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About this episode
Mike and Jim discuss their recent experiences with new and upcoming cars, including the UK launch of Chinese brand Cherry Motors and Jim's hands-on time with the Renault 5 EV. They share insights on EV range, charging networks, and the practicality of electric road trips, including plans to drive a Volkswagen ID3 to the Munich Motor Show. The hosts also touch on Tesla ownership, public perceptions of the brand, and the challenges of content creation in the automotive space. The episode blends car reviews, industry news, and personal stories with a lighthearted tone.
Topics:
cherry motors uk launch
renault 5 ev review
ev range and charging
tesla ownership experience
electric road trip planning
munich motor show preview
public perceptions of tesla
car content creation challenges
ev market competition
charging infrastructure europe
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Audi S7
Audi TT RS
BMW M5
Dodge Charger
Renault 5
Renault 5 E-Tech Electric
Tesla Model 3
Tesla Model Y
Toyota Yaris iA
Volkswagen ID.3
Volkswagen ID. Polo
Volkswagen Tiguan
This week on the Charging Status EV Podcast, Alex and Jim are in London, in a swanky hotel room together, having just attended the UK launch of Chery Motors. The pair talk about the new models, the Renault 5 and why Alex has fallen in love with it as well as some Tesla chat.
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Hi, Mike, he's Jim, and this is the Charging Status EV Podcast.
How are you doing, Jim?
I'm all right.
We're in London.
Here we are in London.
And I've got a massive lump on my head.
What's happened there?
Right, so I was at a barbecue the other day.
They did have a pool, you know, living in the south.
And there was a couple of things flying around, and something got me on top of the head.
I don't know what it was.
And it immediately became itchy, but no lump appeared.
But then this left eye just streamed for literally the rest of the day.
It was about eight hours.
I couldn't really open it or see out of it.
So that was less than ideal.
The next day it was a bit, like, horrible and, yeah.
And then this thing appeared on top of my head, which appears to be perhaps a
second head.
I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Yeah.
We've just been to quite a posh event, haven't we?
Yeah.
We're at the O2 at the moment in London.
Yeah.
And we've just been to the UK launch of Cherry Motors.
Cherry, you may know, have already bought the Moda brand here and the JQ brand here,
and they are now bringing Cherry here, which itself is actually big in China and quite
a lot of the rest of the world as well.
They compared it to Volkswagen.
The Volkswagen of China, basically, that people are very dependable on the brand and they're
going after the family market, whereas a Moda and JQ are more youth-oriented, I think they
mentioned.
Yeah.
There we go.
Yeah.
I've actually just had one of the cars in Spain, but a different spec level, apparently.
And it's bandaged as an Ebro in Spain.
It's the Tigo 7, which is going to be the Tigo 7 here, but in Spain it was
an Ebro S7.
And it was quite good.
It was all petrol, so not entirely suited to this podcast, but the super-hybrid system
is fairly impressive, and there are some EVs coming.
So interesting to see what they do, because the price point and for the car you're
getting for it would make me extremely worried if I was Stellantis right now.
And I think some other brands as well, like the Kashkai, which is a very big selling
car in the country.
Yeah.
Certainly stuff like Interiors, they seem to be pushing it.
Yeah.
We had a poke around in the 7 and the 8 today, but they also had the 4, which is a
smaller SUV, and the 8.
The 8, sorry, the 9.
The 9.
9 is really impressive, really premium.
Yeah.
I quite like the 4 as well, the smaller one, but they've also got a 7-year
warranty, but obviously the proof in the pudding will be not just how they drive, because I'm
sure they all drive pretty well, but obviously how well they actually last and real well reliability
and stuff.
They did quite a lot to assure us about supply chain and parts availability and literally
like 48-hour availability for parts, and they've done a lot of work on that.
And they said they're sort of 20 years in the making, bringing the brand over here, didn't
they?
Yeah, like Cherry's been around since 97, I think they said.
Yeah, it's taken them 20 years to get it here.
So yeah.
Yeah, since they decided to come here, it's been 20 years basically, sort of preparing
for it.
But we'll see.
Let's say the EVs of the thing will probably want to talk about more on this podcast,
but we haven't seen an EV yet.
