I love a Friday night here, in Australia, when the podcast drops, l turn on the TV, open a bottle of Shiraz, and enjoy 90 minutes of "bloke talk". Thanks guys!
Beano Fridays. Not to pour cold water. Pray that we don’t lose a single member. A recipe of wonderful knowledge , great personalities. Where else do we get this endless entertainment. I’ve started listening at the beginning again. It’s still brilliant. Thank you as always guys.
The collective noise everyone made after Manish said Jensen Interceptor beautifully sums up what it means to be a car enthusiast. Smashing podcast as always gentlemen, keep up the great work.
i am glad to see the hosts in casual friday attire rather than in the collecting cars vests that everyone apart from the sartorial mre c was wearing at goodwood [ i missed a few episodes sorry ]. as an aside does , manish do casual friday , he always seems to be a little bit more sartorial than the rest time to do some driving for pleasure not profit
For some reason half way through i started watching with my sunglasses on. I also 100% agree with Manish about the Jensen Interceptor. A stunningly beautiful car.
The S Class Mercedes was the car that introduced all the technology that other brands would later adopt. It was the leader in automotive developments. The cutting edge. But today even your Kia has most if this tech onboard now. So what can a new S Class offer? Surely automotive development has peaked? The S Class has led us to the peak and can now simply rest on the three pointed star and look back k and say to itself, well done.
While they will continue to offer the newest tech in the S-Class, what it offers now are outstanding materials, design, and safety in a very sold chassis.
Best one yet and that’s saying a lot, I’ve listened to them all from the very beginning and you guys really tore it up this time. Too many examples to cite here, but everyone got his turn in with some absolute pearls. This has become so much more than just a car podcast.
O my word, this was the best episode yet. Intelligent, thought provoking, laugh out loud at times, ever so slightly chauvinistic (but don’t go any further as that would be so passé). It’s just the best thing to watch / listen to every week.
The Espace 2 also had a huge central 'box' (too big to be a glovebox). Neil as an ex BMW dealer, BMW glove boxes took some beating, and you are correct - the torch was soooo important and much appreciated by customers.
I was unsure about this at first being a 90s baby, but these guys all have interesting perspectives on cars and life. Manish Pandey to me sounds like the most talented man that ever lived. A doctor, a film maker and a IT techy is what I’ve noted so far
Re supply and demand of new cars, 30+ years ago I recall buying my new 2wd Sapphire Cosworth (from Peoples Liverpool) for £6k off list because Ford had forced them to take 50 in stock and they had 30 to shift before the end of the quarter #goodolddays
Music and story: I worked at a British car specialist for over a decade. MG’s, Triumphs, AH, and other oddities. After a few years, I finally got what I wanted most: 1972 MGB GT. Started a rolling restoration almost immediately. Part of it was a complete gutting of the interior for all new bits. After doing seats, panels, and headliner, I could not bring myself to cutting into anything to mount speakers so I researched speaker box construction and built some small boxes to hide speakers under the dash, the seats, and the small wasted space behind the tail lamps in the load area (GT owners will know what I mean). All this made for fantastic sound. One night, driving home from work the temps had dropped to around 65 F and the sky was cloudless. Windows down and exhaust humming. ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ by Sinatra comes on and I promptly turn it up and begin singing along. It was perfect. Temperature, car, night conditions, and mood all gelled together. You all will not read this but it’s a memory that sticks.
Excellent chat as always. I was surprised though that no one mentioned the glove box in the Ferrari Testarossa with the biggest vanity mirror ever fitted to a car 😂
Love that you mentioned the XJR, must be the most undervalued sporty saloon ever? When it comes to S-Class, Mercedes just sells far to many cars to be exclusive these days.
So much to enjoy here but as usual it’s the unexpected that delights the most. So particularly pleased to hear about 90’s MoS and especially house classics - on cassette! - such as Nalin & Kane 😂🤟 I had a bunch of Pete Tong shows on cassette including one where the Friday Night Hotmix started with a track that I recently rediscovered called “Mantra to the Bhudda” by Baby Doc and Dentist - a pumping goa trance number from c.1995. Thankfully a piece of VT on the beeb about the internet found it for me again (the original being pilfered from my car when it was inevitably stolen). Fond memories nonetheless.
