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What would you go for? They see us in there.
OK, and because it's not a super duck, it is.
It's not automatic. Perfection comes in the form of
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Welcome to Car Talk. It's 98.9 NW FM.
It's me, Maddie J Car Talk. Another Tuesday night here
online with Mr Edward Bunting in studio with Mr Alan Madeep Singh, who's just run out the room for a second.
He'll be He'll be right back. How are you, Edward?
I am well, how are you? Very, very well, mate.
Thanks for asking. Thanks for asking, Alan.
He's just walking in as we speak.
Alan, how are you, my friend? Less sick than last week.
Less sick than last week. That's good.
That's good. You sound a lot better and you
look a lot better. Yeah, we'll take the small
victories. Welcome back, Alan.
Thank you. Welcome back, Edward Bunting.
Good to see you, Edward. Right.
It's been a little while, hasn't it?
A couple of weeks, I think. As the kids would say, a hot
minute, Edward, it's been a hot minute.
What they say, it's 4 minutes. That's what they say.
They say that sounds a little old.
Well, they still say it's been a hot minute.
Was like, yeah, no cat. They still say cap.
That's that's for sure. What does?
Cap mean. That's BS.
It's a it's a lie. Oh, that's a lot of cap.
Yeah, that's cap. That's just completely cap.
That's Cap. What does it stand for?
I don't know it's. Without the R.
I feel like you. You think so?
I like, I asked the kid. I'm, I'm like, he's like, oh, so
that's Cap, Sir. I'm like, like I'm like what?
What do you mean? What's Cap?
Like, that's busting, Sir, no cap.
And you're like, speak English please.
And they proceeded to say skimmy toilet.
Do they do? They still say lit.
No, but they they say if something's really good, they say that slaps like it's like if it's like a good burger or that burger slapped like it was, you know.
So we're we're doing God's work here on on cartel giving you all the the latest linger Edward Bundy.
See. Are you?
Oh man, I'm I'm fascinated by it.
I I was always injured when it's like adults don't get like lol or something that's sort of like what's with these oldies?
And now it's happened to me. It's.
If I if I to. Be there like some of the at the
same time, maybe some of the stuff the adults thought we were saying was stupid than probably was.
But phantom tax gats and you know, toilet.
Yeah, it feels like some of these are Dumber than what we used to have. So yeah, I I guess meme culture
is now really like a big thing, yeah.
I mean we I was a meme Lord. I still am a.
Meme Lord. Yeah, I know the memes and
stuff, but some of the stuff the kids into these days just gets away from me. Yeah, I'd need to go and do a
class and to brush up. Yeah.
Can we, like, you know, us as teachers, we should.
We should. Be like Steve Buscemi is like,
how do you do for the kids skateboard?
I love that guy, he's so good. My friends mom used to always
put the little shit emoji, you know, for birth.
Happy birthday and she put the shit emoji.
She said it was a cake. Well, it is a.
Cake. A cake Just.
Just the wrong kind of cake. Wrong kind of cake.
But it's a cake. I was on the train the other day
and I saw a a furry, you know, wearing a like it was a full foxtail. Oh, wow.
OK. You know, And I was like.
Wow, real life furry. It was a pity that guy got off
because I I really want to ask him about it.
Well, it's it's, it's a thing and you know, it's yet I'm yet to see one at my school. But but they are in the wild.
Fascinated. I want to know more.
Someone who's in the fairy community.
So if you're in the fairy community and you listen to Car Talk, hit our boy up. Edward Bunch, Yeah.
Reach out, I'd love to just have a chat.
No judgement, just just interest.
Just interest wants to know a. Little bit judgement behind the
scenes. Yeah, just just a little bit,
Fr. Is this for real?
Yeah. Fr.
Is that what people say? Fr.
Fr For real. See Matt's Dealing with
Teenagers. Yeah.
So obviously their lingo is a little more advanced, maybe closer to I guess modern day wars.
I'm dealing with a 10 year old and a 7 year old.
Yeah. And that, that just, it's
moronic, you know? What?
Is it? Is it tonight?
Just three. Yeah, it's just us, I believe.
Yeah, it's. Gonna be It's gonna be Cosy Show
quiz, isn't it Alan Cosy. Yeah, you're gonna have to one
V1. It's gonna be it's gonna be a
tight quiz. It's.
Yeah, I like that. I like that hasn't been Ed on
Alan for a while. I'd.
Use different language. Pardon my friend.
Look, good to see both of you. Edward Bunting updates with you.
It's been a while. We have.
So what's happening with Carwell?
It's the last time we heard from you.
Yeah. You pretty much sold everything.
You had nothing. So that wasn't right.
I know I never had nothing. He.
Still has commercial vehicles, doesn't he?
Well, yeah, truck. He had the truck and then and I
was, I was running for the call because I was like, oh, I know some people that can roadworthy those trucks and then.
Well, I did ring a certain establishment and then they never rang me back and then I just went whatever.
And just anyway, I, I, yes, I do still have the truck.
It is currently finished. In terms of the repairs to
roadway where I ended up taking it, they could actually do the test really quickly. So I I booked it in in a few
days. But but, but, but, but, but, but
they don't do repairs. They just do roadway inspections
and bus inspections and stuff. So so I said, well where do I go
to get the repair? She said I can recommend you to
this place in Trigonine or whatever.
Now, funnily enough, truck roadworthies are not like car roadworthies in that people around my area don't tend to do truck roadworthy. So, you know, like.
The suffering poor Ed lives in the rich part of town where they don't deal. With trucks and it was only when
I started. Duty polluting vehicle.
I started Googling truck roadways and I'm like, well, I suppose it makes sense. There's none right near me.
So I ended up finding this place in Sunshine and I went there for the inspection and then they sent me out to Truganina to get the repairs done and then I am picking it up.
When am I getting it? I don't know, tomorrow night I
think or something and I'll, I'll bring it back to that other joint to get sort of checked. So there's a bit of shuffling
going on. But look, it didn't need crazy
stuff for roadworthy. It was like, oh, you know, like
a driver's seat adjuster needed a thing and a headlight globe and a, you know, one shock absorber.
It was a few, just stuff like that screen seal.
I think the, I wasn't going to say the biggest thing.
I'd had some oil leaks which they had to fix or clean or replace some gasket or do something.
So there's been a few grand on it and at least that's regoed and roadworthy and I'll advertise it this weekend.
But yeah, the truck market is unknown.
I, I, I don't know what that, that will do, but I imagine they're 120 grand new for a business that that wants a truck that's not stuffed. It's done some KS, but it's
roadworthy and good service history.
And I'd imagine for sort of sub 20K someone would go, yeah, that's a great addition. We've just had one written off
for we need an extra driver or I imagine that's the case but hey I I might be proof wrong, I don't know.
One of those old out your hand moments I think.
Old out your hand. So the truck.
But when I took it out there, I mean the western the western suburbs and that stretch of western suburbs right out past Altona. That is all trucks.
That's nothing bad. That's just the the head offices
are out there. Like I think Isuzu truck is out
there. There's a massive Hino dealer
out there. I think I saw Volvo.
This truck repair place was out there and this that where it's being repaired. They work round the clock well,
basically till midnight and they fire fire up again at 5:00 AM or 6:00 AM, like there's two shifts.
And so in order to have trucks not off the road, you can drop it off at 7:00 at night and pick it up at midnight.
You know, it's, it's sort of crazy, but it's really necessary for that industry and. So I haven't.
Got any respect for the the trucking world?
