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In this episode of the Automovie Podcast, Chris and Marty talk about the recently-released Max Mosley documentary on Netflix, the surprise departure of Justin Lin from Fast X, and selflessly watch the Dukes of Hazzard so that you don't have to.

We also discover that we're not the only cars in films podcast out there, so say hi to Reels and Wheels!

But first, Justin Lin has left Fast Ten. No word why, or if he'll be back for Fast 11. The great team at Tangent Vector have started producing a new series for Top Gear's YouTube channel with Rob Dahm called American Tuned. Alex Kersten has set up his own YouTube channel - Auto Alex - and his draw alone has garnered hundreds of thousands of subscribers in anticipation of new content. And finally the BBC has started posting old film reviews by the great, and much missed Barry Norman. His style was so well known and imitated that he became as much of a star as the films he reviewed, like Back to the Future here. And why not.

Since our last episode Chris has watched Mosley: It's Complicated which also coincided with this interview with Nikita Mazepin, and both had the same sort of media control. Marty visited hallowed ground in the Lake District (if you're going, stay in this cottage!) and talks about the Bluebird K7 restoration documentary.

For our main review we discussed both the acting, and driving in the Dukes of Hazzard (2005). Moving on...

For his YouTube picks, Chris went with Driver61 putting F1 wheels and tyres onto an MR2 with... results. It also answered the question "What would happen if you wrapped someone up in tyre blankets?" His channel pick is SAMMIT, especially his time around Ebisu circuit during and after the recent earthquake. Marty carried on the good side of the Dukes of Hazzard vibe with Tanner Faust breaking down 10 car stunts in movies and TV. His channel is the excellent Brundle: Behind the Wheel.

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The Automovie Podcast turns 50! Chris and Marty pick some of their favourite Top Gear moments and reflect on their most notable films from the first 49 episodes!

But first, Chris shares his thoughts on season 4 of Drive to Survive, The Drive have a great write up on the Pixar x Porsche 992 Sally, and Sky F1 to go HDR as well as 4K in 2022!

Chris signed up for F1 TV while enjoying the extensive archive!

Thanks to David Barrett for the idea, so Chris and Marty come up with their top 3 Top Gear features from over the years.

In 'What has Henry Catchpole Been Driving This Week?' we see Henry driving the new Lotus Emira.

For his YouTube picks, Chris found the answer to "How much faster is an F1 driver than a normal person?" and he also went with the channel First We Feast AGAIN because Dave Grohl did the Hot Ones challenge and was amazing. Marty continued with the Jason Cammisa vibe as Jason looks back at the Lotus Elise while his channel MPZracevideo is hill climb goodness.

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Chris and Marty review the classic 1971 Vanishing Point, while discussing Top Gear's original Toyboata episode, the upcoming Season 4 of Netflix's Drive to Survive, and what to do with three Mika Hakkinens.

Netflix have launched the trailer for the new series of Drive to Survive, coming out 11th March halfway through the Bahrain F1 test.

Chris raises the first Top Gear cars into boats episode as maybe the peak of Top Gear? Marty has been watching Reacher (BRG Bentley Flying Spur. Also lots of punching), as well as The Wheel Network with video on the 718 Cayman GT4 RS .

With F1 2022 just around the corner, Marty reminds us that F1 TV has some great punditry from Jolyon Palmer looking at classic races, while Chris has been enjoying some of the retrospectives on YouTube.

Speaking of which, this podcast is now on YouTube too, if that's where you enjoy your podcasts. Likecommentsubscribe.

This episode Chris and Marty are discussing 1971's Vanishing Point.

In 'What has Henry Catchpole Been Driving This Week?' we see Henry driving the Guntherwerks 993 Speedster. The cinematographer is outstanding, and the work in shooting and editing by Marc Ganley is absolutely top notch. Also on Carfection, Alex Goy's excellent video on the GTO Engineering 250 California Spyder reminded us just how good of a presenter and writer Alex is.

