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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Auto Analytics Podcast, home of automotive financial mistakes,

our life in cars and your questions answered today.

Rory, Taylor and I will fill your ear and your eye holes with discussions about what we've been up to.

And there's been a lot. There's been a lot.

We'll play another round of... No, we won't. We won't play another round of how much that, because that's not in this podcast.

We're going to answer some of your questions, including keep or quit.

But before that, I want to say a massive hello to Joe Haskell on day one of his new delivery job.

Phil Britson, who moved from the Isle of Man to Canada and is in need of new people to work on cars with.

We've got Tim Schoen here listening in Germany while looking at stars through a telescope.

Oh, I've always wanted a telescope.

I'm reading between the lines there. It sounds like he's a peeping Tom.

Brilliant. You use Jones for that now.

Oh, you do, don't you?

We've got Mike and Tom trying to make sense of an E30 wiring loom.

Good luck.

Aiden and Lester putting off finishing his dissertation.

Ryan and Plymouth looking for wheels for his new Mark III Supra.

Fraser Hill, who loved food and fuel last week, and we love seeing your amazing Peugeot 306 GTI.

It was nice. Yeah, the white one.

And last but definitely not least, Roy's Mum Jackie.

And we've got some news on Jackie, don't we?

She had a great weekend, which we'll get to in a little bit.

OK.

Yeah, but I saw Roy's Mum Jackie in the weekend.

Did you?

Yeah.

Well, she wasn't with me.

Oh, I didn't see her.

No, she was with me.

Oh, OK.

We work up next to each other.

Oh, brilliant.

Anyway, before we get into that, what have we all been up to?

Can I get started?

Because I've written it down because there's a lot I've been up to.

Number one, being ill.

You have.

I've been injured and I've been ill.

Oh, God.

My right arm still has a bit of written mortise.

And how did your right arm fall off?

In the most middle class injury ever.

We were in central pay.

I was wakeboarding and instead of lifting myself out of the water,

I decided to try and drag the boat back into the sea.

But the boat has got two engines and weighs 14 tonnes.

The boat won.

So for anyone who doesn't know Alex,

people won't know that he's the most competitive man in the world.

Oh, no.

I'm not.

And the only reason he wouldn't...

So basically we'd wakeboarding.

If you mess up, you have to let go because otherwise you end up...

What do you end up doing, Alex?

You pull your arms off.

So this wasn't a competitive thing.

This was just a me thing, just trying to do it.

No, it was a competitive thing.

Do you know what? I was disappointed.

I didn't do it on the first one.

Yeah, there you go.

I was like, how is this not working?

Why were you disappointed?

Because I'm very sporty and live.

Why were you disappointed?

I cannot bring myself to say it.

I literally cannot bring myself to say it.

I think you were disappointed because Rory was really good at it

and a lot better than you were and you couldn't bear it.

So he refused to let go.

And would rather try and stop the boat with his arms

than let go and admit he can't wake.

Yeah, and I felt a really big pop

and I actually thought I dislocated my shoulder

and I was very upset with myself.

And then my kind of lat flared up a little bit.

But my lat's okay now,

but my arm when I kind of reach out is still not good.

I reckon I'm 80% there.

Nice.

And then I'm going to get back in the gym

and injure myself another way.

But that wasn't the injury I was alluding to.

I've been ill from my buttock.

Nice.

Yeah, it's been everywhere.

That explains it.

My buttock has been everywhere.

Every single toilet has just been all over the shop.

But it was only for about 24 hours.

You had it, Taylor.

Briefly, yes.

Which we'll get into.

Oh, this is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

But yeah, Malav Riyan,

she had it from the buttock and from the mouth.

So yeah, pretty much Norovirus.

You know Norovirus?

That's bad.

Is that what it is?

Pretty much, yeah.

So it just randomly appeared for Riyan out of nowhere.

I came back from my trip.

I had to look after her.

And also look after our daughter Amelia.

I spent probably like a full day looking after Amelia.

Looking after a child like Newslash is so much work.

No.

Like so much work, especially a toddler.

You sit down.

You look up.

Toddler's gone.

You literally cannot relax.

At all.

You can't really switch them off.

No, you can't.

There's no off button.

Trust me, I have looked on that child.

I know you're feeling, honestly, with Bailey, it's the exact same.

No.

It involves the same concentration and effort as looking after a child.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, does that mean that you're going to have a child soon

because you're already used to it?

Is there something you want to tell Ellie?

No, no, no.

You're soon to be...

No.

The puppy's good.

The puppy has shut you up, didn't it?

Yeah.

But anyway, I just wanted to say, like massive shout out to all the moms out there because

you just don't sit down.

You just don't sit.

You're always on the go, always feeding, always cooking, always cleaning, always doing everything.

And if you're a husband or a boyfriend or a partner or whatever, and if you go past a petrol station,

or as Tom would say, a petrol station or wherever by her, by your significant other,

a bunch of flowers and just say thanks.

But you've never done that.

I actually did last week.

And Riam was really ill.

I bought a like sunflower and stuff like that.

I felt really bad for her.

And I was like, shit, that's like, that's not a full-time job.

That's like life.

That's a life sentence.

Okay.

A life sentence of love.

That's what I like to call it.

I get home and I'm like, hello, life sentence of love.

How are you?

Anyway, my M5, my cheap E39 M5 is with Welder Jamie at the moment.

It's having new sills.

So that's very exciting.

Done a car deal on another Clio Williams.

What are you going to do with that?

I'm just going to sit on it for a while.

No one knows.

Not even me.

But it fell into my lap.

It's cheap.

It's knackered a bit like Mike was.

It's going to get restored at some point.

But yeah, it's not going to be a video car or anything.

Betty is very nearly finished as well.

Betty is now PD swapped.

I saw that.

Betty is looking amazing.

Had a little go in Betty, up the hill, food and fuel, which was fantastic.

Barney as well.

We were discussing that this morning.

Interior is going to get fully, fully tarted up.

Dell is going to be going to...

Dell Modellico is going to be going to Richard's fabrication on Friday.

We're talking like snorkel, exhaust, bumpers front and rear, rock sliders, roof rack.

Everything is going to be wicked because we've got a big plan for Dell, don't we?

Yeah.

Yeah, which is going to be great.

Don't know what it is yet.

No.

We're also going to be picking up two new cars in the next couple of weeks.

Are we?

One's got a turbo and the other one's in a field, in a bush.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yes, we are.

Yeah, I'm very excited about these, actually.

Yeah.

Which is probably going to be the start of a new series, which is very exciting.

Yes.

There's a lot of cars coming back here all of a sudden.

Yes.

Well, this channel is called Autilex Cars.

We are running out of space.

No, we're not.

We've got loads of space in that paddock.

We do have loads of space.

Stop being so negative.

No.

Well, Rory, that mini needs to go.

It's taking up too much space.

It can't go.

It has to go.

Yeah, it has to.

It doesn't move.

Yeah, it does.

We drove it to the petrol station the other day.

Why don't we order another skip and just pop it in?

I have.

It's arriving tomorrow.

Is it a mini size skip?

No, it's a big size skip.

Is it really?

Yeah, I reckon I could fit at least an M3 touring in there.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

That's probably all it's good for.

We've been preparing our dream cars because we're going away to Austria next week,

which is very exciting.

And finally, again, food and fuel.

Sorry to keep on, you know, name dropping food and fuel.

I met a lady who listens to the podcast and yeah, she became quite a big theme of two

of our podcasts.

Her name is Vicky.

Vicky.

Do you remember her?

Yes.

I remember Vicky.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Vicky with the E92M3 who had just had a child or the child is now daughter.

I can't remember.

And she bought a CLA.

CLA.

