The C.R.E.A.M. Christmas Special features lively banter among hosts as they discuss their favorite cars of 2025, share humorous anecdotes, and engage in a Secret Santa gift exchange. Highlights include discussions on car reliability, personal experiences with various vehicles, and the challenges of choosing the right car for loved ones. The episode is filled with laughter, nostalgia, and insights into the automotive world, making it a festive and entertaining listen for car enthusiasts.
"The wing mirror is still not there. That's been a month."
It’s the mirror on the side of a car that lets you see what’s behind you. If it’s missing, you’ll have a blind spot.
A wing mirror, also known as a side or rearview mirror, is mounted on the car’s exterior to provide visibility of traffic behind and beside the vehicle.
"Also, there is a giant neon check engine. I want to go with giant eight check engine neon light on the bottom, which Paris also Christmas."
If this light turns on, it means the car’s computer has detected something that might need fixing. It could be a small thing or something more important.
The check engine light is a warning indicator on a vehicle’s dashboard that signals an issue with the engine or emissions system. It can range from minor glitches to serious problems.
"It was listed as genuine as large genuine original manufacturer. These now there is also in front of it the ML 63 tire, which you would have now seen Ben give me confirmation. ... We bought an ML 63 AMG with we're kind of working wrapping up work on that."
This is a fancy, fast SUV from Mercedes that’s been tuned for extra power and sporty looks. It can do a lot of things, from daily driving to racing on a track.
The Mercedes-AMG ML 63 is a high‑performance version of the M‑Class luxury SUV, featuring a powerful V8 engine and aggressive styling. It’s known for its blend of everyday practicality with track‑ready performance.
"It's now microcar scale. No. So big. So you know, the Dacia Springs that you see around the time."
Microcar scale means the car is tiny and easy to park, making it great for city driving.
‘Microcar scale’ refers to very small, lightweight vehicles that are often designed for city use and have low operating costs.
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Dacia Springs
"It's now microcar scale. No. So big. So you know, the Dacia Springs that you see around the time."
The Dacia Springs is a tiny, inexpensive car that’s easy to drive and cheap to own. It’s popular in Europe for short trips and city driving.
The Dacia Springs is a compact, low‑cost microcar produced by the Romanian automaker Dacia. It’s known for its simple, utilitarian design and very low price point.
"In from four miles away, you'll see a C class and you can go as a preface W204."
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class W204 is a mid‑size luxury car that’s comfortable and reliable, but it can have some rust problems if not cared for.
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class W204 is the third generation of the C-Class, produced from 2004 to 2011. It’s a compact executive car known for its refined interior and solid build quality.
"You know, they have the up, the Fiesta and the Dacia Sandera."
The Dacia Sandero is a cheap and simple car that many people buy because it costs less than most other cars. It’s not very fancy, but it gets the job done.
The Dacia Sandero is a low-cost compact car produced by the Romanian manufacturer Dacia, which is owned by Renault. It’s known for its simplicity and very affordable price.
The battery is the part that gives your car the power to start. If it dies, the car won’t turn on until you replace or recharge it.
Car batteries store electrical energy to start the engine and power accessories when the vehicle is off. A dead battery means the car cannot be started until it’s replaced or recharged.
"[764.0s] Electric.
[765.0s] For 15 grand, you can go and finance something electric that's a couple years old."
An electric car runs on electricity stored in batteries, so it doesn’t use gasoline or diesel. It’s quieter and cleaner than a regular car that burns fuel.
"Electric" refers to vehicles powered by electric motors and rechargeable batteries instead of internal combustion engines. Electric cars produce zero tailpipe emissions, have instant torque, and typically require less mechanical maintenance.
"[1918.8s] warmed up properly, you do a poll, and it doesn't make a timing chain go loose."
The timing chain is a metal belt inside the engine that makes sure all parts move at the right time. If it slips or breaks, the car can run poorly or even get damaged.
A timing chain keeps the engine’s camshaft and crankshaft in sync, ensuring valves open and close at the correct times. If it loosens or breaks, engine performance can suffer or cause damage.
"[2170.9s] Ben, tires matter.
[2173.4s] They're the only part of your vehicle that touches the road."
Tires are the rubber circles on a car that touch the road. They help you grip the street and keep the car stable.
Tires are the rubber components that contact the road, providing traction, handling, and safety. They come in various sizes, tread patterns, and compounds suited for different driving conditions.
A manual key is a regular car key that you can use to open the door or start the engine if the electronic system isn’t working.
A manual key is a physical key used to lock or unlock a vehicle when electronic systems fail. It often fits into a hidden slot or keyhole on the door or ignition.
A handbrake is the lever you pull inside a car to keep it from moving when parked. A carbon handbrake is made from special lightweight material, so it's lighter and can handle more force.
A handbrake (also called a parking brake) made from carbon fiber or composite materials is lighter and stronger than traditional steel versions, offering better performance in high‑end cars.
"[4514.5s] Can I get a double-deen head unit? [4516.5s] Yeah, I remember."
A double-deen head unit is a car stereo that lets you use two different music sources at the same time, like one radio and one phone app. It’s popular for people who want more options in their car’s sound system.
