coldel

It is technicalities like this that you should use to your advantage. For instance I remember something about a bedroom not being officially a bedroom if it doesn't have a window (only has a skylight).

Our survey flagged the house had stairs, which a child could fall down... ...also that it had a garden that a child could get rained on. Astonishing in this day and age the process is so long, overpriced, convoluted when the rest of the world has moved on.

Same here - when I bought the Celica from a car enthusiast it had really poor budgets on, but given he did on average 200 miles a year in it (he owned 10+ other cars) he didnt see the point in slinging £1k worth of rubber on it. Having owned the car for nearly 2 years now I can say that to date (touch wood!) the car has been pretty much faultless and clearly very well looked after prior to my ownership.

OK, if its a £1m used Ferrari bought with some finance involved which will be worth £50m in 25 years time - the system is the same. Hell people pay for stuff worth millions in an auction and walk away with it as an owner, houses included. What we found when we sold a place last year was that the total time required to sell/buy a house is probably no more than two days work, however solicitors juggle hundreds of clients at one time, so you have a two-three week lead time on them to simply answer an email and the whole process drags out - we had to call both of them on a conference call because it was getting something like this: Solicitor one: Did you receive the offer to renovate the roof prior to purchase Solicitor two (two weeks later): Yes, but what about clause 2, can we change that? Solicitor one (one week later): Yes, what do you want to change it to ...and so on My brother bought an empty house last year, took a matter of weeks to buy, check over, pay the deposit, secure the loan and move in. I found things take ages because of too many people in the process who take too long to do things who take too much money to do something relatively easy. Sorry if that offends any estate agents on here!

Does make you laugh that you can walk into a car showroom and drive out 30 minutes later with a £250k car, but it takes months to buy a £150k house.

Wondered when some of the others would put in an appearance on the main show...

Loving it, wow. Shame you didn't make the move on it this time last year you would have saved a few grand in exchange rates But agree with the above, I see modern Mustangs all the time, they are relatively cheap to buy and the smaller engine version makes it cheaper to run. This though is a head turner on a whole different scale.

Its hard to really hear the note - you are restricted by the quality of the device capturing it as always. Also as above you need to hear it under load to get an idea of what its like to live with day to day (as you will be moving most of the time?) - however having sat and listened to it side by side to some you tube videos of cars static with Cobra and Ark exhausts it does sound like a blowing exhaust I am afraid with none of the qualities of a properly built aftermarket option.

Or...

Back in the day when you could buy a rally car pretty much on spec and drive it on the road...

Welcome along - I do regularly cast an eye across at MX5s for sale just to see what mental missile someone has built and has put up for sale. Fantastically adaptable cars.

Brown?

I think they will gel once they get the three of them on a few trips taking three XYZ types of cars and getting some banter going over the radios. Then it becomes harder to notice the scripting from the banter - old TG was also also highly scripted, we just didnt see it so easily. I still feel unfortunately MLB holds it back a bit he is an actor and doesn't seem capable of the banter.

Yes Harris is bang on the money - better than the other two - I think the problem with MLB is that he isn't really a petrolhead, he doesn't seem as interested in cars as the other two.

Happy birthday matey

I think if you toned down Chris a bit who could have worked, but he was too over excited all the time and seemed to talk to the others like they were inferiors on the show rather than peers. Worth having him in S1 to see him vomit though...

Gelling well indeed - miles better. That Alfa! And it worked better with the celeb as well.

Sold - thread locked

Just for fun I put in my Celica, I got offered £50

Cars are definitely getting bigger nowadays, came back to mine in the car park and honestly looked like mine was some toy car next to a tank

....and the lowly GT-Four of course 😉 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

...and those not in the 'most' group? Just seems daft to have a 1 mph difference when every single driver in the country will at some point in their car slightly push over 30mph and hit 31mph they are then means tested for a fine for being a speeder when they are anything but...

I remember when Abramovich took over Chelsea he was on a million pounds a day salary, £500k, pah, chicken feed! As Stew said this is not tackling speeding, speed cameras do not tackle speeding (many people just speed between them). Speed cameras cover I am guessing, 0.0000001% of the road network, they are never going to address the speeding issue. Its money grabbing and it will not deter the super rich, once someone is earning over £100k they are probably very well off in terms of disposable income. There is nothing there to convince me this will have any real world effect on speeding - unless someone can show me actual figures that clearly shows significant numbers of rich people are speeding vs poorer people. As an aside, you could argue someone living in Manchester on £30k a year is likely to have more disposable income and ability to pay than someone living in London on £40k a year - just a point. As an additional aside. Not sure if anyone read the actual document in the article, which states you can get fined for doing 31mph in a 30mph zone? Given inaccuracy of both speedos and cameras, how they got to that conclusion.

...which makes me feel that earnings based fines will make no difference. If someone can 'afford' the fine then they will still speed, a billionaire as you say can always afford a £5000 fine. The only deterrent I can see if removal of driving privileges early on, a sort of yellow card if you like. Which makes this policy so ridiculous, its a nod to 'common man' out there that 'hey we are looking out for you guys' from the government but not actually doing anything practical to stop speeding. They probably spent months in meetings coming up with it instead of thinking of something that affects the demographic that cause most speeding incidents in the right way.

For me a better implementation is to prevent repeat offenders across the board. The fine should go up for repeated offenders. £65 is never going to bankrupt anyone, even on £15k a year. But second offence put it up to £165 and so on. Remove licence earlier than 4, 3 pointers? Maybe take it down to 9? Put in shorter ban for 6 points of say a month? I guess I get a bit fed up of seeing headline stuff like this to try and politically make a government more popular (hit the bankers in the pocket damn them type headlines) and am more interested in sorting out the deaths caused by speeding. PS, I am not a high earning banker and have never got a speeding ticket!