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

You should come for a spin in the little German bath tub - first time I drove it after fitting the new x-pipe I was laughing out loud at the shriek it made at higher revs.

Phwoar, nice MR2

The blue fezza is £87k. Bit rich for my budget.

noice

i remember chasing a yellow 355 droptop in my pal' s3 through dorset. amazing. the dude had it sideways as fuck through the roundabout and up the road to shaftsbury from the blandford tesco.

/csb

Yeah, i get that but you can't beat a Targa for the GoldenEye throwback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OktGRAyNN4U

This was my car of choice on "Outrun" on Sega, and later PS2

Spotted moping behind locked gates in dark corner of walthamstow. People seem to love these.

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355 has GOT to be red, sorry lads!

Also one of the few cars that is acceptable as a soft top

Gotta say the new Supra is nuting compared to OG.

New Supra looks like a crappy Z4... strange that.

Yeah it looks like shit but I'm very intrigued by the reports that it's being designed around being a great drive, I hope it's true, so many affordable cars are totally compromised I'm glad of things like the Alpine and the Fiesta ST

So GTV update.
Bought as two owner 40,ooo mile car but dropped it into L&M italian just outside of Henley to get it looked over and have its cambelt changed as it was done about a 1000 miles ago , but that equates to 4 years. Service book stamped up to 36000 .
L&M said it was one of the nicest they had seen for ages
Then took £2000 off me for things that needed doing!
You can see why these cars were so cheap for such a long time as people simply binned them when anything serious happened.
On the plus side , if I thought it was good before she is absolutely stunning now, really tight and feels barely run in . The Twin spark engine pulls like a train and is very tuneful , its a completely different drive from my Abarth 595 ( my daily) Ok so the remote locking doesn't work and you can only unlock both doors from the passenger side and the stereo turns itself off but those are just minor foibles.

And she is soooo pretty.

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Love the car. You now need a pic with a Speedmaster on and the steering wheel in the background.

That's a bit obvious don't you think?
Beginning and the end ? Alfa and Omega !!

Thanks tho, I am unbelievably pleased with it .
Am using it loads , went to the "shops" on Sunday and did 90 miles before I came home!

Obvious is just nice! Go for it.

I did that with my last car. I miss it as my new one is no where near as nice IMO. Loads of miles bimbling about was such fun. 😁

Ah Outrun! Me too...

I think heart attack mode was the best

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A/C woes

My car has a dual zone system, but the passenger side vents has suddenly started to low only hot air.
It's a 2007 Peugeot 307 sw 2.0 petrol.

I'm thinking that the system use the same coolant system and as the driver side zone is fine, I think there's no coolant leak.
In order to maintain two temperature zones, the system must have two thermostats and that one of them faulting could very well cause that symptom.

Is there anything else I could have missed?

I’d check the thermometer/s first- presumably there are two?

There must be. I have no idea how to locate them or check them though...
I just checked the coolant tank. Still full.

Love this, I've been strongly considering one. Particularly keen on this colour. (Bianco Polare?)

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