John Shuttleworth - Austin Ambassador Y Reg

Gary Numan - err, Cars

Jerry was a race car driver.
Yello - The Race.

Driving down motorway this morning, and we went past flashing 50mph sign. The police X5 then put all its lights on, straddled the two lanes and held everyone at 40mph for 2 junctions before turni g all lights off sodding off at 70mph. Which was odd behaviour.

Driving home for Christmas.

I've listed to that song far too much and I'm 99.9% sure they never say that (even switching out the two thousand for one thousand). They say "who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door", which is the closest I can get.

That’s the Proclaimers

In fact I miss the S4 actually, I might get another one. The facelift model of mine can be had for reasonable money now, and retains a streamlined version of the same MMI system. (Under £20K for a nicely specced one with reasonable miles.)

I have to agree - touchscreens in cars are wank. You need buttons to feel.

Re touchscreen, I love mine, but then I don't really try and operate it while I'm driving. I have my steering-wheel controls for that. I can see if you had the muscle memory down on a non-touchscreen interface, that might make things easier while driving, but it would annoy me when I was setting the sat nav, I think.

I mean, don't adjust the bass and treble while driving, I guess?

It also has fewer functions than a modern car. It would end up like the flight deck of a fucking space shuttle.

Keyboard and mouse is clearly the way forward for cars.

I'm trying to think of what you can only do on the touchscreen of our Focus, and I'm pretty sure it's only the SatNav.

Oh, and the radio, like changing sources or radio stations and stuff.

What was the bike game on the Amiga that used the mouse?

Ah.. No second prize. That was good that was. Nice music too if I remember rightly.

In America, the Taurus certainly had some of the climate stuff on the touch screen. Front heated seats/steering wheel was in there, which wasn't great when you got in the car in the cold, turned the heated seats on, then decided it's too hot when you're driving and have to exit out of Android Auto to turn the seats back off.

I mean, don't adjust the bass and treble while driving, I guess?