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Three years, bloody hell. I'll never forget his many PMs to me regarding the affair about his house and the hairy biker calling it a brothel, man that really ground his gears! Martin was a good friend, and I only wish I'd ever met him in person.

Couple of things... 1. Who collects a car and doesn't check it's got a valid MOT cert with it?! They're issued on the spot, there was no excuse for him not to give it to you and you were a numpty for driving off without it. As it transpires, you were driving all the way home with a valid MOT, which (in the eyes of the law) is 100% your fault. If nothing else, learn this lesson from this saga! 2. Okay, telling off out of the way I'll be more helpful. There's two ways to go about this. One is the strict legal way, one is the practical way. Up to you which you choose. LEGAL Stop driving the car (obvs you're doing this anyway, but worth noting for others). Collect any and all data with regards to when you've spoken to them, who you spoke to, what day & time etc and write EVERYTHING down. Send a letter with all this to both your CC company but more importantly to the garage, and state that you are enacting your rights under the CRA 2015 to return the car for a full refund as you are well within the 30 day time period for this. Explain the fault, explain they've done nothing to make good, so refund time it is. Be clear, concise and not abusive: You may well rely on this letter in court, so imagine everything you say to them is going to be read by a judge. Send this letter by Special Delivery (not recorded!) and tell them that if they fail to respond within 5 working days that you will proceed with court proceedings. I assume at this point the value is less than £10K. After that, we'll go from there. PRACTICAL Have you called them? On the phone? Many people don't, and it's amazing what can be sorted out by just being polite on a phone call. Do this. Be nice, be friendly, be chatty, be their friend: You may think they're idiots and trying to rip you off, but at the end of the day you just want a car that works and if biting your tongue achieves that then that's what you'll do. You can post dog sh*t through their door once you're sorted, if that makes you feel better Tell them you know it has no MOT, and you just want it to pass one so what will they do to get this sorted? Really a set of cats will do the job, and a bulb for the number plate you can do yourself, so why not get them to send the bits down to a local garage to fit and then MOT it, then you're done? Minimal effort to you, minimal cost to them, everyone's happy. And ffs man, name and shame!

Each to their own, no shooting here today Interestingly the other day it was a 5c damp night, but not raining, and I found the car to feel slightly skittish and not comfortable to push on at all. Now this was 2100, I’d been at work for 14.5 hours, and the next day in proper rain and a bit warmer on the same roads it was absolutely fine. Was this a one off? Was it me as a driver being mentally and physically exhausted? Was it something on the road/tyres that got washed away? Or did I just hit the wrong set of conditions for the tyres? Dunno. But it’s something I’ll keep an eye on. Been absolutely fine for me in all other circumstances though.

Welcome to the internet! As any Porsche fan will know, really it’s all about the deviated stitching

Nah, proper brown is lush. Tan looks great with blue, but it doesn’t really complement black at all imho.

**** you all, brown leather is a lovely colour on the right car Although I do admit it would work better with a white or cream exterior. One guy on PH, Carl I think his name is, had a gorgeous 997.2TT in cream with cocoa interior. Absolutely stunning in the flesh.

Configurator is up! https://www.porsche.com/uk/modelstart/all/?modelrange=911 if you want to go and have a play. This is what I'd go for as a reasonable build, no real fancy stuff but it covers off the basics of what I'd want. Not entirely sure I'd be brave enough to order that colour combo IRL, but I think Lizard might be better than Miami now... http://www.porsche-code.com/PLH8LUR7 if you want to take a look. Generate your own by clicking 'Show summary' and then 'Generate Porsche code'.

Depends, are you planning on actually driving it ever?

And still it stayed as THE slogan of the campaign. I hope whoever came up with it was paid handsomely, because it’s absolute genius in terms of marketing.

So classic and timeless, you mean Porsche have got their price bang on in terms of comparison as usual, anything you may want is more expensive by £25k plus (ish). Plus like you say it’s just one of those cars that you dreamt about as a kid, and it has back seats so you can get it past the missus!

It’s not a poor excuse, it’s simply down to how YOU choose to read it. That’s pretty obvious given the text and punctuation involved, no?

