C.R.E.A.M. #32 Number Plates, Baguette Holders And Barry's Sunglasses

0:00 Introduction

In my head, when I see workplace in road,

workforce in road, there's a point of the

motorway up ahead, but it's just free for all.

Yeah, there's just cars whizzing by it at 70/80.

Someone's just digging the road.

There are just many nice jackets,

trying to dodge traffic.

It's like frothing, pinged into the next lane.

And then they go, "All right,

all right, all right, "like this wall,

every mine."

Kevin's gone mate.

Kevin's gone.

We'll send Steve out.

He's on the other side

of the road.

Is it a lorry to Birmingham?

Hello, welcome to the 30-second cream podcast.

The Cars Rule Everything Around Me podcast,

now at the beginning of every one of these

podcasts, we ask all three of ourselves.

That's myself, Will, Edwin.

Hello.

Benjamin.

Hello.

Nice, I was a clean one.

Thank you.

I was very clean and nice.

If Cars Rule or Ruin everything around us on

this particular week, would you like to kick us off?

Yes, I'm a start before I say my rule of ruin.

I'm a start with some penance.

I must say sorry.

In a video that we posted on the two-dead

center channel, a couple weeks ago,

we walked around all of our cars,

tested out if they started or not,

and one part of the video we talked about,

cars that were no longer with us,

the ones that got away.

And one of them was the limo,

and I mentioned in it that the limo had gone

to a competition company, and it was very

rusty, and that you shouldn't buy tickets.

The result of that though, is that the guy

who runs a competition company,

I didn't mention the name, but people still

worked out, but there's not many competition

companies giving away limo, so I win.

If I had have gone and checked his Instagram,

I would have found that he had just put a

post out the day before saying,

"I've had all the rust done."

So he was quite rightfully annoyed and said,

"Hey, can you please explain "that this is,

I don't run a dodgy company "and that limo is

actually welded up?"

So, Ed from EP competitions,

I'm very sorry, that was completely my bad.

He does run a completely normal fine competition company.

He also does lots of cars like us,

lots of weird tat, which is up our street.

So if you want to go check it out,

it is called EP COMPS on Instagram,

and he also marketed the limo as just a way

to inconvenience your friends,

if you would just give it to someone,

which is probably the best idea for the limo.

It inconvenienced us.

It really did.

So, apologies, but we bought,

we move on.

My week is a rule.

I know, is it?

Is it why?

It's two reasons.

Is it potentially?

Oh, okay.

So one was from an hour ago,

is the rule.

It's potentially not, but we'll see it,

we'll call it a rule.

The other one, Pending Rules.

The previous rule is from on Tuesday,

William and I went to a company called DT

Performance Cars, and they have lots of cool cars.

Yeah, many.

'Cause they had a Hellcat widebody and just a

little, just a little C6 Corvette

convertible, pro charged with an LS 7.7 liter

for us to drive.

And good God, it was the most

incredible automotive experience I've ever had.

It was crazy.

It was just fantastic.

We were obviously driving them on the roads.

Yeah, which is.

You know, you can only push them so far,

but I now want both of those cars on a drive.

Really bad.

On a runway, on a track.

I said to Ben, when I went out with him,

we were just driving on back roads the entire

day I never got out of third gear.

And if I'm honest, I wouldn't want to.

It was crazy.

The Hellcat, I loved.

And I still think that's the car I'd probably

have, but the Corvette was a car experience

that I won't figure.

That is obscene.

And the only car I've been in with you that

I'm genuinely, or was genuinely quite scared.

Will I be comfortable in being a passenger in

each other's cars?

In the GTR, there was not much.

Of course, just up to 70.

Just across up 70.

But there was, I'm always like,

yeah, well, it's fine.

He's got this.

But while we were driving the Corvette,

I did a pull and will put his hand up for me to stop.

And I legit, the first thing I thought was,

wow, this must be actually quite...

And I didn't even think of it.

It wasn't a conscious thought,

but it was just a nature.

It was actual fare.

So it is a rule for that reason.

And then the second reason it's a rule is,

apparently I mentioned it on my last podcast.

I didn't actually know.

So I'm still feeling quite scared with buys and remorse.

It

hasn't been on the road since 2008.

That's coming up for 20

years.

That's not great to hear.

So we're going to see how that is.

Is it off the road as in stored and a nice,

hermetically sealed cabin?

I haven't seen the car.

I bought it sight unseen on an auction for £4,250.

Very cheap.

It is an Evo One.

It is the earliest Evo.

So it's the base one that not many people like.

But I've always had a soft

swap for them.

So I'm incredibly excited.

I'm so excited.

And so this is a rule for me.

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It's just not, it's just not the one.

No, is it?

So those cars are 80 to 100 grand.

Yeah, big money.

We were saying this, you know what,

we're ready to move up sticks and move over to America.

Oh, yeah.

You know, our American, you know,

our creamers across the pond are loving their

own creamers.

They, that's, I want to be over there.

I want to do more stuff in America.

I'm coming just to buy a Hellcat,

please.

I want to live in a wooden house.

You know what, we still need to work out what

car we're going to rent.

We're going to rent for Monterey.

So maybe we find ourselves a Hellcat.

We can get a challenge, a charger,

four door, with a, with a practical.

Yeah, exactly.

It's just, yeah.

You can fit four doors.

Ben's in the back seat getting absolutely thrown around.

Wow.

And then also, Ben's in the front.

Hello.

My rule of ruin.

Yes, that's why I'm in ruin.

Why is that?

I bought myself a stud conversion kit with my

clear, which came yesterday.

I thought, exciting times I will get to the unit.

First thing, and I will fit it.

I arrived here next five this morning because

my clear, I got in it.

First of all, it wouldn't start interesting.

And then I drove down the road and it had

this crazy rotation noise from the wheels.

So I need to investigate that.

And so you weren't able to bring it today.

You haven't been able to look into the reason.

No, I had to just turn around and get in my car.

That's the worst thing when something like

that happens, you have to put the car away,

has to go in another car the whole time it's

just playing on your mind.

You don't have a chance to find out why

you're just going to say, well,

what if it's the Skrambles?

Oh, what if I did the Rumbus?

My fingers might be broken.

It's crazy.

Joe have the, or the exact thing,

you're away from the cars, nothing can do,

but then you have a light bulb and then you

go, I know what it is.

What if it's that?

And if it is right, you're then mechanic of the year.

I am mechanic.

You've gone to your mind, Palace,

your Sherlock going, that anti-roll bulb drop

link, that wasn't tight in heads.

And then you go and do it, and then it's just not.

like that.

No, and then you're back.

You're back to square world.

You're back at work the next day.

So then are you going to diagnose that at home?

I think it's only fine.

It got, I drove it about a mile,

turned around, came back and it seemed to get

a bit better.

So me, I don't know what it was.

I need to have a proper look at it.

Sometimes it's not a clunk, a big knock or a

crunch, or a Clio.

It's not much, it really can.

Also, we're saying earlier, rev a rotational noise.

I'm scared for instantly, 'cause I'm like,

oh, Will's going to fall off.

Horrible noise, but I'd rather a rotational noise.

Sorry, I'd rather speed noise than a rev dependent noise.

If it makes a noise with the engine speed,

I'm a shitting pant.

It's gone.

Big, big, big, big brown.

There's a hole in the seat.

Whereas if there's, if it's just,

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Why would a shield be fine?

You know what, the Jag had that.

Self-clear and sing is a great thing.

The Jag had that, and again,

we had that same thing as like,

oh, this is a five liter Jag.

Yeah, washing a rotation noise like that.

The diff's going to be broken or something.

It's just a heat shield.

While the heat shield, I'm going to make some noise.

Ben up under here.

So you'll be fine.

Yeah, I'll have to drive it to Shedfest on Sunday.

Well, speaking of, yeah, Shedfest with it

there on Sunday, it will have been--

Do we have Ben?

They will have been.

Ben all week has been very upset because

there was-- We were joking with the fact that

he would have to go on stage.

Rumors.

I've been genuinely very upset.

Ben really actually refused to go off on stage.

Oh, there's nothing-- If there's any fellow

Creamers there, it's nothing to do with you.

I just don't like them.

Ben had said, he said, I really don't want to

see those people.

Yeah.

He said, I didn't want to share a stage with

that Will guy.

No, Ben said that if he was on a stage,

he would be able to tell who was a Creamer

and who wasn't in the stand.

He would just hate to see them.

Just make sure.

No, I didn't want to see anyone that wasn't a Creamer.

I was worried about that.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

That's a good one.

