Author: Andy Cooper

Andy is the founding member of RMS, and when he's not following motoring events around the UK and Ireland he can be found on the track (sideways, having competed in top level drifting for a decade), or of course he'll be on the forum.

Our guest on episode 34 is none other than Dubshed show organiser, and Reload Podcast presenter, Nigel Lamont. We hear about what’s coming in Dubshed 2024, the Supercar weekend, and what endears us to brands or cars for life. Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold as Seen Podcast Show Notes Dubshed returns to Eikon on 6th and 7th April 2024 – see https://gtini.com Reload Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/40Gyko1Z3jcNydX9G2KnhD Nigel’s Golf Mk7 Clubsport

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Is the BMW I5 M60 worth north of £100k? Or a 520d over 50k? What are your rituals just before you start driving (and some climate control madness). And what’s just the right amount of power? All in this episode of the Sold as Seen Podcast, with Andy Cooper from RMS Motoring, with Gary Reilly and Ross Annett. Oh, and Gary wins yet another (well deserved) watch from Evo! Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold as Seen Podcast  Harry’s Not Best Pleased…

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In episode 32 of the Sold as Seen Podcast, the last of 2023, we talk Tesla Cybertruck, cheap L405 Range Rovers, Potholes and an irregular insurance background check. You can see the black cybertruck here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyrTLYyIvNI Ken Block appears on our screens for a final time a the Hoonitron is released on Mexico City in footage that was filmed before his untimely passing. https://youtu.be/U4FAqwkn-pc Is the L405 Range Rover the ultimate Chelsea Tractor bargain, or bankruptcy in waiting?Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold…

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The NEC Classic is a special thing. Nowhere else will you see over 3000 cars, under one roof, bridging the entire automotive spectrum, from a pre-war era Austin-7 to an eighth generation right hand drive Chevy Corvette from this year. A broad church, in fact cathedral wouldn’t cut it. More like an automotive territory, with British Leyland flags, perhaps with Mike Brewers face emblazoned. Where else would you see Sinclair C5s or a trio of Twingos. The NEC Classic’s attraction poses fundamental issues. With so much to see and so many visitors (a shade over 70 thousand across the gates…

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In the latest episode of the Sold as Seen Podcast, Andy and Gary are at the NEC Classic Car Show in Birmingham. With well over 3,000 cars on show, and 70,000 people through the door in a two millions square foot indoor venue, you need a full weekend to see as much as possible.  Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold as Seen Podcast One of our personal favourites of the show, this Monte Carlo Escort RS Turbo. To see our full coverage…

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Resident entrepreneur Ross shares a novel approach to dealing with tinted glass. Andy talks Walter Isaacson’s Musk bio, and Gary tells us about the crushing disappointment that was the ST185 Celica GT4. The lots for the auction at this year’s classic car show at the NEC The Classic Motor Show at the NEC Website RMS Coverage of the Titanic Dubs Show Whatever Happened to the stunning, but very much USDM designed Honda NSX. Gary’s Celica GT4, K151 XHA, in the mid 2000s: And its replacement, the much improved ST205 Toyota Celica GT4. The MG Cyberster Listen On: Spotify | Apple…

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In the last decade, if you’ve affixed a sticker to your rear window for a beloved car club, or witnessed a liveried rally car on the stages, chances are (in Northern Ireland at least), that the vinyl was cut and supplied by Blackwater Graphics. Clearly very close to the motoring and motorsport community, Andrew Johnston and his team held a barbeque meet at their freshly purpose built premises just outside Comber, in support of suicide awareness charity, Aware NI. Needless to say support for the event reached far and wide, with local competition cars and race cars making an appearance,…

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Supercars from all over Northern Ireland descended on Bishopscourt circuit as part of an annual fundraiser for the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance, the Supercar Extravaganza. This is a special event for a number of reasons. For many supercars and their owners, it’s the only track event they would take part in, and its clear there was some exclusive machinery brought out for the occasion. And also, the circuit itself in County Down has a restricted calendar of dates normally reserved for motorcycle events, so even for track day regulars its a real treat. And that’s all as a driver, as…

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After a short summer holiday hiatus, we return to discuss the new Caterham Project V (pictured), Andy laments missing this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and we talk the Air Ambulance Supercar event coming this weekend. https://airambulanceni.org/supercar-extravaganza/ Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold as Seen Podcast 

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In our latest episode, is the limited edition Mk8 Golf-R 333 worth £65k, we discuss Andy’s Yaris replacement, the Tesla Model S Plaid and Your Questions Answered.  Listen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Acast | RSS Feed or just ask Siri or Alexa to Play Sold as Seen Podcast Mk8 Golf-R 333 https://youtu.be/EmuByrN_5qI

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Time flies when you’re having GR Yaris levels of fun. The two years that this diminutive Toyota has been under my stewardship have flown in, the GR being the pandemic baby that distracted from a wholly disruptive time for us all. I still absolutely adore it, and it being a last hurrah of the piston engine era, we are unlikely to see anything like it again. That jacked-up-on-steriods profile, carbon roof, forged wheels, big brakes. The plucky wee Yaris is as serious as it gets for a homologation special road car. Yes its not an Evo 6 RS on steel…

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