Automotive Easter Eggs

Have you ever noticed the Italian speaking spider under your fuel door or the shark in your glovebox? Those are two real-life examples of hidden, often whimsical, details that automotive designers have included in production cars.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Go behind the Wheel, under the Hood and beyond with
car Stuff from how Stuff Works dot Com. Hi, and
welcome to car Stuff. I'm Scott, I'm Ben. We are
joined by our super producer Alex Williams. And that makes this. Oh,
we already said the name. We already said car Stuff,

(00:23):
already said car Stuff. It's a done deal, you know. Uh.
One thing I was thinking we we should probably just
wait till the end of the show and actually give
our super producer nickname instead of just saying that we're
going to and then forgetting about it, which I always do.
So let's not do it at the head of the episode,
aw Alys. So let's wait and if we remember to

(00:43):
do it, and then we'll have something right right, and
it will be sort of an easter egg for the show.
I know, I'm not above it. Yeah. So today's topic,
if you haven't already guessed by reading the title that
you selected, you know, in the and iTunes or wherever
you get your podcasts, um is about easter eggs, automotive
easter eggs. And we had a couple of listeners that

(01:04):
have written in about this, and I would guess that
over the years we've probably had more but the recent ones.
One one came from a guy named Mark T. And
Mark just wrote in and very very simply just said,
how about a show on cars with Easter eggs? Love
love the podcast, keep up with the good work, and
that's nice. So straight to the point, filed that went
away and said all right, we'll think about it. And
then another note came through from um, an old friend

(01:26):
of the show, Mark B. I think we've said Mark's
navy before, right, haven't we? Yeah, we had to it.
Marks written in before many many times about his Miata, right,
Mark Bandoni, so we might as well just say it
Mark Miata Bandoni. That's right. Yeah, So hey Mark, Um
He wrote in and said, uh, today I want to
talk to you guys about Easter eggs in automotive design.

(01:46):
What got me started down this rabbit hole was a
YouTube video of a two thousand twelve Jaguar x j
L start button that pulses, and he sent a video
and I watched the video. He says, it turns out
that pulse is the resting heartbeat of a Jaguar Cat.
So when a Jaguar designed that into the car, so
that when the car is off and you get in
with the key fob. It pulses to the resting heartbeat

(02:06):
and when you start it, it's like like you're waking
it up. Um, here are some others that I found,
and then he lists a few here and a couple
of these. Um, I think I'm not sure that these
will double up on something we've had. I'm gonna avoid
one of his examples because we'll talk about it later.
But for instance, on the Dodge Viper s rt UM,
there's a there's a viper on the tachometer the flashes
when you hit the red light, which I think is

(02:27):
really cool. Yeah, that's really cool because you know you
have to push the car to a certain point in
order to get that. UM. Mustang GT has an Easter
egg on the hood where there's a cutout in the
metal underneath the heat liner that is in the shape
of the Pony logo. So on a cold day, the
frost will melt on the hood around the cut out first,
revealing the Pony logo on the hood. Nice, simple and easy,

(02:48):
but but really cool. It makes impact. You know, we're
gonna describe for anybody who's kind of confused about what
an Easter egg is. We're gonna describe that in just
a moment. But here's another one that he mentions, UM,
haven't had a lot of contact with jeep wranglers. There
are many little nods the original Willie's jeep all over
the new Wrangler and the top off the top of
my head, they're little jeeps on the lower third hand
corner of the windshield going up a mountain side. And

(03:10):
that's something that we'll find on several of these, uh
of these different jeeps that we'll talk about today, because
there's a whole variety of things that they throw in. Uh.
Then there's one that I'm gonna skip here because we'll
talk about it. But he said that's just a few
to get you started down the rabbit hole, and uh, well,
I think it was a bet a happy motoring Mark B. Yeah,
thank you so much for writing. And we gave him

(03:30):
a nickname pretty easily. Yeah, we did. And Mark, you know,
am I confusing because now he's saying the jeep stuff.
I know, I remember him saying that I think the
Jeep Wrangler was kind of a dream vehicle and he
got that. Um, but he is he is the Miata guy, right, Yeah, Okay,
I believe so I think so Mark right in and
let us know if Mark miata Be is a good
nickname for you. I have like a a way I

(03:52):
have like a nickname. I think it was like nighthawk
or something like that. Isn't that right? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's like a nickname that we read along with that
earlier on. I don't think he included in this alright, anyways,
let's move on. Alright, So, so we have to describe
what Easter eggs are. Yeah, an Easter egg is in
it's like an inside joke, and Easter egg is an

(04:13):
intentional hidden message or humorous things sometimes or it's a
feature that might occur, and this is typically something that
is not going to be advertised. Easter Eggs occur in
all sorts of consumer products. They occur in some clothing,

(04:35):
they occur in a lot of games like video games
and stuff, and automobiles are no exception. So this means
that you could you could go ahead and buy a
Mustang two thousand fifteen Mustang g T, and like any
good car buyer, you do all your research so you

(04:57):
know how much it costs, you know the specs and
the features you want, and no one ever tells you that, hey,
a pony might appear on the hood. That's what makes
it an Easter egg. Yeah, something that you unexpectedly find.
I mean, it's it's it's just like an Easter egg.
I guess the kids hunt for these are Easter eggs
that that you know, typically adults hunt for these, you know,

(05:17):
they find them in like you said, a video game,
a movie. Maybe a lot of movies have Easter eggs.
You mentioned clothing, which I think is an interesting one.
Of course, cars and and this all began back in
around the The idea of an Easter egg outside of
you know what we think of as as a true
Easter egg that we hunt for you in the yard
on Easter Um began back in nineteen seventy nine with

(05:37):
the Atari gaming system. And there was a guy that
worked on this on a game called Adventure. His name
was Warren Robin a Um and a certain part of
the game he remember you could remember the time, I
guess nineteen nine, they didn't have credits on the games
like they do now, so that people that created them
didn't really get credit or any kind of print print

(05:57):
acknowledgement that they that they created this. So Um and
a part of the game. He created a single gray
pixel that when you hovered over it, it would reveal
the words created by Warren robin A. And it's very clever,
very very well hidden. But it was unknown to the
company all the way up until the point after he
had left the company, and a fan, somebody who was

(06:19):
using the game, uh you know, the game Adventure, found
this wrote into the company and said, hey, did you
know about this? And they they you know, checked it
out right away, of course, decided it was too expensive
to uh, you know, reprogram this whole thing and to
make you know, take that pixel out, and they decided
to just let it go. And then they said, well,
you know, this is kind of something interesting, this is
neat let's go with it. And they created more and

(06:41):
more Easter eggs. And that's where this all began at
the game with this one guy named Warren robin A.
And he didn't coin the term. You know, somebody else
probably with Atari did um you know who who found
it and said, you know, let's let's create these things
and we'll call them this. So what we're talking about
today again is automotive Easter eggs. And and I want
to stressed this point is that not every one of

(07:02):
these is really a true Easter egg. I don't think.
I don't think they all fall under the same umbrella. Yeah,
I would agree, because I know that you and I
off air both went away and looked into our own
favorite research areas and we found some things that we
found some things that recur on multiple list or databases.

