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  • MIKE SPINELLI: Hey, it's Road Testament, I'm Mike Spinelli.

  • This is Leo Parente here with me today.

  • And we are not stopping.

  • We are doing this live, so I don't care what anybody says.

  • LEO PARENTE: Let me buckle in before we go.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Buckle in.

  • You never know what's going to happen here.

  • On Road Testament today, we're talking Geneva Auto Show,

  • where Chris Harris is.

  • Yes, you love Chris Harris.

  • Chris is at the auto show with a camera.

  • And he's doing some stuff.

  • We're going to see that in a little bit.

  • LEO PARENTE: I've ran all the comments.

  • So--

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yes.

  • What comments?

  • That everybody loves Chris Harris?

  • LEO PARENTE: No, everyone loves commenting about Chris

  • Harris stuff.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.

  • Because Chris is awesome.

  • Yes.

  • And you can comment there @drive on Twitter, just so

  • you'll know.

  • We say it every show, but whatever.

  • I mean, just in case you didn't know that, there it is.

  • LEO PARENTE: Blood's pretty much coming out of my ears, I

  • don't know about you guys.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Exactly.

  • LEO PARENTE: Repeat after me, @drive.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: After the Geneva Auto Show stuff, we're

  • going to be talking about sports cars, mid-engine sports

  • cars, and a possible sports car renaissance

  • happening very shortly.

  • LEO PARENTE: I like that.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Cool.

  • So The Geneva Auto Show, what's happening there.

  • And this is happening there.

  • LEO PARENTE: It begs the question "why?" But go ahead,

  • what is that?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • Those Mulsanne-like headlights probably tip you

  • off that it's a Bentley.

  • It's the new Bentley EXP9F SUV.

  • LEO PARENTE: And the F stands for-- not what you think I'm

  • going to say-- what does it stand for?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Falcon.

  • LEO PARENTE: Falcon.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Falcon.

  • You said Falcon?

  • LEO PARENTE: I said Falcon.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: I don't have a Boston

  • accent, so I say Falcon.

  • LEO PARENTE: Why is it that?

  • Why is it Falcon?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, I'm guessing because in the Middle

  • East falconry is something that people do there.

  • And a giant market for this will be the Middle East.

  • LEO PARENTE: There you go.

  • So this is not a car for America.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: I'm sure Americans will buy it.

  • By the way, this is just a prototype for now.

  • We will see something in production.

  • LEO PARENTE: Yeah, [INAUDIBLE] concept.

  • But--

  • MIKE SPINELLI: You know it's gonna, yeah.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • What has it got for an engine, do you know?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, they're talking about either the W12

  • or the new V8 that they're doing, or "wee-8," as they say

  • in Germany.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: But you notice the little interesting

  • turbine-like intakes or are those running lights?

  • I actually don't know.

  • LEO PARENTE: We have no idea.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Because this just came out this morning.

  • Hit the Internet last night I think.

  • But honestly I--

  • LEO PARENTE: What's your point here?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: I don't really have a point.

  • I really want to hear what you guys have to say about a

  • Bentley SUV.

  • I know that hating on SUVs is kind of a cool thing.

  • LEO PARENTE: It seems Volkswagen group is just bent

  • on doing SUVs.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yes.

  • LEO PARENTE: With the Volkswagen stuff, the Porsche

  • stuff, Audi, now this thing.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: I kind of get it.

  • But--

  • MIKE SPINELLI: China, Russia, and the Middle East, big, big,

  • big luxury SUV markets.

  • So emerging markets, a lot of stuff happening.

  • LEO PARENTE: I actually read something about some high net

  • worth guy talking about how when he needs to carry stuff

  • around the neighborhood, park the sports car

  • and drive this stuff.

  • So it may not be for us.

  • But I guess it's for someone.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • And I think it's going to be way up there.

  • LEO PARENTE: Does it look like a Bentley to you?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It looks like a Bentley, sort of, to me.

  • LEO PARENTE: So it fits the family.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It fits the family.

