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https://www.carid.com/2007-ford-edge-bike-racks/thule-gateway-trunk-mount-bike-rack-2438786869.html https://www.saris.com/product/bones3 light from car can be seen through wheels on most bikes, so maybe not a problem. I never had problems and have passed police cars with bikes on the car. If bikes had been on top of car they should be taken off before going into garage. Not fun when raining.

Vacuum-cleaner. Leather wipes bought in Lidl. Yes, I know the leather is not leather, but sure is nice to sit on and better ventilated than the real leather seats in previous cars.

Surely, he means dancing.

Welcome Jeff and great to hear you like your car. We find the one we have excellent too. Please forgive the old guys for picking at each other. Such happens now and then.

Do not know of other models but we pay no tax. Maybe they forgot. Maybe that is how it is.

I tried to use the USB twice. Tried to update software downloaded for navigation from Lexus internet. Did not function. What can the USB be used to except charging phones etc? That they are no good to anyway, far too little power in the USB.

Welcome. Beautiful car. Now you need some summer. White is one of the easier to keep of the beautiful colours.

42% is just a number and most of these are not able to pay much anyway. 2 - 5% are other numbers and maybe those 5% are the real burden. They have big companies, make enormous amount of profit and pay no tax because of unfair rules accepted by us.

In the Honda Accord Coupé we had real leather, that should be taken care of like real leather. The CT has plastic leather, but rather well made and ventilated so not really bad.

We have lost. We are the losers. If we take a walk, they'll tax our feet. Wise words from Beatles. More or less.

6 to 6.5 L / 100km is what our CT is using on most short tours (very short tours) and that is where temperature so far while we have been living here (since 2005) has not come below 15 C in the coldest of months at night. Car is parked in garage 2 storeys down so need engine power to get up. So far no problems with battery or anything else. Filling the car and driving careful (slow) 80 km tour will show 5 L / 100km. Lexus here tell us that is normal.

Thule is good quality. Only problem with mounting a bike on the roof is that you have to take it off to get into garage; usually that is OK, but if raining not so much. I prefer the bike hanging on the rear of the car. Thule has something like the Saris Bones https://www.carid.com/2007-ford-edge-bike-racks/thule-gateway-trunk-mount-bike-rack-2438786869.html

As doors have been the same on all CT models for quite a long time, and not previously mentioned here on the forum, it must be down to manufacturing problem.

I believe it is because we get older that we remember things we learned and when we were young maybe did not really care enough about the wise words we heard. Sorry to admit that I know I did not always appreciate the well-meant advices I was given.

Grow a beard. It gets soft when long.

Antenna?

Have something like that. Gave up and let a pro company clean just the inside of wind-shield, was told to go for a walk and come back in half an hour (may not want me to see what they did). 10€. Clear like new. Will probably last another half year before it needs to be done again.

Monthly now like yearly 2 years ago. No, just said that story of Incas is told by those that destroyed them.

Retired. Great climate. Living here is cheaper than many other places. Hope price of electricity go down again. You did not see what I said about Incas?

Do not know. Never was in school here.

Well done Linas. Of course that is not what UK schools teach their pupils. Not that other nations have not done bad things, but the British have great ability to totally ignore that they have ever done anything that was not good for the world.

And if the mafia benefited so what? Is that what you think? The great British Empire was a joke and it always will be remembered as something not praiseworthy. Steal from the poor less equipped is something to be proud of?

The losers have few to tell their case. The winners take it all including the possibility to tell the history. Incas lost and their story is told by the winners.

History is told by the winner. Why do you think the crown is so rich? Did they dig things out of the ground or just steal them? Who will win next?

I am both. When I retired, I became a dedicated bicyclist! Let my wife do the driving of the car. 10K km a year more or less. Then got skin cancer and after I had 3rd lump removed, I stopped cycling in daylight so bike is not getting many km use now. Biking made me stronger than when I was 30, slimmer and hard as a rock, removed the need for using pills for too much cholesterol and high blood pressure, coming from too many hours sitting in an office. Took a lot of my time, about 5 – 8 hours 4 or 5 times a week, almost like working. With a friend who happened to be retired pro cyclist. No mountain was too high on the island or impossible to get to the top of. On-road off-road all the same. Heavy downhill bike. Always was careful when on-paved-road, as not all car drivers are skilled driving in mountains. Motor-cyclists are much more skilled turning on narrow high roads, if not they would not last long. I have been driving rally long time ago when Delta-EVO was a new car. Not really dangerous as roads were cleared for us. Do not remember anybody talking about pollution then. Surely not against any of the 2 ways to get to one point from another. Drive a lot more careful when it comes to seeing cyclists on the road than I did before I started getting into mountain biking. Think we should all be taking care of each other. And that we should try to make the world a safe place for coming generations. About the taxing: You understand more than most.