This is it; this is the end! You've found the final episode of the Driven Chat Podcast. John Marcar, Amy Heynes and Miles Lacey bring you our very last production as The Driven Chat Podcast before relaunching with a new podcast in 2024. In this final episode, the team recaps some of the brilliant conversations that have taken place this year with highlight clips from conversations with:  Photographer - Nigel Harniman (episode 139) String Theory Garage - Ben Broke-Smith (episode 157) Porsche...

Maeving is a company causing a stir in the world of both motorcycles and EVs. What started as a small start-up in a London flat has evolved into a fully-fledged factory in Coventry, England, designing, building and exporting their motorcycles to riders around the globe. This week on the Podcast, John Marcar sits down with one of the company's co-founders, Seb Inglis-Jones, to learn about Maeving and to hear the story so far. To go alongside the conversation, John is also currently...

This week's guest on the Driven Chat Podcast, we are joined by a man with many talents and professions within the automotive industry. Over the past 25 years, Tim Hutton has worked in graphic design, events, publishing, journalism, and public relations for the Danish hypercar manufacturer Zenvo Automotive. Tim joins John Marcar for a formal catch-up to work through his varied career, from his humble beginnings close to the now iconic Goodwood Motor circuit in West Sussex to travelling the...

It's officially the beginning of the end of The Driven Chat Podcast, but fear not, avid podcast listeners and subscribers, there are a few more episodes to come. This week, John, Miles and Amy have a catch-up and work through some of the most recent news stories on driven.site Before delving into the news desk, Amy shares tales of an adventure to Scotland. Miles tells us about a recent surfing adventure with Dacia, and John is still trying to figure out the styling of the new BMW i7 he's been...

This week, our guest on the Driven Chat Podcast is James Cottingham, the managing director at the world-famous DK Engineering. Located just outside NW London, James and his team at DK Engineering strive to offer a comprehensive service for individuals wishing to buy, sell, restore, race, and store performance and specialist cars. In his own words, James summarises the company's ethos as one that offers 'the complete service'. In this conversation hosted by John Marcar and Miles Lacey, James...

How much do you spend on a typical McDonalds order? Are you concerned about receding hairlines? Can a racing driver take a 'sick day'? This week's podcast addresses hard-hitting topics like this and more. Tom Ingram is a much-loved driver competing in the British Touring Car Championship. In this week's podcast episode, Tom shares his incredible and humbling story, which details how he, as an excited child, spent many hours replaying touring car season highlights on a VHS cassette at home and...

Paul Cowland is a self-confessed classic car nut. He indulges in his passion with his very own collection of 79 cars (yes, you read that correctly - seventy-nine) but also through his work, which sees Paul presenting television shows such as Motor Pickers and Salvage Hunters. When not beside or in front of a camera, Paul is also a considerable influence in the work of automotive PR, assisting brands, manufacturers and companies in communicating with the world of consumers. Paul joins John...

Well, well, well, haven't we been busy? John, Amy and Miles bring you this week's episode with a catch-up and recap on recent events. Miles has been racing a Praga in Australia and driving a Rolls-Royce in New York, Amy has been winning awards and photographing a 1932 Le Mans-winning car in France, and John has been adventuring over an active volcano in the Canary Islands on a Ducati Desert X. We also discuss the new Gran Turismo film, the new Rolls-Royce Spectre and not one but two press...

Richard Tuthill is a man who, for many, needs no introduction at all - especially to those with an affliction to air-cooled Porsche 911s. From his workshops in Oxfordshire, Richard and his team of engineers build, prepare and restore Stuttgart’s most iconic sports cars on behalf of car collectors, rally competitors, racing drivers and enthusiasts. In this week’s podcast, Richard sits down with John Marcar and Miles Lacey to work through his broad career, his relationship with ADHD and the...

This week on the Podcast: John Marcar sits down with PR Guru Wayne Bruce. Wayne, affectionately known to many as ‘Man Bat’, is the Chief Communications and D&I Officer at Bentley Motors and is responsible for much of what we see, hear and experience from the Bentley brand alongside his team of colleagues.   Before taking the leading comms role at Bentley, Wayne has also been at the forefront of executive automotive PR with roles at VW, SEAT, Nissan, INFINITI and perhaps one of the most...

If we asked you to list ten people specialising in selling the most exciting road and racing cars, we'd suspect that Max Girardo would be on that list. Girardo and Co. is a name that has become synonymous with buying, selling, and storing (for a lucky few) some of the most notable cars. For this week's podcast episode, John Marcar and Miles Lacey visit Max at his home and business in Oxfordshire, where they have a full tour of the facilities before sitting down for a chat. Max's career has...

There's no denying it: whether we like it or not, the EV revelation is coming, and with lots of uncertainty, anxiety and questions needing to be answered, fortunately, GRIDSERVE is on hand to help. On this week's podcast episode, John Marcar heads to Norfolk to meet with Jon Quirk and Rob Buckland at GRIDSERVE's Norwich Electric Forecourt. Jon Quirk is the head of content at GRIDSERVE, helping bridge the gap between the questions and answers around EV ownership and usage. Rob Buckland is the...

