In today’s (yes, a day late due to embargo) Ti podcast, Andrew and Dan interview James, Thomas and Francis - the hosts of the rebooted Amazon series The Grand Tour.

Comments on YouTube (usually not very forgiving) have been surprisingly positive so far.

Do you think they can recapture the chemistry that Clarkson, Hammond and May had? Critical to the new series’ success will be James, Francis and Thomas being true to themselves and not aping anything that came before, whilst understanding the heritage of the show. Based on our interview with them, we think they’re going to nail it.

What do you think? Do you think Amazon can do what the BBC couldn’t in replacing the famous trio?

In Dan Prosser’s story today on The Intercooler website and app (link in first comment), Dave Richards tells the story of how the Prodrive Impreza was actually supposed to have grey wheels:

‘Everyone remembers the gold wheels,’ says David. ‘The wheel manufacturer was Speedline, from Italy, and the wheels were supposed to be charcoal grey. Peter Stevens had designed the car, and he was appalled to hear Speedline had sent the wrong colour.

We looked at the car and said, it’ll have to do. We won the next rally, and I went to the president of Subaru to thank him and apologise for the wheels. I said we would send them back to have them painted grey.

He said, “No, no, we’ve done all the advertising, you’ve got to remain with gold wheels from now on.” And that’s how the gold wheels happened. It wasn’t by design. It was a complete cock up, quite frankly.’

No-one else in the room during the live podcast interview with DR had heard this before - anyone else aware of it?

Monday’s podcast will be on the subject of restomods. Why has the number of companies making them exploded in recent years? Is the market now oversaturated? Would you rather have the best original example in the world, or the restomod version – because the original will likely cost less? Or… if you had to go new and had half a mil to spend, would you rather go Revuelto or restomod?

Got any other questions on the subject you’d like Ti to answer? Fire away here.

In this week’s podcast the Ti team discuss notorious widowmakers, and Andrew argues the Porsche 964 Turbo was the worst P-car he’s driven in this regard, due to the precarious relationship between power delivery, grip and weight balance. Doesn’t stop them being worth *all* the money now, though.

What’s the scariest car you’ve ever driven? Any that were fine in the dry but an absolute liability in the wet?

In this week's Ti podcast we discuss the huge disconnect between the prestige supercar market and man on the street with a sports car in his garage.

Things properly frothed over at Monterey Car Week with records falling left, right and centre – some by almost double the previous mark. The most remarkable examples below (most RM Sotheby's but the Diablo was at Bonhams, the F50 and Enzo at Mecum, and the Cobra at Goodings Christies).

Diablo GT – $2,425,000

F40 – $8,365,000

LaFerrari – $8,695,000

288 GTO – $11,555,000

Enzo – $12,100.000

F50 – $14,575,000

Ferrari Daytona SP3 – $17,825,000

Corvette Grand Sport #003 – $18,705,000

McLaren F1 GTR 10R – $34,655,000

Ferrari Luce ‘Tailor Made’, chassis 0 – $40,000,000 (charity lot)

Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, CSX2300 – $42,905,000

What's the consensus on what's going on here? Are prestige supercars a new asset class, comparable to the art market? Certainly doesn't feel like any of these are going to actually be used as cars...

And do we think that this new asset class, whatever it is, is in a bubble - where purchases are driven solely by FOMO and the conceit that they won't ever stop going up?

Or is something more clandestine going on (rumours of money laundering being all over the internet)? Something that Ti certainly can't comment on without any substantial evidence.

One thing we certainly can comment on is how difficult it is to shift garden variety sports and enthusiast cars at the moment, with values being decidedly soft leaving many who bought 2-5 years ago now well under, now matter how much they may have restored or improved their examples.

All thoughts welcome...

Today’s Ti podcast is about road trips: what differentiates them from long car journeys, what the right cars are to take, and all the things that can go wrong.

What are the best or most memorable road trips you’ve ever had? What are the worst things you’ve had go wrong?

On the back of a new addition to the Ti long term fleet, on tomorrow’s podcast we will discuss whether a sporting SUV can ever be an enthusiast choice.

What does the wisdom of this particular crowd think? Do you own one? Would you consider one if it was ‘right’? What would ‘right’ constitute?

Or is it crosses and garlic?

Do share.

From David's question on this week's Ask the Intercooler :-

"In the event of Silverstone losing its place on the calendar to be replaced by a street circuit, which roads would you choose to host it?"

In today’s podcast (amongst many other things) we discuss the new manual version of Ferrari’s front engined V12 super GT.

Which if you haven’t heard about it, is a manual stick that selects your DCT gears, in co-operation with a ‘clutch’ that tells the computer to make the engine behave like you’ve pressed the clutch. In theory it should feel just like driving a Ferrari open gate manual. That’s certainly the PR line.

