Road test

• Quiet achiever – the Mazda CX-5 medium SUV which has a system to control the infotainment screen that I think is very good

Interview

• The road authority in Sydney had built one of the most complex spaghetti junction in Australia. Our traffic engineering expert Alan Finlay gives runs his expert eye over its purpose design and the signposting of the project.

Thought of the Week

Dean gives his view on the trend for flat grey car colours – he calls them “sludge grey”.

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Originally broadcast 25 November 2023

Road test

• Nissan X-trail – part of Nissan’s revival – including an interview with Paul Murrell who is the founder of Senior Driver Aus.

Interview

Origin energy now has a department of eMobility. The role is to help people effectively use electric vehicles. They now run a subscription service for some electric vehicles where you can use a vehicle for 30 days to try it out. Then keep it as long as you like or , give it back, swap to another vehicle or swap during the year when you need a different vehicle such as when you go on holidays.

We chat to Origin’s General Manager of eMobility Chau Le.

Quote of the Week

Fake Carbon Fiber

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Originally broadcast 18 November 2023

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive a program that ponders the purpose of cars and transport

I’m David Brown

Road test

• Polestar 2 which had recently been upgraded

Interviews

One interview we catch up with our Melbourne correspondent Chris who has gone for a very cost effective van to do a bit of camping as has some recent experiences of overseas transport systems.

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Originally broadcast 11 November 2023

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program that practices what it preaches, most of the time, on the subject of cars and transport.

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Road test

• Mahindra XUV 700 (Medium SUV – Mahindra is an Indian company)

Interviews

One interview but we range over a variety of aspects of electric cars from the defensive and outspoken comments from Toyota who appear to be behind in the development of full electric cars to some unexpected practical aspects of their uses

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Originally broadcast 4 November 2023

G’Day Welcome to Overdrive, a program that proudly gives you the alternative facts to all aspects of motoring and transport.

I’m David Brown

Road test

Peugeot e 2008 electric small SUV

Interviews

With the 50th anniversary of the Opera House we look at how a technical group took a different transport approach to cope with the crowds – it was a start of not treating the car as a god.

And we talk to Alan Finally about his transport reflections from a trip through Vietnam and Cambodia

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Originally broadcast 28 October 2023

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program that ponders the philosophical and practical aspects of motoring and transport.

I’m David Brown

Road test

Chery Omoda5 – Chinese Small SUV

Interviews

There are hints coming from Japan that Toyota may make a new Celica – we discuss the history of the previous models

We can to a gentleman who made, from the ground up, a replica of the 1960s exotic endurance race car the Ford GT40.

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Originally broadcast 21 October 2023

G’Day this is Overdrive a program about the facts, the fun and the fiction of motoring and transport

I’m David Brown

Road test of the Toyota Camry

Feature interview

With Evan Jones

• Bathurst 1000 (he was an official at the event) – good event but may be some trouble brewing

• Road test Hyundai Ioniq 6

• The role of volunteers in motor sport

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Originally broadcast 14 October 2023

G’Day this is Overdrive a program about trains, planes and automobiles, but mainly automobiles.

I’m David Brown

Some feedback from a listener supporting our call to stop cars making unnecessary beeping noises

We chat to our resident mechanical engineer Fred Brain with his laconic reflections of driving on long trips.

And we have a quintessential example of how politicians have replaced thoughtful, technically excellent public servants with content ignorant, politically focused managers.

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Originally broadcast 7 October 2023

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the facts, fantasises and fallacies of anything to do with motoring and transport.

I’m David Brown

Some feedback making a long car trip

• Lovely towns on the old highway but they were locations where you could get booked

• Driving when you were tired

• An unusual (and unsafe?) way to cope with the fog over the Blue Mountains.

An interview about Sydney to Melbourne trips with Alan Finlay – traffic engineer – very articulate, personable but also very precise in his memories

An interview with a young lady who is using artificial intelligence not to make conclusions but to give insights on which humans can make more informed conclusions

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Originally broadcast 30 September 2023

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the factors affecting our attitude and actions to motoring and transport.

I’m David Brown

We start the programme by talking about the reasons we chose to drive from Sydney to Melbourne as opposed to flying or catching the train and play some vox pops of people we meet along the way.

We then talk to our road test expert Evan Jones about the Subaru Crosstrek a small SUV formerly know as the XV

And then we ask Evan about his long trips in a variety of different cars from the elegant saloon to the Lotus sports car

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Originally broadcast 23 September 2023