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Норрис — чемпион Ф1 | Тойота показала новый LFA! | Mercedes будет делать гелик-кабрик — Transcript

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0:00And we’re here. We’re here. Oh,
0:02hello there. What should we start with
0:15today? Walking over, I had so many
0:17thoughts in my head, but I was like,
0:19this goes to Telegram, this goes there,
0:20this goes here, I need this bit right
0:22here, wait,
0:23we’ll get stuck on that in a moment.
0:26So, we’ve woken up in a world where
0:27Lando Norris is the Formula 1 champion.
0:29Uh,
0:29no, no one is
0:32congratulating Lando Norris fans on
0:34this achievement, but I personally
0:35can’t morally come to terms with it
0:37yet, because, well, it’s hard for me
0:38to accept that
0:40Max Verstappen isn't the champion.
0:42No, not just Max, that’s not the
0:44point. Look at the grid of drivers. And
0:47in a year when you have Lewis Hamilton,
0:49Charles Leclerc, Alonso, Max Verstappen
0:51on the track, never mind Russell, never
0:54mind Kimi Antonelli, Oscar Piastri,
0:56among this crowd,
0:57exactly.
0:59And still, we shouldn't forget, Lance
1:01Stroll.
1:03Titans,
1:04yes, titans. Why did I say Lawrence
1:06instead of Lance? That’s it, I’m
1:07done. Among all these magnificent
1:09titans of motorsport, we have Lando
1:10Norris as champion. It’s just strange
1:12to me, I’m not against it. Like, yeah
1:14, he really earned it. He’s been
1:16working toward this for many years,
1:17seven years in Formula 1, steering,
1:19spinning, pedaling.
1:20Well, okay, Norris has always driven
1:21pretty well,
1:22right?
1:23Not bad.
1:24Not bad. That’s the whole point, that
1:27he’s like, well, in Formula 1,
1:29Formula 2, Formula 3, or any other
1:31world championship, there aren't really
1:33people who drive badly. There is a
1:37separate category, like the Lance
1:38Strolls, who just drive in the wrong
1:40direction. There. Well, like, but in
1:43general,
1:45Stroll just won the genetic lottery.
1:47Fact.
1:48No, well, he’s not an absolute
1:49outsider, if you look at it.
1:51Well, of course, of course,
1:51he is progressing.
1:53Reminding you that he has this, what is
1:55it, evolving,
1:55two broken arms, two of those, or one
1:58broken arm.
1:59One, well, he has a titanium plate in
2:00there. Well, it’s hard to steer with
2:02a titanium plate. We found out he rides
2:05a bicycle poorly.
2:07It’s just two wheels, guys. No,
2:09it’s just that a bicycle doesn't have
2:11a halo, a carbon monocoque, a
2:12five-point harness, and a helmet that
2:14just saves you. Well, personally for me
2:17, Lando Norris is the hero of that
2:19Zatochka song. You know, mommy’s
2:21little cupcake, daddy’s little bead,
2:22all that stuff. Well, like, there’s
2:24just no, like, sporting aggression in
2:27him. He’s a cool guy, absolutely.
2:29Well, we were just sitting in that
2:31hookah lounge, watching the finale and
2:33discussing how, well,
2:34reminding you that in that hookah
2:36lounge, an opinion about Stanislav
2:37Alexandrovich Asayev was voiced from
2:39the screen.
2:40Yeah.
2:40So, there are as many opinions as there
2:42are people.
2:43Yeah, I'm not claiming to hold the
2:44absolute truth, I'm talking about my
2:46own personal impressions. It's just
2:47strange to me, I'm not against it.
2:49Lando Norris has truly written his name
2:51into the list of the world's great
2:53drivers now. The thirty-fifth Formula 1
2:55champion. There are only 35 of them in
2:57total. Regardless, in the 75 years of
2:59Formula 1's existence, only 35 people
3:01on the planet have been awarded the
3:03title of world champion. That's it.
3:06Like, it's automatic. A legendary
3:08person. Period. It's just, damn it,
3:10hard to come to terms with this
3:12while having not the highest number of
3:14wins in the season.
3:16Well, it has happened before that
3:18someone without the most wins in a
3:20season became champion. But still, it's
3:23only his mother surprises me.
3:24Everything else is fine to me.
3:26Yes. Now, his mother could have been a
3:29champion. She was definitely a champion
3:31at consuming light drugs, judging by
3:32how she looks. Well, like, for sure.
3:35When you think about the fact that this
3:37is old British money, they look like
3:38that. You're like: "I'm going to be
3:40destitute."
3:41And that she was definitely in the
3:42hippie generation, there was definitely
3:44something there. Well, like, his dad
3:46has also seen some [ __ ].
3:49Well, definitely facts. It's just weird
3:50. In any case, the season turned out to
3:53be magnificent, no matter how much
3:55people shouted at the beginning of the
3:56season that, oh, the season is lost, oh
3:58, that's it, we watched two races, we
4:00can wrap it up.
4:01No, no, you're confused, Stas. We were
4:03talking about '23. They said the same
4:05about '24 and '25, that McLaren would
4:08win by a landslide. They practically
4:10did exactly that,
4:11by two landslides.
4:12By one,
4:13if you look at the constructors '
4:15championship, it's one big landslide by
4:17a whole lot of points. But the season
4:19turned out to be magnificent
4:20nonetheless.
4:20La, dan. Ferrari is stable. Come on. So
4:23,
4:23that's true.
4:24Regardless, this is already not the
4:25same. This is it, we are where we
4:27belong.
4:28Ferrari are amazing now. Well, like,
4:30shi-
4:30not even ironically anymore. Like, I
4:32find myself watching and going: "Holy
4:35mother of god." And if you suddenly
4:37didn't watch the Formula 1 season live,
4:39then the next season of Drive to
4:40Survive on Netflix is definitely worth
4:42watching. Who knows how they'll show
4:44all this. The writers definitely have a
4:46bunch of non-trivial tasks ahead of
4:47them. a bunch of non-trivial tasks.
4:50Well, I'm very curious how they will
4:52show Horner's move. Terribly curious.
