Speaker 1: I'm Matt Miller, I'm Hannah Elliott, and this is Hot Pursuit.
Speaker 2: All right, we have a fantastic podcast for you today.
Speaker 2: We're going to touch on Formula one, give you the
Speaker 2: update on the Ferraris we were talking about last week.
Speaker 2: But we also have a special guest, recurring guest, Barry Ridholtz.
Speaker 2: He is the host of Masters in Business, probably our
Speaker 2: most popular podcast on the Bloomberg platform, and he has
Speaker 2: a new podcast called At the Money.
Speaker 3: At the Money ATM plus.
Speaker 2: Obviously the founder of Ritholts Wealth Management, and he's a contributor.
Speaker 3: To Bloomberg a lot.
Speaker 2: So, Hannah, we're going to talk about Formula one because
Speaker 2: you're preparing to go to Las Vegas. We're also going
Speaker 2: to talk about hybrid's. I think they're the way forward.
Speaker 2: You think it's a band aid. There's a lot more
Speaker 2: sort of econoboxes and grocery getters that I think are
Speaker 2: really cool though in this space. And then we're going
Speaker 2: to get to Audi's. You just recently drove the SQ
Speaker 2: eight E tron, that's correct, and Barry has an R eight.
Speaker 2: The first car I bought was an Audie and a
Speaker 2: for Avant.
Speaker 3: Those have become very collectible now and mine was a
Speaker 3: two point five, which I loved with so stick shift
Speaker 3: those have become desirable.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's kick it off though with Formula one,
Speaker 2: because I guess what you're getting ready to head out
Speaker 2: to Sin City, and what do you expect.
Speaker 4: It's going to be very interesting because when Formula one
Speaker 4: in Liberty Media, which owns Formula one, entered into this
Speaker 4: deal with the city of Las Vegas to host the race,
Speaker 4: it seemed like a home.
Speaker 1: Run, like a match made in heaven.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's Vegas, which of course is sort of
Speaker 4: the party center of the world right now and has
Speaker 4: a bunch of great professional sports team. We've got hockey,
Speaker 4: We've got NFL, We're going to get some baseball.
Speaker 3: The Blagio Win Resorts, the Sphere.
Speaker 4: Oh, let's not forget the Sphere. There's so much there.
Speaker 4: And the food's great, you know, all.
Speaker 3: Of this stuff.
Speaker 1: There's Jean George restaurants.
Speaker 4: But the thing is, and you know, Formula one's been
Speaker 4: doing great in the US, but in the past month
Speaker 4: or so, it's been really weird because ticket prices have
Speaker 4: been dropping, both ticket prices for general entry into the
Speaker 4: Grand Prix hotel room rates have been dropping, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of creating this feeling that maybe Vegas bit off
Speaker 4: more than it can chew. It's possible organizers sort of
Speaker 4: got a little bit too greedy with how they price things,
Speaker 4: and people are just not having it.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: So if I decided, you know what, I am going
Speaker 2: to go see Formula on this weekend and skip the
Speaker 2: birth of my second daughter, you think I could get tickets.
Speaker 1: You'd have no problem getting tickets.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I will say, you might pay like six.
Speaker 4: Or seven hundred dollars a night for a hotel room
Speaker 4: at like the Venetian, but that's pretty typical, and it's
Speaker 4: actually far less than you would have paid had you
Speaker 4: tried to get a room a month ago or two
Speaker 4: months ago. So this is an expensive sport and an
Speaker 4: expensive city, but compared to what prices were listed at
Speaker 4: a month or two months ago, you're gonna get a deal.
Speaker 4: And there's plenty of tickets to go around. There are
Speaker 4: plenty of flights from La to Vegas.
