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Chrysler New Yorker

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Audi TT

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Audi TTS

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boost gauge

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3D printed cup holders

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Chevrolet Nova

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Ford Fiesta

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Porsche 911

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E46

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E30

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BMW E36S

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Autobahn

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Volkswagen Caddy

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TDI engine

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GPS app

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caliper

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Nissan R32

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Volkswagen R32

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MOT

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four wheel drive systems

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Haldex

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wheel speed sensor

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differential

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prop shaft

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brake lines

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CV boot

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track rod end rubber

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front spacers

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Mclaren Artura

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BYD U9 Extreme

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1300 horsepower

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1200 volt system

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Peugeot 205 GTI

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thermal runaway

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Volkswagen Golfs

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Ferrari F40

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Mercedes-Benz Cclass

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Alfa 155S

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Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Lee Maxwell and

I'm joined as usual by Connor McCann, but not Nigel this week because he's off on his

holidays. He is indeed. Lucky for him. I know he's in Spain, I'm not sure I worry as

though. Is it Monorca, New Yorker? One of the Orcas? One of the, he could be inside an Orca,

who knows. Wonder if he'll run into Grant this year? I jokingly said that to him because

him and Grant seem to have this weird thing where they go on holidays together this

time of year, but Grant has been away and back before Nigel. He said, OK, hard

luck Grant, you've missed him this time. I don't know what episode number this is, do

you? I think it's 144. 144. Could be wrong. It's in the 140s anyway, somewhere in there.

So we haven't got an awful lot of stuff this week. Well, we do have a fair bit of gossip

and show stuff and a bit of stuff with us and a few questions. So it'll probably be

a shorter episode since Nigel's not here, but since we've missed a full episode

now, we thought we'd better do something. Yeah. So we'll kick off with what's new with us.

So Connor, go ahead. Well, the first one was we, as you said there, we missed an episode

something because we'd planned to record a Titanic Dubs, which the weather absolutely

annihilated. Titanic Dubs then obviously didn't happen. Yeah. So we had a weather

warning and it was quite a hard call to make. And like Nigel, Gethan and Colin, obviously

have the final say on that because they are the organisers and you're like, you feel sorry

for them in that regard because there was a weather warning for the Saturday. Yeah. But

all week the weather was great. Yeah, it was. Uncharacteristically good for September

or the end of September, should say. And I remember thinking to myself, fuck, if they

cancel this, that's a good day. They're gonna look like dicks, you know. And obviously,

they were saying the same thing. It's that weird position you end up putting. And lo

and behold, up to Friday, absolutely great weather, Saturday stinking like so, so bad.

And then come Sunday, beautiful again. Yeah, it was just the one day. The legendary

show was on the Sunday and it was ground and it looked great. So at least those guys

met good of the weather. I believe then the thought was to host the following week. Yeah.

And the weather was the same again. It was horrible. And I think it was worse. Yeah.

And it was just getting sort of unpredictable territory to the point where they just had

to pull it in which is unfortunate because yeah, it's a great show. And it's one of those

like season closures, you know, once it's done, you know, right, we're on the wind

down here. I mean, I was I was going to miss the show anyway, which I knew because

I was away that weekend. But yeah, it was I missed it. Not being there anyway. Yeah.

And because yeah, it's one it's probably one of my favorite shows of the year. The

location is awesome. I love it. Some people don't like it so much because I

know the ground quality isn't brilliant, but I just I love the site itself and

the history. And I still it's still a bit of a novelty to me. I think that all the

history of that site and how unique it is. Yeah, like 13 years. The show has been

running. Well, 13 years from the first one, we lost a few years for COVID, obviously.

But I from what I believe it was supposed to be a one off for the 100th

year anniversary of the Titanic. And it somehow is still running. So it was

testament to those guys with their relationship that built up with the

the organizers or the owners of that venue as well. But it's it's certainly

unique. Yeah. It's one of those ones you should kind of forget that you're

standing in a very historical place where the Titanic was built and

released into the waters around the dry dock. Yeah, it is. I'm guilty about

it to you, like you do sort of forget that because granted a wee bit. Yeah.

But yeah, unfortunately, not this year. No. So hopefully we'll be back back

and better than ever next year.

But we'll see. So yep.

New with myself then, what have I got?

So Josh from Vaggie, Josh of Vaggie fame was very kind and sent me up a

little care package for the TT. So Josh is very into 3D printing and designing

all sorts of weird and wonderful things. Yep. He designs, he prints like it's and

he has had a TT or maybe still has a TT himself and he knows the joy of new

cup holders. So he sent me up like a 3D printed cup holder with different

inserts so you can narrow the diameter for different cans and drinks and

stuff, which is unbelievable. So the TT's not have a cup holder at all?

I don't know, because mine being 25 year old might have had at one point.

There's nowhere obvious that I can see where it would have been.

There's one behind the handbrake that is broken in half and it's like

screwed into the plastic.

And to be honest with you, it looks after a market that somebody has

fitted. Yeah. I don't know if it's an original one.

The clip is broken, someone screwed it through the plastic or if it's

an aftermarket one, somebody has fitted and it's broken again.

But this one is top notch, I have to say.

He sent me that, he sent me

a replacement vent for the Mark II, which holds a boost gauge or whatever gauge

you want. Also 3D printed cup holders for the Mark II that come out

of the dash vents, which I'm very excited to use because

I have been driving around for years with Polo's Mark IIs with a fucking

shoe in the car that I put my drink in the passenger seat to use that as your cup holder.

Thanks to Josh. Yeah, I don't have to do that now.

So I'm looking forward to trial fitting those and seeing how they go.

But the quality of the print with the cup holders and stuff for the TT,

I can't see why the rest of the Mark II stuff won't be the same.

That's cool.

Big shout out to him and thank you.

And if he's need any printed, genuinely, he's the guy like it's he's very, very good.

What else I'm up to?

Oh, I didn't get mentioned this before because

or maybe I did actually mention it, but it wasn't out yet.

That I said before that I'd written the article for Helen for PVW.

I can't remember.

Yeah. So if I haven't, I have written a review of the Helen show

that we go to in May, the F Invitational, indeed, for PVW.

And off the back of that, I have now started writing the car features.

So first one I done was our good friend, Gethyn, with his Mark VI R,

which had a lot of fun doing and it's actually out.

Yes, this weekend that's come out.

So if you're listening to this, the issue is out

and check it out because it's genuinely an amazing car.

It's so good to see it on the McRoberts.

He did the photos as well for it.

So it was a nice local collaboration on that one.

That's awesome.

Which is weird because I've been reading that magazine for over 15 years.

Yeah. And I'm famously, I've always said, I'm not good with the words.

