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Speaker 1: Something needs to be addressed before we do anything.

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Speaker 2: Oh dear, what is it?

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Speaker 1: Something has happened, something has gone down and has potentially

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Speaker 1: put this podcast in disrepute, And for once it wasn't me.

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Speaker 2: Oh what happened? What did I do?

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Speaker 1: We released an episode a while back, Yes, claiming to

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Speaker 1: do the first drive in Australia of a BYD at

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Speaker 1: oh three. Oh yes, we will promise that. Yes, from

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Speaker 1: the fine people at BYD. Beyond your Dreams, Build, Build

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Speaker 1: your dreams, Beyond your Dreams built whatever work working title.

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Speaker 1: There is a member of the media that had the

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Speaker 1: car before me, and there was no driving impressions to

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Speaker 1: be put out on this car other than this podcast.

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Speaker 1: We were supposed to get the first drive. This weasel

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Speaker 1: of a person. Now we've talked to the lawyers here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to use his real name, so let's

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Speaker 1: just call him I don't know Trevor, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: allowed to say where he works. I'm allowed to say

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Speaker 1: it's like a morning TV show, So let's just sort

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Speaker 1: of say.

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Speaker 2: The second highest rated morning TV.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just make up any name of a morning

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Speaker 1: TV show at a fictitious show. I don't know the

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Speaker 1: Today show now, Can I just before.

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Speaker 3: You No, No, this guy published a first Impressions and

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Speaker 3: a first drive less than twenty four hours after he

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Speaker 1: He wasn't even supposed to put anything out there. He

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Speaker 1: find tests fridges. So this is what I'm saying here,

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Speaker 1: This is why we do what we do because these

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Speaker 1: so called journalists, I don't know who they are. What

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Speaker 1: he does, you can't trust him. Oh but it was

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Speaker 1: it was EV week. They wanted me for EV week

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Speaker 1: and so I came on there for the today's EV Week.

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Speaker 1: They wanted you and they got PISS Week.

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Speaker 2: Can I just say I actually quite liked Trevor, So.

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Speaker 1: I'm not what you told me off a. You told

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Speaker 1: me he was an overweight bag of shit. He's actually

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Speaker 4: That, and he probably wouldn't have known that he wasn't

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Speaker 4: allowed to do that because I just judging by my

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Speaker 1: Judging by my text message is that I got from

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Speaker 1: beyond your dreams, build your dreams. He was he was

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Speaker 1: quite aware.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, now that you've simmered down.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something. He looks like the

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Speaker 1: kind of guy that eats hot dogs for dinner. Me, No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. So you'd have you'd get your missus would

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Speaker 1: be away for the night, and you'd go right here

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Speaker 1: this is, and you'd go down to the safeway and

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Speaker 1: you'd get like a six pack of sausages and a

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Speaker 1: loaf of bread, and you'd have like a sausage and bread. Right,

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Speaker 1: But this guy would just eat an action like who

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Speaker 1: has who? You're a grown adult and you'd have hot

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Speaker 1: dogs for dinner anyway, Paul shaking his head, and I

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Speaker 1: think I might have ruined a friendship. Love your work, Trev,

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Speaker 4: So on with the episode'ute again now literally I'm looking

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, I'm okay. Hey, let's talk about some cars

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Speaker 1: that have popped out onto the scene, yes, Jesus, and

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Speaker 1: ones that have excited me young day have dropped quite

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Speaker 1: a few little, I don't know, rip snorts of cars, Like,

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Speaker 1: I think they've been putting out some pretty cool things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so two cars they launched, well three cars.

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Speaker 4: So they launched the ion X six, which look, I'm

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Speaker 2: The back of it looks kind of like an au Falcon.

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Speaker 4: Which full respect to the au Falcon, but that belongs

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Speaker 4: But anyway, they then rolled out two other things that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's get to that in a set, because

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Speaker 1: I feel like that that's a complete beast of a car. Ye,

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Speaker 2: Like an A seven at the back, you falcon.

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Speaker 4: So with the twenty two E, they're saying that it's

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Speaker 4: going to be Yuda's version of the EV six GT,

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Speaker 4: Hundred and fifty kilometers an hour, which is pretty impressive.

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Speaker 4: The EV six GT is two sixty claimed, which is

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Speaker 2: But the thing that.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, those EV six gts are starting to pop up

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Speaker 4: we have the GT line and this will be the

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Speaker 4: The second one was the the hydrogen concept, which is

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Speaker 4: I guess this kind of signals Hendau's intention to not

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Speaker 4: Well, the reason This one is very interesting. Is because

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Speaker 4: it's it's very small nod.

