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title: 'Real Talk, Let it All Hang Out | Livestream 2023'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgpCK7229YM'
video_id: 'KgpCK7229YM'
date: 2026-06-30
duration_sec: 13366
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# Real Talk, Let it All Hang Out | Livestream 2023

> Source: [Real Talk, Let it All Hang Out | Livestream 2023](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgpCK7229YM)

## Summary

In this candid livestream, the hosts of a popular automotive channel address the backlash from a recent video about the Honda Civic Type R, explaining how a personal story was misinterpreted as a paid advertisement. They delve into the complex relationship between automotive media and manufacturers, discussing the realities of press car access and the financial challenges of creating high-quality content. The conversation also covers broader industry issues like car affordability, dealer markups, and the future of subscription models in vehicles.

### Key Points

- **Civic Type R Video Backlash** [04:50] — The hosts explain that the Civic Type R video was meant to be a personal story about repairing his relationship with Honda after a bad dealership experience, but it came across as a flex or an ad.
- **Production Realities** [12:05] — The host clarifies that manufacturers are not artificially limiting production of enthusiast cars; they are prioritizing high-volume commodity cars due to part shortages.
- **Media-Manufacturer Financial Relationship** [16:56] — The hosts explain that they are not paid by OEMs to review cars; they make money from the content they produce, and manufacturers only cover logistics for press events.
- **Consequences of Critical Reviews** [20:50] — The host reveals that after a critical NSX video, he did not get Honda press cars for four years, showing the consequences of negative reviews.
- **NSX Documentary Challenges** [31:31] — The hosts discuss the challenges of creating a documentary on the NSX, including lack of support from Honda North America and the difficulty of getting retired engineers to participate.
- **Type R Scarcity Data** [131:17] — The host shares data showing only 626 Civic Type R's were available in the US, explaining why they are so hard to get and command high prices.
- **Subscription Model Future** [132:48] — The hosts discuss the trend of car makers moving to subscription models for software and services, predicting it will become more common in the next 10 years.

## Transcript

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wow that was anticlimactic and it was
pretty incredible uh can everyone hear
us and is the audio working correctly
Mark decided to massively over
complicate this
um and Happy New Years to everyone
hopefully you had a good time with your
families yes Happy New Years to everyone
I am greatly uh excited to be here today
uh in the new studio space that we
constructed this took what 15 years in
the making uh this guy messaged me for
like a week he's like oh my God I got
all my foam phones
I don't know how the glue is holding up
it doesn't set yet Ikea desk yep my Ikea
desk it was the only one in stock
because there's a shortage of every
single thing apparently oh I went to go
buy some cubes for organizing my hard
drives and stuff didn't it said it was
in stock I go downstairs I'm like oh
where is it at every High Bay rack is
empty it's like sorry about that I'm
like I just wasted an hour in this dog
did you get meatballs at least I did get
meatballs but they were sub part the
people in the cafeteria were like what
is this guy doing here why is he
bothering us especially when I asked for
extra lingenberry sauce they're like
screw this guy
um okay all right so I know there are
some topics that Mark wants to talk
about before we answer everyone's
questions there's some patreon questions
we need to go through yes and there are
some lovely paid and unpaid questions we
are going to attempt to ask every
donated question we promise we will ask
answer like we always do in every
regular question at least the major ones
we'll try to get to as well so what's
the first topic you want to talk about
before I get to about a billion patreon
quotes yeah there's going to be a lot of
questions it so let's just get this out
of the way there's going to be this is
going to be a long long session three
hours is what I'm gonna tap out at okay
Jack's gonna tap out at three hours I've
committed to 15. this is gonna be like
the Lamar Race 24 hours where I just
crashed I'm gonna hit my head on these
guys uh so you want to be a beauty and
Fastbender is what you're saying no like
yeah I'm not going to get into fast food
that's actually a good topic but uh not
tonight so the the format is podcast q a
so podcast style and question and answer
obviously as this Banner suggests here
for those that are alright thank you for
for the beef and cheddar money I'm sure
that'll go very poorly for my health
long term or at least March
um and Adam thank you for your 50
donation that's right wow yeah we're
already starting with the money and
that's uh you know let's get a lot more
coming in here I gotta I gotta finish
the remodel in here
um I will answer this question right
away forgetful foot uh we are doing a
987.2 Cayman video it's next month I'm
trading my uh my gr86 with uh Greg from
Chicago auto pros and he's giving me a
stock car for a week or two to shoot a
video this was uh another question uh
about the Kirkland hoodie signature and
uh he's considering a WRX for his next
car have you guys had any experience
with the 2020 23 model yeah we have a
pretty long video on an orange one we
did we dynoed it whole nine yards and it
was in the uh comparison test we did
with the
Civic SI and a couple other vehicles
it's a it's the best regular WRX in
recent memory it's just kind of not
great looking so you know there's
nothing wrong with the car it's just not
hyper exciting it does what it set out
to do as being a daily driver that's
all-wheel drive and somewhat fun to
drive and a lot of capability the the
body's way better than it used to be
more rigid and all that but it's just
it's a little Subaru and also has the
RTV problems my gr86 has
I mean I still think it's pretty good
honestly I I enjoy driving it I don't
know that it's my type of car to own but
I'm going to leave it at that all right
so let's get through the the topic
questions before we start answering all
these questions and yes so let's let's
hit the topic so if anybody's thinking
about you know donating or whatever you
want to call it any sort of regular
questions let's hold off that just for
the sake of like hey
um don't just so we can get through some
of the initial topics because I really
want to break this up in so it's not
just all us answering questions
and the the first topic that I want to
get into is
the FL Type R video that's all you mark
uh Jack was not involved in that at all
and thank God for him
what a what a [ __ ] show honestly and so
I'm gonna explain it just briefly
I bought a tie bar and I bought a tie
bar much like uh your X7 because I told
you too yeah Jack's like oh man you
should get it you should get an X7 it
would be such a great deal complete your
401k yeah I bought all these cars and
I've never used any resources from
manufacturers or any of that before like
that the X7 was like the worst buying
experience ever like the worst dealer
experience ever and I still stuck it out
and bought it but the fl5 was the first
car where
uh we contacted the Honda reps or you
made a connection for me with the Honda
reps and they said okay maybe we can get
you one through the region which means
they allocate you a car and then they
pick the dealer that it goes to and then
they ship that car there specifically
for you and the dealer has to agree to
it so in this case they asked me what
dealer I wanted to go to and I said well
anything but Brilliance Honda because
the previous dealership Crystal Lake
Honda which no longer exists went
bankrupt from screwing people over doing
double loans the most Shady stuff ever
so when the owner the the guy the owner
who was in the video Kevin he had an
opportunity because he worked for Toyota
and then he worked for Honda like Toyota
on the corporate side he they gave him
an opportunity to buy this franchise
because it was in the [ __ ] and he's
like well uh I think he got a good deal
on it I'm not sure about the financial
part but then he had to turn all of this
around but because it burned me as a kid
I never wanted to deal with anything to
do with that so when our Honda up said
well you know this is who we use this is
our agreement and the dealership
actually has a lot of they work with the
Chicago Auto Show the the owner works
with that side of it and they have some
connections in the media but for my part
really all it was was
Honda's like okay the car is coming
which I never believed and then I got a
call well it's on its way and then I got
delayed in shipping it got stuck at the
Port all this and finally it showed up
and I went and talked to the owner and
the owner's family and I'm like this is
what happened to me in the past like
what do you think and he explained
everything to me like the fact that
they're not the old dealership that they
spent years trying to fix it that they
understand how the industry has a bad
name and they they only sell to local
people like Illinois
I for the gr86 series which is more for
viewer series than it is for a personal
purchase in any way uh the Toyota region
set me up with St Charles and they only
sell the locals as well which makes
sense because if you look at and we
talked about this too and there's so
much in this video we didn't talk about
we talked about carvana specifically why
they're failing and carvana is failing
because they did not understand how
difficult it was to sell cars to every
single state so if you have a company
and you're like okay we have a buyer out
of state every state it has different
requirements for titling different
paperwork requirements different loan
requirements from the banks for each
region so it became a mess and they
couldn't meet all the state requirements
so they made mistakes on paperwork they
didn't get things to the DMV so they
have all these customers that don't have
titles they didn't have their their
loans set up properly all this drama so
they're like six months behind on
everything they don't have the resources
to do it so that's why they don't want
to do it they're all small company local
business that can only sell locally and
I didn't say that in the video and it
came across as like a plug for them like
hey come to them and they they're going
to help you out no they're not because
they can't
and the the other part was I did a
really bad job of telling the story The
reason I wanted to tell the story about
the lf05 is the first Civic I ever
bought was a red ex and I was like okay
this was a big purchase for me and I had
all of these like nostalgic feelings
because I did everything much like you I
traveled across the US it was the first
car I could afford that was good that I
did everything with so this red tie bar
was like I said in the CRX video I
wanted to close the loop I wanted to
close out all these stories about these
Honda cars that I loved as a kid that's
why I'm doing the NSX video that's you
know we're trying to go to Japan this is
a disaster to put together that's
something we'll talk about later but God
is that a [ __ ] nightmare yeah so all
these Honda videos I want to do they're
because I want to do it and when I talk
to the dealership and learned about all
the [ __ ] that they had to deal with
from a small business and just how much
hatred is there for them the reason I'm
looking at my phone is so I can answer
the questions by the way okay yeah I'm
not bored of this conversation that's
the reason why I'm I'm looking up yeah
we don't have a moderator today just so
you know chin face is out getting hair
plugs yeah he's finally getting his
plugs thank God uh so yes I put him in
the video and it was a lot longer the
video was like 45 minutes because I had
a lot of interview footage and I just
got tired of it and I didn't feel like
it flowed well and then I forgot to tell
my own story I didn't tell my own story
well that this was about repairing my
past relationship with a brand that I
had a lot of bad experiences with at the
end of the video is me at the old
dealership that got that closed and I
was turning off the lights and it was
supposed to be symbolic of me like
closing the chapter on Old Mark and
here's the new Mark with the new car but
of course everybody took it as a giant
Flex like uh how can you get a car for
MSRP a Civic like this where nobody else
can get it and and I told the owner of
the dealership because he was really
concerned they got a lot of hate like
they got a lot of hate because they
thought I was making an ad for them and
no I was just telling my own story and I
sent him an email about the four things
that I thought honestly had happened in
