Hello and welcome to the third episode of our Collecting Addicts podcast. I'm here today

again with Edward Loveitt, Chris Cooper, Neil Clifford and Managed Pandy and we have a monthly

collection subjects to discuss that might or might not be of interest to you. We're going

to start off with perhaps the ultimate geek conversation, manual gear shifts. We're not

talking about what they should exist or not. We're talking about what are our favourites.

Yes, five grown men discussing what their favourite gear shifts are. This is, in many ways,

photographic. Over to you, Neil Clifford. Well, I've thought hard about this obviously.

I think it has to be Japanese. I think it has to be Japanese. This is from a country that

it's normal to take five years to make a chopstick in Kyoto. These guys are engineering geniuses

and I think whether you go Mazda MX 5 Mark 1 or Honda Integra, which I haven't owned,

actually. So if it's something that I've owned, it would be a Honda S2000.

Interesting. It's such the underrated car of the universe.

Yeah, it's the best bit of that car though. Engine is like that.

It's the engine. Yeah, it's the BTEC handling left home.

Chris, did you just say that's the best bit about that car engine aside?

Well, the handling left home a long time ago, didn't it? I mean, really?

I'll tell you a story about the S2000 when it was launched.

As people in that many people, the car was updated during its life.

The first car was a bit spiky. I think the diff was very aggressive.

So they, Honda gave out five very early production cars to the, to all the car magazines,

the major car magazines in the UK. I mean, also car got one car, EVO or to express

someone else got one. I was, I was informed that after four weeks,

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