The cars that were ahead of their time #257

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the cars that were ahead of their time. In many cases they were the innovators and the pioneers, the cars that changed the industry for good. In others, these cars arrived too far ahead of their time and were commercial and technological flops because of it. BMW's i3 and i8, the Porsche 959, Jensen FF, Mercedes-Benz 300SL and Honda Insight all feature.

Use coupon code pod15 at checkout to get 15% off a subscription to The Intercooler's online car magazine! With a 30-day free trial, you can try it risk-free – https://www.the-intercooler.com/subscribe/

Find out more about JBR Capital here – https://www.jbrcapital.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler podcast.
0:06.7	Welcome back to the podcast, everybody.
0:08.7	This is episode 257 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel.
0:13.4	And this week we're talking about the cars that were ahead of their time.
0:17.1	I think we interpreted this one slightly differently.
0:20.4	Well, go on.
0:21.6	So I, I mean, not that it matters.
0:23.6	To me, a car that was ahead of its time, was ahead of its time to its disservice, right?
0:31.6	So it was a problem for that car.
0:33.6	It arrived too soon.
0:35.6	Okay.
0:36.6	Before the market was ready, maybe before the technology was ready.
0:41.8	But that's just one interpretation.
0:43.6	The other interpretation is that these are the sort of groundbreaking and pioneering cars.
0:47.4	Well, I don't think that those are in any way contradictory, are they?
0:50.6	They don't have to be.
0:51.2	I think there are lots of cars which we will go on to talk about which
0:55.6	failed.
0:57.6	Yeah.
0:58.3	From a commercial
0:58.9	point of view,
0:59.6	yeah.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 5 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.