People who haven't subscribed to Rap Dog

Media as well.

We did it.

We did it.

We did it.

That's a fantastic segue.

That is a crazy one.

We did that.

There are 25/2 now from Strength.

I believe they're actually getting some flak

from a Dutch YouTube channel.

Why?

I watched the video last night.

And talking about this, I think it's Dutch.

It could be lying.

Yeah, sure.

I'm not very happy with you.

You've got the hills and one side.

Oh, well.

Crazy accent.

They're like, they said it's their competitor.

I don't know.

It's Dutch Rap Dog.

Are they also called Rap Dog?

No, no.

What's Rap Dog in Dutch?

Oh, I wouldn't know that.

OK.

I know.

Dutch is a haunt.

He's a haunt in H.O.N.D.

But I don't know what Rap is.

So like, it's a Dutch Rap Dog,

whatever the name is.

Dutch Dog have apparently made a slide dig.

Oh, they're buying followers.

Oh, now we just like to clear up.

Now they are.

paid a penny.

No, but they are they are paying us in kind

in Mercy Largo driving.

And you know what?

That's that's that's that.

No, no is having to fix the Mercy Largo

potentially earlier than he would have liked.

Which is true.

Which so I guess is it is a cost.

It's not it's not buying followers.

We're just sending we're sending our people.

You know, we were going to speak to your

people and then they get along and then you did.

Exactly.

Then you're going to stick around to Dutch guys.

Yeah.

So don't worry.

Maybe we send them over to you as well.

OK.

Speaking of the accent, actually,

very quick mention to the man's name who of

mine forgotten.

I don't know what you're talking about.

The compilation.

Oh, Mr.

Laser.

See you laser.

But he's Mr.

Laser Toss.

So Laser Man uses government name.

He has a Mr.

President.

He has been a second compilation.

There's a great comment on that.

It's like, it's a laser.

Laser dormant.

Yes.

15 years.

And then found his calling when the cream

podcast started.

It's basically quite slightly touchy accents.

Yeah.

Which is not great.

We will also be in contact with you because

because we love what you do.

Yeah, we do.

You know, we'd love to potentially get you involved.

If we haven't by this point,

which is probably about a week at this stage,

we just send the message.

Also, we've done this.

We were all very bad for it.

There was the lovely gentleman who said he

would give us a tour of the McLaren factory.

Yeah, very sorry about that.

We forgot to respond to that.

And also the gentleman who said he would let

us spec his Temeraria.

Yeah, but very also sorry about that.

Look, man, it's not that we don't want to.

It's not that we're too good for anything.

We are idiots that forget.

And then we're four months later,

we go, oh, no.

I'll say it almost feels like it's a bit big time.

Exactly.

Yeah, you know, I'm going to come and take this.

I don't need it.

Yeah, I need this.

But yeah, see you later.

We would recommend watching that.

Not right now.

But also if we remember, we'll put it at the

link in the description brackets.

We won't possibly not.

Would you like to move on to the list of

things and stuff?

This stuff, things and stuff.

So a ruin.

Wow.

Sorry.

Cut to Ben on that.

Ben is a just watching what is in the background.

which is one of the greatest games,

not just car games, but the greatest game of all time.

Midnight Club LA.

Ben, did you play this?

Is this why you're watching this?

No, the reason I'm still looking so intently

and haven't blinked for many minutes now is

because the graphics are quite good.

This is a remaster.

Most of the we put up YouTube like eight hour

gameplays just of it and more often than not,

they are remastered.

But this game still holds up.

I still play this on because you can play on Xbox One.

You can play the backwards compatibility

thing and it still holds up.

The hand is worth it.

Yeah, it's not so great.

Yeah, it's very arcadey.

Yeah, but it is a fantastic game if you can

drive on two wheels.

You can actually roll.

Did you ever do that?

No, for like an actual reason.

No.

I did use the one of the special power up

things was I think it was raw where

it would shove everyone away from you around you.

And you could, if you're about to hit a

traffic car, you could hit it and it'll push them away.

I remember the being laces in that game that

I was just hoping that my opponents were

crashing into walls.

This was the era of games where it was still very hard.

Well, there's some pro street.

I struggled with stuff.

This, there was a pink slip mode,

Ben, because you never played this,

right?

Let me tell you about this.

There was a pink slip thing where you could

go and race someone for a better car.

But if you lost, you lost your car.

And if you, there was a way to like,

if you pulled the plug out the back of your

Xbox quick enough, before the end of the

race, it would work.

But more often than not, when you started the

race and you turned your Xbox off,

it's gone.

And then your car would be at the pink slip,

like dealership, like where you race people,

it'd be sick, man, taunting you.

And you could try and race your own car to

get it back.

It's just a walking game then.

You lose your car, you just don't walk around.

After that, you have to get alone.

That's cool.

That's why she likes the flash to drive the flash places.

To start a race, you flash your headlights at

them and you race towards where the race starts.

So good.

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Lead for Speed.

15:04 Car News and Don Law Racing

It would be just a step up above that.

There's no reason.

It's Stoke-on-Trent.

People from Stoke-on-Trent.

We say you guys are just abusing us and

telling us that we're idiots.

I like it.

It was a great job.

Keep it up.

We don't try to do that.

It just kind of happens like that.

But two extra 220s, that's crazy.

Two just parked up and out.

I did some digging and some cool search.

Because I thought that this just can't be.

There has to be a reason for this.

And it is apparently Don Law in his near,

very, very near, opposite or very,

very near by where their old unit used to be.

Yeah, just leave the excuse to 20 across the street.

All Law Racing is who, I believe,

currently owns the top gear,

the xJ220 engine top gear van.

They also own from memory all of the bucks

that are for designing the panels.

They'll take your entire stock,

I think is what they said.

They'll take it a whole lot.

And they are who you go to if you need stuff

for remaking, re-engaging.

We'd love to get in contact with them because

they do have the van.

They have a transit van with a VXC20.

I

wonder

why you would say

that.

So, I've come around the corner and I'm

already halfway down the road.

So, I'm well beyond my pulling spot.

That's what anyone coming would wait for me,

DPD van ahead.

I can see him in the pulling ahead,

waiting.

And then he pulls out.

He's already there.

He's already there.

Okay.

And he sees me coming out and he just pulls

out, drives at me.

And I thought, like, he's going to realise

the mistake, stop, reverse back a bit.

It keeps coming at me.

So, I gestured at him.

I gesticulated.

Now, could you, for the audio listeners,

could you describe that?

What was the gesture?

I said, you, you, you.

I was actually quite mild mannered.

I think I probably said idiot,

something idiot.

And I just, I basically said,

go back.

And with your arms, you, you most said that.

I said, please, please go back.

Perhaps you're like an Italian doing any formal speech.

You go back.

And the van already stopped.

The driver immediately just stepped out of the van.

I was like, okay, here we go.

We're

on for something.

Is there violence happening here?

I'm not quite prepared for this,

but I'm not quite prepared for this.

I'm down for it.

I feel like I'm in the right Friday evening.

I'm fine.

I'm willing to fight for this.

He came up to the window.

He's like, what are you doing?

So you need to go back.

I was like, no, you need to get your van

length away from where you should pull back into.

And he said, I'll drive this van into the ditch.

I didn't quite understand the threat.

I might have misheard it, but that's what it

sounded like so many.

It wasn't a, I'm worried about the van going

into the ditch.

It was, I will drive this van into the ditch.

Just didn't understand that,

I didn't know if it was a threat.

I was like, how does that damage be?

Does it go into the ditch?

That show, you didn't.

Yeah, let's drive off.

What?

So in the end, I thought, he seemed a little

bit flustered by it.

So I thought, I can't be asked for this.

This could go too far.

I reversed all the way back,

which was too far to reverse.

And let him pass.

And he drove at me with a door open and he

put his hand out the window as if to say

like, hold on.

So I waited there and he pulled up alongside

and he went, do you work with the automatic?

I said, yeah.

And he just sort of nodded, smirked and just drove away.

I couldn't fathom the whole situation.

You were social experimented.

You are your data.

You are absolutely data.

Like the Smirk, I didn't know if it was it

was a mix

between Smirk.

It was almost it was like a realization.

I'm

okay with you.

I'm okay with you.

It was like, ah, this guy's an idiot.

I don't understand.

If that's you, please let, are we good?

Like, that's what Will said to me afterwards.

He just went, he told me this story.

We laughed at it.

Then he went, I don't know where I stand with him.

He's a DVD driver in this area.

This is likely he's got to come here as always.

I have a feeling we just had some like

Hoover, Vax stuff delivered.

