Who needs an SUV? 
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East Finchley - Bicester and back with our recently fitted fresh-ish (~60k miles) standard 1.8 engine and new clutch. Just going to work. Effortless pleasure.
Got a list to work on next year to keep improving it further. After being so close to getting rid earlier in the year I could hardly be happier with it now.
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Aye, filthy over Oxford and environs for a time today. Nice photos!
Drove to the local in the rain for £12 Tuesday. As we drove home the council gritter pulled out right in front of me. Feeling glad I invested in a decent underseal earlier in the year.
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The supermarket… the long way around. A clear night, so threw the lid back and cranked up the heater - fantastic. Stopped here on the way back
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Where are you?
That’s the summit of Snowdon, but I’m not really there. A bored moment with Copilot and feeling a bit festive. Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
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Drove from Formby to North Walsham, set off about 9am, picked up the mother; made at least 3 stops for leg stretching and rest + toilet breaks.
On the whole trip down, I think I saw only 2 MX-5’s going in the opposite direction.
Today was probably the best day for driving, roads were clear, no idiots except for a couple of lane hoggers who got a blast from Moxie’s horn 
as i pulled up behind them to make them move.
I have at least quarter of a tank left, i did 60 nearly all the way. Trip counter is reading just over 310 miles, will see what the MPG is when I get home after filling up at a shell with VPower
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Went out for a Christmas drive through London today, the weather was glorious and while I normally avoid driving through central Londo like the plague, I figured that it would be fun to explore in an MX-5 with the top down.
It was a wonderful experience, despite it being 5 °C, we had no issues thanks to the heated seats, which should be standard equipment on all Mx5s!
Here he is when we stopped at Parliament Hill and a couple of cabin shots, didn’t take many pictures sadly:
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Christmas drive today blast up the A41 across to Wendover stopping at RAF Halton ….
and then over to Princess Risborough …
… before heading home via Amersham.
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My son and daughter in law moving from our house to his in-laws today, with 2 small kids……
They of course left without the bag of carefully wrapped pressies for the cousins etc etc
A lovely sunny morning here so arranged to meet them at Templepatrick Applegreen Service Station on the M2 out of Belfast, and then returned home via Aldergrove, Glenavy and the M1 to Royal Hillsborough……
Hood down, enjoyed the sunshine and a breath of fresh air…..
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Popped out to the shop, but the sun was shining so I took the scenic route. Coming off a roundabout I’ve driven hundreds of times I lost the back end unexpectedly. It snapped back the other way before I finally caught it. No harm done, except to my ego and the pants of the poor driver coming the other way. A combination of a cold greasy road, slightly odd camber, cold tyres and feeding the power in a bit fast and clumsy. I was lucky, and it all happened at low speed - but be careful out there at this time of year kids, even on the roads you know well.
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I live in central London, next to Hyde park and drive all around town with the top down most dry days, a little militant… but get a lot of smiles from tourists, car-blind gold diggers (its red!!) and people who love an older gentleman nutter-eccentric, other positives: I see much less bullying from M and AMG boyz as they can see I am not an effete hairdresser threat to their metrosexuality, but mostly I feel safer with the top down as I can see more and sense all the surrounding dangers, not least all the kamikaze parcel delivery / Uber-eats e-bike riders or “blacked out insurance snipers" hiding in my blind spots waiting for a well planned slow motion tumble and a nice fat (back/neck pain-honest!) payout… the only real negatives after puddles, are just London pollution and having to be constantly aware of any new 20mph speed cameras/speed traps popping up when you stray unknowingly above 23mph on an empty 4 lane intercity main road at 2am… My lady friend has one reservation about top down life, almost entirely centred around the hair messing effects of wind, (but at London speeds its at least a conversation) I of course forgive her any reservations, as I truly love that she wants to wear dresses matching or enhancing our car’s “true red” paint… flash or honk if you see us!
don’t buy a car from this man, it may have had a rather hard life,… lol
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I say, ding dong old chap.
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Ra-ther…
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Michelle Dockery?