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this
is
a
2020
cadillac
ct5v
and
it
is
not
the
cadillac
v
car
you
were
probably
hoping
for
previous
cadillac
v
models
have
been
luxury
muscle
cars
with
giant
v8
engines
massive
horsepower
and
incredible
tuning
potential
this
has
a
turbo
v6
and
it's
down
almost
300
horsepower
compared
to
the
outgoing
cts
v
today
i'm
going
to
review
this
car
and
find
out
what's
going
on
first
a
little
background
cadillac
has
been
developing
its
high
performance
v
line
for
more
than
15
years
now
ever
since
the
cts-v
originally
came
out
for
the
2004
model
year
that
car
the
2004
cts
v
had
more
power
than
this
does
the
new
ct5v
even
though
you
would
think
of
this
as
sort
of
the
next
generation
high
performance
v
model
but
that's
not
exactly
this
situation
here
you
know
how
mercedes
has
the
c63
amg
and
it's
like
the
ultimate
high
performance
c-class
and
then
they
came
out
with
the
c43
as
sort
of
a
lower
tier
amg
car
to
make
the
brand
more
affordable
bmw
did
the
same
thing
they
have
the
m3
and
then
they
came
out
with
the
m340i
to
make
m
more
accessible
for
more
people
well
that's
exactly
what
cadillac
is
doing
here
so
that's
how
we
went
from
a
640
horsepower
cts
v
to
a
360
horsepower
ct5v
and
on
paper
it
seems
to
make
sense
the
ct5v's
numbers
put
it
in
direct
competition
with
the
bmw
m340i
the
mercedes
c43
amg
and
the
audi
s4
it's
logical
but
the
difference
is
those
brands
also
have
the
bmw
m3
the
mercedes
c63
amg
and
the
audi
rs4
although
admittedly
not
the
rs4
here
in
north
america
because
audi
makes
terrible
decisions
but
still
they
exist
cadillac
meanwhile
has
spent
all
this
time
and
effort
building
up
v
as
the
ultimate
high
performance
luxury
muscle
car
brand
and
then
they
give
us
this
now
cadillac
claims
a
higher
performance
v
model
is
coming
soon
and
obviously
i
believe
them
i
just
think
it's
a
bit
of
an
interesting
decision
to
release
the
mediocre
one
before
the
one
that
we
all
want
and
the
one
that
we've
come
to
expect
but
it's
their
car
company
they
can
do
whatever
they
want
i
just
review
it
so
today
i'm
going
to
do
just
that
first
i'm
going
to
take
you
on
a
tour
of
the
ct5v
and
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you
all
of
the
interesting
quirks
and
features
of
the
latest
cadillac
v-car
then
i'm
going
to
get
it
out
on
the
road
and
drive
it
and
then
i'll
give
it
a
doug
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all
right
i'm
going
to
start
the
quirks
and
features
of
the
ct5v
with
getting
in
where
you
think
you
will
be
bombarded
with
v
logos
when
you
walk
up
to
the
car
there
is
one
on
the
front
fender
to
remind
you
it's
a
v
then
you
open
the
door
and
there's
one
on
the
door
sill
another
v
logo
then
you
look
a
little
further
there's
one
on
the
floor
mat
another
v
logo
when
you
think
well
there's
just
going
to
be
v's
everywhere
in
this
interior
just
total
overkill
but
there's
not
that's
actually
the
last
v
logo
there's
no
others
anywhere
in
this
entire
interior
so
considering
my
misgivings
about
this
even
being
a
v
car
it's
good
that
they
don't
really
throw
it
in
your
face
and
they
keep
it
subtle
but
anyway
onto
some
other
interior
items
you
have
some
very
unusual
controls
in
here
let's
discuss
now
cadillac's
previous
generation
infotainment
system
was
called
q
and
a
lot
of
people
hated
it
it
was
apparently
difficult
to
use
problematic
i
didn't
ever
find
it
as
bad
as
most
people
did
but
it
was
universally
negatively
regarded
in
the
car
business
so
cadillac's
latest
infotainment
system
they've
made
some
changes
to
make
it
easier
to
use
and
some
of
those
changes
are
well
they're
just
strange
here's
an
example
you
can
move
around
the
screen
using
your
fingers
the
touch
screen
and
you
can
just
move
to
the
next
screen
left
or
right
like
most
that's
pretty
common
or
you
can
use
this
dial
in
the
center
console
to
move
around
your
infotainment
screen
you
just
twist
the
dial
and
it
goes
between
all
of
the
different
pieces
on
the
screen
again
pretty
common
and
that
gives
you
the
opportunity
to
choose
whether
you
want
to
use
it
as
a
touch
screen
or
with
the
dial
which
is
a
nice
redundancy
to
have
but
it
doesn't
stop
there
you
can
also
use
this
little
dial
right
under
the
screen
you
twist
that
and
you
can
again
move
around
on
the
screen
doing
the
very
same
thing
you
would
do
with
your
finger
just
two
inches
higher
so
cadillac
has
built
in
like
multiple
redundancies
just
to
make
sure
people
can't
complain
that
they
don't
have
anywhere
to
adjust
the
screen
and
it
gets
more
unusual
than
that
let's
say
you
want
to
adjust
the
volume
you're
the
driver
the
car
you
can
press
these
little
buttons
on
the
steering
wheel
to
change
the
radio
volume
up
or
down
pretty
common
or
there's
a
little
volume
dial
in
the
center
console
right
next
to
the
dial
for
the
infotainment
screen
you
can
just
twist
that
and
the
volume
goes
up
or
down
again
pretty
standard
stuff
but
there's
also
a
third
option
you
have
another
volume
dial
right
below
the
center
screen
you
twist
that
and
it
changes
the
volume
up
or
down
meaning
that
the
driver
has
three
separate
volume
controls
all
within
an
easy
arms
reach
all
of
these
controls
are
separated
by
about
12
inches
each
three
different
volume
controls
i've
never
seen
that
level
of
redundancy
put
into
an
infotainment
system
but
cadillac
really
wanted
to
make
sure
that
there
was
no
room
for
anybody
to
complain
about
not
being
able
to
easily
adjust
stuff
now
the
funny
thing
about
all
of
these
redundancies
is
that
the
newest
cadillac
infotainment
system
is
actually
really
easy
to
use
far
better
than
q
before
it's
tremendously
responsive
it's
tremendously
intuitive
i've
reviewed
it
in
other
general
motors
models
but
it's
a
really
good
easy
simple
usable
responsive
infotainment
system
way
better
than
q
so
you
don't
really
need
all
these
redundancies
but
cadillac
has
them
anyway
just
to
cover
their
bases
they
do
not
want
any
more
bad
infotainment
reviews
there
are
so
many
redundancies
in
this
system
in
fact
that
you
have
regular
climate
control
buttons
below
the
screen
so
you
can
make
all
of
your
climate
control
adjustments
using
these
buttons
and
switches
which
is
always
what
people
prefer
but
you
also
have
climate
controls
in
the
screen
so
if
for
some
reason
you're
sitting
here
you
don't
want
to
press
the
obvious
button
to
change
something
in
the
climate
controls
you
can
go
into
the
screen
and
adjust
it
there
also
so
there's
a
redundancy
even
for
the
climate
controls
even
though
it
has
hard
buttons
that's
pretty
crazy
again
cadillac
wanted
to
make
sure
everybody
was
satisfied
with
the
new
infotainment
but
anyway
let's
go
back
to
the
infotainment
system
there
are
some
cool
features
in
there
one
gives
you
the
ability
to
activate
the
heated
or
cooled
seats
when
you
remote
start
the
car
you
can
remote
start
it
with
the
key
and
if
you
have
the
climate
control
set
to
automatic
it
can
tell
if
it's
cold
or
warm
and
it
will
turn
on
the
corresponding
heated
or
cooled
seats
so
when
you
get
in
the
car
your
climate
control
won't
just
be
making
the
cabin
perfectly
comfortable
but
your
heated
or
cooled
seat
will
already
be
on
to
make
you
as
comfortable
as
possible
that
is
a
pretty
cool
feature
and
next
up
another
cool
feature
in
the
infotainment
system
it
lets
you
adjust
the
car's
v-mode
you
go
in
there
and
you
can
change
various
aspects
of
the
driving
experience
like
for
example
the
steering
responsiveness
the
suspension
even
the
braking
or
the
engine
sound
all
adjustable
in
the
v-mode
setting
the
infotainment
screen
then
once
you
have
that
configured
to
your
perfect
liking
whenever
you
want
to
go
into
that
driving
mode
you
press
the
v
button
on
the
steering
wheel
and
instantly
you
go
into
