In the first episode of 2023, the D2D team look deep into their crystal balls and make wildly unfounded auto industry predictions for the year ahead. Diana spells the demise of micro mobility (y’know, like poxy e-bikes and things), Kurt once again rants about the folly of driverless cars, and Damo muses whether new car prices have peaked (we can all hope, Damo!). While none of the team claim to be Nostradamus (even though Kurt does resemble some bloke called the ‘Italian Jesus’), you don’t need to read the tea leaves to know that you’re going to love this episode of Driven to Distraction!

Is this the end?

Well, not for the D2D team at least; but if the rumblings from the auto industry are anything to go by, we may be bidding an ambivalent sayonara to passenger cars (yes really), the pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles and sky-high used car prices; so a bit of a mixed bag, really.

That’s the thrust of Driven 2 Distraction’s fifth podcast which, despite the topics of discussion being a bit doom and gloom, hosts Damo, Diana and Kurt seem to have a pretty good time discussing it! Are they masochists, doomsayers or just garden-variety cynics? You’ll have to take a listen to episode five and decide for yourself!

In this episode of the world’s most sporadic car industry podcast, the team share the love. Well, actually, it’s less about love in D2D’s fourth ep, and more about just plain old sharing in all forms. Like sharing your car with strangers to make some extra cash, carmakers sharing (or not sharing) vehicle features using paid subscriptions, and what constitutes an overshare in a press conference… So have a listen, and don’t forget to share with your friends – you’ll be passing this ep around like a hand-me-down sweater in no time!

It’s true what they say about good things coming in threes, what with the third episode of D2D shaping up to be a holy trinity of auto awesomeness. In this episode, Kurt unpacks the Government’s electric vehicle strategy discussion paper, Diana reveals it’s not just semi-conductors affected by stock shortages, and Damo muses how many rounds is too many for the ever-expanding F1 circus.

As for the Wheely Award, let’s just say things take a backwards step in episode three. So what are you waiting for? Dive right in on one, two, three!

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Delighted (and quietly shocked) to have debunked the 'most podcasts fail after episode one' statistic, Damian, Kurt and Diana dive straight into episode two with a breakdown of the latest vehicle manufacturer recalls, discussing how recalls work and their impact on brand reputation. Then, hot off the heels of Apple’s CarPlay announcements, the team talks in-car tech while hypothesising whether or not Apple will launch their own car. FYI—it's a firm "no" from Damo, but uber marketer Di Cecco thinks otherwise. Finally, the team debate worthy contenders in the battle of EV startups, and Kurt gets all rose-tinted glasses about the Delorean.

In this episode, Kurt, Diana and Damian discuss whether EVs got left behind in the last federal election. They also look at whether practical performance cars are coming back into style after the launch of Cupra, the new WRX wagon and the success of the Skoda Octavia RS wagon. And they ask the question, is 23 races too much for F1? Can fans and the business really handle that amount of races?