The Anonymous Team That Beat Doug & Arne’s Record There is some confusion about how many times the Cannonball record was broken during the COVID-19 lockdowns (or at least the early stages of the lockdown when traffic was at greatly reduced levels). Ed Bolian stated that it took six years for his record to be
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Buying a new car? This week, Doug has a chance to sit down with Katie O’Toole Smith of Katie the Car Lady LLC to discuss the process for buying new cars. With over 23 years of experience in the car leasing and buying industries, Katie has been helping empower consumers and completely transforming the car buying
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Once a year, Fernandina Beach FL becomes an automotive mecca for enthusiasts of all stripes. Not just a car show, the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, now simply called “The Amelia” since its acquisition by Hagerty, is a weekend-long automotive sensory overload. Four different collector car auctions take place between Thursday and Saturday with over $175mm
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Buying a Car? Ask These Questions? This season we’ll be focusing primarily on topics and guests that help our listeners be smarter buyers and sellers, avoid scams, and make informed decisions from their initial purchase through all aspects of ownership In this follow-up to last week’s episode (which you can check out here), we’re answering
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Never Ask These Questions When Buying a Car. Please. The fundamental issue with the majority of these questions is that people are unable to judge condition/care on their own so they use metrics that they assume in some way correlate to the condition of the car but actually don’t. Those metrics only have a correlation
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Car Insurance This week, we had on an insurance expert and Doug peppered him with important questions like “how in the world does a Cannonballer stay insured?” – but also many more questions relevant to everyday car ownership. Listen below! spotify Apple podcasts rss The Car Insurance Episode | RSS.com
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Automotive Pre-purchase inspections (ppi) If you agree to buy a car, you can make it contingent on an inspection; just like you would with a house. This is the idea of PPI’s or, pre-purchase inspections. Some people opt to have a local mechanic throw their potential new purchase up on a lift and inspect it
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SwitchCast Season 3 Episode 2 Sniffing Out Scams We’ve all heard stories of online scammers trying to get your money or personal information in the digital world, but did you know that some of these scammers are also targeting car sales? Car selling scams are becoming increasingly common, and it’s important for car buyers to
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SWITCHCAST SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 We are BACK with another season of SwitchCast: everyone’s favorite automotive podcast hosted by two-time Cannonball Run record holder and founder of Switchcars, Doug Tabbutt. Join us this week as we discuss Porsche, bankruptcy, price spikes in the car market, Carvana, and other automotive news topics. Topics Doug and the
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