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Everyday Driver Car Debate

243: 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, Military Families, Favorite Car Traits

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The guys chat about favorite concepts from the Tokyo Motor Show, and then debate some fun cars for a couple of active-duty US military guys. More listener questions from social media include differences of driving behavior on the German autobahn, elements that make for good seats and specific traits of their favorite kinds of cars... Thanks to you for listening and watching! Please rate & review the podcast, and write to us at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or www.everydaydriver.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Life might hand you budgets, schedules, family, and responsibility, but driving shouldn't be just another chore.

0:08.0

We're here to help you find a car you love, something to pitch your budget and your needs, but is fun to drive and makes you look

0:14.4

back. I'm Todd. I'm Paul and this is the everyday driver car to be. We look at all the

0:21.3

same sites you do so you probably noticed that last week and

0:24.3

actually ongoing now for the public is the Tokyo Auto Show yeah so there's been a

0:28.1

ton of big reveals and let's pull the sheet off of this crazy piece of car design and concepts and I have to say the same thing I say every time.

0:37.0

I like concepts because they're cool photographs and then I almost it almost leaves my brain.

0:42.0

I use the synapses for other use because I just

0:45.1

feel like we're not in reality go look at eye candy and we should still talk about

0:48.3

them a little bit but I don't feel like concepts ever are really a thing.

0:53.0

Subaru is doing it again, well as is everybody, but yeah, Tokyo, I'd love to go to the show because it's traditionally

0:59.2

been the wacky weird stuff of mobility just in general you know Honda with the robots sure

1:04.8

the SMO robots and you know all that kind of stuff from from years past they would

1:09.6

give designers almost creative autonomy didn't go nuts just go invent some kind of

1:15.7

mobility and what's popular was you know disabled folks you know just getting people

1:21.4

upstairs or you know, just getting people upstairs or, you know, trying to overcome various

1:24.4

obstacles or challenges like that. That's been a good topic for the past. I'm very

1:29.8

intrigued by where car styling in general is going and starting to see a getting away

1:36.2

from a lot of cliches. Because of manufacturing trends and because of power trains and all that stuff I'm really glad to see we're kind of

1:45.1

getting away from some things other things you think okay that's recycled but one of the

1:49.4

biggest things that I'm seeing is lighting. Headlight lighting has freed everybody up to come up with

1:55.7

me designs. That's an interesting thought. Instead of just, well I've got to have a bulb or I've

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