One mall here has the little plastic bumps inside their parking garage. Absolutely vile things, even with a stock Audi with the air ride set to comfort they’re a jarring experience if crossed at an entirely reasonable walking pace. As you say, it’s crawl, stop, creep down. I’ve stopped shopping at that mall because of…

At £192,990 I’m expecting it to come with a least five sprues of spares and three tubes of modeling glue.

User Bikesandtacos shows up in notifications with a good question to me, but is invisible when I open the thread itself, so I can’t click reply or ungrey him. Hi Bikesandtacos, I hope you see this.

Except that you really should never use anything except NGK in a Saab with Trionic engine management. Trionic is very different from everything else, and they don’t specify NGK out of habit or for the heck of it, but because certain models from NGK are the only plugs they’ve verified to operate the way Trionic expects…

As much as I want to like it for being long, wide and low, and I’m willing to overlook the presence of rear doors as they at least had the decency to make them suicide doors, I’m noticing a conspicuous absence of endangered tropical wood and murdered cow in the interior. This is not good enough Audi, try again.

If an Audi S8 isn’t the answer, you’re asking the wrong question.

That is a valid point, seat belt reminders are of zero safety value to users who are not influenced by seat belt reminders, because they always buckle up in the first place, or defeat/ignore the reminder.

If it’s not 5 star, or a car that would probably have obtained 5 stars if it had been tested (EuroNCAP sadly doesn’t test the cars I’m most interested in, such as the A8 and its nearest competitors), I’m not buying it.

It seems the appliances industry really do love their undersized, low-quality ball bearings, I’ve heard of many cases where that’s the root cause of failure in an otherwise still healthy appliance.

My Italian is terrible, but no, I think the pronunciation of the latter part is pretty far from deceit.

Doing that would make perfect sense, so clearly that is out of the question for Avis.

I don’t know if Indesit is offered where you live, but if shitty appliances are your thing, Indesit has you covered.

It was parked outside again last night. There’s really nothing out there like it.

My regular exercise route takes me past the house of someone who street parks a very scruffy-looking C6 and keeps a mint DS in his garage. According to the decal slapped on the rear of the C6, this Citroën enthusiast works for a creative agency, quelle surprise.

I remember when they brought the Alero to Norway as the Chevrolet Alero in 1999.

The ugliness of an SUV coupled with the ground clearance of a regular wagon. At least the GT got the looks right and it rides very well, sadly the rear seat is for decapitated people and the trunk is useless, but I guess that’s what the Taycan wagon is for.

A colleague has been driving a Fabia for years. It would only take two more cylinders, a turbo, a 20 % increase in length, 10 % increase in width, a 10 % decrease in height, plus generous application of wood and leather to the interior, to make it a decent car.

Similar thing with boats. A new 40' with room for the entire family to live on board for two weeks is crazy expensive. A used, well-maintained 40' where everything still works and is nowhere near worn out, but it’s not shiny and touch-control everything, can frequently be had for 10-20 % of a new one, and is still…

Fortunate Son playing on the stereo, the kids fighting over who gets to be door gunner... Sounds like a great vacation.