that video that I didn't account for and
that's my mistake take because I didn't
realize that people were so angry about
like what's going on in the car industry
um
and it's the lack of inventory and
dealer gouging that's going on right
especially in the Enthusiast car market
that people have to jump through so many
Hoops in the case of the gr Corolla and
the Civic these are gold standard
affordable cars basically every
Enthusiast car yes and it's just not the
cheap ones it's the expensive ones the
Z06 the gt3s like all of these are hyper
expensive and then the dealers know that
they can't get them so any car they get
they're sitting on it and people are
angry so if you can't get one locally
you start going out of state you find
out a dealer is not going to sell it to
you because you're out of state and you
they don't really do a good job
explaining why which I just tried to do
and then they want to charge 20 000 over
sticker for a car that should be like 45
Grand people are pissed off about it so
they're naturally angry at me for
getting a car for MSRP because I'm like
entitled media like why should I get it
um the other part which I wanted to talk
about the media side is the vaporware
aspect of these cars they're paying
these companies are paying a lot of
money in the case of Toyota Honda these
are the recent ones they're paying a lot
of money to send media on these trips
and they get everybody excited for these
cars like gr Corolla gre-6 Type R all of
that and they're like look at how cool
these cars are we're making it cheap
it's an entry level pricing well the
gr86 the same way you can get them right
so then you see all this on the internet
people get excited and then they go to
buy it and there's only like 300 in the
country they can't get them made and
then people like are they are they
artificially not making these cars are
they artificially not making them so the
dealers can make more money and I think
the reality is when you look at gr
Corolla and the FRS or 86 and the type R
they're in factories where normal cars
are made and right now because there's
such a shortage on commodity cars they
are not going to prioritize the
Enthusiast cars over the commodity cars
where dealerships need those to make
money and if you're a if you're one of
these brands
let's be honest the demand on paper
looks like it's huge for a Type R if you
looked at the internet you'd think
they'd sell a million of these cars but
the reality is they would probably maybe
sell fifteen thousand the first year in
the US so they're not going to move
around production for the specialty car
to reduce production of a car they could
potentially sell for like 250 000 for
All That Matters to oems is if they make
money and the reality is even with the
specialty car factories uh by the end of
this month you'll see our C8
manufacturing video and I can tell you
for a fact spending a lot of time with
the engineers at that factory and the
the engineers at the company at this
point they're not artificially limiting
how many cars they are building they are
genuinely trying to build every single
car they can the available Parts they
have Porsche is the same way when you
talk to them knowing some people who are
suppliers for that company they are
building every 911 they possibly can
it's just the way the world works if you
know anyone that owns a factory who
builds people parts for components they
will tell you the same thing there are
part shortages yeah and and it's it's
definitely affected these cars and it's
they've prioritized the mainstream cars
or the high volume cars over the
Enthusiast cars that don't sell a lot
and while it may be a lot of margin for
the dealers at this point to scalp you
know
10 000 units of a specialty car at a low
price is Not Gonna Make It or Break It
for a dealer or for a for an oem and
then the last thing that I I have to
apologize for is because I didn't do a
good job of explaining my side of the
story of why I got a tie bar and then I
made it I came across in a way that made
me sound like oh I deserve this car and
honestly
I I don't I don't it's not a dream car
for me I'm happy to have a Type R but I
would never pay over sticker for it if
Honda like dropped it on me last minute
oh you're gonna have to pay 10 000 over
sticker I wouldn't have a Type R right
now I just don't think it's worth it
um and I think there's a lot of people
upset with how this works on the back
end with people getting cars or special
treatment
um this happens like all the time it's
not like I think the difference is
journalists For Better or For Worse and
many of you I'm sure don't do this for a
living or understand how this works we
have a direct loan to the oems and the
Reps wanna
build relationships with Outlets Car and
Driver Motor Trend running track have
been buying fleet vehicles for long-term
testers for decades at this point and
the way it works for them is they call
up their Regional wrap like hey I want
to buy one of these and the Lexus Toyota
whoever's doing it for them will
facilitate the transaction they are
paying MSRP they're not getting special
special treatment financially but
they're making sure the dealer that is
working with whoever Outlet it may be
like Topher got one of these cars in the
case of the type R Rady and like five
other different Outlets got these
vehicles all Honda did was hook them up
with the dealer and assure the dealer
that they got an allocation the
allocation that was going to said dealer
wasn't being pulled from another
customer right and they did so the
dealers that got media cars for people
like myself they also got another
allocation in the case of this
dealership their allocation winds up
having to go to the Chicago Auto Show
because they don't have another car to
show at the Chicago Auto Show for a
tight bar so he actually has to use his
inventory to display it as a display
piece so again it goes back to the fact
that they're not making enough of these
cars to meet demand and [ __ ] rolls
downhill and everybody's pissed off
because everything's too expensive you
can't get fun cars for cheap and then
you got me like a dumbass like oh look I
got a tight bar nobody else can get it
that's not what this is about for me I
love I've been into Honda since I was a
kid I own forums I was a partial owner
in like Honda Focus forums for
enthusiast groups for like five years
before I sold it I've had between the
two of us we have like 20 Hondas it's
not just like hopping on the bandwagon
of the cool car but that's what it
sounds like and that's what it looks
like doing this so you know anybody
that's pissed off I apologize for that I
just I didn't tell the story right so
anyway uh it's enough about that there
there's other stuff too with the media
part of it
um that I mentioned about
the business side of this
um and I think you know on the back end
people don't understand it and I think
you tell it really well about the media
relationship with oems and how that
works because people think we get paid
to review cars there's a lot of
misconception that journalists or media
like here's a car we're going to pay you
for it and that's how we make money and
that's not how this works the way the
transaction Works to put it pretty
bluntly is oems get access to sorry
forgive me Outlets journalists YouTubers
vloggers whatever when I think
journalists I think traditional Buff
books car driver Run Track Motor Trend
uh Automobile Magazine if that thing
still exists would get vehicles from
oems to do a story on the logistics from
the vehicle it getting to you if you own
a press trip all that is covered by the
OEM you're responsible for gas and a lot
of the fun stuff
you are not getting paid by the OEM to
review the car you're making money off
the content you produce there's not a
direct exchange of goods certain
magazines like Motor Trend Car Driver
Run Track will do paid advertisements or
paid features that are specifically
labeled as ads for specific oems with
the general stories you're seeing aren't
paid even our giant documentary films
you're saying that we do like on Z06 Z
it's the same thing they cover some of a
lot of a lot or many of the logistics
costs well they wouldn't but I have to
like literally when we do some of these
projects now I have to put my foot down
like I want to do this I want to do
these big videos but I'm not going to
pay four thousand dollars for travel
because we're not making that money back
to do this and the Honda stuff at least
on the NSX which we'll get to later this
is because I want to do it Honda's not
like oh here's some money we'd love to
see an NS NSX piece that we don't care
about anymore because we don't make it
this is stuff that I want to do and it's
stuff that comes out of my pocket and
the reality is there's not unlimited
money to do this stuff there's not a
huge return you have to crank out things
and in my case I want to do it a certain
way and that costs money it really does
cost money to do this so they're not
paying correct traditionally at least
unless it's a paid ad and it has we have
to say that you know like even on
YouTube you can't just put something
that's paid and not say that it's
sponsored you have to have a flag on
that otherwise it's a terms of use
violation and if you're big media like
Motor Trend and all them you'll see it
it's like sponsored by or like funded by
or it has a title sponsorship to pay for
it and that's how they do it to make
supplemental money but we've never done
that with a manufacturer before unless
I'm mistaken on anything any car
manufacturer how do you think I have my
stos and my yeah your Lamborghinis yeah
all my Equinox paid reviews are great
right yeah
um one thing I will say as well the
relationship between oems and Brands is
is interesting right it is still a human
relationship so if you piss them off you
[ __ ] on every single one of their
vehicles and you through personal bias
and you can't point out objective faults
with the vehicle you know it's within
their best interest and well not
necessarily yours as the Outlook but
it's within their best interests and not
to want to do business with you right
Ferrari's famous for if they get a bad
review you're done with them yes and
that's that's the pro and the con of
this that's why we when we are negative
we try to back it up with objective
facts and I a hundred percent I would
100 agree with that it's a slippery
slope with uh all this stuff where
um you you realize that
you can't just do whatever you want with
this you just can't
um and this is a good example like this
NSX video uh that I did a long time ago
which is six years ago I drove with
their their Factory driver at that point
and then I had a philosophical
conversation with him about the new NSX
at that time and I brought up the fact
like you drive gt3s he's a Porsche
driver he drives gt3s I'm like how does
this compare and it put him in a spot
where not only did it get him in trouble
because he said it without saying it
that he preferred the gt3s over the NSX
and then I went on a tirade how they
engineered out the driver of the car and
I we I did not get Honda press cars
after this video a Honda or Acura press
cars after this video for probably four
years I basically had to restart the
relationship with them in the formal
capacity yes and and that's the reality
like it hasn't been uh it hasn't been
flowers and roses and there's things
that you can get away with and there's
things that you can't and generally I'm
brutally honest like I Know Jack always
says it dude you know we're running a
business here you can't just be a total
dick about stuff so you bury it in
sarcasm you try to find a grounded root
of like what's really wrong objectively
it has to be objective it's not just
like I don't like the paint color this
thing's this thing's ugly you know you
can't get you know you could say that
but I don't even that's why I don't talk
about the exterior cars anymore like me
going off about how it's ugly does the
OEM know Justice at all they already
know the car is ugly because that's all
they hear about so I we try to focus on
like how's it drive is there a
transmission issue why do they do this
it makes way more sense but we're
probably more negative than most people
I mean our our even our Z06 documentary
if you watch that the final thoughts
probably some of the most negative there
are of any video on that car and it's
negativity based in objective fact and
based upon and engineering decisions
they make but if you paint it that way
for oems it's typically more accepted
because you can have an open dialogue
with an engineer right all engineering
is I'm an engineer I can tell you this
so when you work on a project is what
compromises you can live with that's all
it comes down to and that's how cars
work too and people seem to forget that
well I think that's how business works
right it's about the engineering of like
things but it's also like trying to do
what we're doing is you have to find
that balance of like what compromises
are you willing to make to do this
you're not going to get cars shipped to