(07:25):
But we also found that not all of these Easter
egs are created equally. Right now, uh So, for instance,
there's some stuff that's just really really obvious. But my
favorite ones I found are the ones that are maybe
so subtle or so tiny, or just so out there

(07:48):
that you might own a car for a year or
two and not notice them, just overlooked, right. But others,
as you said, they're they're so in your face. I
guess it's more of a m I guess the design
theme or design characteristic of that of that model. And
we'll talk about a couple of those in particular, especially
with the Jeep brand and then also with UM. I
think Mazda brand is another one of these that it's

(08:10):
it's kind of it's really it pushes the limited, but
again it's a it's a design theme. It's not so
much that it's an Easter egg. You can look almost
at any part of the car and find that elements
as as as we'll discuss um. So you want to
start what kind of laundry listed? Just a whole bunch
of these. I mean, let's look into some examples and uh, folks,

(08:30):
if you have a favorite Easter egg that you have
discovered yourself or you've heard of and confirmed, right into
us and let us know what you found. Also, bonus
points for any photos. Yeah, because there are more. There
are plenty more than we can cover here today. So
we're just gonna, you know, tip of the iceberg type
of a discussion on this and uh, and we'll hit

(08:51):
some of the easy ones. I would love for people, again,
as you said, to send in some photos of unusual
ones that we have never heard of or can't find
photos of, or just kind of the really seldom known
stuff is the best. So So Ben, let's maybe start
with the jeep renegade. Alright, this one is this is
really an interesting vehicle. My wife drives a Renegade and

(09:12):
it's loaded with stuff like this. Now this one, however,
I'm going to say that this vehicle sort of falls
under the theme brother design theme rather than lots of
Easter eggs. I mean, there's a few what I would
call Easter eggs here and there, but mostly it's a
design theme and the theme is X. There's there's an
X everywhere. There's also um uh, well, you know what,

(09:35):
let's just just go through and we'll discuss what's here.
I can probably give you about ten or twelve right now,
but there must be I would guess, you know, forty
of these things on this on this vehicle. They're all
over the place. So, um, do you know what the
sarge grill is? Yeah, on the on the front of jeeps, right, Yeah,
it's like the seventh slot grill with the two headlights above.
That's very iconic. The reason that I first remember that,

(10:00):
and sometimes it takes me a second, that is because
I associate it with G I. Joe. They would have
those grills on like their jeeps when I was a kid.
Oh yeah, yeah, so it kind of stuck in your
in your memory. Is that that's a good good way
to do it. Um, I was never a huge G. I.
Joe fan. Really, I'm sorry you weren't into team stuff. Man.

(10:21):
I don't know if I just missed it. I know
that there was like it seems like there was a
generation before me and a generation after me that was
really into it. There was a cartoon it was, which
was probably your generation. It was a cartoon, and prior
to that, there was like, you know, the G I
Joe action figure, you know, with the kung fu grip
and all that, and that was just before me. So
never the way, I guess I just kind of missed it.
I was right in the middle. Yeah. You know. The

(10:41):
weird thing is, I don't know if we would ever
do a show on this. I don't I'm not sure,
right end, ladies and gentlemen, let me know if you
think we should. Uh. I went back and looked at
what was it. I found a bunch of old G
I Joes when I was moving, and I was going
to give them to my friends who collects them, and
currently I was just throwing money away because there's this

(11:03):
huge industry of people who collect these things. But I
mentioned it here because I looked at some of the vehicles,
which as a kid were always the most exciting part
of those toys to me, part of the kid that
you would get. Yeah, yeah, and they could be tiny
or they could be gigantic, super expensive vehicles like you
get one maybe every fifth Christmas? Maybe maybe um. And

(11:30):
when I was looking back at him, I was like, man,
I was impressed with these things, where I was like
four or five. Some of these just designs are ridiculous.
Why is this guy in a weird drill that also
has wings? Or you know, I'm making that one up.
I don't know. Do you remember the okay, man, we're
still that. But do you remember remember the Steve Correll

(11:52):
character in uh, the character he played in The Four
year Old Virgin? Yes, remember the collection of figurines that
he had? I mean, yes, say what you want about
his love life, but the guy had a great collection.
Funny movie. Okay, so sorry to grill. We all know
what the sarge grill is. Uh, seven slots, two headlights. Well,
that is hidden all over the place on the on

(12:14):
the jeep renegade. Of course, it's in the headlight. Um
it's in the headlight bulb support, I guess, is what
you call it. So you have to look carefully into
the headlight to find that. Um. It's also stamped into
the tail light lens and the tail light lens itself
is one of those X design themes that we were
talking about earlier. It's supposed to look like the old
I think it's called a jerry can. Is that right,
the metal fuel cans the jeeps used to carry into war. Uh.

(12:38):
That that's uh, that's another one those that X theme,
by the way, shows up everywhere. And this thing, it's
it's all over the place, in the tail light, it's
in the cup holders. Um. One thing that you'll find
if you lift up the center uh storage been there's
because there's center center consoles, the center council. If you
look inside and down in the bottom, there's a topographical
map in there. And I thought I had read somewhere.

(13:00):
And I can't be certain about this, but I thought
it was a topical topic graphical map of the Rubicon Trail,
because that's where they test all these jeeps to be
trail rated, is on the roof con trail. Um. There's
more to it than that. Yeah, they've got the military
style no step warning, but it's on the side skirt
yep on the outside. So you know, if you don't

(13:22):
put any weight onto that thing, like you know when
you look at any functional too, because if you put
weight on it. Well, it's so tiny. I mean, it
really is small. I can see anybody using it. I
guess maybe if you needed to reach the roof, you'd
use you know, just get your boost yourself, get yourself
a foot higher or something. But um, there's the starge
girls is back again, and the speaker surrounds. I think
there's even more. There's all the serge girl is hidden

(13:44):
inside of the It's stamped into the tailgate. It's also
on both sides of the support behind the rear view mirror.
There's an old Jeep Willie that's painted on each of
the wheels on if you get the trail Hawk version
of this. Now, my wife doesn't have the trail Hawk version,
so I haven't seen this in person. But I'm gonna
look at the next one I find, because there's a
bright red Jeep Willie's. It's painted on each one on

(14:05):
the rim um and I think it's right near the filler,
so you know the air filler. Uh, you know where
the nozzle is, so that's easy to find. Um. Of course,
you know, even in the badging, the X, the X
trademark shows up in the infotainment center. Uh stamp right
in the top, it says, since I don't think that's east.
I don't know. I feel the same way. It's kind