Speaker 3: So barry when you when you go. You know the
Speaker 3: problem with Formula one is you know you're in a corner,
Speaker 3: You're watching the cars go by. It's not. I know,
Speaker 3: it's very visceral and very exciting feeling moments. That's the
Speaker 3: best part. But then you're there for another four hours
Speaker 3: and it's a sport that's so great on television. It's
Speaker 3: very comfortable. You really can see stuff. Everyone should go
Speaker 3: do it once. I don't know if I need to
Speaker 3: do this in Vegas. And the thing I'm wondering about
Speaker 3: how much of this is specific to Las Vegas and
Speaker 3: how much of this is just Hey, the economy is
Speaker 3: moving along, inflation is coming down, but we're starting to
Speaker 3: slow down. When you look at what's going on with
Speaker 3: auction prices of used cars nine eleven, Ferrari's whatever, or
Speaker 3: even watches. Everything seems that had round up in twenty
Speaker 3: and twenty one and twenty two, it's all softening. I
Speaker 3: wonder if this is a broader macro concern.
Speaker 1: I think that's a really interesting point.
Speaker 4: And we talked about this Ferrari last week, this Ferrari
Speaker 4: two fifty gto that was going to go on sale,
Speaker 4: and to your point, Barry, yes, it sold this week
Speaker 4: for almost fifty two million dollars, but that was actually
Speaker 4: far less than arm Sotheby's had hoped to get for
Speaker 4: the car, and they were saying, you know, in excess
Speaker 4: of sixty million. The hammer price on that Ferrari was
Speaker 4: actually forty seven. So, yes, this is a very expensive car,
Speaker 4: but relative to where it was supposed to be quote unquote,
Speaker 4: it's really down. And to your point, Berry, I think
Speaker 4: this Yolo economy is over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw this week Bloomberg put out a story
Speaker 2: prices for Rolex and Pateech Philippe watches, you know, the
Speaker 2: ultra luxury, super high end watches on the Bloomberg subdal
Speaker 2: indecks have come crashing down. They were off one point
Speaker 2: eight percent last month to the lowest level since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. Do you think that's the problem with F
Speaker 2: one or is the sport too boring? The engines aren't
Speaker 2: big enough, No one passes.
Speaker 4: Here's a problem, Max Verstappan, that's a problem. He wins
Speaker 4: all the time, he's already clinched the title. He's won
Speaker 4: like seventeen of last twenty races. It's pretty predictable at
Speaker 4: this point. Even second place is pretty predictable. And the
Speaker 4: other thing to Barry's point about the TV viewership, This
Speaker 4: race starts at ten pm Pacific time, which means you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to be a diehard fan.
Speaker 3: Whoa watch it. It really is one in the morning
Speaker 3: East Coast time.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: There are not many people who are going to be
Speaker 4: up at one am in New York.
Speaker 1: I don't think to watch this race.
Speaker 3: You can always watch it the next day on the replay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm a huge fan of Moto GP,
Speaker 2: as you know, because it's a far better sport. I
Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of passing, there's a lot more strategy,
Speaker 2: you have tons of different winners, And I just have
Speaker 2: a subscription to MotoGP dot com and then I watch
Speaker 2: it after the race is over because it was inevitably
Speaker 2: in Indonesia, and then it doesn't come on until you know,
Speaker 2: like eight in the morning on a Sunday.
Speaker 3: I'm not up at that point.
Speaker 2: I think it could be a bunch of different factors
Speaker 2: from an economy that's slowing down to max for staff
Speaker 2: and winning every time. But are we still going to
Speaker 2: see like is Brad Pitt gonna go? Is like Puff
Speaker 2: Daddy gonna go? You know, are all the celebrities going
Speaker 2: to be there and having like fifteen thousand dollars dinners?
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so maybe more interesting than Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4: David Beckham will be there. I don't know if you've
Speaker 4: seen the latest Beckham nothing more right, Yeah, I thought
Speaker 4: it was so good. I mean I'm a big Victoria
Speaker 4: Beckham fan after that. But yeah, Shack will be there,
Speaker 4: There will be celebrities there. It's going to be fun
Speaker 4: no matter what. How can you not have fun in
Speaker 4: Las Vegas? And I will say organizers are saying that
Speaker 4: they're expecting record revenue regardless of anything. They're on track
Speaker 4: to quote unquote sell out of tickets. This is what
Speaker 4: they're telling us. So it's still gonna be great. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be great fun. Anyone who's going should really pack
Speaker 4: their coats though. It's gonna be pretty.
