Speaker 1: The Driver's Show powered by in a midsoon Nano Taylor
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Speaker 2: They've given a couple of cars Japanese models, getting the
Speaker 2: ass quickly google that that was bad terminology, that Paul Gordon, So.
Speaker 3: There will be I'm sure a lovely person who works
Speaker 3: for BYD and you know who you are, And what
Speaker 3: I'll say right now is quietly put your headphones down
Speaker 3: because I know you're listening to this at your computer.
Speaker 3: Take yourself to the boardroom. Ask yourself why you gave
Speaker 3: my smiling dickhead friend a pre production car?
Speaker 2: Did someone else get one as well? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Oh you said smiling dickhead for a No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was that you attempting to do a joke that
Speaker 3: was doing good? Okay, carrying the show again. I see.
Speaker 3: So you've caused a bit of a shit storm, which
Speaker 3: you feel good about.
Speaker 2: Yourself well telling the truth, being honest. I guess it
Speaker 2: pays off, not as much as being an influencer, but
Speaker 2: it does pay off eventually.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, a little spiky wacky there. So we'll get
Speaker 3: into that little backstory a little bit later on, including
Speaker 3: a quick chat about the BYD Shark six, which Paul
Speaker 3: put on YouTube it cannot go up a Hill and
Speaker 3: various other things. I've test driven it myself. We might
Speaker 3: have some slight conflicting thoughts, we might have some things
Speaker 3: we agree on to, which would be nice. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: after last episode where you said I was uncultural because
Speaker 3: I didn't know what non can I just say, I
Speaker 3: had to give a big shout.
Speaker 2: Out to one of our listeners, okay, who slid into
Speaker 2: my d MS and sent me through a restaurant recommendation
Speaker 2: in Melbourne that serves.
Speaker 3: Now, I reckon I know which one it was, because
Speaker 3: I spoke to my waff about this and it turns
Speaker 3: out I have had none of what's it called none?
Speaker 2: I think is an old lady that Yeah, I've had
Speaker 2: her many times more.
Speaker 3: Mister was a fantastic She was the woman off the
Speaker 3: pro Heart commercial with the carpet. It was very old fashioned.
Speaker 3: She made the pizzas. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Remember
Speaker 3: that dragonfly ad? Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah. You
Speaker 3: would have been a little kid back then, a little
Speaker 3: Croatian with fresh in the country cargo plane. Anyway, So
Speaker 3: off the back of that. I brought you a little present.
Speaker 3: What is it? Look? Look, this is this is my choice.
Speaker 3: Then I'll show you how cultural I am.
Speaker 2: Can I tear tear her open?
Speaker 3: Tear tear a bag apart? As they say, hello, bit
Speaker 3: of FANTASTICO. I bet you, I think they actually call
Speaker 3: it not. This is a sparkling citrus. That's your spile name. Okay.
Speaker 3: I thought this was an Italian cleaning product. G we
Speaker 3: clean your toilet? That samata, that's ridiculously a little crack.
Speaker 2: Apparently this is laden with sugar, and I do not
Speaker 2: eat eat sugar.
Speaker 3: Ship you off. Oh that's lovely.
Speaker 2: Eight percent sugar.
Speaker 3: Oh jesus, she's a she's a spicy girl. Bitie ye,
Speaker 3: thank you for that.
Speaker 2: We're a car podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah. How's your holiday? Welcome back, Welcome to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was good, A lot of family stuff. I
Speaker 2: was driving the Lexus GX. I was on holiday, which boys,
Speaker 2: I do love that car. It is a sensational machine.
Speaker 2: I was able to go bush for some camping.
Speaker 3: Okay, camping, okay, I was able to thought that was
Speaker 3: a dinner reference.
Speaker 2: I was able to do a little off road drive
Speaker 2: to a lake and there were lots of flies. So
Speaker 2: I turned around and left, and yeah, it was horrendously inefficient.
Speaker 2: It was using something like sixteen liters per hundred k's.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: It's kidded out. Well, yeah, it's a beautiful car, it
Speaker 3: really is. It's got the it's got the fridge in
Speaker 3: the middle thing, right, Yes, yeah, you had this last year.
Speaker 3: Well not this, yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: This time I had it just over the Christmas break.
Speaker 3: So well, I see your lexus and I raise you literally, yeah,
Speaker 3: are you ready? A Chevy Silverado that's zeta.
Speaker 2: Too bigy They are a good rig.
Speaker 3: Holy heck. That was now. I made it, literally and
Speaker 3: I had that. They were really good. Shout out to
Speaker 3: Chevy because they were really kind to me. They gave
Speaker 3: that to me for nearly two months. And I am
Speaker 3: telling you right now, I was king of the fucking world.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm getting respect on the road that I deserve.
Speaker 3: People move out of the way. In fact, it's an
Speaker 3: event when I drive past. It's look at that car.
Speaker 2: He must have a big penis. The girls were queuing
Speaker 2: up to see how little it was. They theyre girometer
Speaker 2: out they were like, holy yeah.
Speaker 3: She was just like is that clitous?
Speaker 4: Like, hey, you leave my little crayon alone.
