Show notes 205
Added 2024-04-07 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHello again and welcome to the show notes, on time again this week. Phew. In pics for this show we start, for no real reason, with just some of the Suzuki X90s spotted by Jonny while doing the Land’s End Trial including a cool TR7. That’s followed by some of the other things he saw on that event, the Citroen ZX Furio, that rogue Nissan Cube review, Donald Trump’s Diablo, the Scimitar SS1 at Bicester Scramble, and the badly iced Auris spotted by Richard. Now some linkerage…
That Beyonce song, in case you don’t know what the bloody hell Jonny and Richard are on about
Those VW ID start up and shut down sounds
An example of Hyundai/Kia nature sounds
Beyonce gets all Marie Kondo on Jonny’s house
That rumour about the inspiration for Toxic
Ock-shun listing for Trump’s Diablo
The origins of the name Manchester
Comments
Shit I’ve done it again ….HEAD UNIT
Barry
2024-04-19 22:57:25 +0000 UTCI keep hitting return to start a new paragraph and merely post a short message. My Mercedes is a 300 e deceased spec although it endured a brief sojourn with the grandson who added blue carbon firbe and an awful heady
Barry
2024-04-19 22:56:36 +0000 UTCI find my German car W124 (little icon left) made in 1986 to be extremely reliable and well made, in Alberta the temperature range is -40c to +40c and 73% of the roads are gravel or dirt.
Barry
2024-04-19 22:51:55 +0000 UTCRe: Stereotypical German car reliability. How many German branded car are built in Germany? Maybe their excellence is being diluted. And pop music may not be their forte but early Synth / techo was ground breaking and world leading. Maybe in the crossover shit cars will evolve into top pop. The monotypical reliability / music scenario.
Rob Stannard
2024-04-18 08:17:31 +0000 UTCThat sounds like the family holiday of nightmares. It must bring you tremendous joy to reflect on it!
Dandydandan
2024-04-14 18:31:22 +0000 UTCI’m going to save this episode until Friday when I’m driving down to Cornwall from Edinburgh. It’ll kill one of the hours…
Dandydandan
2024-04-14 17:16:33 +0000 UTCJust as an addition, after a bit of research a review of Licence to Drive in 2019 has this… “Prancing horse aficionados, don’t get your hopes up, the Ferrari only appears in a dream sequence and used briefly as a prick-mobile. Honestly, being that this was one of the first pics that I found of this movie, I thought a 308 was gonna be used extensively, not a Cadillac like I quickly found out a little later. I have no idea why Corey Haim is holding a British Leyland key with a Ferrari keychain. BTW, the movie was marketed as Daddy’s Cadillac in some markets.”….
Rus Clark
2024-04-14 16:52:02 +0000 UTCApologies for the late response, I saved the latest episode for a trip I was taking at the weekend whereas I normally listen the day new episodes are available….The back story of the fraught Clark vacation is related to cars but not as you thought. My mum was the finance administrator for a local family run Mazda dealership who owned a caravan in the south of France, one of the perks of working for said company was for employees to be able to use the caravan if they were able to make their own way there. It was decided this would be a great destination for our first family holiday abroad but with my dad also feeling that our Morris Oxford ( with klaxon horn?!?) was not up to the trip. Based on this realisation it was decided it would be better if we made our own way there over land and sea. After vastly underestimating the stress involved in herding 2 young kids and an equally stressed wife across the continent involving coach, train, ferry and French taxi with a chicken in the boot!, not speaking French and discovering that heat was a new and unprepared for experience my dad found himself hurtling towards the edge of sanity. Upon seeking refuge in a cafe for a much needed break from the midday sun it was here that my dad spotted the poster and enough was enough and the Leyland based out burst occurred. The holiday did pick up but it was the first and last one where my dad didn’t drive. The Oxford was swapped for a Yellow VW camper for a Yorkshire and Lake District touring holiday that ended up being during monsoon season… but that is a whole other equally fraught story for another time!
