Jenson Button and Ant Anstead’s Californian Dream | Radford Motors | Goodwood Masters S3 E1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- What happens when a former F1 driver and a TV presenter get together to make a supercar? Well, after laying our eyes on the Radford Type 62-2 for the first time, our answer would be ‘something special.’ Jenson Button and Ant Anstead, owners of Radford Motors, sat down with us to discuss life in America and what it’s like starting your own car company.
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Its great how the world now understands how high calibre and smart an engineer Ant Anstead really is and all his hard work now paying off... Plus he's a very interesting personality!
I've followed this project since day one and it is still one of my favorite supercars. Beautiful and functional.
Wow, this is fantastic. As the BAR F1 Composites Project Leader I was managing parts for JB's F1 car & got to meet him. Such a great bloke. If only I was a bit younger I would have applied to join you both immediately. But buying bits for JB's F1 cars takes it's toll LOL, he needed lots of parts ;-) So pleased to see this new company & I will watch avidly. Very best wishes from an old colleague. I KNOW you with both do well
LOVE the comment Heritage is back, heritage is valued!! This is AWESOME!!
Loving the content you produce Goodwood team 👍
Boutique auto startups seem to come and go with the seasons. But I genuinely hope these guys make a successful go at it. California needs a revival of its sports car roots.
Here’s hoping for success for years to come 👍🏻🏴
Amazing project, this car looks amazing and Lotus as a base just perfection ❤❤❤
That was far more insightful than i was giving it credit for.
Best of luck, guys.
❤ From Romania !!!
Great job, chaps! Wish you lots of success!
6:05- Looks like Laguna/Newport on PCH
I’ve just been chatting to the wife and we have decided we’ll take 2. I’ll have a JPS one and the boss will have a gold leaf one. Thank you.
The boss, your wife's boyfriend will have a gold leaf one?
I find Ant totally annoying
The Lotus S62 influence is a very sweet element.
Looks like Pininfarina have some new competition. Here's hoping they go the distance. 👍
I know it's nitpicky but the welds on the gold gusset plates in the engine bay 5:42 are not great looking for something on display, details count at this level.
would love Jay Leno to look over this car🤔
Amazing car....I would have one...but for the cost.
How do I get a T-shirt?( all I can afford!)
Definitely, I'll need xxl
Feels like its a bit of a disservice to Lotus and Jubu when they are talking about making a car "from the ground up"
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We got f1 camp 2009 and from wheeler dealer
Would you buy a car from Ant Anstead...?!? No, me neither. 🙄
This interview raises far more questions than answers, not least for the Lotus Radford 62-2 "we now don't use a single Lotus part in any car" statement...🤔🤔🤔 When is a Lotus not a Lotus any longer...?
There is something about him that puts me right off
How about letting Jay Leno "take it for a ride?"!!!!
Whose is the landrover in the background?
nice to see someone else named Ant
Hi Ant 🙋🏻♂️
Interesting name ❕
I never heard before 😅
Love from Berlin 🇩🇪
Ramsi
@@Ramsi-Berlin Anthony.
@@pistonburner6448 Ah okay ❕
It's the short version of Anthony 😅
Thanks 👍🏼
@@Ramsi-Berlin Kein problem!
@@pistonburner6448 Dachte, Ant kommt von Ameise 🐜❕🙈🤣
Wonderful work, have a great future you all deserve it and so do the cars.
Ant forgot about the Lotus tuned Isuzu Impulse
Lotus helped develop the suspension systems in the R35 GTR
@@samuelgarrod8327lotus engineering developed numerous cars suspension
Could the brand you are partnering with be Porsche...?
I think the color of Ant's hair tells the whole story. Let's hope he's still got some left by the time they become a viable business.
I think the fact he feels he has to give the Lotus name some shade barely scratches the surface of something must have gone on behind-the-scenes over this car & the (former...?) partnership between Lotus Cars & Radford Motors....🤔🤔🤔
did someone get permission to reproduce the lotus carlton and the escort rs cosworth?
seems to to chime..
A lot of people are clearly not buying into this, me included. This re-use of a 1960’s coachbuilder name made famous by their 1960s Mini conversions does not really fit and I don’t see Ant Anstead as an engineering genius. As for Lotus going the all electric route under their Chinese owners, I think people should watch Harry’s Garage episode on why he has sold his Lotus Emira and bought a McLaren.
That car is too small, it's a car for Ants!
Ant - "I've got kids with American accents, drives me crazy". Funny stuff, and I guess that's part of our special relationship 😁
Sorry, I feel like I’m watching sign language Ant. Try watching in mute it’s so bad.
I'm guessing the rest of the family didn't want the Radbourne name being used...
