Performance SUV

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Bam!
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Performance. It's one of those things that
we all strive for our vehicles.
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Hell, even the people that don't think
they want it or need it still
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at some point in time are gonna demand it.
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Whether it be on a two-lane highway where
you gotta get past somebody
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and you need that little bit of extra
power,
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and if your vehicle doesn't have it,
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you are cursing it and trying to figure
out maybe I should change my gas,
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maybe I should change some parts.
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Maybe I should do something else to make
this beast have a little
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bit more juice inside of it. Well,
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we've talked about performance and
performance.
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in many different places. But when it
comes to the utility marketplace,
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not like actual utility vehicles,
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like crossover utilities. We've talked
about the aftermarket utility world
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and how the aftermarket industry is
starting to flood into the CUV
marketplace.
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But today, AutoLooks is taking you on a
stroll through the performance SUVs.
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They've been around for quite some time.
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And right now
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We're taking a look at another resurgence.
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These aren't just CUVs for getting you
around town and picking up groceries.
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These are the ones built for the back road
to take you and friends somewhere fast
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and to do it fun. Yes, today AutoLooks is
gonna be taking a look
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at the performance SUV marketplace.
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So like I said in the beginning,
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performance CUVs or
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SUVs as a lot of people call them.
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Yeah, they do exist. And one of the early
incarnations that we saw goes
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all the way back to the 1990s when the CUV
marketplace really started coming
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out of the woodwork. And that was in the
luxury marketplace.
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Naturally. Now you could go back and talk
about utility and big off-road vehicles.
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Having performance products added to them.
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Yeah, we all know about that, but they're
built for hardcore off-roading.
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We're talking about something for speed on
the road and dirt tracks,
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kinda like active sports cars.
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The ASCs, you've probably seen them,
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the Gallardo Sterrato or the Porsche
Dakar.
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We're talking about off-road sports cars.
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Now these are
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four door beast, something that you go and
pick up groceries.
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You drop off your kids at school,
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you drive to work, and you bring it home.
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This is something that goes from the
garage to a parking lot,
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no matter what time of year it is.
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And there are vehicles owned by mostly
elites,
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but this marketplace is starting to change
now.
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We're starting to see more companies get
into the performance aftermarket.
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industry we're talking about street rods
you know you got your Shelby Mustangs
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yes companies like Shelby Hennessy
Lingenfelter they all build versions
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of some of these vehicles that we're gonna
talking about but we're talking about
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factory backed vehicles products that can
actually be sold in mainland China
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now if you didn't know this mainland China
does not allow aftermarket modifications
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to vehicles
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Outside of what?
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Vehicle manufacturer will allow on the
vehicle.
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So you can't just order a body kit from
Japan and put it on your Geely.
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No. It has to be factory backed and
warranty approved products straight from
Geely
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to go onto there. Hell Brabus can't even
sell vehicles in China.
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They've had to team up with companies like
Geely to make sure that they
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can get into there.
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Now, you won't really find something like
a Hennessy Velociraptor cruising around
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in mainland China because it's an
aftermarket vehicle not supplied
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by Ford Motor Company. But you will find
some of these.
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One of the earliest ones that you really
saw for an aftermarket utility vehicle,
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well crossover utility, or sport utility
vehicle,
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whatever you want call them, would be the
BMW X5.
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Yeah.
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The X5. Mercedes had created the M-Class
and they created it into the
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mid to late nineties. Well BMW couldn't
just watch them go it alone and said,
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This is a growing marketplace.
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The crossover utility marketplace or sport
utility marketplace is growing
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and we need to get into this marketplace.
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And get our vehicles out there.
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But why? Why do we need to do that?
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Well, they needed to do that.
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they needed to pick up the market share
from this SUV marketplace.
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With the introduction of the X5,
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eventually came the X5M.
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But that only came to be when BMW created
one of the first Coupe profile crossover
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utility vehicles, the X6.
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Now the X6 was built for a new burgeoning
marketplace.
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People were getting out of sedans and
getting into crossover utility vehicles,
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but they still wanted something to kind of
be like a sedan.
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So the ALV started hit the marketplace.
