1 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I've talked to you about 2 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: over the years, and a lot of interviews, and we've 3 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: talked about a lot of cars, and we've talked about 4 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: a lot of books. And I recently came across Mercedes 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: AMG and I thought, you know, there's something we've never 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: talked about, you and I and we need to discuss 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: it and understand just what is it. You know, I 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: think of Mercedes Benz. A lot of people think of 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz, and it's it's well, tell you what, let 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: me let me bring our guests on and get started here. 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: Matt de Lorenzo, he's written a book, Mercedes AMG. It's 12 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: available now on Amazon, and we're happy to have him 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: with us here. Welcome to the Car Doctor, Matt. 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: Thanks Ron, I'm really happy to be here. 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: So, you know, Mercedes AMG, where do you want to? 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: Where do we start? Right? 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: Let's you know, I think of Mercedes. Okay, if I'm 18 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: the average consumer and I'm going, well, it's a status symbol. 19 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: I drive a Mercedes. It's a nice, fancy, luxurious car. 20 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: But there's a hot rod side to Mercedes Benz, right. 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the AMG brand. And you know that 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: perception that you talked about people considering it just a 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 2: luxury car. That's what AMG led to the genesis of 24 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 2: AMG to begin with. Back in the late nineteen sixties, 25 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: there were two engineers, Hans Werner Offrecht and Erhard Melcher, 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: and they were young engineers. They worked within Mercedes. They 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: wanted to go racing. They developed some racing engines and 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: built a race car and campaigned it for a year 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: while they were still employed, and they were told either 30 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: you win or you're going to lose your job. They won, 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: they kept their job, but Mercedes stopped racing and at 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: the time people were thinking, well, there was nothing wrong 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 2: with you know, Mercedes the ultimate luxury car performances and 34 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: part of the thing. They went off and started their 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: own company, AMG, and they started building hot rod Mercedes 36 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 2: for racers and they were very successful. And so that 37 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 2: AMG is Offrecked Melcher and then the gas Grassodspotch, which 38 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 2: is the small German town where Offrech was from. 39 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, is it that I would go 40 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: into it, not to make this about how to get one, 41 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: but is it that I would go into a Mercedes 42 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: dealer and I want to buy an AMG or they 43 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: already have them. Now, their relationship with Mercedes is so 44 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: that the dealers just stock these vehicles, so to speak. 45 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: Right right, Well, what happened was, at first Mercedes wanted 46 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: nothing to do with these so called garage tinkerers, and 47 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: they kept a fairly arm's length relationship with them up 48 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: and through the nineteen eighties, and then they introduced this 49 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 2: car called the Hammer that got everybody's attention. It was 50 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: putting a big vaight in a mid size Mercedes. And 51 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 2: then they started helping Mercedes with their German touring car 52 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: racing and they were very successful there, and then all 53 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: of a sudden, Mercedes goes, well, why don't we let 54 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 2: them sell our cars through our dealers, And that happened 55 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety and then about nine years later they 56 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: bought half the company, and then six years later, in 57 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: two thousand and five, they bought the rest of the 58 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: company and they turned it into the Mercedes AMG Division, 59 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: which is the performance division of Mercedes. 60 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: The late don Imis, the radio host, was once interviewing 61 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: and I'm quoting from the introduction in the book by 62 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Sam Posey, and the book is phenomenal. By the way, 63 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: I can't tell you enough the color pictures, in the 64 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: detail and the way you feel like you're at the 65 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: racetrack driving in some of these cars. Right, the late 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: Don Imis was talking to Bo Diedle, the the former 67 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: New York City detective, and they were talking about Mercedes 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: in which one to buy and Don Eimas said, buy 69 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: a Mercedes S sixty five AMG. And his reasoning was, 70 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: that's just the most expensive one. But right, that's that's 71 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: not necessarily the only reason. Right, Mercedes AMG is a 72 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: real performance car then as now. 73 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: Right, right, And I think that that's that's you know, 74 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 2: the perception of Mercedes being a luxury brand was around 75 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 2: and that you had to have the most expensive one. 76 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: They have the best one and Amgs since they were 77 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 2: you know, they have handbuilt engines. Their engines are built 78 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: by one technician and then they're exclusive to the AMG car. 79 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 2: So that's why they were sold at a premium to 80 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: other Mercedes. But as you say, there's a lot more 81 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 2: to it. I mean that the suspensions are different, the 82 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: engine tuning is different, they have different interiors in different styling, 83 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: and there are actually now bespoke a MG models like 84 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: the AMGGT, which is a sports car that actually competes 85 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 2: with the portion nine to eleven. 