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Speaker 1: Let me let me help Tom a little bit here. Tom,

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Speaker 1: Are you saying five thousand? Did I hear that? Right?

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00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 1: The three? The three is not a tenth, so it's

426
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: fifty six thousand. So the trans has to come out.

427
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: The trans is gonna be on the bench. All right?

428
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: What did they quote you to rebuild the trans? Aesthetic

429
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 1: curiosity he was talking? I said, how about just an

430
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: estimate to tell me what's the matter with it? And

431
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: I go, pieces, well, know, if it's coming out the

432
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: front it's blown. I'm going you're not going to know

433
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: that until you take it apart, regardless, So how much

434
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: for an estimate? And I'm not getting that at this point. Well,

435
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: but now look at it from his perspective. Well, I

436
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: can tell you what's I can tell you what's broken.

437
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: It's the front of the trans It's either so what's

438
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: up there, either the front pump seal, the front pump,

439
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 1: the gasket where the front pump sits against the housing,

440
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: or the converter cracked. Not all of that. You're gonna

441
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: have to pull the replace that. You can't just despress

442
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: an external sealing you can throw in. There's there's no

443
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 1: external seal there, brother, it's all got to it's it's

444
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: all got to come apart, all right, no matter what

445
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: you do, everything's coming out. And he's really doing you

446
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: a favor telling you do the whole trans because A

447
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: it's an eight five and B it's old all right, right,

448
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,479
Speaker 1: And at that point what you always have to remember

449
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: with an older vehicle. Listen, I've got a ten year

450
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: old Lexus, a ten year old Lexus in the shop

451
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 1: right now, all right, that we're going through and making

452
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: it right. It's got multiple break problems among other things

453
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: going on. We're down to we need an A B

454
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:22,400
Speaker 1: S controller. Okay, there's seven left in the country. Uh,

455
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: customer loves the car. I get it. I have no

456
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: problem with it. You know what it's We're gonna fix it.

457
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna put an A B S controller in it,

458
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: and there may be more. But it's the attitude that

459
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: get one while you can. You've got You've got an

460
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: almost forty year old vehicle. There, you almost forty year

461
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: old vehicle. Right, that's I've ever owned. Well, but it

462
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But the point becomes, get it while you can.

463
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 1: You know, and and and that's it. If you pull

464
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: that trans out, at least get the trans rebuilt. Here's

465
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:55,880
Speaker 1: what you've got to look at. You want a couple

466
00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: of perspective, all right, you need Do you need that truck?

467
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: Is as dumb as that question is. Do you need

468
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: that vehicle? You need a rear wheel drive? Right, you

469
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: need something to get around on the ranch. I don't

470
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: need it at all. If something somebody gave me, I

471
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: want to do something with it, because it's a four

472
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,479
Speaker 1: needs to be back on the road. I don't get

473
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: somebody words to it. I don't even have to do

474
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,479
Speaker 1: the motor on my project will be fun anyway, all right.

475
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: So you're trying to just have a fun project. At

476
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: least at least if you yank the trans and you

477
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: rebuild the trans, it's done. All right, You got and

478
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: I gotta I've got a I've got a manual training

479
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: I could put in it. But then you gotta get

480
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: pedals and all that other stuff, right, Yeah, and that's

481
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: gonna be way more than Okay, one, can I get

482
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: a v W question in there? Can you reverse a

483
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: v W transmission so that you can turn the motor around,

484
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: so that you can you can realign the motor differently

485
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: in a vehicle kind of like in a board in

486
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: a Goliath? Can you do that because you used to

487
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: be doing on a cor very? You can do that

488
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: with a training box, right, you can swap the gear

489
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: in it and you drill a hole and comes in

490
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: and drives it the opposite direction. I'm ever seen the

491
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: changing It's like changing the ring gear. Yeah, I've never

492
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: seen it done. I've never given it much thought. What

493
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: kind of Volkswagen we talking about? A bug worthy? Engines

494
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: in the back? Are we talking about a model in

495
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: the back? Well, not not all of them. Some of

496
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: them are in the front. Uh. Since eighty five they're

497
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: in the front. Uh or eighty two actually, but that's

498
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: just too new to me. Yeah, okay, so you want

499
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: to do it and turn it around the other way?

500
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 1: Can I ask you to bet? It's gotta be It's

501
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,239
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty smart, That's what I'm saying. You can

502
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: look at a Goliath and they took the whole motor

503
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: and they slid it. They put it in front of

504
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: the car and made it for a wheel drive and

505
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: it was lot of cool. But it was a v

506
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: W looking motor. Um, can you do that? Can you

507
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: reverse the trends? Right? I don't know. I don't know.

508
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: I'd have to think about that. Let me ask you this,

509
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: what do you do? Can I ask you what you

510
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: do for a living? I called people on talk shows

511
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: and ask them about cars because it's kind of part time.

