When Trucks, History, And Market Shifts Collide

Looking for an honest truck review with real numbers and a big-picture take on where the market’s heading? We put the 2025 Ford F-150 STX SuperCrew 4x4 through its paces and share what matters: towing capacity, payload, highway manners, and the surprising value packed into a lower-trim workhorse. The 5.0L V8 and 10-speed deliver confident power and direct steering, while the standard 12-inch screen, LED lighting, and practical 60/40 rear seat storage make daily life easier. We dig into fuel economy, pricing that ranges from budget-friendly to nicely equipped, and how the STX compares to Ram 1500, Toyota Tundra, and Chevy Silverado. Then we tee up a future compare with the F-150 King Ranch hybrid to show how far the lineup stretches.

We also tell a one-of-a-kind story from GM’s Janesville days: a tiny bar so close to the assembly plant that workers hopped a fence for lunch beers. It outlasted the factory before redevelopment finally erased it, making space for a proposed $8B data center. It’s a vivid look at how car culture shapes communities—and how those spaces evolve.

Market reality gets equal airtime. EV registrations slipped for the first time in years, and we unpack why: price sensitivity, incentive changes, and charging friction that push mainstream buyers toward hybrids. We talk brand-by-brand turbulence, Tesla’s smaller dip, Cadillac’s surprising pop from a low base, and Toyota’s patient strategy that prizes reliability, hybrids, and measured rollouts. Plus, a rapid-fire racing calendar—NHRA in Gainesville, F1 drama over energy-saving race formats, IndyCar on a tight oval, and NASCAR weekend viewing—so your motorsports schedule is set.

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Transcript

Show Kickoff And Agenda

Don Armstrong 0:00

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast. This is your place for all things automotive the Award Red MW5Card talk show. Coming up, Mr. Mars reviews the Ford F-150 Super Crew. Later. This is it's this is his FL show. Later, Mars has this week in auto history. Jeff has the racing calendar, and I'll just kind of take up the fat 40. I got the mop and bucket ready, so I'll figure out some jobs. How to get along with Mike Out of this world, Mars. We always need more Jeff's Seeker, Chief Engineer David Ainsley. I'm Don Armstrong. Thanks so much for joining us today here on the In Real Time Car Talk Show. I got a couple of stories I'm going to do. We're going to get to Mr. Mars here first, though, because Mr. Mars has a um a special review of the Ford F-150 Super Crew, but just to let you know what I'm going to talk about, I'm going to talk about a bar in Wisconsin. And you say, well, what the hell does that have to do with inwheel time and anything else? Well, uh, this one got bulldozed this week. Oh no. So um but we are going to do a story about it. I saw it. Uh my brother, my brother worked at the General Motors Janesville assembly plant. And so um I'm familiar with it. I I never was inside of it, but some interesting stories come from it. All right. First up, though, let's get Mr. Marrs's review of the Ford F-150, Mike.

Mike Marrs 1:38

Yes, sir. We're talking about the 2025 Ford F-150 4x4. It's a super crew with the STX package on it. Now, this is the 14th generation of the F-150, long-standing big seller. This was introduced in 2021 for this uh generation of it. The final assembly plant was in Dearborn, Michigan. It actually comes available six standard trim levels: the XL, the STX, XLT, the Lariat Platinum, and then you get the King Ranch. Now you got two more: the Trimmer, the Raptor, the Raptor R. They're all kind of out by themselves on it. But the really interesting thing about this is you got the six different trim levels. All six of them you can get three different cab levels. All six of them can get six or three different bed lengths, and then all six of them you can get your choice of six engines. So there's like 70 or 80 combinations that you can put together to find you an F-150 that you want. Now we are in the STX Super Crew, so this is down in the lower trim levels, which we don't get very often out of the press fleet. So I was kind of interested to see how it worked out. It is five passenger cloth seats. Up front, we had the LED reflector headlamps, had LED fog lamps, got a power tailgate lock. We were rolling on some really nice 22-inch aluminum wheels. And just for future reference, it comes with a 36-gallon fuel tank on it. Fill that baby up once in a while. Now the interior, we had the 12-inch, all of the F-150s now come with a 12-inch center static screen. That's just standard across the trim levels, the whole line. We had the rear view camera, so it makes it really nice to be able to have that. Now, because we were in the STX, we had the column shifter, not the console shifter. We also had to use a key, not a push button. So this was kind of dangerous.

Don Armstrong 3:27

Are you complaining?

