Podcast 118 - How to brush your Hyundai
Added 2022-07-24 17:01:02 +0000 UTCJonny has encountered a strangely-dressed car washing man. Also in this episode, how to pronounce car names, the surprising niceness of Watchet, the joys of a narrow car, what you get on a base model these days, chaotic looking 911s, defending terrible clothes because they cost a lot, getting close to a fox, vigilante path clearance, the car for a jazzy man in linen, patting a Jag, shouting at an Up GTI driver, Britain's best allotment cars, the Focus and Fiesta facelifts, the new Peugeot 308 doesn't look right, getting annoyed with people leaving sun visors down, Banham kit cars, and the all-new Smith and Sniff encyclopaedia.
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Was it light blue? My dad had one
Jon
2024-09-13 22:18:31 +0000 UTCI think they’re intended for cleaning wheels though? I would put a brush anywhere near paintwork, unless it was a 30 year old Corolla with that paint that is neither Matt nor gloss anymore
Ant N
2022-07-27 22:52:09 +0000 UTCThey didn't do themselves any favours with the "High tech, high spec, Hy-undai" campaign circa early 90s.
Mike Follows
2022-07-27 22:08:36 +0000 UTCI recently got Gran Turismo 7 and lo and behold among the first three cars you can buy/win is STILL the mighty DEMIO. Now working my way to an RX-7 and Impreza. It's like 1997 all over again... https://gamerant.com/gran-turismo-7-best-starter-car-honda-fit-toyota-aqua-mazda-demio-choice/
Robert Wootton
2022-07-27 16:24:20 +0000 UTCNo, don’t think we did either… was perfect for cleaning 80s bmw cross-spoke alloys and convertible’s tilts though!
Jamie W
2022-07-27 12:01:24 +0000 UTC10 years ago my wife and I met Timmy Mallett in a food hall in Madrid. We struck up a conversation and ended up spending the evening with him and his mate. He was great company, full of fun and always performing but a genuinely nice guy. If I can get it to link, I’ll add a video of him fooling around with one of those bits of tat the street vendors try to ply you with. As I said, always performing… https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmpt9dc17bfwhmo/mallet.MOV?dl=0
Damian Rigby
2022-07-26 22:07:16 +0000 UTCYes I had one of those that came with a very early Karcher pressure washer. Never dared use it mind for fear of scratching
Dave Smith
2022-07-26 21:16:11 +0000 UTCYep. Can confirm what Ant says from GT on the PlayStation 1. The Demio was equally shite in real life.
Ed Storer
2022-07-26 00:23:05 +0000 UTCYou are quite right about the Demio. The Mazda Demio A Spec built by Mazdaspeed was indeed a prize for the Sunday Cup in the original Gran Turismo on the playstation 1. Packed a whopping 99hp. As this was the first tournament you could enter, it would have been the 2nd car a lot of players would have owned. It could be sold for for somewhere in the region of 10k in game credits, so alot of early game rinse and repeat. Link below to a in game picture of the silver beast. https://gran-turismo.fandom.com/wiki/Mazda_DEMIO_A-Spec_%2797?file=DemioAspec.jpg
Jimbob Blair
2022-07-25 22:41:27 +0000 UTCMany years ago, I had an elderly neighbour who used to clean bird shit off his silver Mazda 626 with a plastic scouring pad. By the time I moved out, and after years of inappropriate scrubbing, the car looked like a hologram when it was in direct sunlight.
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2022-07-25 16:04:28 +0000 UTCAs I'm as old as dirt (it seems, though younger than Richard, and Jonny for that matter by about a month I think...) I can confirm that both the first and second games foisted the Demio on you. It was no good to either sell (worthless) nor drive (shite and slow). Of course, all this was fields, gravy and rickets back then. As far as the eye could see.
Ant Brown
2022-07-25 14:06:26 +0000 UTCgreat car the Jazz, nimble and van like family motoring! ;)
Neil Butler
2022-07-25 13:13:15 +0000 UTCThere used to be a similarly Del Monte'd up Jazz fan near where I live in the 1990's who used to drive a Peugeot 504 Cabriolet. It was a really good combo.
