An auction is like a bidding contest for a car. If you win the bid, you usually have to follow through and pay, even though the final steps can take time.
Financing means you don’t pay the whole price upfront—you borrow the money and pay it back later. The key point is whether you can get the loan in time to finish the deal.
They’re describing an auction where people keep raising their offers. Near the end, it can feel stressful because the price can jump fast.
Term
V5
A V5 is the official paperwork that identifies the car and its registration details. When you buy a car, having the V5 is part of making sure the paperwork matches the vehicle.
“D registered” means the car was written off for insurance, then later repaired and allowed back onto the road. It’s a sign the car has been through a formal process after damage.
“Cat D” is a UK label for a car that had serious damage and insurance wrote it off, but it can still be repaired. Even if it looks good now, it has a past accident/damage history you should factor into buying decisions.
This sounds like a website/service that checks a car’s history using its VIN. It’s used to learn more about where the car has been and what records exist.
Concept
run a check
“Run a check” means looking up the car’s records using its VIN. It helps you confirm what’s known about that exact car.
MOT is a required safety/emissions inspection for cars in the UK. If your car fails, you usually have to fix the problems before it can be driven legally.
A tie rod is a steering component that connects parts of the steering system to the front wheels. If it’s loose or worn, the car can feel vague or pull, and it can affect safety.
Number plate bulbs are the small lights that shine on your license plate. If they don’t work, the plate may not be visible at night, which can cause inspection or legal issues.
Brand
Cremors
“Cremors” is mentioned as a shout-out, but the segment doesn’t explain what it is. It sounds like a brand or group the hosts want to thank.
The TVR Tuscan is a sports car designed to be fun and exciting to drive. People often take cars like this to events because they’re built for driving enjoyment. In the podcast, the speaker mentions bringing it to Goodwood.
“Cat C” means the car was written off by an insurer after damage. It usually signals the car has a serious past, which can make it harder to insure and worth less.
That phrase means the back-right body area of the car. If it’s been damaged there before, it can affect how the car fits together and how well repairs were done.
Interior cleaning means cleaning the inside of the car—like the seats and floor mats. It’s more than a quick wipe-down; it’s usually done carefully so dirt doesn’t stay trapped in the material.
“D9” here sounds like a car with a special way of opening or accessing the seat area. The speaker is describing it as dramatic, like something from a spy movie. The key point is the unusual entry/seat design.
It’s basically a toilet built into a car so people can use it while they’re inside. The hosts are saying it’s not well-known yet because it’s only described through a patent, not a big public announcement.
A patent is paperwork that protects an invention and usually explains how it works. If something is only known from a patent, you may not get the full story until the company releases more information.
Servicing is regular maintenance or repairs to keep something working properly. The speaker is saying the toilet would need that kind of attention too.
Term
interval two change
This sounds like a planned maintenance schedule—like “service every so often.” The speaker is saying they’ve already done the required maintenance step.
Heated seats are seats with built-in warming elements. You turn them on and they heat the seat for comfort, and sometimes the system needs maintenance.
They’re referring to a Land Rover Range Rover that has heated seats. The host says the seat system uses a filter and that it needs service, which leads to a discussion about what might get trapped in it.
Term
filter
They’re talking about a filter inside the seat system. Filters trap dust and other particles, and when it’s time to replace it, the seat has to be serviced.
Service station density means how many gas stations are around compared to how many people live there (or how big the area is). If it’s high, you usually don’t have to travel far to find fuel or help.
The Mazda MX-5 is a small, lightweight roadster (a two-seat sports car). Here they’re talking about a turbo version that had a serious engine breakdown.
A turbocharger uses exhaust gas to spin a turbine, forcing more air into the engine so it can burn more fuel and make more power. Turbo engines can be more sensitive to tuning and driving technique, particularly under high load during shifts.
“Mapping a car” means customizing the computer tune that controls how the engine runs. It can change things like how much boost you get and when the engine fires.
Boost is extra pressure from a turbo or supercharger that forces more air into the engine. More air usually means more power, but it can also be harder on the engine.
Connecting rods are internal engine parts that help turn piston movement into rotation. “Stock rods” are the original factory ones, which may not handle big power increases.
Torque is the engine’s twisting force. The “torque figure” is basically the number you see on a dyno that shows how much twisting force the engine makes.
RPM is how fast the engine is spinning. Higher RPM means the engine is working harder, which can increase the chance of damage.
Concept
raised the limit
“Raised the limit” means they allowed the engine to go beyond the factory safety cutoff. That can be risky because the engine may not be built to handle it under load.
“Blew the engine” means the engine failed badly and likely needs major repair or replacement. Here, it happened after pushing the car harder than the stock parts could handle.
Car
A45 AMG
The Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG is a high-performance version of the A-Class. It’s a small car that’s tuned to be quick, and the hosts are talking about how it looks and how it drives.
The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a small Mercedes car, usually a hatchback. People can often recognize it just by its overall shape, even from a quick photo. In the podcast, that’s exactly what the speaker is doing.
A four-cylinder engine is an engine with four “power” sections. It’s common in smaller cars, and in performance versions it can still make a lot of power.
A “getaway car” is the car someone drives to escape right after a crime. In this episode, it’s just a joke question about which car would fit that idea.
Rolls-Royce is a luxury car brand. The joke is that if you show up in one, people assume you’re supposed to be there because it looks like you have money.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is a very luxurious older car made for comfort and style. People bring it up when they want that classic Rolls-Royce look and feel. In the podcast, it’s used as a specific example of what someone wants to see.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a top-of-the-line luxury car. It’s known for being extremely comfortable and for having a very distinctive, high-end look. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as a comparison point for the kind of car someone wants.
They’re talking about using the same kind of language you’d hear when selling a car—like bids and offers—when talking about art.
Concept
GTA style
They’re joking about doing it the “Grand Theft Auto” way—messy and unconventional. Here it means skipping the normal “frame” or structure and doing it differently.
A microcar is a very tiny car meant for getting around cheaply. It’s usually smaller and simpler than normal cars, with less power and fewer features. The hosts are using it as an example of something that’s affordable rather than flashy.
“D-badged” is when someone changes the little model name badges on a car. The goal is usually to make it look like a different, less noticeable version.
A “pop and bang map” is a software tune that makes the car make extra loud pops and bangs, especially when you lift off the throttle or shift. It’s basically a setting that makes the exhaust sound more dramatic.
“Bangs on the shifts” means the car makes pops/crackles when you change gears. It’s controlled by the engine software so the sound happens at the moment of shifting.
The Audi S3 is a sporty version of a smaller Audi hatchback. It’s designed to be faster and more fun to drive than the regular model. The podcast mentions it because the speaker is weighing it against an even higher-performance option.
They’re talking about the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, which is a popular mid-size family/business car. The hosts are mostly joking about how the front design looks.
Some cars have a grille that lights up with LEDs. It’s mainly for style—so the car looks distinctive at night—rather than for helping you see the road.
The rear panel is part of the car’s body at the back. If the bumper was fixed or replaced separately, the paint on the bumper and the surrounding body can end up looking different.
The rear bumper is the part on the back of the car meant to take minor impacts. If it gets replaced after an accident, the new paint can sometimes look slightly different from the rest of the car.
The Kia Stinger is a sporty Kia model. Here it’s mentioned as an example of something you might buy from a newer brand instead of a more famous performance name.
“S5” is an Audi model that’s meant to be sportier than the regular A5. The point here is that people may feel more confident buying it because it comes from a well-known performance lineup.
A “BMW M car” is a BMW that’s tuned and built by BMW’s performance team. In the conversation, they’re saying people feel a connection to the history of those M cars.
“Heritage” here means the car brand’s history and legacy—what it’s known for over the years. They’re basically saying some cars feel more connected to their roots than others.
Rally cars are race cars built for off-road and mixed-road events. They’re used here to show how Japanese brands grew from regular cars into serious racing.
An engine swap means putting a different engine into a car instead of the original one. It can be complicated because you have to connect a lot of systems like wiring and hoses so everything works together.
A loom is a bundle of wires that runs through the car to connect electronics. If it’s not routed and connected correctly, the engine may not start or may run incorrectly.
Connectors are electrical plugs that connect different parts of the car’s systems. When you take an engine out, you need to remember which plug goes where so the car can run correctly.
Hoses are tubes that move important fluids around the engine. If you connect them wrong after an engine swap, you can cause leaks or make the engine run poorly.
Alder Gear Now is the name of a group/channel the speaker mentions. They’re credited with labeling parts during a project, which helped with reassembly later.
A warmup plug helps the engine during cold starts. It adds extra help (usually heat or fuel behavior) so the engine can run smoothly until it warms up.
Term
Kjet
“Kjet” sounds like a name for a particular fuel-injection setup or component on that car. In this context, it’s being linked to a warmup part that helps the engine start and run better when it’s cold.
The camshaft is like the engine’s timing controller. It helps decide when the engine’s valves open and close, which is what lets air and fuel in and exhaust out.
The alternator is what makes electricity for the car while it’s running. If you take it off, you’ll see different bolt sizes/sections, so labeling helps you put everything back in the right place.
“Teething issues” are the annoying problems that happen at the beginning after something new is installed or changed. With an engine swap, it often means the car isn’t fully set up correctly yet, so it may run poorly or have small failures until fixed.
When you take a car apart, you’ll see lots of bolts. Some bolts look the same but are different lengths or meant for specific spots, so using the wrong ones can make you have to redo the job.
The gearbox is the part that helps the car use the engine’s power effectively by changing gears. This part of the conversation is basically saying: use the right bolts for the right component.
“Engine out” means taking the engine out of the car. People do this when they need access to parts that are difficult to reach with the engine still installed.
Forums are websites where car owners ask questions and share advice. The speaker is saying they can be a good way to learn the right steps for repairs.
“Hand tight” means tightening a bolt just by feel, not with a tool that measures tightness. On engine parts, that’s risky because bolts need to be tightened to specific values.
Head bolts are the big bolts that hold the top part of the engine (the cylinder head) onto the engine block. If they’re tightened wrong, the engine can leak or run poorly.
Facebook groups are online communities for people who share the same interests, like a specific car. The speaker thinks they’re helpful because you get fewer nasty comments than on older car forums.
Concept
major work to a car
“Major work” is a big repair job on a car. It usually takes longer and is harder to do than small fixes, so having the right space and time matters.
Topic
working in a car park vs a garage
They’re talking about how fixing a car is easier in a garage than in a parking lot. A garage is cleaner and you can take your time without feeling rushed.
A “project car” is a car you’re working on gradually—fixing or upgrading it over time. It’s not always ready to drive perfectly while you’re in the middle of repairs.
Term
RS replica
“RS replica” means the car was modified to look like a higher-performance RS version. It might not use the exact same parts as the real RS, so some upgrades (like exhausts) may not fit right.
The exhaust is the system that carries the engine’s fumes out of the car. If the exhaust doesn’t fit, it usually means the mounting points or clearances don’t match the parts you bought.
Jack stands are the metal supports that keep a car safely lifted while you work under it. They’re used so the car can’t drop if the lifting jack isn’t holding it perfectly.
A clamp is a fastener that holds exhaust pieces together. If it’s broken, the exhaust parts may not sit correctly, and you can’t put everything back without leaks or misalignment.