A double-deen head unit is a type of aftermarket car audio system that combines two separate radio receivers or media players into one integrated unit, often used to provide dual inputs for music and navigation.
"Yeah, and obviously with headlight washers, the dem you to be pissing into your own eyes."
Headlight washers are little machines on a car that spray water and soap onto the headlights so they stay clean and bright.
Headlight washers are small pumps and spray nozzles installed on a vehicle’s front bumper or hood that clean the headlights by spraying water and detergent directly onto the lens, keeping them clear for better visibility.
"[5189.1s] but it was things like the leather dash [5190.9s] Yeah."
It’s the part of a car’s interior where you see the speedometer and controls, covered in leather to look fancy and feel smooth.
A leather dash refers to the dashboard interior panels and trim made from genuine or faux leather, offering a premium feel and easier maintenance compared to cloth.
Volvo cars are often chosen for their safety features and long-term reliability.
Volvo is a Swedish automaker known for its focus on safety, durability, and understated design.
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Edging, busting, and nuts, and beans, clinics, cleaning. My granddad is on his way out, and I'm washing him. That is you. I thought seeing as your backdoor's got smashed it. I thought I'd get you a new backdoor. Where did you get this backdoor from? Hello, and Merry Christmas on the 60-second cream podcast.
We planned it perfectly. When we launched a podcast, we will get a Christmas day slot, like a year down the line. We've got myself, Will, Edwin, to my right, and Ben behind the camera. Hello, Christmas.
Hello, Christmas. Now, at the beginning of every single one of these podcasts, we ask ourselves, do cars rule or ruin everything around us this Christmas day? Edwin, would you like to kick us off?
No, Merry Christmas to you all. That is a great question. It's a ruin, unfortunately, on this happy and holiest of days. No, yeah, I've got no daily. My E36 is falling apart around me. I asked Ben to move it earlier. Ben, what happened?
Oh, I got stuck in it. I asked Ben to move the E36 while I moved Taylor's Cayenne, and I moved the Cayenne, got the jump back out, did a load of things.
As I was walking back out from the pit, Ben was still sat in my car, and he looked over like a puppy, and I realised I went, ah, and went and opened the door.
The door handles now broken. I'm going to admit something. The wing mirror is still not there. That's been a month. Sorry, the review mirror. It's just kind of falling apart around me.
That car was interesting because it was like, I actually think it was what? Not the best example. It was all right. It was very cool.
And then you put the body kit on it, and I thought, this is looking good, and it got painted. I was like, wow, this is clean. And it's slowly becoming just an E36.
Yeah, door cards are missing. It smells of milk in there. The seats are very dirty.
We won't explain that in no context. No, just a dustbin of milk there. And eggnog.
The best part is that you have by far the smallest commute out of all of us.
Oh, that's all right. I didn't think that was going where I thought it was going.
Oh, and the smallest bit out of all of us. I'm watching it in real time. Just get worse and worse.
Yeah. Hey, we'll, you know, we'll see the new year, which will be next-cream, may bring a solution to that. We'll see.
Have you bought yourself a car for Chris? Haven't bought it, but there might be something afoot. There may be something afoot.
Really? There may be deals going on. Actually, perhaps. You know, the one that I went and looked at. Not the one we talked about in podcast, but the other one I went and looked at.
We will have Christmas cars though. We'll get to that a little bit. Which one? What? And I will.
You bought car? No, I'm bought it, but there's, there's, there's things afoot. Do I know of this? Don't, why don't, you know, do you know this?
Do you know this? Well, you know, well, no, I don't know of that. I sort of know of that, but I don't.
Oh, I don't know for now. It's a ruin. I'm hoping that wherever I am on this Christmas of day, it's better.
Yeah. Benjamin from me having issues with my daily. What about you? My daily is great. Okay.
As in non-existent. Okay. What's not there? Can't hurt you. Exactly. A daily can't break if you haven't got one.
The last podcast was shot possibly three days ago. So nothing has changed even if it had been shot a year ago.
Nothing would have changed way to break the illusion even in another year's time.
I don't think it's probably not a year's time. S2000 life is is great. Is it?
No, what is it? It's actually fine. The thing that I'm not what Edwin said, not Edwin said, not what you said the other day.
No, it's, it's a great car. The issue is is the fact that there's what there's two things political. There are two things.
Number one is I fear for it. Rust wise. And number two is no cruise control, which obviously it wouldn't have as a sports car.
But or traction control. Now you said Christmas. No, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it on Christmas. No, that's that. That's maybe a new year's one.
There's nothing. There is nothing. Yes, you are a politician. Yeah. You've lied to us and then the deadline you gave us, you then push forwards backwards.
There's contacts this everyone listening. I'm not giving it. But Ben, remember we talked about this. We said you can leave it in 2025. Otherwise, it comes with you into 26.
I'm not talking about it. Well, what if we talk about it? You don't you don't want us to spin the story. No, no.
Anyway, the has no traction traction control. That's great. It's got no cruise control. So it makes my journey feel quite long. But apart from that, great car.
