In this week's episode, James Cleary, Richard Berry, and James Lisle start off the episode as always with Muskwatch (0:50), where they are surprised to hear about Elon's apologies for his erratic behaviour of late, even more surprised about Tesla's 15% stock jump, and less surprised about his Twitter attempt at a Hitler related meme.

In other news, Richard has just returned from the local Mercedes-Benz A-Class launch and gives us a rundown (05:00), J3 has just returned from his motoring-themed pilgrimage to Malaysia and Thailand and gives us the highlights (06:50), and the Toyota Corolla pricing and specs have been confirmed (10:40).

The first Camaros bound for right-hand drive conversion have been spotted in Melbourne (13:35), Hyundai has commissioned a survey of the 40 greatest movie cars of all time (19:25), and the new car market went backwards in July (25:05).

An Aussie has built a Lego version of the Falcon 'Barra' in-line six, and it's amazing (26:45), is Danny Ricky's move to Renault in 2019 a genius move or a brain explosion (28:40), and what have we been driving this week? (31:20)

James Cleary, Richard Berry, and James Lisle tear down, pressure test and rebuild the issues of the automotive week.

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