My week in cars: the Autocar podcast
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Updated about 9 hours agoJoin Autocar's Steve Cropley and Matt Prior as they delve into their motoring weeks, with subjects ranging from what they have been driving and where they have been, to what has caught their eye or been on their mind.You can make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. And if you'd be wiling to rate and review the Pod, we'd appreciate it more than you know, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episodes (239)
Driving a 122 year-old car; a new flat-8 engine
On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley drive from London to Brighton in the 1902 Albion Dog Cart, talk a new flat eight-cylinder engine, fix Cropley’s Mini Cooper, and talk much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Live with Jonathan Palmer, talking F1, Senna, Tom Cruise and making his own car
On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley are joined live at the Royal Automobile Club in London by Jonathan Palmer, CEO of MotoSport Vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Good news! Mayoral cars, new Duster
This week your My Week In Cars hosts Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk about the new Dacia Duster, mayors being deprived of their vehicles, and some excellent news from three parts of the UK motor industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aston art, spiritual homes, JLR Classic
This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior spend quality time with the new Morgan MD, talk about visiting JLR Classic, talk to an artist about a brilliant new Aston Martin picture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exclusive new AC Cobra review, Morgan gets a new boss, small car prices
This week your My Week In Cars hosts Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk about the all-new AC Cobra, which Prior has driven exclusively, that Morgan has a new managing director, a shift in small used car prices, the Renault Symbioz, Bicester's final Scramble of 2024 and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New Bentley boss, Aston's warning, Chris Goffey in a Moskvitch
This week your My Week In Cars hosts, Steve Cropley and Matt Prior, talk about Aston Martin's production warning, how a new boss has settled in at Bentley, and how McLaren named its new W1 hypercar. There's extreme hands-free cornering from ex-Top Gear host Chris Goffey in a Moskvitch and your correspondence, including our hosts recommending the right car for wafting into retirement.You can make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. And if you'd be wiling to rate and review the Pod, we'd appreciate it more than you know, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bentley Continental, new Lotus Theory concept, Ferrari 12Cilindri
This week your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talk everything from basic vehicles to the most exotic supercars. It seems that a large percentage of young people are driving vans instead of cars. Which is no bad thing, think our duo, who are both on board with practical vehicles. Meantime, they've both been driving decidedly impractical exotic vehicles, in the shape of the new Bentley Continental GT and Ferrari 12Cilindri. Plus there's stuff on the Bluebird K7, Subaru Forester and, of course, your correspondence.You can make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. And if you'd be wiling to rate and review the Pod, we'd appreciate it more than you know, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Design competition, Mazda MX-5, defining a hybrid
This week your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley meet to talk about a Coventry University design challenge with Riversimple, the Mazda MX-5 turning 35 years old, and wonder what range a plug-in hybrid needs to remain on sale after pure ICE cars are banned. Then we have your correspondence: why aren't cars more colourful? What car should a reader buy?You can make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. And if you'd be wiling to rate and review the Pod, we'd appreciate it more than you know, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
RIP Grand Tour, the classic (?) Frontera, the new Toyota Prius reviewed
This week your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley catch up properly after a hectic few weeks by talking Morgan special editions, how the Vauxhall Frontera isn't a classic, the best-of-the-best concours, the end of the The Grand Tour, spotting one's old Ferrari, buying a Caterham, the new Toyota Prius and much more besides, including lots of your correspondence.You can make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. And if you'd be wiling to rate and review the Pod, we'd appreciate it more than you know, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exclusive interview: Adrian Newey on Aston Martin and Red Bull
Just 24 hours before Aston Martin announced the world's most successful F1 design engineer, Adrian Newey, would be its new technical director, Autocar crammed into his office beside his famous drawing board for an hour-long interview about all things Aston, Red Bull, and much, much more besides. From modern road car regulation, what he'd do with F1 rules, and why he was disappointed with the Aston Valkyrie, join Autocar's Matt Prior and Steve Cropley as they talk to the man behind more than 200 F1 race wins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AI comes for our hosts
Is this the last pod presented by real people? Episode 104 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds your hosts Steve Cropley and Matt Prior threatened by AI, the duo talk about the cancelled Stonehenge tunnel, dream cars and dream roads, the luxury car tax, and much more besides including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New Panda and a bendy factory
