Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this start-of-series episode, the trio attempts to find the ultimate people's car, to find out if the old-fashioned Volkswagen Beetle is still the ultimate people's car, matching up against the Mini One and the Audi A2.
Also on this episode, Jason Plato drives the 343-horsepower powerhouse BMW M3, Penny teams up with the Met Police to reveal carjacking being on the rise as an exclusive report, and we get to see a spy shot of the 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom. The trio also invites viewers to a brand-new viewer-reviewer competition, where viewers could get in a chance to not just test their abilities as a Driven host, but also possibly win a Volkswagen Lupo GTi for free by jamjar.com. The "alternative" Driven Motordrive event is also announced, where tickets could be bought on 4car.co.uk.
Huge thanks to @matterofapinion for providing this episode. (UPC in the timestamps stand for Ultimate People's Car, but I couldn't write the whole word in full because it wouldn't make chapters.)
Timestamps:
00:00 Driven 100 - People's Cars (intro)
01:23 Key crime exclusive report
06:16 Driven 100 - UPC (desirability)
09:02 BMW M3 road test
11:26 Viewer reviewer competition
12:34 Coming up... (end of part 1)
12:49 Driven 100 - UPC (practicality)
17:22 Driven 100 - UPC (driveability)
20:47 Spy shot: Rolls-Royce Phantom
21:43 Driven Motordrive 2001 teaser
21:57 Driven 100 - UPC (cost of ownership)
22:40 Driven 100 - UPC (summary)
23:40 Outro
In this start-of-series episode, the trio attempts to find the ultimate people's car, to find out if the old-fashioned Volkswagen Beetle is still the ultimate people's car, matching up against the Mini One and the Audi A2.
Also on this episode, Jason Plato drives the 343-horsepower powerhouse BMW M3, Penny teams up with the Met Police to reveal carjacking being on the rise as an exclusive report, and we get to see a spy shot of the 2003 Rolls-Royce Phantom. The trio also invites viewers to a brand-new viewer-reviewer competition, where viewers could get in a chance to not just test their abilities as a Driven host, but also possibly win a Volkswagen Lupo GTi for free by jamjar.com. The "alternative" Driven Motordrive event is also announced, where tickets could be bought on 4car.co.uk.
Huge thanks to @matterofapinion for providing this episode. (UPC in the timestamps stand for Ultimate People's Car, but I couldn't write the whole word in full because it wouldn't make chapters.)
Timestamps:
00:00 Driven 100 - People's Cars (intro)
01:23 Key crime exclusive report
06:16 Driven 100 - UPC (desirability)
09:02 BMW M3 road test
11:26 Viewer reviewer competition
12:34 Coming up... (end of part 1)
12:49 Driven 100 - UPC (practicality)
17:22 Driven 100 - UPC (driveability)
20:47 Spy shot: Rolls-Royce Phantom
21:43 Driven Motordrive 2001 teaser
21:57 Driven 100 - UPC (cost of ownership)
22:40 Driven 100 - UPC (summary)
23:40 Outro
