Thank Manish, for stopping to talk to me a while back on Newman St. I was walking past a gave you a thumbs up, didn't expect you to stop, remove your earphones and take the time to talk to me about the podcast, cars and actually ask about me. Top bloke and utter gentleman
The only job I was ever fired from was when I worked at the petrol station in the evenings when I was at college in the 1980s. I had tickets to the last ever concert by Japan and nobody would swap shifts with me so I simply closed the petrol station an hour early. Some grumpy old toss pot apparently came in the next day and asked why we weren’t open at 8:30 pm so my services were no longer required. Totally worth it.
Chris I agree that intermittent wiper frequency is never right as well. I optimise the wiper to not smear, make a noise and to make sure the windscreen is optimally clean. You are not alone.
2 car garage: With the announcement that GM is to be allowed a Formula 1 team, Marry Barra CEO General Motors, has decided that members of the Chris Harris on Cars podcast should immediately be contacted for their expertise in all matters automotive. She has decided to place all four of you in charge of the soon to be, GM Formula 1 team. All four of you must decide what role within the F1 team you, as well as your fellow podders, will play within this F1 team. With 3 races in the US, you'll ofcourse need 2 cars. The first must be large enough to carry a rear wing or nose cone in it, along with your fellow podders. It must also be comfortable enough to drive across various states to reach the next race. Your second car is a 2 seater convertible, showing off car. It's there simply to impress the other 10 teams and get the maximum amount of 'likes' on social media.You have the entire GM catalogue to choose from.
In my area of the USA we have a drive thru beer distribution store. You pull in tell the person in the window what you want, pay and pull ahead couple of feet. Then you pop the trunk ( boot ) and someone brings your beer and puts it in closes it and you drive off.
I feel like Manish was the only one that smashed the embarrassing habit there lads. The rest are funny anecdotes / things that annoy you and I agree with nearly all of them 🤣 we are the best singers when on our own. Usually on a motorway in the outside lane, smashing in a chorus while intermittently screaming “whyyyyy are you brakingggg” why do people brake instead of throttle off in the outside lane (when traffic is flowing)
Because they're tailgating mouthbreathers who are almost always in the middle of a threatening taunt exercise to bully their way ahead of the sea of vehicles before them, who without their left foot braking would surely end up shunting the driver infront of them
@@jameswingrove7421 At this stage, most braking events on motorways have to be Teslas on AlmostPilot. Even with miles of open road ahead of them they'll do it, let alone in the fast lane.
Best podcast out there by a mile. My best drive thru would be a car wash that actually works once the weather gets cold. Everywhere I go, there is a cone at the bloody entrance :)
Great job as always. I hope Manish sees this comment. I watched 2010 Senna for the first time. What a great documentary! I thank him for his part in writing it. I wanted to watch before checking out the new Senna mini series on Netflix.
My old VW Vento had an intermittent wiper time you could set yourself. Anywhere between 1 and 22 seconds. You held the stalk down for however many seconds you wanted it to activate at (for me it was always around 9 second intervals) and off you drove. The wipers would swish once every 9th second. Great feature which VW should have kept for all their cars.
Utterly brilliant as always, brings laughter, warmth and a big smile to me whilst indulging fellow petrol head enthusiasm. Now to cash in the pension on Jags…..
chris somehow plucked the exact rant from my brain about windshield wipers, down to the last bit about the final wipe after the squirt. Which, by the way, you can circumvent by spamming the highest setting while you hit the cleaner, then rapidly turning it off.
RainX on the windscreen each time I wash the car. Intermittent wipers on the slowest setting. 95% of the rain just flies off the window, the rest gets flicked by the wipers every 10 seconds.
Thank you gents for another brilliant episode. On top of the emergency episode I like your collective love for the Jag! And this episode you even topped that for my perspective. I own a ‘01 Daimler Super V8 and (I did not dare to part from it) a ‘06 Daimler Eight. Both Blue over Ivory interior and captain seats in the back. Both have the supercharged V8 and power is adequate, as they say. Normally do not comment on videos but I just want to let you gays know how much I appreciate your podcast! Cheers Emiel (Netherlands)
100%, Manish. When I meet exemplary young people, the finest compliment I can give them is my wish that my child grows up like that. And I agree about Lando. Great kid.
A Jag XJS is almost always my answer in 'what xxxx' questions. 1983ish V12 Hardtop in gold with tan interior, sport alloys and of course manual conversion with uprated throttle bodies and straight piped.
Good morning and what a beautiful morning it is to wake up to you guys after being away in Thailand for four weeks. Drive-through’s got to be Greggs. And Chris I totally understand the intermittent wiper. I do the same push it down when I need it.
