Paul drives the new Amarok and Gordie gets a new hobby

You know how the great podcasters always have like a little side hustle, Like so Joe Rogan commentates the UFC. So I've got my little side hustle. I am commentating the cheerleading Championships, the Asian Cheerleading Championships. Why money talks, Baby money talks? Do you know how much of these people paid? And I send their kids to like cheerleading

It's a full on like it's a big deal.

Like how do you are you grading or just commenting.

I'm certainly I'm judging in my head, but I'm not like I'm not a judge or anything like that. I'm like, I'm just on the mic being or like what's up, guys.

But I've made a few mistakes. There was this one.

I don't know if I should say, you know what, I will because I think it's a normal mistake.

Anyway.

I made maybe things where from the lawyer, there's one I had to do where you do like a welcome to country, and when you do like a welcome to country. Right, It's like I'd like to acknowledge elders of uh past, present and emerging emerging.

Right.

So I get up there in front of thousands of people.

And this is the one thing I didn't want to stuff up. I'm like, don't stuff this up.

Out of everything you do today, don't stuff up the welcome to country. Hi everyone, blah blah blah blahlahlah. We'd like to acknowledge those past president and immigrating. Oh my god, these words are coming out of my mouth and I want to keep going, oh my god, oh shit.

And yeah, what was the other one I did?

Oh?

Yeah, so there's it's actually canceled.

Is that what happened?

No? No, no, not yet. So there's one of ours.

Is that like little teams and stuff that obviously come out and they're given like weird names, like you know, it's all got to do with like gemstones and all that sort of stuff.

And these kids.

Come out and they're called the Little Twinkles, right right, So I had to like, welcome, welcome, these these kids out.

Okay, everybody, please, welcome to the stage. The little Twinkies.

Now, now, I had no idea until A lovely bloke came up to me and said, honey, they're called the Twinkles, but don't worry.

I laughed at Twinkies. That was the funniest thing that's happened all day. Anyway, Good job, Darles, keep it up. I obviously had to keep going anyway.

Apologies to the little Twinkies Twinkles if you're.

Listening, Apologies to everyone, Apologies to.

Everyone who was there that day, past president and future, immigrating, emerging whatever.

Anyway.

So I'm also I'm one of the great podcasters with a commentary career.

Oh there you go, there you go.

Former commentary career.

No no, no, no, still be there.

Coming to a city near you, guys, coming up. I forgot where a where a car podcast.

It's called The Driver's Show. It's called Paul and Gordy formerly known.

As formerly known as something else shit a legal action. Okay, So the twenty twenty four Tesla Model three has been updated, or the updates have been coming. It's coming, right, And we're not talking about a software update. We sort of are, but not so much. We're talking is it kind of like a design update. Usually when you get an update to a car it's.

Like a little cool, little add on, little this little that, little something something.

Now they're just taking shit away, like as if this wasn't the most minimalist thing you've ever seen in your life, it's now literally a couple of seats and some wheels.

Yeah, I mean they're talking about removing even more stuff from from these cars and hopefully Paul, Yeah, I just find it remarkable because I think what's happening now with Tesla. They committed early on to not do big styling updates because they were like, no, no, we'll just update the software, the car will never change. Well, unfortunately the rest of the industry does that. People are used to that. They want something different and fresh, and now the Model three

It really recommends looking old. It just looks the same. Do you know That's what? Right?

Not old? Just it looks the same. And I think that's the issue people have here. So yeah, they're in a position now where all of this is starting to look quite dated, and I think they're now falling under the pressure of needing to update these cars and make

We're going to take away the seat belts because we are now using magnets magnet as a future.

So, yeah, it is.

It is a little bit troubling for mine. But yeah, look let's see what happens. Elon Musk is kind of busy at the moment with Twitter, Tesla share price is tanking. It really is a bit of a troubling time for the EV brand.

He's a busy man. He's a busy man.

Do you see when he rolled up to his first aid Twitter, he took the kitchen sink.

Yeah, look, I support what he's doing. All the stuff that's come out since he took over is showing how much censorship there was for the people that the Twitter people didn't like. It was like this lefty council on Twitter. We're like, oh no, no, I don't like that. We're going to shadow ban you. And it's like, well, you can't censor stuff and then claim you never did. So, Yeah, a little bit dodgy, I reckon. Have you ever wanted to go off road in your Lamborghini Hurrican?

Oh yes, Paul, I have funny you should mention that. Tell me Moore, I've got something for you. It's called the Lamborghini Hurrican Stato. Now we need you to say that with an accent because there could be more lawyers involved if you don't Lamborghini Uracan.

