Podcast 204 - Massive turbos, terrible screens, and falling out of a moving coach
Added 2024-03-31 17:00:08 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard canter through some excellent messages from listeners. Also in this episode, comedy tyre names, collapsed Discovery spotting with Chris Harris, more fixation about an Eagle Quest limousine, a review of ChatGPT in a DS 4, the real world economy of the Range Rover PHEV, Jonny goes trialling in a Kia Picanto, doing the Three Peaks Challenge in jeans, onion farmer weirdness, a puzzle about an ‘80s movie poster, a brief review of the new Roadhouse, and a yoghurt incident at a cricket match.
The show notes for this episode will be along on Monday.
Comments
Speaking of inappropriate mountain clothing. The first time I climbed Ben Lomond, I was overtaken by a chav (ned to us Scottish people), wearing a tracksuit and white Adidas trainers, carrying a bottle of Buckfast under his arm. Given that it's only 20 minutes from Glasgow and therefore easily accessible, I wasn't surprised to see that.
Iain W
2024-04-04 10:38:30 +0000 UTCHmmm. "Tyre name or Apprentice Team name" would be an entertaining diversion
Nick Davies
2024-04-04 06:46:16 +0000 UTCI see your Eagle Quest and raise you a couple of doors. There's a Vectra based Eagle Statesmen with SIX DOORS! It's been parked up for weeks. It has the bonnet eagle and everything.
keith hilton
2024-04-03 18:01:58 +0000 UTCI read an article from "the drive" titled "Aston Martin’s ‘Piss-Off Factor’ Is Here to Save Us From Touchscreen Hell" about how Aston Martin have a "piss-off factor" for assessing whether interior controls annoy the user, I like their thinking.
Ben Payne
2024-04-03 10:40:54 +0000 UTCI don't get why people would complain about EV topics. Much like Jonny mentioned on the Intercooler interview people claiming they would rather die than drive an EV is extremely odd to me. I think we have bigger problems (take it from someone who has friends and relatives literally fighting on both sides of 2 conflicts currently) than what 4 wheels you stuck under your bum. Both Jonny and Richard have maintained (in my opinion) a very balanced view on the topic and offer real-world advice on experiences that mirror most people's. I actually got one guy who was extremely critical of EVs to sit down with me and basically it came down to he felt offended and being labeled a "dinosaur" for his love of classic cars (he has an original Triumph Herald from new). He (in my view rightly) also pointed out that EVs are being oft touted as the end all be all of climate saving technology and that simply isn't the case either. While there still is a huge amount of FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) about EVs they are not perfect and there are still many applications they simply aren't a good fit for. For example my wife's uncle is a veterinary specialist and he could get a call at 3 AM to go 150 KM to save a cow that is calving and having trouble. There are lives and money at stake and he simply can't risk his car not being to make the trip because it is still charging. I personally am fascinated by all tech and engineering and I get as excited about software hacking an EV as I do about adding a turbo to a Wankel engine. That is one of the many reasons I love this podcast because there is a chance in one episode they might cover those (as well as talk about fizzy yogurt, piss vistas and collision causing canines...) Be seeing you. :-)
Andy Pinchock
2024-04-03 07:54:05 +0000 UTCGuys! Listen! The 2 Corys didn't get the 308 right away. They wrecked a few Metros first.
Darren B McLellan
2024-04-03 00:22:07 +0000 UTCFurio was a character on the Sopranos!
Christophe D.
2024-04-02 15:50:18 +0000 UTCJonny wasn’t happy that we were running a set of Pirelli Carver on our AX on the weekend. She’s also a Milano based couture designer ;)
Jamie W
2024-04-02 12:40:24 +0000 UTC3 ton maritime Turbo is the ultimate John peel band name.
Rick Bean
2024-04-02 11:08:22 +0000 UTCI've had to listen to the outro song a few times because the guitar is perfect. It keeps making me want to listen to 'It's A Mistake' by Men At Work though because the guitar solo at the end of that song is similar.
Matt Tester
2024-04-02 09:46:48 +0000 UTCTriangle tyres have always made me chuckle. Also Camac's are a brilliant 200,000 miles tyre. Barely worn lol.
George Wade
2024-04-02 06:11:09 +0000 UTCThe buyer has to pay a buyers fee with Collecting cars so that may have held the price down a bit?
