Murray Scullion

Spent the last couple of weeks in the glorious nation of Tanzania. A former colony now almost completely bereft of Land Rovers. Anywhere even remotely off-road is a sea of new F70 Land Cruisers - with Alphards and Camrys de rigueur everywhere else

🗣️ Has Max Power become high art? buff.ly/AvBCzXZ

@MttRbnsn @PorscheGB Dear reader, I would like to assure you that I saw this car drive past be and that Matt was definitely not on an economy run for these figures

Quite impressed with that - 417.1 miles on a single tank in a 541hp turbocharged @PorscheGB 911. Maybe this #THybrid stuff *is* the answer. Averaged 32.3mpg from Glasgow down to the western end of the A66. Not bad at all! DTE readout flatlined after 10mi to empty, on the M6! 😅

Come and work with the best in the business!

Fake Maybach

@Carsofglasgow1 A bit bigger!

@mscullion2 Is it larger in the rear seats than the R5? I found the R5 cramped

Still want that R5?

Hair looks great in this tbh

@LUDENClassics Lisbon airport? Press car if so!

Spotted my first Renault 4 on the road yesterday, from the boot of an uber

@gxacd @autocar Oh nice thanks. Don’t think mine popped up with a disclaimer. I’ll give it a go next time I drive an MX-5

@mscullion2 @autocar If you tick this option there’s a safety disclaimer that pops up and after that it should work

Could you have a convertible as your only car? Driving (and drifting) through the cold winter months, we spent 3000 miles in a Mazda MX-5 to find the answer buff.ly/NA5XoWw

@gxacd @autocar I couldn’t get it to work for Apple CarPlay?

@autocar @mscullion2 you can switch on ‘Touchscreen in motion’ in the connectivity settings that allows you to use touchscreen for AC/AA whilst driving too

Brilliant obvs

@charliejmartin_ Also just misses the entire point around Red Bull. Its athletes are really going out there and doing all this crazy shit and it’s not made up!

This is hilariously bad AI slop -- the cornering shot at 7sec is genuinely funny for how little sense it makes -- but I wonder whether the AI's nicked some footage from Festival of Speed for the burnout shot at 5sec. Interesting...

@TedWelford Banger of a tweet

Had the keys to Audi UK’s glorious Q7 V12 TDI (£157k when new!) for the past week. Unbelievably smooth for a diesel with bucket loads of torque - 1000Nm was insane back in 2010. Truly ridiculous spec, too. A true representation of VW Group excess at the time - and I love it

Huge day for us. Lost sleep, learned a lot and leaned on many, many people. But Autocar (mag + web!) is now on Apple. Ready to reach new readers and welcome back a good few too.

@GrayBoth Best of luck. Keep in touch!

So, Friday was my last day as press fleet manager at Toyota/Lexus GB. With over 20 years on and off with the company, it's time for a new adventure. Thank you to all those I've met and worked with along the way. I'm sure our paths will cross in the near future!

@autocar Bullock Road, Peterborough

What is the world's greatest race track?

@TedWelford That sounds fucking fantastic. I think flights are still stupid cheap in Vietnam? If so I’d get down to Saigon

@mscullion2 You assume there’s an itinerary! 😂 Had a week in Phuket with family, was meant to go to Bangkok to meet my cousin but he’s stuck in Singapore with work, so decided I’d try Hanoi/Halong Bay instead. Booked a flight to Singapore later in the week but we’ll see!

Paris parking has got nothing on Hanoi parking. Good luck getting a Maybach out of that!