Has anyone played WINGSPAN? Some friends of mine are big fans of it, and was wondering if anyone else had it or had played it? It's about birds. Don't own it but I've played it a couple of times at the board game group. It's really, really beautifully made, and the mechanisms allow for some fantast...

Chains still stretch and occasionally fail, just not as much as belts.

The Nissan Micra of all things, with its hardcore 1 and 1.2 litre engines, is particularly bad for it.

I was the same after Cadbury’s World. I’ve always liked the look of them, and my dad had one back in the early 60s but they used old fashioned mechanicals and were out of my budget. Now they swapped to BMW engines and an aluminium chassis it’s more appealing and I could in theory afford one. You sh...

I was the same after Cadbury’s World. I’ve always liked the look of them, and my dad had one back in the early 60s but they used old fashioned mechanicals and were out of my budget. Now they swapped to BMW engines and an aluminium chassis it’s more appealing and I could in theory afford one. You sh...

I was the same after Cadbury’s World. I’ve always liked the look of them, and my dad had one back in the early 60s but they used old fashioned mechanicals and were out of my budget. Now they swapped to BMW engines and an aluminium chassis it’s more appealing and I could in theory afford one. You sh...

I’ve always liked the look of them, and my dad had one back in the early 60s but they used old fashioned mechanicals and were out of my budget. Now they swapped to BMW engines and an aluminium chassis it’s more appealing and I could in theory afford one.

When that many two stroke engines fire up, it’s noticeable.

Exciting heatwave news as some rough land near my house has caught fire for the second time in 10 days. A couple of fire engines and some fire brigade land rovers rocked up, and the police closed the road. I wouldn't be surprised if they're dealing with these things all over right now.

Ridge Racer: Unbounded (The Full Game This Time) I traded in some DS games and saw this on the shelf for a... somewhat reasonable price so I decided to finally get my own copy of Ridge RUB after a decade of dithering. (Of course the shop reduces the price by 20% a few days after I buy it. Rascals.)...

Diesels can run fully submerged as long as the exhaust is outside the water. Petrol engines... not so much The exhaust can be underwater it's the air intake that needs to be in the air, that's what those snorkel things that people have on cars with One Life Live It stickers are for. Yeah, best not ...

Diesels can run fully submerged as long as the exhaust is outside the water. Petrol engines... not so much The exhaust can be underwater it's the air intake that needs to be in the air, that's what those snorkel things that people have on cars with One Life Live It stickers are for. Yeah, best not ...

Diesels can run fully submerged as long as the exhaust is outside the water. Petrol engines... not so much The exhaust can be underwater it's the air intake that needs to be in the air, that's what those snorkel things that people have on cars with One Life Live It stickers are for. Yeah, best not ...

The exhaust can be underwater it's the air intake that needs to be in the air, that's what those snorkel things that people have on cars with One Life Live It stickers are for.

Diesels can run fully submerged as long as the exhaust is outside the water. Petrol engines... not so much

Has anyone played WINGSPAN? Some friends of mine are big fans of it, and was wondering if anyone else had it or had played it? It's about birds. Don't own it but I've played it a couple of times at the board game group. It's really, really beautifully made, and the mechanisms allow for some fantast...

Grid: No Prefix (2019) Hey everyone! I'm back! My Game Pass shenanigans continue, and a new game has just slid onto Eeeh-Ayy Play which I was interested in trying. Yes, it's Grid ! Or GRIO . [Grid In A Box] . Not to be mixed up with Race Driver: Grid from 2008. Heck, what should I call it? The Toca...

NFS Heat (Again) It's time to bring my amazing Need For Speed thread up to date by playing the current main console Need for Speed game: NFS Heat ! It's thanks to a strange confluence of circumstances regarding Microsoft's Game Pass that I'm finally able to play Need for Speed Heat (or NFS Heat, as...

Wrong thread. This should be in “What have you bought.” When I were nobbut a nipper (here we go again) skateboards were not a thing is this country. We had roller skates, but we also used to make our own bogeys, and I don't mean that stuff you pick out of your conk, I mean four wheeled vehicles, usu...

I can understand what is happening with the downdraught of that osprey thing, but I do t quite understand what’s happening with the jet. Is that due to the force coming out of those engines at the back? I thought that’d be more backwards than down.

That news report was great. Lots of people see planes. They look military and are flying quite low. They are either very noisy, or silent. The sky may or may not have gone dark when some of them saw it, but that was probably just a coincidence. Someone thought it was a Dakota. Dakotas only have two...

That news report was great. Lots of people see planes. They look military and are flying quite low. They are either very noisy, or silent. The sky may or may not have gone dark when some of them saw it, but that was probably just a coincidence. Someone thought it was a Dakota. Dakotas only have two ...

