Limited-edition specials and why they might be overrated #286

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the limited-edition versions of already high-performance cars, such as CS-badged BMW M-cars and Black Series Mercedes-AMGs. Are these more powerful, more uncompromising and always more expensive derivatives really better than the standard models they are based on? If not, which are the exceptions to the rule?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody.
0:06.2	The podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital.
0:11.4	What do we do recently?
0:12.5	Cars of the People.
0:13.6	Yeah, so should we go the other way this time?
0:15.0	Let's go the exact opposite direction.
0:17.2	Yeah.
0:17.7	This is the specials.
0:20.3	What are we talking about?
0:21.3	The sort of the special, rare, tricked up versions of already, often, already quite
0:28.1	spicy performance cars.
0:29.9	Yeah.
0:30.3	And often limited additions.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:33.3	And I'm going to, can I just put something out there from the very start?
0:38.0	Mm-hmm. I don't think there's a breed of car more overrated than specials.
0:42.7	Do you know what?
0:43.2	I used to, I used to think that some of my favourite cars were the specials that we're going to discuss.
0:51.2	But I'm sort of changing my mind now because the great cars are designed from a clean sheet of paper to be a certain thing. And these
1:01.2	are not that. They're all spin-offs. Yeah. They're all spin-offs. And sometimes, often I would say,
1:07.2	and, you know, this isn't to say these aren't also great cars but the limitations the drawbacks
1:14.7	they bring you know in certain areas so that they can be even better in other areas
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