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The Good Old Days vs Tomorrow — The Carmudgeon Show with Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 129

The Good Old Days vs Tomorrow — The Carmudgeon Show with Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 129

FromThe Carmudgeon Show


The Good Old Days vs Tomorrow — The Carmudgeon Show with Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 129

FromThe Carmudgeon Show

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jan 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

"The good old days weren't always good. And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."

Jason and Derek got a huge amount of feedback from the previous episode discussing whether the current car market sucks for Young Enthusiasts. In this episode, the Carmudgeons discuss the feedback — and further define what the problem is — and why that results in outrageous dealer ADMs and shady sales practices.

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First up, Jason is getting beat up on his Cybertruck review — lately having been asked by CNBC whether the Tesla has a snow problem. Meanwhile — all eyes are on the Cybertruck. And our politicized environment just can't cope. 

Second, Derek got lots of feedback from 20-somethings who agreed with him that there are no cool cars post-2000 — and that their economic situation has changed sufficiently that they can't own enthusiast cars, anyway. 

Meanwhile, Jason got the opposite feedback — that things aren't that bad. 

What ensues is, as always, an intelligent discussion about the car market. And how today's economics — and lack of great choices for enthusiast — have encouraged dealers to add slimy markups, prevent buyers from test driving cars they're genuinely interested in buying, and other slimeball practices. 

In short, Jason quotes Billy Joel: "The good old days weren't always good. And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."

Except for dealers. Car dealers are just awful.
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Released:
Jan 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Part of the Hagerty Podcast Network, the Carmudgeon Show is a comedic, information-filled conversation with Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott, two car enthusiasts who are curmudgeonly beyond their years. Proving you don’t have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about what’s wrong with various parts of the automotive universe. Despite their best efforts to keep it negative, they usually wind up laughing, happy, and extolling their love for cars. Which just makes them angrier and more bitter. Jason Cammisa is an automotive journalist, social-media figure, and TV host with over 300 million views on YouTube alone. Jason’s deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest what’s going on within an automobile — and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Master’s Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with. Derek Tam-Scott still tries. He’s a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering — which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving and brokering classic and exotic cars, he’s experienced the world’s most iconic cars. And hated most of them.