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Post by Big Blue on Feb 5, 2019 10:30:58 GMT
Java Green M3s are the best ones.
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Post by johnc on Feb 5, 2019 11:23:06 GMT
I saw that very car on Friday when I was having a look around. You certainly wouldn't miss it.
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Post by Tim on Feb 5, 2019 14:02:40 GMT
Do HF have an M5 in stock?
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Post by Tim on Feb 22, 2019 16:41:20 GMT
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 17, 2019 16:26:24 GMT
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Post by johnc on Jun 17, 2019 16:55:57 GMT
I think that must have taken quite a deliberate effort to choose that interior and pick those options. |
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Post by Andy C on Dec 18, 2019 22:58:18 GMT
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 19, 2019 13:03:47 GMT
Must have gold plated fittings, or something?
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Post by ChrisM on Dec 19, 2019 13:20:12 GMT
It's the electric vehicle choice that significantly bumps up the price. A top-spec petrol auto is still over £25k, mind you.......
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 17:27:13 GMT
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 24, 2020 10:10:53 GMT
Not sure I agree it's a terrible idea. I very much like the idea of EV classics.
I'd be all over the idea of a Tesla-powered E31 8-series.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 10:14:01 GMT
IMHO, the size of the vehicle compromises the conversion, range is very low so you would have to live very close to ideal roads given that this will be a fun car rather than a tourer/sports car in their classic terminology.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 24, 2020 12:17:09 GMT
Teslas are not small cars.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 12:30:38 GMT
The 912 though, is a small car.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 24, 2020 12:52:34 GMT
Goblin Works Garage were converting a FIAT 500 (original) to EV the other day. It looked pretty good by the end but they charged their client £44k.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 24, 2020 12:55:03 GMT
Insane.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 15:25:36 GMT
Received an email about the new Motorola Razr phone and it's currently exclusive to EE. If you want an unlimited data plan it costs £114 a month and that still comes with an upfront payment!
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 30, 2020 15:14:36 GMT
Ridiculous pricing but I like the idea of it a lot. I always liked flip-phones for their small size in your pocket and had various Motorola ones back in the day starting with the original StarTac when I was a student and then had various of their models through to one of the original V3 RAZRs.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 8:27:30 GMT
I had a RAZR V3 too, loved it. And a Rover 100.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 14:59:13 GMT
The new one has a retro mode. Look it up.
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 4, 2020 17:34:23 GMT
My 1999 Jaguar Sovereign came with its own StarTac, which plugged into a docking station under the centre armrest. I thought it was the dog's nuts at the time.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 5, 2020 15:58:18 GMT
Received an email about the new Motorola Razr phone and it's currently exclusive to EE. If you want an unlimited data plan it costs £114 a month and that still comes with an upfront payment! It doesn't get great reviews. Middle of the range processing power and the folding mechanism feels quite flimsy. One for the rich early adopters who can spunk their cash on it and do all the Beta testing for Motorola. |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 5, 2020 18:43:54 GMT
My 1999 Jaguar Sovereign came with its own StarTac, which plugged into a docking station under the centre armrest. I thought it was the dog's nuts at the time. I had a Motorola hands-free kit for my StarTac in my 1991 Golf. Very period, complete with yuppie-tastic phone aerial. It even had voice-activation that you triggered by saying Motorola. It wasn't perfect - every now again when I was driving, someone would say something in the car or on the radio that the system interpreted as "Motorola" and this disembodied digital voice from somewhere behind the dashboard would suddenly loudly and sepulchrally intone "SAY A NAME" like some sort of road-going ouija board...which startled more than one passenger! |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 6, 2020 10:40:43 GMT
