Speaker 1: Okay, do you want to tell everyone what you got
Speaker 1: up to over the weekend because they wouldn't believe it?
Speaker 2: Oh that thing, Yes, I went to the Formula one.
Speaker 3: See, I wouldn't know that. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Did you happen to get into the Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 3: Marque as well?
Speaker 2: It's called the Star Lounge?
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, yeah, you let everyone on bloody socials
Speaker 1: know that, didn't you.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, not the humble brag. But here's where I'm at.
Speaker 3: Where are you losers? You're commoners?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I did have to actually go through the common
Speaker 2: area to get to the Paddock Club, and it was
Speaker 2: quite dusty and dirty. I did, actually on the buggy
Speaker 2: because of the road that you go on is really dusty.
Speaker 2: Ended up with sort of dust on the shoes and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So not those Swave River's shoes that you always were.
Speaker 2: I've got a second pair that look the same, so
Speaker 2: dusted those off and for the next day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did give me that text, going, God, I'm
Speaker 1: going through a Bogan soup right now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I know how you feel common enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I asked you what GA stands for because I
Speaker 2: saw it a lot when we went.
Speaker 1: Then you ask me what VIP stands for. I'm like
Speaker 1: see it all the time in the Pokey's room. I've
Speaker 1: got a picture of Paul. Can we put that picture up.
Speaker 1: Let's have a look at Paul. Oh wow, showing off
Speaker 1: the F one. I'm at the F one. Guys, let's
Speaker 1: read this. Had an awesome time at the F one today.
Speaker 1: Can confidently say it's the best race I've been to.
Speaker 1: You are in terms of atmosphere and absolutely loving it.
Speaker 1: The weather was perfect.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: That is the sort of update I require from now on.
Speaker 1: Paul and his double chins and he's lanyar.
Speaker 2: Oh jesus. Well, anyway, I just wanted to give a
Speaker 2: quick shout out to Mercedes Bens for putting on drinks
Speaker 2: and food. The Star Lounge was amazing, So the Star Lounge.
Speaker 1: I want to give a quick shout out to Mercedes
Speaker 1: ben S thanks for the invite touts. Thanks to that,
Speaker 1: guys really appreciated. Apparently it is because I urinated my
Speaker 1: name on the wall last time. I told you last
Speaker 1: time that could have been any bodies.
Speaker 2: Well, there were plants there, so you were just watering
Speaker 2: the plants. Yeah exactly, but yeah, it was it was
Speaker 2: an awesome experience and it was interesting in in the paddock.
Speaker 2: I tried to get some photos with some of the
Speaker 2: F one drivers but pretty much none of them were
Speaker 2: interested in talking to me.
Speaker 3: No, everyone snubbed you.
Speaker 2: Yeah they were like this guy doing so. But in
Speaker 2: all seriousness, the F one this year was fantastic. The
Speaker 2: weather was really good. There was a huge turnout and
Speaker 2: I think it was still capped, like the government still
Speaker 2: capped it somehow.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like Daniel Lander's work at all, but
Speaker 3: yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was a wicked event and actually a pretty good race.
Speaker 2: With the changes they made to the track, it made
Speaker 2: for an actually interesting race and not just a boring
Speaker 2: thing where Lewis Hamilton just one of the high time.
Speaker 2: How weird is the bouncing thing with the arrow I
Speaker 2: like that, Yeah, it's strange. The cars were just literally
Speaker 2: pounding along at like three hundred k's an hour, looking
Speaker 2: like they were getting ready to hop and skip over
Speaker 2: you know, the fence into Albert Park Lake. So yeah,
Speaker 2: bloody strange, but a very good event and can't wait
Speaker 2: to get back there next year.
Speaker 1: It looked like it just looked like a stunning event,
Speaker 1: Like what a day. I feel like Melbourne deserved that,
Speaker 1: Like after everything everyone's gone through, a proper f and
Speaker 1: the way they canceled it last year. Robbie Williams is
Speaker 1: still pissed off. But it really just the with the
Speaker 1: with the weather and just that there really was a
Speaker 1: buzz in the air. It was a brilliant It was
Speaker 1: a brilliant.
Speaker 3: F one too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good. You know. The interesting thing because
Speaker 2: I lived just around the corner from there. Each year
Speaker 2: I'd be used to the FA teen flying over and
Speaker 2: scaring the shit out of everyone. The F one has
Speaker 2: actually banned military displays globally, so that's why there was
Speaker 2: no Fat team there this year. They had like a
Speaker 2: pretty tame display over the weekend. It wasn't really all
Speaker 2: that interesting. So yeah, a little bit disappointing that we
Speaker 2: can't have that jet that scares children when it's still
Speaker 2: like fifty kilometers away.
