I was torn between that and the mk1 but I was never a fan on the headlights . The pop ups just make the NSX .
Lancia I believe. Went for a long lunch while they moved the cars. Very Italian.
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NSXs are so, so sick. Great addition.
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Had to move my Crx from a shared garage to my workshop. Hadn’t started her for over 2 years and boom, fired up fine.
I just wish the bodywork was as good as the engine.
Now all I have to do is jump on the WSB stocks bandwagon to make a quick buck for the restoration backlog.
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Is that a 340? Also wish I had a workshop
360 glt saloon, love hate car. The 2nd fuel pump went this morning when I really needed it to work. Once the sills are sorted and MOT’d it’s gone. Then I’ll have half my workshop back.
When you can drive a car into your workshop it stops being a workshop and becomes storage.
Owning a low loader to transport cars around is one of those things I really want but would be an utter eyesore sitting in the garden except for the one day every 4 years it’d get used.
My brother in law’s brother in law is a pro rally driver here, he’s got a completely boxed in car transporter for carting his rally cars around. So jel. Despite me not having any cars that don’t work that need transporting.
Perks of my mates job, the people he works for own most of Elstree and aldenham and let him use the old 4x4 and trailer .
It’s nice to have a trailer but as you said it would be redundant or lent out every weekend to mates. This trailer wasn’t compatible with how stupidly low my car is.
Had to grab some scaffolding boards to get it on and off as it wouldn’t even drive on and also bottom out on the chassis .
It was a proper mission.
Friend I work with does grass track racing so he has a trailer. He’s moved my cars last 2 times. My cars now got a tow bar and I’ve got a trailer license could come in handy. Spent too much money paying people to move them for me.
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There was a guy in Mansfield that had two of them. Both white.
He lived next door to Richard Bacon’s parents.
Yeah deffo, it’s cost £50 a time to hire out someone with a transporter van . Fair enough it’s the guys time etc but for 2/3 miles it’s not cheap.
If this thing comes out looking like it does here then I reckon that it might replace our Leaf as the local runabout:
Always had a thing for Renault 5s a MK1 was my first car and a MK2 was my second car 3 weeks later after the first one met its end down a lane. The second one took us on missions everywhere, though.
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That looks sick. So glad they brought back the 5.
It was the first car that made me fear for my life when my mate took me out in his R5 turbo. What a mad car.
I’m loving the look of this too, it’s like a mk1 gti but modern.
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Johnny Smith from 5th gear he’s big into EV and tests a lot of them. He has also tested some of the conversions available. He’s YouTube channel is pretty good, the late brake show.
Looks like Mustang headlights, Peugeot 205 rear pillars and a golf MK1 all rolled into one.
There’s one outside the Honda showroom I see every week, looks nice.
Those Honda’s are nice but they’re just way too expensive for what they are which is a really short range city car.
Have you seen his Allegro sleeper project?
This is changing really quickly already, they can make them pretty affordable but they really didn’t set out to here particularly. That Honda has a small, cheap battery its just they set out to make a more premium thing. But battery production is scaling so fast now that even without any more significant breakthroughs it’ll be a lot less than ten years before it’s cheaper to make an EV, probably more like two or three. They are just inherently so much simpler.
But in terms of affordable EVs that are here now if someone just wanted a practical family car with decent range and loads of room that’s…fine then the Chinese are on it already, you can buy an MG ZS EV for a shade over £20K brand new.
The major hurdle is all the charging points especially if you can’t park your car outside your home or work . It’s an enormous infrastructure to get up and running for everyone.
