Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You're listening to the old talk card podcast. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, Christmas, GTHO special. That's not the how I was talking about.
Oh, you're talking about other people. Sad as hell. Sad as hell. And his big sack of goodies.
Yeah, jingle bells. It's Bill's jingle. I'm thinking of what the joke with your kid was. I'm thinking about all the memes in the videos I've received from Friends About Christmas.
What does Santa walk funny because he's Bill's jingle or something? Jingle jingle. But now Christmas is here, it's only all Christmas special. It's car wash day today.
Car wash day, yes. We've got the Brody from Leading Edge on site, cleaning all the cars, getting ready. We've had some terrible bushfires. It's a secret location.
Okay, so we've got a secret location. He doesn't have a permit to wash all the cars. But there's the door in the cover. And it's very hot in Sydney today.
So, but they're all getting a nice bath, getting decontaminated. You know, the ash has been building up. Montreal is no longer a mythos black. It's more like charcoal ash, grey.
It's two-tone. I have my pickle tank and it's ash inside the cover. Yeah. This is ash everywhere.
You know, the door is just... Yeah, the door is just dropped inside the cover. So, I think all the day my staff came running and saying it's raining ash. It was literally in the like, instead of water, it was ash falling down.
Yeah, but it's terrible that our thoughts all go out to the floor. Yeah, so... It was the first world problems for us that we had to get our car wash for someone else. Yeah, four levels underground.
But we're doing it, the environment would be friendly by it, minimum wasteage of water. So, bucket wash. Okay? So...
And we're going to get Brody on. He's busy... He's busy the time of year for him. I want to have a quick chat to him one day about what you can do, the difference in car washes.
And we'll have Brody on one episode to be a whilst to do a car wash. But we've had some friends. We're aiming on the owner of the H.A.M. and on him.
But A.M.M.M. just kept talking about his M140i. A.M.M.M. on the track.
We're going back to the bushfires. We had some friends who were literally their back fence. What, burned down and... Yeah, the side of the shed was all scorched.
Very lucky. Lucky the rule of fire brigade. And he had to move all his collection. He had all his cars.
He had a time. I mean, there's other people that don't know. People just didn't know time that they were just... Yeah.
So, I thought it'd go out for them during the Christmas period where it's just chaos out of the... in much of Australian new stuff, whilst in Queensland. So, Merry Christmas to them and the type that you get through this tragedy. We're not snowing.
How's the story? How's the only story? Yeah. $9,000 of repairs.
God bless. It's in the morning. It's in the morning. Who is that?
You're in half and then the car's gone. I'm a-lievable. But they had to take the whole front of the car off. Okay.
Back up our headlights, radiator, old coincidence to do an oil leak and a water pump. Yeah, to pull the front of a car apart. You know? I went and saw it.
I thought it was even a panel repair. It had a front end. They ripped them in the off. Right.
They pretty much ripped them in the off and seen in front of them and fixed it. You know what? What? I saw the guy there.
I thought my county was about to keep the birthday out of the water pump. And that's why it's so funny. It's like the labor in the top. Very labor intensive.
You know? It's like... I've got my heart on something. Christmas present.
No, no, no, no. Not this Christmas. But all going well the... I'm going to get the Dodge Ram.
Ah, yes. The 1500. But... It's only when we first started.
It was all trying to try to be good. Yeah. But it's... I got to a point where I could do what it makes you get the rhythm.
You know? So, Ram. Yeah. Well, going back to that.
Right. Just... We'll touch on it. No, no, no, no, no.
It's so like the episode three. Yeah. So basically, in all these times, I've never once heard from any Mitsubishi Data Work Contacted ever again. Right?
So I left my name, number, email, everything. Fuck all. Right? I gave more details to this nice young man at a Dodge leadership.
Yeah. Okay. I was just looking at it in the yard. You came out.
You came out. Why are you doing? Yeah. I gave him my data.
I'm not really yet. You know? I'm a salesperson. I have my own business.
I gave him my card. I said, this is my card. I don't really want to brand you. I don't really want to brand you.
I don't really want to brand you. But if you get a demo, you know, whatever, get me why? Wait, the card ran you last weekend. No, I didn't do every demo.
Okay. Did you want to have a look at it? And I saw myself, I'm not quite ready. I think it's changed.
You know, I'm going to kick my card for another 12 months. But thanks for ringing me. Okay. But, you know, I'm almost feel free to get in touch.
