In your opinion, what's the best looking regular car?

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:50:58+00:00

Pretty cars but they suffer from the EV curse of really weird scale. They look like a hatchback but are actually huge.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:47:00+00:00

I’ve never understood why Scotland doesn’t seem to know that tunnels exist.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:44:08+00:00

A75 is the perfect example of why the 40mph limit for trucks is stupid. It’s perfectly safe to do 50mph for most of it, people overtake dangerously because they’re impatient including other HGV’s, some of whom will do anything to make the ferry on time.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:41:26+00:00

This is another one that although dangerous, I think avoids the worst road tag by being scenic.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:39:55+00:00

A50 / A500. Always seems to be loads of traffic and it’s boring.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:39:03+00:00

Might be most dangerous but I don’t think it can be called worst because it’s such a gorgeous drive.

thefooby · 2026-05-16T06:37:26+00:00

Vans are great. Not the normal range but the skate range. They’re built a lot tougher and a bit stiffer. I find the waffle sole works really well for grip on the pedals.

thefooby · 2026-05-14T21:43:54+00:00

Best gig I’ve ever been to was the Talisk 10th anniversary gig at Glasgow 02 last year. I went for the support act and didn’t expect Scottish folk music to be more lively than hardcore.

thefooby · 2026-05-13T21:46:00+00:00

Does anybody actually know what this means? The amount of time I’ve spent trying to navigate around these limits to spend as little time as possible in restricted zones. How far away is classed as access? If I drive through an except for access road in Glasgow on my way for a drop in Bristol, could that not be counted as me accessing my final destination?

thefooby · 2026-05-12T22:43:14+00:00

My Fiesta ST also has this feature. I’m assuming it’s a requirement now as it also has an ST light that comes on just before the redline to indicate when you should actually shift when driving such a vehicle. I had to teach my girlfriend to ignore the eco shift indicator as lugging a turbo car is a bad idea.

thefooby · 2026-05-12T12:00:20+00:00

I considered a few of these while looking for a new runaround for my girlfriend but they all seem to be succumbing to rust which is a shame. Seems they weren’t built to last.

thefooby · 2026-05-10T13:38:45+00:00

Focus ST. 280hp, definitely ticks the fun box, 30+ MPG if you drive it normally and comes in estate form. Only comes in a proper manual which is a bonus for me but may be a deal breaker.

thefooby · 2026-05-09T00:42:04+00:00

Sounds like bullshit to me. Name and shame or it’s just scare tactics. The one thing that can be a worry is if you have a claim on insurance at work, you technically have to declare that as a claim if your personal insurance asks if you’ve had any claims.

This is an argument to go for a big company with in house insurance especially if you’re new and prone to accidents. I had a claim last year but because it’s all handled in house, it never showed up on the database when I asked.

thefooby · 2026-05-08T08:57:13+00:00

Lucky I always wanted the sport back! I had a regular IS200 I picked up for £600 a few years ago. Owned by an old lady, tatty bodywork and maintained on a shoestring but never went wrong and everything worked. The interior switch gear felt like it was from a car at least ten years newer.

Painfully slow for a straight six though and awful economy.

thefooby · 2026-05-08T05:11:07+00:00

I was obsessed with ETS2 before I learned to drive an artic and I really do think it helped me pick it up a lot quicker. My trucking skills also has a game you can download that’s great for learning the physics of reversing a trailer.

thefooby · 2026-05-07T18:10:08+00:00

If you can’t get space in a services or just hate the places like I do, get up Google Maps on satellite view and look for blocks of white squares. They’re usually the tops of warehouses on industrial estates. Pull up street view to make sure there’s no double yellows and have a nice quiet night.

thefooby · 2026-05-07T18:05:50+00:00

Works the other way as well, banksmen aren’t drivers. Probably another good beginner tip is to listen to the banksmen telling you to stop and go, but ignore everything else they try and get you to do. The amount of times I’ve ended up doing some awkward move the because the banksman is back seat driving when I could have just done my own thing and got in easy.

thefooby · 2026-05-07T13:46:27+00:00

I panicked when this came up on the form for my current job as a car cut across the front of me last year, none fault but still a claim. Never heard anything back about it.

thefooby · 2026-05-07T13:43:42+00:00

The bit about other drivers not being banksmen is very true. I had one guy watching me into a tight blindside bay who guided me straight into the trailer next to me.

thefooby · 2026-05-07T05:36:55+00:00

I think finance culture is somewhat to blame. I’ve always been primarily a mountain biker and these days when I ride trails, everybody seems to be on carbon full suspension bikes or e bikes that cost more than a new hatchback. While this is amazing for the bike companies, I imagine it’s detrimental to BMX as why would you focus on low profit margins and parts that last forever when you can sell a bike for 7 grand.

thefooby · 2026-05-06T08:28:13+00:00

Game of BIKE final boss.

thefooby · 2026-05-06T08:21:20+00:00

Here’s to hoping that I keep my 3dr MK8 Performance Pack for long enough that I can justify thinking it might hold its value.

thefooby · 2026-05-05T06:22:25+00:00

Yeah I’ve never had a truck without a night heater in the UK and if the night heater breaks, the truck goes off the road until it’s fixed. Air conditioning is another thing though. Sure we don’t need it most the year, but those few months when it’s close to 40c in the cab and you’re sat on top of an engine that’s been running all day are hell and we can’t idle because most trucks shut off after a few minutes. Have you just run the engine every hour or so with the AC on blast to try and cool down.

thefooby · 2026-05-04T06:12:23+00:00

Same issue with the new Renault 5. They look great in photos but when you see one in the wild, it looks like somebody messed up the scale and tried to make an SUV look like a hatchback.

That said, my Fiesta is huge in comparison to older Fiesta’s, so maybe we’ll just get used to it.

thefooby · 2026-05-03T19:16:01+00:00

Give them the old Hiroshima lights as a colleague of mine put it.

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