Speaker 5: As an engineer, did that just break your little engineering hot?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: One sixty three all.
Speaker 2: You really are a bit y.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So there you are with your little lanyard and your
Speaker 1: box seats and now moving into the ventures of NFTs.
Speaker 1: I say, oh, right there, come with Danny lo musk
Speaker 1: Let's go to that one.
Speaker 3: Hang on, is this.
Speaker 2: Whole episode going to be reading back my By the
Speaker 2: way I'm putting this on the screen, Do I have
Speaker 2: to pay you for this? I should charge your royalty.
Speaker 2: That's actually not a bad idea.
Speaker 5: I share some I've just acquired an NARF two that
Speaker 5: I've collected Lush Lucks. Lush Socks is one of my
Speaker 5: favorites us.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Paul trying to be cool, but really
Speaker 1: he's just expanding his investmentfolio. Yeah, we should talk cars,
Speaker 1: that's what we should do. Toyota have been issued with
Speaker 1: a bit of a fine, just a bit, just in
Speaker 1: the billions. It's to do with diesel filters.
Speaker 2: Yes, so just so we don't get sued as well
Speaker 2: for the billions. They haven't been issued to find just yet,
Speaker 2: the Federal court has ruled that yes, Toyota DPF filters
Speaker 2: on a set number of vehicles were indeed faulty, and
Speaker 2: they are the high lux Prato and Fortuna. So they're
Speaker 2: saying over two hundred and sixty thousand of these vehicles
Speaker 2: that were sold in Australia were fitted with faulty diesel
Speaker 2: particulate filters and just as a bit of background. What
Speaker 2: a diesel particulate filter does is as the particulates go
Speaker 2: through the exhaust system, it captures them and then at
Speaker 2: certain intervals it increases exhaust temperature and burns all of
Speaker 2: these particulates off. And the particulate filter is designed to
Speaker 2: do that on its own. What a lot of people
Speaker 2: were doing because they wanted to buy a high lux
Speaker 2: to be cool, they were basically driving it around and
Speaker 2: not driving it for long enough to initiate this burn
Speaker 2: and as a result of that, the filter became clogged.
Speaker 2: And if you see a high Luck Soprieto or a
Speaker 2: Fortuna out on the road that is pumping out white
Speaker 2: smoke that smells incredibly bad, that is one of these
Speaker 2: vehicles with a faulty DPF. So there is a class
Speaker 2: action happening at the moment, and we're seeing here the
Speaker 2: case summary. It was trying to quantify the damages and
Speaker 2: they reckon the average is seven thousand dollars per car. Now,
Speaker 2: if you do the sums on that, it could be
Speaker 2: an award of more than two billion dollars if they're successful.
Speaker 2: So it's highly unlikely that it will go that far.
Speaker 2: But when you think about this and the people's lives
Speaker 2: that were affected. If you drive a high lux and
Speaker 2: use it as a work vehicle, I mean, who knows
Speaker 2: how many thousands of dollars worth of damages you've had
Speaker 2: as a result of this vehicle being faulty. And also pedestrians,
Speaker 2: if you're driving passed in one of these with a
Speaker 2: shagged DPF, you're basically pumping these carcinogens out into the
Speaker 2: air that should otherwise have been filtered. So I think
Speaker 2: just everyone here needs to get compensated something for this.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, would this.
Speaker 3: Be something that would have been covered under warranty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it is covered under warranty, But from what
Speaker 2: we've heard from some owners, Toyota was making them go
Speaker 2: back two or three times before they actually deemed the
Speaker 2: particular filter to be faulty. Particular filters are incredibly expensive
Speaker 2: because they have precious metals inside and they're hard to make.