Excellent show as always, fellas. Automotive investments under £30k are pretty much the only kind of cars I'm interested in any more (stretch it to £50k for something special). An older 'proper' car without a bank of screens and haptic tough surfaces, has all the depreciation taken out of it (so doesn't give me anxiety seeing it sat on the drive haemorrhaging money), and gives me engagement and satisfaction as a driver. As a car enthusiast, scouring the various websites looking for something special at the right price and stumbling across something you never thought would be within reach, getting sweaty palms and heart palpitations as you do the calculations, is just the best...
For my 30k car... Porsche Cayman S 987.2. A fantastic car, and already rising. Loses the reliability issues, keeps the hydraulic steering. Flat 6, well balanced loveliness. Bonus points if you can get the R...😁
😂 ha I noticed the single wipe first on a M135 vs RS3 review by Chris. Now I can’t stop noticing it on old reviews. Total agree intermittent wipe is pants. And it will never be mentioned again
I also do the single self wipe of the windscreen. But I also have a hydrophobic coating on mine and above about 25 ish, the water evacuates itself without the need for the wipers or screen wash at all. And for the drive through question, drive through Halfords or Euro Car Parts, would make getting wiper blades or anti-freeze so much easier.
You guys always nail the music. Obscure stuff I don't think many people listen to. Add to that, "Radiohead - Spectre" for the Bond movie. It was deemed too morose for the film, but perfect for a Bond film. They decided to go with some other junk
Fantastic podcast. Always interesting to listen to you chaps. Chris, talking of future classic hot hatches, what about the M140i (3.0l turbo charged straight six, rear wheel drive, 50/50 weight distribution)?
Good stuff for a grim Friday morning Never selectively listened to Belle and Sebastian before. I think that song was used in a TV series called Teachers - also good. Thank you for that, Neil Manual wiper, yes!. + game with myself to avoiding touching controls when on cruse (max mileage achieved recorded), picking nose and singing in the car are all "normal" in my world
Yup - I literally bought my flight Tuesday AM and flew to Vegas without tickets to Friday+Saturday. Ended up getting all included hospitality for not much over $2k/person that would've cost easily ~$9k for the weekend 6 months ago, plus we got to go to different spots (they don't let you enter anywhere but your own zone). For qualifying, literally no seat was closer to the track than ours and none of those others had food/bottle service at your seats. Definitely not the kind of behavior F1 would want to promote but they did it to themselves with the insane prices. Did the same thing last year but just grandstand seats in Sphere and then straddling start/finish for Quali, but didn't stay for the race that was just not worth it IMO. Last year it was definitely sold out. This year, hospitality was nowhere near sold out for Thursday/Friday; Saturday seemed like it may have been at the very end but I got my Saturday ticket from F1 experiences on Friday morning at a super reduced rate.
Sub 3m car. Harris nails it. Post financial crash I had one of these as my daily. Did 67,000 faultless and frugal miles in it. Why did I sell it 😢. My daughter has one now. Brilliantly conceived and executed car.
£30,000 future classic. Some great shouts gentlemen. Lotus Elan - absolutely! Lotus 7/Caterham x/flow too…Jag XJR (I’d go x300 straight 6 version), but I agree with Chris - hot hatches or coupes; I’d go Vauxhall Firenza Droop Snoot 😍 and/or Talbot Lotus Sunbeam in Avon colours 👍
38:08 that’s 2 gens before the megane Chris mentions . Neil talks about the megane 2 R26 2008 and Chris about megane 4 rs 2018 there was a gen in between
I don’t mean to sound negative but Neil is the only reason I keep listening to this podcast - he has such a wonderful take on everything - he is the Fred Dibnah of our time!
Speaking of sub £30k future classics. A friend of mine is seriously thinking about a Reliant Scimitar auto as a daily (apparently the manual gearbox was pretty rubbish). £10-20k now for a good one. Also, my Dad used to have a Double 6. As a kid the twin fuel tanks and walnut were always a thing of amazement and beauty
Imagine Coops taking the stand in the old bailey. He'd drive the lawyers insane. "I'm glad you asked me that question". And then the 10 minute preamble begins!
Lads, I’ve come in from work after a very big day in very hot Sydney!!! Had several bears bottle of white and swiftly heading onto a red with a serious nice Indian (food) Fantastic fun from all of you 😂🎉
Like Harris, my boss is from Bristol. Not sure if it’s something specific to that part of England, but when he visited Australia he was overly fascinated about the existence of our drive-thru bottle shops…
Paused at 15 minutes to mention. I love my wiper stalk on my 2016 bmw 3 series, but here’s why. The stalk stays centered and there’s a seperate button on the end to activate the automatic wipers. So I can have them active, plus I’m able to use the single wiper as I feel necessary. Win Win However, newer BMW’s I’ve driven and my wife’s Mk7.5 golf you need to flick the stalk up 1 notch for auto/intermittent wipers. So you can’t do the single wipe without essentially turning them off the back on again, very frustrating 🤣
Night porter by Japan (thanks Manish), for those who were into their Jungle back in the day was sampled for ‘Terrorist by Renegade and Ray Keith’. It’s a little more upbeat.