Speaker 3: Leave there's a little knock it alone. We'll touch your
Speaker 3: little chinnoto. Yeah. Mate. It was just epic. It was
Speaker 3: so good. I think I realized I truly love a
Speaker 3: car when I'd just make myself a coffee in the
Speaker 3: morning and I just walk out in my front door
Speaker 3: and I'm looking at it in my driveway, just with
Speaker 3: my open robe, watching the neighbors go past, and they're like,
Speaker 3: god's nice morning, Stiffy my out.
Speaker 4: Clint Eastwood, Yes, get off my lawn, And I'm like, like,
Speaker 4: I'd look at the front, I'd be like, yes, that
Speaker 4: car is gangster, is anything?
Speaker 3: Then I look at the back. Yeah, big Chevy logo
Speaker 3: in the back, so much room, The fucking set of
Speaker 3: console was as big as my coffee table. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's weird because a big six point two liter V eight.
Speaker 3: The two things I was worried about, which were fuel,
Speaker 3: fuel consumption and parking. One, I'll say, the parking is
Speaker 3: so bloody easy in this car. It's the easiest big
Speaker 3: I've ever driven. In fact, this is easier to park
Speaker 3: than most small cars like it's it's incredibly like I
Speaker 3: did try. Having said that footnote little asterix, I did
Speaker 3: try to park here at the studios here once with it,
Speaker 3: and the height restriction I think is about two point
Speaker 3: one in that particular car park, and it would have
Speaker 3: like literally like I could feel the bar. It was
Speaker 3: like probably ten mil off it right, but it wasn't
Speaker 3: so much that it's the width of this thing. And
Speaker 3: then I physically couldn't get it down there. I was like,
Speaker 3: this is I can't do it. But so I did
Speaker 3: have to go home and take an uber in but
Speaker 3: that was only once. But yeah, look I did a
Speaker 3: lot of I did a lot of kilometers in this
Speaker 3: and it was just epic. It was so good. It was,
Speaker 3: as I said, easy to park. Obviously. Maybe this is
Speaker 3: made for a trading not for some little five foot
Speaker 3: seven idiot who sits down and talk into a stick.
Speaker 3: This is for you know. I just wish I fucking
Speaker 3: wanted to move Regional because of this car. That's how
Speaker 3: good it is. The I thought the fuel rock might
Speaker 3: have a job going. Yeah it doesn't rock it Okay
Speaker 3: rocks baby, he used to work it there. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: it's I think the fuel consumption was pretty good. I'm
Speaker 3: not quite sure.
Speaker 2: The highway it's actually not that bad, not too bad.
Speaker 3: I think it's a round about thirteen point eight right,
Speaker 3: which fuck when you think about it, My super ru
Speaker 3: was about twelve point eight. Ye, so I remember I
Speaker 3: filled it up, say Sydney to Port mcquarie was. I
Speaker 3: filled it up just before I left, and then half
Speaker 3: a tank to get to Port McQuary, which is four
Speaker 3: and a half hours round about four hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: k's so that's not too bad. Half a tank, use
Speaker 3: the other half to sort of cruise around Port McQuary.
Speaker 3: No one'sine too much of a fuckinary in Burton McQuary,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. And yeah, filled it up just before
Speaker 3: I left. One hundred and sixty bucks. It's not bad.
Speaker 2: What fuel this is the other thing people kind of
Speaker 2: bitch and moan about how expensive fuel is over the
Speaker 2: Christmas break it was cheap. It was like a dollar
Speaker 2: sixty for regular unleaded. I just got a note that
Speaker 2: my electricity was going up by twenty percent for fuck
Speaker 2: knows what reason, no reason at all, no reason, and
Speaker 2: I charge an EV at home.
Speaker 3: So they were just saying because we can.
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, cause so, yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: really these things are very affordable to drive around if
Speaker 2: you do want to, and if I go to the States,
Speaker 2: I will always get a pickup truck because you just
Speaker 2: blend in with the crowd. And like you said, they
Speaker 2: are really not that impractical. Yes, if you're driving into
Speaker 2: the city every day and needing to park, that's a
Speaker 2: different story. But if you live in the burbs and
Speaker 2: you're driving this on a weekend, it really is a
Speaker 2: perfectly fine vehicle to home.
Speaker 3: If you don't have to park in the city, and
Speaker 3: parking in the city is a bitch for a small car,
Speaker 3: let's be honest. But if you don't have to do
Speaker 3: that and you're just a normal day to day this
Speaker 3: is like I honestly would say, if you're looking at
Speaker 3: a ute rethink something like this, because yeah, their size
Speaker 3: is incredible. It's a great looking car. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think it's roughly about one hundred and thirty thousand, not
Speaker 3: too bad like the Raptors. What one hundred and ten.
Speaker 2: Is one hundred about ninety ish?
Speaker 3: Okay, way off, ye look, splash out the extra cash
Speaker 3: because it's so good. It's such a great cars. Big
Speaker 3: shout out to Chevy for that, because I bloody loved
Speaker 3: every second of that one. So yeah, my holiday was good.
Speaker 3: My holiday was good. You know, twenty twenty five, it's
Speaker 3: the year of redundancies and especially doubt.
Speaker 2: It's something you need to tell me.
