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To clarify, do you want to do a coilovers conversion on the rear?

Sadly the thousands who own the company aren't so convinced Tesla is the equivalent of Apple. No doubt it's a decent product, but some people buy simply because they fall for the marketing. Dare I admit that the Model S has its place in the performance saloon world, but this is a mess of ugly, uselessness and hype. I wonder how many of those pre-orders will be cancelled? It's certainly going to be a rare sight on the roads in the UK, at least.

Ain't no replacement for displacement

It's a daily drive. Practicality should be one of the most important features of the car. The TM3 fails at the first hurdle. You could actually buy a useful car for the money you're going to spend on that.

Dull as ditchwater.

So the boot is actually even more useless then? That's a clusterf*ck of a design.

Who has email notifications?! Surely you just live on here and take everything as it comes

Interestingly (or not) despite Tesla taking 180k orders for the Model 3 on day one, the share price continued to fall throughout the day. The market, it seems, is still not impressed nor convinced. Also, have you seen the boot? Utterly useless. Should've been a proper hatch, not a silly flip up thing.

Thanks chaps Been to my local indie today and they think it might be okay, fortunately they're also on the Sky Insurance approved repairer list so I know it'll be in good hands. Speaking of Sky, aside from long wait times on the phone (it's a weekend, I can forgive that) they've been excellent so far in starting this process.

It's more the damage to the substructure I'm worried about, but I guess it would've been worse if this had happened after. Small mercies and all

Lovely colour, and the engine cover looks ace! Congrats mate, bet you're well chuffed

This is true. In fairness it doesn't look so bad in pics, it's in the flesh you can see how everything is distorted beneath the plastic.

Greatest pun ever!

Romanian lorry drivers should learn to use their mirrors in petrol stations. It might help them avoid driving into the front of my f*cking car. To say I'm slightly miffed is an understatement. Turns out though that, when sufficiently irritated, I have no problem mouthing off at two random foreign blokes despite them both being a fair bit bigger than me Oh, it's not funny really. I'm quite irritated, especially since I'd just booked the car in yesterday for a colour change. That goes out of the window now. Plenty of front end damage, going to get drunk now and look again in the morning.

Done the Cayman yet?

I know, can't wait! The 919 looks very good this year, however I think Porsche will find it very hard to do as well as last year again. The RSR looks good but I suspect development will stall against the 488, and the Audi will provide a sterner test in P1 this year.

Kimi doesn't deserve an F1 seat full stop. Completely wrong attitude for a top-level driver IMHO. I'd rather see someone like Ricciardo in there, but Vettel would block that. Alonso and Button should both have hung up their helmets in F1 before this year: That McLaren is a shambles, and their careers are now tainted by a shocker of a car. I don't think either of them are having much fun pootling around at the back of the grid, and that much is clear from their attitudes and interviews. Not their fault the car is a duffer, but atm it looks like they're sticking around purely for the money. They'd both be in high demand if they switched to prototype racing...

Exactly, I know ugly when I see it

Please don't tell me you've never seen this before, it's as old as the keyboard in the picture

Looks good!

Christ that is ugly. Can Tesla not employ a stylist as well as the fancy tech guys?

I'm not fussed about it. I love F1, but even I'm starting to get irritated by the stupidity of the sport.

This feels like the longest thread in the world

If my kid comes out looking like a little Lewis, then me and the missus are going to have words.

If it's Motability, personally I'd just call them and let them sort it all.