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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 · 04/10/2026
The Bertone Stratos Zero is still one of my favourite shapes. And this model of it is a delight.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The very one! I have the black panels, too. Might get some more.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Snakes on a Plane? Here's (a) Smart on a Train.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One day, maybe. It's a distant dream.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like a Great Dane on a Spaniel's chassis.
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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 · 14/09/2026
Proto-Pacer! I can feel the lurching from here!
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love some first-gen DMU action
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alas, no loco in attendance. I'm at the Chappel and Wakes Colne Beer Festival (East Anglian Railway Museum), and it's tremendous.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Haha, I was there for that very occasion. They open the Mk2 up for additional seating. And it's lovely.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ride-wise, the Class 720s are ok, but the 745s feel like they've been tuned on the Nurburgring.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Eleven minutes late, defective junction box, New Malden."
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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 · 12/09/2026
Why "Guess the car?" Is it not "Identify the car?" Late E83 BMW X3
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can imagine the auto feeling absolutely crippled compared with the manual
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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 · 09/09/2026
You're right. It inevitably corrupts the original.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Absolutely. I can only go so far with markers, and putting the ideas down on paper is a higher priority than making it look glossy.
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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
God damn I want an energy polariser!
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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 · 08/08/2026
Yep. Just long enough to disconnect me from the office server.
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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 · 28/07/2026
Very correct opinion. As seen on the C208 CLK in Biggy's Sky's The Limit video.
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ha!
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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 · 25/07/2026
Looks good in proto-SUV guise
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I think I've done the same. Love 'em
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They look reaaaallly good on the A2
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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 · 15/07/2026
It does. Real pity. Also the headlights are too big and the overhang too heavy. Squint, though, and it's alright!
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Chris Haining @roadworkuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wouldn't mind betting it was a health and safety decision.
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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
Must stock up on cocktail umbrellas!
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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
Yep, really neat bit of design, that.
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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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