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episode 4405: Oli, the Funky Cat, and the Silver Arrows: The EV State of the Nation
Jon Summers is The Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing, technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. Hailing from California, he collects cars and bikes built with plenty of cheap and fast, and not much reliable. On his show, he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, and motoring travel.
Topics covered on this Episode:
- How Goes the EV Revolution?
- Kids dirt bikes
- Citroen’s Ami and Oli: lightweight with a sensible price
- Ora Funky Cat
- The Chinese Skyline
- Paying a Premium For a Lower Range
- Ferrari Purosangue
- Land racing in the Mojave Desert
- The Land racing potential of J’s ‘95 Mustang GTS
- Tesla Model X Long Range, Design inspiration from Duster’s Video Gaming Arcade, in Plymouth during the nineties; the games of Dusters
- Porsche Cayenne GTS
- J’s recent work on the Silver Arrows: Better Research Needed.
- Manfred von Brauchitsch, Rudolf Caracciola, Hermann Lang and Hans Stuck
- The von Brauchitsch movie
- The image that started it all for J
- The Mercedes T80
Quick fire:
- Most regret parting with ? E773NKV / ‘78 Capri 3.0 S
- Worst car you ever owned ?
- Most Loyal Dog ? R392CNE, R733OMO
- Best Road - Europe (SS25 / D1006)
- Best Track - Britain (Donington, Oulton, Thruxton)
- $100k, what do you buy?
- Reading ? The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence
- 21 Forever, a biography of David Pearson
Copyright Jon Summers, The Motoring Historian. This episode is part of our Motoring Podcast Network and has been republished with permission.
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