S2 Ep25: We Impulse Bought A Cheap 500hp Supercharged SUV!
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Volvo XC90
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Mazda 323 XR
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BMW M3
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Twi-reg
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V10
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BMW 330I
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Land Rover Range Rover
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Land Rover Discovery 4
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Jaguar
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Term
DRL
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supercharged
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Range Rover Sport 3.6 TDV8
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Porsche 911 Turbo S
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Term
horsepower
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Term
Cat N
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Company
Car Vertical
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Term
Turbo S
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Car
Porsche Cayenne
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Part
carbon fibre engine cover
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Porsche 944 Turbo S
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intake
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Project 8
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Concept
Range Stormer
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Concept
first-gen
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BMW E46 330i
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reinforcement plates
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under-sealing
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powder-coated subframes
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Mazda MX-5
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Part
supercharger
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Citroen Ami
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Kia EV9
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Morgan Aero 8
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Lotus Elise
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Lotus Evora
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Lotus Europa
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Lotus Carlton
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Lotus Esprit
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Lotus Exige
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Volvo 850
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Volvo V70
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Mazda 2
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BMW F12
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Do you know no one's ever died in an XC90?
There's a video in that.
We bought an XC90 and all died.
That's possible, actually.
Yeah.
We could try it.
We could.
I'm not sure there'd be many videos after that one.
This one would be a banger, though.
It'd have to be an accident.
Oh, yeah.
So it can't be on purpose.
It's got to be an accident.
Okay.
So.
What happens if we've got accidentally really drunk?
Hello.
Welcome back to the Auto Alex podcast, home of automotive financial mistakes,
our life in cars, and your questions answered.
And welcome to 2026.
Happy New Year, everyone.
How's everyone feeling?
Stay away from me.
Terrible.
I'm really ill.
Well, how are you feeling?
I'm happier on this side, but closer to that thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, today Taylor or I and I will fill your ear and your eye holes with what we've been
up to. We'll answer your keep or quit dilemma, tell you the latest car news,
and play 20 questions where we have to guess the car that Rory is thinking about.
Before we do that, though, what car is it?
It's a car.
Oh, it's a car.
Have you thought of a car?
I have, actually.
Oh, okay.
All right.
But before we get into the podcast, a massive hello to Reese Gray and his brother-in-law
Dan, who recently completed a road trip from Scotland to Silverstone and back,
Stu Learmont, fixing up his Mazda 323XR, Callum, who is already looking forward to seeing us at
Shedfest 2026, Alan McFaddeen on AA Patrol in Scotland, Josh planning a road trip adventure
to Austria, Andreas in Germany, listening while crafting a BMW M3 GT-R need for speed
Hot Wheels car, and Rory's Mum, Jackie.
You all right, Mum?
I don't know, is she?
Yeah, she's doing all right.
Did she have a good Christmas?
She did, yeah.
We had a lot of family around.
And yeah, no, it was good.
Oh, I've got an update.
Oh, has she been on Tinder?
No.
Is it on her Jazz?
No, no, no, but the Jazz is actually working fine.
It's not knocking.
No, so it's not knocking.
I don't know what they're on about.
Oh, we've got Santa Claus in.
Have we?
Oh, Tom Lenthal joined.
Sorry, go on.
I got her a Christmas present.
I know what this is.
Do you know what this is?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, I got my Mum a robot lawn mower.
Santa's back.
You got a robot lawn.
Isn't your Mum's garden really steep in parts?
But that's why I got her the same one as mine,
but they do now a mini one, these mini Mimotion ones.
And you can get them.
Yeah.
And now we don't need it because she did have a robot lawn mower.
She loved it.
But it was a wire one where you had to put like a perimeter wire around
and the gardener kept streaming through it.
So why is your Mum got a gardener if she's got a robot lawn mower?
Because you still have to have someone to do the hedges and stuff.
No, no, just get the robot lawn mower just to drive over everything.
I'm not putting my Mum up a ladder doing hedges and stuff.
And also gardeners are usually quite good looking.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
Oh, Monty Pitt Mat.
He's a gardener.
Is he?
Yeah, that's what he does by trade.
I didn't know that.
Okay, good looking.
Sure.
Anyway, shall we move on?
So she's got a robot lawn mower.
She's very happy.
Yeah.
And Bailey had his first Christmas as well.
Really?
Yeah.
He's growing up really quickly.
He's getting quite big.
I'll admit, I thought he would have stopped about now.
No, he's still got another few months left.
Is he still a sad dog every time you come in through the door?
No, he's been a bit of annoying dog recently.
Really?
Yeah.
Go on.
So it still hasn't chewed anything.
Actually, yes.
Okay, we can finally reveal.
Bailey has not chewed a shoe
or even any furniture or anything.
That's because he's just so sad.
But he can't even bring himself to chew a shoe.
As I've heard, he has turned into a JCB
because he likes to dig a hole.
Oh, he's digging, isn't he?
He does like to dig.
And also, he does like to dig to then
adventure further than he's allowed.
Has he got through to Australia?
He's managed to get into the field next door to us.
He's not scared to stay.
And then literally, Ellie's just looked out the window
and she's gone, what?
And then she goes out and then he's on the other side of the fence.
Which we thought we'd secured
but there was a hole that we missed.
And he's on the other side of the fence
and then Ellie's shouting at him going,
come here, come here.
And then he's getting confused
because he can't work out how he remembered
how he got through the fence.
So he's like running around this fence on the other side
and he's going, I can't get through.
I can't get through.
Does he start digging another hole?
No, but yeah.
Apart from that, he's still, you know what?
It's been so nice to have a dog over Christmas.
I will say that.
That's good.
But yeah, he has been a bit of an escape artist recently.
Fantastic.
But he always comes back.
He does come back.
Yeah.
I mean, who'd feed him?
Exactly.
That is true.
Anyway, before we get into the meet and to the podcast,
we've kind of touched upon what we've been up to.
We've had a dog update from you, Rory.
Taylor, I'm going to throw it over to you.
What has your Christmas and New Year been like?
It's been nice actually, apart from being ill.
Did you miss us?
Yeah, I did a bit.
Really?
I didn't to start with.
I needed a bit of time off.
Yeah.
But afterwards, yeah.
Yeah.
You got Stockholm syndrome?
No, I got ill.
Oh, okay.
No, it's been quite nice.
It's been quite relaxed.
I've been chilling at home a lot with my mum and my family.
I did a little bit of help with the Christmas dinner.
Oh, yeah.
Which was not cooked.
I didn't...
No, no, no.
He turned on a tap or an oven.
I assisted.
What did you put in the microwave?
For the first time in my life, I've learned how to use an air fryer.
Really?
Yeah.
I've been using the air fryer the next level.
The air fryer is very good.
Yeah.
I've only had it sitting on the side for two years.
And I unboxed it the other day.
You can cook an entire chicken in an air fryer.
Yeah.
You can do loads of stuff.
You can.
Yeah, it's good.
Yeah.
And you can do...
What did I do in it?
I did the parsnips in it.
Did you?
I've never tried all the parsnips,
because we didn't have room for them in the pans.
Chips are very good.
Salmons very good.
Yeah.
Roast potatoes very good.
Yeah.
Anything you can shake a stick at, you can put in there.
Yeah, it's very handy.
And when you put spoons in them, they don't blow it up.
No, okay.
Like a microwave.
Like a microwave, yeah.
Because I have done that before.
Okay.
Why are you putting spoons in an air fryer?
