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Alonso signed another 2 years at AM. Sainz heavily rumoured to be off to Mercedes. Much as I like some of the established drivers, there could do with being a decent cull of guys who have had their shot. Magnusson Hulk Danny Ric (Gutting but he just doesn't look fast) Zhou Bottas Tsunoda possibly, ...

Dropped the XC40 in for a service the other day. They did the service but reported I needed new tyres (already booked in at Costco) but also new disks and pads all round at a cost of £1200! :shock: Needless to say I told them to do one. Checked the pads and they are low (rears much more than the fro...

A couple of things to remember :- I'm (just) old enough to remember when people used to refer to Japanese cars as "Jap Crap". Look what happened next. Remember when Kia weren't a thing and Hyundai made weird Cortina-based cars? Look at them now. Another 5 to 10 years and a Chinese manufact...

I've been very happy with my Eufy cameras.

Expect used prices for the ICE cars to take a marked upswing in the light of this.

TBF, most women look that bad when compared to Sofia Vergara!

Was on Vodafone (City Fibre) at the last house - 120Mb up and down (fibre is synchronous bandwidth) and it was superb. Currently on Virgin here as couldn't get Fibre, but as it became available a month after we moved in, Virgin are getting canned as soon as the contract is up (next month) and I'm sw...

Decided to address the Boxster display issue this lunchtime. My first step was to disconnect the battery for 5 minutes. Went out to the car, unlocked it, opened the driver's door and all the displays were working again! Hurrah for self-fixing cars! Volvo told me it wanted a service this morning so I...

I had Top Trumps Prototype Super Cars in the 70's and a lot of the cars featured were his work.

An amazing body of work. RIP.

Took the Boxster to judo on Tuesday night as the Mrs had the Volvo. On the way there I noticed that both the outside lower displays on the dash (showing trip and odometer, and clock/outside temperature) were both blank. The main centre display is fine. Did a quick google and a couple of people have ...

I love this!

Being on holiday and contracting the lurgy when I got back has meant zero progress on the 928. On the way home from the airport the XC40 decided that, despite climate settings to the contrary, we wanted all the heat. Tried resetting by turning the car off and back on again, but no dice. Left the car...

A.K.A Big Keith from The Office. 50 is no age. RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68357976

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13061245/lewis-hamilton-to-join-ferrari-for-2025-formula-1-season This is huge news. LeClerc (who I think is massively overrated) has just signed a multi-year deal with Ferrari. They just need a decent strategy team to not fuck things up. Wonder where Sainz w...

As part of the interior light fix, I realised that the door guard lights (red lights in the door jamb that come on when the door is open) weren't working. They're connected in series to the door interior lights so I thought I'd pop them out and have a look. They both disintegrated and I was left wit...

Didn't realise she was in her 80's.

RIP

Volvo is an auto which is perfect for what it is, similarly the Boxster is a manual which is perfect for what it is. 928 is an auto which I think suits the car perfectly. There's a premium on 928 manuals, but I really don't understand why - the clutch is heavy, it's a dog leg box and the shifts aren...

2023 wasn't too bad all things considered. Mrs Delphi's managed to snag herself a new job towards the end of the year and the extra money kind of offsets the cost of living increases with mortgage rates going up etc. STILL haven't finished the 928, although finally getting the respray done was a maj...

I've always found Airbus planes to be massively superior to Boeing in terms of comfort, noise and general passenger experience. The 737 debacle has not altered that perception in the slightest. Will we see Airbus starting to make inroads into the domestic US market?

I've been driving 35 years and the number of times fog has been thick enough to require fog lights is probably in single digits.