Give me numbers, not so much words, which is kind of weird

because a lot of my job involves with numbers on words now.

But yeah, I used to do a bit of what I call creative writing

back in the day with yourself with the Shed62 blog.

Yeah. And as much as I always said, I was never that good at it.

I always enjoyed it.

Yeah. And then off the back of this and getting this,

I actually do enjoy it again, which is nice.

It's weird to see your name on a magazine after so long.

Yeah.

What else was there?

I've sort of been getting winter ready for the garage as well

and come through and throwing things out

and need order rocking now and trying to pack everything away

and trying to get sorted for winter prep.

Tidy stuff up.

Yeah. Yeah.

Which has been a long time coming for me

because I've sort of been procrastinating on that.

And then finally last week.

So I've changed jobs recently.

And last week is for like team training over in Germany.

And it was really interesting to see how many old cars

are still on the road over there.

Yeah, that's right. You were sending me photos and stuff.

Yeah. So like the, you know, Nova.

Yeah. Now, this was like every day of traffic.

Yeah. I was starting a little on a Nova saloon

come past me, a 97 Fiesta.

Yeah.

I can't remember if it was an A or an S.

It's like a D2, which is the first shape.

I seen a Targa 911, one of the old slightly 80s ones, like

E-36s, E-46s, E-30s.

Like just the most random of stuff.

Now you do have a lot of modern stuff, obviously.

But it's cool to see that stuff is still on the road over there.

Yeah.

Which is impressive considering their two,

which is their equivalent of MOT, is incredibly strict.

It's very strict. Yeah.

Like I think it makes even the guys down south here

they're a lot stricter than we have in the north.

And I don't think it's a patch on the two of tests.

So, yeah, somebody's looking after the cars, which is good to see.

Yeah, I like that.

Don't think there's anything else.

Mad report from Germany.

Had a crazy taxi, running the way back to the airport

on the Autobahn guy who's driving a.

It was a Caddy.

Must be a Caddy Maxi

that's converted to like a people carrier

to a van, some sort of TDI engine.

And I couldn't see the speedo.

I was sitting behind the guy and I couldn't see the speedo at all.

So I flipped on my GPS app on my phone

and at one point we had like a hundred and six or a hundred and five

miles an hour and I was like, yep, man's pushing on here.

This is cool. I enjoy that.

The were you on actual Autobahn or was it?

I can only assume so I assume so, but I really don't know.

And even at that, I know some of the Autobahn is not restricted.

There's like a certain symbol that comes up that shows that

it's the unrestricted section.

But I will say driving back up from Dublin Airport.

On the M1, then the standard of driving on that road

was fucking shocking compared to

a similar road in Germany, but at much higher speeds.

Oh, dude, your patients are converted over here.

Look, yeah, so that that was a bit of an eye opener, seeing back to back.

Yeah, but that's that's all new with me.

What about yourself?

So it might have been before the last podcast

I might have forgot to mention or it could have been in between.

I've kind of lost track of time a little bit, but the good lady

superb was due for service.

So she was in with Paul, shout out motorfix.

Excellent service, as always, an annoying new problem, easy peasy.

But did uncover a couple of other issues

while I was there that we'll need addressed soon.

But yeah, there'll be next month's problem.

And then in the meantime of all that happening,

I discovered that I had another sticky caliper on the back of the car,

the opposite side from the one I just replaced a few months back.

Of course.

Yeah, so fun.

I had noticed this kind of intermittent squeaking, creaking.

I don't know, squealing, not squealing.

Anyway, a noise.

That didn't hadn't quite figured out what it was.

And then one day I noticed one of the back wheels was quite warm.

And I was like, I think I know what that noise might be.

So Stefan, put it up for me over the weekend there.

So thank you very much, Stefan.

And we finally got the R32 on the ramp.

So since I brought it back in March, February, March.

I, yeah, before April anyway, because you had a dub set.

Yeah, we had never put it on the ramp.

I'd been wanting to do it for ages.

And then there was always something in the way or we were at a show

or whatever over the weekend.

So I hadn't got around to it.

And with MOT was booked in for the end of October,

I thought I really need to put this thing on the ramp

and just make sure it's as good as what I think it is.

And in fairness, the floor and bodywork

cells and stuff are all in excellent condition,

which is as I hoped and thought.

That was what I was worrying about, being a Mark Four.

Yeah.

But there was a couple of little issues that I knew

needed sort of for MOT.

The one of the front headlights being one of them.

And just a couple of other little niggly

bits and pieces, but when we put it on the ramp,

we saw a couple of other things.

So there's always been a bit of a noise out of the diff,

but I don't really know that much about four wheel drive systems.

So it's more like it's not a noisy diff as such.

It's like certain times on full lock at low speed.

It's like a grinding sort of.

I'm rocking to say grinding because that sounds like the diffs fuck,

but it's almost like it's it's a noise.

Some kind of a rotational noise.

Yeah. And I think it's a genuine.

I think it's the prop bearing.

No, no, it's the Haldex Engaging and Disengaging.

But it's to do, I think, with a wheel speed sensor.

I'm not sure it's a sensor of some sort that I'm convinced

that that's what it is.

But yeah, I don't think you need a diff, thankfully.

I hope not.

But there's a little bit of a weep at the diff

and some more along the prop shaft as well.

Yeah, it needs proper.

It needs proper and some kind of seals.

And then while we were under there, it was just kind of a bit of.

Oh, well, you could probably look at a dress and that.

And then the one thing that was kind of the

let's not say the nail in the coffin, but the deciding factor of.

Deciding to do a bit of a strip down over winter.

It's a couple of brake lines are corroded, pitted

and that won't pass them on to you.

And it's going to be a mission to try and fix and replace them

because because of the four wheel drive system,

you're going to have to drop out the diff, the shaft,

the tank to get at some of the brake lines

where they go up and over the tank.

I see your driver side line.

The lines come down the passenger side.

One takes off to the passenger side.

And then the other one goes up out over the tank

and it just disappears and there's not even enough room

that you just set a piece into it.

Because it's really just the end piece.

Yeah, where as usual, where it bubbles around the fitting.

But as you said, the problem is it's not just dropping the tank.

It's probably awesome to get the tank out of the fucking fun

four wheel drive stuff.

So long story short, that's not going to happen

in less than a month, like what, three weeks?

No, we are even less two and a half weeks.

Yeah. So I've cancelled the MOT

and I'm going to do a bit more

bit more work than I had planned to do there.

32 over this winter.

So Conor was saying earlier on, obviously, we're looking at

organizing the garage and

tidying up a bit.

And so the plans for winter have somewhat changed

where the jet is going to get pushed back a little bit more.

