This is a car show, but it's also more, because cars connect us to every part of our lives.

Families, careers, hobbies, and adventures we never expected.

So you should have a car you love and we're here to help. I'm Paul. I'm Todd and this is the

everyday driver Car Debate. Happy Friday Podcast. This really is my bag baby. We've been quoting Austin Powers on

this end so we are diving in with ridiculous updates about all kinds of things

but the main thing that I'm excited about is two really cool and very different car

debates plus some good questions from you guys and also you've got various questions

about a car we just drove which is the accurate TLX.

Yeah we're gonna dive into into that. Something I'm not

excited about though is the news that Ricardo Automotive has filed for bankruptcy

through one of Germany's district courts and the 215 employees at their

factory found out pretty much at the same time everybody else did

Yikes it's not what you want to have happen they're a tier one supplier Ford has used

Ricardo for years and all kinds of performance models if it says Ricardo on the performance seats in your car, it's almost like an automatic upgrade that adds five horsepower right there.

It should. Does it not? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a badge of honor. It was a halo car. It was a car that oh, that's a that's a sports car

That's a true sports car Scott's got caros in it. So therefore you know you can trust always get the

Ricardo upgrades and here they are filing for bankruptcy

what happens to the rest of the automotive world they're tier one suppliers and they make

phenomenal seats they really do they kind of set the benchmarks since the 80s

and oh you want the recaro's because naturally you just do.

Yeah, sure.

Get those seats and what happened?

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