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0:03Well, that's how we'll start this first
0:05newscast of the year. The biggest news
0:08this year is that the presenters have
0:10been replaced by a cat, and the cat
0:11will be looking into a lamp, not at you
0:13. There, in the lamp. [ __ ], how
0:16interesting. Come on. Oh, another lamp.
0:20No. Hello. It's a banal electric car
0:42that didn't work out for us.
0:46Perhaps you still have the cat's ass in
0:48the frame now. There. And also her ass
0:50at the same time. Good afternoon, good
0:53morning, good evening. Finally, we have
0:55our first broadcast of 2026. We haven't
0:57quite gotten into our usual work
0:58routine yet, so we're not recording
1:00this broadcast in the office, but just
1:02stuck it in the kitchen at home and sat
1:04down.
1:05Let's focus
1:06on the water and the cat. Let's focus
1:09on the cat.
1:12No,
1:13Uncle Finn, let
1:19me do it. Yeah, well, I still have a
1:21tablecloth on the table. No, I'm
1:23laughing because she just came back to
1:26you.
1:27As you can see, some changes have
1:29happened in my house over the past year
1:31. I still feel weird being here, to be
1:35honest. But that's not what we're
1:36talking about. The most important thing
1:38is that over the New Year holidays we
1:40had quite a lot of car news, which is
1:41usually rare, because they usually keep
1:43all this stuff jingling constantly,
1:47like children's rattles, to calm down.
1:49Yeah. The most important thing is not
1:51to screw up, and that will be allowed.
1:52You have nowhere else to sit, right?
1:53Today you absolutely have to sit here.
1:56Why are you looking at me? Get out of
1:58here. Well, apparently you won't have
2:12to pay attention to some random cat
2:14walking around here. Besides, I also,
2:16well, I've already popped up somewhere,
2:18either on our Telegram channel or on
2:19Instagram, well, the finance thing
2:21flashed by somewhere, and people were
2:22like, "Where did the adult cat come
2:24from? How is that possible? What kind
2:26of adult, suddenly a cat appeared?"
2:28Let's think about it. Let's think about
2:30it. How could someone else's adult cat
2:34show up here? Go away. It's fine, she's
2:39glued to the couch. Sorry if the entire
2:48newsfeed turns into a montage of me
2:50throwing the cat out of frame, but
2:52that's exactly why you came here. So,
2:56the most important thing is that we had
2:57quite a lot of automotive news over the
2:59New Year holidays. Which is weird,
3:02because usually during the New Year
3:03holidays, everything kind of shuts down
3:05, nothing happens: car companies, you
3:07know, all the presentations, financial
3:08reports, that kind of thing are usually
3:10relegated to March, because nothing
3:12happens in January or February. And
3:14that's actually why the news usually
3:16doesn't get out, because, firstly,
3:18we're on vacation somewhere, surfing
3:19the waves—not content, just surfing
3:21the waves. And there's usually no
3:23interesting news, but we've got such a
3:25pile of news here that let's get to it
3:27right away. And all our other things,
3:30if we suddenly get carried away
3:32somewhere, will naturally already be
3:33inside. In my opinion, the Christmas
3:45tree is bad. It'll stand
3:47until March. It'll stand
3:48until March. It hasn't started to fall
3:50off yet, so it'll stand for a while.
3:51Well,
3:51in general, it's better to throw out
3:53the tree before it starts to fall off.
3:54Well, as
3:56you can probably guess, I didn't drag
3:59this tree here. It came with a
4:02tablecloth and a cat.
4:04And with a cat, yes. Naturally, I'm the
4:07one throwing it out. Well, like, how
4:10else could it be? I'd rather not think
4:12about it for now. Fuel consumption is
4:182.6 liters per 100 km and almost 3,000
4:20km on a single tank. A diesel Skoda
4:23Superb has set a world record. This
4:26news is actually from October 2025, but
4:28it somehow slipped my mind last fall. I
4:31only saw it, you know, on the weekend,
4:33during the holidays, when I was just
4:34poking around, like, "What else have we
4:36missed? What else haven't we talked
4:38about? What else interesting has
4:39happened in the automotive world?" Or
4:41somewhere nearby? And it turns out that
4:43in October, Mika Marczyk became the
4:45European Rally Champion. Honestly, I
4:47don't know who this driver is, because
4:48a quick Google search didn't reveal any
4:50major achievements other than the
4:51European Championship. Well, here he is
4:53, a guy who's involved in motorsports,
4:54who understands rallying, and who
4:56understands the car as a whole. He took
4:57a regular Skoda Superb for an interview
4:59, and then he said, "You know, I was
5:02also considering an Octavia." I was
5:04considering an Octavia, but it just had
5:05a small bug. The Superb has a bigger
5:06one, and the fuel consumption is plus
5:08or minus a kilometer. So, they took the
5:09Superb. And what did these guys do?
5:11They simply took a standard car,
5:13straight out of the box, just a regular
5:15car with a two-liter diesel engine
5:17producing 150 horsepower. They put
5:20low-rolling-resistance wheels on it,
5:22and a sports suspension. Just a little
5:25tuning, as is customary in the Skoda
5:27Club. Because if you buy an Octavia,
5:30for example, the sport suspension is
5:31installed on the first day, along with
5:33the chip. Incidentally, no chip was
5:35installed; the engine is standard. And
5:37you just drive very carefully, very
5:38deliberately, catching the slipstream
5:40from trucks. And just trying to brake
5:42as little as possible. So, the person
5:43understands what a car is and how to
5:44actually drive it. The guys managed to
5:47get 2,831 km on a single tank. On a
5:50standard tank, not a dual tank, not
5:52like the Kamaz, you know, where there
5:53are tanks on both sides, or some kind
5:55of extra tank on a Gazelle. No, it's
5:57just a regular, standard car.
