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"text": " Hi everybody, welcome to another episode on Mike Monticello."
},
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"text": " I'm Ryan Pizlikaowsky."
},
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"text": " And I'm Jennifer Stockburger."
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"text": " So today we're going to spend most of our time talking about our first impressions of"
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"text": " the all-new 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser, which is a pretty iconic model for decades."
},
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"text": " The quick overview is the new version is smaller, it's less expensive and should be significantly"
},
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"text": " more fuel efficient than the Alco Inversion, which was last sold in North America for the"
},
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"text": " 2021 model year."
},
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"text": " So it has a little bit of a hiatus and now it's back and it's all new, quick spoiler alert."
},
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"text": " It uses a turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid powertrain."
},
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"text": " So that's a huge difference."
},
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"text": " So we're going to get into all of that as we go forward."
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"text": " But before we kind of tell you everything we think you want to know about the Land Cruiser,"
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"text": " let's just start with what we bought."
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"text": " Our first impressions are kind of based partially on a version that we rented, but also on this"
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"text": " version that we purchased."
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"text": " And I think most of you know, but if you don't, we only test vehicles that we purchase"
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"text": " and we purchase everything anonymously."
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"text": " If we don't purchase it, then we don't test it."
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"text": " So that one that we rented from Toyota, we would never test."
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"text": " But anyway, so, and for example, one thing we wouldn't do with our test model is take"
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"text": " on our rock hill until we're totally through testing."
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"text": " And but we were able to do that with the rented version."
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"text": " Right."
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"text": " So, okay, so what did we bought?"
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"text": " We bought a, the second tier version, which is just called Land Cruiser versus the base"
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"text": " 1958 model."
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"text": " And our test model was equipped with a few optional features that most notable is the premium"
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"text": " package, which brings things like a 14 speaker audio system, a JBL premium audio system,"
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"text": " wireless charging, leather seats, power sunroof, a cool box in the center console, a"
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"text": " head up display and lane changes sists, which is kind of a neat feature."
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"text": " And along with a few other minor options, plus the $1395 destination charge, the total"
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"text": " price of our Land Cruiser that we're going to be putting through our test program is $6,9,770."
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"text": " Just let that sink in."
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"text": " Actually, but that's a lot, 69,000."
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"text": " That's a lot cheaper than the last version."
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"text": " That's part of what they're trying to do here is really make this a more affordable."
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"text": " It had just gotten, it had gotten, you know, besides getting long into"
},
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"text": " the tooth, it had gotten just way too expensive."
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"text": " And they got Lexus up there hovering above it."
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"text": " Like what do you do?"
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"text": " $100,000 Toyota that's now Lexus."
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"text": " Right."
},
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"text": " Yeah."
},
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"text": " We're also happy to see you figure out and they did."
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"text": " It seems."
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"text": " Yep."
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"text": " We're also happy to see that the 2024 Land Cruiser has a full suite of standard active"
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"text": " Yeah, and then just driving it, I mean, it drives like a little truck."
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"text": " What should we all do?"
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"text": " Yeah, you definitely were getting some of that."
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"text": " I had a lovely color."
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"text": " Let me know."
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"text": " Let me know if you get away from a Wrangler person."
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"text": " No, I got a middle finger at the time."
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"text": " Okay, so Ryan's pretty high on it."
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"text": " It's underpinning that are a truck."
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"text": " But for $70,000, that's all I'm saying."
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"text": " There is notable role."
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"text": " My kids used to say, you know, this is a sick car."
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"text": " Meaning they were getting motion sick in the back."
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"text": " I wonder if somebody's kids are going to be going, this is a sick car."
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"text": " You know, things like that, if you're not using it for off-roading,"
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"text": " I'm not sure people are going to be pleased."
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"text": " I think they just need to know."
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"text": " If they're going in with eyes wide open, like I just love this, I'm going to take it."
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"text": " This is the next vehicle I will see all over Martha's Vineyard in one."
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"text": " No, yeah, yeah."
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"text": " It will be a ton of them."
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"text": " I think, just thank you."
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"text": " I think that you're right."
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"text": " I think for me, I'm almost fine with, like it's really hard to have both really awesome"
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"text": " It's very difficult."
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"text": " Of course, that's even more money, but that they are able to do both."
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"text": " But it's so it's really hard to do that."
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"text": " So I would almost give them a pass on the ride and the handling."
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"text": " But what I can't give them a pass, I'm just saying."
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"text": " And we'll get to it because we haven't really gotten into it."
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"text": " But I can't give them a pass on the powertrain because when you're going from a super smooth,"
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"text": " awesome, luscious V8 to this thing, it feels very trucky at times."
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"text": " Is it a $70,000 to call?"
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"text": " Well, yeah, exactly."