Coilovers are suspension parts that control how the car rides and how high it sits. The Honda S2000 is the specific car they’re talking about, and the point is that installing them can be challenging.
The engine bay is the space under the hood where the engine lives. It’s basically the car’s “front compartment” with the engine and related parts inside.
“930” is Porsche shorthand for a specific generation of the 911 Turbo. The point of the story is that someone thought the car was a good example, but the owner didn’t agree.
They’re using “no radio” as a clue that the car might be missing features or isn’t as complete as expected. It’s part of the granddad’s judgment about the car.
The Lamborghini Revuelto is a very high-performance supercar. The podcast mentions it because the speakers are talking about what might come next and what kinds of spy photos are appearing. It’s basically part of a discussion about future Lamborghini models.
“Spy shots” are leaked photos of a car that’s being tested in the real world. Since the car isn’t officially revealed yet, people can only guess what version it is.
A body kit is extra exterior parts added to a car, like bumpers and side skirts. On track-focused cars, it’s not just for looks—it can help the car handle better by shaping airflow.
Brand
Mansour kit
They’re saying the car’s body parts look like they match a known aftermarket kit brand/style called “Mansour.” That’s basically a recognizable look from a particular company’s body-kit designs.
Side skirts are the pieces that run along the bottom of the car near the doors. They can help airflow around the car, especially on performance or track setups.
The front bumper is the front part of the car that protects it. On sporty cars, it can also include special shapes that help the car’s airflow and cooling.
The Lamborghini Diablo is a famous older Lamborghini supercar. The hosts mention it as the “previous” big-name car before they talk about the SV and SVJ trims.
They’re using an online translation tool to guess what a phrase means. The point is that automated translation can be wrong, especially with slang or short slogans.
A restomod is an older car that’s been refreshed with modern upgrades. It’s meant to look classic, but drive and feel better—like a smoother, more usable version of the original.
A roadster is an open-top car, usually with two seats. The host is basically saying they expect Lamborghini to eventually offer an open-top version too.
The Volkswagen Lupo is a small Volkswagen city car. They’re talking about a special, very fuel-sipping version of it that wasn’t sold widely in the UK.
The “3L model” is a special version of the car built to use about 3 liters of fuel for every 100 kilometers. It’s basically the super-fuel-efficient variant.
The Tesla Model 3 is an all-electric car, meaning it runs on a battery instead of gasoline. People may mention different efficiency versions because some markets get certain trims and others don’t. That affects how far it can go on a charge.
“Restoring” a car usually means returning it to a better condition—often repairing worn parts, correcting bodywork, and refreshing mechanical components. “Improve” suggests they may also upgrade certain areas for drivability or reliability while keeping the car enjoyable for the long term.
LIVE
A bird pooed on my dream car.
You could fit apparently three
Englans into China.
I'd say more than that.
It's not wrong.
The Lupo will take a starring role
along say their fast Audi RS6
and their open quotation marks
Ninky Nong.
Hello and welcome back to the 80th
cream podcast.
The Carl's Rule Everything Around Me podcast
with myself, Will Edwin to my right.
And then Mr. Rogers behind the camera
over there.
Now at the beginning of every single one
of these podcasts,
we ask ourselves if cars have ruled
or ruined our lives this week,
would you, would you?
You should start.
I will start.
You should start.
I will start.
I was going to fob it off.
Everyone's waiting.
Because everyone is now a week behind.
You are a week behind.
It ended and we said,
we don't know what's happened.
Take care.
So we went to the auction.
We certainly did go to the auction on
Sunday and I did win the auction.
It's not, it's not that simple yet.
I have, I have committed to buy the car.
Yeah.
It's a lot of bloody money.
I'll be straight up front.
I do not have that cash to buy that car.
So there's other things, things involved.
The car's now in transport, blah, blah, blah.
It's all very complicated because it's an auction.
But it should be coming.
Also, let's just know you're,
you're still,
when you say you don't have the money to buy it,
it's that you're financing,
not that you've just committed to buy a car,
you have no intention to buy it.
No, no, it's not that.
Yeah, obviously that it was,
I've been for the last month,
six weeks, been doing a ton of prep
to try and make sure this can happen.
And yeah, it was possibly the most nerve-wracking day ever.
It was quite cool because we were going to an event.
It was like, well, you know,
you go and look around the cars
and it felt like normal.
And then it got closer to one o'clock
when the auction was starting.
I was like, oh, gee.
So I went along to, and I said to Will,
I won't, I won't come along if you don't want me to.
But Will was like, I don't mind.
That's fine.
And so my plan was I was going to stand at the back
and just film.
So I don't want to be,
when you're in an auction bidding on a car,
it gets stressful.
You're, the smallest things make you like upset.
Like you're like, no, it's moving too quickly.
I'm going to miss it or something's going to happen.
So I was like, I'm going to go stand in the back
and Patrick, social media Patrick came along as well.
And so we were like, we're going to go and stand
in the corner and film.
And you were fine right up until the lot before.
You were kind of joking with us.
And then there was a lot before,
which is a poor shit and Will just went silent.
It was, yeah, it got to me.
I felt all jovial and normal.
And then as soon as it was like, right,
like number 125, I was like, I know,
now I have to do something.
What was the heart rate?
Do you know, I couldn't really feel it,
but it did start to go.
And I was panicking because I was like,
I have to perform here.
I saw the footage afterwards.
You looked a bit rattled.
Yeah.
Well, and also I know from the footage that you'll see it
in the video when it eventually comes out,
but I don't know.
There may be a lack of emotion there
just because of a pure concentration.
There's a lot of, I've watched it back a few times.
Well, you can explain the way that it actually went in the lot,
but yeah, there's ups and downs.
You can tell.
So like it started off,
I don't want to talk about the numbers too much
because again, I know it's a lot of money
and it's a little bit insensitive
to talk about that much money,
but it started off with around about 100 grand or so.
And bearing in mind, the estimate on this car was 175 to 225.
And it started at 100.
And I was like, I've done a little bit of research
on how you bid at an auction.
It was like, let the room, let it settle for a bit.
But I got a little bit techy
and it went like 110, 120, 130.
And I was like, right, I need to state my claim here.
And I put in a bid at like 140.
Someone else did 150.
Then it got to 160, which was my bid again.
And it just stalled.
It just went silent in the room.
Complete silence.
My heart, at that point, it was pounding.
Because I was like, again, this is a lot of money,
but it's considerably less than I thought it would be.
That would make it the cheapest Mercedes Largo
in like three years.
Yeah, easily, easily.
And annoyingly, it went up from there
and it went up quite quickly from there.
And it was the final moments were tough.
They were, again, I know this is bidding on a Lamborghini,
but my God, it was quite emotional.
I'm very lucky.
My dad came with me and my granddad as well.
He was at all three generations of Chandler there.
And I kind of got to my max.
And I looked at my dad and my dad was like,
just go above, I'll help you.
I was like, okay, God, okay.
Now I'm getting into generational debt.
But I'm going backwards.
Quite literally generational debt.
I'm going backwards on the generational debt.
So, but yeah, in the end of one.
And I don't think I felt quite as emotional as that.
There was a, you don't know about this yet.
There was a really sweet moment that I think,
I hope, I think Patrick did get,
shout out Patrick for covering loads of stuff that day.
It was after you'd won.
You said, I need to get some air.
And as you were walking out,
Will was in front of both Will and Patrick and I.
And as Will walked past the Mercilago,
he just lent down and touched it.
Yeah, I saw that one.
As he was on that.
And it was very clear like a, okay, yeah, no, that's real.
I walked past it.
I didn't even look at it.
I also, when we arrived, I didn't even look at the car.
Oh, no, not look at the car.
I looked around the car from like,
this is the thing I'm buying.
It's the first time I'm seeing it,
but I didn't take a picture of it.
I was like, I don't want a picture of this.
In case this goes bad or I don't win it.
I was like, I don't want a picture of that.
I took one photo on the day
and it was just one photo of the front of the car.
I didn't need it.
I was like, just want that photo.
And yeah, and I was just mad.
I had to ask to sit in it afterwards.
I've just won and I've now a ridiculous amount of money.
And I just said, can I sit in that?
I'll have to ask.
I'll have to go and ask.
There's so much to unpack from the whole thing,
but I've never bid at an auction before.
Obviously, we've done online staff
and bid at auction,
but in person, I've never done it.
So it was incredibly nerve-wracking.
But I did get four free drinks tokens,
which I used on a Diet Coke.
I used it on a Sprite, thank you.
And the woman at the bar said,
don't you want a champagne?
And I said, God, no.
Please, God, no.
But yeah, just a crazy, crazy experience.
I can't quite believe it.
I went into it confident that it would happen.
My heart was saying, this is happening.
But everything in my brain said,
course, it isn't happening.
Like, why would this happen?
You look around the room,
because this is the Goodwood members meeting.
And I was like, it was money.
And the people there, I was like,
someone else is good.
Everyone else can afford it more than I can, 100%.
And somehow it happened.
I actually got the guy who...
I think there was roughly three people bidding on it,
one online.
And then I think there was one...
There was someone else earlier on,
but they kind of fell out earlier on in the bids.
So it was me, someone else, and then someone online.
And the guy who I think I was up against
right at the end, he came up to me.
And I don't know if he knows about the channel.
I don't know if he knows about anything.
But he came up to me afterwards,
and was like, congratulations, you deserve it.
And then he shook my hand and sort of left me to it.
But then as he walked off, he said,
I'm sorry for bidding you up.
I was like, you bastard.
And literally, we'll turn around and went,
past it.
So I could have been much cheaper.
Thanks for this.
So yeah, very, very emotional.
But hopefully this week, it will all be sorted.
And hopefully this week, it will be delivered.
We're not going to say Big M secured yet.
No, there's a lot of things...
Can't jinx it yet.
That have to happen.
I'm confident that it will.
But it doesn't feel...
I feel emotional about it.
But until it's here in front of me and it's sorted,
I've got the V5 and whatever else, then yeah.
Then it's secured.
But seeing it in person, I look round it.
And again, that car's not perfect.
But I look round it.
I was like, there's nothing that could put me off this.
No.
And honestly, we talked about it before.
So the car was previously a cat D and then D registered from it.
It looks really solid overall.
Like it's had some paint on the front end
and it needs probably a front bumper repaint.
But no need to do that when you're going to use it.
It looks solid.
Like it looks like a really good car.
I spoke to furlongers who've been looking off to the car
and they said that car's perfect for somebody who wants to go out
and use it, which is exactly what I want to do.
Lots of other people want to go and put it in a collection
or a low mile one.
That's why I thought that car.
I think you said it to me before, but it feels like one of the last time,
one of the last sort of opportunities to get into a car like that.
And again, I know it's still a lot of money.
But if you track back to Diablo's Contaches,
they just have this curve where they once they start going that way,
they're gone.
It gets very, very, you have to be a multimillionaire
to even afford a bad one.
I said to my girlfriend asked me the night before,
do you think he'll get it?
I said, in the weeks leading up to it, I was confident.
I was like, no, you're getting this fine.
And it was when you said that when you've rung up,
you've rung up furlonger and said, I'm interested in the car.
And they said, oh, 11 people have called us before you about this.
