Company Cars Running Wild!

BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Podcast

Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.

• Judas Priest - Running Wild (intro)
• Furious Driving, A Mustang in the desert and Auxito, our first show sponsor
• Our Auxito Discount link 15% off with code MOTORINGHISTORIAN
• Running Wild - Free Wind Rider (intro)
• Owatrol - not sponsored, but improve old headlights without needing polishing tomfoolery, as recommended by Chops Garage
• Xan Clan - Go, Go, Go
• Nismo 400 launch party at Z Car Garage
• Group C and IMSA of the eighties; an awesome spectacle
• Judas Priest - Running Wild (break/2nd verse)
• Gerald Laing
• Running Wild Freewind Rider (chorus)
• The why of our Company Car Episode
• A potted history of the British company car, and its unusual foibles
• Sunroofs. Rooves.
• The Rise of the Car Allowance
• J’s first company car, a white Ford Mondeo
• The Importance of the 2.0 Ghia vs the 1.6 L
• The Ford Granada 2.8i Ghia X
• M”s red ‘97 Renault Laguna RN(?). Base.
• M’s silver ‘00 Ford Focus 2.0 Ghia, a eulogy to Richard Parry-Jones
• The nineties/noughties requirement to meet customers face to face meaning 50,000+ miles per year (!!!)
• Cars with low horse power, but low weight too
• Company car policies and bending the rules; M’s Seat Leon Cupra R
• Hooligan behaviour on the way to Le Mans (neither M or J driving)
• Living in the car; the value of the face to face meeting, especially if the deal doesn’t go your way, because at least they used to tell you why you lost.
• J’s “Annus Horribilis”, in 2000.
• J’s Vauxhall Vectra S202BVT, understeery as hell
• J’s Ford Soapbox. Are you listening Ian “Hubnut” Seabrook?
• J’s 2000 Subaru Impreza Turbo, which he never drove (go me)
• J destroys M and J’s shared Sierra Sapphire 2.0 Ghia crashing into a ditch
• M’s ‘07 Nissan 350Z and ‘09 Honda CBR600RR
• M’s Nissan 350Z and 370Z
• J’s Stinky Subaru
• After the power metal special, today’s Running Wild special
• An early and very effective traffic avoidance technology
• A wrecked Citroen Saxo VTS
• The Uffington White Horse and a rolled car
• Not Sierra but Slayer, on the bootlid of E773NKV M’s Sierra 2.0 L
• A Red J-plate Subaru Legacy wagon; Gary Lineker, beloved British soccer player, calls J a Motherfu**er.
• J’s misses the Green Vectra SRi sedan, dark green V-plate.
• Vauxhall speke: SRi vs GSi
• J mourns J191RBH, a grey Mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi
• Slow cars fast vs Fast cars slow
• J has Toyo Proxes on his Fiesta ST. Now it sounds like a Stuka. But the grip is unholy.
• M's Fiesta ST now has a Mounttune catback exhaust
• J’s business idea flipping French hot hatches becoming US-legal thanks to the expiry of the 25 year rule
• Renault Safrane Biturbo / Monaco
• Peugeot 309 GTi, 106 Rallye, 306GTi-6, 306 Rallye
• RIP Marcello Gandini, the designer of the Renault 5 Turbo 2 and Cizetta V-16. Among many others.
• The Bertone Pirana
• J on the dodgyness of Car Consignment; the car the money and the title - at no point should one person have all three
• Will J’s ‘77 Lincoln sell ? Or more accurately, will it be picked up?
• The rise and rise of the Porsche Carrera GT, compared to the Ferrari Enzo and Mercedes-McLaren SLR
• M’s eulogy to the Carrara GT; peak analogue?
• Running Wild - Riding The Storm
• Sportsbikes were bikes when M and J learned to ride. J hadn’t realized sportsbikes were a flash in the pan!
• M is tired out by naked bikes and wants some wind protection; J appreciates the artificial speedlimit
• BMW S1000R and S1000RR; M’s ‘09 Honda CBR600RR is better than him, and might remain that way
• J cannot speak highly enough of Gran Turismo as a virtual preservation and introduction to the world of cars, driving, and motoring culture as a whole, while retaining a Japanese flavour
• J’s white Sierra Cosworth RS. In Gran Turismo
• J and M do not like mudflaps
• Renault Laguna BTCC car
• M’s digression on difficult computer games

Quickfire

• Favourite company car; M’s handbrake turns
• J’s black Mondeo, limping up to Worcester using zipties in place of an alternator belt
• Car guy reading 101: J: Enzo Ferrari - My Terrible Joys; M: Matt Oxley, a very clever motorcycle writer
• Running Wild - Wild Animal (Outro)