The Mini One is a small car that's fun to drive and great for new drivers. It's known for its stylish design and good handling, making it a popular choice for young people.
Brake horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. It tells you how much power the engine can produce without considering things like how much energy is lost in the car's parts.
A flat four engine is a type of engine where the cylinders are arranged horizontally. This helps the car handle better because it keeps the weight low.
Subaru is a car brand from Japan that makes cars with all-wheel drive, which helps with traction. They are known for being reliable and good for outdoor activities.
An induction kit is a part that helps the engine get more air, which can make it run better and faster. It's often added to cars to improve performance.
The Alfa Romeo 147 is a small car made by the Italian brand Alfa Romeo. It's known for being fun to drive and has a stylish design.
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Daihatsu Avanzato TX
The Daihatsu Avanzato TX is a small car from Japan that's designed to be practical and efficient. It's part of a category of cars that are very popular in Japan because they are easy to drive and park in crowded cities.
K cars are tiny cars in Japan that have to follow certain rules about how big they can be and how powerful their engines can be. They're great for saving money and fitting into small parking spaces.
A three-cylinder engine is a small engine with three parts that help it run. It's usually lighter and can save fuel, but it might not be as powerful as bigger engines.
The Acura NSX is a fast and stylish sports car that was made to compete with much more expensive supercars. It’s known for being fun to drive while still being comfortable enough for everyday use. People talk about it because it combines great looks with impressive speed and technology.
The Volkswagen UP GTI is a small car that has a sportier version called the GTI. It's designed to be fun to drive and is popular because it's affordable and has a peppy engine.
The Toyota GT86 is a fun sports car that is easy to drive and focuses on providing a good driving experience. It's designed to be lightweight and has a unique engine that helps it handle well.
The Mazda MX-5, or Miata, is a small and sporty convertible car that many people love for its fun driving experience. It's known for being light and easy to handle.
A boxer engine is a type of engine where the cylinders are arranged flat and move sideways. This helps the car handle better because it makes the car's weight lower.
The Citroen BX is a small car that was made in France and is known for its unusual shape and very comfortable ride. It has a special system that helps keep the car smooth on the road, which makes it different from many other cars. People like to talk about it because it's unique and has some interesting features.
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Citroën BX
The Citroën BX is a small car made by the French company Citroën. It was known for its unique look and was popular in Europe when it was sold.
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I'm Richard Porter, I'm Johnny Smith, and this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spinoff, in which we answer your questions.
Welcome once again to Friday's question answering session. And, um, do you know what should we just get in there?
Well, we should, although I feel like there's still people that don't know why it's called Otis up.
Oh, it's true. We don't explain it, haven't explained it. It's on the other side of things. Yes. It's on the on that side of things, the inexplicable catchphrase from this podcast for many years. But on the other side of things, it's the spinoff show. It's half an hour of answering audience questions rather than just chatting shite. And that also happens. Let's let's dive into a question.
This one is from a listener called Alex, who says a very nice polite start. Oh, good. A pair of titanium flutes. But then he says, I hope you're both well.
Yes. Thanks, Alex.
Very well. Thank you. Yeah, I am. I ate some porridge a little fast before recording this, not recommended. But apart from that, I'm good. I'm just going to put it in a crawler gear to start. You know, like if you're a trucker, and you normally would pull away and forth, but today you're definitely going to use first.
That's that's me. Alex says I'm an 18 year old and about to go to university. Currently, I have a mini one brackets are 56, which I've enjoyed trying to extract the maximum 96 brake horsepower from brilliant. However, being afflicted with the car loving disease, I'm always looking for a new experience.
The sound of a car is very important to me. And although my current car has lots of handling potential, it lacks in the sound department. And I wondered if you had any suggestions of what I could swap into that would satisfy both of these criteria. As I'm 18, insurance prices are crazy. So something not too expensive is a priority. My budget for a car would be modest brackets, say roughly seven grand. But I would be interested in any suggestions you may have.
