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Added 2023-10-29 18:01:01 +0000 UTCWell goodness me, what a lot of pictures we have this week. We start, of course, with the Honda Preluuuuude concept, followed by the car Richard says it resembles. Then we have a Devonian surf Polo and a strange aftermarket Panda knob followed by a whole load of easily mis-read car badges, as suggested by listeners. These include Jord, Jurbo, Zudiuc, Fueop, Lauren’s Clarinet (you’ll have to hear the podcast to understand that), JO7, Queque, Kov, the BMW EW, and an easily read but over-badged Citroen CX. Finally, from the Japan Mobility Show, we have the Mazda Iconic SP concept rendering that Richard thought was a bit under-done and the real thing which everyone likes, the Daihatsu me:Mo, Ospano and Vision Copen, the Honda CI-MEV and Sustaina-C, and the Nissan Hyper Tourer with its ravey interior.
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Too much text on cars. 1980’s VW polo C formel E and Saab 99 Turbo combi coupe
Rob Stannard
2023-11-13 21:18:20 +0000 UTCif course Jonny wants a Suzuki eWX - it's got a quartic steering wheel.
Jack McGurran
2023-11-05 18:18:49 +0000 UTCFnurk!
Smith and Sniff
2023-11-03 17:27:03 +0000 UTCSurely a male Kangaroo should be a Mangaroo?
Rich Gee - Gee's Drive
2023-11-03 15:18:32 +0000 UTCAs a serial and current Mk3 Polo G40 owner they do indeed have servos, however compared to the LHD models because of the encroachment of the inlet manifold it had to be much smaller than the LHD equivalent. On the base models they are known as being shit, on a tuned 140bhp G40 model which is easily achieved, they can become very entresting.
Sam Baldwin
2023-11-03 14:56:30 +0000 UTCThanks
Matthew Aves
2023-11-03 11:06:33 +0000 UTCFollowing on from the CX overbadging, my old work van was a Renault Trafic and on the rear door, in separate badges it stated 'Trafic Business SL27 DCi 100 6-Speed'...
Sam Houghton
2023-11-02 19:13:16 +0000 UTCGo back to the early Smith and Sniff videos/Podcasts on YouTube. There's one from 3 years ago called 'Prelude 2.2 yeah?' Jonny tells the story of his Uni house share...
Sam Houghton
2023-11-02 19:12:33 +0000 UTCMy first company car was an early 'facelift' 1993 Cavalier 1.8L. We had little to no choice of what we could pick and it had to have ABS, at that time a modernish marvel. When the car arrived (only option - metallic paint) it did indeed have ABS but, horror, no badge on the back. To rectify this I bought an ABS badge from a perplexed local Vauxhall dealer and stuck it on the back, thus making it easier to find in car parks. I justified this to myself that I'd be warning following drivers and thus not get rear ended on the M25 on my daily commute. Drove it 100,000 miles in 4 years and was never once hit up the back.
Dave Smith
2023-11-02 16:42:35 +0000 UTCDespite having listened to every podcast and watched most of the youtube videos I seem to have missed the birth of Preluude man. Can anyone point me in the direction of his origin please?
Matthew Aves
2023-11-02 10:50:36 +0000 UTCNot so much misread but mispronounced- I give you the Nissan “Qwasiqwai” When these first came out there seemed to be a plethora of new owners boasting about their new fairly average Qashqais which used to tickle me as there were normally a couple different examples of pronunciations (Koshqwai being another) Still a name I have to spell check though.
Christopher Adams
2023-11-02 08:48:24 +0000 UTCSpeaking of misread badges, as a child for a long time I thought that the Ford Taunus Mk2 (Cortina) was called the Ford TRUNUS.
Martijn Koevoets
2023-10-31 15:15:52 +0000 UTCIf Nissan use any other song to promote the hyper tourer they should be ashamed. Scooter Hyper Hyper https://youtu.be/FFJIEK17b9M?si=v0Fp8uIbxVQoXCY_
Conor Moran
2023-10-31 08:30:21 +0000 UTCSpeaking of misread badges, I was following a brand new Dacia the other day and was at first perplexed as to why the company would name their car the "Dogger." It was only after several seconds of looking I realised it is named the "Jogger," which is probably a much more wholesome way to get outdoor exercise than what I was originally thinking.
Peter Bell
2023-10-31 00:04:48 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVYoQa75rpE It looks fantastic, but all i could see was those two blokes scuttling off in the background with the white sheet...
Zoona
2023-10-30 20:43:47 +0000 UTCi had a mk2 polo saloon. splendid little car. weighed nothing and had a 1.3 (i think?). Looking up on wikipedia now, it seems that was only 55bhp... felt like a rocket ship at the time...
Zoona
2023-10-30 20:38:01 +0000 UTCThe Scottish Widows shifter was an option for the Panda.
