Both Hand Drive

This week Mark and Ian kick of talking about the U.S presidents remarks and attitude towards the German car companies, and that ends up in a rant from Ian. Then the subject shifts to cars that offer the highest rates of driver death, car depreciation and then they move onto VR car video games.

They then go into questions about Group B rally cars, driving music, the new BMW 8 Series and favourite Ford Escort generation, utes and are we, as enthusiasts, getting horsepower drunk? 

Then someone asks… should Gaskings be banned from a car social media site?

Links:

These Vehicles Offer the Highest Rates of Driver Death :

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/05/cars-offering-highest-rates-driver-death/

This week Ian is joined by Alan Bradley of The Motoring Podcast, who explains how the motoring landscape has changed since Ian escaped to the sunny side of America. They remember Mondeo Man and the phenomenon of the sales rep hanging his suit jacket in the window. There’s lots of tangents including driving in France, and the car Alan owns but Ian has never actually heard of.

They talk about the passing of Roger Moore and the cars he’s associated with, and try to avoid talking about Dieselgate but fail.There’s a little in depth talk about the Ford news this month before moving into listener questions.

In this episode we kick off with some FU Mark about the Civic after Ian made an error, we speak about the S2000 and speculate on why we won’t see one because AE86 and insurance. We then talk about Marks trip to SoCal and his first experience karting. That brings us into talking about the great skills shown by California drivers day to day.

We then go into listener questions starting with how to go about making the perfect car chase movie, how hydrogen cars are going to play out in the industry, the reasoning behind two and four engined cars, picking out a truck, 

Links:

Pontiak Aztek Owners Club: http://www.aztekfanclub.com

In this episode we kick of talking about car paint colors then Camry race cars before getting into the real discussion - cars Ian has been driving for review; the Honda Civic Sport and the Civic Touring. We move on to talk about the incoming Si and Type-R. We stare at the internet for a minute before talking about why we’ve been quiet; including Marks car accident. Then we finish on some questions.

 

This week Mark is late for work, Ian got into a conversation to walk away from and we talk about new American Top Gear and the state of American TV about cars in general.

Show notes:

Jalopnik talks about new Top Gear America hosts: http://jalopnik.com/top-gear-america-is-here-and-here-its-three-hosts-1793443905

Fifth Gears female host was Vicki Butler-Henderson

In this episode we answer listener questions that involve diesel engined vehicles, figuring out our three favorite German cars.

Ian tries to tackle the divide between sports cars and super cars because Mark runs away from that one. We then answer a question we always avoid.

The Ferrari Advert At The End:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89J3_p34qN0

This episode is an experimental pilot of an automotive game show recorded with Robbie, Micheal and Adam of the Ten Tenths podcast.

We all rather hope you enjoy it, and welcome any feedback.

Chris Pollitt joins me again and we talk about our first cars, which due to user error, where complete disasters. Chris drove into a wall and Ian drove into another car. Chris also recounts the story of his first Mercedes which inevitably, didn’t end well either.

This one got cut short for reasons, so we will be revisiting the subject of early cars and the road to enthusiasm soon.

You can find more stories about some of Chris’s 130 ish cars over at Not2Grand.co.uk

In this episode Ian has got his BMW back and it cost a surprising amount to fix, he’s changed his mind about new BMW’s and found the only wagon he will allow Mark to own. Mark is really feeling the urge to own a VW Golf. Or a race car. Because race car.

We roam over a few subjects including millenial car buying habits and rich people car buying habits. We end on some solid advice about cars and wander into the black art of oil changes.