your
pre-selected
v
mode
so
if
for
example
you
want
a
driving
mode
that
has
great
acceleration
feel
but
comfortable
suspension
you
can
set
that
in
v-mode
and
then
you
can
switch
into
it
every
time
you
get
in
the
car
and
press
v
on
the
steering
wheel
that's
a
cool
feature
and
it's
a
cool
easy
way
to
activate
it
rather
than
having
to
go
into
some
screen
or
adjust
some
dial
multiple
levels
with
that
said
you
can
also
change
between
cadillac's
pre-selected
drive
modes
pretty
easily
next
to
the
gear
lever
there's
a little
switch
marked
mode
you
can
press
it
up
or
down
and
go
into
the
various
drive
modes
which
are
tour
sport
track
and
snow
and
ice
those
are
your
choices
in
the
ct5v
and
next
up
since
i'm
starting
to
touch
on
the
gauge
cluster
let's
talk
gauge
cluster
it's
kind
of
surprising
actually
the
gauges
in
this
car
are
analog
fixed
old-school
gauges
in
place
which
is
unusual
at
this
price
point
most
of
this
car's
competitors
have
a
large
screen
in
the
gauge
cluster
with
no
more
analog
gauges
but
the
ct5v
still
kind
of
old
school
with
its
traditional
gauges
but
it
does
have
a
large
screen
right
in
the
middle
not
as
big
as
some
rivals
but
still
very
big
and
very
high
quality
now
there
are
several
interesting
items
you
can
access
in
this
screen
one
is
this
car's
v
performance
data
if
you
go
to
that
tab
you
can
see
various
different
things
like
your
g
forces
that
you've
hit
or
that
you've
hit
in
the
past
you
can
see
your
0
to
60
time
it
allows
you
to
measure
it
on
the
fly
you
can
also
check
out
various
different
temperatures
one
new
one
for
me
is
the
elsd
coupling
screen
this
will
actually
let
you
know
where
power
is
being
distributed
as
you're
going
around
corners
not
exactly
sure
why
you'd
want
to
know
this
on
the
fly
and
if
you're
in
the
type
of
driving
where
you'd
be
activating
this
you
probably
should
be
looking
out
the
window
not
at
your
screen
but
it's
there
i
guess
to
kind
of
prove
that
it
can
measure
that
information
in
real
time
now
unfortunately
with
that
center
screen
the
drawback
is
the
map
is
not
very
good
here
i
am
on
the
navigation
tab
and
you
can
see
it's
just
not
really
providing
that
much
info
the
direction
i'm
traveling
in
the
city
i'm
in
i
assume
if
we
were
going
somewhere
and
had
a
direction
set
it
would
be
telling
us
like
the
next
turn
but
regardless
this
is
nowhere
near
as
good
as
audi's
giant
full
screen
map
with
google
maps
you
can
see
the
satellite
image
it's
way
way
better
than
this
this
is
sort
of
a
very
watered-down
version
of
what
other
brands
are
doing
with
that
said
although
the
gauge
cluster
is
pretty
clearly
behind
rivals
especially
for
a
brand
new
car
like
this
i
wouldn't
say
that
about
this
interior
this
is
a
pretty
nice
looking
interior
frankly
and
the
materials
are
pretty
nice
there
are
some
pros
and
cons
to
the
interior
but
generally
i
would
say
it's
a
pretty
good
place
to
spend
time
and
surprisingly
close
to
european
rivals
some
big
benefits
in
here
i
love
the
two-tone
seats
the
black
and
white
i
think
they
look
good
and
i
love
the
red
stitching
pretty
much
everywhere
which
nicely
complements
the
carbon
fiber
which
has
a
little
twinge
of
red
in
it
too
if
you
look
closely
all
of
that
stuff
looks
really
nice
but
like
i
said
there
are
a
few
drawbacks
one
is
clearly
the
plastic
buttons
pretty
much
everywhere
the
climate
controls
the
center
console
the
steering
wheel
i
wish
these
just
looked
a
little
bit
nicer
same
deal
with
the
shift
lever
to
me
this
looks
like
a
cheap
car
shift
lever
doesn't
really
belong
in
a
car
like
this
competing
with
audi
mercedes
bmw
especially
at
the
50
000
and
up
price
point
where
this
car
is
but
like
i
said
this
interior
is
generally
a
nice
place
to
spend
time
with
good
materials
it's
a
pretty
solid
effort
i
think
the
biggest
drawback
really
is
that
gauge
cluster
it
just
feels
so
compared
to
rivals
that
pretty
much
all
do
it
better
and
next
up
we
move
on
to
the
back
seat
of
the
ct5v
and
i
have
to
say
sitting
back
here
rear
seat
room
is
generous
now
it
may
not
seem
like
that
because
as
i
sit
back
here
my
knees
are
pretty
much
right
up
against
the
front
seat
with
only
about
an
inch
to
spare
but
the
reason
it's
generous
is
because
i've
been
in
the
rivals
the
audi
s4
the
new
bmw
3
series
they're
way
smaller
back
here
this
is
definitely
the
largest
back
seat
in
the
class
and
if
you
want
to
use
this
as
a
family
car
this
is
the
one
you're
going
to
want
to
do
it
with
that
makes
sense
because
the
65v
is
longer
than
rivals
about
6
inches
longer
than
the
audi
s4
and
several
of
those
inches
feel
like
they're
in
the
back
seat
otherwise
though
the
back
seat
is
not
really
notable
for
anything
especially
you
do
have
two
climate
vents
in
the
center
and
you
also
have
two
charge
ports
right
below
them
one
usbc
and
one
old
cigarette
lighter
style
charge
port
but
nothing
particularly
unusual
here
in
terms
of
room
i
will
say
there
is
one
drawback
headroom
if
an
adult
is
sitting
back
here
my
head
is
right
up
against
the
ceiling
that's
due
to
this
car's
sloping
roofline
doesn't
really
have
the
traditional
sedan
look
it
sort
of
slopes
for
a
more
sporty
appearance
and
that
definitely
robs
rear
headroom
if
you
have
adults
back
here
it
may
not
quite
be
a
perfect
fit
now
the
weird
thing
about
this
sloped
back
thing
is
it
doesn't
really
have
a
purpose
most
cars
with
this
sloped
back
are
designed
that
way
because
they're
a
hatchback
like
the
audi
a7
for
instance
or
like
my
kia
stinger
they're
sloped
because
this
whole
thing
is
a
tailgate
and
you
open
it
and
access
the
cargo
area
but
not
the
case
with
the
ct5
instead
this
car
just
has
a
normal
trunk
like
every
other
sedan
but
it
has
a
sloped
back
like
it's
a
hatchback
the
other
thing
that
happens
when
you
make
the
sloped
back
look
is
that
the
side
of
the
car
is
basically
extended
back
compared
to
a
regular
sedan
with
a
regular
rear
window
and
in
this
car
that
means
they
have
to
put
this
large
black
panel
here
sort
of
looking
like
a
fake
window
but
it
isn't
it's
just
a
big
piece
of
plastic
on
the
side
of
the
car
so
they
have
this
sloped
back
design
to
mimic
hatchbacks
like
the
audi
a7
but
it
isn't
actually
a
hatchback
the
only
purpose
that
sloped
back
really
seems
to
serve
is
robbing
rear
seat
headroom
which
isn't
really
the
best
idea
if
you
ask
me
but
anyway
as
for
the
trunk
itself
nothing
particularly
interesting
here
although
it
is
a
little
bit
deceptive
because
of
the
sloped
vac
you
have
a
relatively
small
trunk
opening
but
when
you
look
inside
you
can
see
it
is
quite
deep
it
is
a
very
nice
sized
trunk
especially
for
a
vehicle
in
this
size
class
so
you
do
get
a
good
sized
cargo
area
even
though
you
aren't
getting
a
hatchback
like
you
might
think
when
you
look
at
it
but
anyway
next
i
want
to
talk
about
the
name
of
this
car
ct
that's
a
5
not
an
s
even
though
cadillac
had
a
model
called
cts
this
is
ct5
which
i'm
sure
will
be
endlessly
confusing
for
consumers
or
it
would
be
if
they
cared
about
sedans
anymore
the
reason
cadillac
now
has
a
number
in
this
car's
name
is
they're
doing
this
for
all
their
vehicles
to
make
it
more
clear
where
they
fit
into
the
model
range
so
instead
of
ats
cts
xts
small
medium
and
large
you
have
ct4
ct5
ct6
which
serve
the
same
purpose
it
does
seem
like
a
more
clean
way
to
do
it
although
it
also
kind
of
blends
into
everybody
else
a4
a6
3
series
4
series
it's
just
not
very
distinctive
but
that's
what
cadillac
has
decided
to
do
and
next
up
also
around
back
might
as
well
talk
exhaust
back
here
you
have
a
quad
exhaust
which
is
something
you
would
expect
from
a
v
car
even
though
this
might
not
have
as
much
power
it
still
has
the
exhaust
as
for
the
exhaust
note
well
it
sounds
fine
take
a
listen
as
for
other
stuff
on
the
outside
of
this
car
