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| "text": " Hi and welcome to Talking Cars. I'm Jennifer Stockburger. I'm Alex Nasik. I'm Joe Vesla." | |
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| "text": " So today we're going to give our first thoughts, first impressions around the 2024 BMW X2." | |
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| "text": " So certainly in my homework before we start I wanted to kind of sort out the evens and" | |
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| "text": " the odds, the BMW evens and the odds specifically. So obviously the most popular models are among SUVs" | |
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| "text": " X1, X3, X5. But obviously there's evens, X2, X4, X6 that gets slotted in there. And if you" | |
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| "text": " look that up, what the even numbers in SUVs or even in sedans, their intention is to be" | |
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| "text": " a little bit sportier version of the complement of the slightly, of the lower number below them." | |
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| "text": " So the X2 is a sportier version of the X1. The X4 is a sportier version of the X3 and the" | |
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| "text": " same with the sedans. You know, at least they're supposed to be sportier. Or at least they're" | |
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| "text": " supposed to be. So we'll get to that. But specifically Alex, why did we get an X2 when we only" | |
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| "text": " recently have tested an X1? Yeah, right. So they are, they are very similar, right? Like the dimensions" | |
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| "text": " are similar in a lot of ways in terms of like wheelbase and length and even the power trains are" | |
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| "text": " similar interior and whatnot. We'll get into the differences. But they're really seen as two" | |
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| "text": " different models. So unless you know the difference and the evens and the odds that you just explained" | |
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| "text": " going into it, you might just look at these two and ones called X1, ones called X2, they're" | |
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| "text": " completely different models. And that, you know, yes, in some ways and know it some other way." | |
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| "text": " So we just want to see what the, those differences are and how they impacts, you know, just the" | |
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| "text": " usefulness of the vehicle from cargo capacity and access visibility, all these things. You know," | |
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| "text": " it's kind of similar to the way Mercedes did the GLA versus the GLB, right? Similar platform" | |
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| "text": " and whatnot underneath, but they're kind of slightly different body styles basically. Right. And" | |
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| "text": " that's what we're here for is to help consumers sort that out. Exactly. Not just say, oh, it's" | |
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| "text": " identical, except it's kind of the screen version. Right. Let's see what the actual tangible" | |
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| "text": " differences are. So to your point, same power trains as the X1, right? The X drive 28 I trim," | |
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| "text": " two liter turbocharged four, 241 horsepower, whereas the sportier M35, X drive 312 horsepower," | |
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| "text": " very turbocharged two liter, right? Capable. 5.2 seconds, 0 to 60 according to BMW on the M," | |
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| "text": " and 6.2 on the regular, a little bit of price difference in that the X2 ranges from 42 to 51," | |
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| "text": " four hours was 46,29, 295, 995 dollar destination. And we did have optional convenience driver assistant" | |
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| "text": " and he did see packages versus the X1, 40,500 to 49. So about a $2,000 premium for the X2 over the" | |
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| "text": " X1, the biggest difference for this X2 had a bit of a hiatus there was it's a little bit bigger," | |
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| "text": " a little bit more cargo room promises a little more rear seat room. So I want to start with the" | |
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| "text": " what I call the really good part of this car and that's the driving impressions." | |
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| "text": " Joe, your thoughts on the driving of the X2. Yeah. So the X2 is a car that likes to be driven or it's" | |
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| "text": " better. It gets it's drives smoother the harder you drive it. Low speed drive ability I think is" | |
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| "text": " one of its biggest issues that I've had and it can be frustrating with the stop start that's delayed." | |
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| "text": " It seems to show up too late or too soon start too late. Yeah. Or vice versa. I had to be inconsistent" | |
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| "text": " and actually some rough bumps and just rolling start or stop situations where you need to get and" | |
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| "text": " get down or get the power down and it has to downshift a gear and it takes some extra time." | |
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| "text": " I agree. Like definitely that rolling which I tend to do maybe I don't fully stop at stop signs but" | |
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| "text": " that that rolling stop the transmission doesn't seem to know where it wants to use that." | |
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| "text": " Yeah. Yeah. And the transmission just you know it is a dual clutch which kind of adds to the" | |
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| "text": " whole thing right. We see a lot of times these dual clutch transmissions aren't especially in" | |
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| "text": " these low speed situations aren't as smooth right. You have this clutch trying to engage and" | |
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| "text": " it's not the same thing as just like a torque converter and a typical transmission right. So" | |
