67:34] my favorite touches everybody this is
[67:36] the badass bow tie right here that they
[67:38] put on the shifter so when I shift down
[67:40] um
[67:43] it's a little hard to shift
[67:45] um
[67:46] I guess I just need to go to the gemi or
[67:48] something guys uh so there's a this
[67:51] button here is uh hidden behind the
[67:53] shifter it's a sport mode button so you
[67:56] hit it and it flashes and it lets you
[67:57] know that you're ready to go this is a
[67:59] great place for chai lattes
[68:02] um I get oat milk in mine or typically
[68:03] soy when I feel like I'm having a little
[68:06] bit more feelings towards somebody I I
[68:10] feel a little bit extra charge so I have
[68:12] a soy latte and it just dials me back to
[68:14] the next level so I can talk about maybe
[68:17] cuddling I'm not sure but anyway there's
[68:19] two cup holders and then we get to the
[68:21] Crown Jewel The Equinox interior this is
[68:24] the 17 inch touchscreen display everyone
[68:27] and if I want to listen to music it's
[68:30] very easy to navigate it's like my home
[68:32] screen at home at home when I touch I
[68:36] can just control everything through here
[68:38] so when I'm listening
[68:43] it's a little little loud for everybody
[68:45] that's my friend's music he likes to
[68:48] listen to that headbanger stuff I'm I'm
[68:50] more into classic vinyl myself I have a
[68:52] couple record players at home and um I
[68:55] think it just sounds better than CD but
[68:57] I think anyway aside from that we got a
[69:00] lot of features I'll cover in the next
[69:01] video
[69:02] everybody catch you later
[69:06] I can't believe I work with this guy
[69:09] oh really that was just a clever way of
[69:11] catching up with like with the comments
[69:13] anyway go ahead
[69:15] um oh [ __ ] uh let me get back anyway so
[69:18] my point of commodity cars it's way
[69:20] easier to do a shitbox equinox where
[69:22] nobody literally cares about production
[69:23] value or anything you just they just
[69:25] want to make a tick tock video yeah
[69:27] that's it
[69:28] man we got a lot more questions
[69:30] [Music]
[69:31] so we are doing a Discord it is all set
[69:34] up we just need to activate it and we
[69:36] haven't had time to activate a Discord
[69:39] and actually make sure that it's
[69:41] moderated correctly and it doesn't turn
[69:43] into an internet hellscape but yes we do
[69:45] have a Discord
[69:47] um after working as a service advisor
[69:50] for BMW for 15 years
[69:52] it seems only two concerns customers
[69:55] have anymore why isn't my Apple carplay
[69:57] working and why do I need Brakes and
[69:59] Tires already are you guys privy to
[70:01] engineering advances and tire compounds
[70:03] that will allow them to hold up to
[70:05] better uh hold up better to instant
[70:08] torque being created by fully hybridized
[70:11] and fully electric motors
[70:13] um to be honest I think that's the
[70:15] biggest problem that both roads tires
[70:18] and consumables are going to have as as
[70:20] everything moves to EV trucks and big EV
[70:23] SUVs you're going to see a massive
[70:26] increase in consumable cost because
[70:28] tires are going to wear out faster
[70:29] brakes won't but I think a lot of
[70:31] suspension components and road damage is
[70:33] going to get worse yeah I think the tire
[70:36] problem you're just going to see tires
[70:37] get replaced sooner we're doing a video
[70:39] and it's my fault for not having it out
[70:40] and scripted yet but we're doing a
[70:42] technical series with Bridgestone it's
[70:45] not sponsored by Bridgestone they were
[70:46] the only Tire Company to ever say yes to
[70:49] answering or engineering questions in
[70:51] great detail on summer Tire technology
[70:54] walking you through technically the
[70:55] differences in how tread blocks work how
[70:58] different rubber compounds work why
[71:00] tires wear the way they do and one on
[71:01] snow tires and quite frankly how all
[71:05] season tires have advanced to the point
[71:06] where well you should always get snow
[71:08] tires how they are now more
[71:10] let's call it a jack of all trades no
[71:14] pun intended how there have a broader
[71:16] bandwidth of use well the other part too
[71:18] is you have cars that are bigger like
[71:20] everything's bigger and heavier and this
[71:22] is going back to a point I was talking
[71:23] to you on the shop today
[71:25] um you know it's funny going back to
[71:27] older cars that had an average weight of
[71:29] three thousand pounds now everything's
[71:31] gone up to like 3 500 or like 4 000
[71:33] pounds because everybody wants an SUV
[71:35] and that was kind of like the the light
[71:37] car fun to car thing was phased out
[71:39] based on people's desire to have bigger
[71:41] vehicles so now like the concept of like
[71:44] what Lotus was doing or like McLaren you
[71:46] can forget about that because it's too
[71:47] expensive nobody buys it
[71:49] um now we have the regulations kind of
[71:51] killing off uh internal combustion or
[71:53] like fun internal combustion for like
[71:55] these downsized engines and now we're
[71:57] seeing like all these EV pushes so EVS
[72:00] are way heavier they're like twice the
[72:02] weight of an old you know the older cars
[72:03] and you have like Concepts now coming
[72:05] out like the ram we're talking about
[72:06] that today the concept of a three row
[72:08] pickup truck which you know 100 is gonna
[72:11] happen so you're talking about now a 9
[72:13] 000 pound truck three road truck bigger
[72:16] heavier in every capacity more materials
[72:19] huge batteries and that's like three
[72:22] cars based on our our old cars that they
[72:24] used to be so to power that level of
[72:27] weight and to power that level of
[72:29] horsepower and torque you have bigger
[72:31] tires bigger and bigger tires and they
[72:33] have to be stickier to put down the
[72:35] power which means you can't have both
[72:37] you can't have an all-season compound
[72:39] that can control that type of weight and
[72:42] load and lateral load and like
[72:44] longitudal load on an all-season tire so
[72:47] more of these tires are becoming more
[72:48] and more separated to Summer and now
[72:51] they're having an all-season option and
[72:53] they literally get obliterated in 20 000
[72:55] miles if that so you're going to see
[72:57] this on more and more products as the
[73:00] especially with the EVS because there's
[73:01] no way they can manage power without the
[73:03] electronics on the tire uh and now tires
[73:06] are crazy like that the RDX tire was 450
[73:09] for an all-season MDX yeah sorry the MDX
[73:13] I mean 450 for one tire and this is
[73:15] really common now to see Tires over 250
[73:18] or 300 on these mainstream cars per tire
[73:20] that's a huge consumable cost that
[73:22] people don't think about and it's one
[73:23] thing obviously the viewers on here know
[73:25] to look at that like if you're gonna buy
[73:26] a car look at what the tires cost before
[73:28] you get into it and you're like oh [ __ ]
[73:30] like me with the X7 I'm like Jack's like
[73:32] well I can get you tires I'm like yeah
[73:34] there's really only tight two Tire
[73:36] options that are made for that car too
[73:38] one's a summer and one's a half-assed
[73:40] All Season they're all like 500 a piece
[73:43] and I'm like dude I'm not spending
[73:53] it's ridiculous
[73:55] um all right I'm gonna answer a couple
[73:56] more patreon questions
[73:58] um Joseph who's a GT4 owner think about
[74:01] going to a one-car garage again uh
[74:05] thoughts on the G80 g82 M3 or maybe is
[74:09] it the M2 I can't remember this M3 or
[74:11] the M2 we're doing an M2 video so I can
[74:13] answer that question in the future but
[74:15] uh the M3 compared to a GT4 is going to
[74:18] feel awfully numb but a whole lot faster
[74:20] yeah for sure yep I don't think you'll
[74:23] be all that happy man if I went from a
[74:24] GT4 to uh
[74:27] a M3 I mean yeah the practicality will
[74:30] be great in having a less substantial
[74:32] payment would be great yeah but the car
[74:35] is really numb
[74:37] um
[74:40] uh Jeffrey uh with model 3 prices
[74:43] falling is there a better choice over
[74:45] you is it a better choice of a used
[74:48] hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles
[74:50] looking at a model 3 versus an ES300
[74:52] hybrid Honda Clarity or Honda Accord
[74:54] Hybrid
[74:56] you had a gentleman that you used to
[74:58] work with who had a model 3 for three
[75:00] years in the midwest you want to walk
[75:01] them yeah so I met up with my
[75:03] ex-co-workers and uh he leased a model 3
[75:07] and he
[75:10] I don't know he didn't have the extended
[75:12] range he had the regular one so at the
[75:14] end of three years he was done with it
[75:15] because of the range anxiety and I'm
[75:17] like okay well that's everybody that you
[75:19] know so he started with like a 220 mile
[75:21] range by the end of three years he
[75:23] barely got 170 and every time he got
[75:26] down to like that 10 15 mile range it
[75:29] was reducing the power output of the car
[75:32] and granted he drove it pretty hard but
[75:33] he's like I'm never doing that again so
[75:36] the batteries regardless of Tesla even
[75:38] on all the updates there's going to be
[75:40] degradation depending on the weather
[75:41] that you're in we talk about this all
[75:43] the time people like don't talk about it
[75:44] but if you're in cold or extreme hot and
[75:47] you drive it hard and you're constantly
[75:48] up and down up and down on that battery
[75:50] or if you're like you're on a fast
[75:51] charger all the time there's gonna be
[75:52] degradation they've tried to build it in
[75:54] the packs like they build overhead in
[75:56] the packs for that you know to make up
[75:58] for it but it's still there so can you
[75:59] live with that with the model 3 the
[76:02] compromise associated with it or would
[76:04] you rather pay for gas just buy an ES300
[76:07] or a Honda Accord which you know while
[76:10] they will not be essentially free to run
[76:12] in that regards they won't have those
[76:15] long-term issues and give you some more
[76:16] flexibility I would buy the es
[76:18] personally or the Honda Accord if you're
[76:19] looking for that Frugal McDougall pseudo
[76:22] luxury car to roll around in but
[76:24] yeah uh all right I'll answer I know
[76:27] there are a ton of questions from Super
[76:28] Chat but I'll go through a couple more
[76:30] uh patreon questions and we'll go back
[76:32] to them later
[76:34] holy crap uh sorry guys there's a lot of
[76:37] questions
[76:38] um unrelated to cars Mark what messaging
[76:41] app do you recommend
[76:43] for privacy
[76:45] well I use threema and it's kind of like
[76:49] like signal and all of those that aren't
[76:52] you know there's a lot of other ones
[76:53] that have been publicized but threema is
[76:55] probably the best in terms of security
[76:58] they have three months for business and
[77:00] then three months only paid you can't
[77:01] get it for free and it's cheap but it's
[77:04] encrypted end to end uh you know so like
[77:07] by it's not gonna use Grindr no I'm not
[77:09] doing this grinder so anyway yeah I'm
[77:11] not going to give you the technical
[77:12] breakdown but I use threema personally
[77:13] there's a lot of benefits to it and if
[77:15] you know how to like make sure your
[77:17] phone is secure it should be safe you
[77:19] have to make sure that you have a
[77:21] password set on your phone or encryption
[77:23] especially on iPhone because it uses
[77:24] that if you don't have that set then
[77:26] people can get into the database of the
[77:28] phone and steal it so again like
[77:30] everything you have to do due diligence
[77:32] to protect your data uh if you could
[77:34] only choose one fun manual only Japanese
[77:37] German car
[77:38] to have as a second car to drive and
[77:40] hold on to for 10 to 20 years what would
[77:44] it be assuming your max budget is like
[77:46] sixty five thousand dollars
[77:48] you you tell me bro that's 60 000 is
[77:51] hard for me because I I mean I most my
[77:53] cars are like 450 500 000. I my
[77:57] influencer money goes in man it's
[77:58] incredible because I I did a commercial
[78:00] for a Type R man
[78:03] oh type R there you go I spent two days
[78:06] and didn't get a dollar
[78:08] um two uh man second car makes it hard
[78:11] because that to me that rules out things
[78:12] like the type R joking aside in some of
[78:15] the four-door piles
[78:17] 10 to 20 years
[78:20] and you want German or American I'm
[78:22] sorry German or Japanese I mean ND Miata
[78:26] yeah that's I hate to say be that guy or
[78:29] I honestly I'd buy American at that
[78:30] price point I mean for 60 to 70 under 65
[78:34] 000 and you want to keep it for a long
[78:36] time a vet or a Viper would be amazing
[78:38] for that money
[78:40] of that a Viper would be even better I
[78:42] mean honestly if you get like a Gen 4
[78:44] Viper as much as I didn't love that
[78:46] thing it's already old you're gonna have
[78:48] a unique experience for over a decade
[78:51] or like a C6 Z06 yeah no good good point
[78:56] oh you're you're gonna show them like
[78:57] somebody somebody mentioned uh the 3ma
[78:59] article on ours Technica which I did not
[79:01] see yesterday I just want to see what
[79:03] they say like it's probably gonna be
[79:05] like oh three mode just [ __ ] the bed
[79:08] no there's vulnerabilities with Remo now
[79:11] I I don't I don't know I'm gonna go back
[79:13] to uh oh
[79:15] um something that I will bring up that
[79:16] someone asked me earlier on patreon
[79:19] um as far as collaborations with oems uh
[79:22] oems uh other YouTubers go
[79:25] um we've we did one recently with a
[79:27] journalist outlet for the Kia ev6 GT I'm
[79:32] I'm open to do more in the future I
[79:34] think we're gonna do one with Georgia
[79:35] Moto man and uh one of these days we'll
[79:37] have
[79:38] um debit a press event with us we'll
[79:40] shoot a video
[79:42] um uh we're not opposed to it it just
[79:44] becomes a logistic headache with how
[79:46] tighter schedule is we also are doing a
[79:49] mark IV super video if there's any
[79:51] chance that Alban is watching us
[79:52] currently goth at albon we shot our mark
[79:55] IV super video with albon that's
[79:57] basically done we just need to shoot
[79:59] some of our b-roll and shoot our shop
[80:00] segment but you'll be seeing that in the
[80:02] next month or so that will be a good one
[80:04] I know you guys have been asking for a
[80:05] long
[80:06] long time uh two more patreons Mark and
[80:11] then I'll I'll go to the main questions
[80:13] the main questions
[80:15] oh my God
[80:16] trying to pick ones that
[80:22] after the CRX video I got really
[80:24] interested in a affordable driver's car
[80:27] what is a good older driver's car that
[80:29] you can actually buy such as an older
[80:31] Civic Etc what about what do you think
[80:33] Mark as I pull you away from sorry I'm
[80:35] like this is and I'm I'm actually
[80:37] reading too deeply into this but yeah
[80:39] I'll read this later uh the three my
[80:41] stuff is interesting I'll have to go
[80:43] through it more I mean of course there's
[80:45] going to be two sides of the research
[80:46] versus what the company says and I'll be
[80:48] curious to see what's real and what's
[80:51] not with that anyway back to back to the
[80:53] question it's a portable car that's a
[80:55] driver's car that's old
[81:00] that you can actually find like an S2000
[81:02] is an affordable driver's car but it
[81:04] doesn't have the steering feel or
[81:05] anything like that I mean you can find
[81:07] in a lease I mean I don't know what
[81:08] shape they are I mean if you want that
[81:10] that's affordable and the lease is
[81:11] expensive 40 Grand no or 20 000. well I
[81:14] don't know 20 000 a Miata yeah that's
[81:17] pretty much like an NC
[81:19] yeah NC's Miata is probably your best
[81:20] bet for four-wheel drive and do you
[81:22] think that offers some of the feels
[81:24] something like an Integra or something
[81:25] older like a CRX no but I mean you can't
[81:29] find zero yeah I mean those are you know
[81:31] those are [ __ ] you can't find integrals
[81:33] yeah no this don't even bother they're
[81:34] not worth the money to buy them you know
[81:36] like we Rave about them as a like in
[81:38] these in these videos like the CRX that
[81:41] CRX SI we did was like sixty thousand
[81:43] dollars
[81:44] it's probably more than that I bet you
[81:46] if you posted it up somebody would pay
[81:47] like 90 000 for it yeah like in
[81:49] integra's nice ones that aren't like for
[81:52] owner every single one of them totaled
[81:54] out and stolen or almost six-figure cars
[81:56] now it's crazy RX7 mentioned that it's
[81:59] also a pretty amazing car a great okay
[82:02] actually it's a really great car it's
[82:03] just it takes a lot more work to to get
[82:06] it right than it would a traditional
[82:07] like four popper I think if you own an
[82:10] RX7 you're someone who's willing to
[82:12] wrench on a car and while I don't have a
[82:14] problem if you're willing to do that I
[82:16] think for a regular person that becomes
[82:19] not necessarily the most realistic
[82:23] um
[82:25] Blaine last one this will be my my my
[82:28] last of the patreon questions I want to
[82:30] hit you up on one that's actually
[82:32] uh a good one not that they aren't good
[82:36] but you know one that will apply to many
[82:37] many people
[82:38] here's a philosophical one from Peter
[82:40] Chu will Acura hybridize or CUV SUV
[82:43] lineup I think this becomes a
[82:48] Acura and Honda are in a weird spot do
[82:51] you think I mean they're going to have
[82:53] to hybridize RDX and MDX and all this
[82:55] stuff
[82:56] do you think they are going to be
[82:59] successful in that Mark and you see that
[83:01] anytime soon because clearly like CRV is
[83:03] a hybrid pile yeah right a cord is a
[83:05] hybrid pile they just Acura Honda
[83:08] doesn't have a lot of Drive trains I
[83:09] think people forget that they have the
[83:10] one five the two liter a naturally
[83:13] aspirated two they're hybrid in their
[83:16] four-cylinder guys in 1v6 that's modern
[83:20] the three liter and then the 3.5 they
[83:23] don't have a lot of Drive trains to work
[83:24] with right so they're gonna have to
[83:26] ground up a premium hybrid yeah no
[83:28] you're right I mean that that's that's
[83:30] the truth of it
[83:31] okay all right let's start answering uh
[83:34] super chat questions mark you want to
[83:35] start hitting me up with the about a
[83:38] billion of them that we've gotten so far
[83:39] all right first one
[83:42] mini bike Madness thank you for the one
[83:44] dollar donation sir thank you sir that's
[83:46] a that's your type of bike there was it
[83:49] a Honda 50 it is a Honda 50. are you
[83:53] gonna do wheelies on that I would love
[83:55] the I still desperately want to put you
[83:58] on a motorcycle like even in a sidecar I
[84:01] still think one of the most entertaining
[84:03] videos we've done the likelihood of the
[84:05] viewer gave us the uh vehicle the Beyond
[84:08] here is like zero but the Morgan three I
[84:09] love that thing so much I know you did I
[84:12] I mean the the only time I was ever on a
[84:15] bike was on my buddy's dirt bike he's
[84:16] like oh let me take it yeah no he put me
[84:19] on the back of his dirt bike and I was
[84:20] holding on to him like in [ __ ] mode and
[84:23] I was like terrified that was the only
[84:25] time I ever like got on a bike like that
[84:28] as a passenger uh but you can count me
[84:31] out of that dude I'd be dead in two
[84:33] seconds on a bike dead you'd be scraping
[84:35] me off the a guard rail or something uh
[84:38] next comment
[84:40] uh LT Automotive thank you for your five
[84:42] dollar donation I'd like to have I I'd
[84:46] have more to give if I didn't owe a
[84:47] thousand dollars a month for the next
[84:49] eight years of my pre-owned Altima
[84:50] that's some strong Nissan financing sir
[84:53] yeah that's that's that's premium
[84:55] financing
[84:58] Josh thank you for the twenty dollars
[85:00] thank you sir I am torn between
[85:02] contributing to my 401k or being an
[85:05] American and buying a car that cost my
[85:07] entire salary Alfa Romeo Julia if you've
[85:10] driven the ti even cooler we did have a
[85:12] TI as a press car and we we didn't do a
[85:14] video on it was uh it was the like
[85:16] British racing green one too yeah you
[85:18] cut me away from that vehicle and it was
[85:20] brown interior
[85:21] uh it's a cool car I I just it's one
[85:25] that you really love to drive it because
[85:27] the chassis is amazing but it's such a
[85:30] small car on the inside for what it is
[85:31] uh and then I say this every live stream
[85:33] you have to see if you like the engine
[85:36] because that engine is just the four
[85:39] popper it it's it's average you know
[85:43] like there's nothing wrong with it but
[85:44] it's like it's such a good car that you
[85:47] can't really utilize what the chassis is
[85:49] and you just always want more out of it
[85:50] I don't think it'd be worth going in a
[85:52] hawk for it to spend a lot of money yeah
[85:54] I'm sure used though I'm sure the dirt
[85:56] oh yeah now they are I think the the
[85:58] Julia and the stelvio like last time I
[86:01] looked were hilarious in terms of poor
[86:04] resale value 25 Grand or 30 grand I
[86:06] don't know what they were but they were
[86:07] like way way less as he as he used so if
[86:10] you could get one like I don't even know
[86:11] if they do certified and how many
[86:12] dealerships actually service them that's
[86:14] the other thing is how many uh Alpha
[86:17] dealerships are around now
[86:19] five
[86:21] all right next one
[86:23] uh Pavel Jones thank you for the ten
[86:26] dollars Australian much love from
[86:27] Australia I hope Mark is enjoying his
[86:29] CTR I have an fl5 allocation coming
[86:32] April and wanted to set aside
[86:33] aftermarket rims what rims or Wheels
[86:36] look best on an f05 in your opinion uh
[86:39] for the sake of Scott the Mugen wheels
[86:43] are amazing I don't know man I don't
[86:45] like bronze Wheels I've never liked
[86:46] bronze Wheels it's just it's like a
