S2 Ep32: I BROKE The Top Gear Suzuki Liana (& Help Pick A NEW Colour For My Clio Williams!)

I went to Dunsfold, the top gear test track,

and we were all going to have a go in the Suzuki Nianas.

I won't give anything away,

but both of the Suzuki Nianas blew up.

Really?

I'm one of us didn't get to have a go.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Auto Alex Podcast.

Home of Automotive, Financial Mistakes,

our life in cars and your questions answered today.

Rooray.

Hello.

Taylor.

Hello.

Oh, my, sorry, I wasn't...

Oh, it's just the...

My mind was...

You're just trying to tally up how much money you want me.

That's why.

You get stressed out.

I don't know, you're penniesling your own.

Anyway, we will fill your ear and your eye holes

with what we've been up to,

we'll answer your car dilemmas,

and we'll play a game of how much that,

or how much, which one was more expensive that?

Sponsored by ChatGPT.

Oh, really good.

I've started using ChatGPT as of last week.

See, I thought it was really good

until I came up with a quiz

and then I did it on the stage of ChatGPT last year,

turns out all the answers were wrong.

Yeah, it's not very accurate.

I think it's maybe more accurate these days.

Does it get more clever?

It does, it does actually keep you learning.

Yeah, I did actually cross-reference a couple of things

and it actually did tally up.

Okay.

So that has saved me about half an hour.

Anyway, before we carry on with the pod cars,

hope everyone's well, what do we do, Taylor now?

We say hello to everyone.

Okay, and let's get started with Andrew Ryan

and removing shitty black wrap from a set of BMW E60 kidney grills.

Good man.

Sean Burbridge, listening while driving into uni,

having just started an occupational therapy degree

at the age of 33,

Kurt listening to the podcast while driving

is truck around Europe, Tiago in Portugal,

Lewis Morgan loving life in his Maserati Ghibli,

David on a train to Edinburgh,

Mechanic Tom welding a transit.

That won't be our Tom with it.

No, he doesn't.

He doesn't.

He's off the tours and he's too old.

He's retired, yeah.

We've got dog trainer Abbey on her way back

from a dog training competition.

That's like crafts, isn't it?

Yeah, it's when you do bad dogs.

No, it's when you make them do tricks and stuff.

Oh, okay.

They're stuck or maybe, yeah, maybe that.

You know, when you go like bang to Mazie and she goes over

and goes and then plays dead.

For the purpose of people listening with their eye holes,

ear holes, sorry, Roy did like the gun thing.

Yeah.

Bang is in a gun, not bang.

Mazie.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

People could misinterpret, man.

Yeah.

You've got to be careful.

Yeah.

People are idiots.

Okay.

Anyway.

And Roy's mom, Jackie.

How's she doing?

She's doing all right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was the day there and all.

Roy was just thinking about how much he's spent on cars,

don't you think?

Oh, I cannot wait.

I cannot wait to get into that.

Oh, I cannot wait to get into that.

I cannot wait to get into that.

I cannot wait to get into that.

The Lord Treveney is just chuckling to himself,

leaning on your Spitfire that you spent it too long.

You know, a lot of mine, I'll be honest.

The credit cards have come out.

Have they?

Yeah.

Really?

I'm so determined to get my cars done before summer.

I don't care.

It's happening.

Because I'm not going because last year,

I had my lovely cars and it got to summer.

And every single one was either away somewhere or broken

and I ended up having nothing over summer.

Yeah.

year. This is the year. So you're going to bang the credit cards out, spend all the money

on fixing them, and then you won't have any money left over to drive them. Do I advise this?

No. No, this is a terrible decision. But it's happening. It's happening. Okay.

Okay. And speaking of cars and stuff, what number are you on now?

Well, there's been one more, isn't there? How many cars does one man own?

One single man. I now have 11.

Oh, correct me if I'm wrong. As of Saturday, you've now got more than me.

What? Oh, you're in big trouble if that's because I sold one on Saturday.

No, we're now, we're now even. Are we level pegging?

We're level pegging. Yeah, because you were 12. And now I'm now, now we're both 11.

Right. What is your future wife? Think of this.

So I talked about selling one. And she started going, well, I don't think you should.

Oh. And I was like, what? I'm sure she must be, she must be having you one.

The problem is the car that I'm selling, Ellie actually really likes.

Really? Can you tell everyone what car you're selling? Because I, I feel so proud of this.

Wait for it. Wait for it. I am going to be selling.

Wait. Yeah. My. Yeah. Land Rover. Yes. Yeah. Defender.

Yeah. That's it. We've been working on that for ages.

There are ages, yeah, yeah, yeah. And is there a reason for that?

Which we'll get on to in a little bit?

Yeah, I just don't see myself using it as much like, I'd be honest,

as much as you guys have grouped me for it, I haven't really used it.

No, no, you're just saying. You just don't drive your cars, man.

No, I drive, I drive all of my cars actually, but the defender is probably the one that I don't drive.

I think I, over the last year and a bit, I've seen you use it twice.

I did drive it a bit more just around like where I live, but even then,

it was probably just to go to the tip in and stuff like that.

And you could do that in Blue Pete now.

I can. Yeah. Yeah. Blue Pete is, I will admit, it does everything the defender does except for

looks wise. Yeah. Better. I think it looks better. I think Blue Pete is a better looking up.

Blue Pete is a disco three. No, you, you, you, you've been smoking something.

I agree with that. I was only smoking what you gave me.

No, no, defender is, is it better looking? I think a nice defender,

nine tears about looking car, but you're one, the paint's fallen off.

Yeah. The paint does, and I don't like the way some attention.

And I don't want to see lovely. Oh, the steering wheel as well.

Yeah. No, that's just your take. It's all very Birmingham.

This is coming from the man who wants to buy what?

I can't believe you to disagree with this.

We'll get onto that in a little bit. Yeah, I know what's to buy another car,

because he's a car. And it is the most Birmingham car you could possibly get.

Well, well, well, well, well, we're talking, we're talking about buying and selling cars.

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I've used car vertical three times today. Yeah, I was going to say, you're speaking of buying,

you're looking at buying a car, which you've car verticaled earlier. Yes.

And the man on the phone to you said that it wasn't a cat D. Yes.

And we covered it and it came up as it was. Yes.

So I might be buying a cat D vehicle, which means that I do have a bit of bargaining.

But speaking of buying cars as well, you know, Chris for much. Yes.

He is buying his misses, Natasha, a Fiat 500 C.

Yeah, convertible. Is that the four? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, like 1.2 or something.

So Chris drove all the way to Romford in Essex, which is about an hour and a half, two hours from his

house, looked at the car, looked around it, he was like, you know, something doesn't really add up,

blah, blah, blah. And then on the way home, because Chris is a bit of an idiot sometimes,

he said to me, can you car vertical this vehicle? Well, he bought it. No, no, he didn't buy it.

Okay. That would have been even more stupid. But we always say, if you're going to look

at a car van or motorbike, always, always, before you even bother leaving your house,

run a car vertical report, Chris didn't do that. So he wasted a lot of time. So anyway,

the car in question is a Fiat 500 C with 72,000 miles on the clock. That's quite low mileage.

Yeah, good price as well. But Chris said, oh, you know, the steering wheel just seems a little bit

too worn and the gear lever as well, looks a bit a little bit worn. I was like, well, I'm going to

run a car vertical for you. And what can we see here? That mileage needs attention.