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And you know, BMW, they can't just allow
something like that to come out.
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No, they have to go out and build a
performance variation of it from their
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own in-house ~ brand. And they did that
with the original X6.
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and with that they gave birth to the
performance SUV marketplace.
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Yeah, that i it it's an amazingly big
vehicle that everybody wants
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and everybody likes to drive. I remember
seeing the first one in my home city
flying
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around downtown and the guy driving it is
just like this is fun.
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You know, it it's like driving a five
series
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But when the pavement runs out,
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as we all know in my home city is full of
potholes and rough roads
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and back roads and gravel roads.
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And when you're going to your camp way out
in the middle of the bush,
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you don't want to be going out there in
your 5 series.
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If the road gets washed out, you're
screwed.
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So you want something like this X6M or an
X5M.
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You want something performance oriented.
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Because you want a driver's car.
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or in this case, a driver utility vehicle
to go where you need it to go.
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People didn't just want these products
because you know somebody slapped
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an M badge on it. No, they created that
appeal of performance within
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the utility marketplace.
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BMW essentially gave birth to that.
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But you know, Volkswagen Group couldn't
just sit back and watch this all go
around.
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Like Mercedes, yeah, they they started
playing around the idea of putting
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AMG labels onto their CUV market products
to go up against BMW.
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But Volkswagen had an even better idea.
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Volkswagen said, we're gonna go one step
above that.
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Mercedes can create the luxury utility
vehicle,
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and BMW can create the performance utility
vehicle.
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Then we could create a sports car to go
off-roading in.
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It's not gonna be an active sports car.
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No, it's gonna be one you could haul your
whole family around in.
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And we're gonna throw on our GTS badges to
create more power
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and more performance out of this bad boy
so you can have even more fun.
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Fun while you're cruising down the
highway.
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We'll create active suspension systems.
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So the vehicle will actually lower and
rise for the environment it's going
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to be driving on. It lowers for the road
to give you better coefficient
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of drag to stick you to that pavement
better.
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But when the need for off-roading is
there,
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the power doesn't disappear, but the
ground clearance exceeds what you just
had.
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And Volkswagen Group gave birth to the
original sports car
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for the off-road marketplace, the Porsche
Cayenne.
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One amazing product. And the funniest
thing,
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if you go back and do a little history
about the Porsche Cayenne,
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the original designer of it was gifted one
by Porsche.
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They said, Yeah, you can have one.
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Less than a year later, he went back to
the company,
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gave them the keys, and said, you can have
it back.
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It's no longer.
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an amazing product to have. Like it it's
great,
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it's powerful, it's fun, it makes me feel
like I'm driving a 911 that I
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can fit my whole family and groceries in
and go skiing.
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Why did he give it back? Because there
were so many of them out there.
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He got tired of going to the grocery store
with his original Porsche Cayenne
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and seeing another eight of them in the
parking lot.
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No, I I want something different.
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Something unique.
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Funny thing is, with standard Volkswagen
mentality,
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the Cayenne came out. But it also bred two
siblings:
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the Audi Q7 and the Volkswagen Touareg.
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Now, Volkswagen does like to get into
their GTI labeling,
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but they didn't do this with the Touareg.
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With the first generation, even the second
generation,
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sports really wasn't brought into play.
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They didn't add any performance products
to it.
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But eventually they did add the
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R label to it, give it a little bit more
power and a bit better handling.
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Now it wasn't a full-scale performance
SUV,
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it was more of a sport appeal product,
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but it still gave you illusion of that.
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But the reason why Volkswagen didn't do
that is because they
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had the Porsche product. You want
performance and you want to go off-road
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and you want to feel like you're driving a
sports car while hauling your family
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and all your luggage around. Buy a
Porsche.
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You want something a little bit more
luxurious?
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With that same feeling as the Porsche,
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but not as much power by the Audi.
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They didn't want to fully get into.
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They didn't want to commit performance to
their entire CUV lineup.
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But by this time, a war was starting to
brew.
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And you know in America, people love
power.
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And Chevrolet started adding the SS label.
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All kinds of things. And they created the
SS Trailblazer.
