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Ollie Marriage is Head of Car Testing at BBC Top Gear. He joins me for a chat about his journey and some of the awesome cars he's driven along the way.
https://www.instagram.com/olliemarriage/
Enjoy,
Sam
Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
15:12 - Review Process
24:30 - Career Continued
28:42 - Writing Style Between Magazines
42:15 - Does the Experience Warp the Review?
48:15 - COTY
57:24 - Driving an LMP1 Car
1:08:59 - James Dean’s M3
1:16:41 - 5 Questions
Jason Torchinsky joins us from the States to talk about his journey (previously at Jalopnik) and his new website - The Autopian.
https://www.instagram.com/jasontorch/
Enjoy,
Sam
Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
22:38 - Working at Jalopnik
47:32 - Starting The Autopian
58:35 - How do you run a website like The Autopian?
1:08:03 - US vs UK Car Culture (and other things)
1:22:56 - Jason’s Book, “Robot, Take The Wheel”
1:47:20 - 5 Questions
Dan Prosser (@danprosser86) is an automotive journalist, presenter and founder of The Intercooler. We hear back from Dan about what he's been up to in the last year and his new digital media outlet: The Intercooler.
https://www.instagram.com/theintercooler/
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Hope You Enjoy,
Sam
Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
3:03 - Driving a V12 Ferrari for the first time
8:20 - Do you get excited by hypercars?
14:39 - Electric Cars
24:39 - GR Yaris vs Fiesta ST
36:46 - Launching “The Intercooler”
56:20 - Hampton Court Concourse
57:39 - The New M3
1:08:27 - What do we really want in a sports car?
1:17:53 - Questions from Twitter
1:28:28 - Where are the cheaper driver’s cars?
1:44:16 - How would you improve your Alpine A110?
1:50:32 - Are you biased to reviewing cars from your country?
1:54:33 - 5 Questions