(14:27):
of lumped under that, like, oh, it's kind of something
you didn't expect to find here. I think it's cool. Yeah,
it's it's not very well hidden. I mean it's right
out there in the open um. I guess if you
want to, I kind of would say this is an
easter egg. Maybe you see it in the right light.
Um the jeep seats and the renegade there's like a
ghosted text underneath it, UM that appears and you have

(14:50):
to see it and again in the right light. It's
not always apparent. And my wife has the the lighter
colored interior, like a tan interior, and to me it
almost looks like it's dirty, like there's like spots of
dirt on it. But when you look closely, it's great,
big bold letters, you know, for the jeep brand. I
don't know. There's there's a ton of stuff like that
on this vehicle. I mean a lot of stuff. Even

(15:11):
the techometer has UM. Yeah, well they call it. I've
heard it called two things. I've heard it called, you
know mud. You know a lot of people jeeps like
to take them off from the It doesn't look like no.
But I've also heard that it could be paintball splatter,
because I think, man, this is again distant memory. When
it first came out, I read that one of the

(15:31):
design engineers or one of the designers was into paintball
and that might be a paintball splatter that they used
for for the red line in the vehicles. If you
look at the techometer, one end of it doesn't have
you know, the traditional hard line for the red line. Uh,
it's more of a like a modeled pattern, you know.
The other commonality we see here is that none of
these things affect performance, none at all. What I mean, no,

(15:55):
none at all? In fact, are we I don't even
know if we're going to talk about anything today that
that really I don't think most of the Easter egs
do you No, I don't think they do. They don't.
They don't add any kind of performance. They do add
some some delight, though some do, know I will I
will say also, it would be really cool if there
were cars that had you know, bond level Easter eggs.

(16:16):
You know how he's always driving the Aston Martin and
then someone tells him to push a button the boom.
Next thing you know, there's a laser or parachute injector seat,
you have the thumb tax or whatever it is, you know,
smoke screen. I love all that stuff. Now, um, my
next list of things here. Um, this is kind of
a grouping of just small things that I found all

(16:40):
over the place. I don't remember where all these come from.
But if you've ever looked closely at the dashboard of
a Fiat Panda, now, I don't know if many people
have looked closely at the dashboard, but um, it appears
just like it's textured plastic. I mean, it doesn't look
like anything unusual, nothing strange. But when you look really,
really closely, if you'll find that that texture is made

(17:00):
up of really tiny little letters. And if you look
even closer than that, you'll see that the letters are P, A, N,
and D S and they never quite spell out the
word panda. But if you look at but if you
look at it, because someone has has paid careful enough
attention to see if they know, like a word search,
if they can find the word panda there, it doesn't,
but it sure does trick your mind into thinking that

(17:21):
you're reading the word panda. When you look at that
that texture, that's gotta drive some people. Man. Well, I
don't know. I think it's so small that you really
have to get tight up to it to see it.
I mean, otherwise it just looks like a you know,
rough surface. Yeah. Yeah, So I think it's just one
of those Uh. It kind of fools your fools, your eye,
I guess, fools your mind too, I guess. So if
you're if you're a person who's a little bit of

(17:43):
a perfectionist, that's gotta drive you crazy. I bet it would, Yeah,
because they're kind of jumbled up all over the place
and it's a bit of a mess if you look closely. Hey,
I have one that I thought you might enjoy. What's that? Uh?
This is one of my favorites. It's not a friendly one, okay.
So Chrysler in their two S model, they had included

(18:07):
a little bit of an Easter egg. So there's a
small rubber anti slip matt in the bin beneath the
rotary shifter. Oh, you're nodding. Scott's nodding. He already knows
this one, you know, that's one you know? Unfortunately I do,
because I was I was studying for this stuff though,
but I bet a lot of people don't know this.
So on the rubber mat there's a picture of the
Detroit Skyline and if you look closely at it, you'll

(18:32):
notice it is missing one conspicuous building. Chrysler recreated in
stamp form the Detroit Skyline with very important building missing.
There is no General Motors World Headquarters or Renaissance Center. Instead,
there's just empty space. You can look at almost any

(18:53):
photo of downtown Detroit, and that is that's like an
iconic building downtown. I mean, it's the round building. It's
actually areas of towers. I think it's five h you know,
four four round the side and then one main tower.
It was formerly owned by Ford. It used to be
the Ford Rerounasance Center, then it was the General Motors
Renaissance Center, and Chrysler has kind of they kind of
snubbed them by like taking that out. And it's such

(19:16):
a I think it's such a funny busting of chops
lack of a better phrase. Uh well, but you almost
you wouldn't recognize that as the Detroit Skyline without the
Renaissance Center. That's that's the funny part. There's this great
quote from the Wall Street Journal where they interviewed the
interior design chief guy named Klaus bous who said his

(19:41):
reply when they asked him was quote, oh really, what
is surprise? That was it? That was alright? So definitely intentional.
I mean, yeah, that's just one of them. I mean,
look at any photo of downtown Detroit and you'll find
the Renaissance Center, you know, displayed prominently front and on
are usually um any shot from over on the other side,

(20:03):
the windsor side, you'll clearly see it. But it's kind
of a funny thing that they decided to remove that
from the sky, Like, well, what else? What else? I've
got a couple here and this is this is a
neat one. I like this one. You remember the old
Audi quatro um. This is from a while back. Um,
the Audi Quadra rear window defroster. That's hard to say.

(20:24):
Rear window defroster spells out the word quatroll. So it's
it's written in you know the metal that that melts
the or the element I guess you know, the metal
element Um. It spells out the word quadra on a
on a cold day. Yeah, very cool. So you can
have that spelled out on your back window for a
short time on a cold day. I think it's kind
of neat. Um. Also, here's a good one for Ford's

(20:45):
one anniversary. Remember they released the four G T YE
really cool supercar. I think I know what you're going
to talk about. This is this is the headlights. Yeah,
so it's pretty cool because it's subtle too. You don't
really notice. It's very subtle, very subtle. So if you
look closely at the head lamps of UM, the four
G T this is the one that they produced from
what two thousand four or two thousand six, UM, I

(21:08):
think their anniversary, the hundred anniversary is actually in two
thousand three, you know, from nineteen o three to two
thousand three, but they released this car for the further anniversary. Anyways, UM,
look very carefully at the headlamps and you'll see the
number one hundred spelled out there for you. I mean, again,
very very subtle, but but it's there. Yeah. So the
primary lamp is the first zero and the turn signal

(21:31):
lamp is the second zero. And they've added a detail. Yeah,
there's there's a one off to the far left or
I guess the inside edge of the the lens there.
It's just like a ridge of glass, right, yeah, I
think so I would have to assume that it lights
up as well. I mean maybe there's a purpose for that.
But I haven't ever seen one close enough now that
I know that this is there to see what that

(21:52):
one does. But but fascinating. Okay, So let's talk about
a foreign maker, a check car maker that included something
kind of interesting. UM, I don't know what do you
call this a This is more just a feature really
to me. Um, this is an umbrella holder. They designed
an umbrella holder into the car. Now. I don't know
if I would call that an easter egg, because it's

