July 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Can a single cyberattack bring an entire industry to its knees? Discover how the recent breach at CDK Global impacted over 15,000 car dealerships across the U.S., forcing many to revert to old-school manual processes. We also bring you an exciting scoop about Toyota's innovative move to build a Japanese-style hotel in Plano, Texas, aimed at making Japanese executives feel right at home. And for a touch of humor, we share some lighthearted family stories about preparing for hurricane season.
Shocking recalls have hit the automotive world—Ford's massive recall of half a million F-150s due to dangerous powertrain issues, and Tesla's dual recalls of the 2024 Cybertruck over defects in the windshield wiper motor and trunk body trim. Mercedes-Benz and Toyota aren't off the hook either, facing their own sets of safety concerns. We also reflect on how vehicles like the Honda Ridgeline have grown in size and cost, sharing our personal takes on these evolving trends in the auto market.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute
mini version of the In WheelTime Car Show that airs live
every Saturday morning 8 to 11am, central.
Turn the page.
Welcome to the In Wheel TimeCar Talk Show.
(00:23):
Reading your teleprompter?
Yeah, we've been here for overan hour and guess who's not
ready Me?
Me Well, coming up, we're goingto have a discussion about CDK,
which is the softwaremanagement company that was
hacked and has pretty much shutdown 15,000 dealers across the
(00:46):
United States, although thingsare starting to come back online
, but I think the damage hasbeen done.
Jeff has this week's racingcalendar.
Mr Mars offers the five worstcars ever made.
Perfect, howdy Along with Mikeout of this world, mars.
We always need more.
Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
Glad you could join us on thisSaturday for our live show, if
(01:07):
this is a podcast that you'relistening to.
Well, thank you very much forjoining in.
We appreciate you tuning in tous.
This morning.
Our first guest bailed out, andso we've got kind of an open
segment here.
Actually, I kind of like theseat least one per show Every now
and then.
Yeah, it's good.
So I did want to, and since Iwent inside and got the story
(01:31):
out.
I thought this would be a goodtime to do this.
A week after two cyber attacksforced CDK Global to shut down
its software for thousands ofdealerships in North America,
the dealership management systemcompany has made progress
getting operations back up.
Cdk said June 28th it wascontinuing to use a phased
(01:52):
approach to gradually and safelyreboot its DMS dealer
management software system forthe more than 15,000 customers
affected by the shutdown.
More than 15,000 customersaffected by the shutdown.
So it's a major, major thornfor everybody that subscribes to
the CDK platform.
Dealer management systemincludes things like inventory
(02:17):
management, sales, makingcontracts and getting you all
set up for financing, if that'swhat you want.
Parts service, the maid thatscrubs the toilets.
It takes all of that intoconsideration and it kind of
helps dealerships do businessRight.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So when you say 15,000 customers, you're talking
about 15,000 dealerships, which, literally, you're talking a
minimum of 100 people at adealership.
So you're talking what 150,000people impacted immediately.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But there's also breakdowns.
After that, you said inventory.
What kind of inventory?
There's inventory of the floorplan of the cars themselves.
There's inventory of the parts.
There's inventory of tires.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All of that is part of that system so it's not only
systems invoicing the dms isjust the umbrella and then
there's subsidiaries down belowthat, yeah are affected, and I I
can only imagine, over thewhatever 30, 40 years of
development of this softwaresystem and it, you know, offers
more and more and more and moreas the years go by that dealers.
(03:26):
Does a dealer even know how todo a manual written contract
anymore?
That's what they started to do.
Where you take the big thickpad of paper.
That's that long Five copiespress hard.
Yeah, that's it, that's whatthey were doing.
So imagine that trying to buy acar.
Matter of fact, when this firstcame out, I heard that there
(03:46):
were some dealerships that said,look, we'll sell you a car, but
you can't take it because wedon't have a contract and we
can't just let the car walk offthe showroom floor.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
They could bail them.
They put them on a bailment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But whatever the case may be, it's a huge, huge
problem and I think that slowlybut surely, they're bringing
dealerships.
Basically, they're startingwith these big groups like Auto
One, auto.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Nation, auto Nation, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yep.
So there is that.
That's the big story in theautomotive world today.
That's the big thing.
Oh, there's a new automotiveworld today.
That's the big thing.
Oh, it's a new story out today.
Automotive news.
I just thought this was reallyinteresting.
Of course, you know, toyotamoved from their headquarters
(04:39):
from Torrance, california, toTexas, kind of like Elon has
done, but they did it beforeElon.
Well, finally, now that they'veannounced some billion-dollar
expansion of the plant, outsideSan Antonio, a hotel blending
Japanese style andsophistication with Texas
(05:00):
hospitality is slated to risenear Toyota North America's
headquarters in suburban Dallas.
The 217-room Miyako Hotel isdesigned in part to give
Japanese executives visitingToyota's campus in Plano and
nearby suppliers a comfortableoasis reminiscent of home.
(05:21):
The project was announced in2019 but but delayed by COVID-19
pandemic.
Construction now is underway.
They expect it to beginActually, it's started to take
place in 2025.
