Be Excellent To Each Other

Not the 3 wheelers. Those are normally owned by people who race them, in an even-more-psychotic-than-bike-race style. I don't rate the 4-wheelers.

TOMORROW.

Hurrah.

Ah right, so my brother's a wanker (not to mention people like Mr Chris, Grim... and myself for that matter), and the legendary Lotus Seven is 'shit'.

Myoptika in 'talking bollocks, shit stirring and trolling' shocker. Shows how much you know about cars/driving - perhaps we should all drive (pink?) Honda Civics.

Honda Civic Type R S!!!!



"C'mon, Ange, we have to go to Morrison's! After this box of wine, and that other box of wine, there's only two boxes left!"

I keep telling you to stop coming to my house just to take pictures of my car.

He thought you said 'arse'.

A Caterham appears to be a very expensive kit car that someone else has built for you.

Pretty much unrivalled performance/price, also you can buy a kit and build it yourself if you like.

Er, oh yes.
You're completely correct.
It needs to be two minutes minus the time, of course.

What Mark said, really.

A Caterham doesn't make much sense until you drive one, in my experience. It helps to think of it as a four wheeled motorbike.

I saw a Veyron on Saturday in Berlin. They've got one in the VW showroom, along with a couple of Bentleys.

On the road I saw at least 3 Astons, at least a dozen 911s, a 'Vette C6(?) and a Stingray (one of those 60s ones that was on that GT Racers Dave showed), which I think was my spot of the weekend. Or maybe the BMW 760Li which had been thoroughly spunked on by AC Schnitzer.

New Bang For Your Buck list!

I saw an Aston DB9 yesterday parked up in Bicester Village (although I doubt that's an especially unusual spot around there). It had extra vents on the bonnet though, which confused me. I'm fairly sure it wasn't a DBS.

Also, saw a Ferrari 348 Spider on the M25 this morning. You can pick one of them up for around the £25-30k mark, which may well be because it's not the best Ferrari ever made, but it's still a bloody Ferrari. And I quite like the look of the 348 - it's the not-so-missing-link in looks between the Testarossa and the F355.

EDIT: I take it back, it was a regular DB9.

You can pick up F355s for around the £25K-£30K mark (although admittedly towards the lower end of that it's probably a lemon).

I'd rather have the 355 than the 348.

Although the reason F355s are so cheap is, according to owners, because of all the stupid bodykits that get put on SW20 MR2s and the like.

I like the new Aston Martin. It has four letters in its name and I think one of them is an i.

I once saw someone trying to flog an MR2 on Pistonheads with a Ferrari 360 bodykit. It looked fucking atrocious.

Where is 2009 Clio 1.6 VVT GT pleaz?

Tommorow.

Ooh, could've been a V12 Vantage? Pure filth.

Nah, I looked at some photos this morning and regular DB9's have the vents I saw, my memory was just being useless.

Australian relatives of the wife of one of my mates have recently come over here from Oz to buy an Aston Martin DB7 GT and ship it back over there. I've not actually been in it, but I've seen the car and it looks lovely... but I'm sure they paid something crazy like £50k for it. Who in their right mind would spend that much on a DB7 when they could get a DB9 for similar cash? Or is there something super-spanky about the GT model that I'm not aware of?

One of the ones I saw was a Vantage. Sounded nice when it came past us five minutes later. Not as nice as the Stingray, though.

One of the others had a green canvas roof. Really poor choice by the owner.

TOMORROW!

I love you.

cars form 'road trains' on motorways.
sounds weird and interesting and scary.

It's only a day away!

Should have come in for a cup of tea.

You messed up your line!

eh, I mean...Tomorrow!

*jazz hands*

I thought we were singing 'Road Trains', by...erm...Aerosmith.

CONVOY!

Does seem absolute crazy money for a DB7, which is a beautiful but old, deeply flawed car. Must admit that I don't know what difference a 'GT' is though - could be mega rare or something? That's probably one for Kalmar or Grim... to enlighten us on.

I do love Astons though.

It's ok kalmar, calm down.

I love Martinis.

Sounds shit. Driving is fun, sitting in a car is not fun.

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!

You should have popped in for a cup of tea?

Driving on a motorway isn't very fun though, I'd love the car to do that. What happens though if the driver has fallen asleep or is busy masturbating when the convoy gets to the end of the motorway?

It's a V12 with more horses, and a slightly different front end (the grill is different, I think). Different wheels, too.

Driving on a motorway 30 ft from the back of a lorry isn't especially fun. I can tell you this because I spent about 5 hours doing so, yesterday.

I spent most of the time, as usual, thinking of inventing a distance-sensing cruise control that does it for you.

Jack (off) knifed.

That sounds horrible to me; no doubt 'automatic driving' will come, though - much of the tech already exists. That'll be the day I cease to be interested in cars, which will be nothing more than passenger carraiges.

Ah right, cheers mate.

Still sounds like a lot of cash there though, even for a minter, but I guess something like that is highly collectable.

Really? I see very little overlap between "fun driving" and "motorway driving".

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.

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

It's called Adaptive Cruise Control.
It's even on How Stuff Works, man