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I concur.

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differences: The two plated metal bolts that used to attach the handle to the mower via the sturdy bodywork have now been replaced by plastic pins into flimsy plastic brackets.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?

Bought a new Flymo to replace my 10 year old knackered one. It’s amazing how a decade’s development has resulted in a product that is inferior in pretty much every measurable way. Do companies even test their products in the real world nowadays?

I was looking online for a cheap secondhand car in Ireland on behalf of a colleague yesterday. At his restricted budget only one type of car kept popping up. The Nissan Leaf. All of the equivalent age/mileage ICE cars were significantly more expensive, but nobody wants an old EV.

You’ve got to wonder whether Hamas really thought this through. After the gleeful hysteria of that attack on 7th October, their very existence and that of their friends, families and neighbours in Gaza is on the line. Probably 33,000 dead so far, many of whom would have been part of that Hamas incursion. Thousands more facing starvation and relying on international aid. Huge swathes of their land reduced to rubble. Infrastructure decimated. Israeli military acting with impunity all across the Gaza Strip. Is that really what Hamas was hoping for? What have they got in return? A few dozen primarily civilian hostages cooped up in a tunnel somewhere? Of course every sensible person knows Netanyahu has gone too far, but Hamas themselves gave him this opportunity.

Bit of an inconvenience doing that each time you want to drive it though. I would just keep it in the ground floor garage.

Ain’t that right Marion?

Purrfect!

Looks a bit frog-eyed and ill proportioned: presumably it’s one of those 80s kit car bodies? I would rather have kept a twin cam Europa body myself.

Just an aside about fleet vehicles. Are employers expecting their company car / van driving employees to charge their EVs overnight at home, ready for the next day’s work? If so how does that work from a billing point of view? Also what if they have no access to home charging?

I guess he didn’t write that whilst squashed in a seat next to a sweaty fat guy in the back row of a Ryanair 737?