Yeah, something or other.

Yeah.

Even though she said she wanted a manual.

Yeah, yeah.

But I met Vicky and I gave Vicky a hug.

Oh, that's great.

And she's awesome.

Yeah, proper, proper petrolhead.

Totally awesome.

And she was like, yeah, I'm Vicky.

I was like, no way.

It's amazing.

So shout out to Vicky.

You're one of my favorite writer-inners to the podcast email, which is...

Podcast at autoillexcars.com.

Fair play.

And does she miss the M3?

I didn't ask.

Cool she does.

It's an E92M3.

They're amazing.

She must do.

But no, she's loving the CLA.

And I think she said that her husband slash partner is also looking for a project car now.

Right in, Vicky.

Let us know.

Let us know how we can help.

Well, you've got a nice Cleo Williams for sale.

So that might be a good project car for you.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it's not been picked up yet.

But yeah, we'll do that.

Anyway.

I like...

I'm just glancing over at your laptop.

Yeah.

It says there's a list.

Yeah.

It says what we've been up to.

Yeah.

It's got the list of stuff, you know, your M5 and this and that and the other.

And then underneath it just says, Taylor hyphen took a shit in pure gym.

Please elaborate.

Why is this important, Taylor?

So, quite a funny story.

We went to food and fuel at the weekend.

Just gone.

And we had a great time.

And I took my six series, ROLO, my 635 CSI.

And I drove in there two and a half hours.

Got up five o'clock in the morning.

Yeah.

Left, lovely.

Did you get up at five?

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

When I saw you like half eight or nine o'clock, I was like, Taylor's here.

Yeah.

Like what's going on?

I got up at five.

I left at like five, 20 or half, five whenever it was.

Stopped for a little cafe fee.

Yeah.

Driving along, watch the sunrise.

It was lovely.

Anyway, got to food and fuel.

Went up the hill four times.

Smoked your way up the hill.

In the six series.

Smoked your way up the hill, didn't you?

Half of it was tire smoke.

Yeah.

Because I did a good couple of burnouts.

You did, yeah.

Half was exhaust smoke.

Yeah.

There's quite a lot of it.

Yeah.

On the overrun, it's got a fair bit of blue smoke.

Yeah.

But why are you on the overrun?

You should just be on the gas the whole time.

Because I didn't want to change gear because it's so long-geared.

So I'd get all the way to the limiter.

And just as I got to the limiter, it's at the little left-handy bit where you sort

of let off.

So I'd hit the limiter, let off a bit, and then carry back on.

I don't want to change gear because it bogs down.

So anyway, smoke's on the overrun.

I think next year I'm going to take the engine out of that car and fully rebuild

it.

It needs an M57.

It's crying out for one.

Right.

It's an original matching numbers car.

So I'm keeping the engine.

Oh, yeah.

You can keep the engine.

But obviously the M57 can go in.

Make a table.

Make a table out of the engine.

No.

I'm going to rebuild its original engine.

New pistons.

I want to redo the block.

Maybe bore it out a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

Do the cylinder head.

Like pop and polish it.

Make it 1.9.

High lift cam.

Yeah.

You know, just I want to proper.

Yeah.

I want to properly rebuild that car top to bottom.

Anyway, left food and fuel.

Had an amazing day, by the way.

It was really, really amazing.

Left food and fuel drove two and a half hours home.

And I got 20 minutes from home.

Yeah.

And there was a crash on the M25.

There was a full fiesta upside down.

Oh, okay.

I hope they're all right.

But yeah, I stopped in traffic and I was like,

sitting there listening to my music.

I just saw a little whisper steam come out of the engine.

Oh, no.

That's odd.

Temperature gauge was fine.

Yeah.

I saw a little whisper steam.

I thought, that's weird.

And then it just sort of got more and more.

Luckily, traffic started moving.

So I pulled off at St Albans.

And there was a little Sainsbury's petrol station there.

Yeah.

So I pulled into the petrol station, stopped in a bay,

opened up on it.

And there's a pinhole in one of the coolant in the bottom.

Oh, bugger.

Rad holes.

Yeah.

And it's got, it's rubbed on the belt.

And it's obviously at like high RPM.

The belt like flaps against it or whatever.

And it's put a pinhole in it.

It's not like, okay.

So wrong with myself.

I stood here.

You can pick me up.

And he went, yeah, I can't get yourself.

So he's come out with his trailer.

But while I'm waiting for him,

the illness that you had experienced.

The norovirus, yes.

Yeah.

Early on in the week.

Summoned itself upon me rather rapidly.

Oh, yes.

And I was stood there, quite cold,

in a Sainsbury's petrol station.

I didn't have a toilet.

And I thought, hmm.

Oh.

It's calling.

Oh.

The, the, the anus.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The bum from the anus.

Big bum.

And I thought it's one of them where you just know

there's a problem here.

Yeah.

You can feel that there's,

Did you feel the gurgling in your stomach?

I felt the gurgling.

Did you feel your body temperature increase rapidly?

Yeah.

And then you,

Just like your 635 CSI.

Yes.

Yeah.

And then you have that feeling where you know,

if I, if I fall,

Yeah.

There's going to be

Big problems.

Yeah.

I was eyeing up this car wash in front of me and I thought,

Car wash?

What?

You're going to shit in the car wash?

I was going to shit out the car wash.

Okay.

But I didn't.

Can you imagine just the tailor in the middle of the car wash?

And I was using,

Using the jet washer just to clean himself up.

Yeah.

And I was like,

No, he's just bent over one of those big,

funny things.

Just like a cow.

Just crying,

Just crying into it.

You know how the cow,

like it's just back with a brush.

Yeah.

So anyway,

I was looking on Google Maps at where I could bum.

Yeah.

And there was a McDonald's up the road.

I thought I could walk over there.

Yeah.

It was like a couple of minute walk.

Yeah.

I don't know.

And there was a pure gym.

Oh, yeah.

Literally around the back of the building.

Oh, yeah.

And I thought,

I've got pure gym membership.

Yeah.

I've never used it.

I've got one.

So I've gone in there.

I've put in my little coat.

Going to shit up their toilets.

So.

I've never been in a gym.

So the only time you've ever gone through a gym.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

I used to go to the gym.

Really?

Yeah.

I used to,

you mean you went there to sign up and then never went in?

No, no, no.

Genuine.

You asked AA Brad.

Yeah.

I used to go pretty much most days after work with Brad.

Oh, okay.

So question.

With him.

Question.

How long have you had that membership?

Four months.

You've had it four months.

Mm-hmm.

And you've been once.

To shit.

Yes.

Not to use any equipment,

just the lure on.

Just, well, I mean,

you are using that.

But you know what?

Somewhere, yeah.

Well worth the money.

Well worth membership.

Because that was a severe emergency situation.

Fantastic.

Welcome to my world.

But it summoned itself upon me ever so rapidly.

Yeah.

I know.

And there was,

there was no holding that in.

No.

There was no.

So no problem.

Now imagine that.

Thank you, Pure Gym.

But imagine you're on a road trip and you're with you guys.

Yeah.

Every road trip.

And it's just constantly happening.

And you're just like,

Oh,

Have you had yourself checked out for like

Crohn's or something?

Probably should.

Or IBS.

See, you just never drink water.

Although, yeah,

he never drinks water and he eats so badly.

Like you have got.

Oh, yeah.

Before you are.

Tell me I'm wrong.

This conversation.

You are.

I saw you eat a mac and cheese pasty earlier on.

And did you have some?

Yeah.

I had the corner of it.

That's by the bar.

Well, you had some then.

A tiny bit.

Yeah.

But is he being very healthy otherwise?

Yes, he is.

