I'm Australian so to see you hop onto a ferry and suddenly be in a different country and then you drive through another couple of countries in a couple more hours is just so alien to me. This is a real education for me. Thanks so much, Ian ☺️

@michaeltutty1540

Ай бұрын

I can relate to that. If I left home heading towards the Pacific Ocean, I would have more than 1,000 miles just to leave the Province of Ontario.

@ptk4476

Ай бұрын

Imagine buying a car you could drive on the highway for less than $400 AUD down here these days? You'd be lucky to buy a burnt out Commodore.

"I have always wanted a Kinari..." A Hubnut only phrase...

@parolof

Ай бұрын

nobody has ever said that before

@tauncfester3022

Ай бұрын

I'm kinda liking it except for the really short seat to pedals thing, with 33" inseams would be torture. My Hyundai Accent is borderline. I'd have found a good out of the way place to stop and see if the seat rail's stops could be hammered or hacksawed so they could go back further.

I've been driving since 2012 and had around 43 cars. I used to brush it off as I couldn't afford what I want so I got what I could afford but honestly I've spent around 23k on all of them (not including recoup costs) and I've had more fun than if I just brought 1 brand new one. Cheap little cars are the best.

Only half-way through, but I'm already past my bed-time. It's a really nice looking little car: I've become very fond of the Japanese development of van-adjacent minicars maximising the internal space by looking like the box they came in, and with as much headroom as a London black cab. I've finally realised the method behind your madness: buying a car with only a month of MoT and that has been left standing, and immediately setting off on a long journey, with the first leg narrowly timed and involving the M25. You have found a way of outdoing Hitchcock as a master of suspense.

Hard to argue with your choice of car when it performs so admirably. Cheap and cheerful! What a little trooper. I enjoyed the adventure.

The Coventry town planners did a worse job of Coventry after the war than the Luftwaffe did during it

@emjayay

Ай бұрын

But they're adding an big awful new building to the mix 2:55

It has a roof....good start!

@caw25sha

Ай бұрын

That's it isn't it? He's bought a roof. What do you expect for 200 quid? 😅

@johnmiller4973

Ай бұрын

@@AdrianM082 gotta start somewhere. But what he really bought was a small shed

In a previous life I worked for Jaguar as a development engineer. It was frustrating how easy it was to drive from Calais all the way down to the Nardo test track in the heel of italy and back without any serious traffic. But driving from Dover to Coventry and back was always fraught with trepidation!!! My late father in law had a grand move as a mobility car for a while which was a very practical machine. Cant remember much about it sadly. Your adventure reminds me so much of our test trips to Nardo then Gross glockner pass and then finally the Nurburgring all in the adventure of testing new to be released cars. Great memories. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us all!! she did you proud!!

I just love watching your videos. They're a breath of fresh air. Many a £200 car I've had over the decades. You capture the excitement and challenges perfectly. Keep up the great work Hubnut.

If the noise has stopped then something has fallen off 😂

13:00 100% agree about that awful "non-colour" grey that seems to be so popular at the moment with new cars. Who on earth buys a new car and selects a colour that matches the mugs in motorway service station cafés? 😂

@dunk8157

Ай бұрын

Not very safe either, it's almost exactly the same colour as tarmac.

@tauncfester3022

Ай бұрын

@@dunk8157 Or fog.

@nchawla5297

Ай бұрын

Why would you buy a car with exactly the same colour as cement?

@stashedawayman1521

Ай бұрын

Battleship grey? Or is it just epoxy primer with clear coat on top?

A quintessentially Hubnut motor. Travelling anywhere in our wonderfully efficient nation with its excellent road network is almost always going to result in your timetable going out of the window. I did for a moment think getting up the ferry ramp would turn it into a Perodua Canhardly!

The absolutely best adventures are done in unseen cheap cars driven long journeys. Brilliant video. There are only a few people on this planet that would get excited about a mobile Wendy House! Absolutely Love it!! 😂

Ahh yes nothing quite like an armchair roadtrip on a Sunday.👍Thank's Ian.

