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

Newer 340i msport touring?

Actually you're into 540i xdrive territory there.

326bhp, can't be too difficult to get big power from them with minor tweaks, 440bhp with a remap apparently

Hah, yeah looks are challenging - I quite like the look of them tbh

I do like the Panamera estate thing, I suspect they’re too spendy still however.

Yeah, I think you are probably right, the newer versions are rather more than that I think - it is a lot better looking though.

Very few M5 touring for sale these days

Family are all here twisting my melons so I spent a happy couple of hours under the Landy in the rain :)

All earths cleaned up and now it starts properly! I was using the crank handle for the last few months.

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Saw this a few weeks ago: Car for @jonny

It is in really good nick and better that the ones I have had and that was over 20 years ago.

yeah that is sweet as fuck dude.

Hi mate, wondering what car you got. I've cleaned the throttle body on mine (2008 MY 3.0R), but am not sure my car does have this IACV. It does have a little hesitation when starting from cold (my older 2.5i was much much better at starting up from cold).

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Mark Riccioni from speedhunters/scene media/top gear mag has one, spends more time being fixed than it does being driven. I asked him about the costs and he just cry laughed.

Ferrari FF / GTC 4 Lusso

Sounds perfect.

Isn't that the same with every car he has?

We used to have two of them, a blue one and a hearing aid beige one like that. Both with the much loved/hated v4 (half of a Buick/Ford v8), think we had an older one too with a 2 stroke in it, remember as a kid the smell and the sound (sounded like it was gonna blow up at any minute compared to the v4).
All got used hard doing 40k+ a year to job sites all over the spot, so no car really lasted long in our household.

There were quite a lot of them for sale when I was looking last, now very few- I wonder if they’re being scrapped as large bills come in. Could be worth decent money in a few years as they vanish.

We have the 2.0 Impreza, I’m not sure about the 3.0R legacy. Most of the Subaru’s have an IACV but a different design than the one on ours

Cheap tyres eh, never seen the TC light come on so much in the past week! Had to replace a rear tyre and as there are apparently only 7 pcs of the particular run flat in the UK and a 3-day lead time, I decided to get 2x whatever was on the shelf. Cost less than 1x Bridgestone potenza and I can see why...
Happy to stick with non run-flats (definitely less crashy at the back) but I'd like something that can grip round a NSL A-road bend. Genuinely didn't realise how hard I was pushing it on a boring commute!

Please tell me that your rear left was chocked!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

WTF is this?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202742084235

It’s a way of telling the world you are in such a hurry that you have no time for aesthetics- only aerodynamics

depreciation per mile driven game is strong.

If you get the chance to hear one of those going past, you will smile and wonder ... was that a car or a jet! Amazing noise!

Yeah but if you see it all you'll think is an old honda insight ram-raided halfords.