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Volkswagen Golf R

The Volkswagen Golf R is a fast version of the regular Golf car. The Mark VI refers to the specific generation of this model that was made between 2010 and 2014.

Car

Nissan R32

The Nissan Skyline is a sporty car that is loved by car fans for its speed and cool features. It's famous in racing and movies, making it a popular topic among car enthusiasts.

Car

Audi TT RS

The Audi TT RS is a fast sports car made by Audi. It has a strong engine and is built for people who love driving quickly and enjoy a stylish design.

Term

performance pack

A performance pack is a special set of upgrades you can add to a car to make it faster and handle better. It usually includes better brakes and suspension.

Term

factory map

A factory map is the original settings that control how a car's engine runs. It helps determine how much power the engine makes and how it behaves.

Car

Audi Rs

The Audi RS e-tron GT is a fast electric car that looks really nice and is packed with high-tech features. It's great for people who want a powerful car without using gas.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. More horsepower usually means the car can go faster and accelerate quicker.

Term

brakes

Brakes are what help a car slow down or stop. Performance brakes are stronger and work better when driving fast or on a track.

Part

Olin's suspension

Olin's suspension is a type of car suspension that helps improve how a car handles and rides on the road. It's designed for better performance, especially in sports cars.

Car

R32

The R32 is a sporty version of the Volkswagen Golf, known for being fast and fun to drive. It has a strong engine and special features that make it handle better than regular Golfs.

Car

TT

The Audi TT is a small sports car that looks cool and is fun to drive. It's known for its unique shape and sporty features.

Car

Volkswagen R32

The Volkswagen R32 is a sporty version of the Golf car. It has a strong engine and can handle well in different driving conditions, making it fun to drive.

Term

miles per gallon (MPG)

Miles per gallon (MPG) tells you how far a car can go on one gallon of gas. The higher the number, the better the car is at using fuel, which saves money and is better for the environment.

Car

Volkswagen Passat

The Volkswagen Passat is a family car that is roomy and comfortable to drive. It's a good choice for people who need space for passengers and luggage.

Term

four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive means that power from the engine goes to all four wheels of the car. This helps the car grip the road better, especially in bad weather or off-road.

Car

Volkswagen Bora

The Volkswagen Bora is a small car that is similar to the Golf but has a trunk. It's known for being comfortable and a good value, making it a nice option for people who drive a lot.

Part

G60 arches

G60 arches are parts of the body of some Volkswagen cars that allow for bigger tires. They help make the car look better and perform better.

Car

Volkswagen Golf Mk2

The Volkswagen Golf Mk2 is a version of the Golf that was made in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's popular for its sturdy design and can be modified easily.

Term

boost

Boost is the extra air pressure that helps an engine produce more power. It's usually created by a device called a turbocharger or supercharger.

Term

TDI

TDI is a type of diesel engine made by Volkswagen that uses a turbocharger to help it run better and use less fuel.

Part

diverter valve

A diverter valve is a part in turbo engines that helps control the air pressure. It keeps the engine running smoothly and protects the turbo from damage.

Term

Naturally aspirated means the engine gets air from the atmosphere without any extra help from turbochargers or superchargers. This can make the engine feel smooth but might not make as much power as turbocharged engines.

Term

N75

The N75 is a part in turbocharged cars that helps control how much power the turbo gives to the engine. It makes sure the engine runs smoothly and efficiently.

Term

big turbo

A big turbo is a larger part that helps the engine get more air, which can make the car go faster. It often needs other changes to work properly.

Part

Brembo calipers

Brembo calipers are special parts used in car brakes that help stop the car more effectively. They are often found in sports cars because they work really well under high performance.

Car

Porsche 911

The Porsche 911 is a well-known sports car that many people recognize for its unique shape and speed.

Car

Land Rover Range Rover

The Land Rover Range Rover is a fancy SUV that can drive on tough terrains like mountains and mud. It's popular because it's both comfortable and powerful, making it a favorite for people who want a stylish car that can handle any adventure.

Car

BMW E36

The BMW E36 is a model of the 3 Series, which is a line of compact cars from BMW. It was made in the 1990s and is known for being fun to drive and stylish.

Car

Mazda Miata Or Mx5

The Mazda MX-5, or Miata, is a small sports car that is really fun to drive. It's light and has a convertible top, making it great for sunny days.

Car

Mercedes-Benz 190E

The Mercedes-Benz 190E is a small luxury car that was made a long time ago. It's known for being well-built and comfortable, making it a good choice for people who want a classy ride.

Car

Audi RS2

The Audi RS2 is a fast and powerful version of a station wagon made by Audi. It's known for its all-wheel drive and sporty performance, making it popular among car enthusiasts.

Car

Rover ST1

The Rover ST1 is a car made by Rover in 1981. It's a luxury sports car that stands out because of its design and strong engine.

Car

Zenvo ST1

The Zenvo ST1 is a super-fast car from Denmark that is very rare. It's designed to be really powerful and looks different from most cars, making it special for car lovers.

Car

Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is a classic American car that is known for being fast and stylish. It has a strong engine and a sporty look, which makes it a favorite among car enthusiasts and people who love driving.

Car

Volkswagen Jetta

The Volkswagen Jetta is a small car that is good for daily driving. It's known for being reliable and saving on gas, which makes it a smart choice for people who need a car for work or school.

Car

Lamborghini Sian

The Lamborghini Sian is a super-fast car that uses both gas and electricity to go really fast. It's very rare and looks amazing, making it a dream car for many people.

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Hello, hello, and welcome back to Reload Codpast.

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Codpast.

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We're having fish supper later.

That's fuck I wish.

Right, we'll start that again.

We're having delicious pulled pork, so shut up.

Right, we'll just leave that in.

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Leave it in.

You're back, baby.

Welcome back to the Reload podcast there, set it right.

So after a hiatus, is that it?

Aye.

Oh, it's probably nearly two months.

We're all together again.

The Trinity has combined.

Yeah, I didn't realize it was as long because I forgot that you hadn't been on one of the

ones before Gethans episode as well.

Yeah, so October was a bit of a roller coaster for me, ups and downs, holidays, hospital sickness,

whatever.

And same with all suede weapons and stuff like that, and it's just been mental.

But here, we're back.

We're approaching Christmas at breakneck speed.

Oh, we are.

So we'll have a Christmas special, very soon, I'm sure.

This is episode 146, as far as I know.

It is indeed.

Yeah, 146.

Previous episode was 145 with the man himself, Gethans Evans, and this time we're chatting

about trading up in the form of cars he's had over the years, and mainly the Mark VI

Golf R, which you don't feature on very well.

Yes.

So his plan basically was buy something, sell it on and take the profits into the next thing

and get it his way into the nice Mark VI R.

I guess he threw all those profits into Mark VI R then.

Which was good.

Yeah, I really enjoyed that really good episode.

I was kind of worried about putting that episode out simply from the fact that it wasn't the

three of us on it, so it was kind of different than our usual format.

But for what we were doing at the time, it just had to be done.

And you know what, I actually got loads of feedback from people that really enjoyed just

having an interview, so it was quite good.

So going forward, I'm pleased with that.

So I've quite a few lined up.

I just don't have the fucking time to solve the problem.

But we're back indeed.

Yeah, so Abelo, I'm Roste, I'm very Roste.

Episode 146, so we'll just get into the usual format then, and what's new you guys?

Not much, but the wedding is over.

It is.

I've been talking about it all year, how it's been taking up my time.

Fucking wedding, six months.

So first of all, congratulations to my sister Lauren and her new husband, Davie.

Congrats.

Hopefully they're listening to this on a beach somewhere.

Do the listen, do the listen.

Occasionally, yeah.

That's right, actually, I'll be away at the minute, but we're here in the wonderful

rainy Northern Ireland.

We had a great time at the wedding.

Crack was night day, and we're very still, slightly recovering.

I'm very sleepy, but all my duties are done.

So I'm now, I was saying to the boys in work the other day, what am I going to do with

all this newfound spare time that I have?

I quite literally was going to say, what are you going to do all the free time?

I'm going to build some fucking cars, that's what I'm going to do.

Nice.

Cause they have been definitely neglected this year.

So plans are already afoot.

Things have already started happening in the garage.

Yes, I've seen that this morning.

We're back.

Myself then, well, you've been that busy.

I ended up taking your R32 Lee down to the Veage cars and coffee.

Second year they've run that now, I think, down in the cura.

Um, great day.

It was myself, Richie took his busad down, Gathen took his busad down.

I wanted to go, I can't remember why I didn't get going, I think it was work or something.

I think you were working, yeah, cause you were taught, you had originally planned to go down.

And then, no, I don't think it was work.

I think something came up with you.

There was something happened to you.

Do you have funerals to go to or something?

So, uh, and then James Crow.

So Richie was standing in the busad at the petrol station and I heard this car come up the road

and turned around and this TTRS drove in and I just looked at.

She's a crafty boy.

He is.

I just looked at Richie.

I was like, see you, be honest with you.

That's James.

I could have seen that coming.

Aye.

And I was like, yeah.

And I'd seen that he'd been in England a few days before.

And I was like, was that going to be one of those?

Or an RS or some description for sex?

He's definitely made the right choice.

Like, so it's such a cool car.

Yeah.

There's such, I drove Stephen Robb's stage two one.

They're just such a package.

His is a performance pack.

No plus Audi RS plus that has like a factory map, slightly lower factory carbon on it,

that kind of thing.

And I think his plan is just to like tweak here and there.

But like, I think a map on them put some over 400 horsepower.

Stephen Robb's was 470.

Aye.

That's.

And he had lower front brakes.

He had.

That was like a.

Did he have Olin?

Olin's suspension or some real.

Like Descona Grey, I think that car was the Stevens, wasn't it?

It was such a slaper.

It was very, very nice.

Stephen likes his power.

So yeah, took Lee's R32 down.

I was going to take the TT, but the guys had asked,

could the R32 come down?

Because they were trying to do a lineup from mark one to mark eight and a half.

So as again, I don't care what I'm going in.

So to get down, that just confirmed how much I must daily driving a VR because.

Need the note?

Yeah, even just the way it drives, just the torque and stuff on it.

I really, I really do miss it.

But it turns out I won the furthest traveled once again.

So yeah, worked out nicely.

I don't know why because Richie's probably would.

Well, surely guessing as far as the nuts.

And guessing as well.

But then I wondered was it within the lineup?

The lineup.

Because that would make more sense.

Right.

Because it was gifted by Western Motors, one of the dealers.

Well, there was gifted by Western Motors, the Volkswagen dealers.

So that would kind of make more sense.