I think he delivered it about five to 10 minutes prior.

So if it's you, just let me know.

Are we good?

It's just you were in the wrong.

You were in the wrong.

You could have got it.

We've got from Ben quickly.

We've got enough anecdotes.

There's no news.

I haven't looked.

But there just isn't.

news.

If we haven't looked, there's none.

There isn't news.

If you're listening right now,

if you're listening right now,

do not worry, there's no car news.

There's no car news.

And if there is, there isn't,

basically, let us know.

We'll talk about it in two weeks time,

probably.

But before that,

20:14 Ben's Clarification on Emergency Vehicle Incident

there's a little something from Ben.

Oh, he wants, he wants us.

Yes.

Off my chest, this must be a podcast from

last week went out as we are recording this

when a few hours ago.

Yep.

Today went out.

A lot of comments about my rent,

which I did lose my, my hirag a little bit

about the man with the flashing lights.

Yes.

People have been saying that was an emergency

services vehicle and it was a doctor.

And I'm here to assure you it is not.

Okay.

I said, I need to learn to articulate things

correctly, not flashing green lights.

They are yellowy color.

It was a man in a modified car trying to impersonate.

It was like an off-road light bar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, on the front, it wasn't,

it wasn't like it was on the top and it

wasn't like nothing like an emergency services vehicle.

I saw the man as he drove past.

He was not an emergency services at all.

It was just a human being driving like a knob.

I'm not.

I'm not, I'm not here to block a motor services vehicle.

That would be not.

Ben, he's an analyst.

Look at this dick coming in.

Yeah, there's no word up the size of the number.

Yeah.

I couldn't read it.

But I want to hear that.

His phone number was on the site.

He said, no, no, no.

That's way too short.

No, I, I, I want everyone to know that.

That isn't the case at all.

And I appreciate it might sound like that,

but I, I would not do that.

That is incredibly mild malady in an automobile.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's, he's not, he's not the threat.

No.

He, he is the man.

Yeah.

He does like to block doctors on the motor.

No, he does.

I hate the joke because I, I read and I was

like, the podcast went out and I read and I

was like, no, do you know what the podcast went out?

And usually it's us that we'll,

we'll read a comment that we're like,

that's dumb or we'll say a little,

that's funny.

Ben was in the corner just fuming going,

well, what an idiot.

What an idiot.

It's, I, I said that it's not.

Yes, it was making my anger seem worse.

And then two minutes later, it was quite the moment.

easier.

He's still thinking about the doctor.

Was, was he

safe for someone?

No, I read it.

It's not a doctor.

And my heart, my heart's sanctity.

I don't want to be on a podcast looking like I'm going.

Yeah.

So a big, big weekend of blocking.

Yeah.

I'll just go out on the road now.

Just find them, find them a block up.

Yeah.

I've parked in front of a fire station and I

just don't let them out the door.

What you could do is, it's rather than block

them is use the space they leave behind.

I've always thought about that.

Like how far could you be behind to stop them

getting going like, come on.

I would quite like to know what is the,

I've seen this regularly on the roads where

people move very out of the way.

A lot of time on the motorway,

because it's quite simple, where you've got

the lanes and whatever.

Placecar ambulance, defending,

driving, dog to drive cars.

Of course.

Anyone continuously moves out of the way.

With an off road like Bob?

Yeah.

And everyone moves out of the way because

they know he's saving lives.

Yeah, of course.

But then when is socially acceptable to move

back into that lane?

Like, can you use it?

Should you use it?

I use it as a way to get past other people.

But you know what it is.

I always think about it.

It's a factory reset.

It sends everyone back into a lane.

They go, oh, okay.

Yeah, you know, I should.

I'm fine.

I don't eat them.

Fast lane.

But if the person ahead of you pulls over,

the police cars don't clear the lanes clear,

but they haven't gone back in.

Okay.

So that to me, it's every man.

If they're going slow and 70 mile an hour and

they pull into lane 3.5.

stage 2.5 lane, they've got the elbow remap,

but then I'm in there.

So yeah, but it just there is a there's like

a no man's land time.

Yeah.

Well, the police car goes past me

like, is he a it's like, this is going to sound bad.

Is it

far away enough for me to slightly go over

speed limit now?

Is he going to stop for me?

Probably not.

He's got bigger

things.

He's chasing them.

Yeah, really.

Some idiots.

I'm clearing that up.

It was not that at all.

I apologize

for my complete lack of articulating things.

And I'm on the airport.

Not a lot of people around on

Friday night.

So, you know, I'm just in my left-hand lane,

as you should be.

I was driving on that.

And you know, basically, there's no on the motorway.

And then suddenly, if you're in a left-hand

lane, someone just appears and they're just

sat there chilling, not in the lane hogging,

just there going, I'm going to say maybe 50

miles now at max.

So, I'm like, you know, I'm going 70 miles

now on the speed limit, on the motorway.

And I go, I arrive up them.

And how was it when you were driving as well?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm like, wow, the hazard's wrong.

Okay, there's an issue here,

right?

I'm going to go around.

So, I'll slow off.

I'm going to start to go around.

It turns out it was a man who had no hands on

the steering wheel.

But he was straight up a yamming back

Pringles, just on it

on a Friday night.

I think it was Doritos.

Steve, they're two hands stuck in the Pringle cab.

He wasn't staring.

I think he was in his knees drinking them.

He was holding the Pringles in one bag and

eating the Pringles.

Not a Pringle was a dip.

I didn't see that.

I didn't see that.

But that's mad.

Well, remember, we had the previous

conversation about what is the best food to eat.

Hey, Doritos and now up there.

Well, perhaps he had, he was having a breakdown.

He might be, no, maybe he was in oil.

Maybe he was.

But his car was having an issue,

he's got a flat tire on the side,

perhaps you can't see.

And he went, well, is crisp.

Yeah, I'm stressed out right now because of

this breakdown.

Let's get some crisp out.

I'm not going to pull him into the hard solder.

I need my energy for this labor.

So let's get some crisp out.

I don't know.

Maybe, maybe, maybe there was some sort of

medical condition.

Maybe that's what the dependence of that is.

Maybe he needs the crisps to stay alive.

I don't know.

Maybe he had like, like some kind of just,

and I was like, I've got to get some drears.

I mean, now we're not making the next junction.

That could be a real be that,

but at the same time, but you'd pull over.

I mean, I feel like at that point,

maybe he's the hard shoulder.

It's still dangerous.

That's what I mean.

Yeah, maybe put your car on the hard

shoulder, get out behind the barrier where

it's safe and then eat your crisps.

Or it was a, but what you might have thought

I might not have time for that.

I would fall over the barrier.

And then all you'll fall into the hard

shoulder and then you are in danger.

Fair, fair.

Well, not on the hard shot, you'd be fine.

If you fell into the motorway,

you know, where there's like doctors undertaking them.

Well, no, they wouldn't get anywhere there.

It was not a doctor.

Deal with it.

You're a doctor.

We've next up, we've got one from you here

with Sophie Ratdog.

I can't remember that is at all.

Sorry, that was, I was just speaking to my

girlfriend who has zero interesting cars,

really.

And she was like, yeah, I wouldn't subscribe to them.

I said, you watch a video?

And she went, no, you must go,

you have to, look, the deal was,

you must go and watch a video.

She got halfway through and she went,

their cars look nicer than yours.

No, don't say, I was like, true.

What the hell?

It's fair.

It's fair, but come on, it's fair,

but.

Yeah, no, nothing.

It's fair.

We've got different cars.

Yeah, it's true.

They just have better ones.

They just know what they're doing.

Oh, you got another one?

No, no, no, me.

This is actually, this is not news.

This is kind of new car stuff,

it's electric car stuff, but it's funny.

Okay.

The new

Renault 5.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Very retro looking.

I've actually quite interested in one of those.

I like it as well.

You said, there was some ridiculous voice.

You said there was at least,

I was like 200 quid a minute.

And you consider it.

Yeah.

You know what?

I kind of hear it.

I like how they look.

Yeah.

It's the most basic one.

I really want to see one on some wheels.

Cool wheels on.

That's what I like.

Yeah.

Yeah.

8,000 miles a year.

You do that in a week.

Yeah.

I think I'd get bored of it very,

very quickly.

Yeah.

But anyway, there

was an option on that.

Here's something.

You are in the

automotive space.

You could send Renault a message and say,

I'd like to have a long term one to review.

I'd like this

car.

Can I have one for free?

I'm the creamer.

I am one of the creamers.

Exactly.

I'm a founding creamer.

