29/08/2025
Boasting everything from a DeLorean to a talking Austin Maestro, it might look like an attempt to gather some of the world’s least likely cars in one location, but in fact this was no more than the annual get together of Ti Contributors. Though some were unable to make it due to unavoidable working commitments - Karun Chandhok did ask for the Dutch Grand Prix to be moved to another weekend so he could be there but to no avail - the vast majority of those who make up the best writing team in motoring journalism were in attendance to gaze at each other’s cars, raise a glass or two and talk about the present and future of The Intercooler. They included Andrew Frankel, Dan Prosser, Richard Porter, Joana Fidalgo, Gavin Green, Mel Nichols, Colin Goodwin, Helen Wakerley, Richard Bremner, Lewis Kingston, Julian Thomson, Gez Medinger and Ben Oliver. Being a hands-on bunch of guys and girls, we even ended up making our own dinner, hand-rolling our own pizza bases with results ranging from actually quite passable to an outtake from The Generation Game.
We gave them the same good news we now pass on to you: sales continue to grow, we’re still recruiting the very best writers in the business - Jonny Smith joining the Ti crew only this week - and retention for annual subscribers holding steady at an astonishing 96 per cent. This in a year when our subscribers have come to enjoy not only the best team of car writers on the planet, posting new stories every day of the working week, but now a subscriber-only ‘Ask The Intercooler’ podcast, ad-free listening to our regular podcast, most importantly, every new story we post coming in both written and audio form too as its own little podcast, almost all narrated not by computer programme but one of Dan, Andrew or the story’s original author.
So if you’ve heard of us, been kind enough to follow us, but not yet checked us out, give the link in our bio a click and find out what it’s all about. And for little more than 30p per story when you subscribe annually, all this, and more, can be yours.