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00:00:00 ◼   ► big week huge week we didn't record it [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► was before we got her it was a huge week [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► for most of the neutral hosts for the [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► majority oh man at and we went on a [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► vacation together and did not kill each [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► other [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► no this is good this was this is for [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► both you and TIFF and I was our first [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► couples vacation not only with each [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► other but in general and I i think we [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► survived and I know Aaron and I had [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► really gosh darn good time and that and [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► so I hope hope with the same can be said [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► for you guys although I think we're [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► about to find out the same can be said [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► for you regardless of whether or not we [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► were total turds [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► so well in fact my wife as it has [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► suggested that she misses you guys [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► during breakfast every morning now see [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► same thing you know we at least like you [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► during breakfast now that was it though [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► that was that was the only part every [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► other time totally sucked i feel like i [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► should have come just to show you what [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► it would be like traveling with someone [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► who does not make your time more fun [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► you'll get a bad impression of you know [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► like what it's like to all this is great [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► couples vacations be going this all the [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► time and you would have been in the [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► middle seat which would have been even [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► more funny because you wouldn't [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► interpret that i would say for i lifted [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► a tweet about this but it would have [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► been so much more for me I can't be in I [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► get motion sick very easily i can't be [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► in a car while you're racing around like [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► a maniac and well both of our lives both [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► of our wives claim the same problem and [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► yet it was a problem for neither of them [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► when they were in the room where they [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► were in the back seat belt if said that [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► she was almost puked tweeting something [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► once from the Nurburgring that's what [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► I'm saying halloween everything ahead of [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► ourselves that we get ahead of ourselves [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► alright vomit ruins everything [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► title I i tend to a groupie [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► instead you've got a kid now you know [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► then [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► well okay so we should probably explain [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► what what the heck we did and I don't [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► know if we if we adequately preface this [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► in previous episodes but we did we did [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► previously talked about how I had chosen [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► for my next car after much deliberation [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► chosen to go all out and be totally [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► ridiculous and get my dream car [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► the m5 and one of the reasons i was able [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► to do this is because of bmw's european [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► delivery discount and what most people I [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► i wish i had known about this so so [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► there's two things that you can do to [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► save money on a new BMW besides just [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► good negotiation which you should also [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► be doing one of them which i still [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► couldn't take advantage of is if you [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► join the BMW car club of america it what [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► Casey what is it costs like the 30 40 [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► bucks it was 48 I think something like [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► that it was between 1450 so they have a [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► rebate program through BMW and like BMW [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► supports this car club of fans It's in a [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► few little endorsement in different ways [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► if you are a member of this thing for at [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► least a year before you take delivery of [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► a new BMW the police or to buy they will [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► give you a credit and in the amount of [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► the credit depends on which model you [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► buy but like a 3-series credits $500 [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► 5-series I think it's a thousand dollars [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► so if you plan to buy a BMW at least one [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► year from now you should really go join [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► the BMW CCA you'll get a cool magazine [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► every month etc so and then because you [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► know you paid forty bucks and then you [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► say like five hundred dollars when you [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► buy the car so that's one way to save [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► the other way to save is if you do [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► european delivery on the higher-priced [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► models you end up it ends up being such [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► a savings that actually can pay for the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► trip and and so and and you know even if [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► not you still get a very heavily [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► discounted vacation out of it so [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► basically european delivery shaves off [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► about seven percent off the cost of the [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► car if you negotiated equally with how [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► you would have negotiated a regular [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► purchase so you can go online you can [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► find what the invoice prices are [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► throughout the NW forms and everything [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► you can find european delivery invoice [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► prices regular voice prices and you can [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► see the difference is usually about 7% [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► and and a common myth is that this is [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► because when the car is imported then [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► it's used and instead of new and then [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► the tariffs different from what I've [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► around various wiki's that is actually a [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► myth and the actual difference in tariff [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► is negligible and that it's mainly [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► cheaper because you're bypassing a lot [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► of the dealer network anyway so european [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► delivery is basically you fly over to [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► the main factory / office / showroom [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► world thing in munich germany and you [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► pick up your car in Munich you drive it [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► to any of a number of different ports or [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► you can drive it right back into munich [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► or just leave it there and and then they [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► put on a boat for you and ship it back [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► to the US and then you get your car like [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► you know month and a half two months [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► later so by doing that I saved seven [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► percent which is and so I got a really [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► great deal on this so i decided let's go [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► all out and get the ridiculous m5 and so [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► I was joking with casey about bringing [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► him and his wife along on this trip [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► probably for what two years something [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► like that well we actually did it and it [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► turned out great as you said we didn't [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► kill each other in fact we still like [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► each other quite a lot as far as i know [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► and you [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► yeah it was awesome so this this episode [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► of neutral which we've we've declared to [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► be the final episode at least for now [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► possibly ever we don't know yet you know [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► maybe there might be a season to someday [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► but you know probably not no no there's [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► no guarantees of that as I fair to say i [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► think that's fair John yep so this might [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► be the final episode at least the final [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► one for a while and we decided this [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► would be a great ender 22 basically [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► recap this trip and and what it's like [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► to take a european delivery vacation and [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► and how the m5 is in various situations [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► and and just what this was like and [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► casey and i both profusely apologized to [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► John in advance for how wonderful this [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► is going to be for him it's a time I [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► don't like to travel though so it's I [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► every time you talk about travel I just [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► think about how miserable I would be [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► doing it but it would be so great to be [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► there listening to you be miserable now [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► you have you think that now [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► but saying no I like the car though I [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► count for something oh you don't even [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► know John no didn't even know I'd like [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► the color though black yeah what you've [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► gotten is an attractive car I wouldn't [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► affect black for it but you picked white [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► I'd like kind of like that blue yeah [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► yeah like that the one is another press [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► shots that ya later tonight i don't i [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► don't mind that I don't know if I would [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► get in that color but i like that i [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► think this is a very attractive car [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► there's no reason to hide so having [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► having seen having seen most of the [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► colors available in person at some point [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► for various things I i think the blue [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► and the orange that comes in are [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► actually tied for my favorite that arms [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► are really well it yeah I like the black [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► better than that it the orange looks [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► really nice in person because it looks [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► almost read and and so it's just a [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► little bit towards orange you know from [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► red and it's actually it again in person [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► it's a very very nice color i would say [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► it's just as good as that blue and if I [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► were more of a showy flashy person I [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► would have gotten one of those colors [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► but i'm not and so I got it in black and [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► i happen to like black a lot you know [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► iíve mentioned in the past how I don't [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► think I could