Okay? Six months away. That's how you do business. That's right.
Oh, look. If this guy doesn't ring me in the next six months and I'm ready, I still go seeing because you make that content. No, I was behind around the day. And they are.
It's a lovely card. It's a good size. Very nice card. If one 50 massive long wheelbase type size, the RAM is just a nice size for Australia.
It's big enough, but not stupid. Yeah. It's just a little bit bigger than our usual range of highlights. You know, it's a little bit bigger, but it doesn't load.
You know, you don't need to pack his name. No, no, no, it's just one in a quarter. But it is the older model. And I think I was just giving it a trial round.
HSB convert. I think HSB got a good deal on, well, Dodge, Ram Australia, the substitute. They've got a good deal. X-Factory on all the probably other run outs, which has worked well.
And it's sitting well in the new year. The update should be here, but Silverado 1500 is on the way to Australia through HSB. Which is the small one. Dodge Ram 1500 competitor.
So that is a new car. So it's not the kind of... All you can do is I'll say some long-bait Silverado. That's a big truck.
That's a big truck. That's too big for me. You need in the cities. Yeah.
You know, the only place you parked in that, even if you get a buy-in' seat, the spot that says, you know, trucks and drivers only. Yeah, it's a long... It's a big truck. So that's a big truck.
Yeah. But out of the country it's enough for an out of the outbank, but they're doing a good job. I mean, they was talking to you, I look out the Tundra to come out as a ride-head drive. Yeah.
Toyota's reluctant to let a third-party re-engineer their vehicles. No, and it's too late. It's too late. And it's too late in the production line for them to get into the factory.
The Tundra's a big vehicle, right. That's more like a F-150 to two cars. You've got to be that a Land Cruiser is a U, would you call it a Land Cruiser U? It would be good.
It's a big vehicle. I don't know if... If you look on the road here, I mean, everyone's got the same opportunity here to buy a car and have it converted. And the Tundra is offered by a couple of companies that do conversions.
Yes, but I think the former accident that we've got is the tank ups very low. And that's probably will reflect the above people's mentality that, you know, by the F-150, the 2,500, you know, those type of vehicles, because, you know, that's the recovery. But in the States, the Tundra is a big seller. Oh yeah, there's a lot.
I saw a lot with the WX-5. So, I think for them, unless it's a factory right-hand drive, Australian dealership car, talking about it back. But, yeah, that's where we're looking at for late next year now. And the other, the fourth, let me know in America's the Nissan tire.
Yeah, but they're not going to have it seen right now. No, that's not going to be known. That's just, I think that runs the same engine, the V8 petrol as the petrol. Yeah.
I don't know, it's a big, look, the people, a few people I know with the 1500 rent, it's got the 5.7-HM either. They're going to have reasonably economical. The diesel apparently uses more fuel, the V6 diesel. That's probably better for Tally.
Uh, yeah, but look, most people are buying these things that tell a lot. No. They're going to tell you no more than a jet skier or something like that. And they're back at the Laramy.
That's what it's got. So we see what happens. So, shopping. It's, like, you'd see it in the past.
That's a four-doll, that's a four-doll. It was lovely sitting and sitting there and, like, you know, you've realizing how big he's sitting there and he's sitting there and he's sitting there and laying on the center, it can't solve. It's like big, yeah, you can fit three laptops on that thing. You're still got enough room.
And, the news this week as well, the release photos of the new Suburban, Tahoe, you know, Yeah, the SLA. It's getting OLED screens and it curved. Yup, yup, yup. Well, if you look at the same time this week, is that being announced, Holden's pulled the plug on the Commodore.
Well, that's what they said is they'd retired the name. It's fucking dead. Look, the cars did, one shouldn't have been called, come on, we've talked about this ad nauseam. However, Opel is now sold to Peugeot.
They can't get back, they haven't signed a deal. Oh my god, I make the call. Holden is only gonna survive as a brand, if the French buy it. It's not, it's not gonna happen.
Okay, we got, Holden as a brand is dead. They, on a Holden boy, it is dead. They have no product. So I have to rename it.
Holden should be buried with the closure of the manufacturing. Everyone who said this is episode one. That's his rebranded delicious, Jim. No, no, no, no.
Jim, do you listen? Jim, do you listen? With a selection of the vehicles the Australian people will buy in their showrooms. So that's the Camaro, the Corvette, Corvina's the Hello guy that's coming out.