And we're going to focus on the mark four

and the mark two this winter.

Is the plan at the moment?

Yeah, I have a few things to do, but nothing major compared to that.

And yours isn't that major that drop in the tanks of bollocks.

Yeah. But we're forgetting about that side of it.

Doing a def seal, doing some brake lines,

doing a prop burn.

The prop burns the worst part of it because you take the shaft out and split it.

None of those things on the road are difficult, but.

And especially when we have the ramp, which is.

Absolutely amazing.

Compared to what we used to do on the floor.

But even so with work and me being away

and whatever, it's just going to take.

Just paying the arches.

Yeah, it just is what it is.

Little things that just add up and take forever.

And then there'll probably be a little bit of.

While you're in there type of work.

Aye, to be honest with you, you're better than when I've stripped.

I guess that's the time that you do do it.

So that's the plan at the moment.

And it's one of those things that always feels like a fucking chore when you're doing it.

But as I say, like, what's the sense in dropping.

Dropping all that and not doing the others.

And then it were on its head.

Aye.

But I tell you what, I'd rather do a bit of mechanical work for a change

than be welding and grinding and talking about.

And it'll be a nice change of pace actually.

Yeah, like what have you got?

You've a dry rotted CV boot on the front right.

You have a nipped track rod end rubber on the left.

You know, it's fucking stupid stuff.

You know, you'll get it sorted.

It's fine.

It just feels like you're back into something again.

Yeah.

But sure, it's all good.

That's what it was.

Oh, I ordered.

I finally ordered my front spacers.

Oh, for the R32.

And they have arrived.

So very good.

Obviously, they'll be going on once all that other work

that we've just mentioned has been done.

But yeah, they're here.

The website, the 10 mile spacers that I went up for the front

were always out of stock and I just kind of kept going back on

every few weeks and just looking and then finally one day

they were in the stock and I was like, fuck it.

I'm just going to buy them now while they're there.

That's the best way.

You know, rightly, it'll be coming up to dub shed next year

and I'll go to buy them and they won't be in stock.

And you'll also be spent on other things.

So it's like more of a hassle.

I well, like you laugh at me because as we've found out,

we've been through all the stuff in the garage recently.

I buy the most random stuff at the most random of times.

But then you forget that you have it.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

But I mean, I think we've clearly talked with this before

in the podcast.

But like when you went through the bay on the jet at that time

and do the whole overhaul and the engine and bits and pieces.

And I said, you'd ask me what I order up the bits from AutoDoc.

And I was like, I'll do it later on.

I'm going to go to the garage here.

I think it was going to the workshop just to tidy up

and clear out a bit.

Yeah.

And I found this random AutoDoc box and I opened it.

And everything that you asked me to order,

I had ordered in the Black Friday seal like eight months before.

And it was like 250 quids worth of parts.

But it was just like, actually, we're going to need them.

So why not?

So you're better at having it in stock

as long as you remember that it's there.

Yeah.

And don't order it again.

Yeah.

But thankfully it didn't.

Yeah.

That's actually a tip if you're listening to this as well.

Just fucking if you're not going to do something for a while,

just drip feed parts order because it doesn't seem

as much of a chore then.

Especially service items and stuff like if you have a bit

of spare cash or something.

I have it in the shelf.

Order them in.

Yeah.

Just label up a box and then you'll know what's in it.

And then when the time comes when you need them,

they're already there.

You don't have to wait around or.

That's what I've been doing is like

and I put in like a cardboard box right on what it is.

You can sort of see it and that kind of thing.

It does, it makes a big help.

Is that it for new with us then?

I think so.

What about news, news?

News, I'm going to start off with quite a sad one,

something you probably know what I'm going to say here anyway.

Many of you listeners will probably know

the name of Mike Poli or Dog Pizza.

He's been a listener of ours from the very start,

I will say, a good friend.

Somebody we were very lucky to get hanging out with

at least once when we were in Helen.

And he sadly passed away during the week

in a single vehicle car accident

on its way to work, I want to say.

A massive loss to community.

Absolutely.

Mike would probably laugh at me saying this,

but he was an asshole to many, but a friend to many more.

He was a ball buster, but a fucking great lad.

Yeah.

He was a sort of guy and probably a lot of people

didn't get to see the side of him,

but he would randomly message you and just say,

how are you, how's life?

You know, very different from the sort of exterior.

He facade that he would have shown a lot of people.

It's definitely had a lot of us hard with this.

He was a car builder.

He was a content creator.

He ran the rabbit hole Facebook page.

Yeah.

And genuinely, I was a set when I heard it

and I'm still upset and it's a massive, massive loss.

I do believe the DCI guys have put GoFundMe together as well.

There was a local woman in the club

and now sort of a public one as well,

which is nearly full for the target, I think.

Okay.

Going towards his partner, Rachel,

trying to help her get going again.

But yeah, I hate having to say these things

because it's always fucking awful,

but I can't go on and not mention him

because he was such a good guy.

It's definitely one of those hug-your-friends moments,

like folks who just remember that.

Mike was only 35.

So yeah.

Yeah, R.A.P. Mike.

You asshole.

He's such an asshole, but such a good guy.

Actual, more positive than you said.

Well, it depends on your outlook on things.

This one was sent to me by Fogel.

But a sneeze that kind of come out of nowhere,

I would say for most people was...

So what's the fastest production car in the world?

What's the record for it?

Who holds it?

Or who would you say holds it?

Production car?

Yeah.

Come and sit.

Possibly.

Anybody else spring to mind?

There was that S.C. Artura or something?

Oh, I, the S.S.C.

I don't know if that's an act.

Does that kind of as a production car?

I don't know.

I think that was the one.

Was that the one that didn't, like it said?

It did, and then it didn't, then it did again.

Brigadies, another one people would probably think of as well.

Nope.

It's the Yang Wang.

Of course it is.

Yes.

So the manufacturer that sounds either like a racist

penis joke or a noodle shop.

But generally this thing is an EV, Chinese built EV production

car that hit 308 mile an hour in Germany on a test track,

which is like fucking insane.

Yeah.

So that's to say that the mad thing about this is it's

called the U9 Extreme and it's not some prototype.

It's actually a production car from the sub-brand

owned by BYD, who's probably the more commonly known

Chinese brand, specs on it.

Then it's four motors, one of each wheel.

It's got torque factor in that probably works faster

than my brand does.

A 1200 volt system at 1300 horsepower

and a fucking production car.

Yeah.

The other side of things in this kind of was what happened

with Brigadies as well when they held this record was

they'd specially built tires to withstand almost 500 kilometers

an hour.

Active suspension called the Dysu X,

which apparently.

Dysun.

