motoring

Lots of cameras, not many traffic police, congestion charges, high road tax and insurance costs produce: a “motoring underclass” of two million drivers who can escape speeding fines, parking penalties and driving convictions. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2566896_1,00.html...

Motoring militia bomb parking meters A £5,000 reward has been offered to catch the mastermind behind the bombing of 200 parking meters. More than £300,000 damage has been caused to the ticket machines with vandals - thought to be disgruntled motorists - stuffing explosive devices into coin...

Owning a S500 you get pretty precious about dings, scrapes, near misses, servicing ripoffs and alloy scuffs. So, the other day I picked up a 10+ yr old VW Golf for £1000 and have been driving that back and forth through London traffic. Still have the Merc but its out when I *want* to drive or...

Profile of Mercs F600 HYGENIUS hydrogen powered car. :) http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/motoringpreviews/202178/mercedes_f600_hygenius.html

:rolleyes: Logging what you hate about the habits of other drivers is easy enough and I'm sure a psychologist would have a field day, but it occurred to me... ...not a thread about the joys of the open road, but... What behaviours/habits do you really appreciate in other drivers...

I think it's time we had a full list of all our motoring hates. I'm talking about specific pieces of bad driving that annoy people. Later we can see which ones are popular and vote for the all-time, most-hated motoring activity. My current favourite motoring grump: LAST MINUTE MORONS...

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Taken from True urban legends.............. I had a wreck a couple of weeks ago and totaled our Lincoln Town Car. I hydroplaned on Hwy 135 between Gladewater & Kilgore, Texas. I was not hurt, just emotionally rattled! I know the Lord was with me. I learned a lesson I'd like to pass on...

I can't help myself - play this and lose a day. Apologies if reposted. http://www.speedysanta.com/ (^^^ my best so far 8.877) and then when you are good http://www.speedysanta.com/firebox (^^^ my best so far 12.837)

Let's hope this never get's implemented. It would be a sad day for motoring. http://www.etsc.be/enforcement-speeding-vehicle.php http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/evsc/del17.pdf :crazy: :eek: :( :mad:

Just got an email from Top Gear that the results have been released. http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/survey_2004/01/ Lexus came out top overall. Mercedes came 29th out of 34 which is pretty pathetic!

Came across this potentially handy web site www.in-a-case.com sells "Gucci" emergency kits wich some may consider as a present for their MB Steve PS I'm not connected to it in any way, I going on a motoring holiday next week and have been trawling for useful goodies :rock:

On TopGear last night they announced the Top Gear Motoring Survey 2003 is now available on line. They are looking for owners of cars registered between 1999 (V-reg) and 2002 (51-reg) to tell them what they think of their cars and the dealers. online survey