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Wo, that's ridiculous. I'm looking at it because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say what is the greatest car ever made.
Top automotive influencers discuss their favorite car brands, dream cars, and experiences with hypercars like Pagani, Koenigsegg, and Hennessey.
Key Takeaways
- Pagani is highly regarded not just for its cars but for the personal attention from the company and its CEO.
- Koenigsegg offers an unmatched driving experience that is thrilling and risky, appealing to enthusiasts seeking excitement.
- Hennessey represents American engineering with strong performance and customer service.
- Dream cars like the Pagani Zonda are seen as pinnacle collectibles, often out of financial reach but highly desired.
- The automotive influencer community values authenticity, brand loyalty, and the stories behind the cars.
What the video covers
- The video features interviews with leading automotive YouTubers including Stradman, Shmee, Houston, Costa, Supercar Run, and Mat Armstrong.
- They discuss their favorite automotive manufacturers, with many praising Pagani for its craftsmanship and personal touch.
- Koenigsegg is highlighted as a brand that delivers thrilling, visceral driving experiences despite being challenging to handle.
- Hennessey is appreciated for its American-made performance and reliability.
- The influencers share personal stories about their dream cars, including the Pagani Zonda manual V12 and Koenigsegg models.
- The video includes humorous moments, such as a mechanic unfamiliar with hypercars attempting to fix a Koenigsegg.
- There is a discussion about the emotional connection and exclusivity associated with owning rare supercars.
- The video touches on the challenges and realities of owning and maintaining high-performance exotic cars.
- The influencers emphasize the importance of brand experience and customer care in their favorite manufacturers.
- The video also includes a sponsored segment by Morgan and Morgan law firm.
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Oh my days. Clearly, the cars in my collection are garbage. I feel like I don't know a life without you.
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Everybody warned me not to buy that car. You deserve what happened to you.
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All right, now we're going to really stir some stuff up. Favorite or least favorite person you've ever worked with?
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This is a really difficult one. We're off to a great start, y'all.
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Today we are here with some of YouTube's greatest automotive influencers, and we are going to interview each and every one of them.
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We have Stradman, Shmei, Houston, Costa, Supercar Run, and Madam Arm Shring, and of course myself.
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And who better to interview all of us than UFC commentator Laura Senko?
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Laring hardcore today. All right, hard-hitting one out the gate. What is your favorite automotive manufacturer and why?
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Oh my days. Okay, my favorite one. Okay, I need to really think this through before it's not going to be quick fire. I'm really lagging, so we're starting off slow.
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We all get to think about it while actually I think I haven't really experienced it, so I'm just going to throw it out there. I really like the Pagani stuff. I've just been watching a load of Pagani stuff recently online. I
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like the way they do it. I like the history of it. Um, and I haven't experienced it yet. So I've experienced a lot of the others, and it's sort of like a don't meet your hero situation where I've been disappointed by a lot
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and yeah, it's not quite been as what I've thought, but so yeah, let's just throw it out there as Pagani.
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Can I answer that same question? Yeah.
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Okay. So honestly, that was going to be my answer but for one reason and one reason only. The day that I bought my Pagani, that I posted it on Instagram, the CEO of Pagani sent me a message with
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his personal cell phone number and said, "If there is any issue that you ever have with this car, hit me up." And then I met Horacio Pagani and Christian and the rest of the family. And more than any car brand that I have ever
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experienced, they throw their arms around you and they're just, they're phenomenal at it. Now I like it even more.
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Yes. And I, and I agree with the, I agree with the same sentiment. Um, I'm not agreeing with Pagani, but I do agree that they're awesome people that take good care. I have to say that I
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I've always and still love my Hennessey. It's made here right in the US of A. I'm not paid to say that.
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I'm just kidding. I'm not paid to say that. I just genuinely like that car. It is me. It's loud. It shoots fire. It shifts extremely hard. It's like the fastest thing I've ever been in in my life. And uh, and then John and Cole take
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exceptional care of us. Stuff gets serviced and fixed right away when an issue happens. And it's been very reliable for us. If we put 4,500 miles on that car in a year and a half, Houston.
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Well, Hennessey is like an American Koenigsegg. So, I think that's really nice. But the reality is Kodex Egg set the tone for this.
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Every single manufacturer that's out there today that's going after visceral and wicked cars all trying to be Koenigsegg DNA. And so, obviously, you can tell my favorite brand is Koenigsegg because they just, they beyond anything. Yeah. The
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services and all the things that go around with it. It's not meant to be perfect. It's meant to scare you. Every time you get in that car, you might die.
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Right. And that's like actually similar to the Hennessey. Yeah. The spontaneous fires. Yeah. I mean, they're pretty wonderful, but like we're off to a great start, y'all.
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There is no, there is no substitute for an experience in an Agera RS or I mean, even the Jesko's quite wild. So, yeah.
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You know, you have to give and take. It's like being in a toxic relationship with a Latina woman. You know, it's amazing most of the time. Yes.
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Do you know what? I was going to say Pagani as well. I was there a couple of weeks ago. Exactly what you said. The family are amazing. The company's amazing. But I feel like because everyone said or lots of people have said Pagani,
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I should probably shouldn't. So I'm going to give a different perspective and go down the route of, as a manufacturer in their cars,
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Ferrari. No, I was actually going to say this will be a surprise. I was tied in my mind between either saying Ford or Mercedes. And the reason is because I love that they make cars across the board. Both make trucks, hatches,
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saloons, luxury cars, supercars. Well, luxury of Ford would be a bit out of the box, but you know what I mean. Like just making cars that serve everybody. You know, you have a Ford GT, you have a Focus or an F-150. You have an AMG, you
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also have an A-Class for us in Europe or whatever car it is. So, I really like brands that offer everything.
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Lamborghini, baby. Beats doors go up, right? What's the old saying? You buy a Ferrari when you want to be someone. You buy a Lamborghini when you are someone. That's it. Sums it right on up.
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Might have been reversed in that saying, but was it? No, I mean that right, didn't I?
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And that's how you concisely answer, that's how you concisely answer a question folks. So, the Koenigsegg needs a little bit of work.
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And our normal mechanic wasn't available. But I did find this guy. Been working on vehicles my whole life.
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Perfect. What the heck is that? My tools. Okay. What do you normally work on?
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Mostly lawnmowers. You've worked on a Koenigsegg before though, right? Yeah, I've seen him on YouTube.
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Uh Ron, starting with you, what is the greatest car ever made or what, what's your dream car?
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Um, I know a lot of people are going to say probably like a McLaren F1 or something like that. I think those are super cool, but for me it all boils down to the Pagani Zonda manual V12. Give me
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the Roadster version. Um, the heart and soul of one of the greatest designers in the history of automotive. Um, that's it for me. That car.
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I should have read the list of questions because I, that's a... Does anyone know? I'll go after. Anyone know their vehicle? I need to think on mine. I know. You can go. Go ahead. I'm thinking it's crazy because I'm like a Koenigsegg
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super fan, but the Zonda would be the one car I would choose. And the only reason I don't own a Zonda is because they're probably 20 million nowadays, right? But, uh, when they used to be 7 million, it was something that I really
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considered getting, you know, but it's like, uh, it's kind of like an all or nothing with the Zonda, you know, that's the one car you buy when you've already had every single car because it's the pinnacle. It's the top. It's
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the F1 competitor, you know, but, uh, the Zondas are just not affordable. It's just not affordable anymore. So, I got mine. Um, being like true to myself, I like classic cars more than I like exotics and hypercars. So, I think
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even better when they're jalo and you're out here at Montterrey Car Week and you're driving one up in the hills.
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Absolutely. As per Le car, yellow F50. Jalo. Yes. Gallo F50. Um, yeah. Easy. Very nice. The the Italians are are crafty with their color names. the galo which is just way better than yellow.
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My my con, you know, my koig color actually is it's aransio which is just orange. We just picked the Lamborghini color orange. So yeah, kind of the same with some of the Porsche colors as well.
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Yeah, man. I started off as a car spotter so the mystery of cars always entices me. I love Lamborghini, love V12s, and there's one car that's never been seen in Monterey other than when Lamborghini brought the car. And still
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to this day, very few people have ever seen one. And for that reason, it's my dream car. It's the Veneno Roadster because they do not exist. Nobody knows who owns them. They never come out. And I just love the mystery of it. But also,
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the Aventador is like my favorite car. And the Veneno is the Aventador. Same car, but on steroids. So, it's got all their all their hyper models are an Aventador on steroids.
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Yep. Yep. That was the OG one, though. That was That was That was the first one.
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Aventador. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The Merchelago is my favorite car. Lamborghini Merchelago. Manual. It's fun. It's like rough around the edges and yeah, it's like a raw car. I can I've sat in so many different cars and I just don't get the same feeling as a
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Merc. I don't care whether it's not as quick as others or it doesn't drive as well. It's not as comfortable. I just have some type of feeling with that car and yeah, can't can't be replaced for me. So, it's a yeah, doors go up. It's
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just it's fun. is fun. That will always be my favorite car until I guess maybe Pagani comes along or something. But we'll see. We'll see.
