Just Going For A Drive

THREE new cars have entered the Just Going For A Drive-O-Verse. And the most exciting one isn't a Ferrari. In fact, the Fizzy Fezza might not even be the second-most exciting car announced on this After Dark Edition of your fourth-favourite driving podcast. Nick and Sam spend exactly no time apologising for the hiatus, because this very special edition finally launches a dream which has been taxii...

You ever have those dreams where a spider jumps at you from the sun-visor and you scream and scream and scream and cause so much carnage that your neighbours' insurance premiums go up? Yes? With a chortling insurance lady? Right? Just me? Join Nick and a surprisingly high-voiced Sam as they talk surprises, how to 'nuke it from orbit', and what it was, and is like to have your P-plates at last. Plu...

The show that started it all for so, so many people. The hosts, the cars, the stories and, yes, the legends , that made you feel like you were one of the gang, there for the ride, and in on the joke. That's right, people: Just Going For A Drive is BACK! And we are kicking off Season 4 with a classic misdirect episode description which also ties us straight to the enigma of Top Gear. We don't even...

WHAT are these people doing? They've carefully (SO carefully) stowed their shopping, tucked little Baby On Board into the cryocapsule, turned the car on, and put it in reverse. Now they're not moving. Those white lights tell the world that they're ready to back over some slow-moving fellow shoppers, but nothing is happening. YOU have been blocking up Xmas car park traffic for seven straight minute...

DO YOU SMELL THAT? DO. YOU. SMELL THAT?? That, my friends, is the odour of victory. Just as the winners write the history books, so do they hang little pine trees (or scented rappers' faces) around the rearview mirrors of the cars made by the losers. Because those losers of wars build some amazing cars. And those cars start to, you know, take on a bit of their own distinctive musk. Nothing pungent...

It's been a while since something like this has happened - I swear! Normally, we just go for a quickie to fill in the need and make a big effort later on when bloody work isn't so busy, and we all know what that's like, right? Talking about podcasting here. Trying the clever little switcharoo to cover up for a particularly dry dry-spell, and we are certainly not above including the word "sex" in t...

Oh boy! Is that a brand new V12 supercar?? No, actually, that one is a render trawling for people who respond to the words "manual twelve cylinder" with drool and seven-figure deposit cheques. Which would be your old pals, Nick and Sam. If we used cheques. Which is the only restriction. How about THAT? Is that a real V12 supercar? Yes. Yes, and the boys are back after a long, sad winter hiatus to...

It's shopping time! Come, lose a finger squeezing under the slowly ascending roller door with Nick and Sam as they charge into car marketplaces of the world. We get a little too intimate comparing the Carsales app to Tindr, but we aren't far off the mark. Swipe. Low ball. Bid. It's all pretty similar, right? We reminisce about the ones that got away, and the ones where we almost risked it all. And...

Most beautiful car ever made? One question, two answers. The first won't surprise you, the second will make you thump your steering wheel rage. To give themselves something to do in the lazy hiatus (which seems to be a bit of a theme this year), Nick and Sam pondered what the most beautiful car ever made was according to a) everyone, and b) no one but ourselves. What drab piece of automotive histo...

Okay. Right, um. So, yep, seatbelt, keys in the ignition - don't turn them yet! No, so. Okay, foot on brake. Middle one. Wait, left one, I guess. NOW turn the keys, okay, STOP turning them! Engine is on! Now, uhm, right. Put it in 'D', handbrake off, indicate, check mirrors, okay wait, adjust your mirrors. Bugger. Forgot about that one. Okay, still indicating, now release brake and move off slowl-...

There were Hondas, there were Toyotas, there were Nissans, there were probably Subarus and Isuzus and Daihatsus and even the odd Mazda. There were high ones, low ones, ones that went even lower than that, and then a couple which were deffo lowered, but not on purpose, because these things tend to be pretty homemade. But the one thing that was definitely there was love. And a yakitori stand that to...

Friends! Drivers! Patient Passengers! Lend us your ears. And your favourite memories of the Honda Motor Corporation. Nothing says confidence in a car company like sending their new F1 drivers off to work in a 30-year-old NSX (hilariously covered in Season 1, Ep. 7) just after deciding not to go dancing with Nissan. But we digress. Which we also do a lot of in this latest episode. Get your fill (pr...

