The car you drive every day should be fun.

But it has to do the boring stuff too, like commute, be affordable, and haul your groceries.

You can have both and we'll help you find it.

I'm Todd. I'm Paul and this is the everyday driver

Carden.

It is a very intriguing time to be a car enthusiast with the dichotomy of tech and the love for manual transmissions that we continually come across.

I'm waiting for, I'm waiting for some car company to redefine themselves by platform rather than by class a vehicle necessarily but you know trucks get all

Gasoline or diesel engines and SUVs are you got your choice and if you want a small

car from that company it's all electric that's your only choice and then no

there's one enthusiast offering you know, they redefine the platform rather than trying to make all things

to all people because, yeah, it's so intriguing.

At the start of a new year, there's always fresh new concepts we're talking mainly about the

North American International Auto Show that's going on in Detroit so that's the 2017 show

a lot of news coming out of there a lot of you know surprises and new things yeah yeah it's still going on and

we're just intrigued by as a matter fact two things two pieces of news but

before we jump into that we we are doing a couple of debates with

this podcast. We've got Brad in southeast Michigan. He is, uh, he's going shopping for a new car, but the ultimate goal here is a car he can pass down to his teenage daughter who's going to be driving soon, which will be fun to talk about.

And then we've also got Nathan in Denver.

Nathan, I admit you got me with the Denver Broncos logo in your email avatar there.

Having grown up in Colorado, I just I clicked on that that a and you know

Fortunately what a great debate here. He's 26 looking for a new car and he's picky about his cars and picky about his women and really wants

something that he's gonna really like I I think we all are are we not well but I mean

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