Just Going For A Drive

It finally happened. The driving event that has haunted the imaginations and even dreams of every car enthusiast and beyond: a boom gate gave someone the ol' chop-chop. Nick and Sam can't wait to bring you this absolutely true story. Also, there's a new Bugatti out, it's got a V16 engine, might be the new standard for The Last Age of Combustion Engines blah blah blah etc. But you have GOT to hear about this goddamn boom gate. And if that weren't enough dreams coming true: if you've ever heard of Singer Porsche (and if you listen to this podcast, you sure have) and have come up with the genius concept of how they should, like, do it for other cars, then man oh man, are we sorry to say that you're on the same level as Nick and Sam. Because not only is there a Singer company for another car, but it's for the goddam Datto. Yup. The same car you couldn't bring yourself not to hang shit on in high school, even though you yourself still had to borrow your Mum's Fiesta. Now they're beautiful. And we tell you why.

Join us on another fun-filled episode of ... Just Going For a Drive.

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It's time to zone out, turn off your brain, and receive a call from your loved ones while piloting a two-tonne kill-machine through a blank space in your memory that you'll never get back. That's right: it's another whacky mind massage from the Just Going For A Drive lads! We take you back through history with the power and the passion of phones in cars, reminisce about those big, Big, BIG numbers we've seen roll over (mostly), and break the exclusive story that ... cyclists are actually real people. Don't believe us? (And the research tells us you probably don't!) Then listen in for our feature car of the week, the not-so-humble, VW Golf R.

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On this BUMPER episode (yes, we're that good), Nick and Sam return with a vengeance to tell the Truth About Red Lights like it is and probably isn't. We've certainly had the chance to think about it, stuck at the same crossing, for no reason, for a mathematically impossible number of times. You'll hear all the latest about The New Porsches, The New Bugatti and most thrillingly the time our odometers rolled over a significantly high number! But, speaking of significantly high: our feature car will get you there. The one and only Aventador. You know it. We love it. We saw one once and we're pretty sure a local mob boss has deemed us "no threat whatsoever".

Do you agree? You'll need to listen in to find out. Enjoy our extra special return to the ... airwaves? No. Podwaves? Is that a thing?

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Just like school parents from side-streets at 3:28pm, the episodes are coming at you thick and fast, and stupid! Nick and Sam leap back onto the recording couch (it's more of a chaise, but we don't want to sound pretentious Siri edit that last bit out I don't want to sound pretentious) for another hot hour dissecting 2024's latest terrible driving move. We've even given it a name that potentially opens up litigation! Listen in to find out! We shift gears (amazing! Siri! Find out whether anyone has used that joke before) to tell tales of our care-free, knowledge-free youths, when we couldn't tell the difference between a knob and a rack and why that's only funny to people who know the names of car parts, and even then, not that funny. Learner drivers are all around, and deserve our care, applause and, according to some: judgement for having terrible parent instructors.

Sam also takes us through what it's like to attend a car meet on steroids (the car meet, not Sam - he's all natural): The 2024 Adelaide Motorsport Festival.

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Once again, Nick has talked his way behind the wheel of a premium automobile, and is ready to share his impressions, his tips, and his definite plans to probably maybe start to consider possibly finding out if he might be keen to look into purchase options in the future. Just Going For A Drive is BACK with a beaver-teeth-to-quad-pipe review of the mighty, terrifying BMW M4. Six twin-turbo-charged cylinders of podcast-fuelled fury!

Plus, we continue our series of car-based romance advice*, and drop in what's been going on in the world of roads, driving, and how the Betoota Advocate stole one of our stories.

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Coming at you from beautiful Downtown Glenelg, Sam and Nick drop their hot takes on the very best that Adelaide's booming car scene has to offer. We feature all the All Japan Day car meet has to offer and more, recorded from the Just Going For A Drive Mobile itself: Sam's Nissan! Meet our surprise special guests, who were surprised to have a microphone jammed in their face from a Good+ quality JDM special.

Plus, we pass on the finest dating advice available from two mid-tier specimens like ourselves to anyone who thinks cars make a difference.

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Top speed talk. Real talk. Don't speed, people. Don't top speed, bottom speed, side speed. Anything. Just settle into the slow lane and listen to Nick and Sam dance carefully around claiming any sort glamour around whether going fast is really the point of driving. Plus, we get into the strangely slow death of music in cars. Where are the pumping subs? The teenagers with definite hearing problems? The actual fans of comedy hip-hop? Let us ask you this: do you keep singing to your favourite Celine Dion song when you're stopped at the lights? Or do you chicken out?

And, speaking of take-out chicken: we mull over the ubiquity of the car industry's answer to the rotisserie chicken: the Toyota Camry. You don't even need to think about it. Just get one for your family and the job is complete.

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WELCOME to Season 2 of your favourite podcast. The driving one you can listen to while driving and thinking about driving. In this blockbusting, bumper-to-bumper episode, we boggle our minds at the thrills, spills and dills that are Australia's holiday season streets. We eulogise the dead (yes: DEAD) icon of holiday motoring: the humble, practical station wagon. Sam pays tribute to the multi-generational family mechanic of more than 35 years, and Nick overcomes his prejudice against all American cars with perhaps the first fitting entry into the automotive Hall of Fame (which isn't a thing, but we've got to start somewhere).

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Worry not, dear Just Drivers! We are back. Sam and Nick stagger from the post-Xmas pit stop to give the latest on car races, proper meet manners, and whether we just might do a Xmas episode. We warm up the vocal chords and moan about petrol prices.

Set a new lap record on our latest bonus episode. And tell us: do you have a car tat?

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Burning rubber! Slowly. And unevenly. Damn. How are wheel-alignments where our lives are at now? Sam and Nick tread carefully through the sticky world of tyres, and teach you how to change a flat, as well as how to avoid the embarrassing tutting of the Mobile Mechanic who has to come and torque off that last nut. Come and find out what the hell we're talking about, and decide whether you are really okay with filling up from both sides of the car.

Our feature car this week is an eternal classic. Is it the true definition of attainable supercar? Will you request overnight parts ... from Japan?

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