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Well, you know, who can't just sit back
and watch this happen?
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Ford added a sport appeal package to it.
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They had their tremor and their trail pack
editions.
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Like it was boring. Ford never really got
into it.
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They tried to create an ST variation of
the Explorer,
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but it failed miserably. It was literally
a sport appeal package.
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There was no performance about this bad
boy whatsoever besides its image.
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So Chevrolet thought they had it with the
Trailblazer.
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But like all things that GM or Ford has
done,
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Chrysler Corporation, or at that point,
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Daimler Chrysler, couldn't sit back and
watch their products get pummeled
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by the competition when they
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Own the original company who built full
scale off-road vehicles and
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now builds both utility vehicles and
crossover utility vehicles.
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Jeep couldn't sit back and watch this go
away.
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They needed to get into this. And they
decided to push through and create their
Jeep
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Trackhawk model. Huh. A performance
oriented.
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SRT variation of a Jeep Grand Cherokee
built for one sole purpose
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to crush the competition into performance
wars while also doing it
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at a decent price. You can get a Grand
Cherokee SRT 8 or later on
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the Trackhawk for less than you can buy a
Porsche Cayenne.
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And by the time the SRT came out,
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everybody else was starting to get in.
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X6M was out.
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Audi had created the Q8. By now they had
the RS Q8.
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And with the arrival of the Q8,
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also came the ultimate performance utility
vehicle known to the globe.
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The Lamborghini Urus. Now you could fight
with me about this and
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say the Ferrari Purosangue.
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Is it but the Ferrari Purosangue is
essentially if you listen to
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our podcast about Ferrari's GT models,
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essentially the Purosangue is just a brand
new Ferrari FF with fully integrated
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rear doors, so it still gives you the
appeal of a two-door grand tourer,
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but
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has two extra functional doors,
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which actually isn't the very first
four-door Ferrari in history.
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Go back and listen to our Ferrari GT
podcast,
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and you'll learn about some of the other
products that Ferrari
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has actually created with four doors in
its history.
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Hell it even had a wagon at one point in
time.
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Very little numbers, but they do exist.
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Now why do we consider the Urus the bread
and butter of the performance world when
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it comes to utility? Well, essentially the
Urus was the Huracan for the off-road.
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Now we get it, we have the Huracan
Sterrato.
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But you can only fit one other person in
it with you.
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With her Urus, you can actually go and
pick up your whole family.
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The only problem with the Urus is it
should have done similar to what Ferrari
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did and hid the rear door handle,
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similar to that of the Nissan Juke.
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Now, if you didn't know this, Nissan
started bringing down the budget
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on some of these big performance utility
vehicles for the world.
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When they released in 2016, their Nissan
Juke R600 become one of
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the most powerful four-cylinder utility
vehicles ever into production.
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With the only other thing that ever came
close to it being the GMC Typhoon from
back
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in 1992. Now, if you listen to our podcast
about GM performance products,
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you'll learn a little bit more about the
Typhoon.
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We also have our podcast, Syclone Typhoon.
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Which talks about both of those products.
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Now, that was the original introduction of
the Performance SUV to the world.
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Yes, the Typhoon holds that title.
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But being sold only for two years,
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it really couldn't stick it out and make
it into its own.
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BMW did that with the X5 and the X six.
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And then Jeep built it stronger,
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as Jeep built something more powerful than
Range Rover could do.
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There we backed off. We went all the way
back down to Nissan.
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Hell, even Abarth today is now doing the
FIAT 500Xs
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as the Abarth 600, a full scale
performance-oriented
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entry-level CUV .
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There. We're taking utility to the next
level.
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Similar to that of the big three in the
late 90s and early 2000s,
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when we had the SVT Lightning,
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the SS Silverado, and the king of the
performance truck world,
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the SRT 10 RAM,
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which dominates and still holds a record
for the fastest production truck.
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Straight from the factory.
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Hundred and seventy eight miles per hour.
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This will kill all and decimate anyone who
comes in your way.
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If we order you overnight parts from
Japan.
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Why do I throw that little Fast and
Furious thing into there?
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It's because the original GMC Typhoon,
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if you didn't know this, ran with a
Mitsubishi turbo.
