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Super Cooper, mega-mile Toyotas, Ineos
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On this week's My Week In Cars podcast, Steve Cropley and Matt Prior find themselves inside an Ineos Grenadier and outside a pub. The two talk Steve's new Mini, kit cars, the Gentleman's Ride, why a Ford F250 is perfect for Oxfordshire and more.
There's even more too, including your letters, and details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here.
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Awards, designers, the 10,000rpm Escort
45:13|In this week's My Week In Cars Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk more about the Autocar Awards, where they recorded this podcast. The people are the stars this week: CEOs of FIAT, Lamborghini, WATT, and others. Plus there's about the London Concours, the venue at which our awards were held.The pair also talk your letters and much more besides. For details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here.
BONUS: Autocar meets British Motor Museum CEO Paul Armstrong
30:37|For this week's bonus pod, Cropley chats with the new CEO of the British Motor Museum, Peter Armstrong, about his first impressions of the 400-strong collection of British-built cars situated right next to the Jaguar factory at Gaydon. Armstrong explains what it means to be a museum specialist rather than a car nut though he reckons he's learning more if British auto history all the time. He also lays out some of his plans to make the place bigger, better, more fun and more financially stable as time goes by.For details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here.
Awards special!
01:01:15|On this week's My Week In Cars podcast, Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk about the Autocar Awards, taking place the night before this pod is published. We give gongs to cars and gongs to people too, so stay tuned here and over at Autocar for more.The pair also talk your letters, the BMW M2, Westfield sports cars and more. For details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here.
BONUS: Steve and Matt with your letters
33:32|In this bonus episode of the Autocar podcast, Steve Cropley and Matt Prior have your correspondence. What four-metre long car is special enough for our listener? Will the AC Cobra Coupe be viable? What is Ford's strategy? There's much more besides too, as our pair basically randomly run off at the mouth about cars. But do give it a listen. And give the magazine a read, too; there's a great listener offer if you click the link here.
Ferrari Luce, E46 M3 Touring, BMW i7
53:36|In this week’s Autocar podcast My Week In Cars Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk the Ferrari Luce, a BMW i7, the Fiat Grande Panda, a good four metre car, a BMW E46 M3 Touring like BMW never made.There’s more too including your correspondence. And there’s more on all of this week’s stories over at Autocar - and we have a special subscription offer for listeners if you click here.
BONUS: Autocar meets Ineos Automotive CEO Lynn Calder
43:00|In this bonus episode of the Autocar podcast, Autocar Meets Lynn Calder, CEO of Ineos Automotive, makers of the Grenadier. Calder tells Cropley and Prior about running "a renegade brand", what it's like to launch a new car in the middle of pandemics, wars, and tariffs, how the car was conceived in a pub and Ineos's future plans, including new models and hoping to replace the British military's Land Rovers.For more on the stories behind Ineos, read Autocar here.
Bonus: Seat-Cupra future unwrapped with CEO Markus Haupt
36:40|In this special episode of the Autocar podcast, we sit down with Markus Haupt, CEO of Seat and Cupra, to hear about his exciting plans for the two Spanish brands.As the crucial new Raval city car hits the market, thoughts are turning to what Cupra does next - and it sounds like BMW and Volvo might have something to worry about. Meanwhile, the future of Seat – long uncertain – is starting to finally take shape - and we've got all the details.
BMW's Alpina plans, a five-star roadster, Prior's Morgan
01:00:26|On this week's My Week In Cars podcast, Steve Cropley spends some time in a Mazda MX-5, and finds out what BMW intends to do with Alpina. Prior gets his Morgan Super 3, while Cropley still hasn't decided on a replacement for his Mini. There's more too, including your letters, and details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here.