Your passengers step out of it needing urgent treatment from a spinal specialist.

My posts are generally always just meant as a bit of fun, and a gentle poke sometimes at a particular culture.

Your chiropracter is cursing your decision...

I’m surprised you folks don’t get the manual box. Still, you get the best of the petrol engines so don’t feel too short-changed.

I doubt this is going to be popular but here goes:

The concept - clean, sleek cab-forward design with class-leading bed space. Exceptional on-road, but expensive due to Chicken Tax and relative complexity/refinement compared to body-on-frame trucks :

There’s a good reply on here from someone who seems to know how the system works. I had no idea councils would leave ‘old’ motorway coning in place to help reduce congestion further on up at junctions for example.

Someone might like to suggest to the council that they put up honest signs then; the faux-emotional ‘my daddy works here’ signs just turn the ordinary motorist into a foaming-mouthed wreck screaming through their sunroof into the uncaring darkness...

Fair question and the honest answer is ‘no’.

I’m not sure why you’re not starred for this post because it’s spot on. We have friends who bought their daughter (18) an ex-demo Fiesta. Got a good deal on it, I’m sure, but the first night she was let out in it, it came back with a massive scrape up the side from where she had lost a fight with a building. How do…

Sure, as long as the hijackers don’t collect the passports, shoot the Jewish passengers or demand a 737 fly to Australia with 3 tonnes of fuel from Berlin.

Current on B777 with B757/767 and A319/320/321 on license. Covers most Indian aircraft apart from their older turboprops.

I can assure you, no. No one has rigged up a piece of string from the cockpit to the waste tank valves or engineered a solution without Airbus and Boeing finding out. To offload the contents of the toilet tanks takes quite a while, requires snapping open several clips that hold a panel in place, then connecting a…

Absolutely correct. I’ve got the 757, 767, 777, A320 family and a small number of turboprops on my license and none of them can have the toilet tanks emptied without a ground vehicle.

Miles,

Don’t be a twat. Cars are much better at protecting people from their own idiocy then they were in the 1970s and 1980s but there’s nothing factually incorrect about saying that smartphone use has killed people on the roads.

Education is the key here I believe . Once using a phone at the wheel becomes as unacceptable as downing half a bottle of Scotch and snorting a couple of lines before you climb into the driver’s seat, then the battle is won.

It’s intrusive for passengers and for drivers who use a phone on the move responsibly. It won’t happen or it will be voluntary.

If only the penalties or, well, the ‘Fear of Death Itself You Muppets’, would convince teens and twenty-somethings that their fucking email, texts, Facebook, Twitter and social media bollocks isn’t worth anyone’s life.

Having grabbed a beer, watching the rain lash down at the window, I think I’ve answered my own question. Those specials must take months to just set up - visas, car purchases, shipping, security, support trucks etc., and then months to film. Twelve of those a year is an unreasonable expectation, even with the lead…