(22:12):
probably if I had to guess, I bet that's in
their literature. Is something that used to sell this vehicle with.
In the door, it has this umbrella holder where you
can you know, slide an umbrella in or out, you know,
depending on the weather. I guess, Um, this is a
vehicle that's based on a VW A platform. I think
it's a pisade um, but the piscade doesn't have this. Uh,
this is something that's unique to um. The Scota so

(22:34):
Scoda SUPERB is the name of the model. If you
want to look it up. And if the other course,
if you drive a Scota superb, where are you gonna
throw your umbrella in the back seat like a barbarian? Well,
you know, I mean some really high end vehicles. I
think Rolls Royce has stuff like that, umbrella holders, and
I think, you know, later we're gonna talk about the
Chrysler Pacific and I think they've got an umbrella holder
as well. So the Porsche Panamera, right, have you heard

(22:58):
of this one? Now? So they have. I guess what
some people would describe as an Easter egg, which is
that the key fop is shaped itself like a Mini
toure version of paname Era. It's so the key fob
itself follows the like the body of the car. And

(23:20):
I want to know if you think that counts as
an Easter egg. Take your time, my friend, cogitate, percolate mentally,
and we'll be back after a brief word from our sponsors.

(23:40):
And we have returned, Mr Benjamin, What's what's your take
as a key fob an easter egg? Absolutely not, thank you.
I am glad that you said that. The name my day.
It's a cool design, it's an interesting idea, sure, and
I think other cars have done that too, right. I mean,
there are other supercars I know that have the same
shape key fob as the car that you're driving, and

(24:01):
and those are the ones that you just leave in
your pocket and push the start button so you don't
have to worry about inserting that into the dash. So
is this thing like, is it like the old definition
of beauty is an easter egg in the eye of
the beholder? I don't know. I think that here's what
I think happens, Ben. I think that, you know, when
people are putting together these lists of Easter eggs and
they want to get ten, or they want to get fifteen,

(24:22):
or they want to get twenty or whatever it is,
I think they start stretching it. I mean, like the
the umbrella holder that I mentioned, that's not an Easter
egg really, I mean that's something that that's a a feature,
something they used to sell the vehicle. I think that,
you know, the the key fob, like you said, it's
an it's an interesting thing. I mean, it's different, it's unique. Um,
you know, I mean there are a few others, but

(24:43):
you have to get into the million dollar cars to
get something like that. Um, it's interesting, but it's not
an Easter egg. You don't unexpectedly find that one day,
and you know, you don't look at your hand and
say like, oh my gosh, the key is shaped like
my car. Yeah, that was something that they probably told
you right at the dealership when they when they handed
it to you. That's my guess on it, or what
do you what do you think? Do you think it's
a You don't think it's an Easter egg? Absolutely not.

(25:07):
It's clearly visible, right, and it's uh, it's not subtle
in any way. I don't think it's bad. I just
don't think it's an Easter egg. And Easter egg is
like a little extra bonus thing that you get for
paying attention or for really going over your car while
searching for it, right, I mean to search for it. Now,

(25:29):
here's one that you don't necessarily have to search for it.
But I think this is kind of this this sort
of maybe falls under this this umbrella, the Nissan Cube.
Have you ever seen the headliner in the Nissan Cube?
You don't, I'm talking about right, the really boxy SUV
looking vehicle. I don't know if this falls unto East
Egg or not, but it's always included in these lists. Um,

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it appears as if, um, the dome light and the
Nissan cube is like a pebble that's been dropped into
a pool of water, a m pull of water. It
has this ripple effect that goes out from the roof. Um.
I don't know if I'm describing that right, but it's
a ripple effect headliner, Okay, And it's it's interesting at night.
It's especially um a parent you know when you have

(26:12):
the light on, because you know that it makes a
really unusual pattern on the top. And I think you
can get even different types of lighting to go along
with this, so that you know it can be different
colors and it's kind of a neat thing. Um. But again,
is that really an Easter egg? Right? Yeah? And I
promise we'll get to some really design thing because we
also encounter another part of the definition, which is there

(26:35):
has to be some sort of motive or message behind it.
So here's a question for here's another example that I
on the fence about. Uh so PEGANI has a car
that has soybean side mirrors. Okay, I know what you're
talking about. This one's called the car is an unusual name.
It's called the WIRA. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. It's spelled

(26:57):
an unusual way A why are a I'm not too
familiar with the wire of myself in terms of specs,
but it really stuck out when people said this is
this is a high performance vehicle, and they said it's
not environmentally friendly. So maybe that's why they put these
side mirrors and that's a funny way to But the

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thing is, to me, that's the opposite that design feature.
You know, I'm not going to call it a feature
because I hate them. I'm gonna call it the choice.
That design choice or decision they made really just sticks
out like a store thumb on an otherwise fantastic looking vehicle.
I think they look awful as well. But do you

(27:45):
think that the designer was inspired by nature to create
those to make them look like soybean stocks? I mean,
they really do. They honestly do. I I that's really
the best way to describe them, too. I mean when
you look at them, but they do kind of they
stand out like a sore thumb in this car. If
you I feel like there's something there's a better way
to do that, and um, it has to be one

(28:05):
of those like inspired by nature type type stories. Yeah,
maybe it's one of those things where the designer is
talking to their buddies and they say, the side mirrors
came to me in a dream. How about we talk
about a true Easter egg. Let's do because I think
we've had enough that are kind of like this gray area, right.
So here's one Aston Martin. Aston Martin has designed kind

(28:27):
of like, uh, I guess, a nod to its own
logo in the back end of the Vanquish. So if
you look at the back end of an Aston Martin Vanquish,
the tail lights or the tail lenses are designed in
a way that if you were to put them together,
it would create it would it would form the shape
of Aston Martin's winged logo. I think that is an
east direct That's that. That is a perfect example of

(28:49):
an Easter egg. Now you have to carefully look at
the vehicle and and think about you know, I'm looking
at the left side, I'm looking at the right side.
If I were to bring those two together, there's their
winged logo and and that that exactly defines what an
Easter egg is. I mean, you're you're searching for something
you kind of piece it together in your head. You
you you discover that someone's hidden something that's kind of
neat there. Yeah. Like another example of that would be

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in Ford Mustangs with the puddle lamps, and people are
on the fence about puddle lamps. Now it's an interesting idea,
right you know what they are? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you open the door and light it kind of
looks like the bat the bat signal like exactly appears
on the ground, but it shows you what you're about
to step into. You know, if you open your car door,

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you know it's a puddle, or if it's if it's
dry ground, or you know, someone's dumped out their coffee
or something like that. In Mustang they show instead of
you know, the bat from the bat signal, they show
a Mustang yeah, which I think is cool. It's kind
of neat. I think other manufacturers have done similar things.
I think, doesn't is it land Rover range Rover does
something like that. There's a stylized version, I think of

