Talking about the 5% pieces, that's the way that's right. Yeah, basically the 5% piece of your car. 20% growth, eh? How do I like it?
Who's that 20% growth? Probably, what's your house worth now? You know what's actually about the good bits of the question. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
Listen to the all talk car podcast hosted by Peter Rohners joining me tonight. He's a little more stuffer. Evening. That's what you say, hello.
Wherever I would have said, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Roscoe Ellis, good day, mate. G'day.
It's gone. And we've got a guest tonight. Now that Australia's sort opening up, it's probably easier to go overseas, but we've got a guest. He's been on the show before where he bought himself a lot of land cruise up at something similar and drove around this beautiful country of ours going to tell us the do's and don'ts and what's a lookout for.
Andrew Smirners, welcome to the podcast, buddy. Can I be all good to be back again? Live from study Gold Coast. You said a lot of land cruise, eh?
Anybody? No, we did the live drive. Listen, as if you remember a couple of, oh, six months ago, how long ago did the live drive? How was the car?
I listened to the car. I listened to the car. You know, the Defender. We drove six other months, you know.
Yeah, so Andrew bought himself a new Defender, 110 petrol. Yes, petrol, 400 or six, sorry. Handed, hold up. Oh, you want to go straight to the climax?
I'm not. You know, I'm in the meantime. No, I'm in the meantime. You know, my love affair with Land Rover's.
I'm going to apologise in advance. For those that know me, I don't have a great truck record with Land Rover. The car, the car, the company. So, yeah.
So basically, yeah, so when I met up with Andrew last, we, the car had next to no kilometres. We took it out for a drive, did a live drive on it. And then you packed your bags with the misses and where did you go, mate? Plea, we thought we'd give the car a bit of a test drive down around Tasmania before we did the big lap.
Some cold testing. So, we went to Tasmania for three weeks. Did the normal drive down to Melbourne, got the spirit of Tasmania Rover landed in Lonnie. That's the logo for long system.
And did three weeks cruising Tasmania, never been there before. On a holiday sort of basis. Absolutely fantastic island. Must be done by everyone Australian or otherwise.
And you've got to lay yourself at least two weeks, but preferably three weeks. Are the roads that good? Are they on? They are fantastic for a car.
I've got friends that say to me, they want to go down with the caravan and I'm told them no don't. It's a very mountainous island and limited space for overtaking. Limited space if you break down and want to pull over the side of the road. It's just not caravan or trailer friendly at all.
So, it's basically your classic two-lane snake type roads. Yeah, and like regards. But it's just such a, there's so many variables in terms of climate and weather. The east coast is like the Gold Coast, San C, seafood restaurants, everyone's in shorts.
Then you head down to Hobart, more cosmopolitan. Then when you go into the middle of Tasmania, we caught snow up past the headlights. And then you go to the west coast, which is really rugged. Wind, coal, lots of wind blowing the car sort of around.
Really sort of treacherous conditions. But the defender, Ross, your love, the defender, if I had planes on the side of the car, I reckon I could go, I could cross back straight with it. It was just undestructible. It was just brilliant.
I was overtaking cars bogged in snow. And I didn't even put the specific snow option. I just had it in full drive, raised the height of the car to its max. And I was overtaking on soft snow, doing 16, 70 k's.
Just incredible. Full grip. Yeah, full grip. Look, there's a bit of slip-and-side of the rear end, you know, but you're sort of catching it.
It wasn't unpredictable. So they really are in your need for full. I mean, they, yeah, all the sugar they've made. But they are really built.
They're the original full-wheel drive, right? Ross, the features of this thing had, I mean, if you listen back on that car, the display did everything. The display did everything. It had weighting through water.
It had, I know, it's all sort of getting common place, but first time I'm pointing to a vehicle where they had the camera, as if the camera was a meter away from the car. So you had that sort of fisheye look. And if you put in a full drive mode, you could see exactly where your front tyres were compared to the edge of the road or rocks or anything. That's right.
It was, did you use a lot of those features? Did you use the features? Yeah. The camera's ID, we went off road a few bit to in the rainforest and stuff like that.
And like Pete said, the forward camera, basically is positioned where your front wheels are. So you can come up and over a ridge and you don't need to really worry about, is the road going to go straight ahead or is it going to turn left or right? The cameras will see that for you. So you can, you know, recline your seat almost to a flat position and just look at your dashboard, not worry about looking over the bottom of the car.