Okay, go anyway, turning it around and coming over to me, it will be a rule. It's a nice rule because there's not again, we haven't done many days since the last one.
There's not many. Do you actually say rule or rule? I mean, what do you just think you just talked about your daily? Oh, sorry.
Brewing. Okay, two ruins and a rule. And I would say, yes, no reason to ruin and quite a big rule, not, not, not, not personal correlated, but somewhere we visited recently, which we will get to wrong. It is. Yeah.
We're sorry. We'll get to that later. Yeah, we will get so we've got other things to get through. I mean, got Christmassy things. This will be a perhaps slightly longer. Maybe not. We'll see or happy holidays to those of you not celebrating Christmast. There'll be gifts.
I want to say one thing. There'll be everyone listening. I really hope that you're listening on Christmas day and you have left your family in one room and you're listening to the cream.
No, listen, or perhaps your gathers around the fire, open your presence, listening to us. They're going good. You don't. Please don't say anything silly. Please don't say anything silly. Let me go.
Edging, edging, busting and nuts and beans. Also, what I was going to say is left my brain and that's okay. Okay.
Is that your hat? Christmas hat? No. Oh, yeah, for those of you listening and not watching. That's what I was going to say. Also, lots of you may be driving today. Yeah.
You may be heading from one family to another family. Oh, working. Give some of the bend you were driving home for Christmas. That might be it.
If you're working, make sure you're listening to the cream podcast. If you're an audio listener, you will see Ben is dressed in a Christmas jumper.
What are you wearing with a hat? Yeah, I'm the same. Will you've got a Star Wars. Yeah, jump a little active fit.
Yeah. And you've decided not to go with the Christmas hat, but with the
Christmas Christmas, but it's not Santa. Santa is a Christmas cracker hat, which I believe is.
We'll have a cool map.
We'll hand it me a box earlier of just how many a thousand of those.
400 Christmas. 400 Christmas hats. It's for the next one. And he said I bought props. I bought one very long piece of tinsel and 400 Christmas.
I tell you what does it not look like? The tinsel is great. And we've got no gain this this week round. We've got a lovely fire burning.
Ben's makes tape up on the screen.
Okay. Also, there is a giant neon check engine. I want to go with giant eight check engine neon light on the bottom, which Paris also Christmas.
It was listed as genuine as as as large genuine genuine original manufacturer.
These now there is also in front of it the ML 63 tire, which you would have now seen Ben give me confirmation.
Yeah, you wouldn't have heard anything. You would have seen it actually in about a week or so. Okay.
Well, we have bought we teased it in the last one. We've bought an ML 63 AMG with we're kind of working wrapping up work on that.
It's just the start. This car is going to be cool. It's very very. We actually had a conversation today where we went.
It's just going to be one episode where we just made it nice. And now we found mods.
There's too many things to do here comes TDC boys. So you will see that in the new year.
Right. Things and stuff. Sure. Some of which are Christmas related. Some of which are not starting off with is it this?
Is it what the thing you mentioned before we start?
Well, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. This is the Leap Scrung T63.
This is what it's put in. I'm honestly baffled. Okay. It is called the now I was behind a car on the way home.
Yeah. I was actually sorry. Let me rephrase this. It's much better TDC version.
We were working through lunch and I we ordered food. I accidentally ordered it to my house.
Yeah. So I had to go to my house to go and get the food.
Will how warm was the food? Well, well, no. It's quite way away.
So anyway, on the way back, I was I was trying to get back as quick as possible to have our Christmas lunch together.
And what bestowed in front of me, but it was called a leap motor T03.
I'm going to put a photo of this car up on the screen.
That is a not real. This is a watchdog's car. I see. I saw these.
Why is it a fit 500 and an a class that has just really been matched.
Right. What I for the viewers, Ben. Get the get the script. Okay. So imagine just the most tragic looking machine you've ever seen.
It's a very small, very thin car. And I would I would make it. What does it look like?
A long thing. We will. We'll hit that. I think. Yeah. It's a 500 mix with a class lights.
Now, however big you think this car is, make it half the size of it.
It's now microcar scale. No. So big. So you know, the Dacia Springs that you see around the time.
It could be it might be either the same size or just a little bit smaller than that.
And this car was doing four miles an hour on a, on a, what do you call it?
A B road, 60 mile. Maybe, look, maybe I'm being over at us, call it five.
It was going slow. It's up to 10. But I was, I was behind this car and I got angry.
Not because it was holding me up, but because I don't know what that is.
Yeah. No, that's not a thing. It's that there was a time.
This is this why I brought this up for the creamers.
If you're as afflicted as us, you know the feeling of knowing every car on the road.
In from four miles away, you'll see a C class and you can go as a preface W204.
I can see that. You know, all the cars on the road. What is this?
I just have to do a quick search. I wondered, I thought that is that a German brand.
Maybe it's British car manufacturer. It's, it's, it's trendy.
Which is, but this is what I mean. There are so many new brands and cars coming out.
I can't keep up. And it's annoying me. Is this what like the early 1900s was like?
It must be. They came out with the car and went right Chevrolet here.
Dodger here. Ford here. BMW here. What's it? Model T.
