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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 8, 2017 16:07:55 GMT
...Just seen a parked Tesla in Marlow with the registration number TES1A, which begs the question, which cost more, the number or the car?
(Within the following 10 seconds, I was passed by LEX1S on a Lexus - more money than sense these Southerners!)
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Post by Humph on Apr 8, 2017 16:20:08 GMT
Some of them, I've heard anyway, have their toilets inside their houses. Not like its even all that cold down there is it? 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 17:48:11 GMT
I never quite understand paying a premium for a number plate to match the badge the manufacturer has already supplied it with. People where I live pay a premium for a BM-Wx nnn plate to match the model number of the car they are driving or the numbers to match the series/engine and have the badge removed What's that all about ?
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Post by commerdriver on Apr 8, 2017 18:19:10 GMT
...Just seen a parked Tesla in Marlow with the registration number TES1A, which begs the question, which cost more, the number or the car? (Within the following 10 seconds, I was passed by LEX1S on a Lexus - more money than sense these Southerners!) :-o There was an Audi R8 at the top of the High Street with a reg of 10E there is some serious money around Marlow as well as some poor folks like us
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 18:20:14 GMT
The driver who brought me back from Gatwick last night had a Tesla S.
The guys who developed the touchscreen interface also had a sense of humour. They hid easter eggs in the software that are activated under particular circumstances. For example, if you pull the left column stalk four times in quick succession the display of the road ahead on the driver info screen turns psychedelic. Select 'Suspension' to adjust the ride height, enter '007' and the on-screen picture of a Tesla turns into Jimmy Bond's underwater Lotus with the scale in fathoms.
Very nice car but as a passenger it didn't feel 'special' enough to justify it's £90K price tag. The S400 that took me to Heathrow on Monday outclassed it as an executive car and is about £20K cheaper.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 18:30:23 GMT
People where I live pay a premium for a BM-Wx nnn plate to match the model number of the car they are driving or the numbers to match the series/engine and have the badge removed I've been working in Italy this week with a colleague from Berlin. Very scary driver but his flight landed before mine so he got to pick up the hire car this time.
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 8, 2017 18:48:08 GMT
......there is some serious money around Marlow as well as some poor folks like us ... You're still an outside toilet man then, CD? Been a bit since we've visited, and I hate to think what my dear-departed in-laws' house in Institute Road is now worth. If we were selling now a brace of specially registered Teslas wouldn't bruise the proceeds. Very nice day for a walk to Henley today!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 18:57:23 GMT
People where I live pay a premium for a BM-Wx nnn plate to match the model number of the car they are driving or the numbers to match the series/engine and have the badge removed I've been working in Italy this week with a colleague from Berlin. Very scary driver but his flight landed before mine so he got to pick up the hire car this time. Thread drift alert: In Germany you can have what, to the layperson, look like duplicate plates. B-MW 535 and BM-W 535 are both allowed. If the Police were looking for the first car they'd report Berlin MW 535, the second car would be Bergheim W 535. A colleague of mine has the initials KK and lives in Cologne - Strangely enough he didn't go for a K-KK plate.
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Post by Hofmeister on Apr 8, 2017 20:15:08 GMT
...Just seen a parked Tesla in Marlow with the registration number TES1A, which begs the question, which cost more, the number or the car? (Within the following 10 seconds, I was passed by LEX1S on a Lexus - more money than sense these Southerners!) :-o Passed a Tesla Model X (75) in the M3 queues this afternoon. Its press and online pictures dont do it justice, it is without doubt the Ugliest Bucker I have ever seen, it has sublime detailing, but the proportions and form are god awful.
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Post by Ted on Apr 8, 2017 21:58:50 GMT
The drug dealer who lives opposite us has a Ferrari of some sort...bloody noisy thing...sadly silver grey, not red !
Reg no. is 10VER.....good money in a few packet of Dulcolax for the schoolkids!
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 9, 2017 12:31:02 GMT
...Just seen a parked Tesla in Marlow with the registration number TES1A, which begs the question, which cost more, the number or the car? (Within the following 10 seconds, I was passed by LEX1S on a Lexus - more money than sense these Southerners!) :-o ...the TES1A plate looked OK (in fact, it was what drew my attention to the parked car), but I reckon the woman driving the Lexus was dyslexis....... ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 14:45:40 GMT
Had a Volvo S80 years ago. I swapped the plate for S80 XXX (where XXX = my initials). Only time I had a 'private plate' and the reason was to hide the identify of the car from the daughter of the previous owner who had died suddenly and didn't want to see her Dad's car driving around and her thinking that Dad was not dead. I sold the car after 18 months and the plate went with it. It's still around I think.
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Post by Alanović on Apr 10, 2017 8:16:15 GMT
...Just seen a parked Tesla in Marlow with the registration number TES1A, which begs the question, which cost more, the number or the car? (Within the following 10 seconds, I was passed by LEX1S on a Lexus - more money than sense these Southerners!) :-o Passed a Tesla Model X (75) in the M3 queues this afternoon. Its press and online pictures dont do it justice, it is without doubt the Ugliest Bucker I have ever seen, it has sublime detailing, but the proportions and form are god awful. Is that the SUV type thing with the gullwing rear doors? I saw one on the telly he other day in an episode of Goliath (Amazon Prime series, highly recommended). Didn't realise they'd arrived in the UK yet, I expect I'll see one shortly. Quite a few Model S around my way these days.
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Post by WDB on Apr 10, 2017 8:45:51 GMT
Yes, it is. Went to the showroom in West Drayton wanting to love it and came away disappointed. It ought to be perfect for a long family like mine but the front is no better than the (very good) Model S, while the space in the second and third rows is severely compromised by the clever-clever folding doors. And the seats don't even fold.
The Model S doesn't really have enough rear passenger space either, so I'm holding on in the hope that the Model 3 will turn out to be the perfect commuting replacement for my BMW chariot instead.
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 10, 2017 8:49:28 GMT
....speaking of registration numbers, I've seen a fair bit of driving behaviour recently that would merit KN08HED.
Returning up the lightly-trafficked M1 yesterday, there was a member of the middle-lane owners club doing around 60 with no other vehicle closer than half a mile in front.
Doing 70, I pulled out from the nearside lane to the offside, wafted past and commenced the (pointed) return to the nearside only to note that the woman in the Merc who had been keeping pace behind me had really "gunned it" and was attempting to go past both of us in the nearside lane!
She braked rather notably when I indicated for the return to the nearside lane, and ultimately dropped back and did the correct overtaking manouevre.
Meanwhile, said member of the MLOC continued blissfully in the middle lane for as long as I could see him disappearing in the mirror.
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