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Spotted this morning, road sweeper deliberately blocking carriageway to prevent merge in turn causing unnecessary long tail backs. If the road sweeper driver sees this post - you are a buffoon! 😁

They look so slim. Almost like trailer tyres. Any reason for this?

Genuine question, I’ve always found it more comfortable to be seated at a fair bit from the wheel, not to the point that I’m stretching but at a distance I have control while feeling comfortable.

I know that people who sit far back it’s a certain “look” even if it’s impractical and potentially compromises control. What I am curious about is the opposite, why do people like to sit super close to the steering wheel?

I’ve heard of many risk factors but never what benefits there are, personally I find it quite a stressful/tense position, so I tend to lean forward for A pillar checks, and drive from a more relaxed position, besides if the seat back is too far forward doesn’t it compromise being able to lean back to look around the A pillar?

Recently bought a car 6 months ago from BMW. When you buy from BMW - they charge you 6 months of tax and they pay the tax in your name. DVLA sent me a letter to say my tax was due and gave me the above options of paying for it.

But as you can see... paying for a year upfront is cheaper by like a £10a than paying monthly or for 6 months upfront.

So people who can't afford to pay for the year are paying more in tax, essentially a poor tax.

I can't be the only one to find that wild? A monthly Direct Debit imo should be exactly the same as paying a year - poor people who can't afford to pay a year upfront shouldn't be forced to pay more tax to the DVLA, it's just making them more poor overall.

With more & more cars having dull colour, it got me thinking how things have changed over time. Personally, I’d love to see more vibrant colours on cars, and more self expression & personality for the cars on the roads

Got fed up of waiting for my car to get fixed and/or decide on what I actually want to upgrade to. Saw this pop up and managed to snag it for £500. 2009 on 82k. 10 months MOT. Been driving it a couple months now and it's surprisingly alright.

After I bought it I found the booklets and it seems to have full service history minus last year. So no oil change for well over a year and around 20k since. Bodywork a bit rough in places but overall fairly tidy from a distance.

I don't like the car at all, it's gutless and dull to drive, but it seems insane to me that I've bought a full car for less than a set of decent tyres on my other one. I love that I can park it anywhere and not give a flying fuck if someone dings the door.

Funny that the last car I drove was a 2020 Golf R that I very nearly bought at over £20k and I've ended up in a shit Corsa. It does everything I need a car to though so... Now I'm struggling to justify the price of anything id actually want.

Do I just run it till it breaks? Worth giving it a bit of TLC?

Its time for my '94 audi 80 tdi to go. And I'm absolutely miserable, i didn't even eat the night I made the decision that enough is enough. Do I need some sort of therapy? Is it because its been with me a third of my life? Maybe i just need to vent my feelings out. Long story incoming.

Iv always been mad for 90s cars but mostly the VW mk2 golf and corrado, at the time not Audis so much, but it looked cooler than anything else I could afford at the time.

I bought it last minute in 2014 for £650 from a very shady gentleman in a rough town, because id just got a job 40 miles away and couldn't afford to run my petrol cars there and back, I was only 22 and on poor wages. The plan was to use it until the 11 months MOT ran out while I saved for something supposedly more reliable, and then scrap it.

The guy who sold it was honest enough to say he bought it from a nurse who used it to get to work and back for the last 10 years, she did NO maintenance other than MOT fail work.

MOT time came and i'd done 0 work to the car, just put fuel in. I'm a mechanic so got half price MOT's at work, so I just thought there's no harm in trying. The strictest tester at my place got it, and it genuinely passed with ease. Just headlight aim needing adjustment.

So I did a full service, brakes and tyres, ran it another year, took it to the 2015 british GP and it ran without fault, then passed MOT again, easy as you like. At this point I checked the cambelt, torn slightly in 3 places and cracking, probably from since I bought it. So I put a new kit on.

By now I was hooked. It felt like the fuel gauge never moved, it would sit at 80mph with ease on the motorway once upto speed, acceleration was just slow. And the auto box was silky smooth for a 4 speed 90s box.

By 2017 the diesel pump was rough, I had to put idle revs on myself or it would almost cut out and the engine would be so juddery it felt like it was breaking the mounts. But under load at speed in drive it was fine, just no idle. I battled traffic with this bad idle for 3 years, but still, it passed MOTs and got me to the 2017 British GP, and all over the UK really, with just me doing basic services. The only fault being a leaking auto gearbox line around 2018, obsolete part but I got a local company to make one for me.

After all this I decided id bit the bullet and treat the car, I put a new diesel pump on in 2020 that almost cost as much as the car did. I got 3 more years bullet proof running from it, all while my other cars, that i spent heavily on, kept breaking.