Have you seen one of those Mercedes-Benz? Never heard of it.
I used to be a dame luck. God.
Was a Mercedes-Benz white? I just called me Mr. Benz, please. Mercedes was my father's name.
I had a look at what this is. It annoyed me so much. I was like, I have to do my research on it.
165 miles. You can do it this.
So compared to something like a leaf. A leaf.
A leaf. And it will do 12.7 seconds, not to 66.
That's slow. That's really slow.
And 81 miles now. Top speed. That's not fast at all.
But the thing that I will say is kind of impressive.
16,000 or 15,985 miles.
That would make it surely one of the cheapest.
One of the cheapest cars in the market.
Which is kind of interesting.
Because that feels like 2010 cheap car money.
Yeah. Like granted.
16 grand is not cheap to spend on a box.
A soap box with wheels.
But in today's money, where a golf will cost you 35, 40 grand.
That's kind of impressive. And it's called the two, three.
It's called the T-O-3.
In today's money, I find it impressive.
But I still think, I mean, but I watched.
Is it the Ukraine special of Topkit?
You know, they have the up, the Fiesta and the Dacia Sandera.
And I'm watching that and thinking.
It's like the Sandera was like seven grand in you.
I was inflation, 10 grand now, right?
But even then, you're looking at cars that look a little maybe 18, 19 grand now.
And you get a Fiesta, which at the time was quite high quality.
I guarantee you get in that car. It's going to feel cheap.
I was wondering if they're doing five,
because they just couldn't bear to live with it.
They're just, I just, I have no.
It's so, so sucking that I'm just going to,
I'm just going to not even, they've just put it in drive and let off or dead or.
It's quite being however many years old it is.
It's the batteries just died.
Yeah. That is as fast as it will go.
I know that most people are going to buy this on finance or on high purchase or whatever.
But 16 grand, you could go out and get a four-year-old Fiesta.
For the same finance deal.
Oyster oyster oyster.
Yeah, oyster oyster.
Oyster oyster.
But you could have a good car.
Yeah.
Electric.
For 15 grand, you can go and finance something electric that's a couple years old.
You could get an AMG.
You could get an AMG.
You probably get a take-hand that's like six months old for that sort of money.
But yeah, 16, 15, 16 grand.
You're getting something that's got that will have nothing.
No, that's just nothing.
Well, it's got this sadness and it's called a leap motor.
You can't, you cannot.
When someone says, what car do you have and you go.
It's a leap motor.
What?
Sorry, sorry.
It's a leaf blower.
What car are we driving here?
That's not a good name.
I can only imagine the sort of human being that's driving that gray, beige and boring.
Sad.
Anyway, onto the next one.
Okay.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
So if you're awake at this moment to fire a leap motor, two, three under your tree, you go.
I wonder what it is.
Is it an A-class?
Oh.
Now the next.
Yeah, I didn't know this was the next thing coming.
Okay.
On this Christmas morning, I really hope you're sitting with your family.
There's a thing we're about to start discuss is a handbrake dick pick.
Yes.
Now Ben, you, we have not told you about this.
I saw, we have a chat on Slack where we put in lots of things to talk about.
That's where we get the list that he has here from.
And I saw it coming through and thought, what?
Now in a minute ago, they said, these two were like, we'll say to everyone,
oh, I'll send you the picture.
I'll send you the picture.
And I've been sat here quite.
I don't want to say.
Now I like to describe what you think it's going to be.
I don't know.
No, no, no, no.
I might give you some context.
A little bit.
All right.
So we are about to do a video in the next week or so.
Modifying a friend of mine's mini.
So I've been looking for parts.
And I, oh.
And there we go.
And I found a breaker of parts.
And he said, I've got some bits.
Join us and send you some pictures.
I said, sure.
Now, what?
Now, send me over some pictures.
Now that one out.
Stop there.
Ben, what do you think happened next?
So I think he sent you photos of the bits.
And you know, there was something was out in the background.
So you think it's in the back.
So it wasn't an accidentally extra photoscent.
Oh, it could be that.
Okay.
But you think it was in the background.
I think maybe he was trying to take.
I don't know why he.
Have it out.
You know, you know, you're like tapping through.
And I'll say this one, this one, this one.
You might accidentally tap the.
What a festive conversation.
Would we like to see it?
No.
Okay.
Close your eyes.
Exhale.
Fill your body.
Relax.
Let go of whatever you're carrying today.
Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class.
I got them delivered free from 1800 contacts.
Oh, my gosh, they're so fast.
And breathe.
Oh, sorry.
I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order.
Oh, sorry.
Namaste.
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For the audio viewers, I would like you to.
I'd like to explain what you're saying.
Now, we will.
This will get an overlay.
I promised you that.
It actually has to.
This is for starters.
It's not an actual.
Yes, it is.
You've got it back at the screen now.
It's carbon fiber something.
I assume it's a handbrake.
It's a contact.
It's it's being an angle of perhaps a point of view angle looking down as if you were.
He's kind of taking it from chin level.
But like looking down his body.
And then he is his hand is just right at the bottom of the frame.
Just kind of like holding like you might hold.
