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NEW Charger - The Rivian R2/R3/R3X - Car of the WEEK & More! Podcast #2
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Jul 22, 2024
In today’s podcast, we cover news around the All-New Dodge Charger, the new Rivian R2, R3, and R3X, the announcement of pricing for the Hyundai Ionia 5 N, and, of course, the new Porsche Taycan GT. I then discuss my car of the week, verse of the week, and what is happening in my world.
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The all new Dodge Charger, the all new Rivian R2 and R3. Will Apple buy Rivian? Hyundai finally
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releases pricing on the new Hyundai Ioniq 5N. And of course, Porsche announces a new highest end
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version of the Taycan. We're going to be talking about all those things and more in today's
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podcast. All right, so let's go ahead and kick things off by talking about the news from the
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past week. And I think the biggest thing from this past week is that Dodge finally announced the new
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Dodge Charger. And there were a couple surprises in there. What wasn't a surprise is that this does
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have an EV version. However, a surprise was that the gas version is also going to be available
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Every single one of the models is going to be all wheel drive only. Right now, there are no
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plans for rear wheel drive version. And then of course, there is not going to be a Hemi
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One of the biggest surprises to me is the fact that there's going to be a two door and a four
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door version of this vehicle. Interestingly enough, to make that happen, the body of both
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versions is almost identical with the two door having a little bit longer front doors and
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obviously no rear doors in the four door version essentially moving the B pillar further forward
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giving you shorter front doors, but giving you the practicality of having rear doors as well
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It's an interesting way of doing it. Now as for the powertrains, there is going to be the
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gas version is going to be coming in form of an inline six turbocharged hurricane motor. We've
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been seeing that engine in the Jeep Wagoneer of which I recently reviewed. And right now it's
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going to be coming out in either a 420 horsepower or a 550 horsepower version. But right now we
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don't have any zero to 60 times on those. As for the EV version, they're calling it the Charger
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Daytona in the Daytona RT with the RT version going up to 670 horsepower. It sounds like the
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EV version is going to be available later this year and it's going to still be a 2024 model year
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vehicle which is interesting considering how far forward a lot of these manufacturers are
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announcing their vehicles. Outside of that one of the weirdest things about the Charger announcement
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was this really strange really long commercial. I don't know if you've seen it yet. However, it's
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just this weird kind of CGI version of where the current CEO of Dodge goes back in time and tries
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to convince the founders of Dodge to like this new electric version of the Charger. It's kind of a
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weird concept and I don't really understand what they were going for there other than maybe just
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getting people to talk about the car which I guess makes sense. But that is the new Dodge Charger
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Make sure to leave down in the comments what you guys think about the new Charger. Is it a good
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replacement for the last generation that had been around since 2005? The next biggest news over the
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past week of course is the fact that Rivian announced the new R2 which we've been expecting
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for a long time is gonna be a much more budget version of the original R1S and they did come
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through with that. Of course it is a midsize SUV. It's gonna come out in 2026 and it's gonna be
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sitting around $45,000 price point and the styling honestly is very very similar to the R1S which is
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the SUV version of the main segment of the cars that they've been selling for a long time. It has
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a 300 mile range and a 0-60 of around 3 seconds. One of the most interesting features is that it
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does have a Rolls Royce like umbrella that you can pull out of the door. Now that all was kind of
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expected. Everyone knew that the R2 was gonna be coming out and a lot of the details had already
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kind of leaked. However what Rivian did a really good job of is keeping their second announcement
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and even third announcement a secret. That would be the R3 and the R3X which is a more compact
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version of the R2. It sits on the same platform but it is a little bit smaller and kind of has a
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hatchback look to it. Now pricing of this smaller SUV is going to start around $37,000 and I think
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it gets up to around $45,000 if you option it completely out. The R3X is the R3 but essentially
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a more performance oriented and kind of off-roady rally car version of it that I actually really
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like the styling of. And I've been reading up on it and it sounds like a lot of the inspiration of
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this vehicle came from a lot of 80s rally cars like the Lancia Delta and the Audi Quattro. As
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for my opinion on these I think these are going to be really really cool SUVs. I think this is
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something that the market has been asking for. Sure EV demand is slowed down like I talked about
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my last podcast. However I think pricing is really starting to come down. These are still
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performance oriented vehicles. I think Rivian makes a fantastic product and I've been a fan
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of them for quite some time now. So I'm really excited to see these come out and I really hope
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they do work. Then one piece of news that I want to add to this is there's some speculation going
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on right now that Rivian might be bought out by Apple. Now there's really no facts going along
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with this however it is an interesting thing to think about because Apple did just announce that
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they're canceling the Apple car and honestly Rivian has a lot of the aesthetics that Apple
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likes and a lot of the simplicity and that kind of stuff that Apple has been a big fan of. So I'll
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be interested to see if Apple uses some of their extra cash to maybe buy Rivian and get into the
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car game that way instead of developing their own platform like they have in the past decade or so
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The next piece of news it just came out earlier this morning when I'm filming and that would be