My heart sank.
I was like, oh no, that's on an auction card.
All it takes is one other person.
And then when you've got 11 people,
but I do genuinely believe that was it.
The ship is gone.
There's also quite, I don't know if I mentioned this before
on the podcast, but again, this will all be in the video
if hopefully it all comes out.
But that car came up for sale.
Sorry, the auction came up.
It said, this is coming up, had no details or anything like that.
And I saw a Vin plate.
So I got a Vin to use a car vertical, actually,
to run a check on it.
And then so I found the number plate for it, eventually.
And I ran the play.
And I eventually found it went through collecting cars
where it sold five years ago
and then found it was on a supercar driver video.
So I loaded up supercar driver video just to watch it back
to see if there's any details mentioned in there.
So it was about five years ago.
Looked through the comments.
I was like, ah, guy, this sounds like me.
That's exactly what I think.
Because it said, you know, 6.2 is the perfect one for me
in this exact spec.
I know there's better ones, but this is the one I want.
And it was liked by a supercar driver.
And I was like, that's my account.
So I commented on that video about that car
five years ago.
And now I've potentially bought that car,
which to me is mental.
So it's a ruin this week?
Yeah, no.
I mean, you're not financially pretty heavy.
This might be.
Financially and stress-wise, it could,
it would be the biggest ruin if it wasn't for
that the reward on the other side, hopefully,
is the biggest rule.
So yeah, big M potentially secured.
Potentially on the way.
Hopefully next week we should know, should know more.
And then it might be a while till we see it right,
because it's not going away.
That car needs, it'll come here at some point.
So maybe we'll have it in the back of a podcast
at some point.
We'll film it.
But the car needs, despite all that money,
the car needs an MOT and some other bits.
So a little bit of welding in a tie rod scum,
you know, it's just you can't really get rid of it.
I have been looking at, well, I've known about
Merchialargo costs for a while,
but I've been looking and I was like, okay.
Yeah.
Well, let's just get this.
Let's just get it in and have a look.
Let's see what we need.
Get out for a round.
A couple of number plate bulbs and we should be all good.
But yeah, just yeah, unbelievably cool.
Hey, shout out.
Shout out Cremors.
Thank you very much for listening and
participating in the hype.
You heard it here first.
Yeah, you did hear it first.
This will be again, video coming soon.
But yeah, thank you very much to everyone
who's listened to the podcast, watched all the videos.
I know that supercar stuff, that level of thing
is a little bit different for a lot of people.
But for me, that's the one.
But hopefully people listening can find
something relatable about it because it's not,
you're not on a rich dude just buying a supercar.
That's not, yeah, it's not.
It's hard to get that across to people, I think.
But it is true though.
It is what, since the day you saw one,
to the spec, your dream car.
So I know everyone on YouTube goes,
oh, every car is your dream car.
No, this actually is the dream car.
Also, if you're a longtime crema,
you will understand that when Will buys a car,
it hangs around for approximately a day.
And there's no emotion.
And it goes, it moves on to the next one.
You have been saying, if you get it, it's here forever.
Yeah, as long as I can afford that car,
I don't think I would ever sell it.
Unless I absolutely had to sell it,
which I hope never happens.
Obviously, you never know.
I would like to keep it forever.
I want me to have it for my kids to see it.
I want other people to see it.
That's the point of that car.
Because when do you see these cars?
No, yeah.
Other than that show, you don't see them.
Shout out Blake Sandberg.
Yeah, so by this time, that video will be out.
Yeah, so on the second channel, you would have seen that.
There would have been a little teaser, I think,
to do the auction.
But that was a cool video because we all drove that car.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'll go as a rule.
Nice.
We'll run the rules for this one.
I'll be a little one.
I am going to do the same.
It's a rule.
You'll see behind me, if you're a visual viewer,
the eight series is back.
I've got to do some little bits and bobs.
I need to get some plates.
There's no front plates.
I'm not being illegal.
Don't worry.
My old ones were just a bit tatty.
And it doesn't match the beautiful nature of this car now.
It really is nice.
I'm quite worried because it's a nice car now.
And I don't do nice cars.
Exceptionaly.
But I'm exceedingly happy about that.
And I took the Tuscan out to Goodwood.
You know what?
I've said it before.
I'm not an English car man.
But something about driving a green TVL Tuscan
through the rolling...
No, not Chilton Hills.
What is that?
Surrey?
Are they Surrey Hills?
It would be Surrey.
That's where you're coming from.
You should call it.
It has a name.
Is it South Downs?
No, not South Downs, is it?
Might be.
If you think of which way you go.
There is a nice route.
I went to Goodwood last year.
This is my story, hey?
I went through that same bit and it is beautiful.
That's what I mean.
So I was driving through the rolling Goodwood Hills,
let's say, of green and yellow.
Is it rapeseed?
I think, right?
Oh, I saw that.
Yeah.
Like rolling yellow.
You were driving through the fields.
Mate, fours are horizons, basically.
I was to Stella's car.
Did you know he bought the cornfield?
And I was, you know what?
I felt a bit patriotic.
I looked around and I was like,
nothing beats a bit of England.
I'm going to go home and have mashed potato.
I'm going to beat my wife up.
I don't know, two of you are, I think, yeah.
Maybe they do.
No, maybe not.
So, no, but I was driving.
I was like, this is dream worthy.
I absolutely loved it.
It was amazing.
Weather was fantastic.
Only one minor ruin to bring it down.
We had, we said we were looking for a Civic,
an EG or an EK hatch.
We lost the one on the auction.
Another green one came up, like identical spec.
I was like, this is perfect.
Everything looked okay on the photos.
I asked the guy about the rust on it.
And in the meantime, I ran a carvert call.
Shout out to Carvert Call.
This week's podcast sponsor as always.
I ran it and I was like, oh, that's weird.
It's got a cat C from like the mid-2000s on the rear right quarter.
Like within five minutes later, I was already a bit like,
okay, no, this car's probably not that good,
unless it's ultra clean, it's been repaired well.
And he came back to me and said,
yeah, there's just some rust coming through on the rear right.
It's had a previous repair somewhere.
So, yeah, that was not so good.
But if you're ever buying a car,
make sure that you're on a carvertical check.
It will tell you if a car's ever been crashed, stolen, or clocked.
We say it every time, don't get burned on a car.
Don't leave any stone unturned.
Make sure you check it.
Yep. Do you, do you do?
Do you do diligence?
That's the one.
Do you do diligence?
Yeah.
And also you can get 20% off with our discount code CREAM.
You can get that off a normal report.
But if you know you're going to buy a load of cars this year,
or maybe you and your mates are going to buy a load of cars this year,
you can bundle a load of reports together that you can use at a later date.
You think you can get almost 50% off reports if you do it that way.
So, again, always use carvertical before you buy a car.
So, yeah, you don't get burned.
Benjamin.
I cleaned the golf.
No bloody way.
That's dream worthy.
Yep. And then a bird pooed on it.
Oh.
And that's all my updates.
It's a rule.
Those are both great YouTube titles.
Yeah.
I cleaned my dream car.
A bird pooed on my dream car.
But there's a classic move though, isn't it?
It's clean the car and then a bird goes, that's a lovely car.
Yeah, it's a tough one.
I want to know the psychology behind it, but that's my updates.
Of the birds?
Like, why do they aim for clean cars?
Right, sit that crow down.
Let's have a talk to him.
Put him on a lie detector.
I don't know what he really thinks.
It must be on purpose.
Maybe.
Do you think there's some sort of shiny object type thing?
That car has been, they have been.
Magpies.
But why do then, when you see a car that's covered in bird poo,
if it's already covered in bird poo, why do they keep pooing on it?
I see.
I disagree because I've had, that car's needed to clean for about a month.
Pay that clean.
No bird poo on it.
Just English.
Just dust and dirt and mud on that car.
On me.
On my golf.
Yeah.
I need to clean it for ages.
So can I clean it?
Bird poo.
Is it because you don't notice?
No, I don't notice.
Okay.
Because having a dirty exterior in my car doesn't really upset me that much.
What about a dirty interior in your car?
That doesn't upset you either.
It does.
You've got a cramp all over your car.
I don't look in my car.
Do you know what?
Actually, there is a weird thing with your cars I've noticed.
It's clean.
Like as in there's no like dust and grime.
But there's just stuff here.
Entity bottles and wrappers and things.
I thought I'd drive in.
Do you like hoover it?
But you're hoovering around the empty bottles.
Sorry.
I got the exterior cleaned and my girlfriend said,
I'll clean the interior for you.
I said, all right.
Cool.
Wow.
And then she just did it for me.
A couple who cleans together.
Well, I didn't clean it.
Spays together.
She just offered to clean it.
So I said, I said, you don't have to do that.
Like I'll go get it cleaned.
She said, no, I want to.
In theory, in reality Ben went, you'll do it wrong.
Get out of the way.
No, I actually do the stripes in the carpet that I like.
We're interior cleaning where the idea of it really interests,
not interests me.
I want to do it when I think about it.
And then after upwards of 15 seconds, I want it done.
So I said to her, I was like, can you just hand me the hoover?
I'm going to start.
And then the second I get bored, I give it to you.
She went, yeah, fine.
So I asked her how long was it?
10 seconds.
It was when the first bit wouldn't come off the carpet immediately.
I was like, I don't care.
So that was very kind of.
I'd like to know if there is a different part of Detailers Minds.
It has to be the same thing in my mind when I see a dirty underside of a car.
That I'm like, I need that.
That needs to be cleaned.
Whereas I lack that on the outside.
If it's dirty, I'm like, yeah, it's dirty.
But I don't mind dirty, but it's burp poop that upsets me.
But what I'm saying is your interior thing where you go,
the moment it gets a little bit annoying, like the same,
if I'm cleaning a car and there's a bit that won't come off, I'm like,
I can't be bothered.
Because in my head, I get the hoover and I just go,
and it just, it kicks everything off, but it doesn't.
You whip it.
It's all stuck to the carpet.
That was a weird noise though.
Yeah, you whip it.
That's crazy.
I don't know what the noise is.
A sucking noise.
Oh, go on, then do one of those for us.
All right, Nina's back.
To rule for me, I have a clean golf.
That's three rules, guys.
S2000s back.
Three rules of very different varieties.
You've got the golf and the S2000 together.
I have a photo of them together for the first time.
Wow.
Outside your house, would you like to show us?
I'll watch the photo.
No, no, no.
No, okay.
Ben is not a fan of people turning up to his house and saying,
hello, this is your house.
Hello.
And then wringing the buzzer.
I don't mind it.
I'm wringing the buzzer on the massive gate.
So you're saying the creamers would...
No, whenever I have met people near my house before, I don't mind it.
He goes, I've got all the way down the drive.
That's like three miles.
Send the bellhop house to see them.
No, I'm not like, it's always nice to meet people,
but it is somewhat unsettling to be fair.
I can feel that.
At your house.
To be fair, yeah.
Especially when they go, do you live here?
And I have to then go, I mean, yeah.
Well, you could lie.
You could say, no, this is...
So how are both of my cars here?
I've just come to lobel this person on this car.
How are both of my cars there then?
That's what I'm going to...
Well, you went, I thought I'd go for a drive, wouldn't I?
Please dig.
