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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Conversion (Season 1, Episode 1)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1 of Season 1 of our new podcast, “Futurismo,” we set out to find people around the country who are living without the burden and convenience of car ownership. Naturally, they are all 20-somethings living in big urban areas where it’s easy to go without a car, right? Actually, no. We discovered busy people in rural regions and in large sprawling metropolitan areas with precious little public transportation who are doing quite nicely without a vehicle. We found car fanatics and truck d...

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0:00.0

Futurismo is brought to you by the New York Marketing Seminar.

0:05.0

Learn how you can take part at auto news.com slash seminar. It's funny that kind of a car guy I don't drive a car.

0:19.0

It's funny that kind of a car guy I don't drive a car.

0:23.0

That's a great conundrum.

0:25.0

Greg Zulu is a 48-year-old freight broker and car fanatic in Portland, Oregon.

0:29.0

Greg says that his family has gasoline in its blood.

0:33.3

I learned to drive on my mother's Mustang Chiti, actually,

0:36.9

with manual transmission.

0:38.3

My grandfather actually owned a Studebaker Packard

0:41.2

Jaguar dealership, and my father's personal car for for years

0:45.5

was the dealership's jag e-type like every kid my age you know I had a

0:50.0

Lamborghini Kuntash you know poster everyone did.

0:52.4

What now and now I drive a the Lamborghini Kuntas, you know, poster everyone did.

0:53.0

But now I drive a, you know, three-cylinder, you know,

0:58.0

a car to go.

1:00.0

I have to go somewhere.

1:01.0

I was like, what happened to you, man?

1:04.0

What did happen to Greg?

1:06.0

If you listen closely, you may have caught the answer to his conundrum.

1:09.3

Not only drive a, you know, three-cylinder, you know, the three cylinder, you know,

1:13.4

Car to Go.

1:17.8

You've probably seen Car to Go if you've been to Austin or Portland

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