And we could get you so many people upset

with your car.

We could, you know, we can get you like

25,000 subscribers.

Yeah.

If you're starting at about 15.

Yeah.

Maybe call it 10.

Right.

10 to 15.

We can get you there if you're making cool stuff.

The option on the Renault 5 is a baguette holder.

Now, I don't actually, I haven't seen it.

What is, is it a cheap?

It's sort of like, yes.

Yes.

And your baguette sticks half way,

like part way out of it.

So it's like you are French bicycling with a magnet.

Okay.

Yeah.

But it sort of goes over the passenger side,

clips over.

On the seat, on the inner side of the door,

the center console.

On the center console, I quite like that.

But I quite, I mean, I know

that it's probably meant to be.

Sorry.

Can you please cut back to Ben trying to

quietly roll his chair forward,

just just video.

I need to twist the legs.

Please go ahead.

Very easy one.

A strafe.

I'm so sorry.

It's all the creamers.

But it's just quite funny.

I want to know if it was a sense of humor

thing or if they are genuinely going.

Not that there is a fruit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Actually quite useful.

Of course.

Because how else like transporting a baguette

in like a nump, there is no,

there is no supermarket bag fit from a baguette.

It's true.

It always just sticks out and you get

problems everywhere.

Yeah.

It's not great.

Yeah.

And then you get home and then your baguette

split a lot of like in half.

You never want a baguette split.

You don't want to crush a baguette in half,

but I thought that's fantastic.

I think I'd store my Costco hot dog there perhaps.

So hold on.

Is it like the tube this big?

No.

Yeah.

You'd get lost in that.

Do you want me to find a picture for you?

Two Costco hot dogs.

Your dogs are getting lost, mate.

Oh, do you know what?

What about like a foot long subway?

That works.

That's not a bad idea.

Quite like that.

But does that make sure I'm not being mean to you?

Does that mean you have to reach into the

tube to get your subway thing?

Let's see.

Oh, that's great.

And that's a little wicker basket as well.

That's right.

Your hot dogs getting lost in that.

That's throwing a sausage down a hallway.

Don't forget, hold on.

Hey, an American would look at that and go,

that's for a 75 ounce soda.

Yeah, that's right.

My shifter.

Yeah, you guys drive stick here.

Look at that.

It's just a, that's more like stick of French

bread, am I right?

That's one.

And yeah, you could use it for other thing,

icicles, icicles,

bicycles.

Yeah, you could use that for stalagmites,

mate.

Such a crazy thing to fill out.

This is long that you need that.

It's just a baguette, really.

Yeah, a sword.

It pulls up on your legs.

Oh, shit.

Your musket.

Your long barreled musket.

If someone pulls it all out,

it's trying to race me.

And I try and race them and they pull out a sword.

And I see them wearing full chain mail with,

do you?

I look a little fat to the death.

I look away in the thanks, actually,

a horse.

I'm like, oh, you ran a five.

I think, you know, there's a funny option to have.

I don't know how much it is,

but if I ever saw five-- Surely,

if it's a little wicker basket,

you can't run out if you're listening,

we all want Renault Fives with baguette holders.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Care about any of the other options.

Hey, Will.

Just make sure it's got a baguette.

Your Renault five that you get from Renault

to a test for long-term should have a baguette.

And that can be part of the review.

And we can have baguettes.

And I can tell you what sort of baguette and

what other things you can store in it.

What the best baguette to use.

What fits in your baguette holder.

That sounds like euphemism.

I don't like it.

Instagram link from you here,

which is.

It's this guy.

Yes.

It is an Instagram link.

Again, I will endeavor to send the link.

Probably won't happen.

But it is a drone footage of a drift event.

You've seen it to incredibly livery.cars with

ultimate angle and doing skids,

tandem side by side.

Except this one is not bad.

It's one drift car and a completely stock.

Is it next three or is it next five?

I think five.

An X5 M, I'm going to assume,

or maybe it's just a normal one,

but just an X5 drifting.

It's got some aftermarket wheels.

And it's just doing, but doing actual silly

drift car skids.

Oh, like actual and with about a foot or so

from the car.

From a drift car next to a big tandem.

In my head, it's like when you watch a movie

and you see like an admission impossible

meant doing dirt, he dug it in a old E28.

You're like, yeah, but not really.

Normal cars can't really do that.

Meanwhile, Chris Harris turning up to a drift

event in the X5N.

That's what it would look like.

It's quite cool.

That is quite cool.

I have a question.

Oh, sure.

It's just come to me now.

Who did the first skid?

It's a great question.

And when was it?

Because if there were people,

I reckon it was within five minutes of a

four-wheeled automobile.

It absolutely has to be skid.

Yeah, 100%.

Because have you seen the videos of the Amish

in America when it snows doing skids with a

wholesome cart?

That's not a joke.

People drift bicycles.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, so you were telling me about that stuff?

They went, oh, we got this amazing invention.

It can go three miles an hour.

I'm doing a skid.

Realistically, I think it was probably the

first time they raced one.

The first time they pushed the limits of

driving, someone would have gone,

oh, dab of oppo there.

When you get on a bike or a BMX or any kind

of bicycle, what is the first thing you want to do?

I want to pull a back brake and see if it skids.

Yeah.

Play as one of the first things you want to speed.

I'm going to go, what does this rear brake do?

Does it skid?

Now there has been a quite recent,

we won't talk about it in this podcast,

because it will be for future content.

But we recently bought a car yesterday.

Nothing special.

It was just a little hundred horsepower front

wheel drive.

It's not the C2VTS.

We will buy one of those at some point.

It's far more special to me.

And it can't be balanced.

It can't do skids.

So what am I doing?

I'm pulling the handbrake.

So what can I do?

Because I'm a child on a bicycle.

I'm holding the rear brake and doing a skid

and coming to a stop.

Ben, what's the first thing you're doing with

a trolley in a supermarket?

I'm hitting that thing sideways.

I'm hitting that thing sideways.

It's human nature.

Have you ever seen me in a supermarket watch

out for those angles?

I'm clipping the apex.

These are on wheels.

Humans will go.

I'm going to push the limits.

Do you know what I find interesting though?

I would love to do that test,

but with racing drivers.

Because racing drivers hate doing skids.

Exactly.

Because when I was growing up,

a friend of mine was into go-kart racing big

time using actually professional go-kart racing.

I had to play PlayStation together and he'd

be setting lap times and I'd be like,

"Nah, do some skids."

And he couldn't fathom it.

He'd be like, "But it's slower."

I don't understand, but it's more fun.

And I remember setting up, he had a DIY sim

type thing, and I built a hydro handbrake out

of an old piece of metal that had a lever

that went up to press the X button to hit the handbrake.

I did it, and his dad walked in,

who was his kind of coach for racing.

I was like, "What's this?"

I was like, "Oh, it's just drifting skids."

He was upset, because he was like,

"No, that's slow.

Don't do that."

And he was annoyed that his son was being

affected by me.

So I'd like to give a racing driver a trolley.

I reckon they're just clipping apexes.

They're not getting around the supermarket quick.

You shave four tenths off the rice aisle there.

Incredible.

They're doing you up the outside and all the

inside there.

To your left, old woman.

I'm on your right.

I'm in a box box box.

Box box box, we need to unload this load.

Two for one.

Wait, your friend was a racing driver?

He is a racing driver.

Wow.

He's an accomplished one now.

In South Africa, he's pretty quite accomplished.

I also built out of, he did go-kart racing there.

I built out of the scraps of their stuff,

like a drift kind of car, and they got very

annoyed if I took it on the track in between

sessions because they were like,

I'm ruining the side of it.

It's more fun, have fun, do sideways things.

Ben, you've got an M4 versus I4 update.

Last week, let me preface this.

There is a M4 near me.

where I...

The BMW M4.

Yeah, sorry, BMW M4, near-ish to me that I

drive past all the time, and I have for many

years now, every time I drive past it,

looked at it and gone, very nice,

I like that a lot.

I went past last week, the week before,

he was gone, and there was an I4 in its place.

It's not great.

And it was tough, I was upset,

went back the next day, off day after,

he's back, boy.

He's back, so it was a potentially warm,

all righty.

It was a courtesy car.

All righty, it was a courtesy car.

He was hated it.

Probably doing some of the classic,

I don't know, 6,000 pounds of like,

preventative maintenance.

Anyway, all the creamers.

Calm down.

Panic stations,

all right.

Easy, easy.

And you know what, it's looking

better than ever.

It's still low, it's still low.

What color was it, he's Sam Marino?

