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We drove 15 hours to buy an angry French hot hatch, and it was a disaster!
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Jan 1, 2025
Yep, this one didn't go to plan. But life's about the choices you make and how you deal with them, so when we arrived in a blizzard and the plans had to change we just rolled with it. This rowdy little Twingo is SO COOL! A screaming 1.6 16V Clio engine, Omex ECU and throttle bodies. What's not to love. I'm very jealous of this one. Today didn't go to plan, but we've got some amazing content lined up with this car I know you'll love. Massive thanks to Brian, an absolute legend in the Renault world for showing us his personal collection as well as letting us secure a couple of amazing cars. Stay tuned!
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we're going to buy a stupid car the
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stupid car's got an air intake that
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comes forwards out of the
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Bonnet it's very wet okay it's the
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morning it's about uh it's it's almost
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exactly 8:00 a.m. last night I put on an
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alpaca jumper and me and Paul drove down
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to B pretty much Bournemouth isn't it wi
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wimbor we're we're in Ringwood in the
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New Forest cuz uh we're going to buy a
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stupid car and then again again this is
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becoming a weekly occurrence so stay
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tuned uh Paul's additionally trying to
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buy a Yeti so this could end up being a
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double dip day couldn't it yeah with a
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Yeti that would be the Wier
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Cho uh I wish we were bu the yeti now we
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can buy don't no I don't we can buy one
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so basically what's happening is we're
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now stuck in traffic we've realized that
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all of our life choices have led us up
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to this and it's a bad bad idea and when
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the guy said you should bring a
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trailer probably wasn't lying I don't I
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think he was anticipating
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snow no I think maybe he was just
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anticipating driving this mystery car
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back for 6 hours yeah be a less than
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pleasurable experience
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but this is adding to the flavor of the
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trip definitely he clearly doesn't know
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how much we like to do everything the
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hard
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way like genuinely we've both taken a
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day off of work which is massively
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unprofitable we could have just sent
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something the trailer for about half of
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what this has cost I may still do
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remember you're not in traffic you are
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traffic cold snowy
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[Music]
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winners so far it's taken us about 17
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minutes to travel 1.8 miles cuz people
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from the South panic when they see white
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stuff we've got snow tires on
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365 days of the
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year come
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on the thing won't because it's all
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clogged up so instead we've bought a
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trailer and A Renault
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16 welcome to the Mad old world of car
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buying with us
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too
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right that trailer is unbelievably cheap
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and perfect for twingo
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transport so basically what's happened
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is we've come to the god of Renault
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which is why I haven't filmed any of
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this cuz it's his own like it's his own
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private collection of cars and there's a
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lot of things that he's got here for
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like the Renault club and stuff like
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that bought a twingo with a 1600 Cleo
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engine uh with like an omx and bike
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carbs and things like that uh it's
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obviously started snowing quite heavily
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and we've got no way of getting the
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thing to start cuz it's been sat
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outside he's got a little car trailer um
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so we've bought the well I say we Paul
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Paul's bought the car trailer off of him
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and I think he seems like the kind of
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guy that when he gets in a sell mood
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we've now secured a little old Renault
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thing that I know nothing about that me
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and Paul are going to go halves on so we
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will be back here soon
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um this trips with the addition of the
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trailer this trip has gone amazingly
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hasn't it yeah so great yes trailer's
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purchased hooking up
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trailer it's all about turning bad
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situations into good
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ones I love these adventures and I would
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not change this for anything in the
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world the only thing I would change is
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my terrible choice of
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Footwear it's
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cold it's still snowing the twingo still
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won't start we're still trying to dry it
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out basically it's flooded when we've
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tried to start it in this cold weather
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and now it doesn't want to start again
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so we're going to get the big boy
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booster pack and go again this is just
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what we need in life another non-running
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car lots of things have happened since
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we last spoke uh it has stopped snowing
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we've had to take the plugs out and
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clean them because it was flooded and
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Paul's had his foot run over but other
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than that life's good there's currently
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water dripping off Paul's nose and I
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don't think he's uh don't think he's
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having the best day of his life but on
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the plus side yellow
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twingo the twingo's still on the back
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the trailer is still with the
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what there's a twingo back there and a
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trailer back there we're going to go in
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and get a coffee I'm going to give you a
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brief intro to the twingo
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right let's go look at the
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twingo that's a Renault twingo not like
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you've ever seen a twingo before though
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and that's also a
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trailer how do you feel about your
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latest purchase I'm happy tell your face
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then today is not just a debacle it has
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been a debar it's it's not sour to
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purchase but it has made the collection
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more challenging that we were unable to
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drive back even though we're now in
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[ __ ] brilliant Sunshine yeah
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basically the long short of it is uh
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what you need to understand is that
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these adventures and what we're filming
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here none of this is planned and this
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did not go to
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expectation but as always we have
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improvised adapted and overcome and now
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we're going to go and get coffee and I'm
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still wearing an alpaca
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jumper and we'll be back to the same
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place in 2 weeks time because we
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purchased a Renault 16 and I'm very
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excited about that I need a we
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[Applause]
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that is one tiny Rowdy little twingo and
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the world's smallest trailer which will
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be for sale very very soon it's actually
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for sale right now you can't buy this
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twingo this twingo isn't for sale but
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the trailer which facilitated its return
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trip home can be purchased for
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£500 and actually to be fair that's a
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hell of a
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trailer
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so do you want what everyone always
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focuses on me let's focus on Paul your
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channel yeah I know but you're the
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[ __ ] you're the you're the chief
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content
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creator okay so this Rowdy little twingo
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has got some real history it's been a
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magazine featured cars and it's probably
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one of the most wild early twing
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out there it's got 16006 valve Cleo
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engine in it on the NX ECU with a set of
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throttle bodies and stuff
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which we've had to cover the hole for
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them uh to get it back
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safely crazy Paul was going to drive
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this back today but when we picked it up
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it was um it was a blizzard and luckily
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Brian who we got this from who's
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ultimate Renault nerd had this trailer
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available so we bought this trailer off
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of him and we decided to bring it back
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on the trailer and I've got to be honest
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with you that is probably a better idea
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wasn't it I think the best
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idea you're going to see loads more of
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this little twingo cuz this is something
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this is so far up Paul Street so you're
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going to see loads more of this car soon
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stay tuned
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