It's already on the blueprintdrawing boards, With the
14-story hotel opening bymid-2027.
Here you go, jeff.
(05:41):
Planned amenities include arooftop teppanyaki bar with
panoramic views of the Texasprairie, outdoor steam rooms and
a bakery serving artisticJapanese pastries.
A garden will mix cherryblossom trees and Japanese
maples with native North Texasplants Cactus Desert While
(06:05):
exterior lighting will resemblepaper lanterns, rooms will have
traditional japanese teapots andtatami mats whatever that is,
oh.
While the decor willincorporate shoji screens and
wallpaper with japanese motifs.
That's home.
Book me a room today, would you?
(06:27):
It's not just for the executivesfrom.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Japan and the fridge in the room.
You got little bottles of sakein there.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, little signs that say sake to me, and then
you go, there, you go.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just popped into my mind.
It did.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's all that brown water you've been drinking this
week.
Morris, we had a longdiscussion before we went on the
air this morning about, youknow, what are we going to do
for a hurricane with his95-year-old mother and that sort
of thing, and the thing thatyou left out you know plans to
evacuate Neiderville over there,and the thing that you left out
is cases of brown water, casesupon cases, and I'm thinking
(07:10):
that if you do it the right way,you can time it just right for
the opening of the Miyako Hotel.
Ooh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, you get to wear one of those saris.
Who's sorry, who's saris, who'ssorry, who's sorry now, who's
sorry?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
now let's see what else do we have in the news that
I wanted to bring to you thismorning.
Sorry, I really wasn't tooprepared to be able to fill 30
minutes with nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, we've got stuff to do.
I know we've got plenty ofstuff.
I've got a whole stack of stuffhere.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I did want to do the recalls this week.
Okay, because I want to getthem in?
Because there's someinteresting ones that popped up
Rearview camera image may notdisplay Interesting ones that
popped up Rearview camera imagemay not display.
This is an ongoing problemacross multiple brands of cars,
including Stellantis, chrysler,jeep, ram, dodge, basically from
(08:15):
21 to 2023 model years, all ofthose being recalled.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This sounds like that's a vendor issue it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's a problem with whoever made the software or the
camera itself.
All the manufacturers with thesame product.
Ford Motor Company is recallinga half a million F-150s in the
US because of an issue with thepowertrain control module that
could unintentionally downshiftthe vehicle into first gear.
Now imagine this here you go,you're running down the highway
at 75 miles an hour and then allof a sudden it decides that it
wants to downshift to first.
(08:50):
So you go from sixth or eighthgear or tenth gear to first gear
.
Well, you know what that'sgoing to do.
It's going to hurt something.
It's going to hurt something,including yourself possibly,
because if it goes that far,it's going to break the
transmission and it's also goingto lock up the rear wheels or
all four wheels or whatever it'sconnected to, and you will lose
(09:11):
control.
You will do that.
So that's for the F-150s.
That's not good, and you knowFord has really had a major
problem with recalls.
I think that they lead theindustry in the number of
recalls right now.
Oh, mercedes is close behindTesla.
(09:31):
Two recalls of its 2024 uglyCybertruck because of defects in
the front windshield wiper andthe trunk body trim.
Front windshield motor may stopfunctioning in 11,688.2
affected vehicles, increasingthe risk of a crash.
They'll replace the windshieldwiper motor and then also
(09:53):
they're recalling about the samenumber about 12,000, because of
a detachment risk in the trunkbed trim.
Axiom Plastics is the partsupplier.
According to the report, teslawill replace or rework the
applique.
Okay, an applique to me is asticker.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I don't understand that.
It's probably somethinginstructional?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I know you're working on brown water thoughts, but
would you?
Like me to do some more now.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
No, no, yeah, yeah, I just got confused on the
sticker blowing off why that wassuch a big deal.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Multiple camera images may not display in the
Toyota Crown.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh yeah, that's the new model, the new scene.
Yeah, we looked at the one ofthose, uh, when kathy was
looking at uh, her lexus.
She was looking at the the uh,camry, and the crown was out
there and then she switched overto the lexus.
But yeah, she, uh, she lookedat it?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
does it take the place of the Avalon?
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's a good-looking car, f-150, here we go for 2021.
Ota BCM software update maydisable reverse lights.
Mercedes-benz, you mentionedthem.
Misrouted harness may corrode.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
In short, circus Short circus, that's for them,
circus animals, you put theharness on.
They're your mother-in-law.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mercedes-Benz AMG, cls 53, e 53, gt 43, and GT 53.
2019 through 2023 models andthe C 300 from Mercedes-Benz.
22-23.
Wire connected to the pre-fusebox could be loose.
Ooh, hate those loose wires.
Vw recalling a quarter of amillion vehicles in the US over
(11:58):
concerns that the frontpassenger airbags may not deploy
when the seat is activated.
21-24 Atlas and 20 to 24 AtlasCross Sport.
Toyota let's not leave them out.
Don't leave them out.
Recalling 145,000 newcrossovers in the US due to an
issue with airbag deployment.
Recalls cover the 2024 Lexus TXwhich I was supposed to get
(12:25):
Thursday.
They won't deliver it to mebecause it's under recall.
