The 5PM hour of the Cadillac of Pasadena broadcast delivers pure fire. Jay Leno steps in live and immediately brings the laughs with classic stories, car-guy gold, and crowd-stopping moments that only Jay can deliver. Automotive powerhouse Jonny Lieberman jumps in next, bringing sharp industry insight, unapologetic performance analysis, and his trademark high-energy banter with Tim.Design Director Brian Smith from GM Advanced Design reveals the future of Cadillac’s EV styling, digging into the philosophy behind the next generation of Cadillac looks — from sculpted lines to bold electrified design language.Then Rory Harvey, GM’s Executive Vice President and President of Global Markets, joins the show to break down Cadillac’s global strategy and EV leadership roadmap, offering rare insight into where the brand is headed in the U.S. and worldwide.The hour wraps with a final hit from Jonny Lieberman, reacting in real time to GM’s announcements, Cadillac’s direction, and the on-site excitement. It’s fast, funny, informative, and one of the strongest automotive hours Conway has ever put on the air.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app The
Conway Show. Jay Leno's with us. We are live at
Cadillac Passidina thirty four seventy five East, Colorado. We got
probably about two hundred people here or so and Jay
(00:21):
Leno along with one of your buddies, Johnny Liebermanzuela's how
are you so?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Design an analyst for cars and trucks in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, you know, and plus you know, kind of follow
Jay around a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now he is really an excellent journalist.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
See, I mean he really He goes, who were you
this week? You're in Portugal driving Ferraris here. Yeah, he
goes all over the world, was testing car. All the
manufacturers bring him in so he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A little bit, Yeah, a little bit. Oh that's great. Yeah,
what a great job. It beats working. You know, did
you grow up around cars? Is your dad a car guy?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My dad love cars, but we never you know, when
I was real young, he had cool cars and then
he sort of stopped. But like when I was a kid.
He had boy to eighty Z two plus two.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I remember those, yeah, and he had.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I thought it was cool Civic CVCC. He had a
TR four that worked for about two days out of
the entire you know, a couple of years he owned it,
replaced with a t R six which was equally reliable.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
He what a Japanese car and something besides the haunted
and like it just worked.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
He was very enthralled with that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My dad had a Rover growing up, Okay, and it
was in the shop quite off.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, apparently it's hereditary. And your father was with automobiles.
He seemed to have the same set of vibe. He
just quite missed the mark. Don't quite get what do
you got I got?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He ever said, I got a Rover?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And people go, oh, yeah, that's a car?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is that a dog?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is not a dog?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Classic?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
What is it with that?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
An English car?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And English very very much, you know the English.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I have a car called Bristol and the English and
I wonder why this car never had air conditioning because
it has, you know, it's a luxury car. And then
the handbook says, the reason we don't provide air conditioning,
we don't we don't want the passengers to miss the
pastoral smells. Is they drive the country on a beautiful
summer day.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, that's what it is. It's one hundred and fifteen out.
I want to smell the car.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When did when did ac become stock? When did almost
every car nineteen forty one.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It came out?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is that right with the Cadillac?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, it was a packard, had it, And it wasn't
actually air. It was a refrig generation unit like in
a freezer.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So you you turn it on and you're hanging meat
after about five minutes, and then you have to turn
it off till together, and then you turn it back
on again.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean it was really an on off switch.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And then frigidaire was right in there, which was right
fida yeah frigidai.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You got to tell that story of ordering your dad's
first car. I love that story for people it may
may not have heard that story.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, my dad would just buy whatever's in the show.
We go the I mean my first we went down
to look at a Cadillac and they wanted forty four hundred.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That was the top of the line Cadillac in sixty
four my dad out of a forty four to twenty
five and they said no, okay, because that was that
was a salesman's commission, twenty five dollars, that was his commission.
So we went down the Ford Dealership, Shaw Sheen Motors
and andover Massachusetts and at that time the Mustang but
so it was all Mustangs and Falcons. And my father said, oh,
(03:27):
we want a full size car. Let's go to the Chevity.
And the guy says, Tom Lawrence, I remember the salesman's name.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He says, uh, you know you can order a car.
Misstillt he goes, I don't want to four to six
weeks forget exactly what you want? Is it that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Let's orner a car? All right?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And then I said can I pick the engine? And
my mother said let the boy pick the engine? What
difference does it make?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So I said, can I have the thing?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I checked Police Pursuit Package.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
For twenty eight engine perfect, muscler delete option right heavy
duty rear end heavy duties is engine and muffler delete.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
All right, okay, so you built a car? Yeah? I said, hey, Dad,
sign is what's this?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
This is?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Are you fine?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So we wait about six weeks later, he hey, the
car is gonna pick up the cars you're gon.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We walk in the.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Show and run away. My dad's disappointed. It's got bucket seats.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I don't want buckets, Dad, They don't come. That's what
they have, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Fine, So my dad gets in the car and he
turns the key and he goes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He goes in the hole of the damn muffler.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
As a hole of the muffler.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The guy goes Misster London.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You you check the police pursuit muffling delete option.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He goes, what I mean muffling and.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He sees checked muffling And now he knows, he knows
he's been having so he starts yelling, you know, and
he said, all let's.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Get the hell out of him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, he's old mad, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So he starts the car up and he as he
gives it gas as he.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Drops it in the gear and we're on the showroom.
So the car goes.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He goes at the damn rocketship.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's like the rocketship with the hell. And then two
weeks later, I remember my parents' bedroom looking for something
and I found he got a ticket for going one
hundred and ten. Wow, yeah, because your dad got the ticket.
My dad got the ticket. Well he was suddenly he
was the manager of the insurance company. But now he
was the coolest guy in the office because he had
the fastest car. So he took a half a dozen
half a day. He took three of the salesman with them,
(05:19):
and they went out and they going and they got
one hundred and ten our ticket.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, it's funny, that's classic. But that's probably the car
that obviously you wanted, and you probably drove it more
than he did.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I drove it and wrapped it around a tree. Thank you. Yeah,
of course that's your job. As a sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I got my I failed my first exam to get
my life. Hard to believe because I actually got air
on the exam. You know where Chandler is crossing over
the valley and they used to be train tracks there. Well,
I hit it getting the driving exam and we got air.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I remember they probably doored the clipboard and the pen
and these guys' glasses and everything came up bang, you know,
and hit ten. And I said to him, I said,
I just failed, right, And he said I can't tell
you until we get back. I said, we can make
this short. I failed. He goes, yeah, you failed. You
got air, got air on the test? You failed? Yes,
you failed. So I get back and the guy gets
(06:14):
out of the car. His hair's all, you know, screwed up,
and he says, my mom, this kid needs six months
more of radical training before he even takes the exam again.
She must have been pleased, so my dad brings me back.
The next day. I get a ninety five and I
see the guy in the in the at the DMV.
I go ninety five, Yeah, stackhead. Two days later, Mercedes
(06:35):
totaled my car and my mom's car.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, guy was right there, you go.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So I hit the woman that I hit on Rancho
gets out of her car and she goes, my husband's
a lawyer, the biggest lawyer in Beverly Hills. I'm going
to sue you and your dad for everything you got.
And I was, you know, I was sixteen years old.
I'm like, oh my mab. It was hysterical crying. And
turns out, how about this the last luck the Conway
family ever had. The woman who was driving the Mercedes
(07:03):
that I totaled with my mom's car. Her husband is
a huge lawyer in Beverly Hills, but he's my dad's lawyer.
Oh oh yeah, that's a catholic of interest. That's the
last lot. Another rich kid from Hollywood. So so I
burned out that luck and never had anything at the
casinos or the racetrack afterwards, because you're only bored with
(07:24):
a certain amount of luck. And I used it that day,
right right.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I like the fact that you failed the written test,
which because it's always like it's like when you see
a stop sign, you should a stop right, be slow down,
and it's like see you throw glass in the road.
It's always like something some third one, which doesn't you know,
it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right, Jay Leno is with us, also Johnny Lieberman,
and I see that Gary Hoffman is with us. Everybody
dings ang with that guy. Gary. Come on, we got
an extra seat. Let's have Gary Hoffman pop up here
from the Gary and Shannon Show. Is Shannon here too?
She ass the street? The other Oh the other Shannon.
Oh the better Shannon is here. That's cool, all right,
(08:06):
we're live here at Cadillac Pasadena. Come on out. Thirty
four seventy five East colorado'bre seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Gary Hoffman joins us here from the Gary and Shannon Show.
Nice to see you, Bob. Be done with you, Tim.
I know you're You gave us a lot of publicity
on the air today and filled this place up, so
I appreciate it that. Oh hey, that's what we owe
you a sola anytime. We also have Brian Smith with us,
design director at GM Advance Design. That's huge. You grew
(08:42):
up out in Ohio. Let me hit the mic here
though we're in Ohio, Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Your Reds fan not anymore? A long time ago. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
My dad's from outside of Cleveland. I went to school
in Bowling Green. I if I had to do it
all over again, I would have raised my daughter at
Ohio beautiful people. Yeah, yeah, all right, you are design
for cars. How soon after you designed something and you
okay something, do you see it drive by your your house?
Years months?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It takes a while. Yeah, i'd say, you know, somewhere
near a couple of years after we're done with it,
it's on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
What are we going to see in a couple of
years that you at least you can divulge.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I can't telling I got an idea to secret and
it was a lot of sure who had this idea?
I do know if she's still here, you know what?
I think it'd be hot coming back. Curb feelers really
for guys like me.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
We have cameras and sensors.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I know, but but but but if you could make
the noise that scraping sound, Yeah, if that would be Brian,
I'm I was born in the sixties, so this is
my rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, that's good that your next still does that. I
struggle with that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, I'm still there looking behind me all the time.
How did you get into the It's a it's a
great job, but probably really difficult to get into.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah. Well, I, you know, was really interested in art.
I did a lot of drawing as a kid, and
I caught the bug with cars immediately. My dad was
a car guy, always had something tinkering in the garage.
He was a car dealer as well, so I was
around cars all the time and it just was a
(10:24):
natural fit. Put those two things together.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Are you more exterior interior? And is there a difference.
Are there specialties?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
There's a specialty. I spent most of my career focused
on exterior design, but now at our studio we handle
everything inside and out.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Is the wood paneling on the old Mercury station wagons
coming back?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I hope not.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
What about fins, the fins like Jay's car back there
at the fifty seven. That's a great idea fins would
be I mean, that'd be a massive So it's like
the winglets on a seven thirty seven.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Fins are pretty cool. But we've been there, done that.
We're trying to, you know, find find the new fin.
What's the new thing?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know? You must you must have designed something that
you you know that you eventually saw on the two
ten freeway and thought, you know, like when I when
I a band hears their music on the on the
radio for the first time, you must have had that
moment where you said, oh, I designed that.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I do. I remember one moment sitting in traffic in
UH in Detroit, actually before I moved out here, and
there's a I could see from the one spot in
traffic four cars that I worked on. Wow. At the
same time, Wow, is that right? I was like, wow,
I just I worked on that design, worked on that
design work.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know what were they? Do you remember? All four
of them?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They were Cadillacts. Yeah, and I spent most of my
career doing Cadillacs, you know, uh cts ATS XT four
and then most recently all of the electric Cadillacts that
are in the room here with us.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, we grew up. My dad had a Seville growing up,
you know, the one with the eventually one with that
crazy trunk that you know, that squared off bustle back, yeah,
bustle but yeah, yeah, yeah. And my mom had a
Coupe Deville. And and I tell you, you know, back when
when they bought those cars, that's when you know you
made it, you know, when you add a Cadillac in
(12:08):
that driveway.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That's right, that's right. I remember my mom had a
seventy seven Seville black as the red leather interior.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And that was like, yeah, there's a beautiful, beautiful car.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Are they bring anything back like that? I mean any
like old school designs is a temporary thing for people
like the old Seville or the kup Deville.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Well, you know, we like to reference our heritage. We
like to you know, GM Design. Cadillac in particularly has
a really rich heritage, right, but we don't want to
ape the past. Cadillac in its heyday always looked forward,
always looked beyond, and trying to really introduce new technology,
expressive design. It's all about exciting people about the future
(12:49):
and being optimistic about the future. So we try to
honor our past but look to the future all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Brian Smith is with us, also Gary Hoffman from the
Gary and Shannon Show. Brian's with the design director GM
Advanced Design. Are you young enough or I guess old
enough to remember the day that they took the antenna's
off cars?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I do? I do?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, that must have been huge for you though. It
is a design guy not to have that stupid antenna there.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, we call him shark fins now all right? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And are they much better than they were, I mean
than the standing antenna?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Well, they pack a lot of stuff in them. Now
it used to just be an a m F M antenna.
Now we've got you know, on Star uh you know,
five G Internet? Oh yeah, a m FM. Everything's in
that little shark fin.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
When you constantly have not fights or arguments, but moments
when somebody says, I like the design, but we have
too much technical stuff here. You got to go back
and and redesign it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Oh that's my whole world. That yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
that's part of I think that's part of the creative process,
is trying to find a way around those challenges or
issues and you know, manufacturing challenges. That's part of the job.
I enjoy it as an art guy.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
I mean basis in art that you talked about that
being kind of the reason that you got into the
design aspect. Are you a guy who has those dreams
and you wake up with the middle of the night
and you go, that's the next design, that's the next car?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Is that when it hits you? Or you just work
through it sketch pads? How do you do it?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah? I mean I'm not the guy physically drawing the
cars anymore, but I try to bring ideas to the team.
And yeah, I'm always thinking about cars. You just think
about it on traffic. You're looking at them all the time,
and I'm surrounded by it, and you know, you get
ideas and I can't sleep at night, so yeah, I
think about all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do you ever look at another line of cars and go, oh,
they ripped me off. That's my design.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It happens occasionally, you know, you see influences. I mean
where it's such a global world right now, and everything
is on the internet live twenty four to seven, so
everybody's influencing everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So because you work with exteriors, you probably also are
constantly battling the guys who wanted to put the cameras out.
You want to hide everything.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, yeah, we we call it artful integration of technology.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Okay, all right, and you guys do a great job.