No, just in case you leave it in, then it doesn't blow it up.
Whereas in the microwave, if you leave you a spoon in your bowl,
then it blows it up.
Do you want to know the silliest thing I've ever put in a microwave?
Trainers.
Actually, no, specifically, they were my school shoes.
And how'd that work for you?
They melted.
Okay.
Yeah, they were not wearable ever again.
Why did you put them in the microwave?
He was trying to get them to stop squeaking.
No, they got wet.
Yeah.
And they were probably squeaking.
And I was like, I need to dry them.
And I need to heat them up.
Perfect thing.
Microwave.
Microwave.
Yeah.
Not the oven.
No, not the oven.
Oven took too long.
Gas ovens take too long.
Yeah.
So I was at microwave and yeah, it just didn't go well.
So if you've got wet shoes,
the microwave is not the answer.
Yeah.
Unless you put a metal spoon in a shoe, maybe it cancels it out.
I don't think it does.
It doesn't.
Don't try that.
No, yeah, I've done that before and it's gone wrong very badly.
Yeah.
But yeah, spent a lot of it at home.
I did go out quite a lot.
I have a bit of a tradition.
It's a personal tradition.
Okay, yeah.
It's on Boxing Day or the day after Boxing Day.
I get a little bit impulsive.
You?
Impulsive.
I like to go out and buy something.
But you're in a buying band so that can't happen.
Yeah, that's true.
It's a one-out-one-in rule with me.
So what was out?
Well, I sold my Twi-reg.
You did so.
Not our overlanding one, my personal one.
Because there are two.
It is very confusing for people.
Yeah.
And the same colour just to help it work.
Yeah, they're both 5 litre V10s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I sold that on and I sold my 330i, my Libby.
Yeah, you did, yeah.
So I had a little bit of space.
Okay.
And I was like, right, the weather is upon us.
It's snowing today.
It is snowing today.
We came in this morning.
It was completely white out.
And Rory was very scared and startled because he was in his jag.
Yeah.
And speaking of Scotland, actually, a lot of people
on the little bit that you mentioned there from Scotland,
a lot of the roads up there are shut at the moment.
And the weather's really, really bad.
And I thought, well, if that wafts this way down,
I need an SUV.
Okay, okay.
So I've been wafting this way down.
It has, yeah.
So I've, you know, I wanted to buy your Range Rover.
Well, my purple, Big Barney.
Yeah, but you're attached to that car.
I do like Big Barney is actually in the unit behind the cameras.
Yeah.
And you really like him.
Obviously Rory's now got Blue Peter, which I don't want,
but I do now like, because we've been working on him a lot
and he looks fabulous.
I'm looking at him now.
He looks absolutely amazing.
Robin's done a good number on him.
It's amazing how much you can just polish up those new lights
and they just, yeah, they've come up.
Yeah, those headlights, they look brand new.
Like they could be from a brand new Discovery 4.
It's amazing.
It is amazing.
It's amazing that.
It's almost like a couple of criminals took two headlights
from a car that we recently purchased to be our full car
and a grill and put them on Blue Pete.
It's almost like that.
Yeah.
But they surely wouldn't do that
because they're not absolute shitheads.
No.
And you would have, you would have noticed as well
if that had happened.
Yeah, yeah, I would probably would have.
Do you know what?
I reckon you could steal one of Alex's cars
and it would take him probably 12 months to notice.
My plan was to steal these lights
and even make it even more obvious
by replacing the blue grill in the other Discovery 4
and see how long it took him.
But I couldn't help myself.
But I don't think you would have noticed.
No, I actually wouldn't.
No.
No.
It's just, I just don't think you would
do such a thing to a friend.
But I consider us friends.
I would never steal anything from you.
I haven't steal.
I borrowed.
You borrowed.
Okay.
Because there was a replacement set on the way.
You're replacing light for light.
Jaguar or Land Rover actual lights.
Not Chinese.
No, no, no.
Because you're buying a lot of Chinese lights at the moment.
You can't actually buy, otherwise I would have,
but you can't buy fake ones of those.
You can only get real DRL proper lights.
I'm going to steal all your wheels.
Okay.
I mean, there's a straight swap to be done.
No, I'm just going to steal them.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, you'll come back and it'll be on its brake discs.
No, I'm all right.
No.
But yeah, anyway, going back to it,
you've got your Range Rover.
Rory's got his Land Rover.
I really fancied another Range Rover,
specifically a supercharged one.
Yeah, like mine, like Big Barney.
Like Big Barney.
But I've always had a bit of a hankering for a sport.
That's because you're a tart.
I am a bit of a tart.
I've never had a sport.
I've had quite a few L322s over the years,
different engine variations, and I love them.
And I did fancy one, and I was looking at yours,
but they are a bit spiny, some of them.
So I was like, I'm going to get a sport.
All right.
So I was looking at pre-facelift 4.2 supercharged
sports, which you can get really cheap.
So same engine as Big Barney.
Same engine, yeah.
Same gearbox, but it's based on a sport,
which is blue Pete underneath.
So it's like a hybrid of the two.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
And you can get them really cheap.
I found one for sale on Facebook for three grand.
Yeah.
And I was like, I've got to say,
I do love your asthmatic breath at the moment.
It's really bad.
Like you're trying to talk for a long time.
I'm trying not to breathe in too much.
But yeah.
So I was like, I'm going to go and buy one of those.
So I messaged a guy about it.
And then I thought, I would like a facelift sport
because they look a lot nicer in interiors.
And I found a 3.6 TDV8.
And then I was like, I do like that.
And it was only a little bit more expensive.
But the dream was a facelift 5-litre supercharged.
Okay, that sounds like big money.
They are.
They're close to 10K.
They're about 8, 9, 10 grand for half decent one.
Yeah.
And then I went to the calf with my mate Emory.
And Rory rang me and I was telling him
about my new obsession with Range Rover Sports.
He was like, didn't one of Tom's mates
offer us one the other day?
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, we did actually.
So I messaged him and I said, if you still got it.
Well, by the end of that afternoon,
I was in sandwich in Kent by my new Range Rover Sport.
Bloody hell.
May I ask how much you go for that?
So I paid 5,500 quid.
Wow. Is it a cat end?
Is it written off?
Is it?
No, it's a completely clear non-categorised vehicle.
It's never been an accident.
It's fairly low owners.
How do you know that?
Because I can't vertical it.
There you go. Just checking.
Just checking.
The king of which, before I was going to go and buy the sport,
I also fancied a KN.
Yeah.
Now, because I thought you'd end up with a KN again.
I've always wanted a KN turbo.
Yeah.
I've, you know, I've had lots of SUVs
and I love buying them and driving about in them for a bit
and enjoying them and seeing what they're like.
And I've had a KN before.
I've had two actually, never a turbo.
Always wanted one.
But for me, I'd like a Turbo S
because they're a little bit special
and they've got 550 horsepower.
That'll do, won't it?
Yeah.
So, I was looking at buying one.
I found one on AutoTrader, a KN Turbo S,
which was up for three and a half grand.
For an S?
Which one of those is half the value.
Holy shit.
Now, it was a Cat N, which is okay
because the mileage was quite low.
It was only had like 89,000 miles on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was listed on AutoTrader.
As a KN Turbo S, right?
Okay.
So, I ran a car vertical check on it.
Yeah.
And it came up.
Because you sent it to me, haven't you?
And I've actually got it here as well.
Yeah, I've sent it to you.
