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0:00Happy Sunday to you all. Today we have
0:02another news episode. We have a large
0:04number of interesting news items. A lot
0:06has happened during this short week. We
0:08had a long work week before, then a
0:10long weekend, and now a short work week
0:12. But even so, we’ve accumulated
0:13quite a lot of interesting things to
0:15discuss. It looks like we are
0:16officially saying goodbye to Mazda once
0:18and for all. Bye-bye. And there seem to
0:20be some chip problems in the European
0:22Union again. There are some persistent
0:24rumors about Toyota whispering
0:25something with our dealers, and they
0:26are trying to push through a law to
0:28start selling fancy license plates
0:29again. And also, the recycling fee has
0:31finally been approved after all. After
0:33hearing that, it’s probably hard to
0:34say "have a good day." But have a good
0:36day, come in, sit down, we have a lot
0:37of interesting things. This one burned
0:40down the electric car that didn't go
0:46smoothly for us. First of all, I want
0:51to say that we spent 2 days at the
0:54airfield. We had some real fire power
0:56there that we showed on our Telegram
0:58channel, but you will see that a bit
1:00later, because we need to sit down,
1:02edit, smoke, think, and tinker with it
1:04a bit, because we had a "proving ground
1:07" format on the main channel that we
1:09filmed with the Corolla, the Haval F7x,
1:11the Cybertruck, the Audi Q5, the
1:13Dreamer, the Mercedes E-Class, and the
1:15BMW 5 Series. We tested all of that at
1:17our proving ground, our track, but
1:18strangely enough, we were really
1:20lacking speed there, because we have
1:22certain limitations at the facility.
1:23It’s 2.5 hectares. It’s great for
1:26training programs, but when it comes to
1:28capturing footage at, say, 130 km/h,
1:29that just wasn’t possible. There is
1:32simply no physical possibility for that
1:33. But we found a place, we worked a bit
1:35on the tests, and soon an updated
1:37format of the "proving ground" will be
1:39waiting for you. Also, it’s already
1:42baking, it’s already getting warm.
1:44It’s coming very soon, literally in 2
1:46days on the main channel. A piece about
1:48safety. We are breaking down statistics
1:51on how you might crash on public roads.
1:53If by any chance you are watching this
1:55news episode a little bit later, like
1:56on Tuesday—of course, watch the
1:57episodes when they come out—that
1:59means it’s already up on the main
2:00channel. Soviet Union let's be silent.
2:06No, no, I'm writing, I'm writing. We
2:07have everything in the comments. Like,
2:09where's the Soviet Union? Whatever you
2:12guys are putting out, come on, I mean,
2:14all this stuff you're doing is great,
2:15of course. You're releasing news, and "
2:17Razgon" is coming out, and material is
2:19coming out on the main channel, and you
2:21did a great job with Roscosmos Media,
2:22well done. And you're really there. But
2:24when are you going to deal with the
2:25Soviet Union? I’ve been working on it
2:27the whole time. I’m already in some
2:29kind of loop. I—we—the whole team
2:32has let it go. We're just waiting for
2:34it to hatch.
2:35No, I haven't let it go. No, I mean,
2:37objectively, the situation on YouTube
2:39has changed, and we have to change in a
2:41certain way too. That's why those big
2:43projects we did before, they're now,
2:44well, it's unclear how they fit in and
2:46how they stick together. Plus, I'm
2:48sitting there writing it. Honestly, I
2:51don't even know how to put it all out
2:52there anymore, but we'll put it out
2:53somehow. There. Don't worry. Work is
2:55being done every goddamn day when I
2:57have time set aside for scripts, it
2:59opens up. Wait, I’ve got, first off,
3:01coffee, and second, this thing here.
3:03It’s just that when we’re silent,
3:04it doesn’t mean we aren’t working.
3:05I guess I’m just saying that I’ve
3:06come up with how to film the Union.
3:07Yeah, everything I have, look, I also
3:10have a number of ideas about how the
3:13Soviet Union should be filmed and
3:15exactly what needs to be said there.
3:18And that, uh, and that's a part of it.
3:22That's—that's not everything.
3:23Anyway, everything is moving,
3:24everything is being worked on. And we
3:26have a new studio. So what did you come
3:28up with, what will it look like?
3:29No, it’s just getting colder and
3:31colder every day. The way I imagined it
3:33, it's all melting, melting and melting
3:34. In the end, we're going to freeze our
3:37asses, our asses, our asses.
3:39I’m waiting for the coldest possible
3:40temperature, and we’ll head back to
3:41an abandoned factory.
3:42Well, naturally, that’s how it will
3:43be, right?
3:44He’s there, he was just there in the
3:46warmth.
3:48Why film in the warmth? Any fool can
3:49film in the warmth and comfort.
3:51You like your red nose, don’t you?
3:53Exactly. Yeah, a red nose, everything
3:55covered in those mountaineering insoles
3:57, my back, just to, well, at least
3:59maintain some kind of heat in the body.
4:01Everything, everything will be fine, no
4:02, everything is normal. Maybe you can't
4:11hear what I'm saying right now, but
4:13that's fine. It's just pantomime. It's
4:15just me going "toot-toot." Hey, white
4:19text on a black background with
4:21classical music, like your voiceover.
4:28And I'm like: "Yeah, using this
4:34recorder is like using a button phone
4:35back in the day, when you could type a
4:37message in your pocket." It’s exactly
4:40the same.
4:41I recently got my hands on a Sony
4:43Ericsson button phone, by the way. And
4:45I seriously have such muscle memory
4:47that when you go to text, you just
4:49remember how to type it, like four taps
4:50here, three taps there. It’s honestly
4:52amazing how that stuff just unpacks
4:53from your memory.
4:54Well, you probably remember that too,
4:56most likely. I had one just like that
4:58at home. It’s still there, actually.
5:01Is it because you're old?
