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All the way from poole to Snowdonia and none seen !

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Black 55 plate in High Wycombe yesterday
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Black 57 plate in Huntingdon today, mine was at home.
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Grey PZ in Cookham today too
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White 40th parked next to me at the supermarket yesterday. Of course, by "parked next to", they did keep the obligatory 1 space gap between vehicles. We're not uncivilised, you know...
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The etiquette is a bit like walking into the gents, you should always leave at least one empty urinal in between, unless it's too crowded :)
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White R3 spotted this morning Redditch-bound on the Bromsgrove Highway

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Spotted a stormy blue S1 in Ashtead

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Saw a copper red one heading up the M5 near London.
Then spotted a broken RX-8 on the hard shoulder of the M3/M25 😕
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hfitz wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:43 pm
heading up the M5 near London.
Can't have been that close to London...... ;) :lol:
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I always park in the space right next to cars I care about - minimise their chance of getting a ding by 50% because I'm not a total knob.
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PeteH wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 2:49 pm
hfitz wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:43 pm
heading up the M5 near London.
Can't have been that close to London...... ;) :lol:
Yes good point I actually meant M1!!

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I'm easily confused at the best of times and it doesn't help that NI have their own sequence for road numbering, rather than fitting-in with the rest of the UK.

So there's an M1*, and an M2, M3, M5 & M22

The A2 runs passed our front gate, whereas I always thought it went from London to Dover :roll:

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I remember my dad driving us down the M1 out of Belfast, all 9 miles of it in those days!
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i followed a 54 plate black 8 in nuneaton today.
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Today in the Diesel Fiesta I went from Northampton to Glasshoughton in West Yorkshire, a round trip of 264 miles.

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Black 57 plate just outside where I work in Huntingdon.
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Yesterday. Black one with LED rear lights, in Woking.
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Today a very nice stormy blue 57 plate @Tudor st Cardiff


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Velocity Red in Birmingham today
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I suspect there's quite a few that were SORN'd until end April, that are now starting to appear :D
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Yep
My VR will start wandering the country side for a month or two 8)


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First week driving ~80 miles to and from Oxford.
Number of RX8's spotted: 0

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Yesterday’s trip was to SW18 from Northampton. Approx 170 miles round trip.

Total RX8's spotted = 1 (Evolve)

Yesterday it took 3 hours to get there. 85 miles (28mph average). 2 weeks ago it took 3.5 hours to get to Newcastle 226 miles (64.5 mph average). Don’t you love driving South!?
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Saw a black R3 in Highwoods while working on CheekyWankel's 192 heading towards the car dealerships. Possibly was New Duke? Might've been someone else though as it was too far away to see the number plate
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