And it came up with all of the auction photos
when that car was put up in an auction.
Yeah.
Now, it's actually quite hard to tell with one of those,
whether it's a Turbo S or a Turbo.
You have to know.
If you know, you know.
And if it weren't for car vertical,
I wouldn't know that that car isn't actually a Turbo S
because in the auction photos on car vertical,
it's not got an S badge on it.
Really?
Yeah.
So, Matey has bought it from an auction,
chucked an S badge on it,
and then said, I'm going to sell it.
Yeah.
And then you got excited.
Yeah, I got excited because the car was
three and a half hours away,
and I was going to go and have a look at it.
Yeah.
And if I'd have not car verticaled it,
I wouldn't have bought it.
So, I would have wasted the whole day
driving up there.
So, I'm looking at the report now.
It says Porsche Cayenne Turbo,
65 out of 100, which is actually quite good.
Amber warning for mileage and damage.
Three records for this vehicle found.
So, we can see the auction pictures here.
And if we scroll through,
let's have a look at the rear end of the car.
We have a look there,
and yes, it just says Cayenne.
I know.
And we can see here,
because of car vertical,
obviously it checks everything.
Category N, and then in 2015 as well,
it had a bit of damage as well.
So, it's clear then,
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Don't get stung.
Don't get tailored.
Which I nearly did.
Which you nearly did.
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, I would have,
you know, I would have looked past
the cat N report on that.
Because of the price of it.
Because it is cheap
for what it was supposed to be.
Yeah.
But it wasn't what it was supposed to be.
And yeah, car vertical taught me that.
And what is the difference between a turbo and a turbo S?
Is it just power or is it?
So, there's power.
The turbo S has got 550 horsepower
and the turbo is just under 500.
So, that's like 490 something.
Also, they had a carbon fibre engine cover,
the turbo S.
But in the pictures,
there's no picture of the engine bay.
Right, yeah, yeah.
And it says turbo S in the dials.
Also in the pictures,
you can't quite see the dials.
So, I messaged a guy
and after I did the car vertical check,
I said to him,
this isn't a turbo S.
And he was like, no, no, no it is.
And I was like,
you're trying to have me over here.
So, and you know,
I knew this stuff,
but I would have driven three and a half hours.
Noticed it wasn't and then been like,
I don't really want it.
So anyway, you've now ended up
with a Range Rover Sport.
I have.
Well, 5.0 a supercharged.
Oh, how much power has that got?
510 from standard.
Okay, okay.
So you can get that to 550 quite easily, can't you?
No.
So, I'm going to take it to Tom Lempful quite soon.
He's going to put a pulley on it,
an intake on it.
Same with big, big bunny, yeah.
And a map.
And it will be 600 brake horsepower.
Oh, wow.
Reliably.
So that car has the same engine as his Project 8.
And it will come out with the same power as his Project 8.
Oh, my God.
It's not even more actually,
because he hasn't actually tuned,
like the Project 8 is just factory.
Yeah.
So I think it could be closer even more.
Yeah.
I can, I smell a little race coming on.
You know how we joke about Tom
hacking at the wheel at Landau?
Imagine him in the Project 8
versus like you or me in the Range Rover.
It does weigh 2.7 tons.
I know, but this is Tom.
He's like, king hacks a lot.
What does he do?
King, king hacks a lot.
What, he skis as well?
He's a great skier.
I know.
Very accomplished.
Okay.
But yeah, so I'm over the moon with it.
I know.
Yeah, it looks good.
Yeah, it's really good.
It's very tarty white though, isn't it?
It is a bit chubby.
So at the moment, it looks a bit chubby
because it's white and the roof is black.
And someone's painting it black.
And it's not supposed to be like that.
So I have actually booked it into my body shop, Ty.
Okay.
And he's going to paint the roof white.
Question.
If that car could be any other color,
would you select a different color
if you could just click your fingers?
Yeah, I don't hate the white,
but yeah, I would pick it as a different color.
What's the color for you for a car like that?
Orange.
I'd have it dark.
So I'd have it either dark purple,
which would probably be slightly more chavvy.
Dark green or dark blue.
Okay.
All right, interesting.
What about the Range Rover orange?
No, that's only suited on the pre-face lift.
On the first gen, first-ever models.
So this is another thing I found out.
It's really nerdy.
Oh, we're getting really boring now.
Sorry if I'm boring you.
The first-generation Range Rover Sport,
4.2-litre supercharged,
are really rare in that original orange now.
Okay.
And that's a really desirable color for those
because it was the launch color.
When they made the Range Stormer,
do you remember the concept car?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I think that L322s are always going to be top value.
They're going to go up very well.
Thank you very much.
And I think Range Rover Sports,
in nice condition, supercharged ones,
in that orange or the silver,
pre-face lift.
First-gen are going to be worth good money in years to come.
Okay.
Very interesting.
Little prediction there.
Little prediction.
But yeah, every year, I love having an SUV,
especially when the weather's like this.
Yeah.
And I'm well happy with my Jeff.
Good.
My Jeff, my Range Rover.
My little Jeff.
Yeah.
So he's a bit chavvy, a bit tarty.
Well, so are you?
He's perfect, perfect match, isn't he?
Exactly.
Because that's the thing as well,
as much as I love L322s,
I never feel like I properly suit them.
Because, you know, I wear hoodies.
I don't wear barber jackets and stuff.
So do I.
Like, I know that's why it doesn't suit you, really.
Speaking of which,
if we're looking extra fat,
Oh yeah.
It's because we're wearing our new hoodies.
Speak for yourself.
We're wearing them over the top of our other ones
because it's so cold in here.
I woke up and I looked at my phone and it said minus five.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is in London as well.
Yeah.
Which is, so by you in Middle Earth,
it must have been minus 100.
No, it was minus four, minus five,
but we get then like the wind chill on the frost on top of it.
So it's really bad.
And the demi-gorgons and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
And then suddenly like the hobbits pop out.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But what, you get out of bed?
What, no, just some,
can we just...
But yeah.
Was I the only one who got my own joke?
I got it, I got it.
I got it.
It just, it just wasn't funny.
It's been a long year.
It's been a very long year.
It's only just start.
I know, it's already so long.
Only five days in.
I know, yeah.
But yeah, we've got our new Vietnam hoodies on.
Yeah.
Because you loved Vietnam.
It was, do you know what?
This hoodie really reminds me of how good the trip was.
You loved it so much that you watched the video, right?
I have watched the video.
Have you actually?
Yeah, I have watched the video.
He has actually watched the video.
That video is doing really well.
Because Rory, you and I were a little bit skeptical,
motorbikes, Vietnam.
You know, we don't know if it's going to do well.
And it's doing really well.
So thank you for the support.
And also, can you give us a little tale?
Yeah, I'll give you a tale.
Hang on, hang on.
So we have got four designs.
You would have seen the t-shirts,
designs that I promote in the videos.
Thank you, Taylor.
Go on, girl.
You shake that money maker.
And yeah, we're obviously wearing the hoodies
because it's very, very cold.
The second episode of Vietnam comes out this Thursday.
So tomorrow, and in there,
there will be a special discount code
that will get you guys 50% off the merch, 50% off.
There'll be a promo code in there.
So we're giving you guys a heads up for that.
But there's only 20 people that can get that code.
Yeah, otherwise we'll go out of business.
So make sure you watch it.
Yeah.
Get it straight on it.
Yeah.
It'll be Thursday, six o'clock-ish.