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Speaker 2: You just go ahead and eat.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, you keep going, I'm just going to use some bacon.

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Speaker 4: Ye just pop that back in your mouth. So the

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Speaker 4: mirror uses a tiny little battery that is.

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Speaker 1: Little them enjoy this without your talking.

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Speaker 2: Just for a reference as well, he had a cookie

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Speaker 1: So I can't find my corky because you hate it.

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Speaker 2: That's why he's found down.

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Speaker 1: I'm a happy man, all right. Now keep talking about

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Speaker 4: Yes, So Mira uses a small one point two killer

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Speaker 4: the way that it works is the hydrogen fuel stank

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Speaker 4: this is the way to go. You don't really want

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Speaker 2: This actually sort of bridges the gap between them. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love this, And I may or may not.

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Speaker 4: Be getting a closer look at these very very very soon.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean You've already looked at them and

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Speaker 1: you're not telling.

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Speaker 2: Me I may or may not.

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Speaker 1: Have you looked at them already?

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Speaker 2: No, all right, next news story.

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Speaker 1: Why can't you invite me to this shit? It's only

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Speaker 1: for you and Trevor going together? Are you? That explains

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Speaker 1: a lot? That explains a hell of a lot.

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Speaker 4: They wanted someone with a bit of clout, you know,

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Speaker 4: someone that gets gets stuff.

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Speaker 1: Someone that can vaguely knows about cars, but it can

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Speaker 1: also tell you what vacuum cleaned are buy.

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Speaker 2: Now, guess what's been axed from Australia.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm still looking at the n Vision seventy.

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Speaker 2: Four, Welcome to five Minutes Ago. Very Dolorean, yeah exactly,

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Speaker 2: and also very pony concept from the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Right yeah, that was that that that was their original one, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it looks good.

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Speaker 2: Yes, guess what's been axed from Australia.

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Speaker 1: A car that I don't reckon should have been asked

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Speaker 4: Yes, two of them actually, so the Ford for Esa

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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: I just don't get that. So Ford. I think it's

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Speaker 2: probably a smart move by Ford.

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Speaker 4: They've realized that they only sell in Australia the Ranger

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Speaker 4: and the Mustang, and they've realized they really shouldn't be

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Speaker 4: wasting time on anything that isn't an suv or a

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Speaker 1: Once upon a time, though, like small cars were all

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Speaker 1: the rage, you know what I mean, like it ebbs

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Speaker 4: But these still sell quite well, like in Australia, stuff

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Speaker 4: like I twenty thirty and they all sell really well.

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Speaker 2: It's just Ford.

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Speaker 4: Hasn't really committed to doing much with these cars.

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Speaker 2: You look at Ynday, they've got a performance club.

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Speaker 4: They're really sort of throwing a lot at their performance

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Speaker 4: cars with Ford. Just I don't know Ford had their

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Speaker 4: performance club as well, but I think that it just

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Speaker 4: kind of really didn't That's true.

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Speaker 1: They're like much about it. They're all they're all doing it,

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Speaker 1: nit Toyota are doing it with the gr.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So anyway, it's sad to see these gone.

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Speaker 4: They were actually pretty decent cars and at one point

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Speaker 4: So yeah, rip there for the Focus and the Fiesta

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Speaker 4: I know thousands of this car are due in Australia

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Speaker 4: it's the world's best electric vehicle, according to.

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Speaker 1: You, world's best. Ye I think I think you've got

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Speaker 2: That's what you were told to say.

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Speaker 1: But all right, come on mate, the b y d

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Speaker 1: Atto three is they're coming.

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Speaker 4: I told you the better late than never, longest wait

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Speaker 2: So the b yd just because you.

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Speaker 4: So the Atto three, they've got thousands of them coming

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Speaker 1: So is he was at the launch that I went to.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Why is he famous?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 1: what can they what can they do for me? So? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I want to see its crash tested first.

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Speaker 2: Because it's all been very vague.

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Speaker 1: You drop it off a k mar Bro. You just

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Speaker 1: go to Camart, do your go, do your shopping and

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Speaker 2: Come back with your duney rolls.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go, come back with some nice like the little

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Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent thing.