And of course, you know, I drove it in and talked to Grant, the foreman at the back there. And I said, listen, Grant is my
Isuzu. You know, I was trying to
pretend like I'm sitting in the trucking world, and you know I was. Trying to and he's like show us
your hands mate and he's. Probably all tough and you've
driven a good nails and sort of was questioning questioning my business anyway. So but he said I said, oh, one
of these. Do you know anyone that wants
one of these? And he goes, oh, don't bet he
goes there. These are property lucid people
don't sell these Isuzu's. They just drive them into the
ground. So you know, not there's not
that many floating around sort of thing.
And he said, Oh, this nothing goes wrong with me.
He said, you'll sell that easy. And I'm like, oh, that's
positive words from Grant Orman, but we'll see.
I did sell the Iloid van that went within 24 hours after putting it on marketplace was that was a quick sale which we like. The Peugeot has been to the
panel shop and now looks a hell of a lot better.
It is going in for Roadworthy on Thursday.
A friend of ours, Maddie J, may be interested in that young Thomas. He's.
Interested in it as a daily? As a daily, you know, because
he's sort of in between dailies at the moment, and that's a good little. You got your dog a driving
licence. I know I did, yeah.
Yeah, Thomas the dog. Because imagine it was really
pause on the. I did take.
That a friend of ours to a friend of yours.
And Maddie's not more correct. Correct.
Because a friend of ours, all three of us, would be Thomas the dog. Yeah, I think.
We've lost out. Unfortunately, we've thrown it
off his face. He's completely gone.
He's he's. He's an inquisitive look on his
face, so he's he's thinking of a quick retort.
Yeah, he is. But yes.
Well, we'll pause Ed's update while we wait for him to return.
We'll go with you, Maddie, because my updates, there's no update. No, there's no updates with you.
Yeah. So what have I been doing?
Going to Adelaide on Friday and I'm officially getting back the Forester tomorrow. Oh, so Stephanie will be will
now be having a car that'll the Forester will be going to Stephanie. Actually, Edward's back.
I'll wait. For what?
Happened. I lost you.
We we lost you. You just looked like you were
you were in deep thought and. Yeah, thank you car with a good
retort to my my little joke. Yeah, yeah.
I'm back. I'm back back.
So we'll we'll continue with yours because we'll we'll finish with your one off 1st. So so Thomas might be interested
in in the in the little diesel little.
Peugeot, I drove that up country last weekend.
I did quite a few KS. It is such a comfortable little
country driver. And that tank I did 1128
kilometres before the light flicked on.
So amazingly economical for a 23 year old car.
Yeah. It's ridiculous.
Now I if you did pure highway in that car, I reckon you'd crack 1300, you know, if you sat on the highway to Sydney sort of thing, you know, really, really good on fuel and very comfortable seats, great suspension, good Rd manners.
I really enjoy driving that car. Anyway, that's the Peugeot.
So all I've got is the Peugeot on the truck.
Other than that, all stock is gone and I'm still going away in a few weeks so I'm not really looking for anything else until I get back maybe and then I'll I'll see what I can flip before Christmas maybe. Better nice better nice better
nice. What about you?
So Alum City's got nothing. Yeah, unfortunately.
For me, I'm heading to Adelaide on Friday and Stephanie's getting her car, which is a Subaru forest, which I used to own because my sister's going overseas to live.
So that one. So yeah, so she's moving
overseas so she's like, I don't need a car anymore.
And Stephanie's like, I'm selling this cruise like to have a bit more space than a little later.
She's she and Pam have been sharing and I'm like, yeah, I understand that. So she's going to get the forest
done and she will she won't do that.
So on its last service, it got a towing belt and a few few little just things on the cars. Perfect.
But the top radiator hose when they've put the new radiator in like that, it it blew radiator last years.
You guys can probably, probably remember the top tank cracked and then the, the radiator place came and put a radiator in it.
And what they've done is they haven't put it in properly.
And when they've put it in, put the hose too close to the fan shroud. And it's just been chewing away
at the, at the, at the, Oh no, at the hose.
And the mechanic was like, yeah, you need to kind of sort that out. So I've put another hose.
I'm going to swap that in tomorrow so it's ready to go so it doesn't blow up on the on the trip to Adelaide.
So that's the Forester. The laser had some love today.
The laser got all new tint, so looking really special.
So that was my birthday present. Thanks mom.
She's like, I'll look after you this year because every time she does the car, she's like, I plenty hate cars with bad tint, bubbling tint, bubbling tint. So I'll I'll send some photos
through to the group chat. But I got darkest legal and I
want privacy glass in the in the back end.
So, you know, keep the sleek look of the car being black.
I thought it I thought it would would would look pretty, pretty good. Actually I've got a question on
some tents. From your own experience, have
you found cars like, I'm going to say cars earlier than like 2007? The main cars that I've seen
that have like bubbly and poor tint and most of like, I'm not saying I've never seen a car that's like newer than that with poor tint. But from what I recall, there
were some changes in kind of the the like glue and other stuff they used in tint kind of during that transition period and the tint. So earlier than that, especially
those are like late 90s, early 2000s, a lot of them were a little not, not up to up to the spec, I guess you'd say.
How you're going? Yeah, yeah.
And there's also probably a lot more people that were like, I can do my tint myself. Yeah, I'm sure they're still are
these days, but yeah. Yeah, you're spot on with that.
Like my Typhoon to when I bought that, I had to get the the tint on the on the on the back window redone because I was all bubbled. Yeah, got that redone.
But when I speak to the guys there today, they're like, look, it's original tint from the car. It's pretty worn out.
It was all bubbling. It was just it was stuffed.
And he's like, it is an older glue.
It is an older film. These older films aren't as good
as the ceramic stuff they've got now and all those really fancy thing with jigs that they've that they've good.
They got so like and what I want to picked it up.
He's like, he's like, yeah, I mean, it was a pain to take off on your car because like the glue, the glue, it just was glue everywhere. Like they didn't peel nice.
Like they, they heated up. They they, they use ammonia and
all that sort of stuff to, to try and really be bringing off nice. But he's like, it just left glue
everywhere. So he's like, look, it's part of
the job. He gave me a price and he didn't
extra, he didn't charge extra for it.
He's like, well, that's the price.
I guess that's what I, that's what I quoted you.
So yeah, that all got done. I wasn't sure what to do 'cause
when I got there he, he's like, look, this is darkest legal.
And what a lot of people do now is they put darker signal on the front too, because they, that's, that's what you can do and they go privacy glass in the rear. So you know which.
Is darker. Which is darker.
Yeah, not, not by too much, a little bit it is noticeable.
But like when you're in the car, it's totally fine, 98% UV protectant and all that stuff. And I was driving at home and I
had the air conditioning on because I can't put the windows down for a few days. And I was like, jeez, this is
like, you know, I turned the air conditioning down, which is the first time I've done that in a very long time because, you know, you've actually, you can actually feel the difference, which is incredible that it's just just a film of a film of, you know, a clear film essentially is, has got that like those capabilities. So I, the guy that his name is
Joel said, yeah, he was actually really happy with the way it came out. He's like, especially being a
black car, like the, the, the you can see the photos I sent you guys in the chat actually makes it look more, more of a modern car than than what it actually is, which is kind of cool. So, yeah, happy with that.
So that's been done. What else have I done?
I think that is all I've done. I bought I bought a wireless
dongle for the Fiesta for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto 30 bucks off Amazon works great. There was like I went to
Supercheap. We sell my Supercheap.
