Cars, Tacos, And A Secret Drive-In Movie?

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast. Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show just ahead. It's time to check in with Bobby Sparksman and the game with uh upcoming Hot Rod Tour of Texas. Plus, Jeff has the motor minute, and I'm going to reveal the new hunting center fame just ahead of this segment of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. A very pleasant Saturday morning to you, howdy, along with Mike out of this world of ours. We always need more Jeff Seeking. Jeff Joy. I didn't say I didn't hear anything in that class commercial about the Teen Gilman Mega Meet 2026. Saturday, March 14th, 10 to 2. Mega Car Show, Awards, Food and Drinks, Vendors, DJ, and giveaways way up North on the North Freeway, 18202 North Freeway. Coming your way on Saturday, March the 14th. And we all of this is going to follow us up there. Even you. So there is that. Anyway.

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Are you running the kissing booth this year after?

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Well, I was thinking about it. You're going to be in the kissing booth? No, I was going to run it. I didn't think I was going to be here. Okay.

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All right. Well, there's that. Uh the Hot Rod Tour of Texas. Okay. We have been on it since uh its inception, I'm proud to say. And we've had such a good time doing it that we decided not to do it this year. Sorry. I just had to say that because uh talked to Bobby, and we we got a plan though. Because we're going to be live in remote during our entire show on that particular Saturday. And uh Bobby Sparkman's joining us with guests. Why don't you introduce everybody, Bobby?

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I'm Bobby Sparkman, one of the co co coordinators, finders of the of the tour. This is this is the boss of me. Uh this is Saber Sparkman, the merch woman, a registration. And over there is Jeremy and Henry. Jeremy?

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Hi Jeremy. Hi Henry, how

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are you guys? Uh it's good to see everybody, including the wife, the the actual boss, because we know how this works. Yeah, yeah. We joined you on the first one, and and if it weren't for her, that would have never happened. I can tell you that. I will say that. So uh we're looking forward to it. So, those of uh the listeners, our viewers this morning that are joining us, tell us about the hot rod tour in about 60 seconds. Where does it start? How long does it go? Who's invited, and how do you join it?

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Everybody's invited. It's open to the public uh for the kickoff party on Thursday night in downtown Victoria. Um, as well as the garage crawls on that Thursday, they're open to the public. Anyone can come. There's no fee, no registration for that. And then if you want to participate in the driving portion of the tour, there is a registration fee uh that includes a t-shirt for drivers and passengers. Uh it also includes two meals, catered meals, really, really good catering this year. Um, some really cool stuff that gets you in the entries into some of the venues, like the Stars and Stripes Drive In Theater in the Bronxville's and several other places.

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What's the movie gonna be this year?

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Can't tell you it's a secret, but the owner of the drive-in's bringing out. Some some automobiles that are gonna be really, really cool.

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And that's the beauty that Bobby's got with the speaker.

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Go ahead, Bob. This year we're gonna uh Don and you guys are familiar. Typically, we use this one of the smaller screens. This year we're gonna have the biggest screen there. We're gonna have number one screen, a big

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screen. Wow.

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And if you don't follow Hot Rod Tour Texas and you want to go, you should. Now Bobby's kind of he's he's very coy, and I'm sure it has to do with Sabre being part of this. Releasing the dates, releasing the times, sort of give you a little tease throughout the year for the stuff.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Well, so I I was I was sparked to call Bobby this week because because because um we have registration. Is it open now?

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It is open now. It is open.

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Yeah, so where do we go to register?

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You can either go on to our website, uh, which is hot www.hotwobtour of Texas.com. And at the very top of that page is uh just a simple link. You click in and it takes you to Event Bite. Um, that's where all the registration is being handled through Event Bite to keep the keep the scammers from ripping people off.

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Sure. Yeah, and I this is I think the most calm I've seen Jeremy and Saber on all the tours. They're just chilling out. Yeah, they're gonna get wound up. Yeah, exactly.

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I will tell you, you mentioned the the kickoff on uh there in downtown Victoria. I was telling my wife that you know we kind of had a change in plans and everything, and so she wanted to know if she could just go to that and just you know, she just wants to go down there and enjoy that because of the around the square with all the cars, the music, you know, because you got the city involved in it, all kinds. It's just it's a great night because the weather's always good.

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The vibes because it's it's the hot rod tour of Texas. We uh we partnered with uh the Victoria Symphony uh a few years back, and they bring all the kids out and perform and and some some high school level folks, and it's just a really, really cool event. Let me just address it. You guys have enjoyed it, so y'all y'all kind of witnessed it. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Just wait till this year.