The Lexus TX, lexus TX Hybridand Toyota Grand Highlander and
Grand Highlander Hybrid beingrecalled.
Notification letters will besent out August the 5th.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I guess you have a special purpose for a Highlander
.
I'm not into the big boxiness.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The Highlander used to actually was the original
Lexus RX when it was small andtiny.
There's nothing small and tinyavailable anymore.
Yeah, this is too big Matter offact.
Speaking of that, I want you toknow that I took delivery of
that car that I have sitting outthere right now, the Ridgeline,
(13:09):
and the jury's still out onthat.
Oh boy, $56,000.
Wow, and so they've grown it.
As all vehicles, it never fails.
Why?
Why do they keep making itbigger and bigger and bigger?
That's not the model that Iknow and I've grown to love.
Oh, you're going to make itbigger and bigger and bigger.
That's not the model that Iknow and I've grown to love.
(13:31):
Oh, you're going to make itbigger.
I'll have another one of those.
How many people actually dothat when they go to buy a car?
Okay, so I had my original,whatever it was Lexus 1999, I
think the RX that I had and thenthe next model comes out, and
the next model comes out.
(13:54):
What's wrong, mars?
Why are you over here doingthis?
He's touching stuff.
What did you say?
I'm not hearing it.
Why not?
I don't know.
It looks like it's on.
It may be me.
He always likes to do thesesorts of things and have us all
worried that we're not gettingout on the Internet, and I don't
quite understand he's checking?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, it's what he does .
He checks and, you know, dialsin.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So they keep growing them and making them bigger and,
of course, charging more money.
So the Honda Ridgeline that Ihave out there, which is a
basically it is a cord with atruck body on it, it's kind of
like the old well name one, theFord Ranchero or the Chevy El
(14:41):
Camino.
Well, this is the new versionof that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It's a small version of like an Avalanche on the GM
side to me, the Ridgeline, yeah,yeah, the pickup truck, yeah,
that out there with it's asmaller version of what an
avalanche would be.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't know about that, but I can tell you, I can
tell you that it's just a design, it is a, it is a big, what
they call a mid-sized truck.
And in fact somebody said to methe other day he says, oh, you
know, um, I sure did like that,uh, that you were driving, I
guess, with the Colorado or theMaverick or something.
And I said, well, that's aboutthe only truck now that will fit
(15:20):
inside your garage, because ahalf-ton pickup truck will not
fit.
Do you remember the one that Ihad out there, that I stood in
front of?
Yeah, and the top of the hoodwas at my shoulder?
Yeah, I am six foot one.
That thing is huge, got the biglift, big tires big off-road
package.
It just is like holy cow.
(15:41):
Why do you keep making it sobig?
Can't get it in the garage.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I miss all of them now.
I had an uncle call me thisweek and he was asking me about
he wants to downsize to amidsize so that he can get
something in the garage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The midsize is about the size of the old full-size
1500.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's what I told him.
He's got a 2002 one-ton Ramthat he drives for his RV.
I said you need to go get himone of of these because it's
really going to be about thesize of your regular cab 2002
truck.
Yeah, I said you're going to besurprised that it's not the
mid-size, just really aren'tthat small.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
When they first came out with them, we all thought of
them as our old mini trucks theford, the original ford ranger,
or the S10 or whatever it is.
No, it's not that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Not anymore.
No, they've all got steroids onthem, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, the other problem is the fact that the
price of them that Ridgelinethat I just took delivery of out
there, the sticker on it is$56,000.
What For a unibody.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Truck, truck and.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
For a unibody Truck Truck.
And then I had the discussionOkay, so who actually uses a
truck these days?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
for what a truck is built for Towing and hauling the
ordinary family, notnecessarily daily basis or
weekly basis.
It's more for a commercial guy,because you don't see a family
down the road hauling bales ofhay.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I actually don't see a family in pickup trucks.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's usually one guy yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And I just don't understand.
I mean, if you're going to usethe truck to haul your camper,
okay, I get it, got it.
Yeah, if you've got loads ofmulch every week that you're
delivering, pulling a great biglawn trailer or something, I get
(17:41):
it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What are you doing?
I'm pointing at that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
He's watching the clock.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, I'm watching the clock.
I'm going to take that clockdown you just put it up.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I did, I just put it up.
All right, we shall take abreak.
Oh my gosh, because Jeff isgetting nervous and anxious.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Over here Is your middle name Nelly Nelly, nelly,
nervous, nelly Nelly.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
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What?
Umpteen thousand, umpteenthousand.
Who's counting?
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Jeff's counting, I'm counting, count on that Well,
yeah, so thank you very much.
We appreciate you.
We normally have a guest inthis segment, but we didn't
today, because they bailed on usat the last minute and Mars was
deep into his brown watercocktails when it was time to
find somebody else.
(21:25):
There's some interesting newsout of Detroit and the fact that
I'm not sure about new carshows anymore.
More people have bailed on theDetroit Auto Show, even though
they're moving it back to itsoriginal January, january or
(21:47):
February whenever it is deep inthe wintertime in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It kicked off the automotive season in Detroit.
