Overdrive: Bugatti’s Baby; Hyundai air-conditioning. Suzuki Baleno booms; Virtual car racing cheats

Overdrive: Cars, Transport and Culture

English - July 31, 2020 12:09 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that puts a magnifying glass to the role of cars and transport in our society and ends up burning a hole in it.

News

1. Hyundai develops new air-conditioning technologies (1:45)

2. Jaguar Land Rover’s touchscreen you don’t have to touch to fight bacteria and viruses (2:44)

3. Suzuki Baleno – priced to succeed (3:48)

4. The new Audi R8 Coupé and Spyder arrive in Australia (4:45)

5. Bugatti’s Baby (5:50)

Interviews

Alan Zurvas gives a personal reflection on paying up to $95,000 for a scaled-down Bugatti which is ideal as a child’s Christmas present (7:07)

Rob Fraser and I discuss Suzuki, particularly their Baleno which is going gangbusters in the sales (12:09)

Quirky news

1. And in quirky news, Brian Smith and I discuss cheating in virtual reality car racing (20:32)

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