Beautiful day for it.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, that's fine.
Anyway, you know what?
Will and I should really stop leaving your address in truck stops.
Yes, please.
Let's not stop discussing my house show.
In the description of every TDC video.
Three very big rules.
We will get with mercy updates as it arrives.
God, I hope so.
For the sake of my ticker.
Shall we go on to some anecdotes and what such?
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
We'll start off.
I think this is from you, Benjamin.
Cream on the iPod.
Yes.
It was a bit weird when I read that.
I have been told about the TDC Reddit.
Yes.
Which exists.
Okay.
And are you a redditor?
Absolutely not.
My lady.
But no.
But I know I'm aware it exists.
Okay.
And I found this in there.
Are you going to...
Is that...
Ben, you're a Reddit monitor.
I like self-appointed now.
Yeah, you've...
I don't want...
Just like your lunch monitor, duties.
I don't want to.
You've fallen into it.
You know, you've been chosen.
You're our prefect.
Listen, no shade to anyone who likes Reddit.
It's not my vibe.
Okay.
So, I mean, you'll go in it to check every now and then now.
So...
Well, now I know.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, for the good of podcast, I'll go and check occasionally.
Okay.
Shout out to our Creamers on Reddit.
Nobody's ever said that sentence before.
That's fair.
Well, they probably have.
This is a iPod.
Is that a nano?
I think that's a nano, right?
I think that is the screen in the nano.
In the blue one, which is the cool color, I wanted that color.
Somebody has basically put the cream podcast on their iPod.
And it's pretty current as well.
That's number 77 in there.
From what I could tell.
So, I mean, it literally two...
Yeah, look, three ago.
Ninth of the fourth.
Clean.
Good one.
It seems like it's like a hobby for them.
Because it's quite difficult to get that from Spotify onto the iPod.
Why would it have to be from Spotify?
Could it not be from YouTube?
No, I guess you can.
Why would it be a hobby?
When you say a hobby, what, as in everyone else is doing it for work?
Yeah, I've just burnt on seven songs.
Well, you get paid for that.
No, I just...
No, it's going to be a long day today.
I've got to listen to every single podcast for cream.
I don't.
I don't know.
I don't know that meant.
I've lost my train of thought entirely.
Someone say something.
It's called to see on an iPod.
Yes.
Because it involves you.
Do you know what?
Yeah.
Do you know what I want at some point?
Creamers shout if you want to go faster.
No, if you agree.
I'd like a physical media cream.
Now, we know that Richard Porter, not the drug kingpin from the 90s,
but potentially we don't never see them in the same room,
did that for tractors at night.
That is an available thing that someone has made.
Someone has made that.
They bought off-bandcamp the recording and then put it onto a vinyl,
which is someone out there.
Tractors at night.
In someone's house.
There is someone in someone's house somewhere or place of work,
because obviously you'd listen to podcast at work.
That's a job.
Exists tractors at night in physical form.
Well, why don't we have one?
Well, we need to go platinum first.
Well, I didn't forget platinum.
We're like a gold.
Really?
Is that half a million cells?
Set your sights higher then.
Tractors.
It's one of those songs that just takes a few people to pick up on it.
Do you know what it is?
It's, you know, when it rolls around Christmas and everyone just decides,
right, we're going to rally behind a song and push that back up the charts.
That's what we need.
Tractors at night.
Guys, we've got like, what, six months or so?
No, it's more than that.
But there's an X amount of months before Christmas.
Let's just get the momentum going now for Christmas.
And we should reach, we can get into a top 100.
Should we do a Christmas song?
That would be funny.
Can we collab with Richard Porter and do a Christmas song?
That's a cream Christmas song.
Cream crackers.
No, that's not a Christmas thing.
I don't know why.
Cream crackers are just basically a sniffing cream.
I'll be honest.
My brain formed crackers being a Christmas thing.
And cream crackers and went, that's a lot.
Cream Christmas crackers.
That's, that's better.
That would, and we do a music video and everything.
A music video.
And then we get, then naturally you'd end up getting a sort of collaboration.
So we'd end up having like H or something in there.
We'd have them in there.
50 cent.
Oh, I'd be like that.
Big Elf posthumously, maybe.
I'd be happy with that.
Yeah.
And nice, like a projection one.
That hologram.
I think there's legs in this, guys.
Look, if you start suggesting some topics for Christmas songs,
and we might, we might go for it.
All we need is a one record exec to green light out our album.
And we're there.
And we go, look, this is our first song, Cream.
And they go, I think that exists if I mentioned it.
You may be stealing that.
All right.
What we got next?
Next up is some absolutely huge news.
Now a few people DMed me about this or DMed sort of cream and what such.
Ben, you've put this in here.
What's that?
This is officially potentially a, you heard it here first.
Chinese car maker patents or patents car toilet.
And then you've said, we predicted this brackets Greg.
Yeah.
We predicted Greg.
What's Greg?
No, Greg, our friend Greg, who we used to work with.
Oh, shout out, Greg.
You messaged me this news, and I thought he deserved a shout out for it.
Do you know what?
Hence why I put Greg at this.
Hey, crazy.
We did predict this.
Do we do?
Straight up a week.
Add it to the list.
We need a list running.
Predict the S1NM.
We gave Gordon Murray the idea.
We predicted China, the country of, in general.
It was always going to happen.
It feels a little inside of Tracy.
It was going to happen.
Yeah.
No, because it was, it was too soon.
It was like four days after.
We shouldn't be releasing.
You know, when, when, what's the company?
What's the name of that company?
Did the James Bond thing?
What's that?
Bow thing?
No, that's the great.
BYD?
No, they had a different name.
Oh, X-Peng.
Not what it is.
No, no, sorry.
No, it's, it's, let's listen to the company.
Sherry.
You, you Fee.
No, that's the security company.
That's the security cameras.
Nonetheless, there's a car toilet.
I don't know anything more about it other than-
Neither do I.
Apparently it's a voice activator, I saw.
You just go, just go.
Shit.
There it goes.
All right.
I mean, it talks to you.
Does it open the seat like a sort of Bond villain?
Denzer.
Denzer.
There it is.
I've never got that in a million years.
My point being that it's, you know,
when Denzer lets us in on these things,
because we're paid by Denzer, obviously.
Of course.
We shouldn't be going out and telling the trade secret.
So we got the, it was the, the sort of time zone was different.
So we got the, we got the NDA.
We got the, you know, the, it was all wrong.
We didn't know the time zone.
We thought the NDA said, you must promote this new toilet.
Do it a week earlier.
So, so sorry about that Denzer.
I'm, we won't do that in the future.
I'm going to pull it up.
What?
I want to know more details about the toilet.
I need, I have to understand because when I thought it was a good idea
and then realized why exactly it isn't a good idea.
The smell when I saw that it was actually a thing.
How, how are you taking your trousers down in the middle of a journey?
What if, what if the car does it for you?
Right.
Like a massage seat.
Oh, I'm assuming it's for use when you're not driving.
It's a patent they filed basically for an in-car toilet.
And so we're not going to know much about it because it's just what they filed.
Well, you would.
Well, they filed up the patent for the technology.
So they're not going to put like a press release out.
But basically it's a hidden toilet under the seat.
And when it's not in use, it can slide underneath the passenger seat,
either physically or through the car's voice recognition system.
It's only for the driver.
Also, this feels like an, an issue waiting to happen.
Just like S-classes.
Great when they're new.
But what happens when there's a malfunction in the toilet seat?
What happens when shit doesn't get stuck?
I don't, also, I just don't want, like if I bought a second car,
you can clean your seats.
You can do everything.
It just feels like someone's, it feels violated.
Also going, going up to a mechanic and going,
do you have any bleach?
I'm going, what?
Yeah.
Well, I need to clean the toilet, don't I?
What's it?
It would need servicing.
We don't, you have to.
But toilet would need servicing.
Have you done the interval two change on the toilet?
Yeah, no, that's the whole thing out.
I thought about it.
It was bad enough when I found out that
Range Rover heated seats have to be serviced
because they have to change the filter.
They have a filter in them because they're like air conditioned.
And I thought, how much poo is in those filters?
How could people fart into seats all the time?
If you fart into the seat, there's going to be,
there will naturally be poo particles in those,
at least in the fibres of the, of the cushion of the seat.
It's got to be catching something.
And there's the hook for the episode.
No, no, deck, don't use that please.
Not again.
Please do.
No, please don't.
To base to J.Prey.
I don't know.
But the thing is, is that I just don't want that in my car.
Also, I will lose concentration if I have to take a turn.
No, I don't think it's while driving.
I think that's the thing.
I think it's for a stop.
It's like a hard, hard services.
But don't ask the point.
I have a services I can stop.
Hold on, but you're middle of nowhere.
Like China's bigger than we are.
Yeah, but I'd say so.
I think that's, I think that might be a fact.
Do they have service stations?
You could fit, apparently, three Englands into China.
I'd say more than that.
It's not wrong.
But at least three.
Upwards of three.
Now the, it makes sense, but right.
Okay.
You stop as a driver to use it.
Yeah.
But if I'm trying to drive and my passengers there locked in,
just straining next to me, I'm not continuing to drive.
I'm refusing to drive.
Just glancing over and you just see it.
Your red-faced passenger.
They're holding the old Jesus handle,
slight knuckle going.
Also, like where's toilet roll coming from?
And like, is there somewhere to stall the toilet roll in the car?
Also, I feel like a stand-up wiper.
Somewhere to put the toilet roll.
Stand-up wiper.
If they're a stand-up wiper, then they have to then...
Looking over as the driver going, you've missed a bit.
Also means I have to sit down, Pete.
You literally just mooning your driver.
You look over and go, oh my God.
What's this?
Most of your passengers bent over in front of you.
Just typing them.
Type of shot you get in the boys for no reason.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
As of 2026, China has approximately 2,000 motorway service areas.
I would have thought there would be more.
2,000?
Yeah, I'd say we've got...
How many have we got?
Yeah, we must have loads.
Which we've got to have at least 500.
That's got to be a fact.
I think more.
That's at least...
That's why he's...
Not wrong, though, am I?
We have 94.
I don't think that's true at all.
They're approaching 97 to 107 official motorway service areas.
Oh, so unknown number.
Do they got...
I guess that's motorway service.
I guess that makes 83% are in England.
Of course.
So, how many more is that?
That's...
So, we have 100, they have 2,000.
How many more is that?
20 times.
Yes.
Okay.
Good math.
Good math.
So, how many times bigger...
Is China?
Is China than the UK?
At least three times.
Cutting edge entertainment here, gang.
39 to 40 times bigger than the UK.
So, nowhere in it?
No, way more.
What?
Because they have 2,000 and they're only 40 times bigger.
So, way more services.
So, the toilet makes sense.
No, it makes no sense because they have more services than we do.
Proportionately.
You just said it the other way around.
You just...
So, there's 30 to 40 times more people, but only 20 times more services.
There's 30 to 40 times the size as a country.
And we...
So, they should have 40 times as many services as us.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
No, that is right.
And there we go.
You heard it.
Absolutely dead last.
Yeah.
And they have 20 times.
So, they have half a number of services per...
Per...
Capital.
Like, per person.
So, service station density, important metric for a country.
See it on the next census.
