This. On the one hand, props to the guy for being honest, but on the other hand, it's the kind of honesty bums have when their sign says "need $$$ for crack". A Lamborghini is a 0.0000001%er's luxury vehicle that you work your fingers to the bone to drive (or, admittedly, you're Lapo Elkann), not something you expect…
Bellof's "greatness was never proven"? Doesn't Bellof hold the outright lap record for the Nordschleife?
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+1.
Sounds like you've researched dashcams quite extensively. What would you recommend? (In terms of brand, in particular.) The BlackVue DR100 looks to be about the sort of size and feature-set I was hoping for.
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To paraphrase Jeremy Clarkson, complaining that your $21,900 Ford looks too much like a $202,000 Aston Martin is like complaining that your girlfriend looks too much like Keira 'twice' Knightley.
Gotta love the CTR. 0-60 in 3.7s, 0-125 in 11.4s, and 0-mortuary in less than 30s.
Given that what it was (a 3-spd automatic with overdrive - in 2003 - and one of the worst gearboxes ever fitted to a production vehicle) there bloody well should have been. Unfortunately owing to the extremely cramped conditions in the engine bay I don't think anyone ever found a suitable candidate.
The cockroach of the automotive world.
The Smart Roadster's gearbox is a skidmark on the sheets of the car's sporting pretensions. According to most theorists, the Smart Roadster's gearbox legally constitutes "cruel, inhuman [and] degrading treatment or punishment" contrary to Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They say that when the…
He's not necessarily an idiot, though, and there's evidence to suggest these two are.
This is the truth. You can bet that the reason the Rangie wears those utterly unsuitable alloys is because Land Rover wanted the car to look its best during its primetime slot, and they think it looks best on those wheels. In particular, they don't change them because they don't want to qualify the Range Rover's…
When you're 'rolling coal'. In addition to being a driving advert for post-term abortion, you're ruining diesels for the rest of us.
It's news to me that you need council approval for a tap outdoors - and everyone with a garden has a hosepipe; I have two of both and I'm in a London suburb. I think the main reason no-one's appeared with a hosepipe here is a distinct lack of gardens in central London - that, or non-car-lovers apparently don't…
That's exactly what I thought. It's screaming for help and NO-ONE has a garden hose or fire extinguisher?! I have three or four at home; this video was shot in central London where you'd better believe fire regulations require all non-domestic spaces to have fire safety equipment.
^ THIS. The 8-series is a design that (pop-ups possibly excluded) still looks relevant and exciting today. It's a shame that the car was an Eighties/Nineties tech-fest, because that makes all that power and those good looks about as useful today as a snooze button on a smoke detector.
+1. If Alpina themselves deny that they ever built a car matching this one's description (which is a lot more damning than 'we built such a car, but it's not necessarily this one') then as far as I'm concerned this isn't really what the seller says it is. It's a sweet ride, but it's $12-15k sweet, not 30.
I read in an evo article some years ago that Italian body-makers don't/did not for many years use the English wheel, which is why 50s Italian supercars (which had carrosserie made bodies) show hammer marks in the metal, and English coachbuilt cars of the same period don't.
Not to be an ass (this is a common, but here appropriate error), but the drivers are 'reckless'. Whatever these chumps are, it isn't 'wreckless'.
