bobrayner
bobrayner
bobrayner

The spinning TVR isn’t due to driver error. All TVRs drive like that.

xkcd is always relevant.

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I don’t know whether any they made modifications, but I’d consider that Targa only has two useful seats; it would have been pretty uncomfortable fitting adults in front and back, even if they did without any luggage or equipment.

This isn’t a seat; it’s a handy place to put the police officer’s lunchbox.


Aircooled, no room for equipment, no spare seat for members of the public, hardly a comfortable office for a long day on patrol...

The Citroën CX looks like it was designed to be a hovercar, and at the last minute the factory got scared of the designers’ crazy ideas and, instead, fitted it with conventional wheels and an internal-combustion engine.

In civilised countries, we drive on the other side.

Satellite broadband is already “off the ground”.

We must be careful about granting monopolies; many industries have shown that incumbent monopolies can shut out competition then gradually hike up prices / fail to modernise service. Telecoms provides many examples of this, around the world. (I’ve contracted with two

I like the dragonfly badge. That’s cool.

I came here to post that. Well done.

I just need a vehicle to get from A to B, but the dog deserves the finest chauffeur service.

If the only goal was smog reduction, the same emissions standard would apply to all vehicles, and we wouldn’t have a complicated set of opt-outs and opt-ins determined by vehicle age, paying fees, and filling in forms.

So sad - Moto must have been terrified when on the track. At least the story has a happy ending.

Well done, Blondude. Well done.

And as May does take the time to make the distinction between having one’s employment terminated, and having one’s contract not renewed, we should note that Clarkson himself has said he was “sacked.”

Inmarsat’s new satellites work off the Ka-band frequency, which uses bandwidth more efficiently than current systems. The company also owns and operates the entire global network, not just the satellites, which it hopes will lower costs.

Not as cool as its ancestor: