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The Intercooler — 329 episodes

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1

How Goodwood became home to the UK's biggest car show #320

2

Which 1970s sports cars are the best buys? #313

3

The best (and worst) road trips ever #312

4

The new car market is a total bloodbath #311

5

The complete history of The Intercooler #310

6

The most amazing people we've ever met #309

7

Why the new Jaguar deserves to succeed #308

8

The Daily Podcast is moving!

9

Why the Aston Martin Valhalla is an all-time great #307

10

How Bring a Trailer revolutionised the market, with Randy Nonnenberg and James Turner #306

11

How the car media landscape is changing, with Mike Fernie #305

12

Why the new-look F1 isn't real racing #304

13

Bonus episode! Will F1's bold new era fly or fall flat?

14

Live: F1 and Group C racing legend John Watson #303

15

What happened to the Q-car? #302

16

Petrol engines are back: Porsche U-turn on Boxster and Cayman #301

17

How did Tom Kristensen win Le Mans nine times? #300

18

Live: Designer Ian Callum on TWR and Jaguar - then and now #299

19

All the cars we're still desperate to drive #298

20

Amazing tales from the British Grand Prix #297

21

Has our Range Rover finally broken down? #296

22

What on Earth is going on with Ford? #295

23

We've been in the new Jaguar electric car #294

24

What's going on with the petrol car ban? #293

25

Was Ayrton Senna the greatest? #292

26

Confirmed! Enthusiasts are returning to sports cars and petrol power #291

27

The analogue driving experience is making a comeback #290

28

Richard Porter aka Sniff Petrol with yet more elite-level car geekery

29

Why it's so hard for Aston Martin, McLaren and Lotus to make money #289

30

F1's greatest championship battles #288

31

Why boring cars can be as great to own as special ones #287

32

Limited-edition specials and why they might be overrated #286

33

Dario Franchitti on winning the Indy 500 and his love of fast road cars #285

34

What makes a great peoples' car? #284

35

Our thoughts on the Jason Plato episode and flying a Spitfire #283

36

Live: BTCC legend Jason Plato as you've never heard him before #282

37

Longbow Motors founder: 'Nobody has done this before' #281

38

Everything we HATE about driving #280

39

News from the Munich motor show and our partnership with Bicester Motion #279

40

How to appraise a car like a chassis engineer #278

41

300mph top speeds. 6min 30 at the Nürburgring. Are cars too fast? #277

42

Is this British EV startup going to change the game? #276

43

Matt Becker: The man who makes Jaguars and Land Rovers drive like they do #275

44

Great cars with rubbish engines (and vice versa) #274

45

The truth about today's Porsche 911 and Festival of the Unexceptional #273

46

Bargain hunting for early 2000s enthusiast cars #272

47

Is this the A-Team of automotive engineering? RML's Michael Mallock #271

48

F1 half-term report and Luca di Montezemolo to McLaren #270

49

How To Drive by Steve Sutcliffe: Braking and powershifting

50

How To Drive by Steve Sutcliffe: RWD and 4WD cars

51

Is Bentley stuck or ready to flourish? #269

52

Alex Brundle on Hamilton, Red Bull, his father Martin and his own racing career #268

53

Why the next Alpine A110 will be nothing like the one we love #267

54

How to make Le Mans the best weekend of your year #266

55

ICONS: Miura to Revuelto, ranking Lamborghini's V12 monsters #265

56

Jaguar Land Rover's massive profits and woeful racing movies #264

57

Buying your first Ferrari #263

58

Jonathan Williams: Being Sir Frank's son #262

59

Trouble at Tesla and the disappointing F1 season #261

60

Alfa Romeo: the car maker we all want to love... #260

61

Tuning old Land Rovers is big business. But why? #259

62

Will the UK's luxury car makers survive Trump's tariffs? #258

63

The cars that were ahead of their time #257

64

The secret racing driver: Hollywood stars who raced, and rally drivers on track #256

