Why a great soundtrack is so important in a performance car #172

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined for this episode by Iain Suffield, a sound engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. He explains why an invigorating soundtrack is such a core part of the sports car driving experience, and what can be done to make electric cars sound exciting too. Dan and Andrew also look at the state of the luxury car market in the UK, using insights from car finance company JBR Capital.

With thanks to JBR Capital (@jbrcapital or www.jbrcapital.com).

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you
0:08.3	slide by on track to your
0:15.0	there,
0:20.0	the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.
0:21.0	This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel
0:32.1	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:35.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode 172 of the Intercooler Podcast with me, Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel, my co-host.
0:47.0	Now this week we're talking about soundtracks.
0:49.3	How important is a great sound track in a performance car? So Andrew and I discussed this between us, but before
0:55.2	that we bring in an expert, someone who actually does this for a living. His name is Ian
1:01.0	Suffield. He's a sound engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, so he really knows his stuff.
1:06.0	He's worked on lots of different JALR products, including the I-PACE, so not just combustion cars. He's worked on the electric I pace on the jaguer f type on range rovers
1:17.8	So he's got really broad experience that he can talk to us about. Now before we get on to that I just want to tell you a little bit about our first event which we announced a week or so ago, maybe a little bit more, at Henry's Car Barn in the Midlands with Henry
1:37.1	catchpole as the special guest. Those are two different Henry's by the way.
1:41.0	It's our first live podcast recording but it's a
1:44.7	bit more than that it's kind of a social event we're putting on food and
1:47.4	drink there are going to be a few TI writers milling about and we've got time to hang out and catch up with people. It's at a
1:55.7	great location, a great venue as well, Henry's Car Barn. So it's going to be I think
2:01.1	quite a special evening. Now, amazingly, and honestly, no one's
2:06.0	more surprised at this than us. We sold out all the tickets in three days. I had no idea
2:12.2	what to expect was it going to take up until the day before the event to sell them out.
2:17.0	In fact it just took three days.
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