ZA Car Show: Episode 2

Posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm by admin and filed under Podcast Episodes.

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Part Deux is recorded sans the only intelligent sounding guy on the panel, Patrick Gearing, but his position is ably taken up by ZA Tech Show regular Duncan McLeod from the Financial Mail.

Under discussion in this episode:

  • Hummer driving sales by advertising fuel economy.
  • The small engine big car strategy we talk VW’s 1.4TSI – turbo and supercharged – engine.
  • Forced induction; good idea or high maintenance costs.
  • Turbo cars in motor sport – killing the game?
  • The Audi Q7 4.2, Christo gives us his impressions.
  • Our advice on SUV purchases.
  • WiFi, lane wandering alerts and cool or useless technology soon to be built into cars.
  • We give the Department of Transport some advice on how to alleviate traffic on South Africa’s national highways.
  • Duncan brings up the Fiat 500 again.
  • The tame racing driver lusts after a Chana Star Bakkie after Nissan pulls the plug on the Champ.
  • We all lust after RenaultSport models speaking about the launch of the R26 and R27.
  • Tuck again reveals strange fetishes for minivans while we talk about the Mazda CX7, Renault Espace and Mazda 5.

And more…

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3 Comments so far

Comment by mitch, posted on September 5th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Hi guys
Well done – a gr8 show!
At last we have a local motoring podcast.

One small observation is the bad sound quality.
I listen to the ZA Techshow every week and this podcast seems to be noticably inferior in this regard.

Are you looking to improve this or is this done on purpose to keep the file size down?

regards
Mitch

Comment by Trevor van de Ven, posted on September 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Hi Mitch

We are still finding our feet with regard to the levels, but all will be sorted soon. It’s a hardware issue too which we have plans for fixing.

Hopefully the content is decent enough to keep you hooked, but rest assured that we are doing all we can to make it the best compromise between quality and file size.

Comment by Christo, posted on September 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Hi Mitch,

Sorry about the sound quality. We are having a few issues, but they should be resolved shortly with the arrival of new recording kit, along with some honing of my sound-editing skills!

Thanks for the feedback, and we hope future shows interest you as much as this one did, or more!

Drive safe,
Christo van Gemert

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