Speaker 2: They're very expensive to maintain if they do break, but
Speaker 2: when they work, they work fine. Now what Toyota has
Speaker 2: done they've fitted a manual burn switched to these vehicles,
Speaker 2: and also basically they've made the burn process happen a
Speaker 2: whole lot more often so now when we drive any
Speaker 2: of these Toyota cars every fifty one hundred k's or so,
Speaker 2: it's initiating a burn. And you can't just stop at
Speaker 2: mid burn. You've got to let it finish.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like half of these trades the bond
Speaker 1: during smoke O. Anyway, got my Monster Energy drink can here,
Speaker 1: might initiate my own little burn. I'm extremely jealous of
Speaker 1: you because one you got to leave the house and
Speaker 1: you also got to hang out with a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of the Ford Raptor Rangers or Ford Ranger Raptors. I
Speaker 1: should say some big pricing has been released for this.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have the chance to head to a place
Speaker 2: called Loveday in South Australia. Not a whole lot goes
Speaker 2: on there except at the Loveday four by four Park. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and this is basically a place where Ford Endurance tests
Speaker 2: the Raptor and they do things like jump it. They
Speaker 2: basically have a seven kilometer circuit where they go flat
Speaker 2: out ten tenths in these cars with roll cages to
Speaker 2: performance tune them. And they also use a place in
Speaker 2: Alice Springs as well to do the same. So it
Speaker 2: was a good experience to be able to go there
Speaker 2: and experience the car and get a sort of look
Speaker 2: and feel for it. And I enjoyed it so much
Speaker 2: that I've decided I'm going to buy one because they
Speaker 2: are absolutely unreal. So I've got a dealer helping me
Speaker 2: out with getting me one in the first allocation. So
Speaker 2: we'll do more content on that once it comes around.
Speaker 2: But Ford has announced pricing for the entire Ranger range.
Speaker 2: It kicks off from thirty five nine hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: and that's for the four x two single cab chassis,
Speaker 2: so it's up about a grand. But the interesting thing
Speaker 2: is that it rolls all the way through to the Raptor,
Speaker 2: which is eighty five four ninety. I genuinely thought it
Speaker 2: was going to be another ten grand on top of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was going to be a little
Speaker 3: bit more too.
Speaker 1: I've thought it was sort of going to be like
Speaker 1: load of mid nine's, and I thought they've done pretty
Speaker 1: well with it, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's only about five grand more than
Speaker 2: the current top spec Raptor, which is called the Raptor X,
Speaker 2: and that's a two letered diesel and nothing on this
Speaker 2: in comparison to tech and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But the other fascinating thing as well, the premium for
Speaker 2: the V six diesel was only around three grand, so
Speaker 2: it's pretty exciting to me that customers are going to
Speaker 2: be able to head out there buy two LAD diesel
Speaker 2: if they want, or just drop another three grand from
Speaker 2: XLT upwards and get a V six d SEL that'll
Speaker 2: be class leading, so that the pricing is really sharp.
Speaker 2: And if you're looking down the lower end of the
Speaker 2: range with the XLT, which is their volume at the moment,
Speaker 2: and the one that a lot of people are buying,
Speaker 2: it's only up seven hundred bucks and you're getting a
Speaker 2: whole lot more technology inside the cabin there. So yeah, look,
Speaker 2: it is exciting stuff and I really am looking forward
Speaker 2: to having a proper drive of these and seeing them
Speaker 2: on the road. They'll go on sale from June this
Speaker 2: year for the Ranger and July for the Ranger Raptor.
Speaker 1: And Paul will be definitely driving one before they even
Speaker 1: go on sound, no doubt, thanks to this shonky little
Speaker 1: deal you've got with your quote dealer. Let me guess,
Speaker 1: was he your plus one in the Marquee?
Speaker 3: No comment? Right, moving on, look I agree. I think
Speaker 3: it's really well priced.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're priced it like that, exactly what you said,
Speaker 1: given the amount of tech and given the jump in
Speaker 1: tech and what these cars are generally loaded with. Look,
Speaker 1: it's a good deal. They're going to be popular, no doubt.
Speaker 1: I wonder how long the weight is on these Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what I've heard now from a stock controller
Speaker 2: at one of the biggest four dealers in the country
Speaker 2: is that with the Raptor, for example, they're getting eight vehicles,
Speaker 2: so I know at least ten people that have orders
Speaker 2: on one. So I think that these things are going
Speaker 2: to be sold out pretty much immediately. And I think
Speaker 2: that if you do genuinely want a new Ranger or
Speaker 2: a Raptor, you've got to be in there right now
Speaker 2: and putting your money down, because if you leave it
Speaker 2: any later than this, you could be up for something
Speaker 2: like a six or twelve month weight. So yes, get
Speaker 2: on to it sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: Hey, should we check out some cars, Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Toyota gr Corolla. Photo's got le
Speaker 1: or not leaked, but I guess released this week. Looks good.
Speaker 1: One point six leter turbo charged, or we'll drive. I
Speaker 1: think on this one big breaks. You can see on
Speaker 1: the pitchers. They're three hundred horse power two and twenty
Speaker 1: killer waits three seventy meters of talked.
Speaker 3: Look, it's a beast of a car.
Speaker 2: I don't love the way that it looks. I think
Speaker 2: it just looks like someone's gone to super cheap Audo
Speaker 2: and gone, hey, can I just have every spoiler you
Speaker 2: sell and then just put it on this Corolla for me?