Speaker 3: Cold in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Ten o'clock in the desert in November is cold, true desert.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you go to Vegas and you can't have fun,
Speaker 2: you're not doing it right. Do you like Vegas?
Speaker 3: Berry? No? I can't stand it, but I mean for
Speaker 3: a couple nights with Yeah, if I have to this,
Speaker 3: great restaurants, great shows, but not my first choice of destination.
Speaker 3: When they finally nuke that part of Nevada, you know
Speaker 3: in the whole area is just silicon glass. It'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I went to Lamborghini driving school there. That's a different story.
Speaker 3: You know. You can you can rent a World War
Speaker 3: two spitfire and go up with a pilot. That's worth doing.
Speaker 3: And Vegas is the only place that I'll let you
Speaker 3: sign off and say sure, I'll take my life in
Speaker 3: my hands in a eighty year old World War two plane.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: I'd like, you can't do that anywhere in the desert, right,
Speaker 2: go Vegas, Sign up, Vegas.
Speaker 4: That all counts as Vegas, though, Yeah, I guess this
Speaker 4: is a lot more than just the strip.
Speaker 3: I mean totally agree.
Speaker 1: Driving out to the Hoover Dams really cool.
Speaker 4: And I do think sort of dusty hotels where Elvis
Speaker 4: played and Sinatra are really cool. There's amazing off roading
Speaker 4: out there. All of that to me counts as a
Speaker 4: quote unquote Vegas.
Speaker 1: When I go. There's fabulous shopping too.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent all right, change. I don't go to
Speaker 2: casinos at all. I don't hang out on the strip.
Speaker 2: I don't gamble. That's the part of Vegas. I hate
Speaker 2: everything around that is really interesting fun. Yeah, you want
Speaker 2: to wake up married to somebody.
Speaker 3: You have no idea her last name. You know, apologies
Speaker 3: to my wife, your pregnant wife. You're very pregnant.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to well and her favorite car is
Speaker 2: the Volvo XC ninety T eight, which is a hybrid.
Speaker 2: You know, you can go twenty miles or more on
Speaker 2: the battery alone, and so for doing things around town,
Speaker 2: dropping kids off at school, going to the grocery store,
Speaker 2: no problem, and then you can go on longer trips
Speaker 2: cause has a gas engine.
Speaker 3: That kicks in. It's beautiful design. I have to agree
Speaker 3: with her on that, especially that interior.
Speaker 2: And Barry, you sent me and Hannah an email this
Speaker 2: morning about a Toyota Camry that's only going to be sold.
Speaker 3: Right right, they're giving up the gas only. Listen. The
Speaker 3: crazy thing about Toyota is they have this massive lead
Speaker 3: in hybrid technology, and you were waiting for what they're
Speaker 3: going to do next. Then you know, they kind of
Speaker 3: let Tesla eat their lunch. But what Toyota is telling
Speaker 3: us is the immediate future, the next decade is going
Speaker 3: to be hybrid. And obviously Tesla doesn't have any hybrid vehicles.
Speaker 3: They're fully electric.
Speaker 2: That annoys me because I can never find a place
Speaker 2: to charge, and I like to have a little moto vibes. Hannah,
Speaker 2: you don't think that hybrids are the way forward though.
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of hybrids just because I
Speaker 1: tend to be a purist.
Speaker 4: I want to go all in, all or nothing, and
Speaker 4: I love the of course, the quick performance of electric vehicle,
Speaker 4: and I love my own personal internal combustion cars. So
Speaker 4: hybrids have always seemed to me to just be like
Speaker 4: halfway but nowhere anywhere.
