James Pumphrey on Why Porsches AREN'T COOL Anymore

Here we are. What's the model of this? What's this called? What is that called? My Sheffield. That is the new Sheffield SCR Chrono. SCR Chrono. Yes, it's good. One was a Mech Quartz. Uh-huh. And that is the automatic. It's a real Swiss watch. Yeah, I had the Swiss movement. I had to wind it. You wound it? Yeah. Isn't it nice? It's like clicks. It's great action. What a nice way to start the show. It also like makes me nervous. Because I imagine all the stuff inside there, and you can kind of like feel it. Well, when Jay Turkbuss of Sheffield sent me the prototype, he said the case size and the movement in there isn't quite right yet. It will be in the production watches. So be careful when you wind it. Now, I always wear the prototypes of my designs. And I'm not wearing that one today. But every time I wind it, I get nervous. You don't have to get nervous on that one. It's nice the way it clicks. It is. It goes, right? We could have really sold that watch for a lot of money. I think there's one or two left at SheffieldWatches.com. You can buy. Hello, everybody. Start the new year with a new watch. This watch you're going to love. And I don't know that we're going to make that again. I think we just made 50. Because they were a little more expensive, we just made 50. And I've given them to my friends who've helped us out this year. Cameron, you're getting one. And Johnny and Sacramento. Mike sent this to me with a nice note that I hung on my refrigerator. It's been a good year. I wrote you a nice thank you note on my stationery. Do you know why I did that? Why? Because your whole channel, Speed, is about etiquettes and guys that I knew you would appreciate it. Yeah, I did. I knew you would appreciate that. It was very intentional. I really liked it. And that's nice that you brought it up. Years ago, David Letterman would send little gifts and he'd write those notes. Jerry writes those notes. And it's on a license. And it really has impact, right? It really does. You'll never get another one. For many, buddy. But for the first ones, really good. I hope I set a nice example. Wow, I hope my wife is watching this show because you never send thank you notes. You never do it. Well, I did. I did one. All right, I did one. Well, anyway, I'm excited to have you here. I'm excited to be talking to everybody here. It's New Year's Eve special. Zuckerman was here but said, I'm going to Mexico. You're disappointed. I said, we're doing a show with Zuckerman. He was all excited. I was really excited. It's been a while since I've got to do one with him. A show? He's on the lam. I could tell he was hot this morning. He texted me. He goes, let's do this show quick because I got to go. I go, you know what? I don't want to feel like I'm rushing. Just go to Mexico. Just go. Thank you. And then he took off, right? When he camera, when he was here, was he a little up? He was ready to go to Mexico. He was ready to go to Mexico. He was out here. I mean, he's usually such a calm guy. No. Not before that. Not if he's got something to do. And he had something to do. And I know his family wants him down there. So I said, go. Go and go enjoy yourself. We'll do this. I've got a Bentley Bintega Speed. Oh, yeah. The Speed. Speed. Two E's that we're going to talk about. But first, let's talk about you. What's going on? What did you do for the holidays? Not much. Just hung out. This is just so overrated. Yeah. I felt like this year more than any other year. It's just like, collectively, we were like, it seems like we're done with religion. That's one thing. Collectively, the world is like, OK, we know enough. And we also seem to be getting tired of holidays. Enough. Yeah. Right? Am I wrong about that? Or did you guys feel that this need to have this big holiday celebration? No, I didn't feel the need. My power went up for about six hours on Christmas Eve. Oh, that's nice. And so I woke up at 4 AM and it was all back on Christmas morning. And it put a lot of things in perspective. I was like, a little bit more jolly. Yes. Knowing what I was like to not have power. Yeah, that is nice. It was a mess here. We had giant storms. It's so funny to feel those calls, too, because the media is reporting. Everybody's dying. Mudslides. People, the trees are falling. Cars, there's the Tesla. Completely, it's constant mud. And you're completely fine. Yeah, totally fine. It's not happening to you. I don't know who it happened to. It barely rained at my house. It did? Yeah. Barely. Now, it was a downpour where we were, but it was just rain. It wasn't a big deal. But I did get to put this Bentley through its paces, which was really nice. But New Year's Eve, what do you do? It's right now. It's New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. Well, if it's New Year's Eve, tomorrow I'm going to Dakar, Dakar, depending on who you ask. So I'm really looking forward to that. I have about 48 hours of travel ahead of me. And what's going on there? I'm going with Tudor watches, which is exciting for me. And yeah, it's a big, the desert race. So I've made a bunch of videos about it. So this is the Dakar. Yeah, the Dakar. Wow. Let's pull up some of that. Let's see what you're going to be doing. What are you doing? Are you driving? I'm not. I will have, apparently I'll have access to a land or over discovery to drive around. But yeah, I was talking to my mom about it. And she was like, you know what? Is that the race from the beginning of wide world of sports? I think it is. So historic race. So Tudor's sending you. Or not a discovery, a defender. The defender, right. So you're going to be in something like that. Yeah. Blasting around. Yeah. And as a journalist. I'm going with other, I'm the only internet guy going. And there's a reporter from Popeye magazine, which is this Japanese magazine that was a huge influence for speed when we started. So I'm excited to meet that guy. I think there's somebody from the Aligance, a French, like fashion magazine. So really, starting to rub elbows with the kind of people that want to rub elbows. Yeah, this is a big deal. So to go to this race, we're seeing now where it goes, right? How many stages there are over? How many days? I'll be there for like five. But how many days is the race? I have no idea. Probably something like that. When what do you, what do they do? Are they just going to shuttle you around to different points during the race or different base camps? Or think so. How does that work? I know I'll be sleeping in a luxurious tent. Oh, you will. Yeah. I think there's going to be some sort of luxurious tent situation. That's funny. And when, wow, well, this is such a famous old race. Yeah. Margaret Thatcher's son was racing in Dakar and got lost for like days. And it was a huge international news story. This is way back in the day. It's always the kid of the great person that screws up. Where did they find him? Yeah. And he was lost. He just like got lost. Like they thought he got like kidnapped. I see. And it was a huge news story, but they found him like four or five days later and he was just chilling. He was like, yeah, I got lost. I bet you if we were to Google a picture of Margaret Thatcher's son, you're going to see the face of a moron. Oh, yeah. That's my guess. Let's do it just for fun. This guy. Margaret Thatcher. What is that? It might be Margaret Thatcher. He might be around. Yeah. Sir, there he is. Got lost in the car. He looked like he was probably 10 fingers into a bottle of PIMS or something. If that's even a phrase. 