I’m not too bothered that he got caught, but the punishment does seem rather disproportionate to the crime. Looks like a magistrate making an example of someone rather than assessing the severity or the crime and harm. “Perverting the course of Justice” is conveniently broad in English law to let a judge do pretty…

I loved driving in Corsica. My “most abused rental car ever” award goes to the rental I had there. I can’t even remember what it was but I dropped the keys back with a smile on my face.

Its Surrey, none of these houses are going to be “affordable”, and chances are it was only approved because of all the NIMBYS already living there who hate car and aircraft noise.

Dominos is in the business of making YouTube videos, it has advertising on YouTube. Much as this sounds like a corporate being dickish, they have to protect their marks. This is a use it or lose it type deal and once you let the boundaries of your trade marks get abused, the mark gets eroded.

Actually pretty difficult to ignore religion in Ireland, even in these more secular times. My kids go to a Catholic school because 90% of schools are religious and choices are limited.

I quite like the interior, but the exterior is fucking horrible. I think your eyes need a service.

In 2017: Honda, Yamaha, Triumph, Lexmoto (yeah, me neither), Kawasaki, BMW, KTM, Suzuki, HD, Piaggio.

...and that would be why the Mustang is one of the few US-built cars sold in Europe, and that Ford bothered to engineer for RHD.

The UK’s ninth largest motorcycle brand. They sell about 200 Harleys a month in the UK. Aren’t HD about to bankrupt anyway?

I like it as well, and I think it was really important for a company like Jaguar to push the envelope design-wise; electric cars offer completely new packaging choices and will inevitably lead to shapes that are going to take some getting used to, especially for Jaguar, a company that carries more design baggage than…

The “stuck on iPad” design idea seems to be going away now; Audi and Merc have both gone for much more integrated screens on their latest models.

This review demonstrates the danger of looking at 50 year old movie through a 21st century lens. There’s no subtext about Italy’s growth/Britain’s decline (if that was the case the movie would have been “The French Job” and set in Paris, which was the focus of British ire over the common market at the time); the whole…

Doesn’t apply. Your right to free speech doesn’t extend to unfettered distribution of free speech.

They impede traffic for five minutes, he could have slowed down a busy road for hours. The reason why they tow away so quickly is because if one person parks on a double yellow everyone else follows suit. I used to hate traffic wardens when I lived in London when they used to fine you for being a couple of inches over…

Its a wider road than it looks. You can see car getting past in the video, so its not like it was causing gridlock all over London.

Yes, its called TPFT; Third-Party, Fire & Theft. Its the minimum level insurance everyone has to have. I can’t really imagine a someone with a 650 grand car having TPFT.

In the UK if you have a car on the street without insurance, you’re committing a crime. End of story. And to be honest this would have been picked up by pretty quickly by a traffic warden anyway; they do DVLA checks for tax as they go now (because UK cars don’t have tax discs anymore), and no insurance would mean no…

You’re not comparing like with like; the T8 Hybrid XC90 is much heavier than this, which is what you’d expect. Hybrids are heavy, if you want a lighter version, buy the (MUCH cheaper) T5.

The hit on lease residuals must be happening anyway; new car sales in Europe have already been hit as people get ready for, if not a ban, then punitive NOx/particulate taxes, but there simply aren’t enough hybrids available at the right price points and that’s even more true for pure EVs.

If English old-money (country money, not City money) buys new, its a Subaru or an Audi Allroad. Gymkhanas are awash with the things.