Speaker 3: Well, Mitsubishi have decided, don't worry about the employees. Let's
Speaker 3: just like give a couple of models the ass. They're oh, sorry,
Speaker 3: that was bad terminology?
Speaker 2: You can do? You wonder if what?
Speaker 3: Sorry? Yeah, I think that that's on. That's on Paul's
Speaker 3: bloody uporn search in a couple of.
Speaker 2: Cars Japanese models getting the ass, Just quickly google that.
Speaker 3: Wait, I've got a good loop for that.
Speaker 2: It means is the is it the nano tailored oil
Speaker 2: zero W twenty or the five W thirty.
Speaker 3: I'd definitely go the gold standard.
Speaker 2: Let me let me bring it out.
Speaker 3: What we're trying to say is, yeah, Mitsubishi have acted
Speaker 3: quite a few models off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: Let me explain why first. Okay, yeah, it's not just
Speaker 2: like they go, well, you know.
Speaker 3: They're not selling new and you me so, there's an.
Speaker 2: Australian design rule called ninety eight double zero and it
Speaker 2: comes into effect for all new models on sale from
Speaker 2: March one to twenty twenty five, so that's just around
Speaker 2: the corner. And it outlines specific performance requirements for AEB systems,
Speaker 2: so that is the tech that stops the car if
Speaker 2: you don't. So while Mitsubishi has AEB on these vehicles
Speaker 2: that are getting canceled, they don't meet the requirements for
Speaker 2: the new regulation. So basically the cars that are affected
Speaker 2: it it's crazy. The current AX Eclipse Cross Eclipse Cross,
Speaker 2: plug in hype and the Pagero Sport.
Speaker 3: It's like you have acted, Oh, they are getting rid
Speaker 3: of the Pagero Sport, but this is the thing.
Speaker 2: It's temporary because there's a new Pagero Sport coming and
Speaker 2: presumably they will retro fit some of these other models
Speaker 2: with the technology. We've recently heard as well that they're
Speaker 2: replacing the AX with a Reno.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I thought my understanding was Reno was taking
Speaker 3: that that whole thing, weren't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's basically getting replaced with an AX that
Speaker 2: in Europe is basically a rebadged Captor. So it's it
Speaker 2: is a weird one that I just do not get
Speaker 2: Mitsubishi at the moment.
Speaker 3: It's just in all sorts new Triton. I haven't driven
Speaker 3: that yet. I'll be driving that soon, but yeah, it
Speaker 3: looks good, but it's It's one of those things with Mitsubishi.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to love what they've put out the
Speaker 3: last couple of years. We've owned some in the past
Speaker 3: as a family, and I quite like the old school Trials,
Speaker 3: even the Bajero, but it's just not what it used
Speaker 3: to be. Yeah, so yeah, looks to watch this space
Speaker 3: from Mitsubishi. Hey, I meant to ask you, what did
Speaker 3: you think. Did you see the R thirty two, the
Speaker 3: GTR they've I guess retro fitted if you liked, They've
Speaker 3: pulled the guts out of it and put in a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of EV motors and batteries and turned it
Speaker 3: into an EV.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that went down like a lead balloon, because
Speaker 2: that car deserves anything but an electric drive train. But anyway,
Speaker 2: they stuck one in there. Anyway, So basically two electric
Speaker 2: motors that output a total of three hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: kilowats and seven hundred and eighty newton meters. Now it
Speaker 2: sounds impressive, but you talked to a lot of people
Speaker 2: that tune these these the RB twenty six. You can
Speaker 2: get like a thousand horsepower out of some of these cars.
Speaker 2: You can get incredible power and talk figures and they
Speaker 2: seem to have got on with numbers that are okay,
Speaker 2: but it's literally the same output you get out of
Speaker 2: a BYD Shark. So it's like, okay, what is the
Speaker 2: purpose of all this? And it's seventeen hundred kilos compared
Speaker 2: to fourteen hundred for the non electric one.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of great engineering that went into that car,
Speaker 3: so it's iconic for a reason. And to kind of
Speaker 3: do something like this, to spend money on something like this,
Speaker 3: which I don't think that. I mean, that's a true
Speaker 3: fanboy car.
Speaker 2: This it is in dire straits at the moment.
Speaker 3: But that's my argument. Right, So most of the general
Speaker 3: public couldn't give a shit about this. But you're like,
Speaker 3: you're looking at merging with who is it? Is it
Speaker 3: Mazda or Honda Honda? Right, So if you're looking at
Speaker 3: a merger, if you're in financial troubles and you're doing
Speaker 3: stuff like this, come on, mate, I don't know. To me,
Speaker 3: that was a bit like it just seems strange.
Speaker 2: It's a no from me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big fat no. Tell you what else is it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Stealing Holden's with T toys. You did a video on this.
Speaker 3: I want to take me through it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, Jenna of this is I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people that have late model Holden so vf hsvs
Speaker 2: and SS Comodols, and basically I kept hearing about how
Speaker 2: a lot of these were getting stolen, and I thought
Speaker 2: it was just a bit of a thieves taking stuff.
