Antony Ingram
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It's not excessive owning an RX-7 *and* an MX-5 is it?
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Somehow I doubt I'll see a 9X8 on the forecourt if I go to my local Peugeot showroom, but the thought is nice.
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Having a poke around some super tourers today at Brands.
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One-owner, one-off factory order Laguna in a colour I'm choosing to call "Renault Dealer Racing yellow". Perfect basis for a BTCC rep if it wasn't probably the only one in existence
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Driving at night honestly sucks now if you're anywhere near other traffic. Even with less light spill from LEDs the actual source is so bright (and in the UK, most road markings now so deteriorated) that your trajectory is mostly guesswork until a car has passed.
Headlight engineers: take a few years off.
They're bright enough.
Sincerely, everyone being blinded.
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While owners of the big electric stainless steel skip are marvelling at its ability to traverse puddles, over in France there are people fitting knobbly tyres to the front axle of 60-horsepower Saxos and driving them up mountains
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£26k seems a touch ambitious, but maxi kit on a Williams is a strong look
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No comment on the new Capri other than being confused at its positioning. At £48k, it's five grand more than an entry-level Mustang Mach-E. I don't know what I was expecting from it, but it wasn't that.
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Petition to remove the driving licence from anyone who lists a paddleshift car as a "manual" in their car sales adverts.
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I don't wish to alarm anyone but there's a purple, V6 Avantime on eBay right now. No MOT, looks like it needs TLC and it's an auto (not inherently a problem, but led to believe less reliable than the manual), but what a thing. Bonus 456 in the background
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120mph and it's absolutely *floating* over that surface. Rally cars are amazing.
This. This is rallying. 🤩
@wrcsafarirally
starts this week 🔥 Don't miss a moment with every stage LIVE on 🙌
#WRC
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#WRCLive
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#SafariRallyKenya
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Suzuki Twin has strong "minimum viable car" vibes about it. Check out the opening glass hatch rather than a full tailgate. Or that single-DIN radio with the speaker built in
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"She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro"
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I don't want to alarm anyone but I've just discovered the existence of the Peugeot 106 Cartoon and its CAR-SHAPED HEADRESTS.
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This Sandero is terrified by its base model specification
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Brief interlude from Le Mans to drool over a 156 GTA in a great colour. Some good upgrades too - KWs, Quaife LSD, Eibach ARBs
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Cor, someone's spent a few bob making this Clio RSi nice. Bit overlooked alongside the 16v and Williams but still 110bhp and 955kg, 8.9 to 62 per the brochure, so I bet it's still fun
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I'd like to raise with the Japanese enthusiast car community the disappointing lack of VIP and/or drift builds of the Toyota Origin, which is surely crying out for one or the other
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I know Car Twitter likes an early '90s Merc in Bornite, but can I interest you in this R129 in Spruce Green?
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Posting this 2000GT onboard so I can share it elsewhere, hope nobody minds...
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So, big news. After 75 issues, and nearly six years, today is my last day at
@evomagazine
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I've been made redundant for much the same reasons as everyone else has recently.
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Forgot about this from the Audi S6/S7/SQ5 launch the other week.
Just to be clear, this is not okay.
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Bunch of people standing around in the wipers/bulbs aisle of Halfords on their phones because the smart-arse little tablet thing they have was broken.
Know what always used to work? The little flip book thing with the printed information.
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Shout out to Autotrader for being the only classified ads site left that's remotely pleasant to use and lets you narrow results down with any degree of accuracy and without jumping through hoops to find the interface you want.
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Very pleased to announce that from this week I’m now assistant editor at
@HagertyUK
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Excited to be part of such a strong brand and looking forward to bringing you all some cool classic car content going forward!
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Took a snap of “that” SM. These are just the coolest damn things.
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Good morning, but especially to this lifted harlequin Golf estate I saw last night.
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[At a party]
"So what car do you drive?"
"A Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe AMG Line Night Edition Premium Plus"
[turns around and walks in the other direction]
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MX-5 owners club show at the National Motor Museum today. Didn't realise there was an NB coupé in the country, but good to see one.
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Seen a few images of the new Grande Panda's interior floating about in the last few days, but surprisingly few people mentioning what is surely the highlight: This little model of the original Panda built into the transparent panel on the dash.
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I used to quite enjoy driving at night but now it's like doing one of those eye tests where they shine a torch directly into your pupils. Only dozens of times a minute, for however many hours you're on the road.
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850 Vignale. Good lord it's a pretty thing. Has to go for more than the £4k-£6k guide price, surely?
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Nothing backs up the idea that 24-hour races are now 24-hour sprints like the way the top cars are passing backmarkers on both sides and on the grass in the middle of the night like it's the last event of a BTCC season
#N24
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It's mad that despite all the advances in media, the easiest I found it to follow WRC was when I was in sixth form in the early 2000s. ISC had a website where you could track individual cars during a stage, and there was a 60min highlights show every night on terrestrial TV.
Rally summed up in one incredible image. We really shouldn’t be struggling for manufacturer interest and mainstream coverage…
📷 Tapio Lehtonen
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There are certain inevitabilities in life; sunrises and sunsets, the changing of the seasons, taxes, middle-lane hoggers, McDonalds self-service kiosk receipt printers being out of till roll, and Clio RS-converted Kangoos
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Don't wish to alarm anyone, but there's a Lancia Thesis for sale in the UK. Few bob, though
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If you think fucking awful parking is going to prevent anyone from parking next to you, you haven’t banked on the man with the really small car.
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Given I live in a first-floor flat this must be huge news
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1999 vs 2019. Time has not been kind to that little house in the Dales, has it?