Yeah, kicked it off foreverybody.
Yeah, I used to go.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, well, we all used to go to the new car shows.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, specifically, the one in Detroit.
Yeah, cobo Hall, yeah, well, weall used to go to the new car
shows.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, specifically, the one in.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Detroit yeah, cobo Hall, all that, yeah, growing up
as a kid.
Is Cobo Hall still there?
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But that thing was built.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What back in the 40s or 50s, something like that.
It's old, old very old.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, I did see a date for the Houston Auto Show,
so they're still planning on itin January.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We'll see how that goes, because you know the
manufacturers are going.
We've got better ways to reachour potential purchasers of our
vehicles.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
They think there is anyway, yeah, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, at any rate, all right.
Well, let's do the racingcalendar, shall we?
Yep, jeff has that sponsored bytexas muscle car club challenge
yeah, and what we've got?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
uh, you racing is a couple, couple of events.
The imsa and the indie guys areoff until the middle of july,
coming up very soon.
Uh, you've got nhra at thesummit racing equipment, nhra
Nationals in Norwalk and, ofcourse, last week we all know
the crash of John Force.
They put him in the hospitaland I believe he's still in the
(23:08):
hospital.
John was checking the reportthis morning.
Severity of injuries are for us, we're speculating, but he does
have, I'm sure, a concussionand some other bodily.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I think it's more serious than that, because they
moved him from intensive caregeneral uh over to the
neurological intensive careright.
So, and his, his, he's beingwatched by his family.
As a matter of fact, uh, ashley, or britney, is one.
One of the daughters is withhim 24 hours a day, seven days a
week.
So, uh, very serious injury forjohn forrest and we wish them
(23:41):
the best of luck, yep.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And then you've got NASCAR.
Nascar is in Nashville Speedway.
The race is on NBC.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Mic tickets are still available if you want to go NBC
, you mean the Nobody Carestelevision network, yeah, nobody
cares.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And then you've got the Qatar Airways Austrian Grand
Prix practice.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
They're racing in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Racing in the snow capped mountains and all that
good stuff, and that's being puton by the Red Bull Ring and,
like I said, indy is off and sois IMSA, and I think that'll
cover that for just a segment.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There we go.
Mr Mars has put togethersomething special for all of us.
Because, I bet everybody hastheir own story about one of the
five worst cars ever made.
I don't know why you justnarrowed it down to five.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, because of time I just figured out time because
it's so subjective as to what'sgood, what's bad and what's the
worst and what's the best.
So this is just five of theones that you might can put a
little data behind to say thatthis is one of the worst
vehicles and, for example, onethat comes to mind real quick
and easy is the Ford Pinto.
(24:51):
It was manufactured from 1971to 1980.
It was a very popular car andthey sold a bajillion of them.
They really did, they sold.
In fact, the first year theysold 220,000.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Is that rust on that and they recalled every one of
them.
I think they used to call themexploders.
I think they did.
Yeah, they did.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But before that the gas fumes got into the cab or
the passenger compartment and sothat was the reason they had to
recall all of them.
But it came in three models andit blew up a lot and it was
only if you hit it True, and ithad a lot of recalls and it was
a big problem for Ford, so theyquit manufacturing that.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
There's mine, the Vega Ladies and gentlemen, I had
two of them, did you, I did, Ihad a 72, and then I went all
into a 74 you know, I reallyalways liked the way those look
like like a baby camaro orsomething, yeah and uh.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know, they never did really come with a lot of
big power or anything and it wasjust kind of stylish, but they
had a tendency to break down alot.
They had overheating problemsthe aluminum engine was the part
of the problem, it just wouldget too hot didn't they have a
Copo version of that?
They had a Cosworth version.
It was a little bit of a hotrod.
They sold 2 million over 2million of these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That was one of the morons that bought them but I
never had a problem with mine.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I thought they were really cool, the ones that did
the V8 conversion andparticularly the little wagon.
It just looked really cool.
But another one that was outthere that really didn't do so
well was the AMC Gremlin.
It had kind of a quirky designto it, kind of boxy, but it also
had reliability issues and itdidn't really run very fast.
(26:36):
It didn't even sell very good.
Actually, it was made from 1970to 1978.
They only sold 671 000 of thosevehicles total so it just uh,
you know, it just didn't turnout to be very popular although
they make some pretty good hotrods right now they do then you
know the, the one your favorite,probably don, is the corvair.
(26:56):
Oh god, you know, this is notthe first model.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, not the first model.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
No, not the first model.
I mean they were built from1960 to 1969.
So the first ones came out witha flat six at 80 horsepower.
It was under $2,400 to buy thisthing.
Hold me back.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That was to compete with the Volkswagen Beetle.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Absolutely, and of course they sold 1.8 million of
them during that whole time.
And of course they sold 1.8million of them during that
whole time.
But really, what really hurt itwas the Ralph Nader's book
Unsafe at Any Speed, where hewent into why it would lose
control.
The rear engine, the swing axle, a lot of these things that
even though they fixed some ofthem, the car just kind of faded
(27:37):
away.
And then, whenever you get downto this one, I think this one
really died because it was justso ugly.
