Lady Elanore

Interestingly, BMW are selling so many EVs and PHEVs, they don't have to put any limit on the numbers of carl like the M3/M4/M5/M6/X3M/X4M/X5M that they make. Their average emissions are sufficiently low, they can build silly ICE cars with relative impunity. This will change however, as PHEVs are about to have a reclassified CO2 rating which will be much less positive (although no mention of the CO2 produced in the giant 100kWh+ batteries in their latest behemoth)

I assume buying new EVs is as tough as buying ICE cars at the moment. Availability is awful, unless you want to buy higher end models that manufacturers are understandably prioritising. ICE models are still in demand and in my industry, very few people have gone over to the 'blue side', mainly because of range anxiety and the hours we work stopping them from searching around for stations that are either nearby, available or actually work. I will be hanging on to my enthusiasts ICE cars as long as I can realistically afford to run them and hope that and alternative to pure BEV comes along before I am forced to buy one. Having said that, I was not joking about a PHEV for my work car.

I will run a PHEV for work though. I've badgered a colleague who has a history of daft cars, previously he owned a beautiful RS4, to bring his wife's car on a job, so I can have a decent ride in it. It's a Mustang E, apparently. Athough according to the above TED lecture, she might have bought the wrong car

I want my V8 to run on petrol.

When I had my BMW 123D many, many years ago, I read somewhere (think it was in BMW blurb) that the stop/start was worth the effort if the car was stationary for more than 4 seconds.

The important thing to take from that TED talk is we should really all be driving V8s

BTW I'm not totally against EVs and I rather like PHEVs :)

It's from 7 minutes (roughly) that I found most interesting. I knew EVs produced a lot of CO2 in the manufacture of their batteries, but this chap is suggesting it's a huge amount more than most people realise. The irony of his words, is that the potential 'right solution' for these current times are quite possibly PHEVs, which is exactly the latest vehicle type to come under scrutiny and seems to no longer be considered in a favourable way by many governments. It certainly makes you think that Porsches synthetic fuels should have a future and not be automatically dismissed, as seems to have happened. Also, Hydrogen ICE cars should maybe given more consideration. But I think the TED talker is correct in that people in power have decided that the easy fix is EV and they don't necessarily want to look at the larger box as was demonstrated.

This opened my eyes a little further. EVs appear to be worse than I thought at contributing to global warming! Assuming this is all true, of course. We should all be buying V8s is what I took from this TED talk. Oh and that hybrids are probably the best current solution!

That's an amazingly circular mini rainbow!

Red delete.

Oh dear 😞

Sound has been mixed and balanced by middle-aged men (and sometimes women) for decades, Lord knows what has been lost in the mix I was once called into the truck (I was quite young) to listen to an alleged high frequency tone on the desk output. I could hear it, but none of the middle-aged peeps could, what worried them was they could see it on the meters though

The colour is a new one to the M3, unfortunately everyone is now picking it (it's a no cost option) so it may well become one of the dominant colours and it's also available on the 2 series family wagon I believe 'Exclusivity' is a not a club I am a member of

I wondered if the car had done a bit of cabbing?

This is interesting reading. The mileage ramped up in later years14-20K a year https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

Not so bad looking in certain colours, even if there will always be many who dislike it. I think like all things, we get used to them. I like the styling except the rear view

I'm hoping to get it detailed in a months time, so maybe after that. Here are a couple of cars that look identical to mine, except the brake calipers on mine are black

Actually, I should go check I still have it outside.....

I have an M3 outside that hasn't gone anywhere in 10 days 😞 I was hoping to have it ready for its first running in service by now, so I could check the carpet depth

I used to use them in broadcast spec (very similar). They were super fast to load and find a track, or a specific part of a track.