No, you're right Mod. I wasn't thinking about congested traffic or where someone's turning right, where it's obviously a different situation. I was thinking in general terms about overtaking individual, slower-moving vehicles.

Undertaking in the situation I described would have been illegal on my part.

EDIT: Yeah, to be honest, all this under/over, right/left, red/green stuff is all a bit confusing.

Fwiw Moto, whilst I consider myself a reasonably proficient and conscientious all-round driver, I'm sure in skill terms in a race situation you'd probably shit on me from a great height. I fancy having a go at track driving sometime, but the closest I've ever got to racing is a bit of basic karting.

If I could change one thing in my life it would be that I would have got interested in Motorsport sooner, I just happened to fall into a job within Motorsport and that's when my interest in it progressed beyond F1 and rallying. From my earliest memories I have always been into cars and bikes, from riding my Dad's C90 around the garden to taking his Cortina Estate for a drive around the village when I was 11, I will drive anything and that is something that still hasn't left me, from Segways to Double Deckers (the buses not the chocolate bars) I have been lucky enough to drive many different vehicles, I have held my own in Karting events with BTCC drivers, I whooped a Formula Ford driver in an impromptu street race around Milton Keynes and according to the instructor on the Rally SS track at Silverstone my 'recoveries' are good.

Whether I would have been any good though I do not know but it is something I will always regret missing out on.

I had years of driving a ridiculous amount of miles and I used to get really stressed but for quite a few years now I've learnt the joys of just chilling and not getting stressed though I had one relapse a few months ago where I chased after some cunt who clashed mirrors while was dropping the missus off but he started apologising straight away as soon as I caught up with him so I didn't even have to get out of the car...

I really haven't got the time to pursue any other activities, a full time job, 2 kids and dogs and we're in North Devon so everything is at least an hour away!

I'd never leave this town*, I love it here and after living in Manchester and Doncaster while I was young I'd never want to live in a highly populated place ever again, plus if I do get something nice to drive we have some cracking roads. Over Exmoor is a brilliant drive.

* I would split my time between here, Spain and the Bahamas though if I won the lottery!

Just been out and p/x'd my 10 year old 99000 mile Focus 1.6 Zetec for a 05 Clio 1.2 16v with 68k on the clock. Got £600 for the Focus, which I didn't think too bad considering the MOT runs out end of the week, tax end of the month, timing belt is due, new clutch needed. Was looking at a likely outlay of £800+ on the Focus or spend £1300 after p/x on the Clio and get a new MOT, service, 9 months tax, 6 months warranty, lower insurance, lower fuel costs, etc.

American driving is lovely.  I like being in a massive car, with lanes about 3 miles wide, it's always sunny, roads run 30 miles straights before a bend and everyone drives with cruise control set 1mph under the limit.  It's so relaxing.  Compared to the 250 miles from Aberdeen to Elgin to Edinburgh down the A9 I drove yesterday anyway.

Please be a pun and not an autocorrect.

Is this the place to ask if anyone knows much about getting tinted windows? I want all the back windows done. Is there a standard %? Not sure if the model car matters for price but I've got an x3

Cheers. Basically says I can't get the front ones done which is fine. I don't want it to look like a drug dealers car anyone got tinted windows or had the installed?

When I was working for Ford doing the ’04 UEFA Cup final in Gothenburg they asked me what car I wanted, I said something quick like an Audi RS6. They said they couldn't give me an Audi but they'll see what they can do. Later that day they gave me a Volvo S60 T5, I loved it, so much so that when I was later working for Nissan I asked them for a Volvo and they gave me a S80, a bit more suited to the longer distances I was driving. I preferred the S60 though as it was a bit more agile...

So old porky is finally in the menders after 6 months sitting on the driveway.

So far ive had to fix the ABS which luckily turned out to be just a relay.
The garage have replace all brake lines and hoses, sorted the emissions and have just told me it needs a new caliper.

Gonna cost about £450 in total including the MOT. Not bad really, fuck doing the brake lines myself.

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

Youve never done 32 in a 30 accidently, never clipped into another lane on a roundabout, never got slightly closer to someone than the minimum stopping distance? If the answer is yes you arent driving naturally and are still prob dangerous.

Rubbish. I always stay in my lane, stay within the speed limit and keep a safe distance from vehicles in front wherever possible (e.g. when people cut in, I drop back). What's so difficult? It's just sensible, alert driving.

Ironically, that would make me far more dangerous. I'd be bored senseless. I once did the IAM course and the Advanced Driving courses. The only thing that kept me from losing the will to live was having to do the constant observation talk. And, as we can post piccies here, I can add my current motor to the pile. 


Still love it. Miles better than the STI I had before it. And it hasn't lunched a piston like the STI. Double bonus. I just keep telling the missus I can get 30mpg from it. That's "can" not "do". Problem is going to be knowing what to replace it with. The benefit of 4wd became acutely apparent in recent winters, and going slower wouldn't be nearly as fun. However, after this year, there will be no more STIs or Evos available to buy new and it'll be a good 3 years at the soonest before the next generation. Tried a Golf R and Audi S3 but found both a bit....well......sober, and the RS3 is stupidly overpriced.

Looks nicest in white imo. I will add I know nothing about bikes and am colour blind.