{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67b0f17b4d9bd1092c35eb0f/6a91730563de6f7b412e38d4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"S2 E5: From Sensible Volvo to Raw MX-5 – The Smart Drive Podcast","description":"<p>In this special extended episode we find out what happens when you climb out of a comfortable, sensible Volvo and straight into a 22-year-old Mazda MX-5? Quite a lot, as it turns out.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Simon gets behind the wheel of Ashley’s Volvo, investigates its slightly sleepy mild-hybrid gearbox and asks how much a good driver should adapt to the car beneath them.</li><li>An EV road trip post-mortem reveals just 12 minutes of genuinely “wasted” charging time, while heavily depreciated used EVs raise the question of whether slow charging actually matters.</li><li>Then everything changes: an old-school MX-5, three pedals, very little electronic interference and a reminder that driving enjoyment doesn’t require enormous power. It does, however, require the right trainers.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Plus adaptive cruise in fog, disappearing driving skills, and an inexplicably addictive YouTube channel that destroys diecast cars.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Listen, watch, subscribe and tell us which kind of driving you’d rather have. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>hello@thesmartdrivepodcast.co.uk</strong></p>","author_name":"Simon Houghton"}