The Pontiac Aston.
Built from 2001 to 2005.
It was actually the firstmid-size SUV CUV that came to
market.
It had a V6 with a 4-speedautomatic and they marketed it
as a sport recreational vehicle,and some of the advertisements
(27:59):
had tents and had places youcould put your bikes and your
canoes and snowboards.
It even had a two-piecetailgate that had cup holders on
it for tailgating part of thatwhole get it the family and get
out and get busy type thing, andbasically, though, it was just
plain ugly and there's some moreout there, but I thought that
(28:19):
was a good place to start, yeah,yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That's a good one.
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Reading your teleprompter?
Yeah, we've been here for overan hour and guess who's not
ready Me?
Me Well, coming up, we're goingto have a discussion about CDK,
which is the softwaremanagement company that was
hacked and has pretty much shutdown 15,000 dealers across the
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United States, although thingsare starting to come back online
, but I think the damage hasbeen done.
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Perfect, howdy Along with Mikeout of this world, mars.
We always need more.
Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
Glad you could join us on thisSaturday for our live show, if
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this is a podcast that you'relistening to.
Well, thank you very much forjoining in.
We appreciate you tuning in tous.
This morning.
Our first guest bailed out, andso we've got kind of an open
segment here.
Actually, I kind of like theseat least one per show Every now
and then.
Yeah, it's good.
So I did want to, and since Iwent inside and got the story
(01:31):
out.
I thought this would be a goodtime to do this.
A week after two cyber attacksforced CDK Global to shut down
its software for thousands ofdealerships in North America,
the dealership management systemcompany has made progress
getting operations back up.
Cdk said June 28th it wascontinuing to use a phased
(01:52):
approach to gradually and safelyreboot its DMS dealer
management software system forthe more than 15,000 customers
affected by the shutdown.
More than 15,000 customersaffected by the shutdown.
So it's a major, major thornfor everybody that subscribes to
the CDK platform.
Dealer management systemincludes things like inventory
(02:17):
management, sales, makingcontracts and getting you all
set up for financing, if that'swhat you want.
Parts service, the maid thatscrubs the toilets.
It takes all of that intoconsideration and it kind of
helps dealerships do businessRight.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So when you say 15,000 customers, you're talking
about 15,000 dealerships, which, literally, you're talking a
minimum of 100 people at adealership.
So you're talking what 150,000people impacted immediately.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But there's also breakdowns.
After that, you said inventory.
What kind of inventory?
There's inventory of the floorplan of the cars themselves.
There's inventory of the parts.
There's inventory of tires.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All of that is part of that system so it's not only
systems invoicing the dms isjust the umbrella and then
there's subsidiaries down belowthat, yeah are affected, and I I
can only imagine, over thewhatever 30, 40 years of
development of this softwaresystem and it, you know, offers
more and more and more and moreas the years go by that dealers.
(03:26):
Does a dealer even know how todo a manual written contract
anymore?
That's what they started to do.
Where you take the big thickpad of paper.
That's that long Five copiespress hard.
Yeah, that's it, that's whatthey were doing.
So imagine that trying to buy acar.
Matter of fact, when this firstcame out, I heard that there
(03:46):
were some dealerships that said,look, we'll sell you a car, but
you can't take it because wedon't have a contract and we
can't just let the car walk offthe showroom floor.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
They could bail them.
They put them on a bailment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But whatever the case may be, it's a huge, huge
problem and I think that slowlybut surely, they're bringing
dealerships.
Basically, they're startingwith these big groups like Auto
One, auto.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Nation, auto Nation, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yep.
So there is that.
That's the big story in theautomotive world today.
That's the big thing.
Oh, there's a new automotiveworld today.
That's the big thing.
Oh, it's a new story out today.
Automotive news.
I just thought this was reallyinteresting.
Of course, you know, toyotamoved from their headquarters
(04:39):
from Torrance, california, toTexas, kind of like Elon has
done, but they did it beforeElon.
Well, finally, now that they'veannounced some billion-dollar
expansion of the plant, outsideSan Antonio, a hotel blending
Japanese style andsophistication with Texas
(05:00):
hospitality is slated to risenear Toyota North America's
headquarters in suburban Dallas.
The 217-room Miyako Hotel isdesigned in part to give
Japanese executives visitingToyota's campus in Plano and
nearby suppliers a comfortableoasis reminiscent of home.
(05:21):
The project was announced in2019 but but delayed by COVID-19
pandemic.
Construction now is underway.
They expect it to beginActually, it's started to take
place in 2025.
It's already on the blueprintdrawing boards, With the
14-story hotel opening bymid-2027.
Here you go, jeff.
(05:41):
Planned amenities include arooftop teppanyaki bar with
panoramic views of the Texasprairie, outdoor steam rooms and
a bakery serving artisticJapanese pastries.
A garden will mix cherryblossom trees and Japanese
maples with native North Texasplants Cactus Desert While
(06:05):
exterior lighting will resemblepaper lanterns, rooms will have
traditional japanese teapots andtatami mats whatever that is,
oh.
While the decor willincorporate shoji screens and
wallpaper with japanese motifs.
That's home.