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| "text": " can just be kind of jerky and just when it's trying to engage at these low speeds not the smoothest" | |
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| "text": " or most satisfying experience. And then that couples with the kind of not great start stop system." | |
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| "text": " Kind of shudders back to life and not quickly. What I will counter with though Joe is what you're" | |
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| "text": " saying is when you're driving it with a bit more vigor that's where the dual clutch that's super" | |
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| "text": " quick shift when you're upshifting it's just like like an imperceptible super smooth great power" | |
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| "text": " delivery you know that's to me the best part of this car right. Yeah. Is it does feel sporty again" | |
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| "text": " when you're driving it with you know when you're on your way all as well right when they're moving" | |
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| "text": " or driving around in the you know in the city or traffic it can get really frustrating." | |
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| "text": " Ride Alex. Yeah ride is not probably it's strong suit right. It's definitely firmer just like the" | |
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| "text": " last X2 and just like the X1 right. That's actually pretty similar. So you know you might be thinking" | |
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| "text": " the X2 is the sportier version of the X1 so it's going to have a stiffer ride and at least in the" | |
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| "text": " the versions that we tested that I'd say they're pretty similar. I mean it's pretty controlled" | |
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| "text": " right. They're doing it to add to the sportiness of the vehicle right. If it was really soft" | |
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| "text": " and rolled around a lot you wouldn't really think it has the sporty edge to it but it does kind" | |
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| "text": " of get jittery and rough overs and that's what I felt the unsettledness of ride single impacts." | |
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| "text": " I'm I'm one of those people who actually likes a little bit of firmness. I don't like floaty" | |
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| "text": " sure for sure. Yeah. Her ride is a preference. So single impacts fine but if it was multiple as we" | |
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| "text": " have on some of these roads out here even coming into the jack gets very unsettled. Yeah you get" | |
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| "text": " some shutter. I yeah I don't know. I found I like I tend to like a firmer ride when it comes to" | |
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| "text": " compromising for handling. I could see this is you know on the firmer edge of that you know we're" | |
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| "text": " and for the purpose of the vehicle I think I'd you know would like a little more comfort but still" | |
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| "text": " maintaining the firm edge. It's close but you know a little too firm for most people I would think." | |
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| "text": " You just answered my question like you expect when you're talking about a real sports car" | |
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| "text": " or sporty driving car. I'm far like this that you want to drive with some vigor. Yeah. Is" | |
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| "text": " a firmer ride a prerequisite to that handling or could it be a bit more balanced per" | |
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| "text": " house? Yeah I think there could be more bounce. No one's taking this to the track or yeah right" | |
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| "text": " driving it that extreme right. Yeah and there's a lot of things that kind of contribute to what" | |
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| "text": " that end balance is as far as which shock absorbers are chosen in the tuning in this and that and how" | |
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| "text": " much time money development they put into it right and I think I don't you mentioned the handling" | |
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| "text": " and I think it's definitely above average for a you know vehicle in this class and of this size right" | |
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| "text": " it is a more engaging driving experience but I don't know if it's enough to justify like the ride" | |
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| "text": " and some of these other things like it's not it's getting close to sporty in my opinion but it's not" | |
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| "text": " quite there. I mean again if you drive it really hard I guess it gets better but it still is a front" | |
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| "text": " wheel drive based you know SUV ultimately at the end of the day. And sport your opinion then the" | |
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| "text": " X1. Maybe I think they're too close for me to even get to yeah form an opinion like that I think" | |
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| "text": " they're so close that yeah maybe yeah I agree they're pretty close. Okay so well from the driving" | |
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| "text": " and this is where things like go a skew a little bit in that work inside the vehicle. So for me" | |
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| "text": " no question a little bit more room a little bit more room cargo a little bit more rear seat room" | |
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| "text": " though it's still not what I would call it generous rear seat compared to the last X2. Compared to" | |
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| "text": " the last X2. Yeah right yeah and yeah I think more spacious right but maybe not compared to the X1" | |
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| "text": " right. Right I'm not quite for me for Jennifer Stockburger the why of why you would pick an X2" | |
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| "text": " more X1 because we also talked about visibility Joe and you do even cargo it's compromised by the" | |
