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Today's guest is one of the world's leading automotive gels of the 21st century. Oh, speaking of heavy man. Wow! It's a zero road tester at Caradvice.com, one of the most favourite sons.
And an all-round we'd like. So Paul, thank you for having us here today at your offices. So we are recording outside of New South Wales, so we're at the Caradvice office. May you must be a beautiful place, Victoria, road testing cars and speed, innit?
Yeah, I was actually just thinking yesterday, I went for a long drive, we've got a long-term jag eyepast, an idea to drive in the heat. That's the electric one. Yeah, for electric on it's test the air conditioning in the heat, because it's a point of contention on range. And also test the circuit charger in your own.
So I did a big drive. The speed limit thing's interesting because all of the main roads that everyone thinks are going to drive there, the speed limits aren't fast enough. You find yourself some country roads where 100 seems like a very dangerous speed to be doing. And they haven't reduced the speeds at all.
So it's fascinating the way Victoria works, I mean we've got these crazy speed limits on safe roads and then crazy, crazy speed limits on unsafe roads. The problem we've got in New South Wales is there's four sets of speed limits within five kilometres. Yeah, just constantly changing. More parking, 60 to 70 to 40 to 70, and then there's a tram line.
It's taken a little bit easier. One tram line, back tram line. So let's go back to the beginning. I mean you grew up in Geelong Ford town.
Did you have cars in your veins? How did you get into all the money you've journeyed from? No, I see. Yeah, well I'll take you back one step further.
So my family's from Yugoslavia. The former Republic of Yugoslavia. We came to Australia when I was two years old. My dad was a civil engineer back in Watsuny, under the Soviet.
He's qualifications didn't work over here, so he basically got a job as soon as he could at Ford as a machine operator. Unlike today where it's slightly off topic, a lot of people come to Australia and they're just sitting on the dome and doing whatever they do. No, we'll talk about that a couple of years. My parents were hard workers and to this day, haven't taken any money from the government to be here and now have a good life in Australia.
So my ethic growing up was to work hard and to do whatever I needed to do. So I went through high school in Geelong, not the best place of the world. I think it was the high school that I went to, but we came down the other end and had a strong love for cars. Dad working at Ford Hall, so he used to go to all the Ford events and stuff like that.
At the age of 17, Dad would bring home cars every now and then. I did my first car review on the Ford territory that he bought. We drove to Sydney. Did the car review on that?
I started a website. I was a new. How old were you to do your first review? I have 17 on my heels.
I had to make sure with the cars that I was driving that I had all the stuff blued out. I had to pull it out. So I had to pull it out. So I had to pull it out.
I was serious. Then I had to make some speed with someone. Yeah, exactly. So that was all my else.
So I had to put a lot of passengers out. I was on the road on the road. I was on the road on the road. I started to all that.
And then age of 18, I did a gakier after school before starting uni. And it was then that I emailed Mitsubishi and said, hey, I've started this website. Can I sort of, yeah, me cars are borrowed. And they're like, oh, the Mitsubishi 380 is about to come out.
We don't have any cars yet. But in the meantime, we're going to offer you those other cars. You're right. You're five magnets.
Yeah. So back then it was Magna. They had pajero. So I went up to...
It's the same pajero. It's the same pajero. That's the same pajero. Exactly.
Yeah. Pretty much the exhaust. This is the one that goes to the Mitzvaht and Greece. It's called the Sait Red Oste.
So there you go. But it's hilarious. Yeah. So gaffier with my way down.
So I don't want to first turn up to the dealership. I thought, oh, I don't know how this all works with Bingo and my P's. And back then, I got back there, my license had red stripe on the top. So what I engineered in my wallet was a clear cover on it with some duct tag under the red.
And then every time they're asked for my license, I pretend like I couldn't get it out of the stuff. So they couldn't know it was on my P's. And then I'm back then to the front, I'm off to the picotape plates up so I don't want to get fine. So this sort of went on.
I ended up getting a job doing some work for a local newspaper in July. So car reviews. And basically, stem from there, it was maybe a year and a half after that. But I got in touch with our walls who started Caribos.
