Alex Robbins

Freelance car journo. @TeleCars contributing editor; @CarGurusUK columnist; @overborepod co-host; @UKCOTY juror; questionable vehicle purchaser

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

And so our first series comes to an end.

We’re taking a few weeks’ break, but we’ll be back soon.

In the meantime, we’ve decided which was the best facelift ever.

(The answer won’t shock you, but go and listen anyway.)

[Overbore @overborepod]

🚨 EPISODE 12 🚨

The last in the series!

- Facelifts: ones that worked, ones that didn’t, and the one we think was the best ever

- 21 years in a Citroen Saxo

- Baps

- Gordon Keeble excitement

Get it here! https://t.co/aDAPtixFna

[Overbore @overborepod]

What’s the best-sounding engine?

Kitch reckons a soaring V10, or a thrummy five-pot. Scrof’s a sucker for an old-school V8.

What do you think? (Poll below!)

[Overbore @overborepod]

This week’s episode comes to you from this rather lovely Volvo V60.

Kitch judged it ‘not bad’ - praise indeed - and said it was the first new car Scrof’s brought in that he could see himself owning.

(Scrof quite likes it too.)

But was Volvo right to reincarnate its estates?

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

Just listened back to this and now I’m craving Chinese food and chips. Stupid pod.

[Overbore @overborepod]

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
(slightly delayed)

This week:

- Poppadoms

- Why we like odd-fire V6s (and what they are)

- Why Volvo stopped selling estates (then started again)

- Hot male (and female) tools

- What makes Kitch make this face

Only on Overbore: https://t.co/aDAPtixFna

[Overbore @overborepod]

If you’re wondering where this week’s Overbore is, well, it’s coming.

Just not today. Sorry.

What with a family funeral this week, we’ve had to push things back a little, but we’re hoping to get the latest ep out to you tomorrow or on Monday.

Hang tight - it’s coming!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@CSaltroad1 @munchcorp Absolutely right. I had an earlier Granada that felt the same!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

I think I’d have to have the Xantia.

Or the Laguna.

Mind you, the Mondeo was brilliant too.

Or maybe the Primera…

[Overbore @overborepod]

Continuing the 90s theme of our latest episode…

The year is 1996. Your fleet manager has given you the choice of these four beauties for your next company car.

Which one are you choosing? (Poll below!)

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@sied_gymraeg Yes, though even then I reckon if the Vectra had come along five years previously it would have been quite highly regarded!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@jumpingjehovahs I don’t blame you!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@sied_gymraeg Wasn’t it just! And as we discuss on the pod, just think how wide and varied the list of alternatives to these four was, too!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@BoringCarDriver You’re absolutely right - my mistake!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

Tried not to talk about the Citroën Xantia.

Talked about the Citroën Xantia a lot.

[Overbore @overborepod]

🚨 OB10 OUT NOW 🚨

This week:

- Why 90s cars are the best cars

- Why the Citroën Xantia Activa sometimes falls over at traffic lights

- Kitch’s short car sales career (very short. He got fired)

Go! Listen now! https://t.co/aDAPtixFna

[Overbore @overborepod]

WE’RE BACK!

After our brief hiatus we’ve moved to publishing our new episodes on Friday mornings, because it felt right.

(It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we couldn’t get our act together in time to record for Thursday…)

OB9 drops at 10am. See you then!

[Kitch @UPnDOWNvids]

End of life care has been overstretched, underfunded and overlooked - and terminally ill people are paying the price.

It's time for @dhscgovuk and @hmtreasury to work together to #FixEndOfLifeCare!

✍ Please sign the petition: https://t.co/l1OwcjXMyN

[Overbore @overborepod]

Hi folks, it’s Scrof with some sad news. I’m sorry to report that Tony McLean, Kitch’s father in law and friend of the pod, passed away earlier this week. 🧵

[Overbore @overborepod]

This week we’re in a Volkswagen https://t.co/Dom41muWBA; this one, to be precise.

Kitch hates the colour scheme, deeming it to be too try-hard.

Scrof, however, thinks it adds a welcome dash of colour to our roads.

Who’s right? (Poll below!)

[Overbore @overborepod]

Why aren’t Volkswagens like this any more?

We answer this, and literally some other questions, only on this week’s Overbore.

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

New episode out today, in which I get a little bit agitated about touch-sensitive stuff in cars. And Rich pulls my long-termer to bits, both literally and metaphorically.

[Overbore @overborepod]

🚨 THURSDAY ALARM 🚨

On this week’s episode:
- Why touchscreens suck
- What’s happened to Volkswagen?
- A Mini adventure
- Kitch breaks Scrof’s car

Out now! https://t.co/aDAPtixFna

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

Give Mum a treat this Sunday by introducing her to Overbore.

I promise you her gratitude will know no bounds.

[Overbore @overborepod]

A Daihatsu Sirion in an industrial estate on a rainy day.

What greater incentive could you need to spend your Sunday morning listening to Overbore?!

Meet Skit, this week’s podcast studio, and a car with an astonishing cupholder-to-occupant ratio…

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

@PentagramMsport I believe my co-host is intending to make this happen!

[Alex Robbins @Scrof]

This lunchtime, why not let us tell you all about a particularly iconic car?

This one.

Yes, the one covered in moss.

Yes, it’s the same one in that barn, covered in part of Hampshire.

Hello? Is this thing on?

[Overbore @overborepod]

Exclusives? Amazing guests? Cutting-edge insights? We haven’t got any of those.

But we have got the story of the moss-covered Citroen that just wouldn’t quit.

Come and have a listen. It’s better than watching paint dry.