My week in cars

Autocar

  • 33 minutes 52 seconds
    Brooklands & Bicester, Dacia Spring, pronouncing Hyundai

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast join our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley as they talk about Brooklands Museum and Bicester Motion's first events of 2025, just days into the new year. Steve has a nose around a Dacia Spring, we advise a listener which cars come with spare wheels, and Prior gets unreasonably annoyed with a Hyundai advert.

     

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    15 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 36 minutes 37 seconds
    Renault 5, new Honda Prelude, Cadillac F1

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast join our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley as they talk about how much Steve liked the new Renault 5, a compact retro EV city car that also has a sporty hot hatch variant from Alpine, the A290. Cropley talks Pat Symonds, the engineer who'll be instrumental to Cadillac's upcoming new Formula 1 entry, while Prior explains why he's more enthusiastic than some about the forthcoming Honda Prelude which has an engine and yet still a fake gearbox with it.

     

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    8 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 45 minutes 50 seconds
    Your questions, Suzuki Jimny, a bit more Jaguar

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley get through some of your recent correpsondence, talking Jaguar (a little), touchscreens, two Mercedes, Gordon Murray's cars, the Suzuki Jimny, dogs with their ears flapping in the breeze, and much more besides.


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    1 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Gordon Murray exclusive interview

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast join our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley as they interview Gordon Murray, the world renowned designer of some of the greatest ever sports and racing cars: from his latest T50 and T33 supercars, to the McLaren F1, to world-championship winning Formula One cars. Murray takes us on a journey from his roots in South Africa to the present day, including his thoughts on EVs, urban transport and much more besides.

     

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    25 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 51 minutes 2 seconds
    Interview special: Road Test Editor Matt Saunders on cars and upsetting the industry

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast your hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley welcome Autocar's road test editor, Matt Saunders, to the studio (aka the storeroom). The trio talk everything from great cars to great canteens, explain how Autocar tests cars and how it (sometimes) upsets the industry.


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    18 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 37 minutes 22 seconds
    Britain's Best Driver's Car, Batmobile, electric MX-5

    Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talk about Britain's Best Driver's Car, free Batmobiles, and an electrified Mazda MX-5


    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talk about Autocar's Britain's Best Driver's Car 2024 shootout, the results of which are in the latest issue of Autocar. There's also good news for people called 'Bruce Wayne', while Electrogenic have started offering an electric kit for Mazda MX-5s. Plus they talk your correspondence.

     

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    11 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 43 minutes 8 seconds
    Jag reaction, smaller faces, ZEV mandate, reverse parking

    In this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley talk about Jaguar's new Type 00 concept car, unveiled earlier this week. They also talk their respective Autocar columns, which means in Steve's case they talk the Renault Scenic and its frontal area, ground effect, the ZEV mandate and more serious stuff aside; and in Prior's case they talk reverse parking.

     

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    4 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    Interview special: Dario Franchitti and Phil Lee from Gordon Murray Automotive

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley visit Gordon Murray Automotive, makers of the limited-edition T50 and T33 sports cars, to talk to two of the people behind the project.


    Dario Franchitti is a four-time Indycar champion and three-time Indy 500 winner, who has now nearly full-time transitioned to being GMA's director of brand, performance and product. Also joining us is Phil Lee, the CEO of Gordon Murray Group.


    Prior and Cropley also talk a little about their latest columns and the week's car news, including their thoughts on Jaguar's re-brand ahead of a new car unveiling next week.


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    27 November 2024, 6:00 am
  • 38 minutes 35 seconds
    Alpine A290 review, electric car tax changes, Genesis

    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley review the new Alpine A290 hot hatchback, chat about upcoming changes to hybrid vehicle taxes, the big Genesis saloon that looks like a Bentley, their lunch menu and more besides.


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    20 November 2024, 6:00 am
  • 35 minutes 12 seconds
    Driving a 122 year-old car; a new flat-8 engine
    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley drive from London to Brighton in the 1902 Albion Dog Cart, talk a new flat eight-cylinder engine, fix Cropley’s Mini Cooper, and talk much more besides, including your correspondence.

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    13 November 2024, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Live with Jonathan Palmer, talking F1, Senna, Tom Cruise and making his own car
    On this week's My Week In Cars podcast our hosts Matt Prior and Steve Cropley are joined live at the Royal Automobile Club in London by Jonathan Palmer, CEO of MotoSport Vision.

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    6 November 2024, 6:00 am
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