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So
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What Jesse stated was true. Overnight
parts from Japan is what the typhoon had.
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So the original conception was Japanese
American.
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The funny thing is, is the Japanese never
really got into
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the performance utility marketplace.
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You can fight with me and say there's TRD
versions.
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There's Nismo versions. But Nismo today is
not what Nismo was 20 years ago.
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Twenty years ago, a Nismo label meant high
performance and fully set
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up for track purposes. Today, it's
essentially just a sport appeal badge.
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Sure, there's a little bit more
performance to it,
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and the suspension is fine-tuned for
better handling,
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but it's not to the scale that it once
was.
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Same with the ~ M series from BMW,
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AMG, the R.
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Volkswagen or hell even the GTS from
Porsche.
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A lot of them really don't make much
sense.
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Then we get it. Lamborghini decided to up
the ante to keep
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its top-tier utility marketplace to
itself.
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When they created the Urus Performante,
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they did this, and then naturally Audi did
an RS version.
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Because if you didn't know this,
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the Audi Q8 and the Lamborghini Urus is
the exact
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Same platform. It's also the same platform
that underpins the Bentley Bentayga.
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Yes, we get it. Bentley is a high-end
brand built for a very specific clientele.
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And what does it have to do with
performance?
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Well, if you take a look back in its
history,
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Bentley was originally the performance arm
of Rolls-Royce.
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When the two companies were together.
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Before Volkswagen and BMW split them up,
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there was Rolls-Royce for getting you
around and Bentley for getting
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you around quicker. Volkswagen kept with
that,
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except with the Mulsanne, where the
Bentley Bentayga actually gave
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you a sport appeal vibe to it.
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But because it's a Bentley, it's got one
of the biggest engines you could think of.
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It still utilizes
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Big V8s and V10s like the Urus.
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It wants to breathe power down your
throat.
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It may not look like it's supposed to be
big and powerful,
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but it is. It's a performance beast.
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And even though it takes you there in
comfort and style,
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it does it. With true balls deep power.
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That.
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Is the Bentango way?
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How did we really all get here?
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Like we said, we can go back and take a
look at the Typhoon or the X6.
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But during the early days, we're talking
the early 2000s and into
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the early teen years, we started seeing a
lot of companies playing around with
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the performance SUV marketplace.
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Little companies like Spyker, Fornasari,
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and Venturi all played around with this
amazing idea of building.
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These off-road family hauling CUVs Spyker
created the concept of
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the peaking to Paris, which it was a
full-scale ALV,
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but it was built in full Spyker passion.
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Chrome, orange stitched interior,
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and power. It was built to get you there
fast and stylish.
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similar to that of the Bentayga.
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Now Fornasari from Italy builds all kinds
of small tiny little SUVs and sports cars.
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They're not huge marketplace, but they did
create the RR99.
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Which it bought was essentially like a
Porsche cayenne built
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Hell, if you go back, you can take a look
at Eterniti.
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They never really got off the ground,
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but they essentially built a coach-build
version of a Porsche Cayenne done
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up even better. But its only purpose was
for the streets.
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It was a true blood crossover utility
vehicle.
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It wasn't built for soft roading,
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kind of like the Grand Cherokee SRT-8.
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Now I remember looking a few years back,
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I believe it was either Car & Driver or
top gear.
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Did a test between the Cherokee SRT 8 and
the Range Rover Sport SVR.
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And the Range Rover got smoked by the
Grand Cherokee
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in every on-road test. But why?
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Because the Range Rover was actually still
built for off-road capabilities.
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The SVR dominated the Grand Cherokee on
the off-road capabilities.
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Which is funny because Jeep is slowly
dominating over top of Range Rover,
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considering the fact that it's big
behemoth,
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the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer,
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can actually still go off-road.
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Even though most people will never take it
further than a dirt road.
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It is built for off-road, but not built
for the same scale that Grand Cheroke's
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are for.
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Yes, Range Rover beat it off road,
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but Jeep won the battle on road.
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But not unlike one of the most powerful
American utility vehicles ever built,
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the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat.
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A vehicle that was supposed to end the
production of the Durango.
