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Everyday Driver Car Debate

Most Fun Family Cars, Letting Go Of Emotions, Quantifying Track Records | Episode 1,017

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

For Topic Tuesday, the guys create self-imposed rules for themselves, and choose fun cars for families at each price point up to $100K. They debate fun commute choices for Josh in MI, who wants something new and is having trouble letting go of his current car. Then, John in SD is mulling over a truck & trailer for towing the track car, but wonders if it’s the right choice. Social media questions ask about Subaru’s concepts that are an ongoing tease, and what’s the best metric to quantify the performance of a car if you haven’t driven it? Audio-only MP3 is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and 10 other platforms. Look for us on Tuesdays if you’d like to watch us debate, disagree and then go drive again! 00:00 - Intro 02:27 - The Truckle 05:45 - Cadillac Discontinuing CT4 & CT5 V Blackwings 06:48 - Toyota Is Elevating Century Brand Above Lexus 11:05 - Average New Car Costs More Than $50K 18:48 - Topic Tuesday: Most Fun Family Cars At Each Price Point 21:44 - Todd’s List 32:30 - Paul’s List 45:08 - Hooked On Driving Events November 2025 48:05 - Car Debate #1: A Passionate & Emotional Overthinker 1:03:00 - Car Debate #2: Truck Or Trailer, Or Both? 1:13:49 - Car Conclusion #1: How’s That For ‘Vintagey?’ 1:15:04 - Car Conclusion #2: $8K Sports Cars Can Still Be Found 1:17:14 - Email & Social Media Questions From Listeners Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and subscribe to our two YouTube channels. Write to us your Topic Tuesdays, Car Conclusions and those great Car Debates at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:49.6

Hi, everybody. We're back with another episode of the podcast. And honestly, this is kind of

0:53.2

becoming one of the highlights of our week. I mean, when we were doing two podcasts a week we enjoyed ourselves but the fact

0:59.4

that it was kind of spread out a little more I think I think it felt a little bit more like a treadmill

1:03.8

the once a week thing we build up so much commentary about news and adventures that we've had and so

1:09.7

much stuff we just want to we want to share it so much with you guys. So we're thrilled that you hear. Thanks for being back with us. We have lots of news up front, actually, a really, really good topic Tuesday, some car debates, car conclusions, questions from you guys. We have all of it in this. We have to dive right in. Yeah. Yeah. We've just gotten back from a cool press launch. I was just going to say, tomorrow drops the film for the 2026 RAV-4. So we just drove that. We're at the press event in Arizona. And thank you, Toyota, for funding that for flying us out, hotels, meals, providing the cars, everything. And so that was a lot of fun to go out there and drive the new RAV-4, 2026 RAV-4. It's big news for them. So we were just there. And that video, that review from us, again, comes out tomorrow on this channel. Yes, it does. Now, keep in mind, that means tomorrow, Wednesday the 22nd, is RAV-4 day. So your feed is going to be bombarded with RAV-4 videos. was We did one unique to us. We thought about the fact that what you know us for is comparisons. So we did something very unique to us. It's not just a test drive. It's more than that. So we're very excited for you to be right back here watching that. Tomorrow, we're going to drop that right as soon as the embargo lifts with everybody else on the planet. But it was a huge event in Arizona.

2:18.0

And they had, I think, more cars at that event than I've ever seen as far as, like, available cars. They had so many. Well, this is a bestseller for, I mean, the single bestseller for Toyota. And so they treated it with a lot of waves of journalists. And they put eyes on. And they had a lot of people from Japan, a lot of engineers,

2:34.3

fly over for this event because this is a very big deal, very big launch for them.

2:39.3

So watch for that.

2:40.1

We're looking forward to sharing.

2:41.7

And yeah, hopefully you enjoy that because we certainly did.

2:45.8

We have a bunch of really cool comparisons happening between now and early January of next year that we already have either filmed or about to be filmed like the next week or so. We've been stacking content up because the weather is starting to turn here in Park City, so we have to be ahead of that. So we have a bunch of stuff coming. I'm so excited about so much of the stuff we have coming. And we got done with our cool Cota Road Trip series. Thank you to all of you that interacted with that.

3:08.0

Share that.

3:09.8

If you like road trips, just share that with somebody else.

3:25.7

But all these comparisons coming up as well, of course, in addition to this podcast, which is every Tuesday. So thank you for being with us. We're going to jump into news that is unexpected, that got covered a lot. but first off I want to talk about there are a lot of still in the U.S.

3:26.4

still a lot of really great craftsmen out there that make amazing things.

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