Alex. Cool first car presumed your first car if you're 18.
No, he's got a mini. He just said that.
No, yeah. But that is a cool first car. That's what I mean.
Oh, I see. Right. Yes. But he's now he wants a second car.
Yeah.
That's even better. Sorry, I thought you were saying cool, cool first car question mark, not no, no, no,
exclamation mark.
His mini wand, I always call them wands, because I think I'm being funny. W-A-N-D.
There's actually an abandoned one just around the corner from my house, which I'm going to see if I could steal and push it around onto my drive and get it going for my daughter's first car. Although I don't know whether they're insurable, but
I thought you'd looked into this and they are actually quite tricky to ensure.
They are tricky. But if Alex has a maybe Alex can shed some light for me in exchange for me shedding light for him on this very question.
Okay, this is a push me pull you situation.
Really? We're going to change the format now. This is going to be a welcome to you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Exactly. It's exactly that. It's automotive back scratching.
I Alex, I don't really need anything from you at the moment, so I will just dive in with suggestions. And when I read this bit about the sound, I hope that isn't too annoying, but the some absolute flute trumpet just chainsawing at the back of my house.
You've always got somebody leaf blowing chainsawing assholes somebody I think has some prick of a lazy leaf blowing gardener come on a morning, whatever morning we recording, that's when they book their gardener.
Can you do me a save fucking loud?
Can you throw a rake at them?
Honestly, I'm just going to what would if they've got a leaf, I don't think there's a leaf blow that sounds like a chainsaw to me.
I mean, yeah, you can obviously can't do the job of a chainsaw with a rake. I know this.
No.
But the leaf blower needs to get in the sea. The only thing the leaf blower is actually good for is cooling down race cars or
Oh, yes.
Something like that, but not actually in the garden. It's not useful in the garden. It's shit.
But anyway, Alex asked that.
No, so sound.
Yeah, I'm thinking, well, if you want truly distinctive sound, but in the car that's not too powerful, it hasn't got too big an engine.
So yeah, insurable.
Yeah, straight away, my mind went to flat four.
Okay, nothing sounds like a flat four. So what does that mean? Well, that could mean some kind of old Alfa Romeo.
Oh, yeah, alpha boxy. Yes.
I feel like Alex might need a bit of dependability to get university or what have you.
Yeah.
And though, you know, an old alpha said, handles delightfully and will sound fruity and boxy, may not be entirely dependable.
So no, not a good ungaraged car in 2026, I would say.
No. So this leads me inexorably towards an avenue that we frequently drive down in this show, which is Subaru.
Okay, if only Subaru were paying us to say this.
Well, we are like a two man heritage department, free advertising departments of Subaru.
But I was thinking that an impressive turbo may be a little hard to ensure and sort of want an older one, wouldn't you?
But then if you go way back, the first impressive, wasn't there?
There was an impressive spout, which was less powerful.
There was a turbocharged.
It wasn't a nice and fruity soundtrack and pleasant four wheel drive handling and a little unusual.
Get the estate one.
Yeah, that's a really good shot because it is non turbo and you get the bub, bub, bub, bub, bub, bub, bub, bub.
And the induction.
I was actually going to suggest this to him with his Mini R56.
He's going to say, why don't you just keep the Mini and put a really good induction kit on it?
They sound wild.
True.
So that's a good shot, Rich.
Very good.
So a naturally aspirated, classic Subaru.
We're talking maybe early 2000s, something like that.
Yeah.
Now, I mean, I know they have their problems, but I think fundamentally they're quite,
they're quite dependable.
Are they not, I suppose, rot might be a concern.
Rot's the issue.
So you just want to either buy a good one or make sure that you can factor in the repairs
and just say it every time, irrespective of what code is, for goodness sake, rust protect it.
For the sake of a like 200 quid in a morning, you can seal that car's future.
That's really good.
A very quick thought.