5:59Essentially, the only improvement is
6:01the lowered suspension, which was made
6:03to lower the ride height and, again, to
6:05, well, reduce air resistance. And
6:08that's it, a world record. And at this
6:11point, absolutely all the wankers who
6:13sit in the internet comments and rant
6:16about how, oh, just a little bit more
6:18and we'll have solid-state batteries,
6:20unlike anything you'll have solid-state
6:22, yeah, there it is. And 1,000 km of
6:25range on a single charge in commuter
6:27trains. And hybrids, for [ __ ] sake,
6:30look at them, 1,000 km on a single tank
6:33. Now, if you charge it up, if you take
6:36a little extra steam, fart, drive very
6:38carefully, and so on, you can survive
6:401,500 km on a Lisyan, although it's
6:42impossible to survive 1,000 km on a
6:43Lisyan, but still. And all these
6:46presentation materials, all these
6:48figures, about how very soon, very soon
6:50, hybrids, electric cars, and all other
6:53modern cars, they will someday travel
6:55very long distances. And you won't have
6:58to worry about charging, fuel, and all
7:01that crap. All these materials that are
7:05constantly shoved in our faces are
7:07still just materials, and people just
7:09take a regular Skoda diesel,
7:11essentially from 2013, give or take,
7:13because, well, that diesel engine is
7:15still the same as the one from
7:16Dieselgate, by the way. It's just from
7:20there with additional catalytic
7:22converters, additional particulate
7:23filters, and all the additional
7:24restrictions to ensure it meets all
7:25environmental standards. And this is an
7:27engine from that era; Volkswagen
7:33approved the development of this engine
7:35back around 2007. Somewhere around
7:37there, they made the decision to make
7:39this series of engines, like the Ya-189
7:41and other two-liter diesels. A modern
7:45engine, of course, is no longer the 189
7:46series, it's already an upgrade, but
7:48still, it's the same inside, the same
7:50technology. So let's think about what
7:54would have happened if those 20 years,
7:56plus the huge sums of money that all
7:58the automakers spent on hybrids,
8:00electric cars, all that stuff, had been
8:03spent on improving the humble diesel.
8:07Maybe we would have gotten 4,000 km on
8:09a tank. And to be fair, how much more
8:12could you want when you can get 2,800.
8:16Yes, of course, there are all those
8:17things under the hood, along with the
8:19fact that we drive very carefully
8:21without air conditioning, don't brake,
8:23and people don't drive like that in
8:24real life, but it still became possible
8:26with modern hybrids and modern electric
8:28cars, and indeed with any other modern
8:30car. Well, it's simply, well,
8:32impossible. Not fast, not slow, not
8:35carefully, not aggressively, not with
8:37rolling, not with recuperation, which
8:39charges everything and spins all the
8:42energy around in a Dutch steering wheel
8:44. Unrealistic. So, here's a regular old
8:47diesel car for you, please. And the
8:49news, well, it didn't seem to go over
8:51much. It's like, well, just an
8:53achievement and an accomplishment, but,
8:55to me, it's very clear proof that the
8:57global auto industry as a whole is
8:58heading in a direction, well, just a
9:00little bit off, well, just a little bit
9:02. You have an efficient means of
9:06transporting a car, invented a long
9:08time ago. It already exists, everything
9:11is there, you can use it. Everything is
9:13okay. They've even figured out how to
9:15fit it into environmental standards,
9:17even modern ones, even Euro 6D, even
9:18all that stuff. And for some reason
9:22it's being ignored. I honestly don't
9:24understand why. Well, I understand, but
9:26I don't understand. And, besides, after
9:28the record and after the race, the
9:30driver comes out and says: "Well,
9:32actually, we didn't plan the route
9:34quite correctly. We drove from Poland
9:37to Paris and back, and he's a German
9:39driver. I wonder if they're just used
9:42to driving like that." And in Germany,
9:48you know, there were mountains, so we
9:50had to go up and down some. This also,
9:53well, had a negative impact on fuel
9:55consumption. So, overall, if you
9:57re-plan the route, and I also came up
9:59with a couple of tricks along the way
10:01to save even more, it's entirely
10:03possible to drive 3,000 km on a Baja in
10:05that same Superma. Just fill up once,
10:08and you'll find yourself. And I also
10:10really like seeing how, well, they
10:12brought a certain number of Zer 9Xs to
10:13Russia this winter. And we once
10:17discussed on the news that the Zer 9X
10:20is a [ __ ] killer, it's a Rolls-Royce
10:23competitor, and those guys really went
10:25overboard. It's got something like
10:291,000 horsepower, and fuel consumption
10:31is just half a gram per 500 km—
10:33everything's fantastic, some
10:34super-energy-efficient hybrid setup,
10:37very low fuel consumption, everything
10:39runs, farts, has fun, awesome,
10:41wonderful. So, the cars arrive, our
10:42conditions are there, damn it, and fuel
10:44consumption is 20 liters again. How
10:49come? Top Gear magazine is back with an
10:57article about one of the hardest things
10:59we've ever done. And this is Ford boss
11:02Gmfarley talking about the Red Bull
11:04Formula La engine. If you're not aware,
11:05if you're a healthy person, and if
11:07you're not obsessed with motorsports,
11:08then, well, this phrase means nothing
11:10to you. But in reality, well, something
11:11terrible is happening in the world of
11:13motorsports, and especially in the
11:14world of Formula La. Red Bull Racing is
11:16one of the leading teams in the
11:17championship overall and one of the
11:19most decorated teams in, well, modern
11:21Formula La. An important clarification
11:22here. Modern ones, otherwise, these
11:24Williams fans and Ferrari fans will
11:26come running, even those who've lost
11:28hope, but they'll still write something
11:29about how great these guys are, how
11:31Ranu has won titles, and so on. Yes, of
11:34course. But if we're talking about
11:35modern Formula 1, you have, like, three
11:37most successful teams. Red Bull,
11:38Mercedes, and Ferrari. And all the way
11:40back to Red Bull, they weren't a car
11:42manufacturer, they were just a racing
11:44team. And, accordingly, they never had
11:46the infrastructure to create their own
11:47engine. Before that, they were using
11:49Renault engines. Then they switched to
11:51Honda. And so, up until now, they've
11:52essentially been, well, collaborating
11:54with Honda, with Honda being
11:55responsible for the engines. Yes, Red
11:57Bull also has its own technical
11:59specialists who are also involved in
12:00building the engines and so on. But
12:02Honda is now going to Anmartin. Red
12:05Bull, some time ago, was like, "Well,
12:07we're going to have our own Red Bull
12:09Power Trains." It's some company that
12:11will actually produce our own engines.
12:14And now their main technical partner is
12:16Ford, with an engine, damn, probably
12:17from Transit, or something like that.
12:20And then recently, over the New Year
12:21holidays, they started slowly holding
12:23presentations from racing teams, saying
12:25, "We have such-and-such left-hand
12:26drives, we have such-and-such a car, we
12:28have such-and-such expectations," and
12:30so on, because the season is about to
12:32start. We're all getting ready for some
12:34testing. Very soon, we'll see a car
12:35with the new regulations, which will
12:37actually break down on the track and
12:38which are unlikely to complete a full
12:40lap. That's it. Well, that's what
12:42everyone expected, at least. But there
12:43was a joint presentation from Ford and
12:45Red Bull, saying, "Everything's fine
12:47with us," and so on. And the company's
12:49CEO, Jimfarli, was like, "Well, yeah, a
12:51Formula One engine is one of the most
12:52challenging things we've done in the
12:54modern world. It's such an interesting
12:57challenge, you know. It's all so
12:59interesting, yet so confusing." Where
13:03would you even park an F-150 here? And,
13:05frankly, before the season even starts,
13:08sitting around and discussing press
13:09releases, presentations, and team
13:11bosses 'promises about how we'll get
13:13our racing bastard out and smash
13:15everyone on the track and show everyone
13:17how good we are at driving? There's no
13:20point in discussing all that because,
13:21well, the race will tell. But I'm
13:22definitely certain about the new
13:23regulations. There's an interesting
13:25trend in that, oddly enough, we've
13:27suddenly seen a large number of
13:29automakers appear in motorsport.