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"text": " One thing I was thinking to the noise, I think of the pleasing grunt or whatever, you know, the exhaust burble, all the words that went with the V8."
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"text": " No, I had a lot of it."
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"text": " And I pulled this room in there."
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"text": " I was like, I love turbo wine."
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"text": " Yeah, yeah, this is embarrassing, but that's real like like high pitch."
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"text": " And I was you know, I had some people in the car and they could hear it."
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"text": " Right."
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"text": " But yeah, so yeah, yeah."
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"text": " Yeah, just where again, if you're going in with eyes wide open, it's there."
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"text": " Right."
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"text": " Now, okay, so it's not surprising right that it's a little bit clumsy through corners."
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"text": " It's kind of clumsy through corners as most serious off road vehicles are right."
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"text": " If you ride, if you drive on mostly smooth roads like secondary roads or the highway, it's probably going to be fine."
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"text": " Am I right?"
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"text": " You guys agree with that?"
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"text": " I said, I think I wrote in the law, but if it's a single disturbance, it's fine."
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"text": " If there's more than one hundred percent of your body's going to get it's jittery."
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"text": " Backing up again, let's just talk because we always talk about it."
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"text": " The off-road goodies are like hard buttons right in front of you."
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"text": " The cockpit itself is kind of off-roading."
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"text": " But I think you're right, Jen, that people need to just be aware of what they're getting into."
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"text": " I can give up a little bit of ride for that trucky off-road feeling."
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"text": " But yeah, for that kind of money, that's a very good point."
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"text": " And the old one was luxurious much more."
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"text": " I want to say we're in appreciation though, that they're still trying to make these fun cars."
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"text": " Right."
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"text": " Because we're getting really bland."
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"text": " Everything's like the same."
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"text": " And I give a lot of credit for that."
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"text": " You were going to say something, John."
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"text": " It was just going to say, no, it wasn't really."
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"text": " It was, if I'm showing out $70,000, do I want to go bang it over rocks?"
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"text": " So I'll tell you what."
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"text": " And I don't think I do."
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"text": " That's fair too."
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"text": " Well, I've got a question for both of you guys."
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"text": " But I will say this."
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"text": " So I wouldn't want to."
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"text": " Once our vehicles are through tests, there's some local trails around here."
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"text": " And keep in mind, we're in the Northeast."
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"text": " And the problem with the Northeast is that it's not wide open."
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"text": " So our trails are kind of narrow."
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"text": " So that's why something like a Wrangler makes so much sense."
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"text": " Because it's actually a pretty narrow vehicle."
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"text": " But it's also not $70,000."
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"text": " And so when I'm out there on these local trails,"
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"text": " I never see anyone with a vehicle."
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"text": " Anywhere near as expensive as what I'm driving."
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"text": " I see someone that clapped out old jacked up Jeep Cherokee."
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"text": " So when the branches break down the sides of the car."
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"text": " They don't care."
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"text": " But anyway, so let's just pretend for a second that each of us were in the market for."
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"text": " Let's call it a rugged SUV."
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"text": " So let's just try and stick with you know,"
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"text": " we're talking what like Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Grant Cherokee, Land Rover Defender,"
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"text": " something like that."
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"text": " Let's just say we were in that market."
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"text": " Jen, would you buy this Land Cruiser or would you buy something else?"
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"text": " I would buy something else."
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"text": " I would buy Ford Bronco."
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"text": " And the reason I say that is that I would be okay if the branches break down the sides."
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"text": " Or I banged it over some rocks."
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"text": " I wouldn't be, even when you get a new car like that first thing."
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"text": " It's the worst."
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"text": " It's the worst."
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"text": " And I think it looks so nice."
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"text": " Can they then pick that up and use that recommendation?"
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"text": " I'm sure there are others asking that question."
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"text": " Okay. So next question comes from Andy from New Jersey."
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"text": " And Andy says in a recent episode about the Honda Prolog EV."
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"text": " This got me wondering if there are any advantages to front wheel drive EVs."
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"text": " As a driver, it was always my least favorite configuration."
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"text": " I thought the main, I'm laughing because I'm assuming they're Ryan thought the same thing."
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"text": " But I thought the main benefit was lower cost for the manufacturer and never bought the more weight on the front end reason"
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"text": " and shocked it up to the car not being as well balanced as it should be."
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"text": " Any thoughts or insights on this or is there something I didn't think of?"
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"text": " I think that's Andy, that's a great question for sure."
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"text": " Ryan, as one of our vehicle dynamics engineers and I throw it to you to tell us a little bit about"
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"text": " it feels like we're back to the old front wheel drive."
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"text": " Yeah, you have a drive debate."
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"text": " And so what are the advantages or reasons why you think an automaker would have a front wheel drive EV?"