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Loves Pagani. Yes. The Wyos are still semi. I mean, they haven't popped too much. I sold mine at 23 2 years ago and they're still like 27.
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No, yours just did a high bid to 28. 27. I think it was 28. Was it 2? I don't know.
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Show it on screen how much it sold for because I just looked it up. Um because Tommy and I had the same argument and I was wrong. It was 27. Well, this is such a cool gathering because obviously each
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of you has YouTube creation in common. You're all the YouTube stars, but every everybody sort of comes from their unique perspective, has has a slightly different audience. So, Steve, I'll start with you.
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Sure. Why did you start YouTube? I got bored. Basically, I stepped away from running the company and I was I always tell the story. I was sitting in bed with my wife doing nothing sexual, don't worry. And um I'm like brushing
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her hair. Yes. Oh, that's And I'm like, I know. And I'm like, what the am I doing right now? Like, what in the actual So, then uh then I went and got my pilot's license, got lean certified, and started a YouTube
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channel. And I took kind of the same logic that I learned from my business.
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It was like create metrics, like how do I differentiate? How do we be different?
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And ours was to to donate all profit to charity, to share cars with the community, and make some fun and engaging and awesome content. And we still live true to that mission to this day.
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Dang, mine's not that wholesome. Mine's actually quite interesting because I had uh uh like 40,000 subscribers cuz I made a YouTube channel for my rental car company on how to drive these cars. So, he'd like pay people or like you know show people
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videos before they would rent them. And then I met Damon and he had a 100,000 subscribers and I I tell him to face I was like I'm way smarter than you, bro.
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I could easily be a YouTuber, you know? And so mine and Damon's like friendmy relationship basically made me a YouTuber, you know, because I wanted to compete with him, you know.
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We were almost able to have him here today. Yeah, he great. We could have we could have continued on our fist fight from the last 10 years, you know, but uh no, he Damon actually inspired me because his like content was really
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unique and it was like this like living with cars type content on a daily basis, you know, and uh I had a Veyron and nobody had seen a Veyron on the internet and so I made this first video, how to
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change your oil in a Veyron and that kind of like started my actual vlogging and YouTube channel. Then it was donuts and this and that and then the hypercar mantra of buying them and destroying them, you know, and now that's really
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normal. But, you know, six years ago when I started, it was it was pretty unique.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm such a grandpa with this. I started my YouTube channel in 2006, right?
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So, it's just over 20 years ago. And how many videos have you made against me since then?
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7 7,000 or something. But back then, there was no goal. It was just fun filming cars, playing with cameras. And it was really looking at some of the YouTubers at the time who had, you know, 500 subscribers being
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like, "Wait a second, and if I make more videos, this would be quite fun." And there was no business model behind it.
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It was just fun. I enjoyed how if you made a content, if you made a I enjoyed how if you made a video, you would then get comments coming in from around the world, engage with people, share something you love with everybody. And
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so, I guess it's almost like two parts, right? Because you make a channel with no plan, and then you kind of make the plan to actually I'm going to do something with it. Yeah.
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Which came a few years later. Literally the same story almost verbatim. I just fell into it. Yeah.
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I just was a car spotter. I like taking photos. I like looking at photos. All of a sudden, I wanted to take better photos. And then I was like, well, I might as well get videos of the startups. And I was like, I should share
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them on friends. So, I posted on YouTube. And then like a year or two later, you get an email from the YouTube partner program. It's like, you want to be monetized? I'm like, huh? Click the box. And then a couple weeks later, I
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made two cents. Like, I never planned to do YouTube. It was never a thing. It was just a passion. And yeah, I started my channel in 2012. So yeah, you guys built you guys built the foundation for for automotive YouTube
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excellence. So definitely did. I commend you. Mine was completely random. I used to um ride BMX bikes professionally. So to get into competitions, you used to have to film yourself doing the your best tricks you could um and put it all into an
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edit. and we just put it on YouTube because it was just easier to share the link to the competitions or the brands or whatever. So, it just started off like that. And then eventually we noticed a lot of the BMXes started
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talking in the videos and showing a bit more of the personality. It helped with like the branding and getting sponsorships and I started talking.
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Every so often I'd say something about a car. I always used to um be into cars anyway. And randomly my girlfriend, she crashed her Audi TT.
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And I thought, well, I could repair it. Always messed around with cars in my spare time. I thought I could do that.
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And for some reason, I just thought, you know what, I'm going to film this because one, I'll know how to put the car back together if I film it. And two, if I if I start putting it online, I
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know a lot of people were commenting on my BMX stuff anyway. I thought, well, I might be able to get some help if someone's got a part or maybe I get stuck with something, it it could help.
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And I posted the first video on rebuilding the TT and it was getting more views than what my BMX stuff was.
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And I was having more conversations with people of how to rebuild the car and it was really helping me do it and I enjoyed it and one thing led to another and then slowly went from a TT I
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finished it and then thought yeah I'd like to do it again. So then we moved on to the next car and then slowly you get ramped into like what you can monetize this and then yeah we started earning
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money from it. I started paying my gym membership from YouTube channel and then and then it went to paying my mortgage for the YouTube channel and then I went to leaving my job for the YouTube channel. So, it just escalated. It's
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something just sort of fell into and then you become obsessed with but yeah, I wouldn't change it at all. I wouldn't change it at all.
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Yeah. There was a F40 that casually broke down on the road like a few hours ago on a rally and you had it fixed with it. Three minutes this guy actually fixed it and got it back on the road.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think maybe there's something wrong with me. That was amazing. Ron, how about you?
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Honestly, our YouTube kind of started uh with Taste, my car manager, and we just started filming stuff that I was already doing. And so, what that's allowed us to do though, we love to raise money alongside the Hamiltons sometimes for
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our favorite charities. And honestly, we get to meet some really cool people. And that was kind of the point of uh starting our YouTube.
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That's one of the best side effects is just all the people that like I mean, you guys can't see on camera, but we have a horde of amazing people behind us as well that came to watch this. So, the
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connections are are the best side effect of doing this stuff. It's cool to hear everybody's uh origin story, but I've got I'm curious. You all have been doing it various lengths of time. Maybe Shimi the longest. What is
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your biggest mistake or regret since starting YouTube and we'll start with you Houston. Of course, you start with me on this one.
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What What year was it Monterey Car Week? I don't know, 2022. Uh yeah, about that.
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The guy that inspired me to start a YouTube channel. uh we decided to both just wickedly crash out on each other fighting on the internet left and right and it was probably like the worst car drama on earth and uh I think that like
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it's just crazy how you can not really realize how big YouTube is and you know when you're fighting with someone and you're arguing and you both have ego it you don't realize that there's hundreds of thousands of people who are watching
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and enjoying this fight on, you know, at your expense. And so I think that was definitely the biggest mistake because I didn't understand the gravity of of like negativity, you know, and so it it was hard for I think both of us. But uh
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yeah, public uh displays of uh ego is very poor and audiences love to run with it.
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Oh, they love it. They love it because you get two sides, right? You get sides that that people that are giving you death threats and then people that are trying to, you know, help you in any way they can, right? There's like no middle
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ground. It's just like a wild ride. I think um I'm gonna say probably certain things that I had been thinking about for a long time before doing them.
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So even in the very early days of YouTube being less frequent where actually cuz the idea of then going to an event and running around with a camera at that time was as you remember a little bit odd. People looked at you
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slightly funnily. So almost wishing I'd sort of done that and been more comfortable with that sooner. And then again the same when it was the shift to talking to camera that only came in around I'm going to say
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around 2013 2014 and I've often wondered what if I'd actually done that about two or three years sooner rather than just filming the cars driving past almost kind of where not that things haven't gone well but things could have gone
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you know even further at an earlier point. It was so awkward doing that early on cuz people weren't used to seeing that like what is he it still is. It still is. It's awkward in public, like when you're in like a grocery store.
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It's awkward now because everybody has a camera. And so like when you see like a someone who maybe shouldn't have a camera, you become like almost their equal, right? Even though you got 20 years of experience, right? The the guy
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that has one hour of experience and you guys are the same. You know, people are looking at you like that. So it's kind of a weird thing now.
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Yeah. You know, it's true. Speaking of my my biggest regret, so a couple years ago, guy out of Vegas started calling me like every other day.
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Every day. He's like, "I got this blue car every single day. You need You need this car. This car is special to you. You have history with this car. You need to I'm like, "No, bro. I can't afford it. Like, this isn't
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it. Like, I'm not ready." History. Well, so I jump started the car with my Audi TT on the Gumball 3000 2015.
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Who was driving it? Uh, Lewis Hamilton. That was a pretty special situation. It was It was He's still selling it to me. He's still selling it to me. And after what it must have been two months of being pestered every day,
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we finally got a deal done. A lot of cars were traded hands, a lot of cash, and I ended up with a bright blue Koing Zeggera that I could not afford.
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Neither could I. Yeah. I held on to it for a couple years. Still trying to recover from that.
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And And it just didn't engage as well like as you thought it would, right?