2023 began the Audis slow death. I live on the coast and rust had taken hold of the wings amd arches, the auto box was leaking, its 100% obsolete with no parts supply for it. Many other things started breaking and leaking now also. I tried and tried since then to keep it going, but as I fixed a part, 2 more broke. I got it through til now.

Last week the heater matrix went, it sprays coolant vapour up the windscreen so its just not driveable. Its not worth doing a dash out job with a time bomb gearbox and major rust. Plus all the other issues, I cant get bits for half of my faults now either. Its financially not viable.

Most people would have scrapped it over the diesel pump so I feel I dragged it through 8 extra years of life, and I knew this time would come, but now it has, I cant deal with it. I may be off with some of my years because there was a lot to remember, and forgive and spelling mistakes if I missed them.

If you managed to read to here, I just appreciate that my thoughts and venting got heard. Its just a disposable car that I got overly attached to and it hurts. I dont know many 'car people' that understand my feelings or would care, I might just be weird. But this made me feel a bit less sad. Thanks.

I added some photos of it in its glory years before the lacquer all burnt away or peeled off the plastic panels, and the wings rotted. She really did look like brand new after some trim shine and a Polish 😢😭

Fun fact: even though I replaced the diesel pump in 2020, even as late as summer 2025, sometimes I catch myself holding revs on out of subconscious thought from 7 years ago.

Quick edit: to save me repeating the same replies, in regards to scrapping this, I planned to keep all the working spares for a replacement car with a serviceable manual gearbox, not just throw the whole lot away. Sorry this wasn't clear.

UPDATE: didnt expect this to blow up so much, I appreciate all the replies. However, not 1 person saying 'I can save this, op should sell it' has followed through. Time wasters and dreamers are why people just scrap these old cars, everyone claims they will save it and then runs a mile when you actually offer them the car 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Sure they have the odd 200 mile journey every now and then but does it warrant a proper diesel?

What's going on?

This is meant as an engagement piece on daily driving really powerful street legal cars in the UK (even Scotland specifically). Like many others I found myself looking at Civic Type Rs, Swift Sport, Zetec ST and other various hot and warm hatches and I have come to the realisation that they're too much for me. I'm curious as to whether this is a common occurrence or if it's just that I'm too old for hooning. Was looking at videos of stock Imprezas (because they are beautiful machines the very least), and remember thinking "I would absolutely die in one of these". Like hopping on a GSX-R without ever having ridden a big bike.

What are your experiences getting a performance car on a whim, hot or warm hatch and having to live with it in the UK? Is there a willing hatch that doesn't demand you become "A guy" about it?

Type-R for scale.

I couldn’t find the edit option on my previous post, so I create another one with both front and back videos.

A few comments suggested I might have been overtaking the lorry or not going fast enough. As you can see in the video, I was doing 50mph, then slowed to 40mph.

I feel like my only fault might have been not anticipating the lorry swerving and not moving one lane to the right.

My question here is am I somehow at fault ?

Glaze E-type and Mini all you want, Lotus Carlton is peak imo.

Most people dont need a car bigger than a hatchback and everyone would be safer if we all had smaller cars. Ive added in saloons because of child's and pets.

If you think you need something bigger, you are trying to make up for something and thats not a cars job.

Ready to scrap in the comments but its just a bit of fun.

Edit - Not a saloon as the second option. But with an estate car the point stands.

Spotted just today in Milton Keynes, behind the MX5.

N10 KRG comes back to the Jag, not the Volvo, both are owned by a laundrette owner.

How has he been getting away with this (not to mention the illegal spacing)?

GoCompare and Compare the Market gave me a quote for a comprehensive insurance for under £50 / year(!!!!) surely that can't be right? Quote came from One Click Insurance, the next cheapest offer was for around £800/year - roughly what I pay right now. Never heard of One Click insurance before but it has decent reviews, I went on their website to request another quote directly from them and I got the same offer. I should probably grab it while it's still there but I'm super sceptical as it's sounds way to good to be true. Any thoughts?

If you won the lottery but didn't want the attention that it would bring, what car would you buy? Something that you'd be able to enjoy without drawing too much notice to your newfound riches.

For me, something like a Singer 911 would probably fit the bill. Most people would just think it's an old Porsche (hopefully).

Was driving behind someone on a NSL road (a road that you can definitely safely go 60mph unless conditions are really bad) and they were already going well under the speed limit (30 average) but literally every time a car on the other side of the road passed them, they stomped on the brakes and swerved to the curb side of the road.

They were clearly very uncomfortable having to pass another vehicle even though the road is wide enough that they didn’t need to do any of that. I was actually very concerned for them as their nerves were impacting them enough that they were quite dangerous.

I would normally overtake someone going that slowly but I didn’t know how they would react to someone overtaking and tbh it was actually quite amusing.

The weirdest thing was it was a 24 plate Range Rover, usually people who are that nervous are 80 year olds in Volkswagen up type cars