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Welcome to the official Kibbe and Friends Show with myself, Justin “Corndog” Cornette, and Show Producer Bernie McPartland! With this show we’re basically setting up the Boars Nest for the entire automotive media world to swing through for a couple watered down beers, stale popcorn, and fantastic waitresses. You can find every episode here on The MuscleCar Place as well as iTunes, Pandora, iHeart Radio, and Google Play. From time to time we’ll also be posting video clips and full shows to The Kibbe and Friends YouTube channel. If you click the “Download” link at the top of this post you’ll be able to stream it on your phone directly. You can also pull the RSS feed as well.
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The Future of Performance 4x4s?
Mustang Raptor, Corvette SUV & More
This week on the Kibbe & Friends Show, we kicked things off the only way we know how — with a little spring break confusion, some St. Patrick’s Day banter, and a look into the automotive future that got weird in a hurry. I pulled a few entries from a recent Car and Driver future cars report and put them in front of CornDog and Bernie to see what stuck. As you might expect, some of it made sense, some of it looked like pure internet nonsense, and some of it landed right in that magical middle ground where you think, “Well… I hate that I kind of like it.” Among the highlights were rumors of a Corvette SUV, a possible Mustang Raptor, and the return of a V8 Dodge Charger — all vehicles that, in one way or another, seem aimed at blending performance with the off-road, all-wheel-drive, or utility craze that automakers can’t quit chasing.
The one that probably got the most reaction was the rumored 2026 Ford Mustang Raptor, which looks like something Ford would build if they locked a desert racer and a Mustang in the same room and let nature take its course. It’s said to have a naturally aspirated V8, all-wheel drive, and a lifted suspension with Fox dampers — which means it’s either completely ridiculous or completely brilliant. The rumored Corvette SUV got plenty of side-eye too, especially since it looks less like a Corvette and more like somebody badge-engineered a performance crossover and hoped nobody would notice. Still, the idea of a Corvette-branded utility vehicle with a possible supercharged 6.2-liter V8 under the hood is exactly the kind of thing that makes you roll your eyes while quietly checking to see when orders open. Toss in a discussion on BMW styling going further off the rails, plus the possibility of Dodge stuffing a Hemi back into the Charger where it belongs, and you’ve got the perfect kind of K&F opening segment: part car talk, part nonsense, and just enough truth to make you wonder what might actually show up in a showroom.
Dallas Kibbe Racing —
Staying Focused on the Road Ahead
Work continues behind the scenes at Dallas Kibbe Racing as the team keeps moving forward with preparations for the upcoming season. While there aren’t any major new updates since the last report, the focus right now remains on building momentum and continuing the steady progress that goes into a competitive racing program. As with any team working toward race day, much of the work happens long before the car ever rolls onto the track.
The offseason is a critical time for refining plans, strengthening partnerships, and continuing the preparation that supports long-term success. From training and planning to fine-tuning the visual identity and team presentation, every step is part of laying the foundation for the next phase of the program. Racing is as much about preparation and discipline as it is about speed, and this period allows the team to stay focused on the details that will matter once the season begins.
For Dallas, the goal remains simple: keep learning, keep improving, and stay ready for the opportunities ahead. Every lap, every lesson, and every experience contributes to the growth of both the driver and the team. The support from the Kibbe & Friends community continues to mean a great deal, and it plays a role in helping this program grow step by step.
As the next milestones approach, more updates will follow. In the meantime, fans can stay connected and follow along as Dallas continues preparing for the next chapter of Dallas Kibbe Racing.
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Movie Review:
“The Other Guys”
For this week’s show, we dipped back into the archives for a movie review rewind of The Other Guys — and honestly, it was worth it just to hear all the clips again. If ever there were a movie that was a stretch to call a car movie, this is it. But stretching is what we do best. Released in 2010 and starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, this thing is an action-comedy spoof that takes every buddy-cop stereotype you’ve ever seen and turns it sideways. The whole premise is built around the “other guys” in the police department — not the heroic supercops getting all the glory, but the desk detectives stuck doing paperwork until they accidentally stumble into a giant financial crime case. CornDog had never seen it before, Bernie had watched it twice, and by the end of the review we were all in agreement that this one is magnificently stupid in exactly the right way.