Mike Marrs 3:28

No, no, I'm saying that this is kind of a stripper model, but it was kind of nice to get in.

Don Armstrong 3:32

I like it. I like that stuff.

Mike Marrs 3:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, it did have the front center console, and it's a black STX cloth seats. The front seat was a 40 with a console and a 40. The rear seat is a fold-up 60/40 that has underseat storage. So now this is a pickup that if you're looking for a pickup, if you don't want need all the leather and you don't need all the high-end stuff, I don't think you telling me what I don't need is what I don't need. I don't need that either. And the thing is, it had the 5.0 liter V8 under the hood. So we had 400 horsepower up to around 6,000 RPM, had a 10-speed automatic transmission. Nice. So it ran well, and this was a great driving truck.

Don Armstrong 4:17

Did you bring that over here? Yeah, you did. Yeah, I did. That was that one that drove over there. That's a good-looking pickup truck, I have to admit. Yeah.

Mike Marrs 4:23

And it worked out. Ken Peabody, the Ford Press Fleet Manager, did a wonderful job. He got that one. I got a different vehicle. This week I've got the King Ranch version hybrid. So it makes for a really nice comparison versus the two different trim levels.

Don Armstrong 4:38

Hey, are you gonna do either any one of those next week?

Mike Marrs 4:41

Um I'm gonna I was gonna do the Mustang next week, but I can do the Ford hybrid.

Don Armstrong 4:46

Well, because the only reason I say that is because I've got the Ram 1500 Longhorn Edition sitting in the driveway, $86,000 worth of pickup truck. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And it's rodeo time, baby.

Mike Marrs 5:00

We'll do the King Ranch um F-150 then.

Don Armstrong 5:02

All right then.

Pricing, Towing, And Fuel Economy

Mike Marrs 5:04

And uh okay, and the one we've got the STX back to it, and uh you quick enough right, it can tow tow tow 12,700 pounds and it'll haul sixteen hundred and eighty-five pounds. Again, this is a half-ton truck. Now, the EPA says you should be looking for 16 in the city, 24 out on the highway, 19 combined. I drove it around town a lot, obviously, 220.3 miles, uh, other than the quick run over to your place. So I averaged 16.8 the week I got it. But this is a really nice driving truck with plenty of power. It's got direct steering, and so it really drives and handles really well when you get out on the road. I really like to drive in this truck, particularly when I start looking at the price point on it. Now the base trim price for the uh STX is $51,230. We had a few options, pushed it up to $61,780, which in the grand scheme of things, that's not a bad price for a pickup truck. But if you really get into the stripper stripper model, you can get this thing down to $38,800. Now, again, uh, subcaps. Yeah, this is the bottom line. Now, the RAM $1500, if you're looking at something comparable, you're looking at something that started about $40,275. The Tundra, $40,900. I actually met somebody that drives the Tundra the other day. And then you can look at the Chevy Silver Auto for $40,300. Again, it's back like you were talking about the other review. Pricing in in that category is pretty competitive whenever you get to looking at them. Now, uh I also found out that uh that I meant to mention that you can get the STX Super Crew two-wheel drive down for $36,000 if you really want to push it. But this is a really nice driving truck. It is a pickup truck, it's not a luxury truck, but it will serve your purposes really well. Great driver, and I enjoyed it, and thanks to Ken Peabody for letting me have that for the week. Cool.

