Toon Chris

Unfortunately the pain comes with the extra few thousand in lost no-claims over the next few years.

Short term reduction in pollution from car fumes means less people dying now. Medium term reduction in pollution from power generation means less people dying in the future. It's all controlled by politics which is hideously short-term in its mentality, and politics - even non-democratic politics - is driven hard by what the people want. So in essence, humans are short-term thinkers and politics is even shorter-term in nature. As others have said, nothing that significantly affects medium to long term environmental issues will happen until it is too late. EVs are the future, stop bitchin', enjoy your petrol while you can and go EV when it gets cheap/efficient enough.

Anti-lock brake 'twang'?

But the OP is right, the X2 is poor looking thing. It smacks of 'I want a beemer like that big X6 but haven't the money'. That is fair enough if you aren't rich, but a buyer has to expect that they will look like a wannabe. That said, none of the X series are what you would call exciting to look at.

Omni-Grambles

Nope you will need that and them some. Grab a million if you have time as it will be useful.

Now that one is your, not you're. Crikey it's a grammar collapse

I've watched the first double-episode and won't be watching the rest. Blah blah, Klingons talk too slowly, and what they say is boring. More excitement needed, some humour for goodess' sake, that's what star trek was always good at. I don't care about the characters and its way too flimsy. Someone should have been braver and tried to reinvent the whole idea of a space federation than revamp ST. And why still all this rubbish about peace and diplomacy? It's like the liberal hippy times of Captain Pilchard, sorry Picard, again. I want a series where we are the bad guys and we get away with it without stupid moralistic stuff that has an underlying message of good guys win and life is fair if you are nice to other people - which in the larger scale real world of wars and horrors is plain bullshit. And no more scripts where a sentence starts with 'When I was a child...' and we get some story that is supposed to make us care about the depth of a 0.5 dimensional character. Bah. Rubbish. By the way, I couldn't get into Expanse as I have read the books recently and knew the plot to well. Yes the books get truly, truly weird in a fun way so knowing that was coming but I'd have to wait for it was too hard.

Done stage 2, on stage 3. Its a bit slow to get going on 3 as it takes ages to get that yomi stuff. Tip if on stage 2, build up some yomi with the AutoTourney purchase to get ready for 3.

I'm a billionaire selling clips for a buck a pop

You swine

Top tip that tyre postage can be pretty cheap and may get you some more interest. A quick google will find you somewhere that will do it for £25 (2 x 2tyre packages) If you don't want to do, it at least now other people know it's not cost much to arrange delivery

MPG appalling, power poor (for the size), wheels dubious, colour poor. Street presence - different but meh. AUTOMATIC - the killer. Nismo all the way for me.

The first thing that bottoms out tends to be the exhaust. This might also explain why the mechanic saw no obvious damage. Try rattling the rear box by hand and also the heat shielding.

Everyone has their own opinion, and I admit I don't track, however I do brake very hard when having fun and my current car weighs 2 tonnes nearabouts. I have tried many disks and found them to be pretty similar when all is said and done, with the aethetics often being as much as a factor as anything else, but the DBA slotted I currently use are probably the best by a small margin. Nice wear, the slots seem to prevent fade which I got with solids, no unsightly surface rust 5 minutes after a small shower, and I quite like the temperature paint on them them tells you if you are cooking them.

I got almost 28K from some Pirelli Scorpions. Very comforting to have them there in the wet and cold as they never let go once. Much, much better than summer tyres (I had Bridgestones on prior to them) They are not exactly a snow tyre full-on like some really aggressive pattern tyres but then who wants tyres that look like they came of a monster truck anyway But they were good in the on-and-off snow we had last year and good on frosty mornings and dodgy roads. They might struggle to pull you out a deep drift but they are a decent winter tyre all the same. That 28K was from driving them all year round. After a long (hundreds of fast miles) drive on a hot day they get slacker and you can feel them move a little in the fast corners, but it's predictable and not going to catch you out. That's useful to know when our winters go from horrid to spring and then - just when you are about to change your tyres go back - to horrid again. In the end I gave up trying to work when to change them as I still had them on in July!

Douche Honestly, the grammar police don't do spelling any more? (maybe because it's french?)

+1 on a decent diff bush replacement. It made a massive difference to mine (bought from Alex as a non-coincidence )

There are a surprising number of you who dream of polishing cars all day For me, engine mechanic and engine development for a racing team.

Well yeah, they aren't sexy

Here you go. Yes its 3 years old but no mileage to talk of, looks well kept and has pretty much all the gizmos you will get on the Q60. Plus its the 3.7 non-turbo from the 370 so you can have lots of fun with tuning it, and its massively cheaper Q70 with a decent engine and sport suspension

Yes. I had a 155 for many years and a 56 v6 for many more and they are no worse than any other car. The only problem with an Alfa is the suspension bushes usually give out regularly as they are too soft, and they stuck with cam belts rather than chains for far too long. Don't know if they still use belts or chains. Other than that, like any car, with some pre-emptive care they are perfectly reliable and solid and that Q is rather tasty, albeit only in the top spec engine. I recently got to drive a lot of the inifinti range when my fx30 was in for work (Q70). Driving all of them made me realise how good the big Q70 is. Its remarkably quick even in the corners thanks to sports suspension and a small/quick steering system. The Q50 console was horrid, a terrible interior with too many screens that did too little. Trying to put that ugliness to one side the 2.0 engine i had was 'spirited' and pleasant to use. the suspension was a soft as your grannys ass though and my 2+ tonne car easily surpassed it. I'd hope the Q60 was better but give it a real workout as it could be disappointing after the Z. You really need the sports suspension option if possible - not the silly setting that makes no darn difference via the console - the proper air-shock setting that actually make a difference. A word of warning also about the automatics; it may be that I have a more sluggish turbo-diesel but the gear changes are not rapid and being a less well known car it's not possible to get the ecu altered. In other words, tuning options are very limited past a decent sound out of the exhaust and the box may be configured for the more sedate gentleman. Make sure it performs like a sports car before you buy! The paddle system works rather well though. Lastly, for anyone, don't ever bother with the Q30. What a pile they are. They are based on the small Mercs rather than Nissans and underpowered as hell. Really not a pleasant drive, even as a local shopping car only.

As I like in the north of the north west I have a geographical alibi

I've been parking my bike on a communal driveway for years. Not all the time but every now and then because the parking around here is a nightmare. Just recently a bollard was put up but that's ok as it means I can get in more often. Its always empty whenever I look, in far I've hardly ever seen anything parked there, so there is no harm. The other day I came back and found my bike on it's side, to one side of the drive, and a car in the drive. It looks like someone had tried to move it but the lock had stopped them and they dropped it; either that or they had just shoved it over. I was furious, the tank is scratched all down one side and it's pretty obvious that its the owner of the car was responsible. What shall I do? Kick his lights out, kick the car's lights out? Sue him for damage? I think you get the picture. Try the signs then if they don't work try the chain.

ok maybe not