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  1. Sadly I still remember people driving without seat belts!! Mad! I always fitted belts to my 50s classics regardless even though legally they don't need them. Tesla are trying to be the premium side of the market but it's the cheaper end that will make EVs be taken up. We need a Dacia style EV but batteries and infrastructure will be the stumbling blocks and I doubt they will be ready by 2030? They wont ban petrol cars they will just tax them off the roads or change the petrol in such a way it will be too costly to bother adjusting engines to cope? Then again when they ditched lead in petrol it didn't kill off classics did it? Let's see what happens in about 5 years time?
  2. What you letting her eat biscuit in your pristine car? Oh crumbs! I don't think anyone is really fussed about getting EVs its just that people are being forced to by the government that's all? It's like seat belts? It's taken a generation to use seatbelts and I expect EVs will be too but we are old farts and we love our petrol.
  3. I wonder if horse and cart owners were also incensed by the arrival of the motor car, in the same way we are spitting on the EV revolution?
  4. Convenience is a killer literally.
  5. I have to say my mate used to be a lorry driver for a while, until he was given the job of working for a company that ships chicken produce, live chickens and so on. He survived about 2 months then couldn't face it anymore, think he went veggie after that!! But this has always been the way we don't see the end to end process just something in a nice packet on the supermarket shelf. However for me it's not even about that, just the idea they make something in a lab as meat replication rather than a natural process? It just doesn't sit well with me? I understand the reasons why and of course there are many positives but how long before this becomes the norm and it's obviously going to be cost effective and then the greed kicks in, corners are cut, cheaper initial ingredients are substituted and years later they find it gives people cancer or something?
  6. Exactly bit of synth fuel and you are sorted! Tell me a VW ID 3 looks better than this monster?
  7. Thank.goodness thought you were going to be Donald Trump's neighbour! Btw did they say you 'Slammed neighbour for his antics' they always say slammed for some reason, not forgetting your age which is some how relevant to all stories? Darius XP5 (age 340) from the planet Trumpuss, slammed his fellow alien neighbour for overdosing on 200 earth cabbages. 'It plays havoc with the dilithium crystals, it can-ne take it'! Darius snapped whilst slipping back into the sea. Such an enigma?
  8. I am going to be a conspiracy theory writer/press reporter it's easy. When I make my first £mill I will buy a Urine yellow 400z and ship it back on my personal yacht. Anyway back to conspiracy. Story 1 - monolith vanishes it all started here! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9005715/Romanian-monolith-vanishes-appearing-hillside-following-disappearance-Utah-structure.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 Story 2 - famous space telescope breaks up. https://mol.im/a/9015571 Story 3 - US air force admit to pictures of alien ships and they are seen emerging from the sea. https://mol.im/a/9015711 Story 4 - Enigma machine found in the sea? https://mol.im/a/9013503 It's obvious innit bruv, those pesky aliens living under the sea to keep out of our satellites view. They bashed the scope and that is no Enigma machine from ww2? It's very obviously a transmitter and the monolith is their 5G aerial! If you need me to run the Government let me know, voice of common sense.
  9. Exactly just like a 10 month vaccine. It will be fine. It's just the thought of meat being created in a lab? Handy for space travel I expect? We are back to that distopian future? All we wanted were flying cars, hover boards and nissan 240zs instead we get lab grown meat, social media and a tax on everything in sight for the foreseeable decade.
  10. Not very appetizing if I am honest would rather go for the plant based stuff if forced to alternatives (although Quorn tends to give me wind). A particularly worrying statement? '“It was found to be safe for consumption at the intended levels of use'!!! There have been conspiracy stories for years about Kentucky Fried Cat growing just the bits they need to sell? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55155741 So if they can be bothered to do this why not enviropetrol.
  11. That's how to grab attention. They got a car for X amount sold the parts and got the money back to offset the cost of conversation is not entirely £900 is it. If they did a crate engine and basic battery setup for £900 they couldn't cope with demand. It's a cottage industry right now until things start going up in flames then the regulators will stop it. But still they are not charging the extortionate £20-30k + everyone else is.
  12. Fab that's me all over. You know older EV conversations were just fork lift motors and the boggo lead acid batteries. No fancy Tesla motors with expensive powerful magnets. I mentioned a while back you can get a kit for my air-cooled beetle and van but it's extortionate, it's not worth it but if we don't have petrol then we have to look at alternatives. Good luck to that company
  13. Those aliens are being a bit low tech?They do look a bit on the portly side maybe they are too heavy to use their ships? Oh well probably worth a few bucks down the scrapyard. Every little helps.
  14. Apparently in Romania now? Hope it had a Covid test first? https://news.sky.com/story/mysterious-monolith-found-in-romania-days-after-a-similar-one-vanished-in-utah-12147652
  15. Exactly. I can imagine that initial design meeting, 'oh we want to showcase this new tech so we must have a futuristic looking car' (from the 1970s TV series UFO maybe! -google it kids). This one is more Lexus/Audi stylie quite smart and probably more useful to someone like me doing longer cross country trips (post pandemic of course) still not on that money. Plus where do you get your hydrogen from? You can only eat so many curries and stick that tube up your bottom before the fuel runs out?
  16. It looks better than the first, but still a full set of fangs on it. But £50k is still expensive for most people. Glad to see they are finally learning you don't need to start making weird looking futuristic blobs for new tech cars? https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9000645/Toyota-steps-gas-new-hydrogen-fuel-cell-Mirai-cuts-price.html
  17. Does it make a click cluck cluck noise that increases in speed the closer you get to the object then splat you get a free egg?
  18. I feel sorry for that couple but I just have to say I told you so. I think everyone on here at some point has mentioned what needs to happen to make this wonderful ev nirvana happen. Never mind (see what I did there? Ok so it's an age joke!) Bless them on the plus side they could listen to that Tron inspired fake sound whilst waiting.
  19. I don't mind Charlie and Lola but I prefer Ben and Hollies little kingdom that was a bit more hard core. We are not yet in the Dystopian future but still in the ' wtf who voted for these blood thirsty or stupid clowns with fingers on nuclear buttons period?' Where celebs are regarded higher than the Muppets in charge. No disrespect to the genuine Muppets who live on Sesame street, they have my total respect!!
  20. This is what EV lacks. Oh yes they can put a fake sound making machine and I bet they will look at vibration generating devices to get that authentic petrol feel but it just won't be the same will it.
  21. No no no. I had a MK1 and it was fab. £20k to electrify it no thanks prefer to run the original petrol as long as possible.
  22. stanski

    Mud -Stang!

    It will have the Taycan engine synthesiser no doubt. none of your proper V8 petrol limp lettuce stuff.
  23. Sounds like the aussies actually trust their staff! As long as the work is done and you are available when someone calls you, who cares where you are, maybe not the loo of course!
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