I’d rather watch a Hubnut video than football or tennis.

@Eastern_European_Farming

28 күн бұрын

Exactly 💯

9:13 It's simultaneously trying to look like a BMW, Fiat Multipla and an Apollo moon buggy 😂

@caw25sha

Ай бұрын

The radiator grill looks a bit Lancia-ish.

@jeep2003

Ай бұрын

@@caw25sha Nothing ish about it. Even the headlights totally Lancia Delta

"This tunnel stinks of cheese" That's the slogan for the next batch of tee-shirts sorted then

@caw25sha

Ай бұрын

Probably a quote from the upcoming Wallace and Gromit film.

@johnmiller4973

Ай бұрын

@@AndreiTupolev don't give Ian any ideas he might regret

When I lived in Singapore I’d drive through rural Malaysia and these things were swarming everywhere loaded to the gunwhales with extended families and various livestock - seat belt wearing was very optional but sitting babies on the dashboard fairly common. Definitely a car for the people. I remember the ads - you could buy one with a few ringgit down and pay it off over 10 years (with a useful life expectancy / resale period of 4 max.). Odious was the adjective most used for them … but when your choice was that or a Proton to avoid paying huge import levies on foreign cars … that’s what was bought. Nasty home assembled hybrid bitsas from imported parts bins.

The Kancil is the one means Deer. The Kenari is Canary. Perodua is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua (Second Automobile Company. The first one is the Proton, which itself is an acronym for Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional or the National Automobile Company).

@HubNut

Ай бұрын

Drat. That got very muddled in my brain!

@caw25sha

Ай бұрын

That's a shame, I wanted to suggest Ian calls this vehicle Bambi. A canary really ought to be yellow! 😅

@saxon-mt5by

Ай бұрын

@@caw25sha It'll have to be Tweety Pie, then!

@ianmontgomery7534

Ай бұрын

@@saxon-mt5by or Breakfast!

@stephenjones9153

Ай бұрын

​@HubNut Stay clear of Reliant Kittens 😸 Little Tweety Pie the Canary may not like it too much and start shouting "I taut I taw a Putty Tat". Best of Luck and safe journeys. Also I just thought I wonder if the Kanari will be on Twitter Tweeting 😊😂😂

seeing the sticker in the rear of the Kenari, it came from the same dealer as the Mighty Nippa!

I wholeheartedly approve of the Kenari as an addition to the HubNut fleet. It's VERY HubNut. One of the original Daihatsu Moves would have been even better, though I imagine they're had to come by nowadays. And SOME of the Daihatsu Moves actually came with Air Con - which so far as I can tell, is conspicuous by its' absence on ALL of he Kenaris.

Always love a road trip adventure, whether my own or living vicariously through someone else’s fun. Great stuff Ian.

Hi watching from Brisbane Australia . What a lovely little car . I love the design of the front it’s so different . My father is Friesian seeing Netherlands I think of him . One day I will visit . Watching your videos like a holiday road trip 🤗🤗

Ian, this makes me SO happy! I’ve been longing for more Perodua content since the early days of the channel and I’m so pleased that you’ve got another one!

I did really enjoy this longer format of Ian's video again. I did enjoy the long collection capers.

Oh this is Top Tier Hubnut. Buy a cheap unproven car, go adventuring. I don't know if it gets round the parts availability issues of the Charade but it'll certainly give it a quirky companion and a more practical one than the Smart

I recognised the route you took, through the Liefkenshoek tunnel. Took that route on my own collection caper, when I picked up a 206 GTI 180 in feb.'17. Snow on the roads, only slightly more tread than you have but a lot more power. So a bit more exciting than your trip was, but I made it home in one piece. Got the car on Dutch plates in two weeks and still enjoy it

Obviously no logical reason why one wouldn't pick up a twenty year old car worth £200 that you've never seen before and drive it 500 miles or more when you have at least three other cars you could have taken. Totally rational thing to do 😮

@HubNut

Ай бұрын

That's HubNut.

@conradharcourt8263

Ай бұрын

@@HubNut ...and long may it be so!!

