Brian Benstock

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Brian Benstock dictates that for sure, says Diane, car leasing expert.

So props there.

Brian also says, "Hey, look, leasing is an affordability cure.

We want, we wanna see those, uh, again." And then Paul Salzman says, "I always lease my personal cars because I don't want to pay for tires." Um, and look, if OEMs through residual, through production, uh, discipline and quality control, can create a high residual, a low, uh, uh, rate, you can get a great payment on a vehicle and make it make sense to get somebody into a brand-new vehicle and then trade them out and buy it as a used vehicle later.

I think it feeds both markets.

And, and, you know, as Brian Benstock and as others have said, uh, the OEMs that are great at doing that, Honda he cites as one, uh, th- they're...

They've got a successful business.

Some people saying, do you want a car that was made in China that can be spying on you, that can be turned into, you know, a weaponized, if possible, you know, especially the spying thing.

And I think it was Brian Benstock that said, but like somebody asked me, he's like, hey, where's your iPhone manufactured? And he was like, you got me.

Yeah.

So there's

To Istanbul, Turkey, to participate in a global event with international dealers.

Spent some time out there with Chip Perry and Brian Benstock and...

Steve Greenfield and Danny Zaslowski, a lot of people who are friends, friends of the show and friends of the More Than Cars community.

What were you doing out there? And tell us more.

Oh, my gosh.

First, I have to say it was tremendous to be able to share time with all of the names you just mentioned.

Specifically, I didn't recognize him when he walked in because it was the first time I had ever seen Brian Benstock not wearing his black

suit.