Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone. You're listening to the pilot, the first episode of the All Talk Podcast. My name is Peter Onus and we're here with co-host, Halil Mustafa. We're going to talk about cars and we're going to try and, uh, set up these podcasts and have guests later on relating to different topics and listeners can send in all your questions.
Good morning to Hal. How are you? Good, Pete. Early morning, daylight saving, someone slept in.
Yes, we're taping from Collecta Cafe this morning. It's the first day of daylight saving. We're starting an hour late, but that doesn't matter when you're listening to it. It's still on time.
We hear it Collecta Cafe and there's some beautiful cars downstairs. A gorgeous, uh, SL, is that a 280-huh? The 280-SL? It's a pagoda?
The pagoda in a sky-blue metallic paint. Robnell Cobra, which is one of the original Robnell ones I read. The convertible 67 Mustang. There's a...
Italian statesman? Italian statesman. A major, a major, a quadriporte. There's a couple of beetles down there.
It's a really nice place, a nice place to hang out on a satellite or a Sunday morning, but any, any day during the week, might as well look at it. Yeah, it's in Lycard in the other west of Sydney. It's a good of a place, it's a nice coffee here, we're just trying to, trialling it now and a bit of background. And how, how and I have been friends for over 25 years and all we talk about is cars.
We email each other classified, so if you're that type of person that just talks about cars and emails they make, links to cars that we can't afford and links to cars that we shouldn't be buying. This is the podcast for you and I started out with Matchbox. Mum used to buy us Matchboxers and from there the love of cars grew and Dad just takes the speedway out of Liverpool, back and was it behind... Green Valley Plaza.
Is that where he's now at the site? No, that's where the speedway was. Green Valley Plaza is now there, so were they still doing speedway late at night in the car park? Yeah.
I'm sure some of the others. And then from there we went to Motorchase, the love of cars just grew and then started owning cars, started driving the age of 12. Allegedly, Mum used to give us the keys to the car to wash it, we used to live in a cul-de-sac and the brother and I used to drive up and down, making sure the car was dry. And then the passion just grew from there.
Over the first car I had was a Suzuki Vittara. Do you remember that one, Hal? It was leaked. It leaked.
But we had it for about six, seven years, it was, yeah, gearboxers as wide as a truck gearbox. There was no quick shift fast speed, nothing. And that was a fun car that was appropriate for the day and age, cheap insurance, cheap car to run. Then we moved on to, I bought a Mercedes A190, the bus, the little bubble.
The less said the better. It was a good car. Everyone who drove and said, wow, what a good car. They looked at it, hey, that was great, the park in the city.
That's not going to be blindfolded. And then from there we learned the word turbo and bought a Mark V golf jedi. The two door was imported from Germany, the four doors were from South Africa. And that was a beautiful car.
For a front wheel drive it handled really well. Then moved up to a Mark VI golf bar, another car that ramped up to nine and a half out of 10. And then had the S-Class Merc for a while, it was a 10 year old S-Class. And then moved into the world of AMG, bought an A45 and that thing was a little pocket rocket.
That flew. And now I think we did that Porsche MacCarn, first wheel problems. First wheel problems, any bike, Porsche and case braking down. Five times that were in for warranty work and then I had a month later, say goodbye.
And I bought myself an M3, which is a weapon, an engine with wheels, nothing needs all the drive. Sorry about the Porsche. I need to, it's gone. What do you do?
Was that right? I wanted to start off with your background in cars, how did you get into it? I had zero interest in cars up until about, I think it was year 10. I stumbled across a magazine called Street Machine.
And on the front of it, it had this L, I think from memory it was an L-C-Terrana, could have been LJ, but it was tubbed, it had wild paint, it had an engine sticking out of the bonnet and I was like, what the fuck? So I started buying Street Machine every month, I couldn't wait for it. My first car, according to me, not according to my parents was going to be an A9X-Terrana, which never happened. Should have.
It should have. But with big bucks now. And then I started looking at buying X, Chaser, V8, Commodore's as my first car, which was going to happen later. Should have.
But my first car was a Toyota Corona SR 2.4 fuel injected. I had never driven a manual. I got talked into buying it sold. Should have not bought it.
They're not worth anything there. They're not worth anything there. Then I got rid of it. But I worked to drive manual after buying a manual car and driving it home from the dealership.
In saying that though, the Toyota product in those days, they were the same engine they probably used in Salikas and. It was a sprightly car. But it didn't last long. And I quickly moved on from that to a Ville turbo.
