Welcome to another BrownCarGuy Therapy Session - the unfiltered, unscripted podcast where car guys let it all out!

In this episode, I’m joined by Sy of Drivers Union and Darren Sullivan Vince - founder of Waterloo Classics Car Club and Bloomsbury Classic Car Show - for a lively, passionate, and often hilarious discussion on the state of car culture today.

We ask the big questions:

🎯 Is the new Ferrari 849 Testarossa a styling flop or misunderstood genius?

🎯 Have fake engine noises in EVs gone too far?

🎯 Will the Knight Rider reboot crash harder than KITT ever could?

🎯 Is the golden era of the car really ending?

From skyrocketing cost of hosting car events, to driving wars in London, to whether it’s right to be converting classics to electric - we dive into it all.

We touch on:

- 50 years of the Lotus Esprit

- Goodbye to the Nissan GT-R, Boxster/Cayman & Civic Type R

- Why a new Audi C concept might actually be hopeful

- Whether classic car culture can survive in the age of digital content

And why the real value in cars today might just be found in nostalgia, passion, and good company.

🗣️ Join the conversation! What’s your take – are we witnessing the burnout of car culture, or is this just the beginning of a new era?

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Brown Car Guy

In this latest BrownCarGuy Therapy Session, I sit down with Sy from Drivers Union for a brutally honest, no-fluff conversation about the state of car culture in 2025 – and why, despite everything, we keep showing up.

We kick things off talking about the burnout of content creation – whether it’s YouTube, Instagram, or photography, the effort-to-reward ratio has never felt more lopsided. If you’re a creator, or just someone trying to keep the passion alive, you’ll relate.

Then we dive into the skyrocketing cost of car events – when did it become £55 just to park up and walk around? Have the best events like Hampton Court Concours and Salon Privé become too elitist for the everyday enthusiast? Is the community slowly being priced out?

We explore the new car price madness – with even average motors now hitting £35-50K, are people finally turning back to cool, characterful classics instead? We get nostalgic for stuff like the Lotus Esprit, and question whether it's too early to be ripping out engines for EV conversions while battery tech is still evolving.

Plus:

🔧 The cost of parking in London

🚗 The generational divide in car enthusiasm

🎥 Creating quality car content in a thankless algorithm

🔥 Why Dubai’s car meet culture (Car Middle East, Motoring Middle East) was so special

🤔 What the future holds for the car scene – and should we rebuild it?

This isn’t just a chat – it’s a therapy session for petrolheads. And if you’ve ever asked yourself why we still bother with all this car stuff in a world that seems to be turning against us… you’re not alone.

📣 Drop a comment if you relate to anything we talked about.

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Welcome back to another BrownCarGuy Therapy Session – LIVE!In this episode, I’m joined by none other than Sy from Drivers Union, and we’re going deep on everything that’s right – and very wrong – with modern car culture.🚘 Supercars vs Daily Reality:Are today’s exotic cars still magical? Or has usability, tech, and regulation taken the thrill out of the drive? We talk Ferrari 360 Spider ownership, practicality (or lack of), and whether a modern supercar is still worth the hassle – even if it turns heads on every street corner.🎮 Digital Overload:From touchscreen-only controls to disappearing physical buttons – and those intrusive reversing cameras that feel more like CCTV. Have we gone too far? Are modern cars now more computer than car?👀 Always Being Watched:There’s an unsettling amount of monitoring going on behind the wheel – cabin sensors, driver fatigue systems, even black boxes. We discuss the creeping loss of privacy in modern motoring.🧠 The Death of the Driver’s Car?Where are the manual gearboxes? Where’s the tactility? Has the soul of the car been replaced by software updates and subscriptions?🛞 Car Culture Therapy:This isn’t just a moan-fest – it’s a proper conversation between two car guys who live and breathe this stuff. We share personal experiences, wild car stories, laugh-out-loud moments, and even touch on what the future of petrolhead culture could look like in a world pushing towards electrification and automation.📣 Whether you’re a fellow enthusiast, a supercar owner, or someone simply fed up with overly complicated dashboards – this episode is for you.Visit and subscribe: https://BrownCarGuy.com for more motoring stories, videos and updates!SUBSCRIBE for more motoring news, car reviews and insights!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/browncarguy?sub_confirmation=1You Shorts now here https://www.youtube.com/@BrownCarGuyShortsAnd follow all my channels https://linktr.ee/browncarguy🔥 MY BOOKS ON AMAZON! 🔥https://browncarguy.com/2025/05/12/browncarguy-books/📖 Want to become an automotive journalist, content creator, or car influencer? Check out my book: How to be an Automotive Content Creator👉🏽 https://amzn.eu/d/7VTs0ii📖 Quantum Races – A collection of my best automotive sci-fi short stories!👉🏽 https://amzn.eu/d/0Y93s9g📖 The ULEZ Files – My all-action thriller set in a dystopian ULEZ future! 👉🏽 https://amzn.eu/d/jhADkOt📌 SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AUTOMOTIVE JOURNALISM Enjoy my content? Support the channel using the links below! Every little helps.👉🏽 Channel membership: https://www.youtube.com/browncarguy/join👉🏽 Buy me a Coffee! https://ko-fi.com/browncarguy 👉🏽 Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/BrownCarGuy🙏🏽☺️STRATIGENCY:Want to grow your garage, detailing biz or car YouTube channel — without burning out?Stratigency helps auto-passionate small business owners scale smart with automation, content, and online systems 🚀💥 Book your FREE 15-minute strategy call now:👉 https://meeting.calendarhero.com/BCG15#DriveToScale🚗 Want to work with me? Sponsorships, reviews, collabs – DM me!Big Thanks to Stratigency Design5IT www.Design5IT.co.ukTom Conway-Gordon ( https://www.instagram.com/tconwaygordon/ )Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications. 📲 Follow @BrownCarGuy everywhere!📧 Contact me for collaborations, freelance work, or press/media enquiries.#BrownCarGuy #BCGTherapySession #DriversUnion #CarPodcast #SupercarChat #PetrolheadTalk #Ferrari360Spider #ModernCarTech #UnfilteredCarTalk #CarCulture2025 #DigitalDashboards #CarPrivacy #DrivingJoy #CarCommunityUK #GarageGoals ---------------------------Brown Car Guy #BrownCarGuy