65

F1 in 2025 and how to build an EV for petrolheads #255

66

Bargain hunting for 1980s enthusiast cars #254

67

Tati Reed, aka @overintherover, on old Land Rovers and social media fame #253

68

What happens when you crash, plus the state of the EV market #252

69

The unbearable terror of your first motor race #251

70

McLaren's Zak Brown: Our drivers will compete for the 2025 championship #250

71

Why the new Porsche 911 GT3 is different to previous models #249

72

The man who made the Aston Martin Valkyrie a record breaker #248

73

Porsche expert exposes 911 market secrets #247

74

The greatest supercar bloodline of all time #246

75

Slow, cheap and French, but we love them anyway #245

76

The year's best and worst new cars #244

77

Richard Porter aka Sniff Petrol in the studio #243

78

Hot hatches to supercars – what we've been living with this year #242

79

Reflecting on the memorable 2024 F1 season and the new Jaguar concept #241

80

ICONS: Is the BMW M3 the greatest M-car ever? #240

81

We explore the wonderful world of car tuning #239

82

Reviewing the Alpine A290 and making EVs fun to drive #238

83

The problem with today's hypercars #237

84

When Nürburgring track days go wrong (and how to make them go right) #236

85

We've driven the new 717bhp BMW M5 #235

86

ICONS: 50 years of the Porsche 911 Turbo #234

87

Richard Tuthill on the GT One hypercar that stole the show at Car Week #233

88

We've driven the electric Renault 5 and Ferrari 12Cilindri #232

89

Bargain hunting for late 1990s performance cars #231

90

The perils of being a premium car marque (Jaguar, Maserati and Alfa Romeo) #230

91

Farewell to The Grand Tour and Newey to Aston Martin #229

92

ICONS: The simple genius of the Mazda MX-5 #228

93

Bargain hunting for modern sports cars #227

94

Why the new Mercedes-AMG C63 is such a miss, plus much more #226

95

Buying and selling the world's most valuable cars, with Max Girardo #225

96

BMW design: what the hell is going on? #224

97

The best (and worst) special edition Porsches #223

98

F1 2024 half-term report #222

99

Ian Callum on BMW design and his own cars (live Q&A) #221

100

An evening with Ian Callum, Britain's greatest living car designer #220

101

The British F1 drivers whose careers were cut short #219

102

Henry Catchpole on McLaren F1 v Gordon Murray T.50 #218

103

The greatest Le Mans in years and the best BMW M5 #217

104

£20,000 and asking for trouble #216

105

Michael Schumacher: the most complete racing driver ever? #215

106

We've been in the new Porsche 911 #214

107

Dan's new car and previewing the 24 Hours of Le Mans #213

108

How car companies really make money #212

109

Recreating the world's most iconic cars in miniature #211

110

Remembering Ayrton Senna, Adrian Newey's future and the problem with EVs #210

111

How to spend £5000 on a fun car #209

112

Mike Brewer explains how Wheeler Dealers became the world's biggest car TV show #208

113

Lunch with Aston Martin's Lawrence Stroll, plus the world's best supercar #207

114

Formula 1 at war #206

115

Paul Cowland, the man who owns close to 100 cars #205

116

All change at Bentley, Aston Martin and McLaren, plus the Australian GP #204

117

Jonny Smith: podcaster, presenter and diehard car enthusiast #203

118

Tiff Needell on racing in F1 and his 40-year TV career #202

119

How to fix F1 and the state of the used car market #201

120

James May in the studio for the 200th episode of The Intercooler podcast #200

121

Not too hot, not too cold... The best Goldilocks cars #199

122

Our new partnership with PistonHeads, plus little and large EVs #198

123

Dr Ulrich Eichhorn: creating the original Ford Focus and transforming Bentley #197

