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Chris Haining

@roadworkuk.bsky.social
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Sub editor @WhatCar? (whatcar.com). Enjoys pop-up headlights, textured velour, wood interior trim and column stalks with just the right degree of resistance. Fleet: 2003 BMW 540i, 1997 Rover 825Si, 2017 BMW i3 (hers)

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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your occasional update on the legendary Twickenham Renault 5. It's still hanging on in there, gawd bless it.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dom in his Mazda RX-7 vs Me in my Rover 800
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If it had at-seat phone charging, the 1960s BR Mk2 coach would be pretty much the perfect rail conveyance even today.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I feel bad for everybody born too late to experience this era
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So, I'm not keen on too much AI, but I just fed a rendering of a fantasy coach I made back in 2002 into Gemini, and I kind of love what it made of it.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hoped this was a Rover tuning book. Turned out to be about calorie control.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Love that there's a 50 year-old Forward Control Land Rover at the heart of this behemoth
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I could never be a car designer these days. I'd want my interiors to have something in them.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Slightly unfortunate slogan for the Astra GTE, given its theft record...
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I know "because racecar", but could also be "because broken"
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Spotted these little guys under the back of an Ineos Grenadier and now they live in my brain
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Ferrari 456 really has aged well
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is unlawful to not post an Audi A2 when you see one
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Does seem ironic, given the strength of Tesla's driver-assistance tech, that so many are driven by tailgating morons.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Huge news if true
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wandering down Old Broad Street, and noticed "oh, that's not there any more"
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I finally own a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz (.... in 1/18 scale, by Maisto). I've actually fancied one of these since I first saw them in the Florida Mall in 1993 (I was 12). The model isn't particularly high fidelity by today's standards, but it still holds up pretty well.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's never too hot to drive a black car with black leather and inop A/C... ... if it has a V8.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The raddest Bentley I've seen in a long time.
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Antony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don't believe in heaven and all that stuff, but whenever I see a "Christian" being awful I always think how funny it'd be if they get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says "nope, God tells me you were a cunt" and boots them down to hell.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Forgive me for boasting, but this new corner of my garden is one of my very proudest achievements
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Volkswagen Arteon really is / was handsome, isn't / wasn't it.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Winner of the M25 the other day
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
OBVIOUSLY REQUIRE METALWORK APPROXIMATELY THUS FOR MY BANNISTERS DON'T I
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Long-range spot (from a moving train); Mk 1 Fiesta looks deliciously crisp.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Rehoming the name placque that my grandparents had over their front door onto our new pergola makes me feel all warm and fuzzy
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I don't even care that the A/C doesn't work. That's how much I love this thing
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For me, R129 was the definitive SL. Never bettered.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Stag Beetles are cool. Makes me wish I had an N-Gauge model railway to let one loose on.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'd really appreciate it if YouTube ads weren't almost exclusively for Aliexpress-sourced scam miracle products.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If I was an AI person, I, too would have a display cabinet full of crisps in my living room
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Infinite mirrors give this hotel stairwell a Large Hadron Collider aesthetic
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Oddly comforting to see a chain-feed dot-matrix printer in front-line use at Rome Fiumicino airport
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I like to park my Rover and my BMW in the order that I love them.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Always pleases me to see a 24 year-old car on the drive of a newbuild.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Only managed this useless pic, but a 1988 Suzuki Swift randomly turned into my cul de sac today. On a rare Wednesday working from home, at a moment that I just happened to glance out of the window. Yet I will NEVER win the lottery. Prolly get struck by lightning tomorrow.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Early Busso Alfa 156 wins the music festival car park
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Worst thing about an M25 commute is that you encounter the same dangerous pricks the same time every day. The black Model Y with dark tints, weaving through traffic at 90+; the white Tiguan that does similar but with extra tailgating. If you don't like the regulars at a pub, you can use another pub
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Yeah I know it's a "budget" Ibis. But even pissing Travelodge gives you a teabag. Pretty sure a £4 teabag paywall is a contravention of human rights
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
One of these two cars is good. But I'd rather own the other.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happiness is a loaded CD changer
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll take the Bladerunner 2019 vision of AI, where it looked after dangerous shit in off-world colonies to protect humans... ...over the 2026 version where it farms engagement via social media clickbait and has impressionable folk questioning proven reality.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Renault... please, please add this as a skin on your infotainment systems.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Our i3 can do grown-up garden centrey things
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm calling it. Coolest family wagon in the Algarve
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Just an "I love my car" post
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My turn! First full-length What Car? video. Yeah, the range is.... modest... but the Super-N is pretty neat in other regards youtu.be/yi1jLtibCPM?si…
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£19k Honda Super-N First Look – RIP Renault 5?
YouTube video by What Car?
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Always speak to a human when buying a train ticket, or buy online. Ticket machine: press 'Cheapest Ticket' for a Super Off Peak Single on the 20:00 from London Liverpool Street to Mistley. £41. Human in ticket office: Split ticket via Chelmsford on the same train: £29.30.
UK station ticket machine showing cheapest ticket optionsCheap split tickets bought from ticket office.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Found the showroom display plates for my E39 and it makes me happy.
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