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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 18, 2024 15:26:06 GMT
When an older car passes you, you get that lovely reminder of life in the 1970s. Even our Euro 6 compliant 20 year old Punto has a certain aroma at times which is sweet but not at all healthy.
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Post by Alanović on Jul 18, 2024 15:29:43 GMT
Get that of course, but it feels like everything we like doing involves taking stuff with us. Well then if I'm taking stuff, use the proper car. I'd only be doing gentle days out at the coast, countryside, sightseeing etc, and shows, in a classic/sports car. I don't propose going mountain biking in one. YMMV.
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Post by bpg on Jul 22, 2024 17:01:17 GMT
Think the reason EVs might take a bit longer to take off here is parking. A mid-size estate is too long for the parallel parking bays, suspect they are 4.5m length max. A KIA Soul EV will fit most other EVs I very much doubt. Width might be an issue though as a Focus estate fills the bay from kerb to the outer edge of the paint on the road.
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Post by WDB on Aug 4, 2024 22:14:07 GMT
But the tyre wear canard is pure fossilist fantasy, like fires and collapsing car parks. Desperate people make up desperate nonsense. But we’ve dealt with all those now; they really need to think of some new ones. The Tory right goes to lengths even I didn’t expect to get a picture of a burning EV into the papers.
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Post by Rob on Aug 4, 2024 23:10:22 GMT
Is that your attempt at a joke because of the various riots going on? I find it in poor taste.
A lot of people over the last few days are probably going to be arrested (some already) and find themselves with lengthy sentences. Let's not forget this was rioting. And some did more than just riot - e.g. assault officers, damage, setting fire to things, etc. As long as they can be identified then watch out. Rioting will lead to say a 3 year sentence easily reduced to 2 if pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity. So some might find themselves in prison within 48 hours of this all starting which I think is what they deserve.
And something I learned today is if someone is in social housing.... they can be evicted with their family. If someone involved lived in social housing and is charged but was not on a lease then the family will be able to stay as long as they kick that person out.
I think we are fortunate that the current PM used to be a director of public prosecution.
Apparently some in 2011 were jailed for 4 years for Tweeting to incite rioting and not even being there.... And some of those riots never happened. But they were still jailed.
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Post by Rob on Aug 4, 2024 23:13:02 GMT
And someone needs to warn the 'good protesters' that they are then part of the rioting and they too are likely to be charged too. We need more prisons.
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Post by Rob on Aug 4, 2024 23:28:17 GMT
It's a bit worrying how many of the younger rioters (a) knew to cover their face and (b) had a balaclava!
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Post by Rob on Aug 7, 2024 22:30:33 GMT
Funny how there's been no more posts in this thread to my posts. Makes you wonder.
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 8, 2024 5:11:03 GMT
Well I did consider posting that the balaclava and mask clad thugs got the idea from the terrorist supporters who march in London frequently after the Hamas attacks of 7tn October.... although they claim to march for peace, it's an odd way of doing it, chanting for the death of my daughter (amongst others) and being anonymous at the same time.
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Post by WDB on Aug 14, 2024 15:12:59 GMT
On my to be dentally hygienified this morning (you wouldn’t want me to be unhygienic, would you?) I was amazed to see, parked outside a house, a Fisker Ocean. Right-hand drive too. I can only guess at the purchasing decision that happened there. Possibly similar to mine at the Waitrose bargain bin an hour later: “Well, it’s not good for very long but it looks OK now and it’s cheap.”
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Post by bpg on Aug 14, 2024 15:25:53 GMT
A Fisker Ocean may be a future De Lorean or Gordon-Keeble. 10,000 have been built, a third party could well snap up the tooling.
Not much use as a connected vehicle though once the hackers get cracking unless a third party picks up the source for the OS.
It's the issue I have with new cars especially running something like AAOS. Once Google says they're no longer supporting the platform what do you do ? A car can last 20 years, not many OS supported for that length of time for Joe Public.
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 14, 2024 15:35:22 GMT
There is a lot to be said for buying what is effectively a newly built 2CV. You can buy everything for that vehicle and frequently built to a better standard than original. No OS to worry about. Same goes for a Fiat 500 and Beetle or various British cars as well. The less moulded plastic in a car the longer you can keep it running. Metal dashboards are the way forward..
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Post by bpg on Aug 15, 2024 4:01:38 GMT
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 28, 2024 21:12:32 GMT
Polestar in trouble? Sales down 40% allegedly, and the company has made a loss in excess of $1b over the past year!
Possibly wise not to have persisted down that route with your recent purchase WdB..?!
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Post by Rob on Aug 28, 2024 21:22:52 GMT
The CEO has stepped down at Polestar. The biggest surprise to me was not the percentage drop in sales but the total sales. Far to few Polestars being sold.
A drop in the ocean compared to say Tesla. So far in 2024 Polestar has sold about 20,000 cars. Tesla solver over 830,000 in Q1/Q2 of 2024. And Tesla's sales are falling.
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