Now, the bug in the room that's listening to this,
once they got there, she's going,
what the hell are they talking about?
The denser bug.
The denser bug is listening, going, those stats aren't real.
Going, good job team, leave them off the trail.
Right, we need to build 8,000 more services.
They'll never believe that we're sponsoring you now with that misinformation.
What we got next?
Edwin, you've put in here best getaway car, A45.
Right, I was driving back from the wooddest of good.
And I was behind in traffic, A, a little bit of random offside.
Remember, we talked about the story of my MX-5 blowing up on Cocking Hill.
Did you drive that way?
I did, of course, yeah.
Did you notice where there was a set of temporary traffic lights?
In the exact same place.
It was the same place that I was behind Will, if you don't know.
Will overtook me on a way to Goodwood years ago in his Evo.
I was at my turbo MX-5.
I tried to keep up, flat-shifted into a gear and blew my engine to smithereens.
When I say that, every rod snapped and two rods went out through each side of the block.
Nice.
What does a flat-shift mean?
Okay, so when you're mapping a car, you can have, there are like a sensor on
the amount of throttle input you have on your clutch and stuff.
You can ask it that when you put the clutch in to shift gears,
it will retard the ignition so that you don't have to let off the throttle.
And you will keep your boost.
Your boost will just stay all the way out.
Yeah, I think this.
The issue with that, though, is on a car with stock rods, talk is what kills them.
And talk down low, lower than it's used to.
Like talk, obviously, think of a dyno for rises as you go up,
whereas if you're flat-shifting it, making all of the boost you would,
that torque figure is going to be a lot higher than it usually is.
And MX-5 stock engines do not like torque lower than they used to going.
And so I gave mine all of the torque while flat-shifting.
And the engine went, I'm not dealing with this anymore.
This is for you to deal with.
Having previously flat-shifted.
Oh, many times.
It wasn't the first one.
No, no, many hundreds of times.
It was the straw that broke the camels back.
But absolutely obliterated the camels back.
At 8,000 RPM.
Just I'd raised the limit, which you shouldn't also do.
So just all of the things you should be doing.
And I blew the engine.
But the reason was because Will and I were first in line at a temporary traffic light,
and we knew that it was an open road as you crested the hill.
And I came up to this traffic light in the TVR and just sat there going,
no, no, no, no, no, no.
Even though I was alone, I was like, no, no, not on this day.
But the second reason being on the way back in that same traffic jam,
I was behind an A45 AMG.
But you know, think of an A45 AMG.
Yeah.
What is festooned all over it?
Oh, canards and wings and badges and stickers and stuff.
Exactly stuff.
But some of the early ones are just completely standard.
Yeah.
Like a complete, it just looks like an A-class.
And it was because I was behind it when I found a photo quickly.
That's just that that is an A-class with an AMG pack.
There would be nothing to tell me that that was going to be spicy.
Still.
And I was thinking, that's the best getaway car.
Yeah.
That's a nice practical hat as well.
Four-wheel drive, right?
Four-cylinder stock, 330-odd horsepower.
I think the early ones.
So surely a auto as well.
So no missing any gears.
Straight elbows all day.
Fine.
Easy.
But and you can tune them up to 400 plus.
I'm fairly sure for it.
It must be fairly simple.
If things go bad at TDC, I'm turning to a life of crime in one of those.
That's what I'm going for.
I was going to ask, what is your, what's the best getaway car?
It's actually close.
It's not easy to beat that.
Roll choice.
Okay.
Well, I'm not right.
And they'll go, there's Benjamin Rodgers going away in his daily.
Well, you wouldn't suspect.
They'll go, he's far too chilled out.
Why would someone escape a robbery in a Rolls Royce?
They go, well, of course it's me.
Innocent people don't run.
This is the, what was the, I think it was in a, I don't know why.
I remember this burn notice, old, really terrible show.
And it's, he says, if you're breaking in somewhere, don't wear a balaclava,
because then they'll know immediately you're an intruder.
Just look normal, like you're supposed to be there and go, ah, sorry.
Am I not supposed to be here?
That's Rolls Royce call.
Yeah.
If you turn up in a Rolls Royce, you go, of course I'm allowed to be here.
Of course I am.
Exactly.
And then when you, when you, where did you get it from?
I bought it.
With that.
Okay.
We do need the money to start.
So you're rich enough to get the Rolls Royce, but you are robbing a bank.
Have you previously robbed a bank?
I've stolen the Rolls Royce.
What?
Okay.
That works.
Fine.
Absolutely fine.
There we go.
Well, that's for himself, isn't it?
Don't need a getaway vehicle from a crime if you are in it.
But it would be a new one, not an old one.
Yeah.
That's perfect.
It'd be a silver shadow.
Like a phantom.
He's, because an old one, you look a bit problematic already.
No.
You look like there could be allegations.
You used to work in TV.
Joe, I do.
I've robbed the Mona Lisa, for example.
This is Worstling.
Okay.
I'm thinking of artwork, big, big heists.
I'll be honest, Ben.
When you're a robber, you're kind of your own boss.
You kind of choose what you want.
It's like freelance.
You don't go, what's the boss got me stealing today?
Well, let me go on Fiverr and see what jobs are available.
Okay.
So I'm nicking the Mona Lisa because it's worth a lot, Benny.
Of course.
I'm walking out of the front of the Louvre with it on my arm.
No one's unopposed.
More than if I run, they're going to chase me.
If I walk, they're going to go, that's just a guy.
It's like a dog.
Yeah.
If you run, they go, game.
Yeah.
And then you get in the Rolls Royce and you just waft away and they go, he's off home.
Oh, he's just picking up his painting.
Oh, was it?
Which one was it?
It was that one.
Oh, right.
It's sort of like woman, like sitting.
It was sad.
Look at the looking woman.
Can't remember.
Very underwhelming in real life.
That's sad or happy.
It's just a painting.
Well, why did you, you know, you've kept it in your collection quite well, haven't you?
I don't have it.
In the infinite art collection.
You just wanted to see what the replica looked like.
I don't have it.
It's actually a really, this really great small in real life.
It's a A4.
Okay.
It's really small.
It's really small.
You know what?
More impressive, Ben.
Lots of detail for A4.
Maybe it's A3.
I don't know.
It's not that big.
It's like the limies from Benjamin.
But so you're, I mean, we did say, but I think we said bank robbery anyway.
So you're robbing the loo.
Why would you rob a bank?
Of the monolith?
Because it's got money in it.
Yeah, but monolith is worth like a billion.
Also, I'd do it Bain style, actually.
Is that an appraisal by yourself or is that something?
That is worth about a billion pounds.
And you can, it's this big.
It's A4 size.
Name one other thing that's A4 size.
I'm stealing from a stock exchange and I'm going to do it Bain style.
What are you stealing?
Penny stocks.
No, no, I'm rocking up with a USB stick and I'm just downloading all the money.
And then what are you escaping in?
Yeah, wow.
Supposedly about $660 million to over $1 billion.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
In a stock exchange?
No, no, that's not much.
In the stock exchange, I think it's a bit more in the stock exchange.
But you show, but you, that's what it's worth,
but you struggle to sell it if it's sold.
Wait, what's, find me another one.
Exactly.
Find another.
Using car selling terms on art.
You'd have to go to a criminal underboss or underboss or boss.
On eBay bids and we get offers on that.
100%.
You probably get an offer or two.
Easily get offers.
Shop in frame.
No frame.
No frame.
You've got to do that GTA style.
You cut out the frame.
Okay.
30 seconds.
You can't think you can roll it up and check it under your sleeve.
Okay.
So you're doing it Bane style.
I like the, yeah, but he escaped on like motorbikes.
Motorbikes, which is probably a good idea
because you can do back roads.
But then you can do full off.
Could you let yourself, you know,
absolutely not.
Full to that.
Absolutely not.
So I like that.
Yeah, that's not fast enough.
Lupo 3L.
I know it is.
A Lupo 3L is a good shout.
Or do you know what?
Microcive, if I'm doing a little continental heist,
sort of American Italian job style,
rather than, you know, smashing a lift,
smashing a safe through a wall,
you know, through the floor.
Oh, well, I just get into the safe quicker, basically.
But then I'd escape in a microcar
because they go, well, that's just a man in a microcar in Italy.
What was to see here?
Or one of those little,
sorry, it's like a sort of three wheel thing
with a pickup bed.
Did you?
Okay.
Oh, the little Piaggio 8.
Yeah.
Like a tuck tuck.
But on the back is a safe.
Okay.
That's what we're going to say with the microcar.
How are you getting,
are you getting a few,
a few wads of cash from in the,
in the safe, putting them in the microcar,
driving to the drop off,
and then coming back and going,
no, I've got a microcar.
I don't have expensive taste.
Okay.
So you're nicking like about 15 grams.
No, not even that.
Okay.
A couple of hundred quid.
Keeps fueling the microcar for a little while longer.
And because no one's caught me,
I can always go back.
But then the thing is,
is that you might not be chased.
My real answer would be an RS6.
Smart.
D-Badged.
Yep.
To look like an A6.
Yeah.
I heard it.
I like it.
But it would have a pop and bang map.
No.
Bangs on the shifts.
Do you know what?
I've, you know what?
I want this,
I want this odd note,
but I came up with this idea that,
that I think this is a,
probably a UK movie or series.
Okay.
That it would be a getaway.
You know how in Drive,
where does he go?
He has an impala,
a normal impala.
Yeah.
And where does he go to blend in?
You've watched Drive many times.
You like it a lot.
The beginning.
Beginning.
He turns up to the sports event.
Right.
He parks in the garage.
Yeah.
Right.
I want,
I want an RS3.
Or an S3.
More like.
And I've done my,
I've done the,
my banking job note.
What are you saying?
What are you stealing?
Anything.
This is,
I'm saying this is a potential for a TV show.
And this could be an actual thing.
Okay.
And the way that he loses the police
is he goes into Birmingham,
just 30 driving,
and then he gets lost among all the other 30 drivers.
Like too fast, too furious,
scramble baby.
And they all go,
which S3 is he?
Which is he?
Which golf bar is he?
Well, who is that?
Could be any of them.
Who's good park in McDonald's?
That is what I mean.
And then you're fine.
I think I reckon in our lifetime,
we'll see that as a,
this is how we got away.
Yeah.
Blended in with the car people going,
that's wicked.
Nah.
Okay.
Look at that.
I don't know how we got there.
We started off talking about the Chinese car toilet.
No, I'm sorry.
We were talking about the A45.
There we go.
Sorry.
I forgot about that.
Lovely.
So A45,
another good anecdote.
Well done.
Another top,
top work there, everyone.
Ben, you've got some news.
I do.
Where is it?
Great.
It's the new C class apparently.
Oh, isn't this a nuggy thing?
Have you seen this?
You know what?
Just weeks ago,
we said how well Mercedes were doing.
Again, another reason that the cream podcast
is shaping the automotive industry.
Mercedes listened and went,
all right,
mash it up.
We don't want you to buy our cars anyway.
What is it with German car designers
that must make all of their
mid-size executive saloons look like owls?
This is their GAT era, isn't it?
It does look like an owl.
It looks like an owl.
And then so does the I4,
BMW.
So other than owl for our audio listeners,
what does the new C class do?
