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Balmoral no more in Scotland??? What about Lichtenstein or Monaco?
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Sir James is a good Holt boy - I won't hear a bad word!! A few years older than me but we were at the same school. He was an excellent cross-country runner.
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I always thought affordable and Dyson was an oxymoron. As for a Dyson car, no doubt it'll break a drive belt every time it sees a shoelace or elastic band in the road and you wont be able to pick anyone up in it due to the cabin filters blocking after 10 minutes driving.
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I note that Nissan are not now going to build the X Trial in the UK citing Brexit uncertainties. Of course nothing to do with Gohsn or the latest diesel rules. They will be built in Japan instead where they can be easily shipped to countries that have lesser diesel rules.
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Legacy. Legacy. There will be a lot of stuff coming down that will need to be stopped. I suspect he'd done something to smooth the building of the car and it's been discovered. Look out for a few politicos going in the near future.
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Sushi Carlos will have to respond to its part of the french diesel gate now he's down and done. Assuming he comes back here with his futon one day or another. Because French state is share holder of Renault, I wonder if he will be fired… twice! Seeing how things are going I find its not the good moment to apply for a new passeport if your name is Dupond, "l'ensemble de nos services étant submergé, excusez nous de la gêne occasionnée". Sushi Carlos and president's boy friend have at least eight passeports… if not nine!
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Is the X-Trail such a good product to have manufactured at the plant? What they could probably do with is a decent Leaf that is not as compromised as the one most recently launched. For reference: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/COM...E/#region_navi (I was going to make a joke about "Turning over a new Leaf" but it might be on poor taste so I won't.) |
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You mean Nissans or just the X-Trail? I was happy with my 2.8 GR but will never ever buy another vehicle from this brand unless its a Datsun, Fairlady roadster or 240. For decades, the single trace of engineering you can find was due to Dupont. They made a special "no scratch self repairing during the night" paint. Used during on year only on the X-Trail bonnet, domestic market only if I'm right.
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There would seem seem to be little point in making the X-Trail in a part of the world where is does not have a significant market share and where whatever share it has is likely to fall rather than rise. Migtht as well bring them in from Russia (via Japan). More to the point there would seem to be little point in being concerned about not building a car that was not going to be successful. I see JLR have cancelled the Range Rover SV "coupe" or whatever that 2 door version of a Sport (was it the sport? they call look alike to me these days) was called. OK, only 999 to be made and a silly price to be paid but at least it would have been built in Coventry (supposedly) so why have there not been signs of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the media? After all a media that cannot differentiate a small private plane from a jet and an air registration ID from a model number surely isn't going to be able to differentiate between a Range Rover limited edition and a mass market city car and would have both creating millions of jobs and generating huge tax revenues for the Treasury. |
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If it means fewer awful SUVs on the road, that sounds good to me...
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Personally I dislike the size of them since one cannot see through them or around them easily and to me that makes roads more dangerous than they need to be for most uses. But then that is also the case for many "car" designs, especially with heavily tinted windows, and most vans. And people carriers (or should we think in terms of vans with seats?) offer all of the challenges too. Never mind. All will be equal and problems of this type irrelevant once fully autonomous transport pods are the only game in town and country. |
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Interesting series on BBC2 at the moment - 'Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil'. A three-parter, the first one was last Monday night dealing with Cameron and the build up to the referendum. Interviews with some of the key EU politicians and a few Brits (not Cameron or May though) gives an insight into some of the thinking that went on at the time.
Second one tonight about the financial turmoil in Greece and next week about the migrant crisis. |
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Indeed I thought the same but of course under WTO you can also agree tariff free deals. And I believe the EU/Japan deal is a WTO deal since Japan is not part of the Customs Union.
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And the 90 days free movement for all uk passport holders. No change there then.
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