I'm Australian so to see you hop onto a ferry and suddenly be in a different country and then you drive through another couple of countries in a couple more hours is just so alien to me. This is a real education for me. Thanks so much, Ian ☺️
Only half-way through, but I'm already past my bed-time. It's a really nice looking little car: I've become very fond of the Japanese development of van-adjacent minicars maximising the internal space by looking like the box they came in, and with as much headroom as a London black cab. I've finally realised the method behind your madness: buying a car with only a month of MoT and that has been left standing, and immediately setting off on a long journey, with the first leg narrowly timed and involving the M25. You have found a way of outdoing Hitchcock as a master of suspense.
In a previous life I worked for Jaguar as a development engineer. It was frustrating how easy it was to drive from Calais all the way down to the Nardo test track in the heel of italy and back without any serious traffic. But driving from Dover to Coventry and back was always fraught with trepidation!!! My late father in law had a grand move as a mobility car for a while which was a very practical machine. Cant remember much about it sadly. Your adventure reminds me so much of our test trips to Nardo then Gross glockner pass and then finally the Nurburgring all in the adventure of testing new to be released cars. Great memories. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us all!! she did you proud!!
I'm kinda liking it except for the really short seat to pedals thing, with 33" inseams would be torture. My Hyundai Accent is borderline. I'd have found a good out of the way place to stop and see if the seat rail's stops could be hammered or hacksawed so they could go back further.
I've been driving since 2012 and had around 43 cars. I used to brush it off as I couldn't afford what I want so I got what I could afford but honestly I've spent around 23k on all of them (not including recoup costs) and I've had more fun than if I just brought 1 brand new one. Cheap little cars are the best.
I just love watching your videos. They're a breath of fresh air. Many a £200 car I've had over the decades. You capture the excitement and challenges perfectly. Keep up the great work Hubnut.
When I lived in Singapore I’d drive through rural Malaysia and these things were swarming everywhere loaded to the gunwhales with extended families and various livestock - seat belt wearing was very optional but sitting babies on the dashboard fairly common. Definitely a car for the people. I remember the ads - you could buy one with a few ringgit down and pay it off over 10 years (with a useful life expectancy / resale period of 4 max.). Odious was the adjective most used for them … but when your choice was that or a Proton to avoid paying huge import levies on foreign cars … that’s what was bought. Nasty home assembled hybrid bitsas from imported parts bins.
The absolutely best adventures are done in unseen cheap cars driven long journeys. Brilliant video. There are only a few people on this planet that would get excited about a mobile Wendy House! Absolutely Love it!! 😂
13:00 100% agree about that awful "non-colour" grey that seems to be so popular at the moment with new cars. Who on earth buys a new car and selects a colour that matches the mugs in motorway service station cafés? 😂
A quintessentially Hubnut motor. Travelling anywhere in our wonderfully efficient nation with its excellent road network is almost always going to result in your timetable going out of the window. I did for a moment think getting up the ferry ramp would turn it into a Perodua Canhardly!
I wholeheartedly approve of the Kenari as an addition to the HubNut fleet. It's VERY HubNut. One of the original Daihatsu Moves would have been even better, though I imagine they're had to come by nowadays. And SOME of the Daihatsu Moves actually came with Air Con - which so far as I can tell, is conspicuous by its' absence on ALL of he Kenaris.
Ian, this makes me SO happy! I’ve been longing for more Perodua content since the early days of the channel and I’m so pleased that you’ve got another one!
Oh this is Top Tier Hubnut. Buy a cheap unproven car, go adventuring. I don't know if it gets round the parts availability issues of the Charade but it'll certainly give it a quirky companion and a more practical one than the Smart
The Kancil is the one means Deer. The Kenari is Canary. Perodua is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua (Second Automobile Company. The first one is the Proton, which itself is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional or the National Automobile Company).
@HubNut Stay clear of Reliant Kittens 😸 Little Tweety Pie the Canary may not like it too much and start shouting "I taut I taw a Putty Tat". Best of Luck and safe journeys. Also I just thought I wonder if the Kanari will be on Twitter Tweeting 😊😂😂
I took my 1999 1.6 mk1 Ford Focus on a 4300 km long trip from Voss to Å in Lofoten (plus a small diversion to Sweden) and back last year, no trouble taking a roadtrip in a cheap car😊
Look at that Kinari go, in the outside lane!! Great content Ian - who says you cant buy a £200 car these days, and crack on, plenty out there, people just aren't looking hard enough.