Speaker 3: Mate? What do you think the bloody audiences? All right?
Speaker 3: What do you think the audience is?
Speaker 2: Well? What do you think about the three exhausts?
Speaker 3: Love?
Speaker 1: It should have been more, should have been six, Bring
Speaker 1: it on. I love the fact that two of them
Speaker 1: are different and they're just like, let's put another different
Speaker 1: looking one in the middle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Civic Type R has three exhausts as well,
Speaker 2: and there's a technical reason for it. So I'm hoping
Speaker 2: this is the same all will drive though one point
Speaker 2: six later I thought maybe a little bit more than
Speaker 2: the one point six just because you know, the Corolla
Speaker 2: is a significantly bigger car than the Yarras j Yarras,
Speaker 2: and you know the power outputs are not too bad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just wonder whether this will be as
Speaker 2: engaging as the Arras is to drive. Hopefully the seating
Speaker 2: positions better. With the arras, you basically sit on top
Speaker 2: of the roof because the seed is just so high
Speaker 2: off the floor. So yeah, I'll be keen to see
Speaker 2: how it goes. We actually had Chris Akinson, former World
Speaker 2: Rally Championship driver. He did a GR Yaris up against
Speaker 2: a w r X st I at the track for
Speaker 2: US and the GI Yaris did surprisingly well compared to
Speaker 2: the REXI.
Speaker 1: So well, you know me with this WRX, this latest
Speaker 1: one just doesn't impress at all.
Speaker 2: No, it's not impressive. It's an impressor.
Speaker 1: You know what, every time you say something stupid. From
Speaker 1: now on, I'm just going to throw up that photo
Speaker 1: of you holding the lanyard.
Speaker 2: They just leave the jukes to me.
Speaker 3: Can we put that up? Thank you? Where should we
Speaker 3: go to?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: What should we look at next? Let's roll up another
Speaker 1: one bmw X seven.
Speaker 2: So you know how sometimes people say that you have
Speaker 2: a face for radio.
Speaker 3: No, no one's ever that's radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the BMWX seven they've kind of gone. Okay,
Speaker 2: So normal cars have two sets of headlights. What we'll
Speaker 2: do is multiply that by two and then we'll separate them.
Speaker 2: It seems to be a trend now for some reason
Speaker 2: with car brands where they're just trying to make stuff
Speaker 2: look very strange, and the X seven falls into that category.
Speaker 2: I think with the right color, it actually doesn't look terrible.
Speaker 3: What do you think terrible?
Speaker 1: Even in the blue, even in the blue, even in
Speaker 1: the black and the charcoal gray, and even white.
Speaker 3: I think they all look terrible to me, you know how.
Speaker 1: You know, for instance, you get say some of the
Speaker 1: Chinese or Korean car brands, and they will try and
Speaker 1: take elements of European cars and put them in this.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a European car.
Speaker 1: That's like, well, we're going to do the same back
Speaker 1: back to you and incorporate a whole bunch of odd
Speaker 1: sort of Asian market features on our car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like they've kind of done that with this car.
Speaker 1: It just there's no cohesion about it.
Speaker 2: It just okay, hold on, let me throw this at you.
Speaker 2: Would you prefer the seventy headlights that it's got or
Speaker 2: the giant grill from the M three and M four,
Speaker 2: Like if you had to pick one of those because
Speaker 2: this has a normal sized grill.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say giant grill. I think it would
Speaker 1: be hilarious to make this car look even shitter.
Speaker 3: So that's where I stand on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, look, I don't know. I need to see
Speaker 2: it in person. I have a feeling based on the
Speaker 2: spy shots we've seen that the seven series is going
Speaker 2: to look exactly like this as well, which is highly
Speaker 2: disappointing because the seventh series always had a classy look
Speaker 2: to it. It was never something they were daring or
Speaker 2: outrageous when it came to styling. So yeah, hopefully it
Speaker 2: looks better in person, and I hope they slow down
Speaker 2: with all the wacky stuff that they're doing at the moment.
Speaker 3: All right, last one? Where should we go with this one?
Speaker 2: Okay? Last one? I've sent you a link. I want
Speaker 2: you to click on the click on the link. I
Speaker 2: promise it's work safe.
Speaker 1: And I'm just reading the link now. Paul Marrick slash
Speaker 1: noodles of doodles what.
Speaker 3: He's sending me? We can't send this stuff anymore?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Whoa is that not the most What is that a ram?
Speaker 2: Yes? So beneath the skin. The as Non Palladium is
Speaker 2: a one point five million dollar Italian made hyper luxury suv.
