Why Motor Shows Sucked!

I'm watching TikTok live. Try to say something. We're about to get into it. I'm wrapping this intro, then we're diving in. Are we? Oh, okay. Really? Okay. I've just been prompted by TikTok to stop waffling and get serious. It seems... All right. I didn't know that TikTok actually does that, but okay. Well, you know what? One of the things that we can talk about is the recent Paris Motor Show, because a lot happened at the Paris Motor Show, which I was not expecting, to be honest with you. I mean, honestly, like, you know, when I was working back in the day at magazines, car magazines, and particularly I worked at a company called JATO Dynamics. And at the time, and I'm talking, you know, right up to probably, I would say, 2010s, maybe 2010s, but maybe not. But certainly up to about a decade ago, maybe a little more than a decade ago, motor shows were still a big thing. And if I wasn't going to a motor show to cover the motor show, which, of course, was always quite a tricky thing. you'd go to a motor show, you'd go on press day, it'd be very busy, and then you'd run around, you wouldn't have much time, you'd run around, you had a press office and everything where you could set up, but you run around, because the thing was, the press conferences that were happening, so the car launches, and of course, you didn't always know who was going to have the most significant or important launch, but they're all back to back to back, and sometimes they'd be here, sometimes they'd be in another hall, usually they tried to do in such a way that you could go from one go around but again it depends on the importance of the manufacturer and so you go you'd be you'd basically be corralled and shepherded from one car launch or press conference to another and another and another and you had very little time to actually put that information up um and then of course we got internet and stuff like that and we were starting to go live so a little bit quicker but then it was always a bit problematic so it was it was fun to go to an actual motor show because you got to see the actual products you got to see the glamour of the launches you maybe got to talk to executives and engineers and people like that but you didn't have much time to relay that coverage until later on in the day by which time you were then competing with everyone else as well when i didn't go to a motor show then what i would do so there's a there's a there's a press agency that you get all the press releases from so all the manufacturers would very soon then start putting the press releases from their launches and from their conferences onto the system um which actually is not as comprehensive now as it used to be sadly um not as many people will put the um all the press releases there but anyway a lot of people did and so if i didn't actually go to a motor show so i just sit there and i would wait for a flood of these releases and pictures and all this news that would be coming in and then i'd be able to then turn that around and then upload that onto you know facebook or the website or whatever and so it used to be a big deal it used to be really motor shows used to be a really really big deal and so that was quite good but what was starting to happen again to do with the internet and motor shows so what happened with manufacturers is that they figured that they're at a motor show and they're launching their cars and of course they're all competing with the headlines and to try and get the biggest story of the day to try and be the car of the show and all the rest of it but they don't necessarily know what all the other manufacturers are doing and so what they find is that they launch a car and they think right we've won all the headlines people loved it and then ferrari just launched a car and everybody's like whoa ferrari of course that's going to be the car of the show and then across the hall lamborghini launches something else and then everybody's like oh lamborghini you know so then that becomes a bit of a problem and so what they realized is that instead of trying to compete with all the other manufacturers at motor shows, at actual motor show events, what they could do is they could just switch to launching directly, and especially because they built such big following and such huge numbers of subscribers on their own social media platforms, and they thought, well, okay, what we'll do is we'll just, ah, hello, so there is a comment, you see, you can see the comment, I follow you on YouTube and here, keep up the good work, thank you so much to Mohamed Barrio, I hope I pronounced that correct, anyway, so what they would do is they thought well you know what what we'll do is we'll just launch directly we'll launch directly on our platforms to our loyal following and you know and also we'll stagger it out so instead of everybody launching cars at a motor show and you have like a dozen two dozen car launches coming out on the same day in the same week and all competing for the headlines in the motoring press and everything else then it becomes a problem so manufacturers thought well you know what we're not going to do that we're just going to launch whenever we feel like through directly through internet and our own platforms etc etc and a lot of them started doing live launches for example where they book a conference there'd be some media there but they would stream it live on youtube and what have you and they were doing it that way and they still do and they're all still doing that what i saw at the paris motor shows and I'm round about coming back to the Paris Motor Show that just happened a couple of uh a week or so ago uh is that we seem to have gone back to how it used to be because suddenly there was a flurry an absolute avalanche if you like of incredible concept cars one after the other admittedly most of them were from Stellantis group so if you know Stellantis group Stellantis owns Chrysler Dodge in America but in Europe Chrysler is basically Fiat which of course then owns Citroen and DS and Vauxhall and Alfa Romeo etc etc you know um and Peugeot um so they launched a flurry of concepts but there were some