Nice. Should have kept that on. Should have kept that as well. Quickly moved on to that.
I was here and there. Made some good power. Lost my license for doing 45 over the limit on pay matter, red one nitron, drag race and unmark. Leanne Commodore.
Did you beat him? No. Well, I did but he won anyway. So got rid of that.
Lost my license. Got my license back. Bought a Nissan Bluebird wagon. Wow.
Four from Grace. You moved that home to do. Is that why? No.
No. I was told I'd move out of home if I did buy a normal car and then moved on from the Bluebird. Bought a Ford Telstar TX5 turbo. Was that the one with a digital dash?
No. No. Had digital nothing. Spent way too much money on it to achieve weight too much nothing.
Then got semi adult and went and bought an X-Chaser VR VR V8 Red Commodore, which did some mods to in car style, body kit, big wheels, some minor engine work, went to the Sommenatz through the tyres, did all that kind of stuff. And then one unfortunate night on the M4 got clipped on the rear quarter panel by someone changing lanes. Was like a missile straight into the concrete barriers. Ouch.
And luckily everyone walked away. It was one of those accidents that no one had a scratch on. And then it was. Super RWRX time.
That's what I met you. With the yesterday headlights you put those. So it was my first brand new brand new car. I bought this lovely Ford or WRX.
Did you avoid the warranty with the first three hours? I've voided the warranty on the way back from Tynan's when I picked it up. I figured mum and I was still here at home so I figured mum and dad have got a crack at if they see this car look different after I buy it. So I picked it up from Tynan's down at Miranda and drove it straight to the shop and left it there.
It was a good car, it was a great car. Managed to stay out of trouble for the whole time I owned it, which was a miracle. It did get stolen and recovered, but it was intact. You think your brother borrowed it that night?
Stole handed it out of it as well. And then I moved on to really growing up. Had my own business now. I bought an E36M3.
I remember that one. Duck high yellow. Should have kept that one. SMG.
The worst gearbox ever made. That was when you press the button it was one, two, three. Yeah, basically you went for a gear and grabbed the coffee. I ate back for a second.
It was a fantastic car. Did some track days with a street rubber. You could literally one handed at nine tenths go around tracks like Wakefield. That was a full seat after I remember I was in the back seat in that one.
We got you in and got you in. We had to remove the front passenger seat. We wanted to flip forward. I was a great car.
I drive to Melbourne. I got into the outskirts of Melbourne on a tank with two people in a boot for luggage. That was a great car. Great fuel economy.
It was unbelievable. Not many of them. You don't see those around. That shit happens.
I'll write that off. That would do with an RMA. No, they weren't happy about it. No, it was just one of those stupid things.
Not paying attention. It didn't look bad. I think it was a substantial damage underneath. What did you get from there?
I didn't know what I wanted. A good friend of mine, Jim left seat. He had a BMW 5 Series that he picked up off your brother. His old brown faded painting.
We wanted to get Jim on this one day. So, Jim didn't want it anymore. George didn't want it back. So, I picked that up.
I drove the Ramford as a Luxo barge. It wasn't good on fuel. That's an ex-cop car from Germany then. It's a great car.
I drove the Ramford whilst I could work out what I wanted to buy. I really didn't know. I was sort of like nothing new that had come out that caught my attention. It started buying old cars, very old cars.
Which one was the first one? I think we know which one was the first one. I bought an old Hylax, a single cap. To run around in which car.
Just got me around. Then I just wasn't working with only having 200 quarter seats. It was a match that had a seat in the middle. Then I went off and bought that GFC toy.
That GFC we had to have. There was a brand new Kia Rio that had been repaid from a dealership closing down. This thing was brand new. So, it was like a 15-16 down car.
And I paid $10 credit for it from... And this car taught us how to buy cars from the state. It was our first road trip into Sate. So I bought a brand new Kia Rio 1.6 auto for 10 grand from Grey's Online and went pick them up.
I didn't tell anyone. I jumped on a plane, flew to Melbourne, picked up the car, put the temporary regi on it. Which means no number plates. Yeah.
And hit the highway in this filthy car with Texa riding all over the windscreen and drive back to Sydney the same day. And that's how you're running the car isn't it? That's the first thousand Ks out of the way. Yeah.
And then I'll ride it off. How do you ride off a Kia? I did. I did.
No, a grey car, drive it and drive it and drive it. And again, just driving along, sucking traffic, wasn't paying attention. Traffic started to move, right? And then the car didn't want to be moved and I hit the throttle and boom.