Speaker 2: Then last year police busted a big syndicate that was
Speaker 2: basically rebirthing a lot of these cars, and it all
Speaker 2: started up again recently, as maybe six months ago. I
Speaker 2: started doing some digging and discovered that thieves are using
Speaker 2: a tool off Timu or eBay and two hundred bucks
Speaker 2: worth that is able to basically reprogram keys on a car.
Speaker 3: Now, can I pause you on this because remember when
Speaker 3: we had our bows on the show, do we talk
Speaker 3: about something.
Speaker 2: Like this, Yes, But the difference here is that they've
Speaker 2: teamed that device with I guess a security floor in
Speaker 2: the Comodore or that series of Comodol, which is the
Speaker 2: location of the horn cabling the thieves are able to do.
Speaker 2: The horn cabling is located inside the wheel arch. They're
Speaker 2: able to cut through the wheel arch protector and cut
Speaker 2: the horn cable. So when they then jam a screwdriver
Speaker 2: into your door handle, the alarm goes off, but all
Speaker 2: it does is flash lights. It doesn't actually make a
Speaker 2: sound because you've cut the horn cable. Now they're also
Speaker 2: getting around with towels that they put over the lights,
Speaker 2: so when they cut your horn cable, open your car,
Speaker 2: you don't see any flashing at all. Then within a
Speaker 2: matter of minutes they delete your keys, program a new
Speaker 2: set and see you later. Now, a lot of these
Speaker 2: cars are now getting stripped and dumped on the side
Speaker 2: of the road, and it's a big problem now so far,
Speaker 2: based on the research that I've done, you've got a
Speaker 2: mixture of junkies taking the cars and enjoy riding, and
Speaker 2: junkies taking the cars probably getting paid in drugs and
Speaker 2: giving them to the new syndicate that's taken over from
Speaker 2: the guy that's in jail at the moment. And during
Speaker 2: the break, a guy reach out to me on Instagram
Speaker 2: and he wanted to give me more information, so I
Speaker 2: met up with him.
Speaker 3: Did you did you meet up in a trench coat
Speaker 3: and a hat?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: In a car park, but I've seen you do that
Speaker 3: and that's on our website.
Speaker 2: Met up with these guys and let's just say, they
Speaker 2: have a huge amount of information on where these cars
Speaker 2: are going, everything that's happening, where they were going, how
Speaker 2: they're getting distributed, how they're rebirthing some of these cars
Speaker 2: with loopholes through vic Rhodes.
Speaker 3: So they met up with you and they're part of
Speaker 3: they're part of this.
Speaker 2: So I don't think they're part of it. Then they're
Speaker 2: not part of it.
Speaker 3: But take time to know one though. Right, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: just you're so you don't get okay. So, by the way, everyone,
Speaker 3: if there is no other episode after this poll's been
Speaker 3: fucking I'm.
Speaker 2: More worried about their safety because from the sounds of it,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people involved, and if people know
Speaker 2: that others are talking that have knowledge, that their safety
Speaker 2: could be at risk. Now, Gordy ask me, what did
Speaker 2: I do with this information?
Speaker 3: Hey, Pavlain, what did you do with this information? I'm
Speaker 3: going to I guess you put it on a website
Speaker 3: called carrencxt No.
Speaker 2: I told the police that I have two guys that
Speaker 2: are willing to tell you everything, but they want some protection.
Speaker 2: Can you please get in touch.
Speaker 3: And some money. No money with us, no reward with
Speaker 3: a little taste of the honey for making some arrests.
Speaker 3: So Gordy, ask me what happened? What happened?
Speaker 2: So fourteen days ago this happened. Not one response from
Speaker 2: them after acknowledging as the cops. Yep, they acknowledged it
Speaker 2: and said they'd get in touch. No one responded. So
Speaker 2: that kind of annoys me because it's the perception. After
Speaker 2: we published our first video where we detailed all of this,
Speaker 2: the perception from commenters is that the police aren't doing anything.
Speaker 2: They're not taking it seriously.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. And guess it actually seems like the
Speaker 3: police aren't doing anything.
Speaker 2: So look, I don't want to point any fingers, but
Speaker 2: what I did get from the police after we published
Speaker 2: our video is they basically chewed my ass out, and
Speaker 2: not in the nice way, regarding a number that we
Speaker 2: got wrong from a press release that they did. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, gold on, So you have sent me this
Speaker 2: long ass email bitching and moaning about a number that's wrong.
Speaker 2: You won't acknowledge that people need assistance here They keep
Speaker 2: referring to third parties and in fact I reached out
Speaker 2: to Holden as well and I said, hey, guys, what's
Speaker 2: going on, Like, you guys still sell cars in Australia
Speaker 2: through Chevrolet and Cadillac and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: What are you actually doing about it? And they sent
Speaker 2: me a really piss week response that was basically along
Speaker 2: the lines of yes, we're awhere, this is happening, and
Speaker 2: it's using third party tools that shouldn't be used that way.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, but can you fix it?
Speaker 3: Well they're not the police, Paul.
Speaker 2: No, but this is the thing you trade off.
Speaker 3: You've got to realize that that was written by some
Speaker 3: twenty three year old pr chick who's clinging on to
Speaker 3: a job.