  • I mean, this is gonna be a real high-end SUV, I think.

  • I think this is really going to be maybe the most high-end

  • SUV out there when this is done.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • I'm gonna get the Chinese comments.

  • Because I understand the Chinese love chrome and bling

  • in the cars.

  • And this thing is full of bling.

  • Did you see the tailpipes and the turbo inlets?

  • Oh, my God.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It's pretty flashy.

  • LEO PARENTE: This is home for dinner.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: All right.

  • Next thing from Geneva, the Aventador J.

  • LEO PARENTE: So apparently this is the "let's not be

  • practical" show.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, it's an Aventador.

  • You know, the Geneva show is really all about design and

  • making a statement, being very continental and racy.

  • And here is what Lamborghini did with that.

  • It's basically an Ariel Atom with a 700-horsepower engine.

  • And this sort of carbon fiber meets fiberglass--

  • LEO PARENTE: So catch me up.

  • Is this a one-off or are they gonna sell this?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It's a one-off.

  • And as a matter of fact, it was just sold.

  • $2.8 million this one-off went for.

  • And Lamborghini's not saying who bought it.

  • But somebody did.

  • This guy.

  • LEO PARENTE: Look at that.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Boba Fett.

  • LEO PARENTE: So the point of this was--

  • wow, OK.

  • It's a festival of carbon.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: The point is two things.

  • Right, carbon.

  • So they have this thing called carbon skin on it.

  • It's like carbon fiber.

  • It's an epoxy resin over a weaved carbon skin.

  • LEO PARENTE: Because Lamborghini did some big

  • technical investment in new carbon technology for

  • automotives.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Exactly.

  • So this saves a little bit of weight, obviously.

  • I mean, of course, taking the rest of the

  • body off saves weight.

  • But it's about saving weight.

  • LEO PARENTE: By the way, I think this is the first road

  • car with the swan-neck race car wing attachment.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Ah.

  • So aside from all that, it's also an

  • homage to the 1970 Jota.

  • LEO PARENTE: See, that's why I like Mike Spinelli.

  • Because there's a Google assignment to go connect the

  • dots of that old-school Lamborghini and this

  • new-school--

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, yeah.

  • It was a version of the Miura, I believe.

  • LEO PARENTE: Ooh.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.

  • LEO PARENTE: Cool.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Anyway.

  • So now, Chris Harris from Geneva.

  • Let's see what Chris has to say.

  • Chris, what's up?

  • CHRIS HARRIS: So this is the new Jaguar XF Sportbrake.

  • I think it's a great-looking car, isn't it?

  • How long have we waited for a Jaguar XF that has got an

  • estate boot?

  • Five mil longer than the saloon.

  • 1,675 liters of space with the seats down.

  • Doesn't mean anything to me either.

  • But the fact is, it looks good.

  • But to start with, only comes with diesel engines, two

  • liters and three liters.

  • Pricing?

  • Well, they say in line with current market.

  • So about two to three grand more than a saloon.

  • I don't think Jaguar's going to be able to make enough of

  • these for Europe.

  • Right.

  • Now I know there are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands

  • of people that want this car.

  • It's concept at the moment.

  • It's an Evoque convertible.

  • To me, it's the chocolate [INAUDIBLE]

  • of the automotive world.

  • I don't want a convertible SUV.

  • What's the bloody point?

  • Utterly pointless.

  • In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's an absolute [BEEP]

  • box.

  • So let's go over and look at a proper Land Rover

  • concept, the DC100.

  • This is much more like it.

  • We've seen it around a bit before.

  • It's been doing the rounds of the motor shows for the last

  • year or so.

  • I think it's a cracking concept.

  • It's a new Defender, in essence.

  • But hopefully will spawn multiple platforms, really.

  • So you'll end up with a very utilitarian agricultural car,

  • but also something that's funky and looks cool

  • for being on road.

  • This beats that convertible thing hands down.

  • The thing I love about Geneva is there are cars that before

  • you get here that you're quite apathetic about, the

  • M6 is one of them.