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Bonus points to the person selling this Freelander for not only for having one in the launch colour, but also for finding an appropriately brochure-style fancy house for the lead image *and* the car matching the roof
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Rare shot of a lion taking a drink.
Lifetime mpg, if you’re interested, is around 40. Not bad for something that sits at 3500rpm at 70 and is pretty much only driven for fun.
Your regular reminder that *if you make a car small and light you don’t use as many resources*.
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Nothing says "low-risk 996" like taking photos of a car while it's wearing a space-saver
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Oh, Twitter, guess what I saw when filling up today? The most beautiful Saab 92!
Think it’s the first one I’ve ever seen in the metal. Sounded (and smelled) wonderful, too.
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Me: The sensible low-teens sports car money's on an early Cayman.
Also me: Porsche who?
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Six cylinders, manual, Individual colour (velvet blue), Alcantara rather than leather. Lovely stuff.
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16 years after launch, finally had a go in a V8, manual R8 the other day.
Same “ahh, I get it now” experience as the first time trying a 911. Get a good one now and keep it forever, I reckon.
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Adding the VX220 to the list of "cars that look particularly good in green"
#GetItInTheGoodColor
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NEC classic car show today. Immaculate 90s coupes a bit of a trend in the dealer area. E36 318i is £11k, Celica £9k, Puma £7k, and E46 323Ci is £9k. Quite a wedge for each but probably not many of any in quite such good nick.
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Some personal news: After a couple of years in employment, I find myself once again back on the freelance market.
I can turn my hand to more or less anything - road testing, features, copywriting, editing, classics, performance, EVs, etc, so do get in touch.
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Brown, manual, Jag XJ must get a pretty decent score on the Weird Car Twitter bingo card. I think those might even be wheel trims, though I'm prepared to be corrected...
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The Mazda’s back! First drive since June. Most of the work was underneath but quite a bit of the topside has been repainted too. Luckily, the contrast to the unpainted bits (bumpers, bonnet, tailgate) isn’t as stark as I was expecting.
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New business idea: Restomods, but with a focus on 1990s interior trim patterns.
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Car Twitter-spec L322 ahoy, Epsom Green over cream, clear glass, sensible wheels, 4.4 V8
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Crikey, used I-Paces are now in the low 20s. I'm sure that comes with a few caveats and the range lags behind a lot of brand new things, but seems like a lot of car for the money, particularly when there are superminis up around £30k
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Real "how bad could it be?" energy from an £11k Conti GT
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Can’t say what it’s like to drive yet, but in a world full of SUVs a proper coupe looks even better, doesn’t it?
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Hello yes I'll take one brown manual E36 328i coupe please
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Obviously the Mazda concept looks gorgeous. Not at the show so not heard what they said on the stand, but feel like people are being *very* presumptuous calling it the "next MX-5".
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As far as unexpected engine swaps go, a Volkswagen VR5 in a Citroen C2 has to be up there
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Did I just see the word "lightweight" in a press release to describe a car that weighs over 1800kg? Yes, yes I did.
In other news, looking forward to a fitter, leaner new me by eating a fuckton of pies.
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Full lineup from the hot hatch test in the current issue of
@evomagazine
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Couldn’t resist. No white S2 Rallye inside but did find these…
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Disappointed to discover Lexus LCs are still £50k-plus. This one’s £68k but the LE’s colour combo is incredible, so couldn’t resist
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Impatiently waiting for the production Supra to arrive. In the meantime, I've got a miniature one to inspect courtesy of Tetsuya Tada. Suspect somewhere in Tomica's workshop there's already a diecast of the finished road car...
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Writing about Rallyes, because that's what I do these days, and forgot I put this together over the bank holiday. Call me,
@Peugeot
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Oli continues to display impeccable taste in cars both old *and* new.
I bought an EV that isn't a Tesla which is very un-YouTuber of me
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Quattroporte with the ZF 'box for £13k. One of these days my resolve will crack
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Car industry feels weird at the moment, doesn't it? "Land Rover" supposedly with less brand equity than its individual models, Jag apparently with none at all according to Geraldine, and VW Group binning a brand that used to have the youngest customer base of any on the market.
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A brisk 70-ish miles in the Rallye this afternoon. Found a new “big sky” photo spot too.
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3.5 V6 Espace can be filed under "things I forgot were powered by the engine from the 350Z"
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One of you sordid Vauxhall/estate types will be into this
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AI image generation must be really useful for stuff like this, but interesting it hasn't figured out how many rings make up an Audi badge...
NEWS! Weather now so bad even Audi drivers obeying the speed limit
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Another year, another MOT, and zero advisories. Did Peugeot give the keys to the factory to Honda while it went on holiday or something?
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Have said this before, but no car for me has such an enormous gulf between "would like to drive" and "wouldn't like to own".
*LIVE AUCTION*
This 2005
#BMW
M5 (E60) is a contemporary performance hero, and undoubtedly one of the cars that led to the ‘arms race’ of post-millennium super saloons. Presented in excellent condition and with comprehensive service history.
Details:
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Congrats to the individual who went out into the countryside to do a sick burnout and did this magnificent one-wheel peel.
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More good stuff coming to
@HagertyUK
soon: Spent the day at Lotus yesterday as Elisa Artioli picked up the final customer Elise, neatly bookending the car’s story.
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Know the Mondeo wasn’t competitive around 95/96 but god damn did it look good.
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Doing a thing and tried my hand at the "how expensive can you make a Porsche" game. £52k entry-level Cayman up to just shy of £90k. Particularly proud of the interior.
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Therapist: It's okay, Fiat Seicento pickup with a 126 front end grafted on isn't real, it can't hurt you.
Fiat Seicento pickup with a 126 front end grafted on:
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Just been out for passenger rides in these two. Absolutely *mega*.
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