Because I can't find the front camera on my car,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Good, we did a good job.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Then, yeah, it's great. Yeah, I see it only when
I'm about to hit something. But you know, it's really weird,
and I maybe you have the answer to this, or
maybe it's more of a technical thing, but I have
a button in my car where I can hit it
and I can see a three sixty view of the
top of it all around, and I don't know how
the hell you guys do that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah's cameras under your mirrors, looking down,
looking down, Oh, that's where they are, okay, And then
the front and rear cameras and the image is all
merged and then it's put together as if it's a
bird's eye view.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Wow. But man, it looks like the cameras twenty feet
over the.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Car, it does. That's the idea. Yeah, yeah, bird's eye view.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I also love on in the last four or five years,
the softer like chalk colors that have come out, you know,
the softer you know, blues and greens and solids.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah. Let's let's focus on
the metallics now. Yeah, more kind of rich, solid colors. No,
but I like them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are you are you a color guy too, or are
you just design or both?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
We have a color materials department that handles all the colors.
They curate all the new exterior and interior colors and
finishes materials. You know, they're always looking at fashion. You know.
It has to be done pretty far ahead of time
because paint developments take a while. We have to know
that it can be sprayed in the plant and support
all the different vehicles that come out of that.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I heard, and maybe you can tell me this is
true or not. Brian Smith is with us. The is
the design director for GM. I heard that originally cars
were all black because that paint dried twice as fast
as any other color.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I didn't, I was not aware of that, but that's
probably true.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
It's probably true.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It was also cheaper, probably than any other color.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly right. Everybody had a black car. Man.
I think it's such a great job that, you know,
designing cars, you know, especially if you were like a
single guy in a bar. That's a home run, you know,
designing exteriors for Cadillacs. Thing dong with you.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I haven't noticed it work quite like that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, I really think it's great. I really do. When
when is maybe can't talk about this his Cadillac working
on a flying car.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
If I was, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, all right that means yes, yeah, yeah, all right,
it was around the corner. Great question, monny, Brian, I
really appreciate coming on, Brian Smith, design Director General Motors
Advance Designed. Really appreciate man. Yep, thanks to see you. Yep,
all right, really live on KF I am six forty
j Lenos with us. Also Gary Hoffmins with us from
the Gary and Shannon Show. Of course, Bellio and Angel
(17:50):
have joined us as well.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on DEMYO from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes, man, we got a huge, great crowd out here.
Gary Hoffman is with us from Gary and Shannon uh.
And then we also we're gonna have on the phone
Johnny Lieberman joins us as well. But on the phone
we have Rory Harvey, executive vice president and president of
(18:21):
General Motors Global Markets. Roy, welcome to the show. How
you sir, Thanks about yourself. Oh what a great job
you have. Executive vice president and president GM Global Markets.
How many countries is Cadillac in?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Sorry, it's just well, if you look for me in
terms of Cadillac's it's top twenty, and then if you
look at General Motors, it's just under one.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hundred, oh under one hundred. Oh okay, all right, you
know we're gonna we're gonna put you on hold. We
have a bad connection. We're gonna try to get a
better connection with you, Rory. It's probably our fault. You know,
we don't have the technology the Cadillac has exactly exactly
just gonna say.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That, I'm just gonna say that we just don't All right, Well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's calling from a Lincoln obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Johnny Libin's with us, also Gary Hoffman and Jay Leno.
This is an exciting time anytime a new dealership opens.
I remember back when I was, when I was a kid,
the big dealership in the San Fernando Valley where we
all went to look at her, you know, at a car.
When we turned you know, sixteen or fifteen. You always
(19:31):
get very anxious about a car. Was Terry york in
in in Cino, in Tarzana. But you know what, Jay,
there's a there's a weird sort of vibe with kids nowadays,
like we had. We had somebody on earlier who I
h was Alana uh. And she said, Alana, sure, she
works with car and driver. And she said she never
(19:52):
got her license before she was twenty one? What y
and I you know, the day I turned sixteen, I
couldn't wait to get it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Well, yeah, it was the same way too, you know,
because I had to go places virtually. You see, we
have to go places in reality you go virtually now, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's freedom to get out there and move around.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So I'm saying, like in the old days, you called
your go friend up, can I take it. He naked picture. Okay,
you drive to her house. Okay, you got your camera.
You can't go to the drug store in your town's
you go three towns over and then you get picture developed.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And when it comes back it's got black bars over
so you couldn't. Now you just go, hey, we sent
me a naked picture.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Okay, now problem here you go president, Now you know
I mean, it's that's why that's why you needed a
car to get to get to the naked girl.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You had to go there.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's that's why I got my license for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that's why you get it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, that's why you get it, all.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Right, Roy Harvey's whether it's executive vice president General Motors,
Global markets you, whether it's Roy excellent and where are
you are? A global Cadillacs global strategy is what to
sell everybody in the world a car.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh, that's really facing the strategy. We have a target
audience and then we build a design the vehicles to
compete against the other luxury brands around the world. We're
not in every simple market around the world. We look
at where the opportunities are and yeah, that's how we proceed.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'll tell you something Cadillac has done that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's really hard to do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
When I was a kid, the averagage of a Cadillac
about it was by its sixty three. Now it's like
forty one. I mean, they've got it down to on.
I think what that takes. It takes a big luxural barge.
Your grandfather drove convince the next generation that this is
going to be the hot hatch to race against BMW
or Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And they've done it. I mean, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
They've actually brought their demo down to the more desirable demographic.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Rory, did you is getting into f one part of
that strategy?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, you know, it's the comment
that was just made. If you look at it when
I first time in at Cadillac, that was twenty eighteen now,
and when you spoke to people about Cadillac, being spoke
about Cadillac very on me, and it was typically about
somebody who had made it in the past, and they
had a Cadillac to demonstrate that they've made it. And
if you look at the new vehicles now and we're
getting a lot of Conquest customers coming into the Cadillac
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portfolio and the demographic in terms of age, vice profile
is reducing significantly. So you know that's very very good.
And if you looked at the strategy over as you know,
General Motors has DNA or racing DNA with a flood,
whether it be the inter Series that will be Durnt Championships,
it be Nastar at the IndyCar and pulled me the
one into the ability to be able to showcase Cadillac
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on the global streation.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Roy, I appreciate you coming on. Roy Harvey, Executive vice
president and president GM Global Markets, Thank you, sir. And
Safe Travels, thanks you.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Okay, with Cavy is technology, it sounds like it's a
Cadillac underwater.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's like a Cadillac on off a bridge.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Cadillac get into the phone business. I know, why don't
some of these high tech companies get into cellular where
you can hear somebody nowadays? Remember when the first cellular
phones came out, it sounded like a guy was next door, right.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, yeah, I guess that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know why he was next door? They didn't have
the range, so you had you went, you went to
a guy next door.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, exactly. They were a lot bigger, they had a
lot more watts.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think it was right part of the part.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But the problem with cell phones is that and for
people who are long winded, it's really annoying. You can't
talk at the same time. If you're on a landline,
Jay and I could talk to each other on a
landline at the same time that I can hear. Well
a cell phone or now it's it's called the digital phone.
It only goes one way or the other. It doesn't
go both ways at the same.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Sub true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't think that's true one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I think he's got the old water driven.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I talked you into getting a new phone, didn't I.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I don't know what what was what was the story
on that?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Because you had you called us and it was horrible
And I said, Jay, how long have you had your phone?