So I ride off a Kia. So then I'll tax my dad's gets. I'll have the gets. Because again, I do know what I wanted to buy.
So I bought him a new gets, taxed his old gets, drive that around for a while and someone else would write that off for me while it was parked. So I wasn't happy. So now I actually had to go and buy a car. I had to get serious and I had to buy a car for myself.
I can sit and hear. I bought a 1973 250C Mercedes Benz Hardtop One owner, to cease the state, Dr. Hook's. 79,000 miles.
It was time warp, original Michelin in the boot, original build data sheets, everything was there, just fit on the phone with Shannon's and me and my good friend Pete, who turned up at the airport with a white plastic bag for a road trip instead of a backpack. I didn't know we'd fly a business class on someone else's voice. I was in a business class looking like peasants. And we caught a train to where I thought we should be going and then I made Pete walk like six Ks to Shannon's.
We're nearly there. Back to fences. We jumped in this 250C. Did the standard stop at the submarine on the way back to Sydney?
Again, we'd know number plates. Again, we'd know number plates. But with a plastic printout paper on the front windscreen which tells the law, we can do whatever we want. If you get a slew of the car from Melbourne, just drive it back to Sydney, no one stops you.
Just put a piece of paper on your desk. I'm not sure we're advocating that. So I drove that around for a little bit. I think this car is too good to drive every day, but I still like old cars.
So I bought a value of VG, hardtop, one owner, 245, auto, 770. That was a silly thing to do as a daily driver. I parked it, cleaned it up, sold it, made good money on it. And then I had a corporate job.
So now I need a car. Not a car. So I did a deal with my good friend, Pete, and he took the 250C off me and I went and bought a Renault Clio 1997. That was a good little car.
That was a go-kart. Go-kart on wheels. This thing punched through the gears, right to drive. Third to fourth, that is a type of gear.
It was French and it was just a love-hate relationship. I drove that for a second car. That was a good little car. It was a go-kart.
It was a go-kart. It was a go-kart. You couldn't do anything with it. It wasn't practical.
Gradual gearbox for a French car. I know what I did. I got married. And then I needed a car.
Then I needed a car. I fought to haul because there was kids coming. Did you buy a car? No.
I went back to Grey's Online. I bought a Hilux workmate from Grey's Online. It was a repo, liquid data thingy. I paid nine and a half grand for this car.
I jumped on a plane. I went and bought this automatic 2.7 petrol Hilux. I drove it back. Took my dad to Brisbane with me.
It was my first trip, road trip from Brisbane to Sydney in the wet. On skinny tyres, you know, rear wall drive. With no way in the back. Hilux.
I drove that around for... I only got really that last year. And so that was seven years I had it. Great car.
I was just thinking, typical Toyota Hilux. And then I started, and I started getting antsy again. I figured I needed a nicer everyday car. The boys are now toddlers.
The Hilux is a bit rougher for family to bash about in. It's not a good second family car. So I went and picked myself up a 1985 VK Group A tribute. Because I'd really needed that four-year-old.
We needed that four-year-old. We know who it was. And this thing was being... Bodywork had been done, trim had been done.
Most of the correct bits. As close as to a genuine car, you were going to get that. Wasn't a genuine car. And I spent...
Future in the TV show? Yeah, Future in the... Had a run-on home and away. Pepsi commercial managed to get hold of all the correct bits.
Steering wheel and stuff like that, correct. Great code. And then I realised this is not a good family car. Packed it.
Lucky I'd kept the Hilux. So I went back to the Hilux. Stumbled upon doing nothing, apart from sending Peter O'Rone's links to cars that we should have been buying. I can't afford.
I want to bought an Audi A7 by-turbo S-line diesel. It was black wheels, black everything. It was Darth Vader's car. It's got this active exhaust that...
You can turn into sounding like a Lambo. 235 kilowatt, 650 newton metres, not to 105 flat. It was like a two tonne saloon that did 800 Ks to a tank. So I'm still driving that.
Has those all got affected that? I think they did do a reset on it when I took it in, because I noticed that there was a few changes. But yeah, gun car. I love driving it.
And then I went and ordered myself HSB GSR. Is it in a unassuming colour? Yeah, it's great. Great.
I went into the dealer sheet and said, what are those things going to be? He goes, oh, look, here's the prices. There was no intent on him selling me anything. I was buying a car.
He showed me the options list, which was limited to the factory black roof, the sun roof, Alcantara steering wheel, car cover and a spare wheel. I said, right, tick those boxes for me. How much is it? And so my toddler out, they got a big W, so buying up.