ever really drive around [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► like a Porsche or Lamborghini or [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► anything crazy like that you know even [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► if money were no object just because i [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► don't i don't want to be that [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► conspicuous I don't think they'll let [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► you buy it if you say porsche to so haha [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► sorry everyone can please email john the [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► proper pronunciation of that so you know [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► I I don't like big flashy cars i like [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► nice cars that happen to be really fast [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► but you know to to the casual observer [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► it looks like every other nice car like [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► not not like a crazy sports car the [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► casual observer is going to notice those [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► wheels that's all I'm saying maybe well [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► you know a lot of cars now getting [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► bigger sport your wheels even even [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► pretty far down market so you know i [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► don't i don't know i think it's [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► definitely still stand out I hadn't [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► noticed the wheels that much until you [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► started posting pictures of yours and my [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► co well now now I'll know if I cm3 be [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► there in five because those jump out at [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► well you know it's even what's even [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► crazier so it is still quite wintry over [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► in Germany and and because they require [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► snow tires in certain conditions through [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► april fifteenth [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► we had to vent snow tires for this and [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► there's a great program that BMW [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► officially authorizes and works with run [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► by like one guy who just happens to love [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► doing this stuff and from what I gather [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► he doesn't really make much money on it [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► but he just he does snow tire rental for [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► European deliveries for cars that don't [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► come with all-season tires so which is [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► all take all the end models and some of [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► them support packages on regular cars so [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► anyway so what you saw is actually the [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► snow tires and those who are only I [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► believe 19-inch rims [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► that's right and and the ones i'm the [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► the regular summer tires our twenties [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► and so the regular ones will be and [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► there are similar design but but 2719 so [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► they're even more outrageous even bigger [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► even even more obvious and supported to [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► everyone except past Marco as i [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► mentioned in in previous shows i would [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► never noticed wheels before about six [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► months ago and the funny thing is when [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► there was a time where we needed to know [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► how fast we could go on the snow tires [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► and we'll get to that in a minute [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► and so I looked at the snow tires and [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► they were freaking Pirellis they were [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► pirelli snow tires and at that to me two [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► strikes me saying they're 19-inch [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► pirelli snow tires that that's absurd in [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► every possible way [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► why is that a curiosity because I'm I'm [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► not enough of a tired to know why don't [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► worry I'm not a big-tire nerd but [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► probably is generally speaking are not [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► cheap tires and and so here it is that [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► you're not getting some like falken snow [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► tire or something like that you know [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► some crap brand its Pirellis noted John [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► doesn't uh doesn't for use Pirellis [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► water making that up but the competition [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► among tire manufacturers to get like the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► you know the prestige appointments I i [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► get the impression that each round for [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► each new car each sort of prestige [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► carmaker they just sick the tire makers [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► against each other and so I'm always [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► surprised when you know like something [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► like Goodyear ends up on like some [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► supercar it's like they they just beat [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► everybody out for whatever they're [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► willing to do but but yet pirelli has [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► been heavily featured in Italian [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► performance cars and many performance [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► cars for many years like it's got a [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► reputation as a performance brand you [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► think you're saying do you say Italian [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► I did not you sure I'm pretty darn sure [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► alright sorry continue I think you did [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► i'm going to playback Italian [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► performance cars and italian performance [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► cars at a time a time I i mean if i did [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► it was my mouth betraying me anyway yeah [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► so they have a reputation for making [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► performance tires and so when you think [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► about are gonna put on the winter tires [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► you think you're going to get a brand [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► that does not have that receptor [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► reputation of examine that makes all [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► season tires are just like every man [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► tires and like really what's the point [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► of paralysis whole thing is a [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► high-performance high-speed great grip [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► it's like won't be in the winter I don't [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► want to really be going that fast and i [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► want that i want two different [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► performance characteristics in terms of [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► gripping onto snow and yeah i dunno they [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► do make winter tires because [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► occasionally I see them advertised or [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► mentioned in car magazines and they're [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► not cheap i mean for reference [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► I i have here what BMW charges for the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► the rim entire sets and this is for for [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► both for all four wheels a room entire [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► set for this is nice big 19 inch rim and [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► they're probably w 240 so 20 s tues [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► total price is like 3200 those are [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► staggered right so the rears are bigger [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► than the front so I didn't even look [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► calm I no actually I don't [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► I don't believe so many so check you [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► know know that there they are square [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► normally the in on summer tires the car [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► is staggered the readers of a wider but [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► the the winter tires r square anyway so [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► I i forgot we were even more in the [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► store anyway we were in Germany driving [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► fast so anyway the thing that that's [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► cracks me up about this trip is that so [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► Aaron and I drove from Richmond Virginia [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► up to marketing tips house because we [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► wanted to make sure that we're all going [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► to be on the same transatlantic flight [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► so if somebody gets doomed we're all [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► doomed and we were going to fly up to [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► JFK and just meet you guys in the [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► airport but as it turns out it was about [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► the same money for the two of us to go [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► to JFK by plane as it was for one of us [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► to go to Munich biplane and so we were [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► like you know that the heck with it will [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► just drive up [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► well we arrived there in in I pack [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► terribly and aaron is a lady so by [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► definition she tends to pack a lot and I [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► apparently milady as well email Marco so [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► anyway so mark when I look at all of our [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► luggage and realize this could be an [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► issue and so what do to nerds do when [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► they are posed with this sort of problem [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► and they don't want to get some munich [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► and realize oh crap we can't fit all the [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► John wait John what would you have done [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► this situation that's a good question [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► thank you you might have too much [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► luggage and you don't really know how [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► much the car will hold when you get [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► there what do you do I would have [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► thought of this before packing i don't [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► think i would be in a situation where I [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► had completed packing and then started [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► looking at this stuff and five hey wait [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► a second we have to fit all this in the [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► car and i would plan ahead i can still [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► light [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► Aaron and I kind of did that picky but [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► carry on market with what you and I [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► concluded [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► well we were you know for adults with [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► four large square suitcases and we know [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► the cars don't have infinite space and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► that would have been fairly [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► uncomfortable for whoever was sitting in [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► the back seat at the time which turned [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► out to be a senior most of the time or [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► almost all the time actually sorry but [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► we would do wouldn't feel uncomfortable [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► be sitting with somebody's giant [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► rectangular suitcase in the back seat [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► with you so we decided well we know that [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► the car and picking up is a 5-series [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► let's just go to a dealer with all of [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► our luggage and put it in the trunk of a [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► 5-series and see if it's i would not [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► have done that we did when he certainly [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► did and the worst part is this is this [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► is kind of to build on what you were [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► saying John is that Aaron and I packed [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► one suitcase each but they were [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► reasonably large I don't remember a [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► number off the top of my head but we [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► knew enough to realize this could end up [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► badly and so what we ended up doing was [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► putting in the back of our car to [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► smaller suitcases so if if desperation [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► came we could swap the two small guys [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► for one big guy [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► thus leaving us with one large suitcase [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► and two smaller suitcases instead of two [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► large suitcases and she was not adjusted [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► duffel bags that's what i would suggest [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► it because they're squishing you can [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► fill more of the trunk volume I did [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► suggest that however you know at tate [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► like packing a duffel bag it's like who [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► who's gonna be the one to pack a duffel [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► bag you know nobody wanted [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► you can get like duffel bags that have [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► like a kind of a stiffer bottom where [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► your clothes won't be entirely it's not [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► like you're just taking us not like a [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► laundry bag we just jam your clothes in [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► there can be done that I would have [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► required somebody buying a whole new [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► luggage just for the joy that you don't [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► have either one of you guys have I have [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► some beautiful bags [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► I don't have sturdy ones i have some [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► like college duffel bag somewhere right [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► everybody has that but yeah so we ended [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► up going to the BMW dealer this was [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► friday afternoon Saturday morning [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► Saturday morning we end up going to the [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► local BMW dealer in going to then they [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► actually had an m5 in the showroom in [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► white one a white one I was very pleased [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► but I and it's terrible it shut up [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► sofas attendants we spent a solid half [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► an hour playing tetris in the trunk and [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► surprisingly none nobody at the dealer [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► gave us any lip about it nor did we get [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► that many cross looks or side eyes or [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► anything like that which I was very [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► happy about [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► well it was like it was like nine in the [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► morning they just opened [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► that's true and I i had spent the better [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► part of the entire week beforehand in [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► that dealership doing paperwork and [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► finance apps [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► ok I think about that . they were very [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► comfortable with me doing weird things [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► in the dealership so yeah so we actually [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► went and we we figure out how they fit [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► and we took pictures of exactly how to [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► do the arrangement so we would know when [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► we got there and and it worked so we [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► figured out we we got ourselves to [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► Munich and it was snowing freezing it [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► turns out this is like the the coldest [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► marks they've ever had a record or [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► something like that and it was it was [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► pretty great so we get there we decided [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► to kill we had to kill two days in [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► Munich before we got the car because we [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► were ready when you are so easy with him [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► yeah so and and in Germany [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► not only is Easter Sunday a holiday but [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► the monday following it is also a [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► holiday so we had to pick up the car on [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► Tuesday and yes so sunday and monday we [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► had all day to kill so we did the BMW [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► Welt it's kind of like BMW world it's [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► like disney world full of people use in [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► a giant building and gift shop and [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► and tours and everything and pretty cool [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► in the museum across the street full of [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► all the old BMWs engines motorcycles a [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► couple of boat engine plane engines and [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► all every classic BMW model you can [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► think of all the animals of course the [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► one after that the m1 rather and there [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► was honor there was not a wanna but [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► there was an m1 and you know that [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► everybody's favorite am-5 now they did [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► not they did not have any 39 m5 I was [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► very sad about that they had the the [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► original i believe was the original in [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► five and i can't remember the model [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► designation off the top of my head but [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► it was from like 89 I think something [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► like that or it may be earlier than that [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► and usually three or that anyway so that [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► was a blast [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► highly recommended we we killed a whole [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► day just at the Museum between them [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► Welton museum yeah we killed the entire [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► day and and I I can only speak for Aaron [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► but Aaron had said that she had quite [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► like the museum and not to say that [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► Aaron doesn't like cars or that she's [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► not amused by museums but I mean let's [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► be honest the cars aren't your cup of [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► tea if they don't rip your engine haha [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► then that i could imagine that would be [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► boring and I know Aaron really like 10 [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► tips certainly looked like she enjoyed [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► it a lot as well yeah she was enjoying [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► taking a ridiculous quantity of pictures [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► of me looking at engines giving the [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► exact same relatively blank expression [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► in almost every picture and so that was [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► spotted but yeah so the museum was a lot [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► of fun it's extremely well-designed and [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► and very cool very interesting even if [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► you aren't total BMW nerds like us [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► even John you might you might have maybe [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► 25 minutes of happiness in there and [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► that's really sad I'm happy all the time [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► I'm happy on the inside kind of clown [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► haha and you hit so alright so after [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► then sunday went to the deutsches museum [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► which was awesome you know big like [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► science tech museum and in Munich and [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► that was fantastic we only saw like half [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► of it i feel i mean monday and yeah oh [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► yeah we we saw probably less than half [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► because turns out it's ridiculously huge [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► and there we saw even more engines and [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► we explained we both went over to the [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► torque converter hand exhibit and [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► demonstrated to our wives separately [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► demonstrate to our wives how automatics [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► work and why is that [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► yeah that was that was an excellent [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► moment for me to be here and yeah so [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► then tuesday morning we got to go pick [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► up the car okay so we go and and really [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► and so we went back to be to BMW Welt [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► and we go to the premium lounge which is [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► where everybody can when they have [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► infinite free food and free coffee and [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► everything and you can sit around there [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► forever which we later made our wives [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► actually do for a reason that I can't [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► discuss in the show but regardless you [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► go to be able to be lounge and me we [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► weren't taking a dump or anything about [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► something else but now I'm intrigued [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► I'll tell you afterward and so so we go [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► to this lounge and everything I mean so [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► I i went with my in-laws to buy a lexus [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► before and tiff has alexis i want i [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► guess that's probably a better example [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► buying most luxury cars they treat you [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► pretty well the experience is pretty [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► good by buying most cars experiences at [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► least alright but the luxury brands tend [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► to go out of their way to really make it [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► you know [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► plush they did they give you here here's [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► a pot of water and let you know let me [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► offer you like you want a glass of wine [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► or anything like that mean there they go [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► they go crazy and make you does not put [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► your guard up though you weren't born in [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► New York but now technically I guess you [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► are new yorker so I train you in the [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► ways of New York little start start [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► doing things that to put you at ease and [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► make you comfortable [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► you're the warning ladies to go up [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► because especially when they're about to [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► extract thousand the hospital [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► well yeah I mean you know it obviously [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► is not applicable in this particular [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► situation but i'm saying that's what my [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► instinct would be even though i know [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► very well like I you know I'm taking [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► delivery of a car that you know I've [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► already bought it [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► they're trying to make it nice because [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► they're trying to be nice but it's just [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► yeah I mean usually usually agree with [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► you like like it makes me it makes me [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► uncomfortable or rather it makes me feel [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► like I'm getting scammed whenever it's [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► very obvious that whatever i'm about to [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► buy has such a ridiculously large profit [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► margin and even afford to do this to be [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► don't really like really super [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► over-the-top nice like yeah then I'm [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► like okay well I i am paying for all [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► this in a way and ghosts are more like [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► it's worth it to them to put the money [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► into that experience to distract you [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► from how they're screwing us right [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► exactly but yeah but this obviously [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► already had already established the [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► money and paid and you know establish [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► the pricing so this is just picking it [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► up and and every stage of the way and I [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► should point out to we we were there for [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► a little while and we saw a bunch of [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► deliveries including Casey was that one [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► series you saw that was super super [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► inexpensive well i think was a 120 [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► diesel if i'm not mistaken and it was so [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► inexpensive and i don't mean this to [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► sound disrespectful or snarky or [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► anything but it was so inexpensive for [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► BMW that actually a hub caps which I [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► didn't think BMW did anymore right but [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► now they have a hole low end of cars [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► they just don't sell in the US but they [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► saw a lot of them in Germany which by [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► the way is a quick aside one thing that [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► mark when i noticed that i thought was [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► really incredible made me very jealous [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► was that apparently the guy i would say [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► the overwhelming majority of bmw's that [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► we saw were not badge so they would say [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► BMW of course but they would not say x [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► 54 m 5 or 3 35 or whatever the case may [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► be there was no model designation on the [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► trunk or boot depending on what country [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► you live in [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► and I thought that was really awesome [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► and i'm kinda jealous that that's a [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► no-cost option for them [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► yeah and it wasn't just being w it just [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► seemed like that seemed like that was [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► just more normal they're like many cars [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► just weren't badge or were minimally [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► badge so we had to identify things by [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► like you know the exhaust tips and [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► things like that like that is that an [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► option because you don't want people to [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► know that you don't have the fanciest [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► one is that the idea behind think it's I [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► think it's because if you don't want [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► that either extreme either you don't [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► want people to know that you have the [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► super flashy car or that you don't want [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► people to know they have a 120 diesel [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► that that for BMW was absurdly to get [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► that seems so strange to me though [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► because the only people who care car [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► people and car we can tell anyway that's [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► true well I just a little community [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► could just be like a cultural thing like [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► a cultural preference thing like you [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► know here we we have pretty big [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► divisions between smart people like us [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► and people who let dealer badging be [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► attached to their car forever [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► yeah ? ground behind one of those people [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► like boy I hope you got a lot of money [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► off my car [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► yeah the ones that have like not you [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► know like you know my dealer gives me a [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► license plate frame that's fine I can [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► take it off but the ones that actually [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► extends all their own logo like on the [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► other side of the trunk lid opposite the [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► real car look it has big baby quietly [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► shiny plastic things that big blue on [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► dear let it like that you know stick out [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► yeah it's terrible but like but hey I i [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► can be bought you know give me a couple [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► thousand dollars off the carhop i'll put [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► a permanent silver add-on you're on the [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► back of my car and if it falls off on a [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► year oops [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► nice anyway so and and one thing to you [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► know that seeing the cars over there [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► gas is way more expensive over there [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► shouldn't be news anybody really [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► listening to this gas is so much more [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► expensive that not only were diesel [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► obviously a lot more common because [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► diesel is generally cheaper but just [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► overall the the engines of the cars we [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► saw where we're mostly very small [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► efficient engines we saw a lot of like [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► you know in the BMW line if you have [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► like the 320 the 520 that you know the [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► 318 118 like all like the small engines [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► with those last two digits there [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► I didn't see anything above a 30 so by [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► BMWs parlance that's nothing above [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► roughly a 3.8 liter v6 or i6 whatever it [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► is and I don't even know what they use [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► the thirties for exactly with the [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► current model anyway they were very very [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► few like large engine super-big high-end [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► ones that we saw even even out on the [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► roads or you know anywhere we saw very [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► very few large engine car just because [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► it's so it's so ridiculous over there to [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► have one because the gas is so expensive [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► like filling up filling up the m5 tank [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► which is 21 gallons filling it up costs [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► over a hundred euros and so its current [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► rate something like a hundred and twenty [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► dollars and so it's quite a bit of money [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► anyway obviously I i think if i lived [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► there that would if that would have more [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► relevance on my decision to get one and [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► that's why nobody does over there [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► so anyway so we pick up the car and and [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► so the luxury was was really quite [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► something because this is there this is [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► like their flagship place there the [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► their flagship store in a way and its [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► really good premium experience and the [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► whole time I just kept thinking I can't [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► believe that this cost me less money [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► than picking it up in the states and [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► everything that this is something that [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► echoed throughout the entire BMW [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► european delivery experience and i [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► really i really do mean this at a very [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► deep level everyone did their job right [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► and everything worked and and that's [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► really you know here in the US and I [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► don't know how many other places but [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► certainly in the u.s. you are accustomed [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► to a lot of people just screwing things [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► up routinely a lot of things not working [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► the way they should and and so there's a [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► lot of little details like like when [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► they bring you to your car they bring [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► you down the stairwell and you overlook [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► your car and all the cars are on little [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► spinning turntables and when you when [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► you approach this overlook the salesman [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► who's bringing you to the car [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► it's not really a Salesman that's [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► already been made anyway that the person [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► bring you to the car website an ipad and [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► use a custom a full of German I could [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► understand to start a spotlight on your [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► car and to start the turntable spinning [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► as you approach and the best part about [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► it to me was that I'd like you said it's [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► on you you go down a level and on this [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► landing while you're still on the [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► stairwell you haven't you gone halfway [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► down the stairwell [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► that's when they turn on the spotlight [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► and they engage the turntable and and i [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► was listening to to the delivery [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► specialist or whatever he calls himself [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► and he was telling you about why the car [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► was designed the way it was and what was [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► even more interesting was it to me [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► anyway I don't know what your impression [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► was but to me it didn't sound like just [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► bullcrap sales talk [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► it sounded like he genuinely had [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► researched have been taught or learned [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► why event was placed there or why that [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► you know this this line was done in this [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► way [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► total and I it was very very interesting [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► and very cool [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► yeah and and so just you know every [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► every part of it was very carefully [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► designed very carefully orchestrated and [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► everything worked its I've never been to [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► disney world but from what I understand [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► from what people have said about 20 it [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► sounds like they have a lot of the same [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► philosophies thereof like you know you [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► shouldn't see any seams and everything [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► should always work like it's like they [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► really nailed that it is you know it you [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► know if that if that was anywhere in [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► America even at a BMW facility in [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► America cannot likelihood you know that [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► like if there be like one turntable that [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► just didn't work and so like you know a [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► tenth of the deliveries that day just [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► wouldn't have the turntable working and [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► have to explain how sorry [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► normally it's been good don't know [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► what's broken you know you know that [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► would happen here [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► yeah but that definitely is the ethos in [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► disney world but