And you said for like six years? And I said,
when you buy a cell phone, let's say you go
out tonight and buy one from I don't know I.
You know you're on T Mobile. So if you buy
a modern phone tonight and T Mobile they put you
on top of their list. You have the latest technology
(24:12):
in the phone. They put you on top of the list.
And as you go down the list. Then that's when
you need a new phone, like every three or four years.
Then you go to the top of the list when
you get a new phone.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Did you ever hear that?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I also think that's false.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, but that's okay story because my brother.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
In law has like an iPhone too, and it sounds great.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
It's the only thing it does.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He's lucky it's the only a but he's in charge
of the list.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's the thing, just the phone now.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But but it's you know, it's one of the reasons
why you know, taking calls on radio is so tough,
because look, I think that Rory Guy's great. I couldn't
tell you. So.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Do we all agree that taking a haul of radio
is so tough? I am physically and mentally exhausted.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I mean, to actually press the button to press it
was one of the herculean tasks.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's to.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Listen to what these guys are saying. Now, it is tough,
all right. Johnny Liebman's whether it's design analyst, what's your
favorite what's your best design or your favorite design.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That I like to look at?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
You like the man, I don't you like these kind
of questions? Can give you top one hundred. Really look
top one.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But I have a hard time getting away from the Ferrari.
The two fifty gt short wheelbase. It's it's good, it's
just what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Short wheelbase?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, there was a long wheelbase version that didn't look
as good.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Maybe bigger or smaller, I mean closer from the back
of the front door.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Distancetween the front wheels and the back wheels was shorter
than the long wheelbase version. But just you know, you
talk to designers, they talk about proportion. It's like all
they ever, you know, the surface volume proportion. That nailed
the proportion. And so it's got two things I always
think people find sexy in cars. What's called one is
a dash to axle ratios. I mean from the steering
wheel to the middle of the front wheel. How long
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that is? If you look at the new Escalade IQ,
this is interesting because.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Wait, come, sorry, give me that measurement again, because sometimes
people steer.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Wheel steering wheel to the middle of the front wheel. Okay,
dashboard to the front axle. To bring it back to
cadillact the new Escalated IQ. If you look at the
Silver Auto ev uh, you know mechanically or identical products. However,
since it's an EV and you're really putting what they
call a top hat on a skateboard, they put a
(26:34):
huge dash to axle uh into the escalade. And with
the Chevy, you know you want to emphasize a bigger
bed because it's a pickup truck. So you know the
front door touches the front wheel, no dash to axle,
and you know that's the thing, so that the Ferrari
does that well. And then also don't ask why, no
one really knows, but you want the roof to be
(26:55):
exactly twice the height of the wheel the wheels on
the car.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So really you looking for stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
When you find a good looking car, you will notice
that's like a Jaguar E type dashed axle and the
roof is exactly twice.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The len It just feels better when you get in it. Yeah,
but no, no, no, just looking.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It also is the best most popular cars or is androgynousts.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
When you look at a Jaguar x K.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I've never been a woman that didn't think it was
an attractive car because that has a very feminine form.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But the rear of.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
It has these haunches over the wheels, which your mail,
you know, so like like a cat about to leap,
you know what I'm saying. So the Lamborghini mirror actually
has eyebrows over the headlights.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The Italians we called that my brow because they're like
the woman, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
But that's but it's true. But the prettiest cars are
also drawn by hand. You know, everything now is settled
with computers.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm sorry, we got to take a break. Jay Leno
is where us Johnny Lieberman, Gary Hoffman from the Gary
and Shannon Show. We're live at in Cadillac Pasadena in
the front lobby. You'll see us thirty four seventy five
East Colorado. Come on buy wheels seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
We're live here Cadillac Pacitya. Jay Leno is with us
Dang Jong with this guy Johnny Lieberman, design analysts, and
also Gary Hoffin from the Gary and Shannon Show. Is
that the Celestic out there?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, Celestick?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. Why nice man? Is that a
that's electric? Right? That's all electric?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have you driven it? Johnny, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I've driven every other Evy, Cadillac and General Motors makes,
but not that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And are they all much faster than the gas powered
Gay Yes, yeah, no with Cadillacts.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Remember they've had V forever, right, so that's their performance
kind of sub brand. So like the Escalade V is
like a tenth slower than the Escalade IQ. The IQ
is still faster, but their their big V eight supercharg
stuff is pretty damn fast.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, and they're all they're set now on long range.
You can get three, four or five hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't know exactly that one of the Escalator IQ
is rate. I mean it's not even rated. They say
it's four sixty. It's so heavy they don't have to
rate it.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, a lot of those who are in a Japanese
hunger striker driving barefoot, you know, if you you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Can get that much mileage.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But I drove.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I drove an Escalated IQ from San Francisco to LA
and if I hadn't to stop to charge it, would
I would have made it to my house with one
percent left? Oh right, yeah, I would have made it
until you know, four un and twenty mile uh. And
the worst thing you can do with the EV is
just sit on the highway at eighty miles an hour.
That's like, yeah, they hate that. You want to like
stop and go because I'll recharge.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A little bit. But was how I didn't know that?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's the worst use case for an EV
is a road trip.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I like the fact that they don't have the best
mileage in the world because when I drive by them
off the five Freeway and the way to San Francisco,
I feel better about myself. Right, Yeah, what do you drive?
You drive a Tesla?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
I have a Tesla right now, but it's a baby model,
it's the three.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But I don't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I don't drive it because of saving electricity or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Good for your environment.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's what I say, kids need, childhood lung cancer.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Drive it because it reminds me of a go cart.
It reminds me.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Of the golf cart that you used to steal from,
you know, from the golf course. Because the pickup on
that is so quick, snaps your head back. It's much
faster than any of the other gas powered cars.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I see why you're not doing automobile.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's like a go cart, like a car. It's like
a golf car. I have never driven electric car in
my life.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Oh, you should get a Cadillact.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's like saying, you know, I've never brushed my teeth,
and I'm fine, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I don't get. I don't get what the brag is.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's right, I've never dressed my teeth.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I just haven't had the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
There is a crazy part. They're just like the gasoline
car is just more efficient.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I would like to get an electric car because I
don't drive. I go from Santa Nita to home. That's dude,
that's the.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Perfect Yeah, kids, that's literally and you will save a fortune. And again,
I mean I have a test letter that costs me
maybe if you're going electricity thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
To fill it up for versus one hundred and forty dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
And if you've got solar on your house or whatever,
I mean, that makes it. That makes it that much
more affordable too. I would like to get an electric car.
