The $75,000 Question: Why Ultra-Luxury Car Buyers Are Walking Away

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast , a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am .

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Place for All Things . Automotive the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Coming up , our car story of the week . We'll also have the recalls and what it's sold for . Everybody can join in Later . Jeff has the racing calendar , Mars has this Week in Auto History and I'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines . Howdy , along with Mike , out of this World , Mars . We always need more . Jeff Zekin , I'm Don Armstrong , so glad that you could join us on this Saturday . So I'm going to do a little preview of this story that we've got coming up here , and it is about really expensive cars . We normally don't get into expensive cars because it's pretty much an exclusive club that if you buy one , that you get into just because you got a lot of money , either that or the bank , is really dumb , dumb Back years ago and I still write for a magazine . But years ago I wrote for an upscale magazine .

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I can't even remember the name of it Prime Magazine or something like that Anyway the lady wanted to do a high-end car story because it was a high-end magazine , okay , they had airplanes for sale and stuff like that in there . So I thought , okay , that means I'm going to have to go to a car dealership or two , which I did . One of the car dealerships , the guy that ran it very , very nice guy , older gentleman , and it was a Lamborghini dealership and I didn't know anything about Lamborghinis other than they cost a lot of money and they're really fast and they look awesome . So I went up there , called him on the phone , got an appointment , went up there and we talked and you know the more I was around this dealership and they had a very large service department for such a small dealership , all these Lamborghinis in there getting their service done or whatever the case may be .

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And servicing a high-end car like that is not coming in for an oil change and out the door you go in 10 minutes . It's not that way at all . And so

Car Story Preview: Expensive Cars

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we kept talking about the cars and the price of the cars and he gave me some insight into the guys that afford these cars , and when I say guys , I mean girls too , because there were females that actually had some of these high-end cars . We don't know any of these people that I know of anyway . Well , one , but he doesn't count , he buys used yeah .

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This is a new car dealership . Yeah , I can't afford the garage to put one in .

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Yeah , so we're talking about a quarter million dollars up , and I thought you know who . Who is it that that buys these cars ? And as he explained it to me , he said don these guys . Money doesn't really mean anything to them . It's not as if , you know , they have to balance a checkbook at the end of the month . They don't have to do that . They've got so much money . Most of them own their own companies or corporations and that sort of thing , so they've got money to fiddle with cars . They like cars , they like fast cars , they like exotic cars , which this was Well .

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He said try to put your mind into the fact that money is not an issue like it would be for you or me . Money's not an issue . So if money's not an issue , then you go and buy something that you think you'd like to have . You don't rent it . You pay cash for it . Most of these guys pay cash for their cars . Okay , so here you go with a half-million-dollar Lamborghini and they only have them for a year . Maybe they drive them . They have a couple thousand miles on them . Are y'all writing notes to each other ?

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yeah , we're picking out furniture next week and so they , um , they trade them in . And he and I said man , I sure do like that shelby gt over there . Well , it's only got about 5 000 miles on it . He I'll sell it to you for what I bought it for . And it was like holy cow . I was not in the market for a car like that at the time , and for me the car at the time , used , with a few thousand miles on it , was out of my price range . But the guy had it for a year , drove it a little bit here and there , because he's usually got three , four , five or more cars that he can choose from to drive that day to work , and so it gave me a different perspective .

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So , with all of that in mind , the story of the week is a story that comes across to us from

Trump's Tariffs Impact Luxury Car Market

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automotive news . It's the early rounds , but President Trump's sweeping tariffs on US light vehicle imports are dealing a blow to sales at many exotic and ultra-luxury brands , a market that proved largely immune to the pandemic , the chip shortage and other recent shocks . Demand for ultra-luxury cars and SUVs with eye-popping performance and fat profit margins is in a tailspin . Some dealers say Customers are canceling for ultra-luxury cars and SUVs with eye-popping performance and fat profit margins is in a tailspin . Some dealers say Customers are canceling orders for $750,000 Lamborghinis when the price rises another $75,000 due to the tariffs , said one dealer who requested not to be identified .

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Thereout , Wow , Robert D Stanislau , president of RDS Automotive , Wow and INEOS . Tariffs on vehicles built in Europe ballooned from 2.5 to 25 percent . April 3rd British automakers received a reprieve starting June 30th , when the tariff rate was cut to 10 percent as part of a tentative trade agreement between the US and the UK . Stanislaw envisioned the duty would fall to around 10 percent for other European countries , but on July 12th Trump announced a tariff rate of 30% for the European Union beginning August 1st if a new trade deal is not reached . It's incredibly frustrating , Stanislao said .

