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    Automotive

    The Carmudgeon Show

    Part of the Hagerty Podcast Network, the Carmudgeon Show is a comedic, information-filled conversation with Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott, two car enthusiasts who are curmudgeonly beyond their years. Proving you don’t have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about what’s wrong with various parts of the automotive universe. Despite their best efforts to keep it negative, they usually wind up laughing, happy, and extolling their love for cars. Which just makes them angrier and more bitter.

    Jason Cammisa is an automotive journalist, social-media figure, and TV host with over 300 million views on YouTube alone. Jason’s deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest what’s going on within an automobile — and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Master’s Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with.

    Derek Tam-Scott still tries. He’s a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering — which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving and brokering classic and exotic cars, he’s experienced the world’s most iconic cars. And hated most of them.

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    Sreten from @M539Restorations and E60 M5 — Carmudgeon Show Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep. 159 Aug 19, 2024
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    In this episode, Jason and Derek interview Sreten, a friend and YouTuber who stars in his channel M539 Restorations. Sreten bought a salvaged, rare 6-speed manual-transmission E60 BMW M5 — and resurrected it to attend Monterey Car Week.


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    M539 Restorations specializes in resurrecting abandoned and neglected BMWs from around the world. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Serbian-born Sreten creates entertaining videos where he approaches huge repairs without ever skimping on anything.


    This time, on his honeymoon, Sreten bought a salvaged E60 M5 that was located in Fresno, California — and Jason had it shipped to his warehouse. Sreten sent boxes of parts, and showed up a week before Car Week and started the process of getting the E60 running again.


    If you've now seen Sreten's posts, you'll know he performed a miracle (or got incredibly lucky with a really nice E60) and the car runs again. But that all happened after we recorded this episode.


    Get to know the real Sreten. And why he loves the S85 V-10 and the E60 5-series in which it's installed.

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    Bad Mechanics Leave a Lasting Legacy — The Carmudgeon Show Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 158 Aug 12, 2024
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    Jason just solved a nagging problem on his car that he paid to have fixed 26 years ago. Turns out, the mechanic charged him for a repair he didn't make.


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    Jason just solved a nagging problem on his car that he paid to have fixed 26 years ago. Turns out, the mechanic charged him for a repair he didn't make.


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    It's well known that Jason Cammisa's Volkswagen Scirocco 16V is his favorite car. What's not so well-known is that he hit a curb while driving it back in the late 1990s, and bent a control arm.


    After saving for over a year, he finally had the money to replace the arm, and commissioned a local repair shop to perform the work. The Scirocco came back from the alignment shop with bad news: Installing the new control arm didn't put there wheel back where it belonged. The Scirocco's frame was bent.


    After living with the guilt of having damaged his favorite toy for more than a quarter-century, Jason finally got up the gumption (and money) to have the car's frame straightened.


    The frame shop had some interesting news: there was nothing wrong with the car — the control arm was merely bent.


    Turns out the shop that charged Young Jason to replace the arm... didn't. And last week, Jason finally replaced it himself, solving a decades-long alignment issue.


    This made Jason think about his first three bad experiences as a young man with a VW shop (who tried to charge him near as much in diagnostics than he'd paid for the whole car for a simple bad ground wire) a VW dealer who disconnected his headlights and tried to extort him out of hundreds... and the aforementioned shop — all of whom are responsible for encouraging Jason to do all the work on his cars himself.


    Derek has a similar story about a local mechanic to tried to charge him $4500 for a simple ignition coil.


    Fun times.

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    The E31 BMW 850CSi and other 8-series — The Carmudgeon Show Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 157 Aug 05, 2024
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    E31 Syndrome: The explanation of why the E31 8-series is widely regarded as a beautiful failure. This is the full history of the BMW 850i, 850Ci, 850CSi, and 840Ci.


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    The BMW 850i had the first post-war German V12. It made 300 hp and was installed in a pillarless, Ferrari-esque coupe almost universally praised for its beauty.


    After its debut at the 1989 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show, its first 3 years of production were sold out. But many of those orders were cancelled once the press got a hold of the 850i.


    Was it a bad car? In no way. The problem was that its Ferrari looks were married to an uninspired driving experience. The E31 had been conceived by BMW's R&D department (not its marketing department) as a rolling showpiece for its capabilities. And so BMW's priorities were perhaps not in line with market expectations.


    In other words: E31 Syndrome. A car that looks one way but drives differently.