I don't know what that means.

He was blue.

Is he a dark metallic blue?

I think we went through Sam Marino,

or he's Tanzanite.

It's nice, comp wheels.

Anyway, he's back, so no one panic.

Obviously, if it changes again.

Please do let us all update,

but for now, everyone's stopped panicking.

Another one from New Here Ben.

Campervan.

Campervan, I had a great thought.

We should buy a campervan.

No thanks.

I don't really like that.

Do you not think that a campervan thought our

job would be perfect?

No.

What do you mean by that?

Lay down as a unit?

No.

A little bit of a kip.

I'm on the podcast.

Don't wait in there.

I need to get an edit done midday in the campervan.

I'd rather drive into a wall.

Hang on, but we can put a cool engine in it.

No,

38:21 Campervan Debate

we can still--

Oh no, interesting.

Also, then the campervan gets worse.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, would that not be perfect?

I am so avidly against things are half

something and half something else.

I have this argument with my girlfriend all

the time, 'cause she loves it.

She's like, "We can go eat a campervan."

No, why is it like that?

Look, I have the same, my basis comes from boats,

right?

You spend a million pounds on a boat.

That sounds like a lot of money.

In reality, a million pounds on a boat gets

you a shit one bed flat in London inside of a

little fiberglass vessel.

That's what it is.

Why am I gonna spend a million pounds that

when a million pounds could rent you a super

yacht for as many weeks as you wish to boat

for the next few years?

I'm not on board with the boat idea.

Because a smaller boat might be nice.

It might be a million pound boat.

It's gotta be nice.

No, that's my point.

That's my point.

It is never, for the amount of money you

spend on it, they're so shit.

They are so, go look up a million pound boat,

look inside it.

But not inside, I'm not talking about inside,

just to, what would you do with a boat?

Exactly.

Pilot it.

This is my point.

If you're spending it, on like an open,

again, this is now a boat podcast.

Like an open decked boat, like a rib,

you know what I mean?

Like a navy sealed boat boat.

Cool, have a big one of those.

Cool, I get it.

You're chilling, you're out in the sunshine.

I'm talking about those boats that have like

mini houses inside them.

They've got a kitchen, they've got a bedroom,

they know it.

Sorry, that's the word I'm looking for.

Those are ridiculous and dumb,

because you're paying for a shit place.

It's not good.

One thing I will agree with,

actually, on that one, similar camper vans,

I don't see the point in spending 80 grand on

a camper van, 'cause they're expensive.

It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

I mean, just how many holidays,

like nice holidays you can convey.

Exactly.

I reckon you can do, you could do,

I'm gonna say, 10, really good holidays.

Of course, yeah, 10, 10.

10 men going on.

As I'm saying, that's an unreal holiday.

Yeah, you're on a holiday sort of a holiday.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah, but the flip side of it is,

yeah, so my ass is touching the sink and the

front of me is touching what is supposed to

be my bed, what is in reality,

a bench.

Yeah, it makes no sense to me.

I will never understand, I will never come

round to it.

I hate them.

This is not what I'm saying for work,

would not be good.

Name a scenario.

No, no, no, no, no.

I'll tell you how I can fan work.

No, no, no, no, no.

Okay, we're tied, right, aren't you?

I know, I'll drive home.

Our toilet is broken.

Sorry, I'm in the...

Sorry, come on, sorry.

Can I just quickly get an intervention quickly?

Yeah.

'Cause you're saying this, and yet last week

when we filmed something, we finished at like

nine or 10 p.m.

and I said, you Ben, would you like me to

book you a hotel?

'Cause we're back here early in the morning.

And you said, no, I just wanna drive home and

be in my own bed.

I did want to do that, I did do that.

So I'd rather be in a hotel,

be arrested.

Wow, and will, and we'll, Evan,

back me up here, we'll hate hotels.

But also that's because, no,

I don't.

I actually don't hate hotels,

I don't like unnecessary hotels.

Yeah, you, if I can drive to a place.

We'll close it.

We'll close it.

That's fair, but yeah.

(laughs)

Because like a hotel, what, like absolute

work, if you're absolutely smashing the,

like, mashing the budget, the ritz boys,

like we've done a big shoot,

I'm off to the ritz.

I'm gonna get a carrots cake,

I'm gonna get, we're absolutely boring,

I'm spending two to 300 pounds a night.

How many times could you do that out of like,

even if you spent 20 grand, even if you spent

10 grand on a camper van, why would I wanna

go and camp outside where there's risk that

someone will come along, open my door and do

things to me?

(laughs) Or, still my van with me in it and

drive off with it, or if my living space,

can be stolen, I don't want to live in it.

Yes, I'm there.

There are other solutions to it.

Yeah, someone's nicked my house.

(laughs)

In the middle of the night, just took my house.

I'm just saying though, it could be an

all-in-one, it could be the HQ of TDC.

How many times do houses break?

Do houses break?

Do houses break?

They don't break down.

Yeah, my house needs a ton of milk.

They do.

(laughs)

They do.

I feel like I can't use my house,

it's with them.

Okay, in the middle of January,

a boiler breaks, basically a broken down house.

Yeah, it's a broken down house,

I'll still sleep.

What pump's gone on the house?

That's what, but you can still sleep in it,

but you can still sit in your car,

if it doesn't drive.

Yeah, but in your camper van,

how are you powering this?

Generally.

Oh, I can't do that.

I don't like to put the generator on,

but the landlord says, "Oh, I can't make

noises at midnight."

So I am on candlelight playing Angry Birds on my phone.

Three percent mastery, yeah.

This is my family hates me.

This sounds like a little light for Will.

Wait, wait, wait.

But I'm saying for work, are we gonna have a

podcast in a camp van, we could have an edit suite.

No, I hate that.

We could sleep in there, we could live in there.

No, I hate this idea.

I hate this idea.

I didn't TDC is the most efficient thing it

could possibly be.

No, it's not, Ben.

No, we are, we are, I'm not saying anything more.

Ben, great.

I am about a meter and a half from Will.

Yeah.

And about three or four meters from you.

Yeah, I don't wish to be any closer.

Well, then we'll get a big camp van.

He doesn't work like that, he doesn't.

Oh, sure, sure, sure, what we would need is a

double deck of us.

To house that is a lorry.

Yeah.

Oh, just get, oh, get one of the American

ones, it's like massive.

I'm having, everybody's fission.

Yeah, but where would we keep it?

You can put cars in those.

Where would we keep this fan?

Not my problem.

Well, will we be on the move?

Ben takes it home to Bristol every night and

drives it over in the morning.

I'll put the podcast that we filmed,

I'm gonna say 99% of podcasts here.

Yep.

Yep.

We've never really needed to go anywhere else.

We did two.

With trucks and once.

And three.

And a couple of Airbnb's.

Yeah, a couple of Airbnb's.

Which one we drove to in cars and stayed in

Airbnb's and filmed at podcast Airbnb's.

No, here's a question for you,

okay.

You would need to drive the camper van and

use it as our filming car because if you

would need to drive it.

Which means you take it home.

Well, no, I wouldn't need to 'cause I'll live in it.

You would live in the camper van.

But in the week, and then I'll go home on the weekends.

Is that our formal offer?

I'll think about it.

Okay.

How about this?

We'll think about the camper van.

No.

Anyway.

I think so.

Do you know what?

I think that was quite a good suggestion.

I think there's gonna be a lot of people in

the comments saying.

Yeah, actually, I have a T5 transporter and

I've got two toilets.

I get to do three pisses a leak.

That's not gonna be all four centimeters from each other.

That is a camper van.

Well, this is a port of contention.

I just thought, I was drawing that away on

the way to the shoot with the Hellcat

and the Corvette and we were all on it to hotel.

And I

thought, if we had a camper van right now.

Sorry, Ben,

that means you and I are sharing the bed in

the camper van.

We've shared a bed before.

That's true, we have.

And

Ben wasn't happy about it.

Did love it.

We're trying to find him.

I'm on the full narkos hiding.

He's sitting on the exhaust.

With all the crazy water.

Band of Bedwin.

Hello.

Edwin, you played here one BMW and the number one.

Yes, I was driving on the way to the hotel.

And I saw a I7, which is the new seven

series, the big boy.

Yeah, the biggest.

With the number plate, one BMW.

Wow.

And there was a chauffeur driving and a man

in the back, an elder white man looking very great.

A, I'm looking very CEO like,

I thought, in the back.

In the back.

In the back.

And you can see him.

I can see him, he had no tints.

He was clear glass.

Wow, what's to

be seen?

