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0:00Happy Wednesday to you. We are already
0:03in mid-December. New Year is coming,
0:06Jingle Bells are coming, all that stuff
0:09; damn, '25 has flown by in an instant.
0:13Let’s just regret all that after the
0:15holidays. Hello. This burned. The
0:24electric car that didn't go smoothly
0:26for us. I can share an achievement of
0:30the year. An achievement of the year.
0:33No jokes here. I defeated Rosavtodor,
0:35or they defeated me. I don’t know.
0:37But for many years I’ve had trouble
0:40getting a transponder. I just couldn't.
0:43It wouldn't work. Just no way. Yeah.
0:46Like, a huge amount of man-hours,
0:48nerves, and dropped calls were wasted.
0:51I went through all the stages: denial,
0:54anger, and so on, but I just couldn't.
0:56The problem was that a long, long time
0:58ago,
0:59they wrote down: "Just leave it there."
1:00And so, long ago, I set up an account
1:04on my phone but under my dad’s name.
1:07Uh-huh.
1:08I had to for some reason, I don't
1:09remember why. Then my dad's account on
1:11my number. When I tried to untangle it,
1:14something glitched in their system. It
1:16turned out I couldn't delete my old
1:18account. And at the same time, any data
1:21I had—phone number, emails,
1:22everything—was already registered as
1:24an existing user. And even if you tried
1:27a new phone number or something, the
1:29user still existed, and you couldn't do
1:31anything. You call support, and they
1:35say, "Well, uh, we'll try something now
1:37." And it always ended with them either
1:40not knowing what to do or telling me to
1:41show up with a passport God knows where
1:43, and I never had the time. So I’d
1:45get frustrated from time to time.
1:46Anyway, when I sold the Cayman, my
1:49transponder went with it. And since
1:51that time, I’ve been trying to get a
1:53new one. And only just now, at a mobile
1:56office on the M11 near Solnechnogorsk,
1:58a capable woman from Rosavtodor finally
2:00solved my problems.
2:02Thank you.
2:03Thank you for the 350 rubles.
2:05Thank you.
2:07Thank you to you too. Yes, I finally
2:08have a transponder. It doesn't work
2:10through the windshield, though, damn it
2:12. I have to stick it out. But that’s
2:14okay. At least it’s something, thank
2:16God.
2:17Is the transponder bad or the
2:18windshield? It’s a good
2:19windshield.
2:20Have you ever wanted a siren?
2:22What? Why? I have a friend who is
2:26absolutely obsessed with license plates
2:29and sirens. He knows exactly which
2:31serious, respected people drive which
2:33cars with which plates. He's constantly
2:36looking around Moscow, seeing who's
2:38driving, whose car that is, and all
2:40that. I mean, he’s just really into
2:42it, and he dreams of riding with a
2:44siren too. I don’t get the point at
2:47all.
2:47The question is, what does he do? You
2:48can ride with a siren in different ways
2:50, hell, with different statuses.
2:51No, I mean, like, with a driver,
2:53hop-hop and......also there with a
2:55driver, hop-hop. Maybe next time,
2:57instead of suitcases of money, he can
2:59just ask for a siren.
3:01Suitcases of money would be nice to see
3:03too, but they aren't there.
3:04Atom.
3:06Continuing the acceleration from the
3:08previous news segment. I like taking
3:10the metro in winter. The metro is
3:12actually perfect for me. I’ve gone
3:13through all the stages of acceptance,
3:15denial, and anger toward the damn metro
3:17. Also, before the New Year holidays, I
3:19want to remind all you lovely people
3:21once again that you should rest,
3:22because, well, I understand we’re
3:24mostly adults here, we’re constantly
3:26grinding on projects, working ourselves
3:27to the bone, and always want to get
3:29everything done. And yes, indeed,
3:32before the New Year, it's usually that
3:34time when you're just like, "I just
3:35have to finish everything, it’s all
3:37coming at once, everyone wants to buy
3:39everything, everyone wants things done,
3:41all projects need to be closed, all
3:43deadlines are burning, and you have to
3:45earn all the bonuses, and so on." And
3:48yes, indeed, it’s worth pushing
3:50through until the New Year, but then
3:51don’t forget to have a proper,
3:53high-quality rest—like, really relax,
3:55no work, at home, with your phone off,
3:57with loved ones, somewhere during the
3:58holidays. Just get some good, solid
4:02rest.
4:03Like Stas on his Kazatka. There it is,
4:05there it is.
4:06Well, yeah. No, that's where I rest. I
4:08mean, it's a complete shift in focus,
4:10especially in Sochi. Well, I’ll
4:12naturally be racing at the moment
4:13you’re watching this video. In a week
4:15, we’ll have a race in Sochi, and in
4:17January I also have, like, a karting
4:19stage there. In Sochi, they
4:20periodically cut off the internet
4:22entirely.
4:22I mean, there’s an internet curfew
4:24from, I think, 8:00 PM. And plus, well,
4:27Plastunka is located in the mountains.