And he had content and offered to buy my website for shares in Caribos. And it was at that point I had just started uni that I thought, I'm not going to have time to expand my site. I was going to need to take on people. And it was just becoming probably too much work.
I decided, yeah, I'll sell him the side more content. And that's where it all started again. The whole career started. And the reason why everyone laughed at Starless did 21st centuries because Caribos is a website.
You would start at 21st century website when I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I'm saying it really old. We used to read the monthly motor and windows magazine. You got to use those as well.
And it was a sweet photo. Where now it's a different day. It's basically content every day. And something that you published three days late is old news.
Yeah. And that was the thing that aggravated so many people in this industry. Because when Caribos started taking off, we would be going to some of these car launchers. And nowadays they have what's called an embargo.
And the embargo says you can't publish any content until this day. Back then, there was no such thing as an embargo. So we go to a car launch. We take our own photos at the car launch.
We publish the content at the night. We go home. And all of our competitors started complaining because they got published into a print schedule, which was two weeks later. They'd be using press photos.
No one liked it. And we'd be coming up on the first page of Google. And it was like a stratospheric the way that it went up from there. The website just went crazy.
They started getting ads on the site. So it was really that change and shift. And then tell you look today at a lot of our competitors and even globally to people that are on YouTube. They're expecting it to be out there with a GoPro shooting their own content.
It was inconceivable five, 10 years ago that that would ever happen. So the game has changed yet again. So people have been from being just magazines to being websites, and you're not just being anyone can do the job. And is anyone just doing that?
Pretty much. You want me to do a podcast for you? Yes. But no, that's a deep.
Anyone can create that. That's right. And it doesn't have to be, no, I kept saying a lot of this stuff with focus on production, but I kept saying a lot of stuff on YouTube where if you deliver the information someone wants, it's a job complaint. It doesn't have to be this point of graphic type, you know, car thing.
It just needs to be held out of focus. Yeah. So it's not, it's different. It's like you said, George, and it's always, isn't it?
There's something for, oh, oh, God. That's actually playing. That's a video. I'm a video with a player.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other four players are getting into the, they're not on YouTube, but they're getting into the different streams. Well, actually, I think someone recommended the other day that the other real should look at having a topic. They can have an official porn option.
They can have an official porn option. Look, when I was looking at, when I was looking at, when I was looking at baby seats the first time, and you know, we had the first game come along, and then the second one came along and it was like, I don't get two seats in the car now. And there was a guy that just reviews baby seats in the seats. All of those, these are different seats in different cars.
They're just getting cars from manufacturers and putting two or three seats into it. Yeah, three of those will fit in there. Two of these, this guy was like, okay, how many people would possibly want to see? And therefore what I do, and if everyone's having that, all you have to do is go on YouTube and say, baby seat, say it's not.
He's not hearing views that much. And that's, like, he's not depending on the car. I'm making a pass for every single car that he reviews with front forwards, backwards, three of them, to the back. I like what you do.
And you always have to go on the cars as well. So it's not acceptable because this, the back seats don't be fine. Put the baby seats in. That's why, that's why I chose my seats.
So I've reviewed today, like a jump of mine, a bit of Google, where the content comes from, whether it's independent or whatever it is. I'll kind of look at that now and go, right, that's a real review because back in the day, but inside front, couple was holding, and a beautiful review on the holdens. Come here, come here. What the fuck?
And then, you know, sort of forward that month to the inside front, come on, I mean, when Moto, how about Moto magazine? I did a stint on the magazine. I did a stint on the magazine. 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, I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying that the advertising side, but I'm not. LAUGHTER Charles, turn the monster, right? I'm not doing it right, you guys, I just should let this one up, I've got to get it. And you can drive it all right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I've got to. I've got to go. No, I'm a bit, I'm a bit, I'm a bit, I'm a bit, I'm a bit into a real review.
You need to get some digging reviews as well. But, you know what, that's, we actually get a lot of criticism about cash for comment and stuff like that. And all I can say is that we accept advertising from every manufacturer. So the fact that you see, and it's very different because if you come and have a look at the whole HIV, you come and have a look at one of our reviews of HIV, Toyota can come and pay more to have a review of an ad for a CHR place on that page.
