Because in the west I’m always reading stories where the father passes his prized car down to his daughter, and at shows there just rows of women with cars they’ve spent hours on cleaning and fettling just as their father did. It seems from the other comments this is the cultural/religious inheritance rule they have.…

The bulb could blow, the sensor could fail or any other number of things, this can’t not spin when the engine is spinning - and when its a life or death matter, thats kinda important.

As great as this car will probably be, hardly any will sell. I am a Renault fan (have an Avantime), but who seriously is gonna part with £50k for a 1.8 Renault, which has a really good reputation for breaking down, when you can buy a Porsche Cayman, with 100bhp more, that wont break down (based on reputation), wont…

I read a car magazine (the type made of paper) and it is full of car adverts, therefore every journalist has to be careful of what they say about any car that has advertising from the same company, not because 6 months down the line a more exciting car might come out and they wont get a ride, but because if the likes…

Cars depreciate fast, so after 10yrs, your car is worthless, it then breaks, it cost more to fix your car than it is worth, so people scrap it and buy a 7-8yr old car, keep until it cost more to fix than its worth and repeat. Thats basically the end cycle of a cars life, because we have such a boom PCP market where…

I once towed a car (well, I was in the car, my wife towed it) and we wrapped the (cheap) tow rope around the axle, after 2 miles to our destination the bumper had worn half way through the rope!

This is true - someone with bad intentions has always had an option (in the UK the seller has to notify the DVLA (gov agency) of the new owner, so could keep a record of the address), however this is making it easy - so maybe you had a car, and then one day, youre a bit drunk with your mates -lets make the car beep…

Back when I was a teen I was giving my sister and her friend a lift back from a party (my girlfriend was also in the car), in my parents car. Her friend lived on an estate with about 4 roundabouts, on the way I had been wondering why I couldnt just drive fast round the roundabout (they were quite small ones). I worked…

I’m british and either thought the same or ‘I dont care about this person’. The worst thing was that they tried to get the completely unrelated guests to introduce each other or compete in some way with ‘which car is best’. I also found that if i had never heard of the person I may know their line or work by the end,…

This isn’t usually some kind of scam - its people making replicas of cars by moulding the body kit of a genuine car and then bolting it onto an old MR2 (the most affordable mid-engined car - for those talking about front engined ferraris). I find it highly unlikely that anyone buys these things thinking theyre getting…

This isnt overly radical - in the UK we don’t have model years, we refer to the year of a car as the year it was sold - so you couldnt buy a 2017 whatever until 2017 - well, march 2017 if you pay attention to registration plates (which most people do). Secondly, they wont advertise the sale price - just the…

Sure, might have an extremley low mileage - but this 30yr old astra has bits missing - like the doors and err, chunks of the engine - yet they want £5k! and it hasn’t even been registered!

Probably my closest shave was when I was driving my little Perodua Kelisa (google it - great little cheap car) in Scotland with my fiancee on our third anniversary. Scotland has lovely windy roads, we were driving along side a loch and, because the roads are so fun and I had invested in decent tyres, I was making the…

Totally agree! This came straight to mind when I saw this was about innovative boot (or trunk in america) space - couldn’t remember the name.

When my dad bought his Fiat Marea 1.8 back in 2004 he took it for a drive and put his foot down and got to 112mph before realising just HOW fast he was going - he had come from a 1.3 Skoda and thought it was amazing. Was good car though, I learned to drive in it and it certainly had more poke than it looked - fastest…

I agree, but i expect she left it with them and maybe said don’t worry about checking prices first, and didn’t expect it to cost as much. However, the comment about the need for carbon ceramic brakes is BS, plenty of cars went that speed before they were on road cars, and im pretty sure they’re an extra on something…

I think a driving mode would be good, although it wouldnt be something you could make it do automatically on all phones (GPS can be switched off, which is good because in my experience it drains the battery). You could easily build a driving mode with an app, or even just the settings on your phone, basically your…

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I’ve heard of this scam being done on a sofa! (thats a couch for you guys in america). The ‘overpayment’ bit is usually some kind of ‘delivery fee’, so they send you £300 extra to give the pickup agent for him to deliver it.
Bottom line is - if they want your goods that bad they will get their butt there with cash and…

Isn’t there a requirement to have insurance over there? Here in the UK you have to have at least 3rd party insurance, however I have never been quoted less for 3rd party than comprehensive (which covers damage to your car), I think this is to do with the profile of people who choose 3rd party insurance (they have…