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Speaker 1: And then you're good to go. Is that? Oh that's

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Speaker 1: Tim Kale? Jesus, is that Tim Kale? God, he's let

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Speaker 1: He looks like something. He looks like a villain out

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Speaker 1: of a horror movie. He does. He really has coming

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Speaker 1: from the picture of perfection. Get out of here, pack

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Speaker 1: up your bacon, Negrol.

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Speaker 2: You're the one that had the bacon and negroll and

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Speaker 1: Don't touch my cookie and get out. Have a look

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Speaker 1: at him. I will kick your head like a soccer ball.

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Speaker 1: Mister Merrish, there you go.

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Speaker 2: That's that's news.

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Speaker 1: Is there? Any cars that you've seen that we should

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Speaker 1: we should talk about. It was what cars have popped

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, Civic Type Are that is coming to Australia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's this is funny.

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Speaker 4: The current generation Civic Type Are looked very over the

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Speaker 1: I agree, it's almost two kind of conservative.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've gone a little too far in the other direction.

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Speaker 1: It's it's either one. It's the problem with this is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it really doesn't look all that sporty,

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Speaker 4: It didn't sound great, but it was engaging in fun,

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Speaker 4: So I'm hoping the new one sounds better but still

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Speaker 2: So I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Speaker 4: But there will be huge demand for this car when

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Speaker 1: Oh god, including that red interior.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was full on.

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Speaker 1: That's a bit who ha, Why do they do that?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what? I will say that Honda have

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Speaker 2: So I think that Honda is turning a corner.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, the pricing is just way out, like it

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Speaker 1: It is so strange, and they've always been quite an

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, anyway, should we.

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Speaker 1: Jump into our review?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just before we do, I am just a little

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Speaker 2: Where is that?

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Speaker 1: Because I it looks it's like that is that studio.

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Speaker 1: This is great for the podcasting world. Well done, Paul,

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Speaker 4: It's actually very creepy because there's there's no one in there.

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Speaker 1: So I am going to after we record, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: Well, because generally when you've got like a team of

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Speaker 4: Put them in a room that's like in another building exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's quite inclusive. Yeah, yeah, it's terrible audio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, Paul, just learning as we go. Shall we

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Speaker 1: do the review? Yeah, we must come on, do your

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Speaker 1: little yes, yes, aren't we excited about this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So sure sounds like it.

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Speaker 1: The mg HS EV LGBQ, this car has honestly more

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Speaker 1: pronouns than Demi Levado. And I know you don't know

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Speaker 2: To say, I don't know, you don't know who that is.

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Speaker 1: But for there's going to be people who engaged in

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Speaker 2: That good, good one, good one, Gordon.

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Speaker 6: The twenty twenty three mg HS plus EV the Excite

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Speaker 4: Now, can I explain very quickly why it's so expensive,

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Speaker 4: Because it's not an EV.

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Speaker 2: They call it a plus EV, which is just a

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Speaker 1: It's a tweak to the advertising. Really it is actually spin.

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Speaker 4: It is actually a plug in hybrid EV, but they

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Speaker 4: So the reason it's expensive is because traditionally, plug in

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Speaker 4: you can drive on both. And with the HS plus EV,

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Speaker 4: it's got a seventeen ish killer what our battery?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: This car just it has nothing to do with MG

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Speaker 4: They've kind of just they've taken an internal combustion platform

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Speaker 4: think this is green?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I know, let's take the engine out and tweak this

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Speaker 2: and that, put.

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Speaker 1: A little something in here. Let's just quickly roll through

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Speaker 1: it because it very much is of Topspec hs really

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Speaker 1: the pilot's safety system? Yep, three sixty parking, twelve inch

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Speaker 1: photos it's got pretty good features, right and ones, I

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Speaker 1: But then this car is pretty much like my ass.

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Speaker 1: It looks great from a distance, it looks really good

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Speaker 1: I doing? Yeah, I don't think it's that bad. I

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Speaker 1: think for me, I'm going I'm big, harsh. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, they've tried to make this good, but it's just

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Speaker 2: So just the way that it drives.

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Speaker 4: So from a driving point of view, it just isn't

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, you get economy out of it, but the

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Speaker 4: per one hundred k's but you don't get that because

444
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Speaker 4: you need to be able to just eat it.

445
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Speaker 1: By cookie retime. Paul talks and I get a bit disinterested.

446
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Speaker 2: Let me just be fatter. So yeah, they.

447
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,640
Speaker 4: The few economy claim is only there if you're constantly

448
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Speaker 4: charging it.

