Bargain hunting for early 2000s enthusiast cars #272

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel trawl the classifieds for interesting cars from the early 2000s, costing £2000 to £120,000. They consider luxury SUVs, supercars, hot hatches, saloons and more. Is this the greatest era for the motor car?

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0:47.0	Welcome to the Intercooler podcast, everybody.
0:52.2	This is episode 272 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel.
1:12.0	And this week, we're playing the game that we like to play sometimes. Yes. Right, where I go off to the classifieds, find 10 cars around a theme. Don't tell me about any of them. Don't tell you what they are. And we just discuss those cars. Now, what I want to do is discuss A, the specific cars that I've found, but B, the cars in general.
1:16.7	Because, you know, I might have dug out a total dog just because it's cheap and looks tempting.
1:17.2	Yes.
1:20.8	But we shouldn't let that put us off the car as a whole.
1:22.9	So we'll discuss both aspects, right?
1:23.3	Fine.
1:32.0	And this time I've chosen early 2000s cars, spanning a couple of grand to 120 grand.
1:32.4	Okay.
1:39.8	Just because there is a bit of a sort of ground swell of opinion, I think, that those early 2000, 2000, 2005.
1:42.0	Are we about to have a peak car conversation?
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