I don't know what you might hold.
With the gear knob just protruding.
Outwards.
Correct.
He might be the worst way you could photograph a handbrake on earth.
Surely he knows what he's doing.
I didn't say I'm not interested.
I'm breaking my mind.
Look, it's lovely.
I'm sure you get a lot of office on it.
But it's not for me.
Maybe it's very, very small.
If I take it at this angle, it will hit the halftime zoom.
We wouldn't fish eye on it.
Is that what he's got?
Is that it from the base?
Is that why there's a break disc down there for that tremble.
For scale, you're breaking the societalists.
This thing needs a break disc.
For scale.
By the way that's an R6 break.
So also I'm 6 foot one.
If any of you need me pointers on how to take a photo of a handbrake please get a tip for this mini breaker.
Also I'm not going to out you.
But if you listen to the podcast and that's you, shout out.
Just just do a different act and put it on the floor to the object of it.
Yeah, and then you know, it removes any, or blur it.
Next time, perhaps.
Perhaps, that was incredibly good.
I've been laughing at this for the last week,
since which will show me really quite funny.
Next up, we have Lambo.com.
Lambo.com.
Which is a story I only read about yesterday.
Sorry, I'm going to have to speak among yourselves briefly.
Have we been made in our own house?
How's your Christmas?
What do you get?
Don't know.
This is Christmas for me.
Right now, I'm probably enjoying Christmas turkey.
What about you?
I'm just going to talk about it nonetheless.
So, a man bought Lambo.com.
Many years ago, he bought the domain.
It's not a new thing to buy domains and try and sell them.
He bought the domain thinking,
I might sell this in the future.
I think he paid $10,000 for it.
So, big investment.
Yeah, fairly big.
I mean, I think this was like $20, $10, I want to say,
someone will know more as they do.
So, a lot of money is going to spend on the domain
that you don't really know if you can use it or not.
And apparently he did many things over the course
of owning this domain,
where he was basically saying,
it's nothing to do with Lamborghini.
I'm not trying to do that.
I'm, it's like to a nickname called Lam.
And then he put a site up that said he was basically
going to go after the people that were saying
that it was about Lamborghini, whatever.
And it's all gone to a court of laws and what's such.
And they've ruled that it goes to Lamborghini.
What without paying?
So, he listed it for sale, I want to say in 2018.
For reasonable.
It was $1.2 million.
OK, OK.
And obviously, Lamborghini went, well, I don't really want that
because I think we actually have a website called
Lamborghini.
That's the name, which is the name.
Now, famously when you, when you're trying to sell something,
you kind of start at a price and you kind of move down
from there.
That wasn't his plan here.
No, yeah, I read somewhere $75 million.
I like it's, it's like holding someone
and ransom in a movie.
It's reverse bartering.
It's $1.2 million.
No, we're not interested.
But it went five million.
It basically went to like an intellectual property court
type thing.
And they basically said, yeah, you're a chopman, mate.
We're giving it.
And they gave it to Lamborghini.
Now, that's lost out on time, yeah, you should at least get
where you, but it's because he was over the course
of how many years he was basically attacking them
and trying, just trying to get money out of it.
So yeah, it's just a ridiculous way to do things.
The same thing with I want to say it was Nissan
in America, and they went after him for years and years
and he sold his business just to pay for the legal fees
to stay the ownership, that the owner of it,
because they were coming after him.
And that was legitly for his business.
He just owned it before them.
And they went, no, we want it, that should be ours.
And just tried to take it from him, but he kept fighting them.
Which is that, in that case, I'm on his side.
You don't just get to own it because you want it.
It's not yours.
Even if he's been in a bit of a chopper about it,
just tell him you don't want it.
You can't be like, you can't be like,
I'm not buying that off you by the way, I have it now.
Thanks.
We had it for, I can't remember what it was.
I think it might have been at the beginning of TDC.
Do the TDC or something.
Someone got in contact and said,
I've got them bought these domains.
Do you want to buy them off me?
No, and then he was like, oh, why don't you want it?
I'm not paying you more if I wanted them.
I'd have bought them.
I'll do it, we'll call it.it or something.
Yeah, or LT, we'll have it with your new website.
We don't care.
Cream it.
Someone's going to buy that.
So, whoever has bought Cream.com, have it.
I think Cream.com might exist.
Cream, yeah, we don't have that.
Or cars, we'll have it here on my.com.
You have it mate.
Have it.
We've already got one.
We've already got one, and I'll tell you what, next year.
Woo, we've got some sums of merch in.
I, just wearing a test shirt under my jumper.
Benzy, anyone that doesn't have it.
Yeah, thanks guys.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's something.
Didn't think of me, it's going to be good.
Well, yeah, lemma.com man has bit of what I owe 15 years battling, and just lost the
domain.
I see you.
But anyway, shall we do something in Christmassy?
Yes.
We've got some more news and stuff than whatever else, but I don't want to push Christmassy
yet.
You're now going to have to listen to us eat an entire roast dinner.
No, insurious.
We do have at some point secret Santa, we won't do that.
We do have that.
We won't do that yet.
I'm very excited for that.
