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Proton Personas
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Saab 900
The Saab 900 is a car made by the company Saab. It was popular for its unique look and powerful engine options, especially the turbo versions.
Part
straight six twin turbocharged diesel engine
A straight six engine has six cylinders lined up in a row, which helps it run smoothly. Twin turbocharging means it has two devices that help the engine produce more power, and since it's a diesel engine, it uses a different type of fuel that can be more efficient.
Brand
Cadillac
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Concept
Formula 1
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Concept
Formula One
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Citroën 2CV
The Citroën 2CV is a small, affordable car from France that was popular for its easy handling and unique look. It was made for many years and is loved by collectors today.
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Citroen 2Cvs
The Citroen 2CV is a very old and unique car from France that people love for its cute design and how easy it is to drive. It’s famous for being economical and is considered a classic.
Part
turbocharger
A turbocharger is a part that helps an engine get more power by pushing in extra air, which helps it burn more fuel. This makes the car go faster without needing a bigger engine.
Company
Turbo Techniques
Turbo Techniques is a company that helps cars go faster by adding turbochargers and other performance parts. They know a lot about making engines more powerful.
Concept
Millbrook
Millbrook is a place in the UK where car companies test their vehicles to see how fast and safe they are. It has different tracks for different types of tests.
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BMW M4
The BMW M4 is a fast and sporty car made by BMW, designed for people who love driving. It's known for being powerful and fun to drive, which is why it often comes up in conversations about exciting cars.
Term
water injection
Water injection is when water is sprayed into the engine to help it run better. It cools things down and can help the engine make more power without damaging itself.
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Peugeot 309
The Peugeot 309 is a small car made by the French company Peugeot. It was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s and came in different styles like a hatchback or a sedan.
Concept
hill climb
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BMW 3 Series
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Peugeot 205 GTI
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Term
Mull Rally
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Concept
field sprint
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Term
airbag recall
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Brand
Renault
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Brand
Alpine
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Concept
oval racing
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Indianapolis
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NASCAR
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Term
airbrake
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Term
spoiler
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Company
Anderson EV
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Fiat Multipla
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Honda Frv
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Audi A2
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Volkswagen Polo
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Brand
Polestar
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Peugeot 205
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Bmw Ix3
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Ford Mustang GTD
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Mi cariño de cariño con Priya.
Steven Cropley, Monic Steve.
Buenas noches, ¿cómo estás?
Muy bien, amigo, muy bien.
Porque tengo que decir al escuchador que este podcast se ha traído a ellos en asociación con Anderson EV, como siempre.
¿Qué buen mensaje?
Sí, conocido para crear cariños de E.V. que mezclan tecnología inteligente con una hermosa craftsmanship británica.
Ellos son de Bedfordshire, diseñado y creado.
Sí.
Sleak diseño, cables hímenes, materiales premios.
Estos cargos parecen estar en tu casa y performan mejor.
Sí, tengo uno y es bien.
¿Tienes uno?
Sí.
Los precios son de 695 lb o 1130 lb, totalmente instalados.
Porque Anderson utiliza su equipo de instalación nacional.
El proceso es limpio y totalmente atractivo.
Así que contacten ellos y su servicio concierto.
Su servicio concierto dedicado.
Hacemos el resto.
Sleak, también puedes escribirte a autocarathaymarket.com
como Richard Walsh, de Waterford en Irland, ha hecho.
Steve, no estoy seguro de que veas esto.
Él dice, mientras escuchar a usted hablar de la pasada triste de Quentin Wilson y de cómo tuvo su primer rol de TV,
he sido reclamado de Steve's own foray into television
con un show driving passions.
Oh, my word.
En el medio de 1990.
He had very fond memories of watching the show while visiting my grandmother on a Sunday afternoon
as a 12-year-old it ignited a lifelong passion for all things car related.
Depending on your view of copyright infringement,
you may be pleased to know that the episodes are available on a popular video streaming website.
After watching them, I would like to recommend your listeners do the same
as they're informative and entertaining just as much now as they were then.
They are, of course, the added bonuses of serving as a time capsule
and a welcome tonic to the Crash Bang Wallop videos
often put out on the subject these days autocart aside, obviously.
Steve, could you share any anecdotes of how it came about?
Yeah, it was a discovery thing and we...
I can't really remember where the idea came from.
The editor of the time, Michael Harvey, was well in...
was the leader of it, I think.
And he had some TV connections.
And we...
I mean, we did believe in the medium, still do.
And so we just... it was experimental.
I think we made 13 episodes.
Oh, really?
And I can remember all kinds of bizarre things like...
I can remember testing a Saab 900 convertible
and talking about chassis rigidity.
And I remember holding this shoebox with the lid on it and a lid off it.
And you know, trying to show how you could twist it with the lid off
and it became rigid with the lid on.
And that sort of nonsense.
We enjoyed doing it, but we were...
I'll tell you what we discovered and that is...
this is something you know that some people are good at it
and some people aren't.
And it's not that easy to predict who's going to be good at it.
And I was never any use.
But John Evans, who worked for us at the time,
and Michael Harvey and a few others turned out to be really good.
Oh, really?
And they just sort of popped out of it.
I'm not sure if...
I don't think Quentin was on it.
I can't remember.
He was probably further...
Moved on to something else by then.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, he would have been on top gear, wouldn't he, in the 90s?
Yeah, too good for us.
But it was fun, but very, very amateurish.
If you want to see people stumble and generally cock it up,
that's a place to go.
Was there any training before you did it?
No, no, no.
We just...
Well, our training was watching Top Gear on Sunday night.
Yeah.
And, you know, never mind.