They're like 150 bucks and 170 bucks and I'm like, oh, you're well, 70 Now. I'm like, what am I getting for
120? I'm like, I'm going to buy it
off Amazon for 30 bucks. But like it's not the same
brand. Obviously.
It's just like a El cheapo MC cheapo one, but it works.
Not an A Toto is it? No, it is.
You know the funniest parted. I don't know if you can get
contact with the the new MX5 owner.
The I told you I'm like if I have it, I'll send it to you.
I found the little middle plate for the the old CD player my my sets. Yeah, I don't think I can get in
contact. That's all right.
Maybe I'll put it. On how we bought it, I know it
went to NSW. That's as much as I know.
Yeah, maybe it'll make its way back to Queensland.
It's really, It's really. Yeah, it's really.
They gave me a laugh. I'm like, I'm lucky I didn't try
and put the old stereo back in because we were like, where's that plastic element? I'll be like, I'm looking, I'm
looking. Oh.
God, it's got it somewhere. I got it somewhere I had some
fun. Just another little car update
on the weekend I was in the Peugeot.
As I said, I went to my brother's place and a few years ago my brother bought There's actually a bit of a story to it.
So someone where did it come from?
Oh, it was a guy in the Honda Club had a little Gentoo Civic, like a 82, three door white hatch, manual, 5 speed, bit rough around the edges, but you know, a pretty honest car and mechanically very strong. So anyway, he donated it to the
club in our annual raffle, which was, yeah, part of the picnic.
We there's a picnic once a year at the club, you know, just to about summer barbecue. And there were two years in a
row where we gave away a car. You know, it was like Oprah
Winfrey. So you rock up to the BBQ, you
get a raffle ticket, you hell, you could be going home with a car. The first one was this Honda
Accord, early 80s, two door coupe that hadn't run for years that had done like 156 K sat on an old lady's front lawn.
Anyway, we resurrected it, got it running, gave it a Polish, you know, and we raffled off and one of the club guys ended up with it and he fixed it up and I think sold it to a friend of his and it's still on the road. So that was a good news
resurrection story. Anyway, this Civic was one of
the other ones and a guy won it, but he couldn't, he couldn't take it. His wife was like, no way,
you're having another car or something.
So I ended up buying it. I think of him.
I said, oh, look, I'll take it and I'll take it up to my brothers. And yeah, it can basically be
that, the farm car to teach the kids how to drive.
So it's been in the shed for a few years.
Battery's totally dead. Kids haven't really shown much
interest in it. But last Saturday when I was
there, my brother was out. And so I was like, yeah, should
we fire up the Civic? Maybe and and the kids are like,
yeah, yeah, let's find the Civic.
So so I jumped, started off the Peugeot and amazingly that the thing you just turn over a few times, few times and boom, coughed into life and, you know, just idled perfectly.
And you're kind of like, oh, these old Hondas are great.
Or old Japanese cars, I suppose. So, yeah.
But it's got no brakes because the brake fluid has sort of, you know, gradually seeped out and so that it needs leading.
But I was like, ah, handbrake works.
We'll be right. So my, my nephew's driving
around the paddock. I'm, I'm in the passenger seat
on the handbrake said I'll do the break.
You just avoid the tree. We're zipping around the
paddock. And he did really well.
And then my, my niece had a crack.
And so my brother comes home and he's like, hmm, no Peugeot, no Civic. What the Hell's going on?
Where are they all? We were halfway down the paddock
having fun. But whenever it got stalled by
one of the kids, of course you've got to go get the Peugeot and then jump start it again because the batch.
So dead, no charge at all. So I was like, here's very good
incentive kids not to stall it because it's a long walk back to get the get the other car anyway.
So that was fun. But I decided next weekend I, I
said to him, you know, we've, we're going to resurrect it.
We should resurrect it so they can use it.
So I've bought a battery for it, got an oil philtre, got oil, got brake fluid. So I'm going to go up next
Saturday and give it a, you know, just give it a service and do the brake, make sure it starts and the brakes work.
And then, yeah, you know, you can sort of turnkey, you know, they can, well have a little drive when they feel like it.
I mean, I think bachelors, you know, they're good fun.
They're good fun to learn in my my uncle, he's Brian, if you're listening. How you doing?
He had an old Batson Stanza and you know, he was teaching his kids to drive in, his son to drive in that.
And it ended up on the news because they had these crazy winds and the trampoline from the backyard ended up all the way in the freight and landed on the car and there was pictures of it. So he's like, I've got all these
nice cars and the body stands. The one that gets in the news.
At least it didn't hit the nice cars.
At least it hit the pad. That is true.
That is true. But yeah, I remember we, we, we
resurrected that to, to have a have a bit of fun, have a bit of fun in it. And we, we, you know, we push
started it and, and, you know, popped the clutch and off I went. And then I got to the bottom of
the hill and put my foot in the clutch and I just died.
I'm like, oh, no, I had to go. I had to walk all the way back
up the hill to go get another kind of come down to start it.
Yes. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't, it
wasn't, it wasn't a good time, but that, yeah, you just reminded me of that story, which is which is always good.
Yeah, resurrecting old cars. I love it.
Yeah, it's good fun. Anyway, gentlemen, tonight's
topic. I don't even know what the topic
is. I've got the topic for you guys.
The topic is what's worse. So today I was driving home and
I saw a bright yellow Lamborghini Urus and I'm like, and I'm like, that is a horrible vehicle.
Like I'm sorry, like I, I, I, I there is no redeeming quality.
It is basically, you know, VW. What is it a A Touaregon in
drag? Is it actually a Touare?
It's Touareg, it's Q7 or something.
It it's it's got a whole bunch of you know, it's it's KN I think underneath it as well. Yeah, you know, it's, it's all
it's all those veg group product and I I've every time I see one, I'm like they are so expensive. They are you know, they don't
really look that good. They sound OK, but like they do
absolutely 0 for me. So I was like, what else is in
that category that does 0 for me?
And what what would be the worst option out of out of you know, that or XYZ, which I'm about to tell you So for all because we normally do a what would you rather than this is what this is what is worse. So, so we've got the Lamborghini
Urus, the Rolls Royce Conan or the Bentley Bentagga, you know, 3 stupidly expensive SUV vehicles that are, that are bought by the bourgeoisie. Well, I don't even think they're
bought. I think they're mainly bought by
your local, you know who and basically you kind of statement pieces of, you know, 3/4 of $1,000,000 plus more in terms of a road car. What do you think out of those 3
is worse? Which one would you definitely
not own? I mean, I wouldn't own any of
them, but if you had, if you had to pick one to own and which would be the ones that you would be?
Definitely, Yeah. No, that's not for me.
Oh, I don't like any of them. I think, you know that.
They're all a bit silly. But the is it the Cullinan
that's the more ugly out of the Bentley and the Cullinan, or is it the Bentley that's more ugly? I'm trying to remember.
I'd say the Cullinan's more ugly in my books.
Beauty. Subjective.
General beauty. Subjective.
But yeah, I. Mean and the uterus just sort of
looks like a Mazda CX-8 or something like.
He does, Yeah, Really. Doesn't have any great exotica
to it. At least the Bentley and the
roles, ugly as they are, they are very imposing and you know what it is. Whereas that Urus, I sort of
feel like you could drive behind that and really take the badges off. It could be IKEA.
You know you wouldn't. You wouldn't know.
I actually think it looks really a look like the the Haval H6GT, yeah. Yeah.