[86:48] Subaru thing to me like I always saw it
[86:50] on a Subaru or evos joking aside um I
[86:53] mean those car those wheels are classic
[86:55] they're but that obviously fits the Apex
[86:59] wheel that they're working on or have
[87:00] one they have them out um yo would Apex
[87:03] the thing I like about Apex Wheels they
[87:04] don't pay us to say this or anything
[87:07] along those lines is they've no you're
[87:08] making an ad now you're making a
[87:10] commercial for them aren't you I gotta
[87:11] pay for my factory expansion come on Yo
[87:14] now the thing about uh Apex is they view
[87:16] Wheels as consumables and if you talk to
[87:17] anyone who actually drives their cars
[87:20] hard wheels are consumable they break
[87:22] they crack if you ride curbs on tracks
[87:24] blah blah blah so Apex will sell you
[87:27] your next set of wheels after you
[87:28] inevitably destroy your first set for
[87:30] half off which is a big deal and the
[87:32] wheels are not catastrophically
[87:34] expensive they're not like four thousand
[87:35] dollars a set at least for their cast
[87:37] wheels so you have a coupon code too to
[87:40] go with that yeah or you get what Jack
[87:41] Factory is the uh if you buy them for 50
[87:44] off then we get a cut of like a thousand
[87:46] percent and Jack's gonna buy another
[87:48] Corvette so I have to hear about it
[87:50] again for another year
[87:51] this dude buys a Corvette like three
[87:53] years ago I still just stopped I finally
[87:55] stopped hearing about it because he was
[87:57] over it and now he's started over the
[87:59] thing with the Corvette again and now
[88:01] every day we can't even have a normal
[88:03] conversation with this guy anymore
[88:05] all he does oh man if you see my
[88:07] Corvette in the garage it's just sitting
[88:09] there it's killing me oh
[88:13] um
[88:14] Savage fleece that is a great name uh
[88:17] yeah
[88:21] um all right hit me up with the next
[88:22] question sir sorry I'm kind of stuck
[88:24] here oh yeah Jack likes to talk about
[88:26] Corvettes that was that was the next
[88:27] question uh here we go ready
[88:32] uh we addressed that in the beginning of
[88:35] the video I think Mark uh I talked about
[88:37] it for 20 minutes
[88:39] just just rewind it and you'll see it
[88:42] was not an advertisement I'm going to
[88:44] say that and if there's any other Super
[88:46] Chat things paying me to answer this it
[88:48] was not an advertisement
[88:51] I put them in the video because I wanted
[88:53] to and then I botched the story so it
[88:55] wound up looking like an ad and not only
[88:57] I I pissed a lot of viewers off
[89:00] I made the dealership like have to deal
[89:03] with about a bunch of bad press so good
[89:06] job Mark yeah anyway next question uh
[89:09] glad to see Mark rocking the Kirkland
[89:11] Signature hoodie oh we answered we
[89:13] answered this so we'll we'll answer it
[89:15] again the WRX is a fine car it's still a
[89:18] Subaru it's better than the last one
[89:19] it's just uglier but it's it is ugly and
[89:22] the interior is crap and it's ugly but
[89:26] it drives well maybe when they decide
[89:27] they're gonna paint the [ __ ] Parts on
[89:29] it and it doesn't look like uh you don't
[89:31] have to go to the aftermarket like you I
[89:33] sent you the picture I sent Jack a
[89:34] picture today from the new the rivian
[89:36] right yeah the rivian Amazon trucks that
[89:38] are on the road if you look at the side
[89:40] of it like they put all this plastic
[89:42] cladding unpainted plastic obviously for
[89:44] durability and easy to replace and it
[89:46] looked just like the cx-30 on the side
[89:48] like the bottom half so now the cx-30 is
[89:51] gonna probably sell a lot more because
[89:52] people like oh man I want I want my SUV
[89:54] to look like a Amazon delivery truck
[89:57] next question sir uh any we answered
[90:01] that one as well forgetful foot thank
[90:03] you for the two dollars you'll be seeing
[90:04] a 987.2 Cayman S Video in the next month
[90:08] or so
[90:09] not from me uh Adam thank you for the
[90:11] fifty dollars very very good thank you
[90:14] Adam appreciate it and thank you to
[90:15] everybody it's not just the money is not
[90:17] the issue here it's just I have to this
[90:19] is helping me deal with Jack after this
[90:22] he's gonna beat the [ __ ] out of me and
[90:24] tell me I'm a bad businessman
[90:26] um oh that's gonna get me a bag yeah
[90:30] thank you Rick again for the ten dollars
[90:31] I told I said Thank you to Rick in the
[90:34] very beginning what uh how much is a
[90:36] regular beef and cheddar now 3.99 or so
[90:38] you're asking the wrong person I missed
[90:40] your Aero press in the morning remember
[90:42] all right this is a true story when we
[90:45] were filming the Z06 piece and we were
[90:47] in Kentucky all this guy talked about
[90:49] with our poor rep and all the engineers
[90:51] he's like man I need to get this Jack
[90:53] guy over to Checkers he's gonna expand
[90:55] his palate I [ __ ] you not my rep still
[90:58] talks about that one of our Porsche
[91:00] wraps nice nice lady sheep lady she's
[91:04] like 20 or she's like 18 years old
[91:07] nice human being she's like ah uh you
[91:11] know next time you're in Georgia we I we
[91:13] we should get burgers tell Mark it's not
[91:16] McDonald's
[91:17] yeah he's developed a reputation with
[91:20] all the Reps that all he wants to do is
[91:21] eat garbage it's funny because I'm not
[91:23] into that I like good food but I'm also
[91:25] realistic like I I don't want to go and
[91:28] blow 150 for some bougie ass food when I
[91:31] have like two minutes to eat you know
[91:33] what I mean yeah like I'll do Checkers
[91:35] and I'll be in the bathroom all night
[91:36] but I'll do it all right next one
[91:40] I appreciate the banner mark thank you
[91:41] yeah I'm just going to leave that on
[91:45] um
[91:46] oh we did that thanks again
[91:49] I don't know how to click okay uh Clyde
[91:52] Oasis for five dollars best used fun car
[91:55] for ten dollars all right here we go
[91:57] ten thousand dollars this is easy
[92:00] because every single video is now
[92:02] talking about it the Honda Fit Sport
[92:04] with a manual transmission is it really
[92:05] under 10 grand yeah you can get it for
[92:07] like you can get a 2010 2011 fit with a
[92:11] manual for like 10 grand or less and you
[92:13] do what you have to do a forty thousand
[92:14] dollar case swap to make it fun no
[92:17] they're really fun cars and they're
[92:19] super Nimble and they're super practical
[92:21] and that's right they just brought out
[92:23] yeah there you go yeah I'm just gonna
[92:25] fly on the bandwagon
[92:28] I bought uh Dak 101 thank you for the 20
[92:31] donation sir I bought a 981 Cayman S
[92:34] last year now I hate driving my Outback
[92:36] Dad mobile ideas for a replacement under
[92:39] 45 000 man you want to replace the
[92:42] Outback with something fun
[92:44] oh that one's hard for under 45 uh
[92:49] Civic SI that's a pretty but the problem
[92:51] the Outback is so big and so usable
[92:54] yeah it is that's a hard trade-off you
[92:56] know Mike is doing that he decided NSI
[92:58] they were going to get an Outback yeah
[93:00] this is Sonata finally shut the did I
[93:02] tell you that no it's engine let go or
[93:04] like basically let go
[93:07] um and he's like I'm getting an Outback
[93:08] or Forester you got an SS no he wants an
[93:10] outside he's like I'm gonna he's like I
[93:12] can't do it I physically can't do a
[93:14] commute in that so now we you know
[93:17] trying to find an essay is going to be a
[93:18] real challenge but um
[93:20] that's really hard because there's not a
[93:22] lot at that price tag other than like
[93:24] your commodity [ __ ] like uh RAV4s and
[93:27] you're gonna die inside driving some of
[93:29] these yeah coming from the Porsche the
[93:31] 981 dude there's nothing like you have
[93:34] to get like an X3 and the WRX GTI there
[93:37] you go the problem is it's small
[93:38] compared to the Outback right you no
[93:40] literally you have to go to an SUV from
[93:42] that there's nothing else it's not under
[93:43] 44 Grand
[93:44] I don't know you can't get a used X3 I
[93:46] mean you could like yeah you can get to
[93:49] use X3 for under 45 or you get a used 3
[93:51] Series wagon I mean if you want
[93:52] something that's more fun you just a
[93:55] roll in the dice with a reliability yeah
[93:57] tough one three series wagon if you can
[93:59] find one oh good luck what do you wagon
[94:01] man
[94:05] yeah Brown diesel
[94:08] um dj39 for five dollars how long will
[94:11] they sell the ice Porsche Macan
[94:13] alongside Evie mccon coming out next
[94:15] year would you get if if you what would
[94:18] you get if you had to choose I'd get the
[94:19] ice version immediately over the EV
[94:22] unless you live within the what a what a
[94:25] horrible manual you know
[94:27] geez you just can't get on with the
[94:30] future can you
[94:31] um
[94:31] I think they'll probably start alongside
[94:33] for a year or two maybe three max
[94:35] they've already extended out the life of
[94:37] the con they're not going to re-engineer
[94:40] that platform so that's gonna be right
[94:41] honestly I'll just go for the Macon and
[94:43] like see what they do because it's going
[94:45] to take them I know they're they're uh
[94:47] EV platforms will be good but they're
[94:49] not gonna have that [ __ ] figured out
[94:51] like first generation unless you're
[94:52] Leasing and then that changes yeah you
[94:54] lease that Macon and then you flip it in
[94:56] three years to the next pile done next
[94:58] question sir
[95:01] foreign
[95:03] what do you guys think about the fact
[95:04] that many YouTubers are getting the new
[95:06] Type R mark
[95:10] you could just play the Curb Your
[95:11] Enthusiasm is like over the over the
[95:13] background of this I don't give a [ __ ]
[95:14] what they get
[95:15] you know like I don't know if they got
[95:17] it because they like it I think they
[95:18] just got it to get it some of them
[95:21] yeah I mean tofu is amazing I know he's
[95:23] gonna beat the [ __ ] out of that car and
[95:25] he and I got a gr86 at the same time
[95:27] identical way through the region same
[95:29] with everyday driver they got a gr86 the
[95:32] same time we did but a lot for the same
[95:33] reason you guys asked for it we did a
[95:35] series on it Type R is for you you're
[95:37] not doing a series on it I don't I
[95:39] really don't want to do a series on it I
[95:40] I mean the only time I'm going to use
[95:41] that type R is just to do like when we
[95:44] do our gr Corolla comparison so I don't
[95:46] have to beg for a press car or wait
[95:47] forever we can have as much time as we
[95:49] want with it then it's gonna sit like
[95:52] that's a car for me personally like it
[95:53] means something to me personally even
[95:55] though I don't think the car is like the
[95:56] gr86 is going to go away I think we're
[95:58] gonna get a gr Corolla man same thing
[96:00] you guys have been asking for that car
[96:01] for a million years and we're probably
[96:03] gonna get it from SRP and everybody's
[96:04] gonna be pissed off but the purpose of
[96:06] it is clearly to like in the sake of a
[96:09] comparison test it would be great to
[96:11] have two cars that we owned where you're
[96:12] not having to bag manufacturers for
[96:14] stuff in the new uh like a long-term
[96:16] ownership series online that's a car
[96:17] that much like the 86 I'll pull the oil
[96:19] pan off I'll work with counter space
[96:20] garage we'll figure out what problems
[96:22] there are so hopefully you can use the
[96:23] series and my trials and tribulations as
[96:26] a buyer's guide I'm not going to go
[96:28] through what Jack went through with the
[96:29] 86 I've already done that like well like
[96:31] you pull that thing out of the [ __ ]
[96:32] garage and the suspension is like and
[96:35] the brake pads again exact same thing
[96:37] that's going to happen in the gr Corolla
[96:39] again that's not necessarily for me just
[96:42] to do a series on so you guys can learn
[96:43] about the vehicle
[96:45] all right next question hopefully that
[96:47] makes sense I mean it's not going to
[96:48] make sense people are gonna I might as
[96:50] well just sell the type R now for over
[96:52] sticker
[96:53] that's what I should do is sell it for
[96:55] like forty thousand dollar profit okay
[96:57] but look what I made can I use your gr
[96:59] curl a long-term review to justify my 30
[97:01] 30k ATM if you pay 70 000 for a gr
[97:05] Corolla don't don't don't do it don't I
[97:08] will come to your house and admit you
[97:10] into the hospital unless you buy mine
[97:11] yeah bye Jack so then he can give me the
[97:14] money so I don't so then you can pay me
[97:17] so I can listen to your Corvette stories
[97:18] and be happy about it Mark let me tell
[97:21] you about my Corvette
[97:23] it's got my what do you say my interior
[97:25] looks like Werther's Originals I bought
[97:28] Jack I won't talk while I'm eating
[97:30] because I'm having crackers I'm feeling
[97:32] a little bit indigestion from all this
[97:33] talking about V8s about V8s um
[97:38] yeah so we brought the the vet to
[97:40] Chicago Auto Bros as soon as Jack drove
[97:41] it back from the factory and you know
[97:44] there's anxiety about new cars I'm not
[97:46] gonna I'm not gonna lie like to me 40
[97:49] 000 is a lot Thirty thousand's a lot for
[97:51] a new car but when you get to like
[97:53] whatever six figures for a car the level
[97:57] anxiety just watching him drive this car
[97:59] I'm like dude please let's just get it
[98:01] back so there's not a chip or a link
[98:03] she's already a chip on the rear wing
[98:05] just driving it back oh whatever so yeah
[98:07] when they pulled when he pulled it into
[98:08] Chicago Auto Pros they're like oh that
[98:09] looks like Butterscotch the interior and
[98:11] then it like clicked I'm like where are
[98:12] those Originals so it's sitting in the
[98:15] garage rotting and I I put a huge bag of
[98:17] orders in his driver's seat and he
[98:18] finally drove it out for the first time
[98:19] oh did you sit on the bag hopefully no I
[98:21] didn't exactly no we're too hopefully it
[98:23] gets really hot in there and they just
[98:24] melts
[98:26] um oh here I want to answer this
[98:28] question sorry just got here here for
[98:30] the worst phone award whatever phone
[98:31] Mark has it was the worst phone I've
[98:34] ever seen all right it doesn't do phone
[98:36] calls all right let's let's do that
[98:37] first so we can take a break from the
[98:39] comments not that I really want to
[98:40] because we got a lot to get through
[98:43] um
[98:43] where is it here
[98:49] all right so I pre-ordered this Gem of
[98:52] engineering a Sony Xperia one four okay
[98:57] Mark IV technically that's what the four
[98:59] stands for because everything in uh
[99:01] camera technology has to be marked
[99:03] something like generational
[99:05] so this thing I pre-ordered and I forgot
[99:08] I pre-ordered it why because it was
[99:10] supposed to be The Cutting Edge of
[99:11] camera technology for creators it has
[99:14] the first and only optical zoom so when
[99:18] you have the camera up it will it has a
[99:21] physical or a mechanical shift in the
[99:24] lens so it can zoom in with the lens
[99:26] versus digital all right great it shoots
[99:28] 4K it shoots HDR it does all these
[99:32] high-end things and you can see here
[99:33] I'll try to hold it
[99:35] each one of these
[99:38] here
[99:39] there's four different camera apps
[99:42] ones for video video Pro one Cinema Pro
[99:46] one's Photo Pro and then to record audio
[99:48] there's another app for that in each one
[99:51] of the interfaces doesn't do the same
[99:53] thing so I bought it for a camera tool
[99:56] for the video stuff and it's been very
[99:58] very not good it's not been good
[100:01] so the best part about it aside from
[100:03] that is it's taken five software updates
[100:05] five security patches because it's an
[100:07] Android device every single one has
[100:10] subsequently made the phone almost
[100:12] unusable the the launcher that Sony puts
[100:15] on here freezes up constantly and
[100:17] crashes where you can't swipe anything
[100:19] literally it freezes and I have to
[100:20] reboot it the dialer is broken and
[100:22] granted the dialer is Android or Google
[100:24] software but I'll get a call the phone
[100:27] will be ringing and there's no way to
[100:29] answer it it just rings and I miss a
[100:31] call because the the UI is frozen up
[100:34] when I connect to Bluetooth in the car I
[100:36] can only be on a call for 10 minutes
[100:38] before the Bluetooth crashes and I can
[100:41] no longer take a call
[100:43] and uh what was the other stuff that I
[100:45] was complaining about oh the battery
[100:46] life it went from like 24 hours of
[100:49] battery life after the updates now I can
[100:51] only use it for barely 12 hours before
[100:54] my battery is depleted and that's with
[100:56] like killing every single thing keeping
[100:58] like I run it at 60 hertz not 120 worst
[101:02] phone and taking guess how much this
[101:04] thing was
[101:06] you told me earlier it's over fifteen
[101:07] hundred dollars yeah it was like 1600
[101:09] bucks for this and I didn't pay that I
[101:11] because I'm an influencer I paid like
[101:12] 14.99 or something
[101:15] um
[101:15] yeah so this is example why I bring this
[101:19] up because
[101:20] supposedly a lot of the team from Sony
[101:24] Mobility that worked on this Flagship
[101:26] Masterpiece of engineering is working on
[101:29] the car with Honda their new car
[101:31] whatever they're rebranding it from Sony
[101:33] and I can't wait to get into a car that
[101:36] is all software like that with the 60
[101:38] sensors on the outside and see how that
[101:40] software experience is on a car because
[101:42] their phone is so amazing all right
[101:43] anyway let's get back to the questions
[101:45] that's that rant over
[101:50] uh
[101:51] somewhere there I think
[101:54] we did that one
[101:56] we did yeah we're gonna buy a lot of
[101:58] Arby's Jack's not having that gentlemen
[102:00] Goose 2.0 t-shirt restock one
[102:03] the straight answer is is it's so much
[102:05] money for me to buy the inventory it
[102:07] cost me like ten thousand dollars a pop
[102:09] and then it takes me like four months to
[102:10] get the money back and I just don't want
[102:12] to be out like like twenty thirty
[102:15] thousand dollars if we ever get ahead
[102:16] financially we'll do it again if I get a
[102:19] surplus of the bank of like 50 Grand I
[102:21] will reorder the shirts that that's
[102:23] where it's at
[102:24] Yuri Hillary from a straight pipe says
[102:27] hi guys with a heart emoji that's very
[102:29] delightful thank you Yuri
[102:31] Savage geese chat comment of the week
[102:33] wins a new ceramic Matrix Grace C8 Z06
[102:36] with z07 package carbon fiber Wheels 3lt
[102:39] carbon Arrow this this guy was trying to
[102:42] get us to give away a car uh by having
[102:45] us pick the top comment and he won the
[102:46] top comment however he's not getting a
[102:49] car because I can't afford to buy it JDM
[102:52] flip-flops do you have any more videos
[102:54] you finished shooting uploading the
[102:56] decided nope I'm not posting it because
[102:58] you hated the car so much
[103:01] um is that what happened with the RC of
[103:02] track Edition what happened with the RCF
[103:03] track Edition is we never got that car
[103:05] or the Gucci Edition we had it in like a
[103:07] Instagram post or something in the
[103:09] background what I was really taking a
[103:10] picture was the X7 I think I was either
[103:13] slumped over you were slumped over the
[103:14] back because like you were I think it
[103:17] was you you were totally done that day
[103:18] and the RCF happened to be on the shot
[103:20] but it was really more about Jax being
[103:22] done with me physically and mentally
[103:26] Mark's in a good mood for the live
[103:27] stream is everything okay okay let me
[103:30] tell you about this live stream
[103:31] I was working on this yesterday I was
[103:34] working on it the day before and then
[103:36] today I was an hour ahead trying to make
[103:37] sure that I went smoothly so yes I was
[103:41] very prepared and that's typically how I
[103:43] want to be and I'm happy that it's
[103:45] working so that's why I'm in a good mood
[103:47] okay
[103:50] uh Stephen Thompson thank you for the
[103:52] five dollars thoughts on the Buick Regal
[103:54] Tour X wanting something with good
[103:56] visibility without buying an SUV so I
[103:58] have a friend of mine
[104:00] you just parent I think his dad has a
[104:03] Buick Regal Tour X he loves that thing
[104:05] he says the gearbox tuning is trash
[104:07] because it's old GM like nine speed or
[104:09] eight-speed or seven speed automatic but
[104:11] since the car is great it's I don't know
[104:14] a whole lot about it and we never got
[104:16] one as a press car or relationship with
[104:18] GM is only dramatically improved unless
[104:20] I think I only did one or two on all we
[104:22] did a Buick we did The Encore GX
[104:24] recently just just get that watch that
[104:27] video on The Encore GX if you really
[104:28] want to see a game changer God's car I'm
[104:31] going to ask this Millennial here this
[104:32] son of a [ __ ] you see this guy's uh
[104:35] Avatar yeah Schumacher do you see that
[104:39] barcode on the back
[104:40] but no Wing oh yeah yeah I do you know
[104:43] what that barcode is what is it his net
[104:45] worth
[104:46] yeah no worth
[104:49] so the barcode on the back is because
[104:51] they couldn't put Marlboro on their car
[104:54] anymore as a sponsor so yeah I did not
[104:56] know that they had to Black it out and
[104:57] put a barcode because there was
[104:58] something with like the I don't remember
[105:00] the tobacco thing I hope I'm right about
[105:02] that because I feel like such a [ __ ]
[105:05] this Millennials and then I just made
[105:08] something up all right so I want it to
[105:12] be his net worth you could have just
[105:13] told me it was Shuma it just you scan it
[105:15] from the or you scan it from the uh from
[105:17] the sky yeah and it just I win yeah
[105:20] Schumacher how much do you think that
