Lady Elanore

Range anxiety set in well before the cars ran out and even then some of them were totally stranded. Eco driving and hypermiling is something that some people actually enjoy, but I prefer to jump in and drive to my destination. I realise I'm going to have to change in this new world that is coming, but I will surely miss the old one :(

It always amazes me how Cormorants, with their webbed feet, perch in trees. There is a tree at Cholton Water Park where loads of them perch of an evening. It's a great sight, but just feels a bit wrong

This is interesting. Especially as a mile/cost figure is produced for not only a cheap home charge, but also a fast on the road type charge. One of the cars doesn't fair well against a 4.0 V8 beast in this regard!!! Would love to have seen the petrol car replaced with a frugal diesel, perhaps a 320D or some such. Anyhoo, it hasn't made me pine after an EV any more than before, but I doubt I ever will.

Noooo. It's like a well loved Brisky member has suddenly just disappeared off the face of the earth! Still there's room for a big V8 in your garage now hopefully

I wish mine was 10 a penny, or 0.1p each. I would have pushed the boat out and bought a couple. Rear tyres are rather pricey though, thank goodness the car is limited to 186mph or they would cost more

Funnily enough, I can get 'OE' 305 rear tyres quite easily for my Jag (which is almost a supercar-although definitely not a hypercar) and yet my PHEV Peugeot was off the road for nearly 5 weeks when I needed a new tyre a couple of years ago. Not one in the whole of the UK. Michelin and Peugeot couldn't help either when I contacted them directly!

I've sold several vehicles that were on PCPs back to the dealers, often the dealer that sold me the vehicle in the first place. You can also haggle with a dealer too, I got an extra grand on my old M4, with a bit of negotiation, when I sold it back to the dealer, I also didn't buy another car from them, it was just a simple sale. It helps if you have a desirable car, it isn't too old and the condition is good. Having said that, I have a PHEV that comes to an end in 9 months and I don't think I stand a chance in Hell that a dealer will pay more than the balloon payment. The car will be sent straight back to Peugeot, as nobody wants them :(

That Porsche when new was more than twice the price of an M3!!! Crikey. £190K before you add options. A very good friend of mine has a Taycan 4S and surprisingly my Jag is a tad quicker in a straight line, although it is probably not as stable under heavy braking. Also to be fair, the Taycan seems to have spent as much time at Porsche, not being fixed, as I've spent driving my Jag. The Taycan is constantly getting recalls, or failing to even start. Appalling, really, when you think of the money. Porsche are also not that interested in keep fixing it, as the car is now a few years old. I changed from the G80 to an F Type R

The thing with the latest M3 is you can cane it all day long and it doesn't give up. There's no overheat of brakes or battery (engine), for instance. There are a couple of fast laps in a Tesla (Nürburgring of course :D ) that were less than successful because of these problems. Only cured after you pay another £10k to get the performance pack to prevent this. I reckon that my colleagues that drive EVs and seemed to think their cars were as fast as my M3, were missing the point by a country mile. Driven at pace on deserted roads, or punished on a track, their EV shortcomings would come to light pretty quickly. It's the difference between a quick car and a car that is quick in a straight line (and even then, only a few times in a row before it overheats something). Don't get me wrong. The Oinky 5NNNN is a seriously good car, but no thanks for me. Funnily enough though, I sold my M3 (G80) partly because the car was so 'complete', it was hard to get the same excitement that I got from its predecessor, in my case the M4 (F82). A much more lairy and compromised car, but brilliant fun. My current car is no paragon of virtue either, but it stands up to any punishment I dish out and will remind you that it won't do all the work for you. It can easily overcome it's rear tyres (305s) even though it is 4x4ish Also no EV will ever sound as epic, not even 1% of its epic-ness 🏎️ Maybe I need a turbocharged Reliant Robin next?

Funnily enough, CAR mag has just released its 'hot hatch day' results and the EVs don't fair well. Even the Oyonkikiki 5NNNS turbogts Hyundai is described as having that typical one dimensional acceleration that EVs have. Although it also concedes that the car's 'pretend' gear shifts improve things quite a bit. I get the one-trick pony thing that most EVs do, but nothing excites me about that. I've been lucky enough to have a couple of petrol cars that can get to 100mph in the low 8 second area and that is fast enough for me. In truth, I don't really need that kind of acceleration, but would rather have the looks, handling and excitement of a driver's car. Maybe a Yaris GR? I watched a fast car review recently on YouTube and Chris Harris was saying we have got to the point where cars have enough power, it's really all about the rest of the package now, that is what makes the difference. He has a point imho.

