{"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":"We Drove A VinFast VF8 So You Don’t Have To — Carmudgeon w/ Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott — Ep 216","slug":"we-drove-a-vinfast-vf8-so-you-don-t-have-to-carmudgeon-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott-ep-216","published_at":"2025-12-08T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/we-drove-a-vinfast-vf8-so-you-don-t-have-to-carmudgeon-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott-ep-216","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM1155865317.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM1155865317.mp3","summary":"That’s right - on this episode of The Carmudgeon Show, Jason and Derek risk their lives to deliver crucial mass-market automotive journalism by getting behind the wheel of the VinFast VF8 - one of the most criticized vehicles ever to be sold in the US. But c’mon, really - is it as bad as everyone says it is? Well. Uh…yeah. It’s even worse than you thought. === Visit http://JasonSentMe.com to get a Hagerty Guaranteed Value (TM) collector-car insurance quote! === Before jumping down the throat of the VF8, Jason and Derek discuss the recent developments of ADAS systems and vehicle acceleration regulations being considered within the Chinese market: “The cars are too damn fast!” - CCP, probably. Surprisingly, Jason and Derek both agree - and discuss the potential benefits of having acceleration-limited vehicles, referencing the terror of Dodge Challenger and Charger Hellcat drivers, F80 and G80 BMW M3, and of course the Nissan Altima. As a counterpoint to the VF8, Jason discusses his recent experience driving the newly refreshed Tesla Model Y Plaid, and how he still thinks they are some of the best appliances on the road. Jason was able to test the most recent version of Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD), and how it’s made great improvements in recent years - even without LiDAR. A great appliance, the VinFast VF8 is not. Jason and Derek share their findings in their individual driving experiences - in agreement on nearly all of the shortcomings of which there are many. At just 10,000 miles, the VF8 has experienced broken suspension components, dangerous throttle calibration, and other poorly-executed features that make us wonder how it was ever allowed to be sold to the public in the first place. There are also dumpsters involved. More on that in this riveting episode of The C…","meta_description":"That’s right - on this episode of The Carmudgeon Show, Jason and Derek risk their lives to deliver crucial mass-market automotive journalism by getting be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4224,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/episodes/we-drove-a-vinfast-vf8-so-you-don-t-have-to-carmudgeon-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott-ep-216/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/we-drove-a-vinfast-vf8-so-you-don-t-have-to-carmudgeon-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott-ep-216.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}