The truth about car magazine end-of-year tests #140

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss car magazine end-of-year mega tests, and why two sets of judges can feel so differently about the exact same car. What's it really like to be a judge on a Car of the Year test? With so much photography and video to shoot, is there really time for those unforgettable drives over epic roads you often read about?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:07.0	The Intercooler Podcast. Welcome to episode 140 of the podcast everybody with me Dan Prosser and my co-host
0:20.4	Andrew Frankel. This week we're talking about Car Magazine end of year
0:25.4	mega tests, you know the car of the year Britain's best drivers car all of those sorts of
0:30.8	things. Andrew was a judge as he is every year on auto cars.
0:34.4	I've been a judge on both auto cars and Evos in the past. So we're going to talk about the
0:39.0	tests generally, but also some of the results from this year.
0:44.7	There will be spoilers in there.
0:45.9	So if you are hoping to read these features
0:49.5	before we ruin it for you, pause this episode,
0:52.0	go and do that, and then you can come back to us.
0:54.3	The it's it's an interesting discussion because there's one car in particular
0:58.8	that did very poorly I think that's fair actually, it did poorly in one of these tests and it won another.
1:08.0	So we want to get underneath the skin of that. How is that possible?
1:12.0	Enjoy the episode. Last week we were talking about Car Magazine long-termers inspired by a listener question.
1:20.0	This week we've got another listener question and it's once again it's about car magazines
1:26.1	We're going to be talking about those end-of-year mega tests that all the magazines have been publishing recently
1:32.0	Just before we get started Andrew I want to promise everyone that next week,
1:36.0	we're not going to be talking about car magazines,
1:38.0	and we'll come up with the topic ourselves.
1:40.0	We're not going to rely on all of you lot to do that for us.
1:42.0	So, yeah, we're going going to rely on all of you lot to do that for us.
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