5:02No, I just...well, yeah, my grandma and
5:05grandpa had one.
5:07Do you still remember when Tikhon was
5:09on air? I'm not that old. Dude, I'm
5:16only 34. Hello? What's going on? What
5:18started? You're not giving yourself
5:20away with your voice yet, are you?
5:22I’ve got nothing to say for now. Did
5:24he send anything in the news? What’s
5:26wrong? What did I say wrong?
5:28Why are you looking at me like that?
5:30I was just thinking of a joke, but I
5:31didn't come up with one. That’s my
5:32whole career in a nutshell. I thought,
5:34didn't come up with it, but I did come
5:36up with the news, right. Let's get to
5:39the news.
5:40So what about the union,
5:41I didn't get it. Oh, it’s being
5:43recorded, it’s recording, it’s
5:45recording. You’ll be in the loop. By
5:47the way, we also asked in our Telegram
5:49channel how to dress warmly, because
5:51once again, it’s windy on the runway.
5:54I’ve already run absolutely every
5:55comment through a neural network and
5:57gathered all the possible info from
5:58some freight forwarder friends. We’ll
6:00dress warmly, everything will be fine.
6:02Even if we film in winter, I know what
6:04needs to be done.
6:05Don't show up.
6:09Wait, did you guys actually show up,
6:11suckers? I’ll just be on a video call
6:15. And on that note, let’s get to the
6:18news. Mazda has lost the right to buy
6:24back its assets in Russia. And we’re
6:26talking about the fact that the option
6:28Mazda once signed with Sollers has
6:29reached its expiration. First, we need
6:32to rewind a bit and mention that Mazda
6:34had a 50/50 joint venture factory with
6:36Sollers, where the CX-9 was assembled
6:38from kits, along with the CX-5 and
6:40Mazda 6. It wasn't a full production
6:42cycle like Hyundai-Kia had near St.
6:43Petersburg. It was just assembly from
6:45kits. In 2012, test production of the
6:47Mazda CX-5 crossover was launched in
6:49the presence of the President of the
6:50Russian Federation, Putin. In 2013, the
6:52model lineup was expanded with the
6:54Mazda 6 sedan. In 2015, the plant
6:56switched to assembling vehicles to the
6:58Euro-5 standard. In September of 2016,
7:00there was a clearly defined development
7:03vector for the enterprise to create new
7:05capacity for producing 50,000 engines
7:08per year. It was the Skyactiv G series.
7:10In 2017, they put the CX-5 on the
7:12assembly line, in 2018, they put the CX
7:14-9 on the line, and in 2019, they
7:16launched engine production. That was
7:17the scale of the enterprise we
7:19effectively had. In 2022, an option was
7:20signed that basically said: here you go
7:23, have a whole 1 euro. We’ll see each
7:24other in 3 years, but after 3 years, we
7:26didn't. The only real news is that the
7:28option has expired. Now Mazda cannot
7:30come to Sollers, give them 1 euro, and
7:32take the plant back, which is quite
7:33understandable and obvious given the
7:35current state of affairs; because I
7:37think not a single automaker—even if
7:39they suddenly wanted to enter our
7:41market for some reason and try to turn
7:42back time—would simply be able to
7:44pull it off. Because, again, from the
7:47highest echelons of power, we are
7:49constantly told: we will scrutinize
7:51every individual company, we will look
7:54at their actions, at what they said,
7:56whether they helped our enemies or not,
7:59how they exited our country, whether
8:01they stiffed employees on their wages
8:04or not, whether they upheld any
8:06agreements that were in place before
8:08the war, and so on. You could, of
8:11course, sit and speculate that, well,
8:13maybe if Mazda had been very interested
8:15in our market, they probably would have
8:17made some back-room deal to extend that
8:19arrangement, to extend the option. It
8:21has long been clear now that the entire
8:23option is just a meaningless piece of
8:25paper. And naturally, both companies
8:27and the government will have to
8:28negotiate in some additional manner
8:30about what terms companies might return
8:32on, whether anyone will return at all,
8:34and so on. But most importantly, there
8:36is no line forming at the moment.
8:37Nobody wants to return because all the
8:38political risks are on the table,
8:40economic risks are on the table, and
8:41the risk of secondary sanctions is on
8:43the table. If someone suddenly raised
8:45their hand and even wanted to come
8:46running to us, they still wouldn't be
8:48able to do it, purely due to
8:49infrastructure, because while bank
8:50transfers are banned and interaction
8:51between countries and large companies
8:53with our state is prohibited, no one is
8:54going to take those risks on themselves
8:56. Therefore, saying that Mazda as a
8:59whole will never, ever return is
9:01probably not quite right. But the fact
9:03that her option has already expired is
9:05a fact. And in the same breath, Toyota
9:11explained their secret meeting with
9:13Russian dealers. Last week, rumors
9:16spread very persistently and actively
9:18that Toyota is whispering with dealers
9:20again about how they are somehow
9:22handling Cruisers. "You don't need
9:26those, maybe take some Lexuses, or at
9:28least take a Camry, please, anything at
9:31all." Everywhere. I think that if you
9:33follow the automotive world, it was
9:35very hard to avoid this. Even some
9:38people not interested in cars ran up to
9:40me asking what’s going on, usually
9:43the owners of Chinese cars.
9:47It's not Toyota saying "Don't you want
9:49one," it's Russians saying, "Give us
9:51the 300s."
9:51Yes, exactly, but not at that price.
