The only one of these I recall ever seeing is Uncle Frank’s. I was dissapointed not to get a ride because it was broken, just like his £700 DB5 that we tried later that day. The paint looks a bit “Humbrol enamel” but the ad says it is in daily use which makes the £7k seem a bargain compared to the u...

This is page 1488. Which gives me flashbacks to the days when RS232 ruled the data-highways.

I'd rather be dealing with a rusty, stuck ABS sensor than a chuffing, leaking and sloppy pushrod engine. Plus all this extra stuff rarely give problems in reality. When it does, it invariably is easy to fix. In my over 20yrs motoring and 35+ cars I've owned, I've never had to replace an ABS sensor....

Hooli wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:34 pm … really does sound like an answer looking for a problem.

Which can be said for almost every “feature” added to cars over the last forty years. Useless shit to sell to the easily fooled.

https://olympianmotors.com

Why under-taking on a motorway is dumb even where it is legal.

SiC wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:38 pm These are getting cheap.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 577314780/

Probably because they look like a Vauxhall and drive like a Ford.

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:24 pm

I can see you now in your high-backed armchair in your Bond-villain lair!

Stroking pussy and instructing staff?

I like electricity, electric motors, sparks, valves, transformers, amps, transmission lines, arcs, solenoids, transistors. I understand how it all works. But I hate the dependance upon "the grid" that almost every Brit. seems to have. Electricity supply is taken so much for granted. Supply...

Tesla makes a lot of cars in Shanghai, I am sure they could make trucks there as well.

And everyone*, everywhere* is on the People’s Republican Army watchlist. (According to the internet)