Loads of people coming up to me saying,

Taylor, you're doing really well.

I know.

There was a photo that Taylor posted recently on his Facebook.

And I looked at it and I was like,

Oh, I'm the fat one now.

Well, it was funny when we went to test fit my 993 new wheels.

Taylor quite rightly said,

Rory, get in the passenger seat with Alex.

So we've got some weight in there.

And Rory's like, but Taylor, you're heavier than them.

We both looked at Rory and we're like, no, not anymore.

Not anymore, Rory.

Sorry, Rory.

Once upon a time.

But Taylor, you are so live.

Thanks.

Yeah.

You're like a gazelle.

I am.

I'm skipping hop.

Yes.

I'm like a majestic ostrich.

Okay.

I've always said that about ostriches.

So, yeah.

Did the bumming.

I haven't been on a podcast in ages.

Well, neither have I.

Chris was on the last one.

Yeah.

Rory's been terribly disorganised.

We had to miss last one.

I know.

Yeah, Rory.

I'm not having this.

Yeah, go ahead.

I think everyone can say, though, look,

the podcast has been a bit lacking recently.

Second vaccine, yeah.

But I think we can all agree.

I think everyone watching can all agree.

The video content has been on form.

It's been on fire.

It's been incredible.

We've been super proud of what we've had to come out recently.

The Hot Hatch is, even on V2, that stuff's doing really well.

Yeah.

Yeah, we've been...

And hour-long episodes as well.

And stuff has actually been happening as well.

Yeah.

We've been fixing a lot.

We've been working on cars.

We've been finishing cars.

We've actually been doing what we said we were going to do.

Apparently, though, only with a YouTuber and not a mechanic.

Oh, yeah.

No, Tom has been working on the cars.

Yeah, Tom's been very busy, actually.

Tom dipped in, made himself a cup of tea,

made out like he did loads of work on it,

and then bugged off again.

But without Tom, we wouldn't be where we are.

Yeah.

Tom is so...

He's just such a good mechanic.

He's got such great work ethic.

Yeah, yeah.

Whereas Taylor, sometimes your work ethic is a bit lacking.

How dare you?

Yeah, there we go.

Go on.

Come on.

No, I'm not...

You're just saying this to wind me up now

because you know it grinds my gears.

No, I'm not.

What do I be saying that to wind him up?

I don't know because like Tom, for example,

he puts in the hours.

And he knows how to time an engine.

I wish I never brought this up.

Right, look.

Tom also knows how to fit brakes.

He does.

And put wheels on.

Yeah, tighten bolts.

I made a mistake, right, which is fair enough

because you lot were stressing me out,

especially you, and then you annoyed me

quite so that particular day,

and I wanted to go home.

So you thought you would destroy the engine?

I didn't destroy the engine.

You were very nearly destroyed.

Slightly wrong.

And it kissed the valve.

Thanks to Tom.

Thanks, Tom, for fixing the problem.

It's actually robbing.

This is the problem.

No, Tom gets all the credit.

Kissed the valves, and then it's...

Kissed.

They were crushed.

They weren't kissing.

They were blacking.

Blacking as you were saying, yeah.

But yeah.

No, yeah, there's been a lot of great content recently.

I really enjoyed it.

It has been quite stressful, some of it.

Yeah.

Because we're genuinely,

like all of our time scales and stuff,

they're not made up.

We're working on cars the day that we're going.

Yes.

Pretty much every time.

But we do work well under pressure.

Yeah.

It stresses me out.

Terribly not under pressure.

No.

Especially you two.

Shut up.

You two not under pressure are very much like,

oh, we could do that next week.

Do you know what, Rory?

I could say the same about you.

No.

There's quite a few times recently,

I've said, Rory, should we film this?

And you'll go, oh, yeah.

Everyone listening,

you've just joined their marriage counseling session.

Rory, would you like to say anything to Taylor?

I would like to say,

I don't think Taylor understands the amount of stuff that I'm doing behind the scenes.

Do you know what?

Sorry, Taylor.

Taylor, Rory is still speaking.

Rory, have you finished speaking?

Or would you like to finish speaking?

I don't think Taylor fully appreciates the effort that I put into this relation.

I mean, sorry.

Thank you.

Do you know what?

Excuse me, Taylor.

No, no, no.

Taylor, say shut up.

You don't say me, not to tell you to shut up.

This is the problem.

You always talks over me and puts me down.

Okay.

Now you're getting a bit too emotional.

Sorry.

What is going on?

Do you know what I will say?

Yeah.

You've both just got no work ethic.

That's the problem.

Oh.

Because you half a day Harry over here.

No, no, no.

Go home.

You can't argue with that.

Okay.

Or half a day Harry.

Or don't come in.

Because I also had to drive home very quickly

and shit myself all over the place.

There's a toilet here.

No, I was in a bad way.

So I had the rigor mortis in my hand as well.

Poor excuse.

It's not his minor procedure.

It's his rigor mortis.

Oh, yeah.

My major surgery.

And I could say the same about you.

What?

Sorry.

Who was it?

Who wanted to come in yesterday?

Let me remind you.

No, you didn't.

I was alive.

You were saying that.

No.

On Sunday yesterday.

What day is it today?

On Sunday you said,

I take it we're not coming in on Monday.

Yeah.

Because I was looking at you.

Yeah.

Because I was taking the piss

because I was looking at you.

I was getting ready to stay another night

at the food and fuel thing.

And I'm looking at him.

He was half falling asleep going.

That's because you brought me to the boat.

I had.

All right.

We don't need to know what goes on on Saturday night.

I had been up since 2 a.m. as well.

Because Amelia decided that she wanted to sing

row, row, row your boat and clap

at 2 a.m. in her cot.

Well, why didn't she row the boat?

Outside.

Yes.

Yeah.

Anyway, shall we move on?

What else are you being up to, Taylor?

Well, my V10 Tuareg.

Oh, yeah.

I like it so much.

I bought another one.

What?

Well, I haven't spoken to the podcast for a while.

And obviously I had two of them.

Oh, you have two of them now?

No, no.

So I bought another one.

Yeah.

Because I like them.

Yeah.

The one from Scotland.

Yeah.

Which is coming out on your channel soon.

Yeah.

And then I sold the other one to you.

You did?

So we've both got V10s now.

Yeah.

And I got a deal as well.

You did get a deal?

I did get a deal.

Yeah.

I made a small loss on it.

But that's by the by.

Yeah.

So yeah.

Got Tuareg.

M5 still broken.

Yeah.

Still trying to get to the bottom of that.

That's...

So it's not the Vannos line that you first thought it was?

I think it is.

But I have an invoice to say that it's already been replaced,

which is slightly disconcerting.

Yeah.

But I do think it is still that that's the issue.

So I need to get that looked into.

But I've recently...

I was going to do it myself.

After speaking from James at Redish,

I've recently found out that you need special tools to do it.

And there's like a special like removal tool to take the front off and all that.

And it just seems like...

Why don't you just pay a man?

Because I do want to film it because I think it's quite interesting.

But I might pay a man to do it with me maybe and then film it.

I was going to...

Yeah.

I don't know.

But it just seems like a bit...

I just...

I'm a bit nervous with that car because I want to do it properly.

And I really don't want to play it off.

No.

Because if it does...

It's really expensive.

Great YouTube content though.

Great content.

Not great for the pocket.

No.

So yeah, done that.

Yeah.

Bought my dream hot hatch.

Oh yes.

Which Rory would probably argue isn't as good as his mini.

Yeah.

It's not.

And can I just say...

Did you guys look at the V2 comments on that video?

No.

Some of them.

Why?

But I'm just going to make a comment.

See what some...

A lot of...

And I mean a lot of the comments were saying...