13:31Because if you look at the 2026
13:33starting grid, we'll see, well,
13:35Mercedes-Ferrari, that's clear. We'll
13:38have Ford and Red Bull there next, and
13:39Audi will show up there next. They've
13:41already shown their car there, by the
13:43way, or showed it in time, and they've
13:45even even had a shakedown there. A
13:46shakedown. If you're a sane person,
13:48that means we've assembled a car, and
13:50we have no idea how it'll drive, or
13:52even if it'll drive at all. So, if
13:54anything happens, we have to drive it
13:5615 km around the race track to see if
13:58the wheels fall off. Basically, that's
14:00called a shakedown. Well, just actually
14:02driving it and checking that all the
14:03bolts are tightened.
14:04It's a funny term. If you try to
14:05translate it literally, it's like
14:07shaking it down.
14:08Yeah, just shaking the car down. What,
14:10like, does it even work? Does it even
14:11turn? Do we even have the steering
14:12wheel set up to go in that direction?
14:14Otherwise, maybe you press the gas, and
14:15it goes the other way. Nobody knows.
14:17That's high-performance motorsport. By
14:20the way, I once did a go-kart, um, a
14:21drunk race with a steering wheel that
14:23had the linkages reversed. So, you turn
14:26the wheel left, the car turns right,
14:28you turn the wheel right, and then you
14:29turn the wheel left. It's a drunk race
14:31because, well, it's literally drunk.
14:33Everyone drinks first and then goes
14:34go-karting. Just in case, I didn't tell
14:36you that. Well, these aren't public
14:38roads, so it's no big deal. Just a
14:40necessary ritual. I understand you had
14:45some kind of event closed to those who
14:46drive regularly.
14:48Yeah, right. And they drink for these
14:51closed events. So, Mercedes, Ferrari,
14:54Red Bull and Ford are returning, Audi
14:57is desperate, Toyota is apparently
14:59looking at something, maybe even
15:01returning full-time. Not just as a
15:03title sponsor of HAS, but if we take
15:05over the engine development there
15:06completely, we'll do everything there,
15:08everything will be great. Alp, Renault,
15:10Mercedes, McLaren, well, Aston Martin,
15:13a new Cadillac has appeared. And, by
15:16the way, they've already had a falling
15:18out with Ford. I don't know if you've
15:19seen the headlines or not. But we have
15:21two American automakers returning to
15:22Formula 1 at the same time. Firstly,
15:24they're surprised that there are no
15:25corners. Secondly, it's already
15:27starting, it even made headlines about
15:29Ford and Cadillac exchanging barbs
15:30before their Formula 1 debut. The head
15:33of Cadillac comes out and says, "Ford
15:35is doing crap there, they're just
15:37marketing and that's all." And we,
15:40Cadillac, we develop the car entirely
15:42ourselves, we make the engine ourselves
15:43, we're completely [ __ ] nuts, like
15:45everything's fine here, while Ford are
15:47complete losers, like everything's
15:49really bad. And then Jim Farley comes
15:51out and says, "Well, bro, we've been
15:53driving like Kosvod for a while, and
15:54now we've been with Redbull for a while
15:56now, and we've been on the track, and
15:58we're already driving. So, we have a
16:01car, you don't have a car yet, and you
16:03get to the track first, and then we'll
16:04figure out who's faster." So, there
16:07will definitely be some interesting
16:08fights. But there's one nasty rumor
16:10that's just floating around, well, it's
16:12sometimes discussed in news outlets,
16:14and it's also being discussed somewhere
16:17on Formula 1 Telegram channels.
16:19Apparently, because it's just floating
16:20around. Formula 1 management and the
16:24FIA, they're kind of open to the idea
16:26of bringing back regular gasoline
16:28engines. Well, without this hybrid
16:31addition of batteries, electric motors,
16:33and so on, which, if anything, greatly
16:36weigh down Formula 1, which, well,
16:38Formula 1 is a heavy car—well, that's
16:40not how it should be. You know,
16:43motorsport implies a certain lightness,
16:45so you have speed, dynamics, can take
16:47corners, and so on. But modern Formula
16:491, and all electric sports in general,
16:51are very large and the cars are very
16:53heavy. This creates a huge number of
16:55problems along the way. And so it seems
16:57like everyone is already like: "Yeah,
17:00well, let's make the cars really small
17:02again." That's it. And there we can
17:04immediately drop 200-300 kilograms from
17:06the car, without even throwing out the
17:08driver, if we just remove the batteries
17:10, electric motors, all that, and it
17:12will be much better for the racing, and
17:14for the spectacle, and for the cars
17:16themselves. But car manufacturers all
17:19need to sell hybrids. They need to sell
17:22hybrids. So, what's the debate supposed
17:23to be? [ __ ], hybrid, right? Right. And
17:26then we have Audi, then we have Cadc,
17:29and Ford, too. They all have a big
17:33problem with how to sell all this
17:34electric stuff, although it doesn't
17:36really help Mercedes much, by the way,
17:39and they've been in the hybrid era
17:41forever. Turbo engines, hybrid engines,
17:44and everything in between. And it's
17:46like, who knows. But purely from a
17:49marketing standpoint, it's as if
17:51automakers aren't interested in
17:53participating in a conventional
17:54gasoline formula.
17:56Perhaps the head of Ford meant that
17:58developing the engine was so
18:00complicated because everything had to
18:02be translated from inches to
18:03centimeters.
18:04Possibly. What the [ __ ] is a k? You
18:09know that story about how, in the 20th
18:11century, I think they bought some
18:13French blueprint for some kind of
18:14warship, started designing it, building
18:16it, and all that. They really weren't
18:19getting anywhere. They wasted a ton of
18:21money, and they were making complete
18:23and utter crap. They started to figure
18:25out what had happened and realized
18:27they'd been treating all the numbers in
18:29the drawings as their own imperial
18:31system. They weren't
18:33just building a ship in miles. I don't
18:39know if this is a tall tale or not, I
18:41haven't verified it, but I've come
18:42across this story quite a few times.
18:47Meanwhile, the Volkswagen plant in the
18:49Central Executive Committee is being
18:50loaded with old stuff. In goddamn 2018,
18:54Volkswagen decides, well, let's get
18:56closer to the outlet. We'll redesign
19:00the plant, and we'll be producing
19:02300,000 electric vehicles a year at
19:04this plant, which is actually a very
19:07large volume. And then the plant
19:09started churning out electric cars in
19:112019, and since then, somehow, 300,000
19:14hasn't happened. The planned volumes,
19:16well, nothing really happened, really.
