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We drove 500 miles to buy an Alpine GTA, and didn't even look at it before heading home!
Jan 1, 2025
Monsieur Paul decided that the next #car on the French bucket list was something he'd been hankering for, for a long time! Often admired but never experienced, we had to find an Alpine GTA. When Johnny from JL said he had just the car, we didn't need to think twice.
We loaded up the van with the goodies from the French trip, bought some cakes and hit the road!
But did it live up to expectations? You'll have to watch to find out...
#frenchcars #carculture #alpine #renault #petrolhead
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is it bad is it a bad
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thing I'm having to masticate much
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heavier than I thought I
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would
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[Laughter]
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crunchy there is a lot of
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mastication right we're off on another
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car buying Adventure SL road
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trip pick up the my it's a mystery car
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no one knows what it is yet the mystery
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French V6 yeah the mystery French V6 we
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didn't mention at all on our last
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adventure we're on our way to go and get
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it now we've just dropped off at weather
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we services and got a prep from an
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overly talkative woman so we've got two
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flat whites and two stale Belgium
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buns there we go that is not
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recording we're not casual we don't know
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it's recording
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oh so so anyway I I did some research
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last night on the mystery car and I
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found out the engines in the back and
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the bonnets in the front
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I found out that obviously it's got a
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Rena
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Scenic uh radio I found out that the
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steering wheel is one piece of metal
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it's a it's a one piece I mean this
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might not have this might have an
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aftermarket one but the steering wheel
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it doesn't it has a does it but it's
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like a one piece steering wheel that's
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universal sign for steering wheel um
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obviously what you said the speedo
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doesn't work on majority of them they
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hardly sold any of them Volvo designed
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engine yeah is a is a Renault Renault
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Volvo the wipers the wipers oh the
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wipers what else what else can we say
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about it you've never driven one I've
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never driven One D in one you've been a
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passenger in
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one and you've known of this car for a
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very long time is that right no this
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one's new oh okay this one so this one's
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new but you know the guy but you've
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known of the guy that's selling it for a
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long time yeah and optimistically we
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have no trailer so trer we are driving
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this back got me and we it is you
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today's purchase has got some baller
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Wheels 1047 so what we got we got like 3
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hours left realistically yeah just keep
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saying four
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four four
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four
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four four Steam
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hot water broccoli uh we are 4 hours
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into our mystery car buying Adventure
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which is being brought to you this week
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for your viewing pleasure and
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entertainment I hope you're enjoying
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this cinematic experience so far a big
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old
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plane woooo we've got 11 miles to go
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we're 2 mil away from our destination so
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you will be able to
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see the initial meet and greet inst
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reaction the instant reaction the the
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the Pryor of goods has uh requested that
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we're okay to film stuff but a I don't
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think he wants to be anywhere near it
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and he wants it to be specifically of
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the car not the context the context of
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where the car is which we'll be
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respectful of oh look at
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it oh H I've seen it have you seen it
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yeah I have seen
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it we
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impressed
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moist right we're going to go make some
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weird introductions and say hello to
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people and I'm going to try and find a
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way to not offend everyone basically I'm
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going to not be myself for 20 minutes
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and then we'll show you this car
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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we didn't even look at this car didn't
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even look at it turned up met John had a
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chat completely irrelevant to that car
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didn't drive it didn't start it it
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didn't do anything paid the money and
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took it
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away are we mad when you've got someone
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like John lws who's willing to put their
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reputation on the line and say you know
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what I'll sell that car for you a car
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that he's serviced maintained looked
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after and knows it's insulting to start
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picking holes in it looking around it
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and try and test drive it the guy's
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reputation is absolutely golden and our
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transaction with him today with buying
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this car and the results of driving it
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back and the quality of this thing
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cements that for me I'm Not A Renault
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boy I'm completely new this is the first
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time I've ever even sat in an Alpine and
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I could tell straight away from meeting
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that blo that he was talking solid gold
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facts we got on like a house on fire
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[Music]
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so obviously this is a first uh I have
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never sat in or been in or looked at one
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of these and I purposefully didn't watch
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any videos or anything like that before