But it just does, it actually does.
I, I, I drove one of those on the weekend actually.
And I'm like, this kind of looks a bit like a year.
It's sitting with a weird in a weird sort of way.
So, so Edward, would you say the Havel would sorry Havel the the EUR would be the one that you'd be like, yeah, now, oh are.
They no longer doing the W12 or the, I don't know, the Bentley I. Don't think that I don't think
it meta missions. Yeah, I think I'd, I think I
would get rid of the EUR first. As as ugly as the other two are,
I think the Euros is just, you know, you, it's just pointless.
Why? Well, I spend that money on an
SUV. It sort of doesn't.
I don't know. I.
Just I don't. Know I desire is it No it's.
The, the US has a specific point.
It's to tell the people that you own like an Aventador or something. But it's too painful to get into
because normally if you're earning this, you're, you know, 60 plus and you know, at this point it's you and your mistress. And the mistress can get in, but
it's hard to get you in and out. So you drive the US instead.
You know, it's easy on the hips. So it's true.
The the year is, you know, it's like, hey, I own Lamborghinis, just so you know, But you know, I'm too frail to get in and out, so I'm going to drive this one. Or I'm a drug dealer, which is
the second option. And I'm saying I'm a drug
dealer. I have not dealt any drugs
recently, you know, within the statute of limitation.
The statute of limitation. Allegedly.
Yeah, allegedly in Mexico because again, if you discount the Bentley's W 12 because they don't sell anymore, I believe, I think they stopped in 2020. It's got the V8.
I'm like, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with V eights, but if you're going to buy a very stupid car, at least have have like AV 12. That's Rolls Royces.
Like there's something redeeming about it.
So I'd probably knock off, I'd probably knock off the EUR first as well. Yeah, that's probably the worst
option out of the bunch. So you're knocking off the EUR,
so and and then you have both knocked off the EUR first.
Yes. Mind you, I'm just looking at
the roles. Eddie's not a pretty car.
No, it's not. It's quite vulgar.
Actually no, but. At least it's imposing, you
know, at least it's imposing. It's ugly, but it's imposing.
Whereas the Euros is just sort of nothingness.
Yeah, so. Yeah, I'll get rid of the EUR
first. EUR OK.
So what are you guys getting in a second if you had to pick one?
I think the roles. You know the roles.
Purely by the. Fact that you're both bad at
each other. I, you know, I really don't like
either of those things. That's why it's it's what is
worse. That's the is the question.
Again, purely by the fact of the V12 sticking in the roles, I'll keep the roles above the Bentley.
In terms of looks, they all look pretty, yeah, but I I'd probably give it to to Bentley in terms of looks higher up.
But again, like I said, if we were buying something, you know, stupid, you might as well, you know, teach the environment a real lesson. But I can't. 6.7 litre B12.
I would agree with you, Alan, I think, yeah, if I'm going to do it on, I mean, it's, it's really an ostentatious car like the, the the Lamborghini is a poor excuse just to make more cars so that that is not that is a as a disgrace to all that is Lamborghini. And I just yeah, and yeah, might
drive well and you know, and people and people might really like them. But yeah, sorry mate.
No thank you. The Cullen again.
I, it just looks like the IT kind of looks like anyway, it's hard to explain like the front end.
It just doesn't look like it matches the rest of the car.
No, it looks, it looks really disproportionate to the rest of the car and the Rolls. I mean, it's not a good looking
car, but it is imposing. And I guess if you're buying a
Rolls and you're spending that much money, at least people know what a roller Rolls Royce. They go the the Rolls Royce name
comes with a bit more prestige. And we build jet engines.
We do. We do for your for your, for
your Boeings that you plebs go on.
And I'd probably take that over over the the Bentley because I, you know, just just because just, but again, it's you're clutching at straws here. This looks like it's a Range
Rover from the back like. Yeah, quite literally.
It's like, you know, I. Want to take you guys back to to
cheap cars. So we've gone from one of the
spectrum to to my favourite end of spectrum cheap cars, the Lada Sumara, which isn't, which is a hideously terrible thing.
The Daewoo Chilo or is it Chilo? Is that what was said?
Like Cielo or Chilo or I don't even know how, like the 16.
How do you, how do you even say that word?
Daewoo, Cielo or I? Think we always called it a
cielo but but I think it's pronounced chiello.
Chiello. I think we had this car in the
old country. Oh, did you?
We just called it a Cielo because it was a a brand pen that had the same. So like it's.
Also known as Daewoo le Moe. Oh, yeah.
OK. Well, that's right.
Yes. Little Oval cadet?
Oh no, it's based on that, sorry.
So you've got that or you've got the 1st generation Hyundai XL.
So, so 3 boxy hatchbacks, one with Brock Heritage, ladies and gentlemen, that's been. Samara Brock Edition.
Yeah, Brock edition, mate. This one's easier.
I reckon I would get rid of Samara first of all the excels the now. Are you talking the very first
square XL? Or the very first square.
XL. Very first ever Square XLS were
not good cars. I'd be getting rid of that.
Second, they they kind of came a lot better with that.
Second Curvy Gen XL at 13990. You're taking it over the
Daewoo. That's that's the first one I've
ever seen you take the Daewoo. I'm taking the Daewoo because
the Daewoo cello was known previously before it was a cello as the Daewoo 1.5 I, which was in a cadet from the early 80s.
So that car actually had quite a number of years under its belt before we got it. And it was the Holden Family 1
engine I think in that which was Camira motor basically.
Yeah, ink the 1.5. So despite it being a cheap
little shit box, I heard one of those at one point and it wasn't a bad thing to drive and the door felt really just reasonably solid. And I was kind of impressed with
it for 14 grand that it cost. And I thought they actually
looked quite, you know, they were compact and they were, you know, little hatchback, but they they actually had a not a bad shape to them. So the first excel was dreadful.
The 1.5 I was better and the Samara was dreadful.
I'm I'm going Daewoo. Daewoo, your Daewoo Allen.
That's who? Daewoo, that's who.
Actually, I think it was Daewoo. That's who wasn't.
It I I'll just look at the the Lada from 1 of this.
Look at the ladder, Brock. Look at the ladder, Brock.
That's where you want to be. There was it was like somebody
had dubbed like a Soviet era kind of television show, like it was like a game show. And it's like, congratulations,
Dimitri, you have won prize. It's a brand new Ladakar.
And he's like, I am happy. And it's like, but owning
property is crime. So you're going to gaol.
Fair enough. I'm just reminded of that.
Was that an ad or was that like? That was like, I think somebody
just yeah, like anything they thinking I'm like whatever I think of, you know, any kind of ladder, it just reminds me of that. Oh, a lot of smart Brock.
But hey, we're saying we're not going to go on the Brock version. We assume we're looking at
something worse, like the worst examples.
If that's the case, probably, yeah, I'll put the ladder down, you know, last between the Daewoo and the Hyundai.
Now that's where I'm. I think I'm going to differ.
OK. Yeah, having never driven, being
blessed, just to know how to drive around any of these cars, I'm going to have to go on looks.
And there's something about the first generation XL that actually appeals to me. I'm ashamed to admit it, but
like, there's something about it that does it for me.
But they had no decent shape, they had no styling at all.
They're just a box. They were just a box, but no I.
If so, let me say, have you picked yet or?
Yeah, hire no wins it for me. It's it's the car I'd more want
to be in out of these options. All right, definitely some
you're. Going Hyundai?