And I got like a flat skin pen.

So that was hot enough.

Now you got it from my car, you bastard.

I was going to take my car.

It's still been the furthest traveled, you dick.

You wouldn't have been in the lineup.

You dick.

All right, we're having a domestic foot tour.

And then, but yeah, the the change that we put this year,

there was different cars, there was a few job things there.

And that like lorries and stuff like that, which was cool to see.

There was a guy brought like a full show, show lorry down.

Was Richie not raging that he didn't bring the Nissan?

No.

But when they announced that it was because he brought it the year before

and had to park and park in the spectator car park.

So you know, Richie's just that thick.

He wouldn't do it.

So he's just the top of the Richie.

Does Richie still have a silver facade?

Yes.

Silver picture in his Instagram story when you still have that.

From when?

Here.

It's such a nice car, by the way.

Yeah.

But it's a TDA that does 20 miles a gallon.

Oh, yeah.

The least economical PD ever made.

Yeah.

We wind them up with that.

Yeah.

Because we were coming down the road and because we were just cruising,

I think Lee's R32 was sitting at like fucking like 30 miles a gallon or something

and we're cruising maybe 80, 85.

And I was like, what were you getting?

He was like, oh, 38.

So you were getting eight miles a gallon less than an R32 and a PD Passat,

you said?

More or more.

A very silver one.

I remember it was dead on fuel.

Yes, but it was manual.

That's the problem with Richie's car is it's an auto.

No, you're talking about the R32 then.

Oh, sorry, the R32.

Yes.

Aye.

What were you getting in the silver one?

Probably 30 miles a gallon.

Aye.

I thought for a 2.8 or a 3.2 V6, I thought that was dead on a four-wheel drive.

Oh, 100%.

Kilograms.

Because it was getting.

It's about 1.5 R32.

The R. Yeah, they're one and a half ton.

And then the Bora was getting like on that same run,

the Bora had them getting less than the R32.

I always got like maybe two, three, four miles per gallon less.

Funny, I had a four motion and I thought it was thirsty in the R32.

That's weird.

Yeah.

Walk that out.

I have no idea because there's not that much power difference between them.

And once you're sitting at like cruising speed, you're not really,

you know, putting the foot down.

You're not using much of it.

But Mark II purchases.

Bottle set of G60s, skirts and arches.

Very good.

Pack those up.

But maybe I'm not straightforward.

They are silver.

Your face says it all.

Are they schmoozed?

Yes, they are indeed.

Oh dear.

So my plan isn't going to texture paint them.

So I know that I usually get texture painted plastics because it doesn't match the other

plastics, but my plan then is that I will get it sort of opens up a better opportunity to buy

a shitty set of big bumpers.

And then I can texture paint them and everything will actually match.

So I don't mind as long as it's a decent texture paint that it matches because I know

Ryan McElmiel has used texture paint on his bumpers on the Audi 80.

And like you look at it, you wouldn't see it.

So I was like, well, happy to as long as that works.

So yeah.

Just drop them off the round.

It has nothing to do with these things.

So they were significantly cheaper than a good condition set of G60 arches, which is good.

The thing was that Scott Ruther was selling some of their G60 arches.

Give me two seconds and I'll tell you.

Texture paint has got a lot better over the years because it used to be,

it was just like neural paint with some sand on it.

It was bad.

It was like bed liner.

Yeah.

If you get the right stuff, it is good.

It's just something I've always thought really of converting that mark two back to big bumpers.

And I'm like, well, it may as well buy the parts when they're there.

See, I prefer a big bumper mark two.

It depends on the style for me.

They both work, but it needs certain things.

That's what wheels you're on.

That's what I always find.

All 100%.

If I was going to have two mark twos, I'd probably have one of each.

Yes.

But if I was only going to have one, I'd be big bumper all day.

The other problem with big bumper stuff is when you run them low,

you usually break the front of the arch because it hangs below the bumper.

I wouldn't like to be running something with an absolutely mint set of G60 arches.

Most of the arches I ever broke in my mark twos,

there was some sort of damage to the front.

It's always the front.

But the brakes are on low on them.

Yep.

Because some reason like hangs lower at the front than the bumper does.

Yeah.

That sort of taps underneath.

I think it's if you're coming off like a drop curve and things like that.

It's usually what gets up.

Hang up slopes usually where you get them.

What else went up to?

We're talking then about plans of foot with a garage.

So people always say you build a big garage and you'll fill it no matter what.

We have just filled it with other people's stuff.

So I mean, there's a lot of more stuff in it to be fair.

Yeah.

So we just kind of fuck it.

We need to try and reject a few things here and make space for things.

So we've been doing that.

Honestly, the last five or six weeks most evenings,

I've just been in the garage tidying and I didn't want to do like a half ass job of it.

But I think it went a bit overkill.

So like I've took all like mark two plastics and spur parts and boxed them up and labeled everything.

So it means when we put the shelving up, there's going to be everything on a shelf

that you can see what it is.

But like I stripped wiring limbs apart, like I took the mark threes wiring

limb apart that I stripped out seven years ago and labelled everything.

There's a bag in the garage now that has obviously has wiring in it,

but written on the outside of the bag is shit VR loom, which I thought was very funny.

But I mean, it's perfect.

Let's future Connor know.

Well, that's what it is.

Because there's it's a VR loom.

I bought with a conversion that was supposed to be professionally converted

and it looks like someone's stuck it up their arse.

Like the solder joints are not soldered.

Like they're wrapped and then soldered basically set onto it.

Nothing's connected.

It's the worst.

It wouldn't say the baby's first loom because the baby would do better.

It's so bad.

It was like a fire hazard.

So I've basically separated it all out and I've cut out all the bad

and the rest will do for the connectors and new poly out of a whole stuff kind of thing.

And it's just a carrier bag labelled up.

So that was good.

I built an emount for my axle stands as well.

So got my uncle Tom.

He cut me a board, which was nice to fit on the end of the

the bench and I put a few brackets so I can just hang the axle stands now.

So they have somewhere to live.

I went through my toolbox.

I have two toolboxes.

And I went through one, the other one, the older one.

I was like, I'm just storing shit in this.

So I wrapped it all out and I've like built everything into the two boxes now.

So I've given myself a lot of space.

I've decided to break the cab, the mark three cab that I have,

because I need a few parts for the mark three anyway.

I'm not doing anything with it.

And I was like, well, that kills two birds with one stone,

get something out of the yard as well.

Yeah, a lot of decisions, a lot of it feels I probably three weeks I was out there

and I felt like I was getting nowhere because nothing was changing.

And then yeah, you were just moving stuff around.

And then suddenly you're like, hang on, I'm starting to see a change here now.

And you're like, oh, yes.

But if it half asked it and said, I'll take a weekend and clean this place,

it wouldn't have changed any.

But now I'm starting to see a bit of progress, which is nice.

Do you think what else I'm up to?

Last night at a weird moment in the TT, Stefan and I were out.

And I ran him over to his house and then when he got out of the car,

I ran him over to his house to drop him off because he was delivering a car to Jack.

And I came out of his house, birded it and went, where's the boost?

And it was like in 75.

So that's a wondering.

But do you know what I like?

So I'm not very experienced with 20 valves.

But no, if you ever blow a boost pipe off a TDI,

it literally won't rev past where the boost should come in.

This thing was revving right out.

But the boost just wasn't happening.

But yeah, it was like a NA 20 valve on the fucking heaviest car in the world in the TT.

And mark fives and six.

There's a diaphragm and the diverter valve and the diaphragm burst.

He makes it naturally aspirated.

Yeah.

The 18T, there was always, I think it's the N75 or M57 valve on them.

It was always a boost issue.

So here's the thing.

We drove, everything was driving code.

Fine.

Didn't throw a light, but I'm going to plug it in today and see.

But drove, went and got dinner, got back into the car and it was fine again.

Which was very weird.

Which points me to something electronic, which would be N75.

You know what I think is going on there?

I think the car is trying to tell you.

It needs a map.

Big turbo.

I said to Stefan, I was like, I'm telling you.

He was like, did you take the battery and revert it back to standard?

And I was like, I'm telling you, if previous was it mapped and this is it not mapped,

I'll sell the car.

I was like, I would put a fucking big turbo on it before I drive this thing again.

So yeah, I want to, I want to sort that out.

I also want to tune that car.

But I'd rather sort those wee issues before.

It's completely standard, isn't it?

Totally standard.

Yep.

There is an aftermarket diverter valve on it.

It's a forged one.

But although not like there's no software on it.

That's full standard exhaust.

We rev them up and I'll be lovely.

Yes. Well, we'll, we'll see what crops up.

See what Santa brings, remember?

See what Santa brings.

But I want to get all that sorted before I start fucking with the cars.

Then you're not blaming a map or anything like that kind of thing.

I think it was the easy brake options in them.

I shall say R32.

Yeah.

So at the minute it runs 312s.

The next one up would be your R32 setup, which I have on the Mark II.

It'll be cheaper.

996 four-pots, Brembo's or R32s.

You can get that.

Probably R32s.

To be honest, you can buy us out of calipers and carriers

in semi-good condition for 180 quid.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah.

And then the discs, you'll buy off that tech front of 100 quid.

I don't know with R32 craziness what sort of money they'll make.

I can't buy, so I messed up remember on the Mark II

with the blade nipple and put the wrong blade nipple

and stripped the thread out of the R32 caliper.

I couldn't get one, a motor factor at all.

And I could get the left side.

I couldn't get a right side.

And the left side will probably go the same way.

And there's a TT breakers in Barnsley, I think it is.

There's a big vague one, Wigan.

Is that Stevens Volkswagen?

Don't know where you call it.

Wigan vague breakers, I think it's called.

But they sold me two calipers for 180 quid posted.

There you go.

I was like, happy days.

And they were like, they were fully usable.

I rebuilt them anyway, because I had the rebuild kit there,

but you could have put them straight onto the car.

So that was good.

And their full-time break in TTs.

And all the V6s come with R32 breaks.

So what do you, what are you up to?

Lots and lots.

Car and not car.

All those away there.

Me and the wife go away for a while now in university.

Went away to Spain for a week.

Nice.

That was nice to get away,

even though it reminded us home the first two days.

Thunderstorms, like I've never seen before.

Oh, lovely.

It was two hours.

I just turned around saw thunderstorms, lightning, rain.

That was the first couple of days, but came good in the end.

And then done a bit of,

ever see the film playing trains and automobiles?

Yep.

So my daughter's going to uni next year.

And she's been thinking a couple of universities,

Dublin, Queens.

So she's looking at a few there.

She went to Manchester a couple of weeks ago

for it to look around it.

