Podcast 115 - Would you buy a new supercar?
Added 2022-07-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTCRichard's in an echoey room and Jonny has a question. Also in this episode, the new Honda HR-V, slipping clutches, how school proms help classic car maintenance, trying to get comfortable in an Audi R8 Spyder, a surprising gearlever, asking Ant Anstead for a deal on a Radford, choosing a Ford Crown Vic over an Aston Virage, late model Trabants, repairing a car with loyalty cards, disappointing looking engines, getting stressed looking at a Jag V12, Morette headlight conversions, getting annoying by pigeons, and predicting the future with Mystic Metcalfe.
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Just killing time and scrolling through older Patreon comments. Proms here in New Zealand are called Balls - which I think are a better name ... [shrug]
Gaz and Bex
2022-08-16 10:26:50 +0000 UTCI’d go so far as having a 911 turbo new, and that’s as ‘supercar’ as I could justify.
Ed Storer
2022-07-07 07:30:50 +0000 UTCHad just seen a Maserati MC-20 in the metal for the first time (in the NZ dealer showroom) before hearing this. Agree that it looks nice and think smaller footprint than some other not quite supercars is a bonus too
Robin Capper
2022-07-06 01:40:02 +0000 UTCI have to comment just to say Jonny is completely right about the aural displeasure of pigeons. I recently moved back up to Scotland and a few of the fuckers have decided that the roof above my bedroom shall be the epicentre of pigeon shit talk. At this time of year the bright mornings mean they start at 4.30am and they sound just like my phone on vibrate. It's not just what come out of their beaks either. I'd had to move my car as they produce so much shit and within a week of living here the bastards had got me with a headshot. Richard, the next time you're out of the country, can I borrow your dog?
Andrew Evans
2022-07-05 15:24:24 +0000 UTCI always think the Hyundai ioniq (not the 5) has that generic basic toy car vibe. It would probably suit us well, but it would just be depressing to see
Jim Galbraith
2022-07-05 08:42:15 +0000 UTCI spent £80 on a morette conversion kit for my first car when I was 17, a 1.4 16v Peugeot 206. Absolute dog egg car in retrospect but it did have some absolutely dreadful wolfrace alloys (I forget the exact spec) and about half of Halfords stuck to the interior including a home made kill switch with a red cover drilled into the dash for reasons known only to my 17 year old self and my mates. I had absolutely no money to spend on it because I'd spent so much trying to insure the damn thing that If I could go back and smack some sense into myself I would. My Seccond car was an e92 330d in a major juxtaposition. I wrote this off sliding under a cultivator at 60 ish afew months later but that's another story
Nathan Henstock
2022-07-04 20:40:36 +0000 UTCI do the same thing as Richard, even though I know I need to put the ‘no’ in front. I’ve started saying, ‘I don’t, I’m afraid,’ which makes them feel sorry for me for having to disappoint them.
Ed Storer
2022-07-04 19:32:25 +0000 UTCMy Crown Vic (Interceptor) was a V8 beast that was abused daily! one of my near-death motoring events was in a Crown Vic I actually got its arse out to 90 degrees left when going around a right-hand turn and almost wiped out a bus shelter load of folks which ordinarily wouldn't be too much of a problem, however......my lights and sirens were on full and I was racing to a gun call! My buddy was behind me also going to the same call and he laughed about it for at least 60 minutes afterwards!
Michael k-b
2022-07-04 17:38:50 +0000 UTCI always wanted Morette lamps on my modded Mk3 Fiesta, but like Johnny I baulked at the cost of £550 (plus paint!). There was a company called RGM who made plastic 'dimma' style fuel caps covers and assorted stick on bits through the 1990s modding era. They made stick on headlight covers which looked like quad headlamps from a distance or if you had glaucoma. They only served to reduce the amount of useable OE headlamp beam. Funnily enough RGM doesn't list any of this tat on their website these days.
John Hammond
2022-07-04 13:52:06 +0000 UTCAny 6music RadMac show listeners know that Wood pigeons say " My toe hurts Betty" and Collared Doves sound like sad United fans, a slow morose " United, United"
Panda
2022-07-04 08:45:58 +0000 UTCA Wood Pigeon says "Take two cows Henry, take two cows" A Collared Dove encouraging says "Take two, do". A Magpie makes a sound like rattling a box of matches.
Simon Smyth
2022-07-04 08:22:49 +0000 UTCWhen I hear pigeons it sounds like they are saying "you're far too stupid".
Malcolm Dale
2022-07-03 20:38:05 +0000 UTCRich needs to say "no I don't" instead of "I don't, no"
Ed Nicholson
2022-07-03 20:24:57 +0000 UTCNo your dad is right Magpie's in a group are an utterly horrible sound. Wood Pigeons are not too bad but Collared Doves are like someone bringing up something in their throat
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-03 19:38:55 +0000 UTCjonny really does sound like he's on helium in the intro
Paddy Harvey
2022-07-03 19:34:15 +0000 UTCIts hello@smithandsniff.com no gaps, although if you want to get Jonny only its smithandsniff@gmail.com ;)
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-03 19:19:34 +0000 UTCPeople I can't remember the best email to send stuff to? Is it hello@smithand sniff.com? Thanks.
George Wade
2022-07-03 19:09:56 +0000 UTCAnswering the question, I would really REALLY not buy a single super/hypercar on sale today. If I had 1M to spend on a car, I would buy 6/8 brutal cars instead of a very limited use one.
Filipe dos Reis
2022-07-03 18:33:48 +0000 UTCI can totally confirm the East Germans’ lack of love for the Trabant after the wall came down. I travelled through East Germany six months after the Berlin Wall fell and they were already abandoned by the side of the road with weeds growing through the cobbles beneath them. There were a lot of cobbled roads in East Germany, and not just in towns but between towns.
Tim C
2022-07-03 18:16:31 +0000 UTC