19:18The plant is operating, producing
19:20approximately 200,000 electric vehicles
19:21, but even these volumes already seem,
19:23well, too high. I mean, it seems there
19:25won't be demand in the future to even
19:27maintain the current volume. And with
19:29such a production volume, the entire
19:30plant becomes unprofitable because the
19:32costs are too high, and you really need
19:34to produce 300,000 to make it
19:35interesting. And 200,000 cars produced
19:37is essentially just to recoup the costs
19:39. Maybe the plant is breaking even,
19:41maybe it's running a slight loss.
19:42Volkswagen doesn't disclose this data.
19:45But they say, "Well, we need to
19:46reorganize everything as a whole, and
19:47we need to reorganize production, we're
19:49already closing some of our factories
19:50there, and so on." So let's convert the
19:54Zwickau plant into a car recycling
19:56facility. Well, assembling cars doesn't
19:59work. It doesn't work. So we'll
20:00disassemble them there. You're dying
20:02over a cat.
20:04You clapped your hands. She, you know,
20:05like, you're telling a story, she
20:07starts to fall asleep, fall asleep,
20:08fall asleep, then you clap something.
20:09Oh, like, "[ __ ], are you kidding me?
20:18There's plenty of room in the apartment
20:21, where else can you sit? We already
20:24have this, well, like, joke that I took
20:26the cat. She's
20:27yours now.
20:28Yeah, right. Well, as you can see, she
20:31sleeps on me, she sits on me, she
20:33climbs on me all the time. That's it.
20:35Well, like, give me some work.
20:39Konstantin Sergeyevich throws a crowbar
20:42every year. Yeah. And you throw the cat
20:44?
20:44I throw the cat. Give me some work. We
20:51can't assemble cars. That's why let's
20:54dismantle them. We plan, well, I mean,
20:57Volkswagen plans to reach a volume of
21:00dismantled and recycled cars of 15,000
21:03units by 2030. How can I explain to you
21:05what 15,000 dismantled cars are at a
21:08plant that is designed to produce
21:10300,000 cars a year. Well, 15,000
21:16dismantled cars a year is like 1,250
21:19cars per month. That's about 40 cars
21:23per day. And if they were able to reach
21:26a production volume of 300,000 cars per
21:28year, that would be 830 cars per day.
21:31They plan to start disassembling 40
21:34cars per day by 2030. Well, in that
21:36area. And in general, the guys were
21:39planning to assemble 830 per day. Now
21:41there's a slight feeling that they're
21:42doing something wrong there, in my
21:44opinion. No. Besides, I understand that
21:46most likely for Volkswagen, as a
21:48company, and for them, the best
21:50decision is to simply close the plant,
21:52because it's simply unprofitable. Well,
21:54just, well, no. It's just that in the
21:56current economic situation, in terms of
21:58employee costs, in terms of electricity
22:00costs, in terms of tariffs from all
22:02these Chinese, American and all that,
22:04their economy is simply not working.
22:06But they have an agreement with the
22:08trade unions, they have an agreement
22:09with the federal states. In Germany,
22:10it's still a separate [ __ ] thing.
22:11Volkswagen still belongs to Saxony and
22:13the Federal Republic. I mean, like, if
22:16we, well, Volkswagen belonged to the
22:19Novgorod Region. There you go. Well,
22:20like, because that's how it worked out
22:22historically. And you're supposed to
22:24provide jobs within the country. Well,
22:26well, you just have to. Well, just
22:28because, well, you have to, but you
22:30don't have to, and you, well, can't.
22:32And you and you have no idea what the
22:34hell to do with people here. So, well,
22:36let's dismantle the cars. Besides,
22:39recycling cars is unprofitable, because
22:41the recycled materials are mainly, well
22:43, which, I mean, the raw materials that
22:44come out after processing, they are
22:46more expensive than the pure raw
22:47materials from the original. Like, just
22:50new, made, dug up. We talked about this
22:53in ecology. And this problem, by the
22:54way, has not been solved in any way.
22:56That is, well, as if you really
22:57dismantled a car for parts, and then
22:59recycled everything and then assembled
23:02new cars from this. Now, if all this
23:04commercial action were It's
23:06commercially viable, every car company
23:08would have similar factories by now.
23:10It's just logical. After all, if the
23:13business model really worked, then car
23:15companies would all be recycling if it
23:17promised good savings, not just the
23:18money earned. Because it's precisely
23:21the money earned that car companies
23:22could use right now, well, let's put it
23:24that way. They wouldn't mind if they
23:26had extra euros, dollars, and dirty
23:28Russian rubles wouldn't hurt either.
23:31But things turn out the way they do.
23:34And for the company,
23:35well, it's all logical. They realized
23:37they were doing something wrong and
23:39decided to sort it out. Like, we're
23:43assembling some kind of crap.
23:44Then they should have started
23:45assembling Toyotas. Oh, those words,
23:48yes. In the right ears.
23:50Yes. He'll take a look. What's going to
23:52happen
23:52to you? And where is he? On vacation.
23:54He's
23:55in the mountains. Yes. Riding around
23:57there on powder. These ordinary ones,
24:00like
24:00Popular entertainment.
24:01Popular entertainment, yes. Well, with
24:02us, well, something like that. Okay, I
24:04won't go there to fight for work. We'll
24:07just beam some warmth to vacationers at
24:09the ski resorts. Maybe that will melt
24:12the snow a little.
24:25What? Throw you out again. Let's throw
24:27you out. Well, come on, think about it,
24:33there are some options. Absolutely
24:42wonderful news, which actually came a
24:44little earlier than expected, because
24:46this data is also compiled a little
24:48later. The number of road fatalities in
24:49Russia has decreased over the past year
24:51. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has
24:53published data on road hazards for 2025
24:55in the unified interdepartmental
24:56information and statistical system. A
24:59total of 128,000 road accidents
25:00occurred in the Russian Federation,
25:03which is 3%fewer than in 2024, in which
25:0513,900 people died and 158,000 were
25:07injured. And this is essentially the
25:09lowest number of deaths in the entire
25:11history of modern Russia. And this is
25:13definitely worth celebrating, because,
25:15well, in 2022, a large number of
25:16factors emerged that made our traffic
25:18situation significantly worse. Because
25:21our entire logistics reoriented itself,
25:23and a large number of our railways
25:24ceased to be used, and a significant
25:26portion of the logistics began to go by
25:28car to the other side of the country,
25:30where the road infrastructure was not
25:31prepared for the fact that almost
25:33everything would go to Kazakhstan. Well
25:35, I mean, trade turnover. And with
25:37China, we also had different logistics
25:39and different roads and everything else
25:40. At the same time, we have the factor
25:43of the aging vehicle fleet. Well, no
25:44matter how young it gets, it is aging.
