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0:00Good day to you, good morning, and have
0:02a great Wednesday. I just got back from
0:04the karting races in Sochi. We
0:06mentioned in the previous news episode
0:07that I would be heading out there. So
0:09I’ve returned, and I’ve arrived
0:10back in one piece. My arms are a bit
0:12beaten up. But that’s fine. Good
0:14afternoon. This is a burning issue. An
0:21electrifying topic that didn't go as
0:24planned.
0:26I have a serious rant. Karting is fine.
0:28I mean, it’s a specific niche thing,
0:30not many people do it and so on. Even
0:32though we are an automotive channel,
0:34karting isn't exactly for everyone. But
0:36mattresses, that’s a painful topic
0:38for everyone. And honestly, I sincerely
0:40cannot understand why. We have the city
0:42of Sochi, also known as Adler, or
0:44Sirius, or whatever—try to figure out
0:45all those districts, it doesn't matter.
0:47Basically, there's Sochi. I've been
0:49there quite a few times, staying in
0:51hotels, apartments, rentals, cheap
0:54hotels, and expensive ones. And no
0:56matter where I’ve stayed, I just
0:57don’t get. one simple thing. Why are
1:01all places in Sochi cursed with the
1:02exact same terrible mattresses,
1:04regardless of how much you pay, how
1:05many stars it has, or anything else?
1:08What kind of mattress black hole is
1:10this? Because, honestly, it’s a total
1:11pain in the butt. I don’t know why.
1:12Maybe they've been stuffed with cash
1:14since the Olympics.
1:14Perhaps, or maybe with construction
1:17dust left over from the games, you know
1:19.
1:20Usually, when I go to the winter
1:21karting stages in Sochi, I stay in some
1:23apartments not too far from the track,
1:25simply because you spend all day there.
1:28You get there around 9:00 AM and leave
1:31at 6:00 PM, absolutely exhausted. You
1:33take a taxi, grab a bite at a
1:35restaurant or café along the way, and
1:38go to sleep. You won't get a good
1:39night's sleep on that mattress, but you
1:40go to bed anyway and do it all over
1:42again in the morning. And that lasts
1:43for about 5-6 days. But this time, you
1:45see, I’m not traveling alone. My
1:47usual apartment for 2,000 rubles. That
1:50just isn't acceptable anymore. It needs
1:52to be nice, high-end, and fancy. So I
1:54thought, "Alright, fine, where's a good
1:55hotel?" I get there, and it’s the
1:57same piece of junk. Not the one I
1:58arrived with, but I mean, the mattress
2:00there is exactly the same. It is this
2:03soft, disgusting bastard. And they are
2:06absolutely everywhere in Sochi, the
2:08exact same mattresses. I don't know
2:09what the joke is, but even when you go
2:11to Veliky Novgorod, there are hotels
2:13where everything is nice, pleasant,
2:14cool, you can choose something modern.
2:16But in Sochi, I don't know. I have a
2:18fascinating black hole. Write in the
2:21comments, whoever has been to Sochi, if
2:23you stay somewhere, if there is a
2:24comfortable bed anywhere, at least one
2:25in Sochi, please tell me. I have two
2:28more race stages to go this winter. I
2:29need a comfortable bed in Sochi. This
2:34where did you stay?
2:35At the Pullman.
2:36Damn, it should have been excellent
2:37there. Everything was just now, now the
2:42Pullman is going to get it. We arrive.
2:44It is critically important to get
2:46enough sleep. It is critically
2:47important to get enough sleep. This is
2:49a five-star hotel. On the coast, with a
2:51sea view and all the bells and whistles
2:52. Yes, it's clear that it's off-season,
2:54so the room doesn't cost the insane
2:56money it usually costs in high season,
2:57because, well, it's just some kind of
2:59inadequate price, cheaper than in Dubai
3:00, right?
3:01Of course, yes. I mean, like, right now
3:03, everything is, well, there's no one
3:04in Sochi, everything is normal, it's
3:05quiet, the mountain season hasn't
3:07started yet, and this off-season, well,
3:08nobody needs it, so the prices are
3:10relatively reasonable. We arrive, well,
3:12first of all, we lie on the beds and
3:14we're like. It's, you know, when you
3:17lie on the bed and the mattress just
3:19immediately sinks right in, and you're
3:20like, "Oh my God!" And, secondly, well,
3:23the room is hot. You turn on the AC,
3:24but the AC isn't an AC. You open the
3:26window, mosquitoes fly in because they
3:28haven't died off yet at this point. And
3:30for some reason, in Sochi, the
3:31mosquitoes are silent, you can't hear
3:33them for some reason. They don't buzz,
3:34they just come and eat you, they just
3:37fly in silently and do their job. Ah,
3:39well, these are elite mosquitoes,
3:41yeah. Yes,
3:44we're always like this in Moscow, like,
3:46just eat, just come, have a drink, well
3:48, at least don't keep me from sleeping,
3:50at least don't buzz in my ear. That's
3:52how they are in Sochi.
3:54No-no, that first night from Sunday to
3:56Monday at 1 AM. We slept for barely 5
3:59hours somehow, got to the kart track,
4:00and that was it. I was there for five
4:02sessions straight, so by Monday night
4:04you’re basically crawling back to the
4:06hotel on your knees, finally having a
4:08moment to look around and get your
4:10bearings. I crawl into bed, collapse,
4:12the mattress is super soft, and it’s
4:14boiling in the room. You open the
4:16window, then wake up at 2:00 AM to find
4:18you’ve been eaten alive. I mean,
4:20absolutely completely eaten. And then
4:22the voodoo dance begins because you no
4:24longer trust that room. Now you can’t
4:26sleep because you’re waiting for that
4:28little bastard to show up, land on you,
4:29and start sucking your blood. And it
4:31does it silently, that scumbag. So you
4:34just lie there, totally tense, trying
4:36to feel that tiny little thing, and
4:38that’s how the night goes. Naturally,
4:41the AC doesn’t work, nothing. And
4:42it’s really hot. I mean, even with
4:44the window open, it’s sweltering in
4:45the room. Even if you just pull out the
4:47sheet and try to wrap yourself in it,
4:49you’re still too hot. I go to the
4:51front desk in the morning, all swollen,
4:53angry, and covered in bites. I go, "
4:55Ladies, the AC in our room isn't
4:57working." She’s like, "Yes." I’m
5:01like, "Wait a minute." As far as I know
5:03, five-star hotels are supposed to work
5:05differently. She says, "No, no, it's
5:07all correct, the AC isn't working
5:09because our hotel is built with one
5:11central system, something about how
5:13it's named, and it’s already been
5:15switched to heat.""We’re already
5:17heating the rooms, ooh la la."
