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around the cars and our auto expert dot com deals with all kinds of things
that our car related. Auto related the strike against the United Autoworkers or I
guess the United Autoworkers' strike against the Big three? So we had was it
Ford made the deal last week? It looks like Chrysler they have a tentative
settlement there, right. Isn't that what usually happens that they all one makes
the deal and then they all rest of them fall in line. Would you
say that was the way? Its exactly yes, And they like to do
it at the same time so they can strike at this time, right,
that's all strike, Let's all get back together. So there are the how
many people have been on striking these various companies? Do you know? Offhand?
I think it's around eight thousands, but it's about eight thousand Doug.
It goes in and out. It depends on exactly what you know, what
plants are on strike because they didn't call a mass strike where everybody it came
out. It changes as they open and shut different different factories. Yeah,
there's a video floating around that shows a helicopter working for a television station getting
hit by fireworks during the Grand Prix. How in the world did that thing
even survive that? Did you see the audio and the video of that?
Yes, actually it's actually on Twitter. And this is one of the scariestest
moments I've ever seen. This was definitely somebody who wasn't and got too close.
The pilot, however, managed to actually get the helicopter out of danger
pretty quickly, but there was a second there. Now you can see it
in the video. It's extremely scary and you think the helicopter is going to
come down, and if that had come down in that crowd of four hundred
thousands in Austin, Texas, that would have been one damage to never forget.
Yeah, for sure, all right, Ford is cutting their investment and
the manufacturing of electric vehicles. This sort of follows hand in hand with what
I've been saying about the overproduction of these things. And Ford finally figured because
they posted a loss of over a billion dollars, because they're losing thirty six
thousand dollars on every one of the electric vehicles that they make and sell.
This is mind barglingly stupid. Why this is back to falling into some almost
cult like we've got to save the planet, so buy an electric vehicle.
Huh No, So now they're going to stop be more right, doug this
they are. They're going to slow it down at least. The trouble is
that there's legislation in place that the government put in place which really forces them
to have to do this and bring down the amount of carbon they output from
these vehicles. So there has to be a better alternative. It's going to
cost a Ford four point five billion dollars just this year alone in the amount
of money that they've got. They're scaling back by twelve million. Then they're
planned ev investments to align with the really custom demand because customers don't want them.
They're losing so much money. It's really hard to see a way forward
in these electric vehicles. You can't because there's no future forum seven years and
they'll be done, they'll be toast. All right, here's the story of
a rediscovered Dolorean. I wonder if even James you know what Dolorian is.
This is always the term back to the future, right, Well, okay,
well that's how people know the DeLorean was a car company, the namesake
for the fellow who came up with it, and yeah, we remember great
Scott. There's one that was found from nineteen eighty one. Nick. It
was the same model as used in the movie, had nine hundred and seventy
seven miles on it, and the owner wanted to sort of restore it again.
What do you suppose that would be worth? Ooh, that's a tough
one because because it's really how much money you can get for them. You
know, at auction, these things could go for a huge amount of money.
They didn't make that many I think they were nine thousand originally. Yeah,
they made nine thousand, yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's obviously
worth quite a pretty penny and then restored a lot more. In fact,
they're usually in glass cases when they're displayed at auto shows. When somebody gets
one and puts it on display, so one with only one thousand miles on
it, that's pretty valuable. Yep, I would think so. I thought
this had an interesting, kind of a cute story. A parade of eighty
three cars and drivers for a birthday. A local car company announced on Facebook
they were going to have this special birthday for a special person, and they
had a car parade. And this is near Nashville, of all kinds of
eighty three different cars, different kinds of cars. I didn't even know there
were eighty three different you know, cars and models. So kind of a
nice thing for this lady and her son loved. I love it. Yeah,
that's cute, all right, Nick Miles, our autoexpert dot com.
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