C.R.E.A.M. (The TDC Podcast) Jan 1, 2026

C.R.E.A.M. #63 - New Year's Resolutions, GT Lineup Confirmed and A New NFS?

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Apple CarPlay

Apple CarPlay lets you use your iPhone in your car. You can see your apps, get directions, and listen to music on your car's screen, which makes it safer and more convenient to use your phone while driving.

Car

Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is a famous car that looks sporty and goes really fast. It's been around for a long time and is loved by many people for its cool style and powerful engine.

Car

Ford F-150 Raptor

The Ford F-150 Raptor is a tough truck made for driving on rough roads and off-road adventures. It's known for being really strong and fast, making it a favorite for people who love outdoor activities.

Car

Ford Ranger Raptor

The Ford Ranger Raptor is a tough version of the Ranger truck that is made for off-roading. It has a stronger engine and better suspension to handle rough terrain.

Car

Ford Ranger

Car

BMW E36

The E36 is a version of the BMW 3 Series, a popular car known for being fun to drive and good at handling. It was made in the 1990s.

Car

BMW 330D

The BMW 330D is a type of car that runs on diesel fuel, making it more fuel-efficient. The E46 is the specific version of the 3 Series that was made between 1997 and 2006, and it's well-liked for its driving experience.

Term

E46

E46 is a specific version of the BMW 3 Series that was made from 1997 to 2006. It's known for being fun to drive and having good engines.

Car

Honda S2000

The Honda S2000 is a small, sporty car that is really fun to drive. It has a powerful engine and is loved by people who enjoy going fast and taking sharp turns.

Car

BMW X5

The BMW X5 is a type of luxury SUV that is spacious and comfortable, making it a good choice for everyday driving. It has a reputation for being reliable and well-equipped.

Term

B58

The B58 is a type of engine made by BMW that has six cylinders and uses a turbocharger to provide more power. It's known for being powerful and smooth.

Car

Volkswagen Up

The Volkswagen Up is a small car made by Volkswagen that's great for driving in the city. It's easy to park and uses less fuel, making it a good choice for everyday use.

Term

SR20

The SR20 is a type of engine made by Nissan that many car fans like to use in their projects. It's known for being strong and easy to modify.

Car

Bugatti Chiron

The Bugatti Chiron is a super-fast luxury car that many people dream of owning. It's famous for being one of the fastest cars you can buy, with a very powerful engine.

Car

Mazda MX-5

The Mazda MX-5 is a small sports car that is fun to drive. It's known for being light and easy to handle, making it a favorite among car lovers.

Car

Porsche Cayman

The Porsche Cayman is a sporty car that has its engine in the middle, which helps it handle really well. It's a step up in performance and luxury from many other cars.

Car

Honda Civic Type R

The Honda Civic Type R is a sportier version of the regular Honda Civic. It's designed for better performance and handling, making it a favorite among car enthusiasts.

Car

Honda Civic

The Honda Civic Type R is a special version of the Honda Civic that is built for speed and performance. It's known for being fast and fun to drive, making it a favorite among car fans.

Term

limiter

A limiter is a safety feature in cars that stops the engine from going too fast. It helps avoid breaking the engine by keeping it within safe speed limits.

Car

Land Defenders

The Land Rover Defender is a strong and tough car that can drive anywhere, even on really bumpy roads. It's famous for its boxy shape and is often used by people who love to go on adventures in nature.

Car

for people who were shot dead in the local area last night.

Is that one of the first times you've experienced that?

Hang on. And then...

Chris said, shut up.

Sorry, wait. I'll stay the place of story first.

Another game on the radar. If you're a Star Wars person, now you can be a star racist.

Oh, God. Christ.

Hello and welcome to a brand new year of Cars Rule Everything Around The Podcast.

The podcast where we answer with the Cars Rule or ruin everything around us,

before we get to that, it is, of course, the 1st of January, 2026.

Merry New Year, Chris, to all of yous. New year, new us.

Exactly. Same us.

In fact, we've so new, we've bought a house together.

Yep. Cream house.

We finally did it, boys.

No, we are out and about, but we thought we can't not put our podcast out on the first.

So here we are in an Airbnb doing a quick podcast for you all.

Ben's got his little feetsies out if you're listening.

I'm going to have to have my feet blurred because if I'm having them tucked in,

because if I have them out straight, then you're going to see.

I can see it.

You're going to see my dogs barking.

Now, one other thing to note is that last week we did the Christmas special

and it was filled with chair, it was filled with costumes and hats and...

Oh, guys, I loved your costumes.

We put on a show.

And yet we, you didn't see it.

Because unfortunately an overzealous colleague found an SD card in our unit and decided,

I can use that today. Unfortunately, I have the Christmas special on it.

So you heard the audio.

We haven't worked out what we're going to do yet.

So you might have just seen Ben's face because we knew we had that for this.

So sorry, everyone.

So shout out for bearing with...

Thank you very much.

Next Christmas, we promise we will do it bigger and better.

And just to get Ben's name out the mud.

It wasn't Ben.

And it was Ben.

It wasn't Ben.

And Ben, I mean, he's got track record.

He was under Ben's instruction.

Also, we found out and my immediate panic was that on the podcast,

you're going to say someone lost it and it was me.

I didn't care that the podcast was gone.

No, I cared.

He just cared that it was another reputation smasher.

Ben went, Vodka's gone.

Oh, someone else deleted it.

Five of my life out here.

But you know what?

It's a new year.

So we can leave it behind us.

Yeah.

It's still 2020.

Do you guys...

Are we still angry?

Do you have a good Christmas?

I had a great Christmas.

It's still the 19th of December.

I just had to think about how my Christmas was.

And I realized I haven't had Christmas yet.

Yeah, we haven't had Christmas yet.

We are filming this beforehand.

So the magic is ruined.

But we still have a new year's episode.

It's the beginning of a new cream.

William.

What is it?

Rural ruin.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay.

That's interesting.

It will be a rule.

Okay.

Great.

Not only does it have audio, which has already been mentioned,

but it now has Apple CarPlay.

Nah, that's cool.

It's really cool.

A chap named Dan came down and fitted.

Dan's a fantastic man.

He is a fantastic man in this case,

because the install that's been done on it is absolutely

immaculate.

And I have been bumping Manifresh so hard in that car.

It's unbelievable.

That's good.

On the Mustang.

Now here we hear it in the Raptor.

That's my other reason to rule.

Yep.

So by now, we're actually getting towards the end of our loan.

But yeah, we have been loaned by Ford.

Cream has been given its first press cars.

A Ford Ranger Raptor and a Mustang Dark Horse.

It's quite ridiculous.

Ben, you chose last episode on the Christmas special,

not that I really would have seen it.

You chose for me to have the Ranger Raptor and Will to have the Mustang.

Now at this point, we haven't actually switched over yet.

I'm in the Ranger.

I tell you what, I really like it.

The Ranger, I'm looking forward to my stint in the Ranger.

I've used it on multiple occasions.

Using it normally.

It's great.

It's a normal car.

Using it in anger.

That is so dumb.

It is like a bar-hardtruck.

It will bounce and frolic around the road in just the coolest way.

And it's very noisy.

It's very noisy.

And what's more, it's got two-wheel drive mode.

It's got switchable rear-wheel drive.

Oh, that's handy.

I'll leave it there.

It's been wet recently.

And the Mustang also is sort of permanently dry.