I came home with 130,000 car. And it's my wife's fault, because she told me to get a shot. And usually when you order a car, some partners like to get it as quick as they can. And what did you request?
Well, I wasn't really ready to buy it. I wanted it. Can you put my allocation to the last one, second to last? So you went inside and grabbed these stock order and said, look, this is what we've been allocated.
And I have a car that's scheduled for an October build, and you're looking at a December delivery. I said, yeah, that works. Which is like three months away. No, no, it was February.
I was like 10 months away. I said, look, that works for me. I was fortunate enough to go to the HSB factory while it was still in the process of being finished. So we're doing that towards the end of the fall months.
Yeah, they were lucky to go to it. But my car got delivered a couple of days ago. I'm going to try to get the address received, 2017, auto, Spitfire, Green, GDSR, and it now has an amazing, after 10 months, it has an amazing 900-grometers on it. And I like your theory on cars that are keepers and should not belong to someone else, and that is how much fuel do you leave in that car?
I leave, very little fuel in it. Because if someone takes it? Because if someone wants to get into where it's stored and grab hold of it, they're going to have to go get petrol. And there's cameras at this.
They're going to have to go out and fill up. So usually I jump in. I throw 50 bucks in it. My average fuel consumption when I'm driving at that once every now and then is about 35 liters, 100.
Not much, but I get it. So usually I put about 35 liters in it. I do 100 Ks. I just put my now that it's got to put a fuel in it.
It is for those of cameras. Oh, that's brilliant. And then I bought no car. I was going to start modding the GDSR.
And I thought, no, I don't really want to do that. I was going to do unnoticeable mods. I was going to give a shout out to Kirk from Force Induction in a chillers who does some great work with the LSI engines. So I actually did buy those blower spacer plates and bits and pieces that just help it bring better and give it more.
I haven't done it. The parts are still sitting there. I'm not going to do this. I want an old school U because I still need an old school U because I need an old school U.
I want to try shooting the back. Because you've never had a highlax. You've had three or two. I didn't want to go and buy a U and pay $200 a year to pay for green sleep and rego and insurance.
No. So I started shopping and bought a 1985 Toyota highlax SR5 with the factory stickers. Factory stickers, factory condition, all the original books and everything. It's a petrol, starts first time old school cruiser.
Is it the blue interior? The blue interior. It's just pine war pilax. It's got enough to make it.
It's got a cigarette window. It's got a little triangle. It's got a little triangle. It's got all original.
The sun visor. I don't know how trades people use these 80s because if you put anything in the back it's unlikely you can tie on up a hill. And that's unlikely you're stopping at the bottom of a hill in the wet. But that's my...
Not your daily now. It's not your daily now. It's not your daily now. It's not your daily.
It's not your daily now. It's not your daily historical plates. It's not your daily now. It's not your daily now.
You're making it affordable for people to drive old cars, and keep them running while not driving them everyday. That's my fault. That's it. We'll take a break and we'll get back to it.
We'll back after a short break. We mentioned earlier I feel the cars here at Collect the Cafe. There was a neat tea, too. About there.
I just see the... the Polsar. I saw that. I saw the Super SvX there.
We sent each other a link with a white one that I saw with the SvX with the futuristic window display. I was a good little car under power, of course. It's Super Bowl. Yeah, it's Super Bowl backwards is?
You are a bus. The SvX was a... whereas Grand Black braking cars. throw an SDI motor in it.
Yeah. And it's been done. It's been done a few times, but I think that's why I try and stay away from cars now. It was better than the Vortex.
Actually the Vortex would be a great car to throw in. I think they do have a turbo engine. That's the problem when you have this thing with cars now where you think, the rest of the model, you want the newer running gear in the older car, but to keep that standard look. I think it's the look.
I mean it might upgrade to brakes. If you had an old EH hold and you'd be up running up your brakes and the running gear, but that's the part you can't see if you want to drive a sorry, start it car, but at the same time be a bit safe on the road without relying on old skid tyres and dodgy brakes. The other thing that I was thinking on the way here today, it's Bathurst day as well. We don't know who I but when you listen to this, you probably can tell us.
It's almost it's one year since Holden and Toyota closed factories packed up stops and probably two years when Ford did it. And I was the thing about when you were talking about earlier about your GDSR and the way Holden's going. It's holding his synonymous with Australian cars. They did a good effort.