Hi watching from Brisbane Australia . What a lovely little car . I love the design of the front it’s so different . My father is Friesian seeing Netherlands I think of him . One day I will visit . Watching your videos like a holiday road trip 🤗🤗
17:16 Glad you enjoy the Kenari :) Perodua is actually the short form of the phrase 'second national car brand' in Malay. Actually 'Kancil' (the Nippa's name in Malaysia) means little deer.
I recognised the route you took, through the Liefkenshoek tunnel. Took that route on my own collection caper, when I picked up a 206 GTI 180 in feb.'17. Snow on the roads, only slightly more tread than you have but a lot more power. So a bit more exciting than your trip was, but I made it home in one piece. Got the car on Dutch plates in two weeks and still enjoy it
Never thought I'd see another one of these. A mate of mine bought an auto Perodua from a dealer on the Wirral many years ago. Within a few days it would refuse to start - usually at the most inconvenient moment. After calling the AA out we drove it straight back to the dealer. They fixed it, but when it happened again we exchanged it for a Citroen C3, Thank God. All I can say is good luck!
A cracking welcome to a new member of the fleet. I'll call her 'Polly' for now until she gets a name. Both of you did a cracking job in this one and not without risk, you didn't know 'Polly' and she didn't know Ian. Anyway a cracking job completed for you both. A very long day for you both and a much longer day for Ian. Oh, and Coventry has changed so much in the last decades since I spent time there so it's good to see some parts still remain.
This is why I never drive against a deadline - when crossing the ditch, I will stay overnight at a hotel right near the drain, and catch the first shuttle across.
Congratulations for purchasing a very cool car! I'm a little bit jealous, to be honest 😅. And thank you for bringing us along. Seeing Dover ferry port and the white cliffs makes me want to go back to the UK even more...
Brilliant! I really enjoy your overseas vlogs, especially your courage for taking a £200 car straight from pickup across Europe when you had no idea how she would perform. Well done you. A very pretty little car!
The car at 21:53 is a 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air two door hardtop. (Bel Air meant two door hardtop (no center post or window frames) and later became the name of the top line of Chevys, just like 1958 Impala was a two door hardtop with its own interior and exterior trim and then became the top line and then the name of the car).The first year of a Chevy hard top, and probably the most valuable model by far today other than a convertible, around $35K for a good one. And that one has those optional new back up lights. Luxury!
“Havens” on the road signs means “ports”. You were near Antwerp that has many different docks that are in the Port of Antwerp. Flemish has Dutch as a base but there are numerous differences between Dutch and Flemmish. The Dutch and the Flemmish do understand each other if they speak clearly and slowly to one another. Greetings from Hekelingen, Holland. Willem.
What a great little car, that fits I to the Hubnut fleet perfectly. Looking forward to seeing more of it, hoping you can make it a bit tidier and get some wheel trims for it.
The Dover/Dunkirk ferry is the possibly best way to cross the Channel. Just enough time to sit back and relax. Can't have that on the Dover/Calais link or going through the tunnel. But then again, I am coming over from Ireland and I already had three hours in the Republic to get to Rosslare, 4 hours on the Irish Sea (and having had a few moments of shut eye on board the ferry) and several hours ploughing through Wales until getting on the M4. Not to mention the chaos that is London and the M20. Being on the Continent, I mostly add another 4 hours until I'm in Germany. Lots of driving, indeed, but I have done that stint on a motorbike once in my yourger days. Much younger..... Oh, and Ian, those tires are baaaaaaad! Outright dangerous.
@@HubNut Ian, read the fine print. It's over the whole surface. So if you have one of those X-legged ultra stance Bozozuko cars and the inner bit is worn, it doesn't matter if the outer is still at 100%. Your inside is totally worn, beyond the original thread......
Thank you for an excellent episode! For starters, it’s a treat to see the Perodua, which seems to be a perfect addition to the fleet. Secondly, the rail trip and channel crossing were quite the adventure, seeing as I live in Missouri USA. Heavens, that ferry is a huge vessel. I’ll be following this trip eagerly. Thanks as always!
Here's another top tip - if you book with Irish or P&O and you miss your boat or even turn up early, they will offer you the choice of either to get you out of the Port and on your way. Admittedly this is only to Calais but its only 20 minutes up the road from Dunkirk and a quicker crossing.
@@worldofrandometry6912 I said the same but it's all about vfm for the punter at the end of the day. What they did was morally questionable but they fly the Cypriot flag and all the staff are very nice.
@@stepheng8779 in which case nobody would use them and another bunch of people get laid off. The new service is very much more Ryanair than the previously bloated and quite expensive BA service. If you can afford to make your purchases based on conscience alone, you're a more fortunate person than me.
