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| "text": " Hey, welcome back. I'm Keith Barry. I'm Cassidy Simpson. I'm Michael Croson. And we're" | |
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| "text": " going to talk cars today, but first before we get into that, there's a new face. And if" | |
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| "text": " you're listening a new voice, and that is Cassidy. So why don't you introduce yourself." | |
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| "text": " What you do here at CR and what you did before." | |
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| "text": " Yeah, so like I said, my name's Cassidy Simpson. I've been at CR for just over a year now. And I'm one" | |
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| "text": " of the automotive engineers. I handle a lot of the infotainment systems, so the evaluations of that," | |
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| "text": " as well as the connectivity, your phone, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto. I'm also part of some of" | |
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| "text": " the usability teams. And I lead the ease of charging debrief that we do for UX evaluations." | |
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| "text": " So almost everything we're going to talk about today other than other than electric, because the" | |
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| "text": " car we're talking about today is not electric, which is a bit of a change from a couple of recent" | |
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| "text": " episodes. We are talking today about the 2025 Mini Cooper S hard top two door, which is the" | |
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| "text": " official name for the car that most people just call a Mini Cooper. It's we got the S. So that" | |
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| "text": " Yeah, I'm you know, I want to hit I'm surprised to learn this and see this, but also it's kind of" | |
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| "text": " the way things go, right? Yeah, the stick shift is unfortunately dying. Yeah, it's too bad. But the" | |
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| "text": " Mini is still we think a little bit of a fun car MSRP starts at for the S starts at 34,600. We" | |
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| "text": " interior camera will get to that. And a $995 destination charge we paid just under $37,000." | |
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| "text": " And you know, the final assembly point in this vehicle was in Oxford, UK, but it is BMW owned." | |
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| "text": " Many's been BMW owned for a while. That is kind of one of the reasons that we have Cassidy here," | |
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| "text": " because as our resident British person, I'm kind of curious as to what you think is they really like" | |
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| "text": " So what did you think when you're here and all of a sudden the mini shows up, something from home?" | |
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| "text": " Oh my gosh. So I was so excited to drive this vehicle and I felt a really strong sense of" | |
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| "text": " patriotism towards the UK. There's so many union jacks, but alas, the feeling of patriotism," | |
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| "text": " very quickly morphed into horror once I actually got into the vehicle itself and start to drive" | |
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| "text": " in the car. Okay, so I think of it as English, but what did you think? Oh gosh, honestly, it's just" | |
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| "text": " center screen, which it's a really cool aesthetic look, but the functionality of it isn't that great." | |
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| "text": " It's got really high bright and crisp graphics and it's really cute. It's a very cute infotainment" | |
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| "text": " system, but actually using it while driving it's not good. So I'm glad you're here for several" | |
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| "text": " So it's sort of two levels of expertise here. We talked about this round screen that sort of" | |
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| "text": " and weirdness and it kind of squeezed the screen in there for car play. What did you find when," | |
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| "text": " you know, what were the pain points as they would say? Oh gosh, there's so many. Definitely some" | |
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| "text": " of the climate pain points. It took me the second time driving this vehicle to actually realize" | |
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| "text": " screen, but you have to go into a climate menu. And then like you said, with car play, it's just" | |
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| "text": " but it's like feels kind of glued on, right? Yeah. So at first I didn't even realize it was a heads-up" | |
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| "text": " who's gotten into one of these new minis has come across this. It's like the flat-pump. Yeah," | |
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| "text": " tried to change the settings, it was always slightly rotated, even when it wasn't in the settings." | |
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| "text": " Yeah. And there is supposed to be voice control, right? Yeah. Oh, the voice controls. My favorite" | |
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| "text": " thing ever. So spoiler alert, the voice controls are in, have an English accent. So I'm like," | |
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| "text": " this is going to be excellent, right? It's God to understand me. How can it not? I mean," | |
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| "text": " yeah, you're right. This is about kind of the driving experience, right? Many owners love their cars." | |
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| "text": " get together and just drive all over the US on this pre-planned route. So, you know, many customers" | |
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| "text": " drive their cars. They just love these things. And that's something that you'll we got a chance to do." | |
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| "text": " almost everyone in our in our in our logbook where we write our they they complained about the" | |
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| "text": " there's this hesitation when you go off the line and the car needs to start wake up. And at least if" | |
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| "text": " you've named it, you can yell at it to get out of bed. Exactly. Now I will give them a little bit" | |
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| "text": " do get used to if you buy the car and live with it day in and day out. But just things to kind of" | |