Oh shit, that's good. I thought that's good.

There you go.

God, I just got movement.

Yeah.

So this is basically an off road version of the Hurakhan. It was designed to go head to head. Well, I guess kind of with the nine to eleven DAKA. It'll still be powered by naturally asked bread V ten, making almost four hundred and fifty kilowatts of power. Look, I just think the nine to eleven wore it better. I thought the nine to eleven looked way cooler than this, and this just kind of looks a bit. Yeah, yeah, you're not a fan of this.

I quite like it. I reckon it's really cool. But I get what you mean about the nine to eleven. But to me, in some ways, the nine to eleven didn't look like it belong there either, but it has heritage.

They used to have those sort of lifted off road nine to elevens, whereas lifting a lambeo. You're really not going to be able to do too much with this, so I just wonder what the purpose of it is. And it'll be expensive. I think the nine to eleven was like six hundred grand. It'll be a limited edition version, it'll be bloody cool. But I just don't understand the point of these. If you're paying six hundred k for a nine to eleven, you're never going to take it off road.

Yeah.

I love the look at these. I just think it looks bad ass. It looks like something from Mad Max.

I love that they put roof racks on it. That's so funny. Do you imagine little.

Family roadstuff sticking a bloody you know, ladder on there or something?

Yeah, oh god?

Or one of those pods that you use because your bloody, because you're event to have a child, and it accumulates so much shit that you've got to take it up to the caravan.

So we can take your doll's house. Put it in the pod.

You take your kids doll's house? Do you sometimes? Oh? God? Oh? But is that to Geelonglord? Is that proper road trips for long? Otherwise?

I was just going to say, your dad, lady, you were a dad that is under the thumb.

Yeah, that's definitely.

Yeah. I think it looks really cool.

I think it's unexpected to I wasn't expecting them to do this, but you no, neither was I.

So I think it's I think it's kind of cool. I'm beginning to drive it, take a bush.

Bashing and well, yeah, will you drive this?

Do you think give it a fair old high?

If if you want to bring me along, that'd be great. I meet and Trev. That's good.

But you guys go on a little b YD road trip.

Road trip meeting Trev, it'd be great.

You guys can bond and catch up on stuff. Yeah, yes, yeah, we'll go to Berry. There's a there's a donut van in Berry.

Oh yeah, bloody love it? You love it?

Sick your ticker wouldn't love another donut?

Not me. If you're talking about Trevor poor bus Is on death.

When we had a chat to him, I'm pretty sure he had a bottle of Gaviscon just I'm just sitting.

In front of him.

I don't know what that is.

It's it's a reflex stuff. I know because I take it a lot. Ye look.

Verdict on the twenty twenty three Lamborghini Hurakhan Stratator Paul thinks average. I think fucking awesome, except for those. They just look like tacked on lights. Don't do you know what I mean?

That's what they are?

Are they? I don't really know. We'll go down to bocf.

Your father needs to get some lights for the Lamborghini Hurricanes or fucking Storata. Speaking of which, I need to pick up a pack of Long Beach Ultra Mars on the way, please. Craig Craig review time. Are you ready for it?

Yeah? The twenty twenty three Volkswagen Amarok prices start from thirty seven five hundred dollars all the way to eighty eight thousand, seven hundred dollars for the top Spec.

Before on road, Paul went to South Africa and got to drive an immorrok Is that how they say it over there?

That was a they called a Bucky.

I need to drive me Imerok's did? My eyes are beginning?

Honestly, I'm channeling that movie The Power of One. That was a quote from the Power of One.

Dead Dead, My eyes are beginning, Shut up, son.

Yes, we went to Cape Town.

You know.

Actually the funny thing as well, just before we get onto Amrock. You know how the world is trying to go ev and then.

Putting a job.

But yeah, well they're not going to work great in South Africa. Literally, the first night I was there, I was asleep and got up at like four am, sort of bit jet lagged. Go to the loop, flick the lights on. None of the lights were working. I'm like, the fuck is happening here? And all the power was off and I was like, okay, So I went to the bathroom, got back into bed. I thought maybe I'm just hallucinating.

Were you staying in one of your Pavo hotels? This is quite a nice one.

Anyway, six am everything switches back on and I thought, weird dinner that night, we're halfway through the dinner service in the middle of the Cape Town. Cape Town, everything switches off and so these guys have rolling power outages because they can't support the new work over there.

Also, it's like scheduled.