512
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, I guess you know, a lot of

513
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: this stuff is turned into our project. I sent you

514
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: the picture there was a big sucking a small truck

515
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: and they're all boards. So oh that was you? Okay, yeah,

516
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: yeah that was And that's okay. The guys haven't found

517
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: you yet. Um right, so listen, gonna make this we

518
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: gotta make this call short. You know, guys like you

519
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: are what this industry really was about back and it

520
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: say day you know your thinkers, and I like that.

521
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: It's you come up with some really great ideas and thoughts.

522
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm getting it from all the people

523
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: that did this stuff before me. I could be a

524
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: whole different world to jump in and start doing this

525
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: stuff on new card. But you know what, you know,

526
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: what we failed to realize is as the auto, as

527
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: the automobile of the sixties and seventies and eighties, is

528
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: that explosion winds down. And that's really what's going on

529
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: here is as the shift to electric occurs, the ingenuity

530
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: that created an awful lot of industry and an awful

531
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 1: lot of new product is winding down too, and the

532
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: creativity of people is disappearing. And that's that's a lot

533
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: of what's wrong with the world today. But we don't

534
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: realize that. So listen, let me run us you uh,

535
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: you do well with your ranger, Like I said, I would,

536
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,719
Speaker 1: let him rebuild the trends. At least then it's all done.

537
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: You only got to take it apart once, and um

538
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: you can. You can kind of go on from there.

539
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: You get any more crazy ideas you give us a call.

540
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: All right, you got it. Hey, by the way, my

541
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: name is Garth. It's not Chris. Oh, he's got Chris

542
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: on the screen. We'll call your Garth from that one,

543
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: I promised from the next time. All right, that's right.

544
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: You to be well, take good care. I'm running nating

545
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: of the car doctor. We are back right after this.

546
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: Welcome back around naming the car Doctor. See Tom, I

547
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: told you it was a full moon. Um. See it's

548
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: a full it's it's a full radio show. Um yeah,

549
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: you know it's I used to work and doing games

550
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: in the National Hockey League, and I used to be

551
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: able to tell whenever there was a full moon out

552
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: because of the callers on the phone. I didn't even

553
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: have to look outside to see if what the moon

554
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: was like, let's tell you it was a full moon.

555
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get over my seventeen year old

556
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: daughters driving a Mercedes. Ben's conversation and that was hello,

557
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: you know, how do you how does a kid afforded Mercedes?

558
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: How do you give the kid of Mercedes? I just

559
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: I don't get it. There's just so much Listen, you know,

560
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: you know what I drove when I was seventeen years old.

561
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm dating myself. Besides that, Um, you know what I

562
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: drove when I was seventeen years old, what kids sneakers,

563
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: So they got me every they got me everywhere. So

564
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: I didn't get a car until I was Galaxy. Yeah,

565
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, I had DNS. It had bruises

566
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: and needed a new engine, and you know it's that

567
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: was it. Yeah, I remember, you know, we're going down

568
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: memory lane here, I can tell. But I remember I

569
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: had a seventy seventy Plymouth Duster. It was an old

570
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: Bell Telephone company car, and I had my toolbox in

571
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: the trunk and I always had I always had an

572
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: emergency ten dollars on me. Ten bucks is a lot

573
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: of money in those days, right, And I'd go to college.

574
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: I went to college in Newark, and whenever the car

575
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: broke down, I could always slip into an autoparts store

576
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: or wherever it was, buy what I needed and get home.

577
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: Usually it was points or a condenser or something went bad.

578
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: And after a while I learned to carry spare parts

579
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: with me. Pretty soon the back of the car was

580
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: weighted down so heavy because I had more parts in

581
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: the back of the car than the engine in the

582
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: front um. That's when I decided, you know, probably time

583
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: to reorganize things. Let's go over to the phones. Let's

584
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: go over to Dennis in New Joysey with an O

585
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: six Scion and some questions about manual transmissions. Dennis, Welcome

586
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: to the car doctor, Sir, how can I help? Hi? Ron?

587
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: How are you? I got this two thousand AT six

588
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: Scion XB with three three hundred miles on it, just

589
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: broken in out, just broken in, just broken, and took

590
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: a four thousand mile trip around the country with it

591
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: in September and it didn't miss a deep But anyway,

592
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: I'm doing some research. I want to take a trip

593
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: to Europe. I noticed most of the rental cars in

594
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: Europe have manual transmissions. Now, the EU, the European Union

595
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: in Europe have just as strict emissions regulations as they

596
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: have in the United States. Why aren't there more transmissions,

597
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: more cars available in the United States with manual transmissions.

598
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: I think that's a multi pronged question, Dennis. In all seriousness,

599
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: I think it has to do with the fact that

600
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: more Americans want automatics. I I think the volume of

601
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: people that want manual transmissions is less and less here

602
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: I think in Europe the price of fuel is higher, obviously,

603
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: and you know, manual transmission driven correctly can give better

604
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: fuel economy than most automatics under the correct conditions. And

605
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is marketing. It's also,

606
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: you know what, we tend to accept what we're given.