Crazy.

The Mustang, I like it a lot.

Yeah, hopefully.

You will see.

I think we mentioned, we're the last people to be using both.

Yeah, they're both getting depleted.

So sorry, Ford, we've wrecked them both.

But no, you'll see some videos on those pretty soon,

not on the 2DeadCenter channel.

And we're also hoping to do some more Ford driving of their heritage cars.

If we're very good.

So for me, that's what you, your rule.

Yeah, that's my rule.

I'm partly also a rule for that.

Quite a funny story in collecting the Fords.

We'll talk about that in a minute.

Other than that, because of the Ranger, I've retired the E36 for now as a daily.

Which is quite nice.

I had to move it the other day and I got a smell of milk

because I had spilt coffee in it before.

That car, I don't know if we mentioned it last time.

We did, yeah.

You wouldn't have seen it.

No, but it's becoming so very E36, so I think it's nice to not use it.

Yeah, no, I want to, that's got to get, it's now race car treatment.

So that's going to be good.

But other than that, I think that's my only...

Well, we've also just recently finished the two car series.

Now for you, that's done, dusted, someone's already won the car.

But we finished it today.

We did our last road trip and it felt very special.

It genuinely felt really good.

Building the cars that we had when we were 17, modifying how we wanted,

and then taking them on a bit of a road trip was really, really good.

So I'm in rule.

Benjamin, could he do it for the beginning of the year?

I'm going to give it a rule because nothing's changed.

Okay.

And Grant, that was a ruin last week and nothing's changed.

Well, by proxy, it should be a ruin.

But for me, I'm going to make it a rule because it's a new year, same me.

No, you're still happy with what you're driving to work.

It's all very jolly and comfortable.

Now, I intend for, as we've said, it's December 19th today or something like that.

But I intend to, by the time this podcast goes live, have a daily.

Oh, okay.

I've got time of the Christmas.

Actually, at least my time off, I'm going to spend some of that time getting a daily.

We could go straight into this.

It was for later on in the podcast, but we could go straight into it.

I'm going to go, yeah, the quote?

Yeah, this quote.

So for context, Benjamin has been looking for the daily.

You're all aware of this.

It's been going on for some time.

I think your ancestors might be quite aware of this as well.

But Ben was offered within the unit.

There is always a used market of cars bubbling away below the surface.

There's always something for sale that you can buy.

Gramps was my four-spec.

Come in every day and there's a different batch of cars available.

And Ben was offered a 330D.

I was.

An E46 wagon.

Now that I've always said, that is the videographer's car of choice.

If you do any form of YouTube professionally,

you know a videographer that has an E46 330D.

Shout out, Greg.

Yeah, it's just all videographers called Greg.

Now, Ben was offered this car at a very cheap price.

At a very good price.

And in sport, it had some amount of miles on it.

I think it started with a two.

Okay.

And it had some form of crust, but it had some form of MOT too.

It did.

And it was all offered for a very cheap price far below the market value

as a favor to say you can use it temporarily.

You can drive it around.

You can find your daily.

Stop using the S2000.

And then went, that's a great idea.

And then five minutes later, we went back to Ben and then went,

I don't like the idea.

I don't like it.

I've found a reason not to.

But that's fine.

We'll get past that.

That's what I'm telling you is old news.

When you shout at that, it sounds a little bit...

Every car has that same story.

Everyone listening saying, oh, well, we knew that was going to happen.

It's like, what's different about this?

But the reason that I've put this quote in is because Ben said something about it.

He said, the reason I don't want it is if it works and doesn't break down,

then I'll just keep it.

Is one of the most baffling sentences ever to come out of a human's mouth.

Now, okay.

If it was something fun, a little summer sports car that you don't really have

space for, you're buying on a win.

Forget it.

Maybe.

This your daily.

That's the one thing you want it to do.

You've actually said, I mean, if it works, I'll have to keep it.

And I'll keep it for a long time, which means I'll be in the same situation,

but I'll have to sell it.

Yes, certainly.

My brain can't compute the logic.

I can't actually understand it.

You know what?

I thought about it again.

And I actually thought maybe we're not evolved enough to understand.

I think it could be Ben's playing 5D chess and we're playing checkers.

He's in God mode.

So could you elaborate, please?

I'm not the most articulate.

I'm an articulate person, but I don't very good at articulating things sometimes.

So, you know what?

Crazy quote.

Quote that.

That's quite good.

I don't actually know what articulate person means.

Another one that's too good for us.

What I was trying to say was, right, I don't like buying cars.

I don't like selling cars.

Understandable.

But I especially don't like buying cars.

So I just daily that have to function and work.

Okay.

Because then there's so much pressure on having good service history and like,

you know, not being cross that sort of thing, right?

So logically to me, when I buy a car now as a daily,

I want that to be a daily for a while.

I want a year out of that at least, like the X5.

Okay.

Understandable.

Now, I offer this car and it, you know, on the surface, it's a great car.

Whoever buys it, they've got a decent car.

But it's got crusty bits here and it's got high mileage.

I know that I don't want to keep that car long term.

It's not a car I want, but I know what I'm like.

If I buy that car and it just functions, I'll get fed up and my brain will be on other things.

I'll just keep it and I won't ever change it.

And then it'll become like a burden on me where I want to change it,

but I won't actually be able to do it.

Starts to make it.

But also, what if you buy it and it just works?

But I don't want that car.

I know it's going to also with the mileage and the some rust it has,

I know it will at some point in neck, it's going to need some stuff doing.

I don't want to have to be the one that does that.

And then you can't sell it because then it does have those issues and I won't fix them.

It's, you know what?

It is, it's an unsolvable.

I always know.

To quote one of my favorite memes, you an interesting critter, bro.

Would you not admit, right?

Would you not admit that we have, in the last month, which is since I've sold X5,

grantedly, probably regret to do that now.

We've deleted the video version of the Christmas podcast.

Yeah, yeah, all of that.

Yeah, fine.

Screwed.

And then what else?

We've had a very busy few weeks.

Yeah, sure.

It has been, our schedule has been as you as my favorite phrase jam packed.

Pack full of jams, huge jam.

And because of that, it means that I haven't had a lot of time to really,

if there's a car in Sheffield, I don't have had time to go and look at it or go get it.

So I'm giving myself, I will accept the abuse.

I'll accept the abuse after Christmas if I haven't got one.

What happened to the car in Wokium?

Which one?

Oh, what the 330D?

Nah, shut up.

Okay, so there was, right, if everyone listening, there was the cleanest 330D.

On the surface.

Do you know, can I just preface one thing?

When Ben says the cleanest, he hasn't been within six miles of the car.

No, I haven't.

Well, I mean by nature, because it's down the road.

Yes, but you know.

Okay, sorry.

It looked very clean.

It looked very nice.

It had a good service history, that sort of thing.

A car that I actually would have bought, it was a good spec.

I would have bought it.

Okay.

But I intended to go and look at it, but I bought it to these guys and I said,

listen, this car is for sale.

And I actually did ask you if it was too much money.

I actually did ask you it was.

And you said, it's far too much money.

I think it was £4,200.

Yeah.

And you guys said, well, you said, awesome, awesome, £200 car.

Realistically.

Holy hell, Will's in the room, is he?

Realistically, it's probably what, three, three and a half grand car is a bit.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

That's what I was told.

Okay.

So I then said, fine, I won't buy it.

