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Your tire pressure monitoring system might be doing more than keeping you safe, and your next pickup truck might be nicer than your living room. We’re coming to you from the Tailpipes and Tacos cruise-in at the Lupe' Tortilla in Beaumont, Texas, where car people turn a Saturday morning into a rolling meet-up full of stories, engines, and the kind of conversations that only happen when the microphones are on and the parking lot is packed. 

We talk with Sheila May about growing up around the Orange, Texas car scene and how drag racing becomes a family tradition. It starts with a junior dragster found at a swap meet, moves through early passes with Briggs and Stratton power, and turns into heritage racing as parents buy back their own junior dragsters for the next generation. Along the way we laugh about grandkids, pedal cars, and the very real “problem” of online auctions delivering more tiny cars than you have drivers. 

Then we shift into practical car ownership and automotive technology with Jeff’s Motor Minute: a cybersecurity study suggests TPMS sensors can transmit unencrypted IDs that can be collected by low-cost receivers, raising real questions about privacy and vehicle tracking.

 We wrap with a detailed 2026 Ram 1500 Longhorn review, including the return of the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 with a mild hybrid system, the three-screen interior, ride quality, towing and payload numbers, fuel economy, and pricing in today’s full-size truck market. 

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Live From Tailpipes And Tacos

Don Armstrong

Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast. Welcome to the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show, coming to you today from the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise Inn at the Lubitortilla Tex Mex in Beaumont, Texas. Yeah. Just ahead. We got more guests. You're from this area. We're going to talk to you about that. Louisiana's right down the road. Ai. I want to find out how you met Stan and everything. Uh-oh. Sorry. Can you hear me? I can hear you loud and clear.

SPEAKER_04

We talk about that every time.

Don Armstrong

I know that. It's so good. But you have to understand it's not the same listeners every time, Sheila May.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Just make up stuff.

Don Armstrong

Just make up stuff. You've learned it from the expert. Yeah, there's that. More guests from the Golden Triangle Confab here at Loopy's. Jeff has his motor minute, and uh I'll review the 2026 Ram 1500. Oh my gosh, what a nice pickup truck that is. Just ahead, here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Howdy, along with Mike Out of this World Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeken, chief engineer and bottle washer. David Ainsley is with us today. I'm Don Armstrong. Glad you could join us in the remote broadcast booth here at the Loopy Tortilla, right along I-10, the Beaumont Highway. Sheila May Holt.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

Don Armstrong

Used to be Sheila May Murray. Well, I guess it's still Sheila May Murray Holt.

SPEAKER_04

That's it.

Don Armstrong

Is that the way it is on the marriage certificate? No.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know. I hadn't looked at it before.

Don Armstrong

You don't need no stinking marriage certificates. You don't need any of that stinking stuff. And not only that, there's no revving of engines. There's no revving of engines.

SPEAKER_04

What? You can rev your engine.

Don Armstrong

Of course. Jeff had some stupid story about going stupid. Go somewhere, but you can't rev your engine.

Jeff Dziekan

There's rules, and they were one of the rules.

Don Armstrong

Well, they're not car people, clear. Because if you can't rev your engine, then you ain't a car person.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

Don Armstrong

And it doesn't make any difference whether it's got some muffled up LLS engine underneath the hood or not.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Rules are made to be broken. Always.

Orange Texas Roots And Car Friends

Don Armstrong

And we've been breaking them all our lives. So uh you're from this area.

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

Don Armstrong

Orange?

SPEAKER_04

From Orange, Texas.

Don Armstrong

That's where my Were you born and raised over there?

SPEAKER_04

No, Talladega, Alabama. I'm a Bama girl. Yep. Yep, Talladega, Alabama. But I grew up most of my life in Orange, and that's where my mom, Martha, and my sister Samantha, who are here with us today. Yeah, Martha Margarita, she's here. She just celebrated her 87th birthday. She's here. She's been saying hi to all the guys. If any single guys are out there and y'all have a hot rod, just come on up. I'm gonna introduce you to my mama.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Don Armstrong

What about you? Yeah, you sir. Are you married, sir? You are now. Okay, right. You you got you got any single friends? Some widowers? Soon to be a very good friend. I mean, why not? I mean, she she's looking for a man.

SPEAKER_04

So uh yeah, Mama Martha's out here looking for a man.

