Top 5 SUVs - Most Fun Under $50K, Craving Something Unique, Turning Derelict Cars Into Art | Episode 1,009
Everyday Driver Car Debate
Everyday Driver
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we were just talking about what the world really needs is more ring records. That's what the world needs. That's all we need, actually. There's nothing else. I didn't know that. Everything else is fine. We just need more ring records. We do. I'm not sure how to feel about where we're starting on this podcast, talking about ring records, talking about a new one, a new super fast one that was set. Another one. Yes. Not by a sports car. That's key. Buy a van. By the van. The super van. The superband, 4.2. The transit van. Yeah. That's cool. You know what I do like about is that it's an homage to Sabine with the transit. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes, agreed. It is a total homage, even though this super van was built to go get records at every racetrack, every place they can find. It's a 2,000 horsepower van. The thing that I love about it is the tribute and the fact that it is a van. The thing that I don't like about it is that if you think about it, every car company could go build themselves a specialty vehicle, van, car doesn't matter, and make it with 2,000 horsepower and go try to shatter ring records. It doesn't have anything to do with production or what customers could buy or use or it's not connected to reality. |
| 1:13.9 | Whereas every other car on that list, not every other. |
| 1:16.9 | But a lot of other cars are either production cars or that seemingly has more meaning than just a 2,000 horsepower van with everything. |
| 1:26.9 | We've been talking about production car records because, of course, the ZR1 and |
| 1:31.0 | X and the GTD Mustang and, you know, way up there in the all-time production car |
| 1:36.4 | records. |
| 1:37.2 | This is a... |
| 1:38.4 | You're fast. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm fast. |
| 1:40.5 | This is a bewinged, weird, all-wheel drive, EV, 2,000 horsepower, quote-unquote transit van. |
| 1:48.6 | It doesn't get anything like a van anymore. |
| 1:49.5 | It's going around breaking all kinds of records. |
| 1:50.9 | Of course, it broke a ring record. |
| 1:52.1 | I agree with you that this is interesting because of the Sabine connection, because, of course, you know, |
| 1:56.9 | she famously drove a van on top gear and chased a winged viper and got under 10 minutes in a traditional actual transit van. Unmodified. With a stick. Stock transit van. Manual transmission. Yeah. She did the whole thing, which is incredible. And she was an unbelievable driver. I think it just further doubles down, triples down, quadruples down. I don't know. All of the downs. On the fact that EVs are going to just keep breaking top speed records. It's not even, it's not even a surprise anymore. It has no meaning. If you really want a fast car. In fact, this is where you and I normally talk about it. We normally talk about it in terms of YouTube drag races. Okay? we don't drag race on our channel because we know there are tons of variables as to why that car won today. And also, we don't have a really good. I mean, some of the people that do a lot of drag races have runways they rent for every episode they do a drag race. Oh, yeah. We don't have a runway that we rent. We're not doing that. So that doesn't happen. But the other reality is the fact that after you drag race a little bit, do it two or three times, two or three poles in any car, pick your car, you realize that's not actually what makes driving fun. No, it doesn't tell you, as you say, it doesn't tell you anything about the car. Of course not. The last place car could be the great car. Absolutely. An Alpine A110 might come in last. |
| 3:09.0 | Fair. |
| 3:09.5 | A Lotus Elise is not a drag race car. |
| 3:11.6 | That might be dead last in many drag race comparisons. |
| 3:14.6 | Miata's terrible in the drag race. |
| 3:16.2 | It tells you nothing. |
| 3:17.2 | Yeah, for sure. |
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