But now you can't bring it up and say that.

No, because you didn't even go and look at it.

Do you need a baseline?

He's not going to come down by a grand or a grand now.

But that's the thing.

When you buy a car, especially when it's a car that you want to rely on,

or it's a higher price car, don't necessarily go and buy the first one you look at.

Go to a dealer and look at one at a price, right?

If it's there for sale, it's not the best price because it would have gone into me, right?

Yeah.

You go look at a car, that's your baseline.

Yeah.

Now you base the next cars off of that.

Will and I have bought enough cars that we know what the baseline is naturally.

Whereas I think you need to go and you find the car that you want,

go and look at one, even an expensive one.

I know.

But what sort of location scouting I've got to do again?

Bill, Ben needs a click and collect on cars.

A Chinese.

Ben has got a champagne taste and lemonade money in this situation.

And that is not even a dig.

It's like, here's my budget, which is okay.

It's a relatively strong budget.

Yeah, sure.

But it's not enough to go.

Right.

Bring me a car now.

Bring me a car.

Deliver it to me.

I want it to have 10,000 miles.

And I won't travel.

And I won't travel, unless it's my next door neighbor.

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No, actually, I will travel.

I especially...

The flexibility of being able to travel,

I don't have the flexibility to do that.

Yeah, that's fair.

Because I drive there in a car.

How am I going to get both cars back?

You can't drive two cars.

That's fine, but you go and make the deal,

and then you work out after.

You've got friends.

Right here, buddy.

Well, well...

Now, the reason I want to bring this up so early in the podcast

is that there is...

I think we've invented it.

We're the first people to come up with it.

An idea called New Year's Resolution.

Yeah, something that you resolute in the new year.

Then what is yours?

Not only...

I'm hoping that there might be something

daily related.

Please don't say it's to buy daily,

because that's so sad.

That's really tough.

Do I have to actually tell you my real one?

Can I just say daily?

Well, one that applies to cream podcasts.

Okay, in that case then,

I will be buying a daily.

And...

Okay, here we go.

There's one.

I don't know if this one's just coming to me,

as I was speaking.

Oh, right.

And also...

Do you know what?

I'll say it preliminarily, and we'll decide over credits.

Don't cut that.

Leave us in.

I would like to do more research on the news.

Wow, that's a lovely...

You know what?

Really nice thing to say.

I think I can still come back from it.

I think you could.

I think you could be the newsman supreme.

I think you could say,

good morning.

It is...

Yeah, yeah, I was waiting for the papers.

Yeah, shovels and papers and go,

four people were shot dead in the local area last night.

Well, are they?

No.

Actually, I've got no idea.

Let me look on just read a headline.

Wow, what happened?

I don't know.

Four people shot dead in the local area.

Do you know what then?

So, it won't be this one, because the news is not...

No, I don't have any.

But the next one...

The next cream.

Next cream?

I mean, that's kind of...

You can't ramp it.

It's either it starts now or it doesn't.

We'll shoot that in the new year.

Yeah, I'm going to try.

The genuine thing is, is that we do it.

It's not our full-time job.

So, there is not a huge amount of prep that goes into it.

This is not a full-time job.

Ben wants to be a podcast news producer as full-time.

No, that's why...

We're sending you out to other countries.

What I mean is, we're running a full YouTube channel.

Two of them, actually.

And then after that, we do the podcast, right?

Ben's all day slaving over at one link.

I've been trying to work out how to open this link all day.

Ben's got sources, people that are like buzzing him saying,

oh, did you know this is coming out?

You should...

You can't reveal my name, please, when you're still with us.

If you knew me, which I can tell you guys do.

If you should see me journal out my exam at school,

I just can't...

If I read something, I can't retain the information.

If I watch it as a video, it's in there.

Oh, okay.

But if I read it, I read news articles, I go...

Do you watch A Christmas Special?

No, you can't.

That's not possible.

I'd certainly listen to it.

They don't make them like that.

Well, you can't watch Ben.

You can't watch Ben.

Now, Will, what's yours?

I'd say an interesting one.

I haven't perhaps...

Revolving around cars or creamed...

My first car.

I was just...

I thought I asked a different question.

That was back in 2000.

That was the year it was 2012.

That was liquid politician.

You pivoted.

I would say now this is basic.

As a car one, but it's to buy an interesting car.

That's fair.

Well, I'm not talking about a daily replacement.

You have to buy a yellow clear.

Yep.

You have to do that.

It was close.

Actually, the deal fell through.

Yeah, I nearly did it as well.

I decided against it because...

Well, it's just silly, really.

Sorry, after a section of my meet, we have a new bet, don't we?

I want to mention this on the podcast.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if you'd want to mention it.

Boy, am I more happy to mention that.

We'll do it.

Clutch right there.

Yeah, buy an interesting car of some sort.

I've mentioned the Clear V6.

I don't think that's going to happen.

But let's see what happens.

What else?

Just something of interest.

Yeah.

Like something nice.

That'll be nice.

That's well, kind of technically, my goal as well is 550.

It's vague.

But the...

I am...

Edwin.

Yep, that's me.

Yeah, got it.

No, I would like A, I'm still on Col Herd.

That's the...

I'm still...

I've got to focus on getting down.

What about the Cols?

That too.

Ben made you fight.

No, we could...

Ben fires us.

We...

Yeah, I need to get rid of some cars.

And I would also...

I'm in the same vein.

I want to complete some more cars.

So as in like my E36, that one, I want that to be done by the end of the year.

There'll always be things to do.

I've got so many cars that are like,

yeah, I'll do this at some point.

I'll do a B58 in that E36.

Nah, no, that needs to be done at the end of the year.

So that's my...

So let us know in the comments your automotive resolutions.

I don't want...

I'm going to lose six kilos.

I don't want to hear that.

I want to hear...

SR20 swapping and my Volkswagen up.

Now you're in.

What's that?

SR20 Blackbird swapping your...

No, different engine.

Is that what it is?

Yeah, I don't think the Blackbird runs...

Is it SR71?

SR78 is that, yeah.

Wow, I know Blaine's.

So I was wrong then, wasn't I really on that one?

I know all the Blaine's, man.

Silly boy.

Silly, silly boy.

Shall we drive back quickly?

Oh yeah, sorry.

There is a new bet.

This is sort of New Year's resolution related.

Ben and I gamble.

Will came to me.

And we're here to talk about it on the podcast.

Will came to me.

Hang on.

He begged to gamble with me.

I don't know.

I'm some sort of gambling addict.

You do love...

You will go up to Ben and randomly go...

Ben, gamble with me.

And then we'll go, no.

And Will goes, please.

But then he'll do this thing where he'll be like,

I want to gamble.

And then he'll be like, all right, well,

if you do this, if you don't do this,

then you have to jump into a pit of scorpions

and I get to watch them eat your flesh.

And if I lose, I think I'll just probably just go home

and have a nice evening.

But then why would I make a bet that I could lose?

Then that's the thing.

At the same time, on the flip side,

Ben will agree to things that just make...

Only make sense to you.

He'll go, no, I don't think I...

I do have a chance in that,

but it's not assured for me.

So I'm not taking this bet.

Ben will not take a bet that he doesn't know he's going to win.

I'm down horses that are like one to two...

They've already finished the race.

Now, what is the bet?

Go, Ben.

No, no, no, he pitched it.

You set for them, buddy.