I work for a Mercedes Benz dealer and I can vouch for you guys, almost all s-class we sell are sold into London (black, low spec) and of the few buyer users we do sell tend to be the other end of the spectrum (light color, light leather, heavily speccd) and in the days of "agency sales" i.e no discount, seeing a punter laying £120,000 on one the see it back in 3 years for £40k makes it hard to sleep at night😅
Good glovebox, Citroen C4 Cactus, in the top of the dashboard like an i3. Bad glovebox, Citroen and Peugeot right hand drive cars where half of it is taken up by the fuse box. Different glovebox, Toyota IQ didn’t have one, you had a bag that attached to the dashboard with studs. Another different glovebox, Hyundai Ioniq 5 has a pull out drawer, but only on the European ones, the American ones get a normal glovebox door.
The glovebox of the 1957-1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham just sums up 50's American excess. Inside contained a range of Cadillac branded solid silver accessories. These included a cigarette case, a ladies make-up compact, a perfume dispenser, a hair brush and a set of magnetised based shot glasses (so you don't spill your glass of Rye on the woven silk seats, of course!) I suppose it went some way to making it more than 2 times the price of a pontoon fender 250 Testarossa! At about $14,000 USD it was the world's most expensive car at the time.
That 997 is rainforest green, not oak green ;-) I do a 4 weeks euro trip every year with my wife and we almost always take a Boxster. There is TONS of luggage space, comfy, fast and economical. Literally the best touring car. And my wife gets car sick but never in a Boxster. If Penny gets car sick you need a quiet, comfy car (with cup holders and bag / coat storage in the cabin) And to be interesting for you needs to be engaging at low speed, so a 6/8 cyl manual. preferably a convertible.
I still have a bone to pick with y'all about the cool Keys debate, and cool driving shoes So on the cool Keys, I believe it was Mazda, who was notorious for weak keys, would snap if you sneezed in a stiff breeze. So 'Royal Clover's keys became a fashion statement to complement your ride. You could get anything from snoopy, hello kitty, playboy bunnies, to Canadian Coins surrounded by gems, or just a gold key with "FANCY" inscribed on it. As for shoes, there is this motorimg show out of Japan called best motoring, they road and track tests with road, tuner, and race cars. There's an old racer, Motoharu Kurosawa (Gansan) he was always known for his crazy footwork, making the clutch slip to keep revs up in corners to keep speed, insane defense on track, throttle control was always perfection. There's several videos of him in loafers and white socks wringing the neck of some automobile whether it be in a closed street course, or green hell. The man is a menace behind the wheel Epic Podcast as always please keep it up my boys!
Current 718 Spyder owner who tried and failed to get a Spyder RS allocation. Frustrating to think they just give them to the guy who buys everything who most likely will not want but will take knowing he can keep for 6 months and then flip for overs.
it's important to remember that for most people when they step in an s class it's unlike anything they've ever been in (I have 2), so it's not exactly just a taxi! (I get the point though)
What killed the S Class for me is when Merc decides that their entire line up needed to look the same. If I’m spending $100k+ on a car, it needs to have more design and presence than the $30k offering in the line up.
The car that needs to come back to production is the Honda S2000. By today's standards, it still competes very well against the MX-5. It was built at the perfect time that it had modern underpinnings while keeping the analogue feel.
Ive been enjoying the podcast for months and just now i realise its on youtube aswell. And I must say after obly listening to your voices for so long, being able to see your faces was quite shocking. I would have never guessed that mr. copper had hair.
Oi Lovett, on Episode 22 around 56-58min you said "ascetically pleasing". An ascetic is somebody who renounces earthly possessions, like Diagones in Ancient Greece who lived in a bucket. Did that indicator stalk you were discussing make you want to live in a freaking bucket, or did you mean aesthetically pleasing?? This comment is intended ironically in satire of typical RUclips comment tone, but also to educate Lovett in because that's worse than nukular mate, and everyone else seems to pile in on Lovett for some reason and it's funny. Much love
What if Penny gets carsick because she is handy behind the wheel. I never got travel sick until I was a driver. But sharing the driving is tricky. For the European leg I am taking a Citroen C6 V6 Vignale in burgundy with cream leather (suitable fettled before leaving) then in the states I am finding a Lincoln Towncar convertible and just waft the miles.
