The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T (Vol XVI)

[jonnydm]

GreatPretender said:

I have it on good authority that only females drive Cayennes out in Doha. So, yes.

I plan to buck the trend, however.

I searched 'Cayenne GT3' just for you

The result:

[PowerslideSWE]

I'm with Moose on the subject of pictured re-trimmed door card. Looks ste.

[PowerslideSWE]

Gaz. said:

The Savannah one looked ok. I had a seat from a 328i retrimmed by someone on the e36 coupe forum and some door cards repaired too and they looked absolutely spot on.

the Savannah full re-trim looked good, the pictured black/grey did not.

[Gruber]

Mr E said:

You are too kind.

Not at all. With a baby on the way, I've got a whole new interest in family wagons and a growing appreciation of the under-the-radar uber-barge proper-engined jobbies that seem to have fallen so far from favour as to be almost extinct.

I doubt the fund quite stretches at the moment, but in a couple of years time something like that would be perfect.

Very nice indeed!

[braddo]

Gruber said:

Not at all. With a baby on the way, I've got a whole new interest in family wagons and a growing appreciation of the under-the-radar uber-barge proper-engined jobbies that seem to have fallen so far from favour as to be almost extinct.

I doubt the fund quite stretches at the moment, but in a couple of years time something like that would be perfect.

Very nice indeed!

Perhaps you and I will be fighting over Mr E's E500 in a couple of years.

[Gruber]

braddo said:

Perhaps you and I will be fighting over Mr E's E500 in a couple of years.

It'll be just the job at Wandsworth tip!

[braddo]

Gruber said:

It'll be just the job at Wandsworth tip!

See you there Saturday?

[Mr E]

I have a boot liner for the runs to the tip.

[Output Flange]

NomduJour said:

That E500 really questions why anyone would buy an X5 or an ML.

As much as I like that E500, it really doesn't.

In my current position I'm selling my X5, would consider a 5er/E-Class estate temporary replacement, but would be until the time is right to be back in an X5. They are, quite honestly, great cars. But they're categorically not drviers' cars. Why they were ever marketed as such is beyond me.

Having spent some time in an '06 FFRR recently, it's a more comfortable but less practical alternative. Nice enough, but not for me. A post-2010 X5 40d next, I think.

[jeremyc]

Mr E said:

I have a boot liner for the runscarrying the cat-in-a-box to the tip vets.

EFA

[sleep envy]

braddo said:

Gruber said:

Not at all. With a baby on the way, I've got a whole new interest in family wagons and a growing appreciation of the under-the-radar uber-barge proper-engined jobbies that seem to have fallen so far from favour as to be almost extinct.

I doubt the fund quite stretches at the moment, but in a couple of years time something like that would be perfect.

Very nice indeed!

Perhaps you and I will be fighting over Mr E's E500 in a couple of years.

Back of the queue! You two already have V8s.

[Mr E]

That cat is long since departed.

I have two more who are probably as stupid. Will try and update.

[Output Flange]

Just watching James May's "Cars of the People", episode 2/3.

Now, he's obviously an incredibly astute car enthusiast with a level of knowledge you just can't argue with.

So when he says that the R4 is the best car to come out of France........

[Zwolf]

Output Flange said:

So when he says that the R4 is the best car to come out of France...

...he forgot where Veyrons are knocked together?

[Output Flange]

Veyron better than an R4? Don't be daft.

[Output Flange]

Apropos of nothing, is anyone else excited about seeing Andre Lotterer in F1 this weekend?

[GreatPretender]

Output Flange said:

Apropos of nothing, is anyone else excited about seeing Andre Lotterer in F1 this weekend?

Who?

[Output Flange]

GreatPretender said:

Who?

Heathen.

You were there, man.

[ferrisbueller]

Output Flange said:

Apropos of nothing, is anyone else excited about seeing Andre Lotterer in F1 this weekend?

Hadn't seen this. What's he having a go in? It will be interesting to see how he gets on in a "sprint" format.

Also very curious to see how a 16 year old handles a Toro Rosso.

[Output Flange]

Replacing Kobaykrashi in a Lotus for the weekend. Has a background in F3 and Formula Nippon, and was Jag's test driver in 2002 so won't be new to single seaters. Plus, he's a three-time Le Mans overall winner, so not new to racing. And given LMP1 (if not all LM classes) are 24hr sprint races now, I suspect he could do OK if the car lasts...

Verstappen in next year could be great, could be rubbish - I suspect we, and he, won't know until he starts. But Torro Rosso are normally switched on at who they have drive for them.