We will do a naughty or nice list.
Here we go.
It's been a year, basically.
It has been a year.
Since last Christmas.
It's been a year since last Christmas.
Crazy hub.
Crazy hub.
We have been very fortunate to drive the passenger in, be around lots of very cool cars
this year.
Bulls cars.
Yeah.
So we must pick one good car, the best car we've driven, been in whatever this year, and
the worst car of the year.
Did you like to kick off?
Would Ben like to kick off?
Ben?
Yes.
I've just thought of one in the moment.
Hang on.
I actually have, I couldn't nail either down to just one, I have two for both, is that okay?
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I would like this to be rolled back.
I know what you're saying.
Well, I hope you do know what I'm going to say, because Will said to us, I'd like you to
pick three cars each, and you said, before the spot got started, why don't we make it
one, it should be one each, and then we have three, it would together.
Yeah, but then I chained right.
And then he told me I couldn't pick a specific car.
I didn't say that.
You got this one.
You got it, Master.
Yeah.
You can't pick your own car, by the way.
I mean, obviously it's going to be that.
Didn't say that.
I said, right.
I suggested that can we not pick our own car.
Logically, I guys 2000, you go galada, and then the overall conversation, and then I go,
think you don't.
Overall, you need a, you're naughty one, and you're nice one, you, you, you made these
rules.
No.
Yes, you did.
So choose one.
You can do a special one.
Okay.
His one.
My least favourite is controversial.
Donut.
I haven't told you.
I'll say either of you this.
What the heck?
Why is that?
I'm not saying it's the worst car.
It's a great car.
It just.
It's not a bad car.
What do you vote is the worst car?
I vote this is the worst car.
No.
My reason is that it's not the worst car.
No, it's your least favourite and your favourite.
Okay.
Let me explain.
It's not a podcast.
Have your question time with me.
Go, go, Gadget Ben.
The two or five dti, I accept objectively is a very cool car, a very cool history.
It's also a very good car.
I never felt anything towards it.
I'm a filming part of it.
Didn't really care.
Remember, we got it.
I wasn't hugely excited.
I didn't really get it.
So for me, on our list of cars.
What do you understand?
Because you had a 182.
Yeah, I know.
But it just ended up mentally like a successor.
Oh, my.
I don't know why.
It.
It didn't do it for me.
Okay.
And your best.
My best car.
I want to make it too.
No, you're not making it too.
I want to.
No, you're.
Okay.
Okay.
On my actual best car is the call that.
Oh, that in the day.
That was up there for me.
That changed me.
Yeah.
Did you drive?
No.
We would be doing it two seats.
We'd have a little photo of Ben saying in the morning.
It would be facing the wrong way.
At least.
I'm assuming you're.
Well, not that you're allowed it would have been the SD.
No, I know what you mean.
No, I'm not allowed.
Not allowed.
The SD 1000 as much as that was.
The much is that it was very special moment to buy anything.
The.
The.
The.
Zero six.
It was.
It was a.
It was a zero six basically.
Yeah.
LS seven.
So.
It was avert.
So it's not.
But that.
It was avert.
I got out of that.
This is crazy.
The noise is crazy.
To be fair, you.
Since that day, I've been talking about all these things.
It ignited something in me.
So that.
And then.
When we go back to America, we need to take Ben to one of those takeovers with one of those.
Like C seven.
With.
You imagine me to take over.
Tinted real lights.
Hi guys.
And I've been jumping in the middle.
Hello.
I hit me next.
Okay.
So best car.
Zero six.
Yes.
Worst car being too far.
Not worse.
Which actually really.
No.
No.
Is it his worst car?
And I say something.
It's actually bad.
Well, no, it's naughty or nice.
Right.
Naughty car.
Which one's naughty?
I don't like that.
Which one isn't.
The two of five.
Wow.
That's kind of me.
I just don't.
I'm not.
I doesn't do it for me.
All right.
Sorry.
Edwin.
For me, the best.
And in the same vein as Ben, it was the one that I made me feel.
So.
So much thing about the thing.
Okay.
It was the Tuscan.
Oh yeah.
The Tuscan.
I think about that.
Really quite often.
And it's actually one of the things that has.
What has in theory, it should be the 550.
Because the 550 confirmed.
I will.
I will work towards that.
And I will own it.
But I knew.
I always knew I would.
The Tuscan.
I was like, this is.
I like this.
But it's going to drive like a bag of shit.
Isn't it?
And then it was the most glorious thing.
And that was driven on skinny little b-roads in kind of winter.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I like.
When we got down that one of that shoe, I was putting gloves on and stuff
to settle cameras up.
Like it wasn't an appropriate place to be driving a Tuscan.
No.
And yet it was fantastic.
And I would still love.
I don't know that it will ever happen because of the money for them.
But yeah.
It's just.
It was life changing in the best way possible.
Now I ask a question for you.
For me or to me?
To you.
Okay.
From me to you.
You could do that as well.
Okay.
And here's a question.
Here's one from me.
Now the Ferrari.
Yes.
You're going to have to get rid of everything you want to have the Ferrari.
Yeah.
But surely the Tuscan you could have.