And I just said we'd take her to a few English colleges ourselves

and took her to King's College in London

and then Edinburgh and St Andrews.

So the Monday we flew over to London.

I wonder why you were there.

But that makes sense.

Yeah, flew over London.

But don't touristy things as well.

I went to see Le Misérables or Le Misé or whatever you call it as well.

Then spent the second day in London.

And then we trained it up to Edinburgh.

How long did the train take?

Four hours.

Ah, that's not bad, yeah.

Because it meant we got a full day in London.

We didn't have to deck around,

getting out in the airport, waiting an hour or two before the plane.

The plane journey itself was just far more convenient.

We were in Edinburgh then that night.

And then went around the universities in the following day

and then flew home that night.

I love Edinburgh.

Yeah, it's hard to beat.

So that was fun.

And then I came back from that

and basically got the old sickness that's been about the last few years.

I think of summarized or, well, I don't know.

Maybe it was dad cook version of it.

I think I got that.

So I'm just still have a sort of cough at the end of that.

I don't know if I got that in London or what I got.

But me and Rachel both had it, basically.

I had a bit of a...

I don't think my mom was as bad as yours,

but I had a bit of a cold as well.

Yeah, it was still pretty grim.

Grim, I've got the heart of an old person who'd not be fun.

Not that I'm old, you know.

No, I'm definitely not.

I was going to say that it not.

But that's boring.

Car stuff.

So where to start?

Serve some daughters up.

Just oil and oil filter changing it.

Nice and handy.

It's great to work on several cars.

Aye.

Old style oil filters.

Yeah, when you go back to cars like that.

I can actually put my hand down the side of this engine.

Does it have like a metal canister filter?

Yeah.

Aye.

So done that.

The Mark 7R, he full serviced in it.

And I've just received, in the post,

the new distant pods for the front,

because they have started to make grim noises.

So I just ordered new EM tax that were on it.

And min tax pods.

Hopefully get them fitted.

I don't know the time to hit them next week,

but soon enough.

After the service then, the next...

Probably in January, I'll do a full DSG and Haldex service on it,

just to keep it up to date,

because I think it was 30,000 ago.

It's got that sort of treatment with black lines.

So yeah.

Q5, old faithful Labrador Jeep that we have.

It had a full service up at Andes.

And we've been having a few issues with the reverse.

And the Astronit gearbox, it's a form of DSG, but different.

And sometimes in reverse, it sort of shudders a bit

and sort of goes, nah, every so often.

Sometimes it'll flash a code.

So I took it up down these and he says,

we'll try changing the oil.

Let's see if it helps it.

Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't.

He plugged it in and the mechatronics,

there was a module that was sticking.

So he says, see how it goes.

And there was a day there last week,

it sort of gave it.

So I don't think it has properly fixed it.

So 10 years ago, we'd be doing a gloom.

Been your gearbox?

It's not now.

You move the mechatronics unit.

And even better news on these tell me,

there's a crowd, I think it's in Don Gannon.

That's more or less express service.

You drop it off, they fix it.

Happy days because...

Used to be an English job.

Yes.

And even at that, the one in England

was like a two or three day turnaround.

They were still pretty quick.

I think it's Don Gannon,

but I think I only use them a couple of times and create job.

That's the beauty with like the DSG stuff.

You know, it gets a bit scary when it's new,

you know what, but like it's 20 year old now.

And you've got the point now where there is people redoing stuff.

Look, the Q5 and Q7s are really notorious.

100K, the gearbox get bought.

Oh, really?

Mind Q5, I just turned 100K.

Nice.

So there is something to it.

Right on schedule.

Nice.

Finally, on to the club sport then.

Yeah, boy.

Don't wait on us.

It's the car I wasn't going to modify.

Hi.

There's a...

I think we noted date and time at some point.

Someone will remind us.

There's a scorpion exhaust actually

on a book probably at the minute on it to me.

Nice.

So I bought Neil Chapman's scorpion exhaust

that has probably about 10 miles on it.

Well, I did think that because Neil put that on that car

and literally didn't drive it.

So I got that at quite literally a bargain.

I was telling you that there,

but I just thought it'd be rude not to.

Well, 100%.

So I bought it and it's actually downpipe on all of us.

I think that is a full system.

Yeah.

So Daniel's going to get that fitted.

And then on RMS, didn't know if you noticed those fishing.

I always watch for you in the for sale stuff

because you're always great.

It's my daily bread.

Yeah.

So Andy Gordon on there.

Yes.

The hardest man in the world to contact.

I'm in negotiations.

He has...

Do you remember the...

What's the make I had in the Mark V?

I took it out before sold at Ritchie.

American Company.

ECS Tuning.

X Carbon.

Rear strut brace.

I did.

Did I not tag you in that?

Probably.

I think I tagged you in that.

You're Satan.

Yeah.

So it's been a week now.

The man replies every four days.

They message.

To be honest with you.

Do you have his number?

I don't, but I could probably get to it.

Andy used to be on the forum back in the day.

Like live on it.

Just dips in right now.

Dips in right now kind of thing.

So hopefully I'll have a bot soon.

Very nice.

A nice wee number.

Who knows?

Pull the back seats out and whatever sits in them.

Well, that's good to know that the car that's not getting modified

isn't getting modified.

Yeah.

Why do we set these things when we know...

We're just lying to ourselves.

Sometimes at night I'll be sitting there.

We cup a tin of biscuit.

Just going,

should I just full send this club sport and go 400 brake on it?

Yes.

The answer is always yes.

It's actually not that hard to do in the MEA AAA engines.

Well, there you go.

Yeah.

But then I think, oh, that's right.

You need money for that.

And then just disappears again.

And I eat my digestive biscuit and tea and go,

no Nigel, calm down.

And you have a plenty of other cars to talk about as well.

Cars wise, that's it.

Don't know if you notice that or my stories.

I did notice.

I keep up to date with what you're doing.

Yeah, stalker.

So I'm thinking of doing sort of West Coast of Ireland road trip,

sort of Friday to Sunday.

There's always something to talk about.

And I was talking to Rob and Nandi about it and they're well up for it.

And so I put a thing up an auto stop because all them guys are down south

and they know the roads and the response DMs, messages and all stuff

I could send was brilliant.

So very good.

Have a good idea.

What I've planned to do just.

And only you work out there a bit like the wild Atlantic way.

It's supposed to be very good.

Doesn't like the roads are like tarmac very well.

They're good driving roads.

And obviously you'll probably take in some of that,

but also off of it to see other things as well.

So I talked about doing February now.

I thought to myself, they'll get dark at five o'clock.

Should I leave at the summer or should I just.

Probably better done in summertime.

So I don't know what to do, but that's what I thought.

Can't guarantee the weather in February and either in this time or in this country.

While I was researching this, just on a side note,

I don't know why you google stuff sometimes.

So it was road trip.

So you go to the road trip and I came up.

This topic was funny roads or funny towns.

Oh yeah.

So I'll just briefly go through a few here.

Are these all in Ireland?

In Ireland.

So you obviously have the first one in Doney Gold's Muff.

Yep.

Just over the border's Nobber.

I was going to say there's Nobber.

And around Dublin area you have Sluts End.

Oh right.

Do these bottoms on Ballsbridge.

Yes.

Out towards Galloway you have Willy Rogue Island.

Kerry you have Cock Hill.

Down near Waterford, bad old spot in the world.

Basterstown, Hortown and Fanny's Town.

So moving over to England then I think is England the Scotland.

Baleen Gardens.

Yep.

Come Wynton, Cockermouth, Cock Leeds, Cocktail.

What's that say?

Any new glasses?

Cock's Ho, Fanny Street.

Upper Thong.

Butthole Lane, Baleen.

I've been to Baleen.

I was going to say we've been to Baleen.

Baleen is the Santa Port.

It's near, yeah.

I've ever stopped you to take the photos, yeah?

Yeah.

The road sign.

There's a place called Teddy Ho.

See some of those names you think were names.

Sandy Balls.

In a simpler time.

Felt well.

Funny hands Liam.

Take my straw paint.

Wet wine.

Nice.

So there you go.

In Lisburn there's two streets that come together

and you know sometimes you have a road sign that says

Blah Blah Street leading to Blah Blah Street.

This one is Hancock Street leading to Canal Street.

So of course the Han gets scribbled out

and the Sea of Canal gets scribbled out

so you get Cock Street leading to Enel Street.

Excellent.

There you go.

Topium or Topponder.

Well done all.

Yeah, you think like a lot of those places were named in simpler times

and maybe things didn't mean what they'd done,

but like Bastard's Town.

That board's been around for over a hundred years.

Yeah.

Somebody named that and didn't like the people that lived there.

You think of a few Bastard's Towns up north.

It was Sean Bain North.

There's no double meaning for Bastard.

The Bastard is a definition.

There's no two A means of it.

And has been for over a hundred years.

So has that been somebody that didn't like the people there?

Gentry has just went they're all bollocks.

That's it.

Let's name this town.

The peasants.

Yeah, there you go.

So that's all new to me.

I would jump into a bit of news anyway.

News nose.

I'll go first.

Yeah.

So this is something I seen a couple of weeks ago

because obviously we haven't recorded in a while.

But the UK government has finally decided to investigate

LED headlights for being too bright.

Here, here.

So I think somebody said they were brighter than the Christmas lights

that are already up in people's houses in fucking November.

That I'm saying.

It's people that you're driving down the road

or maybe sitting at the side of the road

waiting for somebody to get into the car.

And sometimes you drive up and maybe the lights are automatic.

Are you on all the time?

You're just going, why are you sitting there with the lights on?

Like, I don't know.

Like there's been complaints about this for years.

I don't know what makes them suddenly decide to investigate them

because like LED headlights have been around for a long, long time.

And I have found that they are blinding.

They used to be like a feature on big fancy German cars.

Now everybody has them.

It seems to be at a particular angle.

They're just ridiculous.

Yep.

Coming towards you.

You know, as they're coming down the road.

The lower stuff and the older stuff.

And obviously it's a bit lower on modified cars.

The height definitely doesn't help with that.

You know, you're basically driving along and you're thinking to yourself,

could I not be blinded?

I'm just trying to get some fucking work here.

Like it's awful.

And I wondered for me was an age thing, but it's not.

It's like everybody.

And I think there was a thread on RMS about it.

And people were complaining about it too.

Where you're just like absolutely destroyed.

It's like being interrogated by the police.

Like you meet somebody in the road.

You're like, holy fuck.

Are they setting up an inquiry then?

Yes, they are.

Did I see it popping up in my feed anyway?

The, yeah, there's an inquiry about it.

