S2 Ep29: We Bought Two RUINED Performance Cars This Week...
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Smart Roadster
The Smart Roadster is a tiny sports car made by Smart. It's small and light, so it feels fun to drive, even though it's not very powerful.
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Range Rover Sport
The Range Rover Sport is a fancy SUV that can drive well both on roads and off-road. It's comfortable and powerful, making it popular for many drivers.
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Rover Tomcat
The Rover Tomcat is a small, fun car made by Rover in the 1990s. It's like a tiny convertible that people like to drive for fun.
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BMW 645
The BMW 645 is a fancy car made by BMW that is both fast and comfortable. People like it because it looks good and drives well.
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Fiat Cinquecento
The Fiat Cinquecento is a tiny car made by Fiat, an Italian company. It's small and easy to drive in cities and was made in the 1990s.
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Toyota Mark II
The Toyota Mark II is a type of car made by Toyota. It's liked by people who enjoy cars because it drives well and can be changed to go faster or look different.
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Citroen AMI
The Citroen AMI is a very small electric car that’s perfect for driving around the city. It’s easy to park and doesn’t use gas, so it’s good for short trips.
Car
Fiat 500
The Fiat 500 is a tiny car made by an Italian company called Fiat. It's very small and easy to drive in cities, and many people in Italy have them.
Part
shock absorber
A shock absorber is like a cushion for your car that helps smooth out bumps when you drive. It stops the car from bouncing too much after going over a bump.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a popular car that many people like because it looks cool and goes fast. It's been around for a long time and is well known.
Concept
Hertz color combination
Hertz is a car rental company that sometimes paints cars in special colors. These colors make the car look different and special.
Concept
replica
A replica is a copy of a car that looks like the real one but isn't the original. People make replicas to have a car that looks cool without paying a lot.
Car
Ford Mustang GTD
The Ford Mustang GTD is a special version of a famous fast car called the Mustang. It’s known for being strong and looking cool.
Term
quilted leather
Quilted leather is soft leather with a stitched pattern that makes it look fancy and feel comfy inside a car.
Car
Toyota Land Cruiser
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a big, strong SUV that can drive almost anywhere, even on rough roads. People like it because it lasts a long time and doesn’t break down easily, making it great for adventures.
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Porsche 911
This is a fast sports car made by Porsche called the 911 Turbo from the year 2000. It has a special turbocharged engine that makes it very powerful and is part of the 996 generation, which means it has a certain style and design from that time.
Car
Porsche 911 GT3
The Porsche 911 GT3 is a special version of the 911 made for fast driving on race tracks. It has a powerful engine and better parts to help it go faster and handle better.
Part
GT3 brake calipers
GT3 brake calipers are special parts on the Porsche 911 GT3 that help the car stop quickly and safely, especially when driving fast.
Part
oil cooler
An oil cooler is like a radiator for the oil in your engine. It helps keep the oil from getting too hot so the engine runs better and lasts longer.
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throttle body
The throttle body is a part that controls how much air goes into the engine. More air means more power when you press the gas pedal.
Part
intercoolers
Intercoolers cool down the air that gets pushed into the engine by a turbo or supercharger. Cooler air helps the engine make more power.
Car
BMW M4
The BMW M4 is a fast and sporty car made by BMW. It is designed to be fun to drive and can go really fast, but you can also use it as a regular car.
Term
PSI
PSI is how we measure how much air is inside a tire. If the number is too low, the tire can be unsafe and wear out faster.
Term
juddery brakes
Juddery brakes mean the car shakes a bit when you press the brake pedal. This usually means the brakes need fixing.
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warp brakes
Warp brakes happen when the parts that help stop the car get bent or uneven. This makes the car shake when you press the brake pedal.
Car
Audi RS4
The Audi RS4 is a fast and sporty version of the regular Audi A4 car. It has a stronger engine and is made for people who like to drive quickly and have fun.
Car
BMW M5
The BMW M5 is a fast and fancy car that’s fun to drive but also comfortable for daily use. It’s popular because it can go really fast and still be easy to live with every day.
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BMW 540I
The BMW 5 Series is a nice, comfortable car that’s also powerful and fun to drive. The 540i version has a strong engine that makes it go fast and feel smooth.
Term
horsepower
Horsepower tells you how strong a car's engine is and how much power it can make. More horsepower usually means the car can go faster or accelerate quicker.
Concept
car vertical report
A CarVertical report is a paper or online document that tells you important things about a used car's past, like if it was in accidents or how many people owned it before.
Car
Land Rover Defender
The Land Rover Defender is a tough car that can drive over rough and bumpy places where normal cars can’t go. People love it for adventures, but it can sometimes need more repairs than other cars.
Car
Land Rover Range Rover
The Range Rover is a fancy SUV that can go off-road and is very comfortable inside. It's made by a company called Land Rover.
Car
Land Rover Discovery
The Land Rover Discovery is a big, comfortable SUV that can drive on rough roads and carry lots of people or stuff. It’s nice inside but sometimes needs extra care to keep it running well.
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BMW E46
The BMW 3 Series is a popular car that’s fun to drive and feels nice inside. The E46 model is well-liked because it’s reliable and handles well, making it good for everyday use.
Car
BMW M3
The BMW M3 is a sportier and faster version of the regular 3 Series car. It’s made for people who want a fun and exciting car to drive every day.
Brand
Top Gear
Top Gear is a TV show about cars where they test and talk about different vehicles in fun ways.
LIVE
I've bought my dream car.
I've bought my dream.
Oh, yes, you have.
Car.
And there's no way a Land Rover would have its bonnet open.
No.
Okay, yeah.
Rory, you broke down in your Defender two weeks ago.
I got another Instagram message from a man in a town called Bradford.
And what do we know about Bradford?
Don't buy a car from Bradford.
Yes.
So you bought a...
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the auto Alex podcast, home of automotive financial
mistakes, our life in cars, and your questions answered today.
Taylor.
Rory.
Hello.
And I will fill your ear and your eye holes with what we've been up to, and Taylor, we've
been up to a lot.
Oh, we've made a lot of...
A lot of naughty business purchases.
Yeah, we'll also answer your car dilemmas, and we won't play a game because we'll run
out of time.
Pretty much.
Yeah, we've got a lot of stuff to get through today.
Also, sorry.
Podcast has not been...
Rory's.
Rory's been off his game.
Do you know why?
Rory's not skiing.
He's been on holiday.
Get third holiday.
This has nothing to do with that.
It is.
We have done a lot recently.
Yeah, Rory's done a lot of holiday.
Are you tired from your holidays?
Is it exhausting?
I am, actually.
Before we get into all of that, though, a massive hello to Martin from Scotland, currently
fixing his smart roadster, Shelly Norris, who saw Taylor float past him in Jeff the Range
Rover Sport.
Oh, hello.
We've got Paul Reynolds, who broke down not long after buying his new Rover 220 Tomcat
from Newquay on his way home to Aberdeen.
That's a long way.
That's 13 hours, apparently.
He also did buy a Rover Tomcat, so...
He did.
Yeah, that was your first mistake there.
They're very reliable cars, I love you guys.
Yeah, ours went really well.
It was a good car.
Anyway, Stephen Cook checking in on his way home to the UK, having watched the Daytona
500, Rich, who's just bought a BMW 645 for £2,000.
Good luck.
Robin Francis binge listening on a 60-mile commute between Kent and London, and...
Rory's Mum, Jackie.
You all right, Mum?
You all right, Mum?
Is she all right?
Yeah, doing all right.
Good.