9:54Not at that price. And the Ministry of
9:56Industry and Trade will send you all
9:57packing anyway. We won't give anyone
9:58anything. No standing around. Stop. And
10:03it was discussed so much in the media
10:05and spread across headlines that Toyota
10:07even had to come out with a more or
10:09less official comment, saying: "Look,
10:11yes, we do maintain contacts, yes, we
10:13do hold closed meetings, including with
10:15Russian dealers; we are in constant
10:17contact with all our dealers in general
10:19.""It doesn't matter which country our
10:21brand is represented in, we are in
10:22contact with our dealer network in any
10:24case." And specifically with the
10:25Russians, we discussed the fact that,
10:27look, a lot of interesting things are
10:29already being brought in via parallel
10:31import anyway. And at the moment,
10:33Toyota is selling even more here than
10:35some Chinese brands that are supposedly
10:37officially represented and supposedly
10:39have nothing stopping them; we are
10:41still consuming about 17,000 new
10:43Toyotas a year through parallel import,
10:45roughly that pace.
10:46That’s just for the first 9 months of
10:47this year. It is clear that next year
10:50with the "utilization fee" there will
10:52be completely different figures, but
10:53nevertheless, throughout the war,
10:55throughout the entire sanctions regime,
10:56and throughout the last 3 years, new
10:58Toyotas here have been selling
10:59themselves, dissolving into the market,
11:01driving around, and so on. Even despite
11:04the fact that they cost three times as
11:05much. Now the new 300-series Cruiser
11:07just costs an insane amount of money.
11:09But all the same, one way or another,
11:11somewhere, someone goes "oops, a 300,""
11:13oops, a 250" driving by somewhere. Even
11:15new Camrys are appearing. They were
11:16already costing around 15 million.
11:18It's just, I don't even know how much,
11:20but it's just, man, unreasonable. Well,
11:22like, it's just, it's just wild.
11:24Look, someone bought a Land Cruiser for
11:2615, and everyone was like, "Are you
11:28crazy? Why 15?" Then, the next year,
11:31it's worth 20. And everyone is like, "
11:32Yeah, you were right, we should've."
11:34Well, a Land Cruiser for 20 is unlikely
11:35, very unlikely. I mean, come on, how
11:37much more? It gets to the point where
11:38even I think, where does it end? What
11:40are you people doing? But regardless,
11:41one way or another, it doesn't matter
11:42what the volume is. The fact remains
11:44that Toyota is in contact with dealers.
11:46And clearly, a significant portion of
11:48these new Toyotas is disappearing,
11:50either imported directly from China to
11:53us, or from China via Kazakhstan. We
11:55had a loophole there for a while in '22
11:57and '23, when people bought brand new
11:59cars in Kazakhstan and drove them to
12:01Russia practically duty-free. And that
12:04also turned out to be quite profitable.
12:05That's all been shut down for a long
12:07time now. But Toyota is saying that,
12:09maybe, we can help you with something.
12:12Let’s think about how we can help,
12:14because it’s obvious that Japanese
12:15cars and Chinese cars are just
12:17different vehicles. We have different
12:19spare parts catalogs and different
12:21internal operating systems because,
12:22again, China is a very specific market.
12:24They impose a large number of
12:26requirements on all automotive
12:27companies that enter and operate in
12:29their market. Either way, with joint
12:31production, you have some extra Chinese
12:33brand, and even something as basic as
12:35the parts catalog—the original Toyota
12:37one doesn't match the one from China.
12:39Naturally, there are a lot of small
12:41issues along the way that need to be
12:43resolved and dealt with. And that is,
12:45in fact, what they are discussing there
12:47. These are just routine technical
12:49meetings. Of course, nobody is talking
12:50about a full-scale return to Russia.
12:52Simply because as long as sanctions are
12:53on the table, as long as politics are
12:55involved, as long as all of this is
12:56going on, nobody plans to return
12:57anywhere. Toyota is behaving as
12:59correctly as possible from the
13:00company's standpoint regarding its
13:01dealings with the state. They never
13:03made any official statements, didn't
13:05support anyone anywhere, they just said
13:07, "Yes, fine, if we need to fulfill
13:09obligations, we will, we'll leave
13:10quietly, pay everyone's salaries,
13:12support the dealer network, and
13:14continue supplying parts." We won't be
13:16shutting down any cloud services. Yes.
13:19Mercedes and Land Rover, and BMW, and
13:22Audi, and Volkswagen too. All of those
13:24guys. And our clients, regardless of
13:27where they are, are always our clients.
13:29That is why we are respectful.
13:31Everything we can possibly do within
13:33the current reality, we will get done.
13:35And that is the position Toyota takes
13:37when interacting with dealers, clients,
13:38and the state. This is very correct.
13:40Even if you get your engine shot up in
13:42the desert, we will still
13:44we will understand your situation, we
13:45will send you explosives so you can
13:47blast them back too.
13:51And in that regard, Toyota is great.
13:53For the last 5 years, the most
13:54reasonable management, the most
13:55reasonable decisions, and the most
13:57reasonable public statements I've heard
13:59have come from Toyota, because they are
14:00just, well, they are doing great. First
14:02of all, the number one car company, as
14:04a matter of fact.
14:05Say it again, that they are great.
14:06The number one car company, they are
14:08great.
14:09Yeah.
14:09For several years in a row,
14:11right?
14:15Whoa, whoa, zip up your pants.
14:18AK is bad. Bad.
14:19For starters. For starters, on money in
14:21general. Damn, you were wearing a cap
14:24all those years. You showed up without
14:26a cap and Stas is praising Toyota.
14:27It was all about the cap. It was the
14:29cap.
14:30He’s wearing a Toyota t-shirt, so
14:31what’s the difference? He’s just
14:32making me look lower and lower. Well,
14:39there’s a dick curled up in a circle
14:41there.
14:43And where did that go? Where is our,
14:45where did that book go? Yeah,
14:46yeah, its
14:47I haven't seen it since.
14:48The logo is extremely similar, in case
14:49you didn't know.
14:50Yeah. And the book, by the way, has
14:52mysteriously disappeared.
14:54Well yeah, it probably either got lost
14:56during the move or
14:56before the move.
14:58Yeah,
14:58yeah,
14:59yeah, I don't think I saw it before the
15:01move when we were packing up the studio
15:03.