MotoGP - I know this is a car podcast but you guys need to discuss. It’s a different class of motorsport compared to F1 and the U.K. audience needs to give it some love. The British GP was fantastic, more action in 1 race than a whole F1 season.
American based Porsche dealer here (well, sales) . Ask me anything 😂 No stuffed envelopes here but we charge market values. GT3 RRP + 100k, same for Touring. The situation is that out of control, even base 911 have an adjustment. Don't shoot the messenger by the way. Keep it civil.
Bring one car back? Taking Manish's Jensen Interceptor a little further, an Iso Grifo. I watched Iain Tyrrell's video of one the other day and I fell hook, line and sinker for it, again.
I witnessed a man take his son to first class on a delta flight in Rome and saw his wife in the back of the plane. 14 hour flight to Atlanta. Absolutely nuts
Best bit about Fridays!!!
My godfather was Sales Director of Jensen 1968-1974. Used to come round in these beasts. I was around 5. Still stuck in my mind.
I love a Friday night here, in Australia, when the podcast drops, l turn on the TV, open a bottle of Shiraz, and enjoy 90 minutes of "bloke talk". Thanks guys!
Only Chris Cooper can bring up a nuclear fuel handling machine when talking about his favourite glovebox, haha.
Haha whilst taking 10 minutes to answer a simple question .
I still can't wrap my head around how Manish is the coolest man on this podcast, but he has only owned one car.
That might be why he’s the coolest.
I’m the coolest guy I know and I’ve only ever had my beige-on-beige VW Jetta Wagon VR6 5-speed - so that computes with me!
How he can be on a collecting cars podcast regular...he needs to buy more cars
Manish.. is he blind?
Chris' avoidance towards a direct answer is why we love him so much 😂
He sounds like a long winded Harry Metcalf. I enjoy learning from his monologues but they are also exhausting as well.
Beano Fridays. Not to pour cold water. Pray that we don’t lose a single member. A recipe of wonderful knowledge , great personalities. Where else do we get this endless entertainment. I’ve started listening at the beginning again. It’s still brilliant. Thank you as always guys.
The problem with the Disco 4 glovebox is it's attached to the Disco 4.
😂
The collective noise everyone made after Manish said Jensen Interceptor beautifully sums up what it means to be a car enthusiast.
Smashing podcast as always gentlemen, keep up the great work.
i am glad to see the hosts in casual friday attire rather than in the collecting cars vests that everyone apart from the sartorial mre c was wearing at goodwood [ i missed a few episodes sorry ].
as an aside does , manish do casual friday , he always seems to be a little bit more sartorial than the rest
time to do some driving for pleasure not profit
Here we go again. Listening to the best podcast when working on my vintage motorcyle 😊
Cracking.
I love how Chris Cooper kept derailing the entire episode 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'd happily pay for a weekly 1hr Chris Cooper monologue
It could be a RUclips Short, or probably several RUclips Shorts 😂
For some reason half way through i started watching with my sunglasses on. I also 100% agree with Manish about the Jensen Interceptor. A stunningly beautiful car.
The S Class Mercedes was the car that introduced all the technology that other brands would later adopt. It was the leader in automotive developments. The cutting edge. But today even your Kia has most if this tech onboard now. So what can a new S Class offer? Surely automotive development has peaked? The S Class has led us to the peak and can now simply rest on the three pointed star and look back k and say to itself, well done.
Also don't forget Volvo
While they will continue to offer the newest tech in the S-Class, what it offers now are outstanding materials, design, and safety in a very sold chassis.
Best one yet and that’s saying a lot, I’ve listened to them all from the very beginning and you guys really tore it up this time. Too many examples to cite here, but everyone got his turn in with some absolute pearls. This has become so much more than just a car podcast.
O my word, this was the best episode yet. Intelligent, thought provoking, laugh out loud at times, ever so slightly chauvinistic (but don’t go any further as that would be so passé).
It’s just the best thing to watch / listen to every week.