Don Armstrong

Yep. So you know this is this is a bonus cruise-in that we're having here today. Yeah, well, soon to be, that's right.

SPEAKER_04

Um well anyway, from from Orange, and um, like I said, that's where my mom and my sister they still live. A lot of friends um I came out today to to see me um that I haven't seen in a while. Our our UPS guy that used to deliver to us. He's here. I like him. Yeah, I hadn't seen him in forever, and uh got one of my girlfriends, she's coming out. Then we have some uh drag racing friends that drove all the way from New Orleans.

Don Armstrong

And I noticed that there is a nice what is what is this, a comp? What kind of car is this? It's a super comp dragster is here.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yes, so Cody Reed, he lives in Beaumont. I mean he lives in Bridge City, and he's the one who owns that car now. That was Chase's, and he sold it to Coco. We call him Coco, and uh Coco follows the circuit with us, and we all have a drag race starting Wednesday next week in Belrose, Louisiana. So we'll all go to that. But Cody does fly the Lupi Tortillas um stickers on the side of the car and part of our team. So nice, yeah.

Don Armstrong

Well, um, yes. As a matter of fact, uh your son was instrumental in you getting into drag racing.

SPEAKER_04

Yes. Well, actually, in matter of fact, Walter, uh Chase is dead. Is Walter here? Walter's here. He's he's over there by the uh dragster. Okay. Uh Walter's here.

SPEAKER_03

He's hiding. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

He's he's hiding. He's very shy.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04

But um, yeah, so when Chase was six years old, uh, Walter and I found a uh junior dragster um at an old swap meet.

Don Armstrong

Did you know anything about drag racing before then?

SPEAKER_04

No.

Don Armstrong

Nothing.

SPEAKER_04

Nothing.

Don Armstrong

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Nothing. And uh Walter loved drag ra never drove a drag dragster dragster or a race car, but always loved cars. He and his dad um used to work on cars together. His dad actually, Walter's dad, who's now deceased, um, he built a nineteen twenty-four model tee and it had a wooden frame.

Don Armstrong

Wow.

SPEAKER_04

A wooden frame.

Don Armstrong

And raced it.

SPEAKER_04

No, never raced it. No, just had it for car shows.

Don Armstrong

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, and they actually took that car, the 24 Model T to a car show in Orange at the Wiener Schnitchel. You know Wiener Schnitchel? So Chase's grandparents are the ones who started that car show in Wiener Schnitchell in Orange long time ago.

SPEAKER_01

And we would go over there from Mid County on Saturday night. That was that was the place to go over there instead of coming over there. Oh my god, so you've you've known the family all these men that didn't know them, but I we we ran, we were really close running into the same thing.

Jeff Dziekan

You go to Wienersnitzel.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah. So that we've always been around cars, and then when uh Walter and I found that junior dragster when Chase was six, we kind of like took him to the Sears parking lot in Orange and like let him drive it around, and then when he got turned eight, then we took him to uh Navasota, and that's where he ran his first junior drag race.

Don Armstrong

And back did that did they have actual race engines for that category of uh the junior dragsters?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Don Armstrong

They did, they had race engines. Were they Briggs and Stratton? Briggs and Stratton, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Don Armstrong

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, sure did.

Don Armstrong

Have you ever seen have you ever seen them run, David? They're they're the uh actually today it's become a whole thing.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah, and they even have electric junior dragsters.

Don Armstrong

Yes, I've seen that.

SPEAKER_04

I'm like, what? Yeah, which are very competitive, and I think the uh last year's world champion, um oh wow, sorry, I got distracted by the hopping cars. Hopping cars, hopping cars.

Don Armstrong

So um so the whole you know, it's so funny because um the whole drag racing thing has been a thing all of my well since really high school because I hung out with the drag guys and we went down to Houston International Raceway on I-45 down in Dickinson. And that's where uh I got indoctrinated and uh it's never stopped. And uh matter of fact, that's I met Stan on the NHR8 tour in Las Vegas of all places. Yes, and uh and it's it's been a whirlwind since 2006.

SPEAKER_04

It has.

Don Armstrong

You know, I'm only about 35 years old, but I look like I'm 90.

SPEAKER_04

Ditto.

Don Armstrong

And it's all because of tragic. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04

I think it's there's a common denominator. It's Stan. I think Stan is aging us.

