Which Cars Are The Best Cars, An Existential Car Crisis, Goth Girlfriends Rock | Episode 1,024

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Each year, Consumer Reports publishes their findings on best new and used cars, SUVs and trucks. The guys take the new data and see if CR’s results matches their experiences, and they’re surprised by some discoveries. For Tony S., they debate vehicles that could potentially have a hitch rack semi-permanently installed - but he wants something sporty too. Then, Doug in MI is having an existential car crisis because he needs one do-it-all car for nearly every category of driving. Car conclusions cover an ultimate sleeper for Brian in NY, and a discovery for Paul C., who got a dynamic company commuter car that’s also good for track use! 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 00:30 - Under $12K Film, Now Playing! 03:55 - Toyota GR GT + Lexus LFA Worldwide Reveal! 11:44 - JLR Creative Director Gerry McGovern Fired 14:31 - Porsche Admires Hyundai 15:44 - Toyota Sienna Minivan Hoon 19:32 - Topic Tuesday: Which Cars Are The Best Cars? 36:01 - Hooked On Driving December 2025 + Teaser 2026 37:21 - Car Debate #1: The Permanent Rack 50:41 - Car Debate #2: Existential Car Crisis 1:01:18 - Car Conclusion #1: The Ultimate Sleeper 1:04:16 - Car Conclusion #2: Goth Girlfriends Rock! 1:10:17 - Did You See This? 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	Think about cheese.
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0:12.4	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.9	Availments with the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:22.2	Hey guys, happy Tuesday. Welcome back. We're diving right in. We're thrilled to have you with us. Big announcement
0:26.1	right up front. Next week's podcast will be live. In the studio, we'll be live. It'll be
0:31.4	questions only from you guys. It'll be rapid fire. Those always fly by. That'll be super rapid fire.
0:36.9	So keep in mind, this is Tuesday. This coming Monday, we will be in studio. We will announce the times. It'll be in the evening. We'll do an all live podcast. We'd love to have you here for it live. And then of course it will release on all the audio formats the next day. But just letting you know that's happening. Other announcements, have you seen it yet? Have you seen our biggest comparison of the year, the $12,000 used car piece? There's things to say here, but it's
0:59.7	very fun. We got we had a lot of fun making this piece, guys. Thank you for watching. Please
1:04.4	pass it on to friends. It got us thinking about what are fun cars out there that are 12k and
1:09.6	under because you watch that 8,000 under
1:12.9	$8,000 piece from what three years ago, three or four years ago now? And that has just really
1:18.7	resonated with all of you. So thank you for that. So this is under $12,000. Like I said,
1:22.8	pass that along. But we had a lot of fun making it. And there's a ton of cars that we could
1:26.5	have included in the piece, some that didn't show up like a t t others that you know what we've covered those
1:32.9	before like gt 86s and that kind of thing specifically did we know they fit but it was deliberate
1:39.6	choice but it hopefully got everybody thinking about and shopping on auto tempestest. For sure, yes. But thinking about what stuff is out there and so many people are loving the Fiesta ST, we love that car. It's not revelatory. It was just fun to rediscover it. And I think that's, with all the comments, it was sort of like, yeah, we know the Fiesta ST is fun. Like we know that too but once again it was fun to
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