 You look good. Your hair is especially. I'm feeling suave but I think it's the Ferrari not my- wait hold on. I think it's the Ferrari not myself. Hey this is Chris from The Verge. I'm here sitting in the passenger seat to my pilot Jordan Golson, transportation reporter at The Verge. Yes, good to be here. Day seven. No day 43 of CES 2016 but we're finishing it off on a high note. Yes, very high. In a Ferrari California T with a price of what? This model is $275,000. $275,000. Loaded with options. This particular one is brand new, 345 miles. That's like, I mean this car came from LA which is like, I guess they didn't drive it. I have to drive in LA, not LA, I have to drive in Vegas traffic. Which is less than fun. No, I think we'll be alright today. Normally it's less than- we don't have to go anywhere. I'm so sorry you have to drive a Ferrari in Vegas traffic. I know it's been rough. I mean it's not that bad. Could be worse. Basically in Vegas that's what you do. You cruise the strip. Miami, you cruise Miami Beach. Yeah. Here, you cruise the strip. You cruise the strip. Really what else is there to do in Vegas besides gamble and cruise the strip? So let's talk about the highs and lows of the show. Yes. We had both. A lot of both and as we keep saying over and over again this really is becoming an automotive show, right? Yes. Cars, electronic show. Cars. And that was, I don't think it's been more true than this year. Trucks, yeah. And of course it always revolves around three themes. There's connected car, there's autonomous driving, and there's electrification. And we hit on all three of those notes. So we get here, Faraday Future, hyped event. This is the mysterious car company. We didn't know where they were getting their money. Now we do. Now we do. That was the only news. So they brought us to this event that was remote from the rest of CES. Yes. Long way away. To unveil this car that is nothing really. I mean it's a design exercise. It's a design exercise. It's like when a kid goes to automotive design school, they have a senior project. Yes. And that's their senior project. Yep. And apparently when you are a world famous designer after making gorgeous supercars, you continue making senior projects. The money is real. The car, as far as we know, is not. Well, that's not zero one is it anyway. Yeah. Maybe they have a real car somewhere. Yeah. So that happened. And then the next day, Ford had some announcements, right? Yes. Ford had their press conference in the morning. Right? 7 30 a.m. Thank you, Ford. We appreciate that, guys. And they announced that they are tripling the size of their autonomous research fleet this year from 10 to 30 cars. They claim it'll make them the largest. They'll have the largest autonomous research fleet of any automaker. Yes. Automaker. Right. They very specifically said automaker because Google has a few more cars than that. I think Google has 58 or something. Yeah. Something like that. Between California and Texas. Right. Oh, they announced support for CarPlay and Android Auto finally. Yes. That's good. Well, considering the history of Ford's infotainment system, it was about time. Yeah. The Microsoft Sync was not the best effort. Yeah. The pothole filled road to CarPlay and Android Auto. But we have moved on. We've moved on. We've moved on to other bigger and better and now we've got CarPlay. So, okay, that's good. We're looking forward to that. And you wrote about this. They're adding, or they're experimenting with Amazon Echo. Yes. They have ideas for the future of connected cars. Yes. And they said they had things that they were working on, but they weren't ready to release yet. And one of those was connecting to Amazon Echo. And so you could do things like in your house, tell your Amazon Echo to start your car. So if you want to get it warmed up in the wintertime. Right. Or tell me the range of my car, which is important for electric cars. You know, how much charge does it have? Ford did not announce something that was rumored. Ford did not announce. Yes. Ford did not announce that they would be building cars with Google, which had been heavily rumored and supposedly well-sourced. And oh my goodness, this is coming. This is going to be the big news of CES. Google and Ford are going to build cars together. And nothing. Nothing. Not a single thing. Not a word. So Ford happened and then GM was the next day. Yes. GM blew it out here. Yeah. Star of the show. Well, the crazy thing about that is that we knew it was coming. We knew it was coming. We knew what they were going to launch. We knew what they were going to launch. So GM showed the production version of the Chevy Bolt, which debuted as a concept car at the Detroit Auto Show last year. Yes. So nine months later or 10 months later, whatever. Yeah. Actually close to 12. It's like 51 weeks. It's true. Yes. So they showed the production version of the Bolt, which is, let me give you a rundown of the basics. It's a small EV with a promise 200 plus mile range for around $30,000 after tax breaks. Yes. Federal tax breaks. After federal tax breaks. Your state may have more. Your state may have more. But around 30 grand. And the reason that's a big deal is because the only high range EVs, the EVs that come within an approximate range of a gas car are really expensive. Yes. And there's really one. Tesla. There's Tesla. So yes, your car is lovely. And so we're now we're, thank you. It's going to be very difficult to record a show. So we're the annoying guy in Fast and Furious. We are the annoying guy in Ferrari. Yeah. Only we're not going to race them because we have better things. It's the strip and where are you going to go? I'm going to get to the red light faster than you. Yeah. Drag racing on the strip. Going full Tokyo Drift on the strip right now would be extraordinarily difficult. 4 a.m. maybe. 