Some four inline four Alfa Romeo's also sound rather nice.
Yeah, they do.
Whether a one, like a one four seven would be of interest.
That'd be nice.
Actually, again, obviously, you know, usual caveats apply, but they're not without charm.
I suppose.
I won five, six for that matter.
So you said a flat four.
I immediately, when he said sound is important to me and I'm thinking about his age,
I immediately thought fruity three cylinder.
Ah, yes.
And we dyke as triple, don't we?
Yeah, I don't know whether that would involve downgrading performance from his current mini.
Because what are you thinking?
Like a sort of something Japanese?
I was thinking something Japanese, perhaps.
I mean, a totally, totally useless and impractical suggestion for a number of reasons.
But tracking down a Daihatsu Avanzato TX.
One came up for sale this week.
Did you see it?
Yeah, and I think I sent it to you.
Oh, no, I didn't.
Did I not send it?
Oh, yes, you did.
Sorry, you did.
Yes, you did.
It was five grand.
I ignored it because I thought if I looked at it too much, I'd just go and buy it.
So I didn't look at it.
Well, it was exceptionally good value.
And I looked at it and was like, that's a bargain.
Five grand for one of those.
Oh, goodness.
Why are the three cylinder Japanese fruity cars?
Apart from K cars, if you ignore Ks, is there anything that's bigger than a K
that might have, let's do that, the fastest three cylinder cars?
I don't know.
I mean, if you just want an amusing three cylinder sound, then an old Igo
thrums away like a good one, but not very quick.
And, you know, the handling is fine.
But I don't think it would feel not quite as satisfying as the Mini, probably.
So yeah, three cylinders do sound good and are potentially insurable.
So I don't know if you could tickle your fancy, Alex,
you could always seek out some K curio.
There are a few around in the UK.
Yeah, I mean, a BMW i8 is three cylinder, but I don't know if that's going to be
particularly good for...
Oh, hang on a minute.
Are we missing out on the...
Why Honda B is three cylinder and it sounds fabulous.
It sounds like sort of, you know, a baby NSX, like an NSX puppy.
Didn't they do a three cylinder Mini Cooper?
They did, didn't they?
Yes, later on they did.
Yeah, I don't know if they're...
Oh, hang on, hang on.
We've missed something.
Yeah.
Volkswagen UP GTI?
Oh, yes.
I don't know if they're down to that level of money yet, though.
Seven?
No, I think they're still...
Last I looked, they're hovering around 10 plus.
In fact, if anything, they seem to have gone up a little bit.
No pun in 10.
Because people have realised they damn good.
Stop making them and that just gave the values a little bump.
Yeah, yes.
I mean, the GI Yaris is a three cylinder, but I don't think we're in that.
Yes, that's a little bit out of budget, but...
What about a GT86, which has the Subaru-ish sound?
Ding.
We've alighted on the answer.
And young people like them because they're quite simple
and they're driver focused and they've got a good load to them.
But wait.
What?
By the way, just have a look, there's no UP GTIs that I can see here for under 10.
Most of them are actually more like 12.
It might not feel that impressive after a mini one either.
An UP GTI.
Do you know what I mean?
Do you know what I mean?
Do you know what I mean?
I don't know.
Can you guess the GT?
Again, because GT86 says they didn't sell that many
and they're kind of connoisseur sorts of car, aren't they?
Which tends to lead to values being maybe a bit more solid.
So let's have a look.
Currently the cheapest...
Seven and a half.
OK.
Quite, it's a bit leggy, but it's a Toyota slash Subaru.
So I think it's good for it.
143,000 miles, but seven and a half in Leyland in Lancashire.
And there's another one here in Burnley.
So basically, if you want an affordable GT86, go to Lancashire.
So go north.
Seven, nine, eight, nine.
Yeah.
But you're right.
And I bet you can get some slightly fruitier pipes for it.
Oh, fruity pipes.
I mean, and we have any insurance is like.