And so I did some research and it appears,

one

BMW is owned by BMW.

So surely that has to be like,

Mr.

BMW UK MD CEO type B.

But I was thinking, that's, you know what,

of all brands, that is the last MD,

let's call them a managing director,

who should be chauffeur.

BMW should be driving his, oh,

Mr.

BMW should be driving his own cars.

That's the whole point.

He should be the latest M car.

Exactly.

And you're four.

Or dailying like a four series or a five series.

A nice individual spec, something.

But to be chauffeur, you don't care.

You're not that guy, pal.

Does that mean that the MD of like smart has

to drive around a little two-seater smart car?

No, because that's kind of like Mercedes-based.

I'm saying BMW is a brand, if you're the MD,

you should be part of a game.

You should be.

D36.

You should be in the E36 with windows that

don't

work, 'cause the window regulator's broken.

And they'll be

like, "Yeah, they all do this."

Yeah, you're gonna get the M Sport kits on time.

I need to get the second headliner done,

that's soon.

It's rusty.

Yeah, it doesn't have an MOT.

I've got three.

Actually.

Yeah, I've bought parts car,

but I'm actually building that up for drifting,

man.

Number plates are bullshit.

I recently delved into the world of the

deviolate auctions, which until quite

recently, actually, I didn't really know existed.

I don't know where the hell people got these

number plates from.

So there's like once a month or so,

there's a deviolate auction where people have

either requested or the deviolate themselves

have gone, "Hey, have these plates."

I would also like to pick a bone with a

deviolate themselves.

Sorry, pause for a second.

Please explain to the American viewers what

the deviolate is.

Yes.

We have maybe 3% of you, but let's explain anyway.

The deviolate

is the driving vehicles legally,

actually, agency.

It's big law.

It's big car law.

It's a government.

It's who we pay taxes to.

It's who we have to tell.

We own the car, blah, blah, blah.

It's the government.

And they also actually own all the plates.

And they very kindly let us lowly peasants

pay some money to have them.

We must have them.

We have to have them.

But they say, you know you have that really

long number plate.

You could perhaps pay us a load of money if

you wanted a short one.

And for some reason, we say yes.

And the shorter you go tends to be,

there are lots of formats that I'm not going

to get into.

I quite like one, I can't remember.

Is it prefix prefix?

Three letters, number, letter,

five or six digits.

And I wanted to bid on one.

And what was FRO6X?

And for the first time in my life,

if I won it, I would have spaced it

illegally.

And I don't care because it would have been frog

X.

Which is funny on a French car,

which I understand is

potentially racist.

Yeah, true.

Yeah, it is.

But I'm not

sure I'm that other.

But also it's funny.

Well, I was going to buy, I shouldn't say it.

Because it's still selling, I do want to buy

it for one day.

Maybe I'll buy it for a B-A-O-2-G-E-T,

which I wanted to put on my ETO.

Because it's funny.

It's funny.

It's funny.

It's funny.

There's lots of those number plates.

But what I didn't quite fathom is how

ridiculously expensive those formats from

number plates can get.

So that's sold for, it's sold for 2,800,

I want to say.

And that's not including fees.

Of course.

Of course.

I think there's VAT.

Because, and then there's an 80-pound.

They're not making enough money.

No, no, no.

On the plate?

No.

So they charge you a premium on the

percentage on top of the thing,

which is just their commission,

right?

I reckon it's probably, whoever won it,

probably paid about three and a half grand.

Crazy.

And that's, you look through and there was

one that sold for 55 grand.

There was one that sold for 50,

yeah, 51, say, probably about 55 with fees.

Ridiculous.

And that was a four-digit plate.

That was like 55 OT or something.

Yeah, it was a very, very, very,

I think it might even be a three.

All crazy.

So big P's.

But there is an immense amount of money being

spent on number plates.

But there were hundreds of thousands of

pounds in that auction alone,

just being spunked on number plates.

Which is crazy, 'cause you could just not run them.

That's why I do.

I just think you don't even need them.

That's not true.

There was one of the first cool plates I ever saw.

Well, I'm cool, but I thought it was cool,

'cause I was a child.

I saw in a car park near where I used to go

quite frequently, there was a C63,

the one that, Will, you drove?

6.2, yeah.

Big boy with a plate, 8EN, Ben.

Oh, well, Ben.

That's literally it.

That would be a very expensive piece.

C63, and then it disappeared.

Yeah.

And about, like, seven years later,

it was on a Range Rover Sport SVR,

which I saw.

Also, for those of you that don't know,

perhaps you're from abroad, or you're just

not that aware in the UK, we have to have the

reason it's so special in America.

You can, let's say you get assigned 8FJ62N.

Cool, that doesn't matter, that's just what

they illegally assigned you.

You can then go to whoever and say,

I want the name Gregory, and if it fits

within a certain size, you can have it,

or you can have 81-vet, literally like here,

on the, on the, what's called,

we have restless written on there.

We can't do that, we have to obey a certain

format for a certain year type thing,

which means it's very limited on what you can get.

Your number plate has to have a letter,

your number plate has to have at least one

number and a letter, it's like choosing a password.

You must have one uppercase character in this.

So that, that, that plate was FRO space 6X,

you'd space it any other way,

it's illegal.

You couldn't, you, and there is no plate on

earth in the UK that says, is frog,

it doesn't exist, you can't get that.

So people get creative in ways to spell

things like that one was 83N.

No, eight EN.

Eight EN, so they're spacing it to say the word Ben.

Yeah, cool, but I'll say this,

I think I will down this hill.

UK number plates is the best format in

the entire world.

I agree.

No, I think America's the

best, 'cause you can just have the word.

I don't know, I don't like the way their

number plates will look.

Agreed, that, they can't.

Hang on, toy car things.

I mean, I don't mean, like custom ones,

I mean, if you get given a normal box down a

plate, the way it's laid out is just the most

efficient way possible.

In terms of understanding what it,

what it, what the information it contains.

You got your first letter, it's your wide

area, your second letter, your local area

where the car was made, then you got your

year, 15, 16, whatever.

Is the first, I thought the first and second

were the same thing.

I thought, yeah, first and second are just,

they're your own area.

I thought it meant like, if it was W,

it's like West Country and then like Piers

Bristol, for example, and there's a few

different ones, and then, yeah,

and then you have it, and then they go,

okay, cool, and now three random letters at

the end, which means that you can,

I can't remember what the number is,

but I worked out one time, and it is in each

small area they locate for each plate.

It's hundreds of thousands of cars that can be made.

You can never run out of them.

I just, whenever I go to Europe,

whatever, I think, I don't understand their layout.

But it's because you don't understand people

come over to the UK and go, why is that just

a random car?

Do they have a format in Europe?

Yes, they do.

Like Germans have a--

That says the year of the car on their own.

I'm not 100% sure in a year,

but I know there's a location for our instance.

I was just gonna say, like if you look at any

like Volkswagen, the rest car,

it will say WOB, WOB.

Yeah, I've known that.

That's Wolfsburg.

But there's nothing that, there's only thing

that dates them.

I believe there might be.

I don't know if that has an effect on,

it must have an effect on the way people see cars.

Like here, people in the UK,

people are quite obsessed with having a new

car or a very new car.

A 74 plate is a regular Joe when they see

someone with a 2010 car, they're like,

"Ooh, that's an old car."

Yeah, but like when they see someone with a

25, no matter what it is, it's immediately

better to them.

So surely having that on the number plate

benefits a manufacturer or a car dealer?

I think it has to surely.

Surely.

Because you literally see it as a marketing

thing here, get the first 25 plate,

get your new 74 plates here.

So yeah, I like it used to be letters,

was it like?

'Cause before it's 2001 is A to Z,

but not really Z.

Yeah.

X, I think X is the last one.

Don't do that at all.

I see that's my favorite age of plates.

Really?

A '90s plate is the best.

I like the prefix one.

Which is older than that.

Which is older than that, which is '80s.

Which is the, what we'd now have as a five

digit plate, but backwards.

I like those if it's a short plate like Frog

X, whereas in the, for most cars that were

issued, you would have, you'd have A-A-A,

one, one, one, two, three, A.

Yeah.

Whereas you were looking at A-A-A,

one, A, which is cool, that's true.

But the long ones are a little bit meh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is mega nerdy stuff.

This is, I used to have, when I first started

learning about plates, in my dad's car,

we put in the glove box, we put it out,

the list of the area locations,

like W, whatever, on it.

So you could learn, me and him being in the

car, and we'd do like a long journey,

but like, that car, and I'd go down to this,

and I was very young, I'd go out and read out

what it was.