Tom Carter
2022-07-25 12:48:42 +0000 UTCWas the bare patch the same tan as the rest of him? Because he sounds like a classic nudist.
david marden
2022-07-25 12:45:57 +0000 UTCStrictly speaking, Citroen is supposed to be "see troh ENN" but again there are ads that say it how we say it in England, "sitrun", which is usually enough to shut the pedants up
Ben Oliver
2022-07-25 12:32:22 +0000 UTCI think Hyundai tried to switch the UK pronnouciation from "High-un-Die" to "Hyun-Day" via some ads about 15 years ago but rapidly gave up...
Rich Tysoe
2022-07-25 09:37:52 +0000 UTCThe Mazda Demio is one of three cars you could choose at the beginning of Gran Turismo 3, the first GT game on the PlayStation 2, the other two cars were the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Toyota Corolla AE86 Trueno. Why you would choose anything but the Toyota is baffling, however I’ve always admired the Gran Turismo series for its inclusion of some very left-field cars. I can’t thick of another video game in which you could race a Daihatsu Midget against a Peugeot 406 V6 saloon and a Vector M12 GT2 race car.
Charlie Steele
2022-07-25 06:51:26 +0000 UTCWhen I had a Demio (10-12 years ago) the only people who knew what it was told me that they recognised it from the game. Fully packed for vacation with me, my wife and our four dogs it would really struggle to go uphill.
Lennart Mäkinen
2022-07-25 05:36:04 +0000 UTCAnyone noticed that Skoda now call it “Schkoda” in a Sean Connary accent?
Robin White
2022-07-25 04:56:00 +0000 UTCBloody hell! We had one of those and I’d completely forgotten about it! Only thing being though, my parents had no hosepipe so it was just used to rub the cack off wheels 🤦🏻♂️ Amazing the total and complete muck your brain stores… 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Ant Brown
2022-07-24 20:28:32 +0000 UTCNo allotments in the US some cities will have community gardens but they share it among all the residents that participate.
Bill
2022-07-24 20:00:26 +0000 UTCThe Demio was a prize on the original Gran Turismo. Just googled Watchet and it seems it was the inspiration for "The rime of the Ancient Mariner" - the original one, not the Iron Maiden version
Bruce Driffill
2022-07-24 19:51:05 +0000 UTCI’ve had 3 pet (African Pygmy) hedgehogs and they actually have quite good ground clearance, surprisingly long legs. Fascinating creatures. I think if they were a car they would be more of a Baja bug.
Gavin Mulholland
2022-07-24 19:13:29 +0000 UTCI’m sure it was gran turismo 4 that had the Demio on it. That was the game that had the daihatsu midget on it too, a childhood classic for me!
Archie Evans
2022-07-24 18:47:27 +0000 UTCIn fairness to the hyundai man, my nan had a brush that looked like a dust pan but was actually for cars. The bristles were very soft (like a shaving brush) and you could plug a hose into the handle that fed through the brush head. Was definitely from the 70s
Jamie W
2022-07-24 18:30:21 +0000 UTCsorted
John P
2022-07-24 17:55:38 +0000 UTCI sent Jonny a message on his LBS channel
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 17:53:37 +0000 UTCSorted for me, thanks Rich!
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 17:48:55 +0000 UTCYay!
Gavin Mulholland
2022-07-24 17:42:30 +0000 UTCSorry gang, not sure what's going on there, have re-uploaded the audio file to see if that sorts it. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-07-24 17:36:32 +0000 UTCHas anyone messaged Rich on Twitter?
Graham Dallas
2022-07-24 17:35:52 +0000 UTCSomeone put the OTSOT signal up in the sky!
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 17:30:44 +0000 UTCNot just me then
Marc
2022-07-24 17:09:44 +0000 UTCYes can't see that little linky thing I download it from?
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 17:08:58 +0000 UTCI'm trying not to be impatient but I don't see the audio play options.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 17:03:28 +0000 UTC
