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Explosive Newt wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 8:11 pm It’s not a Continental GT.

It’s a Continental GT Speed.

Ha. Holy Moly - think you've won hire car top trumps here mate. What year?

GG. wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:18 am
Ha. Holy Moly - think you've won hire car top trumps here mate. What year?

I think it was this year. Like right now.

mik wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:10 am

Mito Man wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:49 am I don’t think they’re big cars, especially nowadays

I was at *thing* a month back and a bloke had one there. It looked imposing but it also looked laaarge.

However - at 1.95m wide, it’s only 3cm wider than an F-Type. Surprising. 42cm longer though.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compar ... 024-coupe/

I’m assuming gen 1 which is a bit smaller than those that followed. Think it has some of the more usable rear seats for a 2+2 as well so they’re not bad for the packaging.

mik wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:32 am

GG. wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:18 am
Ha. Holy Moly - think you've won hire car top trumps here mate. What year?

I think it was this year. Like right now.

Badum-tish.

FWIW I drove a friend's F-Type and found that pretty wide and difficult to place, so another 3 cm wouldn't be ideal.

But I really like them after the Autotopnl vid.

I currently have a Hyundai Tucson hybrid.

The steering is hateful, tugging left and right, devoid of any feel.

A silly twist knob to put it into gear, like a Mercedes stalk but it doesn’t move up and down.

Stereo sounds nice and I like the heads up display but what a hateful thing to drive.

Dave!

I've returned the V60 today for some pre-arranged work and the courtesy car is a Volvo EX40 + Black Edition, my first experience of driving an electric car. Once the novelty of the instant performance wore off (pretty quickly) it drives almost like an automatic ICE car. The salesman warned me against turning on the regen thing so obviously I had to try it and it is vicious when you come off the power. I don't know who was more surprised, me or the car following me.

I do have to say though that the EX40 feels like a class below the V60 in terms of ride and general ambience, and the list price is £55k.

Ride will be the fact the car is at least a tonne heavier than yours, surely?

Probably, plus the 20" wheels no doubt.

Hired a car for a day in Comporta.. gf wanted a convertible so ended up with a 500C.. Manuel too. It’s been a while since I had to change gear for hills! but was good fun tbh, zero racing machine vibes, but for slowly driving through gorgeous scenery in perfect weather -

It said hybrid on the back, didn’t see any driver modes so guessing it was a mild jobbie, but I ragged it hard. Good old, cheap, Italian fun!

VW Polo or equivalent ended up being a Mazda 2 with some form of petrol engine.

It wouldn’t pull skin of custard but it’s very well appointed. 6 Speed, Apple Car Play, Cruise Control etc.

Only gripe is it doesn’t really have a suitable sized space for a modern mobile but it’s not horrible, given it was £180 for 8 days