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Like you you could spend a lot less money and get better engagement. BMW M2 got better views. I said do more.
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Okay. To my defense, I told him, "Don't buy this car. Put on the internet." You're a surprising voice of reason. I was like, "Oh, that's Houston." Like, he doesn't take this serious. Exactly.
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People watch me drive a car. Exactly. Exactly. No, I There's an ego I was telling you guys about.
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Yeah. No ego. Yeah. Matt, how about you? Um, again, I think I wish I started sooner and have a bit more confidence in it. Um, like I feel if I did start sooner and take the jump sooner, I could
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have been further ahead by now. But then a lot of things as well is I found every time I've gone on gut feeling with things, it's always worked out. Like if I've done something for a different reason, like for example, I'm going to
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buy this car cuz I think it's going to do really well on views or it's going to do it's it's never worked out as much as of right this is gut feeling. This is what I want and then it's worked out. I
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always feel like if you really go at something like 100%. As soon as I left my job to do it full-time, it was like failure isn't an option. So things escalated from there. It's like why don't I have the confidence to do that
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sooner. The only reason I didn't do it sooner. Well, the the reason I did quit my job is when um lockdown happened, I got furoughed from my work. So, it's sort of like I I worked uh in a Ford Performance
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place building like the websites, doing like the social media stuff, listing items for sale. Um and then in the evenings, I worked in an Indian restaurant. So, I was like trying to save up as much money as my I wanted to
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get out of the 9 to5 and my goal was to buy houses, do them up, sell them. Uh really enjoyed doing that. The only way to do that was to build up money to be able to do it. So, I was like, I'm just
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going to work 24/7, build up the cash, buy the houses, renovate them, uh refurbish them, and refinance them. And that's how that's how I was going to go about doing things. in uh I only quit my job because I got furoughed and had five
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weeks at home where I didn't want to buy another house because the market was all over the place and I I had like £10,000 saved as a deposit for a house and in instead I bought a uh crash damage
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Bentley Continental GT and decided to rebuild it on my driveway instead of buying the house cuz I thought oh the YouTube channel's doing well and it was fun um and I can earn money from it so I might as well do that in furow and it
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just escalated From there, I really enjoyed it. And I was earning more from that than I was from being at work. And then I sort of got a taste of what it would be like doing it full-time. And
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that's the only reason I took the jump. And I wish I would have just done it sooner. But yeah, it's sort of like the universe pushed me over the edge to do it. But I wish I'd just had a bit
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more confidence sooner. I think there's two things that stand out to me. One, we started kind of on other platforms first and then YouTube much later on. And so our other platforms have grown kind of substantially larger than um YouTube. I
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wish I had actually started with YouTube and then kind of branched out into some of the other platforms. But two, in the very early stages of Supercar Ron's YouTube channel, um my social media shows like 5% of my actual life. And I
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thought it would be cool to fill one my Lamborghini Strato with a whole bunch of guns and grenade launchers and full auto AR-15s and stuff like that and then go blow stuff up out in the desert because that's literally what I do with my life.
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That is cool. The moderators do not like that stuff. And so it it totally like I got all of my accounts basically uh shut down. Like it it like it like stopped everything.
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It stopped growth. It stopped whatever. So in hindsight, I wish I had not done, you know, this huge kind of gun thing.
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We just had the wrong president during that time. Um, so it actually has changed since then. Now guns are are pretty readily accessible on YouTube. But, um, you know, a couple years ago when when we launched my YouTube, it was very taboo.
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Like the moderators did not like that. Um, I think for me, I think what the public wants to hear is my Koigseg crash out, but that's not that's just not the case because you stand by that. Well, could
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it have been more could it have been more tasteful? Yes. But if it was, would it have pushed I I genuinely think that we we called out an issue that kept getting swept under the rug? And I think
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that we brought real attention to the matter, and I still think it exists, but I'm not going to um hone in on that too much. Um, but at the end of the day, I think it's more like biggest regret is
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that YouTube can take away from moments that you want to like share with your family and friends and you don't want to have to unload a car and be present on a camera. I want to just unload it and go
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drive it with my son or let him drive it and enjoy it. But I have to be present and make sure I give genuine reactions in first drives on camera. So, that's kind of that's kind of my regret. It
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takes away from some of that. I did not write this question, but each of you needs to go around and say, who is the greatest automotive YouTuber of all time? And Shme will start with you.
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This is a really difficult one, isn't it? With uh everybody in the room. No, I think independent of who's here or not here, I'm actually going to say Matt. I think if you were to write almost a a guide book of how you do
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YouTube, how you do automotive YouTube, Matt and his team have this completely nailed. The storytelling, the amazing videos, production, your editing, everything about it keeps you captivated throughout. I can only imagine retention time through the roof. Kind of like
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perfect YouTube videos for the car world. It's Matt Armstrong. Thanks, D. The OG, the legend 150. I mean, I don't know if I'd be sitting here if it wasn't for Shmei. Like, he's the guy who made it happen. He's the first guy to film
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these selfie style videos. There was a time, and you probably know the exact number, you posted a video every single day for like five years, something absurd. And you had posted more videos than days you'd been on YouTube. Like,
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it was just an unbelievable amount. And the schedule and the travel and finding all these cars and the connections.
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Like, he's what made it possible. And he was such an inspiration for me that uh the legend 150, baby.
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Yeah. I think it's weird. It's weird as well actually. Like it's a combination between these two over here. Um because uh like Tim has been doing it for so long and to do something for that long and keep going because there's so many
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people that come up in the YouTube space, they come up and then as quick as they come up, they drop off. So to keep the longevity going of that is like really impressive. And then like his his style of doing it was like reviews and
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and car spotting. But then also with uh Strad, I used to watch his videos and it was when I stumbled upon like I think it was like your R8 getting stuck when you took it out for a drive and then I was
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like this is really interesting. It was something I've never seen before. You were like documenting your own ownership of the car. Um and it was really fun and upbeat like you were like so positive and everything on camera and it was like
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there was two different styles of like content I've never seen before. And it sort of like inspires you to go like, you know what, these guys are out in public filming like this and they don't care. It gives you a bit more confidence
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to do it. And for how long they've done it, it's so impressive. So yeah, I these two take the top spot. It It's hard to argue with anything anybody has said at this point. Um, obviously Steve, I love
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your channel. Houston, you're a little bit on the OG side. Shme, you are the OG, right? Like Strad, I think the thing that people have loved about you is this story about your life that's interwoven into this car thing, right? Like
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homeless and then building yourself up and now you have this beautiful life and everything. Matt, you are probably the best storyteller on YouTube, period. Um, and I I would I would just add there's a couple of like kind of automotive um
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like the car wow guys, right? like those guys are huge and I think they've nailed like this consistent format that is engaging but not overly burdensome when you watch it and and I like watching some of their stuff as well.
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Very cool, Steve. And I got to say, I mean, early on, one of the first people that we collabed with that everyone knew on the channel was Stradman. I mean, I just got to give I got to give him props. I mean,
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everybody here has been extremely important in our journey. amazing humans that we've all watched that are part of the Hamilton collection. But James took a chance on us early, let us on his channel collab with him early, and um um
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yeah, I think you've I think you've kind of set the standard. And I think Matt figured something out um along the way that you're absolutely uh the storytelling has been something that that we admire and we've even adapted
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into a lot of our videos. So, if our viewers have noticed kind of our shift to storytelling, that's a lot of because what what you've taught us and what we've found to be really engaging on your videos. So,
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I don't really have a favorite YouTuber as for a person, but the videos I enjoy most are Mr. JWWs.
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I thought you were going to say Koigseg's channel. It's basically what it was. Yeah, that's a good one. Uh, are you trying to get a good deal on a car from No, that's that'd be a great plan. Uh,
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it it really comes down to two. It's Matt's videos and and James' videos. They they both like somehow there's something in the water in the UK over there where they just make really entertaining adult content, you know, like we've all been there and done like
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YouTube videos where not that adult they like Jesus Christ. Like grow look what Houston brought us. Thank you.
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Yeah. Um well like James makes videos for 12-year-olds, right? Okay. You know, you're the star of my channel, bro.
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Yeah. And I'm on it, you know. Um Yeah. I'm just talking about like uh you know, like highlevel content, right?
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And it's like for grown-ups, it's like it's not like car spotting and all the stuff. Like for guys that want to watch like cool cars, like you know, the the reviews or even the rebuilds, you know, like I myself, I get really tired of of
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making rebuild videos cuz it's so boring to me to do that. I just want to fix the car and move on and make it all in 20 minutes. But this guy makes them like so entertaining and engaging and shows just
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the right amount of interest. And I think James does that same thing too when he's doing like car reviews and stuff. He shows the right amount of things to keep someone that's like, you know, more mature in their in in the
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zone. Yeah. Yeah. Adult content. Yeah. Adult content. Got it. Got it. Houston loves adult content.
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I love it. What's your favorite kind of adult content? Yeah. Car car videos. Oh, okay. All right. I got you.