Yes. An amber warning for mileage straight away. Has it been clocked by any chance?

Woohoo, it gets better. So we've got green ticks, finance, damage, their safety. So that all looks

okay. It's not being crashed. But why is there an amber warning for mileage? Maybe it's been off the

road for a while. Okay. But yeah, it's a modern car. So it says, this vehicle may have fake mileage

and then tell you what you might have a little look at that. So the graph goes up. Yeah, it comes down.

It goes down exactly. What does it go down to? 58,000 miles. And what was it up before?

82,000 miles. So it's lost the EK. So it's gone. So in the middle of 2021, it had 82,000 miles.

Then in 2023, it had 58,000. A couple of years later, again, 73,000 miles.

Okay. So that's not even like an MOT test is put the mileage in rock.

No, because that's that's slowly then gone up. Exactly. That has been clocked back.

It's definitely been clocked. So I said to Chris, you've literally just wasted

like five or six hours of your time. But what made him walk away then?

Firstly, he said that the car dealer was a bit of a comeback.

Okay. And he didn't like the vibe that he was getting. So that's already put you off.

But he even like test drove it and did all of those things. But I reckon I guarantee

there are a few things that he missed because he didn't have a tailor and he also didn't

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So don't be a Chris. Check a car before you go and buy it. Right? Yeah. We know that. Okay.

Anyway, let's move on. Sorry. Well, I was going to say I've got some Chris news.

What? Yeah. Our Chris. Yeah. Chris on March news. It's quite a sad day.

Oh, no. Do you know what I'm talking about here? No, we're losing part of the family.

Oh, what is Chris going? No, no, no, no, no. It's it's red. It's been it's been with us since

the start. Oh, oh, I know. Wait, oh, it is a bit sad. This is a bit sad. Chris news.

I'm a bit sad. He's selling Mike. He's selling something. Well, I say selling. It's it's going.

Okay, go on to the unfortunate scrap. Oh, yeah. Vanity. Vanity. You're you may remember

Vanity. He's been with us since probably near the start of auto Alex. We did it. We did a van

buying challenge. We did. We brought Vanity and then Chris sort of took Vanity under his wing

and used it as the merchandise van. Have we had Vanity for longer than big paint? Yes. Really?

I think I think Vanity was one of the OG purchase. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where was that from

less worth motor? Yeah, yeah, which can't go in anymore. Yeah, bloody. Oh, those close

times. I think we bought big peat when we were in the not yeah, we were in the unit before.

Yeah, we did. Yeah. And we bought Vanity when we were still at yours. Yeah, bloody. Oh, so yeah,

it's it's it's going. We've got didn't I say mechanic Tom welding a transit? Hello, too.

Oh, oh, maybe it's him. Should I get in contact with Tom and say can you weld our transit?

So, well, our vanity is not just welding. There is a lot starting to go wrong with it.

And obviously those transits are general those generations are known for rust. They're really bad.

Yeah, yeah. And I think that in the last MIT, it was discovered there was a lot more rust

than even we thought there was. Yeah. So it and it's got to the point as well where we're not going

to we're going to our shows, but we're not going to as many shows like we used to sell stands in

lots of other shows and stuff like that. But we're not doing that as much. So it kind of doesn't

we don't need a van every day. Yeah. That's a bit sad. It's quite sad. Yeah. We're going to have to say

goodbye to Vanity. Vanity. He's done well. He's done really well. Yeah. You think of what that van

started off as and what it is now. Yeah. Rusty. Yeah. It's really rusty. Yeah. I don't want to

cry. So let's move on to what we've been up to. We've got a lot to get through. I will start if I

may. Yeah. Got some more bits for the Audi RS4. You know, my Bradford spec RS4. You love this car.

I don't. I really. Oh my god. It's such a good car. I told you. It's so good. All along how good

they are. Yeah. It is. It is annoying. And you know, I ozone the interior as well with your

little ozone machines. People are asking about ozone machines. Does anyone know how it actually works?

It's something about it removes the oxygen molecules or something like that. Yeah. It creates

ozone and kills any bacteria and that like odor is a bacteria or such. Yeah. So it kills it.

Okay. So anyway, when you set it up in your car, you like run it for like 15 minutes and then

that's pretty much it. You open the windows and just I just let the car RRA for about three,

four hours and it doesn't smell of smoke anymore. You can get ozone machines on Amazon for what?

You're also like 40 quid. It's 40 quid. Yeah. I will admit, I stopped my head and it needs

another round, I would say. Okay. But it's so much better than what it is. But if you've got a car

that stinks of smoke or anything like that, it just stinks and just buys a binosome machine and

just blast it for 15 minutes. Now question. Yeah. You know, the government always came on about

global morning and that there's a hole in the ozone layer and it's letting air out or whatever.

It's got a puncture. Yeah. Why don't we all just buy an ozone machine and put it on and then

and fill it back up? Yeah. Why don't we just have a giant one? If we can create the thing that's

missing. Yeah. Well, with a nose. You're specifically told not to go inside the vehicle and let

it air out. Yeah. I know. So I imagine if everyone turned one on, we would turn ourselves into a

giant. Yeah. But we'd all implode. If you put it on like the roof you're out and it went up,

then surely it would do that because you know what would happen then. People will fall off their

roofs. No seagulls would start dropping out there. Do you know what? That's fine by me. I don't

like seagulls because they nick your chips. They make loads of noise and they shitt all over your

car. They are dickheads. They are like the dickhead of the bird world, aren't they? They're like

flying dogs. Yeah. But they're shit dogs. Gareth Rano at Seagull over at university. Really? Yeah.

He said it was like running running over a small child. Do you know what they're like? They're like

flying horses. They are. Yeah. This horse is a shit. They're very dense. Yeah. They're like flying

glue. They taste good though. What? Yeah. Seagulls. Oh, the horse. Yeah. The beak. I start from the

beak. Can we move on? Yeah. So if bought some more bits for the RS4, so headliner, because we're

going to do the headliner ourselves, because apparently loads of people said it's not that difficult.

You can get the headliner out through the. I cannot wait to say those exact words to you when

you're doing it. 20 minutes. I'll have it done. Now. Yeah. I will have involvement in the

mechanicals on that car, but I'm going to leave that to you. Okay. I'm quite good at headliner.

It never, I just never works. Okay. It never works. Yeah, you have little faith. This is my

KS Audi RS4. Okay. We're going to do things, you know, ourselves as much as possible. And that's

one of the things. PC racing coilovers have arrived as well, because the coilovers that are on the car,

they are like completely blown. They literally have exploded. You know when you go on the motorway,

and then you can see a wheel like vibrating up and down. That's what they're doing. Just

think that might be launching over speed bumps in Bradford. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. And hard, you

know, hard accelerating from the police and stuff like that. So yeah, that's very exciting. So

that's going to happen. Last week on Thura's day, I went to Dunsfold, the top gear test track.

Yeah. And I was filming with Ben Collins, the Stig. That sounds fun. And I arrived there

in my M3 touring, yeah, because I wanted to arrive at the style, you know, my 320D, the slow one.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Jimmy Broadbent was there. Yes. Mike Ferdinand was there. Oh, yeah. And we

were all going to have a go in the Suzuki Lianas. I won't give anything away, but both of the

Salute Suzuki Lianas blew up. Really? And one of us didn't get to have a go. Oh, really? Yeah.