Speaker 1: Who cares?
Speaker 4: If you know, Toyota was making a Prius because also
Speaker 4: BMW was making the I eight, and.
Speaker 3: Well, I love the I eight, dude.
Speaker 2: The I eight and the I three, to me, were
Speaker 2: when I first understood why it's cool to have a
Speaker 2: range extender motor right because they were fully electric vehicles,
Speaker 2: but they just had a little I think it was
Speaker 2: a one three three cylinder as like a utility pack.
Speaker 3: It's like bringing along a backpack. It's like being a prepper.
Speaker 3: You know, you always have an option if you need it.
Speaker 3: My wife's Panama hybrid. We drove to Connecticut this weekend.
Speaker 3: We got nearly forty miles a gallon on the way there.
Speaker 3: We exhausted most of the electric for that range, but
Speaker 3: when you drop your right foot you still have over
Speaker 3: five hundred horse power and that car really goes when
Speaker 3: you wanted to go. So to me, it's the best
Speaker 3: of both worlds. Almost forty miles a gallon on one
Speaker 3: hundred mile trip into the woods in Connecticut, and somewhat
Speaker 3: less on the way home without any electra.
Speaker 2: You know, I always say there's no replacement for displacement,
Speaker 2: but I think batteries might be that replacement. I'm driving
Speaker 2: right now, a Kia Sorrento PHV. And aside from all
Speaker 2: the other stuff that's impressive about it, and there's a
Speaker 2: ton of stuff, it's got a locking center diff It's
Speaker 2: got this really cool technology where when you put your
Speaker 2: turn signal on in your center display, you can see
Speaker 2: your blind spot and in fact.
Speaker 3: All of the Hyundai Kias do that. You signal right
Speaker 3: and it shows up in yours, and you signal left
Speaker 3: and it shows up in your left dial. That should
Speaker 3: be a standard technology across the whole.
Speaker 1: Industry and any luxury automotive.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, but for Akia, I think it's really cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, for Akia, it's got torque vectoring, all wheel drive.
Speaker 2: That's not something you expect when you're buying a Korean car.
Speaker 2: But I thought the engine was more substantial than it
Speaker 2: was when I first started driving it.
Speaker 3: I hadn't read the specs.
Speaker 2: I popped open the hood and I saw it's got
Speaker 2: a one point six leader in line four. Like, that's
Speaker 2: a tiny little motor, but it still has two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty horsepower two hundred and sixty pound feet of
Speaker 2: torque for you know, fifty thousand dollars for the fully
Speaker 2: loaded like most luxurious addition.
Speaker 3: That's pretty peppy. It's a lot of truck for the money.
Speaker 3: And look the way every one of these new manufacturers
Speaker 3: that are trying to gain traction or expand their footprint
Speaker 3: find an audience is by offering a lot of value
Speaker 3: for the money. Think back to the way Honda did
Speaker 3: this forty years ago, or the way Toyota did it
Speaker 3: sixty years ago. So, Hannah, do you ever drive like
Speaker 3: a Kia?
Speaker 2: Because I always think, you know, you're the one who's
Speaker 2: constantly in a cullin in, But do you ever drive
Speaker 2: like a Korean car?
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 4: Typically no, I will openly say we do not cover
Speaker 4: typically Kia at Bloomberg Pursuits. However, I did recently drive
Speaker 4: the Kia EV nine, which is their big electric suv.
Speaker 3: I want to try that.
Speaker 4: I really really liked it. I was surprised at how
Speaker 4: beautiful and well thought out it was. I actually really
Speaker 4: would love to go visit the factory in South Korea.
Speaker 4: I'm going to try to do that next year because
Speaker 4: Kia is really making a play to elevate themselves so
Speaker 4: that they could potentially have shoppers cross shopping between like
Speaker 4: Volvo or land Rover into Kia or even Audi. And
Speaker 4: I don't think that's out of the question based on
Speaker 4: what I've seen. We joke about it like typically I
Speaker 4: wouldn't cover it, but the limited amount of Kia products
Speaker 4: that I have seen and driven, I actually am pretty
Speaker 4: impressed by.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget this is a company that also
Speaker 1: makes Genesis.