It's just, it's so reassuring. You know, you feel so safe in it. The parking, the 360 degree sort of visual sort of feeling to get at the car. Quiet, fuel efficient, really comfortable.
That's the other thing, of course, that when you're doing long trips, you've got to be comfortable and you've got to get out of the car at the end of the drive and feel like you can go to the beach and have a swim for like an essay. It's not a, you don't get tired in it. Did you hose out the rubber mats? Like did you?
Don't they have a valve in them? Or you can just like a bath plug and you can hose the car out and pull the plug out? They're not thinking of a different car. A different car.
You can install. You can try that in my range. That's what maybe that's what I was. You can install a little compressor in the back, in the back section of the car, which you can then plug in one of the little e-of-l thing and you blow it out.
But the car, I feel you would remember, everything is the floors are built with rubber and rubber mats. So you can literally just hose it out and not get anything wet that will then smell or cause your grief. But after Tasmania and the sort of three weeks we did there, we then geared up for the big lap and a couple of things. I was worried I was going to get dust in the car.
I thought, you know, if anywhere, if I, we're going to test it out. We don't know what it is. We got to test everything out. You drive through the red dust, the red cedar.
Nothing. It was just brilliant. You know, like no dust over there, a little bit of a line on the bottom of the door jam. But it was so well dust proof that wasn't fine.
It got magic. So the seals worked other than keeping a ball on their nose. Yeah. They were.
And did you tell a caravental? You just went, no, just the car. So we're just sleeping on the roof. No, no, no.
Plenty of motels guys out there. You can do it comfortably without having to tell a caravan around and there's plenty of good motels, pubs, or have accommodation. Yeah. Plenty of service stations.
We did a lot of mapping before the event, looking at where the good surveys were with the 98, obtain or whatever you want to use. And never ever did we sort of feel in trouble with running out of fuel. In terms of the defender, I was getting, you know, eight and a half, nine litres per hundred Ks. On a petrol car?
Yeah, great economy. In a brick. Yeah. We were just crossing rivers where land cruisers were sort of crawling through them.
You know, we were just sort of waiting for them to get up the other side, not just sort of power through them, taking great videos, driving through flowing rivers. It was just really, really secure and great. Did you use the waiting thing on the dash? No, I never got it indeed.
That day. Give it to me off on the room. Give it again. Let me go back a step.
So with the planning, like, did you do much planning? Because I know some surveys out that way don't have premium fuel. Is that an issue anymore? Did you see which ones were 24-hour?
Did you book a combination of advance? What tips would you give if you were to sort of go out to them? Never, never, never land. Pee, we spent about two months doing all that.
There's so many people out and about now, you can't just rock into any town. And so here I am, I need a room for the night. Everything is absolutely book solid. And there's a lot of towns where there's only the one hotel with a combination attached to or a service station with a motel attached to it.
And we were talking to people in the road who were just begging us, if you're not going to get there, let me know and also ring and take your sort of nights accommodation. Very, very, very busy out there. Everyone's doing their touring of this great country. So you've got to do your research.
You've got to make your hotel accommodation bookings. You've got to book your cruisers and your tours wherever you want to go. Because they're all book solid. Did you, when you were out there and talk about something like that, I've heard a friend a year ago, took a year off and got a caravan.
Bought the, you know, the stereotypical land cruiser and got the big caravan and did it with his family. And he was saying there was a lot of land cruisers out there. Is that the car of choice for everyone? Because it's just embedded in everyone's here.
Or is it just a mix of everything like old magnets and whatever element. And one of them. Which back in that bit. Land cruisers, prados, definitely the majority of them, which was great for me and the defendant because everyone's not going to have it.
Because it was a wonderful thing. And it's relatively new car. So not many people would have, I suppose, taken the car of their value as well. This is what I've put across the country.
What I've found, Ross, is that when you're towing a caravan, and a lot of the caravines out there are big, you know, three, four, five, six million caravines. There's some roads where you've got to have the power to overtake the vehicle in front of you. And I mean, I'd be overtaking safely. Two and three car caravan combos with this thing just planning it down, right lane overtaking.
