Big Car

About Big Car

The story of the best cars from the past 50 years.

Publisher

Big Car

Category

history · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Mar 2024

Latest episode

29 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

40 of 40 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Alois Ruf interview

   I was fortunate enough to sit down and chat with Alois Ruf - owner of Ruf Automobile who create very special versions of Porsche cars. Here's the full interview.

2. 

   22 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Hit with an ugly stick? The Pontiac Aztek Story

   The history of the Pontiac Aztek, from conception through to its legacy. Why did GM green-light this car when focus groups said they hated it, and why did it come with a tent?

3. 

   15 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Before Tesla... 1980s Electric Cars (EVs Part 2)

   Automotive historian and journalist Jack Roberts explores 1980s electric cars that predated Tesla's innovation, revealing early alternatives to internal combustion engines driven by pollution and oil independence.

Inside a recent episode

Alois Ruf interview

Published 29 Dec 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, when this happened with the sale of the 366, we drove in the year, we still made a profit, and had fun driving it, me as a 13 -year -old, you can imagine how well I could influence my father and encourage him to do another one like that, you know, and so this is what we did. We got to the next Porsche, and then we built up a reputation slowly, but surely, as a Porsche specialist who can repair and fix and maintain Porsche cars, because at that time, that didn't exist, the only people who worked in Porsche were the big Volkswagen dealers, because they had one corner in the shop where they said, oh, this is where we have our Porsche mechanic, and he works on Porsche cars. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

63,924,740

Score snapshot 3 Jul 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

1

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

27

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