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

I too live in Scotland and run two sets if wheels with Summer and Winter tyres. The issue is cash flow rather than cost as the two sets of tyres only see half the wear.

Never been stuck but if you do commute on major roads it's usually all the other numpties blocking the road rather than the snow.

I live in London and have a set of summer wheels (Pirelli P-Zero tyres) and winter wheels (Pirelli’s again, forgotten the name), the only annoyance is having a stack of wheels in the garage, changing them over is pretty straightforward.

I got them because a) I might want to drive to Morzine in winter and b) when it does snow in London you can’t get up the hill I live on top of with non-winter tyres.

Sotto-zero.

Yeah it will be quite an initial outlay to get another set of wheels + tyres but might be the best route - I have run flat tyres so cross climate options are limited there too.

We've dome some ropey drives home from the highlands in snow last year and only just made it back - so many others had come off the roads. We're on the edge of Loch Lomond national park and commute into Glasgow - the roads are not what I'd call major until we get close to Milngavie/Bearsden so I do expect snow/ice to be a problem.

I'll head to ebay and see what wheels are around for my e90. Cheers

Are there specific rims for run flats? Given I don't have a spare wheel I'll need to get winter run flats - but if there are specific rims for run flat tyres that will narrow my options.

Saw this batshit crazy land yacht this afternoon. Didn't realise how lonnnngggg it is in real life, its fucking massive.

Similarly, I've encountered a Rolls Royce Phantom on the A3 a few times recently. It's just comically large. Can't imagine what a Cullinan is like.

I'd get some proper winter tyres if I were you. Up here in Sweden 'all seasons' tires are looked down at as you get shit tyres year round. The rubber is too soft for summers and too hard for winters.

Fantastically OTT.

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i'd get that fixed...

I've just been reading it was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel, and in true 70's-80's UK car manufacturing style the development cost for the electronics alone came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car.

The dashboard is like the bridge from the Enterprise in William Shatner era Star Trek, it can be seen in Doug Demuro's full geek out on it. Later models also had cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, LOL. The inside looks comically dated but also amazing.

got a lot of love for the Lagonda. remember posting a pic of one on this very thread couple of years back. was the first time I had seen one in the flesh too. epic car

And yet no picture....

Here it is, in all its glory:

Looks like you could play a good tune on that / or space invaders

Influenced from the film alien?

Wonder if the lagonda is the one that appears in car day on regents street?

E88 or LM?

My dad's old Astra had those indicator stalks

E88, because racecar

Now that shatters the illusion.

I have a set of 18” Goodyear winter tyres - I need to find the exact spec, but I think they’re 225 / 40 / 18.

They had half a winter of use in 2012 and have otherwise been stored in a shed.

Available to you or anyone for a reasonable forum donation and who can collect from Pangbourne (near Reading). I’m guessing that’s not easily doable from Scotland, though!

Thanks for that, I've just found this version too which is stunning. The 80's avocado beige and mahogany combo, amazing. Super stylish Citroen style steering wheel too.


The ultimate Dammit money pit surely?

We had a bathroom that shade of advocado...

Those red LED display remind me of early LED watches

Imagine fiddling around with those buttons while driving. Zero feedback and I bet they're hard to press too

Yes, bit like trying to change track on a touch screen.

Obviously you shouldn't do that whilst driving either.

Have you ever seen a car with a touchscreen but without steering wheel buttons for track changing?

No, but the temptation is there to operate the touchscreen as it's a great big glowing thing 6 inches away from your left hand.

There are some functions (eg switch from media selection to radio) that probably can be accessed by a functions menu via steering wheel buttons but are much easier to do by tapping the screen.

As I said, shouldn't do it but most people will.