The Espace 2 also had a huge central 'box' (too big to be a glovebox).
Neil as an ex BMW dealer, BMW glove boxes took some beating, and you are correct - the torch was soooo important and much appreciated by customers.
I usually listen to this on spotify but this episode hasn't dropped yet, so here I am and what a treat it is to see all these handsome faces 😂
Glovebox chat. Current Hyundai Ioniq 5, which is also a huge "glove drawer".
I’m US based and I love this. I recommend it to all my car loving friends
Favourite glove box - Griffith - push to open and confused the hell out of everyone, much like all the other buttons in a TVR
How good is Mr Cooper smashing a couple beers and then speaking solid truths!
Smashing pumpkins 1979 shout gets a thumbs up from me. One of my leaving the hospital late and enjoying a cool summer breeze on the drive home songs!
The best one yet .. love it!
Ive been bingewatching these the last 2 weeks. Keep em coming
Everytime Chris C puts his sunglasses it makes me smile
Here we go again. Best podcast ever. 👏
This is the greatest podcast in the world!
BTW, United and American Airlines fly non stop from Rome to Chicago!
I was unsure about this at first being a 90s baby, but these guys all have interesting perspectives on cars and life. Manish Pandey to me sounds like the most talented man that ever lived. A doctor, a film maker and a IT techy is what I’ve noted so far
Such a awesome podcast this. Please continue the awesome content 💪
"So... I'm ignoring Penny's fucking car sickness. I'm buying a convertible. She can just throw up over the side of the car" 🤣
Couldn't wait until 4am to watch this today! Bonkers fun, each week surpasses the previous episodes. Botty Gravy 😂😂😂
Re supply and demand of new cars, 30+ years ago I recall buying my new 2wd Sapphire Cosworth (from Peoples Liverpool) for £6k off list because Ford had forced them to take 50 in stock and they had 30 to shift before the end of the quarter #goodolddays
54:03. Great photo
46:28 thanks Edward. That was my first thought except, I don’t let my little ones play with firearms… most would agree that’s frowned upon…
Love you guys.. but to be a little more specific, the S-Class Cabriolets are lovely and not at all commercial.
Great episode, brilliant podcast gents. Cheers 👌🍻
Glad you enjoyed it!
As usual, brilliant
Music and story: I worked at a British car specialist for over a decade. MG’s, Triumphs, AH, and other oddities. After a few years, I finally got what I wanted most: 1972 MGB GT. Started a rolling restoration almost immediately. Part of it was a complete gutting of the interior for all new bits. After doing seats, panels, and headliner, I could not bring myself to cutting into anything to mount speakers so I researched speaker box construction and built some small boxes to hide speakers under the dash, the seats, and the small wasted space behind the tail lamps in the load area (GT owners will know what I mean). All this made for fantastic sound. One night, driving home from work the temps had dropped to around 65 F and the sky was cloudless. Windows down and exhaust humming. ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ by Sinatra comes on and I promptly turn it up and begin singing along. It was perfect. Temperature, car, night conditions, and mood all gelled together. You all will not read this but it’s a memory that sticks.
Emergency mints, brilliant!!!!!!!!
As Matthew said, best but about Fridays!
Manish looking cooler than penguins piss as always! 😎 quality!! Best podcast by miles. 👌🏻
High praise for the MiniDisc. Love it. Also, USA has to be a Mustang Convertible!!
Nalin & Kane’s Beachball is an absolute banger. Great choice Edward!
Excellent chat as always. I was surprised though that no one mentioned the glove box in the Ferrari Testarossa with the biggest vanity mirror ever fitted to a car 😂
Good call!
utterly brilliant - the two car garage, was ace - Also now have to watch rather than listen to get the full story!
Yes! Bring back the X308 Jaguar!
R56 Mini has the best glovebox. A “hidden” storage compartment above the glovebox, opening by pressing what looks like a dashboard panel.
Love that you mentioned the XJR, must be the most undervalued sporty saloon ever?
When it comes to S-Class, Mercedes just sells far to many cars to be exclusive these days.