Like, I don't know what the solution is.

They'll not be able to do anything.

It's the EU legislation needs to.

Well, that's the thing.

And like, what are they going to do?

Put fucking lampshades on the headlights.

Like it's, they're out there.

You know, you can't retrofit the stuff.

Unless there's software update.

Regist the LED outage or something.

I don't know.

Or just do a recall.

Does the MOT man take in when you test the lights

and put you in front of your own car and be like,

how do you like that?

How do you like that bitch?

It's, it is weird.

And we're not even talking about like the retrofit LEDs.

These are like factory.

I factory standards.

The past all the standards to, to work with it.

Yeah.

The worst for me is the, the matrix headlights

that the mercs have that like you just leave them on auto

and then they dip.

The final has a new mark and it's just like a.

So they're supposed it's a performance of art.

They blank out the, the beam around the car.

So they don't blind the car in front of you,

but they shoot the light around,

but it still blinds the fucker.

Do you?

Have you sat in one when it's down?

No.

It is just Star Trek stuff.

I've seen videos of it, but I've never seen it.

No, it's just, it's just making these boxes of light.

It's always in full beam, even the cars coming towards you.

And it's like not all areas that are so weird.

And you can see it happening and obviously.

So you have this area of full beam and then with the cars,

just a bit black box.

Oh no, I don't like that.

That would make me fucking seasick.

And the, the point funny is fucking driving around

and he's auditioning for picky blinders

was we fucking squinty eyes.

I get that you're behind somebody is putting full beam

out to the left.

Yeah.

You know, you've never, the clarity is unreal.

Some poor bastard and a tractor and a field is getting blinded.

The international space station,

some boys are changing something we can't see.

Walk along the pavement, just.

Some boys outfitting us.

Getting the laser pointer pointed at you.

That's fucking, it's brutal.

Yeah.

I, I.

It's bad.

I don't, I don't know if you have Nigel,

obviously you wear glasses as well,

but I have a stigmatism in one eye and it's bad.

Like, because you get the kind of, not a halo,

but you get the kind of streaky line effect.

It's fucking horrible.

Are the glare thing.

So I'll tell you, we'll keep an eye on it

to see what comes out of that.

But with those things that go around this country,

they'll absolutely do nothing.

Exactly.

You know, but I have to read the report.

They'll tell you a bit.

But what are they, what can they do?

There's nothing they can do with it.

The best tip, when my dad taught me to drive,

he taught me the best tip for,

if a car's coming towards you and blinding you,

is, and you're obviously trying to drive

and stay on the road yourself,

is you watch the verge.

You look at the verge on your passenger side.

And you follow the line on the verge.

Don't look at the other car.

Follow the verge.

And I still do.

You know, and it's absolutely right.

It really, it really works.

That's keeping your eye out of the light.

Yeah.

Anybody anything else?

Just on that sort of line of story.

So in this country, it's basically been the great flood

for the last two weeks with Rhian.

It's been horrendous.

You'll have noticed there's puddles that are just lying.

Oh, why?

Constantly.

Nothing grains.

Now, that's basically because cutbacks and whatever

have led to drains not being cleaned.

Also the fact that they've cut down half the fucking trees

in the country and hedges used to take up a lot of that water.

So this time of the year,

the leaves are down and they're clogged even worse.

So what do you think?

Responsible government or council that go out and clean it?

No, a week ago I seen this story where they're fighting.

The councils are fighting with the Department of Infrastructure

to take care of the roads, is it?

Road services.

What's your job?

No, it's your job.

It's my job.

No, it's not.

Rollin's not actually doing the fucking thing.

So they've been fighting now.

So now these puddles are constantly lying

because the drains aren't getting cut.

The roads are bad at times, they got, yeah.

And it all attacks is a big sloppery and two days later,

you think, oh, it's getting better again and a light drizzle.

It's causing accidents.

Yep.

Yeah.

That's how bad our government is now,

that they can't agree on anything.

And now it's causing people to have car accidents.

But sure, they're there for us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was driving home the other night in that heavy, heavy rain

and the main road down from our house here,

honestly, it was like driving up a river.

It was, it was really bad.

The amount of rain has been lethal,

but even the rain gets to the drains, it can't get away.

No.

It's not even, it's the volume, yes,

but it's the fact the drain is absolutely blocked.

Oh, it's solid, like it's fucking dry.

Here's an example, that what we call the back sweeper.

Yeah.

Out from your mum and dad's house.

It's a big long sweeping corner.

For years, you go around it.

No, it's an icy corner, if you don't know it,

or it's icy, for example.

But it never flooded.

No.

Then they took out a load of heads and trees along that corner.

Guess what?

It's now always flooded.

Yeah.

No, it's pretty like,

it's almost like they don't think or know what they're doing here.

Yes.

Let's move on the story that's been gripping me this week.

Here we go.

Auto Trader dramas?

Oh, I haven't seen this.

Well, I follow a lot of car dealers and TikTok,

and basically, they've been complaining

about the price of Auto Trader for commercial sellers now.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not surprised.

It's just getting ridiculous now.

And the latest scheme that the Auto Trader has,

what was it called?

Like we've talked before.

The deal builder.

Okay.

So, allegedly, when somebody sees a car of their leg,

they can put a £99 deposit on it.

Right?

Yes, I have seen that.

And the dealer adds it off the market,

and they can hold that for two weeks.

And if they don't want it after two weeks,

they get it a £100 back.

Oh, they get it back?

Yeah, which is a lot of bollocks.

Aye.

So, I think this is the final straw for a lot of car dealers.

And the story this week was basically there's a mass protest.

1,000 dealers.

Basically, stopped using it?

Either stopped using it or were just the basic packages.

Hit them where it hurts.

Hit them on the wall.

So, there was a pact made between car dealers on Facebook

and social media groups to downgrade or delete.

That's the downfall of Auto Trader, like, isn't it?

I think 3,300 car dealers took part in it, actually.

In various ways, anyway.

Let's see what's is here.

Yeah, they're just angry.

The deal builder is the final straw, basically.

Auto Trader says the flexible start-stop consumer journey

allows buyers to complete as much of their purchase online

as possible.

They can add a part exchange, complete a finance application,

select their handle preference before reserving the vehicle.

Car dealers oppose this idea because they believe

that it'll be forced to let customers down

if they pre-allocate the vehicle to someone else.

So, basically, it freezes the car sale for two weeks,

just because it's £100.

That they also get back and the dealer gets nothing out of them?

Lot of anger among us about this, and what does Auto Trader say?

Hi, we fully acknowledge the conversation taking place

across the retailer community regarding our platform's evolution.

I want to assure all of our partners that we are listening

and taking their feedback very seriously.

I've outlined in our various communication

over recent weeks our strategies to move forward

beyond traditional leads to deliver high-converting

profitable deals for our partners.

We believe the daily builder will deliver the efficiency

and competitive edge over retailers' needs.

Our commitment is absolute, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

All corporate bullshit.

They lost 15% on the stock market this week.

I can't say I'm shocked.

Yeah, I mean, I have seen that 99 deposit thing.

I didn't realize it was an Auto Trader thing.

I thought it was something that the dealers were offering.

It's great for somebody like me who, realistically,

I'm going to have to buy a car out of England for my new work car.

And it would be great for me if I could put a deposit

and know that by the time I organize flying over blah, blah,

that the car is not gone, that would be great.

But I can also see from the dealer's point of view

how it's probably a pain in the arse.

And imagine you're a dealer here and your rival dealer down the road.

You just go and put a deposit on all their cars.

Oh, that's just a can't sell it.

Love's the first thing I thought of was, like, why wouldn't you do that?

You corner the market on the car.

I think each car's in.

I was getting a bit of heat with their pricing too.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I'm not surprised.

If I was a smart guy, I would see that as an opportunity

to start getting some investors in

and just launch a massive car sales platform.

I would say that's probably happening in the background already.

If the problem is, Auto Trader have the big name for the last 30 years.

This will be a week of, you know, take it in the chain.

Yeah, whatever.

We're a monopoly.

Where are you going to sell your car?

There's car dealers spending tens of thousands.

On advertising.

But that is the problem.

The dealers haven't helped themselves.

And again, when I'm going on and looking for cars and browsing around,

like try and use their own website.

They're either shit, don't work.

Half the cars don't have photos.

It's like photos coming soon for weeks.

And you're like, hello?

Yeah.

That's pretty poor.

Like, yeah.

So we'll see what way that goes.

Well, or they don't keep, you know, they don't keep their inventory up to date on it.

So I've seen something else.

Our Porsche have patented a thing called tunnel mode.

Have you seen anything with this?

Full sand mode.

So basically automating the thing that we all do when we see a tunnel

is drop a gear, roll the windows down and let her sing.

Send it, Geoffrey.

So according to the patent, the car will actually detect when a tunnel is coming up

using cameras and sensors.

And then ask, do you want a party?

If you select yes.

God bless Porsche.

Yep.

That's when the drama happens.

And by party, drop the windows, switch into sport mode, open the active exhaust flaps,

and even downshift automatically in there, equivalent to auto cars.

That's a manufacturer that knows his customers.

Yeah.

Driver convertible.

Porsche have thought about you too.

So the prompt can also get you to pull over before the tunnel to put the roof down if needs be.

Yep.

So, yeah, it's good to see.

They're even considering for EVs, apparently.

So the the electric porters are going to get tunnel mode or instead of real engine sounds,

they'll crank up the fake engine sounds.

No, thank you.

Don't do that.

Yeah, that's a bit like wearing a wig to a party.

It's a bit strange, but the rest seems pretty good.

There's also a second mode.

If you're not in the mood for a bit of drama, you can pick a quiet tunnel mode

that rolls the windows up, but opens the exhaust flaps.

So sort of includes you.

But it's cool to see that they realize it's not just about the sound or the audible,

but like feeling it in a tunnel.

And that is the thing, like we're in a tunnel and the exhaust noises are reverberating around.

You can feel it.

Like it's it's encapsulating and it's fucking fun.

One of my favorite road trip memories was going to addition 38.

Probably 15 years ago.

Guys go via Wales.

Yeah.

Yep.

And my regards for Gerald had the Mark III VR6 and his friend the Mark III VR6.

Full six bronze exhaust straight throughs.

Gethon had the VR6 turbo.

Hold on.

I might as well.

I was in the geth.

The noises.

It's just glorious.

One of my favorites was Dublin Portunnel head and addition 38 and Tufti's G60.

So heavily tuned G60 with the full straight through on it.

I can hear that thing barge.

Do you remember?

Yeah.

Like it was fucking incredible.

VR's are on rail in it.