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That is not in the list. That is not in the list. Um, James, what uh if you had to live with one car, one car for the rest of your life, what would it be?
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That's so tough because I live in Utah. It snows. I love off-roading. I love traveling adventure.
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Is this like you you can make the decision here. Does it have to be like your only car? Like daily like this?
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Probably, right? I feel I feel like we need to go. We We all have a daily driver. You can get Oh, that makes it easy. Listen, I'm making this up right now. I didn't write these questions.
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You got you get a daily car. So now you have only one other. Yeah. Daily Ram TRX supercar, Lamborghini Aventador.
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Yeah, we should do both. All right, got it. That's perfect. Melago. Um, and my Audi RS6. Love the RS6.
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I love the RS6 as well. I'm a I'm a big outdoors guy, hunter. Um, I have to have a truck, right? And so I always have some sort of a built truck. And then honestly something manual V12 without a
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roof. And my Mercielago fits that really really well. I would say my Tesla Cyber Truck. That is my daily. I love it. That's not the one, Tommy. That's not the one. I'm And I get to pick a daily, too. That's the
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daily. That's No, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait. I got that around. I got that backwards.
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The Tesla Cybertruck is the daily. Uh, and then I'd keep my Hennessy because it the top removes and like I said, it's wild. It's it's everything that it's everything that I love in a car.
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I'm going S63 for a daily and then an Aggera RS. Don't you love how Mercedes just sound like American V8s?
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The S63 is probably if I only had to pick one car, it would have just been the S63 cuz it's everything. Yeah.
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You know, even though I didn't pick Ferrari as my top brand, I'm going to end up with a couple of Ferraris here.
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Daily Purusangu. Mhm. Practical V12. You scared the crap out of me in that thing. And you were driving so fast. I'm like, I don't see.
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That's not a thing. That's not a thing. You can't even see in Britain where you're going.
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It's cuz we sit on the right side. Yeah. Yeah. Not the wrong side. Um, so daily Pangu. I I would take my uh top choice of car was an F50.
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Um, but I feel like that might be stretching the you know, the budget a bit.
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Fair. Then it's an F50. If we can spawn one, that would be amazing. Thank you.
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All right. Now, we're going to really stir some stuff up, but we're going to start with Matt. Um, favorite or least favorite person you've ever worked with.
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Oh, this question actually. How about favorite and least favorite? I'm going to make you say favorite and least favorite person I've worked with.
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Um, okay. So, at the minute we're building a Chiron and and Alex is is fun and it's the first time I've ever built somebody else's car. But I think we did do James Mr.
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JWWW, but um we like sort of knew him before. So, it's sort of a big risk for us with with Alex, but he's sort of been he has been my favorite and least favorite at the same time because like he is like absolute
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nookcase and like we've had so much fun and I think it's part of the reason why I bought a house in Miami when we've gone over there. is like convince me like I love the place but then also
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you've we're building the car and midway through we're building it every time it's almost drivable. He wants it driving on the road like we've only just like got it so it will drive on the road but there's no there's no front end on
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it. There's no windcreen on it. There's nothing on it and he's like oh let me take it out and I'll drive it. We've left the country. He's gone. He's driving it around with the streets. No protection on the radiators. No
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windscreen. So anything breaks on it. we've got to fix it again. But so you're just having a heart attack whilst you're away in the UK seeing all these Tik Toks get posted whilst he's driving it. So like yeah that it's it's been a my
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favorite and least favorite at the same time. But I'm sure I'm sure he'll uh it'll swing towards more the favorite when it's finished. Hopefully.
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Hopefully. Here you Oh, I'm I'm looking at tears cuz I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say do what I want to say.
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Just do it. I posted one thing once on Twitter and had so many death threats come at me that I'm a little bit like Okay, you guys want to hear it?
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Yeah. Are we starting with least favorite? It's like least but most awesome experience. I don't know what I'm not even sure how to.
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So, right when taste first started, I had this new Lamborghini. We got hit up on my supercar on Instagram um by the manager of a rapper and his name is NBA Young Boy. Do you guys know who that is?
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And you str, you know, because you're Utah. So the dude is on probation for attempted murder. He has an ankle bracelet and he is allowed to live in a gated compound in Utah.
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And so I send Tase up there. They're like, "Dude, we're going to film this music video. It's going to be insane.
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Your car is going to be in it." And I'm like, "Dude, we're this like fledgling thing." And NBA Young Boy had like 17 million followers or something like that. I didn't even know who he was. So Tase goes up there. There's 25 armed
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guards. There are I I'll spare some of the details here because like I really don't want to get murdered over this.
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So, um they take my car up into the hillside, absolutely wreck this thing, like my brand new Sorado, it's leaking fluid everywhere and they leave it at the top of the hill and Tase, my brand new employee at the time, calls me and he's
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like, "Dude, what do I do? You're my boss. They just left me up on like this mountaintop with a broken Lamborghini Sado in the middle of filming this video." By the way, they ran over one of the workers with a side by side. So,
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Tase had to call 911 and get ambulances up here and they all just left this dude there. So, like it's pretty wild. It was a wild story. I happen to love NBA Young Boy's music. So, if you're listening to
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this NBA Young Boy, like I freaking love you, you know? Like, please don't shoot me. Like, but like like I love you guys.
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And Taste made it out. Okay. But it was probably the wildest, you know, experience that we had. I don't know if that's good or bad or whatever, but it was, you know.
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And favorite YouTuber or Oh, favorite favorite person that I've worked with so far, honestly.
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My boy Ian Poulter. He's a professional golfer. He's British. Um I've become really close friends with him and he is the coolest dude. He has this huge Ferrari collection. We did this high-speed event with you guys down at um
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down on the NASA runway and I love that dude to death. One of our guys got kicked out of NASA.
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Where is he? Yeah, he got kicked out of entire government property for going too fast on a runway.
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In the Hennessy. Yes, in the Hennessy. That's right. Yeah, you instigated that. That's right, bro. I'm like send it.
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I'm like they said do not go over the speed and you're in his ear.
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Well, they said like like like don't go over 220 and I'm like bro like if you go 230 are they really going to kick you out? They straight revoked you from the property.
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They sure did. Um I think my favorite one was more like uh one that caught me off guard. Uh when we were very early in maybe a year in our first Monterey, we met this guy at the Bugatti area and
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he's like, "Oh, I'm a big like follower watcher." And I'm like, "Oh, cool." And he's like, "I'm Mate Ramach." And I'm like, "Oh, this is so cool." Like he's the the CEO and I think he was the Yeah,
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CEO of Bugatti. And that was just a such a cool moment that that I knew of him, but I didn't know who he was, but he recognized us. He recognized the channel. He was joking with us about some things that we did. So, that was
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that was a great moment. Um, least favorite probably Houston Costa. Yeah, we remember. Yeah. Yeah. When you got shot actually. That was weird.
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Great video. We were with you and you had gotten shot. Yeah, I'm doing all right now. But that was a good video. It was pretty viral.
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Whenever you'd search your name, the the second highest term was used in cross shot.
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Yeah. If I think of something will come back to me. I should have I should have had a better answer for that. I'll think.
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We'll come back to me. My least favorite was the Paul brothers. They uh they were very very very disrespectful to all everything every pe every person around them. We did like a music video and I gave them a whole
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bunch of cars and they they were standing on them. They threw a a Starbucks cup and broke the windshield just like the most unbelievable like and this is very long time ago 2017. But you know it was like uh they just thought
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that they were the best in the world and they could do anything they wanted and I don't know that's I've never experienced anybody else like that. So, um, but favorite would have to be probably honestly most of you guys in this room.
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I mean, everybody here has supported me like with open arms and we've all done so many cool collabs together. I couldn't choose one. I mean, every single one of us, you know, so I think like this is a really good group of uh
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really caring people in our industry. Thank you, sir. Yeah. I mean, up until an hour ago, I didn't really have an answer, but because we got stiffed out of his attendance, I'd probably say Damon from DDE is is my least favorite person that
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I almost worked with at this point. He doesn't come after any of you guys though, right, on social media. It's me, Houston.
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I never had any issues with anybody, so I should be fine. Um, I'm going to be uh go a little bit different. I'm going to say that my favorite person I've worked with is actually my wife who's very patiently
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joined me for the last 6 years of filming every single day. I love that which is quite hardcore with our travel and videos. She put up with a lot. Then keeping it a little bit different. Least favorite. I'm going to go with all of
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the times you have to deal with accounts, taxes, wasting time from doing the stuff that is good for everybody.
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You're trying to be prop like a true proper Brit. Very right there. Good answer. safe answer.
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Yeah, I couldn't wait for Tim to go cuz I knew he was going to be very Switzerland just like me.
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But the crazy thing is I've worked with so many people and I've had so many amazing experience. Honestly, favorite though, probably Houston, my guy.
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Like I love going to see Houston. I love spending time with him. He always he's so busy. Like this guy has 50 fishing rods in the pond. He's running around and then I show up and he pauses and he
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gives me the time of day. He's helped save my Gallardo one time, caught on fire. He's helping me saving it again. I love Houston. Least favorite. I've been going down like in my head's like, "Oh, there's that guy. I don't like I don't
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want to mention him. That guy don't want to definitely don't want to mention him." Switzerland. James Switzerland.