Don Armstrong

Yeah, you think? Yeah, uh huh. Yes, I believe it. Uh I worked for Stan and Sheila for well, Stan uh for a couple of years. This is before they married, and uh it that in itself was quite a whirlwind.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, yes, yes, that was fun.

Don Armstrong

Yes, I and matter of fact, I started working for them after I left uh David Powers Racing and the top fuel team. And uh so I just kind of continued on, and really I've continued on in a different vein now with doing the broadcasting thing. So it's um still cars, it's never ending. And you know, I really got back into the car thing back when I was working for an undisclosed uh NBC affiliate television station. And um and I don't even want to mention the name, it's just like ooh, I can't believe that company is just absolutely horrible. I watched a new let me just go off the off the track here. I watched a news cast last weekend. They read now, this is a major market, okay? They read a news story that was incomplete. You know, the basic things broadcasting, who, what, when, where, why? That we don't we don't gotta go all that way. Now, let's not do that. We're gonna tell that story. Yeah, yeah. We don't want to tell half the story.

SPEAKER_03

Too much work.

Don Armstrong

And then then you got an anchor on there with some sort of a uh looked like a mobster suit with a 1980s blue shirt with a white collar.

Jeff Dziekan

I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah. He's on there quite a bit.

unknown

What?

Don Armstrong

He's a market in charge of this place over there.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, look at the look who's riding with that guy. Trump. It's Trump.

Don Armstrong

That's very clever.

SPEAKER_04

That's great.

Don Armstrong

Yeah, I think we need those on our cars, don't you? Yeah, I think so. Well, it's it's been a whirlwind, it continues to be.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

Don Armstrong

And um, there's this one common denominator for me.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it's Stan. Stan. Yep.

Don Armstrong

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um it it's yeah, it's been that.

SPEAKER_04

So that's that's what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01

So I never mentioned his name three times and he shouted.

SPEAKER_04

There he is. Yeah, my current husband.

Don Armstrong

The current husband. Yeah, you'll have to switch the camera so we can see that.

SPEAKER_01

He's not in the shot yet. It's it's coming around.

Don Armstrong

If he stands there long enough, then uh yeah, you just have to follow that follow that camera around. Uh-huh. But uh at any rate, uh you know, this is an entertaining car talk show. I don't know. And we talk about everything and anything, uh, including I mean we've actually gone off the track and talked about underwear on this show before.

Pedal Cars And A Growing Grandkid Fleet

SPEAKER_04

No, no, let's not do that. We can talk about grandbabies. Mine's here today. Yes. My grandson's here today.

Don Armstrong

And I'm hoping that uh my daughter is going to bring my grandson to the Easter tailpipes and tacos in Katie. You bought it.

SPEAKER_04

Speaking of the weeks, you did? Yay! We bought him a car.

Don Armstrong

I did, I bought him a car. Um he's he now has a little uh electric car that actually has a radio in it that plays all sorts of different tunes, forward, backward, and it's also got you can drive it yourself or dad can drive it with the remote control.

SPEAKER_04

I'm excited about the kids' car show, and I'm hoping that the Beaumont car show does really well and we can include a kids' one at in the future. Sure. Um, because I was so excited about the Christmas car show we had for the kids in in Houston, and I'm really excited about the Easter one, and I've been trying to encourage all the parents, especially the grandpa, to get out there and decorate their grandkids.

Don Armstrong

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04

Decorate your grandchild's pedal car, a rope remote control car. Speaking of, I have a a new bad habit. It's um tracking little pedal cars.

Don Armstrong

Yes.

SPEAKER_04

Uh-huh. So I was online, a live auction the other day, I think it's called Invaluable, like that. And so I'm watching it and I was after this little Woody Wagon pedal car because I wanted Tie Ty to have a matching pedal car like puppy. And so sure enough, I'm like, yes, yes, yes, and I got it. I've got the pedal card, Woody Wagon, it's gorgeous.

Don Armstrong

Have you got it at home now?

SPEAKER_04

Yes, it got delivered the other day. But as I'm sitting here, Stan goes, What are you doing? I said, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. This is my this is my deal. You are not allowed you're not allowed to get involved in rural cars.

Jeff Dziekan

You're gonna drop an LS in it.