Dysun, yes.

Drive at 300 miles an hour, Dysun.

Fuck yeah, exactly.

But it's basically the same as like Active Arrow,

but Active Suspension where it'll drop the car

at higher speeds to keep it more stable as well.

And the best thing about it is though,

it's a good looking car.

It looks like a hypercar.

Okay.

When you look at it, and this is,

I find this very stereotypical of Chinese vehicles,

is it looks like an amalgamation of a few different cars.

The cars that you already know.

Hi.

The front end looks like a McLaren.

Kind of like a pillar to C pillar,

looks very Lamborghini-ish.

And then round the back is a little bit arid.

But it is genuinely a really good looking car.

Like if you slapped like any other brand,

manufacturer's badge on it,

you probably wouldn't think it looked that out of place.

But yeah, it's weird.

It's just like, because this came out of nowhere,

because there was no big fan for about it

or the build up to it, they just went out and did it.

And it's almost like the quiet EV takeover.

You know, they were just like,

walk in, fucking set their time sheet down,

walk back out again and be like, there we go lads.

What's I'm sure somewhere there's a lot

of Bugatti engineers are probably fucking crying.

Maybe stuff's nice, just mad.

You can't compete with them.

You can't, that's the thing.

Whether you like it or not, that's it.

And they're not only like competing at the top,

they're blitzing it.

That's what the fucking mad thing is.

The gang went from being a never heard of them brand

to a world record holder overnight.

And whatever you think of EVs,

you kind of have to respect that like,

you know, if some other manufacturer come out

with that, like a brand new manufacturer

with a fucking ice vehicle,

you'd be like, holy shit, that's unreal.

Yeah, so no fair play to them.

Do you have any other new news?

I was just reading an article there about

Tolman, new Tolman engineering.

Nope.

I think we talked about in the podcast before,

205 GTI Resto mode.

They're big into kind of that era, of course,

but they're launching kind of an official

Group B restoration program

for people who have these homologation cars

either in a collection or just lying in their garage

or whatever.

And they're launching a dedicated service

for restoring and re-commissioning those cars

because obviously keeping on top of maintenance

and stuff for those is difficult.

And our cars aren't even like to that level

of weirdness and specialness and uniqueness

that the Group B cars would be,

but even we find it difficult to

take a hold of parts sometimes.

And that's it.

You're kind of like when you own something,

I got to go, what would I do with this?

Yeah.

And if something breaks,

if there's something bespoke,

then you're into the weird shit.

So I thought that was quite interesting.

Oh, definitely.

So if you happen to have one of those cars,

first of all, come be friends with us.

For a play.

It's like, have a look at Tolman.

Another bit of borderline science fiction

is imagine your EV catches fire,

you'd be delighted.

But like not just a wee bit of smoke,

but a full on like lithium ion field

and inferno the way they do.

And then the car literally just throws

the battery pack out the back.

And it's like, fuck you humans, not my problem.

So the battery just escapes.

Eject your C-Rocos.

Some manufacturers are actually testing this.

So the idea is that like in a thermal runaway event,

ejecting the battery protects the passengers

and stops the fire from spreading.

So you're basically driving down the motorway

and then there's suddenly this fucking

flaming battery in the middle of the road.

So as I said, like it says in like a concept,

Hyundai, BMW and like a lot of the startups

are all prototyping this.

And you're trying to have it,

the battery pack is mounted underneath.

So obviously everything's secure and fixed as usual.

And an accident that's not just going to fall out

or anything, but that it can also detach from the cabin.

Eat.

So yeah, pretty much.

Well, it would have to have something

not just to like disengage and drop out,

but have pushed it away from the vehicle.

Which obviously goes into like explosives

and stuff like that to propel.

I would say there's a few very stressed out engineers

dealing with that.

And like with me working in test environments like that

on not necessarily automotive,

but other transport industries,

you know, I see a lot of testing in the background

and I know it can be stressful

and nothing explodes for us.

So like, yeah, well, it shouldn't explode.

But yeah, it's weird.

Like it's obviously to reduce risk to passengers

and first responders and stuff here on it.

But it's a weird one for me in that

does it know there's other vehicles around it?

That there's no other people around it?

Yeah.

That you could be like on the side of the

like walking down the footpath.

This thing goes on fire and it eats the battery

at you like that's a strange one.

Obviously there'd be smarter people than me

working behind this,

but I'd just like to know all the details behind it.

It's a trolley problem, isn't it?

You save the occupants of the vehicle

and potentially kill a passerby or?

Yeah.

And it's making all those calculations

based on like age and who the people are

and all this shit.

Yeah, that's that's one of your driving

alongside an EV someday and be like

sider in the battery pack.

But like, no, she fucking stay where we are.

I think this is the last bit of news I have.

It is but B star wheels.

So B star make these fall into this category

that I have this moral dilemma about

are the replicas or not?

Yes.

So the replicas of older wheels

for the Americans, that's not like the RML wheels.

This is a make replicas of older wheels in bigger sizes

to suit more modern stances.

So I think the first one they done was the BBS RAs

that came on Mark II Golfs

and they offered them in a 16 by 8, I want to say.

Great looking wheel, really nice.

Our friend, Jenny Wine, he has some for his car.

Great looking wheel.

Then they did

all the other did

say brings from the Grado.

I feel like they've done another one.

I can't remember another.

I think I'm also getting mixed up with RML.

Yeah.

But their latest offering now is a copy of the Beetle

RSI wheels, which so the Beetle RSI was a

24 valve VR six part four wheel drive.

So basically an R32 running gear in 2001

to Beetle with a wider body kit and the wheels to suit.

So they look a bit like standard Mark 4 R32 wheels,

but like deeper centers, they're also originally

18 by 9, E.T. 10.

So they're wide and they sit out.

The problem is Mark 4 owners like the R32 owners

go mad for them because they look like restos.

But yes.

And they're they're sort of like that ultimate

OEM plus wheel for them.

But they don't fit.

No, they're too they're too wide.

I've seen them with mad camber.

They just do not work.

And the maddening thing about it is they're so close.

Yeah. They're like if you took five

mil off the back pad, they'd probably be fine.

So these are offered instead of being the originals,

which are 18 by 9s.

These are 19 by a half.

Yeah. So a bit bigger and they're more offset friendly.

So instead of being E.T. 10, I think there's three

offsets are offered.

There's something like I think it's like a 20,

a 30 and a 45.

And they're also offering them for five by 100

or five by 112, depending on which way you want them drilled.

So that puts you into like Mark 5 territory,

Mark 6 territory, the New Year shaped Beatles again,

because they're five by 112.

They're making them in Italy.