For Chris's YouTube picks, he started with Marques Brownlee turning his Tesla Model S into a camera car, and his channel is the hugely popular Corridor Crew for some VFX goodness. Marty chose an Instagram reel to be down with the kids, of an amazing lap of the Ebisu drift circuit, and his channel is more Japanese with Noriyaro, especially the latest video having fun in Yamanashi.

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Chris and Marty talk through their Yuletide viewing, including another documentary about the DeLorean, the controversial 2021 Formula 1 championship showdown in Abu Dhabi, the Grand Tour's Carnage a Trois, Evo Magazine's eCotY video and much, much more.

But first, news! One of our favourite cinematographers Charlie B Rose has moved to become Head of Video for TopGear.com, while Larry Chen has taken over the Hoonigan AutoFocus Youtube channel as Hoonigan has focussed on their central channel. This was announced before an in-depth look at a Toyota Supra (sort of) with a Judd V10 in it!. Fast and Furious news is ramping up, with Vin Diesel and The Rock having a public feud while a RX-7 replica managed to sell for $75,000. Brad Pitt is making an F1 film that sounds quite a lot like Driven? Drivetribe is now going video only.

The proper things we've watched since the last episode; The Grand Tour present Carnage a Trois, Car Trek 6 and Evo's Car of the Year.

Rather than film reviews this episode, we've instead discussed the things that have been filling our sherry-fuelled Christmas YouTube hours. So...

How Youtube Sponsorship Works - VINwiki

Onboard: Ant's INSANE Lap of Lights at Silverstone!!! - Mercedes F1

88MPH: The Story of the DeLorean Time Machine - Hagertys Drivers Foundation

How Formula 1 is Filmed (It's a Technical Masterpiece) - Tommy DeWitt, which features this F1 video which is worth a watch on its own How TV Directors Captured the Action in Germany. This also reminded Marty of this video with Jake Humphries and the BBC TV gallery Glimpse Behind the Scenes at BBC F1 with Jake

One Lap Of The Nurburgring Took Me OVER An Hour - Jimmy Broadbent going slowly delirious as he completes a single lap of the Nordschleife.

One thing that hasn't changed is out enjoying the work of Henry Catchpole, who this episode has been driving the BMW M5 CS: A Supercar In Disguise - Road Review.

Chris's picks of YouTube this episode starts with NBC'S OFF THE GRID // JOSEF NEWGARDEN AT THE MUSIC CITY GRAND PRIX. A brilliantly personal mini-documentary following the home town driver racing in Nashville. For a channel pick, Chris has found a young, small channel #BILC.

Marty fell back into the Best Motoring world with Track Race #23 | F50 vs Diablo vs F40 vs GT3 vs F355 vs GT-R vs GT2, and his channel is The Supercar Driver club channel with cool, well made looks at supercar ownership.

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In this episode Chris and Marty review two very different movies with the word 'Drive' in the title, Hammond's Workshop gets the Automovie once-over, Driftworks gets the love it deserves, and Chris sneaks in a review of Ghostbuster Afterlife on a technicality.

But first, Chris has been enjoying Ghostbusters:Afterlife on an IMAX screen because he's a big Ghostbusters nerd. Top Gear produced a fantastic behind the scenes look at how they shoot cars in a studio. The Grand Tour have released the trailer for Carnarge A Trois, and F1 has produced a beautiful tribute to Frank Williams with a great script by Sarah Holt.

In news, The Drive and Donut Media are now under the same ownership, Chris has watched Hammond's Workshop, but it's the accompanying behind the scenes Drivetribe content and how he's a great example to the upcoming YouTube presenters which is really impressive. Also the new series of Car Trek is out soon, as Matt Farah is also back with more All Cars Go to Heaven.

For the reviews, Marty watches Drive, while Chris takes a listener suggest and discusses the similarly named Overdrive.

This week Henry Catchpole has been driving the new track special Mclaren 720S GT3X.

For their YouTube picks, Chris enjoys Jason Cammisa going through the Porsche GT history. It's a great companion piece with the Collecting Cars podcast with Andreas Preuninger. For his channel pick, it's another listener suggestion with the perfectly Automovie channel Making for Motorsport. Marty dipped into his passion for land speed cars with a video on the Golden Arrow. His channel pick he has been binging is the brilliantly down to earth, hugely watchable Driftworks channel.