And you could have the Tuscan for a year and send it to America
and make money.
Now he's.
That's actually a nice way of thinking.
And you can do it.
That's not a usual Benway thing.
I know.
Here is my actual thought on this.
Oh, by cars.
Here's my genuine thought of that.
If the Ferrari in France, if Mr. Jeremy,
their Merry Christmas Jeremy, please get back to me.
Whatever you, you know, I hope you have a great one.
If that car falls through, I think that is what I would do.
Because I've been looking at Tuscan.
I've been keeping an eye on them.
I just loved their own one for a bit.
But the issue is the color.
Just like the last podcast we talked about.
Color's the biggest thing for me.
And it needs to be in flip paint.
But that's hard to find.
Sword flesh.
So flesh.
Please get a flesh.
Yeah.
I remember because there is a lot of, there are a lot of videos to be fair.
I think you're the bit as well.
Where you say, this is a car.
I really like your dream car because you're afflicted by it.
Oh, I have the hundreds.
But there are, the Tuscan was one where we filmed it.
I remember thinking he really likes this.
I did it.
You really liked it.
And you still mentioned it now.
Yeah.
I actually think you've mentioned that more than you have the Ferrari.
I have.
But that's because the Ferrari has always been in my mind.
It's like the Galardo.
Also, you've always...
I guess the thing is, it's similar to many of the cars we talk about to be fair.
It's drove the Ferrari.
But it wasn't the ultimate.
No, I wanted to do something of it.
The one you have in your mind is different.
Yeah, exactly.
Had you driven that car?
It'd probably be that car beyond anything else.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That's a standard car.
There are little bits.
You drive it and you come away going...
When you come away from the car and you go,
there's nothing I would change about that.
And I genuinely think about the Tuscany.
Yeah.
I could own that Tuscany.
All of us Tuscany and do nothing and love it.
Yes.
We should actually do that.
What?
It's actually called TVR.
Not all of us Tuscany.
Oh.
I wonder if it'll be O-O-L-R.
Not forever.
OVR.
Yeah.
The question that we got asked the other day,
was that you that asked it?
Are there any cars that you'd never do anything to?
Oh, yeah.
That's actually for the example.
I would do some things.
Wheels.
No, I'd leave the wheels.
Wow.
I think there's a lot of new spaces and loads and some other bit.
But like...
Because it's almost, the TVRs are almost like they're modified from the factory.
Yeah.
Exactly.
They're perfect.
They've got like AP brakes.
Yeah.
And they're allowed exhaust.
Just like, oh, okay, I have nothing to do with it.
Oh, me?
That's me.
Because I know.
And then the worst car...
I must think in...
Yesterday, it doesn't...
Yesterday was not...
It was last...
No last September.
Yes, last September.
Last year, yeah.
Let's...
Sorry, just thinking about things.
Just thinking about...
No.
Because it's difficult to choose.
Because we like, many of the things that we've had.
we've had, but there have been some disappointment this year.
Do you want to, well, do you want to tell everyone your favorite?
Please, I'm taking it through the video.
Mine's blazingly obvious.
Well, actually, it may be not as blazingly obvious.
God, no, I know what it is because it's not, it's not a car I own.
I would, I would have loved to have chosen that, but it has to be the
marshy lago.
It absolutely has to be though.
The glado is a, is a dream.
marshy lago is the dream.
And like we're saying about the Tuscan, driving that marshy lago, that was it.
There, there is that car.
It sounded it looked and it, and it felt exactly how I wanted it to be.
There is nothing I could have changed other than maybe, like, keeping the car
forever.
Nothing I would have changed about that experience.
And it was genuinely something that was like, okay, now it's time to, it's
time to, time to lock in, chaps.
You're, I have, I think I have one.
And I've actually just forgot me again.
Do you like it?
Yeah, please, okay.
Well, Edwin, forget what he's just forgotten, and remembers again, my worst
one, it was a toughy because there are some cars that I, I found a little bit
forgettable, one for seven GTA scrung to mind.
Yeah, actually, I think it's not, it's forgettable, but I don't think it's
bad enough to go on a naughty list.
No, the car that's, it's firmly on the naughty list.
Is a Jaguar XFR.
Yeah, that is a fair point.
And I don't actually know which one it is.
That's just Jaguar XFR.
That's fair, but as a car, and as a car is fantastic, but I never
want to see it again, or another Jaguar from a, it made me completely, even
I love the car.
The car is fantastic.
I think I actually said it's almost as good as an M5 or as good sort of, you know,
for much less money.
But the absolute headache that both of those cars caused, it is, I don't think
there has been another car on the channel yet.
Maybe I'll, in general, more than the S3.
The S3 was a headache, but the XFR, to the, to the, to the question money was
more complicated and would always, there would always be something else.
We, the first one, we couldn't fix, like that, that's the first car on this
channel that has happened, that we've just had to give up on.
The thing is, to just give it away, is that everyone says Jags are reliable,
but we bought, and they were cheaper ones, of course, and the one was crashed.
But the stuff like, you're telling me that, okay, we're going to buy two separate
cars, the same model, but two completely different ones, different lives,
different mileage, like almost double, one of them was double the mileage,
and owning them within like a month, that much stuff goes wrong.