How did they blow up though? Were they knocking? Just exhausted. No. So one of them

was calling it when everywhere. And the other one when I was certain when one of us was driving,

lost all power, completely all power. You put your foot on the accelerator and it just goes,

as it goes. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's probably an airflow, maybe should just unplug it and go again.

Yeah. Well, I mean, there was a mechanic there and they could sort it out. Oh, okay. Either way,

I did some laps and it was fun. So it wasn't you then? What shit? No, Mike didn't get to have a go.

Oh, sad. Me and Broadbent. Yeah. Sounds like good fun though. It was really good fun.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it's amazing like driving that car that I've seen

Tom Cruise's of this world driving as well. Yeah. Do you know, were they the exact cars?

Yeah. Apparently so. Yeah. Yeah. They were. So did you sniff the seat?

I like the seat. You could sniff Tom Cruise's ass. I did. Did you guff in it? I got pregnant.

Did you? Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. I didn't let the seat. I made love.

So that was really, really fun. So yeah, if you check out Ben Collins' channel,

that will be out quite soon. Deciding on the colour of my Clio Williams on Mike.

Okay. So I've been asking my best friend, AI, Chad Jupiter.

You've asked Chad GBT so many. You've run out of pictures on Chad Jupiter.

I have actually keeps on saying, sorry, you've run out of your picture limit.

Yeah. I'm tired. Now leave me alone. So I'm thinking like there's a few

choices that I want. Interlagos blue, which is what your M5 is. Yeah, which is a great colour.

There's wrong choices and there's right choices. Interlagos blue is right choice.

Oxford Green. Right choice. The right choice. And Imola Red as well. We'll post up the pictures

from my best friend, Chad GBT and then maybe you can help me decide as well. But I'm leaning

towards something like Interlagos blue. Do you know, it's interesting. Obviously you did a poll

on your Instagram. Yeah. And I thought I knew the blue one would be the one that people would pick.

But it wasn't by the amount that I thought it would be. Yeah, I think it was like 50% blue,

30% green, and then 20% red. Not many people wanted it red. No, it's because people are

idiots. I think the car needs to say blue. I agree. Green. I think because of the actual heritage.

Because otherwise it will just look like any other Martin Clio. It could, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like you could get one in a lot of colours and it will just look normal. I think it's got to

stay blue, but I do think it should be a different blue. I think it should be what I showed you

earlier, which is Alpine Racing Blue. Yeah. Well, I tried to ask Chad GBT, but it told me I've run

out of it. Yeah, yeah. So I'll have to wait till tomorrow and look at that. You have a look at what

it might look like. But that's a really nice blue that you get on an Alpine A110, the new one.

And it's the same colour as the original Alpine back in the day. It's got a lot of metallic in it,

bit more of a modern colour. I think it looks great. I think I'm out of a look. And I think that

go with the gold really well. Yeah. So I need to chat to our painter Chris just down the road.

And then he's going to spray up a few little, like, swatches. And then we can have a look.

Yeah. That's very exciting. Apart from that, looking forward to food and fuel on the 11th of April

at Bistermotion. Same. Me too. Yeah. That's on a Saturday, isn't it? Yeah. Saturday. Saturday,

the 11th, come to Bistermotion. We've got the coolest cars, the best food. And it's just going to

be a really, really nice chilled out day with great music. And we're all going to be there as well

to chat. There's going to be like no stage stuff. So it'll just be just a whole bunch of car

nerds, just love and life looking at shit. No question. Yeah. What are you bringing?

My heart tells me to bring Barney. Yeah. Because people always like to see Barney,

my M3 touring. Yeah. And also there's loads of hype about M3 touring at the moment, E46 M3

touring. There's a company that's done a blue one. And they're acting like it's the first one

that's ever been done. It's one of the first in the world. It's like, no, there's like a few in

the UK alone. Yeah. It's like, hello. No, but the blue one looks really, really nice. All

speaking of Barney as well, I need to buy those seat mounts. So I just open to a company. So I'm

going to get some seat mounts. And then it's going to go off for a full retrim. Nice. And I'm thinking

Cinnamon. Cinnamon, you're just trying to copy me. I'm a trend set. Yeah, really. Okay. I'm a

trend set. Well, not with the car that you want to buy. That's not trendy. That's lame. That's

not true. You've got poor taste. Okay. You're just copying me because I'm a trend set.

Shedfest as well. Second of May, make sure you get your tickets. We are a real fast approaching

sellout. Yeah. So do you know who's going to be at Food and Fuel by the way? It's very famous.

Very famous. I know. Do you know? He's red. No. Yeah. Go on. No, no, no, no, no, no, high

luxe. Rory. Oh, well, there's that. Shedfest. Yeah. I said food and fuel. Oh, did you? No,

sorry. I'm going to be even more famous. Oh, go on. Yeah. Okay. Go on. It is. This is going

to be lame. Oh, I know. I do know. Do you know? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know? He's really famous.

He's really famous. And he's in the room. Yeah. Oh, that's right. That's great.

Yeah. Treps going to come to Food and Fuel. And he's treps coming to Food and Fuel. You need to

come to Food and Fuel. Tre security. Don't mess with him. Yeah. Yeah. No, so that's going to be

really good. So get your tickets for all of those. And then as I alluded to before, we might

go you and I might go now and look at a state. Another car. And a state version of a car that I

really like. No, you spent too much money this month. Do you know? You came in this morning.

Add a go at me and him. No, I don't know what you did. You said you two have been spending too

much money. You've been spending it like more. No, no, no, no, no, no, can I give you a bit of

context? No. Because Rory and Taylor were online looking at stuff to buy. And then Rory said,

we might have to wait a little bit because we spent a little too much money this month. And I

came in and I said, yes, you lot are really expensive. So I didn't come in and immediately say,

the first thing you hate us. I agree. I just hate you. No, you don't want us to have any fun.

Oh, bloody it. God, you stressed me out so much. You really do. You just hate me.

It's a love hate relationship, Taylor. So yeah, anyway, we're going to have a look at a car in

maiden head. Yeah, it's sprint blue. It is blue. And it's got sunshine roof and it's got a long

bum and it's got sporty chairs. I'm going to be eight more and four before. Oh, it's nice.

I'm so excited. And it's got winged back chairs. Is that too much? It's given away too much.

The question is, is what are you doing with the old version of this vehicle? I'm scrapping it,

sorry. I'm bored of it now. Okay. Yeah. I'd rather scrap it than you have it.

But I'm without a car. Are you? Okay, because you haven't bought that M2. So you've given it

away now. Yeah, yeah. That's just thing I do. So Alex Reckon. Right. There's only two cars

I've ever wanted from brand new. Yeah, a Cayman GT4, which is very cool. That's one of those.

Okay. I'll just go and pull 80,000 pounds from Anous. Should I? Okay. 80,000 pounds.

Well, you're spending money like water and you've got a big debt with me. I'll make it bigger. No,

I do. Yes, you do. 80,000 pounds. You owe me 100,000 pounds. No, no.

Or the other one is a BMW M2. So you're not paying that for? I just think it's the worst M car.

So boring. Drive boring car M2. Do you even know what it is? He likes TVRs and other

old cat like I don't. Well, he don't like TVRs. He likes Land Rover. Yeah. But I just the M2,

I think is a great looking car. Do you know what? I drove one at the weekend. Yeah.

