Podcast 103 - The Conquistadors
Added 2022-04-10 17:01:02 +0000 UTCRichard makes up an '80s American advertising slogan and Jonny has developed a strange obsession with Tiger Woods. Also in this episode, sports people in free cars, Last of the Summer Wine, a bum in the window of an SD1, Alonso Fernando and Hamilton Lewis, the arrival of Richard's new VW e-Up, chamois leather trousers, Alan Bennett in an Evo X, cars with hard drives for music, thinking that Celine Dion might smell weird, the oldest cars you can buy new, Jason Plato's last season of BTCC and the end of the Ford Mondeo.
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The Mazda 6 came our in -13 too! Been massivly facelifted twize though. I think you can still get it. The 2 has been replaced with a rebadged Aygo.
Roger Skagerström
2022-04-22 07:40:48 +0000 UTCI had a Renault Avantime and shortly after I bought it I noticed stickers had been removed from the bonnet. When I looked it up I found that an IT company had bought a fleet of 9 Avantimes in 2003 and had them all re-sprayed in corporate colours, which was only very slightly different shade of blue from the metallic blue they came in. They used them for their engineers to go out on the site and fix issues. I bet the Renault dealer couldn't believe their luck when that order came in. I later found out they replaced them with Toyota's, which could be telling on the Avantime performance as an engineers fleet vehicle. Google Avantime taylormade to see picture of the fleet.
Glenn Chalmers
2022-04-16 14:38:14 +0000 UTCThe demise of the Mondeo reminds me of this beauty of a fly on the wall series from the 90s. Salesman and their company cars! https://youtu.be/CQsMFQZa8os
Mark Elliott
2022-04-16 08:21:03 +0000 UTCI remember there was an episode of Last of the Summer Wine where they are enlisted to help rescue a barn find “Loxley Lozenge” streamliner. Hilarity ensues (your experience may vary) piloting the rusty bare chassis. That joke -that the car nut gets excited about a heap of crap despite it missing the one and only thing that made it worthwhile or notable - struck me as being uncomfortably close to the mark for those of us who share this enthusiasm/illness. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0839120/
Jim Galbraith
2022-04-15 20:09:14 +0000 UTCHas to be the Peugeot 106, no? There was a special edition every week at my local dealer
Ed Storer
2022-04-13 23:46:11 +0000 UTCLeft handlers die seven years earlier than ‘righties’. I’m left handed and I’ve already had two strokes, currently quietly shitting myself. Although that recorder version of ‘My Heart will Go on (dandon) she actually sings dandon WTAF is that about? OTSOT
Neil Holmes
2022-04-13 17:42:41 +0000 UTC;)
Lee Morrison
2022-04-13 14:09:09 +0000 UTCI didn't realise both you guys were left handed, I think on the left hand side of things is more apt
Liam Belfield
2022-04-13 12:27:24 +0000 UTCBloody hell, i was sure I'd be the only person who thought this!
Mat Guest
2022-04-13 08:09:35 +0000 UTCBending the rule slightly for the oldest 'vehicle', thought about the Citroen Relay, Peugeot Boxer, Fiat Ducato. Launched September 2006, facelifted in 2014.
Rhys Llewellyn
2022-04-12 14:02:41 +0000 UTCJag XF also hails from 2007
Martin Gutkowski
2022-04-12 11:46:23 +0000 UTCCheating a bit but the current VW transporter 6.1 is still on the platform of the 2003 T5 and is really just a facelift.
Thomas Hill
2022-04-12 09:25:03 +0000 UTCWhat about the Lada Niva as a contender for oldest current car design? I believe it has been built since 1977.
Nils Normann
2022-04-12 01:48:28 +0000 UTCMaybe, we didn't see many AX in NZ (but there were some). Remember an article by L.J.K. Setright praising its minimalist design
Robin Capper
2022-04-12 00:50:19 +0000 UTCBetween 2001 and 2008 I owned three Ford Mondeos. The first I had just before I turned 20 was a 2.0 GLX hatchback. It was an early car and had been a dealer demo car. I drove it quite hard really. I only had it about 12 months when I part exchanged it for a V reg 2.0 'Zetec' edition at the local dealers. It was barely 2.5 years old but had shit £10k in depreciation. I ran that until 2006 when I bought an ST24 saloon in 'Ampero blue.' I loved that car and the V6 was such a sweet engine. My car was mag featured in a buyer's guide in Practical Performance car magazines "budget blaster". Lots of fond memories including some eye watering speed. Unfortunately the price of fuel tipped well over a £1 a litre within months of me buying it and I found myself having to be so careful that it made the car pointless and begrudgingly I sold it. I regret not stashing it away as Mondeos have become so thin on the ground, not helped by the fact they make such great bangers. Some years ago I saw a Mondeo pile into a Cadillac at a banger meet, the Caddy was totalled whilst the guy in the Mondeo just reversed off and carried on like nothing had happened. All of my Mondeos were great cars, comfortable, capable and just pleasant things to drive and reliable cars.
John Hammond
2022-04-11 22:28:39 +0000 UTCSurely that had to be the Citroen AX?
John Hammond
2022-04-11 22:12:21 +0000 UTCCheck this out. The car, the temperature and the track playing. https://twitter.com/danielcars05/status/1513542129192214540?s=21&t=fQoTJ9WHNn6VxQj0UXXBAg
Doctor X
2022-04-11 20:17:14 +0000 UTCRichard's conquistador chats are likely subconsciously inspired by the 'Rich Corinthian Leather' Chrysler adverts by Ricardo Montalban. Well worth a watch!
