Ben Bradley

@Heccles94 @CalmTheBeans LD

If their were a GE tomorrow, how would you vote? Comment other (only four spaces) (RT for larger sample size)

@PookyD81 3 at our local dealer in Derby, we went a tried them on today. Would love one.

If I were to do a top ten of the best JLR products on sale right now it would probably be the Defender Octa 1 to 9 and a Range Rover in 10th. So surprised to see over 40 new Octas available on Autotrader. But then SV brand remains confused to customers, and what the hell is an Octa anyway. Keep calling all the JLR offshoots SVRs and maybe people will get it?

@PookyD81 A brief spirited drive down a country road in an R5 was enough to put me off owning one because of the weird disconnected steering, I wouldn’t pay extra for more of the same

Over 2800 miles in the A290 now and I can’t look past the car’s biggest disappointment: the steering just isn’t good enough. Two real issues here, 1. the torque steer is just stupid (and even R5 owners comment on this), 2. it’s elastic and disconnected, lacks any precision and doesn’t encourage you to chuck it into a corner. Of course I’ve set about trying to find out why so I can go on and fix it, but it’s a bit of a task. Four things are working against it here, 1. The front axle is set with a lot of toe-out (Alpine WHY do you keep doing this!), 2. the wheels are simply offset outboard to get a wider track, 3, the front lower arms and bushes are made of cheese and 4, the driveshafts aren’t the same length (now come on Renault, we stopped doing this over 20 years ago). Alpine have invested money in some places, and then not at all in others. The A290 has a complete bespoke aluminium front subframe. I mean it looks nice and saves a few kilos. The front uprights are also bespoke, mainly to mount the brakes. But the rest of it is just R5, and it’s worth noting these are carry over from the Captur and Megane. Wheel offset I can’t do much about, and definitely not going to fix one driveshaft being 90mm longer than the other. But geometry settings are helping and it just leaves the front lower arms. It needs a nice, bespoke aluminum arm that is stiff in the right places and has better bushes. Going to have to work out if this is worth the investment.

@AntoineNivola Wow! Congratulations! I’m still shooting for that dream

Nine years ago I lost my job after a robbery ruined the shop I worked for. Friday I bought my 997.1 GT3. Proud doesn't even come close to what I'm feeling.

@AntoineNivola I know, I just need to get the car back to fit it

@BenB_7 That is COOL.

Karbon kevlar looks so much better than gloss carbon

@evomagazine evo VI

What car would you want to be in when the track's in this condition?

@perfectionvalet They don’t look 17yrs old do they!

2008 Bentley Continental GT Speed 12 finished..

@AntoineNivola Especially de-chromed

Do like an R56 works.

@AlconUK I’d love to but I don’t think you do a kit for the 964

Dear Santa... ✍️🎄 #Alconbrakes #WhatsStoppingYou

@ChrisO_wiki Following along from the UK and its hard to see past the caricature but a 2 horse race is not a good choice. When I’ve queried my english brother who’s American family voted Trump this is his response. Is any of this vaguely true?

This is quite true. The other thing that's going to be asked over and over for the next four years is, "He can't do that, can he?"

@JuliaDavisNews Following along from the UK and its hard to see past the caricature but a 2 horse race is not a good choice. When I’ve queried my english brother who’s American family voted Trump this is his response. Is any of this vaguely true?

MAGA in a nutshell: “I consider him like Hitler, but I voted for the man.”

@HighlandRampage @Shieldaig Noooo! My reasons for visiting are dwindling fast. Thanks for all the calming pics Steve

@iOlly @BicesterH @WeAreScramblers I do.

Has anyone got two spare tickets for the October 6th Scramble? Friends asking :D @BicesterH @WeAreScramblers

@Motorcardiaries @hjwakerley I’ve daily’d it, wouldn’t recommend unless you live on a rally stage

@BenB_7 @hjwakerley Mrs S is after a new daily 🤔

That’s not me eating a morning bun and drinking coffee whilst Evo hunting 😅🤫

@Motorcardiaries @hjwakerley It is. Not advertised it yet

@BenB_7 @hjwakerley Is it for sale, Ben?!

@FridgeToPantry @bramleycomputer

Can someone remind me of the gentleman who repairs apple products (car guy I believe - I have the name Bailey in my head, but can’t find him?)

@Seatz37 @okeydokey_mik @RSRstopher Worth a try but not sure it’s a significant step up

@BenB_7 @okeydokey_mik @RSRstopher I’m getting the sense I should stick rather than twist…

Giving serious consideration to switching my M3 for a Z4M just like this. Grateful for thoughts on why I should/shouldn’t do this to the usual address.