it's a lot harder to [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► hold that line in a gigantic theme park [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► filled with screaming children and [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► certain tourists than it is in the end [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► in the environment that you're in [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► of course but but you know it's it's [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► that it's that work ethic and that [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► attention to detail that this needs to [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► work correctly [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► did you notice that like in the rest of [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► Germany like that this is not you know [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► that the sort of Germany toasted the [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► stereotype we have over here is that [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► every part of their societies like that [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► from the guy who serves your coffee at [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► the coffee shop to like the street signs [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► and traffic lights and you know [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► everything [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► it wasn't I mean it wasn't absolutely [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► perfect everywhere obviously that that's [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► probably impossible or at least [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► unhealthy but it was surprisingly close [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► it really like and we'll get into the [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► drivers in a bit but it was it was [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► surprisingly good just just in general [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► think like people did their jobs right [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► and things worked one was interesting to [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► me as well i am i'm probably reading too [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► much into this but again like John [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► saying that the the American stereotype [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► of a German is that they're very [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► efficient very serious not mean or not [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► bad tempered with serious and everything [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► is very specific and and i don't know i [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► just got such a laugh over the fact that [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► your delivery time was nine ten [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► it wasn't 909 it wasn't 911 [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► it was nine ten and I mean we walked out [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► there i think nine ten on the nose and [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► and it was your there and at what I [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► believe his name is Michael was right [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► there waiting for us [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► yeah i mean 'animal again it was just so [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► delightfully German and i don't mean [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► that just in inside in a sarcastic way I [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► mean I genuinely I thought it was so [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► delightfully German that that was the [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► case right well if we were even joking [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► like we were after we pick the car we [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► come back to the lounge to get our stuff [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► and get like a get a little bit of [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► coffee or something and and so it was [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► like eleven o'clock and they had said [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► like you know what are serving lunch at [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► eleven at this forgot about the human [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► lounge and exactly at eleven o'clock [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► somebody had walked out and was replayed [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► misplacing sandwiches on on the buffet [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► and everything it was like exactly on [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► the nose eleven o'clock [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► BAM lunch like me and you can case you [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► you notice that in common that like that [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► that is so stereotypically chicken but [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► it's truly get it [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► that's a and again you know that John's [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► good question like how much this how [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► much this applies outside of this [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► magical BMW you know fairytale land but [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► but really it did seem like in are [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► admittedly limited travels it did seem [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► like that was that was more way more the [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► norm than it is over here in the US [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► would agree with that especially on the [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► west coast especially on the west coast [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► welcoming and I like that a lot like I i [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► am part german I've always I mean you [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► know well it long ancestry ago was [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► German but like I've always worked very [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► well under German bosses I had a few it [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► with my various like terrible high [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► school jobs and everything like I've [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► always gotten along well with German [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► bosses I've always liked you know i'm [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► i'm the kind of nerd where if somebody [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► tells me to be there you know to be at a [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► party from 6 to 9 i'm there at six and [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► of course that's not what anybody means [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► acceptable government's I'm told you're [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► not supposed to do that I'm repeatedly [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► told by my wife that we're not supposed [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► to do right you're a nerd so you think [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► the same way like well it's said to be [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► there at six something I was a button [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► simon doesn't make any sense [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► exactly shoot the hell with you guys on [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► their 555 @ don't want to be looking [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► the songs are so we got at your grasp so [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► we're halfway down the stairwell your [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► car spinning and you're getting explain [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► to you why the lines were drawn in such [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► a way it exactly so yeah so anyway that [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► I mean you know the whole thing [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► normally when you when you buy a car and [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► most most branded dealers they will take [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► a little bit to show you all the [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► features to go over like here's how you [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► do the climate control and and of course [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► as we've discussed in the test with with [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► the with software interfaces taking over [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► and and with media things being able to [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► do more and more [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► this process is taking longer to explain [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► it but but you know this guy he came [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► down there and so we go down to the car [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► and the first thing they'd have me do [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► and when we when we walked into this [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► whole thing they checked our bags when [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► we went down to the car they had all of [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► our bags ready to go into the car right [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► there next to it like on the best thing [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► we'd have to ask [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► yeah and it wasn't that they brought the [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► bags nearby the car those bags were [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► brought as physically close to the car [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► as you would comfortably allow them to [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► be handled by anyone other than you and [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► again I mean that in a good way not in a [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► bad way they brought them directly to [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► the trunk and had them within six inches [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► of the trunk so we wouldn't have to lift [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► them any further if we didn't want to [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► hear and the first thing they have you [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► do is somebody is a photographer comes [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► up and takes a picture of you in front [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► of the car [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► oh I'm way to pictures when we just [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► meeting with me my wife and I and then a [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► few seconds look at a few minutes later [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► they give you not only the printouts of [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► those pictures that they had like gone [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► to the back to get they give you the [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► printouts and they give you a USB key [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► with those pictures on them [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► july didn't know that yeah I I never [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► notice on now the question roar jpg it [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► doesn't matter they had a flash such a [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► snob [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► hey don't the Germans make amazing [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► cameras [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► why did they make amazing lenses i don't [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► know if i don't know what cameras they [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► make yeah I am [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► which by the way I don't remember when [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► it was in this process that the [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► following happened but I also thought it [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► very interesting and to build on what [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► you're saying Marco about American vs [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► German ways when we got to the call [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► one of the first things that happened [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► was Michael the delivery specialist open [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► the hood and showed you know you anymore [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► and then he went and he got something [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► from some cabinet and the cabinet was [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► delightfully a simple and very clean [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► very clean lines and he gets this cable [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► out and I noticed that there's jumper [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► leads on one end and some sort of plug [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► on the other and so he takes these [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► jumper leads plug them into the jump [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► location under the hood and then under [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► the front of the car perfectly under the [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► center of the front of the car [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► there's this hidden little doorway where [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► he plugs in the other end and I presume [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► this was done so that the car was [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► running off the building's power and [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► while he was spending an hour explaining [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► to you about I Drive and this and that [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► the other thing you're not destroying [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► this brand new bat yes that's it in fact [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► he explained that he was doing it he [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► explained that is what he was doing and [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► why because he was about to launch into [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► like this half-hour demo of the stuff [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► and didn't want and didn't want me to [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► have a partially drained battery left [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► but it's so and so and so when they [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► drive these cars onto these turntables [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► they have to align them so that these [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► things line up like it's just every [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► little attention to detail at everything [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► was was a was just pay attention to and [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► was done correctly [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► yeah by the way the people who drive [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► them from the car elevator to the [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► turntable are wearing white gloves it [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► I mean I'm not Joe this thing with [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► spotless and it had the the odometer [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► read to when they first got it it so i [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► have to imagine they were not a lot of [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► overhead of driving this thing around to [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► get it where it had to go so it's [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► actually begs the question will Marco [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► where do they store these cars until [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► delivery right that's another thing so [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► we found out late the night before [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► picking it up somebody on a forum link [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► to it somehow somebody a forum had [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► gotten pictures and then they later [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► confirmed we ask the people like kind of [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► we have some kind of leading questions [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► and they confirmed everything the form [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► guy said that they store all these cars [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► in a giant warehouse under where we were [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► and in order to prevent or to reduce the [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► damage of firewood cause you had a whole [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► bunch of vehicles full of gasoline [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► first of all they are only allowed to [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► put four gallons of gas and each one [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► which is kind of annoying when you leave [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► you don't have a full tank but that's [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► apparently some kind of regulation but [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► they have to follow but they keep these [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► inner in a room a giant warehouse that [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► is dropped down to only thirteen percent [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► oxygen so that if there's a fire it [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► doesn't spread very easily and they said [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► like if you try to light a lighter won't [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► even light at that at that concentration [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► i keep thieves out other people still [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► able to breathe [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► it's like being on a high mountain I i [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► forget the exact elevation he told us [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► there's like I had some kind of [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► elevation equivalent but like you know [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► you'd survive but it can be done heading [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► right for your car and actually had like [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► a robotic forklift truck thing that goes [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► and fetches each car from its little [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► holding bay to bring it over to where it [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► needs to go when when a car's requested [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► i mean it's it's a it's a heck of a [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► system and the guy was saying they do [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► roughly a hundred 230 deliveries per day [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► and they only have out of what would you [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► say case maybe like 10 turntables yet no [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► more than 15 I think closer to 10 and [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► they're only doing roughly 12 to a time [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► so you gotta figure like this whole [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► thing is it's quite an efficient system [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► to be able to pump that out you know [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► tend to have that kind of throughput on [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► on such relatively small inventory [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► anyway so or bandwidth rather speaking [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► of bandwidth this would be reinstated [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► talk about Squarespace or sponsor so [TS]

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00:40:26 ◼   ► the whole run they sponsored every [TS]

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00:40:30 ◼   ► they really are so you know obviously [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► come on guys yoooo yo to them into us [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► give me a shot you like it in as a quick [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► aside the the turntable that we happen [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► to be on this again was another [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► delightfully german thing that I noticed [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► the turntable we happen to be on had a [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► sculpture nearby and it took me just a [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► moment to realize wait a second that [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► sculptures and exhaust manifold and so [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► while marco was getting his dissertation [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► on all the things about the m5 I went [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► wandering over 10 feet away to see the [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► sculpture little up look up close and it [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► was mounted on what appears to me to be [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► marble and i took a picture of the the [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► inscription on that marble of what the [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► sculpture was and I'm not gonna read you [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► the German because I can't but they had [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► an English translation right below and i [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► will read it to you verbatim it says BMW [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► 10 cylinder performance manifold 421 [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► scale new line technology and its most [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► beautiful form and again so awesome and [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► i probably sound like I'm being [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► sarcastic but I really mean this [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► genuinely that just warms my heart so [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► much that the again just so delightfully [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► German so anyway so he's just plug the [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► car into the into the butt into the [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► building and you're getting your lecture [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► yet and it's you know it's great hehe [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► sets everything up he pairs my phone to [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► the bluetooth I mean [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► you know it goes through everything just [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► as well if not better than I've ever had [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► a dealer do it you know really really [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► good good intro to everything smoke [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► great English that magazine excellent [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► English that was never a problem and [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► even like we were never given the [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► paperwork you know that was a different [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► person and she was explaining you know [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► if you here's your insurance here's this [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► this and this [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► everything was like no deductible I mean [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► it was really just a great set up [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► everything we were very well prepared [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► for everything [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► everyone told us what was going to [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► happen what to expect like you know with [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► with the the road permits and the [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► insurance and the paperwork and the [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► drop-off you know everything we're very [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► well prepared for and they just everyone [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► just did their job right and i really i [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► wish that was just something that we [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► could assume of everybody all the time [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► and it and it's so isn't and so it was [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► really quite something [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► so anyway I finished the tour we're all [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► ready to go and and and again we and we [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► have for people with us you know we had [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► me know I've encasing his wife and that [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► was never a problem that was never week [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► they were they never made us feel like [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► we were imposing because we had four [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► people instead of two or 2 plus kid or [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► whatever they do everything they just ok [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► here's you here's for access car so the [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► executor the premium lounge and and here [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► and when we left they gave us free [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► little bottles of water here's four [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► bottles of water because it's for if you [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► like it was everything was just [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► incredibly delightful and you know [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► people often now I got a lot of [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► responses when I when I've mentioned BMW [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► in the past I always get responses to [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► the effect of why do so many apple fans [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► like BMWs and and I think there is a [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► connection there and and you know maybe [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► that's maybe that's why BMW care so much [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► about iphone and ipod integration and [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► why they've been often first to it are [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► done it best for a while I think there's [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► a lot of overlap there and I think the [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► reason why is because people who like [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► delightful things and delightful design [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► tend to really appreciate apple products [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► because apple provides [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► a lot of delight and I think BMW is is [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► that same way in so many regards and so [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► many respects and they aren't the only [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► ones to do to be that way certainly I [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► mean little delightful things little by [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► for features are a lot of what makes [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► luxury cars luxury cars and so pretty [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► much all the luxury brands that even [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► someone on larger brands do but they [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► really do BWW really does nail that they [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► really do provide so many opportunities [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► for delight in their products in their [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► service in these experiences that they [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► that they offer you like there's so much [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► of that I think that's why there's that [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► overlap is because the same people who [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► appreciate that and apple products if [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► they are ever exposed to BWW will [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► probably appreciate it there to my [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► recognize that you know they cared about [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► that they did that and and that's that [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► makes me happy for the question why do [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► you think they don't do this in America [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► is kind of delivery experience her beer [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► that you do that as far as I know they [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► don't I think well talk about for BMW [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► orgastic I mean I didn't love you [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► they do a subset of it you know like [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► they'll but you know they do the subset [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► of that every luxury brand does where [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► they'll have given away as we said [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► earlier they'll give you the bottle of [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► water or the glass of wine if you want [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► and they'll make your experience at a [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► dealership very helpful and very nice [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► and and very comfortable but this whole [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► setup of having like the car and [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► turntable and everything I don't know I [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► don't act is you just because that would [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► put a lot of bourbon and a lot of costs [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► on the