That's why you're good at that,

'cause Ben, I remember a bit,

'cause Ben will do that quite often,

and he'll be like, oh, N.D.,

like not again.

I'm like, can you?

Can't.

I don't think so.

I'm looking up.

Can you leave?

That's why all the Audi press cars are,

and it's Milton Keynes-ish.

Oh, okay.

Keens.

If you look at all of the kinds.

K.Y.

Milton, Keith.

Keens.

I know of them, but I know.

If you look at most UK Evo's that grey and

ports, they're WX, don't know why that is.

WX would be...

WX country, WXO, whatever.

Wow.

Okay, we might have to test Ben on this at some point.

I don't know.

Brush up on your knowledge.

Get some.

Hit me all right now, hit me all one.

Just one.

We just did.

P.L.

P.L.

Plymouth.

I was gonna say, I think it's...

Some of them don't, they don't conform to such.

No, I know, I just think it's a such thing.

I think P.L.

was my odd evo, and I think that was

registered in Wigan.

Wait, one sec, P.L.C.

P.L.C.

is an A.

Wigan, B.

P.L.G.N.

P.L.G.N.

Will Finn.

I don't know that well, but I used to,

we used to do that 'cause it was another kind of nerd.

There's gonna be some other nerds in the

comments going, "Oh, my God."

You don't know that M.

Reg is actually originated in Gloucestershire.

Can we please get the creamers in the comments?

Please leave us a comment on what the coolest

plate you've seen is.

There's a man on Instagram who just does none,

please.

You know what, I saw, I got--

He messaged the number plate.

I did.

Did he see you?

I haven't responded to that.

I had no idea.

Yeah, no, I thought, the very posh,

man.

Yo, you seriously.

He's exceptionally posh.

No, no, no, yeah, yeah.

No, he figured, I watched one of his videos,

I was like, "That's cool information,

I like that."

I like that.

Sultan Brunei also owns A1.

A1, A1, what's your play?

Yeah, the first registered A1 auto spares

down the road.

It's swinging.

Could've been on that.

Oh, 20 mil a zip.

It was originally, it was registered for the

longest time ever, not even an S.

And then recently, I believe it's now on,

can't remember what it is on,

it might even be on an Audi A1.

But there are some crazy histories to number play.

So we'll have to do some research and come

back, maybe speak to, I think it's number

plate history, something along those lines,

I'm very sorry, I forgot your name.

But it goes into them, so like this was the

first number plate to do with the Duke Earl

of Kings, King Queen Elizabeth.

Isn't it F1, it's the one they've been trying

to sell for years?

Yeah, yeah.

10 million, a car, yeah, it always says like,

I was 10 mil, and then someone goes,

are you, I showed interest at seven,

he's like, no, it's 15 now, it's never gonna

sell, it's just waiting on Bernie Eccleston

to turn up.

Yeah, but if you got a McLaren F1,

which is 20 million, 20 million pound car

now, and you want, it's kind of rude not to,

I think, at that point.

It's a shame not to.

Well, if it's 20 mil for a car,

why not spend 20, 30 minutes at that point?

Drop it in the ocean.

Well, I mean, for that person probably is.

Yeah.

Should we move on, I think we move on.

I think we move on.

Interesting number plates, Jesus,

thank God.

Oh, thank God they've stopped talking about camper vans.

57:05 New Car Brands and Jack Discussion

Like number plates.

Ben, you've put, I don't know what the

cryptic messages go.

This is Jack.

Jack.

Jack.

Okay, well, you think we've touched this before?

There are, there is an influx of new car brands.

Like, ones I've never seen before that I saw

a pickup truck on the way back on Tuesday

from drawing those cars, which is on the back

in, you know, it's forward on F-150s and

ranges have the forward front,

that on the back, JAC.

Jack, looked it up, who's Jack?

Jack is a Chinese brand.

What's Jack doing?

Just another new one.

There's now JCo or something,

a new one.

JCo, yeah.

I've seen that one.

But in the last year, I was just seeing cars,

brands pop up everywhere.

We got, we got messaged by JCo,

I believe.

I think I said we were not supposed to talk about it.

I don't care.

Well, we didn't ever respond to emails.

It doesn't matter.

We never agree to anything.

They were like, do you want to come and be an

influencer and drive this car for us for the day?

And we were considering, a paid,

by the way, as like a paid review about doing

it and being completely objectively true.

And just saying, this is shit.

Or if it's not being like, it's fine somehow.

This is a car.

This is potentially one of the cars.

I've never experienced, I don't know,

maybe it's just that I'm more aware of it suddenly.

Would you like to know the cars they make?

Oh, go on.

Right.

So it's the Jack, what?

The T8.

The Jack T8.

Yeah, they were looking at like a row of talks bits.

But I like that actually.

A revolver.

A revolver.

They went, oh, that engine, that's big one.

That's nice.

Then the T9.

Okay.

That makes sense.

Okay.

Why is that?

So what are those cars?

They are, they're all pickups.

Oh, they're all pickups.

Okay, I'll try some.

So the T8, T9.

Yeah.

Is it the T10?

No, it's the Hunter.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, there's the Jack Hunter.

Jack Hunter.

I should have known.

Oh, Jack Hunter.

Jack Hunter, I should have known that too quickly.

I should have known that too quickly.

I mean, the Jack Hunter, meanwhile people named Jack.

(laughs)

Hunter and the Hunter offer traditional

gasoline and diesel engine choices with both

four by two and four by four configurations,

variable electric options, bloody,

bloody, blah.

Yeah, no, I haven't even seen one.

I saw one and I thought, what is this thing?

And I just, I've never seen this many new

brands just appear.

They just happen.

Who's buying them?

'Cause if it's me as a consumer,

I would not go into a shop and go brand new

brand that no one's ever heard of.

But I think, I also think it just says Jack.

It just says Jack.

Wow, Jack, that's what I read.

I also think there are, the thing is,

I think back in like 80s, 90s and especially

before 2000s as well, people bought with what

they trusted.

You know, you hear, even on top gear,

the whole thing about Tesla saying that it was broken.

It was like, how do you completely damage the

amount of, 'cause people's words held weight.

Whereas now, there's so much information

easily accessible online.

I think people just go, all right,

look, it's probably gonna be fine.

Someone here said they bought one and it's fine.

They're cheaper than most other things I'll buy.

Someone wants that they want the most amount of car.

Yeah.

But not that they care that much about that,

but the most amount of car for the least

amount of money.

Yep, that's it.

And then a Chinese brand can offer that in

absolute abundance.

As long as you don't care about your,

there's a lot of brand snobbery in the UK.

Exactly.

It scares me, have you seen the,

you know, the Fiska Ocean fiasco?

Yeah.

For people who don't know, that was,

it's SUV, a little SUV they bought out.

Yeah.

They had the Fiska car back in the day and

they came back and they said,

"We're making you electric cars,

"sold a fair number of them,

but not enough to get the brand going,

"brand one under.

"Now people are left with cars that are worth

"maybe a third of what they paid."

And they're, some of them are correct.

Correct.

Update them.

Yeah.

Can't drive them.

No service center, nothing.

That scares me.

I would never buy like a car,

like even Tesla, Tesla I probably would buy

one, I wouldn't buy one, but I would trust

them now 'cause they're big enough.

But if you, random new brand comes out,

I'm like, "Yeah, cool, true."

But is that from a point of the fact that

it's an electric car or the fact that it's

just a brand that's on buy one?

Well, I wouldn't buy one 'cause it's electric really.

No, no, no, I'm saying in terms of what

scares you about it.

I would go with what I know myself.

I just think I wouldn't trust.

'Cause there are, if I'm leasing it,

maybe not, but if I'm buying it,

I got some of that.

That was an argument throughout the entire

development history of the car.

The moment fuel injection came out,

people were like, "It's too complex.

Give me a car."

I don't wanna deal with it.

It's bullshit.

Give it five years, everyone's on board with it.

It's fine, they're specialists who understand it.

Same with turbos, same with everything,

same with hybrids.

It's the same.

There's like a bit of a mystery aspect to

electric cars that may still people are like,

"Oh, don't mind."

And I don't understand how they work.

But that's what I mean.

There's not gonna be like a fiscus specialist.

Electric cars are like the air fryer to regular people.

The best invention of all time.

Well, that's what I mean.

Imagine you go to someone, you go like,

"This is a car."

Ben's gonna buy an air fryer.

I doubt it.

I doubt it.

You would buy an air fryer, though.

I have bought an air fryer.

You go to the floor.