4:29In general, sometimes the internet just
4:31works poorly on its own. And you, you,
4:32nothing works for you, Telegram doesn't
4:34work, no one can reach you, your phone
4:36is always in a box, you’re always in
4:37the car somewhere, and you, accordingly
4:39, you arrive, well, at 9:00 a.m. at the
4:41kart track, at 6:00 p.m...I mean, your
4:43time just collapses, and you’re only
4:44there, immersed only in what is
4:46happening. Absolutely no problems
4:47concern you, nothing else exists. You,
4:50like, get a proper reset, yeah, you
4:52have, well, physical activity, yes,
4:53you’re tired yourself, but you crawl
4:55perfectly calmly to your mattress in
4:57Sochi and sleep soundly there. It’s,
4:59like, a cool way to switch off. But
5:00until January 10th or January 14th,
5:02whenever our official holidays are, you
5:05really need to get some rest, you need
5:07to do it properly, not doomscrolling
5:09feeds, not reading through every piece
5:11of news, just calmly and relaxed. Just
5:13so you know, by the way, sitting from
5:15morning till night playing games is
5:16exactly the same load on your mental
5:18system, on your nervous system. As
5:20intense work, because your brain is
5:21constantly, well, like in some kind of
5:23struggle, in some kind of quest for
5:25something, in achieving some kind of
5:26result. Therefore, well, games drain
5:28you too. Remember that?
5:30The day before yesterday I downloaded
5:31Gran Turismo, and I never understood
5:33the guys who, while playing CS or some
5:35other games, start yelling at the
5:36monitor.
5:37Yeah. Yeah.
5:38I started racing just against my own
5:40past self with a ghost. God, how I was
5:43raging yesterday, when you just mess up
5:44one turn, that’s it, you lose half a
5:46second, and you’re like: "Bot,
5:48yeah, yeah, yeah".
5:49I didn't know I could get sucked into
5:51it like that. Just a simple Gran
5:52Turismo, and on a controller too. For
5:54now, on a controller. I’m afraid of
5:56how I’ll spend the New Year holidays.
5:58If I don’t fly anywhere, I’ll buy
5:59myself a steering wheel. And yes, I
6:02won’t be following your advice.
6:04You can, you can, yeah, really go hard
6:06on it.
6:07I’m going to go hard.
6:08But again, a race and just driving are
6:11different. These are completely
6:13different meanings. I mean, if you go
6:15somewhere, I don’t know, to karting
6:17or periodically show up for track days
6:19and so on, and just chase lap times
6:21there, try racing, try competitions,
6:23because it will divide your life into
6:25before and after. Completely different
6:27things. Later on, when you realize
6:29you're preparing for a race, for
6:31instance, you stop caring about
6:33absolute lap time; you start working
6:35with the car and racing lines
6:37completely differently, and your entire
6:39approach to training changes.
6:41Everything changes, really. Your only
6:42interest becomes the race, the stakes.
6:44I have an acquaintance who just won
6:46some world championship in Daytona 24
6:47with his team. The guy lives for it. He
6:50basically has a job just to fund this
6:52hobby, and that's it. He doesn't need
6:54anything else in life. Awesome. On one
6:56hand, good for him, he's a legend. Plus
6:58, he actually has results. I think he
7:01held the lap record at Spa for about
7:03two years in his class. And now
7:05they’ve won Daytona. Do you get any
7:08prize money for that?
7:09They’ve started holding sim-racing
7:10championships with prize pools now.
7:12Well, just like in any other sport,
7:14really. Initially, it's all free, but
7:17as soon as an audience grows and more
7:19people get involved, sponsors and money
7:21appear. So, it's a logical progression.
7:23It’s becoming a category of esports,
7:25just like Dota did back in the day.
7:27Take the F1 Esports Series, for example
7:28. I mean, there's the Formula 1 game
7:30from Esports,
7:31the one by EA. First place is 750,000
7:33dollars.
7:34Wow, no way.
7:35Well, that's if you win. I used to
7:37watch some of that eFormula stuff for a
7:38while. I don't mean Formula E with the
7:41electric cars, but the eFormula 1 where
7:44guys race in sims; the competition is
7:46so tight. I mean, in qualifying, you
7:50could have 20 cars finish within a
7:52tenth of a second. These guys are
7:55fighting over thousandths of a second.
7:56There’s a channel by Jarno Opmeer.
7:58He’s a world champion, I think, and
8:00he shows a lot of these different
8:02electronic formula things. And look,
8:04Formula 1 just ended, the season is
8:06over—we don't know the results yet,
8:08well, you guys already know, but we
8:10don't. I’ll probably be sitting here
8:11this winter watching the electronic
8:12ones. I’ll just see how the
8:14championship went, because you have to
8:15watch some kind of racing, and they
8:17always end, damn it. So you end up
8:18watching the electronic ones. I
8:19recently posted on my Telegram channel
8:21about my Instagram suggestion, like,
8:23motorsport is just a hobby. Meanwhile,
8:24my suggestions are just all inboards
8:26and all races. Just absolutely
8:28everything. Not a single ass gets
8:29through,
8:30not a single diffuser lets anyone pass.
8:32Look at that, honestly.
8:34Well, a car has a skirt too, so you
8:36could say that.
8:38I’ve peeked under the splitter before
8:39.
8:40My floor got ripped off. Check my floor
8:42. Box-box, box-box. And
8:45with that, let’s move on to the news.
8:50Since we’ve touched on motorsport
8:52again. Toyota is back in Formula 1.
