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You can’t mean me, I drive a Duster.Can you lot please put yer car c*cks away...It's feckin tedious.
You haven't got a car, have you..?Can you lot please put yer car c*cks away...It's feckin tedious.
I hav a a boring jelly mould 4 wheeler, like everyone on here.You haven't got a car, have you..?
OMG.... you're Mondeo Man...?I hav a a boring jelly mould 4 wheeler, like everyone on here.
You poor, poor bastard....
Um, the Sierra was the jelly mouldOMG.... you're Mondeo Man...?
You poor, poor bastard....
I know, I had the estate version but even that was a blob. You've got to admit, though, the Mondeo isn't far behind.Um, the Sierra was the jelly mould
Besides which.... there never was a Sierra Man.
I had an XR 4x4 back in the day. She cost me £900 a year to insure 30 years ago!
I loved that car; bought her at two years old and kept her for nine years.I dunno, I thought the Mondeos were much nicer looking but they ain't half increased in size over the years.
Check out the new electric "Mustang". It's just a jacked up Mondeo lookalike.I had an XR 4x4 back in the day. She cost me £900 a year to insure 30 years ago!
I dunno, I thought the Mondeos were much nicer looking but they ain't half increased in size over the years.
People will pay top whack for the Mustang badge.
Close...I have a ford 1.6 Titanium model.Um, the Sierra was the jelly mould
Have a guess.
Had a Sierra too.
That's no more a Mustang than my Beemer.
Whilst I'm not a fan of wishing my life away, I cannot wait for 2028 or 2029 when the government of the day announce that the ban on selling cars with petrol or diesel combustion engines will be postponed for five or ten years. I really don't see how we can go all electric because the infrastructure placement is unworkable.
The only solution my simple mind can see is portable chargers; come home from work to your terraced house with no drive or garage, carry 50kg 'portable' charger out in the street (in the pissing rain and howling gale), plug car into charger. Get up in the morning, unplug portable charger (assuming some twat hasn't nicked it) and lump it inside, through the lounge and kitchen out the garden and plug it in to charge outside, drive off to work. Get back home after work, walk in through front door and find a summons on your doorstep from the person what tripped over your charger in the dark and bust their teeth out on the pavement. Lump 'portable' charger back through the house and plug car in. Get up in the morning and some toss pot has nicked your battery (prolly some twat that crossed the Channel illegally in a kids inflatable paddling pool). You then find that they didn't even have the decency to let your car charge fully (defo an illegal immigrant) so you don't get to work that day. Can't get to work? Fired. No problem, at least you won't need the car anymore.
You're not exactly seling it to me....
I'm not intending to.You're not exactly seling it to me....
It amazes me that the royal we are soldiering ahead with this shitwit plan. We stopped at M4 services going in and out of London last week and there was only two plug-in points at each. Ok, so it's no biggie to add a few more but in nine years time, they'll need to have dozens of them. Mrs P was on a bout it the other day; how is it going to work in car parks for companies like BA where they have a multi-storey at LHR for several thousand cars? And what impact will it have on the national grid?
My"green" employer does not have have a single charging point in any of it's staff car parks.
In fact I don't think it has any in public car parks either.
Despite the fact it bangs on about being carbon neutral and promotes all sorts of eco friendly initiatives.
The staff car parks would make fantastic sense as vehicles there would be frequent use commuter stuff with ample time to fully charged during the working day.
In fact I don't think it has any in public car parks either.
Despite the fact it bangs on about being carbon neutral and promotes all sorts of eco friendly initiatives.
The staff car parks would make fantastic sense as vehicles there would be frequent use commuter stuff with ample time to fully charged during the working day.
All these eco measures being implimented here to save the planet are just pissing in the wind until the big polluters (the USA, China, Russia, India) get on board and do the same.
It's a bit like swapping your house's old high wattage bulbs for eco ones when your neighbour is a floodlit football stadium.
I think that by 2030 they are hoping most cars will be self charging & reduce the need for charging stations, a problem they haven’t thought about or have chosen to ignore is the disposal of the batteries, no doubt they will become landfill & then we will all succumb to Radon poisoning.
Even then, it won't be enough. The way the seas are being raped, there'll be no fish left by 2045. The ocean dies, we die. It's that simple.
Self-charging i.e. hybrids use more fuel when the engine is used to power the electric motor rather than when just powering the combustion engine. Kind of defeats the object.
The batteries cause massive damage to the environment in their production and their disposal.
I was thinking more solar power.