But no one else could do that towing. Because to build up the momentum to get out and to start overtaking, with no one coming the other way, that's going to cause you grief, it's almost impossible. So you tend to find, if you've got a caravan and you're towing one, you've got to be super, super patient and expect never to be doing the speed limit because the guys in front of you aren't vehicle. It's quite frustrating if you're sort of saying, well, I'm going to drive the 600Ks because I've got to hotel what I booked to get into.
That might take you instead of six hours, it might take you nine and a half. It really was frustrating traffic. And the overtaking abilities, I mean, I used to see people trying to pull out, you think, where's this play going? And maybe three quarters up against the car that he was going to overtake, and you see him becoming out of the way, you know?
And so I'd drop back and then let them sort of cap back in. And it's just really dodgy. And I don't think a lot of people have any clue about the weight they're pulling, the non-ero dynamics and the fuel consumption. But you're asking about fuel, we pull into service stations and for the diesel, there'd be a line half a kilometer long car in Cape Cape.
Oh yeah, sure. We just rock into the unleaded fuel up and we'd be out of there and there'd be still people lined up to get in there. I was going to ask you, I mean, you plan the trip, you bought the car specifically to do this trip. Did diesel versus petrol come into the equation or was it whatever was available with the defender?
With the defender, because I'd done the homework and I knew they were going to be adequate fuel stops along the way, with unleaded, and I wasn't telling anything to increase my fuel consumption, I was always happy with that car. And when I bought that, the only diesel that was on offer was the two-liter diesel, which I thought might have been underpowered even without towing a caravan. Okay. So for me, the straight six leather, unmetered was always the go.
But they're little tricks that people might want to think about putting an extra fuel tank on their lean cruiser so that you can miss every second's fuel stop. But the patient, because you've stuck on the side of the road waiting a turn to get in there, it can be quite frustrating. Did the defender have an option for like an extended range tank? They did, but it was again, getting it out from England and all this sort of stuff.
Yeah, but not for you for this occasion, but they've got that option. Yeah, I think it was a 40-liter tank they could add on the other side. Okay. But yeah, people just go out there and buy $100,000 caravan and say, oh, bang on the back of the lean cruiser, and off I go.
That's what they got. But they got, did they let you overtake? They'll go, they'll go, they'll go, they'll go, they'll just set on 100. Fantastic, they're all great on the road.
All waving to, yeah, no drummers at all, no ones account for you. You know, they really, really, really, really, really, and you see them at the servos and you have a chat anyway. So you can't be a digger, yeah, because I catch up, yeah. Yeah.
But very friendly environment, but, you know, some of the caravan spots, people say, if you go to the Whitsundays, for example, fantastic caravan parking spots in great areas. But the further north you travel, the caravan parking area is a pretty desolate, un-ingliding places. Mm-hmm. The showers?
Yeah, no, some not. You know, you've got to be really committed to say, I'm going to go, yeah, go out of Australia and, you know, make a comfortable trip as well as an enjoyable one. Yeah. I did say, did you go, did you go fairly remote-like?
We, we were in towns, I mean, did you get to, I don't know, do you get to be, did you go, did you get sort of around all that kind of stuff, or was it pretty much? We didn't go to the Peter because we avoided the lockdown and drove back to Brisbane. Yeah. But Darwin, Kakadu, the other sort of, uh, rainforest and like to go to.
We did a lot of those guided tours, and then we'd go back and revisit the areas that we liked. Yeah, also. Alice Springs, Uluru, the Olga's or Katajuku, where they call it, you know, there's pretty amazing out there, isn't it? Oh, it's just incredible.
You need a four-wheel drive to be up high off the road to view the landscape and really get a good feel of its right. Fantastic. So the four-wheel drive is not, you're not doing hardcore off-road. It's more, you're not on a hard road.
It's unsealed. So you need what the clearance is that? Well, yeah, the still- Yeah, there are. It's funny, you know, I think the road maps that we have need to be updated.
An example was from Uluru going back to Alice Springs. It's a historical Aboriginal town called Hermansburg. So instead of going back to Alice the way that we came, we thought we'd have by Hermansburg. Now on the maps, it looked like a sealed road.
I'm talking about 180 kilometres. It was just dust, red dust. And there were a couple of people trying it in normal cars. And they couldn't see past their nose on their face.
You'd have to, you know, back off a kilometer from the car ahead of you if you let the dust settle. But we were warned, I was warned about this by one of the tour guides. There's all these dips in the road where the rain runs off. So you're driving along at 80 or 90 kilometres an hour.