Excellent.
Happy days.
All right.
Let's dive into what we've been up to, because we've been up to so much stuff.
Lots.
But because Rory hasn't been up to much, Rory, what have you been up to?
I went to Rome.
You went to Rome.
He went on another holiday.
I did, yeah.
How was it?
Was it lovely?
It was a little weekend, extended weekend getaway.
Do you know?
I've always wanted to go to Rome.
You've not been to Rome?
No, never been.
I've always wanted to see the leaning tower of pizza.
Okay, completely different place, but...
Is it actually?
Yeah, that's in a place called Pisa.
Yeah.
Oh, that would say a lot.
How was the starting point?
I didn't actually know that.
I didn't know that.
But they do have the Coliseum there, don't they?
At Pisa?
No, that's in Rome, isn't it?
You're winding me up.
The Coliseum's in Rome, I was going to say.
Rory, how was the tapas?
The food was good.
Yeah, was it really?
Do you know what?
Rome is so cheap.
Is it?
Is it?
I don't think for a meal, we spent over £35.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But is that because you get pickpocketed every turn?
Look, it's a bit dodgy, isn't it?
It's like that anyway.
It is a bit dodgy.
But the food, honestly, the best food that I had
was the sort of...
You know when you see the tray-baked pizzas?
Oh, yeah.
When you can just get the little lunch ones?
Yeah.
Those pizzas were the best.
I'm having pizza tonight.
Are you excited?
Yeah, I'm very excited.
Yeah.
And then the little pasta places,
where it's like Subway, but for pasta,
where you go in, you choose your type of pasta,
you choose your sauce, you choose your toppings,
and then go in, then there's fresh pasta.
Are you sure you didn't just go to Subway?
Oh.
And then the other place that I went to,
Great Food.
Not really Italian, but Great Food.
McDonald's.
It was called Baobao.
Baobao?
And it was Little Dumplings.
You're a Little Dumpling.
You're my Little Dumpling.
Goodness gracious.
Yeah, I think that was actually the best food
that I've had.
So it was round the corner from where we were staying,
and I was looking at all these,
you know, a lot of these Italians.
It's funny, when you look on Google Reviews,
all the ones near all the things are like one star,
which I've never seen places with like thousands of reviews
be like 1.4 stars or something like that.
Oh, yeah, that's bad.
And you know it's bad.
But all the places around us were like quite, quite nice.
And then this Baobao.
Yeah.
2,000 reviews.
Really?
Yeah, 4.9 out of 5.
And I was like...
Has it got people queuing out the door?
It did, actually.
Really?
So I was like, I've got to go there.
I've got to go.
And then, yeah, we had the best meal.
Really?
Oh, that's very nice.
The one thing I will say about Ro,
no, not, yeah, actually,
I didn't see one interesting car,
except for like the Cinquecentos,
the tourist ones.
They're all smashed up, aren't they?
They're all smashed up.
And there's just nothing interesting.
Is there no car culture there?
No, not at all.
That's actually not true.
You see a lot of Mark II Penthouse
and they are nice.
And they're thin on the ground.
The thing that I was amazed...
No.
The thing that I was amazed about, though,
the Amis,
I have never seen so many Amis.
Oh, wow.
But they're all parked,
you know, like how the Smart Cars Park,
where they park them in vertical
into a parking space
and then they can just...
Oh, there are lots of mopeds in Rome.
Is it mainly mopeds?
No, these cars,
but there are a lot of mopeds,
but I think when you go to Vietnam,
nothing compares to that.
So I just looked at them and go,
yeah, there's a few,
but it wasn't there.
But still, really good place.
So no car meets?
No.
I'd love to know if there is a car culture in Rome,
because I don't think there is.
I think there is.
I think there's, like,
a lot of people have, like,
old Fiat 500s and Chinca-Chentos and stuff like that.
But not like car culture culture?
No, not like...
Not like old cars.
Yeah, they're just like the old old car.
I'm just thinking,
can you imagine driving a Citroen Ami
down a cobbled Italian street?
See, now, that is, I think, why,
because the road...
I get they're, like, 2,000 years old,
but they are terrible.
Imagine the trim rattles.
All of their taxis,
they must just be absolutely beating up.
Like, I reckon they get in there,
and the shock absorber's changed every few months.
Yeah, yeah.
It's amazing.
But, yeah, good holiday.
Good holiday.
Yeah.
Good holiday.
And I've got a dilemma, boys.
Oh.
Here we go.
Is it a car lemma?
It is a car lemma.
Oh, OK.
So, I've got my Mustang.
Yeah.
Basically, there was a bit of damage to it,
and the boot lid was peeling massively,
so it needed respraying.
Yeah.
I sent it to the body shop.
The body shop basically said,
ah, to do a proper job,
because I think when it got sprayed,
when it got lit,
someone did a really quick spray job on it,
and it was just really,
like, it doesn't look amazing.
Mm-hmm.
And they said,
if we did spray the top again
to replace those bits that you've asked for,
the side of the car
and, like, the back and the end would look terrible.
So, they were like,
we'll have to do a full re-spray.
We'll have to do it, yeah.
So, then I was already like,
OK.
And then they started doing a bit more,
and they were like going,
but all the panels are new,
and there doesn't seem to be any rust.
OK.
So, it wouldn't actually take that much longer
to do a full re-spray color change.
Oh.
Ooh.
Because it's not a color at the moment.
Well,
so, the color combination is really cool
because it is a Hertz color combination.
Get over it.
Like, do you really care?
I quite like the story.
The story is great,
but it's not what my car is.
It's your car as well.
It's a replica.
Like, so someone's just sprayed that afterwards,
which I think,
if that was a Hertz color,
like an actual genuine Hertz car,
no way would I be changing that color.
But it's like a fake.
It might as well have an RS-free badge.
So, question.
What Land Rover color are you going to re-spray it?
I'm thinking a BMW color.
Are you?
Yeah.
Oxford Green.
Ooh.
That would be quite cool.
That would be amazing, wouldn't it?
So, Oxford Green with either white stripes
or like gun metal gray stripes,
which it will look quite similar
to another famous Mustang color combination.
The bullet.
Which is bullet.
Which I'm happy with that,
because that is just a cool looking color combination,
but your car's not trying to be something it's not.
Yeah.
Now, question.
Would you not rather do it British racing green metallic,
because it's a bit more green?
But the whole point with,
I think you want a darker, more neutral color
if you're putting stripes on a car.
Because you want to let the stripes do a lot of the talking.
That's why the black and gold worked quite well.
What about the cream car,
right, with the blue stripes?
See, I like that,
but then I did more research into that
and that is actually a GT, whatever.
350, I think.
Is that the Shelby, is it?
Yeah.
I think so, yeah.
Which my car's again not.
So, I don't really want it to be,
because a lot of Mustangs are...
It's always going to be a replica though, isn't it?
Yeah, but a lot of Mustangs are like over the top replicas
where they've got Shelby badges on.
They've got all this stuff when it's just like,
that's not what it is.
I just want something that would look nice.
What you want to do is paint your own color combination
and then call it the GTRE,
the Mustang GT Rory Edition.
Nice.
Yeah.
I quite like that.
And then you'll have to tint the windows,
make it a bit Birmingham spec as well.
Put some quilted leather in it.
Oh, that'd be nice.
Awesome stars, headliners.
Oh, yes.
4D up the plate.
Formula 1 lamp.
Yeah.
All chameleon windscreen.
Oh, yes.
Underglow.
If your car has any of these things,
then please feel free to switch off.