What are you going me? Definitely some RLRS like that.
That is a terrible vehicle. It is, yes.
Yeah, not a good. The only car out of these two
that I've actually had any kind of interest with is the that first Gen XL because a guy I went to school with, you probably remember him as well, something Tristanopolis or something. He's he was known as Harry
Potter. Antonopoulos Anopolis.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, his his brother had what?
Oh, OK, with the largest bloody fart cannon I've ever seen on any car ever. Yeah.
And it was always sitting on the limiter, like when he was picking, he used to live in my area.
He used to live like a block away from me.
And his brother would be just, he'd, I reckon his brother beat on this car religiously for probably three years and couldn't kill it. And then one day he blew the
blew the head gasket and then that was the end of it.
But for three years of red line, dumping the clutch, all the, all the above to that poor little car, it survived.
And you know what credible credit is due.
I think that is probably the least worst of these, of these 3. The cello, yeah, I mean, but you
know, if it's got Camira, you know, underpinnings and Camira engines and things, probably not in terms of going to take a beating like like that little XL did.
I don't know if you just had a one of those one of the kind freak excels that somehow survived the apocalypse, but it was it was yeah, it was a remember that bright, that light green that that kind of futuri green that they came in that those yeah, yeah, it was it was that colour on the original hubcaps lower. It was on its ass and man,
biggest, biggest cannon I've ever seen.
I don't know where you even found it from.
It looked like a trash can. It was that big.
So yeah, it was, it was it was it was quite a quite a large 1.
So my next I was gonna say for my next trick for for my last one, for what? For what I've chosen.
It's the Suzuki XX90A car that looked the same, apparently both both angles. So.
Yeah, coming, going. Yep.
So we're looking at little SUV's kind of like little little bits of fun, very weird Japanese cars now and the Daihatsu, that's who, Terios, so 2 cars very similar.
What would be the worst option out of those two?
Like I mean mechanically both are quite good from what I've heard, but. Yes, Mechanic, they are both
fine. You know, being Japanese, the
Terios always looked like it was going to blow over in a light breeze. It was very narrow and I think
Alan, your parents had one, didn't.
They, my dad, yeah, when he first arrived in Australia, in Sydney, decided he's going to, you know, clunk it down on a brand new Terios. And.
You know he bought a manual green Terios manual.
Good luck to to his credit, it was a lovely car in Sydney.
Like he lived in Parramatta, I believe, and zipping around there and, you know, going towards the city narrow.
Little streets. Yeah, he had a great time.
First time he came to Melbourne. I mean, on the freeway he's
like, oh God. I got to get me something a bit
wider. Yeah, yeah.
So look, there's been a love for the terrorists.
Considering again, Pops had one. But.
These are two cars that are not considered very, very fond, like not fondly remembered by many people.
And even when they were new, they weren't big sellers.
Like they didn't sell many XX 90s.
You know, they barely sold any more Terios.
I remember seeing a Terios at at Ratner's workshop once and it was one of the last ones they'd they'd made.
And it's still got a Kabi right now.
I was like, like, wait, what year is this?
He's like, oh, it's like a 2000. And it was like the one of the
last years of Daihatsu in Australia.
I'm like, and it's still got a Kabi.
He's like, yeah, the the Kabi random was just tuning the Kabi to to to adjust it right. I'm like, wow, like I, I didn't
realise I still saw the wind carburetor is this late.
And you know, I was, I was in high school, I think it was like 2007 or 2009 or it was like when I was just getting my licence.
So I was always tinkering and, and mucking around and I was, I was enamoured by the terrier. So I was, I was like, this is
this this thing's and this thing's it's, it's it's anomaly.
A non fuel injected car in 2020. You know 2004.
Just bloom what? What size motor was a terrace?
Was it one point? Five.
I think they were a 1.5. No 1.30 they're. 1.3 OK.
Yeah. 23 Wow. The worst part is it wasn't even
like, very economical. No, it's working super hard,
yeah. But I was like, it wasn't good
on fuel. Did you buy this car?
The I don't know what's worse looking.
The Terios isn't good looking, but the X90 certainly isn't good looking. I think for its quirk factor I
might go the X90 just because it's ridiculous.
So. So you're choosing a card based
on Ridiculous that Edward Bunting?
Yeah, I'm going the X90 that you know, it's.
There's nothing else quite like that weird little thing.
Yeah, yeah. Like I can see that.
Look, if I, if I lived in like Malibu and I was, you know, a, if I lived in a lifestyle, I'm going to say, you know, to be diplomatic about this, and I lived in Malibu, I would be the happiest little clam in the X-90.
But I'm not and I don't live in Malibu.
Unfortunately or fortunately, America is pretty terrible.
I think I'd, I'd rather be in the Terrius because there is some weird salvage to it. Like I can own this car, like
take a grocery shopping and be like, look, it is what it is.
It's not the greatest thing. It might tip over, but you know,
it gets a job done. Whereas if I'm here in Melbourne
driving the X90, I will get bashed.
We're in our area, like get out of the car and I'll get bashed.
Especially because the Reds faded the pink.
And I'm like, you don't understand.
It's all I could afford. So you go on Terios.
I'm gonna go Terios. That's not as bad as the X
night. For me, OK.
Yeah, so Edward's gone. Edward's gone.
On Terrace is worse. He's he's he'll take the 90.
Yeah, I think I'm with you on that one.
I'll take the 90. I thought, I always thought the
90 was cool. Like I was probably the only
person I thought the 90 was cool, but I thought the 90 was cool. My last one for the evening is 2
convertibles. Yeah, you're probably thinking
what you're going to say. Bloody Ford.
I'd like a. Convertible.
A Capri, or is it? Or a Chrysler Sebring
convertible, which is a terrible car, yeah, but I'm going to get worse. Yeah, worse 102,000.
No, no, I know you don't. I know I know you don't like
just 102,000. I know you don't like those
cars, the Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet.
So they so like they made the Murano as a as a convertible versus what's worse, the Range Rover invoke convertible.
Going to get there. They do a Murano convertible.
They did. Yes, they did.
In Australia they sold that. I don't know if they I.
Don't, did they? It wasn't.
It was a terrible, terrible, terrible.
There's probably. Some I don't think they did
here. There's probably some young lady
who's now a bit older who lived in Brighton and, you know, she was daddy's little girl and she wanted to be Paris Hilton.
She could. And you know, they they go to
this. I can't stand the thought of a
Murano convertible. Time.
Let's. Look at photos.
This is so funny looking. It's.
So terrible, I think. I think I'm.
Choosing the the Land Rover which is a not a good.
Thing the rims. Oh yeah.
Gosh. Check out this one, Ed.
Sorry, this one's got rims this big.
So a person asks on the forum on the world of Nissan, why was he?
Why was what happened to? Why was the Nissan Morado
discontinued? Unfortunately, due to low sales,
the Nissan Morado Cross Cabriolet was discontinued after the 2014 model year. So they are both unbelievably.
Bad. Oh, it's dreadful.
It is. They're both shocking, like
they're both terrible cars. Like who?
Who? Who in their right mind thought
that these were these were good ideas.
Like I, I I have no idea. Yeah, it's not a good looking
car. They've sold.
They sold in the in North American market, 5769 sales in three years, which makes no surprise that it didn't sell well. So what's worse, that or the
Evoke convertible? Look, I think the Murano's
worse. Yeah, I agree with that.
Go on. Why though?
Why? Explain it.