Competitor Comparisons And Trim Talk

Don Armstrong 7:01

We love you, Ken Peabody. We've known Ken Peabody forever. Long time. Long time. Anyway, great guy. He's up in the Dallas area now. He was down here for a while, lived down here, lived down in Galveston. I said, I just can't, I can't. I I've got too much to do up here. Okay, well, go back up there then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll see you on the uh Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge. There you go. Okay, here's the story I wanted to tell you. Ready? The General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, cousin Steve still lives in Janesville, had a bar so close to its front doors that the automaker tried to discourage lunchtime beer runs by building tall fences and repeatedly trying to buy out its owner who worked on the line at the Janesville Assembly plant. When he refused to sell, GM fired him. The watering hole known as Zackhouse and Zocks ultimately outlasted the plant, which ended production in 2008 and met the wrecking ball in 2018. But it too became rubble February 26th as part of the latest effort to redevelop the vacant GM property. And by the way, that GM property is huge, it's an assembly plant. You can imagine how big it is. An eight billion dollar data center is proposed for the 240-acre site. And it's kind of just outside of town. It's in a neighborhood. Now, granted, it is more of an industrial neighborhood, but wow, okay. We can still serve lunch beer. Well, it's gone now, so you can forget that. It's just sad, Andrew Sigwell, who sold the business to new owners in 2020, told the Janesville Gazette it was part of history. The 900 square foot bar, which GM employee Roy Zackow purchased in 20 uh in 1961 as a place to eat lunch with his co-workers, originally was in a residential neighborhood. As the automaker bought up nearby properties to expand over the years, Zakow was the loan holdup. In 1987, GM flew him to Detroit and offered $200,000. They didn't want us anywhere in the neighborhood, Jerry Zackow, Roy's widow and Sigwell's grandmother, told the Gazette in 2012. He came back saying, Those bastards will never get the bar. Eventually, the business, so reliant on Ganesville assembly that it typically closed on weekends in other days when the plant was dark, was surrounded by the GM parking lot. Some workers parked next to the fence so they could climb over it and get in and out faster on their break. After GM abandoned Janesville, Sigwell kept the bar going by attracting a younger clientele. He photographed the adjacent demolition with a drone. His successors, Andy and Desiree Wilson, held open mic nights in Green Bay Packers Potlucks, and the Janesville Deaf Society adopted the bar as its monthly gathering place. Last summer, after previous plans to fill the desolate GM site with an industrial park where housing fell through, the city forced the Wilsons out through Deminent Domain. They threw a huge Zox end of days party. You might build another factory. There'll be other beautiful bars or gathering spots, but never again will there be one in the parking lot of a commercial property in a space like this. An attendee who flew in from Minnesota told the Gazette. There's something about knowing you're standing on ground where the plant was being built, and Zax kept going after it was gone. That kind of uniqueness you will never see again. Goodbye, Zocks. We had one across the street from Fisher Body.

Jeff Dziekan 10:49

You had to walk across 4th Street, and there was a bar. It was a bigger bar though. I mean, and it was not closed on weekends. It was a jump in place. And yes, people would go over there for the lunch break. Yeah. Having a beer and a burger. Even in the evening. Well, more like beer or whatever. Yeah. But yeah, it was across the street from I wonder. Is it still whatever? No, well, Fisher Body was leveled. It's it's gone. There's something else with it. Yeah. But yeah, back in the day, this was in the mid-70s. Yeah, you walk across the street, have a couple of shots in a beer, and go back to work.

Don Armstrong 11:21

No wonder the door was crooked when it was a bigger one. Fridays and Mondays.

Jeff Dziekan 11:24

Fridays and Mondays, don't buy a car. I was built on that. That was the thing back then. Built on Friday or Monday, don't buy a car.

Mike Marrs 11:29

You used to irritate me when I would go to lunch down by the main office building. We'd go to lunch. The guys that worked in the office building wouldn't be in there drinking beer. I had a driving position with the company, no drinking beer at lunchtime. And it'd just be you sit there drinking your iced tea while they're drinking beer.

Don Armstrong 11:44

And you're trying to make up for lost time now, aren't you, Marks?

Mike Marrs 11:46

I'm doing my best.

Jeff Dziekan 11:51

Yeah.

GM Janesville Bar Story

Don Armstrong 11:52

Well, you know, it wouldn't be an in-wheel time show unless I razzed uh the electric vehicle uh department. Here we go. Electric vehicle registrations fell last year for the first time in at least a decade following the repeal of the federal EV tax credit, although the drop was modest. EV registrations declined 0.4% compared with a year earlier to 1.3 million vehicles according to SP Global Mobility. The data does not include hybrids. EV share of the light vehicle market fell to 7.8% from 8% a year earlier, the data showed. But for all vehicles, regardless of fuel type, 2025 registrations rose 2.2% to 16.25 million vehicles. SP Global Mobility uh goes back to 2016 when Tom Libby, an analyst for the company government estimates, showed U.S. EV sales rising each year in the early 2010s. U.S. registration data serves as a proxy for sales because some EV makers, including Tesla, don't separate U.S. deliveries from global numbers and don't report on a monthly basis anymore. Although congressional repeal of the 7500 EV tax credit helped trigger a sharp drop in EV sales in the final months of 2025. The slowdown in demand actually began in 2024, according to Libby. A key one is price. Even with generous government and automaker incentives, high EV sticker prices remained a hurdle for mainstream buyers who gravitated toward hybrids instead. The customers who wanted an EV got an EV. When you get beyond the early adopters, there are barriers like charging infrastructure issues. No. So here's some of the figures. You ready? I don't want to bore you with all this, but Ford for instance. EV sales down 61%. Ford. Eeve sales down 53%. Here's a big one. Chevrolet down 73%. BMW, Kia, 53, 54%. Wow, here's one. Honda. Eeve sales down 87%. Are you still making them? Why? You're not selling them.