4 a.m. maybe. Now, now. We'll bring it back out. Anyway, so the Bolt. Yes. We knew it was coming. We knew it was coming. I had a chance to drive it briefly on a closed course. Before. Before it was announced. Because you're a baller. Because I'm a baller. Yes, that's correct. And you drove it and what did you think? I drove it and the way I put it in my article, and I believe this to be true, is that it is very unremarkable and that's a good thing. It doesn't stand out in any way. It's just and that's it's other than seeming like a solid car. It's a solid car. It's a practical car and that's what the EV industry needs right now is a car that can say, hey, we can be your primary car. Like this is a livable vehicle. Yeah, to make a comparison, it's like Corolla-esque in its boringness. Yeah. Which is fine because Toyota sells a boatload of Corollas. Right. And they're a great car and so that's pretty high praise I think. Right. And we'll see if it arrives as as as claimed. That's right. But I think they're doing pretty good. I drove it as well and I agree it's perfectly adequate. Perfectly that's a good way of putting it. And if it goes 200 miles for a lot of people, that's going to be way better than 85 miles you get in the Leaf. For the E-Golf or whatever. Yeah, any of those cars and fine. And then the infotainment system is unique to the Bolt. Yes. It's made by LG. They're very proud of it. On behalf of GM and I think it's really good. I think it's better than any infotainment system GM's ever made. That's not saying a lot but it's pretty good and it supports car playing Android Auto. I found the classic rock road trip playlist. Oh no. Oh no. So after GM I think we have BMW. Oh BMW. Which also had a busy CES. BMW had a busy CES. BMW really likes CES. They've been coming out here for years. They've done some wacky stuff here. They did self drifting. They've done some wacky stuff here. They did self drifting car a couple years ago. I'm so disappointed that I missed that. Oh it was so much fun. Last year they did the self parking i3 and the collision avoidance i3 and then this year you had a chance to demo it. Yes. They had what they called the iVision future interaction concept which is an i8 spider. Yes. It's a car that doesn't exist by the way. You can't buy one. They took an i8 spider and did a bunch of pretty stuff for the dashboard. Yes they did. So the last couple years of CES and really of car shows in general have been car companies talking about how autonomous cars are going to be here real soon now and it seems that this is actually true now and so what car companies are doing is thinking about rather than the technology to make the car drive itself it's now focused on the driver. What you're going to do while the car is ferrying you down the highway. Right. Okay so it has this thing called air touch which is sort of like a how would I just it's an iPad but instead of touching the screen you just sort of wave your hand around like you are touching an iPad. Pretend there's an iPad and you can swipe back and forth you can sort of move up and down and then there's a button on the steering wheel that you press to make selections. So it's their vision for what you might do and it's a concept they may or may not make it but it's pretty neat and it's nice to see them thinking outside the box and what I'm most excited about about the this feature is that it means that autonomous cars really are close. And so did the system feel like natural to you? Was it easy to use? Yeah so there were there were two ways to use it. One there was a line of cameras tiny tiny cameras running around the edge of the dash and you could wave your hand in front of it and it would see you and you could do that or down in the center console where the iDrive would be on a standard BMW you could wave your hand magically over the leather armrest and there were sensors in it and it would notice that your hand was moving around and you could swipe back and forth with that and I suspect that's the one that'll make it to the production car. Yeah. And it's a little bit of a little bit and the air touch it's it's cool but it's a little gimmicky and I'm not a huge fan of holding your hand up in the air and doing things right but if you keep it down there and use it that's a little bit more natural and probably where they're going to end up. And I should point out that last year BMW also previewed the gesture control system that ended up in the 7 series that they launched later in 2015. Yes so later this year I believe we're supposed to be getting a new 5 series. 5 series. So maybe we'll see something like that. Yeah I think it's all coming together. Definitely got a little loose there. Had to do that at least once. It is in in sport mode which I'm sure has some great name in Italian. And then somewhere around that point in the week it all became a blur. Yes. Because we were getting four hours. No you know what we have tonight. What we still have is V-dub. Oh V-dub. We got V-dub. We didn't talk about V-dub. We got V-dub with the buddy. Yeah. Will you Chris will you be my buddy? Oh I will be your buddy. You know what won't be my buddy. I'm sorry is the buddy. It's I like the look but it's a little too Kia soul for me and the interior the interior is a little too much. I understand it's a concept but doesn't it doesn't do it for me. There kind of is no interior. It's like it's very concept. They've got a big screen thing which okay fine I'm sure that's the future big screens in cars as Tesla has proven. Yeah. Big screens in cars are the future but yeah I don't know. I don't know about that car. They sure made a big deal out of it. They made a very big deal out of it. And you know what and the press responded. The press responded. So you know it had cool stuff from my vantage point when I was doing our V-dub live blog I could see the front of the car which has led lights on it and they made it look like a slot machine. Yeah. Which was pretty cool. Yeah. That's definitely a feature that should never come to a production vehicle. Definitely not a department of transportation approved. No I don't think so and definitely completely distracting. Yeah. But it's cool as a concept. It was great. Yeah. But yeah don't. So the background. But it's cool. Let's talk background about the body. It was teased before CES as being a new electric long range concept for Volkswagen. Yes. There were rumors flying that it was a micro bus throwback and indeed it is. Kind of. However. It's inspired by. Inspired by the micro bus and I would argue that it like you know I'm not a micro bus like fanatic personally so I can't speak to it that much but I just didn't get a lot of micro bus vibe from it. No it's it's the micro bus the whole point of the micro bus you could live in. Yeah. You could pop the top and camp and have your grill and have your you know hippie girls in bikinis hanging out by the beach or the lake or wherever and this one doesn't have that. This is a as they call it the social car. It's the social car. Which is basically. It's your buddy. Yeah it's your buddy. It's basically an excuse to use some buzzwords. Right. So I don't know. I don't. I'm not sure what they were doing there but that's okay. Thanks for watching. That's been our CES 2016 wrap up live from the Ferrari California T on the Las Vegas strip. I'm Jordan Golson. I'm Chris Igler. 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