So I've stated Ben comes to us with big plans.

He says, I'm going to do this.

And he does that to me.

He says, I would have bought that.

I would have bought that.

Bugatti Sharon comes up.

I would have bought that.

Had someone not bought that, I would have bought that.

Had I had the money?

Had I... I would have bought that.

I just would have bought that.

I 100% would have bought that.

That's strictly untrue, though, is it?

I believe that the S2000 will depart us this year

sooner than expected.

Why do you think this?

Because I just think circumstance will...

It won't necessarily force it,

but you will believe it will be forced.

And you will sell it.

And it won't be to upgrade.

That is my caveat, my TNC.

So will we use the horrible word

then said MX5 might even be a place?

I did. I said it really...

It should be sold for like a Cayman, right?

That's realistically the thing you'd want to step up to.

But I think you'll sell it

and either replace it with nothing

or something lesser.

And I said May.

Yeah, end of May.

Time frame is by the end of May.

So keep your...

If you want to take side bets, if you guys want to...

If you want to find another creamer

and make a side bet with the...

Sure, sure.

We can't officially endorse that,

but it's free country.

No, no. Let me just say something.

This is... There is no insider trading going on here.

Will doesn't know anything about my personal life

that would make me sell it.

Well, why would he not let you know?

Why would you take that bet then

if he knew something about yours?

That's what I mean.

There's nothing like...

He doesn't know that I'm like going into a situation

where I need to sell it necessarily or whatever.

He's just made the bet randomly.

Well, May was such a random time.

Nobody knows how many millions you have.

I don't even know. I don't think there's any.

Mid-May. I don't know.

So many that I don't know.

Burning my house down.

Yeah, in May.

Why?

Oh, I'm going to have to force your hand.

Oh, my.

Then that's the buy.

Then that's the buy another house.

If you sell it, it's $6,000.

So this is nowhere near enough for a house.

If you're looking especially sort of like,

you know, financially safe kind of May,

I'm going to have to do something.

You think I could buy a house for the price of $6,000?

That's what I was going to say.

I mean, it could go up, but like...

No, no. I'm just going to...

Financially, I'm going to have to force your hand.

Okay.

I might burgle you.

I might rob you.

Take something I want, buddy.

Bright.

Shall we move on to some neck dotes?

Did you have something more to add?

I can add to it.

I thought it was.

Oh, okay.

Well, we'll carry on with podcast.

You carry on thinking about that stupid joke.

Bed, when you...

No, sorry. Sorry.

I'm far too far down here.

Ben, you started off with Honda Friend.

Here we go.

I made a friend.

Only until May.

Here we go.

Now, you might have liked this, but I did too, actually.

Oh, yeah. You told me about this.

I put that in the chat and there was a second one that happened.

I was on the way back from actually the Christmas podcast.

Hello, mate.

Feeling gleeful.

Never seen that.

I was wearing my Christmas jumper.

Okay.

Which obviously you wouldn't know that I was.

Well, no, they would.

Oh, they saw you.

Sorry, yes.

We weren't there, though, so we didn't see it.

Yes, I was wearing my Christmas jumper, all gleeful, happy.

I wasn't in for.

It's very quiet.

And I hear a...

Wa-ba-ba-ba-ba-bun.

I was like, hold on a second.

Will Bearing's gone.

That's another Honda.

And it was an EP3 type R.

Oh.

Okay.

That was the same thing.

And he came out behind me.

Oh, okay.

And then, you know, driving.

And I thought, I thought, let's pretend you're here to be friends.

So...

It's been all the way down.

Do you want to be friends?

He overtook me.

I don't know, keep this to June.

And tucked him in front.

And I thought, that's a...

You know, why were you tucking him in front

when you could just zoom off?

Because he was going faster than me at the start.

And I thought, I'll do a little pool past you.

See what happens.

Oh, okay.

Did a little pool past.

Casper came, doesn't have one again.

And we're just hanging out.

And then we just cruise for about 20 minutes.

Just like mates.

Ben's playing Forza Horizon in real life.

Is that one of the first times you've experienced that?

Hang on.

And then I got to one junction before my junction.

I said, shut up.

Sorry, wait.

I said this to the story first.

It's a kind of normal question.

And he drove off.

And gave me a couple...

Hazards.

I gave him a couple of flashes.

I drove home so happy.

Yeah.

You know what?

It happens.

But it takes a certain type of car to do it.

But it was because it was two Hondas.

No, not even that.

It's because it was like an EP3.

Like a Type R.

If it was an EP2, like a badly modified Civic Si or something,

would you be like, just leave me alone?

It just felt like we were of the same vein in that moment.

Scumbags.

Somewhat.

Rotters.

But sort of like upper echelon.

It wasn't even being silly.

I like doing like...

It wasn't like racing or anything.

It was literally just...

He flew past me.

I flew past him and then we just sat there and chilled.

Sometimes.

And it doesn't happen that often.

Like, especially on just a normal commute or something.

But it's just nice.

It's the...

You might do a little bit of speeding with them.

You might do that.

Especially if they can observe road rules correctly as well.

Yeah, you can tell if they're a trope or not.

The...

You know what I always think it feels like?

It feels like a nature documentary when a bird is trying to find a mate

and it's showing off and doing it.

It's like, yo, mate, we're the same.

We speak the same language.

Because he communicated you with his limiter.

Yeah, that's...

Yes, and I did the same.

Hello.

That's a hello.

A limiter is a hello.

And then the pass by is like, are we up to anything?

I've got 8,000.

You've got 9,000.

Yeah.

Let's see wet red lines.

And then...

But it's always the hazards.

Because I don't like that.

I don't really care for the back and forth.

Yeah.

If you want to tuck in and we're heading off.

Me at bed, be big sleep.

Then cool.

But the leaving part, you have to just give a quick hazard flash.

Lovely.

It was lovely.

I gave him a little flashback on the headlights.

He flashed in.

And then also...

Yeah.

And then I had a second one.

Yeah, what was that?

Then on the weekend, I met my girlfriend.

We were driving.

And I said to her, I'm going to put the roof down.

And cried.

It was possibly five degrees.

So she wasn't too happy about that.

But I said, it's happening.

It's a holiday.

It's finally not raining.

Roof's going down.

And I was going down this quite long straight.

And it's like a little down up thing.

A hill, if you will.

Ben's on the mall sound straight.

Yeah.

And in the distance, I see this grey car.

I'm like, that's not 2,000.

Hold on a second.

That's not 2,000.

But then my vision, it's all right.

But I couldn't see that far.

And then I started morphing into an MX5.

And I thought, I can't flash him or wave him

because it could be an MX5.

Really tough.

You can't do that.

And just as he came into the view where I could see him

and passed me, he had his roof down too.

And he put his hand up and waved.

And I put my hand up and waved.

And I felt like, I remember Tony saying,

but that's when you don't need to sell your car.

Yeah.

You're in a cold.

But I loved it.

Do you know what?

It's when, if you have a rare car, I feel it.

If when I was in the MX5, and I saw another MX5,

I was like, no, no, no.

There's like, there's a grandma four minutes down the road

who's got 10 of these.

It's always defenders as well.

It's always the classic thing.

But I thought, you know what?

Like bus drivers.

You don't see many of these.

The little hand signals.

I was so, I was so excited.

Do you know what?

I'd like to start it.

Instead of, I want it instead of, actually,

can we start this?