Speaker 2: It is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. So
Speaker 2: my mate Damien Reid, he's a journalist based in Dubai,
Speaker 2: he went to this reveal event and the first sale
Speaker 2: has gone to a chic yeah, businessman. So it's based
Speaker 2: on the RAM fifteen hundred Limited. They then strip it
Speaker 2: all down and then make it into a luxury four
Speaker 2: seater off road saloon. And the best bit is with
Speaker 2: the engine. What they've done. They've taken the RAM fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred out, replace the five point seven liter V eight
Speaker 2: and put in an engine from the TRX, So it's
Speaker 2: it's then beefed up to six point four liters with
Speaker 2: a pair of turbochargers. That is even though the TRX
Speaker 2: engine is already supercharged.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 3: I love this car.
Speaker 2: It is insane. And have a look at the interior.
Speaker 2: It is just the most remarkable thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It's it is truly comical. So yeah, I would love
Speaker 2: to drive this. I don't know where. I think you
Speaker 2: could only drive it in the UAE because anywhere else
Speaker 2: it would cost you an incredible amount of money to
Speaker 2: fuel it.
Speaker 3: But wow, look at that, Look at those seats. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we killed several crocodile. Don't make this for real.
Speaker 2: So yeah, please head to car expert dot com today
Speaker 2: you and just look up as non palladium to have
Speaker 2: a look at what looking at now it is. It
Speaker 2: is truly a remarkable thing.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about the back seats though. That
Speaker 1: looks like a bloody couch and a cheap hotel. Actually
Speaker 1: it looks very familiar. It looks like a casting couch
Speaker 1: I've seen somewhere.
Speaker 2: The travel lodge. Yeah, it is weird how the seats
Speaker 2: are like right next to each other. Normally in these
Speaker 2: uber luxury cars there's like a giant divider between the
Speaker 2: rear passengers. But this is like you're basically up against
Speaker 2: whoever is next to you, which I guess depends who's
Speaker 2: next to you. But it may not be such a
Speaker 2: good thing.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling you don't like to be hugged,
Speaker 1: not by you. No, come on a little bit of
Speaker 1: a tickle every now and then. You love a BELLI
Speaker 1: rub It's the only thing that calms you down. You
Speaker 1: called me up and be like, oh, I've had another
Speaker 1: fight with my missus camire Yes, Scully wag and then
Speaker 1: you do a pool on.
Speaker 3: The carpet and it's very awkward. Um, should we talk
Speaker 3: here at EB six Yes? Oh there's your famous yes.
Speaker 1: Roll it sexy voiceover lady from New Zealand.
Speaker 6: The twenty twenty two Kia EV six six not six six.
Speaker 6: I'm still working on it. Prices start from just over
Speaker 6: sixty seven thousand dollars for the base rear wheel drive,
Speaker 6: or the one we reviewed, which was.
Speaker 1: All will drive GT line round about eighty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: This is the sibling to the Yundai Ionic five. You
Speaker 1: know what's weird? Before we talk about this, I saw
Speaker 1: another car journo compare this obviously to the Ionic five
Speaker 1: and saying that how similar they are.
Speaker 3: They basically share the same tech.
Speaker 1: To me, like, we kind of savage the Ionic five
Speaker 1: quite a bit.
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I honestly think you couldn't get these cars further apart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. I mean that, yes, they share
Speaker 2: a lot of technology, but it's all beneath the skin
Speaker 2: because they look completely different. Inside, they're completely different, And
Speaker 2: I found to drive that they really weren't that similar either.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I understand the logic of it being comparable,
Speaker 2: but ultimately the key of very much stands on its own.
Speaker 3: I agree. I look, I was. I was really impressed
Speaker 3: with this car. I love it.
Speaker 1: I genuinely love it, to the point I actually asked
Speaker 1: the car I asked her if I could buy the
Speaker 1: Press car.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I really go for you.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal, here's my reasons for doing so.
Speaker 1: How long do you think you're going to have to
Speaker 1: wait for one of these cars?
Speaker 2: Well, it's like over a year, one to two years.
Speaker 1: I called up two dealers. One was a drug dealer,
Speaker 1: the other one was just a local. And I can't
Speaker 1: play this for legal reasons. Unfortunately, our lawyers really sort
Speaker 1: of told me not to. But I literally said, if
Speaker 1: I put down a deposit today, how long am I
Speaker 1: going to wait for this car? He said, two to
Speaker 1: three years, twenty two model in twenty twenty five. Where
Speaker 1: tech's gonna change, stuff's gonna move on. Yeah, just insane.