others as well that launched outside for example Renault, Renault's not part of that group and they launched a couple of things so all of a sudden and these weren't just you know yet another crossover yet another SUV but they were actually really stop and stare concepts i would call them you know stop and stare uh concepts where you go oh whoa what is that you know the sort of the sort of concepts that as a kid you know if you're being dragged around a motor show, you'd be... no, no, wait wait, I want to see this and I want to get a poster for it and I want to get a brochure for it, that sort of thing, so that was good, that was... so I thought that was an incredible return to form for motor shows and I thought that was quite impressive the way that we we we suddenly had this buzz of excitement around the Paris Motor Show which you know, Paris was one of the big, so if you say the big motor shows, right, Paris Motor Show, uh which used to alternate, I still probably does with the Frankfurt Motor Show, Frankfurt Motor Show physically was the biggest motor show of all um, I don't think I've done Paris, I can't remember I've done Frankfurt, massive, done Geneva, Geneva was the other big one and then Detroit that i've done Detroit Detroit was a big one as well um but they've all sort of lost their importance but pardon you forget London Motor Show we used to have a long time ago but that no significance there there's a new one coming though there's a new london motor show happening stay tuned i'm going to keep on top of it and see what's going on and certainly i will go to it um anyway so paris motor show certainly blew the cobwebs away and went back to what motor shows were all about which was about dazzling showgoers and the world's media with some incredible concepts and ideas and that's what they started to do there and i and i think that you know the stellantis definitely won that and of course if you say which car won it you would say that uh the Citroen 2CV concept definitely won it because you know it was adorable but then i also like the the Alpine A310 i thought was magnificent and then that Alfa Romeo the name of which i won't even pronounce or try to pronounce um it was stunning absolutely stunning although a bit reminiscent of the Mazda RX-8 because it had rear suicide doors and the doors would open like that and a coupe profile and it very much reminded me of Mazda RX-8 but suddenly there was something interesting now sadly most of these are concepts and the question is are they actually going to be production cars i mean you've basically got everybody excited you've got everybody salivating you've got everybody sharing you know this stuff online but are you going to actually build it for them can should they be saving up to buy them you see this is a question and that's not necessarily the case although they do say with the 2CV which like i said was probably the undisputed star of the show adorable even more so in van form strangely enough um absolutely crazy inside as well really nice um they have said that there is a new small compact car coming in 2028 so year after next which will be based on that and so how much of a concept idea i saw you test driving so pat bateman says i saw you test driving the Changan Deepal S05 and ordered one no way did you tell Changan you see this is the thing right i love it thank you so much for that comment much appreciated thank you so much and thanks for watching and thanks for doing that and thanks for saying that but one thing i'd love is for for people to actually tell the manufacturers that right because then you know a lot of there are a lot of car reviewers out there and a lot of them have far more views and far more subscribers than i do but what i try to do in my car reviews is give you real world practical information that will help you and i'm not biased right i try to you know i'm i try i try to take my own uh biases out of it and try to think about who the car is for and look at it that way you know and that's what i try to do and invariably i do thank you so much pat but i do get a lot of comments like yourself pat where people say that you know your review helped me make that decision and uh this is where like you know i would love for the manufacturers to see that and understand the importance of giving a car to somebody which is which you know it's 37 years nearly coming up this end of this year will be 37 years of reviewing cars i first reviewed a car back in 1989 um so there is a lot of experience there and there's also a lot of understanding so i'm not there stood there about getting a selfie with the car i'm there to help people understand if that car is for them so that that's what i tried to do anyway back to motor shows so the point being that you know are they going to build these cars are they going to fulfill the promises that they kind of made with these concept cars and that will be something that we have to wait and see at the moment it doesn't look too good although there are some murmurings but weirdly enough the Fiat Multipla not multiply Multipla which was a concept that is kind of part SUV part MPV and then transforms into a pickup truck which i thought was genius but i thought it was one of those show car things that would never actually could nobody buy in the real world because it doesn't make any sense but there are rumors that they're gonna build that i'd love to see it in real but anyway that would be crazy there has been crazy stuff like that before what was that Chevrolet SSR for example that was um a convertible two-door convertible sports pickup truck yeah anyway so so there are some crazy things out there that have made it into production so let's see maybe that will happen it'll be interesting create car content Brown Car Guy has written the only comprehensive guide that tells you exactly how get it now from Amazon or Kindle Unlimited so there was the murder show so that got everybody excited then there were two other launches that came out a few days after the murder show and we'll just touch on them briefly before we wrap this up so one of those was the Porsche Mission S which there isn't a lot of detail