styling
i
have
to
say
i've
always
loved
cadillac's
angular
look
with
these
sharp
edges
and
lights
at
the
corners
that
kind
of
emphasize
the
edges
i
think
they
all
look
really
cool
and
i
think
that's
true
for
this
car
as
well
although
i
have
to
say
once
again
that
sloped
roof
line
is
kind
of
an
odd
thing
because
it's
this
gradual
curving
slope
on
a
car
that
primarily
has
angular
styling
lines
and
so
it
doesn't
really
fit
all
that
well
into
the
design
scheme
i
really
think
cadillac
would
have
done
better
to
just
make
this
a
more
traditional
sedan
without
that
sloping
roof
line
and
next
up
speaking
of
this
car's
styling
one
of
my
very
favorite
styling
elements
here
is
these
front
lights
and
especially
this
running
light
pipe
that
looks
like
it's
going
through
the
front
bumper
i
think
that
is
a
really
cool
look
very
distinctive
to
cadillac
and
i
think
it's
a
great
job
makes
this
car
look
aggressive
and
special
now
when
you
turn
on
the
turn
signal
up
in
front
the
lower
part
of
this
light
pipe
turns
on
as
the
turn
signal
so
sort
of
the
lower
half
and
that
also
is
a
very
distinctive
look
you
have
this
big
vertical
turn
signal
up
front
letting
other
drivers
know
you're
turning
and
you
mean
it
and
finally
we
move
on
to
the
ct5v's
engine
like
i
said
360
horsepower
thanks
to
a
twin
turbo
v6
and
you
know
it's
twin
turbo
because
it
says
it
on
there
twin
turbo
just
in
case
someone
was
going
to
accuse
you
of
having
a
mere
single
turbo
no
no
you
got
a
twin
now
as
far
as
this
car's
positioning
in
the
segment
this
car
has
about
10
horsepower
more
than
the
audi
s4
and
it
costs
about
the
same
as
an
audi
s4
it's
down
about
25
horsepower
compared
to
the
mercedes
c43
amg
and
the
bmw
m340i
but
it
also
starts
about
six
thousand
dollars
cheaper
than
those
cars
this
starts
right
around
50
000
that
makes
it
seem
like
this
car
is
a
good
competitor
in
this
segment
about
the
same
price
as
an
s4
but
more
power
and
relatively
close
behind
bmw
and
mercedes
the
issue
comes
when
you
actually
look
up
the
acceleration
numbers
m340i
and
the
c43
do
0
to
60
about
4.1
the
s4
doesn't
about
4.4
this
is
4.7
so
even
though
it
has
competitive
power
it's
way
slower
than
its
european
rivals
the
reason
for
that
is
the
size
that
i
was
mentioning
earlier
like
i
said
this
is
about
six
inches
longer
than
an
audi
s4
therefore
bigger
heavier
simply
not
as
fast
so
if
you
get
one
of
these
your
benefit
is
better
rear
legroom
but
you're
trading
some
performance
compared
to
the
european
rivals
and
so
those
are
the
quirks
and
features
of
the
new
cadillac
ct5v
now
it's
time
to
get
it
out
on
the
road
and
see
how
it
drives
all
right
driving
the
ct-5
v
screaming
up
and
on-ramp
here
although
screaming
not
exactly
an
accurate
term
this
car
is
fast
actually
in
truth
it's
a
it's
a
pretty
quick
car
but
it's
not
a
very
quick
car
it's
fine
um
the
cadillac
says
0-60
something
like
4.6
4.7
seconds
certainly
having
recently
driven
an
m340i
and
a
c43
those
cars
certainly
feel
faster
it's
been
a while
since
i've
been
on
an
s4
uh
but
those
cars
feel
faster
than
this
one
now
the
trade-off
is
like
i
mentioned
you're
getting
a
larger
vehicle
so
you're
getting
theoretically
a
more
comfortable
ride
and
you're
also
getting
the
back
seats
that
are
more
usable
and
for
some
people
you
know
that'll
be
nice
um
but
i
suspect
not
most
people
i
think
that
most
people
who
are
in
the
kind
of
sport
sedan
segment
aren't
really
necessarily
looking
for
a
family
hauler
that's
the
domain
of
crossovers
and
larger
sedans
inside
this
car
like
i
mentioned
the
interior
is
nice
it's
it's
an
interesting
mix
and
it's
kind
of
a
general
motor
specialty
you
have
some
really
nice
stuff
the
speaker
covers
look
great
i
like
the
two-tone
seats
the
stitching
a lot
of
stuff
looks
good
but
then
there's
just
some
stuff
where
it's
like
how
could
you
possibly
put
that
in
a
car
that
says
a
sticker
price
of
like
52
53
000
and
i'm
really
surprised
by
the
gauge
cluster
the
uh
analog
gauge
is
old-school
a
lot
of
people
are
going
to
reply
to
this
be
like
i
prefer
analog
gauges
well
not
if
you're
buying
a
50
plus
thousand
dollar
car
you
want
the
latest
tech
especially
this
segment
it's
more
younger
buyers
they're
into
that
kind
of
thing
this
car
doesn't
have
it
and
it
feels
like
an
omission
even
kind
of
regular
cars
are
starting
to
get
that
now
the
newest
kia
stinger
i
was
just
reading
is
getting
a
full
gauge
screen
well
cadillac's
behind
on
the
road
road
noise
is
nice
nice
and
muted
does
not
feel
tremendously
loud
it's
also
not
a
very
rough
ride
feels
nice
and
comfortable
in
here
and
i
think
to
an
extent
that's
kind
of
the
market
for
this
car
it's
people
who
want
a
more
comfortable
sport
sedan
maybe
nothing
is
amazing
about
this
car
but
as
a
general
package
i
think
it's
very
good
very
competent
reasonably
priced
compared
to
rivals
unless
performance
is
your
main
goal
in
which
case
it's
it's
just
not
quite
on
their
level
the
issue
really
starts
to
come
to
me
with
just
expectations
that's
really
all
it
is
i
hear
v
i
see
i
think
of
a
certain
thing
this
car
doesn't
deliver
that
thing
um
and
obviously
cadillac
is
attempting
to
make
v
and
i
guess
two
tiers
you'll
have
like
a
base
v
like
this
car
and
then
a
better
v
my
problem
with
that
is
you
came
up
with
the
base
one
first
you
always
want
to
come
out
with
the
better
one
first
this
is
why
porsche
came
out
with
the
918
spider
before
trying
to
trickle
plug
in
hybrids
down
to
the
rest
of
its
model
range
because
you
can
point
to
the
better
one
and
say
look
at
that
it
was
in
the
918
first
now
it
makes
sense
to
get
it
in
a
cayenne
well
here
here
it's
like
the
v
range
is
really
cool
we
promise
but
we're
not
currently
making
any
really
cool
v's
you
just
have
to
take
our
word
for
it
overall
though
good
car
but
it
certainly
isn't
a
knockout
and
to
me
again
it
just
doesn't
quite
have
that
v
feeling
uh
like
you've
experienced
in
other
v
cars
if
you
if
you've
had
them
or
been
around
them
and
so
that's
the
cadillac
ct5v
this
is
a
good
car
it
has
good
performance
it
has
good
technology
i
think
it
looks
pretty
good
there's
a
lot
of
benefits
about
it
but
it's
not
a
v
i
know
i
know
cadillac
says
they
have
a
more
powerful
version
coming
blah
blah
blah
i
just
don't
understand
why
you
spend
all
that
time
and
effort
and
money
to
build
up
the
v
brand
as
the
ultimate
high
performance
cadillac
and
then
use
that
brand
to
give
us
this
the
ct5v
is
a
good
car
it's
just
not
a
v
anyway
now
it's
time
to
give
this
car
a
dug
score
starting
with
the
weekend
categories
and
styling
the
ct5v
is
fine
i
don't
think
beautiful
i
do
think
the
edgy
cadillac
design
is
a
weird
mix
with
the
sloping
roof
the
wheels
look
too
small
it
gets
a
5
out
of
10.
acceleration
does
0
to
60
in
4.7
seconds
and
it
gets
a
6
out
of
10.
handling
is
average
and
it
gets
a
5
out
of
10.
fun
factor
is
fine
it's
not
especially
fast
nor
especially
light
on
its
feed
it's
ok
but
not
great
and
it
gets
a
5
out
of
10.
finally
cool
factor
and
this
car
is
sort
of
cool
but
a
watered-down
v
won't
get
too
much
excitement
and
it
gets
a
4
out
of
10
for
a
total
weekend
score
of
25
out
of
50.
next
up
are
the
daily
categories
and
features
the
ct5v
is
well
equipped
not
exactly
cutting
edge
but
good
enough
and
it
gets
a
7
out
of
10.
same
deal
with
comfort
it's
fine
normal
for
a
car
like
this
and
it
gets
a
7
out
of
10.
quality
is
ok
reliability
will
likely
be
strong
in
keeping
with
other
recent
gm
models
but
interior
quality
is
mixed
it
gets
a
6
out
of
10.
practicality
is
normal
for
a
car
like
this
and
it
gets
a
5
out
of
10.
value
is
mediocre
this
car
has
good
power
numbers
but
not
great
its
main
benefit
will
be
interior
room
and
the
v
brand
it
gets
a
6
out
of
10
for
a
total
daily
score
of
31
out
of
50.
