Stellantis Shuffles Leadership, Hyundai Shuffles Wheels, Porsche Shuffles Letters

Paul J Daly: 0:17

Wednesday already January 16. We're getting ready to be in Washington DC tomorrow. But first we're going to talk about the Lantus having a new CEO. Oh, Hyundai that drives sideways and a typo on a Porsche 911. Sounds like a fun smattering of topics.

‍Kyle Mountsier: 0:33

A great little smattering. It's a great little snack.

Paul J Daly: 0:36

Stories are heavy. Sometimes they're light today. It's

Unknown: 0:38

kind of like right in between right in the middle.

Paul J Daly: 0:41

That's it. I want to tell you what we do. We have so much going on. It's my was that my inside voice it just came out. I felt like you just spoke my thoughts. What we do have going on as we are in DC tomorrow morning, bright and early for the public policy Auto Show. We're super excited. Our friends at Mosaic helped us make it happen. They will be there also on site. We'll be live streaming and recording a lot of content at the Washington area New New Car Dealers public policy show again, it's like right down the street from Pennsylvania Avenue. Maybe we'll swing by and like wave hi to all of our friends at the regulatory Commission's but there will be representatives lawmakers there, perhaps I've heard maybe the speaker that house is going to be there. We'll see. Right? Let's see some reveals from Rolls Royce and Aston Martin, two cars that Kyle and I each have one of and and, you know we're gonna usually think talking to dealers and just bringing a new new energy to the show and bringing that energy to you. Because my guess is Kyle, that approximately 4% of our audience knows that there's a public policy auto show going on. I

Kyle Mountsier: 1:47

would 4% might be a little high.

Paul J Daly: 1:49

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Kyle Mountsier: 2:08

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Paul J Daly: 2:10

Absolutely. And also probably where the most of the content we posted is our LinkedIn channel. So go to LinkedIn or LinkedIn page search ASOTU and join the you know, seven 8000 people there that are pretty engaged and it's a lot of fun over there. A lot of all right, I think we got to talk about news. We're gonna get into it. Alright, let's go. Alright, so still Lantis we've been talking about still ANSYS a little bit especially when it comes to not going to auto shows. They've announced a major shift in their North American operations replacing ce o Mark Stewart with Carlos czar. Yeah, he's the current president of the Mexico unit. So they're they're calling in calling into left hander. South America is coming up as early as a decade of global auto experience including a role as president of GM South America, he said to take over on February 1. So obviously very challenging year, US market despite all the other automakers doing goods Atlantis managed to post a 1.2% decline in sales, even as it you know, hasn't really even released any EVs yet. I don't know if it's good or bad at this point used to be bad and maybe it's good now. Carlos Tavares the current ce o of scientists, he praised our Lincoln's leadership skills. And he said he's the best leader to drive change in our business model toward electric electrification in the region.

Kyle Mountsier: 3:28

It's interesting that that's the quote like, Oh, he's gonna lead the electrification push, we're coming. Right? I don't know if that's the right if that's the right move. Like I know that that's the quote that probably has to happen. I don't know if that's actually what's going to happen. Here's the thing though, we've been running these stories like status, not an auto show slant. It's not running the Super Bowls to Lantus, not an n Es, like, they're just not at CES. They're not following some of the patterns. And I wonder if that's actually impacting them more than anybody maybe would have even thought of the impact on that, like, go

Paul J Daly: 4:01

figure. I mean, we try to reconcile those two things. We were just saying a couple days ago, how the the auto show organizers are like, hey, anything you can do to get the OEMs to know that we actually have buyers right at the stores right. We saw where was it where the the status was in Louisiana, where the status was a Texas it was Texas Charlie's deal, Chris Yep. That was saying hey, the dealers this Atlantis dealers are stepping are saying we're because they know that there's value there. Right. And dealers don't tend to say their buyers here if there aren't buyers here. Yep. And so like, does that have something to do with who knows it has something to do with the sales decline? I think we can put one on one together and get that but I mean, maybe all of their uncertainty maybe that's why this leadership change. Right? So I mean, obviously everybody wants to see the Lancers when it's good for the industry when the industry is strong because a lot of

Kyle Mountsier: 4:50

massive day supply they pumped a ton of inventory and into dealers right started to started to be one of the first to have bold and large incentives like It's just not the way that the people that are buying the most vehicles in unmasked are buying. And so the sales decline, it kind of makes sense to me. I'm hopeful that that a change in leadership can potentially turn some stuff around. Yeah.