4:53There is so much that can be shown
4:56there, because again, well, the whole
4:58Lewis Hamilton story,
5:00he feels like he’s been there for,
5:02well, 10 years this year, uh, but it
5:04definitely only happened this year.
5:07Horner’s departure, the Red Bull
5:08restructuring, Marko’s exit, Papaya
5:10Rules, Papaya Rules, all that, yeah,
5:12Norris as champion, McLaren as champion
5:13, there’s a lot of interesting stuff
5:15to watch there. Hülkenberg on the
5:18podium, Sainz.
5:20And what a Silverstone that was! Oh my,
5:22now I have to say something wholesome
5:25for wholesome people. I don’t really
5:27have many thoughts in my head right now
5:29, because I woke up this morning and
5:30was just like, "Screw it all." I wrote
5:33something in the Telegram channel, well
5:35, like a pretty long message, a long
5:37post, we call it different things. But
5:39in any case, I hadn't shared anything
5:40personal for a long time, so I decided
5:42to share it in the Telegram channel.
5:43I’m sitting here by myself right now.
5:44This literally, well, it happened about
5:46two hours ago, so I’m still feeling a
5:48bit romantically pensive myself. Yeah.
5:50And I don’t know what to talk about
5:52now, what weather to discuss. So go to
5:54Telegram, read it, and let’s move on
5:55to the news here instead. Especially
5:57since we have a lot of interesting
5:59things there. Starting with a trump
6:04card, the new Toyota GR GT supercar has
6:07been unveiled in two versions. And
6:09Lexus has presented the revived LFA
6:12supercar.
6:13Oh, look at him smiling. Just look,
6:16his lip is about to crack from the
6:18tension. But they came out saying, like
6:21, "Look, our legendary LFA, which no
6:22one has seen, which Jeremy Clarkson
6:24called the greatest car on the planet
6:26of all time, but still no one has seen
6:28the LFA and no one has ever driven it,
6:29and it's impossible to buy anyway."
6:32Basically, go to...We will revive this
6:34legend. We’ll bring it back to
6:37Olympus, sort of.
6:39Ahsar looked at me like he’d already
6:41bought one. It’s impossible to buy.
6:44Here it is.
6:46Go work properly, kid. So, they showed
6:50the new LFA. The reason for my
6:52hyena-like smile—or whatever the
6:54right word is, hyenistic—is that
6:57it’s an electric car.
6:59And you? He was smiling so much and
7:01then suddenly stopped. Didn't you know
7:02it was electric?
7:03I knew it was electric.
7:04He was smiling because of the Toyota.
7:06The GR GT isn't electric, is it? V8,
7:08Turbo.
7:09Hybrid.
7:10Hybrid, well, just a little bit, just
7:13to meet the standards.
7:15Yeah, just a little bit now. And that's
7:16fine, yeah, apparently. Hey, Stuttgart
7:20nonsense, we'll beat you on the track
7:22soon. Yeah, yeah, bring it on. Yeah,
7:25yeah. But what actually happened?
7:28Toyota comes out and is like: "Look,
7:29we've basically gone and turned
7:30everything upside down." How does it
7:33usually go? Usually, we have some kind
7:35of road car, some cool road-going
7:37supercar. And then, if you're an
7:39adrenaline-fueled, brutal automaker who
7:41wants to dominate in this motorsport
7:43scene, we take a production car and
7:45turn it into a race category car,
7:47something like GT3, then maybe go all
7:50out for GT2, and so on. But here they
7:52are, saying: "Let's first build
7:54something for the GT3 category, this
7:56specific carbon-fiber, aggressive thing
7:59." Then, we'll turn that into a road
8:00car and everything will be fine. The
8:02problem is that this is either
8:04marketing nonsense, where the marketing
8:06team thought it was a cool story to
8:08spin and tell people. Or, if they
8:11actually did it that way—first making
8:13a racing prototype, I mean, a race car,
8:14and then trying to make a road car out
8:16of it—that’s a very bad idea.
8:20Because a GT3 category car is...if it
8:22keeps even a little bit of the behavior
8:25and setup of a GT3 machine, it would be
8:28an impossible car for public roads.
8:31Most likely, that's not the case. I
8:33hope that's not the case, because a
8:35finished road product like that would
8:37be very poor; it would end up being way
8:39too stiff, too loud, and impossible to
8:41drive normally on the street. But
8:44either way, they come out and say: "
8:46Here is our road car, which will be
8:49released sometime around 2026 or 2027,"
8:51so we'll see it a bit later. First of
8:54all, it’s going to look like this.
8:56And on one hand, it's something new,
8:58something fresh for Toyota; they’re
9:00searching for a new direction. I find
9:02it strange that this is very sexy for a
9:05lot of money. They likely haven't
9:07announced the price tags yet, but I
9:08assume it's going to cost maybe 200,000
9:10dollars plus.
9:11Well, the benchmark is 200-250. Reviews
9:13mentioned it.
9:14There you go. But that’s just a
9:16target. Again, we have two more years
9:19of inflation ahead, so we could expect
9:21280, which is quite strange for a
9:22Corolla, quite.
9:24Oh, a Corolla, yeah, just a new
9:27twin-turbo V8 engine. Corolla, yeah.
9:30Yeah, yeah. That's right.
9:31Yeah, yeah. Yes, Stas.
9:33For a Corolla, that’s a bit pricey,
9:35for a supercar, it's perfect. Yes,
9:37that’s a normal price. But am I right
9:38, guys, that with specs like 650
9:40horsepower, 850 Nm of torque, 1.7 tons
9:43of weight, and so on, they’ve made
9:45something roughly like the Nissan GT-R?
9:48Why? It’s rear-wheel drive, for
9:50starters, it’s not all-wheel drive.
9:51Uh-huh.
9:52It’s got a V8, not a V6.
9:53Uh-huh. You’ve even got a blueprint
9:55of the engine, what are you doing here?
9:58Agreed. Agreed. Porsche is still just
10:00walking around with an engine blueprint
10:01.
10:01A six-stroke, sixteen-cylinder engine.
10:03Give us more numbers, boys. Let's do it
10:06.
10:06I agree with you there, yes. Toyota
10:08didn’t succeed with a $ 250,000 GT-R.
10:11At $ 80,000, at $ 60,000.