So we allow them to competitively bid for that. But it doesn't influence our, which is good, which is what we need because the way it feels. But you aren't in effect giving them free at the time of your test, so you can't be able to say, sorry, we haven't gone to the HIV. Yes, they lost.
But they do, they've been back in the day, if you want a press guy, you've got a press guy. Correct? Yeah, it's still happening. Yeah, it's delivered to you that day.
And the rumor is that everybody else can ask you every day's Ferrari and Tuscan. But Ferrari had a habit of tuning some press cars as well. But those guys are pretty ridiculous because what will happen, for example, Ferrari, we can't test any of their cars on a track. And then a couple of weeks ago, they were like, well, you've got a 300-kilometer limit.
I mean, 100Ks, by the time I'm out somewhere, you just, you know, I've got a target. You couldn't drive it. No, but there's no car driving around. Yeah, more back, can't you?
I just, there's no point testing these cars. I'll try to get to your long show. Yeah, exactly. So, this is a good one for the next ex-girlfriend.
It's a good one. It's a good one. I was on loser in the exhibition for the 80. Still ampere, but here it is.
Now, but that's the thing. It's kind of pointless these days. And the reason is that they're now giving cars to virtually anyone. So McLaren will have a fleet of cars that are demoers because they don't actually have a press fleet.
So the demo needs to be not damaged, not driven half. And they'll give it to anyone that asks, or has an Instagram account. So that's where we're heading around, which is a little bit. Does it get a bit of a car?
It's just for you. It sounds good, but it's actually not. Because you sign a form that has like $15,000. Yes, yes.
How are you going to get a McLaren when they can't do gimmicks and be sure to offer it? Unfucking. You never know. The flames were out there waving, but poor hell.
Kind of like a few of them. You've got a new trial and he may be hard to tell. Well, yeah, it's got a lot of things on it. A lot of things on it.
Same thing on it. What about the V? It was a question of what to ask you guys, when you're from the Ferrari, you drive a phone. Yes.
Did you use your V plate license? So that was fairly certain that wasn't going to happen. And Tony, who was one of the early guys at Cariboss, he can sell ice to us, the guy is just sensational. And he managed, he got a band from Audi in the meantime because he had to go around and have a couple of people to get us as he gave.
He was in France, so we were the factories and he managed to get us to drive. It was kind of weird because when we got to the factory they took our passports. So it was like he came in and drive the car. We just needed your passport.
Like, all right, this is weird stuff. Never had this before. So they took a little rental car. The ability to leave the country was a big attack.
Yes, the government. The fact that they were in the plastic slurry. I served in the passport. That's the software.
So you're from Serbia? Yeah. So we were in there. They gave us a tour of the factory and it came to drive in the car and I thought, oh, I don't know how many forms we have to do this stuff.
We had to drive in the car. There were no forms. It was just an old license check. They were just like, all right, you hit out with a chaperone and the chaperone was just on his phone the whole time.
And we had this situation where... Take himself his Instagram. It was just before the... It was in like 2008, I think.
So it was a long time ago. The four phones had cashed. It was just a tick. It was a tick.
That's right. So we went out and I said to him, do you mind if I can get this established? It was like 120 Ks now. It's rather we're running.
He goes, yes, it's your license. You do whatever you want. I'm right. I'll do this.
I'll get a shot. It was just a pin-me-back in the seat. Incredible car. Yeah, and we were doing...
It must have been close to 920. It was probably 2 or 3 times. During that time I passed a couple of cars. I was just thinking of it, rather out of the throttle and got back to about 100, and looked at my mirror and there was a police car behind me.
And I thought, fuck... My only chance here and I was gonna go to jail now because I got my passport all this sort of stuff, I thought, all right, I'm gonna go to the side. It just drives past and gives us a wave and I thought, wow, if that was here, I reckon I'd be... Is it the car that was probably the car?
Yeah, over there. I think we were driving through some small towns and stuff like that and people were running out onto the streets. It's not like here, like I don't know if you notice there's a four-hour piece to park, just there, dude has like the GT3, it's all these other things. Do you think we're getting cars at home?
Yeah, no one cares. So people more pastor just not care that there's like this one of whatever Ferrari park there, like you know, the friend with the center there the other day and it's like, this is like insane stuff. In Australia, people think you're a wanker if you've got all these nice cars. If we're driving something expensive, no one will ever let you into traffic.