Speaker 1: There's the weird thing is about this is there's such
Speaker 1: popularity for it, such a demand for it. Why have
Speaker 1: they taken it to market? If they're putting a curfew
Speaker 1: on numbers.
Speaker 2: Look, the problem is that it's a curfew that's kind
Speaker 2: of put in place overseas because at the moment they
Speaker 2: have all these laws around emissions in Europe and they're
Speaker 2: directing all of their stock to Europe in the US,
Speaker 2: so there's plenty of cars there. Australia is so low
Speaker 2: on the pecking order in terms of emissions requirements that
Speaker 2: Kia simply says, well, why would I send any more
Speaker 2: of the stock that I'm selling lots of to Europe
Speaker 2: where I have to sell it to Australia where I
Speaker 2: don't have to sell it and they can just have
Speaker 2: a little bit. So unfortunately, geographically and with our emissions laws,
Speaker 2: we're kind of getting screwed at the moment in terms
Speaker 2: of allocations. But in saying that Tesla has no issue
Speaker 2: sending us, you know, thousands of cars a month, So that's.
Speaker 1: A record for you. It took us to sort of
Speaker 1: three quarters of the show for you to mention it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in all seriousness, it is simply the car
Speaker 2: companies just not really putting their best foot forward. One
Speaker 2: of the things I like with the EV six over
Speaker 2: the Ionic five is that you actually have. It has
Speaker 2: the same vehicle to load systems. You can power things
Speaker 2: from the outlet, but with the key you actually have
Speaker 2: a power point inside the car between the two rear
Speaker 2: passenger seats, whereas with the key under you have to
Speaker 2: plug it in outside.
Speaker 1: So it's like an adapter that you put in well,
Speaker 1: I guess where you charge it. It's a what do
Speaker 1: they call powder load. It's kind of a different adapter, right,
Speaker 1: great car. In terms of size, it's similar to the
Speaker 1: It's similar I guess to the Ionic five, where it
Speaker 1: looks a whole lot smaller than it actually is. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of size comparison. This would be very
Speaker 1: similar to maybe a Keia Sorrento flat wide, very similar
Speaker 1: looking to Paul in that respects.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, it looks like you
Speaker 2: damn it all.
Speaker 1: Right, Chod, come on twenty inch wheels. I just think
Speaker 1: the front looks badass. I absolutely love it. I love
Speaker 1: the flush door handles on it. How they I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that's a common thing, but it does look cool.
Speaker 1: It looks really great. The interior is brilliant. It's I
Speaker 1: think parts of it are made from plastic bottles and stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that, like they did with the Ionic five.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a who gives a shit, but
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of doing it as a nice
Speaker 1: pr move.
Speaker 3: The back looks really cool. To be honest, this entire car.
Speaker 1: When I saw it, like let's say, six months ago,
Speaker 1: I wasn't convinced at all at first sighting photos, I
Speaker 1: was like, nah, but damn, when you're in front of it,
Speaker 1: it's got presence.
Speaker 3: It's got serious presence. The back of it.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, God, the back looks ugly as hell,
Speaker 1: but when you're there, it's really cool. It's got that
Speaker 1: kind of DBX vibe about it. The I don't know
Speaker 1: how to describe this, like the kind of rear three
Speaker 1: D diamond things on the back.
Speaker 3: It's kind of you know where the indicators are, do
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean that looks cool.
Speaker 1: At first glance, you think it's just kind of part
Speaker 1: of the plastic and stuff like that, but it's actually functional,
Speaker 1: so there you go, the kind of duct tail swoop
Speaker 1: at the back.
Speaker 3: I just think it looks really cool.
Speaker 1: It's just got a presence about it that no other
Speaker 1: car has got going for it. Right now and wise
Speaker 1: it's look. I loved it. I genuinely love the drive.
Speaker 1: I do have a question though, Yeah go on, I
Speaker 1: am really looking forward to the GT version of this
Speaker 1: because that's going to be insane. But one thing I
Speaker 1: did notice is the way evs accelerate. How it's so
Speaker 1: smooth and generally has one gear. What's your take on
Speaker 1: the power that these things have. One thing I noticed
Speaker 1: when I jumped in this after a week or two
Speaker 1: to drive in my Stinger, you realize how well how
Speaker 1: much intuition you get generally from a traditional car. Yep, sound,
Speaker 1: feel everything, you can gauge speed, you can feel speed.
