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It will be much more than £61 millions. It cost us £180 million to keep Toyota assembling one model here, on the basis that it was a completely new model to be built. It was nothing of the sort, just our ministers being conned by Toyota changing the name of the Auris back to its original name...

An ICE leftover, not about need, just desire. I'm sure that once e-cars have largely taken over, the more irrational desires from the ICE era will tend to disappear in favour of different values such as silence and refinement. .

This will upset the Russians since they dont recognise gender dysphoria as being valid. I can envisage their refusing entry to anyone with a third gender passport. .

The main fashion now is crossovers of course, and it's infecting BEVs like the Ariya as well. The BEV makers like that of course since their underslung batteries make cars higher which neatly fits with crossover looks. It's going to be long time before BEVs settle to some agreed patterns of...

Stuart was commenting on car occupants wearing helmets! How can we argue against compulsion for cyclists? Easily, because it makes no sense to drastically cut the incidence of cycling, unless you are a driver who hates bicycles being on the roads. And the government will never do it anyway...

My last comment wasn't about dark finishes, it was about the way the better designed EVs are evolving different shapes and proportions of both necessity and good sense. A lot of people won't like that. As for the dark interiors, the market seems to favour them and I share the liking for a...

E-car. In effect the battery cost up front is an advance fuel payment since electricity is so much cheaper than ICE fuels and will be for at least a decade yet and probably permanently. .

Normal these days for good reasons, Peugeot long ago initiated that inward curve between the axle lines on their original 308 model. There's nothing worse for amplifying road noise than body panels which are too flat as a trip in any van shows, changing shape in two or more planes solves that. .

The name of the game for a car maker is getting it right for the majority, and Nissan have been getting a lot of things right for them since 2010, after a rather poor previous decade. I don't know if you read all the comments on the Ariya in that link, but they were universally favourable and...

Talk about negative! Use this new video link and after hearing it all the way though, look at all the comments below which are universally full of praise. The Ariya is going to be very successful. .

It's relevant as you well know. There are numerous head injuries suffered each year by those on their feet with no connection to transport, some serious enough to kill or cause disability. .

Correct. And in addition which the media do not appear to know (!) is that Nissan built it's own new battery factory at Sunderland some four years ago, my 2018 Leaf e-car has one of the lithium traction batteries produced there. And another bit of government/media/Nissan dishonesty. To help...

For me on the roads for over 70 years of cycling it's been 100% unnecessary. Since I no longer cycle that is permanent. Your argument for compulsion is wholly unreasonable and undesirable for all the reasons given. It is also irrational when, as explained, there is no possibility of compulsion...

Good riddance day! ;) .

For the most part, none. I've flown in this area a number of times and the regulations for single engines planes mean one must be in gliding distance of some clear space to land in an emergency. For example on flights from my Biggin Hill area, across South East London within glide distances of...

That's been the successive England team managers. These lucrative jobs don't grow on trees. .

Very neat design, but just as doomed as all the previous flying car and floating car designs. Great for shows and exhibitions but ultimately impractical since they cannot reach the necessary standards and safety requirements for both modes. If anyone wants to invent something truly new, we are...

That's how I've viewed football from the point of view of ever playing it, to the extent of getting into trouble by point blank refusing to play it at school. But I can enjoy watching the remarkable skills that exist in top class football, though better in highlights programs on TV rather than...

It could be from behind a prison cell door! .

So as I said, very similar to what has previously existed where the couriers collected the VAT. .