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| "text": " those things and see if that's something you can live with. Something that I find kind of" | |
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| "text": " all going to be covered. That's a nice ownership perk. And just again, I think just relieve stress" | |
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| "text": " early ones, they had a real kind of go-kart feel to them in almost, almost kind of verging on a" | |
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| "text": " it isn't a stick, right? And you know, that just sort of adds to some of the things you have to do" | |
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| "text": " to CR.org. Search for the mini Cooper S review. So away from the mini and onto your questions," | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " longer you own it because of the fact these updates are getting sent out. Yes. And then even on some" | |
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| { | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " make money off use cars because you can have to pay for these things. That's interesting. So we do" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " from Tom from Godwin, North Carolina. Tom asks, how can I safely add insulation under the hood of" | |
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| "text": " an older Subaru Forester to reduce engine noise in the passenger compartment? Is spray on Styrofoam" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " safe on the firewall underside of the hood or anywhere else? Please do not send Tom a sweatshirt." | |
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| "text": " He's just going to stuff it stuff it under the engine of the car. Mike, what what advice do we" | |
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| { | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " Over time, it just kind of sneaks up on you. You think my car is getting louder, it's getting old." | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " the struts, all that kind of stuff. As they age, everything just sort of adds up. The equation is" | |
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| { | |
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| { | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
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| }, | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " doing all this in the interior. Remove the seats, remove the carpet, and you can actually add layers" | |
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| "text": " to sort of smoosh it on the floor and it will stick. And that just helps with, it's just a real" | |
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| { | |
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| { | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " tools for this, plus all your time. If you're not comfortable doing something like this yourself," | |
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| "text": " get a little wind noise that you didn't have before. So again, all the stuff adds up. So you just kind" | |
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| "text": " of take them one at a time and do the best you can with trying to mitigate that. Yeah. And just know" | |
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| "text": " that it, you know, engine noise and you know, those boxer engines have that kind of note to them." | |
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| "text": " underneath the car. All that adds up to noise. Yeah. And if you want something it's truly quieter," | |
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| "text": " reviews of the newer foresters, including used foresters, you might just want to trade up a" | |
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| "text": " couple of model years or exactly which might be cheaper than paying someone to to repad the inside" | |
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| "text": " of your. It could be exactly. Please don't put anything in that. Don't put anything under the hood." | |
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| "text": " Yeah. It's it's um, you know, they put insulation under the hood from factory, but that's all" | |
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| "text": " specifically engineered engine covers the belly pans, um, special foam that is oil resistant," | |
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| "text": " coolant resistant, you know, it's meant for those environments and just the stuff that you can buy" | |
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| "text": " either online, a hardware store or whatever, it just isn't meant for that. Yeah. So please don't do" | |
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| "text": " that. All right. Good answers for Tom. And finally, the last question is coming from, uh," | |
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| "text": " Kipto from Kenya. So it's going to be a long distance, um, mailing the swag, uh, and Kipto asks," | |
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| "text": " I would like to get a great car when I'm older. So it should have good fuel economy, lots of safety" | |
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| "text": " features, a manual transmission available. So that rules out the 2025. It does. Uh, at least" | |
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| "text": " four seats and good reliability. I was thinking about the mini Cooper, but it doesn't come with AEPB" | |
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| "text": " blind spot warning and rear cross traffic warning. What are my options? So that's, and this is an" | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " interesting one. It's so interesting. And I got really excited when I saw this question. Yeah. So" | |
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| "text": " why did you get excited? Well, because it's a, it's a whole market that we don't know about. So" | |
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| "text": " first of all, what's available in Kenya as far as new cars go, right? And I think you do the same" | |
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| "text": " thing. We both jumped online to see what that, what it's selling car, because you want to buy a car" | |
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| "text": " that everyone else has. You want to buy a car that there's parts for it. Yeah, especially, and I" | |
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| "text": " would say like growing car markets, right? Um, you know, here in the US, we're very lucky, um," | |
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| "text": " new cars for a long, long time. We have all this infrastructure. And, um, I have a story I can" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " kind of relate to this, but I didn't know anything about the Kenya car market. So I didn't want to" | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " go recommend a car and find out you can get it there. That doesn't do, you know, um," | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " keep to any good, right? If it's, if it's something that just isn't available to them. Yeah, exactly." | |
