Shadowing Practice: Lucid Bought My Car Back, So I Bought A Mach-E - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I wasn't supposed to buy this car.

You see, I had a Lucid Air, and it was awesome on paper.

But after 10 months of a super buggy software experience, Lucid bought the car back.

Now, my plan was to buy the Rivian R2 as a replacement, but my order window was pretty far out.

Coincidentally, Lucid had a pretty rad solution.

They offered a long -term gravity loaner

that I could use for the channel through the end of 2026 long enough to get my Rivian R2

but after less than a week with the gravity

and numerous software bugs the passenger side window wouldn't go up even after multiple vehicle resets

so the car went back to service

and I decided to wipe my hands of it I don't

think I need to make another video explaining my thoughts on Lucid physically they make awesome cars

but in my experience the software isn't ready So I needed a replacement for the Air while I waited for the R2, and that's when this happy accident happened.

And it's a car I've come to love, despite some of the very real flaws it has, which we'll get into.

But compared to many modern electric cars, there are some exceptionally rare features that this Ford Mach -E GT performance has.

For example, it has a physical stock for not just the turn signals, but the wiper blades as well.

Incredible.

It has physical buttons for adjusting the mirrors.

It has buttons for adjusting the seat It even has a real lever for adjusting the steering wheel

and you can open the glove box without using a touch screen Wow

Even more bizarre it has these mechanical air vents

Which you can individually open or close

or point in whatever direction you please What and

if I want to get into the car all I have

to do is use the very normal door handle except there's no door handle.

There's no door handle!

Ford, where the f* is the door handle?

Now, we're going to get into all of it, but first I need to address the elephant in the room.

I never wanted this to happen.

I am someone, much like Vin Diesel, that can appreciate any fine body regardless of the make.

But somehow, I've ended up with three Fords.

Even though I tried to buy a Genesis GV60 performance in highlighter yellow

because I think Genesis has the best interior game in the business currently but that didn't end up working out.

So I ended up trading in my highlighter blue GR Corolla for a highlighter orange Ford Mach -E.

Which means in this very moment I own three Fords and I only own Fords.

As a viewer the only logical conclusion you could have is that I'm a Ford guy.

Oh God, how did I get here?

Now I thought about this long and hard because I'm open to all makes and models.

I've owned cars from Japan.

I've owned cars from America.

I've owned cars from Japan.

Anyways, I felt like the easiest way I could prove to you that I'm not a Ford guy was to roast Ford.

The problem is I love my Ford Maverick and I love my Shelby GT350 and I love my Ford Mustang Mach -E.

I finally get to say I own a real Mustang.

So I decided that because I love these cars, I wouldn't roast Ford, right?

Like, what good does it do for me to say, like, oh, remember when the Ford F -150 Lightning towed that train?

That was cool.

Hey, Ford, how'd the Lightning end up working out?

Because, look, the facts are Ford makes quality products.

So, I don't need to bring up that in 2025, Ford absolutely shattered a record no automaker has come close to.

The number of recalls issued in a single year.

Second place wasn't even close.

Ignore the details.

What we learned is that Ford is always numero uno.

And like, are these recalls even serious or just like pesky regulatory nonsense? sense.

So I dug in and here's what NHTSA had to say on one of their latest Ford recall reports.

Quote, fuel tanks may become unsecured from the vehicle and detach while driving.

Oh the fuel tank detaches.

The fuel tank!

Anyways there's a simple rule in life.

Don't have anything nice to say.

Don't say anything at all.

That's why I'm keeping my true feelings as tightly sealed as a Ford Focus RS head gasket.

So now that we've established I'm an authentic Ford fanboy, let's talk about this Mustang Mach -E.

There's a lot to love and some pretty big reasons why you might want to avoid it.

Let's start off with the positives.

And okay, sure, Ford followed Tesla's trend and threw a giant tablet in the car.

But they also have an abundance of physical controls.

Mirrors, seats, steering wheel, turn signal stock, a windshield wiper stock, thank the heavens, Tesla, Lucid.

Are y 'all seeing this?

What's funny is I've owned this car for months now, months, and I still haven't set up my driver profile, which saves your seat and mirror locations,

because it's just super easy to adjust them in a few seconds while you're leaving your house.

And if you need to adjust them while driving, no biggie, it's super easy.

The biggest compliment I can give this car is

that for the most part it doesn't make driving an EV a whole new experience.

You'll get in and you'll be familiar with the process.

This particular model is a 2022 Mach -E GT with the performance package.

So it has the MagneRide suspension which I find lovely and I quite like the seats as well.

It's a touch firm especially coming from a cloud like Lucid, but on longer trips I haven't had any issues with it.

Lots of useful, real buttons on the steering wheel, cruise control starts and activates with just one button touch, love that.

You can have hands -free driving if you want to pay for it, and it's nice having a display in front of you with the critical info.

