Lon and Jason's Love for Toyota Alphard
Lon and Jason discuss their admiration for the Toyota Alphard and Genesis GV90.
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Key points
- Lon and Jason admire the Toyota Alphard for its comfort and features.
- The Alphard is a minivan with executive mode that offers a luxurious experience.
- Genesis GV90 is an upcoming EV that has generated excitement.
- The GV90 has unique features like captain's chairs that can face each other.
What they discussed
Lon and Jason express their admiration for the Toyota Alphard, a minivan with executive mode that offers a luxurious and comfortable experience. They discuss the vehicle's spacious seats and the feeling of being in a separate world from the driver, making it a comfortable choice for executives.,The conversation shifts to the Genesis GV90, an upcoming electric vehicle that has generated a lot of excitement. Jason mentions that he was considering importing a similar vehicle and pays around 50% import tax, highlighting the appeal of such vehicles.,The GV90's unique features are highlighted, including its electric range of 300 miles and the ability for its captain's chairs to face each other, providing a social space within the vehicle. Jason envisions an extended version of the GV90 with four chairs, making it a six-seater vehicle.
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Japan. Alfred, it's Yeah, when you take a you take an Uber in Japan, they have these little commuter vans that they pick. Yeah, Jacob, >> put it up, Jake. Yeah, I'll find I'll I'll find one. They're They're so neat. Like, I feel like I would actually like drive one of these if you could. Yeah, the Toyota Alfred. >> I mean, it is the the Toyota Alfred in the executive mode is like a minivan. There's law on his iPad Proact in his suit looking good. Look at how big these seats are. Unbelievable. >> It's very comfortable. You feel like you're smooth. You've got a nice sort of distance from the drive. They're in their world doing their thing. You're in the back doing your thing. It's very comfortable. I felt right at home in the Toyota Alfred. Why don't they have these in America? >> I I literally tried to import one. You can import them. Um I think they're getting there. Uh Genesis uh 90 EV uh just dropped. Literally, this just dropped and people are losing their mind over it. Let me show you this. So, I have I was literally going to import one of these and pay like a 50% import tax. You're not allowed to, but this is the Genesis uh GV90 that's coming out. So, um what this thing is going to do, um it's an EV, goes 300 miles, whatever. You see the doors look interesting, right? >> Yes. >> Um boom, you open the doors, you can have the you can have the >> uh captain's chairs face each other. M >> see that? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh they spin around. This is like the old G90, but this one is something slightly different. GV90. Genesis GV90 is what you're looking for. People are losing their minds over it. So, that's what I want to get is one of these bad boys. >> Yeah. >> Uh and then put a Starlink on it and then I could just recapture, you know, whatever an hour a day. But look at that. >> Wow. That's nice. >> Look at that. By the way, this if you were to build a uh like Becker or something automotive builds these for $400,000, literally four or 500,000, >> this is going to be like 100 150, you know, to go crazy. >> It was like 150k was the on on the page you were looking at. >> Now, this is deceiving. You You have like the chairs facing each other. Those two chairs are the captain's chairs for the driver and the co-pilot, >> and this is a parked car on the beach. What I want is an extended version of these with the four chairs. >> Um, so then you could have sixseater. Um, see there's the steering wheel back here. >> Anyway, if you're parked and you want to have a conversation, I don't know who's hanging out in their car. >> If you're living in your van, that's uh perfect. >> You know, see, they just they got it wrong um in terms of like what actually is going to happen. But uh it's going to it's coming next year. So there's your off duty from JCAL. Let's do our final guest. And I got to get the heck out of here. >> Yeah, we got one more guest. I will I will pull them up now. Here we go. Uh we actually we discussed our next guest uh when their video went viral and we you you wanted to book them. So here they are. He is a Stanford computer science student and the designer of the self-driving robo taxi golf cart that you'll recall all the uh all the high uh priests of AI and tech were riding around because they all hang out on the Stanford campus. Ethan Goodart, thanks for being here, Ethan. >> All right, Ethan, what's going on? You're uh you're an undergrad, you're grad. What are you doing over there in Stanford? >> Uh yeah, technically undergrad, so I'll be a junior next year. >> All right. Incredibly hard to get in. You're >> a sophomore. >> Incredibly hard to get into Stanford. So you're either brilliant or your parents built a building or you photoshopped yourself playing uh lacrosse. Uh what which one of those three? You're just a brilliant kid. Where you from? >> I can definitely confirm that it's one of those three. Um no building unfortunately. >> No building. Okay. Narrows it down. So, did your parents Photoshop and do generative AI to put you in a lacrosse video? >> Uh, I think the models were not not >> there yet. Okay. So, you earned your way in. Where you from originally? >> I'm from Atlanta originally. >> Oh, all right. Well, that's good. See, I actually know people who are moving to smaller states. You want to know how crazy these parents are? >> And Ethan's nodding. Maybe his parents left Manhattan for Atlanta to get him into Sanford. Some of these lunatic parents look at the tables