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Talk time, we are graced by
the presence who won, Nick Miles,

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who is responsible for all the content
on our autoexpert dot com. So he's

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been out driving subar Us in the
Where in the Great Salt Lake the flats?

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Where did you drive these subar USI? And what do you want us

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to know about subar us. You
know, they're doing these wilderness versions of

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their vehicles, which is that's what
the rover people used to do. Remember

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the land rover challenges. They used
to have those all the time. Yeah,

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so these are sort of the raised
up versions of your regular subar Us.

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They give them extra cladding, they
give them a little bit more of

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an off road feel, They give
an off road package for them, and

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then you can take them and camp
on the roof. They give them some

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of these tent roofs and you can
do all the camping rating. And they

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give a mix of rubber floors and
it was a lot of fun. I

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got dusty and dirty and did a
bunch of off roading. There's definitely the

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sort of the family. Take your
bike, take your dog, take your

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tent, and have a great weekend
in the weak Card desert. All right,

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in time. A couple of other
things of interest. The Maserati plant

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in Italy is closed down. I
know a lot of people who think the

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Maserati is a really special brand,
but apparently not enough. So you think

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they're done or do you think they'll
go back? Yeah, I mean I

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think they're trying to just work out
who they are, what they are,

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whether it's worth continuing. Sales up
forty one percent last year, but there's

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only about fifteen thousand vehicles a year, and is that enough to sustain a

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car company? And this is a
luxury Italian company. And then all they

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do is make those cars. That's
it. That's the only thing they make

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in that plant. Yeah, well
they make fiats as well. Actually,

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I think they make some of the
little feats in the same factory. But

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ultimately they're on suspension. It may
have some thing to do with the strike

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in UAW strike. The facts some
of the parts and made in the United

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States. Yeah, but Ultimately,
I'm not sure there's enough to sustain a

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small brand like that. When Lamborghini
is selling absolutely everything they make, I'm

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not sure that they can they can
actually sustain themselves, and it may be

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it may be coming to the end
of the life of Maserati. All right,

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speaking about the strike, not an
Auto workers is going to announce a

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a bunch of different strike targets,
all aimed at the big three automakers.

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I think that there is back and
forth here and as we hear this program

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over the course of the you'll probably
be heard here and there over the weekend.

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But I wonder, because it's a
Friday, they are scheduled to have

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some more talks, right, even
with the looming let's strike some more Ford.

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Ford seems to be more in their
crosshairs than GM and Christlier. Do

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you either that's true or not.
I mean, I think Forward were the

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ones that were the only ones that
were at the table, and now Forward

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are sort of backed off, and
so they're being more aggressive with them.

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Again. The truth is, all
they need to do is strike at the

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parts, their parts factories, because
ultimately they won't be able to make cars

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that they're not making parts right,
of course, but you know they're going

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to step it up the parts one
and off, so they're going to get

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more aggressive. I will tell you
are out now, Doug. It's going

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to get nasty before it gets better, and we're going to see a bigger

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shortage in cars. We're already getting
low on trucks in the Northeast and in

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the northern stations above the Mason Dixon
line. It's going to get worse before

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he gets better. And I think
we need to be in for the long

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haul. This isn't going away until
sometime in late November. So my friend

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who's the auto dealer there has twenty
nine dealerships here in the Northeast, but

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mostly the Mesters in New York,
has taken a position with the electric cars.

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They told you about electric and how
they're not doing. They sold a

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bunch of cars electric cars to dealers
in California. Because what's happening here is

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they're pushing the electric cars on the
dealers and places where people don't want to

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buy electric cars. So what they're
doing is the dealers are getting smart and

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they're shipping them all to California.
Let the dealers sell them out there,

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which I thought was kind of an
interesting So I've seen a lot of Rivings

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lately. What's the status that's a
new company and making trucks and SUVs?

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Where what are they cost and where
are they going? What do you think?

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Well, you know, Riving used
to have this like two year waiting

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list at one point. Now they're
down to a to a like a six

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week waiting list. You can actually
go buy them directly from the factory.

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So is that because they are more
popular they're making more or because they're less

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popular than they've kept making them,
you know, to the same limit that

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they were. Yeah, they're actually
people aren't buying them like they used to.

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They're making about the same amount all
the time, but people are buying

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less and less of them. So
it's like electric cars, they kind of

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reached their saturation point. You're going
to start finding less and less people buying

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electric cars, more of them on
being a lot, it's easier to get.

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It's exactly what I've told you my
experience where my friend's experiences backing up.

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People want internal combustion engines cars that
are reliable, especially if the power

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grid goes out and stays like California, You've got to be nuts to buy

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these things, all right. Our
friend Nick Miles check out his great website,

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