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If they’re going to start charging more for heavier cars they should start taking tyre size / footprint into account, heavy electric cars with hard skinny tyres causing more road wear. Anything with 300+ wide tyres should get a rebate for helping smooth out the roads

While the evoke absolutely is a cunts car, it only weights 1800kg and is shorter than a lot of normal cars so a pretty poor example to use…

If only they could add a specific tax for Jukes and qashqais

My x5 is 2295 kg so obviously very friendly for children and the environment

The adhesive has probably etched the glass slightly, you’d probably have to use a machine polisher and cerium oxide glass polish to properly deep clean the surface. Fine if on the outside ( even then you need to be careful) but expect it would chew through the lines on a heated screen.

Probably not in the wet though…

Levels of shitholeness are weird. The Abbey Farm estate in Thetford is notorious around here for being a dump, in the top 10 most deprived places in England, yet street view it and it looks fine. I lived in the midlands for several years through uni and drove through plenty of far more threatening ...

It’s not too bad here yet unless it rains. Will get worse with less daylight and the sugarbeet season getting under way.

We did have pigs in the field opposite which meant several tractors a day spreading a trail of mud up and down a hundred yards of road to get to / from the farmyard. It seems ...

Did a couple of airport runs in the x5 round to Heathrow, and while sat on the motorway realised I couldn’t actually hear the engine at all, only tyre noise unless giving it some throttle.

I did wonder whether the silence of an ev would really be the life changing experience some owners make them ...

Probably because the originals can have both the provenance and be beautiful, the later one might be better, but it’s a bit weird looking.

Not sure about London, but I love driving the x5 around town, big mirrors and good visibility makes it strangely better than the smaller more responsive cars.

Thankfully I was able to pay for my lunch (and yesterdays tab) with Apple Pay. Have also dug out a credit card just in case I need a physical card anywhere

I knew my bank card was expiring, went into my banking app and saw a new card listed, ooh must have a new one on the way!

Clicked to add it to my Apple Pay wallet.

Oh, now my old cars has vanished. I thought you had to use the actual new card before it was activated.

So now I have no card, can’t ...

Absolutely would not want a classic Quattro without the 5pot. That engine / noise is 90% of the want for one.

Probably handle loads better with an engine that’s not hanging a couple of feet ahead of the front wheels though!

They have an awful image but I think they’re a nice modern interpretation of the original Range Rover ( I know they’re not actually modern any more)

Wheels are centred on the hub, oem wheels are machines to be a snug fit, aftermarket wheels should have spigot rings to help centralise the wheels.

Most centrelocks have a nose behind the threaded part which does the centralising. Like a normal wheel you’re not relying on the taper of the nut ...

I’ve always done mine with the car on the ground, I snug them up with the wheel in the air, drop it and tighten, just like a normal wheel with multiple nuts / bolts.

I have no idea what the clamping force of a but being tightened to 500+ nm is, but I’m property sure it’ll pull the wheel to the car ...

Wonder what the odds are on the mclarens taking each other out several times and max winning the title?

I like the interior

Wonder what it actually looks like in the flesh because dakar yellow isn’t anywhere near that bright or vibrant.

Good grief Oscar is right up their with the best of the whiny twats

I don’t like the green on the M5, I think the lancia retrim looks a bit cheap ( the cloth is standard, it’s what mine had) especially the way it’s visibly trim clipped around the back of the front seats, don’t think the fishnet headrests work, and the equalizer install is a bit of a bodge.

But hey ...