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How much?!! £3097!
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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.
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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.
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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The two plated metal bolts that used to attach the handle to the mower via the sturdy bodywork have now been replaced by plastic pins into flimsy plastic brackets.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.-
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Bit of an inconvenience doing that each time you want to drive it though. I would just keep it in the ground floor garage.
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Ain’t that right Marion?
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Purrfect!
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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.
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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?
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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?
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The Russians were doing the same in Ukraine. They were gleefully selecting and trading sea front housing plots in Mariupol, whilst their army was busy razing the city to the ground.
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The Spaniards have got previous with Hamilton, ever since he finished ahead of team mate Alonso in his maiden season (2007). Remember the monkey chants thing that followed in early 2008 Barcelona testing?
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Walked past about 20 filled disabled parking spaces at our local retail park. 18 were occupied by generic family cars with blue badges. The other 2 were occupied by a mean black drug dealer spec. Range Rover Sport and an ugly matte grey Mercedes AMG 63 coupe. Of course neither of these had a blue badge, because it seems that the rules and regulations of our country do not apply to the owners of such vehicles.
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Quite a lot if that towed something of substance is a mobile diesel generator charging the battery as it drives along.
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I think a lot of women drivers don’t have the mental capacity to park without assistance. It used to be a long running joke in our family that whenever we headed off somewhere in two cars, with my mother-in-law following on behind, she would always park right next to me, irrespective of how many free spaces there were. In fact we used to sit in the car giggling until she had parked and then reverse straight back out and park somewhere else.
My MIL is dead now, but I was dismayed to witness her daughter (my wife) do exactly the same thing in another fairly empty car park the other day. She was driving and I was in the passenger seat and she still made a bee line for one of the few spaces right next to another car. Women just can’t trust themselves to park the car correctly without an adjacent reference point.
Women drivers, mother-in-laws and wives: have I just managed the Holy Trinity of inappropriate humour nowadays?
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I had to take my GTE back to the factory very early on when the AC stopped working. They re-gassed it and sent me on my way. By the time I got 75% of the way home the fresh gas had already all leaked out, so I had to call them and take it back again. This time they replaced the condenser under warranty and all has been OK since, touch wood. As for warranty duration, we only got 6 months (“because it’s a Lotus Motorsport product”), but when my gearbox exploded after only 18 months, JMG himself authorised supply of a free-of-charge replacement ex GTE development unit, but I had to pay Lotus Silverstone to fit it, so it was still a pretty eye watering (albeit slightly discounted) labour charge of £1518 (+ VAT) plus all the parts (inc new clutch whilst the gearbox was out) and fluids.
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23 minutes ago, red vtec said:I spoke to my wealth manager the other day.
Is that your wife?
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It’s funny how the Collecting Cars website has become another tool of the trade for sourcing cheap retail stock. I am pretty sure that wasn’t the original intention. Wasn’t it supposed to be a platform for private sales? Maybe they should change the name to Trading Cars?
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6 minutes ago, Bibs said:
Lotus Advanced Performance did a couple of years back, and I'm sure there was something similar around the Bahar era.
Yeah that was it. Just 2 years ago. I guess the tailor-made options approach to new Lotus cars didn’t really catch on.
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Didn’t they launch something like that a couple of years ago?
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Had a little photo shoot of the fun cars this morning.