  • For me, two-door M5, don't see the point, really.

  • Because the M5 is more practical and just as fast.

  • The M6 actually looks superb in the flesh.

  • It's a better proportioned car than the saloon.

  • 552 horsepower, the old carbon roof from the previous car.

  • So the center of mass is lower.

  • I think this looks fantastic.

  • And the gold brake calipers, proper bling.

  • OK, Leo.

  • One for you here.

  • This is the new BMW DTM car.

  • I know absolutely nothing about it.

  • I haven't driven it.

  • I can tell you it looks vaguely like a

  • three-series coupe.

  • And I suspect it's gonna be quite good.

  • [INAUDIBLE] great things about Geneva as a motor show.

  • The first of which is that it's actually quite small.

  • So you can get around it without feeling your legs are

  • gonna break off.

  • But I love the fact that not all the people represented are

  • big car manufacturers.

  • Alpina, for example, have been in this space since I first

  • came to this show 14, 15 years ago, occupying the same square

  • meterage with the same wonderful cars.

  • Behind me here, a B5 Biturbo saloon.

  • You probably can't see it, but the green paint on this car is

  • just like liquid.

  • Alpina are on a resurgence in Europe.

  • They've got this car called the D5.

  • It's not quite as potent as an M550D.

  • But I think it's going to be a big sales hit.

  • And the cars just look--

  • they look spot-on.

  • They have ride comfort.

  • I quite want to drive one of these.

  • Oh, dear God.

  • I'm gonna be a bit of a pussy now.

  • Because on the one hand, I want to go onto the Mansory

  • stand and rip the piss out of its ridiculous McLaren MP4-12C

  • and its Lamborghini Aventador.

  • But anyone that blings up cars like this, I think has

  • connections.

  • And I suspect I might go out in a body bag.

  • So I'm gonna stand here now with their PR man about a yard

  • away from me and say I think these cars look fantastic with

  • a big smile on my face and say they're

  • actually complete [BEEP].

  • Oh, look.

  • There's another special edition Fiat 500.

  • Have you worked this out?

  • If you want to have a really unique Fiat 500, just buy a

  • normal one.

  • Because they're the ones that seem to be rarest.

  • 190 Euros for some Maserati shoes.

  • I think on this occasion, no.

  • Of course, when it comes down to it, new cars are a bit

  • boring, aren't they?

  • This is in an original RUF Turbo from the late '70s.

  • About 300 and something horsepower, a load of torque,

  • and an RSR wing on the back of it, in a kind of

  • dark metallic green.

  • I honestly think if you offered me five cars to drive

  • out of this hall today, this would be one of them.

  • It just looks gorgeous.

  • Because I'm a rigorous journalist, I can't even tell

  • you what this Honda design concept's called.

  • But it's absolutely weeny.

  • And it doesn't have a steering wheel.

  • It has a couple of sort-of joystick things.

  • Very, very cool, reminds me of a Beat.

  • I mean, obviously designed to look like a Beat.

  • But stuff that and let's go and look at the NSX

  • concept, come on.

  • And here it is, the new Audi R-- uh, no, no.

  • It's an NSX.

  • Honestly, that was my little joke.

  • But there are elements of Audi R8 in this

  • thing, aren't there?

  • Sleek, low, just build it, would you please, Honda?

  • Because we get quite a lot of this concept nonsense and they

  • never reach the street.

  • This one, it sounds like it's going to reach the street.

  • So we'll lay off for the moment.

  • I'm still a bit too raw to talk about that.

  • Because I drove one for 12 hours yesterday in the snow.

  • So we'll come back to it.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Cool.

  • Thanks, Chris.

  • Next year I am going there.

  • And I'm taking a Morgan roadster.

  • LEO PARENTE: No, next year you're going there and

  • you're taking me.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Me and you in a Morgan roadster?

  • LEO PARENTE: That sounds way too road trip.

  • It's like Ishtar for cars.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Wow.

  • Google Ishtar, right.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • What do you got?

