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Like mentioned before: EV cars for those having house with solar cells on top of it. Everybody else without own charging place, which is most people. Other means of transportation.

And sorry. What has that to do with fuel panic? Here price for Shell 98 V-Power is now 1.7€. When we came here it was more or less half of that.

It may be smart to be able to charge without cables. But it is extraordinarily stupid. Somewhere between 45 and 55 % of the power is lost so you are paying for more electricity than you use.

I believe several accident happened in the past because of faulty brakes and some of these may have been caused by not qualified repair personnel.

Unfortunately too many think they have common sense.

I once saw a qualified (3 phase AC installer) electrician touching the wires with fingers to see if they were live or ground. Qualified as he had the education and thus permission to install power cables in homes. Not everybody have coarse enough skin to do such. I do not recommend trying that. Fixing small things on a hybrid is more or less same as on most cars, but do not come near the hybrid electric system, unless you know what you do.

Chrome wheels were 70's - No? Cadillac etc. Big and imposing. The wheels looks a bit tiny in the arches. Maybe with more rubber around it would look OK. But yes: it is a shiny car.

When more and more countries are legalizing grass we may run low on beef. What shall the cows eat?

Different bulbs in left and right? Wrong internal resistance in the new LED?

Arabic numerals: I know you are soon getting back to the ancient pound, pint, etc. if your government allow, but just see what the Europeans are starting (actually started in it 1999 but things go slow here too). You may be pleased that English is going to be the starting point: The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

A surplus lawnmower going to someone needing one is always a good deal.

All these are mixtures between track cars and street legal cars. None of them qualify as track cars. Few (none) of them will be comfortable as daily drivers. A compromise is a compromise no matter how fun it can be to drive these cars. Best compromise is very old:

That is the way it works. Try to go near the car without the key and it will not do it. Car detect the key. Not you.

With steadily increasing fuel prices on all kind of fuel, car driving will again be limited to the wealthy part of us. Just like it was when cars were the new thing. A friend of mine who has a plug-in hybrid tell me that if he had not had solar cells on top of his house he would not be driving cheaper than when he had gasoline fuelled cars. The solar cells are to be renewed in a couple of years as they are not yielding as much as they did when new. Good for shoemakers, that will soon have to repair the means to our cheapest way to get from one place to another. 😇

Run Flat are excellent for driving around in war-zones and in extremely bad unpaved roads. With Continental (not Run Flat) I did about 50K kilometres in Africa (MB350S) and never had a flat; mostly on unpaved roads with rocks etc. Not the most quiet tyre, but there it did not matter.

That way they would not be able to sell the 32A cable as extra.

Nice car. Wheels look like wheels I had on a couple of MB long time ago. Are they Lexus wheels?

When you get it fixed, keep AC on. Do not turn off. In summer it helps keep temperature OK. In winter it helps keep car interior dry.

Have had several cars from new. Have never had a car waxed.

I have had 2 punctures with rented car, a nail in 2 of the tyres. 1 spare would have helped very little, but there was a sealant. It fixed the problem so I could get to the rental company and get another car. Renting company say they have never had to come for a car with a puncture as the sealant has made all their cars come to them without problem. Europcar are renting a lot of cars and when saying so it could mean that sealant will fix close to all "normal" punctures.

As long as AC is functioning there is no need to do anything about it. It usually start cooling less when it needs to be serviced.

Would you not be if you were sitting on top of such a gigantic battery? Better the flames are out of the bus than inside it. Gasoline has been in cars for many years. EV are relatively new. Just wait a few years when the cars get older.

So, you think that noise is a premium virtue John (just like I do). Then the CC are perfect for all-season tyres. Here we just have no need for a compromise between summer and winter tyres, but the best for summer is all we need and summer tyres can be bought with much less noise than all-season tyres. And changing wheels for driving in winter is little work if that get you better tyres for whichever season you are in. Michelin Primacy 4 91 W XL with 68db is better than the CC with 69db and we stay in the much beloved Michelin brand. In Yokohama there are Advan dB V552 91 W XL RPB and Advan Fleva V791 91W XL RPB with only 67db and Yokohama is on some Lexus from factory so must be a reasonably good brand too. Then there is a Debica Presto UHP 91Y XL and also Sava Intensa UHP 91Y XL with both 66db, both brands are unknown to me but the Debica is as expensive as Michelin tyres for whatever reason. Remember 3db less mean half the noise, not 10 or 25% less. Meaning you do not need to have the audio loud to hear whatever is in the great audio system in our Lexus. Or have a conversation with your passengers without needing to talk loudly. All mentioned here have C as rolling (fuel economy) and A as handling in rain. I see no reason to not have the best rating for handling in rain; rolling resistance is C in all tyres I have found.

As most of us need new tyres now and then (except for those changing cars before the tyres are worn out) I have also been searching the internet for all I can find out and it seems that the CC from Michelin are the best all-season tyres with a C for fuel economy (never found one with A rating) and A for handling in wet and a not bad at all 69db result for noise. Have found one with a B rating for fuel, but it also had a B for wet handling. Being able to drive in wet is not something to accept any better rating than A. If noise is something that come in first place, I have found no better tyres than the Michelin CC for all-season tyres. I am lucky enough to live where all-season tyres (which are a compromise between summer- and winter-tyres) are not needed. Summer tyres are often found with 68 and 67 and a few also with 66db in noise level. The ones I have found with 66 are having poorer fuel economy and wet handling so I searched for the best with 67db. 3db more is doubling of noise so 1 or 2db are making a significant difference and it does not matter if the car is well sound proofed like many Lexus (and other luxury car brands) are. Double noise is double noise and 2db less than the CC from Michelin is an improvement that mean al lot while listening to music and especially on longer tours. We still have enough thread to drive a while but when we need to get new tyres, I will do my best to find tyres with as low noise as possible. Love to listen to music without playing too loud. Music in Lexus cars – just great. Comfort is another thing that have different value for many of us but a big part of comfort for me is noise level. Softer tyres (like the Michelin) are also influencing the comfort level, but the cars from Lexus most have a rather well set-up suspension and I believe that a car maker know a lot about which tyres are best for the cars they make so when they have Yokohama on many from factory, I will try summer tyres with 67db or hopefully lower – A in rain handling and unfortunately only C (like most other tyres) in fuel economy from that brand. I do not believe that Lexus are being paid to put such tyres on many of their cars. While still living in the cold north, we had summer tyres on our cars 8 – 9 months and winter tyres rest of the year when needed. Premium tyres are not cheap, but as mentioned by other people in this forum they are the contact to the road so Bridgestone, Continental, Michelin, Pirelli and Yokohama are limiting the choice we have for new tyres to our premium cars. Probably some other brands have come up since I was working with cars. Bridgestone, Dunlop and GoodYear were also accepted as premium earlier, but where we live these brands are not sold many places for unknown (to me) reasons. Getting confused? I am! Search the net and get more confused.

Had a Scott once. Before we had the year starting with a 2 it was one of the really good ones. So quiet that I could hear the bird singing when driving 😇