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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 1d

Our VX220 and X-90 we found this week came with all sorts of paperwork.

One had even saved the old tax discs, the other looked like a child's homework.

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Vauxhall VX220 paperwork - and tax discs! Lounge rug not included.

List of modifications for the Suzuki X-90. In mutil-coloured Comic Sans.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Vauxhall paid Griff Rhys Jones £600,000 a year to tank their sales? It didn't do much for our VX220 on this week's pod either.

Fortunately, Suzuki didn't need any help tanking sales of our X-90.

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Vauxhall VX220 advert UK

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 3d

This week: A crashed Vauxhall VX220, one of the worst cars ever made, and the role the girl from A-Ha's 'Take On Me' video played in British automotive history.

Listen below or wherever else you get your podcasts from.

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 11d

That secondhand car podcast is back with an episode devoted to VW's zany Harlequin era - and the Single White Female-like copycats it inspired...

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 11d

Do you like the VW Polo Harlequin?

Do you like it enough that you'd modify your Golf or Passat in the same manner?

Turns out some people do, as we found out on our latest episode.

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VW Golf in Harlequin style. It's also an automatic...

"Bennington design" VW Passat. No, us neither.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 11d

Do you like the VW Polo Harlequin?

Do you like it enough that you'd modify your Golf or Passat in the same manner?

Turns out some people do, as we found out on our latest episode.

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APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 18d

Join the world's finest secondhand car podcast as we go back to 1984. When men were slimy and women dressed as car seats.

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 18d

This week, we step back to 1984.

Patrick Mower! Pop psychology! Many, many -isms! It's all here on Central TV's coverage of the British International Motor Show at the NEC!

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Central TV's 1984 British International Motor Show title card.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 17d

You've watched it, now listen to us talk about it!

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Ep. 18 - Now That's What I Call 1984

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 17d

"What's wrong with being sexy?"

"Sex-ist, Patrick."

It's Central's coverage of the 1984 British International Motor Show, as discussed in nauseating detail on our latest podcast.

1984 MOTOR SHOW Birmingham NEC

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 18d

This week, we step back to 1984.

Patrick Mower! Pop psychology! Many, many -isms! It's all here on Central TV's coverage of the British International Motor Show at the NEC!

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/5f7i...

APPLE PODCASTS: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Marc Bazeley @marcbazeley.bsky.social · 24d

More automotive weirdness and the usual other nonsense for your consideration...

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, unfortunately, we're still here.

This week it's a Honda Prelude and a Toyota Celica with some unusual modifications.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 22d

The Honda Prelude was famed for its handling, so why would anyone ruin that with a hydraulics modification?

So you can have it do this, we guess...

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, unfortunately, we're still here.

This week it's a Honda Prelude and a Toyota Celica with some unusual modifications.

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Marc Bazeley @marcbazeley.bsky.social · Oct 1

This week's automotive nonsense, where me and @ryanlambie.bsky.social discuss the automotive equivalent of Turkey Teeth...

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Oct 1

This week, we look at a Toyota MR2 and Mazda MX5 which have gone undercover as Ferraris.

Plus why Ryan sold his MKII MR2, the F355's notorious fiery end, and whether you'd swap these for a Jeep Wrangler.

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A Toyota MR2 in disguise as a Ferrari F355

Not the Holy Grail for car collectors, but a Mazda MX5 dressed as a 250 GTO. With a dangleberry brake light next to the twin exhaust

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Oct 1

This week, we look at a Toyota MR2 and Mazda MX5 which have gone undercover as Ferraris.

Plus why Ryan sold his MKII MR2, the F355's notorious fiery end, and whether you'd swap these for a Jeep Wrangler.

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APPLE PODS: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · Sep 23

If you only listen to one podcast about the Perodua Nippa today, make it this one.

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 23

It's an actual case of baby forces sale on this week's episode with a Daihatsu Copen plus a rare example of what was once the cheapest car on sale in Britain, the Perodua Nippa AKA the Perodua Kancil.

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Perodua Nippa. No colour-coded bumper or sexy grahpics on this one, though

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 24

Behold! The greatest car advert ever to grace the small screen!

Unfortunately, our Perodua Nippa on this week's podcast doesn't have colour-coded bumpers or sexy graphics - but may have a tape player.

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Nice Wheels Darlin' | Perodua Nippa Advert

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 23

It's an actual case of baby forces sale on this week's episode with a Daihatsu Copen plus a rare example of what was once the cheapest car on sale in Britain, the Perodua Nippa AKA the Perodua Kancil.

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/4VYN...

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 18

But how else will ChatGPT know whether a jet-engined hearse is better or not than a Metro 6R4 replica?

Which reminds us, listen to this week's episode to find out.

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · Sep 18

Worth turning this off in your LinkedIn settings.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 17

A hearse with a jet engine, you say?

We found one for sale on Facebook Marketplace and obviously had to talk about it.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 16

Just another normal week on the podcast as we find a hearse with a jet engine and a replica of one of the maddest Group B rally cars ever to see the light of day.

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Vauxhall Omega hearse. With a jet engine, naturally

Replica Metro 6R4 in 1986 Lombard RAC Rally Willie Rutherford livery

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 14

Last call for this week's podcast.

What else are you going to do on a rainy Sunday?

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good news: There IS a new episode this week!

Bad news: There's a new episode this week.

Find out how you can own your very own 'From A to B' rep-mobile, including the as-featured-in-Brookside Austin Maestro.

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Brookside and the Miracle Maestro - a match made in heaven!

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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · Sep 9

A new episode of Baby Forces Sale, the ultimate secondhand car podcast. This time, we find out how hard it is to find surviving Austin Maestros from the early 1990s...

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good news: There IS a new episode this week!

Bad news: There's a new episode this week.

Find out how you can own your very own 'From A to B' rep-mobile, including the as-featured-in-Brookside Austin Maestro.

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/1yK8...

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Brookside and the Miracle Maestro - a match made in heaven!

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good news: There IS a new episode this week!

Bad news: There's a new episode this week.

Find out how you can own your very own 'From A to B' rep-mobile, including the as-featured-in-Brookside Austin Maestro.

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/1yK8...

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Brookside and the Miracle Maestro - a match made in heaven!

YouTube video by dreamkatcha

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 7

Last call for this week's episode...

Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · Sep 1

A look back at a time capsule of British TV in the new podcast - an episode of the 1994 documentary From A To B, about sales reps and their attitude to cars.

Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 1

This week, we learn how to negotiate around company car policy with your fleet manager, discover how many Shell points it takes to get a free colour television, and ponder what a No. 70 on the Little Chef menu might have been with the BBC's 'From A to B'.

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Baby Forces Sale @babyforcessale.bsky.social · Sep 3

What's the worst thing that could happen to a sales rep? Being given a Maestro Clubman D as a company car, apparently.

Find out more on this week's episode.

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Maestro Man in 'From A to B': "Obviously my wide knew that I was getting a new company car. When I told her it was a Maestro Diesel Clubman we both literally sat down and cried - we physically cried. Going from the Vauxhall Cavalier down to this, I just wondered what I'd done to deserve it."

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