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Unfortunately, the electric vehicle Craze
came in,
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and a previous CEO decided to get rid of
the power unit.
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Last-minute ditch after he was kicked out,
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well not essentially kicked out,
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but left, as he says.
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The Durango managed to keep itself going
for a few more years.
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The SRT Hellcat Durango became the most
powerful CUV out of America.
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It competes in power along the same lines
as the Bentley Bentayga
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and the Lamborghini Urus. Sure,
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it can't compete on-road with the same
capabilities as the Ferrari Purosangue,
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you'd have to go to Jeep Grand Cherokee
Trackhawk for that.
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But
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It does throw down.
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just like the Hellcat Demon Challenger.
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And that vehicle was built for the
Dragstrip,
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but they had the ability to drive the
road.
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The SRT Hellcat Durango was built for the
road,
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but had the power to go to the drag strip.
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They wanted you to take these products
out.
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Companies build these products so that you
will use them.
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A little company called Local Motors built
a rally fighter.
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Now, this thing kind of borderlines
between active lifestyle vehicle.
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active sports car and a utility vehicle.
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Now being that it's only two seats
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It would fully classify itself in the
Active Sports Car Marketplace.
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But the reasoning behind the Rally Fighter
was the performance SUV marketplace.
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That is what it was created to go after.
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They wanted it to fight these products
head on.
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Pretty sure if they added an extra two
doors and some more power into it,
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it would have gone.
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And in all reality, active sports cars are
slowly starting to move their way into
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The aftermarket SUV.
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But that's not before a few of them start
coming out.
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The Huracan Sterrato,
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about this how about a company like Draco
in a fight or even Overland building
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essentially vehicles that are across
between active lifestyle vehicles
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and off-road capable
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These are the products.
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That are shaping our future. The
performance-oriented products that we all
want.
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Because in a world today when cars really
don't exist for us,
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we need something powerful, something fun,
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something amazing. And if we can't have
it.
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standard products and we're just gonna
have to get it with some of these other
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car companies. Some of these little
companies like ProDrive and Rezvani
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and Overland are gonna give us
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Performance SUVs that we want.
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Like I said, Ford has never gotten the
formula right.
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Chevrolet, besides cheap RS badges,
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has never gotten back into this field.
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And with the rise of CUVs and ALVs,
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you think more standard product
manufacturers would get into it.
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And now, with the SRT brand set to come
back as an add-on brand for most
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of the Chrysler Corporation products.
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possibility of a brand new SRT track hawk
is just around the corner.
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And it's something that we actually all
look forward to.
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We want products like this because we
don't want to spend the exorbitant amount
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of money to go out and buy something like
a Rezvani Knight.
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or an overland explorer.
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or even a Karlman King ZR. We don't want
to go out and buy stuff like that.
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We know it's going to cost a fortune to go
out and get it.
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And not everybody can get it.
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So in a sense it's almost like we're
destroying another marketplace.
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We're the saloon market. As we talked
about in our very first season,
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Coupe versus Coupe Profile. And how the
coupe profile and sedan slowly killed
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off the coupe marketplace. And now that
the sedan marketplace is dying out,
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then nobody wants to build coupe.
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Coupe SUVs eventually morphed into what we
as know now.
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As the ALV marketplace. Little vehicles
like the Genesis GV60 Magma
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are closer to being an ALV than a C UV.
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Products like the Lamborghini Urus ride
that line as well.
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It has the capability of holding a ton of
people in it,
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but it still has more of a profile that of
a coupe model,
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which puts it in the active lifestyle
vehicle.
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So the performance beasts today are slowly
moving out of the
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SUV marketplace and into the ALV
marketplace.
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But unfortunately, as both of those
marketplaces be get closer
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and closer together and slowly merge to
become one centralized.
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SUV marketplace once again. How will we
keep this alive?
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How will we keep the performance going?
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We all love performance and we all want to
get behind our Mercedes AMG
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GLE or a Cadillac Escalade V. Hell,
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I want to go back and buy a first
generation BMW X6M,
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knowing that they're electrical
nightmares,
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but I just want one because it looks fun,
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it looks powerful, and it's hungry.
