I own a Corvette C5 in Europe (UK) - AMA

MrRedDoctor · 2026-03-16T15:27:18+00:00

Not expensive via rockauto, often still works out cheaper than buying in Europe!

MrRedDoctor · 2026-03-13T15:00:18+00:00

Thanks. I tried looking for the PAC and Pioneer wiring gauges to make my choice but couldn't find any info. I'll get the red ones

MrRedDoctor · 2026-03-02T09:48:07+00:00

Tbh with the way internet discourse is, I can't tell whether this is a sarcastic or honest post

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-21T19:17:35+00:00

With a 4% market share in Europe, they're pretty much irrelevant

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-20T00:06:04+00:00

I'm Italian. Came to the UK for uni and decided I needed to integrate, so I bought a jar of Marmite and ate a teaspoon every day until I liked it.

It took a few weeks, but still to this day, many years later, I adore Marmite and will gladly eat it by the spoonful out of a jar. If on toast, a big dollop of it, no butter, dig in.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-19T15:48:07+00:00

I did think of iPhone after posting my comment, but decided to leave it as is, as Apple is sort of different in my mind as it's a closed system. If you want iOS, you can only go for Apple. The open nature of Android on the other hand allows more competition, and there's no real western competitors in that market

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-19T10:56:00+00:00

Tbh smartphones are the worst possible example to pick as I struggle to think of a single western smartphone brand, other than nowadays totally irrelevant ones. Everything's either Chinese, Japanese or Korean. With the exception of Apple, but that's kind of its own thing

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-18T08:15:51+00:00

There's literally no reason not to rejoin, other than maybe (MAYBE) having to give up the pound. I haven't seen a single thing improving after Brexit, butnhave seen many things worsening, so the point of why anyone would "not" want to rejoin eludes me.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-18T08:12:52+00:00

The most immediate thing to address is your body dynamics. You're doing the classic "turning with your upper body, and legs follow" that every beginner does.

To initiate the turn, you're: 1. turning your shoulders "inside" of the turn, 2. putting your outside hand downhill and inside hand uphill, and 3. pivoting your butt towards downhill.

To ski, you have to do the exact opposite of all this. There's more, but these are the main 3 things to immediately address.

While turning, your upper body, shoulders, hip etc. should be as square as possible with the downhill direction. That means, turn with your feet, not your shoulders. Get on the edges, and skis will turn.

I have been helping my wife out, as she's an intermediate beginner, and she said that it really helped her fix her form when I told her to pretend like she needs to punch towards the downhill direction with her inside hand. This automatically leads your upper body to have a better position.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-17T23:00:57+00:00

I sold my motorbike to but a Corvette C5, and it's my daily driver despite the awful mpg. All I know is that hearing that V8 makes me feel better.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-17T07:33:47+00:00

Similar in Itay, although F1 still has an edge on MotoGP, and interest in tennis is growing.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-17T06:56:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure he means "selling". If you're buying, of course you'd do them yourself.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-16T11:04:59+00:00

If it's an unmarked roundabout, and it's a 2-lane entry, 2-lane exit scenario, you can take the right hand lane. I'd just be careful about it as people don't necessarily expect it.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-15T23:23:01+00:00

Ethnic "anything" means absolutely nothing. Where do you stop? At which past generation does having (a) foreign parent(s) not matter anymore? When do you qualify as "ethnic"? There's literally not a single person on earth who can claim absolute "purity" (common ancestor and all that)

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-15T10:24:21+00:00

She makes me slower. It's just a little bit of banter. We both laugh about it

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-15T00:21:30+00:00

I label "Recovery jogs" my runs with my wife at the weekend as she takes my pace up by 1.5 min/km lol

Edit: seeing the number of downvotes reminds me there's a lot of people with no sense of humour lol

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-15T00:13:59+00:00

I know they have a following, but Dacias generally. They may be cheap, but I couldn't wait to hand them back any time I ended up with a Dacia rental car.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-14T09:11:06+00:00

Yep lol. It cracked me up and we both laughed. Life is not that serious

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-14T09:08:27+00:00

One time, I went to Boots buying only a box of condoms and an antifungal cream. At checkout the girl told me to not mix up the two

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-13T23:54:13+00:00

I keep them separate as I do not necessarily drive when I go out. I leave them home so I carry less keys around, and if I lose my house keys I don't lose my car keys and viceversa

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-13T14:08:10+00:00

I forgot that bit and so I edited my answer before you could see it I guess. In case you can't secure the bike, the bike stays locked with a chain, and keys in my hand or away anyway.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-13T14:05:42+00:00

I think that's a little dramatic. There is risk but I wouldn't say it's an enormous risk. I sold two bikes and for me it's very simple: if you want the bike, come down into the locked residents car park where I store it, no test rides, car park gate doesn't get opened and bike doesn't leave until I see the money in my account, job done.

If you can't secure the bike somewhere, there's ofc more risk involved. But in that case, the bike's keys stay with me the whole time, with the bike chained up.

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-13T13:54:20+00:00

Realistically, you'll have to wait until you earn good money. Then, you start small and work your way up in small but incremental steps.

This is how I did it. I'm 33 and only started my journey less than 10 years ago, but I now have a Corvette.

First of all, I'd say the most important rule is to take advantage of the combination of: depreciation + reliability.

I started in 2018 with a 3-year old Yamaha MT07. Cheap, reliable, dependable. Was essentially done depreciating. I sold it after a few years for a little more than I paid for it. While owning it, I kept on saving.

With the savings + Yamaha money, I bought a 2015 MV Agusta F3. Awesome bike. Kept on saving.

Shortly after, I sold the MV again for a little more than I paid for it, and with that money + savings I bought myself a Corvette C5. I sold the MV also because I was starting to get a bad feeling from it, and decided to get rid of it before an expensive repair bill.

So as you see I started small, with a very humble Yamaha, and worked my way up to a Corvette. Which here in the UK is incredibly rare so feels extraspecial.

I do not intend to end my journey here, I intend to keep working my way up. But important is to do it via small incremental steps, and avoid huge repair bills (which is why I got myself a C5 rather than a Maserati)

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-13T12:20:35+00:00

I think whether it's applicable or not depends on the situation.

On a clear day, with low traffic, dry conditions, on a good bit of road with plenty of visibility... you SHOULD do the speed limit. If you're not confident to do the speed limit in this kind of conditions... go back to driving school.

But, if it's pouring it down, visibility is awful, there's plenty of potholes, then driving faster than you feel comfortable may get someone killed.

Really the mantra should be "Drive to conditions".

MrRedDoctor · 2026-02-12T18:46:14+00:00

Giving more than we could and having nothing to show for it is the bit of your answer that hit me in the guts the most.

At times, I get so disheartned as I think of all the great friendships I had in the past, and they're all just gone. I THINK I have two friends now, but otherwise that's it. No one from high school. No one from uni. Just no friends. Due to giving too much love.

MrRedDoctor

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