I quite like underglow.
I might put it on my daily.
I think it's more of a nostalgia thing
from Need for Speed, isn't it?
Anyway, Rory, anything else you've been up to?
Are you going to get it re-sprayed?
I'm going to get it re-sprayed.
Yeah, fantastic.
You have been up to some other stuff.
How's your Mini Rory?
We just took the Mini out for its first drive.
Oh, yeah.
Made in voyage after what?
Rebuild number? I lose count.
4.5 million.
So I've got a thousand miles to do in that
because it's a new built engine.
So I'm going to do that off camera
because I can't go over 3000 RPM
and it's a bit boring.
No, we would like you to livestream that 1,000 miles.
Everyone wants to see it.
Everyone just wants to share that seat with you.
Luckily for me, my commute
is about 1,000 miles a week.
So that's quite easy.
I'll just commute it for a week.
Because he lives in Middle Earth.
He doesn't. He lives very far away.
We can get it tuned.
We can take both our Minis back up to 1320
because you need to get yours redone
with the new supercharger.
And then we can then do the final part of the episode.
Fantastic.
And then finally be done with that piece of shit.
Thank you very much.
I've been waiting for you to say that for so long.
So you're excited.
Are you going to be in that car?
I'm driving it home tonight.
We'll see how it goes.
I'll wait for the phone call.
Just be on standby and do what?
To laugh?
No, to come pick me up with a trailer.
Can you livestream that if you break down?
I've not got a tow bar.
I've not got my Jeff with me.
It's all right. You can take mine.
The brakes are gone.
You're so shit with cars.
It's actually unbelievable.
That's actually pot calling the kettle black.
Actually, I'm quite good with cars.
Are you?
Yeah, my cars are in good cars.
Taylor's really good with cars.
He's really good at opening doors on cars as well.
Is there a story?
What story is this?
Is this to do with the charm?
Did he open the door on like an engine?
In fairness,
before you start,
it wasn't technically my fault.
But I do feel bad about it.
And I will pay for damages.
But it wasn't actually my fault.
Scratched?
So, Rory's charm.
Which door is it?
The driver's door.
You carry on.
So, just to explain.
Alex is wondering off to go inspect it.
Oh my word.
It's not in here.
Oh yeah, it is.
It's not great.
It's not good.
Do you want to hear how that happened?
It's coming back.
That's quite bad, isn't it?
It looks like you've opened the door
and like the wing panel was loose
and it's scratched against it.
So Rory's triumph is so shit.
It's all out of shape.
It was parked nose up on the ramp.
And I think it's flexed slightly
and the door has gone a bit close to the wing.
And as I've opened the door,
it caught the bonnet.
So that is your fault, Rory.
You bought a floppy car, man.
It's not floppy. It's flexible.
That's how floppy.
He's parked half on the ramp.
If you parked that car up on a curb,
I think the windscreen had smashed.
No, I'm not shitting.
Do you know?
We went up north to Bradford
and he guffed the whole way up
and every time he guffed,
he would shut the windows.
And I was breathing in his guff.
The windows were already shut.
I would have the courtesy
when I guff, I lift
as I'm driving along.
I squeeze his arse out.
You can hear it. Evacuate it out the window.
Done.
He opens the windows and then it's done.
It's gone.
It's my car.
And he doesn't tell me.
So I'm gulping in all of his guff.
Most of the time, at my age,
I do it and I don't know what's happening.
It just pops out.
Baggy arse.
Yeah.
It's like throwing a sausage down a wind tunnel.
Are you two done?
Yeah, your triumphs are right off.
Yeah, it's a right off.
But yeah, so there's a bit of damage.
We'll need to see if we can...
A bit? Yeah, there is quite a bit of damage.
You need to get one of those touch-up pens.
So the leading edge, what's happened?
The leading edge of the door has contacted the wing.
It's completely scratched
and removed the whole paint off the front.
So what are you going to do
if you drive that car and you park it on a hill
and you've got to get out of it?
Because you'll open the door and it'll chip all against everything.
I'll just open it very carefully.
Or if you reverse it up like a curb or something,
you'll open the door and it'll chip the rear quarter.
I'll open it carefully.
Not being funny, but as soon as he gets in it
and he tries to open or shut the door,
it's going to bend the chassis.
Yeah, especially with that in it.
Right, Rory, is that you out?
Well, there is one thing that we have been up to.
Oh.
We haven't done a podcast since.
I'm going to think, hang on, Gotland.
Oh, hello, Scotland.
So this is a joint what we've been up to.
Yeah.
Overall, great trip.
Really good trip.
Oh my God, it was cold.
First night of camping was very unpleasant.
So you guys, what day is it?
We'll have seen that episode on Thursday.
I've actually gone today is Thursday.
I went through that edit today.
We did a lot.
We went to the Grampian Museum as well,
which is where the top gear cars are.
In Scotland, we did two nights of camping.
One night of camping in an Airbnb.
That was arduous.
A very light dusting of breaking down.
Yeah.
Failed at off-roading again.
Yeah, you two failed at off-roading.
No, we collectively failed at off-roading.
No, I got further.
I will admit, I partially failed at off-roading.
Yeah.
Got a bit stuck.
But I did drive up a hill afterwards that he couldn't get up.
That's true.
And I drove past him.
But annoyingly, it wasn't on camera.
No, it wasn't.
We'll never know.
And speaking of as well, one of those cars,
Large Larry is no longer with us.
Large Larry is at LLF Games,
and it is currently being raffled.
It was quite sad, actually,
to see that car.
Were you with us?
We went to LLF, right?
We did all the things, did a bit of promo,
and then we left.
And as we were backing out, I was like,
it feels like I'm leaving
my dog at the vet.
And I'm just never going to see my dog again.
I don't think we really wanted to actually give that car away.
No, that was not the giveaway car.
No, it was going to be the discovery.
Because your car was so shit, and your car was so shit,
you forced my hand.
So you're going to have to owe me a Land Cruiser.
But Large Larry was fantastic.
We've done a lot in Large Larry.
We've had many, many thousands of miles.
Yeah, he's great.
It's a really good car.
It's amazing how we keep all of the shit,
i.e. that.
I've just pointed at our discovery fall that's behind us,
and the body is separated from the chassis.
Do you know who's the most sad about Large Larry going now?
M.
He loves Large Larry.
He does.
Large Larry was the backbone of
shipping stuff to events, and towing,
and and and.
But you do know what we do have,
that I think we realistically love more
than Large Larry, that we're hopefully
going to get back soon.
What? Del.
Del? Yeah, I actually
messaged Richard's fabrication yesterday,
saying I'm going to get Jamie to collect him,
because I want Del back.
I feel bad Del being outside
in the rain and stuff like that.
I love Del. Yeah, I do miss Del.
He's just always there.
Well, he's not there at the moment, but he's there.
I remember at Shedfest, the last one,
me and Rory unloaded
loads of merch out of Del.
And then we drove up the road, and I remember
you sat in the back and you were like,
oh, I do like Del.
We were just revving up the road. We weren't going
anywhere whatsoever, but we were in Del.
We were. It's such a funny vehicle.
Anyway, moving on,
Taylor, have you got something
to announce? I have.
For the good people of the Auto Alex podcast?
I have, yeah. Go on.
I'm very pleased to announce,
I've bought my dream car.
Oh!
I've bought my dream. Oh, yes, you have.
Oh!
It still sort of hasn't really sunk in.
I keep thinking about it. I think, do you know
when I think it will sink in? Yeah.
Is when I've driven it. Yeah. I haven't driven it yet.