We did our best.
Well, I'll look it up.
Oh, it's not...
I mean, it's mostly reviews, is it?
Yeah, it's just stuff that came up.
It was...
Matters of the moment, really.
Just...
We mixed in with stuff that we felt like rattling on about.
I think the content was probably half okay,
but the...
I don't think the...
Very nice of our correspondent to say we were okay, but...
Yes, very kind of you, Richard, to say that.
But he's...
I think...
This is probably, possibly, memories of a 12-year-old rove
and somebody who is used to good television.
Yeah.
Was it a big production?
Crew?
No.
No.
I mean...
Was it bigger than we have today?
I mean, today, we tend to have a videographer with us
who does sound and vision and that.
I think we might have had separate sound and vision.
Okay.
But the thing...
It wasn't scripted or anything like that.
We just stood up and did something.
Yeah.
It was quite...
I prefer that anyway, really.
I can't do the other thing.
How was it getting to people in the first instance?
Was it on...
Did you get like a CD on the cover or something like that?
Because it would have been pre...
Oh, so it was only on Discovery.
It was on the Discovery Channel.
But it was an auto car production.
Yeah, Discovery Auto Car, I think we've forgotten now.
But...
So if you just read the mag, you didn't have access to it.
Well, it was flagged in the mag.
And we tried to make as much noise about it as possible.
And at the time, the shiny ones, the guys upstairs,
thought that being on TV was terribly important.
Yeah.
But what they were going without is the...
It takes quite a lot of skill and effort to be good on TV.
It's quite a lot of time, isn't it, to do that stuff?
Because doing a stills photo shoot, as we know,
is much quicker than doing a video shoot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you know particularly because...
But auto car, across the...
Modern Media Landscape,
then as it remains now.
You can find us on all the social channels.
You can find us on YouTube.
You have found this podcast.
We'd love it if you would find a way to review.
And if you don't subscribe to this podcast, that'd be great.
If you share it among your friends or colleagues,
that would be great as well.
Would be.
Yeah.
Because we sometimes have special guests on over Christmas
and other times.
And those podcasts get a boost.
And I look at the stats and the analysis.
Because I have to do a monthly report for the shiny bums upstairs.
Yeah.
And when we get a little boost, when we have a guest on,
the numbers get a rise and then those people stay.
They stick around.
So the more people, as some manufacturers who talk about
getting bums on seats to sell cars,
we just need to get people to know about it.
So, Rita, if you wouldn't mind telling your friends,
we'd be very grateful.
We would.
It is the 3rd of December as this podcast goes out,
which means the 1st of the AutoCar Christmas Double Issues
is on sale now.
Wacker.
And there's quite a lot.
So this is...
Bit of work, huh?
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Steve and I are going to talk about that
and more besides in the next,
I don't know, half an hour or thereabouts.
But there's also, logistically,
there are a few things to tell you.
Listen, there is a Double Issue,
the Christmas Double Issue.
The 1st of 2 is on sale now.
That is on sale until the 17th of December.
So if you want to read the Christmas Roadtest,
if you want to see Steve's column,
My Motoring Year,
and if you want to get the Christmas Quiz, I think,
and also there are other Christmas related features,
that is in this Double Issue.
There is another Christmas Double Issue,
which is on sale from the 17th
until December the 31st.
So there are two Christmas Double Issues.
So if you want to sit down
and have a good read of some Christmas stuff,
don't forget to buy this one
as well as the other one
because there's stuff you will miss otherwise.
There's quite a lot of feature content.
So our aim is to,
because we figure that people have time to read,
we, I think we treble the feature content.
There's loads in there, yeah.
But if you wait until December the 20th
to pick up your Christmas Double Issue,
you won't find the Christmas Roadtest.
And don't miss it.
Because it's the world's most powerful tractor.
Yeah, driven by Matt Pryor.
Driven by me.
In a very, very large field in Lincolnshire.
And are very grateful to the good people of John Deere
for supplying some time with it.
It is a very, very large piece of kit.
I can't believe the pictures.
It is eight meters long, three meters wide,
35 tons unladen.
How far off the floor, how easy?
When you're sitting in it.
Oh, you feel pretty tall.
It's sitting like a second floor or something.
Yeah, it's just under,
I want to say it's just under four meters tall,
I think in total.
But I think she's slightly strange.
It's ever so slightly shorter
than the next model down in the John Deere range.
It's ever so slightly lower.
And it's got four tracks rather than wheels.
And it articulates in the middle.
But because it articulates in the middle,
even if, even though it's their longest tractor,
the turning circle is not bad.
The turning radius taken from the back wheels,
from the back wheel centerline
is about six and a half meters.
Wow, which is pretty good.
So you literally steer this thing by twisting the body?
Yeah.
There's a hinge in the body.
There's a hinge in the body.
So there's an 18 liter straight six twin turbocharged diesel engine
in the front and then a 22 speed transmission
that that is connected to.
Is it automatic?
It is.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There are three pedals,
but you don't need most of them most of the time.
And then it steers,
but I steer by wire effectively
and you turn the wheel
and you sit on the front bit
and then on the back bit
is all the sort of hydraulic pumps
and power takeoffs and stuff like that.
And it hinges in the middle.
So you're on the front half.
Hinges around behind you.
And it is built for 913 horsepower.
It is built for pulling very large implements
through very hard ground.
Yeah, boy.
The thinking being,
although it's 930,000 pounds,
the more ground you can cover
at more speed in one go,
the more efficient farming is.
And sometimes you only get a short amount of time
to do the work.
Farmers only get a short amount of time
to do the work that they need to.
So the more ground you can cover,
the more likely you are to be profitable.
