Lights are twinkling in windows, Jona Lewie is on the radio and my notebook still has a load of column ideas in it that I haven’t yet managed to write about this year.
Some of those I’d like to get ticked off before 2024.
Such as: “What’s the point of a car with a long range?” That’s what I was asked after I wrote about my Alpina D3 S Touring and how I could get 628 miles out of its diesel tank.
“But surely you’d have to stop at some point during that distance anyway, wouldn’t you?” Of course. But there’s something about the choice of stopping when you want to, rather than when you have to, that makes a long road trip roll by more pleasantly.
A healthy range in a car is a factor that works for me and several other high-mile drivers I know, even for the weekly commute. It’s all about time management, I suppose.
Time is one of the reasons why people would drive along a Nottinghamshire road with a river crossing in it called Rufford ford. It’s longer to go around, so they would drive through, sometimes to comical effect.
Videos of people attempting to ford the river and flooding their vehicles have become an internet staple.
One famous clip shows a motorbike rider approaching the ford at speed and, to be fair, making it out the other side – just without his motorbike. Anyway, because of people like him and crowds with camera phones, we can’t have nice things, so, presumably to the relief of the locals, the crossing has been barriered off.
I wanted to write a longer column about a politician who earlier this year said that cars were “for the elite”.
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Regarding merging lanes, we have this wonderful sign in Portugal with instructions and everything. Too bad it's only used in the tolls on the main bridge in Lisbon...
if you're curious, google "entrada alternada ponte 25 de abril" (can't post a link and google maps doesn't have a good angle)
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I am very surpised that a car enthusiast would favour a diesel. Surely sound is important with combustion cars? Diesels always sound like the proverbial 'two skeletons in a dustbin' and they get even worse as they age. Also, and this is in relation to multiple Autocar comments, not this specific article. There is a reason that UK EV sales are a bit lower at the moment. It's because the manufacturers are all holding up deliveries until January, so that they can comply with the ZEV mandate. It has nothing whatsoever to do with demand. Both the SMMT and motoring journalists should come clean about this.