  • What's next?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: So next, I'm gonna show you something.

  • Check this out.

  • LEO PARENTE: This is not a supercar.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: No.

  • It's a Nissan Micra.

  • But what does this car have to do with this car?

  • Take a guess?

  • LEO PARENTE: That's it.

  • That's the end of it?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Oh.

  • Ian gave it away [INAUDIBLE].

  • No, no, no.

  • Leave it.

  • Ian gave it right away, all right.

  • LEO PARENTE: Yeah, but if you hang around with ADD people,

  • you really don't have to wait.

  • OK.

  • So the bottom line is, this is a Chevy Volt with a better

  • look using a Nissan engine from the Micra to energize all

  • the batteries and electricity?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: And the frame of an Evora.

  • LEO PARENTE: And the frame of an Evora.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Stretched two inches.

  • What do you think of that?

  • LEO PARENTE: Wow.

  • Where was Kevin Bacon in that one?

  • Six degrees, you know?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah, yeah.

  • I got it.

  • I bring this up because you had a lot to say about this

  • car recently.

  • LEO PARENTE: Oh, yeah.

  • Well, I was hoping you weren't going to go there.

  • Because no one's mentioned that Red Bull Engineering and

  • Adrian Newey have been involved in this.

  • Or Red Bull Technology, whatever the right term is.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.

  • But it's all UK, by the way.

  • LEO PARENTE: It is UK.

  • And so what you're saying is it's really the collaboration

  • of the engineering side of Nissan Infinity and the Lotus

  • energy recapture technology.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • Also using a little bit of the frame the Evora.

  • Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: And a Micra in the trunk.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: And a Micra in the trunk to drive the thing.

  • So this is something that came out of Geneva today.

  • But we've seen it before.

  • And there were the patent sketches that came out.

  • LEO PARENTE: And it's supposed to be fast.

  • It's supposed to be track quick, not a track car, but

  • just a fast sports car.

  • So isn't that cool that a Micra goes fast?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, 0 to 60 in four seconds, right?

  • 402 horsepower.

  • LEO PARENTE: Lightweight Evora aluminum tub?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Exactly.

  • However, I want to show you what came out last year in

  • Geneva, was the Essence concept.

  • So the Essence was the GT car.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Just as the new Emerge is the sports car, the

  • mid-engine sports car.

  • LEO PARENTE: Obviously, there's no question that

  • Infinity is trying to make a design statement.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: The Emerge is an extension of this fluidic

  • look, the whole brush pen thing.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: But they're moving the technology, not

  • just making pretty cars.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • And we're going to use this as a jumping off point into what

  • we think is going to be a renaissance of mid-engine

  • sports cars.

  • A lot of it is a little bit of greenwashing.

  • Because you're going to see a lot of hybrid stuff

  • mixed in with this.

  • But at the end of the day--

  • LEO PARENTE: Take me on the journey, Michael.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: A lot of new mid-engine stuff coming.

  • Now this one is about Columbus, Ohio, right?

  • So we saw this in Detroit.

  • LEO PARENTE: It's the NSX.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: The NSX.

  • It's a concept.

  • But they've announced that they're going

  • to build it in Ohio.

  • So an American-built supercar for the world market.

  • LEO PARENTE: But it's also the point you're making, this is a

  • collaboration of supercar and green tech.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: Because it's running just like Emerge.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It's right just like Emerge.

  • LEO PARENTE: Electric in the front?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, it's a little bit more

  • complicated, right?

  • So they're using the six-cylinder--

  • 3.5-, 3.7-liter six, right.

  • LEO PARENTE: And the engine is powering the wheels?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: The engine is actually powering the wheels,

  • thank you very much.

  • LEO PARENTE: Unlike Emerge, OK.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Unlike Emerge, which is like the Chevy Volt,

  • a range-extended hybrid, that the only thing powering the

  • wheels are the electric motors.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: This will have electric motors spinning the

  • front wheels.

  • LEO PARENTE: It's the Audi R18 Le Mans car.

