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"We're a nation of Wetherspoons, and Heat magazine......and chlamydia.." LOL

Piss poor on any half looked after modern engine under about 250000 miles. Unforgiveable on a diesel.

Ours did it in Central London traffic with a newborn in the back. Again, Renault customer services claimed it was the first they had heard of. My response to that was to ask the customer service person to open Google and type in Renault window regulator failure. That said, the clutch slave cylind...

Crashed a car to this song. :-)

Great film. Rowan Atkinson is my favourite as the evil boss. "That's a good point, Bottle. That's a fully fledged BASTARD of a good point!"

I'm not even from Birmingham but my mate is and he took me up there one weekend in his XR4i in the early 90s. We had a top night. Bikes, cars, vans, you name it. All going completely mental. Someone in a Mini lost it and went through a shop window. The police were handing out producers like raffl...

@1ns4ne1d10t Whatever you say. You are the expert.

It's like watching someone powerslide a double decker bus. Incredible.

Diesel is a lubricant, petrol is a solvent. Put petrol through a fuel system designed to be lubricated by diesel, and every puff of smoke is the sight of a twenty quid note going up in smoke. Whether the engine will actually burn the fuel is the least of the things to be concerned about. What you...

Well known issue. Happened to a friend's at 6 months old / 5,500 miles. Went at idle!!

Who here misses these old school turbos? That lovely rush of power and tug of torque steer made it feel like you were driving something a bit special. The new ones are so progressive and competent that they just don't feel exciting any more, even if they probably are quicker on real roads.

That engine is fucked. Blue smoke = burning oil. Water vapour is white, not blue.

This is literally heartbreaking

@23chilled I'm not disputing that Rover's general build quality wasn't both shocking and a million miles from the Germans, but the 2.0 turbo O-series is known for being a tough old lump as long as its treated with the consideration required of all turbocharged engines of this era.

A friend had a ...

2 hrs ago I'd never heard of her. Now I'm hooked. THE most amazing voice I've heard in years.

Spiders are the second best engineers on the planet after man, no question.

@knp278 LOL - there's more materialistic greed now than there ever was in the 80's. The only difference is it was socially acceptable to flaunt it back then. Now more people are just hypocrites. Same selfish greed as before, but they think reading The Guardian, worrying about "the environment" an...

@tradecycles Do us a favour and send them back here will you. They're probably better than the crap we have to use. :-)

"The steering feels a bit strange and there was a weird noise, so I turned up the stereo".

Talentless slut. Not that it's a bad thing of course. :-)

A 2 litre naturally aspirated engine developing 265 bhp @ 8000 RPM. In 1975! What an engine. What a car!

One of those engines that just sounds "right". Beautiful.

One of the best and most distinctive sounding four cylinder engines ever.

Very nice. Nice to see one saved like this. Lovely car mate. Good luck with it. :-)

People have the right to choose to eat meat, just as they have the right to choose not to. I am an intelligent person, I have seen the slaughter process many times from beginning to end, and I choose to eat meat. That said, I fully respect those who make the choice not to. If it makes you feel be...

"They're insured" or "we're poor". The excuse of every thieving lowlife chav scumbag in this country.

Most poor people DIDN'T go out looting.

It's got nothing to do with the cobras "knowing" the kids, and everything to do with the cobras being defanged. In India, this is usually done by literally ripping or knocking them out. A snake's fangs will re-grow in time, but most Indian cobras die from infection within a week of this being don...

@fable2omg Believe it or not, it isn't computer made. It was done in two sections which were then stitched together in post processing. The whole thing took over 600 shots, but what you are seeing is actually real. As well as stitching the two sequences together, there was a little bit of post pr...

@MrAJGage This show was real before the big corporate sponsorship and crazy "theme bike" stuff kicked off. The global headquarters and the free equipment to kit out the new shop The made for tv arguments encouraged because the directors think they are what the audience want to see. The whole busi...

My cousin has had a female rose for about six years. Very mellow and docile. She's handled most days, and has never bitten or flicked hairs. Most are pretty relaxed, although you do get the odd one with an attitude, much like people really. They are such beautiful creatures though. I love the way...

I held a chilean rose tarantula and loved it, but I can't deal with smaller, faster spiders like this. They just freak me out.

Does this count as 1 of your 5 a day?

We prefer Elveden to Longleat. Easier to get about due to the flatter terrain, generally in better condition maintenance wise, and you don't get cars coming past the villa 18 hrs a day. There was more traffic going past our villa at Longleat than we see in our road at home.

I don't think any of ...

@ItzMeCasey I get that, but you can't work your arse off AND make full use of these perks (free meals aside). Unless you move into the office of course :-)

Where is British engineering? Try most of the F1 grid! Even the "Mercedes Benz" engines in the McLaren are built in England, by Ilmor.

Americans! lol ;-)

Most politicians are hypocrites, but Prescott made it an art form. Very anti-car, yet caught being driven 300 yards from his hotel to the Labour conference in 1999 because his "wife doesn't like having her hair blown about". A rabid trade unionist in his day who condemned strikers when in governm...