5:18I’m like, "Right, so, there’s no
5:20way to turn on the AC at all?" She’s
5:22like, "No, we have to switch the whole
5:24building over to get AC.""But then
5:25everyone would have AC.""And apparently
5:27, some people there might still be cold
5:28, or hot, or whatever.""Basically,
5:29that’s how our building is designed,
5:30sorry." I’m like, "Okay, so what can
5:33we do?""Do you have a fan?" They’re
5:35like, "No." I’m like, "Come on, a
5:37small one, just any kind, just so it...
5:40a USB one on a little stand, you know,
5:42anything.""Please, just something to
5:44keep them—" They’re like, "No."
5:45I’m like, "So what am I supposed to
5:47do?" They’re like, "Well, screw the
5:50mosquito repellent," like, "Fine, thank
5:52goodness it got colder." And so, we
5:55were, like, we slept with the balcony
5:58door open, propping it up with a table
6:00because the door kept closing on its
6:02own. If you just leave it on
6:05ventilation, even with the AC off, you
6:06turn everything off and try to, well,
6:08somehow—apparently the building
6:09itself doesn't have time to cool down,
6:10so it just radiates heat and it’s
6:12very hot in the room. We surrounded
6:14ourselves with mosquito repellents and,
6:15well, honestly, I didn't get any sleep
6:17at all this whole week. Maybe that’s
6:18why I look a little beat up. Plus, I
6:20was also in the airport for a week. You
6:22have to understand that all that stuff
6:24is constantly going on there, too.
6:26It’s just a shock. I don’t
6:27understand. I’m talking about the
6:29Pullman, the specific hotel. Wherever
6:31you go in Sochi, I’ve never once
6:33encountered a decent bed in Sochi. To
6:35be fair. Every time I come here, I
6:36always stay in a new place. I’m on a
6:38quest. I’m searching. I believe there
6:40must be one decent mattress in at least
6:42one hotel in the city.
6:43So now Stas is in search of a mattress.
6:45Yes,
6:46in search of a flat surface. All the
6:49lumps have been found. I think I just
6:52slept on the floor for one night. I had
6:54that happen in St. Petersburg, when my
6:55back got so pinched from a soft
6:57mattress that I just slept on the floor
6:58for the night. But I thought that was
7:00it, I was done for. Then Dan arrived,
7:02twisted something there, and it was
7:03fine.
7:04Are there mattresses that are just
7:04bolted down?
7:05Yeah, there was some other mattress
7:06thing, too. And so we just tore the
7:08whole room apart and slept fine.
7:11I have a theory, but I don’t know how
7:13decent it is.
7:14Their...
7:15Well, in Sochi, it’s the Armenians
7:16there. If there are Armenians somewhere
7:19, they completely dominate certain
7:21industries. And most likely, it’s the
7:23exact same mattress supplier everywhere
7:25.
7:25I thought about that too, that this...
7:28And I thought they meant mattresses,
7:31like. I didn’t know where you were
7:35going with that. I built all the
7:37theories.
7:40I’m like Doctor Strange. I opened all
7:46the holes. All these possible time
7:48loops. No, but actually, hotels work in
7:51such a way that, well, on a regular
7:53basis, someone or other is doing it,
7:55regardless of nationality or gender.
7:57Someone is there, yes, regularly. And
7:59even at this very moment, while we’re
8:01recording this video, and even when
8:03someone is watching this video, someone
8:04is in a hotel right now, yeah,
8:06let us know if you hear it in the
8:08background just,
8:09We will envy you.
8:12Mattress mafia. Yeah, there’s also
8:14the separate issue of why, for some
8:15reason, all decent designers are banned
8:16in Sochi. That’s a different
8:18conversation entirely and a different
8:19point. I’ll show you now. I have my
8:21favorite hotel, where at some point
8:23I’ll probably decide to finally check
8:25in.
8:26It’s Caucasian Baroque, you don’t
8:27understand.
8:28Right now, you don’t realize how
8:29close you are. Every time I plan
8:31another trip to the Sochi stage, I open
8:34the city map with all those little dots
8:36for the hotels. I look at where I
8:39haven't been yet, where I'm definitely
8:41sure there's a mattress and where I
8:42could actually stay. There’s always
8:44this one king. I’ll find it now.
8:46You're saving it for dessert.
8:47That must be some big boss.
8:49That’s—that’s the big boss. I
8:50mean, this is a serious organization.
8:51So if Stas wins the race, he’s
8:53staying the night at this hotel.
8:55I don’t know what would have to
8:57happen in my life for me to go there.
8:59I’m just sending it to the work chat
9:01now. You open the rooms and enjoy it
9:04with us.
9:04Kaboom.
9:05This isn't an ironic place. He sent it
9:10to the group chat. Don’t look like
9:12that. Go ahead. I mean go into the
9:14group chat, the work one, take a look.
9:18There. Akhsar, ooh la la.
9:21What kind of Arabian Nights is this?
9:23This is
9:25it’s like in Turkey, you know, they
9:27build Red Square there, reconstruct all
9:28that stuff.
9:30Recreating the Hermitage.
9:31Well, I don't know. Well, it’s all
9:33just so...ornate.
9:33They filmed Magnificent Century here.
9:35They definitely filmed someone there.
9:37Damn, look at those paintings. Such
9:40quality there. Look at those breasts.
9:44Imagine if that’s the only hotel with
9:46comfortable mattresses, Stas will
9:48always recover like that. Just
9:51like
9:52God forbid there’s a comfortable
9:53mattress there. God forbid.
9:55I hope there are comfortable mattresses
9:57there. I’m ready to bring them a
9:58couple of mattresses. What’s left?