Obviously, it's a bit broken. It's quite broken at the moment.
But it wouldn't be mine if it weren't broken.
Yeah, that's true.
So, I have bought a
2000 Porsche 911
turbo manual
coupe. Oh!
So, this is the 996
turbo. Yeah. With
well over 400 horsepower.
It's got 500. Well over 500.
Yeah, sorry. Yeah, 500. Yeah.
Because it's been slightly judged. It has.
It is a factory manual. Yeah.
It's four-wheel drive. It's
blue in colour. Yeah. It's a really, really
it's got a sunroof. It does.
It's very nice. Now, I have, as you guys
know, I've never been like, 996
has not been at the top of my list. There's
probably been more tours about them, actually. Yeah.
But I think I said this to you the other day. I can't
remember. I would have one
if it was a turbo. But there are a lot of money.
They're expensive now. They're really appreciating.
They're getting expensive. Yeah.
But, you know, we got offered one
by a really nice guy called Alex while
we were on the Scotland trip. And he said
look, I've had it for a while. It's a bit broken.
It needs some love. Do you want to buy
it? And yeah, my eyebrows were
up here as soon as I laid eyes on
it. And yeah, we went and bought it on
Monday. Yeah, Monday of this week, actually.
Yeah. He wasn't, he's not far from us.
So we took a trailer, collected it.
Yeah. And also bought a few other little
bits. We did, yeah. We bought some wheels for
your 911 and some Centelok
wheels. Have you seen those? I have
Centelok wheels now for my GT3
replica build. They're cup wheels. Are you
going to have to get Centelok hubs then?
Yeah. Okay. It's
going to be an expensive build, but it's fine.
It'll be yellow. I just want it to be yellow.
Also, GT3
brake calipers. Oh, okay. Yeah.
I will say, when you look
at yours now compared to the
turbo. Yeah.
It's amazing how much better the turbo looks
as... Oh, mine is still in a very, very
sorry state. No, but I mean just a standard
911... Oh, I see.
A wide body with the wind. Yeah.
A standard 996 does look
so small.
Much worse than... Just dated and a bit
shit. Yeah. Just a bit boggo spec, doesn't it?
The turbo looks like so much more...
Especially those air intakes on the
rear of the arch. Yeah. So good.
Like, I never... The
996 for me has always been like a bit of an
SE. Like, you know, an SE BMW
where it's missing its chin and it just needs
a bit of juge. Yeah. And then...
But, like, you look at a GT3 or something, they look
amazing. 996. They look so cool.
And I looked...
Do you remember I was on about Brian Jay's
Carrera 4? Yeah. Because I like that
look. And I think one of my favorite
bits is the back. And you know you've got
those slats behind the rear wheel in the
bumper. Yeah. I think they're so cool.
And they just look really, really cool as
a wide body. They just look nice. Yeah.
So you guys will have seen, if you follow
the V2 channel, you will have seen that episode
yesterday on the V2 channel.
Taylor buying his dream car. Yeah. And
I'm really excited. I'm a bit nervous
about it. You should be. I've not heard
it run at all. No. And the engine could
be blown up now. You don't actually know this
worry. I've done a bit of research. So
to buy a second-hand used engine off
eBay for that car. Have a guess.
12,000 pounds. 12,000
pounds. To get
modern and classic engine services
to rebuild the engine. It's between
8 to 12,000
pounds. Yeah. And
yeah. It's just really expensive.
Yeah. Really expensive. So I'm
hoping that we can fix it
by changing the oil cooler and a few bits.
I'm really, really hoping that's the case.
If not, I need to sell some bits.
So did you start it up?
Or is it not? No. Should you not even start
it off? No. It's in bits. Is it? He took it
apart. He took the throttle body. I don't think
there's any oil in the engine either. No. And the
intercoolers are off. So we can't actually
start it off at all. But. So I've not even,
I don't even know if it turns over. But you
do have your dream Porsche. I do.
Fantastic. Most of a dream Porsche. Most of
it. Yeah. But no, I'm so
excited. I just hope that I could get it
running fairly soon. Yeah. And maybe,
you know, not have it perfect, but use it a
little bit while the weather's nice and then get it
perfect for next year. Absolutely. So that was
Monday. That was Monday. Would you like to
tell everyone what we got up to on Tuesday?
Tuesday. Tuesday.
We drove. It's been a great week. It has
been. It's been quite hectic actually. It's been
very busy. It's been great. Tuesday, we
drove large lorry. Yeah.
Into central London. By 1945
Bedford-O type lorry. Yeah.
Completely untested. Yeah. Completely
untested. First time we'd ever driven it. Obviously
we gave it a good check over and everything
before we went. We checked all the levels and the
pressures and whatnot. Yeah. But yeah, what
an experience. It was great. What an experience.
It's the gearbox is interesting. The
steering, it's the only way
to describe the steering. Imagine
if you were to drive one of Robbie's
boats. Okay. Yeah. You sort of
go like this. Yeah. And you sort of
waft it in a general
direction. So you sort of have to predict
where you're going to go in about
four minutes. Oh, you have to think ahead. Yeah.
Oh, you have to think ahead. Imagine you turn
in off a slip road, right? You're doing
30 miles an hour. You sort of go like this.
Yeah. You shuffle it. I wanted to ask
this. What top speed
did you get it up to? We got it
up to. Here we
go. 41
miles an hour. Yeah.
41? On the M4.
It was a bit unhappy. So we had to ease off.
Yeah. It was popping and spluttering and everything.
It blew the air box off at 41. It did do
that. Yeah. So we had to ease it down to
37. Yeah. It's his happy speed. Yeah.
So we drove up the M4 at 37.
Yes. Which is legal?
Yeah. Well, yeah. I checked. Triple checked.
And we had the camera car behind us with the hazard.
Yeah. We did have an escort vehicle. Yeah. It wasn't
actually as scary as I thought. It wasn't as
scary as I thought. No. But the M4 is quite
especially the M4 from Reading to London
is a slow moving. Yeah.
And it was it was kind of in the middle
of the day as well. So it wasn't like there wasn't
much traffic. I actually think the thing that
made that drive pleasurable was the
weather. Yeah. I think if it was raining
or dark, it would have been catastrophic.
But we did have a bit of an issue.
We pulled into
services on the M4 on the way
into London and quite a lot of oil
fell out. There was a bit of an
oil leak. Yeah. But we did manage to fix
it, didn't we? Yeah. Completely fixed. Because
you know why they don't make them like they used it.
If that was a modern car, it would be on a
recovery truck straight to the main agent. You
wouldn't see it for a month. All we had to do.
It also would be going faster than 41 miles.
It's not about the speed. Roy is back getting
there. Exactly. Oh my God. Did we get there?
And you know what? All we had to do, right, was
nip up. What was it about? 50 or 60 bucks?
Yeah. We got to talk out. We nipped everything
up. And it was fine. Good to go. The whole
sump came loose.
All right. Another question. Yeah. How
long did it take you then to go
from Reading to London?
I think it was about an hour and a half.
It was about an hour and a half. Yeah. An hour
and a half to two hours. We did stop.
Okay. Yeah. So it
probably only added another like
45 minutes onto the journey.
Okay. Yeah. But you know like when you're on Waze
or on Google Maps and it says 12 minutes
and then you look at Waze or
Google Maps and it still says 12 minutes.
It did. We are going quite slow.
Yes. But we made
it there. Did we make it back?
You'll find out next week on the main channel.
I'm really looking forward to actually watching.