But at the end of the day, though making cars that people weren't buying. I mean the SS was a good car, but you can't rely on a one trick pony with the way petrol prices are now. If they were still building the Commodore, they'd be just stockpiling them in car yards. Well, that's my other bug bee with that.
It's my little rant for today. I see on social media, especially on Facebook, groups, various car enthusiasts, groups. Everyone wants to have a talk about Holden being shut in-game manufacturing, the Commodore's gone, we've got this piece of shit called a ZB, which it is a it's not a Commodore, it should never be called a Commodore. I haven't driven one by all accounts, it's a great car, but it's not a Commodore.
The issue is the people whinging about it weren't buying new comedos. So, you know, there was, if it wasn't for the V8 ones, the SSV and the HSB versions, etc. They were the ones probably making money for Holden. But in general, Holden was getting shafted by GM HQ and getting cars dumped on him.
That's what people were fast on. So it was Ford. They had a cotton, I mean, the, you know, I'm a Holden guy, but I love all types of muscle cars and cars that deserve to have that kind of attachment to it. But the better engine in the Ford's but world-leading power house engine.
Like there's guys running, there's guys getting thousand horsepower fasts. It's like the, the, the, the super matters from the Fast and Furious that are out of big power, made in Australia, designed in Australia, but there's just no support from HQ and the people, they'll get in junk dump here. Meanwhile, you've got Kia and Huyen Doy and, you know, some, and the Japanese manufacturers and that, that saw the shift in the market and were giving people what they want to buy, which was, you know, cars loaded with features, right? And, you know, you walk in and look at the price of a Holden Asura and you go in and look at the price of a one dollar 30 and you compare the features and everything and you compare the sales support and the aftermarket support and the warranty, that's what people, they're not pulling cheap Chinese cars, they're cheap junk, the cars are the same price.
But the market dictates what gets sold at the end of the day and the other thing is, I know a lot of people fail to realise that it is corporate that makes these decisions, but the government also has a role. Don't think Mercedes and BMW and Audi are all on their own. The German government pumps in a lot of money to support these industries, the French do the same, the American government so they're the bail out. The Australian government, they want to play ball anymore and, and, the reason for that, the Germans are exporters, we're not exporting commidors, we're exported a handful to the States, we're exported a handful to the Middle East, right?
So apart from the Commodore and what are they, they're not exporting Falcons, they're not exporting Colorado's because they get imported from Thailand, right? So you can't keep, I mean, unless you're going to be exporting commidors and exporting about the rate of a three series or a C class or an A4 or something, that's where the market dictates, not a five-four doors a day anymore. They do, just not one that's an arcade car. Everyone's gone SUV crazy.
That's right. So where GM probably failed is that, they should have seen that, especially the Australian market, had still had this market where people like their large four door, high-powered cars or, you know, reasonably powered cars, not four cylinder cars and not little diesels, what they should have looked at is in like the, the Cadillac, the CTSV and that coming here a lot earlier, in factory right hand drive, but again, the bean counters dictate that and it wasn't going to happen. Well, that's the problem with, with holding now, if you look at the statistics, they're falling out of the top 10 for the first time ever. Well, let's not say at the beginning, it's synonymous with Australian cars.
Now, General Motors is a hodgepodge of different brands and they've tried Opal, they've tried Daewoo, they've tried cars from Korea, they've tried the American, and they might, they knew this day was coming forward, has adapted, before it is a global company, they've, they've, they've, they've broken down their platforms in a, in a global and they're bringing out one product that the world, they're buying them, they must things have gone crazy for the first time, 50 years have been but General Motors have just lost a plot and they should have adapted, they should have brought in, Cadillac 10 years ago, they should have brought in the Opal, they tried the Opal but drive to it as a single only, put under the Holden, now. In general, they dropped the ball, they're paying for it, I mean, I've got enough cars, but I want to, I want to give a nice dual-cav you in the next or 18 months. Does Holden sell you one? I buy one now.
Does Holden sell you one? Well, I bought, I mean I paid 130k for a HSB, about a year ago, right now, have I been contacted them, and I want their database because I get their emails about junk and rubbish, but has anyone called me from HSB or something like HSB, this is the new sports cap, is it any? Or the Camaro? Nothing, right?
So yeah, it's, it's just, they dug your own, I mean they dug your own grave, right? It was just, they just thought that, yeah, people are going to keep buying and keep buying on the last car, they've still got car seats in the yard. Yeah, I've seen them. They thought they were going to gouge people every last time.