you from manufacturers if you just
regurgitate all over all of them it just
doesn't work that way so it has to be
this honest relationship that gets built
up and not only that it's about the
viewership right our responsibility is
to the viewers the people that are
actually watching these videos that's
why I started this because I wanted to
hear about the things that nobody was
talking about I wanted to learn about
these things that nobody was talking
about either they didn't have the
knowledge to share the information they
didn't want to spend the time because as
we've done this we realize why Nobody
Does it and you had a conversation with
a guy from was it Car and Driver a Motor
Trend one of the I think it was Motor
Trend and he flat out told me that
consumers are essentially too stupid to
consume technical information people
don't care obviously our business is
based on that not being true but a lot
of the former or let's call it current
journalists in the industry don't
understand anything remotely Technical
and the Reps other than certain brands
don't want to know anything technical
because a lot of them are formerly
journalists or don't come from a
technical background and they don't
value it and that's why you see
marketing from certain brands the way it
is that's why you see content being the
way it is they like making sure that
information that is available to
Consumers is basically for the lowest
common denominator yeah which with how
expensive cars are now particular
particularly in a performance capacity
it's sort of depressing because you
unfortunately or fortunately need a
professional job now to afford any of
the stuff that's new which is it's it
and it goes back to like the whole thing
with the anger level that people are
having towards these types of products
especially on the Enthusiast side
obviously the enthusiasts are the
loudest voice all the time of like what
they like and they don't like but I
can't believe how many people and this
this goes back to the comment I made in
that Civic video like we know that we're
making videos and that people listen to
them I'm not telling people to go buy
cars I'm just saying like we like these
cars we think they're a good buy and it
I talk to people the viewership just
like we talk to our family I can I mean
like I looked at my dad's like
healthcare helper she just bought a RAV4
I'm on the phone with a like a really
close relative they bought two RAV4s now
they want to buy another one but they
they're looking for something else so
now they're gonna buy avenza
um another family member has a a RAV4
your girlfriend has a REV for you know
like all these people in this short
window that's just the people we know
and there is a lot of sphere of
influence and there's a lot of
responsibility that comes with trying to
be honest to people about what is good
and what's not from not just a [ __ ]
level of like oh look at all the
features because everything is feature
driven right like if it otherwise every
single CUV and SUV would be identical
which they pretty much are so they have
to pack on all of this stuff to make it
like oh look at all the things that we
have all the bells and whistles that's
the only way sales people can push these
things to make them any difference other
than price and at the end of it like
everything's so complicated now it's
really hard to weed through that and
that's what our job is and it's becoming
far more complicated to do than it ever
has in the past because of of everything
that we're seeing
um sorry no no worries all right let's
let's touch the the next topic as we've
sort of beat that one death sorry if
let's put anyone to sleep yeah I know I
just wanted to get that out of the way
clearly you know we could sit here and
answer questions all day but there's
some interesting topics
um that I've wanted to cover for a while
unplugging me I haven't I haven't done
anything so I gotta go back and and flag
them while you start answering certain
questions
um
the Dell integration really quick you're
going to see a couple more of these Dell
Integrations in in well I mean it's
integrated in every video like it's
clear that I'm doing that uh we're going
to be putting it into the Z Z06 Factory
video that we're doing that should be
out in two weeks
um I'm trying to convert over a lot of
my technology and pushing forward so
you'll see me talking about HDR and I
know that matters to about a handful of
people but I want to make sure that the
content is at the highest quality
possible and now that I have equipment
and I have all these resources to do it
I'm going to keep leveraging that and
the support so you're going to see that
and I just want to be transparent about
it you're going to see a lot more of it
um
this next one is a big topic
Jack likes to talk about Corvettes well
um you're gonna be hearing a lot more
about Corvettes this year we are doing
assuming it gets off the ground uh our
first big like Factory backed by both
oems comparison test between a certain
company that makes four liters in German
cars and a Z06 around a racetrack with a
Pro driver same same tires cup 2rs a
pretty good idea I assume you know what
I'm talking about that'll be shot in
early spring we have our Factory video
coming out which is has very little to
do with a specific car but how cars are
made and one of the things we don't get
to talk about often because most people
don't find it interesting it's a
manufacturing process people seem to
forget that cars are made by people yeah
four people they aren't made by some
Amazon robot in some Factory somewhere
and then airdrop to a dealership these
take Supply chains yeah training just
the engineering associated with Main
factoring like I come from an Emmy
background of mechanical engineer and I
spent a lot of time in factories and
just getting the workflow through it's
incredible and you think about how
complicated a car is how that has to be
built by human beings hopefully you get
to appreciate more of that in this video
it's going to be very similar to our Z06
film and that you're going to hear
directly from Engineers people that
media typically doesn't get access to
and we're going to try to explain how a
car is made and the Beautiful part is
it's not only just that like how all of
them are made Jack got to see his own
cargo down the line and while we're
trying to correct the mistake I made
with fl5 Type R like then hey I got this
car this is this is how I would have
wanted to do and that's what we did with
Jack's Car it's an unbelievably rare
opportunity that you never get to see of
having access to the people that
designed everything seeing them make it
and then seeing your own car go down the
line but really for the more for me it
was I think I was more excited than you
to see this honestly I didn't get to see
Jack's Car go down the line but when we
want to shoot again to see the level of
like
I I got so excited about the paint booth
right like how the hell I am this is
what I asked the engineers and he's
probably what the [ __ ] is wrong with
this guy I asked them how they got the
paint off the spray booth greats like
all the parts that go through all the
hang on panels like all that overspray
gets on grates like how do you clean
that the carts come in clean and they go
out with paint on them how do they get
the paint off the carts that go through
like all the logistical nightmare of all
this from ventilation it's just amazing
and I hope we capture just if we capture
10 of all that in this video they'll
feel pretty good about it and bottom
line is
I think people really like it I hope so
at least
um it's a very very cool story and the
people involved much like our original
Z06 video are amazing they're very
passionate they're they're happy to be
there and I was telling mark because
this this was a project that took many
many different trips to film all Yes uh
the first time I was there Mark's like
oh how was it and he and I make fun of
Corvettes yeah of course it's easy right
the stereotypes are often true and I'm
like these people are really happy to be
here and he's like no no no they put on
a face and when you're actually there
with them they were happy to be there
it's the sad truth is or the the pro
depending on who you are that's sort of
the Apex of American cars made here in
the US is the Z06 and the all the future
performance variants it's about as good
as American manufacturing gets here now
that the NSX Type S is dead right that
Ohio plane isn't building the NSX
anymore I can't really name another
American Supercar that's built here yeah
I mean you could get into the the
boutique manufacturer yeah like that
type of stuff but yeah to that to that
level yeah we just don't see it so it is
special especially if you're in the
United States I I there's this mixed
thing of like manufacturing going away
and all these jobs going away and we've
seen it decimated and there's like a lot
of good reason why it has and there's
all these internal politics someone said
Ford GT the Ford GT was built in Canada
and it was a multimatic car yeah so or
was it multimatic yeah it was multimed
okay or it wasn't actually assembled by
Ford per se yeah so that that's even
that's like a race division you know
that put that thing together just like
uh like the GT350 are like race cars the
multimatic cars those were not even
through this like a traditional assembly
line but I mean anyway really it's just
special because we don't see that level
of manufacturing everything's gone you
know the jobs are gone so you see these
people at the Pinnacle like this is the
best that it could possibly be for those
those workers and the people there they
have a lot of budget they have a lot of
respect and it just shines through which
you know hopefully your video captured I
hope so so anyway that's a long day trip
in a sex video so we've been talking
about this for about a billion years at
this point we've already shot let's call
it the meat and potatoes of the video
the thing we've been trying to do and
it's the it's been my job in some ways
I've failed at this but it's also the
joys of dealing with uh Japanese and
American Honda at the same time and
trying to get this to work correctly is
many of the teams or team members of the
original NSX the Gen 1 have pseudo
agreed to come out of retirement to talk
about this car Yahara some of the
technical people who have worked on the
original car have all agreed to be on
video and initially when Honda when we
approached Honda about this because this
is a it's not it hasn't been done by an
American team yet to do a documentary on
this car while these people are still
alive and a little bit fun stuff and as
soon as we talked about the logistics
involved with it Honda North America uh
quite frankly doesn't give two shits
about the genuine NSX and the Gen 2 the
hybrid car is sort of uh the unloved
child of the family it's not
particularly valued by Japan and wasn't
the most successful car here in North
America so their enthusiasm to support
this project has been interesting yeah
and basically a lot of promises on their
end fell through so we're trying to now
get this come full circle with support
from certain members in Honda and King
Motorsports specifically yeah so that
I'm going to leave it at that this is
the longest project that I've ever tried
to get get done
um because I wanted to like again it's
about closing the loop of all my
favorite Honda cars and I wanted I
really wanted to get these guys on
camera before they're gone and it's
it's just more it's more difficult than
I thought and it's a lot of money like
international travel like somebody's got
to pay for that like I'm not just gonna
go and do like hey I wanna I wanna
interview all these guys and you know
bring them out of retirement for the
sake of a video that advertises a brand
without having some of those Logistics
I'm not asking you to get paid but
something's got to be covered from it
and we haven't been able to to get to
that place and I'm like we have probably
we have so much stuff shot for this
thing already that it's like when they
talk about projects that sit in the can
for too long it's a bad sign honestly I
think what we have is great but we don't
have the final story and I don't just
want to talk about the American side of
the NSX because that's nothing other
than the current car right nothing and
even then the current car is not all
that exciting and I think it's a car
that came out too early for its own good
and while the type S I mean from a
technology perspective the fact that
they made a hybrid Supercar that was all
aluminum you know all these things that
you want and was it the price point it
was very very impressive but I think
it's sort of been made irrelevant by
everything else that's come out yeah the
fact that it wasn't a focused car yeah
right yeah and I mean we're going to
talk more about that I think when we get
the NSX video out I I will talk more
about the differences between the old
and new and some of the old and new
Honda mentalities and the split