Looking at your face.

I'm going to say they're all wrong because I've got rubbish taste.

Look at his little smug face.

No, his large round smug face.

A lot of people...

Yes.

...happened to agree...

Rory, could you be a bit more specific?

A lot of people...

Oh thank you.

Yes.

...happened to agree...

Really?

That the clear trophy does not look as good as a mini.

Everyone...

People were saying special.

Doesn't look as good.

So looking good is only one part of the car, right?

That wasn't what we were saying.

We were saying it's just...

It's better.

So people were saying...

No.

But they've never driven one so they can't comment.

No.

It doesn't matter.

No.

It does.

It doesn't.

It does.

Anyway, can we move on?

What else am I not...

Is that what you're going to say on the matter?

The clear trophy?

Well, yeah.

I wasn't going to tell everyone what it is but now you see it.

That was a clear trophy.

I bought my dream hot hatch.

Yeah.

The cheapest one.

Okay.

Very much in the world.

Yeah.

Don't sound too happy about it.

Well, you've revealed it now.

You've ruined it all now, yeah.

Where are you going to reveal it?

On my own channel.

Okay.

When are you going to do that?

Couple of weeks.

227?

20 years.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

I've been a bit slow with the uploads recently because I've been busy grafting with

you.

There we are.

You just don't let me have any time off.

That's the problem.

Yeah.

So you've had a good run of it recently, right?

In terms of like work and stuff like that.

Buying cars and happy.

Well, yeah, of course.

Okay.

That's why.

Rory.

What have you been up to?

Well, dog things.

Yeah.

God, dog things.

Bailey's got big now.

Bailey's got big?

Yeah.

He's 12 kg now.

Really?

He's a big boy.

Is he in the phase now where he looks like an awkward teenager, whereas limbs are too

long and his body's still small?

Yeah.

He also did happen to find his first TV remote.

Oh.

Look, can I just say, this dog has not chewed anything that he shouldn't have, like literally

only toys.

It's got to start somewhere.

I think we may have accidentally left the TV remote on the floor.

I don't know, but why would that matter?

Because you said that Bailey's so well trained and he's nearly threw his TV first.

Do you know what?

It's funny you should tell that because I was on the phone to Rory the other day

who was at home.

And I was like, also how's Bailey?

Yeah, yeah, it's all right.

It's all right.

And all I can hear about Bailey.

Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff.

And then he goes, Bailey, stop it.

Ruff, ruff, ruff.

And I go, well trained then.

Yeah, yeah.

Ruff, ruff, ruff.

He has this thing, right?

Right.

You'll go on the couch and then, and he's only allowed on, we have this, like a separate

couch in our like conservantry bit and he's only allowed on that couch.

And he likes to go up there and he tries to bring a toy up, but he hasn't quite

worked out how to jump with the toy in his mouth.

Right.

Yeah.

And then he'll then look at the toy and then look at you and just go, boom.

And then you'll stop putting his paw on you to be like, I want the toy.

Rory, can you just tell everyone that the, of the bet that we have.

Remember the bet.

I can't remember what the bet was.

Do you want to know that?

I basically said to you, you might as well transfer me the money right away.

What was the bet?

We have a bet of 100 British pounds.

Yeah.

That your dog will never chew any of the shoes in the house.

He still has not chewed a shoe.

Yeah, no, that's fine.

Yeah.

That's fine.

Absolutely fine.

I'm, I'm, I'm happy to wait.

No, the first thing and only thing he's done so far has been the TV.

Okay.

So he's getting a taste for a non toy related items because shoes.

Oh, let me tell you, when you chew on a shoe, that's nice.

You got the owner's foot smell in there.

Yeah.

Why do you do this?

Like as a Bailey's listening.

Bailey.

Eat it.

Eat it, Bailey.

Eat it.

Do you know, I have noticed that Rory is wearing different parachutes.

That's what he normally wears.

Yeah.

Rory.

Ellie put them in the wash because apparently I couldn't wear them anymore because they were

too grotty.

Okay.

It's not because Bailey was signing up to them thinking, no, no.

It's just, they were too grotty.

Okay.

All right.

I am actually going to have to message Ellie privately and say, you have to tell me,

I will even go 50, 50 with that 100 pounds.

Okay.

You have to tell me as soon as he chews a shoe.

Even if it's 3am, I want picture evidence, video evidence.

Look.

And then I've been practicing my smoke face as well.

He's not going to chew a shoe.

Okay.

He's not going to do it.

All right.

Double or quits?

200 pounds.

There we go.

That was a handshake.

Ellie, you can have a hundred quits.

When's the end point?

When are we calling it?

I'm going to say, I'll call that Christmas.

On Christmas.

That would be past the chewing stage.

Okay.

Fine.

200 pounds here.

On Christmas day.

Yeah.

Till that point, if he hasn't chewed anything, then...

Then you will get 200 pounds.

Okay.

And you know what?

I won't even say it.

I'll get Ellie on the phone.

Yep.

And she will reveal it.

Yep.

Okay.

Fantastic.

It's good because I've got a special ringtone for Ellie.

Bow.

something going on. So this one was a hill clone. And honestly, best event I've ever been to car

related thing. It was amazing. We had 100 cars going up the hill. You guys put your applications in

and then we kind of hand selected those people to go up the hill. Yeah. And everyone who was just

walking up to me on the weekend, everyone was just saying, this is so good. And also shout out

to M who is our events coordinator. She found like, you know, got this location, we saw it.

And then I haven't I've never even heard of Chelsea Walsh. And you get there and it's beautiful. It's

like in this valley. And there's it's got these old sort of Goodwood style little like houses.

And what's the little garages called those? Like paddock. Yeah, like a Goodwood style paddock.

That's just great. The atmosphere was amazing. Everyone the food was great.

People were lovely as well. The weather was fantastic. And everyone who came was smiling

and just so happy. And there were sons with their daughters, mothers with their sons,

families alike. And we took pictures with as many people as we could send a lot of

many people. I took Phil up. I took Barney up. I took Betty, my T 25 up. And you took your

Aston, which you're about to talk about. I did. Right. Yeah.

Well, we're on the subject of noise. Let me play. Wait, you send it to me. Oh,

okay. Can I not just I can just do it? No, just send it. It'll be good. Send it to me.

Send it to me. Send it to me.

It was absolutely. So that was a Pavel from Neotools.

Oh, okay. So I saw him. I was like, Pavel, I'm going up, jump in, grab a helmet.

And yeah, he loved it. Yeah. So we made so much noise. There were no noise limits at

Chelsea Walsh. Which is amazing. Yeah. Chris went up in Alfred, my old 164.

That is disgustingly loud. Phil's disgustingly loud. And your Aston sounded great.

So also, yeah, it was great because I had a few families come and usually

you can't involve them in a lot of stuff. But I took my mom up the hill.

And my mom's never been on a track. She's never even, honestly, if I go any sort of spirited

driving on the road, she's like, stop it. Stop it. But I took her up the hill.

And then this was the reaction I got, which was my mom turned into a little girl.

And then I got to the braking zone at the end. And I didn't tell my mom because obviously,

so you get to the end of the Chelsea Walsh hill climb. And there's not a lot of the braking

zone. No. Yeah, you've got to be honest. You have to go quite hard on the braking zone.

So I just didn't tell her that I was going to hard brake at the end.

Yeah. So then this is me coming to you.

Oh, that's great.

And yeah, my mom loved it. Obviously, you should have seen she was like beaming.

And then I took Ellie out and I also took Ellie's, my brother-in-law out as well.

Your brother? Are you married?

Well, no. That's what we call it. It's just easier to say that.