25:50This is logical. Many people, by the
25:52way, associate this thing with the fact
25:54that, well, brands have left, there are
25:55no normal cars, and so on. But it’s
25:58not easy when in 2008, 2007, 2006, your
26:01market growth rate was 2.2 million cars
26:04per year. were sold, and now you're
26:07selling 1,200. And when you have these
26:09scissors, where you have a difference
26:11of a million, naturally, you have this
26:13huge number of cars that were sold in
26:15the 2000 s—during that boom time,
26:16with cheap loans, and so on—it will,
26:18naturally, just continue to move along
26:20the timeline, and your vehicle fleet
26:22will, well, age. That's normal. At the
26:25same time, our vehicle fleet is
26:26increasing, because anyway, well, in
26:292024 and 2023, several million cars
26:31arrived or gathered in our country,
26:33well, I mean, an additional 2.8 million
26:35cars simply appeared on the roads. And
26:38these are all factors that put pressure
26:41on more people to die, because we have
26:43more cars, they are generally older,
26:45logistics have been reoriented, and so
26:47on. But essentially, we have a trend
26:50towards an increase in the number of
26:51alcohols. That's what happened. Only in
26:532023. A sharp jump. Well, because all
26:56these factors came together at once.
26:57And in 2024, a little less, in 2025,
27:00even less. And this is absolutely
27:01excellent news. We constantly cover all
27:03possible statistics regarding accidents
27:05, regarding incidents. We have a piece
27:07on this topic on the main channel.
27:10Throughout my years in the media, I've
27:11been paying attention to road safety
27:13and the work that's being done, because
27:14, well, it's being done on a huge scale
27:16. A huge number of people are directly,
27:19well, naturally thinking and doing a
27:21lot of different things to make our
27:22roads safer. And our current indicators
27:25, taking into account our
27:26characteristics, our weather conditions
27:28, our roads, our traffic and all our
27:30other characteristics, are very
27:32excellent. Therefore, once again, we
27:34send rays of gratitude and support to
27:35everyone involved. Thank you very much
27:37for your work. And for us, for everyone
27:39, for ordinary road users, this is
27:40important news, because every day Our
27:42roads are getting safer and safer. The
27:44main idea here is that things could
27:46have been much worse. Well, I mean,
27:48really much worse. With different
27:50traffic flows and everything else, and
27:51with infrastructure unprepared for
27:53large truck movements and so on. We
27:55could have easily jumped to 20,000 or
27:5825,000 fatalities. But even that jump
28:01that we did have, it's just, well, it's
28:02small, and that's great. Well, because
28:06again, like, in '22, 14,200 died, in
28:09'23, 14,500. And a significant amount
28:12of media was harping on this difference
28:14of 300 people within a year, with the
28:16idea that, oh, our roads are all over.
28:18Oh, as soon as you go out, a KamAZ
28:20truck will immediately smash you to
28:22pieces, oh, and then they'll roll you
28:24on a bicycle or an electric scooter and
28:26deliver you to someone's apartment.
28:28[ __ ], what a way to live. Meanwhile,
28:33German premium brands in 2025 continued
28:36decline. We released preliminary sales
28:38results for Audi, BMW, and Mercedes—
28:40preliminary, because auto companies
28:41always, well, they kind of throw out
28:43preliminary ones. And then, around
28:45March, along with the financial report,
28:47they also publish revised sales data,
28:48where we've calculated everything
28:50precisely, we've adjusted everything
28:51precisely, and this is the figure we
28:53sold. And, as expected, as expected,
28:56the German premium isn't doing very
28:58well, because, if you remember (it's
29:00unlikely, of course, but I'll remind
29:02you), we started the previous year by
29:04discussing the results of 2024, and
29:06there we also had, you know, this most
29:08remarkable negative growth, this sales"
29:10boom, "which is what happens there,
29:12like a takeoff, only in reverse. Well,
29:16those are some kind of terms. The only
29:18difference is that the main loser of
29:202024 was Audi. Their sales decline was
29:23something like 11%at that point. And
29:25this is, well, for such a For a car
29:27manufacturer of this scale, these are
29:29very sensitive figures. This year,
29:32Mercedes takes the [ __ ] throne; now
29:33they're at -10. And considering that
29:38Mercedes previously reported that
29:40they'd squandered all their net profit,
29:41now they're also seeing negative sales
29:43growth. Mm, what a slam dunk for pop
29:47management. Oh, I like that. It's
29:52amazing how BMW is holding up, because
29:54they're actually in more or less the
29:56same situation as Mercedes, Audi,
29:57Volkswagen, and so on, because, well,
29:59they're German too. The same conditions
30:03, they have the same everything,
30:04they're no different. Well, it's all
30:06the same, but at the same time, whether
30:08in 2024 or 2025, their sales decline
30:10relative to their competitors isn't as
30:13significant, either in 2024 or 2025.
30:15But most importantly, they're not
30:16losing net profit so rapidly. BMW is
30:19still making money. Not even that,
30:22they're still managing to make money
30:23from it. Because we're still reminding
30:25you what the new X3 looks like, and
30:27we're still reminding you what the new
30:28BMW 7 Series looks like. They're making
30:31money off of this. Although, if you
30:33look purely at premium brands, the
30:35throne of poop might belong to Mercedes
30:38. Perhaps it belongs to Porsche,
30:41because they also swallowed up the
30:43Taycans completely. They're doing just
30:46fine, too. China's sales are down 26%
30:48year-on-year. Not bad. And overall
30:51global sales are down 10%. That's it.
30:54Well done. And then, literally this
30:56very weekend, the head of Volkswagen,
30:58Olver Blume, and the former head of
30:59Porsche admitted it was a mistake to
31:01abandon the gasoline-powered Porsche
31:03Macan. As soon as this news appeared,
31:05we covered it with a deep sigh on our
31:07Telegram channel. I'm like, I already
31:10know what to say. Except sigh at
31:14200,000 people. You open your phone,
31:18and there's this wind from our Telegram
31:20channel, yeah. But Blume came out, and
31:22he's like," Well, You know, of course,
31:24we would do a lot of different crap.