    The discrepancy was solved when BMW's Motorsport Division made an M8 out of the 850i... but the marketing issue remained because BMW didn't badge it an M8. It was called 850CSi, which wasn't enough of a differentiator. And was made worse because the 850i was renamed 850Ci for no explicable reason.


    The 850CSi was a success — it landed to rave reviews, and sold out almost immediately. But its lack of M Badging has cost it enthusiast recognition. Even though it's a full M car with a WBS VIN prefix and the same treatment that the E36 got becoming an M3 out of a 325i.


    Learn all about this car on this episode of the Carmudgeon Show — a part of the Hagerty Podcast Network.

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    Cars: Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 156 Jul 30, 2024
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    Single-brand car fans don't know what they're missing. Mark Twain once wrote that “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." The sentiment holds true for cars, too.


    **SORRY FOR BEING A DAY LATE, FOLKS!**


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    In this episode, the Carmudgeons proceed to rip into one of their friends — light-heartedly. It all started when GG brought his R129 Mercedes 500SL to a shoot involving Jason's E31 850 CSI, and the two started a mock-argument about which car was better.


    Anthony Esposito, our favorite cinematographer, said GG's Mercedes-fanboyism reminded him of the Twain quote. In fact, GG's automotive tastes are actually quite well-rounded, but the experience served as the perfect impetus for a conversation about car fans who only experience one brand, or one marque, or one era, or one type of car.


    Turns out that nearly every car Jason and Derek have experienced has created fascination and interest in something they didn't previously know enough about to be interested.


    Travel — i.e. experiencing new things — often creates unforeseeable interest in people and places you'd never have realized you were interested in.


    So, umm, Never Stop Driving... new-to-you cars!

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    Insights on Your Car's Future Value — The Carmudgeon Show w Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 155 Jul 22, 2024
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    The enthusiast car market has cooled — which likely benefits you.


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    This episode is the Tales of a Used Car Salesman, Derek Tam-Scott Edition! Derek spends his professional (and personal) life selling enthusiast and collectible cars, and he's noticed some major changes in the market.


    The bottom hasn't fallen out, he says, but the market has become more rational — which means transaction prices seem to make sense. Even if that transaction price is $117,600 for a Laguna Seca Blue E46 M3.


    Because Derek has a rational explanation for the record-breaking six-figure E46 M3 he sold last month.


    All this insight and more, with a dose of comedy.

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    America's Most Powerful Cars Ever — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 154 Jul 15, 2024
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    Do we love fast cars? Or is the experience more important than the speed?


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    Get some behind-the-scenes of Jason's Ultimate Drag Race Replay episode racing the two most powerful American cars of all time: the 1234-hp Lucid Air Sapphire and the 1025-hp Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170.


    Jason's episode raced the cars both on regular asphalt and then on a VHT-prepped race surface at the Famoso Drag Strip.


    Are the Carmudgeons impressed? We'll find out — in a discussion about whether the faster engine option is the better choice.


    Is it speed we love? Or are we looking for experience? In that latter case, electric sports cars like the Rimac Nevera might be in trouble. And it might explain why Bugatti-Rimac's latest car uses a combustion engine.


    This, and more, on this episode of the Carmudgeon Show.

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    The Automotive 4-Letter Word — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 153 Jul 08, 2024
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    Oh, truck it, let's say the word! Nobody likes the word "hybrid" but adding electric assist to combustion engines really can pave a way forward, especially for long-haul trucking.


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    This week, Derek and Jason have an experience at Sonoma Raceway with Range Energy, a company focusing on hybridizing long-haul trucking. It's an ingenious solution to the problem of reducing emissions and fuel consumption, without needing to throw away existing diesel tractors.


    And while they were there, they take Jason's e-Golf on the race track. Because, stupid.


    But the idea of electricity helping combustion engines is what propelled Porsche to install a hybrid system on the 992.2 911 GTS. Learn how that system works in our discussion — including a chart of engine response of the last 3.0-liter twin-turbo six that debuted 991.2 Carrera versus naturally aspirated engines.


    Also, Derek drives a Lucid Sapphire around Sonoma Raceway.

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    Crazy Hybrids Are The New Normal — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 152 Jul 01, 2024
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    It's not just Bugatti — we're seeing a shift away from pedestrian turbocharged engines and toward hybrids with an amazing engine as the centerpiece.


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    There's a bunch of amazing stuff coming — but sadly nothing for enthusiasts who don't have unlimited funds.