10 fingers into a bottle. Look, he even looks like, yeah, I got lost. I haven't really. What does this guy do? What did he do? Oh, look, it says he was born by Caesarean section. That's a little too much information. God, why would you put that in his Wikipedia page? This is to get off Wikipedia. I hate. What is that? For why? He was convicted to a four year suspended prison sentence in front of a Guinea coup attempt. This guy. Wow. Son, could you just could you just stay in town and maybe study political science and maybe, you know, I'll get you whatever you need. Yeah, just now, mom, I'm going to duck and I'm going to get lost in the desert. And then I'm going to find a coup. I'm going to find a coup and embarrass you. What is it? Click on the story of Margaret Thatcher's son. Did he go missing? Let's see if this is even true. Now there's a movie about it. Oh, my gosh. In the Netflix bio pic. This is what I'm going to be watching tonight. Anyway, whatever, whatever, Mark Thatcher. Yeah. So hopefully, you know what? I was going to say, hopefully I don't go missing, but if I do, it'll be an adventure. It's going to be cool. Why? I love this for you because I love the site and Tutor is one of my favorite brands. They're there. I love I collect those watches. I think they're one of the cooler ones. They are. Why? Why are they so cool? I think there's a certain aspect of like in the know that a tutor suggests like their own by Rolex owned by. And I think there's I don't know, we're kind of in like this weird like monoculture type thing and everybody knows everything and it's hard to know the cool thing. And I think there's a certain level of like not obvious about tutor and their history and motor sport. It's really funny. Like if Rolex weren't there, you might call to do or luxury brand, a luxury sport watch brand. But because Rolex is there, they're more approachable. They're humble. They're like, oh, you know, it used to be, oh, you can't afford a Rolex. You get a tutor. Right. I I've always loved them for that reason. Like it's easy to kind of get away with it. I feel like these days, you know, if you wear a Rolex for yourself, that's fine. You've achieved something. You've got a beautiful watch. I get that. But if you're the type of person that thinks anybody's going to care about that, you know, unless you're around the other watch guys and you're wearing something very specific. Yeah. Usually a Rolex puts people off. Yeah. You know, I have a bunch and I've owned many of them. I can count, you know, the number of times on this hand when someone's even commented on it, if it was a vintage watch or 6263 or something, maybe, but new white Daytona. Yeah. One. Yeah. Andreas Pruniger said, oh, I love that watch. You know why? What? He was wearing it. Yeah. And I was wearing it. The rest, you catch people clocking it. Yeah. Like you'll be wearing it and you'll forget and you walk up and say hello to someone. They go like this. They go like that for a second and you see them clock it, but then they don't comment on it. They clock it to like judge you? I don't know. Yeah. It's a really interesting moment and it always scares me a little bit. You're looking at the size of your arms. Like, okay. Can I take this guy? You clock the watch, but you didn't comment on it, which means either you didn't like it or you did, but you're not saying it, which is also weird. But now I'm in a weird. I observed too much ruin. The curse of the Canadian. Yeah. I just I just described myself to a T. Did I? Yeah. I think of all the lot. I observe a lot. I see a lot. And then I think too much about a lot of it, but it is comedy, right? Yeah, exactly. Right. What is it? You know, now that you have that watch, do you do you keep nights watches? Do you care about watches? I don't. I would like to start caring about watches. I think I've liked cars forever. I like clothes. Watches are similarly priced to cars in a lot of ways. They are. And I think I'm following the natural progression of like CarGuy to Middle Age to watch guy. Right. Right. So I think that's my next thing. It's it's very like it's I've known I wanted to get into it, but it is sort of an overwhelming concept because I got to learn all these like new numbers and letters like right. I mean, learning car numbers and letters for decades now. And so like, I think I'm finally ready to like start learning all the reference numbers and stuff because like, if I want, if I get into something, I want to like know about all the stuff. Right. Right. Reference numbers. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's what I want. How do you, how would you recommend a person enjoy a watch? A guy enjoy a watch? Like, because I hear you're always like, well, what watch did you pair with the car? Right. And I, and I always write back, I go, I don't do things like that necessarily. I might like a photo shoot, but I'm not, I don't think that way. Yeah. It's sort of like matching your shoes to your hat. Yeah. Yeah. So how do you enjoy a watch? Like, well, this, that opening was not like on purpose. We were lit. Spike gave me this and I am very excited about it. I don't know. I'd say like the same way you enjoy a car, like in my very limited watch, enjoyable experience, I think it's like an appreciation of the mechanisms and an appreciation of the decisions that went into making the whole, you know, like I really like the color again. It is now, but this one's just right here. I really like yours. I like the color of the dial of this watch. J. And I imagine there is like a lot of like comparing whites. It was. And so as a fan of different colored cars, like, like Wimbledon white is like a great Ford color. Yeah. And so like, I like imagining the process and appreciating all of the tiny decisions that went into like, yeah, yeah. And then it has to function too. And