Co-Founder at Encor Design Ltd. Building British Supercars in Britain. RAF Association Ambassador. All views are my own.
England, United Kingdom
Joined November 2013
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Think I must have done 30+ runs up and down that mountain road that day during filming.
There have been worse days at work….
We love a drive in the country, don't you?
The Encor Series 1 on location in Portugal.
#Encor #EncorSeries1
Now that’s something I didn’t know 👇🏻
Unbelievably (I actually cannot believe I’m saying this) the Porsche is back available after person who said they wanted it last night has had a case of ‘buyers remorse’ this morning.
So it’s £50 and available now👇🏻
For Sale:- Porsche 911 Turbo S (Type 991.1)
Guards Red with Black Seat.
Supplied new from OPC Cambridge when I was the boss.
2 x careful former owners who are too big for it now.
Horn works.
Minor age related marks.
£50 collection only in St Albans
First to reply will buy
We’ll be at St James’s Motoring Spectacle on Pall Mall next Saturday 31st Oct and the Southside Hustle in Wimbledon on Sunday 1st November.
Both events are FOC and open to public.
If you’re there please come say hi and see the S1 👇🏻
Good company for a remastered British icon.
A few more moments from Cars on the Green, where the Encor Series 1 was right at home among an eclectic gathering of automotive favourites.
📸 @jathuthillai
The tech is amazing. And I’m sure the features will be appreciated by those fortunate enough to be riding in the back of a new 7.
But very hard to see anyone preserving one of these cars as a classic in 25+ years as we do with today with the E38. Fixing all the inevitable problems will be catastrophically expensive. It’s also brutally ugly to my eyes!
Below are some still images from the configurator we use to specify the S1 with clients.
It’s an advanced tool in line with anything I’ve seen in an OEM.
Tell me what you’d like to see, I’ll select my favourite, have it visualised, we’ll share & send you high the res images👇🏻
Build Your D̶r̶e̶a̶m̶s̶ Nightmare
This hurts to write (let’s call it tough love), but I believe that in full transparency, in advocating for EVs one must also acknowledge the downsides. My company leases a BYD Sealion (and other EV’s on the fleet) - on paper, it’s great value for money. A Chinese car @BYDCompany leased via @santanderuk But then we had an issue with a door harness - took the car to Hartwell Bracknell; they can’t fix the car - it’s been off the road 71 days chasing faults around the car. Santander don’t want to answer the phone (2.5hrs on hold today) and BYD are unhelpful with a car that has a seemly a catastrophic fault.
The cars a lemon (and frankly so are the leasing company and the dealer), the question really is, are all their cars lemons or is this a one-off?
Clearly BYD aren’t ready for scale in U.K. and don’t have the dealer back up you’d expect of a mass brand - so as much as I advocate for low cost EVs, my advice at least in the short term, is steer clear of the BYD! The same might be said of Santander leases and Hartwell dealers!
I will of course update you on any progress!
Loved this 1985 Saab 99 parked near us in Fulham.
Clearly in regular use. Slightly shabby. Very chic.
Dropped off @AlfaWorkshop this morning for Service & MOT.
Can’t recommend the team here highly enough for older Alfa.
Early start for Cars on the Green in Fulham.
Parked with a gorgeous BB512 and made a Wedge Sandwich 🤗
And there’s the funny thing about super powerful performance EVs.
Once you’ve got over the initial shock of the power and acceleration, you realise they really are not much fun to drive.
You can’t use the power much and when you do, you’re in license losing territory.
I worked with Tobias at Aston Martin. Very talented chap and I’m delighted to see him doing so well.
The Mission S is the most exciting car to come out of the Porsche Design studio since the 918 Spyder imo.
The Mission S is our first look at Porsche under its new head of design, Tobias Sühlmann. We spoke to him to find out what's in store 👉 buff.ly/8LuWEsI