It seemed like it was because the second night in the hotel, the same thing happened. At a certain time, they just killed the power and during the nighttime it just randomly switched off. So now, if you can't even run the lights in your country, how are you meant to run a network of EV's. And I did not see one EV I.

Was that your hotel? Was that just Cape Town? Did it happen in Janni's Big Well, we.

Only transitd but it was just in Cape Town that I noticed this. But I have read that South Africa has a lot of issues with power. But yeah, so look outside of that, Cape Town is absolutely stunning, Like it is an incredible place. So yeah, went over there to driving you Volkswagen Amrock. For those who don't know, this shares a platform with the Ford Ranger.

I feel like it shares a lot with the Ford Ranger.

Well, it's virtually identical with the skin. Mind you on the outside shoulder line down is unique to Amrock, so all the panels and stuff like that. Inside the cabin, they've made a few changes there as well, except they got very shirty. I asked why it doesn't have cup holders under the airvent like my Ranger does. Oh god, and actually when I asked anything to do with the Ford Ranger, they've got very shirty.

So well they would anyway.

So yeah, Look, we drove the V six diesel and the four cylinder off road. There is also a petrol turbocharged petrol version coming to Australia and that shares an engine with the old Focus RS, so that should be good.

Fund.

Oh, they're going to launch in a number of trims, from entry level basy boys stuff all the way through to the top speck which is called the Adventurer that sits on twenty one inch Holloy wheels, big bully. Yeah, so look it drives very.

Sorry, sorry before you get before you get into driving impressions.

What's your vibe on the look? I actually really like it. It looks great in person, especially with the variety of colors. So the blue that the Aventurer comes with is unique to Volkswagen. So they won't offer that on.

It's not a forward blue.

Yeah, it's not a Ford blue ironically, but I quite like the look of that and the whole reason we were in Cape Town for the launches. Amrock will be built in South Africa. Yeah, so they've got a factory there. And look, Volkswagen's thing has always been that it's more premium.

It sort of has a vibe of if you're looking if you're thinking about two different trade's ones in, would you compare that to the Raptor or the wild Track wild Track? Okay, so one's in the wild Track. He's a little bit rugged, a little bit boots boots to the ground kind of guy. This to me seems like the guy, yeah, the form and the guy who or the guy who designed the building, the architect. He's got his tucked in shirt and he doesn't actually really it's not like he's picking shit up.

Yeah, he's like you with.

Your with your Raptor, you're not going to put tools in that card. You're the only tool in that correct. But actually the most important question I do have with this with the Amarok and the top spec on the trade, does it have the penis measuring thing that your card.

Does it does?

Yes, Yeah, Unfortunately it's not long enough, so I think it caps out at a meter and a half.

So yeah, okay, jokes aside, if you had a meter and a half penis, which in your head imagine that you should start an only fans Paul's only fans. But it's just like you with a flaccid penis the whole time, flacid dick falls.

Just on the back of the ranger.

We could just call.

Yeah, you just and you're sitting You're sitting down on the tray, so you've got a little bit of gut hang and your legs.

Are sort of a little bit tree.

The other day about enormous penises you and your wife.

Yeah, are you sure you weren't on you pawn? No, it was actually a documentary. I love that, Hahanan. This is a documentary.

I swear it's narrated by David Attenborough, and this is you whispering into and then the man's giant penis slapped the buttocks.

Sweet some of them were genuinely enormous. Yeah, yeah, so I think it definitely has that sort of professional luxury vibe to it. And they haven't announced pricing yet, but I suspect it is going to be expensive, certainly compared to Rangers, so they keen to see how they price that. Given it is the same car beneath the skin hands off Raptor as well, so Volkswagen won't be able to use the Raptor for any of their stuff, so it'll just be up to basically while track in terms of speck sharing.

Is it a similar technology with a different face.

So the tech it's sink for, but it has a Volkswagen skin on it, and I don't love the Volkswagen set up. So with the Ranger, you know how at the bottom you've got shortcut buttons for the temperature and stuff. This doesn't have that good to go into several menus to get to that, so there's no actual ease. So for example, if you want to put the recycled air on, you have to press climate on the physical button and then go into the climate menu and close the vents,

Us that was eight blokes in the tray with the machine guns.

Well, it was like a little bit weary of it, and it followed us for ages and I missed a turn off that we were meant to take to this little off road area. So I pulled over on the side of the road to do a U turn, and he's pulled in immediately behind me, and I thought, I think we're about to get carjacked here. So I've done a U turn and accelerated away fairly quickly to our next stop, and he followed the whole way. We get to our next stop and then he all of a

Or is it safe?

