Overdrive
Hosted by David Brown and Paul Murrell · David Brown
3.8from 6 ratings
- 755
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 6
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Overdrive
Overdrive: Cars, Transport and Culture. A weekly radio program featuring motoring & transport news from Australia & around the world, road tests, feature interviews & quirky stories. David Brown is a respected motoring broadcaster heard online and across Australia on commercial, public and community radio.
- Publisher
- David Brown
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Jun 2015
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 755 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tesla's Theatre, Small Cars and Motoring Heritage
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Paris concepts, radical car designs and the MG IM5
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
EV sales, sharper prices, Cyber security, Mazda 6e
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Tesla's Theatre, Small Cars and Motoring Heritage
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And particularly some of the even larger variants of the Mini, they're quite bulky. It's an interesting reinterpretation of the name, isn't it? Actually, the new ones take up 57% more road space. Now, the short ones, the 59 original Mini was pretty small. The Corolla, it started out small and became bigger in an EH Holden. So what you've got to do is you've got to bring in a car underneath it, like the Yaris, haven't you? Exactly. So what happens is it's like a generational thing. New cars come in to take the old car's place in the hierarchy, if you like. Look at the RAV4 and how that's grown, for example. […]
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- Sean Garrard
- Steve Lewis
- Adam Slinger
- Bill Thomas
- Brian Smith
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.6 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 77
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Who hosts Overdrive?
David Brown and Paul Murrell host the show. Published by David Brown.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Overdrive take guests?
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