But yeah, I took my quarry out and honestly, everyone that I took up the hill,

they would just beaming like everyone was having such a good time.

I also took Rianne up in Phil.

Yeah, that's cool. That's really cool. I went up in the six series four times and I took Will

Chignall. Yeah, I saw Chigas. Yeah, Chigas took his TR5 off. And I also took Tom Lemp four

and then we switched and Tom took me up in the Lister as well. It was just so

it was just great. I loved it. And you know, everyone was going up in their cars and loving it.

And yeah, it was just, it was really, really cool. And I like such amazing vibes.

I like the buzz when you get to the top and then you pull up in the little bit and wait for

everyone to come up and you're chatting with each other. You're like, oh, that was so much fun.

And we had a little bit sideways, a bit of burn out and like everyone's buzzing.

So yeah, just like Goodwood Festival Speed, you kind of, you all go up and then you're

in a paddock at the top and you just wait and look at each other's cars and stuff.

It was, yeah, it was so amazing. So amazing. Yeah, I can't wait to do it again.

Me too. Yeah. Oh, the one thing I will say, yeah, we did slightly underestimate how many people

are going to turn up. Yeah. So we, on three days before the event, we had only sold two and a half

thousand tickets. And then because the weather was looking quite miserable at that point,

but suddenly, three days beforehand, the weather had changed to being sun.

And then we sold another 1,500 tickets. So the food, we'd sort of estimated for two and a half

and then 4,000 turned up. So the only thing I will say, there will be a few more food banners

next time, but everyone did get some food. It was just a slightly longer way.

There were still six or seven food banners. I think there were seven and then there

was the calf as well that you could have got food. And lots of coffee places, but yeah,

there were fairly sizeable queues because we weren't expecting so many people to come,

but we will have more amazing food vendors next time. Yeah. But honestly, the food that was there

as well. Oh, yeah. So good. Beefy boys. Did you guys get a chance? No, I had a Gertwings.

There was pizza as well. Beefy boys. So beefy boys is from Hereford,

which is where near Shellsley Walsh, which is why they were there. And the burgers. Honestly,

if anyone managed to get a beefy boy burger, they are so good. I'm really hungry now.

Right before we continue the podcast, a massive shout out to our very, very good

friends and sponsor of this episode, which is Febby Bilstein. Now we use Febby Bilstein day in,

day out, thanks to their OEMatching quality parts. What's the few things that we've actually been

getting from Febby recently for the cast? Well, I think my mini has had the full range of

Febby parts. Yeah. And they've also had the latest Febby innovation.

Wait. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Go on. It's a turbo. Yay. Febby do turbos now.

So Febby have now partnered with BorgWarner and Garrett Turbos. And they now produce, well,

not produced, they now stock the turbos. So they're actual OE manufactured turbos.

And we can now get turbos shipped out through Febby. And thanks to Febby, stuff like the E30s

running, Mike, Mike, Leo Williams, their Febby parts on your 205. Loads. Big Pete would not

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Just go onto the Febby parts finder, type in your registration, and it will show you a list

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So when you go to a motor factor next, make sure that you choose Febby because we genuinely,

genuinely use them every day. And we love them. Any more to add, Taylor?

Actually, Febby and blueprint parts come with a three year warranty as well.

So whenever we fit their parts on our cars, we know that they're warranted for three years.

Yeah. And blueprint are more of the kind of Japanese cars as well.

Yes, they do.

They've got all bases covered. So yeah, again, big thumbs up to Febby on with the podcast.

Let's move the podcast on to news. Rory, you have some news.

I do have some news.

It's kind of good news and bad news at the same time.

News or nudes?

Whatever you want. What would you like?

News. Definitely news.

Yeah, yeah. Nudes. Not nudes.

Not nudes. Okay.

So I have news that a record has been broken.

It's a record that has stood for quite a while.

I tell you what, it better not be the Caravan World's Bay Record.

That's got my name on it and I'll be fuming.

So it is that we have a new fastest production car.

Oh, really?

Yeah. Wait, is it, is it a deat?

So it might as well be because it is electric.

If you tell me it's one of these new fangled Chinese manufacturers, I'll be

disappointed.

It's one of these new fangled Chinese benefactors.

Great.

So you will know this car.

A J2 or a BYD seal.

You've probably seen this car a few times.

It's not new.

Okay.

It's the car that can jump.

The car that can jump.

Well, we once jumped to Tesla.

We did do that.

No, it's the one that can jump where it's standing still.

So it can jump and it can go very fast as well?

Yeah. So it can compress its suspension down and then jump up.

Oh, my God.

And that's what it's party trip was before.

Yeah.

And then they decided that that wasn't good enough and they'd make an

extreme version of the car.

And they have actually called it the Yang Wang U9 Extreme.

Okay.

Nice.

So it's a Yang Wang.

Yeah.

And that car has reached a top speed of 308.4 miles per hour.

Jesus.

That is pretty mad.

I mean, it doesn't look terrible.

I'll give it that.

It's kind of got a bit of Honda NSX, you know, new Honda NSX vibes at the rear.

The front just looks a bit new and something.

But you should see its party trick of jumping though as well.

They've got little clips where it's like approaching a speed bump.

And rather than going over the speed bump, it jumps over the speed jump.

That's crazy.

It's quite impressive.

I'd be quite interested to know like the acceleration stats,

like the 0-60 and the more.

It's got to be insane because so the Rimac Navara, I think was,

is the fastest accelerating reduction car, I believe.

So I'm just reading here.

It gets 2,978 horsepower over double the regular car's 1,288.

Four electric motors, 12,000 volt ultra high voltage platform.

Heat generation is also reduced by 67%.

Wow.

Blah, blah, blah.

Tires doesn't say anything.

Total curb weight stands at 2,480 kilos, just 30 of being made globally

with a likely significantly higher asking price than 200,000 pound U9.

So question, it's done 308 miles an hour.

Can you buy one that does 308 miles an hour?

I do believe you.

Yes, there will be 30 of them.

So you can buy one.

How long does the leaky last?

Probably not long.

Yeah.

But that beats the previous record, which was the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300 Plus,

which managed 304.8 miles an hour in 2019.

So Bugatti have had that speed record for six years, which is quite impressive.

Which is quite sad though, isn't it really?

That our petrol engine has now been deframed by the electric.

Yeah.

I don't think a petrol engine will ever be able to usurp that.

I think it will, but I think it's at its limit.

But you'd have to have electric backing up the petrol.

There's no way a pure petrol could beat that.

I'm not an engineer, but I feel like there's a point in them when you're going to be,

you either have to be all one thing or all the other because you can't,

as soon as you start mixing, yeah, you can then get good acceleration, but pure top speed.

I think the ice engine will start holding the electric back, won't it?

There's actually no point in having an ice engine in there if you want to do top speed.

But if you want to have fun and just be cool, then just drive ice.

If you want to be even cooler by s**t old cars.

Recycle cars.

Yeah.

Top speed means nothing.

Also, I'd like to know what tyres they used.

Oh, yeah.

Because I know Bugatti had a massive problem, didn't they?

They tried to find tyres that would actually work at that speed.

Yeah.

That was a long time ago though.

That was 2005.

No, no.

This is still even in the new ones.

Is it?

Yeah.

So even in that 2019, they're still to get tyres that will do 300 miles an hour for a long time.

There's not many manufacturers that do them.

That's true.

Takes balls of steel to do over 300 miles an hour.

So fair play.

What's the fastest you've ever driven?

I don't want to brag, but thank you for bringing it up.

It's actually 222 miles an hour.

Is it?

Oh, my God.

Bugatti Veyron Supersport.

Oh, is it?

The same one you used on top gear.

What have you done, Rory?

Yeah, what have you done, Rory?