8:55What do you mean? I mean, like, today,
8:57the very day we're filming this video,
9:00they confirmed they are the new title
9:02sponsor for Haas MoneyGram or whatever,
9:05MoneyGram Haas Team before this. The
9:07Haas title sponsor is leaving. And now
9:09we’ll definitely have two cripples
9:11racing at the bottom of the
9:12championship. Audi at Sauber and Toyota
9:14at Haas. Now that, that is what I call
9:17a rivalry. Haas has been getting into
9:19the points lately, so no.
9:21Yeah, and Sauber started moving a bit,
9:23but they’re rolling out new cars in
9:252026. Haas has a Ferrari engine, who
9:28does Sauber have?
9:29Also Ferrari.
9:30Also Ferrari,
9:30but they’ll have their own engine
9:32from Audi.
9:32There you go. Good luck to them. Good
9:34luck to them getting anywhere with that
9:37TFSI. Obviously, everyone watching
9:39Formula 1 is very curious about 2026,
9:41because there will be all-new cars,
9:42all-new engines, all-new everything,
9:44only the tracks are old, including new
9:46race teams too. Well, now we’ll be
9:48watching the Audi-Toyota rivalry.
9:50Honestly, I’d even root for Toyota in
9:52this case, but purely out of principle,
9:54I’ll have to support the
9:55second-to-last team.
9:56Damn, now I’ll definitely root for
9:59Haas.
10:00I always used to vote for Mazepin for
10:02fun, like, Driver of the Day.
10:04Always for the meme. No matter how he
10:05drove, crashed or didn't crash, Mazepin
10:07is the best.
10:08Well, yeah, of course, naturally.
10:12Abarth wants to bring back ICE models
10:14because electric cars failed on the
10:16market. According to the analytical
10:19agency Dataforce, in the first three
10:22quarters of this year, the Abarth brand
10:25sold only 1,746 cars in Europe, which
10:27is 72%less. Well, the same period of
10:302024, down 72%. Mm, what a great
10:33business decision it was to switch to
10:35electric. Although there’s a huge
10:36amount online—this doesn’t relate
10:38to Abarth, but the hybrid Fiat 500 that
10:40appeared recently in Europe, they
10:41relaunched it. Everyone is dying
10:43laughing at the 0 to 100 acceleration.
10:44Just inboards, where you’re drag
10:46racing or just using a stopwatch. Well,
10:47there you go, the 0 to 100 sprint. The
10:49new hybrid Fiat 500. It's not what I
10:53was looking to find, but even if you
10:55take that previous car, like a sports
10:56hybrid with a stick, modern ones are
10:58still worse. But we're off, it's dry
11:01there. That's just by the speedometer.
11:041557,
11:06yeah? And if you take Abarths, the
11:08situation there is, well, not much
11:10better either. Plus, an electric Abarth
11:12is an absurdity because it’s heavy,
11:14no matter how you look at it; electric
11:15cars are heavy, and the whole point of
11:17small, nimble cars is for them to be
11:19small, nimble, and lightweight. And
11:21even if it has a small engine, no one
11:23cares, because it's light, it's "wow"
11:24when you step on it, "wow" in the turns
11:25, and it's just fun, cool, and so on.
11:28But the guys are like: "Well, you know,
11:30the Fiat 500 hybrid is still selling at
11:32least a little bit. Nobody wants the
11:35electric one." I guess for us, as
11:36Abarth, a company that basically just
11:38does tuning packages for the Fiat 500,
11:40maybe we should also make hybrid cars
11:42because they at least have some demand.
11:45And right here, in this very spot, just
11:47add an ICE. The loss-making Lotus will
11:49present its first powerful hybrid in
11:51January. Like when Lotus was bought by
11:53the Chinese, it turned out that it
11:55would be only electric cars from now on
11:57. Oh, we are our own Lotus. That yellow
12:02thing, that huge SUV, is just
12:04disgusting and costs a huge amount of
12:07money. Wait, oh, what's this? And now
12:11they're like: "Well, we'll put a hybrid
12:12in there now." We tried so hard to get
12:15out of the red, but it’s just not
12:18working at all. So, well, let's try
12:21pushing hybrids somehow.
12:24Honestly, I just want to go back to the
12:25eighties and nineties and work with
12:26cars, because everything was probably
12:28more interesting back then. Oh, that's
12:30it, I've gotten old. That's all.
12:33And in the eighties and nineties,
12:34everyone was saying, "Man, we need to
12:35go back to the fifties." Back then,
12:37there were cars.
12:38Where are you? The eighties, where
12:39would you have ended up in the USSR?
12:40You would've been pining for a Lada
12:42Samara,
12:43reading a book about Newey, and there's
12:45a guy who was born at the right time,
12:46studied the right way, and ended up
12:48exactly where he needed to be. And you
12:50look at that, the guy has this cool,
12:52intense automotive life, because he
12:55caught, well, just like we caught the
12:57dawn of portable tech and phones, he
12:59caught the dawn of aerodynamics in cars
13:01and sports equipment.
13:03Well yeah, yeah, that's all true.
13:05And I'd like to, I'd love to go back
13:07there. There. Well, damn, that electric
13:09Lotus. Well.
13:11So, let's see, in its gas-powered era,
13:13Lotus never sold as many cars as it
13:16does now. I mean, Geely, the one that
13:18bought them, they saved it. It was
13:20already collapsing by, well, in the
13:22tens, it was collapsing. Geely saved it
13:25, yeah, turned it into heavy EVs, but.
13:27Wait, hold on. "Saved it," what do you
13:28mean by that? They bought a
13:30money-losing company at that point in
13:31time.
