Red Bull Built a $6 Million Hypercar?!

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Automotive, Leisure

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Spike and Jonny dive into the future of EVs, autonomous vehicles, and unexpected automotive partnerships. The car talk continues with a deep dive into the impressive Chevy Equinox EV and solid-state battery technology from CES. ______________________________________________ 🪙 Coinbase - Buy and Sell Crypto with Trust Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC and more with ease. https://www.coinbase.com Don't miss the Acura NSX-T auction at Cars & Bids! 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE356 https://RaceDeck.com 📅 Odoo - Modern Management Made Simple All your business on one platform. Try it at https://www.odoo.com 🕵️ Surfshark - VPN and All-In-One Cybersecurity Go to https://surfshark.com/spike or use code SPIKE at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! GRAB SOME SCR MERCH: https://spikescarradio.com GET MORE SCR ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/spikescarradio ______________________________________________ The Chevy Equinox EV RS steals the spotlight as Spike highlights its surprising quality and value in the $35k-$42k range. Meanwhile, Jonny shares his experience testing nine Chinese vehicles at CES, revealing how brands like Zeekr are already making inroads into the American market through companies like Waymo. The guys break down game-changing solid-state battery technology unveiled at CES that promises 5-minute charging and 100,000 charge cycles, plus discuss Red Bull's audacious $6.7 million V10 RB17 hypercar. Don't miss the debut of "Oh, Those Wacky Waymos" - a hilarious new segment featuring autonomous vehicles creating chaos on public roads. Plus, Jonny recounts his skiing accident and Zuckerman's brutally honest legal advice. _____________________________________________ 📧 To advertise with Spike’s Car Radio, contact Neon Tiger Media: contact@neontiger.media 🌐 or visit: https://scrpod.com/sponsor Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show.
0:06.2	Here we are.
0:07.0	It's Mike on our radio yet again with Johnny Lieberman.
0:12.0	People are always like, why is Johnny on the show?
0:14.4	Let me tell you why Johnny's on the show.
0:16.6	That's a great way to start it.
0:18.6	I'd like to know why I'm on the show as well.
0:54.7	Aside from his automotive knowledge, you did a great piece last week on the Lamborghini Diablo. Wonderful piece, as a matter of fact. What is that magazine? Road rat. Road rat. The road rat. Johnny. Buy it. Johnny shows up for you guys. Johnny shows up. Yeah. He shows up. Injured. Look who's missing. Spin the chair. The empty chair. Spin the Zuckerman chair. Yeah. He's a little busy. He's had a rough week. He apologizes. But here we are yet again to do another show and we're happy to be with you.
1:02.5	We got a lot of cars to talk about this week. I'm driving a Chevy EQRS, an EV, an Equinox.
1:07.5	Yeah, I asked for the car because my son wanted to drive it. I said one of his friends has one.
1:11.5	He's getting his driver's license. I said, I didn't even know it existed.
1:18.5	There it is behind us. You can see it right there. I can throw it up. And I'm surprised by how much I like it. Yeah, it's really good. We should talk about, let's just open the show with it.
1:22.4	I mean, here we have a Chevrolet, EV, that's priced at $35,000, right?
1:30.6	I think all in this guy is 42.
1:33.3	I saw on the sticker.
1:34.1	And the RS is the sporty one.
1:36.0	RS is the sporty one.
1:37.2	They asked me which one I wanted.
1:38.4	And I said, give me the sporty one.
1:39.6	Of course.
1:40.1	I like them sporty.
1:41.4	Yeah.
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