So they're not some cheap Chinese shite,

presumably one of the big Italian manufacturers

is also like casting them for them.

I think they're around 1600 quid for a set of them,

brand new, which seems all right.

Like yeah, especially for big wheels like that.

That's it. Yeah. And if they're a decent quality,

this should be good.

Um, I know a few people have sent me

because they have a promo shot of them,

like a render on an R32, but also on a T.T.

And I was like, and both of them look cool.

They look good. Yeah.

I do. So by a set between us and swap, swap around.

I do like them. I have to say that they do look good.

Yeah, I do too.

It is that thing of, are they fakes?

Are they reps?

But that's the thing.

If they never made them in that size.

Yeah, it's not like buying a fake L.M.

Yeah.

That you can buy that size or yeah, yeah.

They're kind of a separate thing.

Yeah.

It's just to some people, it's sacrilege.

To some people, it just makes sense.

And I'm somewhere in the middle

and I can't make up my mind

because I had never been able to make up my mind.

I'm certainly not shitting on them.

And if somebody had them, I wouldn't be like,

you're shitting on them about them because they look great.

No, I hope not because, you know.

I should certainly hope not.

I think they're doing a pre-order on them as well.

So I think if you do want to set, you need to email them

to show that you're interested and speak to them about it.

So there's anybody out there that fits a bill of flat or in here,

if it's a bill of flat, certainly drop them an email.

Beast our wheels.

But that is me out of news.

Cool.

You got any YouTubes?

I do indeed.

YouTube, I've got usual start off with Stanceworks.

Let us one there a few days ago.

The F40, they've dropped the V12.

So he is a V12 engine going into it obviously

from one of the super fast Ferraris.

But he also has a wrecked V12 that he had vapor blasted

that he's using as a mock-up engine.

It's quite smart because no point in wrecking your good one.

So drop that in through the back window,

has it set, basically mounted.

And the main problem is the position of that engine

is tied into where the output flanges

on his gearbox are gonna be.

Cause they have to obviously be in line

with the black wheels.

You don't want it too far forward

because it's cutting into your cabin space.

And the problem is the F40 originally was a V8.

This is now a V12.

So you have another two cylinders length pushing forward

and then he goes into making door bars and stuff.

And this is like,

the Stanceworks building this,

this is not gonna be everybody's cup of tea

cause it's slow, it's detailed.

It's not the usual YouTube format of snappy.

But I love it.

I love the in-depthness of it.

And it ticks a massive box for me, which is good.

Very well.

It's still not gonna be as long as Binky.

So, like, realistically.

Well, that's the thing,

we'll actually fucking finish it.

That's the thing.

The other one that falls into that category

from what me as spoke about before is Sarah Enchund.

Same kind of thing where her in-depth

doesn't cut anything out.

High long-term builds.

Yeah.

And she's currently doing a rest in modern CRX

with a B-swap using like,

Integra type R suspension components and brakes

and like that OEM plus rest in mod kind of thing.

Which is pretty cool.

Another one, I-

Sorry to interrupt.

Yeah.

Did you see Ryan Cunningham bonus civic?

Did indeed.

An EK-9.

Looks super cool.

I had the pleasure of working on one years ago.

Simon, I haven't had one.

That was a cool little car too.

Probably one of the rarest.

At the time, probably one of the rarest vehicles

we had in the workshop at that point.

What was we doing?

We lowered it, didn't we?

Yeah.

I can't remember if I put coilovers in

or if I put springs on it.

That was a good week.

I put the headers in it later.

Oh no, that was-

Oh no, sorry, that was the-

The EG.

EG.

I had the white EK-9.

Yeah, it was weird because I remember being on one of them.

We went somewhere to buy another car.

Probably.

Out towards Scarva.

Them two Gypsies.

I remember thinking to myself,

fuck me, I'm on an EK-9 type R

because they were jabbing port only

and they were incredibly rare.

And I don't even know how Simon ended up with that car.

I don't even think he had it that long either.

No.

The other one then,

I dropped in out of this channel

occasionally as English guys drop works

that do a lot of mirror suspension hydraulics.

They had a C-class Merc.

It's the first of the C-class,

which is the one that come out after the 190.

I can't remember the model code,

Stefan would know it.

Stefan would tell us, yeah.

But they bagged it with basically

all parts they bought off Amazon.

So it's all like Chinese management,

the bags are Chinese

and because they're on a separate shock

and spring all around,

he was just able to buy four bags

and modify the standard shocks.

But it was interesting,

done very much on the cheap

and it was cool.

Obviously he's a good fabricator,

but he didn't do anything really

your average person with a welder couldn't do.

And a very short time frame.

And it was pretty cool to see

like you can build something

it might be not absolutely mint,

maybe need a bit of paint here and there,

but like you can build something very cheap

and cool if you really want it.

Yeah, functional.

Yeah, that was it.

And the last one I have is Garage 54,

which is, I can only describe us

a bunch of mad Russian bastards.

They've done some weird things

in this channel over the years

and this one is no exception,

although it was a bit more informative than usual.

Right.

So they were showing you how to bleed breaks

and the different ways to do it

and how it affected the way

the bleeding operation went.

So they built, essentially built

a very basic caliper from per specs

that you could see what was happening inside of.

Then had a pedal with a master cylinder

going to the caliper on the bench.

So you could see then the operation

of how everything went.

So the traditional way

that I was always taught to bleed breaks

and I think most people were was

you pump the shit out of the brake pedal

five or six times to kind of goes hard.

Yeah, hold your pressure on.

Someone opens the blade, nipple.

So the floor comes out,

hopefully it comes out on as little large as you can.

And then close it up and repeat.

I from the last five or six years

have kind of took a slightly different approach to it,

especially when doing break lines

where you need fluid right through.

I tend to top up the ball,

open the blade, nipple on the caliper

and just let it run.

So don't pump anything.

Just open it and let it gravity feed through.

And with doing that,

I have found it takes a little bit longer to do,

but I just usually fuck off and do something else

for 10 minutes.

And then when you actually do go to bleed it, then

it's a lot quicker.

Most of they are

and nine times out of 10,

there's nothing to bleed out afterwards.

The other way then.

And so when he tried it,

the traditional way on the bench,

you could see that the rapid pumping of the pedal

like area of the brake fluid.

And then so the air in the caliper,

instead of being one pocket of air broke up

into multiple pockets.

And it was harder to get those multiple pockets out.

And you only had to wait for it to settle back

into one pocket and then bleed it again.

He then gravity bled it the way I do.

And it worked.

No problem.

He just said it was a bit slow, but it worked.

And the other way was rather than rapid pumping,

you have someone open the bleed nipple,

you push the pedal to the floor slowly,

then they close the bleed nipple

and you just let it back up again.