Mr Cooper - I am totally with you on items in the back seat of the car. I live in Cornwall (Newquay) a complete car nerd & have just bought an M2 (Manual). However, my daily driver is a 2014 Volvo XC70 D5 SE Lux - Bought from a retired doctor that had it from new. I have two dogs, they go in the boot. I have a telescopic ladder, boxes of paperwork & also other work tools which - Go on the back seat. It’s basically a two seater Volvo XC70, which for Cornwall as I’m sure you know - Is a super usable vehicle. I don’t like having things in the back seat, but what option do I have? Absolutely love the podcast, seen the “banana” a few times locally over the summer - Please continue & big love to all 😊
*** 2 car garage idea below *** Great to hear some recognition for the Toyota iQ ! I (aka 'we') have had one since new in 2009 and it replaced a (real) mini. The iQ is the real new mini - it encompasses all the values of the original mini, in a way the Bini does not. Just like the original mini, spec matters. both are best in 1L manual form. The original mini with the 998 and just 4 manual gears is one of the greatest driving experiences available, and a perfect way to learn to drive - carrying speed through corners is essential given how long it's taken you to get it in the first place. The iQ is also best in 1L manual form, which also gets it under 100gCO2 so you're £0 per year tax. We're fully comp insured with miles for £130 this year, added to dealer servicing of ~£200 annually and you're looking a serious cheap motoring. The iQ is ideal for city driving, yet is highly capable on long journeys. Since the pandemic we've stuck to domestic holidays, each time driving from the south east to the north cost of Scotland (also the Hebrides and Orkney). While the M6/74 up to Glasgow is a bit of a slog, the iQ and it's high revving VVT engine copes just fine, and north of there it's a good as anything. These trips are 2k miles twice a year! That leads me to a two car garage idea... one for the (real) people: You are a real world human with normal person money. You live just outside the M25, are a hybrid worker, and have grown bored of driving in the congested roads of the South East, so driving fun is reserved for twice annual road trips, either to the outer extremities of the British Isles, or around Europe (eg Budapest and back in 2 weeks via all the major central capitals, autobahn and Alps). You don't have kids or they are grown up and gone or you've left them with the grandparents. You need something for fairly light local driving, and something for the road trips, the latter with space for 2 people, luggage and an accumulation of beer, (good) whisky and wine to bring home. Budget is £50k capex and £2k opex (not inc fuel or depreciation). My historic answer to this garage was the above mentioned 2009 1L manual iQ2 in black (£11k in 2009) plus a 2012 F02 760Li in white bought for £30k in 2016 with 20k on the clock. I doubt I could have found two more opposite cars! The latter was sold during the pandemic silly values period when I realised I could get out of it for just under £2k per year depreciation. Now, after a few years of having just the iQ, I find myself thinking about the above two car garage again...
Come to Australia (again) guys ! Not only do we have the “Bigs” but we have drive thru dog wash (Crystal car wash) and we have drive thru bottle shops everywhere !!! Great therapy session boys -
Oh! When Harris mentioned about the hot hatches and the Megane RS Trophy R! Yes! Well nearly. How about the Peugeot 308 Gti 270 by Peugeot Sport!?! Even better. Lighter. More engaging and 1/2 the price!!! Go Peugeot!
2 CAR GARAGE You are a car nerd and doing well for yourself, you have 3 good friends that love to talk cars regularly. You’ve all decide to go to the USA Formula 1 races next season together, but to please your wife you have rented a villa in the south of France for a couple of holidays too. Now for the scenario;- 1) you have £30,000 to buy a car that will be stored at a facility in Houston. It must be able to seat you and your friends and luggage and be comfortable for the long journeys, and be surprisingly fun or funny to drive/loon around in. 2) you also have £30k to spend on something to blip to the villa for you and your wife, and it must be something she would also like to drive. Thanks for another fantastic podcast.
We have a couple of work Citroen Berlingo's. When I drive the manual one, mostly up and down country A-roads, I regularly build up to just over the National Limit speed and knock it into neutral and coast for miles. I'm now on 52.2 mpg up from 43 mpg in the 4000 miles I've done in it. Ironically I regularly got 11 mpg in my V12 Aston but didn't care! 🤣🤣🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂
On the F generation BMW 2/3/4 series, automatic wiper mode is turned on with a button at the end of the stalk rather than a nudge up and down to a certain position. I love this in my 2016 2 series because you can have it in automatic mode and still nudge down to add a wipe whenever you think an extra one it is needed, without disengaging the auto wiping mode. I really miss this when I get in another car such as our mk7 golf. Not 100% sure but I think this is not the case for the newer G generation 2/3 series. I'm suspecting this is something Chris Harris likes in his F30 Alpina D3
Glorious as always gentlemen. But CH: unless you have a time pressure for recording (you might do; you are all busy chaps), don't feel obligated to hit a certain duration and cut things short. I love the rambling stories; if you guys are having a good time, let the good times and conversation flow. When are we going to get some road trips / real world footage of you chaps larking about in a bunch of cars? When Neale says "we should all go buy one", imagine a joint road trip when you all have to buy one - reminiscent of a certain challenge format in popular TV culture - but would be phenomenal viewing nonetheless. Your chemistry together is too good to be restricted to just Zoom.