And do you know what as well? Like we were
sat in traffic for ages. It didn't overheat.
No. It kept really good. It didn't use
that much fuel. No.
It was very economic. The perfect daily driver.
The perfect daily driver. Perfect. Yeah.
It's brilliant. You less exempt.
MOT exempt. Tax
exempt. Do you know what we didn't tell
Wally as well? Yeah, go on. Which was quite funny.
So when we got large lorry
out of storage, we had a bit of
an incident. So
we went down to the storage unit
with Betty and we put
Betty in the storage unit. Yeah. And we went
down with the key box. Right. We
started large lorry up. We got in large lorry
and imagine, right, you're sat in there.
There's no space for the key box.
No. None. You can't
put it down the middle. It's quite a big
you know, we've got a big key box. That vehicle
is less practical than a Mark
1 mass remix find. Yeah. So because
we're legally not allowed to put anything on the bed.
Yeah. So I've driven large lorry
out of the storage unit with
Alex in the passenger with the key box on
his lap. And it's big. Like I
am pressed against the dashboard. Yeah.
I'm trying to get it in gear. I keep
clout in the key box with my hand. It's quite
sharp corners of it as well. Oh, very
yeah. Driving up the road,
trundling along as we do, you know, quite happy.
27 miles an hour, yeah. All of a sudden, we break
down. Oh, bloody hell. What's going on here?
Driving along. I'm fronting it. It's going
go, go, go, go, go, go, come
to a complete start. That's a traffic
behind us as well. We broke down. I
thought, Alex, we've broken down. What do we do?
I said, I think we've run out of petrol. Yeah. I don't
know. I don't know what it sounded like. We ran out of
petrol. And there's me thinking, shit, tomorrow
we're supposed to be driving this into London.
It's already proving I'm reliable. And it was getting
quite late and we didn't know what to do. We didn't
know who could come and tell us or what. And we
were starting. I don't know what to do. I am
not pushing this. I went to restart it.
He'd only knocked the ignition
key with the key box.
I switched it off. Yeah.
He don't, he's gone round, right?
He's moved the key box and he's
clouded the ignition key and
switched it off while I'm driving.
Have to do that. Yeah. Sorry.
Silly bar. Sorry.
That was the only problem of that day.
It was quite funny. It was quite funny.
Yeah. What an experience. I never thought that we
would drive a 1945
lorry into London and the looks we were
getting. Oh, yeah. It was amazing. What a talking
point. We had people coming up to us and saying
hello. Do you know there was a guy on a petrol
station and he came up to me and he said, thank
you. And I said, what do you mean? He said,
thank you for keeping that on the road.
It's really nice to see. Did you say, oh,
yeah, we've been, you know, we've been looking
after this. Full restoration mate.
He was like, it's lovely to see a vehicle
of that age in that condition on the road.
Yeah. You know, you just don't like, it's
nice to see people loving and cherishing
them. And I actually believe it's impossible
to drive that vehicle without smiling.
No, exactly. Yeah, yeah. It's proper
workout as well. Yeah. Oh, yes, it is.
Yeah. So that was Tuesday. So that
was Tuesday and then yesterday
as we're filming this because we're filming
this podcast on Thursday. Well, I
can take over. Yesterday. What did we do?
We, well, you, we guffed our way up
north. We guffed our way up north
because I, I got another Instagram
message from a man
in a town called Bradford.
And what do we know about Bradford?
Don't buy a car from Bradford. Yes.
Okay. And what did we do? You bought
a car. We drove to Bradford
and ended up. Now, stereotypically
yeah. Right. Bradford
is the home of like the RS.
Yeah. Yeah. RS free.
I would probably say it's the home of the
the sort of quite dodgy
RS as well. Yeah. And the Gulf
of Oz. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you
bought a an RS
four. Okay. Yeah.
But it's okay because when we
got there, the engine was hot
even though I said, please make sure it's
stone cold. It's been crashed
smells of cigarettes in there stinks.
I actually drove it the whole way back
the window open. But the guys, the guys
were nice. They offered us dinner
as well, which is a big plus
in my book. They were nice. It was
very hectic because I felt like they were
all trying to tell us about the car at one
at the same time. Yeah. And I was like, I didn't know
who to listen to. Yeah. Oh my god.
But it was, yeah, it was
quite an experience. It was an experience.
And I do believe there was a moment
where for the first time ever we
driven that far to go and see a car and we were
both about to walk away. Yes. Yes.
And it was only because we did manage to knock
a little bit off just because it was so
it was really not as described. Let's be
honest. We have a few issues. There's quite a few
issues with it. Yeah. And we were like,
I think we should leave this. There came
a point where I was like, it's not worth
it. Yeah. Literally this is going to be a headache.
And then you said, look, can you just
even just a couple hundred quid? A couple
a hundred quid because there was no fuel in
it as well. Yeah. I was like, just a couple
hundred quid that gets me two tanks.
And one of the tires had four PSI in it.
It was bad. Four. Yeah.
But. What an experience.
Of course we bought it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I drove it back last night.
It's got a lot of issues.
The brakes are probably the most
juddery brakes I've ever experienced
in my entire life.
Rory, I'd actually like you to experience these
brakes. They're quite something. Oh, yeah. The king
of warp brakes. Yeah. They are so bad.
Speaking of which, Jack has got
warp brakes again. Oh, brilliant.
The brakes on this Audi RS4 are so bad
that when you brake at motorway speeds, the
headlights shake. That's how bad it is.
Oh, well, only
you can only see one headlight because the other one
the other one's gone. Yeah.
Yeah. And it was so smelly
of cigarettes that I drove the whole
way back with the window open. I did notice that.
Yeah, I did notice that. But I drove it back
carefully and about five miles up
the road, you know, you get to the country
lately a bit. Yeah. I give it a little bit as
you. Yeah. There is a
point in my time in the in the future
I need to own one of those cars. Yeah. So we
took it out for a test drive and it
is very fast. It's
it is obscenely fast. Oh, it's
fast. Yeah. But it's not even that for me.
It's the gear change. You can rev match it.
Yeah. Steering feel sharp and
direct. I like the way the interior feels.
I like the seating position as a car.
Amazing. Oh, it also doesn't
come with a wing back. So someone previously
has nicked the actual RS4 seats
and just put standard A4
seats in. Yeah. So if anyone is
selling a pair of RS4
seats, please hit me up in the
dumps or you can email that
podcast.
How many holidays has it been?
Three holidays. Yeah.
Well, also
how did it go when you started
it this morning, Taylor? It's fine. No
chain rail. No chain, but that's
good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else?
Nothing. I didn't see
anything. Well, I'm surprised you didn't
see anything because there was so much smoke coming out
the back of it. It was hard to see. Hey, man,
without smoke, there's no fire.
Do you know what? And I'm about to fire you.
Hey!
Do you know what? You should
sell that car. I should sell it. Yeah.
It was a 12 grand car, wasn't it?
I'll do your deal. 50. No, I've got a
Porsche to restore.
So, yeah, did that. I've got an RS4.
Very excited about that. On the
weekend as well, I took my Betty out
with Bauer Afriam
and my daughter, Brenda Melia,
aka Umelia.
And we just went to a
national trust place quite locally
from here, about a 45-minute drive.
I put the baby seat in because
I got the guys to actually, like,
weld in some
what they called ISOFIX hooks.
So, that's very exciting. And we had a very
nice day out. Betty was good. Betty was
fantastic. I thought when you said you were
going to take Betty, I thought you were going to do an overnight
thing. No. No, no, no,
no. Sleeping in a van in a confined
space with my daughter, just
no. Because sleeping in a house
with my daughter, just no.