Speaker 3: I was about to bring that up. Kia is owned
Speaker 3: by Hyndi. Genesis is their version of Lexus versus Tayota doing.
Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. One question, though, do you
Speaker 1: read the new Kia logo as nine inch nails?
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love the way it reminds you of nine inch nails.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious. I'm on board with that.
Speaker 2: By the way, I think that the new logo really
Speaker 2: helped them transition their brand a little bit from being
Speaker 2: kind of a bargain basement, you know, Korean econobox, to
Speaker 2: being something that people really would cross shop with.
Speaker 3: A Range Rover.
Speaker 2: I mean, the teil You Ride is a beautiful car.
Speaker 2: I don't love the powertrain, but the logo I think
Speaker 2: helps a lot.
Speaker 3: It looks really cool.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: I'm with you about it's an attitude of beautiful hospitality.
Speaker 4: And I know that sounds like a PR line, but
Speaker 4: it actually is true that some of their vehicles really
Speaker 4: have this beautiful sense of a welcome environment.
Speaker 3: Actually throwing a V eight once in a while. They
Speaker 3: need to make a big halo car. There are no
Speaker 3: more V eights coming out, and they're certainly coming out
Speaker 3: for mass production.
Speaker 2: I just think they need to make a halo car
Speaker 2: so that people can then feel okay buying the lower
Speaker 2: end models.
Speaker 3: That is age old school marketing. That's just not how
Speaker 3: it's done. We're going to give you a lot of
Speaker 3: car or truck for the money. Yes, it's only a
Speaker 3: V six, but you can tow. You could stick six
Speaker 3: people in the car. You could load it up with
Speaker 3: luggage and it's not going to close you an normoral
Speaker 3: leg That's the value proposition for these cars versus the
Speaker 3: cars that we really have grown up loving, the BMW's,
Speaker 3: the Mercedes, the much bigger and more expensive cars.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just saying, like, if Audi had never made
Speaker 2: the quatro and one races with it, if they had
Speaker 2: never made the R eight that everybody drools over in
Speaker 2: fifty shades.
Speaker 3: Of gray, I don't know that we'd be buying, you know,
Speaker 3: the Q three either.
Speaker 2: And by the way, speaking of that, both of you
Speaker 2: have a connection to Audi because Hannah you are test
Speaker 2: driving some version of their e Tron.
Speaker 3: Barry you of course have the Ra. But Hannah first
Speaker 3: tell us about the ev that you drove.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yesterday I drove the s Q eight e Tron,
Speaker 4: which is basically it's sort of a higher performance version
Speaker 4: of the Q eight, which is a five passenger sub
Speaker 4: It's all electric, starts at about ninety thousand dollars, and
Speaker 4: it was beautiful. The you know, Audi has been a
Speaker 4: little bit behind when it comes to offering electric vehicles,
Speaker 4: and they're making they're trying to make up for lost time,
Speaker 4: and so anything with E Tron at the end is
Speaker 4: there electric offering. The SQ eight, despite its confusing name,
Speaker 4: was really nice. It was beautifully appointed inside. It was
Speaker 4: as quiet, actually proven by Audi, as quiet as an
Speaker 4: a sedan, really nice balanced.
Speaker 1: It's heavy. It's like a six thousand pound suv, so
Speaker 1: you do feel that a bit.
Speaker 3: Some people like it heavy. Don't forget not if you
Speaker 3: have to make a chanudgment.
Speaker 1: There's no judgment.
Speaker 3: I like it. I like a big heavy cruiser.
Speaker 1: Well, we love that.
Speaker 4: We love that, and this did feel really nicely insulated
Speaker 4: and solid. And I actually have a friend who's been
Speaker 4: looking for an electric suv, and I instantly messaged her
Speaker 4: and said, I think you're really gonna love it.
