Timewaster

This must have been just before the sale to ovloV

In a lot of ways, yes.
Butto drive,  the Metro inherited the go-kart feel from the mini and was lively and chuckable.
The Corsa was stodgy and numb. Steering, brakes and gear change were vague and it wasn't an engaging or fun thing in any way.
 
I base this entirely on two work vans we had when I was a yoof. An early Metro van in doom blue which may even have been badged Morris, and it's eventual replacement an L reg Corsa.

I find if your Virgin service is working (and to be fair it usually does), then TOUCH NOTHING, DO NOTHING, CHANGE NOTHING. 
The moment you try and change anything, they fuck it up royally.
I had a virgin mobile on Vodafone. 
They merged with O2 but I don't get a great signal, so they let me keep my Vodafone sim and that was OK.
Then I got a call centre call, promising to half my bill, double my data... all that usual schpeil.
I must have told  them 10 times, it MUST be a Vodafone sim.
Yes, yes, no problem sir. Vodafone sim.
Guess what they sent me?
It took hours and hours on the phone / chatbot etc to sort out. Because I now had a new contract they couldn't supply new Vodafone sims to new customers. 
But I'm not a new customer, and I have a Vodafone sim. You cancelled it!
 
And so on and on and on.....
 
 

To be fair, my memory of cold 70s mornings was that the minis and 1100s would start and the Escorts and Cortinas not so much.
But that is largely based on the crap my dad drove, and that of the neighbours.
Dad's mk2 Escort once refused to start for 2 weeks, despite his spending 4 hours on it every evening and weekends.
He never did know why, but one evening having got home on the bus, it burst into life first turn of the key, having flatly refused the evening before.

He's not wrong though is he. British Leyland cars were always way ahead technologically, except the Marina obviously before anybody buts in, but that was there because they could see Ford were outselling them with their horseless carts and thought they'd have a go.
But by the early seventies BL had FWD, five speed boxes, fuel injection, 16 valves, hydraulic suspension (and proper springs on the ones that weren't hydraulic) and self levelling suspension. And not just Leyland, most of the continental manufacturers were dabbling in these things too.
Yet Ford couldn't even manage FWD until 1977. But Ford knew how to sell cars and Leyland didn't. BL came up with lots of good ideas but never developed them properly. Any problems at the start of production tended to stay throughout the life of the car. And of course they were selling cars competing with themselves. Ford were selling simple to the point of ancient technology but people liked that because they understood it. 
Obviously Ford won by keeping it simple but there's no doubt everybody else was building better cars.

I know nothing about how AI works, but it must be getting tagged references from images elsewhere on the net to generate these new images.
Which we are posting on the internet.
So next time someone somewhere asks for a Routemaster image, is there a chance it references the group B rally version here and incorporates that into its next image?
Given the intelligence and diligence of some of the worlds journalists, we could easily end up with poorly researched references to things that never were in all sorts of places.

I know nothing about how AI works, but it must be getting tagged references from images elsewhere on the net to generate these new images.
Which we are posting on the internet.
So next time someone somewhere asks for a Routemaster image, is there a chance it references the group B rally version here and incorporates that into its next image?
Given the intelligence and diligence of some of the worlds journalists, we could easily end up with poorly researched references to things that never were in all sorts of places.

I know nothing about how AI works, but it must be getting tagged references from images elsewhere on the net to generate these new images.
Which we are posting on the internet.
So next time someone somewhere asks for a Routemaster image, is there a chance it references the group B rally version here and incorporates that into its next image?
Given the intelligence and diligence of some of the worlds journalists, we could easily end up with poorly researched references to things that never were in all sorts of places.

I know nothing about how AI works, but it must be getting tagged references from images elsewhere on the net to generate these new images.
Which we are posting on the internet.
So next time someone somewhere asks for a Routemaster image, is there a chance it references the group B rally version here and incorporates that into its next image?
Given the intelligence and diligence of some of the worlds journalists, we could easily end up with poorly researched references to things that never were in all sorts of places.