[105:21] guy was worth I'm sure it's out there
[105:23] publicly you know but in his P 100
[105:25] million 200 million probably probably
[105:26] more don't you think he'd be closer to a
[105:28] billion I have no idea what's isn't
[105:31] LeBron like a billionaire or a
[105:32] billionaire yeah but I don't think if
[105:35] I don't think F1 has the it has the
[105:38] global appeal now
[105:39] yeah all right fair point I don't know
[105:41] if you know Michael Schumacher's net
[105:43] worth at Peak and then if the barcode
[105:46] thing I just said was right post it up
[105:48] and you'll win an award
[105:50] his endless gratification
[105:52] I'm old and I know yeah I'm so old I
[105:56] know that uh Genesis G80 rear wheel
[105:59] drive versus all-wheel drive with rear
[106:01] steer
[106:02] you pick oh dude you're Mr Genesis
[106:05] Genesis rear wheel drive with rear steer
[106:07] can you get rear wheel drive with the
[106:09] roost here or can you have to go
[106:11] all-wheel drive with a wrist here I
[106:13] don't know would you get an all-wheel
[106:15] drive or rear-wheel drive oh oh yeah
[106:17] that makes sense uh I would get a
[106:19] rear-wheel drive even though I think the
[106:20] rear steer is great I would get the rear
[106:21] wheel drive because it's it's a rear
[106:23] wheel drive platform and I feel like the
[106:24] all-wheel drive really zaps a lot of
[106:26] like the dynamic part out of the car and
[106:29] uh I just checked the comment and
[106:30] somebody said they Googled that I don't
[106:32] know how to do that uh Mark uses
[106:34] duckduck go I do
[106:37] um and then somebody's okay magic
[106:40] go yesterday they're they're stealing
[106:42] your your wife and your kids uh somebody
[106:45] said 600 million and then somebody said
[106:47] 700 and then somebody said 800 uh so
[106:52] yeah all right go back and then somebody
[106:54] said something about that one car
[106:57] the barcode would look like the Marlboro
[106:59] logo when driving really fast
[107:04] okay
[107:07] that could have been Masa too was it
[107:09] Masa I didn't look at his helmet okay
[107:11] well anyway sorry
[107:13] this is what happens when you answer too
[107:15] many questions you're like oh is it this
[107:17] anything's better than answering
[107:18] questions I just want to ramble about
[107:20] nothing all right next one uh what's
[107:22] your favorite Seafood love you guys
[107:24] thanks Luke
[107:26] Mark really likes crab legs and spilling
[107:28] them in the back of an MDX and making it
[107:30] smell like a dumpster yeah there was a
[107:32] crab leg incident in the back of the MDX
[107:34] and now it's hidden with rose oil which
[107:36] smells like the funeral home defecation
[107:38] yeah no it does it smells like a funeral
[107:40] home in there I like uh I do like king
[107:43] crab legs I don't know why there's no
[107:45] particular reason it just goes down so
[107:47] smooth with the butter I'm a sushi man
[107:49] but Mark likes to believe my favorite
[107:51] fish in the world is swordfish
[107:54] uh I've become more of a sushi man I eat
[107:57] I eat it probably three times a week now
[107:59] tuna and salmon they're um this is a
[108:02] true story I can't remember this was a
[108:03] couple years ago now man we've been
[108:05] doing this for a long time uh I was
[108:07] visiting my my I was visiting my parents
[108:09] doing dinner to my parents and my
[108:12] mother's Chef or the pseudo chef and I'm
[108:15] like oh Mark I gotta get I gotta get
[108:17] home I gotta go see them they're making
[108:19] swordfish and that's all Mark thinks
[108:21] about from now on yeah because it was
[108:23] like it was a normal to jack he's like
[108:25] oh man you know I'm running late my mom
[108:27] made swordfish I gotta get back and I'm
[108:29] just like dude you didn't just say that
[108:33] her Butler her Butler works so hard yeah
[108:36] and then I had to hear about Jack's one
[108:39] of the you want to tell the story about
[108:40] one of the worst things like a lot of
[108:42] people have things from their childhood
[108:44] that happened to them or like big things
[108:46] that redefine their life like mine was
[108:49] you know I'm not gonna say it but uh for
[108:52] Jack
[108:53] oh I told Mark about a childhood story
[108:55] about how my marble floor is the heating
[108:56] stopped working
[109:02] is in the psychiatric ward for a month
[109:04] because he's dead I can't get up and
[109:07] walk on this one of the floor it's too
[109:09] cold
[109:10] all right next one these are not real
[109:12] stories by the way somebody's gonna be
[109:14] like or is it real I'll leave it up to
[109:16] you to figure out next question
[109:20] Dan figured the X7 would be a better
[109:22] dealer experience
[109:23] yo Mike good luck finding a Civic Mark
[109:27] Mark now is owned by a Honda Civic
[109:29] dealership oh yeah you can hook you up
[109:30] yeah I'll call him Mike you know this is
[109:33] a big deal for me
[109:35] I got a free
[109:37] I did get Chipotle out of it
[109:39] I didn't disclose that
[109:42] all right all right so yeah the X7
[109:44] dealership experience sucked I thought
[109:46] the BMW dealership would be like you
[109:49] know they would kiss your not I don't
[109:51] even want my house because I just wanted
[109:52] to be in and out it was one of the the
[109:54] longest
[109:55] longest experience has ever had I think
[109:57] I was in there for like six hours and I
[109:59] was almost ready to walk out it was so
[110:02] bad
[110:03] um anyway uh someone has thoughts on the
[110:05] Mustang Mach One I asked all year last
[110:07] year for Mach 1 and my payment was a
[110:10] GT500 instead and that was a massive
[110:13] pain in the butt they apparently just
[110:15] don't care about that car
[110:16] nah why would they they're things like 7
[110:19] 000 years old and how many how many do
[110:20] they sell oh a thousand Michael McDonald
[110:23] didn't tell me
[110:25] uh how's the type R Mark I drove it
[110:28] three times I drove it from the
[110:29] dealership to Chicago auto pros and then
[110:33] Chicago Auto Pros back to the garage and
[110:35] it's set to make my horrible video and
[110:37] then I moved it in and out of the garage
[110:39] to another garage three times ten feet
[110:41] so I would say
[110:44] from being on the street it's a really
[110:46] good street car and you drove in it a
[110:48] lot you know it's it's really really
[110:50] good as a streetcar it Blends everything
[110:52] it's the Comfort mode people are worried
[110:54] about it being stiff and it is stiff in
[110:56] the upper settings but Comfort mode is
[110:57] like an SI it's very good the only thing
[110:59] that sucks about it is the engine not
[111:01] that it doesn't make power it just
[111:02] doesn't have any personality but that's
[111:03] all modern zero zero Personnel it's a
[111:06] strong motor it just you know it's not
[111:08] old at least it makes power yeah that's
[111:09] true uh next question the 86 is lame and
[111:13] I'm tired of pretending it's not
[111:15] all right Liam Liam Nissan
[111:21] I don't know man it's uh it is a lame
[111:23] car in that it has a shitty
[111:24] four-cylinder but it's not in that it's
[111:26] a good car to drive for not a ton of
[111:29] money and I don't after doing this
[111:31] entire series unless you live at the
[111:33] track or you go there often if you just
[111:35] are
[111:36] somewhat of attracting Enthusiast or you
[111:39] like autocrossing or you like twisty
[111:40] roads
[111:41] a new car that you can get new car
[111:43] financing on if you're going to finance
[111:46] a vehicle or you get a long-term
[111:47] warranty on it what else is there that's
[111:50] good to drive for 31 33 000 that also
[111:52] can be an only car yeah I borrowed an
[111:56] nd2 Miata Club while I was in Portland
[112:00] recently to visit some family and I told
[112:02] you that car dynamically as a street car
[112:05] is way more entertaining to drive than
[112:07] the gr86 in every way but you couldn't
[112:10] use that every single day if you if you
[112:12] had a significant other a dog if you
[112:14] need to do grocery shopping or move [ __ ]
[112:16] the Miata doesn't allow you to do that
[112:18] the Mustang EcoBoost is not a driver's
[112:21] car at all
[112:23] the yeah the Miata is a toy the weekend
[112:25] toy unless you live in great weather the
[112:27] 86 can be used every day and it is I
[112:29] mean honestly every time I get in that
[112:31] car I'm like
[112:34] it's great but I mean it is very
[112:37] underwhelming and it has to do with the
[112:38] engine I mean it's not unless you're on
[112:40] track or you're driving flat out or the
[112:42] car sliding around
[112:44] um but that's the joy of it it can't
[112:45] just be a regular car it yeah it's it's
[112:47] such a mixed bag anyway you're right
[112:49] you're you're definitely right uh Mr
[112:51] Nissan it's it's not as great as it
[112:54] should it's not God's car but it could
[112:56] be way better we've always said it it
[112:59] could be but you can't have everything
[113:02] I wish I had hair and I don't
[113:04] know I have that oh God me I just saw
[113:07] full five dude I just I was like
[113:09] transformed Mo grabbed me thank you for
[113:11] the 10 donation I have about five three
[113:13] number 360. it's my first manual is it
[113:16] normal that it feels like the shifter
[113:17] catches on something before it actually
[113:19] goes into gear any thoughts on upgrading
[113:21] into Integra Type S
[113:23] uh so typically with Honda transmissions
[113:25] and I haven't really felt it with the
[113:27] type R but I've driven a lot how do
[113:29] Transmissions have always been really
[113:30] notchy until the gearbox heats up
[113:33] um and it should be really smooth after
[113:35] that you might feel like a little bit of
[113:37] hesitation or just like resistance more
[113:40] when it's cold that's normal if you've
[113:42] been driving for 15 minutes and the
[113:45] gearbox is warm you should feel no
[113:47] hesitation going into the gears also
[113:49] upgrading to the Integra typos I know I
[113:51] know nothing about the car I I'm tired
[113:54] of speculating about it I'll just see
[113:56] what it is it'll have an LS7 it'll be
[113:58] rear wheel drive
[113:59] I personally you Jack said it if the
[114:01] thing's over like 50 Grand you can count
[114:03] me out of that it would have to be some
[114:05] like huge great amazing car if it's a
[114:09] CTR that you can actually get that is
[114:11] minimal amount more money like under
[114:13] five thousand dollars more money and you
[114:15] can actually get it
[114:17] fine yeah I mean it's the same car yeah
[114:19] I if but see this is what Jack and I's
[114:21] debate about this
[114:23] but knowing the Japanese now and how
[114:25] insular they are and how they want to
[114:27] type R back in their own Factory they
[114:28] wanted to design it they wanted to make
[114:30] it they wanted the Japanese name on it
[114:32] they didn't want to have anybody else
[114:33] involved in it it's purely them for them
[114:36] to allow the American side to make a
[114:39] Type S
[114:40] what's the chances they're going to be
[114:42] allowed to use the full-blown Type R
[114:44] engine what's the chances they're going
[114:46] to have the same suspension as the type
[114:48] R like all the things that make the type
[114:49] are that why would they water it down
[114:51] the type R brand for a Type S which has
[114:53] always been under the type R I just
[114:54] don't see it
[114:56] well when we do our video on it later
[114:58] this next year or later this year we'll
[115:01] find out but I don't know man I wouldn't
[115:03] go into getting like getting in the
[115:07] headspace to get rid of your CTR
[115:08] particularly if you like it to get into
[115:10] Integra Type S to me the Integra Type S
[115:12] is a good option for people who couldn't
[115:14] get a Type R and didn't want to pay
[115:15] twenty thousand dollars I mean the type
[115:17] bar is probably going to be worth a lot
[115:18] if they if they keep the volume where
[115:20] it's at and they can't make any more in
[115:22] that factory that's just the reality of
[115:24] it they have to churn out the commodity
[115:26] cars first and they have to fill the
[115:27] orders in Japan first which is like 10
[115:30] 000 backlog we were told they're
[115:31] backlogged 10 000 units so they're not
[115:33] prioritizing the American Market first
[115:35] until the Japanese Market's met so that
[115:37] type R will hold its value for at least
[115:39] a couple years and then if I really if
[115:42] they make the Integra type or type S
[115:44] like a Type R then it's a no-brainer you
[115:46] buy that Nintendo one it's probably
[115:48] going to have the two liter out of the
[115:49] Accord someone just said it in the
[115:51] comments I agree with them it'll
[115:52] probably have an option as an automatic
[115:54] and be open diff we're gonna make Daniel
[115:56] and have a LSD that's probably how it's
[115:59] going to be it's but yeah whatever yeah
[116:01] we're just speculating
[116:04] Dominic thank you for the ten dollars
[116:06] sir thank you sir I see that that RS
[116:09] badge I can't wait would you buy an
[116:12] ecosport RS or a Ford Escape RS oh damn
[116:15] straight I would ecosport RS the TBD
[116:18] diff in the rear I'm gonna feel like a
[116:19] rally car driver
[116:21] that's not funny uh is this where I sign
[116:24] up for the
[116:26] kiyosaka seminar yes it is Pabo just
[116:29] wait for another five hours and it'll
[116:31] come up next question
[116:33] how is the total S550 thank you Badger
[116:36] for the two dollars all right so I'll be
[116:38] honest I thought that the the the bidet
[116:41] the Toto bidet seat
[116:43] would have been in the in the shop I
[116:46] know like it would have been in the
[116:47] junkyard but that thing has been
[116:50] punished since when did I get it like
[116:53] 2017 no probably before that I would say
[116:56] the first one I got is 2015 and it's
[116:58] still in daily use right now seven years
[117:00] later of daily use on a toilet seat that
[117:03] is mechanical with pump sprayers heaters
[117:06] this I'm getting so emotional
[117:10] it's piled up amazing
[117:12] all right next one
[117:15] I just want to stop there Jack I want to
[117:16] close it out on the toilet we have uh
[117:18] one third of our questions answered uh
[117:22] Matthew Callaway thank you for the ten
[117:23] dollars with your history with and
[117:25] perhaps affinity for computers and
[117:27] Technology what do you think car makers
[117:28] get wrong with a rush to cram Tech into
[117:30] Vehicles do they have fundamental
[117:33] misconceptions
[117:35] this is gonna be a long one we talk
[117:36] about this all the time I think
[117:41] so it's probably not the biggest
[117:43] surprise Mark and I both work in the
[117:45] tech industry in one capacity or another
[117:47] and we still do with this job
[117:49] um the thing that car companies are
[117:52] trying to become and it's is tech
[117:54] companies and tech companies are trying
[117:56] to become car companies at the same time
[117:58] and with what Tesla approved
[118:01] is while you can get into the car space
[118:04] being a tech company some of the
[118:06] fundamental issues with chassis
[118:07] development QC and car factories they
[118:11] can't get done particularly well but
[118:14] from a car company perspective and
[118:16] technology and vehicles is only just
[118:19] recently catching up to this yeah I
[118:23] don't know man it's it's they're all I
[118:25] think the disposability of tech in
[118:27] general is going to be an issue once you
[118:29] cram it into cars uh yeah and it's it's
[118:34] exactly what you expect
[118:36] the manufacturer's pure focus is not
[118:38] just Tech if it was just Tech it would
[118:40] be a different product but it has to be
[118:42] card first text second and now Tech is
[118:44] becoming like and that's one of the
[118:46] things in that fl5 video with the
[118:48] dealership like we had a like a two-hour
[118:50] conversation about how all their
[118:52] dealership stuff is all like complaints
[118:54] about infotainment and technology and
[118:57] Lane keep assist and all the software
[118:59] part of these cars is what's is all of
[119:01] the problem that customers have because
[119:03] they don't know how it it's used if they
[119:05] don't know how to use it right it's not
[119:06] explained properly and every single
[119:08] manufacturer is a different way of doing
[119:09] it when you have no consolidation of
[119:11] tech other than I guess Android
[119:13] automotive is really truly the first
[119:16] uh like Common Thread between these
[119:18] manufacturers and they can even Fork it
[119:20] and re-skin it the way that they want it
[119:22] um until it really is Consolidated down
[119:25] just to a couple companies where it
[119:26] needs to be you're going to have a bunch
[119:28] of broken cars like long term you're
[119:31] buying cards never getting updated we
[119:32] know that for a fact it's never getting
[119:34] updated
[119:35] um once they move on to the next
[119:36] Generation stuff unless you're like BMW
[119:38] where you have like a multi-generation
[119:41] of like a like a revision of it like I
[119:44] drive seven and eight are still getting
[119:46] the same updates but the previous
[119:48] generation is not really getting any
[119:50] updates so they're going to update two
[119:51] generations at Max but most companies
[119:53] around I don't know how car companies
[119:55] would expect and consumers are going to
[119:56] expect phones to be like the cars to be
[119:59] like phones and not expect them to be
[120:01] disposable as phones are and yeah that
[120:04] has me deeply concerned personally
[120:05] because a phone you can throw out in
[120:07] three years or four years and a car you
[120:11] can't right right no one wants a
[120:13] four-year-old phone and if cars become
[120:15] just rolling laptop Ops which eventually
[120:17] they're going to be once the technology
[120:19] gets phased out or irrelevant people are
[120:21] going to be stuck with sixty seven
[120:22] hundred thousand dollars in a vehicle
[120:25] that is intrinsically worthless yeah and
[120:27] it depends on how fast stuff accelerates
[120:29] too right I mean like you could have a
[120:31] huge generational shift in technology
[120:34] that you know you didn't expect that
[120:36] came out and makes the previous
[120:37] generation completely irrelevant I don't
[120:39] know I think the cars are becoming too
[120:41] technology Laden The Last Story I'm
[120:43] going to tell is about the stupid range
[120:45] thing yeah
[120:46] um I got an Electrolux dual fuel range
[120:48] which means it has 240 power so the
[120:51] range can be electric convection or gas
[120:53] and I wanted electric mostly for oven
[120:56] and then gas burners and they're
[120:59] typically more money because it's more
[121:00] expensive to do so I got this range the
[121:03] place that installed it pushed the range
[121:06] back it screwed up the gas line and the
[121:07] gas line went under the rage and was
[121:09] touching the 240 volt circuit board and
[121:11] Arc through was arcing through the gas
[121:13] line it burned a hole through the back
[121:14] and I flipped the breaker to see and it
[121:17] turns out like if I would have flipped
[121:19] the breaker one more time the thing
[121:20] would have blown up so I had the guys
[121:22] come out and they're like oh yeah this
[121:24] is a disaster waiting to happen you got
[121:26] lucky but when I went to go back to
[121:28] replace the range and a whole bunch of
[121:29] other [ __ ] I started looking at ranges
[121:31] because I wasn't really happy with the
[121:32] range to begin with it was not easy to
[121:34] use I found just like cars the only way
[121:37] to sell newer versions of appliances is
[121:40] like you go to the store and they're all
[121:42] pretty but they're all the same
[121:43] like even appliances they have to have
[121:45] Wi-Fi now it's like a standard feature
[121:47] so you can start your oven or like do
[121:49] this [ __ ] remotely like all of this
[121:51] stuff is built in there to the
[121:53] electronics part and to find a range
[121:55] that is literally like I want to turn my
[121:57] oven oven physically with a temperature
[121:59] knob the physical stuff you get into
[122:01] Boutique Brands where the oven like wool
[122:04] Thermador all these high-end brands that
[122:06] literally it probably cost them less
[122:08] other than the higher end materials like
[122:10] weight of them like to get a simple
[122:12] setup it's now Boutique to get to get
[122:15] like that in a lower price thing is
[122:16] impossible uh in like a mainstream thing
[122:19] because the only way for companies to
[122:21] sell products now is to tack on all
[122:23] these features that's why like one
[122:25] Hyundai and Kia do right like they are
[122:28] the masters of well you get everything
[122:29] for the lowest price and for the most
[122:32] common person the commodity person
[122:33] that's what they want that's what sells
[122:35] stuff I think there's going to be a
[122:37] market for cars that come back down to
[122:38] Earth but it's going to take a long time
[122:39] and it's going to have to take a long
[122:41] time of people being fed up with like
[122:43] what the Honda the dealer said they're
[122:45] going to be fed up of bringing it back
[122:46] to the dealer and the the literally the
[122:48] dealership cannot fix it they don't know
[122:49] how to fix it thus the product is
[122:51] entirely disposable yes anyway that's a
[122:53] long like you you wouldn't answer the
[122:55] question yeah for ten dollars thank you
[122:58] very much Matthew we love talking which
[123:00] is better the Toto by today or the new
[123:02] Type R uh I'll probably have the Toto
[123:04] bidet longer than the Type R
[123:10] um oh thank you John yes I am looking at
[123:12] my phone to answer chat messages I
[123:15] didn't have two screens set up because I
[123:16] didn't think we'd need it
[123:18] um I regret that now heavily I didn't
[123:20] think about this I'll be honest
[123:23] uh how can you get
[123:27] how can you get a car for MSRP a Civic
[123:30] an actual thing we're saying in 2023.