We haven't even mentioned MX-5 because we just assumed
you'd already consider that.
Yeah.
And they don't sound amazing, do they?
Out of the box.
You'd just be as well to get some different breathing
on your Mini as go MX-5.
Different.
They're basically inspirational energy.
OK, look.
It's a bit sketchy on the GT86.
But if you were prepared to get a leggy one,
it seems like maybe Alex, that would be in budget.
They're not mega fast, but they are, I think,
quite a likable car.
And they do have a boxer engine.
They do.
We've spent 10 minutes answering one question.
But that's why you love us, Mr.
He says.
Do you have something that you have pulled
from the amount of posts?
Do I have something?
Yes.
Yeah, I've got something.
That's a no.
Is that a no?
No, I've got one.
And this is from Gem Barnard.
Hey, guys, hey, guys.
We recently bought a sweet, sweet 1999 on the tee.
Ford Fiesta, 25,000 miles, one family owner,
Panther Black, as a first car for our 18-year-old.
That's another young person question.
It's very clearly spec D, to the point
that I bought him one of your merch hats
at a recent show in the round at Off of Bristol.
The Festa is in great condition.
Smidge of agriculturally patch rust
around the rear of the sills.
A few barely noticeable parking scuffs,
that sort of thing, but remarkable.
The wheel trims are largely intact,
so much so that he parks approximately three feet
from any curb over fear of damaging the trims.
As a result, we've taken them off altogether,
but the underlying steelies look a big gash,
being black with surface rust.
So my question to your esteemed gents,
especially in the light of Richard's spring wheel treatment,
dilemma, is what low-cost solutions are available?
I've just shelled out for a whole new set of tires,
so I'm reluctant to do anything
that could necessitate taking them off again.
So as far as I can see, it's either new cheap trims,
or some sort of center cap arrangement.
Or is there something I can do to the wheels themselves,
again in situ, to spruce them up?
Yours in retro confusion,
Jim Framporty said, the town, not the band.
So this is good, because he has sent some questions.
The wheel trims are lovely.
A seldom seen, in fact.
I'm just looking at what tires they might have put on.
It looks like they're called Wind Force,
Advanced Four.
And just so we know,
this is the Fiesta with the slightly sloth-eyed face.
Do you know the one I mean?
The eyes go down at the sides.
It looks a little bit sad.
Yeah, but it's got the kind of krill, krill-sifting grill.
It has, it's trying to, it's, you know what it is,
it's trying to be happy,
but you can see that it's ultimately
not a particularly happy car, poor thing.
It was just that design language off of folds.
Yeah.
So I'm looking at this thinking,
he wants to protect the trims, which I totally get.
My colleague at the late break show, Mark,
with his Citroen BX, he has very rare trims
and he doesn't drive with them on most of the time.
He has them in the boot in a bag.
Does he pop them on at shows then?
He does, because he says they're like worth 150 quid each.
He just can't justify losing one.
Yeah, they're really rare, apparently.
Right.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Or does he, could you put them on every time you park,
just so the car looks nice and passes by,
but I suppose there's a risk it'll get.
I think he definitely, if the weather's inclement,
as they say, with the rail service in Britain,
he removes them and stuffs them into the boot to be safe.
So when I was 18, I used to put things like moon disks on
and I know I said this to you about your Dutchess Spring,
like a machined dome cap,
which I think could look quite cool.
But I reckon, and I know he doesn't want to remove
the tires again, but ultimately,
the amount of money that will cost
if you've got a mate in a tire place who knows a mate,
and you do it on Saturday morning at 8 a.m.
I think you're better off having the wheels,
painted, the original wheels painted in a high-gloss finish
or just in good quality.
A lot of people will say it's getting them,
what's that, it's not stove enameled,
you can get them stove enameled, powder coated.
Okay.
But my unpopular opinion is that I don't rate powder coating,
I've never rated it, I think it's a false economy.