add
it
up
and
the
dug
score
is
56
out
of
100
which
places
the
ct5v
here
against
rivals
it's
fine
not
great
but
reasonably
competitive
but
i
personally
would
shop
some
other
cars
first
the
m340i
is
more
engaging
the
kia
stinger
gt
is
more
practical
and
cheaper
and
the
tesla
model
3
is
more
fun
and
higher


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unfortunately can't be salvaged next is the injection of liquid into heat pipes Coolermaster made its own machines to handle this process using simple principles of gravity to hold the liquid in the tube while it's injected a syringe inserts a few droplets of distilled water into the copper heat pipe and it really is just a few drops if you were to turn the heat pipe over and attempt to empty it into your palm you wouldn't even feel the liquid come out if any does come out it's that small of an amount of liquid as space is still needed for the gases within the heat pipe the heat pipe is next laid down in a bin that's tilted slightly downward using gravity to ensure no loss of liquid while they wait to be transferred the tube is moved by hand to another machine this one responsible for vacuuming the air out and pinching the end of the heat pipe closed not all of the air is removed at this point so it goes to another machine to further this process the next machine heats the heat pipe up at the bottom it's loaded by a technician manually and heating it at the bottom forces the remaining air to go out of the top of the pipe via automation it then vacuums and pinches the tube a second time this time higher up and then it cuts that section of the heat pipe off all of the air is now removed from the heat pipe leaving only a few droplets of distilled water and the sintered powder that's been bonded to the inside finally the heat pipe can be soldered on the other end of the tube sealing it completely into one straight copper heat pipe this soldering machine the final step is the same as the earlier one we saw and the heat pipe is now done and must be bent or shaped for the product cooler master makes CPU and GPU cooler silicon manufacturers and board partners and cooler manufacturers so heat pipes of various types are in constant demand now that it's time to bend those heat pipes there are two ways to do it one is manually sometimes used for low volume designs with specific pens or if a machine is out of commission and the other is by the more efficient automation approach to get a feel for how manual bending works cooler masters and engineers gave us the hands-on experience alongside Brian from bps costumes and with our inexperience combined we formed the world's slowest assembly line the first step of the manual bending process is to face the crimped ends of the heat pipe toward the user then insert two heat pipes at a time and to the bending rig an insert is used to hold the pipes in place while the operator pulls a lever to effortlessly bend the tubes at the desired angle although it took us about 19 to 25 seconds to bend two heat pipes and passed them to Brian it takes a skilled factory worker about eight seconds to accomplish the same work coolermaster gave us one of our heat pipes to take home so you know as they probably wouldn't pass quality control and the result is a comprar heat pipe with a 180 degree Bend ready for use in a small tower cooler automation is more interesting and uses the same tools as the manual stations but it's obviously more efficient Coolermaster had three different types of heat pipe vending machines on display with the first accomplishing effectively the same task as both Brian and we accomplished except more competently by using a template to bend the pipes and a grooved wheel to guide them along as they get bent a second time a claw then grabs the pipes and moves them over a bucket where it dropped them for operator pick up one of the machines is capable of more unique shapes to bend pipes multiple times for specific fitments this machine uses an accordion arm to push the pipes into the bend template where the heat pipes are then bent and then moved to a bucket all that's left now is the final quality check heat pipes are selected to be dipped into a tank of hot water where operators expect to feel the heat pipe become hot very rapidly if the heat pipe doesn't reach high temperatures in a specified amount of time it may be defective and might need a secondary inspection this is also where Coolermaster had some of its flattened heat pipes on display although the company prefers round heat pipes and it's cooling products for improved performance flat pipes can fill important roles in GPUs and notebook coolers where space is at more of a premium that's it for this factory tour of a heat pipe factory at cooler masters headquarters in China we'll have more of these coming up so make sure you subscribe to catch those you should also check out bps Kustoms video on the cooler master factories we happen to align our trips for those and we'll link that below otherwise you can go to store documents access net to support us directly or you can go to patreon.com/scishow


this video is sponsored by Skillshare the first 500 people to use the link in the description get their first two months free deep in the mountains of Austria lies the small but scenic town of hallstatt but this isn't that it's an exact replica built 9,000 kilometers away near Hong Kong Austria China it's home to European architecture Chinese cuisine and all the traffic of North Korea because during the day it may be the wedding photo capital of the region but after the Sun sets its cottages become remarkably quiet China's look-alike towns of places like Paris Berlin London and Jackson Hole Wyoming aren't alone in many places across China there are far more houses than there are people long rows of apartments even entire cities set completely or mostly empty in total approximately 50 million units or 22 percent of China's entire urban housing but this doesn't mean they aren't being bought because they are like crazy ten years ago most people were as you'd expect buying homes for the first time today it looks like this second homes are the majority and people are buying almost as many third homes as first these aren't cheap either in Los Angeles the price per square foot is six hundred and thirty three dollars in Shenzhen 805 and close your eyes because you don't even want to know the price in Hong Kong now consider the difference in wages the average annual income in Shenzhen is around seven thousand five hundred US dollars compared to sixty thousand in LA something clearly doesn't add up people in China are buying homes like Americans buy cars but they're leaving them empty and it's not clear where the money is coming from or why they're being built the usual explanation is that China's government is so desperate for economic growth that it old bridges to nowhere and houses to look at but that's only one part of a much bigger story China's troubles begin with its political system the central government is the highest level of its only party here laws are written and the fate of the nation decided Beijing is the ultimate authority it appoints everyone from secretaries to governors and isn't afraid to move them around should any one official gain too much influence but it would also be a mistake to see China as one singular power because below the central government is a network of local divisions 22 regional provinces for municipalities for autonomous regions and two special administrative under those are over 300 Prefecture --zz followed by the less important counties townships and villages now just as Californians have different concerns than do Texans or Floridians China is a big country and the interests of a coastal exporter like Shenzhen are very different than those of say a more independent region like Inner Mongolia the same is true for different levels of government while Beijing writes the rules cities apply and enforce them often very differently and there's one awkward little detail cities receive just 40% of tax revenue but are responsible for 80% of their expenses so naturally they need another source of income and this is where things get interesting in China rural land is collectively owned everyone and also no one owns it which means it can't be the location of a new luxury apartment but luckily for cities they have the power to rezone land from rural to urban which can be developed in other words they own a money printing machine watch this first a city buys cheap rural land which it then redefines as urban and finally sells to developers and it's now much higher price like magic over and over and over again cities get much needed cash and developers built housing like it's nobody's business now unlike states in America local governments here are generally forbidden from taking loans but again there's a loophole cities can create a local government financial vehicle which is a fancy way of saying a state-owned company and by giving it that new urban land the company can do what the city legally can't borrow money which they can use to build roads schools and on occasion replicas Austrian towns this is so effective that in some years land sales account for 40 percent of local government revenue plus all this construction increases GDP which just so happens to be the way officials get promoted it's a perfect system at least until it's not if or when housing prices fall so does city revenue and all those loans probably won't magically disappear Beijing wants to avoid a housing crisis but cities just want to survive and governors get promoted which puts the two at odds eventually cities start running out of land to sell and have no choice but to build more like this one which spent two billion dollars blowing up the tops of mountains those developers who purchase that land by the way are required to use it which leads to many often quickly constructed low-quality houses and that brings us to the second question why are people buying them and doing it like their life depended on it well for one because it kinda does thanks to the famous one-child policy China now has the entire population of Canada more men than women and that means fierce competition for marriage men are expected to own at least one property before even being considered it's one of the most important elements of social status for many real estate isn't just an opportunity it's a downright social necessity because of this friends and family pull money together to help buy homes for their children and that's how nearly everyone in a country with the per-capita GDP of the Dominican Republic can afford some of the most expensive homes on the planet the other big factor is that Chinese citizens save like crazy when it comes to saving money there's China and then there's basically everyone else where Europeans put 4% of their disposable income in the piggy bank Chinese drop nearly 40 the problem is where can they put it China's domestic stock market is just too risky and its banks are often seen as unpredictable which makes real-estate a Chinese investors best friend it alone accounts for 70% of all household wealth it also doesn't hurt that property tax is a beautiful zero percent when taxes are only paid upfront why wouldn't you buy as soon as possible and just sit on it put all this together and you have a recipe for extreme house buying an amazing 90 percent of homes are owned by their residents Europe and the US stand at 69 and 64 percent respectively and while we're on the subject of crazy high numbers 94% of Chinese Millennials who don't already own plan on buying in the next five years what else do 94 percent of people agree on not even China can quench this thirst for real estate despite laws against it billions of dollars flow out of the country every year into foreign property it's so common in places like Vancouver that earlier this year it introduced a 20% tax for foreigners the irony is that while cities like Beijing and Hong Kong have so little room people are forced to sleep underground these 50 million homes can't find renters so hey if you live in California I think I may have found an escape plan anyway not only are these homes bought without interiors literally just concrete walls but they're also usually located outside city centers where there aren't as many jobs now the assumption in all of this is that eventually people will come and speculation will become