Chris and Marty both watch the original 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds film for the first time, and are surprised to find that no-one is annoying in the original as Kip Raines is in the remake. Also, we talk Clarkson doing farming, Henry Catchpole drives a Golf, and a man watches every Fast and Furious film. But first, Chris has watched Clarkson's Farm and loves it, and Tim Jonze watched the entire Fast and Furious franchise for The Guardian . For the main review, both Chris and Marty watched the origi...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 41
In a step away from our usual format, Chris and Marty talk about motorsport TV, including what drives them mad about IndyCar coverage, why Monaco was the best Formula E race to date, and why Marty worries about whether Anthony Davidson can pay his mortgage. But first, we discuss the great Car Trek Season 4 and Hagerty reports a screen used, Paul Walker-driven orange Toyota Supra from the first two Fast and the Furious films is going under the hammer . For their YouTube picks, Marty went with Ale...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 40
In this episode, Chris and Marty get geeky about Formula 1 with a deep dive into the latest season of Netflix's Drive to Survive, plus reviews of both 1966's Grand Prix and 2013's F1: Life on the Limit. But first, Fast 9 is gearing up for release with a rather silly trailer , Motortrend TV is closing outside the US and becoming part of Discovery+ (and you can get 12 months subscription to Discovery+ free in the UK with Sky VIP ), and we give our thoughts on season 3 of the Netflix hit Drive to S...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 39
Cartoon connections link this episode's movies as Chris watches The Great Race (which inspired Wacky Races) and Marty watches the The Wachowski Brothers' 2008 movie Speed Racer, based on the 1960s anime. But first, we lament the loss of the great Murray Walker - and thanks to F1 for a great compilation of some of his greatest moments - and Sabine Schmitz. It would be utterly remiss of us to not include one of Sabine's most electric opening laps . Thanks to Ed Bolian from VINWiki for recording a ...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 38
In honour of the new series of Top Gear America, hosted by Dax Shepard with Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon, Chris and Marty watch a double bill of Dax movies with Hit and Run and CHiPs. In other news, Marty drinks some whisky and Chris wants to be a racing driver. But first, Drive to Survive Season 3 has been announced to arrive on Netflix on March 19th. The Australian V8 series have also added a lot of old races to their YouTube channel. Chris and Marty also review Top Gear America , now stre...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 37
It's all about superchargers this episode as Marty watches the original Mad Max and Chris brushes up on his Norwegian for Asphalt Burning. Also we look at the great content released over Christmas and we discuss overheating i8s. First though we review Evo Car of the Year coming to ITV in the UK (and now on YouTube), and the Car Trek Christmas Special came out - and we issued a $100 charity challenge to Ed Bolian . Sky Documentaries released Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie (with discovered footage ...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 36
On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to motoring journalist and presenting Henry Catchpole about his start at Evo magazine, the state of WRC coverage, how a Carfection video is put together and how cycling videos have influenced his car content. During this chat, Henry shares his love for Brandon Semenuk's Raw 100 series , the films of Danny MacAskill , Martyn Ashton , and Chris Akrigg's latest e-bike film Full Force . Henry also highlights the excellent YouTube ...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 35
In this episode we look for the best Top Gear episodes to introduce friends who've never seen a single show, we question Dario Franchitti's t-shirt style and marvel at Michael Fassbender's low body fat. But first, we discuss The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt , and we very much enjoyed the final episode of Michael Fassbender's Road to Le Mans series with Porsche . We look at content coming out this Christmas: Evo Car Of The Year comes to ITV 4 in the uk! There's a Car Trek Christmas special...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 34
The Fast & Furious marathon concludes as Chris and Marty take on the biggest and silliest movies of the Fast franchise so far, Furious 7 and Fate of the Furious, where cars jump through buildings, baddies hack into nuclear submarines and none of this matters because Kurt Russell! In other news, Porsche's excellent Road to Le Mans series continues and we get excited by A Massive Hunt. Michael Fassbender's Road to Le Mans continues, and we think it's one of the best documentary series we've se...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 33
The Fast & Furious marathon continues as Chris and Marty dig into Fast Five and Fast 6, where the vehicular mayhem takes on a whole different level of crazy and Vin Diesel's voice disappears into the realms of sub-bass and frequencies only whales can hear. The nominations for the Motor Film Awards 2020 are up, and it's well worth taking a look at their show reel! The BBC reports that Justin Lin will wrap up the Fast and Furious with 10 and 11 . Michael Fassbender's racing journey continuing ...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 32
For this episode, Chris and Marty continue their Fast and Furious retrospective series. Chris looks at the often forgotten fourth film that saved the franchise, Fast & Furious, while Marty is in JDM heaven with Tokyo Drift. First of all, Chris gives his impressions on Long Way Up on Apple TV+ and Race to Perfection from Sky F1/Documentaries now we're a few episodes into both. Chris and Marty are also both thrilled that Car Trek Season 2 is here! Tyler Hoovie has also hinted that season 3 is ...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 31
In this episode, Chris and Marty go back to the early 2000s for the first part of our Fast and Furious retrospective series. Chris looks at where it all began with The Fast and the Furious, while Marty says rude things about the sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious. In other news, it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning. We follow up on the new documentary featuring Sir Stirling Moss on the development of the disc brake called The Racers That Stopped the World . It's now availab...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 30
In this episode, Chris and Marty review two very different documentaries about two very famous names: DeLorean and Ferrari. Chris looks at Framing John DeLorean while Marty goes back to the 1950s (without the aid of Doc Brown's DeLorean, sadly) to watch Ferrari: Race to Immortality. Al Clark has announced a new documentary featuring Sir Stirling Moss on the development of the disc brake called The Racers That Stopped the World . It's more interesting than it sounds, we promise! Having filmed it ...