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This is this is a professional symphony now. This is not just a children's symphony, this is the real symbol.

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This is really a lot of fun. It's uh it's a quite quite an interesting event. Yeah. And then our little band that comes with us every year, the Cobars, they're gonna be going on tour with us again this year.

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Yeah, I didn't get to sit in with them last year, but that's okay.

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Last year they performed under the vintage airplanes at the Longstar Flight Museum.

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Yeah.

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And a couple other stops as well. And they performed Thursday night as well, starting at like seven o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Okay, so I know that you don't you're not ready to announce the actual stops. Can you tell us the direction you're going in?

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We're going north, the hill country.

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Going back to the hill country. I think that that's a good move because uh I think that most of us really like going up through the hill country.

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That's beautiful roads, beautiful country. And we got a little Texas history stop as well this year at uh at a little uh uh fort there down the road.

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I I was gonna ask Sabra, but she just left the picture there. If if she's ready and she's ready to go and she's got all her eyes dotted and T's crossed and all that.

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Absolutely not.

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She's getting materials ready for the women's cap. She's gonna start hand-making women's cap. So it's so funny. The first year she did it, I said, nobody's gonna buy those, and she sold all of them the first the first stop.

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So you get started like the day after the tour ends for the next year?

SPEAKER_02 7:09

She puts it off till the last minute. She procrastinates. No, I think that's so that you say that.

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They're already talking on the way home about next year's tour, and I'm like, yeah, I'll see y'all in April.

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Yeah.

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And it's really, really tough because we try to get registration opened up as early as we can, and and it's always one or two stops that that are dragging their feet, and it's like, you know, we want to we want to include them, but we gotta we gotta make sure that the numbers are right, that it's it's good for everybody, it's a good stop, it can hold everybody. Um, we go to all the locations and meet up with them personally and and visit with them and make sure everything's good for both sides.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Of course, yeah, exactly. Um so I know that we can't get so registration is open now?

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Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Okay, it's open now. And is there is there going to be a limit this year on the number of cars like there was last year?

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350. Wow, 350.

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So we we bumped it up by 50 cars.

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Yes. And this is our fifth year. This is our fifth year doing it.

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I

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understand.

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So uh the young man sitting there, uh, how what do you think? What what is your uh part in this participation? Next to Jeremy there. Jeremy Saigon. Henry, what's your what's your part in all this? Oh, we we can't hear you.

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Yeah, we got a we got a lot of we got a lot of microphones not working real well for Henry.

SPEAKER_06 8:42

Well, at any rate, uh Jeremy keeps Jeremy in line and makes sure Jeremy stays on top.

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Oh okay. That's Jeremy's boss, then.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

So you can do it. So kids are welcome to join on the tour, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:58

Absolutely. It's it's it's it's completely open to anybody of all ages. Um, we've had a 16-year-old that drove her grandfather's truck, and her grandfather rode with her on the entire tour, made all the stops. We've had one that uh last year was the first year he's successfully made it. He's tried three times, he drove the entire tour in a Model A with his grandfather.

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I think it's original, I think we saw them.

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so wow, apparently it didn't make the 60 mile an hour mark on some of the.

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No, we would get there an hour, hour and a half before they would show up. And he made every one of them. We checked into every stop.

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Yeah, yeah. Um, so uh, I don't know what you can tell us, but you know, typically you take us to places that uh we really enjoy going. And uh one that I sticks out in my mind is the uh the hot rod shop with the body shop uh there. Was it outside of Austin? New Brothels. New Brothers.

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We will be stopping there again briefly.

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That's good because that that is those are great folks, and they've got a great facility there. And I was really still got the keychain. I was really there you go. I was really taken back by uh their attention to detail and some of the stuff that they can turn out there. Really impressive.

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And one of the guys that that goes on the tour with us, uh, one of the guys that does some of the videoing, um he rides with Jerry Venerable quite a bit. Those venerables does some videoing for us. Uh his baby's fire bed was there at Samson's getting restored, so it's getting really close to going into paint. So we'll get to see it.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Is it gonna be roadworthy by then?

SPEAKER_02 10:42

No, it's it's gonna go into paint.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Ah. That doesn't tell me whether it's roadworthy or not. But okay, I'll buy, I'll buy what you got to say. We know we know how that works. Yeah.

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We can share that our final stop this year in the awards is gonna be at Wickhambach post office.

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Oh very enough.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

We're talking wine country. Well, I was just gonna say, so uh, if you want to go to Fredericksburg, I guess it'll be on your own.