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| "text": " body. Yeah that the rearward rearward visibility is pretty bad they're huge deep pillars the" | |
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| "text": " sloping roof line it's just shop the rear windows you know very very small yeah it's not and in" | |
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| "text": " that compromises cargo volume when you try to fit our box in our Merck box and you take those" | |
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| "text": " rear windows and the front brake and by the time you resolve there this there this big. Yeah the" | |
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| "text": " it is actually a pretty big difference between the one and the two here is the whole greenhouse is" | |
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| "text": " actually smaller. Yes. They lowered the whole roof so all the pillars are kind of different I mean" | |
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| "text": " most obvious is the back right where the cargo area is cut off but if you sit in the X1 you're like" | |
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| "text": " wow there is a ton of headroom in here the glass area is huge the visibility is surprisingly" | |
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| "text": " maybe not surprisingly but it's just genuinely really good and then you get into the X2 and you start" | |
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| "text": " to feel like I said adds a sporty feel maybe but it starts to feel all closed in and style over" | |
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| "text": " function may. Oh 100% yeah this is much more in aesthetic. Yep a vehicle that it looks good" | |
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| "text": " different from the outside. Yeah it looks different for someone who doesn't like how the X1" | |
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| "text": " looks and it's like we'll give them another option. For me I have shorter legs I think I've" | |
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| "text": " said this many times so I end up forward I'm already at the like the liner the headliners like" | |
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| "text": " here like I'm already like into the roof and the liner and all I want to do is lower myself" | |
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| "text": " which is not my preference. Yeah so yeah I mean it's too bad it literally turns something that is" | |
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| "text": " such a is actually a standout highlight of the X1 and totally kind of reverses. There are some" | |
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| "text": " real niceties too moving to comfort. Couple things pluses of minus is one BMW often does has that" | |
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| "text": " mechanical seat cushion extension I see it when I get in this car it's often pulled out for people" | |
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| "text": " with longer legs to just bolster your thigh a little bit but easy to put back in if you want to" | |
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| "text": " change all those problems though. On the contrary yes it's a little crack for all the gold" | |
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| "text": " vishes. I guess you know where it all is at least. But the other is BMW doesn't give you an" | |
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| "text": " adjustable seatbelt. Yeah that's a really strange thing. Not just in this car but a lot of" | |
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| "text": " BMW. Pimmots but does not adjust. Yeah I just my seat I end up compromising my seat position" | |
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| "text": " just so I can get the seatbelt and where it's comfortable for me. Yeah yeah. But great seat." | |
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| "text": " Yeah they know how to make a seat BMW knows how to make a seat they proven that over and over again." | |
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| "text": " And in this car. Yeah nicely bolstered. Yeah it's got like the sport seat or whatever." | |
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| "text": " That's like the sport seat. I believe it's a $400 option that we paid just like the X1 and" | |
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| "text": " yeah I mean that's a great use of $400 in my opinion if you're going to buy this car or the" | |
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| "text": " X1 is yeah really nice. Worth that. If you're somebody as a long commute or you know just super" | |
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| "text": " comfortable and adjustable. Yeah. So they're very very nice. Okay controls. So what we learn too is" | |
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| "text": " this is our first exposure and again one of the reasons we got the X2 in addition to the X1" | |
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| "text": " is this is the next iteration of BMW's iDrive control system. So this is iDrive 9 versus iDrive 8" | |
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| "text": " have to do everything twice yeah to make it work yeah a lot of the systems seem to like they lead you" | |
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| "text": " into this dark room and then you have to back your way out of it to get to where you were you know" | |
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| "text": " while you're driving all while you're driving it's always you know it's so many layers and" | |
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| "text": " days later it was all done so it's not always clear yeah yeah one what you're updating and why yeah" | |
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| "text": " Dan S I recently found out that many cars have an auxiliary battery for the start stop function" | |
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| "text": " results I could envision individual use cases showing up showing that much of an increase but I" | |
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| "text": " these systems not been around long enough to have developed a track record Alex noise sure" | |
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| "text": " a lot of stuff in this question great question but so we'll try to kind of go through the different" | |
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| "text": " definitely do some of these start stop systems do have um separate batteries to handle that" | |
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| "text": " battery right as opposed to just a standard off the shelf battery these can be depleted more right" | |