Instead of cars, can we throw up gang signs?

Okay.

So we, if you see another creamer,

you hit with a, with a, with a, with a C.

You know, we might be killed.

That is famously how you get killed.

You know, exactly.

You target the wrong car and you might.

But, but just throw up just to check.

You know what?

That's how, that's how we got to do this from now on.

If you suspect a creamer and you're in the car and you're driving,

hit them with a quick C.

C means many different things.

And creamer is one of them.

Yes.

That, you know, that might have to be our international sign.

I think Smith and Stiff have talked about this quite a few times of,

how do you, how do you alert to another person?

But a little, little C, just a little.

I don't think it's national sign.

If we go to like LA, I think that might be.

No, I don't even like us there.

Have you ever had it where you've had to ignore someone?

Yes.

Where you just give it the like dead ahead and you don't want to give them,

it's probably an RS3 or someone and they're being a clown.

Oh yeah, that's for sure.

If I start looking at them, then they, then they, they won't.

I had it, do you know what?

I had it my way.

I was, but I didn't think I was being a clown.

There was a guy in a Sierra Cosworth on trade plates and it was standard.

So, you know, I'm not bitter about this or whatever.

And I was in the clado.

I was like, you know what, we're car boys.

We're, we're, we are lovers of cars and these are,

these are two different types of things, but we should enjoy it.

And I was having a good old look.

I'd come alongside him.

And the car too.

And the car.

Oh, I just brushed Ben's neck.

Yeah, we're retouching.

Hang on.

I, I came alongside him, had a little look.

I tucked him behind it.

This, this, this man, he refused to look.

And I could tell it was a few, I'm in a bright.

I'm not being that guy.

I'm not saying you have to look at it, but I think you should.

Rolls that, you're like, no, look at me.

That I bought a yellow one.

You have to look at me.

I was, I was a little bit bothered by it.

I thought it felt like falls a horizon and he just,

he gave it the, you know, sort of middle lane hogger effect.

I have it when I'm in the M three with E four,

normally 46 people, which I'm not, I'm not trying to be classist.

I'm not trying to say who's person,

but it's usually because they're being scumbags.

Yeah.

They're, they're weaving in through it, in and out traffic.

They've got halo lights.

They are fully tinted lights.

And they come, they fly off alongside.

I'm like, no, I'm not, I'm not engaging because if I engage with you,

you're going to spin out and crash into me.

And I don't want to deal with this today.

To wagon with 18 degrees of camber at the front.

Yeah, a Jaguar wheels for some reason.

A pickup conversion and a great big dildo handbrake thing

in the middle of it.

It's going to be horrible.

What have we got next?

What we have next is, is, um, I don't understand what it means.

A la vie, Mark two.

That's me.

I put that in there.

You put that in there.

Let me look at what that is because I've got no idea what I put in there.

It sort of looks like you've just mashed the keyboard.

Oh, that is, yes.

Something I want to do this year, not every single year.

What?

Sorry.

Not every single week is highlight some people who maybe are lesser known

in the car, car world that I enjoy or that we enjoy.

And there is a man, uh, sorry, not a man.

There is a child.

Now his Instagram handle is olavi mark two.

He's a 13 year old boy in some form of Scandinavian countries.

He's building a mark to golf.

Now when I say building it, he's built a wide body out of foam himself.

No tools, no teaching, no nothing.

He's welding up and shaving the engine bay.

The worlds are terrible.

He's 13.

He's building a wide body mark to golf from scratch by himself

with like home, home tools, all that sort of stuff.

And it's going well.

And I, every time I see his stuff pop up on my feed, I think this is,

this is genuinely incredible.

There's lots of stuff on there.

I wouldn't attempt.

I wouldn't try and do a fiberglass.

Do you know when people do like expanding foam and then shave it down?

Yeah.

He's done that.

That's great.

13 year, I'm not.

That's crazy.

So go and have a look at his thing.

I want to get in contact with him and see if we can send him some tools

or help him out in some way because it's legitimately really cool.

And he's, he's not like going after family.

He's just like, I'm just building this car by the way.

Here's his video, but no one's helping him.

No, I think, I think his dad, I don't think we should help.

We can, we can send things, but we can't offer.

No, no, we can't know exactly.

I think his dad or someone in this family, they, they build cars.

They are from Scandinavian countries.

After all they're doing gap bill and building.

It's probably going to end up with 2000 horsepower.

So he's got help, but even if I had help 13, that's crazy.

I don't think my, my brain could actually compute any of it.

No, because I'm like, what's the speed, isn't it?

It's just a slider.

Where do I, where's the menu for under?

Where do I just buy the body kit from?

Why am I making the body kit?

He's playing carbon in real life.

Yeah.

He's just hit up auto sculpt, but I'm 13.

So mega shout out to him.

His Instagram, I'll just, I'll put the spell it so that you can go check out.

No, no creamer comments, please.

Remember, keep it civil.

Just show some support if you like.

Just throw up a C, but not in the comments, just yourself.

Yeah.

Don't, it doesn't, he doesn't need to know where the fans are coming from.

Just, if you like it, enjoy it.

It is OLAV Mark II, which is O-L-A-V-I-M-K-2.

Very cool, cool stuff.

Next up is, uh, first news of the year,

which will actually be very almost a month old at this stage.

But it says here, Jagdesign, Jagdesign boss not fired.

There's been an update.

Jagdesign boss not fired.

Okay.

And what's happened then?

Allegedly, he's not being fired.

Oh my goodness.

Who's that?

That is, I'm going to buy some more time.

Hang on.

He's not the Jag boss though.

That is Jerry McGovern.

Yep, McGovern.

Okay.

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has reported that Jaguar Land Rover's chief designer,

with the company for 21 years, was let go,

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Sorry, I meant that exactly how it was.

Including us.

But JLov Command stated, essentially,

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Oh.

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Now, is that a bit of PR?

Is that a little bit of spin?

Is that he's being mothballed?

Because he's being pushed out,

but they haven't got rid of him yet.

Because there was rumors.

There were the eyewitness accounts

of him being escorted from the building,

and it was a messy breakup.

All I can tell you is that they said,

official spokesperson said,

it is untrue we have terminated Jerry McGovern's employment,

and we do not intend to further comment on speculative stories.

Turns out it was just like a dude in the mail room,

that everyone got him the wrong way around.

He should be getting loads of shit.

It is Jerry.

Yeah, Jerry's gone.

Jerry?

He's the design boss.

What did he do?

Yeah.

Meanwhile, Jerry in the press fleet

has been actually terminated.

Jerry from accounts has gone,

but it's spelled differently to this Jerry.

Not even five.

He's just been gilded.

Yeah, just wiped from the face of it.

What a crazy way.

I know terminated is an official thing,

but I'm thinking of gilded.

Yeah, I'm thinking of just the T1000.

We have, unfortunately, had to terminate this employee.

Jesus, what the hell?

Yeah, no, you said the wrong thing.

We set a bot from the future on him.

He is now dead.

So that is sort of up in the air,

but we don't really know what you're saying.

That's an official spokesperson.

Perhaps next week,

which is just seven days away for you,

just a week away.

For us, maybe time moves longer for us,

so we'll have more news by then.

But that is possibly good,

because he did do some good design.

He is a very cool sign.

Possibly bad because of the new one.

Who knows, but hey, news.

I just want to see the new one made now.

You know what it's got?