So, at the moment,
my wake-up time and Rian's wake-up time is
half past five. We are awake at half past
five every morning. See, that seems
early. No, no, no, it doesn't seem
early. It is bloody early. I don't know why
you'd get up that early. Yeah,
well, when you've got a little creature
in the next room screaming,
Mummy and Daddy, you just can't help.
Well, all right, I'm not going to stay at
your house again then. No, no, you're usually
in the bed screaming, Mummy and Daddy.
I was wondering
where that was going.
So, anyway, I did that in Betty.
It was really nice. Oh, Amelia came to the
unit as well, and she was walking around.
She loved beer. Really? Yeah.
She was touching all of the engine parts,
all the oily bits, because this
place has been a right-off, hasn't it? It
has, yeah. But I took her around, showed
her all the cars in the panic as well.
She was in awe. And then on the way back
as well, there are a couple of young
girls with the horses, and we went and
pat the horses as well. Horses are
usually shit. They're like, well, they're
shitcows, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it was nice. Amelia liked it. We pat
their heads and then buggered off. Yeah,
they've got weird smell as well horses. Yeah,
well, they don't wash usually. They need
a TFR and jet wash them. They do, yeah.
They're more kind of bath animals, aren't they?
They don't shower. No, yeah, they're dirty
gears. Anyway, that was nice. And on Monday
I'm going to the SL shop in Stratford,
where I'm taking my SL560,
and we're going to have a proper
look over that car, and then I'm going to
get some parts, because we are launching
our new series, aren't we? Yes.
Just after the classic car series,
which is starting from...
No.
We're filming it now, and it will go out
after the large lorry.
Large lorry.
Large lorry is not with us anymore.
Also,
I have been working on my M5.
Oh, you have, haven't you?
I might actually bring that in tomorrow.
Oh, really? Yeah.
I have done, the interior
is now cinema on.
Oh, can you finally reveal the colour?
Yeah, I can. It's cinema.
It looks absolutely amazing.
I've fully restored it. I've put a new exhaust
on it, and it sounds incredible.
I've also tuned it and put a new
intake on it as well.
Is it spectacularly fast?
Oh, so good. Is it
Porsche 996 Turbo fast, do we think?
I should hope so. It's got
550 brake horsepower now. But do you think
the turbo will be faster?
I don't know. Or do you think Jeff will be faster?
They're delivered. I don't know.
The power delivery
is in different ways, and they're different sizes
and weights. So I don't know. How nuts
is that that you now own?
Wait. How much horsepower
has the 540i got?
440. Oh, okay.
So you own three
500 horsepower plus cars.
Out of four cars, you have
2,000 horsepower. I do, yeah. But
for me,
I want more.
At some point, I want to own a 1,000 horsepower car.
Oh, piss off. I do.
What are you going to do with that? Just to say you have it?
Yeah, I want... But I would like
to own a four-wheel drive. But I want 1,000 horsepower.
No.
You can do that for like 10 grand.
Also, the 911
I want 600 horsepower.
We'll get to that.
So there's going to be a full
V2 series on that, a full V2 series on
the RS4, getting that back to
good spec.
Then we've got the Living with the Lauri episode
next week. We've got the classic cars
coming. We've got so much stuff. We've got lots.
We've got so much, so much stuff. Right, before
we continue with a podcast,
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No. So, it could actually
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Better. Still a bit of a delay.
Yeah, he's still in holiday mode, isn't he?
So, Tom has emailed in
and he's written shout out to the car
community. So, here's a little, like,
feel-good email from Tom.
Hi, fellas. Thought you might enjoy this one for
the podcast, A Proper Car Community
Wins Moments. The other day, I spotted
a Land Rover Defender parked outside my
apartment with the bonnet up and
its owner looking a bit defeated.
My first thought was, auto
electric should buy this and fix it. Seeing
as it's a Defender and knowing how many times
we know that JLR products break down,
I figured the poor guy was probably well
and truly fed up with it. I went
down to see if he needed a hand dodging
the contents of his fuel tank across the
car park floor. We had a chat,
helped him out as much as I could and
because he'd been stuck there for a while, I even
let him use my bathroom.
I didn't think much more of it, just one of those
things you do for a fellow car person, but
the very next day, I came home to
find a thank you card, a bottle
of wine and a treat for my dog.
This really summed up the best
side of car cultures, strangers helping
strangers and people actually appreciating
it, giving further proof that
even when the cars let us down,
the community, you guys
don't. Keep up the great work with the
podcast. Cheers, Tom.
There's no way a Land Rover would have its bonnet open.
No, sorry. Ignore
the Land Rover that's got its bonnet open.
Rory, you broke down in your Defender
two weeks ago. Yeah, tell us about that.
You ran out of fuel.
You ran out of diesel. Yeah, ran out of diesel.
How? Is your gauge not working?
What? Is your gauge working?
Your gauge is working and you still run out of diesel.
My headphones just stopped working.
Just like my gauge did.
How's your Range Rover?
Lovely, yeah.
Why is there a pallet outside the unit with an engine on it?
I decided to go for the double engine
Range Rover. I wanted the
one in the back, one in the front. Nice.
Standard for you, isn't it?
What?
What?
Oh, I've got art burn.
Going back to this, right, this story.
I feel like this used to be
a really common thing
where people, someone would break down
and someone would stop to lend them a hand.
Or, you know, if someone was changing
tires, someone would stop and say, do you need a hand?
Nobody does it anymore?
It also makes you feel so good helping people as well.
I remember a few years ago, when I was driving
up to the Midlands, I think, with
Rianne, there was
loads of traffic on the M40.
And, you know, like, people
switch off, but they still have the ignition on.
There were so many people
that had run their batteries down.
And then I got out and I pushed their cars
onto the hard shoulder when we were about to move.
And I got my knocko out
or whatever it was at the time.
And I started their cars up.
Do you know what, we actually had it yesterday, didn't we?
Because we're just
to interrupt.
Josh. Hello.
Oh, it's Jushi.
Speaking of broken Land Rovers.
Hello.
Josh, you've been working on our lovely
new crew car.
And you've enjoyed it a lot, haven't you?
Yes, it's been so much fun.
That sounds like sarcasm.
It does, yeah.
So, Jushi's been here.
We've got our discovery for it's needed
body off, engine swapping over
and putting new engine back in.
And, Josh, you've left this in a right state.
It's a shit old, Josh.
Honestly, what have you done?
It just is a few little bits.
It's Jushi back tomorrow
to finish the job.
This is what I think Jushi's about to tell us.
Go on, Jushi.
Yes, this is why I was calling.
I was saying I'll be back tomorrow.
Too right you need to be.
Or you get back here at dawn.
So that's our Land Rover Discovery 4 crew car.
Yes.
Thank you, Jushi.
Thanks, Jushi.
Bye.
See you tomorrow.
Jushi, he's been hard at it.
To be fair, I would not want to do this job.
I don't think even Taylor wanted to do this job.
I'm bloody dumb with Land Rovers.
But you're going back to it.
We had it yesterday where we bought the RS4.
You don't actually know this, are we?
We bought the RS4, pulled
into a petrol station to fill it up with fuel
because it had zero miles of range.
Switched it off, filled it up with petrol.
Got in it.
It didn't start.
No, it didn't start.
The battery was so loud.
It just wouldn't start.
So there was a guy that came in, the petrol station,
queuing behind us and you went up to him
and went, do you mind giving us a hand?
