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Added 2024-02-04 18:01:00 +0000 UTCHello again. This week we start our picture selection with the Lexus LS400 (or is it a Toyota Celsior?) from Street Fighter 2. Then we have the new and very Alphard-y Lexus LM, the amphibious-looking MX-5 mk3 and the much nicer mk4 in that excellent Soul Red paint. That’s followed by Jonny’s Beetle with its newly adjusted headlights, a spy shot of Enya’s Maybach, and a listener’s mate’s excellent but weirdly undented mk1 Twingo. Finally, an example of what a Mitsubishi Cordia GPT might look like (also, neatly, featuring an illustration of wing mirrors), the Kia EV9, the Jeep Avenger and the amazing Spowart Avenue.
An overview of MX-5 special editions
A guide to every MX-5 special edition
Get Up, Stand Up. Is heaven a Honda dealer?
Messing with a Chevy dealer’s chatbot
That Eagle Quest limo that Jonny will buy (if he loses his mind)
Richard's new Boring Car Trivia Book
Comments
When growing up, our ice cream man in the village used to be Willie Spowart. And he drove a Transit....
Iain W
2024-02-09 22:36:03 +0000 UTCTurns out there is a whole site dedicated to wwwwwheelbasery. http://www.body-swaps.com/
Brendan McAleer
2024-02-09 18:52:55 +0000 UTCI’ve spent quite some time smashing up that Lexus with a pipe
TD
2024-02-07 15:39:06 +0000 UTCThere is a second Spowart. In Dunfermline there is a Spowart Drive, I can feel a road trip coming on
Nicholas Thomas
2024-02-07 10:57:05 +0000 UTCI was listening to the podcast this afternoon, whilst browsing the Interweb and by coincidence saw that the Corrs are going out on a Britain and Ireland tour in late 2024. I wonder if Jonny will be buying tickets! lol
Matthew Bartlett
2024-02-06 19:57:18 +0000 UTCMansell must buy a pub. Because then it can, of course, be called ….. The Red Lion 💅🏻
Jonathan Knight
2024-02-06 17:53:09 +0000 UTCMk3 mx5 = Axolotl. https://visitseaquest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SeaQuests-Guide-to-Axolotls-img.webp
Zoona
2024-02-06 16:25:08 +0000 UTCI’m glad someone pointed out that Jim Corr is a loon. However I’m still excited to see the LS be restored on his behalf
Killian Cronin
2024-02-06 14:39:52 +0000 UTCHeartily agree about Mazda's Soul Red being the best looking red around. I had a 3 finished in it, and it looked fab. HOWEVER, it's the softest, most easily marked / scratched paint I've ever come across. And the dealers know it too. When I complained to our local dealer at the time he said "oh aye, it's soft as week-old brie". So there's that.
James Cooper
2024-02-06 11:18:05 +0000 UTCI rather like this.. IRISH POP duo Jedward became embroiled in a bizarre spat with The Corrs guitarist Jim Corr after discovering he attended the anti-mask protests held in Dublin this weekend. In an increasingly heated Twitter row, the X Factor stars even told Corr “your sisters never needed you”
Anthony Daniels
2024-02-05 16:39:43 +0000 UTCI've just discovered that the Lexus LM is also available here in Denmark. The price of the top of the range? 2,654,500 DKK to you Sir (around £314,000). Blimey.
Chris Squirrel
2024-02-05 16:31:05 +0000 UTCJim Corr actually posted on Instagram about his Dad's Lexus: "Myself and dad having an interest in cars, had discussed and admired how Lexus took the luxury car market by storm. It was one our greatest pleasures to eventually be able to buy him one." https://www.instagram.com/jimcorrofficial/p/CaPVYNCtja5/
Jack McGurran
2024-02-05 15:41:34 +0000 UTCto rhyme with now farts
Craig Macbeth
2024-02-05 14:30:55 +0000 UTCAlso, there used to be a newsagent called Spowarts in Grangemouth
Craig Macbeth
2024-02-05 14:30:32 +0000 UTCMay I direct your attention to https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.2591879,-2.6273101,3a,63.4y,215.82h,90.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sk9i5pfNM7c17WwZFx19mfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Craig Macbeth
2024-02-05 14:29:49 +0000 UTCThere’s no ‘th’ in Llanelli. The second set of L’s sound the same as the first. Former Llanelli resident.
Saq
2024-02-05 12:31:37 +0000 UTCThat Lexus is absolutely gopping. What’s wrong with the Lexus design department these days?
Scott
2024-02-05 11:59:04 +0000 UTCTrying to organise a test drive of an EV9 this week just fro S&Gs. Rediculously big and expensive but let us see what a morning with one is like.
Robin White
2024-02-05 10:53:55 +0000 UTCThat Vauxhall, despite the alleged rock band association, is surely bereaved spec. I’m betting most of its 54K miles were done at a respectfully somnolent pace to and from funerals.
Chris Rayner
2024-02-05 09:20:00 +0000 UTCUp Tyrone! I've close family in that area. And if we're talking Honda Dealers, my godfather's family ran the dealership Joey Dunlop's bikes came into.
Brendan McAleer
2024-02-05 01:35:58 +0000 UTCI never really got the appeal of the aquatic MX-5 Mk3 either, until I did and bought one. Mine's one of the many special editions, the Kuro, with the folding metal top. Fingers crossed it's totally watertight, but it lives in a garage anyway.
Matt Tester
2024-02-04 23:20:12 +0000 UTCI think Lexus need to start proof reading their website.. the typo's are horrendous!
Adam
2024-02-04 20:49:30 +0000 UTCAs a past owner of five MX-5s I’m looking forward to this episode. Question: what ever happened with the planned Glasgow live show? Keen to attend if it happens.
Grant Gibson
2024-02-04 18:32:48 +0000 UTCThe most limited edition MX-5 is the absolute base model early Mk3 - there used to be one by me. They were stripped of much but oddly appealing - vinyl not mohair soft top but more outstandingly, steel wheels. Oddly appealing and discontinued quickly. All other mx5 limited editions proliferate in comparison
Anthony Daniels
2024-02-04 18:19:21 +0000 UTCThe Corrs dads cousin lives in my town (cookstown) Northern Ireland, he has a merc as a daily driver and a Lexus sc in silver that he uses in summer.. Lexus and merc clearly in the corrs blood!
Paul coey
2024-02-04 18:18:17 +0000 UTC