internally I think there's a huge split
between the Japanese Engineers the
American side what we want versus what
they want leadership it's just this
weird like weird disconnect between what
everybody wants to do and then the
long-term vision of the brand which is
not internal combustion it's hybrid and
it's electric only so these types of
cars that we're talking about are like
we're over it you know like some of the
American team at Honda here is great our
rep is amazing yeah yeah
um some of the leadership we've met have
been very very nice to be around like
Jonathan river is the guy we interviewed
for Integra the first time around great
guy just a weird disconnected brand I
think in some of these cars and some of
these
there's a disconnect I feel like between
marketing leadership and some of the
engineers yeah and it it's troubling
like if you compare this to GTR someone
brought it up in the comments and again
that's why I'm looking at my phone
um Nissan has no budget they have no
money but their team members care about
cars that have been dead for 40 years or
30 years like if you talk to really any
of them Dan pass specifically Jonathan
about Legacy Nissan products they perk
up and they are more excited to talk
about those things and I've I could ever
be myself and that shows up like
tomorrowson the gentleman we had in both
Z and GTR it really is his life's work
yeah and he's made it his mission in
life to talk about those cars and
celebrate the people who worked on them
obviously including himself but
celebrate those products it's it's a bit
disheartening that Acura Honda doesn't
have that same I think I don't know I
think they're passionate about it but
being passionate about it in the US
where a lot of these cars are not
designed is different than the actual
like parent company that's to do doing
all the engineering and development I
mean there's only certain level they can
go to be like this is what we want and
even though you may be the primary
market for a lot of these sales they
still like they're not making the car
the Japanese are making the car so you
it's it's really hard to thread that
needle and get these people to to really
work together but every brand is like
that you'll hear it from the German
Brands the U.S side to the Germans don't
really work cohesively the Koreans are
very very separated you know most of the
Korean brands that we see in the United
States they're there purely for product
planning and like marketing and all that
they're not like we're not coming up
with anything in the U.S for any of like
the Hyundai and Kia stuff other than you
know market trends potentially but uh
that's a lot of inside baseball Jack is
there any other topics you want to
answer before we answer some of the paid
questions and patreon questions I will
tell you what we have in the can and
we'll we'll cover that in a little bit
uh we'll cover whatever is left there's
some other BS topics that I want to hit
but let's get right into
um
the general top general questions and
the uh can you go back and flag all
these while you're doing the patreon
stuff well starting off with that
all right so as we promised our loyal
patreon members we are going to attempt
to answer as many questions as possible
and this time around I will actually go
back and whatever I don't answer Mark or
I will comment and try to answer
um
the first question is oh man we got a
lot bear with me as I scroll to the
beginning of this
man there are a lot of questions
are there executive and bullet are the
executive and bullying tears real how
did I miss this announcement yes we do
have a Boolean and executive tier for
our patreon and they are real I don't
necessarily suggest you join those tiers
but if you feel like pissing away your
money feel free yeah it's there a joke
for just people who want to donate
because we constantly on patreon get
people that are just like I just want to
give more do you have another tier so we
created I think it was bullion boys
where all we talk about is gold bars and
you know I I it's a joke it's sarcasm
it's not like we're talking about
patreon essentially allows us to run
some of these big docu films at a loss
because often like things like the old Z
video or a good example they didn't make
money right no and we spent what a week
there to do the Z video yeah and what
three weeks editing but the Z video is a
perfect example of why we do this you
have a team that's passionate about it
and they didn't have a lot of money to
work with to and re-engineer that car
and work with it but they put everything
they had in terms of passion to make
that car and get it done so in a away
like for me I don't have a problem doing
that so much but that was the case it
was a breaking point for me because I
spent a lot of money for that trip and
we didn't make it back so that's where
the turning point for me personally as a
businessman or whatever you want to call
it I'm like Jack we can't lose money
doing this stuff you just can't so we've
had to be a lot more smart to sell my
shirt on yeah Jack Jack sold all the
supercars how many factories did you
have to take offline well thankfully uh
BMW and Audi and VW still use piano
black so I'm doing all right okay good
um what happened to the S2000 mods video
sooner or later that'll come out as many
of you may or may not have been watching
the gr86 series the original plan was to
compare that to the S2000 because of all
our projects this year I just got a lap
time done and we sort of talked about it
in between I think the S2000 outside of
maybe another set of wheel is going to
sit the way it has been for a long time
you sort of ruined that car or didn't
ruin it by widening out the fenders for
the bigger tires but past that it's
pretty much the way it's been for a long
time right it has yeah it's it's been
that way for a long time uh Kristoff
asks thoughts on Ford canceling the
fiesta and focus in Europe two of the
most iconic models will not be replaced
once this model year ends I think when
you talk to the Ford folks and I've got
to spend he and I got to spend a lot of
time with the head of Fort performance
they are focusing on being a global
brand and for them Financial For Better
or For Worse it means all of the
products they sell have to be able to be
sold in a global capacity so what that
means is if you can't sell the focus in
Fiesta here in your biggest markets it's
not going to be worth it to them so
they're going to be focusing on SUVs is
it sad yes is it the way Ford works
also yes speaking to that guy you know
each brand has its own identity and
philosophy about their products what
he's seen most proud about versus
individual products like gt350r GT500
raptor r regular raptor is that they
have a performance variant of nearly
every vehicle they sell and that's what
he was excited about the fact that they
have such a broad number of products and
all the markets are sold in which is a
very different perspective than I'm used
to and that sort of they're business
people for their business people he's
proud that Ford performance can build
cool cars and then they make a shitload
of money
sorry
oh my god dude I hope that's a fake
account I had to put it up there I'm
like I I was like at your what you were
talking about was also amusing but when
I saw this my brain broke uh all right
we'll answer some uh more uh patreon
questions while this is going
um
I answered your question Jay
uh uh when I am streaming Spotify what I
notice or benefit from any of the
qualities depicted on your audio graphs
including your longer uh reviews so the
way the audio tests work we have a video
that you guys can look up on it
um we have a gentleman that helps us who
is a audio engineer and is a supplier
for automotive oems in the audio space
we use a series of
software programs that essentially
measure the speakers objectively and I
can tell you for a fact even at Spotify
as long as it's not horribly compressed
and you know the compression doesn't
sound like it's coming out of the
bathtub
um you can hear when an audio system is
not good even with Spotify I think
that's a fair statement isn't it Mark
you can so that's an inter I really am
into this and I don't want to get too
deep into into the woods because we
could do a whole video about it again uh
the way I test it is three ways you do
Bluetooth
try to do Bluetooth because there's a
totally different chipset for testing
Bluetooth audio in the car and almost 99
percent of cars are not up to date
they're on the like three revisions back
or two revisions back on Bluetooth
chipsets so it's really you're not
getting the max quality and there's a
ton of compression and the the whole EQ
roll off is like okay here here's the
flat graph of it because there's so much
compression artifact like okay let's
roll off the highs and roll off the lows
and what you have left with is just the
middle part and then they do all this
noise reduction [ __ ] so Bluetooth is
really bad on a lot of cars and then I
listen to find out which one is good and
the Volvo was really good the BMWs are
typically really good and it's almost
always tied to Bowers and then uh
Spotify if you're connected through
Android auto and apple carplay wired is
really your best option Wireless is
there's some level of compression that
changes because your signal strength
changes for Wi-Fi so there's some
buffering effect but typically wired is
the best
um but in short you can you can tell it
you can tell difference I'm sorry yeah
and the audio test we do one of them is
frequency response and the other one's
just showing General curve General curve
shows whether you have too much high too
much low what frequency is being rolled
off and what's not yeah it's complicated
but it is accurate and that's why we do
it and the reason why it's not on the
screen for 40 seconds is it's YouTube
you can press you can pause it yeah and
it's hard we need to we did do an audio
testing video explaining a lot of this
but what we really need to do is sit
down and explain the graphs the two
major ones you're going to look at is
frequency response and SPL which is
sound pressure level you just look at
those graphs it should be very very like
flat as much as possible there's always
going to be a roll off in the highs and
a little bit on the low because the
speakers can't produce the entire
frequency range in a car it's impossible
so when you see a graph that's like the
base is up here and there's huge drops
all over the place that's typically
where you hear it audibly because your
ears are really sensitive to changes in
like sharp changes in tone like or are
sharp changes in volume change and
that's sometimes they roll off volume
two which is the worst but when you see
a graph that's more flat that's
typically a system that's had more money
or time spent in engineering that's
that's where I'll leave it with that and
what what's the worst audio system we've
heard to just quickly answer one of the
super chat questions
the Ridgeline was probably the worst car
we've ever tested it sounds like
literally phone speakers in the car
everything about it is bad it's it's got
the worst if you ever want to get in
there
um
so the the test that I did was a song
that started with acoustic and I got
electronic like bass in it so the
acoustic is like oh yeah everything's
level and then the bass kicks in and all
the acoustic guitar disappears out of
the song because it's like trying to
protect the sound system because it
can't reproduce the bass I mean it's
like almost comical how bad it was they
spent probably 20 on it like on the back
end if that 20 bucks yeah I'm sure the
piece Parts alone were like ten dollars
uh will you review uh the LC 500 coupe
with the new handling characteristics
it's an LC 500 so we will try to get one
in the Press Fleet yeah for sure um any
news on the upcoming rear-wheel drive
six cylinder platform for Mazda we will
be doing a video in the following months
on that don't be too worried about that
uh any thoughts on the
b9.5 A4 I'm looking to replace my G20
330i Audi and us have a interesting
relationship
um they aren't particularly good about
getting his press cars they were very
kind and finally got us an RS3 but they
are they just don't care about the
Midwest basically we have to be in one
of the coasts to get cars from them in
any real capacity so that's where we're
at if I can ever get an A4 I'll tell you
but
the three series is a pretty good
platform we have an es right now I
picked it up because we gave the Es as a
um one of the luxury or mid-sized car
contenders and being in it while it is
very quiet and it is very comfortable
compared to you know modern claw or one
of the rear-wheel drive platforms it's
definitely lacking in any form of
Dynamics
um I'm trying to think what else uh will
we be able to get a m340i if any of you
guys wanted to take a whiskey shot at my
mention of the b-58 uh I've asked BMW so
I could drive the rear wheel drive
variant of that m340i for literally
years and BMW much like Audi is terrible
at getting his cars they try their best