Ian Flux is a celebrated racing driver and, more so, a celebrated character in the motorsport world. He is famous for having more than a few brilliant stories, which is fitting because he's just written a book. In this week's conversation with Miles Lacey and John Marcar, Ian shares just some of the hilarious, shocking and brutally honest stories that feature in his book... and a couple that don't! As a result, this podcast requires some listener discretion and is unsuitable for younger ears...

Henry Catchpole is a highly acclaimed and celebrated motoring journalist, writer and presenter who offers his expertise, honesty and genuine enthusiasm to magazine readers, video viewers and automotive media consumers worldwide. In this week's podcast, hosted by John Marcar and Miles Lacey, Henry shares the story of how he has become one of the most loved creative writers and motoring journalists in his field with frank accounts and examples of some of the many challenges that come with the...

The Driven Chat Podcast - The Sounds of Goodwood Revival 2023 Driven is delighted to bring you a feature-length podcast recorded at the 2023 Goodwood Revival Meeting. The Driven Chat Podcast has featured episodes from Goodwood since 2020, with the list of guests, interviews and atmospheric sounds growing year on year. John Marcar and Miles Lacey proudly host the Sounds of Goodwood Revival 2023 Podcast, and the list of guests is nothing short of remarkable. All conversations were captured...

Joe Achilles is a content creator, video producer and podcaster with a particular penchant for reporting the truth and sharing what he really thinks about the cars he drives. Joining us for the second time 2.5 years after his first appearance in March 2021, Joe updates John Marcar and Miles Lacey on his content-creating journey and shares the story of walking away from the day job to focus on growing his YouTube channel and following. In doing so, Joe shares a very open and honest account of...

This week on the Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey explore a question that car and driving enthusiasts have been pondering for the past ~20 years... "What about Hydrogen?" In this ever-changing automotive world, as we head towards the 2030 and 2035 I.C.E. ending deadlines, are we, as humanity, being foolish by putting all our eggs into one big electric basket? For this week's conversation, we're joined by Hugo Spowers, the man behind Riversimple Movement LTD - a company that produces and...

This week on the Podcast, John, Amy and Miles are in the studio together for a catch-up chat to find out what everyone has been up to for the past few weeks. John has been busy driving the Lotus Emira and a Dacia Sandero, and he's also been taking a brand new Ducati off-roading. Miles has strapped himself to a robot and had gone racing with some MG's, and Amy celebrates ten years of automotive photography by putting a motorcycle in her kitchen. Also, in this week's episode, we address several...

This week on The Driven Chat Podcast, Amy and John are joined for the second time by journalist, writer and automotive data analyst - John Mayhead. John, whilst writing a story about high-speed runs for an editorial piece, stumbled upon an interesting character named Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Thomas 'Goldie' Gardner. John discovered that Goldie was a man who not only set records but also had a pretty extensive and very interesting backstory. And so, the idea of writing the book was born. In...

This week on the Podcast, Amy and John are joined in the Driven Studio by the very excellent Charlotte 'Charlie' Vowden. Charlotte joins Amy and John this week to share the details of her new TV Show, The Repair Lot, which is available to watch on Dave or catch up on UKTV Play. Before sharing the details of her new venture, Charlotte shares her fascinating backstory, which has led her to fronting an automotive TV show with some 'interesting' events as a junior in editorial roles for prominent...

This week on the Podcast, Amy, Miles, and John assemble in the podcast studio for the first time as a trio since 2021 - yes, really. It's been a busy month for the Driven team with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the delivery of a Honda Civic Type R, a week with BMW driving the new range of M cars, and so much more. Amy, Miles and John catch up to share their stories and adventures with plenty of unexpected anecdotes, tangents and general confusion. The Driven Chat podcast is brought to you...

This week on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Heynes are joined by motorcycle athlete Ivan Cervantes, who has a substantial list of accolades. 5x Motorcycle Enduro World Champion5x National Motorcross Champion21x National Enduro Champion Ivan joins us this week to share the story of his most recent achievement on two wheels, breaking the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for 'The greatest distance on a motorcycle in 24 hours (individual)'. Ivan's record involved riding a Triumph Tiger 1200...

This week's episode of The Driven Chat Podcast is part 2 of John Marcar's conversation with Simon Lord, the founder of Redux. Part 2 of the conversation features the story about the final product, the car and the reason it comes with the eyebrow-raising price tag of £330,000! To learn more about REDUX, follow @reduxleichtbau and visit www.reduxleichtbau.com The Driven Chat podcast is brought to you by Paramex Digital. It is available to stream on all the usual podcast platforms, including...

The E30 M3 road car set the benchmark for performance saloon cars since its release in 1986. It is a car that exists primarily thanks to motorsport homologation rules for the DTM series in the 1980s. But thanks to its unique styling, sensational power-to-weight ratio and practicalities of being an everyday car, the E30 M3 set the trend for BMW and other marques and still does to this day as the ultimate performance saloon. Fast forward 30 years, and Army Officer Simon Lord decided the Humble...