Speaker 2: I think that comes from someone in the company that
Speaker 2: is able to make a statement. So you've got these
Speaker 2: this company that has written on the coattails of success
Speaker 2: in Australia, take a lot of money from Australian customers,
Speaker 2: taking money from the government and taxpayers. There is a
Speaker 2: major security floor where people are getting like ten or
Speaker 2: twenty of these stolen a day. It is huge in
Speaker 2: terms of volume just out of Melbourne alone, and nothing's
Speaker 2: getting done. And you put your you know your business
Speaker 2: hat on and you go, well, they currently operate ac
Speaker 2: Delco in Australia, which is the genuine parts and servicing
Speaker 2: for Holden's. Would you not go, hey, We're going to
Speaker 2: come up with a fix for this to make it
Speaker 2: so the shitty security on this doesn't allow someone with
Speaker 2: a tool off team to come and change your keys,
Speaker 2: and if you come and service your car using genuine parts,
Speaker 2: we'll do this free charge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I would.
Speaker 2: If there'll be a ten minute job to update firmware.
Speaker 3: So I mean, could there be something could there be
Speaker 3: something in that that like once they sort of open
Speaker 3: that door, it could lead to like lawsuits.
Speaker 2: Or look, I'm sure it could, but the perception at
Speaker 2: the moment is they're not doing anything and it doesn't
Speaker 2: look like that. I'm sure they're dealing with the police.
Speaker 2: They would be dealing with the police at the moment.
Speaker 2: But if the police pointing the finger at them, they're
Speaker 2: pointing the finger at this thing off timu who's actually
Speaker 2: fixing this? Like is it vigilante groups? Who's actually stopping
Speaker 2: this from happening? So anyway, that video went crazy, you
Speaker 2: got like half a million views. We're about to do
Speaker 2: a follow up on this other thing that I found
Speaker 2: which completely blew me away. So I walked out to
Speaker 2: our car park and I had heard about cloned plates,
Speaker 2: and I saw these two just junkies. One was a
Speaker 2: slapper and the other one was just some methed out idiot.
Speaker 3: What a slapper, hey, like a UK nineteen eighties londoner.
Speaker 3: Come here, your bloody old slapper.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So they're frantically walking around this vault so I
Speaker 2: can golf in our car park, just like you know,
Speaker 2: when they're just methed out of their heads. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck are they doing? And I looked at
Speaker 2: the regio and I checked the REGI on the VIC
Speaker 2: Rhodes website and it just showed that it was registered
Speaker 2: and current, and I'm like, okay, a bit weird. And
Speaker 2: thirty minutes later, my colleague came out and it was
Speaker 2: at about six pm, and he saw them carrying computers
Speaker 2: from this business they were parked next to into their car,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, all right, they're clearly stealing that stuff.
Speaker 2: He called the police. So what happened was he took
Speaker 2: some photos of the car before they came out with
Speaker 2: the computers, and what they've done is every car has
Speaker 2: a vin on display on the windscreen, and newer cars
Speaker 2: they had put papers there to make it look like
Speaker 2: they just put receipts there so you couldn't see the VN.
Speaker 2: The reason they'd done that is because they cloned the plates.
Speaker 2: What they did was they looked for another gray, oh sorry,
Speaker 2: another brown Volkswagen Golf somewhere and looked at the driver.
Speaker 2: Driver was a normal looking person, see like, okay, that
Speaker 2: person's going to renew their regio. So what they do
Speaker 2: is they then go and recreate a set of plates
Speaker 2: that is the same as theirs. Then what they're able
Speaker 2: to do is drive around with the same plates as
Speaker 2: this other honest person who has a brown Volkswagen Golf
Speaker 2: in their stolen brown Volkswagen Golf. If the police were
Speaker 2: to search the VN, it would come up as stolen,
Speaker 2: But if they searched the plate, it just comes up
Speaker 2: as being registered to an owner. So as long as
Speaker 2: they're not speeding or getting attention to themselves, if you
Speaker 2: drive past a police car with these plates, they're unlikely
Speaker 2: to notice anything. And these plates were so bad, like
Speaker 2: the letters were out, it was just tape, basically white tape.
Speaker 2: On a black registration plate. Now, since then another person
Speaker 2: got in contact, it's like a huge rabbit hole of
Speaker 2: just dodgy stuff. Here another person got in contact with
Speaker 2: another method they're now using because the plates on this
Speaker 2: golf weren't reflective. So now someone's found a way of
Speaker 2: laser cutting reflective white tape that goes on a black
Speaker 2: galvanized steel plate that's then used as regi that reflects
Speaker 2: like it would if you drove through a set of
Speaker 2: lights or something. So it's incredible, and I just think
Speaker 2: that the police perhaps don't understand the scale of these
Speaker 2: thefts and the scale of how much money is being made.
Speaker 2: When they're selling secondhand ls engines, a break kit for
Speaker 2: a GTS they've stripped out. They're distributing this stuff through wreckers,
Speaker 2: and it's impossible to know if you go and buy
Speaker 2: off the shelf a seat, it's impossible to know what
Speaker 2: car that belonged to prior to it being on that shelf.
