McMurtry Spéirling: The $1.3M Hypercar That LAPS a Porsche GT3 RS

**Spike Feresten** (0:05)
Welcome to Spike's Car Radio, here we are, gentlemen. Doing something I didn't think we'd ever be able to do again.

**Jonny Lieberman** (0:10)
Thought we were done.

**Spike Feresten** (0:11)
Recording on July 4th, it's July 8th for you folks who are watching right now and listening. But we're recording at Zuckerman's place in Baldwin Hills with video.

**Zuckerman** (0:21)
Look at this.

**Spike Feresten** (0:22)
A paradigm shift for this show.

**Zuckerman** (0:24)
A first time.

**Spike Feresten** (0:25)
And Zuckerman being a gracious host. Very gracious. Provided us with a Pizzana pizza.

**Jonny Lieberman** (0:30)
Meatballs.

**Spike Feresten** (0:31)
Stories, meatballs, observations. He's allowing us to smoke cigars, which I'm not sure people are going to want to watch for the next hour. But we're going to do it.

**Jonny Lieberman** (0:40)
He ate so many meatballs, he might vomit.

**Zuckerman** (0:42)
That's my hope. That's my hope. You blast me and then I blast you.
It's going to be a reciprocal blast.

**Spike Feresten** (0:49)
And it's fun to be here. This is nice. I mean, there was a lot more setup for this show. I'm probably out of frame, but now where am I? Oh, I'm right there.
Okay. But if this works and people watch it, we could maybe do this every once in a while and get out of the studio. I just got back from Italy by the way. I don't think I've talked to you guys since then. One of the things, I mean, there's not much to say about Italy. We all know it's wonderful. And we had a wonderful break. We were there for a week, stayed in our neighbor's villa. It was lovely. We're taken care of by a delightful gentleman named Vincenzo, who didn't speak or read Italian. And he speaks Italian, doesn't speak English, doesn't read English or Italian, but is a marvelous Zuckerman-like character.

**Zuckerman** (1:34)
He actually looks more like Luca Bracci.

**Spike Feresten** (1:35)
He looks like Luca Bracci. If I had asked him to do what Luca Bracci does, he would have said yes.

**Jonny Lieberman** (1:40)
Sure.

**Spike Feresten** (1:41)
He was our driver.
He liked to smoke while we were in restaurants and take us around. Perfect. We were in this BMW 7 Series electric that was just wonderful.

**Jonny Lieberman** (1:51)
Terrific.

**Spike Feresten** (1:51)
He taught me. He was like, look, he goes, you've got a pass, you can drive in Florence, which is difficult. You can't get it, but our host had it.
He said, and they got speed cameras there everywhere. We were driving to Pisa and driving to other spots, and I started driving two or three days in. The speed cameras are a funny situation there. We've talked about it on this show, but now I've experienced it.
You open up ways to think it's going to be marked, which it is, but the Italians have marked the speed cameras with signs to give you ample warning to slow down. There were two types of speed cameras. At first, you're just like, well, there's the warning, and then, oh, there's the camera.
Why do I have to worry at all? Because they're telling me to slow down in a half a mile, and then I slow down, and I go past the camera, and then I speed up. Then you read that some of the speed cameras are different kinds of speed cameras and you can't register just your license plate and go, there's no way you could have got to Pisa that quickly. So you must have been speeding, here's a ticket. So there's a very good chance my host might get speeding tickets and I apologize for that, if that does happen. Vincenzo said, I won't get it. He said I won't get it, that I was doing it right on the autostrada, but he said those cameras are not, and actually there's no way to know he really said that, but when I Googled translated it, he went, so maybe, but when we were driving to the airport, we went through a speed camera and he goes like this, he raised the finger and he goes, okay, you slow down. And so he was, I think, communicating the same thing to me, but that's not where I was going with this. Here's where I'm going with it. The fucking politeness of these drivers in Italy, for a week, I'm driving in Italy, there's nobody beeping at each other. For a week, I'm on the autostrada, there's nobody in the left lane blocking you. And when you come up on someone, they pull right over.

**Zuckerman** (3:57)
They understand.

**Spike Feresten** (3:59)
It's so unbelievably organized and polite that you just go, what the fuck is happening here in California? What's happening? It's like, if the Italians can get it right, if the Italians can do this, do you know? And that's, you know what I'm saying there?