These things tend to be operated by contractors too, don't they?
So they'll work on one somebody's property today
and somebody else's property tomorrow, I suppose.
Yeah, because of the size of it,
it's not a big market in the UK
because it's big for us.
But they do think they'll sell a couple
in very, very large farms.
I was just doing my sort of schoolboy long division
and came up with the fact
that one cylinder is three litres.
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing?
It is, it is.
And I said, I mean,
presumably they're all bought on finance.
He said, well, actually sometimes you'd be surprised
because of the way money comes in and out of farms.
Sometimes a lot of it can arrive at once.
He says, actually, so not necessarily
as much of it is financed as you might think, you know.
They will make big capital expenditure
just after a load of cash arrives
because that's just the way farming is.
You know, sometimes months go by
when no money comes in
and then a lot of will come in at once.
Yeah, it's not just about green shoots farming, is it?
No, the cool thing.
Yeah. Really cool thing.
Is it noisy?
No, it's not that bad
and a straight six is very smooth.
So actually you're aware
there's a lot going on
but as you sit up in the cab
this is in the, I think the signature edition.
So they have trim levels.
Yeah.
So there's a base one
and then there's the signature edition.
It's got Android Auto and CarPlay.
It's got heated cooldown massage seats,
leather seat, driver's seat
and full air conditioning and everything else
because somebody might spend
16 hours in one go in this
on a long summer's day, you know.
So it's...
High fire and all that?
Yeah, good sound system
and it's also ever so slightly
the cabin is ever so lightly pressurized
to prevent dust getting in
in the same way as a warship is, you know,
when you open the doors,
slightly higher pressure inside than outside
so that dust doesn't come in.
So it's a really clever piece of care.
Sounds like you had a good time to me.
I had a very good time
but I'm very grateful
for the good people at John Deere UK.
No, I want to read a book.
I have a bread part of the story
but I want to see the full spread.
It is out now in the shops.
Brilliant.
So you can find it there.
Also, listener, you can subscribe to Autocast.
We have started talking about stories, haven't we?
We have.
This is also a bit of a plug.
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You can subscribe to the magazine
and it's still in time
I think now if you want to buy that as a present
for somebody will send you a card
you can give the gift card
and then the magazine starts arriving.
I've been, it's funny, you know,
I subscribe to the odd thing and
I, you know, bike magazines, motorcycle magazines
and I look forward to the arrival of my Christmas present
because the magazine keeps coming.
Yeah, same.
It is a genuine 24 carat good thing to give people.
Yeah, yeah, my brother subscribes me to a bike magazine
and I'm very happy.
Yeah, I like it very much.
Yes.
So your column is a bit different to usual
because instead of your motoring week
it is your motoring year.
We'll cover some of that now.
We'll cover some of it in the weeks to come
because there is a My Week in Cars podcast
every Wednesday
all the way through Christmas and the new year.
Good stuff.
On the 24th of December
we will have our sort of Christmas special guest
which is who, Steve?
Mr. Pat Simmons,
I guess he, I think they call him a technical consultant
at Cadillac F1, the new Cadillac F1 team
that's going to be on the grid from the first race of 2026
but his big claim to fame is that he's masterminded
nine world championships for the likes of Fernando Alonso
and Michael Schumacher in the past
and he was also for seven years
the Formula One management technical guru
or one of them along with Ross Braun
designing the formula that starts in 26
whether change to the power units,
change to the aero,
change to the chassis dimensions, all kinds of things
and in that pod he talks a lot
about not just his background
but the future
and also his own interest in road cars and so on
it's actually, I'm afraid it goes on a bit
but I just, I haven't got the will to cut anything
because he was so interesting
I found it really interesting
so I hope people will stick with it.
If you have a little time over Christmas
listen to that and take it in chunks.
We think that the pod once finished
because Steve and I will chat a bit too
so we think it'll be just over two hours in total
but if you take it a bit at a time
when you're walking the dog
or driving to see some friends in the kitchen
have a listen.
Yeah, that's it.
Play it to the dog.
Play it to the dog.
Let's talk a bit about your motoring year so far then
and we'll cover more in the coming weeks as well.
Yeah, sure.
You went to see the Escargo Flombe earlier this year.
Yeah.
Remind me the story.
I've always loved 2CVs.
I bought my third one in 1985 of B Plate 1.
It was new.
They were about to run out.
It was a special.
And with a couple of other idiots
I got this plan to fit it with a turbocharger
and we duly did that after help from turbo techniques
in a blow called Richard Wilshire and various other people.
And it was quite successful after a bit of development
in that it would, it was fast.
I mean it would do, we timed it at Millbrook
at 89 miles an hour true
and 89 miles an hour as you know on the M4
if you are prepared to do it.
Is probably 95 on the speedo of the bloke
in the Volvo estate ahead of you in the fast lane.
And it used to just make people very angry.
So it was a bit of fun.
It was terrible in many ways
because 2CVs got very, very wide spaced ratios
and the engine was peaky
because we didn't have the right turbo really
for a 602 cc engine.
So it would.
Because one doesn't exist.
Well it does now actually.
I think you know just about.
Yeah, okay.
But now not then.
But it, so it would start accelerating
in a very humble way
and then it would suddenly explode in first
and the same happened in second.
But when you change say from second to third
you would have to go through a period
where there was no boost
and suddenly it would go wha!
You know.
So it was, it was ridiculous but fun
and we took it to the test track
and on the way back from test track
it caught fire on the M1
and burned, basically burned to the ground.
There are these photographs of it in
Immortal pictures on the,
on the approach road to what was then
Scratchwood surfaces, London city services.