Ben Fitch
2023-10-30 19:12:55 +0000 UTCI hadn't noticed that until you said, what a bizarre set of additions. Maybe it's a distraction from it having a VR6 engine swap? 😂. Although given how they've backdated it so much, it's probably a 1303 from a Beetle
John Hammond
2023-10-30 19:11:35 +0000 UTCIt also weirdly has an older POLO badge from the Mk2 Polo 🤓
Toby
2023-10-30 18:46:26 +0000 UTCWe had a 1977 3500 SD1 with the 'modern' Rover badge, from new until 1986. As a result, in my formative years I thought it was a pair of trousers with feet sticking out, in front, with the round bits being toes on the feet. Because, well, obviously the car was a Rover and what better to rove around than your legs, right? Small boy logic FTW
Thomas Cowley
2023-10-30 17:55:31 +0000 UTCAre you an LJK Setright devotee?
Thomas Cowley
2023-10-30 17:46:12 +0000 UTCFrom the US and the Subarus from the mid 10s had 6 badges on the rear. Subaru emblem Subaru spelled out "Symmetrical AWD" "Impreza" "Pzev" Optional dealer badge
Ben Vasunia
2023-10-30 15:26:19 +0000 UTC“build your dreams” still handily beats that, and manages to be the “live, laugh, love” of the automotive world.
TD
2023-10-30 14:29:56 +0000 UTCThat shift boot is from tip to gooch.
TD
2023-10-30 14:27:57 +0000 UTCE92 is a decent looking car, I was referring to the ugly stuff they’ve been putting out the last 5 years or so.
Ed Nicholson
2023-10-30 13:43:59 +0000 UTCWas sold in France as well. Saw one in Paris LHD (manual, so unlikely to be a Japan import)
Ed Storer
2023-10-30 12:39:56 +0000 UTCRe - Too much text. Do you remember in the 90's the modestly badged "VAUXHALL CAVALIER GSI 2000 4X4 16V"
Bertie
2023-10-30 12:39:33 +0000 UTCNot the e92!!!!!
Riley
2023-10-30 11:58:37 +0000 UTCWhoa-oh! I had no idea (whoa-oh, living on a prayer, etc…) Looks like it was Japan market only. Amazing!
Ian Phillip
2023-10-30 11:04:47 +0000 UTCI’m pretty sure there was actually a Mk2 Golf ‘Bon Jovi’ special edition
Toby
2023-10-30 10:40:21 +0000 UTCJoining up two recent themes ...that Ford badge could probably be misread (with a slight squint) as "Find" (as in "Find another!") .. the swirly dot above the first half of the "u" makes it look a bit "i" and then the second half of the "u" joins the "r" for what looks very "n" like.
Derren Weekes
2023-10-30 10:24:38 +0000 UTCDevon Surf Polo (surely a John Peel session band?) has Mk1 Golf GTI alloys on it. I'm never sure about spec'ing wheels from a much older car, it feels wrong to me. The island you were thinking of Richard is Burgh Island, which I think like Lindesfarne is accessible on foot when the tide goes out.
John Hammond
2023-10-30 08:59:53 +0000 UTCRe - too much text - surely the back of a "PORSCHE - 911 Carrera GTS" is a modern day contender...
Reins of a Hourse
2023-10-30 07:53:53 +0000 UTCThe designer of the FD concept was a Taiwanese fellow who commuted to Mazda's Irvine campus in an E-Type. Thus, it ended up with a classic GT shape (the JDM concept was much more cab-forward). He still has the car and a black FD twin-turbo in Taiwan, has designed lots of SsangYongs.
Brendan McAleer
2023-10-30 02:48:35 +0000 UTCThere is at least one, possibly two Renault Laguna coupes down my road the the owners have had for yonks, amazing that they're still going. I still like the way they look, goggle-eyed as they are.
Matt Tester
2023-10-29 20:03:50 +0000 UTCThe scooter with the Sustaina-C is called the Honda Pocket, which i think is a fantastic name. Speaking of Preluuuudes, Sir Patrick Stewart has a new memoir out. For the first few seasons of Star Trek TNG, he drove a new silver Prelude to and from set, even as everyone else was buying Mercedes and Porsches (Worf bought a fighter jet). Contrasts nicely with the Corvette Shatner drove while playing Kirk.
Brendan McAleer
2023-10-29 19:28:27 +0000 UTCNever seen a rev counter do what it did
Aiden Cameron
2023-10-29 19:01:03 +0000 UTCGenuinely thought that Holden Joy badge read Jovi, and just assumed the Bon at the start had dropped off.
Ian Phillip
2023-10-29 18:55:46 +0000 UTCVTEC innit
Gordon Moar
2023-10-29 18:17:48 +0000 UTCThe “EW” badge could be applied to almost every modern BMW. 😁
Ed Nicholson
2023-10-29 18:12:23 +0000 UTC2.2 yeah!?
Marc Earnshaw
2023-10-29 18:11:23 +0000 UTCGod, I’d love another Prelude
Simon White
2023-10-29 18:05:20 +0000 UTCExcellent. Now I have the pictures in mind, I can listen to the podcast on my never-monotonous commute to Oxford and back!
Richard Gledhill
2023-10-29 18:04:53 +0000 UTC