With Hubnut mentioning the wagons on the open part of the Ferry reminds me of 80-81sh my Dad ordered a brand new W reg Datsun Skyline 240KGt took 10 weeks from ordering it to collecting it 7 or 8 weeks was it making its way from Japan to Immingham then to leeds. At about 4 months old rust was showing on the bumpers . The Datsun/Nissan Sandal motors told Dad it was due to the Sea coming over as the car must have been on an open Dec or very top of the Ship lol.
Cool to recognize the highway in Belgium. It is the E34. The havens near the exit if the tunnel are the havens in the greater area of Ghent. The E34 is a boring and quite dangerous road between Antwerp and Knokke-Heist, a seaside location well known and popular amongst the rich and famous. The other end is from Antwerp straight to Eindhoven.
Those lower weight, high volume lorries are normally used for hauling crisps, toilet rolls and cereals, or anything else you can think of that is relatively large but light, on lorries like those they can load them upto the roof and still be under weight
What an adventure Ian...exhausting, but still, better fun than just about any other job I could think of (or I have done...except rock star - I was a semi pro muso in another life, although that never really paid enough, at least for me it didn't - yes that's me in the thumbnail from circa 30ish years ago). I really do envy you Brits' ability to get usable transport like this trusty little steed for only 200 quid...here in Austraila, you'e lucky to find anything roadworthy (road registered vehices are required to pass a roadworthy check, similar to your MOT, when they are sold) for under AU$2k (about GBP1k)...however, I don't envy your fuel prices, road tax and annual MOT regime, ULEZ zones, and traffic, so it's swings and roundabouts. Cheers!
It would be 199euro road tax here in Ireland based on engine size until 08 when emissions were used 🙄. My cinquecento 899cc is 199 tax and the 1108cc sporting is 330euro 😭
Just saw you this morning with the Car in the Netherlands, funny to see you both and later on the UA-cam video. I was the "small" Dutch bloke with the different Citroens in the past, now the last 21 year the Audi 89 100 Turbo quattro
That looks like the same DFDS Ferry that I went to Holland in May, it was calmer that day but the Antwerp traffic was horrendous, 4pm on a Friday we queued for those tunnels for probably 30 minutes. Came back the other way. Car looks very HubNut 👍
I remember my dad was loaned a Kenari for the day whilst his car was in for a service. My mum thought it was a baby BMW when she saw the front grille 🤦🏽
Well done, Ian. Best of luck with the Kenari. I used to do that trip back in the mid-1990s, a bit longer from Calais then through the very top corner Nord département of France and into the Flemish-speaking provinces of Belgium, aiming for Arnhem and Enschede so as to visit German friends south of Bremen, once a year every summer in my Volvo 850SE 10v. Survived on a transport-caff breakfast on the ferry at around 6.30am (7.30 Frogland time) on a Saturday morning, and then looked forward 😀🤣to the Antwerp ring. Most of the time, it turned out to be a very good run. A lot of your footage, except for that rather interesting diversion through the villages or small towns before the tunnels, looked familiar!
A Peroudua isn't a thing at all here in Austria. Looks to be a perfect runabout for Miss Hubnut and the kids. Quite an admirable journey so far. Love that quad headlights front end. Hope you will be able to find spare parts if needed. Cheers and take care :)
It is possible! As long as you don't worry to much about dents, rust, weathered paint and oil consumption. Over the years I sometimes bought some fully functioning cars for 200,- with MOT (or APK as we call it in NL), mostly to fill a gap 'inbetween' cars: 1: Austin Metro 1.3 on 3 cilinders, 2: Citroen BX Break Turbo Diesel (without functioning Turbo), 3: Volvo 240 Turbo (with rust and side damage) 4: BMW 315 (on auction: a perfect car missing keys; I bought back the key from the previous owner!). I could go on, but lets see what HubNut came up with!
BX is so underrated as a cheap stop-gap car. They're honestly more reliable than people shout. Those people that shout about it a lot are VW drivers who need something to be worse than their own car.
@@theothertonydutch Absolutely! Few years back, you could snatch them for well under 2K in a very good condition. No longer though: prices are on their way up: 4 to 10K. Xantia's were also great cars no one wanted second hand; but also re-appreciated. A Basic 1.4 or 1.6 BX is a perfect Classic!
I have to hand it to you Ian . You are a master at finding unique quirky cars at a bargain price ! Thanks for the ride along today , still looks like cool weather there . 49c in Arizona today 🥵🌵
Great roadtrip vlog Ian. Neat little car. Ought to fit in well at HubNut central. The styling on those, with big box, little bonnet and little wheels looks like any generic car in Viz. I once did a family roadtrip to the south of France in a £200 Escort bought from the scrappy at Earlswood. It looked great on the waterfront in Monaco! Looking forward to the next part. Hope you get a well deserved rest. The car is holding up better than you so far it would seem!