London.
With a big sign in the background
saying reduce speed now
and these six foot flames
coming out of the engine bay.
Oh gosh.
Lucky you had a photography with you
because I mean at the time there wasn't a...
Yeah there were real proper pictures.
You wouldn't have had a camera with you normally, would you?
No, no no there were...
No, not a phone camera.
Yeah.
It was, it was ridiculous,
the whole damn project was ridiculous
but we had a lot of fun with it
except that I forgot to tell the insurance company
that we'd modified it
so it wasn't possible to make an insurance claim.
Oh no.
Blah blah blah.
Anyway, we rebuilt it,
Richard Wilshire rebuilt it
and it was,
with stuff like water injection
which started to heal
over the big power train problem though.
Right.
Power delivery problem.
As probably everybody would know
a body shell,
once it's been severely damaged in a fire
doesn't have the integrity that it once had
and the 2CV hasn't got much integrity anyway
so it dissolved
and got passed through a number of hands
and I found it a couple of times actually
but last year I found it
and I went to see it with a view to
after 40 years or whatever it was
of rebuilding it
and it was so far gone that I didn't
so there are some sad photographs of it
with the roof caved in
and looking pretty terrible
but it was fun while it lasted
and as a,
we wrote this story
which was called Escago Flombe
about the catching fire
Richard Bremner was heavily involved
because he was at the wheel
when it caught fire
and it was just an adventure.
I do like things like that
and in my dreams I would have rebuilt it
but it wasn't.
Not feasible.
Where is it?
How much can you tell me about where it is?
It's in Worcestershire.
Right.
In a blokes garden.
Okay.
And has he got any
hopes to do anything with it?
Well there's a bit of a dreamer I fear
there's a bit of, there are a few
dreams of rebuilding
which are unlikely to be fulfilled
there's really nothing there
there's just a lot of wreckage
you would have to
find the
you know the VIN number
and start with another shell I think
and another engine and another suspension and
build a new car.
It's a goner but
it was a lot of fun and it was
as I say it used to amuse people
Should we talk about
a car that does have a future?
Your new 205
Oh yeah I'm really pleased with that
it
I had probably aware
but we
at AutoCar we had a Peugeot 309
a few years ago
again quite a lot probably 20
started off as
being bought on eBay
for 250 quid by Colin Goodwin
and we were going to do this thing up
and
we had a look underneath it and found that
a lot of the under bits had been attacked
by some idiot with an angle grinder
and the body was in quite
poor shape
so the idea founded
but I got hold of this car
and repaired it at some cost
and also with the help of Peugeot's
apprentices
we turned this into a reasonable hill climb
car and so on and ran it
campaigned it for a while
of all the cars I've ever run like that
it was the best fun
in the spirit of that I thought
this year
before I'm dead I'm going to have another one
and
started looking around with a friend Neil Yates
who runs a business called Rally Prep in Cornwall
he's an expert
in building rally cars
among other people he's built
a BMW
3 series rally car for
Chris Harris
anyway
he started looking around
and I started looking around
we found this car in Oswestry
it's a quite a well prepared
205 GTI
1.9
rebuilt for the mull rally
in the middle
2015
the mull rally was cancelled that year
so it only ever did 40 or 50 stage miles
it's been standing around
more or less ever since been driven to the pub
but never done any competitive mileage
so rebuilt
team welded
cage in it
correct seats
pretty healthy engine
so I bought this car
and with the help of Neil
we're doing it up as a
track day
hill climber sprint car
nothing ambitious
I am actually pretty rubbish as a driver
but I like it, I enjoy it
and my boys will enjoy it
so that's where we are
at custody it's quite healthy now
and it's in the process of being re-commissioned
so it is at
Neil's place down there
we've used a pick in the mag
just to show what it will be like
when we de-decolate
and go for the white wheels that I like a lot
and
but it'll just be around and about
next year
Ben our picture editor is also a car designer
hasn't he so he's got some serious
skills
digital
tweakery, two pictures and things as well
so he does all of our renderings
and he's effectively modelled the 205
to look as you want it
indeed, the thing is
he's used to being messed around by people like me
all I did was to take a couple of
happy snaps off the phone and said
look mate
could you possibly get rid of the decals
change the wheels to white
and show us what it would be like
with the original black wheel archers
he's done that
and the car looks fantastic
the thing we have to decide is whether or not
to use this light pod
it's got these four massive lights
which make it look
cool in the extreme
but they aren't very relevant to autosolos
so we'll say
I'll be interested to see what Neil thinks
they are cool aren't they
they do look good
quite weighty I guess
I think they will be heavy
we've already driven it
about 100 miles
very healthy
but it really needs
lots of engine hoses
and seals
the tyres
whatever it is
14 years old
so it needs
recommissioning and it's getting that right now
so in time for
Neil's got his eye
on a particular event in Cornwall
I think it's called
a field sprint
basically it's
everybody bolts around a stubble field
sideways
you spend the whole day sideways
so I'm looking for
we'll have it ready for that
and that's spring, summer
early, February, March
oh crikey, oh so soon
it's warm in Cornwall
there is that
I no longer have a hose pipe
as of yesterday
how has that affected your life
presumably it means your chickens
can live a better life does it
I don't know whether
cleaning
agricultural
I don't know if you're allowed to
I don't know whether that was exempt
I don't know what you were allowed to use a hose pipe
for or not
but I did take a car over to have
an airbag recall done yesterday
and they gave it a little clean off
while I was there which is very good of them
but it did occur to me well I can't do this at home
so yeah you might as well clean it
but yes and then the email arrived
and wouldn't you know
wouldn't you know it's now fine again
good, oh god knows
we haven't had some rain, floods everywhere
but I don't know if I could have
because the chicken wise
they just
you can do is just hosing out
their stuff and hosing off their water supply
and stuff like that and again just to clean it properly
because it does get a bit grubby
so you can you know having a jet wash
to use that is helpful
a power wash