I know what the code is,
but I'm not telling you not because you've got to watch it.
Indeed.
Indeed.
So yeah, anything else?
You got your Jeff.
Got my Jeff.
Ill.
Yeah.
Very ill.
How's the weight loss going?
Over Christmas, not so well.
Because I did have a couple of roast dinners.
You've got to put it on pause for a little bit.
And I'll be honest.
I did get gifted a couple of packets of lint.
Oh yeah.
You know the lint door.
And I've demolished all of them the same day that I had them.
But you know what?
I'm back on it.
Good.
It'll be fine.
Fair play.
Excellent.
I'm actually thinking about getting a personal trainer at the gym.
I thought you had a personal trainer.
No, I go with my mate,
but I'm thinking like I want to like maybe go a bit more at it.
All right.
And I've been thinking about going to the gym in the mornings.
Taylor, you can barely get up in the morning.
Yeah, but this is what I'm thinking.
If I get up at like five or six.
That's not going to happen.
I give it a day.
Do you know what?
You don't try.
You don't know.
I might try it.
Okay.
All right.
Because the evenings does wear me out going in the evenings.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
All right.
Okay.
Cool.
Rory, you?
Good Christmas and New Year.
Yeah.
Nice.
It's been pretty good.
Lots of family.
We had Ellie's family around our house on Christmas Eve.
Yeah.
24.
Wow.
That's a lot.
24 people.
Is that 23 children?
There was a lot of children.
Ellie's 23 children.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There were that and three dogs.
And it was just, it was just, it was, it was loud.
Was it hectic?
It was very hectic.
Did you cook?
I did not cook.
No, no.
No, Ellie cooked.
Although I did try and provide the cutlery and the plates.
Yes.
Yeah.
How did that go down?
That did not go down well.
Yeah.
Rory's got a special way when it comes to usage of things
and buying stuff that might just get thrown away.
All right.
We have 24 people round, which is a lot.
We don't even have 24 plates in the first place.
No, I don't think anyone has 24 plates in their house,
like, no, no.
Did you buy disposable cutlery?
I bought disposable.
I bought bamboo plates.
So, look, they're not just paper ones.
They're like, they are.
We've got them at the office.
Yeah.
They are actually quite nice, aren't they?
Like, you can eat.
Nice wooden plates.
Apart from sometimes you get splinters in your lunch.
Yeah, yeah.
And sometimes when you're walking around,
the plate just disintegrates and breaks in half.
No, no, no.
Not the bamboo plates, well.
And the woodworm.
Don't forget the woodworm.
Oh, yeah, they do get woodworm.
You turn around, all your food's gone.
All right, all right.
They make good firewood after, though.
They do, yeah, yeah.
Ellie wasn't really having any of it.
No, I'm not surprised, Rory.
She didn't want to serve our food on bamboo plates.
And yeah.
What did she do?
Well, we ended up borrowing plates
from all of the family and then using them.
And now I've got a huge stack of bamboo plates at home.
And out of principle now, I'll get home
and I'll cook my dinner.
Or I'll do whatever.
I'll reheat your whatever.
Yeah.
And then I'll use a bamboo plate.
That's our principle.
That's basically, at least I've got to wash it off.
Yeah, it's recyclable.
It's, you know, it's fine.
It's great.
Okay, but you do still have to chop down trees
to get these bamboo plates.
Yeah, but they're bamboo.
So it's ecological goodness.
Yeah.
Well, bamboo's infestation, isn't it?
Okay.
Is it?
What about?
Yeah, bamboo's, it's not.
Actually, yeah, it's not trees.
You dick.
Bamboo tree.
No.
It's a bamboo tree.
No, it's a plant.
Bamboo plant, whatever.
Yeah.
And it's also a, it's like a virus as well.
You're killing pandas.
But bamboo is also a virus.
Killing Eurovirus.
You're killing pandas, man.
No, I'm saving the panic by cutting down the bamboo.
Right, okay.
Do you know, they make scaffolding out of bamboo in Asia.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're taking away people scaffolding, man.
You're making building work dangerous.
Like, there's different grades of bamboo.
You don't understand.
Shut up.
This is a new year.
Good time.
I didn't even make it to the new year.
I fell asleep.
I was in bed as well, watching YouTube.
Funny.
Well, you're absolutely helping.
I went out with my mates and then we had to go back home
because we had Bailey and everything like that.
So we went back home and then I made it to,
so pathetic.
I made it to 15 minutes to midnight.
You did it.
You couldn't even ask 15 minutes.
And then I was so tired.
I just went, I'm going to bed.
And I fell asleep.
Where was Ellie?
Huh?
We were upstairs.
We were just in bed watching.
We tried to stay up watching the fireworks.
Was she also asleep at the same time?
No.
So she stayed awake by herself while you were snoring away?
Yeah.
Oh, poor Ellie.
I was tired.
Ellie, it's not too late.
It's been a busy few weeks.
Ellie, pack a bag, take all the bamboo plates and limbs.
No, I keep the bamboo plates.
You keep the bamboo plates.
She takes the real ones.
Nice.
Okay, good.
So that's you?
Yeah, yeah, no, but off to,
I think we're off to a good start of the year.
Yeah.
We've got Blue Pete in front of us looking amazing.
And yeah.
Nice.
I'm excited about this year.
I think it's going to be good.
Yeah, absolutely.
As for me,
yeah, you guys know,
it's been a bit of a troubling Christmas and new year.
Mum's been very, very ill.
She's been in hospital.
She's still in hospital now.
So yeah, she's on the way up.
But yes, it's been difficult, difficult time.
So these guys have actually left me alone
over Christmas period,
which is very nice of you.
I do appreciate that.
But yeah, like Rory said,
we're very much looking forward to the year ahead.
We'll tell you guys what we've been at,
what we're being up to,
what's going to happen at the end of this podcast.
We've got big, big exciting plans.
But for now, we're going to move it on to an email that we had to.
Podcast.autorelectscast.com.
Oh, shit.
That was slow.
That's shit.
That is cold, but that was slow.
Should we restart the entire podcast?
We should, yeah.
That was too much of a gap, wasn't it?
You're right, Rory.
No.
Okay.
It's pretty cold.
We've had an email from Ryan Trussler,
and he says,
Hi guys.
Firstly, I'd like to apologise to the wider community
for another BMW predicament.
Ryan, you're safe here.
It's okay.
I currently own one of your guys favourites,
a BMW E46 330i manual touring.
Oh.
Oh, the only issue is I don't have the emotional attachment
I was hoping I would have with it.
That's all right.
Sell it to me.
I would like to sell this car to...
Oh, wow.
Despite having covered it at the time,
I couldn't refuse the £1,400 price tag
and promptly collected it.
Well, he's made money then.
Yeah.
I'll give you your money back.
Fast forward about a year
and having only driven it only a handful of times,
I've decided it was time
for adding reinforcement plates to the boot floor,
including under-sealing,
powder-coated subframes, new brake lines,
every bush and suspension component replaced.
Let's tailor-set this in.
During this time,
I also converted the car to an M Sport
by buying every possible part off of a car
being broken in the same colour.
Result.
Now, my dilemma.
After all of this,
I still haven't fallen in love with the thing
and when I bought it,
I thought it would be my forever car.
Well, at least until I could justify an E46 M3 anyway,
but I just haven't gelled with it.
And to make things worse,
I've now got a massive hankering for a V8
of the E53 X5 variety.