And he gives us a push.
I actually pointed a camera in his face
and I said, are you feeling strong?
And he was like, yeah.
He actually rocked up and he was like, car throttle.
And I was like, oh yeah, I've moved on from that little bit.
Nice.
He likes the new stuff, obviously.
Oh yeah, big fan, big fan.
But yeah, I feel like it was a thing
back in the day a lot where people used to have
if you were broken down, because especially
before phones came along.
Because if you broke down and you didn't have a phone,
imagine breaking down now you haven't got a phone.
What on earth would you do?
You've got those SOS calls.
Imagine if you're not near one.
You realistically back in the day relied
on the next person coming to help you.
Well, Rob won.
Yeah, just make another one.
But yeah, you rely on someone stopping to give you a hand
or ask if you need a help or do you
but you don't get that anymore.
No, you don't.
Sorry, I've got to go back to the car throttle shout out moment.
Oh yeah, go on.
Do you remember what happened in Scotland on the way up
when we stopped at the Burger King?
Oh, how are you bringing that up?
I don't remember this.
So Rory went and paid for our Burger King food
and then the guy behind the two was like,
ah, car throttle.
And then Rory was like, yeah, he was like, Ethan,
yeah, love yourself.
Well, I didn't say, I said no to car for a car throttle.
And then he was going, Ethan, yeah.
Oh, okay.
And then I said, no.
And then he was like, yeah.
I know, I know.
He was acting as if I was trying to trick him.
I was like, no, I'm not Ethan.
Well, that much of a celebrity.
You want to keep it on the DL, don't you?
Oh, my word.
Oh, funny.
Oh, so many stories.
Right, anyway, we've got another email now from Ross Thomas.
Stick or twist?
Taylor, you're like this one, I think.
Well, I like sticking and twisting.
Hi, Alex, Taylor and Rory.
Love the pod.
Long time listener and subscriber.
Got a stick or twist for you.
I currently daily drive.
Daily drive.
A BMW E46 M3 SMG on 107,000 miles.
It's brilliant, dramatic and makes every day feel like an event.
But every new noise also feels like my bank account bracing for impact.
You'll get that.
I am tempted, wait for it.
I can see it.
To twist to a 2019 Mustang GT.
Monthly cost would be roughly the same.
So this is less about money and more about sanity.
The M3 is obviously iconic.
It feels special, sounds amazing and drives like nothing modern.
The problem is the constant low level anxiety that something expensive is always just around the corner,
especially with the SMG and general old car upkeep.
The Mustang feels like the sensible idiot's choice.
Newer, comfier, probably more reliable, still a big naturally aspirated VA and easier to live with day to day.
But it's heavier, less delicate and I worry I'd miss the magic and character of the BMW once the novelty wears off.
So the question to you is, do I stick with a legendary but slightly terrifying M3
and accept the looming maintenance doom or twist to the Mustang,
gain reliability and comfort and sacrifice a bit of soul in exchange for better sleep?
Keep up the great work.
Cheers, Ross Newcastle.
Do you know what?
Where are we thinking lads?
As much as I absolutely adore any 46 M3, I don't think I could daily one.
No.
Yeah, difficult.
But I also would not get rid of it for a Mustang.
Yeah, so I have been in a fortunate position where I have actually daily driven a Mustang for a few months.
It's very special for a short time and then reality does sink in and it is a very big car
and you can't see a lot and you can't see curbs and it doesn't feel particularly delicate.
Is this a delicate way of you saying that you curbed it and crashed it?
No comment on that.
I may have brushed a wheel.
Brushed a wheel.
But I live in London, man.
Leave me alone.
It's very fast and entertaining in the front in a straight line.
My one had a line lock as well, which is quite amusing.
Did you use it?
Of course I did.
Of course I used it.
It's got line lock.
I'm not not going to.
As a petrolhead, it doesn't really resonate with me
and I thought carefully here.
I tread carefully.
If you have a look at the type of person who buys a Mustang,
I wouldn't really call them a petrolhead, a new Mustang.
We all know you're not a real petrolhead.
He's in it for the money and the holidays and the fame.
Isn't that right, Ethan?
Are you saying the sort of person that buys a Mustang is a poser?
I would say an older gentleman poser.
But it's not for someone who enjoys driving
and who enjoys just feeling that connected to a car.
It's a bit numb.
I will say he's got the right idea, Ron Kerr.
I think that M3 could be due quite a lot of maintenance.
Yes.
But the maintenance bills are not just like they are literally
the cost of the car sometime on those M3s.
But then how much is a Mustang?
I don't actually know how much a Mustang.
I don't know.
But that's what I'm saying.
Is he talking about the fact that he wants to sell something
and get another V8 something, but maybe something a bit more premium?
Yeah.
Even just like a C63 or something.
I was just about to say a C63.
Do you know what, by C63?
No, because they suffer a head lift.
Why don't you buy a stolen, categorised, smoking RS4?
RS4 is not stolen.
It's just categorised and smoky.
It's only the two of the three.
Get an RS4, please don't get a Mustang.
I don't know, because an RS4, it would be as much
if not more to maintain than the M3.
All right.
It would.
I don't think it matters.
Also, speaking of Mustangs, right?
We've been on the road a lot.
In the past two days, I have seen two Mustangs, EcoBoost,
and they have had the worst exhausts on them,
and they sound terrible.
It sounds like a fiesta.
Isn't EcoBoost a four-cylinder one?
Yeah.
A four-cylinder 2.3 that you get in the Focus RS.
But these people insist on putting silly exhausts on them,
and the one I saw on Mondays where I had all this like tattoo art
of like horses running through fields on the boot lid.
I'm sure.
It's so nice.
I think if you're going to get a Mustang realistically.
So he's saying the GT, which is the five-liter V8.
Yeah, if you're going to get one, that's the one that you have to get.
All right, Trev, we're talking about Mustangs.
All right, Trev.
We're going to buy you a Mustang with a 2.3-liter four-cylinder.
Four-cylinder.
You know, I did like the one that TDC had recently, though,
the Dark Horse.
Yeah, that was nice.
That was really cool.
That was very nice.
They named it after me.
The Dark Horse.
Dark Horse, yeah.
You're more like a Shetland pony.
Fair.
I think get rid of the car.
But I would get something like just a lazy V8 something.
I think keep the M3.
I also say keep the M3.
Yeah, you guys have got to remember that you can do a lot of the work yourselves,
or you've got the funds to do something.
Like a lot of people, if they get a bill of like four or five grand to fix this car,
that could be, there's two things.
That could be the end.
There's two things.
Number one, it doesn't matter what V8 you buy,
a V8 is going to cost a lot to maintain and run.
End of.
No, some of them are a lot cheaper.
The only one that would be cheap is a Lexus V8,
because they literally don't go wrong.
It's impossible.
But then it's a luxury car and you're not in the right car.
Number two, I cannot sit here on this sofa with a straight face
and take car maintenance advice from Rory McCullough.
There is an engine currently outside the unit.
If I know how to pick a broken car,
I know how to pick a broken car and I would pick the M3.
You know how to spend money on a car is what you do.
Okay, I think you and I would agree.
M3.
Dick with the M3.
Also, it's not depreciating at all.
A Mustang is.
Yeah, it's only done 107,000 miles.
And if it's working now, just keep at it.
Just keep up with maintenance.
Yeah.
Also, if you are worried, take it to our friends
at Redish Motorsport in Bristol.
They can have a look over it, check everything,
and then preventative maintenance,
because James and the guys will be able to tell you
anything that's wrong with it.
