The Future of Electric Vehicles: Hype vs Reality

Show Introduction with Jack Nerad

Speaker 1 0:00

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 , and welcome to the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Just ahead , noted author car aficionado and our go-to therapist , jack Nerab , joins us .

Speaker 1 0:16

Also . I'll give you my thoughts on driving the 2025 Alfa Stelvio , and Jeff has the Motor Minute in this segment of the In Real Time Car Talk Show Howdy , along with Mike out of this world , mars . We always need more Jeff Zekin . David Ainsley is packing , getting ready for his big trip to the Youper that's the UP of Michigan , for his three-week extravaganza and he'll be back with us when he gets back . All right , I'm Don Armstrong , by the way .

Speaker 2 0:48

And thanks so much for joining us . We're book pointing at you . Yeah , I saw that I'm not exactly sure why that's a scary part .

Speaker 3 0:52

He did it . You're Don Armstrong . He did it .

Speaker 1 0:54

I am , it's all my fault .

Speaker 4 0:56

It's the Don Armstrong .

Speaker 1 0:59

Let's go out to the West Coast , shall we ? Ladies and gentlemen , here he is , live from the Los Angeles , california area of the West Coast . The Left Coast , as some folks like to call it , is Jack Nerad . Jack , it's a pleasure , honor to see you again .

Speaker 4 1:14

It is such a pleasure to be with you guys . I really do appreciate it .

Speaker 1 1:17

How are things out there in CA ?

Speaker 4 1:20

Interesting Always . It's an interesting place to live .

Speaker 1 1:26

Yeah , it never fails to amaze me . I mean , the governor makes more news than the news .

Speaker 4 1:29

Yeah , well , he's running for president , that's true . He's got to be out there , has he ?

Speaker 1 1:33

officially announced that . No , he did 12 years ago .

Speaker 4 1:37

It's pretty obvious that he thinks he's the guy and he's doing what he can to get attention and he's getting a lot of attention . You know how kids are . They like attention , whether it's good attention or bad attention . I see some of that from Governor Newsom .

Speaker 1 1:51

That's like one of those kids that goes bonkers in the grocery store and you just walk away and leave them lying down on the floor kicking and screaming and making a big deal out of everything .

Speaker 4 2:02

Yeah , and they stop .

Speaker 1 2:04

And then they stop .

Speaker 4 2:05

I don't think he's going to stop , though I'm not sure that he's going to stop .

Speaker 1 2:07

Well , Jack , it's always a pleasure to talk to you and get the latest . We just read the story about the Cadillac Celeste . Have you driven one of those yet ?

Speaker 4 2:16

I haven't driven one , but my reaction is largely like your reaction . In fact , my reaction about a lot of the Cadillac electrics is the same , and I would think that in Southern California here , where there's a lot of affluent people I wish I were one of them we would see a lot more Cadillacs , and electric Cadillacs in particular , and you know I see none . There's virtually none being driven .

Speaker 1 2:43

Overridden with with Tesla's out there .

Speaker 4 2:47

Yeah , and of course Tesla had had its little thing with Musk joining the Trump administration . Suddenly that became on the outs for a lot of people . So I guess they didn't quite know what to do with themselves and they couldn't all offload their Teslas right away . I think maybe that's calmed down some now , their teslas right away . I think maybe that's calmed down some now . But uh , you know , tesla did certainly take a hit , uh in in sales during that that period of time yeah to their bottom line and the value of the company .

Speaker 1 3:13

Everything um yeah . So have you driven anything really fun , exciting here lately ?

Speaker 4 3:18

I have , in fact , one of the vehicles and maybe you'll laugh at this or maybe you won't is the Volvo XC60 Polestar Engineered Edition , and it is kind of a sleeper car in that it has 455 horsepower , I think , something like over 500 pound-feet of torque . It's a little hot rod , but it's a crossover . It is probably among the most complicated consumer

California Politics and EV Challenges

Speaker 4 3:45

vehicles ever put out there , because it's got turbocharging , supercharging , mild hybrid , it's you know , anything you could put under the hood . It's in there . I'm not sure that I really want to own one , but it's really cool to drive .

Speaker 1 3:59

Well , I know that Mr Mars recently drove a Volvo and he wanted to shoot it , I think after he hit it .

