Bruski

Do you think he'd sell that cupholder thing separately? 😉

just stumbled across this, ogmios school of zen motoring is absolute gold.

Red e39 m5, plate AWSUM5, Quay St, by Ports of Orckland. On the way to work - most days last week it seemed!

I think it will depend a lot on the car itself. I lived in SG for a little while. A taxi driver once said to me, "hey you know Singapore, its either hot, too hot, or about to rain". That about sums it up. Run about cars are often used as Grab taxis (think pretty much every mini-van and station wagon you've ever heard of, luxury and not so luxury and those weird Honda CR-V things and the odd-looking Toyota mini Rav4 hybrid thing too). They are taxis. You also get Grab premium which is often a nice Audi or a long Merc. Usually though it is a Toyota Alphard. The best car for getting around Singapore is a van with 4 la-z-boys in the back driven by someone else! Ultimate Drivers Car is not really needed although a bloke at work had a Smurf blue m4. For reference, an m4 comp is the better part of $450k SG ++ so you're probably gunna look after it. You can get a membership to Sentosa golf club for that, I know which I'd go for and probably use more. Ha. Anyhoo, I digress, but if you're buying a run about from SG, you can be pretty sure it has been run about. A nicer, bigger, faster, more expensive motor, probably not so much. You can get a special Sunday only drivers permit in SG. That means most of the proper driver's cars go out on Sundays only. Cars in SG are owned for (in practise) max 10 years and they are driven, a lot. A small place it may be but there is lots of motorways and with limits on the numbers of cars on the roads, you can actually drive around - hence the popularity of Grab (SE Asia version of Uber). Most expats, if they buy a car at all, get a car that has a few years to run on its certificate from the govt, then chuck it when they leave SG. So basically, you buy the right to drive the car for the last few years (of its 10) that it is (practically) allowed on the roads. After that it has to be (in reality) scrapped or exported around the world - did you know that SG is the second largest exporter of used cars after Japan. There's a pub quiz answer right there. An incentive for maintenance this is not as you can imagine. So, if you are buying an SG car, IMHO try and get one that is more top end (because it cost shed loads to start with and hopefully someone used the warranty to get it serviced properly) and is more towards the younger age, ie. less than 8 years old at time of import. Also, a more expensive car will have been kept in an underground carpark at a condo / apartment block. They are as dry as it can get in Singapore and typically have areas set aside for car washing. Logic being more expensive car = people can afford to live in a nicer condo that has underground parking.

Was a great four days. Spotted a nice phoenix yellow e46 at Te Akau South on Friday and again on the roads around Raglan. There was some lady charging a fiver for ticket holders to enter her official WRC spectator viewing spot - ie. over and above the gold pass tickets etc. Fiver for a car, fine, per person, hmmmm. That was not very team of five million IMHO. I think Jacks Ridge needs a few bridges over the track, that might make getting about a bit easier.

Also went down to the hairpin with my boy (6) and we took in a pit visit during quali. Best of the action at the hairpin with a giant screen but a long trek for short legs. He was most excited by the 'smashed car' (Shell Mustang) on a trailer on Sunday. Well, that and a Formula Ford losing all four wheels on the front straight, that was hard to top actually come to think of it. Given the landlords have merged with Ellerslie racecourse and will (according to the memo) set Puke up as a training venue to service Ellerslie, it seems the highest and best use of the land is ................houses. Drop a pin on Pukekohe raceway, if you were not depressed enough about losing a motor racing venue and want to get extra depressed about losing prime dirt: About land use capability » Our Environment (scinfo.org.nz) There is a good debate on one of the racing forums, speedcafe it might have been, on how inadequate all the other venues are in NZ for supercars. Too small, too remote, not close to an airport capable of handling a 747-cargo plane, lap times too short, not enough spectator capacity, track width too narrow, no major population centre, the list goes on. For all Pukekohe being compromised (hard to see over those darned horse railings for one!), it was tried and tested. Shame really.

This is way off topic and might be better in the videos section but I thought a few might enjoy this YouTube hidden gem. While exchanging some friendly banter with a buddy of mine who is currently in Le Mans imagining himself to be Steve McQueen, where I noted he was closer in looks, girth and charisma to a Pontiac Le Mans than a Le Mans Porsche, I stumbled across this on the internet: 1988 Pontiac LeMans | Retro Review - YouTube If you have a spare 7 minutes or so, the contradictions in this review are outstanding. NB: think this was sold in the UK as the Astra but in NZ (where I was a youngster at the time) it was most definitely, a Pontiac Le Mans. Racey Exotica. Pontiac LeMans commercial New Zealand [1989] - YouTube Speaking of Le Mans, this is also nice: On Board with Mike Hawthorn at Le Mans 1956 | D-type Jaguar - YouTube some great one liners.

Well plated e46 m3 and an old runabout and a slightly newer one, my preference is the old one! very tidy man. both at Britomart

New joiner. Pics of the daily driver before we had kids, daily driver after we had kids. Both now in NZ (both kids and both cars) and we also have a Polo Cross. I don't have any pictures in of the Polo in front of Chateaus. Been a member of z3mcoupe UK forum for a while (since 2010 - a lifetime ago if you're 12). The z3m forum has been an excellent resource. There may be some overlap between z3mcoupe with bimmersport NZ too so 'g'day' to any fellow members. Cheers, Bruski