[123:31] yeah I said this on Reddit I thought was
[123:33] funny like if this was five years ago
[123:35] and I thought I bought a Type R for MSR
[123:37] or car for MSRP people like you're an
[123:39] idiot you should have paid less than
[123:41] sticker no you're not good to put
[123:43] anybody pay on this RP you're getting
[123:44] ripped off and now it's like a dirty
[123:46] word
[123:47] all right next question or statement
[123:51] two new Type R is listed on AutoTrader
[123:53] Canada I checked for one is eighty one
[123:55] thousand dollars and one is eighty nine
[123:57] thousand dollars versus the fifty two
[123:59] thousand dollar Canadian MSRP healthy
[124:02] markup
[124:03] cool
[124:04] I'll go buy it because they'll teach the
[124:06] dealerships a lesson to do it again and
[124:08] again uh Nebo asked hey guys you've
[124:11] already done multiple Mark 5 super
[124:13] videos will you revisit the manual one
[124:14] thanks yeah probably I'm debating if
[124:17] it's going to be in a comparison test or
[124:18] by itself it's gonna have to be a
[124:19] comparison test I don't want to do it
[124:21] Standalone it's just throwing a manual
[124:23] in the same car I mean we know what it's
[124:24] going to be like I'm sure it's cool I'm
[124:27] sure it's a lot of fun but yeah we got I
[124:29] want to do it like against the Z or
[124:30] something like that
[124:31] or something relevant next question sir
[124:36] ah
[124:38] Nook V I apologize for buying a Honda
[124:41] Civic at MSRP Mark next I should have
[124:45] paid like 50 bucks over just so I didn't
[124:47] say oh I paid over
[124:49] why don't you cover reliability anymore
[124:52] I.E Mark 8 GTI the problem Alan with a
[124:56] lot of the products we've done videos on
[124:57] and we talk about reliabilities and the
[124:59] Legacy things that have been out for a
[125:00] long time it's when they're brand new I
[125:02] can't talk to you about reliability
[125:03] because I have no idea
[125:05] you know if a car is brand brand new and
[125:07] there is a sample size of five and one
[125:10] breaks that still is an indication that
[125:12] the car is going to be a turd just meant
[125:14] one one bad if you that's not how stats
[125:17] work you need a large sample size to
[125:18] come to a conclusion and it's a brand
[125:20] new vehicle particularly the Mark 8 GTI
[125:22] we got was basically a pre-production no
[125:25] idea I can't tell you if it's gonna be
[125:26] reliable or not you can look at the
[125:28] history of a car brand to tell you that
[125:30] yeah that's the only way you can really
[125:31] know but like modern BMWs are a good
[125:32] example of that like modern brand new
[125:35] car based products are as reliable as
[125:38] basically any of their other competitors
[125:42] what does that mean it doesn't mean a
[125:44] lot it'll get to Jack's point it's I I
[125:46] feel bad like you do new cars you don't
[125:48] know so you can only talk to what
[125:49] they're doing now and where are the risk
[125:52] factors I mean you can see some of the
[125:53] risk factors I mean certain brands they
[125:56] do not prioritize quality and they'll
[125:57] you know they only design that son of a
[125:59] [ __ ] to work until that warranty date
[126:02] is on what's up it's just your Sol yeah
[126:04] I mean so I'm sorry maybe you know older
[126:06] cars yes we just did a Tacoma video like
[126:08] we kind of walked through what went
[126:09] wrong in them yeah that that's easy
[126:11] right because you know and you can talk
[126:13] to it and be honest about it and like
[126:14] let people make their own decision but
[126:16] yeah I mean like the Equinox is a good
[126:18] example one of the reasons why we're not
[126:19] going to release a video is because the
[126:20] thing's dog [ __ ] right like everybody
[126:22] knows everything goes wrong with it
[126:23] after the warranty is up or before we
[126:25] already did an equinox yeah so
[126:28] whether they reskin the new Equinox and
[126:30] it's totally different but still has the
[126:32] same engine and transmission you can
[126:33] know probably categorically the thing's
[126:36] still going to be a turd maybe it's as
[126:37] other things that are built better but I
[126:39] don't know man Muslim reliability on a
[126:42] brand new product with no history is a
[126:43] hard thing to to determine unless you
[126:45] know the inside like unless you know the
[126:47] people that worked on the design team
[126:49] when we did the the Ford Ranger yeah the
[126:53] the Euro like it was the old one that we
[126:55] got from Australia right like after we
[126:57] did that video I actually had people
[126:58] reach out to me that worked at Ford and
[127:00] like they told me what a turd was the
[127:03] people that worked on it on the
[127:04] engineering team that it was like all B
[127:06] Team efforts and they just [ __ ] that
[127:08] thing out period like that's a case
[127:10] where somebody like internally told me
[127:12] like how bad the thing is don't buy it
[127:14] but like most cars you know nobody's
[127:16] going to go against the company they
[127:18] work for that's amazing yeah to be done
[127:20] right yeah unless they're out the door
[127:22] next question
[127:24] [Music]
[127:27] I don't get the price that's dictated by
[127:30] the market and we won't sell to anyone
[127:32] other than local that's hypocrisy
[127:36] yeah sorry no I'm just saying the even
[127:38] the local market for cars is ridiculous
[127:40] if you're in any town with any sort of
[127:42] money and it's a limited commodity
[127:45] product rich people are going to raise
[127:47] their hands and pay whatever they don't
[127:48] need to to get that car early didn't you
[127:50] say that that was happening with the gr
[127:51] Corolla oh the gr Corolla somebody
[127:53] bought up all the the uh there are
[127:55] enough wealthy people and for some of
[127:58] these cars out there that there's one
[128:00] dealer by us and here in Chicago that
[128:02] every gr Corolla allocation was bought
[128:04] by the same person they're like four
[128:06] allocations for the year and they're all
[128:07] purchased by the same guy what so he can
[128:09] flip it
[128:11] no idea I didn't ask that portion but
[128:13] either give them to his friends or flip
[128:15] them but just knowing that and that's
[128:17] just local that's here in Chicago I mean
[128:19] literally there's a lot of people in
[128:20] Chicago and there's a lot of money out
[128:22] here but I mean uh the dealers by me to
[128:25] uh one of the dealers for the Z06 they
[128:28] were telling me that their first three
[128:30] allocations were purchased ahead of time
[128:32] by people who were willing to pay they
[128:35] didn't ask for an ADM but they're like
[128:38] here's 150 Grand over sticker I don't
[128:41] care what the car costs I will give you
[128:43] 150 000 to be the first person for one
[128:45] of these cars
[128:46] how do you compete with that as a
[128:48] regular you don't
[128:49] I'm just being honest I mean long term
[128:52] like any of these cars these really rare
[128:56] cars like the Z06 is not going to be a
[128:57] rare car just like the previous gen
[128:59] they're gonna build as many as they can
[129:01] there's going to be like at least six or
[129:03] seven thousand of these things by the
[129:04] time they're done making it people who
[129:06] paid 150 000 over for some generic car
[129:09] gonna feel like idiots but if you have
[129:11] unlimited money it doesn't matter to you
[129:13] right and and so but here what about the
[129:17] um
[129:20] what about the the gr Corollas and the
[129:23] type R's and all these other like
[129:25] affordable limited production cars
[129:27] I don't know man I mean the the type R
[129:30] is a good example you're on a bunch of
[129:31] the type R forms a lot of people buying
[129:33] these vehicles are self-aware yeah but
[129:35] if you know you're someone who's older
[129:37] and you know you just want the car you
[129:39] want and money is just a number you're
[129:41] gonna bring up
[129:42] the the purchase price of those Vehicles
[129:44] if there's a limited number of cars it's
[129:46] [ __ ] and the dealers you know the
[129:48] dealers make it worse as well but when
[129:50] you talk to some of the salesmen certain
[129:51] dealers like the one I was talking about
[129:52] locally the salesmen don't see the ADM
[129:56] the the GM does the salesperson is
[129:58] basically getting screwed making the
[130:00] same amount of money they normally would
[130:01] right so I I don't know I don't know
[130:04] what you do with it and I understand why
[130:06] people are mad you know honestly
[130:09] um
[130:10] that's [ __ ] but you know as a
[130:11] regular person other than complaining
[130:13] about it which clearly adms have existed
[130:16] like I watched an old MotorWeek video
[130:19] with John Davis from the 80s recently
[130:21] and even then they were talking about
[130:22] how unique low volume cars were getting
[130:26] adms which is crazy to me and this was a
[130:28] problem since the 80s I'm gonna share
[130:30] this out for the non
[130:32] people that aren't into this and I know
[130:34] this is a lot of Type R stuff and I I
[130:36] apologize for this but to to make the
[130:38] point it's not really about Type R
[130:40] um so when we started looking at or when
[130:43] when Jack's like you should try to ask
[130:44] for an allocation Honda's like maybe and
[130:48] then
[130:48] um people are like where's my car like
[130:51] how do I get the car and when we were at
[130:53] the Press event
[130:55] um on the forums there is
[131:00] um
[131:01] on the forums there is a website that
[131:05] this guy created on GitHub and it's
[131:07] connected somehow
[131:09] to database inventories and shipping so
[131:12] you can see here on this map where all
[131:14] the type bars are and when you go to all
[131:15] color stats you see right here that
[131:17] there's only been sub or 626 type R's
[131:21] available in the US that have been
[131:23] shipped or that are being shipped and it
[131:26] breaks down the colors so one of the
[131:27] reasons why I wanted red besides my
[131:29] first Civic being right is it was the
[131:31] most rare color and you'll see that the
[131:32] black and the red are the lowest volume
[131:35] because the other three colors are the
[131:37] premium colors they charge more money
[131:38] for so they wanted to limit the output
[131:40] of the regular paint colors and
[131:42] typically we don't get to see this data
[131:43] but the fact that we only have 626 this
[131:47] probably includes pressed cars media
[131:48] cars and the media cars that have been
[131:50] sold to people like me or Topher or the
[131:52] you know the others so you're probably
[131:53] looking at closer to 550 cars so they're
[131:56] 626 Rich [ __ ] out there that'll pay
[131:59] over sticker to get their car 100 when
[132:01] you only have this amount of cars you're
[132:05] it doesn't matter if it's a Civic a
[132:07] Porsche Ferrari somebody is going to
[132:09] look at those numbers and be like this
[132:11] is an ultra rare car I want it and I
[132:12] will pay more money for it and group I
[132:14] don't care if you you know if you're
[132:16] younger and you you feel like this is
[132:18] like or this car should be affordable
[132:20] it's just not going to be and that's
[132:22] just how it is until that number comes
[132:24] up sadly as I change a mic pack battery
[132:35] well let's see if it connects
[132:39] and we're good all right all right so
[132:41] next question sorry about that John
[132:44] uh this was just unrelated sorry keep
[132:47] going
[132:48] our car makers moving to selling
[132:50] subscriptions in order to increase
[132:52] profits your new car is the iPhone and
[132:54] extra Services blah blah blah I don't
[132:57] know I think there's a good chance they
[132:58] moved to subscription models uh BMW they
[133:01] have to destroying in Korea they have to
[133:03] that's the only way they can afford the
[133:04] software development and all these teams
[133:06] to make these car that to have like so
[133:08] Toyota connected they were up to like
[133:10] 1100 people right and they started with
[133:13] like 200. so now they have 1100
[133:15] headcount it's probably even more since
[133:17] we talked last
[133:18] for them to support all these cars and
[133:20] all the updates you need a team to do
[133:22] this and the only way because they're a
[133:24] cost center to have all those head count
[133:26] you need to have a way to generate
[133:28] ongoing Revenue to justify their
[133:30] existence and it goes back to what we
[133:31] talk about why do you need all this [ __ ]
[133:33] in these cars it's like literally if
[133:36] we're still driving the cars why do you
[133:37] need all this Tech and the thing is this
[133:39] is how companies are are selling the
[133:41] cars with more features and people
[133:42] become they come to expect well does
[133:45] this car have Wi-Fi in it does this car
[133:47] have a hot spot does this car have
[133:49] Google Maps does it have always on
[133:50] connectivity does it update itself and
[133:52] once you create that precedent you can't
[133:55] get rid of it and now you're it's a
[133:57] double-edged sword so now how do you pay
[133:59] the head count to fix these cars and
[134:01] keep them updated you got to have a
[134:03] software development team you basically
[134:04] become what Google and Microsoft and all
[134:06] these tech companies have become and
[134:08] you're putting it in cars so now you got
[134:10] to pay a subscription if you want it you
[134:12] know it's just it's just part of the
[134:13] deal you want a basic car you don't buy
[134:16] the [ __ ] but nobody does that I don't
[134:17] think heated seats in some of the core
[134:19] functions that you paid for to begin
[134:22] with are going to be subscription models
[134:23] I don't think the market is going to
[134:24] accept it but everything else I
[134:26] guarantee you they can make it a
[134:28] subscription model they're going to
[134:31] I disagree with you I think once all
[134:33] these cars become a complete modular
[134:35] like like slab all that stuff is just
[134:38] going to be in there by default because
[134:39] they're not going to have a supply chain
[134:40] of like oh let's put heated seat coils
[134:42] in this seat but not in the other one
[134:44] it'll be cheaper to to amortize that
[134:47] cost of having the one of the same of
[134:49] everything and then just flipping
[134:51] services on and off if we ever get the
[134:52] transportation pods or they're just
[134:54] little balls that roll down the road I
[134:56] think that's true but I think
[134:58] in the relevancy of what we're doing
[135:00] today in the say five years yeah I don't
[135:03] think I don't think that's gonna happen
[135:03] no I don't think it's I don't think it's
[135:05] immediate I think it's a 10-year thing
[135:06] maybe I think it's 10 years I think it's
[135:08] going to have to be it's the only way
[135:10] these companies survive otherwise they
[135:11] just it's gonna be up to see if Zoomers
[135:13] and like the younger people accept it
[135:15] because Millennials you know the next
[135:17] Generations and Boomers won't I don't
[135:19] think they will I think the Zoomers will
[135:21] be an interesting point because you know
[135:23] they literally are in a different
[135:25] mindset of money and phone and
[135:27] technology and they're going to dictate
[135:28] the future of what's goes in Tech in
[135:30] cars and I don't know I think
[135:32] generationally and you'll see this when
[135:35] you're younger you have more tolerance
[135:36] for this [ __ ] but you reach an age of
[135:39] oversaturation you realize this is not a
[135:41] good use of my time I only have X amount
[135:42] of time and I don't want to be you know
[135:44] fiddling around with [ __ ] that does not
[135:47] work I just need this to work so I can
[135:49] focus my energy on work family the
[135:51] things that I like to do and I don't
[135:52] want to mess with everything else so
[135:54] it'll be I don't know it's a really cool
[135:56] topic and I think we'll see in like well
[135:59] best used sports sedan
[136:02] well one of those cars only one of those
[136:04] cars has the b-58 mark you just answered
[136:07] Jack you never load this question up for
[136:09] check he's always going to talk a p58
[136:11] must be all-wheel drive is the only
[136:13] requirement b-58 can be all-wheel drive
[136:15] mark
[136:15] [Laughter]
[136:18] not the Stinger the g70 is good for the
[136:21] price you can find it pretty affordable
[136:24] um the 340
[136:25] uh the type S is the drive scrape but
[136:28] the trans in the engine are horrible for
[136:31] a sport sedan I would take the BMW of
[136:33] the the g70 all right next question
[136:35] would you prefer your S2000 or an offl5
[136:37] if your use case was autocross or a
[136:39] track r
[136:41] best 2000. oh great that's two thousand
[136:45] guy doesn't know how to use his iPhone I
[136:47] know it's pretty complicated very hard
[136:49] uh sending love and sarcasm from
[136:51] Australia thank you D Kent for your
[136:53] Eight dollar uh donation thank you I
[136:55] appreciate it man yeah thanks a lot
[136:57] thanks everybody
[136:58] it's your channel channel finally paying
[137:00] off uh paying off and stress
[137:04] no honestly I mean every year we do this
[137:06] we try to reflect twice a year I mean to
[137:08] be honest we have our come to Jesus
[137:10] business meetings the risk of too much
[137:12] Insider baseball this year will be
[137:14] really telling for us I mean it's going
[137:16] to be a hard year we like I set a
[137:19] two-year plan and we're kind of it on in
[137:21] August around the two-year time frame
[137:23] and that's when we'll we'll decide if we
[137:25] keep doing this long term but my goal is
[137:27] Big projects every month let's see if we
[137:29] can do some of these big projects if you
[137:31] get people excited about cars again and
[137:34] you get show passion of vehicles and if
[137:36] you know the if we can't accomplish it
[137:38] or we're unhappy we'll stop doing it but
[137:40] what's it I guess the better question is
[137:42] you have a captive audience of like
[137:43] people that want to be here and listen
[137:45] to us ramble for over two hours you have
[137:47] uh six million people watching right now
[137:49] because of me
[137:52] what what is it that you want to see
[137:54] what is the evolution and shift that you
[137:56] want to see from a Content perspective
[137:57] because I'm going to do what I want to
[137:59] do but at the end of the day this is for
[138:01] the viewer base and sometimes the viewer
[138:02] base doesn't know what they want but I
[138:04] think there's you've got to tell us
[138:05] what's important Jack wants to hit these
[138:08] projects like these big videos they kill
[138:10] me Jack only wants projects that are
[138:12] gonna Massacre me and look good on a
[138:14] resume let's be honest for me I need a
[138:17] balance of like I need to be creative I
[138:19] need to be honest I want to feel
[138:20] satisfied doing it so knowing the
[138:22] business side knowing the creative side
[138:24] what is it that you want to see on the
[138:26] viewer side
[138:27] um post that below like subscribe and
[138:30] donate fifty thousand dollars now now
[138:33] because I want I want to see it and I'll
[138:35] go through that and like go through
[138:36] these questions before my dream this
[138:38] year uh we're doing
[138:40] another Corvette project
[138:42] from the trim level it's about to get
[138:45] released here shortly we're doing a big
[138:47] comparison test we're hopefully going to
[138:48] do things with Mustang I'd like to do
[138:51] more big comparo tests where I get to
[138:53] meet and interview and show to the rest
[138:55] of the world the people actually get to
[138:57] work on these cars you know
[138:59] if if I have to fight as hard as I've
[139:02] been doing or it's like uphill and
[139:04] there's certain brands that are now
[139:05] amazing to work with Jim as one of them
[139:06] Porsche is one of them but a lot of the
[139:08] other brands it is like pulling teeth a
[139:12] Mazda is great in that regards yeah
[139:13] there's no money
[139:15] um but I want to do more of those
[139:17] projects because I feel like that's what
[139:18] ads value shaking the desk I know I'm
[139:20] making my business
[139:24] your business Hammer there's a great
[139:26] businessman story I'm going to tell
[139:27] before we answer the next question a
[139:30] long time ago at General Motors there
[139:32] used to be a man who walked around with
[139:33] a baseball bat in meetings and on the
[139:36] bat it said beat Toyota and he'd pound
[139:38] his desk at business meetings with his
[139:41] baseball bat that is do you remember
[139:43] what car what cars he worked on at the
[139:45] time I don't you know I don't want to
[139:47] throw the engineer he told me the story
[139:49] under the bus but that is an amazing
[139:53] 80s RoboCop ocp businessman I'm gonna
[139:57] walk around with my Toyota baseball bat
[139:59] and scream about just scream at people
[140:00] why are we winning well hopefully we
[140:03] revert back to that where you can pull
[140:04] that off and just be straight abusive
[140:06] uh Tom Montano uh the designer the Mazda
[140:11] Miata told me when he worked at GM in
[140:13] the 80s they had all the designers in
[140:15] this like dark room car designers like
[140:16] artists and they had a PA and their boss
[140:19] would just scream at them over the PA
[140:21] while the designers are in a room that
[140:23] is horrible that's back when when it was
[140:27] real people cared about work Fred the
[140:29] fail Lord has Ben's reached out to you
[140:31] since you took a giant dump on the eqb
[140:32] no
[140:34] though I don't think our Ben's reps care
[140:36] they just you know for them it's about
[140:38] video content going out you know they
[140:40] don't really have a lot of resources
[140:41] from an engineering perspective it goes
[140:44] back to the US versus like Germanic yeah
[140:46] like you know a lot of these companies
[140:47] they're just
[140:50] I don't know I don't I don't know how I
[140:52] don't I don't get it whatever it's not
[140:54] my business Mark you still own a Murano
[140:56] cab
[140:57] I'm not gonna comment on that right now
[141:01] uh Chris Salini
[141:03] uh what does you this is uh for ten
[141:05] dollars uh thank you uh Christian what
[141:08] does YouTube pay you guys for views like
[141:10] subscribers does that YouTube premium
[141:13] stuff affect you as well you guys should
[141:14] take some extended time off YouTube pays
[141:17] us for uh views and AD clicks the way
[141:20] they promote your channels based upon
[141:22] likes and subscribers so it's really
[141:24] goes down to views primarily in ad
[141:26] clicks so that there's a whole huge like
[141:29] algorithm how it works
[141:31] um I would say just to keep it simple
[141:33] the more views that your video has the
[141:36] more friendly it is to advertisers
[141:37] advertisers bid on content so if you're
[141:41] if YouTube sees your video it goes out
[141:44] people are clicking on it viewing it and
[141:45] watching it for a longer period of time
[141:47] and then of course liking it and doing
[141:49] all the typical [ __ ] they look at
[141:50] that as engagement like oh we're going
[141:52] to recommend this more and then it gets
[141:54] recommended to more people and then if
[141:55] those people come in and do the same
[141:57] [ __ ] even if they're not subscribers it
[141:59] recommends it even more until it grows
[142:01] and gets bigger and that's when your ad
[142:03] rate tier can go up the views go up the
[142:06] more views the more clicks but if your
[142:08] video does not do well and YouTube
[142:09] recommends it and then people aren't
[142:10] clicking on it ad rates go down views go
[142:13] down so you it's impossible to know we
[142:17] know 100 what videos are not going to go
[142:19] out like if like the the Lexus one we
[142:23] just did right the GX it's like a
[142:25] million years old nobody cares about
[142:26] that if it gets recommended it out
[142:28] nobody's going to click it there's no
[142:29] value to it being going viral or
[142:31] whatever you want to call it but we did
[142:33] that because our viewers you guys like
[142:35] Lexus products I mean it's just you
[142:36] can't make videos for this year Well
[142:39] people do like the there's people that
[142:42] literally make videos for the only point
[142:43] and we see this in the car stuff and I'm
[142:45] not calling anybody out I understand it
[142:47] but the drag race stuff right like
[142:49] literally if you make a drag race video
[142:51] with the right cards you're guaranteed a
[142:53] million views and if you play on that
[142:54] you can make a lot a lot of money the