SPEAKER_04

Because I said, I needed a the Woody Wagon, and then we are getting ready to have another grandchild in June. So um, I was looking for another another pedal car for that baby. Well, Stan started looking, and next thing I know, he starts bidding under my number, and we had uh five pedal cars delivered the other day. I said Where are we gonna put them? So the deal was Is he drinking wine again? No, mimosas. That was in the morning. So the deal was he started collecting pedal cars and we put his grandkids' names on them. So when uh Ty Tai was born, I was like, Well, he needs one. So then we found out Chase and Mariah were pregnant again. I'm like, well, this baby's gonna need more.

Jeff Dziekan

You have more pedal cars than grandbabies? So you need more grandbabies.

SPEAKER_04

I think Chase and Mariah need to have about, I don't know, five more kids.

SPEAKER_01

There you go. Okay, I don't think he's listening. Well, good luck on them.

SPEAKER_04

Five more kids, Chase and Mariah. Poppy ordered five pedal cars.

SPEAKER_01

Gotta have drivers.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. We might have to adopt some grandchildren.

Jeff Dziekan

You got a whole team, you got a whole race team going on there.

Don Armstrong

Exactly. Can you see? Tai.

SPEAKER_04

Tai Tai, come see Shiji.

Don Armstrong

Oh Lord. Well, uh, it's always good to have you on the show. Uh, and it's always it's kind of an extension of Stan because the conversation goes here and then it goes over here, and then we go down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

That's because of you.

Don Armstrong

True. You got it.

SPEAKER_04

Y'all here's the most precious grandbaby in the entire world. This is Ty Ty Murray. And I'm sorry he did not get to bring his little um remote control Corvette this time because his father was in no party zone.

Don Armstrong

And uh and how old is he now?

SPEAKER_04

He's one and a half.

Don Armstrong

One and a half.

SPEAKER_04

Say hi.

Don Armstrong

Get a little closer.

SPEAKER_04

Tell everybody hi.

SPEAKER_01

Move over here a little bit. Got a shirt and everything. Right there. You're good. Right here? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Tai Tai, wave to the crowd. We're handing out autographs soon.

Don Armstrong

Well, Sheila, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04

This is the future of drag racing right here.

Don Armstrong

There you go. When we're in our wheelchairs.

SPEAKER_04

So just real quick, tell me when we're doing the countdown. But he already has his mom's junior dragster. His uh Mariah's dad bought the junior dragster back. So he's already ready and his mom's junior dragster. And then Walter, Chase's dad, bought his junior dragster back. So Ty and baby number two are gonna have their junior dragster, their parents' junior dragster.

SPEAKER_01

Heritage racing. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, isn't that great?

SPEAKER_01

It's great.

Don Armstrong

I can't keep it all straight, but it's great.

Jeff Dziekan

He's saying I need another nap.

Don Armstrong

Sheila, thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. And by the way, I know that somebody here is in charge of judging the cars for our three chili pepper trophies. Yes. So uh we'll need that person here with the names of the people that are going to. That's going to happen at 1030. 1030. 10:30.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, I'll make sure.

Don Armstrong

Will you, will you? Because I know that if I tell anybody else, it won't happen.

SPEAKER_04

So you're saying uh I can get the job done?

Cruise In Details And Donation Perks

Don Armstrong

Yes, I know that. I know that. Put the baby down, step away from the baby. All right. Just ahead, Jeff's motor minute and a review of the new Ram 1500 Longhorn Limo. Woo-hoo. Uh, when the in-wheel time car talk show continues from Beaumont, Texas, right after this works. The tailpipes and tacos renowned cruising expands to Beaumont. Golden Triangle Cruisers will one-up experienced tailpipes and tacos at the Loopy Tortilla, High Tent 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 Best Hot Rod, Classic, and Modern Classic. Tellpipes and Tacos Baumont 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 Intel Time Cover Talk Show will be online live, and you may be interviewed about your ride. Talepipes and Tacos Baumont edition Saturday, March 21st, 8 to 11am, at the Loopy Tortilla 2050 I10 South in Baumont. 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, Baumont and Katie. It's pretty good. Apple or Android InWheel Time podcasts 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. Hey, welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Tell Paps and Tacos Cruise In, Beaumont Edition, and we invite you to join us for our live In Wheel Time Car Talk Show every Saturday, 10 to noon Central Time on Inwheel Time.com, YouTube, and Facebook. And don't forget 30-minute podcasts of our shows can be found at your favorite podcast store. Time now for Jeff's Motor Minute, Jeffrey.

