I’ll have you know the first time I properly drove a car on the road (not just my dad letting me have a go of his, manual of course, MkII Vauxhall Cavalier in a car park) was at 12 years old in my brothers Metro MG Turbo, with turbo lag like a Porsche 930 (orig 911 Turbo) on a country lane and I drive it like a pro,…

My 2004 Vauxhall Astra 1.8 Elite (you guys in the colonies got it as the Saturn Astra) it was like it had been made out of thin tin, crap feeling plastics and trim and electrics designed by a drunk Italian, also the engine was gutless and used oil at an alarming rate, this was a 2.5 year old car with 30k on it.…

I just don’t get the car dealer system in the US, here in the UK you never pay over MRSP for a new car (even my current 2019 Polo GTi which had a 12 month wait for a new order I got almost 4k off, it was a car in the system about to be built). Car manufacturers can own dealers (Renault’s best UK dealer are the ones…

FAKE NEWS!

He's done a test of the new Sandero on Drivetribe (Youtube) where he compares it to his £10k road bicycle.

It’s based on the current (and new) Clio platform, so not old tech on the new Sandero, just has a bit less tech in it.

It's just like the 80's again when German and Italian cars always had the head unit as a dealer fit option but came from the factory with the speakers, wiring and aerial (well here in the UK anyway!).

Now I know you're lying, no Maestro never broke down.

I had an 04 Celica T-Sport which I discovered, after I had just had it detailed, that there is a lockout button for the passenger window (why?) located on the bottom of the dash near the drivers right leg (right hand drive car). Obviously I discovered this AFTER dismantling the passenger door card, testing switches…

I remember a friends Alfa GTV having one there as well.

And yet Ford Europe (or anywhere outside of the US as far as I have seen) have never offered this, even on cars that are sold globally, weird.

You can still have permanently fitted tow balls, just most people prefer the removable ones these days for aesthetics, though I think over a certain weight you can only used a fixed one.

Calling them stop lamps is not the correct way to describe them though. When they are on a car is definitely braking\has the brakes applied, but not necessarily coming to a stop or indeed stopped, thus brake lamps is a better name for them.

You need to take in to account that the price shown is the "On the Road" price here in the UK, all taxes, delivery charges, registration etc paid. Also it isn't much more than a decently optioned but slower and less wheel drive Polo GTi (in fact you could easily option a Polo GTi to that or more, mine was 27.5k with…

I used to have an 03 Astra 1.8 SRi in silver identical to your picture (even down to the none factory fitted SRi badge on the back!). It was surprisingly good car to drive. Also the 1.8 was rated at 127 hp, the 1.6 had 115 hp.

They are cheaper to insure once registered as a campervan and also no longer subject to lower speed limits on A roads and Dual Carriageway's (10mph lower for commercial vehicles).

This is a subject which I was talking to my brother about yesterday spookily enough. He has just bought a van to convert in to a camper (2017 Peugeot Boxer L4 H3). Him and his family are the outdoor types, lots of hardcore mountain biking etc, so the van will be set up for that, large “garage” at the back under the…

All F1 cars to have non-syncro 3 on the tree gear boxes with HUGE spaces between the ratios, none of which are quite right for powering out of a corner.

Uunfortunately that doesn’t ring true as the French have a long history of make cars with amazing ride quality and great handling ones as well.

The 1 and 2 series are from a size class above all those (A3, Focus etc).