but the Midwest is not a priority so
there you go
no I know because we're not real America
here
like whenever we go to these press
events because every press event is in
California like it started to trigger me
more and more I'm not like a big like
stumping for the Midwest because let's
face it our weather sucks it's there's
nothing really to do here the people are
pretty real Down to Earth but it's not
like oh my God you gotta move to
Illinois nobody says that it's like the
joking Noah thing about uh when he was
on the Bulls he joked around about
what's so great about Cleveland yeah
nobody says they take their vacation to
Cleveland it's it's true nobody's like
oh I got it I gotta come now I gotta
hang out in the northwest suburbs Jack
and Mark but it pisses me off because
it's always like the whole world doesn't
revolve around California's like
mentality of how cars work there and
people work there it's it's so removed
from reality of the rest of the country
especially the rural areas more so
uh
okay now I just lost every we just got
quiet because we realized you just
sacrificed your entire relationship with
California it just just fell into the
ocean for you
um all right uh Mark can you share your
experiences with music streaming service
title versus Amazon music
um
what what do you use I use Spotify
because I'm a basic [ __ ] and Mark uses
Amazon because he loves Jeff Bezos it's
because I want one service where I don't
have 10 different subscriptions once
Amazon went to like lossless or near
lossless audio I was good for that I
mean it's already tied into Prime and
all of that five minute MPR you do get
like Spotify is better but Spotify
originally you could only sign up with
an account if you had a Facebook account
do you remember doing that no like they
were heavily integrated into Facebook
and I'm just like Auntie yeah even
though I have an Instagram thing for
Savage geese but anyway it's it's
nonsense
um
can you Michael ask Mark can you comment
on the historical aspect of new slash
used car affordability where do you
think the market will be in five ten
years from now for background I'm in my
mid-20s with a well above average salary
and I cannot I still have to drop out of
the market because I couldn't swallow
paying forty thousand dollars for a
launcher and or fifty thousand dollars
for a gr Corolla or Type R
you answer that I I mean you know how I
feel about it cars are a shitload of
money now and I they are going to get
more money they're going to continue to
cost more till people stop buying cars
and I think that's just going to be the
way it is used vehicles I think
because of interest rates the way they
are going will come down in price out of
necessity but I I honestly I I don't
know uh
I don't know I don't have a good answer
for it when it comes to reliability
though and the concerns when it comes to
uh like how these vehicles are going to
hold up they're going to be a lot more
expensive to repair than they used to be
particularly as all these vehicles move
towards hybridization and EVS I think
that because of the repair cost used car
prices for more commodity Vehicles will
come down but
that's it yeah I think you're going to
see a correction this year I mean you're
already starting to see it in used car
prices so once that kind of Tanks you
know then inventories come back up and
nobody wants to pay seven percent
interest on car loans like the average
the reason why there's no T in my
alphabet is all the t is in me
[Laughter]
um man that was horrible forgive me uh
Mark oh you don't you haven't
transitioned look this is probably the
the only uh female that's on here that's
fake
I had I had to do it oh wait a second
hold on a second Jack let me get this
banner up because it's
[Laughter]
um what's your uh what is mine and
Mark's favorite coffee beverage
and is there a spot open for a grumpy
Cameo from Scott okay uh so first let's
do the drink one
all right unless you started on
I am a cappuccino or latte man
how about you mark That's it yeah like I
thought you like a whole bunch of stuff
I do I like I like some fruitful drinks
but now I'm I'm going hard on the pure
like latte or cappuccino I've been
aeropressed at homes every morning I I
would love to do you really yeah I do oh
my God I think we're joking
no I should have bougie I should have
known uh I'm in there with my my farm to
table beans grinding them up every
morning while I sit there with my apron
on
uh what about you mark so Mark does have
a dairy intolerance so he's he's moved
from uh soy to Oat uh yeah so the the
back story about this to take a break
from the questions is I used to work at
Motorola back in the day and this was
like Greg and all them and it was like
10 of us guys and this is what Motorola
was like Motorola before it was uh
Lenovo and they were just like they were
done like they were done and nobody
cared about anything so we'd come into
work and they because we were
contractors at that point they literally
took our I.T team and they didn't know
where to put us so they put us in the
Law Department with all these Motorola
lawyers and we were so obnoxious that
they kicked us out of the department
literally had the like the facilities
guys come Boomer cubes out and they put
us in the main hallway in the building
like when you walked out they just built
our cubes in the hallway because they
didn't want us to be around anybody else
so we'd go and like screw it none of the
management care so we'd go on like four
hour lunches like literally we would
only come into work to go to lunch to
hang out because everything else was
like a [ __ ] show so we'd go to lunch
first we'd go bowling and then we'd go
like let's get like an appetizer and
then we go get lunch and then we go
somewhere else and then we go get ice
cream every day and it was like a course
of a year of getting like hot fudge
sundaes and turtles Sundaes and banana
splits that like one day my buddy Greg
he had his his family's like Exploder
and it was like brand new in the leather
that fake leather smell I I had this
gurgling in my stomach and they
literally had to pull over a gas station
I barely made it and that was the
turning point for me after that day
every time I had Dairy I was like done
for but it was like years of abuse like
literally years of abuse so uh now I
don't like coffee so I just drink chives
with oat milk and it's as close as I can
get to my Dairy fix uh Jakey asks any
updates on a long-term MDX Type S we
have that vehicle we're gonna be doing a
a series of videos we have two long-term
testers right now that oems gave us we
have a Mazda 3 all-wheel drive turbo I
can't tell you how many times people
have asked us to do a long-term current
gen miles the three we talked to modest
about it they gave us a loan for six
months so we're gonna try to pile on
like 20 000 miles in six months I'll let
you know how that goes but oh that's
what I forgot to upload that the one
clip
um I might be able to upload it
um for people to see
about the transmission thing oh yeah so
the type S has a gearbox problem it goes
into neutral all the time which we'll be
talking about in our actual video when
that comes out yeah I'm not going to put
it in our Mazda 3 uh it's a brand new
vehicle it's an all-wheel drive turbo
every single option because it's a press
car that's how it works it already has a
horrendous headliner rattle but you know
you're about to see what's going to
happen with that vehicle long term I did
bring it in for the transmission issue
because I had a flat tire like I
literally talked to three people there I
I said this is a press car it's
Automotive media and it's from the
manufacturer can you please take a look
at this if the if the trans ECU needs to
be reset for like relearn
um I talked to the the tech I talked to
the service manager and I talked to the
the main guy who handles service calls
and they're like oh everything's all
done I'm like oh so what was it the
trans he's like the text just like oh it
does that in sport mode I'm like yeah
that's not what I said and it happens in
every mode it doesn't matter what in
Comfort mode it does it so they
basically didn't do anything so I'm
gonna see uh once I record it I'll go
back and bring it back and kind of
really like hey what is really wrong
with this is it from the factory that
way or is it just a problem but anyway
yeah uh Dan who's a hero oh sir Chris
I'll answer correct I'll ask answer the
answer Chris's question first what do
you miss most about your LC 500 do you
regret getting rid of it uh I missed
that car a lot
um but I didn't I didn't drive it it was
a car I really wanted I thought it was
like it was everything I wanted in a car
at that point in time but drove the hell
out of that thing dude I drove that
thing like none other and it wasn't
designed to drive it the way that I did
and I think that's what broke it for me
is we went to the track a couple times
not not because it was my plan to do
that I just wanted to see what it was
like and when we were out there with
Jack's vet his uh Grand Sport the thing
was fast it really wasn't pulling the
straights on the Grand Sport yeah I mean
and I drove the piss out of it but the
problem was is it didn't have the
cooling to support its capabilities it
needs stiffer suspension like a better
suspension to control the weight it
needed a trans cooler and it needed an
oil cooler all three of those things
would not be the biggest deal to do and
I would buy another one but I would not
buy it without that because I'd always
get to the threshold of having that
there for like 10 or 15 minutes and went
over here no it wasn't even that in the
heat like it would literally four laps
of me driving and the trans would reach
us
oh yeah right no the oil would the oil
would be in red like every time I drove
it uh Dan who was a hero and thank you
Dan for being a long-term supporter of
this channel
uh long-term plans for Savage geese have
you considered moving to warmer climates
both of our significant others and
families are out here in the Midwest so
that's pretty much where we're stuck uh
posting to different platforms such as
Rumble
um we post to I think we're going to
start posting on Amazon again
and um
uh our stuff is about to go up on
Samsung assuming that goes through but
not really I mean YouTube is sort of our
home I mean if this Outlet or platform
dies and for whatever reason we continue
to do this we'll probably move to
another platform but I think you know
what would you be honest you you're
gonna move into another platform if this
does yeah I'm going back to corporate
work yelling at all my employees and my
factories Jack's gonna have a job in the
corporate world and I'm gonna ride this
out until it absolutely crumbles to the
ground I think it doesn't live in my
yard yeah I'm gonna like live in Jack's
basement that's for sure my goal like
there's days where when Jack and I have
this conversation and it's a real
conversation to have
um doing this six to seven days a week
is not fun a lot and the the amount of
stress personally that I'm under to make
this work and then work and then try to
be creative I wake up days and I'm like
I just want to go back to my corporate
job it was it was easy not like easy
like I talked about the Motorola story
my corporate jobs that was that's not
how I was really liked all that you are
the I.T director that just disappeared I
gotta go I gotta fund the local ice
cream shop this week
um my real my real jobs were hard but
they were never as hard as this I mean I
I just don't get a break so anyway
um expansion of savage geese my goal is
more projects our goal this year is to
do one docu style film or big video
every single month that's why you guys
watch this stuff
um so that's what we're trying to do we
have a lot of big projects that are
hopefully gonna come through and you'll
see a lot more like the c806 stock you
film or those the Nissan Z film or any
of those big videos where you see
engineers and people and we try to tell
you a story that's a little bit more
time Timeless and less disposable than a
lot of the standard review or content
that is put out on the internet
perhaps more satirical content yeah why
not we're trying to do Wednesday videos
from now on we'll uh were there going to
be topical or be a little bit less
formal we're never going to do skits or
anything like that but that's not who we
are I mean I I could easily do Skits the
Tom Todd stuff was hilarious you know I
mean that's the type of stuff that I
would do yeah I mean there's some
classic stuff to do but to keep up that
shtick in every video becomes like
it'd be I can't do that like it has to
be very metered out and people are not
watching at least our stuff for the
comedy no one likes us
they might like the sarcasm to a certain
extent and some of the [ __ ] that's
in it if it was me I would have like
probably 500 people watching because I'd
be such an [ __ ] all the time but I
have to dial it back especially with
this guy uh one of the Bronco video
comes out like it's coming up Friday and
you'll see like I'm such a dick in the
