Wheeler Dealers

On this episode of the Marshycast, I'm joined by Mike Brewer and Mark Elvis Priestley.

to talk about Wheeler Dealers World Tour Season 3.

We head to Japan for the opening episode where their dream NSX develops a rather expensive spanner in the works, resulting in days spent in the garage and even sleeping on floors.

Thankfully, they do make it to Suzuka where they meet fellow NSX enthusiasts and experience one of the motorsport's most famous circuits.

Plus, Mike and Elvis reveal where else around the world the new series takes them.

Willa Dealer's World Tour airs Wednesdays at 9pm on Discovery UK.

It's Paul Marsh and I'm delighted to say that I have been joined by Mike Brewer and Mark Elvis Priestley for Wheeler Dealers World Tour Season 3.

Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me.

The...

So on Wheeler Dealers-

Yeah

... we, we did the RS500 headlight swap into a Merkur.

It's been named a finalist for Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 International Motor Film Awards.

It's available to watch on 7 Plus, and the awards judging panel includes former Top Gear Sting, Ben Collins, ex-Formula 1 driver and TV presenter Tiff Needle, Porsche officiato Magnus Walker, Wheeler Dealers TV host Mike Brewer, as well as journalist Vicky Butler-Henderson, who I do follow, actually, which is quite interesting and definitely will be adding to my watch list.

We should get on that list, won't

we? We should.

These, these are amazing.

So the director of Wheeler Dealers daily drove one of these f- uh, for many, many years, and one time we were on a shoot and, uh, his transmission went out, and it, it, it stranded him, and we were all pretty surprised.

When he went to sell, when, when he went to go sell that car, uh, he reran the CARFAX, and at the time it had about 100,000 miles on the odometer.

The CARFAX came back 450,000 miles.

I think where car TV has struggled in, well, since Top Gear perhaps lost Clarkson, Hammond, and May, is, is around how you handle the demands of TV versus what the enthusiast audience actually wants.

So the kind of TV shows that get made, whether it's the Wheeler Dealers or the Richard Hammond's workshop, or whether it's other sort of restoration stuff, they're sort of more Discovery Channel kind of level budgets, but they're also trying to play to a, what's, the TV audience, which isn't exclusively car enthusiasts, and that means that they're trying to create a narrative that fits a certain structure that works for TV, and there is a certain degree of confection that is required in terms of scripting it to work around ad breaks, to work around false jeopardy, which is the documentary makers', you know, necessary evil to retain interest for a TV audience.

And what you get with these TV shows is that they are, it's fundamentally inauthentic because the structures that are imposed upon them by the regards of TV more generally doesn't necessarily suit- ... what the enthusiast wants when they want to watch something like this.

Whereas what is being made on YouTube and online is a much, even if the production values are far lower and it's just a bloke in his shed with a GoPro, if you wanna see a barn find, you wanna see Johnny Smith resurrecting a car in a barn find, well, what you're watching there is completely authentic.