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"text": " Yeah, so back in the day when we had internal combustion engines, which we still do,"
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"text": " there was a period of time where like vehicles, they were rear wheel drive."
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"text": " And what that meant was you have an engine and you had a transmission and then a drive shaft that goes back axle"
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"text": " and then goes out to the wheels and you have all this drive line loss."
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"text": " When we started making cars more fuel efficient and to lower cost, they put the front wheel, they came up with the front wheel drive setup."
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"text": " So now you just have a sideways engine and gear is going to two axles and right boom, you're right there."
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"text": " It's more efficient and it's handling wise."
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"text": " It's actually what we would say is safer."
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"text": " For stability control, cars with rear wheel drive could oversteer easily in slippery conditions,"
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"text": " which means the rear end swings out on you, which requires more driving skill than say a front wheel drive car that you lose control of,"
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"text": " because typically that's an understeer situation, meaning you turn the wheel and the car just kind of plows straight."
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"text": " In those situations you just lift off the throttle."
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"text": " Most situations you just lift off the throttle for that to regain control."
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"text": " Stability control has now taken over all cars and that's a little less of an issue because it saves you from those oversteering situations"
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"text": " and even understeering situations depending on the model or the system."
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"text": " With EVs, you know, you have this car with big battery down low, low center of gravity, and you can put a motor wherever you want really,"
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"text": " because it's just a little electric motor, front and rear, depending on the setup."
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"text": " Some of these have individual wheel motors, some of them have a room one for each axle or whatever."
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"text": " I think it's a cost and a handling thing still."
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"text": " I mean, stability control is there, but it's just a kind of a costing and for handling."
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"text": " I wonder if sometimes if also some automakers might be thinking that people are comfortable with front wheel drive."
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"text": " Because of this aspect that you talked about, again, some of the benefits of front wheel drive are not valid here anymore"
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"text": " because there's no drive shaft that's taking up interior space."
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"text": " We don't have to worry about that. That's not part of the debate anymore."
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"text": " But for decades, people thought, front wheel drive, better traction, and I'm kind of with Andy here that if it were me"
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"text": " and I were trying to get up the hill, I'd probably in a front wheel drive car, I'd probably go up backwards"
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"text": " because of the weight transfer. But anyway, so I wonder if that's part of it"
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"text": " that they feel people might be more comfortable, but that will say that there are a lot of rear wheel drive EVs out right now,"
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"text": " with all wheel drive optional."
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"text": " And the real difference is that we are seeing EPA ratings where the two wheel drive, whether it's front wheel drive or rear wheel drive,"
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"text": " is going to have a slightly longer driving range than the, you know, assuming they're using the same size battery."
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"text": " It's a longer driver range for the two wheel drive version versus the all wheel drive version."
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"text": " I would think to maybe, sorry, Jeff."
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"text": " No, no way."
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"text": " With the front wheel drive EV, you know, on the prologue or whatever, because you can get that on all wheel drive version."
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"text": " Yeah."
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"text": " Designing it was easier to do a front wheel drive to save weight for that longer range, but it just happened the front axle was a better place to do that."
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"text": " So there's things we don't know behind the scenes that they're making these decisions based on."
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"text": " I do think too. And again, again, from you guys, from a dynamic standpoint, is you have a lot of instant power."
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"text": " How many times, and I've said it on this show, that you get wheels spin on the front wheels, you know, at certain locations around here when it's raining or when it's wet."
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"text": " If that instant power, which we'll say, again, stability control changes the whole equation."
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"text": " But would that be a riskier instant power at the rear with an electric?"
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"text": " It could be for two reasons. One, it's stability control, traction control aren't perfect."
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"text": " And they're not always instantaneous. So they could be thinking, well, if they're going to feel that slight traction, be weird."
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"text": " We don't want to scare people with the, oh, the rear stepped out just even for a second."
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"text": " That might scare some buyers, right? So I've, man, I think that that might be part of what they're thinking."
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"text": " It might not be that common. We might see that they're a lot of them are just rear wheel or just only all wheeled."
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"text": " Not a wheel, yeah."
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"text": " Few of them every now and again are front wheeled because they made that choice."
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"text": " Yeah. Well, Andy, hopefully that answers your question."
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"text": " That's going to do it for this episode. If you want to learn more about the cars and the topics we talked about, you can click on the links in the show notes."
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"text": " Don't forget to send those questions, comments, 30 second video clips of talking cars at iCloud.com."
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"text": " Thanks so much, Sharon."
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"text": " That's right. Get your T-shirt, your T-shirt, your T-shirt."
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"text": " If you have your question, it gets used."
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"text": " Yeah, so that's going to do it for this episode. And again, thanks for watching and we'll see you all next time."
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