So much to enjoy here but as usual it’s the unexpected that delights the most. So particularly pleased to hear about 90’s MoS and especially house classics - on cassette! - such as Nalin & Kane 😂🤟
I had a bunch of Pete Tong shows on cassette including one where the Friday Night Hotmix started with a track that I recently rediscovered called “Mantra to the Bhudda” by Baby Doc and Dentist - a pumping goa trance number from c.1995. Thankfully a piece of VT on the beeb about the internet found it for me again (the original being pilfered from my car when it was inevitably stolen). Fond memories nonetheless.
Could you not think of the Lexus GSF as a modern equivalent to the X308 XJR?
I work for a Mercedes Benz dealer and I can vouch for you guys, almost all s-class we sell are sold into London (black, low spec) and of the few buyer users we do sell tend to be the other end of the spectrum (light color, light leather, heavily speccd) and in the days of "agency sales" i.e no discount, seeing a punter laying £120,000 on one the see it back in 3 years for £40k makes it hard to sleep at night😅
Why did the podcast drop off Apple Podcasts?
Now I can start my Friday. 👍🏾
Not too loud, not too stiff.
For the route 66. 💪💪💪💪
wasn't the 928 glovebox the first with A/C (when it works)?
Brilliant as usual
Love it, keep it going gents
Thank you! We will!
Good glovebox, Citroen C4 Cactus, in the top of the dashboard like an i3. Bad glovebox, Citroen and Peugeot right hand drive cars where half of it is taken up by the fuse box. Different glovebox, Toyota IQ didn’t have one, you had a bag that attached to the dashboard with studs. Another different glovebox, Hyundai Ioniq 5 has a pull out drawer, but only on the European ones, the American ones get a normal glovebox door.
Love the show. BMW E23 was the last 4 door "Shark Nose"
The glovebox of the 1957-1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham just sums up 50's American excess. Inside contained a range of Cadillac branded solid silver accessories. These included a cigarette case, a ladies make-up compact, a perfume dispenser, a hair brush and a set of magnetised based shot glasses (so you don't spill your glass of Rye on the woven silk seats, of course!)
I suppose it went some way to making it more than 2 times the price of a pontoon fender 250 Testarossa! At about $14,000 USD it was the world's most expensive car at the time.
35:40 Ooooooh, the burn!!!!!!
That 997 is rainforest green, not oak green ;-) I do a 4 weeks euro trip every year with my wife and we almost always take a Boxster. There is TONS of luggage space, comfy, fast and economical. Literally the best touring car. And my wife gets car sick but never in a Boxster. If Penny gets car sick you need a quiet, comfy car (with cup holders and bag / coat storage in the cabin) And to be interesting for you needs to be engaging at low speed, so a 6/8 cyl manual. preferably a convertible.
This is essential car geek Friday viewing, love you guys had me laughing and out loud. Intro music is still nafff, needs guitars for cars ✌
What about bringing back the Lotus Elan? I’m surprised no one said that. A true lesson to everyone making cars in how to do it perfectly.
the original Elan**
Was the pretty Boxter a 981?
I still have a bone to pick with y'all about the cool Keys debate, and cool driving shoes
So on the cool Keys, I believe it was Mazda, who was notorious for weak keys, would snap if you sneezed in a stiff breeze. So 'Royal Clover's keys became a fashion statement to complement your ride. You could get anything from snoopy, hello kitty, playboy bunnies, to Canadian Coins surrounded by gems, or just a gold key with "FANCY" inscribed on it.
As for shoes, there is this motorimg show out of Japan called best motoring, they road and track tests with road, tuner, and race cars. There's an old racer, Motoharu Kurosawa (Gansan) he was always known for his crazy footwork, making the clutch slip to keep revs up in corners to keep speed, insane defense on track, throttle control was always perfection. There's several videos of him in loafers and white socks wringing the neck of some automobile whether it be in a closed street course, or green hell. The man is a menace behind the wheel
Epic Podcast as always please keep it up my boys!
Using the logic @59:53 the answer is definitely the Lexus LFA 🤩
I’m not leaving Penny either. We’re driving Route 66 in the Mustang, the sun is coming up and Coke Escovedo - I Wouldn’t Change a Thing is playing
Current 718 Spyder owner who tried and failed to get a Spyder RS allocation.