(29:54):
the range Rover Um. I've got a few others that
were mentioned that had puddle lights like that. But I
think everybody can understand what we're talking about. A good
variety of those. How about how about this one from
another one from Scota UM in the Octavia model. UM,
this is an interesting one. When you open up the
fuel door, there's an ice scraper there. They've designed a compartment,

(30:17):
a holder for an ice scraper that the company provides
that fits perfectly into this this this pocket. And Uh,
it's a clever design because you know, you you don't
find it really until you're looking for it. I guess
you might even have to check the owner's manual to
determine what that thing is. It's on the back side
of the fuel door when you open it, so it's
it's you know, always handy as long as you don't
forget to put it back in, I guess, because I

(30:38):
bet a lot of people have done that. But it's
a smart idea, interesting, you know, and not a lot
of a lot of people will know about that, especially
you know, just looking at the vehicle driving down the street,
I have no idea that it was there, and it's
something that just the owner knows. Yeah, which I think
is cool, clever. Yeah, I think it's cool. I think
it's clever. Um. I think there's some goofy examples out

(31:01):
there too. Like the Volvo x C ninety has. Did
you hear about this the storage bend spider? Oh yeah
I did. Yeah, this is strange. So if you look
under the storage bins of the x C ninety, you'll
find that they printed on so the ben's roof has
this web like design on it and under the bin. Uh,

(31:23):
they've printed this cart like cartoon friendly grinning spider. Because
they decided that the bracing for this beIN right. This
is the third row of the vehicle, so it's back
where the kids would be, I suppose, um, and at
the very back they decided that the webbing underneath looked
like a spider web. So when I throw something kind
of whimsical on there, and and that's what they did.

(31:47):
I had to look twice at this one because I
thought it was the same spider. There's another one that
we didn't mention for the for the renegade. When you
open the fuel door, there's a spider underneath the fuel door.
So I don't know what the deal is with the
spiders on vehicles, but I'm not sure. Um, you pop
open the fueld door and uh, the spider. It's a
it's a little more I don't know what's it's scary looking,
but it's not the cartoonish one that's in the Volvo

(32:09):
um and it says it has a little uh, you know,
speaking bubble, like in a cartoon or something. It says
child baby, which makes sense Italian. I mean, because the
the Renegade was designed. I think it's right alongside you know,
other Fiat product that's when Fiat took over Chrysler. So um,
it makes sense that this jeep has an Italian speaking
spider on the fuel tank. It sort if I mean,

(32:31):
does that does that make sense? Is that ever makes sense?
It makes sense? Sure, there's an Italian speaking spider on
your fielder. That makes perfect sense. If you told me,
if you told me five years ago that that sentence
would be remotely sensible, I don't know. I don't think.
So here we are right. Here's another one. We talked
about the Renault twin Go not long ago on this

(32:54):
podcast in a Nuts and Bolts episode. Yeah, I remember,
I think I know what you're about to say. Oh
you do, Okay, this is now. The twin Go is
the one where we had the Renault had released nail
polish to match the cars finish along with the vehicles.
So interesting, you know, kind of unusual story there, but
already a whimsical car. Yeah it is. But the East
Dragon this one is that the pedals, the accelerator pedal,

(33:17):
the brake pedal, and the clutch pedal have play, stop
and pause, but they're not printed on there like that. There.
It's almost like, um, it's like DVD controls exactly right, Yeah,
like you're looking at controls that you would use on
your remote at home. So just the icons, the uh
right word pointing, play arrow, the accelerator pedal, yeah, the

(33:42):
stop rectangle, Yeah, that's a brake pedal, it's a break
and then the pause to vertical stripes that's the clutch pedal.
Makes perfect sense, right. I think it's really cool, but again,
kind of whimsical design and uh and really unless you're
driving the vehicle, or unless you even look down there.
I mean you might go for a test driving this vehicle,
you might take it home. You might of it for
a week and then realized that that's there because you

(34:02):
just don't see it. Oh, I have I have one more.
While we're on the theme of animals, where we get
too far from it, the Vauxhall Corsa. So we talked
about the spider, right, and we're asking what's up with
these spiders? One of there's there's a hinge on the

(34:24):
glove box and the corso, and if you open it,
you'll see that there's a shark printed on it. And
allegedly the entire reason that shark is there is because
one of the designers, his coworker dared him to do it.
It's like, oh, you should try to try to put
like an animal, like a shark or something in there, bro,

(34:47):
And he was presumably saying, yeah, man, hold my beer.
I guess it's one of those uh like uh, midday
conversations between a couple of designers and they're like, I
dare you to try to get that through a old
and it just somehow slipped through and worked out. I mean,
you can check out if you happen to drive a
Vauxhall Corsa, take a look for it. But anyway, the

(35:10):
rest of us life to look online for the photos.
And I don't know if we remembered it on the
Jeep renegade. Um, it's still more on the renegade and
slip my mind, I can't. I just want to make
sure we mentioned this, Uh, there is a sasquatch on
the rear hatch window. Now I would call that a
true Easter egg. That's the true. I mean, what the
heck is a sasquatch doing on the back. It's it's

(35:31):
right near it's on the rear window. I've seen this
one on my wife's car. It's on the rear window,
right near the rear window wiper. And uh, it's it's
very very small, nothing to do with anything, not really,
I mean, other than the only tie in that I
can think of. And I've been trying to think of
why this is there. Possibility is just because it's wilderness,
you know, because um, the whole idea behind the Jeep

(35:53):
brand is to be out in the wild, you know,
um um rough terrain. It shows, you know, a little
they're a little Jeep I on their logos all over
the place that are you know, climbing rocks and mountains
and everything on the on the window edge. And to
include this sasquatch on the window, I mean, it's just
it's such an unusual touch. I don't know why they
would do that. And hey, good you found that on

(36:13):
your own, Huh I did, But I was looking over
this thing carefully at the beginning, because there were there
were so many of these things. When when she brought
this car home, I just couldn't believe all the stuff
I was seeing. I was it's everywhere you turn, you're
finding new things about it, so really strange. Well, congratulations
to you, my friend, because you know, Bigfoot is notoriously
difficult to find. I even got a decent photo of it.