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the road. And unlike a car that's you know
like a low-lying Jaguar waiting
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to pounce. This thing is literally full
arms up,
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ready to pounce on you.
449
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Usain Bolt waiting at the start.
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It started moving and it could start up
and get going faster than something closer
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to the ground.
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Performance SUVs are essentially here
because of our love affair with
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the utility marketplace. Right now,
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utility vehicles and crossover utility
vehicles are starting to blow up once
again.
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Sedans may be starting to make a comeback
with the entry-level business.
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But still, until car companies can figure
out how they can manufacture these economy
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entry-level vehicles once again for this
marketplace.
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Everybody else is just gonna be stuck with
performance-oriented crossover utility
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vehicles like Modelista, Nismo
460
00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:32,284
And even Mugen versions of Japanese
products.
461
00:26:32,434 --> 00:26:37,388
Cause really you don't get GR or TRD
performance products for street going
vehicles
462
00:26:37,388 --> 00:26:39,860
from those brands. You can find a few,
463
00:26:39,860 --> 00:26:41,962
but not as many as you would like.
464
00:26:41,962 --> 00:26:44,123
So for the performance variations,
465
00:26:44,123 --> 00:26:47,205
we gotta stick to some of these top bread
and butter vehicles.
466
00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:50,207
The X6, the Cayenne, the GLEs,
467
00:26:50,207 --> 00:26:53,910
and the Urus. Until Jeep gets back to the
ring,
468
00:26:53,910 --> 00:26:55,991
we don't have entry level or even
469
00:26:56,151 --> 00:26:58,623
base entry level for this marketplace.
470
00:26:58,623 --> 00:27:02,596
Nissan once gave it to us with the Juke R
or Joker.
471
00:27:02,596 --> 00:27:03,966
They'll be able to pick up on that one.
472
00:27:03,966 --> 00:27:06,198
Juke R is the Joker. I can't
473
00:27:10,948 --> 00:27:13,870
Do we need performance SUVs? Yes.
474
00:27:13,870 --> 00:27:16,264
Sorry to say, but it's a marketplace that
yes,
475
00:27:16,264 --> 00:27:20,958
we do need it. It's something that's gonna
stick around for a little while before
476
00:27:21,118 --> 00:27:23,719
you know somebody kicks it in the nuts and
tells it to fuck off.
477
00:27:23,719 --> 00:27:27,901
Until that day, we are gonna cruise around
and keep those vehicles going.
478
00:27:27,901 --> 00:27:29,762
Because performance is in our blood.
479
00:27:29,762 --> 00:27:31,203
Whether you're an automotive person.
480
00:27:31,353 --> 00:27:35,285
Or somebody who uses a vehicle just for
going to A and B and that is it,
481
00:27:35,285 --> 00:27:36,916
thinking it's a piece of machinery.
482
00:27:36,916 --> 00:27:39,137
Like I said, at one point in time,
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00:27:39,137 --> 00:27:42,499
you're gonna demand more power out of your
vehicle.
484
00:27:42,499 --> 00:27:44,329
And when it doesn't give it to you,
485
00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:47,201
you're gonna try and figure out how you
can get it.
486
00:27:47,201 --> 00:27:49,052
Well it says I got two hundred horsepower,
487
00:27:49,052 --> 00:27:51,688
but it doesn't feel like I have two
hundred horsepower.
488
00:27:51,688 --> 00:27:53,384
What can I do to make it?
489
00:27:53,534 --> 00:27:58,655
Performance is that way. And performance
SUVs are a way to get there.
490
00:27:58,655 --> 00:28:00,896
Yeah, sure, they kind of cut in the
aftermarket world,
491
00:28:00,896 --> 00:28:07,629
but in all reality, most automotive
consumers are not really mechanically
inclined
492
00:28:07,629 --> 00:28:11,661
to build their own aftermarket products in
their own driveways.
493
00:28:11,661 --> 00:28:14,332
It's not like it was 40 years ago.
494
00:28:14,482 --> 00:28:17,584
is when everybody can tear down and
rebuild everything on your vehicle.
