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

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 ☺️

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

If the noise has stopped then something has fallen off 😂

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.

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

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

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.

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? 😂

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!!

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

It has a roof....good start!

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

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.

That head unit is worth £200 alone 😂😂

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 😮

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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).

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 got kicked from the live chat - Thank you so much everyone for all the support and love

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

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

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

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.

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 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 🤦🏽

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

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.

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

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 🤗🤗

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

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

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😊

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

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

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!

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

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!

Nice Find! Basically a Daihatsu. Good Luck!

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

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

Just saw you this morning with the Car in the Netherlands, funny to see you both and later on the KZfaq 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

“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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Classic HubNut 👍

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!

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

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

A brilliantly Hub Nutty adventure!

That took quite some time to build oil pressure 😂

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

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...

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 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.

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

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

What a neat little car Mr. Hubnut.

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!

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 😭

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

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 :)

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!

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

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.

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.

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:)

Brilliant adventure. Thank you 😊

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.

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

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.

Very much looking forward to this! 🥳

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 😎

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

These ‘boats’ are awesome…I adore them 😄

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 .

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

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

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

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.

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 one, good luck with rest of your adventure.

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

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!

If you are severely sight impaired, the front grill of the Kinari looks a squished Lancia 037 grill, and it has the twin lights. Rally pedigree!

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.

Great vid! Enjoyed that Ian. Looking forward to part 2!

Quirky little car, I love it! Fun fact, in the Star Wars universe, Kenari is the home planet of Cassian Andor (main character in Rogue One and the Andor series 😉🤓)

Thanks for the video, Ian. Really enjoyed it. Steering wheel shake was pretty cool. Enjoy.

Brilliant! I really enjoy your overseas vlogs, especially your courage for taking a £200 car straight from pickup across Europe when you had no idea how she would perform. Well done you. A very pretty little car!

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!