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12 hours ago, Hobby said:

Or cars which are now considered classics but back then were just run of the mill!

I saw something somewhere where someone was lamenting how modern cars are soulless compared to old cars.

The old car in this case was a Ford Fiesta Mk2.

15 minutes ago, big jim said:

could well be but it’s still a shocker for a car less than 2 months old! 

With 25k on the clock?

6 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Zammo!

 

The girl who played his girlfriend turned into a bit of a hottie....

Zammo himself is a locksmith these days.

Condition report on a 120k mile cheap Chinese EV

13 minutes ago, GrumpyPenguin said:

Problem with those green cabinets is that they tend to be away from the curbside so it will encourage trailing leads accross the pavement - if I see any I'll unplug them !

No you won't. They lock in when in use.

19 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Isn't a jeep a bit anachronistic for a 1940 Dads Army scene?

 

Proudly emblazoned into the plastic dash of my Fiat-built Jeep is 'Since 1941'

25 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

I like my clocks to show the right time if possible, and flashing LED displays drive me nuts (back in the 80s I seemed to be the only person in the known universe who bothered to set the clock on his vcr).  

Surely you put a piece of black tape over the clock so as not to attract burglars? 

Sod off buses!

13 hours ago, 30801 said:

 

I had one like that. And it would go off if a tyre was out by around 2psi.

The one I have now shows me the actual pressures.

Funny thing this morning it went off proper. Showing 10psi on the display and a big nail in the shoulder of the tyre.

9 minutes ago, davidbr said:

My wife used to own a 2CV and many a time I had it off the clock which meant over 70.  I once overtook a Ferrari on the M5.  Felt I ought to have drawn a small Ferrari on the driver's door, like the fighter pilots did.

 

(The Ferrari was pootling in the middle lane, but I can still say I overtook one in a 2CV!!)

Literally an advertised feature of the 2CV

Hmph.

26 minutes ago, davidbr said:

Electronics?  Touchscreens?  Remember when things were simple - to operate and mend?

 

My first car was a Mini Traveller.  Two switches (one for headlights , one for wipers), heater, choke and the pushbutton on right for the screen washer.  Dip switch was a foot operated button beside the clutch pedal.

The citroen Ami today has an equivalent level of complexity. I just wish they were an actual car and not a quadricycle limited to 28mph.

3 hours ago, nigb55009 said:

My Wife has a Fiat 500X. It`s smart enough to tell you if there`s a problem with tyre pressures, but not which tyre is faulty.

 

I had one like that. And it would go off if a tyre was out by around 2psi.

The one I have now shows me the actual pressures.

15 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 

We have a smart oven that connects to the internet.

Can it automatically set the time when the clocks change?

No it bloody can't.

14 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Audis attract Audi drivers, plonker and machine in perfect harmony...

 

Remeber when Audis were advertised as literally not being suitable for massive tools?

22 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Another moment of satisfaction came from one of the digital channels police-chase programmes last night when an Audi, taken for insane driving and not collected, went into the crusher.

:(

It wasn't the Audi's fault it was being driven by an Audi driver.

9 minutes ago, Nick C said:

Except they're not. Plenty of articles out there about how poor the Tesla build quality is compared with other cars of a similar price range. I remember a few years ago they were showing off one in our local shopping centre, so I wandered over to have a look - the panel gaps were worse than anything BL ever managed!

 

Plus as has been mentioned earlier, having all the controls on a single touchscreen is not in any way safe - goodness knows how they managed to get that through type approval.

Oh, let's see Tesla came from nowhere making rebadged Elans with batteries to being a major manufacturer in only a few years.

You can get high speed broadband anywhere in the world via Starlink who's satellites are launched by reusable rockets that land vertically. None of those companies existed a few years ago either.

The best you can come up with is 'boo hoo panel gaps' on an early car?

The stuff he's done with companies that make stuff is straight up astonishing.

Twitter is a trainwreck of course but that's not in the field of making clever technology.

Watched a little bit of it. I guess it's the influence of Bethesda but there were some graphical glitches and even after they'd settled down it wouldn't play in 4K.

Next-gen update for Fallout 4 is out tomorrow so I might see if I can find the disk.

2 hours ago, kevinlms said:

I would avoid knowingly buying ANY product associated with Elon Musk.

Thing is the products are really good even though the bloke's a massive nobber.

12 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I quite like this land rover.

 

That's one way to make it smoke less.