reality the eastern side of Shanghai for example was once laughed at by Milton Friedman for being totally empty today as a financial capital of the world with a GDP of 400 billion we can pretty safely say it's proven the haters wrong China is in the process of migrating 300 million people from country to city and of course they'll need a place to live inevitably many of these cities will spring to life that doesn't mean everything is peachy a few things are decidedly not peachy first remember that the vast majority of empty homes is expensive commodity housing these are not the kinds of places you buy coming from a farm in the country and second all these homes have an expiration date in China a building can be owned but the land beneath it can only ever be leased from the government for 70 years after that it's anyone's guess whether ownership will be renewed and if so for how much but the truth is 70 years is pretty optimistic think about it this way if construction is good for GDP why build once when you can build and rebuild every few years it's kinda like the iPhone if you'd like to upgrade every year Apple will happily sell you a new phone it's certainly not judging except in the case of China's housing developers are incentivized to make short-term bets they know their homes will only last a few decades anyway which means using lower quality materials meanwhile cities continue taking loans and housing prices continue rising unsustainably of course Beijing knows all this it's aware of the bubble the risks involved and it knows more or less how to fix it some combination of slowing down lending reining in local governments and introducing a property tax like Shanghai the problem is real estate is so intertwined with its GDP that any of these solutions would seriously risk slowing down its economy in the coming decades the world will watch as China does its best to carefully balance its enormous challenges with its relentless desire to grow its economy and realize the Chinese dream as Beijing prepares for economic change by diversifying its revenue you and I should do the same today's sponsor Skillshare helps you learn new things so you can do just that if you're still watching this it's clear that hey you like learning things and be you learn visually which means skill shares video lessons are perfect for you there are classes on starting your own business taught by successful entrepreneurs topics like how to start programming your own apps and games from scratch and creative classes like drawing or my course on how to make your own 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a few short years ago the average enthusiast would have told you that you were crazy if you said you wanted to put top-of-the-line hardware especially graphics cards in a tiny little box like this one now the GPU makers are practically begging for it by designing little tiny flagship class graphics cards so the only question that remains then is this AMD or Nvidia for your elite flagship class small form-factor gaming PC vote for turnip it's a shirt I don't have one so we're gonna do our best to demo what it looks like and this is not what the real shirt looks like it looks a little more like this but we didn't have a sample to show you guys so this had to do you can stay tuned after the outro for bonus footage of the creation of this masterpiece if you're into that sort of thing now today's video will focus on thermals form factors and the compromises that we need to make when deciding between the gtx 980ti and the radeon r9 fury x but as you all know there's actually more to the story than just degrees Celsius and fps these days with free sync and gsync technology having a huge impact on the gaming experience so drop the like under the video if you'd like to see us put these two Tech's head-to-head very soon to see which one delivers the most responsive a lag free gaming experience for now though I'll introduce the test bench inside a silverstone SD 13 case the same one from this video where we put an 18 core cpu and a Titan X inside it will be cramming not necessarily the highest end hardware but rather what I would consider to be a very reasonable yet premium gaming PC so we've got a 4670 case EP you not overclocked 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Ram the rather unique sx 500 500 Watts s FX L power supply from silverstone and the seuss Maximus 6 impact then we'll be testing that config in two different ways for the first test we've got a reference gtx 980ti actually the same one we reviewed back here so this isn't a water-cooled graphics card which means we can use the radiator mounting point in the front of the case for our CPU in our case of course our H ATI then for our second configuration I swapped out the video card which actually was a surprisingly complicated ordeal that involved removing the power supply removing the graphics card removing the CPU cooler removing the motherboard to install an air cooler on the CPUs as we no longer have room for our CPU all in one liquid cooler and reassembling everything to replace our 980 TI with the fury x whose form-factor I wasn't really sure about until well now that I've actually used it I mean I still don't know how much sense it makes for some cases but in the st 13 anyway it feels like the PCB space that AMD saved with their on package HBM memory was exactly enough to compensate for the extra space consumed by the water cooling tubing sticking out the back of the card and the radiator that needs to be in the front of the case now so let's run through which of these setups performed better please note that I consider this testing to be pretty much a worst-case scenario for all Hardware involved since the ambient temperatures Ihara significantly over 30 degrees Celsius in here first up is CPU temps I used I 264 CPU tests to load up our 46 70 K and the gtx 980ti rig thanks to its CPU liquid cooling is the clear winner here with the CPU topping out at a frosty 64 degrees by contrast our small form-factor heat pipe cooler had the CPU at a still not technically dangerous but much less impressive 87 degrees Celsius and that is without the GPU under load next up as a result that I actually didn't expect motherboard temperatures aren't often overlooked yet super important part of maintaining a stable PC and while gaming our 980ti configuration actually ran away with this one but I also wouldn't read too much into it because both are well within safety margins and depending on the position of the motherboards thermal sensor sometimes just a hotter running CPU can result in a much higher reading for the motherboard even if airflow around the socket from the CPU heatsink is more than adequate which leads us to idle noise impressions none of the whining that i've heard tales of online is present in either our old dead fury acts or our new fury act samples but since both configurations were equipped with cheap pumps and I'm not saying that to be mean to all in one liquid coolers or anything it's just that you're getting what you pay for when you spend $100 on a d5 they both had a little bit of you know pump no but both were satisfactorily quiet in my opinion but what about load while gaming well the fury EXO 980ti configs were actually not noticeably more or less annoying to my ears then each other they're both cooled by a great a fan on their radiators in each configuration a gentle typhoon or an n ff12 that handles most of the airflow through the case and neither card exhibited any bothersome coil whine for more than the first couple seconds of gameplay in Crysis 3 on the fury X but this my friends is where things get really interesting the 980ti did its usual cat that 83° thing while the fury acts stayed at a very cool 67 degrees nothing unexpected here I mean it is water-cooled of course I was going to win that but the interesting thing here is that the fury acts actually managed to score 5 percent higher in our Crysis 3 benchmark at 2560 by 1440 with very high textures and system spec with anti-aliasing it disabled and motion blur disabled as well what our 980ti and this is why I specifically pointed out that it's the well that was interesting we actually have some new information now but in the meantime I'm just going to get through the rest of what I wrote there so are 980ti and this is why I specifically pointed out that it's the same one we reviewed turbos like an absolute beast almost matching our tight necks and has no problems beating the fury acts on an open test bench but when you confine both of them to a small form-factor case the story changes somewhat more than we knew which leads us to the conclusion I came into this video thinking that the fury axes shorter lengths and overkill cooler was a solution to a problem we no longer have thanks to awesome modern case designs like this one that can keep a long power-hungry graphics card cool but while I still think an a IO liquid coolers are kind of a kludge II enthusiasts only need apply solution with a ton of issues thanks to the fury exa small form factor machines with this card have the ability to focus their cooling power on the one component that makes the biggest difference to gaming performance so thanks to that the fury X is able to turbo to 10 50 mega Hertz it's max while the 980ti is stuck at a mere 1037 well within its spec I mean it's not underperforming but not the best it can do in a more ideal situation and another consideration is that while the fury X machine's air-cooled CPU obviously ran much hotter than it would have with a liquid cooler a typical gamer is only very rarely going to put a load on all four cores of a quad-core chip while putting a full load on a graphics card is basically a daily occurrence another argument for focusing your cooling on the GPU so I'm getting the nod to AMD today in this edge case the fury X actually comes out looking like the winner but with an important consideration if you guys install your radiator with the fan as an intake drawing air through the read you will notice that your inside case temperatures rise as much as twenty plus two meaning that if your CPU was on the border once you start gaming no longer will be so I would highly recommend doing what we've done now off camera and turning that fan around to blow out of the case that way your CPU will not overheat like you saw happen when the screen turned off in the middle of this video but that's the kind of show this is guys the kind where anything can happen do these things what on earth are those they're either the world's most magnificent dildos or they're ah yes headphone stands but I had actually said in a dedicated video about these not that long ago that the thing I don't like about them is that they sit on the desk and therefore take up desk space and I called on the community to design a wall-mounted headphone stand that could be either 3d printed or one design would be sent to Silverstone to actually manufacture the designer of which would get a gold colored anodized version of whatever their design was and that contest is actually closed but the reason that I'm bringing it up is that all the designs all eight freaking hundred of them I can't believe how many of you submitted some pretty amazing designs are up for voting for which ones are going to be the top ten on my mini factory comm so check out that link in the video description and vote for your favorite wall-mounted headphone stands the final decision will ultimately be down to me and Silverstone but the more votes that something has the more closely we will be looking at it so check that out now thanks for watching if the video sucked then you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon buying a cool t-shirt like this one or through a direct monthly contribution in the community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out the video where Luke takes a 3d scanner and presumably scan some 3d objects I don't know I haven't watched it yet oh is it oh oh what is that stink so bad oh oh yeah is there a chunky in there is I don't think this is next at all oh I think you have to mix this just like a stick there's a lot of chunky there is look at this blue house here we go vote for turnip t-shirt something that was not in your job description oh well okay it's really drippy over space does drip like crazy so like kind of tickles there's the second turn up I'm really surprised anyone volunteered I thought I was gonna have to pick someone to do this I did not know what I was getting myself in hahaha at all I did the bottom of the turn it was my idea is like that there we go that's a bottom of the turn what are you dry as the turnip if they have a root system there's the root start at the bottom it's white it's white we don't have a white okay so that's the that's the design there's really nothing else to it are you covering his entire I'm drawing the shirt okay you want me to do the other shoulder sure if do didn't the other some other color you know I thought I was comfortable in my skin and with you guys this is some next-level right here okay so I have that side doing that what do you notice over here there's open space are we


