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Added 2023-09-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTCIn pics this week we have the agreeably chunky VW ID. GTI concept, followed by some ruined Jags courtesy of listeners Iwan Jones, Alex Birse and Steven Kipping. Then we have Jonny’s tap-based trouser incident, the way Miami Vice subtitles incidental music, the Toyota Century SUV and its lookalike from National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Hyundai’s restomod Grandeur concept. We end, of course, on the Simpsons meme that perhaps sums up this episode. Now, some linkage…
Banger track car jumping competition
DJ Khalid being an absolute flute on Hot Ones
How DJ Khalid would canal boat (probably)
Comments
US public toilets: even if they have so called full length doors, they insist on making the door 4” narrower than the aperture so, completely unintentionally when spinning around from the urinal, you get an eyeful of wiping action. WTF are they thinking?!
Jason K
2024-05-27 22:06:38 +0000 UTCInterestingly(?), while the ID.GTI is only slightly longer than a Polo, its wheelbase is between that of a Golf 6 and a Golf 7, with a 490 litre(!) boot.
Scott
2023-09-17 13:35:04 +0000 UTCJonny, try watching Jethro! pilot a Mk2 Granada around the short oval whilst brushing your teeth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esedf0U580U
John Hammond
2023-09-13 16:32:50 +0000 UTCbanger racing started out as an evolution of stock car racing, lower preparation and more physical contact. It was still a racing formula however with the target being to finish the race in 1st. It has changed (not for the better) into a competition now just to turn out an over welded monster in which to have the biggest crash. A few drivers still seek to race but it is no longer the strip the car Saturday, race it Sunday formula that it once was.
John Hammond
2023-09-13 16:31:47 +0000 UTCFor me who traded in a VW for a new Skoda, I felt VW had handed their values to Skoda and gotten lost along the way.
Wilson Lin
2023-09-13 13:17:12 +0000 UTCJust been watching Johnny's banger racing videos, I think to fully explain banger racing to someone totally unfamiliar with it, it's probably more of a sub-culture than a sport, bourne out of idle time in light industrial units across the land!
Philip Bain
2023-09-13 05:11:45 +0000 UTCAnyone else wonder what Rich had been watching with subtitles. “Heavy groans” “wistful sighs”. That man is watch “European visual pamphlets”.
Robin White
2023-09-12 19:55:23 +0000 UTCAre you chaps aware of the canal boat someone has welded the shell of VW Touran onto? https://twitter.com/TheAndrewBrady/status/688716491752108033?t=vNxqKt3QWaSzBveB5o6sxg&s=19
Jimbob Blair
2023-09-12 19:54:04 +0000 UTCMost dreadful aspect of the X-Type is the cable tie on the steering wheel to show dead ahead. Did an 8 year old own this car?
Cornish Rider
2023-09-12 11:59:32 +0000 UTCPretty sure my Griffin Savers dictionary is still at my parents house!
Nick Davies
2023-09-11 21:22:03 +0000 UTCMy old Citroen ZX could set the seat back in position and that was 1993 vintage, so why the hell can't we have it now?
Adrian J
2023-09-11 19:47:25 +0000 UTCDone. 🤌🤌
TD
2023-09-11 19:08:23 +0000 UTCAs an American with a degree in French and German I get very strange looks whenever I pronounce things "correctly" e.g. au gratin (not aw grattin) Über and not oober . My only defense in not pronouncing the "h" in "herb" is what if you describe a plant as "herb-like"... in Britain that requires that everyone know what Herb is like to know how he relates the plant...
Andy Pinchock
2023-09-11 14:52:55 +0000 UTCBLAME CANADA! :-D
Andy Pinchock
2023-09-11 14:49:11 +0000 UTCThe brexit brigade have nothing on the yanks... This is a very common sight (and unfortunately sound) https://photos.app.goo.gl/GD95BEjQshumKZTm7
Zoona
2023-09-11 14:31:58 +0000 UTCHoly shit. It's more Cadbury's than Le Mans with the gold as well...
Zoona
2023-09-11 14:26:51 +0000 UTCOoh, to the hello at smithandsniff com address please!
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-11 13:21:21 +0000 UTCWhere do you want me to send the Brexit MG-F to? ACHTUALLY, it’s a TF, my bad.
TD
2023-09-11 13:15:02 +0000 UTCI do like the look of the ID. GTI, the back reminds me of the Alfa SZ. Maybe because it was mentioned recently.
Matt Tester
2023-09-11 13:13:43 +0000 UTCWhen you were talking about the donk box and bubble in a Rover 75, for a split second I thought you were talking about Donk from Crocodile Dundee. I'll get my coat!
Matthew Bartlett
2023-09-11 12:48:53 +0000 UTCIt’s my pic. Can’t post them here tho
TD
2023-09-11 12:47:08 +0000 UTCMy kids are banned from my drivers door to get in the back seats on my FN2 TypeR for the exact reason the seat doesn't go back to the same f****** position! Good to see Fiat learning from this.