Oh hang on - Chris Cooper. No! Yes, you are correct, St Mawes bakery do indeed make lovely pasties. But the best? It’s down to taste I’m sure. Hmm - Possibly not. I am Cornish, a massive petrolhead & my family go back 14 generations in Cornwall. Yes - They do make an “okay” pasties. But as a local & also a successful local businessman who purchases pasties for & on a regular basis - I suggest you try others which far higher recommendations. Cornwall is much bigger than St Mawes. It’s wonderful & you’re right, but there are some real gems out there. Enjoy all
My wife always says to me,”why don’t you just use the intermittent?” But, I find that I’m always adjusting the timing of the intermittent. So why not just turn the wipers on and off? Lol.
37:00 I think Chris is right the REAL hot hatch is a dying breed. All these fast ev hatches don’t sell ( abarth 500 ev , alpine 5 ev , Hyundai n ev ) people want lighter and more mechanical simpler cars as a hot hatch . And sharper and good steering feel like the megane IV RS has as Chris mentioned. The hot hatch is for the hard working plumber or painter and these guys are car geeks and want emotion
I cancel my indicators. Every time. I know it's a quirk and pointless but having learned to drive in an 84 Mini (in 2000) then 2x mk2 Escorts until I was 25, none of those cars auto cancelled (broken squib inside I bet). And now at 41 I cancel indicators even in my wife's 2020 car. Same as the intermittent wipers, you just get to control everything on the car. #controlfreaks
Thank Manish, for stopping to talk to me a while back on Newman St. I was walking past a gave you a thumbs up, didn't expect you to stop, remove your earphones and take the time to talk to me about the podcast, cars and actually ask about me. Top bloke and utter gentleman
Manish is a legend
He seems like such a nice guy, they all do.
#bemoremanish
#bemorepandy 😂
I’d love to bump into manish, seems like such a gent
Manish, i do the exact Same thing to ghosts. My wife and son HATE it 😂
The only job I was ever fired from was when I worked at the petrol station in the evenings when I was at college in the 1980s. I had tickets to the last ever concert by Japan and nobody would swap shifts with me so I simply closed the petrol station an hour early. Some grumpy old toss pot apparently came in the next day and asked why we weren’t open at 8:30 pm so my services were no longer required. Totally worth it.
Chris I agree that intermittent wiper frequency is never right as well. I optimise the wiper to not smear, make a noise and to make sure the windscreen is optimally clean. You are not alone.
Ultimate wiper timing is always in between lowest and second speed and it’s never even close with automatic wiper
Agreed it drives me crazy the speeds are never what’s needed.
The first "new mini" was perfect. My 159 is shite
Had to laugh at Neil's epiphany about thinking he was normal until he started on the podcast 😂
everyone told him hes weird for years so dunno why he played dumb lol
I laughed too. Early podcast Neil was quite wonderful and positive though. Much needed during the weird Covid times
@@PSUK997bloody oath !! The whole pod was pretty refreshing during the Dark Times ❤️🔥
2 car garage:
With the announcement that GM is to be allowed a Formula 1 team, Marry Barra CEO General Motors, has decided that members of the Chris Harris on Cars podcast should immediately be contacted for their expertise in all matters automotive.
She has decided to place all four of you in charge of the soon to be, GM Formula 1 team.
All four of you must decide what role within the F1 team you, as well as your fellow podders, will play within this F1 team.
With 3 races in the US, you'll ofcourse need 2 cars. The first must be large enough to carry a rear wing or nose cone in it, along with your fellow podders. It must also be comfortable enough to drive across various states to reach the next race.
Your second car is a 2 seater convertible, showing off car. It's there simply to impress the other 10 teams and get the maximum amount of 'likes' on social media.You have the entire GM catalogue to choose from.
A squirt and three wipes is my ideal toilet stop at Newport Pagnell.
Don't suppose you have another wipe in the car 5 minutes later? I'll get me coat...
In my area of the USA we have a drive thru beer distribution store. You pull in tell the person in the window what you want, pay and pull ahead couple of feet. Then you pop the trunk ( boot ) and someone brings your beer and puts it in closes it and you drive off.
We had that growing up in Texas in the 80s. It was called the Beer Barn lol
Great chemistry between you makes this a very enjoyable and funny podcast. Loving Neils JAWS cap.
