Chris Skelton

The Alarm system uses power. I used to just 'Key-lock' mine. (Ser 4)

Using Silicon polish seems to shed dirt easier, I found. Silver doesn't 'show dirt' much!

Sorry! ...thinking of Panamerican Highway! Porsche 4 door thing! Man said he still loved his old Jensen Interceptor! (I doubt he'd swap nowadays though? Heavy clunky.....thirsty)

Was looking inside a Panamerica yesterday! Very slick, but so enclosed, somehow, inside. After my history of Citroen DSs and CXs, then LS400s, I like a bit of glass below shoulder level ! Modern cars are so tank like.

Stupidly, the Law says that cars in UK don't HAVE to show mph. But....... cars imported MUST be converted to mph! So, if your MOT man 'didn't notice' the kph, then the car would still be fine!

....by which time the t-Shirt will have become Vintage? (-:

"I never stayed overheated driving around southern europe in the summer until I had a car with leather seats. Cloth is the solution! " I use those bamboo bobble things you see taxi drivers using. Though I used to use Moroccan carpet/camel bags. (And a goat bell under the bonnet which bemused my mechanic friends - it's a beast of burden !) Those old enough will recall that Japanese cars always had Velour seats for this reason (?). It's only that the USA think leather is 'the thing' for luxury cars. Must be the trace memory of their ancestors who shot nearly ALL the buffalo on the plains-from 60 million estimated buffalo to about 1000 in 30 years. Eat them? No, just shot them, (For 'sport' or just ...because they weren't white? (-: ) ground up the bones for fertiliser!

It's the stupid programme producers. If you watched that BBC spoof, you can understand. They think you have to have a 'face' 'fronting' it. At least it wasn't that idiot 'How clean is your house' person.....though then they could clean a car, I suppose. (Remember the bit on TG when they analysed the 'dust' in a car.......mucus, nail clippings.... I can't stand it when newsreader duos read alternate lines of a story! Just imagine if a couple you knew told you a story that way......

Name might change but.....? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-LEXUS-LS400-MARK-IV-LPG-CONVERTED-TOYOTA-CELSIOR-IMPORT-/301668259637?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

4 ball joints then? Someone will know a cost.

900,000+ miles? Who'd care? In fact, Guiness Book of Records......

Hah! You should see our Micra! Previously owned by 89 yr old, whose spatial awareness was skewed! Dents everywhere-not helped by us having to replace rear hatch (with different colour) when car rolled quickly backwards into a van! BUT......when we got it, had only 18K miles on, and.....it was FREE! Now on 44K miles 7 years later with only one brake cylinder replacement needed in that time!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301649600361?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Pics look nice (of course) A snip if it's not the "famous man" in the midlands? The lack of service details a worry?

Well any other car it would be a rusty exhaust replacement, which I'm sure would be + £400?

No 10? Citroen DS 1955! Variable height, constant height despite weight of passengers..... And I think the steering collapsed. Certainly the engine would go UNDER the car in head-on crash... AND; have a puncture, can still drive and steer!

This is why Citroen used Stainless steel....on DSs in 1960s! Progress? Not really!

Ah, memories! Went to Bristol + west Car show in 80s, in my 1955 Citroen Traction Avant 'Commerciale'. Was waved into the exhibitors' Car Park on arrival!

Mine had a triple-horn! But 'strictly correct' fitter disconnected the tune bit, so it just made a single noise (THAT'S illegal" he huffed!)

Should have mounted it on the bonnet, maybe?

It's been 3+1/2 years since I sold my Ser 4. Have spent countless hours looking at cars, wondering what to get else. STILL car-less! There's nothing to match it (that doesn't cost lots!) The only left-field alternative -for me - is to go back to old Citroens! Not anything LIKE the luxury, power or reliability....just style?

Didn't the gearbox go from 5 speed to 6 speed circa 2003?

Aren't later ones better anyway? Different gearbox, etc.

I just watched an old Dutch car programme comparing the Citroen CX with an Audi/Fiat and Merc. They actually TESTED the cars in those days. Lots of tests, acceleration, braking, braking in half-wet/half-dry/shalom/headroom in rear........ But it isn't 'entertainment', I guess? Leave poor old Jodie alone. Some idiots in production will have laid out the premise of the programme (a bit like W1A?) including the 'hilarious?' concept of being in a 'secret lair' etc, plus having to read out the 'banter' from an autocue! She IS a car fan after all and can drive. But agree re Butler-Henderson, but has she retired to be a mum, etc, now?

Agree with Pete. It's a Dylan overload switch.

No. LKJ Setright (Latin scholar as well as bon viveur and Car writer) said that, as it wasn't Latin, the plural was definitely LEXUSES. But a 'Luxury...' is a good idea as a conglomerate!