Speaker 2: There's no trace ability. So the fact that they're dumping
Speaker 2: shells everywhere at the moment around Melbourne tells you that's
Speaker 2: what's happening. So Yow, I'm worried about you.
Speaker 3: You're getting into some weird crime syndicate and you're getting
Speaker 3: too far deep here on me.
Speaker 2: You're interested at all in like any used Holden parts.
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Speaker 3: Hey, do you reckon? I had this wild idea and
Speaker 3: I was twenty beers deep and we were discussing this
Speaker 3: amongst other drunken friends. Do you reckon like HSV could
Speaker 3: somehow come back together?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Holden could like essentially make cars. But here's the deal
Speaker 3: you make. I saw like I saw like probably I
Speaker 3: think it was like a twenty seventeen Alugu and HSV.
Speaker 3: It looks it still looks fucking good. Like it looks
Speaker 3: really good. Right. Imagine if they did every four years,
Speaker 3: and I know it would be expensive, a limited run,
Speaker 3: say two hundred and fifty hsvs. Yep, you manufacture them
Speaker 3: in Australia, you know they would be It's expensive. I
Speaker 3: get that, but I reckon they would bloody sell. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean that you did them every four
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Speaker 3: put everything the fans want in there. They would sell
Speaker 3: I reckon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Problem is, and this is part of the reason there's
Speaker 2: such a big market for these stolen cars is a
Speaker 2: lot of the industries that supported local manufacturing, like the
Speaker 2: guys that made buttons, the guys that made a handbrake,
Speaker 2: leave of the guys that made panels, they've gone out
Speaker 2: of business or they've gone to do something else. So
Speaker 2: if you wanted to do that, you wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to stamp all the crap that you need to stamp
Speaker 2: because you had specialized people. You outsourced that too previously.
Speaker 2: So while it's a good idea, it would be very
Speaker 2: hard to achieve because there would be so many intricate
Speaker 2: things that you just can't get access to anymore.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five byd Shark six prices start from fifty
Speaker 1: seven six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Details head to Evingdirect dot com dot au. Should we
Speaker 3: do a quick little car review? Yeah, go on, what
Speaker 3: have we got? Let's do the by D sharks loss.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm thinking, Let's chat about it now.
Speaker 2: But this deserves the own episode, and I think that
Speaker 2: we can. We can also integrate the other plug in
Speaker 2: hybrid UITs that are coming, because there's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of interest in this stuff. So yeah, tune into the
Speaker 2: next one for that. But yes, let's chat about the.
Speaker 3: The BYD Shark six great white Chomp chomp, okay by
Speaker 3: D Shark six. A lot of interest in this car,
Speaker 3: including myself. I've got to be honest, I was really
Speaker 3: really excited about this one. I'm in the market for
Speaker 3: a car and this was on the considerations list, stupidly
Speaker 3: only because I hadn't driven it yet, but I was
Speaker 3: really excited about it. I think the thing that did
Speaker 3: excite me initially was I quite like BYD products. I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of the Seal and I like the
Speaker 3: oh what's the suv? The c C line, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: Sea Line six, Sea Line six, Yeah, sure, I think
Speaker 3: they're great cars. So then there was this and I
Speaker 3: was lucky enough to get it, not for a long time,
Speaker 3: A good time, but not a long time. I would
Speaker 3: like to have given it a bit more time to
Speaker 3: kind of test its off road capabilities, which you certainly did,
Speaker 3: and that's caused a bit of a shit storm. We
Speaker 3: will should we explain why now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll explain briefly now, but we'll go into more
Speaker 2: detail in the other episode. So yes, we reviewed it,
Speaker 2: and I'll go into more detail about how the review
Speaker 2: came about and just some of the hairs that were
Speaker 2: on it. But basically the gist of it was, I
Speaker 2: really like the car, great value for money, lots of tech,
Speaker 2: beautiful to drive, not great off road based on the
Speaker 2: experience I had, and not amazing for towing at edge cases.
Speaker 2: So I think there's some improvements to be had there. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: if towing an off road is something that you're going
Speaker 2: to do a lot of there are alternatives coming that
Speaker 2: are going to be significantly better than this, So.
Speaker 3: We should stamp this with You did drive a pre
Speaker 3: production car now, sorry, yep, I have been told software
Speaker 3: updates have been done. Apparently there was like six I
Speaker 3: think there was like a bit of a rebuttal video
Speaker 3: to what you put out there was there?
Speaker 2: Well I think so, but it was a bit of
Speaker 2: a weird one.
Speaker 3: Okay, well we'll talk about that at great length in
Speaker 3: the next episode. But yes, so listen the BYD Shark
Speaker 3: six around about sixty thousand dollars. It's a big bugger too,
Speaker 3: like it's it's yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Five and a half meters I think, bigger than the
Speaker 2: Ranger and stuff. So they have quite a presence, Yeah,
Speaker 2: quite a presence.