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Because of the uncertainty , people are canceling orders and don't know how to proceed . It's ruining confidence on a multitude of levels . Every market is offset by this . Everything we sell is not a necessity , it's a luxury and it is daunting . New vehicle sales are down overall at Stanislaus stores , partly because automakers have reduced output . He said RDS Automotive's net operating income is off dramatically . He said Earnings are down around 70% this year , closer to 90% when compared with results from the COVID-19 pandemic and global microchip shortage . So I guess that the point of the story is , and the point that I wanted to make is is that you think , oh , these guys are rich guys , but okay , the guys that work at the dealership , in the service department the sales department they're not rich , so what's going to happen with them ?

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so they start laying off people . So I guess the point is is that once this thing starts rolling , the ball gets rolling on this deal . It's not going to be pretty , and hopefully that it won't be too much longer and there's going to be some agreements made when it comes to these high tariffs , because it has reached a point now where it is affecting these guys that have the big bucks . They're going . I'm not paying you $75,000 extra , just because of the tariff .

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Yeah , Two things that I see on that . One is that the Lamborghini , the McLaren specifically , you can't just go into the dealership and say I'll take that one , you got it in blue , with green interior or whatever and then drive it off a lot . You can't do that With a McLaren . You have to apply to buy the vehicle , and I think that's the case in some other exotics as well . You can't just walk in now and buy the vehicle . So far as the technicians what they can do they could probably do a second job as a technician at a Ford dealership and probably retire just doing the recalls .

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Is that Solid ? And the thing is , though , somebody like Lamborghini , they're not going to bring their factory or their building process to the United States . It's not gonna happen . That's correct , and and and you look at it and say , well , the tariffs , it only knocked down 10% .

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Well , 10% is a big factor if you're only selling 100 cars a year or 200 .

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I'm not sure how many cars they sell in the Lamborghinis New , but 10% is a big chunk of that automobile . It's not like GM losing 10% of their sales .

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Right , because they're not selling thousands of cars a year . Correct , they're selling a few cars a year .

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Now , does that story just apply to the US , or is that worldwide ?

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Well , I think it's just the United States in particular . So the factory workers and things , the designers and the manufacturer , part of it , where they're made don't really feel the effect that it would down the line , trickle downstream to the actual end result , the retail sale . But if they're not selling cars , they're going to have to lay off . Yeah , they don't have the real ?

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yeah , they don't have anybody , then they can stock them Like GM shutting down the Silverado plant for two weeks . I mean , if you've got a backlog , you know , if you only sell 100 cars , you've got 10 of them sitting on the factory floor . That's a 10 .

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Yeah , you know , being from an automotive family and living in a neighborhood where there was Ford Dodge , you know all the manufacturers in my neighborhood growing up in the Detroit area . They had

Ford Leads Industry in Recalls

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model changes . They would shut down the plant for two weeks for tool and die . Right , that's what the tool and die shift .

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Everybody went on vacation , yeah .

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They still got paid . Some did , some didn't , depending on your job there , but yeah , they would do that every year for model . They call it model change , right , and it was a tool and I think basically , Well you know you mentioned Ford Motor Company and recalls .

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Well , they're recalling 694,271 crossovers in the US due to a fuel leak issue that could increase the risk of a fire , according to NHTSA . To . Nhtsa Automaker said it estimates the recall remedy will cost the company about $570 million and will be included in its upcoming second quarter earnings report under the special item column how many cars ? A lot 694,271 . 700,000 cars . The recall covers certain 21 to 24 Bronco sports , 20 to 22 escape models equipped with the 1.5 liter engine . Latest action expands on previous recalls from 22 and 24 , which provided software updates but did not replace the potentially faulty injectors . Ford leads the auto industry with 89 recalls issued in the us so far in 25 , well ahead of the 18 recalls issued by Chrysler parent Stellantis .

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Other recalls include the Ford GT from 2017 . The rear wing hydraulic fluid leak may cause a fire . High voltage battery contactor may overheat on the Ford Mustang . Mustang mach-e for 2022 rear wing hydraulic because the wing ?

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you don't want your rear kitchen on fire , that's it uh low pressure fuel pump may fail on the bronco expedition .

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Explorer 150 , 250 , 350 and 450 , 550 mustang av Aviator Navigator 21 to 23 model years .