I just don't like driving expensive cars here because it's just not... It's just not right. So you're a big fan of that. They do actually cars, if you're an AMG, big bang, I thought they're big.
Yeah, they do. They have a lot of cars in the States and if you have a nice car like in Germany, you're walking along, they will tip that at you. So Australia is just this weird place where everyone wants to succeed and it's only like if you're an underdog, but anyone's interested. You've actually succeeded and had a nice thing.
You don't want to have the damage of all, take it off, you would say, isn't the best kind of driver? It is. Like even to this day, I just think to myself that that thing is an engineering masterpiece. And sort of the background of my story is the mechanical engineering and uni size, understanding of how cars work and all this sort of stuff.
And that car in itself is just incredible. And being able to the factory, you're just seeing, I can get it off the floor there. How many cars are there? It's a handful.
I can see something. I had production money over the entire van. I don't know. I'll be lying if I'm acting like something.
I'll be lying if I'm acting like a thousand cars. No, I'm not sure. They lost money on all these cars, but the thing is that the platform then carried out a sheer on which is now sort of where they know about. They're going to go to the floor door.
Yeah, will they eventually go to the car that we can all buy? I mean, not that we can all buy. We can all buy. We can all buy.
We can all buy. We can all be games are worth, but then they are. Exactly. You know, I've always wanted to go to the floor.
They're going to show up. They're going to tell us what was kind of a car launch with other people. And I, most of the time I'll pick someone else because the person I'll pick is a money. And, in this particular instance, we had a situation where we're at this launch in Tasmania, driving the T Rutger roads.
It was wet. And there was a mix of, from this manufacturer, a set of high performance models. And old Mac was driving a high performance model. A driver to the hero.
And managed to roll the car really badly. The boss of his car company then drove around the corner next. Behind them. The two cars behind there were.
One dude was like trapped in the car briefly. One guy cut his head open. because car companies are so worried about preserving the journalists' interest in the brand, instead of sending this guy home and telling him, hey, don't drive, I'm gonna paint this on public roads. Hey, my car.
Next morning, I had to drive with him. Oh, no. Since I got him, listen up, champ. You will drive when he stays with me in the car.
Any bullshit, and I'll be getting out. What else? I'm gonna say, but I'm fine, for one point. Yeah, yeah, okay.
But this is the thing, the guy leading the drive was a race rider, anti-scarred, he left the road. So if a race rider can drive confidently on a public road at the speed limit, and you can't, you're probably in a rear-section. What we're talking about, press cars, we're having them when I was working for either motor or wheels, or one of the companies, I can't even say this. You've got to take some of the press cars.
You've got to take some of the press cars. You know, you didn't have a car, or take a press car. That's a garage one, I think it was, no cars, I'm about to take some of these one-to-one of a car. You know, I'm sticking it up.
I'm sticking it up. I'm going to have to stick it up. I'm going to have to stick it up. I've got the key.
Probably should be at it. Shouldn't have, probably should be at it. I've found the key. I was in the line, it's in the line.
It's trying to be a picture. You've got the key. Go on, you see it, driving home. It's a bad, bad, bad.
A good car Sunday morning from the end, you guys. No problem. Someone's stolen. Oh, God.
What color was it? I said it to my house, guys. Don't fucking move it. I'll give it away, you guys.
We're giving that away. Oh, my God. Where are you going to get the car away? There's how many Ks right away?
How many kilometers? You might have drove away the doors. You're going to send a tow truck to pick it up. Oh, my God.
Fix the car up. It was quite interesting. Did you still have important options? Yeah.
Did you do a review? Ah, I was just going to do it. I was just going to do it. I was just going to do it.
Are you the guys running? Yes. I was just going to go. If I had a reputation for it.
They're like, oh, what's going to take? Today. Then they just started trying to cover up everything. Surprised.
They said it's going to be a modern thing. It was quite a fortune. I used to bring a lot of and revvedges. Yeah, they'll come out.
We're not here to take the car. It's kind of funny. They said to me, did you not realize the car was a carbon? I thought we were just giving it fresh.