(36:36):
Oh wow, Yeah, it's a little blurry though, sasque watch out,
aren't all of them blurry? Yeah? We had that discussion. Yeah,
that old Mitch Hedberg joke off here. Maybe that's just
how Bigfoot is. Maybe he's just a blurry dude and
answers a lot of questions for me. You know, here's
here's one that um vehicle we talked about off in

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the Tesla models. Now, one of the I guess more
publicized Easter eggs on this vehicle is the ludicrous speed mode.
And you know, we've seen lots of videos of that
and it's pretty insane. I mean zero to sixty and
two point to eight seconds, which makes it I think
it's the fastest accelerating production car in the world. At
least it was I don't know if it still is
or not. Turn around. Yeah, now that's okay. So that's

(37:20):
an easter egg right there. I mean someone found that
mode and made it work, and I think again highly publicized,
likely that the factory you know, came out and said, hey,
by the way, we can do this. It's good press, right.
Some other things that they won't tell you about it, though.
There's there's something called this is a really weird one.
If you're a fan of Mario Kart, you know that
you can't drive on something called the Rainbow Road, and

(37:42):
on the um that the display inside a Tesla Model
s you were able to turn on the Rainbow Road
from Mario Kart if you know the right trick to
turn it on. You have to turn turn on autopilot
four times in a row to get this to happen.
But you will then see on your display exactly like
what you would find a Mario Kart. Strange, right, that's

(38:03):
not That's not the strangest thing, though. There's a couple
of other things. Um, there is a mode here. I'm
gonna have to search in my notes here for it.
But um, there's a way to turn the icon of
the vehicle in that center display. You know how you
can kind of monitor the controls the vehicle and you
know the speeds, and it'll tell you, you you know, all

(38:24):
the stats of the car. I guess right, there's a
way that and I can't find the note here, but
you can turn the vehicle into the James Bond submarine
car on the screen. And I guess that's one of
Ellen Musk's you know, favorite you know, movie cars, I
guess is the submarine car. So you're able to turn
it into that. And not only that, it'll it'll give
you the the UM specs in things like you know,

(38:47):
leagues and knots and things like that. So it gets
all maritime on you if you want to put it
that way, right, which I think is I think is
cool because all right, again, obviously we should acknowledge this,
the idea of the ludicrous speed mode being in uh
an easter Egg. It's a little bit different because it
directly affects performance. Oh that's right, yes, so is it?

(39:11):
That's funny. We we hadn't really talked. We we actually
early on we said I don't think any of these
do affect performance, but but that is one that does.
UM And now that. Of course, you know, changing your
car to a submarine on the screen, which is cool
to do, but but you know, it doesn't affect performance
in any way. Nor does the volume controls on that

(39:31):
vehicle which happened to go up to eleven, which is
anybody knows who's you know pop culture will know that
you know the movie or the mockumentary, I guess comedy.
This is spinal tap. Of course you know the control
is called way up to eleven. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
got lovely reverb. So you can still here. I think,
I think I think everybody knows that one. I mean,

(39:54):
I know next nothing about pop culture, and even I
know spinal tap, so I can do it, so can you?
Speaking of speaking of phenomenal legendary uh segways, let's pause
for a commercial break. We've returned and we're starting to

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wrap it up. This is going to uh this is
gonna be our collection of a few more examples of
East Eggs that we thoroughly enjoy, and please take us
up on our question. We'd like to hear East Eggs
that you found that you think your fellow listeners would
like to learn more about. Also, you don't have to

(40:41):
write in and tell us the ones that we've talked
about that truly aren't easter eggs. I think we've we've
argued that the case that they're probably not. You know,
some of them are, some of them mark. But here's
one that really is an Easter egg. Um. The Dodge
Viper s RT has track outlines hidden throughout the cabin,
so racetrack outlines. You know how a lot of times
performance cars will have tray recent track outlines on the
back window, you know, like maybe a track they've driven. Um,

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if you look carefully at the plastic piece in front
of the window switch on a on a Viper s RT,
you'll find an outline of the Nurburgring and somewhere in
there I don't know exactly where this is, so maybe
a listener who owns one of these can tell us,
but there's a hidden outline of Master Raceway. Um, you
know Laguna Seca track as well. I don't know exactly
where that one is. But but the other one, again,

(41:25):
that's right in front of the windows switch, you can
find the nurburg Ring. Kind of cool, yeah, neat stuff
like that. Viper has a couple of things. Remember we
talked about the techometer, the flashes the snake, right, I
think they have Okay, they have that, you know, the outlines.
I guess there's also and again not really an easter egg,
but sometimes it gets lumped into this. Is that the

(41:45):
badge on the back when you step on the brakes,
the snake emblem, the head, you know, the snakehead that flashes.
Uh so it's like, yeah, it's kind of neat. I
guess it's an interesting idea, but one that I would
count this one solidly in the Easter egg category. Tenth
generation Honda Civics. Now we're talking about two thousand sixteen

(42:07):
Honna Civics and and only e X trim levels and
higher have this this feature that we're gonna talk about.
But uh, there's a there's a rubber mat that that's
inside the center console of the new Civic and if
you pull that out and flip it over on the
underside of that map, there's a picture history of the
Honda brand. There are four different designs and each one
has a unique element of Honda that it showcases. So

(42:29):
you know, like there'll be like motorcycles of multiple varieties.
There's Formula one cars from different generations. There's aircraft, sports cars.
I think even you know that robot Asimo he's on there.
Um and lots of detail. I guess it's it's really
it's pretty impressive the stuff that they put on the
bottom of these. Now there are four different varieties of this,

(42:50):
this bit of artwork, and I call it artwork because
they're pretty interesting. So if you if you have four
friends or three other friends that have tenth generation Honda Civics, uh,
they're e X trim levels and higher, you know, check
out what they have under their met You might all
have different ones and be kind of cool. But you know,
if you can't find that, you can find all the
photos online that they're pretty easy to spot, but or

(43:11):
to you know, google keyword search and see exactly what
we're talking about. Um. We mentioned earlier to the Mazda
r X eight and the design theme. We were gonna
talk about design themes, and I think Renegade, we've decided
a lot of that is a design theme, not all
of it, but a lot of it with the X
and you know the I suppose even the serge grill,

(43:33):
you know that that's buried in there everywhere inside the
Mazda r X eight. There's rotary everything, and I'll describe
what I mean. Well, you know the the rotary piston design, right,
the rotors shape is kind of a UM three point design,
right like almost like a bit like a triangle, right, Um,
not exactly a triangle, but you'll see it everywhere inside

(43:56):
the car, outside the car. It's just all over the place.
And of course that's a nod to the the rotary
powered history of the Mazda vehicles. So um, you'll find
it in the seats, You'll find in the wheel cutouts,
the shift knob, the center stack. I mean, it's just
it's everywhere. So again I think that falls under a
design theme. But you'll find them everywhere. So you know,
the more you look, the more you'll find on that

(44:17):
particular vehicle. I've got one that I've forgot to mention
what we're talking about, Tesla. What's that? Do you remember
when the Model X came out? This is not I
don't know if this is really an Easter Egg, but
it's cool, but it violates two parts of our Easter
egg definition. One, it does have a function, and to

(44:38):
it's readily apparent, it's the feature they had on the
Model X UM that they showed at the unveiling a
bioweapon defense mode. Do you remember this? No, it's a
real thing. And elm Musk presented it by saying, this
is a real button. I'm not going to do his accent.
Do you have an okay impression of him? Um? And