10:03I’ll say, guys, as a brotherly favor.
10:05Well, here’s a suite with a King-size
10:07bed. This one here.
10:11Is that why you want to take us with
10:12you? Because you’re not comfortable
10:13being alone, right? Are there
10:14icons there?
10:15Oh,
10:16no, those are breasts.
10:18It’s a sinful business, really.
10:22Breasts depend on the position.
10:25Depends on Akhsar. A Maybach and a
10:26Camry nearby.
10:27It doesn’t matter if it’s from
10:28above or below. A Maybach and a Camry.
10:32I mean, you understand, like, first of
10:34all, someone came up with this, someone
10:36commissioned it, some designer drew it,
10:38a construction crew built it, and no
10:40one felt anything was wrong.
10:42Everyone’s like: "Yes, here’s the
10:44project, here it is, here’s the
10:46execution in reality, it's done." Mr.
10:49Wow.
10:51The word "execute" has many meanings,
10:53you know?
10:53Yeah. Anyway, another story. At some
10:56point we
10:57When are you going there? No, no, no,
10:59I'm not going there.
11:00We’ll film a reel of you, what.
11:03I’m like in a bathrobe
11:07next to the spa in a robe. Like
11:09noted. Moving on.
11:11Oh-oh-oh,
11:11what’s with the paintings
11:14on the wall? At least look at some
11:15boobs here.
11:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:18At least in paintings they won't sag.
11:22Don't say that. They can too.
11:24No, no, no, don't try to save it. If
11:26he's right, gravity works less there.
11:30I sent it. The chat is for work. Vlad
11:33is without context, like, what is this?
11:35He's like: "Recorded this for the Union
11:37in the heat." Another story. We get in
11:40a taxi, driving somewhere just around
11:42the city. Either to a pharmacy or
11:44somewhere else. Anyway, where could we
11:45be going with such a mattress. In Sochi
11:47, almost all taxi drivers talk to you.
11:49That’s normal.
11:49You should just clarify for context
11:51that you were in the room with a woman,
11:52most likely. Yeah.
11:53What do you mean? Most likely. You even
11:55know this woman.
11:56Oh, just say that you were with a woman
11:58. It’s just that you keep saying "we"
11:59and "we."
12:00What, what are you imagining, who I was
12:01with in the room? You don't need to
12:03know that. You know this woman.
12:05Mom
12:07and what about it? And uh, you
12:08periodically have this, well, accent,
12:10voice, when you're parodying someone
12:13from the network or just throwing
12:15something out there yourself. Like that
12:17. And the guy starts talking to us in
12:20exactly that voice. Like, exactly that
12:22way. Well, say something. Right. Like,
12:24do you need help with something?
12:25Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
12:26yeah, yeah. Yeah. Something like that.
12:28And he starts with these, these
12:29expressions, like, young people have
12:30really gotten out of hand. Driving
12:32around here, putting their feet up
12:33somewhere. No respect at all. I tell
12:34them: "Listen, get a grip on yourself."
12:36And something, and just some kind of
12:37conversation like that. And the classic
12:39thing, where are we from? From Moscow.
12:41He’s like, "Oh, I’ve got friends
12:42and relatives in Moscow, they're all
12:43hustling, doing things, everyone’s
12:45doing great.""Do you know anyone from
12:46Ossetia?" I’m like, "Well, yeah, I
12:48have one close friend, yeah, yeah."
12:49He’s like, "Oh, how’s he doing?"
12:51I’m like, "Yeah, everything's fine,
12:53all good, he’s a decent, cultured guy
12:54." It just came up in the conversation,
12:56something about the youth, and, well,
12:58like, how he started this thing himself
13:00. I’m like, "He's a very decent,
13:01cultured person, you can see it, like,
13:03his substance." He’s like, "Send him
13:05my salaams, wishing him prosperity,
13:07good for him, he’s not bringing shame
13:09on us at all." And so it all begins.
13:12I’m like, "Yeah, sure, I'm writing it
13:13down." Yeah, like, all done, I'll pass
13:15it on to Akhsar just like that. Oh,
13:18you didn't tell him he's unemployed,
13:20right? Got it. Covered for your friend.
13:25Aren't you going to talk about karting?
13:27Well, what about it? I accomplished my
13:29mission. I am the fastest of all those
13:30who haven't had much seat time. The
13:33guys who have the seat time still have
13:35some work to do. But while I was racing
13:38in the Rotax Winter Cup all that time,
13:39where there are tons of teenagers and
13:41so on, it's impossible to catch up with
13:43anyone just because they're at it
13:44constantly. They just, you know, race
13:47and live at the kart track. But now,
13:49for the Cup, they made a separate "old
13:51folks 'home," separate heats where just
13:54grown men race. And there, I was in the
13:56middle like, "Guys, move over, let's
13:58have a bit of a battle, something,
13:59somehow." I really enjoyed it, but
14:00I’ll tell that story separately
14:01another time. If we start talking about
14:03racing now, that’s it, we’ll be
14:04here for another hour, and Vova will be
14:06totally resentful of why he was called
14:08into work today. So let's get to the
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14:37that's everything. You snooze, you lose
14:39. And let's get to the episode.
14:44Russians have stopped selling their
14:46cars. Experts are raising the alarm. An
14:49article has come out stating that the
14:51ownership period for passenger cars has
14:53recently increased, you know. And on
14:56the secondary market, something is
14:57happening where people are selling
14:59fewer cars overall. In 2025, only 9%of
15:02citizens traded in their cars aged 3 to
15:057 years, whereas in 2019 this figure
15:07reached 15%. And according to experts,
15:10this is having a very negative impact
15:12on business, since new cars aren't
15:13selling well, and people are keeping
15:15their vehicles and not selling, so it's
15:17all quite sad. But it’s important to
15:19clarify here that there is a separate
15:21discussion for the secondary market and
15:23a separate one for the primary market.
