The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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keep it off. Monday brings us into the focus of your car and Nicholas
J. Miles, who is our auto? What's the J stand for it?
By the way, John? But but I only usually get that name
when I'm in trouble. Okay, not anything. It's a well, it
doesn't have anything to do with nick and especially especialty in the automotive world.
So you're headed to New York this week for the New York Auto Show,
and I would like to have what you think are going to be the highlights?
What does what really does happen? We hear these things the Cleveland Autos
Show, the Chicago Autos Show, this the latter show. What happens at
these shows? What's the real? Is the promotion selling cars? What goes
on? Yeah? There was the four big shows in the United States,
Chicago, Detroit, New York, and LA. Those are the four sort
of major shows, each sort of ones in January. Then there's the spring,
the end of the summer, and then the fall and so these shows
really are consumer shows. All auto shows were started in the northeast of the
US in the winter when people just didn't want to go car shopping from dealership
February Washington to day right. The car business by the way, in January
this year, I was told by my friends are in the car business was
awful, and it's picked up substantially this month. You have. Have you
found that to be the case? Yeah, no, absolutely, and auto
shows do help that. It's just really a place where consumers are able to
go and check every brand. There's traditionally no sales people are these auto shows,
even though they're put on by dealer. Yeah, and then they're put
on by dealer associations, but they're not allowed to sell cars. They're only
allowed to get your information and then you have to come to the dealership later.
So it's the only place in the world where you get to go you
get to try five or six different cars next to each other. You know,
do I fit in the bag the third road? Does my luggage fit
in? Is there enough room for the dog? Is there enough room for
the kids? Hoggy stuff? What if we have to take Grandma? You
know those type of things. How do you get in and out of everything?
How does this work? How does that work? So it's a really
great place to measure things and for people to actually get to touch the feel
the ergonomics of a vehicle. Now it's turned into more of a fanfare event,
so big automakers are releasing cars and having press days and press releases,
although that's waned since the pandemic. That so, for instance, this week
there's a new g Wagon coming out, but Mercedes aren't at the New York
Audo Show. They did it separately. They had everybody's right, Yeah,
that's the German box. Yeah, the German box. That cost you around
two hundred thousand dollars. That that is. That's what used to happen.
It used to happen out of the shows. But now car companies are doing
in around. Genesis is doing an event off site, They're doing something in
New York, but not at the show. So the shows are still sort
of used somewhat, but car companies don't want to pay the money. You
know. I got a quote from a friend of mine at a car company.
It cost them one hundred and forty eight dollars to put out every chair
for the media. On press days versus buying the chairs and doing it themselves.
So that was just the rental fee. That was just the people.
They had to pay one hundred and forty eight dollars per seat, and you
have two hundred journalists there, the prices start to climb. Wow, you
bunger. So in terms of I don't think people know, I don't think
I've ever asked you, and I determined over the weekend I was looking at
something and your CV came up. How much you do on television the kinds
of things that you're doing, because a lot of people watch you on TV,
and I've never talked to you about that and never promoted it properly.
So what is it that you do? How do you fill the void in
DV So? I do a show on Fox Sports, which is usually based
around the Auto Show, so we look at what's new. It's an hour
long show. There's you know, I'm not the only host of the show.
Then I do weekly reports for most I think I cover sixty eight percent
of the country. So for instance, in New York, it's WPIX,
In La it's Katie La. You know, every city I'm on their big
station usually in that city, and I'm really showing people what's going on,
but talking about things. Why aren't people buying electric cars? What's wrong with
them? How the charging infrastructure is broken? What are the government doing to
give people money back? Is a good idea is a bad idea? What
are the least expensive cars, the most expensive cars, opulent in the twenty
eight million dollar rolls, voices, those type of things. Yeah, just
to give people a complete sort of surround of what's going on in the automotive
industry and what buyers are thinking, what law are changing, those type of
things, because it's too much information for most people to gather. And my
idea is just give it to you all and let you digest it, very
much like the Good Day program with Dougs. Thank you Jay. What's the
question we have up on our social media whether or not gas powered vehicles should
become obsolete? The continue them or not? The next Stefan Good Day download
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