10:13Don't confuse a dying company with a
10:15growing one.
10:16Oh, right.
10:17And the first LFA was a flop anyway.
10:20The LFA was an image car. It wasn’t
10:22supposed to be a massive hit. It was
10:23all about the image. They wanted to
10:24show what we can do. They showed it: "
10:26If you happen to be looking for a
10:27marketer? Ahsar is available."
10:29Volkswagen also had Bugatti as an image
10:32car. And it’s still doing great to
10:34this day.
10:34Well, it didn't pay for itself either,
10:36not at all.
10:36That’s debatable, because who the
10:38hell knows how that business exists.
10:40People buy them, drive them, like...
10:43Has anyone actually seen them? No.
10:45Has anyone ridden in one? No.
10:47Bugatti, by Stas's logic, has been seen
10:49in every second schoolboy's diary.
10:53No, I actually saw one in St.
10:53Petersburg. Uh, a Veyron.
10:55In St. Petersburg, you could have
10:57imagined anything. That—that’s true
10:59. That’s true.
11:00Well, my point is that this thing is
11:01unlikely to pay for itself either. It
11:03really is. They built this whole thing
11:05from scratch here.
11:06Well, they want to get into the GT3
11:07class.
11:08That is an impossibly expensive project
11:10in the modern world. And for that, they
11:11get huge respect. This is, well, really
11:14, almost the only serious car company
11:16that has released something like this
11:18in the last 10 years. This, well, here,
11:22it looks beautiful. My respects, but I
11:24think Akela missed the mark just a
11:26little bit. A bunch of right decisions
11:29within the company over those same 10
11:31years. Toyota has been really great for
11:33the last 10 years. Truly one of the
11:35best car companies on the planet.
11:36That’s a good idea. But damn, it’s
11:39going to be very expensive.
11:40Maybe they just decided to burn some
11:42money. Just for the fun of it.
11:44And it would be fine if they had made
11:45the LFA into this. Why the hell are you
11:48making the LFA an electric car? Give me
11:51one reason. You have—well, at least
11:54swap it around, because you have this
11:57legendary brand, this whole thing, and
11:59the entire fan club is running around
12:01from morning to night with that, and
12:04all of this stuff.
12:06Where do you hang out, where do they
12:08run around?
12:11As soon as you, well, like throw the
12:14word LFA into, say, a henhouse, all
12:16this ruckus starts right away. Well, at
12:19you too. You just throw out LFA, and a
12:21fight breaks out immediately.
12:25A guy with a blueprint sits there like:
12:27"Everyone's an idiot."
12:29I'm not saying everyone's an idiot. I
12:31mean, well, I think it's very strange.
12:32You have a brand, you have a car.
12:34To take the best V10 sound and turn it
12:36into an EV is just really strange,
12:38when it's already obvious that there
12:40isn't a single example where some
12:42premium, very expensive car, even a
12:44very fast EV, was actually worth a damn
12:46to anyone at all. They want to meet
12:49emission standards. You make this
12:51gasoline car, and over here you make
12:53the exact same electric car, because,
12:55well, like, the space frame and all
12:57that is the same thing. Over here you
13:00have an electric motor with batteries,
13:01and here you have a normal human engine
13:03with a small battery and a small
13:04electric motor. And you call this a new
13:07Toyota, and that one you call an LFA.
13:10Do it the other way around at least.
13:13Maybe I'm hopelessly stupid. Most
13:16likely, that's the case. Because Toyota
13:18has more results than I do. True. But,
13:21damn it,
13:22people are going to be running around
13:23from morning till night now. Like: "
13:25Wait, stop, hopeless."
13:27No, it's you, you're the one who's
13:28going to be running around now. Yeah,
13:30or maybe it's actually a smart move,
13:32that they'll see through the Toyota if
13:35people are willing to pay hundreds of
13:37thousands for a modern V8
13:38with a Toyota badge.
13:40Yeah, if not, then they'll use the
13:41Lexus badge.
13:42Well, purely theoretically. Even just
13:44like this, right off the bat on a piece
13:45of paper. Well, sitting on your ass on
13:47the couch, for what would people
13:49theoretically be more likely to pay
13:51250,000 dollars, for a Toyota or a
13:53Lexus LFA? As brands? Who cares what
13:55kind of car it is? There, well, you
13:57have two signs.
13:58Well, possibly, yes. Lexus in that
14:00regard
14:01is a strange move. Let's wait until
14:03some kind of road car appears and then,
14:05well,
14:06well, maybe the Lexus will just be
14:07twice as expensive because of the
14:09gasoline engine,
14:10if you consider how, once again, this
14:12legendary status of the Lexus suddenly
14:14formed, because for me, honestly, 2
14:15years ago I didn't think it had become
14:17legendary. Well yeah, they didn't make
14:20many of them,
14:20imagine that. There, well, like I said,
14:22in the
14:23Toyota club you throw the word LFA, and
14:25they come running at you.
14:27Toyota club, Stanislav Alexandrovich
14:29lives at this address. Write it down.
14:32Join forces with the Supra owners too.
14:34And beware of everyone. RAV4, yeah,
14:36yeah. Yeah, totally, yeah,
14:38pretty legendary. Well, I guess the
14:40drifting made it legendary.
14:42Oh, so that’s why it’s such an
14:44expensive car, makes sense.
14:46Like what you guys were just discussing
14:48,
14:48yeah?
14:49So it turned out for them
14:50that finding a stock one is impossible
14:51now.
14:52And finding a stock one is impossible
14:53now. Even on the t-shirt, it's not
14:55stock.
14:55Even on the t-shirt, it's not stock.
14:57Even though it came off the assembly
15:00line in stock.
15:02We’re not going to fight about the
15:04Silvia.
15:04And what about it?
15:05You'll fit in two toilets. Well, Silvia
15:10, like, they have the runs later.
15:14Not only Stas Akhtar is not good.
15:16Moving on.
15:17More bad jokes off-camera.
15:20I've been trying to keep a car
15:21conversation going for 8 years for this
15:22. Yeah. And meanwhile, who was
15:32enlightened with the thought that they
15:34shouldn't make electric cars? UAZ gave
15:36up on the idea of making electric cars.