Speaker 3: A good looking truck.
Speaker 2: I drove also the Q eight Etron, not the S version,
Speaker 2: but I'll say that I was dis pointed that they
Speaker 2: use the Q eight Moniker, because I think the Q
Speaker 2: eight is one of the best designs Audi has come
Speaker 2: out with in at least a decade. It's a head
Speaker 2: turner whenever I see a real Q eight on the road,
Speaker 2: and the E Tron version is not a real Q eight.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look as cool. It's more invisible, Like you
Speaker 2: can easily overlook the e Tron version, whereas the full
Speaker 2: fat gas Q eight it's so hulking and muscular that
Speaker 2: you can't overlook it. But it is definitely solid. That's
Speaker 2: the word I would use for it, like it is
Speaker 2: a product that you feel like is over engineered and
Speaker 2: is not going to break down. What do you think,
Speaker 2: Barry about Audi's I mean, you have obviously the Halo car,
Speaker 2: but what do you think about the brand and the
Speaker 2: other vehicles.
Speaker 3: You know, it's full time all wheel drive, and if
Speaker 3: you're in the part of the country where you're very
Speaker 3: much dealing with weather or or you're off road, they're
Speaker 3: great for that. They're notoriously expensive to repair. They're they're
Speaker 3: not the lowest cost maintenance Comparatively, you buy a Honda Toyota,
Speaker 3: you put gas and occasionally oil into it, you're good
Speaker 3: for a bajillion miles. Some the German cars tend to
Speaker 3: be a little more finicky. My experience with Audi's and BMW's,
Speaker 3: you have to build a little bit of a repair buffer,
Speaker 3: especially if you're looking for a thirty thousand mile car,
Speaker 3: like I know, you're hunting for They're not terrible. It's
Speaker 3: not you know, you speak to people with you know,
Speaker 3: British cars or even some of the older Ferraris, and
Speaker 3: you're writing big checks to your mechanic. But they're great cars.
Speaker 3: They're well designed, they hold up well, and I know
Speaker 3: lots of people who have Q five's with you know,
Speaker 3: two hundred thousand miles on them.
Speaker 4: Well, I think I have to say just a little bit.
Speaker 4: I think that German engineering has a pretty good track
Speaker 4: record for sure ability, and it's a little unfair to
Speaker 4: compare them to British and Italian engineering.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 2: I've never had a problem. I had an Audi for
Speaker 2: a long time, never had a problem with it. If
Speaker 2: you have a repair, it'll cost me a long time.
Speaker 3: Never had a problem with my sl was bulletproof until
Speaker 3: you had to replace the coils. You had to do something,
Speaker 3: and it's not an inexpensive repair. Just brace yourself.
Speaker 4: I'm sensing that Barry will always choose the practical option,
Speaker 4: the very solid practical you know you don't.
Speaker 3: Like it's totally practical, like the six convertible manual, the
Speaker 3: most practical. No, I don't think so, dude.
Speaker 2: He has a C two and he bought a nine
Speaker 2: to eleven that he sent to be converted into an EV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the middle of that, that's a fun project.
Speaker 3: These are not cheap cars, but they are if you're
Speaker 3: buying them twenty five years old. That's why I say,
Speaker 3: you have to have a reasonable repair. Do you have
Speaker 3: to set aside a budget?
Speaker 2: So I, by the way, I wanted, as longtime listeners
Speaker 2: will know, I really wanted to get BMW seven sixty
Speaker 2: to replace my wife's Volvo, and she has basically said
Speaker 2: no way, Jose, but she is willing to get an
Speaker 2: X five, And so I want the M fifty with
Speaker 2: the twin turbov eight and the ZF transmission. I was
Speaker 2: looking at Savage Geese on YouTube and they have a
Speaker 2: review of it and they were like, listen, if something
Speaker 2: goes wrong with any of the air suspenders on each corner,
Speaker 2: eighteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: That happened with my brother and it was much more
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 2: His seven say, if something goes wrong with the transmission,
Speaker 2: you know you're looking at a five thousand dollars repair.