I just don't. I don't know which one. You know,
it fits me. I think that's elastic out there is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I think i'd like, well, that's four hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, that's a four hundred thousand dollars one is a
wide range of evs.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, what's what's the what's the entry Cadillac ev lyric optic.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So the optic is the little one and they're great,
that's excellent, excellent car. Yeah, three hundred miles of range,
fast enough, very good looking. And what's cool about it
is what Cadillac's doing is it's like, you know how
usually like, oh, we make this really good technology, you
can't have it if you get the small one. So
all the good tech is in the little one here,
including the first actual studio installation of Dolby atmost, so
(31:58):
you really have that that crazy theater sound where they
had to remove I told him, I'm like, you could
have done better. But they didn't remove the grab handles
to put a speaker there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh that's great, and I'm like, yeah, you could have
moved the gradio for safety. Yeah, but all right, Johnny,
thank you for coming by, Johnny Lieberman, everybody, I'm sorry. Also,
Jay Leno's with us. Gary Hoffmover live at Cadillac pasadenat
thirty four seventy five says Colorado, come on by, you
know seven o'clock tonight on k if I Am six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now,
(32:31):
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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on demand on the iHeart Radio app
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app The
Conway Show. Jay Leno's with us. We are live at
Cadillac Passidina thirty four seventy five East, Colorado. We got
probably about two hundred people here or so and Jay
(00:21):
Leno along with one of your buddies, Johnny Liebermanzuela's how
are you so?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Design an analyst for cars and trucks in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, you know, and plus you know, kind of follow
Jay around a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now he is really an excellent journalist.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
See, I mean he really He goes, who were you
this week? You're in Portugal driving Ferraris here. Yeah, he
goes all over the world, was testing car. All the
manufacturers bring him in so he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A little bit, Yeah, a little bit. Oh that's great. Yeah,
what a great job. It beats working. You know, did
you grow up around cars? Is your dad a car guy?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My dad love cars, but we never you know, when
I was real young, he had cool cars and then
he sort of stopped. But like when I was a kid.
He had boy to eighty Z two plus two.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I remember those, yeah, and he had.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I thought it was cool Civic CVCC. He had a
TR four that worked for about two days out of
the entire you know, a couple of years he owned it,
replaced with a t R six which was equally reliable.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
He what a Japanese car and something besides the haunted
and like it just worked.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
He was very enthralled with that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My dad had a Rover growing up, Okay, and it
was in the shop quite off.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, apparently it's hereditary. And your father was with automobiles.
He seemed to have the same set of vibe. He
just quite missed the mark. Don't quite get what do
you got I got?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He ever said, I got a Rover?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And people go, oh, yeah, that's a car?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is that a dog?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is not a dog?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Classic?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
What is it with that?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
An English car?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And English very very much, you know the English.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I have a car called Bristol and the English and
I wonder why this car never had air conditioning because
it has, you know, it's a luxury car. And then
the handbook says, the reason we don't provide air conditioning,
we don't we don't want the passengers to miss the
pastoral smells. Is they drive the country on a beautiful
summer day.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, that's what it is. It's one hundred and fifteen out.
I want to smell the car.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When did when did ac become stock? When did almost
every car nineteen forty one.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It came out?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is that right with the Cadillac?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, it was a packard, had it, And it wasn't
actually air. It was a refrig generation unit like in
a freezer.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So you you turn it on and you're hanging meat
after about five minutes, and then you have to turn
it off till together, and then you turn it back
on again.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I mean it was really an on off switch.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And then frigidaire was right in there, which was right
fida yeah frigidai.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You got to tell that story of ordering your dad's
first car. I love that story for people it may
may not have heard that story.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, my dad would just buy whatever's in the show.
We go the I mean my first we went down
to look at a Cadillac and they wanted forty four hundred.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That was the top of the line Cadillac in sixty
four my dad out of a forty four to twenty
five and they said no, okay, because that was that
was a salesman's commission, twenty five dollars, that was his commission.
So we went down the Ford Dealership, Shaw Sheen Motors
and andover Massachusetts and at that time the Mustang but
so it was all Mustangs and Falcons. And my father said, oh,
(03:27):
we want a full size car. Let's go to the Chevity.
And the guy says, Tom Lawrence, I remember the salesman's name.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He says, uh, you know you can order a car.
Misstillt he goes, I don't want to four to six
weeks forget exactly what you want? Is it that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Let's orner a car? All right?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And then I said can I pick the engine? And
my mother said let the boy pick the engine? What
difference does it make?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So I said, can I have the thing?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I checked Police Pursuit Package.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
For twenty eight engine perfect, muscler delete option right heavy
duty rear end heavy duties is engine and muffler delete.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
All right, okay, so you built a car? Yeah? I said, hey, Dad,
sign is what's this?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
This is?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Are you fine?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So we wait about six weeks later, he hey, the
car is gonna pick up the cars you're gon.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We walk in the.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Show and run away. My dad's disappointed. It's got bucket seats.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I don't want buckets, Dad, They don't come. That's what
they have, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Fine, So my dad gets in the car and he
turns the key and he goes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He goes in the hole of the damn muffler.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
As a hole of the muffler.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I go.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The guy goes Misster London.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You you check the police pursuit muffling delete option.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He goes, what I mean muffling and.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He sees checked muffling And now he knows, he knows
he's been having so he starts yelling, you know, and
he said, all let's.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Get the hell out of him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, he's old mad, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So he starts the car up and he as he
gives it gas as he.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Drops it in the gear and we're on the showroom.
So the car goes.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He goes at the damn rocketship.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's like the rocketship with the hell. And then two
weeks later, I remember my parents' bedroom looking for something
and I found he got a ticket for going one
hundred and ten. Wow, yeah, because your dad got the ticket.
My dad got the ticket. Well he was suddenly he
was the manager of the insurance company. But now he
was the coolest guy in the office because he had
the fastest car. So he took a half a dozen
half a day. He took three of the salesman with them,
(05:19):
and they went out and they going and they got
one hundred and ten our ticket.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, it's funny, that's classic. But that's probably the car
that obviously you wanted, and you probably drove it more
than he did.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I drove it and wrapped it around a tree. Thank you. Yeah,
of course that's your job. As a sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I got my I failed my first exam to get
my life. Hard to believe because I actually got air
on the exam. You know where Chandler is crossing over
the valley and they used to be train tracks there. Well,
I hit it getting the driving exam and we got air.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I remember they probably doored the clipboard and the pen
and these guys' glasses and everything came up bang, you know,
and hit ten. And I said to him, I said,
I just failed, right, And he said I can't tell
you until we get back. I said, we can make
this short. I failed. He goes, yeah, you failed. You
got air, got air on the test? You failed? Yes,
you failed. So I get back and the guy gets
(06:14):
out of the car. His hair's all, you know, screwed up,
and he says, my mom, this kid needs six months
more of radical training before he even takes the exam again.
She must have been pleased, so my dad brings me back.
The next day. I get a ninety five and I
see the guy in the in the at the DMV.
I go ninety five, Yeah, stackhead. Two days later, Mercedes
(06:35):
totaled my car and my mom's car.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, guy was right there, you go.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So I hit the woman that I hit on Rancho
gets out of her car and she goes, my husband's
a lawyer, the biggest lawyer in Beverly Hills. I'm going
to sue you and your dad for everything you got.
And I was, you know, I was sixteen years old.
I'm like, oh my mab. It was hysterical crying. And
turns out, how about this the last luck the Conway
family ever had. The woman who was driving the Mercedes
(07:03):
that I totaled with my mom's car. Her husband is
a huge lawyer in Beverly Hills, but he's my dad's lawyer.