What makes the movie work is the chemistry between Ferrell and Wahlberg. Ferrell plays Allen Gamble like a police accountant with zero cool factor — except somehow every woman in the movie is wildly attracted to him — while Wahlberg’s Terry Hoitz is basically a walking anger management problem trying to understand how any of this is happening. Bernie pointed out that the movie feels like it borrows from a dozen other movies all at once — Blues Brothers, Step Brothers, Ted, Pulp Fiction, and more — and that’s part of what makes it so funny. It’s not just trying to be its own comedy; it’s spoofing the entire genre. Even Michael Keaton, playing a police captain who somehow works at Bed Bath & Beyond while constantly quoting TLC lyrics without realizing it, is comedy gold. The whole movie feels like one long setup for jokes that shouldn’t work but absolutely do.
From a car standpoint, the star of the movie is hilariously not a muscle car. Yes, the movie opens with Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock being the ultra-macho hero cops driving around in a 1971 Chevelle SS, followed later by what appears to be a 1972 Chevelle, and those scenes are absolutely done as a love letter to every over-the-top cop movie ever made. There are jumps, crashes, reckless chases, and enough absurd destruction to make you think this is going to be a full-blown car movie. Then those guys promptly die, and the whole thing shifts to Ferrell and Wahlberg — and their noble police cruiser of choice: a 2006 Toyota Prius. That’s the joke, and that’s also somehow the genius of the whole movie. While every other cop movie gives the heroes Chargers, Crown Vics, or SUVs, The Other Guys gives its stars a red Prius that gets mocked, stolen, abused, drifted, jumped, and somehow survives nearly the entire film.
That Prius really is the automotive punchline and hero car all at once. CornDog, being CornDog, was not especially emotionally moved by the Prius as a platform, but even he had to admit the movie used it well. The stunt crew somehow found a way to make that little front-wheel-drive hybrid do things that no Prius should ever do on camera. It gets beat up, loses a door, becomes a rolling crime scene, and still keeps going. We talked quite a bit about the fact that this may be the only movie where a Prius is both the joke and the action car. And to be fair, by the end of it, it earns its place. The movie never stops reminding you that these guys are not the cool cops, but it also lets that little Prius become part of the identity of the whole film.
The real fun in reviewing this one was the back-and-forth between all of us. CornDog called parts of it “cheesy funny,” which is dead-on accurate, and Bernie kept coming back to how good Ferrell and Wahlberg are together in scenes where they’re basically just trying to crack each other up. That’s especially true in the quieter moments, where you can tell half the battle of filming this thing was simply getting through a take without somebody laughing. Even in the clips we played, you can hear how close people are to breaking. Michael Keaton was especially good for that — half of his funniest scenes are made better because it feels like everyone around him is trying not to lose it. That’s part of what makes the movie so rewatchable. It’s not polished comedy in a slick studio sense; it feels like a bunch of really funny people finding the joke and seeing how far they can push it.
And that’s probably the best way to describe The Other Guys: it’s a ridiculous movie that knows exactly what it is. It’s not trying to be Lethal Weapon. It’s making fun of Lethal Weapon, Training Day, The Departed, and every buddy-cop movie in between. It takes all the macho-cop clichés — muscle cars, reckless action, bad cop dialogue, dramatic interrogations, emotional trauma, partner tension — and then gives the whole thing to Will Ferrell in a Prius. That alone should tell you whether this is your kind of movie. For us, it absolutely was.
Movie Stats
Movie Title: The Other Guys
Release Date: August 2, 2010 (New York City), August 6, 2010 (wide release)
Director: Adam McKay
Written By: Adam McKay, Chris Henchy
Produced By: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Jimmy Miller, Patrick Crowley
Starring:
Will Ferrell
Mark Wahlberg
Eva Mendes
Michael Keaton
Steve Coogan
Ray Stevenson
Samuel L. Jackson
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Genre: Action Comedy / Buddy-Cop Spoof
Kibbe Movie Review Car Stars:
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS
1972 Chevrolet Chevelle
2006 Toyota Prius
Brief cameo: 1968 Chevrolet Camaro
Budget: $85 million
Worldwide Box Office: $171 million
2010 Box Office Rank: #18 for the year
Our Take:
Barely a car movie. Absolutely our kind of movie.
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