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[mercrocker]

That could cost Saga more than Brexit......Most old giffers I know seem to get tucked up with a new Jazz everytime they get theirs serviced or the tank reads "E" so I would imagine there is a hefty "admin" fee.

[richardmorris]

This is getting a lot of attention outside at the moment. No idea on the model though.* edit google says la Ferrari aperta (one of 210) Last one sold for €8.3million!

 

The people around arrived in a new four door bentley.

[wuvvum]

Is that the hybrid one?

[richardmorris]

Is that the hybrid one?

 

 

 

I think it's this one for sale at DD Classics for £5,500,000.

 

http://ddclassics.com/car-listing/laferrari-aperta-for-sale-in-london-lhd/

 

Transmission:

Automatic

Steering:

LHD

Engine size:

6.3 Litre

La Ferrari Aperta For Sale In London (LHD)

Physically Available

1 Of Only 209 Cars Built

Unregistered

Delivery mileage

950 BHP

 

 

seems it was the hybrid, then they made this "exclusive "series.

 

The LaFerrari Aperta is a limited version of the LaFerrari. Initially, 200 cars were sold with an additional nine reserved for use during the Ferrari 70th anniversary celebrations. One more model was later sold by auction. The LaFerrari Aperta comes with a removable carbon-fibre hard top and a removable soft top. Other changes include more efficient powertrains control electronics, re-angled radiators to direct air flow out along the underbody rather than over the bonnet, a longer front air dam to help boost downforce, an L-shaped flap on the upper corner of each windscreen pillar to reduce compression on the rear of the cabin in the absence of a roof, different butterfly door angles with different wheel arches and a new carbon fibre insert allowing the doors to rotate. The car was unveiled at the 2016 Paris motor show. Like past convertible Ferrari models, it uses the Aperta label to denote its removable roof.  According to Ferrari, all units were already sold to customers via invitation.

Following the immense success of Ferrari’s hybrid-electric hypercar – the LaFerrari – the open-top Laferrari Aperta was introduced in 2017 as an even more exclusive model of the revolutionary and über high-tech Ferrari model. With only 210 examples built, the Spider version offered the same staggering performance but with the addition of an open-air driving experience. Amazingly, Ferrari engineered a removable top for the LaFerrari hardtop, while keeping the same coefficient of drag and rigidity as the coupe. Offered exclusively to preferred Ferrari clients, every allocation of the Aperta was filled before the world was introduced to the car in 2017.

[wuvvum]

*checks down back of sofa*  Ah'm oot.

[Sealtainn]

Oh to have all the money in the world, and see the utter hatred when you plop a diesel into that Ferrari

Preferably something like the old Ford 1.8 NA diesel that’s already done 350,000 miles and not been serviced. Then treat the neighbours every morning as it shudders into life like Michael J Fox getting out of bed, whilst chugging out atomic bomb sized clouds of pollution and then barely has enough impetuous to drag it’s sorry arse off down the road

 

 

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[dollywobbler]

I had to go and find some snow. Not much about, but I did conveniently end up following the snow plough over the Elan Valley Mountain Road.

 

Really conflicted about the Matiz. I don't need it, it's pretty awful to drive for longer than about half an hour and it owes me a daft amount of money (about £900!). So, I should cut my losses and sell it. I don't want to though.

[loserone]

Trusted shiter loan scheme?

[captain_70s]

Never mind all that bloody snow....it was hot down West on Monday morning.  Here is Oscar outside the Munster House in Westward Ho just before coming back home....

 

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Cor, that's the housing equivalent of a car which requires the utterance of "DO NOT PAINT".

[catsinthewelder]

Yikes. We're just below the snow line here. It's covering the hills quite beautifully. Mind if I nab the pic?

No worries mate.

[mrbenn]

I had to go and find some snow. Not much about, but I did conveniently end up following the snow plough over the Elan Valley Mountain Road.

 

Really conflicted about the Matiz. I don't need it, it's pretty awful to drive for longer than about half an hour and it owes me a daft amount of money (about £900!). So, I should cut my losses and sell it. I don't want to though.

 

Ace pic, the Matiz looks great.

 

Hope the plough wasn't gritting

[richardmorris]

*checks down back of sofa*  Ah'm oot.

 

Yesterday there were two mclaren F1 outside. One grey, one black. That’s probably £20,000,000 for the pair!

[wuvvum]

Bloody hell, are F1s making 10 million quid now?!

[wuvvum]

Just got in from work and discovered a large hornet swimming around in the toilet bowl.  Obvs he got flushed, but it is slightly disquieting as I've had all my windows shut for the last couple of days because cold, so I'm left wondering how he got in, and / or how long he's been lurking around the house for.  And also whether he has any little friends hiding about the place.

