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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 :lol:
ah, so it is a “new” thing. The van has a fairly small screen ...

The carplay on the van was always “ok”, the text was always a bit too big and when you do a search, the keyboard covered most of the results.

I got a new phone and paired it today, suddenly all the fonts/text boxes are the right size and the whole thing looks and works so much better. I don’t know ...

Trump/America have been absolute insane over the last few days. Almost too much to get your head around between Venezuela and shooting citizens and lying about it.

The front end looks a whole lot better than the back end.

If you want cheap getaways and you don’t mind city breaks go to Poland.

I priced up a trip in September for me and the wife, flying into Wroclaw, staying in a really nice central apartment with Airbnb for 4 days, then getting on a train to Krakow and staying there for 3 days, again in a really ...

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:
Yep, that’s the difference when you’re paying for a whole family and including all the costs of the holiday.

it must have been one ...

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


We've done this for the last couple of years and it's worked well / decent value. However this year is the first year we'll have to contend with school holidays. Just gonna leave it late I think.

Going further afield makes a ...

I'm also feeling the sharp end of this right now as we've just come back from a ski holiday between Christmas and New Year. We don't ski (but were going primarily so my son can start to learn) so had to buys shedloads of kit and the cost of everything is mental across kit hire, £70pp per day lift ...

Crazy isn’t it. 4 years ago we went to some shitty all inclusive in spain, in term time and it was around £2.2k for the 3 of us for a week or so. A few years later we looked again, and the same place for a week in school holiday time was £4.5k!

There’s no fucking way i’m spending that sort of ...

Crazy isn’t it. 4 years ago we went to some shitty all inclusive in spain, in term time and it was around £2.2k for the 3 of us for a week or so. A few years later we looked again, and the same place for a week in school holiday time was £4.5k!

There’s no fucking way i’m spending that sort of ...

Matty wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:14 pm

Did you buy that this year? If so, I'm overruling FECPOTY 2026. Sorry Dan....but

Thats fine, now FECPOTY 2025 is done and dusted.

jamcg wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:47 pm I bought a poverty spec 1.3l ford ka with the black bumpers and everything from my mam for £1500.

I traded it in for £3000 when I got my sportka in 2006

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Really miss that car

You ripped off your own mother…. how do you sleep at night..!

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:06 pm What are they like?

IanF wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 10:20 am In the category of can fit two dawgs and many suitcases, I announce that I won with @Ascender closely following up.. (order determined due silver wheels )

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a mate has the same colour with black wheels. I can confirm, silver looks MASSIVELY better. Good work.

I'm in charge of FECPOTY, boy.


Pfffft :lol:

You're never actually in charge of FECPOTY. You merely look after it for the next generation.

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i think i bought this in 2005 from Gavster ...

scotta wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 10:04 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:43 pm

scotta wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 8:39 pm

Same chassis. Doesn’t count.

I'm in charge of FECPOTY, boy.

Shitshow. Fix.

Actually, that's a good point, I got my 968 back on the road in 2025. I could have finished in 3rd if I only posted a pic of it in the FECPOTY 25 thread.

Does storing it for the winter renew its application for FECPOTY 26? :lol:
if you rebuild it with carbon fibre bodywork and new ...

Get it fixed up good and i’ll nominate it for FECPOTY 26 just keep Scott angry!


It’s never going to beat Marv’s 968.


Actually, that's a good point, I got my 968 back on the road in 2025. I could have finished in 3rd if I only posted a pic of it in the FECPOTY 25 thread.

Does storing it ...

Ordered some Kumho (which I'll continue to pronounce coo-mo) Ecsta Sport PS72's which have got some decent reviews in recent tests. Fitting Friday.

I couldn't get hold of any Rainsport 5's, which are my primary choice, and PS5's are needlessly expensive for a city runabout, so should be decent ...