(45:00):
he was talking about how clean the air quality inside
the Model X is and all you have to do
is push that button and the air filter will kick
in to keep you safe. It's ten times larger than
a car's normal air filter. But the fact, yeah, here's
the photo of it. Um. The the part of it

(45:24):
makes me on the fence about whether this knees dragg is.
Of course he revealed it so you don't have to
search for it. But I think that's a cool at
least at the very least it's a cool name. Well,
I think didn't he revealed the Ludicrous mode as well too,
So yeah, so he is. He kind of reveals these
these Easter eggs, but then again does that make them
not Easter eggs? The well, he recently also said that

(45:45):
they're going to come clean about those and pretty soon
you'll be able to access all the Easter eggs with
a single touch, including the do we mention the sketch
pad in the same car that has that rainbow road
feature which I don't remember if we mentioned this. Um.
When you started up and you get the Mario Kart screen,

(46:09):
you hear the first few measures of a version of
Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cold. But it's
not their actual version. It's the Saturday Night Live version
with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walking. More cowbell, I need
more cow bell. Yeah, that's the one that's funny. That's
kind of fever and the only thing that's the only

(46:29):
killer is more cow bell. That's funny. He's drawing again,
more pop culture references. He's thrown into this car. So
there's also a sketch pad. If you tap the t
at the top of the main monitor three times, the
entire touch screen turns into a sketch pad with a
full color palette. Oh that's pretty neat. Yeah, you got
like Microsoft paint basically, Well that's what it looks like.

(46:49):
I was just gonna say, it looks like about the
level of Microsoft Paint. And then when you do this sketch,
you can send it to Tesla for a critique. No
word on whether Mr Musk himself looks at the Now,
that's that's see, that's a nice touch. I thought that.
I thought it was cool, and I can't believe I
forgot to mention that's pretty good. That's that's really good.
I haven't seen that one anywhere. Um, okay, I'm back

(47:12):
to a couple more from my list here. Um, we
mentioned earlier, I guess there's a Chryso Pacific, new Chrysi Pacific.
It looks more like a minivan now at this point,
a lot more like a minivan. But we said that
they have an umbrella holder, which isn't kind of nice, right, Um,
if you look carefully at that at that umbrella holder,
for some reason, they've put in a I guess the

(47:33):
sun in clouds and so it reminds you of son
of your times. When you look at that umbrella holder,
which is it a easter egg? It kind of is,
I mean, because you have to look very carefully to
see it. It's kind of like the spider thing I
guess serves no purpose, is just there. Um here's another
thing that really I mean, I guess this kind of
serves a purpose, but it's interesting and I had never

(47:54):
known this before. On the new Corvette, the C seven Corvette.
If you look at UM, you know the edge the
windscreen at the back, you know, the rear windscreen, UM,
you'll see that there's a pattern that's along the edge
of the window tin. So you know how UM oftentimes
will just be a series of dots. UH. Let that
lead up to uh, you know, clear glass or you know,
down to the darkest part of the window, right where

(48:15):
all the ceilings and all that stuff is. UM. If
you look carefully at that at that area though, that
that area between the bottom of the window and you
know the clear glass, you'll find that it's not really
just that nondescript dotting or hashing that's normally there, but
it's made up of hundreds of tiny cross flag Corvette
logo silhouettes, so you know, the flags that that's what

(48:37):
it is. And if you look really, really carefully, you'll
see that pattern emerge. It's kind of cool and and
I think, UM, you know another thing about the Corvette.
There's one more that I want to mention here. UM.
On the Corvette z R one, there's the Jake mascot
that appears on the UM. I think it's on the intake. Yeah,
the intake for all z R one Corvettes. Now the

(48:57):
Jake UM Low well, I guess you can call it
a mascot. Really, logo UM comes from Corvette Racing, and
that's that's kind of interesting to put that on the
road car as well. And the origin of that is
back in way back in two thousand four at Lama.
This was the last UM season or the last race
I guess with the C C five r uh, you know,

(49:18):
the previous model, and they had this kind of this
model I guess it was like I Take no prisoners
kind of motto, and they had kind of a crude
UM skull and crossbones I think are just a skull
maybe UM drawing that was on the pit wall, and
somebody spotted that and said, hey, that's kind of cool.
Let's see if we can incorporate that into our uh
you know, the next season, our two thous five season somehow,

(49:38):
you know, it's like our it'll be like our mascot.
And so that's what happened. So for the C six
are in two thousand five it became the official racing
mascot for Team Corvette, which I think is kind of
neat and they and they use that. It's just like
it looks like a skull, but the eyes and the
nose are created from again the twin flags, you know,
the racing flags. And you'll you'll kind of catch this

(50:01):
thing here and there on newer corvettes just all over
the place, you know, whether it's under the hood or
it's inside. Um, they try to hide it lots of places.
So so take a look for that. That's awesome, man, Yeah,
that's a good one. It reminds me. UM. One of
the things that we didn't mention because they're really tough
to track are the Easter eggs that were put in

(50:23):
not production wide, but by individuals working in assembly plants.
You know what I mean. You know, where like some
guy puts his initials on the inside of a door
frame and there's no way you would see it unless
you disassemble it. There is no way to tell how
many of those sorts of things exist. You know. It's funny. Okay,

(50:44):
this this is a little bit off topic. I've got
a few more to mention before we stop. But UM,
a lot of times when people are um tearing down
a house or tearing down a wall inside their house
in order to uh, in order to you know, make
an expansion of some kind or you know, do renovations
or what ever. They'll find things written on the walls
or on on you know, the the wall studs that

(51:05):
the messages from the builders to other bit. Like some
jokester might write a message on a two by four
and send it up on a you know, a polly
up to a guy up on the second floor and
you know it had lunchtime or whatever, and uh, and
they they just built it right into the house and
you never know it's there, the messages there, or they'll
leave like a beer bottle, uh, in between the wall,
you know, so so that you never find it until
you know that wall is torn down or you know whatever.

(51:27):
You can think of anything that could be stashed in
between the walls, and it's probably there. And that happens
in cars. I think there was a story um boy there.
I don't remember exactly what they found, but I think
inside one of the Queen's cars, I think it was
a Jaguar, they found a bunch of unusual things that
were kind of built into the car. I don't I
don't remember what. I can't remember. It was his writing

(51:49):
or if it was something that was actually stowed in there,
um intentionally. So we want to point that out because
what what we're talking about, right, The easiest things for
most people to find are going to be production wide
easter eggs, meaning that every Jeep Renegade that rolls off

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the lot is going to have that topographical map at
the bottom of the center console. And there's as far
as we can tell, there's no way to accurately trace
how many workers at every auto plant in the history
of cars. Has ever you know, thought I'm gonna write

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Ben was here, Yeah, on the slide, another slide. But
there are other cars that that that people that build
it do sign intentionally too, that's true. Um, you know,
of course there's other people that have you know that
they apply tags, you know, like whether it be a
silver tag or a metal tag that's stamped into the
engine that says, you know, this is the person who
built your engine. Usually that's a higher end vehicle, of course,

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but there's some prestige and what's the word cachet? Yeah,
I guess. So let's talk about a couple others that
before where we wrap up here. But um, I think
we've pretty much covered most of most of mine. There's
one that we had forgotten to mention for the for
the Mustang. If you've got a two thousand ten Ford
Mustang GT, go outside and take a look at your

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Sun Advisor, you know, the one on the passenger side
or driver's side, and you know there's a vanity mirror there,
and the cover that covers the vanity mirror is shaped
exactly like the hood of the car. I had notice that. Ever, Yeah,
I'm not a Mustang driver, but I guess no one
had ever pointed that out to me, that you know,
it's shape exactly like the hood of the car. Huh.