Book me a room today, would you?
(06:27):
It's not just for the executivesfrom.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Japan and the fridge in the room.
You got little bottles of sakein there.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, little signs that say sake to me, and then
you go, there, you go.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just popped into my mind.
It did.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's all that brown water you've been drinking this
week.
Morris, we had a longdiscussion before we went on the
air this morning about, youknow, what are we going to do
for a hurricane with his95-year-old mother and that sort
of thing, and the thing thatyou left out you know plans to
evacuate Neiderville over there,and the thing that you left out
is cases of brown water, casesupon cases, and I'm thinking
(07:10):
that if you do it the right way,you can time it just right for
the opening of the Miyako Hotel.
Ooh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, you get to wear one of those saris.
Who's sorry, who's saris, who'ssorry, who's sorry now, who's
sorry?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
now let's see what else do we have in the news that
I wanted to bring to you thismorning.
Sorry, I really wasn't tooprepared to be able to fill 30
minutes with nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, we've got stuff to do.
I know we've got plenty ofstuff.
I've got a whole stack of stuffhere.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I did want to do the recalls this week.
Okay, because I want to getthem in?
Because there's someinteresting ones that popped up
Rearview camera image may notdisplay Interesting ones that
popped up Rearview camera imagemay not display.
This is an ongoing problemacross multiple brands of cars,
including Stellantis, chrysler,jeep, ram, dodge, basically from
(08:15):
21 to 2023 model years, all ofthose being recalled.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This sounds like that's a vendor issue it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's a problem with whoever made the software or the
camera itself.
All the manufacturers with thesame product.
Ford Motor Company is recallinga half a million F-150s in the
US because of an issue with thepowertrain control module that
could unintentionally downshiftthe vehicle into first gear.
Now imagine this here you go,you're running down the highway
at 75 miles an hour and then allof a sudden it decides that it
wants to downshift to first.
(08:50):
So you go from sixth or eighthgear or tenth gear to first gear
.
Well, you know what that'sgoing to do.
It's going to hurt something.
It's going to hurt something,including yourself possibly,
because if it goes that far,it's going to break the
transmission and it's also goingto lock up the rear wheels or
all four wheels or whatever it'sconnected to, and you will lose
(09:11):
control.
You will do that.
So that's for the F-150s.
That's not good, and you knowFord has really had a major
problem with recalls.
I think that they lead theindustry in the number of
recalls right now.
Oh, mercedes is close behindTesla.
(09:31):
Two recalls of its 2024 uglyCybertruck because of defects in
the front windshield wiper andthe trunk body trim.
Front windshield motor may stopfunctioning in 11,688.2
affected vehicles, increasingthe risk of a crash.
They'll replace the windshieldwiper motor and then also
(09:53):
they're recalling about the samenumber about 12,000, because of
a detachment risk in the trunkbed trim.
Axiom Plastics is the partsupplier.
According to the report, teslawill replace or rework the
applique.
Okay, an applique to me is asticker.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I don't understand that.
It's probably somethinginstructional?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I know you're working on brown water thoughts, but
would you?
Like me to do some more now.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
No, no, yeah, yeah, I just got confused on the
sticker blowing off why that wassuch a big deal.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Multiple camera images may not display in the
Toyota Crown.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh yeah, that's the new model, the new scene.
Yeah, we looked at the one ofthose, uh, when kathy was
looking at uh, her lexus.
She was looking at the the uh,camry, and the crown was out
there and then she switched overto the lexus.
But yeah, she, uh, she lookedat it?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
does it take the place of the Avalon?
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's a good-looking car, f-150, here we go for 2021.
Ota BCM software update maydisable reverse lights.
Mercedes-benz, you mentionedthem.
Misrouted harness may corrode.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
In short, circus Short circus, that's for them,
circus animals, you put theharness on.
They're your mother-in-law.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mercedes-Benz AMG, cls 53, e 53, gt 43, and GT 53.
2019 through 2023 models andthe C 300 from Mercedes-Benz.
22-23.
Wire connected to the pre-fusebox could be loose.
Ooh, hate those loose wires.
Vw recalling a quarter of amillion vehicles in the US over
(11:58):
concerns that the frontpassenger airbags may not deploy
when the seat is activated.
21-24 Atlas and 20 to 24 AtlasCross Sport.
Toyota let's not leave them out.
Don't leave them out.
Recalling 145,000 newcrossovers in the US due to an
issue with airbag deployment.
Recalls cover the 2024 Lexus TXwhich I was supposed to get
(12:25):
Thursday.
They won't deliver it to mebecause it's under recall.
The Lexus TX, lexus TX Hybridand Toyota Grand Highlander and
Grand Highlander Hybrid beingrecalled.
Notification letters will besent out August the 5th.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I guess you have a special purpose for a Highlander
.
I'm not into the big boxiness.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The Highlander used to actually was the original
Lexus RX when it was small andtiny.
There's nothing small and tinyavailable anymore.
Yeah, this is too big Matter offact.
Speaking of that, I want you toknow that I took delivery of
that car that I have sitting outthere right now, the Ridgeline,
(13:09):
and the jury's still out onthat.