they seem quite cheery though don't they
they don't seem to be in a bad mood over
oh no they're very happy mate, very happy
very very very happy the modern game
as they are called they are
have you seen them, have you seen them
the little ones, the new ones
no I haven't seen the little ones
so they are quite sweet
but they look a bit weird
those little velociraptors
sorry mate I have seen these
some new ones have arrived
and they are very sweet
and they make great noise when you go and feed them
they make a really cute noise
and they don't take up much room either
but I am a bit worried
how small they are
when it comes to potential predators
because they don't
I mean any chickens at risk of a fox
but you just think crikey
a rabbit could take these down
well I am looking forward to my next trip to your
next time you come over
next time you come over have a look
and
ah
I am going to try and get some work done on some cars over Christmas
very good
a bit chilly for the fingers
I know mate I know
I mean when else are you going to do it
do you know what I mean
I don't know what the anyway
what we need to do is move
one of your motors to a
sort of an airport lounge
where you can you know when you are passing through
as I pass through
you can just wheel the spanners for 20 minutes
if it could be in the south lounge at terminal 5
that's it
yeah that would do
should we talk about
Flavio Breatory
yeah well
he's in your column so go on
what's the
well the thing is there was a
there were some optimists
he thought that when Flav
and
the Renault F1 team
sorry Alpine F1 team showed up for
the British Grand Prix
because he's an advisor or some
yeah he's
he's a
he's not allowed to be the team principal
because he got banned a few years ago
was part of that overturned or something
because he didn't get like a lifetime ban
some people involved
were even compensated
oh right
but anyway
Flav
there's two problems with Flav
he hates journalists
because it was stuff that's been written
about him over the years I think
and also he
he can be a bit hard
to understand
because he speaks at 90 miles an hour
and so on
with a slightly impenetrable accent
without being rude to him
anyway
the optimist at Renault UK
thought we will organize
an interview with Flav
and I went along to the practice
to the qualifying day
and he
basically there's a picture of his back
in my column because that's as close as I got to him
so I've
the bit that I've written just says
Flav's back
but I gather he's doing okay
I mean Alpine isn't doing okay
but the
the story is that he's
sorted them out and it's a lot more
business like and generally
better organized than it used to be
and he has got some
well he was around for Alonso's
Formula
World Championships for a start
so
he's got to be useful
yeah
do you watch F1
I watch the
I'm too tight to buy a sky sub
I just never in when it happens
anyway so I tend to watch
the sort of summary programs on channel 4
which
which are pretty much the whole race anyway
but I enjoy it
and I read about it after
and well before and after
quite like the
you know
I remember Andrew Benson used to work with us
years ago he's the BBC F1
correspondent and he was always
wise then
worked for autosport when we owned it
and
he went off to much ground
of things BBC F1 and all that
and he's you know he's on the box
and on the radio and in the
so he's in all media
but he's just got this
very measured
approach to things so he'll be the
bloke that tells you the truth
and I like that
it gets him into strife sometimes
the difficulty
you say what you think and you say the truth
then somebody won't talk to you for the next 6 months
actually it's interesting I was talking
in this Pat Simmons interview
we referred to
I talked to him about
the way F1
deals with the audience
and he agreed with me
there's a part where he just says
I never forget that
I'm here because of the people watching
but he's exceptional
and the great thing is that
going forward Pat and his team
will be people
you can talk to I bet
there's a team principal called Graham Loudon
who was involved with Marusia
much more successful
in the lower formulae
single seat formulae
but really nice approachable
straight forward bloke
so I think
GM's going to be
Cadillac's going to be an interesting
team
they're building this
this huge extravaganza
sort of marinello type
base in bigger
probably than in Indianapolis
and they're going to invite people in
so it'll be a sort of
it'll be a place where
you can just go and see stuff
and watch cars being tested
and see cars being built
so initially
there's a base at Silverstone
so it's at Silverstone now
I mean they've got two buildings there
so they're quite big
the chassis are being made there
the cars that we see race next year
we made in Silverstone but ultimately
I think 2070 said
there's a really big
stuff he'd been driving
Cadillac road cars
it's quite interesting on that too
when he gets going
I went to a NASCAR team
HQ in
America once
and it was vast
and they've just got bits
out the back where they do pit stop practices
all day long
and they build cars
of different lengths for different
circuits
because some of the ovals are longer than others
and then some street courses
so they build some cars that are straight
and some cars that have off set
wheel bases to suit the ovals
and then
we might have three cars on the road at any one time
because they're all driven on the back of trucks
so we might have cars going off to this
Indianapolis
or whatever but then we've got another
oval race in two weeks time
1500 miles away
so we've got another couple of trucks going out there
and I think
I can't remember whose team it was
it was a Ford's team and they were looking after
I don't know
12 or 13 different cars
with different drivers effectively
so they've just got this vast setup
with maybe 50 or 60 cars
and build at any one time
so the driver wouldn't necessarily know
what car he was going to get into
I mean it would be a different car
each race would turn up
and it would be a different car each time
gosh so the setting up must have been
yeah and then also
because the cars have to
I think they have to have a steel body shell
and they have to be basically hand beaten
but they are finished
there is a certain amount of tolerance that you can build them
within
so they've got this
large cage effectively
which is all sort of laser pointed at the car
and it determines
because a little bit there
but it's all happening inside
the factory
so that
they might think a little bit of extra
width at the bottom of the body
might be useful on this track but not that track
so you set it up inside
and then beat the body until it falls
within the tolerances of the regulations
