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#littlecarFull Fiat Barchetta interview with Andreas ZapatinasLittle Car2024-12-20 | The full interview with Andreas Zapatinas about the development of the Fiat Barchetta.
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#littlecarOld man moans about a perfectly good car for 14 minutes - Škoda Karoq - A Quick LookLittle Car2024-11-25 | I'm renting a Škoda Karoq so I thought I'd do a quick take.
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#littlecarThe Lancia Ypsilon - A Quick LookLittle Car2024-11-06 | I'm renting a Lancia Ypsilon so I thought I'd do a quick take.
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#littlecarThe Kia Picanto - A Quick LookLittle Car2024-10-23 | I'm renting a Kia Picanto so I thought I'd do a quick take.
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#littlecarSteve Saxty BMW 2002 Full InterviewLittle Car2024-07-19 | The full interview with Steve Saxty about the 2002 BMW tried to launch for the year 2002.
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#littlecarCan I fix a 40 year old Sinclair ZX80 bug?Little Car2024-04-19 | I wrote a game back in 1982 that really needs improvement. Can I fix it, and make something even better now?
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#littlecarInstant Cine Film? Polavision and Polaroids fallLittle Car2024-04-05 | Part one - Polaroid's rise: youtu.be/uK3F1d9YbqI
Polaroid tried to create a crazy instant cine film format. But let’s put that into some context. By the 1970s Polaroid were riding high, printing money with their line of easy-to-use cameras that produced instant pictures. In 1979 they did around £1.1B ($1.4B USD, €1.3B, $2.1B AUD) of business around the world. The new plastic Polaroid cameras of the late 1970s and early 1980s provided an inexpensive way of getting into simple instant photography. Inexpensive cameras made sense for Polaroid as the money was in buying instant film over, and over, and over again. Polaroid was sitting on a pile of cash from the 1960s and so started looking for other markets to disrupt.
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The Polaroid SX-70 was arguably the best instant camera ever made. Elegant, practical, and simple to use, it took the world by storm in the early 1970s. But why was the company that made it called Polaroid, and what series of clunky cameras did it take to get to this point?
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#littlecarForget the Walkman! Sonys Revolutionary RadioLittle Car2024-02-23 | When it comes to historic Sony devices the Walkman gets all the attention, but the TR-55 has to be the most important device in the company’s history. It sparked a revolution in radio, and gave the company the financial clout to come up with Trinitron, the Walkman of course, the 3½” floppy, MiniDisc, the PlayStation, Blu-ray and Betamax. Some of them were of course more successful than others! So, just why was the TR-55 such a revolution?
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#littlecarShaver Sockets are really cleverLittle Car2024-02-09 | The UK has standardised around one type of three pin plug, so just why is there a completely different style 2 pin plug in British bathrooms, and why doesn’t it have an earth pin? Surely that’s more dangerous as with all the water in a bathroom? Well, like many UK electrical standards, it’s a well thought out solution to provide the maximum protection. But just why is it the shape it is? Well, that’s a two pin standard that goes back to the start of the 20th century.
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#littlecarA Home Cinema for €230?Little Car2024-01-12 | I’ve been a big fan of projectors ever since I got my first one in the 1990s. At that time I could get a 120” or 3m image at a time when you were lucky to get a 35” or 89cm cathode ray tube TV screen. Admittedly it wasn’t the best resolution – Laserdisc only offered 425 lines which meant for some pretty chunky pixels! LCD screen TVs have caught up to the point where you can buy a 72” or 1.8m screen for a reasonable price, but there’s still nothing in my mind at least quite like the cinema-like experience of a projector if you have a room that can support it, and excluding the audio part of it you can set one up for as little as €230.
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#littlecarWhy Victor? The JVC StoryLittle Car2023-12-01 | If you know one thing about JVC it’s that they invented VHS, probably because they won’t stop banging on about it! But JVC has a long history that goes back to the start of the 20th century, and it doesn’t begin in Japan, but New Jersey. What’s with the “Victor” name in the Japan Victor Company, how did a Japanese company with American roots fair during the Second World War, and why haven’t we seen much innovation from them lately?
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#littlecar4 channel FAILURE - The Quadraphonic StoryLittle Car2023-11-03 | Quadraphonic sound promised so much in 1970 but by the end of the decade it had been and gone. Surely it was the next great thing after high fidelity stereo records just a few years earlier? Why did it fail despite being available on three different recording mediums and over the air, how did the whole thing play out, and how can you enjoy those 1970s quadraphonic recordings today with equipment you likely already have at home?
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#littlecarWhy Teletext Changed How We LiveLittle Car2023-10-13 | For some people, teletext was just something that had always been there. But for certain older people like me, who can remember TV before teletext, it was a godsend. Before this the idea of instantly finding out the latest news, weather or sports scores was impossible. Teletext changed all that, in 40 columns and 24 rows of blocky text and gaudy graphics. And it became popular despite the expense of teletext capable TVs. But where did the idea come from, why wasn’t it a thing in the USA, and why is it back - on the Internet?
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#littlecarWhy SCART is so SmartLittle Car2023-09-15 | When SCART launched in the 1970s it was a genuine game changer. Find out more!