You know, normal car stuff.

With 480 horsepower and 634 pound -feet of torque, it's quite quick.

I tested the true 0 -60, no rollout nonsense, in 3 .9 seconds.

Obviously there are EVs that are quicker than this, but it's wild that a four second 0 -60 is no longer impressive.

It's plenty quick for daily use.

I mean, it's quicker than my Shelby.

It has one pedal driving.

I love that.

Not stoked on the low speed operation, say under about three miles per hour.

The response isn't amazing, but it's true one pedal driving and it works well enough, though I do wish there was a mode with a bit more regen.

Decently spacious rear seats, ample cargo room, a very useful frunk, and hey, my dog doesn't hate riding in it, so that's a plus.

I've also been very pleased with the range.

Now, coming from a Lucid, obviously this had a drop in range, but why I'm pleased is because the EPA rates this as having 260 miles of range.

In the 1 ,267 .1 miles I've driven it, I've gotten 3 .1 miles per kilowatt hour.

And in my experience, the battery has about 85 kilowatt hours of usable energy, from 0 to 100%.

Do the math and my real world range is just over 260 miles.

So even though the car is four years old, I am still getting the EPA's rated range.

Plenty of EVs don't come anywhere close to their EPA range,

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though admittedly I expect that number to drop in the winter months also impressive it's getting

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that real -world range

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while on sticky summer tires first thing i did was swap

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it to continental extreme contact sport 02 tires the same tires i'm running on my shelby gt350

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and speaking of the gt350

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and tires this portion of the video is sponsored by continental

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who brought me out to charlotte motor speedway for mustang week

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where i got to truly stretch the legs of the gt350

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and put these tires to the ultimate test as i ran the roval unfortunately electric vehicles weren't allowed on track

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so i was forced to listen to the 5 .2 liter

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flat plane crank v8 in all its glory the extreme contact

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sport02 tires despite being a very road friendly tire performed beautifully on track they were quite grippy predictable

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and to my surprise still had plenty of tread remaining even

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after five 20 minute lapping sessions on top of the 5

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,000 miles they already had on them from a road trip where I wasn't exactly using them lightly.

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Mustang week was awesome

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and these tires are awesome showcasing their breadth of use from a GT350 on track to the smooth

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and quiet Mach -E GT on my local roads.

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Now on the subject of range I did some testing on my own with the Mach -E.

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With at 72 degrees and an ambient temperature at 62 degrees,

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it gave me an estimated range of 212 miles at an average efficiency of 2 .5 miles per kilowatt hour.

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So over 200 miles of real world range on the highway.

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I'm happy with that, especially considering this is the performance variant, not the longest range variant.

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But speaking of range, after my range test, I had dropped the battery down to 8%, so I took it to a fast charger.

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And here's probably the biggest disappointment with the Mach -E.

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So let's get into the negatives, starting with charging speed.

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I took the preconditioned Mach -E to a 350 kilowatt charger, intentionally going higher than its peak rating of 150 kilowatts,

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so you know exactly what the true charging curve looks like. And...

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it's pretty bad this is a huge battery pack close to 100 kilowatt hours gross capacity

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and yet the charging speed is quite low okay starting off

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they claim it has a peak charging speed of 150 kilowatts technically true

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but here's why quoting these peak numbers is dumb from 10

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state of charge to about 13 state of charge it charged

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at 150 kilowatts then very quickly dropped to just over a hundred kilowatts at 15 %

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and from 45 % onward it mostly stayed below 80 kilowatts

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and once you hit 80 % state of charge it drops

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below 40 kilowatts making fast charging above 80 % nearly pointless

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what does this mean well fast charging from 10 % to

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80 % took just over 40 minutes that's pretty much double the time it takes for the hyundai ioniq 5

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if you are planning to road trip this car frequently you're really restricted to the 80 charge limit

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because above that it's super slow and even below

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that it's crushed by the competition it's certainly not impossible to road trip this thing

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but expect 40 minutes for each charging stop after roughly 150 miles of driving.

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Hyundai, including Kia and Genesis, Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, and of course the kings of charging, Porsche, will all offer a faster road trip experience.

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For an around town and weekend trip EV, it is lovely, but I think you should know about the charging speed before buying one of these.

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And that includes the 2026 model year, which Motortrend recently tested and found the charging is still slow.

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 is probably the more responsible choice, but does it come in highlighter orange?

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No, it does not.

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Other negatives.

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The lack of door handles is dumb.

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They do have mechanical plungers, so I'm betting they can still open a door with ice freezing over it, but like, what?

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Pushing a button in to force a door out is just so backwards.