15:25The primary market is mostly regulated
15:27by the fact that there are subsidies,
15:29loans, and more new cars being bought
15:30on credit. And right now, we
15:32objectively have a big supply issue,
15:34where not all brands are available, not
15:36everything is accessible, and there is
15:38a large audience of people who simply
15:40won't buy a Chinese car under any
15:42circumstances, no matter the price or
15:44the brand. There is just an audience
15:46that will never, under any
15:47circumstances, buy a Chinese car. For
15:48instance, I am one of them. No matter
15:50how cool of a Chinese car they bring in
15:52, or how cheap or expensive it costs,
15:53or anything else at all. I simply
15:55won’t buy one, just because I still
15:57don’t consider them to be real cars
15:58yet.
15:59And you praised the Tank.
16:00Yes, that’s correct. By the way,
16:02check it out, we released a review of a
16:04Chinese car in a new format, and I even
16:06said there that yes, it looks like a
16:08car. Yes, it’s good, but I won’t
16:10buy one for myself, and I mention that
16:11there as well. It’s still early, but
16:13it is gradually evolving and slowly
16:16getting better. But there is still a
16:18noticeable group of people, both in the
16:20secondary and primary markets, who
16:21won’t buy Chinese cars under any
16:23circumstances, and who are just holding
16:24onto their current vehicles simply
16:26because if you sell your car, it’s
16:28unclear what you’d buy instead. A
16:30portion of this audience still wants to
16:32buy a car now and has the means to do
16:34so, but refuses to buy a Chinese one.
16:37They’ve dragged in everything they
16:38could possibly find from abroad over
16:40the last 3 years, and they’ll keep
16:42buying up pre-owned stuff or importing
16:44things at double the price, simply
16:46because there’s nowhere else to turn.
16:49And in my opinion, this situation shows
16:51no signs of changing anytime soon. As
16:53for the experts sounding the alarm that
16:54this is all bad for the market, just
16:56ignore them. The last 3 years have been
16:58way outside the charts and standard
17:00market logic anyway. For the average
17:02person, there’s no point in worrying
17:05about what the market is worried about.
17:11The Tiggo 9 was tested with an
17:12unconventional crash test, and at the
17:14same time, we saw non-standard crash
17:16tests for the Zeekr 009 crossover.
17:19It’s a story that’s made a huge
17:21splash online: they took the 009 and
17:22did something no one had ever done
17:24before. Zeekr actually went and crashed
17:27the same car multiple times. The car is
17:30sitting there, then a cart hits it in
17:32the front, then the rear, then a side
17:35impact, then something else. It’s all
17:39the same car.
17:39That’s what guys do for insurance.
17:43They showed the dummies at the start
17:44sitting there like, "Look what’s
17:46waiting for you."
17:47Yeah. And it’s actually a brilliant
17:49idea. They hit the car at specific
17:52points and angles to ensure different
17:54safety elements were tested. So, they
17:56ran a crash test, and then on that same
17:58damaged car, they hit it in the side,
18:00then somewhere else. "And we’ll check
18:01this too, guys, and then we’ll hit
18:02the rear, and then we’ll check
18:03something else." It’s clear that
18:05there’s no full, official report
18:06available. It’s just a video that’s
18:09been edited to say, "Look how well it
18:11holds up, nothing gets injured," and so
18:14on. And it really is an impressive
18:15achievement. A very cool idea. At the
18:18same time, they crashed the Chery Tiggo
18:199 in this exact way. They took two cars
18:22, hit them at nearly full overlap, but
18:24at a slight angle. Also a fairly
18:25non-standard crash test. There was a
18:27lot of press and a lot of people in the
18:28room. It’s funny that China is
18:31picking up the trend from the US and
18:33Volvo of turning crash tests into a
18:36show. Because usually, a crash test is
18:38a strictly utilitarian thing. It’s
18:40either done internally, and automakers
18:42actually perform a huge number of tests
18:44that you never see and don't even know
18:46about. These are just pre-production
18:49trials. It's just that, well, you have
18:50your own camera, you're smashing your
18:52car into some wall yourself, just
18:53watching how it all works. Volvo was
18:55the first to turn this into a show back
18:57in the day. They came in, well, first
18:59of all, they built an entirely separate
19:01center and started showing everyone,
19:02look how great we are at testing our
19:03Volvos. We can hit a granite wall, we
19:05can roll the car over, and we can
19:07collide different vehicles at various
19:09angles. We can do a lot of interesting
19:10things, actually. We even have an
19:11entire building that can move like this
19:12. We can aim this car launcher in any
19:14direction we want.
19:15Let me be a bit of a nerd here. The
19:17first to turn crash testing into a show
19:19was Chrysler, back when they were
19:20launching the Chrysler Airflow in 1934.
19:24And this was back when they were at the
19:25old proving grounds, or their own
19:27testing facility.
19:29They were demonstrating the advantages
19:30of a unibody frame. They had a driver
19:32go in, flip the car over, and climb out
19:34of it. Like, look, I’m alive.
19:36See, I’m alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes
19:38, we even have that footage in our
19:39documentaries.
19:40We’ve had that footage in our
19:40documentaries. Yes. There was footage
19:42of trains colliding. Those were the
19:44first public crash tests. I mean, crash
19:47tests in the modern sense, with modern
19:50research methods and all the modern
19:52gear. Then, all the other global
19:54organizations really stepped up their
19:57game. And now, the Chinese are often
20:00showing some unconventional tests, like
20:03let's drop a concrete mixer on a Zeekr
20:05007, I think, or
20:07or 009, yeah, on one of them. Or let's
20:10drop a car from a crane or do something
20:12else to show that, yes, we can do this.
20:15Truly, we know how to make light and
20:17strong cars. I mean, light and strong
20:19bodies in that sense. They are doing a
20:20great job, of course. It’s very
20:22interesting to watch this trend, but I
20:24would like to see more detailed reports
20:26, not just beautifully edited content.
20:29Although, in reality, these videos
20:30perform their primary media and PR
20:32function wonderfully. Because, for the
20:34most part, people don't look at those
20:36sad, boring reports. Because, you know,
20:38the car crashes, there’s a dummy
20:40inside that jerks a little, sensors
20:42pick everything up, and the airbags
20:44deploy. Well, people think, that must
20:45mean it's safe. For the most part,
20:47that’s not far from the truth, but
20:48regardless, some hidden damage could
20:50still be there.
20:51What surprised me more is that the
20:52photo shows people standing without any
20:54kind of barrier, no glass or anything
20:56like that.
