Hello, welcome to CarCast plus Edmunds podcast.

I'm going to get used to that at some point.

Well, I wanted to say thanks for everyone's been tuning in the show and sending us some comments.

I've been getting messages from you guys and to DMs saying, uh, uh, you enjoy it.

And, uh, the Alistair is not a bad chap, which I thought we knew that already, but that's okay.

For those of you who are just getting introduced to, but, uh, this is the, uh, CarCast plus Edmunds podcast, the version of CarCast that includes our friends from Edmunds.com and Alistair Weaver, how are you?

I'm okay. Thank you. That was a glorious introduction.

Um, I realized there's some newbies, there's some new, new people tuning in, new people are getting on to that.

I have actually noticed my, on my Instagram, a few people, uh, we, we at Weaver on cars, which I know you always enjoy. I've had a few people, uh, few people join there.

So yeah, yeah, it's nice to be, it's nice to be involved and obviously done the, done the show with you and Bill once, uh, once a month for past, got five years or something, but it's nice.

I think it's four, I think it's four years. I think it's been four years. Um, I, I mean, it was like four years, like in March or something like that. So, uh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, so I kind of want to get into Detroit Auto Show a little bit. Uh, first of all, just my thoughts on Detroit Auto Show. So I've never been to that show.

And, uh, just some thoughts like, yeah, compared to LA Auto Show, which I've done a bunch of times you as well.

This really just kind of felt like an auto show for the big three. Um, and I, you, you didn't get a chance to go, but I don't know how it was last year in the past, but it was basically like a giant hallway of the big three and the various brands of the big three.

Right. Jeep and Chrysler and Dodge and Ford and Lincoln and, and there was a bit of a Volkswagen and, and a few, a few others. And then in the back corner was like, there was like this barrage of very plain looking like white signs with black text, no fanfare at all.

And it was just all the other automatic. It was like Porsche Audi BMW Jaguar. Like, they were all just jammed in there and it looked like a bunch of cars parked on a carpet, almost like the showroom of, of the, of a used luxury car dealer.

And they were, they were all just kind of jammed in the back. Uh, and as you're like opening the door to the Jag to look at the car, you're, you're kind of backing into the Porsche 911. Right. It was just, it was all kind of just wedged in there.

I don't know. Last year did, did any of those cars have a presence? Cause here in LA, like, the, the Porsche room is, is like walking through IKEA. There's like footprints on the floor and it walks you through and it tells you the story of 911 and Macon and Tycan and, you know, it's.

I'm sure that love you to, I'm sure if you rang Porsche and said, hey, it was great. It was just like IKEA.

Or like, like exiting like a Disneyland ride and they push you out into the store and it kind of walks you through the store and shows you all the cool things. And, you know, in the, yeah, I turn on one side and exit on the other, like, like, it's, it had a much more of a display, much more fanfare to it. And they got the hospitality area. And this was like two 911s or something like, like, like, just tucked in the back that you couldn't see. It was just a little sign floating above.

Well, if you go back a bit, I mean, because a lot of auto shows sort of breaking to two, the way they're funded breaks into two. So sometimes it's kind of like the manufacturers themselves. So the big shows like LA Detroit historically.

Geneva is it used to be, but isn't anymore was, was basically the manufacturers themselves paying a shed load of money. I mean, we mean like sometimes tens of millions of dollars.

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