And then rinse and repeat that again.

And that seemed to be the-

The happy medium?

The happy medium between the two a bit quicker,

but a better result.

And funny, the way I would have said

there's the traditional way,

seemed to be the shittiest way to do it.

But to go back to them being absolutely mad bastards,

they then fitted the caliper to a car

and took it out on the road.

And I was telling-

One of these plastic see-through calipers?

Yes.

So I was telling Stefan this and he was like,

was this a closed road?

And I was like, no.

There's a road outside their shop.

Like they're meeting cars on the road

and they've a GoPro under the car

just pointing at the caliper.

And I think it's maybe the third or fourth time

he puts a foot in the brake.

The caliper just explodes.

And he's no brakes.

And you're like, yep, that sounds a bit right.

Nice, yep.

So if you wanna check it out again, check Garage 54.

It's an interesting watch.

It's very interesting.

And check out the rest of the channel

because it's how they're not dead is beyond me.

Topical.

So yeah, that's me for the YouTubes.

Cool.

Do you have anything else to talk about?

I do not.

No, nor me.

So we'll go to questions then.

Go to questions.

Let's see what we have.

So we still have the one from Eden from a few weeks back,

but all the way for Nigel for that one.

Yeah, that's too good to fuck around with.

We'll start here, we've got Conor Old.

Conor Old says, what other car manufacturer

would you choose if it wasn't Vag?

I'm gonna give Jenny what I think my other answer

would be is Honda.

I've always said that would be a Honda sweet spot.

My first car was almost a Honda, a Honda beat.

Only I had the deal done.

I was ironically, I was swapping a Honda ATC 70 trike for it.

This guy had a collection of stuff that was incredible

and he really wanted an ATC and he couldn't get one.

And he had two beats and he was willing to do a swap

and I could not get insurance on it.

Being a Jap import, two seater convertible at 17

in Northern Ireland in 2006 was just not gonna work.

And to me, Honda's like the Japanese Volkswagen like it's.

They are, but are you considering,

are you only considering fun cars and not your daily car?

Cause we're Vag, we're all Vag everything.

What are you gonna run as your daily in the Honda camp?

EP3 type R.

What am I gonna run as my sensible daily

to drive hundreds of miles in?

2.2 TDI Accord.

I guess.

See this is difficult for me cause the obvious answer

is Vauxhall cause it allows me some novus,

but I'm not gonna drive a fucking Mocha or some shit

like modern Vauxhall.

No, but the equivalent of that probably in the Vauxhall

side of things is like an insignia state,

like whatever the fastest TDI,

you know, the four by four turbo,

one's no good to you for fuel, but what else?

Try to think what other stuff I'm into.

I used to be massive into Vauxhall when I was younger,

used to rally them.

Fuck it, alpha, I'm gonna go alpha.

So your entire collection is gonna be alpha?

Yeah.

Brave, green, rust, and it's like the only manufacturer

that's rustier and shittier electrics in Volkswagen.

Yeah, we're well used, it's fine.

I don't know.

None of my cars work anyway, apart from my daily.

There you go.

Currently.

The R32 just all works, but.

And I can have my journey.

I have two actually.

I have the four cheese for fun.

Mm-hmm.

British racing green.

Almost out of those telly doll type wheels.

The standard ones, the 19s are coming on them,

like the big ones.

No, like rotor form type ones.

Oh, like something that looks kind of OEM, but bigger.

And I'd have the diesel one for daily duties,

and then I'd probably have a one for seven,

and some of the other old, cool ones.

One of the 155s, like the turn cars, the squirrel ones.

I nearly bought one of them to rally back in the day,

years ago, and it turned out to be an absolute fucking

rot box, which was.

No, you shocked me.

No surprise there, like.

Auto Creek then, Renzo says,

now that we're nearing the end of 2025,

what are your plans to visit the US in 2026?

Probably exactly the same as 2025.

Yeah, more than 2025.

I haven't heard what shows are running this year,

and what's going on for next year,

but Helen will be a definite,

and then whatever the second one is after that,

we'll try and work it out.

Oh, back to Conor old.

He says, why is modern vague stuff so, so bad?

I don't know.

I wonder, I wonder, is other,

like our other modern manufacturers as bad?

Cause wait, don't see them.

Scooters are still okay.

Oh, these are still okay.

I assume Porsches are still okay, I don't have one.

It's just Volkswagen really, isn't it?

You think so?

At the minute.

I don't touch enough modern stuff to know that's my problem.

Although I will say you're superb

for being dreamt all over the country,

and just getting, like it gets everything that it needs

in regards to service, but it doesn't get any,

you're not standing polished, and they're waxing,

they're, oh, what a great car.

And like underneath it's in really good condition

compared to.

Oh, here's what I didn't mention and knew with me.

Got a new bonnet for the superb.

Oh, you did?

Yeah.

Yeah, boy.

That's nothing, that car.

No more rusty snout.

You have a rusty bonnet,

but the rest of the car is not.

No.

There's no rust anywhere.

Even like running the back arches

or easy get stuff like that, nothing.

It's very strange.

It's such a good car.

I'm still convinced the front ends

when painted at some point.

I think it has to have been.

Aye, cause it's stone chippy like fuck.

But apart from that, honestly, it's so good.

Oh, Mark, new poke, new love all the way from Canada.

This is, any winter plans?

Is it getting cold over there?

It's been pretty mild.

No, it's pretty mild at the moment.

It's been pretty wet, but it's been pretty mild.

It's certainly not getting as cold as Canada.

I'll tell you that.

No.

Yeah, with a bit of a storm there in the last two weeks

going, Titanic doves are supposed to be on.

But yeah, it's just cold.

Like if you want to go Celsius,

if anybody wants to convert it,

like it's today or during the day,

it was like 13, 14 degrees.

So it's not bad.

No, it's mild enough.

Winter plans.

I'm going to sort the boot build in the Mark II

and hopefully get the front wings painted,

the wider front wings that I bought over a year ago now.

And get them on.

And then I can potentially run a full set of break pads

in the front, which would be nice.

Just those stance life things.

Check out my, how your donor break pads are getting on.

Yeah, I was checking out Lee's R32 break pads

to see if they were worn down enough yet

that I could have a spare set

because I can't run a full set

in the outside of the fucking R32 breaks in the Mark II.

I think that's my winter plans.

You talked to me earlier, didn't you?

Yeah, re-jig the garage,

organize a few things a bit better

and start pulling the inside of the R32 apart

is the plans at the moment.

And then hopefully rebuild it all in time for spring.

Nice.

That's always an important part.

Yeah.