And it was a manual competition. And do you know the best way to describe it straight off the back?

It feels like a new E46 M3. Okay. It feels really good. Good for you. I'm very happy

for you and everyone else who finances these cars. Well, I need to sell my 330D and buy one

because the cost of days are like, you know what you should get? If you're going to get one of those.

A mortgage. Oh, sorry. And M4 is so much better than the M2. No, and M2 looks a lot better.

No, you know you are smoking something. I'm not. Also, I don't want a mortgage because I don't

know where I want to live. All right. Well, just please rent a house. Why? Because you really want

to move out and rent a house. No, you're delaying things. You only want that. So my commute

short. No, I just want you closer to me. I want to be able to smell you. Well, you got to spend

bedroom, haven't you? I do. Yeah. I would rather put pins in my eyes. Right, then we're going to

pause the podcast for our sponsor shout out. And that is our very good friends at Shopify. Now,

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tell you know what have you been up to except for wanting to buy a silly car? Well, this weekend

I've got me all 540i out. Yeah, I spent, do you know what? I loved it. I spent a day cleaning it. Did you?

I cleaned it inside and out. I put a trim shine on it. I cleaned all the engine bay. I polished

my supercharger. Okay, I was loving it. Are you all right there? He looked like he was about to drown.

Drown him. Put your hand around this bottle. It's large, isn't it? I'm used to this. Why is it so big?

Why is it so big? Because I want to drink at least three litres of water.

But why don't you just have two bottles? Why don't you have one massive one? Because it means you

use all of yours anyway. It means I drink it though. I'm holding a two-litre bottle in my hand

at the moment in case you're wondering with your ear holes. And I'm getting you hate me.

Hold that. It's difficult though with one hand. Okay, try and drink from it. That's not a

lantern. It is like a ladder, isn't it? You could knock someone out with that. You could. Yeah,

can I try? No. Right. Anywhere. I spent a whole day cleaning my 540i. Yeah, I loved it,

really enjoyed it. And then in the evening, I went down a thing and it was the busiest I've

ever seen it. It was insane. It was lit. I went down there, sat in a bit traffic. Went down

in a sea front. I've got a space right on the front. I've got fish in the end, by the way.

I did tell you all about it like a week or so ago. No, like a week or so. You said you were

going. You didn't say would you like to come? It's because you hate me, isn't it? All right,

okay. You wouldn't have gone anyway. I might have done more than 30 miles away. And it involves

from driving one of his cars. Yeah. I could have taken your Land Rover Defender, can I? I know,

that doesn't run probably. It does wait for you to sell that. It just needs to be sold. It does.

Yeah. Also, speaking of which, I'm selling a car. I've sold two cars. Yeah, I'm selling another.

Oh, are you going to announce it? Yeah. Oh, I'm going to announce it and I'm going to say it

and it is official and there's no going back from this. Go on. I am selling my Purgeo 205.

GTI. Is that the car that Tom offered you £20,000 for on our trip?

Yeah, I don't know. No, it's a genuine offer. No, it's a genuine offer. If you shook his hand,

he would have done it. He would have had to do it. As by the buy. I've kept it for a bit longer.

I love it and I will be upset to sell it, but my 9.11 is absorbing me at the moment as a whole

and I don't really see myself using it that much. No. So I am going to part ways with it. So if

anyone wants to buy a Purgeo 205 GTI. Five grand. Give me a shout. It's not five grand. It will

but it owes me a fair bit. So I'd quite like to get back what I put into it. Okay, that's not how

cars work, Tony. You know this. I know, but I'd like to and I don't think it works quite good money

at the moment. So yeah, if anyone wants one, hit me up. It is very nice. It is. I really,

I really enjoy driving that. And it's got a great engine in it and yeah, I've done a lot to it.

So hit me up. Almost as cool as the Cleo Williams. That car. Almost. I would say it's cooler.

Yeah, you would, but you're a man of not great taste. That is not true. Well, you want to buy an M2.

I reckon 90% of the people listening to this podcast would agree that an M2 is a nice car.

No. Look how many pockets your trousers have got.

Okay. Anyway, yeah, went down a South end on Saturday drove the M2 yesterday. Did you see any nice

cars at South end? I saw some amazing cars at South end. There was genuinely, I saw there was

a Lamborghini event store SVJ. And then at the other end of the spectrum, you've got Fiesta XR2s,

XR3s. There was RS turbos. There was Escort, Mexico's. There was Silvia's. There was like Japanese

stuff. Supras. There was a thousand horsepower Supra there. There was a Lotus. I don't even know

what it was, but it was really small and bubbly. There was a tank. What? There was Army Landrovers.

There was people that came from Scotland and from the Isle of White to go to the South end.

I didn't know South end was this. It was such a big thing. Live and direct. It was,

there was obviously the usual Sierra and Escort Cosworths millions of them.

Where are lots of burnouts? There was a few. Oh, excellent.

There was, I turned around, actually, I was talking to someone. I turned around,

I could hear these burnouts going on. And I thought it was like, you know, like a goal for,

sorry, because it's a lot of force in and to turn around. There was just some outblow in a

Sierra Cosworth, just doing a fat burnout and I went, fair, fair. I'll allow that. That's great.

There was quite a few, might one, focus RS's as well. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Really cool. There was like mint stuff there. Amazing. There was a 635 CSI with Alpina Strikes

on the side of it. Oh, nice. There was an E39M5. There was loads of stuff. E46M3s. There was like

more cars there than that were cool that you would see at some shows. It was amazing.

It was really cool. And there was a great variety. You just mentioned E46M3. I've forgotten

an update. What? I forwarded an eventuary hybrid intake. Yeah, carbon intake for Barney.

Oh, so you're finally going to get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of that. You do that.

You do. There we go. Yeah, that's it. So, yeah, sorry. I'm sorry. I love carbon at the moment.

This car. I'm a trendset runner, Rory. No, no, it's overrated.

Right. Is it? Rory? You've also ordered a carbon

fire intake for one of your cars, haven't you? But annoyingly, mine was the most expensive

out of all of our carbon fire engines. Yes, but it's massive. It's actually not huge.

It's not true. Oh, is it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Five was a bit more expensive.

Yeah. But yeah, so I've got one coming from my Aston.

You do. Which is really exciting. And it replaces the whole front end of the engine,

but like it's not just like a little, like the whole thing turns into a massive carbon intake.

So when you put that on, right, I want to stop taking the piss out of it, saying it looks like a

Ford. Because it's not a Ford. Yeah, but I'll stop taking the piss. Okay. Question.

Now that you've done all the bits to it, is that a forever car? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. Really? Do you know, I get in that. And like the noise that comes from the,

like, if I have intake noise and the exhaust noise coming from that car, be good.

And it's a manual V8. Yeah. And I'm sitting like, what more could you do?

I've got to go up in value at some point. It's got to. It's got to. Yeah.

Yeah. I reckon so. It's a lovely car. That really is a nice car.

Yeah. And all the little touches of the like the ductile little spoiler that we put on,

the rear diffuser, the front lip, the whole color slightly, but is it still blue?

Oh, the rear lights are blue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They do need painting. Yeah.

So I caught you off anyway. No, no, that's fine. You just hate me.