Yeah, do a delivery turn around. I want to look at the HSB Colorado sports cap, they want 70k plus for a car, you know, look at the Ford Ranger World Track, I get the same car, I get a better view with more safety, okay, and more tech, right? For, let's say, you know, basically we have to target up Colorado. Yeah, they keep the hatches, I don't have the badges.
No, HSB. I mean, if you're going to see a HSB battery, okay, then drop an engine in it, which is one of the ages, if you're not going to drop an engine in it, but please do what tickle it off with Ford and offer a tune for it. I can go buy a, get a good deal on just the normal top of the range Z71 Colorado or something and go and throw my own wheels on it, okay, and it's not going to avoid my wondering, I can go get my own trim done, right? And, you know, it's not going to look tacky, it's not going to crawl, sport, scat, I mean, that's what it sounds like, sort of scat.
I mean, before I start starting in, we're not holding haters, I mean, a lot of our homes are like a nice supporter Australian, but it's just that they're marking apart, I think it's what they've been dealt with, I mean, you got a full drive from the US via Mexico that aren't competitive in the market and then compared to what Toyota's done. You've got Holden showrooms, now I give me son's cholera, and I remember son's cholera, a chock full of hold-ins, right? And in the whole, in the grass the back. The Holden showroom now, the Holden showroom now is what the Hengai showroom would have been 20 years ago, a little tiny corner where they're, it looks like they're just putting, giving their time in the water to see what the market likes, meanwhile the Hengai showroom and the Kia showroom and etc, right?
And Mercedes showrooms are all, you got to know Mercedes dealership on a weekend now, right? Chocolat, the C-Class is the Australian, you nearly have to make an appointment to see a salesperson. The C-Class is the outstanding comer who's in Holden's nothing, the season and that you're up there. So all those people that think that, you know, Holden got killed off just because of cheap imports or the government wasn't supporting him like this that the other, right?
Well, how many new Holden's did you buy in the last 10 years? Yeah, the markets dictated, they're not buying their cars, they're not buying their product and what product was Holden dishing out to Joe Public? 10 year old car, with the V8 in it. But and the dealers are struggling, I thought sorry if the dealers was now, they'd be in Mitsubishi and they've had to join forces with other car makers and you know, I think you're right, Holden is a name that should be rested, it's no longer, well, Leon must came to Adelaide last year, I'm sure he could have looked at a factory then, could have helped out with the Tesla, make a Model 3 out of Adelaide.
I think, as a car enthusiast, I think there's enough, there's some great products in the GM's, they, but they seem to treat the Australian market as a, you know, as some backwater which is dump out junk on them and we've been given some crappy cars by GM and Holden over the years, like some smaller cars in recent years. I mean, you look at a number of people that buy UTS here and I think Dodger's got the idea because it looks like we're going to get at the Dodge Ram in right hand drive from next production. Now, you know, there's a changing landscape, people want these larger SUVs or medium SUVs and UTS because they're practical, Holden and Ford, it's the bottle, if it wasn't for the Mustang, I don't think, no, the range is killing us. If it wasn't for the Mustang and the Ranger, no one would be walking into a Ford show.
What are you going to go and buy? I'm on dayo, focus. That's the thing, when the public is buying more expensive cars than what you've got in your stable, you know, when someone goes in and buys a Mercedes A-Class instead of buying a, or whatever, then you know it's not about the money anymore. It's about your product.
And, you know, we live in a country where, you know, there's reasonable amount of disposal, income for most people. If they can buy a Merk for 40 grand over a dayo-class that's shown at the new A-Class. If I just for 32, 34, the extra thousand bucks a year, they'll get the Merk because they've got a recidling for a year, they've got the extra thousand bucks a year back in Great South. True.
And there's a demand for a good product. It's already probably not stupid. Well, that's the rant for the week. We've tried to solve Holden's problems in 10 minutes.
I think it needs a bit more than that. That's, we're going to try and wrap up our first podcast, the pilot. Go to your social media, Facebook and Instagram and just look up all talk podcasts. It's all talk to your QUE.
Send what we did there, talk and send in your questions and we'll go through answering your questions. Well, like I said earlier, we're going to have guests on. We'll put a shout out to what topic or what guest we got. So we can send specific questions.
We're going to have friends on from the trucking industry. We've got to have some friends talk about legal aspects with motoring. We've got to talk about joining car clubs, just different topics and issues of the day. We'll talk about news and.
And my plan to have seven cars on historic rego where it costs less than $3,000 a year to run, seven cars. Don't wreck the road. Well, there you have it. Thank you for listening and look out for future episodes.
And thank you very much. Bye for now.