life all right so theoretically we're live are we I can't tell I hate flying in the dark like this are we live I think we're live cool hi everyone welcome to a very unusual livestream here in the parking lot at Linus Media Group so we've hauled our whole setup outside you want to show port Anthony sitting sitting sitting in the parking lot here we've got a we've got a you know we've got a spot for him with his ups and is mixer and stream PC and all that good stuff and Cleve green yeah we know we know okay there was a whole thing so the purpose of this livestream is twofold one is we have gotten a lot of questions including one of our neighbors here in the business complex where our offices who literally walked up to us while we were preparing to do this live stream and goes hey so yeah I was wondering you know like I saw your car was pink and all that but then one day you drove up and it was like covered and all this stuff what happened with that so purpose number one of the live stream is to finally answer once and for all for all of those who don't know what the heck happened to my car and purpose number two was actually to do a test of our simultaneous live-streaming we've set up an rtmp server here in our server room and the idea is that it's going to we're gonna push to that at a very high quality encoding bitrate then that is gonna take it and it's gonna push to youtube and twitch separately at least that was the theory if that had worked we would have gone live at exactly 3:30 instead of 3:30 4:00 so it's not working yet we aren't sure exactly why we've had tests running all week and it was just fine and then of course the second you go to try and actually do something it completely falls apart so what happened with my car well the as the saga goes I bought a 2003 Honda Civic for eleven thousand dollars back above must have been about 1011 years ago now and I went with this car because it was pretty much the best kilometers left on it per dollar that I could find on the market so it only had about forty forty-five thousand clicks on it even though it was actually about four or five years old at that time it was just eleven grand but the guy was getting rid of it because his lease was up and he had the option to buy it out but he didn't want it something something something anyway we also I think statute of limitations is up so I can admit that he gifted it to me so I actually did not pay tax on that purchase that was that was a long time ago good luck going after me for that anyway so it was a really really good deal and I I have I have driven it whether sort of I liked it or not ever since then now a lot of people wonder you know you're a youtuber you know with that YouTube money what kind of what kind of car do you drive so I don't think I've ever actually done like a proper tour of my car so it's got a lot of features you know the horn it's got the windows windows that go like this not like this you know windows like this okay the doors don't lock so if you actually ever did see my car in a parking lot somewhere I would appreciate if you didn't but um the odds of you being able to just open up the door and go go into it are 100% because and I can I can explain why I was actually broken into a couple times probably about must have been about seven eight years back and what they did was they they broke my my door locks so these are just for decoration now my keys don't work in these in these door locks anymore and while I could have the thing rekey then all of a sudden I have to carry around two keys one for the ignition and one for the doors and so it was a similar story on the other side and then because this is such a basic car this is the base based basic estrada l' of the honda civic from that year it doesn't even have keyholes for the back so there is there's I can lock the car because I could go like this oh wow you can see stuck that is full of glitter glue so I could lock it but I wouldn't be able to unlock it so the only way to get back inside my car in the event that it's locked and I have had to do this is to open up the trunk see it's really easy to find the the key hole for the trunk you just look for one of the blue paint splotches and then just kind of yeah there see that one so I've actually had to do this before what I would crawl in from the back here and then there's a safety catch for the here we go for the seats to push them down and then I can crawl back into the car cuz I lent it to my sister and she didn't realize that you can't you can't lock it and so she locked it when she parked it for me and I had to pull one of these Oh in order to get back into the driver's seat now there's some other really basic stuff about my car it's a manual transmission but I actually really like that that's that's one of the only redeeming features because as you can see it's got lots of places for buttons but it doesn't actually have any buttons to go there you know see here's another here's another empty button that that doesn't do anything I don't even have air conditioning although I did upgrade my deck as you can see I've done a tremendous job of peeling back some of the paint so I can at least tell what radio station I'm listening to yeah that's a CD CD CD deck right there with aux-in that's beautiful my wife got that for me that was actually a gift so here's what here's what happened right so then it was painted by by Nick by the one and only Nick Evie actually it was painted originally by the whole team as part of the office break-in prank so I I got everyone away from the office so we could break so we could paint the car and then we staged a break-in at the office while they were there so that went up over on channel super fun and then the one and only Nick Evie you did up the see this is pink now but it used to be orange yeah there we go did up the orange rims with the green racing stripes and so it got to the point that it was such a ridiculous meme that I figured ok LTX this year so that's the convention that we did back and I want to say July those LTX in July you guys think so I think it was in July so we decided as like totally last-minute thing literally the night before we decided this we were gonna get some art supplies so Nick light was legitimately out buying glitter paint markers all that kind of crazy stuff oh yeah this is the one the morning of LTX and then he brought it down there we put out some tarps and we decided kind of a fun event would be giving people an opportunity to leave their mark on my car indelibly forever as sort of a like you know they were here kind of thing the only issue is that people got a little bit carried away so you can see everything from the outside to the inside to even under the hood got painted or glittered or glued like someone even took the battery connector off painted the battery terminal and then put it back on maybe they were trying to do me a favor and make me think that my car was dead so that I would finally get around to replacing it but true to form I spent about two three hours after LTX cleaning off my windshield cleaning off the rest of my wooden look at this someone painted this timing belt I don't actually know if that's a timing belt it's definitely a belt so I'm gonna I don't I don't I'm not much of a car guy but I'll get to that later that's actually an important aspect of this stream so if someone actually painted that so anyway I cleaned off to the greatest extent that I could some of the windows and I didn't entirely do my best I guess I could have chipped away a little of this and I've been driving it but the issue here is that while I am mostly okay with driving this there are some things that have been kind of issues so with the amount of glitter glue that got dumped onto my seats can you hear that like they're actually quite crunchy and it's not very comfortable so that's a bit of a problem and then because there's so much glitter in my car it kind of gets everywhere so you can see here that I had to take James somewhere for a shoot and he actually insisted on bringing a tablecloth into my car and putting it on the seat so that he didn't have to touch it my wife my wife went to a business meeting must have been yeah earlier this week I think on Monday and she rolls up she's like three minutes late so she's not like super late or anything it's not the end of the world but she's a couple minutes late which is already bad manners everyone else is in like suits and she pulls up she's in her yoga pants she walks out of this car and she's just like this is this is ridiculous like we can't we can't we can't do this anymore so the hidden purpose of this dream now that I've explained exactly what happened to my car like I couldn't I couldn't even get the back clean like look at this there's so much like confetti and stuff on here it's like it's like a pollution hazard like it's ridiculous so the hidden purpose of this stream is a couple of things number one is I am ready to reveal the replacement for the Lambo I bought a new car today number two actually have multiple hidden purposes to this stream number two is I would like to hear from you guys what should we do with the Lambo we've got a few options there's a local shooting range that we could take it to and we could just take the whole team out there record a channel super fun and shoot the crap out of it you know ten points if you can break a window 30 points if you can knock off a mirror all that kind of fun stuff so that's an option another option is there's the place down in like Vegas or something I think I forget exactly where it is but it probably would be Vegas where you can hire an Abrams tank and you can drive over a car of your choice with the tank so that might be kind of a fun option I've had a lot of people ask why don't you why don't you sell it or why don't you donate as a charity or something like that and the reason that I wouldn't want to do that is I actually have legitimate safety concerns about driving this vehicle so for years now it's had one here on this other side two three at least three I thought there were four a couple of them might have joined here's oh yeah four it's had four cracks and or deep chips in the windshield each of which individually would be enough to disqualify this from being safely driven on the road because it does affect the structural integrity of the vehicle especially if it were to be hit from the front and the cost of replacing a windshield on a vehicle like this is vastly greater than the actual cost of the vehicle itself so I couldn't in good conscience provide this vehicle to someone especially with the amount of work that would be required to get it street-legal that's something I'm actually a little disappointed in our community about we had like two rules rule number one was have fun rule number two was keep it street-legal and we ended up with some we ended up with some cuss words we ended up with most of the windows like most of the windows looked basically like this this is one that I didn't bother to clean and then the back the the front windshield was probably a little better than this but not as dissimilar as you might hope all these lights had to be had to be scraped off that took that took quite a while although it was easier before the paint was totally dry that's another thing that was kind of my tipping point was I I accidentally left my window open like just a sliver so a little bit of water dripped in and some of it got on this like this goop Daan glue that someone put here on the door handle and it kind of went wet again because of the water and I got it all over my hands and I was like you know what this is this is just kind of my limit so