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So Ford's kind of leading the world on recalls . I guess that's one way to be number one .

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Yeah , and it keeps going and they all keep saying from the corporate office oh , we're going to fix it . When is the question ?

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Well , they're afraid Stellantis or Chevrolet or somebody's going to catch up with them . So they have to keep recalling , so they can maintain that number one position .

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It's just not a good .

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PR thing . Or if they replace the part that's bad , does that affect other parts down the line in that chain to go bad ? So

Sold Cars Roundup: Price Guessing Game

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that's probably where the recalls could happen too .

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You want to do the sold cars roundup ? I've got it queued up there , big boy . Okay , well , let's just do it . So here we go . We try to guess the price of what this car sold for on Hemmingscom called the sold cars roundup . So the first up this morning is a beautiful 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible . It looks as if that it is all original stock anyway . What ?

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year , is that that's a 66 . 66 , okay , did you ?

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not hear what I said .

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I didn't think you said it . No , seriously , I didn't hear it .

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I said it right up front here we had a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette . Okay , corvette , okay , don't make me have to come over there and slap you . How much do you think that sold for it ? How much do you think that sold for it's ?

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pretty $62,000 . 62 . Mars .

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I'm going to go 45 .

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$57,750 .

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Right in the middle , mike . My son sent me a blue one up in Oklahoma . It's a Restomod , it's $39,000 . He thought I might be able to sit down .

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The Restomod no . Restomod no , although that would be up my alley because I like Restomod .

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It would be definitely a driver , yeah .

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So next up is the 1984 Chevrolet Camaro . I had one of these , I had a 92 . This one here is that the IROC Z .

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Or just a Z , I don't know . I don't know .

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Two-tone paint . So 84 Chevy Camaro looks completely stock . How much do you think that that cost ? It sold at no reserve , okay , $17,000 . $17,000 .

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Mars , I'm going to say $15,000 . How about ?

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$8,000 ? Okay , $8,000 . We could buy two . Next up is another Chevrolet Camaro . This is a 69 . Now this one's up your alley . Yeah , it is , it really truly is . But I don't think this is a . If it's a V8 , I'd be surprised . And I'd also be surprised that if this wasn't a Restomod , because it's got aftermarket wheels on it no , they're pretty beat up and the car is kind of .

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You know it's a driver .

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I'm going to say it's a restomod . I would say so . So how ? Much do you think a 69 Camaro would be ? Now we don't know about the rust issues underneath it or anything like that . How much did it sell for Mike ? You go first .

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Well , George says $13,999 , and Jeff says $15,000 . I'm going to go $18,000 . Yeah , I'll go $17,000 .

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I'll go in the middle , well , I'll go 17 .

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I'll go in the middle , well you won 17 325 is what it sold for . Next up 72 , chevrolet El Camino .

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Oh nice , that's not a 72 . That's a 70 . Okay .

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It says here it's a 72 .

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You can argue with somebody else . I was going to just tell you what the picture is .

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He says there Okay , this says a 72 . Maybe they put a different front end on it . I guess they could have this also looks . It doesn't look stock . It looks like it Well ?

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no , it's not .

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Yeah , it's got the hood pins on it and it's got aftermarket wheels and cowl hood , all that .

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All right , so 72 .

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El Camino , how much .

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Considering . I don't think that's a real 72 . I'm going to say 22 for whatever it is All right , thank you . Jeff says 21 . I'll say 18 . 25 , 463 . George was at 15 , 999 .

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No , george , here's George's car Yo , george , here you go . This is a 68 Buick Electra Deuce and a quarter Convertible , convertible Convertible Convertible Wide whites Got a four-holer there .

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How much ? Well , it's an Electra . I'm going to go $14,000 . What yeah ?

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I'm going to go $18,000 . That's what comes to mind , okay , well , there's a big difference there and Heitzman's at $17,000 .

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Well , Heitzman wins 17,850 it is . I guess the point that I'm trying to make here is the fact that you can get a car that would go on the Hot Rod Tour and you'd look good doing it for 17,800 . You're pretty good . Next up is another Buick . I love it . This is a 1968 Electra . No , sorry , this is a 64 , yeah 64 . Electra 225 . How much .

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Deuce and a quarter . I'm going to go 20 .

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20 ? I'm going to go 14 . And the boys are still thinking about it .

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I will tell you what man I would drive that I would too . I would drive that across the United States .