It's got GTA VI vibes to it,

where there's so much hype around it.

I'm like, just show me the thing, man.

They said, hold on.

Did we just sack the guy who did L405?

Yeah.

Oh, well, she's bringing back, actually.

Bring him back.

That was pretty nice.

Actually, we have to admit.

Next up, we have one that really has peaked my interest.

NFS slash burnout from you, Edwin.

What's that mean?

This was tough.

Now, I actually think that you would have known about this.

I forget.

I heard something and I decided to look no further into it.

OK, so there was some form of games thing.

It might have been Gamescom a couple of weeks ago, months ago now for you.

It was some form of games reveal thing, E3 or what?

That was some Star Wars games got revealed, anyway.

Now, what I heard, I saw a clip online and it said it was an intro.

And it said, this is from some of the people that made some of the most famous

Need for Speed and Burnout Games, a new racing game.

And I was like, yo, here we go, sports fans.

It's a big recipe.

And it opened with cinematic things.

It's a Star Wars racing, pod racing game.

Oh, it is that.

That's that game.

I actually don't think I've ever been more disappointed.

It's like a pod racing type thing.

Yeah, all right.

I might call it.

Now, this is pod racing.

That's the only quite I know from Star Wars.

No, I watched the trailer and it was all a bit fancy.

I didn't know that's what.

Why has it done that?

So, but it's good news for you because it's from the people that made Need for Speed and Burnout.

I mean, I'm quite looking forward to that.

But I would kind of, I would be more up for just another.

Why don't they take what they've actually learned?

They've been, all right, well, even lots of modified cars, really cool races,

was all nice crashes and all sorts of stuff like that.

Police chases.

Yeah, we've got that.

Star Wars.

Star Wars, mate.

It's Mac Star Wars.

Now, let me ask you a question.

Is someone who's never seen it and never will probably?

Yeah.

What is the customization going to be like?

I mean, to be fair, the pod races.

It's probably infinite.

The pod races in...

So, auto sculpt.

Because they're only in the first one, right?

Well, the first one.

The Phantom Menace.

So, in that grid of races, the kind of point of it is you build your own pod racer.

Okay.

So, they're all completely different looking.

Interesting.

Anakin Skywalker is a bit of a petrolhead.

It's kind of like Can-Am racing in the 70s and 80s.

Anything goes.

I'd say it's almost, it's sort of like early beginnings of NASCAR.

Oh, okay.

It's sort of like, I'm just going to build this thing in my...

Or it's like street racing.

So, it's like shared the build.

Yeah.

It's someone who's gone SR20 in the pod.

The one in the first film is literally him building bits, finding bits, scrap bits,

putting it all together.

He's on Facebook Marketplace.

He's like the beginning of...

He's the Monte Carlo.

Not we know, Dan.

We don't know anything about that.

But so, he's Facebook Marketplace.

Yeah, pretty much.

A galaxy far, far away.

In a galaxy far, far away.

Which you must imagine, must be difficult to get parts.

It must be.

If it's dude ghosting you on Facebook, you're saying,

can I have a...

What's the part he might be on Facebook Marketplace looking for?

I don't know.

Like a screw capacitor or something.

Probably.

I mean, the thing is, is that he's...

Like an egg strainer.

Do we have those in that?

Egg strainer.

I literally just picked two words in my brain.

I would say...

I don't know.

Yeah, but I don't know.

There must be some sort of marketplace, though, on Tatooine.

Is it Tatooine?

Oh, 100%.

Because there'll be different sort of engines and thrusters and all sorts.

There's one that's got like handlebars, some of...

Yeah, there's all sorts.

Okay, okay.

Some of them sound quite cool as well.

Do you know what?

I won't knock it until I try it.

And he's like...

I don't think you'll like it at all, but we'll go from there.

We'll want to make me play Star Wars Battlefront.

Yep.

That was tough.

Yeah.

It's not great.

Yeah, great game.

But anyway, another game on the radar.

If you're a Star Wars person, now you can be a Star Racist.

Oh, gosh.

Christ.

I was quite excited about that because I thought you were about to tell me there's

going to be a new one of those.

Or it was going to be the opposite end that they're dead,

but sort of somewhere in the middle, really.

Oh, stop.

Mr. Pigman.

Okay, the next thing is also from you.

I can't say the beginning of it.

It's related to a Mercedes EQB.

Okay.

Ford.

We went to go and pick up the cars.

Now, we did not...

Originally, we thought Ford Dagenham.

That's where Ford is.

And then it turned out they said,

no, no, our heritage centre is not in Dagenham.

It's in Northampton.

So Will and I nearly drove to Dagenham

and then turned up to a factory that is not being made.

They then said, right, Dunton, which is by Basildon.

These are all words if you're not from England.

If you are from England, they're places.

You may also not know.

So they said, can you get there and pick up the cars on Monday?

Now, that was fine, except Monday,

I would say might be one of the most hectic days

of TDC filming we've ever had.

It was yesterday.

It was the only time I've ever filmed

where I had two SD cards going at once

and I was switching rooms.

In each room, I had a different SD card

and I was running in there with the camera.

Do you have like...

You also have like the podcast first

from Christmas on that SD card?

I don't.

Anyway, Will and I realised

we would have to go and pick up the cars at 6am

to make it work on the other side of London.

So we got...

I booked a taxi from my house at 4.15, 4.30am.

And what pulled up, I looked out the window

and I saw a brand new Mercedes.

I was like, this is great.

I ordered the cheapest Uber possible.

Fine.

I got in and it was all fine.

I said, good morning, mate.

I said, I'm going to go to sleep.

I'm going to try and get some more sleep.

He said that.

Yeah.

He said, mate, can you drive?

And I'm going to play for you the noise.

Whenever the car moved at more than zero miles an hour,

this was the noise that it played.

For two hours, this car made that noise.

But what?

Now, here's the funny thing.

I went, all right, surely there's a seatbelt buckle.

So driving down the road,

all right, so it's going beep, beep, beep, beep.

I unplugged my seatbelt and the car goes, beep, beep,

bong, bong, bong.

I was like, okay, so it's not my seatbelt.

So then I leaned over.

I leaned over in the front.

It was annoying me already.

It's four in the morning.

I want to go, I want to sleep in the car.

In fact, I brought a pillow with me.

That's all you bought with you.

Yes, in a backpack.

And so I leaned all the way over into the front.

I don't know why I didn't ask him.

My brain wasn't working.

And stayed at his seatbelt to see if he was wearing a seatbelt.

He looked across.

He looked across as I leaned into the front to look.

He was quite confused.

He looked into his lap.

And I said, what's that beeping noise?

And he went, I don't know.

I said, again, I was like, what?

So I just kind of sat there for a second.

It probably took me 10, 15 seconds to say anything.

But I went, you drive around like that all day.

And he went, yeah, I just kind of get used to it.

And then turned the radio up to awful radio FM.

You know, 109.0.

Original brain rot.

Exactly.

And the entire two hour journey, there was radio blaring and

But now I think I was googling, I was googling how to fix his car.

I was on forums.

I was on Mercedes forums trying to work out what the beep was.

I kept listening on my phone to people's YouTube videos of what the beep was.

I think it was a speed limiter that had just decided to go from zero.

Oh wait, what was the, was it a new, new, new, new car?

New Mercedes.

Like a few years old.

Yeah.

One or two years old.

There is the thing now, isn't there?