So only time will tell if the EVs are going to be up to scratch, but so far the petrol
and hybrid stuff looks pretty impressive for the money, I have to say.
Yeah, I think the Tiggo 7 starts at 24 grand, roughly, I think, which is to see that kind
of price point on a new car in 2025 is bonkers.
Things don't cost that.
Things aren't that cheap anymore.
So I think.
Yeah, for basically a Tiguan rival.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's interesting times.
Speaking of cars that are somewhat affordable, you've fallen a little bit in love with one,
haven't you?
Yeah.
I got the Renault 5 this week, so I picked it up on Thursday, it's Thursday today, so
I'll drop it back off with Renault tomorrow.
I got the Renault 5.
It's quite special and it obviously is quite a small little car, it's like a swift
size, but it's also really, really efficient as well.
It's like getting 4.6 miles per kilowatt hour, I've done 100 miles today, and the range on
it didn't really drop that much, so I think it dropped by 50 miles based on its estimates.
Well, was that at motorway speed, or so you were in the UK motorway, were you at 50
for all of it?
Some of it was 70, some of it was 60, some of it was 20, so it's very, very
varied, and obviously slowed down accelerating, accelerating used a lot more power, but yeah,
and that car's got Google Maps integration, so Google Maps on the car knows what the battery
is doing, and then you just, whenever I've driven it, I've just seen that essentially
tick up over time, the estimate where you're going to get to, and it will tell you where
to charge and stuff, yeah.
But you said that that estimate's pretty decent, but actually changes quite a lot,
didn't it?
I'd say the estimate, the estimate's conservative.
Right.
It's thinking of the worst possible scenario, and as soon as you drive it.
Which is good, that's the way you want it to be more conservative than optimistic, don't
you?
Yeah, and if you give it, one of the things I really like is that you can customize on
Google Maps what charging networks you want to use, so I've just told the car, only
tell me Tesla Superchargers, and that's what it's been recommending, and it just says
it's going to take you, like a Tesla does, like 15 minutes here, charge this percentage,
move off.
You have this when you arrive.
Yeah, exactly.
And weirdly, it does a return journey, so if you put in the sat-nav, I don't know, you
go in some way, it will say you'll hand up with this amount of battery by the time you
get back to where you started from, which is pretty good really.
It's just a lovely little car, it doesn't cost a lot of money, and the design's
really nice, and it drives quite well as well, so yeah, good software, good car.
So yeah, pretty decent.
Yeah, I've only driven one at Milbrook.
And well, I said to you at the time, and we've spoken about it since, but every part
of me loved that car until I drove it, and I was like, but maybe it was just my
expectations were too high, or I didn't, I mean, I literally spent 10 minutes driving
it around a track, so it's not a real world, but I was also a little bit disappointed
by the space in the back, but the rest of it, the interior, I thought was really cool,
all felt nice, and there's nothing wrong with the car, it's a car that really
excited me when I saw it, and then it didn't when I drove it, but maybe I need
to get one for longer, and make a proper assessment rather than 10 minutes.
I think so.
Because you don't get this excitable normally, do you, Abayam?
Me.
No, not really.
It's an old car you do, but I'm probably more excitable of the two of us when it
comes to...
Yeah, I think I've done 850 miles in one week, pretty high, and I mean, yeah, it's
not perfect, but the backspace, even for me, is not great, and it's a five
seat-o somehow, it's tight, there's a little bit of
cheapness around the interior, so the armrest is hilariously undumped, just
lift it up and it goes bang, yeah, and whenever you open the boot, the
parcel shaft just goes like that as well, so there are some rough edges and...
It is a Renault 5 though, and let's not forget the old one, that was a Renault
5.
Yeah, and the one that starts at 21 grand, I can't find any available in
the UK, and I was, for the review, I was researching what it has, and that one
is very basic, I mean, there's no, the centre console is very stripped back,
it doesn't have Google Maps integration on that one, there's like weird
things in it.
Why not have that?
I know.
Surely it costs more to develop two of those or to install, yeah, that's
weird, surely that's only software or like one little module or something.
