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• Peugeot 207 (2006 - ) - A week driving in Portugal 11 Oct 2007 (Forum)
  The directions to our apartment were wrong as a new roundabout and dual carriageway had been completed since May, which was the last time the owners had visited and checked the route. No speed cameras per se, but in some villages in rural locations they have random sets of traffic lights. Exceed 50km/h and they turn red for about 15 seconds! Not only do you get annoyed but you also p off anyone following you, keep in limit and they stay green.
• Lexus RX400h - RX400h owner's review for gordonbennet 20 Jun 2019 (Forum)
  I find I have to drive around car parks with the windows down and the (decent) stereo on, pedestrians just don’t hear you coming when running on battery power and step into your path lemming-style. Reversing lights are awful, I’ve replaced them with LEDs which means the parking camera is now useful at night – but the electrical noise from the dodgy Chinese LED's means I have to turn the wireless off when reversing to avoid a blast of white noise! Good/Bad? Don’t forget it has a CVT – some drivers loath them, I think the combination of the grumbly V6 and whirr of the electric motors makes it sound a bit like airwolf from the 80s!
• Hyundai i30 (2007 - ) - Review 20 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  It is unobtrusive but the plastics are good and the fittings excellent, with some nice touches like the double-lidded armrest between the front seats with a small picnic table under the top lid and, below that, a capacious locker for camera, mobile phones etc. with a connection for i-Pods (USB cable supplied). The ashtray is illuminated (there?s posh!). Another nice touch is a parking or credit card holder just inside the lockable glove box.
• Formula One in London 15 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  Something interesting must have driven past because all of a sudden there was a sea of kiddies on parents shoulders and arms extended with cameras of various sorts. I could see absolutely nothing! At this point I decided to abandon this fiasco and attempted to get out of the area. Easier said than done. After finding dead ends and police officers blocking alley ways I ended up in Hanover Square.
• Backroom Meet - Sunday 7th September 8 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  A mile or so of greenery including a golf course to the right. You then hit a 30mph zone which has a speed camera very soon into it (you have been warned). You\'ll hit some traffic lights (with a right turn - A1081) but you want to go straight on continuing on the A1000. Shortly afterwards you\'ll see a Dominoes Pizza on your left and Barnet College and then The Bathroom Trading Co to your right.
• Grrrrr 19 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  But that's another story. Luckily there was little danger of being blitzed by the Citizen Surveillance Cameras, anyway I always drive on a foreign license in UK. After 900 miles around UK in this lump it was a great relief to get back to Manila, board the Better Half (by now the Bitter Half)'s Ford Lynx 1.6, zip away from the car park with a tropical spec aircon blasting ice-cold air, room to move one's corpus, plenty of space for the luggage, and to be thankful for being reminded of the American interpretation of what automobile travel should be about.
• Grrrrr 18 Nov 2001 (Forum)
  But that's another story. Luckily there was little danger of being blitzed by the Citizen Surveillance Cameras, anyway I always drive on a foreign license in UK. After 900 miles around UK in this lump it was a great relief to get back to Manila, board the Better Half (by now the Bitter Half)'s Ford Lynx 1.6, zip away from the car park with a tropical spec aircon blasting ice-cold air, room to move one's corpus, plenty of space for the luggage, and to be thankful for being reminded of the American interpretation of what automobile travel should be about.
• Insurance claim hassle 27 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  Whilst crossing back over the road from the newsagent i noticed that type of minibus parked much further up the road...so took a look and bingo, same vehicle, with a big blue paint mark down it's rear nearside wing....so took some pictures with a digital camera of our damage with white paint and white paint dust, their damage with recent dirt smudges and blue paint....then contacted the relevant council depot, who rang the driver. He returned to the vehicle, we exchanged names and addresses and he apologised, admitting liability stating he'd had to pull in tight to our car suddenly, due to another driver and hadn't realised he'd hit it when turning right, but with the paint on his wagon and recent damage/paint on ours, it was obvious he'd caused it so far so good.....but then comes the insurance calim fiasco a well known budget insurer....
• Citroen DS5 - My Road Test Report 13 Mar 2015 (Forum)
  All very clunky – so much so, that I ended up plugging in my Tomtom and using that instead. One very good feature was the reversing camera, augmenting the rear parking sensors – a good thing as visibility through the tiny rear window is terrible, and the screen looks about 50 yards away in the rear view mirror. So how does it drive?
• 2 weeks in the US - observations motoring & other 13 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  Saw one speed gun in use (on I4 used by a Florida Highway Patrol on a bike) - he was well camouflaged as well. 6. Did not see one speed camera but then again most people seemed to be observing the speed limits anyway - including us Brits ! 7. When driving long distances (60 plus miles) we did a few counts of vehicles to ascertain the most popular and types. 70% + of vehicles were minivans (people carriers) or SUVs (4 x 4's) or pick up trucks, the rest were normal type saloons.
• Driving the Amalfi Coast and Naples 5 Jun 2007 (Forum)
  But perhaps the biggest shock is that there are not only cars of all shapes and sizes (and, yes, that does include six-door black limousines driven by suspicious-looking men in very sharp suits and dark glasses), and full sized coaches, thank goodness passing slowly through to allow their passengers to point their cameras and video cams through the windows, but also – terrifying to behold – local buses the size of large coaches, with a sharp turn of speed, whose drivers have a heavy right foot. True, there are traffic marshals with walkie-talkies on the extended narrow stretches, but they operate only at peak times and their real function is to prevent two large vehicles meeting at points where they would stand no chance of passing.
• Chevy Impala - Make a full size car get 200 mpg 10 Dec 2014 (Forum)
  Ford on 2 gallons of gas. Other mechanics and engineers checked for hidden tanks, none were found. Reporters and a camera crew went with him 100 miles out and back; 200 miles 2 gallons. He claimed from the beginning that he did not know exactly how the system worked, just that it did and he proved it time and again. He had hoped other engineers would help to explain what he was doing.
• Hijacking - worth reading. 23 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  Don't do stupid things like leaving your cellphone, briefcase or shopping parcels on your passenger seat. If you fill up at a petrol station check to see whether the place has surveillance cameras and try to park within their range. Don't take pamphlets from complete strangers at stop streets and robots. Never drive with your windows down or your doors unlocked. Don't pick up hitchhikers.
• Buying a new car 22 Dec 2013 (Forum)
  Toyota Yaris – The dealers were good but the Yaris was not at all interesting to drive, very sensible and nothing wrong with it but again not what I was looking for. The engine choice is very conservative and the rear parking camera a waste of time in my opinion, better off using the mirrors and looking over your shoulder. Seat Ibiza – I didn’t test drive the Ibiza but had to hire a car for a week and it happened to be the Seat.
• The complete driver. Why worry? 27 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  A couple of bicycles strung on the back of the old jalopy will soothe the tree-huggers and possibly cover one?s number plate from the speed cameras. If the bicycles are ever stolen or removed, do retain the carrying-frame. This has tine-like fingers protruding from the rear of the car at just around face height for motorcyclists and cyclists.
• Anatomy of a ride 23 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  Ride briefing is carried out by the stage leader (me for once) about where we stop, who has the Fix-A-Flat aerosol, the disposable Kodak camera and First Aid kit just in case, does everyone have copies of their reg docs and licence etc etc. Police have been known to take your ride if you can't prove ownership and we all know what happens to it after that.......ends up either in the chop shop or the local mayor is riding it with no reg plates.