Oh boy, $56,000.
Wow, and so they've grown it.
As all vehicles, it never fails.
Why?
Why do they keep making itbigger and bigger and bigger?
That's not the model that Iknow and I've grown to love.
Oh, you're going to make itbigger and bigger and bigger.
That's not the model that Iknow and I've grown to love.
(13:31):
Oh, you're going to make itbigger.
I'll have another one of those.
How many people actually dothat when they go to buy a car?
Okay, so I had my original,whatever it was Lexus 1999, I
think the RX that I had and thenthe next model comes out, and
the next model comes out.
(13:54):
What's wrong, mars?
Why are you over here doingthis?
He's touching stuff.
What did you say?
I'm not hearing it.
Why not?
I don't know.
It looks like it's on.
It may be me.
He always likes to do thesesorts of things and have us all
worried that we're not gettingout on the Internet, and I don't
quite understand he's checking?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, it's what he does .
He checks and, you know, dialsin.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So they keep growing them and making them bigger and,
of course, charging more money.
So the Honda Ridgeline that Ihave out there, which is a
basically it is a cord with atruck body on it, it's kind of
like the old well name one, theFord Ranchero or the Chevy El
(14:41):
Camino.
Well, this is the new versionof that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It's a small version of like an Avalanche on the GM
side to me, the Ridgeline, yeah,yeah, the pickup truck, yeah,
that out there with it's asmaller version of what an
avalanche would be.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't know about that, but I can tell you, I can
tell you that it's just a design, it is a, it is a big, what
they call a mid-sized truck.
And in fact somebody said to methe other day he says, oh, you
know, um, I sure did like that,uh, that you were driving, I
guess, with the Colorado or theMaverick or something.
And I said, well, that's aboutthe only truck now that will fit
(15:20):
inside your garage, because ahalf-ton pickup truck will not
fit.
Do you remember the one that Ihad out there, that I stood in
front of?
Yeah, and the top of the hoodwas at my shoulder?
Yeah, I am six foot one.
That thing is huge, got the biglift, big tires big off-road
package.
It just is like holy cow.
(15:41):
Why do you keep making it sobig?
Can't get it in the garage.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I miss all of them now.
I had an uncle call me thisweek and he was asking me about
he wants to downsize to amidsize so that he can get
something in the garage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The midsize is about the size of the old full-size
1500.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's what I told him.
He's got a 2002 one-ton Ramthat he drives for his RV.
I said you need to go get himone of of these because it's
really going to be about thesize of your regular cab 2002
truck.
Yeah, I said you're going to besurprised that it's not the
mid-size, just really aren'tthat small.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
When they first came out with them, we all thought of
them as our old mini trucks theford, the original ford ranger,
or the S10 or whatever it is.
No, it's not that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Not anymore.
No, they've all got steroids onthem, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, the other problem is the fact that the
price of them that Ridgelinethat I just took delivery of out
there, the sticker on it is$56,000.
What For a unibody.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Truck, truck and.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
For a unibody Truck Truck.
And then I had the discussionOkay, so who actually uses a
truck these days?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
for what a truck is built for Towing and hauling the
ordinary family, notnecessarily daily basis or
weekly basis.
It's more for a commercial guy,because you don't see a family
down the road hauling bales ofhay.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I actually don't see a family in pickup trucks.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's usually one guy yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And I just don't understand.
I mean, if you're going to usethe truck to haul your camper,
okay, I get it, got it.
Yeah, if you've got loads ofmulch every week that you're
delivering, pulling a great biglawn trailer or something, I get
(17:41):
it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What are you doing?
I'm pointing at that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
He's watching the clock.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, I'm watching the clock.
I'm going to take that clockdown you just put it up.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I did, I just put it up.
All right, we shall take abreak.
Oh my gosh, because Jeff isgetting nervous and anxious.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Over here Is your middle name Nelly Nelly, nelly,
nervous, nelly Nelly.
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What?
Umpteen thousand, umpteenthousand.
Who's counting?
Who's counting?
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Jeff's counting, I'm counting, count on that Well,
yeah, so thank you very much.
We appreciate you.
We normally have a guest inthis segment, but we didn't
today, because they bailed on usat the last minute and Mars was
deep into his brown watercocktails when it was time to
find somebody else.
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There's some interesting newsout of Detroit and the fact that
I'm not sure about new carshows anymore.
More people have bailed on theDetroit Auto Show, even though
they're moving it back to itsoriginal January, january or
(21:47):
February whenever it is deep inthe wintertime in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It kicked off the automotive season in Detroit.
Yeah, kicked it off foreverybody.
Yeah, I used to go.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, well, we all used to go to the new car shows.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, specifically, the one in Detroit.
Yeah, cobo Hall, yeah, well, weall used to go to the new car
shows.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, specifically, the one in.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Detroit yeah, cobo Hall, all that, yeah, growing up
as a kid.
Is Cobo Hall still there?
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But that thing was built.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What back in the 40s or 50s, something like that.
It's old, old very old.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, I did see a date for the Houston Auto Show,
so they're still planning on itin January.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We'll see how that goes, because you know the
manufacturers are going.
