Unnamed Automotive Podcast · Unnamed Automotive Podcast

Episode 433: 2026 Toyota BZ, 2026 BMW M340i Jahre

·1 hr 3 min·4 clips

The front-wheel-drive BZ has 221 horsepower, while the all-wheel-drive version jumps to 338 horsepower.

Sami Haj Asad and Benjamin Hunting open the show by greeting listeners and settling into their familiar easy back and forth. The mood is wintry right away. Sami talks about a brutally cold morning, and Benjamin follows with a story about a 23-year-old Pathfinder that had been sitting in a fleet lot for two weeks over the holidays. The vehicle starts right up, which is about the most anyone can ask of it. The washer fluid does not. That becomes the first small joke of the episode, especially since it was so cold there was barely any road gunk to clear anyway. From there, the conversation drifts into the kind of cabin details that only car people notice for too long. They talk about wireless chargers placed side by side on a console, and the whole setup sounds less like a feature than a dare. Benjamin keeps the joke going by treating it like a race to see which phone can hit 80 percent first. The bit works because the premise is so odd. They then widen the discussion to how heat behaves inside a cabin. The car in question has no glove box. Instead, the area beneath the dash gets warm when the heated seats are on. That strange panel becomes its own little mystery, and the hosts spend time trying to figure out how close a leg would have to be for the warmth to matter. The conversation is loose, but the observations are specific. That is the rhythm here. One claim leads to a challenge, a joke, or a clarifying question, and the riff gets sharper as it goes. The hosts stay focused on practical ownership details instead of polished marketing talk. The episode never pretends strange packaging is fine just because it is clever. It keeps circling back to whether a feature actually helps the driver or just adds another oddity to live with. Toward the end, the tone shifts again. Sami brings up a Sienna he has just gotten and says he cannot wait to talk about it. That leads into a familiar Odyssey comparison. Cargo space comes up, and the number still bothers them: the Sienna has 40 cubic feet less cargo space than any other minivan on the market. The episode ends with that familiar mix of annoyance, amusement, and exact comparison that defines the show when it is working well. It feels like two car journalists thinking out loud in real time, which is exactly the point. The result is conversational, skeptical, and grounded in the stuff that matters once you actually live with a vehicle.

As heard by us

Cold-weather car talk, odd cabin details, and a grounded minivan comparison keep this episode lively.

The cold-weather stories do most of the work here: a frozen Pathfinder, a windshield washer system that quits, and two automotive journalists making winter ownership sound equal parts familiar and ridiculous.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

For cold-weather car weirdness, dead washer fluid, and a minivan argument that lands on cargo space.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from Unnamed Automotive Podcast