31:26Well, uh, but with the Macan we kind of
31:28went too far, yes, it was a mistake. "
31:30Well, in fact, he just said one
31:32sentence, that abandoning the gasoline
31:34Macan was a mistake, and then the media
31:35spread it around as they wished. And
31:38then he also tried to justify it all by
31:40saying that, well, when we made this
31:42decision, you know, according to the
31:43data we had then, it didn't seem like
31:45such a mistake. Which, in fact, may be
31:48true, because, again, the decision to
31:50kill the gasoline Macan, well, more
31:51precisely, how, not to develop a new
31:53generation of the gasoline Macan, but
31:55to focus purely on the electric one,
31:57that was probably made around 2019,
31:58because the development cycle of a car,
32:00well, development, testing, launching
32:02into production, of its entire model
32:04and so on, is at least 5 years. Taking
32:06into account the pandemic, taking into
32:07account all this nonsense and so on,
32:08well, probably somewhere around Around
32:092019, that's exactly what happened.
32:11They had plans from the very beginning
32:13to show the electric Macan in 2023.
32:14There it is, staring at you with a
32:15photo, you're staring. That's it, well,
32:17that's what it looks like. I've seen it
32:18in person, I've even, God forgive me,
32:20sat in it. Well, it's a nightmare, but
32:21it's terrible. It's really bad. But
32:23really, around 2019, when people didn't
32:25even know there would be a pandemic,
32:27then maybe it was possible to think
32:30that, well, really, we have a world of
32:32electric cars, the future, and all that
32:34. Well, at least that's what Blum is
32:36hiding behind. But the most important
32:37thing, in the case of Porsche, is that,
32:39you know, everyone literally said that.
32:41Well, Blum also literally said
32:43something about it. And journalists
32:45also literally dropped a few hints that
32:47Porsche doesn't have a car and doesn't
32:50have the technology and doesn't even
32:52have plans for a car or the technology
32:54that could change sales. They
32:56understand this perfectly well. They
32:57understand perfectly well that they
32:59don't have a new 911, nor a new 718,
33:01much less a new one. Well, the fact
33:02that there will be an electric car,
33:03they already understand from here that
33:04everything will be very bad. There's no
33:06point in developing a new Taycan. The
33:07Panamer is basically a Mi-spec product.
33:09They screwed up the Macan; it's
33:10electric. And it's selling, well, it's
33:12selling, but not as they expected. And
33:15the only thing they have left is what?
33:16The
33:17electric Cayen. With this ski track
33:20instead of a screen. And any decision
33:25made from this point on could very
33:26likely turn out to be wrong, simply
33:28because everything is changing so
33:30quickly. Like, from here, from today,
33:33it's unclear how Europe, the US, and
33:36Russia will agree on anything, and they
33:38will definitely agree and there will be
33:41some new rules. And these customs
33:43duties, are they forever or not? And if
33:45they increase them, they will be
33:47canceled, they will be lowered, but
33:48what to do? It's unclear. And what
33:50about Germany? Will it happen? Oh, oh,
33:51like, oh, well, we, yes, we're
33:53investing all our money in the military
33:55industry there now and so on, but are
33:56we planning on trading anything there?
33:58Not at all. Or what? And what about
34:01China? And there, potentially, we have
34:02two of the largest markets on the
34:03planet: the US and China, well, more
34:05precisely, China and the US. We have
34:06commuter trains here, but we've already
34:07lost everything there, no one needs us
34:09there anymore. We won't catch up with
34:10developing a new commuter train. And we
34:12have nowhere to go. We don't have the
34:13specialists. And if we do, they're
34:14slanted, they'll still steal it and
34:16give it all over there. And why are we
34:17in the States, like...Well, yes, but
34:19kind of no. Therefore, the only option
34:21that Porsche has, what are they
34:23planning to do in the near future-what?
34:25Cayenne?
34:26No.
34:26Close factories?
34:27No.
34:28Lay off employees?
34:29No. Sell at a higher price? We have our
34:33audience that buys 911s. That's what we
34:36wouldn't do with it. There is, There is
34:38. So, we'll come up with some extra
34:40series, houndstooth stitching, trim the
34:42seats, and say it's a super-exclusive
34:44version. They'll flock to it and buy it
34:46anyway. And a carbon fiber hood will do
34:48. How wonderful are carbon fiber wheels
34:50for the price of an apartment?
34:51Everything's fine. These three dudes in
34:53Porsche caps, they'll definitely go and
34:55buy everything. They really, they even
34:57recently presented a slogan for their
34:59near future, which is very
35:01uninteresting. Damn, where did I see
35:04that? Well, they recently launched some
35:07kind of advertising campaign about
35:11quality, not quantity. Something like
35:13...
35:13Yeah. With some kind of focus on more
35:16exclusive refinement of our models, and
35:19so on down the list. And essentially
35:23sell the same thing that we, too,
35:25[ __ ] did in the 2010s with the 992
35:28718, and so on. And we're doing this.
35:31They made it in the 2010s, so we'll
35:33sell it to you at the end of the 2020s
35:35for double the price. Wonderful. It's
35:37clear that all German auto companies
35:38are still very resilient, and they can
35:39exist in this situation for a very long
35:40time. They can still lose money for a
35:46very long time, they can bleed to death
35:47for a very long time. They still have a
35:50very large reserve of strength, really.
35:52And on the one hand, this is a sad
35:53trend, it's really sad to read
35:54headlines about how your favorite
35:56German companies, who supposedly
35:57understand what cars are, can't make a
35:58car. On the other hand, these are very
36:02good trends, because the market will
36:03eventually explain to the guys what it
36:06needs, and they can deny reality as
36:07much as they want. They can think as
36:10much as they want that everything will
36:12blow up now, and we'll make some
36:13premium electric contraption again, and
36:15everything will be great. So they can
36:18spend as much time, resources, money,
36:20and so on, but in the end, the market
36:22will still break everyone over its knee
36:24, and auto companies will start
36:25producing what people are really
36:27interested in and need. Even In the
36:29case of Porsche. And also in the same
36:31piggy bank. The historical sales record
36:34of Gwagen. In the Mercedes financial
36:38statements, there is a funny line about
36:40Gwagen Gwagen showing a plus 23%growth,
36:42almost 50,000 units were sold. They
36:45really don’t disclose what share of
36:49those 50,000 cars sold was electric.
36:52It’s embarrassing to show something
36:53like that in public, apparently.
36:55Because again, if there was success
36:56there, they would have shown it
36:58everywhere. Because again, Mercedes,
37:00when their sales began to fall, their
37:03financial indicators fell somewhere
37:05around 2023, they were like: “Why
37:08should we constantly publish sales
37:10volumes of our cars by model? After all
37:13, the media, [ __ ], will replicate this
37:15thing and will go around telling
37:17everyone that no one needs the EQC.
37:19Here are our sales volumes. Here is a
37:21huge Mercedes sold only 500 units and
37:22went crazy. Why do we need this?
37:24Mercedes thought, and that's why
37:26they've basically lumped all their, uh,
37:28sales volumes for specific models into
37:31small groups. They have a front-wheel
37:34drive group, a group of just standard
37:36cars, and a Luxurious group, like where
37:38IMG, Maybach, all those guys are. And
37:41they're calculating strictly by these
37:42groups: we sold this much in the base
37:44segment, we sold this much on average,
37:45we sold this much in Luxurious.