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And think about it. That's kind of a strange one.
That's a that's a neat one. I think, I think
what else you got? Well, see, I think I got
one more decent one. It's one that we kind of
teased at the I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm telling you,
I'm gonna eliminate about ten of these and indecent. Now
they're not indecent, it's just that they don't you know
how We've we've talked about several of these that just

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really aren't Easter eggs, like features or design characteristics. Okay,
so I just really got one more good one and
then we'll wrap it up. But um, the BMW Z four,
this is one of those things that when I tell
you about it, if you don't know this already, you
can't unsee this. So if you look at a Z four,
you know the roadster, I guess, look at it from
the side, and you know, the driver's side is what

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I'm looking at here. And if you follow the hood
line across back to about the windshield, that's the top
edge of the letter Z. And once you see it,
you can't stop seeing this. The the you know, the
the diagonal slash goes right through the logo on the
on the front quarter panel and then the bottom of
the Z goes back into the door. It trails back
into the door, and it's so it's right behind the

(54:36):
front wheel essentially, and once you see it, you can't
stop seeing it. I've I've been looking at cars in
traffic now and seeing the Z every time I see
them go by. Every time. Uh yeah, it's strange, pretty
cool though, I guess, I guess. I mean, it's just
it was intentionally done that way, and he made made
to see the big Z from the side of course

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for uh, you know Z four. But I thought that
was an interesting one. If you could ever if you
could ever institute your own Easter egg in a vehicle,
any vehicle. I know, it's a big question. Do you
want it to be more specific? Mm hmmm, I don't know, Ben,
what what would it be? What what would yours be?

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And then maybe I'll have a minute to think about mine.
I would probably if it were just for I would
probably go funny. So I would try to think of
a relatively obscure nowadays celebrity or something, or a bygone catchphrase.

(55:39):
You know what. Okay, this is terrible, we mess with people.
So not every time, but sometimes maybe like let's say
one out of a hundred and fifty times, I would
have it so that when you start a vehicle, it
just starts playing Convoy by C. W. McCall again, not

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every time, not every time, not every fifth time, and
every tenth and ever, every like hundred and fiftieth time,
just enough that you would lose count of how many times?
And how about like not not even something that plays
through the speakers, but like it just comes from behind
the dash somewhere, you know, it's kind its undedicated speaker.
Oh that's pretty funny. But now is that like an

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Easter egg? Or am I just pranking an unsuspecting car owner?
I think that, you know, it would be kind of funny.
And I don't know if this would be an Easter
egg really again, it would be more of a prank,
I suppose. But you know, a lot of cars have
built in GPS, so so every now and then just
throw this in there like and again wouldn't be every
time because it would be caught right away, but every
now and then it'd be like, you know, turn turn right,

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ont jerk, you know, like a little pause and then
like it throws in an insult, you know, but but
it like it would and you'd think, did I just
hear that? And then even if you know, once it
repeats it, when it's like turn right in fifty feet,
it doesn't have it there, you know, and so on.
But that would be kind of fun if it, if
if it would insult you just just enough, like just enough,

(57:06):
you know. But but for real Easter egg like this,
to design something, I feel like the best ones are
the ones that you have to uncover, the ones that
you have to take something apart in order to access it,
you know, like to like the like the um Honda
Civic Matt, I guess, And that's not really taking a part.
I mean you pull them like something inside the engine
for instance. Yeah, it's not. It's not right out in

(57:28):
the open, it's it's inside. You have something that you
would have to know to go and look for or
stumble across in some way. And I don't know what
that would be, I guess because it would be modeled specific,
you know, I could have to be. If it's sports
car would be one thing. If it was a luxury
car would be something different. What if okay, yeah, so
for a generic car, what if, for instance, you had

(57:49):
something at the bottom um of the of the battery
housing battery seating, where when you took the battery out
to change it, it would be a picture of doctor
Frankenstein or the guy from Young Frankenstein. And with like
a word, Bubble says, it's a lie. How very cool. Look,
I'm just using now, I'm just using cars as a
platform to make terrible jokes. That would be a good one,

(58:11):
like something stamped into the metal. Maybe. Well, here's why
it's kind of a jerk move man. Because they're changing
the battery. The car is obviously dead, that's true. So
is it encouraging, Well, I think it is your you
wanted to be alive, right, I mean that's why you're
putting in a new battery. I mean it's better than
having that kid that belief from the Simpsons. What's his name, Nelson?

(58:34):
Now that's a funny idea. All right, well you heard
it here first, folks, and let us know if you
institute these designs. Yeah, now, okay, So so we've covered
a ton of things here today. Now we we have
admitted that a lot of these are not They just
happen to make it onto lists of things that people
think are Easter eggs. But there are some genuine Easter
eggs here. I'd love to hear from our listeners about

(58:57):
some genuine Easter eggs that they found on their vehicle,
for sure. Yeah, because there's gotta be there. There must
be thousands more of them out there. I mean, things
that we just don't know about it. And again, some
of them are joking, you know, like the shark or
the spider, you know, the Italian, the Italian speaking spider,
stuff like that. But I'd like to know some of
the some of the ones that you found on your own. Yes, likewise,

(59:19):
we voted unanimously. Let's check with our super producer. You're
cool with that, Alex. No, you're kind of cool. Oh
he's waiting on a nickname. Oh he does nickname. We've
done it again. We've what a mess, what a mess?
You've gotten this into it, I've gotten this into Okay.
So so it's up to you now. Oh it's on

(59:39):
the final minute of the show. Are you gonna do? Oh? Okay,
thanks Scott, thanks for this opportunity. Uh, okay, I'm gonna go.
I don't want to take too long because I'm gonna
go with my first instinct, which would be Alex the
Sarge Williams not bad, not bad, not bad at ties
right in with the episode, was thinking Serge grill. But

(59:59):
that's a little too far. It makes it sound like
he's got a weird thing. Stick with a single syllable.
It works, you know, And and I don't have anything better.
So there you go. All right, there you go, Sarge Sarge.
I don't think he likes it. I don't think that
was thumbs up. But here we are, and we want
to hear about your Easter eggs. We do hope you

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