Okay, so imagine a C class,
the front end.
Imagine a normal...
They look okay on the front.
They're just car.
I quite like the new previous.
Thank you.
Now, this is also fully electric,
I must say.
So it's going to have the dumb live grill.
It now has a giant grill
and the number plate and the badge,
what's it called?
The star badge?
Yes.
The star badge is just in the middle of the grill,
a bit like BMW have been doing.
And it lights up.
Do you remember the mid-2000s Audi A8,
all of them, the A5, the A6, A7?
They all had the huge big grill.
Yeah.
Look at the outside of that.
That is that grill.
Yeah, it's very similar to that.
And also because it's now got the LEDs,
but they look like slats.
Yeah.
It's very similar design.
What you've done is nicked the Audi grill
from 10 years ago and gone,
Mercedes, isn't it?
I'm going, oh, that looks way too good.
Yeah.
That looks way too good.
Mash it up more.
The rear, you know what?
I'm going to say it.
I'm going to pull the rear up.
I don't like the shape of the car,
but I think that could be an AMG version of that.
I could like.
I could be okay with that.
No, I thought for a moment that was like a hatchback,
but I think that's just a weird show.
Because that's not very C-class, that rear.
No, it slopes down quite.
Yeah.
But when they brought out that five-series GT
or whatever it was.
Yeah.
Where it's just hideous.
But there's someone...
Hang on.
Here we go.
Hang on a sec.
Hold on.
He left, didn't he?
What's that?
Gordon, bloody left.
This is what we said.
Didn't he go somewhere else?
Did he?
I don't think he did.
No, that's not true.
Did they swap places?
I don't know.
We're making up news.
But it looks...
Why is it?
Go back to that rear image.
That's the best.
At night, it still has the light up grille,
like the i7 or i5.
Oh, i...
Just stop it, man.
That's disgusting.
More like, I don't like any of them.
Stop with these light up grilles.
Because also, I see them on the motorway every now and then.
They're an eyesore.
They're a distraction from your eyes.
Can we not do this thing
where we start making design elements, LEDs at night?
That's just Aliexpress as hell.
Yeah, it's horrible.
You would like the front, Benjamin.
The rear, please.
The rear, Benjamin.
It looks...
Why is it they take all okay-shaped cars now
and they just make them fat?
Not like, as in bigger.
I mean, imagine if all of those normal proportions
just put on a few pounds in the worst way possible.
I would also like to know...
Sorry, Mercedes.
What's going on with the color match
of your rear bumper to your rear panel?
Been in a bump, hasn't it?
That's...
That car vertical got an assessment on one of those.
That is wild.
That's the car you're releasing to us.
But yeah, I absolutely hate it.
That might be my least favorite-looking new car
I've seen in a long while.
If that's where they're going,
hell, just don't do that at all.
Please get the old guy.
But wherever he went, getting back.
Put a piece of paper in front of him.
Then write whatever he wants.
I have a question for you.
No?
Okay.
So, you know there's this whole thing
about all these new Chinese brands coming out.
And listening to the podcast, yeah.
Denzer.
Yeah.
Like Denzer, who are taking the market away
from the classic German brands and sure what such.
Would you two rather have that happen,
but they bring out like some...
All these new brands like Denzer you've ever heard of,
bring out actually cool cars reminiscent of like
the early 2000s BMWs and stuff you like?
Or, but you have to deal with these.
Are they electric?
Or they're...
They're like...
They're cool cars.
But that doesn't help my question.
So, they're not electric.
Sorry, they have engines and they're good to drive
in their sport and they look good and you like them.
They're kind of reminiscent of what you like already,
but they're all new brands.
And then obviously, or would you prefer...
I have no brand loyalty.
This is the thing.
So, you'd be okay with that?
Look, I know everyone will always go like,
how are you guys obsessed over BMWs?
I only like the BMWs I like, if that makes sense.
I won't defend every BMW.
There are some that I really don't like.
I don't care.
I don't like a first gen one series hatchback.
I don't like even a 130i.
It's kind of cool.
I just don't like it.
Just not for me.
I won't buy one just because I'm like, BMWs are great.
I like them because I like the ones that are cool.
So, if BMWs stop making good cars, BMWs dead to me.
Okay.
So, you're fine with that?
So, you're fine.
You're both fine with that?
I'll be sad about it because of the heritage.
Yeah.
And I'd like them to be to carry on,
but it's their choice to make bad cars.
What I'm saying is, if we keep going this way,
where all the German manufacturers are making
these ugly cars that have no soul and we don't care about,
but then the Chinese brands come in and go,
yo, we've got some cool stuff.
But I think the reality is that all of the car brands...
No, I agree.
But I'm saying, would you be okay with that world?
No, but we've kind of, not necessarily Chinese brands,
but from other brands where it's a bit like saying,
would you go and buy a Kia Stinger over an S5 or something?
I just mean because they're new car brands
that you haven't never heard of before.
There's no heritage to it.
And I do think there's something attached to buying an M car
and it being in a line of previous M3s and you go,
do you know what?
There is a DNA here where it drives a particular way.
Even if it is modern, it still drives like an M car.
Whereas you don't necessarily get that with a...
But they had to start somewhere.
True.
There was someone in like the 60s...
I don't want to invest earlier.
I want to get the safe bit.
But there was someone in the 60s going, imagine they said,
oh, I don't...
Look at all these German cars.
I don't want to...
Not the 60s, but I don't want any 30.
I want Model T.
I know Model T.
I'll be there.
Who would never have thought that.
Neil Tuckett would say.
He would.
Shout out Neil Tuckett.
Are they comparable in era?
I just mean in terms of like,
if you looked at cars that had heritage like those cars and didn't go as music.
I'm sure this has happened before.
I think it happened with Japanese cars.
Yeah.
Especially here and obviously in the US quite heavily,
where Japanese cars came in and it was a similar sort of thing where it's like,
they're kind of deemed to be a little bit,
they were obviously cheaper,
but they were obviously quite reliable.
That's always been the thing.
But everyone prior to that was used to having British cars or all American cars.
So there has to be some kind of culture shift eventually.
I just don't think we've ever seen it quite as heavy as this.
No, it's an invasion.
But Japanese cars have built up a...
Again, I don't know.
I wasn't around when this stuff happened.
But Japanese cars are not.
They're a legendary Japanese cars.
Yeah.
There was entire scenes that are all about just owning Japanese cars,
Nissan, whatever it is.
So I don't know, maybe.
But I think that it's a different phase of like the car world,
where they're not coming in and sort of innovating from scratch.
When Japanese car makers are coming in, cars are kind of basic,
and they've had all that time to go,
right, now we can work up from hatchbacks all the way up to rally cars,
skyline, supercars, whereas I don't think that's the case.
90s JDM is going to turn into...
In the 40s, in the 2040s, they're going to be like,
20s China, crazy.
It was popping off back then.
Do you remember?
You should have seen the Amoda.
The Bing's Amoda were putting out.
Do you remember the X-Ping back then?
Cool.
Do you remember Denzer?
Right, Daniel Craig on the advert.
Some old James Bond bloke.
But forget the James Bond bloke.
Look how iconic that Denzer is.
I don't make him like this anymore.
Now you've got that raw sound of the electric motor.
You just don't hear that anymore.
Gone now.
Yeah, you got on the early J-Cous.
You did, yeah.
Look, they're just copying J-Cous, aren't they?
They are, BMW, and they've been the same since.
They always try to walk it in.
I don't think that'll happen.
Okay, but I'm just saying, would you live in that world?
I think I'd have to.
Would I live in it?
Would I watch my option?
That's quite ominous, actually.
Are you okay with that?
Just going to get off into space, aren't I?
Now, we have a little ranking to do,
but we'll do that later on.
But prior to that...
Excuse me.
Do we now?
I know I stayed late.
We have a forum, apparently.
Do we?
From a man named...
Oh, we do.
You can name him, actually.
Mid podcast forum.
We've got a forum from Chris Ball.
Hello, Chris.
It's quite a long message.
I will paraphrase it.
Not crystal.
Sorry, Chris, not my good name.
I've done basic commentings,
such as messing with breaks, etc.
However, as much as I'd love to be able to do an engine swap,
the sheer anxiety it would give me
to have so many connectors, hoses, looms, etc.
I can't even see how it's possible to begin.
When engine gets removed,
as I've seen many times in your guys' video,
it looks like an absolute interest orgy of pipes.
How the hell do you remember where everything goes?
Is it having a damn good memory,
or are there any tips that you guys can give?
Take photos along the way and label things.
Label things.
I remember car threat with the golf.
The golf.
Edwin and Jack from Alder Gear Now,
labeled one of the pipes of big blue in the front
and big brown in the back.
And do you know what?
I still remember what they were.
That one of them was the Kjet, the warmup plug,
and then the other one,
I think was an injector loom harness.
But yes, memory comes into it.
The more you do it, if you're a specialist on a car,
like we go and take cars to specialists all the time,
they'll take an engine apart and go,
they won't just know where the connectors go,
they'll know what each bolt is.
They can pick up a bolt and go,
that is going to be the camshaft,
like the bolt that goes in the cam.
That is the camshaft.
I don't know what this bolt always knows what it's doing.
Imagine I entered your kitchen,
and I didn't know where any of the cutlery was or the mugs.
There you go.
But you know, because you've learnt.
Now, the realistic thing is,
the first time is very scary,
just like most first times.
They're a bit scary.
But when you come out the other side of it,
you probably have a bit of fun.
So, no, but it does get scary.
I still get scared of putting bolts in like bags all together.
I still have to use like kitchen ziplock bags
and write on them what that bolt is for.
Because if I put them all together,
I will forget where they go.
But how do you label that?
You label it off the part you've taken it off of.
So say I'm taking the alternator off,
and there's three different layers of bolts.
Okay, interesting.
Layers.
No, what do you mean?
Say you're taking a part off that has...
It's got...
You take these three bolts off,
and then there's kind of a piece you've got to remove,
and then there's another three bolts.
How do you know?
How do you label those?
So, you just said three bolts come off,
and a little piece comes off of the alternator.
That goes in a bag.
So, those are together.
So, it's not everything from that component.
It's just that little section.
I will break it down into even those components.
I'll break it down crazy.
You give me a dance floor.
No, I will, yeah, because I will forget.
And I'll start putting bolts in the wrong place.
And then that's when things...
That's when cars, you always see it.
Someone will engine swap a car,
and afterwards they'll just constantly have teething issues.
It won't run right.
Things will fall off.
Things will break.
It's because they don't go back where they supposed to be.
If you do things by the book, how they were originally,
the car will work.
Yeah.
That's how they work from the factory.
They're bolts and nuts, and it will work.
It's fine.
But just get very organised.
That's all I will say.
Like, that's the best part.
The worst thing you can do is get yourself into a mess
where you've got parts everywhere.
You don't...
Because also, a lot of the time, we're lucky,
we're doing it almost as a job,
where we know you're doing it in a week.
You're doing it in a couple of days.
But for like the same as how I did my Clio,
same as when you would have done your MX-5,
you're doing it on weekends.
You do it on evenings.
You're probably spreading it out over like three months.
I'm not spreading it out too much, but...
But you're doing it in your spare time.