Rus Clark
2024-04-14 07:25:59 +0000 UTCThis is right up Jonny’s street. Cars in a field and Ravers- what more could you want? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU
Matthew Aves
2024-04-13 09:35:55 +0000 UTCIt made me think about my mother’s R171 SLK200. That’s never leaked. But I think that might also be because it’s never been taken out in the rain…
Ed Storer
2024-04-13 09:20:09 +0000 UTCI want a Xantia Activa! Would settle for a VSX though.
Ed Storer
2024-04-13 09:18:23 +0000 UTCI have found some eagle quest contenders https://www.facebook.com/share/JwLaUU8ba2zKJgXo/?mibextid=79PoIi https://www.facebook.com/share/1SunxL7kD3fnviJF/?mibextid=79PoIi I’d go Scorpiooooooooo (its a long Scorpio)
Pete Lonsdale
2024-04-12 09:29:34 +0000 UTCI remember resetting my MX5 system and it started beeping American spec, pissed me off profoundly!
Ross Hetherington
2024-04-11 20:24:57 +0000 UTCW3W https://w3w.co/bobbing.sides.things
Tim Browne
2024-04-11 14:34:56 +0000 UTCi've just looked at the ad. Don't buy it. it looks absolute shite. The middle row of seats is a death trap, and the front seats are baggy as shit (and vinyl?)
Zoona
2024-04-10 21:57:26 +0000 UTCi am tempted to buy that fucking eagle quest and have it crushed, just to make you stop talking about it. Just bloody buy it you tight arses.
Zoona
2024-04-10 21:51:43 +0000 UTCcan confirm. the twats still do it over here. usually shitty cars that are never going to get stolen anyway.
Zoona
2024-04-10 21:49:43 +0000 UTC"first to see will indeed be inclined to purchase"
Simon bland
2024-04-10 13:38:41 +0000 UTCListened with tripidation after seeing mention of Nissan Cube in the notes. Am going to view one tomorrow but no need to worry as Jonny has JDM love
Skelmansi
2024-04-10 13:24:41 +0000 UTCI had a dream the other night that I'd bought a top of the range Citroen Xantia. I remember being extremely pleased in my dream at its superior hydropneumatic suspension and enjoyable power delivery. I have never driven a Xantia in real life, but I woke up feeling the sudden urge for a vintage Citroen. A dangerous dream, for sure...
Peter Bell
2024-04-10 11:05:15 +0000 UTCForget Marillion, surely it would be best if the Eagle Quest had been owned by The Eagles, or perhaps better still A Tribe Called Quest?
Simon Davies
2024-04-09 19:47:24 +0000 UTCThe Eagle has Landed? Where Eagles Dare?
Jon R
2024-04-09 11:22:19 +0000 UTCHappy Valley Newfoundland. ///noise.vaguely.cars
Simon Smyth
2024-04-09 09:21:50 +0000 UTCEagle quest. check this bad boy my wedding is coming up I might buy it for shits and giggles, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145712868955?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=EiB0RRutQ8u&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=7o5yqHKQTMW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Rich long
2024-04-08 19:57:13 +0000 UTCPretty sure the double horn bip when locking the car is standard on a lot of American models. I clearly remember it annoying the shit out of my at the time partner during one of my last visits to Michigan.
Lloyd K-G
2024-04-08 19:33:25 +0000 UTCIs the Eagle Quest hearse called the Lying-in-Statesman?
Joe Wightman
2024-04-08 19:18:52 +0000 UTCThanks for the mention chaps I spat my Malbec all over Frank the pug (It was him or the iPad ) my son thinks I’m a hero for getting you two to piss yourself whilst calling you dozy bastards.