On a steel wheel, surely just as long as it's someone
who knows what they're doing, just nicely preps it
and then just paint it and lacquer it and that will look great.
Exactly that, you want good quality, hard two-pack,
really good two-pack and...
Sorry, it just always makes me think of the other two-pack.
Shakur.
Yes, I was listening to a bit of two-pack
whilst cooking a curry the other night.
And so I think a quality bit of two-pack
and then you see it'll be shiny
and you can treat it with some decent wax polish
like you would on a bodywork, which is what I used to do,
so the brake dust doesn't stick to it.
And then you can choose when to put the trims on
or not put the trims on.
So that's also...
That's what I would do.
I think even, I'm actually maybe not in the fish-face era
but in the previous shape, which was the same car,
just the fish-face is a head.
Oh, is it called fish-face?
I don't know this.
I don't know, I'm just saying that
because that's what it looks like to my mind.
Is there any false person listening
who knows what the nickname of?
It's like a smiley transit.
Is there a name for these VSTs?
I always see, yeah.
And also, I think people go big headlight Mondeo
for the first-gen facelift as well.
That's quite an unimaginative name
but at the same time it is accurate, so let's work with it.
No, the earlier generations of that fiesta,
definitely the basic ones came with steelies
like silver-painted steelies with just centre caps.
So I don't know if you could track down
some folds branded centre caps after you've painted the wheels.
Oh!
That would just tidy it up.
Yeah.
Is what I'm hoping to achieve in my spring
although we're sort of encountering a few issues
with the 3D printing plan.
Folds.
Yeah, 3D printing.
I think there are folds ones available off the shelf.
I just don't know if they're still available
and around and not ridiculously expensive.
I'll tell you what looks good is a black painted steel
with either chrome or stainless bolt covers,
bolt little domes,
which it has a whiff of police car about it,
undercover cop car, which that might look quite nice.
But ultimately, or just drive around and enjoy the trims
and just set an eBay search for all of these wheel trims forever.
And you'll probably have at least one backup dancer
just in case.
That's what I would do, Gem.
Have we answered that?
I don't know.
Can you hear that?
Is it a chainsaw?
Yeah, it's a chainsaw.
To prove to the listeners how incensed you are,
could you open your door and shut the fucking thing up?
And then...
I'd love to.
It's too far.
The door is too far away.
I'd have to get up and walk.
Have you got access to an alpine horn or a...
I'm digitally doing it.
I'm digitally doing it.
OK, we could all make annoying noises, mate.
Use it or just use it as a sort of shouting periscope.
That's what I would do.
We used to do that when I worked at EMAP on Rev's magazine.
We had a really huge cardboard tube
that was from a carpet layer that threw it in a skip
and we rescued it.
And we used to use it as a shouting periscope.
We used to call it.
So we used to thread it up to the next department
on this sort of semi-open plan.
We used to shout obscenities.
And because it could throw your voice.
We got into a lot of trouble
because apparently there was a really important
ad department meeting
and we were just...
What's that?
Digery, dewy, rude words.
Ball bags through a big cardboard tube.
Yeah, basically.
It was like an episode of Phoenix Nights, yeah.
Shall we move on to a question from a listener?
Well, they've just signed C
and I don't know if they don't want us to read out their names.
So let's just call them C.
They say,
Hi, you pair of thundering flutes.
Just watching Johnny's barn find on the Citroen BX.
Curiosity peaked and I'm searching the internet
to see if any are available for sale
and what kind of price they are.
I wondered if the likes of car and classic
can see a spike in their search switchboards
lighting up when rare but nobody cared models
are mentioned on either the podcast or the late break show.
Well, I'm going to just say yes, definitely.
That's Mr. C.
That's definitely what happens.
I definitely get an outpouring on social media about that
and there's obviously comments in the videos
of people having their own backstory of that kind of car.
And the BX has been good actually, it's been loads.