So, let's say you do it on a weekend,
then you're going to do a week of work or two weeks of work.
You've got a weekend where you do something else,
and then you come back to it and you go,
shit, where does that?
Because there's also, you will find,
the lots of bolts that look the same.
Yeah.
But some of them are different lengths,
and some of them are different...
You know, they're meant to go to a different place,
and they have...
Or it's a specific bolt that's meant to be for the gearbox.
It's not meant to be for the engine.
It's worth taking the time so you do it right,
rather than having to redo it a million times,
or having to buy bolts.
Take videos as well.
You can mark bolts.
That's the other thing.
He's good lad.
I'll be honest though,
that is most of the reason why the 850 sits,
because I did...
I took half the engine apart,
and then it sat because I got busy for work,
and at six months went past and I went,
I have not a single clue where those bolts go,
and now I'm scared.
Because it will never work.
The internet is your friend.
Yes, very much so.
For most cars out there, someone's done it before.
Yeah.
Or if it isn't on the internet,
go and speak to a specialist.
Some specialists are not very keen on telling people stuff,
but some are pretty good.
They can guide you in the right direction
if you're doing it yourself.
Where to buy...
Because if you're taking an engine out,
you're probably not taking it out to put it straight back in.
You're probably going to be fixing something,
doing something.
So you're going to be buying parts.
And using forums, Facebook groups, whatever it is.
Because there's things like talk specs,
important on the engine stuff.
You can't just go like doing everything up hand tight,
for no reason.
It might last a little while.
But when I was doing the Clio,
that was doing head bolts, how to do it properly.
And then you find a forum post for someone says,
this is how I've done it.
This is the way to do it now.
The internet is your friend.
And YouTube as well.
YouTube is incredibly helpful for that stuff.
I will say Facebook forums now are...
You will find lots of old information on proper car forums,
the one specifically for your car or engine.
But nowadays, Facebook groups are a godsend.
And I think because 9 times out of 10,
people's own face and name is against their profile,
you don't get the snarky, shitty responses
that you used to get on forums
of people just shouting into the void
about how much of a clown you are.
Whereas now, you ask a question and someone will go,
hey man, I did this myself.
Here's how you do it.
Oh, I tried this.
Oh, here's a tip.
Facebook forums are very good for that sort of stuff.
Mason Weaver I'll also allow yourself some time.
Allow yourself time to do it properly.
I always put off doing any major work to a car
because I didn't have the space to do it
because I was just operating out of a flat car park, basically.
So I didn't have a garage to go and do it in.
So I don't always do that in a car park.
One, it's probably not the right place to do it in terms of,
like, you want to do it in a nice clean environment.
But you also want the time to do it.
So you're not feeling pressured, like, I need to move this.
Or if you start something on a Saturday,
you know, I need this to run by Monday,
you're already putting yourself at like a major disadvantage
because it's going to really mess you up.
When I did the Cleo, I was kind of happy to do it
because I was like, I don't need this car.
Yeah, this is a project car.
I can leave it, put parts on the driveway,
parts in the garage or leave the engine in the garage
and I can chip away at it as and when.
The time pressure and or needing to be out of somewhere
or something like that is not nice.
But was it your RS replica?
Where we did the exhaust on my driveway on jack stands
and we took the whole exhaust apart.
And this was on a Sunday at like two in the afternoon.
And we took the exhaust off, went to put the new exhaust on,
found it wouldn't fit.
And Will was like, I have to drive this home.
It's like the worst feeling.
And like no parts stores are open and you're like, great.
So I've just wasted a day.
I have to try and hope and put this in.
I think it was the clamp was broken on it.
So we couldn't even put the original exhaust back on properly.
It drains the fun instantly.
You just hate it.
And then you either rush to fix it or you budget.
And then it goes on over weeks and weeks.
And it just makes you really hate.
Again, these things are going to happen.
It's not all going to go smoothly.
These things will happen.
You're going to get forced to do it.
But the only thing I could probably say as well,
despite all of those things that we've said,
is in the end, just decide to just do it.
Yeah, I deliberated for ages with the Clio one.
I was like, do I just pay someone to do it?
And it's mad expensive.
Then one day I was just like, you know what?
Let me just Google how to do this and then just do it.
Just start doing it.
And then there's no way back up to that.
I was about to say there is a great trend on Instagram at the moment
that is, do you want to know how to do something?
Get so far deep into it that your only option is to work out how to do it.
That is working on cars.
You decide to go for it.
You break something.
You go, well, I have to work out how to fix this now.
And then the next time you do it, you go, I'll be able to do that.
Like, Ben, do you think without us here,
you could fumble your way through doing S2000 coilovers?
Yes.
Yeah, I could.
But if I asked you, if I said right now,
pull the engine on your S2000, you'd be like, I can't do that.
I could break it out.
Back in, no chance.
Do you always struggle with that?
No, nothing, nothing wrong from there.
Let's just carry the book out.
Okay, lovely.
So good forum question.
All right, that's a good question.
Yeah, that's a good question.
It's a, you've got to take a dive, man.
I want to take a moment to compliment you on how nice you look today.
Thanks, Ben.
I wish I could say the same.
Is it something I've done with my hair?
No, it's something you've done with your midsection.
Shout out.
You've seen them?
We have got, you might have seen, we've mentioned it before,
we've started on a new line of TDC merch.
Again, Creme merch is coming.
It's in the work, but we wanted to focus on TDC stuff first.
So we had a black t-shirt, sweatshirt and hoodie with like a black stealth logo.
Black on black.
Black on black.
And a load of you were like, yeah, I don't like, I want more colors.
Fair enough.
We've done the switchover.
So I did it back in my day on TV,
where they switched the color TVs on.
And then we've done that.
Here we are.
So will you're in a, in a, like a...
I'm in a Air Force Blue, I believe you might call it,
with a white stitching.
So it's very similar to the black, well,
it's exactly the same as the black one.
But these hoodies are, they are remarkable.
They're heavyweight.
They're just heavyweight.
There's no drawstrings.
They've got a little pocket for a 10 mil and what such.
Just like, because we got these today, like that's not,
that's not pork and noodle sauce.
No, not at all.
That's not.
Evan, what's on yours?
What are you wearing?
Mine, I'm wearing the stone one,
which has like a matching kind of bronzy color.
That's not pork noodles on my pocket there.
And I'm wearing this one, which I don't think we're going to sell.
No, we are.
Yeah, you are.
Because it's quite summery and vibrant.
And mine has no stains because I am an adult
that can eat my lunch without spilling it.
Yeah, sure.
Boring.
So yours is like baby blue.
And then over there, we've got like a dark green.
And then my favorite one is like a cream with a...
Yeah, sure.
It's kind of brown, kind of not brown.
Do you know what it is?
It's what I'm wearing, the brown barge.
Yeah, it is.
I've got like a darker brown insert,
and then like a light brown.
Yeah, look at that.
That is fantastic.
That is, it's like a proper cream with a brown TDC logo.
I like that a lot.
So these two are my vibe.
I like these colors.
We heard your cries for different colorways.
So these, I think, in this and sweaters,
I don't think we have t-shirts in them,
but we will have a white on white stealth.
So yeah, white teas for the summer.
Lovely.
I'm not just saying this because it's our merch.
Genuinely, these hoodies, unbelievable.
They're the quality.
They take pork stain sauce like you would never leave.
These two noodle consuming children that can't...
You've been wearing those for possibly 40 minutes.
Gabs walked in, he was having us on the merch and just went...
Got good noodles?
Great noodles.
Yeah, noodles.
Really good.
Shout out to Working a Market.
Apart from the ones I missed.
What have we got next?
Next up is Will's granddad.
That's just a shout out to Michael.
So we're going back to the...
Right.
Going back to the Mercy Lago in the auction.
Then doesn't know about this.
So, as we said, three generations of Chandler there.
Will, would your granddad besmirch me to say that he's quite eccentric?
Yeah, I'd say a little.
Just a tad.
Just so you're aware, he arrived wearing shorts and a cap that had a...
What do you call it?
A sticker.
A sticker on the top of the brim that had handwritten on it.
My name is Mike.
Was there a recent flat?
I don't know.
There surely is.
I don't know what it is.
Okay, of course.
Now, after Will had won the car at the auction,
he quite sheepishly went up to the table to say,
do I have to pay for this now?
And while that was happening, Patrick and I were kind of standing around
like talking about the car looking over it.
And Will's granddad, with one of his free drinks tokens, bought a drink.
And I've got a photo here.
You can see he just went and placed the drink on inside the engine cover of the nice logo,
on quite like a tilt.
It was on the piss of it.
And there was, he's not in the photo, but a guy just off to the right.
No idea, obviously no idea that this is Will's granddad.
This just looks like an older gentleman has just gone and put his drink on a car
that has do not touch plastered all over it.
And the guy, the guy went over and went,
I don't think you're supposed to do that.
And Will's granddad just kind of raised his hand and went,
I don't know.
And waved him off.
And he took a step back and just, I really wish I got a photo of it.
He just stared in like an upset amazement at this man who just was just put a drink,
a full to the brim drink on top of the engine bay of a very expensive car.
And Patrick, shout out Patrick again, got, sorry, Patrick got this photo.
And then we've got your granddad put in your group.
He has like a family group chat.
He just sent the picture.
So there's also that's the picture that is there.
The other picture is him taking that picture.
So this is that inception.
He just said, was it expensive cocktail table?
Expensive cocktail table.
Which is fair.
Which is fair.
Not a sensation it is.
It's very expensive cocktail table.
You know what, shout out Will's granddad.
He's one of my favorite humans on this planet.
He seriously regretted not bidding on a Jag that was there as well.
There was an old Jag that was there.
I mean, he doesn't need more things to add, but still.
For perspective, one of my favorite stories about Will's granddad is we went to a collecting
cars meet once, which is almost exclusively Porsche 911s.
Will your granddad not a fan of 911s?
Not, not the biggest fan.
And I said to Will, I was a nice 930 there in front of the owner and the owner turned around
and smiled at me and Will's granddad went, no, it's not, it's rubbish.
And I watched the happiness drain from this man's face.
He was just wandering around.
We were quite sort of rooted in one spot.
And he just, he just, he just wanders off and he'd wonder off.
And then he saw some car sell.
I can't remember what it was.
And then he came back and he said, that car doesn't even have a radio.
Just really loud.
Loud enough for most of the people bidding tear.
Yeah, there'll be, there's probably plenty more stories of that.
But that one, that's up there.
I kept laughing about the drinks thing all the way home.
Patrick and I were pissing ourselves because this man was just, he decided like,
he basically decided after being shocked by it to keep watch in case it got worse.
He's just kind of still on the sideline amazed going, no, you can't do that.
All it would have taken is for him to say, look,
my grandson's just agreed to buy this car.
He's won it.
It's okay.
It's kind of still not okay because I know the money's not, it's not really bought yet.
It's not your car yet.
It's not really, but still, I mean, it makes it slightly more understandable,
but he just thought, no, I don't care.
He then also stood, there was a, there's a,
one of the indicators is slightly,
it's slightly loose on one side.
And again, once the auction had finished and he realized it was me,
he just walked up to it and started trying to push it back in.
And there were people just staring like, what is that old man doing?
And it wasn't like a gentle push.