I think that's what makes it so similar to cars where like ultimately, if it sucks, it has to suck in a romantic way. Right. And so like then you appreciate it for like that. Well, that's good. Yeah. All right. Let's do an ad. All right. Let's talk about race deck over two decades ago. Race deck was invented, cost effective, durable, truly do it yourself. Modular flooring system, engineered for the garage. Race decks, multi-pattended design allows for easy do it yourself installation without all the hassles and mess of toxic epoxy coatings, transforming your garage in just hours, not days. 20 styles to choose from to create the coolest garage on your block. And of course, they all come with self draining design, which allows for liquids to flow freely to drains or out the door. Every cool garage starts from the ground up and that starts with race deck. Get your race deck. They manufacture 24 seven and ship most doors within 48 hours. And we're as invented by our friend, Jorgen Mahler. It's invented by a car enthusiast for car enthusiasts shop at race deck. Use code spike three 56 for an exclusive 15% off and free shipping. There you go. Race deck. All right. Back to the show. Well, as you know, when you come on, I love to talk about speed channel speed channels on fire right now. I was looking at your numbers. I'm so proud. Thank you. Just cranking. You've been a quarter since the beginning and hundreds of thousands. I like the new look of the thumbnails, especially that one stuff. Nobody teaches you. Look at that. You know, I was going to send that to our guys and go, look at what this guy's doing. Look at how he's not pandering to the YouTube audience. Yeah, I'm trying to. I took we had our last meeting of the year and I told the team I was like, I want to continue to dare people not to watch our videos. Yes. That's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly right. Well, it looks like it's having the opposite effect. People are watching a ton of your stuff. But let's talk about the car content. Yeah. Cool cars for cool guys in 2026 premise being these are cool cars. Guys can buy next year. Right. Yeah. Just like the idea sort of like a trend report. I'd say like, here's what I think is hitting. Here's what I think is cool moving in 2026. And this is advice for someone who wants a cool car because you feel like every guy, you say it in the video, I care about this, I care about that, but I don't care about my car, you should care about your car. You should care about your car. So why don't you just, you know, folks can go to YouTube and watch the whole video. But why don't you give me three cars, one of each price point. OK. Starting with the most expensive car. Most expensive, cool car, I'd say is like a sub hundred thousand dollar Ferrari. OK. Very cool. These guys right here. There's quite a few of them. I think when I was growing up, Ferrari was like this other echelon of car that like not everyone, not nobody could participate in. And for various reasons that sort of like flopped a little bit. I think they made up more cars than they ever made. Right. In the early 2000s. So there's just more available. And I also think that like with Porsche, I think Porsches are cool, but they're it's known that they're cool and the market reflects that. Right. And so it's hard to find a sub hundred thousand dollar cool Porsche. Right. These days. And because of that, like you can you can also get into a Ferrari for like 60, 70, 80 grand. But do you when you look at these cars, like have you looked at the maintenance? You know, what I do when I look at this market of Ferrari, like I agree with you, these are great cars to look at for under a hundred grand. I immediately go to Ferrari, chat forum for each model and look up the maintenance issues. You know, does the does the engine need to come out? What, you know, what kind of money are you spending for a yearly maintenance on them? And then, you know, you find that some of these guys make it get expensive. Yeah, get expensive really fast. So which of these, you know, are you like recommending that don't have that issue? Maintenance issue? I mean, here's the thing. OK, to drive an old cool car. Yeah. Part of the hobby is it's it needs maintenance. Yes. Like it's it's one it's two decades old. Any of these, whether it's cheap or expensive, right? And to like if you if you don't want to fix your car, then by Prius or Tesla, like it's just it's what there's a difference between fixing a car and $30,000. I mean, my buddy, Vin Anatchi, he has a great YouTube channel. Yeah, he bought a three fifth, three sixty. About two years ago. And he says it's the most reliable car that's around. And so I think he has reported that some of the maintenance stuff is a little overblown. He works on his own cars. Yeah. But he he's like if there's nothing more complicated about this car than another car. No, it's just if you're not doing the work yourself. Right. My experience with Ferrari has been just that, too, that you spend a little longer sorting them. Mm hmm. But once you get them right, they're right for a long time. Yeah. But you have to do that work. Uh huh. You know, and that that's a that's a Dino. I had a three sixty five GTC. There was a year of grinding, check writing. Yeah. And then it's good. And it paid off. Then the Dino. Yeah, the Dino. I got my money out of it. I had it for 12 years and it worked once I got it right. It worked for that full 12 years. So, you know, I like that. All right. Mid mid tier. What are you recommending for the guy who wants a cool car from 2026? Oh, mid tier. I'd say I like the V eight Audi S fours V eight. So these are cheap. These are not mid tier, but depends on who your audience is. OK. But I think the E 90 M threes were sort of criticized for a long time and saying like they weren't real M threes. People hated that they had a V eight and that's completely 180. And now everyone's like, oh, like they're one of the best years of M three. And so I think this was like a time in German sport saloons where they were like, let's make everything V eight. And I think that the Audi S four again, maintenance scares people a little bit. I don't know this this one for some, you know, Audi maintenance doesn't scare me as much as Ferrari maintenance, even if it was the same check. I'd still go, oh, it's somehow it's more digestible. That timing chain in this thing is. Oh, yeah. That's right. Seriously. OK. Well, we'll get in and do that first. Yeah. But I think these will gain appreciation. Yeah. We'll kind of wake up. This is a great recommendation. And it's funny. It's like just seeing that three hundred and fifty horsepower V eight spec makes it attractive to me