Tim Pollard

Car industry PR. Personal account, with behind-the-scenes snippets of my life in cars, media, dogs and hockey 🚘 📚 🐶 🏑

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@au_tom_otive @SKODAUK Very much so, Tom. Been a busy first few days…

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Week 1 at Škoda safely completed: been a whirlwind of onboarding, training in sunny Seville, driving the new Peaq and Epiq EVs, learning new acronyms and systems, plus connecting with the fabulous @SKODAUK team 💚 😊

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@JamiePickles1 @SKODAUK That’s right: international media drive was a few weeks ago. But this was my first go! 🚘

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Look out for the full story in @CARmagazine in due course, but here are a few extras from our visit to last month’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta by the ever-talented lensmen Mark Fagelson and Joe Harding…. 📸 👏 🎈
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I’ll shortly be handing my Renault 4 E-Tech Plein Sud over to @ColinOverland, as I start my new job next week. So it’s a good time to reflect on a couple of months living with the soft-top Four – which arrived in the hottest summer of my lifetime 🌞
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Range is good for 200 miles and our top-spec Iconic+ is generously equipped, with 18in diamond-cut alloys, electric windows and tailgate, climate, adaptive cruise control, safety systems galore, plus 10in touchscreen powered by Google. All of that on a small Renault! 🙌
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Exquisite 1969 Morris Mini: petite perfection 👌 🚘 👏

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To whoever was driving this Lotus Elan +2 near me this weekend, I salute you 🫡

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@Georgethefarmer Safe travels and good luck! 🙌

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Four hundred mile round trip to Newcastle to drop son off at uni. Mrs P’s VW Passat GTE Estate monstered the load lugging and motorway mile munching, obvs… 💪⚡️⛽️

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A sneak peek behind the scenes of when I took the @CARmagazine Toyota Land Cruiser off to meet a long-lost relative: an immaculate 1983 BJ40, which traces its roots back to the original of 75 years ago. On-road, around a quarry and joy aplenty 😎

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@1MonkeyDriver Well, this smorgasbord of different bodystyles, brands and colours made me sit up and pay attention as I wandered around this lovely city 👀

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Modern classics of Porto: some ’80s, ’90s and ’00s crackers still in daily use in the September sunshine 😎 🙌

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@BalanceMotoUK It’s a slippery topic…

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Bumped into two exquisite C3 third-generation Audi 100s on my travels recently: this Avant in Porto, with another feat of engineering in the background, and the streamliner saloon in Berlin. Such influential cars 💡
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@BalanceMotoUK V possibly… Entirely feasible the drag coefficient improved over the car’s lifecycle – Audi archives required! 🕵️‍♂️

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@jeckythump They’re muted and restrained: the tech did the talking, I guess…