and then it gets painted
and off it goes to the circuit
but just so much
so much stuff
happening all the time
are they still
you know
being a snob
you think of
NASCAR as being a bit crude
push rod vh and all that
I mean the cars are
but finished to a
very high degree of skill
and craftsmanship I suppose
they've got this gizmo on the roof
now haven't they to stop them taking off
and they say spin
that's what the airbrake comes back
spoiler, amazing
I'd like to go to a NASCAR race, never done
no I would, no I would never have
went to an indie race, that was pretty urgent
but people who stand right down
by the fence when these things go by
at 230
they see videos of them and their hair being blown off
they just blow on them
no last time I was in the States
I just caught the very end
of a practice session on a dirt oval
that would be good
just turned up at a B&B and I could hear in the background
oh yeah I looked this up before where I came
but it started
but it just made it in for the last 20 minutes
so they had some of those short sprint cars
with the massive spoilers on the roof
and stuff like that but that was pretty cool
I must do that again
must do more that
maybe next year
I don't know about you
I don't really do New Year's resolutions per se
but it does seem a festive thing
to talk about so maybe in a couple of weeks
we'll
maybe in a couple of pods time we'll talk about that
because we don't have columns to get us all
all the way through the festive period do we
no no no
it is an interesting time isn't it
because you do
you do get
you find yourself thinking differently over these next few weeks
and then it does
there is a bit of a review situation
so I do tend to
I'll never make resolutions because
you always break them but you can have objectives
I think
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I like that idea of somebody helping you
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because we still haven't tackled that
at home, we're living last year
and I get the feeling
we're chucking our handfuls of money
by not doing it, I should ring them up
and ask them the question
I remember when we got the latest
fiber optic
broadband at home
it was one of these sort of rural schemes
where if enough people in an area
commit to getting it
then you've got a certain amount of money
from the government
to get fiber optic broadband
taken to your village, effectively
so we had to commit and go
we'll do it, we'll sign up
I know nothing about that stuff
I know some people really care
but it's not my area of interest
it works really well in your place
well it does, yeah
but one of the
the local bot who was doing it
said here is a list of
potential suppliers you can use
and here is a little
summary of what they all do, so it was like
ok here's the big multinationals
here's what they do, and there was one on the list
it said there are people
who will actually pick up the phone and talk to you
and can talk you through the thing
I thought that's the one for me
so I phoned them up and said
explain this whole thing to me what happens
and they explained it and it was very clear
and that is the kind of
level of service I like, if you call Addison
that's the kind of person you deal with
somebody you will just
if you don't know
they will talk you through the whole thing
they will take care of it
there you go, one new year resolution
I'm going to ring him up and ask
you have an Addison charger anyway
yeah, I'm sure they'd help me
welcome to part 2, listener
you can write to us autocartataymarket.com
as
Mike Kenney has done
this is interesting
my 25 year old Fiat Multibla
failed its MOT and had to be scrapped
because Fiat no longer makes the under seat
sensor that sets off the airbag
what a shame
what a real shame
I replaced it with a 2008 Honda FRV
and was surprised to find
my insurance had increased from 600 pounds
to 2600 pounds
more than I paid for the car
I shopped around and found cover for 1800 pounds
but that still tripled the Fiat premium
the explanation was
this model of Honda is more expensive to repair
your how to buy a used car feature
has a lot of useful info about what to pay
but makes no mention of insurance
is this something we could consider
or is insurance too much for a bag of worms
kind of regards Mike Kenney
that's going to go in the mag that letter Mike
and I think yes that is something we should
we should attack
some groups
but beyond that I don't know how much intel
we'll get but that's certainly something we will do
the thing you can't help thinking
but also crikey
an FRV to be that much more than a
Multibla
you can't help thinking that maybe
we car buyers attacked
the issue
wrongly in that
what we should
do is think
I think I'm going to buy a Honda
the insurers first
I mean
having had some
problems with
insurers
in recent past because I got too old
for the computer
I have now landed
on a very helpful broker
who
I would trust
to ring up and say look
I've had a Fiat
I don't know what
is this a sensible idea
I do think
what Mike is doing
is making the point
that we need to consider the insurance
earlier in the purchase decision
yeah
because
I mean that's a kick in the teeth
for anybody to have to go from
what was it 600 to 2 grand
600 to 1800 now so it's three times the price
I mean that's a lot isn't it
it's hard to
you know given the
it's
it's just
it's hard to justify I think
by the insurers
I wonder if there wouldn't be any
well too late now
but looking for another multiplos
one of these that always
lends itself done it
but what a shame
for something so simple as
a sensor under a seat
and effectively
write a car off I mean that's really
what a shame
I'ma say I didn't think about insurance at all
when I bought that A2 until after I bought it
well until after I committed
what was your experience
oh fine it's fine
but I did we have a colleague who we know
who was thinking about buying an A2
for his daughter to learn to drive
he said the insurance was twice as much as it is
on a polo because
polos are quite fixable
to repair
I mean I think if anybody drives
if anybody drives into that A2
in a car park accident
they'll write it off the insurance will write the car off
because it's worth
well I don't know
you can buy them for a thousand quid
and you could easily do a thousand quids
worth the damage to one I'm sure
they'll just go ah it's not worth it
scary isn't it
yeah touch a bit
well I mean it's what it is
drive on drive on 161
thousand miles
I need to
have I told the
have I told the story
of the mpg yet or not
I actually said what it does
what it did no I don't think we've had the bottom line
the bottom line
is from my house near Bista
to Leon the Solent
seafront which is