Although I wouldn't know whether to go for the 4.4,
4.6 or the 4.8 IS.
Any advice on that one?
I don't do many miles,
so the extra fuel consumption doesn't concern me too much.
So there it is, guys.
Do I keep or do I quit?
Okay.
Keep doing what you're doing, chaps,
if at all possible.
Do it even more.
Listening to you guys.
Talk cars always brightens up my commutes.
Many thanks.
Ryan, kiss.
Go on, Rory.
So I'd like to start this off
and I want to see if Taylor agrees with me here.
I think you have two options here.
Sell it.
And you'd probably make quite a good profit
because the car's gone up in value a lot.
That's probably worth what?
Five or six grand?
Yeah, yeah.
As long as it's not rusty.
So if you can get a clean 330i manual touring now,
yeah, they'd like six grand.
They are worth quite a lot, yeah.
But I do agree on their own standard,
they're a bit mere.
Like an MX-5.
Yeah, it was, no.
It's not, it's...
But it's like an MX-5 in that
you have to modify them to make them actually...
Exactly, yeah.
But then the one step that people never do is do,
because there's not a lot of options, is engine work.
And I would say my car, because I have an E46 330i touring,
and mine was really boring, up until I stuck a supercharger on it.
Yeah, yeah.
And now... It's quite expensive though.
It is expensive, so that's what I'm saying.
You either sell it or you commit to the fact
that you're going to have to spend probably
realistically, including all the tuning,
three grand on putting a supercharger kit on,
if you can find one used as well.
Yeah, I was going to say three grand would be very cheap.
Yeah, no, that's if you can find one used.
But the difference...
That's massive, yeah.
Like my car is quicker than Alex's now, and...
What, my 320d?
No, you're M3.
I know, yeah, my M320d, because it's low.
But it is something that you can then turn that car
into something that is...
Like, you know, if you said you want an M3,
like, I don't know, I wouldn't bother.
I would just stick a supercharger on.
So make a budget M3,
which is effectively what yours is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's, I don't know, it's a bit special,
I think, because it's a supercharger as well.
It makes slightly different noises.
Like, the exhaust tone for mine is amazing.
Yeah, and I would push towards the supercharger.
But yeah.
Interesting.
It is quite expensive though.
It is, but if you're looking at getting an M3,
he's going to have to put a load more money into it anyway.
I think that's his dream car.
I think he's probably a little way off that.
And it sounds like he's got a hankering for a V8.
Suddenly.
Yeah.
What do you reckon, Tye?
Um, I think it sounds like he's already made his mind up in that,
yeah, he should probably sell it.
If you're thinking about selling it, then,
and you're not that emotional or attached to it,
you'd be like, oh, wow.
Well, no.
Just message me.
I'm not, I've bought my Range Rover Rory.
I'm on a van.
Message me.
What do you need it for?
Well, so I can upsell it to you.
Well, he needs a car that's going to be quicker than his M3.
That's true, that's true.
That's a pretty standard one.
And we all know the standard ones are the fastest.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
But yeah, it sounds like if you've not got that much of an attachment to it,
then move it on and get it out.
Don't try and force it.
Yeah, if you haven't gelled with it, don't force it.
Or go on a road trip in it as well, if you haven't done that already.
That's also true.
Yeah, that is also true.
X5s, I'll be honest, they're all pretty terrible.
They're all very unreliable.
Whoa.
They are.
They've changed his tune.
I used to love them.
Yeah.
And venturing off into other SUVs,
has made me realise that the E53 isn't actually that good.
But mainly because they falter bits.
The build quality is rubbish, let's be honest.
The door handles fall off.
Yeah, you do.
Case in point, the one that we have sitting in the paddock.
Yeah.
That's going to get fixed up though, I'm excited.
That is never getting...
I promise you that is.
Do you know genuine?
Because we...
Does it mean you?
I think me and you had to stand around and we actually roughly calculated
how much you would have to put into that to get it.
Yeah.
Do you know how much?
Well, luckily we've got Februaryism.
No, no, this is how much you'd have to spend.
Okay, go on.
So it needs a full respray.
Okay, no, no, no.
We're not talking about respray.
I want it mechanically good.
So you want it...
Mechanically good.
Let's start with the mechanicals.
Oh, but Alex, you could paint your TechnoViolet.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Can you imagine?
You could put an IS kit on it.
It needs a full respray.
It is looking so sorry for itself.
Okay, so mechanically.
Let's just talk mechanically for now.
Okay, mechanically.
Yeah.
You are looking at least...
We looked at it.
It's probably going to be four days of work on that car.
Okay, how many days has your Blue Pete had?
Many, many more than four days.
I think that X5 needs more than four days.
It's knackered.
It needs a rabbit-utch in it.
But anyway, we've drifted off slightly.
Yeah.
The build quality is terrible.
The door cards fall off, the door handles fall off,
the window regulators fall out, the pixels go in the dash.
You name it, they break.
They're not that comfy as well compared to other ones.
No, Range Rovers are a lot better.
But if you want an E53,
the best one to go for is a 4.6 IS, yeah.
Because?
The engines are better on their era.
Well, I think we can all agree.
Alpena engine, isn't it?
Yeah, it is an Alpena engine.
If you're looking for something better than that, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All day long.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I would much rather have a KNS, even a non-turbo,
over an E53.
They're just, they're better.
They're more reliable.
They drive better.
And also, the money you get for that E46,
you can get a really good KNS.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can get it for that money.
You can just swap out on one.
Yeah, and that'll be good.
But yeah, I would probably sell it
if you're not that attached to it.
Get rid of it.
You'll make money on it.
Yeah.
Forget the E53.
Sorry, that even hurts me saying it
because I've got one in the panic
that we're going to restore fully.
That car is...
You wait.
You be better off just buying another car
and spraying it that color.
No, it's sentimental value.
I love it.
Honestly, it needs an IS kit
and it needs to go techno-violet.
All right, we'll do that.
That needs to happen.
Because that, towing Barney.
But that's why I've got big Barney,
my Range Rover that's also purple.
And that's what he's done.
That's what I mean.
You are never going to find a point
where you wouldn't drive that
and you would drive your X5.
Yeah, I know.
But it's just something to do, isn't it?
Anyway, anyway, let's now move it on to news.
Rory, we've got news.
Yes.
Yes.
But you've done the news this time,
so I don't know what it is.
Hey, Hap, would you just like to read it out?
There's a new Nürburgring lap record.
Whoa!
Where is that from?
A new lap record.
You just said it.
That's a game.
Isn't that game?
There's something where it's...
How can there be a new Nürburgring lap record?
Isn't it sharp for the scene?
Right, hold on.
All right, okay.
So the Ligiere JS50 has set a new record on the ring.
Taylor, would you like to tell me what that record is?
Is it Chineseium?
No, it's French.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
New lap record.
Is it electric?
No.
Is petrol?
No.
It's got to be electric.
Is it hydrogen?
No.
Is it diesel?
Yes.
Really?
New lap record.
What do you reckon the time is?
Is it road legal?
Yes.
It's a road legal diesel car.
Yeah.
It's got to be some sort of diesel Le Mans car, then, isn't it?
Or something stupid.
Yeah, keep thinking along those lines.
Is it?
And then go the other way.
Go on.
What?
Is it a low six minutes?
Wait, no, he just said go the other way.
Go the other way.
It's not a low six minutes.
Wait, is it a new lap record for a diesel SUV or something?
No.