This week's Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking about the shortly upcoming Fiat Panda, Suzuki's decision to drop some cars in the UK, a cut-price Toyota GR Yaris alternative, and a potentially apocryphal story about what caused some British cars to leak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Meet the Caterham boss
Episode 102 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley visiting the brand new, all singing, all dancing* (*may not sing or dance) Caterham factory in Dartford, just a stone's throw from the old place, but much bigger, much brighter, much better. They talk to Bob Laishley, the CEO, who reveals all on the Seven's future, its new engines, the firm's upcoming electric coupe, expanding sales volumes, and more besides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jaguar i-Pace, Toyota Hilux
Episode 101 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley back in the studio* (*Steve's dining room) for a chat about Jaguar's upcoming rejuvenation, a rather exceptional unexceptional Toyota Hilux, and much more besides including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 100! Special guest: David Richards, Prodrive chairman
It's Episode 100 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars, and our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley have celebrated by heading off to interview a special guest, Prodrive and Motorsport UK chairman David Richards. Prodrive is a world-leading motorsport engineering company celebrating its own 40th anniversary this year, and Richards opens up on its creation, his time as a world rally championship winning co-driver and how F1 changed him for the worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"I could've died." Cropley's outback crash, new Renault Twizy, Shelsley Walsh
Episode 99 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our hosts at the British Motor Museum, sharing an office with a Hart F1 engine and a Triumph Thruxton motorcycle as they talk the Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, Renault's plan to introduce a replacement for the Renault Twizy, range-extenders, a big crash in Cropley's trucking past, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Interview: F1's Fernando Alonso, small Italian cars, shrinking Jaguar
Episode 98 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds Matt Prior interviewing Fernando Alonso about his perfect Aston Martin (the Valiant), plus his long-term future with the brand. Steve Cropley has a ride up the Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb in the new Ford Capri, while the pair also discuss Jaguar's shrinking model range, find out why the PM is driven in an Audi, talk Autobianchi and Innocenti, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ford Capri, Dacia Spring, insurance solved
Episode 97 of the Autocar podcast My Week finds Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking about what's in a name, as Ford announces the new Capri EV, while Prior tests Britain's cheapest EV, the sub-£15,000 Dacia Spring, and the pair talk 4x4s to Ukraine, vehicle-to-load batteries, Cropley's insurance woes and more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Live from Ariel: Nomad 2 and interviews
Episode 96 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars comes at you from Ariel Motor Company, where our presenters Matt Prior and Steve Cropley interview Ariel's Simon Saunders and Chief Engineer Jim Mckechnie, talking all things Nomad 2, Atom 4, electric bicycle and much more besides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Small events, carbon taxes, solid states
Episode 95 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking about Meccano, motorcycles, Jet Provosts, air shows and, er, how about some cars? Yes, some cars, and solid state batteries, and carbon taxes, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Autocar Awards Special (Plus Fisker, superchargers, Konzepthaus)
Episode 94 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley celebrating the 2024 Autocar Awards, with winners as diverse as Martin Brundle, the Renault Clio and the Catesby Tunnel; plus they discuss Fisker, access to Tesla's supercharger network, a century-old Autocar Handbook, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Shiny new Ford, expired old Hyundai, The £10k Ariel
Episode 93 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking about how to replace an old Hyundai i10 - if its owner can bear it - the new Ford Explorer, the range of an electric MG, the Triumph Bonneville, EV brakes, ceramic coatings and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pick a brand, the new beach buggy, Geneva show no show
Episode 92 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley picking one single car brand to drive forever, talking about the new Mika electric beach buggy, the £180,000 per hour air tool, a trip to see the new Bugatti, the Geneva motor show's demise and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Modified classics, the 1.1m-mile taxi, McLaren's future
Episode 91 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking McLarens, an artistic Lotus XI, racing driver Katherine Legge's fast Indy laps, encouraging you to have your say on classic cars, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stop! Steve Cropley has BOUGHT A CAR
Episode 90 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talking about the fact that Steve's long search for a new car is finally over, a Kia EV9 with a very unsettling braking issue, a clever Renault Scenic feature, the Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride, and much more besides, including your correspondence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.