86 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: And in your book when you when you wrote this, Matt. 87 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: For those of you just tuning in, we're talking to 88 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: Matt de Lorenzo. He's written a book Mercedes AMG, and 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: we're discussing it at length here on the Car Doctor. 90 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: You know, Matt, when you wrote the book, how do 91 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: I attack this question? Is Mercedes your car? I mean? 92 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 2: Is this is this your passion? You know? 93 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: What do you what do you normally write about? Did 94 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: you just wake up one day and say I'm gonna write. 95 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: About you know, I've been I've been writing about cars 96 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 3: since the late seventies, actually so, and I've written other 97 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 3: a couple of other books. 98 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: I did one hundred and one hundred year anniversary of Dodge. 99 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 2: I did a book on corvettes. I did a Mustang book. 100 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: So I've been writing again, sort of across the the industry. 101 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: I do like performance cars. And about a year and 102 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: a half ago I was talking to my publisher and 103 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 2: I said, you know, I'd like to do something different, 104 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: and he said, we want to do an AMG book. 105 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 2: They had done a book on BMWM, which is somewhat 106 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 2: analogous to AMG. You know, it's a performance motorsports division 107 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 2: of BMW, and the publisher found that nobody has really 108 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 2: done a comprehensive history of AMG. So I looked at 109 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,799 Speaker 2: that as a great opportunity. And I knew I knew 110 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 2: quite a bit about AMG, especially since AMG had bought 111 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: or Mercedes had bought AMG. And I actually traveled to 112 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: Germany when I was at road in Track and saw 113 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: some of the early development on the SLS gull Wing, 114 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 2: which was the first pure AMG products, So I was 115 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 2: familiar with that. I wasn't familiar with the his street, 116 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 2: and when I went down the internet research rabbit hole, 117 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 2: I was absolutely fascinated by off Wreck and Melker and 118 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: what they were able to accomplish. 119 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: You know, chapter six, the title from road back to Track, 120 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: the chapter seems to cover that we're taking everyday cars 121 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: and we're taking them to the racetrack. 122 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: Right, And you know, that's kind of a recurring theme 123 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: with AMG because in the beginning they made race cars 124 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 2: and the racers would come to them and said, well, 125 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: we want to we want to have you work on 126 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: our road cars, so they started doing road cars well. 127 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 2: During the seventies, with the energy crises and all that 128 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: other stuff, motorsports kind of went into a little bit 129 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 2: of decline and AMG concentrated more on road cars. They 130 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: were doing body kits and wheels and engine upgrades and 131 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: primarily for road cars for the public. The eighties, things 132 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: shifted back towards competition, and that's when they got involved 133 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: with the German Touring Car Series, which was wildly popular. 134 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 2: Over one hundred and fifty people million people around the 135 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: world would watch these races and AMG took the baby 136 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: Benz the one ninety Mercedes and won the championship. Was 137 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: very successful in there, and that caught a lot of 138 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 2: people's attention to that. You know, AMG is Mercedes are 139 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 2: very closely alive with Mercedes or vice versa. You know. 140 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: Yes, what we're really saying here in a sense is 141 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: AMG is a factory hot rod. It's a factory race car. 142 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: You can go out and buy something exactly, drive it 143 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: to the track, race it around the track, and then drive. 144 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 2: It home exactly. They have a lot of track specials 145 00:08:54,160 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 2: and they still compete heavily in sports car racing. So 146 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 2: the AMGGT has competed very well. It's one. It's class 147 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 2: at Lamart, it's one at Daytona twenty four. It really 148 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: the two are are interrelated, the performance aspect on the 149 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: road and still their ability to do really well in motorsports. 150 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 2: And incidentally, one of the guys who's helping Mercedes with 151 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: that is Hans Werner Offrecked And after he had sold 152 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 2: the company to Mercedes, he formed his own company called 153 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: HWA his initials Hans Werner offreck and he actually builds 154 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 2: a lot of the privateer GT racing cars for Mercedes. 155 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 2: And his shop is located right where AMG was kind 156 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 2: of grew up in a falter Bach, which is north 157 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 2: of Mercedes headquarters in Shuttegard. 158 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: Well, a grassroots effort and look what it became. 159 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: Hey Matt, Yeah, ladies, let's take a pause. 160 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Stay right where you are, let 161 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: me come back on. Want to talk about the Flying Pig. 162 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: Don't say anything else. I want to give it away 163 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: to the listeners and I want to get that out there. 