    Lamborghini has two new powertrains: a hybrid V-12 for the Revuelto and a 10,000-rpm V-8 for the Huracan replacement. Aston is developing a new V-12. The GMA T.50 and T.30 and Aston Valkyrie use a Cosworth V-12; the Bugatti Tourbillon uses a 9500-rpm Cosworth V-16. The Porsche 992.2 GTS uses an amazing hybrid turbocharged 3.6-liter flat-six.


    What's happening in the car market? First, there's a discussion of who buys new cars? How old are car buyers? And how old is the average car on the road?


    And why Hybrids all of a sudden?


    What's happening is that manufacturers are realizing that a high-revving, vocal combustion engine is what customers want. And a plug-in hybrid system allows this to happen while passing emissions legislation.


    All this and more in a very, very curmudgeonly episode of the Carmudgeon Show.

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    Signs You Might Be A Bad Driver! — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 151 Jun 24, 2024
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    Let's have some fun coming up with a list of things that other drivers do that piss you off! Make sure to comment below!


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    In this episode, Jason prompts Derek to come up with a list of 5 Signs You Might Be a Bad Driver.


    Derek came up with one. Jason came up with a Biblical List of Driving Crimes, including:


    1. If you're not angry, you're probably the problem.

    2. If people are mad at you, you might be a bad driver.

    3. If people are mad at you, and you don't know why, you're DEFINITELY a bad driver.

    4. If you don't know the rules, you're a bad driver.

    5. If you don't pull over to let people pass on a California road, you're a bad driver.

    6. If you don't (always) use turn signals, you're a bad driver.

    7. If your passengers can feel your lane changes, you're a bad driver.

    8. If you don't use vehicular body language, you're a bad driver.

    9. If your passengers' heads are bobbing around from your control inputs, you are a bad driver.

    10. If you have worn out a clutch, you're probably a bad driver. (There are exceptions.)

    11. If you hold a phone while driving, you're a bad driver.

    12. If you don't rev-match, you're probably not a good driver.

    13. If you don't double-clutch into 1st... you know the drill.

    14. If you don't warm up your car, guess what? Bad driver.

    15. If you don't hold the steering wheel at 9:00 or 3:00 (or anywhere not 180º apart) you're definitely a bad driver.

    16. If you drink and drive, Jason has no respect for you and hopes you get arrested before you hurt someone else. If you hurt yourself, good.

    17. You don't know why the ESP or Traction Control light is flashing, you are a bad driver.

    18. If you haven't read your owner's manual, you might be a bad driver.

    19. If you don't understand the Zipper Merge, you're not just a bad driver, you're a c-word.

    20. If you break the law for the convenience of others, you're a bad driver.

    21. If you don't care that you're inconveniencing someone else, you're a bad driver.

    22. If you speed up when being passed, you're guilty of attempted murder.


    And finally,

    23. If you are the host of the Carmudgeon Show, you're definitely a bad driver. :)


    Let us know what we forgot to include!

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    Rivian R1T & R1S 2nd-gen Review — The Carmudgeon Show w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 150 Jun 17, 2024
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    There's a new set of Rivian twins on the market, but most of updates on the R1T and R1S are under the skin. But they're very significant!


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    This episode is sponsored by Vyper Industrial — America’s #1 rated shop chair, tool carts, and creepers, proudly made here in the US. Go to https://www.vyperindustrial.com/ and use code HAGERTY for $50 off on all your order!


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    The new R1T and R1S feature new batteries, new motors, a new electrical architecture, new lighting, and new substantive updates to the interior — Jason flew to Washington to drive them on and off-road.


    The new R1 includes infotainment updates that includes Apple Music — but still no Apple CarPlay, which Jason finds to be a wart on an otherwise near-perfect machine.


    The other wart is the ride quality — it's still fantastic off-road, and it's better, but it's not up to the level of greatness attained by the rest of the vehicle.


    The quad-motor variant rips off a face-melting 2.5-second 0-60 and 10.5 @ 130 mph in the quarter mile — which is impressive. But necessary?


    Of course, the Carmudgeons spend some time insulting Subaru drivers (admitting that their experience with slow Subarus might be a San Francisco Bay Area phenomenon) but looking at some national statistics that show that Subaru drivers are the worst of any passenger-car brand.


    And of course, they address people comparing their previous Waymo self-driving robotaxi episode experience to Tesla's Full Self Driving. They're not even remotely close.


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