Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Damn...I was hoping SUV ride quality would be significantly plusher. Feature panzering around post apocalyptic, broken concrete of the LA cityscape on a tidal wave of creamy V8 torque, while being cosseted in an old libraries worth of Leather. All smoothly enough not to rattle the ice in my gin and tonic. Not sure I'm interested otherwise.

Hmm.

Well, what things go to make up a Discovery? Those things will go wrong. All of them. A lot.

You might get away with it in LA as I gather corners are viewed as a foreign abomination. Cornering briskly in a softly-sprung SUV may require your G&T to be in a high ball glass with plenty of headroom.

She freely admits she doesn't care because she thinks it looks 'beefy'.

It's even white.

:(

That'd be a Cherry Hinton Tractor then?

Lambo LM002 is the only answer

Those are rather marvelous.

I was thinking the LR4 version, not sure what they're called in the UK but the one with the 5l Jag engine and the walnut and leather turned up to 11. I have a friend here with one of the original discos. Trigger's broom, very few original brum parts, spread liberally, as they have been over the years over the highways and byways of California.

I don't really care about corners on four wheels but I like the idea of carting my bikes up mountains, off-road, over rocks with a nonchalant waft of Anglo superiority over the local jeep owners.

Logically speaking, I should look for one of those Dodge Durango SRTs with the supercharged hemi and 7spd ZFlush box. Crushing, monster grunt but Aerosmith vs Vaughan Williams. Bit crass.

Tomorrow I am going to trickle water into my carburettor in an attempt to tackle the running-on problem I am encountering when switching off the ignition. I saw Eric The Car Guy do it.

Do let us know how it goes.

Any way to quantify the results? Measure run-on in seconds, averaged over many instances, before and after, for example?

As I type this she is on the way back from the gym in Cherry Hinton in it.

What have we become?

One of a few cars you might as well buy a "project" one off eBay, with a Scooby or cozzy turbo engine in as everything goes wrong in factory dress so might as well get something bonkers anyway...

Reminds me of when I was looking at cars. You just can't argue with a vw. I bet they invest heavily in user testing and design out every little potential niggle.

The result is bland though. I couldn't imagine having a Passat after a w124 so ended up in a saab 9-5 but tbh I doubt it's any better. Value for money is good on saabs though, it was almost half price compared to a same year, same milage, same spec A4.

Another man on YouTube put an endoscope in his sparkplug holes before and after. It didn't look like it did much. As an alternative to dremelling all the carbon deposits out of the cylinder head I'll give it a go though.

Are dribbling water in to clean the pistons? ?

surely, in your "I am legend" style apocalypse, only a fuselage-bodied Chrysler will suffice?

you'd get a cr500 in the boot and be able to close it

I want it

Currently looking at Volvo v40’s on Autotrader.... and Golfs.

Anyone got a v40?

if I lived in la, I would drive a drop top version. awesome yank tank land yacht goodness

Yeah thats it, I've done it, didn't hydrolock so thats good, there is a hint of a judder on switch-off so I'll get the timing checked too.

My first car was a fuselage body 71 Plymouth Fury! Total boat anchor. Beige, rust colour and not a straight panel in sight. Loved it.

What car is this on?

Mk2 Golf, 1800 carb.

My nan has.

And our local vicar.

Going to look in to it with an endoscope?

??

'Murica.

Does not get better than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9LFgsLQATc

FFWD >>>> to 7min.

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