It’s the whole ‘Uncle Jack off a horse” grammar example, but on a bus instead.

It’s ambiguous at best. It can either read as we’ll give the NHS £350M instead per week, or it can be read as a fact then a suggestion without giving specific figures.

Nope, entire headlight unit slides out on the flick of a lever in the frunk, utter simplicity!

Again, this is why the public shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

There’s updated pics in that PH link than when I first posted. I hate myself for saying this, but it looks better in grey. I definitely hate hate the interior though. That little lever is shocking.

I did like her shopping list comeback this morning

And as a case in point to almost go along with people voting to cut their own throats, bearing in mind I’m now employed directly by the State, every time I vote Tory I’m basically voting for my own wage freeze. I do it though because right now I believe a Lab government would be worse for the country as a whole, so I put others before me. Then again, a more sensible Labour could convince me to vote for them in the future, like I have done in the past.

Agreed. However the reverse is also true, given the massive rise in popularity of socialism in the younger section of society, without realising the full consequences of what that would actually mean in practice. For the record though, I’m not saying either is a good thing. Far right policies are equally as damning as far left, and I’m much more comfortable with the middle ground. This is partly why I think the ConLD government of a few years back was actually the right way to go, with the LDs reigning in some of the more extreme ideas from the Tories. Shame that most people only ever viewed it as a bad thing given that it started the much-needed (at the time) austerity.

Oh I dunno...

Which is the most disturbing thing, all the political point scoring. If he was serious about helping the people he'd have been offering his advisors and ideas for free on day one, but at no point have any of the other parties offered to join in. They knew it would be a clusterf*ck, and all wanted to distance themselves from it rather than actually do something about it. May doing a live TV debate with Corbyn is suicide. As much as May normally gets the better of him in PMQs, he'll rip her to shreds over this.

@StevoD @docwra back me up here guys!

They sound fantastic, even the new turbo ones. You're all wrong. I know it's a racecar so doesn't really count, but the current gen 911 RSR knocks spost off anything aurally in it's class. At LM it's sooo much nicer sounding than the 488, and even the Vettes are now firmly behind it which I never thought would happen. First 15 secs of that video confirm it. Piercing.

Interestingly the breakdown of votes by class (so broadly taking into account wealth by definition) indicates that those in the lower earning brackets were far more likely to vote Leave than those earning much more. This equally applies to the unemployed and the stay-at-homers as well, compared to those working full and part time which was much closer but in favour of Remain. Arguably the cows voted for their own slaughter. Source: https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2016-eu-referendum

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-porsche/eighth-generation-porsche-911-officially-unveiled/39204 Sorry for the PH link, it's all there is right now until Porsche update their main page. My thoughts? I think the front end looks much better than the 991 (love the bonnet lines), I'm very happy they're all fat-bodied now, and those specs are seriously impressive: 430bhp, 3.5secs to 60 in the RWD version! That's just crazy, especially when you think that they keep moving the engine forward a little so it's even closer to being mid-engined now. Downsides? Well let's start with the obvious. That rear is, sadly, exactly as expected from the prototypes, by which I mean it's very bland and ugly. The light strip is gorgeous, but there's far too much blank space underneath it and the black plastic part housing the exhaust tips isn't worthy of a £100K car. I doubt the painted option will look any better, but we'll be able to see when the configurator goes live. I'm also not keen at all on the interior, what with the rather random looking PDK selector tacked on almost. I thought it was the key first of all! With all the screen space on the dash it's more S-Class than sports class, and the design of the tacho looks a little bland to me. I'm hoping it doesn't look quite so odd in the flash, but I'm not that keen on the current Panamera interior and the use of haptics in that either despite the rest of the world loving it, so we'll see. That said, I'm sure it'll still be class-leading to drive, I just wish they'd stop launching it in the winter as that always means my test drive is in the cold and damp! I'll keep an eye out for when my local OPC is doing their launch night, and pray I'm not working so I can get over for it. Also, negative car man points for anyone who says any of the following: - "It looks just like the old one" - "Not another Beetle" - "A GT-R is faster and cheaper!" - "It's a Porsche, Dan is going to love it and want to do sexy times with it regardless"