right now. Totally. It's really fascinating what this big jump to all electric leaping too far into our the way we think about these cars. And then so many of the cars being reduced to V sixes and then V fours and inline fours. Yeah. What suddenly that little V and that little eight does. Totally. I'd say like, yeah, like electric. He gets you excited. Like even like naturally aspirated. Yeah. Is exciting. Yeah, it is. And it tastes changed and they continue to change. And suddenly we're at a time where, look, the Audi S four V eight. Super attractive. Totally. I would drive that. That's a great recommendation. And I also think like electric cars being so fast has sort of pushed us to like not care as much about ultimate performance and more about the experience. And I think the driving experience of a naturally aspirated V eight is pretty good. OK. And at the entry level, something really affordable. We don't have a lot of money to spend, but we want a cool car for 2026. E 34 BMW five series. Really? Yeah. We can afford that. We can. I mean, there's so many of them. So what are we paying for this? It depends on what engine you want. They're all good. I mean, you can get a really nice one for less than 10 grand. Really? Yeah. OK. I'm not saying like M five, but you can get like a 540 I or something like that, which has a V eight. And I think with five series specifically, everyone compares the top of the line. So like everyone's comparing the M five. And I think the E 34 kind of doesn't necessarily get dragged, but it gets a little overlooked because the M five is a six cylinder. But they also had a V eight. There you go, which is pretty cool. And they look very similar. Let's go to this this this point in your video here where you talk about Porsche. I might get one of you. You want to play this clip? OK, you do you like watching yourself or is it a problem? I don't mind. I'm just waiting for the comments. Well, let's just talk about it. Hot take. Porsches aren't cool anymore. Not in 2026 or not. Porsches used to dominate the affordable exotic market. And I know a bunch of you guys in the comments are like, oh, Porsches aren't exotic. Yeah, they are. Yes, they are. What makes a person exotic? It's expensive. If you already have an old Porsche, it's cool. But if you buy a 993 base Carrera for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, it's not cool. OK, that's good. What's wrong with this? It seemed I feel like that's accurate. I think I think I think people have an issue with it if they fail to see the nuance and what I'm saying. There is nuance. I mean, you know, I looked at a 993 C2S. I found, you know, it's a car I've wanted to buy for a long time. And I went to the price. I wish it was one thirty. Yeah, it was over two hundred. Yeah, that's a lot of money for what the hell. Yeah. Is that why is that so high? And it is absolutely true. Like, you know, I bought I think my first vintage 9 11 was a seventy three nine eleven T with twelve thousand. Twelve thousand original miles. All original car, sixteen thousand dollars. And that's very cool. Expensive. Yeah, that was expensive. But Jerry's like, no, buy that. And then I bought a nine eleven S condo green, 1970, six thousand original miles, chalk marks on the engine. They said, but it's going to cost you fifty thousand dollars. And that really I was shocked. We were shocked. That's a lot of money for an old nine eleven, you know. And then from there, things have gotten crazy. Yeah. You know, early nine elevens are coming down right now. That's a place. But you're right. Much of that. I think you're right. And there is some nuance in what you're saying. But there's a lot of stuff that's suddenly decreasing in value rapidly. That if you wanted a cool car, that's a Porsche. Going to the sixties. Look in the sixties and look in the seventies right now. And I think you're going to be surprised because those two segments, those two decades aren't moving and look like that's how it works. Now those are cool. Again. Yeah. I mean, at a certain point, like and obviously I love Porsches and Porsches are. They are cool, obviously, but like at a certain point, if you're. I mean, if you have it, like go ahead or whatever. But like at a certain point, if you're getting, being taken advantage of is not cool. And at a certain point, you're like a sucker. Yeah. And you're kind of missing the point. It's I think it's similar to like everyone's talking about the sneaker market. Like just like dropped out or whatever. Yeah. So like reselling sneakers, like isn't a thing. And it just ended, I guess, like in the past few years, you know, it wasn't like two months ago, that guy was arrested in Hollywood for all the fake sneaker. It seems like right at that moment, everything just ended. Yeah. So it's like beanie babies. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Suddenly, you're already like, these are just dumb. Yeah. At a certain point, you got to look at a thing and be like, you know what, I don't think it's worth that. And you stand up for yourself. Yes. Standing up for yourself is cool. Wow. I'm happy that happened. That seems like a good correction. Yeah. Because we just wear these dumb things. Yeah. Wow. What else needs to be corrected? Do you think that's overpriced? Oh, I do want to say I just watched Modern Romance and he drives a Porsche in that movie. Yeah. That's a really good looking car. Yeah, he's got a 912. See, that's cool. Oh, man. It got me thinking like, maybe I'll rethink my stance. 68, 912. Wow. Really cool looking. That's beautiful. Look at that. Albert Brooks. I saw Albert Brooks in Beverly Hills. Oh, yeah. When I first moved out to LA, I was going to see my agent. I think he might have been going too and I pulled up next to him. I don't know him and I see him and he's, you know, like a hero of mine. And you know, I'm a comedy writer at that point and he's, I roll the window. He looks over and I roll the, I go, hey, roll your window. I go, Mr. Brooks, I'm a huge fan. My name's Spike. I'm a writer on sign. Oh, hey, Spike. Nice to meet you. I see you driving the Chrysler 300 there. Oh, Lord. He goes, that's right. I go, that's a weird choice, isn't it? It's like kind of a taxi cab car. Yeah. And he goes and then the light changes and he drives. Oh, no, wait. You see your hero and just talk. I didn't get to finish. What car were you driving? 911. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of a taxi cab car. I get nervous and I say the wrong shit. And I realized as I was stepping into it, I had done the wrong thing. Coming out of your mouth. And he was just like, what an asshole. And I was like, oh, shit. And I would and I figured I could still recover, you know, like I knew where I was and I tipped him off balance, but he just took off. Yeah. And then, you know, I go to Park at CAA and he's right there in the thing and he's looking at me, but he's not looking in a friendly way. Now I'm afraid. Yeah, I do that. I just ruin I just ruin things for myself. Interesting instinct. Yeah. Well, I have you know, that's the first time I thought of that story in 20 years. Jesus Christ. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I made fun of your car. Albu Brooks. Albu Brooks. Albu Brooks. Olivia loves a challenge. It's why she lifts heavy weights and likes complicated recipes. But for booking her trip to Paris, Olivia chose the easy way with Expedia. She bundled her flight with a hotel to save more. Of course, she still climbed all 674 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. You were made to take the easy route. We were made to easily package your trip. Expedia made to travel. Flight inclusive packages are at all protected. Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand. Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time from startups to scale ups online in person and on the go. Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your one dollar a month trial at Shopify.com. Slash setup. Because I'm so sorry. You have great taste in cars. You have great proven taste in cars. One of the coolest. It's really awesome. You know, it's funny we're talking about this because I have the story flag to talk about and it's a Hagerty story. The collector car market has shifted to newer cars. Younger buyers are collecting newer cars according to a new report from Hagerty. Also, according to Spike first and two years ago, Pebble Beach Spikes Car Radio podcast, where I noticed the same thing. There was no excitement about old cars that everything has shifted to these new cars. So, you know, that's a really interesting stat right there. You know, what does that mean, though? I mean, because when you're shifting to new cars, aren't you shifting to a higher price point that the younger generation? They're like Calnewer. They're saying baby boomers now age 61 to 79 drove mostly drove most auction demand from 1960s to the 80s as they pursued their post war cars from their childhood seeking 40s, 1950s models during their own economic prosperity. They liked exaggerated styling, bold, shiny chrome, big V8 engines. We seem to like those now. But enthusiasts that are driving the market now cars being sold at auction has moved up to 1984, more than a decade newer than most popular model year just five years ago, top 10 auction sales of 2025. These are just numbers, but but it's what I've noticed. The 90s, the 90s and the 2000s are jamming right now. I mean, I feel like this happens like every few years. Yeah, like there was a time, you know, 15 or 20 years ago when muscle cars were selling for over two hundred thousand dollars. And then, you know, you just buy what you wanted when you were a kid. Right. Exactly. Right. Yeah. So all of us are just like, once we have money, we want to buy the things that we couldn't get when we were we want to buy the poster on our wall. So right. Or the wallpaper on our iPhone. Right. There's no more posters. Yeah, James, it's over. Here's a lovely Christmas story, James. California mom uses her G-Wagon to ram getaway car of suspected burglars. You know, did you see this story? I saw the video without context. The mother in the G-Wagon raced back home where surveillance video captured what happened next. Apparently there was a robbery in progress. She had left the house to do some shopping. She left grandma and the kids there. The alarm goes off. Some guys are trying to break into the house. And she does this with her G-Wagon. She races back. There are the guys and boom, right into the white and smash. And look, they're out of here. They go. Wild instinct. Moments later, three suspects run from the sedan and disappear into the neighborhood. I got it. I got to give this woman props. This is one of the best uses for G-Wagon I've ever seen. What they're built for. This is what they're built for. I don't understand why you crashed into your own house. Yeah. Why you didn't just stop there. Go play it for a second. What is she? They're the guys they're trying to get in the car. Blammo. What does that feel like? And then they run. Most likely a stolen car on their part. Does it say what happened? So they found they found some ID in the car. Like she actually helped the case a lot because they ended up they ended up bolting right away and they found a bunch of their identification in the car. So this is, you know, here's what's a little interesting about it. Zuckerman could comment it on it a little better. Oh, somebody had a Lamborghini Urus back there. That's a nice neighborhood here. Let's smash that into the car next. Yeah, yeah. The you know, when you when you watch these stories and you see someone who's like armed and there's an armed intruder or something, if you shoot them when they're leaving, if you're not in a clear and present danger, the liability is on you, right? Like I wonder in this situation, these guys are scrammed, they're leaving, they're no longer a danger to her or her family. That was my instinct was like, I don't know if I would hit the fleeing criminals with my car. But play it one more time. Does the guy in the way the arrow is, does he get hurt? Does he get thrown? Well, he like puts the one guy in the boot. Oh, so he just gets bumped. OK. I mean, what's your insurance? Like does insurance cover that? That's an that's an expensive G wagon. What do you say when you call up? Yeah, I was in an accident. What happened? I mean, I was in an on purpose. How much stuff did they steal? I don't think they got anything. No, I think this all fell apart. This is a principle. It is couldn't do that in a Prius. You couldn't do that in a Prius. No, but I get the feeling insurance is going to screw her. Oh, yeah. I think she's paying for her own G wagon. Definitely, I think. And I think it's worth it. And by the way, Mercedes, if you'd like to step up and help this woman, you can help her up. Hook her up with a new G wagon. Hook her up so she can smash make her a brand ambassador. That's right. We're sick. Listen, we're sick of celebrities. OK, this is a real salt of the earth woman in Beverly Hills, who is protecting her family. I understand her panic, too. Like you're away from your house. Like I have I have a lot of security at my house. People are always trying to kill me. And I've been out to dinner. They're not. Yeah. But I've been out to dinner when that security is triggered and there's been someone in the driveway and you're