So, yeah, keep hold of it.
Just enjoy it.
Just enjoy it.
Bloody good.
You only live once.
Just keep it.
Enjoy it.
Drive it.
Take it on a little road trip.
Yeah, but Mustang is not the answer.
Rory.
And put a carbon air box on it.
How long have you got left before you have to head off?
Ten minutes.
Ten minutes.
Ten minutes sounds like enough time.
I'm really hungry.
Enough time.
Is it Chico time?
No.
It's...
Trev time.
Trev time.
Trev.
Do you want to join us?
Trev, what are you eating?
Do you want to join us?
Have you got sweets?
Have you nicked our sweets?
Are you eating a bolt off that land?
Trev, do you want to have a little seat?
That's a five-minute seat.
Trev, you take my seat, Trev.
I think everyone's always wanted to know
a bit more about Trev.
So now it's your time.
Oh, come on.
We've got wine gums.
So, Trev, you have a seat here.
Sorry, someone's doing well there from Waitrose.
They offer it.
It does shop in Waitrose.
Bloody hell.
All right, so you put your headphones on.
Here we go.
It's Trev, everyone.
It's our landlord, Trev.
Trev nearly fell backwards over the other end of the sofa.
All right, Trev.
All right, Trev.
Just keep it like that.
Yeah, perfect.
How are we doing, Trev?
I'm doing fine, thank you.
I can't believe he's on the podcast.
So, for people who don't know Trev, he's our landlord.
He is also a fixer of many things,
and you have been helping us out a lot.
I have been helping out.
Yes.
But you enjoy it, don't you?
Oh, I love it.
Yeah, good.
Otherwise, you'd have to go and fix our bog every five minutes
when we explode it.
Oh, no, no.
I've thought that.
I've thought that.
But, yeah, especially with the mini and the twerk,
you've been helping out a lot, haven't you, Trev?
Really, really good.
So, if you don't know Trev,
you also used to work on a certain TV company
called Top Gear, didn't you?
Making some of the cars.
So, why don't you talk us through some of the cars
that you actually helped create?
Well, we created the Stretch Limos,
the Fit Panda, and the MG.
So, were you the man, like, one of the mechanics,
like, fixing and bolting and welding these things together?
I made it.
I actually made the MG myself.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow, that's amazing.
But the only trouble is,
it weighed a lot more than what it should have done.
Oh, okay.
Because I made it too strong.
Did you?
Yeah, yeah.
Did you use, like, what do they call that?
The Box Steel.
Box Steel, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Box Steel chassis.
Fantastic.
And then, cross members.
Yeah, good times.
Oh, it's brilliant.
Yeah.
And you got to meet Clarkson and all the guys.
Oh, yeah.
Lovely.
Lovely to see them.
I used to have a good laugh with them.
Excellent, excellent.
Good old cup of tea and a chin wag.
Yeah, indeed.
So, there was one story that Trev told me about
a couple of days ago, actually,
and I want to bring that up,
because it's quite interesting.
You know that we were talking about
the Citroen Block of Flats.
Yeah, since Block of Flats.
So, we went to the Grampian Museum
in Scotland recently, didn't we?
And there's the Lotus that James May was driving.
Yeah, the, not a Europa or something.
Whatever it is, yeah.
And then Hammond, what did Hammond have?
Oh, we had the Land Driver.
Yeah, the Land Driver.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, obviously, you all remember that,
the iconic scene of the Citroen Block of Flats
on the motorway swaying left and right.
Yeah.
And you were, you know, you were one of the men
who created that as well.
Yeah.
So, tell us about the build of that.
And also, it did meet its maker at the end, didn't it?
But that wasn't the car that was supposed to.
It wasn't supposed to, no.
It was supposed to be Hammond's.
Okay, what happened then?
Well, why Clarkson was away,
they decided to push these over,
because it was better.
Okay.
Because it looked a lot better.
There is a scene, isn't there,
where he's eating ice cream.
Yeah.
And then you see the Citroen go over the cliff,
and you're like, oh, this is so scripted,
but it's still funny.
It wasn't scripted.
So, he didn't know that his car was going over.
He didn't know his car was actually
going to go over the cliff.
Fantastic.
Did he know that a car was going to go over?
We knew one was going over,
he thought it was Hammond's.
Because that's what they arranged.
That is quite funny.
Of course, Clarkson being out the way,
they decided between themselves,
nah, let's push these over.
Fantastic.
And that must have been quite a cleanup operation,
getting that out of the sea.
I don't know.
Nothing to do with you.
So, you obviously helped build those cars as well,
and was it a legal car to actually drive on the motorway?
Yes.
But it doesn't look legal.
They all were.
Every car we made had to be legal on the road.
But do they have to get IVA tested afterwards,
or how does it work?
The stretch limos had to be our SVA'd.
OK, SVA'd, yeah.
Because they're too long.
They were longer than...
Well, the Fiat Panda was 40 foot long,
and they said no to that,
but it doesn't matter whether it's SVA'd,
it would never be legal on the road.
It had to be shown to 38, wasn't it?
We had to cut out six foot.
Really? Six foot?
Six foot out of it,
to bring it down to legally for on the road.
That is funny.
And that's why we're just split in half.
And what about the Citroen?
So, that was road legal.
Citroen's...
So, you can build up.
The Citroen is road legal
because we didn't actually change the body
of any other body.
Any strength that was in the body stayed in it.
So, you could build up from it.
Yeah.
OK, interesting.
And what was your favourite car to help build on top gear?
Well, my favourite was the AMG.
Was it? OK.
That was my project.
That was purely yours.
Do you know where that is?
Has that gone now to the Crusher?
No.
Is it somewhere?
It went to...
It did go to Buley.
Oh, did it? OK.
I don't know where it's gone from there.
OK, interesting.
Because, I mean, it's a legal car.
Yeah.
Oh, it's actually a pickup.
Oh, right, yeah.
It's actually a legal pickup.
Right, OK.
Maybe we should try and buy it
and take Trev out shopping.
That would be nice.
That would be good.
Imagine the gummies that you could fit in there.
Yeah, that would be nice.
We could drive over the local railway line.
Yeah, so, yeah,
Trev has definitely had quite a colourful life.
And, yeah, if you guys want to see more of Trev,
because we definitely do,
then let us know in the comments.
Trev, would you be back to tell us
a few more stories about your life
and stuff like that and what you've got up to?
Yeah, I've got up as much, you know.
OK, I don't believe that for a second.
Have you seen Trev shed yet?
I have seen Trev shed, yes,
but it is nice.
But, yeah, for now,
thank you very much for watching
the AutoElects podcast
with your eye holes and your ear holes.
Thank you very much to Trev as well
for also joining us at the end.
Thank you very much for having me on.
If you want to email us,
you can do that.
Trev, what's the podcast?
Oh, don't ask me.
It's podcast at AutoElectsCars.com.
Thank you very much.
Whatever you do, do the best of your ability.
And we will see you next week
on the AutoElects podcast.
Bye-bye.
Bye, Trev, thanks.
You
About this episode
The hosts share recent adventures including Rory's trip to Rome, discussing the local food and surprisingly sparse car culture. They dive into car dilemmas like repainting a Mustang with a unique color scheme and the challenges of maintaining classic Minis. The episode blends travel stories with practical car ownership issues, highlighting the quirks of replica cars, paint jobs, and the realities of rebuilding engines. Listeners get a mix of humor, personal updates, and automotive insights, making it a lively conversation about the joys and headaches of car enthusiasm.
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