Oh oh yeah, that's a catholic of interest. That's the
last lot. Another rich kid from Hollywood. So so I
burned out that luck and never had anything at the
casinos or the racetrack afterwards, because you're only bored with
(07:24):
a certain amount of luck. And I used it that day,
right right.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I like the fact that you failed the written test,
which because it's always like it's like when you see
a stop sign, you should a stop right, be slow down,
and it's like see you throw glass in the road.
It's always like something some third one, which doesn't you know,
it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right, Jay Leno is with us, also Johnny Lieberman,
and I see that Gary Hoffman is with us. Everybody
dings ang with that guy. Gary. Come on, we got
an extra seat. Let's have Gary Hoffman pop up here
from the Gary and Shannon Show. Is Shannon here too?
She ass the street? The other Oh the other Shannon.
Oh the better Shannon is here. That's cool, all right,
(08:06):
we're live here at Cadillac Pasadena. Come on out. Thirty
four seventy five East colorado'bre seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Gary Hoffman joins us here from the Gary and Shannon Show.
Nice to see you, Bob. Be done with you, Tim.
I know you're You gave us a lot of publicity
on the air today and filled this place up, so
I appreciate it that. Oh hey, that's what we owe
you a sola anytime. We also have Brian Smith with us,
design director at GM Advance Design. That's huge. You grew
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up out in Ohio. Let me hit the mic here
though we're in Ohio, Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Your Reds fan not anymore? A long time ago. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
My dad's from outside of Cleveland. I went to school
in Bowling Green. I if I had to do it
all over again, I would have raised my daughter at
Ohio beautiful people. Yeah, yeah, all right, you are design
for cars. How soon after you designed something and you
okay something, do you see it drive by your your house?
Years months?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It takes a while. Yeah, i'd say, you know, somewhere
near a couple of years after we're done with it,
it's on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
What are we going to see in a couple of
years that you at least you can divulge.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I can't telling I got an idea to secret and
it was a lot of sure who had this idea?
I do know if she's still here, you know what?
I think it'd be hot coming back. Curb feelers really
for guys like me.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
We have cameras and sensors.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I know, but but but but if you could make
the noise that scraping sound, Yeah, if that would be Brian,
I'm I was born in the sixties, so this is
my rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, that's good that your next still does that. I
struggle with that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, I'm still there looking behind me all the time.
How did you get into the It's a it's a
great job, but probably really difficult to get into.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah. Well, I, you know, was really interested in art.
I did a lot of drawing as a kid, and
I caught the bug with cars immediately. My dad was
a car guy, always had something tinkering in the garage.
He was a car dealer as well, so I was
around cars all the time and it just was a
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natural fit. Put those two things together.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Are you more exterior interior? And is there a difference.
Are there specialties?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
There's a specialty. I spent most of my career focused
on exterior design, but now at our studio we handle
everything inside and out.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Is the wood paneling on the old Mercury station wagons
coming back?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I hope not.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
What about fins, the fins like Jay's car back there
at the fifty seven. That's a great idea fins would
be I mean, that'd be a massive So it's like
the winglets on a seven thirty seven.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Fins are pretty cool. But we've been there, done that.
We're trying to, you know, find find the new fin.
What's the new thing?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know? You must you must have designed something that
you you know that you eventually saw on the two
ten freeway and thought, you know, like when I when
I a band hears their music on the on the
radio for the first time, you must have had that
moment where you said, oh, I designed that.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I do. I remember one moment sitting in traffic in
UH in Detroit, actually before I moved out here, and
there's a I could see from the one spot in
traffic four cars that I worked on. Wow. At the
same time, Wow, is that right? I was like, wow,
I just I worked on that design, worked on that
design work.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know what were they? Do you remember? All four
of them?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They were Cadillacts. Yeah, and I spent most of my
career doing Cadillacs, you know, uh cts ATS XT four
and then most recently all of the electric Cadillacts that
are in the room here with us.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, we grew up. My dad had a Seville growing up,
you know, the one with the eventually one with that
crazy trunk that you know, that squared off bustle back, yeah,
bustle but yeah, yeah, yeah. And my mom had a
Coupe Deville. And and I tell you, you know, back when
when they bought those cars, that's when you know you
made it, you know, when you add a Cadillac in
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that driveway.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That's right, that's right. I remember my mom had a
seventy seven Seville black as the red leather interior.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And that was like, yeah, there's a beautiful, beautiful car.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Are they bring anything back like that? I mean any
like old school designs is a temporary thing for people
like the old Seville or the kup Deville.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Well, you know, we like to reference our heritage. We
like to you know, GM Design. Cadillac in particularly has
a really rich heritage, right, but we don't want to
ape the past. Cadillac in its heyday always looked forward,
always looked beyond, and trying to really introduce new technology,
expressive design. It's all about exciting people about the future
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and being optimistic about the future. So we try to
honor our past but look to the future all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Brian Smith is with us, also Gary Hoffman from the
Gary and Shannon Show. Brian's with the design director GM
Advanced Design. Are you young enough or I guess old
enough to remember the day that they took the antenna's
off cars?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I do? I do?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, that must have been huge for you though. It
is a design guy not to have that stupid antenna there.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, we call him shark fins now all right? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And are they much better than they were, I mean
than the standing antenna?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Well, they pack a lot of stuff in them. Now
it used to just be an a m F M antenna.
Now we've got you know, on Star uh you know,
five G Internet? Oh yeah, a m FM. Everything's in
that little shark fin.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
When you constantly have not fights or arguments, but moments
when somebody says, I like the design, but we have
too much technical stuff here. You got to go back
and and redesign it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Oh that's my whole world. That yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
that's part of I think that's part of the creative process,
is trying to find a way around those challenges or
issues and you know, manufacturing challenges. That's part of the job.
I enjoy it as an art guy.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
I mean basis in art that you talked about that
being kind of the reason that you got into the
design aspect. Are you a guy who has those dreams
and you wake up with the middle of the night
and you go, that's the next design, that's the next car?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Is that when it hits you? Or you just work
through it sketch pads? How do you do it?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah? I mean I'm not the guy physically drawing the
cars anymore, but I try to bring ideas to the team.
And yeah, I'm always thinking about cars. You just think
about it on traffic. You're looking at them all the time,
and I'm surrounded by it, and you know, you get
ideas and I can't sleep at night, so yeah, I
think about all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do you ever look at another line of cars and go, oh,
they ripped me off. That's my design.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It happens occasionally, you know, you see influences. I mean
where it's such a global world right now, and everything
is on the internet live twenty four to seven, so
everybody's influencing everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So because you work with exteriors, you probably also are
constantly battling the guys who wanted to put the cameras out.
You want to hide everything.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, yeah, we we call it artful integration of technology.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Okay, all right, and you guys do a great job.
Because I can't find the front camera on my car,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Good, we did a good job.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Then, yeah, it's great. Yeah, I see it only when
I'm about to hit something. But you know, it's really weird,
and I maybe you have the answer to this, or
maybe it's more of a technical thing, but I have
a button in my car where I can hit it
and I can see a three sixty view of the
top of it all around, and I don't know how
the hell you guys do that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah's cameras under your mirrors, looking down,
looking down, Oh, that's where they are, okay, And then
the front and rear cameras and the image is all
merged and then it's put together as if it's a
bird's eye view.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Wow. But man, it looks like the cameras twenty feet
over the.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Car, it does. That's the idea. Yeah, yeah, bird's eye view.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I also love on in the last four or five years,
the softer like chalk colors that have come out, you know,
the softer you know, blues and greens and solids.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah. Let's let's focus on
the metallics now. Yeah, more kind of rich, solid colors. No,
but I like them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are you are you a color guy too, or are
you just design or both?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
We have a color materials department that handles all the colors.