15:38Screw them.
15:40They kind of gave up on the idea of
15:42cars in general a long time ago. And
15:45then they come out like: "Well, we
15:46thought about it, weighed everything.
15:48Electric cars aren't our path." But
15:50actually, there's no real news story
15:52here because they just pulled words out
15:54of context from the interview. They
15:55were asked something like, "
15:56Electro-bukhankas, electro-bukhankas,
15:57will you make electric cars or not?" To
15:59which company representatives said: "
16:02Sure we could, but why?" And then
16:04headlines spread across the internet
16:06that UAZ refused to make electric cars.
16:09I would add that they should learn how
16:11to make cars first.
16:12Well, Atom, that's a record.
16:13Well, Atom, that's a record. Well, Atom
16:15, good job guys. Well, you’ve got to
16:17buy an Atom. Yeah.
16:17Did I miss something, did some amount
16:20pass me by?
16:23It was some number of news stories ago
16:24we were sitting there cracking up that,
16:26well, how do I explain it now? JLR
16:31responded for the new Jaguar, cruelly
16:33firing the lead designer Gerry McGovern
16:36. Governa, sorry, I mispronounced the
16:38last name, McGovern. Well, actually,
16:41like the name, like the concepts.
16:44McGovern.
16:45Oh, here we go. He drew the Defender
16:49for you.
16:49Yeah, I know, I know. That’s a joke.
16:51Gerry, by the way, is a very ancient
16:53person at Jaguar. He drew a lot of
16:55things at Land Rover. Jaguar Land Rover
16:57. I mean, in the concern as a whole.
16:59The ancient person at Jaguar is
17:00Konstantin Sergeyevich.
17:02There, there, this one is even more
17:04ancient.
17:04No, seriously, jokes aside. How old do
17:06you think he is?
17:07He's, like, 60-something, I think, or
17:0970, something like that.
17:10And a couple of facelifts.
17:12Well, he is 70. Holy crap,
17:14yeah. You have no idea how plastic
17:16surgery is evolving. Vladimir.
17:18He’s had a couple of 140 restyles.
17:23He drew this Jaguar based on himself.
17:26I think he sucked all the juice out of
17:28Jaguar. Yeah, an energy vampire. And
17:30the money, too.
17:31No, honestly, the guy is ancient.
17:32He’s been at Jaguar since 2004, and
17:34he’s been the chief designer since
17:362020. And under him, they released the
17:38new Defender, the brand's new look, and
17:40the fifth-generation box. I mean, it's
17:43like, the guy didn't just make this
17:46electric piece of junk, but it's clear
17:48this shift to EVs puts the company at a
17:50fork in the road. First, they either
17:54need to just shut down now, because
17:55there’s no product, no production,
17:57nothing at all. The audience is ruined,
17:59the brand is ruined, everything is just
18:01covered in ash. Or they need to somehow
18:04pull themselves together, find some
18:06willpower, raise some money, find some
18:08people, and return to hybrids, or ICE
18:11engines, or something with actual
18:13demand to hope to sell something.
18:16Because right now, even without this
18:18Jaguar Type 00 or whatever comes from
18:21that concept, even before it hits
18:23production, it’s already clear it’s
18:25a disaster, they’ll go bankrupt, and
18:28it’s clearly not going to be a
18:30commercial success at all. They had a
18:34strategy that they would make a very
18:35expensive electric car, like, really
18:37expensive. We’ll go and stuff it to
18:40Bentley, we’ll stuff it to
18:41Rolls-Royce, we’ll stuff it to
18:43everyone, and make it really cool. And
18:45that ad campaign with dancing models
18:47and all that trash.
18:49Inclusivity, electric cars. Oh.
18:53And all that stuff. Yeah. It was so
18:55good until you turned the screen around
18:58. I honestly have the same thing here,
19:01but man, every time I look at this car,
19:04I just—guys, every time. And
19:06apparently, the process of accepting
19:08reality has begun. And apparently, some
19:09changes have started towards the idea
19:11of, okay, fine, let’s pull the
19:12handbrake and try to turn this thing
19:13around somehow. But it started with a
19:15very strange move: the chief designer
19:17was just fired overnight. A guy who had
19:19worked at the company for 20, 21 years.
19:21Just like that.
19:22Get out of here.
19:23It actually started with changing the
19:25head of JLR, because we mentioned that
19:27...
19:27Right, yes, sorry, I forgot about that.
19:29So first the head of the company, and
19:30now the chief designer too. Yeah,
19:32exactly. These aren’t the last guys
19:33on the hit list. I am almost certain
19:35that these people were not the ones who
19:36initiated these decisions. You know,
19:39the whole "let's go ahead and break the
19:40company over our knee and turn it into
19:42an EV brand" thing. Now they will have
19:45to pay the price, and we hope that at
19:47some point Egor will come out and say,
19:48"Sorry, the devil made me do it, we
19:50clearly took a wrong turn somewhere."
19:53Please forgive us, we won't do it again
19:55. Here you go, back to internal
19:56combustion engines for you. We wait and
19:57we hope. But they have almost no money
19:59for anything at all. Maybe they can
20:01manage to issue a press release with an
20:03apology, but taking the company and
20:04completely restructuring it, the
20:06production model, and so on, is
20:07impossible without outside investment.
20:09Perhaps there is some kind of
20:10behind-the-scenes maneuvering going on
20:12within Tata and JLR, because conspiracy
20:14theories have already started, like
20:15Jerry being a protégé of some guy,
20:17and that guy having died. Well, I’m
20:19not deep into the lore of the backroom
20:20dealings within Tata, but in big
20:22companies, there is always some story
20:23about someone trying to undermine
20:25someone else, trying to push someone
20:27out of a key position, or just kick
20:28them out of the company entirely. But
20:30honestly, Jaguar has been left such a
20:31scorched earth at this point that there
20:33doesn't even seem to be anything worth
20:34fighting over. So, which car brand
20:37would be willing to invest money into
20:40the Jaguar brand now just to sell their
20:42cars there later—well, who the hell
20:44knows. Because the Chinese in general,
20:47and Geely in particular, have already
20:49bought everything that can be bought.
