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If you want a quick ‘Ring time, get an Evija X.

What? Again?

Looks to me like the suspension has collapsed all round. Maybe that’s why it’s so cheap?

Looks like he’s picked off the infamous LOTUS lettering above the sat nav screen.

I bet I spend more per mile insuring my Evora than anyone else. A combination of high value and limited mileage is an insurer’s dream. It’s always a struggle to get an agreed value quote for £90k.

Ah yes the beautiful model named EMEVA!

Looks lovely and a great buy for those after an auto.

I was talking to a financial advisor the other day. He echoes the earlier points. He has lost count of the number of times he has met people with complete financial security and more money coming in from investments than they have ever spent before, but their mentality is still not to spend. He gave some examples, like “when was the last time you both had a nice day out in London?”. “Oh ages ago. Have you seen the price of train tickets nowadays?” ”stuff the train. Get a bloke in a limo to pick you both up, drive you there, wait until you’re ready and then drive you home. As for holidays, go long-haul and Business class.” Treat yourselves FFS.

Had a little photo shoot of the fun cars this morning.

How much?!! £3097!

In Germany at the moment for a Sales Meeting with colleagues from other countries. The South Korean guy said EV car production in his country increased by 68% last year, but this year’s increase is likely to be no more than 3% at best. Looks like the market is now saturated with the things.

Flew out of Stansted this morning. Asked the Bureau de Change how much 200 Euros would cost me if I bought them on a debit card. “That’ll be £226.23, sir”. The bank rate is currently £1.00 = €1.17, so those €200 would have cost them about £171, so £55 (32%) profit. It’s literally a licence to print money.

Too true. Some of the differences: The two plated metal bolts that used to attach the handle to the mower via the sturdy bodywork have now been replaced by plastic pins into flimsy plastic brackets. Those two points take all of the pressure of the operator’s movements. I will be amazed if they don’t snap. The cable is an annoying few centimetres shorter than its predecessor. The mower no longer folds into a compact shape for storage in the shed. Whereas before you needed less than 4ft of space, you now need 6ft. Also much more difficult to carry the mower because of this: you can really only drag it along by the handle which isn’t great if you need to cross a gravel driveway. Collection box area re-engineered to use less material: resulting design much more flimsy and less efficient at collecting the cuttings. Oh and the control box on the handle hasn’t been screwed on properly. The screw heads are all mangled up so I can’t rectify it. To be honest it doesn’t do anything better than the 10 year old model: same loud noise and cutting quality, but everything else is worse.

Is that just because the order book for the First Edition has now sold out, so they’re on to the base model + options at extra cost?