Overdrive: Hyundai EV is Car of Year; GWH Ora resembles Mr Potato Head; Phillip Island History races

G’Day and welcome to Overdrive, where we mull over issues to do with cars and transport. I’m David Brown Feedback from social media posts • Car of the year • An art installation that has a rock crushing a Tesla Road Test - Great Wall Motors Ora • Electric car • Comment from one of our Interns - a young persons perspective • Comments from Dean Phillip Island Classic • Chat to Fred about the major historic car racing event last weekend at Phillip Island • At the event there was a 1946 Maybach – a racing car that was made up from a World War II scout car – a great example of building something from what was available Highlights from the program 00:02:39 The BBC, The British Top Gear have given their car of the year to the Ionic 5 in an electric vehicle. Times have changed a bit since Jeremy Clarkson was there. I don't see him as being one who would normally award an electric vehicle. • Are car of the year awards definitive or at best indicative • They are still making an Australian version of Top Gear - Why 00:05:46 - The motor vehicle in art. A sculpture of a large stone head crushing a Tesla Art can mean different things to different people. Is this a comment about: • electric vehicles, • a general problem with Tesla cars or an anti Musk statement? I • It might even be lament that ancient stone headed traditions can squash project or. It might also be a cry to reject modern civilisation and a longing for ancient culture, because the head was one in the style of the old mech civilization which developed in the lowlands of South. • Kim Bow wrote in and said it is a “New high visual impact, no parking signs” • Brett McGrath said “I'm surprised it being the Tesla didn't catch fire” 00:08:26 – Great Wall Motors Ora Electric vehicle • The Great Wall Motors Aura is a little-ish electric car. Now we have tested one in the past, but with this one we got was a long range. It had a bigger battery. 00:11:12 – Ora road test from a young person’s perspective • First drive of an electric car • Regenerative braking needs getting use to • New technology with the interface with controls is certainly different • Different look: How would your peer group react? • Electric vehicles might suit young people because they need less maintenance 00:18:51 – Car looks and being driven to school • Is it the car or the parents that are an embarrassment? 00:20:12 – Artist Deal Oliver talks about the Ora design • Electric cars mean we are in a post radiator aspect of design • The Ora looks a bit like a Mr Potato Head car 00:27:26 – The Phillip Island Classic Festival of motorsport. • The biggest historic racing meeting in the Southern hemisphere • 1946 Maybach – cobbled together from a German WW2 Scout vehicle • 50th anniversary of L34 Torana (a GM sedan muscle car in Australia). Were there more on display than were ever made? For more information Web Site: Driven Media: drivenmedia.com.au Podcasts iTunes: Cars Transport Culture Spotify: Cars Transport Culture Facebook Cars Transport Culture Instagram Cars Transport Culture Our YouTube site Cars Transport Culture Originally broadcast 23 March 2024