20:51They are poaching specialists for
20:52various companies, and they are buying
20:53up brands one way or another. And that
20:56doesn't seem to be a super successful
20:58strategy at the moment, because within
20:59Europe and target markets, an old,
21:01established brand that already has a
21:03place there works better—like Volvo
21:05with Polestar and all that nonsense,
21:06meaning there's no point in trying to
21:08push Geely into Europe; it's better to
21:10just keep selling Volvo. It’s not
21:12going great, but still. And as for
21:14Jaguar, God knows what is left to save
21:16or buy there. Probably just the history
21:18, maybe the brand itself, although
21:20they’ve managed to drag it through
21:22the mud so well lately that it seems
21:24like nobody even wants it anymore.
21:29Every second new car sold in Russia
21:31turned out to be from last year. And
21:34all the news outlets are running around
21:37with this, saying, "Look, our market is
21:39now at 1.""200 new cars sold this year,
21:42in '25." But these aren't new cars;
21:45these are vehicles from '24, or even
21:48'23 in some cases. The market is still
21:50in the dumps. We’ve already analyzed
21:52those headlines about overflowing
21:54warehouses a long time ago. Simply
21:56because, well, remind you, the rate was
21:587.2 percent during the excitement of
22:00'23, when everyone felt that, oh look,
22:02the market is transforming and
22:03there’s a supply channel from China.
22:06You could take out some leverage and
22:08other things to rush into this cleared
22:10field of people starving for cars and
22:12bring in a bunch of random Chinese junk
22:14. And that logic applies not just to
22:16used cars, but primarily to the primary
22:18market for new vehicles. A lot of grey
22:21dealers took on contracts to open
22:23official dealerships. Many showrooms
22:26were repurposed; if you used to have
22:28one big Mercedes dealer, for example,
22:29they broke the showroom up into several
22:31brands, like now there's Exeed, Chery,
22:33and some other crap. That’s why you
22:36could bring in a bunch of junk very
22:38quickly to fill the inventory. They
22:39brought in a bunch of junk. Plus, in
22:41the excitement of '24, they also
22:43slightly overproduced this junk. Now
22:44it's just sitting there, selling off
22:46slowly. At some point, it will be
22:48washed out of the market and we’ll be
22:49selling current-year models.
22:51I found an article stating that up
22:53until the middle of the year, the share
22:55of last year’s cars reached nearly 80
22:57%. It's less now, yes, it's being
22:59cleared out,
22:59and from here on, yes, the ratio has
23:01already changed,
23:03yes, and it will gradually wash out,
23:05simply because you had a window of
23:06cheap money, and for those in the know,
23:08it was obvious it wouldn't last and
23:10that you'd have to deal with it later,
23:12that you'd have to starve a bit. And
23:14now, without having that leverage where
23:16you can take on a lot of credit
23:17obligations, bring in a bunch of cars,
23:19and guarantee a profit—because, well,
23:21with the current rates, that's very
23:22hard to do. You’ll need to import
23:24selectively; you won't be bringing in
23:26cars in bulk that you then can’t sell
23:28. So it will gradually clear out and
23:29eventually everything will return to
23:31normal. But
23:35at the same time, the Russian used car
23:37market is breaking records. But
23:39everything is sad. The "Za Rulem Kuban"
23:42publication. What? Everything is sad.
23:46And why is everything sad?
23:47Do I understand correctly that you’re
23:49laughing at the headlines, not at the
23:50situation? Of course, I laugh at the
23:52headlines because you have, well, like,
23:54an article that essentially retells
23:56Avtostat's analytics, which comes out
23:57saying, look, we are, well, we are
23:59analyzing the secondary market
24:00alongside the primary market, gathering
24:02numbers, and all that. And so the
24:04secondary car market in 2025, or rather
24:06three quarters from January to October.
24:08Compared to last year, we are growing;
24:11we have sold 5 million used cars, well,
24:13resold within the country. It’s clear
24:15that we have two historical leaders
24:17there that have existed for a very long
24:19time. That’s Lada and Toyota. Toyota
24:20is second.
24:21You still have to say Toyota first.
24:23Toyota and Lada.
24:24Even though Toyota is second.
24:25Let's start from the end. Well, next in
24:28popularity we have Kia, Hyundai, Nissan
24:30, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Renault, Honda
24:32. And so on down the list. Again,
24:35despite the fact that Chevrolet hasn't
24:36officially existed in our market for
24:38ages, they produced such a large number
24:39of cars back in the day that they are
24:41still circulating on the secondary
24:42market. And so, 178,000 Chevrolet brand
24:45cars were sold this year. It should be
24:48taken into account that besides Niva,
24:50the Uzbek Chevrolets are clearly being
24:51counted there.
24:52Correct. But it was still an old piece.
24:54Uh
24:55Does Chevy Niva count as Chevrolet or
24:57as
24:57as Chevrolet,
24:58right?
24:58Yes,
24:59surprisingly,
25:00yes. But both Aveos, Lacettis, and
25:03Cruzes still exist on the secondary
25:05market. For some reason, they still
25:07haven't decomposed into atoms. They are
25:08still, well, like, moving around.
25:09Everything is fine.
25:10I understand, maybe some Cobalt or
25:13Cobalt, yes. But Cobalt was generally
25:14not very successful in the B-class back
25:16in the day when it was a new car and
25:17when it was officially presented,
25:18because it lost to the Logan, Solaris,
25:20and Rio back then, and to the Almera
25:21too. Despite the fact that the bastard
25:24is huge, really, I mean, it's a very
25:25big car for the money. It is
25:27unrealistically big. It has a back row
25:29that, well, normal people don't really
25:31need in general. That’s if you had a
25:33family of five Vlads, maybe they would
25:35need a Cobalt to get around, because,
25:37well, really, you sit back there,
25:39it’s like you’re sitting in a
25:40completely different car. So, like,
25:43your passenger is riding, or what? Why
25:44are you describing it as a drawback? I
25:46don't understand.