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Switzerland. I have decided the people that come to my house, the fans. I can't stand that. I love meeting fans anywhere else, but at my house, I hate that.
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In particular, it's the ones that pretend like they don't know it's your house. No, no, no, no. The lady. The lady when you came to Utah. The Karen.
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She's my least favorite. She is my least favorites. She is your least favorite. There you go. That was That's my least favorite. There we go.
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She was one of my most favorites. That video did pop. And then we just we just swapped lives recently and that video popped again.
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That was fantastic. It's the video that keeps on giving. And I'm curious what you do for others that can't afford vehicles. What you do for others?
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Rolling. We got to find her. We got to do the sequel someday. We got to find her.
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We should. Okay. Um, switching gears a little bit, we'll start with you, Ron. What car do you feel like right now in this market is undervalued?
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Oh, undervalued. Again, I'm going to go back to like anything analog, manual, naturally aspirated. So, I've I've actually purchased multiple Aston Martin V12s lately because I think they're criminally undervalued. Um, especially when you compare it to some of the cars
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that have risen dramatically in value. Um, so my my business, by the way, I I we forecast car values. And so I have this huge database and we use this algorithm that kind of, you know, watches some of these cars and kind of
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what they're doing. Like the 812 GTS's are all a million bucks now. GT2 RS's are a million bucks now, whatever. Some of them make no sense from a production perspective or really any other perspective. And so some of it feels
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like a bubble, some of it doesn't. Like I you'll never see Carrera GTS back at a million bucks ever again as long as we live. Um, but honestly, I like those cars that are 100 to 200 grand that are
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going to be five and six and 700 grand in a few years. Um, I'd probably say, um, I think the Bugatti Veyron like if like I don't buy car I've always Tommy and I butt heads about this because I don't buy cars for
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investments. Like I can I can I don't I don't want that to be my driving reason at all to buy a car. It's it's what's going to be fun. You will say what's you and I always joke about there's a clout
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element and there's absolutely that is a very strong element to the decision but it has to be really fun to drive and um so the Veyron are very like boring to me and quiet but I think they're criminally
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undervalued. I think they're one.5.6 million and this car broke this uh car broke the top speed record. It's a Bugatti that cost4 something million to produce each and sold for two. Um, so I I think that's a $510 million car in a
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matter of a couple years. And low production numbers, too. What was it? 3 350 3 350 450 450 450. You would know of of Wikipedia here.
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Yeah, that's mine. I have uh to agree with that. I think the Veyron has to be the one car that it the problem with it is that for so many years everybody said it was the most expensive car to
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maintain this, this, and that. It scared everybody from buying them for so long. But now every hypercar costs the same to maintain. Yeah. Care if it take a 750S probably cost as much as a Veyron these days, you know. And so I think that
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people haven't really understood that, you know, the the Veyron doesn't really it just gets passed on all the time, but I think they're going to be pretty good soon. I think they're going to be two, two and a half, three, you know, some of
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the special ones are really expensive, but uh but yeah, I mean everything with a manual gearbox kind of popped up this year and everything without one hasn't.
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You know, I think that a lot of the cars that we look at when we talking analog cars, a lot of them have, like you said, popped up already. At the hyper car, I got two cars in mind. At the hypercar level,
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similar ethos to the Veyron, I think undervalued today is Valkyrie. I think we will in the future look back and say that Valkyrie pushed things so far that a car at MSRP roughly or just under, it's cheap, really cheap. At the
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supercar level, McLaren 675 LTS for three or $400,000. I just bought one last week.
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That'll be a million dollars in a couple of years. Easy. So, 3x, no problem.
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I think in terms of just general drivability and excitement and enjoyability, McLaren builds the best machines on the road in my opinion.
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Just across the whole line of that's just my opinion. The Senna, the 765LT, right Laura?
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Absolutely. There you go. Every time I answer this question, I'm always wrong though. I'll say a car and then that car is worth less in the future without a doubt. And Houston's gonna agree with me. It's the Koig Seagger. That is the coolest car
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ever. It is so much better than so many of the new hypercars. I could not sell mine to save my life. I couldn't get rid of it.
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Sell it to save my life either. No, I know. One guy that wanted it kind of.
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There's like 50 of them in the world, right? All Agaras including RS. They're super low production. It's super raw.
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None of the all these new cars are so computer-driven. They all feel the same.
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Whatever. That car is the best car, but I could not sell it to save my life. And when I look at some of these cars like a 458 Special Aera is worth the same price as an Aggera. Like this car has set the top
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speed world record. Like it's got the sickest doors. Like the coolest story. And I couldn't sell it. So someday that car will be worth a lot. Just not when I owned it.
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Yeah. That's the same with me. Yeah. Not when I owned it. Yeah. I think anything again manual like really like the the Veyron it like from sitting in the Veyron I think that the really cool thing about is there's like
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nothing really digital about there's no screens there's nothing like so it ages like really really well so I think like anything manual V8 naturally aspirated like I think you know the manual Gallardados like I don't know what they're like over here the prices are so
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different to the UK and like we end up like catching up with what the US markets like but see like the manual GA like why is that not silly expensive? I don't think there was like tons and tons
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made and they're they're going to be so fun to drive like a V10 and manual. I feel like they should be going up a lot as well. So yeah, anything anything like that because now you sit in a car, it's
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like a screen to do your volume up and down, a swipe screen to change your fans and like my head just goes as soon as as soon as I've have to touch screens like that. I what's why they why what what's
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wrong with the button? So like yeah I do genuinely think that yeah anything like analog like that it should it should go up. Limited number cars they're always going to go up that people sort of like my age and 10 years on like 30s 40s are
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going to look back at the cars in like the 2000s 2004s. I drove here in a uh Audi RS4 B7 manual V8 and it was so it was so much fun. It's slow as anything.
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It's so much fun. But like that's like it should be like 300 grand. Like it's such a cool car. But like it's not. But eventually it will be. It will be.
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Love it. All right. Speed round now. No explanation, just a name. Most overrated car of all time.
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You guys might hate me, especially Shme, but I think the Ferrari Laaf Ferrari is um Just shut up.
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I do. That's ridiculous. For the price. For the price. Speed. No explanation. That's not a speed.
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Change that right now. Bro, you're the only person on planet Earth that said that.
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It feels like my GTC4 Lusso. The engine sounds just like my naturally aspirated vehicle.
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Are you serious? We're in the same competition. It's 7 or $8 million. It's like the best car ever made.
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You could buy $200,000 GTC for Luso. It's a 12cylinder 458. Yeah. And like that's the best.
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Oh my god. That's my answer. That's my answer. Do you even know how to drive an automatic? God damn it.
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Good question. SP3. I'm getting You're getting kicked out of this world. Nah, I sold that thing at $3 million and now it's worth seven or eight.
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Hey, think about the time just bringing this up. That probably has something to do with it.
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We had a conversation where you agreed to take the Aggera straight trade for the La Ferrari.
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Did we really? And I said, "If you put 200 grand on top Oh. And you were like, "No, I'll trade you straight up." That's one of the biggest mistakes I ever made.
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Wish I would have I wish you would have done that, Steve. You would have saved me a lot of panic and a lot of money.
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My bad. All right, Houston. SVJ. Early Zondas. Carrera GT. Early Zondas. How did he not get on?
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A Z12 is a car. I totally agree with you. Which one did you say?
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Carrera GT. How did he not get on? It's $5 million now. Ah, see it's 5 million.
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That's how I was thinking too. Cost to of course to to experience the LaFerrari is not a consensus.
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That's why is an overvalued car is really overvalued car. The F40 is an overvalued car. They built alleged if you go certain websites it shows 11 or 1200 of them. They lie about their prodalians.
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They lie about production numbers. There's 200 more than they even say that there are.
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A lot of brands do this. I know they do. Everyone. Anyway, Matt, um, personal experience, the Revolto.
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Sorry. We've all upset each other. Nobody likes it though. But every But everybody says that.
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Nobody likes the Rovoto. So, how is it overrated since nobody likes it? I think it's underrated because everybody hates it. But it's an amazing car.
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Yeah. It's too well built. It's too good. But no one's they don't sell. So it can't be overrated cuz no one's bought one.
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But it's really expensive, I guess. Yeah, I'm guess I'm looking at price. Overrated means like like Okay, people G Wagons get good. Tommy's not happy about that.
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Off now. Not happy about that either. I love mine. We have Zonda CGT. What did you say? Oh my gosh, this is such an easy answer. from the Voyager.
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The Koig Segreggera by far. Oh my god. I don't think it's overrated anymore. But but Brad, that's not an overrated car.
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No, those those are it's overrated to everyone. No, to everyone that has not owned a Koix Egg and I have owned a Koix Egg. You go through Monteray and these kids are like, "Oh my gosh, that is God's gift to the car world and a cool
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car." Oh, it drove one hereated. It's the rarest one you'll see on the road. It is the rarest one you'll see because they don't run. They don't freaking work.