13:31Yes. Yes. The one that created, that
13:33was making, um,
13:35the one that, for the record, used to
13:36develop really cool technologies back
13:38in the day and was actually profitable
13:40way back when. And for a long time, it
13:43didn't change its approach. And just as
13:45a representative of the British auto
13:46industry, which was actually still
13:48making some cars there. Well, the
13:49British auto industry is completely
13:50dead,
13:51yeah.
13:51It's not just Lotus that died, but
13:53everything Britain was doing in cars,
13:54it's all dead. Everything.
13:56I didn't know Angelina Jolie was saving
13:58British cars.
14:00Why?
14:01Angelina Jolie?
14:02Ah.
14:03Just keep going.
14:05No, no, let's leave that out, or it'll
14:07just be me talking. No, no, that's not
14:11how we should do it.
14:12Sort of. Again, what does "saved" mean?
14:14Like, they went and bought the brand,
14:16maybe to acquire the talent, the
14:18engineering center, and so on, but the
14:20project itself is still unprofitable,
14:22yeah, and they wanted to turn it into
14:24something like Porsche, to have it
14:25produce more prestigious cars and so on
14:27.
14:28Yeah, and they are producing a lot of
14:29cars now. Good for them. But what's the
14:31point if you're not making any money?
14:32So, why aren't they making money?
14:33Besides the fact that the guys really
14:35didn't calculate that the market
14:36wouldn't be ready for a bunch of EVs,
14:39they also ran into Europe's resistance
14:41against Chinese electric cars.
14:43That's correct.
14:43And plus the trade war with America too
14:46. So the plan was to sell Lotuses not
14:48just in China, where most of them are
14:50sold now, but worldwide. Yes.
14:52Worldwide, yeah. But luck wasn't on
14:53their side, it didn't work out.
14:54And.
14:55Somehow. In the end, by the way, they
14:57had the idea to move production to the
14:59USA, closer to their target audience,
15:01but the British authorities rebelled
15:02and forced them to keep that one
15:04remaining factory in Britain,
15:06yeah, so they wouldn't have to fire
15:07people there. And it's precisely
15:08because the British government made
15:10absolutely idiotic decisions in the
15:12second half of the 20th century that
15:13their entire auto industry went
15:15bankrupt as a whole, because originally
15:17, well, the British school of car
15:18manufacturing was just as much of a
15:20pillar as everything else. They were
15:22the ones who invented absolutely
15:23magnificent things. The British
15:25themselves are actually very sad about
15:28this, that, you know, they were a
15:30global empire, controlling half the
15:32planet, literally just like 100 years
15:34ago. And it seems like cars are, well,
15:36one of the signs of a strong country.
15:38In the 20th century, at least, that was
15:40the case. And that all strong nations
15:41had their own cars. And we just went
15:43and threw it all away. Especially since
15:45there was an auto industry. There were
15:46big brands, there were large production
15:47facilities, but somehow it’s all gone
15:49now. Along with quite a large number of
15:50other industries, actually. But
15:51that’s not important. The main thing
15:53is that these guys, like, they
15:54initially came up with this whole
15:56electric vehicle thing. Now we’ll
15:57throw in a few hybrids there. Maybe one
15:59day they’ll even get to internal
16:00combustion engines.
16:02I wish someone would make a video like
16:04"The Empire That Lost Its Cars."
16:08Damn it,
16:09film it.
16:14Should I show you the script? Let’s
16:16go. Like Lixiang cars in Uzbekistan,
16:21the new trend in tuning. A fake lidar.
16:24Guys are actually starting to stick
16:26these, you know, lidar humps on their
16:29roofs to show that, look, I have a
16:31modern car, it’s all about that lidar
16:33stuff and so on. There. Well,
16:36personally, to be honest, I agree with
16:38Konstantin Sergeyevich that this is a
16:40controversial design element. He
16:43constantly says in his reviews that
16:45this lidar, this pimple on the head,
16:46this horn, is just something else. He
16:49personally dislikes it a lot, he
16:50wouldn't buy a car like that because
16:52it’s aesthetically repulsive. I
16:53completely agree. It's just that since
16:56Konstantin Sergeyevich puts it in more
16:58civilized terms, I can join him in
17:00those formulations, because if I start
17:02explaining what it is, there will be a
17:04lot of swearing, since it really looks
17:06disgusting. Well, in Uzbekistan, it’s
17:09the trend, like, you know.
17:10It reminds me of some badge from a
17:12British taxi.
17:13It reminds you of all sorts of things.
17:15I mean, you could compare it to a great
17:18many unpleasant bumps, let's put it
17:20that way. There is, of course, a
17:23resemblance to pleasant bumps, but only
17:26a few.
17:27What if there were two of them and they
17:28were just poking out a little bit under
17:30a T-shirt.
17:30With those little antennas on them. Yes
17:32, yes. Leave that joke in.
17:37Audi also has those things on the front
17:39, which, to me, also look strange. They
17:41try to hide them a bit in the grille so
17:43they aren't noticeable, but they are
17:44noticeable, you can see them. Mercedes
17:46also has a radar on the front that is
17:48very visible.
17:49Not only do they have a radar, but
17:50there’s this camera bump sticking out
17:52, completely out of proportion to
17:53everything.
17:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s hideous, just
17:56hideous, but someone must like it. A
18:01mustachioed Brad Pitt took the new
18:03Mercedes-AMG 4-Door Coupe for a spin
18:05and became its face. We had a Formula 1
18:08movie made starring Brad Pitt. If you
18:10haven’t watched it, check it out.
18:12Well, overall, it’s an entertaining
18:14spectacle if you aren't really into
18:15motorsport, because if you are, to be
18:17fair, you can't watch any of these
18:19films. Well, Rush is probably a cool
18:21movie. But with the rest, you're just
18:23like, "No way, no way, no way." You
18:25turn into some grumpy old man on the
18:26couch. Possibly, this has nothing to do
18:28with motorsport. For the record,
18:29Mercedes was one of the sponsors. And
18:31all of Mercedes 'sponsors were also
18:33essentially sponsors of the film. They
18:35had the Apex GP team there, they had
18:37the IWC brands there. Petronas is there
18:40too, CrowdStrike is also here. All the
18:42brands, everything, if you please.
18:43Anyway, in short,
18:44the producer is Lewis Hamilton.
18:46Producer Lewis Hamilton. Yes. And
18:48naturally, since Mercedes is showcasing
18:50new models, Brad Pitt is now the face
18:52of their advertising. And so a clip
18:55comes out where this long-awaited,
18:58whoever-it-is, AMG GT 4-Door electric
19:01car arrives. Naturally, who brings it
19:03to Brad Pitt? George Russell, right?
19:05He’s doing donuts. He’s doing
19:07donuts too. Everyone’s happy. Ooh,
19:09yeah, awesome. Class. And Brad Pitt
19:11will actually now be the official face
19:13of this electric thing and participate
19:15in the entire ad campaign.
19:16Is CrowdStrike a reference to Mercedes,
19:19when they took out the crowd in Formula
19:21or what?
19:22Is it? An advertising brand, I mean,
19:25Strike.
19:26And it's obvious that all of this is
19:28one big ad campaign and one big
19:29marketing project, and generally,
19:31probably a collaborative project for
19:33Brad Pitt, because there are already
19:34rumors that, well, after the massive
19:36success of the Formula 1 movie, there
19:38will be a second part about Formula 2,
19:40perhaps, or it will be Formula 1.2,
19:43that part two, season three, who the
19:45hell knows. There are just rumors that
19:47the film might continue, because, well,
19:48it was actually a success. Moreover, if
19:50you watch the film closely, it looks
19:52like a Formula 1 car, but actually,
19:53it’s a Formula 2 car dressed up as a
19:55Formula 1 car. Because you can't really
19:57put anyone in a real Formula 1 car, in
19:59general, in principle, because there
20:00are only two of them in existence and
20:02that's it. And Formula 2 is, well, a
20:03spec series, which for a normal person
20:05means that the cars are all identical.
20:07There is a racing manufacturer called
20:09Dallara that produces a large number of
20:11racing chassis for various racing
20:12series. Dallara races in Formula 3,
20:14Dallara in Formula 2, and in IndyCar,
20:16Dallara also supplies chassis to many
20:18people. Doesn't matter. Anyway, there
20:20is one specific car, the Formula 2
20:22regulation car. And if, say, in Formula
20:261, teams compete based on how they come
20:27up with engineering solutions
20:29internally—that is, there’s a set
20:31of rules and every manufacturer builds
20:33their own car. And so, you have 10
20:35different cars on the starting grid.
20:37Essentially, Ferrari has its own car,
20:39Mercedes has its own car, Red Bull has
20:41its own car, and so on. Going down the
20:43list. In Formula 2, all cars are
20:44identical. You're forbidden from
20:47changing anything, adding extra stages,
20:49remapping engines, working on
20:51aerodynamics, or attaching extra
20:53elements. And at the same time, it
20:56might seem that, well, this means all
20:57drivers are racing in identical
20:58conditions. An interesting competition.
21:00We have this thing in Formula 1 or
21:02other sports where someone builds a "
21:03rocket ship" and leaves everyone behind
21:05, but in a spec series, that shouldn't
21:07happen. But for some reason, you look
21:09at the last few years, and there’s
21:11this racing team, Invicta, and they are
21:14just…everyone…
21:18So what
21:19they’re cheating, then.
21:20No, they aren't cheating. They recently
21:22showed photos of their very modern test
21:24rigs. Basically, everyone works with
21:26simulators and aerodynamics these days.
21:28They just look at things, like maybe
21:29there's a wind tunnel, they blow air
21:30through it and feed the data into a
21:31simulator, plus they drive on the
21:33simulator. But Invicta has separate
21:35rigs that, in real-time, subject the
21:37car to racing conditions with loads and
21:39airflow, observing how the chassis
21:41works, how the car performs, where it
21:42sags, how it’s loaded, and what
21:44happens to it. They take this
21:46simulation, put it into the simulator,
21:48and work on it. They possess a huge
21:50amount of knowledge about how the car
21:52works under specific conditions. And
21:54this knowledge is as close to reality
21:56as possible. Because what is the
21:57problem? Well, you, for example, on
22:00your simulator or your test track,
22:02decided that, say, we are going to
22:04Silverstone. So, we have this track,
22:07and the next race stage is there. This
22:09means we'll have high speeds, high
22:11loads in the corners, blah, blah, and
22:13so on. There's a specific type of
22:14asphalt there, and these kinds of
22:15weather conditions are expected.