25:48Well, it's good on one hand, but, you
25:50know, it's just too strange, I mean
25:53that it’s a long reach to the taxi
25:55driver to give them money, what is the
25:56problem
25:56including that. I mean, like, you're
25:58really very far away. And it's one
26:01thing when you're far away in a big car
26:03, say, I don't know, an Escalade, where
26:05you just have a big car, but a Cobalt
26:07is narrow, since it's a B-class, after
26:09all. Uh-huh.
26:10It's a narrow little thing, a small car
26:13, non-standard. And you're just sitting
26:15there, and someone else could easily
26:16fit between you and the front seat. The
26:18person there is also sitting like that,
26:20like in a Volga, facing the second
26:22window. And still, everyone is just
26:24fine with it, they're enjoying it. And
26:25that's strange. Well, it's just a
26:26strange car for its class. Not that
26:28it's bad, it just really stands out.
26:30At least Cobalt is the very Chevrolet
26:32that won't decay into atoms, because
26:33Cobalt is the atom itself. Today will
26:36be full of these "dad" jokes. Well, for
26:39me, Cobalt is just
26:40well, it's a chemical element,
26:41some kind of color, probably,
26:43no, he's remembering some race from WoW
26:45, right now, in the store, there are
26:46Kobolds. They're rats. They're rats
26:50from caves, damn it, whom you also need
26:52to...screw them, sorry. Anyway, the
26:55most important thing is that Autostat
26:56released statistics showing that, look,
26:58everything is fine with the used car
26:59market. We are selling a lot of cars,
27:01the same amount, and in some places
27:03even more than in previous periods.
27:05Imports, well, the influx of cars,
27:07actually, has grown by 15%compared to
27:09last year. They brought in more cars
27:12for obvious reasons, with the recycling
27:13fee and all that. And so now the share
27:15of imported cars in the used market is
27:177.5%. 92.5%is just people selling cars
27:20to each other internally. All these
27:23imports, used right-hand drive, from
27:25Germany, from anywhere, that's 7.5%of
27:27the market, which has grown. We've been
27:30talking periodically about how imports
27:32are still a small share, it's just this
27:34much, like, 7.5%are imports,
27:36which is probably still quite a bit,
27:37considering
27:38that's a fact, yes, it's not a small
27:40amount, but 92.5%is different. And what
27:43I picked on, yes, at Za Rulem Kuban,
27:44was that your article is just a list of
27:46facts, and then you say that despite
27:48such a surge before the new recycling
27:49fee, things in the Russian auto market
27:51are actually pretty bad. I would say
27:53it's even sad, and by the end of the
27:55year it will be the same or less than
27:58last year. The market has fallen
28:00through the floor compared to what it
28:02once was and isn't planning to recover,
28:04an automotive expert noted. And some
28:07damn who-knows-who, but that doesn't
28:08matter. What kind of floor is it that 5
28:10million cars have fallen through? I
28:12don't know,
28:12as much as I'd want them to get
28:14comments from you and you’d forget,
28:16and you’d be like that yourself.
28:19I can't really say that in general,
28:21because the secondary market always
28:22flourishes and thrives when there's a
28:23mess in the primary market. The
28:24secondary market is doing great. It has
28:26always been, is, and will be that way.
28:27If only the same were true for real
28:28estate. Hey, wait. There's something
28:32else you need to understand here. Hang
28:33on, wait. And the secondary car market,
28:40damn. Third time's the charm, sure.
28:47I mean, 2018 was one of the fattest
28:50years for the secondary market—that's
28:535.43.
28:54Which year?
28:552018,
28:56when there were loans, there were
28:58dealers, and there were used cars
29:00everywhere. And bringing everything—
29:02like, everything. Now we're at five for
29:04three quarters, which is quite possible
29:06. We'll even pick up a little more and,
29:08well, like, we'll even be higher than
29:09in 2018. Perhaps the highly respected
29:12expert just misses 2018. Or for some
29:14reason, that time when a Kia Ceed cost
29:16700,000 rubles. That, that, that very
29:18time. It's just that there. But the
29:20volume is more or less the same. The
29:21secondary market is a very stable place
29:23. Yes, it always seems like, oh, we're
29:26doomed. But then, six months later, you
29:28look and it doesn't seem that scary, it
29:29seems fine. The secondary market always
29:31lives, blooms, and thrives. We have
29:32these 60 million cars, well, almost 60
29:34million cars that exist within the
29:35country, they will move between people
29:37one way or another anyway. The
29:38secondary market will definitely
29:39survive. You can't break the secondary
29:40market. It's clear that we're all
29:42waiting for the war to end, for
29:43sanctions to perhaps be lifted, maybe
29:45for interest rates to be cut. We are
29:47all waiting for some joyful news. But
29:50at the same time, to say that the
29:52secondary market is just lying there,
29:54dying, bleeding out, and will never
29:55return to some bright figures—I
29:57wouldn't say that, at least. Which, by
30:00the way, is exactly what the original
30:02Autostat article says: that the
30:04secondary market is doing just fine. A
30:08Tesla Model X scratched a passing car
30:10on its own by opening its door.
30:16Well, it happens, it acted up, yeah, it
30:19was scared, sorry. A BYD SUV passed a
30:26durability test, withstanding the
30:29impact of a fallen tree. The Chinese
30:32took bamboo, a palm tree. Really, well,
30:35in fairness, a palm tree is almost the
30:37same density as an oak.
30:39So, like, a palm tree is a heavy thing.
30:41They took their BYD and were like, "
30:43Well, look at what we can do." We move
30:46the palm tree 3 meters away. We take a
30:49large metal cup, put the palm tree in
30:51it, and it falls over. Then we move the
30:54palm tree 4 meters away; the palm tree
30:56falls again. Then we move the palm tree
30:595 meters away—does the palm tree fall
31:00? And it almost breaks. Well, you know,
31:04the greater the distance, the longer
31:05the lever, the higher the load, the
31:07more pressure on the pillar. And look,
31:10the BYD withstood the palm tree. They
31:12were putting the same BYD under it,
31:14right? Another question is that if the
31:16palm tree is dropped by the wind,
31:17there’s completely different inertia
31:18there. Well, okay,
31:19that's true. On the other hand, it's
31:22fascinating that the Chinese have
31:24picked up on this Volvo thing, where,
31:25you know, regular crash tests are
31:27generally incomprehensible to a person
31:29as a concept—when a car just drives
31:31into some deformable block. And
31:33everyone understands that, well yes,
31:35crash tests are certainly useful, they
31:37certainly test the actual vehicle.
