Both Hand Drive

Ian recounts his Christmas stupid bad luck story and we go on to talk about car video games and their impact on car culture from Outrun to the game we’re both playing right now - Forza Motorsport 6.

We pick up on the reality of big project cars by examining a theiretical BMW build and answer a few outstanding questions from listeners that then leads into a discussion about luxury features on cars.

Corrections: Trial Mountain is the track on Gran Turismo, not Spring Mountain.

We talk about car advertising, Star Wars, what it was like to drive without the safety net of a cell phone and how Ian still doesn’t understand Audi as a brand.

We also talk about the new Chevrolet Camaro, the old Nissan 350Z and not so much the 370Z, the Audi TT, and modified Volkswagens. Ian explains his choice not to get an E46 M3 and Mark stares a hypothetical but tough decision in the face.

We would also not be surprised if California officially legislated a drift tax.

This week is a bit of FU and then straight into AMA questions from listeners. We recount our first times hitting 100 mph, Ian was scared on a motorbike and Mark had a perfect driving moment.

Also, Mark goes full old muscle car nerd and we wonder if you can actually teach someone to drive with a video game.

Recording was forced to finish early by our standard so we'll pick up where we left off next time.

This week we start off by talking about The Grand Tour and Best Motoring International.

Ian’s BMW is back and had it’s first shakedown after a bunch of work, Mark test drove his dream Saab and still don’t agree that station wagons make any sense. Ian recounts his first speeding ticket and Mark gets intimidated by a cop for squealing his tires.

We also cover the new car based social network DriveTribe, and the problem with maintaining user generated content quality as well standout moments of being pulled over by cops.

The Honda concept with the dog owner in mind is the W.O.W concept.  http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z10352/Honda-WOW-Concept.aspx

Apologies for the echo, we need to upgrade Marks audio so my voice doesn’t come back. it does go away later on.

We contemplate driving the Pacific Coast highway, if the word supercar is still relevant and wether French cars would be good for the U.S.

We also mispronounce the hell out of Peugeot, figure out where to keep your keyless ignition remote, what a Q50 is, wether you should modify your car or not and how that triggers Ian’s OCD.

 

Mark joines Ian again to answer some car related questions from the Carthottle.com community and, amongst other things, we try and figure out if choosing one car for the rest of your life is easy or not, we wonder if Drivetribe might eat CarThrottle’s lunch, we order a couple of Land Rovers and ponder the downfall of Mitsubishi. 


 

Why does car culture hate the Prius? How do you fail an American driving test? Is putting on makeup while drinking a Starbucks and driving a skill? Who are the people in the stance community? Who should play Micheal Knight in the new Knight Rider TV series? 

Ian brings in Stefaan, a prolific CarThrottle.com CTzen to answer some questions and go off on massive tangents talking about cars and occasionally CarThrottle itself.

In this episode Ian fields some more questions that cover cars such as the Nissan Sunny Estate, Vauxhall Astra, the new Honda Civic Type-R the MX-5 and BRZ. He also talks about where he lives and the importance of making a thing.

Ian answers questions courtesy of the Car Throttle community and talks about the Mazda RX9, Audi R8, BMW M1, Ford Fiesta, Volkswagon Beetle and the classic Mini.