I feel like Manish was the only one that smashed the embarrassing habit there lads. The rest are funny anecdotes / things that annoy you and I agree with nearly all of them 🤣 we are the best singers when on our own. Usually on a motorway in the outside lane, smashing in a chorus while intermittently screaming “whyyyyy are you brakingggg” why do people brake instead of throttle off in the outside lane (when traffic is flowing)
Totally agree with the brakes on a motorway. If properly driven the brakes need never be touched.
Because they're tailgating mouthbreathers who are almost always in the middle of a threatening taunt exercise to bully their way ahead of the sea of vehicles before them, who without their left foot braking would surely end up shunting the driver infront of them
@@jameswingrove7421 At this stage, most braking events on motorways have to be Teslas on AlmostPilot. Even with miles of open road ahead of them they'll do it, let alone in the fast lane.
Best podcast out there by a mile. My best drive thru would be a car wash that actually works once the weather gets cold. Everywhere I go, there is a cone at the bloody entrance :)
Great job as always. I hope Manish sees this comment. I watched 2010 Senna for the first time. What a great documentary! I thank him for his part in writing it. I wanted to watch before checking out the new Senna mini series on Netflix.
My old VW Vento had an intermittent wiper time you could set yourself. Anywhere between 1 and 22 seconds. You held the stalk down for however many seconds you wanted it to activate at (for me it was always around 9 second intervals) and off you drove. The wipers would swish once every 9th second. Great feature which VW should have kept for all their cars.
rain isnt consistent so its literally futile lol
It was on my MK3 Golf. I loved it
Utterly brilliant as always, brings laughter, warmth and a big smile to me whilst indulging fellow petrol head enthusiasm. Now to cash in the pension on Jags…..
chris somehow plucked the exact rant from my brain about windshield wipers, down to the last bit about the final wipe after the squirt. Which, by the way, you can circumvent by spamming the highest setting while you hit the cleaner, then rapidly turning it off.
3:31 "you are the master of the preface." 😅😅
Neil - "I'll just take the front half of the new Jaguar!" - Superb stuff.
Spot on Neil. Looking at yourself in the mirror is a no go! And watching videos of yourself! I cannot stand doing these things.
Brilliant conversational topics and responses Chris…. thoroughly enjoyed that 👍
One of your best chaps…keep them coming 🎉. Fridays are the best days of the week with your podcast! Thanks 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Such a great way to end the week, always amazing listening / watching you guys have a chat
Neil is such a legend! Love the drive through answers!
Please continue with your 'drivel' gents. It means more than you'll ever know to some of us. Thanks
RainX on the windscreen each time I wash the car. Intermittent wipers on the slowest setting. 95% of the rain just flies off the window, the rest gets flicked by the wipers every 10 seconds.
it lasts 12 months?
@@PazLeBon You only wash your car once a year??
Thank you gents for another brilliant episode. On top of the emergency episode I like your collective love for the Jag! And this episode you even topped that for my perspective. I own a ‘01 Daimler Super V8 and (I did not dare to part from it) a ‘06 Daimler Eight. Both Blue over Ivory interior and captain seats in the back. Both have the supercharged V8 and power is adequate, as they say. Normally do not comment on videos but I just want to let you gays know how much I appreciate your podcast! Cheers Emiel (Netherlands)
This seriously makes my week. Love it gents
100%, Manish. When I meet exemplary young people, the finest compliment I can give them is my wish that my child grows up like that. And I agree about Lando. Great kid.
I’m with you Chris, I hate the performance of intermittent wipers. I WILL CONTROL THEM, WHEN I WANT THEM TO WIPE. Spot on Chris.
A Jag XJS is almost always my answer in 'what xxxx' questions. 1983ish V12 Hardtop in gold with tan interior, sport alloys and of course manual conversion with uprated throttle bodies and straight piped.
Good morning and what a beautiful morning it is to wake up to you guys after being away in Thailand for four weeks. Drive-through’s got to be Greggs. And Chris I totally understand the intermittent wiper. I do the same push it down when I need it.
Excellent show as always, fellas.
Automotive investments under £30k are pretty much the only kind of cars I'm interested in any more (stretch it to £50k for something special). An older 'proper' car without a bank of screens and haptic tough surfaces, has all the depreciation taken out of it (so doesn't give me anxiety seeing it sat on the drive haemorrhaging money), and gives me engagement and satisfaction as a driver.
As a car enthusiast, scouring the various websites looking for something special at the right price and stumbling across something you never thought would be within reach, getting sweaty palms and heart palpitations as you do the calculations, is just the best...
981 S/GTS, a high spec 30k mileage is 35k
I like the idea of an f-type manual, most are 30k ish with 3l v6 in it. Yum.
Chris @ 26:35, falafel roll (tabouleh, hummus, a dash of chili sauce) as a takeaway, yes yes yes. It's terrific nosh.
For my 30k car... Porsche Cayman S 987.2.
