Car-Chum

Car-Chum

Two chums; one podcast. An automotive journalist and a radio presenter with a shared mono-maniacal interest; surely this should be good. Surely.

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July 31, 2025 27 mins

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One in, one out:  that's Car-Chum's new mantra.  Not Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, obvs - rules!  Make a new one; get rid of an old one.  And please, please, please make sense of Road Tax and City Emissions rules; they're both madly complex and self-defeating.  

If you read that, you just saved yourself 27 minutes of listening.

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In this episode, the Car-Chums offer you the chance to experience the decade in realtime with them.  Find out all about hand-cranking, ghosts and vixens.  It’s a jam-packed, fun-filled frolic through the decade that gave us the Model T and an hour of Car-Chum. 

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Give Car-Chum twenty minutes of your time and it will give you the collective noun for a group of Woodlice.  Add to that, some design language, no bad language and some learned discourse and you have this fortnight's quickie catchup with the Chums.  We call it Car-Chum's Car-Share.

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May 22, 2025 48 mins

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Do you love cars?  And do you love the thought of Etymology?  Great!  You've come to the right place.  Tony and his Car-Chum Mike - noted car writer and something else - take a deep and intellectual dive into the world of car naming.  

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May 8, 2025 27 mins

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Do you like exhausts?  Do you like listening to two people talk about exhausts?  If that sounds like you, join Tony and his Car-Chum, car-journalist, Mike as they talk about...exhausts.

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April 28, 2025 19 mins

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The title I've carefully crafted there says enough, I think.  Join me, Tony, with my Car-Chum and auto-author, Mike for this fortnight's CarShare quickie.  

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April 10, 2025 61 mins

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If History Lesson 1 wasn’t enough…  Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, take a meander back through pioneering times just after the turn of the century.  Who knew they had hybrids and four-wheel steering then?

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March 27, 2025 20 mins

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Who knew Alignment could be so interesting and so much fun.  Listen to this and find the answer.  Tony and his auto-author Car-Chum, Mike, talk Toe in this fortnight's quickie Car Share update.

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March 13, 2025 49 mins

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Recorded in 2024, this episode sat abandoned at Car-Chum Studio Park and Resort...until now.  With the passing of Gene Hackman, the content took on a some sense of purpose, so I dug it out and gave it the briefest of polishes.  It's a bit raw, but timing is everything.  Tony - that's me - is joined by his Car-Chum and auto-author Mike Renaut.  Mike takes his research seriously and watched The French Co...

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February 26, 2025 22 mins

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Tony’s been to the F1 Experience and his Car-Chum, Mike, has had an experience.  In a gutter.  On the plus side, he got a badge for doing it.

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February 12, 2025 34 mins

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Tony has totally lost confidence in whether this is actually the 100th episode.  And his Car-Chum, Mike, has no idea either.  Regardless, the chums treat it with all the reverence you would expect.  

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January 29, 2025 15 mins

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Grab a Slushie and listen to this old slush about slush.  But wait, there's more!  A broken Jimny Dipstick and...well, there must be more.  Surely.  

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January 15, 2025 52 mins

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It's cold outside, so what could be more appropriate than Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, delving into ICE?  Oh!  Hang on.  In Car Entertainment.  Kind of like Car-Chum itself: entertainment in your car.  Enough!  Get on with it!

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January 1, 2025 25 mins

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In this edition of Car-Chum's Car Share Tony muses on why his driveway is populated by dead brands and Mike drops the mic by saying he wants to go two-wheelin'.

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December 18, 2024 22 mins

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How very festive?  Not.  In this edition of Car-Chum's Car Share, Tony and his Car-Chum Mike deliberate the future sales aspirations of niche brands like Genesis.  They also discover differences in their willingness to compromise on functioning features.  Happy Christmas.

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December 4, 2024 59 mins

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A rip-snorting 12-part blast through the history of the automobile.  Decade by decade, the Car-Chums pick their choice moments of development, innovation and dead ends. Tony and his automotive journalist chum Mike also tell their personal tales from behind the wheel (or tiller) and choose a standout product from each period.   

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November 20, 2024 17 mins

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Car-Chum host Tony goes Polestar shopping in Battersea and his car chum Mike wrestles with a forty year old knob in his BMW.  The usual fayre.

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November 8, 2024 46 mins

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Car-Chum took to the stage live at the NEC Classic Motor Show 2024.  Join Tony and his Car-Chum Mike in the Podcast Lounge.  They're joined by award winning author Simon Charlesworth for a ramble around motor shows past and present.

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October 24, 2024 17 mins

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Should a round-the-world Maestro be left in peace asks Car-Chum host Tony?  And should a Porsche Boxter be taken to pieces wonders his Car-Chum Mike?

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October 15, 2024 8 mins

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As per the title!  Car-Chum is off to Birmingham again in November...but this time we're on stage.  (Quick:  think of something interesting to say.)

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