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And yeah, they've been pretty reliable so i'd still rank these above lucid

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and pretty much on par with tesla though that's a low bar with my old tesla

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or this mach e everyone still has to ask how do

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i open the door i'd rank rivians slightly above this

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and i'd rank porsches the best behind me is the porsche cayenne electric

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and there's a feature i want to show you that's really cool something that's crazy innovative Look at this.

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You see this door handle?

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I can put my whole hand around it, I can pull on it, and then I can open the door.

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I also hate how everything has a subscription these days and Ford has three independent subscriptions you can get with this car.

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Blue Cruise, Navigation, and Premium Connectivity.

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It's totally usable without any of them because it has CarPlay, so I don't have any subscriptions and I don't mind at all.

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But let me just show you how dumb this whole thing is.

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If I use the built -in navigation, which I like doing for road trips because it will show you where to stop to recharge,

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it works no problem, and it picks out spots for me to charge.

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But if I just try to search locally for chargers, it says, This feature requires activation.

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This is an electric car that's only four years old, and it wants for me to pay a subscription to search for a charger.

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Yet, it's perfectly capable of it for road tripping.

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Someone make it make sense.

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The world hates subscriptions.

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Please, please subscribe.

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It's free.

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Ford offers three subscriptions, and they're still not as bad as BMW.

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Alright, final critique.

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The screen just isn't very responsive.

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There's a healthy delay in when you press something and when it happens.

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I'll show you just using the heated seats and climate controls as an example.

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It tends to remember what you've pushed, but it takes its sweet time by modern standards on getting that done.

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Considering this is eyes off the road type stuff, I feel like the delays are far too long.

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Now, even with all of that said, and perhaps it's a low bar because my last EV was so buggy, I've absolutely loved this thing.

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It's a phenomenal daily driver.

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It's funny that still today, people have such a hard time admitting EVs have huge advantages.

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I meet plenty of people who say things like, Oh, I could never be caught in an EV.

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That's just embarrassing.

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And I'm sorry, but it's embarrassing to be choosing your vehicles based on what you think other people will think of you.

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Here's a little secret for anyone feeling self -conscious about nearly anything.

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No one actually gives a f*.

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No one cares what you drive except for like a handful

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of dudes in the comments section who you don't even know

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So why would you possibly care?

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so for anyone out there who's capable of deciding what vehicle to buy based purely on whether

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or not it suits your needs

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and hopefully to some extent you like it let me explain

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why i personally believe having an ev makes for the absolute best daily driver

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if you have a place at home to charge it you can preheat

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or pre -cool the car even in a closed garage

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and you can keep the climate controls on

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while the car is air quotes off great for pet owners there's no need to refuel it's always full

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when you leave home no oil changes no need to wait for the engine to warm up

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which leads to one of my favorite benefits no mechanical empathy for short trips start it up

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and send it while i have a gt350 in my garage

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which i genuinely believe to be one of the greatest cars

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ever created for any short trips i'm always going to go

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for the maquis continuing the benefits EVs are super quiet and they have instant torque.

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There's no waiting for gear shifts.

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You get response immediately when you ask for it.

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Enthusiasts don't want to admit it and I get that

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but realistically if you're able to charge at home electric cars are unquestionably the best daily drivers out there.

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This thing is rad and I've enjoyed living with it even more than I expected.

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Please don't tell anyone I exclusively own Fords.

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If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them below.

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Thanks for watching.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Lucid Bought My Car Back, So I Bought A Mach-E”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Ford, range, kilowatt. This video has 212 sentences and 2677 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:38. The speaker talks at a natural 161 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
tire verb	/ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/	To become sleepy or weary.
subscription noun	/səbˈskɹɪpʃən/	Access to a resource for a period of time, generally for payment.
adjust verb	/əˈd͡ʒʌst/	To modify.
mustang noun	/ˈmʌˌstæŋ/	A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
tesla noun	/ˈtɛslə/	In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
charger noun	/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/	A device that charges or recharges.
mirror noun	/ˈmiɹɚ/	A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
rank noun	/ˈɹæŋk/	A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
recall verb	/ɹɪˈkɔl/	To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
mechanical adjective	/məˈkænəkəl/	Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
steer verb	/stɪɹ/	To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
impressive adjective	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
replacement noun	/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/	A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
delay noun	/dɪˈleɪ̯/	A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
garage noun	/ɡəˈɹɑʒ/	A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
bring up verb		To mention.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
go up verb		To move upwards.
hand around verb		To distribute something by having one person hand it to another so it spreads through the group.
pick out verb		To remove by picking.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I wasn't supposed to buy this car.
Let's start off with the positives.
I've also been very pleased with the range.
You see this door handle?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've come · I've ended · I've owned
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is sponsored · weren't allowed · was forced

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smooth /smuːð/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, breadth /bɹɛdθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
Long words — get the stress right: mechanical /məˈkænəkəl/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, exclusively /ɪkˈskluːsɪvli/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like tire, subscription, adjust.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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