31:39Everyone understands that, yes, this is
31:41an important thing. There are dummies,
31:43there are wires, they crash into each
31:45other, and that's it. But from a PR
31:47perspective, and to plant the idea in a
31:49person's head that one car is safer, it
31:52is much more effective and correct to
31:54use real-life situations: like when a
31:56car takes off a ramp, or like when
31:57Volvo, for instance, rolled the XC90 a
31:59bunch of times—things like that. And
32:02it's cool that the Chinese have started
32:05using safety tests as a show, like,
32:07let's take a Zeekr 009 and drop a
32:09cement mixer on it. And you're really
32:12like, "Well, I've seen cement mixers."
32:14When I was standing next to one in
32:15traffic, I thought—no.
32:16It's really scary. You actually have a
32:18phobia every single time.
32:19Exactly, exactly, exactly. And you can
32:21imagine that, from the point of view of
32:23a real, actual crash test, leaning a
32:25cement mixer on a car is just nonsense.
32:27It doesn't prove anything at all. And
32:30such accidents don't happen. But we've
32:32all seen Final Destination. And when
32:35you're driving behind a logging truck,
32:37you're like, "Oh, I'm about to get hit
32:39in the face by that log." Even though
32:41that doesn't happen in real life. Well,
32:44if it does, it's very rare. Very rare.
32:47And a car manufacturer doesn't need to
32:49engineer a vehicle for flying logs. The
32:51same goes for a falling cement mixer.
32:53It's much more logical to crash into a
32:55cart, because the cart shows, well, it
32:57has the mass of an average car, they
32:59collide at an average speed, and so on.
33:01So, like, you're at least working with
33:03a weighted average traffic accident. A
33:05palm tree, damn it. It kills a lot of
33:07people, by the way. That's a fact.
33:10Falling coconuts kill a lot of people.
33:12And the oil, actually,
33:16well, this is not a joke, by the way. I
33:17mean, like, from falling, the palm tree
33:19is supposedly near the top for killing
33:21people worldwide in general.
33:23The palm tree is not getting into
33:28heaven.
33:28It's more like 60%of deaths are from
33:30people falling off a palm tree.
33:32No, no. In Indonesia, there are real
33:35signs and markers hanging.
33:36An article on Dzen, "Deadly Coconuts."
33:44In Indonesia, they have these actual
33:46road signs, like a little triangle that
33:48shows danger, and it says something
33:49like "Caution: falling coconuts on your
33:51head."
33:52A coconut will fall on your head.
33:54So, it turns out Bounty is a criminal
33:57pleasure.
34:00I don't know if this specific number is
34:02reliable, but if you just Google it,
34:03the first page everywhere has data
34:05saying that about 150 people a year are
34:06killed by palm trees, which is 15 times
34:08more dangerous than sharks. Sharks eat
34:10about 10 surfers a year, roughly. And
34:13for the record, again, the people who
34:14mainly suffer from sharks are surfers,
34:15because they are sitting in the ocean,
34:17far away from the palm tree,
34:22escaping from it. Yeah,
34:29well, statistically, purely from a risk
34:31perspective, it's 10 times safer. Yeah,
34:34that's right.
34:35You're working with risks.
34:36I'd like to work with risks, but you
34:37are working with risks. That right
34:38there. And when you watch a crash test
34:41like that, where a palm tree falls on a
34:43car, well, you can really picture it in
34:44your head, thinking, "Yes, this could
34:46happen in my life, I'm afraid of that,
34:48I was afraid of that, so the car is
34:49safe, I should buy it." And the Chinese
34:52are great in that regard. They really
34:54have problems with ordinary, real crash
34:56tests, as their cars might not be
34:58tested for almost anything at all. But
35:01they have a whole wagonload of these
35:03show crash tests. And good for them.
35:05But the car won't get any better from
35:07that. It's a piece of crap, a real,
35:08genuine, and very expensive one. But
35:10the way they promote it is, of course,
35:14well, it seems to me that they didn't
35:16copy this from Volvo; it's more like
35:18those Gen Z YouTube challenges from
35:20five years ago, like cutting water or
35:22dropping a palm tree on a car.
35:25Well, generally speaking, this is
35:26material that creates a wow effect. You
35:28need that kind of wow effect, where you
35:30see them take some Chinese car—I
35:32don't remember which—hang it from a
35:34crane, and hang another car on it. Like
35:36, they show how strong our frame is,
35:38no? That's a Honda. I think they hung
35:40three cars. Yeah.
35:41Yeah, by the way, the Honda Passport, I
35:43think,
35:43and the Chinese also did it with
35:45something, I think.
35:45Passport. They advertised the new
35:47Passport like that.
35:48The Chinese also hung something up
35:49recently. Yeah, I remember Honda
35:50hanging one. They put a tank on a car,
35:52I think.
35:53Yeah, that happened too.
35:54That happened.
35:55Anyway, like, things that purely create
35:57a wow effect so you’re like, "Oh, wow
35:58! Wow."
36:00We're waiting for a pool of Coke and
36:02Mentos, you know,
36:03with a BYD swimming in it and
36:05everything goes fine. Yeah, well,
36:07something like that, no problem. For
36:10the Rolls-Royce Phantom, they made
36:13wheels shaped like Rolex watches. Damn,
36:17I hope that, well, if someone actually
36:19gets excited by this and wants to buy,
36:21damn, a Phantom on Rolex wheels, and
36:23they still have—hello. Yeah,
36:31well, it comes with a custom Louis
36:33Vuitton leather wrap for their member.
36:37Good thing a small piece of Vuitton
36:39will be needed, because, well, surely,
36:41like, there are questions.
36:43Did you place a pre-order?
36:46What a nightmare. What a nightmare. And
36:49besides, well,
36:50are they mechanical,
36:51huh? No, it's just, well, a tuning
36:53studio made a set of rims. Well, in the
36:55Submariner style. They are Rolex
36:57watches.