Speaker 3: What do you make of the exterior because I looked
Speaker 3: at this next like the exterior, yeah, next to the
Speaker 3: Kia Tasmin, which I did not like at all. I
Speaker 3: thought with the launch, like just as I guess a
Speaker 3: spectator looking in, I remember at the time thinking BYD
Speaker 3: knocked it out of the park with the launch. I
Speaker 3: think they launched a broken hill. They had a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of journals and I guess influencers there and they
Speaker 3: got so I think it's quite a smart move to
Speaker 3: kind of put these people in the back of butt
Speaker 3: fuck nowhere to put this car on. I guess it's Australian, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Australian turf and turf they want it to be on
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So I think in the design,
Speaker 3: I think BYD definitely beat out Keia in that department.
Speaker 3: I got to say, I like it. I really do
Speaker 3: like it. I think it's got its place, sixty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars full of tech. It's i'd call this, on the
Speaker 3: scheme of things, a mid priced car, Like it's not
Speaker 3: your sort of really affordable forty thousand dollars sort of
Speaker 3: suv end, but it's a it's a it's a chunk
Speaker 3: of cash for some people, and you know, you'd hope
Speaker 3: it to be good. The weird thing is I came
Speaker 3: off the back of two months driving a bloody Chevy Silverado,
Speaker 3: So the biggest shock for me was jumping in his car.
Speaker 3: And one, it's very luxurious inside, but more so it's
Speaker 3: like you're expecting it to be like you think it's
Speaker 3: going to be big marillion rough, but it's very luxurious
Speaker 3: inside and it makes no sound at all, and it's
Speaker 3: smooth and sensual.
Speaker 2: And you know what this car is like and it
Speaker 2: admits U lubricant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nearly nearly as smooth yep, this car, it's like
Speaker 3: you were prepared to rough it at a hostel really
Speaker 3: rough it. But somehow you've woken up in a beautiful
Speaker 3: hotel bed and there's silk sheets and there's two foreign
Speaker 3: lady boys rubbing vasaline in your private parts. That's what
Speaker 3: this car is like to drive. Look, here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get in trouble for saying that. But whatever,
Speaker 3: the car is great. It's a really good car and
Speaker 3: it's got its place. I think the jury is still
Speaker 3: out as it's th road capabilities, given that you were
Speaker 3: given a pre production.
Speaker 2: Car and like another crack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so look, it's not the end of that chapter.
Speaker 3: I think if you've got one of these on order,
Speaker 3: from my perspective, you're going to get what you're excited about.
Speaker 3: I think where the star of the show on this
Speaker 3: car kind of is is the fact that it is
Speaker 3: a good daily like it's a proper drive around the city,
Speaker 3: no problems, you know, and it does feel like an
Speaker 3: ev you know what I mean, which is weird. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll talk more about that in another episode. Oh that's all.
Speaker 3: You don't want to add anything else a moment you
Speaker 3: want to save you your cards, do you?
Speaker 2: I think so? So. The other one that I drove
Speaker 2: recently and absolutely loved is the new Ford Mustang base GT.
Speaker 2: So it was a six speed manual. Okay, that thing
Speaker 2: is so cool. I love the fact that in this
Speaker 2: day and age, when you know, people get excited over
Speaker 2: plug in hybrid electroc utes, the cars like the V
Speaker 2: eight Mustang still exist. It has gone up in price,
Speaker 2: it is like well over eighty thousand dollars now, but
Speaker 2: in my mind it is still such a great performance car.
Speaker 2: You've got a great gearbox, amazing sound out of the exhaust.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that dark Horse sounds phenomenal. I know we're not
Speaker 3: talking about the dark Horse, but that car. My made,
Speaker 3: bought one and it's just incredible. I think the base
Speaker 3: GT that you had, that the software that they've put in,
Speaker 3: the tech that they've put in was much needed and
Speaker 3: it's really good.
Speaker 2: Is the tech is the thing I love?
Speaker 3: You've got you're right there with your heart burn. I'm
Speaker 3: going to leave all that in by the way, in fact,
Speaker 3: I'm going to make it. I'm going to isolate it.
Speaker 3: It's the word.
Speaker 2: So Yeah. The thing I love stuff like the drift breaks.
Speaker 2: They've got now electrically actuated park break that you can
Speaker 2: use as a drift brake. They've got the line locked feature,
Speaker 2: which they didn't bring last time because I was worried
Speaker 2: about people cracking the shit. It's over it. They've got
Speaker 2: so many just cool functions that you can activate, REV matching,
Speaker 2: all this sort of stuff that you just don't find
Speaker 2: on cars these days. It's really cool to see V
Speaker 2: eight reel drive manual, just just good stuff. Body unreal.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, I did drive again A couple
Speaker 3: of I needed some time to fill in, so I
Speaker 3: had a cone of EV, which is a great little
Speaker 3: fun they'll get about. I think where that car fails
Speaker 3: is basically it's not a dedicated EV platform for me anyway.
Speaker 3: But generally it's fitted out so well. It looks beautiful inside.
Speaker 3: They've given it some great updates. But you know what
Speaker 3: I really love, and I know you really don't love,
Speaker 3: is the B five hundred E No right, it's.
