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There is a world of difference between being indifferent to a de-personalised "phantom" that exists as no more than a disembodied loud exhaust note and actually wishing specific harm on someone. When I hear a loud exhaust - car or bike - it does annoy me to the point where I am ambivalent to...

I think my meaning was fairly unequivocal? Of course I have spent years hoping that the riders in question would develop a social conscience and think "actually this loud exhaust may be giving me a little thrill bit it is perhaps just a teensy bit selfish of me to ruin the peace and quiet of...

No offence, but there is no logic in this statement at all; it's just a one liner that bikers trot out to justify their self-indulgent choice of exhaust. Here's why: The only time an exhaust sounds really loud is on full throttle / high revs. Whereas the only time your life is in danger on a...

Don't you rather just think that Bernie sits in a room looking out over a large private deer park (or something else equally detached from most people's version of reality) and says to his assistant: "Let Ferrari do well this year but keep the thumbscrews on McLaren for a while longer". I...

A rather fanciful extrapolation, I think. For me, the reason I spend so much time discussing a programme I really don't like that much is that, unlike many rubbish TV programmes, which are - well - just rubbish, underneath the banality and immaturity that are the trademarks of Top Gear, there...

The failure here seems to be not with the operational procedures on-board or with regard to airplane control, but with the vetting process that the Co-Pilot went through. We will have to wait to see if it was depression, mental illness or some other mechanism that triggered these actions, but...

Perhaps VBH will get the post (no pun intended). That would be brilliant.

Agreed - the silence from Clarkson is deafening - and disappointing.

One of my main criticisms of Top gear in recent years is that watching it has very much felt a bit like being a voyeur at a boys' public school dormitory threesome. It was uncomfortable to watch them all stroking each others' egos. Not that I have any personal experience to draw upon in...

Considering that the papers regularly carry stories about how an extra key for the car is programmed by thieves simply tapping into the OBD port, I am not surprised that a seller would refuse you access to the port. I wouldn't let anyone plug anything into my car. I believe BMW owners have a...

Wasn't a Nova saloon called a Belmont?

Do you encounter the same problem with your other 688 cars as well?

The seat mechanisms are exactly as you describe. The 211 estate had a more comprehensive seat folding system (including hinged seat squabs) that resulted in a genuinely flat loading floor - unique amongst cars in this sector. The 212 just has simple folding seat backs, resulting in a far from...

Also had HK and it never missed a beat :D;)

My 10 year-old, 100K E-Class estate was fine - just needed a new pump at 5 years. And I frequently transported up to 500Kg in the rear. The luxury ride you get on air is worth it.

Given the description of the noise, I would hazard that the starter motor pinion was brushing against the starter ring but failing to engage due to a weak battery failing to provide sufficient oomph to drive the pinion down the shaft far enough.

If the key criterion is boot space then just get the E Class. I got an A6 Avant last week and I could hardly believe how small the load space was, I actually thought for a second that the dealership had ordered me an A4 when the salesman opened the rear door to show me around. The car did it's...

Since 1.3 million people have viewed Chris Harris' review of La Ferrari on You Tube, a petition might garner a few more signatures than you are expecting. As a matter of interest, I note that the issue that Chris Harris had with Ferrari is exactly the same one that Jeremy Clarkson had over...

I am confident that LJKS would have approved of much of James May's output. I think he is a very intelligent car journalist. I also happen to think that Clarkson and Hammond are capable of good car journalism; it just seems that when the three of them get together...

Yes, but if you would only take your own advice I think you would establish that the incident that is the basis of your absurd allegation is the one to which I have already alluded; specifically, that Ferrari banned Harris. In other words, you have got completely the wrong end of the stick...