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For those with an interest in Escorts (cars that is, not the other sort) this may be a nice coffee/tea break diversion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1iPNGlSQrw Chap passes driving test and first car is an RS1600. In Africa. |
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Interesting vid! Thanks GP.
As a bit of an anorak I was checking out the differences on the SA spec car.... He didn’t do the RS2000 much good, did he? Edit- Just curious as to how you found the video in the first place..... Last edited by Mike Bell; 17 Dec 2018 at 20:31. |
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An old friend of mine is a day away from completing 6 and a bit months of touring Oz in a UK registered LR Defender. Around the time the Landy was shipped I did a bit of searching to find out how popular a "Big Lap" of Oz had become. I stumbled across the 4xOverland main site videos and watched a few finding them interesting (me being, of course, an expert having spent (part of) 2 days with a rented Mitsubishi 4x4 at Uluru a few years ago .... ) and informative. Also the trip Mr. White was then reporting involved some tyre testing and the idea of testing a serious off-road tyre and how to report it meaningfully was also interesting. More recently he has produced a superb series, from a trip back to Africa, that I found extremely informative and a joy to watch on many levels. Anyway, I subscribed to the channel - something I rarely do - and of course the December tsunami of videos (apparently it is a key time of year for attracting views and therefore income for all "YouTubers") has been presented to my phone's "stuff of interest according to Google" feed. Some suggestions I watch. Many I don't. Every now and again he pulls something in from the old cine film and video archives he has and comes up with a coffee break length gem of some sort. The Escort image was something I could not pass up. Turned out to be suitably entertaining and perhaps typical of the sort of experiences that those of us of a certain age would have had around that time, although not in Africa, obviously. Later material, but still old stuff, covers his adventures in Range Rovers although earlier than that are the family's adventures in 4x4s when he was much too young to drive. Officially. OK, time to wake up .... more coffee required? |
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I understand why you dont want to bother with the Spica but Webers?? C'on, do yourself a favor be brave and go the the real thing, Dell'Ortos! They go for cheap because the parts are said to be hard to source. In addition, they come with a larger airbox allowing the engine to breathe at its max. OK, you can't use the bad quality jets found here and there, but they are second to none. Replacing the ugly bumpers is a must, no question about that!
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As to the French gov' being share holder in some car makers companies, who can tell for sure that FIAT is really "independent"? Who can swear that the US gov' never helped in any way Boeing for instance, even through the NASA? I remember the city of Firenze running a contest for EV's or bimodale to encourage lower emission vehicles. And the winner was… Piaggio with its Zip n'Zip scooter! Same thing for the Prius in Japan as far as I can recall. May be a good question could be "who is not cheating the rules" rather than "who is cheating the rules"!
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Dart charge works (unless you're driving a foreign car and trying to pay while visiting!) but the French had working systems some 30 years ago at which time the govt was saying they were waiting for the technology!! A 10% or so drop isn't small but austerity has seen many UK outfits survive worse. |
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I'm not sure about the new test, presumably if it's the same test for all cars then the league table will be similar (assuming they aren't cheating)? All that changes will be the numbers but the worst cars will still be the worst? |
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They sound about as cheerful as the goons guarding Macron's place in Le Touquet - they look as though they don't want to be there either!
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FWIW I just changed home insurance providers and did it all on line. Quote:
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Given the "world has got smaller" there's probably more "need" for Concorde these days than when it was introduced. However, environmentally I think we should be cutting as many flights as possible. Anyway, I'm not convinced that it is the EU that has ran its course it is Europe (possibly the Western world) the region. The increasing importance of Asia (etc.) is a large factor in the problems that Europe (& other Western countries) is facing - the nature of local business is changing and the issue is how we adapt to that. It's not the first time it has happened and a continuous cycle, which is survivable but requires changes in people's expectations and work. |
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Agreed, my point re Concorde was that technology has overtaken the requirement to be in places at that speed. Video conferencing etc. precludes the need for face to face meetings.
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Again, no argument from me.
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Being domiciled outside of the UK, and living mostly in Spain, it wasn't possible to and/or expedient to use UK based insurers. So I am talking about Spanish insurers and their practices. Although a couple/few British insurers have entered the Spanish market with Spanish offshoots (Direct Line, for example) and are beginning to shake up the market, the laws surrounding the financial services industry in Spain is heavily weighted for the benefit of the providers. As for online, in many parts of Spain you were lucky if you could even get enough speed to do anything online. Even now, 10 mbps is considered to be really fast in many parts of the country, whilst now that I am back in the UK, I had my broadband speeds reduced from 300 mbps to just 100 as I just don't need the higher speeds. So no, not much insurance business is conducted online in Spain, even now. Quote:
But there are many in the UK who did actually believe, or so they say, the figures on Boris' bus. |
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I wasn't in the UK at the time so not sure if there were any cogent arguments put forward, but the main protagonists for remaining were (in no particular order) Cameron, Blair, Campbell, Adonis, Clegg, Cable and Mandelson. None of whom I'd trust to sell me a used car. |
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I wonder if the driver of this gritter is suing the local council for not gritting the roads https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...yside-46591393 |
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