Overdrive: Past car ads - the good, bad and ugly; Hyundai Kona EV; Misleading hybrid sale figures

1. Joke from a listener

2. An engineer turned comedian gives an example of the poor use of statistics

3. Why two-wheel-drive utes sell in small numbers

4. We review a historic film of road construction. How has the presentation of transport projects changed

5. A review of some specific aspects of the latest car sales figures

6. A road test the Hyundai Kona EV

7. An interview with Bruce Potter on past car advertising headlines that worked really well and those that did not.

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• Paul Murrell

• Bruce Potter

• Listener Alfie

• Hyundai Australia

• Mark Wesley

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Originally broadcast 15 June 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive a cars and transport program where you don’t have to be a rev head to enjoy it.

In this program we look at

• Some reflections on why switches are better than touch screens and great headlines on car ads

• A young person tries a new car

• Road Test of the Nissan Navara 4X Pro

• Some things from the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management’s panel session I moderated on the subject “Emerging Technologies and Innovations in Transport”.

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Originally broadcast 8 June 2024

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• Mitchel Ferguson

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G’Day and welcome to Overdrive a program that looks at cars and transport from a variety of angles.

In this program we look at

• Queensland has made Public Transport trips 50c but not zero. Is it a good idea

• New road safety ad from South Aust Police – will it do any good

• Self-driving vehicles expected on UK roads by 2026 following new legislation

• America’s heavy tax on Chinese EVs and China’s possible retaliation and

• Road test – Alfa Romeo Tonale

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I'm David Brown. Thanks for listening.

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Originally broadcast 1 June 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive a program that looks at all forms of transport from the humble bike through to a rocket powered spaceship.

In this program we look at

• An adventure in an electric vehicle that did not deliver the range it promised

• The government’s approach to the increasing road toll

• There’s a motoring link to a survey of the sexiest man in Britain – prepare for a shock

• Creating a car model name – can AI help

• A brief history of Bristols – the motor car brand

• Hyundai gives us the gossip on their i30N, and

• We road test the Pajero Sport

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Originally broadcast 25 May 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive a program that looks at the different ways we get around, from walking, riding, or in cars, buses, trains or planes and their impact on our culture

In the program Paul Murrell and I discuss

• Toyota considering an alternative to the Mazda MX-5

• Is the manual gearbox doomed?

• Converting classic cars to electric power

• 60 years of the Porsche 911

• Volvo launces a new EV

• A road test of the GWM Tank 500

• Collecting Data for Government policy

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Originally broadcast 18 May 2024

G’day and welcome to Overdrive, a program where we look at the wide and wonderful world of motoring and transport and its impact on culture

I’m David Brown

In the program Paul Murrell and I discuss

1. Tesla downsizing its effort on electric vehicle chargers

2. Euro car designers jumping ship to Chinese companies.

3. More Collective nouns

• “a Protrusion of Bristols”

4. Road Test of the Hyundai i30N

5. Some history of the Hispano Suiza including their latest efforts

6. Collecting data from vehicles for fleet management just what can you find out.

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Originally broadcast 11 May 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program about all sorts of things to do with motoring and transport and its impact on our culture

I’m David Brown

In the program Paul Murrell and I hold forth on

Ambassadors

• Following on from last week, some comments from our young intern regarding the interview we did last week on car brand ambassadors

Collective nouns

• We know about collective nouns such as a murder of crows or a parliament of owls.

What about some for cars – Paul has a great one for Standard motor cars.

Changes to national road rules

• Apparently, there has been some further efforts to standardise road rules

Road test – Subaru BRZ

• Just how many sports cars are there on sales in Australia and how does the Subaru BRZ stack up

Train Trip

• Our artist in residence Dean Oliver took the train to Broken Hill. He reports on the experience

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Originally broadcast 4 May 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program that investigates matters to do with motoring and transport and their impact on our culture

I’m David Brown

In the program Paul Murrell from seniordriveraus.com and I pontificate on

• Are brand ambassadors worth the effort

• Bicycle Day

• Road test the Subaru Impreza

• MG’s Cyberster – EV convertible

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Originally broadcast 27 April 2024

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, where we take a populous approach to issues about cars and transport.

I’m David Brown

In the program Paul Murrell from seniordriveraus.com and I deliberate on

• Car sales so far this year - Is it a correction or huge on-going trend

• There’s a new ute on the Australian market and we don’t mean the KIA

• Geographic boundaries and naming your car

• Our young intern discusses the Nissan X-trail

• Are the first Honda motor cars s600/s800 becoming collectable

• And we look at the history of eight sports cars that didn’t really make it

Originally broadcast 20 April 2024

A more detail rundown of the program

Car Sales for the first quarter of 2024

01:42

It is indeed now the FCAI, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, has heralded the results for March this year, saying they surpassed the previous record, which was achieved in March 2018 and in fact year to date.

Could the reason be that Toyota is finally appearing to have some supply to be able to sell.

03:55

Toyota must be very happy with the fact that hybrids are doing well. That is part of their big marketing.

