Owner of @BespokeChargers. Design engineer specialising the field of EV infrastructure and also write about cars. “Pompous windbag”
Brentwood, Essex, UK
Joined February 2009
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People seem to think I’m only pro-EV, this is absolutely not the case. The future will need a multi-fuel approach to succeed:
Daily personal transport and ‘last mile deliveries - BEV
Commercial LGV/HGV/Agri - Hydrogen
Classics/supercars/sports cars - synthetic fuels
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Can we just stop please. This looks like a fucking automotive vajazzle. I’m trying to determine what’s worse about the ‘Gallardo Hommage 26’ - the fact that a nice Gen 1 dies to make it, the fact that it was done by the original designer () or the fact that it costs £900,000 plus donor car and VAT.
FUCK CANCER. FUCK IT, FUCK FUCK FUCKING CUNT CANCER 😢
Today we’ve lost @StrakkaAsh, a Jag man through and through, lost far far too young.
Raise a glass to a great guy tonight 🥃
2026 Renault Twingo E-tech review! Please give this a watch and a repost, trying out longer form reviews!
Fuck this guy. Fuck AI. FUCK AI.
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We have $20M to spend next month on CAD
- Architecture and interior design firms
- Civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and MEP engineering firms
- Manufacturing and industrial equipment makers
- Industrial and product design studios
- Aerospace and automotive engineering services
- Electronics and PCB design firms
- Medical device design firms
- Naval architecture and marine engineering
- etc.
If they have CAD, we want them
bring them all and i'll get you paid
- Mike
Weirdly I wasn't a fan of the Valhalla, but the Spider looks fantastic. Yes please, even at £1.3m 😂
And yes, predictable me goes for green tinted carbon over green/tan interior 😁
Always thought it was a shame that the Bond franchise moved on to BMWs instead of getting Bond into a Vantage 550. ‘The brute in a suit’ is perfect for Bond.
Holy shit! @DK_Engineering just casually mentioning on Instagram that they’re doing a manual gearbox swapped Enzo!!! 🤯
That’s fucking around money, right there 😂
This is a bit tasty - a true 1of1 McLaren 650S Le Mans. The rest of the 50 cars were all Le Sarthe Grey apart from this one made for a very special customer.
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Just realised I’ve had a 14yr run of VW Group leases in alternating grey/red. Odd.
‘12 Skoda Yeti (grey)
‘15 Skoda Yeti facelift (red)
‘17 Skoda Octavia vRS TDi (grey)
‘19 Seat Leon Cupra 300 (red)
‘22 Skoda Octavia vRS (grey)
‘24 Cupra Born (grey)
‘26 VW ID3 GTX (red)
Never really planned, always just gone for good lease deals that were around at the time. Missed out on the Golf R Estate ones due to being mid-lease.
Averaged about £243/m on them all. Always 1+ leases too, I never pay more up front. So that’s £40k over 14yrs to have driven brand new cars with zero stress and minimal bills.
“Oh but you could’ve bought X/Y for £40k and you’d still have it now” is the usual argument. Yes, I probably could’ve bought a BMW 340 Touring and kept it, but I’d now have a 14yr old car that costs a fortune to keep going. Plus frankly I didn’t have £40k then, we focussed on overpaying the mortgage, which is now paid off. Consistency is the key and not having to worry about big bills appearing meant we could max the mortgage payment every month.
Does this work for everyone? Nope. But I just thought I’d give some more info as I often get asked why I lease and don’t but X/Y/Z.
Cars you don’t expect to see pop up on @AutoTrader , an occasional series.
#27 - the 1988 Porsche 959
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