Yeah, I was thinking that, and then the centre console to me is weird,
it's completely changed, like you can walk through the cabin, and they've
got rid of some bits and pieces on there, and I was thinking that's
probably more expensive to do.
Do you know what, a PR from a manufacturer told me now that a lot of
them are producing a car that they expect no one to buy just to have
a low entry point, where some of them, like the one we've just
been looking at today, the entry point actually is fairly well specced.
Yeah.
Yeah, some of them now are, it's like, why on earth would you buy that one
when you can get the two level for, I think, two grand more or something?
I think there's about £2,000 in between the evolution trim it's called
and the Techno.
It's just like, there's so many weird little differences, like it's
got a whip area apart from, instead of a shark fin, a black plastic
on the back, and there's so many little weird things that you'd
think that it just costs more money to make and stock the parts.
It might be a psychological thing as well.
I bet if they only had two trim levels or, yeah, say two trim levels
instead of three, for example, not talking specifically about that
car, cars in general, I bet you then either think I'm getting
the cheapest one I can possibly get or I'm getting the most
expensive one and psychologically, a lot of people, it might put them
off where if you're having the one in the middle, I'm getting
the best of both worlds here.
I think that's what it is and then, I think they sell the most of
the Techno and that's the one with the denim interior and, yeah,
that's some extra features but overall, I'm quite fond and
love with it really, so yeah, good little car.
Nice.
Yeah, I listened to an album the other day and it's by a guy
called Tony Cotton.
Right.
Have a guess what his debut album was called?
Tony Cotton.
Yeah.
It's got to be denim based, isn't it?
100% cotton.
No way.
And I thought that was just absolutely brilliant.
That is decent.
I listened to it on CarPlay, I was thinking, that's amazing.
Yeah.
If he found like Steve Polyester, Steve Polyester could
do some sort of reworking of some of it and you could
call it a cotton-poly mix.
Brilliant.
That'd be amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What have you been driving?
What I've been driving the Renault 5?
I've actually been driving both of my Tesla's a fair bit.
I've had a couple of cars in for review at the MGS5, which
we talked about on the last podcast, I think.
Yes.
Briefly.
Yes, with David from MG.
And the video of that one's out and I've also had the
Toyota Yaris Cross in and the video of that one's out
but neither of them are EVs.
So yeah, I've actually done a couple of fairly decent journeys
in my Tesla Model 3, which I've had for like six months now.
I might do like a little six-month update video with that.
Are you half-refer or is it a two-year lease?
Two years.
OK.
Yeah.
And then the Model Y, we've had for two years
in about a week's time.
Wow.
And that's developed a fault which I need to
book in.
Basically, when you use the brakes in reverse,
they squeal like a banshee.
So it feels like a brake pad issue,
but they don't do it when you're going forward.
So I don't know, maybe something's binding on,
but I need to get that booked in really.
No, I know you probably blame your wife for it.
Well, it's not been funny.
The amount of trauma those wheels suffer.
The other day, I recently put on the third full set
of aftermarket wheel trims, which I may have mentioned
before, I went outside and said,
one of the wheel trims is missing again.
And she said, no, it's not.
And I said, well, it's not on the wheel.
She said, it's in the boot.
Cool.
Yeah.
I said, why is it on the boot?
And she said, it fell off.
And I said, how?
And she said, I don't know.
So there you go.
That's the story of that.
If anyone never, like, if I try and sell that at some point
and someone wants to buy it, I would suggest they get me
to pay to have the tracking done and they possibly
buy some replacement wheels because they've lived a life.
But yeah, so that's the first fault
that I've had develop on my Tesla.
So I'll have to get that booked in and report back.
But the Model 3, I drove it here today.
Was that 150 miles?
I'm not sure what it is, actually.
That's a really good point, a bit of dead air there.
We've contemplated life.
Maybe 120, 130, something like that.
But it's just so easy to live with.
I'm potentially making a detour on the way home tomorrow.
So I stopped at Fleet Services on the way up for at worst
10 minutes, but maybe more like five.
I think I got there and it was at like 82% or something.
I thought, I'll just charge it up in case.
When you're coming up here, it only takes a road to be closed
and you have to do some kind of epic diversion.