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Yeah, that's a that's a fantastic, fantastic place to go. Um, they were they were it was funny because we changed the route last year, went up

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towards Houston, and they were messaging us and hey you guys, are y'all gonna come this year? Are y'all gonna come this year? So they were really, really supportive of the hot rod tour, and and we're kind of surprised that we brought as many car people in there that that pretty much cleaned out their store of merchandise.

SPEAKER_04 11:33

So so Bobby, with with the hot rod tour, what other events do you involve yourself in? Because I see a lot of stuff with the tasty down there in Victoria, and you you're always going somewhere, somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

We scouting locations. We're in the bronze right now, scouting out our little a little cruise we're gonna do in a couple of weeks here, or actually in about three weeks, I guess, three or four weeks. But we do we do the little cruise for uh um River Ride, we do uh we do bike tracks and power reels, we do the car show for Victoria for the city of Victoria, the Taos Best Car Show, we do the car show for Hollowsville for uh called Kalachi Fest, which is a really cool, yeah, really cool and great food. Um also we help out with the Frostroads Cruisers Car Show. I'm a member of the Crossroads Cruisers Car Club, so I'm co-chairing that uh car show with them this year. Too much just doing some time somebody calls, she says, tell them no, tell them no, because you know shut up, you know. We like doing things and helping out. We like driving our cars, we don't like sitting around in a parking lot all day long, we like getting them out. That's but the the beauty of the tour. Me and Jeremy kind of we kind of brainstormed this idea a long time ago, and it's like the first year we did it's like, oh let's just get in cars and go. And it just really, really, really blew up. So everybody wants to know.

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We've had a lot of inquiries here. Does did Jeremy and do you guys work?

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We both uh ironically, we both work at chemical plants.

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Chemical plants. So a lot of there's a lot of fumes in the air there. Uh-huh. Car fumes. It explains a lot, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, there's that.

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Would you we

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would you be able to help us if we wanted to start like an old fogey car run or something for it?

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That's what it's far.

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Well, the only problem is Don would be the only one that could go.

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I have more hair than you, so uh grass doesn't grow on busy streets.

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There you go.

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We we love seeing you guys on the tour and supporting us, and and and I can tell you y'all were one of many groups, but the one of the biggest ones that everybody remembers you guys.

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That can be good or bad. I'm just gonna say good.

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We have always been extremely, extremely interested in what we're doing, and and what we like about what you you guys do, as well as what y'all you guys are interested in, and not just the cars, but the people behind the cars, and that's what we like too. Uh we like getting to know the people who own these vehicles and put them together.

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So history, that's right.

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Did you all these cars, the majority of these cars have a have a story?

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Did uh saber get the word that uh we're going to utilize her a lot this year? Yes, it is. Yeah, just wing it. Yeah, just yeah, you know how this works. Is it we just wing it all the time? So uh our our plan is to really be on the tour with you this year and have you talk to us, tell us where you are, what's going on, what's coming up on the next stop, what you did at the last stop, that sort of thing, and really involve everybody that watches our show on a regular basis to see what it's really like. Because when we're on the hot rod tour with you, we don't have that opportunity because we're working to keep up. That's what we're trying to do.

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It's pretty good when you're on the side of the road video mobile that day. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_03 15:15

I I did do that, but it was spots, you know. This this we hope to kind of

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expand that reach, and and she has nothing else to do, I'm sure. Obviously, uh well, Henry can help her.

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Yeah, Henry left. Yeah, we're just quit. We're probably gonna rely on a few people to get videoed.

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Henry quit, I think. Yes. And so who's gonna be towing the trailer? The merchant be Ty again. Okay. Because I was waiting for somebody to say, oh, well, Sabra can't do it because she's towing the no, she's gonna do it. We're gonna twist that.

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Please probably more than any of us. She's towed the health out of that trailer across Texas.

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Yeah, no doubt about it.

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She's not she's not afraid to drag it 75.

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Well, it's great to be with you guys. Jeremy, I wish that we could have invited uh invited you. We I wish that we could have had you speak a little more, but apparently your audio connection just doesn't quite cut it. And the high end Wi-Fi in the in the high high-end world of tech that we have here at the In Wheel Time Cross video show. Well, there's that. It must be that missile he's got on his roof. The missile, that's it. Well, gentlemen and lady, it's certainly great to see you guys and to talk to you. And uh, we'll be in touch and uh we look forward to it. What are the dates of the hot rod tour? Jerry. The dates of the hot rod, the hot rod tour.

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The last weekend in April.

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The last weekend in April. April 23rd through 26th.

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Okay, 350 slots. How many are filled right now?