What's your fastest you've ever driven?

My fastest I've ever driven was 145 miles an hour.

And that was in my BMW 330i.

Oh, no.

That wasn't on the Poland trip.

On the Nürburgring trip.

Yeah.

That's the fastest you've ever driven.

140.

Yeah.

Oh, that's when I did 167, wasn't it?

Yeah.

No, you didn't.

And that's what the dial said.

They said 167.

So I did 167.

After now driving your car, I can testify to the fact that the speedo is wildly out on it.

No, no.

Is it really?

It is wildly out on it.

No, it's not.

It's maybe one or two, plus 10.

Maybe it needs a bit of calibration.

Maybe.

What about you?

70 on the dash is 63 miles per hour.

Is it?

No, it's not.

All right.

So it's seven hours.

Still did 160.

And also, as you go up, it just gets worse and worse.

No, it gets better.

It gets more worse.

No, no, no, no.

Because it's a performance vehicle.

So I reckon you were doing no more than 147.

148.

Which is still faster than you.

Dickhead.

What about you, Taylor?

The fastest I've ever been was 176.

But I'm pretty spicy.

I've always wanted to do more than 200 miles an hour.

So I'd love to drive a car.

You'd like to join my club, wouldn't you?

Do you know what?

I would actually quite like to do it in my M5.

Oh, yeah.

If you can hit 200 miles an hour in that, that would be something.

It would be really cool.

Yeah, it would be great.

No, me and all the wheels will fall off.

But that's by the bar.

You've only got 400 horsepower in it as well at the moment.

But I'll judge it soon.

I will judge it.

But yeah, I'd like to.

I've always wanted to do more than 200 miles an hour.

So maybe one day we'll do a little trip out

and maybe all three of us.

Yeah.

Why don't you do that?

Because you've already done it.

I've already done it.

Well, I might try and break my record next week.

Oh, yeah.

Because I'll be on the way to the unit.

No, no.

Because I'll be in my Aston going through Germany.

OK.

That's true.

What's the top speed of the Aston?

I don't know actually.

OK.

It's got to be 175, doesn't it?

I'll be honest.

Yeah.

I will not be trying to do that next week.

Because I will be in my clock.

Because if you go fast, you'll shit yourself

and there probably won't be a pure gym in Germany.

That and I will be in my clock and it will shit itself.

OK.

I'd rather not play it out.

While Rory looks up the top speed, have you got it?

177 miles per hour.

Do you know what?

Just quickly.

He won't do 170 miles an hour.

Yeah.

OK.

I've got an idea.

Yeah.

As a little project car for all three of us,

why don't we try and build a 200 mile an hour car?

So that actually reminds me of a series

that I really wanted to do

during the car thrall days.

And I wanted to call it the Honda S200.

What? An S2000 that says 200 miles an hour?

Yes.

That would have been cool, wouldn't it?

It would.

I don't think they're geared for 200 miles an hour.

No, no, no.

Engine and gearbox would have to come out.

OK.

That's a bit of a pain.

Yes.

What you really want is something that's geared

for 200 miles an hour, but hasn't got the power.

So you just do lots of...

No.

You do lots of power.

No, you need aerodynamics.

OK.

What do you think the top speed of your 993 is?

Oh, it's not that much.

It's a 3.6.

I'm going to say 104 before 75 miles an hour.

I don't even think that much.

I would say 168.

171.

Really?

There's, what, six in it?

Yeah.

Ooh.

If I can have a higher top speed than you and your Aston,

that would be bad, wouldn't it?

That'd be really bad.

I wonder what the top speed is of my clock.

Anyway, while you look at that, there is more news.

And this time it's very, very, very sad news.

A man called Tom Mutano.

Now, anyone who likes Japanese cars will know instantly

the Tom Mutano name.

He is the father of the MX-5 Miata.

And this week, he sadly died aged 76.

Now, I actually knew Tom.

I took Tom out in Phil and he genuinely loved it.

He said, it's not for the purists,

but it's balanced and I like him.

He also told me when I was driving around

that he initially didn't design the MX-5

to have pop-ups.

Really?

Yeah.

It's because they didn't have the tech at the time

for the lights.

So they had to have pop-ups.

And then when they did design them,

they were like really boxy and ugly.

So he actually put the curves in them.

So that's thanks to him.

And you know the pop-up button?

He wanted to design that with a smiley face on it

as well.

Really?

If you saw others, you could press it.

But apparently there wasn't enough clearance

to put a cover over with a smiley face.

And Tom, yeah, was absolutely amazing.

He had time for everyone.

He was like real, real gentle soul.

And he adds, yeah, like so many incredible ideas.

I think he also designed the RX-7 as well.

So he was an absolute legend.

So yeah, RIP, Tom Mutano, you created some fantastic cars.

And arguably, without Phil, I wouldn't be here.

Maybe none of us would be here as well

because Phil kind of really helped Carthorough

take off.

So yeah, thanks to Phil.

Thanks to Tom.

We're here.

We're having a good time.

So yeah.

Anyway, let us now move it on.

But before that, did you find out the top speed?

Yes.

Go on.

It is.

147.

No.

139.

No, I'm going to say 152.

No.

Oh, OK.

So a 635 CSI does approximately 142 miles an hour top speed.

Did I not say 142?

No, I don't think so.

OK.

But an M635 CSI will do 158.

But you don't have that.

No, but mine's sort of power.

The power is in the middle of both.

Oh, OK.

OK.

So we're looking at about 150.

150.

Oh, OK.

You won't hit 150 miles an hour in your 6 series.

I'd love to.

I'd probably hit 177.

It's quite aerodynamic.

It is.

I don't know if it's geared for it.

Actually, it's really long geared.

Well, we'll find out.

Maybe.

Will we?

OK.

So your challenge is to hit 140.

Oh, God.

GPS.

My challenge is to hit 160 GPS.

And your challenge is to hit 165 GPS.

No, that'd be irresponsible.

Yeah, but that's not top speed.

And it's on the auto barn.

It'll be fine, Rory.

Just remember, Rory, how did your wheels up?

See, it'll be all good.

Anyway, moving on now to question of the week

from Dave Wilkinson.

And this is a good one.

Dave writes, with winter looming,

what is your car of choice to spend the next six months with?

Your budget is 10,000 pounds.

Good question.

Very, very good question.

So you've got 10,000 pounds to spend.

Car for six months.

Rory looks like he's got a smug face on.

What is it?

If it's British and if it's a Range Rover, shut up.

L3-2-2.

Whatever, you literally can't go right.

Right.

Biggest problem there.

Got it.

Right.

The largest problem of them all.

Yep.

It's got four-wheel drive.

Why is that a problem?

Because when it snows, you can't have a day off.

You have no excuse.

You can't have a snow day.

You have to come in.

Imagine that.

It's completely white out.

You've got good few inches of snow.

You want to go out, take Bailey out,

have a play in it, have a little laugh.

No, you've got to come into work.

You've got a Range Rover, Rory.

What's the problem?

Yeah.

Take the front-wheel drive, shut up.

Oh, you're going to do that?

We're just going to pop them out.

You're going to do that.

I don't think you can do that on a Range Rover.

Can you, you must be able to just take the front prop,

chef?

No.

You can do it on a Freelander.

Most of them are front-wheel drive, aren't they?

Prop out the Freelander, but yeah.

What you want is what I've already bought.

Oh, you've bought another car?

I have.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go on.

A winter daily.

Perfect winter daily.

Mercedes-Benz SL500.

Sorry.

How does that work as a winter daily?

Because...

Is that not a convertible?

It is.

But...

Is it rear-wheel drive?

It's rear-wheel drive,

which means you get your snow day off.

