Fuelling Round podcast: Coronation Road star Simon Gregson on his dislike of electrical automobiles – Cyber Tech

Coronation Road legend Simon Gregson is the most recent visitor on sequence 10 of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round. 

Gregson is finest recognized for taking part in Steve McDonald on the cobbles for over 35 years and has been concerned in a few of the largest storylines within the cleaning soap’s historical past.  

He sat down with hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty to debate his massive break on Coronation Road, how he began loving automobiles after serving to his dad and his subject with electrical autos.

Simon Gregson on the place his ardour for automobiles got here from 

Throughout his chat with the boys, Gregson detailed why he doesn’t like electrical autos and the way his love for automobiles began.

“My dad’s all the time been into automobiles. Rising up and never having some huge cash he was all the time having to repair his personal automobiles,” Gregson started. 

“So after all I used to be all the time in my dad’s shadow attempting to assist him do that, that and the opposite. Principally getting in the way in which on a regular basis.

“We didn’t notably have something particular, however I’ve simply beloved automobiles ever since I may push them round on the little Matchbox pack. I simply had an enormous ardour for them. I keep in mind my mate had an awesome assortment of Matchbox automobiles, and I might sit there them, dreaming sooner or later I’d be capable to personal an actual a kind of. 

“My first motor was a Suzuki Samurai, the SJ413. We had been driving someplace me and my dad and I noticed it on a automotive lot.”

When the subject moved onto electrical autos, Gregson was stern in his response about whether or not they’re higher or worse than petrol and diesel. 

“I feel it’s honest to say, if you happen to love automobiles then you already know {that a} petrol, or perhaps a diesel, inner combustion engines have a soul. Your automotive has a soul and also you grow to be very connected to it. And for me electrical automobiles are simply utterly soulless. I’ve pushed one and I simply hated it. 

“It’s the noise, it’s the odor, it’s the way in which you may get that gearbox and engine in excellent concord. The gasoline is pumping round just like the blood in your physique and it’s only a residing, respiratory factor.”  

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