124

Richard Bremner on the British Leyland cars he has owned #196

125

The awkward truth about driving on the German autobahn #195

126

The weirdest car engines ever built #194

127

Naming every country's greatest mid-engined performance car #193

128

Our McLaren Artura and the cars we're looking forward to in 2024 #192

129

The sorry decline of British Leyland, with Richard Bremner #191

130

Cars with fatal flaws #190

131

The car people we have most enjoyed meeting #189

132

The right tyre for your classic car #188

133

Our worst ever car journeys #187

134

Race-winning Formula 1 engineer turned podcaster Blake Hinsey #186

135

The great unsung heroes of the car world #185

136

Enzo Ferrari: racer, founder, agitator of men #184

137

Our dream winter cars...on a budget #183

138

Forbidden fruit – the cars that were never sold in the UK #182

139

Million pound Bentleys and the BMWs we're living with #181

140

The least deserving Formula 1 champions #180

141

The extraordinary life and career of Ferdinand Piëch #179

142

The best Porsche 911s of the modern era #178

143

We answer your questions, live from Henry's Car Barn #177

144

Our favourite fast estates #176

145

Live from Henry's Car Barn, with special guest Henry Catchpole #175

146

The titans of the car industry we have met (with Mel Nichols) #174

147

The cars that saved their makers #173

148

Why a great soundtrack is so important in a performance car #172

149

F1 designer Steve Nichols on Senna, Prost and his new supercar #171

150

30 years of the Goodwood Festival of Speed #170

151

Is Aston Martin finally ready to take on Ferrari? #169

152

Being one of the Bentley Boys for a weekend #168

153

Colin Chapman, the wayward genius #167

154

The £30,000 BMW i8 and Balance of Performance in racing #166

155

The scariest cars we've ever driven #165

156

Our favourite road car engines of all time #164

157

Why we would (mostly) choose sports cars over supercars #163

158

How (and how not) to win a 24-hour motor race #162

159

How the Porsche 911 became the world's most successful racing car #161

160

American muscle, European handling – sports cars with Detroit V8s #160

161

How Australian journalists changed car magazines forever #159

162

Underrated racing drivers (and some overrated ones too) #158

163

The undervalued sports cars you should buy now #157

164

Becoming a world-class car engineer (by David Twohig) #156

165

How to drive at 300mph (by Le Mans winner Andy Wallace) #155

166

How Porsche created the 911 #154

167

The cars only an enthusiast would drive #153

168

Italian V12s, from the Lamborghini Countach to the Ferrari Purosangue #152

169

Direct from the M4 motorway in the cabin of a V8 Lexus #151

170

Formula 1 in 2023 and reviewing the BMW M3 Touring #150

171

Colin Goodwin plays The Right Car For The Job #149

172

Feats of great endurance in cars #148

173

Why the 2023 Formula 1 season will be unmissable #147

174

The worst supercars we've ever driven, including the Lamborghini Countach #146

175

The right car for the job – a daft game for petrolheads #145

176

The truth about living with an EV #144

177

Our top 10 must-see motorsport events worldwide #143

178

This is the greatest hot hatch ever, voted for by you #142

179

Gordon Murray on Last Blast

180

The best and worst cars we drove this year #141

181

The truth about car magazine end-of-year tests #140

182

The long-term test cars we've loved (and hated) #139

183

The best and worst high-performance Volkswagen Golfs #138

184

Our plan to save Jaguar #137

185

Are driving standards getting worse in the UK? #136

186

Forget what you know about trailblazing cars – these are the true pioneers #135

187

The future of the affordable fun car #134

188

How Top Gear took over the world #133

189

Press launches and what makes a good one #132

190

Bonus episode! Ian Callum on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

191

The very curious world of Citroën #131

192

Bonus episode! Dr Jonathan Palmer on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

193

We've been driving the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS #130

194

Bonus episode! Adrian Newey on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

195

The arguments for and against driving an SUV #129

196

Bonus episode! Adrian Hallmark on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

197

In conversation with the tenth person to walk on the moon #128

198

Bonus episode! Andy Wallace on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

199

Bonus episode! Our favourite cars at Bonhams' Goodwood Revival sale

200

The components of an unforgettable road trip #127

201

Bonus episode! Sir Chris Hoy on Last Blast – an extract from our conversation

202

Pitlane screw ups and how to replace an Alpine A110 #126

203

Spa, Silverstone, the Nürburgring – which tracks make it onto our fantasy F1 calendar? #125

204

These are the cars we must drive before we die #124

205

The Ford Focus, McLaren 675LT and other cars you must drive before you die #123

206

The cars you absolutely should not buy #122

207

Bonus episode! The best cars in Bonhams' Quail auction

208

Why you never need to spend more than £20k on a car, plus Ferrari Daytona SP3 driven #121