20:56And they could get hit by a flying
20:58shard. Yeah. Yes. This also shows that
21:00these guys are still learning. As soon
21:02as a crankshaft hits the first
21:04journalist, they’ll fix all this
21:06immediately, I think. And I'll just
21:08reiterate my own wish once more. I
21:10really wish, of course, that one day we
21:12also had our own Russian NCAP or some
21:14kind of crash test. Back in the day,
21:16Autoreview did their own ARCAP together
21:18with Reso-Garantia, a thing like that
21:20existed, and they showed in their
21:21magazine that at the NAMI proving
21:23ground they tested cars, and that we
21:25had our entire automotive industry
21:26tested by a basically independent
21:28organization. I think they crashed
21:29Solaris models, they crashed Rios, and
21:30they crashed a lot of other things in
21:32general.
21:32I think they crashed the Chery Amulet.
21:34They did crash the Chery Amulet, yes.
21:35And I really want this to continue to
21:37exist. Obviously, there was an
21:38opportunity, it was just a commercial
21:40organization that covered the cost of
21:42the crash test itself, because a crash
21:43test is a very expensive thing overall.
21:45And I really want this to exist here in
21:47Russia after all, because after ARCAP
21:49there hasn't been anyone else. The
21:51Chinese are doing a great job in this
21:52regard, as they simply take it and turn
21:54it into a show, thus promoting their
21:55automotive industry and showing that
21:57they are doing well. And besides, you
21:59really do take and crash a Chery Tiggo
22:019, someone sees this in some clips,
22:03videos, Reels, Shorts, and so on, and
22:05automatically thinks that, say, a Chery
22:07Tiggo 4 is exactly the same kind of
22:09safe car. Even though they have almost
22:10nothing in common, but since Chery is
22:12crashing something and doing something,
22:14it means everything else is also
22:15top-notch. And the fact that the Amulet
22:17was once their magnificent invention—
22:19nobody remembers that anymore. And
22:21that's how it works. And since we’ve
22:24touched on the topic of crash tests,
22:26the first female crash test dummy was
22:27presented in the USA. The headline is a
22:29bit misleading, because, naturally,
22:30this is far from the first female dummy
22:32. There have been a large number of
22:33them. The most popular female dummy to
22:35date is the so-called Hybrid III family
22:37. Everything you see in modern crash
22:40tests, all these dummies, both children
22:42and adults, it is all, most likely with
22:44a very high degree of probability, the
22:46so-called Hybrid III. We’ve also
22:47covered this in our own documentaries.
22:49There has always been an issue with
22:51women for engineers, car manufacturers,
22:53and so on, because men and women have
22:54different bodies, just different
22:56organisms and different physical
22:58characteristics. And since cars have
23:00mostly been used by men all along, they
23:02were aimed at the male body type. But
23:05generally speaking, all crash test
23:07dummies and all tests are, well,
23:09they're always tailored to a sort of
23:10average person. If you take a test in a
23:14specific country, it’s very hard to
23:16extrapolate it to every single market
23:18because Asians have a different build,
23:21Europeans have a different build,
23:22Africans have a different build, and so
23:24on. I mean, you have specific physical
23:27traits all over the planet one way or
23:28another. In the auto industry, there is
23:30a concept called a percentile,
23:31yes, and the standard Hybrid 3, I think
23:34it's Thor 5 now or maybe Thor 3, it has
23:37this 95th percentile. Well, an
23:39indicator that it’s very close to
23:40reality. But the Hybrid 3 as a concept
23:43is already somewhat outdated because
23:45people are getting bigger quite quickly
23:48. We are getting taller, larger, and
23:51heavier. And you and I often talk about
23:53this too, that like,
23:54well, I think it’s true for developed
23:56countries, where you don’t have a
23:58shortage of medicine or food.
23:59Yeah.
24:00Because in some developing country,
24:02well, a car is mostly a product for
24:04developed countries, in so-called
24:05developing ones—though that’s not
24:07quite the right terminology, calling
24:08them developed and developing isn't
24:10entirely accurate anymore, but still.
24:11I mean, we have the US, where the
24:13obesity problem is really acute and
24:15they actually have to make cars bigger
24:17just to fit people in.
24:19Yeah. While in places like India,
24:20everyone rides mopeds more. But getting
24:23back to the original news story,
24:24they’re introducing this Thor 5 dummy
24:26in America. That it fully corresponds
24:30to the modern woman and that now it can
24:33be used in crash tests.
24:35She’s flexing her rights.
24:37No, I mean that the dummy itself is as
24:39close as possible to reality. And that
24:40now our crash tests will become
24:42completely different. And among other
24:44things, automakers will have access to
24:46data on how exactly women are injured.
24:48Because statistically, women suffer
24:50injuries, serious trauma, and so on
24:53more often. Simply because, well, the
24:55car is basically designed for an adult
24:57male or a child. But for, well, like an
24:59adult woman, it doesn't quite fit, the
25:01seatbelt doesn't sit exactly where it
25:02should, and the passenger or driver's
25:04seat isn't designed the way it needs to
25:06be. But for car manufacturers, in
25:08reality, it is always a big problem,
25:10because you cannot adjust one and the
25:12same seat, be it driver or passenger,
25:14to have a "female mode" or "male mode"
25:16—you still have to base it on some
25:18kind of weighted average parameter. And
25:20until now, automakers have proceeded
25:23from the assumption that, well, there
25:25is just a person who is on average
25:27about this size, roughly a man or a
25:29woman, with roughly this weight and
25:31this height. And let's just mold
25:33something average out of that. How to
25:36later work around it within the car's
25:38design, so the car itself understands
25:40automatically whether a woman or a man
25:42is sitting, and adjusts the airbag
25:44system, the seatbelt, and perhaps the
25:46seat itself accordingly. Who knows,
25:49maybe engineers will come up with
25:50something. But now they are showing
25:52dummies and saying, look, now there
25:53will be a female one too. Although they
25:55existed before, this is just a more
25:57accurate model.
25:58Volvo had a story like that, where they
26:01taught pregnant women extreme driving,
26:03or something close to it. Volvo has
26:05been involved in all sorts of things.