The thing about the power vision that stickers all over. Oh, the mess is off. Someone stopped. No, no, I didn't.
I was sitting up the next day. It was through that matter. We had some horror stories. A guy, a junior guy, a Aston Martin.
Soft top. He thought he was super cool. He got into his password back to work on it. He picked his car up and drove it through.
That was changing what he started. We didn't know he had to get the car. He took his car and he parked it outside. In King's Cross, parked it outside.
It started raining. The roof was at his command side. He's like, here's my car. Shit.
You want to say what he was on this job? He took the car. It's not. I had the keys.
Stop walking. I have stores I never had a car to tell. Does he see it in your car? He has nothing interesting.
You can have a car. You have to say what you want. You guys bought it. You bought it?
Yea, actually, they gave you a car. You purchase it. These car revs. That's not bad.
Not bad. Come on. I think it's a bit soft. The reverse camera.
The reverse camera? The reverse camera picture is not good. Yeah, yeah. The thing with those cars is that we did a hot hatch in Paris a little while back.
If you get it out on the track, it's just not quite as hard as the rest of them. But they do that deliberately because it's obviously shares a platform with much more expensive cars that we're in out of the badge. And the RVs need to be a lot more dynamic. I don't think you can tune in with the tools.
Yeah, it's quick and a strike line. So if you go to a track turns to the control and stuff off, it's not underseas all day long. It's a little rosus a Volkswagen. Oh, yeah.
First of all, you won't get the strike line. First of all, yeah. First of all, yeah, it's already a long time. It's already a long time.
You might find a quick and permanent strike line. It's just a classic taking the last really long time. The issue is, I've heard the make it promise you. You have to tell me, how to bet.
The same date. The most of the person watching? They're not. Sorry, Pete.
No, it's the first of all. Why have all cars watched in Portugal? I've been in Portugal. So I just listened to the rest of the rest.
Sorry. Yeah, I asked the same question. It's Spain and Portugal and the reason is the toll roads. So if you go there, like Spain, for example, to drive up and down Spain, it costs a lot of money.
The toll roads are incredibly expensive. So whenever we do a car launch, it's like a ghost town. None of the locals will use the toll roads because each way you've known them. They'll take back roads and other roads.
So you go to a car launch and all of a sudden you've got like a three lane road with no one on it with their little policing and they're all Portugal. And the racetracks, they have racetracks everywhere. Even in Spain Madrid has one track we did a super prototype drive called Parama and it's like this old ship track that's falling apart. You would never drive to a car, but they've just spent all this money on resurfacing it.
And you've got this world-class X Formula One track, a stone-surro from Madrid. You've then got all these other tracks around the place that are like pouring out is this incredible racetrack. And they've bought them for these car launches. They'll be there for two weeks doing international media.
And it costs them nothing compared to doing a launch in Germany or something where a combination is expensive. Government doesn't want you doing stuff on roads. They've got us just... Doesn't that...
Isn't that dumb? Do you do that ghost town? With that... Unused it.
Unused it. Unused it. It's crazy. I just said about that.
It's not really good. It's not really because you just opened the lock one on the house. Yeah, it's a quite good. It's really good.
They just sent to do that for the sake of... It's just cheap. You can fly media there from all over the world. Where does geography do?
Pretty good. Photography is great. Locals don't really care about anything. So it's just cheap.
Any road trips through Europe? Yeah, actually I did one in the end of Summer last year which was absolutely epic. So he did with a friend of mine. He's named his job at KLLC.
He's like a BMW tragic as a YouTube channel and all this sort of stuff. Really good. He lives in the UK. And he...
Yeah, because he loves BMWs I thought, all right, let's organise a road trip. So I borrowed an R8 V10 plus Spider and then an I-A road trip. And we did four mountain passes in two days in four countries. Nice.
And it was... So we met in Munich and picked up the cars there. We did a stretch of the Autobahn over to Austria. And then it was basically Gloss Gopner which is amazing mountain pass in Austria.
And we went to the wrong side of that. So we got there to a car park and I'm like, look, look, I'm actually in the pictures. And he's like, yep, we took a wrong turn. So we're literally on the wrong side of the mountain.