Is it a new lap record for being slow?
Yes.
It's the slowest car to ever lap.
Really?
The Nurburgring.
I say car, it's actually a quadrocycle.
So it's in the same realm as a Twizy or as an Ami.
Oh, so how do they justify this?
Couldn't you just do the slowest lap by any car and just going slowly?
I think they would have, like, foot-flat to the floor the whole time.
So anyway...
Wait, I thought you had this record already.
What, in my own free?
You lot of bitches.
I thought we were being nice to each other in 2026, man.
I've had a stressful few weeks.
Anyway, sorry.
The diesel-powered JS50 quadrocycle homologated in the same category as a Citroen Ami
has a limited top speed of 28 miles an hour, and it took 28 minutes, 25.8 seconds to complete a lap.
It was even driven from Paris to the Nurburgring, 310 miles on one tank of diesel,
averaging 94 miles per gallon.
Wow.
Yeah, so this is actually, if you're a child in France, 14-year-old child,
you can actually drive that as well.
The previous slowest lap time.
Any guesses?
So this has done it in 28 minutes.
25 minutes.
An Ami.
An Ami.
No, I don't think they've been on with the Ami.
I don't think it would make a lap.
I actually don't think...
It's not got the range.
Oh, yeah.
It's not got...
It's not actually flat out.
Now, previous lap record, what do you think, slower slap?
It's got to be something like an inky nonk.
You know, like the...
So what are you thinking, like mid-25s?
Yeah, 20 seconds.
Okay.
I can tell you, the previous lap record, the slowest lap, was actually set in 1960.
Really?
Yes, and it was.
Are you?
I take it these must be officially when...
It's not funny, didn't I?
No, because I'm thinking like a coach.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't think they do lap records.
It's not timed.
You don't time a coach.
So this has to be when they've closed the track and they're actually doing testing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And a coach's probably be faster.
Okay, fair.
It doesn't have a top speed of 28, does it?
That is true.
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, the previous lap record was held by a Trabant P50 in 1960,
and that time was 16 minutes and one second.
That's ridiculous.
Isn't the Trabant the one that's made out of cotton?
That's that...
That's that...
Trabant's made out of cotton, isn't it?
And they're like beige.
Yeah, I don't think they're cotton.
I think they are.
Okay.
All right, we'll have to look into that.
We're not going to be very waterproof.
We're not going to look into that.
Second bit of news.
Rory!
BYD is now officially bigger than Tesla with global EV sales.
I saw this.
Didn't they sell like...
It's not even a little bit.
It's a lot now.
Yeah.
So Tesla's 2025 Q4 results, they delivered 1.6 million new electric cars last year.
Which is a lot.
Yeah, compared with 1.7 million in 2024.
So they're down year on year.
BYD annual sales have increased by 28% in 2025 to 2.25 million globally.
That's nuts, isn't it?
So BYD are like literally dominating at the moment.
Yeah, but I mean, it's easy to see why.
They deliver a product that's cheaper, better.
Yeah, more tech.
More tech.
Yeah.
Not run by maniac.
And realistically, reliability with electric cars is either it's going or it's not.
There's not really too much more to it than that.
And I don't know about you guys, but I have seen so many Chinese EVs.
J-Cous.
Oh, J-Cous.
There's some of the finance deals you can get on J-Cous.
I was looking at it.
It doesn't make sense.
The resale, either they're predicting that they're going to have a high resale value,
which they don't know yet because the cars are so new that they don't have any history.
Yeah.
But they're offering like £200 a month.
You can get a J-Cous for like two years, do 10,000 miles.
I can't remember the exact details, but it worked out where I was looking at it going like,
how does that work?
You're looking at thinking, maybe that Jaguar needs to go.
Maybe I should chop the Aston down.
I was looking at it going like, surely that doesn't make sense.
That would be that you could then use it and then sort of,
by the time that you've worked out the electric car stuff,
you'd actually be saving money by switching into one.
And they're quite smart looking cars.
They look very Land Rover-y these days.
You know who else I was saying to do some really good looking cars?
I was saying to Taylor, was it?
Kea.
Kea, yeah.
Some of the new Keas look great.
Yeah.
The big, is it EV9 or something?
Yeah, I think that's the one that was parked outside.
Yeah, good looking cars.
What's happened to us?
We're just saying they're good looking.
We're still saying that shit went by them.
Go out and buy a shit old BMW.
Do you know what's always wondered me?
This is a really weird thing to think of,
but I don't know if you've ever thought of it.
With electric cars, obviously, they're all connected to the internet.
Do you reckon that somewhere there's like a computer or something
that could deactivate them and turn them off?
You can, you can already do that.
All of them.
Yeah, yeah.
So you can get like fleet management software.
I don't think it naturally integrates into that.
I mean like all of them.
Like in a whole country.
I genuinely think Tesla could do that.
So they can remove things like,
if they know that you've tampered with stuff,
they can remove your ability to use their superchargers.
Really?
Yeah.
So there's some people who modify Tesla's
and then if they find out what your vin is, blah, blah, blah,
they will then remove you off the supercharger network.
So I wonder if like, say for example,
you've got one on finance and you missed a payment
and you didn't pay for it.
Do you reckon they just turn it off?
They just switch off when you're on the M4.
Well, not on the M4, but yeah, they just, they just switch it off.
No, you're not using it.
Yeah, potentially.
I think there's tracker companies that could do that.
So if a tracker company can do it,
I can't see why the manufacturer of the actual car can do it.
Especially the Chinese.
They're quite smart when it comes to all that on there.
But it just made me think like,
imagine if we like went to war
and the country that we went to war with made these cars
and they just switched them all off.
Yeah.
Well, I think, isn't it the army, like British army?
They don't actually have any Chinese cars on site.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Just in case they've got like spies stuff.
Or microphones.
Yeah.
Microfonies.
I didn't know that.
But yeah, I've always thought that.
I wonder if one day someone could just turn them all off.
Yeah.
Well, we should try.
Or do the opposite and make them just go maximum speed forwards.
Just crash everywhere.
Yeah.
All of them crash.
Just one big crash at the same time.
Yeah.
What will be, will be.
Okay.
Nice.
Well, yeah, there's some food for thought.
Brilliant.
Right.
We actually, no, let's move it on to the game.
The game.
The game.
We're going back to an original game.
Yes.
20 questions.
20.
How many questions do we have?
Two.
Two.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
So we're going 20.
So I have thought of a car.
Okay.
And you two have 20 questions,
which I can answer yes or no to.
All right.
To guess the car.
Okay.
Question number one.
Is it Japanese?
No.
Is it British?
Yes.
Well, there's a surprise, isn't there?
Have we owned one of these vehicles?
No.
Are you writing down how many questions we've done?
That was, that was three.
Three.
That was three, yeah.
It's British, not owned one.
I don't think there's any British car we've not owned.
It's impossible.
Is it an MG?
No.
Is it still in production today?
No.
Is it a Morgan?
No.
They're still in production today as well.
They are, yeah.
Not all of them.
So, wow.
Yeah.
The Aero 8, isn't it?
No, true.
Is it a pre-1990s car?
Now how would you answer this
if it's pre and post?
Well, it's pre and post.
There you go.
Okay.
Well, if it came out.
Oh, where have you gone?
Sorry, I'm just blowing my nose.
If it came out pre-1990s.
It came out pre-1990s.
Okay, but did production end pre-1990
or did it continue into the 90s?
Well, now this is another question.