And I had time to kill and stuff anyway.
I thought, I'll just plug it in.
And it must have been charging for, yeah, at worst 10 minutes.
It was at 97% when I went back to it.
And I literally walked from the charger, had a wee,
and walked back again.
I didn't go in a shop.
I didn't get coffee, nothing like that.
And you just think, and that's when it's already over 80%.
I didn't precondition it or anything
because I hadn't even, even when driving into the services,
I hadn't thought I'd better plug the car in.
I just saw them sitting there and half of them are empty.
And I thought, I might as well.
And yeah, it's still a car where every time I get in it,
I enjoy driving it.
And that usually wears off with me after about three
months.
Not that I've done loads and loads of miles in it,
but lately I've been driving it more regularly.
Because I haven't had so many press cars booked in.
And yeah, I just, I do love that car.
I think it's brilliant.
I did get in a little bit of a debate the other day
on Twitter.
And there is something that really annoys me.
And basically, someone asked if they should buy a used Tesla.
And a mutual friend said, well, not unless you,
a lot of people will think you're basically
a Nazi sympathiser if you do.
And it's a symbol that you're cool with.
Musk throwing a Roman salute and all this kind of stuff.
And I sort of went back and said fairly strongly, I guess.
Just sick of people saying dark things about this
and it's a car.
And people that don't have any idea of your heritage
or family members that you perhaps never met because
of the actions of the Nazis.
And I just find it really offensive.
But it wouldn't stop me buying another one.
And these are people that often are driving German cars.
And there's hardly a, if you look through the big car
manufacturers in the world, you will find direct links
with a lot of them to the funding of the Holocaust.
People building infrastructure for gas chambers
and versus someone that said a couple of herty things
and it's probably potentially, allegedly,
altered by perhaps some kind of substances occasionally.
I'm not defending what he did, I think the guy's a bit
of a knob, but it doesn't make me a Nazi sympathiser
for driving my car.
And the thing that annoys me most
is when people go on about, I'd never be seen dead in one
because it's a status symbol.
And by using an Elon product, you're basically cool
with Nazism when they're on Twitter.
Yeah, yeah.
Because last time I looked, he owned between 12 and 13%
of Tesla and over 70% of Twitter.
So people have a real difficult, I think it's the only brand
really that people have a problem with unlinking
the person who is the most public figure
which also makes me think it's not about that at all.
It's about their dislike for the car.
Most potentially.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what it is because every time I've driven a Tesla,
it's it's impressed me with how even the base model,
which you've got the Model 3, just handles so well.
And I think people forget that the person who's
the most public Elon Musk isn't isn't actually
sat there building the cars.
There's actually a lot of jobs at stake.
It actually happened with, I think Tesla's applied
to become an energy supply in the UK as well,
to compete with the octopus energy and stuff.
And there was, I can't remember his exact name,
but there was someone who publicly wrote to Off-Gem
and said, please deny this from happening.
And the amount of pushback that got was quite insane
because people just saying, why are you saying that?
Because it's going to be quite a helpful
competitor in the market
because they do some quite unique stuff
with power sharing and stuff.
So I don't know, I don't know what it is.
No other brands like that,
maybe Apple was back when Steve Jobs was alive.
Yeah.
But I don't understand, not really with Tim Cook
at the Hald, but at the Hald, sorry.
But it's not with Twitter.
Yeah, he owns a vast amount more of Twitter
than he does with Tesla.
Yeah.
I mean, he didn't found either company.
So it's not that.
I just think it's like anti, probably anti-EV,
more than it is.
Potentially.
I don't know.
I mean, if someone says I wouldn't buy one
because of what he did, I get that
and I totally understand that and I respect that.
But when people start kind of poking at other people
because they have, I just find it bloody annoying.
It's the same as when I had an Audi,
everyone would say, oh, Audi driver,
but it hasn't got indicators, has it?
She wouldn't need them.
And then you get, like, if you drive a BMW,
you're a wanker or something and it's just so sad.
And all these people in the UK
bleeding on about men's mental health
and they're the same people that are poking fun
at people for what they drive on.
I don't know, just everyone drive what you like
and be happy with it.