It's a back car.
Yeah, we did, we did beat the shit out of it.
Yeah, but also, if you're, they are both bottom of the blue one less so, I will say,
actually, the blue one less so, that was a, one of the cheapest cars for sale,
but I don't think it was that bad.
No, green one was a unknown, unknown car from co-part, and it turned out that
lots of the stuff that got went wrong with it was because of previous people
not looking after it, not cleaning the car with that kind of thing, but still two cases
where they both caused ridiculous headaches.
And two timing chain failures on separate cars with different
mileage, different lives, like mental, and I know, yeah, fine, that does happen.
But if you have a 500 horsepower car, surely it should be able to have 500 horsepower
power up, it should be able to be not beaten on like rags, but like if it's
warmed up properly, you do a poll, and it doesn't make a timing chain go loose.
Yeah, I mean, look at the amount of GTRs on earth.
Yeah, they get at like all of them, not all of them, but let's say the
majority of R35 GTRs get abused, and yet the majority of them are on the road.
Yeah, they have problems, but they don't do that where they just die.
I do, I do think that I'm sure that there'll be either later cars or well looked
after ones and they're fine, but in our case, but yeah, that's firmly on my
at the top of the naughty list.
I remember what mine is.
That's tough one.
It's the Cayenne.
Oh, because the Cayenne, I think of literary of anyone in this, you know, in our
extended universe, me and him were the tightest.
I took that Cayenne everywhere to go and get pick up parts.
I went up to the top of the country across the country, all over in that car.
I think I probably did the most miles in this six, because this cup,
it was kind of communal between everyone.
I love it, and I loved it, and I literally moved it around today.
And when I got into it, I was like, you let us down.
It broke, we fixed it, we helped it, and then it died.
I think obviously it was fixable, but even then,
driving today after Taylor's done some work to it and got most of it back on running.
Doesn't feel the same.
He's he's lost his magic, his magic touch of being untouched.
And yet it would just feel like it would go forever.
Even moving it around there, I was like, you're going to break, aren't you?
You're not going to work.
He felt delicate after genuinely.
Yeah.
So I'm completely sorry, man.
Now I change mine to what mine went to.
I thought that let me down as well.
That's not fair.
It's another one.
That's bullshit.
That's not.
No, I'm not changing it.
I don't think you have that one at all.
I think I think it's fair.
Sorry, you beat it headed.
Not that much, Dave.
I'm not having deferred maintenance.
I got Ben.
No, no, no, no, no.
I wanted to.
That was maintained very well.
Yeah, before you, no, I did in that car, like 10,000 miles.
I did two service.
Hey, look, someone looked after that.
So that's what these people did.
It's like, it's like, it's like a hundred, a hundred K miles.
Well, I was off this.
It had a new belt.
I spent a lot of quite a lot of money on that car at the end.
I lost quite a lot of money on it.
But I'm saying is that it gave up after it.
Also, one of you kind of worked, which one of us, one of you said to me,
well, you only did like seven laps.
It should have, it should have survived that.
Yeah, yeah, look at your E36.
I'm glad it did eventually go.
Look at your E36.
Yeah, look at it.
You did like what?
50 laps in it.
Yeah.
And it was fine.
Do you know what, actually, my consideration, my dip, but it was one mountain.
By right.
Yeah, it's an entire gearbox dying.
My consideration for my, for my nautical was my blue clear.
Really?
Just because in the same fashion as the Jag, every time I did something,
something else would happen.
But I've now fine.
You know, I'm being cleansed myself.
You get your, what some honorable mentions for your good ones,
all good ones, good ones, glad to, obviously, both glad.
Well, actually, no, just my one.
What else is, who else has got things I need to remember things?
Ben, do yours.
Sorry.
Well, can I say, my old M3 as well?
Can I suggest one for you?
Yeah.
I'm not trying to speak for you.
But one I know you're like, the whirar are.
Oh, yeah.
Secret me.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
Because spirits.
Yeah.
But you experience, because we, you know, been left and you went back into the event
and sat and waited for it to go on the track.
And I listened to it good, as well.
Yeah, no, that is one of them.
But I've kind of heard that for, I'm trying to think of things that are the driven
or been in because that's what I think that makes it more special.
Driving my old M3 again was painful, but cool.
Glad to walk by and like I'm driving both of those very, very cool.
What else did we do in the U.S.?
How am I?
How am I?
I do love that, how am I?
I love it.
I don't think I'd put it up there as it's a memorable, it is memorable.
Well, I'll find that.
I remember that more than a lot of other cars were driven.
But the, the, the, the hellcat.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, sorry.
Actually, top of the list of the list that isn't the top as in third place.
It would go mostly like a glado Mustang.
Oh, yeah, that's, that car.
I would say it's the most memorable after I've forgotten it for the last five cars.
But that car, I think about regularly, it honestly was, I would like to buy
a car like that.
It would have to sit in a collection of other things.
You'd have to, yeah.
But it's the money.
It's that car is so cool.
I would, I was really impressed with that car.
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