is a cunt.
Also and the BBC’s blatant reluctance to acknowledge the government’s insistence on stopping the production of ICE vehicles and to the production of EV’s that the vast majority with any sense just don’t want to buy.
Read through this long winded article and the fact no one (well unless you’re a puff or a tree hugger) wants to buy ev’s is barely mentioned….goes on a lot about brexit being the cause of the decline and just breezes over the fact successive governments have told well informed businesses that they need to make milk floats that don’t sell instead of ones that do….and now they are in the shit, so effectively by the time 2030 or whatever date it is they have to stop making ICE vehicles, all our vehicle manufacturers would have gone bust, so all these new ev’s will have to be shipped over from China….with a huge carbon footprint. Wankers.
Nominated by Chuff Chugger.
The charging infrastructure in this shithole of a country is utterly laughable and will only improve at a glacial pace because there’s no money to implement it.
Merely ordering people to buy poorly built chınky tat isn’t going to work either, although I’ve seen a worrying large uptick in “MG’s”, all on lease, presumably.
Anyone who wants an electric cuntmobile already has one and manufacturers are quietly either closing or repurposing factories that were geared up to make them.
Like everything else our rotten government touches (Labour or Tories), it’s ideology over practicality and will fail miserably.
Not that it matters: by 2030, the country will be a smoking ruin.
Goodcmorning to one and all.
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As you say Thomas it will fail miserably. Electric motors have huge advantages over internal combustion engines, can’t be bothered to list them all here. The insurmountable problem is the secondary cell or battery in common parlance. Vast sums of money and effort has been expended on trying to develop a decent battery since Victorian times. The laws of physics decree it cannot be done. Trouble is most MPs don’t understand this simple fact. The government largely consists of human rights lawyers whose technical ability is on a level with our cat. Witness the fact we had an MP who literally paid an electrician to swap out his light bulbs.
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Did the article mention that Toby jugged faced Ed millipede will be kicked to death on our dark streets after another power cut..
If this retàrd government is pushing this then I’m out.
We have a chancellor actively trying to bankrupt the country.
A home secretary that goes to court to allow foreign rapists to stay in hotels.
A foreign secretary that funds terrorist countries.
These traitors can’t be put to death quick enough.
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It’s not just our small car industry that’s fucked, it’s a disaster for the global big boys too.
Why they didn’t tell European governments to get fucked when this legislation was dreamt up, god only knows.
Now the reckoning is just over the horizon.
I can see the European divisions of the likes of Ford, Nissan, Toyota, Honda etc, pulling out of the market and concentrating on the east and the americas.
Which will decimate not just the car factories, but the dealer network, parts supply and distribution, all the way down to mechanics and showroom salesmen.
Top effort everyone!
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I can’t say I’ve got much sympathy for many of the manufacturers.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda had developed the technology years ago, so could make adjustments to cater for lunatic governments like our own.
Ford, however, had nothing.
Yet, in a fit of virtue signalling idiocy, once they’d cobbled something together, hastily ditched the Fiesta and the Focus and told their customers to lump it.
Absolute marketing suicide.
All so that a minority of tree huggers might think they’re cuddly.
Fucking idiots.
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Two great posts there FMC. If we had cabinet ministers with your grasp and perception this country would be in a fucking sight better position.
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Clueless wankers
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I understand they are in partnership alongside VW
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After being stiffed by Mercedes regarding a fault known by them, I have no fucking sympathy for the cunts. Perhaps a bit of customer service may have helped me be on their side. At least if I buy a chinky car I know it will be shite.
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The impending resurrection of Jaguar should prove interesting, or it may go bust and come under Chinese ownership which in all fairness would be a huge improvement on the current cunts that own it. I’ve invested some of my paltry savings in Gopeds all have a little smokey, smelly two stroke engines. Love it as do the grandchildren. Me thinks I’m ageing like a fine wine or just turning into an old cunt not sure, the demise of the ICE is just another blow on the road to Stone Age living for all. Are erupting volcanos to be penalised for the massive amounts of pollution they churn out? I’ve got some new spanner’s…
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From time to time I toy with the idea of getting a motorcycle again BB.
If I do I might look for one that runs on 20:1 and has some ring wear. Just to be bastardical you know.
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What amuses me is where is the generating capacity coming from to power all these milk floats? You know all the nuclear power stations that mini brain Miliband has in the pipeline?
Just hang the quisling cunts and have done with it.
