Gears and Beers: The Unashamedly Unprofessional Automotive Podcast

It's a bit of a slow news week this week, but we persevere and end up with a great episode in the progress.

Joel, AKA 'Rent-A-Crowd', is back and brings up a brief topic about a gentleman who bought a car from Pagani without receiving vehicle papers making it impossible to register his new Pagani.

Joseph talks about Ford Australia following Ford USA and Ford UK in recalling the Focus RS due to the infamous head gasket issue plaguing the car.

Matt brings back the much loved topic 'What about this car?', and the car this week is a special one, which gets Joseph talking about the rental 2017 Prado he had the pleasure to drive recently.

We then talk about Mitsubishi, and how they haven't actually made a new car in almost a decade, however Matt likes them a lot... But it turns out Mitch and Matt are wrong, and Mitsubishi is actually selling like crazy.

Then we discuss which 4x4 utes we like, which turns into discussing what is the next Real

We've made it to episode 30! It's hard to believe that we haven't killed each other by now, but here we are.

We start off by talking about Hyundai's new Veloster Turbo and Veloser N, which were both announced at the Detroit Motor Show.

Then, Joseph and Matt have an argument about turbocharging versus supercharging.

Mitch brings up Sergio Marchionne's comments on the FCA group not going electric, or autonomous, any time soon.

Joseph brings up the Toyota GR Super Sport concept car from Tokyo Auto Salon, and Mercedes update to the G-Wagen.

Matt's one contribution this week is asking if we would choose a Land Rover Defender or a Mercedes AMG G-Wagen... Which turns into a bit of an argument.

We then end on the Top Gear Cool Wall magnets.

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We're all here this week, Mitch, Joseph, Matt and Joel (AKA Rent-A-Crowd), and it's a properly interesting episode.

We bring back talking about beer. We realise that we've dropped the ball in terms of the 'Beer' part of 'Gears and  Beers', so we're making an effort to talk about beer more! This week, we drink Great Northerns, a trusty go-to for us lot.

Joseph then brings up vehicle modification laws in Queensland, specifically in regards to emissions and vehicle lifts, and insurance implications.

Mitch brings up an article from the Tokyo Auto Salon, about Dhaihatsu's plans to build custom cars for women.

We then bring back the Top Gear Cool Wall magnets, which leads into some intense debate/discussion.

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We are back! Well, at least Joseph and Matthew are (featuring the Rent-A-Crowd).

The first topic of 2018 is prestige cars coming out in 2018, that Joseph goes through incredibly slowly.

Joeseph then goes on a whopper of a rant about electric vehicles.... Then Matthew brings up electric motorcycles, for some reason.

Matthew then brings up comparisons;

Volkswagen Amarok and the Ford Ranger XLT. Kia Stinger 330Si Vs. Holden SS V Commodore Redline. Volkswagen Tiguan 162TSi Highline Vs. Subaru Forest XT Premium. Ford Mustang GT Fastback Vs. Holden SS V Commodore Redline. Volkswagen Amarok Vs. Holden Colorado Vs. Isuzu DMAX Vs. Toyota Hilux Vs. Ford Ranger Vs. Mitsubishi Triton.

The Rent-A-Crowd, Joel, then brings up his own topic of visiting supercar factories in Europe.

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We are back to our regularly scheduled programming!

This week, Matt teases us with clues as to which car he is in the process of buying, and we spend 20 minutes trying to work out what car he is buying.

We then talk about the Kia Stinger's ANCAP safety rating, which turns into a bit of a rant, which then transitions into a rant about the new Commodore and their marketing campaign.

Lastly we talk about the new Jeeb Cherokee Trackhawk, which causes a divided opinion between us 3.

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As we said in the in the introduction to this episode, the audio quality of this episode leaves a bit to be desired. However, the actual content is quality.

We start this week's episode with a 5 minute argument about unequal length headers versus equal length headers on Subaru's.

We then discuss the new McLaren Senna, which causes mixed opinions from us, and the Lamborghini Urus makes us all angry for many reasons.

Joseph brings up HSV and the future of the performance arm of Holden, or as Joseph calls it the "Bogan M Division", which then tangets onto the Chevy Camaro coming to Australia (which turns into an argument between Matt and Joseph).

Joseph then bursts a blood vessel raging about Wheels and Motor Magazine and their blantant bias towards Holden when they compare any vehicle with a Commodore.

We then do the much loved Top Gear Cool Wall magnets.

If you made it to the end, we hope you enjoyed the episode despite the poor audio quality.

Due to a technical error, this weeks episode is a little late...

We have a special guest on this episode, his name is Joel. Joel was previously the Rent-A-Crowd, but has ascended to be a panel guest… And while he has never owned a car, he has drunk many a beer, so he’s at least 50% qualified to be on our pokey lil podcast. We crack into it with an argument about motorbikes, Joel’s area of expertise… Afterwhich we get on topic and talk about cars, specifically the LA Motor Show.

We start talking about Mazda’s commitment to keeping cars about the driver, rather just an autonomous tool to get from A to B. We then transition into a discussion about the MX5, the 86, and the Aussie exclusive 70 Series Toyota Landcruiser.

Mitch introduces a new segment called ‘Watt the Fuck?’, the first topic is Elon Musk sending his Tesla Roadster to Mars orbit, which is bloody awesome.

Matt asks the panel “what is the most ‘Basic Bitch’ car?“, which turns out to be t

Matt is back, and it's like he never left as he's still a bastard...

We first discuss the new Aston Martin Vantage powered  by a 4.0L twin-turbo V8 from AMG. Matt talks about his 3 weeks in Perth, featuring homeless people and a Toyota Corolla rental. Matt then sets the record straight on his position on Tesla, and electric vehicles after Joseph insinuated the other week on the podcast that Matt is anti-electric. We then talk about some as-yet unreported BREAKING NEWS from Lamborghini (literally nobody else has reported this). Joseph then brings up the topic (argument) of 'BUILT vs BOUGHT', which quickly dissolves into chaos and Matt ends up on the floor laughing. Finally, with the return of Matt, brings the return of 'The Cool Wall' Top Gear Australia fridge magnet game, which we introduced a month ago, but didn't feel quite right to do without Matt being here.

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It's still just Mitch and Joseph again this week, I honestly don't know if we'll recognise Matt when - if - he returns! This week, we discuss the newly announced Tesla Roadster which has a claimed 10,000nm of torque! Absolutely ludicrous! Joseph brings up the amazing new Singer / Williams Porsche 964 911, then we have an argument over which car make is better; Porsche or Ferrari. We then discuss the unbelievable prices on the BMW M2 Pure's options list. Then we let the cat out of the bag and talk about the car we've had in for review, the MG MG3 courtesy of Brisbane MG. We really like the MG3 and spend a good amount of time discussing it, we've also got a video review and a written review due to be out by the time the next podcast episode goes live.

Brisbane MG; www.brisbanemg.com.au

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Matt's still away, so it's just Mitch and Joseph again. It's bit of a slow news week this week, because SEMA was last week and all the interesting stuff has already been released. 

The first topic we discussed is 'The American' (Mike Skinner) being killed off for Season 2 of The Grand Tour, which will please some people and will probably disappoint some as well. We then talk about the suspension on Mitch's 86 failing after 60,000k's, and how Mitch and Joseph spent a Sunday afternoon replacing both rear struts. Joseph introduces a new topic called 'Just No', in which he talks about a crappy billboard advertisement and a particularly ugly car for sale in a car dealership. We also tanget on Hyundai Excel's for quite some time, but can you blame us? They're brilliant little cars. Many tangents are to be found in this episode... So many tangents.

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