  • So you bring that up, but again, we're going to start

  • probably seeing more of these cars on the racetrack.

  • Or cars that have drive trains a lot like these on the

  • racetrack, because of new rules and that stuff that

  • you've been talking about on ShakeDown.

  • LEO PARENTE: Well--

  • and watch me try to play up to the host--

  • because I think that in Europe, as Le Mans goes with

  • this green technology on the race track, and the sporting

  • mindset of Europeans, having supercars that have that green

  • language will be more accepted versus maybe Americans that

  • sometimes seem to be very myopic in our perception of

  • what should and should not be green and racing, or

  • sporting and that.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: If you want to do a sports car, it's got to

  • have some kind of greenwashing on it right now.

  • LEO PARENTE: Well, that seems to be the trend.

  • I mean, Ferrari and the F12 seem to be an exception.

  • But even they talk about less carbon, more efficient,

  • lighter weight.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: They just didn't throw in the electrics yet.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.

  • And I'm not saying that everybody in America is into

  • the green stuff--

  • well, maybe they're into the green stuff, but not exactly

  • this stuff--

  • not everybody is into it, it's just that when the media--

  • LEO PARENTE: My mom's watching.

  • Don't go there.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: When the media's on to it.

  • LEO PARENTE: Oh, I know.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: You know what I mean?

  • It's a very trend thing.

  • LEO PARENTE: What does that have to do with these?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, let's see what's next.

  • I'll tell you exactly.

  • Jag.

  • LEO PARENTE: And honestly, I'm making the statement.

  • This is my favorite car.

  • And I got a couple of reasons.

  • But tell us about it.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: All right.

  • So it's the Jag CX75.

  • Came out where?

  • Paris, like last year or two years ago.

  • It's been a long time.

  • Another range-extended hybrid.

  • But instead of an internal combustion engine it has a

  • turbine, or these microturbines.

  • LEO PARENTE: There's two.

  • There's two microturbines.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Sorry.

  • Two microturbines.

  • Originally, when they announced that they were going

  • to produce this thing, it was going to have a more

  • traditional drive train range extended by way of--

  • LEO PARENTE: Some ICE engine, internal combustion.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Internal combustion.

  • LEO PARENTE: But--

  • MIKE SPINELLI: But you go ahead.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • So they're little microturbines, there are two

  • of them in the back.

  • And they were talking about how the technology is getting

  • close to being production ready.

  • Then they announced ICE.

  • But they made improvements.

  • The tolerances, they got right.

  • You said it was like how?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Like a 20th of a human hair.

  • LEO PARENTE: Think about that.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: I mean, seriously.

  • The tolerances inside the turbine, it's amazing.

  • LEO PARENTE: So they're going back to a limited run of

  • turbine-powered electric energy recapture built by

  • Williams engineering.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yes.

  • LEO PARENTE: How do you not buy this car, go to a

  • restaurant, try to pick up a girl and say,

  • want to see my jet?

  • And all you're doing is going out to the parking lot.

  • That's cool.

  • I love this car.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: This is where tech and racing and sports

  • cars have to meet.

  • I don't know.

  • I'm a little bit less enthusiastic.

  • Just because--

  • LEO PARENTE: Oh, by the way.

  • It's freaking sexy.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It is.

  • LEO PARENTE: Look how cool that is?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It is pretty cool.

  • LEO PARENTE: And it looks like a Jaguar.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It does.

  • Is it central?

  • No, it's not central.

  • LEO PARENTE: I'm not sure, I don't think so.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: No.

  • Because there are two seats.

  • And--

  • LEO PARENTE: But it's got jet engines.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: It's got jet engines.

  • It's a sports car with jet engines.

  • LEO PARENTE: It's got jet engines.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: But it's going to be made.

  • They're going to build it.

  • I mean, 0 to 60 in less than three seconds, with an

  • electric motor.

  • LEO PARENTE: It's got jet engines.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: All right.

  • Go ahead.