When you began with "It's sort of Japanese but not really", my mind went straight to Proton, (dear to my heart, having learned to drive and pass in one, and later owning a Persona); so I was close :) I'd own one again if I could but I live in the USA and Malaysian cars here are as available as unicorn tears, so that rules that out. You should take the family to Efteling theme park near Tilburg some time, assuming it's still a thing, it's been decades since i was last in those parts :))
Watching your videos teaches me to chill out 😂 I could just imagine my mood after a night in The Brittania ( I am from Cov ) , then getting stuck on the M25 in a £200 car . I take my hat off to you .
Nice video, Ian, especially as with the ferry and such, it really felt like watching my favourite video(s) of yours, the Croatia Trip. Still unsurpassed in my opinion as to the true holiday feel! Such fun as well to hear you comment on and pronounce the Flemish (=Dutch) 'places' you're driving through ... as when you came out of the tunnel and thought you were near a place called 'Havens', which is actually Dutch for 'ports', a bit further down the canal you had just gone under :)
Hi the back end as you call it is the Stern and the front end is the Bow, realy enjoying You're travels please don't ever go modern we need guys like you and furious stay safe and keep them coming regards all the best from Scotland 🏴🇬🇧🚘📹
The Coventry town planners did a worse job of Coventry after the war than the Luftwaffe did during it
But they're adding an big awful new building to the mix 2:55
I'm Australian so to see you hop onto a ferry and suddenly be in a different country and then you drive through another couple of countries in a couple more hours is just so alien to me.
This is a real education for me. Thanks so much, Ian ☺️
I can relate to that. If I left home heading towards the Pacific Ocean, I would have more than 1,000 miles just to leave the Province of Ontario.
Imagine buying a car you could drive on the highway for less than $400 AUD down here these days? You'd be lucky to buy a burnt out Commodore.
Only half-way through, but I'm already past my bed-time. It's a really nice looking little car: I've become very fond of the Japanese development of van-adjacent minicars maximising the internal space by looking like the box they came in, and with as much headroom as a London black cab.
I've finally realised the method behind your madness: buying a car with only a month of MoT and that has been left standing, and immediately setting off on a long journey, with the first leg narrowly timed and involving the M25. You have found a way of outdoing Hitchcock as a master of suspense.
In a previous life I worked for Jaguar as a development engineer. It was frustrating how easy it was to drive from Calais all the way down to the Nardo test track in the heel of italy and back without any serious traffic. But driving from Dover to Coventry and back was always fraught with trepidation!!! My late father in law had a grand move as a mobility car for a while which was a very practical machine. Cant remember much about it sadly. Your adventure reminds me so much of our test trips to Nardo then Gross glockner pass and then finally the Nurburgring all in the adventure of testing new to be released cars. Great memories. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us all!! she did you proud!!
"I have always wanted a Kinari..." A Hubnut only phrase...
nobody has ever said that before
I'm kinda liking it except for the really short seat to pedals thing, with 33" inseams would be torture. My Hyundai Accent is borderline. I'd have found a good out of the way place to stop and see if the seat rail's stops could be hammered or hacksawed so they could go back further.
I've been driving since 2012 and had around 43 cars.
I used to brush it off as I couldn't afford what I want so I got what I could afford but honestly I've spent around 23k on all of them (not including recoup costs) and I've had more fun than if I just brought 1 brand new one. Cheap little cars are the best.
I just love watching your videos. They're a breath of fresh air. Many a £200 car I've had over the decades. You capture the excitement and challenges perfectly. Keep up the great work Hubnut.
Hard to argue with your choice of car when it performs so admirably. Cheap and cheerful! What a little trooper. I enjoyed the adventure.
I’d rather watch a Hubnut video than football or tennis.
Exactly 💯
When I lived in Singapore I’d drive through rural Malaysia and these things were swarming everywhere loaded to the gunwhales with extended families and various livestock - seat belt wearing was very optional but sitting babies on the dashboard fairly common. Definitely a car for the people. I remember the ads - you could buy one with a few ringgit down and pay it off over 10 years (with a useful life expectancy / resale period of 4 max.). Odious was the adjective most used for them … but when your choice was that or a Proton to avoid paying huge import levies on foreign cars … that’s what was bought. Nasty home assembled hybrid bitsas from imported parts bins.