about basically all we know about the Porsche Mission S is that it will be a series production car it's not a limited production it will be a series production car that will sit above the 911 so unlike the previous like 918s of the world where there were limited production special specialist cars the Mission S will be a series production it will be available but it ain't going to be cheap it's going to if you think the top end 911s are expensive imagine what that's going to be so it'll be supercar hypercar territory right they haven't revealed what's what it's going to drive it but they have said it will be a combustion engine car so that's good it's not going to be an ev porsche are really going you know they they scrapped the boxster and the cayman and said right evs now and then they went yeah hold on a minute and then they so now the boxster and cayman replacements are delayed um apparently they still will come as an ev but also as the option of a hybrid now this mission s might be a hybrid or it might just be a V8 combustion engine we don't know, a straightforward combustion engine uh hybrid or plug-in hybrid, all three of these are possibilities. One thing we do know, it will not be an EV and we also know that it will be a heavily performance orientated there there are levels of traction systems in the car but they're really trying to make this a driver's car as a Porsche should be and one of the great things I loved about it was that on the steering um one of the things they've done is there's no screens in this thing so the only screen is your phone if you want a screen you have to stick your phone on the dashboard that's it otherwise there's no screens there's just dials which is great but one of the things i love about it is on the steering wheel there's a button and on and on the center spoke that goes down on the steering wheel and on the button it says on your own so basically that's on your own that's basically you press that we've turned all the systems off and on you be it you know that's that's basically what that is i love that so we had that and on the same day tesla launched the roadster rocket two things about that first of all it doesn't look anything like the tesla that was revealed a few years ago where everybody placed 250 000 orders for it doesn't look anything like that it looks like a lamborghini ripoff now it basically looks like a shoddy tracing paper clone of a lamborghini uh something or other, firstly, secondly, the big stunt was it flying, which looked amazing, it was spectacular, they did, they won the internet they broke the internet that day and they continue to do so, it looked amazing, it was spectacular, but you have to think about it, it was all really cleverly choreographed and really cleverly staged there was no human being in the car that went up the ramp and did the flying thing nor the other one that did the twist and barrel roll flying thing etc etc but they did happen, they did happen for real, now there is a discussion online on whether those were real cars or not, because they were using compressed cold air gas to do those things so these weren't like you know jets or anything, they were jets, but they're not like you know like you would imagine not like rocket fuel or anything like that, they were literally tanks of gas that was really high psi that actually did that but the coordination to shoot it off a ramp and then to level it off is amazing and then land it is quite amazing but in the real world you think about one of those things being even this fraction off and that person isn't walking away from landing if there was a person in there which there wasn't so that's that's that that is a little bit of a red flag also like i said a lot of people a lot of speculation online now i didn't say that so much at the time but i did put out a video which i won't remember it now but i put a lot of stats and data in there about why the physics of it is extremely difficult to for that to actually be um you know an actual car uh in any case they have tesla themselves and you know Musk himself love him or hate him whatever he himself has said that it's not um this it will not be safe for the road for for the road so all of that rock it's called a rocket one the one that has all those flying features it won't be i don't think it'll ever be legal for the road you know not for the time being anyway and whether or not it is actually realistic is another question even if it was so the way that we worked it out and what i said in my video is even if it was real if that jump that it did it could only do that once and then it would need like an hour plus to recharge the tanks before it could do that anything like that again plus the level of coordination and everything that you would need to do that is really difficult would you put a human in it and what damage would you do to the road surface and the traffic and the cars and the people around you if you did that so that all i think is makes it highly unrealistic and a lot of people have said that look we paid 250,000 for the original concept that was revealed a few years ago we haven't seen anything and now Tesla on its form on its website says place an order for it but we cannot guarantee when you'll get it or if you'll get it so that's extraordinary for that i mean you know i'm you know millionaires plenty and they can do what following their money you could soon part and all the rest of it they can do what they like with their 250,000 but 250,000 and no guarantee that you'll ever actually get a car i mean that's extraordinary but anyway it was a great spectacle and it made the kids and all of us go whoa flying cars yeah finally so we love we all love that but what the reality of it is i think it's quite different but anyway so there you go um i think uh i think that's enough for today this is brown car guy's exciting new thriller new york times best-selling author rick hoskin said of it it's a spy story through a different lens get it now at amazon or kindle unlimited please support independent content creators you can support brown car guy at these links 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