And yeah, so I went down south end, drove to your state last week. We've been working on my

Porsche. Yep. Which is not good. It's in Tatters. It's probably worse than the worst case scenario

that we expected with that car because it needs multiple rebuilds. Yeah. And it's going to cost

thousands, literally thousands of pounds, which is why I've been a bit stressed out.

You've basically bought a shell. I have basically bought a shell. So there's an issue with the gear

box now, isn't there? There is also an issue with the gear box. That wasn't existing issue.

Yeah. So that also needs a rebuild. Yeah. Which is going to cost about five grand.

Can you make it out of carbon fiber at least? That sounds nicer when you change a gear.

I don't think that would be any cheaper. No, probably not.

So yeah, we need to send that off because I did try and strip it down, but you need some special

tools to do it. And I can't, we don't know if those tools, basically. I don't think we can get

hold of them either. So yeah, we need to send that off to a specialist. So that's going with

the engine down to Porsche mode in Bristol later on this week. And they're going to have a look.

But yeah, it's really not good that car. No, it's a lot worse than I expected. I did have a little

bit of buyers remorse last week after finding out about the gear box. And I did get sad about it,

but I know that it will all be worth it in the end. So knowing what you know now, you bought it for

17.5? No, I bought it for 17. 17, sorry. Would you still buy it for 17 again, knowing what you know?

I would have liked a bit off, but I do still think it's cheap because I was actually looking at

prices of them over the weekend. And they are worth a bit more than I thought. I think that mine

is done is probably actually worth about 42 grams. Oh, okay, because I reckon you'll be

30 deep. Yeah, with the paint as well. They're all there about. Yeah, with the brakes and the

paint and the interior. And I have found a carbon intake for it. Oh, good. Because I'm a trendsetter.

No, because I got the first carbon intake out of all of us, actually. Yeah, but you kept it

on the download. Also, can I just say that I gave you the idea to put the carbon intake on your

iris? Oh, and I found it for you. And I sent you the link. So in fact, I think you'll find once

again. So Taylor is the trendsetter. We've released a cinnamon interior. Hey, hey, hey, hey,

we all know cinnamon is a good idea, except for Tom Lenton. We all know that I'm the youngest

and most fashionable of all of us. I do like your trousers. Look at these pots. They're fantastic.

I've only been wearing them for the last year. Obviously, I've washed them since, but these are my

work trousers. Yeah, I'm just used to you without trousers, too. That's fine. I'm very confused

sometimes. But yeah, also, so we've been working on the Porsche. That's been stressing me to

high heaven. I sold my carado. Yeah. So we took that to Volkswagen last weekend. We spent the day

with the slaughterhouse boys. We did. That was really good fun. Yeah, yeah, really good fun. I did

everything I wanted to do with that car. It's absolutely mint. Yep. I had loads of messages on

Instagram about buying it. And I sold it to a really good friend of mine, Steve. For me, actually,

he bought it and he messaged me when he got home and he said, I love the car. Amazing. I've

heard that. And he's also got an E30325i, which he loves. So the two together. Oh,

that's ideal. Peak 90s. He loves them to bits. So he's really, really happy. I'm happy.

And yeah, other than that, fairly average week, just working on all of our projects. Yeah,

working on my projects. Yeah, stressing ourselves out and living life. I want to buy silly cars.

Look, an M2 is a good option. I just sum it a bit newer and lower mine. Do you know, I think my

biggest downer on that car is that it still got quite a lot of money to lose. I disagree.

I think it's a good one for 20. Yeah, I don't think it's going down. It's not at the bottom of

its price curve, though. Is it depreciation curve? I think that's the thing that annoys me most.

I would only buy a car, a cool car. I mean, it's a cool car when it's at the bottom of

its depreciation curve. I don't think they'll get much cheaper. I think it will. Because even an E92M3

is about the same price. Yeah, but they went down. An E46M3. Yeah, but they don't really go below

like 15. Any of them. You can get an M3, E46M3 for 10. You could have a few minutes ago.

Oh, yeah, shit. Yeah, really shit. Okay, and wait until an M2 is 10 grand and then buy it.

No, no, no. At least you can just shut up a little bit. But I'll keep my eyes peeled.

All right. Maybe I'll buy a smashy upied one and we'll fix it. We'll glue it all up.

Brilliant. Rory, what have you been up to? I, well... Do you want to start with the big news?

Oh, come on, then. I've bought another car. It's probably the coolest car I think I've ever bought

in my life. And I never thought I'd be able to afford it. It's not.

Never in my wildest dreams. Just a car, though, is it? It's like, it's awesome.

It's a lifestyle. It's a work of art. And I am a few minutes.

Is it too cool for Rory? Yeah. Yeah, it is. And he's already started looking at modifications and

I know he's going to ruin it. So he wants to get those LED headlights. Yeah. And he wants to put small

bumpers on it and all this crap. Just leave it. Rory, please just leave it. I, you guys have always

taken the pick. And especially after you got your 911 today, you kept saying, what color is your 911?

And then I did have a conversation with you and said, if I was ever going to get a 911,

it would be green and it would be a G-body. Now, tell me, Rory.

Oh, here we go. Where did you get that idea from?

Trends set up by any car. Because as it turns out, Rory, that's my dream car, not so much in green.

No, that's my dream car. Dream G-body is my dream.

It's not, I'm not going to say dream car because we always use that. But it's a car that I have

lost it after. And I just didn't think was even attainable.

So yes, they are, they are now like 50, 60 grand for like a, a no case unit.

You've got your dream cars. Why are you complaining?

I have got my dream car. So I have a few and you lot just keep buying up all the others.

Yeah. Yeah. We like rubbing it in your face. Yeah, you do. You just do it out of principle.

No, you hate me. We're going to be seeing that car very soon.

Yeah. So basically Taylor sent me a message.

Where did you get the message from?

So I got offered it on Instagram for a friend of mine who posted it on his story.

And I messaged him straight away and I was like, right, tell me about this.

Talk to me. And then for some amazing reason, I have no idea why.

I put it in our group chat. And Rory's popped up and gone, oh, I want a bit of that.

It's Mustang gate all over again, isn't it?

He saw it. He was like, I'm oven it.

Well, realistically, you weren't in a position to buy it.

I don't think you would have bought it because you're a 993 guy.

I'm not keen on anybody. Yeah.

So if we didn't get it, no one would have got it.

I would have sold my limbs.

You wouldn't have. No, I'm not. No, no, no, I'm very muchly deep engrossed in my turbos.

Would you have sold your M5 for it?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Would I have sold my M5 for it?

Oh, oh, oh, this is interesting.

Straight swap.

A straight swap. Straight swap.

Yeah, I would straight swap it.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

I would.

I didn't realise you hated the M5.

Oh, I've had to really think about that.

That shows you how much I love my M5.

I adore that car.

Ja doh.

Oh, my God, I love it.

But yeah, basically, then Taylor sent it in the message.

And what it was was a barn find.

9-11 G body in green.

Yeah, 1982.

1982, SC, 3-litre.

Yeah, 3-litre.

Coup, 204 horsepower.

Yeah, and it's only got 91,000 miles on the clock.

Which one of those is actually really low.

Yeah.

And yeah, it's basically owned by this guy

who I think unfortunately fell ill,

but it's been in the garage even before he fell ill for the last 15 years.

It's to no mileage in 15 years.

And obviously we got there and we looked at it and we just had to have it.