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They want to take us back to the Stone age.Cunt truffles.Thanks to the WEF and Adolf Klaus.
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The depreciation on an electric car is brutal too. They lose value faster than just about anything except gambling or non bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Some cars lose £500 a day!
https://www.wired.com/story/evs-are-losing-up-to-50-percent-of-their-value-in-one-year/
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And some say Thomas, that EVs are bought only by vegans and tree huggers. I don’t agree. They are bought only by nutters.
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Morning arfur…I must say though that higher end Tesla’s acceleration is mind-blowing. One of my clients took me for a spin and it was like being launched out of a cannon.
My business being deep in the country, we raced the Tesla against my slightly breathed-upon GSX-R 1000…I had to redline my bike to keep up with it!
It was only over 130 mph that I started to pull away from it.
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Stop showing off kneivel. 😜
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Knieval?
Hey, I’m not an alkie, you cheeky monkey.
I’m a druggie.
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But an ev can only offer mind blowing acceleration for a very short time as the drain on battery range is mad, whereas your ice can offer its acceleration for the duration of its tank of fuel….admittedly harsh acceleration will affect mpg, but not as much as the battery usage on an ev. Bit of a sales gimmick imo. Who the fuck needs to accelerate like a rocketship on a public road? Sure a bit of decent acceleration is needed at times, but not so fast as to pin the dog in the back to the rear window and cover the wife and kids in maccy d milkshakes.
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The impressive acceleration available in an EV is one of the big advantages of an electric motor. Its torque “curve” is in fact a straight line from stationary up to failure of the bearings and even that is at ridiculously high revs having no out of balance or reciprocal forces to handle. As I mentioned above the problem with EVs is not the motor.
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Electric funeral 🎵🎸….
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Sir Kweer should follow part time electric vee-hickle salesman Donald Trump’s example by touting Lord Alli’s milk floats outside 10 Downing Street.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905
😂
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Where cars are concerned I’m illiterate. Am I one of a few, or the only one on here that doesn’t drive. I’ve friends who drive me round and never discuss the matter. Mostly I use public transport and must know at the back of my head realise its expensive running a car and sometimes I offer to pay towards the petrol. I’m also the nuisance on the bike you motorists would dearly love to knock down. Not a popular person to talk about the problems with the the motor industry. Must also keep quiet about using my legs more for health reasons. My best friend is a lady who drives and walks for miles with her dog, is the only person I know who does both.
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Sammy,
What about those eleccy bicycles?
Tempted?
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Not really Mis, it still wouldn’t prevent me from getting thrombosis, besides the expense.
I’m surprised at not getting it in the neck from you motorists, after dropping a few subtle hints. They might come with late Sunday morning risers.
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You might want one of these fuckers.
A kid was clocked at 135kmh on a city street on a scooter.
https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/espana/2025/08/06/velocidad-record-patinete-espana-cazado-torrevieja-135-kmh/00031754477375578964302.htm
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I wouldnt be seen dead in a electric car.
People would talk.
“it’s his poor wife i feel sorry for…”
” look at him, doesnt even seem to be sorry, hes shameless…”
” always knew there was something wrong with him…”
Im staunchly Diesel.
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Bravo Mis, keep on trucking as the cousins say. Look down on cunts driving electric vehicles with scorn.
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Will the mean our gyppo friends with all their white diesel transits, will now require ev chargers to be installed down their remote field in the middle of nowhere by councils….ie us?
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I remember the old joke. What time is it when a Ford passes a Ford. Tin past Tin.
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Also, the Rolls Canardly. Rolls down hills but canardly get up ’em.
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My dad told me that canardly joke when I was a kid.
His other one was the guy who made a wooden car…..it wooden go.
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If the cunts in Westminster have “mandated” it then it’s going to be a catastrophe,absolutely guaranteed.
It’s a fucking pipe dream,propped up,like the windmills and all the other “green” energy,by massive funding from the taxpayer and borrowing of course.
Another nail in their coffin.
Good morning.
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I assume all the car manufacturers got on board with EVs as they were promised vast sums of public money and informed the general public would be forced to buy them.
Then the chînks showed up and fucked them anyway.
Brilliant.
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Have no fear, Ed’s magic windmills will provide the majority of green, CO2-free energy by 2030. Isn’t it just wonderful?
Ed’s trying to flog a pup. The answer is indeed blowing in the wind – the wind from Ed’s arsehole. The answer is to introduce new taxes, pricing the majority off the road by 2030.