Speaker 1: This apart from, like you know, the sort of pinning back,
Speaker 1: I guess definitely holds a point because you don't realize
Speaker 1: how fast you're going in these.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's part of the problem. Like you said,
Speaker 2: normal cars you have noise, you can kind of get
Speaker 2: an idea of what's going on, but here you don't
Speaker 2: have any of that. And I think that if you
Speaker 2: remove the speedo, you would not realize how quick you're
Speaker 2: actually going in comparison to an internal combustion car, So
Speaker 2: it'll become a problem down the track. Because if you
Speaker 2: have a think about something like a Tesla Model three
Speaker 2: Performance and how quick that is. If you basically go
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years down the track where a teenager
Speaker 2: is going to buy this like they would buy a
Speaker 2: Commodore now or something like that, you can end up
Speaker 2: with some very quick cars on the market that young
Speaker 2: people have access to. And it's going to be a
Speaker 2: very different landscape because the speed you can get now
Speaker 2: in some of these high end cars was reserved for
Speaker 2: supercars and hypercars, and we're now going to be handing
Speaker 2: these down to a young generation. I'm just curious to
Speaker 2: see how that's going to play out in terms of
Speaker 2: the road toll and how people end up driving in
Speaker 2: the future when these things are so quick.
Speaker 3: Avoid shortlist by what do you stand?
Speaker 2: Okay, so it depends on the weight. If you could
Speaker 2: get one tomorrow or had to wait a maximum if
Speaker 2: let's say six or twelve months, I would buy one
Speaker 2: because I think they're a really good car. They have
Speaker 2: great technology inside. The charging speed is fantastic. It's capable
Speaker 2: of doing like two hundred and thirty kilowats of charging
Speaker 2: or something so and.
Speaker 1: This stage too, the range is really good as well.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on the model, but roughly between
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty and say five hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: kilometers you'll get depending on the model.
Speaker 3: The range is really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean from that side of things, it's good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know that i'd wait three years
Speaker 2: for one, because you know, like you said, by the
Speaker 2: time this rolls around, technology will have this segment. Technology
Speaker 2: is volting so quickly that it's just impossible to really
Speaker 2: know where we're going to go. So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it just depends on the wait time. If one pops up,
Speaker 2: they're definitely worth the money, But yeah, would you wait
Speaker 2: that long for one? I just don't know.
Speaker 1: The same again, and I think we kind of have
Speaker 1: to take their stance on the car for what it
Speaker 1: is right here, right now. The wait time is unfortunate
Speaker 1: and it seems to be affecting everyone.
Speaker 3: Two to three years.
Speaker 1: In my view when I heard that is just it's
Speaker 1: kind of unacceptable.
Speaker 2: I mean, hold, who's the second you call up a
Speaker 2: dealer and they go, okay, it's a two to three
Speaker 2: year wait, Who in their right mind goes, oh, excellent,
Speaker 2: Well just pop my name down here as a deposit
Speaker 2: and I'll see you in two or three years.
Speaker 1: Say they get an allocation of six hundred per year.
Speaker 1: They've got an allocation of six hundred per year that
Speaker 1: has exceeded significantly to the point where it's they've taken
Speaker 1: deposits as it stands for eighteen hundred cars. So he's
Speaker 1: saying three years in theory, given that they've got an
Speaker 1: allocation of six hundred per year. So yeah, three years.
Speaker 1: But who knows. Things could change somehow, somehow they could
Speaker 1: get a whole shitload of sevconductors or an extra factory
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: But also, there's one hundred Kia dealers in Australia or thereabouts,
Speaker 2: so you have to divide the stuff that's coming in
Speaker 2: by one hundred dealers. There's got a lot of stock
Speaker 2: to go around, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely, Look, I think as it stands by this car,
Speaker 1: I loved it. It deserves all the accolades it's getting. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Europe and the US scat to see these cars and
Speaker 1: get to review these cars before we do. And there
Speaker 1: was a lot of good talk about this, and so
Speaker 1: I was weary because I saw that with the.
Speaker 3: Five and then I jumped in. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: what is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I believe it deserves everything that's getting. I
Speaker 1: genuinely love this car. I think it's great. If you
Speaker 1: can buy it the GT line, the all wheel drive,
Speaker 1: you're just going to get the boot. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get really in the front because of that second engine.
Speaker 2: It's twenty seven leaders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well you'll get the charging cable in the front.
Speaker 3: But that's about it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it when it's specked up and they've thrown
Speaker 1: everything at it. So yeah, great car. Let's just hope
Speaker 1: they can get one. Let's just hope they can get
Speaker 1: these on the road.
Speaker 2: The only problem, Hey, by.
Speaker 1: The way, do you like constantly walk around with that
Speaker 1: lanyard on.
Speaker 3: Like or do you alternate?