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| "text": " So we looked, um, I looked to, you know, some of these, it's interesting that you mentioned what" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " was interesting to me, when I'm sure it was interesting to you, Cassidy, is that is, is that the" | |
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| "text": " things that it doesn't come with, um, we don't quite know where these minis might be coming from," | |
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| "text": " because there might, there might be a gray market importer that might be coming from the UK," | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " they might be coming, you know, they might be coming from South Africa, there might be a local" | |
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| "text": " market. Um, so it's just a different, it's a different vehicle and they're equipped differently" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " in different countries and in different markets, even in Canada cars are equipped differently than here." | |
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| "text": " Um, so I would say you might actually be able to find a mini that has these features on it." | |
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| "text": " Um, you'd want to look for the blind spot warning, literally look on the car itself. And this" | |
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| "text": " is a problem no matter where you are in the world, that those, those listings on your online" | |
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| "text": " car marketplaces aren't necessarily going to be telling you what the car has. Go see the car" | |
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| "text": " in person, you know, check to see if it has the little, the little light on the sides of the" | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " other mirrors to see if it has blind spot warning. Um, otherwise there are some other cars out there." | |
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| "text": " I, I noticed that BMW has a much higher market share than many, uh, it will basically everywhere," | |
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| "text": " but, uh, but especially, especially in Kenya and in most of Africa, and you might be able to get" | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " better parts, something like, uh, like, uh, a one series or two series would scratch that same" | |
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| "text": " itch and you might have better parts availability, especially some of the cosmetic parts. You know," | |
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| "text": " I own, I own a, I own a 30 year old French car of which there is, there is fewer than 30 left in" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " the United States and finding every little tiny little exterior piece for it is an absolute nightmare." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " They exist in other parts of the world, but you're going to pay a lot for shipping. So, um, so I" | |
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| "text": " would say my advice is, you know, if you can't find a mini, go to your BMW dealer. Anyone else have" | |
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| "text": " any other idea? Um, yeah, I do. So again, think about what's available, right? And not so much for" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " purchase where I'm getting it, but servicing in parts availability like you mentioned. Um, I had a" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " customer that had an Audi Q7 and he was from Uganda and he wanted to actually ship the Q7 back home" | |
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| "text": " to Uganda because he splits his time, you know, here in the States and then in Uganda. And I was" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " like, listen, I see you once a month for this Q7 in service. We're always chasing all these problems." | |
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| "text": " I was like, is there an Audi dealer or something, you know, an Audi specialist anywhere near where you" | |
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| "text": " are? And I think at least at the time there might have been one Audi dealership in Uganda and it was" | |
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| "text": " like a four hour drive from, from where this gentleman lived. And I was like, I don't, I don't think" | |
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| { | |
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| "text": " it's sustainable to take this particular vehicle, you know, there. Um, so, you know, buy something that" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " can be service locally with a lot of ease. And I mean, that's just sort of good tips for anybody." | |
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| "text": " There's place in the US that are three and four hours from the nearest whatever dealership. And" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " it becomes a project to get your car serviced. And it becomes a project for us sometimes with some of" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " these newer electric brands. Yeah, where the cars are. They're two hours away. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " So there's some advice. We don't have the perfect advice because we don't know the market that well," | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " but, but, um, you know, keep an eye out and I'm sure you'll find something you like. But thanks for" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " writing to us and thanks. Thanks for watching. If you have a question, go to CR.org slash talking cars" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " and put in your information. If you have questions about infotainment, about minis, about EVs," | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "start": 1568.76, | |
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| "text": " about auto start stuff, what car you should buy and how not to start a fire under your hood. Any of" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " those questions in here, here, and we'll send you some stuff, which is great. So, Cassidy," | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. It's been great. It's great. Definitely. And we" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
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| "text": " promise we'll bring you on for cars that aren't British because they're really, there aren't that many." | |
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| "text": " Man, okay. If we get an inios, well, if we get a grenadier, we'll bring in no promises." | |
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| "text": " Thanks so much and we'll talk cars again later." | |
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