The absolutely best adventures are done in unseen cheap cars driven long journeys. Brilliant video. There are only a few people on this planet that would get excited about a mobile Wendy House! Absolutely Love it!! 😂
I got kicked from the live chat - Thank you so much everyone for all the support and love
I didn't kick you out. Honest!
Am I the only one excited by your addiction to Emma Cruises?😂😂
@@misshubnut be safe ian
@@HubNut be safe and good trip home
swearing and making suggestive comments will do that....
Reminds me of my own hyundai Amica. These type of cars are much better than the critics would have us believe.
It has a roof....good start!
That's it isn't it? He's bought a roof. What do you expect for 200 quid? 😅
@@AdrianM082 gotta start somewhere. But what he really bought was a small shed
If the noise has stopped then something has fallen off 😂
13:00 100% agree about that awful "non-colour" grey that seems to be so popular at the moment with new cars. Who on earth buys a new car and selects a colour that matches the mugs in motorway service station cafés? 😂
Not very safe either, it's almost exactly the same colour as tarmac.
@@dunk8157 Or fog.
Why would you buy a car with exactly the same colour as cement?
Battleship grey? Or is it just epoxy primer with clear coat on top?
A quintessentially Hubnut motor. Travelling anywhere in our wonderfully efficient nation with its excellent road network is almost always going to result in your timetable going out of the window. I did for a moment think getting up the ferry ramp would turn it into a Perodua Canhardly!
I wholeheartedly approve of the Kenari as an addition to the HubNut fleet. It's VERY HubNut. One of the original Daihatsu Moves would have been even better, though I imagine they're had to come by nowadays. And SOME of the Daihatsu Moves actually came with Air Con - which so far as I can tell, is conspicuous by its' absence on ALL of he Kenaris.
Ian, this makes me SO happy! I’ve been longing for more Perodua content since the early days of the channel and I’m so pleased that you’ve got another one!
Always love a road trip adventure, whether my own or living vicariously through someone else’s fun. Great stuff Ian.
This is the Type of Hubnut I first started watching,..and enjoyed the Capers
I did really enjoy this longer format of Ian's video again. I did enjoy the long collection capers.
Ahh yes nothing quite like an armchair roadtrip on a Sunday.👍Thank's Ian.
1952'ish Chevrolet Bel-Air hardtop sighting.... amazing what you find rolling about in the UK. :) Cheers from NY State.
Oh this is Top Tier Hubnut. Buy a cheap unproven car, go adventuring. I don't know if it gets round the parts availability issues of the Charade but it'll certainly give it a quirky companion and a more practical one than the Smart
The Kancil is the one means Deer. The Kenari is Canary. Perodua is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua (Second Automobile Company. The first one is the Proton, which itself is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional or the National Automobile Company).
Drat. That got very muddled in my brain!
That's a shame, I wanted to suggest Ian calls this vehicle Bambi. A canary really ought to be yellow! 😅
@@caw25sha It'll have to be Tweety Pie, then!
@@saxon-mt5by or Breakfast!
@HubNut Stay clear of Reliant Kittens 😸 Little Tweety Pie the Canary may not like it too much and start shouting "I taut I taw a Putty Tat".
Best of Luck and safe journeys.
Also I just thought I wonder if the Kanari will be on Twitter Tweeting 😊😂😂
9:13 It's simultaneously trying to look like a BMW, Fiat Multipla and an Apollo moon buggy 😂
The radiator grill looks a bit Lancia-ish.
@@caw25sha Nothing ish about it. Even the headlights totally Lancia Delta
I took my 1999 1.6 mk1 Ford Focus on a 4300 km long trip from Voss to Å in Lofoten (plus a small diversion to Sweden) and back last year, no trouble taking a roadtrip in a cheap car😊
"This tunnel stinks of cheese"
That's the slogan for the next batch of tee-shirts sorted then
Probably a quote from the upcoming Wallace and Gromit film.
@@AndreiTupolev don't give Ian any ideas he might regret
seeing the sticker in the rear of the Kenari, it came from the same dealer as the Mighty Nippa!
Look at that Kinari go, in the outside lane!! Great content Ian - who says you cant buy a £200 car these days, and crack on, plenty out there, people just aren't looking hard enough.
Hi watching from Brisbane Australia . What a lovely little car . I love the design of the front it’s so different . My father is Friesian seeing Netherlands I think of him . One day I will visit . Watching your videos like a holiday road trip 🤗🤗
17:16 Glad you enjoy the Kenari :) Perodua is actually the short form of the phrase 'second national car brand' in Malay. Actually 'Kancil' (the Nippa's name in Malaysia) means little deer.