[142:57] the thing is is like that works now so
[142:59] what's going to work next and you really
[143:00] have to be on the business side of
[143:01] feeding that system I don't do it
[143:03] because that's not my interest per se I
[143:07] think if I was really hurting for money
[143:09] I'd be like Jack let's do some drag race
[143:10] videos we would I know they would work
[143:12] but again it's a very weird system that
[143:15] rewards mostly views that's sorry long
[143:18] long let's start powering through these
[143:21] we have a lot of questions and we've
[143:22] been doing this for two and a half hours
[143:23] and I promise we'd answer all of them
[143:25] next question sir here at the very
[143:26] bottom don't ever say that again you
[143:30] know I should be seeing which one's
[143:31] light blue like that Jack but uh zero g
[143:34] and thank you for your 20 supporting as
[143:36] always I gotta have lost her n last year
[143:38] because of your videos I finished the
[143:40] CTSV Big Break Swap this month must see
[143:43] an improvement over the stock single
[143:45] Pistons love you guys and always we'll
[143:48] support you till the end thank you zero
[143:49] GN enjoy your Veloster uh and I didn't
[143:53] realize the CTSV Big Break swap was
[143:55] something you do to have lost their end
[143:56] I mean there's a surprising amount of
[143:58] cars that like Chevy stuff fits but it
[144:00] makes sense like you're gonna spec your
[144:02] brakes from Like A supplier and there's
[144:04] not gonna be a million different
[144:05] variations so that's a car where it
[144:07] actually worked for I forgot what other
[144:08] car did that I can't see yes yeah that's
[144:11] right yeah that's right that's the
[144:13] original 86 was doing that [ __ ] I
[144:14] wouldn't I personally I wouldn't do it
[144:16] but that's just me that probably makes
[144:18] more sense because NSX or Delorean from
[144:20] Mike G
[144:21] NSX NSX I love the DeLorean but no uh
[144:26] Ben thank you for your three dollar
[144:27] donation that manufacturing video on
[144:29] Corvettes will be out at the end of the
[144:31] month yep hopefully it's good hopefully
[144:33] uh free Steve thank you for the ten
[144:35] dollars why can't companies make a car
[144:37] like the 05 Mustang
[144:40] um with
[144:43] 15 and 23 Mustang styling with an
[144:45] interior that is in test tech first and
[144:48] big horsepower numbers
[144:50] because that's not what people ask for
[144:52] the the cars cost so much money to
[144:55] develop programs cost so much money that
[144:57] for anything to get off the ground now
[144:59] it is focus grouped to death and the
[145:03] people they're asking that is not a
[145:05] priority people don't want old Tech and
[145:07] cheap cars like what sells Vehicles is
[145:09] marketing big screens high horsepower
[145:12] and that's the sad part about all this
[145:14] free Steven or free Steve
[145:16] yeah I mean I I've said a lot of this
[145:19] already in the video I'm not gonna I'm
[145:21] not gonna dig it in the bottom line is I
[145:22] don't think people but the enthusiasts
[145:24] are the loudest voice they don't buy
[145:26] cars in bulk and to make a one-off
[145:28] sports car that's very basic and simple
[145:29] costs more money than a commodity car
[145:31] because they're not making their money
[145:33] back the enthusiasts say they're gonna
[145:34] buy it they don't buy it so they're
[145:36] stuck with 8 000 units and when you go
[145:38] to the up top people and say hey we sold
[145:39] 8 000 cars so like big [ __ ] deal
[145:41] bottom line that that's how this works
[145:43] and I hate to be that blunt but it
[145:45] really is until sports cars basic sports
[145:47] cars you can prove that you can sell a
[145:49] hundred thousand of them no manufacturer
[145:51] is going to do it again that's just it
[145:53] and that's what they tell us all the
[145:54] time like they love cars too just like
[145:57] us a lot of them but that's not the
[145:58] reality of the business we're in
[146:01] sucks
[146:02] uh
[146:03] Dak 101 it takes passion people like you
[146:06] guys to make good videos that brings up
[146:08] passion that people working
[146:10] man my brain isn't working that brings
[146:12] up a passion that people working at the
[146:14] manufacturers have thanks Jack I'm glad
[146:17] you you enjoy that part of it I think
[146:19] again people forget that these cars that
[146:22] owners and enthusiasts attach so much
[146:24] identity to For Better or For Worse are
[146:27] actually made by people who dedicate
[146:29] over probably half a decade in most
[146:31] cases of their lives to these projects
[146:34] and it was always my dream when I was
[146:36] younger to get to meet some of these
[146:37] people and now the fact that I get to
[146:39] interview them and show them off because
[146:40] cars aren't zero to 60 your lifetimes
[146:43] they are passion projects at least
[146:45] Enthusiast cars are often by really
[146:47] amazing people in many cases I liked you
[146:50] know to that point like you have the
[146:53] fantasy of like meeting these people
[146:54] right for me
[146:56] I don't like they're people to me I
[146:58] don't make any of the car or the
[146:59] industry anything bigger than it is for
[147:00] me it's a it's amazing to be able to get
[147:02] behind the scenes and learn to see these
[147:05] people's jobs and what all these
[147:06] people's jobs are without actually
[147:08] having to work for the company so I
[147:09] don't want to work for these companies I
[147:11] just want to see how [ __ ] works so I can
[147:13] share that experience that I always
[147:15] wanted to see on the back end like
[147:16] watching videos or reading articles like
[147:18] I wanted that access so I can share it
[147:21] back that's what that's what makes me
[147:22] excited
[147:24] um and you know it's it's a lot more
[147:26] work than I thought it was going to be
[147:27] though so it's like to do that to your
[147:29] point like trying to get access to this
[147:30] stuff is like a full-time job it's crazy
[147:33] uh Neo Neo thank you for the ten dollars
[147:36] I bought a 2022 TLX base upon your
[147:38] reviews I hope you love your carneo yeah
[147:40] the TLX is really cool car it's like
[147:43] it's this far away from like being crazy
[147:45] you know
[147:47] next question
[147:49] uh cons uh two one three thank you by
[147:53] the way um do you guys have any insight
[147:54] how alpha is doing will solantis keep
[147:56] them long term but a 2.0 rear wheel
[147:59] drive Julia and absolutely love it I
[148:00] really hope that parts and service will
[148:02] be available
[148:05] now that's a tough one I just
[148:09] stalantis is going through such a
[148:11] transitionary period and now with the
[148:13] the French part of them I mean they're
[148:16] probably going to have parts for them
[148:17] but like most American manufacturers
[148:19] long-term part support is going to be a
[148:21] big question and if the brand dies
[148:23] you're probably screwed
[148:26] I don't know if it's going to die or not
[148:28] and that's that's the tough part like
[148:29] the Hornet or whatever the hell the new
[148:31] Dodge like SUV thing is it's a re-badged
[148:34] either French or Italian vehicle I don't
[148:37] really care so I can't remember but the
[148:39] fact that that's not he doesn't not care
[148:42] that it's French or Italian he just
[148:43] doesn't care like platform yeah yeah
[148:46] um
[148:47] uh you know the fact that it's not a
[148:49] Fiat or uh Alpha product and there are
[148:51] no new Alpha products really doesn't
[148:54] fill me with a warm and fuzzies I think
[148:56] it's dead I think it's dead in the US
[148:58] honestly unless they do something
[148:59] magical here and make it the luxury
[149:01] brand of stalantis in the US but you
[149:03] don't have a dealer Network you don't
[149:05] have like really big marketing or any
[149:06] budget I I think it's on life support
[149:09] personally so it's work Alpha is worse
[149:12] than Jack yeah yeah for sure
[149:14] uh next question uh Clara or Clara
[149:19] drives uh what are your thoughts on
[149:21] using a car as a motivational goal at a
[149:23] young age I'm 20 setting aside money to
[149:26] buy and maintain a E90 M3 as soon as I
[149:29] can I love the amazing content guys
[149:32] um so I think like the the E90 M3 but
[149:35] are ignoring the car part about thinking
[149:38] about cars as a motivational goal at a
[149:41] young age yes it's a good motivator it's
[149:43] one of the strongest motivators I mean
[149:45] things are motivators I'm not saying
[149:46] that it should be but I I think you know
[149:49] when you're young and you have the time
[149:51] and you have to work for something it's
[149:52] a really good Outlet
[149:54] to drive yourself
[149:57] to push yourself a little bit more like
[150:00] that this concept of like all the silent
[150:01] queer quiet quitting and all the people
[150:03] that don't want to put the hours in our
[150:04] work I get it because you're working for
[150:06] another company that's reaping the
[150:07] benefits for your slave labor
[150:09] but on the Counterpoint it is selfish as
[150:12] well if you get in with a decent company
[150:14] you're making money you can make a lot
[150:16] more money putting in that extra hours
[150:18] that extra time there's a lot to learn
[150:20] in a job whether it's corporate it's
[150:22] [ __ ] or not you can learn a lot and
[150:24] it's how you take away that experience
[150:26] that drives you for the future so if
[150:28] that like in your head like I can afford
[150:30] an M3 if I work an extra 10 hours this
[150:33] week you know you can flip that around
[150:35] and be like how can I help my team or my
[150:38] boss tackle like projects that nobody
[150:40] else wants to do because at the end of
[150:42] the day that will give you a lot of like
[150:46] for for most people it gives you a lot
[150:48] of credibility it gives you you become a
[150:50] go-to person you know you think cars are
[150:52] good motivation motivational goals I'm
[150:54] like I'm mixed on it personally I think
[150:56] you know things are things at the end of
[150:58] the day
[150:58] and I I don't know I there's a part of
[151:02] like being young and being irresponsible
[151:05] that you don't you don't want to be this
[151:08] person and buy an M3 after you've set
[151:11] aside forty thousand dollars or thirty
[151:12] thousand dollars and then go bankrupt
[151:14] immediately right car breaks I'm not
[151:15] saying I guess to rephrase it I'm not
[151:18] saying that the car is the reason you
[151:20] work hard but it's a tool to teach you
[151:23] some work ethic that might get you over
[151:26] the hump of like I don't feel like
[151:27] working [ __ ] this place but if you have
[151:29] a moment personal goal of like hey it's
[151:31] a means to an end and I can get
[151:33] something out of putting that extra work
[151:34] in to get the money there's very few
[151:36] things that cost enough money where you
[151:38] have to put that extra work in like from
[151:39] houses cars cars is a big thing and like
[151:42] young people with cars like Enthusiast
[151:44] cars it's that's why it's always a meme
[151:45] or a joke it's like hey do you want to
[151:48] keep your kid away from doing drugs or
[151:49] like getting 20 women pregnant you know
[151:52] give them an Enthusiast car and have
[151:53] them go broke modifying that I'm not
[151:55] saying do that but you know there
[151:57] there's benefits from it for sure next
[151:59] question sir sorry no no worries no that
[152:02] was actually a really good question
[152:04] uh yeah Mike uh to answer your question
[152:08] again you have the Nissan people as much
[152:10] as I give Nissan a hard time for making
[152:12] a lot of crap for a long time and as
[152:15] much as you people can make fun of the
[152:16] new Z they are a really passionate bunch
[152:19] I just I wish that brand had more money
[152:22] for them internally the Z the Z is a
[152:25] good car for what it is and you just
[152:26] have to be in that mindset is it as good
[152:28] as a Supra
[152:29] I think it goes down to all these
[152:31] companies they do have some passionate
[152:32] people in there but most of the time
[152:34] they're stuck on chicken ship projects
[152:36] that they don't want to do I mean I
[152:37] brought that up in the Z06 thing like
[152:39] sometimes you have to work your entire
[152:41] life to eat [ __ ] and that goes back to
[152:43] that on three question you have to work
[152:45] hard for a long time to get that dream
[152:47] project or to get that dream car that
[152:49] you want to buy things don't just drop
[152:51] in your lap all the time so and that's
[152:53] the passion that shows that's the
[152:54] passion these guys literally had to do a
[152:56] lot of [ __ ] for a long time so when the
[152:58] Z came around they're like thank God I
[153:00] get to work on this I'm gonna put
[153:01] everything I have because this is the
[153:02] one chance I need to give you ten
[153:04] dollars to do it well I mean but they
[153:05] made the best like right yes that that's
[153:07] the point of like all these cars we want
[153:09] everything for nothing we want the best
[153:10] stuff but the reality is a lot of the
[153:12] people behind them they don't have
[153:13] unlimited budgets and it's a miracle
[153:15] these things get made and yes the Z has
[153:18] problems like I I mean even going back
[153:21] you know how can you build a car that
[153:24] has feel starvation at half a tank I
[153:26] mean like these are basic things that
[153:27] should not be happening but again
[153:30] there's reasons behind them that a lot
[153:32] of companies will not talk about because
[153:34] it's inside baseball or somebody want
[153:36] didn't want that but there was no money
[153:37] to do it or somebody got overruled every
[153:39] car has these things and it's just the
[153:41] human part of business yeah next
[153:43] question sir
[153:44] or statement in that case Bob vandell II
[153:48] you guys can keep up with humor and
[153:50] production quality and review fewer
[153:52] boring cars like the Crossovers and [ __ ]
[153:56] I wish we didn't have to review
[153:58] crossovers but I can tell you for
[153:59] example this month alone he doesn't do
[154:01] all the traveling that I do I have to go
[154:02] do a pilot reveal because sadly that's
[154:05] important card to people not sadly but
[154:07] that's an important card to people and
[154:09] you know that's why we do it a lot of
[154:12] the Crossovers are what actually sells
[154:13] and that's what people ask for for as
[154:15] much Enthusiast car videos we do
[154:18] sadly or or not there are many
[154:21] counterpoints of why can't we can't you
[154:23] do more affordable or regular people
[154:25] cars I think the the good one is like
[154:27] look at Hagerty and you know now that
[154:29] we've met Jason camisa and talked to him
[154:31] quite a bit we're not in the same like
[154:33] headspace
[154:35] um we're not like the same type but we
[154:37] have similar like ideas of like we want
[154:39] to make certain quality content well
[154:41] Jason doesn't shoot his videos he
[154:44] doesn't edit them so when he goes to
[154:46] make like one of these drag race videos
[154:47] or one of the comparison videos it's
[154:50] like running out of track it's big money
[154:52] it's a lot of time and then it takes
[154:54] them over a month to edit these videos
[154:55] now to think about that like if all your
[154:58] your income is just coming from
[155:00] releasing videos like our our most of
[155:03] our content is AD Revenue supported
[155:04] right you don't make money by releasing
[155:07] one Enthusiast video a month I mean
[155:09] that's one of the reasons why the other
[155:11] reason why is I don't want to do just
[155:13] car Enthusiast videos I don't want to
[155:15] become a car Enthusiast only Outlet
[155:17] because that really puts you in the
[155:19] corner of and that was one of the big
[155:20] problems why I didn't get press cars to
[155:22] begin with yeah
[155:23] Nissan was one
[155:26] um
[155:26] a rep yeah she's like oh I I didn't want
[155:29] to give you guys regular cars because I
[155:31] thought all you did was Enthusiast
[155:33] vehicles and honestly like I was joking
[155:35] around about the numbers look at the
[155:37] RAV4 look at the F-150 look at all these
[155:39] commodity deals those are the real cars
[155:41] that people buy and those are the people
[155:42] you also need for me I want to learn
[155:44] about those cars and help people like
[155:46] our family members you can help you can
[155:48] truly help people that are looking to
[155:50] try to make a good decision and if we
[155:52] can help to teach or at least to show it
[155:55] and let people make a better decision
[155:56] that's why it's important for me to do
[155:58] some of these [ __ ] box cars or some of
[156:00] the more boring cars or some of the only
[156:01] great commodity cars like things that I
[156:03] never thought would have been good I've
[156:05] I've some of my favorite cars are just
[156:07] normal Vehicles not the fun stuff
[156:09] next question sorry that I mean I'm just
[156:12] trying to explain
[156:14] thanks uh capura thank you for the ten
[156:17] dollars thanks for the videos your
[156:18] advocacy led me to buy an LC 500 of my
[156:21] own makes sitting in traffic uh much
[156:23] better have either of you driven the
[156:25] hybrid love to know how it Compares
[156:26] don't drive the hybrid
[156:29] it looks cool if you like the LLC
[156:31] styling it has the same interior but the
[156:33] V8 is what makes the LC 500 in my
[156:36] opinion
[156:38] as soon as I drove the hybrid I was so
[156:40] disappointed you drove it on the track
[156:42] too didn't you no I didn't maybe I did
[156:44] yeah I remember the Toyota then you
[156:45] drove it on drag which is hilarious oh
[156:47] yeah I don't remember That's how little
[156:49] I remember it I I mean I just that was
[156:51] my overall feeling after coming out of
[156:53] the V8 and driving the hybrid I was just
[156:55] purely disappointed it felt like a shell
[156:57] of a car and that's how much the
[156:59] drivetrain makes a difference
[157:01] I'm glad you liked Elsie still one of
[157:03] the coolest cars on the planet
[157:05] explosion
[157:06] Ben
[157:08] thank you for the seven dollars Canadian
[157:09] or
[157:11] um thanks for existing I really enjoy
[157:13] the content you guys make what's your
[157:15] first impressions of the new Toyota
[157:16] Prius
[157:17] I will tell you Mark's First Impressions
[157:20] because I was there when it happened so
[157:22] a year before the Prius press event
[157:24] Toyota does this every year at their
[157:27] annual come to our headquarters thing
[157:28] they show you some unveiled products or
[157:30] like upcoming products that are complete
[157:32] like they did it for the tundra the year
[157:34] prior to this and they take away your
[157:36] phone and they tell you you can't say
[157:38] [ __ ] about the product and they pull off
[157:41] the like this basically like blanket or
[157:44] tarp over this car and you're supposed
[157:45] to go wow Marcus infinite wisdom and
[157:48] I've told the story before was standing
[157:50] right next to me and behind us were all
[157:52] the senior leaders at Toyota and Mark
[157:53] didn't know they were there and this
[157:55] blue uh like it was like the dark blue
[157:59] it's got like base model thing and we
[158:01] were on the side we were on the side of
[158:03] it and uh Mark's first words as he in
[158:06] between his laughter was that looks like
[158:08] a [ __ ] Dodge Dart
[158:11] and uh the Toyota Personnel apparently
[158:13] had a meeting about that later I was
[158:15] like oh does this look like a Dodge Dart
[158:17] it's a great looking car though the the
[158:19] at least the stuff at least the stuff
[158:20] that they've released now as I'm
[158:22] spitting everywhere because I'm so
[158:23] excited for the Prius the the ones that
[158:26] we saw at the auto show
[158:27] like the upper end ones the prime like
[158:29] the dark color ones that didn't look
[158:31] like an old man Speck it looks a lot
[158:34] different from different angles but that
[158:35] like the base model ones which is what
[158:37] you're gonna see on the road to me is
[158:40] I don't know I hope it's enough people
[158:43] seem excited for it and personally I'm
[158:45] excited because it's a car a hatch a car
[158:48] that's not a CV or SUV so I hope it just
[158:50] from that perspective sells really well
[158:52] for them I think it looks better than
[158:54] the new Corolla does like I think it's a
[158:56] good looking little like regular car
[158:58] yeah and I mean I that I was telling
[159:00] that to somebody today about the oh yeah
[159:02] it was about the RAV4 like you know
[159:04] everybody's gonna go to a RAV4 for the
[159:06] price right because it has bigger it's
[159:07] bigger it has more space all that [ __ ]
[159:09] but that's just because we don't have
[159:11] good car options anymore you know like
[159:13] cars are just no they're not putting
[159:15] money into them they're putting in SUVs
[159:16] so it's nice to see they put some money
[159:18] into the Prius styling i i as much as I
[159:20] think it does look like a dart from the
[159:21] side
[159:23] an 05 Corolla XRS before I got
[159:25] rear-ended I got an 07 SI as a
[159:27] replacement should I look for another
[159:30] 2zz XRS or should I just be happy with
[159:34] the experience I had I I mean I
[159:36] personally wouldn't I I would just stick
[159:38] with the SI the the XRS was cool but
[159:42] it's going to be so hard to find one of
[159:43] those and
[159:45] I mean not that finding an SI isn't hard
[159:47] now
[159:48] I think the outside is a better car
[159:50] other than if you're going to go back to
[159:51] the experience I mean this is a huge
[159:53] like have you know set aside of a small
[159:56] fortune but uh like a base of lease
[159:59] doesn't it have that motor
[160:01] yeah I think yeah that's the XRS and
[160:04] then I forgot what the
[160:06] to look it up
[160:08] um what what motor did the Elise have I
[160:10] can't remember because it's a Toyota
[160:12] high revving engine
[160:14] yeah it was the I think it was the same
[160:16] one I I can never remember the engine if
[160:18] you want to experience the engine again
[160:20] do it in a dedicated sports car platform
[160:22] yeah I think at this point just you know
[160:24] try to
[160:26] um
[160:27] or try to try to move on to something
[160:30] else if it got totaled out and this is
[160:31] what happens to me like I had the warm
[160:33] and fuzzies and went and and tried to
[160:35] get the same thing and
[160:37] um it was never the same the second time
[160:39] around nostalgia's a bit it's the 1.8
[160:42] liter so yeah I think it's the same
[160:43] thing they put in the Elise I can't tell
[160:45] off the picture let me see if I can find
[160:47] about her
[160:48] of course this is all [ __ ] zoomed up
[160:51] anyway yeah
[160:52] um
[160:54] just stick with the SI you can build the
[160:57] SI out to be hilarious yeah just put an
[160:59] intake on it that's all you need a seven
[161:01] inch intake next question I've been
[161:03] eyeing a Julia wow a lot of questions of
[161:06] the Julia because it's it's the cheap
[161:07] car right now hexa form for five dollars
[161:09] when eyeing Julia versus a TLS for a
[161:12] while what's more fun and what's your
[161:14] speculation regarding the attorney it's
[161:16] the current Italian makes uh Alpha I
[161:19] think is a dead brand unless they
[161:21] rejuvenate it uh not Ferrari Maserati or
[161:25] their own thing altogether Ferrari's
[161:27] gonna be around till the end of time uh
[161:30] Maserati we're trying to do an mc20
[161:31] video in the spring we'll see if that
[161:33] actually happens
[161:35] um you're looking at a very difficult
[161:38] choice because the Julia is a rear-wheel
[161:39] drive architecture it's really good the
[161:42] interior is pretty good The Styling is
[161:44] unique you're just you're saddled with
[161:46] the engine and the drivetrain you know
[161:48] and not that the TLX Type S is is like
[161:51] amazing amazing but it's still it's
[161:54] better and it's a turbocharged form and
[161:59] um I think the chassis of the TLX
[162:01] is good too and the all-wheel drive
[162:03] system yeah I mean it is really good
[162:05] personally if the price was the same I'd
[162:07] choose the TLX and that's not just I I
[162:10] really think it's a better car in that
[162:12] regard
[162:13] um the Julia is only to me like really
[162:15] really great yeah that's where you
[162:17] really see what that car is and anything
[162:18] less is really hard to take all right
[162:20] next question Jonathan for five dollars
[162:23] favor daily for sixty five thousand