You will own nothing and be happy.
I’ll be happy once the Labour cabinet are pushed off Beachy Head, each in one of their beloved milk floats.
Fuck off.
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Our car industry is shot, like everything else in the managed decline shithole we call home. Blighty is in a bad way but it’s going to get worse. LandRover are top of the pile, more concerned about being woke than producing cars.
But we are a country full of retards now.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mTSDCuDqA04
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Not to worry, we are heading for third world status so here is a vehicle for our future
https://share.google/YMedDZmauTSkWD9e8
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Millicunt came up with a plan to dwarf the waste of money that is HS2, Something like electrifying all the roads which in theory would give a lot of people a lot of work for a very long time and force everyone onto electric cars with tiny batteries so you could travel short distances to get car onto the grid.
All while negotiating deals with foreign electricity companies to build and run nuclear, wind and solar power stations all over the place to power the new road network with lots of anti British clauses in the contract capable of entirely shutting down the road network if foreign owners felt like it.
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Yet again cunt politicians telling the little people what we will buy, drive, and when to eat sleep shit etc. I will continue to drive my diesel Xtrail clanker with 190k on the clock until she blows, and fuck them all.
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I think this lad would be a good on IsaC
https://youtu.be/XRFZku5uPNw?si=O0MUCt7hVykkD025
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Seeing the Mini’s in the header pic, Austin are making a couple of original 1959 spec models both with 848cc engines for the Goodwood Revival in a couple of weeks time. Proves just like Aston Martin, modern repro’s can be done, unfortunately, in rather small numbers & very expensive.
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I don’t know anything about car choices or car prices in the UK.
In fact, I don’t know much about cars here either.
Every new car has to have an electric engine here.
Mine is a Kia Sportage.
To get round the regulations it’s a diesel but also has an electric engine.
The electric only kicks in to keep things like the headlights and air con running when I am cruising, not touching the accelerator.
The rev counter goes down to zero.
I get about 2 minutes worth of electric power for each hour driving.
The electric engine also kicks in if I want to accelerate.
Then it’s fast…… Very fast.
It’s my second new Sportage.
The first one cost me about 22.000 euros.
I kept it for 2 years when I swapped it for the one with the tiny, additional electric engine.
Which cost me…….. 43.000.
21 grand more for a piece of shit, electric engine.
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When ideology forms the sole basis of planning and decision making, and overrules practicalities you know you are damned.
As Thomas says the infrastructure is not in place and won’t be for decades.
Back of the envelope stuff:- motorway service area, one pump can serve a customer every, say 5 mins, ie 12 an hour. 10 pumps, 120 an hour. Battery re-charging takes an age, so suddenly the number of re-charge points needed far exceeds the number of pumps. The power needed has yet to be even mentioned. Buy shares in coffee, because a fuck of a lot of it will be drunk waiting for the fucking car to charge.
Have you ever seen a ‘leccy combine harvester or a ‘leccy armoured vehicle? Wait until you start seeing ships blobbing about in the ocean with flat batteries.
Nothing wrong with ‘leccy vehicles in the right place, cities and fairground bumper cars, horses for courses, but not a one size fits all ideological driven (see what I did there?) politicly mantra.
early afternoon all.
ps and I don’t want a “clever Robo-car” that runs on AI. Two wheels, handlebars and a IC engine please. or three pedals, a stick on the left side and a wheel to hold for when it is raining and cold. (I’m not as young as I was)
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Spot on Triton mate. EVs a great idea for buzzing around locally as long as you are able to charge it at home. Shit otherwise.
Must ask, do you actually have a Triton 650? Bonney lump in a featherbed perhaps?
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Not any longer. It was T.Bird in a slim line with Norton g/box. Now down to a couple of Enfields and a 20’s Panther.
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If the government don’t give you the choice, you know it’s the wrong option. From cash vs digital money, to internal combustion vs electric vehicles, we want the choice. Bastards. They should at least roll out the infrastructure first. When I had a hybrid, many public chargers were the wrong type, or didn’t work.
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I do not own or want an EV.
I am in the process of clearing out my dead parents house and have sold some of the stuff.
Chap turns up in the millennium falcon EV and it refused to reverse up the drive because the pampas grass scared it!
The bumper sensors decided it was having a collision and locked the fucking brakes, which ended up with me having to shift 13 heavy concrete flower pots/traffic calming measures down the fucking drive.
So much for the freedom of driving when the car dictates what it will or wont do inside normal parameters.
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