A fantastic car, and already rising. Loses the reliability issues, keeps the hydraulic steering. Flat 6, well balanced loveliness.
Bonus points if you can get the R...😁
Finally, someone else who manually users the wipers! I'm with you there Chris.
😂 ha I noticed the single wipe first on a M135 vs RS3 review by Chris. Now I can’t stop noticing it on old reviews. Total agree intermittent wipe is pants. And it will never be mentioned again
Morning Chris and Friends - looking forward to watching this episode as always. Have a great day
Drive Thru bottle shops are everywhere in Aus
And if you buy less than a case they look at you as if you're mad
2 milk bottles please, actually scratch that, gimmee 2 cartons, much easier :)
I also do the single self wipe of the windscreen. But I also have a hydrophobic coating on mine and above about 25 ish, the water evacuates itself without the need for the wipers or screen wash at all.
And for the drive through question, drive through Halfords or Euro Car Parts, would make getting wiper blades or anti-freeze so much easier.
evacuates itself lol
You guys always nail the music. Obscure stuff I don't think many people listen to. Add to that, "Radiohead - Spectre" for the Bond movie. It was deemed too morose for the film, but perfect for a Bond film. They decided to go with some other junk
I like Mr Coopers long explanations
Chris, I think I am late to the Francis Bourgeois party. What a wonderfull thing you did there, more please
Another brilliant video Chris 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Type R Civic great choice!
Gotta love Mr. Cooper. Love the show guys. Utterly hilarious!
Fantastic podcast. Always interesting to listen to you chaps. Chris, talking of future classic hot hatches, what about the M140i (3.0l turbo charged straight six, rear wheel drive, 50/50 weight distribution)?
Belle and Sebastian yes! Reminds me of the channel 4 series called Teachers, loved that show
Absolutely right Chris! Manually operate the wiper. Your timing is the better than the intermittent wiper system!
Boo, drive a Volvo and be gobsmacked how rubbish every other car is
The most I've laughed in ages, great episode this week 🤣
Never heard Belle&Seb in Aussie, the songs 5:14mins a belta😊
Just watched Belle and Sebastian , boy with the Arab strap , live at Glasto 2015. What a joy!
Good stuff for a grim Friday morning
Never selectively listened to Belle and Sebastian before. I think that song was used in a TV series called Teachers - also good. Thank you for that, Neil
Manual wiper, yes!. + game with myself to avoiding touching controls when on cruse (max mileage achieved recorded), picking nose and singing in the car are all "normal" in my world
Las Vegas sold out, but lots of ticket resellers were stuck with unused tickets.
Yup - I literally bought my flight Tuesday AM and flew to Vegas without tickets to Friday+Saturday. Ended up getting all included hospitality for not much over $2k/person that would've cost easily ~$9k for the weekend 6 months ago, plus we got to go to different spots (they don't let you enter anywhere but your own zone). For qualifying, literally no seat was closer to the track than ours and none of those others had food/bottle service at your seats.
Definitely not the kind of behavior F1 would want to promote but they did it to themselves with the insane prices. Did the same thing last year but just grandstand seats in Sphere and then straddling start/finish for Quali, but didn't stay for the race that was just not worth it IMO. Last year it was definitely sold out. This year, hospitality was nowhere near sold out for Thursday/Friday; Saturday seemed like it may have been at the very end but I got my Saturday ticket from F1 experiences on Friday morning at a super reduced rate.
Sub 3m car. Harris nails it. Post financial crash I had one of these as my daily. Did 67,000 faultless and frugal miles in it. Why did I sell it 😢. My daughter has one now. Brilliantly conceived and executed car.
Wipers! Couldn't agree more.
£30,000 future classic. Some great shouts gentlemen. Lotus Elan - absolutely! Lotus 7/Caterham x/flow too…Jag XJR (I’d go x300 straight 6 version), but I agree with Chris - hot hatches or coupes; I’d go Vauxhall Firenza Droop Snoot 😍 and/or Talbot Lotus Sunbeam in Avon colours 👍
Great episode, Cooper on a leash is the future
I’ve been to a drive-thru offy in Oz many years ago. So they do exist! 😂
38:08 that’s 2 gens before the megane Chris mentions . Neil talks about the megane 2 R26 2008 and Chris about megane 4 rs 2018 there was a gen in between
Neil was on bloody fire today!
I don’t mean to sound negative but Neil is the only reason I keep listening to this podcast - he has such a wonderful take on everything - he is the Fred Dibnah of our time!
Speaking of sub £30k future classics. A friend of mine is seriously thinking about a Reliant Scimitar auto as a daily (apparently the manual gearbox was pretty rubbish). £10-20k now for a good one.
Also, my Dad used to have a Double 6. As a kid the twin fuel tanks and walnut were always a thing of amazement and beauty
Imagine Coops taking the stand in the old bailey. He'd drive the lawyers insane. "I'm glad you asked me that question". And then the 10 minute preamble begins!