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Yes. How is the rating? How is it possible that the answer of this that had the least follow-up was Zonda?
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I know that's what I was saying. He said he said C12. I brought it back, but he didn't say F. That's a 6 L V12.
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That doesn't sound like a a high performance V12. So, you can agree with that, right there. How many C12s are left? One. They've all become chinquis.
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They've all become special edition. This is the most This was the most uh highly debated basically.
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That was supposed to be quick, wasn't it? It was supposed to be rapid fire, but this is a good discussion. This is a good discussion.
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That's my wife's nickname for me. Rapid fire. All right, go ahead. All right, Houston. Um, what do you envision yourself doing after your YouTube career? Is that kind of what I'm doing now? Cuz I think my YouTube career is over.
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Yeah. Um, yeah, maybe maybe you know, I filmed a couple videos, but I haven't posted a video in a year. And, uh, it's actually super peaceful. You guys should all try it. Okay. It is so nice to go to
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a car show and people not talk to you about anything current. No pictures, no autographs, nothing. It's actually quite nice. So, I personally think that uh you know uh retirement is is quite welcome in the YouTube world. Although, I do
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enjoy making videos. It's just uh it's a lot of work. I think after YouTube's difficult. I feel like I don't know a life without YouTube. I've been doing it for so long.
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Kind of almost scared of what happens when the the camera goes down. But in reality, getting involved in various other businesses all connected to the car world and I'm sure it's you could be an automotive journalist.
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You could be an OEM employee kind of thing, you know, some something with a car manufacturer.
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Yeah, you have such a a beautiful track record with all these people. From the experience as well of driving all of these things from everybody, something like that.
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You can be a car like designer or tester, you know. I'm not sure about designer.
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Yeah. People would say, "Have you seen my specs?" It's actually true. I forgot about that.
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True. Dude, I'm just trying to hold on for dear life right now. Holding on. I'm just trying to hold on to YouTube as long as I can. And I'm going to be that YouTuber that has like the big
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subscriber count and no views. And I'm still going to be doing it. Just trying to to reignite my youth.
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Back to the car. Back to homeless in the car. Still, that's what's happening to me.
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There's a whole there's a whole daddy blogger community out there, too, dude. When you guys start cranking out kids, let's just move away from cars. There we go. Maybe it's having a kid and then maintaining because look at Jack's
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Jack's video with you did great. Jack crush. Could I borrow Jack for a while? Yes. Yes.
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Dude, Jack's a superstar in the making. I like uh I just I like being creative.
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I like fixing things. I think YouTube's really hard to sort of move from. So, I I think I would like I like to kind of stay in that sort of like film creative space, but I think I will sort of branch
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off into different things other than cars because I think once you've worked on one car, they're really similar throughout all of them. Um, and we're already starting to look at like boats and um also like planes and things like
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that. I love to learn like almost like start all over again like what we did with cars. a boat, a plane, a helicopter, and just throw it in at the deep end and just start um tinkering with that. And I think that's where I
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would probably venture off. Lifelong tinkerer. Yeah. Yeah. We will see. We'll see. He's a pilot.
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When someone's a pilot, they tell you. Notice how I said I went to flight. Did I say I said I was a pilot? I just wanted to make sure.
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Yeah. Then I went and got my pilot's license, got lean certified, and started a YouTube channel. You got your pilot's license to learn how to drive a supercar?
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Yeah, you have to have one. Yeah, that's legally. Legally. I think what what's interesting about this conversation that we're having right now is if YouTube made one tweak to like, you know, how you monetize videos and it and it dropped
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everybody's, you know, earnings dramatically, which they could do tomorrow. Um, how many people would still do this, you know? And so I have never made money on YouTube. It always cost me money track rentals, shipping my cars all over the place, like whatever.
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We literally do it for fun. And so I I'm not sure at what point I I stop when it becomes not fun. That's when I stop.
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But what do you do after? Oh, bro. I retired at 40. I don't know.
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I'm already there doing nothing. I still Yeah. Yeah. I'm living my best life right now. So, okay. Um I think for me, uh you're right. YouTube can change something on a dime. Like we're every every 3 to six
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months we have to have a come to God meeting and like how do we like like I mentioned how we started doing storytelling. you have to constantly shift and adapt to the way that you tell your story uh to be relevant on YouTube.
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But when that when that goes away, like my dream is still to retire. It's to go buy a house on the ocean and go live near Disney World and just go to the Disney parks and there's no ocean next to Disney World,
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but it's close. Hour and hour 80 miles, dude. I I'll hour and a half from either coast.
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You're going to drive 80 miles to Disney World every day? Yes. He's a pilot. I'm going to fly.
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I'll fly. It'll be It'll save me 7 minutes. There you go. Actually, it'll probably take more time, but yes, just retire and then sail off into the sunset and do nothing.
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There's a lake next to Disney World. Just live on the lake. There's a lot of I already I already got the house on the lake, though.
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So, you don't need another house. Uh, maybe not. Maybe not. All right. Um, Shmei, what is the worst financial car related financial position that you've ever found yourself in?
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Worst cash crunch and how did you find your way out of it? I think that's probably an easier answer for some of us than for others.
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I have many times many more. Um, for me, I got to go back to my earlier days. I I had this idea that buying a supercar and making videos of a supercar was going to create lots of interest and eyeballs. And at the very
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beginning of 2014, I bought a McLaren MP412C. And when I say bought, I obviously financed it to the hilt. And at that time, my finance payments were everything that was coming in. So that was very much counting the numbers and
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making sure it would get through to the next month. But luckily it kind of worked out and paid off and kept going.
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So I can't complain now. But at the time it was stressful. Fair. Yeah. My entire career. I mean Con said yeah when I got the Gallardo when I was living in my Audi my fuel pump went out.
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I didn't have enough money to fix it. I mean the list is it's never going to change.
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Yeah. It's the list goes on and on and on and on. But I love cars so much that that's why I work. That's why I want to make money. So, I think I'm always gonna be living on the edge and always
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extending myself to get the cars that I've always dreamed of because if I if I didn't love cars, I just be a hike. I just hike. I live in a van and hike.
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How do you find your way out of it though? Like, I mean, I know you've been in film YouTube videos.
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YouTube videos. Yeah. No, just continuing to Yeah. Yeah. Making sacrifices obviously. Um, filming, filming has been kind of the driving force for sure that's gotten me out of the situation. Selling a car too, like the Conings Eggg, I tried to hold on to
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that car for as long as I possibly could. Then when I decided to sell it, I couldn't find a buyer forever and I still was just grasping selling other cars, holding on, holding on, holding on, and then finally sold it and life's
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been good since. Um, just a particular car, um, the Revolto It was just a particular car. I bought it. Um, think it'd be an easy repair. It cost me like £235,000.
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Um, rebuilt it. Ended up not enjoying it as much as I wanted to enjoy it. I I was in about £480,000 and ended up selling it for 235 what I bought it for. Um but again the the recovery comes in the YouTube videos and
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then also learning from then on I just buy everything I buy is through gut feeling whether I like it not because of oh this is I think this is going to do well. I think people are going to like
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this like I need to just stop caring what other people think and just go with what I what I want. But yeah just that particular moment that that scarred me. Uh the very first week of my marriage, uh the power was shut
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off at the home that I owned. And my wife comes to the office and she's like, "Dude, do you know how long you have to not pay your power bill in order for your power to be shut off?" And the
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answer is four months. So the reason I know this is because I walked into the local BMW store and they approved me on the spot for a BMW M3 ZCP. So a interlogos blue manual transmission. I was making $36,000 a year gross. So
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that's gross. And my payment was like 900 bucks a month. And they approved me.
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That's BMW Financial Services. When I say every cent basically went to that car, like Shmei was saying, that is full truth. Like I had rent and a car payment and I could barely eat. But I was so happy. Like so happy until my
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wife, my newlywed, showed up at my uh door and said, "Will you please make an electrical bill payment?" Hate to sound like a broken record, too, but the Koig Regger was the worst car I've ever bought in my life.
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Everybody told you that. Everybody told you. Everybody warned you. Everybody told you. Every single person.
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Everyone's raising their hand right now. You deserve what happened to you. Here's what happened. I'm likeve it.
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I'm like, I've owned X and X and X. I'm like, it can't be I can deal with it being in the shop, but like I can't deal with it being in the shop 22 out of 24 months costing me hundreds of thousands
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of dollars in repairs, starting a global feud, and then losing me $500,000 from the initial sale price when I had to trade it in. So, everybody told you that.
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Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I'll listen next time. Uh my worst uh financial mistake in a car was it's it's like a it's like a long combination of cars. It started out as a twin turbo Gallardo and then it became a
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twin turbo STTO and then it became something else, a manual STTO and then it became a even Craig Fire thing and I've got this twin turbo project. It's probably $2 million into it and I've never driven this thing
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and I still to this day I'm working on it. It it just never stops. I've blown like 15 engines in this car and uh it's just a never- ending project. So, I will never financially recover from this because I literally will have to sell my
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house to pay myself back. And uh it's not the end is never in sight. So, it'll be like that. And James has seen it for like I every time I'm like, "Oh, how's it coming? How's it coming? Has it
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changed?" I didn't even know you had that. Houston, that's crazy. That's never been on the road.