Oh, okay.

Right?

Yeah.

You've got air scarf that keeps you an optional air scarf,

that keeps your neck warm.

Yeah.

So you can have your roof down on those beautiful,

crisp winter evenings, but you don't get cold,

because you've got heated seats and an air scarf.

Sunroof.

Just get a car with a sunroof.

It's got a big one.

Big one.

A big one.

It's not quite the same.

I'm sorry to tell you.

You've also...

I don't think you need this air scarf.

We traveled all the way from Monaco

in a convertible Jaguar XKR.

We did do that.

We did, yeah.

And it was perfectly warm.

And how nice was it?

Oh, it was so toasty.

Yeah, so toasty.

We definitely didn't have to share your jacket.

No.

But how nice was it having a roof down

in that crisp winter evening?

Yeah, he folded in the back.

It was like a pringle.

I was driving the most.

Do you know, like, so funny.

I've just remembered that, actually.

We went all the way there,

didn't think about the fact

that we'd be driving back,

and it'd be minus four.

And we had the roof down.

Yeah.

And yet this still managed to sleep in the back.

I did, yeah.

I still don't get that.

Yeah.

That will have a little picture of that.

Yeah.

But that was in the days

when you were very tired all the time.

Yeah.

I do still sleep anywhere,

but that was quite incredible.

And I was actually genuinely asleep as well.

That wasn't fake or anything.

The best moment will always be that Tesla.

The Cybertruck.

Him falling asleep.

Yeah, with literally...

You know, if Taylor was ever taken

to Guantanamo Bay or whatever,

he'd be fine.

You know, when they're blasting the music out,

trying to keep them away,

he'd be able to sleep for it.

Oh yeah, I just shut my eyes.

My favourite was at my wedding,

getting into the bedrooms,

and Taylor's sleep up the stairs.

I was asleep on the stairs.

Literally up the stairs.

I couldn't get up the stairs

because there was a man in the way.

It was quite comfortable,

those stairs actually.

They were carpeted.

Very carpeted.

Shout out to Ed's carpet.

Yeah.

But yeah, SL.

Yeah, okay.

Good heating.

Convertibles always have the best heating.

They have to have.

They always have really, really good heating.

Also, V8, which is good

because you know it's always going to start on a button

because it's not a diesel.

You don't have any glow plug issues.

And also, there's nothing more annoying

than starting a car in the winter

and it takes ages to warm up.

Yeah.

You V8, you literally,

by the time you get to the end of your road,

it's warm.

Johnson.

So a little problem, right?

You're buying the SL

because you don't want to go into work.

Yeah?

Only on snow days.

Picture the scene.

It's snowing.

And there's like an incredible car meet.

There's another Shelsey Walsh hill climb.

You can't go because it's snowing.

But that's not really likely to happen though.

Yeah.

It could be a four before hill climb.

Usually events get cancelled.

Okay.

It's fine.

Say you need to shit

and you need to go to your gym.

But you can't.

You can't get out because you're snowed in.

And there's no toilet where you are

because you've blown it up already.

I've got a V10 Tuareg for that.

What's that?

You have to buy an SL and a V10 Tuareg.

No.

The Tuareg is good for emergencies

if you need to shit.

But the SL is the best ones daily.

Well, I have the perfect answer.

Go on.

It's a Range Rover.

But it's not any Range Rover.

It's a Range Rover Classic.

Okay.

Let me tell you why.

For you.

So, you know, it's going to be on a button.

Pet oil.

So, it warms up nicely.

It warms up quickly.

It will go anywhere.

That's fair.

Yeah.

But it's old enough to be...

Sorry.

Are we keeping you up, Rory?

No.

But you don't get your snow days off still.

You're missing out.

No, no.

But you do.

Because it's old enough to be unreliable.

And if you can't be bothered to come in and just say,

sorry, Gov, Range Rover's conked at.

Can't get it started.

Yeah.

Can't get it started.

Fuel pump's gone.

I reckon.

Right.

I've got a theory.

I've won that one.

I reckon newer Range Rovers

are more unreliable than the old ones.

Yeah.

But, you know, like bosses and CEOs and stuff,

they don't know about cars.

If they know you've got an old car,

they know you're not coming in.

So...

You say, oh, my 2017 Range Rover won't start.

They'll be like, nah.

So you're seriously going to tell me

that you're going to daily

a Range Rover classic for six months throughout the winter.

Are you seriously telling me that you are going to daily

a Mercedes SL500 for six months during winter?

Quite happily.

Yeah?

Quite happily.

So I'm just going to, you know,

the wind, the rain, the salt.

Who's Lorraine?

The snow.

Yeah.

All of it.

So all the salt attacking that Mercedes

you're driving along a Range Rover classic

that doesn't have aircon or anything like that

and the windows are stained.

Why do I need aircon?

It's cold, man.

Because you put the aircon on with the heat.

No.

And it de-mistered.

No, no, I just have it full blast.

So you're driving along with a microfiber,

wiping the inside of the window,

because it's all misted up.

It makes me feel alive.

You come out to it in the morning

and the footwell's got water in it,

where all the snow and ice has melted on it

and it's pissed it down overnight

and it's full up with water.

I don't think your choice is particularly good.

Well, we'll let the audience decide

you can write in and let us know that.

Podcasts at autoilexcars.com.

Let's move on.

Rory, your choice was shit.

Your choice was all right.

My choice was fantastic.

My choice, man.

I'm happier in my SL.

All right.

Next up, we've got Keep or Quit

and this has been sent in by young Charlie Hardy.

That's a cool name, isn't it?

Charlie Hardy sounds like a movie star name.

Sounds like something you buy off of a dodgy man.

Charlie Hardy.

Oh, I got any Charlie Hardy.

It does.

Yeah, that's the proper stuff that is.

Yeah, give me some of that Charlie Hardy.

Anyway, Charlie Hardy writes,

Hi Alex, Rory and Taylor.

I've just passed my test at 17

and have been very excited to get on the road

in my lovely 2004 mini Cooper called Julie.

Hello, Julie.

Before I passed, my insurance quotes all seemed good.

However, the quotes have suddenly skyrocketed

to 4,000 pounds a year with only 8,000 miles,

which is half the mileage I need.

So should I keep my car and pay six or seven times its value

in a single year of black box insurance

or sell it and get a cheap run around daily

with a lower insurance bill?

Most insurance companies won't ensure me on a car

older than 20 years as I am under 21.

My other option is to keep Julie in storage

and buy a really cheap car and ensure that

because I'm an apprentice and make almost no money.

Let me know what I should do.

Cheers and have a great podcast.

Now, before you guys interject, I went on AutoTrader.

I've had a look at a couple of cars.

So I think we would all say quit the mini Cooper.

I have two options.

I have two options, right?

Two options of cars, newer cars

that you can get insurance quotes on.

First one, 2008 Fiesta 1.25 Ztec,

insurance group nine.

I think that's good.

Good engine, better than the one liter EcoBoost

because they don't have a wet belt.

The one, two, five solid little engine they are.

Yeah, good.

So is that pre the next gen?

Yes.

Is that like the last of that?

So I had one of those.

Did you?

Yeah, great car.

Yeah, really good car.

Yeah, nice.

Good first car.

Yeah, yeah.

There you go.

If Rory had its first car, avoid it.

Avoid, avoid.

Well, you know why it's a good car.

You go on.

So the center console, they make perfect sort of.

Did you put a Nintendo 64 in it or something silly?

I did. How did you know?

Did you actually?

Yeah.

I did. It just sounds like a thing.

You must have heard me say that before.

Yeah, I didn't know that.

Yeah, no, I put a Nintendo 64.

I put it in the glove box.