Speaker 3 4:05

And he's back driving a Volvo as of yesterday .

Speaker 1 4:08

Is it the same ?

Speaker 3 4:09

one Came back from the shop . Did you get more ammo ? Yes , I did . I had time to stock up .

Speaker 1 4:13

Yeah , well , I think that the problem was that the range pretty much killed it over his enjoyment of the Volvo .

Speaker 3 4:22

Absolutely . I mean , I have to add an hour and a half to my trip over here if I drive it here , because it will not go from here to there . What are you driving ? It's the Volvo . I'm trying to remember which one it is . I kind of wiped it from my mind .

Speaker 4 4:35

Is it the EX30 or EX90 ? You know , it's obviously , and it seems like an electric right .

Speaker 3 4:40

It is the EV . Yes , and it is the EV . Yes , and I don't even remember . I got it back from the shop late yesterday afternoon . They dropped it off , I parked it in the driveway ?

Speaker 1 4:48

Yeah , because it can't make it over here from where it might sit for a while he drives about 90 miles .

Speaker 3 4:53

It's 112 miles door to door 112 miles and the car will not make 112 miles on one full electric charge . Well , it'll make it over here , but I gotta allow an hour whatever time it takes , because I get about 80 on average . If it says it'll do 100 , I can get about 80 miles out of it , so I'd have to find someplace close to charge it to try and get back home and I'm sure that you've dealt with that and not I have actually my .

Speaker 4 5:20

My daughter went to school . She just graduated . Actually , my youngest daughter just graduated from cal poly in San Luis Obispo , which is exactly 200 miles from my house , and so we would go up there Frequently . We'd go up there just for the day , drive up early in the morning , come back at night , avoiding Southern California and Central California traffic , and I always had the opportunity to drive an electric , but I passed on it for exactly what Michael's talking about . It's like what do I do when I'm there ? And time is really precious ? I don't have an hour to charge a car at one end of this or the other . It just wouldn't work . So a vehicle with 200 miles of range and 250 miles of range , you're really on the edge just getting one way , and then you have to charge and you're at the mercy of public charging , which is pretty iffy well , like don drives one , he's got a place that when he drives it to work I charge it all day .

Speaker 3 6:14

He's charged it all day . Well , I'm here three hours . And and his 110 charging system when three hours doesn't do a whole lot .

Speaker 4 6:23

You're getting like five miles of added range .

Speaker 1 6:25

Yeah , exactly .

Speaker 4 6:27

Well and . I think that's kind of pointing out a larger question here . I'm wondering , if we're at peak EV , that we're not going to see many people . I really have to wonder who is about to buy an EV right now . I guess right now is better than two months or three months from now , when there are no tax incentives to buy them too . But certainly , once the tax incentives are gone , what's the impetus to buy an electric vehicle then ? I'm curious what you guys think about that .

Speaker 1 6:57

Well , I think that they'll still sell some , but I think it's going to be those folks that have kind of more disposable income than most in the fact that they've either got a stay-at-home mom raising kids , goes back and forth to school with the kids or the grocery store or church . That sort of stuff keeps it local , never tries to venture out of town with that and , uh , I guess they use uses the husbands or whoever's regular gasoline powered car and the way you described on .

Speaker 1 7:29

You don't need 300 miles of range to do that that's correct you can get by with 150 miles of range , and that would make the car a lot less expensive that's where the plug-in hybrid would really come in , because it's not near as expensive and you get 150 miles on a charge and you're good to go . Yep .

Speaker 3 7:45

And if you want to make that 200-mile trip or 300-mile trip because of the hybrid , you can do that . I mean that's my wife's pushback on it because I told her the same thing . You know you don't go more than 10 miles from the house two or three times a day , so charging , I mean you could charge it up an EV and keep it going and not use any gas or get pretty close to it . But she said , what if I want to go to the mall ? That's 30 miles away .

Speaker 1 8:07

Jack , how much is gas out there on average today ?

Speaker 4 8:10

It's about $4.50 a gallon .

Speaker 1 8:12

I think for regular right now it's come down some .

Speaker 4 8:15

It was well over $5 . And I'm kind of surprised it's come down a little .

