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You're right, Rich - it's a vehicle which lends itself to adventures which is a bit spoiled by not being able to go more than 125 miles from home into the wilderness. 250 mile range is probably optimistic anyway; if you can use say 74kWh of the 77kWh battery and take my best efficiency of 3.1mi/kWh...

Lowering the ground under the former garage would create a sort of sheep dip full of run-off water from the drive. So no, but I did think of it enough to realise the obvious issue

You're right, Rich - it's a vehicle which lends itself to adventures which is a bit spoiled by not being able to go more than 125 miles from home into the wilderness. 250 mile range is probably optimistic anyway; if you can use say 74kWh of the 77kWh battery and take my best efficiency of 3.1mi/kWh ...

I'm going to be accused of attention whoring now but this is just to explanify, honest. And I'm at work so can't take pictures from the angles which would be useful. The drive which we use to park cars on is to the rear of the house and is paved: https://i.imgur.com/I6m526k.jpg The photo below is ta...

Now I've actually driven an EV I feel a bit more interested in this thread. With the updated Taycan apparently offering 400 miles' range I may have to consider one - though they are nowhere near as practical as a proper estate, which is nowhere near as practical as an ID Buzz... I'll just avoid movi...

The one I liked best on a test drive was the Emira. They seem to have depreciated another couple of grand since I drove it though - in less than a week. So I am keeping an eye on prices. Forgot to mention the other thing about the ID Buzz which was rather nice: everyone looked at it and smiled. Defi...

Sorry Duncs - it isn’t curved but I don’t really know what to call it. The estate agent referred to it as a breezeway 😂 Matt, I haven’t won the lottery and I’m not terminally ill if that’s what you were referring to. The Buzz was a bit of a folly; my wife liked the look of it but I expected I’d find...

Those tyres are from 2015 - I thought the car was earlier than that? Either way, they’re 9 years old and your dad already had a sideways moment so probably worth replacing

This is most out of character for you, Nath.

I had to do our old house yesterday as well and that’s why I’m knackered. It takes as long to mow there as it does the new one despite being 1/3 the size due to the awkward bits round the edges, and it’s more tiring because of all the manoeuvring. But you’re right, I may find someone to cut it;

Here is the ad for the car itself: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202312114717238

And here is the salesman guiding me very carefully to check if it fits:

That would have been the garage once but the previous owner knocked it through and made a big new drive to the rear. So here’s the fuller review. My wife spotted an ID Buzz for sale at the Skoda dealership between Worcester and Malvern; I’d been there before to service our Yeti and knew they were a ...

Yeah, I did consider letting the tyres down

The pile of rotting grass clippings is slippery to walk on and the bits which stick to your boots look like cow pats when you walk them round the place. I did end up using all four mowers today, and my feelings about the HRH have been reinforced; it’s not for me. I think I’ll keep it until Honda do ...

I don’t want to type a TL:DR on my phone but we test drove a VW ID Buzz today and it was fabulous. But it doesn’t fit under the arch to our drive. https://i.imgur.com/nt3GmSB.jpeg That’s the very nice salesman doing the reflectoporn. I’ll write a bit more about it when I’m less cream-crackered. But ...

See this is why I enjoyed arguing on PH more, you’re both wrong but I think in general you’re both decent dudes so I don’t really want to be a dick :lol: I think the policy is wrong so I don’t disagree with you. What I object to is this government coming up with crap populist policies which don’t e...

It’s the same weight as two MX5s though

I just got rid of the wheels I was going to put on mine - they had been sat in the garage a while because I bought the Jimny 4 years ago. Still like them. Would not go for the 2.4 due to engine block cracks.

The Cyberster looks good but I don’t know what it is. Is it a Chinese attempt at a British sports car with some detail changes made in the U.K.? I’d rather have an MG that was knocked up in a shed by plucky British engineers.

It's a manuel, and the most notable feature is a drive-by-wire clutch that allows the engine to switch off whilst being automatically and simultaneously decoupled from the transmission when you are on the motorway (or local equivalent) at speed, and you head down a hill, or deactivate the cruise to...