What is the Best Genre of Cars? | The Car Podcast #85
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to the Car Podcast with Chris Harris and his friends. Everyone on this podcast works really hard. In fact, they're not willing to remind each other we're going on a daily basis. I think this is episode 85, is it?
It is 85. Do you know what 85 is?
What car news highlights are discussed this week?
85 is the year when the greatest racing driver ever won his first world championship.
Alan Prost.
Yeah. Yeah.
It was actually the year when the greatest racing driver ever won his first race.
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
I'll start with the factoid. Lapping everybody up to the second place guy. That's how good he was. Nigel Mantle spun off on the start-finish line as the greatest racing driver ever crossed it.
So I'll start with a factoid. This is quite a good factoid this week. I met with someone I used to work with on Sunday at the Bicester Scramble, and I said to him, his name is Richard Bremner. He won't listen to this, but he's right up there in terms of being a car nerd. Those of you that have read his stuff will know exactly who he is. I said, I was reading a story in Car Magazine from 1986, I think it was, or 85, about the new Renault 21. And did you know that the Renault 21 came with two wheelbases? because it had a transverse engine option and a longitudinal engine option, and Renault dealt with that by having different wheelbases. And Bremner said, ah, but you're wrong. There were four wheelbases, because the Savannah had a longer wheelbase, plus it had transverse and longitudinal engines.
Why are vintage cars cooler as you age?
So the Renault 21 came with four different wheelbases. That's a good factoid. That's brilliant. Now, I want to add one other thing. It's a question. I recently woke up, really recently woke up, and I made myself a cup of tea. And it's got a few lumps in it. Would you, A, drink it, because you're pretty parched and want to drink it, or would you go to the fridge quickly and leave your learned friends to get on with the first topic so you can check if the milk's off?
Latter. Yes.
I'm going to pull this thing on your back, set you going, and I might disappear for a minute to check on my milk. First point on the agenda is... Your week, cars or news? I suspect we'll all be choosing something quite similar. Let's go first with Neil Clifford.
Well, I'm choosing the thing that I was the only one that did this thing. Because obviously we did another thing, which we all did. So I'm leaving that to you.
What is your favorite genre of cars?
I went to Monaco Historic F1 weekend. I normally go with my son, actually, Vincent, because he likes to be a photographer and A-level photography. But actually, it's every two years, which is sort of good and bad. I think it's probably good because you get two years' worth of getting excited about it as opposed to an every-year thing, which maybe gets a bit more standard. I went with my wife. We flew into Nice. Thursday night, actually. So we were there on the sort of practice. Well done. Tea's no lumpy tea. We were there for practice and then we were there for quali on Saturday. Get a little train from Nice. I'd really, really recommend it.
What unique quiz combines cheese and cars?
There's something about the south of France that even though there's, you know, the food's a bit overrated in my view. We much prefer to be in Italy if you're talking about food than France. But the light... Yeah. The sunshine. It's like a filter on the sun down there, which has got this sort of goldy yellow vibe early in the morning, little train, little train into, into Monaco. And it sounds like, oh my God, it's a very sort of posh poncy thing to do. And of course you stay in Monaco.
What insights are shared during the 2CG segment?
There's not, there's probably not a hundred quid hotels, but you can stay in Nice where there are a hundred quid hotels is 60 euros a ticket for the weekend.
Yeah.
60 euros? Good price. Stand ticket, 60 euros. So, Neil, where were you staying? How far out?
How does music influence the car culture?
I was staying in Monaco. Oops. But, I mean, yes, it's not 100 quid, but it's not 1,000 quid. You know, I wasn't in the sort of uber, uber Ponzi hotels that are there. But we're staying in the Fairmont, which is on the hairpin. Um, over the tunnel.
Yes. Great.
Yeah. Amazing. And I suppose, I suppose, you know what, you have to just admire everyone involved because they're preserving history, but it's more than that because it's, they're, they're using history.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:09–0:24
2
What car news highlights are discussed this week?
0:24–1:44
3
Why are vintage cars cooler as you age?
1:44–2:42
4
What is your favorite genre of cars?
2:42–3:29
5
What unique quiz combines cheese and cars?
3:29–4:02
6
What insights are shared during the 2CG segment?
4:02–4:22
7
How does music influence the car culture?
4:22–5:00
8
What events are upcoming in the car community?
5:00–1:20:36
Speakers
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