15:03Danya asked me, he says, the book
15:05they stole everything, everything with
15:07a Toyota logo on it gets stolen.
15:10Should’ve put an anti-theft device on
15:12the book. Damn it, it’s probably
15:13being sold page by page in some garage.
15:15What kind of The Ministry of Industry
15:20and Trade postponed the new recycling
15:21fee until December 1st. The headline
15:23sounds as positive as possible, like
15:25the fee was canceled and won't be
15:27introduced. But no, it's starting on
15:29December 1st.
15:30What are you doing? It's
15:31not only is it starting December 1st
15:33who are you whistling at here?
15:36It’s also scheduled for a 15-20%
15:38increase on January 1st.
15:40Don't whistle, I said. A long time ago,
15:43when it was being adopted, when they
15:45were thinking about hiking the fee, the
15:46whole point was that it’s progressive
15:48and it will just keep getting higher
15:49every year. And the fact that there are
15:52so many calculations circulating on the
15:54internet right now, saying the new
15:55recycling fee is this much, and from
15:57'26 it will be even higher.
15:59Don't whistle,
16:02there won't be any money,
16:03another 15-20%on top of that. There
16:05will also be a new VAT. Oh, we're going
16:07to live large.
16:08Where can you buy a horse like that? Do
16:10you know,
16:10do you know how much a horse costs
16:12in reality?
16:13Look,
16:14there's only one horsepower in it.
16:16What's with the taxes?
16:17I don't think it's one. I think a horse
16:19has four horsepower. There, short-term
16:21effort. During a sudden burst, a horse
16:23can develop power up to 15 horsepower.
16:25That’s peak output, like in electric
16:27cars.
16:27Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yes. But in sustained
16:30work, it's about one horsepower. From
16:32one to three horsepower.
16:33It’s a pure hybrid. What, what
16:35electric car? Well, it also depends on
16:37what kind of feed you give it or
16:39whatever they’re fed.
16:40Oats, hay, whatever.
16:43Well, or in general, if you shock it, I
16:45think you could even get up to thirty
16:46horses to develop some kind of load
16:48faster. But a horse, like, can die from
16:51a small voltage, like, entirely. Nah.
16:55Well, I heard it, but I don’t know
16:57how true it is, but hypothetically,
16:59like, a Krona, that nine, nine-volt
17:01battery, like even from that...
17:04it can—it can't lick a 9-volt battery
17:06.
17:06Well, like if it licks it, then it's
17:08curtains.
17:08Why live then?
17:11Have you licked a 9-volt battery?
17:13And who hasn't?
17:16That’s what people usually say. Have
17:18you also licked one? That’s what
17:20people usually say about some girl in
17:22the neighborhood. It’s like,
17:24please, just the word Krona. Just drip
17:26it like that, please.
17:30No, it’s all the same thing. Just
17:32remove the word Krona.
17:34What do you get? Kronalingus.
17:41Not then. Kroni Lilingus. The former
17:43sounds better then.
17:44Oh, some kind of...
17:46and it's salty too. I'm not saying a
17:48word. I don't know anything.
17:50I’m not one of those. I only bite.
17:53Damn,
17:54let’s get back to the dead horses.
17:57Let’s.
17:57Yeah. And about the recycling fee? Well
17:59, what else is there to say? First of
18:00all, we released a video based on the
18:03idea that, in any case, we will have
18:05protective tariffs. No matter how you
18:08twist and turn, our customs duties will
18:10remain high anyway. Why? We explain it
18:12in the video. Well, to be more precise,
18:13we explain the logic. Not that—I
18:15don't consider it right. It’s just a
18:16fact that this is the policy in our
18:19country. It wasn't invented yesterday,
18:20it wasn't invented today. It didn't
18:22happen because of the war. Although it
18:24is clear that all the current
18:25protective tariffs are a response to
18:27the reaction and strategy that the West
18:29had. Doesn't matter. The disposal fee
18:31is adopted. That is a fact.
18:32By the way, in the comments—I don't
18:34remember if it was under this video or
18:37a news post—there were people who
18:39kind of support your logic. I thought,
18:41they say, that this would most likely
18:43happen later, or maybe not like this.
18:45Sooner or later,
18:47yeah. I mean, those kinds of people
18:48were also leaving comments.
18:49Well, it's very painful and difficult.
18:52I mean, it's clear that just because
18:54you understand the general logic, it
18:56doesn't make things any easier, because
18:58the car still gets more expensive. It's
19:01still, well, a sore subject, naturally.
19:05Of course, you want to buy a car, to
19:07have the opportunity, or just easily
19:09have a Porsche for everyone, like, or a
19:11Mercedes for everyone. Or if you're
19:14weird, a Lexus, please. Of course, I
19:16would like that.
19:18Well, you know, the negativity you get
19:20isn't because of what you say, it's
19:22that
19:23well, I'm ready to be a lightning rod
19:24for free, but what can you do. Well, I
19:27always perceive this as, you know, no
19:29matter what you do, no matter what you
19:32engage in, your resources or
19:34competencies always come with both pros
19:36and cons. When you're a public figure,
19:40you clearly have the perks in the form
19:42of social capital, some recognition,
19:44and so on. And for the most part, you
19:47are liked, people listen to your
19:48opinion, there are likes, comments, and
19:50all that stuff. But sometimes media
19:53personalities also get hate out of the
19:55blue. For no reason, just because
19:57you're a lightning rod. You're just
19:59visible. Even if you were just passing
20:02by a little bit.
20:03I
20:04remember how they hammered all public
20:06figures in 2022. It was a direct,
20:08deliberate attack. I'm not saying this
20:10to compare, these are different things.