Speaker 1: Do you sometimes go like the F one Paddock Pass
Speaker 1: and then other days you go like the AMG.
Speaker 2: Like I said before, you are a bitch. Well, can
Speaker 2: we talk about some some reviews that have been left
Speaker 2: for us?
Speaker 3: We do fan mail at the end of each episode.
Speaker 1: Lately, No, but these are good then, okay, because it
Speaker 1: always like it always puts me in a bad mood,
Speaker 1: especially when last time, I.
Speaker 4: Don't bloody care for his humor of that Gordon character Genant.
Speaker 4: I don't care for his smutty yum jo. I'm here
Speaker 4: for the automobiles. No friggin' locker boys, Hume.
Speaker 2: So thankfully, none of none of that accurate feedback. But
Speaker 2: we had one here from goose Oz, who wrote best
Speaker 2: car podcast in Australia. That's all I got to say about.
Speaker 3: It, Giesse.
Speaker 1: Goose guess us little legend, true facts.
Speaker 2: Another one here from says Ann who wrote my new
Speaker 2: favorite podcast. My husband and I stumbled across this podcast
Speaker 2: on a road trip and it's brilliant, informative yet hilariously
Speaker 2: funny too. Can't wait for more. I assume she's talking
Speaker 2: about me. Yeah, so excellent. Keep the feedback coming. So
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Speaker 2: at contact at the Drive Show dot com. Today we
Speaker 2: both see those.
Speaker 3: I got an.
Speaker 1: Awesome email from a listener and I reckon, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read it out. I promised him would I'd
Speaker 1: read it out this app, but I'm going to save
Speaker 1: it for the next one because he brings so much
Speaker 1: to the tables, so many amazing questions, and yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: go through it.
Speaker 3: We'll go through it.
Speaker 1: I forget his name, but I promised him i'd go
Speaker 1: through this email this app, and I'm sorry we're not,
Speaker 1: but we'll definitely do it the next one.
Speaker 2: We actually got an email from Peter who was asking
Speaker 2: about by D because we spoke about that the last
Speaker 2: episode where he went to the launch and there was
Speaker 2: the lady with the dog. He said he saw one
Speaker 2: on the road a couple of days ago in Melbourne
Speaker 2: and said it looks pretty good in the flesh. He
Speaker 2: said he's looking forward to ower review, but he had
Speaker 2: some questions here. He wrote, it all works through my
Speaker 2: car and even then only a select few stores. Sounds
Speaker 2: a bit suss, I reckon. They have actually signed on
Speaker 2: ap Egers though, which is Australia's biggest dealer groups. I
Speaker 2: suspect there will be some integration into dealership somewhere, but yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole my car thing's weird. He also wrote there's
Speaker 2: no prefusion to trade in your existing car, which is
Speaker 2: a really good point, and then he wrote, will the
Speaker 2: local variant have a spare wheel? Now that's an interesting
Speaker 2: question because a lot of the time we publish reviews,
Speaker 2: people go, oh, does it have a spear wheel? If
Speaker 2: you live in the country, it's probably something you want
Speaker 2: to know about. And a space saver, I can tell
Speaker 2: you they're a pain in the ass if you're in
Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere and you stick it on the
Speaker 2: car and you can only do eighty k's an hour
Speaker 2: until you get to your nearest my car to have
Speaker 2: it fixed and buy your BYD.
Speaker 3: So you know what I did.
Speaker 1: That was one of the things when I was opening
Speaker 1: the boot and the old woman with the dog was like,
Speaker 1: oh fu, and I said, stop looking at my bottom, lady.
Speaker 1: I did look for the spare tire, and from memory,
Speaker 1: I don't think there was one in there.
Speaker 2: It is troubling, isn't it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, look, here's what I will say, because you
Speaker 1: keep rubbishing these guys, and actually.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I will just before you say that my
Speaker 2: tesla or my tesla that I just sold doesn't have
Speaker 2: a spare tire at all. No, So there he goes.
Speaker 3: And you've been fine for two years.
Speaker 2: I had one flat tire.
Speaker 3: What did you do there?
Speaker 2: Ten minutes after I bought it? You call the number
Speaker 2: and a guy just brings you a brain new wheel
Speaker 2: and tire and takes your old.
Speaker 3: One elon musk just arrives in a rocket.
Speaker 1: Yes, like comment, chare please do all that because it
Speaker 1: ensures that Paul will show up every week.
Speaker 3: And let's go home.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3: Someone's brought me a sausage roll. Oh my god, pull.
Speaker 2: Moment on the lips, Lifetime on the hips.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's not the sausage roll pulled your parents? U?
Speaker 3: Would you Paul,