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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In another of his hyper-nerdy solo shows, Richard is in Birmingham poking around the remains of the once-massive Longbridge car factory. He recounts the time he snuck into the factory soon after MG Rover’s collapse to poke round secret prototypes and the eerily frozen production line, and tells some of the history of the place including plane making, strike breaking, car styling, and losing money on every Mini made, before encountering a ghost of the past on new housing estate that stands on the factory site.
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0:00.0 | Hello, Richard here. I'm on my own for this one, I'm afraid. |
0:11.5 | Johnny is busy finding things in Barnes and doing stuff for his channel and our schedules just didn't line up this week. |
0:17.9 | So I'm afraid you're stuck with me on my own for which I |
0:22.0 | apologize I'm in my 24 Tesla on the M5 had this car for just over a year now and uh |
0:31.1 | by and large quite like it loads of room in it efficiency's good's good. Charging networks, brilliant. |
0:38.1 | It does everything that we need from a family car. |
0:41.2 | It's not perfect. |
0:43.5 | I think I mentioned at the Piston Heads Live show, |
0:46.3 | the wipers are comically bad. |
0:50.3 | And I'm sitting here on autopilot, which is no such thing. |
0:56.2 | It's just distance cruise control, but it uses cameras instead of radar, and they're just not good enough. |
1:01.1 | So most of the time it's all right, but then you'll just be trucking along fine, |
1:05.1 | and it'll spot a ghost car and slow down, even though there's nothing there. |
1:10.5 | It's quite annoying. |
1:12.5 | My wife refuses to use the facility because of that. |
1:16.3 | She thinks it's annoying and distracting. |
1:19.8 | And basically, if it really slows down, |
1:21.8 | you have to just hoof the accelerator pedal, |
1:24.0 | like you're kicking on a horse. |
1:26.4 | Is that what they say? |
1:29.0 | Kicking on a horse? I don't know. I don't own any jillets. I'm not quite clear. But yeah, apart from that, though, it's not bad. But I'm not |
1:34.3 | here to talk about that, much though I do think it's a perfectly decent car. It's just a shame about |
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