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I will be going along on Saturday with my son. Anyone else of this parish attending?

Looking forward to the CanAm demonstration and seeing the T50 for the first time. Mainly though i'm excited to see this do a demo lap:

Actually - I smell an opportunity here... Ian my friend... I have a very exclusive members club - GGAutos. Its a mere £10,000 p.a. buy in and you get annual usage of my 911 and Range Rover and whole 100 miles per year! 50% the cost and double the mileage of those other chancers. If you're on board I...

I find that much above 7/8% the taste tends to suffer, e.g. Westmalle Dubel is excellent - tripel somewhat less so.

mik wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:07 pm Let it be so.

When do I get barred from the thread for enjoying Bud?

Immediately

I remember going on a trip to Belgium as a 14 year old on a school trip. That was eye opening for some kids whose only drinking experience was Fosters in the local pub

The thing with these schemes is that if you're wealthy enough to buy in you're wealthy enough to buy or rent the car so in effect they're pointless.

Effectively a grand a day with an averaged out limit of 50 miles per day.

You'd have to be a stupendous moron.

What everything?? Including the 430?

Borrow one of your brother's cars. Don't do it in the Smart. You'll either end up dead or wishing you were dead.

That's a very odd headrest arrangment - does it have a single strut?

Like this: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403267968968?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&body-type=Coupe&make=Mercedes-Benz&model=S%20Class&postcode=SG5%203YL&year-from=2021&year-to=2024&fromsra They have presence... and a V8. One of his criter...

Doesn't he already have a Bentley?

Anyway - correct answer is an L405 FFRR TDV8. Loire Blue with Ivory interior to be precise. Call me for details.

Maybe relevant to post this here as much as the fleet running reports - my son is now tall enough to sit without a child seat so he now ocassionally travels in the front of the 911 when his mum is not with us. He got to do that on Sunday and I took him down Harry's road (which he has seen in the vid...

With the particular chassis dynamics of a 911 I'm not against ensuring it has the maximum traction available... Even with 295s on the back of mine, across a twisty B-road in Scotland over crests and dips you can feel the rear subtly moving and shimmying across the road surface - I'm not sure I'd wan...

That turbo is a tip - are you looking for a manual or an auto. If the latter you need to go for a 997.2 with the PDK IMO. I'd always spend the extra on the 997.2 having owned one and driven my fathers 997.1. Its mandatory to retrofit the PSE sports exhaust (as I did) but that can be done easily and ...

Have also had some thoughts about a 997 after @Robinoz sent me an advert for one which looked excellent at a very sensible price; I hadn't appreciated that the dip in used prices for 911 generations had reached the 997 properly yet. Buy one now, keep it years and it'll probably appreciate by 2030. ...

I drove back from Oxford to London this morning and there was a council worker with his spray can out marking areas for repair not far from where I live. It was tempting to say to tell him to draw a line across the road where he was stood and another by the roundabout 400m away as the whole road nee...

I know the world has moved on price wise but to me I'd struggle to justify spending £120k on a 911 that isn't a Turbo S or a GT car. Plus the depreciation is going to be very sizeable on a nearly new car. If I were stretching into that price bracket (and putting myself in your shoes with preference ...

I'm reasonably open minded. I'm not hugely in to mindless first person shooter games (notwithstanding I've bought COD but that's largely due to its reputation). Appreciate that is not much of a steer...

Amusingly I see Tomb Raider has been reissued on the PS5 - that takes me back.

As mentioned on the other thread - I recently had a mid-life crisis and bought a games console (PS5 Slim). The first one I've had since the PS1 in the late 90s. I've spent a fair chunk of time on GT 7 already and have downloaded COD (but not spent any meaningful time on it as yet b/c of the inverted...

Black one IIRC. They use to rib him about it never being used and nicknamed it the unicorn as it was never seen other than in folklore.