Mike Brewer explains how Wheeler Dealers became the world's biggest car TV show #208

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by Wheelers Dealer frontman Mike Brewer. The car trader turned television presenter created the show more than 20 years ago, and since then it's become the world's biggest and longest running car TV show. On Wheeler Dealers, Mike and his master mechanic buy a desirable old car in need of restoration and rebuild it from top to bottom to try and turn a profit. Across almost 300 episodes, Mike has bought and sold classics, hatchbacks, sports cars, supercars, luxury cars and more, and now he's taking Wheeler Dealers around the world.

In this episode he explains why the show is so popular, as well as talking about his past as a car dealer. He also reveals which cars he has at home, including his collection of old Porsches.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:07.0	Hello everybody.
0:08.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser and Drew Frankel, my co-host and a very special guest this week on our
0:16.1	screens there. Mr Mike Brewer, hello Mike thanks for coming. It's a pleasure thank you for
0:20.8	having me. Yeah well Mike, Mike, everyone watching this or
0:24.2	listening to this, I'm pretty sure, is going to know who you are. How long have you been
0:28.6	on our TV screens? I think it's more than 25 years. It's 27 years actually yeah 1997 I did this little show on
0:37.4	channel 4 called Deals on Wheels which was a big success for channel 4 I thought it was a bit of a laugh when I first did it and here I am 27 years later and talking to you.
0:49.2	Yeah, blind me. So how did it all begin for you and would you call yourself these days a car
0:56.8	trader or a television presenter what's what are you at your heart? I'm still a car trader at heart.
1:04.0	I still have my car garages.
1:05.0	I've got Mike Brewer Motors up in Sheffield and one automotive in War insurance.
1:10.0	If I'm not buying the selling cars on TV or talking about cars and television you'll find me down at my car sites selling cars to members of the public.
1:19.4	You do still do that. You do still do deals, sell cars, that's great.
1:23.2	I, uh, my business partner took a week off last week.
1:27.8	I turned up and sold 16 cars on Monday and Tuesday.
1:30.2	And I had the best time ever, it was brilliant.
1:35.0	Yeah, fantastic.
1:36.0	Oh, maybe we need to go and buy a car off Mike.
1:38.0	That would be a story, wouldn't it?
1:40.0	I did.
1:41.0	Yes, you didn't know what I did that and it's still in my shed. He has been one of my customers.
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