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None of that made sense. Why pit him and give him the first place if you're not going to let him keep it? Why as a team would you not want your driver, who is 2nd in the championship, to get maximum points?

It feels fast at first, but you get used to it quite quickly. By the time we got to the other side of Germany 110-120mph felt like a sensible quiet cruising speed.

Because they are fun.

In my Aston I could and did drive from Belgium to Austria in one stretch, in a trip where I legally travelled at more than 160mph for many miles, and was still getting overtaken.

I've just ordered a Silverline one from Toolstation for some cornicing which is too big for my electric one.
I'll let you know if it's any good when it arrives on saturday.

It really needs lowering and spacers

It really doesn't.
It's fine.

Tomcraft.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9r3np0l430o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QV8cOmsTdI

A north facing wall out of the wind.

Ah, this would make sense. I hired the Passat in Euston and immediately took it to France.
It was modern enough that it used GPS to reconfigure the LED headlights to right hand traffic, so why it didn't fix the ACC I don't know. Still it put me off, and I've never desired it since.

on the overtaking thing - i can't see the problem with that, just press the accelerator, complete the manoeuvre and then take your foot off the gas and ACC resumes doing its thing. it takes a small amount of time to get used to and then becomes second nature.

If I'm driving with cruise control I don't want to press the accelerator. I just want to cruise past the slow truck at a constant 130kph with my feet off the pedals, without the ACC deciding it needs to slow me down to the truck speed.

After my wife drove it back from Bordeaux, I had my first proper drive in the new Mercedes SLK yesterday. Very different driving experience from my other cars. Quite a stiff throttle, so you can't accidentally go hooning, and it feels faster than the Citroën C5 even when it's not actually going as fast. Very nice chassis, and really easy to place on the road. The Harmon Kardon stereo sounds great.

On the subject of gadgets, I have no problem with automatic wipers or lights. I have them on the Citroën and just leave them on all the time. They are great. In France you must put your lights on in tunnels and when it's raining. So when the wipers come on so do the lights. I can concentrate on actual driving. The Citroën also has an electric handbrake. Lesser models have a manual one, but they switched to an electric on the models with hydropneumatic suspension so there was room to put the height adjustment buttons. It's an auto handbrake, so it comes on when you switch off the ignition, and releases when you start moving. It also has hill hold. Basically they did it right. My car is an automatic as well, so you could just never touch it. Actually I usually disengage it like a manual so I get a nice gentle take-off with a bit of creep. Cruise control is also an essential in a long-distance car. European motorways are often empty enough that you can just set 130kph and you don't have to touch the pedals for miles. I once drove from Calais to Le Mans without seeing a single other car (obviously not this time of year!) My Citroën (and the Mercedes) also have speed limiters which I set to 50kph for towns and cities; super useful.

I rented a Passat once that had adaptive cruise control and lane assist. Both of those can absolutely get fucked. "I'd like to overtake this slow moving truck" "No you can't. I will slow you down to the truck's speed and physically fight you when you try and change lanes."

I always thought an Aga casing plus some MDF would make a nice kitchen storage unit.
Just throw away all the central cast iron guff and re-use the enamelled and shiny bits to make something actually useful.

That would work.
I always go through Rouen. And I fill up at the Total garage on the road there.

This enables me to take the Road to Total Rouen.

You'll be fine as far as CritAir goes, but also, don't.
Whatever Waze/Google tells you the Peripherique is never a good idea. Take the A3/A86 until you're well south of Paris, or better still take a completely different route.

Took the Mini to our local race circuit for a weekend show, Sport et Collection 500 Ferraris Contre le Cancer. We took part in a rally beforehand, and some laps of the track at the end of the Sunday.

Yes, there really were 500 Ferraris, more probably. It's quite a thing to see a Testarossa or F40, and then immediately see 5 more.

It's stupid to buy any car from Scotland, the amount of rain, snow, sleet and then the salt they throw on the roads there.

Do it.

Nice, a Jaguar Mk7.

No supercharger. Just a sweet sounding free-revving 3.5 litre V6.
This one is in very nice condition. They don't put salt on roads round here, so the subframes are all good.

13 June.
Things are slow in France, although the dealer is going to polish the headlights up and sort a couple of parking dings on the rear right arch

They may seem like great value in the UK, but in France they are bloody expensive, like all cars.
Still it is fairly low mileage (43000 in imperial) and the first owner ticked all the nice options boxes.

We have sold our Citroën DS3, and in a fit of sensibleness we changed plans from buying a later DS3 with a 6 speed auto but much more fragile engine, to saying "fuck it" and buying a 2006 Mercedes SLK 350. Like you do.

I have one too. I use it with an M1 Macbook Pro, and it's excellent. Great picture, great speakers. I don't really use the camera, but the followy thing is cool.

Nicolas will do it, or deliver to their local store.
https://www.nicolas.com/en/livraison.html

That looks like the crap you get with IKEA sinks. Throw it all away and replace it with standard waste plumbing. Only the overflow hose is to be retained, as these usually are a bespoke fitment.

My friend has one. She absolutely loves it. Her partner hates it and much prefers his modern Nissan.

First registered January 1991.

There was more, including a vintage Citroën fire engine.