We've got better ways to reachour potential purchasers of our
vehicles.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
They think there is anyway, yeah, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, at any rate, all right.
Well, let's do the racingcalendar, shall we?
Yep, jeff has that sponsored bytexas muscle car club challenge
yeah, and what we've got?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
uh, you racing is a couple, couple of events.
The imsa and the indie guys areoff until the middle of july,
coming up very soon.
Uh, you've got nhra at thesummit racing equipment, nhra
Nationals in Norwalk and, ofcourse, last week we all know
the crash of John Force.
They put him in the hospitaland I believe he's still in the
(23:08):
hospital.
John was checking the reportthis morning.
Severity of injuries are for us, we're speculating, but he does
have, I'm sure, a concussionand some other bodily.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I think it's more serious than that, because they
moved him from intensive caregeneral uh over to the
neurological intensive careright.
So, and his, his, he's beingwatched by his family.
As a matter of fact, uh, ashley, or britney, is one.
One of the daughters is withhim 24 hours a day, seven days a
week.
So, uh, very serious injury forjohn forrest and we wish them
(23:41):
the best of luck, yep.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And then you've got NASCAR.
Nascar is in Nashville Speedway.
The race is on NBC.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Mic tickets are still available if you want to go NBC
, you mean the Nobody Carestelevision network, yeah, nobody
cares.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And then you've got the Qatar Airways Austrian Grand
Prix practice.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
They're racing in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Racing in the snow capped mountains and all that
good stuff, and that's being puton by the Red Bull Ring and,
like I said, indy is off and sois IMSA, and I think that'll
cover that for just a segment.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There we go.
Mr Mars has put togethersomething special for all of us.
Because, I bet everybody hastheir own story about one of the
five worst cars ever made.
I don't know why you justnarrowed it down to five.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, because of time I just figured out time because
it's so subjective as to what'sgood, what's bad and what's the
worst and what's the best.
So this is just five of theones that you might can put a
little data behind to say thatthis is one of the worst
vehicles and, for example, onethat comes to mind real quick
and easy is the Ford Pinto.
(24:51):
It was manufactured from 1971to 1980.
It was a very popular car andthey sold a bajillion of them.
They really did, they sold.
In fact, the first year theysold 220,000.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Is that rust on that and they recalled every one of
them.
I think they used to call themexploders.
I think they did.
Yeah, they did.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But before that the gas fumes got into the cab or
the passenger compartment and sothat was the reason they had to
recall all of them.
But it came in three models andit blew up a lot and it was
only if you hit it True, and ithad a lot of recalls and it was
a big problem for Ford, so theyquit manufacturing that.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
There's mine, the Vega Ladies and gentlemen, I had
two of them, did you, I did, Ihad a 72, and then I went all
into a 74 you know, I reallyalways liked the way those look
like like a baby camaro orsomething, yeah and uh.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know, they never did really come with a lot of
big power or anything and it wasjust kind of stylish, but they
had a tendency to break down alot.
They had overheating problemsthe aluminum engine was the part
of the problem, it just wouldget too hot didn't they have a
Copo version of that?
They had a Cosworth version.
It was a little bit of a hotrod.
They sold 2 million over 2million of these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That was one of the morons that bought them but I
never had a problem with mine.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I thought they were really cool, the ones that did
the V8 conversion andparticularly the little wagon.
It just looked really cool.
But another one that was outthere that really didn't do so
well was the AMC Gremlin.
It had kind of a quirky designto it, kind of boxy, but it also
had reliability issues and itdidn't really run very fast.
(26:36):
It didn't even sell very good.
Actually, it was made from 1970to 1978.
They only sold 671 000 of thosevehicles total so it just uh,
you know, it just didn't turnout to be very popular although
they make some pretty good hotrods right now they do then you
know the, the one your favorite,probably don, is the corvair.
(26:56):
Oh god, you know, this is notthe first model.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, not the first model.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
No, not the first model.
I mean they were built from1960 to 1969.
So the first ones came out witha flat six at 80 horsepower.
It was under $2,400 to buy thisthing.
Hold me back.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That was to compete with the Volkswagen Beetle.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Absolutely, and of course they sold 1.8 million of
them during that whole time.
And of course they sold 1.8million of them during that
whole time.
But really, what really hurt itwas the Ralph Nader's book
Unsafe at Any Speed, where hewent into why it would lose
control.
The rear engine, the swing axle, a lot of these things that
even though they fixed some ofthem, the car just kind of faded
(27:37):
away.
And then, whenever you get downto this one, I think this one
really died because it was justso ugly.
The Pontiac Aston.
Built from 2001 to 2005.
It was actually the firstmid-size SUV CUV that came to
market.
It had a V6 with a 4-speedautomatic and they marketed it
as a sport recreational vehicle,and some of the advertisements
(27:59):
had tents and had places youcould put your bikes and your
canoes and snowboards.
It even had a two-piecetailgate that had cup holders on
it for tailgating part of thatwhole get it the family and get
out and get busy type thing, andbasically, though, it was just
plain ugly and there's some moreout there, but I thought that
(28:19):
was a good place to start, yeah,yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That's a good one.
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