22:16Accordingly, we are adjusting the
22:18aerodynamics: rear downforce like this,
22:20front downforce like that. We set the
22:22suspension settings to be either softer
22:24or stiffer. We add this here, and that
22:25there, and so on. In short, we set up
22:26the car the way we think it will work.
22:27You hit the race track, and it works
22:29differently. Why? It’s unclear. I
22:31mean, why isn't the car gripping, or
22:33why can't it warm up the tires, or why
22:35does it overheat them, or why is
22:37something else different? And the more
22:39accurately you can predict the car's
22:41behavior in specific conditions before
22:43the race, the better and faster your
22:45race pace will be, because you only
22:47have literally three runs in practice.
22:49That is, if there are no technical
22:51issues. And you can only gather
22:53information about how the car is
22:54performing in real-time under these
22:56specific conditions right there. And
22:59the more accurate the models you built
23:00in the back office are, the better you
23:02can set up the car, and the higher your
23:03chance of winning the race. All the
23:05pilots, actually, are plus or minus
23:06right next to each other. They are very
23:08close to one another because, well,
23:09they are the best drivers in the world.
23:11Whether it's F2, F1, F3, or IndyCar, it
23:13doesn't matter. But just because you
23:17hit the right setup, you gain an
23:19advantage per lap, especially in a
23:21one-make series. And that's why, even
23:25Mercedes, which we started talking
23:27about, recently picked up Kimi
23:28Antonelli, a young guy who just turned
23:3118. He only got his driver's license
23:34and passed the exam in 2025, even while
23:36already being a Formula 1 driver. That
23:39was a whole thing; he came out and said
23:41, "Now that I have my license, I can
23:43drive a normal Peugeot too." Like, he
23:45was driving in Formula 2 for the Prema
23:47team, which wasn't going anywhere at
23:50the time. He was just finishing in the
23:52middle of the pack simply because the
23:54team had issues, not the driver. Some
23:57people were complaining, asking how
23:59they could just put a guy from the
24:00middle of the Formula 2 standings
24:02straight into a top team like Mercedes.
24:05What is that? Well, that's just how it
24:06goes sometimes. It's just, well, like,
24:07they're giving a discount to the team.
24:09And how did we end up here? We somehow,
24:11motor sports fly by, I latch onto
24:12something and we take off. Anyway, Brad
24:15Pitt is advertising an electric
24:17Mercedes. BMW will turn its electric
24:24cars for China into hybrids. Well, not
24:25all models and not just anything. They
24:27come out and are like: "Look, we have
24:29luxury cars." Well, we have an electric
24:317 series, for example, wait, there is
24:33no electric 7. In short, there are
24:35expensive cars, and nobody wants them
24:37at all, because in the luxury segment,
24:39people generally don't buy electric
24:41cars. Well, very low sales, well,
24:43everything is really bad. So let's make
24:45the 7 series a hybrid and so on.
24:47I think, well, we're talking about cars
24:49for the Chinese market, in China,
24:51prestigious electric cars are currently
24:54being snatched up by local
24:55manufacturers in that segment. It seems
24:57to me that the Chinese are more
24:59favorable toward prestigious electric
25:00cars. But even so, BMW is thinking
25:02about adding hybrids. They aren't going
25:04to kill off the electrics there. They
25:06are trying to add hybrids just to keep
25:07competing at all, to sell more of their
25:09cars. If their previous strategy was
25:11that we would cover the whole segment
25:12with just electric cars and everything
25:14would be fine, we’d recoup everything
25:15, make money, and everything would be
25:17wonderful. Now they're like, let's do
25:20hybrids too.
25:21Well, they're just recording a drop in
25:23sales in China for the 9 months of '25
25:25by 11%; their sales in China
25:27specifically have shriveled. And I
25:29understand that they ran into the same
25:31problem that Porsche ran into there.
25:33Meaning, they realized that local
25:35buyers don't need their electric cars.
25:37Too expensive, too unadvanced.
25:40Yes. Or, in electric cars, absolutely
25:42all automakers in the world lost to the
25:44Chinese. That's a fact. I mean, Chinese
25:46electric cars are genuinely better in
25:48terms of, like, cost per kilogram of
25:49that splendor. But at the same time, it
25:51must be said that BMW has one of the
25:53best situations among German automakers
25:56in the Chinese market, because Mercedes
25:58, Volkswagen, and Audi are losing much
26:00more. I am 100%biased here because when
26:03I hear "current BMW 7 series," I
26:05immediately get indigestion because,
26:08well, have you seen it? Well, it's just
26:12, how do I—when I run into it in real
26:14life, and unfortunately that happens
26:17sometimes—well, it's just a disaster:
26:19those glowing nostrils, the squinty
26:21eyes, the handles.
26:23And what's with the handles?
26:24Is it like this?
26:25With a finger, like,
26:26yeah? Like
26:27but why?
26:28Just like that. I have no answer.
26:30That's exactly why you have a driver,
26:32to open the back door for you.
26:33Maybe there's a servo,
26:34and the driver is supposed to give it.
26:36Yeah. I mean, that was probably the
26:37designer's logic. I don't know. Is
26:39there an electric door drive or what?
26:41Or how does it work?
26:41Well, I rode in that 7 Series twice as
26:43a passenger. There were no electric
26:45drives there. Maybe it was some kind of
26:47bottom-tier trim, I don't know. Yeah.