@ZerokillerOppel1

24 күн бұрын

It's called "risk taking" and or "adventurous"; might even going on a limb here and stating it's "carefree" and that's what Hubnut's all about...some things that a lot of us have lost with age and instead whine and moan from the armchair while watching Hubnut...

1952'ish Chevrolet Bel-Air hardtop sighting.... amazing what you find rolling about in the UK. :) Cheers from NY State.

I took my 1999 1.6 mk1 Ford Focus on a 4300 km long trip from Voss to Å in Lofoten (plus a small diversion to Sweden) and back last year, no trouble taking a roadtrip in a cheap car😊

I remember my dad was loaned a Kenari for the day whilst his car was in for a service. My mum thought it was a baby BMW when she saw the front grille 🤦🏽

@caw25sha

Ай бұрын

It's a very generous number of headlights isn't it?

Look at that Kinari go, in the outside lane!! Great content Ian - who says you cant buy a £200 car these days, and crack on, plenty out there, people just aren't looking hard enough.

Well done Mr HubNut, and well done wee car on covering all those miles.

That head unit is worth £200 alone 😂😂

@christineayres7199

Ай бұрын

@@fhwolthuis Yeah if it's like Apple car play that's £200 on Amazon

The Dover/Dunkirk ferry is the possibly best way to cross the Channel. Just enough time to sit back and relax. Can't have that on the Dover/Calais link or going through the tunnel. But then again, I am coming over from Ireland and I already had three hours in the Republic to get to Rosslare, 4 hours on the Irish Sea (and having had a few moments of shut eye on board the ferry) and several hours ploughing through Wales until getting on the M4. Not to mention the chaos that is London and the M20. Being on the Continent, I mostly add another 4 hours until I'm in Germany. Lots of driving, indeed, but I have done that stint on a motorbike once in my yourger days. Much younger..... Oh, and Ian, those tires are baaaaaaad! Outright dangerous.

@HubNut

Ай бұрын

Still 75% tread but tyres and tracking need to happen.

@karstentopp

Ай бұрын

@@HubNut Ian, read the fine print. It's over the whole surface. So if you have one of those X-legged ultra stance Bozozuko cars and the inner bit is worn, it doesn't matter if the outer is still at 100%. Your inside is totally worn, beyond the original thread......

What an adventure Ian...exhausting, but still, better fun than just about any other job I could think of (or I have done...except rock star - I was a semi pro muso in another life, although that never really paid enough, at least for me it didn't - yes that's me in the thumbnail from circa 30ish years ago). I really do envy you Brits' ability to get usable transport like this trusty little steed for only 200 quid...here in Austraila, you'e lucky to find anything roadworthy (road registered vehices are required to pass a roadworthy check, similar to your MOT, when they are sold) for under AU$2k (about GBP1k)...however, I don't envy your fuel prices, road tax and annual MOT regime, ULEZ zones, and traffic, so it's swings and roundabouts. Cheers!

“That’s the jail where they lock up children” 😂😂😂

@Phiyedough

Ай бұрын

Off to the cobalt mines!

Never thought I'd see another one of these. A mate of mine bought an auto Perodua from a dealer on the Wirral many years ago. Within a few days it would refuse to start - usually at the most inconvenient moment. After calling the AA out we drove it straight back to the dealer. They fixed it, but when it happened again we exchanged it for a Citroen C3, Thank God. All I can say is good luck!

“Havens” on the road signs means “ports”. You were near Antwerp that has many different docks that are in the Port of Antwerp. Flemish has Dutch as a base but there are numerous differences between Dutch and Flemmish. The Dutch and the Flemmish do understand each other if they speak clearly and slowly to one another. Greetings from Hekelingen, Holland. Willem.

@johnmoruzzi7236

Ай бұрын

“Hafen” in German…..

Nice Find! Basically a Daihatsu. Good Luck!

Reminds me of my own hyundai Amica. These type of cars are much better than the critics would have us believe.