And we couldn't go to the actual Gloss Gopner because it was like late. And if we wasted any more time, we wouldn't have had any time to do the rest. Same overnight in Innosbrooke. The next day we did the Timon shop which is like the most epic road you will ever see.
So this one runs from Austria over to part of Italy. And it was amazing. So it's a toll road. I'm by some dude.
You pay 16 euros and you then just drive. I'm probably not. Well, yeah, it's just this... I don't know how to...
... like Kramer in the business. No idea. It's like a new surface and you come out of this tunnel where you were just sort of going up and down with the big 10 and the IAF.
And you come out of this tunnel and it's like a painting, this epic thing. And we pulled over to just soak in this view. And there was this couple sitting there with like a card table having lunch. They've also engulfed sitting there and there was this big fat German dude and he's over all.
He's just coming up with some sausage and he's like, he means what? We're just there having lunch. He's stopped for a snack. Yeah, I'm like, this is insane.
Do you want to take a photo? This is like crazy. Maybe you say what you say? It's a dream going to go early in the morning because there's a lot of tourist bosses.
That was a thing. We had good run with traffic. Basically after that place we stayed in a place we're leaving our reaches like a... ...
this tax haven. You need to leave somewhere. The next morning we had to leave like 6.30 a.m. to make it to a Stelvio pass.
And basically we did two bits of Stelvio pass. The Stelvio pass itself. But behind the Stelvio pass is the all-round pass which is like a... ...
it's a place where the back end of it. That is epic. Like if you think the Stelvio pass is good, no one does the back of it. The back is amazing and then we've got Stelvio pass with no traffic.
So everyone says don't go there. This is the traffic. This is the time it's right and you're not approaching from ages away. We get there a bunch of time and they carry the hand.
So we ended this whole two day journey by making it to the airport for our international flights back home with like probably 10 minutes to spare. It was the tightest run. We used every bit of what we could. But then we said fuck my pass was that you go.
So yeah the road trips. Well I would love to be able to do it. I want to create a series that like road trips that anyone can do. So this is a trip that you guys could head up high up three, four cars and do it yourself.
And don't have to be amazing cars. A couple of dozen dusters. I mean we also think a little bit of that. Just going up or going down which is more fun.
Ah definitely going up because going down unless you have mega breaks. It's hard work. Wife or no wife? No wife.
Not that I might spend time with her but she hates. Just everyone knows that Daniel is checking his head. Because of the dizzy and the screaming not because of my road. No he's a fuck road.
We took a A-12 super fast from Senna to Marinello and we came across some really tight roads. And she's holding on and she's panicking. No not at all. My wife would love it.
I've been in your seat so I can drive. I hold on. I think I'm going to have to tell her that it's probably going to take a drive. Well that's a good thing.
Then the downside of that is you have to share the drive. Then you have to get two cars. Two cars. Two cars.
Two cars. Two cars. Three, four. Four drivers.
Seriously. You've got to do it. You've got to enjoy it and it's got to be relaxing as well. Our thing was really rushed and if we had our time again on the next two days on to it.
And you've got to be patient. Like a lot of people get stuck behind a train of traffic. Instead of trying to overtake everyone. I would just hang back or wait until the other morning to go to the drive.
Because a lot of the drivers around there, the locals are shipped. Because you'll be hoping along at a good pace and then you'll have someone in the middle of the road just not watching. And all of a sudden you're really having to, like rides aren't big enough in two cars. They're alone.
The gaps that you have. There's a group of guys. Well there's a group of guys. I've got to create most years and there's a group of guys from Russia.
I believe Moscow and they're literally getting their supercars. And everyone. Oh it's called the Unlimited 300. And they all get together.
And some of them take their cars down on their bed. They've got their bed and then they've got their bed and then they've got their bed and then they've got their four-wheel drive. A lot of them drive. They're supercars.
And they literally drive from Russia all the way to Greece. And then from Athens they get the boat to Crete. And they literally do two weeks on the island. They create really a rolling con.
They're like a rolling con. They're doing it the right way. And these guys, they're so respectful of the countryside. But they love the roads and the driving.
It's not around. And they just get to just have a car. And then that was the first week. You two then went there.