So, no, no, no.
Is it pre-1990s?
Jesus Christ, man!
Sorry.
He's already told us the answer.
So, it was maybe built in 1998, 90s as well
and made in 1998.
Is it a Rover?
No.
So, we're not to...
That's seven, no.
Okay.
Is it a sports car?
Yes.
Eight.
Is it a Triumph?
No.
Nine.
Is it an MG?
No.
Ten.
Not a Morgan.
I quite like British cars because there's actually quite a lot of brands.
Yeah.
So, what else we got then?
We got caterums.
Is it a Jaguar?
No.
Okay.
Is it a low volume company?
What would give me a low volume number?
Like, I don't know numbers.
Low volume for me is something like catering versus high volume Land Rover.
I'd need a number.
Were there fewer than 20,000 of these vehicles made?
Yes.
It's a really, really limited production car.
That's quite rare.
Sports car.
And it's not a catering.
Did we ask if it's catering?
No.
Did I ask if it's catering?
Is it a catering?
No.
12.
Well, there's the answer to that.
Is it similar in ethos to a catering?
No.
13.
Okay.
So, it's not an open little sports car.
It's not going to be super lightweight then.
Lotus.
Oh, yeah.
Is it a Lotus?
Yes.
Okay.
Is it?
And a Lan?
No. 15.
Elise is too obvious, isn't it?
Well, I don't know.
Evora.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to...
Is it a Lotus Europa?
No. 16.
Is it a Lotus Elise?
No. 17.
Oh, no.
What do you know?
It was made...
I gave it to you.
It was made pre-90s.
It was in the 90s instead of made.
In the 90s.
And it was also being made in the 2000s still.
Oh, was it?
Yeah.
Is it an Evora?
No.
Shit. No, I already...
No, that's fine.
No.
No.
What's that?
18.
18?
Fine.
Okay.
What's another Lotus?
A Lan?
Elise?
Evora?
Europa?
Lotus?
Is it a Lotus?
It's Carlton.
No. 19.
It's not made in the 2000s, man.
Yeah, but there was in the 90s.
Yeah, but he already just said it was also made in the 2000s.
Oh, was it not?
Okay, we need to have a little conflap here.
What's the name of another Lotus?
Oh, one more.
There's one more Lotus.
The Esprit.
That's not 2000s.
Yeah, they did.
They did the Esprit Turbo in the 2000s.
In the 2000s?
I think so.
They did them quite late.
That's the wedge shape.
One, yeah.
Did they do them in the 2000s?
I'm going to say no.
That's really 80s, isn't it?
Esprit, what else is there?
Sorry, everyone at home screaming at us at the moment.
Esprit's the thing you want.
The poppy-uppy headlights.
The James Bond underwater ones.
It's not that.
Lotus.
Exige?
Is that your answer?
Yeah.
No.
Oh, no.
It's because we didn't conflap.
If this is a boss's name, I swear.
If it's a what?
It's an Esprit.
It is a Lotus Esprit.
No, I'm so sorry.
So I got it.
They made them all the way from 1976 all the way to 2004.
They did them for a long time.
And Esprit, are you mental?
What?
I can't believe that.
I got that right.
No wonder Lotus is in the shit.
That was the one that they were making still in 2000.
Oh, shit.
That's the one that James May had in Argentina.
They were making a car with pop-ups in the early 2000s.
Taylor, I do apologize.
You've completely let us down.
I've completely ruined 2026 for you there, haven't I?
You have, yeah.
And Esprit.
Yeah.
2000.
Oh, jeez.
You should have been more, you know, grrr.
I was grrr.
I'm going to get you.
So after 28 years of production,
the Esprit was one of the last cars ever to have pop-up headlights.
Okay.
Well done, Rory.
I hate you.
You know why?
It's because it was already a car that was in production.
Yeah.
So although it would have been against safety laws to have pop-up headlights,
because it was already in production, it didn't have to change.
Is it like that with the Defender as well?
Yeah.
The Defender, they had to,
they could keep doing it all the way to 2016,
even though it didn't pass any UK.
Crazy.
Right.
Do you know, you could buy like a 2013 Defender,
and it doesn't have airbags.
That's mad.
Because it was in production before they came in as a regulation.
That's crazy.
What about seat belts?
They do have seat belts.
They should never have put seat belts in them.
No.
Because they were made when seat belts weren't a thing.
They should have just kept that.
Disappointed in you, Land Rover.
Anyway, let's move it on to an email we've had from a man called George,
and he's asking for some advice.
And the subject line is very interesting.
Roll over collision and replacement car.
George.
Okay.
Hi, guys, on the 22nd of December,
I was involved in a roll over collision in my Volvo 850,
which will now result in it being written off,
presumably as a Cat B.
We can see the picture there.
Oh, that is bad.
Yeah, definitely a Cat B.
That's like properly on its route.
That's a shame.
Thankfully, I was the only occupant and got away pretty unscathed
with just a sprained hand proving again that they don't make them like they used to.
Now for my dilemma.
Obviously, my insurance payout and impact and premium may decide this for me,
but I am thinking of getting a cheap runabout
that I'm not going to get too attached to to get me to work, etc.
While I rebuild my no claims and my confidence.
However, a few friends have suggested that I look at getting something I actually want again
if I can afford it.
The issue is, I believe that if I do this deep down,
I will only miss my 850 more and won't grow to enjoy the car as much as I would otherwise
if I waited a bit.
What do you guys suggest and what would you do in my shoes?
Many thanks, Jorge.
If I looking at the picture of that car, George,
go out and get yourself another Volvo.
It's been a lucky car for you.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll get a V70.
Do you know what?
I was looking at V70Rs the other day.
My God, are they expensive?
Do you remember we had one?
So expensive.
They're worth a fortune.
The manual ones, 10 grand plus.
What?
Well, the one I bought was Cat N, I think it was.
Yeah, or was it Cat S, wasn't it?
Yeah, one of those.
Yeah, and it was five grand.
Oh yeah, we saw where the damage was, wasn't it?
It was a door or something.
Yeah, the rear quarter of it as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're worth a fortune.
10 grand.
850Rs manuals, don't even go near them.
15 grand plus, yeah.
You know that man that always comes to all the shows with his red one?
Yeah.
That is stunning.
It's gorgeous.
Beautiful car that is.
Gorgeous.
But yeah, I would honestly, George, go and get another Volvo.
They're really good cars.
Yeah.
Do you know, no one's ever died in an XC90.
I do know that.
Yeah, yeah.
Although there's a video in that.
What?
We bought an XC90 and all died.
That's possible actually.
Yeah.
We could try it.
We could.
I'm not sure there'd be many videos after that one.
Yeah, but this one would be a banger though.
In theory though, it would be enough to live on.
Very good.
It'd have to be an accident.
Oh yeah.
So it can't be on purpose.
It's got to be an accident.
Okay.
So what happens if we've got accidentally really drunk?
That is possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shall we move on?
George, okay.
So Taylor, you're saying get another Volvo.
Yeah, get a V70 or so.
Maybe upgrade a little bit.
I like an 850.
I think they're really cool.
I used to have one in that color, an estate, a diesel manual.
Did you?
500 diesel, really cool.
They can't be much though.
Can they couple of ground or so?
Yeah, they're not too expensive.
It's just finding a nice one now because a lot of them are rotting away.
But say that George doesn't want another 850
because he hasn't said I want another 850.
Get a V70.
Okay.
What about getting away from Volvos and just getting a little runabout?
