I like motorway driving. I like all kinds of driving, though.

Really? Want!

Although the car-train thing is better as you could actually sleep at the wheel.

Once they've done that they might as well install an electricity conductor in the road to run the car off.

What happens though if the driver has fallen asleep or is busy masturbating when the convoy gets to the end of the motorway?

I dunno Doc; even on a motorway there's still some pleasure to be had cruising along? Maybe that's just me though.

I like motorway driving. I like all kinds of driving, though.

Unless you say something daft like "Motorways have soul" I'm with you on this

Driving economically?

Driving economically?

They're certainly not the most exciting of roads to drive, but cruising along at speed while singing to the radio & overtaking folk is still a wee pleasure. Especially when you never have to touch the brakes.

You don't like driving slowly.

Driving economically?

Like the one in my Mondeo? Which was nabbed from Land Rover? And was originally from Honda (but that used a rather flaky radar version, rather than RADAR).

[edit]I don't actually have it on my Mondeo, but it's an option on all the 'new' (06) models.

Have you ever commuted via motorway, daily, for a distance of more than 15 miles each way?

Aye, I went to college in Springburn (30 odd miles away) as well as having to work in/near Glasgow most winters. As long as I stick to the inside lane I have a hassle free journey right up until the last 2 miles of motorway where the M77 meets the M8 & passes through the city centre.
Also, not daily but I also had weekly commutes to Mostyn or Birkenhead when we were building the Liverpool Bay (Burbo Bank) windfarm & that was awesome except that one time when they gave me a 1.0 Fiesta to come home in, that was pretty fucking dull

I like the M6 just after the last junction for Manchester heading north. The road just empties, it's straight as an arrow, you can pick up the Friday night dance mix on Rock FM* and there are no speed cameras.
Also I would have been going to see Mrs Grim... at Lancaster university, so that would make me happy.

*Er, assuming it's Friday night, of course.

What the fuck is wrong with the M8 outside of Glasgow, by the way? Why the hell do you have to join the motorway on the wrong side of the bloody road? I want to merge into lane 1, not lane 3, you fucks!

Is it just to scare off English types?

Is it just to scare off English types?

Yeah. I like it as it means folk are forced to join the motorway at a reasonable speed rather than trying to creep onto a free flowing motorway at 40. Anyway, that's the least of your worries on the other side if you take a wrong turn on the expressway you'll end up joining the M8 VIA the Ski Jump.

@Gill, it's near Glesga Cross & next to the Infirmary.

Yeah. I like it as it means folk are forced to join the motorway at a reasonable speed rather than trying to creep onto a free flowing motorway at 40.

It just means that when they do join the motorway at 40, the people having to avoid them are doing 80mph rather than 60.

Nah, where it joins is 2 lanes & the slip road makes it 3.

(Burbo Bank)

I like the M6 just after the last junction for Manchester heading north. The road just empties, it's straight as an arrow, you can pick up the Friday night dance mix on Rock FM* and there are no speed cameras.
Also I would have been going to see Mrs Grim... at Lancaster university, so that would make me happy.

*Er, assuming it's Friday night, of course.

The 'standard' V8 sounds lovely - I should think the V12 is really something special. As for the 'Vette, that'll be the 7.2 litre 'long block' OHV V8 I believe; very old tech but quite some engine nonetheless!

I like the M6 just after the last junction for Manchester heading north.

I do around 50 miles of motorway driving everyday just getting to and from work. After a while, your brain adjusts to it completely, so you're staying alert for potential hazards but the constant driving-in-a-straight-line-whilst-maintaining-the-same-speed allows you to switch off a little more than you would going a more scenic route and just chillout to the radio, etc.

Driving in Bristol was so stressful for me back then that at one point I pulled up on the side of the road, stormed out of the car and point-blank refused to drive any further, so mum took over.

Nowadays the only thing I'm really not keen on is driving down little single-track country lanes as I spend the entire time with my buttocks clenched tightly together waiting for some twat in a chavmobile to suddenly rocket straight towards me at 70+ mph. I've driven through London, Birmingham and Bristol city centres and none of that bothers me as much as those poxy little lanes.

You drive with one leg out of the window?

Funny thing is, any concerns or interest I might otherwise have in the specifics of a car pretty much vanish when it makes a noise like that.

Same thing with the big V8s Merc have been using, particularly the last couple of years: I'm quite sure they're really not very good cars but fucking hell would you listen to that. The respect I have for the engineering Audi and BMW throw into making a V8 or V10 rev comfortably past 8k means nothing when Krakatoa is going off nearby.

Funny thing is, any concerns or interest I might otherwise have in the specifics of a car pretty much vanish when it makes a noise like that.

Same thing with the big V8s Merc have been using, particularly the last couple of years: I'm quite sure they're really not very good cars but fucking hell would you listen to that. The respect I have for the engineering Audi and BMW throw into making a V8 or V10 rev comfortably past 8k means nothing when Krakatoa is going off nearby.

I've read that a couple of times, and I still don't know if you like loud cars or not.

Have you heard my Tomcat? You'll love/hate it

I watched that YouTube of you driving the Tomcat around but the wind noise totally obscured the engine.

Does the radio turn off when you take the key *out* maybe?

Edit: oh, sorry, you already said it didn't. Umm, it'll drain the battery if you leave the radio switched on, certainly over a weekend.

Also I'd check in the ISO adaptor whether there is already a signal which goes on and off with the ignition. There might be.

...but if it comes to that I'm unlikely to have more than 2 seconds to worry about it.

Anyone got any thoughts?

I don't intend to leave the unit on. But I'm just concerned there may be battery drain even if the radio is in the off state as the voltage won't be cut. Anyone got any thoughts?

"Straight 1" is an oxymoron*, surely?

Still, that's some top-notch metallurgy gone into that.

* I almost certainly don't mean oxymoron.

Set Wolfsburg on fire, the over-complicating-everything fucks?