The Chevy, the Blazer should have been built right here. The, what would you call, just the, the incompetence from GM. Look, the Australian public boy being treated shit, except for the European manufacturer's 20%. Yeah.
And then on what fucking planet does GM not say huh, let's see. Australia is the largest market per capita that buys AMG product. So what are these fucked hearts to? When the Camaro is getting developed, mind you.
Buy Australians. Buy Australians on the same platform as our Commodore. They don't make a right hand drive Camaro. Yeah.
Fucking morons. Yeah. It means more people buying AMGs than finance. And you've got companies like Mercedes BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Group.
They've got enough performance cars. And they give us to sell. Whatever they sell in Europe, we got access to. Well, even Maybach, even cars that's right.
What an interesting fact is that Australia has always received the top loaded range of the AMGs. We don't have options. There's options, right? Well, there is, but we get the S where in other markets.
You get the base in the base. And then there's options and options and options and options. Right. When it comes to sun roofs, like comfort, pass off things, where we get it in fully loaded.
There's a market there. Look at your competitor. Now you may not be competing as a, you know, the SS Commodore wasn't competing with a C63, right? But the appetite, you look and say, hang on, if we send a Camaro factory into Australia, there's some 88.
What was that? It was there. You had the platform, even with the Chevy Blazer. Everyone's going to SUVs and you develop a car, like, I'm supposed to be a global car.
Let's head right on. What are you fucking stupid? So what do we get? We get the Captiva from Korea.
Come on guys. That's why they're getting buried. It'll be GMs, what we'll save them is, they're GM dealerships and they have things like, you know, they're Cadillac branding there, they're Chevrolet blood branding there. And if they want to have the Holton branding there to sell shit, what, the barina and the Astro, whatever, they're all gone.
That's right. That's the only thing that's going to save GM in Australia. But even the dealers, it's a 10 to 15 years ago, they were selling 80,000 car models a year. They made it a franchisee.
Well, they yanked a lot of franchises anyway, and these guys went and just took care and hopped on their dealerships. Because they drove faster, they had a whole bush there, they got a whole bush there, they pushed it under. Underneath and everything. They got a choice.
They had to. They had to. That's what they're saying. Because, look, they bring, yes, the Corvette's coming.
So now, all these years, all these years, Australia gets a right-hand-wide highway model, but we don't have any single exit. Build them right. It's business sense. And in the pipeline, the build, it's going to track people to your brand and then sell them a peak.
They don't have good right-hand drive product to sell. I agree with you. And that's what I'm saying. This is an opportunity for them to fix it.
They've got their Holden Acadia, the 7-seater, nice car, big car, everything. But you know what? No one's just falling to basically. People walking in and just going to cool down.
Because it's a cool car. They're buying an outdated platform over your brand new car. You know what? Because of the brand.
See, when you look at Ford, Ford has a problem. And I think they're back themselves into a similar corner. They were known as the Falcon car company. That's right.
And they thought, bring the Mustang in. That's our highlight model. And now they become the Ranger car company. Well, they're the Ranger and the Mustang.
That's it. No, they're not selling anything else. Yeah. The focus is almost there.
They're SUVs, the Cougar, the Green Age, and every edge. And they're not selling. They're exploring the car. The Koreans and the Europeans.
People are walking in and saying, maybe I'll just get buying myself a big BMW or a Mercedes and A-Class. Because everyone's a two car home now. So you don't need the big car. That's right.
The federal one. You've got a boy, you bought a big family car. You only had one family car. One of them would run around and get the corner shop.
If you bought a car. One. Now, moms got a car. That's what a car.
So generally now they don't need the big family car. That's running around in an SUV or a U. Moms running around in an A-Class or a one series or an A3 or an A4 or a Vennadi. Or they're going to the high end side to Santa Fe and stuff like that.
Where they're getting like a 100k Euro car for 55. And the Euro's have gone down. They've gone down into those markets. That's right.
So you've got their choice? Yeah. That is so. That's a good thing, numbers.
Yeah. And as much as I mean, sounds weird. But if you've blindfolded someone, took the steering wheel badge off in any branding, off-sale, I've got Santa Fe and sat someone in it that had no idea about cars. They've been showing the outside.
Deep-banged. You could throw a European badge on that car. No one died. And I'll probably get called in and show them something bad.
I'm going to take my wife. Put a look badge on it. Right? She'd say, lovely.
I love it. You know what? Because the quality is good. It's got the diamond stitched seats.
It's the cool turns. It's not really much. It's not really. That's right.
