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This is one of the funniest stories I’ve seen in ages: https://news.sky.com/story/dpd-customer-service-chatbot-swears-and-calls-company-worst-delivery-service-13052037

I was reading a review of the facelift Model 3 and was intrigued to learn that Tesla has removed the steering wheel stalks, and migrated the controls previously accessed via them onto the steering wheel spokes, including the indicator switch(es). Here's a screen grab from the Owner's Manual...

Nigel Mansell is 70 today! Here's his Indycar pole lap in Detroit from 1993 complete with his own commentary:

If anyone is travelling in or through France and wants to get a tag for the peage, I have a "Refer a Friend" code for an Emovis tag that gives you a €5 discount on the sign-up fee. Ping me a PM if you want the referral link.

Interesting article: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ In the whole scheme of things, from a manufacturer point of view it's not really any different to the shenanigans car manufacturers have been guilty of for decades to manipulate official fuel economy...

This ad became the most watched in South Africa ever: And here's the story about how they achieved that: Perhaps our flat-footed "road safety" campaigners should learn from examples such as this instead of pushing their tedious "20's Plenty" campaigns and infesting the country with...

It's all clever stuff using the Mercedes me connectivity to alert your dealer automatically when your car identifies that a service is due imminently, and your dealer subsequently emailing you a notification and invitation to book a service automatically. Such a shame then, that the process...

... or in English, "It blew up!" The SpaceX Starship suffered a separation failure and blew up less than four minutes into its flight. If anyone thinks rocketry is easy and reliable, this was reality knocking on the door. More here.

The EU's digital Entry-Exit System (more here) is due to come into force in May, having previously been delayed from a planned go-live in 2022. The system is being deployed in order to eliminate the physical stamping of passports at the point of entry / exit to the Schengen zone which seems fair...

Next time you hear that "the science is settled" it'll be worthwhile to give some thought to why anyone thinks that's the case. Often, it's because a collection of the Great and the Good of science say they agree, and part of that process of agreement - in the last 60-or-so years at least - is...

This doesn't neatly fit into the UK politics thread nor the Mercedes EV sub-forum, so I'll post it here. Some may remember the furore amongst European and Asian car manufacturers when Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act back in August that enshrines tax subsidies designed to...

In the middle of our garden is a large shrub that stands about eight feet tall and around five feet across at its widest that is still in leaf. It's been home to families of blackbirds for a few years now (we named the shrub "Blackbird Central" due to its popularity :) ) and a quick look earlier...

Waited in this morning as I was expecting a RM delivery, because they'd told me to expect it by email first thing. Eventually gave up at around 1pm and went out for an hour or so, fully expecting to find a note through my letterbox telling that they tried to deliver, but I was out. What I didn't...

...it transpires that traffic growth statistics used to justify low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) were incorrect :rolleyes: "This week, a review of the Government’s Minor Road Traffic Estimates’ report, whose findings were frequently used to justify the schemes, found that the DfT had...

Unless you live in a cave, it will have been impossible to ignore the chaos at the Port of Dover and also (to a lesser extent) at the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkstone last weekend caused by bottlenecks at French Customs posts where our passports now have to be stamped before being allowed entry...

This is neat: And if you want one, they're available here: https://www.enginediy.com/collections/toyan-engine/toyan-rotary-engines?grid_list=grid-view

Used the A-Class over the weekend to visit friends in Yorkshire, a 158-mile journey each way. I'd done around 90 miles of local running around between filling the tank and setting off, and the range indicator said 280 miles when we set off from home, but I knew from experience that number would...

I saw this link on another forum, and while it's heavily oriented towards American cars, there are some fascinating devices / features listed, some of which a few of us in the UK might recognise...

Angie's R172 SLK 55 has thrown up the "Intelligent Light System Inoperative" message in the cluster a couple of times and when it does, if you push the lighting stalk away to the high beam position, the Highbeam Assist reports as inoperative too. However, the fault condition seems to clear...

Just booked both our cars in for service, warranty work and MOT's at MB Oxford, part of the Inchcape Group. It used to be that they discounted MOT's to Service Care Plan customers but only if the MOT was carried out at the same time as a service. However, as a result of many services and MOT...