Speaker 2: If something goes wrong with the engine, obviously rebuild, but
Speaker 2: they're not cheap to fix. So if you're buying a
Speaker 2: used one. The guy from Savage Geese said, set aside
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: I'll buy yourself a more substantial extended war Now. Now
Speaker 2: that said, I've had two series, I've had three Series.
Speaker 2: I've had next four bulletproof, never need repairs, absolutely spectacular cars.
Speaker 3: But for example, I had a fuel injection issue with
Speaker 3: them six that kept getting an idiot light. It would
Speaker 3: reset itself, and it was a one of those quirky
Speaker 3: little things that were hard to pin down. Ultimately it
Speaker 3: was BMW who figured out what it was not a
Speaker 3: cheap repair. Very well, that was my only repair I've
Speaker 3: had on that car in ten years. What was and
Speaker 3: I want to know from Hannah to what was the
Speaker 3: first car you ever bought with your own money? A
Speaker 3: Chrysler nineteen sixty seven Chrysler three hundred cost me one
Speaker 3: hundred bucks from my uncle. Had it for about a month,
Speaker 3: my mom totaled it nice three hundred trip the tires
Speaker 3: at any speed you're doing fifty miles an hour, step
Speaker 3: on the gas.
Speaker 2: And they've just come out with the last the last
Speaker 2: year of the Chrysler three hundred. See with a six
Speaker 2: point four liter Hemi in it, which I'm pretty excited
Speaker 2: end of the Hemi line to drive it.
Speaker 3: Hannah, what was the first car you ever bought?
Speaker 4: That was a sixty nine buck Skylark that I paid
Speaker 4: also one hundred dollars for.
Speaker 1: I split it with my sister.
Speaker 4: We bought it, but a church lady charged just two
Speaker 4: hundred dollars and I was deeply embarrassed of it, and
Speaker 4: it sold my half to my sister as quickly as
Speaker 4: I could. No.
Speaker 3: Yep, but what a cool car.
Speaker 1: Absolutely cool.
Speaker 4: She was far more advanced think in her thinking about
Speaker 4: design and history than I was at the time.
Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed of that car, but she loved it.
Speaker 3: I think it's I just googled it. Look at this Ferry.
Speaker 3: What a cool car, green.
Speaker 1: Black interior, you know, beautiful steering.
Speaker 3: Not the highlight of American automobile manufacturer. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 3: I would like to have one of those today.
Speaker 2: I'm my first car ever because my dear late grandmother
Speaker 2: blessed her soul, gave me ten thousand dollars when I
Speaker 2: graduated from college, and I put it on a down
Speaker 2: payment for an Audi a four avauant in the year
Speaker 2: two thousand. I was living in Frankfurt at the time,
Speaker 2: so I got to drive it on the Autobahn. It
Speaker 2: had a two point five liter TDI, so it's diesel,
Speaker 2: but it had one hundred eighty horse power and it's
Speaker 2: pretty light, so it really got moving. I could do
Speaker 2: like two top speed twot twenty in kilometers per hour,
Speaker 2: so that's like one hundred and thirty miles per hour,
Speaker 2: and I did that.
Speaker 4: Doing well.
Speaker 3: I was a little older, I was like twenty five,
Speaker 3: and those diesels run forever. Also, those are three hundred
Speaker 3: thousand mile cars. Yeah, that was a great, great vehicle.
Speaker 1: What happened to that car?
Speaker 2: Mat I had to sell it when I moved to
Speaker 2: London a few years later because of the you know,
Speaker 2: because the British drive on the wrong side of the road,
Speaker 2: so it wouldn't have made sense. And also I think
Speaker 2: I was broke after a few years and leaded the money.
Speaker 2: That does it for this episode, Barry, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for joining us.
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