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It's never I've never driven the car. Had the car for like seven years. Never driven.
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Custom interior. Yeah. I actually purple interior. It's wonderful. It's a great color. Looks great with you a long time ago.
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Oh, goodness me. That isn't going well. Yeah, it's not going well. That's a That's a rough journey. That's a very very rough journey. Um, we'll do this one kind of quick as well. Obvious there's so much knowledge here, so much
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experience. So, quickly, what is one piece? What's the piece of advice that you would give to an aspiring YouTuber?
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Consistency. That's everybody's word's going to say. How do you pick a different one then? um be like authentic to yourself and then like yeah like set goals and just stick to those goals and learn from every everything that you put up is like a
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learning point from that. Like six months of videos is a massive learning point for the next six months of videos.
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So yeah, learn from what you've already done. Yeah, these guys are spot on. I would just say nail it then scale it. like get your concept down like Matt has, like Stradman has, like all of these guys have and then scale it from there. Like
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you don't have to keep trying 8,000 different things. Once you find something that works, iterate on that.
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Mine is find a find a really good unique idea that not someone else is already doing or do an extremer version of something that someone else is like you really have to be unique and different and almost extreme now to be successful
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and then tell a good story around it. like you have to be an exceptional good storyteller and I think that's I think those are the most of course consistency but I think those are some of the most important things
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I think mine's just like believing in yourself right like it's very difficult to make videos and read the comments because 50% of the comments are negative and 50% are good 50% of your comments are no mine are like 80% negative my ratio I have a huge
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negative ratio it's hard it's hard the negative comments it is it's like crazy like there's there's things that you do on YouTube that are very well-liked and then there's things that are not liked at all. And if you kind of like deter and
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and kind of give the audience what they want, I think it backfires on you, right? Because then you're not authentic and it just it becomes you go like a downward spiral, right? And so my my opinion is authenticity, consistency,
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but you just have to stay believing in yourself through all the noise. Yeah, I was going to say exactly that, but I will say that you have to have faith in what you're doing. There are good months and bad months, whether it's
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YouTube or any other social media, even on the bad months, you're tempted to put the camera down and it's don't do that.
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Keep going. Keep going. That's great. No, that's great advice. Good perspective, Jim. It is good perspective. Um, it's not unlike the comments I get. Half negative.
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It's not people are cruel. Yeah. Um, Matt, do you feel like the current hyper and supercar market is a bit of a bubble right now?
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It's gone massive. like it's literally bl I don't know but it has blown up massively and I think a lot of it especially in the UK we were just talking about it here is there's a lot of tax benefits if by
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having a car in your personal name making money off it selling it and the tax benefit of that is much better for example than if I bought a house renovated it and sold it, I'd be taxed out of my mind. So now a lot of people
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are making money on cars and we do think that a lot of that um a lot of that is to do with tax. A lot of this bubble is is coming up because of that. Like I think as soon as like governments start
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putting things on like okay you're making money through cars, you're making this hundreds of thousands of pounds through cars in your personal name and then all of a sudden it becomes massively taxed. Then all of a sudden the hypercars, the supercars, they come
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down in value. All these people that are earning from them, they would come down in value. So it could be a bubble until the government stops something. I don't know the laws around here with like what that's like if the cars are in your
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personal name and whether you sell them and what you pay tax on them if you do make money on them. But I think it's less beneficial here. It's it's more beneficial to do real estate and Oh, really?
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Yeah. It's almost an invert of what you're talking about. Yeah. So now we're just different over there. buy and sell a house, then you basically can make no money unless it's in your personal name.
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It's a residential house. And it's the same with cars in the UK. If you've got it in your personal name, then like it's your own personal car, as far as I know, which you you you don't have to pay like
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crazy tax on profits and everything like that. Whereas, if it's a business car, if it's in your business name, if I make profit on a car, I've got to pay tax on that car. But, um, obviously personal cars is different. But, yeah, I I do
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think a lot of people are finding loopholes with that. and whether that will change if someone all of a sudden puts a tax on it. It it could change a lot of things.
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Look, I I heard the word bubble when the Carrera GT crested the million-doll mark. I heard it when it got to 2 million. Now it's at three. Now it's a four. Now it's at whatever. Those cars are not coming down in value. They will
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not ever sell for what they once sold for once upon a time. And if you look at us and specifically the United States from a macro perspective, interest rates suck still. So, if you want to get a good return on your money, you're not
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buying apartment complexes. You're not buying like some of that stuff. They have to find places to put their money.
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And this is a large and growing asset class with really exclusive cars that are limited in nature that will never be produced again. And so, yeah, the RevoTO has come out and I actually think the Revoto coming out raised the price of my
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Mercielagos like and my Aventador SV and stuff like that. And so, yeah, I know everybody wants it to be a bubble. Maybe there are some models that are within the bubble kind of range, like some of these kind of mass-produced cars that
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you can just still go buy, you know, at Sticker. And I don't know why they're selling for over Sticker or at these auctions, they're going nuts because you can just go find them. But, but largely speaking, I think this is an asset class
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that was underserved by very wealthy people. There are people in this country that have spent billions. I actually know people that have billions worth of cars that will make billions on that car collection. And so there, you know,
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these are very smart people that are trying to allocate their money in a variety of different ways. I think that's true for some cars in my opinion.
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Um I think the Courage GT is old and timeless. It's 20 years old now, right?
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But I still think there's some insanely like the LaFerrari again. It's a 2015, they built over a thousand of them. How are those commanding $6 to7 million? Um I I I think it's I think there's a lot of these that the SVJ that someone
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brought up earlier like they built didn't they build like 1,200 of those? Yeah, 900 and something.
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That's what they say, right? But um and those are one those are well over a million dollars at this point. And one sold on Bring a Chella today for a million five and it it doesn't seem sustainable to
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me. Um I think that Can you can you can I interrupt you? Can Where do you think the SVG sells for 3 years from now? Like how much do you think it's selling for?
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I don't know. I I don't Is there a prediction? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, surely they've got to make a better car than that.
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Yes. For that to like devalue maybe, but like do you think the law Ferrari is going to come down in value from where it is right now?
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I think it has to. When when there's when if there's not a limited supply, there's people right it's supply and demand.
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When something gets to such a high price, people will tend to sell them. When people tend to sell them, there's more supply. More supply drives down the value, right? And so, so it's it's just like the housing market crashed.
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Um, and if if we have a a single recession or something that actually impacts the top 1% of earners, um, that's when you see significant less spending on it just feels I bet if you line charted, and you guys might even do
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this, I bet if you charted, you know, average average car value, overtime, average income, like it it I think it's so freaking disproportionate right now on hyper and supercar valuations. I think it's done this while the rest of
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people are doing this. And I just some cars will hold it. Um but some of them just seem insane to me.
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I think I think if the car market follows a similar path to the real estate bubble of 2008 2009 at its worst I think the housing market dropped like 35%. Right. So on a $2 million SVJ that's $700,000. So an SVJ would go from
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2 to 1.35. Just a year ago they weren't even selling for 1.35. So I think they've hit different thresholds that they just will not be coming off of. As a lender, would you stack your entire portfolio with just these highv value
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car? Would you hedge all your would you I require Let me tell you what I'm doing. I actually require roughly 30% down on everything because I don't think the car market sees a pullback greater than 30%.
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30% is pretty huge though. It's It's massive, right? It's massive. That's how I'm hedging.
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Got it. Yeah. All right. All right. So So you think it'll like I don't think the SVJ's 15. I think it I think it falls to a million or below. I don't know.
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So I have a little bit different perspective about how the bubble could pop right and so it will pop it seems okay for for instance you have Lamborghini, McLaren, Ferrari, all these companies are losing money now to their
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old cars. The demand is shifting from new to old. So they're going to want the demand back. Lamborghini can't produce a RALTO and sell 10 15% of what they expected to, right? And if the market's driving to Mercielago to Aventador and
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they see the value of these cars go up. It happened with the G Wagon. G Wagons were always 50 over sticker and the dealer was making the money. And Mercedes one day was like, "Hey, we want to make the money. Let's raise
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the price 50,000." Right? It's like Lamborghini and Ferrari have to fix McLaren. They have to fix the future and they're going to bring back these cars with manuals and all the demand that we have and that will devalue all the older
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cars because the new stuff will be better as long as they get the people.
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But it's all hybrid stuff. It's all electric. But Hennessy's Hennessy's Blackbird naturally aspirated non-hybrid. But that car right there will be in demand. They're guarant I guarantee they sold them all already.
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the market's already getting there where it's it's recognizing that people are sick of electric hybrid vehicles and it's so when the new cars come out and they're equally as cool and emotional as the old cars, the old cars come way back
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down. But what about like all the fuel economy requirements and all that other stuff?
