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The world will be made up of just USA, Europe, Russia and China. Then again I think the EU is weak as piss and would have to partner with the USA.

The whole story about the VP of Venezuela working with Trump since April to oust Maduro and setting the whole thing up is insane.Regime change my arse

Anyone watching Trump and the big oilers speaking now? It’s kinda wild. They’ve just helped themselves to 50 million barrels of venezuelas oil and are laughing about all the tax write offs and how they’re all going to do so well.

Reminds me of Jay Leno going on about back when racing drivers were fat and tyres were skinny.

Sandgate looks like a bomb went off.

Any of these small city cars will be faster than a fair chunk of the traffic out there. Consider all the vans and pick up trucks with a bit more power but weighing 2 tonnes. And then the other half of the population just can't drive or are scared to press the accelerator. How many times do you end ...

Comes with shitty incandescent bulbs for the full 80's experience

McLaren GT, I came across it twice and both times the driver had an entire wheel over on the opposite side of the road

I was looking at those Amazon speakers a few weeks ago but I bought a Samsung HW-Q600F/XU soundbar with subwoofer for £200 when they suddenly got discounted, not to use as a tv soundbar. I wanted a discreet Bluetooth speaker but the form factor of the skinny soundbar was much more suitable for my ...

Rich B wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:19 pm

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

Grease mixed with brokeback mountain

I admire classic American stuff but I'd feel a bit of a berk driving one in the UK, they mostly seem to be driven by a certain sort too, sorry :oops:

(Says the person who bounces down the road in a silly air cooled Beetle)

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It’s a 100% accurate description I feel. I got completely put ...

We haven't bothered changing any cars over to winter tyres this year, probably end up with the above later :lol:
Last time there was a foot of snow 4 years ago a van with almost bald tyres got stuck at the bottom of the single track road, and then two cars stuck at the other end and that was that ...

Buy it later in the year due to recency bias

Ordering new tyres for the Up, and putting the OEM alloys back on. Frustratingly, the Rainsport5 seems to have massively increased in price recently; I was seeing them for £80/corner, now over £100. Still, seems like the best value compared to the EagleF1s and PS5's for general day to day.

As the ...

I’ve given this quite limited thought but I wouldn’t want to strip and properly convert my own car for such a short term trip, however retrofitting a webasto heater, removing the rear seats and chucking in a sleeping bag could be possible for the odd overnight layover in more remote areas.
If ...

3 weeks in winter, go up to the northernmost point of Scandinavia and come back via Baltics

If I end up slaving away this year as must as last year something like this and a 3 week road trip round Europe will temp me.

He’s captured Maduro

Reminds me of the Trump Erdogan meeting