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You can run actual tank tracks on the road as long as they’re rubberised. Can’t see how this would be illegal.

ZedLeg wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:26 pm You can run actual tank tracks on the road as long as they’re rubberised. Can’t see how this would be illegal.

Dunno. I'm not sure if the cops would view it differently from doing a handbrake turn (for example)

integrale_evo wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:10 pm Wonder if anyone has ever been prosecuted for damaging a road surface?

I’d love to see one of these turns done on a nice warm soft tar and chippings surface dressed road that seems to be every road around here.

S59 of the Highways Act allows a Highway Authority to recover expenses from a person or operator where it can be demonstrated that extraordinary damage has occurred to the highway. Whether that has ever been used against an individual for doing a burnout or the like I don't know, but these are uncharted waters as we're dealing here with high torque motors on vehicles weighing almost as much as an HGV.

I can guarantee that a Citroen AX GT doing a burnout on a council owned rubber (those ones they bolt down) speed bump will be recovered by the council, as one of our apprentices found out back in the late 90s.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:56 pm I can guarantee that a Citroen AX GT doing a burnout on a council owned rubber (those ones they bolt down) speed bump will be recovered by the council, as one of our apprentices found out back in the late 90s.

Dave!

They weren't fully in sync, not interested now.

I like your new signature.

I like the turn of phrase.

That’ll be a tough pill to swallow

Weirdly yesterday I spotted a car transporter with 2 F-150 Lightnings in Clacket Lane services. I wonder what idiot would want one here.

Is that Fortescue as in Fortescue Mining Group aswell ?

Dave!

Hispano-Suiza is apparently making an all-EV comeback. Saw an advert for it on YouTube yesterday.

https://www.hispanosuizacars.com/carmen-sagrera/

Fairly generic EV supercar formula: 100KWh+ battery, 2.something 0-60 time, 1000bhp+, and so on. Not sure what the USP is apart from the brand.

Jesus shitting Christ, that's one ugly motherfucker.

https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-vehicles ... sk-2044692

Anyone tracking p/x prices for Tesla's here in the UK? Are we seeing any noticeable change?

Didn’t realise they were building these, thought it was just a one off

Matty wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:57 am https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-vehicles ... sk-2044692

Anyone tracking p/x prices for Tesla's here in the UK? Are we seeing any noticeable change?

Dunno about PX prices, but the MotorWatch plugin makes for interesting reading on Autotrader. Quite a lot of recent >10% drops on Model 3s from private sellers that were put up for sale in December/January, with the drops starting from about February onwards.

Obviously you can add trade stuff in there, but a lot of it is traders who've had shit in stock for months so that has more of an effect with general depreciation - a car that's been on sale for six months to a year with a 20-40% drop isn't exactly a shock, and it's retial price, not trade, etc.

https://www.motorwatch.co.uk/

Example of what it looks like (this one might have just been overpriced, mind)

Customer I’ve been to today has a new Volvo ex30. Lovely looking thing- the noise it makes when it reverses is funny, I keep expecting the car to start singing nothing compares to you, the tone is exactly the same as the intro

jamcg wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 6:01 pm Customer I’ve been to today has a new Volvo ex30. Lovely looking thing- the noise it makes when it reverses is funny, I keep expecting the car to start singing nothing compares to you, the tone is exactly the same as the intro

One of the teachers at my sons school has one of these - he loves to look at it in the car park before I drop him off every day (he's a bit obsessed with electric cars at the mo).

Very smart and make the rest of the range look a bit old fashioned.

Just seen the new electric Cadillac Escalade, obviously not a car really relevant to uk, but it has a quoted range of 460 miles- downside is the weight- comes in a 4 tonnes