Tim Oldland

People seem to think I’m only pro-EV, this is absolutely not the case. The future will need a multi-fuel approach to succeed: Daily personal transport and ‘last mile deliveries - BEV Commercial LGV/HGV/Agri - Hydrogen Classics/supercars/sports cars - synthetic fuels 👍

@TufferB *sigh* <unzips>

70 years of the Land Rover in Military service, well done, you did us proud.

@Neondancer @adrianfclarke @LobAllan JLR PR, yesterday:

@adrianfclarke @LobAllan At what point does one no longer have feet from all the foot-shooting?

This has been an, erm, interesting saga from a PR perspective.

Very interesting video, is the AI house of cards going to take a tumble thanks to laughing gas shortage? 🤔

@EarthChild08 @MrPitbull07 The absolute nonsensical garbage you just typed is proof of that.

@MrPitbull07 Ya bro we ain't got no department of education anymore, this shit ain't replicable at this point. But kudos to him frfr

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@abdulomollo @TeaTheDeveloper @Schwarzenegger Really?! Kurt Russell. Escape from New York/LA, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing etc.

@TeaTheDeveloper @Schwarzenegger Who's that between Dolph and Stallone?

Chuck was an icon. I am grateful that I was able to work with him in multiple ways over the years, from promoting fitness to sharing the screen together. He was a badass, in real life and in Hollywood. His legend will be with us forever. My thoughts are with his family.

@xIronman777 @ThePudyTat @heartwoodnc @bdsams Because I dislike cunts, my list of which you’ve just been added to.

@Timoldland @ThePudyTat @heartwoodnc @bdsams he had the free will to say what he said. why so mad?

I think they are going to sell a lot of these.

@FennieBee I was 35 when we had Emily, it’s not that old!!

@port27500 There’s always one 😂

Non uniform today as son's school. Guess who was the only person to forget and go in full uniform? 😂

@graeme_cobb Yep. I think some lawyers got involved after the last thing, got him back and then he ‘left’. That’s purely conjecture obvs.

@Timoldland Again?!

Geraldine playing the hokey-cokey. In, out, in, out, shake it all about....

@fifi_august @AstonMartinF1 @grok Seriously? Just read the fucking text you lazy shitbucket.

@AstonMartinF1 @grok, please summarise this statement

An update from Lawrence Stroll.

Well that’s it then. The world is clearly fucked.

@eV_Newt @graeme_cobb There's a 96kWh option with 370 miles range too. That'll be the one available with dual motor later, with 340 mile range.

@graeme_cobb Agree. Looks good and a useful size thing. Nice spec. Yeah. Weird it’s a Jeep but no 4WD option.

A Jeep Compass full BeV. I wasn’t aware of this car being available as a full BeV. Only 2WD option by looks. 74kWh and ~300 miles WLTP Other (Stellantis) cars on the platform are e-3008 /5008 and Grandland, C5 Aircross…. (Seen /taken from UK EV Owners Club FB group) @graeme_cobb

@ListerLawrence Sadly BMW has now turned Alpina into their version of Maybach. High end luxury version of the 7/X7 and maybe 5/X5 etc. They've utterly thrown away what Alpina stood for.

I’ve taken the liberty of asking good old AI what the Alpina version of the new i3 could look like…

@modernheroestv In another comment he proudly states "99% of the population doesn't drive" okay champ you keep thinking that 🤣

Why does everyone that criticises the cost of electric cars completely ignore the fact that used ones exist? £70k for a Leaf and a Tesla? 😅

@eV_Newt If you need a camera in an Ami I think you should hand in your licence! 🤣 You can just reach back and touch the wall 😂

Picked up this -what I thought and is- small CarPlay front/rear camera combo new, unused on FB Marketplace for 40 quid for the Citroen Ami. Reminds me of the time I bought a 55 inch TV for the bedroom and my wife went nuts 😅 Anyway, works great. 🤓

@au_tom_otive @PolestarCars @KimmyPsWorld They need to offer chunky 5-spokes as an option 😁

Delighted to have taken delivery of the first Polestar 5 in the UK 😁

@DavidJParsons You forget that the old i3 was a complete and utter commercial failure and that outside of enthusiasts, nobody in the real world even knows what the old i3 was.

@Timoldland I'm not sure why they've reused the name. I get that it fits their nomenclature but reuse the name of their city car makes no sense. I think they should have used this as point to start a new convention, for their longer range, new-gen cars.

i3 name whinging is the Capri name whinging for 2026.

@OPEX_Paul @CrazyWeeMonkey M-Sport wheel is only a £250 option thankfully.

@Timoldland @CrazyWeeMonkey Don’t mine the new i3 styling to name. But I will not ever buy a car with that awful steerign wheel

nobody hates new BMWs more than BMW fans

@adrianfclarke Oof 😁👍

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