Jeff Dziekan 14:15

They were a leader in that. Honda and Toyota.

Don Armstrong 14:18

Mercedes-Benz down 88%. Nissan down 89%.

Jeff Dziekan 14:25

They got the leaf, remember? Okay, but how many have they built to get that percentage that they're not making it? Did they build a thousand of them?

Don Armstrong 14:33

I don't have those figures, but that's a good point. I understand what you're saying. Yeah. But here's one. Accurate. EV sales down 97%.

Mike Marrs 14:43

Are they including the hybrids in that? No, they're not strictly. No, it's just purely a you either you got to charge it some way or another.

Don Armstrong 14:50

Tesla, the market leader, outpaced the overall EV market in December with a smaller 35% drop in registrations from a year earlier to 42,000 vehicles. That's still a lot of vehicles. Ford was number two EV brand in December. Registration fell 61% to 5,000. Cadillac took the number three spot for EV makers in December with registrations up at 12% to 3,694 vehicles.

Jeff Dziekan 15:19

What number are we basing that on? Yeah.

Don Armstrong 15:21

You know, it is what it is. Um look, I I don't want to see any company go belly up, but I think that they made a very bad mistake. And if you remember correctly, everybody was calling out Toyota. Well, where's Toyota in the EV race? They don't have an EV vehicle. You know, Toyota is one of those that they're they just plod and they just keep on rolling with the flow. Oh, yeah, we we'll we'll make an EV vehicle here in a couple of years. But everybody else was racing to build factories and spend billions of dollars.

Jeff Dziekan 15:54

It's a different uh marketing, it's a different way they go about doing their business because we did a story last week of the 250,000 or 250,000 mile vehicles. But they build stuff to last, they don't jump into new and improve. Hey, let's change that widget and it'll be better, and then it's not. So they don't do that, they just stick with that widget and improve where they can.

Mike Marrs 16:17

And you look at the recalls, the the amount of recalls they have uh substantiates that statement. Exactly.

Jeff Dziekan 16:22

Exactly, Mike. Yep. Yep.

Lunch Break Culture And Plant Memories

Don Armstrong 16:25

Okay, uh, we're gonna take a quick break here. Um just ahead. Jeff has the racing calendar and Mars has this week in auto history, and I'll bring you this week's automotive news. The N-wheel time car talk show continues right after this break. The tailpipes and tacos renowned cruising expands to Beaumont. Golden Triangle cruisers will want to experience tailpipes and tacos at the Loopy Tortilla, I tens South in Beaumont, near Washington Boulevard. Grab free loopy breakfast tacos with any donation to Shirley's kids. Enjoy a coffee or an adult beverage. Every cruising vehicle is automatically entered to win one of the beautiful chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, classic and modern classic. Tailpipes and Tacos Beaumont happens Saturday morning, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m. If you're a car cake like we are, this is the event you'll want to attend. The end of the time cover talk show will be online live, and you may be interviewed upon your ride. Tailpipes and Tacos Beaumont edition Saturday, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m. at the Loopy Tortilla 2050 I10 South in Beaumont. The Katie Tailpipes and Tacos happens Easter Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11. The free tailpipes and tacos cruising is a production of Loopy Tortilla Tex Mex, Beaumont and Katie. It's pretty good. Apple or Android InWheel Time podcast can be found everywhere, on the stream and through downloads. Whether you're on the road or at home and Jones in for a different kind of car talk show, give In Wheel Time a try. Honest new car reviews, fun, informative interviews with real car people, weekly automotive news, features like Jeff's car culture and Mike's driving destinations, all on In Wheel Time. Check us out on Sirius XM Podcasts, iHeartRadio, or while you're shopping on Amazon through Amazon Music. Mm-hmm. InWheeltime.com has a list, and we know you love lists. In our three-hour special will be live from 10 to 1 next Saturday. Please stop by and say hello. You can listen and watch on inwheeltime.com, Facebook, and YouTube. And we hope you check us out. If you miss us, you'll be able to connect with us through a podcast from your favorite podcast channel. Time now for the racing calendar, Jeffrey, sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.