They curate all the new exterior and interior colors and
finishes materials. You know, they're always looking at fashion. You know.
It has to be done pretty far ahead of time
because paint developments take a while. We have to know
that it can be sprayed in the plant and support
all the different vehicles that come out of that.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I heard, and maybe you can tell me this is
true or not. Brian Smith is with us. The is
the design director for GM. I heard that originally cars
were all black because that paint dried twice as fast
as any other color.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I didn't, I was not aware of that, but that's
probably true.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
It's probably true.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
It was also cheaper, probably than any other color.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly right. Everybody had a black car. Man.
I think it's such a great job that, you know,
designing cars, you know, especially if you were like a
single guy in a bar. That's a home run, you know,
designing exteriors for Cadillacs. Thing dong with you.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I haven't noticed it work quite like that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, I really think it's great. I really do. When
when is maybe can't talk about this his Cadillac working
on a flying car.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
If I was, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, all right that means yes, yeah, yeah, all right,
it was around the corner. Great question, monny, Brian, I
really appreciate coming on, Brian Smith, design Director General Motors
Advance Designed. Really appreciate man. Yep, thanks to see you. Yep,
all right, really live on KF I am six forty
j Lenos with us. Also Gary Hoffmins with us from
the Gary and Shannon Show. Of course, Bellio and Angel
(17:50):
have joined us as well.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on DEMYO from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes, man, we got a huge, great crowd out here.
Gary Hoffman is with us from Gary and Shannon uh.
And then we also we're gonna have on the phone
Johnny Lieberman joins us as well. But on the phone
we have Rory Harvey, executive vice president and president of
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General Motors Global Markets. Roy, welcome to the show. How
you sir, Thanks about yourself. Oh what a great job
you have. Executive vice president and president GM Global Markets.
How many countries is Cadillac in?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Sorry, it's just well, if you look for me in
terms of Cadillac's it's top twenty, and then if you
look at General Motors, it's just under one.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hundred, oh under one hundred. Oh okay, all right, you
know we're gonna we're gonna put you on hold. We
have a bad connection. We're gonna try to get a
better connection with you, Rory. It's probably our fault. You know,
we don't have the technology the Cadillac has exactly exactly
just gonna say.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That, I'm just gonna say that we just don't All right, Well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's calling from a Lincoln obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Johnny Libin's with us, also Gary Hoffman and Jay Leno.
This is an exciting time anytime a new dealership opens.
I remember back when I was, when I was a kid,
the big dealership in the San Fernando Valley where we
all went to look at her, you know, at a car.
When we turned you know, sixteen or fifteen. You always
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get very anxious about a car. Was Terry york in
in in Cino, in Tarzana. But you know what, Jay,
there's a there's a weird sort of vibe with kids nowadays,
like we had. We had somebody on earlier who I
h was Alana uh. And she said, Alana, sure, she
works with car and driver. And she said she never
(19:52):
got her license before she was twenty one? What y
and I you know, the day I turned sixteen, I
couldn't wait to get it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Well, yeah, it was the same way too, you know,
because I had to go places virtually. You see, we
have to go places in reality you go virtually now, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's freedom to get out there and move around.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So I'm saying, like in the old days, you called
your go friend up, can I take it. He naked picture. Okay,
you drive to her house. Okay, you got your camera.
You can't go to the drug store in your town's
you go three towns over and then you get picture developed.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And when it comes back it's got black bars over
so you couldn't. Now you just go, hey, we sent
me a naked picture.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Okay, now problem here you go president, Now you know
I mean, it's that's why that's why you needed a
car to get to get to the naked girl.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You had to go there.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's that's why I got my license for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that's why you get it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, that's why you get it, all.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Right, Roy Harvey's whether it's executive vice president General Motors,
Global markets you, whether it's Roy excellent and where are
you are? A global Cadillacs global strategy is what to
sell everybody in the world a car.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh, that's really facing the strategy. We have a target
audience and then we build a design the vehicles to
compete against the other luxury brands around the world. We're
not in every simple market around the world. We look
at where the opportunities are and yeah, that's how we proceed.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'll tell you something Cadillac has done that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's really hard to do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
When I was a kid, the averagage of a Cadillac
about it was by its sixty three. Now it's like
forty one. I mean, they've got it down to on.
I think what that takes. It takes a big luxural barge.
Your grandfather drove convince the next generation that this is
going to be the hot hatch to race against BMW
or Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And they've done it. I mean, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
They've actually brought their demo down to the more desirable demographic.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Rory, did you is getting into f one part of
that strategy?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, you know, it's the comment
that was just made. If you look at it when
I first time in at Cadillac, that was twenty eighteen now,
and when you spoke to people about Cadillac, being spoke
about Cadillac very on me, and it was typically about
somebody who had made it in the past, and they
had a Cadillac to demonstrate that they've made it. And
if you look at the new vehicles now and we're
getting a lot of Conquest customers coming into the Cadillac
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portfolio and the demographic in terms of age, vice profile
is reducing significantly. So you know that's very very good.
And if you looked at the strategy over as you know,
General Motors has DNA or racing DNA with a flood,
whether it be the inter Series that will be Durnt Championships,
it be Nastar at the IndyCar and pulled me the
one into the ability to be able to showcase Cadillac
(22:37):
on the global streation.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Roy, I appreciate you coming on. Roy Harvey, Executive vice
president and president GM Global Markets, Thank you, sir. And
Safe Travels, thanks you.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Okay, with Cavy is technology, it sounds like it's a
Cadillac underwater.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's like a Cadillac on off a bridge.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Cadillac get into the phone business. I know, why don't
some of these high tech companies get into cellular where
you can hear somebody nowadays? Remember when the first cellular
phones came out, it sounded like a guy was next door, right.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, yeah, I guess that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know why he was next door? They didn't have
the range, so you had you went, you went to
a guy next door.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, exactly. They were a lot bigger, they had a
lot more watts.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think it was right part of the part.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But the problem with cell phones is that and for
people who are long winded, it's really annoying. You can't
talk at the same time. If you're on a landline,
Jay and I could talk to each other on a
landline at the same time that I can hear. Well
a cell phone or now it's it's called the digital phone.
It only goes one way or the other. It doesn't
go both ways at the same.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Sub true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't think that's true one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I think he's got the old water driven.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I talked you into getting a new phone, didn't I.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I don't know what what was what was the story
on that?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Because you had you called us and it was horrible
And I said, Jay, how long have you had your phone?
And you said for like six years? And I said,
when you buy a cell phone, let's say you go
out tonight and buy one from I don't know I.
You know you're on T Mobile. So if you buy
a modern phone tonight and T Mobile they put you
on top of their list. You have the latest technology
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in the phone. They put you on top of the list.
And as you go down the list. Then that's when
you need a new phone, like every three or four years.