  • LEO PARENTE: I don't care how fast it goes.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: So stay on the jet engines.

  • No, honestly.

  • This is tech being sexy in the car world.

  • That's got to happen more than it's happening now.

  • LEO PARENTE: Is that the only one?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yes, it was.

  • But here's what we're going to talk about for a second.

  • So we mentioned the Evora, the Lotus Evora, in talking about

  • what Infinity was doing.

  • But Lotus as you know, a few years ago in Paris showed off

  • a bunch of new cars that they would like to produce.

  • LEO PARENTE: I met Danny Bahar, we had an interview.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: You did.

  • LEO PARENTE: Without sounding arrogant about saying that.

  • But we talked about all these cars.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Right.

  • LEO PARENTE: And now it's maybe two years later.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Two or so years later.

  • Two-ish, maybe, almost three this year.

  • The Lotus Esprit--

  • LEO PARENTE: V8, right?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: V8 with a KERS hybrid system.

  • LEO PARENTE: So Mike, let me ask you a question.

  • You're talking about all these cars, these supercars being

  • green, having more technology, being more sophisticated.

  • And Lotus has always been about being simple and

  • lightweight.

  • And they're getting hammered for drifting away from that.

  • But if the world is moving toward a more sophisticated

  • car, does that help Lotus?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Well, I mean, Lotus has to do it.

  • They have to build awesome cars.

  • And yes, they're going to get hammered by die-hard fans who

  • see the company as an extension of Colin Chapman's

  • simplify it and add lightness thing.

  • Right, but modern cars can't be simple and they can't be

  • light, unless they're especially cars like a

  • Caterham or something.

  • LEO PARENTE: They can't be simple.

  • So they're just going where everyone else

  • is going with them.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: They're going where they have have to go.

  • And that's where the 911 is.

  • And that's where the Lamborghini is, and Ferrari

  • is, and McLaren now is.

  • That's what they have to do.

  • But in this category of sort-of greenish supercars, I

  • think they had to add the green part of this just to

  • make sure that they're there where everybody else is too.

  • And KERS, by the way, is in the F1 world, they're in the

  • F1 world, that's a tie-in, too.

  • LEO PARENTE: OK.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Ian, go ahead one more.

  • Oh, we got a couple more.

  • So just to sort of wrap this up.

  • Again, Audi e-tron.

  • Who isn't building a mid-engine supercar, sports

  • car with some kind of hybrid electronic stuff going on?

  • LEO PARENTE: This is close from a

  • production standpoint, right?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yes.

  • Yes.

  • LEO PARENTE: A year away?

  • Two?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: So I've heard.

  • Yeah, I mean they'll be made in Neckarsulm in 20--

  • LEO PARENTE: I did not know that.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: That's sort of how you pronounce it.

  • LEO PARENTE: Don't ask me.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: 2013, '14 kind of thing.

  • Ian, what's next?

  • Yes.

  • Ford GT.

  • LEO PARENTE: And why are we showing this?

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Because rumors have been going around for

  • while that Ford is working on the next GT

  • and it'll be a hybrid.

  • An all-wheel drive hybrid, kind of like every car we've

  • just been talking about.

  • So my point is that we are entering some kind of

  • supercar, mid-engine sports car renaissance.

  • But only this time it's green and electronic and stuff.

  • LEO PARENTE: Well, that was a wonderful journey.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: I think it was, wasn't it?

  • @drive on Twitter.

  • What do you think?

  • Did we leave anything out?

  • Or did we screw it up or something?

  • Other than me not finishing sentences.

  • Did I finish all of my sentences when

  • you wanted me to?

  • Thanks.

  • LEO PARENTE: Cool.

  • Thanks.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.

  • Hit us up next week.

  • LEO PARENTE: And we had Chris Harris.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: And we had Chris Harris.

  • LEO PARENTE: From Geneva.

  • MIKE SPINELLI: What more could you want from us?

  • Come on.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

MIKE SPINELLI: Hey, it's Road Testament, I'm Mike Spinelli.

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