Yeah?

I don't think it's bad. I don't think it's as bad. I think that feels like a little bit of a horror story.

Yeah, let us know what you think.

Anyway, back to the car, this looks like an expensive, fellow, He just I would prefer the Raptor.

Any day of the week, purely just on looks.

I think the Raptor is going to be significantly more expensive though.

Oh I thought you just said this was more expensive.

No, no, no, no, we don't know pricing yet, but I suspect it'll be more expensive than the equivalent Ranger, right, Yeah, I don't think it'll be more than the Raptor. If it's more than the Raptor, then they've completely lost their minds.

Yeah, and has this got the all the sort of hardware, all the bits and bobs.

Of all the same beneath the skin. The Panamericana model which sits one beneath that top speck I thought was quite nice as well. That kind of tones it down a bit. They use sort of like a crocodile skin looking leather inside the cabin.

Oh god, that is a South African thing.

Ah, So yeah, I quite like that speck as well, and that rides on better wheels too. I've got to say the ride on the Aventurer with the twenty ones is pretty firm, so it's not Model I firm, But you really want to know that your.

Your bum grapes aren't going to be safe?

Yeah wow, but yeah, fun times. I really enjoyed South Africa, really enjoyed driving this, and keen to drive it on Australian roads to see if it performs as well here as it did over in South Africa.

What sort of food do you get in South Africa? Oh?

Look, the problem is you don't really taste South African food. They try and cater for international journalists that are coming through, scare us all. But I love bill Tong. So what's that. It's like a dried, dried meat something like that. Yeah, it's kind of like a jerky yeah really nice.

Sounds like jerky to me.

Yeah, but it tastes very different to that. I've got a lot of spices on it and stuff.

It's sure it was beef. It wasn't like human.

Actually, let me let me check. Ll yeah, beef. I think you can get it in different meats though, but beef Biltong is the one that I've had before. I quite liked it.

Do they have the haptic touch, that bloody annoying haptic touch that needs to do so well?

Yeah?

No, thank goodness. So on the steering wheel, it's all physical buttons. But the complicating thing is because you're sharing a platform coming into the steering wheel or a whole bunch of wires, and each one of those wires corresponds to a button. And because the Volkswagen steering wheel had three or four more buttons than the Ranger one, there's a whole bunch of blank buttons, even on the top spec Amarock model, which I think is a little bit.

Oh that's a bit. How's it going? They could have redone that.

Exactly, so I thought that was a little bit lazy on their part.

I still prefer the Raptor big time, big time everything.

Let's see what the pricing is. I think that'll be the key part.

Anyway, anyone knows anyone, anyone from any REGI A dealerships than when I have helped me out with the Wild Training Ghost, that would be amazing.

So yeah, this will go on sale in Australia March April next year. They reckon that supply will be pretty good. Australia is the biggest market for Amrock globally, so it's a pretty important model for Volkswagen and that should mean that supply is great. So if you are a Ranger Bar at the moment, it couldn't be worth switching to this because you will actually probably get this right on sort of March April instead of having to wait ages, as long as they don't have any supply issues.

So you know, what's a knaff touch on this car?

The little compassy thing on the back, like the fact that they've got something on there.

The compass kind of feels a bit jeep.

It does a bit, doesn't it. Yeah, it's not doing anything. You're not full of anyone. It's like pointing north.

What do you do? Look up in the sky like what? It's just silly. I don't know.

I think it needs something. I would have liked to have seen more sports bars or something on this.

Yeah, I'm just wondering where that compass comes from. It may have been a heritage Volkswagen thing, because I think Aventura is a name that they've used on other vehicles previously. From memory, Oh yeah, amarok Aventuras. It was an old, old one. It looks like it has the compass on it there as well, if I'm not mistaken.

So did you like driving this as much, equal or way less than your current car?

It was different. It was a bit firm for my liking, and the South African roads that we drive on were pretty smooth. So I'll be keen to see what it's like here. I reckon it's going to be firm when it gets here, but we'll see.

I'm hungry. Can we get a beer now? Yes? I think we need twenty. Yeah, well twenty.

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I don't know what that is. It looks I love that. Is that where Paul.

Lives with him and his Latino housemaids?

Sofia Sofia, No, it wasn't it Rosa.

Well, you've got several maids, so it's lost in translation. Nadine Armstrong has dropped into my DMS. Does she ring a bell to you?

Yes? You know who she is.

She's really nice.

She seems lovely. Do you know what?

I think she could be my new Liz Hayes crush.

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