individual dealers where I mad [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► when I was thinking of like it just one [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► place somewhere in the United States so [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► that you know you would have to fly [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► overseas for you know you like someone [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► like somewhere near where they sell a [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► lot of their cars or maybe it's like to [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► drive to another state and do it but if [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► you want to go to the big BMW back and [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► then you can get that experience you [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► know I don't they don't do this in [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► Spartans is it Spartanburg's your [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► ensberg smart hands berg don't matter is [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► an astronaut but anyway I don't think [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► they do this at Spartanburg do they I [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► don't think so [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► I i I'm not sure if they do this or not [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► anywhere in the u.s I've still never [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► heard about it if they have [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► but i think the place to do it would [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► probably be like New Jersey thick like [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► that's New Jersey has lots of space lots [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► of car people and it's close to a lot of [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► people on the East Coast maybe probably [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► have one on the west coast to it they [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► did that but yeah I've never heard is [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► isn't it [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► yeah but yeah I've never heard of of [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► that being done here and that's a good [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► question i don't know why but the only [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► thing I can say is I from what I recall [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► a couple years ago [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► I'm want to say was the zr1 maybe the [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► new zr1 i think that there was some [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► program that Chevy briefly did where you [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► could actually go in to go to Kentucky [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► and build the matter you would help [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► assemble the end right right that's a [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► different kind of experience for a [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► different kind of customer it's the same [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► thing like it what do you want you want [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► to have this experience was like well if [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► you're into if you're a gearhead and you [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► want to it's like wow I got to help [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► build you know the engine to my own car [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► I'm sure they let you do whatever I [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► think it's nearly impossible to screw up [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► right what do you like Titan one nut or [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► something anybody about it that you do [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► you know the parts that are hard to [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► screw up but you can participate in the [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► process you push a button anyway so [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► after picking up the car we did you eat [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► you get to do like this little victory [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► lap around the entire platform of all [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► the turntables and where all the cars [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► are and to be clear you know with Marco [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► picked up this car on the second floor [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► of a three-story building it ain't so [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► you know next thing you know that I see [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► the code well you signed something on an [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► ipad i didn't see specifically what [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► and that was the final thing I saw you [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► sign yeah and then he hands you the keys [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► for like you know here this is it we're [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► done have fun and you're on the second [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► story in your inside in the second story [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► of a of a three-story building right and [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► and of course I'm feeling very [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► self-conscious that just started up a v8 [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► indoors [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► i'm thinking like a carbon monoxide yet [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► but I'm sure that everything's pretty [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► big building with marisa different it is [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► also a lot of cars being started up and [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► it was I looking at these pictures i'm [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► looking like that the video people [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► getting delivery like the big white [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► floor you know you could probably leave [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► some really neat tire tracks along just [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► the people out to black stripes as you [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► leave the that's what I told him he [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► should have done but I will [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► there's no prob probably frowned upon . [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► you not only not only was I little [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► scared to be frowned upon but a this was [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► a dct so I was little I was a little [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► vague as to whether you're neutral or [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► not like and now that I know what I I'd [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► be able to do it comfortably but at the [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► time i was i was not comforting to know [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► like if I floor it for a second am I [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► gonna actually go forward right now or [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► not any of the other thing is it's a [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► very very it's a relatively tight space [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► you know when you're walking it's very [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► spacious when you're driving a $YEAR 5 [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► series because a large vehicle you don't [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► feel like you have a ton of space to get [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► to go around like you know there's [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► there's a wall there that overlooks of [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► show room full of people up [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► that's the United wasn't going to take [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► any risks there anyway so you can lean [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► on the horn at least at representing [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► American some of noxious play haha go [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► again [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► I'm serious i'm sure people do the head [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► you do all of that custom horn that uh [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► plays the pics added theme when you hit [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► somebody please not corruption now [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► Wow but anyway so we we do a victory lap [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► we head out and then we just go [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► immediately park and go back in because [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► we were doing next was the factory tour [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► and this this is pretty cool [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► you can take any pictures on the factory [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► tour they're very serious about that so [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► I don't have any pictures of it but they [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► actually walk you through the factory [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► that's across the street that produces [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► something like I think they said about [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► 903 series cars a day and I saw some x5 [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► shells as well if i'm not mistaken you [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► are mistaken as are making it made in [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► the US [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► see that's what I thought but there were [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► some sort of SUV I thought wasn't or [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► maybe i'm thinking of the tour yet every [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► just they were just the touring / wagon [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► models of the 3c right i was just [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► kidding i was testing you and you passed [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► that's good but anyway just like when [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► you when you failed to spot the the new [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► 4-series in the museum the new 4-series [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► design mockup yes yes you're right [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► anyway did so we did the factory tour [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► and and it's it's really something if [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► you know if any listeners have the [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► opportunity to go to the music factory [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► tour I I would have [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► recommend it it's really really great it [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► was one of the highlights of the trip [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► for sure and just society they tell you [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► why they don't let you take pictures [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► no it's probably for some kind of like [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► legal trade secrets things similar to [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► how like you know one of the reasons why [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► Apple did the iOS developer n da back in [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► the early days was because they were [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► some kind of technicality where like if [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► you if if something is unpublished [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► officially then it afford you some like [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► a little bit of extra time on the patent [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► or something like that or or filing for [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► a patent and so there's some [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► technicality we're like even though [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► everyone was breaking the NDA constantly [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► it was as long as it was officially [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► under NDA then you know Apple had some [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► legal benefit it was it's probably the [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► same thing here we're like obviously [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► you're not going to see anything that's [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► gonna be like a massive trade secret or [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► anything and they're going to show [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► everyone the street that but by by [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► saying this is secret and not letting [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► you take pictures and everything there [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► is probably some kind of legal advantage [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► they get by that but i was asking [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► because I'm looking at this this video I [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► just paste in a you know european [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► delivery or whatever and they do the [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► factory tour too and they're taking [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► video so one of these jokers get to do [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► video you can you take pictures i just [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► passed you're talking about the autoblog [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► yeah thing [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► oh yeah let me see how I'm kind of busy [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► i would assume i'll assume attack was [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► there its press and so press get [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► affordances that we don't get it was [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► probably a special deal but that's a [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► good question like why why is that ok [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► oh well I don't know anyway it was [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► awesome at as you can see this video [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► thanks for ruining it [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► as you can see it's video the factory it [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► not only is there a lot going on there [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► it's pretty cool to see like all the [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► crazy robots up up close and everything [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► but it was impeccably clean oh I would [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► have been a gourmet meal off the floor [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► that factory and I say that only mildly [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► sarcastically like yeah unbelievable it [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► I