{"podcast":{"title":"The Carmudgeon Show","slug":"the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","podcast_index_feed_id":5368942,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/HGM7158837796","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/410528/website","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ef65297a-780e-11ed-b613-a73ab90cd13f/image/IMG_1266wHagerty2.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hagerty Media","episode_count":199,"summary":"Part of the Hagerty Podcast Network, the Carmudgeon Show is a comedic, information-filled conversation with Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott, two car enthusiasts who are curmudgeonly beyond their years. Proving you don’t have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about what’s wrong with various parts of the automotive universe. Despite their best efforts to keep it negative, they usually wind up laughing, happy, and extolling their love for cars. Which just makes them angrier and more bitter. Jason Cammisa is an automotive journalist, social-media figure, and TV host with over 300 million views on YouTube alone. Jason’s deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest what’s going on within an automobile — and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Master’s Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with. Derek Tam-Scott still tries. He’s a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering — which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving and b…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T06:17:47.677713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942"},"episode":{"title":"An Actually Usable VW Bus: The Kindred EV Bus — Carmudgeon Ep 241 w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott","slug":"an-actually-usable-vw-bus-the-kindred-ev-bus-carmudgeon-ep-241-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott","published_at":"2026-06-15T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/an-actually-usable-vw-bus-the-kindred-ev-bus-carmudgeon-ep-241-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM8858204028.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM8858204028.mp3","summary":"This week, we drive an icon that’s been electrified - the Kindred EV Bus, based off of the Volkswagen Microbus. While most of us typically mourn the conversion of many classic cars to EV, this particular conversion may change your mind… === Visit http://JasonSentMe.com to get a Hagerty Guaranteed Value (TM) collector-car insurance quote! === While most EV conversions strip away the character and soul of a gas car with a great engine, the Volkswagen Microbus is one of those vehicles that was never really defined by its engine. Well, actually - if it was - it was defined by its acceleration, or rather the lack thereof. Many VW Buses had no more than 50 horsepower to work with, making them virtually undriveable above 50 MPH. The Kindred EV Bus, however, rewrites the rulebook - accelerating from 0-60 in just 7.6 seconds. While that may not seem particularly notable when many modern EVs are twice as fast, this changes the game for this 23-window Microbus - making it genuinely usable in everyday driving. And when the rest of the vehicle was already defined by its iconic styling and form within function, is it now even better than original? All this and more on this week’s episode of The Carmudgeon Show. Special thanks to Kindred Motorworks for lending us this bus for testing! Check them out at https://kindredmotorworks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"This week, we drive an icon that’s been electrified - the Kindred EV Bus, based off of the Volkswagen Microbus. While most of us typically mourn the conve…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3468,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/episodes/an-actually-usable-vw-bus-the-kindred-ev-bus-carmudgeon-ep-241-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/an-actually-usable-vw-bus-the-kindred-ev-bus-carmudgeon-ep-241-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}