Jeff Dziekan 18:40

You betcha, and guess what starting? All kinds of racing starting this week. And you got what? The NHRA, National Hot Rod Uh Racing Association. It's in Gainesville Raceway, which is the international starts. It actually started the fifth, but it goes through the eighth through tomorrow. So that's cool. All classes are running. I mean, you got bikes, you got all kinds of stuff. Uh it's gonna be fun. Then you got a Formula One series. They start uh this weekend in Australia, an Australia Grand Prix. Now, some of the things I've been seeing and watching on uh the sports channels and reading up about is that these drivers are not happy with the new car. They're calling it uh the step up from the e-class, the e-series that they run in Formula One. They're thinking it's a little bit like that. They're not pleased with it. It's more of how much uh energy can you save rather than speeding up and winning the race. So there's a lot of controversy on that. The drivers are not happy. I'm sure they're gonna work it out. And indie series starts. Well, it already started uh last week, but they're gonna be in Phoenix. I watched some of the time trials and qualifying. It's gonna be a fun race. It's a mile oval. It's gonna be fun. Uh, I think there's a rookie on the poll as I saw this morning. What? Yeah, there's gonna be a really yeah, I believe there's a rookie on the poll. I'm not no, I'll take that well. He was a rookie last year. Uh but it's gonna be a fun stuff to watch. I'm excited. I've got it actually set to record uh because it's gonna be on later later this afternoon on the Fox local channel at three o'clock. And then you got the NASCAR folks. Uh the truck series is off, but you got the O'Reilly series is going to be running today at 7.30. It's gonna be on the CW channel, those of you that get that. And then tomorrow, same thing is gonna be on FS1 for the Phoenix race for the big boys, the cup race. Not everybody gets the Fox sports channel.

Don Armstrong 20:26

So uh I refuse to buy that.

Jeff Dziekan 20:27

I understand. I'm gonna be losing my well, I'm gonna have it put in a different setup. But anyways, uh check that out. And then you've got oh, I just did the indicar, so so that's what you got. You got all kinds of stuff. You got local tracks going, uh encouraged by going out there and supporting those young drivers and those young families that uh dedicate. And the track and the track, absolutely. Go out and get yourself a hot dog and enjoy the race.

Don Armstrong 20:50

Thank you, sir. Well, guess what? It's time now for Mr. Mars Famous. Or is that infamous? I think it's infamous. Infamous. This week in auto history. Michael? Infamous. Are you there?

Mike Marrs 21:02

Yeah, yeah. I was trying to uh get Jeff started. There you go, Jeff. Gotcha. All right. So the worst first week of March, lots of things going on, including on March the 1st of 1941, is when you actually started seeing the development of the prototypes that became the military Jeeps. Now, these led, of course, to what we have in Jeep World now, but it was all done because of the U.S. Army. What they were trying to do is get a lightweight vehicle. Uh had a simple ladder frame, solid axles, lightweight body so that it could go just about anywhere. It had a three-speed standard transmission that we used to call with a granny gear, and it would get down and climb just about anything. Then in Mike, Mike, the top left picture, is that you doing a test on that? Well, that was that was kind of one of the test drives of the early ones.

Jeff Dziekan 21:52

I can only imagine what the suspension looked like when it landed. I think that's an on on ramp acceleration test.

Mike Marrs 21:57

Is that what you see how it's angled going up the hill?

Jeff Dziekan 22:00

Yeah. Jumping back. I'm sorry about that.

EV Registration Declines And Market Reality

Mike Marrs 22:03

So March the second this week in 1966 is whenever Ford Motor Company produced the one millionth Mustang. Now, you gotta remember they did this in just 22 months after they first launched the pony car. I mean, everybody wanted one of these. They just sold them as fast as they could make them. And uh it's still being built today. They're still selling a lot of Mustangs, and they still kind of have that same basic look to them, amazingly. The taillights, the side panels, everything's kind of evolved, of course, but you can still tell a very distinct Mustang, and you can see exactly where its heritage came from. Then in March the 4th in 1902, the American Automobile Association was created, and uh is better known as the Triple A. And it was created to actually promote road safety and improve travel conditions for early motorists, didn't and it's kind of evolved now into uh being more for the motorist itself, not necessarily for better highways, better signage, and driver's services. So it's still an automotive advocate, but in a different perspective. And it's a good thing to have, Mike. Uh we have it. You know, it's what $90 a year and yeah, it's it's relatively cheap when you look at what else you can get. You bet. Particularly if you got kids or somebody that might need it. Exactly. Then on March the 5th of 1981, carbon fiber really made a big change in racing because this is when McLaren introduced the MP4. Now, this is the first Formula One car built on an all-carbon fiber composite chassis. Now it's amazingly, it's stronger than aluminum, and it improved the driver's safety because of the rigidity and the performance of it. And within a few seasons, it didn't take very long before all of the Formula One team drivers adapted this technology. And today it's pretty common from race cars. You can have it on some street cars. Uh BMW is notable about one of them that happens to put the carbon fiber on some of their production cars. Then in March the 6th, in Ferrari introduced the legendary Ferrari F-50 at the Geneva Motor Show. Now, this is basically a Formula One car that they built for the street. Had a naturally aspirated V-12 in it because that was derived from the racing program, had all the carbon fiber construction and the extreme performance, and it became one of the very collectible supercars of the 1990s. And uh so a lot of things came out the first week of March from Detroit, as well as uh the round the rest of the world, the Mustang and uh the carbon fiber and iconic supercars. So a lot of things in automotive history in March. Cool. That's good.