Always enjoy these car journey trip adventures great video & safe travels 🚙💨💨💨

Well done! A return to the old days it would seem… First rule… No rules! Minimum planning… No testing… Just going for it 🤡💥

Just saw you this morning with the Car in the Netherlands, funny to see you both and later on the KZread video. I was the "small" Dutch bloke with the different Citroens in the past, now the last 21 year the Audi 89 100 Turbo quattro

What a great little car, that fits I to the Hubnut fleet perfectly. Looking forward to seeing more of it, hoping you can make it a bit tidier and get some wheel trims for it.

Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍 200 quid some cars cist more and wouldn't make it testimony to there reliability brilliant

I am really looking forward to seeing more adventures with this sterling little car!

It is possible! As long as you don't worry to much about dents, rust, weathered paint and oil consumption. Over the years I sometimes bought some fully functioning cars for 200,- with MOT (or APK as we call it in NL), mostly to fill a gap 'inbetween' cars: 1: Austin Metro 1.3 on 3 cilinders, 2: Citroen BX Break Turbo Diesel (without functioning Turbo), 3: Volvo 240 Turbo (with rust and side damage) 4: BMW 315 (on auction: a perfect car missing keys; I bought back the key from the previous owner!). I could go on, but lets see what HubNut came up with!

@theothertonydutch

Ай бұрын

BX is so underrated as a cheap stop-gap car. They're honestly more reliable than people shout. Those people that shout about it a lot are VW drivers who need something to be worse than their own car.

@sebastian0107

Ай бұрын

@@theothertonydutch Absolutely! Few years back, you could snatch them for well under 2K in a very good condition. No longer though: prices are on their way up: 4 to 10K. Xantia's were also great cars no one wanted second hand; but also re-appreciated. A Basic 1.4 or 1.6 BX is a perfect Classic!

This is why I never drive against a deadline - when crossing the ditch, I will stay overnight at a hotel right near the drain, and catch the first shuttle across.

Well done, Ian. Best of luck with the Kenari. I used to do that trip back in the mid-1990s, a bit longer from Calais then through the very top corner Nord département of France and into the Flemish-speaking provinces of Belgium, aiming for Arnhem and Enschede so as to visit German friends south of Bremen, once a year every summer in my Volvo 850SE 10v. Survived on a transport-caff breakfast on the ferry at around 6.30am (7.30 Frogland time) on a Saturday morning, and then looked forward 😀🤣to the Antwerp ring. Most of the time, it turned out to be a very good run. A lot of your footage, except for that rather interesting diversion through the villages or small towns before the tunnels, looked familiar!

I remember getting access to the ferry lorry drivers' buffet on a late return. They get all the good food!

Gawd Ian ...Your looking like the next DR Who.

Very delighted to have seen the car in the flesh before the official reveal 😅 For £200 it's really a bargain!

This is the Type of Hubnut I first started watching,..and enjoyed the Capers

Classic HubNut 👍

Congratulations for purchasing a very cool car! I'm a little bit jealous, to be honest 😅. And thank you for bringing us along. Seeing Dover ferry port and the white cliffs makes me want to go back to the UK even more...

Here's another top tip - if you book with Irish or P&O and you miss your boat or even turn up early, they will offer you the choice of either to get you out of the Port and on your way. Admittedly this is only to Calais but its only 20 minutes up the road from Dunkirk and a quicker crossing.

@worldofrandometry6912

Ай бұрын

P&O made all their workers redundant one day and replaced them with cheaper ones. I wouldn't use them after that.

@ablestringer9063

Ай бұрын

@@worldofrandometry6912 I said the same but it's all about vfm for the punter at the end of the day. What they did was morally questionable but they fly the Cypriot flag and all the staff are very nice.

@stepheng8779

Ай бұрын

​@@ablestringer9063No it's about having a conscience.

@ablestringer9063

Ай бұрын

@@stepheng8779 in which case nobody would use them and another bunch of people get laid off. The new service is very much more Ryanair than the previously bloated and quite expensive BA service. If you can afford to make your purchases based on conscience alone, you're a more fortunate person than me.