Frustrating to think they just give them to the guy who buys everything who most likely will not want but will take knowing he can keep for 6 months and then flip for overs.
it's important to remember that for most people when they step in an s class it's unlike anything they've ever been in (I have 2), so it's not exactly just a taxi! (I get the point though)
What killed the S Class for me is when Merc decides that their entire line up needed to look the same. If I’m spending $100k+ on a car, it needs to have more design and presence than the $30k offering in the line up.
And quality. Good lord the interior quality is appaling. The private owners of s class now drive 7 series.
'Five men talking shit' as a title might attract more viewers 😆
However i must add i love this as it is already so thanks for that!
The car that needs to come back to production is the Honda S2000. By today's standards, it still competes very well against the MX-5. It was built at the perfect time that it had modern underpinnings while keeping the analogue feel.
That or the original Ford Puma.
I’m usually late to these comments in the US but no sleep has it’s silver linings haha!
Everyone: 2 car garage "Let me overthink this"
Chris Cooper: "Hold my beer"
Manish looking like he manages a italian Group B Rally team in the 80s👀
43:42 Bob Mortimer has a place for emergency mince in all his cars.
Ive been enjoying the podcast for months and just now i realise its on youtube aswell. And I must say after obly listening to your voices for so long, being able to see your faces was quite shocking. I would have never guessed that mr. copper had hair.
As long as i can fit 3 pairs of Raybans 1 pair of Persol’s and 1 pair of Carerra’s and their cases in, it’s a good glovebox 👍🏻
I didn’t mind the M4 traffic jam
Today with this . Don’t stop.
Mr Cooper I dearly hope your nickname is "Waffles" 😂
I reckon he was well oiled at this point 🥴😅
Oi Lovett, on Episode 22 around 56-58min you said "ascetically pleasing". An ascetic is somebody who renounces earthly possessions, like Diagones in Ancient Greece who lived in a bucket. Did that indicator stalk you were discussing make you want to live in a freaking bucket, or did you mean aesthetically pleasing??
This comment is intended ironically in satire of typical RUclips comment tone, but also to educate Lovett in because that's worse than nukular mate, and everyone else seems to pile in on Lovett for some reason and it's funny. Much love
Re the S-Class, up here in the North West around Manchester, Liverpool, Preston the S-Class is driven by Indian medical surgeons, consultants, GPs etc
Bringing back one car:
What about the Reliant Scimitar GTE? Preferably made by someone like Porsche.
What if Penny gets carsick because she is handy behind the wheel. I never got travel sick until I was a driver. But sharing the driving is tricky. For the European leg I am taking a Citroen C6 V6 Vignale in burgundy with cream leather (suitable fettled before leaving) then in the states I am finding a Lincoln Towncar convertible and just waft the miles.
MotoGP - I know this is a car podcast but you guys need to discuss. It’s a different class of motorsport compared to F1 and the U.K. audience needs to give it some love. The British GP was fantastic, more action in 1 race than a whole F1 season.
American based Porsche dealer here (well, sales) . Ask me anything 😂
No stuffed envelopes here but we charge market values. GT3 RRP + 100k, same for Touring. The situation is that out of control, even base 911 have an adjustment.
Don't shoot the messenger by the way. Keep it civil.
Fabulous 😊
I would totally buy an Evoque cabriolet!
Bring one car back? Taking Manish's Jensen Interceptor a little further, an Iso Grifo. I watched Iain Tyrrell's video of one the other day and I fell hook, line and sinker for it, again.
Best full size luxury saloon for the driver, I'd go with the Jag XJ
This may seem dull, but I long for either the Subaru Legacy station wagon of the WRX 5-door hatch. Not "either" actually. I'd have both.
Perfect now its Friday!
Couple of La Chouffe's and chill! Maybe the next podcast should be done after everyone has consumed a couple!
I witnessed a man take his son to first class on a delta flight in Rome and saw his wife in the back of the plane. 14 hour flight to Atlanta. Absolutely nuts
Cooper was an absolute legend on this one... Hilarious.
Alpine head units yes!
14:03 The Chavalier!
Perhaps you could do a podcast where you all 5 are in a 308 Jag XJR and doing burnouts.