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Jeff says 13 . Heisman , that I would too . I would drive that across the United States . Jeff says $13,000 .

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Heisman , okay , it sold for $16,800 .

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So we're all in the ballpark $12,999 for George . Yeah , that's a clean car .

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But you never know , you'd need a bigger garage . There's no doubt about that Modern garages would not fit Next A 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix .

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Look at them , headlight bezels , look at that monster car .

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I was telling Don earlier .

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How about that , this rear quarter ? You could build an entire Kia out of that . Pretty much how much I'm going to go 21 .

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No , I'm still going to say down around 17 . Anybody else Hightman says 19 . George is still Googling it . Okay , well it's 23,889 .

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There you go , I'll take it 23,889 . There you go . That's a nice-looking car . Next up something for you . This is a I don't know what it is .

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It's a Chevrolet . It's a .

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Chevy . I don't have any Standard cab , I know , but I threw away the page that had the info on it . Go on to the next one .

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That's about what it's worth .

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There we go Right here . A 1996 Lincoln Town car .

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What is with all these big cars ? They're all in the market .

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When's the last time you've been in a car that ?

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size ? Do you see one of these every now and then ? I know , and there's a guy driving it's a silver one in the area .

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How much it's got a little black on it . 96 Lincoln Town Car $11,000 .

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No Hurry up , I'm going to go $12,000 .

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$12,000 . Heitzman says $27,000 . $78,000 .

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$7,800 ? $7,800 . $7,800 . So that's this week's Silver Car Roundup . There you go .

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Thank you very much for playing .

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Just ahead . Jeff has the racing calendar , mars has this week in auto history and I'll bring you the auto news stories making headlines this week . It's all coming up on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show . Yes , friends , we are back in a flash . The Tex-Mex dining experience is defined by Loopy Tortilla your destination for Texas' best beef fajitas and frozen margaritas . Since 1983 , loopy Tortilla has served authentic and time-tested recipes made with the freshest ingredients . Atmosphere is part of the award-winning experience at Loopy Tortilla , all developed in a little house near Highway 6 and I-10 in West Houston . Visit any of the Loopy Tortillas and you'll see the same attention to detail in each and every location . Start your Loopy experience with queso flammeado and guacamole , along with a classic frozen margarita . Dine on famous Loopy beef and chicken fajitas or pepper shrimp brochette or a fish or vegetarian entree , and finish with a scrumptious flan for dessert . Find Loopy Tortilla in Houston , college Station , beaumont , austin , san Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth . There's a Texas location near you . The recipes are authentic and time-tested , the ingredients always fresh . Loopy Tortilla is pretty good . Apple or Android In Wheel Time podcasts can be found everywhere , on the stream and through downloads , whether you're on the road or at home and jonesing for a different kind of car talk show .

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Yes , sir , thank you for that . Well , craftsman Truck Series guys , they are off this week but they're going to be back on July 25th at the Lucas Oil IRP race . Xfinity Series is today , they're at Dover , dover , delaware , michael . Xfinity Series is today , they're at Dover , dover , delaware , michael , dover , tomorrow , dover for the big NASCAR boys , the big boys that seem to be fighting and all that hand slapping and all kinds of problems with those guys . Nhra is this weekend actually yesterday , through Sunday , northwest Nationals Don at Pacific Raceways .

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You've probably been there , I've been there , it's in the trees , it's in the trees .

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India's off and Formula One is off , but there's all kinds of other stuff . Check out your local areas and might find a circle track . Get dirty doing that . We did it a couple weeks ago . It was a lot of fun . So I had a hot dog and you had a beer . I did .

Speaker 2 21:28

I had a beer . I never drank dollar beer . Dollar beer , dollar beers are better than regular beers . I actually had $2 hot dogs . Are they better than dollar hot dogs ? Well , they're hot dogs .

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Let's just put it that way by the way .

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did you see where Costco's switching from Pepsi to Coke ? No , I didn't . Yeah , that's a big story this week .

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I'll bet A lot of money there , yes , so get out and enjoy your activities .

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Time now for this week in auto history . Mr Mars has that .

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I thought it was appropriate . This week it came up in 1978 that Ford recalled the Pinto . Just so that this isn't something new for Ford to be doing recalls , but they recalled 1.5 million Pintos over the flaw in the fuel tank what year was that ? 1978 . Made it vulnerable to rear-end collisions and the big thing was that they did a cost analysis , benefit of it and decided they didn't want to redesign it because it cost so much to do it . So that all came about and made a lot of changes in safety designs for our automobiles .