20:11I mean, the real suffering of the
20:13people. And the fact that in 2022, when
20:16the war started, there was a huge,
20:17massive orchestrated campaign aimed at
20:20all public figures, so that everywhere
20:22in Instagram, in Telegram, in the
20:24comments, and so on—specifically in
20:26direct messages—public people were
20:28bombarded with a huge amount of
20:29information, including fake news, with
20:32photos of destroyed houses, corpses,
20:34and so on. And there are a huge number
20:36of identical stories just carbon-copied
20:38. Simply because, well, a person with
20:40resources thinks that if we crush this
20:42specific psyche, it will help us
20:44fulfill military objectives, and then
20:46they'll start throwing tantrums,
20:48writing things, doing things. And for
20:50some people, this strategy actually
20:51worked. I just perceive it as part of
20:53the profession, where stuff gets thrown
20:54at me that I have absolutely nothing to
20:56do with. Well, simply because you're a
20:57lightning rod, you're just visible, so
20:58take it. It's better that people vent
21:00their negativity on social media than
21:02at home. That’s how I look at it. So,
21:05are you officially allowed to be dumped
21:08on in the comments?
21:09Well, things have been getting thrown
21:10at me my entire career. Obviously, we
21:12have a core audience that watches and
21:14supports us. There are people who watch
21:17and haven't supported us the whole way.
21:19But there are plenty of those, too. So
21:20what? Plus, on any channel, in any
21:23media, in any public group, you always
21:25have transient people who show up for a
21:28news hook and then leave. Like the
21:30local raid by communists we had. Well
21:33yeah, it happens. No big deal. I mean,
21:35well, yeah.
21:36Well, just say you don't support the
21:38recycling fee, because many people
21:40think
21:40so. But I said in the video that, well,
21:42it hurts me too. I paid half the value
21:45of the Spyder in recycling fees before
21:47it was mainstream. Just, you know, in
21:50case. And yeah, it hurts. I want there
21:53to be a way to import cars from abroad,
21:55just like back in the 2000s. I used to
21:57drool over those diesel Golfs, Octavias
21:59, and so on, because they were
22:01absolutely super sexy. But then they
22:03introduced unreasonable customs duties.
22:04You're just like, "Well, that's it,
22:05that's just politics." It's like that
22:08in many places. It's exactly what the
22:11EU is doing now regarding China, with
22:13the fact that they spent a long time
22:15making EVs and invested a lot of money
22:17hoping for the market, and the US is
22:19doing the same, and then the
22:20bureaucrats just go: "No, that's not
22:22happening, sorry, we need to protect
22:24Renault." And, well, in such big things
22:27, the consumer is always unhappy
22:29because, look, the sweet Chinese EV at
22:31half price is right there, and then,
22:33poof, you can't have it. Here you go,
22:35have a Peugeot at double the price.
22:36There’s a huge uproar about that over
22:38there, too. In the States, just look at
22:40the comments on Chinese cars—it's
22:42identical. It’s the exact same thing;
22:45we’re sitting here buying GMs for god
22:46knows how much money. But why can’t
22:49we just bring in this "Hundy-Yoon"
22:50thing for half the price? It’s twice
22:52as good and half as expensive. What is
22:54this? They came up with a tariff here.
22:56Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway, they
23:00introduced a recycling fee. At least
23:02they pushed it back a bit to avoid a
23:04local collapse at customs. Right now,
23:07every single customs office is packed
23:08with cars because everyone is trying to
23:10beat the new fee. But officials
23:11supposedly came out and said that if
23:13you bought a car in advance and brought
23:15it over, and there’s just some
23:17bureaucratic hang-up that might keep
23:19you from clearing customs in time, they
23:21won't charge you the extra cost.
23:24You’ll make it in time, don’t worry
23:25, because there’s hysteria at every
23:26level. But if not from December 1st,
23:28they’ll definitely introduce it from
23:30January 1st. Our import duties will
23:32always be high, regardless of what they
23:34call them: recycling fee, mom-fee,
23:36customs, or IQ. We’ve talked about
23:39this in a video before. Let’s lighten
23:44the mood a bit with some positivity.
23:46The Dodge Charger got a V8 Hemi engine
23:48and is preparing to hit the track. That
23:51same Charger they showed us in electric
23:53form—the one where we thought our
23:56American muscle cars would now only be
23:58electric muscle cars. In that very same
24:01body, specialists quite quickly—in
24:04just about half a year—pulled some
24:06blueprints out of a back room and said,
24:08"Here you go, a new V8," an absolutely
24:10new engine built for local drag racing
24:13regulations. They made a limited
24:16edition of 50 vehicles that feature
24:19that V8. We discussed in the news that
24:22when this Charger appeared and it
24:24became clear it probably wouldn't exist
24:26solely on an electric platform, the
24:27media pushed a story that, well, at
24:29most it would have an inline-six.
24:31Nothing bigger would fit because the
24:33platform is designed for an electric
24:35motor, so a V8 wouldn't fit. Well, here
24:38you go, a V 8—yes, this car won't be
24:40street-legal. They’re making just 50
24:43units just to show, "Look, we’re
24:45returning to street racing." I mean,
24:48drag racing. And this is absolutely
24:50magnificent news, because, well, it’s
24:52like things are slowly starting to turn
24:55around, and this seems like the first
24:57special edition. Then they might
24:59gradually bring back the V8. A V8, damn
25:02, that’s really good. Moving in that
25:04same direction. Daihatsu presented the
25:06precursor to the next-generation Copen
25:07roadster and other concepts. The Japan
25:09Mobility Show took place a little while
25:11ago. Toyota just showered us with all
25:14sorts of things there. And Daihatsu, as
25:16a Toyota subsidiary, showed this. A new
25:19Copen.
25:19Oh, that's not bad.
25:21We showed you the previous one, the
25:23second generation Copen, along with
25:25these kinds of concepts. The problem
25:27with that car was that the Copen
25:29wouldn't have been a kei car anymore,
25:30because it had to be bigger, and so on.
25:33But then they were like, "We thought
25:35about it, we looked into it, and here
25:36is the third-generation Copen, please.