But what I would say is that as it's a rare
but nobody cares kind of car,
they are out there and when you do find them,
they're often in quite good condition for good value.
The Citroen BX owners group is a good place to start
and I actually found one in a hedge, Mr. C,
quite recently when we were, I don't know if you saw
that I found a white, white maturancho
that I cut bits off and used as spares for mine.
In that same yard, the guy gestured over to a huge hedge
and he went, there's a Citroen in there.
And I quickly got my tools
before sunset and said,
let's just hack all this down mark and see what's in there.
And it was a Citroen BX.
And it actually looked amazingly in quite good condition.
There's an episode going out.
We sort of shot it from the hip, an extra episode
where I uncovered that and about four other cars on site.
And what we found on the backseat of that Citroen
is possibly worth watching the episode for alone.
That's some, I don't know.
Clickbait.com.
Now, I think you're allowed to do that.
Yeah, but yeah, I think definitely that there are BXs out there
and if you contact the late break show,
my colleague Mark, who is a Citroen BX protectionist,
he's in the club and there's a few.
As long as you don't want a really early mark one,
there's quite a few of the later ones about
and prices are keen.
It must be an early one.
It must have that weird extra window in the rear pillar
that was only on the posh models.
That's right.
That's right.
For reasons I still can't understand.
Well, to answer Mr. C's question about spikes in searches,
we don't have the data to hand, but we're going to assume yes.
We maybe should ask our friends
at Car and Classic and at Piston Heads
and whether they can demonstrably go,
oh, yeah, look.
They totally don't answer.
An AstraGTE and then searches for that went up like a thousandfold.
I'm sure it's true.
True.
Because you tend to be watching your stuff either on the internet,
effectively, and even if you're watching it on your telly,
as I sometimes do, you've got your phone to hand, haven't you?
And it's just so easy just to start browsing.
You don't have to make a mental note to do it later
when you get to the internet computer those days have passed.
So, yeah, I bet there's spikes.
We just don't know.
Sorry, that's not very...
Let's just say yes.
I was going to move on to a quick question from a listener
who signs himself Michael from America.
Seriously?
Yeah.
Hi, I'm Michael from America.
Is he Michael Knight?
Oh, hadn't thought about that.
Oh.
Yes. Oh, yes.
His address is Large Black Laurie driving across.
Michael says, I've just finished Andy Willman's audio book
of Mr. Willman's Motoring Adventure.
Along with a few shoutouts for Richard,
there were references to royal interest in Top Gear at its peak.
My question is, did the Top Gear team ever try recruiting any of the future kings
to come on as a guest or to have a go on monarchs-of-the-world lap board?
I'm hoping so.
All non-disclosure agreements have since expired and you can speak freely.
I have a feeling the palace offices may have rebuked the idea
the same way that Michael Schumacher was unable to drive the Suzuki,
but something to ponder, given the interest in sustainability
that both Charles and William have, possibly,
with a motoring interest like the late Queen.
I love the fact that Michael from America seems to know
that all non-disclosure agreements have since expired.
Yes, it's not Michael from America, Brackett's lawyer.
Oh, yes.
Well, it became known to us that princes William and Harry,
in their youth, did watch Top Gear,
which always led to me imagining what kind of room were they in.
Imagine just two teenagers slumped on a sofa,
like thousands of other teenagers across Britain on a Sunday night
just watching stuff before they realise they've got to go to bed
because it's school tomorrow.
And I was like, I always have a feeling that the royals,
they have sort of small, cosy sitting rooms somewhere within their palaces
because if you're sitting in some absolutely vast, drafty room,
just trying to watch telly, it's not very comfortable.
You want to just, particularly in the winter, just sort of hunker down.
So I always imagine there's some little, almost like, you know, servants quarters,
but they'd rather just sit on a batted old sofa there
and watch some shite on a Sunday night, and that shite was our show.