I recognised the route you took, through the Liefkenshoek tunnel. Took that route on my own collection caper, when I picked up a 206 GTI 180 in feb.'17. Snow on the roads, only slightly more tread than you have but a lot more power. So a bit more exciting than your trip was, but I made it home in one piece. Got the car on Dutch plates in two weeks and still enjoy it
A brilliantly Hub Nutty adventure!
Never thought I'd see another one of these. A mate of mine bought an auto Perodua from a dealer on the Wirral many years ago. Within a few days it would refuse to start - usually at the most inconvenient moment. After calling the AA out we drove it straight back to the dealer. They fixed it, but when it happened again we exchanged it for a Citroen C3, Thank God. All I can say is good luck!
A cracking welcome to a new member of the fleet. I'll call her 'Polly' for now until she gets a name. Both of you did a cracking job in this one and not without risk, you didn't know 'Polly' and she didn't know Ian. Anyway a cracking job completed for you both. A very long day for you both and a much longer day for Ian. Oh, and Coventry has changed so much in the last decades since I spent time there so it's good to see some parts still remain.
Absolutely fantastic Roadtrip.
I loved it.
The next time you go across Belgium try to tune into Radio Joe, it is fantastic, all 60s,70s, 80s, 90s etc.
This is why I never drive against a deadline - when crossing the ditch, I will stay overnight at a hotel right near the drain, and catch the first shuttle across.
Congratulations for purchasing a very cool car! I'm a little bit jealous, to be honest 😅.
And thank you for bringing us along. Seeing Dover ferry port and the white cliffs makes me want to go back to the UK even more...
Brilliant! I really enjoy your overseas vlogs, especially your courage for taking a £200 car straight from pickup across Europe when you had no idea how she would perform. Well done you. A very pretty little car!
Ahh... Ian... I love a good road trip video. Thanks for sharing 👍
The car at 21:53 is a 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air two door hardtop. (Bel Air meant two door hardtop (no center post or window frames) and later became the name of the top line of Chevys, just like 1958 Impala was a two door hardtop with its own interior and exterior trim and then became the top line and then the name of the car).The first year of a Chevy hard top, and probably the most valuable model by far today other than a convertible, around $35K for a good one. And that one has those optional new back up lights. Luxury!
“Havens” on the road signs means “ports”. You were near Antwerp that has many different docks that are in the Port of Antwerp. Flemish has Dutch as a base but there are numerous differences between Dutch and Flemmish. The Dutch and the Flemmish do understand each other if they speak clearly and slowly to one another. Greetings from Hekelingen, Holland. Willem.
“Hafen” in German…..
Always enjoy these car journey trip adventures great video & safe travels 🚙💨💨💨
What a great little car, that fits I to the Hubnut fleet perfectly. Looking forward to seeing more of it, hoping you can make it a bit tidier and get some wheel trims for it.
I remember getting access to the ferry lorry drivers' buffet on a late return. They get all the good food!
Very nice bit of a journey.
Nice to see you passing through Belgium.
Cheers!
The Dover/Dunkirk ferry is the possibly best way to cross the Channel. Just enough time to sit back and relax. Can't have that on the Dover/Calais link or going through the tunnel. But then again, I am coming over from Ireland and I already had three hours in the Republic to get to Rosslare, 4 hours on the Irish Sea (and having had a few moments of shut eye on board the ferry) and several hours ploughing through Wales until getting on the M4. Not to mention the chaos that is London and the M20. Being on the Continent, I mostly add another 4 hours until I'm in Germany. Lots of driving, indeed, but I have done that stint on a motorbike once in my yourger days. Much younger.....
Oh, and Ian, those tires are baaaaaaad! Outright dangerous.
Still 75% tread but tyres and tracking need to happen.
@@HubNut Ian, read the fine print. It's over the whole surface. So if you have one of those X-legged ultra stance Bozozuko cars and the inner bit is worn, it doesn't matter if the outer is still at 100%. Your inside is totally worn, beyond the original thread......
Well done Mr HubNut, and well done wee car on covering all those miles.
Thank you for an excellent episode! For starters, it’s a treat to see the Perodua, which seems to be a perfect addition to the fleet. Secondly, the rail trip and channel crossing were quite the adventure, seeing as I live in Missouri USA. Heavens, that ferry is a huge vessel. I’ll be following this trip eagerly. Thanks as always!
I am really looking forward to seeing more adventures with this sterling little car!
Here's another top tip - if you book with Irish or P&O and you miss your boat or even turn up early, they will offer you the choice of either to get you out of the Port and on your way. Admittedly this is only to Calais but its only 20 minutes up the road from Dunkirk and a quicker crossing.
