Lady Elanore

They are certainly thorough....I think?

This is a bit of a bargain. Pre-reg. Delivery mileage, over £73k new (beautiful individual paint). £49K before a haggle (believe it might have just been sold as I type)

I'm live at a BMW dealers!!! I've saved up from my weekly allowance and am having the brake service done.....3 months late! Horror of horrors, there are no biscuits, muffins or tea 😞 Was counting on eating my own bodyweight in food to offset the service cost. Finally have 2 days work to look forward to, hence the car is getting a bit of T&C

It's claimed he was under the speed limit when it all went a bit wrong. I know just driving my rwd BMW briskly in the wet can be more than a handful (for me) so A Diablo with its grass roller rear tyres would be a bit of a 'concentration focusing' machine

Thank goodness that he crashed the cheap one (and that he seems Ok of course)

With the rain we've had in the North West today I wouldn't want to be parked up in Diablo. Let alone driving up and down a remote bumpy road!

That's why I mentioned the C7. As it happens I used to sell brand-new Corvettes complete with a GM warranty in years gone by and we did all our servicing and warranty work in house with the approval of GM

My brake service was due a couple of months ago and cancelled because of C-19. Still haven't had it done, partly because I don't want to spend the money, so it mostly just sits outside and stares back at me

I reckon if the car look 'long' when we see it for real, the nostrils will look fine. It's just a new bit of design language and we'll get over it. As I mentioned before, we all hated flame surfacing when it came out and now it's the industry norm. Audi (and to a lesser extent Skoda, VW and SEAT) have a generic look that I can't tell one model from another at a distance and BMW are heading that way a too, so it's a good thing to break the mould and try a slightly new direction, even if it doesn't really work in broad daylight. A bit like banging your head on a brick wall, it's nice when it stops

The M2 when bought new is really expensive. The old M3 and current (just) M4 can be had with such good discounts that they work out much cheaper, especially on finance. I prefer the slightly more compact size of the M2 but it is a much older basic design that they have shoehorned the more modern F80/82 parts into. The new M4 is going to be far too big for me, even if I ever have the money for one (unlikely) and I suspect the next generation of M2 will never be available with huge discounts so may end up out of any future budget I may have. It's a shame as I love a straight 6 engine. Still, I may be able to afford a Mustang one day if I can get back to work in the near future and before I go bust A secondhand C7 Corvette would be nice (C8 will hold it's value too well especially if the RHD version arrives here). Still, I'm looking forward to seeing the new M4 in the flesh, if for no other reason it's nice to see something fresh looking on the road (not road kill obviously)