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After a month away from their now thoroughly disinfected microphones, Chris and Marty return to the Automovie Podcast and finally get around to reviewing Mad Max: Fury Road. We also talk Top Gear a lot, Back to the Future quite a bit, and NO TIME FOR SPOILERS!

But first, after both being bed ridden, Chris and Marty have been watching the Porsche Taycan meeting the BTTF Delorean advert (with Mayor Goldie Wilson...) Michael Fassbender is back in the 911 RSR for another season of Road to Le Mans. Chris finally watched Expedition: Back to the Future on Discovery+ and gave it a thumbs up for the BTTF geeks out there. Listener David Barrett pointed out that Tyler Hoover was putting all 40 of his cars up for sale, and he was not alone as Car Trek mates Ed Bolian and Freddie Tavarish were doing the same.

Chris and Marty have both seen the new Bond, and this is NO TIME FOR SPOILERS! Fifth Gear Recharged is coming back to Discovery+ with a new focus on electrified motoring. The BBC has put all episodes of Top Gear up on iPlayer - at least for UK viewers - with the original music and only the small Senna documentary missing. Also Top Gear America has made it onto Discovery+ for UK viewers too! And the new series of Top Gear will be on British screens November 14th. Friend of the show Matt Lange pointed us in the direction of Florida car dealership Curated selling a collection of four screen used cars from the Transformers movies being sold from Michael Bay's personal collection for $2m. They also posted a chat with Michael Bay on their YouTube channel, with some interesting tidbits and some bad audio at times.

The main film for review this episode is Mad Max: Fury Road.

Since our last episode, Henry Catchpole has been discovering the new Range Rover. Also Carfection have been doing some belting films recently with other presenters such as Radical SR1 racing and Alex Goy revisiting the Renault Clio V6. All worth a watch.

For Chris's YouTube pick, he's gone with How Tyler Hoover launched 9 YT channels? from Vinwiki. A great companion piece is this Car Ninja video looking at how Tyler films his videos. For his channel, Chris went with John Temerian's channel, he of Curated who are selling the Michael Bay cars.

Marty enjoyed Tavarish's finally finished Mclaren 675LT, while his channel is the interesting Torque GT.

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In this episode, Chris and Marty talk Bond, James Bond as they discuss their favourite Bonds, Bond cars and chases ahead of the release of No Time To Die. There's also a review of the new Schumacher documentary on Netflix and the latest season of Car Trek.

Since the last episode Car Trek series 5 has dropped on YouTube and oh, it's good! Also the Schumacher documentary on Netflix which is.... good. We ask if Netflix really would buy F1?

With No Time To Die finally on the horizon, we discuss what makes a great Bond car, and which cars would we choose?

In 'What has Henry Catchpole Been Driving This Week?' we see Henry imagining a dystopian future where the 964 has survived the robotic uprising.

For our YouTube picks, Chris kept with the Bond theme as Tyler Hoover picks up the curiously well valued BMW Z8, and recommends the Cinemasins YouTube channel who are now getting into more and more Bond. Marty took Chris's suggestion of Top 10 Moments of Jacques Villeneuve Brilliance and rather swerved it, but did pick the excellent JayEmm on Cars who delivers pleasingly well written and presented videos firmly in the traditional Top Gear mold, and without any of the annoyance of his nouveau riche, pastry bothering namesake.

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Chris and Marty talk about whether automotive YouTube is getting stale, wax lyrical about Will Buxton's wonderful love letter to Le Mans, and look forward to the next Car Trek!

But first, Will Buxton did a special programme for Motorsport.tv sharing his first trip to Le Mans. It's an hour well spent, and Chris thinks possibly up there if not better than Steve McQueen's Le Mans. It is available now and for free here.

The Car Trek series 5 trailer is out, and it looks like they're keeping up the improvement!

Rather than reviews this episode, instead Chris and Marty are discussing the current state of car YouTube. Chris wrote about his thoughts in 2014 (back when Shmee150 was at 300k subscribers!) but now what are channels doing, and how can it continue?