26:07Volvo, I think it was back in 2011 or
26:092012, somewhere around there, came up
26:11with a mathematical model for a female
26:13dummy, but then calculated the costs of
26:15production, crash tests, and so on, and
26:17just deemed it commercially unviable.
26:20But they still had some Swedish
26:22engineer, some grandma—I don't
26:24remember her name, it's quite easy to
26:26Google—a real grandma. And she also
26:28made some female dummy of her own. And
26:30in general, female dummies have
26:31actually appeared a long time ago. It's
26:33, well, it's not like I originally
26:34latched onto the fact that the headline
26:36is lying, that this isn't the first
26:38female dummy. There were many before
26:39this. And the problem with the female
26:41dummy isn't the dummy itself, but what
26:42to do with the data afterwards. Let's
26:44say you took and put four women in a
26:46car and crashed it, you got certain
26:47readings. Then you took four men, put
26:50them in a car, crashed it, and got
26:52safe. They won't even leave the parking
26:54lot.
26:56Sorry, with all due love.
26:59There. And then you. And then you.
27:04susceptible to sexism.
27:05Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:07Then you crash a car with four men
27:09inside, and you also get some data.
27:11Then you take and crash the same car
27:13with four children inside and get some
27:15data again. What are you supposed to do
27:17with it later? You'll still end up
27:18bringing it to some weighted average
27:20and trying to make something average.
27:22At least up to this point, and for some
27:24time to come, automakers proceed from
27:26the fact that you just have a
27:27plus-or-minus average person. Well, and
27:30most likely, there are children sitting
27:31in child seats in the back. And so then
27:33you use the child specifically in a
27:34child seat and see how it fares in
27:36there. And adults usually sit in the
27:38front. But at the same time, a teenager
27:40, say, seventeen years old, sitting in
27:42the front seat, is just as far from the
27:44average person as some small woman, for
27:46example. This is a big problem, that
27:49people are different, but you still
27:50need some single standardized internal
27:52solution for how a person should sit
27:54there, how they should be secured. Then
27:56you remember there are also little
27:57people. They fly right through the
28:02windshield. He's riding by the seat
28:04belt. Holding on like that and flying
28:06right out, damn it. Therefore, well,
28:07the question of safety is an
28:08interesting thing.
28:09The female crash test dummy says after
28:11the test: "I told you, let him go, why
28:12are you pushing in?" And after the seat
28:16belt pretensioner fires, she says: "
28:25Xiaomi has released its 500,000 th
28:27electric vehicle, but a growth crisis
28:29is possible ahead." Xiaomi produced its
28:32half-millionth car in less than 2 years
28:34. And this is an outstanding result in
28:36terms of vehicle production of any kind
28:38, not just electric vehicles. In
28:40electric vehicles, they are generally
28:41one of the top manufacturers in the
28:42world right now. And you're like...
28:45Well, in the world, in the world is
28:46probably a stretch. In China,
28:48definitely. Well, because they still
28:49aren't present on the global market.
28:51But if you just take and compare, you
28:53take any other electric car
28:55manufacturer and look at who managed to
28:57reach half a million copies in 2 years.
28:59It's probably hard to find an
29:01equivalent.
29:02Yes. Yes. So, in terms of growth speed
29:04from zero to half a million cars
29:06produced, they are probably number one
29:08among electric vehicles. Exactly.
29:10The Model S was slower to pick up
29:12volume. Of course, of course, of course
29:13. Tesla's first years of production,
29:15they only made about 20,000 cars a year
29:17. It was only later that they had rapid
29:18growth. But the point here is that
29:20these guys started from scratch, they
29:22designed the car, built the factory,
29:24and even sold you a toothbrush in the
29:26kit. Well, that is really, it's a
29:27serious achievement. I mean, from the
29:29point of view of management, the
29:31organization of the process, the
29:32organization of the company itself, and
29:34how quickly they developed the car, put
29:36it into production, managed to push it
29:38into the market, make a splash with PR,
29:40marketing, and so on. It’s an
29:42outstanding result.
29:43Yes, that’s something Apple couldn't
29:45manage with its own car. So, Apple
29:46wanted to do the same thing at one time
29:48.
29:49Yes. No automaker or any other company
29:51would ever turn down the chance to
29:53churn out half a million cars in two
29:55years without any issues. Actually, I
29:58personally just think these cars are
29:59crap, because I’m not the target
30:01audience, I don’t like them. Here’s
30:02a review.
30:03You said "salt" audience. "Salt"
30:05audience. Well, perhaps those who buy
30:07Xiaomi in Russia, they are the "salt"
30:09audience. That is possible. But at the
30:11same time, we shouldn't devalue the
30:12management's achievement. As for the
30:14interesting times ahead for them, when
30:16they’ll have to somehow maintain
30:18production without government subsidies
30:19, we’ll see how they manage to exist
30:21later on. The electric vehicle market
30:24within China will certainly shrink.
30:26Most likely, Xiaomi will remain and
30:27consolidate its position there, while
30:29the smaller, weaker players will die
30:31off. And so they’ve produced half a
30:34million cars, the only thing left is to
30:36hold on and eventually make some money,
30:38because, as a reminder, they still
30:39aren’t making a profit from the
30:41automotive division. The PRC has gained
30:46control over Nexperia and is lifting
30:48restrictions on chip supplies. In the
30:50last few episodes, we discussed how
30:52there’s a scandal in the Netherlands
30:54with the Chinese, involving a company
30:56called Nexperia that supplies chips and
30:58various electronics needed for
31:00automakers and car factories within
31:02Europe. Wingtech, the parent company,
31:04came under US sanctions. And that’s
31:07when everything started, with people
31:08saying, "Look, the company is under
31:09sanctions, so if you work with them,
31:11there will be consequences." So,
31:13let’s replace the Chinese management
31:14in the Netherlands and put some Dutch
31:16people in charge there. The Chinese
31:18said they were suspending supplies. And
31:21it seems the situation has now been
31:22resolved. Trump arrived on his white
31:24horse and said, "We’re lifting
31:26sanctions on Nexperia, but we’re not
31:27lifting anything from Wingtech." But we
31:29are lifting them from all the
31:30subsidiary structures. And so, well,
31:32you guys should figure it out somehow;
31:34alright, to hell with it, let the
31:35Chinese control it, Dutch people, back
31:37off, let’s just find a way to
31:38negotiate, we’ll put all this on hold
31:40for now. It’s a very telling story,
31:43showing that the US can still be
31:44countered, even though they initially
31:46said, "We’ll impose sanctions on
31:48everyone, no matter what." Then they
31:49realized they had shot themselves in
31:50the foot for a generation. And it
31:51turned out to be too painful after all.
