u/Stratospheric-Ferret

This is something that's had me wondering for some time now. I'm English, and I am aware of the German oe which is used in place of an umlaut o. Such as König becoming Koenig.

I used to listen to a podcast with Sarah Koenig, and she specifically pronounced it as Kaynig, which sounds very different from the original German pronunciation.

Matt Groening of Simpsons fame is the same, he says his name as Grayning.

How did this come to be?

Going down an internet rabbit hole once again brought me to this, but I can't find an answer to my specific question.

The cars were reportedly destroyed in 2017 according to some sources, and based on this if the picture is to be believed then they were certainly flattened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/1ilk3gi/ladies_and_gentlemen_i_give_you_the_last_and_only/

But according to DVLA records, the V5 of Clarkson's Porsche H982 FKL changed hands on 6th October 2020. So that means that whoever the car was registered to was changed years after they were destroyed.

James' Esprit last V5 change was 2014 that makes sense for the time that it was purchased for the special, but even more weirdly, Hammond's Mustang V5 changed 16th March 2023.

Presumably at this point the V5 is only some sort of weird trophy of the cars with no other use? Why would anyone care about where or who the cars were registered to after their destruction.

So buying her a decent birthday card is always a chore.

It feels like birthday card retailers are 75% cards that joke about drinking some sort of wine.

I can only assume that my wife is an oddity and that the majority of UK women are pissheads, are you who these cards are aimed at?

I've been something of a tyre geek for years, but being a family man the amount of time I have to sit down and endlessly pore over reviews is long gone.

I have an M2 and I'll be fitting some new wheels which suit 265 front and 295 rear tyres. Possibly 305 rears.

The wheel fitment is quite aggressive though, so I can't fit tyres that have a fat rim protector sidewall. I had fitted CSC7 previously with a 295 tyre in the rear, and although the wheel didn't poke, the big boi sidewall was. An AD09 in the same dimensions for example didn't, as it's very square.

I want a tyre that will only be used spring to autumn in the dry, prioritising driver feel and grip over wet weather performance or wear characteristics. It's a weekend toy.

I was leaning towards the Goodyear Supersport, but I've seen some mentions in here of people thinking it's old hat and hard to get hold of. Any truth in that?

Finding a good tyre in both sizes is something of a challenge.

A neighbour has just started up as a driveway trader. I noticed a month or two ago that some suspicious car movements were happening, and then recently it was quite obvious that four cars were parked nose to tail in visitor parking areas, with expired tax.

A quick bit of snooping on Autotrader, and there they are.

Nobody wants to live near a trader like this, they take liberties in all sorts of ways.

The road is on an estate that isn't adopted yet, so I can't make complaints about untaxed cars being left on the road.

Is there anything I can do about this? They have 6 cars advertised for sale, and they have a business registered at the address on companies house, so they're clearly not going to stop because they're asked nicely.