In this country, for folks who don't know,

new cars have to be fitted with speed.

If you basically, it can read signs.

And if you're going over the speed limit, it will either beep

or it will tell you off or it will veer you into a hate.

Because the Mustang and the Raps have it.

The Mustang and the Raps have it.

It just beeps once when you go over it.

But you can, that's it.

But that's Mercedes.

But this is constant and incessant.

And the other reason that I put it in there is because it's Mercedes, right?

If you go and get in a 1991 Mercedes 190E, the most base model thing they made,

is comfortable.

Ben, you remember the Veneo?

That horrible, terrible Mercedes that we had?

Still incredibly comfortable.

It feels like, no matter what car Mercedes made,

they were like, it's got to be the nicest, most comfortable car on the road in its class.

I sat in the back seat of that, 20 minutes in my arse hurt.

And that was before, you know, the driver had nothing to do with it.

I swear.

But no, it was great.

It was, it was horribly stamina.

It was, it was genuinely a terror.

It was terrible in the back of that.

No, that's not the S class.

And I know what that is, because they're the big square ones, aren't they?

Is it like, is it a SUV or a crossover?

A small, cross-over-y, it's like a small one picture.

Now, I believe the comfort, that's Mercedes.

The beeping, that's a skill issue.

Oh, no, that's him.

Because you got to sort that out.

And do you know what the worst thing was?

We pulled up at the four bit, which I'll get to in a moment,

and he dropped me off and he went,

bloody beeping is annoying, isn't it?

What are you talking about?

You can't say that at the end of the two hour drive.

Also, after informing you that it doesn't bother me.

Yeah, it doesn't bother me.

This is not on the music, if it doesn't bother you.

I'm going to say it.

That sounds like something Ben would do.

What, just leave it go?

A beep would appear in your car.

And you would just go, that's broken.

Oh, well, looks like I'm like that forever.

I'll sell that and not buy a Rebecca.

I'll work around it.

No, no, no.

It sounds like a phone with earplugs in.

Noise is in my car, I can't stand.

If there is a rattle, I start punching pelt of the car.

I'm unrelated to the rest of it.

Angrily.

No, but I'll start smacking the...

That's the door card.

It's just got holes in it.

I'll start smacking the dashboard with door cards.

I want to make that rattle go away because it does my apps.

Bro's got a blue man group set playing in his car when he's driving.

One time.

He was searching for his keys in his car.

I believe it.

I believe it's genetic because my dad is like that as well.

My dad, one time, my brother had not long passed his test.

I don't know if I should probably tell a story, but he said,

there was a rattle that was annoying him so much.

He'd be my brother drive his car.

So he gets in the back and listens to the noise.

Oh, I do that.

I don't 100% do that.

And my brother was like, I don't really want to drive this car.

And he's like, well, you're gonna have to because I want to get there.

And I look around and he's just there in the back, like a madman.

Like listening to windowed trims.

That sort of thing.

He's just lacing to the door.

Is that his door?

Got a stethoscope.

Awesome.

To a rattle that, I couldn't hear.

Then that's me.

I do that, for sure.

So yeah, there was that.

And then I beat Will to the Ford plant a little bit early.

I was there about 20 or half.

20 minutes, half an hour early.

And now this is not the fault of Ford at all.

They said, this is where you need to go.

However, their campus is so large that it has locations within it.

It has addresses within it.

But those addresses aren't public.

So we turned up at 6am, the time that no one turns up to get these things,

before most people out of there.

And I went to the main reception.

And man behind the counter was one man there, Nightwatch.

I said, I'm here to pick up a press car.

He said, I don't really understand.

So he let me in the building.

So I was walking around aimlessly wandering around Ford.

They then I found the counter with a woman of it.

I said, she said, he had to pick up a car.

I went, perfect.

That's great.

Yes, please.

Told them a name.

She went, no, your name's not on it.

Do you work here?

And I went, no, no, I'm here for a press card.

She went, oh, you're a complete wrong building.

You need to walk half a mile back that way.

Walk back to that building.

They, no one was there.

No one was in that building at all.

So I decided to walk another half a mile to the next building.

Very nice.

The most cockney man I've ever met in my life said,

this might be the right place.

But you need to go back to that building.

You were just that.

So walk back to that building.

Will now arrives at a building.

There's now a receptionist there.

She's American for some reason, but a very kind, lovely woman.

Well, you know, accurate to Ford.

Exactly.

They shipped them over.

It's a official experience from Ford.

I actually genuinely pulling up to get like a first Ford press car

and there was an American woman behind the reception.

I thought, what?

She went, I'm Henry Ford.

Sure to get the Model T, right?

Will, no, no, no, no, no.

And so she went, right.

No, finally you're in the right place.

This is where you pick up press cars from.

And we gave her our names.

And she went, no, your names are on here.

There's no car for you.

And we're like, no, please.

She went, this, this, this cockney guy down at a security booth.

I think you should go there.

Will was like, where is it?

I was like, I know where it is.

I've been there.

So we walked back there.

Then our contact there.

Ollie was like, yeah, no, here's the cars.

They were right here all along.

So it was a, I did a full tour, unsupervised, unattended of the Ford plant.

It's great.

Also, lots of cool, what do you call it?

Employee cars.

We saw, you saw, what did you say?

Immediately I saw a modified Fiesta ST, Mark 7.

I was like, it feels too on the nose that they work there, but they did.

They just took parts of the car.

I saw, what I think was a Mark 2 escort with definitely some form of fruity engine.

I saw a Mark 2 RS.

I saw a load of modified fiestas.

CL, there's a purple, I forgot photo.

It's actually a very blurry photo, but it's still a nice spec CL.

So all sorts of stuff, shout out Ford.

I have inspected your plant.

I think it's ready to pass.

We've tested the weaknesses in the security system.

The cockney man said, no, you may not pass.

He also said, we look identical, which is quite strange.

Yeah, quite interesting.

Next up, the Grand Tour.

I mean, it's been a big secret.

Yeah, now you've known this for a month.

Yeah, you've known this for a while now.

But I mean, to be fair, most of us have known it for a little while.

And us?

Even longer.

Maybe one day we'll talk about that.

Yeah, maybe we will get on to that.

We're not sour.

Anyway, the people who are running the show now, I don't know, is it the Grand Tour or something?

Never heard of it.

I've never heard of it.

Silly show.

Throttle House.

Throttle House and Francis Bourgeoisie.

It will be the presenters of the Grand Tour.

The proletariat will be...

I heard, I read a Ben Speck news article that said they have been officially announced.

But I didn't read any further than that.

But I haven't actually seen an official announcement.

I have seen the same thing.

I've seen all the news articles saying they've been officially announced.

But I think it might be the least...

I think the least amount of humans on earth might go, oh, I didn't know that.

Wow.

Everyone knew that.

Yeah.

It was just known.

I want to know if they are filming a series now.

They've already done it.

They filmed a series.

Well, because Throttle House have been...

This is speculation and what's up.

Oh, they've already been saying we are busy.

There won't be any videos on the channel for a little while.

This is like...

They are still posting.

But there was a period of time where they're like,

we're not posting because we're busy.

Yeah.

Because of what, July last year?

Yeah, like half a year ago or so.

They went, yeah, just we've got things we have to do.

All gone.

We have to keep recording podcasts because they keep going.

I'd be interested to see that.

Got it.

I will too.

The others know how TV works.

Amazon.

