#82 Matt Prior | Automotive Journalist

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Matt Prior (@autocarmatt) is an automotive journalist and the Editor At Large at Autocar. We have a chat about his journey and a tonne of topics along the way.

Check out the video podcast: https://youtu.be/16tJRGNFgt0

https://instagram.com/autocarmatt

Hope you enjoy,

Sam

Audio Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/carchatpodcast

Support The Podcast:
https://www.sammoores.com/shop/buy-sam-a-pint

Show Notes:
00:00 = Intro, the beginnings of Autocar and what do you do?
08:16 = Do you get a level of enjoyment out of reviewing the more boring cars?
13:00 = Road testing and silly behaviour
18:40 = How fun do you find electric cars?
23:52 = Tyres sometimes emit more particulates than the engine.
25:54 = How do you feel about Restomods vs Modern Supercars
34:40 = GT86
38:41 = C1 Racing and driving slow cars fast
47:54 = Car of the year and mismatched competition
53:45 = Quickfire best car in each category
58:08 = Fixing a broken car and then selling straight away
59:38 = Do many journalists buy new cars vs second hand?
1:04:20 = Finance
1:19:01 = 765LT vs Ferrari
1:21:33 = McLaren Artura and Turbo Hybrids
1:27:20 = Modern cars are still better but they just don't get made how I'd like them.
1:31:30 = How fast does a car really need to be?
1:37:10 = Toyota is cool
1:40:00 = 5 Questions
1:52:56 = Buying spitfires over hypercars

#81 Robert Mitchell | Apex Nuerburg and running supercars only at the 'Ring

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Robert ( @Robert Mitchell ) is the owner of Apex Nuerburg, a rental car company and experience centre based at the Nurburgring. He's an interesting guy who pretty much only drives his supercars on the Nurburgring. We have a long discussion about business, renting cars at the ring and what it's like to run the cars that he does.

https://www.apex-nuerburg.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/rmitchell248

Hope You Enjoy,

Sam

Audio Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/carchatpodcast

Show Notes:

00:00 = Intro + Backstory + America
17:58 = Over to Germany
19:28 = Mitchell Consulting
26:15 = Finding the Nurburgring
30:36 = A business at the 'Ring
33:51 = The first rental car
39:55 = What is it like running cars only on the 'Ring?
43:10 = Porsche vs Ferrari vs McLaren running costs
48:24 = Current cars...
53:36 = Introduction to Schirmer builds and the BMW collection
1:01:32 = How much have you had to adjust the Supercars for Nurburgring life
1:07:04 = The 620r and why it was nearly amazing but not quite
1:13:45 = 'Ring Taxis + Manthey Racing
1:30:25 = High speed runs, world records and SSC Tuatara
1:42:02 = How do we define a production car
2:01:10 = My track car dilemma
2:14:30 = 5 Questions

Car Chat Podcast #79 - Iain Litchfield | Litchfield Motors

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Iain Litchfield is the founder of Litchfield Motors (@litchfieldmotors). Litchfield provides tuning options for a wide variety of cars and probably best known for Nissan GT-Rs.

https://www.litchfieldmotors.com

Hope You Enjoy,

Sam

Support The Podcast:
https://www.sammoores.com/shop/buy-sam-a-pint

Show Notes:

00:00 = Intro + the birth of Litchfield
07:07 = Starting working with GT-Rs
09:55 = What is the aim of a Litchfield GT-R kit?
11:57 = Can you explain the tuning Stage system?
13:38 = Expanding into other cars, Alpine A110
15:00 = Yaris GR
17:52 = 911 T + 992
19:45 = Why is it easy to get power out of these engines
22:08 = Warranties
27:00 = Do you need to run specific fuel when you've mapped an engine?
28:43 = Tuning Mclarens
31:02 = Scariest builds... + diffs in Mclarens
41:30 = What is a good tune vs bad tune
45:18 = Any cars in your sights?
49:00 = Suspension (M2, M4 etc)
1:01:00 = 5 Questions