Hello, Last night, around 8pm, there was a loud noise like a big passenger plane flying overhead, but also a kind of screeching whirring, like one of the engines was straining. I went to the window to see what it was but it had gone overhead. Russell was just returning and getting out of his car at ...

OMYGOD THAT WOULD BE EPIC

It's taking sibling rivalry to the next level and he's playing the long game. Will the kid become US President before their uncle becomes King? Start your engines...

Thanks Trooper! Did you know that very few launches have happened from Norwich? Yes, there aren't many launches from Norwich) But not too far away something interesting starts happening. Namely, at the territory of the Kildemory estate in the North of Scotland. It was there in the spring that the f...

This will run two (basically it’s one layout inside the other) controlled by a single box each. My dad has all the Hornby digital stuff that can control loads of engines but since having his stroke he struggles with stuff so this is enough for now. Maybe switch it over at some point though.

I think most of the profit is down to my dad over the last 18 months. I've been putting together a layout for him in a BIG shed. Those three drawer units are FULL of engines and carriages. Moved on a bit from here now, I'll get a more recent pic when I'm next there. I’m so jealous. There was a kid ...

I think most of the profit is down to my dad over the last 18 months. I've been putting together a layout for him in a BIG shed. Those three drawer units are FULL of engines and carriages.

Moved on a bit from here now, I'll get a more recent pic when I'm next there.

Hornby move into profit during lock down. I had a Hornby train set when I was nobbut a nipper. Or maybe I thought I did, but it was really my dad's and he let me play with it. The big rivalry at the time was with Triang. My best friend had a Triang set, and I was a bit jealous because Hornby had a ...

I used to drive past when I worked out there. That will be good news for Roll-Royce and getting engines tested.

I don't know about those really, but pure electric cars in general are more reliable than the old-fangled ones with engines.

Hmmm, I see. I’m learning lots.

SEO is snake oil, doesn’t exist.

Word of mouth is how search engines work

It’s a Fiat platform that was used for the 500L before the Jeep, and it uses Fiat engines.
It looks better as a Jeep though.

Need Speed For Rivals I'm playing Rivals again, having won Payback and No Subtitle. The daft as hell serious business monologues haven't got any less funny, and the unskippable tutorials for the Racer and the Cop and then a final Alldrive tutorial in case you weren't paying attention to the first t...

I guess if the road was blocked and the cars weren’t moving they’d have turned their engines off? There’s a difficult line between making a point of noticeable protest and adding to the problem you are protesting. I see this action as more aimed towards industry and government, because little change...

I can’t go into detail as i am under an NDA.

But kinda. There is testing of new engines on a 747 air frame

They have you brainwashed don't they..... Come off it dude, you work in the industry. You can't just magically drop old tech on AWS and have it all work with minimal effort. Hearthly is entirely correct. You work in engineering planes right? It's the equivalent of saying why don't we just swap the ...

They have you brainwashed don't they..... Come off it dude, you work in the industry. You can't just magically drop old tech on AWS and have it all work with minimal effort. Hearthly is entirely correct. You work in engineering planes right? It's the equivalent of saying why don't we just swap the ...

I tried to watch Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines. I got about an hour into it before I had to turn that shit off. Then I watched Us. Which was another really good not really a horror, horror flick but this was was a bit lighter than most with comedy undertones. The mum in it is really fucking annoyin...

that would make more sense, as space is at a premium under the hood of an original mini. I seem to recall that you could shoehorn an 1850 Austin Morris engine into it.
I think there are people who’ve put type-r engines in them

You pay less for smaller petrol engines, is what I meant. VED is emissions based, no? Easy! Tax based on... Weight? Aerodynamic efficiency? Cost. So, VAT, then? When we have to start paying VAT annually I'm going to cry. Note that a new car that costs more than £40k is already taxed more highly tha...

So, VAT, then?

Cost.

Easy! Tax based on... Weight? Aerodynamic efficiency?

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The number of kWh pushed in over 12 months, read off and submitted as part of the MOT like mileage? That's got a handy built-in 'tax-free' period as well!

You pay less for smaller petrol engines, is what I meant. VED is emissions based, no?

Nah, it started off free to get people to buy them. Now the price is dropping and they're far more popular there's too much money going wasted for them not to do it.

Same thing though. Road tax currently incentivises cleaner engines, reversing that would be odd

It's a Focus, so the pedals will be fine.

The Ecoboost engines are superb, don't be afraid of getting a small-engined one if it pulls the price down (although do test it and draw your own conclusions, of course).

Wait I take back my 20/25 years statement as the 206 GTi was quite good. But anyway. Peugeot hatchbacks that are less than 25 years old are a bit... "Not very good". Could you elaborate? My standards and yours might be slightly different ;) Fiestas are better. Golfs Polos are better still,...