What did Holden do? Dubs that are cadaver on us and the interior is still out of the noise. Oh, general man, I've never been right now. I've really curious.
I mean, guys, go look at your competitors. It doesn't, that's the interior on the kia or whatever else product is not going to cost in more or less as the interior on the hindi Santa Fe, for example. If you look at the recent kia ads, they start with interior and panel. And then it reveals the kia bad.
That's right. But the immediate show is like a nice interior with nice premium colours. Yeah, it's not hard. But if you just want to, sorry, if you want to just look at some cars, the fat Americans, give me a kia.
Australians don't want it. They want it. They want it. They want it.
Even if it's not top shelf leather, at least it can look nice. It doesn't look like my lounge key. But Australians, like you said with the AMG, we buy the higher-spec cars as a ratio compared to the rest of the world. Who goes in and buys a proper pack, S6C3?
The country of Plenty, man. I'm going to say, you stop bringing them to know what I was buying. That gives them as demos and to sell them. So what they do, mate, it gets the S-pack all over.
That's it. It's loaded up all the drive further. You go to the dealership and tell them you want a new one and you want to pick the colour of these that the other, see when you're not. Yeah.
Right. Right. Okay. Meanwhile, hold them doing flig deals to offer their ZB cold or at probably cost price.
Oh, they're losing money. And now they're being hammered by Europe. You can name a price and hold deals with the old, not going to give you what you're going on. And those are the price and I'll do it.
But the combo was finished. That market's gone. Even the people that are lifting it by hand, they're for sex or camry, see on the right. It wasn't for Uber, you'd see no more camry.
There's no how-they cinemas that sticks on the road. That large car market's gone. But don't forget, a lot of lesser cars have grown into that market. So I'm there as the three.
Now as big as I'm there as the six or ten years ago. So no more than the wagons going down. One of the things I think, I'm looking out the window here and I'm thinking, everyone's is multiple cars in every house. So kids grow up, they buy a car.
Right, straight away now. Because Sydney's not very transport friendly. So I think, especially in Australia, it's getting very close. I'm looking at ease, similar to Japan.
Anything over a certain age. Okay. Has the idea either fall back or you're going to tax them for it. It's right.
Almost like a Singapore model where cars in Singapore, they get ten year old registrations and then towards the end of the ten years, they're working there. Nothing goes through about that nine year old car. You have to pay an extra ten years on like a certificate of registration and that's the way you can talk about it. And the taxes in Singapore quite high, we've talked about it in other parts of the world.
We're at the body of cars in Singapore. We don't have a manufacturing industry anymore. So that's what we do. There's a couple of these guys that are converting these cars.
Pretty much creating an industry. It's very good. It's a hard modification market. Watch the Hado Speed has a video on the conversion for the camera.
That's re-engineering the front of the car. That's a big job. That's a big job. Very good.
I mean, this is good on the OCS. But I think that, and there was a guy saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, well, they can and they can't. Right. It's correct.
It's a generational thing. Okay? And if no one makes decisions, it won't happen in this whole next generation. But there's a lot of shit cars on the road.
Unsafe. No pretty pollutants. You know? And they're allowed to go because politicians and governments don't want to be seen as oh, you know, like...
It was in a state by state. You totally don't have to stand up with it while you're going to get people sleeping rehear. No, they're cars checked. No.
They're already by them. They get dropped by. It's you're going to put restrictions on them. And that's how you create more of it, more work.
And that's what should have been happening if they want to predict a car industry. I'm even thinking of market to a point where, back in the 50s and 60s, Holden was building flat-pack cars. Right? They're pretty mean.
They're actually Australian, right-hand-drive 57 shares and stuff like that. Yeah, they're assembly cars. That's great. So that's effectively what H.S.
made some of these other guys are doing with the conversions. But they're buying a whole car. Yeah, and re-engineering it. And re-engineering it.
So, but it's just, it's, you know, you're trying to solve what's going on. So they didn't see some cities yet. S-class, Murgs built either. They're built either.
Yeah, a lot of manufacturing. Because there was less taxes, it was creating jobs. Yeah, I always say it. The people say Australia is a lucky country.
Australia is a lucky country. It's a dumb country. A lot of smart people, probably the M.S., right? A lot of them aren't in positions of power.
Right? There's a lot of dumb people and a lot of people that make dumb decisions. Short-sighted decisions. Right?