The Volvo Experience: Range Anxiety

Speaker 4 8:21

I think it's going to go back up . I think it's going to go back up . I think it'll be well over $5 . And you know the way things are going . They haven't built a refinery here in 50 years . You can't get permits to build a refinery . That's part of the problem . We have special gas regulations too . Our gas is somewhat different , especially , I think , in the winter than it is across the country , I think in the winter than it is across the country . So you know we're kind of stuck in a bad situation here that's probably going to get worse .

Speaker 3 8:50

You can keep importing from Texas and keep us employed over here .

Speaker 4 8:54

Yeah Well , and that's part of the issue too , is transporting the gas . And again , it's not the same SPAC gas , which is kind of weird , but really true . I think we have a winter blend that is different . It's illegal to sell 49-state gas in California at some time of the year .

Speaker 1 9:13

We still have that as well . They have a different blend here in the wintertime than they do in the summertime . Gas here , I think I paid $2.70 this week for a gallon of gasoline I got $2.58 .

Speaker 4 9:24

And I'm not trying to rub it in , just to give you an idea .

Speaker 1 9:27

We're trying to get you to move here .

Speaker 4 9:29

Yeah , well , we're getting close . In fact , my wife is in Dallas right now . My middle daughter just bought a house in Fort Worth and so you know .

Speaker 1 9:39

You got to start somewhere .

Speaker 4 9:40

There's a lot of Texas in the Neerad family .

Speaker 1 9:41

Well , you know , a couple of weeks ago we took a little trip up to Granbury , texas . Have you ever heard of that ?

Speaker 4 9:47

I have , I've been there . It's very nice .

Speaker 1 9:49

It's a beautiful place and it's just south of Fort Worth , so I'm thinking the Neerad compound is going to be there in Granbury and if you need to get a press car , no big deal , just come on down .

Speaker 4 10:02

Well , I'll tell you 4th of July weekend we're going to be at Cedar Creek Lake which is south of Dallas about an hour or so , and we're going to spend a week there .

Speaker 3 10:13

It's another nice place .

Speaker 4 10:13

A lot of Texas connections with us .

Speaker 1 10:15

What do you think about car shows , jack ? Are we going to continue to have new car shows or are they going to go away ?

Speaker 4 10:28

You know it's a big question . I think the car companies are cutting off their nose , despite their face , by not attending car shows or not supporting car shows . I just interviewed and we'll have the interview on America on the Road in the next couple of weeks here kind of the founder of Electrify Expo , which is electric car shows across the country , but he calls them kind of the anti-car show because they're very experiential , you can drive the cars . The most recent one in Los Angeles was outdoors and kind of more like a festival than a traditional car show of cars on carpet . But you know I love car shows , I think auto shows are terrific and I think there's a still a place for them . But uh well , if manufacturers don't support them , it's it's very difficult to see them .

Speaker 3 11:11

They got it . They got in such a habit like excuse me , particularly up in the detroit and chicago show . I mean you're talking about vehicles coming down from the ceiling or rising up from below the stage . I mean you're talking about some expensive stuff . That was all show but it didn't help the consumers that wanted to come , the ticket buyers that came in for the week that the show was open .

Speaker 4 11:31

And they didn't even see them . I mean , a lot of those media events were closed to the public and 20 minutes would cost the manufacturer a million dollars or two million dollars to produce . I mean they were big shows absolutely .

Speaker 1 11:45

But I don't know how effective they were . Well , the Houston show still gets very good traffic and very good numbers for the five days that it's open . But you know that's not the case in other cities . For instance , detroit has really been handed the backhand of a lot of folks .

Speaker 1 12:05

They shot themselves in the foot , yeah they shot themselves in the foot , didn't have a venue , and then they moved it to the middle of the summer outdoors . Just one thing after another , and I know that they're trying to do something different and bring people in , but if people don't attend , well , I guess that's the end of that .

Speaker 4 12:21

Yeah , and I think they're putting it back in the wintertime . Wintertime's a great time in the upper Midwest to have an auto show , because what are you going to do ?

Speaker 1 12:31

It's like bowling , jack , it's terrible outside . Yeah , exactly , you just go to an auto show . Yeah , it's like bowling . Let's go inside and have some fun .