not sure what they're doing. Yeah. And you do feel panic. And that's with nobody home. So now with your kids and grandma, well, that's brave. It is hard to ram a car into something like to overcome. Yeah. Yeah. The instinct to not hit stuff with a car. You know, here's the thing in LA, like it's a very big place and it takes the police a very big space of time to show up. It always does. Yeah. My record once was two hours. Oh, you do feel like you need to take an action. And then in that moment, you realize she didn't. She's not trained to take the proper action. Yeah. She just decides I'm hysterical. My family is being threatened and they may they might kill them. So those must be the guys I'm going to take them out. Those must be the guys. Those must be the guys. Judge Jerry execution. Yes. I think Mercedes should run this as their super bowl commercial. No context. All right. Why don't we talk about this Bentley Bintega speed that I brought here just for you? I think I'm getting this next month. That's fantastic. I love that. Now you're getting some big time press cars. Some press cars. I like Bentley's. I love Bentley and I'm always happy in them. And this car was dropped off right as the rain began. Oh, perfect. And it was perfect. Yeah, because I got to see I knew it was going to be a sport luxury SUV and how that would perform and I could go fast in it and boy, does it go fast. But I got to see it perform in rain and mud. And I bet you if I off-roaded this, it would perform there too. Yeah. This is a really great contraption. Yeah. Some I can't. I can I can tell you that when I when I'm driving these bentley's and we get a lot of them, I'm headed to a Bentley. I don't know when I hope that it's a retirement vehicle, but I really love what's happened to this company. They've really come up since the Volkswagen group has taken over. There's I suspect there's a lot of Porsche technology underneath that I'm feeling a difference and everything works right and it really drives right. On the monitor here, it's reflecting a little blue. This is a G in blue it's called, but it's really kind of a greenish blue. Let me get my stats here on the car. OK, specced out this car. Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Very, very expensive. Four liter twin turbo V8, six hundred and forty one horsepower, which brings it to 60 in the low threes. And what we have here is the new kind of a new idea for the Bintega speed. It is the most powerful Bintega ever built sport luxury that delivers, they say, urban driving, whatever that means. And this car was headed towards an electric platform. And then Bentley, like a lot of manufacturers said, you know what, we're going to slow that down and punted decision. Yeah, they slowed it down. They said it's it's going to happen, but let's let's just remake the car for Bentley fans and make it ice. And and what they did is they switched it from a W12 to a V8, which, you know, there is something special about that W12. You do feel it when you drive this, you know, because you drive the other Bentley's like the flying spur and you go, well, this doesn't necessarily feel like those things as an SUV. It feels more agile and it feels it has a lighter driving feeling. You know, it's not lighter, but I frequently say on the show, it feels lighter, it's engineered lightness and people like, it's not light, man. It's like, yeah, I know, but it's driving feeling is engineered lightness. And, you know, what I what I learned about this car is I can use it everywhere in my life without exception. Yeah, without exception. I have used this everywhere, which I and here's my only like. Those rear tailings are cool. Everything about it is fantastic. I mean, I don't think I do the Aegean blue. But again, these these cars are highly customizable. I got lost for an hour making one just for fun. But in the price tag is ridiculous. So, you know, again, like I can't recommend it enough. I just don't again know who it's for. Like it's an obscene amount of money for a beautiful thing. But it is a beautiful thing to drive. You know, for the first time, it's got 23 inch wheels, which you think, all right, well, that's pretty big. I wonder how that's going to affect things. I think it just makes the car look great. I didn't I didn't feel like that was any sort of problem. You know, Bentley is all about comfort. So I was wondering how are they going to make that sort of performance engine and suspension to an SUV that you're driving around town? They do it quite well. It's not it doesn't you don't get in this and go, oh, I'm super comfortable and taken care of. You get in it and you go, I'm very comfortable. I'm comfortable enough and watch how fast I can go. That's the thing that makes I think Bentley so cool is like, yeah, it is super luxurious and super comfortable. But like they're really fast. They're really fast. And, you know, like I said, like the rain's coming down. I've got family in town. I've got errands I'm running every day in the storm. Great car for family in town. Yeah, look at this taxi and everybody around. This one just has the four seats. It doesn't have the five seat configuration in there. You know, you just get so happy that you're getting into it. The seat heats up just perfectly. Everything. All of those. See all the buttons, buttons, by the way, ergonomic design, everything's where you reach for it. I didn't have to look once at a manual to kind of figure it out. When I wanted to destroy people on the road, I just jammed because I think like not everybody knows that Bentley's are so fast. So like I've had Bentley's a number of times and I love when someone's like tailgating you because they don't like that you're driving a really nice car. And then you just drop the hammer and leave them. It just goes. So, you know, it's one of those everything mobiles. It would not surprise me if I see this car in, you know, Guy Richie's next season of The Gentleman. Yeah, you know what I mean? Theo James will be driving this because it is so perfectly refined and beautiful and fast and you can't fuck with it and you could you can get it into the mud and do whatever you want with it. It really goes, you know, it's got a little downhill button there for real off-roading and you just like, holy shit, you know, but again, it's like, I don't know who it's I guess that's the perfect usage is Guy Richie. Yeah, give it to Guy Richie, have him in the farmland, out in the muck, being chased by someone and shooting and going fast. And that's what this thing is here. It's really an incredible thing. And look, the wireless charger for once. This is the second car and this is a good sign, the second car where it works all the