31:53So let's roll something back just a
31:55little bit. Of course, no one lifted
31:56the sanctions; they were just suspended
31:58. And, most likely, that’s how it
32:00will continue to work, which is, well,
32:02kind of strange. Sanctions were on it,
32:04they still are, and everything is fine.
32:06Like, under no circumstances can you
32:08supply oil. No, no, no. Don't buy
32:10Iranian oil. But then at some point it
32:12just happens that no one punishes
32:14anyone for violating the sanctions. And
32:15so, even though they technically exist,
32:17there is no punishment, so we just keep
32:18trading calmly. Then, at some point, we
32:20tighten them up again, we start
32:21punishing again, but no one is going to
32:23lift the sanction itself. Therefore,
32:25most likely, no sanctions will be
32:26lifted from us in the future either.
32:29There will just be some sort of tacit
32:30permission, probably, that you can work
32:32somehow, or can't work somehow, maybe
32:34under the table, or under a different
32:36brand, or something like that. We'll
32:38see. And the most important thing here
32:40is that the guys managed to impose
32:42their will and get everyone to agree to
32:44keep supplying chips. Naturally, the
32:46Chinese won't trust anyone with
32:47anything. And I think that eventually,
32:49they will have to find a way to replace
32:51chip supplies, because when your entire
32:53business depends on whether they might
32:55allow it one day and ban it the next,
32:57it’s not a very stable position,
32:58especially in manufacturing and all
33:00those serious things. Therefore, car
33:03factories in Europe, which are
33:05extremely dependent on component
33:07supplies, will once again—for the
33:09384th time in the last 5 years—have
33:11to overhaul their supply chains. We'll
33:14see how they get out of this, because,
33:16in fact, besides the Chinese, Thailand,
33:18and so on, you have no other supply
33:20options. The new electric Porsche
33:25Cayenne has been fully revealed. Yeah.
33:28And it comes
33:30just like this.
33:32Well, did you see that?
33:33Well, something, somewhere. Yeah. Now
33:35tell me the first Cayenne looks bad
33:38next to it.
33:38The first Cayenne is bad.
33:40But compared to this?
33:41Well, this just isn't a car. I can't
33:43compare a car to a non-car. They're
33:45such bastards, too. They shot a PR
33:47video where they took Mark Webber, poor
33:49guy, who had nowhere else to go. They
33:52put him in a Carrera GT, they put him
33:55in. I don't I don't know who the girl
33:56is. sitting in the Cayenne. Probably
33:58some kind of driver too. Mark Webber,
33:59by the way, he's, well, a Formula 1
34:00driver. And here they are. Let's see,
34:02how are we going to race against a
34:04Porsche Carrera GT? Naturally, in a
34:06drag race, obviously. There. And so the
34:08Porsche Cayenne Electric Turbo drives
34:10away totally silently somewhere,
34:12although the clip is edited absolutely
34:14terribly, and the actual results of the
34:17drag race aren't even shown. It's just,
34:19well, like a bunch of editing nonsense,
34:21a bunch of different, interesting
34:22camera angles. Webber is, like, driving
34:24the Carrera GT, all like: "Oh, the
34:26Cayenne is pulling away from the GT."
34:29Wow. Oh, I wonder how much they paid
34:33Webber for this? Because, well, like,
34:35a race car driver who is feeling
34:36surprised while in a car. Yeah. There.
34:38Yeah. By an electric crossover that's
34:402,600 [kg]
34:41in a straight line.
34:42Yeah.
34:42True Emotions.
34:43Yeah. Yeah. Of course, he's very
34:45surprised at how the crossover performs
34:47in a straight line. Well, just, well,
34:48it's such, well, I'll even show it now.
34:50Like, here they are in the Cayenne.
34:54They brought the Carrera GT on a
34:56trailer, which is already hilarious.
34:58Hold on, wait. It's this kind of shot,
35:01right? Here's the drag race. And here
35:03we go. There. Op, op, op. Uh-huh.
35:08That's the real, not-so-obvious one,
35:10there. Uh-huh.
35:11That's it, he's already pulled off to
35:13charge, guys.
35:15And so, you can't catch an electric
35:17crossover in your Carrera GT, huh? That
35:19it's on gravel, and everywhere else.
35:22This is such nonsense.
35:24And what is the GT? I think it said
35:26Spyder there.
35:26It's a Carrera GT. Oh no, it's a 918
35:29Spyder. Exactly. What
35:30was written there?
35:32Oh, well even I'm sorry then. Well,
35:35what's the difference, whether it's a
35:36918 Spyder or a Carrera GT, it's, well,
35:38like...
35:38The 918 is a hybrid, though. And what's
35:40the message? That a girl outran him, or
35:44the message is that you have, well,
35:45like, a 918 Spyder, which practically
35:47the whole world was amazed by at the
35:48time, and Top Gear in particular. That
35:51this is like the peak of Porsche in
35:55production cars. And the electric
35:58Cayenne is much better.
35:59Yeah, well,
36:00of course, much better. And if you also
36:02look at its screens and all that...The
36:07only thing that's truly, well, if
36:08you're seriously trying to talk about
36:09the electric Cayenne, the only plus is
36:11that it costs more or less the same as
36:12the gasoline one. That's a surprise,
36:14because in the modern world we still
36:15have electric cars that, by the way,
36:16are more expensive than a normal,
36:18regular human car. Well, at least they
36:20promise the prices will be roughly
36:22comparable to the cost of a regular
36:24gasoline Cayenne. Well, I don't even
36:26know how to discuss this. I mean,
36:27it’s definitely a failure. You can
36:29tell right from here that it’s a
36:30failure. Yeah, for sure. Back in the
36:32day, the Cayenne was the car that fed
36:35the entire group, allowing Porsche to
36:37work on new generations of the 911, to
36:39build the 918 Spyder, even the Carrera
36:41GT, and literally anything else, simply
36:44because you had a solid foundation in
36:46the form of the Cayenne and Macan. This
36:48won't be a solid foundation, and nobody
36:50is going to need it. A big electric
36:53trunk for over 100,000 euros. Even with
36:56a Porsche logo, nobody cares. Toyota
37:01Boss said "Screw it" and went full MAGA
37:04gear. That's the headline, and my
37:06broken English. But what’s the news?
