Slow, cheap and French, but we love them anyway #245

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss their favourite small French cars, from the Citroën 2CV to any number of sporty Renault Clios. Some are hot hatches but by no means all – in fact, some of these machines can be painfully slow. So why are little French hatchbacks so charming, such fun and so enduring?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler podcast.
0:05.9	Hi everybody, welcome back to the Intercooler podcast.
0:08.7	This is episode 245 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel, the first episode of 2025.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:16.0	So welcome back, everyone.
0:17.2	Happy New Year.
0:18.3	I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and raring to go in 2025. We are wonderful christmas break uh and raring to go in
0:22.3	we are you sound raring to go yeah no i'm not raring to go at all but i'm here you're yeah you're sort
0:29.6	of chugging away like an old diesel at the moment exactly you're a bit under the weather but you're here
0:33.2	and i've got my voice i have a voice on now yes you have I reckon I can learn a living out of this.
0:37.9	You could.
0:38.3	If only I sounded like this all the time.
0:40.5	Yeah, I can see you on an advert or hear you on an advert anyway on television.
0:44.2	So we are kicking off the new year with what I think should be a fun topic.
0:49.3	If we're being impolite, we're calling them our favourite French shitboxes.
0:53.6	Really we mean cheap, small
0:56.1	French cars, don't we? Yes. And when we say shitboxes, it is a, it is a term of affection.
1:01.1	It is. Yeah. Absolutely. It's a term of Indyland, isn't it? We love it. Yeah, that's why we're
1:04.8	talking about them. And actually, they also, it speaks to something rather more important, which is that you don't need to be, you know,
1:13.5	although people seem to think we'd spend all our time, it's talking about 9-11s.
1:16.8	Actually, you don't even need to be going fast.
1:18.8	As long as a car is light, fun, engaging, you know, it's all you need, isn't it?
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