To regular punter, regular Joe on the street.

I think if a monkey's about cars,

not one big.

White goods.

And you say, "There's a car here."

Very good value.

You never have to put fuel in it.

Tax is almost nil.

Yep.

There's gonna be a million year warranty.

Yep.

And we're gonna give you a nine pound a month

lease still.

It's like--

Of course we've done that.

This is New Age.

But for me, how do I say no?

I'm scared of them.

I don't know it, so I'm scared.

Fair.

But yeah, I think the biggest thing for

Chinese brand, this is sounding like an

actual cast about cars.

I think it's ridiculous.

They need to have to work out marketing,

'cause that is it, the UK, like we said,

with the number plates, are huge snobs for cars.

It's the reason why BMWs, Mercs and Audi's

are the most least things.

People, we talked about it before,

where people would rather buy a bottom of the

range, A-Class, one series, A1,

A3, than go and buy a--

I actually don't think this is the majority,

'cause obviously Fiesta's and whatever,

Opolo, whatever it is, are still,

exceptionally popular.

But many, many people would rather go out and

buy a bottom of the range premium brand car,

than go and buy a Ford or a Vauxhall or

whatever it would be, Volvo,

whatever, that has less options.

Yeah.

Oh, sorry, that has all the options.

Every option, that for half price or fraction price.

Yeah, it's the same thing with,

if you look at Skoda, Skoda,

Sayat, Volkswagen Audi, everyone's gonna go

and choose the Audi, it's the same thing.

They're built in the same factory,

by the same people, it's all the same,

but people go, I want the Audi.

I would like the Audi.

It's nicer.

That's a lovely car.

That's a lovely car.

That's a lovely car.

Enjoy your Leon mate.

Me when I see someone at a service station,

getting some chicken that's quite good.

Didn't know Leon made that actually.

It's very good.

I've always seen Leon.

Yeah, I've tried it once.

It was quite an M1.

Anyway, merge lane cut off, I've put this in,

this happened yesterday, in fact,

on my way into work.

No, oh yeah, sorry, yeah.

Yesterday morning, I was perplexed.

I was annoyed, I was also kind of hum,

it was quite funny, I thought it was.

So, near me, there's very wide roads for some

reason, that are single lanes,

and then some reason they then go into like a

dual carriageway type thing,

where there are two lanes, and then

eventually it goes down to one lane.

There's very rarely traffic there,

but for whatever reason, there was traffic,

just at the merge.

And because every human being on the road in

this country is a human walking sheep,

they all queued up in this one left lane,

despite the fact that there is completely

empty merge lane to the right.

And it is merge in turn, there's big white

arrows, there is a lane, it's a lane,

and it's a lane that you can use.

It doesn't say this lane is closed,

it says we need to be, by the end of this,

we need to be a one.

You need to get in there.

But instead, people make the longest queue on earth.

The queue was probably doubled or tripled in

size, because of the fact that people weren't

using the merge.

So naturally, I used the merge and I thought,

I'm not obviously gonna be a complete helmet

and just nudge in right at the end.

probably would have, but I'm just gonna go

further up and go in where I think is natural

to move in.

I'm driving past cars, looking smugly at them

as they looked numb behind the eyes,

ahead of them.

And this Mercedes GL something,

something, he just pulled into the lane.

Like on purpose, I could see what I don't know.

At first, I thought he was he turning around

or something.

But no, he just pulled into the merge lane

and blocked me off.

And he just, he made absolutely sure not to

look at me.

No, I'm not.

I'm not going to give you the satisfaction.

So I laughed.

So it was quite funny.

I've already made my game.

Yeah.

I've gained 30 to 40 cars or whatever it is.

Do what you will for I have already won.

You may have won this battle,

but the war is mine.

And I just, I was just insane.

Every day, sometimes I want to think,

you know what, nature is healing.

It's in nature.

I see driving and I go, you know what,

people are getting better.

Yeah.

And then I see stuff like that.

Because that is such a large concentration of Egypt.

Yeah.

There are hundreds of idiots.

So you're in a line.

Do you know what the best part is?

You told me that story yesterday morning.

Yeah.

And I went home.

And do you know what happened to be on my way home?

The same.

The exact same thing.

I was all on the motorway and it was a,

it was a move into the outside lane,

into the fast lane because they were like,

there is one one in the lane.

Sorry, lane one.

Because there are, no, lane three,

lane three into the fast lane.

Sorry.

Let me use it terminology, everyone

understands, into the fast lane because the

two lanes ahead are going to be closed

because there are workforce in the road.

Yeah.

Before I could see the sign in the distance

saying, everyone needs to start moving over,

there was already no one in the two left lanes.

Everyone's in the right lane.

Yeah.

Wild.

And I was like, I'm, I'm not doing that.

This, I will be in this, I will be in this

traffic for hours.

Yeah.

And so I thought, I'm not going to do 70.

I'm going to, it's set up there 50 anyway.

So I was like, let me travel it down to like 30.

Yeah.

I'm just going to, I'm just going to cruise slides on.

I have a bag of questions.

Meanwhile, meanwhile, Ben in front of the...

No, so I was just trumbling along in the

middle lane now.

Technically I'm the taking.

Yeah.

Fine.

If I'm on the taking, I am because I'm not

sitting in a queue of 7,000 idiots who go,

I have to move now.

And halfway down, a discovery when they were

rolling along as well.

Like, like vid in and out quickly to be like,

ooh, to be.

So I just went around and then carried on in

the left lane until not, not the merge.

I wasn't at the cones.

I was probably 300 or 400 meters back.

There was a truck who let me in.

Fine.

No one died.

There wasn't a, I didn't call 1700 hours of traffic.

Yeah.

I simply saved myself time.

I wasn't an idiot.

Did, uh, have you ever seen workforce in the road?

No, this is a funny thing.

The whole reason they did this,

some was, uh, mulching a tree.

Ooh.

I assume a branch had fallen down and they

were throwing a tree, uh, branch through a

shredder and, uh, just to shooting it into the road.

But I like that.

Well, I see, you know, when you see,

uh, debris in the road, I can't remember.

I think I've seen like pedestrians in road

or, or one of the scariest ones I've ever

seen was like, uh, vehicle.

Come on.

Oncoming vehicle.

That, yeah.

Sorry.

What?

Yeah.

So close the thing down.

Cause they, they put that, I think when,

if someone reverses on the hard shoulder and

they put that there, that scared,

that really scared me one time in HQ.

They're just going, whoa, whoa.

All right.

Like there's someone reversing the other hard shoulder.

We need to shut the stuff down.

He's about to hit a J-turn at 40 and start

going, straight back down.

But in my head, when I see workplace in,

workplace in road, workforce in road is the,

there's a point of the motorway up ahead,

but it's just free for all.

Yeah.

There's, there's just cars whizzing by it at 78.

Someone's just digging the roads.

There are just many nice jackets,

trying to dodge traffic.

It's like frothing.

Pinged into the next lane.

And then they go, all right,

all right.

Like this wall, every one.

Kev's gone mate.

Kev's gone.

We'll send Steve out.

He's on the other side of the road.

He's on a lorry to Birmingham.

I'm sure it is, it is probably very serious

to have that.

And I know they do, they say workforce in

road, or whatever, three days before.

Yes.

So that, so that you don't a mile before and

you go, I'm going to come out through it.

I've heard it from lots of people,

but my dad's one of my dad's very good mates

used to work for the AA for like 40

1:09:14 Workforce in Road Incidents

years.

And he absolutely, he was like,

I will, if I break down, I will ring someone.

I'm not getting out of that car.

Because the amount of times he was like,

had close calls with people flying past at 90

mile an hour, that far from him laying on the floor.

One thing, I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of

the highways, people.

I have nothing against you.

I have nothing for you.

But their ability to throw a cone.

Oh, incredible.

Into the exactly where it needs to go.

And the way it slides a little bit and stops.

Absolutely.

That as a sport.

I'm absolutely down.

It's like curling, but good.

But just cone throwing.

Yeah.

You have to be on a motorway.

On the back of the little trailer thing.

But I know if I did that, I'm hitting a car.

Yeah.

Now that's all I've seen.

So they throw the cone and I'm in moving traffic.

Yeah.

There's a risk here that you skid that cone

just a bit too far.

Yeah.

It's going straight.

It's getting pink back at you.

And yeah.

So I commend highways patrol,

say highways maintenance.

I've never thought about it before.

They are great.

They are really quite fantastic with the cones.

Ben would like us to talk about its trousers.

I would love to talk about my trousers.

You're not wearing them though.