shop and I I caught it together where
every time I had a snide commented Jack
is just like completely ignoring me so
he can get back to like the actual
business that's what it's like uh today
in the shop we were talking about uh
something and it dawned on me I'm like
man when I'm like 45 and I'm burnt out
with life I'm and I'm a pure business
man I'm gonna be such an [ __ ] yeah
yeah you add another like 10 oh well
this is the thing like when you're young
you have a different mentality you have
a lot more talents for stuff and then
you attack on every 10 years you're like
a totally different person more so with
business and depending on your
relationships you're gonna put up with
less if you're on your fifth divorce you
know I'm only 17. you're not there yet
you know you're going to clearly look at
this person and be like I the first time
there's a whiff of like drama you're
like see ya oh Mark's always like oh the
old bones well did you see uh the lady
from Amazon or what's the I don't I'm
sorry I don't remember her name the guy
that was the guy the girl who was
married to Bezos she got remarried and I
guess she's getting divorced for the
second time already like you know she's
probably like yeah
you know I I don't need these it's
easier to pull the rip cord yeah exactly
do you think the industry will shift
from Cars to trucks is it indicative
um of a post-apocalyptic world where
Road Zone exists uh
that's a good question honestly Dan I
think the reason why people are pushed
towards trucks and SUVs versus cars is
purely a utility perspective and
packaging you look at the new Ram EV I
Know Dan doesn't like EVS but that thing
is the size of is it's not going to look
like the concept vehicle I would be
shocked to look anything like the
concept vehicle but that thing is
enormous 50 ads huge and because it's so
big uh they there's so much more utility
and flexibility for the OEM now a truck
or an SUV can be that everything vehicle
so
um all right Scott what do you think of
the best
what do you think the best Porsche
purchase would be as a driver's car
investment for 30k or close must be a
manual transmission you think these cars
will ever return to prices like they
were two three years ago
um
probably honestly investment's hard
because all cars are for the most part
bad Investments but something that isn't
going to just crater into the ground
value-wise
I don't know like I can't you're gonna
hear this from everyone Cayman or maybe
a 996 911 if the IMs bearings were done
it's just they're a lot of money and
that's the other thing you're buying a
car that's thirty thousand dollars now
if anything bad happens to that Porsche
when we do our Cayman video or 987.2 it
may be thirty forty fifty thousand
dollars now that car was you know nearly
a six figure vehicle when it was new
particularly when you included inflation
some if something bad happens
you are going to have a bad time
financially it's going to be a lot worse
than a traditional 30 000 card Effect so
just keep that in mind
um
you know I'll ask you know as a premium
patreon number
um are we gonna do any fan meetup events
like we did at TMP several years ago I
am working with Chicago auto pros and
Autobahn as we speak I'm doing a track
day
autocross car show viewer Meetup at
Autobahn sometime this spring or summer
uh the proceeds will go so the proceeds
that don't cover the track rental so
it's going to be run by Chicago Auto
Pros but the car show element and the
gate fees I'm trying to make sure all of
the autocross fees as well go to a local
animal charity a dog charity because I'm
a dog person and pets are amazing I'm
gonna let you run with that dude because
uh he's not gonna run the event but he
will be there we're trying to get some
other YouTubers to be there as well the
track day the autocross should be fun
it'll be at Autobahn
um yeah all right so there's that uh
what are your top five manual
transmissions this is from Eric Lowe uh
well since I am paid for by Honda CTR
ctrcs Civic Integra Type R Civic Type R
the fl5 type R and even if you moved you
could see a Civic yeah no uh I think the
best ones modern history are the GT350
or whatever yeah GT350 the Tremec 60s TR
6060 so it would be the similar [ __ ] in
the Camaro right I mean yeah the to me
it's GT350 it's the gt3s they basically
feel the same time 1.2 and 992 Uh
current fl5 CTR no joke as a front wheel
drive it's a very good gearbox uh
Hellcat yeah yeah surprisingly it's very
industrial but very very mechanical yeah
it's crazy but I guess you could say the
same thing about the Vipers it's like
it's got that same like
it's a perfect transmission for Jack
because well maybe not so much now you
smoothed out your your shifting but
before you know this guy was like uh a
robot arm you know in a factory it's
like for my mt82 with my mgw yeah the
guy shotgun Blossom I would say that's
2000 is probably one of the best despite
it being a little bit finicky Blackwing
gearbox
that's another Tremec unit yeah that's
it for me
um all right there are quite a few more
so hopefully people totally disappear
from this
um
love that this is from Chris Rice
yeah this is from Chris rocks don't hit
me uh love what you did with the gr 86
versus super versus Z on the same tire
and breaking upgrades would love uh
enjoying seeing more of those comparison
tests uh on older lightly modified
sports cars
honestly we have some comparative
comparison tests coming up and they're
all going to be an re71 rs's I don't
know about older cars because that
involves getting viewers involved and
having their cars modified and all that
other fun stuff
um our comparison test no surprise we're
trying to do a gr Corolla a launcher and
CTR Golf R Video we have that four liter
that is double Wishbone from Germany and
the Corvette one coming along and a
couple others this year I'm trying to do
one with the manual Supra and a couple
other vehicles but I know people like
them it's an easy one and I'd like the
philosophical almond Brit who um is
still sort of the lead instructor at
huddleban Country Club it's a tremendous
driver and he does give very very good
feedback and he's very consistent so I
know you guys like it so we're going to
try to put those together they are a
bear to make though oh yeah it's it's
like 10 times longer but I mean it's
like anything Enthusiast related right
like when when you're catering to an
Enthusiast like there's a different
level of expectation for those types of
cars versus like a commodity thing like
we could [ __ ] out like the Equinox that
we have right now speaking of which
we're going to take a quick break uh and
show you this is a this is an exclusive
live stream review that I'm gonna play
for everybody right now
Blake and Timmy from Tick Tock beg me to
do a video on my brand new Chevy Equinox
here we have the Chevy Equinox with two
gauge clusters there's a speedometer
here and then this is telling me how
fast the engine is going
um so this when this goes High the
engine's going really fast we have a a
fuel economy meter here and this is
whether I'm hot or cold so what we do is
we can hit this button and it'll turn on
the heat and then the airbags heat up
just in case there's an accident
we come over here and this is a one of
my favorite touches everybody this is
the badass bow tie right here that they
put on the shifter so when I shift down
um
it's a little hard to shift
um
I guess I just need to go to the gemi or
something guys uh so there's a this
button here is uh hidden behind the
shifter it's a sport mode button so you
hit it and it flashes and it lets you
know that you're ready to go this is a
great place for chai lattes
um I get oat milk in mine or typically
soy when I feel like I'm having a little
bit more feelings towards somebody I I
feel a little bit extra charge so I have
a soy latte and it just dials me back to
the next level so I can talk about maybe
cuddling I'm not sure but anyway there's
two cup holders and then we get to the
Crown Jewel The Equinox interior this is
the 17 inch touchscreen display everyone
and if I want to listen to music it's
very easy to navigate it's like my home
screen at home at home when I touch I
can just control everything through here
so when I'm listening
it's a little little loud for everybody
that's my friend's music he likes to
listen to that headbanger stuff I'm I'm
more into classic vinyl myself I have a
couple record players at home and um I
think it just sounds better than CD but
I think anyway aside from that we got a
lot of features I'll cover in the next
video
everybody catch you later
I can't believe I work with this guy
oh really that was just a clever way of
catching up with like with the comments
anyway go ahead
um oh [ __ ] uh let me get back anyway so
my point of commodity cars it's way
easier to do a shitbox equinox where
nobody literally cares about production
value or anything you just they just
want to make a tick tock video yeah
that's it
man we got a lot more questions
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so we are doing a Discord it is all set
up we just need to activate it and we
haven't had time to activate a Discord
and actually make sure that it's
moderated correctly and it doesn't turn
into an internet hellscape but yes we do
have a Discord
um after working as a service advisor
for BMW for 15 years
it seems only two concerns customers
have anymore why isn't my Apple carplay
working and why do I need Brakes and
Tires already are you guys privy to
engineering advances and tire compounds
that will allow them to hold up to
better uh hold up better to instant
torque being created by fully hybridized
and fully electric motors
um to be honest I think that's the
biggest problem that both roads tires
and consumables are going to have as as
everything moves to EV trucks and big EV
SUVs you're going to see a massive
increase in consumable cost because
tires are going to wear out faster
brakes won't but I think a lot of
suspension components and road damage is
going to get worse yeah I think the tire
problem you're just going to see tires
get replaced sooner we're doing a video
and it's my fault for not having it out
and scripted yet but we're doing a
technical series with Bridgestone it's
not sponsored by Bridgestone they were
the only Tire Company to ever say yes to
answering or engineering questions in
great detail on summer Tire technology
walking you through technically the
differences in how tread blocks work how
different rubber compounds work why
tires wear the way they do and one on
snow tires and quite frankly how all
season tires have advanced to the point
where well you should always get snow
tires how they are now more
let's call it a jack of all trades no
pun intended how there have a broader
bandwidth of use well the other part too
is you have cars that are bigger like
everything's bigger and heavier and this
is going back to a point I was talking
to you on the shop today
um you know it's funny going back to
older cars that had an average weight of
three thousand pounds now everything's
gone up to like 3 500 or like 4 000
pounds because everybody wants an SUV
and that was kind of like the the light
car fun to car thing was phased out
based on people's desire to have bigger
vehicles so now like the concept of like
what Lotus was doing or like McLaren you
can forget about that because it's too
expensive nobody buys it
um now we have the regulations kind of
killing off uh internal combustion or
like fun internal combustion for like
these downsized engines and now we're
seeing like all these EV pushes so EVS
are way heavier they're like twice the
weight of an old you know the older cars
and you have like Concepts now coming
out like the ram we're talking about
that today the concept of a three row
pickup truck which you know 100 is gonna
happen so you're talking about now a 9
000 pound truck three road truck bigger
heavier in every capacity more materials
huge batteries and that's like three
cars based on our our old cars that they
used to be so to power that level of
weight and to power that level of
horsepower and torque you have bigger
tires bigger and bigger tires and they
have to be stickier to put down the
power which means you can't have both
you can't have an all-season compound
that can control that type of weight and
load and lateral load and like
longitudal load on an all-season tire so
more of these tires are becoming more
and more separated to Summer and now
they're having an all-season option and
they literally get obliterated in 20 000
miles if that so you're going to see
this on more and more products as the
especially with the EVS because there's
no way they can manage power without the
electronics on the tire uh and now tires
are crazy like that the RDX tire was 450
for an all-season MDX yeah sorry the MDX
I mean 450 for one tire and this is
really common now to see Tires over 250
or 300 on these mainstream cars per tire
that's a huge consumable cost that
people don't think about and it's one
thing obviously the viewers on here know
to look at that like if you're gonna buy
