I have just started to use ‘YouDrive’ in my car. The insurer, Direct Assurance, supply a gadget (small electronic box) that you stick to the car windscreen. By means of a bluetooth link to the app, data about your driving is captured.
For the consumer the potential is for cheaper insurance, measured each month.
The potential reward is a 40% reduction in the premium, applied at the end of the year as a refund or, if continuing with them, a reduction in the next policy premium.
As one of the best drivers in Europe, I expect to get the max discount…
Anyone else use this?
Errm says who? I own an Aston Martin and a Porsche and driven for over 40 years with a clean licence - it doesn’t mean I don’t spank them now and again, it means I just haven’t been caught. Knowing the car you drive and the conditions and the chance/expectation of the unexpected idiots. I very much doubt you have pushed any modern car to its limits, you just think you are a good driver as you’ve never had an accident and always stick to the speed limits, however you may have caused many accidents due to your over cautious driving attitude. (They always crash behind you) because you are over cautious and do the unexpected.
…it was a joke, Mat.
And if I want to let some off I take my second car out. I won’t tell you the make/model but I will say there are only 17 of them known in France
Daughter used that - and maybe still does. She is very budget conscious.
No, not that device or insco. In the US I tried a similar device from Progressive insurance. It wasn’t a good experience. It wanted me to essentially run through yellow changing to red stoplights (of which there are far, far more in the US than here) and was trying to alter 50 years of safe driving experience. I gave it back to them. That one was dangerous.
Sometimes you don’t even have to look for the person who takes themselves too seriously, they just announce it when they enter a room 
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Chris…good try, mais non…nice car, though.
Suicide doors on the back 
I still enjoy driving too much that I’d rather not be forced into a style of driving that makes the box happy.
My daughter had one in the UK when she just started driving and my 2 mile drive ruined her stats for the week. I don’t even think I was being particularly enthusiastic as there’s only so much joy you can take from a 1-litre Fabia.
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One would assume anyone driving an expensive car is probably sensible. So they wouldn’t worry me (apart from the taste aspect of course 
), unless they were stolen.
It’s the idiot in the middle of the road texting while flat out in a white van that worries me. So, I’m all for trackers/monitors on those guys.
Last Morgan club lunch in Saint-Tropez a new member explained he’d traded in his Porsche for a new V8 Morgan (sadly comparable in price these days) because he was fed up with jealousy on the road. Now he gets a wave in his Morgan instead of the two fingers he was getting in his beloved Porsche. Nobody thinks the little Mogs are worth anything 
Hi John - sorry if I spoke like a UK Traffic cop! That is one amazing looking car! Not convinced about it’s high speed cornering abilities though 
The Yanks never factor in corners as they just drive straight for 6 hours then stop for the night. I suspect it’s like driving a beautiful king sized bed?
More like 16 hours. 6 hours doesn’t get you out of many states.
On another note John - in all my 58 years on this sphere - I’ve always jumped in any ‘new’ car and driven it lots & lots for a few weeks to get to know it, and I’ve never driven a Porker - yet after nearly 3 months of owning it - I’ve not even taken it out of the garage! I checked it started and that’s it so far!!
Love the idea of a Morgan, the Aston will stay in the UK and someone else can enjoy the ‘Beauty, Soul, Power’ and the Porker to me is just a downgraded Vantage with less of everything.
The 8 Aero is gorgeous but crazy money in France, so a roadster would be my limit for a bit of fun in the sun, let me know if anyone is selling one - I’ll have a scout around when I get time - still waiting for our UK home contents to arrive as we only ‘moved in’ officially on Saturday morning now we have our visas
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Hi Fred. 
I shall forgive your automotive ignorance - the Facel Vega is a (rather obscure) French machine!
I will concede it looks a bit American though.
Facel (Forges et Ateliers de Constructions d’Eure-et-Loir)) made bodies for other makes until the early 50s when construction methods changed and their customers faded away. So they decided to get into the car business themselves, using bought-in engines from Volvo and Austin among others.
The Vega was introduced in 1954 I believe. The company lasted until the early 60s I think.
I’ve only ever seen a Facel once “in the metal”, and that was a wreck owned by Lanson CEO Bruno Paillard, which was awaiting a complete rebuild at a vintage car restorers near Reims:
Wasn’t a Facel Vega the car that (quick check: it was) Camus died in?