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It makes less difference to the fuel economy than taking a shit before you leave the house. Or after you’ve left the house, but before you get in the car. But doing a Ray Mears on the front lawn might upset the neighbours. If you wait until you’re in the car, the fuel economy suffers, as...

I agree. Fred has always seemed like a very helpful, friendly chap to me and his first reply was helpful. You just didn’t like what he was trying to tell you. It’s very easy to have a bad experience with a person or company and then demonise them. I’ve seen both sides of this on many occasions...

Unfortunately, driving a Bimmer means you are a massive tosser. Slapping a Toyota badge on one seems to cure this though. 🤔

Oops sorry. Couldn’t see a location and your English is very good so I presumed UK. Trackday tuition is good, but you don’t really get the opportunity to deliberately get the car out of shape. On an airfield you get plenty of room with nothing to hit too!

The whole purpose of braking hard whilst the wheels are turned in the direction of the corner is to induce understeer and scrub off lots of speed so when you get grip back the car is pointing around the corner and you don’t fly off the road. If you had the wheels straight you’ve got to stop...

@Nanth here you go, one place left, it’s yours! As others have said, you really can’t recommend this enough, the tuition is brilliant and I learned some things that I’d never even come across before (such as steering with one finger on top of the wheel and allowing the front wheels to do want...

Don’t want to start an argument here but we all received the same advice on the drive limits day and I can confirm that it works. This is a bail out option though, and won’t help you make it around the corner smoothly, it’s how to just stop the car rather than end up in the ditch. Back to the...

It ‘beat’ a Koenigsegg that wasn’t really being driven, because they were scared of damaging it. Not sure what that proves really, that some people are slower in faster cars if the car’s expensive and they can’t afford to damage it? I would say 95% of the speed a car carries, on B-roads or on...

I couldn’t even finish it. What a load of shite. Dual screening it with The Mandalorian too and that was winning, so not high praise.

I was driving the other way so didn’t even get time to flash. My first one out in the wild, and in my village! Are you local?

And the rivers. Water authorities systematically (and legally) divert sewage into rivers and watercourses when groundwater gets too high to ‘protect homes and businesses’. If customer toilets backed up you can imagine the complaints, but toxifying already fragile ecosystems, whatevs. Out of...

Driven by a very pretty blonde. My wife said “Look honey it’s your car”, followed by “Look, your dream girl!” “You’re my dream girl”, I very promptly replied.

I’d buy James-UK’s one if I was in the market for one. £35,000 is a steal with those mods and detailing work. I wonder if he’s buying a GR Yaris? 🤔

It’s been covered in quite a few earlier threads, but the test results certainly swayed me into sticking with the original paper or an oiled gauze type like K&N (although one poster noted that the oiled type can cause problems with the MAF sensor). The foam filters let loads of crap into the...

The PSS5 is the successor to the PS4S, It has a slightly confusing naming history, the Pilot Sport 5 replaced the 4, which replaced the 3 and so on, but the Pilot Sport 4S was the successor to the Pilot Super Sport, which in turn was the direct replacement for the Pilot Sport 2. The S suffix...

You can override the cruise temporarily with the accelerator, it will then return to the set speed. You can use this to drive right up the arse of the car that has made the terrible mistake of using your progress lane for an overtake, accompanied by lots of headlight flashing. I believe the...

Great video. I’ve owned both and agree with the winner. The Trophy was less than £15k new though (nobody paid list price), so was a bit of a bargain, especially as it’s still worth that now if you looked after it. But when you look at the development cost and bespoke nature of the GR Yaris, it...

Wow, 23 plate ones are going to be quite a rare sight.

I don’t think you’ll regret it. All the things that some people don’t like about the car can be easily fixed. Unless they think it’s ugly, then there’s laser eye surgery/Specsavers. My first car was a 205 1.9 GTi. The GR Yaris actually reminded me of it as it felt naughty and made me grin in a...

I dread to think how unreliable their EVs are going to be!