He was like, properly involved, looking around the bodywork to see if he could get it to line
back up.
Play with people like, did he buy this?
This man who's cap says, my name is Mike, and I'm doing it in sign.
But anyway, that was quite funny.
I did laugh a lot.
Shall we do, we have some more anecdotes.
No, we won't.
We'll do a top 10.
Have that little attention for you.
All right, bro.
There's a top 10 coming.
But we've got a couple of small things to get through.
You've said here, Benjamin.
Yeah.
Something that should interest me, but might not.
Rivalto SV spy shots.
There have been some spy shots of what is believed to be the Rivalto Lamborghini.
Don't know why I did that round.
Yeah.
SV.
Okay.
So the track focus, bigger body kit.
It looks like a Mansour kit.
Yeah.
Also, this is maybe showing my age, but if you look, if I saw that, I would just think
that is a normal Rivalto that has had a rap on it.
That I can't identify.
I think I'm maybe getting, I'm becoming an old man.
I can't tell you what's not original on that.
It's a side skirts.
And the front bumper has like a weird, those triangular bits in the front bumper.
I would guess that that's an event.
Oh, yeah.
It's not.
I wouldn't guess that as an event.
So I think I do know a little bit more, man.
But also, this is a deliberate.
They've been deliberately driving this around because I don't, my Italian is not great,
but attention.
Macchina veloce would be attention.
Fast car or fast Macchina is a car machine.
I don't know.
No, I think maybe car.
Yeah.
I think it's car.
Attention for, you know, fair, fair.
Absolutely.
So that'll be an SV.
And then I assume there would be an SVJ.
Probably.
Which would become the Instagram power of that generation.
Do we have, we had Diablo.
Then I had the SV.
Yep.
They had the Merciologo.
We had the SV.
Now, event at all, we've added the SVJ.
Yep.
So now surely we now need to have the SV, the SVJ, and then like the SVJM.
Just add another letter.
Just another one in there.
Another one because SVJ is Jota.
Yes.
Which was a word.
It was an SVJ wasn't.
Jota was a Mura.
But there was an S.
There was a Mura SV.
And a Mura Jota.
So they were separate things.
So now they went, oh, how about mix them up super fast Jota.
It might have been a Mura SV Jota.
So maybe it is nerds.
Let us know.
What if here's a conspiracy?
It's was it a 10, a 10s on the.
Yeah, easy words.
Yes.
All right.
On the bonnet.
What does that say?
I can't say something along the lines of attention.
Fast car.
But what are the two put on words?
M something or Macchina.
Macchina Velocce.
Whether it's an MV or good stuff.
But I can't call it fast car.
Because it's SV for super Velocce, right?
No, I'm not having that.
So hold on.
But then it's no longer super, mate.
This isn't a super.
This is just a car.
It's fast.
So what if we hang on?
I'll bet that it goes fast.
I can't see it for you.
So I don't know what it says.
It just says Macchina Velocce.
How's that spelled?
M-A-C-A.
So Macchina.
That's actually very helpful.
There you go.
And then Velocce.
It should mean car.
Machine.
I think they use it for car.
Fast machine.
From this fast car.
Yeah, it's the is the translation.
That's just a Google translate.
So Italians, let us know.
Shout out.
I'm fairly sure.
I'm, you know what?
Yeah, I'm I'll connect the dots.
Yeah.
I reckon it means have a look.
Look, come on.
Actung.
It means roll up, roll up.
I've got a fast motor.
I've got a mad motor over here.
Do an English version.
Oi.
Oi, speedy motor.
Here we go.
Jameson Jameson on the podcast.
That'll be great.
The thing I don't like is that the fact that the event store, right,
it looked pretty mental.
But it had this had this lovely balance of looking crazy,
but also still being quite clean to the hand.
Whereas the Roberto, which I can't say,
is it already looks like a man's sorry car.
So you're adding more big bits to it.
It doesn't now feel different.
But I think that is that that's now that's now the way it's going,
which is why I think are, you know,
if you look at the 2000s,
Mansory was the anecdote,
which was go mental,
as opposed to like the clean looking cars.
Whereas now our anecdote is the rest of mod.
It's the old car that's made to look smooth and all that sort of stuff.
But that's that's what it's supposed to be, I think.
It just doesn't make me feel anything.
I don't know.
A Roberto never made me feel anything in the first place.
So they'd have to do something serious.
But also a Roberto is already 1000 and a million horsepower.
So where do you go?
Where do you go with that?
And then you're going to do an SVJ.
And I assume there'll be a roadster somewhere down the line or...
Yeah, why is that now yet?
Well, yeah, it's a good point.
It feels like that should be something you should be on,
unless they don't sell.
I don't know, surely people.
Surely Marbella focus.
Absolutely.
Just get me the roof off.
Yeah, surely.
Get me a roof off and get me a really crap roof to put back on.
Also needed because sounds.
But it just doesn't.
There's something about the front.
I don't mind so much the rear.
The rear is, yeah.
I look forward to seeing it in the flesh.
And I'm glad that Lamborghini is still making V12s.
That's what I will say.
Lamborghini, listen, would you say you're open to trying one?
Look, I'd certainly be willing to be willing to be proved wrong.
Okay, Edwin, you?
I just don't care.
Will you give it a go?
I'd certainly have a go.
Yeah, if they could.
I'd daily it for a week.
Really? You wouldn't want to on track or...?
Just daily it.
All right.
Little look, a few twat laps of Knightsbridge.
Hand it back, I think.
Yeah, no, just no feelings towards that, which is upsetting to me.
Perhaps there are some children listening.
Okay, you're going to carry on with that.
They can tell us whether they feel something towards it.
Or perhaps if you have children who like cars,
can you ask them if they feel anything towards it?
Show them it.
Say nothing.
Give them no prior anything and just say,
what do you think of this?
And then type those exact words into the comment box as long as they're legal.
Benjamin.
Yes.
A weekly occurrence for you.
One more attempt at the video guess.
Okay, so for reference, Edwin and I have a video idea that we both know it's roughly similar,
but we're doing it individually.
We've individually come up with those ideas,
and it is now Ben's turn to have a guess.
If he gets it right, we will reveal it.
It has to be exact.
The only thing I know is that these two both individually count this idea themselves,
and then they won't tell you exactly what it is, but they both kind of know.
And somehow it involves me.
I don't know how that works.
So do you want me to repeat that the third time the exact same way?
Yeah.
Can we get one again in sort of maybe Chinese for our sponsor?
Do you know what?
I'm just trying to help you out here.
Okay.
Last week I asked you if it's a, you're going to build a car.
Yeah.
I'm going to choose the mods for that car.
Right.
Which I think will still be quite good.
I think it's a good idea.
I'm going to just double check out a couple I have here.
I wanted to say before I want to do this week.
I said you are fully ready for this.
Okay.
This time, you're going to race each other somewhere.
And I had to choose where you go.
No.
Anyway, is it close?
No.
So we've been in the newspaper recently.
It's crazy.
We have made the papers.
TDC has made the papers and it is a Lupo that has done it.
Now it's the boys down in the corner.
It's not the times.
It's not, I don't know what big newspapers are in the UK.
I don't know what good ones are.
People are going to get sensitive about that.
It's not a newspaper in the UK.
It is in the Netherlands and it is a regional one.
But none, nonetheless, we are in the papers.
We're in the papers.
And we, not only that, we got contacted by a journalist from Holland who said,
I'd like to write about you in our paper.
Can I, can I get some quotes?
And so we gave some quotes and they made it in.
Benny, you were aware of this?
You were there helping us concoct the quotes?
I was there when you made the quotes,
but I didn't ever hear anything about it.
We wanted our quotes to be not, not making fun at all.
We wanted them to be eccentric.
Memorables, we thought it'd be funny.
And I have, I have translated, not myself.
I don't speak good enough for a Dutch to do that.
Someone commented about that.
Why don't you speak, why don't you do it in Dutch?
Because I can't.
Yeah, I think you speak good Dutch.
I can just.
You had a phone call about the Lupo, right?
And it was in Dutch.
But what I said, Ben, was, hi, my Dutch isn't very good.
Do you mind if we speak English?
And the guy said, yeah, obviously we all speak English.
Okay, fair.
I'd say that in English.
And if he doesn't speak any English, we'd be having a problem.
That would be a problem.
Now I have, I have translated most of it just using Chad.
But it, it's a lot of her like explaining the video for,
for maybe her, most of the people who have got no idea what YouTube even is,
letting them ask.
But we've got the Lupo itself.
This is, this is a quote from me.
The Lupo itself isn't that rare.
But in the UK, we were never blessed with the efficient 3L model.
We took that almost, sorry.
We took that almost personally.
So it was time to take action says Edwin.
The Lupo staying with them.
It's a fantastic addition to our YouTube channel.
The creator says their channel thrives on character for cars.
Ben, I'd like you to not off.
The Lupo will take a starring role alongside their fast Audi RS6
and their open quotation marks, Ninky Nong.
A microcard that they've used for things like driving through a safari park
and racing a tandem bike through London.
So she's watched shout out Angelique.
She went out and watched the whole thing.
Which means she typed in the YouTube Ninky Nong.
Yep.
The Lupo is set to become a true gem.
Open quotation marks.
We're going to fully restore and improve the car so we can ensure it,
so we can enjoy it for many more miles in the UK.
So shout out, shout out to the old Dutch media.
I especially, and we took that almost personally.
I think the way I wrote it was, and we took that personally.
And she went, well, she probably didn't take it that personally.
Let's, you know, put it as almost.
Yeah.
Let's give it a little bit of vagueness.
Yeah, exactly.
I'll kind of do that personally.
Look at that.
That's us in an English paper.
That's just, I mean,
If you're Dutch and you can get that, please let us know.
We'd like to, we'd love to get that framed and have that in the unit somewhere.
We'd also like to hire a publicist now.
We're famous.
Well, you've already got a couple.
Yeah, of course.
But you guys, you own the company.
You're not using it with my people.
You own the media.
So it's time.
You're not using my media.
You must have run that print.
You must have approved that.
Today's news tomorrow or whatever it is.
That's Ben's, that is that.
Maybe that's the new T.C. news.
That's our last week's news today.
Now that might have to be in addition to the merch.
That's great.
But shout out to the Lupo.
We in the papers.
We in the papers.
Right.
I think that's actually a good place to leave it
because we're getting a little bit long on the tooth.
We will save the list for next week.
Hopefully we will have some more mercy news for you next week.
God, I hope so.
Shout out to the cremers.
Thank you very much for listening.
Thank you for helping make this sort of stuff possible.
We genuinely do love you.
It's a big cream week.
It truly is.
Ben.
Will's going to personally thank each and every one of you at Shedfest.
Every single one.
Even the ones that aren't there.
Cream, get the money.
By now.
Mercy, mercy me.
That mercy a lago.
Gotcha.
About this episode
The crew opens with a huge update on a Murcielago auction win, describing the nerves, bidding war, and the emotional moment of finally securing a dream-spec car. From there it veers into a bizarre patent for a car toilet, a debate about getaway cars, and a look at a controversial new Mercedes C-Class design. There are also lighter tangents about a podcast on an iPod, a clean Golf ruined by bird poo, and a few listener-style anecdotes.
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