It’s very thicc
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Land Rover hit back this week, disclosing proof that the Range Rover is not the most stolen car in the UK, nor do any JLR models place within the top three. According to JLR, the risk of theft is significantly higher for its older models – specifically those built between 2016 and 2018, and some built in 2019. But, conversely, theft rates on newer vehicles have been significantly lower, its data show.
What are the older cars receiving?
Vehicles too old to benefit from ultra-wide band technology are being retrofitted with a dormant additional GPS tracker called Tracker Retrieve that’s available on the aftermarket as part of a five-year subscription package. JLR is also working with consumers to install the best aftermarket immobilisers, but Lee Walton suggested that consumers should pick their immobiliser based on advice from their insurer as different firms have unique preferences on immobilisers to help benefit premiums.
What about the future for JLR cars’ security?
JLR has been working with the police and government to outlaw the key programming tools that thieves use to steal cars. Historically, such devices have been considered part of the automotive locksmithing toolbox, but JLR has worked to pass legislation that recognises them as tools for theft.
Theft is not a problem but please don’t let that stop us from introducing new subscription services and ways to make third party repairs more difficult
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yeah, that’s really in the same vein as Canada hating on Flipper
my blind guess here why this is popping up now:
there seems something going on with insurance companies trying to stop paying for stolen cars, and since prices for new wheels are high(er), someone is trying to offload responsibility?
My guess is, we’ll read a lot more about mysterious recalls to ‘fix things’, or about litigation efforts.
anyway, that looks like an Omega (tree) in that garage, if that has been driven for 30 years already, wonder what mileage that has hit already…
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Holy trinity of best bike, wheel and E-Scooter’ish thing:
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for the four active Forza Motorsport 8 players that are out there:
Hey, Nordschleife is out, wuuhuuuhhhh.
Stuffed my Cosmo into the wall after half a lap, gotta do better later this week when i plan to turn a wheel in proper anger and get a laptime on the leaderbords on all new versions of ze 'Schleife.
Also also, turn10 seem to have fumbled a Ferrari 488 GTB release, because they withdrew it (…because why exactly?) and threw an Acura DPi at me for good measure (???) for… not being aware at all that it was available, legit or not.
These car-pass licensing-hell-deals will be something to write/investigate in a few years' time, i tell 'ya, beginning with the EA Porker deal, up to the DLC mess of later 2000s, early 2010s, bridging the Pay-real-$$$s2Win F1 Renault phase in Forza 5(?), the botched lootboxes FM7 disaster, and Toyota's "pull'em all"—"no,wait, maybe it has an advantage if kids know our backlog when we try to sell them on retro-inspired-cars!" see-saw manouver, and ....what ever it is what we are now experiencing... only time/GT7 will tell what/how stupid it can get.
(fwiw, my jaded old gramps impressione is, this genre might have been rendered quasi-dead by the killjoys of incremental “carpack-releases”, DLC tracks (being announced months before they drop, where it is kinda hard to drum up interest with people that already have paid for the game and went on to play other Things™), strangled pricing system that makes no sense anymore (20mio $ unicorns are discounted to 300-400k, but a dinky 80ies box or 2010 sedan is 100-150k? But then I get gifted a random car that should be the precious reward for beating a few career cups?) and an fumbled online matchmaking mode that is… for whoever they designed it.
Maybe i have to be a YoutubeStreamer_GT102476 to “get it”, but i am left scratching my head who this is for, or if it’s just a vanity project that has been overtaken by gamers’ demands while the devs slept on coming up with a new formula on an century old staple (gotta go fast!)
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fascinating read
how the nicest of Morgans came into being. Imagine being that student working on it!
today was unhappily warm for February but i nevertheless hoofed it to a 90s merc oasis
they make their own aero rep rims and i want them
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daikoku pa on saturday 
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loving the DS, and the bosozoku rearwing in thr background of pic numero uno!
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i have daikok’d
it was everything i hoped, what a miracle of manners and enthusiasm at midnight
here’s an r34 and shit
this doesn’t even scuff the surface
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did my chauffeur blast super sharp shooter as we pulled out? why yes!
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Drive to Survive Season 6 is on Netflix, and Fred Vasseur is the secret star of the show, watching raunchy Vasseur after that Las Vegas practice and how he juuuust keeps it together is almost endearingly entertaining, nonwithstanding how dangerous that incident was.
Also, what the hell, is that really Danica Patrick in a F1 show?
Ballsy move, but all around this season feels like someone understood that they cannot just repeat the same script all.over.again every year.
Who’d have thought that i can do a crossover post itt and the FF7R#2 thread at the same time?
Yes, me neither!
No, they didn’t ask me. No, I don’t believe that the owners are CCTVing my life and tailor their adverts to cross off whatever i like or love, but I am seriously reconsidering my life choices.
Yeah, EDF and La La Land next, please…
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doubling down of the FF7R-crowd
someone… really got a huge cheque out of that deal, eh
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literally nobody:
you know what, an electric Charger sounds like a brilliant idea.
Ze French:
… aaaand it gets a faux sound generator.
Plus five launch control modes.
And some battery pre-conditioning tech.
And a boost button on the steering wheel.
And it gets the 2-door version first, four-door variants later.
… what on earth has happened, is Dodge really trying to sell someone on E-Mobility?
Because as stupid as it may sound (guess i won’t be seeing one of these over in Yurop anytime soon, so will have to go by them Ytubes), it might have success with a certain target audience that wouldn’t touch a Leaf or Tesla if not forced at gunpoint.
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i really like the shape of the outgoing challenger, it’s a cheeky bucket
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