They went and found an unused airstrip. That is correct. And now every year in June they go down there and they've literally created this massive thing where everyone brings their cars in from over Europe. And they drive down.
There's like there's multi-vends with four drive running gear and Porsche motors and everything. There's twin-turbo-eventadors that catch on fire. So we start off as everyone's. Because now everyone's starting to heavily modify.
So I'm going to get some GDRs. Two years ago some guy from Japan flew into WWE. Porsche is. It's got the idea of Jeez when you start the world.
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You're pretty vocal with safety vehicles. I've been listening to your podcast as well. You're vocal with a Mustang. You're vocal with a car to airbags.
Yeah. Screening your governments to implement. And they've done it. Exactly.
I don't think so. I think it's just, it's for me it's safety. I don't care. Like people who drive old cars that are unsafe.
People who ride motor bikes. People who are unsafe stuff. My concern, especially with the mass angles, if you were buying a car in 2018 I expect it to be safe. I expect the airbags to work.
Just basic stuff like that. And even now I ask the question with Jimi and Wrangler. Are their engineers incompetent or do they just not care about their customers? Because they're the only two options.
99% of the safety work on a car is done on a computer before a car is ever crusted. So they know from the outset that the Jeep Wrangler is going to be a cheap car. And with your engineering background, like to implement safety into a vehicle where the software does not cost that much. It's not so much money.
It's just a case of engineering and it's also a case of how much money you're willing to spend on. So take the Jeep class for example. They just announced a five-star rating for that. And this is as much not for our into vehicle as the Jimi and Wrangler have yet its five-star.
Now if you look at Mercedes Benz and their budgets, obviously they've probably got a big budget. But the fact of the matter is they've sold over two million regular seats. It's started over two and a half million in Jimi since they launched. And it's sold like 400,000 G classes.
So you've got the volume there. If your car company is making cars, you're going to say, well we've sold two million of these things. I reckon we might actually put some money into this. Suzuki has formed as well because they're happy to sell Suzuki Swift in India with no airbags.
They get a zero-star crash rating. The same car here as a four-star. So what you're saying is the life of someone in India is not worth the same as the life of someone here. So what frustrates me is that car companies are taking the piss and you as a consumer should be confident.
The car in the driving is going to be safe and going to work. It's a car that thinks it's actually you've got so many cars out there. If I told you that there was a 50% chance of you being killed by crossing that road, you would cross the road. But it's the same thing with these alpha-airbags.
There's a 50% chance of you being a very minor accident that the event will kill you and a lot of people aren't getting them replaced. Just not even just on the airbag. A lot of people aren't driving them replaced. But it's a really long process.
I was saying it's a huge backlog of cars. What do I do? Not a traffic car. That's a thing.
In those instances, you are allowed to ask them for a replacement car. Because if the car, unless they want to put it right, you're not going to be killed or injured by that airbag, you should be getting a replacement car. That could destroy some manufacturers. I mean, that's a thing.
That's just money. At the end of that, that just means dollars. There's a lot of cars in the other people. Depending on who, you also can't do that because what I like, have all my parlax and have the airbag be called.
I rang 31, 2300, a little bit before. It was a long time. I rang up pretty much what I told them to get back to. Really busy.
I said, what do you make? We've done enough stuff. I don't know if I'm going to go to the office. My office is trying to make this work.
I'll leave with you. So, I'm going to do this just crap. I rang two other dealers. One of them happened to be in my house.
I'm going to be in tomorrow. Just break the door. Can you leave it with us for the whole day and we'll fit it in. That's fine.
Some of my wife's say class. I rang the dealerships. Two of them. I did.
I'm going to be for that. It was pretty much. You get a letter from us when you can put it in. I said, no, it's not going to make more more.
I've drawn these guys. She's got the kids in everything. I got a friend that works at a Mercedes-Benz day machine. Because he walked in to service and got booked into it.
Is it the fact that there's no stock? It was a nice minute. The dealers just been fitting in. It's a couple of issues.
The first issue is you've got Elfrey back to the 50-50 ones. And then you've got back ones. The other ones. The other ones are.
It's just a type of airbag. It's the most abusive to the corrosion. It's the most likely to be in a car accident. The day ones are only likely to rupture and give you that injury after a period of about 60 years.