Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

[Saul Goodman]

And yet fewer of them suffered rust problems than Allegro steering breaking and people being seriously hurt, and Sierra catching fire.

I think that's because more than 100 people actually bought all aggros But yeah, they were a bag of shite, too. Most cars were shit back then, but Lancia brought shit to a new level. I think the steel they used was like MDF, but instead of fibres they used recycled rust from those all aggros.

 

[dessiato]

I think that's because more than 100 people actually bought all aggros But yeah, they were a bag of shite, too. Most cars were shit back then, but Lancia brought shit to a new level. I think the steel they used was like MDF, but instead of fibres they used recycled rust from those all aggros.

If I remember correctly there was only a small number bought back because of structural problems. Fewer than crashed Allergies or Sierras burned out. But the media did what it does.

Yes quality of the metal was poor, yes the body rotted, but they weren't dangerous to drive. (Except at double the speed limit. That was a bit dodgy)

 

[Saul Goodman]

Yes quality of the metal was poor, yes the body rotted, but they weren't dangerous to drive.

Yeah, because there's nothing dangerous about driving along the motorway and your engine suddenly falling out onto the road because the subframe supporting it had rotted away

 

[nogojones]

Yeah, because there's nothing dangerous about driving along the motorway and your engine suddenly falling out onto the road because the subframe supporting it had rotted away

It was the 70's. All the cars were shit. I used to have to hold the door of my escort closed when I went round left hand bends to stop it falling off.

 

[dessiato]

Yeah, because there's nothing dangerous about driving along the motorway and your engine suddenly falling out onto the road because the subframe supporting it had rotted away

Except they didn't. But Allegro steering did fail and people did get badly injured. Sierra heating ducts, made of cardboard, did fall off and cars did catch fire. I remember the fuss about Allegro and Sierra because it was happening at about the same time as I had Lancia.

 

[T & P]

1973 Lamborghini Espada for Sale | Classic Cars for Sale UK

Gotta love the airplane cockpit-style console, complete with seatbelt warning light...

 

[hash tag]

That was of its day. I suspect the Lotus Elite may have been similar and a Ferrari. A 328?

 

[dessiato]

1986 328 GTS interior




The Espada interior is from the late 70s

 

[Poi E]

So you sort of squeeze your legs over to the right to get to the pedals. Looks like a horrible driving position.

 

[DownwardDog]

So you sort of squeeze your legs over to the right to get to the pedals. Looks like a horrible driving position.

It's so you can operate the brake and accelerator simultaneously with your right foot to rev match on downshifts.

 

[dessiato]

It wasn’t a great position all round. The pedal off-set was made worse by a short leg, long arm seating position.

 

[hash tag]

Back onto 4X4's...with a tory MP Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Back onto 4X4's...with a tory MP Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

You really couldn’t come up with a better way of capturing the Tory party than an old, polluting, 4x4 parked across a disabled parking bay.

 

[hash tag]

You really couldn’t come up with a better way of capturing the Tory party than an old, polluting, 4x4 parked across a disabled parking bay.

You missed selfish bastard!

PS not all disabilities are visible!

 

[weltweit]

There was a report that our love of larger SUVs is now causing greater greenhouse gas emissions.

Bad SUV, bad moto

 

[ska invita]

Rise of SUVs 'makes mockery' of electric car push

Amazed so many people have the money to literally burn

 

[Poi E]

It's so you can operate the brake and accelerator simultaneously with your right foot to rev match on downshifts.

Buy I can do that in most cars quite comfortably.

It's shit design really, isn't it? It's where they compromised the footwell for suspension componentry.

 

[hash tag]

Caught this this morning, an interview with Marek Reichman about the new Aston. Worth a listen for such bollocks. In the Studio - Designing the new Aston Martin - BBC Sounds

 

[friedaweed]

Superhero Ellie Goulding jumps out of her Land-rover Sport to help driver 'T-boned' by Royal Mail truck

Ellie Goulding helps driver shunted by truck

 

[hash tag]

sorry friedaweed ...

Don't know how the hell this happened, but did the lorry driver not hear a little know as he hit the VW?
Ellie Goulding helps driver shunted by truck

 

[SpookyFrank]

Rise of SUVs 'makes mockery' of electric car push

Amazed so many people have the money to literally burn

They're all on tick init. And the finance is often set up in such a way that you're encouraged to fuck off a perfectly good car and get a new one after three or four years.

 

[ska invita]

They're all on tick init. And the finance is often set up in such a way that you're encouraged to fuck off a perfectly good car and get a new one after three or four years.

Tick is still big monthly payments
Plus petrol on those huge engines

 

[SpookyFrank]

Tick is still big monthly payments
Plus petrol on those huge engines

But you can't put a price on status.

Well, I can. Zero pounds and fuck all pence. But clearly there are a lot of people for whom a slightly higher driving position is worth considerable financial hardship.

 

[ska invita]

But you can't put a price on status.

Well, I can. Zero pounds and fuck all pence. But clearly there are a lot of people for whom a slightly higher driving position is worth considerable financial hardship.

I do wonder if it is financial hardship or are there just a lot of people out there with loadsamoney. It relates to the election...yes theres lots of poverty, yes the younger generation in particular are seeing a decrease in living standards, but maybe there's still a boom for a substantial number of people hence the chelsea tractor spreading well beyond that bit of west london. Rising inequality has the aspect of rising wealth one side of the balance.
Its a lot of people doing this:

 

[2hats]

But clearly there are a lot of people for whom a slightly higher driving position is worth considerable financial hardship.

Likely the only way they can get it up.

 

[Leafster]

 

[DownwardDog]

It could be a RR Sport PHEV. It's worth having a plug in hybrid at the moment just to get the primo parking spots.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I was followed by a ‘19 reg RR sport at the weekend until it found a dangerous blind corner to effortlessly overtake me. I thought it was a pair of motorbikes , as one headlamp was utter cockeyed and seemed to be permanent full beam. How can a newish car have issues like this ?

 

[hash tag]

Spoiler

 

[not-bono-ever]

China anger after woman drives into Forbidden City

Social media users ask how a woman could have driven into the former imperial palace in Beijing.

www.bbc.co.uk

vulgar 4x4 twattery by rich kid in a G Wagen