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the Hyundai Ioniq N is finally getting its pricing and it's a good deal but it's also not
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So they've announced it's going to be around $66,100 to get yourself into a Hyundai Ioniq N
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and that is without shipping charges which I think is around $1,300 but that's not that big of a
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deal. Now of course if you don't know what the Hyundai Ioniq N is it is the performance version
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the N version of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 which I am a big fan of. I think it is just a really really
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cool design vehicle. It's a decent size SUV but has kind of compact vehicle styling. I actually
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saw some people getting into one the other day and it always surprises me how big it is in but
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how small it looks. But some of the things that the new N version gets you is some special features
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basically that allow you to get better track times. So what it does is it basically can set
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the temperature of the battery to better give you 0 to 60 times give you better track times and
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that kind of stuff. It's kind of like warming up your engine but it's warming up a battery instead
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It has specialized regenerative braking, a specialized braking package, and then you can
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even brake with your left foot which is something that's not common in EVs yet. And who can forget
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that it has launch control which with the 641 horsepower that it gets can get you 0 to 60 in
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just 3.25 seconds. I think this is a cool vehicle that I've been waiting for a long time and I'd
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love to get my hands on a review someday. Then the final piece of news before we get into the other
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segments on this podcast is that Porsche just announced a new top tier version of the Porsche
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Taycan which is called the Turbo GT and then the Turbo GT with the Viseok package. Now this is
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starting out at $230,000 which is just crazy money for a vehicle like this. And their goal really is
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to continue to compete with things like the Tesla Model S Plaid as it gets a 0 to 60 in 2.1 seconds
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and has 1019 horsepower followed up by 988 pound foot of torque then has a top speed of 190
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miles per hour. What do you think about the Taycan Turbo GT? It's kind of interesting. I don't know
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if it's something that anybody has really been asking for but it's a pretty cool vehicle. Now
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before we get onto the car of the week I do want to give you guys the bible verse of the week which
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this week it is Matthew 6 19 through 21. And let me read it off to you. Lay not up for yourselves
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treasures upon the earth where moth and rust consume and where thieves break through and
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steal but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rest doth consume
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and where thieves do not break through nor steal for where thy treasure is there thy heart will
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be also. I think this is a really interesting verse for us especially that rest component
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and realizing that about all these really cool cars that we're talking about all the time
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ultimately don't matter and really finding your faith in Jesus is what matters the most. And with
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that let's move on to the car of the week which of course is one of my all-time favorite cars
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and that would be the fifth gen Toyota Celica. I think the Toyota Celica is a fantastic vehicle
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I've been a huge fan of the fifth gen. I've had four of them personally and I'm constantly excited
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to see new ones. I've recently been talking and chatting with somebody recently that has a
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fifth gen Toyota Celica GT4RC and it's just a cool car that I've been watching for a really long
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time. Of course it came in a bunch of different versions. There's the ST which is kind of your
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base version. There's the GT, GTS, the Alltrack, the GT4 which are the same thing depending on
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where in the world you are. And I've always been a really really big fan of these Celicas. They're
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an awesome way to get into a sports car of something that's reliable, easy to drive, fun to
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drive, and easy to fix. I don't know. It's just a car I've always really liked. If you've never looked
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into them I would highly recommend it because it's a car that is just really fun to drive. They may
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not have crazy amounts of horsepower and not crazy amounts of all these different specs but it's just
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very manual vehicle and a ton of fun to drive. I've always really enjoyed them and I continue
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to enjoy them even though I've had even though the first one I think I had when I was like 15 or 16
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years old and ever since then I've just been a big fan of those vehicles and I hope to have one
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here soon maybe being a project on this channel. And then for the last segment in this podcast
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what's going on in my world and I'll be honest it's a lot of this podcast so I am still trying
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to kind of figure out what this podcast is going to look like. I would love to hear from you guys
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down in the comments what you think would make a great thing on this podcast. I'm hoping not only
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to be talking about news and stuff like that like I am in this current podcast but also do
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interviews and learning about people that are car enthusiasts and have awesome cars. I'd love to
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interview them and get their thoughts and what their past is like and finally getting into the
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vehicle that they have now. I'd also love to interview other influencers in the automotive
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segment and that kind of stuff so I'd love to hear who you guys want to hear from not just me but
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other people and other people that own different awesome cars. I'd just love to hear from you guys
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in the comments on what segments and types of people that you would like to hear from on this
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channel. And then of course outside of that I have been writing a ton on readysetrev.com so make
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sure to go check out some of the recent articles just to kind of check out what I have been talking
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about on there. Thank you guys so much for listening to this podcast. I can't wait to talk
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to you guys about what's going on in the past week, next week, and I look forward to talk to
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