Rich Gee - Gee's Drive
2023-09-11 10:01:08 +0000 UTCI'm sure there's space for the Beatles' hit Taxman, with a subtle change to 'Jagman': [Verse 1] Ford-age Jaguars are for me Stick on chrome tat, for all to see [Chorus] 'Cause I'm the Jagman Yeah, I'm the Jagman [Verse 2] Jarring stickers, random skulls Rotting sills and rusty hulls [needs work - ed] [Chorus] [Middle 8] (If you buy a Jag) I'll fit a leaper (If you drive around) You'll need your heater (If it's a diesel) I'll throw out soot (If it's a petrol) I don't know what to put [yep - that's right - a School's Out refernece] [Chorus] [Verse 3] AK-47 on mine Satanic markers are all fine [Chorus] [Verse 4] Halfords, ebay, catalogues Make bad decisions on the bog [Outro] 'Cause I'm the Jagman Yeah, I'm the Jagman (yeah, I'm the Jagman) And you should have a bonnet leaper Many hours of misspent work went into this...
Simon Turner
2023-09-11 09:37:11 +0000 UTCGrandeur reminds me of the Buick Grand national both look cool
Wayne Wilkin
2023-09-11 09:33:18 +0000 UTCDJ Khaled news...https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Wz4YUKzTtRwE8JczUN7rzgtAv7whJEP1NgVSiVXBVgbS96eSwtqapE6q2iNoHkZfl&id=100064627486342&post_id=100064627486342_pfbid0Wz4YUKzTtRwE8JczUN7rzgtAv7whJEP1NgVSiVXBVgbS96eSwtqapE6q2iNoHkZfl
Vix Puma
2023-09-11 08:59:19 +0000 UTCI thought I'd add the Midland Bank School geometry set for all your prince albert needs... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gT8AAOSwmqdkRpXN/s-l1600.jpg
Stuart Feltham
2023-09-11 08:46:52 +0000 UTCIf I've got a sec later I'll stick it on the Smith and Sniff music Soundcloud (pronounced Syndeclyde). R
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-11 08:42:53 +0000 UTCLeather-bound, I hope. R
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-11 08:40:14 +0000 UTCI got the Depeche Mode - “instantly recognisable tribute” were the words you were grasping for, surely - need to listen again. Again.
Chris Kane
2023-09-11 08:37:38 +0000 UTCThis has been added to the record
Richard Major
2023-09-11 08:28:11 +0000 UTCIt's Jonny's ad libbed 'Jag vandalism news' singing from earlier in the podcast, set to a poor facsimile of early Depeche Mode.
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-11 08:27:42 +0000 UTCFor the record, I wasn't talking about that podcast (which I think is sometimes very interesting). Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-11 08:26:41 +0000 UTCRichard really hates BehindTheGlass, doesn’t he?
Richard Major
2023-09-11 08:14:57 +0000 UTCOk using my polyglot mind the "Ak 47 jag" has some words under the gun motif, they are Punjabi add it reads, "Brexit...not in my name!" No it doesn't it reads "The state is subjugated by settling"
Paul Fargher
2023-09-11 07:31:04 +0000 UTCThere is another Jag pickup near Wolverhampton.....I'll try to get a snap....the owner has made other peculiar vehicles too, the boat trike and Christmas Santa / Green Grass van are others.
Mark Podmore
2023-09-11 06:17:00 +0000 UTCNew outro music! Awesome. Now, to understand what Johnny’s saying beyond “Jagman…” But really who cares/ it’s cool!
Chris Kane
2023-09-11 05:57:06 +0000 UTCA friend imported a V12 Century some years ago - it arrived with a glovebox full of Airsoft ammo, which means it was almost certainly ex-Yakuza. You want to talk about electric latches - the Century's are electric, but they are at least as good as a G-Wagen in audio quality. And it needs to be said, as a Canadian, Sam Panopoulos' pizza chef was Chinese Canadian, and was familiar with sweet and sour pork recipes. It's probably him who suggested the Hawaiian Pizza.
Brendan McAleer
2023-09-11 02:59:58 +0000 UTCThe “Pidgin” X-Type is @purplep3ar1l on Instagram if anyone wants a look at the full thing, doesn’t disappoint
Luke Mochan
2023-09-10 20:36:01 +0000 UTCI need to see the Brexit MG F
Andy
2023-09-10 19:43:01 +0000 UTCMy 1yo daughter sitting beside me happily feeding on teletubbies, and I'm having a quick gander here. I turn around and she's absolutely engrossed in a Fiat Punto vaulting itself over Vauxhalls and Fawdsssss
Andy Cooper
2023-09-10 17:22:55 +0000 UTCThat third Jag is very ‘John Major takes up carpentry’ spec
Stgls
2023-09-10 17:07:48 +0000 UTC
