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Sell your Porker and get one then.

Nah, I want a GT Porsche more than any other car on the planet, much as I adore old RS Fords.

Somewhat ironically, unlike the previous two generations, it didn't have an awful lot of success on the world rally stage - mainly because TTE were caught cheating (in a super ingenious way) and they were banned.

I wish to know more.

Not a surprise that Gaz has made a replica of the cheatiest car of all time!

That's brilliant

It's just put me off the car.
Too much cheating goes on in sport.

Something else we agree on!

You should follow something pure. Like bike racing

Yeah how bloody stupid does everyone feel now, cheering people on in 2012? Seems to have boiled down to who had the best chemist?

Pfft. What a crock o' shite from start to finish - as predicted. The headlines are still rumbling on, as of even yesterday, so I see.

I had a friend who was a South African and a massive fan of athletics and cycling. Her two heroes were Lance Armstrong and Oscar Pistorius. I felt so sorry for her...

What are they now?

Got to appreciate the engineering though.

Looking forward to the Hearthly's Garage DLC.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-09-tt-isle-of-man-review-motorsports-greatest-challenge-is-brought-to-vivid-life

TT is motorbikes, not cars!

I know, the cars would be a bonus. Experience racing the TT in a Seat Leon with full Android Auto functionality.

Had a longer go of the skodiaq today; it's still better than the epace but the 1.4 it's not pokey enough. Got a quote and incoming discount on the 2.0 which should be a) better out of the box and b) an easy remap.

Favouring a disco at this point though, it has to be said. Popping in tomorrow to start that negotiation rolling.

Quite handy both ways, "the Skoda isn't as good but it IS 7k cheaper" and "the disco is better and it's ONLY 7k more..."

I'm having another go in the superb purely to wind cavey up.

Not really, I really do fancy it, stupid overblown 2l and part time 4wd and all.

DON’T COME HOME WITH THE SKODA.

Fine then. Jesus.

You know this is a joke, right?

Fuck, I'd better go and cancel the order then.

Seriously though, too many concerns on the Kodiaq - we can't test the 2l before buying and Helen is concerned the gearstick was setting her tennis elbow off (big lumpy thing with the button into the side not the front like it should be).

I'm probably getting the superb though, because there are still no plans (they'll talk about, and I'm sure they would have given we'd just got done ordering a disco) for a petrol AWD xf sportbrake.

https://jalopnik.com/the-tata-nano-is-w ... 1823653663

Charming account of a US motoring journalist who got to drive a 2008 Tata Nano -- the cheapest car in the world, with a brand-new list price of $2500 (very possibly the cheapest car in history, I think?) I totally buy his argument that this thing is an engineering triumph.

Lovely.

Cavey loves his RWD's.

So it turns out that though the desire to own a new car leads people to buying some right pieces of absolute shit, that even that has its limits.

Rear engined and rear wheel drive? Looks like the only other contenders in class are Bedford Rascals and Porsche 911s. And for the price of a 911 you and 29 of your mates (sorry Z) could have a racing series!

Rascals are mid-engined.

Exotic.

Speaking of supercars, I was idly wondering if they did crash tests with stupidly expensive car and thought "of course they do!"

So I googled it



Giphy "nice":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/3oEjI5VtIhHvK37WYo/giphy-loop.mp4

Exactly!

I love the Nano, and have done since I read about it in a Land Rover magazine about a decade ago (they took it off-road and it fell over). It's exceptionally well-designed, and would have allowed people in India (and other countries) to be in a safe car rather than on an unsafe motorbike.

Sadly, I don't think it's selling very well at all, because owning a Nano meant you were poor (in a way that owning a motorbike costing the same or less money didn't, somehow), which is such a shame.

It's a bad car, for sure - in the same way that a McDonald's 69p burger is a bad burger - but for the money, both of them are hard to beat.

What?

Would.

So why isn't the Nano road legal in the US? Failed crash test?

Pretty sure it doesn't meet even the US' version of road safety standards for crash survivability.

Holy shit. Folded like paper

Wait, I thought you could drive basically anything in (some parts of) the US, due to the lack of MOT or anything like it?

I saw possibly the most horrendous looking modified BMW estate this morning, wish I'd taken a pic. I've seen it before but its had more work done now

Mid green base colour with polished chrome (wrapped?) centre area of bonnet and roof stripe, black plastic flared wheel arches and black side stripes. Finished with a racing style wing.

You seen this about, Markg?

Varies by state, I think. There's no federal laws IIRC

There's very little ongoing enforcement in most states after sale (I once saw a car in Indiana where the lower third of the door's outer shell had rusted away. You could see the bottom of the window rails, framed by rusty, jagged, tetanus-loaded metal.) But there are emissions and crash safety checks on new cars, which the Nano would fall within. Can't imagine Tata would be excited about paying for the testing and certification process.

"People will buy any car as long as it is new, but this sits below a line"

If all anyone takes away from that charming article is that the Tata Nano is a "right piece of absolute shit" I think they should check to see if they are dead inside.

Tata Nano sounds like a crap Dr Who monster.

Or a baby's first sentence.

Small Irish snack.

When my friend and I were looking into buying a new van for lugging our DJ gear around in, I desperatly wanted to get a pair of Rascal vans (one wouldn't have been big enough). We could have raced each other to gigs and it would have been great.

But we got a Transit instead

Well, lets get a pair now then.