so right so back to ulterior ulterior motive of the stream number whatever it was oh yeah sure hit me with a super jet another $50 $50 super chat Wow yeah what to say hi hi Cleve Greene it's ok because you love the channel what's ok just everything's ok oh that we relate ah yes ok Kris Bennett says don't buy a Tesla well the decision sort of already made that the car has been sitting just out of frame this entire time so I guess we'll see what else you got warning twitch has an exclusivity clause knots okay we'll be fine yeah don't worry about it if twitch kicks us off then twitch kicks us off like whatever it's fine Scott Scott trainer alright so everyone super chats and not super chats oh there's a train whatever that's like the excitement train everybody get on board so I bought a whole it's mmm the what effect oh nothing we can do about that now should be fine now we're going the other way so why did I buy a Chevy Volt I'm sure a lot of you are kind of wondering because that wasn't one of the cars that I was talking about it's definitely not the most exciting car in the world by a longshot but here's the reason so something that probably I hope a lot of you know is that while I am a tech guy I had a lot of people say well you're a tech guy just get a Tesla and I was like oh yeah I mean they're basically rolling computers which is pretty cool there are some there are some issues with sort of Tesla in general I'm not a huge fan of what they're doing in terms of right to repair access to replacement parts honestly though when it comes to just picking the product I want and and then using it and enjoying it that's not the kind of thing that I'm typically gonna like make a stand about you know oh you guys don't provide tools to third-party repair centers I'm you know I wouldn't even consider you but it was definitely a factor I don't think that I'm ready for all-electric yet so I do have an all gas vehicle I also have a 2016 Honda Odyssey minivan so that's our sort of you know family family wagon but and so I did consider all electric but I just I'm not sure from ready to make the plunge and some of the plug-in hybrids these days one of the ones I was looking at was the Honda clarity and this was one of the other ones I ended up looking at have make a pretty compelling case for me in particular so I live about 20 kilometers from work so as long as I get a car that even once you factor in you don't have to really worry about cell degradation because the way that they configure these things there is so much extra battery capacity in them that they've built in like a good five to ten years depending on the manufacturer sort of exactly what it is but they've built in a good 5 to 10 years of battery degradation so just grab more reserve battery life and start presenting it to you they never let you fill it all the way like I think this one is something like 75% to 30% is all it really allows you to do it doesn't even let you charge it all the way and that's best for the health of the car and that's something that we actually talked about in a recent video where we said that you need to stop or stop charging your phone overnight you guys can check that out same basic principles so worrying about battery degradation isn't really a huge thing until after I think it's like 10 years with this one but you do have to account for cold weather so this one does I think it's something like a 50 mile range so that works that doesn't like what's 75 or 80 kilometers or something like that whatever that converts to I think it's about 80 85 kilometers under sort of EPA rated conditions and so for me in the cold where you're gonna probably take a 30% hit that means that I'll be able to get to work I could do a short errand and then I could get back from work all on battery without burning gas and the only time I'll really burn gas is if I need to drive down to Richmond for for badminton or something like that all of that while I'm still getting the benefit of a gasoline engine so it doesn't have some of the sex appeal of some of the OL electrics where you can 0 to 60 in 5 seconds or you know you can well you never have to visit a gas station ever again but for me I'll be driving it all-electric probably a good 80 to 85 percent of the time so that on top of incentives that you can get for installing electric charges Chargers at work so we're gonna install some electric Chargers here at the office Brandon's gonna be pretty happy so late means that I can start charging up at work where the company pays for charging for some reason I'm sure they're gonna find a way around that at some point figure out that people are going to be abusing the heck out of Chargers at their offices or at malls or whatever else the case may be on I'm sure they're gonna make some progress there because there's taxation implications right if someone's actually getting all of their fuel from a charger at work after it once it gets over I think it's like a couple hundred dollars it becomes a taxable benefit anyway that's that's all like sort of corporate management speak that you guys probably don't really care about but some anyway I'll be taking advantage of that for now so I'll be charging it up at work and I don't know what else can I really tell you guys about it I stuck with my mo which is as you can see this is not a brand new car I actually in my life have only bought a brand spanking new car one time that was the minivan and that was because I planned to drive that thing for 10 to 15 years and minivans because there's such a commodity item like nobody buys a minivan on an impulse because they're like passionate about minivans and I'm sure someone did but for the most part no one does that so they tend to follow pretty much a formula for pricing where however much usable life is left on it as some kind of function of how old it is is the price so a new one actually ended up being a better deal than a fairly recent used one whereas for the most part that's not the case so one of these this is an LT 2017 so the current equivalent it's got leather seats and the bose sound upgrade but nothing else no other extras so one of these would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of around 40 I want to say 41 or 42 thousand Canadian dollars plus that stupid fee that the dealerships charge use like five six hundred sometimes as much as $1,000 depending where you go so Plus that fee plus taxes so this one has 29,000 kilometers on it so that would be what about 20,000 miles and it cost me thirty one thousand plus the six hundred bucks for the fee so basically I saved about ten thousand dollars a quarter of the price of the car and the way that I calculated I figure any car consumer grade vehicle has probably a usable lifespan of about two hundred thousand to two hundred like two hundred and forty thousand kilometers before you start getting into ok time for a new transmission although I don't know it only has one gear ratio I don't know exactly how that works in here but time for a new transmission time to start actually replacing some significant things and your upkeep cost starts to become noticeable and you have to be taking it into the shop more frequently or repairing it sidelining it more frequently so the way that I see it I've still got a good it's only used up maybe what one seventh to one eighth of its usable life but I got a quarter of the price off so I don't know you guys want to see the inside did you wanted me to open up the other door you can poke your head in that way let's do that what's that yeah sure you can hit me with two yep all right so this was a purely pragmatic decision this was sort of the most electric car I could get for the least amount of money overall actually especially I heard people talk about how Tesla's don't have amazing interiors for the price that you pay and I but I'd never really like side by side compared them riding around and Brendan's Model X it doesn't feel like you know that's a car that's you know three times I would pay three times as much for that interior finish like honestly it's like fine and okay do you want any with those super shots now Daniel Warren votes for the tank all right Daniel duly noted see Bart interesting propositions so see Bart wants us to do the shooting range first then the tank okay I actually we could do that but I think there's an issue and that's that we would probably want to drive it down to Vegas for the tank and I don't think it would be street-legal anymore once we everyone had their add their way with it with with a rifle word or tan gun or whatever the case may be we could drive it there then shoot it then run it over with a tank that's not a bad option then we could just tow it from the shooting range to the to the desert all right hit me with one more leo says painted pink okay so actually I'm glad you mentioned that all right so right interior so I don't have OnStar or whatever so the built in navigation doesn't work that's kind of annoying you you how do you say okay regenerative braking so I like that there's different modes for regenerative braking and anyway all of this all of this actually got me thinking you know we have not done a particularly amazing job of addressing the car technology segment over the years and part of the reason has been that engaging with car brands has been I'm not going to name any names because some of them have actually been great some of them have been really good among the best brands we've ever dealt with and some of the others have been just an absolute nightmare to deal with and that's one of the reasons that we really haven't approached doing car videos from sort of a technological standpoint because I think it is something that our viewers would like and feel free to let us know in the comments if you agree or if you disagree and it is something that I think we'd have a lot of fun doing and honestly I actually had a blast shopping for this car generally speaking I don't really like shopping but you know there was there were so many different things to consider so many speeds and feeds so many trim models so many different things about the shopping experience Chevy's shopping experience I mean I went to a couple different dealers one where I was looking at a new one and then one where they had this one can can be all over the place one of them was great and actually didn't end up being the one that I bought from because they only had new cars and one of them was absolutely terrible like it was really annoying it was classic car salesman with the whole stupid like well you know check that price with my manager and then they come back and they give you a different one you get like the sales sheet has like seven lines on it before the final price because it's just designed to do this stupid back and forth and I'm kind of sitting here going stop wasting my time just just tell me the price of the vehicle so there's a lot of things that from sort of just like a general consumer buying a car standpoint that don't get covered and we hate dealing with car brands so it led me to an interesting conclusion and the reason that I don't plan to paint this car pink I think we should start doing car reviews but we should do them in a really different way so some of you will remember this back when back when we originally started doing phone videos I think I've probably told you guys this but I had never actually purchased a smartphone in my life I had only ever been issued them through work and I wasn't really a smartphone guy so the way that I really approached it rather than knowing all the right benchmarks to run and and all the different sort of software settings and and features to look for I just would use them I just start using them and I'd go well here's some things I liked here some things I didn't and I made a lot of mistakes along the way but I also think it gave our phone videos sort of a unique perspective and what I got to thinking was well this was a lot of fun shopping for this car and I hate dealing with car manufacturers but I would like to do car videos so maybe what we should do is we should approach them really differently I'm not gonna try to pretend to be a car expert but what I'll do is I'm gonna buy this car I'm gonna drive it for a month so you guys can expect in about a month to six weeks time to see a video on the Chevy Volt the 2017 model is very similar to the 2018 so there's not not a huge