Should he get a runabout?
So his question is, should I get a little runabout to tie me over
to build my confidence up, which is from what I'm reading from the email.
That's what he wants to do.
Yeah.
Versus his friend saying,
now just go out and buy a really cool car.
I don't think if he gets a little runabout,
it depends on what his version of little runabout is,
but if he gets some sort of little Mazda 2 or some Honda Jazz,
I don't think he'll feel as safe as he did in his Volvo.
Also, it'll probably be more expensive than another cheap Volvo
because a V70 or an 8 with some 850s are worth a lot,
but you can still get them quite cheap.
Whereas a little runaround, they're quite a lot of money, some of them.
Yeah.
So what are we saying?
Are we saying take the sole of your stricken 850
and put it into a new Volvo?
Yeah, I'd get another Volvo.
If you like Volvos, then get it.
Yeah, just get it.
And if they keep you safe, which they clearly do, then do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can't beat a Volvo for safety, really.
You really can't.
You really can't.
So hopefully, George, that helps.
Yeah.
Maybe just get a similar car and then love it and just don't crash it.
Or something like a Saab as well.
They're quite similar.
A Wasabi.
A Wasabi, yeah.
They're cool.
Yeah, they're very cool as well.
There's lots of like hot estate versions
that you can get as well to the turbos.
Yeah, 9.5 whatever it is.
And is it 9.5?
Yeah, I think you can get those.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, that now pretty much rounds up the podcast.
New for 2026.
Yes.
What we've got coming up is a lot going on.
Oh, there is a lot.
Our brains.
We're going to do a few workshop stuff on main channel
just until we go away.
So we're delaying going away in the 4x4 trip
just for a little while, obviously.
You need to look after your mum, which is the correct thing to do.
Absolutely, yeah.
And then we'll be doing the yet going away
in Scotland in the 4x4s.
Or if the weather in Scotland is not bad enough,
maybe we'll go to Norway.
Taylor's a little bit off to go to Norway in the 4x4s.
Just pop over, hop over there.
I'd like to drive on a frozen lake.
Okay, you can do that in Scotland.
Why not?
I've always wanted to drive up a ski slope.
That sounds quite fun.
And you know, when I was still working at Carthrow,
I had a Ferrari F12 or FF or something, one of those.
And the plan was I was going to drive up a ski slope,
but it was a complete whiteout.
And we couldn't get up.
They closed the ski slope.
See now, would you, given the opportunity to do either,
would you rather drive up a ski slope or down?
I'd rather drive down.
I'd rather drive up.
Because if you're driving up and then you lose traction,
you'll slide back down backwards.
Whereas if you're driving down,
you can control it a bit more.
And you see what you're going down into.
I don't think if you're driving down,
I think you're going to get so much speed up,
so quickly, so much momentum,
you're not going to have any control.
And then you'll flip.
I think drive down is better.
No.
Okay, well, there's a video in that as well.
Yeah.
Maybe we'll do it in XC90s.
And then if one of us dies, it was an accident.
It was an accident.
Exactly.
I would also rather drive up.
Yeah, I'll drive down.
Okay, anyway, maybe we could do that.
Because are we going to go anywhere near Glenshee?
Because that's where we were going to do it.
We can, well, we are going near the Cairngorms at the moment.
So, yeah.
So, yeah, the Overlander series is happening.
It is delayed a little bit for personal reasons.
But yeah, we've got Vietnam episode two and three coming out,
which is this Thursday.
I'm so excited for, yeah.
Oh, God, the breakdowns.
Yeah.
So many breakdowns.
Anna crashed, Gareth crashed.
And yeah, just lots of very interesting people.
And then after that,
we're going to be doing our luxury car series.
Oh, yes.
Where we need to buy free, ultimate luxury cars.
Yeah.
And they're probably going to be British,
because the British do it best.
No, others can make good luxury cars as well.
But we're thinking like classic luxury though, aren't we?
Yeah, like 70s style, maybe into the 80s.
And then our plan is to drive them to Africa.
Yeah, we go to Africa, baby.
Yeah.
So, that will go straight after the four by fours.
We'll be moving into that.
Yeah.
And then we've also got a sort of a free part series
where we're going to go to Las Vegas.
Because while we were over there,
you may have remembered a video where we bought a G-Wagon.
On the V2 channel, yeah.
And we haven't actually done anything with it,
but we do still own it.
We do, yeah.
And we need to go out.
It's still a city BMW.
Yeah, so us three, we need to go out
and we need to repair the G-Wagon and get it going.
And then we want to drive it all the way
from West Coast to the East Coast.
Yeah.
And then ship it back.
Yeah.
So that's going to be amazing.
Going to be my new daily.
And then also the other thing we did talk about
in the Vietnam episode, if people seem to like it,
which at the moment I would say people seem to like it.
Yeah.
I mean, we said if the video gets more than 100 views,
then we deem it a success.
And we need to go back to Vietnam, right?
Yeah.
And we...
It's done quite a lot of views.
It's done quite a lot.
So we would then carry on,
because we drove to the middle of Vietnam.
Yeah.
And we'd want to then go from middle to north
and finish the whole trip, basically.
And do you know what?
It also means that we get a little bit of a holiday
from Taylor Swift.
Thank God for that.
And then there's the one big thing that we're still in
discussion about, but Japan is definitely on the cards.
I really want to do Japan.
Yeah.
Japan.
Japan is happening.
We need to go over there, buy some cars on an auction
and import them back.
Do a road trip while we're over there.
Yeah.
It is going to happen.
It is going to happen.
Okay.
We'll see about that.
No, it's happening.
Okay.
We also have other plans that we're working on
in the background.
They're very, very big plans and very exciting plans,
but we can't tell you about them yet.
No.
What plans are those?
Involves stuff and eating.
I like eating.
And people.
And people.
Eating and people.
Buying stuff.
Eating people.
Eating people.
Hey, man, it works for some people.
Eating people.
Anyway, before the podcast gets too sexy,
let's call it there.
Okay.
We've been chatting for just about an hour.
Yeah.
Welcome to 2026.
Thank you for sticking with us and thanks for all the support.
I had loads of messages actually at the tail end of last year.
Saying, you know, you get those like podcast reports.
Yes, yeah.
So there was one man that messaged me and he is in the top 0.05% of listeners.
And he said that in one day he listened to 10 podcasts.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's like 600 minutes of podcasts.
Okay.
So yeah.
Thank you all for listening in with your ear holes and your eye holes.
And yeah, we've got plenty more coming.
We are going to try and do more podcasts.
Yes, we are.
Well, and also next week, hopefully we shouldn't be looking like this.
What fat?
Well, no, well, yeah.
Yeah.
Because we'll have heating.
We will.
We're getting heating installed as well.
Jake from Hitachi reached out and then we're getting heating installed in our units.
Yeah.
That is exciting.
It is very exciting.
I also need to get some shoes that are a bit warmer.
Yeah.
Oh, and I'll be even older next week as well.
It's your birthday.
Yeah.
Wow.
What is that?
51?
61.
I'm a year younger than Tom Lenthal.
Yeah, 61.
Yeah.
God, you don't look a day over 70.
I haven't had an erection for 17 years.
Oh my God.
Anyway, with that, thank you very much for listening and watching.
We will see you and hear you and chat to you next week or next time
when you're all right, Rory, on The All-Terrainers podcast.
We love you guys.
Whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities.
We'll see you very, very soon.
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