Adam
2024-04-01 22:15:01 +0000 UTCI was going to Google search that to fact check you… then thought better of it 🤣
Adam
2024-04-01 22:10:32 +0000 UTCAlso used to drink in a pub in Cottesmore.. nice chap by all accounts.
Dave Dorson
2024-04-01 21:33:10 +0000 UTCThe Firestone Wide-O-vals always made me snigger on that side of things.. but I do have similar humour to a 13 year old boy. If you want to chuck a con-bomb in my slightly baggy l322 for content you're welcome to.
Dave Dorson
2024-04-01 21:30:41 +0000 UTCDestroyed three Pirellis in one hit on a stone (not gravel) road out the back of Canberra over summer. Went with what the tyre shop I struggled to suggested. Now I have Yokohama FLEVA. FLEVA FLEVA FLEVA!
Matt Stanford
2024-04-01 20:35:06 +0000 UTCThat was fascinating about the interface design of games and cars. Mental that the same care isn't taken. I guess it's far easier to see the sucess and failure in apps though, whereas the likes of cars just have people putting up with shortcomings.
Ade Brannan
2024-04-01 20:31:11 +0000 UTCWe used to sell them at my work used to make me chuckle every time I had to say the name when selling them 😂 🤣
Rich long
2024-04-01 20:00:25 +0000 UTCI used to think it was just a lazy, slightly racist name people used to describe cheap Chinese tyres, didn’t realise it was an actual brand.
BoringCarDriver
2024-04-01 17:33:59 +0000 UTCThere’s a tire called a Ling Long 🤣😂
Rich long
2024-04-01 16:54:20 +0000 UTCListened to you guys for years one of the best podcasts in my eyes. finally become a PATREON You guys make me chuckle!! and yes I do own a Rover 45 in a skirt!! Owned it for 8 years now. decent Miles for smiles fuel is questionable. MGZS 180 mk2 VA04EBN She handles like a dream!! also I’m in the tyre game so I totally get what you’re on about we sell all sorts of dodgy budgets!accelerate are my favourite budget They’re actually pretty good. yokohama bluearth gt ae51 are my go too tyres yes there on the ZS. 😊
Rich long
2024-04-01 16:15:44 +0000 UTCAll of us patrions should pass the hat and buy the damn Eagle Quest for them.
david marden
2024-04-01 15:26:56 +0000 UTCJust rented License to Drive on Amazon as my Easter Monday treat - it had better be good!
George Kinghorn
2024-04-01 13:25:16 +0000 UTCDear Richard and Johnny, I am in need of your help. I listen to the ‘pod’ whilst out walking and I am constantly getting strange looks as I am laughing like a drain whilst wandering about with you in my ears. In order to contextualise my laugh filled meanderings for local residents please could you add a T shirt to the line up that simply states “I’m not insane I’m listening to Smith and Sniff”. Thank you for your support with this matter. Matt
Matthew Bindon
2024-04-01 12:50:40 +0000 UTCThe Titan went to scrap many years ago
Thinfourth
2024-04-01 10:36:23 +0000 UTCAccording to marine traffic there is a Grand Uranus (vehicle transporter) and Ever Uranus
Robin White
2024-04-01 09:18:00 +0000 UTCYou know what that outro needs. more cowbell (SNL)
Robin White
2024-04-01 09:16:29 +0000 UTCGrowing up in Berkshire and Hampshire during the 80’s “Corey” was slang for a man’s appendage.
Trevor Paul
2024-04-01 08:34:06 +0000 UTCThere is a coach company called "cumbum travels" (yes with an S)
Nathan Henstock
2024-04-01 08:28:11 +0000 UTCI want to see a video featuring Robin absolutely slating a car infotainment screen Johnny make it happen
Thinfourth
2024-04-01 07:33:35 +0000 UTCOn the subject of rude names I must inform you fine gents of the fine vessels that used to grace the seven seas There was a shipping company called Titan and they used to name their ships after celestial bodies There was the Titan Saturn Titan Neptune and Titan Uranus
Thinfourth
2024-04-01 07:12:43 +0000 UTCIn the US, we have access to Cosmo Tires. Some of their offerings include El Jefe, Kat Energy, Mud Kicker, and Stray Kats I - IV. Their ultra high performance tire, available up to a Y speed rating, is of course the Mucho Macho.
