How to appraise a car like a chassis engineer #278

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined in the studio by David Pook, who spent almost 20 years working at Jaguar Land Rover as a ride and handling engineer. David is now best known for his Alpine tuning brand LIFE110, which offers upgrades for the A110 sports car and A290 electric hot hatch. In this episode Dan, Andrew and David discuss the similarities and differences between how car journalists and engineers go about assessing cars. David talks about his process and which key attributes make for a good car.

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0:49.7	Welcome back to the intercooler podcast, everybody. The podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital. This is episode 278 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. And we've got a guest in the
0:57.7	studio today. David Pooke. Hello, David Pook. Welcome to our podcast studio. Thanks for coming in.
1:05.6	David Pook, that name isn't going to be familiar to a lot of people listening to this. Your work will be.
1:12.7	You are a chassis engineer, a ride and handling engineer. Is those the words you would use?
1:18.7	Or would you say something a little bit different? Vehicle dynamicist is how we refer to ourselves.
1:23.7	Wow. Okay. And what I want to do in this episode is find out a little bit more about you,
1:30.8	but also discuss the ways in which engineers appraise cars, assess cars, and see how that compares to how journalists are praised cars.
1:39.7	I know Andrew's a bit nervous about this one.
1:44.7	You're worried that we're going to come out of this looking like a bunch of
1:47.9	flyby night idiots, aren't you?
1:49.5	The thought had occurred.
1:50.8	Yes.
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