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Ironic that today when I least expected it, I was about to cross the Suffolk border back into Essex this morning & I saw a muntjac deer crossing the road in broad daylight. Much bigger than I thought too. I always assumed they were nocturnal.
Another lesson learned in the school of life.

Howard said:
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I know where that happened. I've shopped in the co-op opposite on one of my day trips into 'town' a couple of years back. Wouldnt surprise me if that was a deliberate collision in order to get away.
 
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Grimley said:
I know where that happened. I've shopped in the co-op opposite on one of my day trips into 'town' a couple of years back. Wouldnt surprise me if that was a deliberate collision in order to get away.
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Spot on. We have a few massive council blocks here and I suspect also a large do-as-you-likey camp somewhere as I see at least one petty crime a week here. The most popular two crimes are phone snatching by little scrotes on electric bicycles, the other is when couriers open their vans and are shuffling packages around inside, someone will zip past, grab as much as they can and either sprint or cycle off.

Coppers don't seem interested at all.
 
i remember some years back running over a badger.....sat in the car wondering whether to get out and move the body, when all of a sudden the car starts to move sideways to the grass verge. tough little bugger dropped into the gully and slinked off into the field, needed a new engine in my car wrecked the sump and front valance.
 
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He said it's quite slow by modern standards, it's 220 odd BHP but weighs around 1200KG. Even still 0-60 is a tad under 6s. When we went out for a convoy drive he asked me not to accelerate too fast as he can't keep up :p

It's not about power/speed in cars like that though. The noise alone and sense of drama make it feel like you're pushing on silly digits :cool: That's what driving enjoyment is all about.
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Old quote I know but it's very true that you get to enjoy much more of the car's capabilities within legal limits on the roads.
 
Saw this while I was out walking and thought it looked pretty mad with the snorkel/winch/lightbar. It didn't have any name tags on the back. Is it a G Wagon?

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Saw an OG G-wagen the other day too, such a contrast to the current gen. Little biscuit wheels with much meatier tyres, no wide arch stuff, just a simple, basic machine for getting from A to B in almost any circumstances imaginable.

It really highlighted how compromised the G wagons are as luxury cars. They're not luxury cars, they're utilitarian tractors with luxury stuff added in.
 
Diddums said:
Saw an OG G-wagen the other day too, such a contrast to the current gen. Little biscuit wheels with much meatier tyres, no wide arch stuff, just a simple, basic machine for getting from A to B in almost any circumstances imaginable.

It really highlighted how compromised the G wagons are as luxury cars. They're not luxury cars, they're utilitarian tractors with luxury stuff added in.
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Nothing says luxury like this! Try not to throw up all over your desk, and just look at those luxurious rear seats!
https://vavato.com/en/homepage/classic-cars-youngtimers-23-02-2021/mercedes-g500-2007

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Diddums said:
That's nothing. I worked in Chelsea for two years and some of the things I saw were absolutely mental. A few AMG 6x6 as well as Brabus G700. Those were some of the wilder ones but the G63s were common as Mondeos there. Almost the official car of Chelsea.
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Oh I know, but Brabus are *almost* tasteful. That is just ho-rrendous.

-edit. Did I just call a Brabus 6x6 tasteful? :eek:
 
Some fool brought a Brabus tuned G wagon to a Silverstone track day I did last year. Ballistic in a straight line, like a wallowing barge in the corners
 
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