Speaker 2 12:39

Well , I think the downturn or the lack of participation is how they promote it . I mean , we've got Rochelle Salinas that does the work here for the Houston Auto Show . I don't know the caliber of the folks that do the California or the Detroit , but it seems like they need a little bit more effort . I did a thing on this not very long ago on the decline of the auto shows and the hot rod shows and things . So I think it's the people that organize it and get it running .

Speaker 3 13:06

I think that's part of it . I think it's money , because we never did have the big cars coming in from the ceiling type thing . It's all been more geared toward the spectator or the ticket buyer .

Speaker 2 13:17

Right , and in Houston it's the auto boat of shows , so you're combining the boat folks with the car folks , trailers , all that stuff , so it works out yeah .

Speaker 4 13:26

I'm pretty close to the LA Auto Show people and they do a good job . They still get good consumer attendance , but they don't have many luxury manufacturers participating and I think that's a big problem . It's a big problem in Southern California where you would think you know this is a big luxury market , this might be the biggest luxury market in the world and they're just not reaching those folks .

Speaker 1 13:46

Do they think that the luxury buyer doesn't go to car shows ?

Speaker 4 13:50

I think that's what they think , or they think there's other ways they can reach them . They want to be more specialized , but what they're missing is the aspirational people , the people who aren't necessarily luxury buyers now , but are going to be luxury buyers as they age and get more affluent yeah , just wait , wait , just wait till I win the lottery .

Speaker 3 14:07

Man , I'm going to buy one of those luxury cars , I know I mean we all went .

Speaker 4 14:11

We undoubtedly all went to car shows when we were teenagers and everything was aspirational , right it's ?

Speaker 3 14:17

like man .

Speaker 4 14:17

I wish I had one of those things , but yeah ,

Peak EV? Future Without Incentives

Speaker 4 14:22

they're missing that .

Speaker 3 14:23

Yeah .

Speaker 4 14:23

Absolutely .

Speaker 1 14:25

We did a story earlier . Our story of the week this week was about all of the things that manufacturers are slapping on cars these days . Auto Week had a special on it and so we kind of talked about that and the fact that you know , self-driving aspects of the cars , self-braking , all this automotive stuff , and it seems that it's not really resonating with the buyers and they don't want it because it costs too much money and it really , I know . For me , the lane keeping assist , what an annoying , absolute annoying feature . To fight the car , to go keep it in the damn lane , and I think , no , I don't want that and I tell everybody don't buy it . You're going to drive yourself insane with this thing . The other thing is that I drove a car here recently that the infotainment system was very confusing . And in today's day and age , how long have we had infotainment systems now ? For what ? Over a decade , yeah probably 20 years .

Speaker 1 15:29

Yeah , and you would think that they have gotten it down . Some manufacturers have gotten it down . You know it's easy to use and understand and all that , but some make it so difficult . Who designs these things ? And I think it's a real turnoff of somebody that is really computer savvy , especially to get into a car and you've got to spend 10 minutes trying to find how to change the radio station .

Speaker 4 15:54

Yeah , it's a giant turnoff and I mean it's quantified . We just reported on our show about the JD Power initial quality study and the biggest problems are infotainment systems exactly what you've identified , I mean and they're not getting better . More stuff is going into the touchscreens . You know , I don't know about you . I'd much rather have a button or knob to grab when I'm driving that I don't even have to look at , I can just reach over , and I know I got into a vehicle the other day and it had a on-off and volume knob on the radio and then a tuning knob on the other side , you know , just like a 65 Chevy , and it was a boon . It was like wow , I haven't seen this in a long time , but it really works well .

Speaker 1 16:39

Yeah , and the studies keep pointing in that direction , saying , hey look , this is what resonates with , buyers , do this . But the manufacturers are slow on the uptick and I think that it really hurts them when it comes down to sales .

Speaker 2 16:52

Well , it's the millennials designing it too .

Speaker 1 16:54

Well , there's that yeah . Yeah Well , jack , it's always a pleasure to talk to you , my friend . And so the summer plans you've already got them in place . You're looking forward to any big car stuff that you're going to be doing .

Speaker 4 17:08

We're going to do a Made in America tour . America on the Road Our radio show is going to do a Made in America tour where my wife and I are going to take an American-made vehicle and we're going to drive the upper Midwest and go to ballparks and national parks . So we're going to go to Milwaukee , detroit , cleveland , pittsburgh . We're going to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame . We're going to do a lot of that

The Decline of Auto Shows

Speaker 4 17:31

stuff . So that's going to happen late July and into August .

