Overbore

Tomorrow evening, a 'Premiere' is occurring. A new car has arrived, but even @hubnut.bsky.social turned it down. How bad could it be?!

1930hrs.

Well you see, we take you where the other automotive podcasts daren’t.

🚨 EPISODE 12 🚨

The last in the series!

- Facelifts: ones that worked, ones that didn’t, and the one we think was the best ever

- 21 years in a Citroen Saxo

- Baps

- Gordon Keeble excitement

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Agreed!

Kitch actually has previous with awesome sounding Triumph 2.5s, as we discuss in the pod!

Tremendous engines. In fact the whole AMG stable just hits different. I think I’d just choose the M156 as a personal favourite! - Scrof

Oh great shouts both!

The V8 engine from a Lancia F1 car, with cleaning chrome ‘trumpet’ inlets

What’s the best-sounding engine?

Kitch reckons a soaring V10, or a thrummy five-pot. Scrof’s a sucker for an old-school V8.

What do you think?

Slightly odd question, but does anyone have access to a Zafira Tourer, like this?

Never been referred to as ‘ear syrup’ before but we’re not against it.

A red 2024 Volvo V60 estate parked in front of a set of old brick arches and a metal fence on an industrial estate. In the background is a Citroen Xantia.

This week’s episode comes to you from this rather lovely Volvo V60.

Kitch judged it ‘not bad’ - praise indeed - and said it was the first new car Scrof’s brought in that he could see himself owning.

(Scrof quite likes it too.)

But was Volvo right to reincarnate its estates?

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
(slightly delayed)

This week:

- Poppadoms at the chippy Chinese

- Why we like odd-fire V6s (and what they are)

- Why Volvo stopped selling estates (then started again)

- Hot male (and female) tools

- What makes Kitch make this face

Only on Overbore: linktr.ee/overborepod

If you’re wondering where this week’s Overbore is, well, it’s coming.

Just not today. Sorry.

What with a family funeral this week, we’ve had to push things back a little, but we’re hoping to get the latest ep out to you tomorrow or on Monday.

Hang tight - it’s coming!

Don’t blame you! That’s a cracker.

Oof!

Can’t fault that logic!

Mk1 Ford Mondeo in grey, on some cobbles next to the sea

A Mk2 Nissan Primera in metallic orange, with fishing boats behind it

A pre-facelift Citroen Xantia in metallic red on an airfield

A Mk1 Renault Laguna in burgundy, in a field with rolling hills behind, at dawn

Continuing the 90s theme of our latest episode…

The year is 1996. Your fleet manager has given you the choice of these four beauties for your next company car.

Which one are you choosing?

We aim to please! 😂

🚨 OB10 OUT NOW 🚨

This week:

- Why 90s cars are the best cars

- Why the Citroën Xantia Activa sometimes falls over at traffic lights

- Kitch’s short car sales career (very short. He got fired)

Go! Listen now! linktr.ee/overborepod

Our latest podcast studio. What do you reckon?

Find out what it is - and whether it’s any good - on this week’s episode.

It’s the only way!

You’ll just have to drive back to Newcastle again!

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

We’re back! And this week we’re in a Chinese car, trying to work out whether it’s any good.

Also: all the cars we’ve bought, sold and test-driven during our two-week break. Wheeler Dealers, eat your heart out.

Listen or watch here! linktr.ee/overborepod

Lovely of you to say!

Scrof and Kitch pontificating in the back seat of a car, in darkness. Scrof is smiling while Kitch speaks, his finger held aloft to prove a point. Probably about old Citroens.

WE’RE BACK!

After our brief hiatus we’ve moved to publishing our new episodes on Friday mornings, because it felt right.

(It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we couldn’t get our act together in time to record for Thursday…)

OB9 drops at 10am this morning. See you then!

Please join me in sending all the love of the automotive community to Rich and his family at this difficult time. Obviously there will be no episode of Overbore this week, but we hope to be back to it next week. Thank you.

Tony’s passing as a result of cancer is a reminder to us all to get ourselves checked out if something doesn’t seem right. Don’t delay. And don’t be afraid of troubling the doctor about nothing. After all, it might not be. (That means you, too, blokes.)

Sadly I only met him a couple of times but his passion for the marque was clear and his knowledge encyclopaedic. More than that, he was a huge supporter of his kids’ and grandkids’ passion for cars and right at the heart of his family. He will be sorely missed.

Tony spent his life selling Fords during the company’s heyday in the UK, but he didn’t just sell them; he was passionate about them, and owned the truly lovely Sierra XR4i you see at the top of this thread.

Hi folks, it’s Scrof with some sad news. I’m sorry to report that Tony McLean, Kitch’s father in law and friend of the pod, passed away earlier this week. 🧵