My 1999 Jaguar Sovereign came with its own StarTac, which plugged into a docking station under the centre armrest. I thought it was the dog's nuts at the time. I had a Motorola hands-free kit for my StarTac in my 1991 Golf. Very period, complete with yuppie-tastic phone aerial. It even had voice-activation that you triggered by saying Motorola. It wasn't perfect - every now again when I was driving, someone would say something in the car or on the radio that the system interpreted as "Motorola" and this disembodied digital voice from somewhere behind the dashboard would suddenly loudly and sepulchrally intone "SAY A NAME" like some sort of road-going ouija board...which startled more than one passenger! Not too different to an Apple watch or Alexa then. I remember, every time I got a new company car, having to arrange for some man in a van to come and fit the mobile phone. rear window aerial, coax fed from back to front, phone cradle carefully drilled and fitted to gear lever housing, microphone fitted above driver's seat and wire fed around under windscreen trim and all the wiring into the battery and behindthe dash. Used to take most of a morning. |
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Post by Martin on Feb 6, 2020 10:50:25 GMT
I had a Motorola hands-free kit for my StarTac in my 1991 Golf. Very period, complete with yuppie-tastic phone aerial. It even had voice-activation that you triggered by saying Motorola. It wasn't perfect - every now again when I was driving, someone would say something in the car or on the radio that the system interpreted as "Motorola" and this disembodied digital voice from somewhere behind the dashboard would suddenly loudly and sepulchrally intone "SAY A NAME" like some sort of road-going ouija board...which startled more than one passenger! Not too different to an Apple watch or Alexa then. I remember, every time I got a new company car, having to arrange for some man in a van to come and fit the mobile phone. rear window aerial, coax fed from back to front, phone cradle carefully drilled and fitted to gear lever housing, microphone fitted above driver's seat and wire fed around under windscreen trim and all the wiring into the battery and behindthe dash. Used to take most of a morning. That takes me back! |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 6, 2020 13:48:09 GMT
I had a Motorola hands-free kit for my StarTac in my 1991 Golf. Very period, complete with yuppie-tastic phone aerial. It even had voice-activation that you triggered by saying Motorola. It wasn't perfect - every now again when I was driving, someone would say something in the car or on the radio that the system interpreted as "Motorola" and this disembodied digital voice from somewhere behind the dashboard would suddenly loudly and sepulchrally intone "SAY A NAME" like some sort of road-going ouija board...which startled more than one passenger! Not too different to an Apple watch or Alexa then. Ha! That does remind me of the time sitting in a meeting at work when someone raised a question on a point of US law. The American colleague who was attending replied that he'd have to think about it because it was a difficult issue. Upon which his Apple watch suddenly piped up unprompted to say something like "Yes, that's what I thought", causing a great deal of surprise immediately followed by guffaws of laughter. |
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Post by johnc on Feb 6, 2020 14:00:37 GMT
Not too different to an Apple watch or Alexa then. I remember, every time I got a new company car, having to arrange for some man in a van to come and fit the mobile phone. rear window aerial, coax fed from back to front, phone cradle carefully drilled and fitted to gear lever housing, microphone fitted above driver's seat and wire fed around under windscreen trim and all the wiring into the battery and behindthe dash. Used to take most of a morning. I had a client who retired in his early 50's due to all the money he made from travelling around the country fitting phones in company cars. If you were quick and had a good memory for the shortcuts on certain makes and models, the hourly rates were quite eyewatering at the time. |
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Post by PG on Feb 6, 2020 20:18:15 GMT
Not too different to an Apple watch or Alexa then. I remember, every time I got a new company car, having to arrange for some man in a van to come and fit the mobile phone. rear window aerial, coax fed from back to front, phone cradle carefully drilled and fitted to gear lever housing, microphone fitted above driver's seat and wire fed around under windscreen trim and all the wiring into the battery and behindthe dash. Used to take most of a morning. That takes me back! Indeed, way back. As part of my job as Financial Controller of a computer company between 1998 and 1991, I ran their car fleet. At its peak we had about 75 vehicles, nearly all with mobile telephones. I used to get some great meals out from the suppliers of the phones and the fitting guys who must have made a fortune from us. I was recently divorced and I remember going on a date with a quite attractive lady who was I discovered was a mobile telephone saleswoman. She spent the whole evening trying to persuade me to buy phones from her. She never offered me a shag though. She clearly didn't want the business that badly...... |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 20, 2020 13:57:33 GMT
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Post by johnc on Feb 20, 2020 14:05:44 GMT
I think the photographer should be shot - the colours are not well captured (I don't think they would look quite as bad as they appear) - however whoever chose that combination was lacking any taste. |
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