It's a very good looking car.

I wasn't there unfortunately, but the pictures you sent I was drawing.

Oh, my God.

This was like, you know, when you dream of those barn finds.

Yeah, when we got there, the door was half open.

You just see half of it.

I'll never forget that.

Yeah, the sun was shining and I was like,

Oh, my God.

Like, I didn't even go there for me to button.

I got like, I couldn't even sleep the night before.

Oh, the night.

So Taylor said message me and the guy wasn't free for the next four days.

For still looking at his painful.

When he originally told me about it and then the guy was responding back,

going, yeah, you guys can come.

I was actually like shaking a tiny bit.

Yeah, I was that excited about this car.

I couldn't believe it.

And then yeah, when we saw it, yeah,

it does need a bit more work than I think we thought it did.

It's mainly bodywork.

All right, it needs a lot of bodywork.

What about you've got a nice bill that's just come through?

Yeah. And that's mates rates as well.

That is mates rates.

So design 9-11 has already had their first.

And I know it's the first of many orders going for it's black car.

So I've ordered enough that it should be back on the road

by the end of this mechanically.

And then it won't need an MOT after this MOT, will it?

No, no, no, that's cool.

So I've ordered basically everything to pass that.

And then, and then yeah, just at some point,

it needs to go for a full respray.

And I don't mean full respray.

But yeah, it's a 9-11.

It is an order.

It's very cool.

But I do have to sell some stuff because that was like,

yeah, it's too much money for me just to drop without going,

oh yeah, that's fine.

I'll just keep everything else.

And you have too many cars.

Yeah, I think what's happened is we've both bankrupted ourselves

with Porsche 9-11s.

It's what we've done.

Yeah, it's definitely.

It's rubbish examples of Porsche 9-11s.

So do I have the only working 9-11?

No.

Why?

1993.

Window.

It's what?

It's a working 9-11.

It's got issues.

Right.

It starts and drives, taking it.

Yeah, all right.

If we're going by that, mine's running and driving.

Okay.

So yours is road legal, because mine is.

Is it though?

It is, yes.

Is the MOT still?

Yes, it is.

It's all valid.

And then tomorrow's going to be a really exciting day.

What's happening tomorrow?

Bayley's coming to the unit for the first time.

Oh, how are you?

I'm going to meet your depressed dog.

He's not depressed.

He's the happiest dog in the world.

Honestly.

In the world.

You play with that dog,

and I refuse anyone to be sad after doing it.

He's literally the most like,

Hey, guys, that would have played.

It's been like you, right?

Yeah, yeah.

He's a, he's a, he's a,

that golden retriever energy.

It's actually a thing.

Like, yeah, I can't, I can't wait.

It's great.

He's going to be covered in oil by the end of the day, though.

So that's not going to be great.

He's going to need a haircut.

Yeah.

Short back and sides.

And that's pretty much what I've been up to.

Yeah.

Nice.

Okay.

Let's move it on now.

We've had an email at

podcast at autolexcars.com.

There was a delay there.

No, allow that.

Because I think he was that breathing or something.

Was he breathing?

Yeah, I was thinking about this.

I'm thinking about this.

Paul's funny.

Yeah.

So we've had an email from Jamie Gavin

and the subject line,

which I think you'll have to talk to.

It is Bentley Continental

for £6,000 question mark.

Yes.

Hello, Alex and Co.

Love the podcast.

Being a fellowship box enthusiast,

I can't relate to a podcast more.

So cheers for putting up with it,

putting out the episodes to get me through my day.

As I said, I'm a ship box enthusiast.

I've had all the usual stuff.

MX-5's are called Type R's,

350Z's, AlphaGTV Cup with the BUSO VXR.

Focus RS, E92M3 and currently have

a W202 C63 coupé edition 30 GTI SLK 350.

Disco TD5, a Chinese electric thing.

But we'll gloss over that.

A Chinese electric thing.

Right, talk to me about this.

He's got a lot.

He's also got a Ducati monster

and an Apprilia Mille Gen 1.

Basically, I've got more stuff than space.

But he says in capitals,

I've been offered a Bentley Continental GT

with no MOT that's been sat for a year

but has had all the previous advisory sorted.

It looks clean.

Has decent history, drives nice

and has no bankrupting noises.

Here's the best part.

The car is £6,000.

Am I being completely mad?

I'm sure Taylor will have a million reasons why it's stupid

but would love to hear your thoughts

and every reason as to why it's a brilliant idea

and my wife is just being pessimistic.

Keep up the good work, guys.

Cheers.

Now, what I'm going to say to that,

Jamie, if you're listening to this,

if you don't buy it, send it to me.

Because I'm without a car.

I need a car.

Oh my god.

Oh, all 11 cars aren't working.

In fairness, I've been banging on about for ages

and I want to buy cheap, Bentley Continental.

I just don't know.

You have said this for a while.

Do you know what car I'm buying next?

Is it a Geo?

If it's hard, we're all set your hair on fire.

So what we're saying then, why are they good cars?

I don't know, I'd recommend it.

It's just cheap luxury, isn't it?

It's a bit of fun.

Even if you just have it for a little bit,

just a few months or so.

You say that?

I did recently watch...

Do you know high-peak autos?

I've seen that, yeah.

And he bought a Continental.

That hasn't really gone to plan.

No.

What's happened?

Well, he sent it to a specialist.

He charged him a load of money to fix a load of things.

And then he didn't really actually fix the main issue

of the actual running.

So that he still ends up with a Bentley Continental

that isn't working.

There are a little bit like my V10 twireg

in that they are a big pain

and usually you have to engine out to fix it.

Anything on them.

Yeah, but they are cheap.

And they are luxurious.

Is that a W-8 engine?

W-12.

W-12 by turbo or twin turbo.

I think they're five or six hundred horsepower.

From factory.

So very, very fast.

And very large.

But big headache, big problem.

All big problem.

There's two VR-6s glued together.

You know, like the Golf R-8 too.

Yeah, I think it's a six-litre W-12.

Okay.

So are we saying to Jamie he needs to buy it?

Otherwise you will?

Yeah, yeah.

If you don't buy it, just pop it over to me in a link.

Oh my God.

On Instagram.

And we'll go and have it.

It's like, it's a good day out for us.

It'd be a laugh.

Would it really?

Yeah.

Something is a dough in it.

Rory, what are you saying?

Good idea, bad idea.

Oh, just do it.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah.

Stick it on the credit card.

Yeah.

That is such terrible advice.

That is terrible.

In fairness, as 6 grand, realistically,

if you bought it and it broke,

you could probably resell it for that again, broken.

So I don't think it's a terrible idea, really.

Yeah, and I don't really know prices of these things,

but 6 grand seems very, very cheap.

Yeah.

When else are you going to get a chance

to get into one of these cars for 6 grand?

I mean, we say that.

They might become a little bit cheaper

than the cost of fuel at the moment.

Oh, bloody hell, the cost of fuel.

1 pound 80.

For diesel, yeah, as far as selling my free 30 days,

just not efficient anymore.

That's why I've been daily in my 540i.

Do you know, actually, that comes to a point

that I just worked out the other day.

It's now cheaper for me to drive my Aston into work

than it is to drive the Land Rover.

That's because the Land Rover is terrible on fuel.

That is true.

Yeah, but it's now actually more efficient

for me to drive the Aston.