Dublin V-Dubb says,

can we sort a Reload podcast USA trip?

We probably had the most Reload podcast one this year

for Helen when Nigel came with us.

Yeah, we had a full.

And Richie as well, who's a stand-in guest.

He is.

The guest speaker.

So it's, could you imagine a massive group

of ones from here?

Oh, God.

Be fucking nuts.

That would be a good crack.

Murray.d91, if car, oh God,

fuck, he's challenged Jack here.

If cars had a biscuit equivalence,

what car would be what biscuit?

Oh, right.

Okay.

Mark III Golf would be like.

A cat.

No, do you know when you leave like?

Wafery rust.

That's what I was going to say.

When you leave like one of those

Macado pink wafer biscuits out

and it goes kind of soft and soggy

and just disintegrates.

That's a Mark III Golf.

No, I would say that's more like a timeout

or a Kit Kat or something.

It's flakes or rust.

No.

You touch it and it starts to like crumble.

Yeah.

No, you're probably right.

What's the hobnob?

What's the most hardcore?

Never gonna die cars.

Mark IV Golf non-turbo diesel.

There's not enough moving parts for it to go wrong.

That thing will outlive everyone.

Yeah, or maybe an old Land Rover.

Yeah.

Yeah, probably an old Land Rover is the hobnob

with the fucking, the car world.

Just the hardest bastard ever.

I'm now struggling to think of biscuits.

I know.

I think somebody as far as me would think of biscuits

or a dad, you see, I don't eat biscuits now.

Oh, right.

Just the devil biscuits.

They're so good.

I see, what are they?

McFaddie's Chocolate Digestives with Caramel.

So what's that, a car equivalent of?

The most delicious car in the world.

I'm gonna say not all for my would you do.

I was waiting on it.

There you go.

You can't resist.

It's the Caramel Chocolate Digestives

for me at the moment.

Why is every, sorry, small pop underscore hypothesis.

Jeremy says, why is every mesh wheel a BBSRS

and why are used BBS for Gazis getting so expensive?

I don't even know what those are.

They're so expensive.

What was the first one?

Why are there every mesh wheel a BBSRS?

It's probably the most common.

Cause you have like all the manufacturers over the years

like work done, like some sort of a kind of what,

what the model of it is.

But there's work ones that look like.

Like a basket weave kind of.

Yeah.

There's one that's like a VSXX or something.

It's like the big one.

And then the smaller ones and SSR done like a mesh wheel.

And yeah, like everybody talks about who ripped off who

and like they're all.

Yeah.

It's like Lenzo, whatever.

It's like the chicken or the egg,

you know what come first kind of thing.

Jake Logue says.

It's another best good question.

No, he says just wonder where the snap on man goes on holiday

after seeing Stefan is it Dubai?

Maybe.

Yeah.

Probably is.

Yep.

He gets suckered in.

VWDunner underscore DB Deleys says roll of tape

and spray paint video to bring back old badges.

Genius.

Yes.

He sent this in and I actually missed it

and I was watching it today.

This guy basically like sprays paint on a car badge

and then rolls like a roll of tape across it.

That seems like restore it.

I can't find the original video.

And I don't know if it's genius or absolutely fucking stupid.

Yeah.

So I don't know, but if it works, it's absolutely genius

because like we've tried to restore badges before.

It hasn't gone well.

Disaster like, yeah.

MAV90G60.

Danny says, is it good luck to take your first drink of Guinness

and it land in between the open part of the G

on the Guinness printed glass

or is it just an American made up thing?

It's splitting the G in it.

Yes.

So this is something that just reared its ugly head.

What in the last five plus years wouldn't?

Yeah.

Guinness here has got very popular with young ones.

And I think the...

I'm going to sound like an old man,

but I think the old techie talkies and...

Like the popular like tech talk and stuff like that

has driven this thing.

It's probably something people have done for years

is how pub tricks and fucking around

and that kind of thing.

I've never heard of it being lucky.

No.

But then I think the Americans just always assume

everything we do here is that this is our luck.

I also get in the old tin foil hat on.

I think it's basically something Guinness push

because if you're getting someone to drink a third of their pint

in their first go, you're drinking a lot more

and they're selling you a lot more.

He also says,

PS, I can still smell the beer on you from roots.

And I was like, yes, so can I.

I got to wash that t-shirt twice.

I knew how to wash Stephens twice as well

and he didn't even get as much on him.

So one of those fuckers,

one of them was drinking an IPA

because that's what I could smell.

The PBRs were fine because they're like fucking, yeah.

Yeah, I can still smell it.

I think the fact that I also laughed, breathed in, sucked

something up my nose didn't help either.

And then lastly, we have VDubboy, Nigel Lamont.

Hey Nigel.

He says, hola from Esfania.

Conorly, we are year and year getting road taxed

out of older cars in brackets.

That's one reason I sold my Mark V.

Put that.

Suck out Ritchie.

Put that evil under Ritchie.

Scenario for you, which we may be forced into

with EU policy, et cetera.

What would your hot hatch choice be

from the past decade from a German brand

and then a choice from non-German?

PS, car market place in Monorca is a wild ride, LOL.

Sorry.

And then he says car market or Facebook market place.

And then he says year on year, Jeepers,

I should check what I wrote on a beer emoji.

Hot hatch choice in the past decade.

So what's that from 2015 onwards?

German brand.

Well, what's that?

That lands you into genuinely.

Mark VII.

Mark VII GTI performance pack.

I've always wanted one.

I don't do enough miles to justify one.

I have too many fun cars, older stuff to have.

I have that as my fun car.

It just wouldn't be.

But like I drove Matt's 2016 one,

which was brand new year at the time.

He was kind enough to lend me when I needed a car.

And I absolutely fell in love with it.

I was like, holy fuck, this is...

I mean, he got thrown.

I just clipped board into the max there as well.

It's a pretty fucking cool car.

Actually, yeah, that's a good point.

I would have that over the GTI performance pack,

yeah.

Mark VII R is also a good option.

Yeah.

For the German stuff, like...

BMW don't really...

I suppose you have a one series.

It doesn't really do much for me.

I don't like the new one series.

I like the older one.

The VAT-135i, which I think is a rapid car.

I like the V-copes actually.

I like a one series coupe.

Yes.

But it...

He says hatchback.

It has to be a hatch.

Okay.

What other German stuff have you got?

The set stuff is horrible looking.

It's all corporate now.

I just can't deal with it.

Skoda don't really have a hatch.

No, up to the VRS.

They were kind of...

I mean, technically my superb is a hatch, but...

Howdy.

It's not a hot hatch.

Those S3s are a fast car, but they're not...

I mean, I would have an RS3, so...

Looks wise for me.

