Other hobbies/Obsessions?

Electric or Combustion?

See nothing wrong with quartz

I'ld say there's very little wrong with view from that seat. C'mon what you get?

I was on an FB EV group yesterday helping a guy decide between an EV and PHEV. Turns out he's trying to decide between a etron sport back and Q7. He tells me this after I ask he to put a quick spreedsheet together with his driving profile and cost of energy. Running costs may not be too of his list. They don't make what I want, an electric rover 75 estate.it had a lovely cream dial clock.

My brother is coming round with his new model 3 for a coffee and a spin, I'll need to choose a watch to wear.

On the subjects if other hobbies, I put my name down for a new AV receiver yesterday, home theatre has soaked some of my time over the last year. It's a two month wait for a receiver.

Update:

Just back from the spin in the Tesla 3. 450 HP to 4 wheels is a different world to the 204 HP to the rear in my wife's id3, not to mention the 115hp to the front of my Skoda. And the software, self driving, takes time to develop some trust by the driver.

My takeaway is my brothers Tesla 3 is twice the car my wifes ID3 is, at exactly twice the price.

That guy probably doesn't need to worry about fuel costs if he's buying an etron

That became evident when he reveled what he was considering. I had to do a cost model for replacing a commercial vehicle with electric nv200 van. There was one weekly run where it collected from 6 service depot's in Kildare dropped of the weeks load for specialized cleaning in the city centre then returned with last weeks load through the six depot's. We were pushing an open door , but included the detail for completeness, it's other people's money we were spending.

Come on Fitz. I am getting bored looking at shite from the early last century.

Cravats are going to make a comeback.

Taycan with the sport chrono pack?

I might take a look. But what I actually want was the lovely place to sit that the 75 was, with its leather, walnut and art deco with an electric drivetrain.

I had two of them, a drunk driver spared me but killed my first 75. Great community around the 75, there was a club for meetups, fondling and spares. There were Tweeks and mods, like fitting a Renault 5 thermostat into the top hose when the factory fitted thermostat was buried with the water pump and had drifted off it's specified setpoint. Fixing and firing up it's webasto fuel burning heater was a high point for me. The M47 and jatco box were great, especially with the remap.

I went with a 2014 superb Laurin and Klement in cream leather and dark brown coat, also quite nice but not the same.

Taycan 4s. Had a Tesla model 3 performance before this after a long line of BMW M cars. This is a technological marvel on another level. Not as fast in a straight line as the tesla but about 4 time quicker round a bend. Charges really really fast too. I was super lucky to get an allocation for one back in september so I was in a rush to get cash...no problem 24 hours later sold some watches and cash in hand. Super pleased with it and the entire experiance of buying it was terrific. Makes the AD experiance in weirs look like a total shambles.

It’s a little bit “holy ****”.

I would love to

a) Be able to afford to buy it

and more importantly

b) Have the pair of Bollox to buy it and not do something more sensible with the money. Life is short!

Well wear! I hope you don’t exit the watch game for too long.

Nice looking car but what's the point of going round corners faster?

Thanks, yes if you were being pursued I expect being able to corner faster could be an advantage. It's never happened to me while driving but it did once when I was cycling down in Clare and a dog chased me and bit my leg. It wasn't that he was better at cornering more a case of being quicker going uphill.

It was a country road and I was alone cycling, came down a hill and this dog ran out from a house. Unfortunately the road started going uphill and he managed to get a bite in.

I went back to the where the dog had come from but the woman had 'never seen the dog before'. Reported it to the guards and they asked if I wanted to make a formal complaint but as that could have led to the dog being put down I just settled for the guard calling to warn them.