And if someone else has got something they're happy with,
be happy for them.
I mean, yeah, the Tesla Supercharger Network
for other EVs, it's the cheapest network in the UK.
And if someone who drives loads of different EVs
and charges them in public,
I'm very grateful for the fact that it is the cheapest
because otherwise it'd be so expensive to use them
because they double the price sometimes.
Yeah.
So the fact that they're doing that
and going out their way to make them open to everyone
is quite good as well.
So yeah.
But yeah.
That's a noise, mate, but.
I mean, just out here in the hotel
there's some V3 chargers
and I'd had a little look earlier.
There was someone mounted the curb to charge.
Someone was parked diagonally
and yeah, and it just happens.
Any diesels in there?
No.
No, because they're actually in the,
they're right at the back of the car park, aren't they?
They are.
Yeah.
They're actually in the worst possible place.
There was a nice view here earlier when it was light.
You could see the full spectrum of brown
that is the Thames.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like if you've got a brown
Jewluck's paint chart,
it went from, I don't know, pale cappuccino
through to,
I don't know where I'm going with this.
It's the full Americano.
Like the darkest chocolate you could possibly get.
Yeah.
Oh, dear.
Yeah, the Thames.
Yeah.
Anyway, we digress.
Yeah.
What are you up to next week?
So, a week on Monday,
we're both going to be at the Munich Motor Show.
As I've probably mentioned on the podcast before,
I'll be driving there.
And I've been working-
This is exciting.
I've been working my butt off to get a car to borrow
because I really wanted to do this trip in EV
because a lot of people seem to believe
that you can't drive more than 10 miles in an EV.
So it'd be quite interesting to try and drive 700 miles
all the way from the UK to Munich.
So yes, I'm going to be driving a Volkswagen ID3
all the way from the UK to Munich Motor Show.
And then we'll meet up with you when we're there.
Yeah.
It'll be quite a good-
We'll do a podcast there, hopefully.
We'll do a podcast live from the Motor Show.
Yeah, it'll be quite good.
And there's meant to be a lot of stuff
launched at that event.
ID2.
Yeah.
In production for the first time.
Electric Audi TT, possibly.
Potentially, which is quite exciting.
I'm very excited about that because I love a TT.
Yeah.
There's a few other bits and pieces going to be there.
X-Pen are going to be there.
I think maybe a motor as well.
I'm not entirely sure,
but it'll be quite a lot of bits and pieces of that event.
It'll probably be a lot bigger than we think it would be.
Yeah.
I think it would be massive.
And it's weird because they have some of it
in the convention centre
and then some of it's in the city centre, I think.
Yeah.
I'd look at the floor plans, which is a bit confusing.
And there's...
Oh, I haven't yet.
It's so random.
There's different brands all over the place.
Google are there for some reason.
They're probably doing, actually, Android Automotive, maybe.
Oh, probably.
Yeah.
There's other bits like that.
So yeah, it'd be quite a good event.
I don't even think it's open to the public, is it?
The first day on the Monday is going to be closed.
First day's pressed,
but I think the other days might be trade.
I'm not sure.
Oh, really?
Hmm, I don't know.
It's a couple of people have asked me,
they've said I've tried to buy a ticket
and it doesn't look like you can buy one.
But I'm not entirely sure.
But I mean, God, it's going to be a massive thing
to not have the public in, so...
Yeah, especially all the new cars being launched.
But yeah, a little trip.
So we're going to try and drive to Munich in two days.
I haven't...
Six hours each day.
So you're stopping somewhere near Lille, aren't you?
Somewhere in France, near Luxembourg, Lille, I think, yeah.
Oh, Lille's quite a long way from Luxembourg.
Is it really? Yeah.
Yeah.
The amount of times I try to plan this trip
and work out where everything's going,
I've forgotten half of it.
But yeah, I think Lille and then Munich
and then we'll have a slower drive back home
because 6,000 one day is quite a bit, really.
Are you staying in Folkestone overnight or...?
No.
Getting up at God knows what hour.
And then we'll end up in France the same day.
So it'll be interesting.
Yeah.
But in Europe, the Tesla charger network
is so much cheaper than it is here.
