Podcast 150 - Sporks: M3 Touring v F-Pace SVR
Added 2023-03-12 18:00:02 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard have been driving two fast, practical and slightly irrelevant cars. Also in this episode, having to use the facilities in a small independent garage, BMW selling xDrive to people who don’t need it, a ‘90s smoking horse, news from the man who supplied the cars to The Gold, the expression ‘take it for a spin’, seeing a Mercedes 500E, the Porsche 989, the milky second GTI in the mk4 Golf range, dropping one in Simon Le Bon’s boiler room, and behind the scenes on Jonny’s shoot with The Beast.
Comments
The mention of a lack of OTSOTs made me go a bit meta and now, in my head at least, OTSOT is to be pronounced like sport: OTSOAAAATTTTA
Fox Munsey
2023-03-16 20:40:53 +0000 UTCAhh. I guessed the 300kg was an error 👍. That would be slightly more difficult to conceal 😂.
René Soufflé
2023-03-15 07:16:52 +0000 UTCIn the case of the actual robbery, it was three tonnes (3000 kg).
Calum Gillies
2023-03-15 07:02:48 +0000 UTCHaha I was having the “taking a spin” discussion recently with a friend. I thought maybe it was a Scottish or local phrase to me as I sometimes get an odd look when I say it! At least now I know it’s just that I’m out of touch.
Calum Gillies
2023-03-15 07:01:18 +0000 UTCIs it me or were you guys talking about 300kg of Gold? If so by my reckoning, that isn’t anywhere near 3 tonnes. I’d have suggested spreading it out along the floor of a minibus or something equally as Italian jobby.
René Soufflé
2023-03-14 23:14:56 +0000 UTCOh I forgot, as someone who has Land Rovers I regularly "take it around the block" to test something else I've maybe fixed. Does anyone say that? I'm not even sure how it became used in Britain, where our towns aren't arranged in blocks. Maybe I'll start taking it for a spin instead, which is what the trans in my Freelander does when it slips between third and fourth, OTSOT.
Matt Tester
2023-03-13 22:06:33 +0000 UTCOTSOT for old motoring terms now obsolete - when going out with mates in their new cars in the 80s we would use the phrase "taking it for a burn".
Dave Smith
2023-03-13 13:06:33 +0000 UTCCheers gents, now the wife wants an F-Pace SVR. 👍🏻😂
George Wade
2023-03-13 10:03:16 +0000 UTCI can't even begin to imagine them trying to bung the gold into an inevitably 'Telecom Yellow' Commer PB van. They were woefully underpowered with that ancient 1725cc petrol and 1.8 Perkins diesel. I haven't read up much but I gather the Traaaaaahhhnsit carked it on the A4 and they had to leave it. The police passed by but failed to notice it was creaking at the seams and did nothing about it.
John Hammond
2023-03-13 09:16:13 +0000 UTCStroker mode, I think most BMW's with an M badge stuck somewhere have that as standard don't they?
George Wade
2023-03-13 07:20:42 +0000 UTCA few thoughts after listening to this one … firstly, thanks for the laughs on a day when I really needed them. Second, I maybe shouldn’t have been tucking in to dinner while the first 10 minutes were playing. Third, doesn’t Mr. Monkey Harris have an M3 Touring as one his personal cars now? He still counts as a journalist I would say.
Ed Nicholson
2023-03-13 00:43:07 +0000 UTCValuing cars in dealerships 20 years ago, used to be able to describe some lower-spec potential trade-in vehicles as “in the nude” - ie, no air-con, no power steering etc. I doubt that would be used anymore, likewise saying that a car had “abs & dabs”
Rors Plant
2023-03-12 22:33:27 +0000 UTCGrowing up in Michigan my daily driver from 1991-1994 was a ‘72 Triumph Spitfire with 4 lug wire wheels. With nobby rear tires and full size spare in the trunk I had no problems in snow that was often higher than the roof of the car!
Andy Pinchock
2023-03-12 18:52:28 +0000 UTC