Aug 04, 2020•56 min•Ep. 29
Chris and Marty pick through a lockdown list from film critic, journalist and flappy-handed inspiration for this podcast, Mark Kermode , to review two bona fide movie classics: American Graffiti and Bullitt. The 30th anniversary of Days of Thunder led ESPN to look back on the legacy that changed both action movies and NASCAR . We were also tipped off to a thread on Twitter with some fantastic behind the scenes details. Having been a Channel 4 exclusive, the Formula E documentary And We Go Green ...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 28
Chris and Marty are off to Le Sarthe in June as they review two Le Mans documentaries, Journey to Le Mans and Truth in 24. In other news, we discuss the virtual Le Mans 24H and invite a special guest onto the show to review Ferrari's Le Grand Rendez-Vous film. First up though, Chris and Marty are joined by Matt Lange to discuss Ferrari's new film Le Grand Rendez-Vous , filmed in a deserted Monaco. There are also official behind the scenes Ferrari articles and video to see what went into the maki...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 27
On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to Jay Ward, Pixar's Head of Franchise, and the man who oversees everything that happens in the Cars universe. We discuss his path to Pixar, what goes into making a Cars character, his love of F1, and what happens when the Cars universe meets the real world! In this episode, Jay recommends the Petersen Museum YouTube channel , where Jay also did an interview with them , and you can see some of his die-cast collection. You can ...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 26
In this episode, we review documentaries about amateurs being racing drivers in their spare time. Plus, we discuss how F1 will return to our screens and when an Eleanor meets a legal challenge... The B is for Build YouTube channel has hit a problem where a backdated Mustang was being converted into an Eleanor replica from Gone in 60 seconds. However, a legal challenge from the copyright owner has seen the car seized and videos removed . F1 have announced plans to race, with Ted's Notebook giving...
Jun 08, 2020•59 min•Ep. 25
In this episode, Chris and Marty talk about two movies featuring Killer Trucks, Chris Harris's hair, whisky, and Fast & Furious rankings. In the last episode we discussed an article by Marshall Pruett on Driven. Now Birth Movies Death has also done a feature on Driven as the forgotten Stallone film . In the UK, TV production has resumed with social distancing measures in place , including actors doing their own hair and makeup! Chris Harris asked for some tips on Twitter, while also showing ...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 24
On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to F1 presenter, journalist and author Will Buxton about how to get the F1 gossip, turning up in the F1 paddock for the first time, and his love for all things Stanley Kubrick! During this episode we talking about a Vimeo channel called Filmumentaries . You can follow Will on the following: Twitter: @wbuxtonofficial Instagram: @wbuxtonofficial You can get in touch with us via the following channels: Twitter: @AutomoviePod Face...
May 19, 2020•48 min•Ep. 23
In this episode, Chris and Marty talk about the movies featuring the Greatest and possibly the Greatest Underdog. Elsewhere, they discuss the a proper barn find and revisit one of the worst racing films ever. In the last episode we discussed a movie list from Mark Kermode but we mixed up our 'Crash'es. As an act of penance, please go and check out the Secrets of Cinema series on iPlayer. There is a great, if short, story of the 'Thorndyke Special' from The Love Bug as actually discovered in a ba...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 22
On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to producer and CEO of Tangent Vector, JF Musial about getting into content making, the formation of /DRIVE and moving into longer films with APEX. During this episode we talking about Chris Harris driving a McLaren P1 around Yas Marina , and JF recommends Clickspring as the somewhat different YouTube channel he loves. You can follow JF on the following: Twitter: @jfmusial Instagram: @jfmusial Or via APEX.one or tangentvector....