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| "text": " expensive to replace if they do go bad um that is certainly true uh the eight to 12% MPG improvement" | |
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| "text": " driving if you're constantly on the highway and the engine never shuts off of course you're" | |
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| "text": " there there's a legitimate you know savings and fuel there um so it all depends and of course it" | |
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| "text": " also depends on whether you shut the system off or not because that might sound obvious but" | |
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| "text": " so many people these systems can get annoying right and so they just hunt for that button right" | |
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| "text": " away right again well not a great adopter of new technology but that is the first thing" | |
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| "text": " you guys an F-150 the first thing it does is when you stop so go you're not even dry yeah" | |
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| "text": " you sign I don't like it I do the same like for the X2 I jump to that because I know it's" | |
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| "text": " gonna enter you know it's gonna get in the way of the transmission issues that's already there" | |
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| "text": " the ones where I do tend and I there are occasions where I do shut off it's the ones where it doesn't" | |
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| "text": " give you your steering back right it it's so delayed that you actually get like almost a lot of" | |
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| "text": " it's kind of funny yep um yeah and I guess the only other thing I would mention is as far as like" | |
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| "text": " the 8 to 12 percent there's some confusion about like a the regular start stop system that" | |
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| "text": " is more commonplace and then you have these mild hybrids that are also out on the road right and" | |
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| "text": " those kind of bridge the gap between just having start stop and having a regular hybrid like a" | |
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| "text": " addition to the regular 12 volts so those typically have separate batteries and will give you a" | |
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| "text": " little bit more fuel savings right because the engine can stay off longer and some other things so" | |
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| "text": " just you know keep keep in mind there's different types of systems that you might be right looking at" | |
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| "text": " and to Dan just to close out Dan's question I don't recall Anita Steven anybody talking about start" | |
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| "text": " stop systems being a new oh thank you yes I did check with them ahead of time and you don't" | |
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| "text": " necessarily see anything in our data saying that those are causing particular issues so yeah great" | |
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| "text": " so great question I agree also the next one comes from Milton hello from a 30-year subscriber to" | |
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| "text": " the magazine here are my last four cars a 96 Toyota 4Runner and 06 BMW 330 convertible a 2013 Lexus" | |
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| "text": " RX 458 and a 2023 Hyundai Palisade what do they all have in common none of them have what my first" | |
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| "text": " car in high school had that car was a 1978 Buick Electro Limited and the feature is cornering lights" | |
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| "text": " what happened to them I'm older now and when driving at night in a subdivision or other poorly" | |
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| "text": " them and which don't but they still exist yeah many Mercedes for example have the Lexus I was" | |
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| "text": " just driving has it they're nice look kind of a surprise and delight at night you turn the wheel" | |
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| "text": " for the first time yes or you're backing up in a driveway super helpful but they are slow speed" | |
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| "text": " they are typically not operating above say 15 20 miles per hour well you're steering angle isn't" | |
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| "text": " high enough at those speeds anyway so jump forward to what is the new technology is the curve adaptive" | |
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| "text": " the adaptive front lighting systems which are you know a new technology and headlights which are" | |
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| "text": " now at driving speeds where they are swiveling in response to your steer and put to provide some" | |
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| "text": " of that benefit at higher speeds for me when you need that side lighting the most is when you are" | |
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| "text": " at slow speed yeah turning into a driveway I think for example or a corner a street corner where" | |
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| "text": " there might be a pedestrian yeah so yeah I feel like most of the time even with the adaptive you" | |
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| "text": " notice them only when you're kind of like trying to notice them most of the time if you're focused on" | |
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| "text": " where you're going and driving you kind of you they don't seem to be all that you know notice" | |
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| "text": " a bowl when I notice them is when they are delayed or not well synced to your steering you put" | |
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| "text": " when you turn and then you come back to straight and they go yeah when they to real line and" | |
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| "text": " you have to do that and the combination of the shark cut off or a notch you find yourself watching" | |
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| "text": " the alignment of the curve adaptive rather than getting the benefit so I agree with you Milton" | |