And then I had a, so with these forwards,

you can get the perfect plug-in replacement screens

where you can get car playing that.

Which to be fair, as a 17-year-old, that's what you want.

You want car playing.

What's it like driving while playing FIFA 95?

Well, sometimes you get confused at like, you know,

because usually I was playing Mario Kart.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then sometimes you're like, there's hit stuff.

You're moving the control of thinking.

You're trying to move the wheel and you're not.

You're actually moving the thing.

Yes, it gets a bit confused.

So you wrote it off. Is that why you had to get rid of it?

No, I actually sold it.

Oh, OK.

If I did take the Nintendo out when I sold it.

Oh, good. That's good, yeah.

Have you noticed that even Roy's first car was British?

Well, Ford is not British.

Well, you can't get any more British than a Ford Fiesta.

I know.

It's a proper Dagenham Duff in there, isn't it?

Do you know that?

It's quite funny that you say a lot of my stuff has...

But you went from a Fiesta to an Insignia.

Bloody Insignia.

And now pretty much every car you own, apart from your two BMWs, are British.

Literally all of them.

You need to think outside the box, Matt.

You've got a Range Rover and Aston Martin, a Triumph.

They do good cars.

And I've got one Mini.

A Mini, a Land Rover.

Yeah.

Just a Jag.

A Jag.

Jag.

Anyway, my second car for you is a 2009 Set Abita 1.4.

Insurance Group 7.

The only problem with those cars is because they are very common first cars,

they do get smashed up a lot.

So the insurance group is a little bit higher.

What you think C1 is...

I was going to get to this.

Is there one more option?

Yeah.

I think...

Is it this option?

No.

Okay.

What's your option?

I think you should go out and get yourself a 2008 to 2012, I think that sort of shape.

Citroen C1, because they're based on a Toyota or Aigo.

So they are bulletproof.

They're Toyota engines.

They're really, really reliable.

It's the same as the Aigo, the Peugeot 107 and the Citroen C1.

So whatever's cheaper.

The Citroen, in my opinion, looks best because they've got nice little rear lights on them and stuff.

Yeah.

They're very cheap to maintain, run.

They don't have timing belts, as I say, they're bulletproof reliable.

And they're Insurance Group 1.

1?

Yeah.

And because it's got a Citroen badge on it and not a Toyota badge, it makes them cheaper.

See, I'm going to go very, very opposite to both of you.

Bye.

Range Rover.

I would look around and find out, because although you're looking at Insurance Groups,

they mean absolutely nothing these days.

Insurance Groups do not affect the value of...

Citroen C1 is Group 1.

A Porsche 993 is like Insurance Group 45.

But it doesn't matter about the group, really.

Like, so you can get, and I know that you can get this,

if he has a look around and has a look at maybe some old five series or something like that.

But like, I mean E39.

I can guarantee you, he'll probably get some cheaper quotes on those.

No.

He will do on...

No, no, you will.

No way, BM.

There are some cars.

You know what?

Jags maybe, something like that.

Yeah.

Not a BM.

As soon as you say young drive, BMW.

No, it really does depend.

Some of these old, like more classic, but still daily drivable cars,

you can get some cheap quotes.

I remember when I was young, one of my cheapest quotes that I got,

and I still can't fathom why, was on my RX8.

Really?

My RX8 was way cheaper than the Insignia,

way cheaper than the next car that I had, which was just a C at Leon.

Like, the RX8 was a really cheap...

Charlie Hardy, buy yourself an RX8.

Honestly, the thing to do is just look around at some cars

that you never think that you could insure,

but just see if you could get insurance on them.

Also, one of my first cars was a Hyundai Coupe.

Have a look at those.

They're great.

Two litre, really, really cheap to insure.

Leather, fun, fun, fun, fun.

Sorry, one word that I wanted to pick on that you said, classic.

Yes.

Could Charlie get a classic car like a Spitfire?

The only thing I will say about that, the only thing,

and it's been sort of on my mind a lot recently as well,

is when you're young, you are most prone to have an accident.

Yeah.

Right?

You're learning the car, you're learning how to drive,

how to control a car.

You find the edge of grip, whatever.

Are you, as a father, going to go out and put your 17-year-old

daughter in a classic car?

No, but Charlie Hardy is not my daughter.

No, but I'm saying from a safety aspect, would you want

your 17-year-old child in, let's say, my Peugeot 205?

It all depends, because I don't know Charlie.

He might be a raucous individual,

but he might also have a very wise head on his shoulders.

But that's why I'm saying something like it, like the E34,

something where an E34 will probably crash better than a 2003 Fiesta.

That's not really how it works.

I would rather be in a Fiesta in a crash than an E34.

There's a video in that.

There is a video in that.

I still think...

Size of the car doesn't matter.

No, it's not just the size, it's the fact that they have,

like, you know, in those early Fiestas and stuff like that,

you've literally got a driver's airbag, that's it.

E34, you don't even have an airbag.

A lot of them, they don't have seatbelt pretensioners.

No, you do.

I don't worry.

You do.

Yeah, Charlie, just say it to your parents.

Yeah, they do.

Still, Rory said so.

Rory said so.

But there's a lot of cars that are verging on classics,

that still probably have a lot of safety features

that you can still daily drive.

Sort of.

Some of them.

The answer is, by yourself, a cool old car,

that's a low-insurance group,

even though that doesn't matter that much,

it's off the radar, just don't crash.

Don't listen to them, just buy a Citroen C1,

because they're really good.

Or get a C1.

But don't crash a C1 either.

Citroen C1s are cool.

They're very tinny.

Or a Fiesta or something of that ilk.

Anyway, quit the Mini.

The Mini's quite boring.

Yeah, you can buy that same car in 10 years,

if you want, and be bored with it,

because it's just a Cooper.

Yes, unless it's a British racing

green R53 Cooper S, then sell it.

It's not.

It's really not that.

Otherwise, you'd probably would have said.

So, yeah, get rid of it,

invest the money elsewhere.

And, yeah, let us know, you get on.

Let us know if you want any more advice.

Any more to discuss?

No.

What have we got coming up, Rory?

A 200 mile an hour project, Carl.

Oh, bloody hell.

So, we're actually ahead of ourselves at the moment.

So, after this whole series of the classic hot hatches,

we have the whole high mileage series,

where we traveled all the way to Croatia.

Yes, we do.

I still think that might be one of our best road trips

that we have done for ever.

I got in trouble with the police.

I would agree with that.

Yeah.

That was an amazing trip.

Your door did fall off.

So, we've got that.

And then, we'll be doing our dream cars.

And then, we've got the 4x4s going up to Scotland.

Yep, overlanding episodes.

Yeah, we've got a lot of cool.

We're trying to just be a bit more structured

and a bit more actual, less sort of scatty on things

and trying to release constant series.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Organization.

Yeah.

And all the feedback we've had from you guys

has been immense.

So, thank you.

Keep it coming.

Keep the love.

We are organizing a food and fuel Christmas event as well.

But before that, there will also be

Matwood tail end of November at Goodwood.

So, keep an eye out for that on the socials.

So, yeah, we've got really cool car events coming up,

really cool road trips.

And yeah, we are just so busy at the moment,

but we love in life.

Yep.

So, yeah.

And yeah, we love you guys as well.

It was fantastic to meet you all at food and fuel.

And yeah, you guys are awesome.

So, with that, we're going to call it a day.

We've got your mini to modify.

Yeah.

And other bits to do.

What time is it?

Quarter 4.

Okay.

It's quarter 4 on Tuesday.

So, you're listening to this tomorrow.

So, I hope you enjoyed the podcast.

From us, whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability.

We'll see you and listen to you

and talk in your ears and knifes next time.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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