Five pots.

There's a pigeon in the tree, which is definitely a spy, isn't it?

Birds aren't real.

The five pots.

What are we talking about there?

The governor's needing to watch us.

That's that's the headlights or they're down to inspect.

That is a pigeon.

Yeah, it is.

Fucker.

Are you inspect your towers there safely or legal?

Actually, should be fine.

Oh, there you go.

Minor bloody dodging my arm.

So that's what he's after.

Get the shotgun.

Shoot that pigeon there Connor.

Would you?

You heard you bob out in the government of the drains.

I've got a wee joke for you.

Go for it.

Why did the check and cross the road?

Oh God, the spy on somebody?

No, because the livestock trailer overturned and 100 chickens

escaped onto the A9 outside Dumbly and

Fuck off actually.

Causing the closure of the road.

Oh, very good.

Imagine that being bad enough, but then chickens everywhere.

That would be fucking weird.

Four hours the road was closed for,

whether they tried to round up the chickens.

I was in Scotland.

Yeah.

What do you do in that case?

See if that was Northern Ireland.

That'd be 8 hours if BNSNI was doing it.

Just get the gun.

Yes, it was very funny.

Where was that recently?

Pigeon shit.

Ah, a couple of days ago.

Fucks sake.

And that A9 is a nightmare to be fair,

so that would have been awful.

Ah, that is a shitty one up there.

You got an F1 story?

I don't.

I'm surprised at this.

F1 guys that you are.

It's just last week's greatest.

I'm going to just state here.

1.3 billion pound or dollar F1 shock.

We have Christian Horner and Bernie Eccleston

stunned the paddock with an Aston Martin takeover.

I did not see this.

Is Mr. Stroll got bored?

Yeah, apparently there's a secret deal coming in

that they're going to come in and buy over Aston Martin.

I don't know.

It's completely unfounded.

This came up in an F1 final.

There's been a lot of remorse about what Horner's going to do.

He was going to be the new fucking Cadillac guy

and at least not, I don't know.

I think sometimes people just write stories.

I reckon they'll be back next season some shape or form.

Interesting to see.

I've seen Audi reveal the bases of their livery there.

So basically like a silhouette of the car

with the Audi livery on it was quite cool.

It would be nice to see that fleshed out

with the sponsors and things on it.

Speaking of sponsors,

did you see the new brand deal between F1 Academy?

Oh God.

And have a guess Nigel.

So F1 Academy ladies series.

What big piece of pop culture do you think

they might have teamed up with?

So F1 has that kind of lego tie in which is cool.

Lee was actually ridding with this.

Music do you mean or a commercial sponsor?

Like a brand?

Like a...

It's Japanese.

Nintendo?

No, it's Hello Kitty.

Oh yeah, that's showed F1 to me.

It does, yep.

She was fucking ridding with this.

And I, no maybe I'm a hypocrite because

I enjoy the lego thing.

So maybe this is just a similar thing

and I shouldn't really be mad about it,

but it just makes me want to poke.

I also didn't think that Hello Kitty was relevant

for the last 10 years or more.

What's Hello Kitty?

Oh there we go.

Have I showed you the lego?

I think I've seen a picture of it, but what is it?

I don't know.

It's obviously like a Japanese.

Yeah, so they have like cartoons and books and toys and...

Ah, yeah.

Cutes, it's very cutesy.

And I can kind of get...

They want to get kids interested, fine.

But it's just, why did it have to be for the women's series?

Because they're off the lego thing?

Because it had to be something so...

I'd say there's been hours of research by the team behind it

and that's how they connect to the female viewers.

And I have read quite a lot about it

and I've read loads and loads of comments

from people saying this is great for my daughter.

You know, it means she can have merch that is still girly, but...

And I kind of get that, but...

I've also seen a lot of comments that said...

Does it have to be Hello Kitty?

This is great for my daughter, but it's a £300 jacket.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

As most F1 stuff, like official F1 branded merchandise is very, very expensive.

So if you're aiming that at kids, that's kind of a weird one.

Kicking the stones, kicking the stones, yeah.

Apparently it's going to be a big thing for the Vegas GP

and there's like a Hello Kitty grandstand and...

Of course, fuck me.

Yeah.

Keep an eye on that then.

Face palm.

Fun.

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So he does the mods and stuff.

But you know, for your daily, if you need a camera or, you know,

all the things that we don't talk about very much,

but actually just make your day a little bit nicer.

Well, the one thing was when you bought your superb,

it was the perfect spec as a sport line.

Apart from no heat.

And that angered the hell out of you.

So I mean, there you have been covered.

So yeah, I'm very happy to have him on as a sponsor.

Great guy.

We've always said that we don't have people on as sponsors who we don't put our faith in.

Like the people that we actually use.

So it's good.

Like this is someone you want to deal with.

So as I say, hit them up.

Check it out over.

O-I-B-R-E.

Good stuff.

Stickin' with Porsche then.

Brace yourselves, because we're going back in time.

Apparently Porsche SE, who is the holding company

that own Porsche automotive group and various other investments,

are reportedly looking to build military equipment again for Germany.

Ah, the wreck will rise.

Fantastic news.

It's been too long.

It has indeed.

So we've had some proper movement in the wreck.

So nothing says Luxury Engineering, like turning your tech on,

no high and pans are tank.

So you can just imagine the Porsche, the pans are 9-11.

So when you go to order, you go up and you go, where are your peppers?

So this has sparked a few eyebrow raises.

Really, as we're joking about here, historically,

the grandfatherly namesake, of course, had a bit of experience

with military stuff back in the day.

Yes, see my episodes on the very topic about tanks.

Yes, you picture the boardroom, it's like, gentlemen,

if we can make a car, we can make military equipment,

and somebody just kind of goes,

history's behind us on this, we're good, we've got this.

There's been quite a few memes about the increase in military spendings in Germany,

quite funny ones.

Yes, I've got quite a few of those as well.

You know, with Nuremberg speeches playing in the background and marching fate music.

Yeah, so don't mention the war.

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

The 9-11's of a brand that is like does not to 1,600, 2.8 seconds, while under fire.

Yeah, it's kind of a scary look at what's happening in the world as well,

when those automotive manufacturers are turning.

The world, since COVID, has just went bananas.

It all happened in 2016, the shot Harambe, the gorilla.

Down hell since then.

Down hell from there.

I'm not convinced, but I'm starting to lean towards the theory that the,

what do you call the collider in Switzerland, the round thing?

Oh, the hydron collider?

That in 2014, the world entered a different dimension.

Yep.

The world was fine before they turned that on.

What was I?

Is that the god particle they called it?

Yeah, I.

Yeah, sometimes science.

I'm a big man for science, but a lot of times you think yourself.

I think they're building the second one, a bigger one.

It's the Jurassic Park theory.

No one stopped to think, should we do it?

Well, Elon Musk turned around and says, here, maybe we shouldn't do it.

Yeah, I well, I was that maybe because he hadn't a foothold in it.

No, he's well.

I don't trust on fucker.

I trust a share price.

Yeah.

So interesting.

We'll get a few good World War two vibes out of that.

And a few jokes out of it.

This goes ahead.

I did see as well.

Volkswagen are really struggling on the minute.

Let me do that.

Oh, but like financially at the minute they are.

I think the financial director.

He basically says they've got two years to sort the shit out of the bust.

Yes.

Well, they're now.

They're basically stopping all future investments for the time being.

They're not investing anything new, which is kind of weird.

Quarter three that a net loss of 1.1 billion euros this year.

And they're looking to sell off some of what they're calling non-core assets,

which is like Scania, Ducati, Mann, you know, the fringe kind of things that they've bought up

to see what's happening.

But like it's been a shit storm.

They're talking about the last 10 years.

It's been a shit storm for Volkswagen since diesel get because they were one of the first to be

caught out doing what quite literally everyone was doing and then got penalized without having to

fund EV charging stations as penalized our penalties and stuff.

And they've made bad decisions and heavily invest in EVs.

And it's just not bad for them.

It's a perfect shit storm.

Like so it isn't looking good.

It all started when they closed the motor sport division.

That's it.

Well, fuck their dad.

It is.

It's it's two minutes to midnight for Volkswagen.

I do genuinely believe that.

So there we go.

Anybody, anything more exciting than that?

I have something hopefully nice, which is hopes of reviving the Ulster Grand Prix.

Have been boosted with the announcement that the Northern Ireland Executive is to provide

multi-year funding in the region of £400,000.

So as we'll know, and again, I did do a topic on this at some stage as well.

But the Ulster Grand Prix hasn't taken place since before COVID.

But their organizers are hopeful that they could return to the road racing calendar as early as

2027. So some of the money will be ring fence for Dundraud for improvements to the safety of the

circuit and backing from Tourism ENI, Lisbon Castle Ray Council.

So hopefully maybe that would be good if that could come back.

And just as a slight aside to that as well, did you see last week that

Michael Dunlop has been awarded an MBE?

Did I send you the lip sync? Funny one about him?

No.

No, I have to send you.

It's only him done an edit of it and put his voice in.

Well, you managed to help.

Cool, sir.

You know, that sort of thing.

Aye.

As if he was actually talking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But hopefully good news for road racing ENI.

Aye.

Yeah, we're one of the last few places you can still do it like, so let's hold on to it.

On the MBE thing, that was well deserved.

The model is an absolute legend.

Yeah, absolutely.

Good domestic.

Will he get sportsperson in the year though?

No, never.

They'll be able to understand him.

Yep.

My final story then is, I don't know if you've seen the video this week of

the Chinese auto manufacturer that does their sort of range over a copy.

Oh, this is so good.

This is hilarious.

Yeah.

It's a Chinese company called Cherry.

C-E-H-E-R-Y.

It's not Chevy.

It's not the Chinese functioning as the Chevy.

Yeah, very good.

Very team America there, Lee.

Like that.

Well, funny, we talked to this last night with Stefan and Tim.

We took him up.

So their model is a new hybrid off-roader that bears a striking resemblance to

a Landau and Range Rover models.

It has 422 brake horsepower.

It's called the Full Win X3L.

And they tried to replicate the Range Rover advert of 2018 where it went up 99 steps to

China's Heaven's Gate on the Chinese wall.

It went viral, nearly 7 million views.

So they done the attempt at that and looked really, really good.

And then it got to a certain point and just slid back and knocked a bit of the wall out.

Yep.

Highly embarrassing.

Almost as embarrassing as the Russian AI robot that presented there on Tuesday or Wednesday.

I didn't see that now.

That came out trotting out and looked like it was somebody coming out of a bar and fell over in

the face and they just brought this black curtain out and dragged it out by its feet.

