rev up your engines what do you think of that new 2020
Corvette Stingray with the mid-engine realize that there was a Belgian
engineer of Russian descent called Zora and he started the idea and now they have
a mid-engine Corvette now they say it's gonna less than under $60,000 and it has
a mid-engine v8 engine that puts out 495 horsepower so it's got a reasonable
amount of power of course it's nothing compared to the Hellcat engine that's
pushing 800 horsepower it's competing more with the mid-engine European sports cars
now the first that came out in the 1950s had a straight six
cylinder engine and it only put out a little over a hundred horsepower it
didn't have that much horsepower matter of fact people you even said it was
underpowered and quickly they put a v8 engine head toward this new one really
has nothing to do with the old stingray then we're talking a mid-engine car it's
a very interesting design but what you got to realize this this is a first-year
model they made they just came out with them never ever buy a first-year model
car you have no idea what kind of flaws are at and knowing GM there's gonna be
some flaws in it for the purists they're not even a button you have a standard
transmission there's gonna be no standard transmission only on automatic
transmissions you get those paddles shifter things on but they're only gonna
be automatic transmissions and there's a lot of hype coming out with it to GM
just said that oh they've already sold them all out but they won't give a how
many they sold they're not so not giving out what their production is gonna be in
2020 how many of they're gonna make they're not giving any information out
so to me there's a lot of PT Barnum hype being thrown out on this thing that
they're not giving straight figures yet so you know nobody knows I'm sure they'd
be fun to drive around for a vehicle that'll be zippy like that under 60
grand you know you're not gonna fight too many mid-engine cars and their price
range but Scotty me I wouldn't touch one of those things until they been around
while and you see how they hold up and what flaws they have and of course you
can always get them cheaper used when they get older too I mean I got a customer
that bought one of those fancy Teslas the model s and some sucker paid a hundred
and twenty five grand for the car he bought it used and it only had fifteen
thousand miles on he bought it for forty five thousand dollars so that was like
one third practically what the original owner paid for the car so if you're
smart like me wait a while on stuff don't jump on the bandwagon and get
caught up with all this hoopla I'm sure they're gonna be charging premiums at
dealers to sell them to people it's an image thing too, but I'd wait myself
I would just wait, universal associates says Scotty is it true you can protect your
car from being hacked by wrapping your key fob in aluminum foil an article on
USA Today said so well it's a lot more complicated than that
here is the kicker if you have say one of these fobs that you push the button
and an unlocked your car's door you can't cover it with aluminum foil or won't
unlock your door it's got to be over the broadcast and if someone is sneaking off
to be following you around and having a receiver and they can receive that
signal that bounced into your car then they're gonna be able to steal your car
they'll be able to get into your car and then they can if they have a blank key
they can program the key to make your car start so I don't think that's gonna
stop anything if you're talking about one that you physically opened with a
key later you put it in the car and turn it yes you could do that
cuz it has to unlock the door which they're not
gonna be able to do but if you got one that unlocks and you can't put foil
around it it won't work so yeah a lot of these articles people give her a bunch
of junk they don't know what they're talking about don't even understand half
the system's that they're talking about but people can steal cars with the
keyless ignition systems a lot easier if they're pros you know most people are
gonna steal a regular car they're gonna be going after you know fancy Lexus
Mercedes whatever they're not gonna do stealing your Toyota odds are they gonna
follow you around to steal your Toyota raymond says I'd like to buy a used truck
for five to seven grand any truck as good as long as a
reliable what do you recommend well if you can find a Toyota Tacoma and that
price range get a Toyota Tacoma those things can run forever they're very hard
to find good use though because most people have them to drive them forever
because that's what they want they got it they don't break so they keep driving
it around if you can't find that look for either a F150 or a Ford Ranger
that doesn't have too many miles there's lots of them out there too if you're
getting at an f-150 you really you gotta get a v8 engine they're much better
truck so you do that get a v8 with the Ranger yeah you can even get the
four-cylinder engine and I was there okay, flad says is Fiat the best
no the only good Fiat is one that somebody else owns that you don't have to
pay for fixing it when it breaks down, when I was
young they sold Fiats the United States and everybody called them fix it again
Tony because they're always breaking then they brought them back a
few years ago and Fiat by Chrysler and now Fiats even talking about leaving the
American market they'll still be selling the Chrysler's and Chrysler's that have
Fiat engines and transmissions that have Chrysler names but the actual brand of
Fiat is selling so poorly in the United States they're talking about just
pulling out again they make such garbage don't buy one if you value your money, so
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