25:39We won't tell you the engine specs."
25:40It’s still unclear whether it'll be
25:42electric or if it will stay
25:43gasoline-powered. But the fact that
25:46they didn't risk stepping out of the
25:47kei car segment and kept it within
25:49their internal regulations suggests
25:50that, hopefully, it’ll be a 0.6. A
25:53tough, mighty, beefy 0.6. We actually
25:56have a Copen here at the office. I
25:57don't know if you've seen it or not.
25:59The one with the Aston Martin badge.
26:01I didn't look at the badge.
26:02With an Aston Martin badge, yes, it
26:04exists.
26:04Yeah, it has an Aston Martin badge. I
26:06just saw someone driving away, but I
26:08didn't pay attention to
26:09Dark green. Well, yeah, it’s the
26:11color of an Aston, so they stuck it on.
26:15The Copen is an absolutely magnificent
26:16car. I think that for the price, in
26:18terms of joy and fun per kilogram of
26:20car, there’s simply no competitor to
26:22the Copen. It’s just, well,
26:24and it's definitely modular too.
26:26Of course, of course. An absolutely
26:29magnificent little car. I hope that
26:31kei cars always have a 64-horsepower
26:33limit.
26:33Uh-huh.
26:34Ah, so it's definitely
26:35a 0.6 or 0.8 engine? 0.6, I think.
26:380.66, yes.
26:39Yes. And 64 horsepower. That's it. They
26:41could, of course, try to make it an
26:43electric car, but where would you put
26:45the battery or the motor? I mean, hello
26:46. No,
26:47it would get way too expensive then.
26:49Yeah, that would ruin the whole point
26:50of a kei car,
26:51of course. That's exactly what they
26:52were trying to do with the concept;
26:54they ruined its essence by making it
26:55larger than a kei car. They made it the
26:56size of a Mazda MX-5. And then the
26:58media jumped on the idea that they were
27:00trying to make an MX-5 competitor. Oh,
27:03they must have measured the impact,
27:06conducted surveys, smoked something in
27:08their offices, looked at the data,
27:10thought about it, and decided to go
27:12back to being a kei car. Magnificent.
27:15That's also good news, which suggests
27:17that things are gradually being turned
27:20back around. A bill on the sale of "
27:26fancy" license plates has been
27:28submitted to the State Duma. Yes, I
27:32look at this whole thing very
27:33skeptically because, well, naturally,
27:35not all bills submitted to the State
27:37Duma get passed. If it is passed, I
27:40will finally be genuinely happy because
27:42we'll be able to go and officially buy
27:44ourselves a license plate, finally,
27:45like civilized people, like in normal
27:47countries. But they’ve been running
27:49around with this initiative for 20
27:51years, or whatever it is. And the fact
27:53that new people are now introducing
27:55this bill to the State Duma is sort of
27:57a reaction to the fact that even
27:58Vladimir Vladimirovich himself came out
28:00and said: "Okay, guys, let’s go ahead
28:02and sell these fancy plates and make
28:03money for the state from it, so we
28:05don't have this gray market, and so we
28:07have taxes and everything else." Let's
28:10finally resolve this issue, because the
28:11very idea of selling fancy license
28:13plates has been around for a long time.
28:15There have already been a huge number
28:17of directives saying, "Let’s get this
28:18done," but something was always going
28:20wrong: it wasn't clear which agency to
28:22assign it to, who would be responsible
28:23for all the financial flows, who would
28:25handle the entire infrastructure, how
28:27it would all—oh, it's just too
28:28confusing, it requires actual work. Why
28:30bother? We don't need that. Let it stay
28:32the old-fashioned way, somewhere,
28:34somehow,
28:35I don't know. I think the traffic
28:36police are handing their database over
28:36to the Ministry of Digital Development.
28:37The Ministry of Digital Development
28:38does everything; the whole database is
28:40there.
28:40Yes. Just go tell the guys, they
28:42clearly have no idea. If they pass it,
28:45we’ve finally waited long enough. But
28:47if it goes like usual, it will be just
28:48like usual. Although it seems to me
28:50that when the president says
28:51point-blank, "let's do it,"
28:52like when I bought a Sirius and wanted
28:54a triple-eight on a 97 region plate and
28:56was shocked by the price.
28:58By the way, there's another strange
28:59thing in the bill. Previously, when the
29:02bill was proposed, submitted to the
29:04Duma, and discussed, the idea was that
29:06a plate would cost between 3,000 and
29:08600,000. And that's the problem: when
29:12you try to set an upper limit at the
29:14legislative level, it's a bit strange,
29:16because you won't completely kill the
29:18gray market that way, since some plates
29:20cost more than 600,000, and besides, we
29:22have inflation over time. Right now,
29:25damn it, plates cost some truly insane
29:27amounts of money.
29:28Well, in this,
29:29even in Veliky Novgorod. I have the
29:3153rd region, and there, in any case, of
29:32course, I never asked about it. People
29:34would just come up to me and tell me
29:35how much everything cost. I was just
29:36like, "You guys are fools, of course."
29:39You always get all these license plates
29:41, though. You got 911.
29:43The plate on my car, the main one, it
29:45really was assigned by pure chance. No,
29:47seriously, no joke. Ask Roma, Roma
29:49registered it.
29:49The car, I mean. Yeah, yeah.
29:51Maybe Roma paid something there.
29:52The 911 plate came in, and then yours,
29:54the one on...
29:55No, 911 was almost random. But the
29:58plate on the car, it really was just
30:00randomly assigned.
30:01I had such a blast on the road in a
30:03Smart with triple sevens. God, it's
30:05just hilarious when you realize that,
30:07man, that's not the car those plates
30:09belong on; the person likely has money
30:11and they're just driving a Smart with
30:13triple sevens. It's just a total kick.
30:15Yeah, when your car costs five times
30:16less than your license plate. Yeah.
