BMWLand

"The committee will look at whether the government needs a "rethink" on smart motorways in general."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56198979

Right, where do I start? At the beginning I guess. As many of you know I finally hung up my uniform last year and I started a new job with a healthcare company down south. We did have a plan of working in the UK for a while before I got a job as a consultant, we would then move overseas and I would work from Croatia. That didn’t really work out so it looked like I’ll be staying in the UK for a few more years yet. I had a decent lump sum squirrelled away to buy a house overseas but now it was sitting in the bank doing the square root of nothing so I started pondering a 911.

However, and as much as I like 911s, I couldn’t bring myself to do it because I simply didn’t want to lose any more money in depreciation and so my thinking was to buy an expensive toy, play with it for a year and sell it on with as little loss as possible. Less running costs obvs. That really narrowed it down to more exotic stuff like Atoms, Caterhams, classic cars and so on. I can’t really remember why I...

So just paid a deposit on this beauty, which I'll be collecting on Saturday (fingers crossed)...








I'm sure for many, it doesn't come at all as a surprise - if anything more of a surprise that it took so long!

Essentially I am still very happy with my Macan but a mixture of wanting a change, needing a bit more space and coming across the best specced Cayenne I'd seen in 6-9months of loosely looking, meant that I grabbed the opportunity with both hands and paid my deposit this afternoon after the car first appearing on the OPC website on Saturday.

I've enquired on about 4 Cayennes in the last 9 months. Each of them being nice, but hard to get too excited about. So out with @Harry's "where there's doubt, there's no doubt" line, each of them sucessively got kicked into touch. But there was something in...