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Antony Ingram

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Car geek | Words for hire | Cars (French and Japanese), gaming (racing and visual novels), photography (film)

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 24d

Ad for the Rallye is live, if anyone knows someone who might be interested www.carandclassic.com/l/C1944976

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 7m

Slightly OTT with the wing and more modern wheels, but also kinda charming because of it - seems like it gets used and enjoyed.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1h

Also, never too late to start a blog. Before I got my first paid writing gig, a blog was all I really had to show for my writing ability, but it was enough to demonstrate what I was able to do, even though it was nothing fancy.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1h

Nice work!

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

It may well be Jaguar's new identity, the point is the execution is poor (something Matteo also says in that link you posted earlier!) even if that's Jaguar's new face. The Audi is really nothing like any current Audi but still feels like one, and the actual design work is much more refined.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

Unless the assignment is "fix everything wrong with this".

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

The Audi's far better executed, from actually having an Audi identity, to better proportions and more finely resolved details. The front end is easily the least successful aspect of the Jag.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

I could see the Jag looking absolutely mega slinking around London in the right colour. Definitely has impact.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

In fact, it's more like the Maybach 6, which predated the Jag by the best part of a decade.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 4h

I thought people were more bothered by the Jag's marketing than the look.

I don't think any are that similar though. The Audi only has similar surfacing to the Jag, the details and proportions are nothing alike, and the Merc's more 300SL or AMG GT than really being like the Type 00.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 18h

I have a tiny fragment of a memory of before my brother was born, when I'd only have been a little over two years old. Have vague memories of being four or five too.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 21h

Chinatown in London, shot on a Yashica ME-1 and Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400 film.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 21h

Well that's the other thing, ultimately your skills at a task are more important than a language (unless that language is essential to your job, as it is to mine, though even then there are some car journos with a pretty rough grasp of English...)

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 21h

The enormous red banners over the house aren't a great look.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 22h

You can barely go five minutes on the internet without interacting with someone from an English-speaking country who can barely string a sentence together and writes at a primary-school level, so this seems like an unreasonably high bar.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 22h

I do the opposite, I'm a natural "zee" user when it comes to the letter in car designations.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 23h

It honestly wasn't terrible either. Went with a fellow slow-small-car-owning friend. Hit an indicated 100mph a couple of times 😆 Wrote about it here www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/com...

I took my ridiculous car to the Nürburgring and you can too | Hagerty UK

You don't need a brand new Porsche to visit the fearsome Nürburgring race track – as a visit in a 54bhp diesel Smart car proves.

www.hagerty.co.uk

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 23h

I don't miss my second-gen Fortwo at all (despite doing some fun stuff like taking it to the Nurburgring), but I'd still consider a 3rd-gen one as they fix most of the problems I had with mine, but keep the good bits.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 23h

The third-gen (most recent) ones are easily the best as actual cars and the only ones that ride and handle with a degree of decorum. The US isn't the best environment for them, but in the genuinely more crowded cities, I could see them being a good first car.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Usual reminder that Jeep is capable of making its own dumb decisions independent of the Stellantis mothership - over in Europe Jeep sells a mix of models including hybrids and full EVs, so it's probably the US arm still wondering how to broach the subject of plug-in things with trad Jeep customers.

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of a small manual rear-drive EV is fun in general, though the AE86 is one of those cars where I'm just not interested in it being an EV. It's right near the top of the list of cars that are at their best with a loud 4cyl breathing through ITBs.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

I hope they've also added the two-cylinder version of the Cinquecento, to go with the Sporting...

Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

I like that they've added that, because GT2 already had the Seicento Sporting, so they've now given it the base model 😆

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Lakeshore in Chicago in the 70s would be perfect for that.

I vaguely recall following a game dev on the other site who was working on a kind of Eastern Bloc driving game with Yugos and stuff which looked fun.

I guess the first few Driver games were *kinda* Malaise Era. Maybe a bit before.

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

That interior is the best kind of mad.

Vincent Desmonts 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 @desmonts.net · 1d

Le dernier concept-car Mercedes : "Vision Iconic". Le retour de la revanche du néo-rétro ? 🤔😐

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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Do like a Sera, too www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...