But we discovered this on good authority,
and then one day we were doing a shoot to start a new series
where we just got a bunch of supercars down to Dunsfold
and we drove them round in some stupid, like, supposed fuel economy test.
And we just needed people from the office to drive the cars, tough gig.
And when I got there, I saw there was this ginger-haired lad
that I'd not seen before, but it's not uncommon on shoots
when there are multiple crews that there's a new camera assistant
or something and you've never met before.
But this guy looked familiar, and he was just sort of milling around
with everybody else outside the production office.
And then the penny dropped that it was, in fact, Prince Harry.
Really?
And this then explained the presence of two older people,
a man and a woman, who were sort of quite smartly dressed,
but not formally dressed, they just looked put together.
And then I noticed that you could sort of see a faint bulge
under their jackets, and they had this uncanny ability
to be almost unnoticeable, but always very close by.
And I realised that they were his protection officers.
How do they do that?
How do they blend in but be close by?
I've never seen anything like it, and it was really fascinating
because when you see, you know, someone like Victoria Beckham
sort of arriving somewhere and she's got two or three guys
in black suits with black ties, sunglasses on, earpieces.
And they're all like six foot eight, and they're very sort of conspicuously.
Here is my security.
And you realise that actual proper top level security is nothing like that.
It blends into the background.
Well, in the same way that probably decent police officers
don't need to screech sideways up to a scene and shout a lot and throw things.
They could just do things a lot more subtle and faster and more efficient.
Probably a lot of, you know, special forces people and spies
are the most bland, forgettable people you've ever met.
Because that is helpful for them to sort of infiltrate and pass through the world.
And it's like, yeah, just have you got a very unmemorable face?
Yeah, I think I have. Great. Congratulations.
Welcome to MI6.
So, yes, Prince Harry came down.
Jeremy had met him a few times and he really, really wanted to come and see us filming,
but he couldn't really come to the studio.
That had been quite hard to keep him undercover.
So he just came to one of our little filming things and had to go in some cars
and just hung out and we were chatting to him for a while
and all he wanted to talk about was the show.
He was very polite, very charming, just a nice lad.
And we were all told just don't mention this.
Obviously that was a long time ago and now I'm mentioning it, but I think it's okay.
They seem like, I know that we've talked about Will before as well.
And he's always seemed like a very nice guy
who just enjoys going on his motorcycle now and again
and doing, I guess, craving normality in the same way that some of these superstars do.
They just want to go and do normal stuff because that's novel to them.
Well, I think Michael from America, I don't know if we've answered your question.
Yeah, I don't think we could ever have them as guests because they just don't do that, do they?
It's not things that the royal family do.
I know there are the sort of exceptions like Prince of San went on, it's a knockout.
So Prince Edward, I think.
We don't have guests much on the main podcast,
but let's just, should we just cast this net, Rich?
If any members of the royal family, whether you drive a reliant scimitar,
whether you don't want to...
Who the hell would drive a reliant scimitar?
I don't know.
I don't know, I just thought...
It's ridiculous.
Sorry, it's just a stupid thing to say.
What an example to pick, Jesus.
I know, what an idiot.
Can I do that again?
No, I don't worry, I don't think I'll notice.
That's actually all we've got time for now.
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And we will be answering more questions same time next week.
Until then, goodbye.
Thanks everybody.
About this episode
Richard and Johnny dive into a lively Q&A session, tackling listener questions about car sound, insurance, and budget-friendly options for young drivers. They discuss the merits of various cars, including Subarus and Alfa Romeos, while sharing humorous anecdotes and personal experiences. The episode also touches on the potential for spikes in interest for niche cars like the Citroen BX, and even a brush with royalty when Prince Harry visited a Top Gear shoot. Expect a mix of practical advice and entertaining banter.
In another instalment of their On The Other Side Of Things spin-off show, Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about a nice-sounding car for an 18-year-old, sorting the wheels on an old Fiesta, rare but nobody cares car search spikes, and the royal family and Top Gear.