495
00:28:17,584 --> 00:28:19,784
Like the meme says, 40 years ago,
496
00:28:19,784 --> 00:28:23,487
a owner's manual taught you how to
properly gap your spark plugs.
497
00:28:23,487 --> 00:28:25,908
Today they tell you not to drink the
washer fluid.
498
00:28:25,908 --> 00:28:31,552
And that is the main reason why we have
production value performance SUV.
499
00:28:31,702 --> 00:28:33,163
So if you like this podcast, we like,
500
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share, or comment about it on any major
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501
00:28:35,936 --> 00:28:37,877
you found the AutoLooks podcast on.
502
00:28:37,877 --> 00:28:40,579
Like us, share us, comment about us.
503
00:28:40,579 --> 00:28:42,191
And tell your friends, tell your family,
504
00:28:42,191 --> 00:28:44,692
tell your enemies, tell your coworkers,
505
00:28:44,692 --> 00:28:49,106
tell your boss. And ask them what
performance SUVs they've owned in their
time.
506
00:28:49,106 --> 00:28:53,269
Did your boss come to work back in the day
in a BMW X6M?
507
00:28:53,269 --> 00:28:55,901
Hell did they even have a new variation of
it?
508
00:28:56,051 --> 00:28:58,863
Or now did they upgrade to a Lamborghini
Urus?
509
00:28:58,863 --> 00:29:02,236
Huh. You thought you just got your own
utility vehicle,
510
00:29:02,236 --> 00:29:06,329
but no, you bought a Balls deep
performance utility vehicle.
511
00:29:06,329 --> 00:29:09,231
You don't buy the Urus because you want
utility.
512
00:29:09,231 --> 00:29:12,033
You buy the Urus because you want power.
513
00:29:12,033 --> 00:29:13,834
So find out who's got some of these
things.
514
00:29:13,834 --> 00:29:16,666
Maybe somebody you know has owned a
typhoon back in the day or one
515
00:29:16,666 --> 00:29:20,329
of those Nissan Juke Rs. And maybe they
were the one person that
516
00:29:20,329 --> 00:29:21,700
got that personalized license plate.
517
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:22,700
Joker.
518
00:29:23,181 --> 00:29:24,632
And after that, stop by the website,
519
00:29:24,632 --> 00:29:26,132
read some of the reviews, check out some
of the ratings,
520
00:29:26,132 --> 00:29:27,413
go to the Corporate Links website page,
521
00:29:27,413 --> 00:29:28,493
big or small. We have them all.
522
00:29:28,493 --> 00:29:30,054
Car companies from around the globe,
523
00:29:30,054 --> 00:29:32,088
all available on one direct location.
524
00:29:32,088 --> 00:29:35,289
That is the AutoLooks.net website.
525
00:29:35,289 --> 00:29:39,061
And while there, check out our new link
for the AutoLooks Garages.
526
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Build and create your own automotive
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527
00:29:42,472 --> 00:29:45,913
And while there, it'll build you your own
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528
00:29:46,063 --> 00:29:47,084
And if you have issues with it,
529
00:29:47,084 --> 00:29:48,665
go back to the AutoLooks website,
530
00:29:48,665 --> 00:29:51,538
tell us some of the issues that you may be
having with this.
531
00:29:51,538 --> 00:29:56,612
Gotta remember, we're only in beta testing
phase to get people interested
532
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in the full application before we roll
this thing out within the next month.
533
00:30:01,916 --> 00:30:04,979
By 2027, Garages is gonna be going good.
534
00:30:04,979 --> 00:30:07,430
So until then, tell us what you like about
it,
535
00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:08,722
tell us what you need to change,
536
00:30:08,722 --> 00:30:10,542
and tell us at AutoLooks.net.
537
00:30:10,692 --> 00:30:12,953
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and distributed by Podbean.com.
539
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If you'd like to get in touch with us,
540
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send us an email over at email at
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541
00:30:19,295 --> 00:30:22,996
So for myself, Everett J, Ecomm
Entertainment Group,
542
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Podbean.com, and Riverside Studios.
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Strap yourself in for this one fun wild
ride.
544
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That performance SUVs are gonna take us
on.