a car look at what the tires cost before
you get into it and you're like oh [ __ ]
like me with the X7 I'm like Jack's like
well I can get you tires I'm like yeah
there's really only tight two Tire
options that are made for that car too
one's a summer and one's a half-assed
All Season they're all like 500 a piece
and I'm like dude I'm not spending
it's ridiculous
um all right I'm gonna answer a couple
more patreon questions
um Joseph who's a GT4 owner think about
going to a one-car garage again uh
thoughts on the G80 g82 M3 or maybe is
it the M2 I can't remember this M3 or
the M2 we're doing an M2 video so I can
answer that question in the future but
uh the M3 compared to a GT4 is going to
feel awfully numb but a whole lot faster
yeah for sure yep I don't think you'll
be all that happy man if I went from a
GT4 to uh
a M3 I mean yeah the practicality will
be great in having a less substantial
payment would be great yeah but the car
is really numb
um
uh Jeffrey uh with model 3 prices
falling is there a better choice over
you is it a better choice of a used
hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles
looking at a model 3 versus an ES300
hybrid Honda Clarity or Honda Accord
Hybrid
you had a gentleman that you used to
work with who had a model 3 for three
years in the midwest you want to walk
them yeah so I met up with my
ex-co-workers and uh he leased a model 3
and he
I don't know he didn't have the extended
range he had the regular one so at the
end of three years he was done with it
because of the range anxiety and I'm
like okay well that's everybody that you
know so he started with like a 220 mile
range by the end of three years he
barely got 170 and every time he got
down to like that 10 15 mile range it
was reducing the power output of the car
and granted he drove it pretty hard but
he's like I'm never doing that again so
the batteries regardless of Tesla even
on all the updates there's going to be
degradation depending on the weather
that you're in we talk about this all
the time people like don't talk about it
but if you're in cold or extreme hot and
you drive it hard and you're constantly
up and down up and down on that battery
or if you're like you're on a fast
charger all the time there's gonna be
degradation they've tried to build it in
the packs like they build overhead in
the packs for that you know to make up
for it but it's still there so can you
live with that with the model 3 the
compromise associated with it or would
you rather pay for gas just buy an ES300
or a Honda Accord which you know while
they will not be essentially free to run
in that regards they won't have those
long-term issues and give you some more
flexibility I would buy the es
personally or the Honda Accord if you're
looking for that Frugal McDougall pseudo
luxury car to roll around in but
yeah uh all right I'll answer I know
there are a ton of questions from Super
Chat but I'll go through a couple more
uh patreon questions and we'll go back
to them later
holy crap uh sorry guys there's a lot of
questions
um unrelated to cars Mark what messaging
app do you recommend
for privacy
well I use threema and it's kind of like
like signal and all of those that aren't
you know there's a lot of other ones
that have been publicized but threema is
probably the best in terms of security
they have three months for business and
then three months only paid you can't
get it for free and it's cheap but it's
encrypted end to end uh you know so like
by it's not gonna use Grindr no I'm not
doing this grinder so anyway yeah I'm
not going to give you the technical
breakdown but I use threema personally
there's a lot of benefits to it and if
you know how to like make sure your
phone is secure it should be safe you
have to make sure that you have a
password set on your phone or encryption
especially on iPhone because it uses
that if you don't have that set then
people can get into the database of the
phone and steal it so again like
everything you have to do due diligence
to protect your data uh if you could
only choose one fun manual only Japanese
German car
to have as a second car to drive and
hold on to for 10 to 20 years what would
it be assuming your max budget is like
sixty five thousand dollars
you you tell me bro that's 60 000 is
hard for me because I I mean I most my
cars are like 450 500 000. I my
influencer money goes in man it's
incredible because I I did a commercial
for a Type R man
oh type R there you go I spent two days
and didn't get a dollar
um two uh man second car makes it hard
because that to me that rules out things
like the type R joking aside in some of
the four-door piles
10 to 20 years
and you want German or American I'm
sorry German or Japanese I mean ND Miata
yeah that's I hate to say be that guy or
I honestly I'd buy American at that
price point I mean for 60 to 70 under 65
000 and you want to keep it for a long
time a vet or a Viper would be amazing
for that money
of that a Viper would be even better I
mean honestly if you get like a Gen 4
Viper as much as I didn't love that
thing it's already old you're gonna have
a unique experience for over a decade
or like a C6 Z06 yeah no good good point
oh you're you're gonna show them like
somebody somebody mentioned uh the 3ma
article on ours Technica which I did not
see yesterday I just want to see what
they say like it's probably gonna be
like oh three mode just [ __ ] the bed
no there's vulnerabilities with Remo now
I I don't I don't know I'm gonna go back
to uh oh
um something that I will bring up that
someone asked me earlier on patreon
um as far as collaborations with oems uh
oems uh other YouTubers go
um we've we did one recently with a
journalist outlet for the Kia ev6 GT I'm
I'm open to do more in the future I
think we're gonna do one with Georgia
Moto man and uh one of these days we'll
have
um debit a press event with us we'll
shoot a video
um uh we're not opposed to it it just
becomes a logistic headache with how
tighter schedule is we also are doing a
mark IV super video if there's any
chance that Alban is watching us
currently goth at albon we shot our mark
IV super video with albon that's
basically done we just need to shoot
some of our b-roll and shoot our shop
segment but you'll be seeing that in the
next month or so that will be a good one
I know you guys have been asking for a
long
long time uh two more patreons Mark and
then I'll I'll go to the main questions
the main questions
oh my God
trying to pick ones that
after the CRX video I got really
interested in a affordable driver's car
what is a good older driver's car that
you can actually buy such as an older
Civic Etc what about what do you think
Mark as I pull you away from sorry I'm
like this is and I'm I'm actually
reading too deeply into this but yeah
I'll read this later uh the three my
stuff is interesting I'll have to go
through it more I mean of course there's
going to be two sides of the research
versus what the company says and I'll be
curious to see what's real and what's
not with that anyway back to back to the
question it's a portable car that's a
driver's car that's old
that you can actually find like an S2000
is an affordable driver's car but it
doesn't have the steering feel or
anything like that I mean you can find
in a lease I mean I don't know what
shape they are I mean if you want that
that's affordable and the lease is
expensive 40 Grand no or 20 000. well I
don't know 20 000 a Miata yeah that's
pretty much like an NC
yeah NC's Miata is probably your best
bet for four-wheel drive and do you
think that offers some of the feels
something like an Integra or something
older like a CRX no but I mean you can't
find zero yeah I mean those are you know
those are [ __ ] you can't find integrals
yeah no this don't even bother they're
not worth the money to buy them you know
like we Rave about them as a like in
these in these videos like the CRX that
CRX SI we did was like sixty thousand
dollars
it's probably more than that I bet you
if you posted it up somebody would pay
like 90 000 for it yeah like in
integra's nice ones that aren't like for
owner every single one of them totaled
out and stolen or almost six-figure cars
now it's crazy RX7 mentioned that it's
also a pretty amazing car a great okay
actually it's a really great car it's
just it takes a lot more work to to get
it right than it would a traditional
like four popper I think if you own an
RX7 you're someone who's willing to
wrench on a car and while I don't have a
problem if you're willing to do that I
think for a regular person that becomes
not necessarily the most realistic
um
Blaine last one this will be my my my
last of the patreon questions I want to
hit you up on one that's actually
uh a good one not that they aren't good
but you know one that will apply to many
many people
here's a philosophical one from Peter
Chu will Acura hybridize or CUV SUV
lineup I think this becomes a
Acura and Honda are in a weird spot do
you think I mean they're going to have
to hybridize RDX and MDX and all this
stuff
do you think they are going to be
successful in that Mark and you see that
anytime soon because clearly like CRV is
a hybrid pile yeah right a cord is a
hybrid pile they just Acura Honda
doesn't have a lot of Drive trains I
think people forget that they have the
one five the two liter a naturally
aspirated two they're hybrid in their
four-cylinder guys in 1v6 that's modern
the three liter and then the 3.5 they
don't have a lot of Drive trains to work
with right so they're gonna have to
ground up a premium hybrid yeah no
you're right I mean that that's that's
the truth of it
okay all right let's start answering uh
super chat questions mark you want to
start hitting me up with the about a
billion of them that we've gotten so far
all right first one
mini bike Madness thank you for the one
dollar donation sir thank you sir that's
a that's your type of bike there was it
a Honda 50 it is a Honda 50. are you
gonna do wheelies on that I would love
the I still desperately want to put you
on a motorcycle like even in a sidecar I
still think one of the most entertaining
videos we've done the likelihood of the
viewer gave us the uh vehicle the Beyond
here is like zero but the Morgan three I
love that thing so much I know you did I
I mean the the only time I was ever on a
bike was on my buddy's dirt bike he's
like oh let me take it yeah no he put me
on the back of his dirt bike and I was
holding on to him like in [ __ ] mode and
I was like terrified that was the only
time I ever like got on a bike like that
as a passenger uh but you can count me
out of that dude I'd be dead in two
seconds on a bike dead you'd be scraping
me off the a guard rail or something uh
next comment
uh LT Automotive thank you for your five
dollar donation I'd like to have I I'd
have more to give if I didn't owe a
thousand dollars a month for the next
eight years of my pre-owned Altima
that's some strong Nissan financing sir
yeah that's that's that's premium
financing
Josh thank you for the twenty dollars
thank you sir I am torn between
contributing to my 401k or being an
American and buying a car that cost my
entire salary Alfa Romeo Julia if you've
driven the ti even cooler we did have a
TI as a press car and we we didn't do a
video on it was uh it was the like
British racing green one too yeah you
cut me away from that vehicle and it was
brown interior
uh it's a cool car I I just it's one
that you really love to drive it because
the chassis is amazing but it's such a
small car on the inside for what it is
uh and then I say this every live stream
you have to see if you like the engine
because that engine is just the four
popper it it's it's average you know
like there's nothing wrong with it but
it's like it's such a good car that you
can't really utilize what the chassis is
and you just always want more out of it
I don't think it'd be worth going in a
hawk for it to spend a lot of money yeah
I'm sure used though I'm sure the dirt
oh yeah now they are I think the the
Julia and the stelvio like last time I
looked were hilarious in terms of poor
resale value 25 Grand or 30 grand I
don't know what they were but they were
like way way less as he as he used so if
you could get one like I don't even know
if they do certified and how many
dealerships actually service them that's
the other thing is how many uh Alpha
dealerships are around now
five
all right next one
uh Pavel Jones thank you for the ten
dollars Australian much love from
Australia I hope Mark is enjoying his
CTR I have an fl5 allocation coming
April and wanted to set aside
aftermarket rims what rims or Wheels
look best on an f05 in your opinion uh
for the sake of Scott the Mugen wheels
are amazing I don't know man I don't
like bronze Wheels I've never liked
bronze Wheels it's just it's like a
Subaru thing to me like I always saw it
on a Subaru or evos joking aside um I
mean those car those wheels are classic
they're but that obviously fits the Apex
wheel that they're working on or have
one they have them out um yo would Apex
the thing I like about Apex Wheels they
