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

How and why would you attempt a galaxie 500 in London?
Last 3 are all amaze.

Car remembered it was a bmw today...

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Any non marque specific mechanic recommendations in or near Camberwell? Had to get it recovered to my house given its a Saturday eve, not driving so hoping for the shortest possible flatbed collect and deliver...

What happened?

@Dammit Adorable. Come to Motorcycle world. Fast bikes needing fill up every 100 miles.

Love the Fiat. Very cool.

My car has been ordered.

It's a Volvo V60 T8 Polestar.

And yes, in white.

Ker-bling. Enjoy.

Alley cat alloys.

Is that a fiat 500 Giardiniera, or an Autobianchi Giardiniera?

Mg is back in the UK too, mg was sold to a Chinese company and now back

excellent spots as always dude. the Celica would be the only one I would want to drive though

New car day! First ever new car and my first car in almost a decade. Yes yes yes I know a lease is poor value but I’ve only been in the US for a little while and hence couldn’t get finance on a new/used car. But I could get lease finance. I will likely finance the residual value once the lease is over in 36 months.

I’ve been lusting after a Crosstrek for a good while since seeing loads of them up in Vermont last winter and had rented one through Zipcar a few times. I’ve just moved to Los Angeles and wanted a car for exploring national forests and the Mojave. This ticked all of our boxes.

Not as good value as a Kia, for example, but I didn’t want to save cash and end up driving a car I didn’t love. I didn’t want anything other than this, and I’m glad I made the decision to spend a bit more to get what I wanted. I absolutely love it.

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Great cars, I love mine...

Apart from the smell in the cab and the ignition issue I'm having... Really looking forward to taking it into some light rough stuff so I can try out the paddles!

I'm actually thinking about blacking out the wheels... @Aroogah 🤪

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https://youtu.be/_oG-1uzLJr0

Quiz for capital car buffs
How many recognise this street from the cars
Where is it ?

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Me, used to walk this way to the gym every lunchtime from the office in Sea Containers.

Yep

Konditor & Cook, yum, that's where I'd get press day treats for our team... TBF that is one of the most recognisable streets in London...

Yep. Used to walk regularly between an office at Waterloo and one in Southwark.

I always thought that white cars depreciate faster than other colourways but apparently they actually hold their value better than average.

However, I have been told by Uber drivers that if you're in the market for a Toyota Prius or similar Uber car the white ones are always cheaper to lease, which is why you see so many white Prius's on Uber duties.

The only white cars you saw when I was growing up were ex-po po that had been sold at auction.

I'm sure it will hold its value very well in Essex anyway. Or Solihull.

Those Citroen’s don’t look like they have moved for years .. a local landmark ..
So how does it get to stay parked , I thought you needed an MOT

colourways

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I'm really not bothered about the colour, it's the premium paint job and I'm happy with it. It's available in the country in April rather than October or November, and I intend to keep this car a very long time by which point everything will have depreciated to the same low value and the battery will be dead.

Do you know what's up with it? Worth getting a mobile mechanic out if it's not too serious? My old transit broke down years ago, couldn't get it running and it worked out cheaper to pay a mobile mechanic's inflated rate than it did to pay to get it towed to a cheaper garage.

If you've got AA or whatever you can get the car recovered to (say) Munich Legends tomorrow morning whilst you go to work.

Yeah I'm with green flag (wouldn't recommend), but not sure they'll recover it from my house to a garage as they have a policy that they don't recover for the same fault more than once in 28 days. I'm not dependent on a car and work from home full time so I can take a bit of time to mull over my options. Munich legends can work on it Thursday, but like I said need to investigate the cost of transporting it that far out.