Oh, is it?
With the membership, it's 22p per kilowatt hour.
Jeez.
In most of France and Germany.
Wow.
And is it all open to everyone in Europe?
Yeah.
Right.
And they've gone back,
unlike what they haven't done here,
they've gone back throughout their old chargers
and upgraded nearly all of them to V4 already.
Right, OK.
Which means everyone can use them.
Yeah.
Without having to park wonky.
So when I did that long European trip in that Ionix 6,
we had a deal with a company
that basically do RFID fobs for big companies for fleets.
So instead of giving all their people
with electric cars and vans
like 50 different cards,
they just give them this little RFID thing
and that works.
And they were just rolling it out in Europe
and all we could use it on was Ionite.
OK.
So I didn't even look at the price
because, you know, they were picking it up essentially.
Yeah.
But we had absolutely no problem
finding Ionite chargers anywhere.
Yeah.
And I mean, on the way,
we did it in one charge kind of thing,
but on the way back,
we came a bit of a longer way
and we used a few.
And I did it as I would normally,
which is every time you stop,
you just plug the car in.
That's the way to do it.
Yeah.
Because I don't personally ever want to stop to charge.
I'd rather just charge when I stop.
Yeah.
And that's how I always do it.
Yeah.
So we did it like that
and it was no problem at all.
They were everywhere
and like always half of them were empty.
Yeah.
So, yeah, it was a breeze.
The one thing that's really annoying though
when I did that trip
is when you go to service station,
you've got to pay a euro to have a week.
Oh, really?
And I feel like if I'm paying a euro,
I want to do more than a week,
you know, to get my money's worth.
Yeah.
I bet they didn't smell though.
I bet they were clean.
Oh, yeah, they were.
Yeah.
But yeah, you shouldn't have to pay
to have a week though, should you?
No.
It's a bit strange.
Yeah.
You look at...
There's a very cool website.
Supercharge.info.
I think it's supercharge.info.
It tells you about all the sites
that are currently open with Tesla
and all the ones they've got planning.
And you look at the UK
and it's so, like, sparse.
It's all the main roads.
You don't have many of them.
As soon as you look into France and Germany,
every major road has just dot, dot, dot,
dots.
There's loads of them.
Yeah.
I've got a link in the show notes to the website.
It's very good.
It just tells you about when they're
opening sites and different things,
but they seem to have more
investment in Europe
into public charging for some reason.
I don't know why,
but it seems pretty good.
Nice.
But yeah, it should be a good trip.
So that's a week to do, I think.
They're also in France
rolling out those solar panels
over car parks, aren't they?
Yeah.
And I think that is on the cards
for this country, I think.
I think it's being planned.
I mean, why wouldn't you do that?
We're spending loads of money
on solar farms and stuff.
And it makes perfect sense.
Yeah.
And you're out of the rain.
Yeah.
Out the sun.
Yeah.
So yeah, it should be.
So I'll have some videos
coming to the channel about
the Munich Motor Show.
You will as well.
Yeah.
Probably a road trip video
for some kind.
And yeah,
it should be pretty interesting.
I'll have my normal
sort of running gun.
Gorilla style.
Yeah.
I do quite a lot of shorts as well,
because I'm really terrible at doing
short form content.
Yeah.
So I'm going to try and make
a lot of those.
I have got someone that's going to
be cutting up some of
Oh, nice.
the video for me.
But I'm going to try
and film some that way as well.
I'm rubbish at that
and Instagram and stuff.
And I don't know,
it doesn't always help.
I'm sure there are times
when you get turned down
for things because
they look at YouTube.
I say I want to borrow
one of these cars
or something.
YouTube and think,
well, that's all right.
But then they look at Instagram
and you've got no one there.
Yeah.
And I think a lot of companies
now are looking at
all the platforms.
Yeah.
And yeah,
I'm just not very good
at any of them.
I'm not very good at them either.
The one I do most
is probably
Twitter
and all I ever put on there
really is
I post when I release
the video.
Yeah.
I don't know,
I'm rubbish.
I'm too old.
I've got
an interest in
week next week.
Oh yeah.
So,
this is going out
before Monday.