In 'What has Henry Catchpole Been Driving This Week?' he's in yet another iconic rally car with Audi Sport Quattro S1 Evolution 2: We Drive The Most Iconic Group B Rally Car!

For their YouTube picks, Chris went with the sort of content YouTube does so well, which is one person's dream drive in a Civilian Toyota Mega Cruiser: A Comprehensive Tour. His channel pick is the animated series of video essays from Josh Revell. Marty got into Best Motoring talking about Toyota GT-86 torque curves and then fell down that rabbit hole again...

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In this episode, Chris and Marty demand things to be awesome as we take a look at the hyperactive, hyperkinetic car chases from Michael Bay's early career. Plus, a review of The Grand Tour presents Lochdown and a preview of the Michael Schumacher documentary coming to Netflix in September.

But first, Chris and Marty go through what they've been watching recently, Mighty Car Mods had an awesome vibes music-only build of Kei truck turbo conversion, (and also the PSHHH PSHHH video). Bad Obsession Motorsport have now put the wiring loom into the seven year journey of Project Binky and broken through 400k subscribers! We discuss The Grand Tour's Lochdown - and Andy Willman's interview about it. And Netflix have added the BBC documentary Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean and have included Back to the Future in the new series of The Movies That Made Us.

Netflix also have the Michael Schumacher documentary out Sept 15th, Tangent Vector - the team behind /DRIVE and the Apex films have teamed up with Cross Creek Pictures for a deal including another APEX film and more... Richard Hammond has sold a number of cars and motorbikes to fund the ongoing work of his car restoration business The Smallest Cog, which is being featured in a future Discovery series.

This episode though is a tribute to Michael Bay, who Chris really first say in this Verizon commercial where he demands things be awesome and then explode.

Marty guides us through Bad Boys, Bad Boy2, The Rock and The Island.

In 'What has Henry Catchpole Been Driving This Week?' we have two entries. Chris loved the Morgan Plus Four CX-T, while Marty highlighted the Ferrari 812 GTS for both the amazing car, and the amazing cinematography.

Universally loved was Chris's YouTube pick with all the F1 grid trying to name every F1 world champion in reverse chronological order. One driver is stunning, while Kimi is the most Kimi Kimi has ever Kimied. For his channel pick it's Ghostbusters. Marty went with Jodie Kidd getting a tour of Zak Brown's car collection on her great new channel, and his channel choice was ISSIMI.

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In this episode, Chris watches a man dig a hole, Marty brushes up on his German, and we see if Fast 9 is becoming its own parody.

Since our last episode Marty has been enjoying Timo Bernhard talking Porsche motorsport history and Matt Farah doing his usual excellent Smoking Tire One Take on the new GT3 with Touring package, and Chris has been catching up with Colin Furze (not late to the party on that one or anything...) digging a big hole, #Vanlife YouTubers like Thomas Heaton, Kara and Nate, A Bus and Beyond, The Singletrack Sampler and The Endless Adventure.

We've also both been shocked and saddened at the flooding and devastation around the Nurburgring in German. Misha Charoudin has been doing great work publicising the relief efforts in the area, and our thoughts and best wishes are with all those affected.

Big News! The Grand Tour presents Lochdown is coming to Amazon Prime July 30th! The BBC have shown a full length documentary about Carlos Ghosn's escape from house arrest in Japan while disguised as a musical instrument, and there's a Max Mosley documentary coming soon too.

For this episode, Marty has ventured to an actual cinema to see an actual new release in Fast 9, while Chris was inspired by this YouTube video on spoof movies to try Superfast. Spoiler alert - it's sh*t.

This week, Henry Catchpole has been previewing the magnificent Aston Martin Valhalla!

In reusing old Victorian railway infrastructure news, Chris's YouTube pick this week is the British company following in Chip Ganassi's foot steps and creating an indoor windtunnel-sort of thing. Marty was actually at the Goodwood Festival of Speed however, so has been catching up on the 2021 Hillclimb Shootout as well as the top 10 hillclimb runs ever at the Festival. Marty also picked the brilliant M539 Restorations as his channel pick.

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