Lads,
I’ve come in from work after a very big day in very hot Sydney!!!
Had several bears bottle of white and swiftly heading onto a red with a serious nice Indian (food)
Fantastic fun from all of you 😂🎉
Great podcast gents 👏
The drive through for me would be an Indian Restaurant drive through!
Well deserved by Max, bit we need to get Tsunoda in RedBull main team 😊❤.
Great pod lads keep it up and greetings from sLOVEnia 💪👍🤟
No, Lawson.
Manish's Japan singing was gold!
Like Harris, my boss is from Bristol. Not sure if it’s something specific to that part of England, but when he visited Australia he was overly fascinated about the existence of our drive-thru bottle shops…
What an intro from Neil!
Another one for managing the wipers, especially if you have a glass coating.
The Jolly Nice Farm Shop near Stroud is the best drive through in the country.
Your never disappoint.
Paused at 15 minutes to mention.
I love my wiper stalk on my 2016 bmw 3 series, but here’s why.
The stalk stays centered and there’s a seperate button on the end to activate the automatic wipers. So I can have them active, plus I’m able to use the single wiper as I feel necessary. Win Win
However, newer BMW’s I’ve driven and my wife’s Mk7.5 golf you need to flick the stalk up 1 notch for auto/intermittent wipers. So you can’t do the single wipe without essentially turning them off the back on again, very frustrating 🤣
Night porter by Japan (thanks Manish), for those who were into their Jungle back in the day was sampled for ‘Terrorist by Renegade and Ray Keith’. It’s a little more upbeat.
Thank you Sire. Downloaded
Mr Cooper - I am totally with you on items in the back seat of the car. I live in Cornwall (Newquay) a complete car nerd & have just bought an M2 (Manual).
However, my daily driver is a 2014 Volvo XC70 D5 SE Lux - Bought from a retired doctor that had it from new. I have two dogs, they go in the boot. I have a telescopic ladder, boxes of paperwork & also other work tools which - Go on the back seat. It’s basically a two seater Volvo XC70, which for Cornwall as I’m sure you know - Is a super usable vehicle. I don’t like having things in the back seat, but what option do I have? Absolutely love the podcast, seen the “banana” a few times locally over the summer - Please continue & big love to all 😊
Manish has gone way up the list of people I like with the David Sylvian impressions . Top man 👍
Edit: Also for saving a man's life. 🙏
I do regularly sing to "Red Guitar" from Sylvian.
*** 2 car garage idea below ***
Great to hear some recognition for the Toyota iQ ! I (aka 'we') have had one since new in 2009 and it replaced a (real) mini. The iQ is the real new mini - it encompasses all the values of the original mini, in a way the Bini does not.
Just like the original mini, spec matters. both are best in 1L manual form. The original mini with the 998 and just 4 manual gears is one of the greatest driving experiences available, and a perfect way to learn to drive - carrying speed through corners is essential given how long it's taken you to get it in the first place. The iQ is also best in 1L manual form, which also gets it under 100gCO2 so you're £0 per year tax. We're fully comp insured with miles for £130 this year, added to dealer servicing of ~£200 annually and you're looking a serious cheap motoring.
The iQ is ideal for city driving, yet is highly capable on long journeys. Since the pandemic we've stuck to domestic holidays, each time driving from the south east to the north cost of Scotland (also the Hebrides and Orkney). While the M6/74 up to Glasgow is a bit of a slog, the iQ and it's high revving VVT engine copes just fine, and north of there it's a good as anything. These trips are 2k miles twice a year!
That leads me to a two car garage idea... one for the (real) people:
You are a real world human with normal person money. You live just outside the M25, are a hybrid worker, and have grown bored of driving in the congested roads of the South East, so driving fun is reserved for twice annual road trips, either to the outer extremities of the British Isles, or around Europe (eg Budapest and back in 2 weeks via all the major central capitals, autobahn and Alps). You don't have kids or they are grown up and gone or you've left them with the grandparents. You need something for fairly light local driving, and something for the road trips, the latter with space for 2 people, luggage and an accumulation of beer, (good) whisky and wine to bring home. Budget is £50k capex and £2k opex (not inc fuel or depreciation).
My historic answer to this garage was the above mentioned 2009 1L manual iQ2 in black (£11k in 2009) plus a 2012 F02 760Li in white bought for £30k in 2016 with 20k on the clock. I doubt I could have found two more opposite cars! The latter was sold during the pandemic silly values period when I realised I could get out of it for just under £2k per year depreciation. Now, after a few years of having just the iQ, I find myself thinking about the above two car garage again...