I adore Kei people carriers. They're just brilliant!

That looks like the same DFDS Ferry that I went to Holland in May, it was calmer that day but the Antwerp traffic was horrendous, 4pm on a Friday we queued for those tunnels for probably 30 minutes. Came back the other way. Car looks very HubNut 👍

What a neat little car Mr. Hubnut.

Best video you've ever done - thank you. 'Keep on Kenari!' T-shirts pending?!

A brilliantly Hub Nutty adventure!

A Peroudua isn't a thing at all here in Austria. Looks to be a perfect runabout for Miss Hubnut and the kids. Quite an admirable journey so far. Love that quad headlights front end. Hope you will be able to find spare parts if needed. Cheers and take care :)

Those lower weight, high volume lorries are normally used for hauling crisps, toilet rolls and cereals, or anything else you can think of that is relatively large but light, on lorries like those they can load them upto the roof and still be under weight

A cracking welcome to a new member of the fleet. I'll call her 'Polly' for now until she gets a name. Both of you did a cracking job in this one and not without risk, you didn't know 'Polly' and she didn't know Ian. Anyway a cracking job completed for you both. A very long day for you both and a much longer day for Ian. Oh, and Coventry has changed so much in the last decades since I spent time there so it's good to see some parts still remain.

Great car. Your end Perchoo sounded so tired. Your legs must be sore. Hoping you sleep well. Betty would have been more comfortable, but not "Japanese enough". For a bodge cruise control, maybe a cut off broom stick to jam between the seat and throttle pedal on the way home? What could go wrong??? LOL ... Maybe Don't! Take care:)

Absolutely fantastic Roadtrip. I loved it. The next time you go across Belgium try to tune into Radio Joe, it is fantastic, all 60s,70s, 80s, 90s etc.

Unfortunately, what the Luftwaffe started, post-war town planners often finished in so many historic places, like Coventry and Exeter.

It would be 199euro road tax here in Ireland based on engine size until 08 when emissions were used 🙄. My cinquecento 899cc is 199 tax and the 1108cc sporting is 330euro 😭

Very nice bit of a journey. Nice to see you passing through Belgium. Cheers!

miss hubnut is going to be all over that jem happy motoring. can't wait for the next video and miss hubnut's reaction 👍👍😀😀❤❤

Ferry travel / ship travel is always my preferred method of transportation. ☺️ You are forced to chill and relax. Airports and waiting for planes and dealing with delays is always a miserable activity. I guess if you don't travel too much then airports could be exciting. Quite like rail travel but ship travel will always be something I jump at doing!

@sebastian0107

Ай бұрын

Absolutely! It's Fun. The smells, the view, you can walk some; time flies! Love it that way!

@Phiyedough

Ай бұрын

When they insist you go to the airport 2 hours before your flight you lose any time saving from flying. I would probably go for the chunnel but I wish it was a bit cheaper.

@sebastian0107

Ай бұрын

@@Phiyedough If it were for a straight UK-France-Trip, that Chunnel is a very efficient way to travel. I've only been from Hoek van Holland to Harwich and vice versa. It's romantic, almost adventurous. Travelling like our ancestors did.

42:25 "Hold on ... this tunnel stinks of cheese" ... me every time my clutch is slipping.

Ahh... Ian... I love a good road trip video. Thanks for sharing 👍

I remember that crossing and the route into Belgium well from my days on the wagons.

Wow I almost bought myself a Produa Kenari back in the early 2000s a great little Mpv got a Berlingo in the end both very handy cars 😎

The car at 21:53 is a 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air two door hardtop. (Bel Air meant two door hardtop (no center post or window frames) and later became the name of the top line of Chevys, just like 1958 Impala was a two door hardtop with its own interior and exterior trim and then became the top line and then the name of the car).The first year of a Chevy hard top, and probably the most valuable model by far today other than a convertible, around $35K for a good one. And that one has those optional new back up lights. Luxury!

I will have to do a search round my dads yard. Somewhere I still have a collection of n.o.s parts and spares I bought with my long ago sold one.