Yeah, but it just shows how shit a blue paint is on fuel.

What do you get in blue paint?

26, 27.

Okay, and in the Aston.

21.

Yeah, okay.

And then because of obviously the difference now

in petrol, because diesel is now 32-per-liter more.

Yeah.

It works out about the same.

You know what that means.

Then you need to drive it in, don't you?

Okay, yeah.

All right.

And then stick a great big air filter,

air box on the car.

Yeah, for efficiency.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because it'll be lighter.

Yeah, exactly.

Do you know what that means?

That means that it's probably about the same,

if not slightly cheaper for me to daily Jeff than blue paint.

Yes, it would be, yeah.

But you should be daily in your 330 diesel.

I haven't washed it in a couple of weeks.

Oh, he can't.

And he can't go in that clean car.

Yeah, Alex, come on.

And the cost of diesel.

The cost of diesel.

That's because he bought a Birmingham spec 330, didn't he?

I like my 330, thank you very much.

Good car, man.

Good car, good car.

Right, anyway, let's move it on.

Well, hang on.

What, go on.

What do you think of the Bentley?

I said buy it.

Oh, you said buy it.

Yeah.

You agree with it.

Everyone says buy it.

Everyone says buy it.

Get on with it.

Let us know Jamie how you get on.

And if it blows up, then we'll buy it.

But in all situations, Jamie, only buy it.

If you actually have a substantial amount of money,

waiting in the wings to fix it.

Yeah.

And we're not liable for any unhappiness with regards to you

buying it and it blowing up.

But I will say.

But if you don't want it, it's mine.

If he sticks it in an auction, even if he gives up on it,

he'd probably still get six grand back for it.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah.

We'll end up buying it.

Right.

I want to introduce a game, which is how much that.

So there's going to be about 10 cars or 10 questions.

We've got two cars in each round.

These are 80s and 90s cars.

And I want you guys to tell me which one was more expensive

than it when it was born.

These are all UK car prices as well.

Do we have to give the price or which one we think is more?

You get one point each.

You can give me the price as well.

Okay.

Yeah.

And that's the two questions.

Give me one price.

Okay.

So the first car.

Okay.

We've got a Mark II VW Golf GTI.

Okay.

Have a think about that.

Or a BMW E30.

Now, we're looking at base prices.

So what's the entry price for an E30 versus a Mark II Golf GTI?

First of all, Taylor, which one do you think is more expensive?

I reckon the E30 is more expensive.

Yeah.

The price for an E30 was about nine grand.

Okay.

Rory?

I'm going to say golf.

And I think a golf would be ten grand.

And that's purely because I think E30 is back in the day.

You could get them bogs back.

And I mean like bog bogs back.

You could, but they were known as a premium product.

And the golf GTI came in.

And the idea was, is you get more fun for less money.

Taylor, you are correct.

The E30 was indeed more expensive.

An E30 base back at E30 was twelve thousand pounds.

Okay.

And a golf GTI was from nine thousand pounds.

Yeah.

So a pretty good value.

Second question.

This is a good one.

We have got a Mercedes Benz 190E or a four Sierra Cosworth.

Oh, Rory.

I'm going to say Cosworth.

11,000 pounds.

I'm sorry.

Taylor.

I don't know.

I don't know how much.

I reckon Cosworth.

And it was probably more towards 15,000 pounds.

Okay.

Well, according to Jack GPT, it's the Mercedes Benz 190E.

So for one of those, you'd be looking upwards of 18,000 pounds.

Anywhere between 18 and 22 from 190E.

For a four Sierra Cosworth, 16,000 pounds.

Oh, quite good value.

You said 15, though, didn't you?

Yeah.

So yeah, not far off.

Right.

Next one we have got.

Oh, this is going to be tight.

Mazda MX-5 Mark I or a Toyota MR2 Mark II.

Taylor.

What one's more expensive?

Yeah.

I reckon the MR2 and I reckon it was a 12 grand.

Okay, Rory.

MR2.

I'm going to say 13,000 pounds.

Okay.

Both of you are right.

It is a Toyota MR2, prices of which started at 17,000 pounds.

Really?

Wow.

Mazda MX-5, 14,000 pounds back in 1990.

Okay.

Okay.

And we'll do a couple more.

We have got a Peugeot 205 GTI or a Volkswagen Corrado.

Oh.

The Corrado was more expensive.

Yeah.

And I reckon it was about 14 grand.

Okay.

Rory.

I also do think the Corrado, but I'm going to have to be controversial because otherwise

I won't win because I'll just pick it.

So I'm going to go golf and I'm going to say...

Golf.

It means golf.

There's not a golf goal.

Sorry, not golf.

205 GTI.

I'm going to say 15 grand.

Okay.

Taylor, it's the Corrado.

Prices of which started at 16,000 pounds for a Peugeot 205 GTI.

You would have been spending 10,000 pounds.

What?

Yep.

So we do one more.

We'll do one more here.

Nissan 300ZX or a Toyota MR2 Mark II.

Oh, my God.

Is that a Supra?

Okay.

300ZX is more expensive.

Okay.

And I'm going to say 19,000 pounds.

What?

That'd be very, very affordable, wouldn't it?

What would it offer?

That's your opinion.

And Taylor.

I...

Oh.

It's just to be different because I don't know.

I'm going to say Supra.

Okay.

What do you reckon that was new?

19,000 pounds.

Okay.

Very affordable, Ken.

It's the Nissan 300ZX.

Okay.

And I'm going to say 19,000 pounds.

Wow.

That'd be very, very affordable, wouldn't it?

What would it offer?

Very affordable, Ken.

It's the Nissan 300ZX.

Well done.

But that would have cost you 30,000 pounds.

Oh, wow.

And a Supra would have cost you 32,000 pounds.

Oh, yeah.

Shall we go for one final car?

Got it.

We have got.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

An Escort RS Cosworth versus a Subaru Impretzer WRX STI.

The Subaru Impretzer WRX STI.

And I reckon it was 21,000 pounds.

Yep.

I'm going to go Scooby as well.

And I'm going to go.

I'm going to say it's more, I think it's 24,000.

Okay.

It is indeed.

The Ford Escort RS Cosworth.

Oh.

22,000 pounds for one of those versus 20,000 pounds for the Subaru Impretzer.

I have no idea who won that.

I'm quite frankly aware of that.

I don't really care.

Was it Taylor?

Well done, Taylor.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thanks.

You win.

The chat GBT.

How much that?

Yeah.

Competition of the year.

Pat on the lap.

Ow.

That hurt.

You know what?

I'm glad that I won.

I know what I win.

I win admission from you that I'm a transitor.

Oh.

No.

Let's move on.

Right.

Two.

An email from Neil Holmes.

Holmes.

And he says, help.

I'm an addict.

Same.

I'm actually saying.

What are you addicted to?

Cars.

No, I actually do think I have a problem.

Yeah.

I don't have a problem.

You see that.

You know I agree.

You do have a problem.

Yes.

You are obsessed.

I'm actually obsessed with cars.

Well, then you are the wrong person to be listening to and giving advice to Neil.

Because his email says, to the whole auto-Alex universe, my name is Neil and I'm an addict.

That's right.

I've been infected by the rare and incredibly debilitating disease, ECBD, which is Rory.

Cars.

Absolute.

ECBD.

Everything.