Paul Harlick
2024-04-08 19:11:10 +0000 UTCWilling to bet a small amount of money that the car with the giant screen and tiny processor is made by a company that starts with F and ends with aaaawwwwwwddssssah
Simon Barrett
2024-04-08 18:52:04 +0000 UTCI know the hard top convertible woes, glad to hear the Eos get a mention, reignited the hatred of my own one...
Luke Mochan
2024-04-08 18:38:02 +0000 UTCGuys, hey, guys, look, guys.. I’ve had an idea, on the next Smith and Sniff Live Event, get the lights turned off and then ask the audience to turn the torch on their phones on.. then you get Richard ‘Pete Watermans younger Brother’ Porter to sing the podcasts closing credits theme tune, and it would feel like a new version of the East 17’s Christmas Ballad ‘stay another day’ but you’d have to wear some ex F1 shell suit stylee jackets! and it would need be indoors for it to work! ‘DJ Khaled will be well jealous’
Andy Faulkner-Clegg
2024-04-08 18:00:55 +0000 UTCApologies for dropping such heavy street knowledge on you
Ollie Todd
2024-04-08 15:20:43 +0000 UTCExcellent pod as normal, however you seem to be forgetting the Beyoncé much like the Corrs is from a Lexus family with Jay-Z rapping about his ‘off white Lexus’ a Lexus GS300 he drove in the Dead Presidents video. AND he came up with the Lexus and Texas rhyme is Empire State of mind ‘Cruisin down 8th st, off white Lexus, drivin so slow, but BK is from Texas. AND his Lexus was displayed outside the Brooklyn Public library at the end of last year.
Ollie Todd
2024-04-08 14:52:20 +0000 UTCI like the cut of your jib, Sir. A BMW flat-twin powered 2CV is one of my dream cars.
Chris Squirrel
2024-04-08 14:34:19 +0000 UTCA cracker this week Chaps, but just as a point of order - the K1200 BMW engine mentioned as a potential swap for the Citroen AX, is an inline 4, so might fit a little better than the twin you were thinking of.... I investigated similar for my AX with a Kawasaki ZZR1100 engine (a mere 176hp vs. the 60-ish it came with) when the headgasket went, but was too tight to pay to resolve the lack of reverse gear. On a related note, for those interesting in 2CVs - the BMW opposed twin engines are a popular swap for those who race them - a spectacular sight to behold at the 24 hour racing.
Thom B.
2024-04-08 13:59:06 +0000 UTCJonny, your binging Boxster issue could be to do with a dodgy sensor on a door or the glovebox. It took me a while to track down the source of my strange lock bing, until I realised that I’d left my glovebox open!
Grant Prophet
2024-04-08 11:38:27 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the country album, just need Richard to not want to do work haha.
Ewan23
2024-04-08 09:08:12 +0000 UTCThis eagle quest has become such established lore by this point that it simply NEEDS to be purchased. Put two mic stand in the back, it’s the perfect podcast vehicle!
Calum Gillies
2024-04-08 07:50:32 +0000 UTCOCKSHUN. I FEEL LIKE YOU'RE MAKING FUN OF ME PERSONALLY AT THIS POINT!
Geoff Evans
2024-04-07 22:43:51 +0000 UTCI thought that Auris had a giant otter sticker on the side
Matteo Bianconi
2024-04-07 22:11:57 +0000 UTCTo sum up the podcast in 3 words... Chatting utter shite. This podcast is always a highlight of my week.
Julian Hale
2024-04-07 21:56:49 +0000 UTCIf Jonny's nickname for the Picanto is 'the Cant', sounds like an excellent candidate for the next London - Brian.
Simon Turner
2024-04-07 21:35:09 +0000 UTCDonalp Trump's Lambo has misrepresented numbers? Colour me the fuck surprised
Misteralz
2024-04-07 18:50:36 +0000 UTCI think the Collecting Cars podcast via Chris Cooper also covered X90's this week in relation to the Land's End Trial. IIRC Jonny also got a mention as well.
Nigel Hancock
2024-04-07 17:51:14 +0000 UTC
