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  2. Kimbers and MJK on Repair Shop with a rare Lotus Item

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  4. Your neighbours

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    1 hour ago, C8RKH said:

    @Mark Blanchard I'd be speaking to the council and making a "nuisance" complaint and seeking a cease and desist order or whatever it is called.

    However, it does show that Bee's are so much more superior to many humans who seem to be able to nothing but shit all over their home!

    Also, does he declare his side Hussle earnings for tax purposes?

    He's retired so I guess it's some money on the side and he said it's his hobby.  He's an ex councilor and Mayor, so he should know better.

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  5. Your neighbours

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    One of our new neighbour's makes honey and sells it at the local village shop.  You would think that's a nice thing wouldn't you.  Except he is doing it on an industrial scale with 6 large hives at the bottom of his garden housing 1/2 million bees.  The bees fly over our driveway to get to the fields and shit all over our cars.  It's called the cleaning flight, as they don't crap in their hive.  I'll get like 150 yellow shits over the car paintwork a day and they're a pain to get off and leave a mark.  I spoke to him a month ago about the problem and having a few less hives or relocating them to a field and he said "erm, yes maybe"  Nothing has happened obviously.  He hasn't even given us a complimentary pot of honey. :realmad:

  17. What made you happy today?

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    24 minutes ago, Escape said:

    To put that in perspective, and quite likely make you a bit more happy: in bhellgium, that same car would have an annual car tax of €3465.07 and a (one time) registration tax of €10577.8! 😲 Which explains why we hardly see any. The Lotus V6 models suffer the same problem, basically anything with an engine of 2.0l or greater gets hit hard.

    Out of curiosity, have you tried a V8 manual Mustang? I appreciate Ford being one of the few manufacturers that still offer a V8 with a manual box.

    Wow that's a horrendous sum!  There I was feeling sorry for myself but not so bad now :).  So over there the only Lotus you can drive without being clobbered is an Elise?

    The Mustang manual is a truly horrendous thing.  The gear change is short and notchy, the yanks are much better at autos.  I haven't tried it in the V8 but the manual is enough to put you off driving the car.

  18. Is electric really the answer?

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    100% agree.

    We are getting fed a whole lot of EV propaganda by the Government and media at the moment.  Are they naive enough to think China / India and other developing nations are going to follow our lead.  China are increasing their number of coal burning power stations (belching out huge amounts of C02 into the atmosphere) so they can make more "environmentally friend" EV's to sell to us.  Total lunacy, you couldn't make it up.

    https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-new-coal-power-spree-continues-as-more-provinces-jump-on-the-bandwagon/#:~:text=Coal power continues to expand,previously shelved projects were revived.

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    What made you happy today?

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    44 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

    I think we all could have told you, you had made a mistake. Personally, I just didn't think you were were stupid enough not to buy the 5.0 in the first place.  :sofa:

     🤣 Yes school boy error.  
    Car tax on the V8 is £700 so I thought I could do it on the cheap.  

    So I’ve got 3 V8’s now.  I’m off Greta’s Christmas card list.

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    What made you happy today?

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    On 19/01/2024 at 16:52, Mark Blanchard said:

    Bought this today as a daily driver / family car.  Was looking at an Evora but couldn't fit my 6ft son and daughter in the back, so got this instead.  They just about fold in the back :).

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    What ever you do, don't do what I did and get the Ecoboost Mustang, I thought I was being clever as it's cheaper to run as a daily.  The engine is thrashy and absolute bollocks and the manual is notchy and vague.

    I've got rid of it after a week and bought this instead, a V8 auto.  I'm poorer but much happier!

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  24. My First Esprit - Written Off In 2008

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    16 hours ago, Bazza 907 said:

    Isn't there some chap who breaks Esprits in Marlborough?

    Yes, he's been selling Esprit's for a very long time.  I spoke to him when I bought my Esprit Turbo back in 2002 and he gave me some useful advice about what to buy and what to avoid.  I vaguely seem to remember his name is Mark.

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