Did he squat or extrude it standing?

Maybe it was preventative. Like how forest workers will back burn to lower the fuel loading.

Nope, I thanked him for his time and went somewhere else. Going from the first impression if I had bought the car I probably would have had to deal with that level of fuckery every time I went in there.

Yep, I acquired mine the same way.

Hahaha. I had an almost exact same experience while looking at buying a GTR. Walked into a dealer, I was dressed in nice clothes and cleaned up. Asked about looking at one of the GTRs on the floor. He says “if you’re after something sporty can I suggest you look at this Hyundai Tiburon we have just been traded” I…

Counterpoint: Pie is very useful.

My favorite is the little suburb between Mount Hawthorn and Yokine in Perth. Dog Swamp; because it used to be a watering hole for Dingos so town planners took the Aboriginal name and just translated it.

Oi! Mr Prime Minister!..... ANDY!

Not so much new as a revision.

Haha welcome to X type ownership. You’re dead on, when it runs right it’s pretty quick and very comfortable but I sure am glad that I have back up cars (Toyotas at the moment). The stereo does sound good but mine also throws a CEL PECUS B error if you leave the stereo on when you turn the car off and on again. The…

Tata bought JLR from Ford in 2008 and assumed production shortly after. What plant was your troublesome XFR made in?

Maybe the other riders thought it was a weird addition to the “bottle of water or a mint” offering that Uber driver sometimes give.

It is a poor idea. That’s why Jag stopped using anything to do with Lincoln back in 2015.

Since Jag was bought by Tata their reliability has been good. It’s coming up nearly a decade since the Ford era designs were canned in favour of less complicated, more reliable engineering.

Terminal velocity of a human is around 120mph. Get a jet pack and don’t pull your chute.

Hahaha, yep. The problem is definitely between the front and back bumpers.

Yep, engineering logic can get pretty weird when you peel back the layers and look at the guts. There will be a separate ECU to control phone, gps, entertainment, climate, engine (often multiple), abs, locks, windows, sunroof, seat memory etc etc. There was an article on here a while back about how the BMW 850i had 2…

I get flown around the world to fix weird equipment because the logic of the bosses is “it will take him an hour to fix because he was part of the design team, or it will take a technician a few days to figure out the problem and fix because there isn’t a lot of experience with that piece of equipment”. If the loss of…

Multiple ECUs are pretty common as are the “check in” protocols between them. It sounds counter intuitive but it does make things easier to fault find.

Huh, a vehicle designed and built from the ‘40s has janky behavior by today’s standards. Tell me more...