pretty much a hundred miles door to door
effectively from the
filling station that I set off from
actually I did have to do a small tour of Leon Solent
to get the trip computer over the hundred mile mark
on
as I parked up the car and turned it off
the computer inside the car said
100.9 miles to the gallon
which having calibrated the trip
computer and the odometer against
kilometer markers
on the motorway a few
a couple of times to make sure that it is telling the truth
and it is and then having calibrated over
2300 miles of driving a brim
fill on the same fuel pump
the actual mpg of that
I mean it does
vary a bit depending on temperature because fuel gets
more or less dense and blah blah blah
but effectively it's about 102 to 103 miles
to the gallon
fantastic how good is that
22 year old hatchback
that cost 500 quilos
and mot failure I hope this message reaches
the people who created that car
in Audi all those years ago
it gives them a nice warm feeling
they did launch that
the 3 litre car didn't they
the 1.2 litre
mine is not one of those
it's just a regular humdrum
everyday a2
I didn't check the steering alignment
I just pumped up the tyres and took the back seats out
isn't it
isn't it fantastic when a car
becomes greater than some of its parts
like that
because I will bet you they wouldn't have made anything
like under a mile per gallon claims out of it
no I think the extra urban
as it was at the time was about 85
and
from memory the auto car road test
said good things about the economy
I think maybe we averaged
65 something like
I can't quite remember
that was in I don't know if you would have gone
there was a
Britain's best drivers car we do
actually that was out recently
listener that was out
if you go to themagazineshop.com
you can find it in a recent mag
there was one that was done
in 2000
I think it was done like
Mereval in somebody's test track
good year or Michelin or somebody's test track
and the a2 went
there were loads of cars in it that year
like 15 16 cars or something
and the a2 was very well liked
no I didn't do that one
I remember them doing it
it was an unusual
choice of track
and I think I was
buried in the boughs of buying cars at that stage
but yeah
brilliant
what should we talk next
shall I talk the archive
have you been in this week
I'm not sure I've been in the archive
but I wasn't looking very far back
I was looking at
fairly recent things that I think
we've done earlier this year
I had a bit of a foray
but just to look at news stories
I was trying to look up
there's a story
an issue coming up
where we tried to propose
a car that would save Hethel
if Hethel was going to die
we reckon that maybe another model would help
and we tried to specify the model
and I was looking up the
details of the model
that it
would replace as it were
when is that story in the back
in the second double issue
let's talk about that
next time
hang on a minute
let's talk about that on the 17 de diciembre
it was an interesting exercise
I mean
it'll be intriguing to see what
the people who really have to build
cars and make money out of them
think of the idea
broadly speaking
the idea is just to justify
Hethel, find a car that will sell in Europe
in sufficient numbers
to justify
that plant keeping going
there may be more
news lotus related to come
I think
as well soon
there are some rumblings
I don't know what they are
but I hope they're positive
I'm sick of
things being under threat
I make the other day
I read
Polestar has shut its UK engineering
base
what a shame
I did a tour of that place
it was sort of chock a block
with people that I had met before
who were
really good, clever
self motivated
engineers
but it just seems that the
Polestar range is now
built
and
it's a kind of replacement territory
from now on and in any case
half of the platforms are under
geelys and zikas
and stuff
link and co come
so
yeah, bad business
do you want to talk the budget at all
well yeah
sort of
I can't fathom the politics
I don't care in a way
well I mean I do care
I don't you mean
the two things that
I thought were interesting
was the fact that
they were not put this way
but the news
was that
road pricing is coming
there's going to be this
initially a cost
of three people a mile
put on EVs from
27 or 8 I can't remember
already I've forgotten but it was a couple of years hence
but that is
road pricing by the
that's a sort of thin end of the wedge
and it'll apply to us all soon
I calculate
not that
I'm not sure that's a terrible thing
because
the money raised by
fuel
duties has to be replaced I guess
but I
the thing that I took objection to
the way I read it is that your
MOT bloke
decides how many miles you did in a year
and he will report that
to the authorities now
I don't know whether
my local garage man wants to be a policeman
and
I also don't know whether
every MOT man is going to be
or person is going to be
entirely
unscrupulous you know
what's to stop him saying
well it reads that you've done
15,000 miles but let's say
well I mean eventually you'd have to sell it
and it'll
say otherwise
it is
yes it is interesting
and of course
cars do not need looking after in their first
couple of years
so you have to take it somewhere
for them to then declare what the mileage is
I haven't thought of that
and also the only thing about it
is it makes
at the moment
fair or fair as you may think fuel duty
is and there's a lot of tax on fuel
there's no question about that
the more energy you use
the more you pay
so if you have a thirsty car
you pay more than somebody who drives very economically
this does away with that
which I don't think is
ideal
but I don't see what else you do
at least it means that there's no
justifying
and charging people more
depending on what roads they're on
or what time they're on them
yeah
and the weight thing too isn't there
I mean my Alpine weighs a bit over a thousand
there are plenty cars that weigh
two and a half times as much
they take much more out of the road surface
probably deposit lots
and many more
tire and brake particulates and all that
you drive one of the new electric G-classes
and you pay exactly the same rate
yeah
Alpine
yeah
about 600
well yes
that would be
well that will cost me approximately naught
pence per year in fuel duty
or anything else at the moment
I think the 40 year historic car
road tax exemption still exists
it does
yeah I was just trying to do a countdown
this Peugeot 205 I just bought
is a 91 model so
that has got
half a dozen years before
it sneaks into the 40 years
yeah
we may catch up with this in a few weeks
in another couple of weeks time actually possibly
but the other thing is that the
officer budget responsibility has predicted
I think that between now and 2031
