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Santander's merely the first stop. We've been to Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, the Alhambra - but very little else of Spain. I've never been to Portugal at all, Ellie's only done Lisbon & the...

We're currently thinking the boat to Santander on May 15th is more likely than the one a week before. The list of _stuff_ isn't getting much shorter...

I am now Saabless. And staying that way for a while.

So... Have fun, chaps. I shall be back if and when I replace the c900.

<whistles innocently>
Two of us, and down to six cars at the moment...

Hugely so. The Polo gets mild restyles, and Audi (A1), Skoda (Fabia), Seat (Ibiza) badges. Then there's the ubiquitous Golf (A3,Jetta,Golf+,Touran,Octavia,TT,Beetle,Scirocco,Leon,Altea,Toledo).
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Well, quite. I'm glad you agreed with me that the badge is irrelevant, and the reality is that they're the same car.

Or, at the very least, a Porsche badge in a VW...

Yeh, it's the registration - 68 ERT - just spaced a bit oddly. I suspect the car is known as "Bert".

Hardly "distant cousin" - they're the same car, built on the same lines in the same factory. Apart from some minor cosmetics and slightly different engine choices, they're the same thing. The Q7's...

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Better shot of two of his, and the visitor tucked up in his garage......

And, right on cue, a mate has posted elsewhere that he's currently looking after this for a friend...
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Which makes a...

That one is, yes.

But... lose the bling, and...

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(and that's ignoring the roadster)...

Not banned - especially since the death you're thinking of was that of Isadora Duncan, in an Amilcar - in 1927...
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No, it isn't. It's horrible. It's a vile pastiche of chavved-up XK8, early Corvette (those ridiculous side scallops) and I can't quite place the arse - Studebaker Avanti was my first thought, but not...

At idle? Forever and a week. Take it for a drive. I idled mine for about half an hour after the HG, and they were still deafening. Half a mile, and they were fine.

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Wasn't that intended for use on cars with dual-vent bonnets, to stop water from the vent getting into the master?

I'll go for a 101GS, please. The Unimog of Landies.

I'd _love_ an SD1. One of the guys on a mate's stag weekend a couple of years ago had a rather gorgeous v8. I got very tempted by a TVR 4.6-engined early SD1 on fleaBay shortly after that.

Truly...

France is much more of a "tippy" culture than the UK.

Here, restaurants - yep. Round the bill up towards 10%, unless a service charge is included - in which case, only if the service has been...

Either DIY or my friendly local c900 specialist.

He's a one-man band, works out of a scruffy farm unit, and charges about 20% of what the local dealer would charge. He trained with Saab, worked...

Since it's a site intended to have a national, rather than global audience, unlike UKS or SW...

Go to UKS, and you'll find that many people avoided SC because it was perceived as being very American...

It's a global site, 'member? Not everybody's "here" doesn't/didn't get Rovers...

May I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier post, drawing the distinction between Land-Rover and Rover?

(I don't think they even try to flog petrol Discos here any more, btw)
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Totally different engine, though. He'll be thinking v8, you're thinking TD5.