the the floors in that factory are [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► cleaner than the floors in my house by [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► probably by a lot i mean.they it would [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► like there wasn't even like like metal [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► shavings or [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► fine layer of dust from all this [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► machining nothing like it was impeccably [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► clean and and just everything about it [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► was as stereotypically German like [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► incredibly efficient clever reliable and [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► and they you know these explanations [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► were fantastic of everything and and we [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► were just like walking on like you know [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► one catwalk overlooking everything we [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► will actually like any there was a bit [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► of that we were actually walking like [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► right through the factory floor and [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► walking you know 10 feet away from the [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► people who are building engines and [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► everything I mean it was it was pretty [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► cool and we really saw a lot of great [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► stuff there and it was it was extremely [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► worthwhile highly recommended [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► yeah I couldn't agree more in a couple [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► of highlights that I thought [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► firstly the paint process which I guess [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► this is covered in what show was it that [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► you said you had watched you and tiff [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► out on the Iron ya how it's made and I [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► guess a lot of this is cut been covered [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► in TV shows and documentaries and [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► whatnot like how it's made [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► but I thought it was incredible the way [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► the painting process worked and so at [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► one point were brought into a room where [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► we see a hood it looked to me to be a [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► 3-series hood but it was a hold of some [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► say wasn't f30 3-series ok [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► or was it bonnet if you're British is [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► that right anyway so we see this hood [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► and it's shows like the seven different [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► seven ish different stages of the [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► painting process and so it shows you [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► know the raw metal and then it's getting [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► a getting that gets a base coat and this [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► and that and the other thing than all [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► the way through to the clear coat and [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► another great example of people caring [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► about their jobs like Marcos been been [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► saying all along is that the woman who [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► was the tour guide [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► somebody asked her not me i don't [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► remember how they phrase the question [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► but basically hey for what is it Arctic [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► I was grows along [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► Thank You frozen for the frozen that [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► coat jobs the matte colors [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► what do you do is it not clear coated or [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► is it did you just skip the clearcoat [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► step what happens in immediately without [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► a hesitation she said no no it's just a [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► different clearcoat process what does it [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► have silicon or something absolutely [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► Angeles and and so it was just really [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► rewarding to have a tour guide that [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► clearly knew what the crap she was [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► talking about writing was able to answer [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► without having to be like Oh arm [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► hmm let me think i've been told this [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► once during my training program for and [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► I we were never there was no one who [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► ever said oh we can't tell you that [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► like that's a secret like every question [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► somebody asked they answered and maybe [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► i'm sure there were questions we could [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► have come up with they wouldn't answer [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► but every like there was nothing that [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► was like oh we can only tell you what's [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► been approved for the store like what is [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► the stereo mic engine noises that come [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► up we'll talk about that well the [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► 5-series wasn't made in this plant this [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► is a 3-series plant alright and the [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► although the engine was the v8 is made [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► in this plan so the other bit about the [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► paint that i thought was incredible and [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► again I guess this was old news to [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► everyone but me but apparently and I'll [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► get this backwards but the paint is [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► positively charged in the chassis is [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► negatively charged or perhaps vice versa [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► so that when the paint is atomized and [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► sprayed it's actually attracted to the [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► body of the car which I just thought was [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► so incredibly it like minimizes [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► overspray and paint waste and everything [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► right and then they had this likes this [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► truth underneath the painting process [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► that had running water beneath and [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► apparently they can save like [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► ninety-nine percent of the paint in that [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► water that that's over spray it was [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► really it was really ridiculous and then [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► the other thing I thought was really [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► incredible but the about the factory [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► tour was we were able like Marco said a [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► minute ago we were able to go see the [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► engine building area engine room [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► whatever you called it which i guess is [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► not normal because I talked to a friend [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► of mine who had just done it a few [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► months ago and he said he didn't see [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► that well anyway we got to go through [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► and see some of these engines getting [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► built and to be honest I mean it's [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► exactly what you would expect about how [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► an engine gets built but just seeing it [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► live was extremely cool and I just [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► geeked out on every moment of it I [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► thought it was awesome it was [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► interesting too late to hear so like [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► takes that as part of the part of the [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► tour they they told us what ratios they [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► make these things and they were saying [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► like everyday they make about a thousand [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► of the new and 20 engines are the turbo [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► four-cylinder the the 22 liter [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► four-cylinder that are going into all of [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► the x 28 models now and and they make it [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► basically made like 1200 of those a day [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► and then they don't they don't make the [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► six cylinders in this plant but they [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► made them in the four cylinders the [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► eight and the giant 12 for the the 760 [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► and the rolls-royce's hit they said they [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► make like 1200 of the of the [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► four-cylinder i forgot i think it was [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► like 200 or so of the eights and then [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► like 30 of the to a house that's gonna [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► give you some idea of why the the giant [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► v12 engines cost so much [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► it's because they're making like 30 of [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► them a day in this giant Factory [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► anyway that was awesome highly [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► recommended and we're running a little [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► long so I want to move on to the driving [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► part [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► so we leave here and the first thing we [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► do is drive through the apps and go to [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► our next destination which was lucerne [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► switzerland and so we get to drive the [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► autobahn the first time you just drive [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► through the Alps a little bit and oh my [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► god this car is ridiculous I mean I i [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► cannot say it enough so ridiculously app [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► with this car and even just having it [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► for the few days i had it so far [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► oh my god so first of all the dct is [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► exactly as I as I thought it was it was [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► exactly as I remembered it from that [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► track day it was [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► it's just awesome it compared to a [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► six-speed this is the first and they [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► were like North mystic and I'm very very [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► happy I made the choice to go with it I [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► don't regret not having a stick [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► even now coming back to my stick cars [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► for the next month and a half or two I I [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► don't regret making that choice at all [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► i'm very very happy with that choice now [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► to that end so at this point in our [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► story i have not driven the m5 yet i'm [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► only a passenger and I i firstly I one [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► note is that I wouldn't i don't think i [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► will ever forget when we cleared munich [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► and all of a sudden the speed [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► restrictions one away and you unwound [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► that car and next thing you know we're [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► doing 110 120 easy Kelly [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► legally and and and i cannot say enough [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► good things about the German drivers [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► because in America as we complained and [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► moaned in in the episode alternate which [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► was like 46 or something like that it [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► was six American drivers especially [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► Virginia anyway they tend to think that [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► the left lane is a perfectly permissible [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► travel lane and in Germany that is not [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► the case people stayed right or state to [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► the middle and only got left if they had [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► to and if he and i was watching from the [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► backseat if marco was approaching [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► quickly someone in front of him [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► eighty to ninety percent of the time [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► that person got the crap out of the way [TS]