MrGTI6

Lovely motor! Such a rare sight now. I drove a Safrane several years ago and it's one of the most comfortable cars I've been in. I seem to recall that one had a 5-cylinder engine, but that could be my brain getting muddled!

Blocking a live lane in anticipation of a merge point further up the road should result in an instant driving ban.

Just spotted this 1968 Ford Corsair on eBay. It's an F-reg, but somehow it's ended up on a prefix rather than a suffix. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166681306747

Was great to meet you both! I'm sure you will enjoy the car @Smoll Floatylight. 😁 Have a safe journey back. 👍

The speedometer certainly made up for the odometer's lack of optimism. It's been a while since I've driven one but I'm sure the speedo went all the way up to 150mph! 🤣

The Escort ditched the five-digit odometer in favour of a digital six-digit readout around the millennium, perhaps just before. About the same time as the Fiesta and Puma. The KA retained the five-digit odometer right up to when they switched from Endura to Duratec. I think the latest Endura-powered KAs were registered on a 52-plate.

A coupe has to have 2 doors.

Growing up in a fairly rough area in the late '90s and early '00s, I remember these being absolutely everywhere. I feel like they were a far more common sight than the UK-spec Previa at the time, though they probably weren't. They were the school run mum's car of choice before SUVs/crossovers became a thing, along with Shoguns, Troopers, Disco 1s, etc.

I started this month with one car which needed to be replaced. Six days in, and somehow I've ended up with - not one, not two, but - three additional cars. At this rate I'll be giving Philip Schofield a run for his money. With regards to excessive car-buying, I hasten to add...

Alfa Romeo Giulietta. Until recently I've never really paid much attention to them, but I bought a top-of-the-range diesel one last year and was seriously impressed. At 137k it drove spot on. The interior was lovely and everything worked. The best bit was it did a genuine 70mpg! Found myself in need of a car last week and ended up buying a lower-spec petrol one to tide me over for a few weeks. At 101k it feels tight as a drum and everything seems to work. Not as frugal as the diesel but still good for 50mpg. The Giulietta seems to be surprisingly well put-together with no real horror stories. For a bread-and-butter family hatchback they're actually really decent, and probably a much safer bet than a Focus Ecoboost or Golf TSI of the same age. And much cheaper like-for-like!

I remember seeing a Buick-badged Mokka in the states a few years ago. A quick Google shows that the face-lifted Mokka X got the Buick treatment as well. Or how about a Saturn Astra?

Of all the old shite I accrued over the course of the year, not one of them suffered a breakdown. The only FTP I endured was when I borrowed my boss' Tesla.

A bit of an anti-climax I'm afraid. After 11 minutes, the lady walked over to my window and said her husband had forgotten to bring any bags, and wanted to know if I had anything she could use. I went back into the house and donated one of the many carrier bags we have under the stairs. In hindsight I should have charged 5p like the supermarkets do these days. She seemed pleasant and very talkative but her husband didn't say a word! I expect one of two things to happen going forward. Either they'll never let their dogs shit outside my house again, or they'll do it all the time now out of spite.

Currently sat in the car opposite my house having a standoff with a middle-aged couple walking their two dogs stood outside my house. Their dogs have done a crap on the path outside my house and they clearly don't have the means to pick it up in a sanitary manner. They keep looking up from their phones to see that I haven't moved. I'm going to make this whole situation as awkward as possible.