And then the car just dips in and goes down. And you're on two wheels, you come up the other side because you're doing 80 or 90 kilometres. And then it just lands on all fours as you come down. I don't know how small sardines will do that.
I don't know how anyone on a trailer or caravan would manage that. Probably do it 50k. Yeah, probably. But you can't see it coming.
It's just all red. It's a nice plane of view. Okay. Or Russian really.
We're going to go. Can we borrow you? Can we borrow you? Can we borrow you?
Can we borrow you? You know, those areas are scary. You know, there's signs up. It's no longer a case of, you know, we're of King Carus.
It's be where we've cattle, be where of camels. I mean, everything sort of. Everything's potentially coming at you. So you've got to have time, but you can't really be pressured.
I think time, you know, the pressure of getting from either the honour deadline is quite. Things change. Right? Like you said, your six-hour drive could become nine hours because traffic or there could be something happening on the road or a country town.
They don't have like 24-hour check-in. It's not like the Hilton in the city where there's always someone at the door and. Yeah, 2pm. And they're gone.
If you're there after 2pm, you know, there's the go for the night safe and you know, it's business and off you go. But what we also found, something to think about, and I think it will continue moving forward, there's shorter staff everywhere. There's no backpacking type people that fill all these barista type jobs in the cafes and waitresses. We stayed at this place called Sales and the Desert in Alice Springs in El Ruizari, and two or the four restaurants were closed because they didn't have staff to run them.
So everywhere we went, they were shorted of staff and a lot of venues weren't open. Is El Ru open? Can you still go there? What's going on?
I've climbed it twice. I've done it twice, but you can't think of it. Is it a vending machine at the top? That was the joke we had the first time we went.
I took a $2 coin. Oh, $1 coin. It was the only time I had it. I take my head off the Rossie Climb it mate.
That's a steep climb. Twice. I've done it twice. When I was at school, I did it anyway, you know I knew.
I think they closed it after somebody had a heart attack on the climb up and they had to get a helicopter. Or, I mean, I was young, I think I was about 14, 15, but all I remember was a school trip. It would have been three bus loads of us. Hang on, your school excursion was to El Ruizari.
We did, yeah, the local pools. Two years in a row, we did central Australian trips. We left Sydney, went on a bus or three buses. Sydney through Victoria, South Australia, then back straight up through the middle.
In our springs. Literally, we would stop on the side of the road and tent, sleep, cook, get the bus driver on the assistant with the cooks and the bus driver and whatever. And then keep going and we ended up being Darwin and flew home two weeks and I did it again a year after. But I remember the first year climbing.
I'm a big guy and I was back then as well. But I remember the first year we climbed it. That first sort of 50 metres is you would have seen where it works. It's a thin along.
It's pretty treacherous. And that's where this is the blocks down the bottom of people have fallen off. And they're like, all right, kids, let's go. Up we go to hell.
Really? I think somebody there was a coke machine at the top. They don't know where you got a check from. It was a running thing the whole time.
I had these coins ready to go. I was going to get three cokes. Not there. I can follow what it was.
Not even. And they got the disabled entrance with the elevator. That's the way. Yeah, yeah.
Straight through the middle. That's a magical spot. You see the rock from about 140 kms away from it. Oh, and it's beautiful.
Almost reach out and touch it. You know, it's just a magical, very significant part of our country. I'm going to draw you to it. It really sort of makes you want to just go and see what it is.
And when you get there, you can just, it's just so huge. It's humongous. I got to the top of the thing. It was going to be flat.
Yeah, it was different. It was different on flat. And is it like you can see it? We're going to be there in 10 minutes and it's still like driving.
You're going to be there in half an hour and you can see it. Yeah, it's still going. 140 kms out and you thought it was sort of like 50 m away from it. Yeah.
And how wide is it? I know, but I think it's 11 kilometers to walk it. Yeah. To walk to the top.
No way around. Like this is the conference. It's 11 kms. Did you stop?
I mean, my fondness memories are a long time ago, but just stopping on the side of the road or stopping at some of those watering holes where they were just like those springs that were perfectly clear and you know, you're swimming in there and the locals are like, you know, don't swim on that side of the road because this is freshwater and that's saltwater of the saltwater. And I was like, and the fresh water ones you don't see the egg. So I trust it's like, but you know what I'm going to eat. So it was pretty, pretty amazing.