Andrew Wright
2022-04-11 18:52:22 +0000 UTCGreat episode...as usual! Richards accent reminded me of 'Fernando Martinez' of GTA Radio station Emotion....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKorinaZos
Lee Morrison
2022-04-11 17:26:50 +0000 UTCJoy Division taught me how to pronounce conquistador- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEm4S-4v_U
Tim C
2022-04-11 13:56:13 +0000 UTChttps://news.paddypower.com/golf/2019/07/17/tiger-portrush-billboard/ Paddy Power did a special billboard for Tiger Woods a few years back. I only heard about it for the first time over the weekend.
Mark Sheridan
2022-04-11 12:26:18 +0000 UTCkuhn·kee·stuh·dor That's all. I'll go now.
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2022-04-11 08:52:45 +0000 UTCOn the subject of cars still in production: the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series has been in production since 1984 and looks substantially the same. It might seem like a niche product but it is remarkably popular in Australia among other places… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_(J70)
Marco Spaccavento
2022-04-11 08:21:47 +0000 UTCAnd pull out phrases of this episodes “I didn’t expect to be speaking about this” “This isn’t car centric”
Robin White
2022-04-11 05:14:31 +0000 UTCCycling chamois are now padded and synthetic, high wicking etc. In terms of where all the chamois have gone. Reckon my dad has about 50 after a buying a bundle of the damn things because he is hoarder.
Robin White
2022-04-11 05:03:23 +0000 UTCSeason 1 of Last of the Summer Wine is very different show to the stuff you watched in the late 80s.
Robin White
2022-04-11 04:44:53 +0000 UTCI guess, thanks to longevity the 500 is probably the 'most special editioned' car on sale?
Robin Capper
2022-04-10 22:38:13 +0000 UTCI currently drive an '09 Mondeo and it is just a good reliable decent car. Also, as you said, the boot is enormous. I drove from Nottingham to North Wales without stopping last summer. It was a 4 hour journey and i got there feeling like it was a much shorter trip. It eats up the miles and i can get 60 to the gallon if i am careful. As it is an older car i don't mind if it gets a scratch or 3 either.
Adam Clark
2022-04-10 20:47:17 +0000 UTCUsed to be chamois in cycling shorts - used cream to soften them. All synthetic now, so no breaking in or hand-washing
Bruce Driffill
2022-04-10 20:19:34 +0000 UTCThe cast of last of the summer wine singing we're having a gang bang is not a mash up we need.
John P
2022-04-10 19:42:57 +0000 UTCYour comment about Tiger Woods knowing the difference between the accelerator and brake is more complex than you think. There are times people think they are stepping on the brake when they are not Malcolm Gladwell did a really good podcast on this https://youtu.be/1N3naJ0P0gM
Bill
2022-04-10 19:28:36 +0000 UTCDefinitely chamois leather in cycling shorts. At least there used to be when I were a lad. Stopped the chaffing. Probably something more synthetic nowadays
Marc
2022-04-10 19:19:04 +0000 UTCIn North America we only ever got the sedan version of the Mondeo (Contour in the 1990s and Fusion in the 2010s). The last gen though we did have a Sport version which was AWD and the 2.7 Ecoboost V6 for about 330 hp. Would love to have that drivetrain in an estate.
Ed Nicholson
2022-04-10 19:09:31 +0000 UTCFrench Canadian is definitely different than other Canadian ... from an Ontario born and dwelling Canadian. :-)
Ed Nicholson
2022-04-10 18:52:40 +0000 UTCI live next to a small town (circa 6k people), it has one car showroom which has been traditionally Renault for the last 40 years, Dacia was added maybe 8 or 10 years ago and more recently MG. I swear 2 out of 3 cars in the town are Dacias or MGs. I dream of the days when we also had Ford's' and Vauxhall locally.
Graham Dallas
2022-04-10 18:51:12 +0000 UTCDamn. Should have listened for a few minutes more before posting about the 500!
Stephen Archer
2022-04-10 18:30:07 +0000 UTCIn reply to the long running and still available cars, Fiat 500 - launched late 2007 and still selling them after very few changes. Also my wife and I have a pair of Kia Soul EVs. She got one last June and I wanted to go EV too. I looked round but couldn’t find anything I preferred so leased one too. Different colour though.
Stephen Archer
2022-04-10 18:27:17 +0000 UTCSob and Bue is a wonderful nickname
Sean Hamerton
2022-04-10 18:15:28 +0000 UTCThere was a mk1 l-reg mondeo lx a couple streets away from me (sw london) that finally got hauled away by the dvla between Tuesday- Thursday. Weird moment because it was the last humble car on that street really. A proper #mildlyinterestingcarsoflondon spot
Jamie W
2022-04-10 18:12:18 +0000 UTCWhen I was a boy there were two professional footballers living on my street. Robbie James (Swansea, Stoke, QPR, Wales) drove a Skoda Rapid, white with lots of plastic bodykit, and Tommy Hutchison (Coventry, Man City, Swansea, Scotland) drove a Yugo, both fully signwritten down the sides. Tommy also had a Mercedes W123 though.
Tim C
2022-04-10 18:10:32 +0000 UTCBefore I even start listening, one for Richard. You probably weren't aware that Mike Gould name-dropped Sniff Petrol and, in particular, Roy Lanchester, in his latest column in LRO magazine (not on the shelves yet, I'm a subscriber so get it early). From his writing I'm not entirely sure that Mike knows that Roy isn't real, however he can apparently recognise the events in How To Be A Motoring Journalist. Actually now I think about it, as you're in the Land Rover nerd circle (whether you like it or not) you probably already have the magazine and have already read his column. If not, why not?
Matt Tester
2022-04-10 17:01:45 +0000 UTC