Great roadtrip vlog Ian. Neat little car. Ought to fit in well at HubNut central. The styling on those, with big box, little bonnet and little wheels looks like any generic car in Viz. I once did a family roadtrip to the south of France in a £200 Escort bought from the scrappy at Earlswood. It looked great on the waterfront in Monaco! Looking forward to the next part. Hope you get a well deserved rest. The car is holding up better than you so far it would seem!

That’s a fun one. BTW saw Giselle at a car show today. Leighton Hall. The mouth on the microphone said some irritating things about her in the arena, but she’s looking good.

@HubNut

Ай бұрын

Regardless of what the mouth said, she won best in show!

These ‘boats’ are awesome…I adore them 😄

Brilliant adventure. Thank you 😊

So far so good, what a great choice of car and it's doing grand. Looking forward to the rest of your trip.

Downside of being early: can't skip ahead and cheat Upside: Excitement, also funky countdown!

Ooooohhhhhhh. When you said you were going to the Netherlands and getting a new car in last vid, I thought that meant going to the Netherlands to GET the car. I don't think I had ever seen a Perodua before in a video (definitely not here in the US). Heck, we only got two Daihatsu models for a short time (Rocky and Charade). The headlight design reminds me of the Jaguar X-type. You should put a Jaguar badge on the thing. lol. Though I guess the staggered sizes makes it more like a 6th gen Celica or Kia Opirus/Amanti.

Nice acquisition. You haven't called for name suggestions, but if you ever do, I want to put in an early vote: Bambi the Perodua. She isn't just a little deer, she's also a little dear, in the affectionate sense of the word. Hopefully she'll never be a little dear, in the pecuniary sense of the word.

What an entertaining video. She's small, but she's capable.

What a noble little steed, being awoken from a long slumber only to be pointed at Belgium in one stint! Those mirrors look superb btw, what a great little car

@roooooooory

Ай бұрын

The Netherlands even! I hadn't quite made it that far when I posted the comment!

That took quite some time to build oil pressure 😂

@HubNut

Ай бұрын

It really does. Think it may have a filter with no valve in it.

@charliewakely8585

Ай бұрын

Yes, correct. The filter is properly horrid and was a lesson to me to avoid eBay cheapies.

Cool to recognize the highway in Belgium. It is the E34. The havens near the exit if the tunnel are the havens in the greater area of Ghent. The E34 is a boring and quite dangerous road between Antwerp and Knokke-Heist, a seaside location well known and popular amongst the rich and famous. The other end is from Antwerp straight to Eindhoven.

Watching your videos teaches me to chill out 😂 I could just imagine my mood after a night in The Brittania ( I am from Cov ) , then getting stuck on the M25 in a £200 car . I take my hat off to you .

17:16 Glad you enjoy the Kenari :) Perodua is actually the short form of the phrase 'second national car brand' in Malay. Actually 'Kancil' (the Nippa's name in Malaysia) means little deer.

This new car should be an interesting experience. I always like how deceptively roomy these cars are despite their small size. The grille on this Perodua reminds me of a Lancia.

@Eric_Hunt194

Ай бұрын

@@davidhinkson8856 Ypsilon 10 vibes for sure!

Great choice of hoodie

To be fair, that car doesn't look too battered- both those dents on the offside front and rear corners should pop out easily enough. 🙂, and it's got a pretty clean MOT history with nothing to worry about even on the last one.

@christineayres7199

Ай бұрын

@@tridaks There's a dent man I know who fixes dents for £50 each , he just uses Glue to pull them out and some metal levels to make sure the dent is flush 👍

YES!!!! I have to admit I guessed a Bedford Rascal first, but I suppose I wasn't that far off!

Love these little practical cars and this one is doing its beast to please its new owner like a faithful little dog

I love it, wonderful addition to the fleet.

Liked the Cook Strait reference 😂 one of the Interislander ferries (Aratere) grounded just recently because someone couldn't figure out how to turn off the autopilot.

Another useful load carrier there17:50. Have you ever thought about one of those?