[162:25] dollars considering a Civic SI Integra
[162:28] last gen M2 Macan open to others except
[162:31] for Hyundai for sixty five thousand it's
[162:34] a lot of money uh you have a lot to work
[162:37] with but if you want a daily M3 an M3
[162:39] yeah I saw a G80 today
[162:42] f80 sorry the f80 today a four-door on
[162:46] the road and I'm like God that car looks
[162:48] great yes like even the four-door I'm
[162:50] like God it looks so good I like it's
[162:52] just I at first I I mean I always liked
[162:56] it but it's aged so well and I think
[162:57] that's because everything's got more
[162:59] ugly they're like man that's a classic
[163:00] looking BMW if I if I didn't have that
[163:03] gr Corolla coming in you know that would
[163:06] be to me enough assuming it doesn't like
[163:09] become worthless if you put like 3 000
[163:12] miles on it I think the f80 is a good
[163:14] looking car yeah that's what I would get
[163:16] and it's fun to drive yeah like I think
[163:18] some of the problems with the chat I see
[163:21] it going sideways everywhere and having
[163:22] too much torque
[163:24] initially if you looked at it from a
[163:26] driver's perspective was a problem but
[163:27] now it's character yeah I mean I I mean
[163:29] the SI and the Integra they're you know
[163:31] they're they're [ __ ] box like Eco cars
[163:34] you know they're fun but yeah if you
[163:35] have a 65 000 budget I mean like if you
[163:38] get a if you get in an M2 and you drive
[163:40] an S9 and integral you'll be like oh you
[163:43] know like what what just happened you
[163:45] know
[163:46] um all right next question I always tune
[163:49] in for the Timeless production pieces
[163:50] the pilot gear blend you guys for
[163:52] guiding my my Miata passion looking
[163:55] forward to something profound regarding
[163:57] to the new cx70 and cx90 that's gonna be
[163:59] up to Mazda I've pitched them on the
[164:01] project if they have the resources and
[164:03] the time we're gonna do a pretty big
[164:05] film on the rear wheel drive platform
[164:06] but the ball's in their Court
[164:09] ah yeah that's it's in the works yeah
[164:11] our London for twenty dollars I have a
[164:14] geebly sq4 with 52 000 miles it's been
[164:17] super reliable you're the only person
[164:18] I've ever met ever that said there's
[164:20] their their Ghibli has been super
[164:21] reliable congratulations I have a one I
[164:25] have a year and a half of warranty left
[164:27] should I chance keeping it once the
[164:29] warranty is up or should I dump it
[164:31] well based on what you just said and uh
[164:34] you're a God you are the luckiest human
[164:37] being I've ever met I sold when I sold
[164:39] cars in college an SQ5 geebly I think I
[164:43] sold it I think the car was like fifty
[164:45] dollars it was a year or two old and I
[164:46] think it was less than half of its MSRP
[164:49] oh yeah that's that's rough
[164:52] I I mean I would solid do it honestly
[164:54] nobody's ever like a high mileage
[164:57] Maserati is doesn't sound like a good
[164:59] idea
[165:00] or London I'm really sorry to be the one
[165:03] I mean bring that up it's like an old
[165:05] Jag right like it's it's got the same
[165:07] thing I just think the old Jag is cooler
[165:09] than the old Maserati well that's
[165:10] because you're a British snob dude
[165:12] first time seeing you guys live that's
[165:14] great and uh great and more talk and car
[165:18] audio quality yeah that's it yeah it's
[165:22] we need to figure out how to make it the
[165:25] problem is nobody cares about it but
[165:26] people care about it so it's like you go
[165:28] to one extreme and do more on it and
[165:30] people like tune out because they don't
[165:31] know what the hell you're talking about
[165:32] we need to do a better job making
[165:34] certain things more accessible and uh
[165:36] we'll put that on the list of things to
[165:38] do including our Discord and they will
[165:40] go up it is dumb though it is actually
[165:42] done chin face Assuming he's not dead in
[165:45] a ditch somewhere put a lot of effort
[165:47] into putting that together so one of
[165:49] these days Mark will finally connect her
[165:50] YouTube and her patreon to it and we'll
[165:52] go live I don't know when but it will
[165:54] happen
[165:55] Anish can you explain why you made a
[165:59] video about your Honda experience it
[166:00] felt like an ad not your typical
[166:02] programming it was a very weird video in
[166:03] my honest opinion he's talked about that
[166:05] enough at this point let's move on to
[166:07] the next question go back and watch the
[166:09] beginning the first 20 minutes of the
[166:11] video I explain it in great detail
[166:13] if you have any opinions on your gr86
[166:16] BRZ twins have has your experience or
[166:18] opinion changed on the 86 BRZ twins over
[166:21] time with ownership what would you
[166:22] replace it with if you could
[166:24] all right I guess this is a question for
[166:26] me
[166:27] um my favorite time to drive to gr86 is
[166:29] someone who loves going sideways is in
[166:31] the snow and in the wet and I will tell
[166:34] you when the snow with snow attires if
[166:36] you are okay with a thing getting loose
[166:37] you can drive that thing around like
[166:39] you're in a a Formula Drift race it is
[166:42] unbelievably com like comical it's one
[166:45] of my favorite driving experiences
[166:46] everywhere else
[166:48] if you're just driving like a sane
[166:50] person the drivetrain is so boring so
[166:54] boring it sucks the soul out of that car
[166:55] not that it's slow because it's not
[166:58] really anymore it's just the drivetrain
[167:00] sucks on track at the limit particularly
[167:02] with the way it's modified now it's good
[167:04] to drive I mean it's almost as fast as
[167:06] the super on re71 rs's yeah it's crazy
[167:08] it kills the Nissan Z on our E71 RS is
[167:11] around Audubon South I'm sure the way it
[167:13] sits now is faster than you Type R
[167:15] don't ever say that I was paid
[167:24] that that car is superior to anything
[167:26] you could come up with
[167:28] um but I bought the gr86 to do a series
[167:31] on for for the channel because again I
[167:33] know so many of you were excited about
[167:35] that car that's why we bought it we're
[167:37] doing it again for the gr Corolla that's
[167:39] a car I'm very interested in not because
[167:41] just because you guys love it but Mark
[167:43] and I were both dramatically
[167:44] disappointed by it at the Press event it
[167:46] was a card that I was super excited for
[167:48] when we were there in like all the ads
[167:51] and talking to people but when I
[167:53] actually drove it compared to the Yaris
[167:55] it felt neutered but it was in a limited
[167:59] experience on a track we weren't
[168:01] familiar with with a really weird
[168:02] configuration I was so disappointed
[168:05] that I know I'm going to be happy to
[168:07] drive it on the street and like in real
[168:08] world conditions because it just like
[168:11] again it goes back to the marketing
[168:13] right you see the the Larry Chen stuff
[168:15] and all the marketing that they've done
[168:17] for Corolla and all it is is that car
[168:18] going sideways you can't get that car
[168:20] sideways like you'd have to put trays on
[168:23] the back of those tires to get that car
[168:24] to drift and do all that stuff no Street
[168:27] talking to someone who worked on those
[168:30] ads that is not Larry Chen the marketing
[168:32] guy the way they got it to go sideways
[168:34] is they basically soak down the rear
[168:36] tires or they overin flooded the tires
[168:39] to the Max and used all e-brake it's not
[168:42] a car that you are thinking of like when
[168:44] I thought about it going sideways for
[168:45] some whatever reason I was picturing the
[168:46] gr86 that doesn't do that which isn't
[168:50] the only reason I like cars yes when
[168:51] cars go sideways like the ev6 GT I have
[168:54] an infinitely better time than when they
[168:56] don't yeah but that's not really the
[168:58] whole point no that car understeered
[168:59] everywhere everywhere it was at least on
[169:01] the track that we're at it was not a car
[169:03] the altitude we were at and it was not
[169:05] something and it felt like there was a
[169:06] lot of heat soak in it the more you
[169:08] drove it the less power it made and out
[169:10] of a three cylinder
[169:12] I don't know again it's one of those we
[169:14] I talked about this at the beginning
[169:15] they put you on these press events they
[169:17] blow your mind with the hype you drive
[169:19] it and if you walk away disappointed
[169:21] there's a problem the type R was not
[169:22] that expensive the type R was not that
[169:24] way the gr Corolla was so I think from a
[169:26] serious perspective seeing what goes
[169:28] wrong with the car first will be great
[169:30] working with again Mike and David a
[169:32] counter space garage will be great
[169:33] Orleans have stepped up they want to do
[169:35] a damper kit with us on that car to
[169:37] address some of the suspension problems
[169:39] with the vehicle yeah uh I'm excited for
[169:41] that but I'm excited for it from a video
[169:43] I want to have both the cars that we own
[169:46] both the type R and the gr Corolla where
[169:48] we do our own [ __ ] on track and we do
[169:50] our own thing to it because it's it's it
[169:52] that those are two special cars that are
[169:53] on obtainium for no good reason really
[169:55] but it'll be fun to to go through that
[169:57] in the ownership experience of both of
[169:59] them and what they do great for their
[170:01] respective price points honestly all
[170:03] right next question
[170:05] uh thoughts on the Subaru Crosstrek six
[170:08] speed man do it it's the only thing of
[170:10] its kind and it's super super great as a
[170:13] as a practical usable car without
[170:14] getting a real SUV or the Civic which is
[170:17] way more money Yes sounds like you guys
[170:19] have had several sets of Olean Stampers
[170:21] between the 86 and s2k would you
[170:22] recommend them for non-track U yes they
[170:25] are great dampers there's one caveat to
[170:27] them you absolutely 100 percent have to
[170:30] have the olings top hats do not go to
[170:33] some aftermarket crap if you can get the
[170:35] Orleans top hats and you know the to put
[170:37] the shock in the the upper Hat by this
[170:39] the shock or strut Tower it makes a huge
[170:41] difference they never make noise unless
[170:43] you have a double Wishbone car where you
[170:44] don't need that you still need it you
[170:46] need the camera blades for the S2000 no
[170:48] it's got top hat it's still got a top
[170:49] plate you know what I mean not using
[170:51] reusing this Factory ones or an
[170:53] aftermarket one the ones that olin's
[170:55] made I I would not buy those without it
[170:57] uh they're right amazing on the street I
[171:00] mean there's so many people that know
[171:02] the settings for them and all that stuff
[171:03] too for each car they genuinely need 86
[171:06] this case it rides better than it did
[171:08] stock in all conditions and the S2000
[171:10] although I did Swift Springs instead of
[171:12] the stock ones the car is just so much
[171:14] better in every condition I wouldn't
[171:16] trade it out but I don't put a lot of
[171:17] miles on the car if I was putting on 25
[171:19] 000 miles or 12 to I'm sorry 15 to 20
[171:22] 000 miles a year I would not do that I
[171:24] would just stick with the stock
[171:25] suspension because you you have to
[171:26] already or a Bilstein or something right
[171:28] yeah
[171:29] uh which modern car is the worst sound
[171:31] system when you answered that one the
[171:32] nice or not the Nissan Ridgeline I
[171:35] remember your earlier YouTuber where you
[171:36] pay tribute to your late mentor and
[171:38] talked about pivoting into creating car
[171:40] Enthusiast content wish your critics
[171:42] could see your origin story its
[171:44] perspective right like the thing is is
[171:46] in a moment of time this was my failing
[171:49] is I made assumptions in that video this
[171:51] was going back to the start of the suit
[171:53] I made assumptions that people knew what
[171:54] I was talking about if you do that then
[171:58] like people don't have perspective of
[171:59] who you are where you're coming from and
[172:01] I'm not taking in perspective of other
[172:03] opinions so you have to like this is the
[172:05] weird thing about doing videos you have
[172:07] to to try to speak out to to make it
[172:10] accessible to more people so if we get
[172:12] into a car and call it a pile and say
[172:14] these things are garbage the Enthusiast
[172:16] might know why it's garbage but the
[172:18] people that are tuning in like these
[172:19] guys are jerks they don't know what
[172:20] they're talking about the instant
[172:21] reaction is anger
[172:24] um and yes if everybody knew you they
[172:26] would know that you're not a bad guy
[172:28] you're not a bad guy but you know like
[172:31] they don't know you and I that that's my
[172:33] failing and it's a good lesson for
[172:35] people too is like you need to always be
[172:37] aware that people don't always know
[172:38] where you're coming from and you need to
[172:40] take that extra time to try to be to try
[172:42] to understand different points of view
[172:44] and try and just make a bigger bigger
[172:46] effort to be a good person okay next
[172:49] question thank you
[172:51] uh what was the Kirk Kirkland Signature
[172:54] for automobiles asking for a friend
[172:56] pags22 thank you very much CRV RAV4
[173:00] yeah pretty much
[173:05] oh I have a mirror four-cylinder yeah
[173:07] application you've brushed on Modern
[173:10] Lotus being hard to deal with on your
[173:11] end am I making a mistake
[173:13] I don't want to trash them but
[173:17] if you have an allocation
[173:19] hopefully it's in a year
[173:21] like hopefully the first model here is
[173:23] done that's all I'll say
[173:25] I'm I'm really excited for that car in
[173:28] many ways but dealing with them on the
[173:29] corporate side is very
[173:31] disheartening and I think knowing what
[173:34] they're like to their dealers I know
[173:36] dealers are the bad guy but we knew we
[173:38] the the dealer we worked with to get our
[173:40] original Vora hearing what they had to
[173:42] deal with from a Lotus side even then
[173:45] this was after they got bought out by
[173:46] Julia I'm like man
[173:49] I wouldn't want to be a Lotus stealer as
[173:51] an owner of an old car I would say don't
[173:53] buy it
[173:54] now things have changed but they've
[173:57] gotten better and worse in some ways and
[173:59] I know I can pretty much guarantee you
[174:01] that if we had an evora or an Amira and
[174:04] an avora GT back to back the old car
[174:07] would be better not Better Built not
[174:09] better interior but better to drive at
[174:11] the limit
[174:12] and that's all I'll say about it I would
[174:13] say wait if you're dead set on it wait
[174:15] it out please just wait it out until
[174:17] they can get production up and there's
[174:18] more people with these cars and more
[174:20] people that actually have driven them
[174:21] for real and not just like hand-picked
[174:23] certain people to drive them in order
[174:25] just to get the production up the the
[174:27] Amira four cylinder as well I think the
[174:30] biggest thing about the car is getting
[174:31] it as a manual and you can't get it with
[174:33] a fort bobber yeah
[174:35] A6 all Road EF E450 all-terrainer A6 all
[174:39] Road Tyler thanks for the five dollars
[174:41] all road every single day yeah it's a
[174:43] great car I bought my 13 BRZ with 600
[174:47] 269
[174:48] 000 miles original drive here from an
[174:50] old doctor for under 5K he only used
[174:52] regular gas any harm switching to
[174:53] premium switch to premium right away the
[174:56] engine tuning was set up for that
[175:00] um not to say that the engine would have
[175:01] a problem particularly after 269 000
[175:03] miles yeah I mean he probably drove it
[175:05] like a grandma but yeah the you'll get a
[175:07] lot better performance out of premium
[175:09] and then you'll also want to do like
[175:11] fuel like a fuel injection flush or just
[175:14] use like Techron for like five fill ups
[175:18] just to flush any deposits out
[175:21] um because it's dual injection you're
[175:22] gonna have a lot less worry but I would
[175:23] switch 100 switch to premium run two
[175:27] tanks through and then disconnect the
[175:28] battery cable like the negative battery
[175:30] cable let it sit for like two minutes
[175:32] plug it back in and then immediately
[175:35] start it and drive it like normal around
[175:37] for like a hundred miles because it'll
[175:39] really relearn the fuel Trims on that
[175:41] car so your fuel trims will correct and
[175:43] then the ECU will recalibrate its knock
[175:46] sensor to the different octane fuel that
[175:48] you're running and you'll get better
[175:49] performance out of it um I'm going to
[175:51] answer a question from Super Chat
[175:53] um spiffy Acorn asked thoughts on the
[175:55] future of Jaguar as a brand
[175:59] um and their relationship with Land
[176:00] Rover I'm a big Jag guy I have just
[176:02] because they're sort of the the underdog
[176:04] but I can tell you from talking to the
[176:06] Reps
[176:07] formally he worked there and currently
[176:09] who worked there
[176:11] they're Sol I mean I don't know how they
[176:14] survive personally like Jaguars talking
[176:16] about going super high-end I don't know
[176:18] how they do that the only thing that
[176:20] keeps that brand alive from an
[176:21] automotive perspective is the f-pace and
[176:24] what really keeps that brand alive is
[176:25] Range Rover like Range Rover Land Rover
[176:28] sell fairly well for their segment but
[176:31] the people who ran Jaguar
[176:33] squandered such a massive opportunity
[176:36] from five six seven years ago when the
[176:38] XC and XF were first re-released they
[176:40] were actually good cars when the F Pace
[176:41] actually came out and they just didn't
[176:43] do [ __ ] with them right yeah they don't
[176:45] have a lot of money it's again you're
[176:46] trying to do a lot with a little and
[176:48] compete in a luxury space where you have
[176:49] these Giants that have a lot more
[176:52] resources and they're there that's just
[176:54] how it's always been they've had the
[176:55] pull budget and pull resources from
[176:57] everything and you know it's there's a
[177:00] lot of competition it got so bad for
[177:02] Jaguar from what I would have been told
[177:04] that they've literally had to sell press
[177:05] cars to just keep operations going
[177:08] that's crazy from uh like a PR
[177:10] perspective
[177:11] next question Chris walks fast for five
[177:14] dollars and again thank you to everybody
[177:15] who's donated to ask a question I've
[177:17] also mixed in non-paid questions in here
[177:18] this time because it's easier how did
[177:20] the Integra Type R S 2000 NSX compare in
[177:23] terms of gearbox driving phone and
[177:24] something you'd want to purchase or keep
[177:26] uh I would put it in this order honestly
[177:30] um stock stock stock cars I would say
[177:34] NSX
[177:35] S2000 and type R and I only say that
[177:38] because the type R is
[177:40] you know for what it's going for is not
[177:43] worth more than an S2000 there's not no
[177:46] planet that the type R is better than
[177:47] this 2000 stock for like spending forty
[177:50] thousand fifty thousand dollars
[177:52] um
[177:54] and it makes sense that was the price
[177:56] point the NSX was like the the you know
[177:58] Pinnacle halo car S2000 was like they're
[178:01] one of their only rear-wheel drive cars
[178:03] in the type R was front-wheel drive the
[178:04] first chin NSX the ones pre-power
[178:07] steering so 94 and Below 94 and Below
[178:10] um you drive like around the street
[178:11] you're hyper underwhelmed and we got for
[178:15] this video that we're doing we got a
[178:16] museum car shipped over to us we drove
[178:18] it on the street and I'm like why when
[178:20] you drove it on the track within one lap
[178:23] once you load up that car you're like
[178:24] this thing is amazing yeah we we said
[178:27] this and we're probably not going to say
[178:29] it in the video but it's one of the only
[178:30] cars where you can't believe how much of
[178:32] a difference in personality it had like
[178:35] from what it drives like on the street
[178:37] you're like this is going to be horrible
[178:39] on track but again this is 94 and Below
[178:42] when it had newer tires on it to be
[178:44] honest it was like I think the Dunlop
[178:46] derezas on it something more sticky so
[178:49] when you got on the track it's because
[178:50] there's it was manual power steering and
[178:53] or manual steering I'm sorry manual
[178:55] steering rack in the 94 and below and it
[178:57] like it was a workout in your arms to
[179:00] steer this thing you felt everything
[179:01] through it and the engine was just it's
[179:03] just powerful enough for the car it was
[179:06] so much fun to drive
[179:08] um and it is a special car even with its
[179:10] era removed it's definitely not fast but
[179:12] it you feel something that's what all
[179:14] these cars here the S2000 has the least
[179:16] amount of feel in my opinion but it's
[179:18] the best dynamically how it moves with
[179:20] you and moves around corners but special
[179:23] cars for their era
[179:25] uh when will you review the 2023 BMW 7
[179:29] Series is it better overall than an A8
[179:31] uh I have no idea what we're going to
[179:34] get BMW is an interesting brand they
[179:37] will work with us they will answer some
[179:39] of our technical questions but when it
[179:40] comes to giving us Vehicles we ask for
[179:42] they're terrible at it but giving us
[179:44] random cars like a BMW X1 or a refreshed
[179:47] X7 they will we're going to get
[179:49] whatever's in their Fleet that's it if
[179:52] there's anything outside that's not in
[179:53] our Fleet we're not getting it and if we
[179:55] have anything outside of normal
[179:56] questions we're not getting answers on
[179:58] BMW so for Jack and I we both have BMWs
[180:02] in our family it's disappointing from
[180:04] that perspective like we should have
[180:06] more technical detail but it goes back
[180:07] to this conversation it's a German
[180:09] company and in America does answering
[180:13] questions exactly it's it's [ __ ]
[180:15] annoying
[180:17] Bob Vandal the second twenty dollars
[180:19] please compare the new M2 to my f87 m2c
[180:23] or M2 competition also how can I
[180:26] how can a M5 and M8 still look damn good
[180:30] but the M3 and M4 are ugly it's a
[180:32] generation of the product for that the
[180:34] M3 and the M4 were designed later it's
[180:37] the new design language guaranteed the
[180:38] M5 and the M8 when the next ones come
[180:40] out they're just as ugly M5 is M5 and M8
[180:43] I think aren't they killing off the 8
[180:44] series I thought they were killing it I
[180:46] don't remember anyway even if they
[180:48] didn't let's say that I'm five and I may
[180:49] come out they're gonna look like the
[180:50] seven series The like stodgy weird what
[180:53] did you say that it looked like it
[180:54] looked like a
[180:55] I don't know some really weird
[180:57] comparison looks horrible okay
[181:00] um the new we're gonna do a new M2 video
[181:02] whenever we get one that's the one big
[181:04] project I pitched BMW one they said
[181:05] maybe
[181:07] um I'm hoping it's good but honestly
[181:09] everything I've read and everything I've
[181:10] talked to people about it's gonna drive
[181:12] like the M3 or the M4
[181:15] but a little bit smaller and a little
[181:17] bit less powerful that M2 is ugly as
[181:19] [ __ ] yeah it's a holy [ __ ] yeah I mean
[181:22] uh like uh whatever yeah it's an ugly
[181:25] car man I would keep your M2 is there a
[181:28] date on the GT3 RS video I can't tell
[181:30] you when the Press Drive is for the
[181:31] America but it's coming yeah coming in
[181:34] the next couple months yep our video
[181:36] should be on the next couple of months
[181:37] yeah
[181:38] uh eight uh Ragnar Khan thank you for
[181:41] the ten dollars HDR content looks great
[181:43] didn't expect it to type our headlights
[181:45] to blast my retinas to the back of my
[181:48] brain during my morning trip to the
[181:49] porcelain Throne any production
[181:51] difficulties with HDR I I mean like I
[181:53] told Jack and he's probably already like
[181:55] cringing because this is like a
[181:56] three-hour discussion but I can't
[181:57] believe the amount of work that it was
[181:59] to find out information about HDR uh and
[182:03] how to do it for YouTube and it it's
[182:06] it's not that it's there's a lot like
