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Agreed. It is posssible for one not to be desirable though. The owner of the last company I worked with had a 1950s SL300 gull wing, which should have been silver of course. But his was originally red and to make matters worse, at some time in its history it had been resprayed an insipid...

Yes, the car market very down at the moment, September was a big disappointment. The need for cash flow will probably produce some good opportunities. Wider retail I'm convinced is in for a poor Christmas and by February the mood in the country likely to be depressed. .

The German government said as much for themselves, that they could absorb the loss of the UK market. They already effortlessly absorbed the same size of loss in the 2008 recession and had no trouble bouncing back. .

There is an exception that two of my friends use, motor trade insurance. That covers a trader using any taxed but otherwise uninsured vehicle. There are some restrictions, for example any vehicle the trader has bought that reaches three months in his possession should be notified to the DVLA...

They are mistaken as my posts explain. .

It already is recognised, by those who benefit from what was done. Awards recognise the individual, not the work done, so are unnecessary and inappropriate on the grounds I've given, People are given awards, gongs, titles etc for the good things they've done, then there's often calls to remove...

All such awards are a nonsense. We do what we do because we want to do it, not because we are good. .

I stopped following it some while ago since it had become so corrupted as a drivers competition, or even car one. F1 administration decide the outcomes, possibly even a season in advance. .

Oddly enough Tom, I have just been nominated for a civic award for services to the community, but this thread isn't one of those. It won't happen though, I would always refuse any such award, gong etc. .

Derailleurs were a French invention (in 1905) and they were on the roads in France in numbers in the early 1950s. Although they also reached Britain then (I saw my first 5 speed derailleur in 1952) they didn't get popularity then outside of the full on sport enthusiasts. It was mountain...

He's a politician and is therefore doing the expedient thing, that which preserves his support. This is at least the third time I've explained this to you, but it doesn't seem to sink in. It doesn't matter who it is, May, Johnson, Rees Mogg or Corbyn, political expediency calls the shots...

Yes they are to blame. The Tories for arranging a referendum on a parliamentary matter, the Brexit voters for using that to get us into this mess, the right wing press for encouraging that. And the Brexit voters are to blame for Corbyn's stance, since they include such a large proportion of...

What a strange response, wrong on so many details. I'm very far from miserable, being a very happy go lucky person, noted and sometimes even criticised for it. I haven't researched deeply into youth football, not even being a football fan, just tripped over the record due to noticing an...

The Catalonians should be getting used to this by now: Following the surrender of Catalan troops on 11 September 1714, Philip V's enacted the Nueva Planta decrees banning all the main traditional Catalan political institutions and rights and merged its administration into that of the Crown of...

As with OG, this doesn't make sense to me since there's no Brexit connection. In my earlier congratulatory thread in here on June 11th about one of our youth teams when they won the World Cup, I saw and made no Brexit connection since our Under 19 youth teams are the overall World Champions...

One side of the argument maybe, but undoubtedly correct. The comparison with surface mail is apposite. The content of an email belongs to the author and can only be shared with an addressee, unless the author gives express permission otherwise or the author's national government legally rules...

Israel had such a car system, jointly developed with Renault and using a modified Renault Fluence model with battery swapping stations. The Company was called Better Place, well funded and backed by Tesla. Founded in 2008, they began operationally in 2012 and went bankrupt in 2013. Now...

I'm afraid the Utopian thinking is yours Mike, Spain is suffering a defect of democracy which we all have to accept, since we know a Utopian ideal that suits all is impossible. .

Spain is prone to strange national decisions, they voted to bring back royalty and install a king, so I don't totally agree with the above. The fact is that the national constitution was properly voted on by all of Spain. It follows that any change in that constitution must be voted on by all...