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[Crook]

Bullseye!

Thanks, bugged me for ages that.

[shalmaneser]

Crook said:

Anyone able to identify this car please? I thought it was a Tesla but I've not been able to find one like it on the internets.

Fisker Karma.



electric with a range extender four cylinder I think?

[Crook]

shalmaneser said:

Fisker Karma.



electric with a range extender four cylinder I think?

Thanks.

[ferrisbueller]

Frik said:

rejn said:

This morning I finally got to drive a couple of VW Golfs, and I wanted to share my thoughts. (sorry for long post).

Great summary. I've driven neither but I have done over 60k in a GTD and it's a far, far better car than it needs to be. It's a bit softer and probably a bit nose heavier than the others but the steering is very good, the turn in brilliant and the diesel is gloriously responsive. Nice place to spend time in, too.

I'm really not looking forward to giving it back

We're into the realms of diminishing returns I think. In all honesty a Kia Cee'd is far more than the average punter needs in terms of competence and all-round ability.

I can't imagine needing more than a decent 10 year old car offers. I can well do without the added complexities and their inherent weaknesses and compromises.

I'm skimming over the gloriously responsive bit, you heretic.

[L100NYY]

430 cars. 150 motorcycles. 60 boats. Plus the automobilia.

All in one collection. Crikey.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/sixt...

[s m]

Crook said:

s m said:

anonymous said:

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That's right - if you had the optional forged wheel ( rather than cast ) though, they came in a staggered set-up with same size 235/40 x17s all round

Ah, ok. I thought that the 3.0 came with these wheels as standard and the sunflowers arrived with the 3.2.

You might be getting the EVO Sunflower 2s staggered ( type 39 ) confused with the earlier Sunflowers non-staggered ( type 22 ) maybe?

[barchetta_boy]

"the diesel is gloriously responsive"

very funny

[braddo]

s m said:

Crook said:

s m said:

anonymous said:

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That's right - if you had the optional forged wheel ( rather than cast ) though, they came in a staggered set-up with same size 235/40 x17s all round

Ah, ok. I thought that the 3.0 came with these wheels as standard and the sunflowers arrived with the 3.2.

You might be getting the EVO Sunflower 2s staggered ( type 39 ) confused with the earlier Sunflowers non-staggered ( type 22 ) maybe?

Blimey. It turns out that Ferris might have played the BOTW card too early.

I had no idea the E36 M3 came out with the same size tyres front/rear. I'm sure there was an option for a wider rear? I know the E34 M5 had and I'm sure (yikes, 22 years ago) that a friend's dad's brand new M3 in 1994 had wider rear wheels. I guess it might have been just the stagger...

[Output Flange]

As s m says above, you could have wider rear wheels but they still had 235 tyres all round. The Evo brought 225/245 to the party.

[Gruber]

L100NYY said:

430 cars. 150 motorcycles. 60 boats. Plus the automobilia.

All in one collection. Crikey.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/sixt...

Evening squire.

I'm going to need your help to ID an old Ferrari if and when I eventually get round to capturing a shot of it.

There's a chap I see a couple of times a week pootling about, around our bit of Lake Geneva, in what looks to me like a 250 SWB Berlinetta (sp?). But that'd be nuts, right?!

So I'll do my best to get a piccy and you can tell me whether I'm going mad. Hope that's ok...

[Gruber]

Crook said:

shalmaneser said:

Fisker Karma.



electric with a range extender four cylinder I think?

Thanks.

Funnily enough (given that I'd never seen another) there's one of those for sale at a dealer just round the corner from us. It's a big old motor car in the flesh! Properly imposing.

Linky: https://en.comparis.ch/carfinder/marktplatz/detail...

[L100NYY]

Gruber said:

L100NYY said:

430 cars. 150 motorcycles. 60 boats. Plus the automobilia.

All in one collection. Crikey.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/sixt...

Evening squire.

I'm going to need your help to ID an old Ferrari if and when I eventually get round to capturing a shot of it.

There's a chap I see a couple of times a week pootling about, around our bit of Lake Geneva, in what looks to me like a 250 SWB Berlinetta (sp?). But that'd be nuts, right?!

So I'll do my best to get a piccy and you can tell me whether I'm going mad. Hope that's ok...

Of course chum, look forward to seeing the picture(s).

Do you still have the Golf?

[Gruber]

L100NYY said:

Of course chum, look forward to seeing the picture(s).

Do you still have the Golf?

No. Sadly not. It was sold early last year, partly to make way for a more appropriate family wagon and partly because it disgraced itself by throwing a series of (relatively) big bills - welding, starter motor and alternator, an so on - and developing a habit of failing to proceed. Getting a push around Sloane Square from two policemen was a defining low point.

[Frik]

barchetta_boy said:

"the diesel is gloriously responsive"

very funny

For a diesel, if it wasn't clear.

[Output Flange]

Bores are fine, but the radio is clearly broken. Simple case of being unresponsive to the buttons?

[Output Flange]

Knew it.

I'm still waiting for them to bring the Yorkshire moors just that little bit closer, because they look like roads I could find something to do on.

[barchetta_boy]

Frik said:

For a diesel, if it wasn't clear.

My friend there is no glory in diesel

:-)

[LHD]

olly22n said:

Output Flange said:

Knew it.

I'm still waiting for them to bring the Yorkshire moors just that little bit closer, because they look like roads I could find something to do on.

I drive the Cayman home via the moors. Great fun!

Pfft.

Try Scotland.

[Leins]

LHD said:

olly22n said:

Output Flange said:

Knew it.

I'm still waiting for them to bring the Yorkshire moors just that little bit closer, because they look like roads I could find something to do on.

I drive the Cayman home via the moors. Great fun!

Pfft.

Try Scotland.

Pfft.

Try Ireland


(Actually, on second thoughts we do have something of a pot-hole epidemic here right now)

[ATM]

anonymous said:

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Pics dont work - I'm at the office.