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Re: EV Thread
Saloons and estates, I’ve a mental barrier of 2 tons. SUVs shouldn’t be over 2.3 tons. Hatches under 1.5 tons. Super minis 1.2 tons. When cars are above those figures I just think badly designed lard boxes. Dave! I always describe my car as a sensible 3-door hatchback. Just checked and its DIN weig...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 696
Re: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
Roaring will be the least successful aspect unfortunately.Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:07 pm So unless the EV boxster/cayman replacement is a roaring success that will become even more true in the future.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 696
Re: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
Wow! Really? Are the UK rules stricter than EU, or are they just giving up everywhere? Blimey that's a shame! :( Seems to be EU-wide according to this article . Don't worry @PaulJ - they promise an EV successor as soon as 2025 :( Afraid I still consider all electric vehicles to be appliances, and n...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Cayman/Boxter RIP.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 696
Cayman/Boxter RIP.
I just heard that the Porsche Cayman and Boxster models have been withdrawn from sale in the UK due to them not meeting the latest standards of cyber security. :roll: Apparently it would cost to much to upgrade them for the two years before the electric replacement appears. Having had 3 Boxsters and...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Up GTi door seal leak.
As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new. Sad times, but still a reasonable price....didn't...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: OV9 Political Party
- Replies: 41
- Views: 634
Re: OV9 Political Party
Road tax based on height and weight of vehicle. Using my car as an example, I would pay none, all SUV/crossover's tax would double and Caterham owners would receive a £200 grant towards costs for cheering up the road-scape.
All speed humps to be recycled and used to fill potholes.
All speed humps to be recycled and used to fill potholes.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Up GTi door seal leak.
we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. How are you finding the Abarth? 404 - Marty McFly errorz :? This is kind of the 2024 version of replacing a car 'cos the ashtrays are full. Hope she enjoys it 8-) You've just made me think Mik. I don't recall if the Up even has a...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Up GTi door seal leak.
As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new. Sad times, but still a reasonable price....didn't...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Your fleet running reports
p.s. Bit of a nostalgic moment here, as it's the last of the old air-cooled pages...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Up GTi door seal leak.
As feared our door seal leak has been fixed using the expensive method, and we pick up an orange new/pre-registered Abarth 595 Turismo on Friday. We got £9300 trade-in which I suppose is good for a 5 and a half year old car that cost about £16k new.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Your fleet running reports
Thanks for the info regarding Up leaks. She may have found another (more expensive) way around the problem - we're going to look at a new Abarth tomorrow. Will see you posted...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20050
- Views: 2286373
Re: Your fleet running reports
My partner Alison's Up GTi, (five and a half years old, owned from new and never bent or abused) has started to leak rain water in around the door seal onto the drivers seat. Bit disappointing for a VW. Anyone else had a similar problem?
Re: EV Thread
It's a Shamen you didn't already know Es are good.
Re: Jack envy
No jacks/spare wheels have come with Porsches for years, and our UP GTI doesn't have one either.
It's a bit surprising that Porsche don't offer one as an optional extra, and a more expensive lightweight one in titanium for Euro-millions winners.
It's a bit surprising that Porsche don't offer one as an optional extra, and a more expensive lightweight one in titanium for Euro-millions winners.
Re: Trump
I can't work out if Americans are unaware that the rest of the world sees Trump as a clear self-serving swivel-eyed maniac, or that they are just so yoo-ess-ay, yoo-ess-ay insular that they simply don't care? :? That probably reads as far more derogatory to John Q American than I intended it to, bu...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Weird car wants.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18356
Re: Weird car wants.
If a Cayman could return sensible mpg I'd be getting one believe me! I often carry 4 passengers but they are always the other half's friends so u can use her car for that! I don't do track days, but my 'heavy' usage gets 24mpg, normal is around 27 and on long steady runs 31mpg. Not bad for a 4 litr...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Weird car wants.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18356
Re: Weird car wants.
I'm 70 and still consider my Cayman to be a sensible 2 door hatchback.Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:32 pmI'll be fifty later this year but I'm still not convinced I'm old enough.Zonda_ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:28 pmI am tempted, it can be a nod to turning 50...Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:24 pm Do it ! I would. I probably will one day when I'm old enough for a Merc
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Lotus Emira
- Replies: 419
- Views: 42063
Re: Lotus Emira
Anyone here know the Emira's with over the door mirrors? Assuming you meant width? https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/lotus-emira-2022-coupe-vs-porsche-cayman-2016-coupe/front/ Oops! :oops: Thanks for the excellent info. I still kid myself that there is another Lotus in me, but the width of n...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:41 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Lotus Emira
- Replies: 419
- Views: 42063
Re: Lotus Emira
Anyone here know the Emira's with over the door mirrors?
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Would you UK honours?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4047
Re: Would you UK honours?
I quite fancy a Knighthood. (And a suit of armour if I'm honest).