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Um, we're 75%. What about 75%?

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Wow.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Oh, wow. And it's only been open like a week. So now this does not, you're not giving away the stops and the places that we need to call and say, hey, I need a reservation for tonight.

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The the overnight stays are Victoria, New Bronxville's, and Fredericksburg.

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That okay, that helps.

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And then on the website or the Facebook page, we've got links to different hotels. Um the the word got out of of the overnight stays and the host hotel filled out before registration ever opened. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

You posted that, yeah. Yeah, made sure.

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We tried begging for for extra rooms, and there was like, you who have all of our rooms, we don't have no more to give.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yeah. Well, we're bringing in travel trailers out back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

That's that's well, or next time spar uh when you're in an area to scout out the travel, scout out maybe an apartment complex you could buy.

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Yeah, you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Hey, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for watching.

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Right, right, right.

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All right. Last weekend in April, we'll be there. Thank you all. It's good to see you and best of luck. Thank you guys.

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We'll see you guys soon.

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Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye. That was fun. Yeah, yeah. Okay, just ahead. Jeff's motor minute and a review of the new Hyundai Santa Fe. And I think you're going to be surprised by that. Oh, wow. That's all when the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show continues right after this quick break. The Tailpipes and Tacos renowned cruising expands to Beaumont. Golden Triangle cruisers will want to experience tailpipes and tacos at the Loopy Tortilla, High Ten South in Beaumont near Washington

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Oh, I love free. Yeah, we're going to call this planned obsolescence. And here's what I'm talking about. If you've ever felt like your car started falling apart right after the warranty expired, you're not alone. And you might be onto something. The concept of planned obsolescence in the automotive industry is the uh idea that the car manufacturers are deliberately designed vehicles for critical components with limited lifespans to keep you coming back to the showroom. The roots of this theory go back to 1920s. General Motors President Alfred P. Sallone back then famously introduced an annual model update to entice owners to trade in their vehicles for the latest model in style. But the conspiracy-minded critics say Sloan's strategy went further. The GM and others eventually engineered subtle weaknesses into the car so that they wear out. According to this theory, everything from engine parts to electronics are built to or fail at a certain mileage or time, forcing owners to pay for repairs or spring for a new car altogether. Car makers, of course, insist that the shorter product cycles are driven by genuine innovation and safety. So more efficient cars require constant redesign. They point to an improved reliability, many components are over the decades that they've improved. Whether or not companies conspire in the boardrooms to shorten a car's life, real consumers feel like durability just isn't what it used to be. They just don't build 'em like they used to, and maybe just maybe that's on purpose. Well, I disagree. I disagree completely.

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New cars today are a conspiracy. New cars today are they're so much better than than the cars of the past. Look at those 80s things that we used to drive and think, wow, I got me an eighty-two Oldsmobile or Monte Carlo or a uh whatever something with Corinthian leather.

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Rich Corinthians Cordoba. Yeah. And and they go longer, they last longer, they're more efficient.

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Unless you get a lemon. And uh that's

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that's face fact, you know, GM made a bunch of 6.2 liter engines that failed on many levels. Yes, yes, and uh they bought them all back. They had to. There was a mass. What about Osmobield and the diesel engine? Well, there was that well, that was Ram and the Cummins diesel. Yep.

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That turned into and then the H64. Oh lord. Yeah. But I I don't know that I I I'm not an engineer, but I don't know how you can sit there and say, okay, this bearing on this piston on this thing, you know, this rod on the crankshaft, it's only gonna go 10 million revolutions, which is equal to uh 100,000 miles. What's that? And it's gonna fail.

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What's it made out of? Something cheap.

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That's why it's well I understand, but how do you design it to end uh certain time? Pot metal. Yeah, it's not like titanium. Yeah, okay.

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There you go. Okay, time now for this hour's car review. I had a very nice experience with the 2026 Hyundai Santa Fe. Now it comes in several trim levels, including SE, SEL, The Limited, and the Calligraphy. Oh. I reviewed or am reviewing the hybrid calligraphy all-wheel drive. This is a mid-size SUV, although it looks like it is a full size. It does seat up to seven, including the driver. Um, so it does have a third row. Exterior changes redesigned in 2024. This is a 26, so not much changes between the years since its introduction as a new vehicle in 2024. Exterior features, straightforward design with bookend daytime running lights, edgy designed fender extensions, sloping roof line, horizontal,