449
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Speaker 2: It doesn't offer DC charging, So if.

450
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Speaker 4: You look at the Outland a PHEV or the Eclipse

451
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 4: Cross PF, they both do DC charging, So your only

452
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Speaker 4: option is a slow AC charge. So you've got to

453
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Speaker 4: be able to charge at work or at home.

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Speaker 1: It's a good five hours on this too.

455
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, and that's if you're using a fast charger.

456
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Speaker 4: Zero to one hundred times of six point nine seconds

457
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Speaker 4: is fine. It's sort of nothing spectacular. The way that

458
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Speaker 4: it handles isn't great, so the body control isn't very good.

459
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Speaker 4: And the other thing that annoyed me as well, I

460
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Speaker 4: certainly couldn't figure out how to do it was to

461
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Speaker 4: schedule charging.

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Speaker 2: It is the bane of my existence. At home, we have.

463
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Speaker 4: The EV charger, and I want to charge off peak

464
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Speaker 4: so that it's cheaper. I could not see any way

465
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Speaker 4: to do that in this car. So and it was

466
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Speaker 4: the same story in the z SCV as well. You

467
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Speaker 4: just can't schedule charging.

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean? So you basically when you

469
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Speaker 1: get home, you plug it in, get about it. But

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Speaker 1: the scheduled charging will sort of say, hey, ten o'clock,

471
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Speaker 1: ten thirty at night, we're gonna start charging.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, so it'll all be plugged up, ready to go,

473
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Speaker 4: but it won't actually start charging un till then. So yeah, look,

474
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Speaker 4: I think that as their first attempt, it's fine, but

475
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Speaker 4: if it was me, I'd be spending on probably the Outlander.

476
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Speaker 4: I know the Outland is a bit more expensive, but

477
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Speaker 4: it's a much better car, a much better plug in hybrid,

478
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Speaker 4: And I just think that if if you really want

479
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Speaker 4: to get that full plug in hybrid experience, there are

480
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Speaker 4: much better cars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah even I mean for the price as well. The

482
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Speaker 1: thing that gets me is the price of this car,

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Speaker 1: and MG the.

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Speaker 2: Price is actually not bad compared to other plug in hybrids.

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Speaker 1: What about the RAP four, it's technically it's a little

486
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Speaker 1: bit more than the RAP four.

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Speaker 4: Red four is just a hybrid, So the RAD four

488
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Speaker 4: doesn't do electric driving, So this will do up to

489
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Speaker 4: seventy k's or sixty three k's of just EV driving.

490
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Speaker 4: RAD four will drive for two hundred meters on EV

491
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Speaker 4: before the battery runs out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: So that's why these are expensive, because you're paying for

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Speaker 4: the battery. But it is the cut price version of

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Speaker 4: this system that you're going to have a much better

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Speaker 4: option of with other brands.

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Speaker 1: I think what MG do really well is they make

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Speaker 1: affordable cars, and they make affordable cars with fairly good

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Speaker 1: features at a price point of say the HS top

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Speaker 1: spec for instance, say it's around about thirty five forty thousand.

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Speaker 1: Between that point, you can kind of forgive it if

502
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Speaker 1: it's going to if the seats are a little bit

503
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Speaker 1: like weird and the driving position is a bit off,

504
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Speaker 1: because essentially you're getting a feedture packed pretty good family

505
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Speaker 1: car for under forty thousand dollars, but then you're looking

506
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Speaker 1: at nearly fifty two thousand for exactly the same thing,

507
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Speaker 1: but it's a plug in hybrid. I probably would skip

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Speaker 1: this car, to be honest, I'd go straight to an

509
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Speaker 1: HS just like a standard top spec rather than pay

510
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Speaker 1: shell out extra for the EV. I don't think there's

511
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Speaker 1: much point, I think economy wise. Personally, I was driving

512
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Speaker 1: around not really thinking about it too much, but I

513
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Speaker 1: remember getting to the end of sort of midway through

514
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Speaker 1: the second week going I pretty much feel like I'm

515
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Speaker 1: getting the same fuel economy as I would in a

516
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Speaker 1: normal car, and I was just doing normal.

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Speaker 4: Actually, it'd be worse because the problem with this is

518
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Speaker 4: if you're not charging it daily and taking advantage of

519
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Speaker 4: the big battery on board, you're then lugging around a

520
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Speaker 4: seventeen killer what hour battery.

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Speaker 1: But wouldn't it still be working in conjunction with each other.