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You know what I mean? Like like the government has actually regulated us to the point where they have to produce crap like the revolto, you know?
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I actually like I actually like the rivalto. I'm taking that world. I'm just going to leave.
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I mean this is your thumbnail right here. Oh man. I've had three Rubs actually like the government has to play ball, right, with combustion engines or these companies will close.
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Nobody can develop a billion dollar car and sell 15 to 20% of it. And do you think the government cares? I mean, I think the Trump administration's moving in the other direction on emissions and other stuff. And do you
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think the government cares as much if 80% of cars are EV on the road? I mean, I don't know if they're as strict with pollutive cars if there's way less on the road.
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There just has to be a balance, right? Like Ford makes what? A couple hundred thousand cars a month, right? If you put 200,000 cars a month and they're clean emissions and the manufacturers like, you know, the supercar guys make a,000
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cars a year or even less. I mean, they're probably making 500 cars a year.
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They get exemptions to become experiences, not transportation. Like there has to be a cutout. Otherwise, the companies they'll they'll they'll go away.
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You know, I'm busting to get involved in this. I know. I saw you guys because I think I've got a very close relationship with a lot of manufacturers. to understand a lot of this world. Firstly, I don't think it's a bubble. I think it's a
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reset. I think the reason it's a reset is the fear of the future. The fear of the future is heavily dictated by political stuff. Obviously, the US is a huge country for high-end cars, but it is only 20 to 30% of high-end cars. You
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know, there's still a a lot of the rest of the world. Obviously, European companies, even your Ferraris, your Lamborghinis, whatever, because of the number of cars they build, have incredibly strict regs. They have to do hybrid. They have to be very quiet. A
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lot of people don't yet realize that cars post July 2026 have to have a quieter driveby sound than the noise of the tires. So if you produce over 100 cars a year, which basically makes it okay for your Paganis, your Kernigs,
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your think that Lamborghini and Ferrari go to a 100 car a year model. I've wondered what would happen if Ferrari only make 100 cars a year and sell them for $20 million each.
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Yeah, I mean obviously it's not that simple, but it might somehow have to spawn off new brands. Do they have to go down a new path? But I think that what we're going to see, what you were talking about the
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future, I think we're about to have a massive period of American brands dominating because you guys don't have the same rules here that we have in Europe.
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Speaking of American hypercars, next video we're taking delivery of the new Corvette ZR1X and it's setting a higher bar for performance. Make sure you're subscribed because after that, we're lining up the American hypercar trinity for a/4 mile drag race. My newly
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delivered SSCara, my Hennessy Venom F5, and the Singer 21C. Whoever wins will go head-to-head against the ZR1X. Also, all profits that my wife and I make from this channel are donated to charity. So, by watching, liking, sharing, subscribing, and buying merch, you are
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making a difference. Thank you. Your Chevys, your Fords can do stuff and Lamborghini start producing cars in America because of these regulations.
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BMW is already here. Rolls-Royce is here. Who who knows, right? I mean, it could easily trickle over, but none of us are the Italians aren't going to come here.
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But the Italians aren't in control. The shareholders are now. H I just don't see it.
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I'm just saying, you know, just saying by the ne by the way, the next administration might roll back all the tariffs anyway.
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Tariffs are I mean, the only way to solve the tariffs is to build the cars here right?
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So that's why Rolls-Royce is coming, you know. I mean, yeah, they're being all built in South Carolina, right? I mean, no one wants a Rolls-Royce anyways, and now you got to tear out.
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That was a regret. That was one of my regrets. Every one of us when we were teenagers getting into cars, new supercar came out, you were blown away by it. Who's blown away by every new supercar that comes out today?
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Fear of the future. That's why the values have gone up and that's where they'll stay until our generation gets to 70s.
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But it's not affordable. Like like your average your average person that has like it's but you're not you're not selling these very few limited cars to the average person.
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If you talk about how many collectible cars there are, there's like the average rich person.
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I know how many of them possible anymore, you know, like Well, 10 years ago, the average hyper car only had one.
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Yes. Yeah. Well, take take it guys. Alex G had one Bugatti. That might have been all I don't know if that's all he could afford within his means. I don't know his finances, but a lot on him. A lot of these guys, a lot of
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people like that's that's what they can afford and they can't go get three or four hypercars. If the hypercars are now $9 million, you cut out that entire subset of people that wanted.
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So, there is going to be a new category cuz most of the brands we're talking about have cars that will be $10 million.
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Billionaire category. Absolutely. So a couple of years ago they were a million dollars. The Ferrari was about a million dollars new 10 years ago. Right.
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Even the turbion's four four and a half to five. But get ready for the next generation will be eight figure cars. All of them.
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Yeah, I believe that. Okay, James. All I know is I'm cooked. That's it. That's I mean I got nothing. I mean clearly the cars in my collection are garbage.
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You made a few good punches. I don't think I have. I think I think that hybrids get I think the internet has changed everyone's perception and everybody has the same opinion now and everybody's afraid of putting a different opinion out there because they
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all want to sound super smart. So, we've all gone down this path of the same opinion and this whole like, oh, Ralto hybrids are crap. Yet, La Ferrari, you guys are losing your mind. That's a hybrid.
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The 918 is a favorite car. You've had 918. So, this whole the hybrid thing is what we want is more faster cars and you get faster cars that way. So, it all stems from reliability. It's all reliability issue.
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I just did 3,000 miles on my I agree. And I think the Revolt is a cool ass car. Nobody else drove their car here but me. Everyone else shipped theirs.
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Okay. 8 days old, 3,000. You're right. You're right. Brand new car in an American car.
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Which is awesome, by the way. Yeah. I don't even I don't even know that it's a question, but um I just I had a note uh in there just to have everyone go around and say specifically what they love about Steve Hamilton.
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Oh, stop. I'm just kidding. That was We didn't have a last question. Can I start?
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Yeah. Okay. What I love about Steve Hamilton, okay, I love him even more now that he's so skinny, you know what I mean? But like, um, I have known Steve for a couple years now, and the thing that has stuck
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out about Steve Hamilton to me is your love of community. Like legitimately, you don't I mean, like, you subsidize all of the social media that you do and you take all of the profits from that and you donate it to worthy causes and I
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freaking love that about you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Are you doing what you love about yourself?
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I didn't add this. I don't even know. I just made this up. I just wanted to have a nice moment.
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Oh, stop. It's It's all cut. It's crazy. I I went uh to Steve's uh vow renewal with my wife and I was so blown away by Steve's like it is it's like you can't put words to it how much he cares about his family,
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especially his wife. And it's like he's my role model for marriage. I've been with my wife for like 17 years and like you're like crushing life with your family. And so I love that about Steve the most because it's my uh absolute
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dream to be like him. Rob Sanford's cr you're cringing over there. I can see the cringe face.
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Thing I love about Steve is like Ron said, the supporting of the community, donating and supporting many different good causes.
Speaker A
Sure. Which is something that I think is really tremendous to do and not necessarily understood by everybody as well with what you guys do behind the scenes. events being so welcoming also to all of us when we're around you and
Speaker A
the different things we've been lucky to do. So, thank you for that. We like the Hamilton collection to be the the great connector of of personalities and influencers. And I think uh it's amazing to have all of you
Speaker A
here. I really do think so. I couldn't agree more. I mean, I respect you as a father so much.
Speaker A
Oh, thank you. You travel, you always bring your kids. You bring all your kids friends. Like, I can tell the most important thing to you by far unequivocably is your wife and your kids. And when I was filming, you
Speaker A
know, a couple weeks ago with Jack, he was so polite. He was so helpful. He was thanking me for this and this and this.
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I'm like, "This kid is just salt of the earth." And I know that that comes from his father.
Speaker A
Yes. Yes. Thank you. I met Steve today. Me, too. But but don't worry. Well, I will say we were our minds were blown like, "Okay, so we pulled in and it's like completely pitched back. We is telling me on WhatsApp where to go. We
Speaker A
pulled in, we've seen all these crazy cars. We've gone into the guest house and we're like, I've never met this guy and he set us up in this guest house and then we're like, "Okay, what what the hell is going on here?" The next
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morning, we wake up and he's already passing me his keys to the Conan's Egg to drive around. He's never met me and I've just pulled up there and with my my dad and my camera guys and he's let us
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drive that up the mountain pass. We got out and he's like, "Oh, do you want to go in the Hennessy?" We we we're in there. Like, why is he giving me the keys to these cars? Then we notices
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everybody else is driving all the different cars. Like what he just doesn't seem to care like he enjoys other people having fun. And I that's what I found so cool. Like I think we're going to do a lot more together after
Speaker A
just meeting him for one day. I found that crazy cuz I my head would be blowing if I was giving my cars around to all different people driving up a mountain pass. Uh my mind would be blown. So yeah, it it's been a good
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experience definitely so far. So yeah, I I'll have to back everyone what everyone said that is true.
Speaker A
It's a good way to end the video. Thank you all. Thank you all for being here. You guys are amazing humans. And thank you guys all for watching. Thank you so much. All right, that's good.
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