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Gaudi? THAT good? Does it have four 'disciple' towers, plus a central '*****' one? WITH a searchlight? I first discovered Gaudi at Art College in 67. 18 years later I got to visit Sagrada Familia. Hoping to live long enough to visit it (in my Lexus wheelchair?) finished. Circa 2025. There's a Japanese connection; apparently a lot of the money to finish it is from Japan -they love the place, it seems.
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I need to Pedant myself here! It's 'reminiscences'!
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What WAS the topic? Must be all the Xmas booze fuddling folk. I am even known to post Citroen reminicences......I claim age on my part! Seasoned greetings ...LEXUS!!....folk. (-: even though I no longer own one.......
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Road noise higher on these? This IS the quietest car in the world! Costco won't fit a tyre if it is less in mph terms. Life was easier with old Citroen. You fitted Michelins, specially designed for the car! I recall the DS 23 handbook telling you that, if you fitted the lesser of the 2 choices, 'do not cruise (Cruise!) at speeds exceeding 100 mph'!!! Roads weren't so crowded. ds garden.bmp
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Yes, 4X4s should look like ......Land Rovers? The infamous chelsea tractor' scenario means that a lot are just glorified people carriers (which is what I thought a car WAS!) One imagines that the current X-trail wouldn't last long in Saudi. But then, I recall being up a mountain track in Pyrenees, in my Cherokee, feeling slightly intrepid to have lurched up there. We heard an engine coming zooming up the track; then see a Citroen Dyane van flying up the track, delivering bread! Softee tourists!
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Interesting (the legislation bit) Brexit folk will use that as example of Euro-interfering....except that all cars we get will follow the rule! Imagine; there's (at least one) person/team who has worked out the cost in increased emissions caused by millions of cars with soft tyres. Not easy. First, you need to know how much % of cars suffer this.....etc.! Good to know our taxes aren't wasted. And that we have to have (expensive to replace!) sensor-valves.
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I'd be interested to hear too. Was thinking of one, having had a Cherokee in 94-00. Good basic vehicles that are USEFUL! The current X-trail looks a bit to Quash-however it's spelled!, but the boxy one looks right for a 4X4.
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All that, a wife (with a big dvd habit?) AND you have to walk the dog! Kudos to you-I guess, like Maggie T -reputedly- you get by on 4 hours sleep a night? Those of us who just wash our cars each Spring are totally blown away.
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Great freeze of 81! How well I recall. I got caught in Alton, Hants, having driven my Citroen Dyane there to deliver a hi-fi amp -Quad 405 -(stuck avidly behind a coach 'getting his wind'....). HEAVY snow and freeze overnight; on the way home to Bristol, the M4 was mainly one wavering lane through frozen snow, passing abandoned Saabs and Porsches etc.. on the way. Thin tyres, air-cooled 602cc engine.....no problem!. (Pic; I didn't ALWAYS deiver giant cinema horns!) Later, I used my Citroen DS Safari on high suspension to deliver goods over the frozen ruts that kept everyone else marooned! How DID I drive a Ford Galaxie in Canada in December snow I wonder now, in 92? At least the roads are wide and thinly populated there, not our jammed roads.
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Chris Skelton replied to 39buss's topic in LS 400 / Lexus LS 430 / Lexus LS 460 / Lexus 600h / Lexus 500h Club
Neil; you should post a link to your string on your work on your car (if only because I've lost it.....) I was tempted by the thought of the 6 speed one in the (very short) low tax year, before it became £500, but decided that my head was still thinking I was 40.....not 70! Phil; was your 'fish or foul' a deliberate mis-spell? (Fowl, obviously..) -
Well, we can't have it both ways. We all know the quality of the car. 'Worth'? Of course it's 'worth' in what you get. It's only the UK and its -now set in stone? - serious depreciation culture. In europe, cars hold their value more. I've been saying for ages that LSs are serious bargains. Even at £8K. (Despite immaculate being mis-spelled in the ad! Here's me in my pedant alter ego?)
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"5+ owners"??? Otherwise......must resist! Seems to be up near Border country? But why was it serviced by Osaka, who are in S-Wales? Ah....I see. It WAS in Newport once (MOT history) Now may be on Arran! Funnily, I once collected my then speakers (Avantgarde Duos -look it up) from Arran in my LS Ser 4, fitting the (not small!!) speakers in the car -just! I've just asked the guy if it's him selling this car!