TPMS Signals And Tracking Risks

Jeff Dziekan

Yeah, here we go. Do you know that your uh tire sensing units, the TPMS units, are sending out signals and they can be tracked on that? This is a story from Leroy uh Marion uh about a week ago. A new cybersecurity study has uncovered a deeply unsettling reality. One of your car's most basic safety features may already be broadcasting your movements to anyone willing to listen. Tire pressure monitoring systems or the TPMS systems, now standard equipment in modern vehicles worldwide, were designed to purely prevent accidents caused by underinflated tires. Over a ten-week field study, researchers deployed low-cost radio receivers near roads and parking areas capturing more than six million TPMS transmissions over 20,000 vehicles. Each tire sensor continuously emits wireless signals containing a fixed unique identification number, and critically these signals are transmitted unencrypted. So what what is happening is that they're uh they're sending out signals to your car, but it's also being interrupted or are uh being picked up by other things in the area, and people can monitor where you're going, when you stop, where you're at. So that could be uh that could be kind of kind of detrimental. You could be in in trouble for something like that. So uh be careful. Uh I don't know how it's a fix or anything or what they're gonna do about it, but that's it's out there right now.

Don Armstrong

I'm in trouble all the time. It doesn't make any difference if it was TMS. You know, I had to replace the TPMS tailpipe monitoring system. Tire pressure monitoring system. I had to replace those in the Corvette. Yeah, I remember that. Uh and what a pain. That was it.

Jeff Dziekan

You had new tires.

Don Armstrong

Didn't you get new tires and I got new tires, but I didn't replace them at the same time that I got. And that was a couple years ago, and then ding, one goes out. And I thought, okay, replace that one. Well, if one went out and the car is at the time twenty-three years old, it's probably time to get them all replaced.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, because they they were installed at the same time with batteries, so with the life on them.

Don Armstrong

So I I got them uh, you know, new ones installed, and they work great. And getting them hooked up, synced up to the car was as easy as pie.

Jeff Dziekan

Yeah. They do that when I had my tire replaced at uh discount, they have a little uh box of some sort and it goes and beeps and they set it to the car and all that.

2026 Ram 1500 Longhorn Review

Don Armstrong

Mine, you have to reset it with a magnet. Oh, that's right. You got the the the the earth magnet when you did that. Yes, I had to spend I spent more on the damned earth magnet than I did on anything else. And you hold it up to the the nozzle on the on the tire. It's Dowstem, yeah. Right. And then you go in and you drill down the menu and it goes, oh, you're over there on uh the left front. Yes. Hit the button, ding! Yeah, there you go. So it's one of those kind of things. All right, time now for this hour's car review. I had a chance to drive the 2026 Ram 1500. Available trim levels include the Tradesman, Express, Bighorn, Lone Star, Warlock, Laramie, Rebel, Limited, Longhorn, RHO, and Tungsten. All of that. I had the Longhorn Crew 4x4. This is a standard or full-size body-on-frame pickup truck. Seats five people. Uh, complete redesign happened in 2019. You're thinking, well, this is 2026, isn't it? Time? Listen, they wouldn't be able to compete if they didn't update that thing every couple of years. So the complete redesign happened in 2019. The updates happened all the time. Exterior features, best looking exterior on the market, grill styles varying depending on trend. Distinctive rear lighting with dual exhaust trip tips back there, multi-function, optional tailgate is a head up competitor to Ford's. Engine size badging is on the hood, and it is big. You'll know just by looking at the hood what's under the hood. What I like, sheet metal appeals to me. What could use improvement? The side mirrors. Side view mirrors are so big. It obscures the view around them. There's got to be a you know what Ford did was they did some lowering of the actual side window glass and moved the mirrors down. And uh I think that's what Ram needs to look at. Anyway, interior highlights, it's got a three-screen dashboard. It's awesome. Uh instrument cluster, infotainment, and the shotgun person sitting over there in the passenger seat, they've got their own screen right there in the dashboard. It's very cool. You can't see it as a driver. They've got it somehow shaded that you can't see what's going on over there. So you can pull up, I guess, porn if you want to watch that over there. Um by the way, that one has its own controls. Um infotainment, excellent, easy to use. Uh sliding shelf inside the center console uh is uh really handy. And you slide that shelf back, you know, you've got your remote control, your phone, whatever is you want in there. You slide that back, and then you've got a race car that's just fired up back behind us here. That's the Super Comp dragster. Uh comfortable seating, uh all the adjustments on the thing. Uh it's a truck with multi-function bed, tie-downs, lighting, everything back there, and this particular model, what I liked. Uh Ram thought of everything on this. I don't think are they gonna make a loop through the parking lot? Maybe that's what they should do. What could use improvement? Upper trims are expensive. But I mean, you know, if you're gonna do that, then buy a trim level as opposed to one offing it. Engine, it's the return of the 5.7-liter Chemi V8 with a mild hybrid now. Turns out 395 horsepower, 410 pound feet of torque, through an eight-speed automatic transmission that's smooth as glass. Tower rating, 9,240 pounds. It'll haul 1,330 pounds. Get 16 miles per gallon in the city, 20 on the highway for a combined of 18. It was a time not that long ago that it only got 13 miles per gallon.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

