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As alluded to on the other thread, after the demise of the 911 I was left with one three cylinder city car. Hmmm.

So after considering my options, being a masochist I replaced the FFRR that got stolen with... another FFRR! Given this was going to be my only car for a while (the Smart technically being my wife's) I decided to upgrade a little on the old one and bought a facelift 68 plate model. This one also came mit 4.4 V8! Full her maj spec: Loire Blue with Ivory and wood interior.

As you can see, this one is secured with silly yellow steering lock and also in several other ways... which I'm not going to divulge on a public forum!!





We've already been to France in it in half term and put pretty much 2,000 miles on it since late December (a lot of our driving is in the city so apparently this equates to 75 hours of driving!) - here's an arty pic from the road trip.



Parking in underground parking beneath the hotel was stress inducing in the extreme. The down ramp was so tight I had to take two bites to get round it whilst holding it on the brakes down a 45 degree incline - never again



Typically we also had some drama on the way home - somehow picking this up just before we got on the eurotunnel back

That’s a lovely spec and I’m glad that some thieving pricks didn’t put you off and make you go for something boring and lower risk instead.

What the fuck is that in your tyre?

God knows - needless to say it wasn't within the bounds of what was repairable!

Mito Man wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:09 pm That’s a lovely spec and I’m glad that some thieving pricks didn’t put you off and make you go for something boring and lower risk instead.

Yes well I'm a bit all or nothing with 4x4s - there is not much else I'd really want.

Let's just say I'm glad it now has extra security. I caught a woman walking down the middle of the street at 5am a week after we got it stopping every 2 or 3 feet to press a button on her phone repeatedly... clearly scanning for signals from keys from one of the adjacent houses. Needless to say she didn't find any (and it wouldn't have helped her anyway...) but clearly the gangs keep a close eye on new cars arriving in 'their area'.

Looks perfect, that colour scheme would be awful On anything else in my eyes, but perfect on a RR.

That colour scheme is lovely. Would even work on a 520d.

Particularly nice on GG’s FFRR without the silver side blades.

It's mostly brown at the moment!

Hasn't been washed since France and then had Saharan dust dumped on it this week I suppose its appropriate for a RR...

GG. wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:04 pm It's mostly brown at the moment!

Hasn't been washed since France and then had Saharan dust dumped on it this week I suppose its appropriate for a RR...

This still shows how much better colour coded side blades are

Mmm, V8 wafty loveliness. Well done going all in again. Dream bit of kit that.

Jobbo wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:55 pm That colour scheme is lovely.

Particularly nice on GG’s FFRR without the silver side blades.

Ah! I thought something looked different
Lovely colour scheme indeed

GG. wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:22 pm

We've already been to France in it in half term

Typically we also had some drama on the way home - somehow picking this up just before we got on the eurotunnel back

Loire to Loire?
Wtf is that in the tyre, and how did it not cause more damage?!

Very nice, and what Mito said

Looks lovely, I usually think newer RRs look tarty but I could live with that

PS - that’s a fucking javelin in your tyre

Very appealing!

This purchase is approved!

Love it! Colour is very nice and the interior looks a great place to spend hours.. what’s it like with denim/red trousers?

That is a good point - the edge of the drivers side seat does have a slight blue tinge to it but I think a bit of leather cleaner will get that out (hopefully!).

One other point is that the cream seatbelts are already a bit grubby - I’ll get it in for a detail at some point and failing that will just replace them.

GG. wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:43 am That is a good point - the edge of the drivers side seat does have a slight blue tinge to it but I think a bit of leather cleaner will get that out (hopefully!).

One other point is that the cream seatbelts are already a bit grubby - I’ll get it in for a detail at some point and failing that will just replace them.

Baby wet wipes are great at getting the blue off light coloured leather.

McSwede wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:03 pm
Baby wet wipes are great at getting the blue off light coloured leather.

Get proper leather cleaning wipes instead - Robbie advised against baby wipes.