Paul J Daly: 5:14

And if you're listening, Carlos, once you head out to the auto show, there you go. Those dealers want you we welcome with open arms. If you want to come to a Soto con, our event may just reach out gladly have you there as well. Have you put in a stage let you show everybody what's up and build some energy around the brand. Speaking of building energy around a brand, yeah. All right, this is from we covered this in our daily email yesterday and it was so fun. We wanted to put it in the show today. If you don't get the email by the way, it's every morning in your inbox. Gotta bring you up to speed on automotive news, give you a little pop culture a little retail, have you laugh a little bit and join everybody else we get 1000s of people on the email list open every single day ASOTU.com So this from that email yesterday. Most great features have limitless applications and Hyundai's Ionic five right there. Evie they just released a new iteration has a new steering feature that has seemingly a limited number of episodes. It's called the IE corner system it turns the wheels of the Eevee completely sideways allowing it to something we all want it to do spin in place a semi drift maneuver parallel parked by itself. Maybe or maybe most importantly, escape a tight parallel park situation. So basically, it's a steer by wire system meaning all four wheels can turn completely perpendicular from where they are. They did say they had to add cameras and sensors to make sure it's safe. But this is the best. This is so good. The system is not designed for high speed driving and has only been tested up to 50 miles an hour.

Kyle Mountsier: 6:52

So like oh, they're going sideways part

Unknown: 6:56

going sideways. Well, I mean why would you want to go more than 50 Go inside?

Paul J Daly: 7:01

Well I'm just saying can you imagine why I couldn't even think of an application but 50 miles an hour going sideways has to be wild. Like just the testing Imagine you're sitting here right and you look out your window and you see a car looking at you looking at you like it's in a full power slide just like

Unknown: 7:25

I want once me drift maneuver is what I want to do I want to like pop it turn those fly

Paul J Daly: 7:30

those backwards but you're not slamming a full grip you know the the I was reading the specs on the Kia what's the Evie nine? Yeah, and it did say something about being able to like wheels can like whatever feature it said it was this feature.

Kyle Mountsier: 7:44

Yes we call a parallel park a parallel park is amazing like it would drivers tests in the future. Not needed. It's like like that spy pack. Hey, go ahead and just you know parallel park it like what does the driver instructed the you know, the new like 16 year old kid goes.

Paul J Daly: 8:03

Yeah, he's like, Well, you didn't say how? Yeah, you didn't say how? Look I love the innovation that's coming in. Obviously this is possible because of the fact that the Evie motor is attached to the wheel Zack right so we can actually stay on the wheel and drive it and go 50 miles an hour or more. And I think like this came out at CES I think things like that just push us more in the direction of the vehicle being a piece of technology instead of a vehicle right? Because vehicles just aren't really excited aside. We don't move that way. When we think of tech

Kyle Mountsier: 8:32

the next vehicle is the next iteration is just going to be you know, there's massive tires that are on like some RV car like RC cars where the car can just flip over and be fine. That's where we're headed. And the

Paul J Daly: 8:44

little the cockpit just just right. Yeah, just I don't know. But I mean kudos to Hyundai. I think that this is a great iteration because of the Evie platform. I think it'll be much more implementable then. Like you know some of the crazier things when they had like the four wheel steer in the pickup truck and and you're like it was always kind of complicated, like snuff brakes. So yeah, I mean, gets us excited. Yeah, and new cars do things but sometimes new cars. You make mistakes. I don't know it was bad snakes be as bad. We're gonna put a

Kyle Mountsier: 9:13

big way. I tried to just like set up. I was way with a Segway setup. It was double

Paul J Daly: 9:19

it was like, it was like Inception cycle.

Kyle Mountsier: 9:22

So of course, a Porsche Club of America member in Houston spotted a quite humorous typo. The one we've all made we can't we all have to admit this in the Porsche 911 driver display where brake pads br A ke are misspelled as brake pads Tayyar a key a que like I'm gonna break

Paul J Daly: 9:49

Oh, there's a screenshot of it right brake pads worn. Wow.

Kyle Mountsier: 9:53

Just so bad,

Unknown: 9:55

right? Well, the

Kyle Mountsier: 9:56

crazy thing get it right first, and actually get it right twice. It said As brake were spelled correctly, brake pads warn spelled correctly. Change brake br EA K pads driving permitted, okay, so it is at least twice and then missed it on the third one is we're crazy thing is, this vehicle is 115 grand like guys, even Chet GPT would have got this one right, you know, even Chet

Paul J Daly: 10:24

GPT so like they don't know if the the typo is exclusive to just this model. But I mean, once you know, you know, I'm the kind of person you are to like once you know something's a little off it bothers you. Yeah, I wonder if this model card unfortunately isn't a digital display right? This isn't a physical button or physical back in the day you have the little old incandescent bulb that would just show up. So I mean, it's probably fixed within an over the air update, I'm guessing but I mean, it's just goes to show you man like even that the highest attention to detail. It makes me feel better because I missed stuff like this all misspell

Kyle Mountsier: 10:56

all the time. Like even Porsche can do it on$115,000 vehicle, everything's gonna be fine. It's a great little Jalopnik article and you know, they'll fix it soon, I'm sure.

Paul J Daly: 11:08

Yeah, they will. Yeah, they will. Well, look, by the way, you have a lot of opportunity to go out there and make positive change today. Serve some people provide hope to some people and have a lot of fun, right? Whatever you do, make sure it's about a little bit more than cars to see you tomorrow.