I agree with things on the back seat. In coupes things on the back seat is a USP of those cars but once given 4drs no things on the back seat
Come to Australia (again) guys ! Not only do we have the “Bigs” but we have drive thru dog wash (Crystal car wash) and we have drive thru bottle shops everywhere !!! Great therapy session boys -
I now know I align quite closely with Cooper in his opening salvo
Oh! When Harris mentioned about the hot hatches and the Megane RS Trophy R! Yes! Well nearly. How about the Peugeot 308 Gti 270 by Peugeot Sport!?! Even better. Lighter. More engaging and 1/2 the price!!! Go Peugeot!
Neil is the funniest 😅
He is.
I actually noticed Harris's Driving habit in his RS4 review years back..
2 CAR GARAGE
You are a car nerd and doing well for yourself, you have 3 good friends that love to talk cars regularly.
You’ve all decide to go to the USA Formula 1 races next season together, but to please your wife you have rented a villa in the south of France for a couple of holidays too.
Now for the scenario;-
1) you have £30,000 to buy a car that will be stored at a facility in Houston. It must be able to seat you and your friends and luggage and be comfortable for the long journeys, and be surprisingly fun or funny to drive/loon around in.
2) you also have £30k to spend on something to blip to the villa for you and your wife, and it must be something she would also like to drive.
Thanks for another fantastic podcast.
Chris, l use my wipers the same way. Only l can determine the right frequency. 😊
Absolutely loving Neil’s Jaws cap! Round of applause 👏
We have a couple of work Citroen Berlingo's. When I drive the manual one, mostly up and down country A-roads, I regularly build up to just over the National Limit speed and knock it into neutral and coast for miles. I'm now on 52.2 mpg up from 43 mpg in the 4000 miles I've done in it. Ironically I regularly got 11 mpg in my V12 Aston but didn't care! 🤣🤣🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂
Drive through liquor store in New Hampshire 😮fascinating
Manish has got the giggles throughout the entire episode haha
Could be a fair opinion or could be a hot take: F10 generation M5 is the best M5 ever. Especially the 30 Jahre.
I always manually operate the wipers as well 😂
You can indeed get a manual 300 Trophy. You also missed possibly the best generation of Megane out - the 250/265/275 Cup/Trophy.
On the F generation BMW 2/3/4 series, automatic wiper mode is turned on with a button at the end of the stalk rather than a nudge up and down to a certain position. I love this in my 2016 2 series because you can have it in automatic mode and still nudge down to add a wipe whenever you think an extra one it is needed, without disengaging the auto wiping mode. I really miss this when I get in another car such as our mk7 golf.
Not 100% sure but I think this is not the case for the newer G generation 2/3 series.
I'm suspecting this is something Chris Harris likes in his F30 Alpina D3
My 2007 M6 has this too.
56:50 Remind me of this on one years time :D
Glorious as always gentlemen. But CH: unless you have a time pressure for recording (you might do; you are all busy chaps), don't feel obligated to hit a certain duration and cut things short. I love the rambling stories; if you guys are having a good time, let the good times and conversation flow. When are we going to get some road trips / real world footage of you chaps larking about in a bunch of cars? When Neale says "we should all go buy one", imagine a joint road trip when you all have to buy one - reminiscent of a certain challenge format in popular TV culture - but would be phenomenal viewing nonetheless. Your chemistry together is too good to be restricted to just Zoom.
Oh hang on - Chris Cooper. No! Yes, you are correct, St Mawes bakery do indeed make lovely pasties. But the best? It’s down to taste I’m sure. Hmm - Possibly not. I am Cornish, a massive petrolhead & my family go back 14 generations in Cornwall. Yes - They do make an “okay” pasties. But as a local & also a successful local businessman who purchases pasties for & on a regular basis - I suggest you try others which far higher recommendations.
Cornwall is much bigger than St Mawes. It’s wonderful & you’re right, but there are some real gems out there. Enjoy all
Drive through in Luton in late 50s or early 60s was a drive through post box and i think a stamp machine.
My wife always says to me,”why don’t you just use the intermittent?” But, I find that I’m always adjusting the timing of the intermittent. So why not just turn the wipers on and off? Lol.
In Australia we have drive through bottle shops, clearly we have it figured out.
37:00 I think Chris is right the REAL hot hatch is a dying breed. All these fast ev hatches don’t sell ( abarth 500 ev , alpine 5 ev , Hyundai n ev ) people want lighter and more mechanical simpler cars as a hot hatch . And sharper and good steering feel like the megane IV RS has as Chris mentioned. The hot hatch is for the hard working plumber or painter and these guys are car geeks and want emotion
I cancel my indicators. Every time. I know it's a quirk and pointless but having learned to drive in an 84 Mini (in 2000) then 2x mk2 Escorts until I was 25, none of those cars auto cancelled (broken squib inside I bet). And now at 41 I cancel indicators even in my wife's 2020 car. Same as the intermittent wipers, you just get to control everything on the car.
#controlfreaks
Just about every pub in Australia has a drive thru bottle shop and it's driveway service.