So they apologized to the National Park and went, I'm so sorry.

Knocking part of the fucking wall down.

Yeah, it really didn't go well.

It's a funny video review.

If you look it up, you'll find it like it's...

Especially when they do your side by side of the Range Rover just sweeping up the stairs like

it's nothing and this thing like crawling up and then just slid sliding back down.

It was just bad form.

The funny thing is with those Range Rovers, I give them a lot of shit for being fucking

paving princesses and never doing it.

But see when you actually do tick them off.

They are a capable vehicle.

They're incredibly capable.

Have you put like a set of decent off-road tires on them?

They go anywhere until the breakdown.

That just goes to show you, Chinese manufacturers,

what's the term called when they pull something apart and re-engine?

Not retrofit.

No.

You know what I'm trying to say here?

Okay, they can do that.

Reverse engineer.

Reverse engineer, that's the term it's looking for.

But it looks like it hasn't.

That's the thing on the stuff in there that you'll never get it 100% like.

That's years of building 4x4s.

Experience, yeah.

That's me out of news.

I just have a quick one, which is a 24 year old appeared in court

because he stole a bus and drove from Lettercanny to Dublin

because the bus that he wanted to get on was full.

Well, I mean, what's the man to do?

I mean, only in Donegal.

It's the Florida man of Ireland, the Donegal man.

He drove the 390,000 euro bus from Lettercanny along the M1

and abandoned it in Sherrith, straight in North Dublin.

I mean, that's idiotic, if not only from the point of view

that those buses are camera to hell, like unless he approached it

with new clothes that he wasn't seen in by the other bus's camera

and a balaclavon, it wouldn't have been hard to trace who he was.

When I read the headline though, you know when you picture in your head,

I pictured this was an old man who had done this because,

you know, old man screams at the sky, you know, this bus is full,

fuck you, I'll take that one.

Aye.

No, this fella was 24.

Maybe somebody said here, take the other bus and he was like, I know, well,

where he went.

What about the bus taking the, like, bulldozer through, was it Birmingham or somewhere?

No, is this not the sky lift, like the meep?

Like the...

No, no, no, no, no.

I know the one you're talking about.

Aye.

But there was another one where a boy in England was at Birmingham

and he took what he called a famous excavator in America

that the boy boarded up and went on a rampage.

Kildozer.

Not a million miles for it and he was driving around this town just on the rampage.

Police couldn't stop him, took him hours to get him stopped.

In Birmingham.

I don't know if it was Birmingham, but it was England.

Somewhere in England, I didn't hear that.

This boy in a lorry pulled across the road trying to block him.

He just drove straight.

Oh, yeah.

Ah, the whole Kildozer thing's unreal.

It's all the memes you see about it too.

It's like...

Talking about Kildozer, Westland Diesel.

I just got an alert, like as we started this podcast,

so allegedly has been arrested.

Yes.

I seen a video on Instagram.

Tax evasion.

Yeah.

So Cody Detweiler, who is Westland Diesel,

arrested Wednesday evening and booked into Williamson County Jail in Franklin, Tennessee.

He bonded out later on, but tax evasion apparently.

It's definitely a weird one.

His whole tunnel is going to shit at the minute.

Is it?

That's a strange thing.

I'm one of the Westland Diesel subreddit thing.

I don't even like him.

I think it's suggested to me and I clicked on it once and it keeps coming up with my feed.

And apparently his whole thing has just fell off totally.

And he's just abusing his viewers and stuff in the comments.

And he's just lost a plot, basically.

Who knows?

Alas then.

Well, speaking of YouTube stars, anybody got any YouTube's?

A few.

I have a few.

Most of what I have been looking at this last while,

I was telling you before we started recording is chopper stuff and Harley stuff.

So I've sifted through the masses of my YouTube and pulled out all the relevant car stuff.

So Jimmy Oaks' channel has taken a bit of a turn again.

They were doing the 20 valve conversion on 20 valve turbo conversion on the E36.

And they're now back working on the Sonda, which was good.

A few years ago, they built the rear wheel drive Civic with the S13 stuff underneath it.

They've pulled the engine out and they're putting a Beams engine,

which is the Lexus IS 200.

Yeah, the decent one with ITBs on it.

Because basically they took the other engine out to put in another S14 to do as a giveaway car,

because it had too much power in that car and you couldn't use it.

I always wonder where the Beams engines ended up.

Because there's a lot of imported in Ireland.

That's true.

Yeah, either I don't know where they were.

Would have went or did they put them into other cars or what?

But yeah, it's good seeing them doing something a little bit different.

Another one we watched the other night is a guy I dippin' out of his stuff, Aiden Templin.

And he has restored a Miata or MX-5 as we would know it.

But his whole video concept is like very like led back chill.

It's there's no talking and there's like soft music over it.

It's so well done.

It's just it's literally worth checking out.

He doesn't post that often, but when he does it's absolutely good.

What do you call Aiden Templin?

T-E-M-P-L-I-N.

He's a cinema talker or something, isn't he?

I don't know what he does, but it's like that.

His stuff is very cinematic.

Yeah, it's like the old Top Gear.

You know, when they absolutely just their whole visuals was incredible.

It's a bit like that of the slow

There's a guy.

Pans and Jack is going to be screaming at me for calling it a pan.

But everything's a pan.

There's a guy I think I mentioned in his videos years ago, Cars With Luck.

He lives out in Switzerland.

Uh-huh.

Very Porsche oriented and he's obviously a high-end video content maker.

And his stuff's very luxurious.

You can tell by people like I that it's shot and looked at it in a different way.

Another one then more locally is John Payton released another video there.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know if you guys seen it.

So he is currently building himself a new daily, which is an E30.

No, sorry.

190.

190E mark with a new M606, which is the TDI from the bigger marks of that era

with a massive turbo on it from was it a John Deere or an excavator?

Can't remember which.

I'm sure it's John Deere.

And an eight-speed BMW modern.

Those like DCT gearboxes like the DSG type ones.

Right.

So there's an eight-speed automatic modern gearbox behind it.

With a full cosy kit and hydraulics on it.

This is going to be the daily.

Daily.

Yeah.

I love John.

Very John.

He's brilliant.

Just works in different ways from the rest of us.

He's a fucking legend.

And then when he's doing it, I just love one of his videos when he's doing it.

It's like, well, I just did this and then in three sentences sums up what people would take a year to do.

He's getting very comfortable behind the cameras.

I like to see it.

I mean, it's very good.

And then lastly, Jake Logue put it in another video where he had Fogel on,

who Fogel's done a lot of fabrication for us doing sales and stuff for him,

which is an interesting watch.

I think Fogel done a YouTube with Kirste.

Kirsten Patterson.

I think I've seen some of his Instagram stories without having watched it.

Yes.

I haven't got seen yet him and Gary Heasley with the Evo that messed it in.

Both have.

So check that one out as well.

Funny story.

I bumped into Gary Heasley in the airport,

heading to London.

He was heading to South Africa.

That's right.

He was heading for his...

Was he heading to Minorka or South Africa or London?

I can't remember.

What time was in the airport anyway?

It probably was probably going to Minorka.

I would say time wise.

It was 11th October I went out.

It was his honeymoon they went to.

So that's me out of YouTube.

YouTube's just briefly vintage.

He's doing a great series about a club sport build on an E92 for the giveaway car.

I haven't got what's next.

Good stuff.

I really like his content.

Good stuff.

Yeah.

I know what you mean.

It's like you're watching your mate doing stuff.

Yeah.

He's very relaxed behind the camera.

He gets technical but not too technical.

And there's no airs or graces.

YouTube bullshit.

It's just your mate.

Yeah.

Watch that.

I've slipped back into the auto Alex videos.

I sort of stopped watching them after that whole Taylor carry on.

But they do do a good road trip videos.

I never watched any of their stuff.

That's the weird thing.

Various road trip ones that on Europe quite enjoyable to watch.

The final one then is RE performance.

So I fell into the RE performance videos because there's a few

channels of watch and they would take their cars there.

So RE performance is basically.

I forget the name of the fellow that owns it.

But he would work on a lot of RS.

Well not as much RS.

But more R8's, McLaren's and occasional RS's.

And I fell into it because of my algorithm.

Because of the automotive stuff I follow.

And because it threw up a thing where he was restoring an old.

What was it he was restoring?

Was it a quadro?

It wasn't a quadro.

Can't even remember now what it was.

But anyway, it usually does like a 40 minute video every week or two.

And it's a great way to see if you're thinking of buying something like an R8.

What they hadn't called sir.

What can go wrong.

Yeah.

He charges 150 pound an hour.

And like he'll just he'll break down.

What it is.

This part costs this.

We are doing 20 hours in this.

This is the reality of owning these cars.

I think the mic.

The honesty is very, very good on it.

Now you can be a bit annoying with different things he does and whatever.

But just listening to some of the details of it.

I find quite interesting.

It is interesting to see that when those kind of cars come down into a more affordable

price range.

That the parts and stuff are still and that lets you know that.

It reminds me of Corados when they started to become more affordable.

Affordable.

They just boys stop investing in them and maintain them.

And then they nose dive a bit.

Yeah.

Sorry.

It just reminds me of that sort of scenario where an R8 is 30 grand now.

I could afford that.

And then you realize.

But the running costs and the maintenance and the stupid wee things that go wrong.

And it's engine out jobs.

Even on a cheaper scale.

Do you remember years ago where like the early imprets is kind of bottomed out in price

and civic type ours and they were bought for a grand or two.

But you still have these running costs and things and it's expensive to keep those cars

running.

That's on a different scale again.

It's an RS2 you bought.

RS2.

Sorry I was trying to find there.

Yeah.

So quite a good channel.

Some people like it.

Some people won't.

But I found it quite addressed in the old video consultants.

It definitely sounds interesting.

One of the videos was they had a black mark for our 32 and the stone meant low mileage

collector car and then they were just he was walking around the guy that runs it.

He's where did he start?

I think he's like a vague background.

And yeah.

Good stuff.

Excellent.

I don't think of anything else.

We have one.

What?

Every fucking time you just slip in.

What did you watch?

Well I watched it with you and I don't think you put it on on purpose.

It just would came up on the next play thing or whatever.

But it was really weird.

This thing's been around for years.

I'd never seen it before.

But it's apparently was on fifth gear and stuff back in the day.

So people know about it.

But I didn't know about it until now.

It's a Rover ST1.

Yeah.

1981 ST1.

Big barges.

With a 27 liter V12 from like a Merlin plane in it.

So it's like a Spitfire engine basically.

I forgot about this.

This thing is mental, right?

Some old man owns it.