It just looks ridiculous. I mean, the Land Rover is also
ridiculous and awful, but I mean, I don't know, Land Rover has some cachet, but Murano has no cachet.
I mean, what's the what's the cachet you're going to say with with that? Are you in a Range Rover?
I really which one are the evoke convertible?
And you'll get the instant look of really like out of all the ones you couldn't want that. But then you respond with but
Posh Spice helped helped design Mike and help design it.
So you know when you've got a car designed by Posh Spice and like, you know, credit where credit's you've.
Got some sort of claim to fame. I mean, the Murano convertible
has got no claim to fame. I've never.
At least you're still in a Range Rover.
You're not though. You're in, You're in.
What's her name? What's her name?
Posh Spices, where dream is what that car is essentially, that is. And look.
You at least you're going full Valley girl at that point, whereas with the Murano it's like a Valley girl off Sheen or Team or whatever. Oh Matthew, please stop this
torture of these tests. Look, I, I'm going to, if again,
I'm having to pick one, it's going to be the Range Rover.
You know, I'd rather not have the Murano.
We obviously it's it's a best of worst situation regardless.
You're wrong. And.
It's OK to be wrong. Are you?
Really going to justify this? Absolutely.
I want to tell you why. Explain to us why and we will
tell you why you're wrong. The Murano is a trendsetter.
Trendsetter, how to destroy your company if I had to go to gaol in Japan? Yeah.
You want to talk to the distant CEO?
Yeah, this is just run. This is true.
Well, I I think you know. Or you're wrong.
God. Sorry man.
You wanted to be reliable because you know it's innocent for the most part, it'd be better than than a Range Rover 2 to the VQ engine, which is which is, you know, again reliable for the most part CVT again would prob would most likely break on that car as they all do, but it's something a bit like it's it's not trying to actually it is trying to be something, isn't it? It's trying to be trying to be a
bit weird. I was going to say, but it's for
me, it's, it's not as bad because a cheaper company made it, if that makes sense. It's like, well, they've tried,
whereas Range Rover making that, that abomination, it was just like, this is just like to get, you're right, Valley girls and people that have, oh, my daddy bought me a Range Rover, you know, in, in the, in the space of, you know, and the cheapest convertible one, because it's, it's convertible.
And she wanted a convertible. And her first car was a
convertible Saab 93, which never worked because it was a Saab 93.
And now she's like, well, I want something that's a bit better.
So she buys the the Evoke and the, but not only the evoke convertible. Whereas the Morano was like, you
know, this is a terrible car. And it, well, I mean, I'd hope
it, I'd hope it would. And that's the reason why
they've gone with that option. But it's OK to be wrong,
gentlemen. Look, all right, you know for a
fact that nobody's ever said. You know what?
I wish this Morano had a convertible top.
That's the so they've said the same thing.
About a range? No, they have, you can tell they
like literally, they're probably been once again, Valley girls.
Really. They're like, it'd be really
nice if the top would come down on this and you know, they did it actually. Again, you can't just buy either
of these cars, but one is more justifiable than the other.
It's just because it's got a badge, It's got a range run badge. But you know for a fact that
some customers that would drive these big old pavement princesses, well, like, you know, it wouldn't be, it would be nice. Like it's top holds.
The whole top text came down and Ranger was like, you know what sounds like money? Let's do it.
Yeah. Well, that's probably the only
reason it. Happened, whereas this was just
like stupid let's. Just see what we can do.
Let's see. Let's see what goof we can make.
All right, Well, I guess you guys are.
I guess you guys can kind of win the cake on that one.
So that was our first. Winners just let's lose.
Let's lose So. So that's our first.
Edition of Yeah, there's no winners out of this tonight.
That's our that's our first edition of DO.
You end up with any of these cards, you're doing real bad.
No, I mean, you could be doing bad, but you could be doing like Dodge Avenger, like you know, that that or from the from the mid 2000s bad like that. That's pretty bad.
Oh, what's that? What's that, Pedro Facebook
called single, low income single bed cars.
Yeah, like if you, if you, you know.
It's not shit that I picked up our friend Thomas, who might buy the Peugeot. I picked him up from the station
near my house, you know, some months back.
And I happened to be driving the red Honda City.
And so he gets off the train and comes around into the car and he's laughing. And I'm like, what?
What? What are you laughing at?
You've seen the city before. You know what it is?
And he goes, it's $500, single dad's car that's.
What? It that was and I was like, no,
it's not. It's a Japanese connoisseur from
the 80s Dad's car anyway, so since then that that little naming convention has stuck. So, so your Honda City, which
which I've driven and I've liked and I've enjoyed, is now known as the $500. Single dad's.
Car yeah yeah low income single dad's car I just.
Said he was embarrassed to get off the train and get into that car. Well, if if he's embarrassed at
that, what would what would be worse?
What would be a worse single dad's low income single dad's car than that? Any of the ones you've mentioned
tonight? Well, the issue with the Ranger
was it quite pricey A. Daewoo Matiz with mismatch
panels maybe? Yes, yeah, is yeah.
Yeah, that I it was. Trying to be a Harlequin.
Golf, I'd probably probably walk or just walk if somebody go to pick me up with that. I always thought the the the
boxy Bluebird of the 80s and late 70s.
They're awesome. That was his low income single
dad car. That's that's that is that to
AT? Pale blue Bluebird.
Or or that green, they all came in, they're all in that green with that, with that brown. Light minty green with brown
cloth. Correct.
Yeah, they were. An inspiring.
Automobile, they were a vile thing.
I didn't, did not enjoy those. And they did a TRX and that I
think too. They did, yeah.
Poorly built, not attractive, just nothing to recommend it.
Alan, what what would be worse than what would be your if you are, I want to ask you this question and then we'll move on to the quiz. What would be your ultimate
single dad low income car you. Have to give me a bit of time to
think about this. Maybe we'll wait till after the
quiz. After the quiz.
We'll end up with that. Edward, you'll never think think
through the quiz. I mean, anything like I'm trying
to think when I was a kid, what was just the daggiest, you know, like a like a Datsun 180B when I was a kid, you know, that was just real down and out Dag absolute dag, you know, with peeling vinyl roof. That was always a that was
always a tip for a single dad jalopy.
So what would be your? Well, we'll come back to it
because you got to. Stand like a 180B or a stanza,
you know, with a vinyl roof, peeling ground.
Just nothing on nothing. Nothing.
Listen. Did some really boring things
then, didn't they? Like they were just boring
cards. Like, well, they worked.
They were reliable. They were reliable, but just
just just dull and dull and dull and more dull.
Yeah, that that that makes it's total sense I.
Think a more modern version would be like a Nissan teeter.
This is a real niche. Yeah.
Down and out dad cars the Nissan's featuring highly.
Well, so you know. Just nothing.
I also think though I also think Nissan is like the the Chrysler of of America. Just just poor cars, like light
inspired. Just really.
Yeah, not not good vehicles, to be fair.
All right, let's quiz it. All right, quiz it and we'll
come back and we'll end with that on the as the last part of the show. All right, question 1, you know
the quick guys, you know the rules, 10 questions plus some honest questions. Let's get into it.
Question one What was the first Japanese car to have a sequential automatic transmission?
I'm trying to think of any Japanese car that's a sequential admit. You don't mean a CBT?
You mean like a a double clutch transmission, no?
Like no, just like a like a transmission with like, you know, up and down, you know, trend sequential or like.
Plus the minus to go through the gears.
Yeah, but but like a, but actually a sequential gearbox too. Like it, you know, it's, it's,
it's amazing. Double clutch gearboxes.