Don Armstrong

So this new setup really works. I got 16.2 miles per gallon over 379 miles. What I liked about it, that smooth V8 power with the mild hybrid. You cannot beat it. I'm telling you, those V8 engines rock. And I I drive all of the four cylinders, it doesn't make any difference what it is, turbocharged, I don't care. That V8, it rocks in that pickup truck.

SPEAKER_01

It's just that low-end torque from that V8.

Don Armstrong

It's also got available an optional Hurricane 6 high output engine, straight six in it, 540 horsepower on that straight six. I love the coil suspension, it acts like a Luxo limo. Wow, like it used improvement in the ride and handling nothing. This thing is just absolutely awesome. Base trim price, base trim price on this. Remember what that I what I was driving, and that was the Longhorn Crew Cab 4x4. Base trim price$75,405. Price is tested with some options,$86,205. Oh man. The base model price of this is$44,775. But here are the the other, they're all right there with it. Ford F-150,$43,935. That's the starting price. Starting price for the Chevy Silverado,$42,600. And the Toyota Tundra starts at$41,260. For a pickup truck. Yep, yep. You kidding me? It's a pickup truck. I go back to the days of what a pickup truck was just that. Bare bones pickup truck. You bought it to work with. Rubber, rubber floor mats. All that. Yeah. We're just we're just gonna open the microphones and listen to this for a while. So it's a race car that's right behind us there. That RAM doesn't sound that loud, but it sounds that good, though. They have quite that noise. It's got more creature comforts in it. Next week I'm gonna review the Chevy Equinox EV. And I know you'll want to tune in for that. Okay. You know how I am about EVs.

SPEAKER_01

Not a hybrid, but a full EV. A full EV. Yeehaw.

Don Armstrong

Well, if you're going to buy a if you're gonna buy it, this is a nice one. Go for it. I was I was quite taken aback by the whole thing, but you still gotta plug it in all the time.

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Katy Easter Cruise In Invitation

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Don Armstrong

Hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, we invite you to shoot us an email. The address here is info at inwheeltime.com. By the way, we have a bonus hour today. Uh the third hour is going to be our 10 o'clock hour. Normally we go on the air at 10 o'clock, but since this is a uh very special event over here, the big cruise in, tailpipes and tacos, uh, we're going to go an extra hour and take it up to 11 o'clock. If you'd like to get in touch with us, again, info at inwheeltime.com.com. We're back on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show right after this quick break. Mr. Morris. 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 the donation to Shirley's Kids, you will 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. Best 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 NBL 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 Tail Pipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter edition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m. at the Loopy Torchica Tex Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I10, the Katy Freeway in Katie. Make plans now. Loopy Tortica is pretty good. You own a car you love. Why not let Gulf Coast Auto Shield protect it? Houstonian John Gray invites you to his state-of-the-art facility to introduce you to his specialist team of auto enthusiasts. We promise you'll be impressed. Whether you're looking to massage your original paint to a like new appearance, apply a ceramic coating, install a paint protection film, nano ceramic window tint, or new windshield protection called Exoshield, Gulf Coast Auto Shield is where Houston's car people go. Curbed your wheels? Instead of buying new, why not have them repaired? How about a professionally installed radar detector? Gulf Coast Auto Shield does that too. Get a peek inside the shop and look at the services offered by getting online and heading to gcautoshield.com. Better yet, stop by their facility at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway and get a personal tour. Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your place to go for all things exterior. Call them today, 832-930-5655 or gcautoshield.com. 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, iHeartPodcast, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.

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