209

Can Maserati ever recapture its glorious heyday? #120

210

The great road races – Targa Florio, Mille Miglia and more #119

211

Scuderia Ferrari – the greatest race team ever? #118

212

Our new website launches this week! Plus British Grand Prix and Red Bull's hypercar #117

213

The EV that's breaking speed records, plus driving old Jaguar sports cars #116

214

Why the McLaren Artura is a bigger step forward for its maker than it appears #115

215

Henry Catchpole on rallying, Le Mans and why he doesn't ride motorbikes #114

216

Bonus episode! The best cars in Bonhams' Goodwood sale

217

Lotus Emira review – as good as we hoped? #113

218

The magic of the Monaco GP – or should that be monotony...? #112

219

The world's most expensive car and reviewing the new Range Rover #111

220

The Lotus Elan, BMW Z8 and other cars we got wrong #110

221

The potentially ruinous world of optional extras #109

222

BMW M at 50 years old #108

223

Tooling around in old cars and the art of oversteer #107

224

The budget restomods we'd love to see and demystifying car finance #106

225

Driving a Le Mans-winning Porsche 962 #105

226

Defunct! The British sports car manufacturers that are long gone #104

227

Porsche GT4 RS, a tour of Alpine's F1 factory and our new superstar writer #103

228

Ferrari's greatest ever racing triumphs #102

229

Motorsport innovation – bending the rules without breaking them #101

230

It's a century! To celebrate episode 100 we answer your questions #100

231

Reinventing the car (badly) – joysticks, turbine power and three wheels #99

232

Turned up to 11 – the wonderful world of car tuning #98

233

The devil is in the detail #97

234

From India to F1 – an interview with Karun Chandhok #96

235

Gordon Murray – the greatest car engineer of all time? #95

236

How to drive your dream car without breaking the bank #94

237

Crashes and the law – when motoring journalism goes wrong #93

238

How the Land Rover stayed in production for almost 70 years #92

239

The origins (and future) of sports car racing #91

240

Our 2021 highlights and big plans for 2022 #90

241

Verstappen wins title in madcap Abu Dhabi GP #89

242

The most chaotic F1 race of the year and childhood poster cars #88

243

Supercars – the past, present and future #87

244

When motorsport and crime collide #86

245

The realities of owning a supercar collection #85

246

Our motoring heroes, from Jeremy Clarkson to Gilles Villeneuve #84

247

300SL to SLR – the best and worst of Mercedes Sport-Leicht #83

248

Why the Porsche 917 is the greatest racing car ever #82

249

Cars on film – the best (and worst) car movies ever #81

250

Canned! The competition cars that never raced #80

251

John Z. DeLorean – car engineer, executive, crook? #79

252

Norris misses out on his first GP win as Hamilton scores his 100th #78

253

Visiting a very special car collection – and being handed the keys #77

254

McLaren back on top! How F1's most likeable team became winners again #76

255

Why George Russell will cope just fine as Lewis Hamilton's teammate #75

256

Michael Schumacher – F1's fiercest competitor #74

257

Le Mans 2021 debrief and the secrets of a great car interior #73

258

The new Lamborghini Countach and attempting the Sebastian Vettel Challenge #72

259

Sir Jackie Stewart's remarkable life so far #71

260

Bentley's astonishing back story #70

261

The Aston Martin Valhalla and F1's new look #69

262

Why the new Lotus Emira is so promising #68

263

Cancelled! The greatest cars that never made production #67

264

296 GTB: Ferrari supercars now, then and in the future #66

265

Forgotten performance cars, from the Lotus Europa S to the Mitsubishi 3000GT #65

266

The difference between a classic car and an old one #64

267

Glorious Goodwood: is this the UK's best circuit? #63

268

MX-5 to LFA – the genius of the Japanese car industry #62

269

Motor racing dynasties – the Andrettis, the Unsers and more #61

270

The magic of the Monaco Grand Prix #60

271

How to make electric cars fun to drive #59

272

A new Lotus, the Tamiya you can drive and more on versatile racing drivers #58

273

The Intercooler app is live! Claim your free trial #57

274

We've driven the new Porsche 911 GT3 – it's very different to previous GT3s... #56

275

Car guys talk about motorbikes, including why the Isle of Man TT is so special #55