Yeah. Or like a single clutch gearbox
in that instance, yeah. I don't know.
I don't know, Alan, do you know? I'll say actually we have a can
we get a hint to a decade if we don't know all the roads?
Oh, I'll give you a hint, it's Japanese now I'm kidding. the IT
is in the following. It'll be in one of the following
brands, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan.
Alan Alan Mitsubishi. Lancer.
Mitsubishi Lancer is incorrect. You bastard Ed.
Ed Nissan. Nissan what?
A sporty 1. A sporty 1 is incorrect.
It is the Toyota third generation MR2.
Oh. That's sequential.
Jana, yeah, that car, yeah, yeah, that's. 3rd generation Mr
The ZZ 30 Question 2, which car advertisement famously put in its ad in the mid 2000's, the mighty 350Z just got smoked by a family of five and a dog. I'll give you a hint to drop it.
It's someone. Bagging the 350Z because they've
got a waggon. Figure or something, it's it's a
Japanese car as well. I'll give you I'll give you that
hint. Ed.
Ed. Subaru Liberty like turbo
waggon. I'll give you .5 for Subaru
Edward. OK.
Con, you're a super guy, yeah. You're a.
Super guy, it's probably your car.
Yeah, Subaru Diverse, this guy. No, it was the Subaru Forester
XT. The bonus question is what was
the claim zero to 100 as on the? Sorry, what was the claim zero
to 100 on the advertisement? Ed, I'm gonna go with Forester
XT countries as well. Mid 2000s, so we're looking at
an SG generation. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
They were fast, but they weren't that fast.
I'm gonna go 6. .86 point 8, says Edward.
You're incorrect, but you're you know, I'll do closest too.
That's hilarious because I was gonna say like 6 foot, I'll say 6.5. You're both miles off 5.3
seconds. Wow.
That's a quick. Cut.
They were a quick in the world. They they were very quick with
one. I didn't realise.
They were that fast, yeah. They were very quick.
They didn't weigh a lot actually.
The the forest. Who was shifted in the computer
like? I'll show you the advert if you
if you don't believe me that that was a it was a proper advert. Question 3.
According to a study completed by BMW in 2010, around how many percent of BMW One Series owners thought their car was front wheel drive Ed Ed. Again, I'm going to take a stamp
here. We can do closest.
To it. I would how many of them thought
their car was front wheel drive? They're one series car.
They're they're one series. Yeah, I'm going to.
At the time the time is what these one series were were rear wheel drive I. Was still rear wheel drive.
Yeah, they were the only one in that segment.
Yeah, I know, I sold them. Yeah, I'm going to say 60%. 60%,
says Edward. I want to say about 45%.
The answer was 80 percent. 80% of argument that would give you
that .80% of of owners of one serious thought their car was
front wheel drive. Could be it's a shame.
Because. That that car had a really good
chassis, yeah. And and that just shows that
none of these people are exploiting the Handy.
Jeez. Anyway next question question 4
the Lincoln town car slash Ford Crown Victoria are famously can do what speed in reverse gear Ed Ed. 50 miles an hour. 50 miles
an hour. So that'll be 180 kilometres.
Yeah. 80 kilometres. OK.
Yep, Yep. OK, I'll, I'll.
We'll do closest too. I think they can do probably
close to about 65 kilometres an hour.
The answer was 101 kilometres an hour in reverse.
What? Yeah.
So it was insane. I'll give you, I'll give you
point, point. I'll give you .5 because you
were still a bit off on that one.
So .5 for for that one score check ended on 2/2 when.
I get closest to. Yeah, right.
No, you get .5. No, it's 2.5 that.
Against. 2.5 to to Edwards, you allow me at the score.
Bullshit question #5 the Nissan NX of the early 90s.
So the same car that our good friend Adrian had featured.
What in the door jamb? Alum.
Alum. An umbrella.
An umbrella? Yeah, I'll give you, I'll give
you that. An umbrella holder.
Yep. I can I have another guess Ed a
recall stamp? Most likely, it says.
Field campaign. Yeah.
Yes, exactly. Question 6.
The designer of the Volvo C30, which our good friend Alex owns, famously did what with the tail lights he designed.
Did what with the tail lights? So as in on that art?
Or did he do something else so. He had a, he had a, he had a
tail light off the car in which he was, he did something with the tail lights. Alum.
Alum. He made it into an artwork.
He didn't make it into an art. I like that idea though.
That's actually kind of cool. Ed he he made a coffee table.
No, he, he was, he had, he had a photo shoot with him, him holding like a like all different poses with it.
And that's an artwork. I was like, I'm like, what is
he? He's a little.
Expensive to me. Did does.
Technically, you're right. That is, That is art.
Photography is art. I'll give maybe .5.
I like your answer. Question 7.
Our good favourite car, the Holden Captiva Craptiva, which we know is a complete piece of shit, was originally called as a concept. The what?
Crickets on that one. I do not know the wizard.
The wizard is incorrect. Solaris.
Incorrect S3X. You guys can work that out.
Boring on boring. Yep.
So yeah, they're trying to make it sound sexy, but it's ain't.
Nobody getting laid on that car. Question 8 Mitsubishi holds the
record for the smallest V6 ever made in a production vehicle.
What size was it in? Litres.
Mitsubishi. Really.
They made it smaller than because I know Mazda.
Mazda had a 1.8. Yeah, the Unos 30X is a 1.8.
VC V6, yeah, You're saying it's smaller than that in a production vehicle? I feel it's got to be a
balancer, not closest to in this case.
I I agree, I'm going to take a flow.
AL 1.6. 1.6 is correct. Alan, well done.
Question nine, the first of the new BMW Minis.
So like, not, you know, like the first of their the RE, the restyled Mini featured a Speedo in the middle of the dash in all countries except Australia. Why?
Ed Ed Because the Australian Design Rules meant that you had to have it right in front of you.
At that. So we were the only country in
the world that had the Minis with the Speedo in on the in front of the in front of the driver and in this isn't.
Funny, because since then, you know, the X Trail had a central Speedo. The the, yeah, the Echo had that
sort of bit angled towards the driver.
You know, there was, yeah, there were a few other cars that that ended up having that, but they still had a round.
Part of the middle. Excuse me yawning.
But they just put other stuff in it.
It had other gauges and info in it or something.
So early on I had a Taco in as the as the middle as the middle gauge. Yeah, that's right.
Big Giant Taco Question 10 The Honda S2000 is not classified as a front engine car. What is it classified as?
Ed. Ed got in there first.
Mid engine car. Not mid the the actual proper
classification for this car AL alum.
Midship. Incorrect.
It's called front mid, front, mid front.
Mid. Front mid.
That's, yeah, Sheets, I said. You try to get point. 5.
No, no score check. Do you want anyway Ed?
Ed went on 3.5 alum. Oh wow, that's. 3.5 The bonus
question, sorry, still anybody's game.
The S2000 had two engine sizes available around the world in some markets. Ed.
What Ed. 2 litre. That's one.
That's .5. And a 2.2.
That is correct. That is one that is absolutely
correct. So that is the cartel car quiz.
Gentleman LM on 2.5 and tonight's win on a grand total
of 4.5 is Mr Edward Bunting. Well done.
Wow. Massive, massive.
Big points. Big points.
It was anyone's game until basically the end.
Well done. Well, good work on that quiz.