Yeah, no, that was around Darwin and had magic sort of areas to get to up there. Life products that laid over all those sort of places. But with Iluru, it's funny, you know, I still call it, Iluru. And August is that kind of thing.
I just wish I had seen a lot more of the Indigenous people playing a greater role in the whole experience instead of having sort of, you know, a non-Indigenous person explaining parts of it too. So I would have loved to have an Indigenous person sharing their history and their significance of the site. So yeah, that was a... They definitely know a lot out there.
It's quite amazing how knowledgeable they are of everything around. So I know. Yeah, it's quite... And I've traveled a lot of America.
We did the same at all together. And is it a set up with the Indigenous people in Australia? And is it like when we go to Grand Canyon where the Indigenous Americans, where the American Indians are running the tourist attractions and that sort of self-contained? Is it like that up at Northern Territory?
Yes and no more no than yes, unfortunately. I mean, we saw a lot of the Indigenous people in Iluru out selling their paintings and their didgeridos as opposed to talking to us and telling us about the dream time and that. So I just would have loved a lot more of that and loved more involvement. And in Darwin, you know, the big thing, of course, there is the World War II aspects of Darwin.
All that is done by the, you know, the same as some people have probably lived through through that. I would have loved a bit more of that. He's Darwin feeling new because they had the cyclone in 1975, wasn't it? Which wiped the whole town off the map.
Does it look modern? It does. They're all the waterfronts all modern. Everything is sort of cyclone rated now.
A lot of really nice new shopping centers, flashy areas, beautiful houses. The very claim of the Passe police, of course, have a huge mention there on the side of all clues of Darwin. And it's all your Darwin tends to drive past the house and sort of show you where it is. Does it?
Is that mining money you reckon? It's purely mining. Yeah, but Darwin generally? Really?
Yeah. They've got huge natural gas walls there and they ship out. Just contain the ship after container with these. You've seen these ships.
They've got these big bubbles on the depths. Just a really, really prosperous sort of thing that they do. And a huge US military presence. Really?
Yeah. A lot of servicemen and women in the town. They've got a base where how it springs. We drive past how it springs and saw where that is.
And there's a huge army, US army base effectively next to how it springs and growing big all the time. Do they still bring in their own cars? I don't know about in Pine Gap and all the army bases. The Americans used to bring in their own cars.
Is that still the case up in Darwin? You see the yank tanks up there? No, I didn't see any of those. Maybe they're just driving around that device.
But Darwin's a go-to city. Beautiful marine. A beautiful warth. A lot of great restaurants down there.
Have you heard of those? Great great seafood restaurants. Well, Qantas wants to reroute their Sydney London flights via Darwin. Because at the moment the non-stop flight from Perth to London.
They're trying to get that dream line right of Darwin. It's going out of Darwin. Yeah. Which will bring a lot of mining to Darwin.
Yeah, good. Stop over. Yeah. No.
They want to be their own country, mate. Let them go. They don't have the money to sustain that size of that. I just remind them of the great one of the best restaurants we went to.
It's called YOTZ, Y-O-T-S. You're a script to burn in Darwin. Really fun, really good names. Are you allowed to smash the plate to go to the pay for them?
Oh, we accidentally dropped a few. You know what I'm saying? Well, I wasn't done. Is there anything to do with the trip again?
Is there anything you thought I should have done that? Don't say you're doing them anchors. Yeah, yeah. Why lacrids?
I wouldn't do that. I'm aggressive or a really nasty character on the road. Because everyone bumps out of the car. That's not me out no way.
Prepare. Definitely prepare before you go. Book all your tools, all your recommendations. Look at what your fuel stops are.
And be extremely patient. And just take your time and enjoy the experience. Don't stress about being ladled. I'm going to queue to fuel up, etc.
And just take in what a beautiful country we have. It's just incredible. It's incredible. As far as do's or don'ts or do's or both.
I think don't over pack. Definitely. Over in Josephson we do the research. You can't get all these places in the middle of summer.
We went in the middle of winter. Yeah. Best weather. Absolute beautiful weather.
Sun. 2728 max. 1819 minimums. Beautiful weather.
All about Queensland. Across the top end. Darwin. Alice, etc.
