Drive Thru News #11 - June ’21

The Drive Thru is our monthly recap where we've put together a menu of local, racing, electric-vehicle and random car-adjacent news. Tune in for Episode #11 covering June of 2021, with Special Guest Host: Donovan Lara from GarageRiot!

Just some of the topics we covered this month:

• Showcase Brand: FORD
• Alfa Romeo CEO Keen on Bringing Back GTV and Duetto Sports Car
  
• $9.2 billion offer to VAG for Lambo - NOT FOR SALE!
• Lost & Found: American Classics
• Rolls Royce to build 3 “boat tail” drop tops
• Unplugged RETURNS to pikes peak with Plaid edition Tesla
• Nissan Has Intern Sit in Stop-and-Go Traffic Every Day for Months – for Research
• Motorsports News
• HPDEjunkie.com Track Day Report
• and much, much more! 

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00:00:00 Introduction and Sponsors 00:01:09 Ford's $1.3 Billion Penalty 00:03:29 Ford's New EcoBoost V8 00:06:15 EV Revolution and the Mach-E 00:10:41 Chip Shortages Impacting Production 00:21:29 Ford Bronco's Off-Road Adventure 00:25:05 Alfa Romeo's Exciting Future 00:30:55 Lamborghini's Electric Plans 00:35:47 The Rise of the ID.4 and ID.3 00:37:06 GTX: The New GTI? 00:37:30 Drift Mode: Necessary or Nuisance? 00:39:29 Green Mobility Experiments in Greece 00:40:56 The Return of the Five-Cylinder Audi 00:44:16 Nicolas Cage's Impressive Car Collection 00:46:04 Lost and Found: Rare Car Discoveries 00:48:38 Collector Car Market Trends 01:01:14 The Controversial Tesla Plaid Edition 01:06:54 The Boring Company's Vegas Tunnel 01:11:19 Unexpected Car Videos 01:12:18 The Bizarre Citroen 2CV Roadster 01:14:23 The Worst Internship Ever 01:16:04 Strange Incident at Circle K 01:18:04 NASCAR at COTA: A Rainy Disaster 01:20:55 Women Making History at Indy 500 01:24:36 The Mystery of Michael Schumacher 01:25:55 Toyota's Rally Prius Experiment 01:29:57 BMW's Return to Le Mans 01:31:40 Motor Mythbusters and Richard Hammond's New Show 01:34:21 Sad News in Motorsport 01:38:56 Upcoming Events and Final Thoughts ====================

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