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What's a rally car? | December 22, 2009
Scott Benjamin
That’s how bad. I mean, tried in September, October, and then finally in November I said, "All right, here. Let me tackle this."
Ben Bowlin
- Oh, oh, yeah.
Scott Benjamin
So, it was long time coming. So, Skylar wanted to know about rally cars. He’s interested in – over the months here, Skylar is interested in buying one, wants to know what a rally car is, also, is just interested in what it takes to make rally car. What are the differences between a road car and a rally car?
Ben Bowlin
All good questions.
Scott Benjamin
So, yeah, they are. So, we’ll just try to cover most of that here, if not, all of it and I guess we can go from there.
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Scott Benjamin
Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast. I’m Scott Benjamin, the auto editor here at HowStuffWorks.com.
Ben Bowlin
And I am Ben Bowlin. I write some videos here at HowStuffWorks.com. And I also hang out with Scott and we talk about things that go fast or things that we think can go faster. I feel like that’s a little bit of a generalization, but it comes to bear quite often.
Scott Benjamin
Um-hum.
Ben Bowlin
You know, I looked back and it’s been a fair amount of time since we did a podcast about racing or race cars.
Scott Benjamin
No kidding.
Ben Bowlin
I know. I was surprised, too, man.
Scott Benjamin
Really?
Ben Bowlin
Yeah.
Scott Benjamin
Oh,
okay
Ben Bowlin
I think we should -
Scott Benjamin
- Let’s correct that.
Ben Bowlin
Do we have one? I don’t wanna -
Scott Benjamin
- We can correct that.
Ben Bowlin
Let’s correct it.
Scott Benjamin
We’ve got a good piece of listener mail here and I think we’ll take a suggestion.
Ben Bowlin
Oh, man. I love suggestions.
Scott Benjamin
Skylar. Skylar is from just outside of Ottawa, Ontario.
Ben Bowlin
Okay.
Scott Benjamin
And actually, in Spencerville – Spencerville, Canada. Anyways, Skylar wrote in three times – count them: one, two, three times.
Ben Bowlin
One, two, three.
Scott Benjamin
And I finally answered him the third time. Thank you, Skylar, for press – keeping on me there because I do get back – I try to get back to everybody, or at least we answer them here on the show, or something. We get back to everybody.
Ben Bowlin
- Yeah, we do try to get back to you.
Scott Benjamin
I feel bad that I didn’t answer this right away because we are gonna use this topic.
Ben Bowlin
And we’re gonna -
Scott Benjamin
- Because he tried -