36:58Now I'm going to Google it. Submariner
37:00is—
37:01Yeah, these are stickers on a standard
37:03rim. like
37:04stickers,
37:05right? The hands here, it's just clear
37:08that they are just shaped to the rim
37:10and bend.
37:10Oh, so they won't stay in one position
37:12while you're—
37:13well, I mean, they made the rim and
37:14painted it like that or stuck something
37:16on it, so, well, like just, well—
37:17the watch face won't stay in one
37:19position. How?
37:20It would be convenient if you're in
37:21traffic, you could always check the
37:23time.
37:23Well, that's just, I—
37:25such an expensive time to look at. You
37:28know, I arrived at the tire shop, "
37:30Please, balance my rim and while you're
37:32at it, polish the watch face a bit,
37:34yeah," totally,
37:35in my opinion, a complete nightmare.
37:37Well, like, but someone will definitely
37:39get excited.
37:39Two black rappers, probably. I'm not a
37:42black rapper,
37:43but it's stylish. Yeah, yeah.
37:46Yo.
37:52And is there something else that makes
37:53the nipples of bearded middle-aged men
37:55perk up? Open-top Wagen. A production
37:58version announcement and Brabus
38:00projects. Show us. Perking up. The news
38:05is that Mercedes is actually thinking
38:07about bringing back a G-Wagon
38:08convertible.
38:09The Landaulet, which
38:10they had as a special Landaulet version
38:12.
38:12No, the Landaulet is a different car.
38:15The Landaulet is the Maybach Landaulet.
38:17They made a limited run of it. There.
38:20Usually, G-Wagon convertibles are
38:21three-door models, like those old
38:23military jeeps.
38:23Well, yeah. But here, they made a
38:26limited edition,
38:27here,
38:27a five-door one, just like that, bam.
38:30The guys from Brabus immediately jumped
38:32in saying, "We can do that too." Like,
38:34yeah, we'll definitely do something
38:36like that. Oh,
38:38yeah, the Brabus guys made their own
38:41convertible based on the current AMG.
38:45And I like it.
38:46There. Yeah, that's it. Look,
38:48a red pipe.
38:51More money for less metal. Moreover,
38:54they made a sporty convertible version
38:55and an off-road one. And they are
38:57asking a million for the off-road one,
38:59dollars, obviously, or euros, what's
39:01the difference? I have neither one nor
39:03the other. Still, I think a fair number
39:06of bearded men are right now like, "Ooh
39:08, where do I bring the money?" But they
39:11will only make 50 of them. Then they'll
39:13be like, "Where do I bring the money?"
39:18They’d be better off mass-producing
39:20this instead of that mini-G-Wagon you
39:23bet on. 50 units is Brabus. This will
39:26just be, well, a series, for which they
39:30can be praised. After all, it's not an
39:33electric G-Wagon, it's not some hybrid
39:36special edition, it's a normal human V8
39:38, all the trimmings. Yes, it's
39:41turbocharged, but at least that. Yes,
39:43it will be expensive. Yes,
39:45but do you have any doubt that it won't
39:47sell?
39:47Zero. Absolutely zero.
39:50Actually, Mercedes does, because they
39:51want to present this factory
39:53convertible version they're making as a
39:54special edition regardless. Meaning it
39:57won't be sold in large numbers.
40:00Naturally, you can't just go out and
40:02say, "Look, we're going to make a hell
40:03of a lot of G-Wagon convertibles." You
40:06can't say that.
40:07We'll beat the RAV4 in sales. You'll go
40:10out and say, "Guys, only on Tuesday,
40:11only before lunch, a super-limited
40:13edition." Two weeks later, "Well, okay,
40:16one more, just one more." And basically
40:18, if there's demand—and there
40:19definitely will be—they will keep
40:21producing it. I even think they’ll
40:23make way more money on this car than on
40:25some EQS. Although they probably only
40:26lost money on the EQS. And I, by the
40:28way, recently took a ride in an EQS.
40:31It’s not even an electric S-Class.
40:33It’s just, well, it’s just this.
40:34What a piece of crap, guys.
40:36Is this your channel "Taxiing in a
40:37Maybach"? No, you just sit there and
40:41genuinely wonder, "How did you do this?
40:43" Why is it so bad? Why is it so...
40:47And what exactly is bad?
40:48I just...I have no words. It’s, well,
40:51we should find one for a review. And it
40:53would just be a very silent review.
40:56Very much so, I think on your part too,
40:59like you’d also be just stunned, like
41:01there are simply no words for it. No,
41:04it looks magnificent in pictures, I
41:07swear. Compared to what it’s like in
41:09reality, it looks like sheer greatness
41:11in pictures. It’s just a chariot of
41:14the gods. It’s the pinnacle of
41:16automotive engineering, how it looks in
41:18pictures compared to what it’s like
41:19in real life.
41:21Like Stas in that M&M's commercial when
41:23he’s like Santa Claus, and these are
41:25M&Ms, like they’re real.
41:28These are real.
41:29They are real.
41:30It’s just a disaster, I would say.
41:33Will the G-Wagon convertible bring the
41:35company a lot of money? I’m starting
41:37to have my doubts about you, because in
41:39that episode you said you were riding
41:41in a 7-series, and here you are in an
41:43EQS. You get into strangers' premium
41:46cars. Well, how should I put it. And
41:53that’s it for this episode for me. I
41:55think I’ll go write some more
41:56thoughts in the Telegram channel while
41:58they're still fresh. Don't forget to
42:00subscribe. And I wish you a good day.
42:03It's Sunday for you. I hope you had a
42:04very good rest. And even if you have
42:07some feeling of unfinished business,
42:09you can take a blanket, wrap yourself
42:12up in it really well, put on some
42:14favorite movie, take your favorite
42:17people nearby, cats, dogs, whoever you
42:19love, and with some cocoa, in a blanket
42:22, in those wool socks, have a really
42:24great time.
42:25Just don't sit under palm trees.
42:29Soon we can start watching Harry Potter
42:30. It's already, like, it's already just
42:32...
42:32a little snow has already fallen. Yes,
42:33already,
42:34yes. it already smells like it for now.
42:38And there should have been a jingle
42:40here, but we ran out of money, so the
42:41people just left. And just so you're in
42:47the loop. Ah.

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