Then you go to the top of the list when
you get a new phone.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Did you ever hear that?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I also think that's false.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, but that's okay story because my brother.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
In law has like an iPhone too, and it sounds great.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
It's the only thing it does.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He's lucky it's the only a but he's in charge
of the list.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's the thing, just the phone now.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But but it's you know, it's one of the reasons
why you know, taking calls on radio is so tough,
because look, I think that Rory Guy's great. I couldn't
tell you. So.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Do we all agree that taking a haul of radio
is so tough? I am physically and mentally exhausted.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I mean, to actually press the button to press it
was one of the herculean tasks.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's to.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Listen to what these guys are saying. Now, it is tough,
all right. Johnny Liebman's whether it's design analyst, what's your
favorite what's your best design or your favorite design.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That I like to look at?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
You like the man, I don't you like these kind
of questions? Can give you top one hundred. Really look
top one.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But I have a hard time getting away from the Ferrari.
The two fifty gt short wheelbase. It's it's good, it's
just what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Short wheelbase?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, there was a long wheelbase version that didn't look
as good.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Maybe bigger or smaller, I mean closer from the back
of the front door.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Distancetween the front wheels and the back wheels was shorter
than the long wheelbase version. But just you know, you
talk to designers, they talk about proportion. It's like all
they ever, you know, the surface volume proportion. That nailed
the proportion. And so it's got two things I always
think people find sexy in cars. What's called one is
a dash to axle ratios. I mean from the steering
wheel to the middle of the front wheel. How long
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that is? If you look at the new Escalade IQ,
this is interesting because.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Wait, come, sorry, give me that measurement again, because sometimes
people steer.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Wheel steering wheel to the middle of the front wheel. Okay,
dashboard to the front axle. To bring it back to
cadillact the new Escalated IQ. If you look at the
Silver Auto ev uh, you know mechanically or identical products. However,
since it's an EV and you're really putting what they
call a top hat on a skateboard, they put a
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huge dash to axle uh into the escalade. And with
the Chevy, you know you want to emphasize a bigger
bed because it's a pickup truck. So you know the
front door touches the front wheel, no dash to axle,
and you know that's the thing, so that the Ferrari
does that well. And then also don't ask why, no
one really knows, but you want the roof to be
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exactly twice the height of the wheel the wheels on
the car.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So really you looking for stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
When you find a good looking car, you will notice
that's like a Jaguar E type dashed axle and the
roof is exactly twice.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The len It just feels better when you get in it. Yeah,
but no, no, no, just looking.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It also is the best most popular cars or is androgynousts.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
When you look at a Jaguar x K.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I've never been a woman that didn't think it was
an attractive car because that has a very feminine form.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But the rear of.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
It has these haunches over the wheels, which your mail,
you know, so like like a cat about to leap,
you know what I'm saying. So the Lamborghini mirror actually
has eyebrows over the headlights.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The Italians we called that my brow because they're like
the woman, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
But that's but it's true. But the prettiest cars are
also drawn by hand. You know, everything now is settled
with computers.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm sorry, we got to take a break. Jay Leno
is where us Johnny Lieberman, Gary Hoffman from the Gary
and Shannon Show. We're live at in Cadillac Pasadena in
the front lobby. You'll see us thirty four seventy five
East Colorado. Come on buy wheels seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
We're live here Cadillac Pacitya. Jay Leno is with us
Dang Jong with this guy Johnny Lieberman, design analysts, and
also Gary Hoffin from the Gary and Shannon Show. Is
that the Celestic out there?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, Celestick?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. Why nice man? Is that a
that's electric? Right? That's all electric?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have you driven it? Johnny, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I've driven every other Evy, Cadillac and General Motors makes,
but not that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And are they all much faster than the gas powered
Gay Yes, yeah, no with Cadillacts.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Remember they've had V forever, right, so that's their performance
kind of sub brand. So like the Escalade V is
like a tenth slower than the Escalade IQ. The IQ
is still faster, but their their big V eight supercharg
stuff is pretty damn fast.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, and they're all they're set now on long range.
You can get three, four or five hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't know exactly that one of the Escalator IQ
is rate. I mean it's not even rated. They say
it's four sixty. It's so heavy they don't have to
rate it.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, a lot of those who are in a Japanese
hunger striker driving barefoot, you know, if you you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Can get that much mileage.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But I drove.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I drove an Escalated IQ from San Francisco to LA
and if I hadn't to stop to charge it, would
I would have made it to my house with one
percent left? Oh right, yeah, I would have made it
until you know, four un and twenty mile uh. And
the worst thing you can do with the EV is
just sit on the highway at eighty miles an hour.
That's like, yeah, they hate that. You want to like
stop and go because I'll recharge.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A little bit. But was how I didn't know that?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's the worst use case for an EV
is a road trip.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I like the fact that they don't have the best
mileage in the world because when I drive by them
off the five Freeway and the way to San Francisco,
I feel better about myself. Right, Yeah, what do you drive?
You drive a Tesla?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
I have a Tesla right now, but it's a baby model,
it's the three.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
But I don't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I don't drive it because of saving electricity or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Good for your environment.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's what I say, kids need, childhood lung cancer.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Drive it because it reminds me of a go cart.
It reminds me.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Of the golf cart that you used to steal from,
you know, from the golf course. Because the pickup on
that is so quick, snaps your head back. It's much
faster than any of the other gas powered cars.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I see why you're not doing automobile.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's like a go cart, like a car. It's like
a golf car. I have never driven electric car in
my life.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Oh, you should get a Cadillact.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's like saying, you know, I've never brushed my teeth,
and I'm fine, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I don't get. I don't get what the brag is.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's right, I've never dressed my teeth.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I just haven't had the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
There is a crazy part. They're just like the gasoline
car is just more efficient.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I would like to get an electric car because I
don't drive. I go from Santa Nita to home. That's dude,
that's the.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Perfect Yeah, kids, that's literally and you will save a fortune. And again,
I mean I have a test letter that costs me
maybe if you're going electricity thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
To fill it up for versus one hundred and forty dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
And if you've got solar on your house or whatever,
I mean, that makes it. That makes it that much
more affordable too. I would like to get an electric car.
I just don't. I don't know which one. You know,
it fits me. I think that's elastic out there is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I think i'd like, well, that's four hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, that's a four hundred thousand dollars one is a
wide range of evs.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, what's what's the what's the entry Cadillac ev lyric optic.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So the optic is the little one and they're great,
that's excellent, excellent car. Yeah, three hundred miles of range,
fast enough, very good looking. And what's cool about it
is what Cadillac's doing is it's like, you know how
usually like, oh, we make this really good technology, you
can't have it if you get the small one. So
all the good tech is in the little one here,
including the first actual studio installation of Dolby atmost, so
(31:58):
you really have that that crazy theater sound where they
had to remove I told him, I'm like, you could
have done better. But they didn't remove the grab handles
to put a speaker there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh that's great, and I'm like, yeah, you could have
moved the gradio for safety. Yeah, but all right, Johnny,
thank you for coming by, Johnny Lieberman, everybody, I'm sorry. Also,
Jay Leno's with us. Gary Hoffmover live at Cadillac pasadenat
thirty four seventy five says Colorado, come on by, you
know seven o'clock tonight on k if I Am six
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