276

In the CEO's chair: what we would do at Ferrari, Aston Martin and McLaren #54

277

Versatile drivers: when racers go rallying and rally drivers race #53

278

A tribute to Sabine Schmitz, plus Andrew buys a sports car #52

279

Four doors and fast: why we love super saloons. Plus a tribute to Murray Walker #51

280

The greatest Formula 1 cars of all time. Winners, game changers and innovators #50

281

DriveNation has a new name – welcome to The Intercooler! Plus Ferrari back at Le Mans #49

282

The McLaren Artura and a new era at McLaren. Plus e-fuels and the confusing Polestar 1 #48

283

All the details on the new Porsche 911 GT3, plus why rallying is the best form of motorsport #47

284

Talking Toyota: the GR Yaris with 300bhp and how to make the next GT86 even better (plus Lotus and TVR) #46

285

Singer, Alfaholics, Eagle and more. Why restomods seem to be taking over the car world #45

286

Lotus: out with the old, in with the new. Plus how DriveNation was conceived three years ago #44

287

All about Jaguar: from the Swallow Sidecar Company to EVs, via Le Mans and the E-Type #43

288

Fast Audis: from the sublime to the ridiculously underwhelming #42

289

Formula 1’s family tree: how Tyrrell became Mercedes, and Britain became the home of F1 #41

290

Why we race: the joy of motorsport and how it improves you as a driver #40

291

Vive la France! Celebrating the best (and worst) of the French car industry #39

292

Ultimate Q-cars to the best fast Fords: we tackle your topic ideas #38

293

The greatest cars of all time: we name our perfect 10s #37

294

What the ban on petrol and diesel cars means for people who love driving #36

295

More technically speaking: what kind of suspension is best? Plus a Toyota GR Yaris review #35

296

Guilty pleasures: the cars we shouldn't like but do (including the McLaren GT) #34

297

Low-volume, lightweight and British. We talk Caterham, TVR, Morgan and more, plus the latest hypercar news #33

298

Technically speaking: LSDs, carbon ceramic brakes, air suspension and more. Do you need them? #32

299

Forza Lamborghini! Everything that's great (and not so great) about Italy's other supercar company #31

300

What makes a great race circuit (and how to start doing trackdays) – #30

301

We love Honda! Tales of weird engineering, racing success, supercars and Ayrton Senna – #29

302

We tried to do a podcast about electric cars but got distracted by the new McLaren 765LT – #28

303

Dream five car garage! We fill our fantasy sheds with our favourite cars – #27

304

It's Le Mans week! Here's why the 24 Hours of Le Mans is so special – #26

305

The best (and worst) cars we've tested recently, from Honda e to Ferrari 250 GT SWB – #25

306

The fundamentals of handling (or what makes a car great to drive) – #24

307

1000 Grands Prix and counting: why Ferrari is so special (the F1 team and the car maker) – #23

308

The best used cars you can buy for £10,000 – #22

309

Debriefing on Gordon Murray's new supercar and reviewing the Aston Martin DBX and Mini JCW GP – #21

310

Gordon Murray on the McLaren F1, the curious SLR and his spectacular new T.50 supercar – #20

311

Celebrating Porsche's greatest sports cars (but not the 911) – #19

312

Hot hatches and why we love them – #18

313

Test driving the Ferrari SF90 Stradale and McLaren Speedtail – #17

314

Young guns star at Austrian GP and Ineos Grenadier unveiled – #16

315

Formula 1 is back! We preview the new season and ask how F1 can fix itself – #15

316

What is the greatest BMW M-car of all time? – #14

317

Paying tribute to Hans Mezger and grumbling about modern car design – #13

318

The cars we've owned: from Citroen 2CV to Porsche 993 RS – #12

319

All change at Aston Martin and driving the new Porsche 911 Turbo S – #11

320

How to be a car journalist – #10

321

F1 musical chairs and driving Bentley's 2003 Le Mans winner – #9

322

Interview: Land Speed royalty Richard Noble – #8

323

Making sense of McLaren Automotive – #7

324

The art of road testing cars – #6

325

Aston Martin: the highs and lows – #5

326

A tribute to Stirling Moss – #4

327

The magic of the Nurburgring – #3

328

Why we love the Porsche 911 – #2

329

New Land Rover Defender review – #1