522
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Speaker 4: It does still work as a hybrid, but you still

523
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Speaker 4: have the weight of that battery, so the advantage of

524
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Speaker 4: something like a RAV four hybrid, and why they're so

525
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Speaker 4: efficient is that comparatively, the battery is a sixteenth the

526
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Speaker 4: size of the battery in this and that means it's

527
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Speaker 4: a sixteenth the weight. So when you're driving a RAB

528
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Speaker 4: four hybrid around, every time you slow down, it charges

529
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Speaker 4: the battery and can then run the engine to charge

530
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Speaker 4: the battery. With this, if you do want to run

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Speaker 4: the engine to charge the battery, which again it doesn't

532
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Speaker 4: really do very well, you're then using a whole bunch

533
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Speaker 4: of fuel to charge the battery. So this is why

534
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Speaker 4: you have the ability to plug this up and then

535
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Speaker 4: when you drive it reduces your sort of fuel consumption.

536
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Speaker 4: But if you don't charge it, it will act just

537
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Speaker 4: like a hybrid, but a hybrid that's carrying around a

538
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Speaker 4: giant battery that's not being used. I think there is

539
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Speaker 4: an application for this type of thing, but you have

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Speaker 4: to be committed to charging it nightly or daily and

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Speaker 4: then you might get value out of it. But I

542
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Speaker 4: just think as a plug in hybrid, there are just

543
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Speaker 4: better options out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree. I think as I said before,

545
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Speaker 1: I think what MG do really well is affordable cars.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is one of them. I did

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Speaker 1: get a I got an email right from a guard so.

548
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Speaker 2: You can show me one of those pictures.

549
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: We talk about that off air, please. Now just the

550
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Speaker 1: UK women's soccer team. What they do in the locker

551
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: room is their business. Now she she pictures off air. Now,

552
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Speaker 1: this is a question regarding the new Ranger, wanting to

553
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: know if it qualifies as a commercial vehicle instead of

554
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Speaker 1: an instant asset right off.

555
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: Okay, so no, that's a good question.

556
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Speaker 4: So there are two categories for the instant our set

557
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 4: right off. And this is not financial advice, by the way,

558
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 4: so we don't get.

559
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Speaker 1: Suit, got a couple barefoot invest what else.

560
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: There's two categories there, so one is up to I'm

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00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 4: gonna let me look this up while I'm talking. You've

562
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 4: got two different categories instant asset.

563
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: Right of this is where I eat my cookie.

564
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.

565
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 4: So there's two categories there. One that goes up to

566
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Speaker 4: So the original cap was thirty thousand dollars. They increased

567
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Speaker 4: to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for businesses with

568
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Speaker 4: turnover below five hundred million. And then they've got two

569
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Speaker 4: different categories. So you have fifty seven thousand, five hundred

570
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 4: and eighty one. This was for the twenty nineteen to

571
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 4: twenty twenty income tax year. It may have changed, and

572
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 4: then you have one hundred and fifty thousand for commercial vehicles. Now,

573
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 4: any vehicle that isn't a commercial vehicle, so that is

574
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Speaker 4: a vehicle that doesn't apply to the commercial vehicle rules,

575
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Speaker 4: can only claim up to fifty seven five eight one

576
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: for that income tax year.

577
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Speaker 2: Anything that is a commercial view can go up to

578
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 4: Now, this is the definition of a commercial vehicle, so

580
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 4: it is a commercial vehicle is one that's capable of

581
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Speaker 4: carrying more than nine passengers or with a payload above

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Speaker 4: one thousand kilograms. So where this affects the ranger is

583
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Speaker 4: that if you are going for a higher spec ranger

584
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Speaker 4: for something like a Raptor for example, that's on the road,

585
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 4: like ninety thousand dollars or more, if it doesn't seep

586
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 4: more than nine, which doesn't legally, you could probably.

587
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of boys in the bag.

588
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 4: The payload is not above a thousand kilos, you can

589
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 4: only claim up to that fifty seven. Now, what some

590
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 4: brands are doing, so ram the guys that are doing Silverados.

591
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: They're offering a GVM upgrade that will give you payload

592
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 4: above a thousand kilos so that you can meet one

593
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand dollars threshold, and that means you

594
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 4: can claim all the way up to one hundred and

595
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 4: fifty grand.

596
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Speaker 2: So to answer the question on a Ranger, it depends

597
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Speaker 2: which ranger.