don't pay us to say this or anything
along those lines is they've no you're
making an ad now you're making a
commercial for them aren't you I gotta
pay for my factory expansion come on Yo
now the thing about uh Apex is they view
Wheels as consumables and if you talk to
anyone who actually drives their cars
hard wheels are consumable they break
they crack if you ride curbs on tracks
blah blah blah so Apex will sell you
your next set of wheels after you
inevitably destroy your first set for
half off which is a big deal and the
wheels are not catastrophically
expensive they're not like four thousand
dollars a set at least for their cast
wheels so you have a coupon code too to
go with that yeah or you get what Jack
Factory is the uh if you buy them for 50
off then we get a cut of like a thousand
percent and Jack's gonna buy another
Corvette so I have to hear about it
again for another year
this dude buys a Corvette like three
years ago I still just stopped I finally
stopped hearing about it because he was
over it and now he's started over the
thing with the Corvette again and now
every day we can't even have a normal
conversation with this guy anymore
all he does oh man if you see my
Corvette in the garage it's just sitting
there it's killing me oh
um
Savage fleece that is a great name uh
yeah
um all right hit me up with the next
question sir sorry I'm kind of stuck
here oh yeah Jack likes to talk about
Corvettes that was that was the next
question uh here we go ready
uh we addressed that in the beginning of
the video I think Mark uh I talked about
it for 20 minutes
just just rewind it and you'll see it
was not an advertisement I'm going to
say that and if there's any other Super
Chat things paying me to answer this it
was not an advertisement
I put them in the video because I wanted
to and then I botched the story so it
wound up looking like an ad and not only
I I pissed a lot of viewers off
I made the dealership like have to deal
with about a bunch of bad press so good
job Mark yeah anyway next question uh
glad to see Mark rocking the Kirkland
Signature hoodie oh we answered we
answered this so we'll we'll answer it
again the WRX is a fine car it's still a
Subaru it's better than the last one
it's just uglier but it's it is ugly and
the interior is crap and it's ugly but
it drives well maybe when they decide
they're gonna paint the [ __ ] Parts on
it and it doesn't look like uh you don't
have to go to the aftermarket like you I
sent you the picture I sent Jack a
picture today from the new the rivian
right yeah the rivian Amazon trucks that
are on the road if you look at the side
of it like they put all this plastic
cladding unpainted plastic obviously for
durability and easy to replace and it
looked just like the cx-30 on the side
like the bottom half so now the cx-30 is
gonna probably sell a lot more because
people like oh man I want I want my SUV
to look like a Amazon delivery truck
next question sir uh any we answered
that one as well forgetful foot thank
you for the two dollars you'll be seeing
a 987.2 Cayman S Video in the next month
or so
not from me uh Adam thank you for the
fifty dollars very very good thank you
Adam appreciate it and thank you to
everybody it's not just the money is not
the issue here it's just I have to this
is helping me deal with Jack after this
he's gonna beat the [ __ ] out of me and
tell me I'm a bad businessman
um oh that's gonna get me a bag yeah
thank you Rick again for the ten dollars
I told I said Thank you to Rick in the
very beginning what uh how much is a
regular beef and cheddar now 3.99 or so
you're asking the wrong person I missed
your Aero press in the morning remember
all right this is a true story when we
were filming the Z06 piece and we were
in Kentucky all this guy talked about
with our poor rep and all the engineers
he's like man I need to get this Jack
guy over to Checkers he's gonna expand
his palate I [ __ ] you not my rep still
talks about that one of our Porsche
wraps nice nice lady sheep lady she's
like 20 or she's like 18 years old
nice human being she's like ah uh you
know next time you're in Georgia we I we
we should get burgers tell Mark it's not
McDonald's
yeah he's developed a reputation with
all the Reps that all he wants to do is
eat garbage it's funny because I'm not
into that I like good food but I'm also
realistic like I I don't want to go and
blow 150 for some bougie ass food when I
have like two minutes to eat you know
what I mean yeah like I'll do Checkers
and I'll be in the bathroom all night
but I'll do it all right next one
I appreciate the banner mark thank you
yeah I'm just going to leave that on
um
oh we did that thanks again
I don't know how to click okay uh Clyde
Oasis for five dollars best used fun car
for ten dollars all right here we go
ten thousand dollars this is easy
because every single video is now
talking about it the Honda Fit Sport
with a manual transmission is it really
under 10 grand yeah you can get it for
like you can get a 2010 2011 fit with a
manual for like 10 grand or less and you
do what you have to do a forty thousand
dollar case swap to make it fun no
they're really fun cars and they're
super Nimble and they're super practical
and that's right they just brought out
yeah there you go yeah I'm just gonna
fly on the bandwagon
I bought uh Dak 101 thank you for the 20
donation sir I bought a 981 Cayman S
last year now I hate driving my Outback
Dad mobile ideas for a replacement under
45 000 man you want to replace the
Outback with something fun
oh that one's hard for under 45 uh
Civic SI that's a pretty but the problem
the Outback is so big and so usable
yeah it is that's a hard trade-off you
know Mike is doing that he decided NSI
they were going to get an Outback yeah
this is Sonata finally shut the did I
tell you that no it's engine let go or
like basically let go
um and he's like I'm getting an Outback
or Forester you got an SS no he wants an
outside he's like I'm gonna he's like I
can't do it I physically can't do a
commute in that so now we you know
trying to find an essay is going to be a
real challenge but um
that's really hard because there's not a
lot at that price tag other than like
your commodity [ __ ] like uh RAV4s and
you're gonna die inside driving some of
these yeah coming from the Porsche the
981 dude there's nothing like you have
to get like an X3 and the WRX GTI there
you go the problem is it's small
compared to the Outback right you no
literally you have to go to an SUV from
that there's nothing else it's not under
44 Grand
I don't know you can't get a used X3 I
mean you could like yeah you can get to
use X3 for under 45 or you get a used 3
Series wagon I mean if you want
something that's more fun you just a
roll in the dice with a reliability yeah
tough one three series wagon if you can
find one oh good luck what do you wagon
man
yeah Brown diesel
um dj39 for five dollars how long will
they sell the ice Porsche Macan
alongside Evie mccon coming out next
year would you get if if you what would
you get if you had to choose I'd get the
ice version immediately over the EV
unless you live within the what a what a
horrible manual you know
geez you just can't get on with the
future can you
um
I think they'll probably start alongside
for a year or two maybe three max
they've already extended out the life of
the con they're not going to re-engineer
that platform so that's gonna be right
honestly I'll just go for the Macon and
like see what they do because it's going
to take them I know they're they're uh
EV platforms will be good but they're
not gonna have that [ __ ] figured out
like first generation unless you're
Leasing and then that changes yeah you
lease that Macon and then you flip it in
three years to the next pile done next
question sir
foreign
what do you guys think about the fact
that many YouTubers are getting the new
Type R mark
you could just play the Curb Your
Enthusiasm is like over the over the
background of this I don't give a [ __ ]
what they get
you know like I don't know if they got
it because they like it I think they
just got it to get it some of them
yeah I mean tofu is amazing I know he's
gonna beat the [ __ ] out of that car and
he and I got a gr86 at the same time
identical way through the region same
with everyday driver they got a gr86 the
same time we did but a lot for the same
reason you guys asked for it we did a
series on it Type R is for you you're
not doing a series on it I don't I
really don't want to do a series on it I
I mean the only time I'm going to use
that type R is just to do like when we
do our gr Corolla comparison so I don't
have to beg for a press car or wait
forever we can have as much time as we
want with it then it's gonna sit like
that's a car for me personally like it
means something to me personally even
though I don't think the car is like the
gr86 is going to go away I think we're
gonna get a gr Corolla man same thing
you guys have been asking for that car
for a million years and we're probably
gonna get it from SRP and everybody's
gonna be pissed off but the purpose of
it is clearly to like in the sake of a
comparison test it would be great to
have two cars that we owned where you're
not having to bag manufacturers for
stuff in the new uh like a long-term
ownership series online that's a car
that much like the 86 I'll pull the oil
pan off I'll work with counter space
garage we'll figure out what problems
there are so hopefully you can use the
series and my trials and tribulations as
a buyer's guide I'm not going to go
through what Jack went through with the
86 I've already done that like well like
you pull that thing out of the [ __ ]
garage and the suspension is like and
the brake pads again exact same thing
that's going to happen in the gr Corolla
again that's not necessarily for me just
to do a series on so you guys can learn
about the vehicle
all right next question hopefully that
makes sense I mean it's not going to
make sense people are gonna I might as
well just sell the type R now for over
sticker
that's what I should do is sell it for
like forty thousand dollar profit okay
but look what I made can I use your gr
curl a long-term review to justify my 30
30k ATM if you pay 70 000 for a gr
Corolla don't don't don't do it don't I
will come to your house and admit you
into the hospital unless you buy mine
yeah bye Jack so then he can give me the
money so I don't so then you can pay me
so I can listen to your Corvette stories
and be happy about it Mark let me tell
you about my Corvette
it's got my what do you say my interior
looks like Werther's Originals I bought
Jack I won't talk while I'm eating
because I'm having crackers I'm feeling
a little bit indigestion from all this
talking about V8s about V8s um
yeah so we brought the the vet to
Chicago Auto Bros as soon as Jack drove
it back from the factory and you know
there's anxiety about new cars I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna lie like to me 40
000 is a lot Thirty thousand's a lot for
a new car but when you get to like
whatever six figures for a car the level
anxiety just watching him drive this car
I'm like dude please let's just get it
back so there's not a chip or a link
she's already a chip on the rear wing
just driving it back oh whatever so yeah
when they pulled when he pulled it into
Chicago Auto Pros they're like oh that
looks like Butterscotch the interior and
then it like clicked I'm like where are
those Originals so it's sitting in the
garage rotting and I I put a huge bag of
orders in his driver's seat and he
finally drove it out for the first time
oh did you sit on the bag hopefully no I
didn't exactly no we're too hopefully it
gets really hot in there and they just
melts
um oh here I want to answer this
question sorry just got here here for
the worst phone award whatever phone
Mark has it was the worst phone I've
ever seen all right it doesn't do phone
calls all right let's let's do that
first so we can take a break from the
comments not that I really want to
because we got a lot to get through
um
where is it here
all right so I pre-ordered this Gem of
engineering a Sony Xperia one four okay
Mark IV technically that's what the four
stands for because everything in uh
camera technology has to be marked
something like generational
so this thing I pre-ordered and I forgot
I pre-ordered it why because it was
supposed to be The Cutting Edge of
camera technology for creators it has
the first and only optical zoom so when
you have the camera up it will it has a
physical or a mechanical shift in the
lens so it can zoom in with the lens
versus digital all right great it shoots
4K it shoots HDR it does all these
high-end things and you can see here
I'll try to hold it
each one of these
here
there's four different camera apps
ones for video video Pro one Cinema Pro
one's Photo Pro and then to record audio
there's another app for that in each one
of the interfaces doesn't do the same
thing so I bought it for a camera tool
for the video stuff and it's been very
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