[182:08] Linus Tech tips talks about this a lot
[182:10] of HDR channels and I've talked to
[182:12] somebody that works in Hollywood
[182:13] essentially as uh
[182:15] cinematographer and more
[182:18] um it's because people don't understand
[182:20] the technical part of doing it how to do
[182:22] it and the fact that it's very expensive
[182:24] to produce an HDR video so in the real
[182:27] world for delivery of HDR you're working
[182:29] for a major Studio Disney Amazon Netflix
[182:31] right like those are the places that are
[182:33] gonna have HDR delivery for social media
[182:35] you can forget it because you need
[182:37] a five thousand dollar plus display
[182:39] that's calibrated calibrated correctly
[182:41] and then you need all the software to be
[182:44] synced up like Windows or Mac uh you
[182:47] need your editing program to be synced
[182:50] up with color profile and connected to
[182:51] the the display properly to edit in that
[182:54] workspace and then you need to export it
[182:56] properly
[182:57] um and and all those moving pieces plus
[182:59] the cost is why people don't do it
[183:00] period and to upload it and make sure
[183:03] the HDR version and the SDR which is
[183:07] like 4K there's 4K SDR there's 4K HDR
[183:10] and to make sure that both those look
[183:12] the same because they're handled
[183:13] differently that's the problem and
[183:15] that's the problem I'm having it takes
[183:17] work to get there and most people don't
[183:19] want to spend the time to do that for
[183:21] like less than two percent of the
[183:22] audience that has HDR content outside of
[183:25] their phone most of our phones can do
[183:27] HDR on our screens because that's how
[183:29] they are but most people on TVs and most
[183:31] people on computers don't have HDR
[183:34] displays so a lot of people don't do it
[183:36] because of that and I'm gonna do it
[183:38] because I want to Future proof the
[183:39] content and I will figure out how to way
[183:41] to make SDR and HDR work properly and
[183:44] once you do it once you figure it out
[183:46] it's like everything else and then it
[183:48] becomes a part of the the workflow
[183:50] um again that's why I have a Dell
[183:51] partnership that's why I have the help
[183:53] on the technical and the hardware side
[183:55] because now I have the equipment I have
[183:57] the help on the technical side to work
[183:58] through this [ __ ] I have contacts with
[184:00] Nvidia if I need it I will have contacts
[184:02] with Intel so you know like it sounds
[184:05] like [ __ ] but really as on your own
[184:07] if you're having people work in these
[184:09] major industries like Hollywood not
[184:11] knowing how to do it or they're having
[184:13] problems doing it and you're talking
[184:14] about somebody who's making content on
[184:16] YouTube like I need help period I mean
[184:19] I've figured it out on my own without a
[184:20] lot of help but it's it's still again
[184:22] one more thing to do anyway that's the
[184:24] short and long answer next question
[184:27] James would you recommend Olin Stampers
[184:30] as an upgrade to a Miata RF or non-track
[184:33] use
[184:34] seeing as you guys have experienced with
[184:37] them thanks yes do it 100 well you can
[184:39] afford it and you know you're okay doing
[184:41] the work it'll really they're not
[184:43] something that's going to [ __ ] up the
[184:44] car and it's not something that's going
[184:46] to screw it up long term and anybody
[184:47] that buys it will think the things
[184:49] jewelry as long as you don't drive it in
[184:51] the salt and you set it up right and you
[184:54] get the the suspension assemble right
[184:56] your alignment right and you make sure
[184:57] you use the olean's top hats that that
[184:59] you can get you're all good
[185:02] uh next one is Kia K5 GT thoughts my
[185:06] focus got T-boned I'm glad you're all
[185:08] right thank you for the ten dollars I
[185:10] like the car I think it's great it's
[185:12] just know what you're getting into with
[185:13] it the dynamic problems of that car are
[185:17] not tremendous with a high output engine
[185:19] yeah it's the same problem with like the
[185:20] Sonata and the gearboxes aren't great
[185:22] it's a lot of car for the money though
[185:23] it is yeah to me if you can get a Civic
[185:27] though honestly like a Civic hatch I
[185:28] think it's a better girl yeah how much
[185:30] did they pay you for that ad a lot okay
[185:32] so buy a Civic don't buy a Kia product
[185:34] Oh that hundred thousand mile warranty
[185:36] is nothing
[185:38] I I think it's great I think it's one of
[185:40] the best mid-sized cars I just you know
[185:42] now with all the [ __ ] with the
[185:43] reliability that's my big problem yeah
[185:45] yeah and they're not they're not the
[185:46] most transparent brand either
[185:49] um 1999
[185:51] 19.99 from fodios thank you very much
[185:54] would you would love to know what you
[185:56] guys think about the ml or the GLE 350
[185:58] prior to the 2020 redesign they have
[186:00] nationally aspirated v6s and I heard
[186:02] they are reliable uh that's my
[186:04] understanding I don't know the repair
[186:06] part of that car I'll be honest and
[186:09] personally like Jack and I are the same
[186:11] and we've gotten more aligned if I'm
[186:14] going that direction I'm always buying
[186:15] BMW Rowdy every single time or you know
[186:18] if I had more money I would get a
[186:19] Porsche
[186:20] um if you're a Mercedes person you're
[186:23] much safer with a naturally aspirated V6
[186:26] if that's what you're worried about and
[186:27] if that's the car you want I don't think
[186:29] that you're going to go wrong just make
[186:31] sure you have a warranty at least to
[186:33] like 75 000 miles to mitigate any
[186:35] potential problems that you do have
[186:36] buying an old luxury product that's a
[186:39] commodity product used and is going to
[186:43] be a painful process when it comes to
[186:44] repairs and if you're trying to do it on
[186:45] a budget
[186:47] be prepared I'm not saying it's going to
[186:49] happen to you but be prepared yeah
[186:51] exactly
[186:52] uh Chris hello again 9.99 do you think
[186:55] YouTube limits certain content creators
[186:57] growth typically those that are
[186:58] conservative through their phones
[187:00] listening like they do for ads search
[187:02] history video preference
[187:04] um
[187:05] I think in certain areas yes I think
[187:08] they're looking more for what's going to
[187:09] make the money right I mean if you fall
[187:12] in if you look at their guidelines for
[187:15] monetizing a video every time I monetize
[187:17] a video here which I don't want to bring
[187:18] up because it's just too much work it'll
[187:20] have this list of things of what you
[187:22] have in your video and then it's okay to
[187:24] monetize as long as you're within that
[187:25] scope and you're Advertiser friendly
[187:27] they make all their money for through
[187:29] advertisers so if you check all those
[187:30] boxes they're going to promote the [ __ ]
[187:32] out of you they don't care what your
[187:33] content is honestly as long as it can
[187:34] make the money if they cared about what
[187:36] the content was they'd be more Hands-On
[187:37] with individual creators curating more
[187:40] and more of it but it's you're on an
[187:41] island on your own and as long as you're
[187:43] reaching out to an audience and you meet
[187:45] their their criteria you should be able
[187:47] to you should be fine there's a lot more
[187:50] tricks to this and we talked about it
[187:51] earlier like if you calling out likes
[187:54] and subscribes and every video has like
[187:55] a ton of likes a ton of subscribers a
[187:58] lot of Engagement and a lot of like
[188:00] reshareable content where when they
[188:01] share it it keeps accelerating they
[188:03] don't care what that content is as long
[188:05] as it meets all that stuff and if you
[188:07] can play Within those confines yes
[188:09] you're going to be successful do they
[188:10] limit people artificially through all
[188:13] that I don't think that they do I just
[188:15] think there's certain things that will
[188:16] grow faster than others it's just the
[188:18] nature of the Beast
[188:21] um
[188:22] when do you think a Chinese brand will
[188:24] finally correct the US market Hyundai
[188:26] kios 20 years ago will Vietnam be China
[188:28] this is Matt for 4.99 do we have any
[188:32] mainstream Chinese vehicles besides well
[188:36] but I mean that that that's not fair
[188:38] because Volvo's not Chinese you know
[188:41] what I mean like not they're not out of
[188:43] China coming into the Chinese market
[188:45] I think uh I never talk about political
[188:48] stuff on this channel but I think the
[188:50] political animosity that the US and
[188:52] China have will one another and I think
[188:54] that's only going to get worse is going
[188:56] to stop a Chinese brand with a Chinese
[188:58] name making it in the US long term the
[189:00] Vietnamese have a much higher likelihood
[189:02] of that happening
[189:03] just to be honest
[189:05] you know in in Russia Chinese cars do
[189:08] really really well yeah they're not
[189:10] going to do well here in this country
[189:11] not for a long time because of the
[189:13] political stuff yeah and to be honest I
[189:16] don't know anything about the Chinese
[189:16] car market other than I lived in China
[189:19] for a long time as an expat but you know
[189:21] back then it was primarily American and
[189:24] German and Japanese cars like the
[189:26] Chinese vehicles are viewed as cheap
[189:28] [ __ ] boxes yeah
[189:29] I don't know anything about their higher
[189:31] end or commodity cars the kind of cars
[189:33] that would be brought here and sold so I
[189:34] can't I don't think it's happening here
[189:36] I I agree with you I think that the
[189:38] consensus is people would be opposed to
[189:40] it unless you had some amazing like even
[189:42] then they would have to do what Julie
[189:44] did in buy out Brands to make it work
[189:45] that's it it's going to take a long time
[189:48] if it did it would be 20 plus years also
[189:50] please stop asking more paid questions
[189:52] or questions in general uh we're going
[189:55] to try to get through all the the last
[189:56] paid questions and and yeah I can't yeah
[189:59] because we can't keep up with anything
[190:00] more
[190:01] um how about some old car reviews like
[190:02] the Citroen SM thank you for the ten
[190:05] dollars thank you Stefan as well
[190:08] um
[190:08] we're trying we'd like to do some more
[190:10] old cars and the problem is well we can
[190:13] get we're doing some K car videos here
[190:15] shortly and it comes down to viewers and
[190:17] for businesses that see value in what we
[190:19] do and are willing to work around the
[190:20] long shoot times like we know Scott at
[190:23] King Motorsports really really well on
[190:24] the CRX and like the mark IV Supra you
[190:27] love the album just left us the car for
[190:29] for months right but that's album that's
[190:31] not a normal case yes you know what I
[190:33] mean normally it's like a week or at
[190:35] least half a week you can't you can't
[190:36] take a private owner's car for like two
[190:38] or three weeks I mean like we'd have to
[190:40] bang it out and our schedule would have
[190:41] to be open and you know like I was
[190:44] joking around with somebody they're like
[190:45] oh you you said oh yeah you'll be slower
[190:47] in the winter and then you're even
[190:48] busier because the the money is lower
[190:52] after like the money is the worst in
[190:55] January February March and April so you
[190:58] have to actually do more work to make up
[191:00] for the fact that there's less money
[191:01] available so like there's no way to ever
[191:03] take a break doing this that's what
[191:06] sucks
[191:07] um but the the viewer stuff is like we
[191:09] want to do it in good weather where the
[191:11] risks are loaded to a private owner's
[191:12] car we don't want to be getting it dirty
[191:14] and all that crap so there's a lot more
[191:16] liability with doing older cars that are
[191:18] private owners too we have like
[191:20] contracts that people have to sign you
[191:21] have the liability waivers but there's
[191:23] still a risk there and like we try to
[191:25] stay away from that as much as possible
[191:28] Morgan s thank you very much for the 50
[191:30] yeah thank you appreciate it uh after my
[191:32] order last January took seven months to
[191:34] take delivery of my Chevy Spark wow
[191:37] um seven months it was all worth it
[191:40] though to own an American icon you guys
[191:42] are free to borrow it for a documentary
[191:44] do you see any future cars in the US for
[191:48] an expensive you got you got me dude
[191:49] well done sir or unless it's Morgan
[191:51] could be a female because our audience
[191:53] is
[191:54] 99.1 female right well Morgan
[191:58] um I I will tell you as a joke uh when
[192:01] we pitched GM on the Z06 project the
[192:04] same gentleman who's in charge of the
[192:07] Chevy tracks just to be an [ __ ] I'm
[192:09] like look we'll do a documentary on the
[192:11] Chevy tracks for you as well but sadly
[192:13] the car was announced too early for us
[192:15] to be taken up on that offer yeah we
[192:17] missed out so we'll we'll have to meet
[192:19] up with you
[192:20] um I'm looking at trying to make this a
[192:22] six-month project so if it takes me like
[192:25] a month to shoot all the wheels yeah
[192:28] I'm gonna you I'm going to use the
[192:30] world's first Thermal electric camera
[192:32] where I excite the wheels with
[192:34] electricity to see the the atom space of
[192:37] how they design these things uh all
[192:40] right next one
[192:41] whatever I just said didn't make any
[192:43] sense hello guys I have the opportunity
[192:44] to buy an LC 500 my seven mile commute
[192:47] be bad for the car including Autobahn uh
[192:49] just it has to get up to temperature
[192:51] really it's about the thermal cycle so
[192:54] just because your engine's up to
[192:56] temperature and the coolant and the oil
[192:58] may be up to temperature that doesn't
[192:59] mean the gearbox is up to temperature it
[193:00] doesn't mean suspension bushings
[193:02] electronics and all that so that's what
[193:05] really hurts a car when you get to this
[193:06] on evil uneven thermal cycling of a
[193:09] product so you want to make sure that
[193:10] you drive it long enough to get these
[193:12] systems worked up and then you don't
[193:14] want to be shocking the car like you
[193:16] don't want to get it to like maximum
[193:17] heat and then maximum cooling off you
[193:19] always want to keep it somewhere in the
[193:20] middle so the long story short is short
[193:23] commutes are really bad and then like
[193:25] abusive commutes where you just like
[193:28] beat the [ __ ] out of it and then just
[193:30] hey park it in a refrigerator and like
[193:33] Let It shock so try to drive it a little
[193:35] bit more
[193:37] um if you can or before you hop in the
[193:39] Autobahn and do 900 miles an hour I
[193:41] think seven miles honestly as long as
[193:43] you're not like try to drive it
[193:45] moderately don't just like leave it at
[193:47] 1500 RPM try to get it like 3 500 or
[193:51] below to get some of these systems going
[193:53] not kind of an odd explanation what
[193:55] happened to terbowsky I invited him back
[193:58] to do a cameo uh that's where I'm going
[194:00] to leave it it hasn't happened
[194:02] uh will Savage geese ever be in 10 bit
[194:05] 8K so I can enjoy this on my 60k Android
[194:07] phone
[194:09] thank you Joseph for the Canter for the
[194:11] ten dollars yeah I don't know man it's
[194:13] gonna be a while uh probably another uh
[194:17] you know with all this the commercials
[194:19] I'm shooting for Honda dealerships now I
[194:21] could I could be making 8K money here to
[194:24] to buy what a 80 000 camera body and
[194:27] what a sixty thousand dollar lens the
[194:28] start wall lens kit would be like 300
[194:30] 000. that's a deal with those prices you
[194:33] can't afford not to do it if anybody
[194:34] wants to buy the K series lenses from
[194:36] Canon that have been re-bodied
[194:38] um from the film days for me I will
[194:41] shoot everything in that but I think
[194:42] it's like 300 000 I mean but you're
[194:44] getting five lenses
[194:47] I think think of what we can shoot thank
[194:50] you for the ten dollars so you look at
[194:51] that per picture I'm sorry but you look
[194:53] so professional it makes me feel bad
[194:54] about myself
[194:56] need more Type R videos you can count on
[194:58] it I'm going to the dealership tomorrow
[195:00] to shoot more
[195:01] give her the super sticker thank you
[195:04] James thank you for the attention for
[195:06] the ten dollars sir thank you very much
[195:07] as much as I hate to say this why isn't
[195:10] there lobbying against the EPA to set
[195:11] realistic emissions goals for cars to
[195:13] make them more affordable Trump was the
[195:15] only person who seemed to do this I
[195:17] don't think Trump really did it because
[195:19] he knew what he was doing I think it was
[195:21] just because he was like being asked to
[195:22] do it by a lot of the people that had
[195:24] them I don't even think the the EPA
[195:26] regulations or the pure thing that's set
[195:29] prices for cars I think a lot of the
[195:30] reasons why you've seen cars get more
[195:32] expensive other than obviously inflation
[195:33] is all the [ __ ] people expect in cars
[195:36] now right like you've got Mazda is a
[195:39] primary example or great example of
[195:41] traditional four-cylinder cars outside
[195:43] of their turbo variants they get amazing
[195:45] fuel economy of no [ __ ] associated
[195:47] with them right that that's true I mean
[195:49] I think the EPA stuff is much different
[195:51] than the features people expect
[195:54] um I I don't know enough of the inside
[195:57] baseball the regulation part of it and
[195:59] the government part that who really sets
[196:02] the criteria because the manufacturer is
[196:03] a huge Lobby right like there's a lot of
[196:06] money that backs them and they're still
[196:07] not able to dictate regulation enough I
[196:10] don't know if it's come back to bite
[196:11] them over the years of like okay they
[196:14] got away with murder now the regulatory
[196:16] process is becoming oppressive to them
[196:18] and it's like not working in their favor
[196:19] but clearly I think a lot of the
[196:21] regulations are not set by people that
[196:24] know the long term and the big picture
[196:26] part of how things actually work if they
[196:29] had a body of like Engineers economists
[196:31] people that worked in the industrations
[196:33] don't actually know anything well I I
[196:36] mean there's some smart people but
[196:37] clearly in this space there's not a
[196:39] really good like understanding of what
[196:41] this longness is they're not
[196:44] particularly technically minded next
[196:45] question
[196:46] Raphael ten dollars I don't get it
[196:49] everyone moving to SUVs but I never see
[196:51] more than two people in them and they're
[196:53] carrying they're never carrying anything
[196:54] this has been going on since the 2000s
[196:57] when the SUV boom came uh there was a
[197:00] huge push against it you even had
[197:01] political pressure or social pressure
[197:03] against Ford to kill the uh uh what was
[197:08] the pile
[197:09] the Canyon Arrow yeah the not the
[197:11] Expedition the bigger one oh the
[197:13] Excursion yeah there was political
[197:15] pressure for them to kill the the
[197:16] Excursion because it was excess and now
[197:19] we're there back again and
[197:22] EVs and everything right and the reality
[197:25] is this is what people wants this is
[197:27] what people want and it's okay and
[197:30] that's what people have the money to buy
[197:31] and that's what manufacturers are going
[197:33] to make and that's it you you like if
[197:35] you told somebody that why are you
[197:37] driving
[197:38] this big car and it's only you in it
[197:40] they will make 100 excuses and the first
[197:42] reaction will be anger go [ __ ] yourself
[197:44] you can't tell people to change you
[197:46] can't people to tell them what's right
[197:47] or wrong like they have to learn on
[197:49] their own and that's why we're like
[197:51] always so behind the eight ball with
[197:52] everything like practicality practical
[197:54] sense like this doesn't make sense more
[197:56] so in this country we want everything
[197:58] big
[198:00] um we want everything massive we want
[198:01] like the screen thing is hilarious like
[198:03] manufacturers does like everybody wants
[198:05] big screens like why well they want big
[198:07] screens because it looks cool it doesn't
[198:09] mean yes right now on the screen is
[198:12] enormous for no reason for no reason
[198:13] yeah it doesn't make it any better but
[198:14] again you can translate that mentality
[198:16] of the screen into cars and all that and
[198:18] I'm not saying that big cars don't have
[198:20] a functional purpose like I have an X7
[198:22] but I'm using it to haul [ __ ] I'm using
[198:24] it for camera out of the back to shoot
[198:26] other cars do I need an X7 to do that no
[198:29] it's a luxury product you need a doors I
[198:31] need an SUV or I need a minivan really
[198:33] it's more than anything but you know
[198:35] again it doesn't make logical sense I
[198:37] don't really need it but I want it
[198:38] because I put a lot of miles I can I can
[198:40] haul all my gold bars this guy can hold
[198:42] his gold bars and if I put him in a
[198:43] minivan he would think we're in a we're
[198:45] in a bad business so anyway you know it
[198:48] there's contradictory points to all this
[198:49] nice question I agree with you man there
[198:52] needs to be some change but it's not
[198:53] happening uh please just watch and
[198:56] review Sam Hyde Lamborghini Huracan
[198:57] review on stream
[198:59] uh I will watch that maybe one day but
[199:04] thank you so much for the ten dollars I
[199:05] don't even know who Sam Hyde is I think
[199:08] I've seen some of this stuff I don't
[199:10] want to flip over to um
[199:17] is it like insufferable I would assumer
[199:21] I assume it's pretty horrible was it
[199:24] which car dude I don't want you to I
[199:26] have no idea yeah that's the hurricane
[199:27] all right move on to the next question
[199:28] we'll visit that later
[199:31] yeah it's your boy
[199:37] this car makes me so mad
[199:40] and I don't even want to go have my
[199:42] chocolate chip pancake breakfast
[199:45] okay all right you can count me and I
[199:48] will watch it
[199:49] I'm sure you could hear that in the
[199:51] background and uh that was it's pretty
[199:53] amazing okay all right thank you I will
[199:55] watch that I just put it put it in my
[199:57] watch later
[199:58] all right uh next can we oh type S
[200:02] through g70 uh hard hard hard question
[200:06] uh depends on what you're doing with it
[200:08] I like the type S better as like a daily
[200:11] commuter but the g70 is a lot more
[200:13] better a lot more engaging to drive
[200:15] because of the rear wheel drive aspect
[200:16] of it yeah chin faces back oh yes even
[200:19] our comments oh good is he moderating
[200:20] yeah
[200:22] uh he's like oh man now we can do this
[200:24] for another four hours Mr Goose did
[200:26] Marisol Patel ever learn how to suggest
[200:28] successfully drive stick yes and then uh
[200:32] after she no longer needed that vehicle
[200:34] because she got her own car back she
[200:36] never drove it again and that's a true
[200:38] story thanks for the advice here's a
[200:41] bottle of Goose Island for you joe718
[200:43] GT4 ten dollars are you gonna make out
[200:45] with this guy because he's is that a
[200:46] Miami blue or is that yes Miami blue
[200:49] blue and we're both Asian oh really yeah
[200:51] that's what I hear yeah yeah you guys
[200:53] stick together
[200:57] uh a feed rodart thank you very much for
[201:01] the twenty dollars uh thank you for the
[201:03] great content your hard work is
[201:04] definitely appreciated I've attuned B9
[201:06] RS5 thinking of getting a 20 plus 911 S
[201:10] or a 19 Vantage uh do the 911s the RS5
[201:13] surprisingly was really solid the B9
[201:16] platform was really good but I would the
[201:18] 911 it's way better yeah don't don't
[201:20] touch the Vantage dude thought speed
[201:22] luxury and comfort are my main points
[201:24] the the 911 is just comfortable enough
[201:26] it's super usable and it's fast as hell
[201:28] for what it is and you can actually get
[201:30] it worked on yeah and you can have a lot
[201:32] of fun with it it's a it's the best of
[201:34] all worlds even though it may seem a
[201:35] little bit more boring than the Vantage