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Then in 1945 , pontiac shows the high dramatic in the war effort , what they did , their contribution to the war , because they used this transmission for tanks and other military vehicles , because it was originally introduced in 1939 . So after the war they started putting it in the cars and they used that as part of how reliable and designed it was . And if you haven't heard of the hydromatic , surely you've seen in the iconic classic movie Grease that Grease Lightning had the hydromatic in it . And then in 1955 , the first Disneyland Autotopia ride opens . Now

Racing Calendar and Auto History Segment

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this was in July . The 17th gave visitors a chance to drive then gasoline-powered miniature cars . Now , eventually this was all changed into electric of course , and they have it now in Disneyland and Disney World and I can truthfully say I have the award of . I have driven both .

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I have as well this one right here . This is in Disneyland . Yes , they're just go-karts , that's all they are . Did I ruin the end of the movie Me ?

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Pretty much 1969 , the Moon Rover tech ties to General Motors because the Lunar Rover really wasn't used until Apollo 15 , but GM's Delco division developed a lot of the guidance and navigation systems for those early vehicles and they still don't have it right . But they're in your cars now .

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But you know what , if Ford designed it , it would have been recalled . It would have been a long , long recall 1933 , wiley Post flies solo around the world .

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Now this is important because he was part of two-guy flight around the world . But then he decided he wanted to do it by himself and he had to redo a lot of the aircraft-style instruments . They streamlined the airplane , did some lightweight materials to make it where he could , and a lot of those things have now made their way into our automobiles , based on their performance and reliability . That's the Winnie Mae . It's the Winnie Mae . Then , in 1959 , mini was launched in the UK . Now this is . The British Motor Corporation revealed the Mini to the press in 1959 . And it really is a compact car . When you look at those original ones , like they got 12-inch wheels on them . Did you ever try to get in one ?

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No , I was scared to . I'm not a , I'm 6'1" . I can't get in it . No , it'll literally fit in the bed of a truck . It's for small people .

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Yeah , so the new ones are much , much bigger , but the original one was very small and it influenced a lot of car design around the world , in the car rallies in fact . So that was this week in automotive history .

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Some of the stories making headlines this week . Us Commerce Department imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties of 93.5% on Chinese imports of graphite , a key battery component , after concluding the materials had been unfairly subsidized . A trade association representing US graphite producers in December filed petitions with two federal agencies asking for investigations into whether Chinese companies were violating anti-dumping laws . New duties will add to existing rates , making the effective tariff 160% according to American Active Anode Material Producers . That's a group of guys that you don't even want to know , these guys . The trade group that filed the complaint , uber , said it plans to invest $300 million in electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors in a robo-taxi deal that aims to start with one major US city late next year . Over six years , starting in 2026 , uber will acquire and deploy over 20,000 Lucid Gravity crossovers that will be equipped with autonomous vehicle technology from startup Nuro .

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Hmm , I've never heard of that .

Speaker 1 26:04

Nuro . Nuro and the US Auto Safety Agency is shedding more than 25% of its employees under financial incentive programs to depart . The government offered by the Trump administration is shrinking from 772 employees as of May 31st to 555 under the program . The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration are also both losing more than 25% of their staffs . But you and I most of us , I think are well aware of the fact that it's called government bloat and you know , I'm sorry , sir , you're going to have to take this piece of paper down to window five . They'll handle that sentence and then , when you get that sentence handled , then bring it back to me . But window five isn't open . Oh well , I'm sorry , you'll have to come back . One of those kind of things .

Speaker 3 27:03

You won't find that at a SafeLite windshield place . No , they'll just get you right in and out .

Speaker 1 27:10

They only have four windows .

Speaker 3 27:10

Are you getting paid ? No , we're not . That's the problem . He's just happy that it worked , oh man .

Speaker 1 27:18

Anyway , you've got a Volvo you're going to review in the next hour , are you not ? Yeah , buddy , why do you say it like that ? He's excited about it . Is this the one that you've been holding back for weeks One because it had to go to the shop while you had it ?

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Yeah , it's the one , and I'm trying to deliver the facts and not mar it with any personal opinions .

Speaker 1 27:42

The whole idea of doing it is a personal opinion . Let us do that .

Speaker 3 27:46

Y'all can contribute , I'll get it . I got you covered , mike , good Lord .

Speaker 1 27:52

All right .

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