There's no need to have 30, 20-year-old cars on the road, maybe as I've got a couple of odd cars. But they're on historic regiode. Yeah. I'm not using a 20-year-old car that burns oil, okay?
Yeah. As my daily, and people that drive that car generally, they're going to generalize it and stuff like that. Correct it? No.
No. No. No. The guy that buys a thousand-dollar car to get from A to B doesn't look after the fucking car.
Right? He lets it fucking run on the fucking no oil. He doesn't repair it. He doesn't buy any tires for it.
He doesn't buy second-hand tires. No insurance. I've got friends that have got workshops. He goes, my guy's coming here and I need a second-hand tire.
Make a new fucking tire, ECC bucks for your car. They're having expensive feedbacks. Fuck off. Right?
I mean people obviously this podcast care about cars. We're having a lot of people out there that hate driving. But meanwhile, I've got, you get the police pulling over a bike because, you know, it's windowed into too dark. Meanwhile, fucking red camera is on the pass.
We fucking, you know, no, tell us, we're working on ball tires and smoke coming out of it. That's true. Wait. There are people that have just had white cars.
As the needs are way of getting around a bit, like an infrastructure in probably transport. That's the ladies. Look, we've got, we've got transport. But unfortunately, it's in Sydney for people that are from Sydney.
Our topography is a very spread out. Very spread out. Sydney is not on a plane. There's a lot of flat areas, hills and valleys and stuff.
So, you know, like, very rarely can you walk to the station without walking up a hill. So, that's, you know, first of all, problems maybe, at least we've got transport. But it's inaccessible because if you're on one end of town, you've got to get to another end of town, it could be a two-hour trip. And it's not even a two-hour walk, like in a straight line trip.
It's get off, walk across the road, catch a bus, catch a train. So, people drive. It's a train. It takes 50 minutes from the railway to the city.
You can fuck a walk there. It's a pain in this quick drive, you catch a train. And someone has said if you walk, it's probably quicker. That should have been underground.
That should have been underground. Did you hit that bus? It should have been a train. No, no, it should have been a train.
Electric, electric. Yeah, it should have been underground. Right? Because then you didn't do it traffic to the people.
But again, in this country, we have to deal with environmentalists. Listen, fuck off, we're going to haul and put in a fucking white marie. Right? That was my four-year-old Tom, and just hit me and say, fuck off and said that, Chile, yeah, Chile for Baba.
Sorry, sorry, Baba. He's a producer tonight. The producer has a sense of me, and apparently I have to put Chile in my mouth now. So my parenting skills are on point, because the kid knows why I'm from Rome.
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. Doing a good job. Well, like we said earlier, we should have run. Well, at least there's a Merry Christmas.
Oh, I'm going to Chexky. Oh, that's your Christmas present. So, there's your Christmas present. So, there's the round.
No, no, no. Thomas Ochazky, one of my mates, he's off, like, he's got a brand new one for himself, Chris, I'll see you in a second. So, I'm getting a second hand. I'll just say, I don't like it, because that way, if I don't like it, the damage on the race, I've just got that bad.
I tell you what, we had a Jetsky, my brother had a Jetsky, that's what he used to go. Yeah, a Jetsky? It was a three-time set. And I'm all I could remember about Harvard was, trying to get this thing to start.
This is all good. It's got a digital fashion, everything. It's got a little psyche-facial. It's not speed restricted like mine, it's a game.
So, we're going to do the vote. So, we've got Ross's boat. So, between Ross's boat, and your Jetsky, it looks like this boat, Pupcast. I am going to Jetsky to Ross's walk.
And I'll catch the ferry and do a review. That's right. I'm going to talk to you, Charles. So, anyway, like we said earlier, I have a good Christmas.
We had our 50th year of Christmas. We had a good feedback with our 50th spectacular last week. Shout out to Bill Nico and via comments. We had a lot of feedback, so one of the funniest shows that we had on.
So, thank you to all you listeners out there that have supported us. And join the festive season. Hope to see you in the present. It brings you the present so that you wish, if not at least, a little model of what you wanted.
We're not sure we're going to. We're not sure we're going to. We're not sure we're going to. We're going to break for a week or two.
But we'll see how we go. If we have an extra episode, you'll hear it. If you'll hear us in a new year. So, everyone, have a great Christmas.
Be safe. Look out for the fires if you're going to go on country drives. Just be careful out there. Thank you for all your support.
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We'll speak to you in the new year. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Thank you everyone.
Goodbye.