The Harry's Garage Thread

The Government should just hire Harry as their motoring and common sense advisor. It's hard to remember anything that talked so much sense v the nonsense you see in the press. In fact fake news in newspapers, online, in Social Media and on the TV should be punishable with something seriously unpleasant - cleaning out the sewers or something similar would do.

I like the idea that we all stick solar panels on our roof so we can charge our cars up at night. Something about that doesn’t add up.

This is a really good interview and seems we might be a little more organised then I give those in power credit for when it comes to the electric revolution.



The problem I find when we talk about electric is that everythings based on an ideal that we all have a car parking space at our homes, office, gym etc when the government policy has been to restrict these spaces to encourage public transport.

Lets be honest, in 20 years time I can see mass car ownership being a thing of the past.

Road pricing will be part of it but I've heard smart meters will help to apply tax.

All new cars from next year are going to be "tracked" for their speed and all new cars from 2015 I think have a sim card sending back information to the manufacturer.
All the authorities need do is plug into that information and send you a monthly bill for the miles travelled and a few extra £'s for any minor speeding breaches!

And a very large number of people will object to being tracked everywhere they go. The Police on the other hand will love it.

Just remind them that their smartphone is already tracking them and has been for years!

Base 992 Carrera featured - very positive review except for the polite, but insistent kicking in relation to road noise.

I’d be very happy with a 991, but prefer the 992, as its that bit more modern inside and out.  

It's irritated me for a while that Porsche's DRLs are 4 points of light in a square pattern but the headlights are round.

I went off them a bit having seen this video. I think it'd look better with a bit more bodywork after the rear wheels. The interior doesn't look that nice a place to be, either. Technology can be done with discretion but that application just looks (and sounds) stressful. I thought it was going to be the daily Ferrari that gets on with the job and no fuss unless you want it. It isn't that.

I can't believe (well ok, I can) that Ferrari charge over £2k for adaptive cruise when Hyundai included it for free on my car. Cant help wondering if the Koreans are missing a trick there. Most mainstream manufacturers only charge about £600 for metallic paint too. If only they knew you could actually charge 7 grand for it. And where do we start with the carbon bits? Although it is a well known fact that many buyers actually want to have to pay such a hefty mark up for these options and Ferrari are not exactly the only one's who exploit the willingness of the mega-rich to part with significant sums of cash.

Overall I really want to like the Roma but it's quite clear that it has too much power to use safely on a daily basis. Maybe on a dry summers day it would work well, but watching the video you couldn't help noticing that there were several occasions when a less experienced driver would have wrapped it round a tree. I know it was a cold, wet, wintery day but if it's supposed to be a GT that shouldnt be a problem.

Pretty much any RWD car with 300 horsepower or more will be a handful on summer tyres on those kinds of roads in those kinds of temperatures.  My two certainly are, as were there immediate predecessors.  

I had a client who bought a used one and within a couple of weeks he had taken it back and changed it for the 4WD one and a good bit more wedge. He test drove it on a nice warm day and thought it was fine but it then turned a bit wet and he got so nervous after a few biggish moments that he just couldn't live with it. I think his wife had something to do with it after he overcooked it on a roundabout but it did give him a big fright.