Don Armstrong 24:47

Hey, get this Honda Motor Company will export two US built models to Japan for the first time in nearly four decades, reviving a strategy from its early days of American manufacturing and amid streamlined import rules and trade balance pressures. Exports of the high performance accurate integra type S and the off-road ready Honda Passport Trail Sport Elite Crossover will begin in the second half of this year, Honda said. And both models will retain the U.S. specifications, including and I don't understand this, why including left-hand drive configuration, despite Japan's right-hand drive norm.

Jeff Dziekan 25:30

Well, who would want to buy that? In Japan, they might.

Don Armstrong 25:34

I guess a hot hatch will be the first accurate branded vehicle ever sold in Japan. They don't have the accurate, even though it's a Honda, they don't have the accurate br brand in Japan.

Jeff Dziekan 25:47

I thought that was so would you I've never driven a right-hand drive car. Have you?

Don Armstrong 25:51

I have. Yeah, it's weird. You ever tried to shift a manual shift car with a right-hand drive with your left hand drive?

Mike Marrs 25:59

I was gonna say Davidson, Ryan's got one now, but yeah, he's got a shifter with a left-hand drive.

Jeff Dziekan 26:03

He's a young man, so he's you know more ambidextrous than a 40-year-old.

Don Armstrong 26:09

For many reasons. Today, trade imbalances and easing of import restrictions are driving Japanese automakers to make similar moves. Toyota is pursuing exports of U.S. built vehicles, and Nissan is evaluating options. Okay. It's time now to take a quick break here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. We'd love to hear from you. Shoot us an email. The address is info at inwheeltime.com. We're back right after this. The Easter Bunny's coming. To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m. And you're invited to. Bring the kids and grandkids. It's a cruise in like you've never attended before. With a donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco. There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic. There's no entry fee and no registration. Just bring your ride and the kids. Bad bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this tailpipes and tacos a very special one. Photo opportunities abound. The Invil Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience. It's the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise in Easter Medition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m. at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, located on 99 the Grand Parkway, just south of I-10, the Katy Freeway, in Katy. Make plans now. Loopy Tortilla is pretty good.

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Toyota’s Strategy And Reliability Debate

Don Armstrong 28:28

Hi. Ai. All right. Well, it's time to say goodbye. Are you ready to say goodbye? That's all for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Be sure and check us out online at inwheeltime.com. We're always looking for new, informative, and great automotive things to bring to our global audience. If you have an idea, event, road trip, or tall tale you'd like to feature, let us know. Our email address is info at inwheeltime.com. Hey, when you're looking for award-winning car talk, you can find the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show 24-7 on the In Wheel Time app and website. Grab a podcast from your favorite podcast store. We video stream or live show every Saturday, 10 to noon on Facebook, YouTube, and InWheelTime.com. The In Wheel Time Video Coordinator is we always need more Jeff Zeke and the booking agent and video editor, Michael Out of This World Mars. And let's not forget Chief Engineer David Ainsley. I'm Don Armstrong. Thanks to our weekly show contributors, Jeff Heitzmann and George Sculpt. Next week, we'll have a three-hour show beginning at 10 o'clock at the Mega Meat Cruise Inn. Come see us at Team Gilman, the dealerships at 18202 North Freeway. Please stop by and say hello. Have a great week. Stay safe. Watch the weather. So long for now. This is Don Armstrong. Who's that Don Pardo speaking of? Good night. That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show. I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website. Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Podcast, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.