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#littlecarFull Jaguar XJ220 interview with Nick HullLittle Car2023-09-08 | This is the full interview. I used parts for my video about the Jaguar XJ220.
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#littlecarThe Suzuki Vitara - A Quick LookLittle Car2023-07-07 | I'm renting a Suzuki Vitara in Europe so thought I'd give a quick video with my impressions.
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#littlecarThe Fiat 500 - A Quick LookLittle Car2023-06-23 | I'm renting a Fiat 500 in the UK so thought I'd give a quick video with my impressions.
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#littlecarThe Toyota Roomy - A Quick LookLittle Car2023-04-15 | I'm renting a Toyota Roomy in Japan so thought I'd give a quick video with my impressions.
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#littlecarFull Ford RS interview with Steve SaxtyLittle Car2023-02-13 | The full interview with Steve Saxty about Ford's RS history. I used this interview for my two videos about Ford's RS history:
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#littlecarCoffee, Jam & Honey on a CD - will it survive?Little Car2023-02-02 | Early Compact Disc demonstrations tried to show how indestructible it was by smearing honey & pouring coffee on it, then playing it. Did the disc and more importantly the player stand up to such abuse? Let's find out!
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#littlecarAAD, DDD - Digital snobbery in the 1980sLittle Car2023-01-06 | The Compact Disc appeared in 1982, and at a time when anything “digital” was the future, was marketed as the ultimate in sound quality. So, to help sell “pure digital” CDs, the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services, or SPARS for short, came up with a lettering system to show how “analogue” or “digital” were a CD’s contents.
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#littlecarBig Car Monthly UpdateLittle Car2022-09-30 | A sample of the sort of things that Patrons have access to, if you're interested. Are Shorts lucrative? Do people watch them? With the Fiat Uno & Lexus LS getting 26% of the vote, which won out? Plus a deeper dive into the latest videos, what I think of Tesla's full self driving (after having it for 1 day), and my first sponsorship (ARGH!). Don't worry, it's a good one!
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Link to Smart Formore photos: https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/smart-formore-le-suv-que-smart-na-jamais-commercialise-10294397-12313537-photos.html https://www.eqpassion.de/article/51-the-smart-formore-smart-suv-from-2004/
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#littlecarFull Renault Scénic interview with Patrick le QuémentLittle Car2022-08-12 | This is the full interview. I used parts for my video about the Renault Scénic.
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An excellent podcast highlighting how wrong things can get following the sunk cost fallacy: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/danger-rocks-ahead
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#littlecarTeslas Infotainment Doesnt Know The Alphabet!Little Car2022-03-04 | Quick rant about trying to play music from USB in a Tesla, and how it's such a broken experience.
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Link to Steve Saxty's book "Secret Fords Volume Two": stevesaxty.com
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#littlecarRenault Sport Spider - Patrick le Quément Full InterviewLittle Car2021-12-15 | Patrick le Quément, former head of Renault design for 20 years, sat down with me to discuss the Renault Sport Spider. This is the full interview. Excepts were used for my Big Car video about the Renault Sport Spider (youtu.be/SnD7PSwDdYA).
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#littlecarVauxhall Astra - Optional ExtraLittle Car2021-11-05 | This is a follow-up to my Big Car video about the Vauxhall Astra. It's a bit more opinion, and more information I found that you might find interesting.
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#littlecarThe many, MANY failed VW Beetle Reboots - Optional ExtraLittle Car2021-10-22 | This is a follow-up to my Big Car video "The many, MANY failed VW Beetle Reboots!". It's a bit more opinion, and more information I found that you might find interesting.
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#littlecarRenault Twingo - Patrick le Quément Full InterviewLittle Car2021-09-10 | I was fortunate enough to sit down with Patrick le Quément, head of Renault Design in the 1990s for a chat about the development of the Renault Twingo. Bits of this interview have been used in my Renault Twingo video on Big Car (youtu.be/QH_bwYRLlJw), but here's the full interview for those that are interested.
Steve Saxty's book - "The Cars You Always Promised Yourself" : stevesaxty.com
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#littlecarParticle accelerator meets human brain (and he survives!)Little Car2021-06-11 | Anatoly Petrovich Bugorski accidently put his head into a live particle accelerator, and lived to tell the story!
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#littlecarCar Doors that Disappear!Little Car2021-05-28 | In the 1990s Joalto Designs created a car door that slid down for easy entry. What happened to it, and what other cars have tried disappearing car doors?
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#littlecarAre TV Detector Vans a Myth?Little Car2021-05-14 | If you’re not from the UK, or even if you’re not of “a certain age”, you may not know what a TV Detector van is, or even why they’re needed. In the UK, the BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation is funded almost entirely by a licence fee backed by law that states that anyone in the UK who watches live TV transmissions needs to pay the licence. The odd thing is you don’t even need to be watching BBC content – if you watch commercial channels live, you still need to pay.
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#littlecarThe James Bond DB5 StoryLittle Car2021-04-30 | Ian Fleming released the James Bond novel “Goldfinger” in 1959, and after the success of the first two Bond films there was interest in turning it into a film. In the Goldfinger book, James Bond drove an Aston Martin DB Mark III, but the film’s special effects designer, John Stears, wanted something more modern. Specifically, the new Aston Martin DB5.
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