Speaker 1 17:35

How fun , that's neat , yeah , and we also understand that book sales are picking up .

Speaker 4 17:40

Yeah , my newest book is . Only One Thing Stays the Same it's a crime novel . Actually , the protagonist is kind of a car guy . He's got a 69 Barracuda .

Speaker 1 17:50

Imagine that .

Speaker 4 17:51

It's his car of choice , but it's about crime and he gets involved in some things he probably shouldn't get involved in .

Speaker 3 17:59

Sounds like us . So , jack , do you get any input on your book covers , or do you have somebody completely ?

Speaker 4 18:05

Yeah , I actually help design them or I give a lot of input on the covers . I like them , thank you . Thank you , I like them too .

Speaker 1 18:14

I think , and we like you too , jack , it's great to talk to you always . My friend , take care of yourself , be safe this summer and we'll talk to you next month , hope I this summer and we'll talk to you next month .

Speaker 4 18:22

Hope I can't wait to talk to you guys again . All right , Jack , Be safe , Take care , my friend .

Speaker 1 18:27

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Speaker 1 19:40

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Speaker 2 20:20

Yeah , how about that ? Nascar is suffering from viewership on their Amazon Prime video . Yeah , they're down 21% . They've got a contract through 2031 for $8.8 billion .

Speaker 4 20:32

Now I'm going to read these .

Speaker 2 20:33

These are some comments from some actual fans , race car fans . I'm going to read it , like Casey Kasem , of course . This comes from Rick . Rick Jabo , it's usually hard to know what channel the NASCAR race is on this week . They do a terrible job promoting the sport . And now for the Coke 600 , on Memorial Day tradition , they put it on Prime TV . Only . How about ? How out of touch can you possibly be ? Thanks , rick .

Speaker 2 20:58

This one comes from Jim Been , a NASCAR fan for 40 years . Now it's more important to switch to Prime TV and make more money . I'm done . I will not pay for Prime TV to watch the races . In another 10 years , nascar will have zero fans . The younger generations are just not interested and the older ones won't pay . Thanks , jim . A little bit of anger management there , and then this one's going to sum it up this comes from Chris . You disgraceful bleep word . This race puts on the best military support presentation . They deprive all of us of that . As a proud American , you guys are an embarrassment . At least I don't have to watch one big long Toyota commercial . Goodbye in all languages .

Speaker 4 21:42

Chris has some anger management . In other words , you suck yeah , so it goes on and on .

Speaker 2 21:45

You can pull these up and NASCAR is losing viewership because of the Prime and all that good stuff .

Speaker 1 21:51

Well , NHRA as you know it's been a lifelong thing of mine to always follow drag racing . I don't follow it anymore because you know what ? I can't find it on TV and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay with commercials . You're making the money off of the commercials . Let me see it for free . Oh no , we can't do that .

Speaker 2 22:11

We're going to try to rob you as well , they promote it as a new episode , new broadcast , and it's from like two days ago . Yeah , no , and you already know the results . Not playing that game ? No , not doing it .

Speaker 1 22:21

Not doing it , I ain't going to do it . All right Time now for this hour's car review . Jeff and I had the opportunity to ride and or drive the 2025 Alfa Stelvio

Jeff's Motor Minute: NASCAR Viewership

Speaker 1 22:34

. Final assembly location is Casino Italy . I like that . Oh yeah , it's kind of appropriate , don't you agree ? So it comes in these trim levels base intensa and triputo italiano . Forget about it , forget about it . I had the veloce package .

Speaker 2 22:58

It was the base with the Veloce package .

Speaker 1 23:00

It's going to be good . Well , you know , my Italian isn't really all that good , yeah it's not up to speed .

Speaker 1 23:04

No , it is a small SUV five seats in it . Exterior changes . Well , it was all new in 2018 . So it's getting a little long in the tooth , but this is a fun , sporty ride . Matter of fact , I saw one pass down the street , really yeah , the other day . Sharp looking , unique and attractive overall design with a triangular grille . Now you're thinking , wait a minute , a triangular grille ? Ooh , no , it works . Smooth rear sunshade over the hatch glass Wheels , five rounded hoops for the spokes . It's kind of weird , but it works . Green , white , red Italy tribute on the side view mirrors . It's a little bitty thing , but it's fun . Yep , what I liked about it is its uniqueness , and I , speaking of unique , had the green paint called Verde Fangio and it got believe this .

