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I have a new (September 2018) 2018 CLA 200, on a PCP. C117. It's a 1.5 [low pressure?] turbo with a meagre 156bhp. I think of it as wheezy but coupled with the 7 speed DCT it is around 7.5 seconds to 60. Plenty enough for me. It is the quickest daily car I have owned. Far outshines my previous...

Astra1 is the one a Sky dish is pointed at is it not? I have bought a Humax satellite receiver but not yet plugged it in :D

Other than Range Rovers I have not come across a single SUV I would own. Ferrari need to do this (apparently) to make money. Despite being a keen fan of Italian cars I'd never consider one if I could afford it. I still think this Autocar picture is artits (deliberate) impression/render anyway...

This.

I've cancelled all my Sky subscriptions (too expensive and other than F1 never used). So next year or rather this year it is highlights on Channel 4 for me.

Thanks for the update (goes off to look at secondhand prices) comes back again to find still quite a lot of money :D edit:- Actually the cheapest one I saw was £41k not actually that bad. However that might be a terrible car...

My one and only Grand Prix was Monza in 2010.

5 of my 27 were Rover cars. I worked in the CAD/CAM dept at Warwick University it was part of Warwick Manufacturing Group and private entity set up by the university from what I recall. Anyway we were on the 'Rover Scheme' and like you I did at least 50k/year for the 2½ years and as they weren't...

Top Trumps now then :p Ferrari 360 Modena (outright, and has so far made a healthy profit ;)) BMW Z3 (outright cheapy :D) PCP on my CLA of course. I do however have a mortgage because I divorced and had to half start again. My PCP allows me to buy the car at the end of the term if I wish...

I have three cars and own two outright. Those are old cars, though one is worth almost 2.5x what the CLA was new. My CLA is in a PCP and it is the first ever car I have obtained that way. I can buy it at the end of the term but after 3 or 4 years I will be bored with it. I paid for servicing for...

No real sympathy. Lost a loved one or close friend or a serious illness then I understand but he hasn't. Drama is all it is.

Thanks for that. I can't recall now if it was auto or manual

Maybe Rover had QC problems. Some were and some weren't :D

The 618 I had (brand new being a lease car) was as the four previous 400 series Rovers were, faultless. That said I only had them for 7 months (40k) at the most. As for power, neither it or the Hondas I replaced it with were particularly powerful. I never have had a Yo-Vtec.

My PCP on the CLA is 10k. I used to do 14k (I say used to because it seems this year it was only 12.5k). Based on the 14k at the end of my PCP (4 years) I would owe about £2.5k IIRC on the excess mileage. Using man maths (which will undoubtedly fail anyway regardless of mileage) I decided I...

I tried it in a Ford S-Max Titanium I hired earlier this year. Reverse park into a parking space e.g. supermarket. I tried it just once and never again. I'm not sure it could stop by itself o_O

I currently have my CLA on a PCP which after 3 or 4 years I could purchase the car. However I WILL be bored by then and have no intention whatsoever of keeping it. I am concerned (and have been for sometime) about new cars and the electrickey employed on them. I would not own a car 5 years old...

Exactly. Buy something different. Only once in life did I replace one car with one the same. My then wife twisted my arm up my back. Never since have I ever bought the same model again. Out of 22 personal cars just two were the same. I did work for Warwick University many years back and they...

They have been doing it for a while... https://www.supercars.net/blog/1964%E2%86%921967-ferrari-500-superfast-2/

I thought this was an EV car thread :p