After a couple episodes, I felt obliged to write this review. First, the hosts: One knew much more than the other. This led to inauthentic “banter” neither host appeared comfortable with. One talking down to the other who was trying anything he could to remember something from hs auto shop. They clearly felt much more at home sticking to the badly scripted, generic, and elementary information they had written for them. But that provides ZERO entertainment and/or educational value.
Second, the topics: Who is coming up with/ and then receiving approval for the subject matter? Let’s talk BMW history, let’s talk to the designers, the mfg. plant managers, the assembly technicians even- someone involved with the actual production of these cars we know and love. They gave us the guy from Radiolab and some hs biology teacher who isn’t funny or relatable and gave them a script written by a smart college freshman before she decides to change her major from engineering to nursing who has never driven- much less driven a BMW, in her life.
I’m out.
I’m with most other reviewers: this is the baby food version of an educational podcast about cars. Scripted and inoffensive to the point of blandness, the only info I took away from this series is that Sara is in Berlin and Jonathan seems permanently scarred by winters in New Hampshire.
This podcast shows how completely tone deaf BMW is. Instead of respecting listeners, this pablum comes off as both inauthentic and infuriating.
Was hopeful to actually learn something, but in the end the discussions are incredibly generic. Host is over the top fake. “Fantastic” is a frequent response after a guest has answered a question, even if they really said nothing.
I really wanted to like this series, but the sheer amount of word misuses really was angering as a car guy. They said “hp” and “nm” instead of horsepower and newton meters. They specified that a V10 has 10 cylinders, but not that a PHEV is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. And they called it an electric ENGINE!! It’s a MOTOR!!!! Obviously in unknowledgeable and reading off a script. Sorry guys, but you need to be better if you want me to keep listening.
Ugh, I really, and I mean *really*, wanted to like this podcast. A car make like BMW has such a rich and storied history. They have consistently set the bar for the ultimate driving machine year after year for decades. This podcast could be such an interesting exploration into the impact BMW has had on the automotive world and those of us who have fostered a love for the brand. I don’t mean to disparage the presenters, as I’m sure they’re doing their best by reading their scripts with as much....umm, would humanity, or humanness, be appropriate? (they sound like bots, or bad AI) Toss the papers aside and just be real. BMW deserves better than this.
I really wish this podcast wasn’t such fake, scripted lameness. I guess I should have expected as much from a official manufacturer podcast. Immediately deleted.
