What happened to the Q-car? #302
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the disappearance of the expression ‘Q-car’ from the motoring lexicon. Where did the term come from, what are the greatest Q-cars of all time, and do the public still want them?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Everybody, the podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital. |
| 0:12.0 | This is episode 302. |
| 0:16.0 | Q-Cars, Andrew. |
| 0:18.0 | Q-Cars. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm sure we've done Q-cars before. |
| 0:20.0 | We must have done over the years. |
| 0:21.7 | But I want to revisit Q cars because I want to discuss the changing face of the Q car. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.1 | If indeed they remember. |
| 0:32.7 | It's not a phrase you hear that much. |
| 0:34.5 | I mean, when I was, was well starting out in this business |
| 0:39.4 | it was a term that was used |
| 0:42.8 | every day. Certainly |
| 0:45.3 | if you're working on car magazines, we are always talking about |
| 0:47.4 | cute. You just don't really hear it anymore. |
| 0:49.5 | There might be people |
| 0:51.5 | listening to this who are going |
| 0:53.3 | What are they talking about? What on earth are they talking about? So I do want to talk about the current state of the Q car, the future of the Q car perhaps, but we should also look back, shouldn't we? Oh, God, that's all I was planning on doing it. I hoped you would. I hoped you would take care of that part of it. So what is a Q car? |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.9 | In America, they're called sleeper cars, aren't they? |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. They are cars, they're sort of butterwood and melt cars, aren't they? |
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