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Some Sundays are simply better than others – especially when you find yourself wandering through Bedford Square, London, surrounded by the finest collection of classic cars this side of Bicester Heritage. Yes, this is the inaugural Bloomsbury Classic Car Show 2025, and it didn’t disappoint.
Because when you get me, Naveed Hussain (aka Naveed4Speed) and my long-time mate Imthishan Giado (ex-CAR Middle East deputy editor, and my co-founder on Motoring Middle East) together, things get spicy. This episode kicks off with imposter syndrome in car journalism. Do creators feel like frauds? Are influencers wrecking credibility? Or is the whole “journalist vs influencer” debate just another form of automotive gatekeeping? Naveed gets brutally honest about being the outsider, and Imthishan doesn’t hold back on the invisible barriers brown car guys still face in the industry.
In just a couple of months, I’ll be 57 years old. And honestly? Some days, I feel it. The knees creak more than they used to, the waistline’s trying to sneak past the speed limit, and let’s not even mention how often I forget what I came into the room for.
Now… where was I? Oh yes… Professionally, too, the landscape has shifted. There’s less work floating around, fewer calls coming in, and a niggling voice that asks: maybe I’ve had my time. Maybe I really am edging towards my sell-by date.
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Right, listen up fellow petrolheads – it’s time for another full-fat, no-filter, unapologetically passionate episode of BrownCarGuy Therapy – and this week, we didn’t hold back. If you’ve ever shouted at your screen during a car reveal, or muttered “not again” at a reboot announcement, this one’s for you.
Before you even parked up today, someone decided who you are – just from your car. In that instant, they didn’t just judge you, they wrote your entire life story. Might as well have been spray-painted across your bonnet.
Times are tough, and for the car industry, it’s frankly tougher than most. Since the rush to electrification gathered pace less than a decade ago, legacy carmakers have been stumbling through a fog of big losses, plant closures, new supply chains, and enormous investment.
I’ve been reviewing cars long enough to remember when car dashboards had more buttons than Nasa’s Space Shuttle! You could reach out, jab a button, twist a knob or flip a toggle, without looking, barely using any brain processing power and still get the job done.
Today it’s swipe up, left, right or down, tap a menu, navigate a load of icons, drill down the page and finally you… crash into a pier and die. All for the sake of turning on the bum heater.
It’s Thursday 21st August 2025, and we’re about to head into the last long Bank Holiday weekend until Christmas. Yes, brace yourselves – this is it, the final three-day hurrah before the tinsel comes out and you start panicking about where the year went. And, as ever, the great British tradition of the August getaway is alive and well. Whether you’re off to the seaside, visiting family, or making a break for the airports, one thing is guaranteed: traffic chaos.
According to the RAC and transport data crunchers INRIX, nearly 18 million leisure trips will be made across England and Wales between Friday and Monday. That’s enough cars to fill the M25 ten times over – and then some!
Some people still think classic cars are dirty, polluting dinosaurs that should be shoved into museums, crushed for scrap, or worse – replaced by soulless cookie-cutter EVs. But here’s the bombshell: classic car emissions are lower than ever before. Yes, really. And that’s despite the fact that the number of classics on Britain’s roads has more than doubled in the last decade. From fewer than half a million in 2013, there are now over one million classic cars rolling proudly around the UK.
So how is it possible that emissions are falling when the number of cars has exploded? Here are the facts.
So here’s the thing most people don’t realise: YouTube isn’t actually free. Sure, you don’t pay to watch it – but behind every video is hours of work, not to mention money spent on gear, software, fuel, or even just coffee to keep us awake at 2am (I’m not even joking!). And unless you do something very simple, YouTube quietly buries that content.
That’s why so many creators (including me) are constantly reminding you to “hit the like button” or “don’t forget to subscribe.” It’s not just nagging – it’s survival. Here’s my full video explainer – watch this first, then read on.
