Our favourite road car engines of all time #164
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss their favourite ever internal combustion engines, from the glorious BMW V12 in the McLaren F1 to joyous four-cylinder VTEC units built by Honda. There are V6s, V8s, V10s and V12s in here from right across the ages, and plenty more besides.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | This is episode 164 of the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser and my co-host Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:12.0 | Now this week we're talking about our... me Dan Prosser and my co-host Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:12.9 | Now this week we're talking about our favorite ever |
| 0:16.6 | road car engines. |
| 0:19.1 | There's some spectacular stuff in here. |
| 0:22.1 | And actually we're talking about our favorite engines rather than, I don't know, the greatest engines, because we wanted this to be sort of our personal lists and we wanted to share our own experiences with some of these |
| 0:36.0 | engines so I hope you enjoy listening before we get started though please just |
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| 0:56.4 | and enjoy the episode. |
| 0:57.8 | Andrew to get things started I wonder if one L.R-G-E means anything to you. |
| 1:05.0 | It sounds like a car registration plate or something, doesn't it, but it's not. |
| 1:10.0 | Is it the engine code for a Japanese V10? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, it is. Well done. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm impressed though. I thought you'd have no idea. |
| 1:23.0 | Um, built by Yamaha. |
| 1:26.0 | Indeed it is. It is. Yeah, very well done. It's a 4.8 liter V10. |
| 1:32.0 | I'll go through the specs in a moment, but it is the engine from the Lexus LFA, which I drove for the very first time yesterday. |
| 1:40.5 | Now, as we're talking our favorite road car engines of all time I mean that has to be in there and is it on your list as well? |
| 1:47.0 | Absolutely 100% yeah I think Clarkson says it's the best engine that there's ever been and I don't know how you measure that |
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