Nope, still not feeling the fizz. The McMurtry is still the only lego motor vehicle that excites me so far. :( Maybe one day?

Autocar, amongst others have done a review on the new Lotus Evijajajaja. It's quite quick, although, it still doesn't give me the fizz ;) AutocarThis ELECTRIC car just ripped up Autocar's road test reco...British-made, 2013bhp EV cuts established 0-200mph benchmark by a massive 40 per cent

Huroo. I've bin workin away for a beet. Having a look around to see if I mizzed anything

Windy Miller vibes

Btw, I realise Quest+1 had some chunks of live coverage, but the picture quality in SD was awful and it was only exasperated by my rather large telly box. Basically, it was pretty much unwatchable

Congratulations to Ferrari (privateers ) and well done Robert Kubica and also the young Brit Phil Hanson, for winning le Mans. If only TNT hadn't removed my viewing of it (I had a nice cheap Eurosport package)and trying to hold me to ransom of around £30+ a month for the privilege of watching it :(

Did you ever sort this? Or did I miss the update in this thread?

This is an interesting doc about the place. The tour guide mentioned that in today's money the project went over build and got up to about £22 million. Lovell was then personally hit with the bill and it all got very nasty, very quickly. What saved Jodrell was 'Sputnik'. Apparently the satellite wasn't the interesting bit, the launch craft though, was. It was a repurposed ICBM rocket the Russians used to put Sputnik in orbit, thus showing the world, not only that they had the first satellite, but they also had ICBMs. Jodrell was the only facility reckoned to be able to track the rocket stage and so it suddenly all came good financially....the rest is history :)

It is indeed. They moved it around just so I could take the photo nice tea rooms, and things to do there. Obviously I was there for the science, not the cafes....

It looks like it does a lot of offroading!!

1/4 a million and it's yours! I'd love a Morgan Plus 6 (one of the 6 cylinder models, not the new 4 cylinder ones), but finance and storage both count against me I do have a friend who loves Morgans and I'm doing my best to persuade her to buy one, so I can at least get the odd day out in a Moggie

I recently went to the Car Barn in the North East, near Beamish. It's a treasure trove of interesting cars. Noble, Cayman, Jaguars, Morgans (a lot of Morgans), Ineos, old Lancias, Ariel Atom etc etc and this, the Proteus Jaguar XJ13 Amazing place and I like to dream and look at their latest car inventory. Friendly bunch. If you stick your head into the dealership and politely ask can you look around, they leave you alone and won't bother you. There is an excellent gastropod (ish) next door too Do you have a favourite place like this, or similar?

Let us know how your search goes. I've started looking at speakers again, although I'm not changing mine anytime soon Found the B&W 702 S3 Sigs for £4.5k as an ex demo pair at Peter Tysons They look glorious in Midnight blue It raises another question, that if we are honest, the look of the speaker does matter too, even if it is nowhere near the main reason for buying a pair.

Here is a review of the sigs with some nice pictures. The latest S3 version is supposed to be better still and also looks fab-u-lous https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/bowers-and-wilkins-702-signature

I got a pair of B&W 702 S2 Signatures after demo'ing similar speakers to the ones you are looking at. I listened to the Kefs (very very good, surprisingly neutral really, but sounded a bit flat - it might have been the listening room or amp, or even just me having an off day? They certainly qualify as a top speaker for the price), Monitor Audio 300 Gold (nice with a lot of bass output), Q Acoustics 500 (very nice and sounds so much better than you think it will when you first see it) and a PMC floorstander (amazing punchy bass, but it has a certain sound to it (I suspect it's a slight bass hump caused by the transmission line design-but I don't know enough about speaker design to know with any degree of certainty). I also listened to the B&W 702 S2 standard version side by side with the Signature upgrade and was initially worried I wouldn't be able to hear the difference with my ageing, cloth ears. As it turned out, there was quite a marked difference (Phew!). The Sigs have a fantastic stereo staging and as you can imagine with those tweeters, is not shy in the top end. Perhaps it suits my older ears, as some say they are a little bright, but I valued the clarity, sound stage and attack more than the greater bass of some speakers. They also look beautiful and have a superb finish (Daktu veneer). They do need a proper amp with a generous current handling capability, as the impedance does drop to just below 3Ω. I went from a Roksan power amp to a Musical Fidelity one and it transformed the speakers (the Roksan is a great amp, just it's not quite the beast he Musical Fidelity amp is) It goes to show that paring the speaker with the right amp is just as important as picking the right speaker in the first place.