598
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 4: Some offer above a thousand kilos payload, they are then

599
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 4: classed as commercial vehicles and you can claim up to

600
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty k or if it's not, you

601
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: can only claim up to the passenger car limit.

602
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: Can you get parts to kind of make this have

603
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: a bigger.

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00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you can. So my understanding of the

605
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 4: rules is you can upgrade the GVM, but you can't

606
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 4: downgrade the GVM, so that means that you can upgrade

607
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 4: it to meet a new tax threshold. So there are

608
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 4: probably companies out there that will do a GVM upgrade

609
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 4: for your Ranger to tip it over a thousand, because

610
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 4: some of them are very close, So depending on which

611
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 4: one you go for in the engine that's fitted, some

612
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 4: of them are like nine eighty or nine fifty, so

613
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: it is only a small change you need to make.

614
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 4: And the hundreds or thousands of dollars you need to

615
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: make that change could push you into that higher instant asset.

616
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: Right off bracket. So yeah, it is a little bit confusing,

617
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: but they are the rules there.

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00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 4: For commercial vehicles, it has to be more than nine

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Speaker 4: passengers or payload above a thousand kilos.

620
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Speaker 1: Have you taken possession of your Ranger yet?

621
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Speaker 5: No?

622
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: Not yet.

623
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Speaker 4: My Raptor is built currently waiting for a boat to

624
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 4: send it over here.

625
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: Oh really still not here? You know what will be

626
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: here pretty soon? What thousands of me could you imagine

627
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: if it like if it was here before you're wrapped up.

628
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 4: They're on a boat, but it was that was meant

629
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Speaker 4: to be here like March, soans technically late anyway.

630
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: Wow? What other car have you got? Y Tesla's coming.

631
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Speaker 4: According to the app my model Why is scheduled for

632
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 4: delivery between August eight and twenty two, so very soon.

633
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: Wow. What color did you get?

634
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 2: Gray?

635
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: Ah? A sexy shade of Elon tan. You saw that, guys,

636
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: you saw you saw Elon's holiday photos? Yes?

637
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Speaker 2: I did.

638
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah he he. You can tell that guys working hard.

639
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: He hasn't been out of the office in a long time.

640
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Speaker 4: Well, the only time he is in the office is

641
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Speaker 4: when he's sleeping with his coworkers and getting them pregnant

642
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 4: because he's been busy doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's into that. He's like really into pro creating.

644
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: I heard like he's like fully donating his sperm and yeah,

645
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: he's like he's like really into procreation and trying to

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Speaker 1: make as many humans as possible. There you go.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

648
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 4: Now, if you hear us say this every single time

649
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 4: you listen to our great podcast but don't do anything

650
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 4: about it, make today the day that you actually do

651
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 4: something about it and leave us a rating on the

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00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 4: platform you're listening on. So we do appreciate that. On Apple.

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00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 4: I've been looking at Spotify as well. Heaps people have

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Speaker 4: left a rating there and a five star rating. By

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Speaker 4: the way, some bitch left us a one star rating.

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Speaker 1: I know who that is.

657
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the many people you piss off forever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Or Daniel, Daniel, Daniel wouldn't Daniel wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 5: As much as I hate your crude humor, I must

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Speaker 5: shave Drive show, I wouldn't leave you the one stair

661
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Speaker 5: raging that that pathetic Trevor left you. What shit?

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Speaker 7: Thank you, Daniel, I agree, but yeah, if you good,

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Speaker 7: please leave us a rating that would be great. And

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Speaker 7: if you do want to send us an email for

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Speaker 7: us to read out on the show or some feedback

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Speaker 7: or whatever, contact at the Drive Show dot com. That

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Speaker 7: are you just a warning that Gordy will delete anything

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Speaker 7: that's negative about him, so most of the emails we

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Speaker 7: get we can't read out. But yeah, contact at the

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Speaker 7: Drive Show dot com dot au. Anything you'd like us

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Speaker 7: to talk about or spend more time on, we would

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Speaker 7: love to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm just going through the emails right now. I

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Speaker 1: probably should have done this pre show something. Someone was

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Speaker 1: giving you a shit about your selling off your someone's

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Speaker 1: giving you sit about selling off your hsvs to pay

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Speaker 1: for your bitcoin problem. What else have we got here?

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're prepared.

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Speaker 1: Shs have we got? Oh it's Daniel, he said, I

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Speaker 1: just listened. You guys went easy on me. Well off, Daniel,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Everyone,