Next car is with Red Bull and Adrian Newey 100%
There is absolutely no way Red Bull & Newey would get involved with these unproven johnny boys posing as bona fide vehicle constructors....
That would be crazy if Newey wasn’t leaving Red Bull
Jensons line "then they're not the customers for you" is terrible line, he could have worded that much better or simply not said it.
I bet the next car is a Roller
I'll take that bet! £1 says it won't be
@@js00065 Well JB, you should know.
Land Rover 😉
Were they watching a different Pike's Peak to the one I saw? I distinctly remember the Radford finishing in 8th place, 17 seconds behind a 1995 BMW M3, 47 seconds behind a Transit Van and almost a whole minute behind the winner, but they seem to think it did really well.
They made a point to say that they developed it in 100 days and barely did any testing at all and of course as a driver you wouldn't be very confident in driving a car under those circumstances, so he probably wouldn't go 100% with it anyway
Eski ant diil bu 😢😢😢
This project got too ambitious was too fast. i feel sorry for the buyers already if they ever get to see a complete car without teething gremlins for the rest of the vehicles life 😞😞😞. So many red flags with this guy (not Jenson)
I seriously hope they actually make a successful run though, because it's seriously one of the most beautiful designs out.
In today's market, you either go big or go home ( to repeat a phrase). It really takes balls to want to do something everybody else poo-poo's also. There is probably enough room in the niche market to make this viable as long as you can deliver. I say bravo to both for trying .
@@mrmoss149 Wrong. You don't have to go big in volume or company size, you just have to have a small group of committed billionaire customers. Pagani, Koenigsegg, basically all supercar manufacturers not part of one of the major corporations succeed with that model.
It looks like a well-engineered and put together car. I have the greatest respect for the Radford brand and its history and I hope you will succeed. However, I'm sorry to say, that shape to me looks dreadful. Such a wasted opportunity. Just look at the gorgeous Emira. I am so surprised you ended up with such a design.
It's definitely a personal vanity project for the Radford directors, & designer Mark Stubbs really should have called in a bit more ex-Lotus help other than just Martin Ware...Peter Stevens, Julian Thompson or Steve Crijns could have really made that car very exciting...
Looks very uncomfortable
What’s your daily?
@@chriscarbaugh3936 A comfy XC90 Inscription 2022 as daily 👍 what's yours my friend ?
I’m sure it’s comfortable to the guy it was built for.
I was thinking that after seeing the 1st shot of a person driving it..
Only someone who isn't healthy would say that
If you have to ask the price you can't afford it🎉
Lotus resold bare Radford chassis to Lotus dealers... one on order is already 8 months late... Not sure things are going swell at this company...
Absolutely not when pandering to only the wealthy
I'm confused...You saying Radford never took delivery of their spec'd Lotus running chassis' & Lotus are selling off the ones they had already assembled...?
@@_Ben4810 either that or Lotus produced too many. But I cannot imagine that...
@@harald.370 The idea was there would be 62no. 62-2's produced, & unless Lotus Cars got caught up in a rare moment of nostalgia, it's hard to believe they committed to this one-off small production-run project for an unproven new start-up coachbuilder without a firm guarantee & payment upfront.....But the reality is.....
For me the color of the car they have now as their showcase car and the rim color does not do the car any justice. It is dull and not anything special. When you have a dark color it hides the design. I do like the original old Gold Leaf livery colors from Lotus. I know Radford made a 62 car with those colors. That highlights the design much better. Something about the maroon and black rim color does not give me the wow factor. Maybe its is the dark color but the white color that surrounds the front head lights takes away from the design too. I know Ant moved to California to shoot Wheelers and Dealers when Edd China left the show and that was filmed around the Costa Mesa/Newport area of California. This is just my two cent opinion. I am one that has loved sports cars since 1962. I wish Ant and Jenson the best with their new car company and having a go at it in California. I have always been a fan of a manual car vs the F1 paddles and I hope they produce all their cars with a manual transmission.
That don’t look very comfortable to drive.
FFS knees rubbing and touching the dash as you’re changing gear .
The car looks like an ant...
I find Ant completely annoying
ngl, ford f40 knockoff vibes galore
Design needs to be done by people that know how to make one and not stick to old stuff.
Huh??
It's designed to look like a historic car that's the whole point. And never heard of a Ford F40 is it anything like the Ferrari GT40
Engineers need to stop being geeks and get a soul and a truly beautiful girlfriend, inside.
What a bunch of jerks.
Source: I’m an engineer that grew up.
These two guys come off as tech VC's. They sound very out of touch and a bit too happy. Something disingenuous about them. You know the type.
ugly wheels
whyyyyyyy