And this old man owns it.

And he's so engineer like because some of the stuff he talks about

a bit like Peyton just casually like,

well I had to make a new turbo thing that does this magically like.

Oh yeah.

He put a supercharger on as well to make more power.

What liter?

27.

I remember ST1s used to be in rallies and touring cars.

They're a big boat of a thing.

They were like the the Mustang of the British automotive.

They were the what did they come with the 3.5 3.5 dead.

I think that's the same engine they put in the 6R4.

Is it?

The 6R4 is a V6.

Ah.

The same base as the VX220.

The Jags.

Right, okay.

But those V8s were dead as fuck.

Like the 3.5 liters.

They had that prestige in here in the UK.

Oh, they're a big V8, you know, 3.5 liter V8.

But they were dead.

Like yeah.

But yeah, this thing is interesting.

Just search the words Rover 27 liter V8.

It'll come up.

There's loads of videos about it.

But this one in particular that we watched,

it showed you your man's garage and stuff as well.

And the garage is the weirdest thing.

Yeah, it's not even a garage.

It's not even a garage.

It's like a carport that he's put a kind of PVC roof on.

And he has a lift that's not a lift.

Well, it is.

But apparently there's a separate video about it as well.

It's built out of basically the gobbins of a forklift.

Yeah, so it lifts from one side.

And the but when he lifts the lift, the whole roof lifts up.

Aye.

And I'm sure it's fine.

And if I had watched the other video, maybe it would explain.

But the thing looks sketchy as fuck because it's lined one side.

Do you know the...

It's terrifying.

Joe and Wallace and Grommet, the engineer and that.

This is like someone has done this.

Yeah, it's a weird video.

It's the sound of it even just like trundling along in the roads.

It makes like 700 horsepower or something.

Aye.

That's very odd.

There's old men having flashbacks of the planes coming out over the edges with this thing.

You drive past the lead and the boys are shitting themselves.

Questions then?

Aye, let's crack on.

Go for questions.

Questions.

I have not a look at the questions really.

Oh my God.

First one then is Oscar, VW's home reader.

Says a bit premature, maybe.

But what are some New Year's cars plus project resolutions?

I'm going to try and finish one project for every two that I start, baby steps.

If I could do that, I'd be happy.

So do you resolutions myself?

Because you usually don't stick to them.

My thing at the moment is probably just the winter plans,

trying to tidy up the mark too a little bit for next year.

But I want to start working...

You've started well because you've cleared that shit in the shout out.

So you've got a good base.

We've been at it.

I think we've already started with ours.

And I want to tickle away at the mark three.

Now that it'll be accessible to get it back down.

I actually don't think I talked about that earlier,

but that's in the pipeline as well.

Not my new year resolution, but I would like to...

I think I'll have time over the Christmas period.

I'd like to get the head back on the mark one at last.

That would be good.

Yeah.

It's setting on the block.

Is it ready to go?

Like it needs...

It's only been a hundred years.

When did I do that?

I think it was last winter, was it?

It was I.

Yeah, very good night.

Mine is...

Work on the R32.

I talked about this in one of the last episodes.

I think the plan...

The Jetta is pushed back.

And I'm trying to be...

Realistic about...

Timelines.

Timelines of whatever.

So the Jetta is now...

Although slightly crying in the corner already.

It's going to be officially pushed back in my brain as well as in real life.

And do a bit on the R32 over this winter.

Well, at least it's achievable and you can still use it next year then.

Rally Weyn says,

Hi guys, just wondering which shops or news agents locally sell performance Volkswagen magazine?

That's a hard one.

Brim hedge.

Petrosation in the land.

Which is outside of Lisburne towards the Moira roundabout.

Closer to him.

The 24R BP in Port-A-Dine.

Sometimes has it.

Sometimes doesn't.

Yeah, it's the only one I can think closer to him that has it.

Honestly, if you're going to buy it all the time, a subscription is probably the easiest option.

Tesco's Newton Arch always has it.

Yeah, Tesco's in Craig Alvin never has it.

It's so weird.

I couldn't depend on where it's going to be.

Wonder how you find that information out.

I don't know, actually.

Yeah, that's a good point.

If only I had somebody that worked for PVW.

Who could that be?

Could find the distribution.

I suppose I could ask a question.

I don't know if it makes sense.

Get back to you, Weyn.

A lot of places, I used to work in a kind of news agent garage type shop and some of them,

I don't know what it's like now, but when they're in franchises and stuff.

But if you go in and ask, they'll get stuff in for you.

Yes.

They're not going to get something then if they don't think anybody's going to buy it.

But if you go in and say, I'm interested in this magazine, they'll try and get it in, I think.

I don't know how it'll work now.

They get it in and you go buy it and they go, that would be so worth it.

Well, I don't know.

And Elliot or somebody could probably explain this better,

but now that they're not part of Liberty Media, I don't know how that works with distribution.

Do you know what I mean?

Because presumably before you just went to whoever the supplier for

all those magazines was and just added it to your list.

But I don't know now that they're independent.

What way it works?

I don't know myself, actually, perhaps you could explain.

Also, just when Wayne's there, did you see that Wayne is built in model cars, but like bespoke stuff?

So good.

His friend and our friend Patrick is also having a DEMMA 306 built by Redhill Motorsport,

which is another legend.

And Wayne built a model of the partially finished DEMMA as if it's in Redhill Motorsport.

Class.

And in the background, he's even included a real podcast banner.

That's so popular.

Oh, I actually did.

I did see that.

Yeah.

Now you say that.

Because I looked at it and went, at first glance,

you see something you scroll along and go, so you got our banner up.

And I went, oh, that's a model.

It's like, holy shit.

Yeah.

It's just really fucking cool.

That was pretty cool.

Um, Jack Rice 2.3 says, F1 moving to sustainable fuels next year.

If they work, could the V10s make a return?

I doubt it.

That'd be pleasurable.

It'd be nice.

Nice in the years, but I can't say it.

They tout this every so often with V8s and V10s and V12s returning, but it's never going to happen.

The door is closed.

There'll be three cylinders soon.

Joy.

Um, sunny day photography says, what's the best photo you've taken

of a car you own slash owned?

Do you remember my photo I took of my E30 Graven at Cars at the Mill?

The owl boy looking at the rear wheels?

Yes.

That's my favorite photo.

That one.

That's quite a cool photo that, yeah.

That's one I had in the SLR camera.

It could be ours.

My problem is I take photos of people else's cars and not of me own.

Probably my favorite photo and probably nobody's really seen it is before we built the garage,

there used to be a wee house there and it was like a wee timber frame house and we flattened it

and the concrete pad was still left and I backed, the container was behind it and I backed the

mark three onto it and took like a side shot against the container and you only need like

bag mark threes to have that like kind of nose down stance and you can see it really clearly

against like the container background and it's really cool photo.

Problem is I don't have the original and it's like real shit quality now because it's been like

screen shot and saved but I always love that one.

I've taken some cracker photos of both you guys cars and other people's cars

which are probably my favorite photos that I've ever taken but not of my own as such.

I can't think of any that I've taken of mine.

Again, I take a lot of your stuff.

I was gonna say you've got a freelance.

Exactly, I don't have to.

One of my favorite photos I've ever taken is the group shot after Titanic Dubs.

Yeah, it's a crowd.

It's still so good.

Yeah, it's good.

VW underscore Wayno says vague current discussion.

We're already done with it.

Yep.

Here you go.

Probably one of them in the last episode of where to put them together.

Keep up the good work.

Great event.

D underscore Tails19 says ever, oh fuck,

ever had a car related near-death experience?

Financial death doesn't count.

I've had several.

I've been on the roof.

You've been on the roof?

Slid down, crawling out of it.

The driver had his face basically or his forehead script off.

The panic ensues when you flip a car and land upside down

and you become conscious again.

It's just like this is gonna,

because you watch so many Hollywood movies,

you think Hollywood movies,

you think that's gonna burst into flames here?

Aye, it doesn't always.

I have a few.

I had a lamppost one night at quite a speed in my mom's car

in a built-up area at like 12 o'clock at night.

And it basically cut the front end of the car and catapulted me.

The lamppost kind of sprung and catapulted me back out onto the road.

That was, there wasn't much the car left.

And then I had a Mark II Golf fall on me.

It was on axle stands.

I was doing brake lines under it a lifetime ago.

And I fell off the axle stands and I basically just rolled out.

And it was like it fell and like crossed the axle stand sideways underneath it.

That was a fun one to, I think, potty made it in there to try and

sort out.

Another one, one night,

Steph and I were in his red TDI Mark III with the Corvette Sawblades and stuff.

I think he told this not that long ago.

And yeah, we were coming along, listening to fucking big pun.

And it was like a two-lane road with the hard shoulder either side.

And he overtook a car.

But he was speeding up behind the car and then went to overtake.

And doing your committed to an overtake, you're not going to get braked in time.

But as he whipped out, there was a car suddenly there and he went fuck.

And the only thing he could do was head for the hard shoulder on the other side.

And go up the other side of the car.

And we got stopped in the hard shoulder.

I mean, we were full shitting ourselves and just looked at each other and started to laugh.

And it was like, oh yeah, we nearly died.

It was a few moments like that.

Squeaky bum.

It was a few in the bike as well years ago too.

It was never fun.

But yeah, there's been quite a few, both on the road and off the road.

I took our land robin through a motocross jump once,

but that wasn't a near death.

That was just ridiculous.

That was just silly.

The engine mind broke.

Just for the crack.

The engine mind broke.

It fell forward, pulled the throttle on.

It took off around the garden with me in it.

I was only like 15.

Would you leave?

Touch words.

Nothing really too bad.

I've had a few sort of close call scares,

but nothing where I actually came to the full stop.

Yeah, those are always the bad.

S14 OCP.

Simon says, new podcast segment.

Tidy motors you've spotted lately.

Seen a standard Mark II Jetta today.

How's that about rarity?

Well, I was coming through Lesburn,

or the same field we were running about in Lesburn.

And just as you get newer Phillips heads there,

there's a road near right.

As you come down to the right about it,

I'd pull the Jeep with all behind it a,

what looked to me, a freshly restored Cavalier turbo.

Oh, cool.

Oh, nice.

What color?

Burgundy.

They're all burgundy.

Silver or burgundy?

But that was burgundy.

I don't drive enough anymore to see things on the roads.

I thought Mark used to live right there.

Yes.

He doesn't anymore?

No.

But that's where I think he used to live.

I long, long time ago.

It's just weird that that's where it was.

S underscore Doug.

Sheen says, would you rather,

what would you rather do?

Remove and reinstall a dashboard or an engine?

