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mik wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 10:12 pm My dad always stopped at Killington Lake if we were ever heading North-South (or vice versa)

That’s where I stopped to put my roof up on the way home from seeing you last year.

Thanks for sharing Simon, glad to hear you enjoyed it too :D it was good fun to make and cool to have a bit of an adventure. Someone in the comments suggested I go to the 10 worst rated service stations next :lol:


I’m sure 10 worst is better for views. Was wondering if this one might go viral ...

Youtube offered me this yesterday and I enjoyed it:



Nice one @Gavster. I had no idea so many service areas had nice bits out the back. Also, well done including a slightly lingering shot of the Caterfield.

Apple have definitely updated Carplay so it scales icons etc to suit the car screen - that's probably the difference.

Annoyingly I find the larger icons obscure things on the maps now so I'm not massively pleased with the change

Yes, it has a panoramic roof unfortunately. Would have preferred one without but was standard fit on the 4.8.

Similar problem with Touaregs - the top spec has them as standard. They aren’t standard on the Escape spec I want but the most likely one I’ve seen advertised so far has one. Thank you ...

I assume you had a sunroof Harry. Got to be the starting point for investigation.

I’m specifically looking for a Touareg without a sunroof to avoid exactly that issue. Long term I don’t think any sunroof is a good thing.

You're all doing it wrong, last time I went to Italy I paid about £150 for return flights and about £50 a night for a little private villa overlooking the sea :lol:


Gav coming out of his little private villa to look at the sea and tell us what local cuisine he's been enjoying:

https://youtu.be ...

Yep, we've always booked Flights separately and got our own Villa.

Last time was before Covid 2018 - 3 Flights to Alicante were about £1000 and we got a 3 bed villa in a complex, rented directly form the owner, for 2 weeks for £1,200. No private pool but 3 different pools in the complex ...

I travel the route Jobbo got caught on a couple of times a week. The camera vans are quite prolific, Waze has saved me a number of times. But yeah, very straight road and I think Waze warns you 0.3 miles before the van which isn’t sufficient there.

I’ve noticed Waze doesn’t always give me an ...

I haven't been to Europe for a while but had vaguely noticed the prices going up. It doesn't feel long since you could get a week for two (not school holidays) for well under a grand including flights and reasonable hotel.

Hotel rates have definitely risen a lot (I used to think £300/night was what ...

That generation of Polo was so slow - even the 1.3 only had 55bhp and they were a fair bit heavier than an AX. The 1.1 AX had 60bhp. I kept managing to get my Polo stuck in gear because I rammed through the gearlever so hard in my effort to make it accelerate. Oh, and the brakes were shit; lack of a ...

Apparently the Mansell one was being sold off for £20 recently. After pre-ordered that at full price because I thought it would be highly in demand, I think I'll hang on for discounts on Schumi. Never liked the grooved tyres on F1 cars either so I know they're right but it makes the model less ...

We were on the edge of the weather last night clearly. Within 30 minutes of getting home from work my car had a couple of inches of thick wet snow on it, but I moved it under cover and this morning what had fallen was already melting away. But a bit further north was somewhat worse so I've had fun ...

Wilspeed wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 7:30 am Dan is safe, I've had this since 2015

You're on for EFCPOTY 2028 or 2029 then!

It was on the A417 near Cirencester. Anyone who travels that road knows it's very straight so with their laser sights they can see you a long way away and get a proper speed reading. Annoying; I saw the Waze warning, lifted off and slowed to about 75 on the speedo by the time I could see the van ...

Ah, since the E36 was such an obvious successor I must have just assumed it came straight after.

I slowed down when I got the warning of police ahead on new year's eve, but not quickly enough. So if Waze could somehow make the alert a bit earlier please that would be great. Thanks.

i think i bought this in 2005 from Gavster:

https://i.ibb.co/hFVwz4F7/IMG-0551.jpg

then my CTR in 2006.


That brings back memories, such a sideways car :lol: once made a friend sick driving home from a party, she climbed out the back and immediately vomited in the gutter.

I have no idea ...

I do miss the era of everyone having slow cars though.....now everyone has Ferrari power in a hatchback with added distractions and feelings of invunerability due to aids.


I miss it too. But even an 85bhp Peugeot 205 was fast enough to do 100mph on virtually any straight, given a sufficiently ...

John wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 9:37 pm Did you take a private plate off it?

Or move house and update the address?