04:21

Full electrics are about 9% of new car sales. Again is this just catching up with the rest of the world which is now showing some caution with electric vehicles

06:24

Federal Chamber of Automotive industries use the occasion to cast doubt about the New Vehicle Efficiency Standards

Another New Ute of the Australian Market

07:50

There's a newcomer to the Australian market and it's not the Kia at this age, although that is coming.

Is it?

10:00

China has many brands there were that we have never heard of.

11: 30

Other brands with utes, such as Great Wall Motors. LDV and SsangYong had a pretty good run but they are not doing as well this year.

12:54

How are the Pickups – the bigger than big utes going.

RAM is down. New playes such as the Ford F150 and some upgraded versions of Chevrolet Silverado are doing well

Alfa Romeo has a geographic name problem

14:11 DB

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Shakespeare?

Alpha launched a new model and it's sort of a successor to the MiTo. So it's a small SUV, basically.

Nissan X-Trail

19:15

Over the last year, Nissan has upgraded four of its important models. The three SUV's and their sporty Z, and included in the SUV's is their most popular.

One of our young interns has had a look inside it and had.

Very much a prominent front end. So my initial thought was it's a big, big SUV. But as I kind of worked my way from the front to the back, it kind of became more normal. More familiar.

20:27

And the colour the sort of pastel they're they're bringing out rich coloured pastels. If that's not almost a contradiction, it's a very serious paint job, but it's not bright red.

Could The Honda S600 from the late 1960s be worth something

28:44

Haggerty, which is the American Classic insurance have noted that a number of cars cars are showing specific signs of gaining in value.

Some are the very early tiny little sports cars from Honda the S600 and S800.

Paul Murrell owned one. Did he regret selling it?

30:11

It was a delightful little car, a jewel of a car.

Sports cars that didn’t quite make it

33:27

MG VA (1937)

36: 19

Chevrolet Corvette (1953)

40:13

Mercedes-Benz 190SL (1955)

42:13

Porsche 912 (1965)

44:04

De Tomaso Mangusta (1967)

48:09

MGC (1967)

51:59

Ford Capri (1969)

56:25

De Lorean DMC-12 (1981)

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, where we experiment with ideas and activities to do with cars and transport and their impact on our culture.

I’m David Brown

In the program we are joined by motoring journalist Paul Murrell to ruminate on

1. The gentleman who renovated his house so that he can keep his HQ Holden Monaro in the lounge room

2. The Mazda CX-3 and the image of Mazda that has made it successful but will it continue.

3. Look at executive vehicles and compare the Audi e-tron with the Kia EV9.

4. Discuss the carbon footprint of classic cars.

A more detail rundown of the program

Making an HQ Holden Monaro a lounge room feature

00:01:47

A Queensland man renovates his home and who's put this HQ Holden in his lounge room.

We tend to sort of put cars on a pedestal, both literally and figuratively. If you're in that much in love with a car, you wanna be looking at it more often. And if it's all locked away in the garage, then you probably don't see it as often as you would like.

Mazda CX-3 How does it fit the Mazda Image

00:09:48

Mazda sales o far this year are done a bit, but it has been #2 for a while.

But they have been the quiet achiever in many ways.

They tend to be well put together. Interiors in particular are nice, so people judge them almost on a on an out of date image if you like. They haven't really changed a great deal. They've had their odd issues here and there, but they present as cars slightly better than their price would suggest.

They have the CX3, they have the CX 30 and then they have the MX30 and you and I of course deal with these things all the time and even we get confused about which is which.

Mazda owns the elegant small SUV image if you like.

Kia EV9 versus an Audi e-tron – Which is the best executive car

00:19:54

Driving the Kia EV9. It is a large, some say ugly SUV. All electric with good electric performance and a lot of features to it. Then I hopped into an Audi sedan, a big sedan, the E Tron GT, and it made me think if I was an executive of a large company and wanted to both be pampered and appear to be pampered, I wonder which one I'd take.

You would never normally put those two cars in the same in the same ballpark, in the same sentence. I mean, the Audi E, Tron GT and the Kia EV9 are, on almost any level, very different vehicles.

But the back seat of large sedans are only comfortable when you push the front passenger seat as far forward as possible.

Whereas if you sit in the back of the EV9, there’s a lot of room and the top of the range EV9 has heated and cooled seats in the front AND second row of seats.

The EV9 is well suited for the executive trip to the airport.

In the upper large sedans and it's over $100,000 category, the Porsche Panamera is #1, but don't get too excited about it so far this year (the first quarter of 2024) they've sold 12.

Paul, yes, indeed, David. You should know that by now. I am a great fan of classic cars and.

How much do Classic cars contribute to pollution

00:36:33

You also know that I've objected fairly strenuously to the barrage of PR we're getting about electric vehicles are going to save the world. Well, not perhaps as much as we would have thought. A recent study by Footman James, who is a UK classic car insurer, has claimed that classic cars are in fact greener than E vehicles.

Its all to do with the amount of energy to produce a new car.

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Originally broadcast 13 April 2024