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body-wide lighting on the lower rear hatch. It makes it really unique. What I liked about it? The boxy, edgy design. It's just different. It's not like all the other SUVs you see out there. What could use improvement? Nothing that I can think of, and I just put it down here. Keep it coming. Bring more of this. It's really cool. Interior highlights two foot, two feet of screen and a glove box. Well, look at the size of that screen. Okay, it's two feet long. And uh the glove box is there, obviously, on the passenger side. And yes, it's a separate one at the top of the uh dash. Um dual pad phone charger. See it down there at the bottom? Dual pad uh phone charger. Loved it. Uh comfortable seating throughout. Uh the air conditioning gets a separate panel for its controls. Wow. Thank goodness. Uh, all of these manufacturers seem to be doing to this minimalist design. And if you're driving the vehicle, now you've got to take your eyes off the road and fumble on and try to find whatever it is that you're looking for.

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Drill down through the screens.

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It's just it's just not good. As a matter of fact, I've got a story on that a little bit later on. Um cargo trunk room, good with the third row down. With you got the third row up, well, it's uh tight back there, but that's what it's designed for. What I liked, the design and comfort gets high marks on this vehicle. What could use improvement? Give me a volume knob for the radio. Oh, that there's there's one thing that it didn't have. Engine. Ready? 1.6 liter what turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid engine that turns out 231 horsepower and 271 pound feet of torque, which was plenty. Yeah. For the six-speed automatic transmission, and it will tow up to one ton mileage. Uh city 35, highway 34 for a combined to 34. I got 32.6 miles per gallon over 394.8 miles. Very good. What I liked about it, the mileage. Riding handling, very nice, comfortable and compliant. Nice highway attitude, I wrote. Uh, what could use improvement? Nothing. It's all good. Okay, so here are the prices for you. You ready? Yep. The base trim price is $52,500. That's the base trim price. As tested, $52,985. Base model price, $36.4 competitors. Wow. Kia

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Sorrento, its cousin, $38,690. Toyota Highlander, $48,964. Mitsubishi Outlander, which I never would compare this to, but it's close competitor, $29,995. So there's a widespread uh figures here for these different vehicles. And my recommendation to anybody that's out there looking for a car do your homework and shop, shop, shop.

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Absolutely.

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One may be everything that you wanted, but you can't find the volume, uh the radio volume control knob because it doesn't have one. If that's an issue for you, then go to something else because there's too much competition to happen. Right. Especially in this size SUV. Next week I'm going to review the Toyota Corolla Cross. Oh. Which is kind of a itty-bitty, teeny weeny. Too itty-bitty, not too teeny-weeny crossover, but it's called a Toyota Corolla Cross. Give us an insight. Was it sporty? Did it drive well? Give us a hint. It drove well. Um I'm not going to tell you any more than that, I think you'll have to stay tuned for the review. Call you Bobby Sparkman. Well, uh, I can tell you that uh we're going to go to Lukenbach. You drove it all by Lukenbach. I did not drive it to Lukenbach. I can only imagine what they would say.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

To the point of that review in uh what sold for car review? Sold for cars, Hemings?

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Yeah.

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The last vehicle that you said was George's, sort of similar to that one you just reviewed. Yeah. The uh $150,000 one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, $150,000. That was a lot of people were shocked. 86 years old or something. It's been in the text.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

I will tell you that that this vehicle, you know, I drive a different vehicle every week. And um it it's impressive to see how far the automotive industry has come in a general. But Hyundai, they have come a long way, baby, in a short period of time. They are a serious contender and they sell a lot of cars and for a reason.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Because they hold up and they're priced right. Are they building a factory here, a stateside? Probably. Okay. They all are. All right. Because of the tariffs. Well, there's that.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Not only that, just shipping.

unknown 29:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Um, hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, we invite you to send us an email. The address is info at inwheeltime.com. We are back right after this quick break. The Easter Bunny's coming. To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katy, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m. And you're invited too. Bring the kids and grandkids. It's a cruise-in like you've never attended before. With a donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco. There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic. There's no entry fee and no registration. Just bring your ride and the kids. Bad bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will

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be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this Tailpipes and Tacos a very special one. Photo Opportunities abound. The Inverl Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience. It's the Tail Pipes and Tacos Cruise in Easter edition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11am at the Lumpy Tortilla Tex Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of Line 10, the Katy Freeway, in Katy. Make plans now. Lumpy Tortilla is pretty good.

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We're collaborating with the company metal. So the number's gonna be 20. And that's not a lot. We're gonna be wrestling up six comments to be sold at a thousand numbers each. You're not gonna wanna miss this you since March 14th. We can't wait to see you here.

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That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show. I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheeltime.com website. Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartPodcast, Podcast Addict, tune in, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.