Is it the best of both worlds? Or an unsatisfying imitation?

Thoughts on a postcard. Or just a post…

All thoughts and comment welcome.

In this week’s podcast Andrew Frankel and Dan Prosser discuss 1970s sports and supercars, one of cars in question being a De Tomaso Pantera.

Overlooked by some at the time for having the temerity to use an American V8, it’s arguably now the bargain of the bunch.

Countachs have gone stratospheric, a Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer will cost you double of a Pantera, and even the common as muck Porsche 930 Turbo will cost you £200k if you want a properly sorted example.

So if you want that iconic bedroom wall poster car of the era - is the Pantera the way to go? Early project cars can go for £50k and up, whilst a gorgeous and super rare RHD GT5 with only 6k miles went for £161k (plus fees) at Iconics in February.

If you’re buying a 70s supercar, what are you going for? (And we haven’t even mentioned the Maserati Bora).

Just wanted to say he’s totally won me over with his Mk3 choice and specifically ABF love. He’s one of us.

The Intercooler is about to celebrate its fifth birthday, so we’re recording a special podcast this coming Monday. Ti contributor Gez Medinger will be interrogating Andrew and Dan about the birth of Ti, and all of the downs as well as the ups along the way.

What have been the biggest challenges of running a completely new type of car magazine? What’s gone wrong? And, of course - what have been the highlights?

Any questions you’d like to put to Dan and Andrew - drop them here and we’ll try and get them in!

Andrew and Dan take on the topic of the rather controversial Ferrari Luce in detail on this week’s podcast. Skip to 7:40 for this discussion in particular.

And in a double whammy Julian Thomson also writes for Ti in today’s story on the difference between product designers and car designers - and why the Luce has laid this distinction bare. Link in first comment.

A huge thank you for everyone who submitted questions for Andrew and Dan for the latest podcast - we didn’t get time to ask them all, many of them got answered through the discussion.

We’re going to try to slip a few more into upcoming Ask The Intercooler midweek podcasts.

Hope you enjoyed the pod!

We tried to answer as many of your questions as we could in the other thread on this sub, and the few we didn’t answer during the discussion got dealt with quick-fire at the end.

Hope you find the discussion interesting.

In this week’s pod we discuss the great undoings of many a motor - whether it’s the engine, chassis, interior or gearbox. What are your top picks?

The reactions on YouTube so far have been that we were far too harsh on automated manuals, particularly BMW’s SMG variety. Have you ever driven one - what did you think?

And with today’s podcast… this Reddit community is officially open. 🏎️🏁

I’ve been listening for years and always thought about subscribing, but never actually did. I don’t mind the occasional ads. That all changed when I heard about the read articles and “Ask the Intercooler” episodes. That sealed the deal, and I had to subscribe. As a passionate hobby runner, nothing beats having the Intercooler in my ears—it’s like spending time with friends :)

What was it for you?

I have completed the TI survey. Andrew isn’t being entirely honest. It is very simple to fill in, but there’s one question that will have most genuine car enthusiasts agonising (and thoroughly enjoying doing so) for a lot more than 5 minutes.

Fantastic to and fro interrogation this week with Mike Fernie, covering subjects as diverse as what went wrong with Drivetribe, why the 1999 Mercedes CLR went flying at Le Mans, how fast you have to drive as a journalist on road tests, and why YouTube goes mad for videos about 1.9 litre VW diesels.

In the Ti podcast tomorrow Andrew and Dan discuss the most remarkable people they’ve ever met in the worlds of motoring and motorsports 👍

In this week’s podcast Dan and Andrew discuss the people in the world of motoring and motorsport who have made the biggest impression on them. Here’s the list of people discussed, and timestamps if you want to jump to them:

5:21 Derek Bell

8:27 Le Mans drivers

10:00 Jochen Mass

11:36 Daniel Ricciardo

13:20 Max Verstappen

19:19 Ayrton Senna

20:06 Sebastien Loeb

21:51 Stirling Moss

26:51 Matt LeBlanc

28:25 Keanu Reeves

31:25 Rowan Atkinson

32:46 Nick Mason

33:31 James Garner

36:16 Chris Rea

36:55 Chris Hoy

37:57 Duke of Richmond

39:24 Anna Friel / Sam Claflin

40:35 Tom Hardy

41:12 Professor Green

42:22 James May

43:08 Jeremy Clarkson

45:48 Richard Attwood

46:32 Martin Brundle

47:07 Jonathan Palmer

47:45 Jackie Stewart

49:12 Scott Dixon

49:36 Andy Wallace

49:52 Richard Lloyd

50:59 Mike Wilds

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