[201:37] it does what it set out to do the dude
[201:40] 365. have you guys looked into eutrion
[201:43] donating for more premium Kirkland's uh
[201:45] signature content uh utreon no I have
[201:48] not uh I will put that in another tab
[201:51] here to assuming you're being serious
[201:53] because my sarcasm is broken
[201:56] nice spell there no you didn't spell it
[201:58] right oh I didn't what is it oh
[202:00] oops here
[202:07] I still didn't spell it right
[202:09] there we go
[202:12] the World of Tomorrow it's already here
[202:14] so we may as well laugh
[202:18] anyway moving it up all right all right
[202:21] thank you very much appreciate the
[202:23] donation as always
[202:25] Peter Gonzalez as a new father I'm
[202:27] looking at selling my nd2 Miata is there
[202:30] a car you can recommend that can give me
[202:32] a similar emotional resp
[202:35] onse response manual preferred the
[202:38] really the only thing is the 86 and it
[202:41] has you can't really yeah you could you
[202:43] could you could you're
[202:45] you can put a car seat in the Bank of
[202:47] the 86 but you never want to take it out
[202:49] and you're going to have to be prepared
[202:51] to
[202:52] be frustrated getting in and out of that
[202:56] back seat if you're okay in your limber
[202:59] and you can make the excuse for having a
[203:02] fun car the 86 rides just good enough
[203:04] where it's not going to be an issue it's
[203:06] a pretty safe car it's a fun car and
[203:07] you're not going to have your soul
[203:08] sucked out so I'm gonna leave it at that
[203:10] next question
[203:12] Savage geese Mark are you going to do an
[203:13] update video on your XC90 do you still
[203:15] have it or is it in the trash Heap I
[203:17] traded in for an X7 and I will have an
[203:19] X7 video of why I sold the XC90 and the
[203:22] X7 with the refreshed X7 together and
[203:25] including an MDX Type S like Series so
[203:28] it's going to be like three videos on
[203:31] and that's whenever I get around to it
[203:32] and it will be in the next two months
[203:33] because we have the Press car coming
[203:35] next month correct
[203:38] Joanne the corrupt FBI and CIA are
[203:41] watching everything
[203:43] they're watching you AJ thank you for
[203:45] your oh Dizzle my man thank you for your
[203:48] five dollar super sticker Gabriel Smiley
[203:51] look he's smiling in his picture 9.99
[203:53] thank you for your honesty and
[203:54] outstanding quality thank you
[203:57] and this one is
[204:00] 2.99 what do you think about the new
[204:02] Mustang GT well that is another one of
[204:04] those projects that uh we're probably
[204:07] hopefully going to do we're pitched
[204:09] forward on a big big Mustang project for
[204:12] the new car
[204:14] um I think it's basically an evolution
[204:16] of a current product which isn't the end
[204:17] of the world but
[204:19] I think the last one looked better but I
[204:22] think if you bring a lot of the
[204:24] suspension improvements from GT350 and
[204:26] trickle them down into regular Mustang
[204:28] and improve the Interior Space it
[204:32] it's fine the the sad part is Camaro's
[204:34] dying and Challengers 10 million years
[204:36] old
[204:37] oh yeah I mean the the
[204:41] there's not I mean it's going to be a
[204:43] sad future when these cars go away you
[204:45] know what I mean like that as much as
[204:47] the Challenger and the charger have
[204:49] gotten like a horribly bad rap now
[204:51] they've turned into like this meme cars
[204:53] yeah meme cars with all the
[204:55] the street stuff and all that crap I
[204:58] mean they are special I think
[205:02] I'm gonna miss the Mustang when it's
[205:03] gone I mean I the camera generation yeah
[205:06] the Mustang but I think the generation
[205:08] after this next one apparently is going
[205:10] to go EV which is not ideal
[205:12] um not that there's anything inherently
[205:14] wrong with that I just if EVS are the
[205:15] way they are today
[205:17] I don't I'm not super looking forward to
[205:19] it how many more questions you want to
[205:21] answer mark because I've been doing this
[205:22] for three and a half hours I'm gonna cut
[205:23] this off and
[205:25] I'm going to try to get through these
[205:27] three or four or I'm sorry there's quite
[205:29] a few more there's quite a few more I'm
[205:30] just scrolling up now to look and see to
[205:33] a certain point
[205:34] um
[205:35] we'll try to bang these out really quick
[205:39] if I'm going up to 823 back up to eight
[205:42] eight PM 8 23 P.M
[205:46] uh and I think that's where we're gonna
[205:48] leave it uh so
[205:52] for RJ
[205:54] for 49 I'm sorry I can show your
[205:57] question you guys are the best reviews
[205:58] and keep me company every morning after
[206:00] morning coffee RJ thank you very much
[206:02] yeah thank you hopefully it doesn't ruin
[206:04] your coffee
[206:05] uh five dollars of the ct4 and ct5's
[206:08] knob like Wing any good for the money
[206:10] the bws get all the attention that's
[206:12] true
[206:13] man I I've never driven them so I don't
[206:17] know I I couldn't tell you but the black
[206:19] wings are really special for me V8 or
[206:22] great manual six V8 yeah yeah V8 the
[206:26] v8's good man the ct5 the ct5 is where I
[206:29] would I wouldn't even bother with the
[206:31] ct4 the ct5 is like old American like V8
[206:35] luxury you I don't see you needing all
[206:38] the power of the V8 but V8
[206:42] twenty dollars how do you think the
[206:44] history will view the VB WRX will it get
[206:47] forgotten or will there be dying will or
[206:49] will the dying of standard Standalone
[206:51] ice make people look at it more look up
[206:53] what the vbw RX is oh it's the current
[206:55] generation WRX
[206:59] pain I think it'll just be another WRX I
[207:01] think they're going to fix it mid-mid
[207:03] cycle I think they're gonna mind a
[207:04] painting at mid-cycle or you know people
[207:06] were talking about the crosstalk why not
[207:08] just make that like a WRX going forward
[207:11] because people love these crossover
[207:13] things people love the crosstalk why not
[207:15] just make that the performance moniker
[207:16] going forward instead of like the
[207:17] traditional WRX that they're nerfing I
[207:19] mean they've nerfed the hell out of it
[207:21] at this point so like I I don't know I I
[207:24] think it's good it just needs work they
[207:27] need to fix some of the problems that it
[207:28] has and I think they will do it before
[207:29] it gets killed I agree all right uh we
[207:33] got five dollars from Christian if you
[207:37] were an oem how would you make your
[207:39] vehicles less not disposable
[207:42] being able to fix them
[207:44] more Simplicity when it comes to like
[207:47] the RAV4 is the primary example if I if
[207:50] I was making commodity cars and I was
[207:52] gonna try to sell a lot of them and try
[207:54] to tell people that do they could keep
[207:55] them five to seven years I'd make
[207:57] everything now as a standout to be just
[208:01] modern enough like the RAV4 is just
[208:03] reliable enough that you can keep it for
[208:05] a long long time that would be my
[208:07] template like I think throwing every
[208:09] feature at a vehicle and ignoring
[208:11] mechanical
[208:12] bits of the vehicle and mechanical
[208:15] maintenance components is not the right
[208:17] move it has to be a ground up rethink so
[208:21] if you were going to give a manufacturer
[208:22] advice that means you have to take an
[208:24] account that a lot of the things that we
[208:25] want them to do will not sell cars the
[208:28] other things we want them to do will not
[208:29] meet regulatory emissions without a
[208:31] massive amount of r d so for me I'd be
[208:34] like naturally aspirated engines across
[208:36] the board that were built from the
[208:38] ground up one for efficiency one for
[208:40] power and then build it out where it's
[208:43] easy to work on parts are available not
[208:45] over complicated
[208:47] um then have a powerful version of it
[208:48] but they're never going to do that
[208:49] because it's easier to downsize them and
[208:51] then the same thing with electronics on
[208:52] the inside you know make it modular but
[208:55] don't have all the tech that that kills
[208:57] these cars and makes them more expensive
[208:58] like having 20 sensors and bumpers that
[209:00] if you get into a 10 mile impact the
[209:02] repair bill is like six thousand dollars
[209:04] this is becoming a requirement it's
[209:06] becoming an expectation so there's no
[209:07] way to go back at this point there's
[209:09] just no way to fix it and I'm sorry
[209:11] there's ways to make it more easy to fix
[209:14] and less disposable but it's
[209:15] contradictory to what the buying public
[209:17] wants so it's just not going to happen
[209:19] um ten dollars how difficult are making
[209:21] comparison videos chances on getting a
[209:23] comparison video of 50 to 60 Sports we
[209:26] tried doing one with RS3 and Blackwing
[209:28] Audi backed out
[209:30] yeah if it's press cars it's really hard
[209:32] because if you're going to take it from
[209:33] a performance perspective they don't
[209:34] want a loser of course and if it's timed
[209:37] they don't want to lose a timed lap uh
[209:40] there's a liability there with putting
[209:42] on a track so we're gonna we have a
[209:43] comparison coming up in a couple weeks
[209:45] that will be a good test of that just
[209:47] let us know when you see the comparison
[209:48] what you think of it for like regular
[209:50] street cars okay
[209:53] uh planetary 13 five dollars please
[209:55] review an SVT Focus or an old manual
[209:57] Audi S car we have an Audi
[210:01] RS4 the one with the V8 that rubbed out
[210:04] that has been offered to us so just
[210:06] about time getting out to do it okay
[210:08] yeah that's VT focus and I think
[210:10] somebody said has VT Contour which I
[210:11] drove both those and I mean it'd be an
[210:14] interesting video I think it'd just be
[210:15] hard to find one that wasn't totally
[210:16] [ __ ] up yeah trashed thanks Big Big D
[210:20] for the super sticker we got 20 bucks
[210:23] from Big D thank you sir uh two dollars
[210:26] CA TLX type best or g70 didn't we do
[210:30] that
[210:30] I think we did but we're gonna answer it
[210:32] again I'll change my answer this time
[210:34] just to make everybody happy b-58 tlr
[210:39] yeah that type S is a great car if
[210:41] you're not really driving crazy and you
[210:43] don't want like rear-wheel drive
[210:44] Dynamics g70 has a rear wheel drive
[210:47] Dynamics yeah I think the engine is
[210:48] better better but you have to deal with
[210:49] the Hyundai Kia dealer yeah sure
[210:52] uh did you pay over MSRP on the Z06 if
[210:55] you did I'm sorry if you didn't
[210:57] congratulations Brent Owen for 4.99 I
[210:59] did not next question
[211:02] keep up the black conservative Patriot
[211:05] for twenty dollars keep up the great
[211:07] work I really enjoy your reviews and I
[211:09] really like the breakdown for 2022 very
[211:11] informative and entertaining thanks man
[211:12] I appreciate it and thank you for the
[211:13] twenty dollars thank you thoughts on the
[211:16] ct5 V series non-blackwing I haven't
[211:19] driven it and thank you for the five
[211:20] dollars I'll ask for it I just don't
[211:22] think they particularly care about the
[211:23] car so they're not in the fleet I think
[211:25] it I think people would watch it because
[211:27] nobody talks about it oh well yeah let's
[211:28] see if we can get it why not how I mean
[211:30] it's not going to be a horrible
[211:32] experience a TL pay for 2.99 thanks
[211:34] again man uh certain perf I can't even
[211:38] say it perfect rate certain perfect rate
[211:40] it's all one word you know I can't read
[211:43] a dollar for every time I've watched the
[211:45] Pacifica review now if I could only
[211:48] convince my wife's boyfriend to buy one
[211:50] for our family it's gonna be a tough
[211:51] sell but I think you can do some arm
[211:53] twisting do you have any leverage I mean
[211:56] that's the thing do you have leverage
[211:57] over your wife's boyfriend yes and do
[212:00] you have kids because if you have kids
[212:02] you can really really you could really
[212:04] leverage that yeah so things might be
[212:06] looking up for you
[212:08] uh DSC thank you for the five dollars
[212:10] here for the five dollars we have uh DSC
[212:13] again for two two well ten dollars here
[212:16] I have a first gen 2015 X1 35i and
[212:19] nobody gives a [ __ ]
[212:23] could I get some validation yeah
[212:26] yeah so hey we're doing an X1 soon
[212:28] you'll get all the validation I will I
[212:31] will mention DSC by name where is X1
[212:33] it's a BMW no I mean when are we getting
[212:35] a couple weeks oh I didn't know that
[212:37] you're gonna get some validation of that
[212:38] video I'll be like DSC uh I think you
[212:41] know what I will start the video
[212:42] mentioning you DSC is finally getting
[212:44] the validation oh but it's 2015. we
[212:46] don't care about that no but we only
[212:48] care about new product man sorry sorry
[212:50] DSC uh
[212:52] it's a BMW it's got the badge do the the
[212:55] do the anniversary badges with the blue
[212:56] in it change that out then you'll get
[212:58] validation
[212:59] uh j99 why isn't Mark wiping his head
[213:03] oil and looking at it on his fingers who
[213:05] are you I think it's because I'm in a
[213:07] different mindset today I reduce my oil
[213:10] intake and my minoxidil uh so I'm not as
[213:15] oily Jay thanks for the ten dollars
[213:17] thank you thanks for making fun of me
[213:19] that really hurts and with that I will
[213:22] answer a couple more questions because
[213:23] we're back to the beginning okay oh man
[213:26] we got a lot of questions holy [ __ ] I
[213:29] did all let me go to the bottom because
[213:31] I think there might be a couple more uh
[213:33] paid ones that I
[213:38] you're not going to get your question
[213:40] answered uh thanks for the great content
[213:42] what would you guys like to see in a
[213:44] potentially revamped 2023 Forerunner uh
[213:48] we just did a Tacoma TRD Pro video I
[213:50] Revisited the first car I ever did a
[213:51] video on and that was a disaster if you
[213:53] want a good laugh go watch that video
[213:54] but what I want out of the Forerunner is
[213:58] I want it to be more of the same but
[214:00] with a I mean I don't know Toyota's in
[214:03] that rough spot where I'll say what I
[214:05] said in the video they want to bring
[214:07] along old customers who bought their
[214:08] cars that were reliable and simple but
[214:11] they need them to compete against
[214:13] vehicles that are now objectively better
[214:14] and I don't know how they do that for
[214:16] the Forerunner because they're going to
[214:18] either when they redo it it'll either be
[214:20] a turbocharged four-cylinder which is
[214:22] probably what it's going to be or it'll
[214:24] be basically the Sequoia but smaller and
[214:26] I'm the Sequoia wasn't very good and
[214:28] that's my fear
[214:31] uh kg for five dollars from one soy chai
[214:34] latte connoisseur to another thanks for
[214:36] the content uh fellas don't spill any on
[214:39] my 1099 a month seat heaters yeah that
[214:42] would be I wonder what would happen if
[214:44] you broke the seed heaters with like a
[214:45] soy lattean hey could you argue that
[214:47] your subscription isn't worthwhile
[214:49] anymore and get your money back oh man
[214:52] it's uh the tiny pyramid for two dollars
[214:54] it's too bad about the Chevy ligma I
[214:57] don't know anything about the Chevy
[214:58] ligma
[214:59] loot for ten dollars any chance of a
[215:02] retrospective series for a German brand
[215:05] I love to see one on golfs I know Mark
[215:07] is a Honda fanboy
[215:09] if any brand isn't let us do a
[215:11] retrospective series it's going to be
[215:13] Porsche I would love to do one on the
[215:15] 911 but they don't actually have a
[215:17] museum Fleet here in the U.S I can ask
[215:19] I'd love to do one on 911 or or uh yeah
[215:23] I think that's when I even mentioned it
[215:25] in the CRX video is like taking an
[215:27] account like you can't talk about the
[215:28] CRX without talking about the old golfs
[215:30] in some cases even though we're very
[215:32] focused on the CRX the golf is also a
[215:35] special car of that era because it's
[215:36] like like the car just spins itself you
[215:40] know it's hilarious and I think it's
[215:42] worth trying to get one but I just don't
[215:43] want to get a like a horribly shitty one
[215:45] you know it's got to be almost original
[215:47] like Scott's car with very minimal work
[215:50] done possible to find for someone who
[215:51] lets you drive it especially out here uh
[215:53] we don't live in California thank you
[215:54] for the ten dollars uh I have a Dodge
[215:56] Durango with 100 000 miles on it keep it
[215:59] going keep going with it and wait for
[216:01] EVS in five years or buy another gas
[216:02] card
[216:04] personally I was just buy another gas
[216:05] card and yes I have kids and grabbed all
[216:07] my Suburban nightmare yeah a lot of
[216:09] people that I I know that had the during
[216:12] I don't know what mile what year the
[216:13] Durango is but a lot of the older ones
[216:15] honestly were really really reliable
[216:17] despite them rotting out looking like
[216:19] [ __ ] yeah people like oh God that
[216:22] thing's gonna hit me but they're they
[216:23] were pretty easy to work on and modular
[216:25] and they were Fairly reliable I mean
[216:28] they're not my favorite thing on the
[216:29] planet I'm sure it's not yours it just
[216:31] depends on how much you want to blow to
[216:32] replace it you know if you're spending
[216:34] forty thousand dollars to get another
[216:36] hauler you know honestly in the modern
[216:38] car thing like if you need to get
[216:41] another car yeah if that hundred
[216:43] thousand mile Durango is messed up and
[216:45] you're gonna put like ten thousand
[216:47] dollars to get it fixed to put it into a
[216:49] new car if it if it's gonna cost you a
[216:51] couple Grand a year to keep it going I
[216:53] think until things evolve out a little
[216:56] bit more I buy another Gasser yeah
[216:57] exactly I think that's about everything
[217:00] right I think we covered everything
[217:01] what's this last one yeah that's him so
[217:04] unbelievably I think we got through a
[217:06] majority of everything and if we like we
[217:09] always say in all of our live streams if
[217:10] there's a burning question you have for
[217:12] mercury and patreons I will go back and
[217:15] make sure all of the patreon questions
[217:16] are answered
[217:18] um
[217:19] DM us on Instagram
[217:22] um you can find me on Instagram or Mark
[217:24] and we will do our best to answer those
[217:26] questions purely because Mark
[217:28] it just hates you guys he's less likely
[217:31] to respond on Instagram than I am I I
[217:33] honestly I I'm on Instagram and it's
[217:35] purely like nonsense I I mean I really
[217:38] don't do my best to get back to you guys
[217:40] if you uh DM me on this Jack is
[217:42] definitely more uh connected on there
[217:43] because he likes to show off all his
[217:45] Corvette pictures
[217:47] this guy man he's like oh man look at
[217:50] this girl who likes and I'm like 10-1
[217:51] that's not a girl don't worry no no girl
[217:53] likes Corvettes they like type R's
[217:56] um and John Z and everyone else that are
[217:59] our personal friends that are in the
[218:01] chat right now thank you again for
[218:03] spending time with us we finally met
[218:04] Sean Keely in person that guy
[218:07] it's got quite the jawline yeah there's
[218:09] a lot of people that we meet traveling
[218:11] like Jack
[218:12] um we had these three trips that are
[218:14] coming up and I'm like I can't like I
[218:16] can't physically go on three weeks worth
[218:17] of travel and then come back and have to
[218:19] try to [ __ ] out videos you know and edit
[218:21] this stuff and do a good job so I can
[218:23] only travel once in a while and a lot of
[218:25] times it's it sucks because we travel on
[218:28] these trips and they have to like be
[218:29] social and meet all these people that we
[218:30] really like and then you have to do all
[218:32] this work it's like I would rather just
[218:34] travel just to talk to people but not
[218:35] actually drive the cars sometimes
[218:38] um so guys thank you for those who
[218:40] actually sat through this horribly long
[218:42] live stream yeah and Jack has like an
[218:44] hour and a half commute back or not an
[218:45] hour and a half like an hour commute
[218:47] back home and he's up late and he's
[218:48] really this guy's mark this guy's heart
[218:51] is in it wait oh we gotta watch that
[218:54] dude's uh Sam Hyde video all right thank
[218:57] you all for uh for doing this yeah I
[219:00] really appreciate your time and we're
[219:02] gonna try to do one of these once a
[219:03] month now that I'm all set up uh also
[219:05] last thing before we go
[219:07] um just out of curiosity what was the
[219:10] live stream like this time in terms of
[219:13] Quality quality interface like sound all
[219:17] of that I'm hoping this was probably the
[219:19] best one yet or am I just selling it to
[219:21] you to tell me that what was your real
[219:23] experience
[219:25] I'm just saying good night because they
[219:26] hate you no they don't leave yet look
[219:28] there's more to cover here you got work
[219:30] to do for me
[219:32] because people just don't think their
[219:33] job's done with because we're done
[219:35] I'm not done
[219:38] did I tell you about my Corvette enough
[219:40] I needed to talk to you more about my
[219:41] Corva
[219:43] okay good it's like it's like
[219:46] everything's positive about it so
[219:48] now I gotta spend thirty dollars a month
[219:50] for another subscription Jack to pay for
[219:53] a live streaming service so there's no
[219:55] way I'm gonna make my money back with
[219:57] all these super stickers I should give
[219:59] myself a super sticker so I feel like
[220:01] I'm a special man
[220:02] uh is there anything else you want to
[220:04] say because I turned off my mic okay
[220:06] Jack Jack's leaving uh thank you Jack
[220:09] here let's Pan the camera over we'll
[220:11] give them behind the scenes of my sh my
[220:14] horrible space that I have in here now
[220:17] let me put my auto focus on okay so this
[220:21] is I don't want to pull this out of here
[220:23] goodbye everybody bye Jack see ya good
[220:27] luck to you and your family
[220:29] all right so this is it this is my
[220:31] office this is the desk I'm going to do
[220:33] for color correction which the monitor
[220:34] won't be there uh I have speakers to
[220:38] mount and then we flip over here
[220:40] there's my trophy case okay that's
[220:42] really important to me
[220:45] okay
[220:46] so what we have here
[220:48] these sunglasses were gifted to me
[220:51] from the Honda Civic dealership they
[220:54] only sell Honda Civics and they they
[220:55] told me I'm a VIP and I'm gonna get
[220:57] these for free and I autographed my own
[220:59] sunglasses and I'm gonna wear them every
[221:02] time I drive my Civic
[221:03] okay the next one is all my trophies
[221:06] I'm a winner and oh there's an old Civic
[221:09] Type R we never got in the US and I
[221:10] never drove this so I put in my case and
[221:13] then this is an F1 car this is Lewis
[221:15] Hamilton he's won a couple F1
[221:17] championships uh this is when the car
[221:20] had a V8 in it by the way not some uh
[221:22] horrible sounding six cylinder so I I
[221:25] put that in there and remember the
[221:27] Golden Era of one things were great so
[221:29] that's the tour of my trophy case uh and
[221:32] then we have more stuff over here which
[221:34] I can't pan all the way this is my other
[221:36] desk this is where I do regular editing
[221:38] because I have an ultra wide and look at
[221:41] the focus it's hunting anyway that's
[221:43] everything in my office thanks for the
[221:45] tour guys
[221:46] um if you guys like this I suggest you
[221:49] you hit that thumb there's a thumb on
[221:51] there that you can hit I just hit the
[221:53] zebra button there's a thumb that's
[221:55] thumbs up and then people will like me
[221:57] and I'll have a lot of friends on the
[222:00] internet so I wish everybody the best
[222:03] day possible and thanks for staying up
[222:05] so late with us
[222:06] and bless you
[222:09] and goodbye
[222:11] and uh I don't have anything else funny
[222:14] to say or not actually that none of that
[222:16] was funny
[222:17] thank you again
[222:23] and I really needed to put an outro
[222:24] thing here
[222:26] I'll do disconnect this thing now
[222:32] hmm
[222:34] ah there it is goodbye
[222:38] forever