P&O made all their workers redundant one day and replaced them with cheaper ones. I wouldn't use them after that.
@@worldofrandometry6912 I said the same but it's all about vfm for the punter at the end of the day. What they did was morally questionable but they fly the Cypriot flag and all the staff are very nice.
@@ablestringer9063No it's about having a conscience.
@@stepheng8779 in which case nobody would use them and another bunch of people get laid off. The new service is very much more Ryanair than the previously bloated and quite expensive BA service. If you can afford to make your purchases based on conscience alone, you're a more fortunate person than me.
Unfortunately, what the Luftwaffe started, post-war town planners often finished in so many historic places, like Coventry and Exeter.
With Hubnut mentioning the wagons on the open part of the Ferry reminds me of 80-81sh my Dad ordered a brand new W reg Datsun Skyline 240KGt took 10 weeks from ordering it to collecting it 7 or 8 weeks was it making its way from Japan to Immingham then to leeds. At about 4 months old rust was showing on the bumpers . The Datsun/Nissan Sandal motors told Dad it was due to the Sea coming over as the car must have been on an open Dec or very top of the Ship lol.
Classic HubNut 👍
Cool to recognize the highway in Belgium. It is the E34. The havens near the exit if the tunnel are the havens in the greater area of Ghent. The E34 is a boring and quite dangerous road between Antwerp and Knokke-Heist, a seaside location well known and popular amongst the rich and famous.
The other end is from Antwerp straight to Eindhoven.
I adore Kei people carriers. They're just brilliant!
Those lower weight, high volume lorries are normally used for hauling crisps, toilet rolls and cereals, or anything else you can think of that is relatively large but light, on lorries like those they can load them upto the roof and still be under weight
What an adventure Ian...exhausting, but still, better fun than just about any other job I could think of (or I have done...except rock star - I was a semi pro muso in another life, although that never really paid enough, at least for me it didn't - yes that's me in the thumbnail from circa 30ish years ago). I really do envy you Brits' ability to get usable transport like this trusty little steed for only 200 quid...here in Austraila, you'e lucky to find anything roadworthy (road registered vehices are required to pass a roadworthy check, similar to your MOT, when they are sold) for under AU$2k (about GBP1k)...however, I don't envy your fuel prices, road tax and annual MOT regime, ULEZ zones, and traffic, so it's swings and roundabouts. Cheers!
It would be 199euro road tax here in Ireland based on engine size until 08 when emissions were used 🙄. My cinquecento 899cc is 199 tax and the 1108cc sporting is 330euro 😭
Just saw you this morning with the Car in the Netherlands, funny to see you both and later on the UA-cam video.
I was the "small" Dutch bloke with the different Citroens in the past, now the last 21 year the Audi 89 100 Turbo quattro
That looks like the same DFDS Ferry that I went to Holland in May, it was calmer that day but the Antwerp traffic was horrendous, 4pm on a Friday we queued for those tunnels for probably 30 minutes. Came back the other way. Car looks very HubNut 👍
I remember my dad was loaned a Kenari for the day whilst his car was in for a service. My mum thought it was a baby BMW when she saw the front grille 🤦🏽
It's a very generous number of headlights isn't it?
Thanks for the video, Ian. Really enjoyed it. Steering wheel shake was pretty cool. Enjoy.
So far so good, what a great choice of car and it's doing grand. Looking forward to the rest of your trip.
miss hubnut is going to be all over that jem happy motoring. can't wait for the next video and miss hubnut's reaction 👍👍😀😀❤❤
Gawd Ian ...Your looking like the next DR Who.
I remember that crossing and the route into Belgium well from my days on the wagons.
Nice Find! Basically a Daihatsu. Good Luck!
Well done, Ian. Best of luck with the Kenari. I used to do that trip back in the mid-1990s, a bit longer from Calais then through the very top corner Nord département of France and into the Flemish-speaking provinces of Belgium, aiming for Arnhem and Enschede so as to visit German friends south of Bremen, once a year every summer in my Volvo 850SE 10v. Survived on a transport-caff breakfast on the ferry at around 6.30am (7.30 Frogland time) on a Saturday morning, and then looked forward 😀🤣to the Antwerp ring. Most of the time, it turned out to be a very good run. A lot of your footage, except for that rather interesting diversion through the villages or small towns before the tunnels, looked familiar!
Love these little practical cars and this one is doing its beast to please its new owner like a faithful little dog
Best video you've ever done - thank you. 'Keep on Kenari!' T-shirts pending?!
I will have to do a search round my dads yard. Somewhere I still have a collection of n.o.s parts and spares I bought with my long ago sold one.