[anonymous user]

Bloody hell, are F1s making 10 million quid now?!

If you want the price to halve, just get me to try to sell one.

[richardmorris]

Bloody hell, are F1s making 10 million quid now?!

Some are, there was one here for sale by mclaren with a £15million price tag.

[wuvvum]

If you want the price to halve, just get me to try to sell one.

 

Without wanting to give away too many details about my financial situation, halving the price of a £10M car isn't really going to help me all that much.

[Asimo]

Just got in from work and discovered a large hornet swimming around in the toilet bowl.  Obvs he got flushed, but it is slightly disquieting as I've had all my windows shut for the last couple of days because cold, so I'm left wondering how he got in, and / or how long he's been lurking around the house for.  And also whether he has any little friends hiding about the place.

I expect he was hibernating in the overflow pipe.

[loserone]

She.

[stuboy]

The key word there is his. His fuel.

 

Tell him to jog on, it's not your problem.

today he asked if i could meet him halfway, get fucked.

 

 

hes coming 10am saturday

[wuvvum]

She.

 

I didn't look that closely.

[Broadsword]

Probably just me being ignorant, but I might point out something that nearly caused me a right headache as regards car insurance recently. I had completed a full year's classic car insurance with Peter S. Taylor and let the policy expire as I was going to sell the car at the time, and did. All simple enough. I then recently took out a new policy with Flux Direct on a Jag XJS. Now when I did the quote I put down 1 year no claims on the back of having had that policy with Peter S. Taylor. Still seemed fine. Submitted the document evidence for that new policy and got queried on the NCB again. Called Peter S. Taylor and was told that classic car policies do not incur any NCB! This is not something they mentioned at the time and I cannot find mention of it in the small print, but I'm sure it will be there somewhere.

 

I got away with it by explaining exactly what happened to Flux Direct and the guy there happened to be on my side so I only got charged £20. Thought I might share my experience here though, better safe than sorry. NO NCB ON CLASSIC CAR POLICIES!

[tooSavvy]

Anyone from Tyneside..??

 

I've taken a blast thru the 'newest TripleDekka junction' in UK @Silverlink

 

... Very, err, smooth down under!

[mercrocker]

. Thought I might share my experience here though, better safe than sorry. NO NCB ON CLASSIC CAR POLICIES!

 

Worth pointing out, it is probably buried in the small print somewhere.....At the age of 60 I still have no NCB to speak of despite not having had a claim for at least 25 years.   There again, I have only spent £100 pa insuring two cars for much of that time.

[Anthony]

Thought I might share my experience here though, better safe than sorry. NO NCB ON CLASSIC CAR POLICIES!

 

I've had the reverse happen this year.

 

My 205 has been insured as a classic for a few years now, and whilst I've swapped brokers in that time, has been with the same underwriter for at least the last three years.  This year it appears to have earned 1 years NCB for reasons I can't quite fathom...

[Cavcraft]

The ML has just gone through the MOT! New brake pads in the back, advisories for front pads and anti-roll bush/es. Celebrated by lobbing £20's worth of Shell's finest in the tank and give it a damned good old fashioned British hammering up the bypass. 

[loserone]

Has lockup

[Mally]

Probably just me being ignorant, but I might point out something that nearly caused me a right headache as regards car insurance recently. I had completed a full year's classic car insurance with Peter S. Taylor and let the policy expire as I was going to sell the car at the time, and did. All simple enough. I then recently took out a new policy with Flux Direct on a Jag XJS. Now when I did the quote I put down 1 year no claims on the back of having had that policy with Peter S. Taylor. Still seemed fine. Submitted the document evidence for that new policy and got queried on the NCB again. Called Peter S. Taylor and was told that classic car policies do not incur any NCB! This is not something they mentioned at the time and I cannot find mention of it in the small print, but I'm sure it will be there somewhere.

 

I got away with it by explaining exactly what happened to Flux Direct and the guy there happened to be on my side so I only got charged £20. Thought I might share my experience here though, better safe than sorry. NO NCB ON CLASSIC CAR POLICIES!

 

They read it out to me in the long waffle they give you on the phone, which you instantly forget.

[Amishtat]

Washed & polished ready for tomorrow's East Coast retro meet. Haven't been to one before as they usually seem to be on a weeknight so I'm really looking forward to it.

[mercrocker]

Has lockupIMG-20190405-WA0004.jpg

 

I love that brief spacious feeling in a newly-acquired lockup.   Doesn't seem to last, though.....