42 min
Overdrive: Hyundai EV is Car of Year; GWH Ora resembles Mr Potato Head; Phillip Island History races Overdrive
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G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, where we mull over issues to do with cars and transport.
I’m David Brown
Feedback from social media posts
• Car of the year
• An art installation that has a rock crushing a Tesla
Road Test - Great Wall Motors Ora
• Electric car
• Comment from one of our Interns - a young persons perspective
• Comments from Dean
Phillip Island Classic
• Chat to Fred about the major historic car racing event last weekend at Phillip Island
• At the event there was a 1946 Maybach – a racing car that was made up from a World War II scout car – a great example of building something from what was available
Highlights from the program
00:02:39
The BBC, The British Top Gear have given their car of the year to the Ionic 5 in an electric vehicle. Times have changed a bit since Jeremy Clarkson was there. I don't see him as being one who would normally award an electric vehicle.
• Are car of the year awards definitive or at best indicative
• They are still making an Australian version of Top Gear - Why
00:05:46 - The motor vehicle in art.
A sculpture of a large stone head crushing a Tesla
Art can mean different things to different people. Is this a comment about:
• electric vehicles,
• a general problem with Tesla cars or an anti Musk statement? I
• It might even be lament that ancient stone headed traditions can squash project or. It might also be a cry to reject modern civilisation and a longing for ancient culture, because the head was one in the style of the old mech civilization which developed in the lowlands of South.
• Kim Bow wrote in and said it is a “New high visual impact, no parking signs”
• Brett McGrath said “I'm surprised it being the Tesla didn't catch fire”
00:08:26 – Great Wall Motors Ora Electric vehicle
• The Great Wall Motors Aura is a little-ish electric car. Now we have tested one in the past, but with this one we got was a long range. It had a bigger battery.
00:11:12 – Ora road test from a young person’s perspective
• First drive of an electric car
• Regenerative braking needs getting use to
• New technology with the interface with controls is certainly different
• Different look: How would your peer group react?
• Electric vehicles might suit young people because they need less maintenance
00:18:51 – Car looks and being driven to school
• Is it the car or the parents that are an embarrassment?
00:20:12 – Artist Deal Oliver talks about the Ora design
• Electric cars mean we are in a post radiator aspect of design
• The Ora looks a bit like a Mr Potato Head car
00:27:26 – The Phillip Island Classic Festival of motorsport.
• The biggest historic racing meeting in the Southern hemisphere
• 1946 Maybach – cobbled together from a German WW2 Scout vehicle
• 50th anniversary of L34 Torana (a GM sedan muscle car in Australia). Were there more on display than were ever made?
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Originally broadcast 23 March 2024
G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, where we mull over issues to do with cars and transport.
I’m David Brown
Feedback from social media posts
• Car of the year
• An art installation that has a rock crushing a Tesla
Road Test - Great Wall Motors Ora
• Electric car
• Comment from one of our Interns - a young persons perspective
• Comments from Dean
Phillip Island Classic
• Chat to Fred about the major historic car racing event last weekend at Phillip Island
• At the event there was a 1946 Maybach – a racing car that was made up from a World War II scout car – a great example of building something from what was available
Highlights from the program
00:02:39
The BBC, The British Top Gear have given their car of the year to the Ionic 5 in an electric vehicle. Times have changed a bit since Jeremy Clarkson was there. I don't see him as being one who would normally award an electric vehicle.
• Are car of the year awards definitive or at best indicative
• They are still making an Australian version of Top Gear - Why
00:05:46 - The motor vehicle in art.
A sculpture of a large stone head crushing a Tesla
Art can mean different things to different people. Is this a comment about:
• electric vehicles,
• a general problem with Tesla cars or an anti Musk statement? I
• It might even be lament that ancient stone headed traditions can squash project or. It might also be a cry to reject modern civilisation and a longing for ancient culture, because the head was one in the style of the old mech civilization which developed in the lowlands of South.
• Kim Bow wrote in and said it is a “New high visual impact, no parking signs”
• Brett McGrath said “I'm surprised it being the Tesla didn't catch fire”
00:08:26 – Great Wall Motors Ora Electric vehicle
• The Great Wall Motors Aura is a little-ish electric car. Now we have tested one in the past, but with this one we got was a long range. It had a bigger battery.
00:11:12 – Ora road test from a young person’s perspective
• First drive of an electric car
• Regenerative braking needs getting use to
• New technology with the interface with controls is certainly different
• Different look: How would your peer group react?
• Electric vehicles might suit young people because they need less maintenance
00:18:51 – Car looks and being driven to school
• Is it the car or the parents that are an embarrassment?
00:20:12 – Artist Deal Oliver talks about the Ora design
• Electric cars mean we are in a post radiator aspect of design
• The Ora looks a bit like a Mr Potato Head car
00:27:26 – The Phillip Island Classic Festival of motorsport.
• The biggest historic racing meeting in the Southern hemisphere
• 1946 Maybach – cobbled together from a German WW2 Scout vehicle
• 50th anniversary of L34 Torana (a GM sedan muscle car in Australia). Were there more on display than were ever made?
For more information
Web Site: Driven Media: drivenmedia.com.au
Podcasts
iTunes: Cars Transport Culture
Spotify: Cars Transport Culture
Facebook
Cars Transport Culture
Instagram
Cars Transport Culture
Our YouTube site
Cars Transport Culture
Originally broadcast 23 March 2024
42 min