May 06, 2020•55 min•Ep. 21
In this episode, Chris and Marty talk about the movies they show their kids, including Pixar's Cars and Disney's The Love Bug. Elsewhere, they discuss the merits of online racing and get lost in a 911 tangent. Mark Kermode has produced a great, interesting list of car films to watch . New on Motortrend is Hard Cell with Tom Ford, looking at all things EV. A free trial of MotorTrend TV is available. For this episode we're looking at kids movies, with Martin talking all things Cars , while Chris r...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 20
On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to automotive film director, producer and cinematographer Al Clark about how he got started making films about cars, his favourite movie car and some of the lesser-known tricks of the trade in the automotive film world. During this episode we talk about the behind the scenes film he's released about filming the Bugatti Chiron doing 0-400Km/h runs. You can watch the film here. We also talk about the International Motor Film Awa...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 19
In this episode, Chris and Martin argue about the relative merits of the two Italian Job movies, and discuss lots of car content on YouTube. Tim Hutton from Private Motor Club Magazine to share some of his experiences working on the Gumball Rally. He sometimes posts photos from him time on the rally on his Instagram page too which is well worth checking out. They are also currently running an IndieGoGo crowd funding effort to support the magazine, which is well worth a few of your quid if you li...
Apr 11, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 18
We chat to the chief content officer, presenter and producer of The Drive, Mike Spinelli. In the interview we talk about his fandom of the Regular Cars YouTube channel . You can follow Mike through TheDrive and his Twitter - @mikespin . If you want to get in touch and tell us if we’re right, wrong or to share something we should be looking at, we can be reached on the following: Twitter: @AutomoviePod Facebook: AutomoviePodcast Email: [email protected]...
Mar 30, 2020•58 min•Ep. 17
Tonight! Chris washes his hands, Marty stays an acceptable distance away from his neighbours during his government-mandated exercise trip outside, and we all drink heavily while watching TV. Welcome to the Automovie Podcast, Quarantine Special! Car Trek Car Trek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dom6bmnd_Dc) YouTubers do Top Gear. We absolutely needed this right now. Featuring: Ed Bolian from VINWiki: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefl-5pmhZmljwZTE2KrcdA Tyler Hoover from Hoovies Garage: https...
Mar 26, 2020•46 min•Ep. 16
In this first episode of our new occasional Intermission interview series on the Automovie Podcast, Chris talks to Nürburgring YouTube icon and Rimac Automobili Digital Content Coordinator Misha Charoudin. In the interview we talk about his crash during VLN 5 2019 and you can view his vlog on that event here . You can follow Misha through his YouTube Channel and his Instagram @mgcharoudin . If you want to get in touch and tell us if we’re right, wrong or to share something we should be looking a...
Mar 12, 2020•53 min•Ep. 15
In this episode Marty and Chris compare two films where one inspired the other; The Gumball Rally (1976) and Gumball 3000: The Movie . But first, we celebrate the Oscar success of Ford vs Ferrari , with insight into the VFX process and the difference between sound editing and mixing . Motorsport.tv have released Heroes , Chris gives his opinion both on the network and Heroes. An Eleanor hero car from Gone in 60 Seconds has been sold and already listed for sale . In researching this, Chris turned...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 14
In this episode Marty and Chris change things up a little and have a lengthy discussion where they argue for and against Gone in 60 Seconds (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187078/), as well as rounding up the upcoming releases and Super Bowl car adverts. But first, one of our listeners put together a great YouTube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLV0bDGUCMljRjqOyRE60HaHzvHksboec) of all of the videos and trailers that we've talked about in previous episodes. Our thanks to you, Se...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 13
In this episode, sights are set away from Hollywood as Chris and Martin approach films not in the English language. For Martin the classic French car movie Taxi, while Chris dives into the world of Initial-D. But first, Ford vs Ferrari is in the news yet again with BAFTA nominations for cinematography, editing and sound AND OSCAR NOMS OMG for Best Pic, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing! F1 TV have released a new documentary series, F2: Chasing the Dream, a multi-part do...
Jan 29, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 12