26:48Like, if you're a bum, then deal with
26:50that. But when you sit inside and see,
26:53well, basically Kia-level materials.
26:56What do you think, is the previous body
26:58style more interesting,
27:00much more attractive,
27:01but how do you think it is on the
27:03inside with materials?
27:03The problem there is that it also has
27:05huge nostrils. That's where this modern
27:08BMW "nostril-itis" started.
27:10That's from the facelift.
27:12Yes, from the facelift, but at least
27:13you can do a chrome delete so they
27:15aren't as visible. But here you have a
27:17LED strip around these huge nostrils.
27:20So, in the dark, this sniffing vacuum
27:23cleaner is still driving around with
27:25those eyes. Yikes. Like, it's really,
27:29really bad.
27:30That's the perfect option for detailing
27:32shops. Like, cutting the wire starts at
27:3450,000 rubles. Friends of mine in
27:38detailing told me that Li Auto owners
27:39come in periodically to break up their
27:41"eyebrow," just to, you know, wrap the
27:43middle part in tint so there are at
27:45least two separate headlights, so this
27:47eyebrow doesn't drive around at night.
27:50Yeah,
27:51I hope this feature is called "hot wax.
27:53" Passenger car production in Russia
28:01has been cut almost in half. What did
28:04they expect?
28:05Well, the BMW Z4 will be discontinued.
28:14The final series of the Toyota Supra
28:16and BMW Z4 has been presented. And now
28:18this is the "Final Edition." Just
28:20another way to make a little extra cash
28:22before we stop doing it for good. The
28:24G29 is a frankly unsuccessful body
28:25style. Well, a frankly unsuccessful
28:27body style. To lose to a Toyota that is
28:29made out of your own parts, well,
28:31that's a real achievement, I think. Of
28:33course, you can't really compare them
28:35like that, because a roadster and a
28:36coupe can't have equivalent sales
28:38overall. But still, the G29, from my
28:39point of view, is a very successful car
28:41. If it weren't for the success of the
28:43Supra, and the fact that they also made
28:45some money on the Supra, it wouldn't
28:47have lasted this long on the assembly
28:49line, for sure. We mentioned in the
28:51previous news segment that they make
28:53the GAC V at Magna, and now they're
28:55clearing out the Z4 from the same
28:56factory. Those are unlikely to be
28:58related events. I doubt they’re like:
28:59"Screw the Z4, we’re going to
29:00assemble GACs now." Most likely, these
29:02are just different assembly plants, but
29:04one way or another, one conveyor line
29:06will be freed up in the near future. It
29:09also has a Frozen Matte color.
29:11They somehow skimped on this farewell
29:13version, because Toyota presented their
29:16farewell version last year, and they
29:18had more power, sports decor, and
29:20everything was tuned, while here it’s
29:22just, like, a color.
29:24and more expensive,
29:25yeah,
29:26in true BMW spirit, we’ll do the same
29:28thing, but at a higher price. Euro NCAP
29:35is radically changing its testing
29:37program, factoring in ergonomics and
29:38virtual tests. First off, common sense
29:42is starting to prevail, and not just in
29:43the way internal combustion engines are
29:45returning, with that gasoline breeze
29:47and the sweet scent of fuel blowing
29:48back in. At the same time, common sense
29:52is also prevailing regarding the
29:53removal of touchscreens. That is the
29:55official position of Euro NCAP. They
29:57say that important controls—turn
29:59signals, headlight switches, horns,
30:01things like that—well, vital control
30:03elements definitely need to remain as
30:05buttons. Exactly. But I think that at
30:08some point, this will just evolve to
30:09the point where climate control will
30:11end up having physical buttons, too. At
30:13the same time, more attention will be
30:15paid to driver assistance systems,
30:16ensuring everything works autonomously,
30:18safe braking, and making sure the car
30:20monitors the driver to prevent them
30:21from falling asleep. Maybe some extra
30:24points will be awarded if the car can
30:26detect alcohol or drug intoxication.
30:29Virtual tests will be added because
30:31modern virtual models can now claim
30:32accuracy quite close to real-world
30:34measurements. They are going to shake
30:36up the tests a bit and add more women
30:38to the cars. I like that in their
30:40current regulations, there is a test
30:42where you just drive into a wall at 50
30:45km/h. And now they are going to put a
30:47woman behind the wheel who also drives
30:48into a wall, but slightly slower, at 35
30:50km/h. And women, like, don't know how
30:52to accelerate or...
30:53I think they just looked at the
30:55statistics of children hit near
30:57kindergartens and thought: "Man, there
30:59are a lot of them."
31:00Or maybe they looked at the statistics
31:02showing that when people mix up the
31:04pedals, a car manages to accelerate to
31:0635 km/h between a parking spot and the
31:09building.
31:09No sexism here.
31:11Zero. The regulations for evaluating
31:13various child restraint systems, mount
31:15failures, and so on are also changing.
31:17In short, they are tweaking their
31:19regulations quite a bit on the small
31:21stuff. The fundamental crash tests
31:23aren't changing, but it's not that
31:24they're getting less attention; rather,
31:26extra criteria are being added that
31:28Euro NCAP will now focus on. And for us
31:30, as car users, this is definitely good
31:32news because there will be a small gap,
31:34and automakers will once again remember
31:36that cars should be made comfortable
31:38for drivers.