difference there to speak of so it'll be it'll be about this car and then what I think we're gonna do if we can figure it out from a taxation standpoint is we are going to sell this car immediately we might even have a link so we just have a link under the video where people can see the listing yeah then someone in our community can buy it maybe we could do like an exclusive merchandise thing we could do like a like a plaque you could get a plaque with it that has like like a golden album kind of like a CD and it could be like the LTTE drivers CD and you could be an ltte driver get it because drivers anyway well we'll figure out some way to make it kind of special and so someone can buy the car the know exactly where it came from and who owned it and then we'll let the community vote and they can tell us what they want to see next there's some really interesting stuff coming in Haeundae just announced something I know Jaguar has the eyepiece coming yeah yeah the kkona yeah who's that is that Hyundai yeah so Hyundai has that coming so anyway let me know in the comments on this video what you guys think and I guess I guess that's pretty much it that's the purpose of the stream that's what happened to my car and this is this is it this is it this is rippln blam bow the plates are off baby plates are off no no it's day it's just gonna stay here until we shoot it up or blow it up or drive over it with the tank or whatever the case may be it's done that's it it's actually it's been kind of uh that's been kind of bittersweet actually because this car has gotten me to many many places over many many years and like I said I'm not really a car guy but I'm 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the m27 infantry automatic rifle is the most requested gun that we get on here it's the marine course fancy new replacement for the m249 saw or maybe it's supposed to replace the m16 I don't know they keep switching the answer on me and that's part of the reason why it's such a controversial rifle there's a big debate going on about if the m27 is gonna be a huge failure or not with the worst-case scenario being Marines don't have the firepower that they need and the funny thing is nobody's really even questioning if it's a good rifle or not it has basically universal acclaim look the m27 is 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and that's critic an audience score the real reason the weapon is controversial is because some Marines question if the 30 round capacity rifle can fill the role of the 200 round capacity m249 I'll bring you the reports from the actual Marines who used it in the field so we can figure out if they're making a huge mistake here or not or maybe they know something we don't we'll go over the m27 different capabilities why they made this switch stick around to the end of the video if you want to know about the infantry Doctrine changes that this will mean for the Marine Corps afterwards in the comment section we can debate if you guys think that the m27 is a good move or not this video is sponsored by gun mag warehouse.com gun mad warehouse.com is the online destination for new and veteran shooters alike check out their inventory right away I know they're always my go-to the m27 is almost exactly the same as the hk416 rifle it just has a slightly longer barrel the hk416 was originally developed for Delta Force which is pretty much the top-tier elite unit with we're allowed to know about the hk416 is famous for being the rifle that they use to kill Osama bin Laden it was originally developed with help from a former Delta Force operator and current youtube star Larry Vickers the m27 is a short-stroke gas piston system it has a barrel length of 16 point five inches and it weighs nine point eight pounds when fully loaded it fires the same five five six rounds at the m16 shoots there's a free-floating barrel meaning it only makes contact with the rest of the rifle at the receiver this gives it improved and prevents the barrel from overheating quickly it has a rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute and it's max effective range is 600 meters for a point target and 800 meters for an area target the rifle is fully automatic finally we can say bye to the three round bursts why do we even have a three round burst on the m4 it feels like a child safety lock on a car window do you seriously not trust us enough to have full auto we can fire it and burst on second thought I wouldn't trust any grunts in a room for 10 minutes without it being fully childproof every one of these are outfitted with a bipod and an ACOG for time scope as part of the tactical changes within the Marine Corps they're experimenting with deploying a unit where every single m27 was fitted with a suppressor they reported that they were able to communicate easier with a trade-off of the weapons overheating faster the main difference between the m16 in the m27 is the following the m27 is a longer barrel it's heavier so this gives it an accuracy and range advantage and it can hold the higher rate of sustained fire for a longer period of time without overheating and this is thanks to that piston system we all know the m16 is a gas-operated weapon at the m27 has a piston operated bolt so it's not running on recycled carbon cross our fingers now and hope that means less q-tipping the inside of that star chamber that sounds like an innuendo but i promise it's not as an example the ak-47 also works on a piston operated system with your traditional gas operated system the gas travels down the barrel behind the bullet and it goes through a small hole in the barrel then it's diverted back through the upper receiver where it pushes against the top of the bolt carrier which cycles the action this system is prone to overheating because of all the hot gas in the receiver and if you've ever fired an m16 before you know how it's also prone to misfires because of all the carbon that gets baked onto the bolt carrier in the piston operated system on the other hand the gas drives in operating rod which cycles the action while the gas is vented and never enters the action of the rifle the piston system that the m27 is based off of is a g36 and i actually got the chance to fire a g36 when I was in Latvia helping to train the soldiers to deploy to Afghanistan it was a very intuitive weapon with a great balanced feel to it and everyone in my platoon was jealous of the g36 we wanted a weapon instead of our old dusty M fours when the military was running all their stress tests on the m27 they found the old aluminum magazines suck at feeding rounds into the chamber they were having a ton of misfires with them which they fixed by issuing pmags gun mag warehouse.com partnered with us on this video they're well known for their huge inventory and fast shipping check out all the incredible gun mag warehouse products today another good tip is when you're loading those last five rounds in the magazine load regular ammo then tracer and alternate between those two so you know when you're almost out of ammo the roll the rifle reminds me of how the US military operated back in World War two with the Browning automatic rifle it's really a return to an old doctrine the be AR and the IAR are both automatic accurate and meant to suppress the enemy but at the same time they're not bail fed and they're not overly cumbersome caliber 30 model 1918 a2 is an air-cooled gas-operated weapon the m27 IAR was built to slay the enemies of america look at Cappy here he's a swell marine taking care of his then 27 by sleeping with it every night he sure as heck isn't sleeping with anyone else that's for dang sure by golly here's something you might not know about the m27 Congress threw a fit over the insane $3,000 price tag which was four times the amount of the m4 you can bet your bottom dollar H&K lowered the price to 1500 bucks after that if you're confused which weapon they want to replace with the rifle you're not alone their son just be happy you got something new as you were whether you like the m27 or not please remember to like the video in early 2017 the Commandant of the Marine Corps himself general robert Nellore said he wanted to equip every single rifleman with an m27 IAR so it might not just be a replacement for the saw it might also be a replacement for the m16 I have to admit at first I had my doubts about whether the m27 could actually fill the role of the saw which is a belt-fed 200 round weapon the m27 on the other hand is a magazine-fed weapon it only has the capacity of 30 rounds at a time sure you could outfit it with a hundred rounds but no military in the world does that because drums are unreliable but this isn't a debate about if the m27 can do what the saw already does no the real question here is can the Marine infantry Doctrine and training quickly change from being focused on a high volume of fire to achieve fire superiority to the new tactics which would have to be based around the new automatic rifle its advantages and its disadvantages from what I know about the Marines their smartest heck and they'll be able to quickly change their training and adapt to the challenges like that no get that out of your mouth was just talking about how great you are don't make me look stupid from the combat reports that came back from Afghanistan the Marines felt an m27 gunner with an aim shot had the same effect of four automatic shots from the saw they felt that they were able to successfully implement a new doctrine in the field that works for this new weapon being able to achieve fire superiority and suppress the enemy is as much about a units training as it is about the type of weapon that they're using and yet a lot of people still laugh at the idea that the rifle expects to fill the same role as the squad automatic weapon this is because traditionally for the last 60 years our tactics of suppressing fire have revolved around two automatic belt-fed weapons firing in tandem that tactic is called talking the guns and depending on the firefight machine guns usually never run out of to say here's how it works by the book one gunner fires a burst and then another gunner located further down the line fires a burst in response this is done within overlapping fields of fire by doing this teamwork style they can serve ammo and fire more accurately talking the guns draws out the length of time that your machine guns can fire and if you use this tactic you can keep up a sustained rate of fire for over two minutes before having to reload the sauce the m27 on the other hand wouldn't really have the ability to do this because it can't keep up that same volume of fire for the same amount of time so people worried if the Marines could still achieve that fire superiority so the Marines in the field say they love the weapon and appreciate that it's lighter weight the m27 is 10 pounds lighter than the m249 saw and the top brass is also taking cost to his consideration here if they were able to consolidate some weapons into one it means the Marines are able to get the job done for less money so they're basically like construction crews that come in and underbid everyone the other major advantage for m27 gunners is that they're not singled out by enemy snipers when a platoon is on patrol and they get ambushed by snipers you can bet the enemy is identifying the main threats first enemy snipers usually want to take out the machine gunners the RTO or the FO because they're gonna be the biggest threat to them the m249 looks way different than any other weapon it's impossible to miss it's easy to identify them they stick out like a sore thumb because their weapon and the boxed ammo that they're carrying however the m27 looks pretty much the same as an m4 so snipers wouldn't be aiming for them the m27 is a weapon that can fill different roles in a squad it could also be a squad designated marksman position you slap a leopold TS 38 variable power scope which is a $1200 scope that gives greater magnification than the ACOG personally I like the idea of having the m27 replace all the m16s as a more reliable more accurate main battle rifle while still keeping a few m249 s around in each platoon just in case it really hits the fan remember to check out gun mag warehouse.com to see their high quality inventory today thank you for watching the video I'm Chris caffee please remember to like this video and subscribe to our channel leave a comment with your thoughts