And I'd be perfectly honest with you, both are a shit show.

Yeah.

Especially in the modern stuff.

Yeah.

Mark V dashes are no joke.

Engine.

Dash is a fucking nightmare.

The wiring in modern engines isn't funny, though.

That's the odd thing.

Yeah.

Depends on the engine.

If it's a Mark one or Mark two.

Yay.

Aye.

Then a dash is easy on them too.

True.

I just, I hate working inside cars.

That's the thing.

I even hate cleaning, you know, the inside of your windscreen.

I just, because you just, you can't get the right angle and you can't fucking.

I'm not flexible on a first step, a dash, remove front seats.

Yeah.

100%.

And you can get in and actually nail it.

And then you're nailing on all the fucking, the grubbins and the brackets.

Screws, puttin' in your kneecaps.

Oh, it's awful.

It's just a delight.

That's a horrible question, Sian.

Because there's no answer to that.

Idiot, idiot.

That'll torture me.

You also said questions to the listeners.

Anyone know where you can get PWW in the south?

There's another one.

There we go.

I haven't been there often.

Oh, I bought one.

Junction 14's meant to be the super show station, isn't it?

Because I thought it was the new one.

And it wasn't.

It was still the old one that you'd already got.

I bought it in a garage.

Ah, fuck, where was it?

Somewhere out in the west.

That's no good to him.

No.

That Junction 14 apple green's meant to be the, where's that?

Is it a port least direction?

I say I'm not familiar with the south.

But it's like a space station.

I remember stopping the way back from Cork last year,

where I shot on.

That's right, you stopped on your own.

You know.

Quite a lot of the big service stations don't even really

have magazines anymore.

Either have a shelf or two.

Yeah, but not much.

But some of the women's own smaller kind of local

petrol stations tend to have more stuff than the big ones do.

They're more like a supermarket.

Yeah, maybe another one for Ella.

I'll keep an eye out on my travels.

Shout out.

Um, G. Eliot's Troy says winter plans.

Hopefully get my shipbox running again.

Family schedule is busy this year.

Hope you're all doing well.

Thank you very much.

Cheers.

Same to yourself.

Yeah.

His mark ones, the lifted mark one we've seen.

That's pretty cool.

Ark cartel says hire the leaves now guys.

So you might notice that there are quite a lot of leaves here.

10 days ago, there were no leaves here.

Because I employed Stefan Clark Industries to leaf blue this entire place.

And I will not joke when I said it took him five hours to leaf blue.

Because after the storm, there were everywhere.

And hopefully it was covered.

So I was like, come around and do this.

So got it sorted.

See within two days, him and Fogle on the back here to lift the engine crane.

He drove onto the street and he he was more angry than I was.

More leaves.

The leaves again.

Back to the same shit again.

And you know what?

In fairness, he left the place fucking spotless.

And then within two days, but everything with the storms this last while,

the entire autumn leaves have just hit within like two weeks.

Arn underscore Hughes underscore 80 says,

how do you guys rank golf generations?

Two, three, one, four, seven, five, six, eight personally.

Enjoying the podcast.

Thank you very much.

What was his order?

Two is first.

Then three, then one.

Controversial or something that doesn't mean.

One before three.

Four, seven, five, six, then eight.

Well, it's going to be last.

Definitely.

No, six is last.

Followed by five.

She gets more face.

I'd say two's top.

Just because it's the mark one was never designed to be.

The refined, the mark one into the mark two looks of a mark one are much superior.

Yes.

But a mark two is a far better driving car.

Like you've probably owned higher horsepower mark ones as well,

but like Lee's car, you haven't know because Lee's car,

like Lee's car is fucking fun to drive.

But it doesn't feel as tight as a mark two.

And in that you feel a whole lot of chassis flex compared to a mark two,

which has everything mounted on a subframe.

It keeps everything tight.

You know, when you're engine's trying to move Lee, it's moving chassis legs.

You just feel the difference, especially with a big engine in a weak car.

Three, four, two, one, seven, eight, five, six.

For a four before a mark two and a one.

I love more force.

Jabers.

Jesus, you're off the podcast.

Go ahead, Connor.

Genuinely, I would have a mark three over a mark two.

Have you drove them all?

Obviously, I've driven eight actually now.

I haven't driven an eight, but yes, I've driven them all, but I haven't driven eight.

Good.

Yeah.

And I've driven performance models of them all, except the general best, isn't it?

How would you rank them?

Oh, that's personal opinion.

So if it's personal opinion, if it goes down to the genuine personal opinion.

That could be looks, performance, handling, whatever you want to do.

All round package.

Mark three, mark two and mark one would be a tie for me, to be honest.

Four, five, six, seven, eight.

No, seven's got to be four, six.

Actually, you're right.

So a seven, I, a seven, so yeah.

Mark five, mark seven, mark six, yeah.

That's a big generalization because I fucking love Gethins, mark six,

but as a general with mark six.

The only reason I pulled a six down is because it was an accountant's build.

It was, yeah.

They're so bland.

It was a rehash, but I love the interior of the six.

There are nice examples, but as a group, they're bland.

A mark six GTI looks like an SE, mark six to me.

My problem is they're a great chassis.

That's the thing.

They do everything very well.

They're better chassis than mark fours, right?

But would you, you probably would, as I say, would you own one over a mark four?

All day long.

I've had several mark fours.

You're an old modern car man now.

Mark four to me, it's a very Audi Volkswagen.

It is.

It's very competent.

But very bland.

Yeah.

No, well built.

Like one of the best built of the range you have to give it to them like.

Yeah, great.

Aye.

But that's what Audi's are.

They're well built.

Yeah.

I'm bland.

But they've never excited me and that's probably because they never put enough horsepower in them.

Because I've had our 32s and just went, why did they not put another 50 brake horsepower in this?

Aye.

Or a supercharger.

I think for me, mark fours is the era when I was getting into cars and I've just always loved them.

So Nigel's about to be loved in the last year for some reason.

You know, it's strange that.

But I love that mark four I bought a few.

That was the thing.

She hated mark fours, bought that fucking.

I never hated mark fours.

No, I thought you were that fast on them.

I thought you did say that.

I thought you said I didn't like these things.

And then.

Do you know what I think it was about that?

I didn't used to like silver cars.

Because I thought they were kind of boring.

The notorious hardest color to match.

But now I think silver cars are nice and classy and I really like them.

Two, one.

You be careful here.

See, there's a thing.

I've had them all and I like them all and it's just it depends what mood you're in really.

Really does.

I would have said I would have thought you would have said five straight out the gate was the best.

No, my perspective has changed just for the.

Yeah, two, one.

Cause I've owned so many and five, seven, three, six, eight.

You forgot four.

He didn't.

He left it off the list.

I've probably put what did I say there?

I've probably put four, four, three.

I've just never worn the threes.

Never worn the threes.

Yeah, me neither.

Don't like my mark threes.

I don't ever think I remember you on the mark three that you didn't break.

Mark three.

I don't remember you ever with the mark three.

Briefly.

All right.

Which one?

16.

Oh, fuck me.

All right.

That's why you don't like them.

I think I flipped it a couple of months or two.

Cause I just went to the ship.

All right.

All their deaths, fuck.

Shorty 1919 says, Rilu joined the ring trip next year.

Them boys all went to the ring and looked good.

Funny on the topic of road trips.

I was talking to Robin about this and maybe in the pipeline,

maybe not next year, the year after, do a proper week and a half.

And night again.

That'll be cool.

Um, no poke.

No love says winter plans are trying not trying to be a good lad

and not shaving the bay on the new project.

I don't know if he's revealed what his new project is,

but he's a man off his own heart and he should shave the bay,

but also if he wants to drive that car anytime soon,

he should not shave the bay.

That's a dark old.

Oh, fuck it is.

Yeah.

While I'm there.

Yeah.

Theory.

Oh, I'm worthy of stop.

I've been there.

Uh, Jake Luke says it's getting very close to dub shed.

Dot, dot, dot.

Ponyx a little.

Not at all.

Fuck it doesn't belong coming around.

No.

Seriously now that Christmas is so close and.

Once you get cross.

January is like eight months.

And then it just goes.

Dub shed.

Dub shed straight away.

It's like January dub shed.

No.

January is the longest month of the year and then it's just

January dub shed.

Aye.

Those are all the shortest months.

Yeah.

Uh, Noah or not.

Noah ran.

Don't know who that is.

Says I might have finally something to go to my first dub shed in.

Good.

Very good.

Yes.

Love to see it.

And then we're running out of time here.

So ended on this one and we'll save the rest for the next one.

We have Michael Scullin says sex grand for an E 36.

Basically a rolling shell with an interior has the world go mad.

Yes.

Yes, it has.

That's mental.

But unfortunately it's the world we now live in.

I was having this conversation with somebody recently there and it was just like

even I know you have to just accept it if you want the parts.

That's what you have to pay for.

It's fucking insane.

But I feel sorry for 17, eight year olds that are trying to get into cars.

And that's that's the thing we've talked about is like everything is against them.

You know, when we were doing this stuff originally, yes,

when you work out for inflation, it wasn't as cheap as you know,

a thousand pound car then was say a two grand car now,

but you still can't buy a two grand car now.

Yeah.

It's well, you can, but it's difficult to do.

It is hard.

I don't envy anybody trying to do it.

You think it's some of the like the rare parts that weren't even that rare back then.

I've picked up over the years for little my yachting front splitter and stuff.

Now it's probably double the money.

It's also prayers to the next generation of orders.

Yep.

That's why you don't sell anything.

And if you do, you sell it to me cheap.

All that all.

And on that note, we are going to leave you there.

We will indeed.

Thank you very much folks for your questions.

A big shout out to our new sponsor.

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Oh, I get your desk right folks.

Get on them.

It's the perfect time of year to be buying stuff.

It is indeed.

If you have money on the bank account that is.

It's park season.

It's park season folks.

Yeah.

So thanks again for listening and thanks for all the feedback.

We'll catch you next time.

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Nissan R32

Audi TT RS

performance pack

factory map

Audi Rs

horsepower

brakes

Olin's suspension

R32

TT

Volkswagen R32

miles per gallon (MPG)

Volkswagen Passat

four-wheel drive

Volkswagen Bora

G60 arches

Volkswagen Golf Mk2

boost

TDI

diverter valve

naturally aspirated

N75

big turbo

Brembo calipers

Porsche 911

Land Rover Range Rover

BMW E36

Mazda Miata Or Mx5

Mercedes-Benz 190E

Audi RS2

Rover ST1

Zenvo ST1

Ford Mustang

Volkswagen Jetta

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