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Talk time, we are graced by the presence who won, Nick Miles,
who is responsible for all the content on our autoexpert dot com. So he's
been out driving subar Us in the Where in the Great Salt Lake the flats?
Where did you drive these subar USI? And what do you want us
to know about subar us. You know, they're doing these wilderness versions of
their vehicles, which is that's what the rover people used to do. Remember
the land rover challenges. They used to have those all the time. Yeah,
so these are sort of the raised up versions of your regular subar Us.
They give them extra cladding, they give them a little bit more of
an off road feel, They give an off road package for them, and
then you can take them and camp on the roof. They give them some
of these tent roofs and you can do all the camping rating. And they
give a mix of rubber floors and it was a lot of fun. I
got dusty and dirty and did a bunch of off roading. There's definitely the
sort of the family. Take your bike, take your dog, take your
tent, and have a great weekend in the weak Card desert. All right,
in time. A couple of other things of interest. The Maserati plant
in Italy is closed down. I know a lot of people who think the
Maserati is a really special brand, but apparently not enough. So you think
they're done or do you think they'll go back? Yeah, I mean I
think they're trying to just work out who they are, what they are,
whether it's worth continuing. Sales up forty one percent last year, but there's
only about fifteen thousand vehicles a year, and is that enough to sustain a
car company? And this is a luxury Italian company. And then all they
do is make those cars. That's it. That's the only thing they make
in that plant. Yeah, well they make fiats as well. Actually,
I think they make some of the little feats in the same factory. But
ultimately they're on suspension. It may have some thing to do with the strike
in UAW strike. The facts some of the parts and made in the United
States. Yeah, but Ultimately, I'm not sure there's enough to sustain a
small brand like that. When Lamborghini is selling absolutely everything they make, I'm
not sure that they can they can actually sustain themselves, and it may be
it may be coming to the end of the life of Maserati. All right,
speaking about the strike, not an Auto workers is going to announce a
a bunch of different strike targets, all aimed at the big three automakers.
I think that there is back and forth here and as we hear this program
over the course of the you'll probably be heard here and there over the weekend.
But I wonder, because it's a Friday, they are scheduled to have
some more talks, right, even with the looming let's strike some more Ford.
Ford seems to be more in their crosshairs than GM and Christlier. Do
you either that's true or not. I mean, I think Forward were the
ones that were the only ones that were at the table, and now Forward
are sort of backed off, and so they're being more aggressive with them.
Again. The truth is, all they need to do is strike at the
parts, their parts factories, because ultimately they won't be able to make cars
that they're not making parts right, of course, but you know they're going
to step it up the parts one and off, so they're going to get
more aggressive. I will tell you are out now, Doug. It's going
to get nasty before it gets better, and we're going to see a bigger
shortage in cars. We're already getting low on trucks in the Northeast and in
the northern stations above the Mason Dixon line. It's going to get worse before
he gets better. And I think we need to be in for the long
haul. This isn't going away until sometime in late November. So my friend
who's the auto dealer there has twenty nine dealerships here in the Northeast, but
mostly the Mesters in New York, has taken a position with the electric cars.
They told you about electric and how they're not doing. They sold a
bunch of cars electric cars to dealers in California. Because what's happening here is
they're pushing the electric cars on the dealers and places where people don't want to
buy electric cars. So what they're doing is the dealers are getting smart and
they're shipping them all to California. Let the dealers sell them out there,
which I thought was kind of an interesting So I've seen a lot of Rivings
lately. What's the status that's a new company and making trucks and SUVs?
Where what are they cost and where are they going? What do you think?
Well, you know, Riving used to have this like two year waiting
list at one point. Now they're down to a to a like a six
week waiting list. You can actually go buy them directly from the factory.
So is that because they are more popular they're making more or because they're less
popular than they've kept making them, you know, to the same limit that
they were. Yeah, they're actually people aren't buying them like they used to.
They're making about the same amount all the time, but people are buying
less and less of them. So it's like electric cars, they kind of
reached their saturation point. You're going to start finding less and less people buying
electric cars, more of them on being a lot, it's easier to get.
It's exactly what I've told you my experience where my friend's experiences backing up.
People want internal combustion engines cars that are reliable, especially if the power
grid goes out and stays like California, You've got to be nuts to buy
these things, all right. Our friend Nick Miles check out his great website,
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