Yes.
On Monday,
there's a big announcement
video coming
on my channel.
And it's going to
change the way
I do my leasing videos.
And
it's been a long time coming
and it's
like really important one
for me.
And yeah,
I'm quite excited
about it.
It's good.
Yeah.
I can't say,
I'm trying to say
as much as I can
without saying anything.
But I can't say anything
until Monday.
But as soon as I can,
it shall be there.
So,
go and check out
my channel on Monday.
And there will be a video
there with probably
quite what appears to be
a click baity title
or something
if I can think of one.
But it won't be
click bait.
It'll actually be worth
watching.
And
there are some really good
reasons why
it's worth watching.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
And then
I've got something else
next week.
Oh,
are we driving
these cars next week,
aren't we?
Oh, yeah.
So yeah,
we've seen the Cheri Tigo
7 and 8 today.
And yeah,
this time next week,
I think we're driving
both of them.
Yeah.
So,
I don't want to get
anyone too excited,
but I'm staying at
Premier Inn in Worcester
on Thursday night.
And
it's almost
on the M5.
Yeah.
It's that.
In fact,
I could probably see the M5
from it.
I think I know the one you mean.
That one's not really good.
No, I've stayed there
several times before.
Fair enough.
But it was 67 quid
and the other one was 120.
Yeah.
The one in the town
is a bit nicer, actually.
The one at the cricket
stadium.
Yeah.
That one's nice.
Yeah.
I've stayed there before.
It's 120 quid
and that one's 67.
And I'm going,
thing is right.
Again,
we talked about it
in that other podcast,
but I'm going to review
a car
and it's going to cost me
whatever the electric
in my car costs
and 67 quid for the hotel
and obviously I'll have to
feed my fat self somewhere.
So it's a very different
experience for us.
And yeah,
they have put us up here
tonight,
but they've put us up here
because they're launching
the brand and they hope
we'll probably write
an article about it
or something.
But yeah,
I mean,
we've already done
this, so go and listen to that
or watch that.
But the world of doing this
for us is very different
to how it might be for
even some of the big
YouTube channels,
but also like the magazines
and all that kind of stuff.
And the only reason I do them
is because I hope
when I'm talking about my
least hills things,
people,
I've got more to talk about
and I can offer something
more than it's cheap
or it's expensive.
Yeah.
And
just the whole
when I'm interested
by new cars, I suppose,
which is same for you.
Yeah.
Just love driving
loads of different cars.
Yeah.
But in the comments
that video,
someone will say how much
do you get paid for this?
I've had that a few times.
Yeah, minus 40 quid.
Yeah.
Minus 50 quid.
Yeah, we mentioned that
a few times.
We mentioned it on
the podcast we did with Tesh.
It's not what it seems, is it?
No.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not that I'd take money
anyway, but
yeah.
When you think,
actually,
when you think about it,
I've paid to come and
review this car
in a weird,
roundabout way.
Yeah.
Anyway,
I digress again.
As I do.
Well.
Yeah.
That's about that, isn't it?
I think so.
That's that for this.
Bedtime.
Yeah.
Are you sleeping on
the left or the right?
I thought we
spoon in the middle.
Just to clear this up,
he has got his own room
with his lovely girlfriend.
I'm here on my own.
Don't cry.
I'm happily married.
My wife's just
looking after our kids.
But we're not going
to sleep on here.
Anyway,
I hope we can get those
stains out as well
before the morning.
God.
What?
I didn't know
you were a bed wetter.
Oh, God.
I think that's
a good place to end.
Where can people
find your content online?
Definitely not a guru
on YouTube.
Notaguru.co.uk
is the website.
And
I'm on
Instagram,
which you need to
follow me on
Notaguru Jim
on Twitter
at Notaguru3.
OK.
And although I use
Twitter doesn't mean
I'm a Nazi.
No, of course not.
And I drive a Tesla.
Yeah.
You can find me
on
theinterface.uk
for the car news
and different bits
and pieces there.
And on YouTube,
the interface cars
got my weekly car reviews.
Until next time,
we'll see you again next week,
hopefully from Munich.
Bye-bye.
Thank you.
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