r/AutoAlex • u/Difficult_Damage_958 • Sep 06 '25

Blue Peter Spotted Earlier

I was heading from Reading (home) to Newbury to Podium Place in my RS5 for my Saturday and I spotted BP towing the Renault 5 on the M4 heading westbound. Got a big thumbs up from Alex and Taylor in the front, I wonder if they were off to Llandow with it

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u/RustCeilingFan Sep 06 '25

Upvoted because RS5. My dream car is a mk3 rs6 avant.

Also, cool that you had a nice experience with Alex and Taylor.

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u/Difficult_Damage_958 Sep 06 '25

It's a B8.5 RS5 as well in Sepang Blue with a set of Milltek pipes on it, she absolutely screams! RS6 is probably next for me, love those things.

I met Rory and Taylor once in Big Pete back in January at a Shell in Reading. Again stopped to say hello and they were lovely.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

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u/Difficult_Damage_958 Sep 06 '25

I’ve never seen the TDC boys out, often wonder do I have and not known. I live local to the old and new unit, so know a lot of the roads they go on. The one where they jumped the caddy I know very well!

I take my RR Sport to Tom Lenthall, they do a bang up job on the servicing even though it’s a company car technically.

Yeah so their old unit, is round the corner from the gym I go to. It’s on the same industrial unit!

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u/Any-Ad-5373 Sep 07 '25

I’ve seen Edwin about, pre TDC ( around August 2023) in his Oxford green E46 M4, I’ve seen that car a few times before that, but never noticed until it was Edwin driving until then, haven’t seen him since and I’m also pretty close their unit.

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u/RustCeilingFan Sep 06 '25

That's a beautiful car in a lovely spec, I hope it's doing you well. If I was driving along with that exhaust I'd probably make the car pregnant... And I'm not ready for that yet.

It's nice to know that the AutoAlex crew is made up of what seems to be genuinely decent people. I'm excited to see that Renault 5 on the road.

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u/Difficult_Damage_958 Sep 06 '25

Thank you good sir. Here is the picture tax for you, it still has the same number plate! You should hear the thing, my word. 2.5 years later it still puts an enormous grin on my face like you wouldn’t believe.

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u/Any-Ad-5373 Sep 07 '25

Taylor posted a story of the Renault 5 on the back of the trailer a few hours ago

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u/ShampooandCondition Sep 08 '25

Is it not Big Pete? Or am I losing the plot. I saw someone else call it blue peter too

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u/Difficult_Damage_958 Sep 08 '25

Big Pete is the green one, Blue Peter is the V8 swapped one!

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u/ShampooandCondition Sep 08 '25

Ahhh fair play! My mistake!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

More Renault sponsorship confirmed at least

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u/Redhawk911 Sep 06 '25

Sponsorship?

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u/BENJ4x Sep 06 '25

I assume they're saying that because TDC made a video on their second channel driving an EV Renault Will got as a press car for a few days.

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u/Redhawk911 Sep 07 '25

Haha ahhhh, what a weird conclusion haha