607
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: We don't we don't argue, you know, Hence the case

608
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: I want to say this, but I will. Hence the

609
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: argument for the electric car. Right, we're just sort of

610
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: accepting it and letting it happen. You know, look at

611
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: look at the state of California. Not to pick on California.

612
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: California is allowing electricity to be phased in and guess

613
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: lyne to be phased out, and they don't have enough

614
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: of one and too much of the other. It's you know,

615
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: it's it's all marketing and what what what society says? Yeah,

616
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: of course it's insane. Of course it's insane. Listen, uh,

617
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, and you know I just told Tom. I

618
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: want you to know, Dennis, you already made me break

619
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: my word at your fault. But I'm not gonna be

620
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: mad at you. I told Tom last week we have

621
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: to stop talking about electric cars. I think we're turning

622
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: people off to it. And we said we weren't going

623
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: to mention electric cars on the show at all. Here

624
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: we are, We're forty five minutes into the first show

625
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: of the next week, and we're already talking about it.

626
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: All right. It's just it's just because I mean, the

627
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: the writings on the wall. I got a customer who

628
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: works in transmission at at Jersey Central Power and Light.

629
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: He told me they can't build the infrastructure out for

630
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: electric cars. I've got people telling me in jury Many

631
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: you can't park an electric car and parking garages because

632
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: if they catch fire, the whole thing burns down. I've

633
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: got people telling me in California, where this is all

634
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: this insanity seems to be coming from, that they can

635
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: only turn on their dishwasher at certain times of the

636
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: hour and day. They can only plug in their electric

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Speaker 1: car after ten PM at night. They can't open the

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Speaker 1: refrigerator between the hours of eight and six. They can't

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Speaker 1: turn the air conditioning below this or the heat above that.

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Speaker 1: Yet we're doing it, you know, at the risk of

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Speaker 1: sounding well, let's say it like this, I am not

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Speaker 1: against electric cars. Did you feel that. I think the

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Speaker 1: earth just tilted. Um. I am not against electric cars.

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Speaker 1: I am against insanity. And that's what it's all about,

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Speaker 1: is your question, why can't we have more manual transmissions here, Dennis?

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Speaker 1: Because no, I want a car similar to my two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six Scien Exit. They don't make that anymore,

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Speaker 1: nor do they make anything similar in the United States. No,

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Speaker 1: they don't yet. If you uh, in Asia they have

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Speaker 1: similar cars. Europe they have similar van type cars. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. Then sit a minute for Dennis. Pull over,

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Speaker 1: let me sit, let me sit here, sit tight, let

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Speaker 1: me pull over and take a pausible finish this when

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Speaker 1: we come back, run a nat of the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back around the need of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor, Dennis in New Jersey. You're still there, sir,

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Speaker 1: I certainly am. We're still talking about manual transmission cars.

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Speaker 1: You know. Part of it, Dennis, is that it's a

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Speaker 1: culture thing in Europe. It's different than the US. Kids

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Speaker 1: learned to drive at a very young age in Europe.

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Speaker 1: You know, there were fifteen year olds in Europe driving

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Speaker 1: and they learned to drive on little cars because of

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Speaker 1: fuel economy issues, and they learned to drive stick and

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Speaker 1: that that trend continues. Do you know what percentage you

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Speaker 1: want to take a guess at what percentage of cars

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Speaker 1: in the United States are still out of the vehicle fleet?

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Speaker 1: What percentage of the cars are manual transmission? Probably less

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Speaker 1: than it's actually a little more than that. It's about

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Speaker 1: r just about three percent of the fleet. But I

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Speaker 1: remember the day when when it was it was probably

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Speaker 1: split even fifty fifty. You know, it was a rite

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Speaker 1: of passage. But look at the states, right, it was

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Speaker 1: a rite of passage to get your driver's license. Today

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Speaker 1: kids have no interest in driving. A lot of kids

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Speaker 1: don't have driver's licenses when they're seventeen, eighteen years old.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna call an uber. Uber's gonna pick him up

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Speaker 1: when Uber's gonna drive him around. So it's a cultural thing.

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Speaker 1: You know. People in the US also, if you notice,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we take driving as seriously as the

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Speaker 1: rest of the world, by the fact that we seem

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Speaker 1: to be doing everything but driving. When we're behind the wheel,

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Speaker 1: we're eating, we're eating behind the wheel, We're on our

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Speaker 1: phones behind the wheel, we're we're you know, looking at

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Speaker 1: I saw a guy I had a parts delivery driver

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Speaker 1: at the shop the other day. I had a yell

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Speaker 1: at him because he did it on my property. He

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Speaker 1: pulled in, he's watching TV driving the car had a

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Speaker 1: little TV screen and the dashboard. Um, just just crazy stuff.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line, you gotta look. You gotta look to see

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Speaker 1: who's making a car equivalent to your sign. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a manual trans maybe Toyota. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: search through their options list and talk to the dealers,

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Speaker 1: but it is getting harder and harder to do. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call, Dennis. Until the next time, everybody, I'm

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Speaker 1: on an any in the car doctor reminding you good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you