It's the last episode of Season 1, and the team has been very busy driving on all sides of the globe. Amy has been battling the mean streets of Greece in a Porsche 911. Miles has been battling the mean streets of Australia in a Porsche 911, and John has been battling the mean streets of Italy in a... Fiat Panda In addition to the very unbalanced driving comparisons, John has once again fallen in love with our Land Rover Defender thanks to some steel wheels and Falken Tyres and is trying to...

This week, on The Driven Podcast, we have a special catch-up episode with a stand-in. Niki Faulkner from Driving Wizards joins John Marcar and Miles Lacey to discuss recent automotive news, have some motorsport chat, and most excitingly, announce a possible new podcast that might be heading your way in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned for more details! In the episode, Niki, John, and Miles discuss recent events and adventures and also work through some recent news stories, such as the...

This week on The Driven Podcast, John Marcar obsesses over a very special racing car. The car in question is the 1992 winner of the Spa 24 Hours, The BMW Fina BASTOS M3, which the equally legendary Steve Soper drove. Steve Soper is this week's guest alongside ex-business partner turned co-racing driver Toby Partridge to discuss the return and rebirth of such a special car. Steve, Toby, and John Marcar discuss the story behind the car, the iconic race that Steve won in 1992, and the plans for...

This week, on the Driven Podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey visit CALLUM in Warwick and meet car design royalty Ian Callum CBE and Aleck Jones. Ian Callum is likely to be a name that needs no introduction thanks to his frankly marvellous portfolio of car designs, including the Ford Puma, Aston Martin DB7, Aston Martin Vanquish, Jaguar F-Type, Jaguar iPace, and the Nissan R390 Le Mans Car (to mention just a tiny handful!). Aleck Jones is the head of design for CALLUM working directly with...

This week, it's all about the bikes (but not exclusively!), as Amy and John visited Royal Enfield's UK HQ in Leicestershire. Greeting us there and joining us for the podcast episode is designer and head of Custom and Motorsport, Adrian Sellers. Alongside Adrian is James Bannister. James heads up the global creative strategy department, ensuring (in his own words) that the brand stays relevant and does cool things! This recording took place back in a cold and wintery February 2024 (hence the...

Tom 'Wookie' Ford is the associate editor of Top Gear Magazine in the UK. He spends his working life travelling the world to capture and create stories for readers of one of the most established car magazines globally and its YouTube channel. Perhaps unsurprisingly, as a result of his frequent adventures, Tom has an arsenal of superb stories to tell. This week on The Driven Podcast, John Marcar and Amy Heynes sit down with Tom in his home to catch up on some of the most fun recent adventures...

Dan Prosser is a motoring journalist and writer famed and haloed for his work as a freelancer and a staff writer for publications such as PistonHeads, The Daily Telegraph, BMW Car Magazine, Performance Car Magazine and, of course, Evo. In 2021, Dan teamed up with fellow motoring journalism royalty Andrew Frankel to launch The Intercooler, the online platform, mobile app and podcast for lovers of car content. In this week's podcast, John Marcar and Miles Lacey chat to Dan and work through his...

John, Amy, and Miles reunite for a catch-up midway through the first season of the new Driven Podcast. In this week's episode, we discuss various topics and questions, including whether or not you can fit a casket in a Volvo 940. Is there any point in Carbon ceramic brakes? Should everyone have experience driving lorries and motorcycles before driving cars? We also worked through some spectacular stories from our listeners from speed awareness courses, with the grand prize for the best prize...

This week's podcast comes to you from the 81st Goodwood Members Meeting, where John Marcar caught up with a collection of iconic people in and around the iconic Goodwood Motor Circuit. Amy Heynes joins for the opening and closing of the podcast as she frantically grabs photos from the event as an official photographer for Goodwood. In this 'Sounds of' episode, among some of the most sublime-sounding racing cars, we have the voices of; Charlotte Vowden - Motoring Journalist and Writer...

Topaz Detailing is a trusted industry brand renowned for being the best of the best in the world of car detailing and paint protection services. From the outside looking in, it would be easy to assume the company was founded with a multi-million-pound financial investment, which immediately got to work on the biggest, best and most exclusive cars in the world; the real story, though, is very humbling. In this week's Podcast Episode, Topaz co-founder Nabil Naamo shares the story of how his now...

Jimmy Broadbent is one of the most universally loved gaming streamers, with millions of viewers and followers worldwide. What makes Jimmy's story so unique is that, as revealed in this episode, he has managed to transition from the virtual racing world to real-life racing with the Praga series, Time Attack, and more. In this week's podcast, Jimmy shares his very raw and real story, including the details of the most challenging times of his life, which led him to focus on gaming and...

Alex Kersten is a big name in the automotive content creation game, having been the face of Car Throttle for an entire decade. In April 2022, Alex shocked the automotive world by announcing his resignation from Car Throttle to start his own media brand, which we now know as AutoAlex. In this podcast, John Marcar and Alex are reunited as old friends and work colleagues to talk through his career and story, along with Miles Lacey, who enjoyed his first encounter with Alex... It's fair to say...

Jonny Smith joins John Marcar and Miles Lacey as our first-ever guest on the all-new Driven Podcast. John and Jonny started talking about sitting down for a podcast together in December 2020, and finally, after four years, it's happened. In this episode, John and Miles work through Jonny's unique, bizarre and, at times, downright ridiculous career as a writer, a journalist and a television presenter before embarking on the work of digital media with his monumentally successful podcast Smith...

Welcome to the all-new Driven Podcast! John, Amy and Miles are finally back with the brand-new Driven Podcast. This week, the trio catch up on the past month's antics and work through some interesting talking topics, including... Amy has bought a new car (spoiler alert, it's in the title), Miles has been researching which Porsche 911 is best, John has been breaking the law and paying the price by enduring a Speed Awareness Course, and Miles gets a rollicking for purchasing part-worn tyres. To...

Welcome to the new format of The Driven Podcast - brought to you by the team that previously brought you the Driven Chat Podcast and Driven. The podcast is hosted by John Marcar, Amy Heynes and Miles Lacey and will feature many familiar voices from the automotive world episode by episode. We'll also keep you up to speed with regular automotive news stories and insights into cars and motorcycles that we're reviewing for our equally popular website and YouTube channel - both of which are...