All right, welcome back, everybody, to the podcast.

We have all of our normal stuff.

News, car debates.

We've got some cool car conclusions.

We'll hopefully get to this time.

Your questions, lots of stuff.

But the topic is so good.

The topic is so interesting.

Yes.

We're going to talk about cars that brand should bring back.

It's a deep, deep rabbit hole because we could go. We could go crazy. All the fun stuff in the past. We could. So we're limiting ourselves to just one car from one manufacturer, whether it's a dead name plate or whatever the car was, even if they still make it, I kind of left myself in an open door. But this springs out of the conversations we've had in the last few podcasts. This has come very organically out of the last few podcasts because the last couple of episodes, if you've seen them or heard them, we've talked about brands bringing back interesting cars, something between the super hypercar and the SUV.

Where is the stuff in the middle? And then a lot of discussions have come up, be it prelude, be it Z car, be it whatever. We've caught up those cars that are legendary nameplates, but we as enthusiasts want them to come back and be a certain thing. So you and I are going to kind of run the gauntlet here. Bring them back. Today is carmakers A through M. I didn't cover all of them, but A through M. We're going to kind of each pick a car and go, okay, this nameplate should come back and be like this. It's very exciting. I'm very much looking forward. It's going to be really good. But before we get there, we should do news, including people having problems getting out of their Model Y.

Switching over here to a actually, this is a 2025 Model Y. But but for the 2021 model wise a 174,000 cars

are being recalled at least because parents can't get to their children. They're locked in the

car because of these handles. So like we discussed last time, the light bars on the front of

EVs kind of becoming a thing. Now recessed flush handles have also become a thing. I mean, from an aerodynamic standpoint, designers and aeronamysis, like that. They like flush body sides, nothing protruding. It makes for a better coefficient of drag. I do understand that. And it looks better. It's just just a graphic and then the handle appears. But you know what? We've also heard about handles that are icing up. Handles can't deploy. True. Because it's too cold or the motor wears out or it's something, something gets, you know, stuck, jammed. So the more stuff that we have on our cars, especially door handles that you should be able to get in your car. Well, but what you're speaking to here, what you're speaking to here, and it's not just a Tesla problem, even though Tesla's are being recalled for. These are solenoid handles. So when you do something, electronics are getting a signal and the electronics are unlatching the door. Yeah. Now, you're required by regulations. You can see it in a Corvette C8. Open by wire.

Yes, exactly, which is ridiculous.

Entry by wire. But you can see you're required by law to have a mechanical backup to release the door from the inside. But what's interesting about this is that in some cases what apparently is happening, and I have not seen an official report from an actual person that's happened to, but this is what we're hearing reported. Parents getting out of the car, closing their door, now not able to get back into the car. The child in the car can't get to or doesn't know where to get to the mechanical backup. So you're standing outside your car. And in some cases, parents have broken the windows. Now, it's not like, please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's happened to thousands of parents. This is like a handful of people, okay? I'm saying Tesla's with shattered windows all over the place. It's really weird. So it's a handful of people. So it's not like, but they were calling all of them to try to solve this, but I, I'm going to ask a weird question.

What's wrong with doors?

Can't they just be a mechanical thing?

A knob, a latch, you pull it, and the lock moves.

Is this has existed forever?

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