Recent content by FamousPheasant

Managed to take nearly 4 hours out this morning driving round Aberdeenshire's finest roads. Beautifully quiet for the most part and even better weather. One of the few sportcars I did see was a fellow GR86 (magnetite grey) on the B9008 just outside Tomintoul. Thanks for the wave!

Seen this car a couple of times from the train just next to Arbroath train station. Finally remembered to get a snap this time. Excellent parking spot. Anyone here?

Gave my car a long overdue spring clean this afternoon. First decent day in ages.

It certainly doesn't look any better in the flesh. It's the second one I've seen in real life, and they both have that accent strip in a different colour. The light up nostrils remind me of an angry pig. It made the 2 series behind it, look positively pleasent. The simple elegance ( in very...

Had to drop my other car in for a recall today, with my wife following in the GR. I only see one " Ultimate Driving Machine" in this line up. Then I went inside. We think we've been missold on the alarm and supposed exclusivity with the GR86. Imagine spending 145k on this thinking you are...

I broke the 1000 mile threshold about 6 weeks ago and can feel the car slowly opening up. It still proving to be a semi practical family car when required. Managed to fit this lot in and, as you can tell by their expressions, they enjoyed it. A shining light in a sea of dreariness. I feel...

I'm going to go against the grain here but I can't help thinking that it's up to Toyota to do what they want with the excess stock. If they have to discount to sell them that's their perogative. I paid a price for a car, I was happy with at the time and was under no illusion that it would...

Made a friend in the multistorey today.

Not my discipline but I can't see why it wouldn't fit with both wheels off. The tightest bit was the opening and getting the seat and bottom crank though the boot opening. My bike fitted pretty comfortably and I could have made more space by moving the passenger seat forward. A seasucker on the...

One of the many reasons I bought a GR86 - managed to fit my 56cm road bike in the boot no problem. Only had to remove the front wheel and lower the seat post... Which subsequently resulted in a sheared seat post clamp bolt on re-torquing! Thankfully, after some frantic calls, the good people...

Nope, not a personal plate. Because the cars are registered by Toyota online, rather than the local dealer, you don't get local plates on the cars. Seems a fair proportion of the second batch start with a W. I think WV is Bristol. Edit - beaten to it.

Another 60 miles today running errands. Started the day with one very happy toddler being dropped off at nursery - she loves dad's "red car". Then 240kg of play sand in the boot for a sandpit for my son's first birthday this weekend. Could have easily taken twice as much, although the...

The clear and obvious answer is to change football team. For the GR86 it's worth it.

Haha, I completely forgot about this reference! I may start stroking the inner thigh of 5k rpm in a few hundred miles as the anticipation builds.

Went sunset chasing this evening. 250 miles in the first week and I'm sticking to the 4K rpm running in procedure so far - a true test in self control. I can only liken it to dating a gorgeous women, you know it's going to be great, you are all giddy with excitement, but she needs a few more...