the new
regulations could
reduce the number of EVs that people buy
by 400,000
which would be offset by the electric car grant
which they think will increase
sales by 130,000
but they're still thinking that between
over the next 5, 6 years
maybe 300,000 fewer EVs will be sold
wow
but then the percentage of EVs that manufacturers have to
sell doesn't change
so
as far as I can see
there are people who
would just prefer fewer cars to be bought
by the public and fewer
miles to be driven by the public
and I don't think that that attitude
so I think they will think that the regulations
are working exactly as they want
but that is not what the public
would quite like I don't think
and it's one of these where I'm not sure
these people have quite
the same
feelings in mind as the people who
elected them and I
have a bit of a
well I live in Oxfordshire mate so as you can imagine
I'm not sure that it's always the case
where people necessarily think that the elected
officials are serving them as they thought
they were elected to do
I'm not sure
I remember Richard Perry Jones saying years ago
that the road system
was the one thing
the one part of
commerce if you like
that actively ignored
what the customers want
which of us is working for who
because I think we want something
that we are not getting
in general and I know I say that as a car enthusiast
but I think a lot of people
talk to your neighbours
if you increase the population
by 20% over 20 years but you don't
increase the road capacity by 20%
over the same period something is
not working as it should and it is
crap roads and congestion
as a result of that
we have been
failed by a system that has not provided
the infrastructure to cope with
well it's not just roads
transport, health, education
and all these people standing up
saying that they are working for our benefit
are not
it doesn't seem
I don't want to
anyway sorry mate
it's not a party political
I just think in general
I think you could
it's as when people say
what's the phrase
the end shitification
it seems to be
a disease that infects all legislators
regardless of party
absolutely
which party ever stood up and said
where for the motorist
we understand your enthusiasm for cars
we'd like to support that
the best way for you to get to football training
and then go to the shops and then go to visit gran
and to do all of those things
and then come home with the children
and a dozen bags
the best way for you to do that
is to get in your car and do it
and that's what you want
actually it's a brilliant new idea
catch on
sometimes people say why don't you go into politics
well because actually
if I was a benign dictator when I was 10
then I could have made
decisions that actually would be fine now
but actually if you go into politics now
me deciding whether
Doris from number 42
could have an extension on her house
in the parish council
I'm not sure that's going to make a huge difference
no I don't see you doing it Matt
stick to the Ferrari road test
listener you will find Steve and I
back here at the same time next week
there is also
on this channel
associate editor James Atwood has just
talked to the
boss of Alpine UK
Nicola
sorry Nicola
sorry mate
I wrote it down yesterday
boss of Alpine UK has been talking to James
about Alpine in the UK
but also
really interesting woman
racing MTV
so they talk about that as well
that's elsewhere on this channel
I think coming up in a couple of weeks
that's one of our bonus auto car meets podcast
I think coming up in a couple of weeks times
where Felix Page was up at
Peugeot yesterday
and so he has talked
to somebody up there
Alan Favé
he's the boss
of Peugeot isn't he
am I right
yes I think so
Felix came back last night
I just happened to see something he wrote
and he said it was a really good interview
Alan Favé is interesting
because he
for a number of reasons but one is that he
he ran Citroën in this country a few years ago
so he knows the UK really
Nicola Burnside
Nicola Burnside
very good
Hi Nicola
yes so that will be coming up
we run those occasionally on Saturdays
when we have somebody interesting to talk to
so that will be
Alpine one is out now
the Peugeot one will be out either this weekend
or next weekend
Steve and I will return
next Wednesday with
no column to talk about
Find something else to chat
part of your motoring year column
there's always a lot
honestly my column because I haven't talked about it at all
the one that we've just published
we haven't mentioned so that's fine
oh I can talk about the BMW ix3
yeah and there's things more on the
on the
you know the
oh I can talk about a Ford Mustang GTD
as well because I'll have just come back from driving it
more on the mighty John Deere jobby
oh the John Deere there's loads to talk
there's loads to talk about
so join us then
oh I tell you what I've just written
I've just read a book by Richard Porter
have you
which has been very carefully
or cleverly issued in time for Christmas
oh helpful
and it's
is that car
it's just called petrolhead
and it's
well
I'll talk about it next week but it's
you know the other day I was rattling on about
what what a saved car publishing
is the fact that you know the production
values have gone up and those captioning
is lovely and the pictures are all that
Richard's book
has none of that it's just it's a very cheap production
and it's still fantastic and the reason
it's fantastic is because it's great reading
yeah he is
and he's a absolute artist with the old keyboard
he is he is he's also very good
on his podcast
hi Richard he's I think he listens to this one
so
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About this episode
Steven Cropley shares his nostalgic experiences from his early days in automotive television, discussing the challenges and surprises of producing car shows in the 90s. The conversation also touches on a listener's unfortunate experience with a Fiat Multipla and the rising insurance costs associated with car ownership. Additionally, Cropley reflects on his recent adventures with a Peugeot 205 GTI, including plans for restoration and participation in motorsport events. The episode wraps up with insights into the automotive industry, including discussions about electric vehicles and the future of car manufacturing.
Original notes
In the new episode of the Autocar podcast Steve Cropley tells us about his (short) TV career, we find out what it takes to write off a Fiat Multipla (not a lot) and Prior tells the story of doing 100 miles on less than a gallon of fuel in his Audi A2. There's much more besides, too, including the world's most powerful tractor, a rally Peugeot 205 GTi and your correspondence.
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