Speaker 2: All sorts of shit.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense. While I like a sixty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars tiny, tiny little golf ball that makes fake noises
Speaker 3: and has like two hundred kilometers worth of EV range,
Speaker 3: it makes no sense. But driving this thing around, I
Speaker 3: just had it. It's just so fun. If you can
Speaker 3: ignore all that. I mean, look, if they wanted to,
Speaker 3: if they really wanted to put out something competitive, that
Speaker 3: probably should take about twenty thousand dollars off the price
Speaker 3: tag trying out one hundred kilometers of range. It's it's
Speaker 3: still good. And you know what, our producer live who
Speaker 3: often sits in this chair to produce our program, she
Speaker 3: bloody loved it too. Whatever, it's fun. You can't deny
Speaker 3: that that car is fine. We've got some questions, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: on some questions rapid Fire. Can you guys give us
Speaker 3: an update on Jaguar. Yeah, it's it's still a train
Speaker 3: wreck when they release those cars.
Speaker 2: I just I honestly, surely they should have read the
Speaker 2: tea leaves and seen that people are not interested in
Speaker 2: that shit anyway.
Speaker 3: Jesus, at this moment they are zept cars and they
Speaker 3: are yeh yeah, they are yet to bring out an
Speaker 3: actual production car, so I will leave my comments behind
Speaker 3: on that one. Do you think Tesla has finally fixed
Speaker 3: the ride or is that just never going to happen?
Speaker 3: That is from the Good Doyle. Thank you for your question.
Speaker 3: I'm going to presume the Good Oyle is talking about
Speaker 3: the new model. Y.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they will have because it's now going to
Speaker 2: use the same suspension that they've put in the Model three,
Speaker 2: and in the Model three it's completely transformed it. So
Speaker 2: they announced when they sort of revealed that car, that
Speaker 2: that suspension will go into Model Y.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool. Actually we didn't even talk about that, but yeah,
Speaker 3: the Model Y. There's a new Model Y. You're right, yeah,
Speaker 3: it looks very different.
Speaker 2: What do you think of the design?
Speaker 5: Ho hum?
Speaker 3: I think it's got the update it definitely needed. It
Speaker 3: looks good on the front, it looks good from the
Speaker 3: back and front. The interior to me is just like, Man,
Speaker 3: I like that they brought stork back. Yes, they're bringing
Speaker 3: stock get back.
Speaker 2: At least they're listening because that is the thing that
Speaker 2: everyone hated about the Model three.
Speaker 3: So I think that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Those Teslas have just become a little bit boring generic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: from a car that was once really exciting and the
Speaker 3: way they engineered it, and you know, to me, a
Speaker 3: Tesla always stood in a league of its own. I
Speaker 3: kind of just go, yeah, same, same now, man, that's
Speaker 3: another question, not a question, per se. Just keep up
Speaker 3: the awesome work. The Trev Banter is world class. Haha.
Speaker 2: Thank you Loopy for it. Four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Trevor's a big, fat area bastard.
Speaker 2: I love that he just never has a chance to respond.
Speaker 3: Even when we did give him a chance to respond,
Speaker 3: no one could fucking understand him. He was under the
Speaker 3: covers of his bed. Do you guys have Do you
Speaker 3: guys know of any hybrid vans that's from Doug Wookie
Speaker 3: hybrid vans?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I probably, I guess you could call I wonder if
Speaker 3: Keya would bring out a hybrid of the Carnival. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's not probably the kind of van he's talking.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the I'm just this is so bad. I'm
Speaker 2: just googling it now. So there are electric fans, so
Speaker 2: it says, yeah, Volkswagen tip to launch Australia's first plug
Speaker 2: in hybrid van Stario Hybrid.
Speaker 3: Oh there you go.
Speaker 2: That's what I forgot about that, Okay, Stari hybrid.
Speaker 3: I think that answers this question. Let's keep going. How
Speaker 3: do you two know each other?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: That was we met on Snapchat. Paul was sending photos
Speaker 3: which I thought was just nature photos from the Amazon,
Speaker 3: and now I thought it was nature photos.
Speaker 2: From the Amazon.
Speaker 3: It's definitely not a Vulgan. It was during COVID. I said,
Speaker 3: let's start a podcast, yeah, and you went, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: So I don't know what car this person, Liam Leaf
Speaker 3: is referring to. Who does this?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Maybe it's the Shark six, because I said we were
Speaker 3: gonna review the Shark six. But does the Senate console
Speaker 3: fold down so Donna can give Parvlay some loving while driving?
Speaker 2: Well, even if it did, it wouldn't support that kind
Speaker 2: of mass.
Speaker 3: When you saw the by D struggling to get up
Speaker 3: a hill, that's Pavlay trying to like get on top
Speaker 3: of one of Donna's thighs.
Speaker 2: Just grappling. Just now that I've got a software update though,
Speaker 2: just putting your.
Speaker 3: Bucket over ahead and holding onto the handles. We should
Speaker 3: wrap this up. I'm sure, I'm sure people are over it.
Speaker 3: That that will be enough from us. There will be
Speaker 3: a very quick BYD episode coming up.
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Speaker 2: Tell us more about the shark. And I think the
Speaker 2: twelve minutes you gushed over it probably wasn't enough.
Speaker 3: Oh no, probably I did. I mention the lady boys, but.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have a training. That's the thing that will.
Speaker 3: Play so well played. That'll save me your honor, he
Speaker 3: clearly said Tranny as in transmission.
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