31:38They watched your reviews, so I guess
31:40there will be a test later on how the
31:42soul aches and how the back hurts. I
31:44would have liked Konstantin
31:51Sergeyevich's wet dreams. The Land
31:53Rover Defender is ready to conquer the
31:55Dakar. You're sorry for "la." You're
31:59the king of the car. This is a Defender
32:01that has essentially nothing in common
32:03with a regular production car, because
32:04it's a specially prepared combat
32:06vehicle with a roll cage and a BMW
32:07engine. That's not entirely true,
32:10because they compete under specific
32:11regulations,
32:12which are kind of like regular,
32:14stock-style cars called "stock," and it
32:17forces you not to build from scratch
32:19but to use a production model as the
32:21base.
32:22That's correct. But just try explaining
32:24to the authorities that it's stock when
32:26you're sitting inside a roll cage on 33
32:27-inch tires.
32:28Well, their engine is factory-made—
32:30well, kind of factory—a BMW one
32:32which isn't available in this body
32:33style, by the way.
32:34It is in the tuned Octa version. We
32:36talked about it, what, two years ago?
32:38Wait, isn't it a five-liter engine?
32:40No, it's a 4.4 L V8 from BMW, because
32:42the five-liter one doesn't fit their
32:44environmental standards anymore, as I
32:46understand it. So they took their most
32:49high-performance version and built this
32:51rally machine based on it.
32:53Well, three rally machines. So, there
32:55will be exactly three specific rally
32:56cars. It naturally won't be for sale.
32:59It, of course, looks absolutely
33:01magnificent. It's just, well, a real
33:02thing. I really like the Defender. And
33:04this Defender body, if only it were a
33:06bit more reliable, damn it. Or if the
33:09five-liter car cost a bit less, because
33:11it just costs an insane amount of money
33:13. But it's very beautiful, the rascal.
33:15I really like it.
33:15So how are they planning to drive? Like
33:17, hitch a ride with Kamaz-Master? I
33:19mean, in rally raids you have—first
33:21of all, Kamaz-Master doesn't
33:23participate in Dakar. Now it only
33:25participates in the Silk Way.
33:26They will assist them.
33:27In short, in a rally raid, you have
33:29categories for combat vehicles. That's
33:32exactly where people fight for every
33:35second during those three-week-long
33:37slogs. But there are also "fun"
33:40categories, where people drive almost
33:42stock cars and just, you know, it's
33:45tents, bivouacs, bacon, borscht, that
33:47kind of thing, and it's pure joy. It's
33:51just a format for a very exciting
33:52adventure, when you're just two, three,
33:54or four people in some car, driving
33:56somewhere with shovels. The car company
33:59here takes the process a bit more
34:00seriously, but most likely, they still
34:02won't be able to go full throttle.
34:04They'll just drive at a normal, average
34:06working pace, and everything will be
34:08fine.
34:08Guys, let's stock up on oil and top it
34:11off.
34:11The car has a 550-liter tank, just so
34:13you know.
34:14As for the oil, they pour it straight
34:17into the gas like it's a two-stroke.
34:20Why? I looked up how much five-liter
34:23Defenders cost again. Man,
34:26when we filmed it, everyone really
34:28liked it.
34:28Oh, right. It's a really cool car, but
34:32not with this two-liter or three-liter
34:34engine.
34:34So, is it a five-liter engine or a 4.4
34:36in the end?
34:37It's a five-liter, and in the regular
34:38one, it's a 4.4. I just checked that,
34:40too. Yes, that appeared after the
34:42five-liter one. Black on black with
34:46a glitching rearview camera. Uhh.
34:49Well, why do you need to look back when
34:51you should be driving it forward? I do
34:54need to. But will I?
34:55Damn, a used one is 15 million rubles.
34:5815. 15 is very expensive. But it's a
35:02beautiful beast. Whenever I see a
35:04Defender in traffic, I just
35:06first check that it isn't a Jetour.
35:09Ah, yes, I've seen that it's very
35:11popular now to customize those Jetours
35:14to look exactly like a Defender. There
35:16are, well, like special kits,
35:17and they already look similar visually.
35:19I mean,
35:20they made it look similar from the
35:21start anyway. And you can customize it
35:22so that, well, a layman wouldn't even
35:24notice the difference; it really looks
35:25like a Def is driving by. Disgusting.
35:27But the Defender is a magnificent car.
35:34That's it for this episode. Don't
35:40forget to rest, because after working
35:42hard, you should also rest well. The
35:44holidays are just around the corner. I
35:45hope your New Year's corporate parties
35:47are going, well, well. Hopefully,
35:49nobody is suffering there. Nobody.
35:51Everyone woke up in the morning, got
35:53dressed, put their shoes on, and is
35:54fine—nobody ended up in the hospital,
35:56because New Year's parties can be quite
35:57an adventure. Sometimes it's completely
36:00unknown how it will all end.
36:02Like those situations where they light
36:03a firework, it doesn't go off, and
36:05someone walks up to check why it's not
36:06firing.
36:07Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And then,
36:09where's our accountant? That's all,
36:12it's a classic. Yeah,
36:13he was counting the number of shots,
36:14right? His debits and credits are
36:16already smeared across the wall. That's
36:17it, basically. Well, try to be careful
36:19out there. Bye.
36:22There was supposed to be a bumper here,
36:24but we ran out of money, so people just
36:25started walking away. Just so you're in
36:31the loop. Ah.

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