Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program about trains, planes and automobiles

I’m David Brown

In this program we have:

1. Vfacts: Australian vehicle sales figures - The total market is down 8.4% (1:28)

2. Iacocca, the last of the supreme auto bosses, defined his generation (2:23)

3. Hyundai Motor Group Unveils World First CVVD Engine Technology (3:43)

4. Bubbles, bleeps and Linkin Park: electric cars now have to make strange noises by law (4:54)

5. Ford tackles last-mile delivery challenge with pedestrian couriers, algorithms (6:02)

6. We discuss the passing of Norma Dewis who worked for Jaguar for many years and was said to be Britain’s greatest test driver (9:12)

7. We have a chat to a bloke who owns a 1962 Holden utility while we were sitting in a 2019 Mitsubishi Triton. We could use his car because he wouldn’t take it out in the rain. (19:33)

8. There are five motoring minutes

• Ford Ranger (7:10)

• Honda CRV (8:00)

• Subaru Eyesight technology (18:32)

• Local pollution (17:39)

• Genesis (26:12)

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So, let’s start with the news

Originally broadcast 6 July 2019