Rory, I have the same disability.

Do you want me to read it out for you?

Because my doctor has literally diagnosed me with it.

Yeah.

ECBD.

Extreme car buying disorder.

I live in a flat and currently have five cars.

Two Mercedes CLKs, a 2006 Mini Cooper, a Vauxhall Tigre and the other day on a whim.

I bought an Alfa 159, 1.9 JTD Luso.

Who would live in a flat and have so many cars?

Rory.

Taylor.

Rory, come on.

Who would do that, Taylor?

Who would live in a flat for ages?

It's your name.

I had three.

It's your name.

Neil Holmes.

Is this your alter ego?

No.

It has affected my relationships.

This is you.

I don't have a relationship.

Exactly.

I've never been in one.

And all of my free time has spent buying stuff for them and fixing them.

Taylor.

It's you.

I know.

I've been diagnosed with it.

And because I need someone to blame, I'm looking at you boys because of the videos you've

been doing for a week.

I am blaming you boys.

Yes.

You're a bad bloody influence.

All right, Neil.

Calm down.

So, do you have any advice on how to slow down or am I now doomed to getting myself deeper

and deeper into debt?

Oh, no, it didn't say debt.

It says, into my car buying disorder.

The debt thing's just for you.

Shut up.

You shut up.

How can we help Neil?

Do you know what?

Neil.

He's in trouble.

Yeah.

Why aren't you trevshaking his head?

Why are you messaging us?

We are literally the free people.

In all fairness.

They're all strays.

We're without being disrespectful.

You do have the same disorder as me, but your selection is slightly shit.

Oh!

Oh!

No, no, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to be oracle.

But a teagra?

A teagra.

Oh, we like a teagra.

I do not like a teagra.

They've got the little roofs, don't they?

Come on.

A teagra gave me back problems and I'd see a chiropractor.

Really?

Yes.

Because when we drove to Ireland and back in that teagra with the collapse seat, I was ruined

for about two weeks.

Yeah, but you just put in a, you just named what it was there.

You said collapse seat.

Yeah, I know.

But he didn't say teagra with a collapse seat.

It probably got a collapse seat.

Because it's a teagra.

The dashboard is made out of bins.

Right.

Okay.

And now I'll call help.

Two Mercedes SLKs.

Two.

How can we help Taylor?

Taylor?

It's not your fault.

No, it is your fault.

No, do you know what is your fault?

Don't you dare put it.

It's your fault.

Is your fault?

Are you writing anything to us?

By any chance, Neil likes a convertible.

I'm going to assume that the SLK is a convertible.

Well, do you know what?

I was thinking, you have to have a convertible.

Get a teagra.

That'd be right.

You could commute in that.

I don't want to say that.

Right.

Can we help you or should we just say just buy us?

It depends on...

Look, we are definitely not the ones to be involved in this.

No.

You are not the ones.

You are not.

We, you.

We found not the ones.

I'm staying out of this.

But you could almost...

Like, I think it, from what people tell me, I have to go by.

Which is maybe you should...

Consolidate.

Consolidate.

Consolidate.

Consolidate.

That's what I'm doing.

Consolidate.

That's what I'm doing.

Your fleet.

And maybe buy some nicer stuff and actually finish doing them off.

That's the advice I gave you.

Yeah.

Because that's what I do.

And that's the advice I give you as well.

Yeah, I know.

Which is why I'm selling some of my stuff.

Why does no one give me this advice?

You're a lost cause.

You just spend money like more to you, dude.

Yeah.

On you two, you guys are really expensive.

You cost me money.

Excuse me.

You stress me out.

You cost me money.

It's fantastic.

I love it.

I love it so much.

And I just bring blue wings back so you're going to see later.

Oh.

And how's your motorbike that you bought?

And it needs to be repaired.

And how's your purple Range Rover?

I love it.

It's leaking a bit of oil.

You know, I'm it.

Just see what I mean.

Apparently we're bad.

You are bad.

You're terrible.

Yeah, but I got storage for all that stuff.

Yeah, and so are I.

And I still...

No, you don't.

You've got storage for all of them.

Yeah.

You owe me money.

You owe me storage money.

Look, man.

You, you at the time said I could store some car.

I can store whatever cars in the, in the you there.

And you never, you never specified an amount.

So it's...

That is true.

Look, that, Paulie said to me,

that don't take the piss.

Yeah, and that is unlimited today.

And you are taking the piss.

And I think as long as we judge what the piss is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well then, don't you ever dare tell me that I need to sell my hammer?

Because you're getting free storage.

You start.

You start.

You start.

You start.

You start.

You're getting free storage.

You started it.

I'm finishing it.

You started it.

All right.

Neil, aka Taylor.

Calm down, buy some better cars.

Do you know what?

Neil, buy some more.

Yeah.

So I wasn't enough.

Yeah.

So you need another teagra.

That's what you need.

Do you know what?

Two of each.

I was thinking the other day about just deleting the internet off of my phone.

Okay.

Because that is what causes me to...

I sit on my phone.

Yeah, but then we just look at cars.

Then you'll be walking the streets at night looking for cars with little letters in them

saying for sale.

You've been always distracted.

Oh, it is.

Yeah, after buying it.

Well, in that circumstance, you know, I wouldn't be able to miss out the opportunity to buy it.

Do you know what the problem is?

It's cars.

I think Neil has got...

What was it?

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

E-C-D-M.

Very extreme.

Very extreme.

Very extreme.

So, yeah, consider yourself lucky because you could be us.

Yeah.

And then you'd be really screwed.

Yeah, I don't know.

No, I was.

Speaking of, sometimes I want to go and look at that car today.

We need to go and look at it.

Oh, do you need a lift?

Yeah, we need to do it.

Are you going to stop having to go at me spending money in that water?

Yeah, but we need to buy one more today.

I haven't bought one this week.

Look, it could be worse.

At least sometimes you don't forget what cars you're going.

That is true.

Who would do that?

Both of you have done that.

I've done it on occasion.

Yeah.

And as of you, thank you very much.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

You have.

You forgot about Eerie 28 a while ago.

I'd never forgot about my issue yet.

The way you know all that, you're saying that means that you forgot about it.

I did not forget about it.

Also, Rory, how's your storage?

Well, it's free.

How much longer is it free for, Rory?

What do you expect?

Carefully.

Right.

Anyway, that's all we've got time for.

For this week's episode of the AutoAids podcast, Rory, what we got coming up?

We have got the classic cars road trip is finally happening.

Yes.

I'm still trying to decide a location.

You say it's finally happening.

I'm currently looking at two of them in the unit.

This unit stinks of petrol.

Oh, Betty's back as well.

There's rusty petrol all over the floor.

There's a car over there with a cylinder head.

Do you know what?

I'm going to end this.

And this is going to be explicit.

So I'm sorry, Alex.

Whoever decided to use filler to seal a hole in my rusty fuel tank.

You.

Whoa.

And who does that?

To be fair, the filler wasn't leaking.

It was the rusty bit that was leaking.

And on that happy note, thank you very much for watching.

With your eye holes and listening, with your ear holes, Taylor and I have now got a car to look at.

So we're going to leave you to.

Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability to shut up.

Another one of my dream cars that you're buying under my nose.

Right.

But I can't buy any.

This off.

I stopped in Taylor.

Goodbye.

Love you guys.

Bye.

Bye.