It was nice talking to you at JCS Ian. When I see the ferry I get memories of my holidays to the UK.
Brave little car you have now Ian.
A Peroudua isn't a thing at all here in Austria. Looks to be a perfect runabout for Miss Hubnut and the kids. Quite an admirable journey so far. Love that quad headlights front end. Hope you will be able to find spare parts if needed. Cheers and take care :)
Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍 200 quid some cars cist more and wouldn't make it testimony to there reliability brilliant
Wow I almost bought myself a Produa Kenari back in the early 2000s a great little Mpv got a Berlingo in the end both very handy cars 😎
Lovely video Ian . Please this car is amazing it’s a keeper ❤
It is possible! As long as you don't worry to much about dents, rust, weathered paint and oil consumption. Over the years I sometimes bought some fully functioning cars for 200,- with MOT (or APK as we call it in NL), mostly to fill a gap 'inbetween' cars: 1: Austin Metro 1.3 on 3 cilinders, 2: Citroen BX Break Turbo Diesel (without functioning Turbo), 3: Volvo 240 Turbo (with rust and side damage) 4: BMW 315 (on auction: a perfect car missing keys; I bought back the key from the previous owner!). I could go on, but lets see what HubNut came up with!
BX is so underrated as a cheap stop-gap car. They're honestly more reliable than people shout.
Those people that shout about it a lot are VW drivers who need something to be worse than their own car.
@@theothertonydutch Absolutely! Few years back, you could snatch them for well under 2K in a very good condition. No longer though: prices are on their way up: 4 to 10K. Xantia's were also great cars no one wanted second hand; but also re-appreciated. A Basic 1.4 or 1.6 BX is a perfect Classic!
Never thought I’d like a white car with black interior but I love my 2018 RAV4 so equipped. And was first choice!
I have to hand it to you Ian . You are a master at finding unique quirky cars at a bargain price ! Thanks for the ride along today , still looks like cool weather there . 49c in Arizona today 🥵🌵
The front end styling is great, love the quad lamps! 😍
Big approval on the kenari, I'm just fitting a replacement engine in mine, managed to pick up a 7k miles ej-de.
What a neat little car Mr. Hubnut.
I had the pleasure of having a 20 plate picanto 3pot, as a work car & honestly I loved the sound and the lack of power.
Great roadtrip vlog Ian. Neat little car. Ought to fit in well at HubNut central. The styling on those, with big box, little bonnet and little wheels looks like any generic car in Viz. I once did a family roadtrip to the south of France in a £200 Escort bought from the scrappy at Earlswood. It looked great on the waterfront in Monaco! Looking forward to the next part. Hope you get a well deserved rest. The car is holding up better than you so far it would seem!
When you began with "It's sort of Japanese but not really", my mind went straight to Proton, (dear to my heart, having learned to drive and pass in one, and later owning a Persona); so I was close :) I'd own one again if I could but I live in the USA and Malaysian cars here are as available as unicorn tears, so that rules that out. You should take the family to Efteling theme park near Tilburg some time, assuming it's still a thing, it's been decades since i was last in those parts :))
These ‘boats’ are awesome…I adore them 😄
Watching your videos teaches me to chill out 😂 I could just imagine my mood after a night in The Brittania ( I am from Cov ) , then getting stuck on the M25 in a £200 car . I take my hat off to you .
Good to see the BMX X5 driver remembered what he was driving and cancelled the indicator before he exited the roundabout!
I love seeing cars I've never heard of, long pedals, sounds like a Carly keeper!
I have drove through belgium with a 2014 Fiat Panda. It has a 0.9 Engine and drove 120kmph at 4,000 rpm for 2 hours straight. It was great
Great vid! Enjoyed that Ian.
Looking forward to part 2!
Brilliant adventure. Thank you 😊
The front-end of a ship is called the bow, the back-en is called the stern.
Nice video, Ian, especially as with the ferry and such, it really felt like watching my favourite video(s) of yours, the Croatia Trip. Still unsurpassed in my opinion as to the true holiday feel! Such fun as well to hear you comment on and pronounce the Flemish (=Dutch) 'places' you're driving through ... as when you came out of the tunnel and thought you were near a place called 'Havens', which is actually Dutch for 'ports', a bit further down the canal you had just gone under :)
What an epic journey in the little car. A garage near to me dealt in Paroduas & Diahutsus.
I love it, wonderful addition to the fleet.
Hi the back end as you call it is the Stern and the front end is the Bow, realy enjoying You're travels please don't ever go modern we need guys like you and furious stay safe and keep them coming regards all the best from Scotland 🏴🇬🇧🚘📹