This review demonstrates the danger of looking at 50 year old movie through a 21st century lens. There’s no subtext about Italy’s growth/Britain’s decline (if that was the case the movie would have been “The French Job” and set in Paris, which was the focus of British ire over the common market at the time); the whole…

So I’m actually half Italian and English and the first time I saw the movie, my dad still owned his Giulia Super so the movie worked on so many levels for my whole family. I understood the British humor and sarcasm, loved the Italian backdrop and as much as I loved the Mini’s (my UK Aunt had one and my UK uncle had a…

They come steal my dog’s food out of his bowl in the yard right in front of my dog. He just stands there and watches them rob him. I would intervene but I’m trying to teach Dave (the dog) to be more assertive and independent.

That didn’t take a whole lot of convincing... but hey, you do you!

If you want to make me have sex with a middle-aged black man, you, sir, have succeeded.

Before anyone starts asking why ‘heroic’ is in quotation marks, let me chime in that a hero is nothing more than a good person dealing with a bad day.

Those Nissan managers are just plain stupid.

Fair play you gave it a go.

As someone who has been driving an insured vehicle (i.e. legal) that was totaled by some moron without insurance (I’m lucky, it happened twice), I say keep the Ferrari, sell it to the highest bidder and use the funds to pay for damages, lost wages and medical bills for other persons who have been victims of other…

In the UK if you have a car on the street without insurance, you’re committing a crime. End of story. And to be honest this would have been picked up by pretty quickly by a traffic warden anyway; they do DVLA checks for tax as they go now (because UK cars don’t have tax discs anymore), and no insurance would mean no…

Not a car thing but still kinda relevant, after my motorcycle was stolen I was looking for some mega-cheap transportation and came across this nugget: Apparently one big reason Chinese scooters (like the TaoTao) are soooo cheap and horrendously unreliable is because the carburetors are tuned from the factory lean so…

I think VW did the same thing in Mk4 Jettas, but used it on the floorboards.

I’m not sure how many times I have to restate this for people to understand, but all BMWs come with turn signals, and their owners use them at all appropriate times. They just flash in a color that peasants can’t perceive.

Anecdotal evidence suggests this is a feature removed from later models, but E30s also have turn signals.

Early Lexus models use sand in the firewall as a sound deadener. Many car alarm/stereo installers have hit sand while drilling holes. Lol

Sounds like a top bloke.

Everything since the ‘60s has the year on it - there’s no such thing as ‘model years’ here, so everyone just refers to it by the numberplate.

Prior to the mid ‘60s, it went through 123 XXX and XXX 123.
Mid ‘60s to ‘83:
XXX123A where the A gets changed every year.
‘83 - ‘98:
A123XXX changed yearly, then changed every 6…

I wouldn’t class any of those cars as old money cars.

The oldest money cars? Old Subarus and Defenders. You don’t get to pass your riches on to the kids if you blow it on fancy cars.