Fantastic weather. I can see now that some of these places are doing 3738 degree. I don't think you can walk around the rock in that sort of climate. That sort of temperature.
So definitely a winter experience. And just pack accordingly. I'll pack a minute. You should pack a pair of undies for a trip.
Or two shirt and shorts. Two. This is three cents. It's had a defendant end up.
Any qualities you put on it? We left with about three. We've got 20 on it now. 20.
That's a good trip. What about did you take a satellite phone? Or was it coverage now? It's coverage on the phone.
Is it coverage around? A couple of areas when you're sort of on the dirt track where you probably need a satellite phone. We didn't have one. But 85, 90% of the journey is all good with Telstra.
I don't know what the other services are. It's like a social no-drongs. Yeah. But when you're going through these dirt tracks between towns.
Yeah, there's no coverage there. Take plenty of water. Have plenty of spare water in the car. Did you rip the car up at all?
No. Oh. I went for the store as I put your boy tanks in. Hot was this.
No, no, no. No, no. You carried the water and everything though. Yeah, you had plenty of water.
Spare fuel. No, I thought about the jury camp. But then I thought I wanted to carry it in the car. I didn't want to put sort of racks to carry it outside.
I don't even know what it was. Racks. No. I made all the racks on the roof the side.
You're putting a drone to carry grass. Look at me bag for my drone. It's big, bright and yellow. Racing drone.
I'm upgrading my drone. It's nice. Any car games had you going with us? Spare in the car.
Oh, look, she was the answers. Yeah, and look, guys, if you want to go on a trip like that and share the driving on occasions with your misses, get them to do a back to back test, Land Cruiser, Patrol, and then go Defender. And I guarantee you they're going to say the Defender is like driving a little force a little around. It's light on the seat and super predictable.
The Land Cruiser feels like a driving tank. Oh, they're massive. So you got your partner, before you bought the Defender, did you test drive other four drives together? Yep.
I was going back to the Defender. I thought this is just so easy to drive. Yeah. It felt narrower.
It felt smaller than what it actually was. It didn't feel like a big car when you're behind the wheel. Because it's a very long car. The back door's a massive when we drive the Defender.
But when you're driving it, it doesn't feel like it. It's not heavy. And Ross, you know, in relation to the racks on that, we dropped the back seats on the Defender down. And we had room for two.
I don't know how deep the roof is. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.
No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's not a bigny, it's a bigny.
I was just gonna divert for a split second. I'm gonna mess it from someone this morning, a very, very proud Greek since being a message about the ultra car that's being built. Have you heard? Which ultra car?
Mate, Greece is building its first ultra car. I came up with what we're gonna introduce, the Greek new car segment, our new Greece correspondent Andrew Roskaleves. Last news was it tells us I sold no vehicles in a month in Greece. So the other building or what?
Okay, the most ultimate car ever made in Greece from conception to design to manufacture. So that's what we're gonna say. Spiroz, Spiroz, Pinopoulos. Mate, we're gonna get the found up.
Spiroz, Pinopoulos. How big is that badge gonna be? Hopefully I'm saying his name correctly, but I want him on your show. Hey, they've just opened the books, says he has what he describes as the first ultra car on the planet.
So they secured their first order to 2022. Mate for it. Mate for the price. Ready for the price?
Yeah. One million dollars. The car's aptly named Chaos. It's gonna be street legal and it's gonna be priced at a measly 5.5 million euro.
So the price of two pudadis. The base model? Ready for it. And for the 2000 horsepower variant, 14.4 million dollars.
You rose a dollar. Sorry. 12.4 euros. 12.4 euros.
How much is the deposit? They want 5%. And do you have to take it back to Greece to service your team? Yeah, yeah.
No, there's no dealership here. So he reckons the ultra car will attempt to sit the new lap record for the fastest production car in Nuremberg. And a title is currently held by the G. At the end, GGT Black Series.
No. Nuremberg is where they had the trials for the month. We don't need tourists to go to the rubber town. That's right.
And we're... I thought they'd do a time trial around the path. That'll be great. Well, I thought they'd do a time trial around the path.
That'll be great. That'll be great. Well, they'll try and build the rose machine. No, no, no, guys, I haven't got to the best bit yet.
We know what Greece is like with their technology. They make phones and they build all this kind of shit. There are no buttons to push in the cockpit. The driver will simply use virtual reality glasses to activate functions in the car, which include a 5G augmented platform.
I haven't read this in latest wheels magazine. It's not about speed and acceleration for this car. It's cutting edge technology, guys. It's cutting edge.
So... Ross, the local service may be out the back of the Victoria and Eros. It sounds like an exquisite thing. It's a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit.
I'm glad I wrote this. Yeah, it sounds like an exquisite thing for this car. It's cutting edge technology, guys. It's cutting edge.
So... Ross, the local service may be out the back of the Victoria and Eros. Yeah, yeah. It sounds like an exquisite from Ross.
I've not read this. Mate, it was a computer geek. He was in the Greek Air Force this guy. He had a golf GTI, say no more.
Oh. No, there you go. Who said... He's comic...
I was into computers starting from low level programming. My father, who was in the Greek Air Force, had a golf GTI. Sorry, sorry. I'm having it on board computer so I made my own.
Greece! Greece, Greece... I can't remember. where you'd over the whole dashboard.
And one of those evil lies in front of me. Mate, this guy, what do you think, he's never coming up on the show, we just paid the shit out of him. It's really wide, we'll get him out. The car's called the chaos, right?
What do you think the website would be called? Chaos.gr. No, mate, the website is www.spiritpinnobolus.com. It's his name.
I reckon we should send him an email, let's get him on the show. It'd be a bit of a wide car, because it's a big fucking badge on the bottom, it's a parnobolus. There's nothing on his website. It says come here, it's like Ferrari.
Chaos to order, you can order it. He's aiming high though, he's going straight to the top. Mate, it's got all the specs here, 11,000 red line, mate, this thing's got brakes on it, ceramic discs. Suspension.
I think he's gonna suffer from second album syndrome, if this car takes off. Oh my god, it's not for a second. The wheels, don't look like I saw all the specs, but... They're trained, yeah.
No, no, no, no. 22 by 13 rear wheels. Titanium 3D printed, the wheels are three. 3D printed.
So he's not going for the mass market, he's going for the bespoke orders, ain't he? Custom carbon fiber body parts and Kevlar, 3D printed as well, and the... Three out of the website, so our listeners can go. Furos, Panopolis, SPY-R-O-S-P-A-N-O-P-O-U-L-O-S.com.
No, Dr. Yart. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's the International Man of the...
We're gonna get him on the show. We gotta get him on the show. I was somewhere there to be this morning, I was like, wow, when's the next podcast? I can tell you run about mine.
I've got news from Europe. I'm like the roving reporter from Europe. It's this great correspondent, you can always just take it off. Mate, I am killing it, I'm killing it.
So... And then, another bit of thing from Grace, the, what's it called, the rallies on it, and then I'll watch it because I tried to do a bit of research, not much online, just like that. Spuros Panopolis, can I? One of my cousins tells me he raced in the race a year ago, he was the main dealer in Pinterest of Toyota.
He raced the Celiga, the Arrendo Smalls. It would have been like a GT4, the old-school GT4. Well, probably the 78 model. Yeah, so...
That's crazy. Grace has got some interesting cars. I mean, Grace don't make their own car, obviously. They've got trucks and buses.
There was a car. It was a brand. Carcus. I think what they're really good at is those removable rego plates, I think they've got them monopoly on that.
Because you know, you just park anywhere, you just take the plates off, put them in the boot. That way, they call it security. It's for security. They take it plates off, put it with you to go for coffee.
No, no, no, no. There was a new speed camera. I think I've told this story of many, many, many episodes ago, but one year we were in Crete and there was talk of everyone was saying there's a new speed camera, watch out, be careful. Anyway, so we slowed down to the new speed camera coming into town.
We didn't go to town. The main sort of bit from Cru Estate, so we didn't go to main bit that often. But when we did pick someone up from the airport, anyway, first night on now, guys, the locals do hear about the speed camera. You go, oh, don't worry about the speed camera.
It doesn't work. It doesn't work. Fantastic. Mount Flight.
So the next four weeks, five weeks, I'm in great. I'm smashing it past the speed camera. It's like, this guy crazy. I'm like, no, no, the locals don't make it doesn't work.
Until the high-cut, they'll be sick, all the freaking tickets. And then we should have like 12 year old, 13 year old. I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I don't want to worry about it.