The future of the affordable fun car #134
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel consider the future of the affordable fun car. Is there plenty to be optimistic about or does it all seem a bit bleak? With the demise of the Ford Fiesta ST and the Toyota GR86 only being on sale for two years, such cars may be thin on the ground in the not too distant future...
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are, 372 miles, 4 service stations, 254. Are we there yet? Let's holiday. |
| 0:06.5 | Yay, well done, sweetheart. Do you want to call them to let them know we're here? |
| 0:10.0 | Yep, can you just pass my reading glasses? They're in the kitchen. I left them in the kitchen |
| 0:16.3 | at 372 miles back. Should have gone to Spexavers. Buy glasses from 70 pounds and get a second pair free. |
| 0:23.4 | Are we there yet? |
| 0:25.0 | Include single vision lenses to the same prescription. Conditions apply. |
| 0:28.5 | Ask in store for details. |
| 0:30.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your |
| 0:45.0 | there. |
| 0:50.0 | this care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:51.0 | This is how travels should feel and on our trains it does. |
| 0:55.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | The Intercooler Podcast. a podcast. Welcome to episode 134 for podcast everybody with Dan Prosser and Andrew |
| 1:23.9 | Frankel where we're tackling what I think is an important topic for many of |
| 1:30.6 | our listeners maybe all of our listeners, we're talking about affordable fun cars and in particular the future of the affordable fun car. |
| 1:39.6 | Is there going to be one? |
| 1:41.1 | Is there one? Well that's right, yeah. Does it look bleak? Is there anything to feel encouraged by? |
| 1:46.3 | But before we do that, let's just, I just want to put one thing to you. What do we mean by affordable? |
| 1:51.6 | Because everybody on this planet has a different definition of what that word means? |
| 1:55.7 | So I think we should just set it out right at the top. |
| 1:58.4 | Well, okay, so what does it mean? I think it needs to be a car. Well, I mean, I think it needs to be a car, I think it starts at zero, it starts at nothing and it ends |
| 2:08.0 | what with a new price of, I mean certainly less than 40, probably less than 30,000 pounds that's what |
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