Hi everybody,
I have the pleasure of logging in here as the new owner of Ed's virtually spotless Insight. A good wax polish to remove the odd bit of tree sap and it will be spotless!
It is a May 2001 car with 53,000 miles on the clock, so here in the UK that gives me a tax exempt car that is also London congestion charge free should I wish to venture down to the Capital.
I bought the car as I have an eighty mile round trip to work to contend with (Birmingham to Gaydon) and the car is proving to be a marvel....The trip is virtually all motorway (M42/M40) and is flat barring a few undulations. This means that even as a novice I am getting fantastic mpg results. My first commute average was 92 mpg and my best so far is 95.6. It was 99.4 but I had to turn off to get home and it dropped to the 95.6 figure. I really should have had the presence of mind to stay on the motorway untill Tamworth, just to crack the 100, but |I am sure there will be other days....... It has not stopped raining since I got it, so I am expecting to improve on those figures quite soon on dry roads. I will be fitting the radiator blanking mod and the hot air induction mod just as soon as the rain stops and I can get a bit of that lightweight aerated plastic sheet from work!
As an introductory guide to me, I am a 55 year old fart who lives on the outskirts of Birmingham (UK) with my partner Valerie and a 4 year old lurcher dog called Polly, so now you know all my computer passwords !! My other vehicles are a Mazda V6 petrol Bongo (28 mpg), a Mazda MX5 (43 mpg) and a couple of Honda "Foresight" scooters.(94 mpg)
I work as a model maker for Land Rover & Jaguar cars, so every time you see anything of theirs that is at all "pre production" or "conceptual" then there is a good chance someone from our department made it. If you have seen the UK. telly advert for the Skoda where they made the car out of cake and jelly (try cake car on youtube) then that is exactly what we do for real, using some sort of base chassis, loads of carbon fibre and resin, several cow hides and a shedload of billet alloy for the shiny bits. obviously I would like to tell you more, but then I'd have to kill you........
Checkout the new Landrover 'LRX concept car" which is at the Detroit motor show as we speak, to see the wheels I polished, (I'm told they cost £5,000 each)or the Jaguar "C-XF concept car" for what we did last year (paint cost £1,000 a tin)....They both get crap mileage and are not for sale anyway so you don't have to look at them for long
)right, that's your lot, now for some posts....
Rog, Birmimgham, UK.
New owner of Ed's car
. A month earlier and you would have been hit 
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