Possibly a Reggie Perrin?
Similar outcome but slightly less murdery.

It has got to the stage where I don't check insurance, I check tax bill.
I dodged a bullet with a cheap (fucked) jeep Cherokee I had an eye on for a cheap off roader and a  bit of green laning. £795 a year to tax.
 
Er.... No thank you. I'll go back to looking for a Jimny with an actual floor.

Does anyone else find him unwatchable? It's LIKE he is trying TOO hard to sound INTERESTING and over emphasising WORDS so as NOT TO sound monosyllabic.
It's almost like he is trying to be the most Clarkson like youtuber.......
In the World!!

Does anyone else find him unwatchable? It's LIKE he is trying TOO hard to sound INTERESTING and over emphasising WORDS so as NOT TO sound monosyllabic.
It's almost like he is trying to be the most Clarkson like youtuber.......
In the World!!

You ever tried to set light to diesel?

Amateur

You ever tried to set light to diesel?

I think that's what made it even worse.
The Metro looked like your grans shopping car and the Corsa was all modern and funky.
Until you drove them and it was the other way around.

I think that's what made it even worse.
The Metro looked like your grans shopping car and the Corsa was all modern and funky.
Until you drove them and it was the other way around.

I think that's what made it even worse.
The Metro looked like your grans shopping car and the Corsa was all modern and funky.
Until you drove them and it was the other way around.

Most mainstream cars leather seats are horrible.
I have a leather clad Bini and it is hard, either stone cold or roasting hot and always slippy.
It reminds me of summer holidays as a kid in the back of dads Renault 12 with my legs stuck to black vinyl seats.
Most 2nd hand cars I see with leather, it is split and flaking away at the edges.
In the 90s, a couple of acquaintances had leather seated luxo barges. An XJ6 and a Senator. 
The Senator was mint, and fast. The Jag was old and scruffy and plodded along. 
But the seats?!
The Jag was soft and supple and comfortable and lovely.  The Senator was hard and scratchy and just not nice.
Also, leather covered steering wheels. Scratch and scuff easy, the surface wears away and they look like an 8 year olds school shoes at the end of term in no time.

My mums late 80’s (AR) Metro was a better drive than her late 90’s Corsa.

Most mainstream cars leather seats are horrible.
I have a leather clad Bini and it is hard, either stone cold or roasting hot and always slippy.
It reminds me of summer holidays as a kid in the back of dads Renault 12 with my legs stuck to black vinyl seats.
Most 2nd hand cars I see with leather, it is split and flaking away at the edges.
In the 90s, a couple of acquaintances had leather seated luxo barges. An XJ6 and a Senator. 
The Senator was mint, and fast. The Jag was old and scruffy and plodded along. 
But the seats?!
The Jag was soft and supple and comfortable and lovely.  The Senator was hard and scratchy and just not nice.
Also, leather covered steering wheels. Scratch and scuff easy, the surface wears away and they look like an 8 year olds school shoes at the end of term in no time.

Leather in a big Vauxhall is doubly tragic. They were the kings of velour. They had some beautiful interiors. And I assume you paid extra for the inferior leather. Makes no sense at all. 

Most mainstream cars leather seats are horrible.
I have a leather clad Bini and it is hard, either stone cold or roasting hot and always slippy.
It reminds me of summer holidays as a kid in the back of dads Renault 12 with my legs stuck to black vinyl seats.
Most 2nd hand cars I see with leather, it is split and flaking away at the edges.
In the 90s, a couple of acquaintances had leather seated luxo barges. An XJ6 and a Senator. 
The Senator was mint, and fast. The Jag was old and scruffy and plodded along. 
But the seats?!
The Jag was soft and supple and comfortable and lovely.  The Senator was hard and scratchy and just not nice.
Also, leather covered steering wheels. Scratch and scuff easy, the surface wears away and they look like an 8 year olds school shoes at the end of term in no time.