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You could also take parts off 8 to get one descent one….I’ll get my coatI would rather have 9x QPV DS. Bulk order discount and all!
You could also take parts off 8 to get one descent one….I’ll get my coatI would rather have 9x QPV DS. Bulk order discount and all!
I'd buy something to enjoy and write off as scrap
Dennis, this is not a wife thread.Perfect, and totally consistent with my world view!
Sorry, Adam...misread the title. Stupid English:english translation program...Dennis, this is not a wife thread.
or even programme....Sorry, Adam...misread the title. Stupid English:english translation program...
Exactleye!or even programme....
I’m currently in Brazil. While pick-up trucks are popular here, much of the cars are small hatchbacks and small booted saloons. There are also SUVs.Sure the second and third worlds will have no interest in EVs for a long time but that just means you need a nice diesel engine in a pick up truck. What worries me more is how China is going to price dump cheaper EVs to take a massive market share leap in Europe. I would not want to be VW going forward.
Those seats!!!This has just popped up on my radar, love the colour and nearly bought one back in the day but the old man refused to act as guarantee on the finance deal
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My parents had one, first car I drove after I passed my test.This has just popped up on my radar, love the colour and nearly bought one back in the day but the old man refused to act as guarantee on the finance deal
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I had a Fiat 131 Mirafiori Estate way back when. Bought it from a guy in a pub (The Millstream in Bosham) for £70. Came with two wires to rub together to start it and no keys, and a crumpled front wing. All fixed up and sprayed for about £10. Went well until the head gasket blew and I scrapped it.My parents had one, first car I drove after I passed my test.
My father bought a brand new silver 131 Mirafiori estate: SLC 316R. My mother hated it after the previous Mk2 and Mk3 Cortina Estates and it was replaced 2 years later with a new Saab 99 - that started his love affair with Saabs; a new 900 turbo every 2 years or so followed by 93s which continued until he had to stop driving many years later.I had a Fiat 131 Mirafiori Estate way back when. Bought it from a guy in a pub (The Millstream in Bosham) for £70. Came with two wires to rub together to start it and no keys, and a crumpled front wing. All fixed up and sprayed for about £10. Went well until the head gasket blew and I scrapped it.
Good job dad had the foresight , they are and were as Steve Coogan alias Paul Calf would say bag of sh..e ..........like any parent with only one child tried it once and didnt like itThis has just popped up on my radar, love the colour and nearly bought one back in the day but the old man refused to act as guarantee on the finance deal
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To illustrate… four door Chevrolet (Vauxhall) Corsa, Ford Fiesta and Ka, anybody?I’m currently in Brazil. While pick-up trucks are popular here, much of the cars are small hatchbacks and small booted saloons. There are also SUVs.
SUVs aside, the small cheap hatchbacks and small booted saloons are the kinds of cars that are deemed no longer profitable in the EV age - Ford culled the Fiesta recently. It’s similar across the second world and large parts of the first and saying they should just get a diesel pickup is somewhat short-sighted and hardly green…
There’s a reason why the Lancia Ypsilon outsells Alfa in Europe in the one country it is sold in. Italian streets and roads. Again, this is something that negates the ability for home charging.
I’m not against EV but it cannot be the only solution to reducing C02 emissions. All the wishful thinking and hope obscures basic realities. C02 recycling - like that by Porsche and the alternative from Coryton - would keep ICE going but significantly reduce the C02 in the atmosphere, our reliance of similarly nasty chemicals from people we ought not to rely on and, avoids having to replace a billion or so cars and the c02 creation that involves.
Manufacturers have been on the back foot since Dieselgate and simply said yes to the politicians but several are now fighting back and saying that other than for luxury, high value cars (generally), the answer to future sustainable mobility cannot be just EV.