time. Oh, nice. It doesn't bounce off. It doesn't stop charging. It doesn't make your phone hot. It doesn't just make the phone hot. But yeah, I can't. Luke from Bentley, thank you for sending this. He goes, you know, you know, because it's the holidays, you're going to have to keep it an extra week or so. And I said, oh, OK. He goes, I apologize. Oh, well, I'll do my best. Soldier through this. But I can't say enough great things about it. It's another lovely car from Bentley. They're on our they're on our good list. Yes, Santa's Santa's Spikes. Happy list. Bentley, you're doing a fantastic job. You've done a fantastic job with this guy. It's good looking. It's good looking. If you could, I guess the price is part of the fun for some people. They want to pay for this. They want to pay for the five thousand dollar hotel room. Go ahead. You deserve it. You made your money stealing it by this thing. There you go. Bentley, but take it speed. And we're going to drive it. I'm going to let James take it around the block because it's the same name as his hit YouTube channel without a knee. They should when you get this, you should have a little extra e-put in right there. Just do it and not tell him. Yeah, just put it on the side. Yeah. All right. Before we go, I asked some of the viewers, some of the listeners for their New Year's resolutions. All right. And I said automotive or otherwise. I know that's a very easy premise. I'm not sure what we're going to get here. Like be automotive or honestly, otherwise, we're fine with otherwise as well. And we'll go to our friends. We're doing ranking these. I don't know. We can we can comment on them. Don't waste your time. What I like about resolutions is I'm always looking for something that maybe I might try and oh, yeah, right? You know, my, you know, I don't know about you, but like, do you make a resolution or are you just constantly in motion trying to improve yourself? I'm trying to set goals just to give my life some structure. And I have so for the year. Yeah. Yeah. And so I've read recently too. Like it is helpful to do it at like a milestone that everyone shares. OK. New Year's resolutions. That's good. Not dumb. Officially endorsed. I like that. I usually just am always trying to improve myself, but that leads to a very unhappy life. Yeah. Self-awareness does not lead to happiness, necessarily. It doesn't. Right. No. TikTok is teaching me that. He has Duff's Gavski. I think there's like a thing. Marcus Aurelius. I like the philosophers. It's good. I read one the other day. It was like the horrible thing is happening to you. Just let it happen. You're still you. Yeah. It's a separate thing. And I went, wow, that's a really interesting idea. All right, JT, I'm going to start to go fund me for a vintage Bronco and a GLP subscription. No, that's a bad resolution. That's a bad resolution. Not even a resolution. I think he's just trying to be funny. Nick Burton. I survived a divorce last year and retained all the Volkswagen's. Excellent. Oh, good. Very good, Nick. I can't believe she didn't come after all those Volkswagen's. I hope to double down the weekly drives and make up for a lot of cruising I missed last year. No more killing independent Nick. So he's setting the tone for a new. This is the same divorce guy. This is the same divorce guy. Yeah, he's he's kept his Volkswagen's. He's got a nice little picture of him here. And he's going to enjoy them now without wife or ex-wife interference. Yeah, I think that's a good resolution. Alex is saying my resolution is to get sport tires. I have all season tires now, but looking to upgrade this year, I put performance brakes on my car. With that, I think that's like a planned purchase. Yeah, I think a resolution has to like require multiple and some and some behavior. But if you've got Alex, remember, official tire partner of Spikes Car Radio. Challenge Astridale Lama. It's a good name. It is fewer parking lots with coffee and talk of deviated stitching. More back roads with buddies and walkies. Well, I like that. That's a very good walkie talkie use with your friends. It's the most fun. It really is. It's one of my favorite things about shooting big videos. We all just agree that we're going to pretend to be like you guys for a day. That's really good. You're right. No, when my kids were little, my boys were little and they said, we want walkie talkies. I go, it's odd. And I just started buying walkie talkies and then these aren't good enough. Let's get the ones that go a half mile away. Just walkie. Now we've got a giant like chest of drawers full of walkie talkies that I still want to use. Maybe that's going to be my resolution. I'm going to take one resolution. OK, from one of these guys. But weekend drives with walkie talkies. That's close now. That's close to being the top because we took the other resolution and we added walkie talkies. That's right. Yeah. That's important. Portions to consistently drive to the edge of my 100 mile towing limit without fear in my 66 912. Now that I have triple a premiere. It's a good one. Getting out of his comfort zone with a tow truck. I hope he's getting paid by triple A. You know, triple A is one of those funny companies that every six months you're almost cutting your car in half and then right as you're about to do that, your car breaks down and they come in the driveway. It's one of the only things that exists in the world that I think costs less than it should. Yeah. And it's amazing. Yeah. You go to the DMV stuff is just tremendous. Yeah, it's the DMV and then it's the perfect amount of times my car breaks. Yeah. To get towed every year. It's perfect. Yeah, it's great. So I've learned not to cancel it every year. It keeps me optimistic in like the world as long as triple A is like. And you know what? Don't sleep on the discounts. That's right. Yeah. Hotels. Lots of them. Yeah. You feel a little geriatric typing it in, but. Comes through. Not geriatric to save money. Mike Garoi finished the suspension on my Toyota MR2 and take it for a spin on the dragon. I like that. That's a goal. It's more of a goal and resolution. I think resolution is what? Self-improvement? Maybe. OK. Some of these are just what they want to do and what they want to achieve. I get it. KHTV garage. I've always wanted the 912 since I was a teenager. It's a goal every year and a Hoyer Monaco. Do you guys have any car unfulfilled dreams from way back? Hmm. Yes. Really? Tons. Yeah. That's why I do this. You're going to get all of them. This is going to be really fun to watch it happen. Yes, I appreciate that. Just give me one that you're going to buy. I want to buy. Someday. I mean, I really want to own a Porsche. An air-cold