Aspman

I think a bit like music you are defined by your era. My love of cars comes from watching films like Cannonball run, Smokey and the Bandit etc. So the sounds of a big V8 is evocative to me. People 15yr younger might prefer the sound of high powered 4s like the Scoobies and Evos of the 90s. Maybe if your tastes are being defined now you'll find the insipid whine of a Tesla sends shivers down your spine. Or maybe you just won't care about cars at all. I think the golden age of motoring is past. Cars are (and have been for 20yr) becoming increasingly bland and sold based upon their connection to you phone. I really think I need to get a big silly V8/10/12 before they are all gone or banned

I think by some margin the Allegro wins in the looks department. Even in turd bown

Yeah totally. Honestly it's got all the design quality of my daughters Little Tikes Cozy Coupe

Not seen a Roller in the metal but I have seen a few Bentegas, Yep fugly but not iX fugly. I honestly think the Rexxon is less offensive.

Didn't even need a coat hanger, A good whack on the lock with anything solid and it would fall in the door and you could stick your finger in the hole to unlock the door. Screwdriver and a brick worked well too.

The BMW iX I saw one today, genuinely a jaw dropping car. Mine dropped anyway, I doubt I have ever seen anything so catastrophically ugly in real life. I've seen a few new M4s and M3s now and the shock is wearking off on them but this, this....

Just make sure it's got a front cover. The rest is more to do with aesthetics

Argh AC stickers, George you'll give me twitches!! A mate of mine lost it in an AC forecourt when they kept putting stickers on his car when it was in for warranty work. It was a Fiat Brava so it was in quite a lot.

On a private road of course

Don't talk crap George you have to drive over or under them! Covis-19 is too fat to fly and poor at tunnelling but good at turning left and right

I thought Top Gear were able to show you can go too fast for a GATSO, but that it was about 165mph.

I used to see mine around occasionally, somtimes this was annoying. A Ford Focus I sold on earlier than I should, thinking the mileage was a bit high, I saw regularly for about another 10yr. Clearly it took its miles well. They rest have just disappeared. I've used a private plate for the last 15yr or so remembering the plates as I sold them has always been a bit hard. I assume they were used and scrapped as MOTs got too hard.

In the end it's a car not a person. Maybe I'm lucky that I've never really felt all that attached to cars or houses. or objects in general The next car is always more interesting to me.

Same question as always... Can I legally get in the back of the car drunk as a skunk and have it drive me home? If not, it's not a self driving car IMHO.

This is pretty much what I've always done in my autos. For most of them the auto stop/start kicks in anyway so the car isn't pulling constantly. My autos haven't been DSG so there has been no clutch to worry about.

CAr manufacturers have seen how phone makes have been able to con the public for years that they need a new phone every year. Getting you to do the same with your car is pretty much the dream scenario for them. They've tried their best with various contract hire and PCP deals over the years but never quite got it to the car as a subscription art that the phone guys have. But now the arse is falling out of this market with phones, many more people are just looking at phones as white goods and wondering what they are getting for their £1000. Cars ahve always been seen as white good by many, so the manufacturers are trying to climb onto a cycle that that has ended for phones. Short sighted but I'm sure theya re seeing the electric conversion of cars as a what to drive the paradime shift. It'll fail, but they'll be trying to force us into it for the next 10yr anyway. Just you wait you'll be seeing BAAS and CAAS soon (Battery as a service, Car as a service ). The *AAS will be familiar to all the IT guys.

I think worries around potential or actual loss of resale value were the driving force for many claims. I think post 'fix' many had an argument around loss of performance and economy which would potentially mean that the car was mis-sold in the first place i.e. when operating legally the performance of the car was far below what was advertised or promised.

Like many things they are probably just going to file papers you could have done for free yourself.

For a while I had my work profile picture as a QR code which took you to a Rick Astley video on YouTube. Rick Rolling for those too young to remember that as a thing. And therapy is available for those of us old enough to remember Goatse.

Afternoon, We're looking at getting a new carrier for the car. I have roof bars and thule bike carriers but only for 3. My new car doesn't have roof rails and tbh I'd need a cherry picker to put them on top of the Ranger Rover. It does have a tow bar so I'd like to get a new 4 bike carrier for that. Are there any recommendations? Also the wee one is now old enough to go in a bike seat. Any suggestions. I've seen various arguments about having them in front or behind and tbh they all look the same to me. If anyone has suggestions I'd appreciste that as well. TIA

I scanned it and got - Barcode DATA_MATRIX 03591746 Not sure that'll help you much

Lol that's the walkie Talkie isn't it? The building that melts cars and starts fires. So yes just like some mobile phones. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675

The data was 'free at the point of delivery' I guess. The car was doing other things over the air as well I wasn't paying for.

My BMW used to update over the air. The car had an eSIM and talked home to Baviara. As long as the map subscription was in date it would updated itself and BMW paid for the data.

I've worked in IT professionally for nearly 25yr and I still find dealing with car ICE tech a total ballache. Million pound high assurance critial systems...nae bother. Updating the maps on the car...nearly impossible* (*RaRo map update needs a 33Gb download, 2x accounts created to access the download, the download needs to use a windows client and a 64Gb min USB stick, The USB stick needs to be formatted in FAT32, a non standard and non-supported filesystem in Win10).