Why boring cars can be as great to own as special ones #287

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss unexciting working cars and why they can be as welcome in the household as the most exciting ones. They also discuss Eagle E-Types and pay tribute to Jenson Button as he prepares for his final race as a full-time professional.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody, the car podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital. This is episode 287 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel.
0:16.0	Andrew, lots and lots that we want to talk about. Goody, that's how we like them. Not least, because last week, wasn't it, we spent a very, very, very happy day
0:24.0	on one of our usual stomping grounds in Wales in a couple of gorgeous cars. We'll come to those, though. Yeah, we were so lucky that day. It was unbelievable. For all sorts of reasons. Yeah. I want to talk a little bit about Jensen Button, who's hanging up his race boots.
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:41.3	Um, of reasons. Yeah. There's, I want to talk a little bit about Jensen Button, who's hanging up his race boots.
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:41.2	At least as a sort of full-time professional.
0:43.5	Yeah.
0:43.8	This weekend.
0:44.7	Wow.
0:46.4	There's my car, my Audi A6, my electric Audi A6 long-term.
0:50.3	I just want to discuss briefly.
0:51.9	But let's start with this weekend's forthcoming Brazilian
0:55.5	Grand Prix. Oh, okay. So there's four to go, including Brazil. This is a sprint weekend.
1:04.0	Where do we stand? So Lando Norris has just taken the lead in the driver's championship, isn't it?
1:10.6	So he's recovered a 34 point deficit.
1:12.3	Yeah. I think, I think the real, to me, the really interesting, I mean, there's obviously all
1:16.3	the speculation about whether Max will do it, which he clearly still can. I think George can technically
1:23.3	do it, although I don't think anybody thinks he will. But to me, I think the real question is what has happened to Oscar?
1:31.0	Where has his form gone?
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:33.3	And does it not say something about those cars that if one little thing gets changed,
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