Audi RS3; Confusing Porsche Hybrid; Tumbler; Chrysler's Demise - TST Podcast #970

Doggannit all I can take away from this video is the thought of Matt going over speed bumps at 45 😂

Another thing the RS3 has going for it over the M cars is that it’s much more under the radar. I think far more people will know what an M2/M3 is relative to the RS3 (even with the more aggressive new look). Some people don’t like that, but I love it

iam all in for the Audi rs3 but wish it can be had with a manual trans

I only use my Alexa when I lose my tv remote😂

Please review an Alpina B3 GT!!

I have the trouble forming sentences and its effecting my freedom so that I just get shut down. I don't know how you get out of it. I get the dreams of images of my mother my body feels severely poisoned and is very slow and painful so that lifting 5-7 LBS is a very difficult challenge. the neck on me is soo locked, and I'm a very normal structured person as far as bones go, but I wont be able to look left and right properly because it shifts into snapped feeling positions. I cant barely do straight ahead and chewing and drinking is severely poor quality cases of slurping pain. I do hope its not the worst case and I'm actually kind of afraid of the eating thing. the people in the videos are the real celebrate people to me and i wish i can get better just inside so that the very very poor audio quality of my voice that i think may not be real but these freaky surrounding poor attacking problems that are problems existing in other peoples freedom is real, i maybe perhaps think. will and hopefully come to a good halt and stop. because it seems like a very very poor mistake accident that I've struggled to spell out in my head. hopefully i can get away with it in a better happening thinking position some type of other time.

Since all controls are thrown into the touchscreen interface, voice control could complement it by prioritising what you want to interact with. For example, saying "I want to change the temperature" brings up the HVAC controls, or "what am I listening to" brings up the infotainment, or "show me where I am" brings up the map.

I still think the voice prompt should be a button on the steering wheel, not the "hey Mercedes" crap. Even on my phone, I'm swiping up from the bottom instead of utilising "hey Google".

🧑🏾‍💻I'm here

Movie: A demon driving around in a Dodge Demon killing people on Halloween night.

Not up on Apple Podcasts btw!

Reasonable Wear Tire.

Also use a Tesla voice command. Its perfect, always.

Batwoman does charity work,

Their is a new commercial with voice commands and after his dentist appointment he can't get inside his house.

"Do you use siri frequently?" I'm in my late 30's and I definitely do. Siri is perfect for things like, "Remind me at 5pm tomorrow to call the dentist" or "Set a timer for 5 minutes." Siri sucks for anything where you have to be on the phone anyway like "Remote start the car." In the actual car, siri is great for "texting" since it's pretty much a conversation

Best batmobile imo is the 90s animated series one.

I have an 8Y RS3, it’s my very favorite Golf that has ever been made ;)

RS3 wagon might be a perfect only reaasonable car to have.

Something happen to the podcast, I didn't get the latest episode on the player I use

On that far right leaning rivian I wonder if somehow one wheel was being driven slightly faster than the wheel on the other side? Could that make it drift to one side?

Matt, is the buffeting worse than your VOlt?

I don’t have any children but I was once a little bastard I mean child 😂 and I could imagine young me absolutely ruining adults life from the furthest seat back giving the car my own voice commands! So until they can make one that recognizes the voices that are communicating and having some selection on who it listens to it still could be very problematic.

I noticed my MK8 golf has terrible wind buffeting similar to my brother in law’s Supra. My e92 bmw is great with the windows down

I'm 41 and I use Siri, but not a lot. It has gotten worse over the last several years too, seemingly getting worse with each iOS version. I grew up watching 90's Star Trek and I envision the future of talking to devices like that, but we're NO WHERE NEAR that capability yet. Could it happen? Sure! It really needs to have the comprehension of a human for understanding multipart questions and sentences. Anyway, Rivian is crazy we still want physical buttons for some things. They are not a bug, what a stupid ass thing to say...

Re: voice ccmmands, what if you're sick? Now your car is forcing you to speak for it to operate? Shows how fully fledged these ideas are. The people who like this are the same people who use speaker phone in public

I’m in my mid 20s, and I genuinely HATE talking to any device. The only tech that I’ve been able to deal with that requires you talk to is Alexa, but talking to it is the only option of input so that’s probably why. I will genuinely never use a voice assistant in a car, it just feels like an unnecessary complication that doesn’t make anything easier.

Chrysler missed the chance to bring back a car on the charger/challenger platforms from the 60s

Need Timestamps for conversations topics

Hey Matt what about the time Biden Blackmailed Ukraine into firing that prosecutor do they wouldn’t lose that billion dollar funding package?

I don’t think Matt and Zach have been in a well maintained e36. The interiors can be extremely nice and door panels are still available new from BMW and they are made way way better. My daily has a pristine interior and it is 300k miles.

I own a 8V RS3 and it’s the best car I’ve owned. Perfect daily driver as it can get well over 30mpgs on the highway and at 400hp (now well over 500 with some simple bolt ons and tune😉) it’s a great all around car. And that five cylinder sound never gets old. Such a unique sound to anything on the road these days

Please just give us the RS3 hatchback in North America for god’s sake.

I’ve got a Giulia Quadrifoglio and I feel like it’s the perfect balance between performance and comfort. In its softest setting you can drive all day. However, it’s missing AWD and I’m in Canada. Looking very closely at an RS3 as my winter car as I transition the QV to a summer/weekend car to preserve it.

I’m 27 and do use Siri/Alexa, but only for fairly basic stuff like asking the weather when my phone is across the room or turning off a lamp when I’m already cozy in bed

MAGA

When is Matt moving out of the US? This must be an emotional time for him 😂

Would be interesting to see how many of those high-end Cayenne hybrids are sold to people who can take the depreciation off their taxes and who are trying to get into 911 allocations. I suspect that many of them are.

Base Cayenne can get the same 18-way seats as a Cayenne Turbo (and any Porsche for that matter). Turbo just gets it standard instead of as an option.

I have a turbo gt, I do not want a heavy battery hybrid system in my already heavy SUV

Voice command will never be faster than a tap of a button for simple commands. Also, it is also impossible to multi-task vocally as humans only have one note of polyphony (unless you're Lalah Hathaway). But I can press multiple buttons with my off-hand while carrying on a conversation. Voice command for macros make sense but it should not be the de-facto means of auxiliary control.

I think the CT4-V Blackwing it a far better choice for me over the RS3.

I'm 21 y/o and I DESPISE voice-activated controls.

Why are you comparing the RS3 to an M3? It's meant to be the same segment as a 1-series....

Regarding Fox body project goals, wasn't one of them to lap a track faster than Zach's e46? Did that ever happen?

Love my RS3!!! Such an amazing machine.

if Mazda’s reading this, is it possible to drop the driver’s seat height by 3 to 6 inches for us folks that would absolutely enjoy a stock Miata MX-5 without any sort of modification?

I had the same realization about "how much horsepower do you need?" on a much more modest scale. I was coming out of a 2004 normally aspirated Outback where I had to plan for highway passes and spend more time in the right lanes than I expected when loaded down with family and gear. So when it was time for a new vehicle, I was sure I "needed" the 260hp turbocharged engine in the XT Outback. So that's what I got. Then I had a long-term loaner with the normally aspirated engine and I discovered that it not only got much better mileage, but it did all the passing/accelerating/driving things I needed it to do just fine. Now, I'm sticking with the XT, but when it's time for something else, I'm definitely going to have more of an open mind about how much HP I ACTUALLY need in a family vehicle.