Speaker 2 24:03

He put some ointment on it and it went away . Let me tell you this .

Speaker 1 24:07

I got more damn comments . Positive comments hey man , I really like the color of that car and when I first got it I thought , no , that doesn't do it for me . But everybody liked it . I'm not a big green car fan because that goes back to racing superstitions and all that , but at any rate , yeah , verde , fangio Interior Highly detailed design on the interior , hvac in its own pod , below the center vent , two-pod instrument cluster with a smallish infotainment screen

2025 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Review

Speaker 1 24:44

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Speaker 1 24:44

But remember , this is from 2018 . The start button is on the steering wheel , which is kind of weird . But , like I said , this is a very unique vehicle . Very Italian Cargo room , small . What I liked about it ? The very Italian neck , Italian uniqueness . You ain't going to find anything like this . This is one unto itself . I'm actually kind of surprised that they don't sell more of them . This thing is pretty cool . Infotainment functions are confusing , however . My Italian friend schooled me on the thought process and I still don't understand it . So you have to become a little bit Italian to be able to understand the functions and how it all operates . Eat a lot of pasta .

Speaker 1 25:33

Two liter , turbocharged , four cylinder , 280 horsepower , so it's got some juice Torque 306 pound-feet of torque and it can tow up to 3,000 pounds , mileage 22 , city , 28 highway for combined to 24 . I got 25.4 miles per gallon over the 754.7 miles that I drove up to Granbury and back and then back and forth to work . What I liked about it ? The sport car-like handling that is built on the Giulia platform , which is a sedan that really is a sporty sedan . The half of Romeo thing is sportiness and it's got that kind of ride and unique handling to it and you either like it or you don't like it . I like it , I like it . I like to be able to go around corners fast . I'm not sure about feeling comfortable about that in a high-platform SUV , but apparently it'll do it .

Speaker 1 26:30

How much was it ? Well , the base trim price is $48,995 . The price as tested $59,140 . The base model price $48,995 . Competitors include the Audi Q5 for $45,400 . The Mercedes-Benz GLC for $49,250 . And the Acura ADX that I didn't even know about . You know we don't get too many Acuras to drive . No , we don't . Did you know that there was an ADX ? No , there's the RDX . You're familiar with the RDX ? Yeah , this is the Acura ADX , which is a small platform . It competes with the Lexus UX , so it's small , small . $44,000 is what they're getting or asking for the Acura ADX . Huh yeah , it was a very unique vehicle and I'd like to thank Kimberly Schultz , with Stellantis , who allowed me to drive all those miles in it you liked it .

Speaker 2 27:33

I liked the car . The car was very comfortable , the seat positions you could get put anywhere and you'd get comfortable . Yeah , and I agree with you , the infotainment system was a little challenging . We were trying to do some things .

Speaker 1 27:46

Jeff , I'm trying to drive , Would you please do this ? Well , let's see , it's on the steering wheel . Well , there you go . I got my hands over here and I'm going like this Digging around on the steering wheel trying to get things .

Speaker 3 27:55

And the truck driver going by is looking out the window like what the hell are these two men doing in there we ?

Speaker 2 28:00

had four hands on the steering wheel trying to figure stuff out . It's crazy .

Speaker 1 28:05

We made it . Yeah , we did . We were trying to reset the trip odometer and you had to drill down into it to reset the trip odometer .

Speaker 3 28:16

That's some of that , more of that stuff where it's getting too complicated .

Speaker 2 28:20

When you get there , you got to know what to do with it . So there was . I broke out the manual . We read the manual .

Speaker 1 28:24

By the way , that green paint job was an extra $2,200 . Just saying .

Speaker 2 28:29

It was a nice vehicle . The front grill you said the , what'd you call that ? Triangle ? Triangle , like what the Edsel used to be , with the horse collar . Oh , that is not ugly . Well , to me it's kind of . I think of that one . You're more traditional . You're a Detroit boy . Yeah , I know .

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