God, I hope this guy's...

It pays off because this could be good for us.

We're this guy.

I spoke to you.

My main thought on this is I'd love to see what it's like.

I'd be interested to see what it's like, obviously.

Creamers about a week ago looking at the podcast.

I'd love to see what this looks like.

That's what the set looked like.

It seems a secret Santa gift.

I'd just love to see what they look like.

You've heard them be opened.

I want to know what the format is on.

I want to know everything.

We want to see what Francis Bourgeois does because I think people will be very surprised

by him because from what we keep hearing from people off the record,

he's very, very into cars and he will double that down for his personality and that sort of stuff.

I'm really interested to see and I'm actually fully willing to give it a chance.

Me too.

I'm willing to give it a chance but I...

No, I won't criticise.

No, I will.

I thought you were going to say, no, I won't give it.

I've just said it.

It's that there are already the comparisons.

Of course.

Before a camera was even...

Before an SD card was even deleted,

there's already been people going,

well, Francis must be Jeremy.

Yeah.

And the throttle house guys must be there.

And I'm like, just let it happen.

But why would they...

I think because it's a format that already exists.

That's what I mean is it's like, give it a different name.

Take those three.

They go and make a car show that has a different name called Scrave.

They go, right, so there's three people.

So there's an obvious comparison to the cream podcast.

So I think Francis was right.

Ben, obviously.

The throttle house guy.

Guys are...

And I'm James.

So yeah, we've got that.

That's an in-joke there.

We will talk on that one.

I would like to know as well the format of the actual episode.

Is it studio based, a bit like Top Gear Grand Tour?

Is it just specials?

That I think is...

Well, to start, you surely have to go in specials.

I don't think so.

No?

I think it's to...

The specials are...

It becomes fully personality-driven.

Yeah, that's fair.

They're relationship-driven.

Whereas if you do it in studio, you've got the lap times.

You've got audience interaction.

You've got...

But you don't, technically, because that's Top Gear, not Grand Tour.

But what do they do?

No, I know, but it's a washed out version of Top Gear.

Yeah, washed out bingo.

But what do they do about...

Because the new cars, they're on...

They're on any new cars.

Now, I have a feeling that they were interested in electric cars and that sort of stuff.

So I'm wondering if they must have a basis of cars.

And also, there are enough...

Maybe Resto mods being talked about, all that sort of stuff.

So there's probably enough to scrape together a six-episode season, let's say.

The car still exists after all.

Yeah, it's still around.

And they are making some interesting-ish new ones.

Fair.

Get an S1LM on there.

I doubt it, frankly.

Maybe Francis Bourgeois was the man.

He's the guy who commissioned all five.

Listen.

With his new Grand Tour paycheck, he went,

who am I going to spend this?

50 mil, mate.

Off you go.

I'll have one other person have it.

It's a pilot season.

We're going to pay you 50 million.

Here's my question.

Yep.

How many people are on the Grand Tour?

Three.

How many seats in the S1LM?

Three.

The cream podcast is the one that has commissioned the cars.

Do you think we could get one through the business?

Like our crew car?

We can certainly try.

There's a use case there.

God, mate.

Yeah.

You've got one left over.

We'll take it.

Yeah.

That'll be our crew car.

Yeah.

We'll have to send the wraps back.

I'm sure Ford will understand.

We're replacing it out for the S1LM.

It's all good.

I would like to end with not with a forum.

The forum is still very much part of cream,

but I had a thought.

Something of maybe an infrequent topic to discuss.

Sure.

Spotted top trumps.

Now, this is not some form of English dessert

that's quite rare.

Right.

You see cars out on the road and what such.

All right.

Sometimes.

All the time.

I haven't ever seen one.

I encounter other cars on the road all the time.

I'm always scared by that.

Most normal people driving for some reason.

Dear for no reason.

Now, here's what I would like to play a game.

Sure.

The week previous.

I'd like you to give me the coolest or rarest or whatever,

whatever thing that we have chosen category.

Car you've spotted and we'll play a game

and we'll have to unanimously vote on it.

Do you need proof?

No.

You could say it.

I saw a SWAT.

Well, of course we drove it here.

Of course.

Of course they know him.

You may.

He's me.

You may.

You may be, you know, you may make up something,

but I saw it today and it's a car

but I have been thinking about the months.

Is it a golf and a fiesta?

Crazy.

It's an amazing car.

It's got to be on the road.

You will not be on the internet.

You have to have seen it with your eyes.

That's what I mean.

Okay.

All right.

I mean, bonus points of his moving.

I have kind of dropped this on you out of nowhere.

So I will tell you what mine is.

Go on.

In terms of rarity,

tell me the last time that you saw a Citroen DS3 racing.

No, you know what?

Not.

It's been a while.

I don't know.

That is because I saw one today while we were driving.

Was it the spec?

It was black, orange and I, because I always think,

where are they?

Yeah.

I looked it up.

180 to live to the UK.

180.

Way rarer than a Clio V6.

Now, Jesus.

I saw one.

I actually will saw one, but it was an R35 GTR.

That's my one for the week.

I saw it.

Yeah, I was looking at that too.

That was nice.

No, hang on.

No, you can't take.

You didn't even see that.

I did.

I saw it.

After you put it out, I saw it.

I saw it and it was miles in the distance and it turned around

and I said, I was an R35 and I said,

oh, you can't just take that one.

Hey, listen, you can speak too, man.

Mine's an R35 GTR.

Specifically, it was an EBA,

but you wouldn't know that because you didn't see it.

I saw the R35.

What color was it?

The one that was black.

So there's Will's.

There's mine, Ben.

Any rare cars seen?

Any rare cars seen this week?

Have I seen these?

I mean, okay.

To be fair, probably the rarest car I saw

wasn't that rare and it was when I bumped into that S2000,

man, because I haven't seen another S2000

since having my S2000.

You know what?

An S2000 that's on the road, not rusty,

a rare sight to see.

Listen, I don't know it.

But that is a...

It's not necessarily a will prep more for the next one,

but just keep an eye on cars that you see.

We've got all of Christmas.

It's only a week away.

Only at...

No, that's not true yet.

Yeah, over Christmas there's plenty of time to see cool cars.

I'll be driving and I'm going to take both hands off the wheel

to write in a note.

Yeah, I was going to say,

we're going to get to the next podcast

and we're going to flip out a big A4 notebook

and go, right, Ben.

Audi A4 Avant, but in a rare color.

My brain for no reason all day.

Right, I think we'll leave it there.

I know it's a short one,

but we are pushed for time this end of the year.

It will be a new year and a new set of creams next year.

And it'll be a full batch of videos next year.

We managed to make it.

Hang on, actually.

We have done a year, a year and a bit of podcasts

and we've never, ever had an issue with a video.

We made it to the last one of the year.

Are the one we are most excited for?

Our big Christmas special that we prepped,

they actually prepped for.

We bought...

And you can't see it.

We bought set decoration.

We bought jumpers.

We bought...

We'll actually wore a paper crown.

We bought a marching band that was silent.

You just couldn't hear them if you listened to it.

Oh, just a big alarm, is it?

Is it time?

I think we call it there.

Thank you very much for listening to this episode

of Cars Roll Everything Around Me.

We will be back on the second week of the year.

See you then.

Creamers.

What's...

Sorry.

Happy new year.

Merry Christmas.

Tell us your resolutions and goodbye.

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