OV9

Tyre technology moves on, I wonder how a landsail compares to the original equipment 30 year old Michelins or whatever it would have worn at launch?

I’m not voting because I have some ridiculous notion that if turnout is historically low all the parties might have a think about why that might be and make some changes.

I know they won’t, but none of them deserve the effort to get out and cross the box.

I’d still take an F40 over anything ideally an LM, but I’m not going to be too fussy. Mclaren f1 lm road car would always be second to one, but definitely very high on my list. Ah, didn’t even read the options properly, thought the last one was Singer or anything else. From that list F1, wouldn’t gi...

A friend bought a car from them, it had dodgy tyres and was losing coolant. Of course they collected and refunded with no problem, but just transporting the car twice probably wiped out any profit they had in it. You don’t need many like that before the business starts being unsustainable. Cars didn...

mik wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 8:42 pm

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 8:29 pm @IanF not sure if interesting or worrying.

Or bullshit

I’m going with bullshit.

I for one am already looking forward to buying an f40 with all the extra money I as a normal boring working person will have after a couple of years of labour government

I’m probably not going to bother voting. I’m not going to pretend I’m happy with the way things have been going, but I’m not sure labour would have done much better or will do in the future. It’s very easy to make great sound bites saying how bad everything is when you’re in opposition, but they nev...

Several other nasty injuries from people and things getting thrown around. I don’t take my seatbelt off in the car when there’s no other traffic around and put it back on when a crash is more likely. I don’t think they should force you to always wear one, but it seems like common sense to still have...

I don’t fly that often but have always kept it on, just loosened a couple of fingers worth most of the time but pulled tighter when it gets a bit bumpy or the warning lights come on.

Just seems like common sense

I have discovered that if you put the M135i in to 'TRACTION' mode (a single press of the TC button) it pops and crackles like an absolute motherfucker on the overrun - about as much, if not more than in sport+, but without the firm gearchanges, heavy steering etc. I am absolutely not being a child ...

Car / plane seats are great because they’re designed to be sat in in a fixed position for 3+ hours at a time. You can’t really adjust your position much while driving. I don’t know many people who sit rigidly in an office chair without getting up for a few minutes or adjusting their position / postu...

Nice to see others closing the cap to RB at last. Wonder if Lando would have been able to make a move if he didn’t come out behind Perez after his pit stop? That’s racing I guess, at that point I expected his race to have been completely ruined. As for Perez, 8th behind both Mclarens, both Ferraris ...

I was kind of looking at these a long long while ago. Would have had to be a blue, manual estate, preferably with a black interior. As you can imagine, specific spec W8 passats don’t come up that often.

Plus they’re heavy, thirsty and not very quick. Still interesting though.

So they have now stopped fitting the crazy looking wheel covers, for the specially designed tyres, because customers were finding they were cutting the sidewalls. How does that not get picked up in testing?? So you get just the bare wheel, no nut cover or centre cap, so on your £100k truck you get t...

Just looked like whisky grey cloud with a touch of light pollution. I expressed my dissapointment by having a piss https://i.imgur.com/49Nbs65.jpeg Didn’t think any of my own photos had captured anything until looking the next morning and seeing one with some colour, but very blurry 😅 ( I had drunk ...

I was up, nothing here. Then again I thought last Friday was massively overrated

It's a Merc "thing" innit, putting everything on one stalk. I hate it too. The Vito was the same and didn't even have the excuse of needing the other side for the shifter. Not just that though! Indicators, main beams and wipers on one stalk, cruise control on another stalk, steering wheel...

I presume they want some sort of lever for ‘manual’ shifts. Sticking it on the column would mean always auto unless you add flappy paddles and clutter. I hate the bmw shifter though, it looks rubbish in normal cars. Why they have to make it look like something from a 90s arcade flying game I don’t k...

Surely no one at Morgan can be happy with it either.

Wonder if it’s some weird condition if being allowed to use bmw power plants that it has to stay?

does it give absurd bhp or not? I doubt it, they were only around 250bhp from the original 3.2l Probably sounds quite nice though! we're spoilt by ///M specific power outputs! My 4 door bmw having 70bhp more, being rwd, and worth about 1/3rd as much as a decent 156 gta was why I never bought one. I...