The G Man

I saw one today in a Mazda dealership ffs! 

3 hours ago, coldel said:

Did you use the railways in the 80s? If so, what was your experience? I lived in Paris and used cross European and local trains.

 

...and let’s not forget part of the railway is currently nationalised, it’s the bit that fails more often than the trains.

I used the railways in the 80’s, never let me down.  I lived in Holland and Germany, I would still not consider bombing the f#ck out of infrastructure to enable a better service.

i work in the railways now, Maggz is right, safety takes 3rd place, I could go way in depth on this, but,  to the everyday user, they don’t really care.  Network rail are a public body, that’s trying to be run on a private, profit making basis, not as a national, critical infrastructure basis.

The water infrastructure in Scotland is still in public hands and is thriving, public owned infrastructure can and always has supported private investment, unless it’s the Blairite, PPF initiative, that left me, you and everyone else in debt, to the same extent as the global crash.

Can I just implore, any right thinking citizen, not to vote for the profit without public accountability that the Tories and particularly Johnson and his cronies are promoting.

I’m starting to like the look of these the more I look into them, in a couple of years I’d consider this or similar as a second car.  The video gives an insight to what is behind the idea, not a bad watch

3 hours ago, ShortPaul said:

Sorry to say i have absolutely no interest in electric cars and i have no intention of ever buying one 

Oh but you have, to declare absolutely no interest in an EV in an EV thread, is showing an interest in EV’s 

If Boris Johnson can and is capable to do all of the things and more that coldel mentions (only a snippet of his capabilities) to the people you would think that he most cares about, just think and reflect on what he would do to anyone he doesn’t know, all of the rest of us.

i set out in my other post on this thread, Corbyn, being unelectable, is the problem, foisted on those who would like an alternative to the hedge fund management that a future Tory government will bring.

Letting Momentum take over the Labour Party, has I’m afraid, led us into a brand of socialism that looks likely, from the Tories, that in any other time, may have had the prefix National.  

Johnson is a scary wee man, with a nose longer than Pinocchio and having his strings pulled by landed, self proclaimed privileged gentry. 

Little bit more in-depth look at this....

Hmm....interested enough to keep posting about it....let it go man 

Bill from CJ’s take

Super  

A real game changer 

This whole mess lies fairly and squarely at Labours’ door.  An unelectable leader, half the shadow cabinet unelectable to boot.  Sat on the fence for 4 years and still bumbling on, what a mess they’re in.

Some form of Brexit is inevitable, however the type of Brexit led by Johnson that we are likely to get is unpalatable if it leads to a conservative majority railroading it through, which will be more damaging than what their near 10 years of ‘austerity’ has achieved, to get us to this point.

Villains and braggarts on both sides of the argument, but with one glaring certainty, there is NO better deal than the one we already have.  The one that is known, the one that can be more influenced on the inside than from the outside.

So bad is our countries position, that this country will take decades to recover from the continuing gamble perpetuated by the hedge fund and ex hedge fund managers, now running or wanting to run this country.

Despairing times, I feel, IMO

Another caveat for this thread, no links allowed please 

Had this fitted today, wow in so many ways 

2016 Mazda 2.2 diesel, £0 tax, loads of poke, clean car, by the time the diesel twats catch up with you, you’ll be in an EV

Jay Leno hit the head on the nail  when he talked about the relationship with man and the horse re the onset of the automobile, all types of woe were eulogised as to the end of the horse.

what happened instead was the horse moved on to leisure activities and didn’t disappear.  Instead it moved onto a thing that was used at the weekends.

Same thing will happen with the onset of electric cars and the same consequence of the combustion engine, it’ll be used For leisure.  We’ll all be in EV’s in 5-10 years 

Not updated my wee Mustang thread for donkeys, so a wee update.

Upgraded the headers to 1” 7/8 dia and had a new tune installed, gone is the canned Dream Science 439 tune with JLT intake (intake still there), in comes the X Force Headers and bespoke Lund tune (500 dyno’d). Today the X Force with Varex smart box arrived, getting installed tomorrow.

Gone the Ford Racing by Borla (3” from cats to 2.5” and a bit of a compromise adaptation ( X pipe had to go), to full 3” engine back system.

Unfortunately, no pics of the headers, but here’s the X Force Cat Back:

Should auger well for Whipple install 

forgot to add new 18 model manifold as well 

50 minutes ago, ATTAK Z said:

Not quite the same though - what's the bhp on that model ?

Very similar I’d say, supercharged S550 by recognised Ford partnership tuner, the Roush puts out 720bhp.  Same supercharger, some different cosmetics, Roush suspension, not FP, Roush active exhaust, RHD, 10 speed auto or 6 speed manual.

Pretty much the same, here it is in the same Twister Orange, except in Oz   https://www.ford.com.au/performance/mustang-rspec/

You can buy a Roush licensed built U.K. spec car from here, https://www.parks.uk.com/ford/used-cars/9723613-ford-mustang-5.0-v8-gt-2-dr-auto-coupe/

.with 3 year full warranty, one in the advert is pre registered, new it’s £90k

On 23/07/2019 at 21:56, GranTurismoEra said:

i have a feeling it will be around £60,000-£70,000

 

Looks wise it looks good. I rather this than a 4 pot. 

That’s probably a bit optimistic for the U.K. market.  If a base one is $60k, plus 24% VAT + duty, that’s $75k before shipping, add in the extra build cost of a RHD, middlemen costs in getting them over here and supported, the small numbers that would probably be involved and the £ bombing against the $ at the minute, I’d say nearer £85k -£90k for a reasonably well spec’d model.  That’s highish end 911 territory, but if it’s as good as has been written......

I don’t think Chevy will put the effort Ford did into the Mustang as a ‘glogbal’ brand and at the Mustangs launch in the U.K., the £ v $ was around $1.75ish.  I’d love to see The Camaro being pushed as a global brand, with competitive pricing against the global Mustang.  Will that happen?  Who knows, but a Mustang GT is getting close to £50k now (again exchange rate not helping)

Anyway, if I had £85-90k I’d buy one 

Got the colour wrong, it’s shadow black chrome, not black chrome 

.....and the bonus that the car is now clad in MPSS rather than P Zeros

Spare set of alloys have been painted Chrome Black, pic of the car with one on the front, stock on the rear.  Picture not doing it justice really but paint job really thins the stock alloy down.

all the detritus is due to sorting out a bent mud flap and cleaning the Brembo 

other picture with both on.

Cracking wee motor 

Some really nice touches and a good wee power output, super 

Christ Almighty, that’s a rotten thing tae happen.  There’ll be some technical reason for the airbag not going off, I couldn’t begin tae speculate I’m afraid.  

All ok is a good result the motor is just a piece of metal and will be replaced.  Hope the perp gets a thoroughly good ‘thrashing’ figuratively speaking, from the law! 

Wow, 10 years ffs! 

That was her face as I was trying tae explain, RWHP and Crank