Porsche. Really? Yeah. Like which one? Like 964, 993. OK. For sure. We'll make that happen. Yeah. We can easily make that happen. More salaments can get to work on that for you. They're really nice. That's a good idea. It's a good one. You have to send it out and get it a little chipped up to make it just right. We know the guys to do that. All right. Here we go. Finally, Sotho Cam says, finally sell the car I've owned for 14 years. All right. Well, go ahead. Any more? Any more content? Why hasn't he sold it? McClade, these are all things that everybody's been holding off, I guess. Full maintenance of my car. That's OK. McLaren MG to finish all the fabrication of components to fit the Marshall Supercharger to my 1930s. Mg J2. Oh, that's a cool one. Finally get it done. That guy wearing a top hat. And he's I would bet you he's Australian. Yeah. I think he is. Sean Walker Media, keep enjoying the shit out of my first sports car. I want to do at least one winter lapping track day in a full track day in the summer. The rest of it is enjoying the drives. Enjoying the drives. Enjoying the drive. That's a joy. The drives is a real resolution. And that will really make a big difference in your life. Win my local SCCADS autocross class in my golf bar. Cameron, you won't be winning it in your golf bar. I enjoy my golf. Yeah. You have any resolutions? I haven't thought about it, honestly. Give me give a few more and I'll pick one. OK. MW Bu 11 to buy my first Japanese car and more German cars. I like that. That's a good one. Marissa Mussoni, I would like to be. I would like the honor of being named Maggot of the Year. Thank you. Really? All right. You're Maggot of the Year. Hey, Marina, congratulations. You're Maggot. 3M manual M.M. just wants to own a car. I get it. That's good. That's a good goal. That is a good goal. Nick Clis 02. Nick Clis, I get it. Five to eight thousand dollar classic driver. It was budget for a motorcycle, but I'm going to be on the same roads. Might as well be a classic, right? 2026 is the year. What are we doing for five to eight? Five to eight thousand dollars. Yeah, what do you get? You get a decent E30 for that much. Yeah. Oh, Miata. He said a classic driver. I mean, a Miata is a good idea. Yeah, that's a good one. A vintage Volkswagen Beetle. Good idea. I don't know how old you are or what he's talking about. I think you're going for like you want it. It's not going to be fast. It's probably not going to be reliable. Right. You want it to smell weird and make a lot of noise. Yes. I think that's what you're looking for. Jim Ralph wants the GT3 at MSRP. Sorry. Yes, sorry. Not happening, buddy. More like a New Year's pipe dream. More family road trips for Proctor JR 19. That's a good one. Yeah. Why is that good? Why does that because that's an experience? It's an experience and you're sharing it with your family. That's right. Also the most selfless. That's right. It's the first one to involve other people. So maybe you guys should think about that. Doug Ross, drive faster, take more chances and teach my niece how to drive a manual. Very good. Yeah. Yeah. I just did that with young James first. And we took the 79 525 out BMW and we drove around the neighborhood doing laps. And it's good. It is good. Yeah. Because there's always a moment where someone says, hey, do they drive manual? And then the kid goes, yes. And they look at you and they go, you raise that kid. It's one of the things on our 42 things list. Is it? Yeah. And it's not just because it's a better driving experience. You should know how to drive a manual just in case someone asks you to move a car and you don't like so you don't have to be like, oh, I don't know how. You should know how to do a number of things. Yeah. So even if you don't care about cars, you should learn how to operate. I'm not going to tell the story again because I told it once. But when we were shooting on Frosted at Netflix, we had a vintage Jaguar with a manual gearbox and five minutes of sunset left. And we said, does anybody drive a manual and an extra, an old man extra raised his hand and money shot it? Yeah. We had done 10 takes. Money shots at perfect. Yeah. And that's an experience that guy wouldn't have. And the shots in the movie. And you know, I'm the only one who tells the story. But Jerry and I were like, that was the greatest moment. We went over to the guy where like, you are an American hero. An American film hero. Yeah, that's like the best we could put you up for. Yeah, it was just a guy. He's an old guy who wanted to make some money on just standing around in a ballroom. Yeah. And because he knew how to drive a manual transmission, we went from being a guy standing in a ballroom to a hero. Yeah. Well, there it is. We'll just end on that. That guy's a hero. I wish I had taken that guy. Shout out to the he may not even be alive. He was a really old, he had gray hair and he was just making a little extra. He went out on top and there's and at the time we're on the street in Altadena in front of this country club and it's a big setup and there are semis out there. And there's hundreds of people running around. Does anybody drive a manual? Is there a doctor on the plane? This little guy goes, I love that. And I go, the director goes, not Jerry, the cinematographer and the stage. Somebody, the first AD spike. We don't have time. We got time on the producer, but I don't know exactly where I fall in this hierarchy. But I go, we got time. Just trust me. He goes, he's not going to do it. Jerry goes, he'll do it. That was so good. And they go, get over here. The guys like me were like, yes, we're helping him across the street. We put him in this old Jaguar that was really old, 60s Jaguar, hard to drive. And he nails it. Yeah. That guy. Imagine the phone calls that guy made when he went home. That night. I don't think any of his friends are alive. No, he goes back to his single room apartment, sits down since then. Well, James, thank you so much for coming on and doing our New Year's Eve show. Thank you for having me. We should do something to celebrate because it's New Year's Eve. What do you want us to do, Jeremy? OK, why don't we put on our glasses? You know, these really worked up until 2009. And then what do we have to do with this stuff? Twist on the bottom. All right. On the count of three, we'll wish you all a happy New Year and twist the bottom and hopefully something will happen. You ready? Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year. Radio one, two, three. All right. That was louder than I anticipated and way messier. Yeah. If you're a Patriot subscriber, stick around. We're going to drive the speed. He's going to drive the speed. Speed, Jarvis B.