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That merc looks great... C36 swap, great idea.

Ah I've been looking for that one! Along with the other dads in target and k-mart buying hot wheels for "their kids".... I swear the staff hide all the collectible ones for themselves.

I dunno why, but the jag just reminds me of this:

"danger to manifold"

That's quite the melted piston.

You're local to Possum Bourne's workshop right? Just drop in a fully built crate engine....

I don't really care about why Jaguar is rebranding... But why create such a generic, appliance like logo?

Vacuum leaks somewhere? There's bound to be some old cracked piping in the engine bay.

Dirty air flow metre? (Does it even have one?) Throttle position sensor? I'm just saying words that are vaguely right here ...

Well a day late for me, but I was wearing this on Friday (my time) and still am as it's about to go in the ocean...

Love that, might have to get a full lume one day.

I just back to Sydney from Singapore... I can safely say Changi is so much better as an airport than Sydney. The queues, the chaos and the traffic driving home. Blurgh.

I didn't love the food over there, there's a lot of fusion confusion and I wasn't wowed by the hawker stuff. Weirdly did get a great Phó from a Viet cafe.

The kids just loved the fact that you can step into any body of water and as dammit said, it's 28°c.

It's insane. I don't really understand the economy here at all.

Ha, holy shizzle.... I guess that's why I've seen very little cycling.

So all the little Hyundai and Toyota things are like $150000 cars?

Other nerdy car observations from Singapore...
I haven't seen one damaged car. Barely even little dings.

The roads appear to be billiard table smooth everywhere. Cycling would be amazing, let alone driving.

A distinct lack of aggression.

Coming from Sydney, their concept of bad traffic is hilarious.

A relative lack of SUV type vehicles. The small sedan and compact car (Honda jazz style) seems to still dominate. And vans/people movers for actually moving people.

True, many more BYD. I probably haven't noticed the Hyundai's. Although at first I thought the taxis were all Toyota Prius until I realised they were Hyundai.

Have seen some nicely modified cars too. I presume all superficial mods? I thought modified cars were illegal for some reason.

Currently in Singapore, very surprised at the lack of Tesla's cruising around. I've seen maybe 4 or 5. Many more lambos, Porsche, Ferrari etc. and weirdly cool extended Honda fit/jazz.

All the Rover chat... You should listen to the Carmudgeon podcast episode on Rover. Many interesting anecdotes from Jason Camissa (he owns an SD 1)... According to him the interior gauges were purposely copied from Ferrari so I'm sure the exterior was no accident either.

Yes and no. People can neglect to factor in the condition of the engine before tuning. Plus they'll stick to the the factory recommended service intervals even after a tune (bad idea!). There's always extra heat generated so coils fry, old oil fails, the standard intercooler can't keep intake temps low enough etc.

Having said that, I've had a tune running on my Audi A4 avant 2.0 tfsi for 65000 kilometres and it's absolutely fine. I change the oil before 10,000 Kay's and run shell v-power only (can of worms). And I don't push the car in hot weather.

So cool. Not exactly granny spec Camry

From a creative perspective, this really does feel like they latched onto a quote around "it's like they die over and over" or similar. Impactful but lacks tact. Would we refer to physical injury or disability as "my dad was a great skier, then he lost his legs... It's like he died" seems a bit shallow?

I don't have a lot of direct experience with dementia but I have a had a Grandma who suffered with it... Yes it was sad, but from my perspective it was just a change, she was just different. Not dead.

Unfortunately marketing is pretty gross and the agency that developed this campaign will probably count it as successful as it has had a large reaction.

Such a great watch.... I keep looking at them here in aus and the price is creeping up. Nearly grabbed one last year for $775 Aud. But wasn't working at the time so thought it best to save the redundancy payout for food and kids stuff...

How about go full Rallye style and throw some speedline/OZ/sparco rims on there?

Hmm, running a bit slow?

That GS is lovely though. I've been searching for a GS estate down here for a project. Found a blue pallas for $1000 aud but it needs double that in hours to get it running. They are getting rare!

There's also this which is tempting, however I have no garage to put it in.
https://citcarclubvic.org.au/for-sale-1973-citroen-gs-1220-pallas/

That looks good, nice wheels. I keep looking at the 79v fozzies and thinking it's the car I should have for bikes and surfboards.

@Dammit I'm not sure all cars look better lowered.