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Speaker 1: cafis Oh Blake Trolley, who's joining me now, will have

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Speaker 1: more information to share. First, Blake, how are you, sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well, and yeah, mo you know it. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: there is still just not a whole lot of new

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Speaker 1: just that, you know, the lack of video footage. Right now,

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Speaker 1: police are really only describing the car that they're looking

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Speaker 1: absolutely horrific story Trina Newman, Townsend. By all accounts, mo

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Speaker 1: I went into the community today spoke with people. They

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Speaker 1: She was a grandmother, she was raising foster kids, she

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Speaker 1: And on Christmas Eve, the day she was hit, she

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Speaker 1: was demonstrating that selflessness. She was dropping off toys to

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Speaker 1: they come out, those details are becoming horrific. Police say Newman.

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Speaker 1: She had loaded her kids into her car. She was

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Speaker 1: So there you have it. She was giving away gifts

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Speaker 1: before Christmas Eve. You know, there's people that treat holidays

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Speaker 1: And the woman I spoke to, she says she hopes

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Speaker 1: because it's wrong. You know, even me, I stop driving

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Speaker 1: And she's just say, may I am. She's sixty two

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Speaker 1: You always know that we make a space and place

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Speaker 1: improvement in the car's ability to go from zero to sixty.

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Speaker 1: Wait what gift? If you pay twelve hundred dollars over

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Speaker 1: the course of a year, you will be able to

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Speaker 1: unlock the full capability and potential of the car. They're tripping.

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Speaker 1: Quote acceleration increase boosts this performance even further. Electronically increasing

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Speaker 1: the motor's output also increases the torque significantly. Fine tuning

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Speaker 1: of the electric motors increases the maximum motor output of

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Speaker 1: your Mercedes EQ by twenty to twenty four percent, depending

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Speaker 1: on the original output from factory. The torque is also increased,

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Speaker 1: enabling your vehicle to accelerate noticeably faster and more powerfully.

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Speaker 1: If I'm paying sixty to seventy eighty ninety thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: for Mercedes Minimum Minimum, I'd better be able to use

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Speaker 1: every bell and whistle for no additional charge. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the discussion regarding our economy. Just about everything now has

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Speaker 1: been relegated to a subscription, where it's not about being

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Speaker 1: able to purchase outright. They want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they can gravy train you for ever. I can't buy

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Speaker 1: my car. I can only get a portion of my car,

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Speaker 1: not lease, not rent. But I can't even get the

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Speaker 1: full capability of the car that I actually own. I

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Speaker 1: might even have the pink slip. They're just one step

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Speaker 1: away from charging us from moving it from park to drive. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a lawsuit that just sounds like a

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Speaker 1: class actually lawsuit to me, like you're telling me that

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Speaker 1: you are selling my car ed disadvantaged quality. I'm not

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Speaker 1: getting the best of my car to begin with, and

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Speaker 1: you know this or let alone false advertising was the

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Speaker 1: car is worth one price and then you have to

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Speaker 1: pay an additional price to Yeah, I'm quite sure Mercedes

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Speaker 1: has checked the fine print laws in regard to this.

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Speaker 1: I'm quite sure that there's some loophole where they said

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Speaker 1: somewhere in that agreement that you agree to get ninety

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Speaker 1: eight percent of the car, not one hundred percent of

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Speaker 1: the car. I'm just saying for it for if that's

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Speaker 1: moving forward, just new models moving forward. If I have

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Speaker 1: a previous model, I'm still gonna suit because that means

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Speaker 1: that you did not let me know this ahead of time.

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Speaker 1: You sold me an inferior product, and you're saying that

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Speaker 1: I have to now pay extra to get the full

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Speaker 1: value of the car that you sold me yes. And

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Speaker 1: since the upgrade from the story, since the upgrade is

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Speaker 1: in the software not the hardware, the cars already have

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Speaker 1: the capabilities offered by the subscription, that's whack. So this

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Speaker 1: is this is a function of they're just limit just

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Speaker 1: like the movie I Robot. They're basically controlling your car

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Speaker 1: from a distance on a smaller level. But it also

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Speaker 1: makes you wonder how much more is being held back

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Speaker 1: in terms of capability of the car, and also what

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Speaker 1: will be charged going forward. I don't know Internet capability,

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Speaker 1: or radio capability or whatever, just any of the bells

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Speaker 1: and whistles in the car having nothing to do with performance.

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Speaker 1: I remember my first car didn't have AC in it

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Speaker 1: because that was a feature that you could actually purchase

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Speaker 1: when I was twenty two, or I didn't care about AC.

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Speaker 1: I lived in California, but it didn't get that high.

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Speaker 1: What the point is, I wonder, just like airlines, just

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Speaker 1: like other companies, if they go the route where they

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Speaker 1: charge you for everything in the way that the airline

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Speaker 1: will charge you for a bag, it charges you to

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Speaker 1: choose your seat now on a flight, I wonder how

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Speaker 1: long before Mercedes just charges you for everything inside the

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Speaker 1: car having nothing to do with performance as well, or

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Speaker 1: they'll be multiple tiers of performance for that car. That's

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Speaker 1: what scares I shouldn't say. It doesn't scare me. I

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Speaker 1: just know. I just know not to ever underestimate the

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Speaker 1: power of greed. And greed says if you have the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to charge something, then you go ahead and charge

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Speaker 1: for it because somebody will pay for it. Somebody's paying

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Speaker 1: for this wolf. Okay. So, for instance, I drive a

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Volkswagen Jetta. It does not have power seats

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Speaker 1: to move the seats closer. For I have a little leader,

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Speaker 1: I got a lever when I was going. When I

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Speaker 1: was buying the car, that was one of my biggest

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Speaker 1: sticking points. I was like, how does a car that

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Speaker 1: was made in twenty fifteen not have power seats? It's

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. But like you're saying, that is just another

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Speaker 1: opportunity for Volkswagen to charge a little bit more for

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Speaker 1: the next model up yep of the Jetta, to be like,

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Speaker 1: oh hey, here's power of seats at an extra two

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars to the MSRP price. Right, And I know

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Speaker 1: all cars have levels, like with the Honda Civic. You

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Speaker 1: have the the ex version of the LX version and

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Speaker 1: so forth. I get all that, and the more luxurious

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Speaker 1: version has more features. But when we're talking about things

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Speaker 1: which are already on the car, which you're being held back,

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Speaker 1: that really scares me. Like, for example, my original car

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Speaker 1: was a four speed Honda. It was Dukie brown colored,

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six brown Honda. What did they get to

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Speaker 1: the point where they say, Okay, we'll give you three gears,

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Speaker 1: but you've got to pay for the fourth gear. You

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Speaker 1: have to have a subscription for the fourth year. That

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Speaker 1: basically what you're saying, Yeah, pretty much what is because

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Speaker 1: you get an extra bit of torque that really says

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Speaker 1: where our economy is going because it's now having to

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Speaker 1: do with Mercedes. But this will probably proliferate down to

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Speaker 1: all models. Yeah, don't like this. You know what, when

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Speaker 1: we come back, why don't we get a car expert

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Speaker 1: on the phone so we can talk about this. Hey, Tuala,

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Speaker 1: you know what you know who just called in? Jay

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Speaker 1: Frickin Leno. I think he knows something about cars and

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Speaker 1: knows something about Mercedes. So let's talk to Jay Leno

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