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It's probably why pedelecs are so popular in totally flat Holland. Being flat means the winds build up ferocious speed and power across the polders. .

I fully agree all points Flud, indeed I wondered if you couldn't see why pristine Albania should escape all the pollution and considered VW to be a quick fix to correct that. :D .

The German Volkswagen Group is the largest automaker in the world as of 2015. As of February 2010 it had 61 production plants and factories in fifteen European countries, along with six countries in the Americas, plus Asia, and Africa. The Group employs nearly 370,000 people around the world...

I'm fairly confident that's the case. Alain Juppé is almost certain to shortly become the new French president and his response to Brexit has been to say he will cancel the agreement for our immigration officers to work in France and also close "The Jungle" camp. That will mean they'll just...

I strongly suspect a vindictive element is present though. If they wished to be thorough one would expect full manning of the checkpoints, but I understand that the French only provided staff for far less than a half of the normal number of checkpoints, a big reduction despite this being a peak...

Mistakenly so though. In 1953 they allowed themselves to be used by the CIA and the UK government of the day to overthrow Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq's legal democratically elected government of Iran by knowingly publishing completely false information as news. The utterly corrupt reason...

I agree, buying property in France can be a nightmare, but as said, it does at least stop them falling into the socially disruptive state our housing market is in. We need to make property ownership far less attractive in the UK and end the mad aim of everyone wanting to be an owner-occupier...

Me too, but I would rather not have property seen as an investment or a piggy bank to be raided, both are major factors in creating an unbalanced society. Like you I can see the current position ending in tears (again). .

All of your criticism here is what makes the French system so much better than ours. They merely have homes as what they should be, to live in. Our idiotic system allows people to have homes as investments. That has ended up where we are now with a serious housing shortage and hugely...

In 2015 the Nissan Leaf changed from it's old greedy air-con to a reversible heat pump system on current models, which has increased the range when air-con is in use, so that has some possibilities. Meanwhile just letting passengers open windows should give sufficient satisfaction. Hopefully...

At the end of the thread Tillson has just argued with me that there won't be this loss of interest! But I agree with you, it will soon be of no interest, other than the fact of it being the record length thread. .

I accept that is true for a large number, who like you, Flud and Brendan will not be easily dismissed. But a huge proportion of the voters on both sides were not so committed and voted on all manner of issues, many of them irrelevant and transient. I could see politicians being prepared to...

My criticism of him is not specifically the lack of opening windows, it's criticism of his decision to go ahead with this overall zany design against all advice to the contrary. At the last mayoral election his rival Ken Livingstone sensibly said he would order no more of them at their...

They have an air cooling system, but it's wholly inadequate and has been causing compaints ever since their introduction. It can be a problem on electric vehicles of course due to the consumption demands. These hybrids are electrically driven, their 4 litre diesel being a charging engine for...

Seems it's what happens when a car magazine, Autocar, are invited to arrange the design of a bus Mike. Several professional bus makers had soon lost interest in designing a new version open rear platform bus, Volvo even refusing to consider it, especially with the added complication of it...

Indeed, his "six years" is perhaps the most realistic thing a politician has said since the referendum. By then the public will be so sick of the subject they probably won't care any more whether we leave or stay. .

I suppose we can hardly blame them wanting to avoid more criticism, but their method to achieve that is typically drastic. On the bright side is that they are obviously ashamed of the pollution so might eventually start to tackle it in a more positive way. .

Any idea why Dave? Is it a pollution reduction measure to benefit the visitors? .

Yes, we are EU citizens in the same way that the peoples of republican countries are citizens. But UK stands for United Kingdom, so within it we are subjects rather than citizens. .

Back on the subject of Boris Johnson's troublesome new Routemaster bus, yet another big problem. The design doesn't include any opening windows, so this week passengers were enduring upper deck temperatures 5 degrees C above the legal limit for transporting animals. TfL have instituted a £2...