The long-term test cars we've loved (and hated) #139

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel explain why car magazine long-termers are a worthwhile exercise before discussing the cars they have enjoyed running and those they haven't. Was an Audi R8 Spyder better than expected or much worse? Which car was the most surprising? It's all in this episode.

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0:00.0	Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:07.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.
0:15.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.0	Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK.
0:25.0	avante west coast feel good travel. Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:37.0	The Intercooler Podcast. a podcast. Welcome to episode 139 of the podcast everybody with me Dan Prosser and my co-host
0:52.1	Andrew Frankel. Now this week we're talking about magazine
0:55.8	long-term test cars. I hope that we can sort of explain to all of you why magazines run long-term test cars. Is it just a blag or is there a good sort of rigorous purpose behind these cars?
1:11.0	Me and Andrew we talk about some of the cars that we've run before, the ones that
1:15.7	we've loved, the ones that we've perhaps hated and been glad to see the back of. I think there
1:20.9	are some good tales in there as well well so hopefully you'll enjoy this topic.
1:25.0	I also, before we get into long term as I also just wanted to talk about the Lamborghini Huracan
1:31.3	Storato, the sort of new off-road one that has been revealed in the last few days.
1:36.0	We talk about the terrible promotional video that Lamborghini produced to launch that car.
1:45.0	We also talk about an article that I've written recently for the Intercola App and website
1:49.5	about competing in grassroots motorsports.
1:53.4	So we discuss those things, but we get stuck into long-term test
1:58.1	cars after a few minutes.
2:00.0	Thanks for listening.
2:01.2	Plunging new depths of self-indulgence this week,
2:04.2	potentially.
2:05.3	Andrew, because we're talking about the magazine
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