37:08What’s the joke? And what’s the
37:10cool, wonderful meat of the story?
37:12We’ve discussed many times lately how
37:14the entire automotive world has gone
37:16crazy. Like, rushing into EVs and so on
37:18. Then there’s Toyota standing apart,
37:20top one in sales, top one in profit,
37:22saying: "Forget about all your demands
37:24to make' proper 'cars; we already have
37:26a market.""We must not switch every car
37:28to electric motors, because you will
37:30break the industry, you will break
37:31manufacturing.""We will continue to
37:33make small, regular, normal human cars.
37:36" And now there's this story about
37:38Trump's tariffs, which are breaking
37:40automotive logistics and car production
37:42itself across the knee. For Toyota,
37:45America is one of their main markets
37:47and key strategic partners. And this is
37:49hitting Toyota's knees a bit too. Akio
37:51Toyoda shows up at a NASCAR event, by
37:53the way. Toyota participates in NASCAR.
37:55This Camry disguised as a NASCAR car is
37:58a very fascinating sight. And he shows
38:00up there in full MAGA gear. Like,
38:02wearing the full "Make America Great
38:04Again" cap. We, well,
38:06he’s just going all-in with the MAGA
38:07stuff. Trump, NASCAR, and Akio Toyoda
38:11is like: "Make America Great Again, sir
38:13.""Yes, sir.""The best, sir.""We'll do
38:17everything.""Tariffs are good.""This is
38:20good, this is good ground for our
38:21cooperation.""It's all wonderful." And
38:25the whole internet is buzzing about it.
38:28Dammit, what are you doing? Could you
38:31please leave my Toyotas out of politics
38:34and just keep them as simple cars and
38:37so on? Well, obviously, this is all
38:39from the original Carscoops article,
38:40but he's also standing in front of a
38:42Ford,
38:42right?
38:43Mm.
38:43Well, naturally. And apparently, there
38:45was some sort of agreement that this
38:47had to be done this way, because before
38:49that, Toyota had already come out
38:51saying, "Yes, okay, we'll invest 10
38:53billion dollars in US industry, open up
38:55facilities, factories, and establish
38:57local manufacturing." We all know that
39:00the Japanese, and Japan in general,
39:02were initially slapped with a very high
39:04tariff. They were like, "No, no, let's
39:06do this differently." Then a group of
39:08diplomats came, had some talks, but it
39:09still stayed at 15%. It's supposed to
39:12be an allied state, Japan is supposedly
39:13a friendly country, but still, here’s
39:1515%for you. And the fact that Akio
39:17Toyoda is wearing that t-shirt is
39:18honestly hilarious. It feels like just
39:20some sort of agreement, like it had to
39:22be done, because, again, the Toyoda
39:24family has basically never been seen
39:26involved in these kinds of political
39:27stunts before. Apparently, they need to
39:30support the policy. Apparently, they
39:32need to take a Ford pickup. Apparently,
39:34they need to wear a red t-shirt over a
39:36shirt that costs more than the Ford
39:38itself. And there you go, "Make America
39:40Great Again." Everyone, shout into the
39:42microphone. NASCAR, rednecks, vote for
39:47Trump. Akio, a little Japanese guy,
39:49saying that—what is going on? And the
39:52whole event is dedicated to new Toyota
39:55cars. Everything is Gazoo Racing, all
39:57the Toyota sports brands, all the
39:59branding, everything everywhere, and a
40:01Ford pickup at the start-finish line.
40:05Everything is fine.
40:06Well, what a partnership with Ford,
40:08which, of course, Toyota wanted so
40:10badly, wanting to lift a dying Ford up
40:12from its knees. Let's be partners, sure
40:14. And Toyota, again, is the company
40:17making the most money right now, with
40:19the most stable business, and
40:20everything is just completely fine with
40:22them compared to every other car
40:24company. Surely, they need to go and
40:26save all these dying losers and pour
40:28tons of money into them.
40:29Altruists.
40:30Yeah. Yes. And you can't stop the head
40:32of the company from walking around in a
40:34cap. Uh-huh. Yeah.
40:35He loves the color red. I didn't get
40:37that.
40:37Oh, he loves it, yeah. And walking
40:38around with photos of two smiling men.
40:40It's like that South Park episode.
40:42Americans have very big members. That's
40:52it for this episode. I'm going to go
40:54get some sleep on my nice, comfortable
40:55mattress.
40:56So that's it for this episode for you.
40:58That's it for this episode for me. You
40:59were supposed to say that.
41:00And that is it for this episode for me.
41:02That's how you should have said it.
41:04I said it exactly like that.
41:04No, you didn't say it like that.
41:05Just rewind it. That's exactly what I
41:08said there. And that's it for this
41:09episode. It’s, well, a classic. You
41:11have to know the classics. And that is
41:12it for this episode. I’m going to
41:17sleep so well tonight. On such a nice
41:19mattress.
41:20Try using a weighted blanket. It's a
41:22solid thing.
41:23Do you know one specific person who is
41:25against it?
41:26Well, a different blanket, man,
41:28is also against it.
41:29Well, you’ll be under a weighted
41:31blanket. It won't be able to get to you
41:33. You'll be under maximum protection
41:35there. Yeah, 40 kg of fury won't dig
41:38through that.
41:39Wow, the mouse has put on some weight,
41:42huh? And it's quite healthy, actually.
41:44Well, at least it's litter-trained for
41:49now.
41:50There was supposed to be a transition
41:51here, but we ran out of money, so we
41:53just went with people. Just so you’re
41:58in the loop. Ah.

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