37:47Basically, without revealing how many
37:49S-Classes, E-Classes, A-Classes, or
37:51whatever, it doesn't matter. But they
37:53specifically pulled out the Gentwagen
37:55and showed a 23%increase. It seems to
37:58me that there's simply nothing else to
38:00show, because again, well, if they'd
38:01had some success with the C-Class, they
38:03would have said so, but they don't. And
38:06just imagine how painful it is for the
38:09marketing and finance departments to
38:12look at this figure. Because you're
38:15investing every possible resource, your
38:17passion, and your expertise into
38:19pushing your new body products onto the
38:21market. There's a G-Class that no one's
38:24done anything with for 50 years, give
38:26or take a few kilometers, and it's just
38:28growing on its own. They should be
38:31feeling down, right? So, you're like,
38:34you've been working for years, and with
38:36your focus group and your efficient and
38:38knowledgeable manager, you came up with
38:40the idea of making an electric G-Class.
38:44You went to Las Vegas, twirled the
38:45dials, and thought everything was fine,
38:47but then, throughout production, we've
38:48been stuck in a shambles. Surely that
38:51must be sad. At least someone, well, at
38:54least someone must be sad there.
38:55Although, there's probably even more
38:57sadness in the eyes of someone who
38:58bought an electric G-Class. And this is
39:01the only sparkle in the mass of reports
39:02from German car companies that tell you
39:04exactly what needs to be done. Not in
39:07the sense that everything should become
39:09a G-Class, but in the sense that the
39:10market needs cars like these, among
39:12other things. There you go. Look, a
39:16gasoline wa-boo. And it's really nice
39:21that the Germans lost the entire
39:23competition for electric trains in
39:25China, because, well, it's as if the US
39:27is already noticeably moving away from
39:29electric cars. No one will let them in
39:31China anymore. And even if they do let
39:32them in the US, well, it'll be
39:34difficult. We need to build factories,
39:35and we still need to offer some kind of
39:37cars there that are relevant to the
39:38market. And as if dreaming about
39:40something purely electric is already
39:42out of the question. Maybe we'll
39:45quickly scrap all these drawings, throw
39:47them all in the trash, delete
39:49everything, and the G-Class. We'll
39:52think of something there. Mm, another 8
39:55+ 23%to sales. Maybe you'll make some
39:59money, guys. What do you think? Well,
40:01I've been wanting to see another new,
40:04brutal, sexy, cool, and wonderful
40:07German car for ages, not a Volkswagen
40:10D3. Well, considering they're investing
40:12a lot of money in defense, maybe you
40:13will. Meanwhile, Hyundai has decided
40:21not to buy out Russian assets. As you
40:24watch this newscast, there are
40:26literally a few days left until that
40:28option expires for 10,000 rubles, or 1
40:31euro, or 1 kopeck, or something like
40:33that. And it seems like sources close
40:37to Hyundai, to all the guys, are saying
40:39that everything, well, like the Koreans
40:41just decided to write it off and close
40:43the issue and won't buy back these
40:44enterprises, although the deal seems
40:46wonderful.
40:48Can't they add another 20 and extend it
40:49for another 3 years?
40:51Can I buy it? Let's do it this way. I
40:52have 10,000 too, but I'm kind of ready,
40:55just in case. If it's just a matter of
40:58ten, guys, damn, we'll chip in, we'll
41:00find a way here somehow, like, figure
41:01it out. It's clear that real agreements
41:03there are much more painful and much
41:05more complicated. And if Hyundai had
41:07the opportunity to return the plant,
41:09naturally, they would. Well, because
41:12it's a very large plant, huge, really,
41:15well, huge, necessary, cool, tasty,
41:18wonderful, worth a lot of money. If
41:21there was an opportunity to return it,
41:23they definitely would. But, apparently,
41:25that opportunity no longer exists. Why?
41:27We'll find out in 15 years. Meanwhile,
41:33AvtoVAZ ended up with a profit. It's
41:36not clear that it ended up with a
41:37profit at all, that's it, we're done
41:39with it. We don't need it. Or they
41:42ended 2025 with a profit, because, well
41:44, naturally, they don't talk about
41:46exact figures. The only exact figure
41:48that exists is that their sales fell by
41:51half. This figure is accurate because
41:53they produced 320,000 something cars.
41:55Last year, just to remind you, they
41:57produced 520,000-something cars, but
41:59the high tax rate, the current economic
42:01situation, and all the current
42:02difficulties, well, prevented the plant
42:04from producing more than 320,000 cars.
42:07But at the same time, there were
42:08supposedly no losses. Strictly speaking
42:12, AvtoVAZ doesn't actually report at
42:13all—well, maybe it doesn't report—
42:15because they ceased to be a public
42:17company in 2019, under the previous
42:18owners. Now, AvtoVAZ-T is simply a
42:20joint-stock company. They can only
42:22report internally, well, only to their
42:25shareholders. And all these press
42:27conferences about how we have such and
42:29such results—they might not do it in
42:30general, but for some reason they
42:32confidently do it, it's unclear, but
42:34they continue to come out and say this
42:35and that, look, we communicate with the
42:37press.
42:38AvtoVAZ is, in general, a company
42:40that's been doing the same thing for a
42:42very long time. That's
42:44true. Well, there's also the problem,
42:46which was also mentioned in the
42:48presentation: look, we have a debt
42:50burden, well, the plant has loans taken
42:52out by previous shareholders. Well, I
42:54mean, Renault. Back then, the interest
42:55rate was 4%. Now the rate is completely
42:58different. And that's a completely
43:00different cost. And they don't align
43:01with our business model. We're having a
43:03hard time lowering the rate. That's it.
43:04Well, that's roughly the premise. But
43:06given that the rate is already being
43:07lowered and the economy is starting to
43:09gradually warm up, AvtoZ is looking to
43:11the future with hope, not like that. We
43:13plan to produce 400,000 next year. Well
43:15, that's more than this year. Less than
43:17last year, yes. But more than this year
43:20. And we've already brought back the
43:22five-day workweek. Well, apparently
43:24simply because management sees the
43:26point. Oh, and they'll definitely
43:27release Azimuth, too. Yeah, we'll
43:29release it, yeah, by the end of the
43:31year we'll cram the 1.8 everywhere we
43:33can. Wherever it fits, that's where
43:35we'll cram it. In all the Vestas, in
43:36everything. That's it. That's it.