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before coming here cuz I wanted this to
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be a true genuine first
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interaction nice to meet
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you thank you bye the throttle pedal on
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it is
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quite quite heavy it's got quite a lot
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of resistance to it I I love it oh go on
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window go up I just want to get onto a
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road Ah that's better that's better okay
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these have this internal pedal box
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um and I think your you know feet and
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hands the steering feels even just at
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this low speed the steering feels Wicked
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um kind of John who we've just been John
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Law was tasked with I think moving it on
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um that guy is like the Alpine Alpine
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God that that guy knows everything about
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alpes a really nice guy actually like
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very welcoming very open great to get on
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with I really enjoyed that I'm not going
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to go like Ping it just yet cuz I think
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it's been satle
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morning yeah this is cool the steering
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is so
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tight wow this is wicked this feels like
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driving a porch it literally feels like
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driving a 9/11 braks are
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like breaks a heavy and old school good
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purchase Paul good purchase oh I just
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got a little glimpse of it in the shop
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window I look like the coolest kid in
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the
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world I like this car I like this car a
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lot it seems to want to rev a little bit
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like it wants to be above 2K which is
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cool we'll treat you right girl don't
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you worry it's pretty
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good what yeah our mystery car was an
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alp
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GTA yeah I'm just I'm just getting cold
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air through this at the
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moment feels like someone's like
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coughing on me
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oh okay the climate panel's just fallen
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through the
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dash so we'll have to pick that up in a
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minute broken it already P's going to be
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absolutely gutted
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we'll fix that in a minute we'll fix
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that when we get to the petrol
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station but for now we're getting into a
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national speed limit road going to knock
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it down to Second going to open it up
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and see what it goes like you
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ready oh
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[Music]
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yeah
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yeah it's not
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quick it's not it's not quick but it
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sounds good
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yeah
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yes this is a cool car this is a really
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cool
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car okay so my microphones run out of
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battery
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however I love this car it's amazing
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it's wicked I've had so many people
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tooting their horns and waving and
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giving us the thumbs up and stuff this
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car makes you feel like a celebrity it's
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unreal
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um we've got about a 4 and 1/2 hour
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drive home up the very boring M1 but so
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far everything's working really well
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I've just put some fuel in it so it's
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got like 14 it reckons it's got 14
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gallons in but from speaking to John he
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said don't trust it when it gets to four
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so I'm hoping we're going to get back on
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the fuel that we've got I I can't
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imagine it's very good on fuel with the
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hly carb conversion but having filled it
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up and knowing what's in it we'll be
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able to work it out when we get back um
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my main thing that I want to say about
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this car it is so tight and so solid it
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feels it it does not feel like an
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80s DIY built chip box it feels unreal
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anyway I'll check in when we get back to
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base but so far I am impressed
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goodbye okay this video skipped a lot
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but you're not really interested in me
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driving 4 and a half half hours home are
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you this Alpine GTA is absolutely it's
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just a complete Vibe I love this car now
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that we've wrapped this video up and you
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know that I think this car is wicked
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it's a complete Vibe it drives great and
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John is the boy you going to have to
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stay tuned for some more action because
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next week me and Paul are going to take
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this car out and we're going to film a
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review before you watch that you need to
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know today this what you've seen in this
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video was the first time I've ever even
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sat in and Alpine I knew nothing about
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them I thought they were 3 L I didn't
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even know it was a 2.9 we had to get
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Johnny to show us how to open the drunk
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thing to fill it up with fuel didn't
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have a clue completely fresh to it Paul
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has never owned one of these ever but
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he's quite acidious researcher so he
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knows quite a lot about them but he's
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never owned one we just went for a quick
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10-minute blast up the road and he's
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absolutely buzzing so if you're
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interested in a No Nonsense no fuss
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straight to the point review of two lads
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who have never ever really driven one of
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these properly before in their lives
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telling you what it's like stay tuned
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cuz that's what we're all about
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