Thank you. Thank you, now I've got some
other car updates for you. Just on on the topic of Volvo
C30, our little friend Alexi has his car wasn't running right, so he did some investigation, pulled the head off and it has a cracked cylinder liner. So after 60,000, let's just say
rather hard kilometres. I don't know that car to not be
being on full boost or at red lines.
So kudos to Volvo slash Ford for that five cylinder turbo because it's it's it's withstood quite the beating to 60,000 gay anyway, it is now yes, in pieces with the head removed and he's deciding what to do with it when he puts another block in it and rebuilds it or send it to the wrecker or whatever.
So anyway. That's, I know, I know there is
a, there is a, it's called the block mod for those.
And you put, you put this like you put a piece of metal in it that kind of gives a bit more strength.
And that's that's a very common thing on those called the block mod. And I, I said to him though, you
know, that's a, that's a sleeved motor.
So can't, can't you just put new liners in it and replace the piston and you're back to factory, you know.
And he said, yeah, you can, but it's very expensive to do and blah, blah, blah. So I don't know what his plans
are. He's still working out, I think.
So the heads off and not a good time.
Yes. So he's driving around in his
530 diesel that he bought, which he's Auk import.
He bought it off his like grandma's neighbour and that car, that's a really clean car. Actually, he's come from the UK,
no sunroof, so slightly an unusual spec for Australia.
But yeah, really clean. It goes hard.
You know those 530 motors? Are they went well?
Yeah, 3 litre diesel, very nice motor.
Yeah. Is that what you had in?
Is that what you had in your E60?
No, mum's E60 was A2 litre diesel, not a three litre.
But that's a 520 D, isn't it? Yeah, 520 D you could get it 30
D, yes, yeah, correct. Yeah, now the, I know like a lot
of tuners really love that engine.
Like they they make tonnes of power.
Yeah, yeah, power and talk. And when you're nice to it, it's
very good on on fuel still. Yeah, there's a there's a few
Youtubers currently with some fast estate cars are there?
They've all bought 2 of them have bought the diesel BMWs, F330DS and stuff which is which is cool.
Yes. I I got my ultimate low income
single dad. Car Yep, hit us.
This is from. This is from our childhood
period. It's AI.
Think it's late 80s Corolla sedan.
Oh yeah, yeah, I. Know you?
Got a nice faded yellow one if you were a short dad, yeah.
Plain Jane. They're very plain Jane.
Well, that's mid 80s. That's the more Angular 1.
So yes, mid 80s. That's like 85-6, yeah.
Yeah, that's not a bad one. I've got, I've got, I've got one
that. But this this car would be owned
in like the mid 2000s, close to 2010.
Yeah, I. Think I've got one that can can
beat you. And again, it's going to be a
Nissan. It is a second generation Nissan
Pantara. Oh yeah, that's an ultimate low
income single dead car. They like just cars and and it
had to be the waggon as well. It wouldn't even be the sedan
like it'd be it'd be the the Hatch, whatever that whatever that had a special name for it. But even worse, that would be
the Ford Corsair. So which, which in terms of
terrible cars that are, you know, for both, yeah, they they both take the cake for me as low income single dad cars.
And they always had like a, you know, like the, the Camry bumper dint they always had, you know, Yeah.
Yeah shit. Shout out to low income single
dads. We love you.
We love. You ones that are doing it for
the kids not not the ones that are spending on the pokies.
That's, that's cool. That's right.
I just loved that page. All the comments on Have you?
Have you seen this page yet? Yeah.
What's it called? It's called low income single
dad cars low. Income single dad cars.
That's all Facebook. What's on?
Facebook and the comments like for each of the cars.
Like I still you love your mum mate or does your mum still talk about me or what was it? Is your new stepdad any good?
Yeah, stuff like that. Like it's, it's something they
say to the kids. So for example, there's this one
I'll show you as an example. It would like a ABA Falcon
that's just mounted and and the comment is go down the side a few more times the the feature is about to hit like, so like stuff like that. And thanks to the Bunny, thanks
to the bunny's gift card. I was hoping, I was hoping it
was one of them again. I've got no idea what your bike
is. Did you leave it at your mum's?
And it's parked, the car's parked at the front of cash converters. Like it's just she don't toast
again for dinner tonight, mate. I know you didn't want to play
footy, but but have a game, mate, Like just all these, the bread's fine. Just pick the mould off.
Like there's all these, there's all these comments.
Time for bed. Law and order is on.
Just they're just brilliant. Like they're, they're, you know,
proper. Shove a few of those sunny boys
in your bag next time you're coming over, you know, just get the kid to steal from. Jesus.
Oh, man. No, It's, it's, it's, it's a,
it's a quality, quality page. You've got to, you're going to
have to, you're going to have to follow it.
Yeah. It's yeah.
It didn't decline. I forgot the pin.
Oh that's amazing. That's.
Brilliant. The only thing I miss about your
old girl is her, her, her result.
So it's like there's stuff like that.
It's just it's just it's a brilliant page and and the cars on there are top, top quality. I love it.
Chance. I think that's a podcast for
this evening. Podcast, boys, thank you.
On a sombre note of low income singer deaths and their cars.
We're here, single dads. We're here for you, Edward
Bunting. You do a podcast.
Oh yes, David and I do one called Auto Retro where we talk to guests about the cars of our lives.
Sorry, cars of their lives, not of our life.
We get a guest in, we just talk to you, just grab on about all the shit we've owned and we don't ask them any questions.
We don't let the guests get a word in edgewise or like.
So basically in 2004 I bought AI bought a Ford Taurus.
That's right. That's right.
Yes, It's on Spotify or YouTube if you want to see us doing things. New episodes, hopefully soon,
Edward. Yes, new episodes, hopefully
soon they're done. We just need to get some more
edited. So I'm working on it.
I'm working on it. Good work, good work.
We know the pain if just because we haven't shit talked EVs in this podcast, that doesn't mean we still need them.
So you know if but if you are interested, you can hear about good friend [email protected] dot AU
also on Facebook, facebook.com/carloop AU.
He is the man in the know when it comes to the electric car space in Australia. He's driven, I think all of the
ones that are available and probably drive ones that aren't available because, you know, he'd be the first man we'd hear about driving a, a cyber truck 100%.
And he's also the man in the know when it comes to the pricing of new cars. So go see him.
Have a chat you know about boy there.
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Otherwise some car ASMR. Edward, I'm coming up to the the
undisclosed location to film some of your cars for this.
Oh. Are.
You, yes. So we need to make that happen,
Mr Bunding. You're better getting quick
because the owner of the undisclosed location is going away in the near future, so it won't be available for some weeks. Well, however, there is one car
that I have in my possession, which is a Von 90 diesel.
No, the diesel. Yeah, you know, it's a small
diesel. So if you would like to, you
know, what do you, what do we call that nerd?
ASMR. Nerd noises or something, Yeah.
No noises, Yeah. No doubt on the noises of that
car, then yes, you may come and film it.
I, I will. I will definitely do that.
Let's talk. All right.
Thanks again, guys. We'll see you next week.
Take it easy. See you.
Bye bye.
About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds as the hosts debate the merits of various cars, from high-end SUVs like the Lamborghini Urus and Rolls Royce Cullinan to quirky budget options like the Daewoo Cielo and first-gen Hyundai Excel. The conversation is peppered with humor and anecdotes, touching on the absurdities of car culture and the nostalgia of low-income single dad vehicles. The episode culminates in a quiz that tests the hosts' automotive knowledge, revealing surprising facts about various models and their histories.