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| "text": " look obviously you're not opposed to looking around see and what kind of cars out there but look" | |
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| "text": " for that yeah cornering light they still call them cornering light side side illumination illumination" | |
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| "text": " pardon me light but it is still out there do you think is it maybe a little less common with led" | |
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| "text": " lights becoming more prevalent just because they tend to cast wider right than like a how is that" | |
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| "text": " but the benefit of the led is they can turn on and led that wasn't maybe illuminated for forward" | |
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| "text": " motion right can give you a little side the leds have all this flexibility in turning on and off" | |
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| "text": " yeah that's the benefit of them right both a stylus dream but also yeah add some functionality right" | |
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| "text": " so cool anyway good question Milton the last one comes from Paul from Oxnard California I've" | |
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| "text": " always been a driving car drive a car until the wheels fall off kind of guy I've owed a grand" | |
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| "text": " total of two cars in 30 plus years I've been driving a 91 Volkswagen Jetta I bought new" | |
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| "text": " and in 05 Hyundai Tucson I bought from a rental company and I'm still driving I don't know how much" | |
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| "text": " longer the Tucson will last so I've started looking at new cars I'd like a small car SUV work is one" | |
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| "text": " exit down the freeway so I've considered an EV but it's hard to find a small reasonably priced one" | |
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| "text": " I think a plug and hybrid would be an option for me but I'm thinking a small internal combustion" | |
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| "text": " engine car or SUV might also be a possibility do you folks have any recommendations for what I" | |
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| "text": " could buy so we love these questions because we get to see whether we all disagree or we are" | |
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| "text": " common so Joe yeah thoughts for Paul yeah I would I think I push him towards like a RAV4 hybrid CRV" | |
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| "text": " hybrid and run it like he's been with these past because that car you can run that till the wheels" | |
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| "text": " fall off and you're gonna have a car for another you know 20 years 20 years Alex agree I'm right" | |
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| "text": " there with it like I don't think a EV or plug and hybrid really plays to the drive it to the wheels" | |
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| "text": " fall off mentality or objective really right because it's not to say that they they can't last" | |
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| "text": " long time but we do know that they do tend to have some reliability issues compared to hybrids" | |
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| "text": " and regular gas cars right also just keeping them going they you know they have the big batteries" | |
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| "text": " in them right and and that can be something that might need replacing if you're talking you've" | |
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| "text": " had a car you know a 1991 if you were to keep it that long it's probably gonna need a battery" | |
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| "text": " replacement and the hybrid that that you mentioned and I also wrote down like Prius Corolla RAV4" | |
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| "text": " basically pick any yeah small hybrid like that those they do have a battery but it's so much" | |
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| "text": " more accessible more commonplace if you did have to replace it someday like that's that's easier" | |
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| "text": " than with a plug and hybrid or an EV I went with plug and hybrid option again talking about his my" | |
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| "text": " my work is one exit away perfect and there's a lot of opportunity where you may not have to put a" | |
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| "text": " lot of gas in this car Paul depending on what you're doing you know on your off time but the one I" | |
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| "text": " picked was the key in the euro plug and hybrid I said great overall score 33 miles of pure" | |
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| "text": " EV range so that probably we'll get him this one exit and back and 47 miles per gallon overall 33" | |
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| "text": " 840 to 39 590 thousand dollars so a little bit up there the only other option I gave him again going" | |
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| "text": " back to some of your concern was a 24 Subaru cross check mm-hmm not quite the SUV but almost there" | |
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| "text": " a little less expensive 25 to 32 and 29 miles per gallon but I do think it sounds like" | |
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| "text": " if he's willing to do the early adoption that the plug and hybrid might but again I mean from a" | |
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| "text": " use case to drive it perfect right it's you got to decide that versus the I want to keep it forever" | |
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| "text": " correct you left the balance those Paul you were your situation really is like the poster child" | |
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| "text": " for a plug and that's yeah well again new technology right yeah how willing are you so thank you" | |
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| "text": " that will do it for this episode keep your questions videos coming talking cars at iCloud.com" | |
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| "text": " thanks for listening thanks for watching and we'll see you next time" | |
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