They're just a bit meh.

You know, it's...

We've been in Tufti's RS3.

The hatchback one is a rapid car.

It looks good, but I prefer the look of the club sport over it.

And then non-German hatch.

In the last 10 years.

What age are those, Megane?

I was just about to say, more likely one of the...

Megane, like the rental sport type ones.

But I don't know.

I couldn't even tell you how old those are.

Oh.

Hyundai.

Oh, shit.

Yeah, like the i30Ns.

Yeah.

That's got to be the pack.

Yeah.

So, like, there's the 2017, 2018...

...real Megane sports, like the RS, like that shape.

They're a cool car.

I would not have it in orange though.

It's fucking horrific.

They're a great driving car.

They're fast.

I don't know what they're like to live with, reliability-wise,

but those quick Meganes are always a really good driving car.

Yeah.

And they sort of land you nicely in that timeframe

from what he's talking about.

That or one of the i30Ns probably would be a great choice.

That's weird because, like, as much as I'm in the cars,

I'm massively into German and Volkswagen, clearly,

because I was struggling there to think of,

you know, something that fits that bill, which is it.

But, yeah.

You'd probably be in the same camp as that, would you?

Well, one of Honda or any of the Japanese brands got in that kind of...

Honda of the new type R's out the civics,

but to me, they're more of a saloon nearly now.

Yes, they're technically still in the hatchback thing,

but, like, to me, a hatchback is a traditional hatchback

as opposed to a fastback, you know.

See, the problem is so many manufacturers

have just gone to crossovers and stuff,

and they don't have actual cutters anymore.

Yeah.

To me, well, yes, that technically is a hatchback,

and the back left's on the Civic.

It's a fastback or a saloon.

Yeah.

It's not a traditional...

Roundback hatchback.

Yeah.

Yeah, where it's, like, cutoff kind of thing.

I've been interested to see that...

Polo GTIs, I do like those also.

I was just about to say that

because I was looking at my own polo picture of it there and I.

I really like those.

I don't think, like, a genie,

I wouldn't have one over Nigel's Club sport, per se,

but for an everyday car compared to the...

Yeah.

For the eight to 10 grand saving over a golf brand new,

it's a lot of car for the money.

It definitely is.

Yeah, definitely.

But, like, the STFs and stuff, they're all gone now.

Yeah, and they don't...

Okay, you get one in the 10-year bracket, but...

And they don't interest me.

It's the same with the Ford stuff.

The older Ford stuff, yes.

Yeah.

But even they can do the focuses and stuff,

but that year of stuff doesn't really do it for me.

No.

I would love a Mark-on-Fox RS,

but after that, I'm kind of like, meh.

It sort of fades out.

The one after that, I really like,

and then after that, they just kind of tell off for me.

What?

You like the ST, the Mark II ST.

And the RS, yeah.

So, the Ford buffets are going to be out for me,

but I would call a Mark-on-Fox RS.

That's a Mark-on.

Then they weren't the RS, then they were the ST.

I would call that a Mark II.

Did they not do an RS in that?

No, that was an ST.

And then they went back to RS for what I would call the Mark III.

They also don't have an ST in that as well.

Did they?

Yeah.

I also thought they don't have a Mark II.

But, see, that car is your time with the RS one.

The ST one was like the orange.

Yes.

So, the shape after that, that's an RS,

is really a facelift of that car.

It looks like it was crashed into Halford.

Yes.

There, I'm pretty sure that's the same shell,

but they're facelifted.

Yeah.

They're like pre- and post-facelift,

but you could be right then that they didn't do an RS model

in the pre-facelift, say.

I don't know.

Yeah, because Top Gear had that.

That's my understanding of it.

The Asbo Orange one.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

Yeah.

I like them.

Can't see me ever wanting to own one.

No.

But I do like the Mark I.

I thought the Mark I's were so cool.

I love them.

And then the shape after that again,

which would probably be the more recent one,

where they went back to a four-cylinder.

I just had no real interest in that.

But yeah, that would be my picks.

Fair enough.

Okay.

That's also out of questions.

Yep.

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and as always, folks.

Yes, absolutely.

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So what's the most boring biscuit you can think of?

Like a rich tea.

Or a plain digest.

Plain digestive or rich tea biscuit.

So what's the most boring car you can think of?

A golf plus 1.6 diesel.

Aye.

That's the rich tea of the car world.

And then I think a kind of Vauxhall Viva.

They're like a 70s kind of car, aren't they?

I was going to say, do you mean the new one or the old one?

No.

Never mean the new one.

Because they all come in like browns, beiges and stuff.

They're a bourbon.

Why are they bourbon?

They're like rectangular and brown.

True.

What's a custard cream?

Custard cream for me is one of those ones that I never think of.

And then when I try it again, I like it.

And I'm like, fuck where have these been all my life?

So what's that car?

You forget that they're good.

Yeah.

Mark IV GTI.

Yeah.

Because it always gets kind of overlooked.

It's just whatever.

Yeah.

We're going to have a very Volkswagen based on this, aren't we?

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Is it Twix or Biscuit?

Are we saying yes or no?

Why?

Is it a chocolate bar or a biscuit?

No, it's Biscuit.

Right.

What's a Twix?

That's hard to know.

Twix is pretty much up there.

That's going to be a subjective one for what your

high ranking car is.

It's kind of soft in the middle.

Oh, I know what it is.

It's one of those 1.9 or two liter diesels that had the fucking

porous heads or whatever that.

Hi.

What's your favorite biscuit?

The caramel chocolate digestives.

Nice you've already done that.

Genuinely, I live a very simple life.

And one of my favorite all-time biscuits is a penguin.

Oh, I like a penguin.

Mark III Golf.

It's the penguin of cars.

It's my favorite car.

What about, so what are like the sports car biscuits?

A little bit sleek.

I think the sort of biscuits are special occasion biscuits.

A little bit high.

Viscount.

Viscount, yeah.

The biscuits are my house put out when she was like,

oh, we have guests coming around.

We tend for about Viscount.

The foil biscuits.

That minty goodness on the inside.

What about a German biscuit?

Oh, no, you're in the different category now,

hero, because that's like bakery material.

I'd fucking slaughter my family for a German biscuit,

a good one.

Or an empire biscuit if you're Scottish.

Or a German biscuit if you're correct.

Oh, no, that's, yeah, Mark III Golf is God tier.

That's fucking German biscuits.

That's a German biscuit.

So what's a penguin then?

Your second favorite car?

Mark II.

They look a little bit like a penguin.

They're square enough to be a penguin yet.

God, I love German biscuits.

I can't think of anything beyond the German biscuit now.

Time to wrap this up.

Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

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