Lady Elanore

I've been calling my cars Willberpog for many, many years. My Octy when I joined Brisky, was a Willberpog

I might need to retitle this thread to "So I went and sold an M4" Willberpog has gone

I'd also be happy with Cayman GTS, F Type V8 or a freshly washed reindeer

Blimey, the new car is a lot quicker than my old one! Regardless of sticky tyres, 4x4 and a big chunk more torque (more than offsets the cars increase in weight. I do love Steve Sutcliffe. Finest driver on YouTube imho he took Chris Harris under his wing to some degree when Harris first joined Autocar I'm going to ask Santa for one in Skyscraper grey, wish me luck

Oooh Waves. Glider pilots love them As I understand it, they can literally surf along them in a similar vein to sea surfers.

The Chinese market has to have had an influence in many manufacturers designs. The Suzuki Cross went extremely Chinese in it's appearance and it's probably something we will have to get used to in general. I hate the front on many new Mercedes at the moment too and have a bigger problem with their grill designs than almost any other manufacturer. But there again, I detest the front of all Teslas, go figure

I never had a problem with the M3 grill and to be honest it's grown on me to the point I actually like it and would possibly choose it over the conventional grill. I'm not sure about the strange clash of panel angles just behind the back doors on the M3 and the rear is very "meh! But the Bonnet is interesting, taking that shape that some American cars use with graphics on their "hoods" and turning it instead to a depression that is a 3D shape. The M240s weird triangle shapes look slightly more awkward to me than anything on the M3/4 and the rear of it is even more "meh". But the size and performance are definitely a plus Unfortunately I'm in the process of selling my M4 and the M2 is still over a year away.

So the reviews of the new 2 series are out today. Most of the ones I've seen so far are for the M240 X-Drive and they seem overwhelmingly positive. I do note that the car does have, once again, challenging looks and it's gone up in weight a bit, but Joe Achilles has got the car from 0-60 in around 3.7 seconds or so!!! Crazy. I wonder how fast the next M2 will be? Unfortunately, that car is probably still over a year away. Anyhoo here are a couple of video reviews of it if anyone wants to discuss the car....PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY LINKS TO VIDEOS IF ALL YOU ARE GOING TO DO IS QUOTE THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE YOUTUBE VIDEO AND BUGGER OFF AGAIN. For my money the new M3 still holds my attention most

I don't know why, but your Furby looks like it's about to take a big run-up at something Perhaps I'm reading too much into the picture

It's all kicking off at McLaren it seems. Autocar, one of the world's most respected magazines claimed Audi had bought McLaren, but now McLaren are strenuously refuting this claim. Autocar are usually pretty much spot on with these things, so it will be interesting to see what comes of the claim. I know BMW were also looking at buying McLaren.

What happened to Boss Fox? Did he sell his mad Yeti?

"In other news..." Audi has bought McLaren! I hope they don't want to rebrand the F1 team. Although the thoughts of a Škoda F1 team is interesting, as is a 4.0 litre V8 Fabia - It would still be slower than a mk1 2.0 petrol Furby of course.

I've just come across an article that claims Toto said the rear wing was 0.2 mm out of spec. Ouch!

What a race. The winner was undoubtedly superb and produced a masterclass

The title of this article sums up exactly how I feel. I just A.) Can't afford one B.) Can't figure out what I'd do with it https://www.carthrottle.com/post/you-can-now-buy-a-suzuki-jimny-with-portal-axles-and-yes-you-want-one/

The looks are growing on me. I also have a huge bag of Googly eyes to get rid of...

The current CLA is a very good looking car imho, especially the AMG '45' version

I couldn't work out how the petrol pump was connected to the fuel hose for a while

As a big fan of the Niva, I am happy to report I have seen one in a trailer for the new series of Top Gear

Thanks Dan. I guess there might be a lot more people than normal wanting to exercise this 'freezing' feature with the huge lead times on so many cars at the moment.

Maybe she was speaking some truth? I'd rather have spoken to someone with less accent though, I might have missed something as I kept having to ask the poor lady to repeat herself. You would think it would be easy as I live about 5 miles from one of their main offices in Manchester (unless they have moved into one of those cloud thingies and no longer have corporeal form).

So here is a question. My M4 will be disappearing in the next 5 months 😞 but I won't have a car to replace it directly. It may well be up to a year or so before that happens. I've just rang a very polite lady at 'Direct Line' (my current insurers), but I didn't quite get to grips with her accent, so I may not have understood her, but from what I think she said, I believe that after my policy runs out - 4 months after the M4 will have gone - I will receive a partial refund, then 2 weeks after the renewal date - August - I will receive a letter confirming my full no-claims discount which I keep until I reinsure a new car. This, she said, had no time limit on it. I said I was a little unsure that this was definitely true, as it's seemed odd to have an indefinite time of being an active 'full no-claims' discount ability without insuring another car. I asked if she meant I had perhaps one or two years when the no-claims was still acceptable, but she said at the moment, the no-claims would be active until I needed it again, without time limit and honoured upon reinsurance. Does this sound correct to you guys?? I've never been in the situation before.

There is a company that will send a potato (text a potato) to your chosen 'friend'. All very tasteful of course https://www.textapotato.com/potatoes-1

You could buy a Panasonic DVD player for £25 at Currys. They have them in stock and thy play CDs

Ah, I see you are a man who likes his 'Rock'