They said we'd never make it. They said we'd never get this far. They ... said that we smell like butts. They were wrong. Mostly. Two out of three. Because Nick and Sam (and their butts) are BACK. Yes, we are doing the year per season thing, and dumping the clutch with a tyre-smoking big bumper episode - now with extra puns! Come with us as we relive Culture Day #3 and how we almost almost drove a...

Lo, let the confetti cannons of depreciation thunder across the bonnets of departing four-door European sedans as they glide from the dealership floor. May their astronomical prices melt through their first-owner's fingers like so much truffled butter. And! Let us scroungers of the streets, gather up those princely conveyances, swathed in the leather of only the most endangered creatures, powered...

Legions of JGFADs! Welcome to a sizzling episode not to be missed. Because, even though we promised no more talk of the controversial Ferrari CX-30 sorry Purosangue, Nick has finally solved the puzzle. And it's not some tedious one-eyed whinging about how sports car makers shouldn't build SUVs - what is this? Porsche Cayenne, Season 1? The one where everyone who doesn't want a 911 suddenly has opi...

Come in. Sit down. Not there. That chair is broken. So's that one. If fact, why not stand? Yes, let's all stand and admire this very, very cheap Ferrari and wonder how we even got here. From normal, mortgage-having, bill-paying, respect-mostly-commanding human beings, into nearly destitute, futon-sleeping, tea bag-reusing Ferrari owners. That's right. Ferrari owners. The prancing horse, the great...

Welcome to ... The Unintentionally Long Update Hiatus Apology Podcast Write-Up! This TULUHAPWU has it ALL: excuses (SO busy lately!), diverting stories which fail not to be more excuses (Sam went to China! Not for the pod so ...),thinly veiled blame (Nick apparently had a thing), obvious lies about future updates (because we'll be podding twice a week from now on!), poorly judged passive aggressiv...

On this luxurious episode, Nick and Sam wonder what the poor are doing. That is: they would wonder what the poor are doing if there were any to be found in our very special Car of The Week. Your favourite Auto Maniacs carve out some very special time to push their fingers through lambs wool so soft and thick, it immediately makes them forget about the most eyeball-peeling acceleration either has e...

Settle in, listeners. This is the episode about the Little Cars That Could. Sort of like this podcast, really. Nick and Sam bring you glad, glad tidings of a new miracle in this world: a brand new, V10-engined boom stick. We count the ways why the vivacious V10 brings happiness to the world. Reason number one: the noise. Oh, that juicy, juicy noise. Reason number two: you don’t own one and never h...

It finally happened. The driving event that has haunted the imaginations and even dreams of every car enthusiast and beyond: a boom gate gave someone the ol' chop-chop. Nick and Sam can't wait to bring you this absolutely true story. Also, there's a new Bugatti out, it's got a V16 engine, might be the new standard for The Last Age of Combustion Engines blah blah blah etc. But you have GOT to hear...

It's time to zone out, turn off your brain, and receive a call from your loved ones while piloting a two-tonne kill-machine through a blank space in your memory that you'll never get back. That's right: it's another whacky mind massage from the Just Going For A Drive lads! We take you back through history with the power and the passion of phones in cars, reminisce about those big, Big, BIG numbers...

On this BUMPER episode (yes, we're that good), Nick and Sam return with a vengeance to tell the Truth About Red Lights like it is and probably isn't. We've certainly had the chance to think about it, stuck at the same crossing, for no reason, for a mathematically impossible number of times. You'll hear all the latest about The New Porsches, The New Bugatti and most thrillingly the time our odomete...

Just like school parents from side-streets at 3:28pm, the episodes are coming at you thick and fast, and stupid! Nick and Sam leap back onto the recording couch (it's more of a chaise, but we don't want to sound pretentious Siri edit that last bit out I don't want to sound pretentious) for another hot hour dissecting 2024's latest terrible driving move. We've even given it a name that potentially...

Once again, Nick has talked his way behind the wheel of a premium automobile, and is ready to share his impressions, his tips, and his definite plans to probably maybe start to consider possibly finding out if he might be keen to look into purchase options in the future. Just Going For A Drive is BACK with a beaver-teeth-to-quad-pipe review of the mighty, terrifying BMW M4. Six twin-turbo-charged...

Coming at you from beautiful Downtown Glenelg, Sam and Nick drop their hot takes on the very best that Adelaide's booming car scene has to offer. We feature all the All Japan Day car meet has to offer and more, recorded from the Just Going For A Drive Mobile itself: Sam's Nissan! Meet our surprise special guests, who were surprised to have a microphone jammed in their face from a Good+ quality JDM...