43:38That's everything that drives. Someone
43:39needs a 1.8. Let's shove it in. It'll
43:41run, everything will be great. Guys,
43:43don't worry. And some related news from
43:47fellow sufferers. The new BMW X3 is
43:49losing its steering wheel. A recall
43:51campaign is being conducted for 37,000
43:53cars. Videos like these have been all
43:55over the internet, claiming that BMW,
43:57the new X3, this bastard, even has a
43:59steering wheel that does this. That's
44:01it. And BMW is like," Okay, that's it,
44:02we're recalling 37,000 cars, we'll
44:04reflash them, everything will be fine.
44:06"Well, there are a bunch of memes about
44:07how AvtoVAZ isn't being written off
44:09exactly the same way. Well, more
44:11precisely, what AvtoVAZ BMW is saying
44:12is:" Here you go, just don't copy it
44:14exactly. "By the way, well, the whole
44:16story with the Vesta's steering wheel
44:17jamming happened in October of '25. Has
44:19anyone heard anything about it since
44:21then? What happened? How did that
44:24happen? Why? In October, the entire
44:27internet, the entire automotive
44:28internet, was running around saying,
44:29yeah, yeah, we're all going to die.
44:32Driverless Vestas will kill people,
44:34they'll drive around, and there will be
44:36an innocent driver. They'll just make
44:40everyone's money. And where is all this
44:42now? Let's think about it. Why? Why did
44:46all the media suddenly forget about the
44:48Vesta's role being blocked?
44:49What, do you think AvtoVAZ gave them
44:51money? Can
44:51you imagine how much money that is?
44:53Wait, how can you give money to the
44:55internet? Okay, come on, let's think
44:57about it.
44:58So what then? The FSB called everyone
44:59at home, came in, and said," Not
45:01another word about your car. "
45:02And the company's coordinated PR
45:04doesn't mean anything to you?
45:06Well, no. Just a coincidence.
45:09That doesn't happen.
45:10That doesn't happen.
45:11And how did the story with the woman
45:13who did nothing end? Well, I mean, no,
45:14that's it. I was like, before the
45:16episode today," What happened there, by
45:18the way? Nothing happened at all. "I
45:20mean, no new updates. Shumsky didn't
45:23make any new videos.
45:2415 of them. I don't know. Well, I mean,
45:26well, anyway, in October there was a
45:28surge that came from no traffic jams or
45:30not from no traffic jams, I don't know
45:31where. Well, I mean, it's like, at some
45:33point you go online, and there it is,
45:35all in the news. That's how it is. Well
45:37, it's all there. And now there's
45:38nothing and I couldn't find anything on
45:40Google. Maybe by the time you watch
45:43this episode, something new has already
45:45happened and the issue has been
45:47unblocked. I don't know, write in the
45:49comments.
45:50You managed to dodge it.
45:57Well, let's finish with Mercedes
45:59winning the Car of the Year for the
46:00first time in 52 years. Apparently,
46:03it's just like they
46:03gave us
46:05a calculator, I guess. I don't know.
46:08Apparently, things are really bad for
46:11Mercedes, because, well, let's just
46:13remember the winners, ah, and the
46:16runners-up of the European Car of the
46:18Year award, well, in recent years. If
46:22we look, say, at 2019, when there was
46:25still the pandemic, before total
46:27electrification, before all this, who
46:29was in first place? It should have been
46:33a magnificent European car. Definitely
46:34some kind of bestseller. Exactly, well,
46:36there was a large jury from different
46:38countries. And they certainly
46:40understand what's what in cars. That's
46:42why the Jaguar IPace is in first place.
46:46Jaguar's most unsuccessful car, as
46:48experience has shown. And before it, in
46:51second place, is the Alpin A110. The
46:53most unsuccessful so far.
46:55Yes, Sofarn. Yes, that's right. In
46:57third place, yes, indeed, is the
46:58new-generation Kia Citroen. Yeah, it's
47:00awesome. No questions asked. 2020. We
47:02have the Porsche Tayan among the
47:04winners, by the way, also the most
47:06successful, cool, wonderful car. The
47:08Fiat 500E was runner-up in 2020. The
47:10Toyota Yaris was the champion. No
47:13questions asked, of course. Well, let's
47:15move on. Kia EV6, Renault Megane ET,
47:18Hyundai Ionic 5, Volkswagen IDBs. Well,
47:22there's a certain, you know, you look
47:25at them, and it's a testosterone-fueled
47:27group of guys who are like," Wow, we're
47:30a car. "And we are a car, we are the
47:33Peugeot 208, the 2020 winner, yes. Well
47:36, and now the CL from Mercedes.
47:42European Car of the Year. Mercedes
47:45hasn't won the award for 52 years,
47:47since the 1926 S-Class. That was the
47:50only time Mercedes actually won this
47:51award. And that didn't stop him from
47:54making a huge number of cars over the
47:56past 50 years,
47:57including, by the way, the 126. No
47:59questions there. One of the most
48:01successful C-classes of all time. Those
48:04guys really hit the nail on the head
48:05back then, awesome, fantastic. And then
48:08everything Mercedes did all that time,
48:11which really had a huge number of great
48:13models, didn't deserve any awards. But
48:16what was the most important award? That
48:20these cars were bought, that people
48:22brought money to a company that was
48:23supposedly created to make money and
48:25sell cars to people, and people bought
48:27them, and the cars were sold and that's
48:29it. Absolutely great, wonderful. Let's
48:33see, of course, the results of the new
48:34CLA. So, you know, why is it Car of the
48:37Year? What is it? Some hybrid or
48:38something.
48:39And some wonderful hybrid. Please pass
48:48the award to the Prius. It won it in
48:502005. That's exactly what the
48:52technology was twenty years ago.
48:55Although now, of course, they'll tell
48:56you that it's a completely different
48:58thing. Get out, go. Because at this
49:00point I can only quote my beloved and
49:02adored Clarkson. Regarding absolutely
49:05all these magnificent cars. I think
49:06you've heard this quote, but let's
49:08reinforce it anyway. There are many
49:10reasons why we're stopping the show. I
49:12mean, Ntur, but for me, one of the main
49:14reasons is that I'm simply not
49:15interested in electric cars. They're
49:17just household appliances, like washing
49:19machines, microwaves, and so on. You
49:22can't review them, you can't enjoy them
49:24, they're just crap. And I can't
49:27disagree with him. And that's it for
49:33this, this first news bulletin of this
49:36year. I missed you. Everyone was
49:39screaming on the Telegram channel,
49:40asking where the news was, where. Let
49:42me remind you, just in case, previous
49:44years we'd just get going around
49:47February, like," Oh, life's a mess.
49:49It's a little earlier here. We're
49:51already in working mode, there'll be a
49:53bunch of updates. Wait, watch, we won't
49:56argue. Have a nice day. But you still
50:02got in the shot.
50:12Well, I climbed down after her.
50:14And here there was supposed to be a
50:15cutaway, but we didn't have enough
50:16money, that's why people came like that
50:17. And just so you knew. Ah.

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