30:19Listen, in Dubai, I think, I mean, in
30:21the United...yeah, yeah,
30:24in the United Arab Emirates.
30:25United Emirates.
30:27And Uzbekistan, too, for that matter,
30:29it's legalized there. It's legalized in
30:31many places. My point is, they have
30:34these actual...
30:35auctions.
30:36Auctions, yeah, where...
30:38Yeah, and that's...that's why I'm
30:39saying that an auction is the only fair
30:42mechanism to figure out the market
30:44value. For these specific types, like
30:47triple sevens, six sevens, or however
30:49many sevens there are...first of all, a
30:51huge number of plates are already taken
30:53, but all the new ones appearing should
30:55logically follow an auction model,
30:56because that's the only way you'll get
30:58a more or less accurate market value.
31:01If you set a hard cap of 600,000 in the
31:03bill, then some shady schemes and
31:05reselling will immediately start
31:07popping up somewhere else. Because,
31:10again, in the explanatory note, the
31:11guys write that they need to fight the
31:13gray market because we aren't getting
31:15any taxes from it, since these deals
31:16happen under the table. Some people are
31:18making a significant amount of money
31:20off this, so we need to shut that whole
31:21thing down somehow. But if you have a
31:23price cap, well, a large number of
31:25plates will actually be worth more than
31:27600,000 rubles. So, we'll see how
31:29things move forward. I would say it’s
31:3150/50 whether they pass it or not. But
31:34if it actually makes it to the reading
31:35and they really do pass it, I’ll be
31:36running on the ceiling with joy.
31:38I was surprised when you mentioned that
31:40some license plates drop out of
31:42circulation.
31:42How do you...I just didn't know about
31:44that. I think there are subscribers who
31:46would also...I, naturally, would want
31:48ASA 911 for the 53rd region, but that
31:50plate simply doesn’t exist. The car
31:52was scrapped.
31:52Why? Ah.
31:54And the plate with it.
31:55Uh-huh. Well, apparently, it’s just
31:57some internal regulation; this isn’t
31:59100%verified, it’s just what I was
32:00told by people who deal with random
32:02plate assignments.
32:05Spin the drum.
32:06You walk past the traffic police and
32:07someone just tosses it out the window
32:09like, "Oh,
32:10yeah, well, that's a hit to the face.
32:13It might not be the whole truth, but it
32:14seems like if your plate is scrapped—
32:16I mean, the car with that plate is
32:18scrapped—then you can't reissue it,
32:19you can't resell it, you can't do
32:21anything with it. It’s in the scrap
32:22heap. That’s it.
32:23Well, it’s just a strange, strange
32:24logic. Yeah, if by any chance you have
32:27ASA 911 with the 53rd region,
32:29why 911, you have a 718.
32:32Fine, if you have 718 ASA, I’m also
32:35open to talk,
32:36stumble upon it by accident.
32:37Yeah.
32:39The limit is 600,000.
32:40Yes.
32:41Or are you planning to get a 911 again?
32:44What is this? What? What?
32:45What’s the point? Is 718 better in
32:47some way?
32:48Just for the fun of keeping it?
32:50No, well, ASA, that stands for Asafiev
32:52Stanislav Alexandrovich. Ah, well, 911.
32:54Well, 911.
32:54And I thought it would be OSATA.
32:56That’s the kind of fan base you have.
33:01European car plants are facing
33:03production halts due to chip shortages.
33:06Let me remind you, Savsh, there is a
33:08company in the Netherlands called
33:09Nexperia, which belonged to the Chinese
33:11Wingtech, which fell under US sanctions
33:13a year ago. US sanctions work in such a
33:16way that if a company is hit with
33:18sanctions, they automatically apply to
33:19all subsidiaries. And so the Dutch,
33:23allegedly because," Well, look, our
33:25Nexperia belongs to Wingtech, Wingtech
33:27got sanctioned, so now they’re going
33:29to sanction Nexperia, and we’ll screw
33:31up our supply chains and our entire
33:33production. "So let’s just take the
33:36company for ourselves. That way it
33:37stops being a subsidiary, and that
33:39means for sure no one will sanction it.
33:43Company owner, get out of here. We have
33:45a great plan here. So much for private
33:47property. Let’s go. There are also
33:49some funny things in the fact that this
33:52particular Dutch company belongs
33:53directly to the main majority
33:55shareholder of Wingtech. But none of
33:56that interests us. The most important
33:58thing for us to understand is that,
34:00naturally, the Chinese, who were
34:02engaged in supplying components,
34:04semiconductors, chips, and all this
34:06stuff through the company Nexperia,
34:08naturally suspended all shipments
34:10immediately. And the European
34:11Automobile Manufacturers 'Association,
34:13ACEA. There is such an organization,
34:14and they're like," What are you doing?
34:16We need to produce cars, we have
34:18assembly lines. And we have, well, and
34:24accordingly, the factories of
34:26Volkswagen, Stellantis, Renault, Volvo
34:27Trucks, and Daimler. They are all now
34:29under the threat of running out of
34:32components. And they might need to slow
34:34down production,
34:35yeah. Well, the first to get hit, by
34:36the way, was Honda in Mexico, because
34:38they were the first to report that
34:39that’s it, we’ve run out.
34:40Even though it would seem to be on the
34:43other side of the world. The Mexican
34:45Honda plant, which mainly produces cars
34:47for the American market. It’s a huge
34:49enterprise, they produce 190,000 cars a
34:51year, and 150,000 of them are shipped
34:53to the States. They are already slowing
34:55down the assembly line. Although it
34:57would seem that the trouble is
34:58happening in Holland with the Chinese,
35:00we still have fragments of a global
35:02world, global logistics, global
35:03factories, suppliers, and all that.