164 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: And I'm running ani in the card Doctor. We're here 165 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: today with Matt de Lorenzo and we'll both be back 166 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away? Do pigs really fly? 167 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: Hey? 168 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: Ron An Anie in the car Doctor. I'm here with 169 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: Matt de Lorenzo. He's the author of Mercedes AMG, a 170 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: brand new book. It's available out there on Amazon. It 171 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: comes to us from Quarto Publishing, and we're just sitting 172 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: here chatting about Mercedes and AMG and the performance side 173 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: of it in the book. And great book. I can't 174 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: say enough good things about it. Nice, big color pictures, 175 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: a lot of history on Mercedes. First chapter, Matt, this 176 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: pig can fly? What are we talking about? The flying 177 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: pigs in a cardbook? What are we talking about there? 178 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about Hey, how AMG really got on 179 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 2: the map in the first place. Alfred and Melcher had 180 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: left the company and they were two race cars and 181 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: they were doing some road cars for people. Mercedes had 182 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: put a V eight engine in their S class. It 183 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: had originally been used only in the big six hundred limos, 184 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 2: and they wanted there was some engineers inside the company 185 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: wanted to take it racing, and they tried to take 186 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 2: it racing, and management kind of put the kebash on it. 187 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 2: They tried to run at spah in nineteen sixty nine 188 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 2: in a twenty four hour race. So AMG took up 189 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 2: the challenge and they bought a wrecked sel with the 190 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 2: six point two leader V eight in it, punched it 191 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 2: out to six point eight leaders, painted it red and 192 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 2: took it to Spawn nineteen seventy one. Well, you had 193 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 2: this big luxury car roaring around the track with a 194 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: V eight engine, open pipes, and people said that looks 195 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: like a big red pig. But the crowd loved it, 196 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 2: and actually they finished second overall of Ford Capri one. 197 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 2: But the Red Pig came in second overall and first 198 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 2: in class, and they actually they were raising a couple 199 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 2: of other VA cars. There was a Camaro that had 200 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 2: sat on the pole and a Mustang in the race, 201 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: and the Red Pig beat them both and almost won 202 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 2: the race overall. So it was a big sensation. 203 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: Suffice it to say, you pull up to a traffic 204 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: light and there's a Mercedes in front of you, and 205 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: it says a MG on the back. That's just not 206 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: fancy interior and bitter carpeting. 207 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 2: No, it's a it's a faster car. And that was 208 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: the thing about those the big luxury cars. And again 209 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 2: the hammer that they did later. They were sort of 210 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 2: they were luxury cars, but they had these hot rod 211 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: engines in them that would shut down nine to elevens 212 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: and BMW's, so they really they really brought it when 213 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 2: it came to performance. 214 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 1: The name of the book is Mercedes AMG matt Inside 215 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: one of the chapters, is it a MG one story? 216 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: In our in our final two minutes they talk about 217 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: you talk about they made an F one engine into 218 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: a into in Mercedes and it was a handbuilt prototype 219 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: car some kind of Yeah. 220 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: They they did a hypercar for the streets and they 221 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 2: actually adapted the same Formula one engine that's used by 222 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 2: the racing team. Now the racing team has actually run 223 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 2: out of England and has minimal it's more of a 224 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 2: badging thing between a MG F one and AMG road cars. 225 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 2: But they did develop this car together and they made 226 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: a street car that uses current F one technology. Very 227 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 2: difficult to do because it's a hybrid. You know, it 228 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: has a battery that that kinetic energy recovery system, the 229 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: curve system, and it's like a it's a two million 230 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 2: dollar car. It's really a mazing. But you talk to 231 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: the engineers and they're like, yeah, we'll never be able 232 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: to do this again. Yeah, because of the emissions they had, 233 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: you know, noise regulations, emissions, even just starting the car. 234 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: It takes ten guys to start an F one car. 235 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: This car you go in and you push a button, 236 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 2: it starts, and I took a lot of engineering. 237 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: Took a lot of technology, I'm sure. So yeah, Hey 238 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: Matt Our and your closing thoughts. Where can the listeners 239 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: go get this twenty seconds or less? What should they 240 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: look for in the book? What are they going to 241 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: get out of it? 242 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 2: I think they're going to get a great background history 243 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: and where AMG came from and kind of where it's 244 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 2: headed with their next round of products. And you can 245 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 2: find it on Amazon. 246 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: Cool beans, Matt de Lorenzo. We appreciate you taking the 247 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: time and spending it with us here on the Car Doctor. 248 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: We'll have you on again real soon and you be 249 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: well all. 250 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 2: Right, Thanks so much, Ron, it was great being here. 251 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: You're very welcome. I'm running eny in the Car Doctor. 252 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: We're back right after this