Dave Long
2024-04-01 05:29:17 +0000 UTCMighty Woosung Dark Horse, I had some on a MK1 Mondeo around 2002
John Hammond
2024-04-01 03:41:45 +0000 UTCThe trail just outside of my backyard leads to the network that runs up all the north shore mountains, which are for the most part several hundred metres taller than Ben Nevis. You would not believe how often people have to get rescued off of them because they've gone out hiking in flip-flops. Happens all summer long. Also, most of the peaks have caches of scotch hidden on them.
Brendan McAleer
2024-03-31 23:53:34 +0000 UTCAnd waiting for Eagle Quest purchase update
Vincent McDonnell
2024-03-31 21:56:17 +0000 UTCThose are actually one of the more well kmown lower tier Asian tires, at least here in Canada anyway.
Ed Nicholson
2024-03-31 21:00:57 +0000 UTCI bought a car shod with Triangle tyres. A curious name for a shape famously devoid of angles.
Ronnie Whelan
2024-03-31 20:46:38 +0000 UTCTomorrow, it says in the description.
Ronnie Whelan
2024-03-31 20:38:42 +0000 UTCJust on the subject of unusual company names on vans, the last serious accident I didn't quite have was laughing at a van marked 'BJ Champion, Basingstoke'. The company still exists but the founder Barry Champion seems to have dropped the idle initial of late. A shame.
Nick Muir
2024-03-31 19:57:34 +0000 UTCNo show notes 🤔
Andrew Barnes
2024-03-31 19:36:15 +0000 UTCYes, I thought I little cheap but didn't have time to check.
Andrew Armstrong
2024-03-31 19:22:27 +0000 UTCHad an xr3i in 2004 on dark horse tyres, bad, really bad
Martin Rawlings
2024-03-31 19:10:10 +0000 UTCWell there is a parallel in 80s movies/Ferrari/BL crossover in that the Ferrari replica used in Ferris Bueller's day off was based on a mgb with a Mustang V8 so maybe that had a BL key as well?
Martin Rawlings
2024-03-31 19:05:01 +0000 UTCI noticed today that there's a Qashqai not 5 minutes from my house with black gaff all over the back, hadn't seen it before. Spooky.
Matt Tester
2024-03-31 18:58:03 +0000 UTCTyre it's called Dębica from Polish Town in which is produced by Goodyear. It's biggest Goodyear factory in Europe making 15 mln tyres a year.
Igor Szalajko
2024-03-31 18:49:15 +0000 UTCIt seemed to go for a low price compared to similar ones on Autotrader?
Giant Iain
2024-03-31 18:44:30 +0000 UTCRange Rover going, going...
Andrew Armstrong
2024-03-31 18:40:19 +0000 UTCI think my dad has an old LP of theirs somewhere
Tim Organo
2024-03-31 18:38:48 +0000 UTCDull pedantry alert - Bruce Dickinson is in Iron Maiden, not Marillion...
Simon Turner
2024-03-31 18:25:50 +0000 UTCJonckheere were a Belgian coach builder, the J is pronounced as a Y so they are known by coach drivers as "Yonks". They were swallowed up in 2010 by VDL, and who are the parent company of Bova. The Alizee was part of a long running design by Dutch coach builders VanHool, who by the time of the next podcast will probably be declared bankrupt. The Bova Futura was an integral design and had a very decent production run with only mild tweaking to the design. I've never managed to drive one but the local operator I sometimes drive for has a couple mothballed which come out for Glastonbury festival shuttles each year.
John Hammond
2024-03-31 18:24:57 +0000 UTCOn the tyre side of things, Furio was a Citroen trim level. I had a ZX 'Furio'. My vintage bus sits on 'Double Coin' tyres, I'm sure Double Coin is a rapper...
John Hammond
2024-03-31 18:20:48 +0000 UTCWhen I bought a budget X300 Jag XJR many years back, it had “Delinte Thunder” rubber on it. They were as awful as you might expect.
Ed Nicholson
2024-03-31 17:29:40 +0000 UTCLooks like we were at the Beggars Roost section spectating and left just a little too early! Great event though, looking forward to the video Jonny!
Michael Lawrence
2024-03-31 17:22:41 +0000 UTCHappy Easter 🐣
Steve Hay
2024-03-31 17:10:06 +0000 UTCFirst 🍻 happy Easter
Joe Brudenell
2024-03-31 17:01:58 +0000 UTC