35:05That is why, suddenly, a plant in
35:07Mexico was taken out. We are waiting
35:08for the European ones. Well, hadn't
35:09Volkswagen already suspended production
35:11of the Golf and Tiguan? They said
35:14we’re just, you know, there’s an
35:15hour of retooling, we need to lubricate
35:17something, blow on it, fart on it, well
35:19, it’s Saturday after all,
35:23it sounds like a plausible excuse.
35:27That’s the official statement, right?
35:29Yeah, yeah.
35:30But the entire press links the assembly
35:32line stoppage to the fact that they are
35:34actually also running out of their chip
35:35supply. They need to save them. We’ll
35:37see. It will be clear in the next two
35:39weeks. And electric cars and hybrids
35:42have been banned from entering the
35:44Crimean Bridge. It might seem like it's
35:46just because you shouldn't let this
35:48garbage onto such structures. But the
35:50real news is different. In case you
35:52missed it, back in August of this year,
35:54they caught a guy in a Chevrolet Volt
35:56in transit, which had been brought from
35:58Europe through Georgia to Crimea, and
36:00the man was supposedly just supposed to
36:02transit the car somewhere, and they
36:04found an explosive device inside the
36:06batteries. Accordingly, all hybrids and
36:09electric cars that cross our border in
36:11one way or another are now under close
36:13scrutiny. But purely because it is very
36:15difficult to detect an explosive device
36:17inside a battery pack without
36:19additional checks, scanners, some kind
36:21of X-ray, and so on.
36:22The Crimean Bridge has an X-ray scanner
36:23, but apparently, that doesn't help
36:25either.
36:25It doesn't help, yeah, it's just hard
36:27to detect an explosive device. Because
36:29of this, hybrids and electric cars
36:30aren't allowed to drive on the Crimean
36:32Bridge anymore. Just the same as trucks
36:33aren't allowed. After, I think in '23,
36:36a car exploded on the Crimean Bridge,
36:38they banned trucks from crossing it too
36:40. Better to take the detour through the
36:43new territories, come on, it’s safe
36:44there, the Crimean Bridge must stand.
36:46So the FSB is just protecting the
36:47infrastructure, you'll have to drive
36:49somewhere other than the bridge for a
36:50while.
36:54You’re wearing the wrong t-shirt for
36:56today’s news.
36:57Wait, what's up? They made a new car
36:59for Gymkhana out of a 47-year-old
37:01Subaru. You were always wearing that
37:03Hoonigan t-shirt,
37:04damn.
37:06And the guys, after all that nonsense
37:08with the Audi electric car, came out
37:11and said, "We decided to go all out."
37:15And this is the one case where I
37:16support replacing an Audi with a Subaru
37:18.
37:18By the way, the Audi was specifically
37:20Ken Block's thing. In this case, the
37:22pilot is Travis Pastrana, and he’s
37:24always driven Subarus. Yeah, I know,
37:27but Gymkhana as a brand and Block are
37:29just so closely linked, and Hoonigan in
37:31general, everything that happened
37:33within Gymkhana, that it’s like...we
37:35say Lenin, we mean the Party. We say
37:37the Party, we mean Lenin. And when we
37:39were discussing that electric Audi of
37:41Block's, that...Ugh, but the guys
37:48remembered that internal combustion
37:50engines exist, remembered that
37:52fiberglass bodies exist, and that it's
37:54going to be filmed with a normal human
37:57car, even if we are talking about a
37:59Subaru.
38:00Well, it's very hard to call a Subaru
38:02BRAT a "normal human car" because
38:04it’s a rather specific pickup. BRAT.
38:07Yeah, that's what it's called.
38:08It’s an acronym.
38:10BRAT.
38:11Gas it, bro.
38:13Why isn't it popular here? It’s cool.
38:15They called this specific car the "
38:18SUBARAT 9500 Turbo." Why 9500? Why not
38:229300? It’s the kind of BRAT that hits
38:259500.
38:279500 is the RPM that its engine revs up
38:30to. Oh.
38:32That’s probably the biggest number
38:35among all its specs.
38:36Well, yeah.
38:37No, the number of owners is probably
38:39higher.
38:39Well, 920 of torque. Sequential Sadev.
38:42Sadev, in case you didn't know, is a
38:44manufacturer of sequential gearboxes
38:45for basically everyone. Racing
38:46differentials, the whole thing is pure
38:48racing gold, and it's a pickup. It
38:50looks fierce, in my opinion. And look,
38:52it has "BRAT" on the pillars too. We
38:56definitely welcome something like this.
38:57Of course, I’d love to see Ken Block
38:59back on an ICE, but his last experiment
39:01with one didn't really go that well. A
39:03dizzying experience, so to speak. But
39:05the fact that the new Gymkhana will be
39:07on an ICE again. Even if it is in a
39:09Subaru. Magnificismo. M. Ratata is pure
39:16bliss. Everything is gradually starting
39:20to turn back around. Finally, we made
39:24it. Awesome. That rare case when
39:26everyone admitted things used to be
39:28better,
39:28yeah, when it's now official policy.
39:34And that's it for this episode. Well,
39:37let's just do it to keep up the
39:39tradition.
39:40Cut,
39:42cut, cap closed. There. We love you
39:45guys so much. Don't forget to check if
39:48you're subscribed to the channel, leave
39:50a comment, drop a like, you know, all
39:52that stuff. Gotta check all the boxes.
39:55We love you guys very much and see you
39:58Wednesday, because where else would we
40:00go, we'll meet here again at the same
40:03time. Bye.
40:04We'll fix the assembly line, bring in
40:06the chips, and start all over.
40:07Everything is already perfectly tuned
40:09for us. In 3 days we'll bring another
40:12double espresso and everything will
40:14happen. What a piece of crap. It’s
40:21not tasty at all, but for some reason,
40:23I keep drinking it over and over. It's
40:25the same for some people with Hondas,
40:28or Honda drivers. There should have
40:33been a bumper here, but we ran out of
40:34money, so that's why the guys started
40:35walking. Just so you’re in the loop.
40:42Ah.

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